December 30, 2025 • 40 mins
Brian Noe talks about the approaching College Football Playoffs and why you shouldn't sleep on Miami against Ohio State, why Alabama is such a fool's gold team, LaReina's eating habits, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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I filled out my college football playoff bracket. That's part
of the Bracket challenge on Fox Sports Radio. This sounds
like a commercial, but I'm really talking to you right now.
(00:41):
Like I filled out my bracket and I got a
little little bit radical. Now, Coop, I know you're not
big into college football, right Are you gonna fill out
a bracket? You're gonna do this thing on Fox Sports Radio?
At least?
Speaker 2 (00:57):
I don't know. I mean, look, I couldn't even tell
you you. I could. I could tell you like three
or four teams that are in.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Wow, you're all over it. Huh yeah, yeah, you're you're
very fired up like this. So we got games on Wednesday.
We got well one playoff game on Wednesday, and then
we have the other three playoff games on Thursday. So
New Year's Eve then New Year's Day. I'm very fired
up for it, looking forward to it, Coop. So you
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could name who were the three teams?
Speaker 3 (01:28):
You could name Indiana yep, uh, Ohio State yep, and
uh oh.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
This is so much better than breaking the games that
I prefer this way more. This is good, all right?
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Not not Notre Dame. Oh wow?
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Yeah, yeah, to go there, that is. I can't wait
to troll you about your broncos. You know what, all
bets are off with that comment. As soon as the
boat Nicks throws a pick. Oh, I'm blowing you up.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
He wasn't specific towards you. I just know that was
a big story.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, that's just the top of mine.
It was. I got you, yeah, no, and no problem,
nothing to do with me. Okay, not Notre Dame. So
we got Iu, Ohio State, not Notre Dame, Miami, Miami.
There you go, there you go. It works. You said three,
you got three? Very good. I went upset City, Coop.
I went with Miami, getting a little radical here. I
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went with Miami to beat Ohio State, and some people
are gonna look at me like, bro, what are you?
What are you talking about right now? Now? Listen, I
don't like Carson Beck at all. I think Carson Beck,
the Miami quarterback, wets himself far too often and he
could easily throw three interceptions without even thinking about it.
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So this could be a horrible pick as it turns out.
But Miami has a handful of things going for itself.
They have real offensive uh and defensive linemen. They've got
real NFL talent right when you can rush the passer.
And Julian say in was he looked like Jared Goff
in the Big Ten Championship game. Like Jared Goff is
a really good quarterback except when he's facing a pass rush,
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and then he turns into a freaking terrible quarterback. Is
what happens with Jared Goff. And that's what Julian Saying
did when he was facing a good IU pass rush,
he had no answers. He looked like a completely different quarterback.
Guess what Miami could do. They could put heat on
the opposing quarterback. And so I wouldn't be surprised if
Ohio State isn't that productive offensively. I love their talent.
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I love Carnell Tate, I love Jeremiah Smith. I love
everything that they bring to the table. The running game
is just okay, and Miami's good against the rush as well.
So I don't know how many points Ohio State is
gonna score. I don't think they're gonna just open it
up and just open a can against Miami. I don't
see that happening. I think Miami's defense is too good,
and I also think as good as Ohio State's defense is,
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I do think with Miami's offensive line, they're gonna get
the running game working to a respectable degree. And if
good Carson Beck shows up, I know we always look
at him. Listen, he threw four interceptions against Louisville. He
was freaking off. He was brutal, and he has the
capability of being brutal again. But he's played a ton
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of college games, and there are times where he has
looked fantastic, especially at Georgia when he had guys like
Brock Bauers and Lad McConkey. Now in the NFL, you
know that helped out quite a bit. But he has
looked really good at times. I think he's capable, even
against the Ohio State defense, of just pulling a shocker
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of a performance where you're like, WHOA, didn't see that coming,
Carson Beck, I actually in the bracket challenge, I think
you do have to get a little bit outside the
box because there are so many competitors in this thing
where if you just go chalk and you go standard picks,
I don't think you're gonna win it. I think you
got to. You gotta go little radical and pull a
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couple of upsets at least call for him. I have
Miami beating Ohio State. Now, I love them, plus the points.
I do love the Canes plus the points.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
Well, in case people aren't sure what you're talking about, Brian, Yeah.
Feeding off the success of our college basketball bracket challenge
each March, we decided to do a bracket challenge for
the college football playoff. That's right, with eight teams left
standing in the college football it's Bracket Challenge time. Compete
against our Fox Sports radio hosts like Brian he just
gave you a hint on what he's doing. That's what
I'm doing, yeah yeah, and against fellow listeners to see
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who has the best college football playoff bracket play for
your chance to win one thousand dollars. Visit Fox Sports
Radio dot iHeart dot com to register, get rules, and
fill out your bracket, and we will be open until
just before kickoff at seven thirty pm Eastern on New
Year's Eve. Again, fill out your bracket at Fox Sports
Radio dot iHeart dot com for your chance to win
(05:56):
one grand Wow.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
That very interesting. You had just had all those thoughts
off the top of your head, like you just I
know it. Yeah, and you just threw it out there.
It's a great time to throw out those thoughts, you know,
packaged very nicely, very neatly, very well done by you.
Love that, Loraine. Are you gonna fill out your college
football playoff bracket here to compete against listeners?
Speaker 5 (06:21):
Bracket?
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Yeah, you gotta love a good bracket. You gotta make like,
I don't know, let me see.
Speaker 5 (06:27):
Like an ice cream bracket.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
You gotta make like seven picks. I think it's right
from this stage, you gotta make seven picks. That's it. Seven,
that's all.
Speaker 5 (06:36):
Mm hmmm.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
I think you gotta go a little bit outside the box.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
I might need help.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Uh, definitely fade Bama, definitely do. I can't wait I'll
tell you what. I can't wait. You know how Bart
Scott said it went can't wait. I'm Bart Scott right now.
I can't wait until I you just drops the hammer
on Bama. I am gonna love it. I'm gonna be
a pig and slop when that happens. Bama is so fugazy.
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They are such a fools gold Team. I say these
things on the Saturday Countdown show and my co hosts,
my gosh, they turn into a pack of wolverines. They
turn into Barracudah's on me. It is roll tied rich
and Bama Jama Jared is what I call it. They
turn they act like they've got instead of like thug life.
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You know Tupac had that on the stomach, right, It's
like they have roll Tide tattooed on their stomachs. They
turn into hyenas, They turned into crazy people. And I say,
Alabama is so fools gold Man. I take nothing away
from them what they've done this season. They've won eleven
games and they've had a lot of success. They've had
some setbacks along the way as well, like getting crushed
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by Florida State, who won two games in the ACC
they got crushed by Georgia in the SEC Championship game
twenty eight to seven, so they've had some hiccups along
the way. They lost at home, out gaining Oklahoma by
almost two hundred yards because Oklahoma sucks, and they still
lost that game. So I don't buy Bama at all.
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They can't run the ball whatsoever. They're overly reliant on
Ty Simpson, who's as of late skittish, a little bit
too inaccurate, inconsistent. Their defense is test okay, they have
no pass rush. Fernando Mendoza is gonna do the degeneration
X sucket sign to them all night, Like right, you
call that defense Bama? Oh, I can't wait. I can't
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wait for Indiana to just freaking crush Bama.
Speaker 6 (08:34):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
I'm gonna love it. I Am gonna absolutely love it.
So that's my advice. Uh, Lorena is a fade Bama,
pick Iu over Alabama. That's my advice.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
I think I'm getting made fun of right now. Why
I just no context at all. I just received a
text from Roberto Flores. Oh, just a laughing emoji, the
skull emojiing a laughing emoji?
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Is he laughing at me?
Speaker 2 (08:59):
For not knowing the teams that are in the.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
The oh man, it might be. It might be. Is
Roberto a college football guy? Is he a fan?
Speaker 2 (09:08):
I didn't think so, but I mean, yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
I know he's all over baseball. Man. You know what,
you know, the one thing I think about Roberto the most,
it's him cracking on the NBA Cup. So like, we
just had the the inserts in season tournament in college
in the NBA, and it's stupid. He's so right, it's
so dumb, man. I love how you know, like Barkley's like,
(09:34):
this is dumb, what are we doing? But the first
year people were behind it. They're like, it's kind of fun.
It's a little different, you know, the courts are weird,
like I kind of like. And then it took one
year and people are like, this is just kind of dumb.
I don't know what Roberto thought. That was the dumbest
thing from the get go. You remember that Coop he
was fully I always think of Roberto when the NBA
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Cup rolls around and how much he hates that idea.
So that stuck with me over the years.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
You just explained that he was laughing at me clowning
on Notre.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Dame oh man. And then and then you try to
play it off like no, no, no, no, I just
I just remember that was a big story, like yeah,
no job, but that.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
Was like the biggest story of the you know, the
the seating then.
Speaker 6 (10:22):
Yeah it was.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
It was a huge story. But I know better than
that where you're not just talking about news and you're like, oh,
this would be a good time to needle you in
the freaking forehead. No, like I know you Coop, don't
give me that.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
You do it to me every week. No, even even
when the Broncos are winning. Every single week they win
and you've got something to say.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Oh man, I'll tell you now here's the that's it's
pretty funny. Oh man, your team. I can't wait for
your two. I don't know if I want Bama to
get kicked in the teeth more or the Broncos. I
don't know, Like it's definitely Bama, but like, I just
don't buy your team, man. And it's like bo Nix
is just he's okay, he's nothing like outstanding.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
I don't know how many records he needs to set
or or you know, the first ever to do this
and that before people start giving him the respect that
he deserves.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Oh yeah, like the three air yards per pass, like
like it was just dice. It was just throwing the
ball downfield against the Chiefs, And like that's the thing, man,
Like some of these stats and some of these records,
it's like you gotta read between the lines. Sean Payton's
giving him these silver platter reads and easy completions. And
I don't want to take all credit away from him.
(11:36):
I'm just saying some of these records and things, these
accolades that he's getting, it's like, bro, it's like it
sounds way fancier than it actually is. That's all I'm saying.
I'm not trying to take all credit away from it. It
just sounds way fancier than it actually is.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Yeah, I mean, you can't discount all of them, Brian.
Speaker 7 (11:56):
I'm not.
Speaker 6 (11:57):
I'm not.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
I'm just I'm not. You could you could put whatever
I see these stats about touchdown passes and okay, we
could put bow knicks and his touchdown passes, you know,
like what they've actually been some some have been great
throws downfield, some have been threading the needle, you know,
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like tough throws. I'm not saying all of them are easy,
but there have been quite a few that are very easy. Right,
Like he uses Sean Payton uses the passing game, the
short the quick passing game as an extension of the
running game.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
Because I mean, wasn't I mean, wasn't that basically Tom
Brady's entire career. No, it's just being being accurate on
on short passes gaining ten, you know, yards at a time.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
That was that?
Speaker 4 (12:47):
That was a lot of Tom Brady.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
I mean, like, was it a big portion of it?
Speaker 8 (12:53):
Sure?
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Was it? Like all of it?
Speaker 8 (12:55):
Was it?
Speaker 1 (12:55):
The Tom either bow Nix relies on the short passing
game a lot, like you can't have three air yards
averaged per like per attempt to get the come what
are we doing? He threw one pass over ten yards
against the Chiefs. It's like Sean Payton. It just tells
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me you don't fully trust bow Nicks. You're you're safe,
You're like, oh, he might do something dumb. That's what
it tells me.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
I'm gonna I'm gonna find some stats to blow up
that argument.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Right now, man, I definitely am. I'm in the market
for some bow Nicks stats. I want to hear this
I do. It'll be good. But lorraina fade Alabama is
what I would say. Do you want to fill out
the Do you want to fill out the bracket live
on air? That'd be a fun thing like a paper.
You don't need a paper. You just do it online.
You do it at I'll tell you exactly where you go.
(13:46):
Good who you go to Fox Sports Radio dot iHeart
dot com to register, get rules, and to fill out
your bracket. Right there, That's exactly what Coop just said
off the top of his head. That's where you go
Fox Sports Radio dot iHeart dot com. You're good to go.
We just fill it out. You know.
Speaker 5 (14:06):
This is where we go to listen to the shows live.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Yeah, that's where you go. You were do you do?
People listening realize that Lorena was listening to a football game,
probably on the same app. Is that not true? Uh, Lorena,
you were doing that.
Speaker 5 (14:21):
The coverage of the games.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
The coverage of the games, okay.
Speaker 5 (14:25):
The weekend shows when they do their red zone radio.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Okay, very nice. Look at you sampling Fox Sports Radio
out and about maybe going to the grocery store, maybe jogging.
I don't know, I don't know what you got going
on right store? You gotta get groceries. How do you
get them?
Speaker 2 (14:48):
I don't what do you mean?
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Why do you staff your fingers? And someone's like, okay,
I know what that means, and they go and get
them for you do? How do you get your food?
Speaker 4 (14:57):
Lorena doesn't cook at or or or or eat grocery food.
Speaker 5 (15:03):
No, my snack and I eat restaurant food.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Wow, lifestyle, what a charmed life? My gosh. No, no
cooking of any sorts. Huh okay, hey, whatever works for you.
I'm not here.
Speaker 9 (15:16):
I'll go to a little mood sometimes I'll get in
a little cookie mood.
Speaker 5 (15:19):
But I waste so much food when I cook.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Yeah, okay, not proficient with the cooking. Is that what
you're telling me?
Speaker 5 (15:26):
I'm a great cook.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
How do you waste a lot of food while you're
cooking if you're a great cook?
Speaker 5 (15:32):
Well, because it always comes out in big portions. And
I'm a little person who doesn't eat much. So then
I got lots of leftovers that I don't eat.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Okay, I get it. I totally understand.
Speaker 5 (15:42):
Better to just go get a kid's meal, you know, yeah,
or I get the mini sub.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
This is why I'm twenty pounds heavier. Than when when
Lorena started working here.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Uh huh, it's just it's Lorena finished this. You know that.
That's her nickname is Fear finished this. Yes, yeah, I
got it. I understand it. You know, what does cat
think about this, coop?
Speaker 2 (16:08):
What does she think about my weight gain?
Speaker 6 (16:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (16:11):
What does she think about this weight game? The is
like the Freshman fifteen. This is the FSR fifteen. This
is the Lorena fifteen. Is what we're talking about here.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
You know this this happened actually the other day is
a good she Lorena brought in fat sALS a sandwich.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
It was like it was called the fat Pilgrim.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Yeah, okay, right, yeah, and.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
It's a sandwich with you know, turkey stuffing, stuffing, gravy, gravy,
cranberry sauce, sweet potato fries.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
The sandwich with all that. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
And I had already eaten dinner, and I just I
texted my I texted my wife. I was like, oh,
I'm I'm about to eat a half of a fat
Salas sandwich.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
And she's like, no, don't do that.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
And I, oh, I'm telling you after it already happened,
like I'm about to finish it.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
It's I'm not debating it. I'm eighty percent right, right, Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 9 (17:09):
I just think it's crazy that he blames me for
his lack of self control.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
I don't like food being wasted.
Speaker 9 (17:16):
It wouldn't be wasted.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
You could take it home and eat it later.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Okay, well, I guess that's a fair.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
That's true. It's a valid point, it's absolutely true.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
I think I got there.
Speaker 9 (17:26):
I think you should blame your weight gain on your
bagels you eat every day.
Speaker 5 (17:31):
I think that's much more. It's much worse than what
I feed you.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
I just don't get the bagel thing, Coop, I don't
understand it.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Listen, you're not stop it. We're like so many.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
People love bagels. I don't get it. I don't know why.
I don't know why you would be team bagels over
team donuts. It literally makes noes. It makes less sense
than the NFL's playoff format. I have no idea why
you would do that with your life. Donuts are so
much better than bagels. Why would you be like I
feel like a bagel today? Why why give me icing
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on a delicious doughnut every single time over bagels?
Speaker 5 (18:10):
Why?
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Yeah, we gotta dress it up. We gotta get spread
on it. We gotta Yeah, you gotta dress it up
because it's terrible on its own. That that's that's welcome
to the world of bagels. That's what I think.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
I don't know, Well, you have a terrible palette.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
You know, I'm gonna eat some pecan Sandy's and then
thirty seconds from now, it's what I'm going.
Speaker 9 (18:32):
That's the reason I'm going to a grocery store today
is I get some pecan Sandy's.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
There you go, see, we got you there. We got
to the grocery store. Training Day, Training Day. That's right.
Lorena hasn't seen the movie Training Day yet. She asked me,
if I had to watch a movie on repeat for
the next month, what would it be? And I without hesitation?
Training Day, Training Day. Tuco from Breaking Bad has a
small part in it. Outstanding job. He's one of Smiley's crew.
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You know. We get Denzel ethan Hawk and that we all.
We also have doctor Dre We got Snoop.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Oh stop it.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Stoop's actually really good in that movie, does a very
good job. We have Macy Gray. She's in there.
Speaker 5 (19:13):
So yeah, girl who sings that one song?
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Yeah, it's.
Speaker 5 (19:22):
Trying to walk Away.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
I love that song Stumbo. Yeah, yeah, it's her. She's
in there where the fo backup is one of her lines.
Great line, great scene when he comes in he's looking
for the Sandman when he's really just looking for cash.
That's what he's looking for, right that that's what Denzel's
on the on the prowl for tomorrow. Yeah, oh oh,
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I can't leave out Eva Mendez.
Speaker 5 (19:48):
Love her.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
She's got a big part in that. Terry Crews and
Tattoo Free, which was a big object off the air yesterday.
You know, tattoo Free on the free the tatas. Yeah, no,
they don't, they don't need to be dressed up. Okay,
they're they're fine on their own. But yeah, yeah, she's Yeah,
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your guys are right, but she's in there. Terry Crews,
you know, like the old old Spice commercials. He's had
a very small non speaking role in Training Day.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
Former NFL player Terry Crews.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Right, that's right. Yeah, I got to meet Terry Crews.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
I've heard great things that he's the super nice guy.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
He was the nicest guy ever. He was so nice.
He was he was doing this movie, this Mario Van
Peeples movie, and I had no cash. I was still
living in LA I was doing extra work and so
I was an extra and whatever this film was, I
have no idea. We're at the beach somewhere in LA like,
I don't know where we were. And I saw Terry Crews.
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I just started talking to him because he was just
in the like the last Friday movie whatever it's called,
like Friday three, whatever the title is, I'm not sure
what it is. And they had a beautiful girl in
that movie. And that's what I was talking to him about, like, man,
that girl is hot. And he looks at me, he
goes man, she can't act, And I was like, really,
he goes man. They would give her her lines and
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be like action and she would forget her lines every time.
Like it was just funny. Man, he was really good. Yeah,
he was great. Terry Crews, shout out to him. He
was awesome, very nice. All right, we got a lot
to get to eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox.
That would be your phone number. Some people want to
check in. Oh, oh, I've got a thought. Someone wants
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to check in on Pooka Nakula. I have a Puoka
thought for you. And there was one thing that happened
during Monday Night football that if it shook out slightly differently,
we would have been barted. We would have been bombarded
with a really bad take that a lot of people
subscribe to. I want to tell you what that bad
(21:56):
take is coming up, and we'll see if you are
on board with it or not. I'm Brian though, in
for Big Ben Malor. Keep it locked right here on
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It is Fox Sports Radio. I'm Brian though, in for
Big Ben Malor. All right, so some stuff's on my
mind over here. We'll get to the militia here in
one American minute. And my guy Dorco, he wants to
check in and just he wants to talk about Pooka Nakula.
Let me say something about Pooka before Dorko does, because
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I doubt we have the same same thought here. But Pooka.
So on Monday Night football, the Rams lost to the
Falcons and it's down to the final seconds and third down.
Not that much time, probably like ten seconds to go
in the game. Third down, the the Rams are down
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by three points. They're at their own thirty five yard line,
so you can see where this is going. They got
to throw a deep ball and get out of bounds.
That's what they're down to. And Stafford actually throws a
great ball on the sideline and Pooka Nakua catches it. It
just stuck to his left hand. He just stuck his
paw out there and the ball just went smack and
(23:52):
just stuck right there, and it looked like he caught it.
I thought it was a catch live. The officials were like, no,
he didn't know, no way, that's ridiculous, Like the degree
of difficulty. There's no way he caught that. So they
ruled it incomplete. And you watch the replays. The first
couple of replays, you're like, his feet are down, he's
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got it, He's got the ball. And then they showed
one sideline replay and it was amazing. They slowed it down,
and so Pooka's got it. He's falling out of bounds.
The Falcons cornerback Aj Terrell, he's kind of just like
grabbing Pukah's arm. He's just grabbing the arm and he
caused Puka to lose control of the ball for a
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millisecond and it was when his feet were no longer
in bounds. So it was an incomplete pass. He didn't
complete the process of the catch right, Like he didn't
have firm control the whole time. And so it was
the right call, but the one saving grace. At least
we don't have to hear these people like, well, these
NFL gloves, These NFL gloves like pretty much catch the
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ball for you. It's like, dude, I could put you
in these NFL gloves right now, you will make zero
impressive catches. Okay, Like to spare me on the idea
that all these gloves do everything for you, though they don't.
I see plenty of NFL players wearing these super sticky,
ridiculous like space aged gloves, and they drop passes all
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the time. You don't see that. You haven't seen a
player with the gloves on drop a ball that hasn't happened.
Huht No, it happens a lot far too often than
it should, so at least we don't have to hear that.
One thing I thought of was, man Pooka almost had it.
That would have been an amazing catch. It'll playoff implications,
YadA YadA. But then seeing the replay when he just
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sticks his left paw out there and the ball just splat,
just goes nowhere. It looked like until you saw the
side review and he does lose control for just a
very short period of time, that was enough for it
to be incomplete. But I just thought of all these
people say, all these you know, these NFL gloves, Yeah,
they they pretty much catch the ball for you know,
(26:10):
they don't, No, they don't. You know what, Here's my thing.
If I don't, if I don't know someone very well,
like let's say when I was living in Vegas, just
you know, not that long ago, long ago. I was
there for a year and moved away just a couple
of weeks ago. But a friend invited me to another
friend's place to watch football. And this guy had a
(26:33):
beautiful house. He had this setup where he's got like,
you know, all these TVs. He's got at least six
of the games at one time. It was an amazing setup.
I think he actually had eight TVs that it was.
It was awesome. And I'm the kind of guy you
might be also a girl that if I don't know
you very well, I'll just kind of like disagree with
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you on the inside, you know what I mean, Like
I don't want to cause waves, or if you say something,
I'm like, yeah, that's stupid, that's a dumb take. I
don't say that. I don't know you well enough to
say that. You know, if I did know you well enough,
i'd probably say it in a nicer way, like yeah,
I don't think so, man, right, But if I don't
know you, I don't just say that. Maybe that's my
(27:18):
New Year's resolution. I'm just gonna say it. If I'm
like at that place and that someone says that, like well,
you know these NFL gloves, man, they're unbelievable. They kind
of just catch the ball for you. I'd be like, no,
they don't, No, they don't do that. That's not true
at all. I could give you those same gloves. You're
not catching anything. So I don't believe that at all.
(27:38):
There are plenty of guys with these gloves that drop
the ball. How do you explain that? I thought it
caught the ball for you. Huh, Like, how do you
drop a pass? If that's the case. So anyway, that's
what it made me think. I have issues. That's what
There are a lot of voices in my head I
think is what's going on. Let's get to the phones here.
The militia wants to check in. Dorco is in Hawaii.
(27:59):
He's got a thought on Pooka Nakula. I'm curious what
his Pooka thought is. I gave you my Puoka thought.
What is your thought? Dorko? You're on Fox Sports Radio, Buddy.
Speaker 8 (28:08):
Hi, Brian know it's me Dorko. I think even if
Ko made some great plays, I think he needs a haircut.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Yeah you need you don't You don't like the man?
Bun is what you're telling.
Speaker 8 (28:20):
Me, yeah, yeah, he needs them all cut. I think
he looks like a hippie. It's not hip to be
a hippie anymore. Maybe maybe his hair is holding bad vibes.
He would look handsome with short hair, like an adult
instead of long like a pee weets player.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
You don't like it? Now, let me ask you. Would
anybody look good with that hair do? Is there any
other NFL player that you think, you know, if he
had that hair, maybe he could rock it out or
it just look bad on everybody?
Speaker 8 (28:52):
Well, maybe there's somebody. But maybe the ram's luck would
turn around with the haircut, because when you look good,
you feel and I feel good because I'm a ben fluent, sir.
All the ladies love Dorko, the ben fluence sir. Just
ask lorrain Ah, she is so hot hot, uh Dan
(29:13):
your mama, Hi, Loreina?
Speaker 5 (29:16):
Hi Dorco?
Speaker 11 (29:18):
Hi?
Speaker 1 (29:20):
So is that true? Lorena? Are all the girls like
they're big on Dorco?
Speaker 8 (29:24):
Is that?
Speaker 1 (29:24):
Like? Is that correct? Advertising? Right there?
Speaker 9 (29:28):
I haven't heard such things, but he sounds spicy.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Yeah, there you go. You sound spicy Dorco. According to Loraina,
that's pretty good, right. You could do way worse than that.
Speaker 8 (29:40):
I think so.
Speaker 5 (29:43):
I got that on your dating profile. I sound spicy
on the Ben Maller show.
Speaker 8 (29:47):
Me there you go, I'm tender, I'm tender.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
Yeah, you're the first line, the first line and the
only line. Dorko just put exactly that.
Speaker 8 (29:56):
I'm tender. Lorena said, I'm spicy, tender. I'm a tender riser.
Speaker 6 (30:04):
I gotta go by.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
All right, there he is, dorcoh. Look at that was quick.
That was almost like the Irish goodbye seasoned. Yeah, very nice.
All right, we've got Jed who fled. He's with us
this morning as well. Jed, what's going on, buddy, You're
on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 6 (30:21):
That previous call disgusted me. So I got our Monday camps.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
He's out, he's out, all right, he fled, he fled.
That was quick. That was the quickest Jed who fled
call I've ever taken here on Fox Sports Radio. Man,
that that was fast. Okay, Jed's got stuff to do. Well,
let's let's get to Mike the LEPrecon he was to
check in as well. Mike, what's up, buddy, you're on
(30:48):
Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 11 (30:50):
I'm gonna say an Irish hello, darka is funny. He's
in Hawaii. I'm fy Florida, and I'm spicy. Anyway, your
last day, mister Brian House, Yeah I believe.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
So I'm gonna do a couple of two pro shows
Wednesday and Thursday. But yeah, this is tomorrow. I have
no idea. I don't know. I'm not sure.
Speaker 11 (31:12):
Maybe I heard Jimmy Bob Jimmy Bob. Anyway, my favorite
movie to watch for a month would be Field of Dreams.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Yeah you like that one.
Speaker 11 (31:20):
Huh. That's a brilliant movie. And I call a spade
at spade. I'm very honest. And regarding the gloves, you
know what. Those gloves can't help you on cold weather
like we have in Boston today with the wind. I
mean that's why they bounces off their helmets and whatever.
But anyway, so Lorena is like a rabbits. She nibbles
(31:42):
and food. She should buy some stowage containers and stick
it in the freezer like I do with my leftovers.
So cool it.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
I think that I'm a lot like Loraina because I
do things all the time where I put it in
the fridge. I mean to eat it, and then I
just lose interest. I'm like, yeah, it's not trash. It's
not new. I'm like, h whatever, Yeah.
Speaker 11 (32:06):
Okay, America, anywhere in the world, there's people who are hungry,
so I never waste a bite.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
No, it's better to be that way. It's better to
be that way, Mike. Absolutely, we should strive to be
like that, No doubt.
Speaker 11 (32:17):
They bagels are better than Domus sugar.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
No, they're not. That's an outrageous take. That's that's the
craziest thing you've ever said.
Speaker 11 (32:24):
No, I did some research on you. You're forty six?
Is that correct? And you're no, I'm older than that.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
I remember what I am now I think I'm gosh,
what am I up to?
Speaker 11 (32:33):
I'm sixty two? But you're a skinny little lad and
for Coop, Coop needs to go in a bit of
a diet. But the sounds of things, a man, I.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
Mean whatever, be put on twenty pounds working next to
Loraina apparently, so you know whatever.
Speaker 11 (32:50):
Okay, I have a take on the Well, it won't
be not to Dame and the circuit won't be BC.
I like Miami. They knocked the Indiana out of the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
Right, No, not yet. No, they not Texas A and m.
Speaker 11 (33:02):
Out No, but back Miami beat not to Dame in
an early game in the season. Not the Dame doesn't
belong to a conference, and that's why they didn't get picked.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
It's a lot of the conference thing. It's not like,
don't let people tell you it's because that's a popular take.
It's dumb, and I you know, listen, listen. No, I
won't bore you with my spiel right now, but I'll
that one. Yeah, circle, Okay, okay.
Speaker 11 (33:27):
So let me tell you Alabama is going to win
against Indiana. Indiana hasn't played the game for a month.
They're a little bit overrated. No, they're very good. They
have a great quarterback, but they're going to be a
little bit rusty. And that's the time you can always
take down the top dog. It's when you're rusty, so
you never know.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
It's okay, all right, all right, so's who's gonna win
it all? Mike? Are you calling for here?
Speaker 11 (33:52):
I think Ohio States actually actually okay, all.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
Right, and Mark, I don't buy them rated. I think
they're overrated. Mike, I don't.
Speaker 11 (34:01):
I don't thinking of overrated. Marsala is overrated.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
No, no, no, Mike, Mike, Yeah, why why would you
say that.
Speaker 6 (34:11):
Because he is.
Speaker 11 (34:12):
He blocks me, He blocks all the people that are friends.
Have you ever been to Boston? Brian?
Speaker 1 (34:17):
Absolutely? Yeah, I have.
Speaker 11 (34:19):
Okay, I'm bringing the whole crew with Mike from New Hampshire.
They're coming sometime in the spring and we're giving him
a free trip and all that stuff. But yeah, so
you should tag along. We can make it be a
road trip and I love the move. Another thing I
like you mentioned the car. The Duke's of whoa Hold.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
On Real Fast?
Speaker 5 (34:38):
Ben Maller will never in his life ever agree to
a road trip.
Speaker 6 (34:44):
No, it's a trip.
Speaker 11 (34:45):
You're flying.
Speaker 9 (34:46):
You definitely said a road trip. You said we can
make a road trip. That's what you said.
Speaker 11 (34:50):
Okay, you're coming to Boston in the spring. You're welcome.
Speaker 1 (34:54):
M Well, you're not up for Boston, loraino? What's going
on over there?
Speaker 5 (34:58):
I'm not a fan of leprechauns.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
The Notre Dame has a leprecha on right, Like, how
can you not look at lucky charms? Your anti lucky charms?
Like what are you talking about here, Brian?
Speaker 11 (35:09):
I even have a I even have a little throne
for her. I have all these gag gifts already. Box
you have a ready for me.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
Okay, all right, yeah, no, questionable, it's questionable. It's questionable, Mike,
it's questionable. That's all saying. I appreciate you, Mike, good stuff. Uh,
let me go look real fast because I want to
get this Mike and Peoria and it just says Notre Dame.
I have to hear this. I want to hear what
he has to say. Mike, You're on Fox Sports Radio.
(35:40):
What's going on? Man? Welcome here, Brian.
Speaker 6 (35:42):
Great to be with you. I'm going to tell you
exactly what I said to whoever answered the call. He said,
what do you want to talk to Brian about? I said,
I want to let Brian know I got us back
for anyone who wants to talk crap about Notre Dame.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
Okay, all right, I like it.
Speaker 8 (35:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (35:57):
Hey, uh a second, Like, Brian, I wanted to ask you,
since the last time we spoke, have you been math
to beautiful Martin, Illinois in Peoria to see your little Dolly?
Speaker 1 (36:09):
No, Man, I haven't been there for a while now.
I've been. Uh, I was in Vegas for the last year,
so it's been a long time since I've been to
that area.
Speaker 6 (36:16):
So that relationship didn't go anywhere.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
Oh yeah, yeah, my girl. Yeah we broke up. We
were together for almost three or four years, but yeah,
yeah we And.
Speaker 6 (36:25):
The last thing, the last thing I want to say, Brian, is, uh,
maybe this weekend coming up, you can give one segment
and talk about, uh, the Illinois State Redbirds. Can they
upset another top tier team in the FCS Championship game
coming up next Monday night? Go Redbirds? Thanks Brian?
Speaker 1 (36:43):
All right? Cool stuff like it, Mike, all right, I
like that defending Notre Dame. Good stuff, very nice. And
uh when some Illinois State love, you know, we might
Saturday morning, maybe we might talk about it a little bit,
no doubt. All right, let me get to the tweets
around the corner I've got you know, listen, it's just
(37:04):
a bad, bad take it. It's been going around. It's
like a yeah, like a virus going around. It's not
just the Hey, do you know these these NFL gloves
they catch the ball for you. It's not that. It's
something else that was mentioned very briefly by one one
Leprechaun that we were just talking to, and we just
got to set the records straight. Right around, right around
(37:24):
the corner, so we'll do that coming up. I'm probably
no in for Big Ben Mallor. Stay with us right
here on Fox Sports Radio.
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Speaker 5 (38:04):
Told you the clean version.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
Chick you make me earl chick. I love these movies, man,
Like I don't know why. I don't know. I don't
get it, man, I don't understand why movies when they're
replayed on I don't know, like just TV, where it's
got to be clean. They can't just let f bombs
fly left and right. I get it. I don't know
why they don't. Just you're like edit the sound out,
(38:31):
like just mute it for a second, like just mute
the cuss word out instead of changing it to something
that's so ridiculous and sounds so stupid, am I? The
only one? Is this like a thing? Is this just
like a way to entertain themselves? Or remember pulp fiction?
They'll they'll put pulp fiction on TV and like change
(38:51):
all the cuss words. And when when Samuel L. Jackson
or Jules says, you know, we'd have to be talking
about one Charman, mfn pig, they turned it into we
gotta be talking about one Charman mighty friendly pig. And
it's like, what, why would you That's what they change
it to. Mighty friendly pig is what they have it
(39:14):
like the clean version of pulp fiction. Why why would
you do why? I don't understand. Is it just to
entertain themselves? I hope that's why it was, because otherwise
that's just bad. Right, I'm not wrong about that, am I.
That's just that's bad. It's bad. It's a bad idea,
all right, real fast about Notre Dame. This is a
bad take, Like, oh, Notre Dame didn't make the playoff
(39:36):
this season because they're not in a conference. Oh really,
so Notre Dame made it to the BCS Championship Game
in the twenty twelve season, one of only two teams
they weren't in a conference. Then they made it to
the four team college Playoff twice, not in a conference.
So how did they make it then and now? The
only reason they din't make it now is because they
weren't in a conference. It's bad take. It's a bad take.
(39:58):
We will dust off of a list right around the corner.
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I filled out my college football playoff bracket. That's part
of the Bracket challenge on Fox Sports Radio. This sounds
like a commercial, but I'm really talking to you right now.
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Like I filled out my bracket and I got a
little little bit radical. Now, Coop, I know you're not
big into college football, right Are you gonna fill out
a bracket? You're gonna do this thing on Fox Sports Radio?
At least?
Speaker 2 (00:57):
I don't know. I mean, look, I couldn't even tell
you you. I could. I could tell you like three
or four teams that are in.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Wow, you're all over it. Huh yeah, yeah, you're you're
very fired up like this. So we got games on Wednesday.
We got well one playoff game on Wednesday, and then
we have the other three playoff games on Thursday. So
New Year's Eve then New Year's Day. I'm very fired
up for it, looking forward to it, Coop. So you
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could name who were the three teams?
Speaker 3 (01:28):
You could name Indiana yep, uh, Ohio State yep, and
uh oh.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
This is so much better than breaking the games that
I prefer this way more. This is good, all right?
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Not not Notre Dame. Oh wow?
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Yeah, yeah, to go there, that is. I can't wait
to troll you about your broncos. You know what, all
bets are off with that comment. As soon as the
boat Nicks throws a pick. Oh, I'm blowing you up.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
He wasn't specific towards you. I just know that was
a big story.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, that's just the top of mine.
It was. I got you, yeah, no, and no problem,
nothing to do with me. Okay, not Notre Dame. So
we got Iu, Ohio State, not Notre Dame, Miami, Miami.
There you go, there you go. It works. You said three,
you got three? Very good. I went upset City, Coop.
I went with Miami, getting a little radical here. I
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went with Miami to beat Ohio State, and some people
are gonna look at me like, bro, what are you?
What are you talking about right now? Now? Listen, I
don't like Carson Beck at all. I think Carson Beck,
the Miami quarterback, wets himself far too often and he
could easily throw three interceptions without even thinking about it.
(02:48):
So this could be a horrible pick as it turns out.
But Miami has a handful of things going for itself.
They have real offensive uh and defensive linemen. They've got
real NFL talent right when you can rush the passer.
And Julian say in was he looked like Jared Goff
in the Big Ten Championship game. Like Jared Goff is
a really good quarterback except when he's facing a pass rush,
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and then he turns into a freaking terrible quarterback. Is
what happens with Jared Goff. And that's what Julian Saying
did when he was facing a good IU pass rush,
he had no answers. He looked like a completely different quarterback.
Guess what Miami could do. They could put heat on
the opposing quarterback. And so I wouldn't be surprised if
Ohio State isn't that productive offensively. I love their talent.
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I love Carnell Tate, I love Jeremiah Smith. I love
everything that they bring to the table. The running game
is just okay, and Miami's good against the rush as well.
So I don't know how many points Ohio State is
gonna score. I don't think they're gonna just open it
up and just open a can against Miami. I don't
see that happening. I think Miami's defense is too good,
and I also think as good as Ohio State's defense is,
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I do think with Miami's offensive line, they're gonna get
the running game working to a respectable degree. And if
good Carson Beck shows up, I know we always look
at him. Listen, he threw four interceptions against Louisville. He
was freaking off. He was brutal, and he has the
capability of being brutal again. But he's played a ton
(04:22):
of college games, and there are times where he has
looked fantastic, especially at Georgia when he had guys like
Brock Bauers and Lad McConkey. Now in the NFL, you
know that helped out quite a bit. But he has
looked really good at times. I think he's capable, even
against the Ohio State defense, of just pulling a shocker
(04:42):
of a performance where you're like, WHOA, didn't see that coming,
Carson Beck, I actually in the bracket challenge, I think
you do have to get a little bit outside the
box because there are so many competitors in this thing
where if you just go chalk and you go standard picks,
I don't think you're gonna win it. I think you
got to. You gotta go little radical and pull a
(05:04):
couple of upsets at least call for him. I have
Miami beating Ohio State. Now, I love them, plus the points.
I do love the Canes plus the points.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
Well, in case people aren't sure what you're talking about, Brian, Yeah.
Feeding off the success of our college basketball bracket challenge
each March, we decided to do a bracket challenge for
the college football playoff. That's right, with eight teams left
standing in the college football it's Bracket Challenge time. Compete
against our Fox Sports radio hosts like Brian he just
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I'm doing, yeah yeah, and against fellow listeners to see
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one grand Wow.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
That very interesting. You had just had all those thoughts
off the top of your head, like you just I
know it. Yeah, and you just threw it out there.
It's a great time to throw out those thoughts, you know,
packaged very nicely, very neatly, very well done by you.
Love that, Loraine. Are you gonna fill out your college
football playoff bracket here to compete against listeners?
Speaker 5 (06:21):
Bracket?
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Yeah, you gotta love a good bracket. You gotta make like,
I don't know, let me see.
Speaker 5 (06:27):
Like an ice cream bracket.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
You gotta make like seven picks. I think it's right
from this stage, you gotta make seven picks. That's it. Seven,
that's all.
Speaker 5 (06:36):
Mm hmmm.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
I think you gotta go a little bit outside the box.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
I might need help.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Uh, definitely fade Bama, definitely do. I can't wait I'll
tell you what. I can't wait. You know how Bart
Scott said it went can't wait. I'm Bart Scott right now.
I can't wait until I you just drops the hammer
on Bama. I am gonna love it. I'm gonna be
a pig and slop when that happens. Bama is so fugazy.
(07:04):
They are such a fools gold Team. I say these
things on the Saturday Countdown show and my co hosts,
my gosh, they turn into a pack of wolverines. They
turn into Barracudah's on me. It is roll tied rich
and Bama Jama Jared is what I call it. They
turn they act like they've got instead of like thug life.
(07:26):
You know Tupac had that on the stomach, right, It's
like they have roll Tide tattooed on their stomachs. They
turn into hyenas, They turned into crazy people. And I say,
Alabama is so fools gold Man. I take nothing away
from them what they've done this season. They've won eleven
games and they've had a lot of success. They've had
some setbacks along the way as well, like getting crushed
(07:47):
by Florida State, who won two games in the ACC
they got crushed by Georgia in the SEC Championship game
twenty eight to seven, so they've had some hiccups along
the way. They lost at home, out gaining Oklahoma by
almost two hundred yards because Oklahoma sucks, and they still
lost that game. So I don't buy Bama at all.
(08:08):
They can't run the ball whatsoever. They're overly reliant on
Ty Simpson, who's as of late skittish, a little bit
too inaccurate, inconsistent. Their defense is test okay, they have
no pass rush. Fernando Mendoza is gonna do the degeneration
X sucket sign to them all night, Like right, you
call that defense Bama? Oh, I can't wait. I can't
(08:30):
wait for Indiana to just freaking crush Bama.
Speaker 6 (08:34):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
I'm gonna love it. I Am gonna absolutely love it.
So that's my advice. Uh, Lorena is a fade Bama,
pick Iu over Alabama. That's my advice.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
I think I'm getting made fun of right now. Why
I just no context at all. I just received a
text from Roberto Flores. Oh, just a laughing emoji, the
skull emojiing a laughing emoji?
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Is he laughing at me?
Speaker 2 (08:59):
For not knowing the teams that are in the.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
The oh man, it might be. It might be. Is
Roberto a college football guy? Is he a fan?
Speaker 2 (09:08):
I didn't think so, but I mean, yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
I know he's all over baseball. Man. You know what,
you know, the one thing I think about Roberto the most,
it's him cracking on the NBA Cup. So like, we
just had the the inserts in season tournament in college
in the NBA, and it's stupid. He's so right, it's
so dumb, man. I love how you know, like Barkley's like,
(09:34):
this is dumb, what are we doing? But the first
year people were behind it. They're like, it's kind of fun.
It's a little different, you know, the courts are weird,
like I kind of like. And then it took one
year and people are like, this is just kind of dumb.
I don't know what Roberto thought. That was the dumbest
thing from the get go. You remember that Coop he
was fully I always think of Roberto when the NBA
(09:56):
Cup rolls around and how much he hates that idea.
So that stuck with me over the years.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
You just explained that he was laughing at me clowning
on Notre.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Dame oh man. And then and then you try to
play it off like no, no, no, no, I just
I just remember that was a big story, like yeah,
no job, but that.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
Was like the biggest story of the you know, the
the seating then.
Speaker 6 (10:22):
Yeah it was.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
It was a huge story. But I know better than
that where you're not just talking about news and you're like, oh,
this would be a good time to needle you in
the freaking forehead. No, like I know you Coop, don't
give me that.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
You do it to me every week. No, even even
when the Broncos are winning. Every single week they win
and you've got something to say.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Oh man, I'll tell you now here's the that's it's
pretty funny. Oh man, your team. I can't wait for
your two. I don't know if I want Bama to
get kicked in the teeth more or the Broncos. I
don't know, Like it's definitely Bama, but like, I just
don't buy your team, man. And it's like bo Nix
is just he's okay, he's nothing like outstanding.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
I don't know how many records he needs to set
or or you know, the first ever to do this
and that before people start giving him the respect that
he deserves.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Oh yeah, like the three air yards per pass, like
like it was just dice. It was just throwing the
ball downfield against the Chiefs, And like that's the thing, man,
Like some of these stats and some of these records,
it's like you gotta read between the lines. Sean Payton's
giving him these silver platter reads and easy completions. And
I don't want to take all credit away from him.
(11:36):
I'm just saying some of these records and things, these
accolades that he's getting, it's like, bro, it's like it
sounds way fancier than it actually is. That's all I'm saying.
I'm not trying to take all credit away from it. It
just sounds way fancier than it actually is.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Yeah, I mean, you can't discount all of them, Brian.
Speaker 7 (11:56):
I'm not.
Speaker 6 (11:57):
I'm not.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
I'm just I'm not. You could you could put whatever
I see these stats about touchdown passes and okay, we
could put bow knicks and his touchdown passes, you know,
like what they've actually been some some have been great
throws downfield, some have been threading the needle, you know,
(12:18):
like tough throws. I'm not saying all of them are easy,
but there have been quite a few that are very easy. Right,
Like he uses Sean Payton uses the passing game, the
short the quick passing game as an extension of the
running game.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
Because I mean, wasn't I mean, wasn't that basically Tom
Brady's entire career. No, it's just being being accurate on
on short passes gaining ten, you know, yards at a time.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
That was that?
Speaker 4 (12:47):
That was a lot of Tom Brady.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
I mean, like, was it a big portion of it?
Speaker 8 (12:53):
Sure?
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Was it? Like all of it?
Speaker 8 (12:55):
Was it?
Speaker 1 (12:55):
The Tom either bow Nix relies on the short passing
game a lot, like you can't have three air yards
averaged per like per attempt to get the come what
are we doing? He threw one pass over ten yards
against the Chiefs. It's like Sean Payton. It just tells
(13:16):
me you don't fully trust bow Nicks. You're you're safe,
You're like, oh, he might do something dumb. That's what
it tells me.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
I'm gonna I'm gonna find some stats to blow up
that argument.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Right now, man, I definitely am. I'm in the market
for some bow Nicks stats. I want to hear this
I do. It'll be good. But lorraina fade Alabama is
what I would say. Do you want to fill out
the Do you want to fill out the bracket live
on air? That'd be a fun thing like a paper.
You don't need a paper. You just do it online.
You do it at I'll tell you exactly where you go.
(13:46):
Good who you go to Fox Sports Radio dot iHeart
dot com to register, get rules, and to fill out
your bracket. Right there, That's exactly what Coop just said
off the top of his head. That's where you go
Fox Sports Radio dot iHeart dot com. You're good to go.
We just fill it out. You know.
Speaker 5 (14:06):
This is where we go to listen to the shows live.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Yeah, that's where you go. You were do you do?
People listening realize that Lorena was listening to a football game,
probably on the same app. Is that not true? Uh, Lorena,
you were doing that.
Speaker 5 (14:21):
The coverage of the games.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
The coverage of the games, okay.
Speaker 5 (14:25):
The weekend shows when they do their red zone radio.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Okay, very nice. Look at you sampling Fox Sports Radio
out and about maybe going to the grocery store, maybe jogging.
I don't know, I don't know what you got going
on right store? You gotta get groceries. How do you
get them?
Speaker 2 (14:48):
I don't what do you mean?
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Why do you staff your fingers? And someone's like, okay,
I know what that means, and they go and get
them for you do? How do you get your food?
Speaker 4 (14:57):
Lorena doesn't cook at or or or or eat grocery food.
Speaker 5 (15:03):
No, my snack and I eat restaurant food.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Wow, lifestyle, what a charmed life? My gosh. No, no
cooking of any sorts. Huh okay, hey, whatever works for you.
I'm not here.
Speaker 9 (15:16):
I'll go to a little mood sometimes I'll get in
a little cookie mood.
Speaker 5 (15:19):
But I waste so much food when I cook.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Yeah, okay, not proficient with the cooking. Is that what
you're telling me?
Speaker 5 (15:26):
I'm a great cook.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
How do you waste a lot of food while you're
cooking if you're a great cook?
Speaker 5 (15:32):
Well, because it always comes out in big portions. And
I'm a little person who doesn't eat much. So then
I got lots of leftovers that I don't eat.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Okay, I get it. I totally understand.
Speaker 5 (15:42):
Better to just go get a kid's meal, you know, yeah,
or I get the mini sub.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
This is why I'm twenty pounds heavier. Than when when
Lorena started working here.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Uh huh, it's just it's Lorena finished this. You know that.
That's her nickname is Fear finished this. Yes, yeah, I
got it. I understand it. You know, what does cat
think about this, coop?
Speaker 2 (16:08):
What does she think about my weight gain?
Speaker 6 (16:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (16:11):
What does she think about this weight game? The is
like the Freshman fifteen. This is the FSR fifteen. This
is the Lorena fifteen. Is what we're talking about here.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
You know this this happened actually the other day is
a good she Lorena brought in fat sALS a sandwich.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
It was like it was called the fat Pilgrim.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Yeah, okay, right, yeah, and.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
It's a sandwich with you know, turkey stuffing, stuffing, gravy, gravy,
cranberry sauce, sweet potato fries.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
The sandwich with all that. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
And I had already eaten dinner, and I just I
texted my I texted my wife. I was like, oh,
I'm I'm about to eat a half of a fat
Salas sandwich.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
And she's like, no, don't do that.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
And I, oh, I'm telling you after it already happened,
like I'm about to finish it.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
It's I'm not debating it. I'm eighty percent right, right, Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 9 (17:09):
I just think it's crazy that he blames me for
his lack of self control.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
I don't like food being wasted.
Speaker 9 (17:16):
It wouldn't be wasted.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
You could take it home and eat it later.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Okay, well, I guess that's a fair.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
That's true. It's a valid point, it's absolutely true.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
I think I got there.
Speaker 9 (17:26):
I think you should blame your weight gain on your
bagels you eat every day.
Speaker 5 (17:31):
I think that's much more. It's much worse than what
I feed you.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
I just don't get the bagel thing, Coop, I don't
understand it.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Listen, you're not stop it. We're like so many.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
People love bagels. I don't get it. I don't know why.
I don't know why you would be team bagels over
team donuts. It literally makes noes. It makes less sense
than the NFL's playoff format. I have no idea why
you would do that with your life. Donuts are so
much better than bagels. Why would you be like I
feel like a bagel today? Why why give me icing
(18:06):
on a delicious doughnut every single time over bagels?
Speaker 5 (18:10):
Why?
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Yeah, we gotta dress it up. We gotta get spread
on it. We gotta Yeah, you gotta dress it up
because it's terrible on its own. That that's that's welcome
to the world of bagels. That's what I think.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
I don't know, Well, you have a terrible palette.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
You know, I'm gonna eat some pecan Sandy's and then
thirty seconds from now, it's what I'm going.
Speaker 9 (18:32):
That's the reason I'm going to a grocery store today
is I get some pecan Sandy's.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
There you go, see, we got you there. We got
to the grocery store. Training Day, Training Day. That's right.
Lorena hasn't seen the movie Training Day yet. She asked me,
if I had to watch a movie on repeat for
the next month, what would it be? And I without hesitation?
Training Day, Training Day. Tuco from Breaking Bad has a
small part in it. Outstanding job. He's one of Smiley's crew.
(19:00):
You know. We get Denzel ethan Hawk and that we all.
We also have doctor Dre We got Snoop.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Oh stop it.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Stoop's actually really good in that movie, does a very
good job. We have Macy Gray. She's in there.
Speaker 5 (19:13):
So yeah, girl who sings that one song?
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Yeah, it's.
Speaker 5 (19:22):
Trying to walk Away.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
I love that song Stumbo. Yeah, yeah, it's her. She's
in there where the fo backup is one of her lines.
Great line, great scene when he comes in he's looking
for the Sandman when he's really just looking for cash.
That's what he's looking for, right that that's what Denzel's
on the on the prowl for tomorrow. Yeah, oh oh,
(19:44):
I can't leave out Eva Mendez.
Speaker 5 (19:48):
Love her.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
She's got a big part in that. Terry Crews and
Tattoo Free, which was a big object off the air yesterday.
You know, tattoo Free on the free the tatas. Yeah, no,
they don't, they don't need to be dressed up. Okay,
they're they're fine on their own. But yeah, yeah, she's Yeah,
(20:11):
your guys are right, but she's in there. Terry Crews,
you know, like the old old Spice commercials. He's had
a very small non speaking role in Training Day.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
Former NFL player Terry Crews.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Right, that's right. Yeah, I got to meet Terry Crews.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
I've heard great things that he's the super nice guy.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
He was the nicest guy ever. He was so nice.
He was he was doing this movie, this Mario Van
Peeples movie, and I had no cash. I was still
living in LA I was doing extra work and so
I was an extra and whatever this film was, I
have no idea. We're at the beach somewhere in LA like,
I don't know where we were. And I saw Terry Crews.
(20:49):
I just started talking to him because he was just
in the like the last Friday movie whatever it's called,
like Friday three, whatever the title is, I'm not sure
what it is. And they had a beautiful girl in
that movie. And that's what I was talking to him about, like, man,
that girl is hot. And he looks at me, he
goes man, she can't act, And I was like, really,
he goes man. They would give her her lines and
(21:12):
be like action and she would forget her lines every time.
Like it was just funny. Man, he was really good. Yeah,
he was great. Terry Crews, shout out to him. He
was awesome, very nice. All right, we got a lot
to get to eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox.
That would be your phone number. Some people want to
check in. Oh, oh, I've got a thought. Someone wants
(21:34):
to check in on Pooka Nakula. I have a Puoka
thought for you. And there was one thing that happened
during Monday Night football that if it shook out slightly differently,
we would have been barted. We would have been bombarded
with a really bad take that a lot of people
subscribe to. I want to tell you what that bad
(21:56):
take is coming up, and we'll see if you are
on board with it or not. I'm Brian though, in
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Speaker 1 (22:47):
It is Fox Sports Radio. I'm Brian though, in for
Big Ben Malor. All right, so some stuff's on my
mind over here. We'll get to the militia here in
one American minute. And my guy Dorco, he wants to
check in and just he wants to talk about Pooka Nakula.
Let me say something about Pooka before Dorko does, because
(23:09):
I doubt we have the same same thought here. But Pooka.
So on Monday Night football, the Rams lost to the
Falcons and it's down to the final seconds and third down.
Not that much time, probably like ten seconds to go
in the game. Third down, the the Rams are down
(23:30):
by three points. They're at their own thirty five yard line,
so you can see where this is going. They got
to throw a deep ball and get out of bounds.
That's what they're down to. And Stafford actually throws a
great ball on the sideline and Pooka Nakua catches it. It
just stuck to his left hand. He just stuck his
paw out there and the ball just went smack and
(23:52):
just stuck right there, and it looked like he caught it.
I thought it was a catch live. The officials were like, no,
he didn't know, no way, that's ridiculous, Like the degree
of difficulty. There's no way he caught that. So they
ruled it incomplete. And you watch the replays. The first
couple of replays, you're like, his feet are down, he's
(24:14):
got it, He's got the ball. And then they showed
one sideline replay and it was amazing. They slowed it down,
and so Pooka's got it. He's falling out of bounds.
The Falcons cornerback Aj Terrell, he's kind of just like
grabbing Pukah's arm. He's just grabbing the arm and he
caused Puka to lose control of the ball for a
(24:36):
millisecond and it was when his feet were no longer
in bounds. So it was an incomplete pass. He didn't
complete the process of the catch right, Like he didn't
have firm control the whole time. And so it was
the right call, but the one saving grace. At least
we don't have to hear these people like, well, these
NFL gloves, These NFL gloves like pretty much catch the
(25:00):
ball for you. It's like, dude, I could put you
in these NFL gloves right now, you will make zero
impressive catches. Okay, Like to spare me on the idea
that all these gloves do everything for you, though they don't.
I see plenty of NFL players wearing these super sticky,
ridiculous like space aged gloves, and they drop passes all
(25:23):
the time. You don't see that. You haven't seen a
player with the gloves on drop a ball that hasn't happened.
Huht No, it happens a lot far too often than
it should, so at least we don't have to hear that.
One thing I thought of was, man Pooka almost had it.
That would have been an amazing catch. It'll playoff implications,
YadA YadA. But then seeing the replay when he just
(25:45):
sticks his left paw out there and the ball just splat,
just goes nowhere. It looked like until you saw the
side review and he does lose control for just a
very short period of time, that was enough for it
to be incomplete. But I just thought of all these
people say, all these you know, these NFL gloves, Yeah,
they they pretty much catch the ball for you know,
(26:10):
they don't, No, they don't. You know what, Here's my thing.
If I don't, if I don't know someone very well,
like let's say when I was living in Vegas, just
you know, not that long ago, long ago. I was
there for a year and moved away just a couple
of weeks ago. But a friend invited me to another
friend's place to watch football. And this guy had a
(26:33):
beautiful house. He had this setup where he's got like,
you know, all these TVs. He's got at least six
of the games at one time. It was an amazing setup.
I think he actually had eight TVs that it was.
It was awesome. And I'm the kind of guy you
might be also a girl that if I don't know
you very well, I'll just kind of like disagree with
(26:56):
you on the inside, you know what I mean, Like
I don't want to cause waves, or if you say something,
I'm like, yeah, that's stupid, that's a dumb take. I
don't say that. I don't know you well enough to
say that. You know, if I did know you well enough,
i'd probably say it in a nicer way, like yeah,
I don't think so, man, right, But if I don't
know you, I don't just say that. Maybe that's my
(27:18):
New Year's resolution. I'm just gonna say it. If I'm
like at that place and that someone says that, like well,
you know these NFL gloves, man, they're unbelievable. They kind
of just catch the ball for you. I'd be like, no,
they don't, No, they don't do that. That's not true
at all. I could give you those same gloves. You're
not catching anything. So I don't believe that at all.
(27:38):
There are plenty of guys with these gloves that drop
the ball. How do you explain that? I thought it
caught the ball for you. Huh, Like, how do you
drop a pass? If that's the case. So anyway, that's
what it made me think. I have issues. That's what
There are a lot of voices in my head I
think is what's going on. Let's get to the phones here.
The militia wants to check in. Dorco is in Hawaii.
(27:59):
He's got a thought on Pooka Nakula. I'm curious what
his Pooka thought is. I gave you my Puoka thought.
What is your thought? Dorko? You're on Fox Sports Radio, Buddy.
Speaker 8 (28:08):
Hi, Brian know it's me Dorko. I think even if
Ko made some great plays, I think he needs a haircut.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Yeah you need you don't You don't like the man?
Bun is what you're telling.
Speaker 8 (28:20):
Me, yeah, yeah, he needs them all cut. I think
he looks like a hippie. It's not hip to be
a hippie anymore. Maybe maybe his hair is holding bad vibes.
He would look handsome with short hair, like an adult
instead of long like a pee weets player.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
You don't like it? Now, let me ask you. Would
anybody look good with that hair do? Is there any
other NFL player that you think, you know, if he
had that hair, maybe he could rock it out or
it just look bad on everybody?
Speaker 8 (28:52):
Well, maybe there's somebody. But maybe the ram's luck would
turn around with the haircut, because when you look good,
you feel and I feel good because I'm a ben fluent, sir.
All the ladies love Dorko, the ben fluence sir. Just
ask lorrain Ah, she is so hot hot, uh Dan
(29:13):
your mama, Hi, Loreina?
Speaker 5 (29:16):
Hi Dorco?
Speaker 11 (29:18):
Hi?
Speaker 1 (29:20):
So is that true? Lorena? Are all the girls like
they're big on Dorco?
Speaker 8 (29:24):
Is that?
Speaker 1 (29:24):
Like? Is that correct? Advertising? Right there?
Speaker 9 (29:28):
I haven't heard such things, but he sounds spicy.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Yeah, there you go. You sound spicy Dorco. According to Loraina,
that's pretty good, right. You could do way worse than that.
Speaker 8 (29:40):
I think so.
Speaker 5 (29:43):
I got that on your dating profile. I sound spicy
on the Ben Maller show.
Speaker 8 (29:47):
Me there you go, I'm tender, I'm tender.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
Yeah, you're the first line, the first line and the
only line. Dorko just put exactly that.
Speaker 8 (29:56):
I'm tender. Lorena said, I'm spicy, tender. I'm a tender riser.
Speaker 6 (30:04):
I gotta go by.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
All right, there he is, dorcoh. Look at that was quick.
That was almost like the Irish goodbye seasoned. Yeah, very nice.
All right, we've got Jed who fled. He's with us
this morning as well. Jed, what's going on, buddy, You're
on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 6 (30:21):
That previous call disgusted me. So I got our Monday camps.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
He's out, he's out, all right, he fled, he fled.
That was quick. That was the quickest Jed who fled
call I've ever taken here on Fox Sports Radio. Man,
that that was fast. Okay, Jed's got stuff to do. Well,
let's let's get to Mike the LEPrecon he was to
check in as well. Mike, what's up, buddy, you're on
(30:48):
Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 11 (30:50):
I'm gonna say an Irish hello, darka is funny. He's
in Hawaii. I'm fy Florida, and I'm spicy. Anyway, your
last day, mister Brian House, Yeah I believe.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
So I'm gonna do a couple of two pro shows
Wednesday and Thursday. But yeah, this is tomorrow. I have
no idea. I don't know. I'm not sure.
Speaker 11 (31:12):
Maybe I heard Jimmy Bob Jimmy Bob. Anyway, my favorite
movie to watch for a month would be Field of Dreams.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Yeah you like that one.
Speaker 11 (31:20):
Huh. That's a brilliant movie. And I call a spade
at spade. I'm very honest. And regarding the gloves, you
know what. Those gloves can't help you on cold weather
like we have in Boston today with the wind. I
mean that's why they bounces off their helmets and whatever.
But anyway, so Lorena is like a rabbits. She nibbles
(31:42):
and food. She should buy some stowage containers and stick
it in the freezer like I do with my leftovers.
So cool it.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
I think that I'm a lot like Loraina because I
do things all the time where I put it in
the fridge. I mean to eat it, and then I
just lose interest. I'm like, yeah, it's not trash. It's
not new. I'm like, h whatever, Yeah.
Speaker 11 (32:06):
Okay, America, anywhere in the world, there's people who are hungry,
so I never waste a bite.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
No, it's better to be that way. It's better to
be that way, Mike. Absolutely, we should strive to be
like that, No doubt.
Speaker 11 (32:17):
They bagels are better than Domus sugar.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
No, they're not. That's an outrageous take. That's that's the
craziest thing you've ever said.
Speaker 11 (32:24):
No, I did some research on you. You're forty six?
Is that correct? And you're no, I'm older than that.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
I remember what I am now I think I'm gosh,
what am I up to?
Speaker 11 (32:33):
I'm sixty two? But you're a skinny little lad and
for Coop, Coop needs to go in a bit of
a diet. But the sounds of things, a man, I.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
Mean whatever, be put on twenty pounds working next to
Loraina apparently, so you know whatever.
Speaker 11 (32:50):
Okay, I have a take on the Well, it won't
be not to Dame and the circuit won't be BC.
I like Miami. They knocked the Indiana out of the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
Right, No, not yet. No, they not Texas A and m.
Speaker 11 (33:02):
Out No, but back Miami beat not to Dame in
an early game in the season. Not the Dame doesn't
belong to a conference, and that's why they didn't get picked.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
It's a lot of the conference thing. It's not like,
don't let people tell you it's because that's a popular take.
It's dumb, and I you know, listen, listen. No, I
won't bore you with my spiel right now, but I'll
that one. Yeah, circle, Okay, okay.
Speaker 11 (33:27):
So let me tell you Alabama is going to win
against Indiana. Indiana hasn't played the game for a month.
They're a little bit overrated. No, they're very good. They
have a great quarterback, but they're going to be a
little bit rusty. And that's the time you can always
take down the top dog. It's when you're rusty, so
you never know.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
It's okay, all right, all right, so's who's gonna win
it all? Mike? Are you calling for here?
Speaker 11 (33:52):
I think Ohio States actually actually okay, all.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
Right, and Mark, I don't buy them rated. I think
they're overrated. Mike, I don't.
Speaker 11 (34:01):
I don't thinking of overrated. Marsala is overrated.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
No, no, no, Mike, Mike, Yeah, why why would you
say that.
Speaker 6 (34:11):
Because he is.
Speaker 11 (34:12):
He blocks me, He blocks all the people that are friends.
Have you ever been to Boston? Brian?
Speaker 1 (34:17):
Absolutely? Yeah, I have.
Speaker 11 (34:19):
Okay, I'm bringing the whole crew with Mike from New Hampshire.
They're coming sometime in the spring and we're giving him
a free trip and all that stuff. But yeah, so
you should tag along. We can make it be a
road trip and I love the move. Another thing I
like you mentioned the car. The Duke's of whoa Hold.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
On Real Fast?
Speaker 5 (34:38):
Ben Maller will never in his life ever agree to
a road trip.
Speaker 6 (34:44):
No, it's a trip.
Speaker 11 (34:45):
You're flying.
Speaker 9 (34:46):
You definitely said a road trip. You said we can
make a road trip. That's what you said.
Speaker 11 (34:50):
Okay, you're coming to Boston in the spring. You're welcome.
Speaker 1 (34:54):
M Well, you're not up for Boston, loraino? What's going
on over there?
Speaker 5 (34:58):
I'm not a fan of leprechauns.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
The Notre Dame has a leprecha on right, Like, how
can you not look at lucky charms? Your anti lucky charms?
Like what are you talking about here, Brian?
Speaker 11 (35:09):
I even have a I even have a little throne
for her. I have all these gag gifts already. Box
you have a ready for me.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
Okay, all right, yeah, no, questionable, it's questionable. It's questionable, Mike,
it's questionable. That's all saying. I appreciate you, Mike, good stuff. Uh,
let me go look real fast because I want to
get this Mike and Peoria and it just says Notre Dame.
I have to hear this. I want to hear what
he has to say. Mike, You're on Fox Sports Radio.
(35:40):
What's going on? Man? Welcome here, Brian.
Speaker 6 (35:42):
Great to be with you. I'm going to tell you
exactly what I said to whoever answered the call. He said,
what do you want to talk to Brian about? I said,
I want to let Brian know I got us back
for anyone who wants to talk crap about Notre Dame.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
Okay, all right, I like it.
Speaker 8 (35:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (35:57):
Hey, uh a second, Like, Brian, I wanted to ask you,
since the last time we spoke, have you been math
to beautiful Martin, Illinois in Peoria to see your little Dolly?
Speaker 1 (36:09):
No, Man, I haven't been there for a while now.
I've been. Uh, I was in Vegas for the last year,
so it's been a long time since I've been to
that area.
Speaker 6 (36:16):
So that relationship didn't go anywhere.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
Oh yeah, yeah, my girl. Yeah we broke up. We
were together for almost three or four years, but yeah,
yeah we And.
Speaker 6 (36:25):
The last thing, the last thing I want to say, Brian, is, uh,
maybe this weekend coming up, you can give one segment
and talk about, uh, the Illinois State Redbirds. Can they
upset another top tier team in the FCS Championship game
coming up next Monday night? Go Redbirds? Thanks Brian?
Speaker 1 (36:43):
All right? Cool stuff like it, Mike, all right, I
like that defending Notre Dame. Good stuff, very nice. And
uh when some Illinois State love, you know, we might
Saturday morning, maybe we might talk about it a little bit,
no doubt. All right, let me get to the tweets
around the corner I've got you know, listen, it's just
(37:04):
a bad, bad take it. It's been going around. It's
like a yeah, like a virus going around. It's not
just the Hey, do you know these these NFL gloves
they catch the ball for you. It's not that. It's
something else that was mentioned very briefly by one one
Leprechaun that we were just talking to, and we just
got to set the records straight. Right around, right around
(37:24):
the corner, so we'll do that coming up. I'm probably
no in for Big Ben Mallor. Stay with us right
here on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 7 (37:30):
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Speaker 1 (37:36):
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Speaker 5 (38:04):
Told you the clean version.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
Chick you make me earl chick. I love these movies, man,
Like I don't know why. I don't know. I don't
get it, man, I don't understand why movies when they're
replayed on I don't know, like just TV, where it's
got to be clean. They can't just let f bombs
fly left and right. I get it. I don't know
why they don't. Just you're like edit the sound out,
(38:31):
like just mute it for a second, like just mute
the cuss word out instead of changing it to something
that's so ridiculous and sounds so stupid, am I? The
only one? Is this like a thing? Is this just
like a way to entertain themselves? Or remember pulp fiction?
They'll they'll put pulp fiction on TV and like change
(38:51):
all the cuss words. And when when Samuel L. Jackson
or Jules says, you know, we'd have to be talking
about one Charman, mfn pig, they turned it into we
gotta be talking about one Charman mighty friendly pig. And
it's like, what, why would you That's what they change
it to. Mighty friendly pig is what they have it
(39:14):
like the clean version of pulp fiction. Why why would
you do why? I don't understand. Is it just to
entertain themselves? I hope that's why it was, because otherwise
that's just bad. Right, I'm not wrong about that, am I.
That's just that's bad. It's bad. It's a bad idea,
all right, real fast about Notre Dame. This is a
bad take, Like, oh, Notre Dame didn't make the playoff
(39:36):
this season because they're not in a conference. Oh really,
so Notre Dame made it to the BCS Championship Game
in the twenty twelve season, one of only two teams
they weren't in a conference. Then they made it to
the four team college Playoff twice, not in a conference.
So how did they make it then and now? The
only reason they din't make it now is because they
weren't in a conference. It's bad take. It's a bad take.
(39:58):
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