05/29/2024 – Best of 2 Pros and a Cup of Joe

Karl-Anthony Towns shuts up the haters with his late 3-point performance to keep the T’Wolves alive. The Steelers might be hiding their plans with Justin Fields. The NFL  and NFLPA are ready to make an overhaul to the offseason schedule. And The Old P, Petros Papadakis rips the “Nepo-Baby,” Bronny being considered a serious NBA prospect.

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Speaker 2 (00:34):
Oh yeah, all right, Two Pros and a Cup of Joe,
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Speaker 3 (00:41):
He wasn't gonna fight them off. He wasn't gonna do it.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
Who wasn't gonna do it?

Speaker 3 (00:47):
The Norwegian? No Scandinavian? What was it?

Speaker 4 (00:51):
Wait? Come on, you said?

Speaker 3 (00:52):
Remember? Hey? Yeah, where where'd I say? From? Scandona? He
was Scandinavian? So Norway Sweden?

Speaker 1 (00:59):
Finished?

Speaker 3 (01:00):
He was finished. Yeah, it's all I know. He wasn't
laughing like we was on the on the ship going
across the sea. I love that joint. When I you know,
watched Thirteenth Warrior, you know they laughing at the hot waves.
He wasn't laughing at the hot waves. No, nah, he was.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
He was.

Speaker 3 (01:21):
He was knocked down, probably impressed, though he wasn't impressed.

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Speaker 2 (01:50):
Congratulations to the Minnesota Timberwolves. They stay alive. They win
last night in Dallas. Tough game, hard fought Karl Anthony Town.
I mean, look, I don't know if it's outside the
realm of possibility that we could just give him the
Western Conference Finals MVP at this point and then you know,
we'd just be happy with the results based what happened

(02:13):
last night. Listen, I'm gonna support the guy. He needs
a little bit of help here. He can't get any
love from anybody on the air. So he needs some love.
I'm going to give him some love four for five
from three after that abysmal performance throughout the first couple
of games of the series. Now we've got a Game
five coming up on Thursday night, and I think they're
gonna win. I think it's going six. So if anybody

(02:34):
wants to make a little bit of money, go ahead
and bet on the Timberwolves by double digits.

Speaker 3 (02:39):
Gohiak, you you want it, you go ahead and tell you.

Speaker 1 (02:42):
I don't really have much more to add outside of
the fact that I'm not sure it goes to six.
I'm not sure that Dallas Mavericks by and large, I
mean Hardy and some other shadow k off the bench.
But I don't think it goes to six. I just don't.
I think Dallas is the better team than a bad
shooting night Luca. As we kind of touched on earlier,
this show just seemed a little bit off despite the

(03:02):
fact that he didn't have a triple double. So I
don't really have much more to add to it, you know,
I just I don't think I know what Anthony Edwards said,
and it was great to see him kind of own
up to that and then win. You know Game four,
I just I feel like this is gonna be a
short lived, short lived rodame.

Speaker 2 (03:21):
You know, it's kind of sweet on DraftKings.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
It's sweet.

Speaker 2 (03:23):
You can adjust the line, the betting line. So like
this game is, Minnesota is a minus four and a
half heading into game five. So the a four and
a half point favorite coming up at home. I think
they're gonna win by double digits. So if I just
adjusted the line and put the points spread at ten
in favor of Minnesota, that payout would be plus two hundred.

(03:45):
So you're looking at it a two to one payout,
just because I've given you the result of the game
ahead of time. You know, it's like Biff and the
Sports Almanac in the movie Lead to Lapse. Dad was
in just like, I'm telling you what's gonna happen, and
we're gonna here at a game six coming up here soon,
and then all the pressure goes over to the Dallas Mavericks.

(04:06):
Just is what it is.

Speaker 3 (04:07):
You know, how many Timberwolves scored over twenty points in
the last game, Not this one that just passed, but
the last game one Anthony Edwards all took Okay, Now,
in the game before where we're talking about and feeling

(04:29):
good about one. Nas. Read right, Nas puts up twenty
three points, So they had two dudes that broke broke
twenty points because Anthony Edwards, Yeah, he broke twenty in
that game as well. But what concerns me is, I said,
I if Karl Anthony Towns doesn't make those shots, knock

(04:51):
those those threes off and take the you know, the
whole shooting from three point numbers off of that, and
he's somewhere around twelve teen points. Well that's where he's
at in these games that he's not hitting those points.
He's around fifteen points of what the last the last
game he was at fifteen points, So he had fifteen

(05:14):
points in the last two games. I'm not I'm not.
I'm saying my confidence level for the Timberwolves to be
able to turn this into a series is based off
of Carl Anthony Towns and Rudy Gobert being dominant forces
in the game. That gives you a big three in

(05:34):
the game. And then if you get the contributions from
Nas and and and others like especially nas And when
he's on, then you're going to have enough points to
be able to make it a really you can close
a game against them, because that's been their biggest thing.
They haven't closed the games out against the Mavericks.

Speaker 2 (05:51):
It's just disrespectful. Let me, Brady, have you taken your
kids still, like a theme park and they've gotten a
picture with their favorite character at the theme park or
something like that?

Speaker 1 (06:00):
You know, because I make sure my kids don't look
up the theme park characters.

Speaker 2 (06:04):
I'm just saying, like when they when they go to
a theme park, did they ever get like want something
or want to take a picture with something, or want
a prize or a toy?

Speaker 1 (06:13):
They really don't. They always want a toy. They went like,
not a prize, but they want to like get something.

Speaker 2 (06:18):
Okay, they're spoiled and like, what's what's the Imagine.

Speaker 3 (06:21):
That Mickey Mouse was walking around talking about go like.

Speaker 2 (06:27):
What that goofy?

Speaker 3 (06:28):
That Goofy don't walk around trying to be some mouse,
thank you? Imagine if Goofy was walking around talking about
I c J. Why Like what.

Speaker 2 (06:40):
My point is if if the little girls want like
a Mickey Mouse bubble maker, Brady wouldn't go on the
air the next day and bury Mickey Mouse and mock
him and ridicule him and call him, quote unquote a bum.
Karl Anthony Towns gave your son his wristband, Yes he did,

(07:01):
and you came on the air the next day and
you said he should be cut.

Speaker 3 (07:05):
I did not say that.

Speaker 2 (07:08):
You said, and I quote, I would take Caitlyn Clark
over Karl Anthony town to day.

Speaker 3 (07:15):
I mean I'm not. I mean, I mean I didn't
say it, but I mean, since you said it, who
am I trusting to take a three pointer right now?
Carl Anthony Towns or Caitlyn Clark saying? By the way
she put up thirty last night, I think I'm just
said that she started to look here. If I had

(07:39):
to choose right now, who I want taking that three ball? Like,
I know, all the weights of the ball are different. Yeah,
I get all that, but Katelyn Clark can shoot that pill.
All I'm saying is, Carl Anthony Towns is a big man.
What is he listed on on the on the roster
of eighty four forward or center one of the two?

Speaker 4 (07:58):
Right?

Speaker 2 (07:59):
Yeah, it could be whatever he wants after the last
nast performance.

Speaker 3 (08:02):
I mean, listen, if you're talking about a guy who
has to play classically the role of uh Steph Curry
classically the role of Robert or.

Speaker 2 (08:16):
He's Steph Curry sitting on somebody's shoulders.

Speaker 3 (08:18):
Classic classic role of Ray Allen, like Paul Pierce, Like,
what the hell are we looking at at Carl Anthony
Towns to be the designated three point shooter at seven
foot It doesn't make sense. It does not make sense.

(08:40):
And the only time you see him near the rim
on the offensive side of the court is if he
gets the ball beyond the arc somewhere near and around
there and drives to the hole. If I'm sitting there
and I'm I'm the Dallas Mavericks, I say we're going
to take our chances. If this guy he's going to

(09:00):
sit out here and and we think that he's going
to make four to three pointers during the course of
the game, I can.

Speaker 1 (09:07):
Live with that.

Speaker 3 (09:09):
We got to get a three game lead, a three
three game wins league, I can live with that. Don't
let anybody d up, d up and collapse on and
and and rush rush Anthony Edwards. Make sure that you
limit nas on him shooting, because I actually am more
afraid of him shooting threes and getting hot than Carl
Anthony Towns and make sure you move quickly around Rudy

(09:31):
Gobert so he gets confused and dizzy and starts looking
like a top out there. You know, you like the
little top, little toy, and you spend that spinning top
like this dude don't be knowing where the hell he's
at half the time because of how quickly they be
moving around him. If you can keep go Bear off balance,
and you can let Carl Anthony Towns feel like he's

(09:51):
going to win the game by shooting three pointers, this
game is going to be over. The next game, third,
take that game be over. Let me tell you this
series will be over.

Speaker 1 (09:58):
Yeah, defend yourself, Jonn Well.

Speaker 2 (10:00):
I'll just say this, all right, if you want to
do it, do it for chef. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (10:05):
So Mickey Mouse is not good, right or or you
know he's and Goofy is and Mickey Mouse it stop
acting like a three point shooter and get somewhere inside
the paint.

Speaker 2 (10:15):
All right, So he said, So you don't like him
pretending to be something range?

Speaker 4 (10:19):
All right?

Speaker 2 (10:19):
So well, you know what I don't like what you
don't like. I also don't like Justin Fields being painted
out to be a specials teamer.

Speaker 3 (10:26):
All right kid, exactly. Yeah, even if he may be
good at it, even if he may have a couple
decent returns, gain something that's pretty impressive.

Speaker 2 (10:36):
And when it got brought up, and when it got
brought up to him, he laughed at it. He laughed
in its face, as he should. He's a quarterback. He's played,
he's played good football. And we don't even need to
sound from justin Fields. We don't even need it. I
support justin Fields. You're a quarterback, you're too good to
be a kick returner. And and the fact that this
was even to your team, he said, listen, it was

(10:58):
more of a more of aking manor the special teams
coach brought it up. I don't think he really good.
It shouldn't be taken serious. Guy's a quarterback. He's going
to get an opportunity. He's played good football before. Enough
with this crap and this nickel and dime. Well, we've
got to use him somehow. Let's throw him back there
to return kicks. Enough is enough. He should put his
foot down and if they try and force him to

(11:19):
do it, he should refuse to play and go sign
with the UFL.

Speaker 4 (11:22):
Dang, Yeah, that's what I think.

Speaker 3 (11:24):
One a cute I mean he totally switched subjects like
he made a hard you turn out of Karl Anthony
Towns to I'd like to segue. I mean he's asking,
he's talking about somebody being something they're not. Carl in
that three points.

Speaker 1 (11:37):
Let me just give his context, Okay. So I believe
it was Jalen Warren who might have let the cat
out of the bag by its hockey on Cam Hayward's
podcast and mentioned something in regards to the Special Teams
coach Danny Smith. I believe it who is in Pittsburgh
talking about Justin Fields potentially being a returner. Now, Justin
Fields responded to it laughing because he was like, hey man,

(12:00):
this is just like a figure of speech, right, like
anyone could play Special Teams. The only thing I'd say
about that is, I guess there's a few things. Fields
is an incredible athlete. I'm sure they're sitting there looking
at him on the bench thinking, you know, is he
going to be able to run the offense and operation
the same way Russell Wilson can? Maybe not, but we

(12:20):
still feel like he's one of our best athletes. Do
we have a package for him? Do we put him
on special teams, allow them to get in there and
do something like there's probably all these thoughts of how
you get justin fields on the field but still allow
yourself to feel like you're running an offense that you
can win and win football games with. So there's that
element of it. There's also the element of he didn't
say Russell Wilson, Like if the special teams coach said, like, hey,

(12:42):
even Russell will be out their own, he didn't stay Russell.
And these two are supposed to be in a quarterback competition,
and he did use justin fields as an example of that.
So is there a chance that they're trying to hide
what is a secret with a new kickoff rule, you know,
a way of getting him the ball an opportunity to
do something dynamic because he is capable of that. So

(13:03):
maybe they did let the cat out of the bag
a little bit, and maybe it's not necessarily misidentifying like
what he is that is capable of doing.

Speaker 3 (13:10):
I mean, he's a ball handler, right, and he's fast.
You could do some reverses, you can do some some
throw it back across the Motor City miracle type stuff
action exactly. There are a few things that you can do.
But let's be clear here. What you can't do is
get him hurt on a rickoff. Let that happen. Let

(13:30):
somebody like, uh, a grown ass goon that that's on
that kickoff team. See Justin Fields back there, and he
looking like a nice fresh piece of meat. And he
goes and gets him and and takes half of his
leg off of him and heads back to the sideline.
And they got to come scoop Justin Fields off the ground.
He's on his rookie contract. So you can, in a

(13:52):
way be like, ah, well, you know, we can justify
we were trying to get him on the field. We
were trying to do some things, get some reps on him,
you know, create a different look. Okay, And then something
happens with Russ. Rust starts playing poor Ruts, Russ goes
down with an injury. What are you doing then? And
then you know what, the Pittsburgh Faithful We're going to say,
you had Justin Fields returning kickoffs. We lost our backup quarterback,

(14:17):
which I wasn't even fully sold on our starting quarterback
to begin with, And you're gonna let him allow him
to go out there and get hurt on special teams?
Do you really want to take that change?

Speaker 2 (14:27):
Have you guys ever told a coach no? He says, hey, listen,
I want you to go do this, like, you know,
play this or go be five.

Speaker 3 (14:35):
I've never said no because I'm a team player, but I'm.

Speaker 1 (14:39):
I don't I don't think i've said no. But I
also wasn't asked to, you know, play special teams, which
I mean not since like early years in high school.
You know, was I asked to do special teams? So
I guess it was when you did special teams? Did
you run down on kickoff? And were you al witch breaker?

(15:01):
That was? No?

Speaker 3 (15:02):
Probably safety dude, like if they get out of the
first gate, you gotta be able to run him down
and stop him. Like you can put dudes out there
that you don't want to get hurt out there as
like safety valves, Like I'm gonna put the fastest guy
out here. If he breaks through our defense, you gotta
run him down. Like that makes sense. But if you're
putting someone like justin Fields who you don't really know
yet what he's going to represent to your team, I

(15:25):
feel like that might be a poor to suit me.

Speaker 1 (15:27):
Now, this literally could have been something that was kind
of put out there, and then it could have just
been coach talk in the sense of, you know, Danny
Smith's sitting there and say, hey man, you know that's
how you're gonna make this. This is all gonna make
the team. This is all going to make it in
the league. You gotta play special teams or you keep
like you know, anyone could play, and even justin fields.
It could have been sitting right in front of him, right.

Speaker 3 (15:46):
Does that get no more value? Q if he does
that because he's not playing and he's like basically at
the end of his contract, he's got one year to
prove it if he's not getting out there on the
field because Russ is playing well, does this give him
any added value on the market if they don't bring
them back.

Speaker 1 (16:02):
No, because I think it lends itself to say, all right,
he's gonna make a position transition, which which.

Speaker 3 (16:08):
I don't you know, I think he's a real prior
type stuff.

Speaker 1 (16:11):
Make sure it's reel prior or whoever you're going to
throw the conversation Malie Cunningham.

Speaker 2 (16:15):
Just get he's a wide receiver in Baltimore now, right, Yes.

Speaker 1 (16:18):
Which she was again, well, He's doing both, but a
little different, right. I mean, Justin Fields was prolific at
times in his college career and has displayed the ability
to play at the NFL level from the pocket. So
I don't even want to compare the two because to me,
they're not really a comparable.

Speaker 3 (16:35):
You can how you look, you can compare him the
slash and Pittsburgh did a lot with slash. Is this
slash two point oh? Is this Cordelle store two point oh?
In Pittsburgh They're going to put him at receiver, putting
Matt tail back? Like I mean, is this what if
there's a team that would do it, it would probably
be Pittsburgh.

Speaker 2 (16:56):
It's disrespectful. Man, Tang played good football, all right, you.

Speaker 3 (17:01):
As a starter. And now they talking about we having
a debate on Fox Sports Radio right at five seventeen,
eight seventeen somewhere in the world. We're talking about if
a former starting quarterback is going to now be the guy,
yeah that turns kickoffs and punts for the Steelers.

Speaker 2 (17:21):
It's unfortunate. Well listen now, I'll tell you what is fortunate.
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on the air because I really threw him just a
bag of turds at the end of that last hour,
because like there was a story that involved more discussion

(19:10):
and more explanation and in case you missed it, and
there was like twelve seconds left on the clock and
there wasn't enough time and he ran right into the
heart out. So I just butchered that that was my fault.

Speaker 1 (19:20):
Lee.

Speaker 3 (19:21):
Could you write to the part out.

Speaker 2 (19:23):
So there's some guy who wants to take a submarine
down to the Titanic because the last time somebody tried
this it didn't go well. Yeah, I'm just curious why. Yeah,
the last guy who did it.

Speaker 6 (19:31):
By the way, the name of that company was ocean Gate,
which should probably be a bad sign anyway, never put
in gate at the end of anything, right, I forgot
about that. But yeah, Ohio billionaire Larry Connor, who's a
big Connor, who's a big booster for Dayton, University of Dayton.

Speaker 2 (19:47):
He's planning to do the same thing he wants to build.

Speaker 6 (19:49):
Well, he has built a submersible submarine that will plan
to go do the Titanic multiple times. A lot of
people wonder if this is a whether it's a failure
or a SSS, whether this will affect the nil money
for Dayton University of Dayton.

Speaker 1 (20:07):
What liked people not realize like he's got so much
money and it is the University of Dayton, Like he
could still support it and still do this venture. They
do realize that, right.

Speaker 2 (20:19):
Yeah, this is this submerciful what's the upset?

Speaker 3 (20:22):
What's the obsession with doing that? Though apparently for.

Speaker 1 (20:26):
The article I read, it sounded like he was motivated
to get people to explore the ocean and explore going
down in the ocean after that event, like that motivated
him to do.

Speaker 2 (20:38):
This, Okay, that's fun.

Speaker 3 (20:42):
I mean people doing it and the other one. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (20:45):
I think the difference is is like this is a
billionaire who's not going to cut corners. And it sounded
like the other company might have been like taking like
safety and stuff. Yeah like that, there's certain things like
that that may have done. They basically a sardine.

Speaker 3 (21:02):
Can, right, Like there weren't even any windows or anything
like that. Right, it was like you had to look.

Speaker 2 (21:10):
At it as a submarine. They're not a screen door either.

Speaker 3 (21:15):
That just doesn't make any sense to me. What are
you going to go on to say if you can't
really see what's going on unless you're like the operator
and you got to look at it through what like
like monitors, get a sunroof in there at least, what's
the difference between being in the submarine and just seeing
it through the monitors of a man list right, a

(21:36):
non man submarine?

Speaker 1 (21:38):
That shows you the visual point. That's a great point,
there is dumb or how about this just go to
one of those places where you put on oculars and
just look.

Speaker 4 (21:48):
At it in VR.

Speaker 1 (21:49):
You know, you don't even have to go anywhere. You
can just put on some oculars, like those little virtual
reality mass things. Put those on it, then just go
look at it. It's still on your couch. I mean,
there's not too much risk there.

Speaker 3 (22:00):
I've seen a few people in Cali wearing those out too, man,
That's that's kind of wild, Like where are you going?

Speaker 2 (22:06):
Wait, like they wear them out out in public errands.

Speaker 3 (22:10):
Like what are you doing? Like why you have those on?

Speaker 2 (22:13):
Like doesn't that defeat the purpose?

Speaker 3 (22:15):
I guess so, But I guess people you know this,
Cali man people, Cali.

Speaker 1 (22:20):
Man people put out that vibe. Baby, yet they.

Speaker 3 (22:22):
Want to be seen with Gulo.

Speaker 1 (22:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (22:28):
Yeah, I'll be sitting in the hood. But Monaco or Milan,
I just did the f ones.

Speaker 1 (22:36):
You come out of that all sophisticated, right, Like I
just had some caviar, Like, hey man, that's a bordega man,
Like what you doing? Why are you dressed like that?
I had to go to the casino.

Speaker 3 (22:51):
There you go, Cavia. I was hot tonight. Oh yeah, this.

Speaker 2 (23:00):
Is no homeless encampment here. This is a winery in Italy.
What are you talking about? Just look at these? Try
these on?

Speaker 3 (23:06):
Where'd you get those from the truck? Did you hear
about that accident on the ten. These puppies fell right
on off the highway.

Speaker 2 (23:18):
Oh man, well, listen, submarine not my thing. I have
no interest whatsoever in doing it at all, Like zero interests.
So anybody wants to go do a show on a submarine,
have fun with that. It is two pros and a
cup of joe here. Though, we do have a potential
change in the NFL that could be happening here. Oh,

(23:39):
you guys would be the perfect people to speak on this.
You people would be perfect to speak on this as
former players who have gone through the grind of the
NFL off season into training camp. Apparently, according to Tom
Pellasero of the NFL Network, the NFLPA is working to
finalize a proposal to overhaul the off season, starting as

(24:01):
soon as twenty twenty five. It would eliminate voluntary on
field work in the spring in favor of a longer
training camp ramp up, with players reporting in mid June.
In mid June rather to early July, per sources. Ooh,
now seems like a long ass season to me. But
what the hell do I know?

Speaker 1 (24:21):
Here's what I would say as a former player. There's
pros and cons to all these sorts of decisions. But
if the is you said, the NFL is proposing this correct, Yeah, NFLPA,
nflpa's proposedness. Which is interesting because if you're proposing this right,

(24:42):
and you're going to the owner saying, we would like
to do this, this is one of your bargain pieces.
When we talk about eighteen games, how they're trying to
get to eighteen games, this is one of the ways,
and this is one of the ways where the owners go, Okay, well, yeah,
well we'll do that for you guys. Oh by the way, though,
if we're going to do that, you guys have to
play additional game and we're going to take off one

(25:02):
preseason game for you guys, so you know, it's still
going to be in the same timeframe, but we're gonna
play more meaningful games instead of these these you know,
preseason games. That's the problem with putting this out there
and using this as a potential negotiation or bargaining chip
is as we talked about before, this just shouldn't be
something that you should be as focused on if you

(25:24):
are a you know, if you're a current player, thinking
about it for future players, former players, like this is
just not something that's that important outside of the people
that are currently playing in the NFL now. But that's
the reason why I feel like they're doing this is
because they're creating more space to adjust, move back, adapt
to schedule however they need to for potential of eighteen games.

(25:48):
And look back, I mean back when we played Varrol. Like,
I don't know how you viewed the six weeks we
got off after OTA's and mini camp that are going
on right now. I didn't like it because I felt
like you were off, but you kind of were, like
you could have a little bit of fun. But basically
after July fourth, like you were in full training camp mode,
even though you weren't in training camp yet. Like maybe
you didn't report, but your ass was working out every day,

(26:11):
you were thrown every day, you were doing everything you
could every day to prepare yourself to be ready to
like kick it into gear as soon as you got
into training camp.

Speaker 4 (26:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (26:19):
And so this allows them to basically take OTAs in
mini camp like they have now and the off season
phase one training where they work out and me with
the coaches. It basically allows them to shift that into
June July and then they build into training camp. So
it's gonna feel like one really really long season for
the players, it'll be an adjustment. But that being said,

(26:40):
it probably makes the most sense. So you don't have
guys who go to OTA's mini camp take those six
weeks six weeks off and don't do Jack squat. They
just sit around. They don't come back, they don't come
back in shape, every ready to go. So it probably
makes sense from that standpoint.

Speaker 3 (26:56):
As a player, I kind of look at it and
I'm like, that's down long. As a player. In my mind,
I'm like, that's long, like June, you check in in June.
But I think there's this I think we have to
look at it from a I guess a mental a
mental fixation, a mental classic conditioning type of approach. Why

(27:20):
why is it that? Why is it that we look
at the length of a season and it's like, oh no,
can't do that. That's just way too long. As athletes,
it's like, this is our season. This is the amount
of time our season is. This is what we do,
and we're in and we're out, goes to the next season.

(27:43):
But it's your job, Like you're like, in reality you're
actually doing who knows what your your real weeks are
in college I mean people may not really take the
time to really take a step back and think about
how monopolized your time is. And my time was way
more monopolized around the year calendar year in college than

(28:06):
it was in the pros. Now, if you're saying we're
going into their going into training camp in June, and
if it's not a ramp up, if it's not a
ramp up to a training camp, if you're going into
a training camp, which by the way, I hear training
camps are no different than OTAs and and mini camps
at this point anyway. So if it's just a matter

(28:29):
of time where you're coming into the facility, you're you're
getting your treatment, you're getting your conditioning, your meeting with
your coaches, you're doing organized things on the football field
without the rules saying you can only do so much
or you can't do it during this time. If it's
set up that way where you can go home, then

(28:50):
that maybe, like I think that's that's that has some
attractiveness to it because you are able to get into
a groove and it's not it's not so especially if
you're going to do away with because I'm saying, look
to get the eighteen games. If you do away with
one or two preseason games, and you you have one
one preseason game where the guys get an opportunity to

(29:12):
get their feet wet. Game two, you're you know, you
go through a dress rehearsal and then you get into
it where you're trying to figure out, Okay, these few
positions we have left available, these guys are going to
get these games Games one majority of and then some again,
or maybe the majority of game two as well, maybe
the majority of both for the guys that are in

(29:33):
the bubble to make the roster. I think that makes
a lot of sense. I really do. I don't. I
don't have a problem with it. I just don't. I
think we're so conditioned to think that our season starts
here and it should end there, and once you go
outside of them parameters, I think it just it's a
cause for complaining. It's a cause for concern. Obviously, the

(29:53):
first thing you think about is injury.

Speaker 1 (29:55):
Well, another thing. I actually think this might help with
injury though, because you're able to I mean kind of similar.
I guess i'd compare it to like an Olympic athlete, right,
you know, they really start, you know, training annually for
an annual peak event and that's typically you know, the
world championships at their sport. Now, obviously you have to

(30:16):
get through nationals and all those things, but you know,
they kind of builds up like that for for a
lot of football players. That's how you're trying to look
at it as well. The problem is you have this break, right,
you basically go through this phase of we're working out,
we're getting our bodies conditioned ready to go for football.
You start practicing football, and then you take this six
week break. Then you ramp right back up into it

(30:37):
where it's much, you know, much more intense than what
you just left. Right, You're hitting, your banging, you're all
those things. So I actually think this will be good
for a lot of players and helping to provide them
with a continual ramp up, but also none of that
like letdown where you know, there maybe we'd say like, oh, well,
they have to manage their bodies better. Sure, that's always

(30:59):
going to be the case, especially as they extend the
season to an eighteenth game, but I actually think this
could be better for a lot of athletes preparing their
bodies for the punishment of an NFL season. And my
biggest concern is, all right, for some of these guys,
their season is going to end in January. End is
December January, right, what the hell are they doing for

(31:20):
the next six months. Because every single time the NFLPA
talks about, hey, we're giving guys the opportunity to go
back and get their degree. Hey we've got these offseason programs,
these different initiations we want them to be a part of.
Here's the truth, A small percentage of players actually do it.
And it wasn't because of the schedule. They don't want
to do it. They don't want to do it. They'd

(31:42):
rather do other things, have fun, travel, whatever, And that's great,
that's their own programent like that, that's their own choice.
If they don't want to go back and get their degree,
they don't want to go back and continue with their education,
do an internship, do something else. So I understand the
point of why they're trying to create the space. But
trust me, every single off season thing they had for us,

(32:02):
I tried to take advantage of, whether it was that
you know, Harvard or Warden or Stanford, any of them,
Kellogg at Northwestern, I went to all of them. I
started one a Notre Dame for a few years and
a lot of those programs are gone now, which they
used to be matched by the NFL. They would put
in some some funding for it. So with the NFL PA,

(32:22):
the problem is they couldn't get enough attendance. And you
know what it was too is you'd see the same
guys and every single one was poke the same guys.
And that's to me, is like part of it. If
that's the motivation behind this, great I just hope players
take advantage of it, because I try and trust you,
try and trust me on this, Like they did not

(32:43):
take advantage of this back when they had a litany
of programs and opportunities for players to do this sort
of thing in the off season.

Speaker 2 (32:51):
Does this mean we're gonna have less Fourth of July arrests? Like,
because that was always a thing, you know, Fourth of
July that guys would get in trouble last chance.

Speaker 1 (32:59):
You always be like the over under on that.

Speaker 2 (33:01):
That's not true. I would never do that. That's negative.
That's negative. I would never go down that road. I
just think that, you know, it seems like fourth.

Speaker 1 (33:08):
You always had the over a four and a half
that we did this for years.

Speaker 2 (33:11):
Just disrespectful to make those accusations. He probably true, but
you know what, that's not the point. The point is
we're trying to find hope, and so who knows, maybe
these off season programs will get it together. By the way,
who are the same guys that you would always see
in the off season programs.

Speaker 1 (33:28):
By position group? It would be typically quarterback, kicker, long snapper,
tight end at some offensive linemen. So every once in
a while you get some dbs mixed in, right, Uh,
maybe a running back, but very seldom, not a lot
of sorry for not a lot of defensive players. Maybe
a linebacker.

Speaker 3 (33:48):
I was in programs you're talking about different Like, I
didn't go I didn't do business. I did media. So
I mean you think the one I did the.

Speaker 1 (33:56):
Eight bro I did the media thing too.

Speaker 3 (33:58):
I had to miss I had to this OTAs or
mini camp. I think I had to end up missing
the season finale a dream job because the coaches were
giving me blues about me missing the practice to do
the show. Like I was with Al Joffy. Stuart Scott

(34:18):
was still alive. He was the host of the show.

Speaker 2 (34:23):
We can't give a shout out. Jeez, what are the
all time greades. We can't get a shout out.

Speaker 3 (34:27):
I mean, I mean he didn't hear your shot out.

Speaker 2 (34:31):
I understand, Okay, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (34:34):
It just hit me kind of differently. I guess, I
don't know. Anyway, Kit Hoover was on the show. It
was a dope show. The dude Mike Hall that does
Big ten. You guys probably know ten network. Uh yeah,
he could hear the shout out. He was actually the
one who won it. I wanted the dude named Zacharyah
to win the show. He was more of a comedian

(34:57):
driven type of dude. He was more personality driven, wasn't
as buttoned up and what he did. But I mean
both of them were really good, super awesome. I was
just a zach ryfan. But anyway, point was, I was
I was doing media, like every off season you want
to know, I was doing. I was doing I was trying.
I was in Hollywood. I was doing I was doing acting,
and I was doing media.

Speaker 1 (35:18):
The adult films part of your life.

Speaker 3 (35:20):
Not no, I mean uh no, not not not the
not not at a professional capacity, but but but Hollywood
did have the different genres and categories that you could
partake in and it didn't have to be at the
professional level, if you know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (35:42):
Yeah, because you did that one movie North Hills Spills, right, yeah,
I think you did. I'm not mistaken that was yours.

Speaker 1 (35:48):
I thought it was a LeVar the North Hills Hammer Jammer.

Speaker 3 (35:52):
It could be oh wow, No, I thought it was no.

Speaker 2 (36:00):
Know, so hold on a second. You were like you
were a contestant on Dream Job or oh I was
a joke.

Speaker 4 (36:07):
Like I was.

Speaker 3 (36:07):
It was like it was like, uh, it was like
America's got talent. Yeah, Like that's a note for me.

Speaker 1 (36:13):
Yeah, I was just gonna say, man, like, I'm not
trying to compare you to Randy Jackson, but I feel
like you would be really good in a role like that,
Oh God, because you'd give your opinion and you might
have tried to give him some help to if you're
like that's no, but here's why, and here's what you do. Like,
I feel like you'd be good in that spot I did.

Speaker 3 (36:31):
That was kind of my approach. You know what's interesting.
I told y'all, like, not too long ago, I was
in the airport and it's like really really good looking
group of people were looking at me and I was like,
what are they looking at me? For? I'm I'm in
shape now, so I'm like, what are they looking at me?
But I feel like I know why you're looking at me.
Why did the lady come up to me and say,

(36:52):
are you Randy Jackson?

Speaker 1 (36:54):
Oh no, no she didn't.

Speaker 3 (36:57):
That's a good day, God day lady. I'm woulda get
y'all's next round to Drake Joall and Julie y'all sales man,
Please get away from me, Please step away from the
Randy Jackson looking like.

Speaker 2 (37:09):
Why do you think she would have asked if you
look like Randy Jackson?

Speaker 3 (37:13):
Because I'm dark?

Speaker 1 (37:14):
I had question? What were they white?

Speaker 3 (37:18):
I don't think they were other all. They weren't black,
they weren't white. I don't know what they were. They
were agent.

Speaker 4 (37:28):
I was not.

Speaker 3 (37:29):
There's somewhere in there. I don't know what it was
on Filipino. I know it wasn't in that that round.

Speaker 1 (37:36):
Trailer park.

Speaker 3 (37:38):
No, no, no, no, good to go. They were they
were good to go. Now I don't I just don't
know what. I don't know.

Speaker 2 (37:47):
Are you Randy Jackson?

Speaker 3 (37:48):
Are you Randy Jackson?

Speaker 1 (37:50):
They checked other tang damn.

Speaker 2 (37:56):
It is uh it is two pros and a cup
of Joe.

Speaker 1 (38:00):
Him right now. I appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (38:01):
I posted it on my ig if you go on
my ig the day they did it, I posted it
on my ig.

Speaker 2 (38:08):
Labar, you look more like Randy Johnson than Randy Jackson
doesn't makes sense.

Speaker 3 (38:12):
That's not at all it Actually, when I put us
up side by side, it was like kind of like
in my mind, I was like, I get Samuel L.
Jackson quite a bit, and and I got Randy Jackson
that day, and I didn't understand that, So there you go.
My feelings were a tap bit like which I don't

(38:32):
think Randy Jackson is like an ugly dude. I just
don't think I look like him, that's all. It ain't
like I'm like, you know, one of those dudes like, oh,
you don't look I don't like that.

Speaker 1 (38:44):
It's like when people compare Brooks kept Cut to an
NFL linebacker, It's like, look, he's a big he's big
for a golfer, but let's not go too far here
comparing him like you like you stuff and put him
in a shiplocker, you know, It's like, that's not that's offensive.

Speaker 2 (39:01):
Ye good by the way he was at the Panthers
game last night.

Speaker 1 (39:04):
Yeah, a lot of people Randy Jackson Brooks, Brooks Brooks
went by the way.

Speaker 3 (39:12):
Yeah, I think bro if Randy had longer hair or
I had shorter hair and had more of my forehead
because I do got a big pronounced forehead, like cave
man forehead, you know. My if the if the if
the frames on my glasses were thicker, I could see
how I could maybe look like his brother or like

(39:33):
in the family, like like Randy jack The Jackson family
is a part of try.

Speaker 1 (39:37):
It's too hard to make it work. Man, there's no
there's there's no.

Speaker 2 (39:41):
And they missed. I appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (39:44):
It was an awful miss be offended.

Speaker 2 (39:46):
There's nothing wrong with that.

Speaker 3 (39:47):
Fine shouts out to you, Randy. I'm not I'm not
offended by you. I just don't I'm not you. I
don't look like you. That's all. That's all that would
him know. If we did a show together, like talking
about talent, I would love to do it because I
think our trash talk banter would be off the hook.
But I just don't look like you. Though. It wouldn't
be like the Twins show, you know, like it wouldn't
be like that like and.

Speaker 2 (40:09):
For the people who approached LeVar and confused him for
Randy Jackson, we would like to say of the you know,
of the racial other category, we would like to tell
you people don't look like you want to be ashamed
of yourselves.

Speaker 3 (40:26):
We don't all look alike that. I know some of
y'all might not agree with that, but I'm just telling you,
good looks. We actually don't all lookike, you know.

Speaker 8 (40:35):
I'm just saying, yeah, all right, coming up next here
from the entire we do have what.

Speaker 1 (40:45):
You called him by the way you called him another.

Speaker 3 (40:49):
I mean, I don't know what to give him. I
didn't know what to give them, so I must say other.

Speaker 2 (40:53):
You know, we do have an update. There's some good
news and some bad news for one position group in
the NFL. We've got it for you next here on FSR.

Speaker 5 (41:02):
Be sure to catch live editions of Two Pros and
a Cup of Joe with Brady Quinn, LeVar Errington, and
Jonas Knox weekdays at six am Eastern three am Pacific
on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.

Speaker 2 (41:16):
Two Pros and a Cup of Joe here on Fox
Sports Radio. Coming up here in about twenty minutes from
now from the tyrak dot com studios. We are going
to have the BQ news, but right now it is
a Wednesday tradition. He's the old p on Twitter. He
is Petros Papadaik is the co host of the Petros
and Money Show, which you can hear on the blowtorch
Am five seventy LA Sports Fox college football analyst and Petros.

(41:38):
Good morning. Yeah, big breaking news. Pee the number fifty
four prospect in the draft on some draft boards. Let's
go staying.

Speaker 4 (41:47):
Yeah, I set my alarm for five am to do this,
and I wake up and I check the headlines and
that's the number one headline that Bronni James is staying
in the draft. Yes, and Rich Paul told ESPN exclusively
like two hours before the deadline. Hours before the deadline.

(42:10):
Every was like, you know, a guy being executed and
waiting for the pardon from the governor and you're sitting
in the electric chair and then finally the call comes
in and right is the switch is being pulled. Don't
do it, don't do it. He's gonna stay. You know,
let's work it out. He's gonna stay in the draft.
So great, you know, It's interesting. I hate coming on

(42:33):
and doing a Brownie James thing every single time we
do this, but it is interesting that. And we talked
to Bill Plashki about this, the La Times columnist who
wins all those awards every year is the best sports
writer in the country. And I think Bill had it right.
He just said, the whole thing's a fade to complete

(42:56):
Lebron's coming back to the Lakers. He's running that French eyes.
They're too weak to do anything else and too scared
to do anything else, apparently, and they're gonna end up
bringing Browny there one way or another. And however it
works out the way they want it. For clutch sports,
they're going to have it their way, like burger king

(43:17):
and all of this other stuff. We're doing, all of
these gymnastics, this BS headline that we all have to
pay attention to today when there's other stuff going on.
What else is going on? I'm not sure, but there's
got to be something else than this. But all of
this is just I don't know, mutual masturbation gymnastics, Dan, really,

(43:38):
I mean, that's what it seems like. I mean, all
of this, we're just going through the motions. We should
be talking about the Mavericks or or the Celtics or whatever.
But instead we're talking about the worst prospect in one
of the worst drafts in NBA history.

Speaker 3 (43:57):
I mean, isn't that what.

Speaker 4 (43:57):
We've been doing for weeks and weeks weeks and weeks
and weeks. And the reason we're doing it is because
he's somebody's son. And that's fine, but it's not because
he's somebody's son. The reason we're doing it is because
he's somebody's son. And the dad, who is extremely powerful,
has been nothing but delusional and obnoxious regarding this whole situation.

Speaker 2 (44:18):
I don't even know bron James for it.

Speaker 1 (44:21):
No, how can you.

Speaker 4 (44:22):
We've only heard it burn speak once, you know. I mean,
there's but whatever's going on around him is pretty I guess,
confounding if you're annoyed by the way the modern sports
media works. And I don't even know what that means.
I don't even know what the modern sports media is,
but just saying those three words feels bad. It's not good, right.

(44:45):
I Mean, when Stephen A. Smith is the head of
the snake, we're probably in trouble as far as the
modern sports media goes. And that's just it's sad. It's
just sad that this is us in the spring, and
I'm I can't wait.

Speaker 1 (44:59):
For this Petros, what about any thought? I mean, he's
still really young. I mean, it could be a late bloomer.
Does he continue to grow, continues to develop maybe into
more of the type of player that you know, three
or four years down the road that we look at
and say, no, look they got it right, Like he
wasn't quite there then, but there was a lot of upside.
There's the gene there or lineage. I mean, is there

(45:21):
any thought in the back of your mind for that.

Speaker 4 (45:23):
I don't know. I mean, I just I know it
doesn't work that way.

Speaker 1 (45:28):
I mean, well, so let me push back because I
don't know. I don't agree with that. There's plenty of
times we see guys who've played the NFL and people
will look at sons, look at their lineage and say,
I'm willing to take a chance on him, even though
he's not a finished product now, and I think he
can develop through his time in college, et cetera.

Speaker 4 (45:47):
Yeah, we're not talking about Ironhead Hayward's kid here, Damn Hayward.
By them Hayward, I mean if you guys haven't watched
Craig Ironhead Hayward who's passed away, if you have not
watched his video, if you've not watched that guy's highlight
tape running the ball at like two ninety at pitt

(46:08):
and mostly for the Saints, it's pretty sweet. No, I
understand what you're saying, Brady, I don't. I adhere to
people I know quite well. And I know a guy
who is quite involved with the draft and quite involved
with developing prospects and working people out for the draft,

(46:28):
and was at this combine because it's such a bad
draft that he had to go to this combine and
sell his guys more than they normally do. And the
general consensus from all of those people we talked to
on and off the air is not an NBA prospect.
They're not saying not an NBA prospect, but just and

(46:52):
this is and football I think is a little different
because you could play with aggression and violence and emotion
and serve a purpose, and you could be super limited
in one way and still really serve a purpose in another.
I don't really think that's the case in modern basketball,
at least not to that extreme. So that would be

(47:13):
my argument there. But I don't know enough. Like I'm
not a basketball like, I'm not a basketball draft expert.

Speaker 1 (47:19):
All I know is that this is BS.

Speaker 4 (47:21):
And I mean it's clearly BS because and that's what
bothers me. What bothers me about modern day sports is
we're presented with a table of crap and then we
sit there and sift through it for like months to
try to see if there's like a peanut in there.
And it's not worth it, you know, it's it's not
worth our time, and yet we've spent seven minutes on

(47:44):
it over.

Speaker 3 (47:44):
Yeah, I feel like this because you Brady. I feel
like this is more comparable to the Griffies than it
is to the Haywards.

Speaker 1 (47:54):
Yeah, that was an odd poll from you, Petros. Why
the Haywards? Yeah, I just thought of a guy who
played football.

Speaker 4 (48:00):
Wait, that's the first one you came to, though, I like, Craig,
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (48:06):
You would wait to get to that. I'm just saying.
I mean, I feel like Petros, you you gotta give
credit where credit is due. I mean, Bronnie James has
put himself in a position to be like Ken Griffy
Junior to his dad kN kN Griffy the senior and
be in the same league, and you know, there may

(48:27):
be a story where you know, you know, Lebron scores
you know, twenty points in the game and then Bronni
comes back and scores twenty one or twenty three in
the same game on the same team. Because he's probably
getting drafted by the Lakers. That's they probably confirmed that art. Yeah,
I mean, how to me, I think that that's how
you got to look at it, right, I mean, they
called him junior, they called him the kid. Don't you

(48:49):
think that one of these nicknames will find itself landing
on Don't you think that one of these can't even
get through it. I'm just trying to state. I'm stating
the positive.

Speaker 4 (49:03):
Ind I feel you No, No, I mean the positive
there is that.

Speaker 3 (49:06):
The kid doesn't fall on Brownie James.

Speaker 4 (49:08):
The kid isn't isn't the NEPO Baby's probably at But
isn't Ken Griffy one of the greatest baseball players and
prospects of all time?

Speaker 3 (49:21):
And it isn't that what they said about bron.

Speaker 4 (49:24):
Isn't his swing like the greatest swing in the history
of baseball? I saw Ken Griffy junior a few times
when his son was playing receiver for Arizona. And by
the way, we did not like, even though Ken Griffy
is one of the great he's a Hall of Famer, right, yeah, yeah,
even though he's a Hall of Famer, we didn't do

(49:44):
the whole open about his kid, who was the seventh
receiver on the Arizona team that was five hundred. You
know what I'm saying, Like, isn't that comparable? Like why haven't?
And I thought Kendrick Perkins made a good point the
other day, even though I think those shows are so ridiculous.
U Kendrick Perkins said, we didn't do this for Scotty
Pippens kid. And I get it that Scottie Pippens not Lebron,

(50:07):
But it's just odd that we've gone this far for
this one guy and we don't go we don't even
go ten yards for any of these other guys kids.
But I do remember seeing Ken Griffy a lot on
the road and stuff when I was covering that team,
or did a couple games or three or four when
his son was playing, and we'd see him at restaurants

(50:27):
and stuff after the games, and I was like, dude,
that guy is fat and small, and he's one of
the great baseball players of all time. Like you know,
you see Shoe Aotani or Freddie Freeman or like Aaron.

Speaker 1 (50:39):
Judge, you're like, damn, you know, that's a big guy.

Speaker 4 (50:42):
But every once in a while you see these other
baseball guys like stand Nex to Mookie Betts, and you're like,
you know, yeah, I can see why all the dads
in my neighborhood think that their one loser kid is
going to be the next big time baseball player, because
you can be like just sort of a normal looking
guy and be a great baseball star. And that really
is not the case in the NBA really, or or football.

(51:06):
You got to kind of pass the eyeball test just
walking in the door. But yeah, I remember Griffy's kid,
and we didn't freak out about him in the open.
By the way, I should ever met a catid Ken
like an old man, so to feel like, get off
the front lawn.

Speaker 2 (51:22):
Yeah, Ken, Griffy Senior, not a Hall of Famer, but
still a great career. The drunk one.

Speaker 4 (51:31):
Was he the drunk or was a Barry Bonds's dad?
How would you describe Patrick mahomes dad Petros.

Speaker 3 (51:36):
That's what made me think of it. Take the keys.

Speaker 4 (51:40):
Well, it a that's like the old Billy Joel joke,
right back when Billy Joel was like driving into people. No,
it's a it's a well, Billy Joel is actually very humorous.
But uh but Billy Joel, for a time, I had
a real problem drinking and driving and was just crashing
almost into every house. It is uber.

Speaker 1 (51:59):
Yeah, it was rough.

Speaker 4 (52:00):
It was rough, and uh you know, uh and uh
I remember somebody was like, Billy's great, don't give him
the keys, you know.

Speaker 1 (52:11):
And that's kind of the city.

Speaker 4 (52:12):
That's that seems like the same situation with Mahomes's dad.
By the way, well lead, well, come on, it's so
flat hunt. Uh my my.

Speaker 2 (52:23):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (52:24):
We used to have an uncle. He died of alcoholism
with my son bowl watch on and buried in it.
By the time uh.

Speaker 1 (52:32):
He got buried with your son bowl wash.

Speaker 4 (52:34):
You didn't have any other watch. But I had an
uncle who was a bad alcoholic. His name was Alex
Alecho in Greek, uncle Aleco, and he used to watch
the parking lot h at the restaurant that my dad owned.

Speaker 1 (52:48):
When I was a muscle kind of.

Speaker 4 (52:50):
Yeah. He was a big, red faced, very lanky, drunk
face and oh yeah with like with a sweet black
jet black mummy.

Speaker 3 (53:00):
So he didn't have to red ass. He had to
red face.

Speaker 1 (53:02):
I never saw his ass LeVar.

Speaker 3 (53:04):
Oh okay, I'm sorry, it would have been weird.

Speaker 1 (53:06):
No.

Speaker 4 (53:07):
No, So my dad used to He used to watch
a parking lot. And when I was working at the restaurant,
my dad would get a water, a glass of water,
a cup that we used for water, and pour a
cooking brandy Christian Brothers almost full no ice into a
water glass and he'd say, bring your uncle his medicine,

(53:30):
and I would run it. I would run across the
street with the brandy twice or three times a night, prowling.
And then you know, around ten, you know, and I
was like nine, eight, ten, And then around uh, you know,
ten thirty eleven o'clock at night, when things would start
winding down, my dad would say, tell Alex to drive

(53:53):
you home, and I'd be like today, So he would
drive us home and like some gigantic canoe like you
know Pontiac, you know, from the seventies, and and I remember,
you know, being a little kid and seeing stuff on
the air about drunk driving and all these things and
and all these commercials and disclaimers and stuff. I remember

(54:13):
asking my mom and saying, you know, I'm pretty sure
you know Uncle Alex is drunk, you know when he's
driving us around. And my mom said, yes, but he's very.

Speaker 2 (54:26):
Careful a different time. Fee.

Speaker 1 (54:32):
Yeah, by the way, didn't.

Speaker 2 (54:33):
You say I've heard you say on the air that
your mom's a big fan of gin?

Speaker 1 (54:36):
Right we made wheat?

Speaker 4 (54:38):
Well, you know, to be honest, my mom is kind
of a space cadet and she's she's fine.

Speaker 1 (54:43):
She's a lovely lady.

Speaker 4 (54:45):
And she's from Arcadia. But I don't know what it was,
but I was doing a it's like some local TV
interview when I was playing at USC about Mother's Day,
you know, around spring football. So they came out to
interview some of the guys on the team about their mom.
And I don't know why I said it, but they're like,
you know, does your mom come to the games? And

(55:05):
I said, well, maybe if you put a bottle of
gin on the fifty yard line, and uh, I mean,
there was no reason to say that it was defamatory
and not even acting. Although she is she was a
gin drinker, you know, but not not excessively. And so
then you know, just from then on, you know, I
don't know. I'd just be like, she's drunk, and we

(55:29):
put my dad on the radio and I'd be like,
you know, dad, is she all right?

Speaker 3 (55:32):
No?

Speaker 1 (55:32):
I caught you know, she I can't get her out
of bed. She's drunk again, you know. Like so.

Speaker 4 (55:39):
It just kind of became a developing joke. But she's
not really a drunk. She survived breast cancer and she
didn't bury.

Speaker 3 (55:49):
Their Petro's Thursday, Friday, next Monday and Tuesday, I mean tomorrow, tomorrow.

Speaker 4 (55:58):
Tomorrow, I'm going to do the last hour with you guys.

Speaker 3 (56:01):
Wow.

Speaker 4 (56:01):
Yeah, I wanted to do the whole thing, but my
boss was like that, no way, mamia. You are not
going to do seven hours and after to wake up
at two, what are you going to sleep?

Speaker 3 (56:14):
I hain'te that nothing. Well, we know somebody will be
sleeping that that hour.

Speaker 1 (56:18):
To Jonahs, yeah, it's his birthday and so he's trying
to take it off. It's birthday Friday. It doesn't want
people to know my birthday October twenty seven, a bril
It's October twenty where you're going. It's not.

Speaker 3 (56:31):
We don't know how old he's going to be, though, Petros,
because he's he's forty to my age in human sixty
he was born. I heard sixty.

Speaker 2 (56:38):
My birthday is in October. This is just I'm being
misrepresented here on the air.

Speaker 3 (56:43):
Jummy Carter, Happy birthday, Jonas, Happy birthday Jonas in October.

Speaker 2 (56:49):
That'll apply.

Speaker 4 (56:49):
Okay, where are you going, Jonas? You get out pulling osipe?
What are you doing Chicago? Going to Chicago for a
get it done here? I'm gonna get it gett cleaned
out in Chicago.

Speaker 1 (56:59):
You're taking a whit.

Speaker 3 (57:00):
The wide arp's his.

Speaker 4 (57:01):
You know, his is buried in Chicago.

Speaker 3 (57:06):
He's from Illinois.

Speaker 2 (57:08):
He's from Monmouth, where my dad's from.

Speaker 4 (57:11):
Was buried in l A. I think he died in
l A. He was like a Hollywood guy when he died.
You know, he consulted on westerns and stuff like that.

Speaker 3 (57:21):
So he went from a straight cowboy gunslinger to uh
like almost got way like John Wayne Well.

Speaker 4 (57:28):
John Wayne actually was a backup uh lineman at the
USC Yeah, under the name Marion Morrison Dang.

Speaker 3 (57:35):
So he set the tone for the rock I guess.

Speaker 1 (57:39):
I mean, uh, he didn't play that much. Neither did
the rock but.

Speaker 4 (57:42):
Uh, but there was a I don't i'd.

Speaker 3 (57:47):
His dudes on on the big screen. How does that work?

Speaker 4 (57:50):
Well, I mean, I don't know. It's probably like basketball
players and football players. You know, you're you're uh, you're
the you're the weakest guy in the football team. But
everybody on the basketball court is scared of you. Uh, Tang,
isn't that true?

Speaker 3 (58:03):
Yeah, like something about that.

Speaker 4 (58:05):
I didn't say you were good at basketball. I said
they were scared of you.

Speaker 3 (58:08):
Oh no, I was good at basketball.

Speaker 4 (58:10):
Well, every guy I ever played football with thought he
could play basketball in box I got, I got ninety
five percent were.

Speaker 3 (58:16):
Wrong, I got offers Petros.

Speaker 4 (58:18):
I'm sure you're in the top five percent. Time.

Speaker 1 (58:20):
Did you guys see Leveyard Bell boxer the day?

Speaker 3 (58:22):
Oh no, yeah?

Speaker 1 (58:24):
No he won?

Speaker 3 (58:25):
Did he win?

Speaker 1 (58:26):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (58:26):
He won win the first time?

Speaker 1 (58:28):
Did he win the first time?

Speaker 2 (58:30):
By the way, he's he looks like a boy, he's
leaned out a lot an Yeah, he's got those boxing muscles.

Speaker 1 (58:36):
I was made out of appointment. I forgot what it was.

Speaker 4 (58:39):
Tang.

Speaker 1 (58:40):
No, No, it's okay.

Speaker 2 (58:41):
I don't John Wayne John oh yeah, yeah.

Speaker 4 (58:44):
There used to be a bust of John Wayne and
Heritage Hall and there still is. I think there used
to be a bust of John Wayne at the UH
at at USC.

Speaker 1 (58:53):
You know he's a guy he played at USC. I
didn't hear that part. I thought you bet South Carolina.

Speaker 2 (58:59):
Sorry, no, really you.

Speaker 1 (59:04):
And people be like who's that.

Speaker 4 (59:05):
I'd be like, it's John Wayne and.

Speaker 2 (59:07):
They yeah, USC fan, Well cock, Sorry, p Pee, We
appreciate it. You'll be in tomorrow, Friday, Monday and Tuesday.

Speaker 4 (59:19):
Figure out if you want to be able to be like, hey,
welcome back to two Pros and a Cup of Joe,
or if you just want me to sit here and
do what I normally do listen.

Speaker 2 (59:25):
We appreciate It'll be gold no matter what. Thanks so much.
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