December 23, 2025 • 19 mins
Petros Papadakos from Fox Sports Radio in L.A. joins Dave Softy Mahler to talk about receiving alcohol for holiday gifts, the Notre Dame and USC rivalry series ending, the DK Metcalf incident, transfer portal news with quarterbacks, and Fernando Mendoza.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's time for our weekly conversation with college football analysts.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Petros Papa enakas nap that I'm a smart guy, I'm stupid.
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Now with Petros Peers, Dave's softy muller.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Alrighty boys, and goes here we go one final time,
kind of getting this in under the gun, huh, right
under the wire before the crack and take on the
La Kings in La tonight. I wonder if our next
guest will be there. Chances are slim, I won't. Yeah,
we figured so. The Prince of Pigskin in Southern California,
one half of the greatest sports talk show ever created
(00:57):
by man one damn fine Greek Amerrican Husband of the Year,
Father of the Month.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Blah blah blah, my friend Petros Papa doc Ass. Brought
to you by Sweet James, the dense Beard of Justice.
Sweet James can come through for you. You know, if you've
ever been in an accident, car accident, somebody gets their
friend a more thoughtful gift than they get you. Whatever
happens that upsets you out call Sweet James find out
if your avocates at eight hundred and nine million, eight
(01:25):
hundred nine million, or sweet James dot com the dense
beard of justice. That sounds like you went out of
your way.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
I'm sensing to buy your producer something very nice, just a.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Very nice and thoughtful gift for calling ye. And the
only thing people think to get me is liquor because
of such a drunk and it's just sad. Oh well
that's really what you want though, right, everybody's like here,
looking at here, here's a bottle of whiskey, freaking rush.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Yeah, I'm looking at a gift, A little liquor container
here with a little card, says softy from my producer,
Jackson Feltzneker container.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
What is it like a Saint Bernard with a barrel
under its? Exactly what you sound like an idiot?
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Yeah, hey man, god, it's a it's a bottle of Titos,
my favorite.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Oh great, hell, what do you want from me? It's
a drink like a college girl. What do you talk about?
You bloody Mary? Throw some Tito's in there? Do you
like a bloody man?
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Why don't you tell me what's appropriate what's not to
drink at my age?
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Go? Please tell me? Well you drink me? You drink
weird drinks? Like what what do I drink? That's weird?
Don't you drink like blue drinks and stuff when you
go out? Only when I'm in liking Hawaii or what? Okay,
you drink Vodkatonics? Right? Vodka? SODA's vodka?
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Soas fattening my go to I'm trying to watch my figure,
you know.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
So yeah, so I don't know, man, that's okay. It's
kind of a chick drink. But whatever, A vodka soda
is a chick drink. I mean, it's more of a
chick drink than it's not a chick drink.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Well, I would say it's more of a chick drink
than like, you know, bourbon or a shot of whiskey
or what?
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Correct? Is there anything wrong with the Hell's wrong with
a Makasota? Nothing? Nothing? You know, I'm tired of you
judging me every week. Well I'm sorry. What else do
you want to be on for, Like, I.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Don't come here to be judged. I get enough of
that home for God's sakes.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Yeah that's true.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Hey, what the hell's going on with a Notre Dame
USC thing? Is this thing done? What's up?
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Yeah? They they bubbled it, they destroyed this. This is
really bad.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
And I hate who to say, who's they at the
top of the blame game.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Leadership at USC. They don't have a president. And Jen Cohen,
who I like very much, oh boy, allowed this to happen.
And it started with Lincoln Riley, and Lincoln Riley is
the one that started talking about the viability of the
Notre Dame rivalry. Is if he had a place to
do that, and they are doing it. They they got
(03:53):
into a kind of a peeing match with Notre Dame
going back and forth after This should just never been changed.
It should have been left like it always was in
the odd years us he plays there in mid October,
in the even years, Notre Dame plays out here during Thanksgiving.
It's like that for one hundred years, with very few exceptions,
(04:14):
world Wars and the pandemic. And it's your job if
you're Jen Cohen to make sure that the tradition stays,
to keep the tradition, and it's very ironic. Does not
lost on me that I have been somebody barking about
new blood in the USC athletic department for years and years.
(04:36):
But this could have never happened under Pat Hayden, as
bad as he was, or Mike Garrett for whatever he
let Pete Carroll get away with, and the lack of
institutional control. This would have never happened under Lynn's swan.
I don't think the Bone Arena would have done this,
Mike Bone. But USC doesn't even have a university president now,
(04:58):
and it's a great example. And Carol, where'd she go?
Carol Folt is gone. They got rid of her, she
resigned her or retired or whatever. Carol. Yeah, and now
they have like an interim and there's nobody to stop this.
And let me say this, there's a reason that the
former players are really upset because the thing that made
(05:20):
you cool if you played at USC, the thing that
sets you apart from other great programs in the West,
was the Notre Dame rivalry and the legitimacy that it
gave USC. And playing in the Big ten is not
the same. I'm sorry, say whatever you want, but it's
not the same as the Notre Dame rivalry. It was unique.
People say, well, this rivalry went away, that rivalry went away,
(05:42):
Well why did they go away. They went away because
of conference shifting. But USC and Notre Dame never had
that problem. It transcended that. And I don't care how
entitled Notre Dame acts or how annoying they are to
deal with. It's your job to make at a certain
degree Notre Dame as well. Although they didn't start this,
(06:04):
but it's your job to make sure that the rivalry stays. Now,
I don't think it matters anymore. I don't if USC
doesn't play Notre Dame. Yeah, and they might as well
get rid of the band and have a DJ. I'm
not even kidding. They might as well play at Bemo
Stadium instead of the Coliseum where the LAFC plays. They
might as well go ahead and wear the alternate uniforms
(06:26):
and do all that stupid crap that everybody else does.
They might as well start scheduling FCS teams because that's
what they want to do. Obviously, that's what they're going
to replace Notre Dame with. They might as well wear
purple and pink and stupid ass shoes. They might as well.
They might as well put names on the back of
the jerseys. Honestly, it's not USC football anymore.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Well, so let me go back to the Jen Cohen
thing for a second, all right, because I don't I mean,
what should she like?
Speaker 2 (06:57):
I'm just hearing like surface, I don't know. I mean,
they should have.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Saved it, well, I mean, did you that's your job, ultimately,
I'm sure they tried.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
I don't. I mean they didn't try hard enough, because
it's your job to make sure it doesn't go away.
I don't. Then they got lost in the fervor of
whatever these negotiations were in semi public because everybody's known,
this has been going on for a year, and they
got lost in the fervor of negotiations. I think they
forgot about what their duty was, which was to preserve
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the rivalry. Athletic directors come and go and so to coaches.
This rivalry is not supposed to do that, and the
fact that they both let it slip away is really
I mean, I hate to say it, but I have
I'm disgusted by it. Yeah, usually if somebody says they're
disgusted by something that happens in sports, I think, wow,
what a blow hard, what a tool. But today I
(07:51):
am that blow harder tool because I really am super
pissed off.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
How disgusted were you by DK Metcalf taking a swing?
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Well, that's what i'd like to do with you, if
you had longer hair. I'd like to grab your hair
and hold you close and then use your hair as
a springboard to do like a flying anime punch, like
like Macon Medcalf did, like a punch up, like kind
of like Mario when he punches the rock above his head.
You know, that's the kind of punch. So I saw
(08:20):
that and I felt like, Wow, that's something I'd like
to do to me. Yeah, when was the last time
you socked a guy like it? Really? Sun a long time.
It's been a lot high school college. I stay in
line because my radio partner is such big arms. My
radio partner's arms are so swoll. He surfs every day
and he fights the Pacific Ocean and he's like pop
(08:43):
by the sailorman out there.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Is he the kind of guy that like shows up
to work with like a wife beater and shows his
guns off.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
He might as well he swoll as hell man. But yeah,
when we have it, if we have a summertime event
in a beach city, yeah, almost guaranteed. Tank top. Well,
if I looked like him, I'd show him. Oh I
just got and the chargers of eleven wins. You know,
I mean, right now we are puffed, We are puffed.
It's my time right now, cock of the Walk Down. Ye. Well,
(09:13):
my question, like the Great Buddy Guy song, it's your
time right now, but it might be my time after
a while.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
My question about DJ is this, do we do we
just completely rip apart DK Metcalf for what happened? Or
is there any room at all for disgust at whatever
came out of that found fan's mouth?
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Period? Well, it feels like that guy is there all
the time and didn't say and he's all lawyered up
because if you sit in those seats, you're not poor,
So I haven't. I think DK Metcalf just really hates
that guy. He does, and he was all fed up
and he lost his mind for a second. Does you
(10:00):
can't fight? You can't fight with fans, it's you can't.
You have to ignore them, even college players know that.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
Yeah, come on, do you ever hear anything just awful
to coliseum or on the road when you played?
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Always everybody may look at me. I'm funny looking, I'm white,
and it hurts those words hurt Hey, funny looking away guy. Yeah, Hey,
your uniforms clean. It's like it's urf you aole. Everybody's clean.
What was the where was the you know I I do.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
I gotta tell you, honestly, the worst place as far
as language, that I've ever visited Eugene.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Well, no, you're going to be shocked to hear this.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
By the way, Gill Coliseum, Oregon State basketball sitting in front.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Of the students. I don't know. I've never been in there. Horrible. Yeah,
I've never I've never I've never been there. But to
be fair, that was twenty five years ago. Man. But yeah,
Eugene would be a second place. Yeah. The people that
come over from Springfield are rabid, toothy, toothy built fans,
and they are really mean, like they really really get mad,
(11:05):
like they really take it personally. Oh god, I understand.
You know, people are angry out there. I'm angry too,
very very very very some fat faced, bearded organ douche,
you know, in a north face vest. So there's two
kinds of guys. By the way, there's two kinds of husbands.
And you know this as well as me.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Those that wait until Christmas Eve to get all they're
shopping done for their significant other are those that are
done and finished and wipe their hands of it by
the Tuesday before Christmas Day, which yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
I mean my wife and I are. We have an understanding.
You know, we don't get that much for each other.
We hate raising our very difficult children, and we just
fight our way through the Christmas season. It's best. It's
not a time of joy. It's a time of panic.
It is a time of disgust, it's a time of anger.
(11:55):
It's a time of heated feelings and just the time
that I look forward to the end of the season
every year. And then when almost immediately when my season ends,
I look back and go, what was I striving toward?
This is worse? You know, I'm getting worn out. These
kids are in grades.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
You'd rather be covering a game in Albuquerque. Yeah, let
me go see talked, let me talk to We spent
a little good time with.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Yeah, I will always almost immediately regret, longing, and pining
for the end of the season. You know what I've
been doing. I've been watching a lot of a lot
of city council meetings on YouTube, watching like local cities attack,
like people attack each other on the city council. And
I don't know what it says about me or what's
(12:48):
wrong with me, but I find it very gratifying. I
exhausted a whole year of politics in West Covina, and
I moved on to Huntington Beach last night, which I
just I can't get enough of h And I heard
that Santa Clarita got pretty hot recently with some accusations
(13:09):
of corruption.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Arguments back and forth. M yeah, yeah, they really get
out of control though, like violent.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Well there was a physical altercation in West Covine about
a year ago. Yes, and what happened, Well, these people
are pretty old, so they just kind of wrestle around
and take him down. There was the guys like, that's battery,
that's battery. What this about of rustled? What am a rustling?
Right now? Hey, look in my face it's flushed and
(13:38):
the red.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Have you been following any of the transfer portal news
coming out of you?
Speaker 2 (13:44):
No? No, it's overwhelming. I can barely follow though. I've
re signed, right. You know, UCLA just got their quarterback back. Yeah,
they got Nico Iomalayala back, which probably means that he
didn't like his draft grade and they're going to pay
him three million dollars to stay with a more stable
coach under An Chesney. Yeah, right, so we'll see. I
(14:08):
think that's probably a good move by old Niko. Well,
we're just wondering to know how the quarterback draft classes
all shake out, the NFL experts and stuff. But he
could probably use another year getting paid millions of dollars
and have a better looking year and kind of solidify
himself more as a as a leader of young men.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
I don't think it looks good on paper the draft class.
I mean, look, I love Frando Mendoza. I think he's gritty,
He's gutty, ferdy men. DOZ you like Trophy win? I
love his ability to speak so freely deservedly so with
the Heisman Trophy. But number one pick in the NFL draft,
I don't know, man, are you seeing that?
Speaker 2 (14:47):
What do I know? I'm asking you as a football mind. Well,
he runs kind of in a dorky way. But he's
I mean, every time I watch Ferdy Mendoza play, he
plays really well. I was pressed with him at Cal
going to places like Auburn and winning, and I think
he's obviously a guy that can lead an offense, and
(15:08):
he's tough as nails and he seems to be able
to get the ball out and throw it when and
where it's supposed to go. This is fantastic analysis, but yeah,
there you go. Oh god, he does still kind of
like do that that nerd lean when he runs. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Well, how about what Diego Pavias said when he lost
the Heisman trophy.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Yeah, he said, F softy, that's not well, you kind
of you softy lefing fo. You're a voter. F the voters, man, Yeah,
and then voters. Davis came out family Forever but Family.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Reese Davis came out and said he regretted voting for
him for the Heisman because he said, F the voters.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Yeah, Rhese Davis didn't like that. No, Reece Davis is
a pretty buttoned up guy. From what I understood. He's
not a slovenly sloppy idiot like you were my side.
So what is the what's the big toy for the
kids this Christmas. Like, what are they into? Now?
Speaker 3 (15:59):
What's the I'm not following this stuff either. It'd be
creepy if I did, because I don't have any kids.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
My daughter likes clothes and makeup. My son likes electronics,
motors and things. Motors, yeah, lawnmowers, things like that. He
used to love washing machines and now he's on the bicycles.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
I do remember that you said he liked washing machines.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Oh. I used to have to take them to the
lows and sit there for an hour while he went
through all the machines and hit the buttons, and the
salespeople rolled their eyes at me inside because they knew
I wasn't going to buy a machine. Oh, that is fantastic.
And then we used to go to the the laundromat.
He would demand to go to the laundromat even though
we have a washer and dryer right. Yeah, And there'd
be like the homeless guy washing his clothes when his
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underwear staring at the right next to my son.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
People see Petro's papainakus, big famous highly paid LA radio guy.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
To laundry mat thing. Yeah, what do people think?
Speaker 3 (16:52):
That's going on, falling on tough times here, for God's sakes,
going into a freaking laundry mat.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Well, I have been selling some oranges and some senative
and stuff this year. You ever buy fruit from a
stand on the street like that? Sometimes? Yeah? Yeah, there's
a guy.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
That's set up shop right outside my house, just down
the street, down the block.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Pretty sure he's working illegally, but whatever, it's fine. I
don't give a damn. What about the brick and mortar
businesses in your neighborhood? Back on that? Yeah, all right,
well we gotta go. We got I love you.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
I'm very grateful for you and your audience, And shut up,
zip it. You are not you hate doing this every day.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
That's not true. It's the pain of the ass. I
enjoy it.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Doing this show is a pain in your Greek ass,
and you know it. No, I enjoy it, all right, Yeah,
you look, you're.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
I'd even done this show for free.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
And the fact that you have done this show for free,
and then sweet James trippled this out of the Remember when,
remember when you used to get a fifty every week? Yeah,
but yeah, well we got you more, all right, We
got to run good stuff.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
We love you, best of the family. And that quarterback
analysis you pay more that was absolutely incredible. Man. Yeah,
Ball gets out. The insight you bring to the table
every week is unmatched in this industry. I see him
work that quarterback progression. All I'm off next week. You
want to talk to Dick or you want to take
the week off? What you want to do? Uh? Just
Dick gonna know if I say no? Yeah, probably, but
(18:17):
whatever say it, he said, I don't know. I don't
know yet.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Okay, I'll see it, man, Love you, best of the family.
Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, and yeah all that stuff.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
I love you too.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
Bye, see it, man, Petros Papadakis with us, all right,
we're going to break and get out of here.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
That's it for us. Dick's got you.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Starting next week, I'll take a little bit of time off,
reset the engine, come back, and then just kill it.
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(19:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:03):
Petros Papa enakas nap that I'm a smart guy, I'm stupid.
Brought to you by Sweet James Accident Attorneys forty one years.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Now with Petros Peers, Dave's softy muller.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Alrighty boys, and goes here we go one final time,
kind of getting this in under the gun, huh, right
under the wire before the crack and take on the
La Kings in La tonight. I wonder if our next
guest will be there. Chances are slim, I won't. Yeah,
we figured so. The Prince of Pigskin in Southern California,
one half of the greatest sports talk show ever created
(00:57):
by man one damn fine Greek Amerrican Husband of the Year,
Father of the Month.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Blah blah blah, my friend Petros Papa doc Ass. Brought
to you by Sweet James, the dense Beard of Justice.
Sweet James can come through for you. You know, if you've
ever been in an accident, car accident, somebody gets their
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(01:25):
hundred nine million, or sweet James dot com the dense
beard of justice. That sounds like you went out of
your way.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
I'm sensing to buy your producer something very nice, just a.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Very nice and thoughtful gift for calling ye. And the
only thing people think to get me is liquor because
of such a drunk and it's just sad. Oh well
that's really what you want though, right, everybody's like here,
looking at here, here's a bottle of whiskey, freaking rush.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Yeah, I'm looking at a gift, A little liquor container
here with a little card, says softy from my producer,
Jackson Feltzneker container.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
What is it like a Saint Bernard with a barrel
under its? Exactly what you sound like an idiot?
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Yeah, hey man, god, it's a it's a bottle of Titos,
my favorite.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Oh great, hell, what do you want from me? It's
a drink like a college girl. What do you talk about?
You bloody Mary? Throw some Tito's in there? Do you
like a bloody man?
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Why don't you tell me what's appropriate what's not to
drink at my age?
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Go? Please tell me? Well you drink me? You drink
weird drinks? Like what what do I drink? That's weird?
Don't you drink like blue drinks and stuff when you
go out? Only when I'm in liking Hawaii or what? Okay,
you drink Vodkatonics? Right? Vodka? SODA's vodka?
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Soas fattening my go to I'm trying to watch my figure,
you know.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
So yeah, so I don't know, man, that's okay. It's
kind of a chick drink. But whatever, A vodka soda
is a chick drink. I mean, it's more of a
chick drink than it's not a chick drink.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Well, I would say it's more of a chick drink
than like, you know, bourbon or a shot of whiskey
or what?
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Correct? Is there anything wrong with the Hell's wrong with
a Makasota? Nothing? Nothing? You know, I'm tired of you
judging me every week. Well I'm sorry. What else do
you want to be on for, Like, I.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Don't come here to be judged. I get enough of
that home for God's sakes.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Yeah that's true.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Hey, what the hell's going on with a Notre Dame
USC thing? Is this thing done? What's up?
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Yeah? They they bubbled it, they destroyed this. This is
really bad.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
And I hate who to say, who's they at the
top of the blame game.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Leadership at USC. They don't have a president. And Jen Cohen,
who I like very much, oh boy, allowed this to happen.
And it started with Lincoln Riley, and Lincoln Riley is
the one that started talking about the viability of the
Notre Dame rivalry. Is if he had a place to
do that, and they are doing it. They they got
(03:53):
into a kind of a peeing match with Notre Dame
going back and forth after This should just never been changed.
It should have been left like it always was in
the odd years us he plays there in mid October,
in the even years, Notre Dame plays out here during Thanksgiving.
It's like that for one hundred years, with very few exceptions,
(04:14):
world Wars and the pandemic. And it's your job if
you're Jen Cohen to make sure that the tradition stays,
to keep the tradition, and it's very ironic. Does not
lost on me that I have been somebody barking about
new blood in the USC athletic department for years and years.
(04:36):
But this could have never happened under Pat Hayden, as
bad as he was, or Mike Garrett for whatever he
let Pete Carroll get away with, and the lack of
institutional control. This would have never happened under Lynn's swan.
I don't think the Bone Arena would have done this,
Mike Bone. But USC doesn't even have a university president now,
(04:58):
and it's a great example. And Carol, where'd she go?
Carol Folt is gone. They got rid of her, she
resigned her or retired or whatever. Carol. Yeah, and now
they have like an interim and there's nobody to stop this.
And let me say this, there's a reason that the
former players are really upset because the thing that made
(05:20):
you cool if you played at USC, the thing that
sets you apart from other great programs in the West,
was the Notre Dame rivalry and the legitimacy that it
gave USC. And playing in the Big ten is not
the same. I'm sorry, say whatever you want, but it's
not the same as the Notre Dame rivalry. It was unique.
People say, well, this rivalry went away, that rivalry went away,
(05:42):
Well why did they go away. They went away because
of conference shifting. But USC and Notre Dame never had
that problem. It transcended that. And I don't care how
entitled Notre Dame acts or how annoying they are to
deal with. It's your job to make at a certain
degree Notre Dame as well. Although they didn't start this,
(06:04):
but it's your job to make sure that the rivalry stays. Now,
I don't think it matters anymore. I don't if USC
doesn't play Notre Dame. Yeah, and they might as well
get rid of the band and have a DJ. I'm
not even kidding. They might as well play at Bemo
Stadium instead of the Coliseum where the LAFC plays. They
might as well go ahead and wear the alternate uniforms
(06:26):
and do all that stupid crap that everybody else does.
They might as well start scheduling FCS teams because that's
what they want to do. Obviously, that's what they're going
to replace Notre Dame with. They might as well wear
purple and pink and stupid ass shoes. They might as well.
They might as well put names on the back of
the jerseys. Honestly, it's not USC football anymore.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Well, so let me go back to the Jen Cohen
thing for a second, all right, because I don't I mean,
what should she like?
Speaker 2 (06:57):
I'm just hearing like surface, I don't know. I mean,
they should have.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Saved it, well, I mean, did you that's your job, ultimately,
I'm sure they tried.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
I don't. I mean they didn't try hard enough, because
it's your job to make sure it doesn't go away.
I don't. Then they got lost in the fervor of
whatever these negotiations were in semi public because everybody's known,
this has been going on for a year, and they
got lost in the fervor of negotiations. I think they
forgot about what their duty was, which was to preserve
(07:29):
the rivalry. Athletic directors come and go and so to coaches.
This rivalry is not supposed to do that, and the
fact that they both let it slip away is really
I mean, I hate to say it, but I have
I'm disgusted by it. Yeah, usually if somebody says they're
disgusted by something that happens in sports, I think, wow,
what a blow hard, what a tool. But today I
(07:51):
am that blow harder tool because I really am super
pissed off.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
How disgusted were you by DK Metcalf taking a swing?
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Well, that's what i'd like to do with you, if
you had longer hair. I'd like to grab your hair
and hold you close and then use your hair as
a springboard to do like a flying anime punch, like
like Macon Medcalf did, like a punch up, like kind
of like Mario when he punches the rock above his head.
You know, that's the kind of punch. So I saw
(08:20):
that and I felt like, Wow, that's something I'd like
to do to me. Yeah, when was the last time
you socked a guy like it? Really? Sun a long time.
It's been a lot high school college. I stay in
line because my radio partner is such big arms. My
radio partner's arms are so swoll. He surfs every day
and he fights the Pacific Ocean and he's like pop
(08:43):
by the sailorman out there.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Is he the kind of guy that like shows up
to work with like a wife beater and shows his
guns off.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
He might as well he swoll as hell man. But yeah,
when we have it, if we have a summertime event
in a beach city, yeah, almost guaranteed. Tank top. Well,
if I looked like him, I'd show him. Oh I
just got and the chargers of eleven wins. You know,
I mean, right now we are puffed, We are puffed.
It's my time right now, cock of the Walk Down. Ye. Well,
(09:13):
my question, like the Great Buddy Guy song, it's your
time right now, but it might be my time after
a while.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
My question about DJ is this, do we do we
just completely rip apart DK Metcalf for what happened? Or
is there any room at all for disgust at whatever
came out of that found fan's mouth?
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Period? Well, it feels like that guy is there all
the time and didn't say and he's all lawyered up
because if you sit in those seats, you're not poor,
So I haven't. I think DK Metcalf just really hates
that guy. He does, and he was all fed up
and he lost his mind for a second. Does you
(10:00):
can't fight? You can't fight with fans, it's you can't.
You have to ignore them, even college players know that.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
Yeah, come on, do you ever hear anything just awful
to coliseum or on the road when you played?
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Always everybody may look at me. I'm funny looking, I'm white,
and it hurts those words hurt Hey, funny looking away guy. Yeah, Hey,
your uniforms clean. It's like it's urf you aole. Everybody's clean.
What was the where was the you know I I do.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
I gotta tell you, honestly, the worst place as far
as language, that I've ever visited Eugene.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Well, no, you're going to be shocked to hear this.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
By the way, Gill Coliseum, Oregon State basketball sitting in front.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Of the students. I don't know. I've never been in there. Horrible. Yeah,
I've never I've never I've never been there. But to
be fair, that was twenty five years ago. Man. But yeah,
Eugene would be a second place. Yeah. The people that
come over from Springfield are rabid, toothy, toothy built fans,
and they are really mean, like they really really get mad,
(11:05):
like they really take it personally. Oh god, I understand.
You know, people are angry out there. I'm angry too,
very very very very some fat faced, bearded organ douche,
you know, in a north face vest. So there's two
kinds of guys. By the way, there's two kinds of husbands.
And you know this as well as me.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Those that wait until Christmas Eve to get all they're
shopping done for their significant other are those that are
done and finished and wipe their hands of it by
the Tuesday before Christmas Day, which yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
I mean my wife and I are. We have an understanding.
You know, we don't get that much for each other.
We hate raising our very difficult children, and we just
fight our way through the Christmas season. It's best. It's
not a time of joy. It's a time of panic.
It is a time of disgust, it's a time of anger.
(11:55):
It's a time of heated feelings and just the time
that I look forward to the end of the season
every year. And then when almost immediately when my season ends,
I look back and go, what was I striving toward?
This is worse? You know, I'm getting worn out. These
kids are in grades.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
You'd rather be covering a game in Albuquerque. Yeah, let
me go see talked, let me talk to We spent
a little good time with.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Yeah, I will always almost immediately regret, longing, and pining
for the end of the season. You know what I've
been doing. I've been watching a lot of a lot
of city council meetings on YouTube, watching like local cities attack,
like people attack each other on the city council. And
I don't know what it says about me or what's
(12:48):
wrong with me, but I find it very gratifying. I
exhausted a whole year of politics in West Covina, and
I moved on to Huntington Beach last night, which I
just I can't get enough of h And I heard
that Santa Clarita got pretty hot recently with some accusations
(13:09):
of corruption.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Arguments back and forth. M yeah, yeah, they really get
out of control though, like violent.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Well there was a physical altercation in West Covine about
a year ago. Yes, and what happened, Well, these people
are pretty old, so they just kind of wrestle around
and take him down. There was the guys like, that's battery,
that's battery. What this about of rustled? What am a rustling?
Right now? Hey, look in my face it's flushed and
(13:38):
the red.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Have you been following any of the transfer portal news
coming out of you?
Speaker 2 (13:44):
No? No, it's overwhelming. I can barely follow though. I've
re signed, right. You know, UCLA just got their quarterback back. Yeah,
they got Nico Iomalayala back, which probably means that he
didn't like his draft grade and they're going to pay
him three million dollars to stay with a more stable
coach under An Chesney. Yeah, right, so we'll see. I
(14:08):
think that's probably a good move by old Niko. Well,
we're just wondering to know how the quarterback draft classes
all shake out, the NFL experts and stuff. But he
could probably use another year getting paid millions of dollars
and have a better looking year and kind of solidify
himself more as a as a leader of young men.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
I don't think it looks good on paper the draft class.
I mean, look, I love Frando Mendoza. I think he's gritty,
He's gutty, ferdy men. DOZ you like Trophy win? I
love his ability to speak so freely deservedly so with
the Heisman Trophy. But number one pick in the NFL draft,
I don't know, man, are you seeing that?
Speaker 2 (14:47):
What do I know? I'm asking you as a football mind. Well,
he runs kind of in a dorky way. But he's
I mean, every time I watch Ferdy Mendoza play, he
plays really well. I was pressed with him at Cal
going to places like Auburn and winning, and I think
he's obviously a guy that can lead an offense, and
(15:08):
he's tough as nails and he seems to be able
to get the ball out and throw it when and
where it's supposed to go. This is fantastic analysis, but yeah,
there you go. Oh god, he does still kind of
like do that that nerd lean when he runs. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Well, how about what Diego Pavias said when he lost
the Heisman trophy.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Yeah, he said, F softy, that's not well, you kind
of you softy lefing fo. You're a voter. F the voters, man, Yeah,
and then voters. Davis came out family Forever but Family.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Reese Davis came out and said he regretted voting for
him for the Heisman because he said, F the voters.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Yeah, Rhese Davis didn't like that. No, Reece Davis is
a pretty buttoned up guy. From what I understood. He's
not a slovenly sloppy idiot like you were my side.
So what is the what's the big toy for the
kids this Christmas. Like, what are they into? Now?
Speaker 3 (15:59):
What's the I'm not following this stuff either. It'd be
creepy if I did, because I don't have any kids.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
My daughter likes clothes and makeup. My son likes electronics,
motors and things. Motors, yeah, lawnmowers, things like that. He
used to love washing machines and now he's on the bicycles.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
I do remember that you said he liked washing machines.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Oh. I used to have to take them to the
lows and sit there for an hour while he went
through all the machines and hit the buttons, and the
salespeople rolled their eyes at me inside because they knew
I wasn't going to buy a machine. Oh, that is fantastic.
And then we used to go to the the laundromat.
He would demand to go to the laundromat even though
we have a washer and dryer right. Yeah, And there'd
be like the homeless guy washing his clothes when his
(16:42):
underwear staring at the right next to my son.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
People see Petro's papainakus, big famous highly paid LA radio guy.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
To laundry mat thing. Yeah, what do people think?
Speaker 3 (16:52):
That's going on, falling on tough times here, for God's sakes,
going into a freaking laundry mat.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Well, I have been selling some oranges and some senative
and stuff this year. You ever buy fruit from a
stand on the street like that? Sometimes? Yeah? Yeah, there's
a guy.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
That's set up shop right outside my house, just down
the street, down the block.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Pretty sure he's working illegally, but whatever, it's fine. I
don't give a damn. What about the brick and mortar
businesses in your neighborhood? Back on that? Yeah, all right,
well we gotta go. We got I love you.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
I'm very grateful for you and your audience, And shut up,
zip it. You are not you hate doing this every day.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
That's not true. It's the pain of the ass. I
enjoy it.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Doing this show is a pain in your Greek ass,
and you know it. No, I enjoy it, all right, Yeah,
you look, you're.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
I'd even done this show for free.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
And the fact that you have done this show for free,
and then sweet James trippled this out of the Remember when,
remember when you used to get a fifty every week? Yeah,
but yeah, well we got you more, all right, We
got to run good stuff.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
We love you, best of the family. And that quarterback
analysis you pay more that was absolutely incredible. Man. Yeah,
Ball gets out. The insight you bring to the table
every week is unmatched in this industry. I see him
work that quarterback progression. All I'm off next week. You
want to talk to Dick or you want to take
the week off? What you want to do? Uh? Just
Dick gonna know if I say no? Yeah, probably, but
(18:17):
whatever say it, he said, I don't know. I don't
know yet.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Okay, I'll see it, man, Love you, best of the family.
Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, and yeah all that stuff.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
I love you too.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
Bye, see it, man, Petros Papadakis with us, all right,
we're going to break and get out of here.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
That's it for us. Dick's got you.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Starting next week, I'll take a little bit of time off,
reset the engine, come back, and then just kill it.
In twenty twenty six. Appreciate everybody tuning into the radio show.
I know it's difficult at times to stomach, and we
appreciate you putting in the effort every single day because
I know, God forbid, man, without you, there's no us whatsoever.
We just be undering around with no point in life,
(19:01):
no purpose whatsoever. So appreciate you guys being here with
us every single day. We got cracking hockey, cracking kings
baby from La Next on ninety three to three kJ
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