HR. 2 - Potty with Gretzky

Tom Pelissero joins the show and talks NFL football, the gang talks famous bathroom guests

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Speaker 1 (00:07):
Part. I lied.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
I actually have one thing I want to bring up
in sports. God, dang it, what am I doing? What
am I dealing?

Speaker 1 (00:14):
Are doing your job? It's Christmas.

Speaker 3 (00:16):
It's not my job.

Speaker 1 (00:17):
That's not my job.

Speaker 4 (00:18):
Time Prevan five on the Power Trip presented by Builders
and Remodelers.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
Builders and Remodelers thinks, uh, Parker, I want your opinion
on this. So there's a couple of headlines float around
on like ESPN and Sports Illustrated and Yahoo and stuff
that the NBA is considering some tank blocking options right
to stop teams from tanking. So none of these are
None of these are are set in stone. These are
just ideas that are being thrown out. One of them

(00:44):
I think is super interesting and I want to get
your take on it. But here's another one. One of
them is they would say, uh, no longer allowing a
team to draft in the top four two years in
a row. That's what MLB does, something like that. Yeah, no,
I assume I don't know this. If you assume you
make an ass out of Uma Thurman, but I would
assume that does not include trades. Like if you make

(01:06):
a trade and then the traded team finds a way
to get up into the lottery. That's different, But I
think your actual pick in the top four would be
the thing. So you like, not letting somebody just keep
getting top two or three or four picks because then
two years in a row.

Speaker 5 (01:20):
I think the other thing that that does too is
like in terms of the franchise of like the Jersey
sales and the supporting of like Cooper Flag or Victor
Woman Yama or like these big franchise come together and
they support this kid. You lose a little bit of
that if you just keep stacking the kids, you.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
Know what I mean?

Speaker 5 (01:39):
Maybe I'm picking up maybe not, but yeah, I agree
though I like that. Then you're you're taking away the
tanking thing.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
What about this one though?

Speaker 2 (01:48):
The lottery is and what June late June, Yeah, ask perish, huh.
One of the things they're considering would be locking in
the lottery pick position March first.

Speaker 4 (02:04):
That's not a bad idea.

Speaker 1 (02:05):
I kind of like that.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
What do you mean so you're we're I could argue
you could just do the lottery in March.

Speaker 1 (02:12):
I think that's kind of interesting.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
That would just do the lottery, and then you could
truly scout teams better like you would know your exact
pick come March Madness and the Old Star Break. But
I think what they're saying is not necessarily doing the lottery.
They're just saying locking your position March first. You could
argue that you might want to tank a little bit
then before March first, to make sure that you, like,

(02:33):
if you're close to having the best odds, it's like,
let's just lose the next two weeks and make sure
we lock it up. But then the idea then at
least those last that last month and a half, there's
no incentive to tank. You might as well try to
win because your lottery positions already locked in.

Speaker 5 (02:47):
I always thought the tanking bit was so interesting because
you look at the teams that are in the bottom there,
like Washington this year, they're just so terrible that it's
like terrible even if they wanted to tank, it doesn't matter.

Speaker 1 (02:57):
They're going to lose regardless, you know what I mean.

Speaker 5 (02:59):
So I kind of like that, But I like what
Sauce said to do it during the All Star break,
like to do the pool the Snow games exactly well, and.

Speaker 1 (03:07):
Back to the tanking thing. This is what in this.

Speaker 2 (03:09):
Obviously drives me nuts every year when we did the
lottery breakdown and sauces it's rigged. It's how bad people
are in general at math. This the team no, yeah,
that's tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (03:22):
What is it?

Speaker 2 (03:23):
The team that has is that the three teams that
have the worst chances. Now it's something like a fourteen
percent chance of winning the lottery right even higher, which
means there's an eighty six percent chance you don't. So
it guarantees you nothing. Yeah, nothing. But so I love
that they've kind of flattened it out, that it's not
as top heavy as it used to be. But I

(03:43):
think even back in the day, was it twenty five percent, Yeah,
twenty five and something like that, the team that was
the worst. It just keeps coming down to flatten it out.
That those are all anti tanking measures as well.

Speaker 1 (03:54):
Totally.

Speaker 2 (03:55):
I don't know. I think it's kind of interesting just
to do the lottery in March, yeah yeah, and then
have every team know exactly where they stand in the
last month and a half.

Speaker 1 (04:03):
Think out different Again.

Speaker 2 (04:04):
I think how different the end of the college basketball
season would be if you knew, all right, we have
picked three here are the handful of players I'm going
to go to every game of so and so now
and so and so, Like now you're probably scouting those
players anyway, how much more focused you could be if
you knew exactly where you were in the draft.

Speaker 4 (04:23):
You're incentivized to be spoiler, The games down the line
are going to be more down the stretch are going
to be more competitive, just naturally, because again there's no
negative to winning.

Speaker 1 (04:36):
And uh yeah, I.

Speaker 4 (04:37):
Think that especially. I think that March first City is
probably like.

Speaker 2 (04:41):
Hey, how about how about from a fans perspective, like,
think how many who had like the second and third
and fourth pick this year because obviously Cooper Flag was
going I.

Speaker 4 (04:48):
Think Okay is one of them. No, I mean this
past year was fourth or fifth?

Speaker 1 (04:53):
Right, so Charlotte was in the mix.

Speaker 2 (04:55):
I'm sure Washington was in the Mexican you knows, yeah,
Bailey draft Bill Harper. Okay, so think of Dylan Harper,
Ace Bailey, Like think of those kinds of guys. Okay,
if you if you knew you had the second pick
or third pick in March, that whole fan base would
probably be super incentivized to watch those college basketball more.

(05:16):
Which one do I want my team to take? I
think you might be more into college basketball. So I
was just about to temporarily Yeah, I agree.

Speaker 1 (05:23):
I think I don't hate this idea at all. Not
that March.

Speaker 5 (05:26):
Madness needs any more attention. It does pretty good on
its own. But you get those just NBA fans that
are like, hey, I'm cheering on the Wizards and and
here's so and so I'm going to watch.

Speaker 1 (05:35):
He's the likely pat They know we have the pick.

Speaker 6 (05:38):
Now you're just giv an ESPN more feel to who
has more wins.

Speaker 1 (05:42):
The Washington Commanders are the Washington Wizards. Gotta be the Commanders.
It has to be right though.

Speaker 2 (05:48):
The Wizards have something like four wins. The Wizards are
five and twenty three. The Commanders are foreign.

Speaker 1 (05:56):
Wow, wow, ridiculous, hideous. That's tough. Look tough winner in Washington.

Speaker 4 (06:02):
The Washington Wizards are always bad, always bad. Nobody wants
to play there. They're always bad. Five and twenty three.

Speaker 6 (06:12):
They keep having these top picks too, and they just
take these like random French kids or what they take
was it Alex, Yeah, they take that guy Star and
then they took Bilau Coolbali.

Speaker 1 (06:24):
Up. Yeah, No, that is not a real marn I
promise all your hands.

Speaker 4 (06:28):
Other than those two names? Can perish? Name two people
that ever played for the Washington Wizards. Well, don't show him. No,
I'm showing him Bilow COOLBALI. Yeah, you can't name that guy.

Speaker 1 (06:40):
I can't say it. Hang on that ever played for
the Wizards. I know we can get one. I hope
he can get that one.

Speaker 2 (06:47):
I know he can get one. Kenny, Yes, can you
think of a second one? Can I ask you a question?

Speaker 1 (06:56):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (06:56):
Do the Washington bullets count before they whit's the name?

Speaker 1 (07:01):
No, that might have just been a hint too. Then
I think it's just.

Speaker 3 (07:06):
The one because he.

Speaker 1 (07:09):
Doesn't know the other one.

Speaker 7 (07:12):
He doesn't or David's favorite basketball player of all time? No, bet,
We're not betting a caniac.

Speaker 1 (07:18):
No.

Speaker 2 (07:19):
I think he can just get the one Parish name,
the one Jorge Jordan played for the Wizards, and you
get another one.

Speaker 1 (07:27):
We've ordered him so long.

Speaker 7 (07:29):
I literally don't Michael, Oh, that doesn't help.

Speaker 1 (07:36):
That doesn't help. He doesn't know who that is the
only everybody do that? Everybody? That doesn't help? Don't.

Speaker 2 (07:47):
He thinks you're doing the macarena. He doesn't.

Speaker 1 (07:51):
No, I don't think Sha played.

Speaker 4 (07:53):
This is the only time, John blank Ham, John.

Speaker 1 (07:58):
Don Draper did not play for the Washington Wizards. John
oh Wall, Yeah, well this is.

Speaker 4 (08:09):
I got I gotcha.

Speaker 2 (08:12):
If if we would have allowed Washington bullets, that wouldn't
have helped at all.

Speaker 6 (08:16):
No, actually, I got nervous. I was like, oh crap,
does that takeaway Jordan?

Speaker 1 (08:20):
I had no idea.

Speaker 5 (08:21):
My bit was no, yeah, I just weber bullets was
a clue. Gilbert Arenas, Yeah, sure, I've heard that name. Yeah,
pretty good documentary. It just came out Unsel the day
that one. I don't blame you. There's not much to terrible.

Speaker 1 (08:39):
They're bad. Cory Kispert literally one of those teams that
should be.

Speaker 6 (08:44):
I honestly know about the Washington Wizards is didn't everybody
pull their guns during a poker game? I just don't
know who it was. I just remember that was absolute lunacy,
in my opinion. I met him in a bathroom in
Scotts tayl Arizona.

Speaker 1 (08:56):
Oh wow, that can only need two wishes.

Speaker 4 (09:00):
He done what.

Speaker 5 (09:01):
I let him do his business, and I said, I'm
not going to shake your hat in the bathroom, but
it's nice to meet you, sir.

Speaker 1 (09:06):
And yeah, I bring something up Christmas. That could have
been take Christmas on.

Speaker 2 (09:16):
That was like when Henry Lake and I did a
we did our NBA draft preview show from the Serious
Satellite Radio building in New York. This is twenty years
a week and I forget which one it is, but
I went to the bathroom and it was either Rondez
or Tiki Barber.

Speaker 3 (09:30):
I don't remember which one.

Speaker 1 (09:31):
And it was weird. Yeah, it was like, yeah, he
Man's barber.

Speaker 2 (09:36):
Yeah, but I didn't want to be like, hey, I'm
a huge fan because like I don't even know which
one you are.

Speaker 1 (09:41):
I don't know the twins don't know. I don't know
which one you are.

Speaker 4 (09:44):
Who is the most famous person you've got the bathroom with? Oh,
good question. Mine's got to be Shack. Oh wow, yeah,
DJ Diesel huge. It was at the Myth a couple
of weeks ago. Do you guys go did not? Yeah,
I've been in the Myth since high school.

Speaker 1 (10:02):
Person, I've seen.

Speaker 3 (10:05):
What a weird question?

Speaker 1 (10:06):
Yeah, I's a weird question.

Speaker 4 (10:09):
I'm just thinking of like maybe I ran into somebody
like in one of the bathrooms in Vegas or something.

Speaker 5 (10:14):
Yeah, Harry, you had to go potty with some good
NHL players.

Speaker 1 (10:18):
Yeah, yeah, I was trying to think you've gone potty
with the podcast.

Speaker 6 (10:23):
I don't know if we've ever been in the bathroom
at the same time. I mean, like I was at
the All Star Game, so yeah, I was like, I
guess I was paying next to Mario and and all
those guys in Luigi.

Speaker 1 (10:37):
Who's the most famous person you have in your phone?

Speaker 5 (10:40):
That's always a great question, Bro Gretz, Well, no, probably
Garth Brooks.

Speaker 4 (10:47):
Wow, wow, that's pretty cool. You should text him. Yea,
But I mean we all have that. So who's somebody else? Uh,
the Nickelback Boys.

Speaker 1 (10:56):
That's Madonna?

Speaker 6 (10:58):
Madonna? Yeah, I mean, and that's the thing about like
the hockey players. I mean, I don't mean any offense
to them, but but you know, to you guys, the
big deal to me, they're their friends. You Brett Hall's number? Yeah, wow,
that's cool. Do you Mario's number?

Speaker 1 (11:14):
No? I don't know. Marios Sydney, No, Sweeney Tyler, Sagan please.

Speaker 6 (11:23):
Well. The thing is, the thing is in the hockey world,
it's we. We we pride ourselves on we believe we're
the best fraternity on earth, and we're all within arms reach.
Any number and you know that is available to us
all number right? Who's mark message?

Speaker 1 (11:42):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (11:42):
Correct? I name drop a little bit. Yeah, I'm gonna
name drop. Here's why I got on my phone.

Speaker 1 (11:48):
You probably got some good ones.

Speaker 2 (11:49):
Chad Abbott, Who, Paul Allen, mister fun, Joe Anderson, Pete More.

Speaker 1 (12:00):
This is alphabetic.

Speaker 2 (12:01):
Oh boy, man, Maybe I should call Brooks Bollinger today.

Speaker 3 (12:07):
What a guy?

Speaker 2 (12:09):
Ryan Carter Carts should call him? I could, Man, this
is sick. Oh man, this is braggy. Should I say
it to Chris Hockey? Paul and oh boy.

Speaker 1 (12:25):
I'm just running it in. Yeah, man, killed.

Speaker 4 (12:30):
I have Jerome Bettis in my phone and I don't
know why what?

Speaker 1 (12:33):
Yeah? Did you? It's a code name for somebody. It's
somebody you hooked up about a bus. It's a bus boy.

Speaker 8 (12:43):
I don't got it.

Speaker 1 (12:43):
I don't.

Speaker 4 (12:44):
I don't save those numbers.

Speaker 1 (12:45):
But he's got an for that.

Speaker 4 (12:48):
It's like it's even got a Pittsburgh area code on it.
So I don't know when I called Jerome Bettis or
met Drome. Maybe it was somebody. Let me guess. Let
me see if I can piece this together, like or
reverse engineering. He was on with either p A or
Barrero and you were producing for it in number more guards.

Speaker 1 (13:08):
He sent it to you. It's a good way to
get that's one of those things you're supposed to keep those.
You know what I'm saying. There's like an unwritten rule.

Speaker 2 (13:15):
But just text him just in case, say, hey, is
this still Jerome?

Speaker 4 (13:21):
I got Billy hilde Brand's number.

Speaker 2 (13:23):
Oh God, quit bragging, And uh, does anybody here have
tackle Terry Tuma?

Speaker 1 (13:30):
I don't. I don't know.

Speaker 4 (13:32):
No, I bet Abbott does because he always called us
and he never told us where he was. Yeah, he
was first until you stay off the grid. Paul Lambert, No,
that guy sucks.

Speaker 1 (13:45):
He's dead. She died Christmas Eve. Yeah, part loly. But yeah,
there's a soccer player, right, that's Paul Lambert.

Speaker 3 (13:52):
That's a huge deal.

Speaker 1 (13:52):
Isn't there a soccer player or like a rugby player
or something.

Speaker 4 (13:55):
Like that is the higher up in this company.

Speaker 1 (13:58):
Sure, I've got this bonus once or two.

Speaker 2 (14:00):
But I believe there's a Paul Lambert that is Scottish
football manager.

Speaker 1 (14:04):
There you go.

Speaker 4 (14:05):
N I got the Paul Lambert in this company's bonus once.
Holy smokes, it was size. I got a call immediately
and I'm like, oh, this is I didn't go Joe
Nelson on the bit and spend it all. You guys
know that story. You're a coworker. Once he got somebody

(14:26):
else's bonus or accidental a lot. I think it was
like ten k. He spent it over a weekend and
a weekend and then.

Speaker 2 (14:34):
They were like that wasn't yours and he's like, well,
ilady bought stuff.

Speaker 1 (14:38):
Yeah, it's not anybody else.

Speaker 2 (14:43):
Joe's strategy was finders keepers losers paid a back.

Speaker 5 (14:47):
Yeah, I respect forget about those PSGs.

Speaker 2 (14:52):
I respect it too. I would say, then you shouldn't
have given it to me. Yeah, Joe's strategy on you, son,
Jeff Tyler, spend it on something that can't be turned.

Speaker 1 (15:00):
Yeah, you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (15:01):
If you buy golf clubs, they'll say bring them back,
give us the money. But if you go to the
casino say I lost it all. Yeah, sorry, hey, I'm
not paying you back. I thought it was mine. Yeah
what what hogs Daddy do?

Speaker 1 (15:12):
Go straight to that right? Correct? Ye? All right?

Speaker 2 (15:15):
Headlines in a second more with Mark Parrish and Parker Fox.
This is The Power Trip Morning Show Live on Christmas Eve,
twenty twenty five on.

Speaker 3 (15:21):
The fan, Welcome back to the Power Trim Morning Show.

Speaker 1 (15:44):
Hi nice, what else this NPR?

Speaker 3 (15:49):
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Speaker 1 (15:50):
Yeah? Do you want it to It's a gentle acoustic.

Speaker 4 (15:54):
It's called give them a sign, Zach when he meets man,
oh boy, a sign for you pill?

Speaker 1 (16:06):
Wow? What's in that jug there?

Speaker 3 (16:13):
Or it's called coffee?

Speaker 4 (16:15):
Is it really?

Speaker 3 (16:15):
Sure?

Speaker 4 (16:16):
A creamer and that thing a lot of coffee, that
huge thing right there.

Speaker 3 (16:20):
Sure it's not a white monster.

Speaker 5 (16:23):
I asked your brother yesterday what you usually ate for
breakfast growing up as a kid.

Speaker 1 (16:28):
He said cereal.

Speaker 5 (16:28):
And because you're trying a different chicken place for your
Christmas party.

Speaker 2 (16:36):
That's the word on the sword on the street. Yeah,
I don't know. They're catering something and so bad chicken.
I think it's called no idea sure whatever, Yeah, I
don't know. Hey, like when you're not hosting, when I host,
it's canes, right.

Speaker 1 (16:47):
Yeah, the people dig. Why would you not want to
have canes? Exactly?

Speaker 2 (16:50):
The best you ever get? The thing full of sauce,
like the whole cup never had the sauce. Yeah, maybe
I always ask him that sauce. Don't talk to everybody
else who likes that, think Dan. Oh my gosh, I'm
pellas Ceril's here. By the way, I completely forgot Tom.
Give me a second, all right, I got a Tom's
the best.

Speaker 1 (17:09):
Yeah, oh thank god. We were running out the No.

Speaker 2 (17:13):
We were talking about chicken. That'd be extremely intrigued and
canes whole white and meat chicken. Oh god, yes, you
didn't make a mistake. It's let's do let's do NPO radio.
But just talk about chicken fingers. It's not your fault.
Do you know what movie that's from? It's not your fault?
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Speaker 1 (17:33):
Very similar, yes, right, yeah, yeah, similar movies.

Speaker 3 (17:37):
When Matt Damon was in Charlie and the.

Speaker 1 (17:41):
Williams. How good is World Police? I don't know that
one either.

Speaker 4 (17:46):
The South Park It's yeah, it's Marionette's right, same thing, brilliant.

Speaker 1 (17:51):
Yeah, you would love it. He's here. Hi Tom, Okay Thomas, Hello,
Hi Tom, Hi Tom.

Speaker 8 (18:02):
Good to see you, guys.

Speaker 1 (18:04):
Man. We're super excited to be working on Christmas Eve.
How about you.

Speaker 9 (18:09):
I'm glad somebody remembered that I was going to be here.
I should probably treat timing changes that are negotiated on
air as non binding in the future. But I'm happy
to be here with you guys.

Speaker 2 (18:20):
What are your Christmas Eve slash Christmas plans? Especially for work?

Speaker 1 (18:23):
Where are you going? What are you doing? Well?

Speaker 9 (18:26):
I've been informed that immediately after this interview, I need
to hustle to church, so we're knocking that out this morning.
No Christmas around here is mainly with two kids doing nothing.

Speaker 1 (18:38):
Grace.

Speaker 9 (18:39):
Yeah, that's that's really the key. Take your time, take
your time with everything.

Speaker 2 (18:43):
Get the church out of the way so you can
get back to doing meth and gambling. You do meth, yeah, no,
but once you get the church out of the way,
you can do whatever you want.

Speaker 1 (18:51):
Gamble a little bit.

Speaker 2 (18:53):
What are your what are your NFL duties in the
next forty eight hours?

Speaker 9 (18:56):
Nothing will not be at the will not be the
Vikings Lions game. Have the Insiders tonight, so that'll be
on its normal times at six pm Central time. And
I mean we're in like.

Speaker 8 (19:08):
The final throes of this, you know what I mean.

Speaker 9 (19:12):
We are down to the wire in terms of playoffs,
coaching changes, all those different things.

Speaker 8 (19:19):
So here we are.

Speaker 4 (19:20):
Hey, Tom, let me ask you a hardcore football question
on Christmas Eve, thanks to our friends at Bellbank. We
had this conversation earlier. Do you think JJ McCarthy is
guaranteed to be the starter Week one for the Vikings
in twenty twenty six.

Speaker 8 (19:37):
I wouldn't say anything's guaranteed.

Speaker 9 (19:39):
I thought that it was notable that Kevin o'connelly yesterday
and talking about JJ not playing this week as the
hairline fracture in his hand, made a point to compliment
the direction that JJ was going the things that he
had done down the stretch. Obviously, you know, playing at
a higher level, you know, gets knocked out of the
Giants Gate, didn't play great, but played you know, the

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previous two games.

Speaker 8 (20:01):
It reminded me a.

Speaker 9 (20:02):
Little bit of when JJ has the meniscus surgery last
August and Kevin O'Connell announcing that made a point to
talk about how JJ ha's shown, you know, he could
be the quarterback of the future. He stopped short of
that in this particular case. But the tenor and the
implication that I got out of that was, you know,
they fully view JJ McCarthy as part of the.

Speaker 8 (20:23):
Plan for twenty twenty six.

Speaker 9 (20:25):
Is that in competition with a veteran quarterback is that.
You know, he starts out as the number one, but
he's got to earn it. You know, we'll see exactly
how the messaging and frankly, the construction of the room
evolves here over the next several months.

Speaker 8 (20:40):
You know, he has played better. I know what the efficiency.

Speaker 9 (20:42):
Numbers are, I know what the turnover numbers are, but
you know, in terms of the eye test, in terms
of the way that he's viewed in the locker room
as a guy, there's still, you know, a lot to
believe in with JJ McCarthy. You know, he's five and
four now as the starter again, albeit he didn't finish
that game last week. You know, you're still basically halfway

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into one season of him as the quarterback. At some point,
you know you're gonna run out of time on this thing.
Year three is kind of the last truly cost controlled
year for a young quarterback. But they've got him at
a reasonable rate. In twenty twenty six, let's see what
other move. I fully expect that there's going to be
another move of some kind to beef up the room,
but you know, let's see exactly what that looks like

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and how they handle next spring.

Speaker 4 (21:27):
Do you think that some of these, like I just
this is just a random name, but like let's say
like the Dak Prescott's or the Baker Mayfields of the world.
Do you think, even though they've complimented JJ McCarthy, do
you think they would listen to something like that or
be interested in something like that.

Speaker 9 (21:44):
I mean, I think that all options are on the
table for the Vikings because the entire product wasn't good
enough this season. Injuries were a huge influence on the situation.
I would say in terms of, you know, the free
agent quarterbacks, it's not a really long list.

Speaker 8 (21:59):
You've got d Jones. I think that ship is sailed
to the Vikings.

Speaker 9 (22:02):
Plus he's coming off of a torn acl You have
Aaron Rodgers, who I would think we'll see how that
it goes down the stretcher, but I would think if
Aaron Rodgers plays in twenty twenty six, his first choice
would be to continue to do that. For the Steelers,
You've got some of those other you know, backup or
upside tech caliber players. There's the you know, the veterans,
the guys like Russell Wilson, Jameis Winston, Jimmy Garoppolo, you

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know Malik Willis, who's played well in spot duty with
the Packers. He's set to be a free agent among
others here. But you know, the trade market is really
going to be where a lot of teams are looking.
And there's probably eight or nine teams as I was
going through the list yesterday that need an answer as
the as the starting quarterback is that you know a
Kyler Murray.

Speaker 8 (22:44):
Who is you know going to be available? Is it
a tua tongue of Iloa?

Speaker 9 (22:48):
The sense I would what I would tell you is
just that I don't think the Vikings are there yet
in terms of having a clear plan. I think that
they would listen on anything. You know, we know kind
of the recent history of the Vikings they're always looking
for value who they can get the right number the
right price. But you know, certainly again I think that
they're gonna have their eyes wide open when it comes
to the quarterback position and making sure that they construct

(23:08):
that in the most sensible way possible.

Speaker 2 (23:10):
For next season, Tom, who's the team right now in
your opinion that nobody wants to play in the postseason.

Speaker 8 (23:17):
It's a really good question, thank you.

Speaker 9 (23:19):
You know, every team has at least three losses there's
there's not that single dominant team.

Speaker 8 (23:24):
I would say, just.

Speaker 9 (23:25):
Based upon the recent results, I wouldn't want to see
the Seahawks. As good as that defense is. They got
a lot of offensive firepower. I know everybody's gonna want
to see it with Sam Darnold in the crunch time
in the playoffs, in those must win games, but they
look really, really tough.

Speaker 1 (23:41):
You know.

Speaker 9 (23:42):
Same thing with the Rams. You know, they had that
big letdown a few weeks ago in Carolina, but other
than that, they've been, you know, pretty dominant team on
the AFC side. You know, a lot of the teams
that are up there with the best records I don't
think are the teams that everybody necessarily fears. I mean,
Denver defensively is really good. Offense has been kind of
up and down. The Jaguars just beat the Broncos. Trevor

(24:05):
Lawrence is playing I would say the best football he's
ever played. You know, was that the team that you're
scared of? You know, the Patriots are gonna be really
buttoned up. Drake Mays played an outstanding level of Varabels
done unbelievable job, you know, But again, is that the
team that you're just scared of I think that, you know,
if there's a common thread this year, it's that a
lot of the teams that right now would be wild cards,

(24:26):
maybe some of the most dangerous teams. Again, there's only
a couple of division races that are sided, but right
now your wild cards would include the Bills, the Chargers,
the Texans, who you know, again, the offense up and
down there, but the defense has been really, really good.
NFC side, you know, somebody's gonna be hosting at this
point based on the standings now with the Rams, the

(24:48):
forty nine Ers, and the Packers, I mean that this
you know again, we're projecting everything out here, but this
could be one of those years where if you're sitting
there in the five seat, you're like, we might end
up with a home game at some point here. Because
the wildcard are so good, some of those top teams
are going to have their hands full, and I would
not be surprised at all. Certainly in the four or
five matchups, I would expect it that the home team

(25:09):
is an underdog, and maybe even in some of the
other wildcard matchups as well.

Speaker 4 (25:12):
With the Bears at the number two seed right now,
is Ben Johnson. Has he established himself as one of
the best coaches in the NFL only in one season.

Speaker 9 (25:21):
Well, they've had, you know, kind of like I think
that Kevin O'Connell's first season, Brian dables first season. They've
had a lot of close wins, one score wins, six
fourth quarter I believe, six comebacks where they've been down
at the two minute mark. That's, you know, how replicable
is that. I give Ben Johnson total credit for the
way that they have been so good situationally, but in

(25:43):
terms of, you know, how much you can continue to
win like that, it can be a, you know, a
tough thing to continue to go. The Bears are certainly
going to have an evolution that continues from a personnel perspective.
But what Ben is doing right now in year one
with a group that you know is not necessarily perfect
fits for their schemes on both sides of the ball.
The way that he's elevated Caleb Williams, the way that

(26:04):
he's handled those late game situations. You know, Ben's getting
paid a lot of money in Chicago. He's been worth
every penny. You know, in terms of your top coaches,
you know, I always want to see guys do it
again and again.

Speaker 8 (26:16):
But Ben's done an outstanding job. There's no doubt about that.

Speaker 2 (26:19):
All Right, A couple final things for Tom Pello Stero.
Thanks to our friends at Bell Bank. Thanks to them
for having Tom on all season long on the Power
Trae Morning Show. Tom, I'm on team DK Metcalf because
I hate fans that are engaged in garbage like that
fan was, and there's now there's videos that have emerged
with a fan that DJ or DK allegedly kind of

(26:41):
punched or pushed, looked like he was specifically trying to troll.

Speaker 1 (26:46):
The Guy's just garbage.

Speaker 2 (26:47):
Anyway, we all know DK Metcalf isn't supposed to punch fans,
and I know that sounds nuts, but man like, he
might have some serious financial ramifications outside of these two
games where he's gonna miss like a half a million dollars.

Speaker 1 (27:00):
Now there's some money that can be avoided.

Speaker 2 (27:02):
What happens to DK because he's getting screwed here, I'm
on team DK.

Speaker 9 (27:08):
Let let's start with this. I would say calling it
a punch is an overstatement. If DK wanted to punch
that guy, that guy would be on Mars right now.
Known where he was the rest of the game celebrating
and turning around and yell into the crowd like that
was the point. That's what we wanted. Basically, I can't

(27:29):
remember the exact phrase, but that's what along the lines
of like and the same guy DKA had reported to
Seahawks security last year because he was using certain words
about DK's mother in particular, the DK didn't like. So
here's what I would say. In general, players are not

(27:50):
zoo animals. They're not there to They are human beings
on the field. However, if you want to make that comparison,
there are signs everywhere at every zoo that are basically like, hey,
don't reach into the cage, Hey don't bang on the glass.
I think, and this is me speaking not on behalf

(28:11):
of the NFL, I think that, for instance, if you
reach into the lion's cage, the liability is on you.
The moment that fan leaves his seat and comes down
in the aisle to the front row and leans over,
I think the players should be able to do whatever
he wants. Serot lion should be able to rip you

(28:34):
limb from limb DK if you watch it. Part of
the issue and part of where this was framed in
a certain way. Was because the initial replay on Fox
was shown in slow motion, and it looks in slow
motion like, you know, there's a punch when you see
the other angles, because I have had a lot of
different angles sent to me. Basically, he walks over, the

(28:55):
guy is leaning forward, he grabs him by the shirt
for half a second and then pushes him back. It's
the same thing that if you are a typical over
testosteron Alpha Male, you might do when some guy is
harassing your girlfriend at a bar, which is grinded, to go, hey, dude,
knock it off and push him back.

Speaker 8 (29:13):
That's what VK did. Can't do it.

Speaker 9 (29:16):
Not the right thing to do, you know, And certainly
not surprised that there's discipline. I was very surprised that
it's a two game suspension. I understand the NFL wants
to send a message that you cannot, you know, initiate
contact with fans. They drew a stark line there between
that and for instance, when a Bills fan pushed d

(29:37):
hop and Lamar in the head and Lamar went back
and shoved the guy. Even though that was again he
could have just walked away, but they didn't take action. Basically,
Lamar was encouraged to apologize to the guy and that's
kind of where it ended. So to go to a
two game suspension it flies in the face of all
precedent here. My concern, just against speaking for myself, is

(30:01):
that if you basically say, hey, the fans in the
right here, the Lions determined he didn't violate the Code
of Conduct, which I've looked at the Code of Conduct
and you can make a fair case that he violated
four or five of the items on that. My concern
would be, you're creating an environment where it's like, hey,
do you see what that Lions fan did? Maybe we

(30:21):
can get this team star player rejected. We're gonna harass him,
We're gonna call his mother names, we're gonna try to
get him to come over. Then we're gonna go leave
our seat and get it into the front row and
see if we can get him to reach up and
do something about it. I don't think that that's a
good precedent. Again, I understand it why the NFL doesn't
want fans and you don't want to have the Detroit

(30:43):
Pistons game from twenty years ago.

Speaker 8 (30:45):
You don't want to have.

Speaker 9 (30:45):
That the mouths at the Palace take place in an
NFL stadium. I would say, of all the actions physically,
the DK should have taken, not that he should do it,
but if all the actions you're gonna taken, this was
like the absolute bare minimum. Reserve my statements on what
I personally think of the fan, Corey, I would say,
I don't disagree with your general assessment. If this is

(31:09):
my buddy, or this is a guy in the stands
and I'm at a game, I'm just sitting there going,
oh good.

Speaker 4 (31:15):
Yeah, that guy sucks. I'll say it for you. That
guy sucks.

Speaker 1 (31:18):
Tommy, Come on, you're not on the team.

Speaker 8 (31:20):
No, not on the team.

Speaker 2 (31:22):
It's not unlike all of the comedians posting crowd work
where they get heckled, right, and then those clips go viral,
and then comedians complain that there's too many hecklers. It's like, well, yeah,
if you don't shut down hecklers, there's going to be
more hecklers. But you guys have promoted hecklers and now
they're everywhere, and there's comedy clubs that are getting bombarded
with people that think they're a part of the show.

Speaker 1 (31:42):
Parker, you had your hand out. Question security.

Speaker 9 (31:45):
If you're repeatedly yelling at the comedian is going to
take you out at the back door, they should well
performance continues. Again, There's there's a lot of layers to
the DK situation. I'm surprised that the NFL took this action,
which by the way, costs DK five hundred and fifty
thousand dollars on Sallori voids forty five million guarantees, though
that's been wildly overstated.

Speaker 8 (32:04):
The Steelers have already talked with him.

Speaker 9 (32:05):
He's gonna be on the team in twenty twenty six,
He's gonna get his twenty five million next year. It's
kind of a red herring in this entire thing. But
that's also been push by the NFL Management Council, which
is when you have the opportunity to avoid guarantees, take
that opportunity. There's a lot of different layers that go
into this, but I just I don't want to see
this become commonplace where you have a where you have

(32:26):
a fan who is repeatedly, multiple years, multiple times haranguing
a player and then attempting to provoke a physical confrontation.
Who knows what legal fallout there is or what was
intended on that front. But at minimum, if it's like
that was the idea, that was the point.

Speaker 1 (32:45):
It sucks, Tom.

Speaker 5 (32:46):
I needs you to help me understand this equation. It's
not adding up Zayflowers pro bowler, three fumbles, two touchdowns.

Speaker 9 (32:56):
He's very explosive. He's a Boston College guy. I know
him personally. He's had some fairly significant mistakes through the
course of this season that also may or may not
have impacted my fantasy team. He listen, he's really good
and he's going to get a boatload of money in
the offseason. You'd just like to see him hold on
to the football. Better thousand yard receiver again. I mean,

(33:16):
he's even a ton of fun to watch. But yeah,
I mean those It's been the story of the Ravens
entire season. I felt like it was yesterday, Week one,
sitting in a hotel room in Foxborough after improbably watching
the Raiders beat the Patriots and the most misleading result
of the entire season, and watching the Ravens like, oh man,
they're man handling these bills and then Derrick Henry fumbles
and they can't hold onto the ball, and the whole

(33:38):
thing on wines. Fast forward to week fifteen or week sixteen.
Oh man, the Ravens are totally manhandling this team, and
then here's Derrick Henry fumble. It's unbelievable watching how their
season is unraveled here. And there's a real chance Lamar
is not going to play this week, and we're once
again going to have Snoop Huntley playing a meaningful game
that could knock the Ravens out.

Speaker 1 (33:58):
Of the playoffs.

Speaker 2 (33:59):
Tom, I hope you have an awesome Christmas. I hope
you don't wear a blue wig and get punched in
the face. And we'll talk to you at some point
next week.

Speaker 9 (34:06):
If I poke my head in the studio uninvited, You're welcome, Corey.

Speaker 4 (34:10):
Oh, I will be right. I will and don't kink
shame Tom. Maybe blue Wing.

Speaker 1 (34:15):
You're the best.

Speaker 2 (34:15):
To talk to you next week, all right, Tom post
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Speaker 1 (34:19):
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Speaker 4 (34:21):
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Speaker 1 (34:38):
How long are you gonna talk? You know we got
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Speaker 3 (34:57):
It's Christmas Eve. It's gonna be a Christmas miracle.

Speaker 1 (35:00):
Somebody's gonna win one point seven billion tonight. Let's make
it happen.

Speaker 2 (35:04):
Powerball one point seven billion estimated for tonight.

Speaker 1 (35:07):
Did you guys buy any tickets?

Speaker 2 (35:09):
I have for like the last three or four drawing,
so I'm definitely getting them today.

Speaker 1 (35:12):
Yeah, go to holiday, Right, That's where I go.

Speaker 2 (35:15):
Go to holiday and get some power balls, and then
if I win in a year or a year and
a half, that'll be the last time you guys ever
seen me.

Speaker 4 (35:21):
Right, you gotta do the slow play slow play. Oh yeah,
see you. No, I like you guys, but see you. You
know it won't be ever. Oh I'll run into you
in Las Vegas.

Speaker 1 (35:30):
Oh, we're not going to cross paths?

Speaker 2 (35:32):
And if I would you have access to my private room,
my penhouse, I mean at the West Gate like Elvis.

Speaker 1 (35:40):
Yeah, I mean because Diabat.

Speaker 4 (35:42):
I would just ask Tommy for numbers of the guys
from Thunder down Under and they'd get in contact with you.
That's the guest house. What's the most irresponsible way you'd
spend your money? It's a weird question to ask him,
because I don't think he does. Well, that's the thing
that I'm asking him. Wealth is wasted on some of
the most boring people on the planet. Exactly what that

(36:06):
supposed to make? You'd put it in like an investment firm,
and you'd.

Speaker 2 (36:09):
Be I said this a couple of weeks ago, And
this is why you're saying this, Parker. I said, like,
if I won four hundred million, part of the fun
of that was how quickly I could become a billionaire. Yeah,
So my dream wasn't let's spend the four hundred million.
It's invested. How do I get that four hundred to
be a thousand? Let's go right? Then you can spend
along the way. Yeah, you don't think what's your name?

(36:31):
What's Jeff Bezos' wife? Ex right, she gives away so
much money, But by the time her sentence ends she
has made it back. It doesn't matter. You just give
it away. So you could spend as you're trying to
get to a billion.

Speaker 1 (36:46):
How much Amazon stock does she have? I don't know,
like all of it?

Speaker 2 (36:49):
Who knows too much? But she has to pay for
prime that was in the divorce decree. Really, Oh yeah,
she's on the hook for that. What would you spend money?
Corey hasn't answered yet.

Speaker 1 (37:03):
He doesn't like what would I spend frivolously on? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (37:06):
Like what you know? What if something are exciting that
you would want to do?

Speaker 2 (37:11):
There is no doubt if I built my true facility
like Marnie has in Chaska, right, and I had my
dream house that I could truly never leave, I would
have the sickest arcade of all time. My house would
be like Josh Baskin the Baby. I'd have an indoor trampoline.
I'd have an arcade. I'd have you know, was it
Devanta Adams as a Taco bell right? Obviously would have

(37:34):
a racing cane to my base so sweet, Yeah.

Speaker 4 (37:37):
Like a ferris wheel. You'd have like a like Shields. Sure,
you'd have a bunch of rooms water slides. I would
have the sickest I'd have two of them. I would
have the coolest golf simulators you could buy, just every course.

Speaker 1 (37:54):
It would move like the putting green bit.

Speaker 4 (37:56):
Yeah, and then I would what parish would be over
every weekend and it would be outstanding.

Speaker 1 (38:02):
I would have golf league at my house. Would you
invite Parker? Yeah?

Speaker 9 (38:07):
Yes?

Speaker 8 (38:07):
Would you?

Speaker 1 (38:07):
Would you invite Zach?

Speaker 4 (38:09):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (38:09):
Would no?

Speaker 4 (38:11):
Of course? Because you said you would never see me again.
I would miss you if you were gone.

Speaker 1 (38:15):
That was you.

Speaker 6 (38:16):
Do you have trouble finding me again too? Because I
would be touring the world looking at historical spots.

Speaker 2 (38:23):
Oh god, you want to learn, bar I mean I
want to travel the world too, But looking at historical spots, Mark,
there's beaches around the world.

Speaker 6 (38:33):
Look at how many how many beaches do you think
I visit? No?

Speaker 2 (38:36):
No, no, that was his bitches pronounced with an access.
There's beaches everywhere, Marks, go see some beaches.

Speaker 1 (38:47):
Hey, I have an update, and it's not a good one.
Remember yesterday we talked about how a.

Speaker 2 (38:52):
Swimmer vanished in California off the coast of California, and
there was somebody in that swimming group that reportedly saw
a shark breach with a human body in its mouth,
and then it went under.

Speaker 1 (39:05):
It never resurface. Remember that is that the update.

Speaker 2 (39:09):
The update is quote, we believe a shark was involved.
They have now named the fifty five year old. It's
Erica Fox. I guess she was like a triathlete. She disappeared.
Oh yeah, your cousin. They searched eighty four nautical miles
for her.

Speaker 1 (39:30):
Here's what I don't understand, and I mean, this is
a sincere question.

Speaker 2 (39:33):
Let's say somebody in the group says, hey, I know
we're one swimmer short. That person's missing. I saw a
shark breach. It looked like it had a human being
in its mouth, and then it went under. Like I'm
I'm sure I saw that shark. Take somebody out. Why
do you waste all the time searching eighty four miles.
You literally don't believe that person. Somebody's gone no, and

(39:56):
I understand that. You just can't believe every eyewitness account.
Somebody's gonna go Well, there's still a procedure, there's still
a protocol. We have to we have to do some
kind of a search. We can't be like, oh cool,
all right, Kato Caleb said he saw nothing. You're looking
for body parts. I totally get it. But eighty four
nautical miles they searched for this swimmer. Yeah, she's in

(40:20):
the belly of a great white shark.

Speaker 1 (40:22):
The shark. Why do we have to differentiate between miles
and nautical miles? I don't know.

Speaker 2 (40:25):
Good point, because then it sounds like you just cruising
the coast. Yeah, up for a joy ride? Yeah, yep.
She was a triathlete. She would swim at nearby Pebble Beean.
I swim with friends in Money Beach each weekend. Geez lucky.

Speaker 3 (40:39):
Yeah, well on your golf simulator.

Speaker 4 (40:42):
Yeah, Perry and I looked into it. This is a
true story. Perry and I and our other hockey buddy
and then our tight end buddy, we all looked into
going there. We came up with a date we could
all do it. I contacted them. Yeah, it was the
weekend of the US over, the only door all of us.
I called them, Joe, sir, that's the US Open, got it?

(41:06):
Damn it? That was so yes, that was so tough.

Speaker 2 (41:11):
So Lover's Point Beach as well as Maccabee Beach in
San Carlos beach in Monterey. They remain closed because they
believe there are sharks in the water.

Speaker 3 (41:21):
Well that sounds about right.

Speaker 2 (41:23):
Yeah, there's you know, the great Richard oaknick one said
if there were dinosaurs outside, we wouldn't coplate go play baseball.
This is not fatal, of course, But according to the
International Shark Attack File, the planet Earth averages approximately how

(41:44):
many documented that's the keyword, documented shark attacks each year
where there's some kind of contact where shark bites or
attacks or kills. How many worldwide shark attacks a year?

Speaker 6 (41:58):
Seventy one, forty three, five hundred, it's probably more.

Speaker 1 (42:03):
It's always ninety nine Parka, you guess seventy one? Yeah,
sixty five A fantastic guess.

Speaker 2 (42:11):
Wow, sixty five, So I think, and it doesn't say
this in the story, I would guess out of the
sixty five, I bet it's under twelve or thirteen fatal
a year. Yeah, it's something like that. It's a lower number.
A lot of them, you know, are like smaller sharks
would bite you on the leg and your little nibble.

Speaker 1 (42:30):
It sucks.

Speaker 2 (42:31):
Yeah, But again, I don't know how often you guys
are near beaches. And again that's b E A C
H E. S Mark gotcha. If you walk down to
the beach and like put your hand in the water
and then like taste it. If you lick the water,
if it tastes like salt, there are sharks in the water.

Speaker 1 (42:48):
Yeah, or Tom, so don't go in there. Oh yucky,
the last thing. You're going to save it for Christmas.
Second rows. Tobby loves to taste.

Speaker 2 (43:01):
Tobby speaking of Billy and Billy Garran of the Wild
loss in overtime last night, but they continue to play well.

Speaker 1 (43:09):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely no problems.

Speaker 6 (43:11):
Colorado was a was a tough one.

Speaker 1 (43:13):
They came loaded for bear.

Speaker 6 (43:14):
They had they had something to prove against the Wild,
And yeah, Nashville is a great game.

Speaker 1 (43:20):
You know, the guys are getting little tired.

Speaker 6 (43:21):
It's it's a tough stretch right now, and they're still
playing great. They are going to be right there until
right right there at the top.

Speaker 2 (43:28):
And now you got a seven game road trip because
of the Old World Juniors, so.

Speaker 1 (43:32):
The world we'll get seven games and I can get
to work. So when is your first game with the
the two of you on the radio?

Speaker 4 (43:39):
Friday, US versus Germany, five o'clock on FM ninety six
point seven KF and the.

Speaker 2 (43:44):
Plus all those world famous German hockey players.

Speaker 1 (43:50):
Like Leon Dreisidel and Marco Stern and still gotta be
Stutsla Stutsla. Yes, that's right.

Speaker 6 (43:59):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (44:00):
Was Germany an option on the game ice hockey? I
think so. Yeah.

Speaker 6 (44:05):
I don't remember if they were hockey ice hockey was great.
They've they've just kind of continued to grow. They were
back in my day when we were playing. They just
were clutching grab They didn't have the skill, but they
just they worked hard.

Speaker 1 (44:18):
It was always a tough game.

Speaker 6 (44:20):
They really had a North American kind of mindset when
they're work ethic. And now, like I said, we're seeing
some top players like Leon Dry titled the guy that
just got a thousand points in one organization. We're seeing
guys like that coming out of This is just for Zach.

Speaker 3 (44:34):
This is my Christmas gift to you, Zach.

Speaker 2 (44:36):
Speaking of Germany, I don't know if you guys are
history buffs.

Speaker 1 (44:43):
You don't get to be a country no more.

Speaker 2 (44:44):
All right, it's Norm McDonald, Joe Parker, Fox, Merry Christmas. Man,
will see you next weeks. Mark Parrish. I want to
say this on the record first of all, Merry Christmas.

Speaker 1 (44:55):
Love you. We do not have a show on Friday.
See you next week. No, he's serious. We do not
have a show this Friday. We do not. We do not.
We do not, we do not.

Speaker 6 (45:06):
We're off, see you next joking, joking, Well, I don't
have to be here morning.

Speaker 1 (45:11):
You do not have to be here on Friday. See
you next week. All right, sounds good, Love you guys.
Doesn't believe Merry Christmas? No, I do not. Nine to
noon is next. We'll see you on Monday.

Speaker 2 (45:22):
Everybody, have a great Christmas, and uh talk to you
like I don't know five days.

Speaker 6 (45:25):
See it, Listen back to today's Power Trip Morning Show,
or to your previous show.

Speaker 9 (45:38):
It's The podcast is on the iHeartRadio app or KFA
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