August 29, 2025 • 47 mins
Matt is joined by Dave Dameshek for a great day in Great Sportstalk. Its opening weekend in college football with both UCLA and USC kicking off their seasons.
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I I'm not usually the one that does this. Does
this might not work?
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Well?
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Ronnie, stop the show. I normally don't do this. And
this thing's got a real weird echo in my head. So, Ronnie,
I think I'm gonna try this one. But I'm not
sure where Tim Kates is so uh out of the
office yesterday. Here we go, ready running, I'm the switch
over to this one.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Tim Kays is now here? Is this working? Running? I
have no microphone? How's that working? Hold on?
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Maybe that's not working?
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Then? What is it? Microphone? How about now there we go.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Look at this, what a complete boof I have no
it was apparently, uh, the mic was apparently flipped over
to Dave Damashek's seat and Dave is using you know,
the the microphone the Petros would I don't it should
be right under your computer there, David. See, I'm trying
to figure out here that's why. So Petros's microphone is
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not working. That's why they must have whipped this thing
over there. And because that microphone isn't working now and
what a great start to the show stumbling out of
the gate. Maybe do we just put do we just
move Dave over a couple of chairs to hear and
then instead of where Petros would usually sit. We're gonna
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tell you a story, folks. The studio we're in, it's
probably built somewhere circa nineteen thirty nine, nineteen forty ish.
And the only time where do you want them to go?
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Ronni? You want them to go on that one? There?
Speaker 1 (02:19):
All? Right?
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Here we go go on this one here, Davey. There
only one time have we ever updated this studio, and
it was when Dan Patrick decided to do his show
from here for a week. And next thing you know,
my man, we're gonna update the studio and we got
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all new chairs. You can speak, you can land on this, Dave.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
I know it's.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
A checkered history and there is some angst, and there
is some hidden anger that is about to come to
the surface. But it was the one time that we
had brand new chairs, we did a new wrap job.
All these things were upgraded because one guy was coming
out here for one week. Never mind the two people
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that had been doing an afternoon show for fifteen years
or however long it had been at that point, did
have to come here every single day. One time we
spilled I can't remember what it was, something spilled on
the ground. It was like circused animal crackers or something
like this, and instead of we forgot to clean it up,
we left the studio whatever. We're in a hurry to
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get out of this happy hour down at Morton's or
something like that. It was that time of our lives
when we would go hit the booze after the show
every day and we'd get downstairs and we forget to
clean up the animal crackers. Well, we come back upstairs
and we're like in the next day for the show,
and we're like oh.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Interesting.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
You would think that maybe a cleaning crew would come
through here and have vacuumed up the crackers, but they didn't.
We decided to see how long the crackers would stay
on the floor, and I'd say, I don't want to
embellish or exaggerate, but I think, Ronnie, you remember this
this uh this time.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
I remembered very well. About eight months, I think is
what we figured out. Uh yeah, yeah, about that, about
eight months before those crackers were finally cleaned up. Just
just running a test case as to how things operate
in our AM five seventy LA Sports studio. So no, folks,
we have a broken microphone in here. I'm sure engineer
Matt will take care of it. A big thank you
to Jonas Knox and George Reister, who were both in
(04:24):
here yesterday. George a very strong individual. I heard he
dented the gong. I'm assuming he broke the mic because
I would guess that Jonas would have been in my
chair as he is a host of his own show,
Two Pros and a Cup of Joe on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
Matt George Reister hit that gong so hard he vibrated
the entire fourth th.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Yeah, I heard. I got a lot of I got
a lot of tweets from the people, a lot of
direct a lot of whatever you call notifications or mentions
saying George Dent at the gong.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
And George is a big guy, former NFL player exactly,
So just a imagine that big guy coming in here
and pounding that gong.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Which all you got a little excited, didn't he a
little bit?
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Hey?
Speaker 2 (05:06):
A couple of things, if I may. First of all, well,
Tim Kats's attempt to sabotage my appearance by giving me
no microphone has failed. So congratulations. I hope it was
worth it. One two two, Happy believed birthday to man
money Smith. It was his birthday yesterday, everybody. Thank you, Dave.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
I do not share that publicly regularly, if at all,
but I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Oh, I believe me. I will keep your ungodly age
under wraps. I'm not going to share that quite all right.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
It's just awkward for me when people it's I'm one
of those guys. Happy birthday.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
I appreciate it, but I do appreciate it. I appreciate Jonas,
and I appreciate George, and I also appreciate the big Boss,
Brian long Belong for giving me the day off. I
normally am not the type of person I regularly work
on my birthday. I don't think I've ever taken the
day off for my birthday. But my oldest daughter, who
lives in New York City, decided to fly in to
celebrate because she's got the day off of work for
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Labor Day and so she can work remote kind of things.
So it's like, you know what, I'm gonna take the
day and.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Boy to those girls, boy to those girls love their
old man. That is clear in every post you make
on social media. So you're winning it life there no doubt.
But guess what. First of all, you you don't take
the day off on your birthday. That's the same rule
that applies for me on Labor Day. What kind of
person takes the takes the bait of the man? Don't
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you see? What are you? Ana cock? You're gonna go
into work. You're gonna go into work. I mean, you're
you're You're not You're gonna take the deal the man.
The man is it's just trying to distract you from
from from the disgusting reality that his summer is over.
It's time for the kids to go back to school.
And that's who gets it the worst. They they get
the brief, the oasis of time away from school, but
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then labor Day comes around. At least it used to be.
Now it's even worse. Now you don't even get to
wait until labor day. The man makes you go back
to school before labor Day. Then he gives you a
day off, and we're all supposed to swoon for what
a great guy he is. Interesting. True, I'm not going
to stand for that interesting, Dave, because you know what
I think.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
I think my my grievance has been filed. Ronnie, being
the star engineer that he is, has has fixed the situation.
Dave's good, So Ronnie, if we can, let's let's start
the show. Oh, let's let's start the show. Grievance filed,
complaints levied. Here we go till peace. We fine tell
you what I'll do. All the things that I own,
(07:27):
I will share with you. And if I feel tomorrow
like I feel today, we'll take what we want and
give the rest away. Stranger's on this road we are on,
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To your point, Dave, about Labor Day and are you
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going to fall into the trap that the man is
set for you by giving you a single day off?
I believe this to be true. I'm not going to
pretend to be an authority. The details are a little foggy,
but I do believe labored They stemmed from a workers
union in New York who said, hey, everybody, all of
this skilled labor here. We don't like the direction this
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thing's going. We're taking the day off all of us.
Let's see if your city works when none of us do.
And they took this this day in September off.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
That's what the man. It was the workers who did it.
Now the effect there's it's it's a holiday. But when
the man, when the man says work days, they said
this to the man, we're going to take this day off, okay,
whether you like it or not. And as a concession,
the man says, you know what, You're absolutely right. You
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see here, you're absolutely right there, young man you have
been working on and you have him that day off,
so I do encourage you to take it, and we
will give you a paid day off.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
And they were like, oh, oh you will, will you exactly?
Speaker 2 (10:01):
A You're right, I guess here we are. Then with
our day off, should ask for a month off? They
hit the man conceded too quick. They knew that they
had failed work.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Yes, exactly. The proletariat accepted too quickly. The bourgeoisie offers,
what you're saying, may the bourgeois So are you working
on Monday?
Speaker 2 (10:19):
I'm working? What are you doing on Monday? I'm going
to be doing whatever it takes for me to make
the next episode of Football America with an explation point
crack it down wherever you find your favorite podcast and
or on YouTube it's it's grants oft. Are you doing it?
I'm doing it? Uh. Next week one episode and then
once we get into the season proper NFL twice a
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week Mondays and Fridays over the Moon. We'll mix in
some other stuff around that. But that's really the story
that we should be talking about. And I'm sorry I
got sidetracked by Labor Day, because the greatest gift and side, Well,
I know, it's it's weird, it's very odd. That's why
my head, that's how excited I am for football. And
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that is the greatest gift, and it gives us many gifts,
is it provides us a distraction right out of the
gate when you have to go back to school and
all feels lost, at least there's football to look forward
to after the first day of school on Monday night,
and now you know the football schedule, and this college
football one gets to it a little bit more quickly
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than pro football does. Either way, Ronnie Fossio, shouldn't we
mark this day? I know this is a hip show
and you play you know, cool indie bands and you know, dancehall,
reggae and all that, But shouldn't we just be nerds?
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Your side?
Speaker 2 (11:37):
My side? It's all bully, it is. It's just tough
enough to be yourself. Patrick Dempsey. I mean, you know what,
we were just having a good time, but all of
a sudden you felt yourself tearing up a little bit
when he was talking to all of us. Then certainly
cool snirds your side, my side, Fossio, shouldn't we be
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going all NFL films? Donna donna. Really, my football season's long, man,
and you gotta remember about how about this, damashek how
about how about some college themes, some college fights.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
I like it, Ronnie good call, nice little drum line,
little college fight song. Matt absolutely love it.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Ronnie convicts on Sunday night before that.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
And it's also important to remember, Uh, you know, Petros
had to take a red eye to Detroit so he
could make his production meetings, uh, and still do the
radio show. He's calling Michigan State here in about an
hour or two. He will then take a five am
flight out of Detroit to get back here so he
can call I believe it's Fresno State, the Georgia State.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
I'll be climbing on a bird Tuesday for a twelve
hour flight to Brazil to get the football season started,
whether or not I'm going to be on lockdown or
able to leave my hotel once I traveled twelve hours
via airplane. The football season can be a lonely hur
if you will, from time to time. So in these
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parts it's while we love football, there are those occasions
where it's like, oh.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
It's a twelve hour flight from La to Salpolo. Sou Polo.
Why there instead of Rio, it's.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Where they did it last year. I guess they like
the stadium. I think people, at least and I fell
into this category, don't realize. South Polo is one of
the largest cities in the world. Twenty three million people
live in South Paolo, bigger than Rio. Yeah, so it's
I think it's like, well, it's the most people, and
they got this beautiful new stadium, so we'll just go there.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
What time change is there? Not bad? Four hours? I
wouldn't even have guessed that much.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Yeah, it's weird. I don't think people realized, like Kates
didn't realize. I don't think Kates even knew it was
on the Atlantic. I think he I didn't. Yeah, I
don't think he realize that Brazil was on that side.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
But Dave sounds just as confused as me, Like, twelve
hour flight really, yeah, it seems long. Oh no, look
at it on a map.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Yeah, it's way down there, and it's I'm surprised that
it's only four hours because if you just go up
the longitude to New York, but of course on a
flat map, you lose the effect of the curvature of
the Earth. And so maybe it's not as far out
as it looks on a map. You would think it
was at least maybe three or four hours past New York,
but it is not. So that's the one benefit is
we're kicking off at nine pm local time in Brazil,
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so it's a five pm kick in LA. So I'll
have a legit nice, you know, the twelve hours. I
don't know what time we're taking out, but I get
the sense I watch a movie, play some cards with
the folks in the back of the plane, and then
pass out for eight hours. Wake up it's tomorrow, have
your normal day, get on your normal sleep schedule, play
the game at nine. It kicks off at five here.
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That means we're taking off at probably ten pm LA time.
Get back here at you know, ten the next morning.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Well, it's become part of the ritual of playing in
London is it's a whole week long thing, and there
are activities every day. It feels like, at least if
you're state side and you're wanted to, Oh, today the
players the Saints all went out to this brew house
or what exactly. It doesn't sound like that's at all.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Basically, I think the well we're Yeah, we get in Wednesday,
you know, I believe we'll we'll wheels down at the
Salpolo International Airport at round ten am on Wednesday. Our
game is Friday at nine pm, so you'll have, you know, Wednesday.
That probably gets some rest. After that, I plan to
sneak out and figure out how to make my way
around town and who knows where. I'm contemplating at two
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and a half hour drive down to the beach where
there's some sweet surf and some folks, but there's some
stuff downtown. I believe it's believe it or not equidistant.
The beach is like, I don't know, way, like one
hundred kilometers. Town is like ten kilometers, but traffic is
so suffocating that it'll take two hours to get to
either one.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
People describe the most fun places this millennium. People say
Tokyo and Hong Kong is great, and Spain is a
is a.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
Go to forever hate Americans now, man, too many Americans
are flooding Spain these days. I guess they're really fed
up with us.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
I imagine there's more reason than just that, perhap late
and I wonder what it's going to be like when
you try to re enter the US, that'll be more
difficult than getting into Brazil. At this point, let's cut
to the chase. Last time I was in here, I
asked you, and now I ask you again. Is the
voice of the Chargers expectations. And what I appreciate about
you is that you don't jive. You'll shoot pretty straight
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about this, and so I think this does come with
some legit weight to it. What you have to say,
what do I expect men of my homes? And well, no,
on Friday, right one week from today, about seven days,
one hour and forty minutes from now, we're going to
find out. I mean, they get to start against the Chiefs,
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you know, and it's a team that's I think they
both similarly have some issues, you know. Nosh she Rice
he got that seven that the six game suspension. Some
people thought he was gonna be able to play the
first four before the hearing, but they settled that quickly,
and we saw, you know, the hits that that passing
attack took last year, trying to find a number one receiver.
I don't think xavierre worthy as that the Chargers losing
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Rashawn Slater trying to figure out this offensive line and
what they had hoped to be was the bully of
the AFC West with the later rusher that that puts
a ceiling on how far they can go. I don't
think so.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
I think you lose Justin Herbert, you lose Derwin James
maybe on the defensive side of the ball, and that
can do some serious damage.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Based on what we know Jim Harby is going to
want to do.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
I mean, it's definitely a hit. Is it. Is it
a two or three win hit? I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Could it be a one win hit?
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Yeah? Maybe?
Speaker 2 (17:45):
I mean as you could almost you could say this
about almost any of the NFL divisions this close to kickoff,
but that that AFC West is real hard to figure out. Obviously,
the Chiefs are in it, and so it's easy to
slot them in the top spot so long as Reid
Mahomes are there. But I will, once again, as I
do almost perennially, I am picking the LA Chargers to
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win that pollusion.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
It's I don't think it's as hard to do as
some people make it out to be just because of Harbaugh.
I think everybody just looks and they're like, yeah, this
guy wins and he took a five win team with
no money that was thirty million bucks over the cap,
and got rid of Mike Williams and got rid of
Keenan Allen and had to sign all these one year
veteran minimum to just barely over veter veteran minimum. Christian Fulton,
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poona Ford type of players. You know, recognize the talent
day On Henley. This guy needs to be out there more.
Let's get him, you know. So I think there is
something to that having a I mean a competent coach. Look,
what do you need in the NFL, right, It's you
need a quarterback and you need a coach. And that's
pretty much, you know, that's that's Andy Reid, and that's
Patrick Mahomes, and that's Josh Allen, and that's Sean McDermott,
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and that's Nick Sirianni and his staff with Vic Fangio
and Jalen Hurts the ultimate leader at the like, you know,
I think they have that. You got Arbond, you got Herbert,
so you feel pretty good about it.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
And I also think that what's in your neighborhood is
one of the defining factors of how far you go
and where you're slotted come playoff time and all of that.
I think three teams. I think the Broncos, Chargers, and
Chiefs all get into the postseason. And the Raiders are
not a bum team at this point with Gino Smith
and Pete Carroll and all of that. What's bad for
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the Chiefs is I feel like the other three teams,
there are two ways you go. You either try to
keep up with the Jones is the front runner of
your division and draft to sort of keep up with
that team, or you go against that type. And it
feels to me like all three teams are now set
to sort of go against what the Chiefs want to do.
They just want to beat the hell out of you.
They want to grind you up, slow the game down,
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all that kind of stuff that we've heard for five
years now.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
Yeah, I think the one and I know you know
the in Look, there are considerable Raider fans in town
and they get very angry when I start talking, even
if they're still listening at this point. But the one
issue for them is I don't know what the hell
they got going on in that secondary or even really
in that linebacker corps. Like that's just it to me,
it's it's a multi year thing. And you know, that's
what a lot of people said about the Chargers last year,
and they won eleven games, so it's possible. Pie's a
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hell of a coach. Chip Kelly's an incredible offensive mind,
so they could pull it off. But I just kind
of looked defensively and I'm like, all right, you're a
You're in a division with Sean Payton, you know, and
who knows what Bonnix is going to be in year two,
But it's still Sean payn one of the great play callers,
just ask him.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
In the league.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
And Andy Reid and Patrick Mahomes and Jim Harbaugh and
Justin Herbert. It just seems like that's that's not a
great recipe.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
To have it, right, But Kyle, But the counter to
that is, to me, Kyle Shanahan got he wants Rock
Purty and he wont CMC. But he also got to
a super Bowl with Jimmy g AS's quarterback. I mean
that that proves the bonafides of him as an offensive whiz.
Pete Carroll is a defensive wiz and specifically a secondary whiz, right,
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so shouldn't the logic stand he'll be able to tune
up a bunch of mediocrity back there.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
Their counterpoint, Dave Danischeck, perhaps because it is definitely mediocrity
on papie.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Here's another LA Pro football question for you. Sean McVeigh
gets to choose blind, it won't he won't hurt the
feelings of the of the quarterback that he currently has.
He can have for one year. You ask him this
back in March. You can have you can have your guy.
You can have Matthew Stafford, you can have Justin Herbert too.
Which guy do you want? Deep down? And he asked
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the same question to Jim Harbaugh. Do they both say Stafford?
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (21:33):
I would say they both say Herbert? You do yeah,
h yeah, I mean one year. I'm not talking about well,
I think a you've got next shoulder back. You've got
all those issues with Matthew Stafford. He's and, you know,
hell of a competitor, incredible, you know, just full on gamer.
But I think what was Matthew Stafford before he got
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with Sean McVay. He was an incredibly talented, overrated guy
with a big arm. When has he ever taken the
Lions into the playoffs? Look, you just said and they'll
take the playoffs. Is that you're kind of describing justin Hurber,
That's what I mean.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
And then look what happens to Matthew Stafford when he
gets with Sean McVay, and it's like, oh, yeah, so
that was the problem. That's what was going on in
Detroit all those years. Is this guy is in fact
that great of a quarterback and a total gamer, and
you put him into a playoff situation and with confident
play calling and players around him, and he's gonna shine.
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And so I think that's certainly if you were able
to do that with a do that's twenty seven. I
think Herbert is now twenty seven, just not even entering,
almost entering his prime now with that sort of athleticism,
you know, that build, that stature, that arm, it's every
bit as good as Stafford's, if not better, And you know,
(22:50):
there's yeah, I don't think it's close.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Really, I don't think it's close. The back stuff is
one thing. I mean, that is a murky thing with
our focus, our obsession with profile football and Stafford specifically,
and he might leave the RAM. They were gonna let
him go like he was the radically they were, but
then it felt like it was gone. But that felt
like a negotiation. But I think in hindsight he was gone.
(23:13):
I think he was gone. I think he was gone.
And so then what brought him back.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
Some little bit of give and take, a little bit
of Somebody in the Stafford camp was like, we're not leaving,
and so instead of taking the fifty something million bucks,
he was like, all right, I guess I'll take the
forty five million bucks.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
I like, what if in where pro football is concerned,
and if el right, the famous Dave damashek IF franchise,
if Matthew Stafford, because if he left Rams for Vegas,
for Vegas or New York, well, Pittsburgh wanted him too.
I don't know if that would have worked out. I
think it was the Giants or more likely the Raiders.
(23:55):
I'm not naming names in Matthew Stafford's family besides Matthew himself,
but you're saying, let's just say, theoretically a family member
close to him who does commercials with him. Very weird
commercial by the way, with Matthew Stafford and Kelly Stafford
and they're it's the Mattress commercial. Yes, sleep number, but
they don't sleep with sheets, so they both sleep on
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a bear mattress, and then whoever came up with the
idea for the commercial or the director, I guess, would
get the shot. It's like an overhead of them laying
on the bear mattress and they're both asleep, and I
find it way too intimate for my eyes. I don't
want to see. I don't want to see what you
look like when you sleep, you know, with no covers,
especially with a mattress, because yeah, it makes me feel uncomfortable.
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For them, Yeah, it's like you went into the mattress
store passed out, which you know is a deal in uh.
I believe. I believe it's China. I believe it's China.
At the ikeas they want you to try out the
mattresses and if you fall asleep, they will let you
stay asleep and only make you what if the store closes,
(25:02):
because they believe that that will encourage a sale, like
this was so comfortable you fell asleep, and now you're
gonna buy the mattress. When you're trying to sell a
house or an apartment, they tell you, like, take down
all the pictures. Nobody wants it to feel too personal.
What is the ikea customer walking out. Oh that bed
looks good. Oh wait, there's a guy on it. Never mind,
(25:24):
that's what I believe. I've read that somewhere.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
It sounds ridiculous now that I've said it out loud,
but I believe that to be true. We will get
some Dodgers, as we did a lot of NFL there.
Dave railed against Labor Day. You know you can. It's
a once it's a once a week show. You could
just do it on Tuesday and take Monday off. I mean,
you know you could do it.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
The matter of principle, man has to stand for something,
and your something is Smith. Keep your stinking labor Day.
I'm not celebrating the man. I'm working. I'm gonna work
work day work. But aren't you working for the man?
That's enough, That's more than enough. I don't know him
anything else. Okay, when we return, keep your Valentine's Day.
(26:07):
Two something something dumb, one something Dave Roberts said to
us from our Live in the Locker Room session on
Wednesday rung true throughout the last few days, and we're
going to dig into that next.
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Dave Danischeck in for petros P on the call out
at Michigan State today, that'll be on. Is that f
S one case it is fs SO. Who are they playing?
I forgot Western Michigan's right, Michigan State, Western Michigan. Let's
see what time that gets rolling here? Oh, look at
that four o'clock, so he'll be on the all there.
(27:01):
They're doing the big tribute to Lee Corso. Saw a
nice little moment there at the Southwest Gate as he
was flying up to Ohio Stadium and I guess that's
the Southwest. Yeah, he likes to fly Southwest, and it
was the terminal that he would always fly out to
whatever college game day he was going to, and all
the staff knew him. And you got the sense that,
by all accounts, Lee Corso a real stand up guy,
(27:23):
because everybody was there to salute him his last trip
and kind of tells you a lot about somebody when
that those are the people.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Absolutely and you know that's how they talk about money
Smith behind his back as well. That's true whether he
is too modest to concede that or not, but either way, Yeah,
Lee Corso, it was kind of people would make fun
of you, it was cheesy or whatever. To enjoy him
putting on the mascot head a decade ago. It feels
like everybody sort of had to come to Jesus. This
is a great custom, a great tradition that makes college
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football a little more enjoyable than it already is.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
So yeah, it's not for the people watching at home.
It's for the kids that dragged their ass out of
bed hung over to the Bejesus bells.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
What a moment if you're a twenty year old kid
standing out.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
There staring there, what's he gonna put on? This is
gonna be crazy? Am I gonna boo? Am I gonna cheer?
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Yeah? I got to see a.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
Handful, you know, when I was calling college football, I
you know, the fine folks over at Compass Media, you know,
would put together a hell of a slate and I
got to call some really big games and found myself
on campus. I was on campus for College Game Day
when they did their Boise State College game Day when
they played Oregon State. I was not there for the
(28:35):
La Garrett Blunt sock face Byron out game, but I
was there for the contest against Oregon State, a game
they won. College game Day was there. I was on
campus at Alabama for a college game Day against Tennessee
that game that Lane Kiffen was coaching, that Terrence Cody
blocked the field goal that was the game. Remember that
I was there for that. But point being, I don't
(28:56):
think unless you've ever lived through it, you recognize what
college game day looks like to these college kids. Remember,
and I've we've discussed this on the show before, you know,
because I have college aged children, and I know Kates
can speak to this as well. Like I would say
to these parents, I'm like, your kids going to Alabama,
(29:18):
Like you don't you got you got UCLA and USC
and San Diego and Pepperdine and Loyola and cal Poly
and you know, maybe they want to go north and
go to cal or Go. I know the UC's are
kind of hard to get into, but you know you
still got the cal Poly's and all that and all
the private schools, the University of San Francisco, like, you
want to pay fifty g's a year for Alabama. Well,
(29:41):
you know, he just really wants to go to Alabama.
He really loved it. I'm like, hey, he wants to
go for the six Saturdays. That's the only reason he's going.
That's and that's why all those kids are there, and
that's why college game Day is freaking mayhem because kids
are choosing their colleges based on football.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
I know, it's extreme, and you're a Pepperdine and so
it's one of those things that you don't miss what
you never had, and so you didn't know what that
was like to be at a bay. I went to
Indiana University, Lee Corso's one time school where he coached
and now they're good with with coach Sig smoke them
if you got him last year. But they were a punchline,
(30:19):
which was kind of the perfect spot to be tailgating
on autumn Sunday Saturdays with those with those glorious colored
leaves out there in southern Indiana is just beautiful. And
you know, you didn't feel obliged to go into the
game because you knew if you did, you would go
and see the Wolverines or Buckeyes or otherwise whipping them.
But I would I do think that if I when
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I consider those years of college, the best days on
the short list at least are those tailgate days when
you're going out to see a Big ten football game
and you're out there at nine am and you're there
till the sun starts to go down. It's it's the best.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
I all my nephews went by, all three of them,
one of them is still there, and the oldest in
the middle are lamenting what their youngest brother gets to
experience with successful, winning level.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
I U football.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
And my nephew Ethan said to me, you know, uncle Matt,
Charlie's really living the life. When Aidan and I were there,
you know what we were doing. What were you doing, Ethan? Well,
here's what we would do is we'd get out to
the tailgate about three hours before kick. We'd drink ourselves silly.
We'd go home, take a nap for three hours. Okay,
(31:39):
game would end, we'd sleep off the drunk, you know,
and just be kind of buzzed and hopefully not hungover.
Then we'd have to get a quick one in us
and then we'd make our way to the bars for
the post game drinking as that would commence for the
rest of Saturday night. He goes, yes, said no, literally,
I mean, he goes, I'm not exactly That's exactly how
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we would play Saturday football is we would sleep during
the game, drink before, drink after. And now he's like,
he gets to go in and the stadium's packed, and
who knew it could be so glorious?
Speaker 2 (32:11):
I yeah, And I'm snobby enough about it that those towns,
those areas that are entirely consumed by the college football experience.
I feel like.
Speaker 3 (32:21):
Indiana's a good school, though, Like Indiana's got one of
the best business schools in the nation. Like it's a
good school. Nothing against Alabama, you know, but academically you're
talking about a school that's ranked like a hundred and sixtieth.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
It does seem like the nation. If you're a so
cow kid, like, yeah, I want to go live in
tuscal Loose, Alabama for the next four years.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
And when I graduate, I'm going to handy your resume
that said I got my marketing degree from Alabama.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
I just don't, well, it just means more interesting thing
with Petros going to and obviously the USC connection. I
was looking at the Trojan schedule and they have Sparty
coming up Michigan State and USC. You know your history,
your ancient history. What happened when the Spartans fought the Trojans.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
Oh, I thought you were gonna say the I thought
you were going to say the last time. Like I was, like, Okay,
did Blake esor show up at the at the coliseum?
What Michigan was it? Steve Garvey who was out there
was a Paulson who was out there playing.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
Brian Hoyer, Kirk Kirk cousins, two Kirks. How many schools
can claim high end athletes different sports with two Kirks?
Also fair right on the I mean it's in the
gotta be in the top ten. War state quarterback too.
I believe Tony Banks they right. Sorry you were saying
Kirk baby name a terrible one. I mean, real bad.
(33:47):
Kirk the baby. Can you imagine? I mean, what's this
little sweeties named Kirk? That's almost as bad as Glenn
Glenn the baby?
Speaker 3 (33:57):
Who would do that as a baby name? Yeah, I mean,
Kirk is another adult name. But see here's the difference.
There's a flip side of that. You know, I'm Matthew.
My older brother's Kevin.
Speaker 2 (34:09):
Not great. My younger brother Brandon, great baby either way around,
great baby name.
Speaker 3 (34:16):
Now that he's grown, has children of his own and
a bunch of friends, and it's just kind of weird day.
Speaker 2 (34:21):
Any favors, right, the grown up they didn't consider. They
just say, that's just.
Speaker 3 (34:24):
Like Brandon's this great name here, it's it's you know,
the early eighties burdenhand, right, Brandon's really catching heat here.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
I mean the worst of those is is Toby. You know,
you don't want to be that. Brandon's right up there,
and I mean, like Brandon to me, sounds like a
child's name, don't And then their names that you just
never want to be, even as a baby, as a
pubescent guy, or as a grown up like Seth, you
(34:53):
never want to be Seth. Seth. Seth and Chad were
the two that we and I felt bad.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
One of my best friends in college was Seth, and
I would he would still have to kind of.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
Oh, you know, it's another bad one. Grant grant. I
had a grant as well, Dave. I did go to Pepperdine,
you know, so I got the grant. I got the
set I got Chad, I've got that whole group of friends.
Did you even try parents? Grant the baby?
Speaker 5 (35:15):
It's a great Scottish name.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
Come on, I'd like to point out, by the way,
you know you, the quartet we have here. You got
a Matt, you gotta Dave.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
Dave is a terrible baby name.
Speaker 3 (35:25):
You got a Tim, and you got a ron You know,
if we're like just if we're just sitting at the
bar and it's like you feel pretty good, Like here's
four guys, they're gonna order a shot and a beer.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
You know, No, Tim, I don't know. Tim maybe leans
more towards being a cute baby name. I don't think
i'd want to be a grown up named Tim.
Speaker 1 (35:42):
Tim.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
Yeah. To me, Timothy is like a is like, hey,
a strong guy name. I feel like it. I feel
like Tim Tom confusing it with Tom. We're talking about Tim.
I'm good with Tim. Tim.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
To me, is you know Timmy? Yeah, when you're young,
it's Tim Davey. You know Maddie. Ronnie, well, it's still Ronnie.
But that's that's the that's the beauty of Ronald is
Ronnie is still totally fine as an older person. One
of the few where you can go with the ie
and it still seems right. It's like, yeah, me and Ronnie,
we're going to get a couple of beers, right.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
Would It would not be in my top twenty five
if you said you can have any may a traditional
male name. Ron would not make the list.
Speaker 3 (36:21):
Ron But where the hell is Dave? I didn't say
it was I just said, where is Dave? You don't
like Tim, you don't like Ron? How do you feel
about Matt? I feel like the first two letters of
the of the name.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
Is number one. Number one? Better be Bob. Worst name
or best name? Best a man's man's name? Better be Bob?
I think a great name. What's better than Bob? Luther?
That's the dumbest answer. Stupid?
Speaker 1 (36:51):
What?
Speaker 2 (36:51):
What?
Speaker 3 (36:51):
What?
Speaker 2 (36:52):
Excuse me?
Speaker 1 (36:52):
What?
Speaker 2 (36:53):
Luther? Luther? How many Luther's do you know? I know
about ten Bob's. I know a bunch of Rons. I
went down too many friends because you'd be such a
badass and scare everybody.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
Luther.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
That's right, Luther? Hell does Luther come from? Here's another
good one. We're talking Bob, We're talking Dick. You know
we're talking Harry. Can I tell you something? What Dick is?
Pretty strong, and it slept upon people. People act like, oh,
you would Dick. It's a it's a strong guy. I agree.
Imagine Dick damashek imagine if I were named Dick. I
(37:30):
don't think you'd have the courage to go by it.
You'd be Richie. You'll be my pal Richie who got
me into trouble. This guy Richie convinced me that we
could break into this freight train and no one would
ever know any better. And now I got a bunch
of pioneer receivers. I'm going to Juvie for two years.
That's what you would be.
Speaker 5 (37:52):
Hey, mom, I'm going to Luther's house for the night.
Speaker 1 (37:55):
Allow.
Speaker 4 (37:57):
I kind of feel though, that's a nice Midwest name.
That's where damn Shick comes from. Luther Man, that's a
nice Midwest name.
Speaker 3 (38:04):
I'm telling you. Did you know have you ever known
a Luther, any Luther in your life ever? Not a
famous person, not Luther Campbell or something. I'm talking about
just professionally, could go by Lou.
Speaker 2 (38:20):
That would be Lewis Well, so be it. That's Lou
Luthor amashak listen, I knew like five or six Jerome Luther,
Damn Ashack asked me to the prown, but my mom
won't let me go. He's a bad seed. He rides
a motorcycle. I went to high school with a white
guy named Jerome. Well Luther, think about the range of that. You.
(38:46):
If you're bald and black, Luther is a real Luther.
If you're a white guy, you're probably I don't know.
I've never met one. I'm trying to think of if
do I know any I don't know any Luther's period.
I don't know any black Luthers. I don't know any
white Luthers. The San Diego Chargers backup quarterback was Ed Luthor.
(39:10):
That doesn't count. Luther Vandross doesn't count. Well Ed Luthor
doesn't count since that was his surname. All right, I've
given you something to consist, Yes, you have for sixteen
you start your next A lot.
Speaker 3 (39:25):
To consider here. Over this sixteen minute, we were supposed
to talk about the Dodgers. Maybe we'll squeeze it into
the next segment.
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Speaker 3 (40:02):
Oh can you see it? Sheck, you're sitting in Winston Salem.
Here comes that demon deacon. He's a deacon, but the
deacon of your parish is a demon. And he's on
the motorcycle.
Speaker 2 (40:15):
Ah. And now he's on the field. And here come
the Wake Fi. Like the priest at the end of
The Exorcist, he gets possessed.
Speaker 3 (40:23):
Small Wake Forest, Tulsa TCU, the rare sort of small
Ford to seven thousand student football schools. Rarely do you
see it. You know your football schools tend to in
the Power was Power five, in the Power four. Rarely
(40:43):
do you see a you know, four to seven thousand
student school with a you know, respectable football.
Speaker 2 (40:51):
Chargers radio partner requires you to mention when the way
it comes up that Jeremiah and app State, Yeah, went
to the Wake and knocked them off. It was the best.
Speaker 3 (41:01):
It was the finest win in the history of Appalachian State.
Speaker 2 (41:04):
UH.
Speaker 3 (41:04):
The game known as the Jerah Messiah Game. When they
knocked off Wake until of course they beat Shoelace in
Michigan way back then.
Speaker 2 (41:16):
So where was I? Oh, fight songs?
Speaker 3 (41:19):
We were about to launch at Wake Forest, Tulsa TCU.
All teams that have had, you know, like challenged for
conference crowns, that have had ten eleven win seasons TCU
in the National Championship game, look up their student body.
It's crazy, it is. You know, when I think of
a powerhouse football school, what do we think of?
Speaker 2 (41:40):
Were?
Speaker 3 (41:40):
I think twenty five thousand kids? Is you know, forty
thousand kids out? Oh?
Speaker 2 (41:43):
Yeah? The minimum standard? Right? The minimum requirement?
Speaker 1 (41:46):
How big?
Speaker 2 (41:46):
Is Notre Dame?
Speaker 1 (41:48):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (41:48):
You know what's another smaller school? The you? Is that right?
Relatively speaking? It's not. It's not a massive state school.
It's a rich kids school and.
Speaker 3 (42:00):
Notre Dame thirteen thousand, okay, so not bad Miami. Let's
see Miami. You student population is eighteen thousand, all right,
so you know, I mean not forty thousand, but still
pretty big. So like here we go, here's here's Wake
(42:21):
fifty four hundred undergrad Wow, there's no idea.
Speaker 2 (42:25):
It was such a tiny places. And how about Ronnie
Fossia with the deep pool. Well, of all the fight songs.
That's what we talked about a half an hour ago,
is let's let's honor the start a college football season
with some of the best fight songs. Where did you
pull that one from of all of them? Well, you know,
let me tell you something. Check.
Speaker 4 (42:45):
I was looking at the college football schedule, and all
the fight songs that were hearing are from games that
are happening today.
Speaker 2 (42:53):
There you go it all. I like you. The most
underrated one is Armies the Black Knights.
Speaker 3 (43:07):
Yeah, no, Navy, the Anchors away. But I don't know
if I remember the d Damn you're doing such a
bang up job at it too. By the way, corrections
and retractions on me.
Speaker 2 (43:18):
And directions and retractions. Let it be known.
Speaker 3 (43:21):
I think a product of the six because Tulse's thirty
seven hundred kids Pulsa and they've got a legitimate football team.
Uh TCU, I would imagine has probably doubled their population
student enrollment since the Gary Patterson days becoming a They're
up to eleven thousand, KIT twelve thirty eight.
Speaker 2 (43:42):
Stude, you were just saying that fifteen minutes ago. The
appeal of college football and will it can sway a
young person's brain.
Speaker 5 (43:49):
You know what they call TCU now too many Californians University.
Speaker 2 (43:53):
That's right.
Speaker 5 (43:54):
They've they've really cut back on how many Californians are
letting in there because people in Texas can't get in,
and alumni can't get their kids anymore, even when they
live in Texas because all these California kids come in
out of state tuition.
Speaker 2 (44:04):
Yeah, here, here's a dippy question for you for somebody
who's lived here for a quarter century. It's a private
school locate, so everybody will be the same same tuition.
Is U c L a way bigger than USC?
Speaker 3 (44:16):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (44:17):
Kates, you're the you're the alumnus. What's U c L
A eighty thousand? I can't imagine eighty thousand people? Is
that true?
Speaker 3 (44:24):
It's definitely not. It's forty eight thousand, six six fifty
one people go to the football games. Aah, USC is
forty seven forty seven, So you're talking about the same size.
Speaker 2 (44:41):
Is there any chance in your esteemed opinions here on
this show that Nico I can CARRYVA, you can do it.
I Nko not ready yet. I'm not ready yet. And
I and I can't stand the dor Key middle aged
guys who do that thing like You've been working on
that one all week, haven't you. I guess that's why
(45:01):
you're the play by play guy. I guess that's why
you make the big money. Is there any chance that
Deshon Foster with Nico? I can? It sounds worse though,
Nico just I'm not going Nico I sounds I'm gonna say, Nico,
is that what you want? I'll do it. Yeah. It's
a pretty good name for a baby too, Nico, Is
(45:21):
that right? I mean it's Nicholas, It's Nick Nico. I
Can he turn around U c l A so quickly
that they will in fact have a better record than
the USC Trojans this year.
Speaker 3 (45:36):
Here is the problem with that proclamation. USC misses everybody
this year. I mean, first of all, they're not favored
against Utah. They're a six point dog. They've got Penn State,
They've got Ohio State, They've got washing Washington. Is that
the powers they were so like? They now they do
(45:58):
have Northwestern in Maryland and Nebraska, so but they like
USC does not have any of that. USC missus. Uh,
they've got Michigan.
Speaker 2 (46:11):
But I was just gonna say they catch Michigan in the.
Speaker 3 (46:13):
High rations at home, but they get uh, they get
at Illinois, Illinoi's top twenty team, Sparta's no good and
they got Oregon. So I guess they don't have Ohio State,
but they do have I mean Michigan. Oh, that's a
good question.
Speaker 2 (46:31):
Imagine that. When is the And here's another question that
I should know the answer to is somebody who loves
college football and has lived in Southern California for as
long as I have, When is the last time U
see LA by record was superior to USC anytime this millennium?
Two years ago? What when was it Cats?
Speaker 5 (46:49):
When they literally was right at the end of the
previous guy's era. Now who's now at Georgia Southern. Why
can't think of his name?
Speaker 2 (46:55):
Clay Helton?
Speaker 3 (46:56):
It was right, Yeah, it was like the last year
of Clayhilton. They remember they beat him, They beat the
snot up of them in the final game.
Speaker 2 (47:02):
I was gonna say, wow, it's remarkable. It hasn't happened
once in twenty five years, and it happened two years ago.
Speaker 3 (47:07):
Dumb Dave, Yeah, I feel like it was that last year.
Let's see, they were nine and four in two thousand
and two under Chip. So there you go, DTR Yeah,
y are they were? Oh no, that year USC was
eleven and three.
Speaker 2 (47:29):
And they fired Clay Hilton at eleven and three.
Speaker 3 (47:32):
Here we go. This was it. It was It was
the year before. It was twenty twenty one when USC
had the four and eighth season and usc LA was
eight and four under Ship.
Speaker 2 (47:42):
I hear the music playing, meaning we're bumping out of
our way across the top. All right, then I'm gonna
I'm gonna pipe, put a pen in it.
Speaker 3 (47:49):
Done, we'll take it to the next sooner or later,
we're gonna talk about the Dodgers. Maybe, can't wait next
Maybe
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I I'm not usually the one that does this. Does
this might not work?
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Well?
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Ronnie, stop the show. I normally don't do this. And
this thing's got a real weird echo in my head. So, Ronnie,
I think I'm gonna try this one. But I'm not
sure where Tim Kates is so uh out of the
office yesterday. Here we go, ready running, I'm the switch
over to this one.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Tim Kays is now here? Is this working? Running? I
have no microphone? How's that working? Hold on?
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Maybe that's not working?
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Then? What is it? Microphone? How about now there we go.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Look at this, what a complete boof I have no
it was apparently, uh, the mic was apparently flipped over
to Dave Damashek's seat and Dave is using you know,
the the microphone the Petros would I don't it should
be right under your computer there, David. See, I'm trying
to figure out here that's why. So Petros's microphone is
(01:45):
not working. That's why they must have whipped this thing
over there. And because that microphone isn't working now and
what a great start to the show stumbling out of
the gate. Maybe do we just put do we just
move Dave over a couple of chairs to hear and
then instead of where Petros would usually sit. We're gonna
(02:06):
tell you a story, folks. The studio we're in, it's
probably built somewhere circa nineteen thirty nine, nineteen forty ish.
And the only time where do you want them to go?
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Ronni? You want them to go on that one? There?
Speaker 1 (02:19):
All? Right?
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Here we go go on this one here, Davey. There
only one time have we ever updated this studio, and
it was when Dan Patrick decided to do his show
from here for a week. And next thing you know,
my man, we're gonna update the studio and we got
(02:40):
all new chairs. You can speak, you can land on this, Dave.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
I know it's.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
A checkered history and there is some angst, and there
is some hidden anger that is about to come to
the surface. But it was the one time that we
had brand new chairs, we did a new wrap job.
All these things were upgraded because one guy was coming
out here for one week. Never mind the two people
(03:09):
that had been doing an afternoon show for fifteen years
or however long it had been at that point, did
have to come here every single day. One time we
spilled I can't remember what it was, something spilled on
the ground. It was like circused animal crackers or something
like this, and instead of we forgot to clean it up,
we left the studio whatever. We're in a hurry to
(03:30):
get out of this happy hour down at Morton's or
something like that. It was that time of our lives
when we would go hit the booze after the show
every day and we'd get downstairs and we forget to
clean up the animal crackers. Well, we come back upstairs
and we're like in the next day for the show,
and we're like oh.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Interesting.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
You would think that maybe a cleaning crew would come
through here and have vacuumed up the crackers, but they didn't.
We decided to see how long the crackers would stay
on the floor, and I'd say, I don't want to
embellish or exaggerate, but I think, Ronnie, you remember this
this uh this time.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
I remembered very well. About eight months, I think is
what we figured out. Uh yeah, yeah, about that, about
eight months before those crackers were finally cleaned up. Just
just running a test case as to how things operate
in our AM five seventy LA Sports studio. So no, folks,
we have a broken microphone in here. I'm sure engineer
Matt will take care of it. A big thank you
to Jonas Knox and George Reister, who were both in
(04:24):
here yesterday. George a very strong individual. I heard he
dented the gong. I'm assuming he broke the mic because
I would guess that Jonas would have been in my
chair as he is a host of his own show,
Two Pros and a Cup of Joe on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
Matt George Reister hit that gong so hard he vibrated
the entire fourth th.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Yeah, I heard. I got a lot of I got
a lot of tweets from the people, a lot of
direct a lot of whatever you call notifications or mentions
saying George Dent at the gong.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
And George is a big guy, former NFL player exactly,
So just a imagine that big guy coming in here
and pounding that gong.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Which all you got a little excited, didn't he a
little bit?
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Hey?
Speaker 2 (05:06):
A couple of things, if I may. First of all, well,
Tim Kats's attempt to sabotage my appearance by giving me
no microphone has failed. So congratulations. I hope it was
worth it. One two two, Happy believed birthday to man
money Smith. It was his birthday yesterday, everybody. Thank you, Dave.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
I do not share that publicly regularly, if at all,
but I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Oh, I believe me. I will keep your ungodly age
under wraps. I'm not going to share that quite all right.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
It's just awkward for me when people it's I'm one
of those guys. Happy birthday.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
I appreciate it, but I do appreciate it. I appreciate Jonas,
and I appreciate George, and I also appreciate the big Boss,
Brian long Belong for giving me the day off. I
normally am not the type of person I regularly work
on my birthday. I don't think I've ever taken the
day off for my birthday. But my oldest daughter, who
lives in New York City, decided to fly in to
celebrate because she's got the day off of work for
(06:01):
Labor Day and so she can work remote kind of things.
So it's like, you know what, I'm gonna take the
day and.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Boy to those girls, boy to those girls love their
old man. That is clear in every post you make
on social media. So you're winning it life there no doubt.
But guess what. First of all, you you don't take
the day off on your birthday. That's the same rule
that applies for me on Labor Day. What kind of
person takes the takes the bait of the man? Don't
(06:26):
you see? What are you? Ana cock? You're gonna go
into work. You're gonna go into work. I mean, you're
you're You're not You're gonna take the deal the man.
The man is it's just trying to distract you from
from from the disgusting reality that his summer is over.
It's time for the kids to go back to school.
And that's who gets it the worst. They they get
the brief, the oasis of time away from school, but
(06:49):
then labor Day comes around. At least it used to be.
Now it's even worse. Now you don't even get to
wait until labor day. The man makes you go back
to school before labor Day. Then he gives you a
day off, and we're all supposed to swoon for what
a great guy he is. Interesting. True, I'm not going
to stand for that interesting, Dave, because you know what
I think.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
I think my my grievance has been filed. Ronnie, being
the star engineer that he is, has has fixed the situation.
Dave's good, So Ronnie, if we can, let's let's start
the show. Oh, let's let's start the show. Grievance filed,
complaints levied. Here we go till peace. We fine tell
you what I'll do. All the things that I own,
(07:27):
I will share with you. And if I feel tomorrow
like I feel today, we'll take what we want and
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(08:10):
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To your point, Dave, about Labor Day and are you
(08:54):
going to fall into the trap that the man is
set for you by giving you a single day off?
I believe this to be true. I'm not going to
pretend to be an authority. The details are a little foggy,
but I do believe labored They stemmed from a workers
union in New York who said, hey, everybody, all of
this skilled labor here. We don't like the direction this
(09:16):
thing's going. We're taking the day off all of us.
Let's see if your city works when none of us do.
And they took this this day in September off.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
That's what the man. It was the workers who did it.
Now the effect there's it's it's a holiday. But when
the man, when the man says work days, they said
this to the man, we're going to take this day off, okay,
whether you like it or not. And as a concession,
the man says, you know what, You're absolutely right. You
(09:49):
see here, you're absolutely right there, young man you have
been working on and you have him that day off,
so I do encourage you to take it, and we
will give you a paid day off.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
And they were like, oh, oh you will, will you exactly?
Speaker 2 (10:01):
A You're right, I guess here we are. Then with
our day off, should ask for a month off? They
hit the man conceded too quick. They knew that they
had failed work.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Yes, exactly. The proletariat accepted too quickly. The bourgeoisie offers,
what you're saying, may the bourgeois So are you working
on Monday?
Speaker 2 (10:19):
I'm working? What are you doing on Monday? I'm going
to be doing whatever it takes for me to make
the next episode of Football America with an explation point
crack it down wherever you find your favorite podcast and
or on YouTube it's it's grants oft. Are you doing it?
I'm doing it? Uh. Next week one episode and then
once we get into the season proper NFL twice a
(10:42):
week Mondays and Fridays over the Moon. We'll mix in
some other stuff around that. But that's really the story
that we should be talking about. And I'm sorry I
got sidetracked by Labor Day, because the greatest gift and side, Well,
I know, it's it's weird, it's very odd. That's why
my head, that's how excited I am for football. And
(11:02):
that is the greatest gift, and it gives us many gifts,
is it provides us a distraction right out of the
gate when you have to go back to school and
all feels lost, at least there's football to look forward
to after the first day of school on Monday night,
and now you know the football schedule, and this college
football one gets to it a little bit more quickly
(11:23):
than pro football does. Either way, Ronnie Fossio, shouldn't we
mark this day? I know this is a hip show
and you play you know, cool indie bands and you know, dancehall,
reggae and all that, But shouldn't we just be nerds?
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Your side?
Speaker 2 (11:37):
My side? It's all bully, it is. It's just tough
enough to be yourself. Patrick Dempsey. I mean, you know what,
we were just having a good time, but all of
a sudden you felt yourself tearing up a little bit
when he was talking to all of us. Then certainly
cool snirds your side, my side, Fossio, shouldn't we be
(11:58):
going all NFL films? Donna donna. Really, my football season's long, man,
and you gotta remember about how about this, damashek how
about how about some college themes, some college fights.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
I like it, Ronnie good call, nice little drum line,
little college fight song. Matt absolutely love it.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Ronnie convicts on Sunday night before that.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
And it's also important to remember, Uh, you know, Petros
had to take a red eye to Detroit so he
could make his production meetings, uh, and still do the
radio show. He's calling Michigan State here in about an
hour or two. He will then take a five am
flight out of Detroit to get back here so he
can call I believe it's Fresno State, the Georgia State.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
I'll be climbing on a bird Tuesday for a twelve
hour flight to Brazil to get the football season started,
whether or not I'm going to be on lockdown or
able to leave my hotel once I traveled twelve hours
via airplane. The football season can be a lonely hur
if you will, from time to time. So in these
(13:12):
parts it's while we love football, there are those occasions
where it's like, oh.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
It's a twelve hour flight from La to Salpolo. Sou Polo.
Why there instead of Rio, it's.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Where they did it last year. I guess they like
the stadium. I think people, at least and I fell
into this category, don't realize. South Polo is one of
the largest cities in the world. Twenty three million people
live in South Paolo, bigger than Rio. Yeah, so it's
I think it's like, well, it's the most people, and
they got this beautiful new stadium, so we'll just go there.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
What time change is there? Not bad? Four hours? I
wouldn't even have guessed that much.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Yeah, it's weird. I don't think people realized, like Kates
didn't realize. I don't think Kates even knew it was
on the Atlantic. I think he I didn't. Yeah, I
don't think he realize that Brazil was on that side.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
But Dave sounds just as confused as me, Like, twelve
hour flight really, yeah, it seems long. Oh no, look
at it on a map.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Yeah, it's way down there, and it's I'm surprised that
it's only four hours because if you just go up
the longitude to New York, but of course on a
flat map, you lose the effect of the curvature of
the Earth. And so maybe it's not as far out
as it looks on a map. You would think it
was at least maybe three or four hours past New York,
but it is not. So that's the one benefit is
we're kicking off at nine pm local time in Brazil,
(14:30):
so it's a five pm kick in LA. So I'll
have a legit nice, you know, the twelve hours. I
don't know what time we're taking out, but I get
the sense I watch a movie, play some cards with
the folks in the back of the plane, and then
pass out for eight hours. Wake up it's tomorrow, have
your normal day, get on your normal sleep schedule, play
the game at nine. It kicks off at five here.
(14:51):
That means we're taking off at probably ten pm LA time.
Get back here at you know, ten the next morning.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Well, it's become part of the ritual of playing in
London is it's a whole week long thing, and there
are activities every day. It feels like, at least if
you're state side and you're wanted to, Oh, today the
players the Saints all went out to this brew house
or what exactly. It doesn't sound like that's at all.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Basically, I think the well we're Yeah, we get in Wednesday,
you know, I believe we'll we'll wheels down at the
Salpolo International Airport at round ten am on Wednesday. Our
game is Friday at nine pm, so you'll have, you know, Wednesday.
That probably gets some rest. After that, I plan to
sneak out and figure out how to make my way
around town and who knows where. I'm contemplating at two
(15:38):
and a half hour drive down to the beach where
there's some sweet surf and some folks, but there's some
stuff downtown. I believe it's believe it or not equidistant.
The beach is like, I don't know, way, like one
hundred kilometers. Town is like ten kilometers, but traffic is
so suffocating that it'll take two hours to get to
either one.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
People describe the most fun places this millennium. People say
Tokyo and Hong Kong is great, and Spain is a
is a.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
Go to forever hate Americans now, man, too many Americans
are flooding Spain these days. I guess they're really fed
up with us.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
I imagine there's more reason than just that, perhap late
and I wonder what it's going to be like when
you try to re enter the US, that'll be more
difficult than getting into Brazil. At this point, let's cut
to the chase. Last time I was in here, I
asked you, and now I ask you again. Is the
voice of the Chargers expectations. And what I appreciate about
you is that you don't jive. You'll shoot pretty straight
(16:34):
about this, and so I think this does come with
some legit weight to it. What you have to say,
what do I expect men of my homes? And well, no,
on Friday, right one week from today, about seven days,
one hour and forty minutes from now, we're going to
find out. I mean, they get to start against the Chiefs,
(16:54):
you know, and it's a team that's I think they
both similarly have some issues, you know. Nosh she Rice
he got that seven that the six game suspension. Some
people thought he was gonna be able to play the
first four before the hearing, but they settled that quickly,
and we saw, you know, the hits that that passing
attack took last year, trying to find a number one receiver.
I don't think xavierre worthy as that the Chargers losing
(17:16):
Rashawn Slater trying to figure out this offensive line and
what they had hoped to be was the bully of
the AFC West with the later rusher that that puts
a ceiling on how far they can go. I don't
think so.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
I think you lose Justin Herbert, you lose Derwin James
maybe on the defensive side of the ball, and that
can do some serious damage.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Based on what we know Jim Harby is going to
want to do.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
I mean, it's definitely a hit. Is it. Is it
a two or three win hit? I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Could it be a one win hit?
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Yeah? Maybe?
Speaker 2 (17:45):
I mean as you could almost you could say this
about almost any of the NFL divisions this close to kickoff,
but that that AFC West is real hard to figure out. Obviously,
the Chiefs are in it, and so it's easy to
slot them in the top spot so long as Reid
Mahomes are there. But I will, once again, as I
do almost perennially, I am picking the LA Chargers to
(18:07):
win that pollusion.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
It's I don't think it's as hard to do as
some people make it out to be just because of Harbaugh.
I think everybody just looks and they're like, yeah, this
guy wins and he took a five win team with
no money that was thirty million bucks over the cap,
and got rid of Mike Williams and got rid of
Keenan Allen and had to sign all these one year
veteran minimum to just barely over veter veteran minimum. Christian Fulton,
(18:32):
poona Ford type of players. You know, recognize the talent
day On Henley. This guy needs to be out there more.
Let's get him, you know. So I think there is
something to that having a I mean a competent coach. Look,
what do you need in the NFL, right, It's you
need a quarterback and you need a coach. And that's
pretty much, you know, that's that's Andy Reid, and that's
Patrick Mahomes, and that's Josh Allen, and that's Sean McDermott,
(18:54):
and that's Nick Sirianni and his staff with Vic Fangio
and Jalen Hurts the ultimate leader at the like, you know,
I think they have that. You got Arbond, you got Herbert,
so you feel pretty good about it.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
And I also think that what's in your neighborhood is
one of the defining factors of how far you go
and where you're slotted come playoff time and all of that.
I think three teams. I think the Broncos, Chargers, and
Chiefs all get into the postseason. And the Raiders are
not a bum team at this point with Gino Smith
and Pete Carroll and all of that. What's bad for
(19:26):
the Chiefs is I feel like the other three teams,
there are two ways you go. You either try to
keep up with the Jones is the front runner of
your division and draft to sort of keep up with
that team, or you go against that type. And it
feels to me like all three teams are now set
to sort of go against what the Chiefs want to do.
They just want to beat the hell out of you.
They want to grind you up, slow the game down,
(19:48):
all that kind of stuff that we've heard for five
years now.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
Yeah, I think the one and I know you know
the in Look, there are considerable Raider fans in town
and they get very angry when I start talking, even
if they're still listening at this point. But the one
issue for them is I don't know what the hell
they got going on in that secondary or even really
in that linebacker corps. Like that's just it to me,
it's it's a multi year thing. And you know, that's
what a lot of people said about the Chargers last year,
and they won eleven games, so it's possible. Pie's a
(20:12):
hell of a coach. Chip Kelly's an incredible offensive mind,
so they could pull it off. But I just kind
of looked defensively and I'm like, all right, you're a
You're in a division with Sean Payton, you know, and
who knows what Bonnix is going to be in year two,
But it's still Sean payn one of the great play callers,
just ask him.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
In the league.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
And Andy Reid and Patrick Mahomes and Jim Harbaugh and
Justin Herbert. It just seems like that's that's not a
great recipe.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
To have it, right, But Kyle, But the counter to
that is, to me, Kyle Shanahan got he wants Rock
Purty and he wont CMC. But he also got to
a super Bowl with Jimmy g AS's quarterback. I mean
that that proves the bonafides of him as an offensive whiz.
Pete Carroll is a defensive wiz and specifically a secondary whiz, right,
(20:57):
so shouldn't the logic stand he'll be able to tune
up a bunch of mediocrity back there.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
Their counterpoint, Dave Danischeck, perhaps because it is definitely mediocrity
on papie.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Here's another LA Pro football question for you. Sean McVeigh
gets to choose blind, it won't he won't hurt the
feelings of the of the quarterback that he currently has.
He can have for one year. You ask him this
back in March. You can have you can have your guy.
You can have Matthew Stafford, you can have Justin Herbert too.
Which guy do you want? Deep down? And he asked
(21:29):
the same question to Jim Harbaugh. Do they both say Stafford?
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (21:33):
I would say they both say Herbert? You do yeah,
h yeah, I mean one year. I'm not talking about well,
I think a you've got next shoulder back. You've got
all those issues with Matthew Stafford. He's and, you know,
hell of a competitor, incredible, you know, just full on gamer.
But I think what was Matthew Stafford before he got
(21:54):
with Sean McVay. He was an incredibly talented, overrated guy
with a big arm. When has he ever taken the
Lions into the playoffs? Look, you just said and they'll
take the playoffs. Is that you're kind of describing justin Hurber,
That's what I mean.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
And then look what happens to Matthew Stafford when he
gets with Sean McVay, and it's like, oh, yeah, so
that was the problem. That's what was going on in
Detroit all those years. Is this guy is in fact
that great of a quarterback and a total gamer, and
you put him into a playoff situation and with confident
play calling and players around him, and he's gonna shine.
(22:30):
And so I think that's certainly if you were able
to do that with a do that's twenty seven. I
think Herbert is now twenty seven, just not even entering,
almost entering his prime now with that sort of athleticism,
you know, that build, that stature, that arm, it's every
bit as good as Stafford's, if not better, And you know,
(22:50):
there's yeah, I don't think it's close.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Really, I don't think it's close. The back stuff is
one thing. I mean, that is a murky thing with
our focus, our obsession with profile football and Stafford specifically,
and he might leave the RAM. They were gonna let
him go like he was the radically they were, but
then it felt like it was gone. But that felt
like a negotiation. But I think in hindsight he was gone.
(23:13):
I think he was gone. I think he was gone.
And so then what brought him back.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
Some little bit of give and take, a little bit
of Somebody in the Stafford camp was like, we're not leaving,
and so instead of taking the fifty something million bucks,
he was like, all right, I guess I'll take the
forty five million bucks.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
I like, what if in where pro football is concerned,
and if el right, the famous Dave damashek IF franchise,
if Matthew Stafford, because if he left Rams for Vegas,
for Vegas or New York, well, Pittsburgh wanted him too.
I don't know if that would have worked out. I
think it was the Giants or more likely the Raiders.
(23:55):
I'm not naming names in Matthew Stafford's family besides Matthew himself,
but you're saying, let's just say, theoretically a family member
close to him who does commercials with him. Very weird
commercial by the way, with Matthew Stafford and Kelly Stafford
and they're it's the Mattress commercial. Yes, sleep number, but
they don't sleep with sheets, so they both sleep on
(24:18):
a bear mattress, and then whoever came up with the
idea for the commercial or the director, I guess, would
get the shot. It's like an overhead of them laying
on the bear mattress and they're both asleep, and I
find it way too intimate for my eyes. I don't
want to see. I don't want to see what you
look like when you sleep, you know, with no covers,
especially with a mattress, because yeah, it makes me feel uncomfortable.
(24:41):
For them, Yeah, it's like you went into the mattress
store passed out, which you know is a deal in uh.
I believe. I believe it's China. I believe it's China.
At the ikeas they want you to try out the
mattresses and if you fall asleep, they will let you
stay asleep and only make you what if the store closes,
(25:02):
because they believe that that will encourage a sale, like
this was so comfortable you fell asleep, and now you're
gonna buy the mattress. When you're trying to sell a
house or an apartment, they tell you, like, take down
all the pictures. Nobody wants it to feel too personal.
What is the ikea customer walking out. Oh that bed
looks good. Oh wait, there's a guy on it. Never mind,
(25:24):
that's what I believe. I've read that somewhere.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
It sounds ridiculous now that I've said it out loud,
but I believe that to be true. We will get
some Dodgers, as we did a lot of NFL there.
Dave railed against Labor Day. You know you can. It's
a once it's a once a week show. You could
just do it on Tuesday and take Monday off. I mean,
you know you could do it.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
The matter of principle, man has to stand for something,
and your something is Smith. Keep your stinking labor Day.
I'm not celebrating the man. I'm working. I'm gonna work
work day work. But aren't you working for the man?
That's enough, That's more than enough. I don't know him
anything else. Okay, when we return, keep your Valentine's Day.
(26:07):
Two something something dumb, one something Dave Roberts said to
us from our Live in the Locker Room session on
Wednesday rung true throughout the last few days, and we're
going to dig into that next.
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Speaker 3 (26:41):
Dave Danischeck in for petros P on the call out
at Michigan State today, that'll be on. Is that f
S one case it is fs SO. Who are they playing?
I forgot Western Michigan's right, Michigan State, Western Michigan. Let's
see what time that gets rolling here? Oh, look at
that four o'clock, so he'll be on the all there.
(27:01):
They're doing the big tribute to Lee Corso. Saw a
nice little moment there at the Southwest Gate as he
was flying up to Ohio Stadium and I guess that's
the Southwest. Yeah, he likes to fly Southwest, and it
was the terminal that he would always fly out to
whatever college game day he was going to, and all
the staff knew him. And you got the sense that,
by all accounts, Lee Corso a real stand up guy,
(27:23):
because everybody was there to salute him his last trip
and kind of tells you a lot about somebody when
that those are the people.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Absolutely and you know that's how they talk about money
Smith behind his back as well. That's true whether he
is too modest to concede that or not, but either way, Yeah,
Lee Corso, it was kind of people would make fun
of you, it was cheesy or whatever. To enjoy him
putting on the mascot head a decade ago. It feels
like everybody sort of had to come to Jesus. This
is a great custom, a great tradition that makes college
(27:53):
football a little more enjoyable than it already is.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
So yeah, it's not for the people watching at home.
It's for the kids that dragged their ass out of
bed hung over to the Bejesus bells.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
What a moment if you're a twenty year old kid
standing out.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
There staring there, what's he gonna put on? This is
gonna be crazy? Am I gonna boo? Am I gonna cheer?
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Yeah? I got to see a.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
Handful, you know, when I was calling college football, I
you know, the fine folks over at Compass Media, you know,
would put together a hell of a slate and I
got to call some really big games and found myself
on campus. I was on campus for College Game Day
when they did their Boise State College game Day when
they played Oregon State. I was not there for the
(28:35):
La Garrett Blunt sock face Byron out game, but I
was there for the contest against Oregon State, a game
they won. College game Day was there. I was on
campus at Alabama for a college game Day against Tennessee
that game that Lane Kiffen was coaching, that Terrence Cody
blocked the field goal that was the game. Remember that
I was there for that. But point being, I don't
(28:56):
think unless you've ever lived through it, you recognize what
college game day looks like to these college kids. Remember,
and I've we've discussed this on the show before, you know,
because I have college aged children, and I know Kates
can speak to this as well. Like I would say
to these parents, I'm like, your kids going to Alabama,
(29:18):
Like you don't you got you got UCLA and USC
and San Diego and Pepperdine and Loyola and cal Poly
and you know, maybe they want to go north and
go to cal or Go. I know the UC's are
kind of hard to get into, but you know you
still got the cal Poly's and all that and all
the private schools, the University of San Francisco, like, you
want to pay fifty g's a year for Alabama. Well,
(29:41):
you know, he just really wants to go to Alabama.
He really loved it. I'm like, hey, he wants to
go for the six Saturdays. That's the only reason he's going.
That's and that's why all those kids are there, and
that's why college game Day is freaking mayhem because kids
are choosing their colleges based on football.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
I know, it's extreme, and you're a Pepperdine and so
it's one of those things that you don't miss what
you never had, and so you didn't know what that
was like to be at a bay. I went to
Indiana University, Lee Corso's one time school where he coached
and now they're good with with coach Sig smoke them
if you got him last year. But they were a punchline,
(30:19):
which was kind of the perfect spot to be tailgating
on autumn Sunday Saturdays with those with those glorious colored
leaves out there in southern Indiana is just beautiful. And
you know, you didn't feel obliged to go into the
game because you knew if you did, you would go
and see the Wolverines or Buckeyes or otherwise whipping them.
But I would I do think that if I when
(30:42):
I consider those years of college, the best days on
the short list at least are those tailgate days when
you're going out to see a Big ten football game
and you're out there at nine am and you're there
till the sun starts to go down. It's it's the best.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
I all my nephews went by, all three of them,
one of them is still there, and the oldest in
the middle are lamenting what their youngest brother gets to
experience with successful, winning level.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
I U football.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
And my nephew Ethan said to me, you know, uncle Matt,
Charlie's really living the life. When Aidan and I were there,
you know what we were doing. What were you doing, Ethan? Well,
here's what we would do is we'd get out to
the tailgate about three hours before kick. We'd drink ourselves silly.
We'd go home, take a nap for three hours. Okay,
(31:39):
game would end, we'd sleep off the drunk, you know,
and just be kind of buzzed and hopefully not hungover.
Then we'd have to get a quick one in us
and then we'd make our way to the bars for
the post game drinking as that would commence for the
rest of Saturday night. He goes, yes, said no, literally,
I mean, he goes, I'm not exactly That's exactly how
(32:00):
we would play Saturday football is we would sleep during
the game, drink before, drink after. And now he's like,
he gets to go in and the stadium's packed, and
who knew it could be so glorious?
Speaker 2 (32:11):
I yeah, And I'm snobby enough about it that those towns,
those areas that are entirely consumed by the college football experience.
I feel like.
Speaker 3 (32:21):
Indiana's a good school, though, Like Indiana's got one of
the best business schools in the nation. Like it's a
good school. Nothing against Alabama, you know, but academically you're
talking about a school that's ranked like a hundred and sixtieth.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
It does seem like the nation. If you're a so
cow kid, like, yeah, I want to go live in
tuscal Loose, Alabama for the next four years.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
And when I graduate, I'm going to handy your resume
that said I got my marketing degree from Alabama.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
I just don't, well, it just means more interesting thing
with Petros going to and obviously the USC connection. I
was looking at the Trojan schedule and they have Sparty
coming up Michigan State and USC. You know your history,
your ancient history. What happened when the Spartans fought the Trojans.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
Oh, I thought you were gonna say the I thought
you were going to say the last time. Like I was, like, Okay,
did Blake esor show up at the at the coliseum?
What Michigan was it? Steve Garvey who was out there
was a Paulson who was out there playing.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
Brian Hoyer, Kirk Kirk cousins, two Kirks. How many schools
can claim high end athletes different sports with two Kirks?
Also fair right on the I mean it's in the
gotta be in the top ten. War state quarterback too.
I believe Tony Banks they right. Sorry you were saying
Kirk baby name a terrible one. I mean, real bad.
(33:47):
Kirk the baby. Can you imagine? I mean, what's this
little sweeties named Kirk? That's almost as bad as Glenn
Glenn the baby?
Speaker 3 (33:57):
Who would do that as a baby name? Yeah, I mean,
Kirk is another adult name. But see here's the difference.
There's a flip side of that. You know, I'm Matthew.
My older brother's Kevin.
Speaker 2 (34:09):
Not great. My younger brother Brandon, great baby either way around,
great baby name.
Speaker 3 (34:16):
Now that he's grown, has children of his own and
a bunch of friends, and it's just kind of weird day.
Speaker 2 (34:21):
Any favors, right, the grown up they didn't consider. They
just say, that's just.
Speaker 3 (34:24):
Like Brandon's this great name here, it's it's you know,
the early eighties burdenhand, right, Brandon's really catching heat here.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
I mean the worst of those is is Toby. You know,
you don't want to be that. Brandon's right up there,
and I mean, like Brandon to me, sounds like a
child's name, don't And then their names that you just
never want to be, even as a baby, as a
pubescent guy, or as a grown up like Seth, you
(34:53):
never want to be Seth. Seth. Seth and Chad were
the two that we and I felt bad.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
One of my best friends in college was Seth, and
I would he would still have to kind of.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
Oh, you know, it's another bad one. Grant grant. I
had a grant as well, Dave. I did go to Pepperdine,
you know, so I got the grant. I got the
set I got Chad, I've got that whole group of friends.
Did you even try parents? Grant the baby?
Speaker 5 (35:15):
It's a great Scottish name.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
Come on, I'd like to point out, by the way,
you know you, the quartet we have here. You got
a Matt, you gotta Dave.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
Dave is a terrible baby name.
Speaker 3 (35:25):
You got a Tim, and you got a ron You know,
if we're like just if we're just sitting at the
bar and it's like you feel pretty good, Like here's
four guys, they're gonna order a shot and a beer.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
You know, No, Tim, I don't know. Tim maybe leans
more towards being a cute baby name. I don't think
i'd want to be a grown up named Tim.
Speaker 1 (35:42):
Tim.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
Yeah. To me, Timothy is like a is like, hey,
a strong guy name. I feel like it. I feel
like Tim Tom confusing it with Tom. We're talking about Tim.
I'm good with Tim. Tim.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
To me, is you know Timmy? Yeah, when you're young,
it's Tim Davey. You know Maddie. Ronnie, well, it's still Ronnie.
But that's that's the that's the beauty of Ronald is
Ronnie is still totally fine as an older person. One
of the few where you can go with the ie
and it still seems right. It's like, yeah, me and Ronnie,
we're going to get a couple of beers, right.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
Would It would not be in my top twenty five
if you said you can have any may a traditional
male name. Ron would not make the list.
Speaker 3 (36:21):
Ron But where the hell is Dave? I didn't say
it was I just said, where is Dave? You don't
like Tim, you don't like Ron? How do you feel
about Matt? I feel like the first two letters of
the of the name.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
Is number one. Number one? Better be Bob. Worst name
or best name? Best a man's man's name? Better be Bob?
I think a great name. What's better than Bob? Luther?
That's the dumbest answer. Stupid?
Speaker 1 (36:51):
What?
Speaker 2 (36:51):
What?
Speaker 3 (36:51):
What?
Speaker 2 (36:52):
Excuse me?
Speaker 1 (36:52):
What?
Speaker 2 (36:53):
Luther? Luther? How many Luther's do you know? I know
about ten Bob's. I know a bunch of Rons. I
went down too many friends because you'd be such a
badass and scare everybody.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
Luther.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
That's right, Luther? Hell does Luther come from? Here's another
good one. We're talking Bob, We're talking Dick. You know
we're talking Harry. Can I tell you something? What Dick is?
Pretty strong, and it slept upon people. People act like, oh,
you would Dick. It's a it's a strong guy. I agree.
Imagine Dick damashek imagine if I were named Dick. I
(37:30):
don't think you'd have the courage to go by it.
You'd be Richie. You'll be my pal Richie who got
me into trouble. This guy Richie convinced me that we
could break into this freight train and no one would
ever know any better. And now I got a bunch
of pioneer receivers. I'm going to Juvie for two years.
That's what you would be.
Speaker 5 (37:52):
Hey, mom, I'm going to Luther's house for the night.
Speaker 1 (37:55):
Allow.
Speaker 4 (37:57):
I kind of feel though, that's a nice Midwest name.
That's where damn Shick comes from. Luther Man, that's a
nice Midwest name.
Speaker 3 (38:04):
I'm telling you. Did you know have you ever known
a Luther, any Luther in your life ever? Not a
famous person, not Luther Campbell or something. I'm talking about
just professionally, could go by Lou.
Speaker 2 (38:20):
That would be Lewis Well, so be it. That's Lou
Luthor amashak listen, I knew like five or six Jerome Luther,
Damn Ashack asked me to the prown, but my mom
won't let me go. He's a bad seed. He rides
a motorcycle. I went to high school with a white
guy named Jerome. Well Luther, think about the range of that. You.
(38:46):
If you're bald and black, Luther is a real Luther.
If you're a white guy, you're probably I don't know.
I've never met one. I'm trying to think of if
do I know any I don't know any Luther's period.
I don't know any black Luthers. I don't know any
white Luthers. The San Diego Chargers backup quarterback was Ed Luthor.
(39:10):
That doesn't count. Luther Vandross doesn't count. Well Ed Luthor
doesn't count since that was his surname. All right, I've
given you something to consist, Yes, you have for sixteen
you start your next A lot.
Speaker 3 (39:25):
To consider here. Over this sixteen minute, we were supposed
to talk about the Dodgers. Maybe we'll squeeze it into
the next segment.
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Speaker 3 (40:02):
Oh can you see it? Sheck, you're sitting in Winston Salem.
Here comes that demon deacon. He's a deacon, but the
deacon of your parish is a demon. And he's on
the motorcycle.
Speaker 2 (40:15):
Ah. And now he's on the field. And here come
the Wake Fi. Like the priest at the end of
The Exorcist, he gets possessed.
Speaker 3 (40:23):
Small Wake Forest, Tulsa TCU, the rare sort of small
Ford to seven thousand student football schools. Rarely do you
see it. You know your football schools tend to in
the Power was Power five, in the Power four. Rarely
(40:43):
do you see a you know, four to seven thousand
student school with a you know, respectable football.
Speaker 2 (40:51):
Chargers radio partner requires you to mention when the way
it comes up that Jeremiah and app State, Yeah, went
to the Wake and knocked them off. It was the best.
Speaker 3 (41:01):
It was the finest win in the history of Appalachian State.
Speaker 2 (41:04):
UH.
Speaker 3 (41:04):
The game known as the Jerah Messiah Game. When they
knocked off Wake until of course they beat Shoelace in
Michigan way back then.
Speaker 2 (41:16):
So where was I? Oh, fight songs?
Speaker 3 (41:19):
We were about to launch at Wake Forest, Tulsa TCU.
All teams that have had, you know, like challenged for
conference crowns, that have had ten eleven win seasons TCU
in the National Championship game, look up their student body.
It's crazy, it is. You know, when I think of
a powerhouse football school, what do we think of?
Speaker 2 (41:40):
Were?
Speaker 3 (41:40):
I think twenty five thousand kids? Is you know, forty
thousand kids out? Oh?
Speaker 2 (41:43):
Yeah? The minimum standard? Right? The minimum requirement?
Speaker 1 (41:46):
How big?
Speaker 2 (41:46):
Is Notre Dame?
Speaker 1 (41:48):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (41:48):
You know what's another smaller school? The you? Is that right?
Relatively speaking? It's not. It's not a massive state school.
It's a rich kids school and.
Speaker 3 (42:00):
Notre Dame thirteen thousand, okay, so not bad Miami. Let's
see Miami. You student population is eighteen thousand, all right,
so you know, I mean not forty thousand, but still
pretty big. So like here we go, here's here's Wake
(42:21):
fifty four hundred undergrad Wow, there's no idea.
Speaker 2 (42:25):
It was such a tiny places. And how about Ronnie
Fossia with the deep pool. Well, of all the fight songs.
That's what we talked about a half an hour ago,
is let's let's honor the start a college football season
with some of the best fight songs. Where did you
pull that one from of all of them? Well, you know,
let me tell you something. Check.
Speaker 4 (42:45):
I was looking at the college football schedule, and all
the fight songs that were hearing are from games that
are happening today.
Speaker 2 (42:53):
There you go it all. I like you. The most
underrated one is Armies the Black Knights.
Speaker 3 (43:07):
Yeah, no, Navy, the Anchors away. But I don't know
if I remember the d Damn you're doing such a
bang up job at it too. By the way, corrections
and retractions on me.
Speaker 2 (43:18):
And directions and retractions. Let it be known.
Speaker 3 (43:21):
I think a product of the six because Tulse's thirty
seven hundred kids Pulsa and they've got a legitimate football team.
Uh TCU, I would imagine has probably doubled their population
student enrollment since the Gary Patterson days becoming a They're
up to eleven thousand, KIT twelve thirty eight.
Speaker 2 (43:42):
Stude, you were just saying that fifteen minutes ago. The
appeal of college football and will it can sway a
young person's brain.
Speaker 5 (43:49):
You know what they call TCU now too many Californians University.
Speaker 2 (43:53):
That's right.
Speaker 5 (43:54):
They've they've really cut back on how many Californians are
letting in there because people in Texas can't get in,
and alumni can't get their kids anymore, even when they
live in Texas because all these California kids come in
out of state tuition.
Speaker 2 (44:04):
Yeah, here, here's a dippy question for you for somebody
who's lived here for a quarter century. It's a private
school locate, so everybody will be the same same tuition.
Is U c L a way bigger than USC?
Speaker 3 (44:16):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (44:17):
Kates, you're the you're the alumnus. What's U c L
A eighty thousand? I can't imagine eighty thousand people? Is
that true?
Speaker 3 (44:24):
It's definitely not. It's forty eight thousand, six six fifty
one people go to the football games. Aah, USC is
forty seven forty seven, So you're talking about the same size.
Speaker 2 (44:41):
Is there any chance in your esteemed opinions here on
this show that Nico I can CARRYVA, you can do it.
I Nko not ready yet. I'm not ready yet. And
I and I can't stand the dor Key middle aged
guys who do that thing like You've been working on
that one all week, haven't you. I guess that's why
(45:01):
you're the play by play guy. I guess that's why
you make the big money. Is there any chance that
Deshon Foster with Nico? I can? It sounds worse though,
Nico just I'm not going Nico I sounds I'm gonna say, Nico,
is that what you want? I'll do it. Yeah. It's
a pretty good name for a baby too, Nico, Is
(45:21):
that right? I mean it's Nicholas, It's Nick Nico. I
Can he turn around U c l A so quickly
that they will in fact have a better record than
the USC Trojans this year.
Speaker 3 (45:36):
Here is the problem with that proclamation. USC misses everybody
this year. I mean, first of all, they're not favored
against Utah. They're a six point dog. They've got Penn State,
They've got Ohio State, They've got washing Washington. Is that
the powers they were so like? They now they do
(45:58):
have Northwestern in Maryland and Nebraska, so but they like
USC does not have any of that. USC missus. Uh,
they've got Michigan.
Speaker 2 (46:11):
But I was just gonna say they catch Michigan in the.
Speaker 3 (46:13):
High rations at home, but they get uh, they get
at Illinois, Illinoi's top twenty team, Sparta's no good and
they got Oregon. So I guess they don't have Ohio State,
but they do have I mean Michigan. Oh, that's a
good question.
Speaker 2 (46:31):
Imagine that. When is the And here's another question that
I should know the answer to is somebody who loves
college football and has lived in Southern California for as
long as I have, When is the last time U
see LA by record was superior to USC anytime this millennium?
Two years ago? What when was it Cats?
Speaker 5 (46:49):
When they literally was right at the end of the
previous guy's era. Now who's now at Georgia Southern. Why
can't think of his name?
Speaker 2 (46:55):
Clay Helton?
Speaker 3 (46:56):
It was right, Yeah, it was like the last year
of Clayhilton. They remember they beat him, They beat the
snot up of them in the final game.
Speaker 2 (47:02):
I was gonna say, wow, it's remarkable. It hasn't happened
once in twenty five years, and it happened two years ago.
Speaker 3 (47:07):
Dumb Dave, Yeah, I feel like it was that last year.
Let's see, they were nine and four in two thousand
and two under Chip. So there you go, DTR Yeah,
y are they were? Oh no, that year USC was
eleven and three.
Speaker 2 (47:29):
And they fired Clay Hilton at eleven and three.
Speaker 3 (47:32):
Here we go. This was it. It was It was
the year before. It was twenty twenty one when USC
had the four and eighth season and usc LA was
eight and four under Ship.
Speaker 2 (47:42):
I hear the music playing, meaning we're bumping out of
our way across the top. All right, then I'm gonna
I'm gonna pipe, put a pen in it.
Speaker 3 (47:49):
Done, we'll take it to the next sooner or later,
we're gonna talk about the Dodgers. Maybe, can't wait next
Maybe
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