June 11, 2025 • 19 mins
Petros Papadakis of Fox Sports Radio joins Dave Softy Mahler to talk about the state of Los Angeles right now, the new world of paying players in college sports and rules with NIL and collectives, and the feelings about Oklahoma City as a sports town… and porn.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's time for our weekly conversation with college football analyst
Petros Papa Nikas.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Not that I'm a smart guy, I'm stupid.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
I don't know bout.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Now With Petros Peer's Dave Softy Muller, Let's.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Say if I remember how to do this, it's been
a few weeks. Baby, joining us right now on the
radio show here. He is the prince of big Skin
from southern California, what half of the world famous legendary
Petros and Money show in La father of the Month,
husband of the Year, one damn fine Greek American and
(00:55):
a freaking celebrity in his native country. Trust me, I know,
Oh they know his name and sing his praises everywhere.
It's our friend, Petros Papadocus, brought to you by.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Sweet James, the dense beard of justice. Sweet James knows
how to come through for you. If you've ever been
in a car accident, motorcycle accident, rock thrown at your car,
maybe somebody blew up your whimmole. Oh wow yeah, either way,
sweet James could come through. Give him a call with
his dense beard at eight hundred nine million. That's eight
hundred and nine million.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Oh, it's great to hear your voice. I feel like
it's been forever, you know. Okay, yeah, no doing good.
I just who know, you could bring home laryngitis from
Santorini and I brought it home with him.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Man, I don't told you not to go there. I
told you it was crowded.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
You know what it actually was in crowded.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
It was a hell of a time to year to
be there, and a couple of the cruise ships hanging around.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
You know. I guess they told you what time of
year to go to Greece.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
You did. You said to go in May, right, but
you said also.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
It would be incredibly packed in Santorini and it was not.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Well that's cool, masic. Well they had been earthquakes all year,
that is true. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
I swam with the Caldera. That was fun though, Man,
that's cool. Yeah, So you swam in a volcano. Yeah,
I came on to.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
What I'm feeling very h I gotta pull it in.
We're live.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Why, Yeah, you gonna relax.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
We're lying. Almost said something about your your genitals.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Well you know what I was gonna ask you about that,
because everywhere I go, I'm walking around Athens, I'm walking
around Ea and Fiara and some of the shops that
I'm seeing these wooden peckers for sale with bottle openers
on the end of them.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
Yeah, the hell's that all about? What's wrong with you people?
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Ancient porn? The Creeks are. The Creeks are quite preoccupied
with sex. What kind of.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Did data know that when she got together with you?
Speaker 2 (02:42):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Well, I didn't buy any if you're just wondering, they
didn't get.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Me a stack of cards with some ancient phallicies on it.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
No, I didn't do that. I didn't do that.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
But there's only so many places in the world that
you can walk by and see thirty five hundred years
old forum and then across the street by a wooden
wiener with a bottle opener on the end of it.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
So God bless you man. Well, you know, in Greece,
we are older than Rome and older than most societies,
an ancient society you visited, and they've got it whittled
down to what really matters.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Yeah, apparently, I mean it really is. It's the fruit
of life. I mean, why not?
Speaker 2 (03:22):
What the hell? Hey, But that's why you see everybody
wearing those old big Johnson T shirts.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
You mentioned way Mo's on fire. I gotta ask you,
how are things going down there? You got the situation
under control?
Speaker 2 (03:34):
I mean no. But at the same time, like you know,
I mean, LA is huge, you know, I mean, LA
is a gigantic town, and the sprawl of Los Angeles
is intimidating. You know. One of my favorite things I
hate flying, but one of my favorite things it was
(03:55):
used to be flying with somebody, you know, on the
way home to but they are going to LA and
they've never been there before. And when the town starts,
they think the plane's going to land, and it's like, no, man,
It's a huge town. This town absorbs events like the
super Bowl, like the Olympics, like any World Cup, anything
(04:20):
you can think of. It absorbs those events like a punch,
like the super Bowl happens here and you don't even
know it. Sure, and you've been to the Super Bowl
all over the country, Softy, you know what it does
to most towns. I mean, it's played thirty minutes outside
Miami Beach, but you can't drive in Miami Biscayne Base
out beach. It's gridlocked everywhere in Miami and other towns
(04:44):
they just can't absorb it. So anyway, the point is
there are up. There's a place downtown which nobody I mean,
downtown is a disgrace, Downtown Los Angeles, and I'm sure
there's places in Seattle you feel this way about now,
And downtown was always really weird. But I used to
live down there and as a young man, you wouldn't
(05:07):
be scared to walk around late at night or go
get food or whatever. But now that's not the case.
It's not the case at all, and it hasn't been
the case for years. There's literally three buildings parallel to
the east of the Crypto dot Com Arena, which used
to be Staples Center, that have been taken over by
(05:29):
homeless people, like skyscrapers like the Carter in newjack City.
It's real, and it's been like that for years. I mean,
downtown is a cesspool. It is a mess and skid row.
When I lived down there was big and was filled
with drug addicts, and now it's like five times bigger
with five times as many drug addicts. So what's going
(05:53):
on downtown is real, but it doesn't affect you know,
there's a reason you hear from other people like nothing's up,
but we're all going about our lives. Yeah, that's true.
You know. In fact, driving on the one ten freeway yesterday,
it was like COVID level traffic. No one was out
because everybody thought that there was you know, their car
was going to get stopped by a protester or something
(06:15):
or a rioter. And that's the thing. There's both, you know,
running the streets. And I think they made more arrests
today than the LAPD I'm saying has made more arrest
today than the other three four days combined. So they'll
stem it out. But if that answers your question, you know,
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it is popping off in downtown LA. But there's nobody.
I don't know anybody that lives downtown anymore. I mean,
you know, but people's businesses are getting fed up. I
mean that's real. Little Tokyo is a real place where
you know, I spend a lot of time near downtown
in Chinatown. Forget it, Jake, it's Chinatown, and you know
there's a curfew, so everybody's closing early. So yeah, that
(06:59):
it affects a lot lot of people. But I mean
it's not it's not like people think that it's a
small town in the way that they live in a
small town, even if they live in a city like Seattle,
if they've never been to La La is.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Gigantic, Well, it's just amazing and obviously different scenarios entirely,
you know. But the fires you had obviously, you know
a few months back and talk that was real.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
I mean, you go anywhere in La and you couldn't
see straight right, you know, weeks and you were coughing
in the air was a certain way, and everybody knows
somebody that lost a home that was a much different.
This is a you know, this is a politically charged situation. Yeah,
but at the same time, you know, there's there's never
an excuse to blow stuff up, and that's what's been
(07:43):
happening for days and day.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Unless it's the fourth of July and it's nineteen eighty five, well.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
We do a lot of that. Well, well, we have
a lot. I mean, let's be honest. The fourth of
July and Dodgers win the series. Every single Latino in
this town doesn't have fireworks. They have mortars. I'm Syrian
and it is via freaking no.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Oh God.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Every street prides themselves on how much more risk they
can take with their digits. Everybody's trying to be Jason
Pierre Paul in this town. You should see so that
got blew his hand off? Yeah I did at the
Dodger parade or what did the Dodgers celebrates? Hey, I
would I would blow a handoff from a marin a
world series title, just so you know, I mean you
(08:22):
would not.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
I would consider it, at least for a second or two.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Petro says with us, So Jedfish is going to be
on with us at six pm to night, this radio
version of Ronnie Lott. What no, not not Jed Fish,
Jason Pierre or me right exactly?
Speaker 4 (08:41):
He only blew half a finger, not an entire hand.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
So Jed's gonna be on at six So we're gonna
talk about this how settlement thing and how it affects you,
dub and what Jed Fish's responsibility.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
I mean this thing.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
I don't know, man, it just feels like there's a
lawsuit here waiting to happen. Wilner talked about that yesterday.
You're a former player, you tell me, will this be
enough to play? Kate you when you've got some dorks
in some office sitting behind the computer with an algorithm
deciding how much you should make based on what endorsement
you sign with a certain company.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Yeah, you know they need to rein it in, but
the NC double A is probably not the entity that's
going to be able to do it. I mean, they just,
you know, they're like they're like the gambling Commission in
that song Atlantic City by Bruce Springsteen. They're barely hanging on,
I mean by the skin of their teeth. And I
(09:34):
don't see their super double secret Dean Wormer Probation committee
going around and being like, Hey, Saxby's is going to
pay your loss? You know, I don't see that working out.
I don't know, you know, like when it comes to
the courts and then this appeals court.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Isn't that chicken the fried Chicken place, Zaxby's, isn't that Yeah? Yeah,
they did the ball game down there in Texas yeah,
you know.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
It's like a pool and weed eater bowl, you know.
I mean remember the Beef O Brady Bowl. I used
to love how it said beef because I would say beef,
Oh Brady, beef, beef, Oh braid, beef, oh break. And
that's like a restaurant, you know in the South. That's
like a cracker barrel type of place or whatever. So
I mean, yeah, I don't. I have no faith in
(10:22):
anybody's ability to do anything or to rain anything in
at this point when it comes to college football. And
I made the point about the NCAA and the Springsteen
song this morning on the radio, and I'll make another
point regarding college football that the question was asked to
me of by Jonas Knox, who's a really good radio host,
(10:43):
was God, the off season in college football sucks like
it sucks. It's confusing, tires embarrassing, it's confusing, it's tiresome.
It makes you hate the sport. And I mean, I
know it's kind of a masterful thing that the NFL
has done and that the NBA has done, and that
(11:05):
even the the MLB with Otani in LA when he
signed and the parties that were thrown for all the
different signees every summer when LA's making big moves. I mean,
they've done a great job of keeping their names in
the media cycle without playing games. And it's not it's
(11:26):
not bad news or tiresome news or tedious news, toweringly
tedious stuff. And that's what we're seeing every off season
for like ever now in the NCAA, where the best
news is, hey, we got this verbal commit for twenty twenties.
Next ah, it's like okay, like you know, and it's
(11:47):
like how a freshman? How are freshman's But I mean,
you're usually if you had a really good freshman class
back in the day, let's say it you dub or wherever.
I mean, if you're really good, maybe six of those
guys can tribute right.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
Exactly, and most of them on special teams, by the way.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
And then half of those guys, you know, really play
and and and that's the selling point for USC football
going forward, is a verbal class that may or may
not arrive right in twenty twenty six, yep, you know.
And then all the other news is, you know, this
this teams suing this team. The SEC says we don't
(12:25):
need the nc double A. This committee, that committee, I mean,
and then all the nil stuff and the transfer portal,
which makes everybody sick because you can't get used to
anything or any team. I'm all for player empowerment, but
something's got to change. And I just don't know because
(12:45):
who's in charge? Nobody really the NC double A, Fox
and S No.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
They got a committee now run by this X major
league executive, this Brian Seelye.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Guy.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
Great, they're in charge. They're gonna keep an eye on you.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
What I'm saying, Yeah, but who's really in charge?
Speaker 4 (13:03):
Nobody?
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Yes, Fox, ESPN and the NC double A. The inmates
run the asylum, right, and Fox and ESPN hate each
other and they're fighting each other, and nobody takes the
NC DOUBLEA seriously. It's literally like a dysfunctional family. And
believe me, I know all about it, where the kids
don't get along and the parent is powerless and toothless,
(13:26):
in this case, the NC Double A. So I just
don't know where we're gonna go from here. I don't
know who. I mean. The good news is when the
season starts, they put together football teams and they play
and it's fun, right right. It's not like it used
to be, but it's always changing, and that's the good news.
The bad news is our off season sucks and it
(13:48):
makes everybody hate the sport. Yeah yeah, well it's just
you can't even buy the Lindy's and feel good about
what you open it up and look at, because everybody's
transferred by the time you see it.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
Well and totally.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
I mean that magazine was outdated to years ago because
it had come out in the middle of freaking April.
For God's sake, I love everybody gets banged up and
it's stupid. Now, you're right, the rosters like this looks
like a roster from five years ago. Now that magazine
came out thirty days ago. It's just tiresome. Like it
should not take work to be a sports fan, right
(14:17):
of any sport, you know, and it takes work right now.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Well, I mean, somebody's got it, you know. They need
to have a real a reel. They need to be
more like a pro league, and that is going to
that is going to be the most painful of transitions,
and maybe the sport won't survive the transition. There is
such a demand for it. It's a billion plus dollar sport,
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but it's it's hard to imagine who will be able
to take charge of it, since the TV companies, on
their influence, are really what's behind all the change, and
they're not going to be able to work together in
any kind of meaningful way. And then nobody pays attention
to the end double A you know, I mean the
n C double A is like a crazy guy screaming
(15:04):
on a corner at this point.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Well you know what, man, we're all rooting for the
Indiana Pacers in the NBA Finals tonight against because.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
We hate Okay.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
Did you know that, by the way about us?
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Oh? Yeah, but I told this to Dick, and Dick
was like, don't say it so softy, They're gonna get mad.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
What's that?
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Go ahead? It was like, you know, say what you
want about Oklaho, I mean the owner whatever that took
the Sonics, that guy socks And.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
Yeah, you mean Howard. I don't know Howard. He's the
guy that bread master.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Like in my life, I didn't care who the owner was,
you know, of anything other than bus who had hookers everywhere. Yeah.
But uh, I remember once saying, hey, let's go to
to uh to the Starbucks. I'm tired, I need to
pick me up. And you were like God tell you,
I'll never take this was like twelve years ago.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
Your damn right true that which is brewed.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
But I will say that it's not good. But anyway,
I did. I did say this to Dick, Say what
you will? You know? Uh? And I've never been to
an ok C game, but you can see from watching
it's a great atmosphere for sports. Don't you say that
to me? Don't you bring that up to me? All right, well,
don't you say that? And I mean, Dick was right.
(16:22):
I've been all over America in almost everybody's football stadium,
and one of the most impressive blue bloods as far
as how they how they present their program, how they
celebrate their program, the game day experience, the whole deal.
And I've been a couple of times, so I knew
it wasn't a fluke was Oklahoma. It's unbelievable. They do
(16:43):
an unbelievable job. They make you feel like a champion
when you visit Oklahoma. And Oklahoma State does a great
job too. And that's got a great atmosphere as well
in Stillwater. So it is a great sports atmosphere, There's
no doubt about it. I was robbed of their NBA team.
They but blah blah. I was there. Oklahoma is a
great sports place.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
I was in Norman, Oklahoma one time, and Adrian Peterson
ran all over us with with Oklahoma. I'm looking it
up right now. Went for a Bucks sixty five and
a couple of touchdowns. Bob Stoops kicked our ass out there,
and I just as I remember thinking, God, that's a
lot of pornography behind the counter at that gas station
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in Greece.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
No, and in Norman.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
I didn't you know what it's funny about that.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
I didn't see any of that when I was out there.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
None.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
There was one sex shop in Athens, just one outside
of the wooden peeps you have for sale with the
bottle openers. I didn't see a lot of pornography or
any of that unsavory thing.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
I got your head on a swivel for for smut.
I mean, you really are a horn doone? This is
a European point.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
Well, I was a little bit surprised for as horny
as you people.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
They're supposed to be.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
I didn't see any of that out there at all.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Women, look like, what are we supposed to do? Not
wellther or not well? Yeah? I guess.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Yeah, I remember, I did tell Gina got most of
these gals look like Petro's.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
I'm sorry that was a shot.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
I mean it's it's it's funny because it's a low blow,
all like Shakest and Grease have big noses and butthhole eyes.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
Is that Petro will No, that's the raitress from the bar.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
We were just for a Greek. I am not a
hairy man at all. Really, I don't have a lot
of hair on my body. I don't have any chest hair.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
How did that happen?
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Out of my mom's from Germany? So you know, at
least I have that.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
Going got you. Well, good for you. It's good to
have something going on your side. All right, Hey, we'll
talk of a week. I've missed you. Great to catch
up again, man.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Yeah, hey shut up, Petro.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
Papaaks, We're gotta break marenis suck again. Dan Wilson speaks again. Yay,
we're here next on ninety three three kg A r
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Speaker 2 (19:00):
You don't say surphye
It's time for our weekly conversation with college football analyst
Petros Papa Nikas.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Not that I'm a smart guy, I'm stupid.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
Brought to you by Sweet James Accident Attorneys forty one years.
If you're hurt in an accident, called Sweet James right
away at eight hundred, five hundred and fifty two hundred.
Sweet James will be sweet to you, but tough on
insurance companies that will bully you rue.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
I don't know bout.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Now With Petros Peer's Dave Softy Muller, Let's.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Say if I remember how to do this, it's been
a few weeks. Baby, joining us right now on the
radio show here. He is the prince of big Skin
from southern California, what half of the world famous legendary
Petros and Money show in La father of the Month,
husband of the Year, one damn fine Greek American and
(00:55):
a freaking celebrity in his native country. Trust me, I know,
Oh they know his name and sing his praises everywhere.
It's our friend, Petros Papadocus, brought to you by.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Sweet James, the dense beard of justice. Sweet James knows
how to come through for you. If you've ever been
in a car accident, motorcycle accident, rock thrown at your car,
maybe somebody blew up your whimmole. Oh wow yeah, either way,
sweet James could come through. Give him a call with
his dense beard at eight hundred nine million. That's eight
hundred and nine million.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Oh, it's great to hear your voice. I feel like
it's been forever, you know. Okay, yeah, no doing good.
I just who know, you could bring home laryngitis from
Santorini and I brought it home with him.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Man, I don't told you not to go there. I
told you it was crowded.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
You know what it actually was in crowded.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
It was a hell of a time to year to
be there, and a couple of the cruise ships hanging around.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
You know. I guess they told you what time of
year to go to Greece.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
You did. You said to go in May, right, but
you said also.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
It would be incredibly packed in Santorini and it was not.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Well that's cool, masic. Well they had been earthquakes all year,
that is true. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
I swam with the Caldera. That was fun though, Man,
that's cool. Yeah, So you swam in a volcano. Yeah,
I came on to.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
What I'm feeling very h I gotta pull it in.
We're live.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Why, Yeah, you gonna relax.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
We're lying. Almost said something about your your genitals.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Well you know what I was gonna ask you about that,
because everywhere I go, I'm walking around Athens, I'm walking
around Ea and Fiara and some of the shops that
I'm seeing these wooden peckers for sale with bottle openers
on the end of them.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
Yeah, the hell's that all about? What's wrong with you people?
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Ancient porn? The Creeks are. The Creeks are quite preoccupied
with sex. What kind of.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Did data know that when she got together with you?
Speaker 2 (02:42):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Well, I didn't buy any if you're just wondering, they
didn't get.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Me a stack of cards with some ancient phallicies on it.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
No, I didn't do that. I didn't do that.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
But there's only so many places in the world that
you can walk by and see thirty five hundred years
old forum and then across the street by a wooden
wiener with a bottle opener on the end of it.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
So God bless you man. Well, you know, in Greece,
we are older than Rome and older than most societies,
an ancient society you visited, and they've got it whittled
down to what really matters.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Yeah, apparently, I mean it really is. It's the fruit
of life. I mean, why not?
Speaker 2 (03:22):
What the hell? Hey, But that's why you see everybody
wearing those old big Johnson T shirts.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
You mentioned way Mo's on fire. I gotta ask you,
how are things going down there? You got the situation
under control?
Speaker 2 (03:34):
I mean no. But at the same time, like you know,
I mean, LA is huge, you know, I mean, LA
is a gigantic town, and the sprawl of Los Angeles
is intimidating. You know. One of my favorite things I
hate flying, but one of my favorite things it was
(03:55):
used to be flying with somebody, you know, on the
way home to but they are going to LA and
they've never been there before. And when the town starts,
they think the plane's going to land, and it's like, no, man,
It's a huge town. This town absorbs events like the
super Bowl, like the Olympics, like any World Cup, anything
(04:20):
you can think of. It absorbs those events like a punch,
like the super Bowl happens here and you don't even
know it. Sure, and you've been to the Super Bowl
all over the country, Softy, you know what it does
to most towns. I mean, it's played thirty minutes outside
Miami Beach, but you can't drive in Miami Biscayne Base
out beach. It's gridlocked everywhere in Miami and other towns
(04:44):
they just can't absorb it. So anyway, the point is
there are up. There's a place downtown which nobody I mean,
downtown is a disgrace, Downtown Los Angeles, and I'm sure
there's places in Seattle you feel this way about now,
And downtown was always really weird. But I used to
live down there and as a young man, you wouldn't
(05:07):
be scared to walk around late at night or go
get food or whatever. But now that's not the case.
It's not the case at all, and it hasn't been
the case for years. There's literally three buildings parallel to
the east of the Crypto dot Com Arena, which used
to be Staples Center, that have been taken over by
(05:29):
homeless people, like skyscrapers like the Carter in newjack City.
It's real, and it's been like that for years. I mean,
downtown is a cesspool. It is a mess and skid row.
When I lived down there was big and was filled
with drug addicts, and now it's like five times bigger
with five times as many drug addicts. So what's going
(05:53):
on downtown is real, but it doesn't affect you know,
there's a reason you hear from other people like nothing's up,
but we're all going about our lives. Yeah, that's true.
You know. In fact, driving on the one ten freeway yesterday,
it was like COVID level traffic. No one was out
because everybody thought that there was you know, their car
was going to get stopped by a protester or something
(06:15):
or a rioter. And that's the thing. There's both, you know,
running the streets. And I think they made more arrests
today than the LAPD I'm saying has made more arrest
today than the other three four days combined. So they'll
stem it out. But if that answers your question, you know,
(06:36):
it is popping off in downtown LA. But there's nobody.
I don't know anybody that lives downtown anymore. I mean,
you know, but people's businesses are getting fed up. I
mean that's real. Little Tokyo is a real place where
you know, I spend a lot of time near downtown
in Chinatown. Forget it, Jake, it's Chinatown, and you know
there's a curfew, so everybody's closing early. So yeah, that
(06:59):
it affects a lot lot of people. But I mean
it's not it's not like people think that it's a
small town in the way that they live in a
small town, even if they live in a city like Seattle,
if they've never been to La La is.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Gigantic, Well, it's just amazing and obviously different scenarios entirely,
you know. But the fires you had obviously, you know
a few months back and talk that was real.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
I mean, you go anywhere in La and you couldn't
see straight right, you know, weeks and you were coughing
in the air was a certain way, and everybody knows
somebody that lost a home that was a much different.
This is a you know, this is a politically charged situation. Yeah,
but at the same time, you know, there's there's never
an excuse to blow stuff up, and that's what's been
(07:43):
happening for days and day.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Unless it's the fourth of July and it's nineteen eighty five, well.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
We do a lot of that. Well, well, we have
a lot. I mean, let's be honest. The fourth of
July and Dodgers win the series. Every single Latino in
this town doesn't have fireworks. They have mortars. I'm Syrian
and it is via freaking no.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Oh God.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Every street prides themselves on how much more risk they
can take with their digits. Everybody's trying to be Jason
Pierre Paul in this town. You should see so that
got blew his hand off? Yeah I did at the
Dodger parade or what did the Dodgers celebrates? Hey, I
would I would blow a handoff from a marin a
world series title, just so you know, I mean you
(08:22):
would not.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
I would consider it, at least for a second or two.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Petro says with us, So Jedfish is going to be
on with us at six pm to night, this radio
version of Ronnie Lott. What no, not not Jed Fish,
Jason Pierre or me right exactly?
Speaker 4 (08:41):
He only blew half a finger, not an entire hand.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
So Jed's gonna be on at six So we're gonna
talk about this how settlement thing and how it affects you,
dub and what Jed Fish's responsibility.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
I mean this thing.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
I don't know, man, it just feels like there's a
lawsuit here waiting to happen. Wilner talked about that yesterday.
You're a former player, you tell me, will this be
enough to play? Kate you when you've got some dorks
in some office sitting behind the computer with an algorithm
deciding how much you should make based on what endorsement
you sign with a certain company.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Yeah, you know they need to rein it in, but
the NC double A is probably not the entity that's
going to be able to do it. I mean, they just,
you know, they're like they're like the gambling Commission in
that song Atlantic City by Bruce Springsteen. They're barely hanging on,
I mean by the skin of their teeth. And I
(09:34):
don't see their super double secret Dean Wormer Probation committee
going around and being like, Hey, Saxby's is going to
pay your loss? You know, I don't see that working out.
I don't know, you know, like when it comes to
the courts and then this appeals court.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Isn't that chicken the fried Chicken place, Zaxby's, isn't that Yeah? Yeah,
they did the ball game down there in Texas yeah,
you know.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
It's like a pool and weed eater bowl, you know.
I mean remember the Beef O Brady Bowl. I used
to love how it said beef because I would say beef,
Oh Brady, beef, beef, Oh braid, beef, oh break. And
that's like a restaurant, you know in the South. That's
like a cracker barrel type of place or whatever. So
I mean, yeah, I don't. I have no faith in
(10:22):
anybody's ability to do anything or to rain anything in
at this point when it comes to college football. And
I made the point about the NCAA and the Springsteen
song this morning on the radio, and I'll make another
point regarding college football that the question was asked to
me of by Jonas Knox, who's a really good radio host,
(10:43):
was God, the off season in college football sucks like
it sucks. It's confusing, tires embarrassing, it's confusing, it's tiresome.
It makes you hate the sport. And I mean, I
know it's kind of a masterful thing that the NFL
has done and that the NBA has done, and that
(11:05):
even the the MLB with Otani in LA when he
signed and the parties that were thrown for all the
different signees every summer when LA's making big moves. I mean,
they've done a great job of keeping their names in
the media cycle without playing games. And it's not it's
(11:26):
not bad news or tiresome news or tedious news, toweringly
tedious stuff. And that's what we're seeing every off season
for like ever now in the NCAA, where the best
news is, hey, we got this verbal commit for twenty twenties.
Next ah, it's like okay, like you know, and it's
(11:47):
like how a freshman? How are freshman's But I mean,
you're usually if you had a really good freshman class
back in the day, let's say it you dub or wherever.
I mean, if you're really good, maybe six of those
guys can tribute right.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
Exactly, and most of them on special teams, by the way.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
And then half of those guys, you know, really play
and and and that's the selling point for USC football
going forward, is a verbal class that may or may
not arrive right in twenty twenty six, yep, you know.
And then all the other news is, you know, this
this teams suing this team. The SEC says we don't
(12:25):
need the nc double A. This committee, that committee, I mean,
and then all the nil stuff and the transfer portal,
which makes everybody sick because you can't get used to
anything or any team. I'm all for player empowerment, but
something's got to change. And I just don't know because
(12:45):
who's in charge? Nobody really the NC double A, Fox
and S No.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
They got a committee now run by this X major
league executive, this Brian Seelye.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Guy.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
Great, they're in charge. They're gonna keep an eye on you.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
What I'm saying, Yeah, but who's really in charge?
Speaker 4 (13:03):
Nobody?
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Yes, Fox, ESPN and the NC double A. The inmates
run the asylum, right, and Fox and ESPN hate each
other and they're fighting each other, and nobody takes the
NC DOUBLEA seriously. It's literally like a dysfunctional family. And
believe me, I know all about it, where the kids
don't get along and the parent is powerless and toothless,
(13:26):
in this case, the NC Double A. So I just
don't know where we're gonna go from here. I don't
know who. I mean. The good news is when the
season starts, they put together football teams and they play
and it's fun, right right. It's not like it used
to be, but it's always changing, and that's the good news.
The bad news is our off season sucks and it
(13:48):
makes everybody hate the sport. Yeah yeah, well it's just
you can't even buy the Lindy's and feel good about
what you open it up and look at, because everybody's
transferred by the time you see it.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
Well and totally.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
I mean that magazine was outdated to years ago because
it had come out in the middle of freaking April.
For God's sake, I love everybody gets banged up and
it's stupid. Now, you're right, the rosters like this looks
like a roster from five years ago. Now that magazine
came out thirty days ago. It's just tiresome. Like it
should not take work to be a sports fan, right
(14:17):
of any sport, you know, and it takes work right now.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Well, I mean, somebody's got it, you know. They need
to have a real a reel. They need to be
more like a pro league, and that is going to
that is going to be the most painful of transitions,
and maybe the sport won't survive the transition. There is
such a demand for it. It's a billion plus dollar sport,
(14:43):
but it's it's hard to imagine who will be able
to take charge of it, since the TV companies, on
their influence, are really what's behind all the change, and
they're not going to be able to work together in
any kind of meaningful way. And then nobody pays attention
to the end double A you know, I mean the
n C double A is like a crazy guy screaming
(15:04):
on a corner at this point.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Well you know what, man, we're all rooting for the
Indiana Pacers in the NBA Finals tonight against because.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
We hate Okay.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
Did you know that, by the way about us?
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Oh? Yeah, but I told this to Dick, and Dick
was like, don't say it so softy, They're gonna get mad.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
What's that?
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Go ahead? It was like, you know, say what you
want about Oklaho, I mean the owner whatever that took
the Sonics, that guy socks And.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
Yeah, you mean Howard. I don't know Howard. He's the
guy that bread master.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Like in my life, I didn't care who the owner was,
you know, of anything other than bus who had hookers everywhere. Yeah.
But uh, I remember once saying, hey, let's go to
to uh to the Starbucks. I'm tired, I need to
pick me up. And you were like God tell you,
I'll never take this was like twelve years ago.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
Your damn right true that which is brewed.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
But I will say that it's not good. But anyway,
I did. I did say this to Dick, Say what
you will? You know? Uh? And I've never been to
an ok C game, but you can see from watching
it's a great atmosphere for sports. Don't you say that
to me? Don't you bring that up to me? All right, well,
don't you say that? And I mean, Dick was right.
(16:22):
I've been all over America in almost everybody's football stadium,
and one of the most impressive blue bloods as far
as how they how they present their program, how they
celebrate their program, the game day experience, the whole deal.
And I've been a couple of times, so I knew
it wasn't a fluke was Oklahoma. It's unbelievable. They do
(16:43):
an unbelievable job. They make you feel like a champion
when you visit Oklahoma. And Oklahoma State does a great
job too. And that's got a great atmosphere as well
in Stillwater. So it is a great sports atmosphere, There's
no doubt about it. I was robbed of their NBA team.
They but blah blah. I was there. Oklahoma is a
great sports place.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
I was in Norman, Oklahoma one time, and Adrian Peterson
ran all over us with with Oklahoma. I'm looking it
up right now. Went for a Bucks sixty five and
a couple of touchdowns. Bob Stoops kicked our ass out there,
and I just as I remember thinking, God, that's a
lot of pornography behind the counter at that gas station
(17:26):
in Greece.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
No, and in Norman.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
I didn't you know what it's funny about that.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
I didn't see any of that when I was out there.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
None.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
There was one sex shop in Athens, just one outside
of the wooden peeps you have for sale with the
bottle openers. I didn't see a lot of pornography or
any of that unsavory thing.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
I got your head on a swivel for for smut.
I mean, you really are a horn doone? This is
a European point.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
Well, I was a little bit surprised for as horny
as you people.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
They're supposed to be.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
I didn't see any of that out there at all.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Women, look like, what are we supposed to do? Not
wellther or not well? Yeah? I guess.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Yeah, I remember, I did tell Gina got most of
these gals look like Petro's.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
I'm sorry that was a shot.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
I mean it's it's it's funny because it's a low blow,
all like Shakest and Grease have big noses and butthhole eyes.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
Is that Petro will No, that's the raitress from the bar.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
We were just for a Greek. I am not a
hairy man at all. Really, I don't have a lot
of hair on my body. I don't have any chest hair.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
How did that happen?
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Out of my mom's from Germany? So you know, at
least I have that.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
Going got you. Well, good for you. It's good to
have something going on your side. All right, Hey, we'll
talk of a week. I've missed you. Great to catch
up again, man.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Yeah, hey shut up, Petro.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
Papaaks, We're gotta break marenis suck again. Dan Wilson speaks again. Yay,
we're here next on ninety three three kg A r
f M.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
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