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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
And maybe you have figured it out by now that
Sunday is the day of the Super Bowl, and there's
no one else that I would rather talk to about
the big Game than Shannon Farren obviously of Gary and
Shannon obviously LA Chargers sideline reporter. Obviously, I'll try to
(00:28):
be nice forty nine Ers fan, and she's my guest
right now.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
Good evening, Shannon.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
You had to play the Super Bowl Shuffle, And now
I can't unsee Mike Single, Kerry and Jim mcmahonnon those
all this, and I can't unhear the nineteen eighty six
hit RAMT from your Los Angeles Rams. Yes, I can't
unhear any of that disaster. That was a moment in
pop culture that we all want to forget about.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
Why is it that's a great place to start.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Why is it that football has taken this space in
popular culture these days?
Speaker 3 (01:08):
I just got to believe that we're going backwards. We
love the Gladiator, we love the arena, we love the
stories of the guys who fought their way into the
league and all of that. We love that as a people,
you know, we're already back to hieroglyphics, MOE when it
(01:28):
comes to how we communicate with each other. We just
send pictures, barely even words anymore. We are at base,
just stupid humans who love this kind of thing. And
I think that that's where it's at. And the advertising,
the juggernaut that has been the NFL has been incredible,
what they've been able to do with the league. We
were making fun of it today or yesterday, I don't remember. No,
I wasn't at work yesterday. I was at the dentist.
(01:50):
So how do you have been a day about everyone
calling it the big Game? Because the NFL doesn't want
anyone to profit of saying the you know, supe Our Bowl, right,
And it's like what the NFL's hurting for money? They
don't want anyone else up to profit up to just
the name of the stupid game. You know, it's just
usually the most uninteresting game of the year, unless you're
looking at like a Jacksonville Week three game. But it's
(02:13):
just it's it's odd, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
They want us, though, to promote the sport and talk
about the game. The other three hundred and fifty eight
days of the year, but they get sensitive in the
days leading up to it. I have no problem saying it.
We're not promoting an event in connection to him. Did
you get that email that I got?
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Though I don't. I don't read my email, but go
on tell me.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
No, we got an email. Stand we're not supposed to
say the name of the game. It's like, well, how
would the hell we supposed to talk about it?
Speaker 4 (02:39):
You know, we're not.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
We're not trying to sell like, you know, cheese, it's
or something in connection to the game. But anyway, Jesus, oh,
I bet you do, because you're a forty nine Ers fan.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
Where did that come from? Anyhow? What what did you
become a forty nine Ers fan.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
My dad's family had tickets going back to Keysar to
the forties, so I mean I was born into it.
Theyancy and tickets going back as far as the forty
nine Ers went back in San Francisco, so I had
no choice in the matter.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
It's true.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Most often our politics and our sports team loyalties come
from our parents.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
In their pass down.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
I went to my first Rams game in seventy six,
I believe when the Rams shut out the then expansion Tea,
the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. So for me it's been almost
fifty years. Legitimately as a Rams fan, what happens if
Philadelphia wins? This is a fan question. What happens to
(03:34):
the city of Philadelphia if the Eagles win? And what happens,
if anything, if the Chiefs three p.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Well, the Eagles fans, they like to climb up the obelisks.
They like to show their passion, very passionate fan base.
Kansas City. They used to be a fan base that
I rooted for. When I first went to see the
Chiefs play the forty nine Ers in the Super Bowl
in Miami, I was happy for that fan base. They
(04:02):
had never won. They were a gracious bunch. And then
you know what happens to fan base is when they
start winning, right, they get unearned Yeah, they get obnoxious.
They get this unearned valor, this unearned confidence. You saw
it with the Patriots for twenty years. You saw it
with the forty nine Ers in the late eighties and
the nineties, you saw it with the Rams. You saw
it most recently with the Rams in twenty twenty when
(04:24):
they when they came back and all of that, and
you see it with every franchise it gets a little
bit of success, the fans act like they played it down,
you know what I mean, and so they get the
too big for their bridges. And that's kind of what's
happened in Kansas City. I mean, I go there once
a year with the Chargers. I see how the city
has changed, and you know, you can't walk ten feet
(04:44):
in that city without seeing a picture of Patrick Mahomes somewhere.
And you know, good on them, I listen. I don't
hate the Chiefs. I'm just sick of them. I don't
hate excellence. I never hated Tom Brady. I don't hat
Patrick Mahomes and the Travis Kelce connection and Andy Reid
and what they've been able to do. I don't hate that.
You're entertained, but I think everyone's just kind of bored
by it. Will the city burn or will they You know,
(05:07):
they'll be excited, but I think you'll see more upheaval
in Philly probably if they win.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
I would agree with that Patrick Mahomes question, let's get
a little bit nerdy with it. I would say that
he is ahead of Tom Brady in the goat conversation
at this point in his career, would you agree if
he wins on Sunday?
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Not yet. Patrick Mahomes has shown what he can do
with a diverse group of players. He has made those
adjustments to his own salary in order to keep weapons.
He is done without a wide receiver room. You could
argue at times he has created something out of nothing
(05:51):
time and time again. We've all seen it. Some of
us have paid ridiculous amounts of money to watch it
happen in the middle of the fourth quarter in this
su Bowl and turn the game around. There's no doubt
that he is a difference maker. Talk about a league MVP.
You know, you look at what Josh Allen named MVP
last night Associated Press was able to do with that
(06:12):
Buffalo team. It's not always the best player, it's what
that player brings to the team. How that player elevates
the team. And Patrick Mahomes no doubt elevates that team
or whatever team. But Tom Brady, he's got what seven Super.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Bowl yet seven And for people don't know, stry to interrupted,
but for people don't know. If Patrick Mahomes were to
win on Sunday would be his fourth and I think
he's like not even thirty yet.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Right, he's got but Tom Brady's got seven. He won
his last one with another team when he was forty two.
Is that correct?
Speaker 4 (06:44):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (06:45):
I feel like this is If I'm not exactly correct,
I'm in the arena. So I think the longevity that
you saw with Tom Brady, what he brought to that program,
when he brought it the way he brought it, and
the longevity and the continent. And I know it's not
just Brady, it's Belichick as well. I think I think
Mahomes is absolutely in the conversation. I just don't know
(07:07):
if he's able to take that throne at this point.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
No, I wouldn't give him the throne, but I think
he's he's in, he's at the palace. How about that
he's circling one other thing? Tell me, what if anything
will happen given the enormity of the event, given the
this is actually a news question, given that we had
(07:30):
a terrorist attack in New Orleans January first, and we'll
have the president there on Sunday. Is it just going
to be a lot of security of nothing, or do
we expect some sort of demonstration.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
I don't think so. Every time I've gone to the
Super Bowl, which has been three times now to watch
the forty nine ers lose three times. I do that
for you most. I love you. It is when I
say perimeter, it is like a perimeter I have never
seen before. The perimeters at the conventions. I've been to
the RNC, I've been to the DMC in different cities.
(08:05):
That perimeter is secure. It is Fort Knox. This makes
that look like a freaking tea party. The perimeter on
the super Bowl is like something you have not seen before.
You've got Donald Trump and Taylor Swift. I challenge you
to name one other more high profile person than those
two on this day, in this period of time in
this country.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
I can't.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
You've got them both that are going to be there,
so it's going to be Banana. I feel bad for
the people, the suckers like myself who pay crazy amounts
of money because you're going to be standing in line
for about eight hours trying to get into that event.
That you paid that kind of money, that is wildly
under underwhelming once you're there. Do I have time to
(08:47):
tell you my favorite super Bowl story?
Speaker 4 (08:49):
Sure? Absolutely?
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Rub it in that you've gone to the super Bowl
three times that I haven't at all go ahead, go.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Ahead, dude. I tell you that because I'm a fool
and I want you to relish my fullnessness. Okay, My
favorite super Bowl story is this. When I first met
my husband, we were on one of our first dates
and he's a baseball fan and I said, well, I'm
a football fan and whatever. He didn't really care take
it or leave it when it comes to football with him.
(09:14):
And he said, I think I've been to a super Bowl.
And I said, what what do you mean? You think
you've been to a super Bowl? Because yeah, you know,
I don't remember much. I was young. My dad took me.
I was at the coliseum. I think, I don't know.
He's like, I've got this vague memory of the Dolphins playing.
I'm like, you saw the perfect season too, saw the
(09:35):
perfect season, and you didn't even freaking know, Like who
saw the Dolphins perfect seventy two season? Didn't know that
they were there for.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
The culmination a football fan.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
That's right, right, Isn't that great? It's one of my
favorite things? Like that's what That just highlights how much
of a fool I am for the kind of money
and craziness I have spent to watch my team. But
that's what fans do. That's what we do. You know,
it's for that unearned valor.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
Before I let you go out to do this for you, Shattafaran, I.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Have one last thing to say. I have a prequestion
for the game, and it's going to be the stake.
It's going to be the Saquon Barkley game. I mean,
this is somebody to root for. You want someone to
root for. Root for Saquon Barkley. It's a great story.
He has alert out of the Giants to go to Philadelphia.
He didn't do much for the Giants. It killed the
owner to let him go. He goes over to the
rival Eagles and he freaking set the world on fire
(10:29):
this season. He's so much fun to watch. Arguably the
best running back in the league. Eric Dickerson there from
Rammitt will tell you, hey, I still hold the record,
and he does, and he will say that they played
fewer games back then, and they did. I make the
argument that nobody else does is Saquon Barkley has played
in an era where they're playing more games and they're
putting more wear and tear on their bodies. You're looking
(10:52):
at a running back who's pounded the Rock since twenty
eighteen when he was drafted by the Giants. Right, And
he's twenty seven now and he has a season like
he did this year, after playing that many games a
year after year after year, more than Eric Dickerson. I
don't know. I'm just saying he deserves some flowers for that.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
No, it's a historic season, no doubt by any measurement. Now,
whether he rightfully gets the record when you put together
regular season in playoffs, I'll let the stat nerds and
geeks argue that, but you cannot argue that this was
one sensational season. And it's not even over yet. Shannon Farrin,
I think we made it through a whole segment without
(11:28):
any insults to the other person's fandom.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
I mean, we're growing up, are we not?
Speaker 4 (11:33):
Well, you're getting older. I'm just getting more mature.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
You were alive to go to that Rams game in
seventy six, and.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
I was not, Well, how about this?
Speaker 2 (11:41):
My father was actually at that Coliseum super Bowl for
the Miami perfect season, Okay, and he didn't tell me
until I was like fifty years old, and it's.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
Like, how did you leave that out of all the
stories that you told me?
Speaker 3 (11:54):
That's so funny.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
I gotta go, you gotta go, slitter Bye.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI A M six forty
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
And maybe you have figured it out by now that
Sunday is the day of the Super Bowl, and there's
no one else that I would rather talk to about
the big Game than Shannon Farren obviously of Gary and
Shannon obviously LA Chargers sideline reporter. Obviously, I'll try to
(00:28):
be nice forty nine Ers fan, and she's my guest
right now.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
Good evening, Shannon.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
You had to play the Super Bowl Shuffle, And now
I can't unsee Mike Single, Kerry and Jim mcmahonnon those
all this, and I can't unhear the nineteen eighty six
hit RAMT from your Los Angeles Rams. Yes, I can't
unhear any of that disaster. That was a moment in
pop culture that we all want to forget about.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
Why is it that's a great place to start.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Why is it that football has taken this space in
popular culture these days?
Speaker 3 (01:08):
I just got to believe that we're going backwards. We
love the Gladiator, we love the arena, we love the
stories of the guys who fought their way into the
league and all of that. We love that as a people,
you know, we're already back to hieroglyphics, MOE when it
(01:28):
comes to how we communicate with each other. We just
send pictures, barely even words anymore. We are at base,
just stupid humans who love this kind of thing. And
I think that that's where it's at. And the advertising,
the juggernaut that has been the NFL has been incredible,
what they've been able to do with the league. We
were making fun of it today or yesterday, I don't remember. No,
I wasn't at work yesterday. I was at the dentist.
(01:50):
So how do you have been a day about everyone
calling it the big Game? Because the NFL doesn't want
anyone to profit of saying the you know, supe Our Bowl, right,
And it's like what the NFL's hurting for money? They
don't want anyone else up to profit up to just
the name of the stupid game. You know, it's just
usually the most uninteresting game of the year, unless you're
looking at like a Jacksonville Week three game. But it's
(02:13):
just it's it's odd, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
They want us, though, to promote the sport and talk
about the game. The other three hundred and fifty eight
days of the year, but they get sensitive in the
days leading up to it. I have no problem saying it.
We're not promoting an event in connection to him. Did
you get that email that I got?
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Though I don't. I don't read my email, but go
on tell me.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
No, we got an email. Stand we're not supposed to
say the name of the game. It's like, well, how
would the hell we supposed to talk about it?
Speaker 4 (02:39):
You know, we're not.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
We're not trying to sell like, you know, cheese, it's
or something in connection to the game. But anyway, Jesus, oh,
I bet you do, because you're a forty nine Ers fan.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
Where did that come from? Anyhow? What what did you
become a forty nine Ers fan.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
My dad's family had tickets going back to Keysar to
the forties, so I mean I was born into it.
Theyancy and tickets going back as far as the forty
nine Ers went back in San Francisco, so I had
no choice in the matter.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
It's true.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Most often our politics and our sports team loyalties come
from our parents.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
In their pass down.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
I went to my first Rams game in seventy six,
I believe when the Rams shut out the then expansion Tea,
the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. So for me it's been almost
fifty years. Legitimately as a Rams fan, what happens if
Philadelphia wins? This is a fan question. What happens to
(03:34):
the city of Philadelphia if the Eagles win? And what happens,
if anything, if the Chiefs three p.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Well, the Eagles fans, they like to climb up the obelisks.
They like to show their passion, very passionate fan base.
Kansas City. They used to be a fan base that
I rooted for. When I first went to see the
Chiefs play the forty nine Ers in the Super Bowl
in Miami, I was happy for that fan base. They
(04:02):
had never won. They were a gracious bunch. And then
you know what happens to fan base is when they
start winning, right, they get unearned Yeah, they get obnoxious.
They get this unearned valor, this unearned confidence. You saw
it with the Patriots for twenty years. You saw it
with the forty nine Ers in the late eighties and
the nineties, you saw it with the Rams. You saw
it most recently with the Rams in twenty twenty when
(04:24):
they when they came back and all of that, and
you see it with every franchise it gets a little
bit of success, the fans act like they played it down,
you know what I mean, and so they get the
too big for their bridges. And that's kind of what's
happened in Kansas City. I mean, I go there once
a year with the Chargers. I see how the city
has changed, and you know, you can't walk ten feet
(04:44):
in that city without seeing a picture of Patrick Mahomes somewhere.
And you know, good on them, I listen. I don't
hate the Chiefs. I'm just sick of them. I don't
hate excellence. I never hated Tom Brady. I don't hat
Patrick Mahomes and the Travis Kelce connection and Andy Reid
and what they've been able to do. I don't hate that.
You're entertained, but I think everyone's just kind of bored
by it. Will the city burn or will they You know,
(05:07):
they'll be excited, but I think you'll see more upheaval
in Philly probably if they win.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
I would agree with that Patrick Mahomes question, let's get
a little bit nerdy with it. I would say that
he is ahead of Tom Brady in the goat conversation
at this point in his career, would you agree if
he wins on Sunday?
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Not yet. Patrick Mahomes has shown what he can do
with a diverse group of players. He has made those
adjustments to his own salary in order to keep weapons.
He is done without a wide receiver room. You could
argue at times he has created something out of nothing
(05:51):
time and time again. We've all seen it. Some of
us have paid ridiculous amounts of money to watch it
happen in the middle of the fourth quarter in this
su Bowl and turn the game around. There's no doubt
that he is a difference maker. Talk about a league MVP.
You know, you look at what Josh Allen named MVP
last night Associated Press was able to do with that
(06:12):
Buffalo team. It's not always the best player, it's what
that player brings to the team. How that player elevates
the team. And Patrick Mahomes no doubt elevates that team
or whatever team. But Tom Brady, he's got what seven Super.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Bowl yet seven And for people don't know, stry to interrupted,
but for people don't know. If Patrick Mahomes were to
win on Sunday would be his fourth and I think
he's like not even thirty yet.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Right, he's got but Tom Brady's got seven. He won
his last one with another team when he was forty two.
Is that correct?
Speaker 4 (06:44):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (06:45):
I feel like this is If I'm not exactly correct,
I'm in the arena. So I think the longevity that
you saw with Tom Brady, what he brought to that program,
when he brought it the way he brought it, and
the longevity and the continent. And I know it's not
just Brady, it's Belichick as well. I think I think
Mahomes is absolutely in the conversation. I just don't know
(07:07):
if he's able to take that throne at this point.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
No, I wouldn't give him the throne, but I think
he's he's in, he's at the palace. How about that
he's circling one other thing? Tell me, what if anything
will happen given the enormity of the event, given the
this is actually a news question, given that we had
(07:30):
a terrorist attack in New Orleans January first, and we'll
have the president there on Sunday. Is it just going
to be a lot of security of nothing, or do
we expect some sort of demonstration.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
I don't think so. Every time I've gone to the
Super Bowl, which has been three times now to watch
the forty nine ers lose three times. I do that
for you most. I love you. It is when I
say perimeter, it is like a perimeter I have never
seen before. The perimeters at the conventions. I've been to
the RNC, I've been to the DMC in different cities.
(08:05):
That perimeter is secure. It is Fort Knox. This makes
that look like a freaking tea party. The perimeter on
the super Bowl is like something you have not seen before.
You've got Donald Trump and Taylor Swift. I challenge you
to name one other more high profile person than those
two on this day, in this period of time in
this country.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
I can't.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
You've got them both that are going to be there,
so it's going to be Banana. I feel bad for
the people, the suckers like myself who pay crazy amounts
of money because you're going to be standing in line
for about eight hours trying to get into that event.
That you paid that kind of money, that is wildly
under underwhelming once you're there. Do I have time to
(08:47):
tell you my favorite super Bowl story?
Speaker 4 (08:49):
Sure? Absolutely?
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Rub it in that you've gone to the super Bowl
three times that I haven't at all go ahead, go.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Ahead, dude. I tell you that because I'm a fool
and I want you to relish my fullnessness. Okay, My
favorite super Bowl story is this. When I first met
my husband, we were on one of our first dates
and he's a baseball fan and I said, well, I'm
a football fan and whatever. He didn't really care take
it or leave it when it comes to football with him.
(09:14):
And he said, I think I've been to a super Bowl.
And I said, what what do you mean? You think
you've been to a super Bowl? Because yeah, you know,
I don't remember much. I was young. My dad took me.
I was at the coliseum. I think, I don't know.
He's like, I've got this vague memory of the Dolphins playing.
I'm like, you saw the perfect season too, saw the
(09:35):
perfect season, and you didn't even freaking know, Like who
saw the Dolphins perfect seventy two season? Didn't know that
they were there for.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
The culmination a football fan.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
That's right, right, Isn't that great? It's one of my
favorite things? Like that's what That just highlights how much
of a fool I am for the kind of money
and craziness I have spent to watch my team. But
that's what fans do. That's what we do. You know,
it's for that unearned valor.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
Before I let you go out to do this for you, Shattafaran, I.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Have one last thing to say. I have a prequestion
for the game, and it's going to be the stake.
It's going to be the Saquon Barkley game. I mean,
this is somebody to root for. You want someone to
root for. Root for Saquon Barkley. It's a great story.
He has alert out of the Giants to go to Philadelphia.
He didn't do much for the Giants. It killed the
owner to let him go. He goes over to the
rival Eagles and he freaking set the world on fire
(10:29):
this season. He's so much fun to watch. Arguably the
best running back in the league. Eric Dickerson there from
Rammitt will tell you, hey, I still hold the record,
and he does, and he will say that they played
fewer games back then, and they did. I make the
argument that nobody else does is Saquon Barkley has played
in an era where they're playing more games and they're
putting more wear and tear on their bodies. You're looking
(10:52):
at a running back who's pounded the Rock since twenty
eighteen when he was drafted by the Giants. Right, And
he's twenty seven now and he has a season like
he did this year, after playing that many games a
year after year after year, more than Eric Dickerson. I
don't know. I'm just saying he deserves some flowers for that.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
No, it's a historic season, no doubt by any measurement. Now,
whether he rightfully gets the record when you put together
regular season in playoffs, I'll let the stat nerds and
geeks argue that, but you cannot argue that this was
one sensational season. And it's not even over yet. Shannon Farrin,
I think we made it through a whole segment without
(11:28):
any insults to the other person's fandom.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
I mean, we're growing up, are we not?
Speaker 4 (11:33):
Well, you're getting older. I'm just getting more mature.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
You were alive to go to that Rams game in
seventy six, and.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
I was not, Well, how about this?
Speaker 2 (11:41):
My father was actually at that Coliseum super Bowl for
the Miami perfect season, Okay, and he didn't tell me
until I was like fifty years old, and it's.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
Like, how did you leave that out of all the
stories that you told me?
Speaker 3 (11:54):
That's so funny.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
I gotta go, you gotta go, slitter Bye.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI A M six forty
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Therapy Gecko
An unlicensed lizard psychologist travels the universe talking to strangers about absolutely nothing. TO CALL THE GECKO: follow me on https://www.twitch.tv/lyleforever to get a notification for when I am taking calls. I am usually live Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays but lately a lot of other times too. I am a gecko.