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Speaker 1: All right, Let's get back to the Dodgers and welcome
Speaker 1: on the Godfather our good friend Ned, Coletti and Ned,
Speaker 1: thanks for being here.
Speaker 3: Hey, always a pleasure to be with you, guys.
Speaker 1: Hey, Ned, let me start with this. Rodney and I
Speaker 1: kicked it around in the first hour. Everybody's calling the
Speaker 1: Dodgers the Evil Empire of Baseball. They're ruining the game,
Speaker 1: They're spending too much money. If you were sitting in
Speaker 1: Stan Casten's chair or Mark Walter's chair and you heard
Speaker 1: accusations like that, what would you say.
Speaker 3: I'd probably laugh. You know, it's a competitive business and
Speaker 3: if you can't keep the pace, maybe it shouldn't be
Speaker 3: into business. But LA may be the number one sports
Speaker 3: destination spot in North America. Dodgers and what they've done
Speaker 3: is phenomenal. How they've structured contracts deferred plus signing bonuses.
Speaker 3: Who they can attract to come and play for this club. Hey,
Speaker 3: people can complain about it, but to me, it's more
Speaker 3: jealousy than it is anything else. Oh, they're not They're
Speaker 3: not breaking any rules. They're playing by the rules. And
Speaker 3: is it a little bit of a contrary to how
Speaker 3: a lot of people think. Yeah, But you know what,
Speaker 3: that's where greatness comes from. Comes from contrarian thinking many
Speaker 3: times and doing something that the competition wouldn't do, wouldn't
Speaker 3: think of, or couldn't do. Not everybody's going to want
Speaker 3: to take deferred money to the extent that the players
Speaker 3: are taking it. But to play in LA, to play
Speaker 3: for this organization, hey, they'll be fine.
Speaker 4: Yeah, mat can you and just explain to our listeners
Speaker 4: to ned that this whole situation with deferral and defern money,
Speaker 4: it's not a new thing, right, I Mean, it's been around,
Speaker 4: and so the people that think that the Dodgers invented
Speaker 4: this and they're changing the rules or anything like that,
Speaker 4: it's been around for years. I mean they've been and
Speaker 4: to your point, there's been people that had done it
Speaker 4: successfully and then there's been some other clubs that got
Speaker 4: in trouble when they had to pay out some of
Speaker 4: those deferrals and it didn't work out for them.
Speaker 2: But it's been around for a while.
Speaker 3: But it goes back to the turn of the last
Speaker 3: century with two thousand and one Diamondbacks if you look
Speaker 3: deeply into their roster that won the World Series fifty
Speaker 3: Yankees in Game seven. If you look at their roster,
Speaker 3: their ownership wanted a team that could win, but they
Speaker 3: couldn't afford to compete with the other big market team,
Speaker 3: so they signed players half now half later. And because
Speaker 3: of that, and to make sure and the union protecting
Speaker 3: their constituents their players, they made sure they changed the laws,
Speaker 3: and not the laws, but the rules a little bit. Well,
Speaker 3: you could defer, but you had to be able to
Speaker 3: fund it. You had to be able to prove that
Speaker 3: you had it sitting on the side someplace that you
Speaker 3: were going to be able to get it when the
Speaker 3: payment became due. And Arizona kind of changed the line
Speaker 3: of thinking and made teams kind of put money aside
Speaker 3: to do that. But you know, you're from about two
Speaker 3: thousand and one, that's not long ago where it was
Speaker 3: a dominant part of the narrative for that postseason. And
Speaker 3: now they wanted and they did it. But if you
Speaker 3: look at their star players on that team, half took
Speaker 3: their money as they were playing, half took it later,
Speaker 3: and whether or not they could afford to pay it
Speaker 3: later maybe became one of the you know, the points
Speaker 3: of contention that forces teams now to show MLB and
Speaker 3: to show the union, Yeah, we've got the money set
Speaker 3: aside here, We're going to grow the money and we're
Speaker 3: going to use the money. But it's here. And I
Speaker 3: think when you think about the background of Mark Walter, Todd, Bowley,
Speaker 3: Stan Andrew, that entire group magic, you know, that's how
Speaker 3: they think. That's like right in their wheelhouse. So that's
Speaker 3: what they've been able to do, and it keeps their
Speaker 3: aav a little bit lower. It keeps their their luxury
Speaker 3: tax a little bit lower. You know, if if a
Speaker 3: player is going to get forty or fifty million dollars
Speaker 3: of third ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen years out, you know,
Speaker 3: and they're making they've already made fifty and they're going
Speaker 3: to make another fifty in the meantime. You know, if
Speaker 3: you can't get by and then he got away for
Speaker 3: that deferral check, well kind of you know, shame on you.
Speaker 3: But you know, it's all part of the deal. It's
Speaker 3: all part of the landscape. They just ahead of the game.
Speaker 3: They're just smarter than everybody. I'll say one more thing too,
Speaker 3: about about ownership. There most franchises, and this is a generality,
Speaker 3: but most fan bases have a hunger for success larger
Speaker 3: than the owner. Hey how can we didn't do this?
Speaker 3: How can we didn't sign that player? Hey, how can
Speaker 3: we didn't acquire this guy? Hey? Our people are chief,
Speaker 3: our people, you know, they want to win. But they
Speaker 3: want to win you know, the on the the economical
Speaker 3: feasible side, we don't have that. We have almost the opposite.
Speaker 3: Even though we have four million pain customers, you know,
Speaker 3: millions watching the biggest franchise in baseball now global between
Speaker 3: Japan and Asia and the United States and Latin America Canada.
Speaker 3: The fan base is massive. The fan base is hungry.
Speaker 3: But are they hungrier than Mark Walter in San cassid
Speaker 3: and Andrew and Todd Bowley and Magic. I don't think
Speaker 3: they're hungrier than those guys. Well, we have a unique
Speaker 3: situation here where the ownership is so driven for success.
Speaker 3: I'm not going to rest on a World series in
Speaker 3: twenty twenty four, in a world series in twenty twenty
Speaker 3: but hey, you know what, Let's keep going, Let's keep
Speaker 3: adding to it, and let's make it as unbeatable as
Speaker 3: you can be, knowing you still got to play a season,
Speaker 3: knowing you still got injuries and different things that are
Speaker 3: going to come your way. But let's build it to
Speaker 3: run the table, not only now but for a long time.
Speaker 1: You know, Ned, I think you make a valid point.
Speaker 1: Anybody that owns a team cannot plead poverty. But to
Speaker 1: be honest, most people cannot generate the revenue of the Dodgers. Nonetheless,
Speaker 1: they generate revenue, and I think what you see with
Speaker 1: the Dodgers is they immediately reinvest where there are teams
Speaker 1: that do not reinvest, and you probably oversaw one of those.
Speaker 1: You think, with all due respect and not by your
Speaker 1: own choice, you would have done it, but a different
Speaker 1: time anyway, yeap. When teams complain but they're not reinvesting,
Speaker 1: do they even have anything to hang their hat on?
Speaker 3: I don't think so. I don't think so. You know,
Speaker 3: they it's a perfect I'll call it a storm. But
Speaker 3: it's a perfect situation for the Dodgers and it's not
Speaker 3: quite as perfect for other teams. But if you're an agent,
Speaker 3: or if you're a player and you have an interest
Speaker 3: in you're a free agent and you want to go
Speaker 3: someplace and you want to win, you're going to have
Speaker 3: more money than you know what to do with. You're
Speaker 3: always asking how about the Dodgers? How about the Dodgers?
Speaker 3: You think they're asking, Hey, how about the Giants? You know, no,
Speaker 3: disrespect them and I love the people there, and stuff
Speaker 3: like that. But are they saying that, I don't think so.
Speaker 3: Are they saying the Padres right now? I don't think so.
Speaker 3: Who they saying that about the Dodgers? And you might
Speaker 3: find a second or third somewhere down the line. But
Speaker 3: that's that's it's a very very short list of where
Speaker 3: players want to play and where they're going to get paid.
Speaker 3: And maybe you overpaid whatever, but you hear the story,
Speaker 3: Oh I took less to come here all the time?
Speaker 3: Sure or false, who knows, but it's the place to be.
Speaker 3: One more thought on this, it's and they've had twenty years.
Speaker 3: I mean, I go back to almost almost twenty years.
Speaker 3: I'll say, Okay, our time there when won five and
Speaker 3: nine and lost on the last day six times. You know,
Speaker 3: it was good, it was successful. It's been ultra successful since.
Speaker 3: I think they're just getting started.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I agree with you.
Speaker 4: I think they're just getting started as well and getting
Speaker 4: ready to go on a historic run. But when you
Speaker 4: look at it, ned and I've said this before, Yes,
Speaker 4: the Dodgers have got some great players on this team,
Speaker 4: but there are a lot of great baseball players in
Speaker 4: this country, around the world that are in the minor
Speaker 4: leagues around this this major League baseball, and there's some
Speaker 4: other teams with some pretty good rosters. When you look around,
Speaker 4: you know, you look at the Mets what they're doing,
Speaker 4: and the Yankees and the Phillies have a really good
Speaker 4: roster and it's the reason why you haven't seen a
Speaker 4: back to back champion since the Yankees did it in
Speaker 4: the nineties. It's still going to be competitive. And then
Speaker 4: when you look at how you spend money, and you
Speaker 4: can speak to this too. The way the Dodgers spend
Speaker 4: their money is also smart because there was an argument
Speaker 4: that laradyment Reno spent money, but he spent it on
Speaker 4: some players and maybe aging players, or and didn't spend
Speaker 4: it in scouting or didn't spend it in the minor
Speaker 4: league system and development and all those things. And you
Speaker 4: have to be a complete franchise, don't you be able
Speaker 4: to have sustained success?
Speaker 3: There's no doubt it's it's sort of the toughest thing
Speaker 3: to do in athletics. It's tough to win, but it's
Speaker 3: almost it's ten times harder to win more than once.
Speaker 3: It's not just twice, as it's far more than that.
Speaker 3: But the sustained success is a is a study. I mean,
Speaker 3: it's something I actually teach at Pepperdine and we you know,
Speaker 3: we owned there's not many teams organizations we can't study
Speaker 3: because it doesn't happen yet often. And what are the
Speaker 3: reasons for it, you know, it's another part of the story.
Speaker 3: But the Dodgers have and they sustain it. And I
Speaker 3: worked for Mark Walter and Todd Bowley and Stamsons. But
Speaker 3: I think three two and a half seasons the end
Speaker 3: of two twelve, thirteen and fourteen, and you know, I
Speaker 3: went from you know, kind of begging to do stuff,
Speaker 3: you know, and just you know struggling to you know,
Speaker 3: to make things work, you know, and I had to
Speaker 3: do what I had to do type of thing, you know,
Speaker 3: not looking pretty sympathy. That was a job. But when
Speaker 3: when they came in, I can remember almost immediately the
Speaker 3: thought process was I went from how are we going
Speaker 3: to do this? To you know, we an't almost do
Speaker 3: too much because because Mark's hunger Ford right out of
Speaker 3: the gate was like it blew me away. You know,
Speaker 3: how about this guy? You like this guy? Oh yeah,
Speaker 3: we love this guy. Go get him? Like this guy? Yeah,
Speaker 3: go go get them. I mean, you know, you can't
Speaker 3: necessarily do they wait for free agency or wait for
Speaker 3: a team to want to unload big time salaries and
Speaker 3: great players. But it was of all the things in
Speaker 3: my career, at all the drastic things that I've seen
Speaker 3: go from a to Z. His personality, his appetite for success,
Speaker 3: and his willingness to invest in it and to go
Speaker 3: all in for it was startling to me. And I
Speaker 3: still don't know if I know anybody else in the
Speaker 3: sports business, and I've been in it for almost fifty
Speaker 3: years at a high level that goes at it the
Speaker 3: way Mark and Todd, Stan Andrew Magic go at it
Speaker 3: and the other ownership parts. I just don't know that
Speaker 3: anybody else does that. And look at the success State
Speaker 3: had and as I said, I think they're just getting started.
Speaker 3: That said, yeah, Philly, you know, teams can win US
Speaker 3: George Series and things like that. But as you you know,
Speaker 3: and I spent time with the San Diego some San
Speaker 3: Diego people about a week ago, and then some American
Speaker 3: League people that they had a good run this past
Speaker 3: year went to the playoffs, and they all asked, how
Speaker 3: do they do this? How do they just keep doing this?
Speaker 3: Every time you read somebody signing, you know, the elite players,
Speaker 3: it's always going to the Dodgers. And that's how they
Speaker 3: do it. They have built a destination, they have built success,
Speaker 3: they have suctained success, and they are willing to invest
Speaker 3: in the product far beyond what anybody ever dreamed anybody
Speaker 3: would But that's what they do.
Speaker 1: Ned colletis where they're speaking about investing in the product.
Speaker 1: You know, the big catch this year in free agency.
Speaker 1: Obviously the club signed Blake Snell, Confordo, Tanner Scott, but
Speaker 1: the big catch was Sazaki And when it came down
Speaker 1: to it, despite all the chatter and conversation, and he
Speaker 1: might want to go to his mentor you darvish, he
Speaker 1: may want to go to Toronto.
Speaker 2: He really liked the city.
Speaker 1: He ended up exactly where everybody knew he would end
Speaker 1: up with the Dodgers. He's twenty three years old, he's
Speaker 1: six foot four. From what you've heard, how good could
Speaker 1: he be?
Speaker 3: Well, I mean there's some miles to go for him,
Speaker 3: but you're talking about a deluxe skill set and compete
Speaker 3: and desire not just to be good, not just to
Speaker 3: be rich and not but to win a championship. I mean,
Speaker 3: much like show Hey, much like Mookie, much like Freddie.
Speaker 3: I mean, he fits perfectly what has transpired in the
Speaker 3: last couple of years, which is really the makings of
Speaker 3: that sustained culture. Sustained success is the next generation. They
Speaker 3: are starting to sign Yamamoto Sasaki will start right there.
Speaker 3: You're talking about a number one and number two that
Speaker 3: are not not old. You know, they're both they're both
Speaker 3: learning the major leagues and they've already got two of
Speaker 3: the equivalent of number one picks, and we're in a
Speaker 3: draft if they were draftableth players, not just the first
Speaker 3: pick in the draft, but undeniably like you don't even
Speaker 3: know who two, three, four and five are there so
Speaker 3: far behind and and that's what they've done. So they're
Speaker 3: they're building yet another generation. And they know everything begins
Speaker 3: and ends with pitching, so they're they're on their way
Speaker 3: to another generation. That's why I say what I say,
Speaker 3: they're just getting started. This is just this is mid
Speaker 3: stream with with you know, more more, more championships and
Speaker 3: more great days to come. But they're building the second
Speaker 3: another generation of players.
Speaker 4: Net given all that and given the players, because that's
Speaker 4: been a thing, well, Dodger's got all the players, and
Speaker 4: they should win it every year, but that's not always
Speaker 4: the case because you have to manage everything went down
Speaker 4: last year with all the injuries on the pitching staff
Speaker 4: and then the bullpen was lights out that helped him
Speaker 4: win a title.
Speaker 2: How perfect. Is Dave Roberts for this situation?
Speaker 5: Oh uh.
Speaker 3: I've been on your show many times and once in
Speaker 3: a while when things are not they never go that bad,
Speaker 3: but they start to teeter a little bit. It's all
Speaker 3: what about Dave Roberts. You know, fans all the time
Speaker 3: seeing me know about that. You know, I think he's
Speaker 3: done a phenomenal job. And when you put his record
Speaker 3: up against those in the Hall of Fame, you take
Speaker 3: all the names off it, and you put winning percentage
Speaker 3: and put championships you said, put playoff appearances and all
Speaker 3: those things next to it. Who do we know that's
Speaker 3: been better than this? There might be I mean Joe
Speaker 3: maybe when he was in New York, you know what,
Speaker 3: They may be doing that too as we get going here.
Speaker 3: And the Yankees didn't have the run of this Dodger
Speaker 3: franchise for over a decade, you know, Bobby Cox in Atlanta, Yeah,
Speaker 3: great run. Stan was part of that, a lot of divisions,
Speaker 3: a lot of postseasons one World Series. I think what
Speaker 3: he has done is phenomenal, and I think how he
Speaker 3: does it is a master's class in leadership. He is
Speaker 3: a player's manager, But that doesn't mean you get away
Speaker 3: with stuff because the manager is going to say everything
Speaker 3: nice about you, even in defeat. No, they're responsible, they respect.
Speaker 3: I think you know, I'm not in the room, but
Speaker 3: I think when you go back to Game four of
Speaker 3: the series against San Diego last fall, they're facing elimination,
Speaker 3: san Diego's got Dylan sees their ace on the mound,
Speaker 3: that Dodgers got a bullpen game on the road, and
Speaker 3: the Dodgers win eight to nothing. I think that, to
Speaker 3: me was a statement game, not only for the twenty
Speaker 3: twenty fourteen honest sway that the World Series, but I
Speaker 3: think it was a statement game of support for their manager.
Speaker 3: Came after Manny matchiado, I'll toss the ball, tour dug
Speaker 3: out all of that stuff. But you know, who knows
Speaker 3: if they lose that game, if Dave is here, I
Speaker 3: don't have any idea, but there's a possibility I guess
Speaker 3: that he wouldn't be here. Maybe slim, but I think
Speaker 3: when you see players rally for leadership and rally to
Speaker 3: making sure that this person who's had my back for
Speaker 3: a decade now or if you've been here that long
Speaker 3: type of thing. But my entire Dodger career, for the
Speaker 3: most part, you stand up for that and you see
Speaker 3: to compete of it. Whenever managers get fired or maybe
Speaker 3: head coaches in football or basketball, it's because the team
Speaker 3: stops playing for him, right, you see it. They become
Speaker 3: lack of days ago, they don't have attention to detail.
Speaker 3: They're almost they're pushing the issue of getting rid of
Speaker 3: the leader. Never seen that here, never seen it.
Speaker 1: You know, when I look at people that are coaches
Speaker 1: in this city, and then I look at Dave as
Speaker 1: a manager of the Dodgers, he's sort of the textbook
Speaker 1: in however you're going to lead a team great with
Speaker 1: the media, always answers honestly, players are held accountable. And
Speaker 1: just the thing I always say about him, you ask
Speaker 1: him a question, you'll give you an answer, and he
Speaker 1: doesn't sugarcoat it, just give you an answer.
Speaker 2: I don't know. There are not a lot of people
Speaker 2: like him as a person ned.
Speaker 3: No, exactly right. And the players and we and we
Speaker 3: see it, you know, we see it every day, but
Speaker 3: we see it sporadically in the course of a day.
Speaker 3: Sometimes the players see it every day. There were you know,
Speaker 3: their their ability to understand him and vice versa far
Speaker 3: exceeds any of us at the same you know, we're
Speaker 3: like passing through. They're sitting there every day and I think,
Speaker 3: you know, you make great points. And that's that's what
Speaker 3: he's done. And you know what, I go back to
Speaker 3: the type of player he was, and I've been around
Speaker 3: him a lot. I was never with a club that
Speaker 3: that he was with. I did TV when it's early
Speaker 3: managing days here. But he had to work to be
Speaker 3: a player. He had to understand the intricacies of compete
Speaker 3: walk on at UCLA, you know, not a great player,
Speaker 3: but a really good player, and the intricacies of the
Speaker 3: stolen base which will ride in history in the city
Speaker 3: of Boston. All those things. He has taken great talent
Speaker 3: and I think he's instilled in them the attention to
Speaker 3: detail that you need to be great, and he needed
Speaker 3: it to survive in the big leagues and he needed
Speaker 3: it to manage. And you know what, I may have
Speaker 3: my facts a little bit askew, but he was in
Speaker 3: San Diego before he was in LA right, and they
Speaker 3: change managers and he wasn't the guy they changed to, right,
Speaker 3: So you know how many things is he had to
Speaker 3: fight for overcome, be smarter, work harder, be more diligent.
Speaker 3: Then when I look at people's success in any walk
Speaker 3: of life, those are the characteristics that separate the mediocre
Speaker 3: from the good, the good from the great, the great
Speaker 3: from iconic.
Speaker 2: And that that's why, that's why you're right iconic.
Speaker 3: Well, I don't know if I'm iconic. I might be.
Speaker 4: Okay, Ned, you're better than Okay, are you kidding me?
Speaker 2: Come on, come on, brother, you're the man.
Speaker 3: I appreciate it.
Speaker 2: All right, We thank you. We're coming on today as always.
Speaker 2: We'll talk again.
Speaker 3: Soon, Okay, thank you always.
Speaker 4: I think he's iconic, Rodney ned Colletti. There's only one Brett.
Speaker 4: There's only one. There is only one, only one, baby
Speaker 4: you know who else? There's only one of Mick Cronin.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 2: He had some thoughts the other night that we've got
Speaker 2: to let you hear. That's next, right on, right right on,
Speaker 2: right on.
Speaker 4: What it is Pete red Rokie back back on a
Speaker 4: Tuesday with a special guest.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so we're gonna have to postpone our Mic Cronin sound,
Speaker 1: which we'll use next segment, because a bigger, bigger name
Speaker 1: just walked in at this point. Uh now in the
Speaker 1: studio with us I guess apparently was doing something to
Speaker 1: make more money. It's our good friend, Eric Dickerson. Thank
Speaker 1: you for coming over giving it. What are you recording Ford.
Speaker 5: Spots about money? I did not come over you for
Speaker 5: the money. I came to your heart. Thank you for
Speaker 5: I came up with. I got the goodness in my heart.
Speaker 5: That's why I came over. I love my one fifty,
Speaker 5: so I gotta say that too. Don't be a here.
Speaker 2: I I knew there had to be some give and
Speaker 2: take here. Of course it is.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 5: I'm like, I'm like the man. You know how the
Speaker 5: man is. Yeah, I know how the man is. Eric,
Speaker 5: You the man?
Speaker 1: All right, now let me ask you this, yes, uh,
Speaker 1: of course, everybody getting really excited for the Eric Dickerson
Speaker 1: Show Friday. It's spot like twenty nine Casino and Coachella.
Speaker 1: What can you tell us about the show since it's
Speaker 1: obviously your show, what can we expect?
Speaker 5: Well, you can expect a good time. Uh uh. There's
Speaker 5: been some funny stories on air, for sure.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 5: We know that. You know Fred, we know where you
Speaker 5: Fred is, Fred, So you know you know you know that.
Speaker 5: So just come out to have a good time. That's
Speaker 5: what it's gonna be all about Fred. We have a
Speaker 5: good time on the show. I love going out there
Speaker 5: and I like to see the sign, says Eric Dickerson.
Speaker 5: Show like right now this and I heard him saying,
Speaker 5: this is the Ridney Piece show.
Speaker 2: I'm on.
Speaker 5: I'm want to ride the Beach Show. I'm big time.
Speaker 5: I want to write in the Peace Show. Fred rouban
Speaker 5: on a show I don't have coming back go te
Speaker 5: Fred's coming back to you.
Speaker 1: Uh now, listen, when are you gonna get out there?
Speaker 1: Are you gonna all buyast Thursday night?
Speaker 5: Of course I am Fred. I know you well you are.
Speaker 5: Are you already out there? You will be there no doubt?
Speaker 5: Belly belly empty or so?
Speaker 2: Is that something we should play?
Speaker 5: Yeah? Yeah, yeah, clearing up a bet, Fred, This is
Speaker 5: just being generous, Yes, Fred, I will, I will, I
Speaker 5: will text you guys and let you know. Well, I
Speaker 5: think we've already got a reservation already set. But we'll
Speaker 5: have we'll have a reservation for sure, so we'll have
Speaker 5: some more laughs, some stories we can't tell on air
Speaker 5: for sure, but we did have fun. I just say, man, talk.
Speaker 1: Eric, I can't be there before seven fifteen, so don't
Speaker 1: do like last year and say we're starting at five
Speaker 1: thirty or six, I can't be there till seven fifteen.
Speaker 5: Oh yes, sir, massive, I'm the one to say that
Speaker 5: I can't be there that Fred, Fred, you just get that.
Speaker 5: When you get there, we'll be that way Fred.
Speaker 2: First of all, Edie, first of all, Fred, you're down there.
Speaker 5: Thank you there.
Speaker 4: I gotta travel. Why you say, are you telling me
Speaker 4: the one? You should be there at anytime? But I
Speaker 4: don't get off for till seven Okay, well, okay, that's on.
Speaker 5: I get that.
Speaker 2: Are you Are you gonna come down early, Rodney, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm coming down Thursday.
Speaker 4: I'm coming down Thursday for dinner. Because, as Edie said,
Speaker 4: it's man talk, a lot of laughs, a lot of laughs.
Speaker 4: So it's always Jeff Jeff Helly. He he loved that story.
Speaker 4: He said, Man, that's one of the funniest funny stories
Speaker 4: I've ever heard.
Speaker 5: Ever.
Speaker 1: He still talks about it. Oh, it was the greatest
Speaker 1: story ever. It's the greatest story ever.
Speaker 5: I don't know what I forgot about this story. And
Speaker 5: then would be some guys on the golf course one
Speaker 5: day and I tell them the story. They were dying laughing. Man,
Speaker 5: I was tripped out. Let's put it like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you were, Yes, but I'll say this and last
Speaker 1: Year's dinner, and we'll just say there were a lot
Speaker 1: of stories and a lot of laughs. One story we
Speaker 1: can never tell on the air ever, but it was
Speaker 1: the funniest story I've ever heard. But you know what
Speaker 1: Eric did right before We're getting ready to go, It
Speaker 1: was like the finale, did you realize that?
Speaker 5: It was like the story, wasn't it? But you know,
Speaker 5: I think the thing, the thing that made it good
Speaker 5: was to reenactment. I had to reenact the reenactment Bunny
Speaker 5: to Life for us. Yes, it did so funny. People
Speaker 5: were like listening, what the hell are they talking about?
Speaker 5: So funny if they could hear it to be laughing to.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, it was the last Okay, So Cooper Cup,
Speaker 1: do you think the RAM should resign him?
Speaker 2: Eric?
Speaker 5: I do. I do think the GRAM should resign Cooper.
Speaker 5: I mean, Cooper's been a great RAM. I mean he
Speaker 5: still can play. He's still can play. I know he's
Speaker 5: had a lot of quite a few injuries. But you know,
Speaker 5: you know, I'm not in the you know, I don't
Speaker 5: I'm not in the front office to make those kind
Speaker 5: of calls, but I really think that should signed him.
Speaker 5: I mean, you know, football fred is a I hate
Speaker 5: to say it. It's just no lawty in this game.
Speaker 5: It really isn't. I mean, And that's the only thing
Speaker 5: I don't I don't like about it. It's just the
Speaker 5: Lorty thing. And he's been such a great player, plays
Speaker 5: hurt when he can, has came through, you know, made
Speaker 5: us help us win that Super Bowl we won, I mean,
Speaker 5: and has made some great catches. So I mean, for
Speaker 5: sure I would. I would try to resign if you can. Yeah,
Speaker 5: I said this to Ida.
Speaker 4: As long as as Matt Stafford is there, they better
Speaker 4: keep Cooper Cupp around because Matt, you know, he's obviously
Speaker 4: where he's during thirty seven next year or whatever. But
Speaker 4: he who knows how I thought he you know, I
Speaker 4: think he's still top top five quarterback when he when
Speaker 4: he's good to go, he's good to He as good
Speaker 4: as anybody playing in the league right now.
Speaker 2: I trust him in a game to win.
Speaker 4: I trust him as much as I trust anybody, and
Speaker 4: Cooper Cup is his go to guy. Yep, you know,
Speaker 4: Pooka's coming along, but Pooka's still young hooker still learning
Speaker 4: and still doing his thing. But when you got that
Speaker 4: safety blanket, let Cooper cup around him. He can throw
Speaker 4: to him in his sleep. And you got to keep
Speaker 4: a guy like that around. I totally agree with you.
Speaker 4: I mean, you know, I mean I was really disappointed
Speaker 4: we lost that game. I mean because I kept I
Speaker 4: kept reiterating this factor. I said, you turn the ball over,
Speaker 4: you lose. I kept saying that you cannot turn the
Speaker 4: ball over. The playoffs.
Speaker 5: I mean, I'd go back, and I fairly've heard me
Speaker 5: say this several times. I just said it to Kevin
Speaker 5: here a minute ago, and then over here in the studio.
Speaker 5: We played the Redskins in the playoffs and I had
Speaker 5: three fumbles. We turned the ball over six times, which
Speaker 5: I think we lost seventeen to nine. Man, it was
Speaker 5: so hurtful. I mean, because you know, you're not trying
Speaker 5: to turn the it just happens. You know, they punching
Speaker 5: at the ball, you're trying to run the ball. I mean,
Speaker 5: it's so frustrating, and I get it, man, I mean,
Speaker 5: if people don't realize me, I ain't throwing the sception. Hey, man,
Speaker 5: you get out there to see how they work out
Speaker 5: for you.
Speaker 2: You never not trying to bumble. You're not trying.
Speaker 4: And guys, guys, you know, and even when we play
Speaker 4: guys are they that's what they they People don't understand.
Speaker 2: It just didn't happen.
Speaker 4: Guys, work on that in practically knocking the ball out
Speaker 4: of your hand and you're trying to.
Speaker 5: Get to a hole of you're trying to get through
Speaker 5: holes running but you're trying to trying to make trying
Speaker 5: to get through and a quarterback, you know, you you
Speaker 5: got a thousand things happening in front of it, just
Speaker 5: like a bunch of car ricks happening in front of
Speaker 5: a quarterback, right right in front of it.
Speaker 4: Yep, but I gotta but you're right, you're right. It's
Speaker 4: you know, and it and it happened. All the teams
Speaker 4: that won were the teams that didn't turn the ball.
Speaker 4: Every team that turned the ball of lost that lost
Speaker 4: the game. I mean, I got to say, and there's
Speaker 4: no blame on anyone, but you know, the I think
Speaker 4: the sack really hurt, you know when they got that
Speaker 4: sack and to turn the ball over. But that sack,
Speaker 4: you know on that last drive.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, man, that that hurt.
Speaker 2: That hurt bad.
Speaker 5: But you know, hey, I would say they I was
Speaker 5: loser to say the best team one and then I
Speaker 5: really believe Philly was a better team, but I felt
Speaker 5: we could beat them if we did not turn the
Speaker 5: football over. I feel like Bay was the better coach
Speaker 5: for sure, But you know that's what that's how football goes.
Speaker 5: But I want to say one thing, Fred, you know
Speaker 5: your allions. I gotta talk about your allons. Man, they
Speaker 5: had a lot of injuries. I am not lying they have.
Speaker 5: They had a lot of injury. Yeah, a lot. I mean,
Speaker 5: just like I said, what did I tell you what
Speaker 5: four years ago, Anthony Lynn, I say, when you got injuries? Fred,
Speaker 5: I think fans, let me tell someone when you've got
Speaker 5: players hurt? They had what sixteen players out? Yeah, you
Speaker 5: know how hard it is to win with sixteen players out.
Speaker 5: I mean they said they were bringing guys in that
Speaker 5: had but one day of practice.
Speaker 2: That's what I hold it against Aaron Glenn.
Speaker 4: I know he's interviewing for the Jets, but he was
Speaker 4: a defensive coordinator for that team all year long. Had
Speaker 4: to interchange all those guys, and especially.
Speaker 2: Late in the season.
Speaker 4: But you're right, man, he was like, oh Dad lude
Speaker 4: Washington went up and down the field they had I
Speaker 4: mean at the back of the back of the back
Speaker 4: up to the backup the defense, the back up to
Speaker 4: the backups, backup, and then they got guys hurt during
Speaker 4: that during the game.
Speaker 5: That was it. But I gotta say one thing, Ridney,
Speaker 5: I gotta just say this one thing. You too fraid
Speaker 5: you're lying? Yeah, y'all have become so arrogant, the Lion fans.
Speaker 5: I'm like, what's happening with the arrogant ass Lion fans?
Speaker 5: They ain't want nothing ever. They've been sorry for so
Speaker 5: damn long. Why you got to beat you all to
Speaker 5: be more humble. I don't say that again. We're walking about, man,
Speaker 5: let me tell you something. Those fans are so arrogant.
Speaker 5: My boy Chris Lego and they went there last year
Speaker 5: to play the tat the lines. And other people been
Speaker 5: saying it too. I've been heard. I've heard it quite
Speaker 5: a bit. Man. The last fan they like the Philly fans,
Speaker 5: they curse you out when you come to the stadium
Speaker 5: you have another jersey, just curse you out, you know.
Speaker 2: After you just walking I'm just walking up against the
Speaker 2: world in Detroit.
Speaker 5: It's not against the world I'm like, man, these line fans,
Speaker 5: I cannot tell you. I say, I'm pulling for the Redskins.
Speaker 5: Well with the Commanders, I'm pulling for them just because
Speaker 5: of the arrogance of the Lions. I said, that's what y'all.
Speaker 5: Sorry asses, get.
Speaker 2: I love you.
Speaker 4: So there's so many shots of fights in the sand man,
Speaker 4: I'm telling you.
Speaker 2: Taught the Lion fan. There was a lot of fights
Speaker 2: in the stands.
Speaker 4: But yeah, you know, after a season like that, boy,
Speaker 4: they did they Lion fans are really feeling themselves. Having
Speaker 4: home field advantage is like we're going to the Super
Speaker 4: Bowl and they had already off their tickets and all
Speaker 4: that kind of stuff, but you still, as you know,
Speaker 4: you still got to play the game. And Jared Golf
Speaker 4: picked the worst game to have his worst game, you
Speaker 4: know what I mean. You know, I feel bad for
Speaker 4: him because he had a great season and they had
Speaker 4: a great season. But to have it come down to
Speaker 4: that where you just you have you know, you want
Speaker 4: everybody to play their best and they come out come
Speaker 4: down to just the better team one at the end
Speaker 4: of the day. But when you play your worst game
Speaker 4: and the biggest game, that's that's hard to take.
Speaker 5: That's hard to take. I'm gonna tell you. Let me
Speaker 5: tell you that the new wave quarter back, you've got
Speaker 5: to be able to run and throw. That's that's the
Speaker 5: wave quarterback. That's it. I mean, if you ain't got
Speaker 5: one of those, you know, it's it's gonna be hard
Speaker 5: for you to win. Because you can have a great
Speaker 5: offensive line. But if you got a quarterback that king runs,
Speaker 5: it's gonna be tough. That's that's that's my only knock
Speaker 5: on Matt staff and all that.
Speaker 4: And they were not great runners, but but they moved
Speaker 4: in the game last night with the title game. When
Speaker 4: it when it's third and three right and you and
Speaker 4: nobody opened, Your quarterback got to go get.
Speaker 2: The first time.
Speaker 4: You gotta get the first down. You got to get
Speaker 4: you got to go run, get it first down. And
Speaker 4: the days you're right, the days of just stationary not
Speaker 4: being able to move, those days are old.
Speaker 5: Days are over for quarterbacks. I mean, you've got to
Speaker 5: have an athletic quarterback. I mean, and like I said,
Speaker 5: Matt Stafford, that's the only knock I can have on
Speaker 5: him is you know he just can't run. He's got
Speaker 5: a great arm. I mean great arm. I mean, you know,
Speaker 5: he's thirty seven years old with you, thirty seven, thirty six,
Speaker 5: thirty seven. But you know, but I'm like I said,
Speaker 5: I'll still take I'll still take him now. I still
Speaker 5: keep what we got, but it'll be nice to have
Speaker 5: a guy that back him up, that was athletic, can
Speaker 5: run and throw.
Speaker 1: You know, like Eric, you mentioned what happened when you
Speaker 1: flighted against the Redskins and the playoffs, and you've told
Speaker 1: us that story number of times because it sticks with you.
Speaker 1: Mark Andrews a tight end for the Ravens, not only
Speaker 1: fumble the ball which probably turned the whole game around
Speaker 1: against Buffalo, then he dropped one in the end zone
Speaker 1: for the two point conversion. How long because of what
Speaker 1: you've said against Washington? How long does that stay with you?
Speaker 2: Fred?
Speaker 5: Let me tell you something that's gonna bug him forever.
Speaker 5: I mean, it will and they will show that because
Speaker 5: you know from the social media is different now, they'll
Speaker 5: keep always showing that kind of stuff. It will bug
Speaker 5: him forever. I mean, let me tell you how bad
Speaker 5: it is when you when you have a game like
Speaker 5: that and you go, you know, you go back with
Speaker 5: your team and when you go to bed at night
Speaker 5: Man is haunting. That's all I can say. I mean,
Speaker 5: I mean I couldn't sleep. I mean I was depressed.
Speaker 5: I mean, because you're not trying to flip front of
Speaker 5: the pumble the ball, you're not trying to miss the
Speaker 5: PASSI you're not trying to turn it over. But when
Speaker 5: it happens, it's like, it's just it's my fault and
Speaker 5: it's not his fault. It's it's not his fault. I mean,
Speaker 5: that's that's a team that game. But you know Edie
Speaker 5: and to this point, everybody has games like that. Everybody, everybody,
Speaker 5: every player that's ever played, Michael Jordan's had, Kobe Brown
Speaker 5: has had bad games. Every player's ever played Tiger Woods
Speaker 5: have had bad golf day. We still have bad but
Speaker 5: I mean everybody, Yeah, everybody did. It happens to all
Speaker 5: of us, no one, And when.
Speaker 4: Something different, Fred though, I think when like Edi said,
Speaker 4: when it when it comes at a point where it
Speaker 4: ends your season, that's it. That's the difference, because everybody's
Speaker 4: had those games. I mean, everybody's been Mark Andrews, everybody's
Speaker 4: like Edie said, he fumble three times. Everybody's thrown four
Speaker 4: interceptions in games like that, everybody's done it. But when
Speaker 4: it comes to the point where your season is over,
Speaker 4: then you have the whole off season, unfortunately, to think
Speaker 4: about that and to feel it, and then people are
Speaker 4: talking about it, and it's hard to get over. Eighty
Speaker 4: just said it. It's hard to get over that. It's
Speaker 4: hard to shake it. I'm telling you, I'm showing that.
Speaker 4: I'm seeing it right now. His fumble it was. I
Speaker 4: feel bad for him. The guy punched it out. He
Speaker 4: punched it out, that's it. He didn't bumple it. He
Speaker 4: pushedne that technique.
Speaker 5: He punched it out of his hand. I mean he
Speaker 5: had to ball secured it. Look like I say, man,
Speaker 5: you can't. There's a lot going on on that field.
Speaker 5: Let's put it like that, all right.
Speaker 1: Well, Eric, thank you for coming in and slumming Willis.
Speaker 1: That was very kind of you. As we prepare for
Speaker 1: your big show on Friday at Spotlight twenty nine Casino
Speaker 1: in Coachella. And the bottom line is this all you
Speaker 1: got to do from any place, just get on the
Speaker 1: ten freeway. Just hit the ten and come on down.
Speaker 1: It's pretty simple. Take I don't know, depending on where
Speaker 1: you're coming from, could take you an hour. And a
Speaker 1: half might take it too, but come on down. The
Speaker 1: show starts at noon. We get there a little bit early.
Speaker 1: You know, we're giving away Eric at your show. You
Speaker 1: know the stuff we're giving away. We're giving away. Uh,
Speaker 1: we'll take its to a Raider game next year. We're
Speaker 1: giving away Boys in Blue opening Wait, tickets in La
Speaker 1: mutually upon date. Okay, uh, fifty five inch Westinghouse TV.
Speaker 1: All right, getting you're signing a jersey. By the way,
Speaker 1: I don't know if you know that, but we're giving
Speaker 1: away an autograph jersey. I have no problem with that. But
Speaker 1: we're giving away a Christian or Koye autograph jersey. All right,
Speaker 1: my friend, And we're giving tickets to your Hall of
Speaker 1: Fame Fellow philanthrop Party presented by the Young Warriors at
Speaker 1: the Canyon Club Sunday, February twenty fifth. Canyon Club is
Speaker 1: Goody club is really good. It's really good. But let
Speaker 1: me let me ask you a question for it. I'm
Speaker 1: like Time of the Sword in that were you rushing
Speaker 1: me out of here? While you're rushing me out there?
Speaker 5: I didn't come out here, Jemmy rushing me out there?
Speaker 1: Wait a minute, Eric, do me a favor just stay
Speaker 1: around for five more minutes? Can you stay five minutes?
Speaker 1: If we come back, I want to tell that story,
Speaker 1: all right, just stay around for five okay. Yeah, of
Speaker 1: all the bits of brilliance that Eric has contributed during
Speaker 1: his time with us, that was a classic.
Speaker 2: And we'll talk about it.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, come on, Roddy p Fred Rogan and
Speaker 4: special guest Eric Dickerson in the house.
Speaker 2: Come on, let's go. All right, Eric, thanks for hanging
Speaker 2: around a little bit.
Speaker 5: Appreciate it, Okay for it? Hey, that that commercial was funny. Hymns,
Speaker 5: Him's got ed? Yeah, well, him's got ed? So what's
Speaker 5: the deal by a little hymns? You get a little eg?
Speaker 6: I guess a little. I don't know, but that's supposed
Speaker 6: to work the opposite. All right, he got him anyway? Okay,
Speaker 6: what we gotta tell the story? Oh my gosh, I
Speaker 6: would laughing thinking about it. Oh yeah, no, you brought
Speaker 6: it up. So when we first started doing our segments
Speaker 6: with Eric, and it's expanded into what it is now. Uh,
Speaker 6: He's at a barbecue one weekend and he runs into
Speaker 6: Tommy lit sorta. So for whatever reason, and Eric, you
Speaker 6: love Tommy. I love tom That's all right, Dodger fan.
Speaker 1: For whatever reason, Eric decides he's now booking the show
Speaker 1: and he says, Tommy, why don't you come on down.
Speaker 1: We're doing the show in Orange County and you can
Speaker 1: be on the show.
Speaker 2: Is that right?
Speaker 5: No, that's not right. I didn't book him, y'all. I
Speaker 5: asked him, and I said, we wouldn't come. He said, oh, yeah,
Speaker 5: we're a lot to have him. That was you too,
Speaker 5: you like all excited. Don't put that all on me,
Speaker 5: but go ahead. That was a barbecue.
Speaker 4: When when Eric said we got tom I can get Tommy,
Speaker 4: you said no, I don't want him, or you said yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: get him for sure.
Speaker 1: No, what I said was what I said was it
Speaker 1: was kind of in the infancy of the football show
Speaker 1: with Eric, and my comment was, I don't know what
Speaker 1: Tommy's going to talk about when it comes to football.
Speaker 1: But I should have remembered when we did a Super
Speaker 1: Bowl postgame show together. So we're down in the BJ's
Speaker 1: in Orange County and in walks Tommy. So now I'm
Speaker 1: sitting there and I'm thinking, all right, what are we
Speaker 1: going to talk to Tommy about? We've been talking all football.
Speaker 1: The show hadn't evolved Rodney to what it is now
Speaker 1: where anything goes right? All right, So, uh we put
Speaker 1: Tommy on. We sit him down, and you know, Tommy
Speaker 1: was not as with it at this point in his life.
Speaker 1: He wasn't as quick, he wasn't as sharp.
Speaker 5: You know, he was older, yes he was. He was sharp,
Speaker 5: Yes he was. He might have been he might have
Speaker 5: been shopping when he was younger, but he was still sharp.
Speaker 5: Trust Okay.
Speaker 1: So we set him down and actually, at this point,
Speaker 1: God loved him. We had nothing to talk to him about.
Speaker 1: I mean, he wasn't gonna talk about football. Uh so
Speaker 1: we just can't want to or he just him there
Speaker 1: or what. It wasn't gonna happen. Trust trust me, it
Speaker 1: wasn't gonna happen.
Speaker 2: Just go with me. It was not gonna happen.
Speaker 1: So anyway, before we went on, I said to the
Speaker 1: producer at that point, okay, well how long are we
Speaker 1: keeping Tommy? And he said one segment? I said, okay, great,
Speaker 1: So we bring Tommy on.
Speaker 2: Eric.
Speaker 1: We you know, we talked to him, we hid around
Speaker 1: with him a little bit, and the segment is over.
Speaker 1: It was one segment we brought him out of twelve
Speaker 1: forty five. I remember it like it was yesterday. So
Speaker 1: we bring him out of twelve forty five, we must
Speaker 1: have done eight nine minutes with him, which is a
Speaker 1: normal segment. OK, and uh, I go all right, Tommy, listen,
Speaker 1: thanks for coming down. Really appreciate it. Uh good having
Speaker 1: you on the show. Thanks so much. Now go ahead, Eric.
Speaker 1: What does he do on the air?
Speaker 5: What the hell do it?
Speaker 2: What?
Speaker 5: I come down there for one segment? What do you
Speaker 5: you think I'm some kind of scrubs? I mean, he
Speaker 5: goes off. What mean I'm tom and the sauna? What
Speaker 5: the hell you think? I just I've drove way over
Speaker 5: here for five minutes. I mean, I'm not coming over
Speaker 5: here for five minutes. I've been friends in there with
Speaker 5: like like the like did you say one GD segment?
Speaker 5: I said dump Tommy twice. I was on the I
Speaker 5: can't say the stuff. He said, you can't, please don't.
Speaker 5: And Fred had the deer.
Speaker 2: In him light. He was saying this on the air.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he was saying, I mean, he was cursing.
Speaker 1: And I said, at first I thought he was kidding.
Speaker 1: Use you know how Tommy got no. I thought he
Speaker 1: was kidding. He wasn't kidding. Tommy was spitting and everything, right,
Speaker 1: So I said, what do you want to stay around
Speaker 1: for another segment? And I think you went no, and
Speaker 1: then it went no Tommy.
Speaker 5: He said hell no, right said no, no Tommy, we
Speaker 5: will stay another segment. They stay a few more minutes.
Speaker 5: I think we did two more segments with him. We
Speaker 5: start talking some you know, some baseball or football, you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but that that was on you.
Speaker 5: It wasn't on me, Fred, that was but you said yes,
Speaker 5: you just said no.
Speaker 4: No, I wasn't. That was on you. Let's figure this out.
Speaker 4: So so Eric shm booked him Tommy on the show.
Speaker 4: You said yes, Fred, Right, Well, I.
Speaker 2: Said, what are we going to talk to Tommy about it?
Speaker 4: I was told wait, go back. Eric said he could
Speaker 4: get Tommy on the show. You want nobody talk to me?
Speaker 4: Nobody talked to me. I told you, no, nobody.
Speaker 2: Talked to me.
Speaker 1: Here's the story. I was told Eric went to a
Speaker 1: barbecue with Tommy. And the first thing I'm thinking is great, Well,
Speaker 1: I don't care. But Eric went to a barbecue with Tommy,
Speaker 1: invited him to come on the show. And I asked,
Speaker 1: for what, what's he going to talk about? Well, now
Speaker 1: I don't even really believe it's happening until I look
Speaker 1: and he comes in with his posse of people.
Speaker 2: If you remember, he was surrounded by people he came.
Speaker 5: I think I think Chris might have came with him people,
Speaker 5: three people with him, three people, but in his eighties.
Speaker 5: I mean, you know Tommy too. Are you talking about Fred?
Speaker 2: I'm not, I'm not saying anywhere.
Speaker 5: Timing was funny. I gotta say that. I mean, it
Speaker 5: was hilarious, right, but what he showed my ass, it
Speaker 5: was so funny. If you if you could have saw
Speaker 5: Fred's face, That's what got me. Fred was like frozen,
Speaker 5: Like okay, I sid he was goofing around what by
Speaker 5: saying the words he was saying? He wasn't goofing around
Speaker 5: it man riding. It was so funny. I'm not lying,
Speaker 5: I'm like it was. It was funny, and it was
Speaker 5: uncomfortable for Fred because I could look at his face.
Speaker 5: I want to hell, Fred, come on here for one
Speaker 5: damn segment five minutes. I drove away from like I said,
Speaker 5: deer in head like Fred, I.
Speaker 4: Didn't know you want to you on the air too,
Speaker 4: looking at Fred.
Speaker 5: I was watching. I was watching Fred's reaction and he
Speaker 5: was like, okay, Timmy, what have you? No, I don't
Speaker 5: want to stay, No, I said, he stayed. We stayed
Speaker 5: about twenty minutes. At least twenty minutes.
Speaker 2: Yea. At that point I wasn't making them gone.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, no, we ain't no choice. But it was
Speaker 5: at that.
Speaker 2: Point it was his owners you want. I don't even
Speaker 2: know what we talked tomorrow yep.
Speaker 5: So anyway, that was it.
Speaker 2: You have any special guests play for Friday?
Speaker 5: Eric, Uh, I got my special guest, my friend Christian
Speaker 5: Okoy is gonna come out the Nigeria Nightmare. You know,
Speaker 5: I'm sure that. Uh, the Kansa City Chiefs. I think
Speaker 5: they're gonna be Ba Cheat himself. It's the chief himself.
Speaker 5: I think they'll make it back to the super Bowl again.
Speaker 5: But you know, I called him and told him congratulations
Speaker 5: because they love him and they love him in Kansas City,
Speaker 5: they really do.
Speaker 2: I'm happy.
Speaker 5: Christian is such a good, good, good good guy. Really yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: good guy.
Speaker 2: But I take a great job with the California Hall
Speaker 2: of Fame as well.
Speaker 5: Great, he really have a great, fantastic job. Fantastic job.
Speaker 2: Are you and that yet? Eric?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 2: California Hall of fame.
Speaker 5: Yeah. I went in a long time ago. You and
Speaker 5: Fred yeah, I yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, Foundation Christian do.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Like I said, one of the best people you ever meet. Yeah, yep.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, I guess we'll see you Thursday night
Speaker 1: somewhere for dinner.
Speaker 2: Is that correct?
Speaker 5: You got it? Fred, I'll get you to I'll get
Speaker 5: you all the details.
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