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The forty nine as still 0:01:13.880 --> 0:01:17.680 alive for the number one seed in the NFC and 0:01:17.720 --> 0:01:19.800 they control their own destiny if they can win out 0:01:19.840 --> 0:01:22.279 their final three games. We will have that contest Philip 0:01:22.360 --> 0:01:25.960 Rivers versus brock Purty, the quarterback matchup we've been longing for, 0:01:26.560 --> 0:01:30.200 beginning at five pm, and of course it impacts the Rams. 0:01:30.240 --> 0:01:32.520 They need the Colts to win this one. They need 0:01:32.560 --> 0:01:34.640 the Seahawks to stub their toe as well, and that 0:01:34.640 --> 0:01:38.039 would be their path potentially to the number one overall 0:01:38.120 --> 0:01:40.319 seed in the NFC, on a path to Santa Clara 0:01:40.360 --> 0:01:41.720 for Super Bowl sixty. 0:01:43.040 --> 0:01:45.800 Well, when you got that game, yes, that's tonight, but 0:01:45.880 --> 0:01:49.200 we're on before that for three hours, so you'll be 0:01:49.200 --> 0:01:53.120 able to enjoy the game after three hours of Petrison Money, 0:01:53.120 --> 0:01:57.720 which can be podcasted or streamed on the iHeartRadio app. 0:01:57.760 --> 0:02:02.680 Tomorrow will be our last show of the year, from 0:02:02.720 --> 0:02:06.680 three to six thirty before the Clippers play Houston. So 0:02:06.760 --> 0:02:10.000 that is Tomorrow's show and that will be it for 0:02:10.080 --> 0:02:13.160 the Pettersen Money Show for twenty twenty five. We will 0:02:13.200 --> 0:02:17.720 return for our twentieth year in twenty twenty six, and 0:02:17.760 --> 0:02:18.200 we are. 0:02:18.160 --> 0:02:26.480 Hopeful hopeful music at Noon, Hopeful Music at Noon. 0:02:27.320 --> 0:02:31.280 That next year finds you well and happy and ready 0:02:32.240 --> 0:02:36.240 for another year of great sports talk and another season 0:02:36.280 --> 0:02:42.359 of Dodger Baseball right here on AM five seventy LA Sports, 0:02:42.680 --> 0:02:43.559 your home. 0:02:45.000 --> 0:02:47.840 Of the Dodgers World Champs. 0:02:49.040 --> 0:02:52.320 Now, a lot of people are riled up about the 0:02:52.440 --> 0:02:58.240 USC Notre Dame situation. We will address as it should be, 0:02:58.720 --> 0:03:03.960 the USC Notre Dame situation throughout the show. Well, there's 0:03:03.960 --> 0:03:06.919 some people that aren't riled up at all, Like Colin 0:03:07.000 --> 0:03:08.360 Cowherd tweeted out. 0:03:08.280 --> 0:03:09.120 Well, he's an idiot. 0:03:10.840 --> 0:03:14.320 When you're a full and committed member of an elite 0:03:14.320 --> 0:03:18.160 conference like USC and the Big Ten, you no longer 0:03:18.280 --> 0:03:24.040 need semi committed rivals from weaker conferences. The Trojans were 0:03:24.080 --> 0:03:29.080 increasingly making the bigger sacrifice, So thank you. 0:03:29.320 --> 0:03:30.560 I don't even know what that means. 0:03:30.919 --> 0:03:36.200 Well, it's Colin Cowherd like doing gymnastics, and look at 0:03:36.560 --> 0:03:43.160 we've all sacrificed a certain amount of dignity to allow 0:03:43.360 --> 0:03:46.680 for modern college football to exist in the way it does, 0:03:47.280 --> 0:03:49.640 and just cover it with a smile on their face. 0:03:49.680 --> 0:03:54.320 The entire college football Playoff and ESPN and what they 0:03:54.360 --> 0:03:58.640 own and don't own is the true definition of wagging 0:03:58.680 --> 0:04:02.000 the dog. They control all of this stuff and then 0:04:02.000 --> 0:04:05.000 they have a twenty four hour argument about it on 0:04:05.160 --> 0:04:08.320 the networks that they use to control the sport with. 0:04:08.960 --> 0:04:12.600 So we've all compromised a lot. 0:04:12.840 --> 0:04:15.520 I mean, I guess we should have. Right Look, Utah 0:04:15.760 --> 0:04:18.640 BYU or Oregon State like it's all come to a 0:04:18.680 --> 0:04:23.039 crashing halt. Sadly well, Utah BYU started up again again. 0:04:23.160 --> 0:04:27.040 Oregon Oregon State plays every year, the Apple Cup plays 0:04:27.080 --> 0:04:31.080 every year. It's up to the schools to figure it out. 0:04:31.160 --> 0:04:34.240 Oklahoma Texas is finally back on again. Yeah, they're being 0:04:34.279 --> 0:04:35.320 gone for a couple of years. 0:04:35.400 --> 0:04:38.680 Bedlam is gone. But again it is up to the 0:04:38.720 --> 0:04:42.240 schools to figure this thing out. And USC Notre Dame, 0:04:42.360 --> 0:04:46.560 because it was an intersectional rivalry, was not supposed to 0:04:46.600 --> 0:04:51.920 be or fall victim to conference realignment, and it has 0:04:52.160 --> 0:04:55.960 because Lincoln Riley started talking about it when he got 0:04:56.000 --> 0:04:59.960 the job before Gen Cohen. Lincoln Riley the USC head 0:05:00.120 --> 0:05:01.320 coach for how long? 0:05:01.560 --> 0:05:04.000 Talking for years he's been the head coach. He's like, 0:05:04.680 --> 0:05:06.480 he's connected with the program. Is that the guy we're 0:05:06.480 --> 0:05:09.400 talking about? He is going in the program to his 0:05:09.600 --> 0:05:13.960 fifth year in twenty twenty six, and he has been 0:05:14.279 --> 0:05:18.680 overall a disappointment and he shouldn't get to say it, 0:05:19.160 --> 0:05:23.160 whether the university does or doesn't play Notre Dame. Jen 0:05:23.160 --> 0:05:26.080 Cohen should be strong enough to deal with it as 0:05:26.120 --> 0:05:31.880 the US Athletic Director and make sure that the rivalry continues. 0:05:32.240 --> 0:05:35.640 And the USC president, which they don't have right now, 0:05:35.800 --> 0:05:38.560 or the board of trustees has got to figure it 0:05:38.600 --> 0:05:42.000 out and step in or some donor or somebody. I mean, 0:05:42.000 --> 0:05:45.520 they've had a year to figure this out, and they've 0:05:45.560 --> 0:05:48.240 not figured it out. Notre Dame has moved on and 0:05:48.279 --> 0:05:52.680 scheduled BYU and now the rivalry, if it ever resumes, 0:05:53.360 --> 0:05:56.360 is not going to be on again until twenty thirty 0:05:56.560 --> 0:06:01.240 at the earliest. And it is a and they did 0:06:02.240 --> 0:06:05.599 UCLA tried to what push the idea of we will 0:06:05.640 --> 0:06:08.440 continue it for two years as long as it's earlier 0:06:08.480 --> 0:06:11.840 in the season, not in the midst of our right 0:06:11.880 --> 0:06:13.440 with need of our big tench That's kind of what 0:06:13.480 --> 0:06:15.280 their compromise was, right, that's what they want. 0:06:15.560 --> 0:06:17.440 That's what well. First of all, no one should have 0:06:17.440 --> 0:06:19.760 ever said anything, right. They should have put it out 0:06:19.800 --> 0:06:22.000 there that they should have left it like it was 0:06:22.279 --> 0:06:26.320 like it was historically, with USC traveling out there before 0:06:26.320 --> 0:06:30.280 it gets too cold in mid October, not late October, 0:06:30.880 --> 0:06:33.120 and Notre Dame coming out here when the weather is 0:06:33.160 --> 0:06:37.240 beautiful to play Thanksgiving Day weekend. They should have left 0:06:37.279 --> 0:06:39.400 it like that. It should have never been touched. No 0:06:39.440 --> 0:06:42.719 one should have said anything about it, in my very 0:06:42.800 --> 0:06:52.159 humble opinion, And I don't know exactly when Lincoln Riley 0:06:52.200 --> 0:06:54.360 said it. It was when he was still riding pretty 0:06:54.400 --> 0:06:58.440 high with Caleb Williams in his first year as the quarterback. 0:06:58.480 --> 0:07:01.320 But Lincoln Riley said something to the effect of we 0:07:01.360 --> 0:07:03.960 got to look at that or something, and then started 0:07:03.960 --> 0:07:07.080 to say it publicly. And then USC got a new 0:07:07.120 --> 0:07:10.520 athletic director and they started negotiating with Notre Dame, and 0:07:10.560 --> 0:07:13.160 Notre Dame wouldn't bunch, so the USC had to feel 0:07:13.200 --> 0:07:16.200 like they need to save face and get this moved 0:07:16.680 --> 0:07:19.320 to a better time a year for them, not in 0:07:19.400 --> 0:07:21.560 the teeth of when they have to go to places 0:07:21.600 --> 0:07:24.960 like Nebraska, and the different arguments you hear from people 0:07:25.040 --> 0:07:28.520 that carry water from modern day college football and USC 0:07:28.680 --> 0:07:32.520 like Colin Coward, and then it just became a petty, 0:07:32.640 --> 0:07:37.400 stubborn thing between two gigantic entities. But it started with 0:07:37.480 --> 0:07:42.000 Lincoln Riley, and shame on Jen Cohen because it's up 0:07:42.040 --> 0:07:44.760 to her to make sure that the thing keeps going 0:07:44.800 --> 0:07:47.120 and to a certain degree, shame on Notre Name for 0:07:47.240 --> 0:07:49.880 not being able to figure it out at the end 0:07:49.880 --> 0:07:51.920 of the day, as our old boss used to say. 0:07:52.120 --> 0:07:54.040 And I you know, and I know, it was a 0:07:54.160 --> 0:08:00.160 much different time. But when USC was beating the snot 0:08:00.000 --> 0:08:02.960 out of Notre Dame for a decade, you know, from 0:08:02.960 --> 0:08:06.360 two thousand to twenty ten, you never heard, you know, 0:08:06.560 --> 0:08:10.680 a a peep from them. And now that USC has 0:08:10.760 --> 0:08:12.840 lost eight of the last ten to Notre Dame, all 0:08:12.880 --> 0:08:15.280 of a sudden, this rivalry is not sustainable. 0:08:15.280 --> 0:08:16.760 It's too hard to Matt. 0:08:16.760 --> 0:08:19.760 When I was as nothing was more important in our 0:08:19.800 --> 0:08:22.960 lives as far as sports went than the football we 0:08:22.960 --> 0:08:28.960 were playing and USC football, my father, my older brother, myself, 0:08:29.480 --> 0:08:34.440 my uncle Tommy, my grandfather, Tom Papadakis. We were so 0:08:34.640 --> 0:08:37.640 intertwined with the thing. And I lived and died watching 0:08:37.720 --> 0:08:41.560 guys like Rodney Pete, our colleague, and Todd Marinovich and 0:08:41.640 --> 0:08:45.840 Mark Carrier and Cadillac Cleveland Coulter and all that play. 0:08:45.960 --> 0:08:49.680 I think within that stretch all the way up until 0:08:49.720 --> 0:08:53.560 the game in nineteen ninety four, which was bitterly cold 0:08:53.960 --> 0:08:57.200 at the coliseum, and I was there as a USC 0:08:57.280 --> 0:09:01.440 football recruit in the tunnel and my brother was playing. 0:09:02.440 --> 0:09:05.240 I don't think USC beat Notre Dame for thirteen years. 0:09:06.800 --> 0:09:09.160 I think that game in ninety four was a tie, 0:09:10.160 --> 0:09:12.560 and no one ever said anything about it. People just 0:09:12.640 --> 0:09:15.080 wanted to play so bad so you could beat them, 0:09:15.520 --> 0:09:18.520 and it was a Lou Holtz and Ron Pallace I 0:09:18.559 --> 0:09:22.320 think a couple years later in ninety six that ended 0:09:22.360 --> 0:09:26.880 up losing finally at the Coliseum, and that streak of 0:09:26.960 --> 0:09:30.240 fourteen years not beating USC or not beating Notre Dame 0:09:30.559 --> 0:09:32.720 was over. No, and you never heard anything like this, 0:09:33.240 --> 0:09:38.320 we can't beat them, or we don't have a favorable schedule. 0:09:38.679 --> 0:09:42.920 Just as an example, Matt, you mentioned twenty two to 0:09:43.040 --> 0:09:46.160 twenty ten and Pete Carroll having a whole bunch of success. 0:09:46.480 --> 0:09:50.920 Here's a great example. USC's got what Missouri State on 0:09:50.960 --> 0:09:54.720 the schedule in twenty twenty five and had Georgia Southern 0:09:54.760 --> 0:09:57.160 on the schedule in twenty twenty five, and you know 0:09:57.200 --> 0:09:59.560 that's what they're going to do from here on out. 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:02.840 They're going to schedule three big cupcakes and then play 0:10:02.880 --> 0:10:08.400 big ten games, and it's shameful. In twenty oh six, 0:10:09.720 --> 0:10:17.120 USC's three non conference games were at Arkansas Nebraska and 0:10:17.240 --> 0:10:20.800 Notre Dame. Yeah, and then they played nine pack twelve games. 0:10:21.200 --> 0:10:26.440 Pete Carroll wanted to play the best, and you fast 0:10:26.480 --> 0:10:30.880 forward now nineteen years and you see this level of 0:10:30.960 --> 0:10:33.560 cowardice and it's hard to swallow. 0:10:34.200 --> 0:10:39.520 It really is Missouri State, Georgia Southern then. Yet somehow 0:10:39.559 --> 0:10:41.800 Pete figured out how to navigate and win back to 0:10:41.840 --> 0:10:45.760 back national championships, win double digit games, play meaningful games 0:10:45.840 --> 0:10:48.319 late in the season, year after year when you had 0:10:48.320 --> 0:10:49.800 to be one of the two best teams in the 0:10:49.840 --> 0:10:51.679 country to win a time, not one of the twelve, 0:10:52.360 --> 0:10:57.640 one of the two. And again, it's not isolating. I 0:10:57.679 --> 0:11:00.200 get it, it's not isolated to USC. So many these 0:11:00.280 --> 0:11:01.400 rivalries have been kicked to. 0:11:01.400 --> 0:11:03.360 The Texas Oklahoma never had it. 0:11:03.480 --> 0:11:03.680 Yeah. 0:11:03.679 --> 0:11:05.520 I meant to say Texas, Texas, A and M when 0:11:05.559 --> 0:11:07.520 Texas left, and now obviously that's back with A and 0:11:07.640 --> 0:11:08.200 M rejoining. 0:11:08.240 --> 0:11:09.600 That was my bad, My apologies. 0:11:09.840 --> 0:11:12.040 Yeah, but this was supposed to be bigger than all 0:11:12.080 --> 0:11:15.240 of those. At least it was for those of us 0:11:15.320 --> 0:11:17.280 that played at USSE and for those of us that 0:11:17.320 --> 0:11:20.040 played at Notre Dame. I know people feel the same. 0:11:20.480 --> 0:11:23.679 I was proud that Keishawn Johnson, who's long been a 0:11:23.720 --> 0:11:27.280 media guy and a very outspoken guy who does not 0:11:27.840 --> 0:11:30.520 very often. I mean, he grew up in the shadow 0:11:30.760 --> 0:11:34.040 of the coliseum and the university. He was a USC 0:11:34.200 --> 0:11:37.640 ball boy. He ended up going to a JC and 0:11:37.679 --> 0:11:42.120 then playing at USC. Definitely not an easy path. And 0:11:42.320 --> 0:11:50.920 Keishawn almost never criticizes USC or the school and the 0:11:51.800 --> 0:11:54.760 athletic program because they've done so much for him and 0:11:54.800 --> 0:11:57.360 it's so much a part of his identity. But even 0:11:57.440 --> 0:12:01.760 Keishan has been he's he went off today. Here's Keishaan 0:12:01.840 --> 0:12:02.600 on Twitter. 0:12:02.760 --> 0:12:04.600 I don't know what the f is going on with 0:12:04.600 --> 0:12:05.640 our athletic department. 0:12:06.400 --> 0:12:09.439 Okay, we got people in there that are not Trojans, 0:12:09.800 --> 0:12:12.640 that don't know anything about being a trojan running our 0:12:12.640 --> 0:12:15.600 athletic department. We got a head coach that knows nothing 0:12:15.640 --> 0:12:20.640 about being a trojan. Why don't we just not play football? 0:12:20.640 --> 0:12:23.880 How about that We're not gonna play Notre Dame again, 0:12:24.040 --> 0:12:27.680 possibly till twenty thirty, is what I'm understanding. That doesn't 0:12:27.679 --> 0:12:29.360 make any sense. I grew up on the Notre Dame 0:12:29.480 --> 0:12:31.760 USC rivalry, and I'm not one to go in on 0:12:31.800 --> 0:12:32.800 my athletic department. 0:12:33.000 --> 0:12:34.920 Nor am I one to go in on the USC 0:12:34.960 --> 0:12:35.679 football coach. 0:12:36.080 --> 0:12:39.400 But if I can remember correctly, I had Lincoln Riley 0:12:39.440 --> 0:12:41.800 talking about, well, I don't know if I want to play. 0:12:41.600 --> 0:12:42.360 Them in the future. 0:12:42.840 --> 0:12:45.240 You ain't gonna be here in the future, especially if 0:12:45.280 --> 0:12:47.439 you keep missing the playoffs. 0:12:47.760 --> 0:12:49.600 You're not gonna be here in the future. I promise 0:12:49.640 --> 0:12:49.840 you that. 0:12:50.640 --> 0:12:56.000 So I don't understand what our athletic department, our administration, okay, 0:12:56.520 --> 0:12:59.520 our border trustees, border regions, whatever you want to call it. 0:13:00.120 --> 0:13:03.640 What the hell are they doing? We running from teams now? 0:13:03.679 --> 0:13:06.600 We running from Notre Dame. Hell, Why don't we run 0:13:07.320 --> 0:13:10.480 from Oregon in Michigan and Ohio State and Wisconsin. Why 0:13:10.480 --> 0:13:13.840 don't we just not be in the conference when we 0:13:13.960 --> 0:13:18.640 pull that move and just play Sacramento State when we 0:13:18.640 --> 0:13:21.400 play them type of teams you see, Davis, because that's 0:13:21.400 --> 0:13:24.760 what we want to do. This is crazy. It really 0:13:24.880 --> 0:13:28.480 is crazy if you think about it. Michigan, Ohio State, 0:13:28.559 --> 0:13:33.559 one of the biggest rivalries in football. Alabama Rbor Okay, 0:13:33.720 --> 0:13:37.160 they ain't canceling that. Why would we cancel our biggest 0:13:37.280 --> 0:13:39.640 rivalry because. 0:13:39.240 --> 0:13:44.120 We can't beat them? Me, Dick, it makes zero sense, man, 0:13:44.160 --> 0:13:47.080 It's just hard to support this. Program is hard. 0:13:47.120 --> 0:13:50.199 It's really hard to support this program when we keep 0:13:50.240 --> 0:13:55.520 on doing this type of be stuffed this behavior. I can't, Man, 0:13:55.880 --> 0:13:59.040 we need trojans doing trojan things. 0:13:59.600 --> 0:14:02.200 We don't need impostors coming in and trying to do 0:14:02.240 --> 0:14:03.400 trojan things. I'm gonna leave it. 0:14:03.400 --> 0:14:08.480 At that, And I believe that the reason this has 0:14:08.520 --> 0:14:13.040 happened is corroded leadership. There was nobody to stop this 0:14:13.840 --> 0:14:16.880 at USC. And as much as I've criticized a lot 0:14:16.920 --> 0:14:20.000 of the athletic directors and all the different turnover USC 0:14:20.120 --> 0:14:22.480 has had over the years, a lot of people that 0:14:22.520 --> 0:14:24.840 have been in that seat over the last few years 0:14:24.880 --> 0:14:27.400 would have never allowed this to happen. Matt. To answer 0:14:27.480 --> 0:14:31.440 your question, USC opens up with Fresno State, okay, and 0:14:31.560 --> 0:14:36.080 Louisiana La Fayette. Oh, that would be just Louisiana. Yeah, 0:14:36.080 --> 0:14:39.640 the Cajuns with Chyenne there, Pepper mascot. 0:14:39.840 --> 0:14:41.680 I don't know what the if is going on with 0:14:41.720 --> 0:14:42.720 our athletic department. 0:14:44.040 --> 0:14:49.680 I cannot wait to see what school USC replaces Notre 0:14:49.760 --> 0:14:51.680 Dame with now. 0:14:51.720 --> 0:14:55.800 I you know, as someone who was again, I remember 0:14:55.800 --> 0:14:58.240 some of the signature games growing up on the other side. 0:14:58.080 --> 0:15:01.280 Well, you have yeah, you have a United because you 0:15:01.400 --> 0:15:05.240 grew up uh in the area just right outside of 0:15:05.280 --> 0:15:08.200 South Basically, when people go to the USC Notre Dame 0:15:08.280 --> 0:15:10.120 game and they're USC fans and they. 0:15:10.000 --> 0:15:12.960 Go out there, they r s whole town. 0:15:13.120 --> 0:15:17.240 They drive through Matt's region on the way to Notre Dame, 0:15:17.360 --> 0:15:18.240 so stop. 0:15:18.040 --> 0:15:20.640 People, you might die, but keep driving through it. 0:15:21.240 --> 0:15:24.080 But Yeah, and I just kind of think about the 0:15:24.120 --> 0:15:29.160 fact that Notre Dame, what was it, uh, three four 0:15:29.240 --> 0:15:32.560 years ago? Then they are probably five years ago that 0:15:32.640 --> 0:15:35.440 they put a stop to the Michigan rivalry, and it's 0:15:35.480 --> 0:15:37.760 not like that was the USC rivalry. Now they didn't 0:15:37.840 --> 0:15:39.560 kind of go and here's the late seven I mean, 0:15:39.600 --> 0:15:42.080 they were playing most every year since the late seventies, 0:15:42.120 --> 0:15:44.440 but it's not s C for you know, damn near 0:15:44.440 --> 0:15:49.440 a century. So I again, I'm not trying to I'm 0:15:49.440 --> 0:15:52.120 not trying to say, hey, this is okay, but I'm 0:15:52.160 --> 0:15:54.080 just asking, like, how much of this do we think 0:15:54.120 --> 0:15:56.760 with Bavaca running his mouth about the ACC and he's 0:15:56.800 --> 0:15:59.600 all pissed off about how things went this year, how 0:15:59.680 --> 0:16:00.800 much of this is on them? 0:16:01.160 --> 0:16:02.400 Like on Notre Dame. 0:16:02.520 --> 0:16:04.840 Yeah, I think splitting the pie, like, what's the is 0:16:04.880 --> 0:16:05.480 it twenty. 0:16:07.080 --> 0:16:10.440 I have I have no idea. They should be. Both 0:16:10.440 --> 0:16:15.640 of these athletic departments. It's their duty to figure this 0:16:15.760 --> 0:16:18.600 out for the fans and for the players, and for 0:16:18.680 --> 0:16:21.880 the former players, and for the sport. So it's their 0:16:22.000 --> 0:16:26.240 duty to find a middle ground and make sure that 0:16:26.320 --> 0:16:30.840 there's no pause in college football's greatest rivalry. So in 0:16:30.880 --> 0:16:34.800 that regard, they both think this started with Lincoln Riley 0:16:35.480 --> 0:16:38.600 and Jen Cohen has not been strong enough to stop it, 0:16:39.240 --> 0:16:42.560 and so she's going to go down with him in flames, isn't. 0:16:42.720 --> 0:16:45.760 Isn't it her choice? I mean, she's the athletic directors 0:16:45.800 --> 0:16:48.960 and she ultimately the one like yeah, but decides He's 0:16:49.000 --> 0:16:51.000 not the one that coaches don't decide this crap. 0:16:51.160 --> 0:16:53.000 I don't know what the if is going on with 0:16:53.000 --> 0:16:54.040 our athletic department. 0:16:54.240 --> 0:16:57.360 Well, nobody brought it up before Lincoln Riley. He brought 0:16:57.360 --> 0:17:00.440 it up. So then people are going to point the 0:17:00.480 --> 0:17:03.560 finger because no one would have even ever conceived this 0:17:04.280 --> 0:17:08.119 before this guy from Muleshoe, Texas came out here and 0:17:08.240 --> 0:17:12.399 started telling yeah, and started telling everybody how a hundred 0:17:12.480 --> 0:17:14.919 year old rivalry that only took one year off for 0:17:15.040 --> 0:17:21.440 COVID and took World War Two off it's crazy, I am. 0:17:22.119 --> 0:17:24.680 I guess I'm not dumbfounded because we've been talking about 0:17:24.680 --> 0:17:26.280 this for a long time. 0:17:26.560 --> 0:17:27.760 You didn't think it was gonna happen. 0:17:28.680 --> 0:17:30.960 I guess not today. But maybe there's some kind of 0:17:31.000 --> 0:17:33.320 media timing about that because of the way Notre Dame 0:17:33.359 --> 0:17:36.800 behaved regarding the Pop Tarts Bowl and the College Football Playoff. 0:17:37.080 --> 0:17:40.760 But this is totally unrelated other than the fact if 0:17:40.800 --> 0:17:42.840 you're one of those people like Colin Cowhard that thinks 0:17:42.880 --> 0:17:45.439 they need to join a conference, Notre Dame doesn't need 0:17:45.440 --> 0:17:47.440 to join a conference as long as NBC is willing 0:17:47.480 --> 0:17:50.320 to pay him to have their own TVD Why do 0:17:50.440 --> 0:17:52.440 they do that? And teams will line up to play them? 0:17:52.720 --> 0:17:55.320 Say what you will, like us? He needs Notre Dame more. 0:17:55.560 --> 0:17:58.879 She needs Notre Dame more. That changes every single year, 0:17:59.080 --> 0:18:01.840 and the circumstance of the schedule and what the years 0:18:02.000 --> 0:18:04.720 like and what happened in the year. You can't really 0:18:04.760 --> 0:18:10.160 say who needs who more in any kind of general context. 0:18:10.280 --> 0:18:14.120 Likes Michigan, Ohio State and Penn State they need Notre Dame. 0:18:14.840 --> 0:18:16.840 That's the way their Big Ten schedule shakes out. You 0:18:16.840 --> 0:18:18.320 bet you're asked they're going to need Notre Dame. 0:18:18.680 --> 0:18:21.919 It's these people's job to make this work. So in 0:18:21.920 --> 0:18:24.480 that regard, I would say Notre Dame is also guilty. 0:18:24.840 --> 0:18:27.960 But this started with USC, and then they both came 0:18:28.000 --> 0:18:30.600 to the table and there was a lot of scrutiny 0:18:30.600 --> 0:18:33.400 on what was going to happen, and neither of them 0:18:33.440 --> 0:18:38.879 could compromise, it seems. And I would rather have USC 0:18:39.040 --> 0:18:41.360 Notre Dame in September than not have it at all. 0:18:42.119 --> 0:18:43.920 I think it would be stupid to move it. 0:18:44.600 --> 0:18:47.840 But if you's the middle ground you have to meet 0:18:47.880 --> 0:18:51.120 to keep USC in it, then you should meet ten. 0:18:51.200 --> 0:18:54.600 For USC means that we have to play Cayenne, the 0:18:54.920 --> 0:19:00.640 Louisiana Lafayette, and Georgia Southern and like he Sean said, 0:19:00.640 --> 0:19:03.960 the Sacramento States of the world. Then maybe you just 0:19:04.000 --> 0:19:06.440 ought to go back to the pack eight or whatever 0:19:07.160 --> 0:19:10.440 and asked a note to ask Oregon State and Washington 0:19:10.440 --> 0:19:13.879 State for forgiveness for blowing up their lives. This is pathetic. 0:19:15.080 --> 0:19:19.720 It's really a sad day, and we're watching college football 0:19:19.760 --> 0:19:22.640 slip through our fingers. But this was something that these 0:19:22.680 --> 0:19:26.520 people could have been stewards of and hung onto in 0:19:26.600 --> 0:19:30.679 a chaotic time to create some semblance of balance and 0:19:30.680 --> 0:19:35.080 stability and tradition, and they have failed us. The leadership 0:19:35.560 --> 0:19:36.440 has failed us. 0:19:37.640 --> 0:19:40.520 It's funny, ever since you mentioned that with Pete, I'm 0:19:40.560 --> 0:19:44.280 just looking at all those You know how much it changed, 0:19:44.480 --> 0:19:48.440 you know, from when you would get excited about week 0:19:48.560 --> 0:19:52.639 zero or week one, And here's Pete winning eleven games 0:19:52.680 --> 0:19:55.359 in a year he opened with Auburn, played number eighteen, 0:19:55.440 --> 0:19:56.920 Colorado top twenty five. 0:19:57.000 --> 0:19:57.880 Kansas State. 0:20:00.000 --> 0:20:03.280 Aren't scared of anybody, No, I wanted to measure themselves, 0:20:03.680 --> 0:20:07.359 measure themselves against the best because they're trying to be 0:20:07.440 --> 0:20:10.360 the best team in the country, not trying to jerrymander 0:20:10.400 --> 0:20:12.800 their schedule so they can be the fifth team and 0:20:12.840 --> 0:20:14.640 the big ten to get into the playoff. 0:20:14.960 --> 0:20:18.200 It's sad Ohio State back to back years. Oh wait nine? 0:20:18.240 --> 0:20:20.720 Oh yeah, I mean I remember talking to Jim Tressel 0:20:20.760 --> 0:20:26.160 in the tunnel and is in his sweater ve. Yeah. 0:20:25.240 --> 0:20:30.040 I know it's a different time and I know things 0:20:30.080 --> 0:20:33.520 are changing, but this did not have to be this way. 0:20:34.280 --> 0:20:36.160 And it's kind of the same way with the way 0:20:36.200 --> 0:20:38.240 the Pac twelve went away. It didn't have to be 0:20:38.440 --> 0:20:41.719 like this. And now we live in this awkward present 0:20:41.880 --> 0:20:45.080 and future and it is unfortunate. There's other things to 0:20:45.160 --> 0:20:47.879 look forward to. Today, we have the state of hate. 0:20:48.320 --> 0:20:50.240 Perhaps we're going to start out with the state of 0:20:50.240 --> 0:20:54.240 hate and see where it takes us. Yeah. Probably we'll 0:20:54.240 --> 0:20:56.480 have a top story of the day as the Chargers. 0:20:56.920 --> 0:20:59.040 I know he's not going to win Coach of the 0:20:59.119 --> 0:21:03.200 Year because there's so many other stories he should. Jim 0:21:03.240 --> 0:21:04.960 Harbaugh has done a heck of a job this year 0:21:05.000 --> 0:21:08.240 with a pretty beat up team. Yeah, finding ways to 0:21:08.320 --> 0:21:12.320 win and now creating confidence in December. So we'll talk 0:21:12.320 --> 0:21:15.480 about that as mad as back from Dallas and we'll 0:21:15.480 --> 0:21:19.680 have house your weekend. We'll talk more about Seo Notre 0:21:19.760 --> 0:21:22.440 Dame as the day goes on. It's a sad day 0:21:22.480 --> 0:21:25.080 in great sports talk, but we're up to the challenge. 0:21:29.840 --> 0:21:32.480 We've made it even easier to take LA Sports with 0:21:32.560 --> 0:21:35.200 you this summer. Make AM five to seventy or your 0:21:35.240 --> 0:21:38.760 favorite AM five seventy LA Sports podcast a preset on 0:21:38.800 --> 0:21:42.680 the iHeartRadio app using Apple CarPlay or Android Auto road 0:21:42.680 --> 0:21:46.240 Trip all summer with LA Sports. Welcome back, everybody, Petro 0:21:46.440 --> 0:21:52.399 send money on early off at five for the forty 0:21:52.480 --> 0:21:56.760 nine Ers versus Colts. We hope you're having a great evening. 0:21:57.920 --> 0:22:00.920 Don't forget this is our second last of the year. 0:22:01.000 --> 0:22:04.200 You could podcast everything on the iHeartRadio app your smartphone 0:22:04.400 --> 0:22:06.639 or stream it their live. It is time for the 0:22:06.640 --> 0:22:07.720 top story of the day. 0:22:09.160 --> 0:22:12.480 Of it well before we get to the the on 0:22:12.640 --> 0:22:17.280 field p. More importantly, some events occurring off the field 0:22:17.560 --> 0:22:20.600 that have a direct impact on the Petros and Money Show, 0:22:20.760 --> 0:22:22.840 and what has a direct impact on us is much 0:22:22.840 --> 0:22:25.720 more important than things that perhaps are more That's why 0:22:25.720 --> 0:22:26.320 we spend. 0:22:26.200 --> 0:22:28.200 So much time talking about the schedule. 0:22:29.760 --> 0:22:32.960 We have a proclamation that hangs in our studio. It 0:22:33.040 --> 0:22:35.159 is a notice to all the other shows that they 0:22:35.200 --> 0:22:39.440 aren't nearly as successful nor revered. 0:22:39.040 --> 0:22:43.960 As we are. It is from what I mean. You 0:22:44.000 --> 0:22:45.199 don't think it sensed that signal. 0:22:46.840 --> 0:22:50.680 I mean to me, it speaks to our dedication to localities. 0:22:50.840 --> 0:22:55.399 Certain Frank Yoka Yama gave us a proclamation from the 0:22:55.400 --> 0:22:58.520 city of Soritos that says, we love you guys, we 0:22:58.600 --> 0:23:04.200 appreciate you guys. It's a proclamation. P. We only have 0:23:04.320 --> 0:23:10.920 one key to a city, and that key was bestowed 0:23:11.000 --> 0:23:14.600 upon us while we were doing a live show in 0:23:14.680 --> 0:23:22.080 Las Vegas, Nevada. I believe we were at the strat 0:23:22.800 --> 0:23:25.680 I believe there was a naked city trip involved. That 0:23:25.720 --> 0:23:28.480 was a long time ago. It was a very long 0:23:28.480 --> 0:23:32.240 time I was like Batman year one. And that key 0:23:32.359 --> 0:23:36.119 that was bestowed to us upon us came from the 0:23:36.200 --> 0:23:43.000 Honorable Mayor Thomas McDermott Junior. He is still the mayor 0:23:44.640 --> 0:23:48.480 of the city of Hammond, Indiana, a city to which 0:23:48.480 --> 0:23:50.520 the Petros and Money Show currently owns. 0:23:50.240 --> 0:23:51.439 A key to the city. 0:23:51.720 --> 0:23:52.600 That's where you're from. 0:23:53.480 --> 0:23:58.919 And the headline in the weekend Sunday Northwest Indiana Times 0:23:58.960 --> 0:24:05.160 reads today or this, yes, just yesterday's paper, with a 0:24:05.200 --> 0:24:09.520 photo of a giant rig that has a huge drilling 0:24:09.600 --> 0:24:15.399 mechanism making its way toward Wolf Lake to test I 0:24:15.440 --> 0:24:23.480 suppose the foundation of the ground. Hammond emerges as serious 0:24:23.480 --> 0:24:28.760 contender and bears widening stadium search. 0:24:29.480 --> 0:24:32.359 I saw this, and there's other news today about Kansas 0:24:32.359 --> 0:24:34.119 City going to Kansas. 0:24:33.760 --> 0:24:37.400 So that one is official, you know. Obviously, it's also 0:24:37.440 --> 0:24:40.359 official that the New York Giants and New York Jets 0:24:40.400 --> 0:24:43.960 play in New Jersey. The San Francisco forty nine ers 0:24:44.080 --> 0:24:47.440 play in Santa Clair, a different county than the city 0:24:47.440 --> 0:24:51.960 of San Francisco. And now after announcement and announcement today. 0:24:51.960 --> 0:24:55.479 As you just mentioned, p Missouri is losing their second 0:24:55.480 --> 0:24:59.919 football team in just over a decade. Saint Louis lost 0:25:00.040 --> 0:25:03.520 the Rams twelve years ago to Los Angeles, and now 0:25:03.800 --> 0:25:08.879 Kansas City, Missouri will lose the Chiefs to Kansas City, Kansas. 0:25:08.920 --> 0:25:11.040 We're gonna cross this street of here. 0:25:13.400 --> 0:25:16.200 Olath, I believe is going to be getting a practice 0:25:16.200 --> 0:25:20.600 facility and I multi and a multi purpose shopping district, 0:25:21.480 --> 0:25:24.280 a destination like the one I traveled to over the 0:25:24.280 --> 0:25:30.480 weekend where the star is Frisco, Texas, Arlington, Texas, where 0:25:30.480 --> 0:25:36.239 these football teams can create many cities destinations that go 0:25:36.359 --> 0:25:39.639 beyond the eight or nine home games they have scheduled 0:25:39.640 --> 0:25:43.840 for a single season. Do I think the Chicago Bears 0:25:43.840 --> 0:25:45.200 will move to Hammond, Indiana? 0:25:45.359 --> 0:25:45.399 No? 0:25:46.080 --> 0:25:48.200 Oh, But I would like to point. 0:25:47.920 --> 0:25:50.760 Out, do we still have our key to the city? 0:25:50.760 --> 0:25:51.399 Can we frame it? 0:25:51.560 --> 0:25:54.159 I think it's got to be somewhere. I would assume 0:25:54.200 --> 0:25:58.960 it's somewhere in the office it was given right it's 0:25:59.080 --> 0:26:00.760 it might be in the day or in one of 0:26:00.760 --> 0:26:03.959 the cabinets it was given to us. It was a 0:26:04.000 --> 0:26:06.639 framed key to the city to Hammond, Indiana, which is 0:26:06.680 --> 0:26:11.119 now in the middle of some major National Football League 0:26:11.160 --> 0:26:13.800 news as if in fact they are going to really 0:26:13.840 --> 0:26:16.560 follow up on the Northwest Indiana threat because of the 0:26:17.280 --> 0:26:21.600 considerably lower taxes and willingness to give the McCaskey family 0:26:21.640 --> 0:26:24.480 more money than the state of Illinois, which is almost 0:26:24.480 --> 0:26:28.560 as broke as California. Then maybe we will have a 0:26:28.640 --> 0:26:31.160 key to the city that will house an actual NFL franchise. 0:26:31.280 --> 0:26:33.280 I'd like to locate that Keyton City and put it 0:26:33.359 --> 0:26:33.960 up on the wall. 0:26:34.080 --> 0:26:37.480 It's good idea because it would again reinforce the idea 0:26:37.520 --> 0:26:41.320 of what a successful show we have, how revered we 0:26:41.400 --> 0:26:46.200 are to the actual football. And good luck to Kansas City, Kansas. 0:26:46.240 --> 0:26:48.520 I believe that stadium is going to be domed and 0:26:48.560 --> 0:26:51.240 it will be open in twenty thirty one, along with 0:26:51.280 --> 0:26:52.600 some sort of shopping district. 0:26:53.880 --> 0:26:55.680 Maybe USC Notre Dame could play there. 0:26:55.720 --> 0:26:57.800 Oh, that'd be great, right there in the middle. To 0:26:57.840 --> 0:26:58.320 meet in the middle. 0:26:58.359 --> 0:27:03.320 Guys have the same record, They both have championship winning 0:27:03.320 --> 0:27:07.359 head coaches, they both have franchise quarterbacks. Only one of 0:27:07.400 --> 0:27:09.600 them controls their path to winning their division in a 0:27:09.680 --> 0:27:12.480 home game in the playoffs, and yet the eleven and 0:27:12.520 --> 0:27:18.000 four Chargers are viewed considerably different than the eleven and 0:27:18.040 --> 0:27:22.080 four Rams. I believe the meme that is making the 0:27:22.160 --> 0:27:27.200 rounds is the one of Tiger Woods, prim and proper 0:27:27.800 --> 0:27:32.920 in his Sunday red black pant, perfectly tucked in combo, 0:27:33.720 --> 0:27:37.040 staring at John Daily with his beard, his cigarette, his 0:27:37.160 --> 0:27:43.200 loud mouthed pants, and his squatty stature. Eleven and four Chargers. 0:27:44.359 --> 0:27:47.240 The Rams are plus four hundred favorites, the favorite to 0:27:47.240 --> 0:27:50.640 win the Lombardi in February. The Chargers are plus two thousand, 0:27:50.720 --> 0:27:53.359 tied for tenth with the forty nine Ers, who, by 0:27:53.359 --> 0:27:55.000 the way, also control their path to win in the 0:27:55.080 --> 0:27:57.399 NFC West. You'll hear a tier tonight against the Colts. 0:27:57.560 --> 0:28:00.119 The If the forty nine Ers went out they win 0:28:00.160 --> 0:28:02.920 the NFC West, they will have a home game. If 0:28:02.920 --> 0:28:05.360 the Chargers win their final two games now they will 0:28:05.400 --> 0:28:07.680 be champions of the AFC West for the first time 0:28:07.720 --> 0:28:09.919 since two thousand and nine, just like the forty nine 0:28:10.000 --> 0:28:11.840 Ers would be champions of the NFC West if they 0:28:11.840 --> 0:28:14.119 win their final two games, and they would be on 0:28:14.119 --> 0:28:16.280 top of the toughest division in football this season. But 0:28:16.320 --> 0:28:19.560 they are viewed, for whatever reason, as a step below 0:28:19.600 --> 0:28:22.919 the Seahawks and the Rams clearly at plus two thousand 0:28:23.000 --> 0:28:24.920 to win the Super Bowl the Rams plus four hundred 0:28:24.960 --> 0:28:28.720 the Seahawks plus five hundred. The Rams look likely to 0:28:28.720 --> 0:28:30.720 be a wildcard team, which means you got to play 0:28:30.720 --> 0:28:32.680 an extra game if you're not the one seed. All 0:28:32.720 --> 0:28:35.000 three of your games if you were to make the 0:28:35.000 --> 0:28:37.200 Super Bowl would be on the road in order to 0:28:37.240 --> 0:28:39.520 make it to Super Bowl sixty in Santa Clara. The 0:28:39.600 --> 0:28:42.040 mess that was the fourth quarter in Seattle set that course. 0:28:42.080 --> 0:28:44.000 There is still a path to a much easier route, 0:28:44.000 --> 0:28:48.000 but it does mean watching other teams in the division stumble. 0:28:48.960 --> 0:28:51.080 The Bolts do not have to do that. All they 0:28:51.120 --> 0:28:53.840 have to do is win. If they win their final 0:28:53.880 --> 0:28:58.240 two games Saturday one thirty pm kick at home, nationally 0:28:58.280 --> 0:29:02.280 televised against the Houston Texans, followed up by a week 0:29:02.320 --> 0:29:05.520 eighteen trip to Denver against the Broncos, whom they've already 0:29:05.520 --> 0:29:09.040 defeated in Week three at SOFI Stadium, that would hand 0:29:09.120 --> 0:29:11.600 them the AFC West crown, the first that doesn't go 0:29:11.640 --> 0:29:14.800 to Kansas City since two thousand and fourteen. Actually, they 0:29:14.840 --> 0:29:17.520 haven't made the playoffs since twenty fourteen. They haven't been 0:29:18.880 --> 0:29:22.240 winners of the AFC West in eight years very well 0:29:22.280 --> 0:29:25.080 can end up being the Sunday night football game depending 0:29:25.080 --> 0:29:27.760 on the implications of the aforementioned NFC West forty nine 0:29:27.800 --> 0:29:30.880 or Seahawks Week eighteen game that will be played in 0:29:31.000 --> 0:29:34.320 Santa Clara, and really what it is, it's it was 0:29:34.320 --> 0:29:38.680 supposed to be a gauntlet the national media, the talking heads. 0:29:38.680 --> 0:29:43.600 You talked about them in the opening segment, the networks 0:29:43.600 --> 0:29:45.240 that have to come up with something to argue about 0:29:45.240 --> 0:29:47.480 for twenty four hours a day, because embrace debate. That's 0:29:47.480 --> 0:29:50.760 what gets the needle movement and people tuning in. The 0:29:50.920 --> 0:29:56.480 Chargers were the number one team that was mentioned as 0:29:56.680 --> 0:30:01.640 currently in the playoffs, likely to fade and missed the playoffs. 0:30:01.680 --> 0:30:04.200 They beat the Raiders. They were eight and four. They 0:30:04.240 --> 0:30:07.120 sat in the five slot, the top wild card position. 0:30:08.040 --> 0:30:11.360 Yet everybody pointed to a closing stretch of five games 0:30:11.440 --> 0:30:14.240 the Eagles on Monday Night football, defending Super Bowl champions, 0:30:14.240 --> 0:30:16.360 followed by a short week and a ten am kick 0:30:16.480 --> 0:30:19.880 at Arrowhead against Kansas City, followed by the number one 0:30:19.920 --> 0:30:24.240 offense in the NFL on the road the Dallas Cowboys, 0:30:24.920 --> 0:30:28.400 followed by the best defense in the NFL, one that's 0:30:28.600 --> 0:30:30.720 been top five in the last ten years from the 0:30:30.760 --> 0:30:33.960 Houston Texans and then a trip to Denver, the team 0:30:34.000 --> 0:30:36.560 with the best record in the AFC currently in the AFC. 0:30:36.600 --> 0:30:38.680 Some went as far to say, is I think they 0:30:38.680 --> 0:30:41.040 finished eight to nine. I don't think they win another 0:30:41.120 --> 0:30:44.760 game the rest of the season. The struggles of the offense, 0:30:44.880 --> 0:30:48.640 the offensive line, and then they beat the Eagles, and 0:30:48.680 --> 0:30:51.720 a lot of people still said, well, ugly game, five 0:30:51.800 --> 0:30:54.880 field goals. They were beat up. Now they got to 0:30:54.880 --> 0:30:57.840 go to Kansas City. There's no way Patrick Mahomes can 0:30:57.920 --> 0:31:00.000 lose this game. He's never lost three in a row. 0:31:00.600 --> 0:31:03.760 Who cares what we've seen from a team that's six 0:31:03.760 --> 0:31:05.400 and seven and has not looked. 0:31:05.160 --> 0:31:05.800 Good all year. 0:31:06.360 --> 0:31:08.600 They were fit the Chiefs or the Chiefs were five 0:31:08.640 --> 0:31:12.520 and a half point favorites. Chargers get that win. The 0:31:12.720 --> 0:31:15.480 Eagles were favorites at so far. Chargers get that win. 0:31:15.680 --> 0:31:19.200 And now a team that has been considerably flawed. We've 0:31:19.200 --> 0:31:23.880 played soundbites from Jerry recently. Not all the time, but 0:31:23.960 --> 0:31:27.320 recently they were favored by two and a half points 0:31:28.040 --> 0:31:31.040 to knock off the Chargers. And we say that all 0:31:31.160 --> 0:31:35.880 to point out Jim Harbaugh just wins man wherever he goes. 0:31:35.960 --> 0:31:39.000 The odds makers are not. They don't care. They're just 0:31:39.040 --> 0:31:40.680 trying to set a line that they've been is going 0:31:40.760 --> 0:31:44.000 to bring in the closest to a fifty to fifty split, 0:31:44.160 --> 0:31:47.040 and that means, yeah, the other team looks like they're 0:31:47.040 --> 0:31:49.600 probably gonna win. What's the number where we can get 0:31:49.640 --> 0:31:51.400 this thing split half and half? So we just clean 0:31:51.480 --> 0:31:54.800 up on the juice. But Jim Harbaugh wins everywhere he goes. 0:31:55.000 --> 0:31:57.720 They've overcome a lot this year, and I think that's 0:31:57.720 --> 0:32:00.160 why you had a lot of people picking against them, yea, 0:32:00.160 --> 0:32:03.400 because they don't have their tackles no, and Justin Herbert 0:32:03.440 --> 0:32:07.000 has only one arm, and he gets beat up more 0:32:07.040 --> 0:32:10.720 and more in every game, so they've been defying the odds. 0:32:11.360 --> 0:32:15.520 He is the most pressured, the most hit, the most sacked. 0:32:15.560 --> 0:32:18.120 This was the first game this season that he was 0:32:18.200 --> 0:32:22.920 not sacked, not once, and yet they were on their fourth, No, 0:32:23.840 --> 0:32:29.320 Fifth and sixth offensive tackles Austin Deculus and Bobby Hart. 0:32:29.920 --> 0:32:33.440 Those two are behind Trey Pipkins and Jamal rig Sallier, 0:32:33.520 --> 0:32:36.760 who are behind Rashaun Slater and Joe Walt on their 0:32:36.800 --> 0:32:40.240 fifth and sixth offensive tackles. Understandable why people would have 0:32:40.280 --> 0:32:42.360 their doubts. It is just their third back to back 0:32:42.400 --> 0:32:45.560 eleven plus win season in franchise history seventy nine and eighty, 0:32:45.640 --> 0:32:47.480 two thousand and six, two thousand and seven, and now 0:32:47.520 --> 0:32:50.320 twenty four and twenty five. And like you said, they 0:32:50.320 --> 0:32:53.360 did it without Slater, without Joe Walt two not just 0:32:53.440 --> 0:32:56.680 Pro Bowl but all pro level quality tackles. They smoke 0:32:56.720 --> 0:32:59.480 the Cowboys for thirty four points again the team's number 0:32:59.480 --> 0:33:03.160 one overall offense fourth and points, putting up thirty per game, 0:33:03.880 --> 0:33:06.280 and they had to trade haymakers in the first half, 0:33:06.320 --> 0:33:09.360 the Cowboys scoring on their first three offensive possessions two 0:33:09.400 --> 0:33:12.400 touchdowns in a field goal, and the Chargers answering with 0:33:12.520 --> 0:33:15.160 three touchdowns in the first half and then shut them 0:33:15.200 --> 0:33:18.960 out in the second half again underdogs. Derwin James says, 0:33:18.960 --> 0:33:21.360 it's how they prefer it. It's what they'd rather be 0:33:21.600 --> 0:33:24.160 than a team that's being celebrated on TV about how 0:33:24.160 --> 0:33:26.480 good they are and how likely they are to win 0:33:26.520 --> 0:33:28.520 the Super Bowl. I don't get the idea that that's 0:33:28.520 --> 0:33:31.040 going to happen anytime soon, but speaking to Derwin, he's 0:33:31.040 --> 0:33:32.840 going to be an All Pro again this year. Tuley 0:33:33.320 --> 0:33:35.240 is going to be a Pro Bowler maybe our friend 0:33:35.280 --> 0:33:38.720 Tuley twy p below to usc product thirteen sacks, seventy 0:33:38.760 --> 0:33:41.320 two pressures, twenty seven run stops for no gain or 0:33:41.320 --> 0:33:44.000 a loss. He's going to make the Pro Bowl. They're 0:33:44.000 --> 0:33:47.560 a good eleven win team. It's not always pretty. I 0:33:47.560 --> 0:33:48.960 think the term you like you. 0:33:49.040 --> 0:33:52.239 Kind of a wooden roller coaster ride batt They've been 0:33:52.280 --> 0:33:53.080 bunked around. 0:33:52.880 --> 0:33:54.800 A little bit on their n it's a little shaky. 0:33:55.440 --> 0:33:56.920 You wonder if it's going to pop off the track. 0:33:57.440 --> 0:34:01.440 Sixteen thirteen over the over the Chief, twenty two to 0:34:01.520 --> 0:34:05.240 nineteen in overtime over the Eagles, but a double up 0:34:05.320 --> 0:34:07.040 thirty four to seventeen over the Cowboys give them a 0:34:07.080 --> 0:34:09.560 little bit of confidence going into this contest on Saturday 0:34:09.960 --> 0:34:12.719 against the Houston Texans and again to wrap. Most importantly, 0:34:13.719 --> 0:34:15.280 we do have a key to the city of Hammon 0:34:16.280 --> 0:34:20.520 and the headline rings Hammond emerges as major contender and 0:34:20.600 --> 0:34:24.680 bears widening stadium search. I don't know if they'd want 0:34:24.760 --> 0:34:27.520 us to grab a golden shovel, move a little bit 0:34:27.520 --> 0:34:28.080 of loose dirt. 0:34:28.160 --> 0:34:30.120 Well, I'd like to get the key up on the wall. 0:34:30.360 --> 0:34:32.600 Yeah, the very least. 0:34:34.160 --> 0:34:36.240 And I'd like to think that we deserve some West 0:34:36.239 --> 0:34:36.959 Covina love. 0:34:39.040 --> 0:34:41.600 I would hope so to the point where we should 0:34:41.600 --> 0:34:45.120 almost ask Miss January to send us back there and 0:34:45.239 --> 0:34:47.600 extend an invite to Tony Wu again to see whether 0:34:47.680 --> 0:34:49.080 or not he wants to come with some hardware. 0:34:52.320 --> 0:34:53.359 I think we deserve it. 0:34:53.520 --> 0:34:54.240 I do too. 0:34:56.239 --> 0:35:00.480 Well. Good luck to the Bolts against the Texans. Notre 0:35:00.600 --> 0:35:06.720 Dame is on pause. Everybody loves the Bolt fam, especially 0:35:06.760 --> 0:35:09.400 those people that are in the Bolt Fam. Oh we 0:35:09.560 --> 0:35:14.399 we have San Francisco, Indianapolis tonight, stay with us. 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We have 0:36:00.520 --> 0:36:04.680 some Monday night football tonight as well, Niners Colts coming 0:36:04.760 --> 0:36:09.920 up at five. But right now, because it's Mondays, I'm 0:36:09.960 --> 0:36:11.839 gonna do what I do. The weekend is mine, so. 0:36:13.600 --> 0:36:14.280 Your wekend. 0:36:14.719 --> 0:36:16.000 How was your weekend? 0:36:16.360 --> 0:36:19.600 Matt? How was your weekend? In Texas? Texas? 0:36:19.640 --> 0:36:20.960 Was good? Friday night? 0:36:21.040 --> 0:36:23.160 Do want to tip the cap to a local spot 0:36:23.280 --> 0:36:24.600 that we had not been to in a while. The 0:36:24.600 --> 0:36:26.160 wife and I were solo, so we went to Roma 0:36:26.200 --> 0:36:29.799 Kuchina there in Sunset Beach. Great great spot if you 0:36:29.840 --> 0:36:34.719 have not been good food, great service and pasta rway 0:36:34.719 --> 0:36:37.400 which gives you both the meatball and the sausage. And 0:36:37.400 --> 0:36:40.120 that's what I want, the ball and the sausage in 0:36:40.160 --> 0:36:44.080 the same bowl. Saturday Am, I hit the waves for 0:36:44.120 --> 0:36:49.120 a couple hours before we took off and was running late, 0:36:49.800 --> 0:36:52.799 and I would like to share a public service announcement. 0:36:52.880 --> 0:36:56.120 Turns out there's a curb where the four oh five, 0:36:56.200 --> 0:36:58.600 where the merge from the twenty two to the four 0:36:58.719 --> 0:37:02.680 h five north is And if you decide to try 0:37:02.680 --> 0:37:06.160 to hammer the gas and overtake a semi in a 0:37:06.160 --> 0:37:10.680 pretty asinine maneuver, be sure to pay attention to their curb. 0:37:11.360 --> 0:37:13.680 Thank god I didn't. I probably had about three inches 0:37:13.680 --> 0:37:15.279 to spare. I think if I had blown up the curb, 0:37:15.280 --> 0:37:17.480 I'm not like, I don't think I'm here today like 0:37:17.520 --> 0:37:19.680 it was, it would have been really bad. I did 0:37:19.760 --> 0:37:22.040 not realize there was like this eight inch curb right 0:37:22.080 --> 0:37:26.920 there that probably would have ended poorly. So, yeah, that 0:37:27.040 --> 0:37:29.680 was a bad idea running late. Just maybe leave ten 0:37:29.680 --> 0:37:31.600 minutes earlier and you don't have to worry about things 0:37:31.640 --> 0:37:34.719 like that. On the flight to Dallas again, I was 0:37:34.800 --> 0:37:37.879 humiliated in scrabble by Shannon Fair and it's it's really 0:37:37.920 --> 0:37:40.440 getting to be a bit of a burden at this point. 0:37:41.000 --> 0:37:43.239 We had a big dinner that night. I went to 0:37:43.280 --> 0:37:46.080 a place called Cup and Bourbon and was sitting with 0:37:46.120 --> 0:37:47.520 a couple guys that worked on a night. 0:37:48.320 --> 0:37:50.200 If they'd helped serve it with a coup, you're kind 0:37:50.200 --> 0:37:51.880 of screwed right the floor. 0:37:52.960 --> 0:37:55.280 A couple guys that worked on a few presidential campaigns. 0:37:55.280 --> 0:37:57.600 So it was fun listening to them going back to 0:37:57.640 --> 0:38:01.399 the Reagan years about kind of what goes into that. 0:38:01.400 --> 0:38:03.799 That was a great time. Sunday new schedule. They get 0:38:03.880 --> 0:38:06.840 us up early man buses at eight thirty am for 0:38:06.920 --> 0:38:10.760 a noon kickoff in Dallas, so a six am Dallas 0:38:10.800 --> 0:38:13.320 time alarm to get over to my favorite stadium in 0:38:13.360 --> 0:38:17.480 the league at and T Stadium, and just they're the 0:38:17.520 --> 0:38:20.879 best man the Cowboys in terms of hospitality, really take 0:38:20.920 --> 0:38:23.600 care of you. It's the best spread meal wise. It 0:38:23.800 --> 0:38:27.080 is a postgame presser where they encourage everyone to hang out. 0:38:27.080 --> 0:38:29.600 They had a couple beer taps that they that they 0:38:29.600 --> 0:38:31.520 hook beer up to after the game so everyone can 0:38:31.560 --> 0:38:33.839 hang out and chat as they get ready to post 0:38:33.840 --> 0:38:36.640 their stories. So really enjoy sor our friend Steve Berlin 0:38:36.719 --> 0:38:39.200 there and had a few SIPs with him before we 0:38:39.239 --> 0:38:43.680 flew home and went out with Parker. He's very nice guy. 0:38:45.160 --> 0:38:47.799 And went out with Parker because my daughter Peyton's in 0:38:47.800 --> 0:38:49.600 town from New York, so we ended up going to 0:38:49.640 --> 0:38:52.839 have a late belated birthday dinner with her since all 0:38:52.880 --> 0:38:53.680 the girls are in town. 0:38:53.719 --> 0:38:56.000 So it's a pretty great way to spend the holidays. Now. 0:38:56.040 --> 0:38:57.040 So yeah, good weekend. 0:38:57.840 --> 0:39:01.880 Okay, Tim Friday went to dinner with my wife, a 0:39:01.880 --> 0:39:03.080 little shopping Saturday. 0:39:03.200 --> 0:39:05.520 Where did you guys go? Mike just broke us? 0:39:05.560 --> 0:39:06.080 What happened? 0:39:06.280 --> 0:39:08.920 You see that? And I was you there? Mike just 0:39:08.920 --> 0:39:11.400 broke Can you see that bike. You can't see it. 0:39:13.320 --> 0:39:15.839 Saturday went a little do d I Y with the wife. 0:39:15.840 --> 0:39:18.880 We're making something, uh for an event that she's helping 0:39:18.960 --> 0:39:19.399 put on. 0:39:19.760 --> 0:39:22.040 And then Sunday, where did you go to dinner? You didn't? 0:39:22.120 --> 0:39:24.239 Matt said, where he went to dinner goes? Where do 0:39:24.239 --> 0:39:24.759 you think we win? 0:39:25.320 --> 0:39:25.760 Exactly? 0:39:26.840 --> 0:39:31.640 Don Kuko's I had the Southwest salad with extra dressing 0:39:31.800 --> 0:39:33.680 and chips and salsa and a margarite. 0:39:33.680 --> 0:39:34.719 That's what I had Friday night. 0:39:35.160 --> 0:39:37.919 So Sunday we went, uh, well, I have seven hours 0:39:37.960 --> 0:39:41.399 of Raider broadcast over a Compass Media networks across though. 0:39:41.480 --> 0:39:41.600 Right. 0:39:41.840 --> 0:39:44.920 No, they lost twenty three to twenty one. Moral win 0:39:45.400 --> 0:39:46.480 question victory? 0:39:46.560 --> 0:39:49.279 Yeah, now, Ashton Jetty didn't look like a real football player, 0:39:49.320 --> 0:39:50.280 didn't look like he belongs. 0:39:50.440 --> 0:39:52.040 No it. 0:39:52.320 --> 0:39:54.400 Now we get ready for the game of week seventeen 0:39:54.719 --> 0:39:57.480 at Allegiance. It's the Giants and Raiders to see who 0:39:57.520 --> 0:39:59.200 will get the first pick in the draft. It's the 0:39:59.280 --> 0:40:02.840 Fernando Mendoza game. So that was my weekend, Ronnie. 0:40:03.239 --> 0:40:06.319 Nice weekend. Kind of a busy weekend in terms of 0:40:06.400 --> 0:40:10.680 us prepping for Christmas. We had plans to get together 0:40:10.800 --> 0:40:13.560 at a relative's house on Christmas Eve. But this atmospheric 0:40:13.680 --> 0:40:18.160 river thing has kind of put a damper, so to speak, 0:40:18.200 --> 0:40:19.560 on our plans for Christmas Eve. 0:40:19.600 --> 0:40:21.160 So we're going to be an outdoor party. 0:40:21.520 --> 0:40:23.440 It was going to be an outdoor party. It was 0:40:23.440 --> 0:40:26.719 going to be a combination indoor an outdoor party. So they, 0:40:26.880 --> 0:40:30.040 you know, they really do their parties up really nice. 0:40:30.040 --> 0:40:32.560 They've got space, heaters, they've got a huge backyard. At 0:40:32.600 --> 0:40:35.320 any rate, Plan B is in full effect, which is 0:40:35.360 --> 0:40:37.439 going to be at my house. So we are now 0:40:37.480 --> 0:40:42.160 hosting for our immediate family and some of our friends, 0:40:42.160 --> 0:40:44.560 and so, yeah, you know, you know what that's that's 0:40:44.680 --> 0:40:47.080 that's a great idea. That's a great idea. And because 0:40:47.080 --> 0:40:49.640 we're just throwing this thing together, that's probably going to 0:40:49.719 --> 0:40:52.600 be what we're going to do. And so we went 0:40:52.640 --> 0:40:55.080 out and purchased a lot of food, a lot of 0:40:55.080 --> 0:41:00.239 groceries in preparation for hosting. At the last minute, went 0:41:00.239 --> 0:41:03.440 to Costco, went to Rals, did the whole thing, and 0:41:03.520 --> 0:41:05.799 on Saturday night we went to dinner as well to 0:41:06.080 --> 0:41:08.880 treat ourselves for a job well done putting everything together. 0:41:08.880 --> 0:41:12.000 At the last minute. We went to Mucco Maas and 0:41:12.080 --> 0:41:14.280 so we had a couple of Margherita's there as well. 0:41:14.320 --> 0:41:18.600 And Sunday, well had I had one as well? So 0:41:19.719 --> 0:41:22.160 well my wife had one. Oh, so yeah, she had 0:41:22.160 --> 0:41:23.880 a pomegranate Margarita and they had an. 0:41:23.960 --> 0:41:26.080 I had more than one. That's all what I'm saying. Okay, 0:41:26.120 --> 0:41:27.640 he said one, but I bet you had two. 0:41:28.040 --> 0:41:29.560 Oh he said he had one, so I believe him. 0:41:30.680 --> 0:41:30.960 Uh. 0:41:31.000 --> 0:41:34.799 Sunday we cleaned out the house and made sure everything 0:41:34.920 --> 0:41:37.319 was was right and ready for everybody to come over 0:41:37.400 --> 0:41:41.200 for Christmas Eve. And uh, that was pretty much my weekend. 0:41:41.200 --> 0:41:41.560 That was it. 0:41:41.600 --> 0:41:44.560 What about you, Petros any plans for hosting on Christmas Eve? 0:41:45.360 --> 0:41:51.880 No? All right, but I spent most of my weekend 0:41:52.000 --> 0:41:56.600 watching West Covina City Council meetings on YouTube. Ever since 0:41:56.640 --> 0:42:00.319 we talked about the West Covina City Council and then 0:42:00.400 --> 0:42:07.160 met Mayor Tony Wu, I started watching West Covina City 0:42:07.200 --> 0:42:11.560 Council meetings and I watched basically skimmed through a year. 0:42:12.480 --> 0:42:15.080 I couldn't stop, and it was embarrassing. And it was 0:42:15.120 --> 0:42:17.520 so embarrassing, like when my wife would come so good, 0:42:17.800 --> 0:42:21.000 when my wife would come downstairs, I would like pause 0:42:21.040 --> 0:42:23.640 it and put on like a football game and act 0:42:23.719 --> 0:42:28.200 like I was watching the college football playoffs, but in reality, 0:42:28.239 --> 0:42:31.720 and I'm not even kidding, I was watching West Covina 0:42:31.840 --> 0:42:35.840 City council meetings. I cannot stop, Matt. I feel like 0:42:35.880 --> 0:42:43.040 I know these people. Letty Lopez, Brian Gutierrez, Tony Wu, 0:42:43.680 --> 0:42:50.560 Rosario Diaz also known as Ginger Elliott. It never stops, Matt. 0:42:50.640 --> 0:42:55.000 I am the city manager. When they change city managers, 0:42:55.080 --> 0:43:00.000 oh yeah, oh god, and the one guy that speaks 0:43:00.120 --> 0:43:05.120 with the long hair, John Shoemaker, every single city councilman 0:43:05.440 --> 0:43:08.600 that I can't get enough, Matt. In fact, I exhausted 0:43:08.640 --> 0:43:11.240 the whole year, and I was like, should I watch 0:43:11.280 --> 0:43:15.399 the Planning Commission meetings now? Like I didn't know where 0:43:15.440 --> 0:43:21.400 to go from there. I've never been so riveted in 0:43:21.480 --> 0:43:24.760 my life. I spent most of my time doing that alone. 0:43:25.800 --> 0:43:28.319 I did go to my dad's birthday party at my 0:43:28.440 --> 0:43:31.760 sister's house, but then got right back to the West 0:43:31.760 --> 0:43:32.720 Covina guys. 0:43:32.719 --> 0:43:34.399 I got to tie some stuff up at home. I'd 0:43:34.440 --> 0:43:35.000 love to stay. 0:43:35.400 --> 0:43:40.319 Football season I did not want I did not want 0:43:40.360 --> 0:43:43.040 it to end, Matt. I mean the next I can't 0:43:43.040 --> 0:43:45.279 wait till the January twenty twenty sixth meeting. 0:43:45.600 --> 0:43:47.279 I believe you sent me the text, like, hey, you 0:43:47.320 --> 0:43:49.080 said you were going to send it and I said 0:43:49.160 --> 0:43:51.879 it's three hours and three minutes, and he rebec I know. 0:43:52.320 --> 0:43:54.680 Oh yeah, Matt, I watch a four hour one. There's 0:43:55.040 --> 0:43:57.800 that guy do Tierras makes it go forever. He never stops. 0:43:57.840 --> 0:44:01.000 He's awful. He's a crowball. Are in the in the 0:44:01.040 --> 0:44:04.279 efficiency of the city And I also went to the 0:44:04.280 --> 0:44:08.360 Peninsula High School alumni water polo game where the Peninsula 0:44:08.440 --> 0:44:12.919 High team played the alums because my my brother in law, 0:44:13.000 --> 0:44:16.839 Simon was playing in his speedo swimming around. He looked 0:44:16.880 --> 0:44:17.319 pretty good. 0:44:17.360 --> 0:44:19.479 Well you're not gonna wear board shorts to play water pole. 0:44:19.520 --> 0:44:21.680 I don't know what I learned more about Matt water 0:44:21.719 --> 0:44:29.520 polo watching that one game or a city council work. Yeah, 0:44:29.680 --> 0:44:31.880 I mean I Fletcher and I went up there and 0:44:31.880 --> 0:44:34.000 watched that eight alone at. 0:44:33.880 --> 0:44:34.720 The Mountain play. 0:44:35.760 --> 0:44:36.120 What's that? 0:44:36.480 --> 0:44:37.440 How'd Simon play? 0:44:37.800 --> 0:44:40.399 He did okay, he attempted a few shots and made 0:44:40.480 --> 0:44:44.560 some passes, but he did not make a goal. I 0:44:44.880 --> 0:44:45.440 think that the. 0:44:45.400 --> 0:44:47.760 Big guys anybody's balls underwater. 0:44:47.440 --> 0:44:49.200 Well I couldn't tell, but I could tell that the 0:44:49.239 --> 0:44:52.279 big guys could drown the young kids, right. But the 0:44:52.360 --> 0:44:55.840 young kids could outswim the fat guys right. 0:44:55.880 --> 0:44:57.440 At real speed versus power battle. 0:44:57.520 --> 0:45:01.680 It ended in a tie zero zero. I watched just 0:45:01.760 --> 0:45:06.040 so much West Covina politics. I can't explain how much 0:45:06.080 --> 0:45:09.319 I watched. I mean I spent hours and hours and 0:45:09.480 --> 0:45:14.760 hours watching Letty Lopez Viado lose her patience with Brian 0:45:14.800 --> 0:45:18.400 Gutierrez and Tony Wu just hosts that stuff up like 0:45:18.480 --> 0:45:22.080 he's Frank Sinachast, like he's up there just kicking ass. 0:45:22.120 --> 0:45:25.560 I love when he gets in the mid it. 0:45:25.560 --> 0:45:26.600 It really is the best. 0:45:26.640 --> 0:45:29.480 Oh, and I watched what happened to the mayor, the 0:45:29.480 --> 0:45:32.480 previous mayor who was a teacher. He got ousted. 0:45:32.760 --> 0:45:34.240 Oh, the guy all the way to the left. 0:45:34.640 --> 0:45:38.080 No, he's gone, he's gone. Yeah, you missed it. I 0:45:38.120 --> 0:45:40.920 had to go mad. I went back deep. There was 0:45:40.960 --> 0:45:45.200 a physical altercation in twenty twenty four with Shoemaker and 0:45:45.280 --> 0:45:48.279 this guy Elliott and this other guy. It just West 0:45:48.320 --> 0:45:50.600 Covina politics is my new favorite thing in the world. 0:45:50.800 --> 0:45:53.160 Let's just make it our our go to beach a. 0:45:53.400 --> 0:45:56.400 It would have been the whole show today with clips 0:45:56.480 --> 0:46:01.600 and everything. If usc Notre Dame didn't end. And I'm not. 0:46:01.640 --> 0:46:05.359 Kidding, No, there's always tomorrow. There is the usc Notre 0:46:05.440 --> 0:46:07.520 Dame can't be canceled tomorrow after being canceled today. 0:46:07.719 --> 0:46:12.640 You're right about that show word number song coming up next. 0:46:12.640 --> 0:46:14.480 Sorry for going late, it's just the West Covenion.