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Tony Kornheiser
It's Tony. On today's show, we'll catch up with Wilbon about all the big things from this weekend, especially up and down the i95 corridor, which he hates. And we'll also chat with Sally Jenkins to get our thoughts on Bill Belichick taking his talents to Chapel Hill. But first, commerce.
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Unknown Speaker 1
Splurged and he went out and got.
Tony Kornheiser
Like a serious post Thanksgiving, you know, turkey, cranberry stuffing, the whole nine. Knowing that Woody Johnson is going to.
Unknown Speaker 1
Buy him that sandwich back, you know, five or six fold.
Tony Kornheiser
That's what we should do as Americans.
Unknown Speaker 1
Is have Woody Johnson buy us lunch. Because he certainly can't buy a competent football team.
Tony Kornheiser
The Tony Kornheiser show is on now, though. They won yesterday. They did, though. Aaron Rodgers executed and engineered two touchdown drives in the fourth quarter. Each time he was behind and each time he went ahead. Now they beat a bad team. Jacksonville, they beat a bad team. But they won. I'm just saying. All right, a bunch of things to talk about. Small little things I got. Nigel brought this over today. Describe what this is a mug.
Michael Wilbon
It's a mug with your picture on it. Battling moths.
Tony Kornheiser
Giant moths. Giant moths.
Michael Wilbon
Like some science fiction.
Tony Kornheiser
Scary moths.
Michael Wilbon
Yes.
Tony Kornheiser
It says Mr. Tony versus the Moss. Who sent us that?
Michael Wilbon
That's from Chad Williams. I think somebody sent us in some artwork that it might have even been Chad that did it. Sent Us in a rendering. Rendering of what this would look like. And it was that exact same sort of stuff.
Tony Kornheiser
And we also have gummy bears.
Michael Wilbon
Spencer Thompson.
Tony Kornheiser
Yes, Spencer Thompson. There. It's. This is not in English because these are made in Germany.
Michael Wilbon
Believe in Germany.
Tony Kornheiser
Yes. And these are called Tiergarten. I don't know what that means.
Michael Wilbon
I want to check the ingredients on those.
Tony Kornheiser
Yeah, well, the ingredients are not in English.
Michael Wilbon
Okay, let's have nine.
Tony Kornheiser
In other words, it's gluxalorop, Zucker Fruitschafts. It's not.
Michael Wilbon
That's fructose right there.
Tony Kornheiser
Yeah, I mean, I understand what it is in English, but it's something else. So we're grateful for that.
Michael Wilbon
Gumiland.
Tony Kornheiser
Let me get to a couple of things here. Once a year, I go to Staples. I go to Staples to buy a calendar. A calendar. One of those large book calendars that gives you the ability to write in every single day. And I do this. It's essentially keeping a diary. I do this every day. I wait a couple of years after I've done it and then I throw it out. But I do it every day.
Michael Wilbon
You don't have an archive, these.
Tony Kornheiser
No, throw them out. I do it every because my. My impressions of things are not that important and they will change in time and I will forget them anyway, as I.
Michael Wilbon
As I grow older. What I appreciate the most is when I'm in the room with you as you're looking at me writing into your diary, and I just see you start to drift away and I just wonder, what's he writing about?
Tony Kornheiser
Yeah, I don't know. Anyway, so I go and I buy this one thing, cost about $35. It's a large diary. That's what it costs. It's the only time I go to Staples. I go in December when I realize it's December and I'm running out of days and I've got to get another.
Michael Wilbon
One of these things up against the clock.
Tony Kornheiser
So I go to Staples, and this is the Staples on Wisconsin Avenue in Chevy Chase, Maryland. Right. Or is it called Bethesda? I think it's called Chevy Chase.
Michael Wilbon
Yes.
Tony Kornheiser
In that complex. The Staples has been there for longer than many of the stores have been there. They even opened up Oarsman. Oarsman has a dealership in that basic complex. And there is a garage. And you drive down Bradley Road. Oh, this garage. And you make a right hand turn into this garage.
Michael Wilbon
No, you can't.
Tony Kornheiser
It's a terrible garage. It is made for cars that were built in the 1930s.
Michael Wilbon
The worst is, I think it's two garages that they combine together, so you have to make sure you're actually parking underneath the stores you want to visit.
Tony Kornheiser
It is one of the worst garages known to mankind. And the only thing that made it palatable to me was I would go very early when the store would open and I would get in the garage and I would leave. I went yesterday and there was a jam to get into the garage. I was the sixth car to get into the garage. And then as I was moving up, you know, it's an automatic gate and you get a ticket. As I was moving up, the spaces were all filled in. So it was basically a parking lot outside the parking lot.
Michael Wilbon
Are you trapped at this point?
Tony Kornheiser
I am trapped. I can't get in and I can't get out. I finally get in and nobody's moving, you know, because there are no spaces. And you know why there are no spaces? I realized this. I realized this as I finally got a space and almost hit my car into another car. Because they're so small, these spaces. And cars are bigger now. I finally realized why as I got on the elevator and there were a whole bunch of people holding yoga mats. Because it's a yoga joint now. And that means that every hour, every single hour, more people are going in and getting out and they're in the parking lot.
Michael Wilbon
And that protected early morning is probably the worst.
Tony Kornheiser
Gone. Yeah, gone.
Michael Wilbon
Yeah.
Tony Kornheiser
They opened at 10 yesterday. I was there at 10:05. Gone. Now.
Michael Wilbon
Did you try out the hot yoga class?
Tony Kornheiser
No, I don't want to go to yoga. Yoga is awful for me. It's a little wide. It's not good for me. So I realized now I'm never going back. That's it. That was my last time ever in Staples.
Michael Wilbon
Yeah.
Tony Kornheiser
Cause that part.
Michael Wilbon
I feel like we say this every year or two.
Tony Kornheiser
No, no.
Michael Wilbon
What in a parking lot is yoga. Parking lot like that. What is your. What is your game plan? Are you gonna back in?
Tony Kornheiser
I wanna back in, but I had no. I had no space to back in. And I had every. I had people behind me. I had no time. I had no space.
Michael Wilbon
You gotta turn on, create it in.
Tony Kornheiser
It was just awful.
Michael Wilbon
Don't you wanna. Don't you wanna just park on Bradley Boulevard?
Tony Kornheiser
Just. There's no spaces there. Cause people know yoga is happening. You can. There's no spaces anywhere. I didn't know. Like, I had no idea. So now I'm never going back. I also got a ticket over the weekend. I got one of those a Camera ticket? Yeah, I'm. I don't like camera tickets. I don't know how to fight. I don't know how to fight them. Now this one.
Michael Wilbon
Were you in the wrong?
Tony Kornheiser
I don't know. Okay, this one was for speeding on Reservoir Road, and I was headed to Georgetown Hospital. I know exactly where I was, and I know exactly what time it was, and I know exactly what I was doing. And it said I went 36 in a 25.
Michael Wilbon
That's convenient.
Tony Kornheiser
I don't. You know, this is. I paid it. And I get about six of these a year for stop signs.
Michael Wilbon
And you're up to six a year?
Tony Kornheiser
I'm about six a year. And Carroll gets four or five a year.
Michael Wilbon
Rolling stop at Fessenden.
Tony Kornheiser
Yeah, Fessenden all the time. I don't take Fessenden anymore. I've lost about $800 to Fessenden Street. I don't take it. Eventually you learn.
Michael Wilbon
You say, okay, don't take it anymore.
Tony Kornheiser
Don't take it. But this one, I didn't see any camera on this one on Reservoir Road. And 36 in a 25. Come on. Come on. You shouldn't even be 25 to begin with. 36 in a 25 and you're coming down another. It's just. It angered me. I would fight it, except I don't. I don't know how to fight it. I mean, I'm saying, no, I wasn't going that fast. I can't say that. I can't prove what I was doing.
Michael Wilbon
It's very difficult to prove. You're in the right with those. And if you challenge it, and I could be wrong in this, but I think then if you're then found guilty or whatever, then points get attributed to your license and stuff like that. So that's really encouraging you just to take the plea deal and say, yeah, sure, I've had it happen where I've been directed around certain things or told to go through because of road work and. Or ambulances. And there's really no way to document that if you're trying to fight it. So I just view this as the tax of living in the city. I try and limit it. But then you realize if you are driving through from Maryland, Virginia, out of state, they never pay any of these.
Tony Kornheiser
No, they don't pay them. I have to pay them because I could lose my license because I live in the District. But I. I don't know that I was going 36. I may very well have been going 36. It seems sort of chintzy 36 and a 25. It seems like they put 25 up there just to get this, but there was a picture of my car. So there were. Obviously.
Michael Wilbon
It seems like you were probably going 38 plus or going under 35 maybe to hit that number exactly with the 10 mile an hour grace.
Tony Kornheiser
I don't know, I just was. It's another thing that's annoying. It's. Yeah, it's another thing that's annoying all the time.
Michael Wilbon
Just leave the credit card on file.
Tony Kornheiser
The games were great yesterday. God, the games. The late got better. Late afternoon games were all good. I didn't even watch. I didn't watch one play of the night game. I'd had enough football.
Michael Wilbon
Yeah.
Tony Kornheiser
Chuck Todd got crushed. Yeah, Todd was 1 and 6. Do you know what Chuck Todd is in the last couple of weeks?
Michael Wilbon
He's really taken it tough.
Tony Kornheiser
Chuck Todd is 2:11 and one in the last two weeks and he's still 14 over. He's still our leader.
Michael Wilbon
Tells you what a great year.
Tony Kornheiser
We ought to get Chuck Todd in here on Wednesday. Yes. We ought to FaceTime with Chuck Todd. Yes. And say what's happened to.
Michael Wilbon
If we had a real producer. Yeah.
Tony Kornheiser
If we did.
Michael Wilbon
If only one.
Tony Kornheiser
Five and one last week. One and six this week. Jeff Ma. Two and four, two and three at the moment. Carville making a slight comeback. He's three and one at the moment. Awaiting two bowl games, one of which I never heard of. The Scooters Coffee Frisch Bowl. What is that?
Michael Wilbon
Have a good coffee ice cream.
Tony Kornheiser
What is that? You know, and I don't even know when it is. It's the 17th. Is that coming up soon?
Michael Wilbon
I believe that's tomorrow.
Tony Kornheiser
He took Memphis over West Virginia. Then he's got the art of Sport, Louisiana bowl the next night. I've never heard of these.
Michael Wilbon
The history of that bowl is just tremendous.
Tony Kornheiser
What is this boy guiding him to? All right, I just wanted to mention one other thing and I'll get out.
Michael Wilbon
Of here for the afternoon games yesterday. Bigger statement. The Eagles game or the Bills win?
Tony Kornheiser
Bills. They went on the road and they beat the best team in the league. The team we thought was the best team in the league. And let me stake out this position that I have right now. Early on this. Here's why that would be a great super bowl. Because these are heartbreak teams. Detroit has never been to the Super Bowl. Detroit has never been to the. Well, maybe they have been to the conference final, I don't know. But Detroit hasn't won A championship since 1957. That's a long time. That's 66 years. Buffalo's been to the Super Bowl a lot and never won. Buffalo's won a lot of playoff games and never won the big prize. And so those two teams would have your sympathy. And whoever won, that would be nice. The other team you'd feel badly for, but whoever won, you would say finally. That's very nice. Yeah. So I would like to see a Super bowl with those teams. Josh Allen has 10 touchdowns in the last two games. They have 90 points. You know what you worry about? They peak too soon.
Michael Wilbon
A little bit.
Tony Kornheiser
That's what you worry about.
Michael Wilbon
They start bringing out the stats about the highest scoring game of the season that they just broke after setting it the week before. And by the way, for all that.
Tony Kornheiser
They had the highest score of a losing team. Yeah. You know, so.
Michael Wilbon
And golf, like, had, like, played great, almost 550 yards. Played great, five touchdowns himself.
Tony Kornheiser
He played great. Yeah.
Michael Wilbon
That was. Includes two attempts at the, you know, onside kick.
Tony Kornheiser
That was wonderful to watch. Wilbon went crazy, hated the onside kick.
Michael Wilbon
Called me up immediately, worried about the Lions injuries.
Tony Kornheiser
I don't. Wilbon will. We had. That's why we have Wilbon on to talk about these things. All right, we'll take a break. Wilbon's on the show today. Sally's on the show today. I'm Tony Kornheiser. This episode is brought to you by Disney Game on. Because ESPN content is available on Disney, you can watch your favorites from Disney, Hulu and ESPN together like never before. With espn, unwrap a full day of NBA action on Christmas Day. Tip off the festivities with the spurs and Knicks, followed by the Mavs and Timberwolves. Then a clash between the Lakers and Warriors, followed by the 76ers and Celtics. And finally the Nuggets face off against the Suns. All streaming December 25th. Then with Hulu, watch the terrifying sci fi thriller Alien Romulus, where a group of young space colonizers come face to face with the ultimate horror. And on Disney, follow the adventures of four kids across the galaxy as they meet unlikely allies and enemies in Star Skeleton Crew, starring Jude Law. All of these and more now streaming and available with a Bundle subscription. Visit disneyplus.com for details. Terms apply. You're listening to the Tony Kornheiser Show. This is the Grammarly ready. Your time and expertise are valuable. And with professionals spending nearly half the work week on written communication, focus is one of the most important things to have at work. With Grammarly as your AI writing partner you can stay focused and get through your work faster with relevant real time suggestions wherever you write. And you can download Grammarly for free@Grammarly.com podcast. Look, I can write. I do it for a living. I understand that a lot of people have difficulty writing and this kind of stuff helps. I don't know if it helps focus. I mean, I just think it, it takes away your fear because you see there are a lot of suggestions out there. Yeah. That make your life a little bit easier. If you're involved in writing, how would you like to get more done without sacrificing quality? Well, Grammarly helps with any writing from brainstorming to sounding more confident and persuasive at work. In fact, 90% of professionals say Grammarly has saved them time writing and editing their work. And four out of five professionals say Grammarly helps them gain, buy in and action through their communication. Get more done with Grammarly. Download Grammarly for free@Grammarly.com podcast. That's Grammarly.com podcast. You're listening to the Tony Kornheiser Show. This is sent to us by Al Kaufman, who says, my friend from high school, Mike Dewey, is trying to get all the baseball parks in mlb. I helped him out on a swing through Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and Detroit. We stayed at some quality inns. Definitely not a two bathroom, overheated toilet seat situation. One hotel barely had a toilet seat. But the games were great. We had fun traveling. Mike's teacher at Pope Francis Preparatory School in Western Mass, nowhere near Rivare, and he and his fellow teachers started playing together a few years back. Mike's son joined it. It got serious. They called themselves Prodigal Swine. Mike played me their new cd, House of Rock while we were driving from park to park, told Guy Rock, perfect for your demographic. This is called Jimmy Amsterdam and it's about a guy who goes off to the Netherlands and discovers a certain plant that changes everything and it plays in Michael Wilbon. Let's just, let's just start. Let's just start because we're going to end up with yesterday's football, which was fabulous. The late afternoon football was fabulous. But let's start with Travis Hunter winning the Heisman. Yeah, I thought he would win. I thought Gentee would come in second and I didn't think anybody else would get any votes at all because I think if Shador Sanders isn't in the finals, I'm not going to vote for those other two people. But what are your thoughts about Travis Hunter? What does he do next? Do you think the Pros will let him do this.
Unknown Speaker 1
Well, it depends on where he goes. We see wildly different levels of creativity every week in the NFL from team to team to team, and depends on how secure the coach is. Depends on how good that team is and what they need. Look, Corner, playing quarterback and being able to do it at that level is so rare in the NFL. That's what he's going to be. Now, some teams will decide to have packages with him, play wide receiver, I don't know, four or five snaps a game, maybe more, maybe special teams, maybe he'll return. But, you know, look at the usage of Deion. Deion did both. Now, he was far more a cornerback and great at that. And his hall of Fame credentials deal first with returning and corner. So Travis Hunter will be a lot of that. But if he goes to a team where there's a creative coach who either is there or comes in while he's there, I mean, the sky's the limit with this kid.
Tony Kornheiser
Let me remind you. Let me remind you of a discussion we had many times on PTI 2 and 3 and four years ago in which you said, Shohei Ohtani's not going to pitch. He's not going to pitch. He's going to be an everyday player. He's not going to pitch. And this is before Shohei Ohtani proved that you could do both. Has that changed your mind?
Unknown Speaker 1
No.
Tony Kornheiser
Okay.
Unknown Speaker 1
I don't. And I don't. I don't compare the two. Obviously, the athletic brilliance, it makes it comparable. But no, I don't. The last people, the last person. I gotta call him one of my. One of my close friends. Roy Green is the last person to ever do this at any real level.
Tony Kornheiser
Yeah. To play.
Unknown Speaker 1
So Roy, both sides, you're older than me, which means he must have been a rookie in 1979. And Roy probably played until 1992 or three. He was a Pro Bowler at corner and receiver. Played for the Cardinals and Eagles. And Roy is about. He seems a little bigger than Travis Hunter to me, but maybe they're about the same size and just, you know what it takes. The fact that this kid played all the snaps several times in a game.
Tony Kornheiser
He did.
Unknown Speaker 1
I mean, it can't be. It hasn't. It isn't appreciated enough. It isn't. So many things are hyped and so many people are hyped. Travis Hunter, you can't hype him enough. Too much.
Tony Kornheiser
He was the best football player out there. This takes nothing away from Aston Gentee, who was the best running back. But this Other guy was this guy. It's a very well deserved Heisman. Very well deserved.
Unknown Speaker 1
You and I have agreed on that since we both, sometime in week four or five, said, all right, that's it.
Tony Kornheiser
Yeah.
Unknown Speaker 1
It's time to forget about a race here. This is a one guy race. He's phenomenal.
Tony Kornheiser
Let's do some football. Then we're going to get to what you did over the weekend with the golf. Let's start with the football. This way. Kansas City finally wins comfortably though against a fairly weak team. God knows that Jameis Winston just throws it up. I mean, you know, he'll gain 450 yards and have four interceptions, but then Mahomes gets hurt. Did you see that? What do you make of that?
Unknown Speaker 1
Oh, I saw it a little of that game. I read about it and listened to the aftermath of it. And I know Andy Reid, I thought in post games that he could have come back within my home. Said he didn't know if he could.
Tony Kornheiser
Right. He's weak to weak, which is a.
Unknown Speaker 1
Significant assessment to me.
Tony Kornheiser
Yeah, Yeah. I mean, look, he's the reason, okay. That guy. I'm not saying he's the mvp. I'm saying he's the best player in the world. He's the guy. So if he's not 100% down the road now, they're in great shape. They're 13 and 1, so they're okay.
Unknown Speaker 1
Maybe you sit him next week.
Tony Kornheiser
Yeah, that's what I was.
Unknown Speaker 1
I don't know what their schedule is. Maybe you sit Mahomes or you try to.
Michael Wilbon
Texans, Steelers don't want to sit.
Tony Kornheiser
What do they got?
Michael Wilbon
Texas, Texans, Steelers, Broncos.
Tony Kornheiser
Oh, they got three hard games.
Michael Wilbon
Yep.
Tony Kornheiser
Those are all good games. Those are playoffs. Every playoff teams in Pittsburgh. Those are playoff teams. Wow.
Unknown Speaker 1
Wow.
Tony Kornheiser
That's.
Unknown Speaker 1
Yeah, man.
Tony Kornheiser
All right, let's talk. Let's talk about the. And we'll do this briefly. The Saints going to win, not tie, not ot. Go to win. Agree or disagree?
Unknown Speaker 1
Agree. You're dreadful. You're playing at home. You're dreadful. You have nothing else to play for this season except your draft position. So losing doesn't even hurt you ultimately. And so, yeah, you go for it.
Tony Kornheiser
I agree totally.
Unknown Speaker 1
I really believe that.
Tony Kornheiser
I agree totally, totally. That they should have gone for it. Yeah, absolutely.
Unknown Speaker 1
Sure, sure.
Tony Kornheiser
I don't know that I would have had Spencer Rattler drop back a second time in a row, but, you know, and they don't have Taysom Hill because I'd have given him the ball.
Unknown Speaker 1
Well, you will. And Taysom Hill he's been out for several weeks.
Tony Kornheiser
Yeah, that's what I'm saying. They don't have him.
Unknown Speaker 1
Yeah.
Tony Kornheiser
And he's that guy.
Unknown Speaker 1
You got an ace who does that kind of thing. You don't have, then I would.
Tony Kornheiser
I would.
Unknown Speaker 2
Yeah.
Unknown Speaker 1
I mean, the commander tried to give that one away yesterday, but, you know, I think it. It may still take two more wins. I know. One gets him to 10.
Tony Kornheiser
That was almost a huge gag.
Unknown Speaker 1
Yeah, it could have been real gag.
Tony Kornheiser
They were up 14, nothing and 21 7. That was almost a real game. All right, let's get to the two games that mattered the most. Philadelphia and Pittsburgh and the Bills and the Lions. Just your overall thoughts as to at what you watched yesterday.
Unknown Speaker 1
Well, there were elements of greatness in those games, and they weren't great ultimately because the margins were too cushy and you didn't have drama at the end. But the only reason why Detroit didn't have any drama at the end is because their coach, Dan Campbell, who is much celebrated and deservedly so much celebrated, he sabotaged his team last week.
Tony Kornheiser
The first one, you're talking about the first onside kick, right? Not second one, obviously.
Unknown Speaker 1
Was there a second one?
Tony Kornheiser
Yeah, yeah. At the end of the game. I mean, they had, like, 12 seconds and they didn't, you know.
Unknown Speaker 1
Oh, yeah. They look like they recovered. They thought they recovered.
Tony Kornheiser
Yeah, yeah, yeah, right.
Unknown Speaker 1
He sabotaged his team. He did. You. You don't. Just because you're down 14 or 17 or whatever it was, you got a hot quarterback, the momentum has changed. You're playing at home, you're a million and one. Your players have complete confidence you're going to win any game, even though they have been down 21. What are you doing with 12 minutes left with an onside kick? Just, you know, that was insane. He does lots of insane things. And when they work.
Tony Kornheiser
Yes.
Unknown Speaker 1
People say he's a gambler, he goes for it. He wants to, you know, bite your kneecaps. All right, all right. You know, and it didn't cost him much yet because they're still the number.
Tony Kornheiser
One seed over the Eagles.
Unknown Speaker 1
Tiebreaker.
Tony Kornheiser
That's right.
Unknown Speaker 1
In the nfc. But he cost his team yesterday. He did. He threw away a game. And we don't know they would have won, but they were going to have a legit chance with that offense, with the ball. My God, that game was entertaining.
Tony Kornheiser
It really was entertaining.
Unknown Speaker 1
It wasn't. Wasn't entertaining as it could have been or would have been. You can't convince me Detroit wasn't going to win that game yesterday because I believe they would have if not for Dan Campbell. Now, what I believe, having been around a lot of teams in my life and some great ones, is the players would just say, all right, we love coach. We love him. We understand why he did it. He believes in us. Let's tee it up again.
Tony Kornheiser
I agree with that. I totally agree with that. Meanwhile, Josh Allen, two weeks in a row, has now personally accounted for 10 touchdowns. They have scored 90 points against the best team in the league and a playoff team. What do you make of that?
Unknown Speaker 1
I say he's wrapped up the MVP because Saquon could do stuff in his last three games.
Tony Kornheiser
So could Lamar.
Unknown Speaker 1
Three games is a lot. So could Lamar. It's a three horse race, but Josh Allen is leading.
Tony Kornheiser
Yeah, I agree.
Unknown Speaker 1
Josh Allen has a lead and he's got a, you know, couple of Carlins lead. And I'm fine with whoever does. If somebody emerges in these last three weeks, has three games to separate himself, I'm fine with that. But it would be Josh Allen. You know, what he's done the last two weeks are phenomenal. He's in that zone.
Tony Kornheiser
No, absolutely.
Unknown Speaker 1
In that place that people don't get. By the way, you can't ask again in two years. Well, why doesn't he just. Oh, no, no, no, no. He's in a place where you do this once in your lifetime.
Tony Kornheiser
He's a good NFL player. All right, let's go to the other game. What did, what did the Steelers and Eagles show you?
Unknown Speaker 1
I'm. I don't know that anybody separated himself. The Eagles played better. They were at home. And the. And the Steelers had one critical turnover that cost them the pitch that.
Tony Kornheiser
Yeah.
Unknown Speaker 1
Najee Harris couldn't handle on a basic.
Tony Kornheiser
Running play as basic right hand side.
Unknown Speaker 1
Cross sweep as you'll see. So I don't know that I want to, like, decide that. That game tells me everything. It probably tells you the Eagles are a little better at this point. They've won 10 in a row.
Tony Kornheiser
Yeah. No, I just. I disagree with you. I think. I think there was enormous pressure on the Eagles. There was incredible pressure on Jalen Hurts. I think he dedicated himself to making sure that everybody would shut up, that he could pass it, that he would pass it to AJ Brown and he fed the right people.
Unknown Speaker 1
Ultimately, you're not going to get points for that in January.
Michael Wilbon
So.
Unknown Speaker 1
I don't. I don't. That's great. You're right. First of all, you're right. Let's start with that. About that dynamic and that storyline now, that doesn't mean anything. Means nothing. Going forward from right now. That means nothing. The Eagles seem like whatever potential mini drama they could have had was squashed yesterday. That's good for them. Yeah, but it doesn't help. It doesn't help them going forward. No, but it doesn't help them going forward, which is all I'm looking at right now.
Tony Kornheiser
Okay.
Unknown Speaker 1
To me, it diffuses all these teams. Did you do anything yesterday that says to me, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's them.
Tony Kornheiser
Well, not really. So I disagree because I think that that was one of those things where Jalen hurts. There's a bomb that's going to go off and Jalen Hertz has to pick the white, the right wire to cut. And he did.
Unknown Speaker 1
You may be right. You may be right.
Tony Kornheiser
He did.
Unknown Speaker 1
Maybe I'm underestimating, Understating.
Tony Kornheiser
That's what I think, what he did yesterday. All right, tell the people where you were all weekend. Tell the Bobby Orr story.
Unknown Speaker 1
Yeah, well, I was in. I was in Florida. I was in. Where was I, Tone?
Tony Kornheiser
I was in Tiburon was the golf course. You were on the west coast of Florida.
Unknown Speaker 1
Yeah. It's about 30 minutes from Fort Myer, where you can fly in and fly out if you're flying, you know, commercial airline. So I was there for Grant Thornton, who I do some freelance work, some projects for, in the space of diversifying golf and growing the game of golf. And there are young, dynamic players. Colin Morcal, who, you know is my favorite, was not there this weekend, but Tony Finau, both Corda girls, Nelly and Jessica, who are just two of my favorite athletes, period. There's so many. I mean, Lydia Cole, there's about 20, but there's a core. Ricky Fowler, there's a core of them that decided a few years ago with Grant Thornton. And Wasserman is heavily involved, but he represents a lot of them, if not all of them. But Grant Thornton decided they were going to do this, and Goff decided, you know, you're not going to grow the game of golf by having the same people who look the same, who do the same things, who come from the same places as other sports grow. Golf's not going to do that without some effort and without some outreach to people who look different. And they asked me to be sort of the voice of this and the person who helps drive the content of this or facilitates that. And I'm grateful that those people I just named, among others. But that's the core of it. Mel Reed, who you have gotten to meet and know a little bit that they are people who I just. I don't just like them, I don't just respect them. In almost every case, I admire them. I've gotten to sit and have dinner with them, stand around and hang out with them at the golf course, dinners, projects, and what they're about and who they are, what they stand for, what they. And it's like, wow, I'm pretty lucky to be involved in this. So I go to this this weekend. It's a couple of times a year, maybe three. The players is another place where we convene. But while I'm walking up the golf course, you know, it's, you know, there's 5,000 or so people, not a big crowd. It's not like waste management where people are hanging off and stuff. It's not crazy, but it's in Naples. But a guy comes over and says, mike, excuse me, I'm so and so. And Bobby Orr just saw you walking off the golf course and would love to say hello and we couldn't catch up with you. I'm like, I'm sorry, what did you say? And he said, bobby Orr is here and he would love to say hello, saw you and wonder where you're going to be. I said, are you kidding me? It's a joke. He said, no, no. So I said, where is Bobby Orr? Where are you guys going to be when I come back down these stairs? Is he leaving the property? The guy says, no, he'll be in this room right here in the small ballroom. Take a drink of water after. At 6 o'clock, 6 to 7, I said, you tell Bobby Orr I will move heaven and earth to come down here and say hello. So at 6:15, I walked downstairs because we were about to start our program and dinner. I walk into a room and there's Bobby Orr. And he stands up and he has a hundred thousand kilowatt smile on his face and just said, mike, it's so great, so great to meet you. Sticks out his hand and says, I'm Bobby Orr. You know, there's not, I don't know, 10 times in my life where I have been more stunned and honored in the moment. And sometimes, you know, you're in a context where, you know, you're going to meet famous people. And some of them, as you know, Tony, I've met all my heroes, all of them, all my Chicago guys, all of them from Ernie Banks and Billy Williams to Frankie Jenkins to, you know, Bobby Hull and Savers and Ditka and all of them, you know, but Orr is not one of my heroes, but he's Bobby Orr. He's no lower than the third greatest player all the time. And our dear friend Bob Ryan, every time you and I say Gretzky, he calls us in the immediate aftermath and says, stop it. It's awe. And I go, I'm standing there having a hug or two or four with Bobby Orr, and we're talking about all kinds of stuff. And I said, are you aware of this thing? I said, when I first heard you wanted to see me, I thought you were going to scream at me, because what I say about Gretzky and you, he starts laughing. I said, what you don't know is every time we do that on the show, Bob Ryan calls me or texts me and says, shut up. Stop it. It's Orr. It's not Gretzky. And Bobby Orr is laughing so hard, he's got tears. And first of all, he's, you know, Bobby Orr. People don't realize, like, he's 76 years old now, and he's as fit as he could possibly be. I said, how much golf are you playing down here? And he explained to me that he didn't live in New England anymore. Like a lot of us who get cold, who play in places like Chicago and Boston and live our lives there. He said, I'm in the sun now. I'm down here. I sold the place. He told me, wherever he sold his place, Cape Cod, whatever. He said, I can't play. Just have back surgery, but I'm playing. And we talked about a lot of stuff. And he just. The part that got to me was he said, how were you when I got traded to the Blackhawks? And I said, I was a senior in high school, so I had to be 17, which means it had to be 1976. And he said, that's right. He started screaming, that's right. That's right. That's why I got traded. He said, I'm really sorry I couldn't be who I wanted to be because my knees were. I was shot. I couldn't do it. And that, to me, you know, that's what. When I was that age. And Bobby Orr got traded to the Blackhawks, that was an unbelievable thing. And Bobby Hull had just left. Hull probably had gone in 72 or something like that, or in a Black Hawk uniform. And he did play something like, I don't know, 40 games that he just. His body gave. He couldn't play. But we stood there talking about other stuff for a while, and I just. I Thanked him. We took some pictures. He said, you make sure you show up. You send this to Bob Ryan and. Of course I did. And you and Kelleher and that's great, Eric. And you know what Kelleher feels about.
Michael Wilbon
Yeah.
Tony Kornheiser
Because his father adored her. Yeah, it's great.
Unknown Speaker 1
Yeah. So, you know, I got to interact with a lot of people that I feel a certain way about and I named most of them. I got to spend a lot of time with people like Tony Finau and Ricky Fowler and Lydia Coe over the weekend, but Bobby freaking Orr.
Tony Kornheiser
Yeah.
Unknown Speaker 1
So we are welcome to tee it up with Mr. Orr if we wanted to do that. So maybe I can get you out of the house.
Tony Kornheiser
Yeah, that's Naples.
Unknown Speaker 1
Who knows?
Tony Kornheiser
Just a great story. The pictures were great. We were all so happy throughout the day.
Unknown Speaker 1
It's unforgettable for me. I'm not so jaded at this point in my life that if I meet those guys. Those guys are gods.
Tony Kornheiser
Yeah, they are.
Unknown Speaker 1
They are. You know, I. There's some people that are. There's some introductions I've had that I didn't expect. I had a moment like that. An hour with Muhammad Ali in 1984 when he was just retired. And so that. That one probably is the. Not probably. That's the all timer Muhammad Ali, but Bobby Orr, man.
Tony Kornheiser
So, yeah, it's very cool. It's very cool. All right, I'll talk to you later.
Unknown Speaker 1
All right.
Tony Kornheiser
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Tony Kornheiser
And I'm going to just start this by saying Sally wrote this wonderful piece about Bill Belichick and Bill Belichick being at heart a teacher. And to get into the piece, I have to say this. I've been around Bill Belichick through Monday night football. I was around Bill Belichick. I really did not like him. I actively did not like him. He's an unbelievably condescending human being. He's also very smart and knows how to turn it on and turn it off. And given a power dynamic. And he had all the power and I had none of the power. It just was unpleasant. It's unpleasant. Doesn't mean I don't think he's smart. Doesn't mean I don't think he's a great coach. Doesn't mean I'm not intrigued by the notion that. Of this hire, which I think is fascinating and I think is tremendously exciting. What are your thoughts on the hire and your read on Bill Belichick on a college campus?
Sally Jenkins
Well, I think that Belichick is probably misunderstood. I mean, I don't want to make the guy out to be James Dean or anything, but he was the son of professors. His mother was a Hiram College professor. His father was an instructor at the Naval Academy who won tenure over 30 years. He grew up on campuses. It's his more natural habitat. Like, okay, what if the truth is that Belichick has been a misfit in the NFL all these years, and the place that he's actually more comfortable and the kinds of people he's more comfortable with are on college campuses, you know, younger players. I mean, the guy, if you think about it, Tony, think how? Think about how many undrafted free agents Belichick cultivated and turned into, you know, all pros.
Tony Kornheiser
He was great with those. And he also always led the league in captains from college teams. He really respected the notion that the staff and the players liked this guy. I want this guy. That's what he did, right? Right.
Sally Jenkins
Yeah. And he would take a guy who was an athlete, who was like a Julian Edelman, who could play, who had played quarterback in college, and he could take a guy from a small school who had been playing a position that wasn't necessarily what he was going to be great at in the NFL, and he could convert that guy into a utilitarian role player. And sometimes those guys turned into Julian Edelman's, you know.
Tony Kornheiser
Yes.
Sally Jenkins
So he's really. He's got such vision for young players, and I think that that may make him really, really good at this, you know, and unlike most college coaches, he's got deep experience at dealing with the transfer portal and the nil situation, because in the NFL, it's called free agency and salary cap. You know, you have a lot of movement on your roster every year. And he loves that Rubik's cube, actually. And I think it's more equalizing almost in college. You know, I think that you can, if you're Bill Belichick, and you can really, really Teach and really, really coach. And you can turn players who aren't the blue chippers, you know, into really competitive guys. You have a chance to really level the field in terms of recruiting. You have a chance to really nullify other people. The Alabama recruiting advantages at North Carolina.
Tony Kornheiser
I have, like, two things that drove me crazy. One was I watched a guy on television say, I don't know if Bill Belichick can relate to the modern athlete. I wanted to throw a shoe through the screen and I wanted to say, how many times in your life were you coached by someone 20, 30, and 40 years older than you? And you listen, what are you talking about? The modern athlete? The modern athlete in college who wants to go to the pros is going to revere an opportunity to go and play for Bill Belichick. And the second thing is, you know, people were talking about the distinctions between college and the pros on a high level of college football. They're professional athletes now. It's all different now. They were closeted professional athletes before when they had to take money under the table. Now they can take money overtly and they can say, I want to be in the NFL and who better to send them there than Bill Belichick? Those two things drove me crazy. And the other thing is, how could the NFL, how could someone not offer him a job?
Sally Jenkins
Yeah, you know, I. Look, I think that Bob Kraft probably did a pretty good torch job on him. Yeah, they. There was bad blood there at the end, obviously. And apparently, apparently Kraft made some calls and discouraged the Falcons certainly from taking him. Although if you think about it, like, Arthur Blank was going to hire Bill Belichick.
Tony Kornheiser
He's a bozo. Arthur Blank's a bozo.
Sally Jenkins
Bill Belichick broke the guy's heart.
Tony Kornheiser
Biggest comeback ever. Yeah.
Sally Jenkins
Yeah, that guy gets everything. And Blank, I think, probably was one of the guys who thought Belichick was guilty in Spygate and Deflategate both. So, you know, I think there's a lot of resentment of Belichick around the league, first of all, because he whipped everybody so soundly for so many years. And secondly, because there was a lot of resentment over, you know, the purported Spike and Deflategate, too. So I think that there was probably a bunch of guys in the league, a bunch of owners in the league who said, no, we're not going to help that guy break Don Shula's record.
Tony Kornheiser
Well, they're just. They're just self defeating in that way. And now he's in college. What do you think success will look like for Him.
Sally Jenkins
Well, the first thing it'll look like is an ACC title. I mean, they haven't. They haven't won anything since 1980. So it's. It's. It's like the best they could hope for is to be just a little bit competitive in the. In the conference right away, unless Belichick finds a quarterback. And if, you know, it's really interesting, but he'll get them ready to look better than they have in a long, long time. I just don't know. With the Portal, it depends on how much talent Mike Lombardi can claw from the Portal and how many of the guys that they really want they can get and how quickly Belichick can blend them into a team. But, you know, the one thing that they will do is they will play with real precision. You know, the real hallmark of Belichick teams in New England was, you know, they. They led the league in turnover margin, and they were the least penalized team in the league. You know, you'll have to beat North Carolina. The first thing that will happen is other teams will really have to be beat North Carolina, because Carolina is not going to beat itself under Belichick.
Tony Kornheiser
So I got a note from a friend of mine who said, you keep saying Belichick is the greatest coach of all time. Why do you say that? It's obvious. It was because of Tom Brady. And when Tom Brady left, his percentages went down, and I sent him back a note that said, I'm going to give you all that. Who do you think coached the defense? Who do you think? With people that never will go to the hall of Fame? Never, ever, ever go to the hall of Fame. Who do you think put that defense together? That's Bill Belichick. So I agree with you, Sally. If he stumbles onto a quarterback, I believe they'll be good right away. I do.
Sally Jenkins
I do, too. And the other thing is, who do people think coached Tom Brady when Tom Brady was, you know, the 199th guy or whatever? I can't remember what the number out of the draft. But who do people think coached Tom Brady as a young quarterback? I mean, Tom Brady wasn't always Tom Brady. He just wasn't. He was a guy who had to fight to win the starting job at Michigan his senior year. You know, so I don't know who people think developed Tom Brady into Tom.
Tony Kornheiser
Brady, who's Bill Belichick. And as I said at the top, and I want to establish this, you know, he was very difficult for me, and if I never have to talk to him again. It's a good day. It's a good day.
Sally Jenkins
Well, you know, he hates tv, he hates the press, he hates popularity, he hates stars. He just wants to do his thing. Thing, you know, and yet when you.
Tony Kornheiser
Put him on TV without a job, he's wonderful. Because he wants a job. Right.
Sally Jenkins
I mean, he. Look, he does everything his own way. Right? Bill Belichick. Bill Belichick does everything he wants to do and nothing he doesn't.
Tony Kornheiser
Yeah, that's right. Oh, you're right about that. All right, let me shift to the local Washington team because you wrote a really lovely column about the remaking the reclamation project of the Washington team. They almost gagged it away yesterday. I am totally, 100% good with the Saints trying to win the game at the end. How about you?
Sally Jenkins
I was a little puzzled by that because. Yeah, if you've got all the momentum in the fourth quarter and you feel like you're finally starting to get a physical advantage over those guys, don't you want to fight for a few more minutes rather than one more play?
Tony Kornheiser
I thought, you know, you're at home, you're a lousy team, you're not going to make the playoffs. Go for it right here. But, you know, I mean, okay, so you would have taken the one and you would have gone to ot.
Sally Jenkins
I would have gone to OT because it really looked like they were. They started to. They were playing downhill finally.
Tony Kornheiser
Yeah.
Sally Jenkins
You know, I mean, they were gashing the defense.
Tony Kornheiser
Yes, yes. With a fifth string quarterback. Yeah. Here's. Here's the potential problem between you and I today. And I don't want it to be. I really hate the word culture. I've come to hate the word culture.
Sally Jenkins
I know.
Tony Kornheiser
It's the worst word.
Sally Jenkins
It's the most irritating word there is. Culture. Yeah. It bounces off your face and leaves a migraine behind. I could not agree more.
Tony Kornheiser
And yet you accepted it. You talked about the cultural change and gave a lot of credit to Dan Quinn for it. You want to explain that?
Sally Jenkins
Yeah. Well, first off, it's real culture, much as you may hate the word. Okay. I mean, you could call it environment, atmosphere. There's a lot of other better words for it maybe than culture, but it's the problem. It's very hard to define, but it's essentially like the medium in which everybody works and it's the atmosphere in your office and the messaging and the way you communicate. And the main thing about workplace culture that I think is important, that NFL teams can demonstrate for good and ill is that if your culture is misaligned in some way, you're done. You know, you're a very mediocre perpetual 8 and 8 team at best, which is what Washington was before Dan Quinn and Adam Peters got together. And part of the reason for that was, you know, Dan Snyder would say, I want to win a Super bowl and then leave a 30 year old seedy astroturf field unrenovated so that his players had to walk across it every day to a far pasture in order to have a decent field to practice on. That's misalignment. Okay. That you don't mean what you say. Right. You know, you can say, oh, we're a meritocracy and this is an egalitarian team where we're all. It's a brotherhood. And then if you have pet players that you cultivate as spies on your coaching staff, that's misalignment. And that's what happened all those years under Snider. That's not happening now. There's a highly competent, if not potentially great head coach and there's a GM with a great sense of. Adam Peters is the guy who helped Belichick get a lot of those players in New England over those years. Adam Peters. If you look at it, Adam Peters got the talent for the New England Patriots, the Denver Broncos and the San Francisco 49ers. Two of those teams won Super Bowls and the third played in a couple Super Bowls. San Francisco has, you know, has that incredible playoff record under Kyle Shanahan and the guy who told Peters and Quinn that they would be well matched. Shanahan was Shanahan.
Tony Kornheiser
Yeah. No, it's certainly working. And it helps to have a quarterback. I mean, it helps to have a quarterback and it helps to have an offensive coordinator. And they didn't have a quarterback and they didn't have an offensive coordinator.
Sally Jenkins
Right. You know, and I, but I do think as brilliant as Jaden Daniels is, and I mean, he is, I've never seen anything like that guy at quarterback, except maybe Josh Allen in a different physical way. But, but the interesting thing is that you. They could have plugged Mariota in and I think they'd still be a really, really good team.
Tony Kornheiser
They're. They are a totally changed team. Totally changed. And they've done it very well. I thought they were going to lose yesterday. I did think they were going to lose.
Sally Jenkins
Did you really?
Tony Kornheiser
I did. At the end. At the end. I thought it was a gag. And they also have a fabulously easy schedule all year. Like unbelievably. Easy schedule, but they've taken advantage of it and they came back from the buy and they won twice. You know, that's important. You got to take advantage.
Sally Jenkins
Did you think New Orleans should have gone for it?
Tony Kornheiser
Yes, I did. And I thought they were going to close it out and win it right there. I did. I. Yeah, I was okay with that because they're a 5 and 8 team or a 5 and 9 team. They can't make the playoffs. They're at home to do it. Make thrill. Thrill your fans. Yeah, I did because I didn't think a loss meant anything to them.
Sally Jenkins
So, you know what I thought was incredible. What did you think about New Orleans running the ball with, like, under two minutes to go?
Tony Kornheiser
It was odd to me. It was crazy. It was odd. Yeah. I mean, but they put themselves in position to win. And the Washington team, and I always say the Washington team because I can't call them the commanders and I can't call them the other either. The Washington team allowed this to happen. That. That was a bad performance late by them. Bad performance. So. But they won. They won.
Sally Jenkins
But they were. But they were also like two fingertips away from being three touchdowns up.
Tony Kornheiser
Yeah. Oh, absolutely. Yeah. I thought they were going to be. I mean, I just sort of thought. I thought this game started out like the last game and they were just going to roll. So it was fun to watch at the end. Anyway, thank you, Sal. I love the stories. Loved them. Sally Jenkins, I appreciate you.
Sally Jenkins
Thank you, Tony.
Tony Kornheiser
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He eats every seed. Tom Hackett, the hair load.
Tony Kornheiser
The Agency so far is exactly what it copied, the Bureau. I would never expect you to watch the Bureau, however, because most of it is in French. But if you did, you would be thoroughly entertained and would not have to watch the agency. So if you stick with the agency, I believe you will enjoy it and you won't have to watch subtitles. Landman is a soap opera and I can't get enough of it. I believe that, as Nigel said, you would enjoy it. I have been told get on Landman.
Michael Wilbon
Oh, it's really good.
Tony Kornheiser
Simmons said get on Landman. Yeah, listen, it's the only show you watch.
Michael Wilbon
Get on Land.
Tony Kornheiser
Like Michael, I did not enjoy Black Doves, although it was not awful. The Day of the Jackal started out better than it has been finishing. No love for disclaimer. Maybe you read the book, but if like me, you didn't, then you'll love Cate Blanchett and Kevin Kline and this for context, I am approximately Nigel's age. Count Michael Clayton, the Godfather, the Godfather 2, Animal House, the Big Lebowski, the Princess Bride, the Shawshank Redemption, Tombstone and Up in the Air, among my favorite films, as well as enjoying 1960s music and 70s and 80s, as proven by the book that I sent you a couple of years ago, Hollywood Eden, which I have out at the beach. Keep up the great job. I'm thoroughly entertained by the guests, so that's nice. That's Tom Hat.
Michael Wilbon
I'll leave my Apple TV plugged in at the house so you can come over and watch it and watch it.
Tony Kornheiser
And this is the Gary Oldman Show. Yeah. How many years am I behind? Three.
Michael Wilbon
Four seasons. Four seasons. But they're short seasons. They're only like six to eight episodes. Yeah.
Tony Kornheiser
Matt from Lickfield county, which I think is in Connecticut. How you doing? Thanks for taking my email. I help out at the Bristol Blues baseball team in the New England Collegiate Baseball League, Basically Cape Cod League's little brother. My job is on field mc announcing NARRATING the dizzy bat races. The GM Jordan texted me one day with the ultimate hypothetical contest. The competitors are Joey Chestnut and Usain Bolt. Each person has to eat a single hot dog in a bun then run a hundred yard dash. Who you got? I would take Joey Chestnut because he will eat it so much faster than Usain Bolt.
Michael Wilbon
But do you think Joey Chestnut could run at all?
Tony Kornheiser
He's going to only have to run 30 yards. Can I be the official on field MC of Summer Collegiate baseball teams in New England? Sure, sure Steve the Sicker Fan Here it is. Dear Toby, Courtesy of comedian Don McMillan all the components you need for a successful Hallmark Christmas movie a A female print A female protagonist 1. Event planner 2. Real estate sales Nanny or maid in 4. Interior designer 5. Baker or chef 6. Executive 7. Romance writer 8. Famous actress or singer 9. Shop owner 10. Advice columnist B. Male protagonist 1. Prince 2. Workaholic 3. Architect 4. Executive 5. Single father 6. Shop owners 7. High school flame 8. Famous actor or singer 9. Son working for father 10. Christmas tree farmer C locale New York Fictitious kingdom back in time North Pole Small town in either New York, Colorado, Vermont or Maine. Small town with Snow. Just pick one number from each and your movie is set. For example, A4. B5. C1. New York interior designer meets single father after Thanksgiving and romance ensues. Or A10. B7. C6. Small town advice columnist reconnects with high school flame in December and romance ensues. It can't fail. And by the way, no matter what locale in which the movie is supposedly set, it's filmed in Canada. Alex Lau, New York City I think you may be texting and talking with Chuck Todd too much. Over the course of the season, he's adopted your personality, shifting from a jovial, albeit somewhat sarcastic guest to a full blown quetcher like you. First was a college football playoffs. Now he's talking about how the secular SEC commissioner should shut his mouth and complaining about NFL fight songs of all things. Soon enough he's probably going to start a segment complaining about his dog's diarrhea. Gotta get him in here, don't we? Yes, we do. From Nathan in Rockville, Maryland, not North Bethesda. It was so kind of you to mention 1-800-cars for kids. There's no doubt that others have joined me in cartoon incessantly since listening to the podcast. I'd like to make it an almost even trade. I have eight words for you. Itsy bitsy teeny weeny yellow polka dot that she wore on the bed. Wayne Mossman I feel compelled to ask the wisdom of allowing a dog to struggling to hold its bowels to sleep in your bed, let alone on your head. She gets off, she whines. She knows what she's doing. She's a pro. Got this note from DG that Mori played at Abaco this week. Shot 73, 75, 81. Not bad for an 86 year old, huh? We should only hope to be playing it that yeah Kelly Carden in Ozark, Missouri actually Michael, my kids are in university now, but I wanted to pass along a tooth fairy idea. As Nigel said, $A tooth is a good solid price that has stood the test of time. I stumbled across the fact that US Post Office stamp vending machines return Sacagawea $1 gold coins as change. These make a cool tooth fairy exchange. Also, because they are generally dumb kids, lose track of them and you can reuse them tooth after tooth kid after kidding. Thank you Kel.
Michael Wilbon
Been recycling the same $10 for a year and a half now from Bennett.
Tony Kornheiser
Wise, a sports anchor at WSBT 22 in South Bend, Indiana. I listened to Wednesday's pot around 2pm Several hours later, while at dinner with my girlfriend, she mentioned a court case from a few years ago involving an incident on a cruise ship. I used the Google machine and found a story on my station's website. The reporter Tally Taylor.
Michael Wilbon
Yeah, there you go.
Tony Kornheiser
It turns out his career started in Notre Dame country and he left about a year before I arrived in the spring of 2022. PS Other notable WSBT alumni include your former colleague Sage Steele and the late Congresswoman Jackie Walorski. I didn't know that. Nathan Ackerhelm Charlotte, North Carolina I want to follow up on Lyle's email from Thursday. I think wearing a suit and tie to the pond would be appropriate, as would be ordering a blt. Yeah, of course it would. David Epstein, New York On Thursday's pod, you referenced the town of Milton Keynes and posed the question, isn't he an economist? Since you asked, Milton Keynes is not an economist. Milton Friedman was an economist. John Maynard Keynes is. Who I was thinking of was an economist. Milton Keynes. He's just a guy. He's just a guy. That's the name of a town in England. Milton Keynes. There you go. From Aaron Moss, Chuck and Roxy236. Did you say Moth or Moss? I swear I haven't been flying around your house. More of them. I lost two more sweaters and one that had recently been fixed that was just shattered. I'm wearing one now that I can't wait to throw out when I get a replacement from Johnny O. I just.
Michael Wilbon
It'S boss of the boss.
Tony Kornheiser
And now we and now Carol sent away for cedar balls. So we have some cedar balls. I think we're past cedar chest. Yeah. And we have some hanging cedar planks.
Michael Wilbon
Yeah, we've got to get drone technology.
Tony Kornheiser
Bill Garner, North Potomac the answer to all your questions is arthritis. Michael Sandler, Warrenton, Virginia I love the way you were unburdened by memory except for song lyrics and apparently obscure backcourts of ABA teams in the 1970s. Speaking of classic show routines, do you remember in the early 90s when you had Money Mondays and gave away $100 to a random listener with the initials Ms. That was my favorite. You should bring it back. Michael Sandler I don't remember that.
Sally Jenkins
I don't think.
Tony Kornheiser
I don't remember that at all.
Michael Wilbon
I don't think that's never did, no.
Tony Kornheiser
From Matthew Genovese in Jackson, New Jersey As a big R.E.M. fan, I've been wondering after learning of the rebranding of Rockville, if REM needs to come back out of retirement to re record their song and change the lyric to don't go back to North Bethesda. Not sure it works quite the same. From Mike Todd. Not that Mike Todd in Columbus, Ohio. Dear Southern Swedish steel farmer, in addition to the previously mentioned pronunciations of Detroit in song, please include Gordon Lightfoot's from the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. In a musty old hall in Detroit they prayed in the maritime Sailors cathedral. The church bell chimed till it rang 29 times for each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald. So it's Detroit. Detroit, maybe Detroit. Yeah, Detroit. Okay.
Michael Wilbon
I'm not overly familiar with that song. I know of it, but I don't know.
Tony Kornheiser
Oh, I know the song.
Michael Wilbon
I don't know it.
Tony Kornheiser
Well, he's the late Gordon Lightfoot now. Oh, I'm pretty sure. Look him up. I think he passed. Mike Sempervive, West Fenwick Island, Delaware because it sounds fancier than Selbyville, the North Potomac of the lower slower Does Wilbon consider all the hinky dink talk hocus pocus junk? I will hang up and listen.
Michael Wilbon
Yes, Gordon Lightfoot passed away a year ago.
Tony Kornheiser
Steve Gilmore, San Angelo, Texas can hinky dinky peppermint poop be used in the same way as hocus pocus junk? I will hang up and listen. From John Shepinski, Beltsville, Maryland Speaking of pronouncing the same word differently, I don't know if it's a Baltimore thing or a me thing. But I pronounce the word radiator differently depending on where the radiator is. If it's in the house, I pronounce it with a short A like in fad, like radiator. Radiator. If it's in a car, I pronounce it with a long A sound like in fade radiator. My family makes fun of me all the time about it, but what are you gonna do? Hun? That's and from Andy Zirkland Fisher's. Not Fisher's island, but Fishers Indiana. How you doing? That's it. That's the message. I just wanted to see if you have the same rules for emails. If you have drama from the Tony Cornheiser show. That's Charlie, isn't it? That is Charlie. Charlie's voice. Invite sign to everyone is always do wear white. What's that?
Unknown Speaker 1
Chicken. Every night is the chicken.
Tony Kornheiser
Holy God Almighty.
Unknown Speaker 1
Is it possible just once we could get something to eat for dinner around here?
Michael Wilbon
That's not the chicken. Hey, dad. I'm just saying, dad.
Unknown Speaker 2
If you've got yourself some mental detritus A reverend of the mind he will guide Find him at the cannabis coffee shop Most of the time where he's been known to cast his pearls before swine Give insight to the blind hey, Jimmy Amsterdam Went to Holland, boy but he came back a man hey, Jimmy Amsterdam he cares so much we don't give a damn Go see Jimmy Amsterdam if you've got a problem he'll make a plan oh, Jimmy Amsterdam he's got high class wisdom for the common man Talk about ladies Jimmy's got babies they click to look for him by the windmills and land Ride his bicycle with a nancedale light in his hand.
Michael Wilbon
Pedaling.
Unknown Speaker 2
Circles around the dikes and the dance Jimmy's a man hey, Jimmy Amsterdam Went to Hollywood but he came back a man hey, Jimmy Amsterdam we care so much we don't give a damn Go see Jimmy Amsterdam if you got a problem he'll make a plan oh, Jimmy Amsterdam he's got high glass wisdom for the common man he's mildly impressed with impressionism he's got his own moral code his own catechism His OCD makes him utterly insistent he's irresistibly resistant at least he's consistent hey, Jimmy Amsterdam Went to holiday, boy but he came back and then hey, Jimmy Amsterdam he cares so much he don't give a damn Go see Jimmy Amsterdam if you got a problem he'll make a plan. Oh, Jimmy Amsterdam, he's got high class. Listen for the common man. Let's go. Now some people say that he is no Dutch treat But I'll stack him up against anyone else you could be. The dude is so sweet. Hey, Jimmy Amsterdam. Went to Holland Du Bois but he came back a man. Hey, Jimmy Amsterdam he cares so much he don't give a damn. Go see Jimmy Amsterdam if you got a problem. He'll make a plan. Oh, Jimmy Amsterdam he's got high class. Whisper for the common man. Amsterdam. Jimmy. Jimmy, Jimmy. Answer them. Jimmy, Jimmy, Jimmy. After that Jimmy, Jimmy, Jimmy. After that. Jimmy, Jimmy, Jimmy. There are millions of women all around this world Some do they dare to ask what's so special about your girl? Is she the surgeon general or on the supreme Court? I look that fella in the eye and come back with this retort. My baby plays guitar My baby plays. My baby plays. She plays guitar My baby plays. My. My baby plays. She plays guitar My baby plays. My baby plays. She plays guitar My baby plays. My baby plays. You made it clear to us your woman's ready, willing and able. Well, I'm here to say what my girl brings to the table. You say your lady has magic in her bag of tricks? Well, my woman wields an ax, yeah, she got the hardest licks. My baby plays guitar. My baby plays. My baby plays. She plays guitar My baby plays. My baby plays. She plays guitar. Guitar. My baby plays. My baby plays. She plays guitar My baby plays. My baby plays. When I was a younger man, Susannah Hoffs was my crush. Now my woman plays guitar. To make sister Rose at a thought brush more than just a pretty face and personality off the char. More than a beautiful brain and her generous beating on My baby plays. Guitar. My baby plays. My baby plays. She plays guitar. My baby plays. My baby plays. She plays guitar. My baby plays. My baby plays. She plays guitar song. My baby plays. My baby plays.
Michael Wilbon
My baby place.
Unknown Speaker 2
My baby place my place. She plays guitar My baby plays. My baby plays. She plays guitar My baby plays. My baby plays. She plays guitar My baby plays. My baby plays. She plays guitar My baby plays. My baby plays. She plays guitar My baby plays. My baby plays. She plays guitar baby plays. My baby play.
Podcast Summary: The Tony Kornheiser Show - “The Annual Staples Pilgrimage”
Episode Information:
Overview: In this engaging episode of "The Tony Kornheiser Show," host Tony Kornheiser and co-host Michael Wilbon delve into a variety of topics ranging from recent football games and personal anecdotes to an insightful conversation with sports columnist Sally Jenkins about Bill Belichick’s new role in college football. The episode seamlessly transitions between sports analysis, humor, and heartfelt stories, offering listeners a comprehensive and entertaining experience.
The episode kicks off with Tony catching up with Michael about critical events from the weekend’s sports scene, particularly focusing on performances along the I-95 corridor.
Tony shares his annual pilgrimage to Staples to purchase a large calendar, intertwining his routine with humorous frustrations about the store's parking garage.
Tony recounts his recent struggle with Staples’ notoriously small and outdated parking garage, humorously highlighting the challenges of modern parking arrangements.
The discussion shifts to Tony’s frustration with receiving a speeding ticket, sparking a conversation about the inevitability of such fines in urban living.
Michael offers insights into the difficulties of contesting camera tickets, emphasizing them as an unavoidable “tax of living in the city.”
Tony provides his analysis of recent football games, including praise for Josh Allen’s stellar performances and critical remarks about coaches like Dan Campbell.
Discussions highlight key games, player performances, and strategic decisions, enriched with witty banter and expert opinions.
Listeners contribute their thoughts and hypothetical scenarios, adding depth and variety to the conversation. For example, one listener proposes a contest involving Joey Chestnut and Usain Bolt.
A significant portion of the episode is dedicated to an interview with sports columnist Sally Jenkins. They explore the implications of Bill Belichick’s transition from the NFL to a college football environment at Chapel Hill.
Jenkins discusses Belichick’s coaching philosophy, his ability to develop undrafted players, and the potential impact on college football dynamics.
The conversation delves into Belichick’s legacy, his relationship with Tom Brady, and how his disciplined approach could transform Chapel Hill’s football program.
Sally Jenkins elaborates on the importance of team culture, drawing parallels between successful NFL teams and the Washington team’s transformation under new leadership.
Tony and Sally debate the effectiveness of recent coaching decisions and their long-term effects on team performance, highlighting the necessity of alignment between management and players.
As the episode wraps up, Tony reflects on memorable moments, listener interactions, and shares amusing anecdotes about meeting hockey legend Bobby Orr.
Tony expresses his gratitude and amazement at meeting Orr, illustrating the personal connections and stories that enrich the show’s vibrant atmosphere.
Conclusion: The episode “The Annual Staples Pilgrimage” offers a blend of insightful sports analysis, personal anecdotes, and expert interviews, making it a must-listen for fans of "The Tony Kornheiser Show." With its rich content and engaging delivery, the show provides both entertainment and thoughtful commentary on the ever-evolving landscape of sports and beyond.