“Thank you Mr. Sherman”

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There's two things to talk about and I'll let the crew decide which comes first. One is only one answer. One is the live situation yesterday with John Harbour being canned and Will Bonn and I having to do the show live. And two is the Sherman heating oil situation. Which do you want to hear? Take them in order. Well, the harbour situation affects my son. So I want to get your take on this. Okay. All right. So we'll start with Harbour. So yesterday we're doing PTI. I'm doing it from the house. Will Bonn's doing it from the studio. We have a series of stories that we are prepared to do and and one of the stories because Will Bonn wanted to do this story. I had no enthusiasm for this whatsoever. None. One of the stories was the sort of coaching entanglement at Ole Miss that some of the assistants are allowed to continue to coach Ole Miss and some of the assistants are now being brought back into LSU and and Will Bonn just thinks this is a really big deal. I mean, things are really big deal for a variety of reasons. One of which is it makes the SEC look bad which makes him happy because it makes the big 10 look good. And that's part of the agenda. And the other thing is he hates, he hates Lane Kevin. Yes. He hates Lane Kevin. So, you know, as long as we understand why he likes this story. And so we, you know, we're not going to do the story at all and then that four o'clock Kelley Hurren, Will Bonn and I decide, okay, we'll do this story. And I just say, I really have nothing to add in this. It's been going on for, you know, a month. Yeah, about a month. It's been going on for a month. The drama isn't the assistance. The drama is Kiffin. The drama is every time Ole Miss wins again and Kiffin sits in LSU. And the puppet strings. You know, and wonders, not only does he make free money because LSU agreed to give him bonuses if Ole Miss won game after game after game. But he has to wonder, maybe they don't think I'm that good because they're winning it with a guy named Golden, who nobody had heard of before. So maybe this, maybe this hurts me. It's William Golden, right? Didn't he do Lord of the Flies? No, it's a different Golden. So that's, you know, that to me, it's been going on. So it's not a story. So I agree and we do the story. Then we're going to do a story on the possibility of Kurt Signetti leaving Indiana, totally speculative story that I like, leaving Indiana and going to the Raiders, and maybe bringing Fernando Mendoza with him as the number one overall drip pick, which they get. Yes. Got the attitude for it. Yes. Yes. So I like that story. Then originally, the story that gets dumped in order to do the Ole Miss story, story gets dumped, was the fact that both the New York Nicks and the Ole Miss City Thunder lost again the other night. It's a story, you know, it's an ongoing story. Yeah. They're going to lose a lot. Look, the Ole Miss City Thunder started out 24 and 1, and they're 6 and 6 since then, because it's an unsustainable start historically. Anybody ever win 80? No. Don't even look it up. Nobody ever won 80. Most anybody ever won 73, 73 and 9. And they're not going to lose more than 9. The best team in a league can be the best team in a league and win between 63 and 65 games every single year. So I don't mind dumping that story. And the last story is a story that Wilbons not crazy about, which is the speculative story about Tray Young and the possibility him being traded. One of the teams whose name comes up all the time is the Washington Wizards. Like this is, like it's the worst. If you end up in Washington. The surging Washington Wizards? Yes. One last time. One like three recently, haven't I? Yeah, three or four. Yeah. Okay. But I want to do this story, because Tray Young will forever be linked with the Draft Knight trade of Tray Young even up for Luca Doncic. The Douse Mavic drafted third that year 2018 and they drafted Tray Young. The Atlanta Hawks drafted fifth and they drafted Luca Doncic. And no matter what Tray Young does, he's a good player. And the league insists last year, it's four time all-store. No matter what he does, he ain't Luca Doncic. Like stop. And one of the lines I said when we taped the show and it was in the show was no one, not even Nico Harrison, would trade Luca Doncic for Tray Young now. Don't want to do that story. We do that story. And we get done taping it about, I don't know, 520. 517, 18, right now. Somewhere in there. Yeah. You know, ready to go. Yeah, when Matt Keller says, and that was really good. Great second. That was really great for the first time. But we can't, and I go, what? And he goes, John Harbour was just fired. I go, really. So of course, you have to remake the show. So John Harbour goes to the top of the show. Ole Miss goes second and Kurt Signetti goes third. That's okay. There's no NBA, which is a victory for a lot of us most of the time. There's enough NBA. And the NBA, look, I'm not telling you anything you don't know. The NBA, and when you look at it at sports center, it's two minutes of highlights, and all the highlights look the same. They're great shots, they're great dunks, they're a fouls, it's all the same. This is not the case in other sports. Less second, three, falling out of bounds. Yeah, it's not, you know, so, you know, I don't care if we do the NBA. When we do the NBA, there's got to be real meaning to it. I thought the Tray Young trade story had real meaning. I did personally, and I was really happy to do it. Anyway, it's gone. And we do the Harbour story. And we don't have a lot of time to prep the Harbour story. And I'd say on the air, look, I'm stunned by this. I'm stunned. John Harbour has been here for 18 years. He's won a Super Bowl. Steve Bishaddi is not a knee jerk guy. He's not Mark Davis firing guys every six weeks. That's not what he does. And I didn't think that anything that John Harbour didn't merit it being fired. I mean, I think you fire the coordinators, and you acknowledge the fact that Lamar Jackson has not been healthy and has not been anywhere near what he was for five, six years in a row. And what he was is a great regular season player and a bad player player. But you would get to the playoffs. And so you have to think, wait, you're telling me that he got fired because the guy missed a 44-yard kick that if he makes the playoffs, he's not going to get fired if he makes the playoffs. He might get fired after the playoffs. But he's not going to get fired yesterday. So it was a stunner to me. And we did that story. And I don't know that we added all that much to the body politic of John Harbour. But that was the right call. And we did it live. You know, now usually when we do something live, I get an opportunity to say live TV. I don't like it. I don't like it. I didn't, because we had taped the last segment of the show and it timed out. Yeah. It timed out. So we didn't have to go back in and do that live as well. So I was thinking, maybe today I would go live TV, I'd nothing like it, even though we're not probably going to, because it's rare. Yes. It's rare. It doesn't happen very often. I thought we did fine, but it doesn't happen very often. How was the heart rate? Up. Heart rate was up. Yeah, heart rate was up. What did it check the whoop? But it was, you know, it was, it's fun to watch the machine go into motion. It's exciting. You still have it. Well, I don't know. I don't know if I still have it. It's possible if you watch a show, you would have said, for your Ravens solution, do you think coordinator level would have been high enough to appease the quarterback? Yeah. Yeah. Get rid of the offensive coordinator, get rid of the defensive coordinator, just say, didn't work and give the guy one more year. So that's, you know, you're putting them on notice. Yeah. And look, you don't need that job, because the reporting is that within, I don't know, every minute, every single team with an opening has called him. Yeah. And every single team has called him and that would include Baltimore, I guess, because they have an opening. Well, it's amazing. You look at regular season record and just look at what happens when your sandwich between, I don't know, the fading dynasty of the Patriots, you have obviously, Buffalo just lurking and you have Kansas City. Tough. Tough to be in the AFC. And so even with the, the way that that game ends and you look at, you also have Pittsburgh. Yes. Powerful in the, in the AFC over a lot of years. The last images, you know, the coach putting his arm around the kid after he misses the field goal and the walk through the tunnel. What else would you want? Yeah. What else would you want of a head coach? So yeah. So I was a stunner to me. Wilbur didn't seem stunned. Well, he's never surprised. Well, I, you know, I certainly was. All right. Let me get to Sherman oil. We will review the Sherman oil situation, which is year after year after year for 10 or 12 or 15 years, I would do something called a pre-buy around Labor Day. And I would give Sherman oil a big chunk of money. And that would presumably buy all the propane I needed for the next year, going into the summer. Sometimes you miss by a couple of deliveries, but, you know, you're right, you're near it all the time. This year, I didn't buy it because I never got the notice. And it's not something that I think about. I don't think why I didn't get the notice and write it down. But then when I got my first bill, I went, oh, you know, what happened? What, so I called up? What happened? I said, well, you didn't, you didn't respond to the notice. That's why you didn't get it. That's like when you throw out the parking passes. Yeah, right. Which you didn't get. Yeah, which I didn't get or through the map, or through the map, one of the two. But in this context is important. In this particular case, I didn't throw it out because I do it every single year, you know. And my position was you should have called me. I'm a loyal customer. I do it every single year. You should have wondered why I didn't do it. And I was worth the call. And the position of the manager, and I talked to the manager a couple of times, position of the manager, her position was, no, we have thousands of customers. And some of them just don't want it. Can't afford it. They're selling their houses. We have a variety of reasons. And that's, we don't do that. We don't get back to you. If you don't get back to us, we assume you don't want it. You made a choice. Now I think that's defensible. I think that's fair of her to say. My position is, I think, equally defensible. And it goes like this. Who customer service reaches out to your loyal customers and inquires as to what is going on here when there is a break in the pattern? And she said no. And so I had written a couple of notes, got no responses. And then I called, this is after these previous phone, the previous phone call. I'd written notes in the bill saying I'm still disappointed. And I never got a response. And then I called and I said, I want to talk to the president. And she said, well, we've had this conversation. I am the manager. I said, OK, then I want to talk to the owner. Who is the owner? I want to talk to the owner. And she said, well, Mr. Sherman is the owner. And I said, well, I want to talk to Mr. Sherman about this. And that was the end of our conversation. It was not, it was not angry. I made a request. I never thought that anything would happen. I didn't. I thought she'd just say, guys, a little. You'd still keep writing your little personal notes every month. I get a call back from her a couple of weeks later. It says, Mr. Sherman is willing to offer you a pre-buy right now at a lower rate than you are paying per delivery, not as lower rate as the original pre-buy, but somewhere in the middle. And I said, that's great. That's really great. I'm very grateful for that. And I did it. And I wrote a check right away for that size of a little amount of money. But that's because it's going to be six months of heating oil. And I felt that that was, I don't know, Mr. Sherman. I don't know if that actually happened. Or maybe it happened. But I felt that that was a very fair compromise, that both of us lose a little and both of us gain a little. So what are your thoughts on this? I would say fair compromise is the perfect way to describe it. This is the solution that I came up with weeks ago, which is they should have a second round of buying. And there's a different price point. The tough part about this is you have a very reasonable sense of what customer service is, but it's often customer service just for you, not for customer service, writ large as to how they treat everybody. So I just think about the expenses, to what it would mean to follow up to people who made the decision by not opting in to do that follow-up. And all of a sudden, maybe the price point is changing for everybody, for those who didn't necessarily have the cash to buy into the pre-pay. And now they're paying a higher premium because someone else is on the phone checking you with you already made your decision. I'm happy that it ended the way it did. And I would just love to know that Mr. Sherman, comma, a long time PTI viewer, that would be good. I had no sense at all. I have had and have no sense at all that the manager of Sherman Oil has any idea what I do for a living. I think she just said it's another customer. He's been around for a while. He's annoying me. Yes, but no one was angry. No, I appreciate that. She's Sherman Oil had very reasonable reasons for not asking. Defensible. That's what I'm saying. Yeah, I didn't know that she was contrary to that, but I've explained my question. No, I would love to follow up and to say, I know you can't really do this, but I would love to see the notes that you have on file about a certain customer. First name, Tony. Yeah. So when that offer was made to you, did it come with the following phrase? Now, Mr. Sherman said this, someday, that they may never come. He's going to call upon you for a favor. It did not. It did not, but I would have done that. Oh, they're entering shout out territory. So. But again, I mean, do I believe there is a Mr. Sherman or is that a convenient thing to say? I like to believe that that was one all the way up to the fact that I believe he's driving the truck. So if this is a true fact, then I have even more respect for the manager. Yeah. Who did it? Yes. She did it. Yep. Well, it ends well. It seems to me, and we will take a break. Chuck Todd will join us to pick some games. When we return, I'm Tony Cornheyser. You're listening to the Tony Cornheyser Show. This is Philip Martin. He's a columnist at the Arkansas Democrat Gazette, which I assume is in Little Rock. Yes. I'm fairly certain. And he writes, been enjoying the show much lately. I don't have a Spotify rap, but I didn't miss an episode last year. I got my wife a G Tech Hand Warmer muffler, like the one Tony's been talking about on air as a Christmas present. She can curse it's the best thing ever, especially for walking dogs in the dark, unseasonably cold mornings we've had lately. I obviously could have used a code because I paid 230 for hers. Though I do have $200 in shop credit. We got to get it in the shop. Anyway, she's, she's warm with her hands, and Philip Martin is sending us a song this one is called Sandy, which is his old to Sandy co-facts his high school days, finished it by his nine-gith birthday. Isn't that lovely? Or just missed it by a little? And that's the first song that we're going to play by Philip Martin. Sandy, we're always happy when writers sing as well. Yes. Great. Like, um, Shining. Dave Shining. Absolutely. Brilliant singer. Pleasant Chuk Todd, who had a bad week, bad week, two and five. He said, even he's at Mount 500, but he got to go one way or the other at this point, 65 and 65. And maybe you shouldn't have picked the college games because you were one in three, huh? They killed me. Yeah. But I'm already in a better mood because I thought I was one in six. I was pretty good Vince. I was one in six. No, two in five. Great. Great. That I got that second one because I thought it meant I'd drop below 500. The only thing I can chuck it up to is, um, I'm, you know, I'm drunk on the hurricane. And that's all I'm thinking about. About all I got. Yeah. Well, but that's what that's like. That is your loyalty, right? That is your loyalty. That 100%. It is. Are you one with Miami? That was one of your wins. And I thought you won. You took Carolina over Tampa Bay plus two and a half and Carolina lost by two. So I thought you won that. Yeah. No, it's, but that's been about it. Yeah. Yeah, it was brutal. Yeah, it was brutal. But think about these NFL playoffs. Is any result going to shock you? Um, the only thing honestly that would shock me is if both Carolina and Pittsburgh won at home, I would be very surprised at that. But no, nothing else. In the AFC with the exception of the chargers, I think any team can get to the Super Bowl or lose in the first round. In the NFC, the only team I really count out is Carolina. Yeah. I mean, they lost to get it. Can I get a bonus win for calling the loser of the Raven's dealers game that that coach is on? Do I get any that was pretty good. I will say that so when I found this out yesterday and we found it out, we had to go live on the A block because we found it out so late. I was stunned that Harboa was fired. Just stunned. Were you not stunned at that? I think something was wrong all year though. Didn't you get the sense that you can't and I know where you can get the award. I would have fired the coordinators and given him another year. And Lamar Jackson is not Lamar Jackson. So I don't know. It's like, it's like when I find out that Washington gets rid of Cliff Kingsbury and they go, what? Like your quarter guys quarterback is out the whole year basically. What are you getting rid of him for? So a book button with Washington's case, the next stop is the head of Dan Quinn. So, you know, I guess, I guess, let me just do this read. So it's Harboa. Harboa's going to be the giants, right? He could go in and where he wants. He's apparently gotten offers from every sickle team that he's a coach. Like he could have had a job last night before it was announced. He lost the job apparently. Apparently this week's picks with Chuck Todd and Reginald the Monkey are brought to you by Fandall Sportsbook. Make every moment more. We will start. The Rams are a huge favorite at Caroline at 10 and a half points. That's really a lot of points in a playoff game. And if I'm not mistaken, Caroline beat the Rams earlier this year. I don't know. Maybe that factors in as a revenge motif for the Rams. It's a lot of points though. I do think the Rams have the capability of winning by 25. Who you got? It's a ton of points and yet I can't bring myself to take Caroline. I mean, it feels like that, you know, the NFL playoffs are another level. And I'm assuming that McVeigh's got the ramp. I think it's like, I don't think it's out of the realm that every road team wins in the NFC. Okay. And if you can't, and I don't want to take the points with Caroline at you don't believe they can win. So I'm going to take the ramps. It's a lot of points. I'll take the ramp. It's a lot of points. The next line flipped overnight. A flip of three points. Green Bay yesterday was plus one and a half at Chicago. And it's now minus one and a half at Chicago. Chicago has beaten Green Bay both times. They played this year both fairly recently, you know, so they beat them in label. They'll go one and one. They'll go one and one. Oh, I thought they beat them both times. They beat them the last. They beat them in Chicago. No, no, no, no, that's right. Okay. They beat him in Chicago and Green Bay. Green Bay won. It was a close. It was right at the, I think they intercepted Caleb at the last player. That's right. No, you're right. I remember that now. So Green Bay has Jordan love back. We don't know his effectiveness, but we they have him back. And they're now a one and a half point favorite. It's a negligible amount of points for these two teams, but it's a big flip in 24 hours. It is and look, floor, you may not believe this. LeFour might be coaching first job. Really? There's a lot of grumping this in the athletic head a little something about this. Here's the thing. He's, you know, there's a statistic. I've said it to you before where it's something like 90% of Super Bowl winning coaches did it within the first six years they were with the franchise and that if you haven't won a, as I can you read it alone exception. Okay. That, you know, if you're not winning it in that first five or so, you know, you said to your first iteration of building your team, you're not winning it. And LaFour is, I think in year eight, year seven, three straight years of the seven seed, all of those things. So, you know, they can't, a loss here creates a lot of a little drama there. Well, I will say this about LaFour. You know, and I remember him from here, McVeigh LaFour, Shanahan, all of those guys, McDaniel even, LaFour does not have any particular stature. He's not John Hardmore, Mike Thomas. He's a guy. He's a guy. He's a guy. Yeah. Go ahead. No, there's something, there's something, and I don't know, I get frustrated with this play calling. I've taken the packers out of loyalty. I probably should take the bears at the points here, but I don't think Harrison would forgive me if I pick the bears. I'm sure that's public setting. Okay. But I'm putting that out there to, you know, give a hint. I think bears getting points here, it's the call. But I'm taking the packers. Buffalo is a one and a half point favorite at Jacksonville. Jacksonville has won eight games in a row and appears to be really, really good. Buffalo has two great players on offense and they don't really have anything else. Will Bonn believes Buffalo is going to lose this game. Do you have Saturday believes Buffalo is going to lose this game? What do you believe? I'm believing that Josh Allen's in the playoffs without Lamar Jackson and Patrick Mahomes, I think, for the first time ever. Okay. Right. And, and Burrow, right? Everybody that is good in his way. Yeah. In the AFC. Yeah. I'm, I'm buying that it's, this is, this is, if you, if you can't pull it off this time, when's he pulling it off? I'm, I'm riding the bills here. Okay. I'm believing in that narrative. That, that he's going to just carry them. That's the third road team out of six so far. The 49ers who got smothered by Seattle, totally smothered. They are at Philadelphia. One thing we know about Philadelphia is their good playoff team. They may not look good going in, but they're a really good playoff team. 49ers have not been a really good playoff team. The 49ers though are getting four and a half points, which strikes me as a lot of points. And in a city, Philadelphia where it's not, it's going to be rainy maybe. But it's not going to be freezing. It's not. So what do you like? It's not going to be cold, right? It's warm enough. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Warm enough this week. Yeah. I like the points. This feels like a field goal game. Um, the only thing is, is that last week taught me is maybe the Niners can't handle a physical game. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That, that, that, that, that, that Seattle Seattle could have beaten them by 35 points. They could have. Yeah. Wow. And, and Philly, you know, one thing you know they're going to do is bring. Yep. Yeah. You know, four and a half. I, I'm, I'll bet the field goal game. So give me that. I'm not a routine. Los Angeles Chargers is the one team I don't really love in the AFC. Los Angeles Chargers. What? Why is that? I just, when I watch them on television, they lose most of the time that I watch them or when they win, they don't win great. Now, it's, it's a hard call for me here because Justin Herbert did not play last week. And I, I should get that game out of my mind completely, but it's in my mind at the moment. Chargers are getting three and a half at New England. New England went from four and 13 to what, 14 and three had a very easy schedule doing it, but did it, but did it. And they are three and a half point favorite over the charges. Who do you like? By the way, Mike Raible, is, is he not the best reference in your resume for John Harboh? I, yes. Yes. Yes. Right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's a close vote with Ben Johnson and Liam Cohn. It's a close vote. And there are some people that would say, give it to the guy in Minnesota, not Minnesota, in Seattle. Give it to the Seattle guy. I don't know. Yeah. Oh no. Nah, it's actually a good, it's actually a pretty good debate. Yeah. You also got Chicago, you got Jacksville, you got all of that. I'm, I'm going to take New England. I'll write for Raible. Okay. Take New England. It gives you one more game that is used in that Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh's very lucky to be in the playoffs. It's a 44-yard field goal. Like 90% of the time, maybe more than that, those are good in the NFL. And Pittsburgh is in the playoffs. Houston has won nine games in a row. Has a great defense. Pittsburgh though is getting back DK Metcalfe. And I, I think that could be significant. Pittsburgh, at home, they don't win in the playoffs anymore. So you could see Tomlin going at the end of this one if they lose. Houston is a three-point favorite on the road. And I think it should actually be a higher number. Who do you like? This Houston defense is, you know, this could be, this could be Raven's 2000, right? Yeah. Where the defense can take you all the way. Yeah. I, I like this Texans defense. Give me, give me the Texans. I don't know, I don't know why they're not, well, I get why the line is what it is because it's road. But still, I like the Texans here. And then I don't feel like it's a close call. Do you want to hazard the college games where you got almost wiped out last time? Do you got Miami still playing? I'm nervous about Miami being a favorite all of a sudden. You know, this underdog role was kind of nice. Yes. But, you know, with the suddenly Miami's got a little pressure. Look, I think, I like Miami here. I think they can, I think they're defense. I think the Ole Miss defense isn't good enough to stifle Miami's offense while Miami's defense is good enough to do that to them. So I, I like Miami cover in the three and a half. And I'm not getting in the way of the freight train that's Indiana. Right. I mean, you don't have to bet any of these games. You don't have to bet either of them. But if you want to, we'll let you know it. All right. Yeah. I, I will, I need to pad the record. It's like, you know, it's like reaching into your pocket for more money at a blackjack tape. Yeah. And give, give me Miami and Indiana both to cover the two favors. Indiana is what favorite? How much are they in Oregon? See, what would scare me? I mean, three and a half. I had three and a half on both, I think. Okay. Yeah, three and a half. Here's what would scare me about Indiana. And I'm rooting for Indiana to win. Because I just think they're a better story than Oregon. But this is a rematch game. And we have seen in rematch is the team that lost first, win second. We've seen that. Yeah. And Oregon is a really good squad. And not only that Tony, I think I read the stat in this sort of going back to the four team playoff era, the only same season rematch where the same team one was earlier this month when Ole Miss beat two lane a second time. And it's like, yeah, that's not that doesn't count. Right. Exactly. Every other instance. Yeah. The losing team is one. So that's what it's a fair, it's a fair point. Here's a fun fact for you. Let me give you one. That Miami can Miami is one of only two teams that both a football and a basketball team in the final four since 2021. Who's the other university? Final four teams. Alabama? Alabama and final four. Alabama. Alabama. Oh, I got that. Well done. Oh, wow. You're going to go with sports rider. We're going to go with Binghamton. I would not have gone with Binghamton. It might have been big. Bighamton was really close. Yeah, really close. Really close. Like if you go back to 2020, if you go back to 2020, if you go back to 2020 if you go Thank you. If we just gave you Chuck Todd, it would be more than enough, but we give you more than Chuck Todd, we give you a monkey. See the monkey he's rich, rich, rich, fresh and watching his iPads smoking and laughing, hanging with bud, grand tap, tap, tap, and purring. Everybody sing along on the chorus. Now just go into the zoo, zoo, zoo, zoo. Reginald's got the voice. Five, two, some time he grows. Ho, ho, ho. Benny's had too much Johnny walkin' blue. Now Reginald had a good week. Yeah. Reginald was three and one. Reginald is five and two over the last two weeks. He's 22 and 33 overall, so he's not. He's not gonna make it. It's gonna be tough. He's gonna have to pretty much go into. You know, it's, if he closes well, that's nice. If he closes. And again, not bad for a monkey. No, not bad for a monkey. So I went down to the national zoo. He was not there. I had to zoom with him. Turns out he was down in Alabama where he's breaking ground for the William J. Lapeta and Maine Memorial Gamilinkasino for the criminally insane. Yeah. This is a passion project for him. For years. Yeah. Join there by fellow investors Charles Bockley, Joey Chestnut and Helena Bonham-Cotta. So there you go. That's an eclectic crew. Well, he attracts an interesting group of people around. What is he happy? Is he gonna pick him all or is he gonna pick some? He's gonna pick three. On a pick three, that's fair. He's gonna pick three because he figured if he picked all six, he would lose all six. Okay. Let's make sure he gave him, was the Bears at home, getting a point and a half against the Packers. And Reginald was very excited. Pulled out his wallet, showed me a photo of his new house in North Scottsdale, Arizona. Oh boy, we're all with it. Right next to where the ones go. Right. Then he showed me a text thread with him, Will Bon Richard Denton, some guy named Jordan, tells me he's got ties with Chicago. Yeah, he'll take Chicago. Yes. Now, the next match we gave him was Philly at home, giving four and a half to the San Francisco 49ers. And this was lovely. Reginald showed me a newspaper clipping of him in a stage production of Death of a Salesman with Jalen Hertz and Kyle Schwilber playing Biff and Happy respectively. There you go. Reginald was playing Willie. Willie. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, tension must be paid. Exactly. He will take Philly and lay the four and a half. And the final match we gave him was Jacksonville at home, getting a point and a half versus the Bills. And this is not surprising. Reginald showed me a picture of him eating his favorite waffle house in downtown Jacksonville alongside Mark Brinnell, Tony Bisselli and Fred Taylor. So he's going home teams. Yes. Three home teams. Five out of six road teams. Yeah. Yeah, Reginald loved the home cooking. Now we'll see how it works out. This week's picks with Chuck Todd and Mention of the Monkey have been brought to you by FanDuel Sportsbook. Make every moment more. And we will come back with Greg Cody. And we'll talk about the University of Miami, and the Miami dolphins, and what Troy Ackman is still in down there. I'm Tony Cornheiser. You're listening to The Tony Cornheiser Show. One more time, Mrs. Philip Martin, who's a columnist at the Arkansas Democrat Gazette. And he's also a singer and a songwriter. And this is a song called Road to Urban, which is for his friend Brent Brinnell, who was the first American journalist killed in the Ukraine after the Russians invaded, and who was a subject of a heartbreakingly sad HBO documentary armed only with a camera. And Philip Wright, I understand if maybe you think the subject is a little too sober for the show. No. No. We're happy. It's a beautiful song. We're happy to play your music. Thank you very much for that. I should point out, we'll hear from him one more time. He's got the mail back jingle today as well. Oh, OK. Yeah, he took a crack. It took a crack at the email jingle. So if people like Philip Martin want to send in their original music, Michael, get a play on the show. How do they go about it? Send us your music by email. Get to jinglesat. Tony Cornheiser Show.com. And it plays in Greg Cody, because we got a bunch of Miami things to do. It's an all-miami day with Chuck Todd talking about the Canes and now Greg talking about the Canes and about the dolphins. Let me just start with this. I have to sit and listen to Will Barn tell me how Miami fell off the face of the Earth in the last X amount of years, which I don't think is true. And I don't think there was good as they were. But it's not like they became a team that goes one and eight every single year. How good is this Miami team in comparison to the teams that you remember from years ago as being national contenders? It's very comparable. They're where they are right now. Two wins away from a national championship with great cause, with good reason. I mean, they're super good. Chris DeBall has rebuilt this entire team. He took over a roster that had really been depleted and was sort of sad. And that's why he went five and seven his first year, and he's gotten better and better every year. And the team I'm seeing right now was built from the ground up. They're offensive and defensive lines are among the best in the country. And it starts there. And I think they can win this national championship. And I think they're as good as the teams that one five of them back in the golden days. So thank you for mentioning Mario Cristobal, who is an alum who played on some of the great Miami teams and who has a reputation as a loon, you know, making incredibly stupid decisions time and time. And not just once, but twice. Do you trust Mario Cristobal? Yeah. I look, everybody's going to, you're going to heart back to, you know, the disaster against Georgia, thank a couple of years ago. And that's never going to leave him. He does have that reputation of being less than a super coach on the sideline during games. Yeah. And that may be that may be a matter of fact, but what you get in Cristobal is a recruiter, a guy who can win the portal. And that's in today's college football. I think it starts there. And an example would be, you know, last year he gets cam ward out of the portal and cam ward breaks records that have stood, passing records that have stood at this college for decades. And this year he gets Carson Beck, who was the number one QB in the portal. So he can win the living room in the portal. And I think that's where it starts. I'll take the fact that he may make a bad decision or misuse the time out occasionally. Let me go back a month ago when the last poll is released. And Miami gets into the tournament. I was, I'm not going to say I was stunned, but I just thought, boy, there's a complicated series of reasons why this has happened. And the committee looks really stupid because they had rated Notre Dame ahead of Miami by at least two spots. For every single time they did the rankings, Greg, did you think Miami was actually getting into this tournament? No, I had my doubts. I think you and I were of the same mind. I thought the committee was going to stick with Notre Dame, despite the logic of the head-to-head game. But they didn't. And I think what's been proven is that they made the right decision. Yes. And that's not, yeah, that's nothing against Notre Dame. But man, when you hold the Texas A&M offense to three points and then you beat the championship favorite in Ohio State, you're proven yourself. And now they're favored for the first time against Ole Miss. So this team is proving itself, and particularly that it deserved to be in the CFP even with those two losses. The just totally justified. I mean, I think Notre Dame would be justified too. My problem is with James Madison and teams like that, because I don't think it should be a charity tournament. But Miami's totally justified. Let's look back a little bit. Why has Miami been, I mean, let's not say what Wilbond says, they're no good, but why have they been non-championship factors for 15 years? Well, it's like you say, they've never been awful, but they've been mediocre. They've watched Clemson dominate the ACC. They've watched FSU have its time atop the ACC. And they've never even won an ACC championship. But, Chris DeBal, you know, he just retooled the whole thing from the ground up with the O.L. and the defensive line. And he's got a great running game. Last year, the past defense was very bad, and he retooled that. So he's just, he's got a complete roster right now. And their offensive line and their running game led by Mark Fletcher, I think, are in a position to beat Ole Miss. I've been joking, I like to call, refer to Ole Miss as Ole Miss Tackels, because I don't think they're great on defense. You know, they're not. And I think Miami's going to run all over them. So we'll see. And then, if they get to the championship game, which is in their own home stadium, it's going to be lovely because they're going to play Indiana with the Miami-raised Heisman winner, or they're going to play Oregon, the team that Chris DeBal left to go back home. So they're great storylines all over the place. How do you feel when you see Michael Irvin running around the sidelines, hugging everybody? Does that make you feel good? It, you know, it's a cartoon. I can see why people make fun of it. I like it. Yeah, but as, you know, as somebody who's known Michael since he was a teenager, I enjoy it. You know, I think he's the on field cheerleader. You know, he's the sideline cheerleader. And they love it. And, you know, Jimmy Johnson comes back here, Edger and James, who's on the sideline in the last game. The U has a strong history of that, of generational connection. And I think you're seeing that right now. Nobody will remember, we'll understand this now, nobody under the age of 40, because it's a wire service joke, but you will get it. Best quote I ever got. Ever was Michael Irvin who said the following line, that's us number one FBI number one, you P.I. I just loved it. Just love Michael Irvin. Let me shift over to the dolphins. Is McDaniel going to keep his job as the coach? I, yesterday at this time, I'd have said yes, emphatically. And then both more fires, John Harbaugh, and that sort of changed everything nationally, not just in Miami. I, I, there'd be fools not to go after Harbaugh. Okay, I've not been one of these fire McDaniels guys, fire McDaniel guys, but when you have John Harbaugh out there available, I think you have to go after him. I think the dolphin should, Stephen Ross has a connection with the Harbaugh's and Michigan and all that stuff. And he went after Jim Harbaugh a few years ago and didn't get him. I, I'm not saying that they will go after him. And I'm saying even less that they have a chance to get him. But man, if I was Stephen Ross, I would be all over John Harbaugh's availability. What happens with Tuwa? Does it depend on if there is a new coach, if McDaniel is there, Tuwa wants out. Are they gonna go with Quinn-Uers? That's the way it's looking right now. I, you know, Quinn-Uers in his three starts has had spotty results. I thought he was great in the first half of the Tampa Bay game. Let's, so, Sunday in New England, but that's a good defense. That's the first good defense he's faced. The first road game is faced. There were a lot of obstacles there. The cold weather, all of it. But Quinn-Uers, I think deserves a chance to win the job. The, the Tuwa situation is, is ugly and terrible because he's got, you know, they're gonna be paying him $50 million next year to essentially be a backup quarterback. If not a third string or so, it's an unenviable situation. They're going into the off season essentially not having a proven quarterback that they believe in. It's the same thing that happened to Atlanta. They spent a lot of money on Kirk Cousins and as a result, the general manager was justifiably fired because he ruined the entire quarterback thing by drafting penics and stick, no, it's a bad situation. What is Troy Ackman? What is his involvement with Miami? Well, he's the advisor on the general manager front, but you have to also think that he's weighing in on the whole quarterback situation as well. Why wouldn't they have him do that? So, you know, I think Quinn-Uers has a hand not only in who the next GM is gonna be, but also in how good is Quinn-Uers and, you know, Ackman's gonna have a hand in all of that right now, even though, sensibly, they hired him for the GM search. I agree with you. I mean, it's like when you hired Tom Brady, don't you want Tom Brady to evaluate your quarterback? Don't you think Tom Brady knows what he's doing? I would say the same thing about Troy, right? Yeah, oh, that's 100%. You know, they also have Dan Moreno in the room. I mean, they can utilize him all they want, but Moreno has sort of been a little bit of an unwilling participant in terms of front office type stuff. You know, he's rather independent of that, but Ackman's gonna have a hand in the GM search and in the coaching situation and why wouldn't he? If you bring in a new GM, I don't know how you keep, you know, unless that new GM really likes McDaniel, I don't know how you keep McDaniel. I don't understand it. Well, I think the first thing to understand is that Stephen Ross, who owns the team, is a fan of McDaniel. He believes in him, trust him. And I think that's an overriding decision right now. Now, that's not to say that he wouldn't go after a coach of John Harbaw's statue or status, but at the same time, I think he believes in McDaniel. And honestly, if they fired McDaniel tomorrow, I think he would turn up as an offensive coordinator somewhere. I think he's got skill on that side of the ball. He, you know, there's a lot wrong with him. He doesn't present himself very well in a post-game news conference, particularly when he's not winning in a lot to be glib and clever. But I think he can't coach offensive football. And we saw that a couple of years ago, and then, Tula has an off a bad season, and he'll get certain everything goes off the rail. Yeah. All right, we get you out of here on this. It's early in the morning. How's Levitard? Is he sweating? Is everything okay down there? He goes to bed and wakes up sweating, you know. Yeah, yeah. So everything good in those studios, are those the studios that Pablo uses as well in Miami? I think so. There's rather polatial, to be honest with you. I'm in a spare studio right now. I'm in closed. It's glorious down here. That's nice. That's nice. I mean, the best thing about Dan is that Dan, of course, hates all authority. And now he is the authority. So he hates himself. I know. Great. It's wonderful to hear him complain about all the responsibility he has when he took down himself. Yeah, he did. They gave him a lot of money, and he eagerly took the money, and now he's very bitter at himself, which makes me happy. Just makes me happy. Yeah, this is it. The best of both worlds when you can be making all that money, and yet be allowed to complain about it. Be miserable. Be miserable. All right, thank you, Greg. Talk to you soon. Thank you. Okay, Tony. Thanks. Greg Cody, boys and girls, we will take a break. We will come back with email and jingle. I'm Tony Cornheiser. This is the Tony Cornheiser Show. I'm Tony Cornheiser. I'm Tony Cornheiser. I'm Tony Cornheiser. I'm Tony Cornheiser. I'm Tony Cornheiser. I'm Tony Cornheiser. I'm Tony Cornheiser. I'm Tony Cornheiser. I'm Tony Cornheiser. I'm Tony Cornheiser. I'm Tony Cornheiser. I'm Tony Cornheiser. I'm Tony Cornheiser. I'm Tony Cornheiser. I'm Tony Cornheiser. Maybe he's receiving facts. Oh, maybe he can finally get his email. Maybe you should just relax. Well, here comes Tony. He's got your email back. He's got your email back. Says, and you're going back. Yeah. Well, here comes Tony. Tony, let him back. He's going to read some wrong info. Oh, this is spectacular. Is it great? Let it build. This is Philip Mark. It goes on for a little bit more. Playing that guitar this is fabulous. Wow. Yeah. That's a wow. I said, wow, three times. Oh, you wanna do the Bethesda Bagel in? Yes, Hot Bagels today. Always excited about that. Yeah, but every set always makes me think of Hot Bench. What's the tag line from that? Three judges. Three judges, three opinions, one vote, I think. I forgot. I forgot to ever watch Hot Bench. Hot Bench. Just go to BethesdaVagels.com for the location and the DC air in issue. Then pop on in and you'll be thrilled. Before we get to the Mayag bag, let me just say you walked into the party like you were walking onto a yacht. You had strategically dipped below one on a new scarf was apricot. You had one eye in the mirror as you watch yourself gov'at. And all the girls dream that they'd be your partner, they'd be your partner and you're so vain. You probably think the song is about you. That's Carly Simon with one of the great songs of all time, apparently about Warren Beatty, where Mick Jagger sings in the background. Some people think it's apparently about Mick Jagger as well. But it's, she's real smart. Yes. And she's real good. And that's one of the great songs ever. I think I just love the song. Thanks to our guests today, Chuck Todd and Red Cody. Thanks as well to today's sponsors. Remember, you can listen to us on Apple Podcast, Spotify and Odyssey. Get you through Apple, please leave us a review. I want to thank Paul Ross very much for a very nice note inviting Mike Lennon to go play a golf with him at TPC. I guess they call it TPC Potomac. I was called that Avenue. I was called that. That's a rebrands over the years. Yeah, it's very nice. Killer is a member there. OK. So he went to Oceanside High School. And he said he followed my career from Tuesday to the Times and moved to Thessa. He's retired podiatrist. I need a podiatrist. I wish he wasn't retired. Well, he kind of had a pain on the right side of my right foot up high. That's not good. It's not good. But it's a very nice note. Thank you very much. We'll put that in the special pile. You don't have a history of ankle issues, though. No, because I've only broken each one three times. That's ridiculous. Liz was astounded by this fact. Yes, I just reached each one. Three times. Bad. That's not good. Good distribution. From Marti West, not that Marti West. But the son of that Marti West. I was listening on Monday to Tony talk about bowling at Columbia. And I thought, wait, I know that bowling alley. That's the alley where our family bowled last week on a holiday trip to the DMV. It's also the alley where back in 1987 and 88, my dad. And I won back to back 12 and under father-son club championships. Yes, that Marti West is quite good at bowling. We didn't win shop credit, but I did get to walk out twice with a new pair of bowling shoes. Having lived in New England for the past 30 years, though, the main reason I'm writing is to correct some misinformation about our most distinctive regional pastime. It is called candle pin bowling, not as Nigel insisted candle stick. It differs from the duck pin bowling you experience at Columbia in two respects. First, the pins are far taller and tapered at both the top and the bottom. I have never done candle pin bowling. Second, one is not obligated to clear the dead wood before the second and third balls of a frame opening up all sorts of interesting possibilities. That happens with cand- with Columbia as well. The pins that are down just lay there. They stay there. They spin around for a while and they just lay there. Information for life, I'm not sure, but at least as it information, happy new year and keep potting in Best Marti West who has a small job of consequences. The academic dean of education. A name title. A name title. At Harvard Graduate School of Education. We're Michael and Liz Wayne. So he would know the bowling place that I was thinking of. It's a pizza place up by the movie theater, a couple squares above Harvard. Okay, so he would know that. So he's listening. So we'll find out what that is. And Harvard is generally known as the Binghamton of the Northeast of the way Northeast. Yeah. Carl Lawback, Nazareth, Pennsylvania. Walked in the Nazareth. I was happy to hear that you like bowling. I like bowling too. That's it. Dan Smith, Middleton, Ohio. Sounds like you're golfing in bowling scores or about the ski. No, my golf scores are higher. Consistency is important. Keep up the good work. Things like to bowl a 130. David Epstein in New York. Love the tales of bowling for the record. Duck pin and candle pin bowling are not the same thing. Duck pin bowling uses a slightly larger and heavier ball than candle pin bowling. But the main difference, of course, is the pins. Fortunately, the nomenclature tells you all you need to know. Duck pins like a duck are short and squat. Candle pins as with many candles are tall and narrow. While both are challenging, I found candle pin particularly tricky because as you know, in both of these games, the deadwood stays on the lane. And a tall pin laying across the alley can literally block you from hitting some of the remaining pins. Regardless, I fully concur that bowling is a tremendously fun family sport. And if you're lucky like my brother, you may end up on a plane next to ProBull or an ABC commentator Nelson Burton, Jr. And the story of that day gets you on the brush with greatness segment on late night with David Letterman. Not bad for a sport where a high achievement is called a turkey. How great. How about that? Mark Spore, Canton, Georgia. As a former sports journalist and current bowling coach, I've been waiting for years for my game to be a topic on my favorite podcast. It was a New Year miracle. Need help with my approach. From your description, it appears you and your family did duck pin bowling. Duck pins are short and wide while candle pins are tall and thin like candlesticks. In candle pin bowling, most popular in New England, you get three shots per frame. Well, you get that in this too. And the down pins stay on the deck throughout the frame and are in play just like this, which can make for some wild strategy. Incidentally, in duck pin, the Tony reality method is Tony reality method is preferred as the pins fly around and create more action. I'm so happy to provide this for you as a small token of my appreciation for the wonderful work you and the crew do for us all. You built truly something special. Thank you. How do you get hook spin? And if you are to hook it, where do you have to enter the lane? If you have like the air is right, you probably have to go way but you have to start on the left side like you're playing a little hook. You have to start at the left T marker. But you have to let go of the ball way on the right if you're hooking it. Yeah, right? David Bradley, Sterling Virginia, I don't know when you walked your dog in the evening, but when I walked mine at 7.05 Saturday night, the moon was pretty spectacular. Hope you got to see it. I did, waning gippas, but nearly full and very bright with a few light clouds nearby. I mentioned that of course, only because it brings me to my favorite name drop, which I tried to use at least twice a year. In December 2003, while working as a newspaper reporter at the Grand Opening of the National Air and Space Museums, Udvar Hazi Center in Chantilly, I was talking with John Travolta when I met Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon. It's pretty good name drop. Neil, well that was the name drop the other day from 21. Guy came back to the United States. Yeah, but he was Neil Armstrong. That's so on the moon. Oh, from Dan Burn. You guys were talking about Olivia Nuzzi a couple of weeks ago. Apparently I'm in her American canto book. And he says, wow, Dan Burn agrees. It's on the other side, I think. Dan Burn imagines that Marilyn Monroe marries Henry Miller instead of Arthur Miller. In Marilyn, a song he wrote in the early 1900s while living in Los Angeles, he figures her existence would have been in that of Enemore Whimsical unless Burden to Fair. The bulk of Monroe's estate had been left to her acting coach. And when he died, it was inherited by his second wife, who licensed her image with liberal abandon. At the time, Burn was in the city with which she was most associated in the American imagination. She was everywhere he told me. And he could not help but contemplate her life in its material end. And the song he cruins Marilyn Monroe didn't marry Henry Miller. But if she did, he'd have taken her to Paris. She smoked a lot of opium. She'd have dyed her hair blue. They'd have something every night. She'd have felt like a woman, not like a photograph of a magazine. And maybe then she'd have died the same way anyway. But if she did, she'd have had more fun. Wow. Isn't that great? Dan Burn in that book. Yeah, connected to this. Wow. Danny Lichtenstein, Atlanta, Georgia. Long time, listen, turned on to you by my son. First, me, Miller. Excuse me. Either I happen to miss the show this was covered on, or I heard the reason, but forgot it, being plagued by short-to-memory loss much like yourself. But maybe just having graced your listeners yet with the reason. But why is taking a show at Columbia Country Club often a part of your morning activity seemingly even when you aren't playing golf? Could it be you trying to save on your big water billet? Oh. Or is the show at Columbia the perfect combination of water temperature and pressure? Has it become a routine that you as a creature of habit again, much like myself? Just don't want to break. Please enlighten myself in any other uninformed littles at what seems to be such a satisfying part of your day. It starts with the steam. It's not every day. You go into the steam room and the shower, the shower pressure at Country Club is great. I mean, come on, this is an important thing. It keeps grandfathered in. This is an important thing. If they don't have good shower pressure, it's better than your house. Yeah. It's better. And then I've told you this before, it is a nesting quality for me. When I go, I feel like I have returned to a nest and I'm always happy to do that. So that's what it's about. Antonio Rodriguez, who says, like, she's a re-Antonio Rodriguez, I wanted to say that I've been using Reginald's picks for the last five years and needless to say, taking betting advice from a monkey has not been profitable. But I guess that's why it's called gambling. Well, at the start of the year, I asked my daughter to place my bets for me since she was still living state side and I'm on the other side of the Pacific. I informed her that I was taking the advice of a monkey and I'd lost a small fortune over the last few years. She was gracious enough to place my bets and said she would send me my winnings after each week. And I laughed because I knew there were not gonna be any winnings. To my surprise, each week the season, she sent me money. And I thought maybe she had pity on me because I was reduced to taking gambling advice from a monkey. I asked her why she was sending me money. My picks were always wrong. She explained that if Reginald's picks are always wrong then the opposite of his picks are always correct. She took my picks and play bets on the opposite of my pick of Reginald's picks. That was genius. Carval and T-boys, six million data points can eat it. We're laughing at Lock and Forest, three lobster dinner. We're celebrating our first winning season by toasting with Johnny Walker Blue. And it's all thanks to doing the opposite of Reginald's natural instinct. Next time I'm in DC, I'll take Reginald to the palm for Tony Corners special, a BLT sandwich that's not on the menu. Well done. Jason Thompson, Lexington, South Carolina, Dr. Tony. Can I call you a doctor? Anyway, I just watched cover up. I want to see this on Netflix. I do want to see this. A documentary profile of investigative journalist Seymour Hirsch. It traces how he broke major stories like me, Li, and Abu Ghrab. It uses actual archival footage and Hirsch's own reflections to show his writing style, sources, skepticism, stubborn independence. Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't you and saw I work at the New York Times together in late 1970s? Yes. And I admire Si, and I admire Woodward more than I admire anybody else that I've ever met in actual journalism. I would have assumed Netflix or ESPN would be simultaneously producing a similar profile of sports writer and columnist Anthony Oincrison. Gordon, I can't. I can imagine a profile with touch on various issues from water leaks, outages, and home maintenance spirals to gardening misadventures, iPhone updates, and a continuing saga of man versus technology to golf as both therapy and torment. And of course, the supporting figures Michael Wilbond, Chuck Todd, Gary Braun, David Aldridge, Liz Clark, Genevieve McMahonis, Bob Ryan, Nigel Reginald, the monkey, Michael Sohn. It struck me that you and Si share the same superpower. You can make a reader feel like they're sitting right there in the room, whether it's high stakes investigation or perfectly ordinary moment that turns out to be hilarious, human, and weirdly profound. Different subject matter, same gift, sharp eyes, sharp sentences, and the kind of voice that makes people come back the next day. Anyway, that's my pitch. Same superpower, fewer war crimes, more personal technology crimes. If Netflix calls, tell them I'll take my executive producer credit in the Cheezery gift cards. That's really wonderful. And Si Hers is a, yeah, he's a heroic figure in the trade. Sam Ram and Springfield for Genius. So Grandpa, from Monday show you said, for kids it's all about the food. Funny that I seem to know it's all about the food for you. From chicken parm at the palm, Michael's grilling offerings, turkey clubs, the Columbia, to the latest ice cream flavor eaten over the sink. Yet it's all about food for kids. Always it's for the kids. Thanks of years of entertainment, tell John Benusawitz to eat it. Dr. Doug Green from Indicott, Indicott in New York. When I heard you say that the IRS wouldn't take January estimated tax, I just sealed my envelope and was ready to mail it. I put it aside and sent my account in an email. If there's long holiday break, you finally got back to me. He tells me that the latest advice from the government as of November says they will take the January checks. His take is that the IRS got out over its keys when it said the September checks were the last and realized they weren't ready for a checklist effort. They now say the January tax will be the last they will accept. So get ready to go online and pay an apron beyond. You can pay by credit card, but that comes with an added fee one. You can enter the bank ID, which is a number on the bottom of your checks with no fee. As an incentive to learn something new, note that you will save a stamp four times a year. This could be eight if your state also requires online payment. Don't worry about giving the government your bank info as they already use it to direct deposit your social security check. Also my account is a fan and left hard when I told them that you mentioned this on your show. Then I can do that this week. That's good. I have time to do that this week and I will do that Thursday morning. And then we've got a little time to wrap up. We can get ready for April. Yeah, the education. Well, I got Thursday morning will be the 10th and I'll send it return receipt requested. So it will be stamped and so that'll be fine. From Tim Crean, Fort Collins, Colorado, Signetti looks like he is three seconds away from plunging a screwdriver. It's so zero. Yeah, I agree. Rick DeSedlow, East Winthrop, Maine. This last week and I drove from Maine to Florida, company by my dog Henry on Saturday while driving South on I, 81 in Virginia. We passed the exit from Blacksburg. I said, Henry, there really is a bear or really bad chipotle in this town. Henry produced a low growl as he continued to peer out the window. I said exactly, pal, exactly. PS, please tell Scott Foster, not the referee Scott Foster to eat it. Mark Lynch, can be Indiana. Please let me know when your statue is going to be dedicated outside the ESPN office that I'd like to attend. That's the sports zone. And from Win Bartlett from Brownsville in Washington State, I have been behind in the pod and busy with the holidays but wanted to share a belated Waymo story with you. Couple of years ago, I took my teenage son on a baseball trip to San Francisco. He wanted to try riding in Waymo, which we did successfully several times. All rides were safe and successful on completion. However, one morning I had occasion to ride in a traditional ride share. While talking with a driver I inquired about Waymo, he shared a story about a recent passenger who during conversation shared that he was a programming engineer for Google Waymo. The driver inquired why he was not riding in a Waymo. The response was that in San Francisco where Waymo vehicles meet each other on the street. When they met each other on the street, they began doing a quick flashing of headlights at each other, the Waymo wink. When someone asked why they were programmed in the vehicles, the engineer replied, we didn't. He chose to ride with a real driver. Artificial intelligence, Jeff Mom might be unblod, but until Carval and Regil endorsed it, I plan to stick with a human driver as do I. If you're out on your bike time, everyone is always, do wear white. But I still need a bit of milk full fat, which I've warmed in the meat crow, are they? Who would be the center builder? Like Philip or Rob and Fogernied, a bust out of the study home. Escape this rin geometry, bell rings to any. The day-hole still could feed your light, slants in the gym. Sandy's skinny shy and quiet still. He plays a bold o'erium. Farnish and squeak on a hardwood floor, baskets around land echoes bone. Flat bush hung outside the door. Sandy still commands the room. Sandy rises loose and spare, a quick first step. He goes all in from Ben's unhurst to Alby's square. He dunked on Harry Galatin. Brooks, when nights the city breathing, Lafayette shadows on his sleeve. Sandy's left arm holds a secret, a billion to one. But you believe. Steam pipes clank, chalk dust lifts, Street lights blink, a boys move on. Sandy lingers, fingers shift, Holding daylight almost gone, One less long one measured sound, A bar returned, a footsteps trace the long way home. The long way round, turns slowing in, A bar rose space, not yet the roar, Not yet the story, just the hum of a whole way light. A boy in Brooklyn bound for glory, Practicing against the night. Brooks, when nights the city breathing, Lafayette shadows on his sleeve. Sandy's left arm holds a secret, Strikes a silence. You believe. The long way round, turns slowing in, A bar returned, a footsteps trace the long way home. Sandy's left arm holds a secret, A bar returned, a footsteps trace the long way home. I've got a brief hole here in the nils, I like my bourbon and my steak. I never think about the reasons, Just pay for every toll I'd break. You're in the Rio Sochiata, The boots tied around your neck, With your arm on low in the pod drain, Only tryin' to connect. I've got a camera in my pocket, Take a few shots of my kid, Think a little bout him, Just disengrain to what we say we did. Now the news cycles pass like a weather, And the talking heads all grin, Lettle flies around you, crain' like a fastball of the nymph, Russian soldiers panic fire in it, On the road to European, Where they stack the dead like dollars, Then start the count again. The shouting can't get a witness, We need to get the pictures out, The photos of it didn't happen, Just more algorithms make down. You gotta look straight at the horror, While they're tapping on their phones, They say you gotta love what's mortally a guy older to your bones, On the Rio Sochiata, I guess I gotta let you go take care, But I hope to see you somewhere north of Mexico, Take care, but I hope to see you somewhere north of Mexico. I guess I gotta let you go take care, But I hope to see you somewhere north of Mexico, And the talking heads all grin, Lettle flies around you, crain' like a fastball of the nymph, Russian soldiers panic fire in it, On the road to European, And the talking heads all grin, Russian soldiers panic fire in it, On the road to European, And the talking heads all grin, Russian soldiers panic fire in it,