What's Your Beef?

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You know what that means? Time for the beef segment, my favorite segment of the week. Not all beef jerky is the same. Old Trapper's original, old fashioned teriyaki, hot and spicy and peppered. All coming four ounce bags.

That way you can sample. The different flavors to find the best one for you. Ask for O Trapper by name because no other jerky compares. O Trapper, what is your beef? We start with the call and beefs.

Scheme tight, get in, get out, make a point. Let's keep moving. Rapid fire beefs. I will get the written beefs in a little bit later on, as is custom. I start the beef segment with a trip out to Charleston.

Miles, my brother. Miles, what is your beef? Jim, thanks for the vine. Jim, I have a beef with these repugnant traffic vigilantes that think that they're cops. And when there's an upcoming lane closure on the interstate, instead of using the zipper method, which is the legal method, they try to block you.

These are largely redneck idiots in trucks and make the whole thing way, way worse. Hey, losers! Not only you. Blocking me, you're blocking emergency vehicles. Get it together.

Do better. I'm out. Rack him. He's right. It's repugnant.

Rack him. Absolutely repugnant. Nice job, Miles. Appreciate you setting the tone. One eight hundred six three six eight six eight six.

Let's go to Toledo. Branson in Toledo. Branson, what's your beef? Hey, Rome. Thanks for the vine.

Hey, my beef is when I'm shopping on eBay. Right. I'm looking for something for a really long time, and then I see it. Great price, great shipping, everything. I click on the picture, and what do I see?

But bunyan, crusted, gout-infested feet. Get your nasty feet out of your pictures. Do better. I'm out. Wow.

Nasty, encrusted, gout-infested feet. Bunyan feet. Yeah, I don't know, man. Maybe Rex Ryan's looking around. Here we are.

I don't know. I don't ever remember. What are you shopping for, bro? Sandals? Anyway, that that would be repugnant.

Two for two. One eight hundred six three six eight six eight six. Let's go to Dayton, Alex in Dayton. Good to have you, Alex. What is your beef?

Hey Jim, my beef with the final second clock in college football in September it found an extra second for Michigan, but Saturday night it lost its second for Notre Dame against BYU. The Big Twelve replays who said all zeros. Small problem though. The ball clearly bounced with one second on the clock. Introducing the NCAA's new optical illusion clock, and I thought the secret official clock was garbage.

Even all those corrupt soccer refs think that suspect timekeeping. Thanks, Jim. I hear you. I had Clonis to talk on. We try to talk about it.

Right? Try to talk about it. Yeah, no, I hear you. It is the the refs show is frustrating in all sports. Let's keep this thing moving.

I like it so far, so good. Portland, Will in Portland. Good to have you, Will. What's your beef? Yeah, Jim, I got a beef with high voltage power lines.

What's the deal? Cosmic static on AM radio. I never get that issue with FM. Beep beep beep. Full stop.

I also got a beef with Will and Mildon. They're going to be one, just like Highlander. Full stop. Well, stop. Hey, Will.

Listen, my man. Whatever it takes, I'm glad you're still listening to the radio. If it takes those high voltage power lines, so be it. I like it. Hey, man.

There's certain areas where they just haven't gotten around to putting them underground yet. They will, eventually. Either way, any way to keep you on the radio makes me happy. Let's keep moving. I was going to go to that one, and then it just disappeared.

It went poof. One eight hundred six three six eight six eight six. Let's go to Mike in the Bay. Mike, good to have you. What's your beef?

Miles, it sounds like you had a hard time chasing ambulances today. You hack, Jimmy. My beef is with walks over and talks to me, guy. We all know this guy. He's starved for attention.

He's unhappy at home. And if he doesn't say hell of a day, isn't it to somebody, anybody? He's gonna lose his ever-loving mind. And why is it always weather talk, creep?

Next time, at least mix in a hey, your butt looks good in those shorts or something. 'Cause weird is good, Jim. I'm out. My man, rack him, rack him, rack him. Yeah, I do that a lot.

Like, I'll go into a Starbucks or I'll go to the bank, and I'm just waiting around, looking around. Like, why doesn't somebody come talk to me? Like, you know, don't don't I seem like the guy that throws off that kind of vibe? Come talk to me. Come tell me that my butt looks good in those pants.

Actually, I'm not that guy. I'm with you. I'm with you. Why why are you why are you talking to me? Not because I'm me, but we don't know each other.

Why are you talking to me? Hey, nice weather we're having here, huh? Huh? Yeah, nice butt you have in those pants, huh? Huh?

What's see? It's got a Pensacola. I like it, Eddie. In Pensacola, great to have you, Eddie. What is your beef?

Hey, damn! What's up, buddy? What's up, dude? Eddie, I got yeah, I got real beef with restaurants, and what I mean by that is, is when I'm on my lunch break and I got one touch of cotton and prairie dog, and then I run up to the restroom, and then I got to put a four digit code in that no one knows, and go over and look at the cashier, and she looks at me like I got three eyes. Damn, that's my beef.

Also, my beef is next time you go on vacation, don't get great value, Joe Desiltaur. I'm out. Did I want to go back? Don't next time I go on vacation. Did you say don't get great value, Joe Tessitore?

What does that even mean? You mean like like generic Joe Tessitore, like blue label Joe Tessitore?

Well, I didn't really go on vacation. I went on parents' weekend.

So if you're talking about the last time, then great value Joe Tessitore is either Brian Weber, locked and loaded. Look, they're both pros. They're both very good at what they do. I look that they're their own guys. I don't.

Trent Rush got his own band. I don't think he cares what you think. Trent Rush has got a band named Aftermath. That's a great band.

Now, Webb. Webb is a very proud broadcaster. Webb is a very proud man. He should be. He's pedigreed.

He's got a great resume. I don't know if you know this. He went to Stanford. The only person whose vocabulary is on par with mine in this business is his. I don't know that he would take offense to that, or maybe he would.

I don't want to speak for Webb. Straight cash, homie, for Marshall. What? That that's awesome, right there. Come on, man.

Get off my co-host, guest host. Without them, there is no show. All right. Let's go to Colorado Springs, Tony. Great to have you, Tony.

What's your beef? Yeah, Romy. My beef is with New York sports. I don't know what happened to us, man. We went from legendary coaches like Bill Parcells and Joe Torre to John Harbaugh and Aaron Boone.

And Yankees, you can't spell Boone without B O O. You guys suck. I'm out. I mean, you did win your first NBA championship in five decades. There is that.

Man, I once had a horse race against Joe Torre. We beat his ass. It was sweet, man. That was one of one of my favorite things ever. With the aforementioned share belief in the Pacific Classic, Torre had a horse.

We had a horse. Our horse kicked his horse's ass. It was great. One eight hundred six three six. Eight six eight six sa Richard San Antonio Richard, what is your beef, bro?

My beef is whenever I saved up my twenty bucks to get my great Great Clips haircut after three months, and once they finish chopping up my lettuce and making it look horrible, they have the nerve to ask me at the end whether I wanted squared or rounded on the back. I didn't think I'd be asked such a deep philosophical question. You're the professional. You tell me: is my head more shaped for a square or round on the back? That's my beef.

Nice job, dude, Rackham. I love that beef. I love that beef. Why are you asking me? You should know.

I save my money. You're the one who should know. I'm paying you to make that call. What do you mean the back of my head? I don't have eyes behind my head.

I can't see the back of my head. Why don't you walk around the chair and look at the back of my head and tell me what I should do? Rounded, squared off. No, that you want somebody to tell you. Is it time to cut it short?

Is it time to take it down? Is it time? Should I leave it long? What do I do, man? Exactly, bro.

Great point. Great point and original. I like it. Let's go to Green Bay, Matt in Green Bay. Good to have you, Matt.

What is your beef? My beef is when my mail customers they have multiple pieces of outgoing letters and they use a clothespin to clip them together. Quit wasting my damn time. I'm out. Come on, man.

The mailman's got a lot of work to do. He's got a lot of homes. He's got to deal with dogs. Don't make this dude's job any more difficult than it needs to be. And if he's a mail carrier in Green Bay, he's dealing with some elements now.

I've been to Green Bay in the winter, man. That can't be fun. You don't even want to go from your house to your car, much less work outside. Carrying mail in the tundra. With almost no days off, man, stop clipping your mail together with clothespins.

He's trying to help you. Why won't you let him? Got to go to Denver, PJ. Denver, PJ. What's your beef?

Yo, bro. My beef is with the road construction worker guy who holds the stop slash slow sign that he has to flip every once in a while. Hey, bro. I have a couple of questions. Does the softback of Marlboro Reds come with your work attire?

Can you pay a little attention to what you're doing? I kind of want to know how much they get paid, but then you have the audacity to tell me and gesture. Me to slow down when you just flip the sign one second before, and my car isn't even going twelve miles an hour yet. Peace, peace. Pretty well played.

Pretty well played. Let's try Iowa, Josh. Good to have you, Josh. What is your beef? Do not under any circumstance add me to your group text.

I'm about tired of these things. They never have anything to do with what all of us are trying to talk about. Two people always go off and have their tangent, talking their conversation about something that has nothing to do with the group text was about in the first place. And then when I leave it, the group text has the audacity to tell everybody that I left the group, making me look like a jerk. Anyway, Jim, that's all the time I have for today.

Thanks for being on my show. Until next time. Whoa, bro! Thanks for having me on your show. First time, long time, Josh.

Really, really appreciate your show. Great show, dude. The Josh Show, live from Iowa. It's the Josh in Iowa Show, starring me, Josh in Iowa. You're listening to the Josh in Iowa Show.

What? Yeah, now we go to Jim in Orange County. Hey, Josh, great show, bro. Come on, Jim, get to your point. No, thanks for having me on your show, Josh.

All right, so I'm going to call that halftime. Not that, not that he got me to halftime and walked me into halftime on a strong note. He just thanked me for being on his show, but we've got video beefs, and you know I love to see that. The video beefs coming up, some written beefs coming up. We're at halftime.

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dot com slash jim. Application times and rates may vary. You're listening to the Jim Rome Show. The beef segment has sort of become three dimensional because we have our callin beefs, we have our written beefs, and we have video beefs. They've taken on a life of their own.

Not only do we have video beefs, but for the first time, some of them are on the cutting room floor. We're not playing all the ones we received, so they're becoming a thing. They have to be good enough to pass muster. All right. So let's get the video beefs in.

First one is from San Antonio. Oh, Ed in SA, can't wait to see what this dude is beefing about. What do you got, Ed? He's a very pretty deer. Hey Jim, my beef are people always passing the buck?

Also, deer being judgmental on the golf course. Nice, dude. Why don't you make me a sandwich, Ed? Why don't you watch it on your phone? Why don't you make me a sandwich?

Why don't you pass the buck on the golf course? Nice job. Let's go and see what Phil in South Carolina has to say. Phil sent this along. Yeah, Rome.

Here's my beef, golf guy. Finally get a day off. Want to let off some steam? Hit a few balls. Hit a ball.

You know what you're doing wrong. See what you're doing wrong. There is, shut up, golf guy. If I want to know how to knock somebody out in the other tee box, I'll ask you. Until then, stop ruining my day off, golf guy.

That's my beef, golf guy. Bill in South Carolina. Out. Got that, golf guy. Hey, golf guy.

One more tip out of you, and you're gonna get these hands. Got that, golf guy? You're ruining my damn day off, golf guy. It's not even a day off anymore because of you, golf guy. Good job, Phil.

I like that anger. I like that anger. Jim in Coachella, he's a golf guy. Hey, Jim, if you ever run into Phil, do not offer up any unsolicited tips. He's not interested.

What up, Jim? What's your beef? Hey Jim, I'm here in Santa Barbara, living my best life. I'm here for a friend's wedding. My beef is that they're forecasting rain in the afternoon, and we're supposed to be out on the lawn.

So hold the good thoughts to hold the rain off. We'll talk to you later. Have a good one, Jim. My brother, you too. Listen, I told you.

I went to a wedding a few weeks back in Temecula, and it was outside, and it rained. It was the first wedding I ever went to that rained. It was outside. We all had umbrellas. It was fine.

You're good, man. It's going to be fine. And we and as always, we need the water. Let me tell you something, man. Rain in Santa Barbara can get really dicey.

I mean, there are some gnarly things that happen in Santa Barbara when it really rains hard. Just, just know that I know I've been there. I used to live there. Oh no, oh no! Look who's here via video beef, none other than Victor by Broadway.

Vic, what's up, dude? What's up, Rom? It's the VIC. My video beef is calling receivers wide open when they're not. For example, water in motion.

Phoenix keeps fires wide open. London spins his way down near the twelve. Wide open. More like a catch in traffic. Vic.

Where's the all twenty two, Vic? Vic, Vic, incorporating game tape into beef of all the people to do it. See that again. Is he wide open or is he in traffic? Roll it.

Let's see. Let's see. Okay. Big Panix Energy. Yeah, I wouldn't say wide ass open.

All right, let's get some written beefs in. Nice job, Vic. Good to see you. The sandlot, Jim. My beef is with my children constantly ignoring my wishes to stop using the compartments on the car door as a garbage.

If I could break tiny hands, I definitely would. Cut the crap. Get this is stupid. This is stupid. Bro, I'm gonna echo that.

We don't have tiny kids, but I cannot tell you how many times Jana, when we ride together, she brings product into the car and then puts it in the side compartment. And the thing about my car, it's it's pretty immaculate. I have a thing about the car. The car is not always clean. It makes me crazy when the car is dirty on the outside.

But because of where I live right now, I still haven't found a good car wash. But the inside of the car is really immaculate. And I'm always saying, Jano, Jano, please, please do not grease up with the lotion and all the product. I know, I know you like to use that time for that. Please don't do that.

And if you're going to do that, and please don't do that. Don't leave it in the car, man. I'm just going to throw it away. I'm going to throw it away. And she's like, I know, I know.

All right, I got it. I mean. I got it every single time. But do you? But do you, Janelle?

I love you. But do you? Do you? Because I found some more that that foot grease or elbow grease or whatever you're greasing up with in the side compartment again, always.

So the good news is it's not trash. The bad news is it ends up in the trash. It's kind of an overreaction on my part. I agree. Hey, rule.

My beef is with my wife who reneged on our deal. If agreed to go with her to the shelter and we get two puppies, she would let me name them.

Now she absolutely refuses to let me name them Manny and Cheeseburger. Chad from Orlando. Chad, you know I've been there. You know I've been there. Our last two cats were named Sapphire and Cody.

I wanted to name them Bombay Sapphire, and Janet was not having that. Just like she's not having this.

So we have the new cat. The new kitten is Jet. We have another one on the way, and she doesn't know it yet. See, Janet thinks she's going to get to name that one since I named the first one. I want to name the next one.

Private, like private jet, or stream, jet stream. Private. I I I know she's not going to go for either. Private. It's it's going to be a it's going to be a disagreement.

That cat will turn five before it has a name. There's no way we're going to agree. The only positive, you know, the cat's name is right now. It's so funny.

So the the breeder of the of these cats, we got the second cat. We ordered a second one because Janno did not. Janno felt bad that the first one is alone during the day when she's not home.

So we had to get another one. And we tried to get a rescue cat, and there's just nothing. The inventory is like terrible. There's nothing. There's nothing.

So we went and got another ragdoll. From the same breeder, and this breeder is awesome. She's awesome. She's in Sacramento. The names are interesting because she's got so many cats.

I can imagine that some of these names would be hard. We had trouble naming one.

So Jet, when we got Jet, Jet's name was Chicken. That wasn't gonna stick, Chicken.

So now we have a female coming, and do you know what the name of that cat is? Mabel, I've taken to calling Mabel Mabes. Mabes ain't gonna stick, nor Mabel.

So I don't know what we're gonna do, bro. I feel you though. This says beef. The mall kiosk salesman trying to lure me in. Psst, bro, how fast is your home internet?

Nice try, creep. At least you're not perving the streets in your uncle's 1981 windowless van, Anthony from Wichita, the old white van. This one says, "My beef is with the people that complain about self-checkout. You'd rather stand in line behind someone buying a month's worth of groceries, and you just need to pay for your milk." You turn that one on its head. We get we get that every single week about self checkout.

My man Vincent Fresno, my beef: the tool on the treadmill, who reads his book on tape without earphones. It's pretty long for you, Vince, but I feel you. Snagger, my beef is with youth basketball referees who shoot hoops during timeouts. Bro, can't you just chill for like sixty seconds? And now the teams are back on the floor, waiting for this bag to run down the twenty-five footer that he bricked off the sideline.

Derek in Des Moines. We're Jake Rome making a documentary about Jay Stew with contributions from Lou Diamond Phillips, Meadow Soprano, that skank from Blind Aid, and his porn watching Fortin roommates. With guys, wow, dude! Jason is not my type. He's an idiot, and I don't ever want to see him again.

No second date. Jake got his second gig in New York. I haven't talked to him about it, but he worked like three straight nights all night and was all fired up. Romy, I have a beef with that 250 pound dude sitting behind me on a plane that uses my seat to get his fat ass out of his seat, and then uses my seat again to sit his fat ass back down. Dude, get out of your seat without giving me whiplash.

Sean from the 949. Hey Abby, what's up, girl? And Romeo's my homie, Jimmers. Oh, I got beef, beef with people who, oh no, beef with people with outy belly buttons. What makes you so effing special, dorks?

Abby in San Diego unwore pepperoni nipples. I don't even have big nipples. Like, let's be real, wore lady clothes. Let's be real. Keith Arnold, let's be real.

Sydney in SA. My beef is with vegans in the workplace. Every time we do an office lunch, we have to find a trendy tofu bistro. This is Texas. It's steak, barbecue, Tex-Mex, seafood.

Order a salad and some veggies, and let the rest of us eat real food. You grass munching weirdos. John in Buffalo. Quote: My beef is with grown adults using the phrase "easy peasy." Baba, you know OC. My beef is with people who say, "I'm going to let you go now" when they want to end a phone call or an in-person interaction.

I'm not a child. I'm a man. I'm age intentionally omitted. Forty. War Southern OC.

I agree. If having to choose between North O.C. and South O.C., I'm taking South O.C. all day long. I've been in both.

I've been in both. Leo J. 7:31. My beef is with the Texas Longhorns. How do we go from the top of the flipping AP poll to blowing back-to-back games with back-to-back terrible plays by Arch?

I know. I keep bringing it up. I keep bringing it up. I keep talking to guests about it. I know big game, big big game this weekend for Arch for UT.

I am the twin. My beef: pharmacy ads using old music from the past to sell their products. I am sick and tired of hearing "Unbelievable" by EMF. Being played during the big farm ads every twenty minutes on the radio, it's unbelievably stupid. We've had this conversation.

Do you know? It used to be the most unbelievable sellout ever. Like, there's no way an artist could ever do that back in the day. You couldn't come back from that. You you literally could not come back from that.

It was one thing to sell out with your actual art. To sell records, that was bad enough, you know. Like the Clash and rocking the Casbah, like I remember that. Like no way, and then everybody's like, "Yeah," but not everybody. The hardcore Clash fans were like, "Are you kidding me?" Rocking the Casbah, and then all those people who didn't know any better were like, "Oh, dude, best song ever, best song ever." And then you know all the punk bands were like, "I can't believe the Clash did that." Now to this guy's point, I mean, what amazing song isn't a part of a commercial?

Like Bob O'Reilly, the Stones. I can I can remember, I can remember. Except I can't remember. Anyway, good point though. It's true.

Everything. Everything. This guy writes. This guy, his handle is too hard to read.

Someone's gonna say my beef is callers who say, "Hey Jim, thanks for the line" or "Thanks for the call." It's thank you for the vine, and you called him. Good point. Damn, dude, this dude came fast, Jim. My beef is you getting jet. And Mabel so soon.

Sincerely, Cody the Ragdoll Legend, Bird from Providence. You're right, dude. That is so disrespectful. I mean, damn, my buddy, my bro, Cody, my best friend, my dude was barely in the ground before we started to look for somebody else. Cody would want it that way.

No, he wouldn't, man. Cody'd be so pissed. Cody, be like, yo, yo, hey, hey, pop, I've been in the ground five minutes, and you're already looking for my replacement. Never forget, Cody, damn near killed Sapphire. They got into a fight.

It was the saddest thing, man. I'm like, Cody, oh my gosh, dude, what did you do to him? You're right, Bert. You're right. Except Janno, Janno, Janno wanted the energy.

Janno wanted another one in the house. And by the way, I can't say that I disagree. Jet's been cool. He's done Cody. Cody was a bad dude, man.

Cody was awesome. Hey, you want me to tell you what it was like when I was there when he died? Just kidding, Jim. My beef is with the chat and the jungle. It's a time sucking, addictive blast of dopamine that won't allow me to finish my chores, bro.

Don't blame that on the chat. It's not the chat's fault, dude. It's you. I I know what it is, and I'm not judging you in any way. I'm just saying, don't blame it on the chat.

You got to own that, bro. You have to own that. And there's 21 other hours in the day when chat is not active. Get your bleep done, bro. Get it done and stop blaming it on the chat.

Let's walk it off on a phone call or two. Huntsville, why not, Kelly? In Huntsville, Kelly, what's your beef? Hey, Jim, I appreciate it. You know, after thinking about it, I either have a beef with the producers of that show Love Island, or my wife, or maybe both.

Quick backstory: wife's laid up in bed due to recent surgery, so she's been watching every streaming channel you can find, and she came across that show Love Island. Not only these some bitch producers, and that's my ode to Bodie and Pearland, pick a bunch of people that you can hardly understand. They chose all these bunch of Greek Adonis's wearing board shorts, showing off their abs, as well as a bunch of hot ass babes wearing skimpy bikinis. My wife must have been on like season 36, episode 18 or whatever, when I walk into the bedroom and she asks if I want to watch the show with her. Hell no, Jim!

I don't want to do that. It's a trap. Does she think I'm going to sit there and have her ask me?

So you think she's pretty? Do you like her butt? Hell no! I'm not going to do it. Those those producers knew this was going to happen.

Anyway, War to Alabama Crimson Tide getting back on track and eviscerating the Aggies this weekend. And yes, eviscerating was for our friend Kevin, since we all how we know he likes big words. Thanks. They need it. Actually, they both need it.

A and M needs it. They need it. You know the thing about Love Island. I think I told you.

So when I go to Eagle River, the fam's already there. The fam gets there before I get there, and they're all obsessed with Love Island. And they're just like, Uncle Jim, Uncle Jim, you, you, we, we have to get your take. We have to get your take on this. You'll love it.

You'll love it. And I'm like, I'm not watching that show. I'm not watching that crap, man. Man, I'm an Eagle River. I'm on the lake, man.

I've got so many better things to do. There's no way in hell. I'm not here to watch reality TV. I'm not here to check those skanks. And everything else.

No, no, no, Uncle Jim, you're gonna love it. You're gonna love it. You think you're not, but and we want your take. We want your take. And then, then there's Janno, who's getting caught up on the episodes so she can catch up to be with the kids.

I'm like, look, y'all can watch whatever the hell you want. Stop asking me to watch this show with you. I will never watch that show with you. Not there. Not here.

Not anywhere. I'm not wasting my time.

So I'm with that guy. I still haven't seen it. Still have not. Still will not. How do you know?

How do you know you haven't seen it, right? And I'm not going to. Let's go to Paris Hillskank. Let's go to L.A. Why not?

We're already here. Or L.A. adjacent. Kane in L.A. Kane, dude.

What's your beef? Jimbo, my beef is with people who hold the door for me that I didn't ask to hold the door for me, and now I have to begrudgingly jog to get to the door that this now track coach is timing me to get to. War my Elbuda roll asthma pump. I'm out. That's job, Kane.

I mean, they're just trying to be nice, right?

However, you're right. There's I don't know what the proper distance is. If they're right there, definitely hold the door. But if you're ten or more steps away and they're holding the door, then it just gets awkward. Then they're being too nice and too weird.

And if you have to pick up your gate dramatically, then you'd rather just open the door yourself. Especially if you're not carrying anything. Forty-two minutes. Forty-two minutes. Where did the time go?

Right. Let's break. We'll come back. One last segment.

Well done, clones. Extremely well done. On the phones, the written beefs and the video beefs. That's how you do it. Love it.

Nice job. Give yourselves a little credit. All right. We'll come back. Wrap things up.

Stay tuned. You're listening to the Jim Rome Show. All right, so before I wrap it up, banger tonight! Great game tonight. Chicago is going to host the Patriots.

You got the Bears hosting my half fam, the Patriots. Patriots have gotten off the mat; they've won three in a row. Suddenly, we've gone from asking the hell was the matter with Drake May. To is this dude actually playing some of the best ball of his young career? On the flip side, you've got the guy that so many of you want to hate for any number of reasons: his fingernail polish, or the fact that you think that he went down like he took sniper fire, just due to a hamstring injury.

Not that it's going to do me any good to try to reset this because you all have already made up your mind about Caleb Williams. You all made up your mind that you don't like this guy for any number of reasons, but. The fact of the matter is, he didn't react like that because he lacks toughness or he has no pain tolerance. He reacted like that probably because he panicked and he thought that he was going to miss an extended period of time, maybe the rest of the year. Personally, I'm way more interested in how the guy reacted upon returning to the field after the injury.

The guy was lights out, sharp as hell.

So I don't think he is who or what a lot of you think he is. This dude to me is a straight baller. He's a gamer. He's in the right place, in the right system, with the right coach. And I do think that this guy's built for it.

Of course, there's room to grow. But he's already proven he can make big time plays, big time throws in big time situations. And before it's said and done, I think this dude is going to be truly, truly elite. Even if you think the dude's weird, but you know, weird's good. And this dude wants it a lot worse than a lot of you think that he does.

And he's got the tools to back it all up. That's just my side commentary on this guy who you all are always looking to kill for tonight. As far as the matchup. Vegas at last check had it Chicago minus three. That tells you they think that it's a coin toss on neutral field, but they're not on neutral field.

They're playing in Chicago on a short week with a lot of emotion with the passing of Mike Ditka.

So I'm going to take the Bears. I'm going to lay the points.

Sorry about that, half fam. I learned from my old man, who was full chowd, full fam. Business is business. Business is business. Chicago minus three.

Business is business. All right, so I had a conversation with Jim McMahon on our podcast yesterday. It's live right now. And speaking of the passing of Mike Ditka, we know the two of them knocked heads. I asked Jim McMahon about the first time he met Mike Ditka and what his impressions were.

I want to start with the recent passing of your former head coach, Mike Ditka, at the age of 86. I want to start right there. What was your reaction when you heard that news?

Well, I I saw Mike. It was about a year ago. was opening Opening game last season. He had just moved back to Chicago from from Naples, and he wasn't doing well then. I went over to his house.

Kenny Marjam and I went over to his place and. He was sitting there in a big chair, had kind of wires and tubes everywhere, and he he really wasn't doing well then. I was surprised he lasted another year because you know, but but that's Iron Mike. He's a tough old good boy, and he hung in there for another year. And talking about Iron Mike, Jim, I mean, your first year as the Bear or his first year as the Bears head coach was 1982, the same year that you were taken number fifth overall.

What do you remember about that first time you met him? What were your initial impressions? Impressions of Iron Mike?

Well, the first time I met him was actually on draft day. Just got into Chicago. I got to Hallis Hall, and all the press was there. And as I was walking in the building, Mike had happened to be walking in as well. I mean, it was his first year in Chicago, and he looked at me, and I had a couple beers on a string, and he said, "Okay, you're my first round pick, huh?" And I said, "Yeah, I guess so." So that was our first meeting.

That was the only words we exchanged at that first meeting, and then, of course, we've had we had a lot of words over the next seven years. It's so great. What what words need to be said after that?

So obviously, we got two really headstrong dudes that you knew were going to go at it, and to your point, you did. I mean, how many times did you ever think, "Holy , I might knock this old man out." Well, I thought about that a lot, but then I know Mike's—he's a big, tough man, and his jaws that were were very thick, chewing that gum like he did. I was afraid I'd break a hand on his jaw, so I didn't—I wanted to, but I never did because I knew he'd beat the hell out of me.

So that was like the first five minutes of that, Jim McMahon. It was great. Check out that podcast. That's live. Get a free Wix oil filter when you buy five quarts of Valvoline Full Synthetic Restore and Protect motor oil at O'Reilly Auto Parts.

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