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Foster and Friends Vol 143 Cup Runneth Over
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Following Bud and Mac's breakdown of the World Cup...the hosts dive into the history of the Eagles iconic song..."Hotel California."
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SPEAKER_07But my position was to train the team. I feel so disappointed with too many people because mixed things. Okay, because they can in put politic and can keep can put you know manipulation. Talk about the ethic, the integrity.
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SPEAKER_13Welcome in. It is Foster and Friends coming off a 4th of July weekend. Bud Foster's here. And uh man, we got a lot to cover today. The the title of today's show, Bud, you'll love this. The Cup Runneth Over. I don't know. It just uh it occurred to me with the World Cup and everything. And um, we're gonna get into it second segment because I'm gonna ask Bud how much and how intricate he thinks uh soccer really is. But before that, how was your fourth? Everybody stay healthy, wealthy, and wise?
SPEAKER_02We did. There was no uh there was no incidents injuries from fireworks or anybody falling off like a you know a deck or a dock or a you know a porch or anything like that. So uh yeah, it kind of came away. Uh we it was harmless, but uh it was a great weekend here in Virginia. It was it was hovering around a hundred degrees, which uh you know was the whole East Coast, I think. Yeah, but by the same token, what made it was perfect to and what we did on uh Friday, Saturday, and Sunday for a bit was go tie up and uh swim around and the water temperature was per it was it was perfect weather to sit in the pool in the in the lake all day and have a nice little cocktail sitting on a noodle and uh you know shoot chewing the fat with some of your friends, you know.
SPEAKER_13And if you've learned to balance a cocktail with a noodle, you are a professional.
SPEAKER_02That is I don't claim that, but I'm I'd I'd like to put myself up against anybody on you know on that technique on that on the skill side. That goes back to my coaching fundamentals, you know, technique and fundamentals. I could I can I could really balance myself.
SPEAKER_13You don't double noodle, you don't double noodle, do you? You go just I tell you what I've got.
SPEAKER_02I've got those big uh we bought the we found these, I don't know how big they are, but you know, everybody sees the normal noodles. We've gotten some that are like three.
SPEAKER_13Yeah, I know what you're talking about. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_02Those things, yeah. I set on them. I set on it's like riding a horse, dude. You know, I can just uh that they're comfortably now. I will say this there's an engineering flaw in these noodles, and what I'm saying is they did not put a cup holder on the end of the noodle. That's you're exactly right. I should go back now and re in and create a new noodle that has a cup holder on either end because it depends on what you know end you use, but you can't have a floating device without a cup holder, you know what I'm saying? Whoever creates a floating device without a cup holder, they have no idea what fun is.
SPEAKER_13I think you contact your friend Charlie Cosmato, because if anybody can come up with it, he can to River City. Well, so you ride your noodle like a horse, not the swing set, uh, the swing.
SPEAKER_02Well, no, I put I I put it in between my legs. Like a horse. Yeah, and I kind of like ride it like a bicycle, too. You know, when you're when you don't have a drink or when you're done, you can paddle up and then kick your rotate your feet like a cycle. For my knee, I kind of look at it with good physical therapy, too.
SPEAKER_13You know, four years in a smack dab in our fourth year doing the show. That is our first swimming pool lake noodle conversation that we have ever had. So just congratulations. We have broken new ground. I might even retitle the show, the the noodle. But anyway, all right, lots covered there. We're gonna get into the World Cup and also um talk a little bit about a uh uh a song that to me has made all kinds of history. And Bud and I love to talk music, and there was a countdown over the Fourth of July weekend. Also, gonna prepare you for August because of the dog days, and uh, there's just a lot of stuff that's gonna hit TV and you know, some movies and stuff, and we're gonna get into uh get into that as well. So, anyway, uh sit tight, it's the cup runneth over. Bud Foster takes us. I mean, you're talking about a gritty defensive award-winning coordinator who has been with football all his life, and I can't wait to get his take on soccer and what has been happening. We'll do that when we come back. This is Foster and Friends, NSB Radio Network.
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SPEAKER_07We never uh were with the flow of the of the of the game. Even when we score on the one-one from Malik uh Tillman, even in the next action we concede the goal.
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SPEAKER_13Well, that was the voice of uh Mauricio Pochettino, who was hired in August of uh what, 2024, I think, to take on the uh the U.S. men's national team and to see if he could build a winner. And yeah, a little noise from uh from America. But boy, Monday night, last Monday night against Belgium. Uh, bud, there was a flop and then a flop. And the team uh flopped on Monday with all the political and everything, uh all the stuff going on.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, it was uh I know for America we we were there was high expectations, uh, and I think probably their biggest challenge was they played Belgium. I mean, that's Belgium has been kind of their nemesis as even going into the tournament. I think they played what they call the friendlies or whatever.
SPEAKER_13Right.
SPEAKER_02And Belgium beat them. And uh to me, it looked like a couple things that we played tight and um like and um and I've been there as a coach, and you know, I don't know. I was like, I I I'd like to think about that. You know, how do you prepare those guys for that kind of game? You're on your home soil, home field advantage, and we've been in those situations and lost and played a tight game, almost played like not to get beat rather than go out and play loose and um you know, and go and because at the end of the day, the pressure wasn't on America, in my opinion. We were we were a low-ranked uh squad, uh, but the expectations were playing in your home in your home country and all those things. And we are better, there's no doubt about that. But Belgium kind of made us look like I mean we stepped up to the plate against the big boys.
SPEAKER_13Yeah, fourth grading and sixth grade at recess, right?
SPEAKER_02Yeah, and I mean it was just um that it was the men amongst the boys, you know, and um it just looked that way. It was disappointing, um, you know, from the turnout, but I hope there's um and I say this, I uh there's hope for the future of American soccer. And I think coming again to the States um will um I think make some young people enthusiastic about the sport. And uh um, you know, and I think in America make it a little bit more. It's just seeing the talent around the world was really incredible. In Belgium, they put together uh quite a squad and they're they're they're they're used to being on that stage too, where they finished, they hadn't won it here recently, but they finished like third, I think, or something like that in the last World Cup. So they've got some, they were a veteran group, which I think going into it. I think the Americans thought that they could wear them down, but that wasn't the case. I mean, they just were methodical. I'm talking to Belgiums, they were methodical, they were pretty, they were they had a lot of precision, and uh boy, they're big too, big and physical and athletic, man. But it's the kind of thing, like I said, they were just they look bigger, stronger, um, and more durable than what what we looked.
SPEAKER_13Well, I don't I don't confess to know that much about soccer and what's happening to me, but my I woke up Monday morning since my wife is a nurse and from Belgium, she's got dual citizenship. She wanted, she kept saying, Well, I look, I want America to play well. And I I go, No, you don't. I go, you want you want Belgium to win. So I wake up Monday morning to the Belgian flag and the American flag draped on our couch. So she had already established the positions of where we were gonna sit on Monday night and watch the it was a done deal. And then uh, because the night that they uh was it was a late game, who'd they play? It was Egypt or somebody, or no, Iran, I think. Anyway, when they scored the five goals, and that was the night she just went crazy because Belgium didn't score the night before or the game before. So, anyway, with all that being said, but and but you and I both know there was all these politics. Did Trump call? Did he not call? Did did Florian, you know, Balligrin, did he really get a break? You know, the red card, was it a red card? Wasn't it a red card? Can you, you know, whoever heard of video replays studying photos instead of real-time video to see if you should call the red card?
SPEAKER_02You know, I'll tell you what, I'll go back to the red card. Yeah, you know, I was surprised that they made that call in the first place.
SPEAKER_13I am too.
SPEAKER_02When when I saw the the play, how they you know they replayed it. Um when uh I forget the guy's name, but when he went to go tackle, and their terms tackle or defend the ball, his body rolled up on the ball. Yeah, there are certain things that that you know there's out of your control. That's not what his intent was. It kind of goes back to what the intent was, yeah. You know, to me, in a red flag. That's that's that that is supposed to be something that's an intentional uh flow, Bolo, Bolo, they call him Bolo.
SPEAKER_13Uh Bolo the two guys, the two guys looked like they were squaring off for the ball, and it just to me there was no no penalty of two guys tripping over each other, you know. That happens in basketball all the time.
SPEAKER_02Well, it happens a hundred times in a in a match. I mean, my god, you thought that got slowly killed, yeah, you know. Uh and uh I just thought uh I really thought that was gonna get overturned in the first place. Um, and uh, but you know, I don't know. I know Belgium, I I saw some of their remarks. Oh, of course, it was you know, but uh hey, it it it is what it is, it didn't help us, and um, but uh I'm really excited. You know, we're down now to the final eight eighteen. Yeah, and uh to me, there's just um, and we were talking in in our break, you see some extremely skilled athletes, like guys dribbling the ball with their feet like our guys do in basketball with their hands. Yeah, but then there's other times it looks like AJ just rolled the ball out there in gym class and they're kicking the ball around, you know, and uh you know it makes it thinks that's why everybody can play the game. You know what I mean? And that's uh I love it. But when you do go look at some of these guys, like Lionel Messi to me, he's a freak. That guy, I mean, in my time, and I got a chance to see the tail end of Pele back in the day. I said, and then I really don't remember a lot of T. I saw more highlights, but I do remember him as a young player or as a young kid. But I'm not for sure that Lionel Messi may not be the greatest player, at least in the last eight, ten, twelve, fifteen years. I mean, and maybe ever. But that guy, the way he can, you know, pass a ball, I mean, he put so much spin on it and where he can place the ball on goals. I mean, uh just it's incredible. Then you see, you know, I'm a fan of uh Harry Kane from England. Yeah, that dude, he can head the ball better than anybody I've ever seen. I mean, he he heads the ball in direction like we throw football. Yeah, the guy is just and he is a score. There's there's just some scoring machines out there. Messi's one, Kane's one, uh, Killian Mbape for France, who's really one of my favorite players to watch. Uh those guys are just um, you know, they're different. You know, they are really, really different. And then the other one to watch. When you watch good, highly skilled athletes. I don't care what sport it is.
SPEAKER_13I totally agree. Totally agree.
SPEAKER_02I I enjoy that.
SPEAKER_13Totally agree. Well, a little a little prize for you here because the other night when uh when Argentina uh raced that 78th minute, they're down 2-0. I mean, this thing is over, right? They score two goals in 13 minutes, and Messi was right in the middle of the the second goal.
SPEAKER_03On the way through, and coming line something up here, Argentina. Oh, it's got it! Lionel Messi!
SPEAKER_13He got the he got the goal, he had another assist, and then of course they pulled it. Lotano Martinez sending it over, Franzo Fernandez!
SPEAKER_03Can you believe this?
SPEAKER_13So the crowds have been remarkable. I think the fans have been, you know, just crazy. So, with all the talk of all the politics and all the other, you know, BS, I think it's been it for at least because it's in America, we're watching these guys play in like, you know, Lumen Field in Seattle. We get Argentina this weekend in uh in Kansas City. They're gonna be playing at Arrowhead. They played at Miami, you know. So it's it's fun to see these stadiums and really with this uh with this event going on. It has been a true spectacle. All the pregame, the flows, uh the the fans, the national anthems, the flags. I mean, it it they walk out with the kids. I mean, they do they do a lot of things right. I gotta give them a couple.
SPEAKER_02They do. And I'll tell you, just the fans that aren't in the stands. I mean, how many people are surrounding the venues and hanging out in the bars? I love Norway's uh, I love their uh, you know, their they got the rogue thing going, you know. It's just uh I mean it's incredible. It you know, it's it's a it's a you know, we like to think of ourselves as a you know, as a diverse country, and um we're seeing true diversity right here all the way around. Good point. To me, it's really, really cool. And um, it's been fun to watch this thing and just uh I'm excited for these last um these last four games. I really am to see uh how it how it goes. I would love to see Argent. This is me. I would love to see France and an Argentina play in the final. I think uh Messi against Mbappe might be the two best players in the world right now. I'd love to see those two guys go ahead.
SPEAKER_13I think I think we're headed that way. Plus the night of the final, which is in Jersey, if I'm not mistaken, the night of the final, they are running a Super Bowl halftime. Uh, they're doing a show just like the Super Bowl. And I think Shakira, maybe even Pitbull's gonna show up, but I think it's gonna be uh quite the spectacle. All right, we'll go to break, we'll come back. Well, one of the great songs, and and uh and Bud has a chance in a couple of months to see it done live. We'll talk about that because one of the great songs in history is still number two with a bullet, and we'll tell you why. This is Foster and Friends, and this is the NSB Radio Network. When you walk into a restaurant, say your favorite pizza place, what's the first thing you notice? The way it smells, the vibe, maybe the party atmosphere. If you're traveling in Southwest Virginia or lucky enough to live in the Radford area, hopefully you have visited Brickhouse Pizza, a staple since 1972. Brickhouse Pizza has become a legendary stop. Jeff and Diane's Main Street attraction features artisanal wood-fired pizza with fresh ingredients prepped every day. Brickhouse's pizzas are made with flour imported from Italy. Throw in the recipe for their homemade brew, and you have the recipe for fun. Brickhouse Pizza is open Tuesday through Friday at 3 30, Saturdays at 11:30, and the Sunday brunch begins at 10. Fresh food, cold beer, great times. That's Brickhouse Pizza, 311 West Main Street in Radford.
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SPEAKER_13Over the weekend, uh Satellite Radio, uh, they did the Fourth of July 250 countdown, and and they get fans involved and you and they vote for songs. Uh and so they played the top hundred top 250 songs, uh rock songs of all time. Okay. So uh at number five, Riders on the Storm. Uh Radio Speedwagon. Okay. Number four, Freebird. Okay, as everybody hollers. Number three, Bohemian Rhapsody. And at number two, and all I gotta do is play this riff because it's a part of lore, and I'll explain why. Bud will Bud will understand this. That's all we need, right?
SPEAKER_02We know everybody knows who that song is gonna be, just with that, just opening a couple bars.
SPEAKER_13Exactly. And that's how it happened for Don Felder. We'll get into that in just a second. It yeah, it's so good. So, anyway, uh a little bit of a tease. We'll get to the song in uh just a second, but Hotel California was number two, and probably you can argue Stairway to Heaven and uh and Hotel California. But every time I hear Hotel California, I hear something different, uh, whether it's music or bud, truly one of the greatest songs ever written, huh?
SPEAKER_02In my opinion, yes. Yeah, it's it's just iconic. It's uh to me, we talked about songs of the Fourth of July in America and all that. This could be one of them, you know. And me diving into this a little bit more, and particularly when the Eagles were coming up back in that in that or in the 70s when Eagle Free Spirit and all those things, they were just so intrigued by Beverly Hills. To them, it was a mythical place. And that came to this song, you know, of Hotel California. That it was just um, but you talk about a song that um I think great great storytelling, great lyrics, great writing, um tremendous musicianship. And I'm talking it's everything from layered guitars, harmonies, bass drums, you got a little Latin in there. I mean, there's a little bit of everything in this song. And then I mean, just the the guitars, solo, I mean, between Don Felder and Joe Walsh is iconic. And it's just so clean and crisp. I'm getting a chance to go see them. We're we're on a um uh an away game, uh, and Jesse and I, the Eagles said they're gonna play a couple extra shows in the fall. I just found out today that they're adding two more in December. So they're gonna be 68 weeks that they've been at the Spear, but we're going to the Spears September 19th to see the Eagles. And uh oh that this song, I'm just how much this um this song means to me. It just makes me have goosebumps. I mean, I just love everything about this song.
SPEAKER_13I don't need to ask, I'd love to ask what tickets cost. I'll get into that later. Okay. So, anyway, talking about Don Felder. So, Don Felter Done all kinds of interviews um within the last year talking about how it happened. Uh he came up with the chords, he was at the beach, and then he let Don Henley, you know, tackle the lyrics or whatever. But here's Don Felter talking about it.
SPEAKER_01And in 1975, AM Radio had a specific formula for what it would play. It had to be three to three minutes and thirty seconds long. From needle drop to the singer singing, it could not be longer than thirty seconds. It had to be an up-tempo like rock or something, or kind of a wet, mushy ballad. And that was pretty much the formula. If you look at that, Hotel California is six and a half minutes long. It's almost a minute before Don starts singing. That introduction is long. It stops in the middle, the drums and bass just stop in the middle. Then it's got a two-minute solo on the very end. It's just the absolute wrong format for AM radio. So when Don said that, I said, Don, I don't I don't think that's the right song to come out of this shoot with, you know, it's the wrong format. Maybe FM would be perfect, but not AM. He said, Nope. That's gonna be our single.
SPEAKER_13Yeah, and so then when they released it, they didn't realize that AM radio, of course, FM radio was playing it at that time at that time, but the AM Disc jockeys were going, This is great. Six and a half minutes, bathroom break, cigarette outside. I'm in, I'm in no hurry. And it became the most one of the most iconic songs of all.
SPEAKER_02Well, you know, you it's interesting to hear him say that because when you reflect back, you do think of that. You think of the songs anywhere being from two and a half to three, three and a half minutes long. Yeah. But either Motown or Rock and Roll, they were, you know, even like the old Tom Petties. I mean, Tom Petty was about two and a half to three minutes, three and a half minutes long, period. Until and then, but the Eagles, this Hotel California, probably as far as mainstream, because you know, the Allman brothers were playing music and they were considered the first probably jam band, uh, so to speak, that they're there's but they weren't on AM radio, you know, and then all of a sudden this was probably the first mainstream song that uh exceeded the the you know the numbers that I think that the the disc jockeys and people wanted from uh a time standpoint, but just iconic.
SPEAKER_13Yeah, yeah, and as you pointed out, the imagery and the things that that when Henley put the what uh what he did with the lyrics is just amazing on a dark desert highway, cooling in my hair, warm spell of polite dust, rising after the air. Yeah, I mean it just became uh, and with it, you know, so Henley said, Well, yeah, let's release it and let's let's call the album Hotel California. And and Don Felder said, I'm not saying really, and he goes, It's the last cut on the second side of the of the album. And so he said, No, we're we're gonna go with it. And it became one of the all-time uh greatest uh albums ever uh ever sold, you know.
SPEAKER_02Well, you like I said, you just talk about, I mean, I just the the harmonizing that the Eagles do is tremendous. Don Henley's got such a to me a uh great voice, but then the the guitar solo, I don't know if you want to however you want to do it, it's not so much the solo, but uh the um Felder and Joe Walsh playing together, you know, and just melodically going back and forth is just um incredible. You don't have to this this song is timeless, obviously. Just like Stairway to Heaven. This song is timeless, yeah.
SPEAKER_13You can check out when you want to, but you can never leave. I mean, come on, so that's right. It was uh it was terrific. Anyway, so I I I want to ask. So can you give me a range of how much your sphere tickets were? I I hate to pry.
SPEAKER_02I mean, for anybody because there's they just came out, like I said, the Eagles just announced they're gonna do two more weekends um in December. So if you're listening right now and you want to go, get on it now because they're gonna go fast.
SPEAKER_13Oh, sure.
SPEAKER_02And uh, but I I paid a thousand dollars a ticket.
SPEAKER_13Wow.
SPEAKER_02So hey, I'm at a point in my life that's right.
SPEAKER_13You know, that's right. Every day is a gift. That's a good thing.
SPEAKER_02This is one of my top five bands since I've been alive. I've always wondered this will be the first time I've seen the Eagles. And um I just I mean, I couldn't probably pick a better, better venue. You know, I've seen some clips from some friends that have been. Yeah, and the the sound is incredible, and the sphere, um, the you know, the imagery and everything behind it, I think is everybody says you just it's yeah, I think you have to see it for yourself.
SPEAKER_13I've heard it's crazy. Okay, all right, good stuff. Well, anyway, have fun and thousands of yeah, I might I might just have to bring that up to uh the nurse and say, hey, hey, you have a little post uh anniversary trip to Vegas.
SPEAKER_02This is just a continuation of Jesse and I's anniversary, yeah, which has lasted for quite some time.
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SPEAKER_13Welcome in. It is Foster and Friends. On a uh summer Saturday, the cup runneth over a lot with uh with entertainment and everything happening. And so naturally it's it has been really, really hot. Work in the morning, play golf in the morning, uh, kickback early evening, maybe a cocktail or two. And uh I am I I binge watch a couple of things, uh, but and I I heard an interview with Taylor Sheridan, who's on fire right now. Taylor Sheridan, you know, Yellowstone. Uh he wrote a terrific movie called Sicario, um, and uh which was years ago. And uh then he put together Yellowstone, of course, but then he's answered with Tulsa King, mayor of Kingstown. Uh I know I'm leaving a hundred of them out, but uh his last couple projects, not only with Dutton Ranch, with Beth Dunton, but with um Lioness, which I went back and binge watched. Uh it's got Morgan Freeman, Nicole Kidman, Zoe Saldana, uh the guy from Landman who is uh Billy Bob Thornton's assistant who wears the beard, kind of the fat guy who eats breakfast burritos all the time. But Lioness is so well written, a lot of language, a lot of violence, but a really good look into the CIA. And are they doing everything that they should be doing? Uh, for you, a little present, Nicole Kidman, Zoe Saldana.
SPEAKER_08Care for some coffee? I'd love some coffee. How do you take it? Black is my first husband's heart. Fancy, you got your own mugs.
SPEAKER_10You guys don't have any?
SPEAKER_08Kind of defeats the purpose if the clandestine organization starts making swag naming the clandestine organization. Don't you think? We don't take him in the field. That's thinking ahead. Want some coffee? They've got their own mugs. Fancy. That's what I said.
SPEAKER_13So that's Nicole Kidman's always out there on a walk side. The writing, here's my point. Taylor Sheridan told a story about when he puts a series together, like he went to Stallone. He didn't he had Tulsa King in his mind, but he recruits the actors first, then decides, okay, now I'm gonna write a part for you. Example, he went to Billy Bob Thornton. Said, uh, I love bad Santa. He goes, I would like the bad Santa character to run an oil company. That's what he told Billy Bob Thornton. And he goes, Hey, I'm in. And so Taylor Sheridan is so brilliant in his attack on writing scripts. And then he wrote The Madison, which he went to Michelle Pfeiffer. And if you haven't seen The Madison, you're gonna cry. You know, I cry when grocery stores open, but you're gonna cry over over half of it. But it's really good. But I just I'm gonna recommend you get Paramount Plus if you don't have it, and and just go ahead and binge the lioness. It is it is out of this world good. It's just really, really good.
SPEAKER_02Well, I've seen it on there, and I just I I have not had a chance. You know, in our household, when it comes to what we want to watch on TV, uh it kind of depends on my lovely bride, you know, and some of these things Billy Bob. And but she, you know, the she gets tired of the shoot em up, bang them up, you know, all that kind of stuff over time. Like, I mean, we might watch the first season and she's like done. And I've got to get back on the horse. I gotta get back on the saddle, so to speak, and and get through it. But I myself, I like this, like the line is like CIA. I love those kind of, you know, those kind of movies and uh the just any all that kind of well it's really nage, all that.
SPEAKER_13Yeah, it's really it's just really, really good. And uh so there that uh season three is gonna be uh August 2nd. Now coming up uh next week is a show that I think we'll go back to uh we'll go back to the Sopranos and J.K. Simmons. If you don't know who I'm talking about, like who's J.K. Simmons? Well, if you if you watch TV and notice the Farm Bureau, uh Farmers Insurance, not Farm Bureau, Farmers Insurance Commercials, he's the guy, the ball to the guy, really, really good. He won an uh Academy Award for his uh appearance in Whiplash, uh, which where he played a uh uh an abusive jazz instructor and he was really, really, really good. Well, now he's involved in westies and he's some kind of boss, 1930s, uh family again in New York.
SPEAKER_12We're all friends here, Mickey.
SPEAKER_13Put down the gun. Let's talk.
SPEAKER_03I am telling you. We've gonna let this guy go.
SPEAKER_02You and I both know I ain't got nothing except for you.
SPEAKER_12You just killed a maid, man. The Italians outnumber us about a hundred to one. They're gonna come after us with everything they got. The feds are paying a lot of attention. Watch your back.
SPEAKER_13There it is. 1980s Hell's Kitchen, New York. Two men who knew each other from childhood, different paths in life, and uh now they're the part of the West East criminal gang. So there you go. It's it's got a it, you know, it's got that Sopranos feel. So anyway, I think that's gonna be uh fairly good, too.
SPEAKER_02So I'm gonna that'll be a that's gonna be a must see. You know, it's gonna but when it's all said and done, I've always liked JK Simmons, you know. A lot of people just see him, yeah, as that as the insurance guy. He's been in so many good movies, and I just I just think he's a tremendous actor, you know, and he he'll be a great lead in this in this role, I believe, too.
SPEAKER_13Yeah. Oh yeah, and as I said, as the summer uh as the summer ticks down, and as we take a look at, you know, everything that's happening, as I get, I I find time, I get uh my workload is not as much, I get done with things, but it has been, as you talked about, it has been very, very hot in Florida, but nobody plays golf this time of year in the afternoon. I mean, I I'm talking about I can go and be the only person on this local golf course, which is a very popular place and a very beautiful place. I can be the only guy in the afternoon at three o'clock. You know, I don't I don't really mind the heat, but I know with uh, you know, with football approaching and you know, uh because the camps start to open, both in the NFL and of course college, you know, in a few days, um, you know, it's just I think it's gonna be uh this is just the time of year, you know, to do that. And then we're getting ready to go on vacation too. We're gonna go Panama City, Destin, New Orleans. We're gonna go see. So V V has never seen New Orleans and uh is really looking forward to it. She enjoys learning about America, but right now she's so wrapped up in the World Cup. So I don't know. I can't I can't even talk about it.
SPEAKER_02Now, when are you guys going on your trip to New Orleans?
SPEAKER_13Yeah, it's the end of uh the 24th um of uh July of July. Yeah, 24th, 25th, something like that. Yeah, because I have summer. I have summer break.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, you're not going to you're not going to get any relief from the heat, man. When you go back.
SPEAKER_13No, well, that's exactly right. New Orleans in July, the worst time to go. Oh, hot.
SPEAKER_02You talk about hot and muggy and sticky and talk about canes, but it's still it's cool, man. It's a you know, for her, she'll enjoy. As you know, you've been there before, and we I've had been fortunate to be there, but it's it's really uh a cool city, you know, when it's all said and done. Just some of the particularly the old architecture, that French quarter and all those kind of things. It just, you know, it's so cool. And the food is if you're a foodie, I mean, it's it's second to none, you know.
SPEAKER_13So staying in a place you'll love this. We're staying in a place called Hotel Bourbon. Oh, the Bourbon, the the Bourbon Hotel. I think I got to pull us up, and that's it's in downtown, it's downtown, it looks beautiful. I hope it's not a dive, but I think the place is called the Bourbon Hotel. And but that's okay. You can go and search, you don't have to pull away.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, I was just gonna try to pull up. There's this um there's a restaurant in New Orleans. Oh, I gotta give it to you. They're known, I mean, it's been there forever, and um it's known for their giant prawns. I mean, I'm talking about Is that Pan O'Brien's? No, this is a place you're out like it looks like a house, but it's been there, you know, a hundred years, man. It's just and there's it's such a neat place. Um, and I've eaten there several times. I can't think of the name. I'll get the name and get it to you. Okay, but you're gonna get it's it's known for their barbecued uh prawns. Okay, and I mean they're I'm talking, they look like a banana. That's how that's how big they are, and how tasty they are, and it's delicious, man. So I'll get the name and uh get it.
SPEAKER_13I'm not sure I've ever had a prawn. I don't know.
SPEAKER_02That's a shrimp. I mean, it's a shrimp, yeah, but it comes with everything. You gotta pop the head, and you know, it looks like they just came out of the net, you know, when they when they pulled it in.
SPEAKER_13Uh that's right. Okay, I'll I'll take a look at that. All right, we'll go to break, come back uh and get ready to uh get ready for another summer weekend. So it's fostering friends. This is the NSB Radio Network. We are all um all over the place today, but we love it. We'll be right back. Stay with us.
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SPEAKER_13Welcome back, Foster and Friends. On this summer weekend, the cup runneth over, and pretty soon the cup runneth over with uh with football and college football. Uh, but I read an interesting story. The athlete, I love the athletic, uh, great guy. And uh uh, oh, before I do this, I got I want to do this. Chip Tarkington sent me, and I'm sure he sent you a thank you. He loved, loved, loved his autograph picture.
SPEAKER_04Yeah.
SPEAKER_13And he writes me, he goes, Bud is such a great guy. But then he writes me and says, Well, you're such a great guy for setting that up. I go, Chip, come on. You know, bud is one of the greatest. I said, He'll get you an autograph. So, anyway, Chip Targetington, who filled in for you a couple of weeks ago, loves, loves, loves his autograph photo.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, he sent me a nice uh thank you and got a picture of it. And I I put in some little some little knickknacks, like little stickers and stuff. So, okay. Um, yeah, I threw I threw some of those in there for him to you know stick on whatever he wanted to do. Right, whatever. But I really do, you know, Chip is one that he's he's a great guy in the world and had a lot of success himself. So I appreciate him covering for me. I just don't want him to take my job.
SPEAKER_13No, no, no, no. Your job is your job is safe. We pay you so much, so your job is safe. Okay, so with all that being said, uh, I read an article in the um uh The Athletic about Notre Dame, and uh and the headline said, Are Notre Dame and the ACC good? Question mark. Here's why the football relationship is still working. And of course, going back to Atlantic Director Pete Bavakwa when he thought that when the ACC stood up for Miami in the playoff and you know kind of shunned Notre Dame, wanting to know if there was damage done. But it doesn't reflect that in their football schedule this year, does it?
SPEAKER_02No, not at all. I was saying with the they're playing six ACC teams this year, and uh and the big game is gonna be obviously the Miami Miami Notre Dame game.
SPEAKER_13And so with with the ACC trying to keep that, you know, I'm sure that the commissioner, Jim Phillips, makes the call every year, go, hey, you guys thinking about coming off that independent list? Are you guys, you know, uh, I would think, and even though Notre Dame, there was so much speculation about going to the Big Ten, and that's where they were gonna land, certainly not the SEC, but the Big Ten certainly makes sense if Notre Dame does that. But, you know, for the longer, it would be such a shun with Notre Dame playing all the other sports and being a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference if they decided they were gonna join a football conference that they wouldn't, you know, jump in with the ACC. And I think, you know, it's like if you're a sales guy and you've got somebody that really hasn't bought, but it's a big, uh, big client, and you've got or not a client yet, but a big advertiser or whatever that a business, you've got a chance to get them. You keep in touch with them, you keep in touch with them, you keep talking to them, right? I mean, yeah, if it's gonna happen, it it would make sense, right? For Notre Dame to be in the ACC.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, I mean, without a doubt, with all their sports and whatnot. Now, now naturally, maybe their location, they may align, you know, perfectly with the Big Ten, but you know, but with what their affiliation is right now and has been for several years with the Atlantic Coast Conference, the academic institutions per se, how they align that way. Um, I mean, I would love to see Notre Dame come in. And from a football standpoint, you talk about some instant credibility to uh to go along with who's in the league. And and I think the ACC is going to start to elevate here a little bit more. I think you're gonna see that as uh in the next few years uh with some of the coaching hires and you know people in this in in our in our league and and and uh so and I like what Jim Phillips is doing. I I really do. And uh but no, I I would love to see Notre Dame. It'd be a great fit, but it would uh it would be uh give football, you know, put us in a good position when it's all said and done, too. Now we gotta get some other teams to step up, but I think that's getting ready to happen here in the next couple years.
SPEAKER_13Uh the ACC contended, look, it didn't advocate for Notre Dame to be out of the playoff when it happened. They were just advocating that Miami should be in, and they did they said, you know, so it was you know just one of those arguments that uh that finally got settled, I think. And and uh we're you know, we're all happy.
SPEAKER_02We're all and then kissed and made up, you know?
SPEAKER_13And now the debate of is it gonna be 24 or not, and of course we'll be you know we'll be following that. All right, before we get out of here, what are the plans? Big plans this weekend?
SPEAKER_02No, I'm just you know, this is a as we talked to us, this is a little bit of a lull time. Now we have some friends coming in. My daughter and son-in-law are gonna be here this on on this uh weekend at uh at the lake, and so uh we're just enjoying a little bit of time at home. You know, we travel so much uh in the month of uh May and uh early June. So we're looking at just kind of being homebodies here a little bit, enjoying some uh some lake time.
SPEAKER_13I gotta I gotta make a note here. A $1,000 ticket, sphere, September 19th. I got just making sure I got that. Maybe a glass of wine with my wife. I cook dinner and say, hey, by the way, how do you feel about going to Vegas?
SPEAKER_02Anyway. I think you should make that trip, Mac. I think you should make the trip. It's not just go ahead. That's what I did.
SPEAKER_13It just got circled.
SPEAKER_02Heck with it. I'm I'm going all in and I did it. So and we're staying at the Venetian. Uh oh, perfect. Okay.
SPEAKER_13All right, I will look into it. All right, for Bud Foster and Mac McDonald. Have a great weekend, bud. And we'll see you uh next week as we uh we do this again. God knows what we'll come up with next week. But anyway, this is Foster and Friends, a presentation of the NSB Radio Network.
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