Three Guys Around a Table and The Best Of…
Three buddies sitting around a table debating the best of everything and discussing what is on their minds
Three Guys Around a Table and The Best Of…
Beyond the Field: Surprises and Sarcasm in Sports and Life
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What happens when a lawyer, an engineer, and a school superintendent gather around to debate the highs and lows of college football? Toss in some humor, a dash of sarcasm, and a love for Ohio State's national championship victory, and you've got the makings of an unforgettable conversation. We salute Ohio State's triumph over teams like Tennessee and Oregon while grappling with the lingering sting of that unexpected loss to their rivals. Speculations about Ryan Day's future swirl as we dissect the coaching dynamics in play, including Chip Kelly's rumored NFL interests and Penn State's eye-popping offer to a defensive coordinator.
Away from the gridiron, prepare for a delightful detour into our personal lives, where hidden passions and amusing quirks are revealed. Unexpected loves for musical theater and classic shows such as Perry Mason make an appearance, along with pesky pet peeves like loud breathing. Childhood memories of water skiing and college fencing add to the colorful tapestry of our personalities, presenting a light-hearted exploration of what makes us tick beneath the surface.
Our stories don't end there. From run-ins with sports legends like Coach John Cooper to the uncanny humor of misidentifying John Amos for John Stamos, it's a rollercoaster of anecdotes bound to keep you entertained. We share a comical restroom autograph request from Gene Upshaw and reminisce about leading a law school fraternity. As we wrap up, a mysterious trip to northern Ohio leaves you pondering just what statute limitations were involved. Tune in for laughter, nostalgic boasts, and the unexpected twists that shape our lively chat.
Three guys around a table, and by three guys. We're talking about three friends a lawyer, an engineer and a school superintendent.
Speaker 1And, just like our personalities, our opinions vary and we certainly don't always agree. Whether we're discussing the best of or giving our tips and tricks of things in everyday life, you're sure to learn something if you stick around. So here we are Snow's starting to learn something if you stick around. So here we are Snow's starting to melt away. Life's changing. We have a new president, he's done more in the past week than most people ever expected, and college football is over. So, with that being said, I want to make a big shout out here Is college football ever over.
Speaker 1Nope. I want to give a shout out to our illustrious board operator over there and let him know, and let everyone else know, that he made the statement during the first football episode of the season that we did. He said that the Ohio State would win the national playoff. And then a couple episodes down the road. All I could do was complain about the coach Fire Ryan Day because he lost to the team up north. He called it by the appropriate name.
Speaker 2Thank you for that.
Speaker 1I'm having to read the script here. It's ridiculous. That team up north. And, by the way, as I go on to this, we're only going to speak of college football for two minutes, then we're moving on. I mean it's done. I'm at a minute and 27. I'm trying to milk this thing. I'll get to say yay and then that'll be it.
Speaker 1We went from someone saying they're going to win the national championship to losing to that team up north and he's the worst coach ever and I can't stand him. He can't coach. Blah, blah, blah, blah. I would stand by that statement. And now we talked about the magic beard and the Ohio. State Sharpie beard, the Ohio State Buckeyes won the national championship. Mr Kopp, congratulations, you did a phenomenal job.
Speaker 2Yay 157.
Speaker 3So I get to say nothing about it.
Speaker 2Thank you. I appreciate that you had mentioned that. There were some listeners that were really waiting for Ohio State to fail to really give it to me and you know, all I can say is better luck next year. You know, that's all I got to say. Oh well, there is one other thing O-H. Someone out there just went. I-o, I heard it.
Speaker 1Actually, I think it was someone across the street and they said hi-ho, greg, what do you got to say about?
Speaker 2it, I mean.
Speaker 1Ohio State played four great games in a row and they're the national champion, no question about it. I mean, I think there needs to be, as we've said before, I think there needs to be changes to the college football playoffs, but with the rules this year they did what they had to do. I mean, if you tell me a team beats Tennessee, oregon, texas and Notre Dame, they deserve the national championship. That's what you got, yeah.
Speaker 2They. You know, as I've said it many times, that game against the rival is really, really important and Ohio State fans, this helps soothe that wound a little bit, but that wound doesn't go away. That's still a game that we lost. There's had no reason losing. Ohio State lost two games this year by a combined total of four points. They lost by one at Oregon when Will Howard decided to slide late, and they lost by three at home against a rival when they were 20-point favorites or whatever.
Speaker 1Yeah, that's the bad laws.
Speaker 2The Oregon loss is not even the bad loss, yeah yeah, uh, it's just that every team in the country had a bad loss. It seems like this year, um, you know, notre dame lost to northern illinois. Sure, but it was the first game, second game of the second game of the season real early on and uh, proud of the buckeyes, proud of ryan day, proud of you're proud of ryan daykeyes proud of Ryan Day. You're proud of Ryan Day For being able to bring them together and get past the noise of the Michigan loss.
Speaker 1Chris, what should Ryan Day be given Lifetime contract? Oh, they're working on it right now, baby.
Speaker 2Can I ask a couple?
Speaker 1questions. Yep, come out. Yep, he deserves a lifetime contract.
Speaker 2This guy is the greatest coach to ever coach in Ohio.
Speaker 1State, Look honestly.
Speaker 2Yep, I'm ready Honestly.
Speaker 1Yep Defense coordinator lost a big loss, big loss Yep. I mean, but he is getting paid at Penn State.
Speaker 2Yeah, holy smokes $3.1 million a year, oh please tell me how's Penn State paying him Sexual favors?
Speaker 1It's.
Speaker 2Penn State. They shouldn't even have a team. Our PG rating is.
Speaker 1PG-13 for sure they should not have a team but $3.1 million a year for an assistant.
Speaker 2So I'm learning a little bit now about some behind scenes things. A lot of people are podcasting about them today that Ohio State offered him $2.75 million, penn State offered $3.1 million, notre Dame offered $3 million.
Speaker 1It's because Notre Dame gets to keep all that playoff money to themselves.
Speaker 2Ohio State. The night before the championship celebration at Ohio Stadium gave him an ultimatum and said you have until midnight. How'd that work out? It didn't, and he went to Penn State. Good luck to him.
Speaker 1But I think the biggest issue you've got is if Brian Kelly leaves, yeah, or Chip Kelly.
Speaker 3Chip.
Speaker 1Kelly.
Speaker 2Brian Kelly can go wherever the hell he wants.
Speaker 1Yeah, it doesn't matter where he goes but if chip kelly leaves, yeah, and there's rumors that he's up for coordinator jobs in the nfl?
Speaker 2yeah, there were. Chip kelly is a genius, I mean he's always been.
Speaker 3He's always been an offensive genius.
Speaker 2Uh, I don't think he'll leave. Uh, I actually did think that knolls would go. There's been a lot of rumors that after the oregon game the first oregon game that you know ryan day supposedly even said in a press conference nine days later he said I had to have some tough conversations with the defensive coaching staff. We need to change some things, and they did. What everyone that was a high state fan thought that was was that he had tough conversations with larry johnson and said you know, we need to be a little more aggressive in terms of how we blitz and how we've talked about that before um, what's coming out today is that?
Speaker 2no, it was him having tough conversations with knolls saying, hey, you, you know, backing basically Larry Johnson and I don't know how much.
Speaker 1I believe all that Well, is that coming out today because he left.
Speaker 2Well, there's been a few posts from some insiders that stated that there was a rift between Knowles and Day, and when Day was given a chance to praise Knowles there, at the end he said he's the best defensive coordinator in college football. And that was his only sentence and he just said nothing else. When he had a chance to talk about the secondaries coach, like the defensive back coach, matt Guerrero, he was all this guy's just a genius, he's an up and comer and blah, blah, blah, blah blah. So there's definitely been some egos that have been hurt, I think, but to your point, it's a huge loss. Yeah, what changes do you want to see in the playoffs? I think what you said about seeding couldn't have been more accurate.
Speaker 1What do you think, chris? Besides, are you asleep, I'm out, all right, let me ask this, then. This may perk you up when does Ohio State rank this team compared to other championship teams?
Speaker 2With you know, in Ohio State's history. No, I mean like in the CFP era.
Speaker 1Oh, yeah, yeah yeah, when did they rank? I mean they had more games in the playoffs than other teams have.
Speaker 2Yeah, I think that what I would say is their impressive wins. Look do you think this is better than the 14 team? Yes, In terms of its overall talent and everything yes. What about is it better than?
Speaker 1Joe Burrow's LSU team. No, I don't think so either. I don't think so.
Speaker 2No, I'd say that somewhere in the middle of the pack, anytime you have a team that has two losses, those losses are real. Sure, you have to, you know. But to do what they did at the end of the year was special I mean that Joe Burroughs team is as good a college football team as I've seen.
Speaker 1I don't know that I can name a college football team better than them. Right, they were unbelievable, but now here's my last college football question for you Yep, last year's Michigan team or this year's Ohio State team.
Speaker 2This year's Ohio State team. For sure, For sure I don't know about that.
Speaker 1I don't know. It'd be a game I'd like to see. Yeah, I mean last year's Michigan team. I think they were undefeated. Did they beat Ohio State last year? Yeah, of course they did. They won three in a row, four in a row, four, lifetime contract.
Speaker 2It was a close game, but it was much better coached by Michigan to be honest Ohio State, I think, has finally gotten out of their own way.
Speaker 1And that's what they did in those four games. If he don't coach offense ding ding ding.
Speaker 2All right, chris, thank God Football is freaking over. Was that two minutes?
Speaker 1That is seven podcasts, I've counted. We've talked about college football for no obvious reason and guess what. When we get down to one more listener because of you having to talk about Ohio State going to win this. Look, it's also Monday, because of you having to talk about Ohio State going away. It's also Monday, which means Monday night Raw tonight, that's true.
Speaker 2Now you're talking.
Speaker 1I didn't watch Saturday night's main event.
Speaker 2I can weigh in on that. When are we going to OVW?
Speaker 1That's the next thing, because we need to pod on the way to OVW.
Speaker 2We were going to do that last time.
Speaker 1We didn't have a court. We went about a year ago.
Speaker 3I sent you the video A year ago yesterday.
Speaker 1And guess who was there?
Speaker 3Bob's Burgers For those who don't know Bob's Burgers, we do.
Speaker 1The thing that we're going to. Oh we can talk about that. We can talk about that. Shall we discuss? I think that we got to go wait until it gets closer. All right, all right, all right, we got a surprise coming up.
Speaker 3We got a surprise event.
Speaker 1We will pod from that parking lot. Will we not, I'm fine with that oh yeah, I'm good with that Okay. Do I need to bring Indy's home that day so we can eat?
Speaker 2them on the way.
Speaker 1OVW All right, OVW Hit it Thursday night. I got to check and see if I got a basketball game Thursday night. Anyhow, all right, let's get on to something. Let's talk about something that relates to people Hit it. So I've had some people reach out to me and said they want to know more about us. Now I refuse to disclose personal information. That's a very very, very flimsy sword I don't want to talk about.
Speaker 3I don't like people enough't want to talk about. I don't like people.
Personal Revelations and Guilty Pleasures
Speaker 1Things to think about, they want to talk about, they want to know a little bit more about us. As far as have we ever had a job?
Speaker 3No, that's your answer, though, right, that's true. That's true. I am independently wealthy.
Speaker 1Have you ever had a job that people wouldn't expect you doing? No, what was a job that you had that didn't turn out quite the way you thought it would?
Speaker 3No.
Speaker 1I've had other people talk about. You know what's your guilty pleasures, greg. Don't answer that one. What's your guilty pleasures and things you like?
Speaker 2that nobody would expect. I got things I love, so we can just jump around on these, right.
Speaker 1Let's do things that we like, that people wouldn't expect.
Speaker 3I got a good answer for that one.
Speaker 1I'd rather do one like things that annoy me, that's a good one too, mine's easy.
Speaker 2People who breathe. We've had also pet peeves episodes as well People who breathe. Yes, exactly.
Speaker 1Or we can think about these down the past, or we can also talk about other things that that are interesting about us, that people don't know, or we could do. I had an idea we could do one with movies that there's a line from the movie that as soon as you say that line, people automatically know the movie. So I've just thrown out a bunch of options and we can poopery it all you want and we can nail one and start off with the uh things you might not know about us.
Speaker 1that might be interesting oh well, yeah, I'll tell you something. This is funny, but it's related solely to my daughter. But I enjoy going to musical theater performances that are done like Mean Girls, like the national production of it, and things like that. Most people wouldn't recognize that, but my daughter loves musical theater, so there's some that are terrible, but there's some that are really good, Chris.
Speaker 2No, you go. I gotta think about it for a while.
Speaker 1Things like that. It's not so much what you do, what you think Like. If I said alright, I fenced at UK, I fenced in college. Right when I was at UK I fenced. I didn't build fences, but privacy or chain link.
Speaker 2Yeah, well, wood, I'm born to pick it that doesn't surprise me a white picket fence around your palatial estates that stone did you have?
Speaker 1it built by a certain stone fence we didn't have those in little mud yeah anyhow, but that's something that's kind of come out over the years. You guys have had the presents to go to my hometown. That water is legit. Why didn't they take the water out of that when Martin County was having all its problems and just take the water out of Little Mud and take it to Martin County.
Speaker 3It's special for you to have Little Mud water.
Speaker 1That couch was in that creek, really wouldn't hurt the water much.
Speaker 2It was filtration, all right.
Speaker 1So you know, besides.
Speaker 3I've got one. Some of this stuff I don't want to bring out you go ahead.
Speaker 1I've got to decide if people can use this one against me.
Speaker 2I've got one. You guys use this against me all the time. You know about it, but the listeners might not. Are we talking? We're talking about the boil. I am a big fan of older things, specifically.
Speaker 1Older things means younger things for you, correct?
Speaker 2I love classic movies. I love film noir from the 40s and 30s.
Speaker 1That means he likes black and white. I do His TV's broke. It don't have a color to it and it didn't have any sound either. What are you talking about?
Speaker 2I think that you know my favorite. You know I've got some favorite TV shows. The Twilight Zone is one of them. But Perry Mason, the classic Perry Mason with Raymond Burr, I have watched every episode, all nine seasons. I actually listened to a podcast about the perry mason episodes. That are the podcasts. Go through each episode and go through all the the little behind the scenes details about those.
Speaker 1So yeah, that's I think that's uh, I think it's one of two lists, I thought it was interesting.
Speaker 2Did you ever?
Speaker 1I think the guy across the street might like that kind of movie stuff too. You can go over and watch with him. Oh yeah, and his couch mate.
Speaker 2You know, that's one.
Speaker 1You know, you guys know this and I don't. I guess most of our listeners know that I don't believe in paying stuff for things I can do myself, and there's not a lot that I haven't done or attempted to do or tried to do. But how's that drawer working up in your up in your sink, up in your bathroom. Still way off it will never be the same.
Speaker 2No, uh, I was actually just thinking about that.
Speaker 1The other day. Never, ever, ever be the same. It's what you get for buying your furniture at Amazon.
Speaker 2You Well, it's what you get for buying your furniture at Amazon. You know, I Are you saying there should have been a tariff on it.
Speaker 1There should have been a tariff on it. You know what? I was a big water skier when I was a kid. I started water skiing when I was five years old. Well, some of us didn't have boats when we were five years old. You had a four-wheeler, though, or three-wheeler, excuse me, that's. It's way different. I did, and it was so slow. It had a string that went behind it that your parent could step on it and kill the engine. Oh, your parents loved you enough to follow behind you and hold onto your string.
Speaker 1You met Papa. That's true. He just tied a longer string to it, absolutely. Yeah no, I started water skiing at five and slalom skiing at six and skied the whole time. I was a kid. I didn't enjoy it as much as my brother did, but because I was so young doing it, my dad always made me do it.
Speaker 2Can I play you something really?
Speaker 1quickly yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2This is the, just in case you want to hear something.
Speaker 3On this exciting episode. We've got a heated property dispute when a river refuses to stay put. Plus there are surveying shenanigans, mysterious oil deals and jay pat o'malley as a desert rat who can't keep his story straight. What?
Speaker 1I have no idea what this is for poor david gideon just listen perry mason season five look, that's the reason why I didn't know what it was. Nobody else in the world knows what it is either Awful.
Unveiling Hidden Talents and Anecdotes
Speaker 2Shout out to the Perry Mason podcast, big fan. Y'all wanting to team up, go through some episodes hey, I would be a guest star on that Bill.
Speaker 1you know what? That's not even falling asleep worthy. Let's just turn that off and don't worry about it Can I? Tell you one thing that does surprise me tonight.
Speaker 2Yeah, you, one thing that does surprise me tonight.
Speaker 1Yeah, yeah, it's actually quite comfortable in this room, the temperature is, is is pretty manageable, right, well, and you've got nice fresh blankets and a fleece jacket and I'm wearing a flannel shirt.
Speaker 3That's perfect, all right. What's something?
Speaker 1else that people wouldn't know about you, or something that nobody really knows um. I've got enormous feet. Everybody who has ever seen you, they're.
Speaker 3Sasquatch.
Speaker 1People listening have not seen me, so there you go.
Speaker 3Well, Sasquatch, where's up my feet have?
Speaker 1been measured out now by a podiatrist to be 15 and 3 quarters.
Speaker 3But that's wide. How long are they? That's?
Speaker 1wide. If you've ever seen Flintstones, look at Fred's feet. That's me. Greg can wear milk cartons for shoes. And they're as flat as they can be. Well, that's, that's not something people would know about me.
Speaker 3Yeah, that's true, you guys know it, but that's not something they'd know about, that's fair Following you down the beach.
Speaker 1you've seen that old. You know the footprints in the sand.
Speaker 3There's only one pair.
Speaker 1I'm following Greg down the beach and my feet are. You know, we're from a 13 to a 14. I'm following him down the beach and I'm like what? Is somebody leading a cow down this thing? What is going?
Speaker 2on, aren't they mini canyons?
Speaker 1by the water. Listen, I fell down in one of them. I fell down in a footprint.
Speaker 3How about drown? Yeah about drown yeah, it was bad, so I got that going for me that's bad.
Speaker 2Which is nice, which is nice, that's good you know what that's good what you got. Uh, I um, I am a an um auditory learner, me too. So, um, and when I hear something I remember it. I've always been that way. So, on movie quotes and things like that, one of the reasons I can usually get movie quotes pretty darn accurate when I hear them once or twice is because, again, it's the auditory learning what about you. Are you an auditory?
Speaker 1learner? I am not. I am not and I'm not even a visual learner. If I want to learn something, I have to physically write it or draw it or take it apart Like a drawer.
Speaker 3It happens.
Speaker 1Just because it doesn't go back together, doesn't matter.
Speaker 2You learned how it works. What was that person that lived with you growing up to teach you the lessons? Au pair, butler Whatever. No, butler, whatever.
Speaker 1No, seriously, I can't like if I'm going to.
Speaker 3Are you talking?
Speaker 1about at the boarding school.
Speaker 2Yes, oh my God, yes, finishing school.
Speaker 1So I think, very analytically and I always have they taught him that at finishing school.
Speaker 3So my thing is.
Speaker 1So if I meet somebody and it's important for me that I know I'm going to have to see them again I'll make a note in my phone or something that you know it'll. It'd be like you know, greg, you know big feet, big feet. That's why, seriously, and then, and that's what I have to do and I'll remember it over time, but if I'm like wanting to do something, I have to sit down and physically draw it up and and work it all out that way. Otherwise, if I hear it.
Speaker 1I'll forget it. You know um well. I, just I, I. And by read I'm not a reader, right? Oh, do I. Readings for losers.
Speaker 2They make books on tape for a reason I love reading.
Speaker 1You know what I like? I like people to read to me. That's what I like. Au pair, all right, all right, all right, that's right. I got one for you guys.
Speaker 3Yeah, I was the commander For the Washington.
Speaker 1I about said Ritz On the space shuttle Endeavor for a mission while I attended the US Space Academy Thanks to Duke University, Of course. He went to the Space Academy when he was a kid.
Speaker 2Why does that surprise anybody?
Speaker 3My dad provided a really nice actually.
Speaker 1I always dreamed of going to the Space Academy, but Papa was like no space for you. Papa was like you want some space boy Go over and see that space over there? No, this was through Duke University's gifted student program and they sent me to US Space Academy. Of course they did, and it was pretty cool. Yeah, it was pretty cool.
Speaker 2Yeah, it is cool. Let me jump on one that you said to give an antithesis. So you are really good with your hands. You can fix anything. You know, that's the engineering part of you, and we do make fun of the fact that you have destroyed one of my drawers for all time, but that's okay. Um, on, on, on. For me, I have zero talent and skills when it comes to things like that. When I have a just one small moment where I fix something, I want to be showered with praise. I had a. I had a leaky toilet the other day.
Speaker 3And I figured out what it was and I fixed it. What was wrong with it? Flapper.
Speaker 1Toilet bolt, tank bolt.
Speaker 2Where it connects to the toilet was loose and I realized it and I stuck a screwdriver in there, tightened it up.
Speaker 1Oh snap Did you turn the water off before you did it.
Speaker 3Yes, yes I did.
Speaker 1I have to admit the excitement when he was telling me about it and he's describing it to me in detail and I'm like, yeah, the brass tank bolt, yeah, it's got a Mark. That's so great.
Speaker 2I want to pat him on the head and give him a treat Don't go chasing waterfalls.
Speaker 1That's funny. I want to rub him behind the ear and give him a treat. That's all I want to do.
Speaker 2I felt so good because, again, I just admit it, I have no talent, no skills. But do you?
Speaker 1know, and I've often thought about this, and people have asked me this where did I learn to do these things? And the answer is I don't know. My father would change the oil in the air filter and that's about it. Right on the cars. You know, I guess I've just learned by doing because it was fascinating to me. But to work on stuff, I just don't believe in paying people for something I can do.
Speaker 3Now I'm getting older and my physicality will not allow me to do some things.
Speaker 1You're not as old as Mark, that's true. That's true, my.
Speaker 3TV talks.
Speaker 1But yeah, so what else you got? Oh, mark, we've already said you're an oral learner Auditory. Yeah, I'm sorry Auditory, auditory, and you said that you love to fix things when you can. It's a momentous occasion. Yes, what else you got? What's your next one?
Speaker 2I don't know that I have another. Oh, I got one.
Speaker 1Oh, I do have one. I do too. Okay, I have a black belt in shell and dough.
Speaker 3Karate. I didn't know that, absolutely I didn't know that.
Speaker 1Absolutely. How about that?
Speaker 2I taught karate for a while. Karate, yeah, were you like. Kramer was like the adult with the kids in there. It was all. When I was young.
Speaker 1At one point I was the youngest black belt in shell endo karate ever, because I got it when I was nine or ten.
Speaker 3That is insane yeah.
Speaker 1That's something you didn't know. No, that's pretty cool. Or 10 that it's insane. Yeah, that's something you didn't know. That's pretty cool. You had that in a three-wheeler yeah, and a pool, yeah, oh, and a butler, you just and and well water, you got. You got them. Good teeth, though, you got great teeth, yeah, and well water, yeah. So black belt and chalendo no idea 100 craig's got and my mom had one. Craig's a little bit bigger belt, though you know Craig had one and my mom had one. That's awesome, yep.
Speaker 1That's awesome and we taught karate.
Speaker 2My mom taught it and had 60, 70 students at one time Karate here, karate here, karate never here. So yeah, one time.
Speaker 1Yeah, could I to hear, could I to hear, could I to never hear. So, yeah, so there you go.
Speaker 2That's something that I had. I had no idea. Yeah, I pulled out a nugget. Yeah, um, I once attended. If we're just just for fun little one-offs. I went to the nfl draft combine one year and this was when they didn't allow anyone but coaches of nfl teams and colleges to attend, and my uh friend of mine was the uh head football coach at kentucky state university.
Speaker 3Oh yeah, and he knew how much I was into the draft, yeah.
Speaker 2I knew this one, and so he made me his director of operations for the day. And I went and I met Tom Coughlin and you know just, romeo Cornell and all these NFL coaches, and this is a true story. I'm sitting there, I'm on the field. Rod Woodson is over to my left reporting for nfl network, and the combine is a place where all of the coaches who are looking for jobs go to hobnob with the other coaches. And guess who came up to me and initiated a conversation? Jerry jones, no.
Speaker 1Terry Jones, no, dave Snyder, go Tigers.
Speaker 3Oh.
Speaker 1Yeah, yeah, coach.
Speaker 2O, ed Orgeron came up to me because he was out. I think he had just lost a job at Mississippi, ole Miss, or whatever Ole Miss. He came up to me and goes how you doing? And I was like good, you know, good, mr Orgeron, how are you? He's like hey, I'm, uh, you know, looking for, looking for work. So, uh, you know, you hear anything? Let me know. Uh, you know, and he sat there and talked to me for probably three minutes. Did you offer him the job at k state?
Speaker 1I was like I was like well, you know you can come and join us hang on, did you say? This is the first time I've ever seen you with your shirt on and not a co-ed around well, the greatest thing was john cooper, who was the head coach at Ohio State.
Speaker 2Who could?
Speaker 1never Louisville. He was at Louisville. No, that's the other Cooper.
Speaker 2Yeah, he could never beat that team up north. He's there working with the Cincinnati Bengals and I saw him with Mike Brown and Pete Brown and all the Brown family, all the.
Speaker 3Browns yeah.
Speaker 2John Cooper comes over and he walks up and he goes over, and he walks up and he goes. Uh, I said, hello, coach cooper, how are you? He was like, oh great, how are you? And he shook my hand and I said I'm mark cop. I actually went to ohio state. He was like you did oh, that's great, wouldn't you? Would you? Uh, would you go there? And I told him when I went there, when, when he was there, and so I think he was thinking, did this?
Speaker 3boy play for me, did he ever play?
Speaker 2for me. You could see him cycling through, yeah, so that was great. Houston said yeah, why didn't you put me in? Exactly If you put me in. We've been state champs guaranteed.
Speaker 1If the coach would have played me.
Speaker 2Back in 82, I could throw a pigskin quarter mile. I swear to God.
Speaker 1You could throw a football over a mountain. I swear to God, you're going to throw a football over a mountain.
Speaker 2All right let's go one more.
Speaker 1I know we got one more in us. You've not said any lately. I was a part of the NFL National Fumble League, my senior year National Fumble League. I have a lapel pin to prove it and it's got a ribby in it.
Speaker 2For in it. For what the national forensic league ah that?
Speaker 1doesn't surprise me. That sounds like some kind of a yale recognized me. Um, I took third uh in the commonwealth of kentucky in pros division in crew, crew in crew, in speech and debate in my senior year. So so I was part of the NFL, the National Forensic League.
Speaker 2That's a little lesser known than the other one, but that's acceptable. See, you didn't know, I'll throw one more in while we're waiting on Greg.
Speaker 1I've got one. Okay, let's go. I was the president. You got no clue of this one, but this is also the truth. I was the president of a law school fraternity. What Yep. I bet that was riveting.
Speaker 3It was an honor, it was an honors thing Make a move.
Speaker 2We can't hear on stage tonight. I thought it was Lambda.
Speaker 1Lambda Lambda. We did have a Halloween costume party at a bar. Oh, I bet that was exciting Project. I went dressed as Bill Clinton. Oh no, that's pretty good though.
Speaker 2That's pretty good, just as long as you didn't dress, as you know, thurgood Marshall or something along those lines.
Speaker 1Oh, that would not have been good.
Speaker 2I was the president of a fraternity.
Speaker 1I had no idea what was the name of the fraternity Sigma, alpha, epsilon.
Speaker 3Oh.
Speaker 1That's a real fraternity by the way. Sae, sae Same everywhere they had the. It was just in law school. It was an honors thing. That's pretty cool Do you know the SAEs were the fighting Terry Johnsons. Did you know that?
Speaker 2I did not know that Terry Johnson was an SAE. I didn't know that either. So one other one. That is just a fun little anecdote. My brother which one?
Speaker 3My brother, which one the?
Speaker 2good one. I'm so ready for it now he. So which one's that, mike, it depends on the day right?
Speaker 1No, it doesn't.
Celebrity Encounters and Humorous Stories
Speaker 2It really is steady on that, mike. Let's go to Hoopoosta. Yeah, mike worked with a guy that His family was somehow involved. Worked at the Pro Football Hall of Fame. So every year, Mike and I got to go to the Hall of Fame and we got these badges that got us backstage access. So we got to meet all of the celebrities and the pro football guys. Did you meet the dad off of Good Times? Yes, we did. John Amos Good call, wasn't he the drummer?
Speaker 1for the Beach Boys? No, he died not long ago. We did John Amos Good call, wasn't he the drummer for the Beach Boys?
Speaker 3No, he died no longer. He did Wasn't he on that?
Speaker 1perfect. What's that with Bob Saget and all that? Wasn't he on that show?
Speaker 2No.
Speaker 1He was on Roots.
Speaker 2I'm making a joke. In Coming to America, I'm making a joke.
Speaker 1That was John Stamos, who I was joking with.
Speaker 2You said john amos, very similar okay, so, uh, anyway, my little anecdote. I could do the john amos one, but I'll do this one, you know, because it was, uh, you know, we were backstage and I had to go to the restroom. So I go into the restroom and standing at the urinal and taking care of business, and I look next to me and standing next to me is gene upshaw. Now, gene upshaw was a great, great former raider time out, okay, before you go any further.
Speaker 1Yeah, you broke the cardinal rule and you looked. Next I looked up. You know you look ahead and you don't look anywhere. They were dividers.
Speaker 2okay, there were dividers, but I looked up and gene upshaw's a very large dude and I saw him and I was like I literally, and I'll just paraphrase here hey, I've seen that before I said holy cow, it's Gene Upshaw. He goes. Hey, how's it going? I said, can I get your autograph? He goes, you mind if I finish first. Are you serious, that's a true story.
Speaker 1Oh my God, that's a true story.
Speaker 2Oh my God, that's hilarious, and he did, and then I got his autograph.
Speaker 1Did you say please wash your hands?
Speaker 2He was the president of the Players Association.
Speaker 1So, yeah, that's a good one to end on that's funny.
Speaker 2I like that. That's solid. Tell us where you went this weekend.
Speaker 1I went to northern Ohio, just north of Lima, Not south of Lima, but just north of Lima. Were you able to stop? I did stop. The cops were not called but I did stop.
Speaker 2I'm really surprised about that.
Speaker 1I still can't go. When are you going to be able to go again? I think it's 2026, late 2026. Fourth quarter 2026. Good thing you're south of Lima.
Speaker 2Well, statute of limitations is a strange thing, well, so.
