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March 25, 2024 - Doug Collins Podcast
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You want to listen to a podcast?
By who?
Georgia GOP Congressman Doug Collins.
How is it?
The greatest thing I have ever heard in my whole life.
I could not believe my ears.
In this house, wherever the rules are disregarded, chaos and mob rule.
It has been said today, where is bravery?
I'll tell you where bravery is found and courage is found.
It's found in this minority who has lived through the last year of nothing but rules being broken, people being put down, questions not being answered, and this majority say, be damned with anything else.
We're going to impeach and do whatever we want to do.
Why?
Because we won an election.
I guarantee you, one day you'll be back in the minority and it ain't gonna be that fun.
Welcome to Friday Finest.
Yes, I know you're in the middle of the madness.
And if you're a Kentucky fan, have another drink.
Bourbon's still good.
Life is okay, undoubtedly, because undoubtedly you got nothing else to do up there because Kentucky got beat again in an early round.
Calipari is one for two in the last, I think, three years.
This is a...
Welcome to my show!
I got a quick down and dirty version for the Friday's Finest Day.
Gonna hit a lot of topics in a short amount of time.
Hope you're having a great day on this Friday right now after the break.
James and I'll be back.
We'll get right on.
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All right, we're back here for Friday's Finest.
James, how's life in Texas?
Just wonderful.
My mom's visiting because she's in the house right now.
I was going to tell her to stop by, but she's shy.
Are you getting your cutlets though?
Are you and your brother getting cutlets?
No, we're doing all the cooking.
He's relaxing this week.
Oh, okay.
We're good sons.
We take care of our mom, you know?
But if we go to New Jersey...
Every son ought to take care of their mom.
But if we go to New Jersey, it's different.
She's got to do all the cooking.
You can't.
That's the...
Okay, here's the thing for Friday's Finest.
Mom, you know, I wish...
Believe me, I wish I still had my little mom with me, but, you know, it was...
You know, mama's cooking is just something.
My kids, to this day, my mom, and we used to get and gather for...
We'd cook dinners on Thursday nights.
My brother and I, my mom and my dad, we'd all go to their house.
And my mom would fry and she'd cook chicken or she would cook French fries.
And she had, of course, the way she would cook them was, of course, in the old iron skillet or the skillet on the stove.
And even to this day, if you ask Cameron and Copeland, who've been a part of the show before, many of you know, they'll tell you they remember the smell of the grease.
Oh, yeah.
That's real.
Yeah.
You just got to love it as we go through here.
Lots of stuff happening.
Real quickly, James, I want your take.
We're going to do a sort of lightning Friday's Finest today.
Again, Chip's ditching us to go, I guess, fill out his bracket and make millions of dollars.
That's the Chip way today, so we'll give Chip a hard time.
By the way...
That would really piss me off if he got super rich and left us.
Yeah.
Well, the other thing is, I was going to ask him today if he was going to be on since he's not on.
I can't do it.
I actually saw, was it Steve Kornacki out of NBC picked Auburn to win the tournament?
Yeah, he's probably just a Bruce Pearl fan because everybody's now like a Bruce Pearl fan, even though they hated him when he was leaving Tennessee.
Yeah, yeah.
Well, I mean, the situation says that, I mean, it's not too far off.
I mean, they're deep.
They're an older team that's deep.
They got one-twos at every place.
And, you know, it'll be interesting.
I mean, Cornacius was Houston-Auburn in the finals and Auburn winning it all.
And I'm like...
Well, I don't think either of those are going to happen, but I am just so delighted, slightly delighted, that Kentucky lost.
And this is because I think, and this is not about John Calipari, everybody now has all the good one-and-dones.
Him and Duke, them, Duke, maybe North Carolina, they used to own the one-and-done situation.
But with NIL and everything, anyone can get a one-and-done.
And elite ballers, like real hoopers on their team.
And even though Kentucky was stacked this year, There was something like, I think the kid had 10, the kid they played last night, who was it?
10 threes.
Oakland?
Oakland from Detroit.
10 threes, all 32 points from the three-point line.
Nothing from inside.
Yep.
And a couple of free throws.
Like, I am...
Somebody posted this, and this is exactly what represents March Madness.
The idea that one team is filled with NBA prospects, and the guy who beat them is probably going to be working at Enterprise Rent-A-Center in a couple of months.
It's just some average Joe that's been balling his whole life, playing basketball, loves the sport, just eviscerates them by hitting 10 threes.
I don't think people understand how hard that is in a game.
You know something?
Before last night, this guy had 135 threes this season, and he only had four two-pointers.
In the whole season.
Yeah, this dude is quite literally the definition of a sharpshooter.
He has one job.
He gets out there, he hits threes, he passes the ball.
That is his job.
Yep.
I mean, it's just like, I don't understand how you, again, how did Kentucky, again, it just goes into this idea that is, and you see it more and more, especially with the one and dones, with the top talent.
I mean, look, Kansas almost got beat last night.
In fact, by Sanford, they all, if you look at the play, that was a clean block.
Okay.
I don't understand how there wasn't replay.
Because you can't replay.
Was there not?
Billis actually got into that this morning.
That's ridiculous.
I actually caught early part of Billis.
Jay Billis was asked about it.
He said, look, we already have enough reviews in basketball that we see them enough for the backsides of the officials at the desk.
He said, if you get into block shot reviews, he said, you know, again, it just takes it out.
And I don't disagree.
That's fine.
But that review would have taken less than a second.
There should be someone in a booth that says, no, no, you made the wrong call.
That's the difference.
Maybe not a review.
That's what bothers me.
Somebody should be upstairs and be like, no, no, no, you guys made the wrong call.
You have to change it.
Don't review it.
I reviewed it.
Well, here's the interesting issue.
At what point, and maybe we'll hold this thought for when we get Chip back on as well, or we'll revisit it.
For sure.
At what point are we...
How far off are we from no human eyes, so to speak, on officiating?
Good.
Get these human eyes out of here.
They're monsters.
Every one of them.
They ruin every sport.
I mean, listen, baseball has characters that play umpires because those guys need to be the whole game half the time.
Those guys should be eliminated.
Basketball and football is a little different because you're calling fouls and stuff like that, and there is human error that's supposed to be part of the game.
But what doesn't make sense to me is that play last night specifically changes probably financials for someone like Samford.
I know that's going a little too deep, but my point is that they...
That is not like, oh, there should be a, you have a one-minute review.
Give it a time.
Yeah.
Well, that was right.
Give it a time.
Was it New Orleans or Minnesota, the rule that they changed the interference call, they changed the review on interference or something?
Oh, when it was the New Orleans Rams game.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Remember when that egregious penalty that they just, and listen, they're safe for having a rough couple of years at that point, so.
Yeah, yeah.
Let's put this on a burner.
I'd love to get Chip's impact on that because I think that would be something.
Absolutely.
It bothers me.
Again, I understand your point, but I'm almost back to the other way.
I'm almost reverting.
I hear you.
I'm not totally against you either.
We could have a real conversation about this.
Chip will have to be the mediator.
Yeah.
Because like I said, I could go back and say never have a review.
I mean, it's like to me, you know, the designated hitter in baseball is a joke and, you know, still have nay games.
Okay, I'm just, you know, I'm a baseball person, but it's, you know, baseball's gotten harder to watch.
I love to listen to it still on radio.
Speaking of baseball, we can't let this go.
Shohei Otani, is he gambling or paying off a debt?
And how does Major League Baseball not suspend him?
Well, right.
First of all, the problem is he is their biggest star.
And he's, listen, Shohei has done nothing but be great for four or five seasons.
I don't know.
It's four seasons?
I don't know.
It feels like it's gone by really quickly.
He's been the best player in baseball by a mile, and the only person that comes close is your Acuna.
That's it.
That's the only person I think that comes close to Shohei Otani.
But Shohei Otani can pitch six shutout innings and give you two home runs in the same game, and that's something that we haven't seen since, you know, before the league was integrated, okay?
So we're talking about, like, a long time ago.
But the point I'm trying to make is, If he is responsible, if it is him who is gambling, which at this point we have to figure out new ways to do this gambling thing because obviously things are getting out of hand.
I'm talking about for people in general.
But if he gets, he's going to go down to Pete Rose, Joe Jackson.
I mean, Shoeless Joe.
Yeah, no, no.
Shoeless Joe.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
We're going to go down that road, and we're going to lose Shohei Otani, probably the best baseball player we've seen in 100 years?
MLB can't let that happen.
They're going to figure out a way to blame this on his interpreter.
I have a podcast coming up on Monday that I think we actually taped it a little earlier, so you've heard it.
But is that not the very...
Here's a plug for Monday, okay?
I'm discussing the decline in civilization, and a lot of it is we race to the bottom.
Is that not a race?
If it's shown that he was betting on baseball, and I'm going to take it a step further.
He was betting on the Angels, right?
Yeah, you're right.
Okay, do you just ignore it because he can hit a baseball?
But they're not going to show it.
That's my point.
Listen, we've covered up bigger things than this.
There are going to be enough outside investigators who will make...
Because if they find it, they become instant money, okay?
They can profit, put a book out, put a report out.
If they can show he did this.
And again, how stupid was this the way it was handled?
Well, that's the thing.
Okay, this is an argument I heard yesterday.
I think it was on Beadle and Decker.
They were saying that if this is the situation that we see it as right now, where just on the surface, it is Shohei Otani, from what we've been told, was giving money to a friend.
If that's the circumstance, which right now seems a little hard to believe, but if that's the circumstance, Yeah.
Yeah.
Guy's my right-hand man.
I have no problem with it.
It sucks because he gave the money directly, but that's that.
What if it is Shohei Otani who's gambling?
It is a huge mark on baseball who's already in the trenches and dug deep in America that has no way of coming up from the top.
They have been so bad in America.
They had their opening day game in Seoul, South Korea, and we didn't even know about it.
They don't care about American baseball, and this only will make it worse because America just won't pay.
They're going to be like, you know what?
If Shohei's not playing, we're not paying attention.
Well, and the question is, how many actually watch for show anyway?
And I think, here's what's happened.
Baseball has lost its local feel.
Yes.
And I think that's why Atlanta still does okay.
Atlanta Braves baseball is still nostalgic, okay?
And hear me out when I say this.
Atlanta Braves baseball is...
We're the only thing, for years, okay?
Atlanta Braves were the Southeastern team.
In many ways still are, okay?
Because there's no team in South Carolina, no team in North Carolina, no team in Tennessee, no team in Alabama, no team in Mississippi.
Florida, okay, we got two, but I mean, that was just in the recent years.
But even going up into, you know, you get outside of that, over to Louisiana, you're going up into, you know, even parts of Virginia, especially Western Virginia.
So you got like an eight-state area in which Braves baseball was it.
And it was carried on radio, WWSB. Out of Atlanta, just like WSM, you know, not WSM, but NGC, WGN, out of Chicago, was the Cubs, okay?
It's why the Cubs are beloved all through the Midwest, okay?
Right, so you're either a Cubs or a St. Louis fan.
And it's why there's a bitter rivalry, and it's a fun rivalry.
So Atlanta has maintained that, and I think, you know, going to the Atlanta games, you know, watching the Braves, there's still a many generation, several generations alive in Atlanta that grew up with the Braves that were pathetic.
But they were our team.
They were the Braves.
Right, it didn't matter.
Chief Nakahoma.
We had the TP in the outfield.
It's just who we grow up with.
It crossed generational lines.
It crossed ethnic lines.
That's why the Braves still have two to three million show up every year to play.
Now, is it what it used to be?
No.
But we've lost that in Major League Baseball many ways to the international dimension and just like you said.
Yeah, but the international players have clearly been better.
I mean, they just have.
Probably partially because...
our beds partially because a lot of kids just aren't playing baseball anymore.
It's not fun.
It wasn't fun.
Listen, I know this sounds insane, but back in the day when kids were playing baseball, there wasn't much else to do.
That had to be the most fun thing possible.
Oh, I agree.
And...
And it's not as fun as, say, a basketball game or football or this, that, and the other thing.
It's cooler to play those other sports.
And baseball hasn't done much to secure its American market.
And now it's number one star who is foreign.
Yeah.
The whole story, we have no information, not enough information yet to judge on it.
But if he is gambling, he is going to go the way of Pete Rose.
And I hope Pete Rose comes out and does another press conference about how he should still be in the Hall of Fame if Shohei Otani gets clipped.
Just because I think Pete Rose is the funniest person who's ever existed, considering that he did a, I should be in the Hall of Fame, I'm not a gambler.
Interview live from Las Vegas.
I think that is the most hilarious thing that's ever happened because it just shows that he didn't care whatsoever what anyone thought.
Yeah.
I think you just got to the point now where he, like everybody else, realized this is the dumbest thing that's actually happened.
Put him in the whole thing.
It's about like everything else.
In America, we do finally have sympathy for people, especially if it's something not like Charles Manson.
He didn't murder anybody.
He gambled on a couple of games to win.
So after a while, it's like, okay, is this just going a little too far?
Well, you're keeping him out.
You should only be keeping him out as a coach, and you're keeping him out of baseball entirely, even though he was one of the most famous baseball players he's ever lived.
And if you're a Cincinnati Reds fan, he is your team.
Oh, Charlie Hustle.
Him and Johnny Bench.
That's what I'm saying.
There's only two guys.
Yes, I'm sure there's more.
I'm not a big baseball fan.
I can name ballplayers from the 70s and 80s almost better than I can name ballplayers from right now.
Yeah, but that's because that's how you grew up.
It's also age.
It is age.
A lot of age.
But I will say this.
Baseball is still a great game.
They're changing it.
For the better, a little bit.
I mean, you want to turn yourself around.
Yeah, I watched this rule about they're saying they can't block the base with a glove or something they called the other night.
That's dumb.
That's the stupid thing I've ever heard of.
That's literally the entire point of baseball is to block the guy from getting to it.
Exactly.
It's like, okay, this is...
They keep going down that road, they're idiots.
Well, speaking of things that happened in our childhood, your childhood specifically, I don't know when you were born, so I'm not going to jump on that wagon, but James Bond.
Oh, so you were right after the first James Bond.
Exactly, yep.
So you wanted to talk about this earlier, and I just want to say that if everyone does know Aaron Taylor Johnson has been pegged as the guy who's going to be the next James Bond, I don't know if he's accepted or not.
I just want to be clear, I am 180% on board with this.
I didn't even know he was British until the other day.
Well, here's my problem.
I don't even know who he is.
I think that's the interesting thing here.
All right.
He's done some Marvel movies.
He did a horrible movie named Savages, which we never need to discuss.
My God, that was terrible.
And he was in the recent Bullet Train movie, which I think might have not gotten...
I don't know if it got him the role, but he plays...
A hitman in that movie, and it was kind of funny.
And I have a feeling they're going to go down that route, the old school funny bond.
I hope they don't.
I really hope they don't.
I hope they keep the Daniel Craig thing, but I have a feeling they're going down the route of like, maybe it'll be a little more, not funny, but like a little more, because Roger Moore, I'm sorry, those movies are awful.
They had this long time coming out.
It's going to be Idris Elba, which I thought would have been probably pretty good.
Yeah, for sure.
I don't know this Aaron Taylor-Johnson.
It's now two to one that he's in.
He did some movies out there.
He was in...
Godzilla.
Yeah, he was in Bullet Train, Age of Ultron, which I'm not sure what...
That's Marvel.
He was Quicksilver in that.
Yeah, he's done a lot of stuff.
Again, I think it's a good move.
I think it also helps that maybe he hasn't done that blockbuster, so everyone remembers him for that.
I think that's the same thing with Daniel Craig.
Where he hadn't, at the time, done that blockbuster yet.
He was still a great actor at the time.
Just hadn't done the super blockbuster.
I'm not saying Aaron Teller Johnson isn't in big movies, but Godzilla was good, okay, but no one really cared where this will be his crowning achievement, and I think that's good.
Speaking of that, while we've got a few minutes, like I said, today we're sort of doing a quick fire.
For your taste, who is Bond to you?
Oh, okay.
Well, it's now Daniel Craig because I've just been forced.
But I got to tell you, when I was a kid, those...
Why am I blaming that on his name?
Pierce Brosnan.
Pierce Brosnan is the most just James Bond person I can think of.
I just, when I see his face, that's my first thought.
Yeah, you got Pierce Brosnan.
I sort of lost it during the Pierce Brosnan.
There was one who did it for like one time or two.
Oh, Nick Timothy Dolphin.
Yeah, those were pretty bad.
When I was growing up, knowing Bond would have been Roger Moore.
Roger Moore was the 70s.
Live and Let Die, The Spy Who Loved Me, Octopussy, which we all thought was the greatest thing in the world because you could say Octopussy and everybody thought it was the greatest thing in the world.
Hilarious, yes.
It's still hilarious to this day.
Sean Connery.
And Sean Connery was the original Bond.
There's no way you can remake those movies.
No, absolutely not.
My God, just go to, I think Netflix has a lot of them on, and the Goldfinger, and listen to what they say.
I mean, I get a kick out of it, but today they would be banned from start.
Oh, absolutely.
No, no, they would be arrested.
But here's my problem.
They would ban Bond from killing...
Again, this is the name of the lady in the movie was Pussy Galore.
Okay, that was her name in the movie.
Yes.
We would go nuts over that today if that was the character's name.
But yet, as I've talked about on this show and I'm talking about on Monday, we're okay with Transgender Story Hour?
Really?
It's easy to go with the flow, Doug.
Right?
I guess.
Right?
It's much easier than that.
Yeah.
Roger Moore, I guess, because I grew up with Roger, and I like the gimmicky, you know, kind of, you know, James Bond-y stuff, but I have to say, and I hope, and if they don't, I will probably, I'll tune out, I'll not watch the Bonds like I did under Pierce Brosnan and others.
If this new guy, whoever it is, is not in the line of Craig, if he's not in the line of a serious...
It's such a good move.
They're all good moves.
Darker side...
Darker side of Bond, then I've lost it.
I don't want to see the fancy stuff that can't happen.
What we need is, and we've got to wrap up here, but what we need 100% is we need Christopher Nolan to do these movies.
He's talked about doing it.
We need him to do it.
Well, that is it.
And folks, so weigh in for us, DougCollinsPodcast.com.
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Let us know who your favorite Bond is, your favorite Bond movie.
We'll talk about this more.
We'll pick back up next week.
Got lots of big stuff.
Be ready for Monday's edition, folks.
I'm really going to dive deep into something that I want you to hear.
So be prepared for Monday's podcast, and we'll be ready for next week.
And probably chill will be back with us on Friday's Finest.
With that, we're out.
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