Peter Rapine Finds Canadian Romance In Mexico (Hour 2)

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since 2002.

Oh boy.

Laugh the live receiver.

Listen to this crowd.

Oh baby.

Matthew Golden, live receiver

at Texas.

And he's here.

courtesy of the NFL Network.

That was the call last night toward the pick.

Mark Murphy, Packers president for the final time in his tenure.

He is retiring after this year announced to the Green Bay Packers for the first time in a long, long time.

Actually got a wide receiver.

Welcome back to hour number two.

Everybody glad to have you along.

Aaron Zommer is on the board.

It is seven now past the hour of three o'clock.

here on the Total Bowl show Friday, April 25th, 2025.

A great day to be a Wisconsinite, particularly if you're a Packers fan.

And this was great.

Our sports reporter, Mike Clemens, got Golden's autograph on this helmet and already sent it down to me this morning.

I'm just kidding.

I don't actually have the autograph.

It's just the Packers helmet.

Here to discuss the draft and so much more, he joins us occasionally.

Usually we have Brady Ewing on, former Green Bay Packer, former, would that have been fantastic?

Former Wisconsin Badger fullback and spent three years in the league, the NFL for Atlanta and Jacksonville respectively.

He's on the road today.

Or so he says,

here now.

So he

says his older brother joining us live from the old hometown of Richland center.

Brandon, you knew it was also a Wisconsin high school football coach in his own right.

Brandon, always great to have you along.

How are you?

I'm doing awesome.

Thank you for having me.

How are you doing?

I'm great.

Thanks for asking.

It was great at a good time last night.

I just sat by myself.

I had a, you know what I had left?

I had a,

uh,

a, uh, a new Glaris.

uh, strawberry rhubarb beer leftover.

And I cracked one of those.

Those are so good.

And a, and a hot dog.

I had brought hot dogs and I was going to grill on the show, but I couldn't find a George Foreman grill.

So everything to tailgate and studio except the grill.

Why didn't you call me?

I would have driven one right over.

Do you

have

a

funny, my

grill?

Yeah.

My, yeah, my grill, um, outdoors kind of took a crap on us.

So, um,

Anna came home.

My wife came home with a bunch of hot dogs

last

week.

And she's like, well, I got these hot dogs.

What are we going to do with them?

And I said, I have just the thing.

RIP George Foreman.

Look at see.

But.

Yeah, I'm sorry.

We got it done.

I

should have called you.

I should have called you.

So I thought like all these hot dogs.

So I went home last night and put them on a proper grill.

And so I hadn't had I sat and had a a beard hot dogs.

I watched the draft.

That was

good for you.

You are not the first one.

That when Todd told this story too, the reaction was, why didn't you call me?

I have a George Foreman girl.

They're like three other people who said the same thing.

Exactly.

It turns out

a lot of

people have.

They love you.

We love you.

And we would do that for you.

I appreciate that.

I appreciate that.

What do you think last night, Matthew Golden from Texas, a wide receiver coming to Green Bay?

What was your take on the pick, Brandon?

Well, first and foremost, what about Murphy's enthusiasm?

Did

you did anybody know he had that in him?

No, like I just I was shocked

to

see you know, just how he handled that and Yeah, it was great.

It was great.

And then the pick that's something that we as Wisconsinites I mean you go from far to Rogers.

We haven't needed that those guys made everybody so much better Jordan I can do that but

I think putting weapons around him is probably the right thing to do.

And then

Goody makes a joke today.

He plays it great straight face.

So he said, yeah, I actually sent another name and Murphy just completely ignored it.

And it

was a joke, but it was very funny.

That's that Trump card that he's got.

Yeah, right.

Exactly.

But going back, Todd, can I interject

real

quick?

Yeah.

You know, I look at last year and what I thought truly was a position of strength and wide receiver.

You know, you got Christian Watson who, to be honest, we can't, we can't.

lose sight of him because I think that when he comes back, he's got a lot of those intangibles that we're looking for and

he

will make our offense better.

But you know, you have him with his ACL, you've got Romeo Dubs with his concussion issues.

And then the disappearing act that was Jaden Reed, it really was a position of need.

And so to pick up Golden who

had a lot higher on their draft boards right there at that 23rd pick was pretty exciting.

I went back and forth watching ESPN ABC.

I kind of settled in on ABC because I like the college game day, guys.

And Nick Saban, former Alabama coach, a seven-time national champion, the crew asked him before the pick, who would you, if you were Goodacons, who would you pick right now?

And Coach Saban said, look, if I'm in that room, I'm picking Golden.

And he had nothing but good things to say.

Of course, he has a direct connection to Texas coach Steve Sarkasian.

And I guess Texas had nothing but great things to say about this kid.

His work ethic is just kind of, I'll do anything for the team, his ability to really pick up systems quickly.

Because he transferred in, right?

And it only spent a year

in Texas.

From

Houston.

From Houston, yeah.

And so I thought, well, man, if Nick Saban thinks this kid is good, that's good enough for me.

Yeah, and honestly, you look at how...

And I'm not saying that I watched every Texas football game last year, but you look at how they transition from having him be a piece of the puzzle to late in the year when they were going through their championship stretch,

where

he was really a focal point and how he excelled in those positions.

So yeah, I'm not going to say he's going to be the cure-all, but he absolutely will be a fit within this offense.

And sounds like Jordan loves pretty happy.

Somewhere Aaron Rodgers is saying.

Why not me?

Why did they do that when I was

there?

You know what, he's a whole

famer in his own party.

Exactly.

Any other standout things from last night's draft that really stood out to you?

Picks or otherwise?

Yeah, Shudder Sanders, you know, who would have thought that he wouldn't have been drafted day one?

You know, that is a talented.

Yeah, we're on a group chat

with Brady and Brandon and myself last night.

I'll say Brandon called this before the draft even started, that Sidor Sanders was not going to be taken in round one.

Of course, the standout quarterback from Colorado and his dad prime not looking too happy.

And you were right, Brandon.

Yeah, well, a lot of the things that I was seeing and reading, you know, it was going to be a stretch and, you know, looking at some of the gambling odds, you know, the odds kept getting worse and worse.

And so it just kind of told the story.

Somebody knows something and he's not going to be out there long today.

I mean, somebody's going to snatch him up early and he is a talented quarterback and a good leader.

Some people don't like the other stuff, but

It's Dion's boy.

What else do you expect?

And Coach Sam was making a big deal about this last night.

He was getting really irritated.

He kind of called out his own company.

He called out ABC ESPN for like, why are we talking about this?

Because it doesn't matter where you really get drafted.

If you're in the first couple of days, it really doesn't make a whole lot of difference.

If you get drafted in the first round or the second or the third, it's

getting opportunity and making the most of that opportunity.

And Saban was not happy about all the hoopla around secure last night.

Yeah, I mean, it's you're exactly right.

It's the only the only benefit of going in that first round is just that that fifth year option for the teams.

So, you know, to be honest, I was actually interested to see what was going to happen at the tail end to see if somebody would try to trade into that spot so that they had that fifth year option.

But, you know,

It is what it is.

He's not going to last long today.

And, um, yeah, it's, I don't know.

This is the best reality TV I think that you can get right now.

Would you agree?

No, it's, it's, it's really fun to watch.

And, and that's a good transition into why I was actually really happy to have you on today is because one of the coolest things that I like about the draft is.

the family members who get to finally talk because it's their son or their or or their brother or or their grandson who gets drafted and then to hear all these parents and grandparents and brothers and sisters talk about the guy who gets drafted that's really cool and so I want just to get your take you know it's been a few years now but when Brady got drafted what in the fifth round right and and so but

And for those that don't know, our parents live a house apart in the neighborhood in Richland Center.

So I've known your family quite a while.

And when you and Brady come on together, the love you have, you're a very tight-knit family.

And so what was it like for you personally, for your mom and dad, for your sisters to be there watching this all unfold and Brady's on the clock, as they say?

Yeah, Todd.

And thank you for asking that question, because honestly, it was such a special day.

We knew that he wasn't going to go in the first couple of rounds.

So, right, you're watching just to kind of see how everything shook out.

And, you know, from a fullback and H-back perspective, Brady was one of the top two or three guys that, you know, people felt were going to get drafted.

So, yeah.

He that that that third day when we started watching, we just had anticipation and we knew who was very interested in him based off of some of the conversations that that he had had.

So yeah, we're we're watching and once those teams started to come up, it's like you're kind of watching with beta breath.

Who's going to call?

You know, there were a couple of times that as we were sitting there, um, and, you know, those teams would pop up and we kind of look over at Brady and be like, okay, cause he was getting tax, right?

And you would tell people, Hey, just, you know, try not to, uh, communicate with us on draft day, but, um, you know, people were just interested and excited.

And, you know, from when he did get picked, um, to, to be a part of that or just be a fly on the wall, to hear the conversation to.

see his excitement, to see my parents' excitement, to be able to experience it with my wife, with Brady's wife at the time.

Honestly, it was a special moment and a moment that I'll never forget.

And

I mean, it has to just be cool.

I mean, I know my sister and I felt going to the first couple of games when he was at Wisconsin.

And here's a kid from Richland Center, a town of 5,000 people, makes it to Wisconsin and ends up earning the scholarship.

starts as a walk on.

And the first couple of times we saw Brady get a big play week, we got, we got emotional as just friends of the family.

I can't imagine what it's like to see your own brother finally get drafted into the national football league because so very many few individuals in our country ever reach the professional leagues, let alone make it to the NFL.

Yeah.

And, and Todd, you said it, we're a small town, we're a small town, small community.

you know, what you felt and your sentiment is what others had in our community as well.

So when when he got picked, it felt like the community, the community all around it was it was like their brother was picked.

And yeah, so later that night, right, David, my father, my brother, myself and a couple other family friends.

We have a fire pit outside and it was it was a chilly night.

But we were out there lighting off fireworks, having a couple of cocktails and just enjoying.

And I'm telling you, people would drive up

people wanted to be a part of that, to experience it with him.

And that's a testament to Brady.

Brady is such a humble, honest, caring, loving individual.

And people like him and like to be around him and wanted to experience that with

him.

It's still a source of pride for our hometown, I know, to have somebody from our, because it makes, I think, for younger kids, maybe you've seen this in your high school coaching, to make other kids think,

Whether it's sports or music or whatever it is, hey, I can do that.

I can come from

a small town

and I can achieve my

dreams.

But look at him.

Brady is, he's just kind of the every man.

He's not overly big.

Um, he wasn't the best.

I mean, he was a very good athlete, but he wasn't the best.

But that kid just worked his tail off and that is a testament to others.

That's why Brady is a motivation.

Like Brady is a phenomenal motivational speaker because he means it.

And, and he's got that, that ability to kind of convey what it takes to be successful.

And he's done it at the highest level.

So I always say if Brady had my body.

he might still be playing right now.

But, you know, he just wasn't blessed with that, so.

I love it.

And again, my wife sitting over here, smirking Todd.

Come on back.

We'll talk more of the Brandon Ewing.

NIL comes to high school sports.

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You could never pretend that I don't love you.

You could never pretend that I'm your

man.

It's exactly the way that I want it.

It's exactly the way that I am.

And you call me in the morning.

If you're in Richland

Center this weekend, say it around a campfire.

You may hear that song if you're in the neighborhood.

By requests, our guest this half hour, Brandon Ewing, joining us via StreamYard from the old hometown of Richland Center, a high school coach in his own right.

talking a little bit about his big bro Brady Ewing being drafted a few years back as the Wisconsin Badger going to the Atlanta Falcons.

I've said this before, I still cannot get rid of my Atlanta Falcons gift shop emails that come to me all the time because I

bought a Falcons

hat

and shirt and flag.

And I've tried to like, especially after I went to Jacksonville, I'm like, I don't need this.

And they still come to my inbox.

They're very good at marketing down there in Atlanta.

I can tell you that much.

They're great.

Brandon, thanks for being with us off of the YouTube channel.

Terry Barr, very own Terry Barr, by the way, we played her slice of Wisconsin yesterday, kind of setting up the draft.

Great job by Terry, if you haven't heard this, is that worse?

Another thing with Terry Barr, tonight on Nightlight with Pete Schwabba, in the second hour, for most of the second hour, it's a bar band Friday night.

I pre-recorded it with Terry and Pete yesterday, and it features a 12-year-old singer-songwriter.

And let me tell you, she is amazing.

Really?

Her name is Paige Claibor and...

You should definitely listen to Night Light tonight.

Fantastic.

I will.

It's

great.

I got Terri Bahr.

I got Pete Schwabba tonight from 6 until 8 right here in Civic Media.

Great heads up.

Terri says, this is a terrific conversation with Brandon about hometown, home state pride.

And she says, I'm personally thrilled the way my hometown area, Green Bay, is presenting itself.

Thanks, Terri.

Yeah, talking earlier, Brandon, just what it was like for you and the family.

a few years back to see Brady being drafted in the NFL, and not just your family, but as you said, our hometown and our home area, and just inspiring to think that a kid, whatever your means are from a small town, if you believe and work hard enough, you can achieve your dreams, not just in athletics, but

in anything.

Absolutely.

I mean, it's, again, not to reiterate what we said earlier, but just it is a testament to hard work and perseverance and a little bit of luck.

But I tell you what, Brady really did his best to position himself and prepare himself for those opportunities.

And you hear it every time that he joins your show, just again, that genuine nature, that hard work, that work ethic and that.

you know, will to be great.

He had it.

He really does and continues to do that in the hometown and what he does right now.

He'll be back with us here.

I still think we're going to see him on the stage giving the Atlanta pick tonight in the second round of the Green Bay.

We'll see.

Let's change gears, Brandon.

I'm

away.

Oh yeah,

go ahead.

Okay.

No, I was just going to say, I thought the Packard, I thought Green Bay showed out yesterday.

Oh my gosh, yes.

It just the beauty, the, you know, it.

brought me back to what it was for me to feel like that is why I'm a Packer fan.

Yeah.

You know, it's it's family, football, you know, friends.

It's it's just everything in it.

And it just it was beautiful.

It was wonderful.

It was majestic.

Yes, they did such a good job.

The all

theatric and great, great,

great

television program.

As you said, a great reality show.

There's a new reality for high school sports, of course.

So you've been a long time coach in in Richland Center area, Brandon.

WIAA, Wisconsin Inter Scholastic Athletic Association voted today.

We talked about this with sports director Jimmy Cusco to start the week.

WIAA voted to allow high school student athletes to profit from their name, image and likeness as a coach.

Mr. Ewing, what do you think?

This is, this is a can of worms.

And, you know, I am all for as, you know, you look at the college level, like those kids need an opportunity to make, they can't work, you know, having conversations with Brady, you know, knowing what it entailed to be a Wisconsin badger.

Like there was no opportunity for him to go out and, you know,

earn any money, additional money.

And he wasn't a scholarship guy, you know?

So, yeah, to have those guys get the opportunity, I completely understand.

But, you know, the high school level, what does that mean for small town Richland Center, Wisconsin?

You know, if there is an athlete out there that that has potential and, and, you know, maybe has the opportunity to earn some NIL stuff, he's not sticking around Richland Center, Wisconsin.

He's going to go to a private school in a bigger community.

to where he can grow and earn those opportunities, more opportunities.

So it's great.

I mean, kids should be awarded an opportunity to earn off of themselves.

Honestly, it doesn't bode well for small town sports.

Just a couple of minutes left, according to Wisconsin Public Radio, the policies allow high school athletes to sign endorsement deals to make money from promoting products.

Wisconsin's policy restricts athletes from participating in NIL deals associated with a student's school team, school conference, or the WIAA.

Also, they cannot wear their school uniform in any endorsement deal, use the marks or logos of the school, so on and so forth.

So it's gonna be restricted more than college, it sounds like.

But yeah, to your point, Brandon, I guess we're the, Jimmy Cusco told us one of the last eight states in the country that didn't have some form of this.

So it was gonna come whether we liked it or not.

But again, I think it just marks, I don't know.

For me, it's just another turning point that we're entering a new era and I'm not so sure that it's a good one.

Well, and Todd there and I don't have specific names, but there's been specifically on the basketball side of things where we've had some tremendous athletes that have went to, you know, other states to other schools so that they could capitalize on some NIL stuff.

Yeah, so at least, you know, we're one of the last, right, but it may keep some.

you know, athletes here back in state.

So and honestly, from a basketball perspective, which is where you see a lot of this jumping around, Wisconsin has a rich history of deep, good, wonderful basketball players.

And yeah, we need to keep those athletes here.

Brandon

Ewing.

Thank you so very much.

I appreciate my friend.

Well, I might see you around the neighborhood this weekend and have a good weekend.

Heck yeah.

Thanks, Todd.

Thanks, Amherst.

Thank you very much, Brandon Ewing.

Come on back.

Peter Rapine with a week in review on the other side.

The Civic Media already network.

I was better than sex.

Oh, yeah.

Welcome back to the show.

Somers has gone wrong.

It's twenty thirty five minutes past the hour of three o'clock on the Hall of Balls show, The Cinec Media Network.

Thank goodness it's Friday.

TGIF, dialing up a little Senator Kennedy there.

That's a real quote from Senator Kennedy.

He likes

armlets

better than sex.

That's a great way to start off our next segment.

Every other week, we are joined by our ongoing contributor and friend from beautiful Brooklyn, New York.

He is the managing editor of ebombsworld.com.

You can find all of these stories we're going to talk about today at ebombsworld.

He is Peter Rapine, the one, the only, you know, we love him.

Peter, how the heck are you?

I'm doing fantastic, Todd.

It's Friday.

It's spring.

We have the door open at the office.

I was playing music on my speaker earlier.

And after this, I'm going to have a cold one in my hand as soon

as possible.

You know what you are, Peter Rapun for me?

You're like a spiritual gummy because I always feel better after talking to you.

I feel more chill.

I feel happier.

That's what you are.

I appreciate it.

Well, I do say it's we always talk on Friday.

Maybe if we did the show on Tuesday, I'd have a different.

Different vibe.

Yeah, a different vibe.

So it's good we catch up with you on Friday.

And

thank

you, by the way, for adjusting your time frame, because now we're later in the afternoon.

So I know that kind of sucks for you, but thank you for doing

it.

No, it's OK.

Well, yeah, what's the deal with that?

Just, you know, things get changed.

And so they said, Todd, we're going to put you in

two to two to four.

So here we are.

We're happy

to be here,

but even happier that you were willing to come along for the ride.

Yes.

Of course.

And honestly, it kind of makes the my Friday just that much better, because this is the last thing I'm going to do.

Oh, right.

I'm closing my computer and I'm

done.

You're done.

You're done.

I'll be remiss if for those watching on the stream on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Twix and the like, Peter is wearing his beloved San Francisco Giants hat.

Peter, your guys beat up on my brewers.

Out in the bay was not good last night.

Giants five or six Milwaukee five.

The Brewers had a player's only closed door meeting after that loss was they were not happy.

They were

not

happy

at all.

So I've been hearing.

See, I'm not I don't follow baseball as much as I probably should or are used to.

But I do know that the Buster Posey era is off to a good start.

Yes.

I am excited to see.

Yeah.

Sadly for the Brewers, the Brewers play tonight against the St.

Louis Cardinals, 640 broadcast time on select stations across civic media.

All right, Peter, we're always happy when you join us.

These are actual headlines from actual wacky, weird human beings.

This is not fiction or made up.

It is not, I like to say we're funny, but we're not this funny.

And this week I have a couple of exclusives for you guys.

Our first four items are not items you're gonna find on the homepage just yet.

So if you're listening, you're actually getting first access to some of my favorite stories of the week.

Now this is real and I really, really appreciate this.

Peter controls what goes out on the ebombsworld.com site and he has been so kind as to debut these next stories here exclusively

on the All Balls show and Civic Media.

I really appreciate this.

This is very cool.

So this is the first place you're going to see this.

So all right, Peter Rapine, first headline.

And they're all incredibly childish, so.

Which is a great way to end the week.

Some childish headlines.

All right, very good.

All right.

First one reads, Parrot pleased with itself after asking its Alexa to fart.

A parrot

pleased with itself after asking its Alexa to fart.

Do you explain?

Well,

he's pretty self-explanatory, I'll say.

This parrot, obviously, I think we have an audio for it.

Oh,

we

have

audio?

All

right.

But basically, the parrot realizes it can tell Alexa to fart.

And you can't see it, but you can hear it.

And just know that there is a giant smile on the parrot's face, and the parrot bobs its head up and down after every fart.

So here we go.

Here we go.

Got the audio.

All right.

That was a triumphant one.

Try asking me for a gassy fart.

Alexa art.

That was a long and crispy one.

Try asking me to fart 17 times in a row.

Alexa art.

Alexa art.

The bird kind of sounds like a robot voice itself.

I was gonna say a robotic voice confused which one is which

exactly this is real and the audio the video on this is Amazing, I mean we played the the audio portion of it But but the video is absolutely up because you're right the parrot is very excited that it has learned

How to tell Alexa

how to do this.

I know it's probably fun for the owner to like teach it that for like an afternoon, but then you're like, crap, I either have to get rid of my lecture or get rid of this pair.

This never stops.

Right.

Exactly.

Exactly.

And the fact that Alexa goes, that was a crispy one.

I

know.

You ever

designed that like Alexa model?

Like have a little bit too much fun.

We're off to a flying start here, Peter.

Peter Rapine.

All right.

Next exclusive headline from Epom's world right here on Civic.

All right.

The headline reads, Pastor says we need to be more like bacon and we have no idea what that means.

All right.

pastor says we have to be more like bacon.

And we have no idea what that means.

This is confusing to me.

And this is one of those like very, I don't know what they're actually called, but one of those pastors that just kind of says stuff and they say it in a way that's very hyped

and

sounds like it's, you know, deep knowledge.

She's just playing the video.

The

audio

is not, there's nothing I can say to cue this one up.

Here we

go.

You're gonna fry some fish you're gonna need some You're gonna fry some vegetables you're gonna need some You're gonna fry some bacon you need some No, you don't need no oil when you fry bacon cuz what

You produce your own oil.

You produce your own oil and become what you were meant to be.

You produce your own oil and allow

others to taste and

see

that

the

Lord is good.

You're

going to

produce your

own oil.

If that

woman gave the Easter sermon and she would pack the house.

Honestly, I think in another life, I was one of these pastors.

I feel like that's a gift I have.

Your spiritual animal.

Your spirit animal.

I'm not sure what that means, but I'm on her side.

I'm on her side too.

They don't need oil.

No, when you say something in such a, when you have such conviction, right, it works.

It's beautiful.

Be more like bacon

people.

Mark and Perzac text into the text line and says, everybody loves bacon, right?

They should.

Bacon's beautiful.

All right, Peter Rapine, all of these, not all of these headlines, and you're debuting some of these here exclusively on our show.

We appreciate that.

But after the show, you'll find all of these at ebombsworld.com.

Actual headlines from actual crazy people.

Peter Rapine, next headline.

All right, this this one is just for one and this comes to us from an event called the gathering of juggles If you know what a juggler is you don't need me to say anything if you don't know what a juggler is There's nothing I can say to help you understand They are the fans and at one point we're labeled a gang They are the fans of the insane clown posse and they have a gathering every year where

the great most interesting people gather for a weekend of music and partying.

And one woman brought a special item with her to the gathering and the headline reads, woman shows off replica of her husband's penis.

That's also an urn filled with his ashes.

A woman at this gathering shows off a replica of her husband's penis.

That's also an urn filled with his ashes.

And we have

audio.

The actual replication of my husband's penis with his ashes in it.

That I have slowly been spreading around the gathering.

And uh, he goes here.

This

video is magical.

And she's sitting there and she's holding it in her left hand.

And it's clearly see-through.

So you can see that there's like about half of the ashes left.

And I like to imagine that she poked a hole in the tip and is just kind of walking around.

Blessing people.

Blessing

people.

This brings up a lot of questions, which I'm not sure we can discuss in afternoon radio.

But I mean, A, why is someone spreading around their partner's ashes on other people?

That seems odd.

And if you're going to, why would you put your husband's ashes in an urn that shaped?

She claims like his penis.

What?

Was there a mold made before he passed away?

I don't know.

Well, all I can say is I hope my wife does this for me after I got real.

That's

how you want to

go.

That's how you want to get into.

Remembered.

Yeah.

All

right.

There

are worse ways.

Absolutely.

There are

worse ways.

All right.

Peter Rapine next headline.

Next headline, Shaq almost definitely crapped his pants on live TV.

Shaq almost definitely crapped himself on live TV.

This is real.

This is real.

I've seen this a couple other places.

And look, we've all been there where you really got to go.

But

not all of us have been on national television.

No, so Shaq is obviously

Hall of Fame basketball player.

He's one of the hosts of Inside the NBA.

And the following episode to this episode, the crew pranked him by bringing in a porta-potty and putting it next to his seat on stage.

We have some audio of Shaq running off set during the show to go use the bathroom.

Here we go.

The other thing about Kawhi is, you know, you are a big fella.

You're going to catch it a cramp.

Go ahead.

Keep talking, Jack.

Yeah, we on TV.

I know what we're doing.

Go ahead.

Yeah, that's that olive oil you've been drinking.

I know.

Hey, take some matches with you.

Charles

Barkley.

Hey, listen, he couldn't hold it.

He can't hold it.

At the 40, he can't

hold it no more.

That's the

first.

He

can't hold it.

Unless she's got something in there.

That

wasn't something planned, was it?

No.

And the fact that TNT follows him with the camera into the bathroom door closing.

There's a reason that show has been awarded like the best talk sports show like seven or eight years.

Oh, yeah They're not only the best anchors, but you know they stuff like this happens and then you can hear in Shaq's voice.

He's trembling And I guess maybe he has been drinking olive oil which Chuck clearly is like he's all that olive oil You've been drinking Shaq.

I know

Charles Barkley is

is a gift to television.

That's all I can say

He's phenomenal whether it's TNT for for NBA or whether when they they cross do the TNT and also CBS for college sports March Madness I Watch this stuff half of it just for Charles Barkley and and Ernie Johnson's a great foil who originally from Wisconsin by the way Did you know that?

Ernie Johnson's a Wisconsinite all right about two minutes left Peter Ray pie before the break one minute left story.

Thank you Zombers.

Can we get a quick one in here?

Yes, Australian Airport begs passengers to stop showing up drunk.

Australian Airport

begs passengers to stop showing up drunk.

Is this audio or no?

Oh, there

is some audio.

Oh,

really?

All right, very good.

Let's play it.

Here we go.

So many people are rocking up to Darwin Airport's face that the Australian federal police are literally getting involved.

I went to China once and the guy, we got into China and then he got taken away into a separate room because he fell off the plane.

What?

Yep.

As long as you can walk properly and, you know, don't be in front of other people.

That's not too bad.

It's probably some of the younger people out there that present it in this way.

And we just asked them to not act in that.

The

issue is, so many of the flights leave really late at night in Darwin, so people are rolling straight from the club to the airport.

It's not

proper, because it's not comfortable for the rest of the passengers, because they might cost the club.

All right,

well, we're up against the clock here, but now see, I agree with that one person that said, late flights, people come from the clubs, get on the plane.

Come on, Australians, still we're up, mate.

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You can find all these headlines we're talking about at epombsworld.com.

Peter, quickly, I heard you were on a little vacation.

Do we want to talk about that or?

Uh,

yeah.

Um, yes.

So I was just in Vancouver this last.

Vancouver.

All

right.

Um, I met a girl.

Uh, remember I was in Mexico a couple months ago.

Yes.

I met a girl and I was in Mexico.

Yeah.

Peter, Peter, where you

buying is the Don Juan of Ebon

as well.

Well, Chris has been saying that it's saying I'm, I'm living in a romcom now.

Just because the way that we met was so funny and so weird, I feel like I have to tell you.

I haven't told you yet.

So it was my second day in Mexico.

I'm on the beach and I'm not the type of guy that hits on strangers in public.

I don't just walk up to someone and go, hi.

That's not me.

It's not my game.

But the second day on the beach in Mexico and I felt compelled.

I was in the water and I saw someone who I was like, oh crap.

Like if I don't say something, I'm going to think about it all week.

I'm going to write.

So I'm on vacation with my

friends.

I'm acting in the moment.

I'm like, okay.

Shoot my shot.

And I don't know what I said.

I said something dumb.

I was like, God, this is really great, isn't it?

And like one of them was trying to body surf and it wasn't the best beach for body surfing.

So I said, not the best beach for body surfing, huh?

And they both kind of look at me like, okay, weirdo, like stranger, like get away from us.

And they both swam away.

And I'm thinking, okay, whatever.

You know, I go back to my buddies and I'm like, I said something, but maybe they were shy.

Two days go by I've completely forgotten about it and me and my two friends are going out to dinner One of them have already eaten and so he kind of peels off and he's like hey, man I saw some girls I saw the backs of two girls at a bar smoking cigarettes.

Let me get a cigarette I'm gonna go up and you know ask for a lighter and you guys go and eat and in an hour when you're done Hopefully come and find me and I'll be you know at a bar with you know two girls And I think okay, whatever think nothing of it couple hours go by

We go meet my friend at this bar, and lo and behold, he's sitting next to these two girls that I shouted at in the water the day before.

Get

out.

And my first thought is, holy crap, I hope they don't recognize me.

Right?

Okay.

But no, we end up hanging out.

We get along really well about like an hour or so in, you know, I like, hey, I don't know if you guys

remember, but there was a guy who was trying to talk to you in the water the other day.

And I was like, that was me.

And they both start full on belly laughing heads on the bar.

They laugh.

I'm not kidding.

Todd for like two minutes uninterrupted.

I'm

just kind of, I'm just kind of sitting here like, Oh, is this good?

Is this bad?

Like, is our night going to end really soon?

And, and they pull their heads up and they look at me and they go,

Oh my God, we've been talking about that guy.

We thought either he's really nice and maybe we should have said something or we thought maybe he was like a little autistic and his caretaker had gotten lost.

No way.

No way.

And I responded with, honestly, it's a little bit of

both.

Why would a girl like a nice guy like you?

Well, it turns out she did.

So we really hit it off.

And that's who I visited in Vancouver last weekend.

She came to visit me.

She's coming again in a couple of weeks.

Yeah.

She's

Canadian.

She's Canadian.

And now...

See, this is a great way.

This is a great

story.

This is a great story.

Because see, if you, you know, if you, if you just sometimes, as you say, shoot your shot, sometimes you're going to get shot down, but other, it may end up, look, now you're, is this a relationship yet, Peter

Ray fight?

It

is.

It is a relationship.

So you've been to Vancouver, she's been to Brooklyn.

Yeah, she's coming in a week.

And then she goes to Europe and I'm going to go meet her in Europe.

That's why you look that's why

you look so chill this week.

You're smiling more than

usual.

I'm very happy

for you.

I'm very happy

for you.

That's great.

All right.

What do we have?

We have we have like a minute and a half left.

We wanted to end on one big one here.

Do we have time for two, two quick ones?

What do you want to do?

Headlines from Epom's world.

All right, I'll read off a couple of headlines.

All right.

Delta passengers forced to hold up plane ceiling mid-flight.

Delta passengers forced to hold up plane ceiling mid-flight.

And this is not the one that flipped over, I assume.

No, it's like the ceiling under the cargo where you put your bags is falling.

And a bunch of people just have to hold it above their heads.

Otherwise, it's going to crush them.

During the flight?

During the flight.

Wow.

Which is bad.

He's not

doing so well

right now.

No.

All right.

A man on Tik Tok or Instagram was arrested for cleaning his elderly neighbor's yard for free.

Long story short, a woman had an overgrown yard and a guy who, you know, cleans yards for free and post about it, decided to go and, you know, offer her this free service.

While he was cleaning it, local police stopped him because technically her yard is too big to.

And there were some stipulations about how she had to hire government contractors to do the job.

And she didn't want to hire someone to do the job.

So he came to do it for free.

And they said, you couldn't do it.

They kicked him out the first time he came.

And then he came back to finish it.

And they arrested him.

Where

is this at?

Do we know?

Let me double check.

Good

gosh.

A good Samaritan tries to help a woman clean up her yard and gets arrested.

Yeah.

See,

this is what's wrong with America today, or at least wherever this happened at.

Well, we'll figure it out.

People can go to Epom's World

to

find out.

There is the teaser.

Go ahead and look up the headline.

Peter Rapine, you always make us feel better.

Thanks for hanging out with us.

Have a great weekend, my friend.

Thanks, Todd.

Always a pleasure.

Peter Apein of E-POM's World.

Thank you, Zommerers.

Thank you, Matt Flynn, Brandon Ewing, everybody else.

Stay tuned, Maggie Dawn is next.

Whatever you're fighting for, whatever you believe in, do not give up.

Keep banging your drum.

We'll see

you on Monday.

Bye-bye.

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