Well, yes.

Right? So I went, all right, well, this will work.

This is a real story.

And it's got all this backstory, which I told him in the car, although we seemed to glaze over.

But the bottom line is, it's awful.

David Zasloff was right.

It's terrible.

can get it via Prime.

But I'm just curious, number one, your thoughts on Howard Stern, where he is now versus where he started, and whether or not this HBO show matters to anybody under 112 years old.

All right, people should understand.

For many years, we were on at the same time, and so we were competing, technically competing with him.

Howard Stern is the greatest that ever did what we did.

You understand? We're all playing for second place.

Let's get that straight.

He created a daily dialogue in America.

Tell me about Steven Singer.

Realistically, a lot of people don't.

Well, I'm so glad we referenced the Wing Bowl documentary, which is available now on Amazon for $4.99. You can buy it for $5.99, and it is fantastic.

But here's the thing.

I learned a lot about documentaries by being inside the production of that thing.

And I wasn't a producer.

I was just watching the way they did it.

It all came down to... what did they have the best video of? See, it's optical.

And, Angelo, one of my favorite memes is a picture of Dolly Parton from the late 70s, early 80s going, what did Jolene look like that this woman was afraid that Jolene was going to take her man?

It was so

bad that when they played against the Patriots, they got more yards in the first drive than they did in the whole freaking game the previous week.

But I liked what you had to say about Vrabel, although I got to say this about Vrabel.

I had the game on on Saturday night, and my daughter Caitlin came in, and she looked up and saw Vrabel, and she went, oh, is that the guy who cheated with the NFL reporter? Yeah.

And I went, oh, Mike, that's his calling card now? Poor guy? Meanwhile, on the other sideline, you had Sirianni.

Same crap New Year.

Nothing's different.

Mobile data speeds reduced after 20 gigs.

It

was so bad that when they played against the Patriots, they got more yards in the first drive than they did in the whole frigging game the previous week.

But I liked what you had to say about Vrabel, although I got to say this about Vrabel.

I had the game on on Saturday night, and my daughter Caitlin came in, and she looked up and saw Vrabel, and she went, oh, is that the guy who cheated with the NFL reporter? And I went, oh, Mike, that's his calling card now? Poor guy? Meanwhile, on the other sideline, you had Sirianni.

Same crap New Year.

Nothing's different.

Nothing's ever going to be different.

I hope that's not a precursor of how their coaching hurts.

Yeah.

It's lazy.

It's cliche.

He's playing the same character.

It's so predictable.

Uh, you could watch five minutes of it and know exactly what's gonna happen for the next five hours.

It's just awful.

Yeah.

to see Spider-Man?

I'm glad you asked me because I have a prepared statement I would like to make about the phenomenon of Spider-Man.

There's my statement.

That's my grandson.

That's little Dutchie.

I got that this morning.

They have Spider-Man mania, whatever you want to call it.

lot of money.

How did you land on this pod here, Angelo?

Well, I've been watching what's going on, and I've got another block coming out probably tomorrow on an amazing scenario that played out from somebody who went to a journalism school.

Five weeks ago, Dan, the Eagles gathered together the media and rolled out Nick Sirianni to discuss training camp.

And they all agreed to embargo his quotes for over a month.

In other words, he said this stuff in mid-June, and it came out a few days ago.

And you go, well, wow, this is a powder keg.

And then you look at what he said, and it's just a long string of bullshit.

Five grand.

That's right.

Well now, very soon, that will be secondary because all the Sirius stations are gonna lose p- uh, ratings points because those people listening on the satellite will now be counted as people actually listen to the show.

It's outrageous, all right? Because those people all got screwed.

And why did it happen? Because radio now is so squeezed for advertising money, so much of it now has gone to podcasts and other places all over the internet, that they're cashing any check they can get.

Audacy, let me give you the best example.

Audacy last year, we created one of the greatest traditions in radio promotion history, Wing Bowl.

50 s- uh, 26 years we did it.

Yep.

It has done... 400 million dollars worldwide and they asked him they said what what should we know about gen z and he said we're tired of slop and we want good original movies back and the question angelo our audience is finally catching up to your viewpoint that we need good stories well told you understand that um The audience

always decides in the end because there's box office.

If a movie's a hit, if somebody's put all their money into a movie or they make money, everybody's thrilled and they want to make more like that.

And when people stop going, they stop doing it.

So we can bitch on this podcast every day, every time we do one that the movies are all explosives, pyrotechnics, all that crap.

The people have finally decided.

They were done with superheroes.

It's him?

In 2026, will Nick Sirianni have enough patience to stay out of Daniel's way where he got in the way of these other guys?

That's a great question because he may be coaching for his job.

See, that's the problem.

Now, the bigger issue of Roseman and Lurie not wanting to bring in a guy that we know is a proven terrific head coach.

a guy who makes his own decisions, can coach an offense if you need him to, is not a fool on the sideline, can handle a news conference without sounding like a boob, all those things.

In my estimation, that's the fatal flaw of what we see at the Eagles who have won two championships.

They have an organization that refuses to bring someone who will push back on anything they think.

positive

Generally, very positive in every way.

He answers questions honestly.

That's important to me as a person in the media.

He makes moves on the bench that make sense to me.

He did something last week that sent alarms off, though.

I'll be honest with you.

He's got Wheeler out there.

sport?

So let's talk about your review and then talk about where Spielberg's place is.

Toy Story won the week with big, big numbers.

312 million worldwide, which is mind-boggling.

Disclosure Day went down 62% from its first weekend, which is really bad.

What I said, I will try to recap what I said to Jay because I don't often praise him.

And this happened a full week ago.

But I remember it because I came out of Disclosure and I said, Jay, that was a terrific review you gave of that film.

great.

[laughs]

...

when you go, man, a lot of guys are there to buy an engagement gift, something that...

And we go there, "Oh, that's g- that's a beautiful gem.

What is the quality of that gem?" At that moment, the jeweler's in control.

He could tell you whatever he wants, and you're probably gonna believe him 'cause you don't know enough.

That is why when you go to a jewelry store, you need to have confidence that the people that are running that store are gonna be honest with you.

Oh, yeah

so is that more of a reflection in your opinion on the organization believing that they think that they're more accountable for the wins on this team by putting these incompetent people around him or these lesser experienced people around him do you think that's more of their ego going hey we got this we're good let's put another guy who's never called plays around a guy

Well, yeah, that's a big part of it.

I just finished the mega article by Jeff McClain about Julian Lurie.

Yes, that was nice.

Which was very close to being a love letter.

It was almost like a love letter to the young man, this brilliant Harvard grad.

Look, I got grandkids now that would love to get into an Ivy League school, right? I think I know how I can do it.

Yeah.

so is that more of a reflection in your opinion on the organization believing that they think that they're more accountable for the wins on this team by putting these incompetent people around him or these lesser experienced people around him do you think that's more of their ego going hey we got this we're good let's put another guy who's never called plays around a guy

Well, yeah, that's a big part of it.

I just finished the mega article by Jeff McClain about Julian Lurie.

Yes, that was nice.

Which was very close to being a love letter.

It was almost like a love letter to the young man, this brilliant Harvard grad.

Look, I got grandkids now that would love to get into an Ivy League school, right? I think I know how I can do it.

Yeah.

Yes

...

Singer.

Wow.

Let's talk about Steven.

H- here's the thing.

It's about vision, all right? And, um, I a- I w- would ask Steven all the time when, when I was at WRIP, I would say, "Steven, why do you put together the marketing campaign? Why don't you hire a marketing company to do it? It- you're a jewelry store owner, you're not a marketer." And he went, "Oh, I am a marketer.

They haven't bought it yet, so well worth your time.

Yes

... last night.

We're doing this on Wednesday.

We're taping this on Wednesday.

On Tuesday night of this week, he was fired, I guess for insubordination because he attended a meeting with the brand-new boss under Barry Weiss, a guy named Nick Bilton.

Right? Now, you should know this about Barry Weiss, who is in full charge of 60 Minutes, and Nick Bilton, who has no broadcast experience whatsoever.

They are both hacks.

Yeah.

You

think Mannion will go, I'll be honest with you, if I knew we weren't going to have Brown, I wouldn't have taken this job.

You think you'd get that? You won't.

You'd get Sirianni to go, man, now that Brown's out of there, we expect a much more harmonious clubhouse.

We're going to have everybody pulling in the same direction now.

Those would be honest responses.

If they didn't feel that way, they wouldn't have gotten rid of Brown, right? So yeah, you'll never get it.

No. They're not

Right.

And the final show was just ha- They did this stupid special effect with a green hole and, uh, g- getting sucked into it, and it was, uh, it was all awful right to the...

The only guy that got any time to talk was Paul McCartney, and he had a great angle.

Paul McCartney was, went to the same i- i- studio to do Ed Sullivan in the, at the very beginning of Beatlemania.

He asked him one question about...

He could have done the whole 10 minutes just talking about what it was like to come to America in 1964 and take over the world.

One question out of it.

Yeah.

Yeah

... or whatever it is.

You need the honesty of the person you're buying it from.

You need them to tell you, "This is the value of it." And that to me, all the things we've said about Steven Singer, the way he runs his jewelry business, that is the reason he is a success story, because people feel comfortable when they go across that threshold into a store that they're gonna be treated fairly and that they're gonna get the honest truth about what they're buying.

And nobody, nobody knows that better than my good friend Rhea.

Yeah.

Anyway.

Yeah.

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... every five minutes, right? You don't have to promote to them.

If you say Marvel, they'll show up.This showed you the value of promoting the way they once did, you know, 20 years ago, where just a regular movie would come out and you'd see all these people, you know, presenting the reason why it was great, the, the stars of it.

And that's what you saw.

This is, uh, an outlier, Jay.

This is not the indication of a trend.

What do you got for us?

Well, I, I will say the best thing I saw, I am awaiting the review of Miss Ria Yus 'cause she is an expert on European television.