PHLY Philadelphia Eagles Podcast - Three Non-Eagles Takes to Start Your Week | PHLY Eagles Podcast

Episode Date: March 16, 2026

Bo Wulf and EJ Smith unload some non-Eagles topics that have been bugging them this weekend. How can the World Baseball Classic be better? What silly drama is happening in the Premier League? What was missing from the 2026 Oscars? Step into the non-football side of their minds! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Hello audio listeners. Happy Monday to you. This isn't sexy, Beau. This is a... Hello audio listeners. I was it. It's like Monday morning, Bell. Charlie Kohler.

They don't know what that means. I don't think they get the premise of you doing that. You don't think that the people who subscribe to our audio feed, who are getting this shoved down their throats as extra content, are aware of your fascination and the show's fascination with Charlie Kohler? The fact that you're doing it, ASMR style. Well, if they've listened to one of these before,

they understand it. That you try to put on. Treat your audience with respect. It's our audience. Yeah. Don't treat them like their... Bro to a blazing start here. All right.

You have a couple of things you've just been itching to get off your chest. Yeah, I thought a fun conceit for this would be to, you know, we both have things that we probably feel strongly about over the weekend. Non-eagles related. I've got at least two. I've got one. Okay.

First one for. for me is actually a sports take. They're both sports takes. We need Robooms on the World Baseball Classic Pronto. I spent like three and a half hours watching that game last night. Really enjoyed it. Unbelievable that it ended that. It was so stupid.

It was such a great game. You know, like the quality on both teams, you know, like guys are doing cool things. For it to end with like just terrible strikes and balls. Not even close. It's just like, yeah. I feel like it invalidates the whole game, you know? Like not invalidates and like the result is now tainted, but just like it would have been nice to have the game not go down to like an umpire making a bad call, you know? Yeah, this is a very tepid take.

Yeah, I'm not coming here. I didn't say it was a hot take. I just, I'm disappointed. I needed to express my disappointment. Okay. Yeah, that sucked. Everybody thinks that sucked. It's terrible.

Yeah. Okay. And there was a bad call in the eighth inning too. Yeah. No, there were several bad calls. I, it was a great game. I wish that I didn't. I wish I could not have it.

I mean, it was to the point that it was as if Rob Manfred had orchestrated the whole thing as viral marketing for ABS. Well, you know, it is like in soccer, I think they try to make sure that the nationalities for the referees aren't the same as the country's playing. Yeah. Maybe that's something for them to consider.

Also, they should have done better with the name. I mean, it's either abs, which, okay, I guess that's fine. But, I mean, ABS sounds like I mean, it's anti- Awesome bowel syndrome. It sounds like a braking system. I think that's what it is in your car.

Yeah. Terrible. Yeah. Come up with something better. Agreed. Totally agreed. It was a good game though. What do you got to get off your chest?

No. What's your other one? This is soccer related. Okay. So like maybe 20% of our listeners will know what I'm talking about. Okay. So have you seen, I wonder if you've seen it. Chelsea players now, they do this thing where they huddle around the ball.

Do you see the pictures? No. Of the Chelsea players huddle around the ball and then the referee is in the middle. No. So Chelsea started this. against Aston Villa to my knowledge, which is why I'm so worked up about it. Before the game, before the other team kicks off, they huddle around the ball, and they don't let anybody, you know, get to the ball. So it's definitely like a power play. It's like,

you know, like they're trying to get in your head, trying to assert dominance over the field. Stepping on the star. Yeah, but it's like, whatever. That's annoying, but whatever. But their manager came out after the game and was upset that the ref wouldn't, like, concede the space so that they could do this thing that's stupid and probably against the rules. That's silly. And his argument was, my players decided to do this on their own and they wanted to do it as a way to show respect to the ball. And like, that really bothers me because like, you know, our listeners will know, I hate

an intellectual dishonesty. And that is intellectual dishonesty at its peak. If you're going to do it, stand on it. Be like, we want to assert our dominance on the ball, on the field. We want to show the opponent what we're about. he's like we want to show respect to the ball what does it even mean bring the ball a gift yeah

yeah how about you show respect to the ball like shine its shoes yeah it means it means nothing to show respect to the ball by huddling around the ball it just I've been worked up about this all weekend as you can tell you need some hobbies these are my hobbies

these are my hobbies unfortunately okay uh here's my take the in-memorium segment from the Oscars. Yeah, I knew you'd have Oscars stuff. It is. I thought they did a great job with the Reiner part. Crystal comes out.

They, you know, the full scope of his career, and then the curtain opens, and it's all these different people from all of his different movies. That was great. That hit very well. There's a butt coming. A little tears, yeah. And this was a tough year. Some really big losses.

So they do three breakouts. Okay. So they start with Reiner. do a little montage. Then they do Diane Keaton, and it's Rachel McAdams, you know, going on Diane Keaton. And that was good, not bad. I like a Rachel McAdams.

But that means they don't do one for Catherine O'Hara. I think we could have had a little extra time. Maybe you get Culkin out there. Yeah, that surprises me. A little Herald thing. And then they do another little montage. And then they get to Robert Redford. Now, first, that means that they don't do a breakout for Robert Duval.

and that is Robert Duval he should have been on that level that's disappointing frantically Googling those people but I know what Robert Duval is Robert Redford I mean movie star of all movie stars one of the most handsome men who's ever lived big Robert Redford fan

and the whole thing just becomes Barbara Streisand navel gazing talking about only herself to set up her singing I'm sorry like we get to whole we get the whole scope of Rob Reiner, but we are, like, diminishing the, the entire scope of Robert Redford's career to just one movie with Barberstrysand?

Yeah, but to say, I know who he is. She thinks that's funny. She doesn't realize that it's what everybody calls her. Very bizarre. That is weird. I know who Robert Redford is. So therefore, I feel like he deserved a better eulogy. I didn't watch the Oscars.

I didn't even. Good job. Is it how bad on a scale of one to 10, how much of a red flag is it that I didn't know the Oscars were last? Well, it's a red flag because I said it on the emergency podcast yesterday. That's when I found out. No, that's what I knew.

If it means you weren't listening, and that's a red flag. No, no, no, no. You're telling me on the emergency. If you don't care about it, it's fine. Yeah. I just, I'm not a big movie guy as we've established, but I know Robert Redford, RIP.

Yeah. There you go. All right, three takes for your audio feed that could not have happened in Bovertime. Oh, I wasn't going to be able to go after Liam rescindia like that and on the show. This is audio. only. This is a deep cut. That's the thing that the

people on audio don't know is that neither of us is wearing any clothes. Back tomorrow at 2 o'clock on P.H.O.I. Thanks for listening.