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LeBron James Uncertain Future with Lakers, Malik Beasley Scandal, Ace Bailey to Jazz · The Right Time with Bomani Jones

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  Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the right time. A wave original.
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  Speaker 1: My name is Bomani Jones. Thanks for listening wherever you
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  Speaker 1: We got a lot to get into. One of these
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  Speaker 1: fools allegedly done got caught up with the gambling again.
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  Speaker 1: LeBron's doing LeBron-y things, but I need to start with
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  Speaker 1: A couple of the funniest things I saw this weekend,
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  Speaker 1: and both of them are related to the same story.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, it may be three of the funniest things. OK,
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  Speaker 1: they all have to do with this Ace Bailey situation.
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  Speaker 1: I understand that I've talked about Ace Bailey a great
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  Speaker 1: deal on this show. I've talked about Ace Bailey as
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  Speaker 1: a draft pick far more than I ever talked about
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  Speaker 1: Ace Bailey as an actual factual basketball player. I get that.
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  Speaker 1: But OK. I want us to walk through these steps
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  Speaker 1: because I had a lot of people who hit me
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  Speaker 1: on the low asking how I felt about this, that,
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  Speaker 1: and the third. People love to give free shows, right?
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  Speaker 1: So we all saw it. Ace Bailey got drafted fifth
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  Speaker 1: by the Utah Jazz. And, of course, it's made all
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  Speaker 1: the funnier by the fact that it is the Utah Jazz, okay?
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  Speaker 1: And it seemed fairly clear that Ace Bailey did not
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  Speaker 1: want to go play for the Utah Jazz, though I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to be perfectly honest. I have no idea what
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  Speaker 1: Ace Bailey himself actually wanted, right? Maybe he felt about
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  Speaker 1: Utah the way that Derek Fisher felt about Utah. And
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  Speaker 1: if you are unfamiliar, you can go look up when
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  Speaker 1: Derek Fisher played. I think he was playing for the
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  Speaker 1: Mavericks again, and the Mavericks were terrible players. And there
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  Speaker 1: was a word going out that he could be traded
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  Speaker 1: to the Utah Jazz. And people were a little mad
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  Speaker 1: at him because he did not go because the Jazz
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  Speaker 1: had a chance to win a championship. And he was like, nah,
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  Speaker 1: I got nothing wrong with Utah. But if you like
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  Speaker 1: Utah so much, you go live in Utah.
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  Speaker 2: Right?
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  Speaker 1: Like, it's the spot that people say that nobody wants
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  Speaker 1: to go live. Now, everybody understands why.
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  Speaker 2: Okay?
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  Speaker 1: I don't think that the Utah... What they call Ryan
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  Speaker 1: the Mammoth. Is that what they call their hockey team?
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  Speaker 1: The Mammoth or the Mammoths?
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  Speaker 3: I believe they're just like the Utah Hockey Club.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: They got a name now. They got a name now.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: So I believe they are now the Mammoth. Like the
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  Speaker 1: NHL has gone full science fiction. We got the Kraken.
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  Speaker 1: We got the Mammoth. We already had the Predators.
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  Speaker 3: It is the Utah Mammoth.
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  Speaker 1: Mammoth.
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  Speaker 3: Not multiple Mammoth. Singular mammoth.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. Singular mammoth. Or is mammoth. It's a moose situation. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Got you. Got you. You're right. Two mooses is moose.
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  Speaker 1: They're not meese.
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  Speaker 5: Correct.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway. You know, you talk about, first of all, the man,
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  Speaker 1: the boy calls himself Ace, right? Arius Ace Bailey living
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  Speaker 1: in Utah.
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  Speaker 2: Eh!
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  Speaker 1: You know, we can understand why he would not want
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  Speaker 1: to go there, but it is obvious that it is
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  Speaker 1: a gentleman named Omar Cooper who is running the show
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  Speaker 1: for him. Now, Omar Cooper had a son or has
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  Speaker 1: a son named Sharif. And Sharif went to McEachern High
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  Speaker 1: School right outside of Atlanta, which is also where Ace
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  Speaker 1: Bailey went to high school. There's a four year gap
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  Speaker 1: between the two guys, but I'm going to take that
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  Speaker 1: as an indication of how exactly it is that they
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  Speaker 1: came across each other. And the other part is Mr. Cooper.
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  Speaker 1: appears to have a fairly lengthy rap sheet, or at
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  Speaker 1: the very least, a rap sheet a little lengthier than
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  Speaker 1: one would prefer, generally speaking, if they were interviewing agents. Now,
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  Speaker 1: to me, I will say that having that rap sheet
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  Speaker 1: is actually not really a disqualifying factor. I've talked about
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  Speaker 1: this on this show many times, my feelings about agents,
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  Speaker 1: which is it is a very interesting job in the
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  Speaker 1: sense that Anybody can do it. But not everybody can
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  Speaker 1: do it. Okay?
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  Speaker 6: Right?
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  Speaker 1: Like, the game that you need to be an agent
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  Speaker 1: is not really game that you're going to get in school.
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  Speaker 1: It is.
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  Speaker 1: To me, it seems to be a very intuitive sort
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  Speaker 1: of skill to understand what other people can and cannot
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  Speaker 1: do or are not willing to do. Right. Figuring out
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  Speaker 1: their incentives and stuff like that, while also in this
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  Speaker 1: is the big one, having the stomach to truck through discomfort. Right.
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  Speaker 1: The ability to look a motherfucker in the eye and
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  Speaker 1: be like, no, that's what we about to do. And,
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  Speaker 1: you know, that's what we about to do.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 1: Some of the job is finesse. But another part of
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  Speaker 1: it is just the ability to sit in the discomfort.
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  Speaker 1: And if you can sit in the discomfort longer, you're
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  Speaker 1: going to win. Rich Paul is a great example. One
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  Speaker 1: thing that Rich Paul is really good at is waiting
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  Speaker 1: until the very end of something. You're not going to
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  Speaker 1: rush him. We saw that in various negotiations that he
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  Speaker 1: has done. Tristan Thompson with the Cleveland Cavaliers about 11
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  Speaker 1: years ago or 10 years ago was maybe the most
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  Speaker 1: notorious of that. But he'll sit there and we'll two
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  Speaker 1: days before camp. OK, we ain't got no deal. We
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  Speaker 1: just go sit in it.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: So, yeah, a dude that used to do some things,
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  Speaker 1: I think might have the proper temperament to handle a
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  Speaker 1: big part of the job of being an agent. My
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  Speaker 1: concern with the dude is I don't really know what association,
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  Speaker 1: attachment or whatever it is that he has with Ace
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  Speaker 1: Bailey and how much he actually cares about the dude.
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  Speaker 1: And the reason I bring that up, and this is
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  Speaker 1: like one of the funnier things that I saw over
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  Speaker 1: the weekend. I saw a picture. where Ace Bailey was
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  Speaker 1: up there in East Orange, New Jersey, taking a picture
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  Speaker 1: by a concrete basketball court with Vin Rock from Naughty
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  Speaker 1: by Nature. Now, you may be wondering, the fuck is
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  Speaker 1: Ace Bailey doing in East Orange, New Jersey? That's what
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  Speaker 1: I was wondering. It turns out that the Cooper fella
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  Speaker 1: is from East Orange, and it sounds like Ace was
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  Speaker 1: there doing him a solid. And that's where I'm like, bruh,
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  Speaker 1: he's supposed to be in Utah right now. Like, he
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  Speaker 1: was supposed to have gone with his team. And maybe
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  Speaker 1: he'd still be in Utah, but he hadn't been in Utah,
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  Speaker 1: but he had been in East Orange, New Jersey.
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  Speaker 2: And.
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  Speaker 1: The way I look at that and the way that
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  Speaker 1: I view that with him being there is that is
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  Speaker 1: the player serving the interests of the agent and it
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  Speaker 1: should never be that. It's not how this works. This
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  Speaker 1: is not a I do for you, you do for
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  Speaker 1: me relationship. This is a you do for me and
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  Speaker 1: I pay you a percentage relationship. That's how that's supposed
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  Speaker 1: to work. So when I look at that, I'm like, oh, OK,
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  Speaker 1: I don't really understand exactly what this cat is in
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  Speaker 1: it for, because he could have been all those other things.
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  Speaker 1: Do you watch boxing? You know what I'm saying? Lots
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  Speaker 1: of people do lots of business in boxing while also
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  Speaker 1: have a criminal past. Now, granted, a lot of them
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  Speaker 1: also steal, but. He could be fully capable of doing
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  Speaker 1: his job, having the other stuff. But what it can't
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  Speaker 1: be is the 19, 20 year old is serving whatever
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  Speaker 1: it is that you say you need. It can't be that.
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  Speaker 1: And then I saw the picture on the video that
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  Speaker 1: people put up on the Internet of the dude. Right.
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  Speaker 1: And let's just say he don't look like nobody that
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  Speaker 1: got no LinkedIn page. Right. He just doesn't seem like
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  Speaker 1: the person he's supposed to be. But next thing I know,
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  Speaker 1: the next funny thing I saw on the Internet. I
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  Speaker 1: look up. And it's a white man on front office
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  Speaker 1: sports who now claims to be Aces representation. I've heard
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  Speaker 1: some things about how this white man got here. I
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  Speaker 1: don't fully understand it. I don't know who made whatever call,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm a little ashamed to admit this, but I
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  Speaker 1: was kind of relieved when I saw that white man
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  Speaker 1: on screen. I was like, oh, okay, maybe things are
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  Speaker 1: going to start calming down just a little bit, right?
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  Speaker 1: And so the white man was up there, and he
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  Speaker 1: started talking about how Ace is very happy to go
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  Speaker 1: to the Utah Jazz. He talked about the Cooper fella,
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  Speaker 1: and he was very nice, and he was very kind
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  Speaker 1: about that, but, like, I think I wasn't so much
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  Speaker 1: relieved at seeing a white man because I thought a
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  Speaker 1: white man could do better. But I did feel like
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  Speaker 1: the Utah Jazz would perhaps deal with this a little
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  Speaker 1: bit better and it might make things a little smoother.
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  Speaker 1: It sounded like they was moving in the path to
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  Speaker 1: getting ace to go to Utah. OK, and he had
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  Speaker 1: to go to Utah. And the thing I don't think
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  Speaker 1: that people understand here and what I don't think Cooper
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  Speaker 1: understood here was that. If you're going to try to
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  Speaker 1: pull off, I'm not going to the place that drafted me,
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  Speaker 1: a la Eli Manning, a la John Elway. You got
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  Speaker 1: to have a couple of things at play here. Number one,
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  Speaker 1: you have to have another team that wants you. Number two,
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  Speaker 1: you have to have an agent who can finesse it.
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  Speaker 1: And so I had seen a report or seen somebody
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  Speaker 1: make the point that apparently what happened was Charlotte wanted
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  Speaker 1: to take Kyle Knipple, right? They wound up taking him
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  Speaker 1: at four, but they wanted Knipple to take him. The
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  Speaker 1: Wizards wanted Ace Bailey. They were at six. They were
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  Speaker 1: willing to trade up to four in order to get Ace.
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  Speaker 1: But then Danny Ains sitting at five said, well, if
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  Speaker 1: you do that, I'm just going to take Knipple. And
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  Speaker 1: so the Hornets did not make the trade. You see
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  Speaker 1: what I'm saying? That's the game that needed to be played.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody needed to figure out how to massage all these things.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't have an agent that was capable of pulling
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  Speaker 1: that off, right? And then in the end, it's a draft, man.
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  Speaker 1: And so as much as I hate the draft and
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  Speaker 1: I'm an opponent of the draft, this is what the
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  Speaker 1: draft is. This is how the draft works. You can't
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  Speaker 1: have everything that you want out of the situation, right?
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  Speaker 1: You got to figure out a way to make it happen.
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  Speaker 1: His guy did not have the tools in order to
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  Speaker 1: make it happen. And then once it didn't happen, you
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  Speaker 1: just needed to be like, all right, well, I guess
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to Utah. And by all the way in,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to Utah. Okay. And eventually at some point,
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  Speaker 1: Ace Bailey did buy in on going to Utah. And Ryan,
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  Speaker 1: I know he bought in on going to Utah because
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  Speaker 1: he went to the press conference. And I don't know
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  Speaker 1: who they put in charge. But the funniest thing I
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  Speaker 1: heard about this weekend is Ace Bailey showed up at
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  Speaker 1: that press conference with his dog wearing a Utah Jazz bandana.
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  Speaker 3: It's a pro move. If you want to ingratiate yourself,
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  Speaker 3: that's just a slow clap.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: If you want to end all controversy real quick, show up.
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  Speaker 3: That's almost better than showing up with your kid after
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  Speaker 3: a game where you don't do well. Showing up preemptively
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  Speaker 3: with the dog.
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  Speaker 1: With the dog. Let me tell you whose idea that
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  Speaker 1: was not. That was not Omar Cooper's idea. I'm here
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  Speaker 1: to tell you right now, somebody else is running this operation.
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  Speaker 1: And shout out to whoever that was. Everything's okay, Ace. Everything,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you had a little bump in the road there.
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  Speaker 1: You might need to show up with the dog everywhere
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  Speaker 1: you go for quite a while. But for right now.
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  Speaker 3: And we still train camp.
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  Speaker 1: That's right. Great job, though. That was an amazing move.
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  Speaker 1: But in the end, you can't always get what you want.
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  Speaker 1: It's what we're talking about here, right? That is what
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  Speaker 1: Bailey learned there. I didn't care that he didn't want
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  Speaker 1: to go to the team that drafted him, right? I
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  Speaker 1: wasn't offended that he didn't try to get out of it.
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  Speaker 1: He was just making terrible decisions. Whoever was in charge,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't think he was making any of those decisions,
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  Speaker 1: but they were making terrible decisions, right? Now, I actually
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  Speaker 1: say all that to lead into a discussion about somebody
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  Speaker 1: else and that somebody else is LeBron James. LeBron James
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  Speaker 1: had a player option in his deal for $ 52 million.
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  Speaker 1: LeBron opted in on the $ 52 million, but then after
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  Speaker 1: opting in on the $ 52 million, Rich Paul put out
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  Speaker 1: a statement that I think we'd all agree it was
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  Speaker 1: a little, huh? LeBron wants to compete for a championship.
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  Speaker 1: He knows the Lakers are building for the future. He
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  Speaker 1: understands that, but he values a realistic chance of winning
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  Speaker 1: it all. We are very appreciative of the partnership that
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  Speaker 1: we've had for eight years with Jeannie and Rob and
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  Speaker 1: consider the Lakers as a critical part of his career.
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  Speaker 1: We understand the difficulty in winning now while preparing for
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  Speaker 1: the future. We do want to evaluate what's best for
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  Speaker 1: LeBron at this stage in his life and career. He
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  Speaker 1: wants to make every season he has left count, and
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  Speaker 1: the Lakers understand that, are supportive, and want what's best
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  Speaker 1: for him. Ryan, did he just opt in and ask
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  Speaker 1: for a trade at the same time?
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  Speaker 3: It certainly feels... It certainly... These sorts of statements from
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  Speaker 3: Rich Paul, as someone who's... We've followed the LeBron saga
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  Speaker 3: now for two decades, certainly the unhappiness saga for over
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  Speaker 3: a decade and a half. This usually comes right in
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  Speaker 3: the middle of the season, not going into the year.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and so... This is tough for me. And I
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  Speaker 1: can only imagine how tough it is for LeBron. And
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  Speaker 1: quite honestly, I can only imagine how tough it is
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  Speaker 1: for Rich Paul. Because let's be clear, they are not
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  Speaker 1: a team, okay? Rich Paul plays for LeBron. LeBron tells
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  Speaker 1: Rich Paul what to do. And this appears to be
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  Speaker 1: what Rich Paul was told to do. Because Rich is bright.
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  Speaker 1: And Rich has to know he has a losing proposition here.
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  Speaker 1: And when I say he has a losing proposition here,
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  Speaker 1: this is what I mean. LeBron took less than the
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  Speaker 1: max in Miami to facilitate winning and got absolutely no
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  Speaker 1: credit for it from none of y'all. He took the
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  Speaker 1: less than the max and got no credit for it.
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  Speaker 1: He is a man who in truth in his career
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  Speaker 1: has probably been underpaid by something in the neighborhood of
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  Speaker 1: a billion dollars. If not more. I don't I don't
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  Speaker 1: I don't really have much of a doubt of that.
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  Speaker 1: I think LeBron has probably been worth over 100 million
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  Speaker 1: dollars in his league every year. that he has played, right?
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  Speaker 1: Like he has been drastically underpaid. He will never take
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  Speaker 1: a penny less than the max ever again. And he
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  Speaker 1: ain't got to explain that to me. He ain't got
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  Speaker 1: to apologize for it to me, right? He wants his bread.
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  Speaker 1: This league owes him his bread. And keep in mind,
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  Speaker 1: this is the man that got Spotify with the advertisements
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  Speaker 1: in it, okay? He's serious about his money. Problem is,
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  Speaker 1: in the year of our Lord, 2025, you cannot win
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  Speaker 1: a championship paying LeBron James $ 50 million a year. The
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  Speaker 1: reason you can't win a championship paying LeBron $ 50 million
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  Speaker 1: a year is I don't think that you can win
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  Speaker 1: a championship in this league when your second best player
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  Speaker 1: makes $ 50 million a year. I don't think you can
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  Speaker 1: win a championship with LeBron as your best player, meaning
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  Speaker 1: he can be at best your second best player. But
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  Speaker 1: you can't win a championship with your second best player
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  Speaker 1: making $ 50 million a year. It's a no-win proposition in
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  Speaker 1: a way where I don't really understand what he's going for,
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  Speaker 1: where he's trying to work himself into, what exactly it
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  Speaker 1: is that he is trying to engineer. I don't get it.
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  Speaker 1: And what I say is you can't get everything that
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  Speaker 1: you want out of this situation it's not going to
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  Speaker 1: happen and so for him it becomes a matter of
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  Speaker 1: what to prioritize well they already took the 50 right
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  Speaker 1: so we're already there with him on the 50 i
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  Speaker 1: think he and the lakers are stuck with each other
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  Speaker 1: i don't think either of them can truly afford to
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  Speaker 1: move on what i mean when i say that or
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  Speaker 1: why i say that genie buss finds it to be
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  Speaker 1: very important that the Lakers are viewed as a franchise
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  Speaker 1: that takes care of its stars. OK, we first really
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  Speaker 1: got a glimpse into this in the way that they
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  Speaker 1: humbled themselves trying to keep Dwight Howard in 2013 with
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  Speaker 1: billboards and everything else, even though he wound up leaving.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 1: They tried. They gave it a go. OK, we all
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  Speaker 1: know what the problem was there. But, you know, you
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  Speaker 1: got to be careful with the things we say about this.
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  Speaker 1: So they wanted to keep Dwight because that's what they do. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: They got LeBron. LeBron has been there now for seven years,
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  Speaker 1: not the eighth that Rich Paul said, which I found
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  Speaker 1: to be interesting because Rich Paul knows how many years
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  Speaker 1: it's been.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: It'll be eight at the end of this year. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know exactly how that mistake got made or whether
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: he was already looking into the future, but you're not
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  Speaker 1: going to tell me he doesn't know exactly how many
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  Speaker 1: years LeBron has been there. But that's the longest continuous
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  Speaker 1: stretch LeBron has been anywhere in his career. It's tied
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  Speaker 1: with the first run in Cleveland. That was a seven-year run, okay?
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  Speaker 1: So Genie wants to keep LeBron, but they have already
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  Speaker 1: invested in the Luka era, okay? That's the future. They've
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  Speaker 1: made that call. He is the next star, okay? But
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: the Lakers can't say we're not going to re-sign LeBron James.
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: That is counter to what they do. I don't think
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: that they're in the, well, we're going to trade LeBron James. Ooh, ooh.
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: I don't really think that one's in the cards either
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: for a player of that caliber. That runs counter to
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: the brand that they are trying to build. On the
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: other hand, LeBron James clearly wanted to be a Laker.
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: One of the big things that we heard when he
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: went there was he wanted to be part of one
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: of the bigger, established, iconic brands of the sport. One
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: of the great franchises. He wanted to have that anchor. Plus,
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: He wants to be a Hollywood player. Now, business for
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: Spring Hill is a little bit different. They got bought
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: out by somebody, right? So that game has gone a
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: little bit different, but he wants to be a guy
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: in LA, right? There was even to the point where
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: he wasn't like the thought of him being like an
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: action star. Like we've seen him in the movies, all
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: that thing, but A player in Hollywood and a player
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: in Los Angeles is what he wanted to be. And
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: having that relationship with the Lakers helps a lot toward
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: his goal. What, you tell me LeBron going to go
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: back to Cleveland? I don't think so. In fact, I
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: think it would be silly for Cleveland to do. But
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: LeBron going back to Cleveland? Don't see it. Where is
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: he going to go just to win that championship if
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: that's what it comes down to that is truly helpful
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: for him and, again, will truly put him in a
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: position where the team can win a championship? I personally
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: don't see that on the board for him. Where I
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: think he made a mistake or where I would have
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: advised him is how he treated this relationship with the Lakers.
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: And I think that he has mismanaged it basically from
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: the very beginning. Here's why I say that. Simply being
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: on the Lakers... was not going to be enough to
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: achieve what I believe LeBron James wanted.
• 19:47
  Speaker 5: Okay?
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: To be attached to the Lakers in the way that
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: he wished to be attached to the Lakers, he needed
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: to go all in on the idea of being a Laker.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: Keeping in mind that he is the successor to Kobe
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: Bryant with the Lakers, which took on an additional magnitude
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: after Kobe passed. Kobe Bryant love the Lakers even with
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: the trade situation of 20 or 2007 and all of
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: that Kobe Bryant identified himself as a Laker fan and
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: loved being a Laker and his relationship with that fan
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: base is familial okay it is a relationship where over
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: that time they went through things they had highs they
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: had lows but the association with Kobe Bryant as sociopathic
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: as he was about the basketball stuff felt very real
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: and very warm with the franchise. LeBron, for reasons that
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: make perfect sense and are informed by his lived experience,
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: does not relate to franchises that way. I think he
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: came to relate to Cleveland, specifically because Akron and Cleveland
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: are not the same place, but he came to feel
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: that way about Cleveland and that relationship. became different after
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: they went through some phase right and then they got
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: the championship but that that was the thing for LeBron
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: there was there's a real there's a real thing there
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: with him and the people the relationship with him and
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: the Lakers has always felt transactional and that was not
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: going to get him what he wanted to be you're
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: dealing with a fan base that spent a long time
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: rooting against you because you're not Kobe Bryant And Kobe
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: never seemed to really, really, really wrap his arms around LeBron. Now,
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: LeBron will tell you that isn't the case, but I'm
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: saying from here, it didn't appear that way. And whether
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: it's the truth or not, it doesn't matter in terms
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: of application of what your relationship is going to be
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: with those people there.
• 21:49
  Speaker 6: Okay.
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: Everything needed to be, I am a Laker for life.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: I am, this will be my last stop, right? I
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: would like to win one more championship with the Lakers.
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: You could be like Will Chamberlain, who played for two
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: other franchises, but in the end was a Laker and
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: an LA guy and became that dude, right? That's what
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: I think he needed to say and he needed to do.
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: Because winning a championship is really, really, really, really, really unlikely.
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: And LeBron told us ring culture is overrated. Got it.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: Should have leaned in, I think, just on being a Laker.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: Make the transition to setting Luka Doncic up if you want,
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: all of those things. To me, that is the long-run play.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: Even if you take the 50, okay? Take the 50
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: and be like, I'm never going anywhere else. I'm staying here.
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: This is where I'm going to be. Instead, Ryan, it's
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: not like LeBron thinks he can play forever.
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: It's a wild thing because by any metric, he was
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: one of the 10 best players in the league during
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: the regular season. But everything the finals taught us were
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: that finals was won by young dudes and teams that
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: have a lot of dudes. And things you can't do
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: if you pay two players $ 50 million with the new
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: cba it's impossible.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: And even if he's a top 10 player he is
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: too old to give you lebron like lebron lebron but
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: so often right right like there's going to be yep
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: it's kind of what bruce bowen talked about man these
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: cats ain't supposed to still be playing basketball this long
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: right but it's complicated by the fact that he's so
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: good yeah but not quite that level anymore, right? But
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: he needs to say, I am a Laker. I think
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: that's the win. But all the stuff you want to get,
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: you want to be paid this much. You want to
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: have this chance at winning a championship and kind of
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: the coldness of the tone in the way that they... Nah, man,
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: you're not going to be able to get those things.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: I don't think those things are available. But I won't
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: blame him at all. Get that money if that's what
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: you want. Try to get yourself to the best chance
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: at a championship if that's what you want. Try your hardest.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: It's just not going to work. Oh, guys, guys, guys, guys.
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: I have been saying for a very long time, I
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: feel like I got a little bit too much credit
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: for saying this obvious thing and making this obvious point,
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: but We're ticking closer and closer to a big gambling scandal. Now,
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: we don't really have a big one right now, but
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: we did get word that Malik Beasley is under investigation
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: by the feds for gambling. I can only presume that
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: this news has been leaked because Beasley is a free
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: agent and somebody needs us all to understand why it
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: is that nobody's going to sign him. And it is
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: probably going to be this because it is too risky.
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: I have no idea if Beasley actually did what he
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: is accused of or being investigated for. That is a
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: better way to put it. Our guy Tom Havistrow did
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: a really interesting look at the allegations or what the
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: investigation is in. In a game that in the report
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: that Sham Sharania did for ESPN, a game that they're
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: looking at is when Milwaukee, when Beasley played there, played
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: a game at home. the Portland Trailblazers, and it was
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: an over-under bet on rebounds, and that right before the games,
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: there were a lot of bets on rebounds, right? On
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: his over-under for rebounds. But the thing is, there was
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: a huge surge of action on the under, and Beasley
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: went way over. And Haberstroh looked at the clips. It
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: was like, it does not look like he was out
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: here trying to do what they said. Like the eyeball test,
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: at the very least, did not match. Again, I have
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: no idea how this is going to turn out. But
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: Haberstroh did a really interesting look at it. And on
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: its face, it is not a slam dunk case against
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: Malik Beasley. Okay. I think thus far, the league is
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: fortunate that all the stories that we have heard about
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: are about props. OK, and I don't think the general
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: public cares about Malik Beasley running game on props like
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: him running game on how many rebounds he gets. I
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: don't think the general public cares about that. I think
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: the general public cares about point shaving and fixing games.
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: That's the concern. And so when these stories come out
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: like these, like John T. Porter, the same way, I
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: don't think anybody cares about that. I don't. I think
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: it matters within buildings that teams have to make decisions
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: about whether they're going to have those guys. But this
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: is not the stuff that threatens the integrity of the game.
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: That hasn't happened yet, but it's coming. I don't see
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: any way that anybody can think that it's not going
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: to wind up coming. And the reason I think it's
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: going to wind up coming is I think it's so
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: incredibly stupid to try to run the game that they're
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: trying to run on Malik Beasley, for example. So let's
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: say for a moment that Beasley was in on some
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: kind of fix, right? And all these people rushed and
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: put this money in on his under for rebounding. Because
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: the under is really the only part that you can
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: feel confident that you can fix, right? So let's say
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: the Beasley comes in and hits the under. Everybody puts
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: in the money on the under for rebounding. Ryan, I
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: think you've seen this also. The way that they catch
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: you is that once you have this odd betting behavior
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: this unusual amount of activity they take it off the
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: board and now they start paying attention because they're like
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: who are all these people who are these people that
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: care about malik beasley getting rebounds.
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: It's a the thing that always blows my mind about
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: these stories is you know the way they they always
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: phrase it is defrauding a gambling enterprise you know what
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: the normal way of saying that is trying to steal
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: from a casino.
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: Yes Which all of us know. Terrible idea. We've all
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: seen the movies.
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we've seen the movies. It's very difficult.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: Excuse me, sir. Why don't you come back here and
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: get your check, huh?
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: Back in this other room. The next thing you know,
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: you got your finger in a vice. Like, or, oh, no, no.
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: This is a, they're going to notice all these, who
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: the fuck is betting on Malik Beasley getting rebounds? You
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: understand what I'm saying? Like, the caliber of player that
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: gets caught up in this is the caliber of player
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: nobody bets on.
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: It's a very easy thing to catch.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: You know why it's a very easy thing to catch?
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: Because they got a whole department whose entire job is
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: catching you do these things.
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: Catching you stealing from the casino.
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: Hold on. The casino. Not the bodega. The casino. You
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: might be able to shoplift from the bodega. That's fine.
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: The Nordstrom look like Howard Hughes with the room with
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: all the screens on it. They gonna get you, right?
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: And so the caliber of player that gets caught up
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: in this is typically a guy like this. And I
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: just feel like everybody involved, why do you think you
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: can get away with this? Now, maybe you think you
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: can get away with it because you get away with
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: it once and they let you get away with it once.
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: And then they just let it keep going. And you
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: too stupid to realize that they just letting you rack
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: up a fella, right? You don't understand that that's the
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: direction that this is going in. Maybe that's it. I
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: don't know. But this is the this is the small
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: part this is only the beginning this is only the
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: beginning and the more and more it happens the more
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: it eats away at the integrity of the sport And
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: that's when this all falls apart. This is not wrestling.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: What makes this compelling is the real live drama that
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: is involved. And it is based on the sanctity of
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: what happens. And so, like I say, it's a thin line.
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: I think people can live with props. Once it takes
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: one more step. And look, I saw something, and I
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: don't understand this one. And it's a game... Now, this
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: is pretty hilarious. It's a game where Michael Beasley... I mean,
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: not Michael Beasley. Sorry, Michael Beasley. Malik Beasley scores like
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: seven points in the last minute of the game, and
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: the Timberwolves then covered. Like, they were something like eight-and-a-half-point underdogs,
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: and they wound up covering because he went on this
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: barrage at the end of the game. But that... If
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: you bet on your own team to cover or you're
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: part of an operation that bet on your own team
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: to cover, like it's a bad idea. You shouldn't do it.
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: But that's not the one I think that's going to
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: really shake people up that much. That's part of why
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: people want to let Pete Rose slide is because they
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: really always bet on his team. That one doesn't really
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: offend people in this way. But it's going to go
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: farther and farther. And the assumption always is that somebody
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: who does this like John J. Porter is desperate and
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: owes people money. And that's how they get caught up.
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: This gambling thing is going to hit our entire society.
• 31:21
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• 31:23
  Speaker 1: one thing when you had to go to the track
• 31:25
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• 31:29
  Speaker 1: Like I told you, I was reading this book that
• 31:30
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• 31:32
  Speaker 1: online used to be a place you had to go. Right?
• 31:35
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• 31:40
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• 31:42
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• 31:44
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• 31:47
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• 31:52
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• 31:55
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• 31:57
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• 31:59
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• 32:02
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• 32:06
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  Speaker 9: around this stuff can be pretty dubious. Marketers obviously overstate
• 36:06
  Speaker 9: their effectiveness. And a lot of the research on these
• 36:09
  Speaker 9: products is done by the companies that make them. So
• 36:12
  Speaker 9: you can maybe see the problem there. Experts say that
• 36:15
  Speaker 9: some of this stuff does have some purpose depending on
• 36:18
  Speaker 9: the thing and the circumstance. And honestly, if some random
• 36:22
  Speaker 9: tool gets you started exercising, that's fine. But you might
• 36:26
  Speaker 9: quit pretty quickly. But we're also in the age of
• 36:29
  Speaker 9: Ozempic and weight loss drugs, and people are really looking
• 36:32
  Speaker 9: for more miracles and quick fixes. They figure if this
• 36:35
  Speaker 9: shot can make them thin, why can't some electromagnetic vest
• 36:40
  Speaker 9: make them fit? The tough thing is that fitness is
• 36:43
  Speaker 9: this ongoing kind of slow game. Same with health. It
• 36:47
  Speaker 9: would be really great if a shake weight could get
• 36:50
  Speaker 9: your arms ready for summer, but it's probably not your
• 36:53
  Speaker 9: best bet.
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: You know, Ryan, I talk about this that I'm the
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: wrong person to really, I can only say so much
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: on this. Like I have metabolism that makes it such that,
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: like I once saw John Oliver was talking something about
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: the Irish one that he was like, I can't really
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: say anything about it because I talk like this.
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: Like, like he, like, I feel like I'm in a
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: very similar situation. Like I can't really get on y'all
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: about these things and moves. I'm just like, This isn't
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: how the world works, man. Like this is just as
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: an absolute across the board thing. I'm just going to
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: press this button and it's going to, that's not, it
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: don't go that way. None of those things are going
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: to do the job that you're hoping for.
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean, usually I think a good rule of
• 37:36
  Speaker 3: thumb for most things. And if it's too good to
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: be true, then it probably is.
• 37:41
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: But it's, and I feel bad for people because like
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: people who have giant level, like, Huge weight loss swings. Right.
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: And I'm getting the words wrong. But, you know, people
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: who have a situation where they lose a lot of weight.
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: One thing I hear them say is they realize when
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: they lose weight, just how much people hate that.
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: They can instantly tell the difference in how they're treated
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: and how people look at them. And that's tough. You know,
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: like and so if you're in the position where you
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: feel like people look at you like that, yeah, you'll
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: want to do anything. to make it such that it
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: doesn't go that way. But, you know, we read these
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: stories about like, oh, Zempic changing the way what it
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: is to go out to dinner with people because people
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: don't want to eat. Like that doesn't, that doesn't sound
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: fun at all, right? Like none of that sounds like
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: the game that you want to play. So I get it.
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: People want to, can't get everything you want, right? Like
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: we want to find a way to eat all the
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: stuff that we want to eat and do all the
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: fun stuff and not take the consequences that come with it, right?
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: And you just got to figure out which one you want.
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: Like I realize this is obviously I'm not like at
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: a risk of obesity necessarily, but I'm a big fan
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: of sugar, right? I enjoy those things greatly. Hey man,
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: I have realized that there's some limitations in some of
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: my goals that come up from eating all this ice cream, right?
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: And drinking all these simply fruit drinks. I recognize that.
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: If I stop for a little while, I get the
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: thing I'm looking for. I have decided I would rather
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: eat ice cream. That's the call that I've made.
• 39:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, we've all got to make our decisions.
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: Yes, yes.
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: All right, this next one's about summer.
• 39:19
  Speaker 7: Hi, I'm Matt Fuchs, contributing reporter for Time Magazine. I
• 39:22
  Speaker 7: recently wrote an article about the science of using air
• 39:24
  Speaker 7: conditioning in ways that'll keep you cool without making you sick.
• 39:28
  Speaker 7: AC is a great invention for getting through summertime without
• 39:31
  Speaker 7: a heat-related illness. ACs cool you down and reduce dust, pathogens,
• 39:35
  Speaker 7: and outdoor pollution like particulate matter 2.5. AC also drops humidity,
• 39:40
  Speaker 7: which helps prevent unhealthy mold and dust mites. But used
• 39:44
  Speaker 7: the wrong way, AC can work against you. Breathing in
• 39:47
  Speaker 7: very dry air makes your body add moisture, and that
• 39:50
  Speaker 7: moist air leaves your body with every breath. According to
• 39:53
  Speaker 7: experts I spoke with, this can dry up your airway,
• 39:55
  Speaker 7: causing coughs, sore throats, and vulnerability to microbes. It's probably
• 39:59
  Speaker 7: worth getting a fairly cheap humidity sensor. If humidity drops
• 40:03
  Speaker 7: below 40%, give the AC a rest. If humidity tops 60%,
• 40:06
  Speaker 7: crank it back up. Also, change your AC filter regularly.
• 40:11
  Speaker 7: With a dirty filter, the coil and ducts could become
• 40:14
  Speaker 7: cesspools of mold, bacteria, and allergens, which the AC blows
• 40:17
  Speaker 7: into your home. People view AC as this magic black
• 40:20
  Speaker 7: box for making cold, researchers told me. We just think
• 40:23
  Speaker 7: about it when it stops making cold. But even if
• 40:26
  Speaker 7: the cold magic still works, a specialist should inspect the
• 40:29
  Speaker 7: coil and ducts yearly to ensure they're clean.
• 40:32
  Speaker 3: Experts point to another issue.
• 40:34
  Speaker 7: If the AC is always on with windows shut, your
• 40:36
  Speaker 7: air may be rife with an indoor toxin, volatile organic compounds,
• 40:40
  Speaker 7: or VOCs. released by personal products and linked to chronic diseases.
• 40:44
  Speaker 7: ACs don't filter them out, but a HEPA air purifier
• 40:48
  Speaker 7: with a carbon filter can. It traps VOCs and particulate
• 40:51
  Speaker 7: matter 2.5. VOC monitors aren't always reliable, but monitors for
• 40:57
  Speaker 7: PM2. 5 are better, and they show humidity levels. Every home
• 41:01
  Speaker 7: is a unicorn, so try these strategies, check your monitor,
• 41:05
  Speaker 7: and find what works best to stay healthy, not moldy,
• 41:07
  Speaker 7: this summer.
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: Hey, man, I appreciate our man putting us up on
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: game about this air conditioner because let me tell you something, brother.
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: If the AC kills me, that's just what it does.
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: I don't care if it's Legionnaire's disease. We're going down.
• 41:23
  Speaker 3: You and me both.
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: Brother, that's just how it has to go, man. Ryan,
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: we completely skipped let's go hang out at the park
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: weather in New York City. Completely blew through that.
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: Missed it.
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: It did not happen. Like, I love going and just
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: sitting in the park. Not a chance. I don't know
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: what just went right through it. I'm just in here
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: running this air conditioner, baby. Running it hot.
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: That.
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: Look, I'll do all those things that man said. Okay,
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: I'm going to change out every filter. I'm going to
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: get all these pathogens, these toxins out the air, whatever
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: it may be, right? And look, maybe it ties into
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: what I was just saying about the weight loss, right?
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: What we talk about with the AC is not how
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: the world works. It's not supposed to be so easy.
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: You could just press a button and it's cold. You
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: know what? It's not. It ain't supposed to be that way,
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: but it is now.
• 42:15
  Speaker 3: I'm going to push that button on that cold box
• 42:16
  Speaker 3: and make it go cold as long as it can.
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: Man, I got a new air conditioning set up, and
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: it's so weird to where, like, I like to sleep
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: when it's super cold, and it won't let me take
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: it down below, like, 65. And I'm like, no, no, no,
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: we need to keep going, baby. I got to figure
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: out how to fix that. Keep it going. Keep it going.
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: I can't think of my boy George. Boy, he talked
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: about his daddy. God rest his soul. He said his
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: daddy said a thing. I'll never forget this as long
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: as I live. He said, I worked too hard to
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: be hot in my old house. I refuse.
• 42:45
  Speaker 3: Refuse no being hot outside is terrible being hot indoors is.
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: Worse yeah no no no no no like so a
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: thing about living in new york that's kind of hard
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: to explain is that nobody has everything they want out
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: of their home nobody like it's just it just it
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: don't work that way here everybody's making some level of
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: trade it ain't about to be the ac brother It's not.
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: There's a lot of these old buildings that ain't got,
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: you know, where AC is not an option. No, sir. No, sir.
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: Can't be. I'd be out there on the street looking
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: for the Iceman, bro. We just have a block and
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: a fan in my house at all times. It's me not.
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: Hell no.
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 43:29
  Speaker 3: Our last story is from dating. There's a new experimental
• 43:32
  Speaker 3: dating site called Browser Dating, which aims to match singles
• 43:36
  Speaker 3: based on their web browsing histories. The unconventional approach analyzes users'
• 43:41
  Speaker 3: online interest and activities to create compatibility scores. The site
• 43:45
  Speaker 3: emphasizes transparency, allowing users to see their browsing habits, how
• 43:49
  Speaker 3: their browsing habits influence potential matches. The platform seeks to
• 43:53
  Speaker 3: foster connections based on shared interests, behaviors, challenging traditional meeting
• 43:58
  Speaker 3: methods that often rely on superficial metrics. Beau, your thoughts?
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: Absolutely not. No chance. No chance. I might as well
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: let you put something on my brain that tells you
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: all my thoughts.
• 44:16
  Speaker 3: I don't know how to describe this without sounding, you know,
• 44:20
  Speaker 3: like gross. I wouldn't let anyone see my browser history.
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL>
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: If I had known that that was going to be
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: an option, I would have browsed differently.
• 44:29
  Speaker 3: Of course.
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: This is not. And on top of that, let me
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: tell you something. The last thing I want to be
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: is with somebody who browses the same stuff as me.
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: We got to... What are we going to talk about? Yeah, yeah.
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: What are we... Yeah, no, no. I ain't... I don't... Uh-uh. No, no, no, no, no. Like,
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: it's a very interesting idea. I see why somebody would do...
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: It's certainly.
• 44:49
  Speaker 3: The most honest representation of what your thoughts actually are.
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: Yes. I actually think that all that's going to do
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: is make it harder to find somebody. Like, I would be...
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: It says, I don't... Is compatibility... If compatibility is done
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: this way, is it measured by similarity? Is it measured
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: by like complementarity? I don't know if that's a word,
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: but you know, but like how they fit together rather
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: than whether or not they're just like straight ahead. Like,
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: I'm not exactly sure.
• 45:17
  Speaker 3: The scary thing about that to me is what you'll
• 45:20
  Speaker 3: have is just people who like all the same memes.
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: I can see that.
• 45:25
  Speaker 3: Well, that will just lead us to couples who just
• 45:27
  Speaker 3: think the same memes are funny.
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: Now, I will say, though, that if you have this
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: service and one of the factors that you put on
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: there is, shall we say, what is your search term?
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: That might work.
• 45:41
  Speaker 3: Could work.
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: Right?
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: But you got to leave it there. You got to
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: leave just at the term. Just leave it there. And
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: by the way, keep it highly confidential. Highly confidential. Let
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: them find out together that they have that in common.
• 46:01
  Speaker 3: All right, voicemails, oldie but a goodie. Tell us about
• 46:04
  Speaker 3: the best fight you've seen on the pickup basketball court.
• 46:07
  Speaker 3: Great responses as always. Here's the first one.
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: Hello, Bomani. This is Arthur. I'm a big fan that's
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: following you since your ESPN days, and I wanted to
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: respond to your question about best fight that you've seen
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: on a pickup game. So at university, my best friend
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: was playing a pickup game, and my team had lost.
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: I was off on the side. I'm watching, and they're
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: playing against this guy that's on the soccer team at
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: our university. And he's playing like an athlete that doesn't
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: play basketball, if you know what I mean, especially like
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: football players are the best example of that. And my friend,
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: he's like 6'4, 220, pretty big athletic guy. And the
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: soccer player is like typical soccer player size, like 5'9,
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: maybe something like that, smaller. But he's playing really hard,
• 46:54
  Speaker 2: really hard, hustle, hustle, hustle. And then my friend started
• 46:57
  Speaker 2: getting more serious with them and just started abusing them
• 46:59
  Speaker 2: on the post and getting bored and stuff like that.
• 47:03
  Speaker 2: So then the soccer player decided to get into a
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: soccer player's bag and he headbutted my friend. Now, my friend,
• 47:10
  Speaker 2: his mom is a vice president at this school. So
• 47:14
  Speaker 2: I'm like, I need to go protect my friend. So
• 47:16
  Speaker 2: I run out there, me and this other guy, go
• 47:18
  Speaker 2: out there and we grab my friend. We're like, we
• 47:19
  Speaker 2: don't want you to destroy this other guy. This is
• 47:21
  Speaker 2: not going to be a good look for you, for
• 47:24
  Speaker 2: your mom or whatever. And we try to calm him
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: down and we do calm him down a bit. The
• 47:29
  Speaker 2: soccer dude just kind of takes off at this point.
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: Then I look at my friend and I see his
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: mouth and his two front teeth are like pushed back in.
• 47:37
  Speaker 2: And I'm like, oh damn, I should have let him
• 47:40
  Speaker 2: fight him. I felt pretty bad about it. So it
• 47:43
  Speaker 2: wasn't much of a fight, but it was just kind
• 47:45
  Speaker 2: of crazy to see that in a rare moment because
• 47:48
  Speaker 2: I'm a pacifist at heart. I don't like seeing fighting.
• 47:50
  Speaker 2: But at that time, I was like, damn, I really
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: should have let him, you know, throw some haymakers at
• 47:55
  Speaker 2: that boy. Again, I've been following you for a long time, Monty.
• 47:59
  Speaker 2: Enjoy the show. Thanks. Take care.
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: Yo, Mike, you did the right thing. I want you
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: to always know that you did the right thing. You
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: did what your friend needed. But it's been all these years.
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: You could facilitate making it happen at another place. You
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying? Like in the same school, it
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: could be a homecoming or whatever. But the next time
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: y'all see that, you know what time it is.
• 48:27
  Speaker 3: All right, here's our next one.
• 48:30
  Speaker 4: Yo, Bo, this is Jay from PG County, Maryland. And
• 48:35
  Speaker 4: I'm going to tell you a time when I would–
• 48:37
  Speaker 4: a fight broke out at a basketball game that I
• 48:41
  Speaker 4: was participating in.
• 48:42
  Speaker 5: So I set the scene. This is about the year 2000.
• 48:47
  Speaker 5: I'm in Atlanta, Georgia. I'm playing on.
• 48:50
  Speaker 4: A– I don't want to say it's in Clark, but
• 48:53
  Speaker 4: it's around the Clark campus. I have a couple of
• 48:58
  Speaker 4: Morris Brown– I went to Morris Brown. I have a
• 49:01
  Speaker 4: couple of Morris Brown guys with me, and we're playing hoop.
• 49:03
  Speaker 4: I have my roommate, my roommate at the time. We're
• 49:07
  Speaker 4: going against these two older.
• 49:10
  Speaker 5: Classmates. They had been at Morris Brown for at least
• 49:13
  Speaker 5: two years. So they were upperclassmen.
• 49:17
  Speaker 4: They knew each other. Me and my roommate were still
• 49:19
  Speaker 4: getting to know each other. You know, we had summer
• 49:22
  Speaker 4: school together. And so, you know, coming into the fall,
• 49:25
  Speaker 4: you know, we were still trying to get to know
• 49:26
  Speaker 4: each other.
• 49:28
  Speaker 5: And so we're playing the game against these two upperclassmen.
• 49:31
  Speaker 2: And I, for some strange reason.
• 49:35
  Speaker 5: Blacked out.
• 49:36
  Speaker 4: And when I mean blacked out, I mean Everything I'm
• 49:40
  Speaker 4: shooting is going in.
• 49:42
  Speaker 5: It never happened to me.
• 49:43
  Speaker 4: Those kind of games, my whole life, probably happened three times.
• 49:48
  Speaker 4: I'm 44 years old. I probably had these games a
• 49:53
  Speaker 4: grand total of three times in my entire life.
• 49:57
  Speaker 5: So this is one of those times.
• 50:00
  Speaker 4: Everything's going in for me to a point where they start,
• 50:04
  Speaker 4: you know, bickering about, Who's going to guard me? So
• 50:08
  Speaker 4: they make the switch, and then everything continues to go in.
• 50:11
  Speaker 4: And so now we've stopped the game, and these two
• 50:16
  Speaker 4: are in each other's faces. The upperclassmen at Morris Brown
• 50:22
  Speaker 4: are in each other's faces about to fight each other
• 50:26
  Speaker 4: because of what I was doing on the court.
• 50:29
  Speaker 5: It was the first time I felt.
• 50:31
  Speaker 4: Bad and good And it was weird because I couldn't
• 50:35
  Speaker 4: really enjoy it because I'm seeing these two dudes literally.
• 50:39
  Speaker 5: And, yes, they threw blows.
• 50:42
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 50:43
  Speaker 5: Blood was drawn.
• 50:44
  Speaker 4: It wasn't a big gash, but it was a gash
• 50:48
  Speaker 4: over one of the guys' eyes.
• 50:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 50:53
  Speaker 4: And it was just crazy, man. I will never forget that.
• 50:57
  Speaker 4: Shout-out to Morris Brown. Shout-out to Atlanta. Those were some
• 51:01
  Speaker 4: fun times in my life. I'm back in Prince George's
• 51:04
  Speaker 4: County now, and I've never had a game like that since.
• 51:07
  Speaker 5: So that should tell you how far and beyond those
• 51:11
  Speaker 5: games are for me. Thank you for listening. Appreciate you.
• 51:14
  Speaker 5: Keep doing what you do, bro.
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: Bro, that would have left. Like this is the next,
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: all that's waiting on you after that is a hard
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: foul because somebody got to show what it is. Also,
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: when you say hooping around, Clark, that reminds me of
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: that time I played some ball in University Homes and
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: it was the one time I dunked in a game
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: that we should have left right away because the locals
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: did not appreciate the milestone that I had achieved in
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: that very moment. Man, man, yeah. Well, hey, man, at
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: least they wasn't fighting you.
• 51:44
  Speaker 3: All right, here's our last one.
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: Hey, Bo.
• 51:48
  Speaker 6: So I'm slightly outside of the criteria with this one.
• 51:51
  Speaker 6: It was a practice fight, but still a good story.
• 51:54
  Speaker 6: So we had these two dudes. This was in college.
• 51:57
  Speaker 6: They were like power forwards, a little bit heavier dudes.
• 52:00
  Speaker 6: So they were like, you know, 6'6, 6'7-ish. They start
• 52:05
  Speaker 6: going at it in practice. Just sort of seemed out
• 52:08
  Speaker 6: of nowhere, but like just haymakers. So when I say
• 52:11
  Speaker 6: seeing two dudes who are a little heavyset at 6'6,
• 52:16
  Speaker 6: standing toe to toe, just throwing haymakers for like probably
• 52:21
  Speaker 6: 10 to 12 straight seconds. That sounds really short. My God,
• 52:26
  Speaker 6: it was forever.
• 52:28
  Speaker 2: I went and was.
• 52:29
  Speaker 6: Like, oh, I'm going to jump in there and break
• 52:30
  Speaker 6: it up. You know, my teammates fighting, blah, blah, blah.
• 52:33
  Speaker 6: Coach holds me back. He's like, what the hell are
• 52:35
  Speaker 6: you about to do?
• 52:36
  Speaker 2: And I was like, you're right.
• 52:37
  Speaker 6: I'm probably going to get knocked the hell out. So anyway,
• 52:41
  Speaker 6: the way that this fight ends is one guy just
• 52:44
  Speaker 6: cold clocks the others. goes down, hits the ground, kind
• 52:49
  Speaker 6: of comes back to, and then just throws up on
• 52:53
  Speaker 6: the court. I'm like, so totally nuts. Starts dragging himself off,
• 53:00
  Speaker 6: and the other dude yells at him, yeah, that's right,
• 53:02
  Speaker 6: throw up, you little bitch. So just totally nuts. I'm like, okay,
• 53:08
  Speaker 6: that's got to be it. Like he cold clocked you,
• 53:11
  Speaker 6: called you a little bitch as you're dragging yourself off
• 53:13
  Speaker 6: the court in your own vomit?
• 53:15
  Speaker 9: No.
• 53:15
  Speaker 2: No.
• 53:15
  Speaker 6: My man gets to his feet. He looks at him
• 53:18
  Speaker 6: from across the court with the whole team between the toes,
• 53:21
  Speaker 6: and he goes, that's all right. I'll catch you in
• 53:24
  Speaker 6: the locker room, stab you to death. Yo, what? What
• 53:30
  Speaker 6: are we doing here? So, like, you know, these sound
• 53:34
  Speaker 6: like big words, and some of your listeners might be like, oh,
• 53:37
  Speaker 6: my God, what happened next?
• 53:39
  Speaker 2: Man, nothing.
• 53:39
  Speaker 6: We got down into the locker room, and those two
• 53:41
  Speaker 6: dudes dabbed each other up. We started talking about what
• 53:44
  Speaker 6: had happened in practice and what we were about to
• 53:46
  Speaker 6: do after because that's how college basketball works.
• 53:49
  Speaker 2: All right, man.
• 53:50
  Speaker 4: Talk to you later.
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: Hey, brother, let me explain something to you right now.
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: I don't know how long ago that was, but you
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: need to know this and I mean this. That stabbing
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: is still in the cards. It's still on the board.
• 54:04
  Speaker 3: That stab doesn't have a statute of limitations.
• 54:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: It may take some alcohol to bring it out or whatever. Like,
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: dude realized right then and there that stabbing him was
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: probably not the best play. But his desire to stab
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: him has not gone away.
• 54:18
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: Now, granted, it's clear that he was given a concussion.
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: And so maybe that. But no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: Don't you think this is this is not over. This
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: is not, no, no, no, no, no. I am going
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: to stab you. Hey, man, I don't want no parts.
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: Any dude that's willing to stab you, that's a real
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: man right there, boy. The problem with a gun is
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: anybody could be a killer with a gun. A knife,
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: you got to have it in you. Even to say
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: that word out loud.
• 54:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: No, no, no, not me. No, sir. No, sir. But
• 54:50
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