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- 0:32Speaker 1: I love a good who done it, been a big fan,
- 0:36Speaker 1: been a big fan of those who'd done it for
- 0:38Speaker 1: some time. We got one of those who'd done it
- 0:41Speaker 1: stories and it's not that big a deal yet. We're
- 0:46Speaker 1: still early on. We're still early on in this story.
- 0:50Speaker 1: So it is an NFL story of sorts called the
- 0:53Speaker 1: crash test Dummies, if you will, so our lead this
- 0:57Speaker 1: hour from San Francisco, and we learned over the weekend
- 1:02Speaker 1: that head coach Kyle Shanahan was in fact a crash
- 1:07Speaker 1: test dummy of sorts, was injured in a car accident
- 1:10Speaker 1: that actually happened back on the fourteenth of the month,
- 1:14Speaker 1: so it was a little while ago in northern California,
- 1:17Speaker 1: and he's not there as the Niners get going here
- 1:20Speaker 1: in the new NFL season training camp, which is not
- 1:24Speaker 1: very exciting, not really, and he's he's limited, not coaching
- 1:30Speaker 1: the team. I guess he did show up on Sunday
- 1:32Speaker 1: for a little bit. So if you didn't see this,
- 1:33Speaker 1: perhaps not. You were probably out busy doing things. That's
- 1:37Speaker 1: what most people end up doing on the weekends. I
- 1:40Speaker 1: assume maybe you've heard something about it, as I've heard
- 1:43Speaker 1: Kyle Shanahan. They say he suffered a concussion, broken schnaz
- 1:48Speaker 1: several broken ribs, snap crackle, pop, and injuries to his
- 1:53Speaker 1: hands in this accident. Doesn't seem like a minor deal.
- 1:58Speaker 1: That doesn't seem like a minor deal to me. What
- 2:00Speaker 1: do I know?
- 2:01Speaker 3: Now? The forty nine ers.
- 2:03Speaker 1: Claimed that Shanahan was briefly hospitalized, and he said about
- 2:07Speaker 1: non life threatening injuries, just a couple of cracked ribs,
- 2:11Speaker 1: broken nose, can cussion, all that stuff.
- 2:14Speaker 3: And then a bunch of.
- 2:15Speaker 1: The first responders were there, came out, helped him out,
- 2:17Speaker 1: assisted the scene of the accident. Now, the assistant head
- 2:21Speaker 1: coach christ Forrester will oversee he's the interim not really
- 2:26Speaker 1: interim coach thing guy during practice here. The rest of
- 2:31Speaker 1: the coaching staff. Also, we'll partner up here. And that's
- 2:35Speaker 1: the plan is Shanahan is not gonna be back, So he'll.
- 2:38Speaker 3: Be back at some point. From what it sounds like,
- 2:40Speaker 3: he's going to be.
- 2:41Speaker 1: Back in a couple of weeks, he'll be back with
- 2:44Speaker 1: coaching the team. There's a lot of unanswered questions though,
- 2:48Speaker 1: and this is one of those stories that fascinates me,
- 2:50Speaker 1: and I don't know if you have any interest in them.
- 2:52Speaker 3: Not to me.
- 2:54Speaker 1: This is a rather bizarre story, and I get the
- 2:58Speaker 1: sense there's more there that we're not getting.
- 3:02Speaker 3: So that is a good jumping off point.
- 3:04Speaker 1: Let us discuss the question are we getting the entire
- 3:10Speaker 1: deal on what happened with forty nine Ers coach Kyle
- 3:14Speaker 1: Shannan and his car accident. I've got banana boat, Nick ribb,
- 3:18Speaker 1: and milk bones, and we will combine all of these
- 3:22Speaker 1: things together and we are going to have some apple
- 3:25Speaker 1: pie and some vanilla ice cream. They go very well together,
- 3:28Speaker 1: very well together. Yeah, all right, So a to answer
- 3:32Speaker 1: the question, are we getting the whole story? Of course
- 3:33Speaker 1: we're not getting the whole story. There's no chance for
- 3:35Speaker 1: getting the whole story. I give the side eye. Come
- 3:38Speaker 1: on now, eleven days of radio silence, eleven days of
- 3:45Speaker 1: squad douche on this particular story, the head coach of
- 3:49Speaker 1: one of the flagship NFL franchise. This ain't Jacksonville, Okay,
- 3:54Speaker 1: it's not the forty nine ers, the greatest team of
- 3:58Speaker 1: the nineteen eighties with fans who are old dudes now
- 4:01Speaker 1: who remember the nineteen eighties, and they have had decent teams,
- 4:04Speaker 1: so they can't get past the rams.
- 4:05Speaker 3: Now, let's remember that. Let's remember that. Anyway.
- 4:09Speaker 1: It's a pretty big franchise in the NFL. They're head coach,
- 4:13Speaker 1: one of the few head coaches. You know who they are.
- 4:16Speaker 1: There's a lot of nameless coaches in the NFL. He
- 4:19Speaker 1: gets dinged up in what seems like a pretty big accident,
- 4:23Speaker 1: and it sends lights and sirens to the hospital, goes
- 4:27Speaker 1: to the emergency room, and everybody just decides, let's just
- 4:32Speaker 1: hold all fun letting people know about that.
- 4:34Speaker 3: We'll just wait on that one. Yeah, let's let's put
- 4:36Speaker 3: that on the back burner. Why not.
- 4:39Speaker 1: Sure, Absolutely, We'll wait nearly two weeks and then we'll
- 4:42Speaker 1: let it out and enter now into the chat. Those
- 4:47Speaker 1: of you that have ever worked in the media, or
- 4:49Speaker 1: if you know how the media operates, or politics. The Saturday,
- 4:53Speaker 1: Friday afternoon evening Saturday news dump. That is a tradition,
- 5:00Speaker 1: unlike any other, Unlike any other. It's universal sign. When
- 5:05Speaker 1: you do something, you announce something strategically, you wait to
- 5:09Speaker 1: announce something on either Friday afternoon or evening or Saturday.
- 5:14Speaker 1: It's a universal sign to the heavens, please don't pay
- 5:18Speaker 1: any attention to this.
- 5:19Speaker 3: Move along, Move along, now, move along. That's it.
- 5:24Speaker 1: They waited until everyone was rubbing the banana boat suntan
- 5:29Speaker 1: lotion on at the beach, mowing their lawn, or arguing
- 5:33Speaker 1: over wieners on the grill at the family cookout, so
- 5:38Speaker 1: that by Monday, which would be just you know, here
- 5:42Speaker 1: we are.
- 5:44Speaker 3: Ancient history. Will move on. There'll be something else out there.
- 5:47Speaker 1: Nothing to see here, nothing to see it, move on,
- 5:49Speaker 1: nothing really, nothing to see here. Come on, this is
- 5:53Speaker 1: a news cycle. Unless it's not. It's a controlled burn, burn,
- 5:58Speaker 1: baby burn. That's what this is here. And look, maybe
- 6:01Speaker 1: this is some of it is perfectly innocent, and there's
- 6:05Speaker 1: a perfectly innocent explanation for this. I can't really think
- 6:08Speaker 1: of what that would be to wait eleven days. You
- 6:10Speaker 1: would think if it's innocent, you'd denounce it right away.
- 6:14Speaker 1: There must be something. Was Brandon ayucin the other car
- 6:18Speaker 1: that hit Shannan.
- 6:19Speaker 3: I don't know.
- 6:21Speaker 1: The timing alone, having been around these type of stories
- 6:25Speaker 1: over the years, the timing alone does raise eyebrows. And
- 6:29Speaker 1: if it doesn't, then.
- 6:31Speaker 3: That's your problem. That's not my problem here.
- 6:33Speaker 1: And an NFL where controlling the narrative, it's always about
- 6:39Speaker 1: controlling the narrative is a competitive sport. It is is
- 6:45Speaker 1: skepticism comes with the territory, and it's the timing.
- 6:50Speaker 3: If it looks engineer, this is a.
- 6:52Speaker 1: General rule of thumb from following NFL headlines over the
- 6:56Speaker 1: years and commenting on them, opining on them behind the
- 6:58Speaker 1: bully pulpit. If the iming looks engineered, probably was Probably
- 7:03Speaker 1: was engineer. Probably was engineering all right. Now to the
- 7:06Speaker 1: eyewitness part. There's a lot of layers to this cake.
- 7:09Speaker 1: It's like that Maryland cake, the Estate cake of Maryland.
- 7:13Speaker 1: The Great Sports with Coleman popped up on my fifth
- 7:16Speaker 1: Hour podcast over the weekend of the mail Bag and
- 7:18Speaker 1: he loves to send me food pictures, and the cake
- 7:21Speaker 1: in Maryland's just amazing, just to adden. It's like an
- 7:24Speaker 1: eighteen layered chocolate cake thing, and it just looks great.
- 7:28Speaker 1: There's a lot of layers to this cake. There's a
- 7:30Speaker 1: lot of layers of this cake. There are the eyewitness
- 7:33Speaker 1: part of It's fascinating to me, and I just don't
- 7:37Speaker 1: get that part if you take a step back and
- 7:39Speaker 1: look down from thirty thousand feet in the sky. All right,
- 7:43Speaker 1: the forty nine ers released the news on Kyle Shannan's
- 7:48Speaker 1: car accident. So the question is why why did nobody,
- 7:52Speaker 1: no man or woman, leaked the Kyle Shanahan car accident
- 7:57Speaker 1: story and they just sat on it, and they waited
- 8:00Speaker 1: till the Niners got around to letting people know on
- 8:03Speaker 1: a Saturday news thump. In the smartphone era, in the
- 8:08Speaker 1: social media era that we live in, where people live
- 8:12Speaker 1: stream having a cup of coffee at Starbucks and they
- 8:16Speaker 1: think other people want to see that. That's the world
- 8:19Speaker 1: we're in, and people leak HOA drama, the drama O
- 8:25Speaker 1: rama at the HOA on their Facebook pages, right, and
- 8:28Speaker 1: we're supposed to believe a story that involved a name
- 8:32Speaker 1: NFL head coach. It's the family business for the Shanahans,
- 8:37Speaker 1: and everyone just just allowed it to sit there in
- 8:40Speaker 1: the vault for eleven days.
- 8:43Speaker 3: That's it. This is the part of the story that
- 8:45Speaker 3: fries my brain. It does. You've got so many people
- 8:50Speaker 3: that had access.
- 8:50Speaker 1: To Shanahan, from the first responders to the police, the
- 8:54Speaker 1: paramedics and ambulance crew, the tow truck drivers that I
- 8:58Speaker 1: assumed came out at some point.
- 9:00Speaker 3: I don't know if they were there while the accident
- 9:01Speaker 3: was still active.
- 9:02Speaker 1: The bystanders, people wandering around, people in other cars that
- 9:06Speaker 1: were stopped because of the traffic caused by the accident.
- 9:09Speaker 1: You had all these various layers of people, from insiders
- 9:14Speaker 1: who were there to work to.
- 9:16Speaker 3: People that weren't.
- 9:17Speaker 1: And then you think about the loose lips and how
- 9:20Speaker 1: everyone talks, Hey, how'd work go today?
- 9:23Speaker 3: Honey? Oh I was I cleaned up.
- 9:25Speaker 1: A car accident with Kyle Shanahan, the Cody nine Ers coach.
- 9:28Speaker 3: Yeah, he got really effed up. Oh really? Is that right? Okay?
- 9:32Speaker 1: Well, I'm not gonna call TMZ and make a quick
- 9:34Speaker 1: ten thousand dollars. I'm not gonna contact a Daily mail
- 9:37Speaker 1: in London and see how much they'll pay, or the
- 9:39Speaker 1: New York Post. No, I'm just gonna sit here and
- 9:42Speaker 1: pretend it didn't happen. That makes sense. Why not come on,
- 9:47Speaker 1: make a quick buck. Everyone needs money.
- 9:50Speaker 3: You know.
- 9:51Speaker 1: Loose lips are everywhere everywhere, loose lips on these stories.
- 9:55Speaker 1: And yet the Internet, which you know, leaks like it's
- 9:58Speaker 1: a it's a submarin with a screen door on it.
- 10:02Speaker 3: And all of a.
- 10:03Speaker 1: Sudden, everyone stayed completely silent on the Kyle Shannan story.
- 10:07Speaker 3: Would how would that be? Why was it in the
- 10:09Speaker 3: middle of the night. Even if it was in the
- 10:11Speaker 3: middle of the night, there's less people. And I believe it.
- 10:14Speaker 1: Happened in the afternoon or early evening a from what
- 10:16Speaker 1: I read on the interweb and all that. But still,
- 10:19Speaker 1: did Kyle Shanahan use some voodoo boogaloo? Did he lock
- 10:26Speaker 1: the photos and the video and all that and the
- 10:28Speaker 1: same vault with the mic rib recipe. And in order
- 10:31Speaker 1: to get the video and the photos of Kyle Shannon's
- 10:34Speaker 1: car accident, you need the mic rib recipe and you
- 10:37Speaker 1: can't get it now. I'm not sitting here saying that
- 10:40Speaker 1: there's like Little Green men confiscated every iPhone. The men
- 10:44Speaker 1: in Black came down and they erased every video clip
- 10:48Speaker 1: and all that stuff. But the math ain't mathing is
- 10:51Speaker 1: that a fair point or not. I feel like that
- 10:52Speaker 1: it's a fair point. Then is it possible to TMS
- 10:56Speaker 1: He's say, well, we're kind of in bed with the
- 10:58Speaker 1: NFL now, so we don't want to help. You know,
- 10:59Speaker 1: it's important surf of the NFL, so we're not gonna
- 11:02Speaker 1: let it out. Why would it be an important story
- 11:04Speaker 1: not to let out? Who cares if Shanahan did nothing
- 11:07Speaker 1: wrong and it was just an accident and he was
- 11:10Speaker 1: the aggrieved party in the accident.
- 11:13Speaker 3: Okay?
- 11:15Speaker 1: Did everyone just magically decide at the same time that
- 11:18Speaker 1: they're going to be discreet or is this timeline just
- 11:23Speaker 1: messed up? Certainly seems for gazy on this end. All right, Now,
- 11:28Speaker 1: last word to the media part of this curve fluffel.
- 11:34Speaker 1: The media part of this curve fluffel. So we know
- 11:37Speaker 1: that supposedly nobody contacted with photos. There are other ways
- 11:43Speaker 1: these things get out, right. I assume a bunch of
- 11:45Speaker 1: people with the forty nine ers knew about it and
- 11:48Speaker 1: they kept it under wraps there and people around the NFL.
- 11:52Speaker 1: They loved to gossip, so people in the NFL were
- 11:54Speaker 1: aware of this. The question here is how how are
- 11:59Speaker 1: the forty nine of the beat reporters for the forty
- 12:01Speaker 1: nine ers, and in the same token, the national NFL.
- 12:05Speaker 3: Insiders, the information people of the NFL.
- 12:10Speaker 1: How are they looking about now on the Kyle Shanahan
- 12:14Speaker 1: car accident story, It's like, what's weird? No one leaked it?
- 12:18Speaker 1: Did somebody maybe leak it and then they just sat
- 12:21Speaker 1: on it? Is that a possibility? Things that make you
- 12:25Speaker 1: go hmmm, Things that make you go hmmmm. Now, this
- 12:30Speaker 1: is why there's questions about trust with certain people that are,
- 12:36Speaker 1: you know, now the modern day insider crowd, and it's
- 12:40Speaker 1: hand picked and everyone's.
- 12:42Speaker 3: Helping everyone out here.
- 12:43Speaker 1: If your livelihood, though, if your livelihood depends on a
- 12:48Speaker 1: text back from let's say GM John Lynch or a
- 12:52Speaker 1: couple extra minutes with Shanahan at the end of practice,
- 12:56Speaker 1: and you're the beat reporter for the forty nine ers,
- 12:58Speaker 1: are you really going to be like a Navy seal
- 13:02Speaker 1: storming the forty nine or building there demanding answers?
- 13:05Speaker 3: Are you really gonna go down that road? Probably not?
- 13:07Speaker 3: Probably not. Now.
- 13:08Speaker 1: Generally speaking, generally speaking, the beat reporters are not breaking
- 13:13Speaker 1: stories much these days.
- 13:14Speaker 3: It generally doesn't happen.
- 13:16Speaker 1: They're just waiting for a group text that's how this
- 13:19Speaker 1: stuff gets done here, the NFL media twiddling their thumbs
- 13:24Speaker 1: as they look for the green light on the signal
- 13:28Speaker 1: of permission. Here, like elementary school kids, just wait, Can
- 13:32Speaker 1: I go to the bathroom?
- 13:33Speaker 3: Okay? I gotta wait for the teacher to let me
- 13:35Speaker 3: go down the hall to go to the to the urnal.
- 13:37Speaker 3: I gotta wait for that.
- 13:38Speaker 1: Okay, the teacher says, it's okay, Okay, now we'll do it.
- 13:41Speaker 1: That sounds good, right. Everyone's a watchdog. Everyone is a
- 13:46Speaker 1: watchdog until the team hands out meaty flavored milk bones.
- 13:51Speaker 3: And then they're good. Then they are good, good, good,
- 13:54Speaker 3: good good. You don't want to be that guy, and
- 13:58Speaker 3: I've learned this.
- 13:58Speaker 1: You don't want to be that guy who gets frozen
- 14:00Speaker 1: out because you actually asked questions or you got the
- 14:03Speaker 1: story out before everyone else. And so everyone who's doing this,
- 14:07Speaker 1: for the most part, they just sit there and play
- 14:08Speaker 1: twiddly winks until the organization drops the script and suddenly
- 14:14Speaker 1: every beat reporter, every insider they send out roughly the
- 14:19Speaker 1: same exact thing within minutes of each other. The coordination
- 14:25Speaker 1: on this is next level. It's not really reporting, it's broadway.
- 14:28Speaker 1: It's a Broadway production of waiting for the press release.
- 14:32Speaker 1: Just sitting around waiting for the press release. It's Tony
- 14:35Speaker 1: Award worthy, is what it is.
- 14:37Speaker 3: It just is. And many fan boys, many fanboys, they
- 14:42Speaker 3: think they're getting their watch dogs. You're not. And I
- 14:46Speaker 3: know you're so far gone you don't even care. You're like,
- 14:48Speaker 3: I believe these Beat reporters are really doing their job,
- 14:52Speaker 3: and they're not really hall monitors. They're not hall monitors
- 14:56Speaker 3: at all.
- 14:57Speaker 1: Prior to they're prioritizing the access. That's the most important thing.
- 15:02Speaker 1: Hang out, laugh at the coach's jokes. Oh the modern
- 15:09Speaker 1: way this all operates now it is.
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- 15:52Speaker 1: or lead this hour from the Big Story over the weekend,
- 15:58Speaker 1: follow up to the follow up, the follow up to
- 16:01Speaker 1: the follow up to the follow up The Big Story
- 16:03Speaker 1: There the King James World Order, The King James World Order.
- 16:08Speaker 1: We understand the contract has been signed while.
- 16:11Speaker 3: We were away.
- 16:12Speaker 1: The Friday News Dump the decision two point zero.
- 16:17Speaker 3: That decision is in.
- 16:18Speaker 1: So Lebron decided to go play for the Sixers and wows.
- 16:25Speaker 1: There's all kinds of wild reaction to Lebron James going there.
- 16:29Speaker 1: The wildest reaction I saw was, well, there were a
- 16:33Speaker 1: couple of things that said out. One of them was
- 16:34Speaker 1: from a former work friend, former work friend of Lebron colleague.
- 16:40Speaker 3: If you didn't hear what he had to say. That
- 16:42Speaker 3: that be.
- 16:43Speaker 1: Patrick Beverley, the glue guy who bounced around, most known
- 16:47Speaker 1: as a Clipper, although he did have the greatest championship
- 16:50Speaker 1: celebration when the Timberwolves won the championship, the playing championship,
- 16:55Speaker 1: and he was crying and emotional. It was what a
- 16:58Speaker 1: night it was amazing that it was anyway, So Lebron
- 17:02Speaker 1: James former teammate Patrick Beverly told every man, woman and child.
- 17:06Speaker 3: That the seventy six Ers are the.
- 17:08Speaker 1: Most dominant team ever after adding Lebron James, the most
- 17:14Speaker 1: dominant team ever after adding Lebron James. So that is
- 17:17Speaker 1: a good jumping off point. Let us discuss the question,
- 17:20Speaker 1: do you agree? Do you agree the seventy six ers
- 17:23Speaker 1: now with this addition Jalen Brown, You've got Lebron you
- 17:29Speaker 1: had to throw on top of that, Joel Embiid when
- 17:32Speaker 1: he plays one out of every ten games. Most dominant
- 17:36Speaker 1: team ever, according to Patrick Beverly, do you approve of
- 17:41Speaker 1: Lebron picking Philadelphia and the idea that this is.
- 17:45Speaker 3: The most dominant team we have seen?
- 17:48Speaker 1: So I've got spacesuit, Elon Musk and Maine Lobster, and
- 17:53Speaker 1: we will combine all all of these things together and
- 17:57Speaker 1: we are going to play Connect three.
- 18:00Speaker 3: We're going to play a little Connect three here.
- 18:01Speaker 1: So number why, Now, there is a chance that Patrick
- 18:05Speaker 1: Beverly is right, called the fat chance, fat chance to
- 18:08Speaker 1: Patrick Beverly is right. Beverly sounds like he's been enjoying
- 18:11Speaker 1: some Colombian bambam if you know what I mean with
- 18:15Speaker 1: that kind of statement. Now, either way, I don't mind.
- 18:19Speaker 1: I got some messages. You should be upset now you
- 18:21Speaker 1: said he was going to Cleveland.
- 18:23Speaker 3: You got it wrong. You said he was going to Cleveland. Yes,
- 18:26Speaker 3: that was my he should have gone to Cleveland.
- 18:28Speaker 1: I believe he'll play long enough to go back to
- 18:30Speaker 1: Cleveland and complete the circle, and he'll end up with Cleveland.
- 18:33Speaker 3: Just means he's going to play a couple more years.
- 18:35Speaker 1: That's it. I'm not upset though. It doesn't matter. I
- 18:39Speaker 1: got a daily talk show to do. I try to
- 18:41Speaker 1: point this out. Some of you are so stupid. You
- 18:43Speaker 1: don't understand that it's good for what I do to casuals.
- 18:48Speaker 1: Scrolling a tablet looking at a depth chart, you're like,
- 18:51Speaker 1: oh man, Lebron James, you get your pants around your ankles.
- 18:55Speaker 1: You're so excited, Lebron, Joel Embi, Jaylen Brown, Super Team.
- 18:59Speaker 3: It's not.
- 19:00Speaker 1: It's not Lebron James took the wrong off ramp and
- 19:05Speaker 1: ended up in a city that is most famous for
- 19:08Speaker 1: throwing de cl energizer batteries at people like JD.
- 19:13Speaker 3: Drew and others over the years.
- 19:16Speaker 1: It is the.
- 19:16Speaker 3: NBA's edition of the Science Fair.
- 19:21Speaker 1: You know, the Radio Shack used to sell these chemistry
- 19:23Speaker 1: sets back into this store called Radio Shack, and someone
- 19:27Speaker 1: just handed King James the mentos and diet coke.
- 19:31Speaker 3: You ever done that with the diet coke and the
- 19:33Speaker 3: mental That's fun, right, it's cool. They're like, Wow, look
- 19:35Speaker 3: at that. Oh it's in the air everywhere. Wow, unbelievable.
- 19:38Speaker 3: I can't believe that's called science. So Lebron didn't just
- 19:41Speaker 3: join the Sixers. He's gonna be there.
- 19:44Speaker 1: He acquired them emotionally. That's always the rub on Lebron.
- 19:48Speaker 1: When things turn upside down, and they will turn upside down.
- 19:52Speaker 1: And Joel Embiid is driving the Mister Softy truck around
- 19:56Speaker 1: the Delaware Valley and Jalen Brown turns out miss is
- 20:02Speaker 1: what he had in Boston.
- 20:04Speaker 3: This is what he had there. Lebron's trying to run
- 20:06Speaker 3: another franchise from the locker room. That's when the rubber
- 20:10Speaker 3: meets the road. And that's what I'm here for.
- 20:13Speaker 1: I'm here for that every franchise becomes Planet Lebron.
- 20:17Speaker 3: It's all about Planet Lebron.
- 20:19Speaker 1: However, Philadelphia already has its own solar system there rage
- 20:27Speaker 1: suspicion and cheese steaks and tasty cakes as well. They've
- 20:31Speaker 1: got that. Where are the think pieces? Are we going
- 20:34Speaker 1: to get a think piece? That Lebron's bad father? He
- 20:36Speaker 1: had his son as a workmate in la Lebron turned
- 20:41Speaker 1: his back on his child to go across the country.
- 20:45Speaker 1: Is that a good father? Is the we're gonna get
- 20:47Speaker 1: that think piece column? That thing on the blog somewhere
- 20:51Speaker 1: le blog is fear? How could Lebron leave Bronny? How fast?
- 20:57Speaker 1: I'm shocked that Bronnie Stephens still on the Lakers. How
- 20:59Speaker 1: did that happen? Shouldn't have gotten rid of him by now?
- 21:01Speaker 1: The weekend is now over. You got to get rid
- 21:04Speaker 1: of Bronni. Send him to Philadelphia and then in return
- 21:09Speaker 1: we'll get back. Well, we'll get some a box of
- 21:12Speaker 1: tasty cakes, possibly get we'll get something.
- 21:15Speaker 3: We'll figure out the trade. We'll work it out there.
- 21:17Speaker 1: So I hope Lebron when he gets to Philadelphia buys
- 21:21Speaker 1: a space suit. Now, why would Lebron need a spacesuit
- 21:25Speaker 1: in Philadelphia? Because that atmosphere melts, melts you, and he's
- 21:31Speaker 1: never experienced that. Now I know he's gonna have the
- 21:33Speaker 1: usual media fatten boys that'll follow him around.
- 21:36Speaker 3: They're looking at real estate in Philadelphia. How can I
- 21:38Speaker 3: get a home there. I've gonna live in Philadelphia, just
- 21:41Speaker 3: like I.
- 21:41Speaker 1: Lived in Cleveland, Miami and LA following Lebron around the country.
- 21:45Speaker 3: But this is much different than La, La, Land and
- 21:50Speaker 3: Cleveland and Miami. And that is where Hope goes.
- 21:54Speaker 1: Philadelphia, where Hope goes to get booed boo.
- 22:00Speaker 3: That's where it goes to get boot Philadelphia. So good
- 22:02Speaker 3: luck on that.
- 22:03Speaker 1: Lebron's never had to deal with that as his home
- 22:07Speaker 1: city Miami. If the team's good, they'll support it. If
- 22:10Speaker 1: it's bad, they'll go out on a yacht somewhere and
- 22:13Speaker 1: have a great time. In LA as they get upset
- 22:16Speaker 1: and they're entitled, and the historians and all that, they
- 22:20Speaker 1: never embraced Lebron though he was always just passing through.
- 22:23Speaker 1: He was never going to be Kobe Bryant or anywhere
- 22:27Speaker 1: close to that. And Cleveland was different because that's it's
- 22:30Speaker 1: from Akron. Obviously it's not exactly Cleveland, but it's close
- 22:33Speaker 1: the closest team, and so there was a kinship that
- 22:36Speaker 1: happened there and he got.
- 22:38Speaker 3: Ugly when he left.
- 22:39Speaker 1: They were burning stuff and freaking out and losing their
- 22:42Speaker 1: mind and.
- 22:42Speaker 3: All that stuff.
- 22:43Speaker 1: And then but in Philadelphia, the outrage machine. It runs
- 22:48Speaker 1: twenty four to seven. It runs twenty four to seven,
- 22:52Speaker 1: and the first losing streak for the Sixers is going
- 22:56Speaker 1: to be treated like a meteor strike. Lebron ordered the
- 22:59Speaker 1: media or strike?
- 23:00Speaker 3: Could he do that? They just meteors? They just floating out.
- 23:02Speaker 1: Well, Lebron ordered it, Well, how do you order it?
- 23:04Speaker 1: Why do you want a team move or so we
- 23:05Speaker 1: can't order that on team why? Amazon? Well you can't
- 23:08Speaker 1: do it on Amazon either. But Lebron did it all.
- 23:10Speaker 3: Right, not pitched too so.
- 23:11Speaker 1: Reports say that Lebron James his camp reached out early
- 23:17Speaker 1: on to the New York Knicks, the Knickerbockers, and so
- 23:21Speaker 1: they're like, hey, Lebron, you know the Knicks, they're interested.
- 23:27Speaker 3: Are they interested? Let's check.
- 23:28Speaker 1: Why don't we check with the Knicks and we'll see
- 23:30Speaker 1: if they're interested. Now, obviously he signed with Philadelphia. The
- 23:33Speaker 1: story was he did reach out his people, his intermediaries
- 23:36Speaker 1: reached out to New York who declined declined to pursue
- 23:44Speaker 1: the opportunity to bring Lebron to the reigning champions of
- 23:47Speaker 1: Pro bouncy ball. According to the story, the Knicks rejected
- 23:50Speaker 1: the idea because they already won, They won the championship,
- 23:55Speaker 1: and they didn't want to get rid of one of
- 23:57Speaker 1: the key players on the team or have to deal
- 23:59Speaker 1: with the internal palace intrigue of what Lebron would mean
- 24:04Speaker 1: to the Knickerbockers and disrupt the thing that they have
- 24:08Speaker 1: in New York. And so that's it. Now, let's assume,
- 24:12Speaker 1: for the purposes of this mall monologue that that is
- 24:15Speaker 1: accurate the question did the Knicks make the right call
- 24:19Speaker 1: by not even engaging and passing.
- 24:23Speaker 3: On Lebron James?
- 24:26Speaker 1: So my answer is not Pepperoni, it's Yepparoni one percent, yes, yep.
- 24:32Speaker 3: Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, Baroni. Absolutely.
- 24:36Speaker 1: Now, why would you invite a one man traveling circus
- 24:40Speaker 1: into the locker room when you just prove you can
- 24:44Speaker 1: get over the top of the mountain to the top
- 24:47Speaker 1: and beyond it without Lebron?
- 24:51Speaker 3: If I'm trying to think, how can I discover it?
- 24:53Speaker 1: So Lebron is like a Dyson cordless vacuum. You plug
- 24:57Speaker 1: him in and he'll suck up every angle ounce of
- 25:01Speaker 1: oxygen in the franchise. It just it just happened. And
- 25:05Speaker 1: every press conference, every lineup decision, a trade rumor instantly
- 25:11Speaker 1: gets filtered through the prism of the Lebron industrial complex.
- 25:17Speaker 3: That's what happens. You know it, and I know it.
- 25:19Speaker 1: Every everything suddenly the spotlight is all about that, from
- 25:25Speaker 1: the logo, from the uniform choices, everything he goes, from
- 25:30Speaker 1: the front of the uniform to the back of the uniform,
- 25:34Speaker 1: the name plate on the back of the uniform, and that's.
- 25:36Speaker 3: Just how it goes. Now.
- 25:38Speaker 1: The real reason I'm happy the Knicks did not engage
- 25:40Speaker 1: here is because years ago, when the New York Knicks begged, begged, Lebron,
- 25:47Speaker 1: please Lebron, we even hired Tony Soprano to come in here,
- 25:51Speaker 1: the Sopranos, to help get you to come play for
- 25:54Speaker 1: the Knicks. We made a cheeseball video that was back
- 25:57Speaker 1: when that show was popular on HBO, and Lebron never
- 26:01Speaker 1: gave them a second glance. He wanted nothing to do
- 26:05Speaker 1: with the Knicks, nothing at all to do. So now
- 26:09Speaker 1: that Jalen Brunson has become the savior, the Messiah of
- 26:13Speaker 1: the New York Knickerbockers and they won. Now they're supposed
- 26:17Speaker 1: to roll out the red carpet for Lebron James. It's
- 26:21Speaker 1: kind of like when you were trying to date a
- 26:22Speaker 1: hot woman, right and she wants nothing to It's like
- 26:25Speaker 1: Elon Musks trying to date a hot woman when he
- 26:27Speaker 1: had no money and all that stuff, and then the
- 26:30Speaker 1: woman wouldn't give him the time of day. And then
- 26:32Speaker 1: all of a sudden he comes up with Tesla and
- 26:34Speaker 1: all this other crap, and he's worth a lot of money.
- 26:36Speaker 1: And now that woman's like, well, yo, let's go out
- 26:39Speaker 1: I have a nice meal. Well, no, you had your shot,
- 26:43Speaker 1: you had your chance, you blew it. We're good, We're
- 26:45Speaker 1: good now. It isn't twenty thirteen.
- 26:49Speaker 3: It's not.
- 26:50Speaker 1: And King James isn't the sun anymore for the Knicks.
- 26:54Speaker 1: He's a flickering porch light at this point, and he's
- 26:57Speaker 1: bouncing around as a journeyman player. Jordan played for the
- 27:01Speaker 1: Wizards at the end. He didn't play for four teams
- 27:04Speaker 1: or five teams. He played for two, and would have
- 27:07Speaker 1: played for one if there hadn't been that whole gambling
- 27:10Speaker 1: thing and Jerry Reinsdorf and all that stuff here. But
- 27:13Speaker 1: the Knicks did not pass on Lebron. That's not how
- 27:16Speaker 1: this went down. They avoided becoming background extras in the
- 27:21Speaker 1: latest Lebron documentary.
- 27:23Speaker 3: All right, now, final point.
- 27:25Speaker 1: Now, this is where we put on our tinfoil cap
- 27:27Speaker 1: so al ferg dog malor prop guy. Make sure you
- 27:29Speaker 1: have your tinfoil caps on. Make sure you have those on.
- 27:32Speaker 1: So the heat are not handling Lebron's rejection very well,
- 27:38Speaker 1: They're not. The snub is not going over well in
- 27:41Speaker 1: Southward And what is my evidence on that? My evidence
- 27:43Speaker 1: on that is that the sixers of all teams Philadelphia
- 27:48Speaker 1: in the Eastern Conference, Northeastern cold weather team and it
- 27:53Speaker 1: gets Chile and philadelphiature in the winter if you know
- 27:55Speaker 1: that it does. And Lebron picked that over South Florida
- 28:00Speaker 1: picked that over South for it. So that is a
- 28:02Speaker 1: pie on the face situation. So my evidence on how
- 28:07Speaker 1: this is not going well it appears, and is it
- 28:10Speaker 1: true that one of pat Riley's Miami media toast sucking
- 28:15Speaker 1: buddies is questioning whether there is more behind the scenes,
- 28:22Speaker 1: behind the scenes foul play involving the recruitment of Lebron
- 28:27Speaker 1: James to the Delaware Valley er Go. A guy named
- 28:32Speaker 1: Michael Rubin. Who the hell is Michael Rubin. He's a
- 28:35Speaker 1: bit owner, a minority owner of the Sixers, and he
- 28:43Speaker 1: influenced is believed influenced Lebron to go to Philly. Now,
- 28:48Speaker 1: Rubin has a unusually buddy buddy relationship with a number
- 28:54Speaker 1: of superstar athletes. He's also being credited with convincing Lebron
- 28:58Speaker 1: James to go into professional or not Lebron Tom Brady
- 29:02Speaker 1: to go into professional wrestling, as Brady's preparing.
- 29:05Speaker 3: To do that and fighting one of those annoying.
- 29:08Speaker 1: Paul Kits YouTube punks. Gonna get into that with Michael Rubin, Supposedly,
- 29:14Speaker 1: if if you believe the gossip about this, there are
- 29:19Speaker 1: questions on whether his influence extended behind beyond the typical
- 29:24Speaker 1: relationship you get. So the question is there something suspicious?
- 29:29Speaker 1: Is there something suspicious about the Sixers minority owner Michael
- 29:35Speaker 1: Rubin and his relationship.
- 29:37Speaker 3: With Lebron James.
- 29:40Speaker 1: So, taking a step back and analyzing from left to
- 29:44Speaker 1: right the story here, Yeah, pat Riley hasn't been this mad.
- 29:50Speaker 1: Pat Riley's not been this mad since someone hit his
- 29:54Speaker 1: hair jail when he was working for the Lakers back
- 29:56Speaker 1: in the day.
- 29:56Speaker 3: It was like nineteen eighty seven. This somebody hit his
- 29:58Speaker 3: hair jail. He was very upset by that.
- 30:00Speaker 1: And the fingerprints are everywhere everywhere on this. So Michael Rubin,
- 30:06Speaker 1: who is a bit owner of the six Ers, he's
- 30:09Speaker 1: more known as the CEO of Fanatics, the company that's
- 30:15Speaker 1: got a choke hold on making sure to price gouge
- 30:18Speaker 1: fans and all the big sports overpriced, poorly made products.
- 30:22Speaker 3: In the air.
- 30:23Speaker 1: Everywhere there a low quality fan merch that you pay
- 30:27Speaker 1: top dollar for. He's the guy behind that. And he
- 30:30Speaker 1: spent the weekend before Lebron chose to go to Philadelphia.
- 30:33Speaker 1: He spent the weekend in New York with Lebron, whining
- 30:38Speaker 1: and dining, whining and dining Lebron at the Fanatics Fest,
- 30:43Speaker 1: where you can have the honor paying nine hundred dollars
- 30:46Speaker 1: to have a photo taken with Jalen Bronson, or you
- 30:48Speaker 1: can just get on AI and have it made for
- 30:51Speaker 1: about free.
- 30:52Speaker 3: Probably I'll probably do it right now.
- 30:55Speaker 1: So anyway, that's the story. Technically, here's the problem. So
- 30:58Speaker 1: on a technicality, we went and looked back at the
- 31:02Speaker 1: review on this, So the Booth review, technically this is kosher,
- 31:07Speaker 1: but you know what that means Michael Ruben's operating was
- 31:12Speaker 1: profoundly swampy, very swampy by Michael Rubin, and you've got
- 31:19Speaker 1: the billionaire sting operation straight out of Tricky Dicky President
- 31:24Speaker 1: Richard Nixon's playbook from back in the day. Here and
- 31:27Speaker 1: Ruben would call it hospitality with intent, little hospitality with intent. However, Lebron,
- 31:35Speaker 1: he wasn't really recruited something very white right would describe it.
- 31:39Speaker 1: He was courted like the head of state. Now, the
- 31:42Speaker 1: ugly truth is we all know this. The ugly truth
- 31:45Speaker 1: is that everyone is in bed with everyone else in
- 31:50Speaker 1: the NBA, in those circles, and all the sports leagues.
- 31:53Speaker 1: It's the robber barons league wide, all of them, from
- 31:58Speaker 1: the heat to the Calves.
- 32:00Speaker 3: To the Warriors.
- 32:01Speaker 1: They were all buttering Lebron like a main lobster role,
- 32:05Speaker 1: just buttering up his biscuits.
- 32:08Speaker 3: And Ruben was just more charming, bewitching Michael Rubin.
- 32:13Speaker 1: And now Riley pat Riley and his pals at Miami
- 32:17Speaker 1: are beaten and broken, they're devastated here, they're annoyed, and
- 32:21Speaker 1: they think there was some suspicious activity going on here.
- 32:24Speaker 3: However, how do you think this plays out?
- 32:27Speaker 1: I would be stunned if there's anything that comes out
- 32:30Speaker 1: of this. The main reason not that I don't think
- 32:32Speaker 1: there might have been something that wasn't exactly right that
- 32:35Speaker 1: took place here that you could say, wait a minute,
- 32:38Speaker 1: that's not right.
- 32:38Speaker 3: That's that's punishable.
- 32:41Speaker 1: The reason I'm skeptical is the NBA is so busy
- 32:47Speaker 1: cashing the fanatics checks from all the overpriced merch that
- 32:51Speaker 1: they're selling there, the poorly made, overpriced merch that they're peddling.
- 32:55Speaker 1: They don't want to upset Michael Rubin, so they're like, oh,
- 32:58Speaker 1: that's fine, that's so, let's get people to spend another
- 33:02Speaker 1: sixty bucks on a hat that's got the logo off center,
- 33:05Speaker 1: or the jersey with the wrong the wrong number or
- 33:09Speaker 1: name plate on it. That seems like a good idea.
- 33:12Speaker 3: Why not?
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- 33:15Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
- 33:18Speaker 3: Here we Go, Here We Gets.
- 33:23Speaker 5: Patrick Mahomes revealed over the weekend that he will wear
- 33:25Speaker 5: a brace on his knee and he's not sure how
- 33:28Speaker 5: long he will have it. He said, I can still
- 33:29Speaker 5: move and be myself with it. Ben, do you think
- 33:31Speaker 5: this is something chiefs fans should be concerned about.
- 33:33Speaker 1: No, a lot of guys wear braces. Uh, this is
- 33:37Speaker 1: a big pivot year for the Chiefs. They stunk last
- 33:40Speaker 1: year and if they have back to back bad years,
- 33:44Speaker 1: that's when Andy Reid will be out.
- 33:46Speaker 3: So this is really and he doesn't they don't win.
- 33:48Speaker 3: Andy's out.
- 33:49Speaker 1: I'm not worried about mahomes injury because like most of
- 33:52Speaker 1: these guys wear braces.
- 33:53Speaker 5: Next, So Cardinals tight end Trey McBride over the weekend
- 33:56Speaker 5: had to make an apology. Apparently he made some comments
- 33:59Speaker 5: earlier in the office and I miss these.
- 34:00Speaker 3: It's interesting.
- 34:02Speaker 5: He said that Arizona doesn't have any of their own
- 34:04Speaker 5: fans because nobody actually is from Arizona. It's just people
- 34:07Speaker 5: traveling here. And then he's like, oh, sorry, I love
- 34:10Speaker 5: Arizona fans. They're great.
- 34:12Speaker 3: Do you think it was right the first time?
- 34:14Speaker 1: Ben, Well, it's not a huge fan base, and there
- 34:17Speaker 1: are people it's like kind of like La there's people
- 34:19Speaker 1: from all.
- 34:19Speaker 3: Over that live in Phoenix and it's a great place
- 34:22Speaker 3: to retire.
- 34:22Speaker 1: And so he's right, you can't say it, like you
- 34:27Speaker 1: can't mean Bloody said it, but you can't say it.
- 34:29Speaker 3: He said it. Yeah, you get next.
- 34:32Speaker 5: Ben Mike McDonald of the Seahawks that talked about the
- 34:35Speaker 5: organization changing hands. Yeah, he said, everything's gonna stay the
- 34:38Speaker 5: same for now. We're gonna run the organization how we've
- 34:41Speaker 5: always run it. Do you think that's gonna stay the case.
- 34:43Speaker 3: No, it's not. It's not. It's gonna be different.
- 34:46Speaker 1: It's a they guy bought it to save money on Texas.
- 34:49Speaker 3: You can own a team for fifteen years and right
- 34:51Speaker 3: off a bunch of crap. It's not gonna be the same.
- 34:54Speaker 3: They're gonna suck the rams on the West? How'd we do?
- 34:57Speaker 3: She passed? That is a road take that no good
- 35:00Speaker 3: day is take that, your little weasel.
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