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#41- LeBron to Philly: New Team, Old Questions · Life According to Brian and Jason

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All right, friends, welcome to another episode of Life According
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to Brian and Jason. Jason,
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what's the hot topic this week? Brian,
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LeBron's going to Philly. Do you care?
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Is he still playing? The long wait, the nightmare is
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over. The long wait. What will he do?
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What's going on? Well, this has taken just weeks,
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dude. It's crazy. I'm trying to care at the moment,
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but I'm really not. Sorry. Because, uh,
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why is the old man still playing? Tell me, Jason.
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Well, I will say he is extremely good,
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and, you know, he's, he's a machine. So I'm
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not saying, you know, he's 41 years old. He's crushing it.
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He can come out and do some incredible work,
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but just not the long grind, you know? And his services are needed.
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Yeah. But it's like the thought was, where is he going? Is he going to
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Miami? Is he going to Philly? Is he going back home to Cleveland?
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Right. And he just held the sports world kind of hostage
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with that. And, you know, he was like, oh, he's waiting for the
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Cup to be over. Then the Cup was over. You know, he's waiting for
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the All-Star Games to be over for the NBA
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and— right, the NBA, the baseball. You know,
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it's like, what the heck? Right. And now he finally said it like
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Friday, I think last week. And I don't
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know, I don't necessarily love him.
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Right. And some of his business dealings. But I will tell
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you, I have seen him live. Have you ever seen him live play?
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I've never seen him live. No, I mean, just on TV. But yeah,
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yeah, I saw him in Washington, D.C.
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Went to the Wizards. He was playing for
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the— let's see, was it for
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Miami? Miami at the time.
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Dude's a man. Everyone else is a boy. The dude is powerful,
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strong. Now, is he 100% like that now at 41?
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No, but he is a presence and he moves.
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And I can only hope, right? I didn't move like
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he did. So he is an excellent player. But what do you think,
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Brian, before we go into his merits and all this other stuff about athletes waiting
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like that, holding hostage, kind of deciding
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all that? That's been him since the beginning.
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Remember when he was in Cleveland and I forget who interviewed him.
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He had a whole news special because this is all what,
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pre-YouTube days, that kind of thing. And so I forget who interviewed
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him and then he announced on live TV where he's
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going. And so this is this guy from the
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beginning. You know, going to Miami Heat. Oh yeah,
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talents, right? Taking my talents, you know. And then Cleveland fans
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are scorned, you know. They feel, you know, they let
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him down. And, you know, and he had a chance
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here to kind of go back and repair that with his hometown of,
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you know, he's from Akron, Ohio. So, you know,
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well, he did. He went back, they won, then he left again. I know,
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but then Personally, well, normal people,
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I don't know, normal, you know, it's all about branding, right? I should have probably
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gone back to, to like a nice story.
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The story would have been go back to Cleveland. They're good. He's got a house
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there. They're good. Right, right. Go home. But now he's chasing rings.
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But his legacy is chasing rings. I know. Go ahead.
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I interrupted you there. No, no, I just, I thought it'd been a classy
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move just to go home. By the time you're 41,
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put your ego over here, you know, and put it
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on the shelf with your trophies and,
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you know, be, be the hometown hero. Do your,
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you know, do your philanthropy and all that kind of stuff. Now he
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goes to Philly and I'm like, what? Philly was— they
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are good. They, they made some other trades. So he's
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not the only one going there. Um, and his camp is
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saying LeBron could just, you know,
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take it easy in some places, but he's challenging himself,
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right? Going to a place and— but the East is easier than
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the West. Oh, you think so? From the West? Oh yeah. Yes,
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yes. Well, considering the Knicks just won,
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now he's in Knicks territory. So what do you think? True, but they broke up
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that team. Pay. So that team is
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just, just, just gone. It's not like,
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right, like Minnesota still has theirs. Denver still has theirs. You know,
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the LA is still strong. I mean, San Antonio,
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San Antonio, they're right. There's all kinds of powerhouses.
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Their teams are functional and strong.
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But how many, how many NBA championships
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do we have? Uh, I know you're gonna tell me
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that. Not 1, not 2, not 3, not 4. You know,
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he said all that, um, when he went to,
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uh, uh, Miami Heat,
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you know. Right. I think he has 4. Yeah, I'm trying to
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look it up. Yeah, because, you know, Jordan's got the 6. No, I think he
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has more. I don't think he has 5. Does he have 5?
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No. I guess 4. He has— oh,
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you Googling that crap? 4 NBA championships.
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Yeah. So he's 2 shy of even tying,
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3 shy of let alone even passing,
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you know. Well, of course, this guy calls himself the King,
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right? King James. You know, no one gave him that. He gave himself that.
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Yeah. He's very polarizing. Our listeners either love him,
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right? Don't like him. You know, right. And by the way,
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a link to our podcast. But I have to
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say, man, Colin Cowherse, I used to listen to him when I
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commuted to work a lot. And he had this one
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episode called You Can't
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Call Yourself the King If You Don't Wear the Crown.
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And it was a great day in his world.
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He said, you know, the self-titled king doesn't work because at that
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time he hadn't won even one NBA championship.
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And well, now he has 4. Okay, whatever.
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And I'm sure he's a leader in some category,
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several categories. But still, you know,
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I mean, you're a self-denominated king because there's
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still people who still have better stats and more rings.
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So, you know, right. And he's, he's polarizing in
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many ways. Like older listeners like ourselves might
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think, like I do, that Michael Jordan is the best player.
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Younger listeners would say, no, no, man,
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he's crushing it. He wins everywhere he goes. He takes his
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teams up. Or Kobe, or that middle generation.
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Kobe. Kobe was good too. All right. There's no denying the
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dude is a specimen. He takes care of himself. Of course, when you're making cash,
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right, it's hard when you have everything in the world, waking up
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at 5 in the morning, working out,
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not still— still doing the grind, right? Not enjoying the fruits of
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your millions as maybe you could. Right.
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That's dedication. So props, man. I'm not, you know,
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I'm just like, but there's other things, you know, I'm a Nugget fan.
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And the Lakers have played the Nuggets, and I've seen LeBron many times,
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like, he will leave the court. They're losing.
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Lakers are losing. Nuggets owned them for quite a while.
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He's leaving the court with like a minute and a half to go. Just leaves,
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you know, gets off and just, you know, gets subbed in and just
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walks into and doesn't shake hands and do crap.
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Oh, just goes, oh, oh yeah, many times. And it's not just the
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Nuggets. He does that for many games. If they're not winning, he just walks.
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Oh, I don't know, man. I just don't think
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he's a— is that really a team player? Bad luck.
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Yeah, I don't think so. It really irritates me. Such a whiny—
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right. You kind of have to look at the optics here. Like,
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you and I are not privileged enough to be on the
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inner conversations of anything like that. So we see
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it from afar, right? So I think he's been a bad look the
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whole time, you know, just because— And you're not even really a
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basketball fan. No, but I follow enough, right?
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I follow enough. And it would be like,
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you know, I don't wear the basketball shoes, but, you know,
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if you had your choice, would you have LeBron shoes or, you know,
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Jordan shoes? Those kinds of things. I don't know.
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LeBron, he just to me is,
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he's cut from a different cloth than the basketball players
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that I grew up with. Like I grew up with Bill Laimbeer,
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you know, those kinds of guys.
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You know, you're thinking through like— Lunchpail. Oh yeah.
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I mean, you know, you're looking at Kareem, you know, and then
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here comes Jordan. I saw him play in person. Right. Karl Malone.
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Right. To me, LeBron is built like Karl
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Malone, and that dude had shoulders and he could throw elbows
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with the best of them. And so, yeah, LeBron in some
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ways had some of the old school physicality in
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a modern game that's not as physical as it used to be in the '80s,
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'70s and '80s. Those are throwdown fights. Go back and watch some
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of the Bulls games from the mid to late '80s.
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Yeah, brutal, you know, and,
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you know, it's, it's a much different game now. And he
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survived in that era. You have to give him that credit.
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But me, I just come from a different generation where you don't like
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whiners and you don't like people who talk
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more than produce. You know, he's produced, but he didn't produce
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what Jordan produced. Jordan kept his head down.
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And just drove it, you know?
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Yeah, he's a tough dude too. That guy, right? Yeah, he was— things— I
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know he was not a nice guy behind the scenes because he's a competitive dude.
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And, uh, right, but, you know, um,
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it's just different optics, right? A different look. It is.
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And, you know, like I said, I was privileged to see him play in
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person, Washington Wizards, playing against them, and dude's just Amazing.
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Just amazing talent. And he has been,
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you know, I guess when you've been told you're the best, you got all this
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money, of course it's going to change you. Like right here, I'm looking that
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reports suggest LeBron will be— he's playing for Philly.
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He's going to live in New York City and helicopter commute
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to Philly daily. Whoa. So I wonder
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how Philly fans— Philly fans— oh, it's interesting.
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Safety concerns. Like, can't live and go, see,
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that's jacked up, dude. Right. You know what I mean? He hasn't
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done it yet, but that's what's being suggested. But,
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you know, Philly fans, as you know, Philly fans,
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they are not shy. They are an outspoken blue-collar
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group, right? And which I don't know if it's really a
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full blue-collar group anymore, but the point is is they're
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outspoken, and if you're not representing them properly,
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they may run you out of town. So who knows? You could have a great
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2 years there, or you could have a contentious 2 years there.
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Yeah. You know, the other thing already, I don't know if you've heard on some
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of the sport talks and just in general,
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you know, they're all making these excuses. You know, everyone has all this talent on
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the team. It's going to take a while for them to gel. When you have
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all that, well, basically you have a bunch of dudes who demand the ball,
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right? You know, who are hurt and they're,
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you know, oh, you know, they're just so talented. They're going to have to
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figure it out. Basically not really playing team ball,
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right? You know, I'm not saying LeBron isn't that. There's other people involved,
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you know, Embiid. Don't get me started. That dude's always, quote unquote, hurt when
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he comes to play Jokic. In Denver. He, you know,
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that matchup just doesn't happen, you know, because he's hurt,
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which he's hurt a lot. So, you know, I don't know. Of course, talk about
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whiny, you know, uh, Jokic does not have a good
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look when he's complaining a call, you know. He squinches his shoulders, right?
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He's like, you know, he doesn't— you know, I don't love that look either.
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Uh, LeBron has the same, you know, whiny little face.
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So LeBron does not own— does
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not own that look or that, that complaint. But, um, well,
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uh, I don't know. Now if he was a Nugget, oh right,
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there was a little talk about him becoming a Nugget. Oh yeah,
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there was, just very little, because he's chilling
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with Stan Kroenke and Jokic, but he's hobnobbing
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on Kroenke's yacht. That's the owner of the Right.
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Nuggets and Arsenal and the Rams and,
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and, and. So there's maybe a little talk that he might help a brother
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out and help a friend. And but that didn't happen.
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Didn't happen. And okay, explain to me, riddle me this, Jason.
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Why is he only taking $8 million for 2 years? Well, that was always
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the thing because he's at the, the vet minimum.
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That's the vet minimum. Oh, and that was always going
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to be what it was because he will make— he He has for many years
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made more with his shoe deals. But something about— and
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I don't know because it's about the apron, the way the NBA works,
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for anyone to take him, they would only take him
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at that NBA because, you know, his minimum. And I don't know enough.
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Sorry, listeners, to really say all that, but bigger than
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that, it's a money cap issue, money cap thing. But they work
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around that by, you know, shoe deals. Obviously, probably getting a helicopter
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to fly in every day. It's crazy. Okay.
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I'm going to throw something out there. We're obviously kind
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of bagging on him, but he's mature. I do
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like him when he interviews. I think he's a great family man,
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all this kind of stuff. I just think career-wise, he's been
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kind of all over trying to— I should talk. I was one
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of those school district guys. I went to a lot of school different. Districts,
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and there's people like you who stay long-term in one place.
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So I guess my career is very like LeBron in that sense.
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I kind of just chase what's interesting.
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Uh, but do you think he's at an age maybe he's more a mentor slash
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coach in this role? Oh, sure. Well, he— dude,
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he is— he has been a quote-unquote coach, coach for
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many years. He— it's his way That's a, that's a
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whole nother podcast about how the NBA, the teammates are running this.
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The, you know, all those players have so much power and influence.
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It's them bringing people over. It's other players saying,
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I know, you know, it's not, you know, it's kind of out of control.
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No, he's very opinionated and, you know, he's, he does
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have a very smart basketball IQ. I agree. I don't
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really, um, fault him for chasing
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his dreams of getting rings. But if it was
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really that important, he wouldn't have gone to LA. He wanted to make his brand
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up in a big market. Right. You know, you stay if you
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really want to win champions. You build something in Cleveland, in Miami,
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and you stay there. You just make a powerhouse. People want to come play with
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you. You make it happen. But no, man, he kind of outweighs
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his welcome. And it's like, I see you, dude.
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You're a little bit too much, you know? But all these guys,
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you know, You know, Michael Jordan was a lot. I mean, he's now— same
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his way, right? Yeah, he went his way.
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Yeah, that, that's, that's different in basketball because 5 guys
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are on the court and I see the coaches always over there
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barking and I don't think anybody's listening. And the pros,
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you know, maybe when it comes to drawing up plans, you know, they do the
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timeout and they got 30 seconds on the clock, they might listen
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to the coach. Right. But, but, you know, college basketball,
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the kids are listening to the coach. The pros, like, whatever, coach is
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yakking, just putting on a show over there. But I don't think they're—
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especially LeBron— listening to anybody, you know. No,
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dude, the dude's 41, right? He is crushing it. 20 points
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a game, 6 rebounds a game, 7 assists.
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He's averaging 51%. I mean, that's crushing it.
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I mean, you take that from anybody. Right. Oh, yeah. That's, that's just that
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he's consistent. You got to give him that all the way through his aging years.
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He's consistent. But sometimes when
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I hear stuff like this, I immediately flash over to
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Aaron Rodgers and like, oh, oh, you know,
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because just when he starts doing interviews, I have to turn it off.
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It's just annoying. But here's what I've learned with Aaron Rodgers,
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which might be possible with LeBron. Even when they
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like Aaron went over to the Jets, which was a total dumpster fire,
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but he went over to the Jets and they did the one of those
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Netflix shows, you know, Hard Knocks or whatever. And they're showing them like
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his very first practices, the summer practices
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with the Jets that first year. Dude, I had a
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whole Ah, maybe I start to appreciate
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him because he's coaching. He's over there, he's teaching kids,
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well, here's this, here's that, here's how I read this. He's on
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the sideline cheering people on. I like that play.
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And from what I saw on TV to what you read in the headlines,
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like, you know, the Jets are terrible, they all hate each
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other, there's no camaraderie. And then you go watch the show
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and go, Hmm. What happened? Did it break down
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or was it sensationalized in the media? I don't know.
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But I have to say,
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Aaron won some, some grace
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back in my world because I thought, well, look at that.
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He could be one hell of a coach. And that's why I asked you that
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question is maybe LeBron's got some aspirations
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to you know, buy a team or coach a team or— Oh,
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sure. Yes, I know he would love— probably, you know. Yes,
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I think he would like to own a team. But to get back to that
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Aaron Rodgers thing, it's just really quick. So I did fantasy football.
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Aaron was not my fantasy quarterback, but several of his players were
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on my team. So I watched a little bit more. And Denver, we saw more
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games this year for whatever reason, right? Yes, he's competitive stuff.
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But man, the look The look, dude, he would
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dog cuss players out for running a route wrong.
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Oh, and not all of it was his— was their fault.
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Sorry. Sometimes, of course, in football you don't know the
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play's wrong, whatever. Right. But sometimes he would make a mistake.
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I'm just saying, dude, throw the first stone. You know,
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he was a tough taskmaster. He was really on people
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harshly in public. Right on the field, just dog
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cussing you. So, and then he
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messes up, no one can say anything to him because not all of it was
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his supporting cast. Um, I just don't really like how Aaron does
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his business. I'm not saying he doesn't know stuff and can't
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say things, and he probably is good on that side, on the side,
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but man, game days, just, uh, not a good teammate,
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man. I'd be like Dude, I get it. You know,
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the Peyton— Peyton could be tough too, but I
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don't know. The way he did it, he didn't do it in open. How about
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that? He didn't like rip you a new one right
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in time, right? So it was just a bad course.
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I'm just biased against him. Maybe we just hate winners,
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Brian. Do I hate winners? Is that why I don't like LeBron? I don't like
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Aaron, of course Aaron's only won one, but go ahead. Right,
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right, exactly, exactly. Well, anyway, I was
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just— sometimes when you get to peek behind the
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curtain and you get to see your sports people
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in a different light, sometimes they surprise you because
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they show they're more human than the machine
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that they— you see it in a news conference or on TV
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or on the sideline. You know, and sports guys do.
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They talk rough to each other. There's no, you know, in the heat
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of the moment, there's no, there's no, hey,
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I should put my kind hat on right now, you know?
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Well, yeah, that's true. No, that's true. You know, we don't know any of these
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dudes. I know, right? I don't know anyone, though. I will say,
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back to LeBron, dude, he has given a lot to charity.
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He is never in the news for crazy crap.
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You know, stuff, right? No, you know, so obviously,
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no, he's got a lot going for him and he is good. So,
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right, right. Yep. Good. He's great. No, he's great. Yeah.
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Yeah. Well, let's see how it pans out. So let's make
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each make a prediction here. So I,
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I think the first year, uh,
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well, I say they're competitive.
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Yeah, he signed a 2-year deal. I don't think they're going to climb the
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mountain the first year he's there. I think it'll look good, but I
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kind of have feelings the second year will be worse than the first year.
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That's my prediction. No championship either year.
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Okay, my prediction is that they will do very good this year.
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Okay, uh, new energy this year. Okay, new energy.
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Must-see TV. He will stay healthy all this
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year, but move on to his second, second year,
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he will get hurt or something toward the
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end, making the, the push. Okay. Uh,
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I think he is a player who can put his will onto
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the court and make people better. Personally, I think he does do
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that. Um, my prediction, he does just one
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year But then he gets hurt or something
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his second year and it's over. Right. Unfortunately for
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him, that's my prediction. Okay. They will go and they
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will make the playoffs. They will be a force. Right.
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That's my prediction. Okay. All right. We'll find out. Hey,
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speaking of other sports, these are some
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stories our listeners might have missed. So we're
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just going to segue for a little bit into something. Hey, Jason, did you
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know Tony Romo got arrested? For a DWI.
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Oh, that dude is a broadcaster for,
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I forget what network, but I like Tony.
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Yes, I like him. He's a great, for a guy not winning the Super Bowl,
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he's a great broadcaster.
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But this is not a good look. They call it an OWI,
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not a DWI, but yeah.
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So what do you think, man? Is this a career ender for his broadcast
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days? They just gave him a huge contract. Oh,
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it will be slapped under the table
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and he'll have to make some PSAs and it'll
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just kind of go away unless it keeps happening, you know, then that
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would be bad. I mean, who knows? Okay, along that
25:18
same line, something that was repressed or
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oppressed or not known public, which is
25:25
very interesting, is Kyle Shanahan Oh yeah,
25:29
really nasty wreck. Oh, and broke ribs,
25:33
broke his nose. Oh no, all kinds of, um,
25:36
like a car accident. Yes. Yeah. Oh, no alcohol was
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involved, but it was, it was keep it kept out for like
25:45
over a week. Oh, and then it was published, you know, no one's got hurt,
25:49
right? I mean, seriously, I mean, he did, he had a major concussion.
25:54
He's jacked up, so just what's going on there.
25:57
Yeah, I like him too. I like him. Right,
26:02
the other sports story that most people probably didn't
26:06
pay attention to was I watch golf and there's
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4 majors that you try to win in a calendar year
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and if you can win all 4 of those babies, you're up
26:20
there with the the greats, right? So, the Open, which used to be
26:23
called the British Open, was this last weekend.
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And I'm a big Scottie Scheffler fan, Cameron Young,
26:32
Sam Burns, all these Americans. Well, they're out there crushing it. All of
26:36
a sudden, here comes this— if you're not a golf watcher, I mean,
26:40
I watch golf and I didn't even know who this guy was, this new New
26:43
Zealander golf pro named Ryan Fox.
26:47
Starts coming up the leaderboard and takes the championship. And I
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think he's not even ranked in the top 100 of golf. And,
26:54
and what makes it weird, not that, you know, pro— some
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unknown pro golfer wins the Open, which is very hard to do, so that
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is good. The other part that's weird about him is he takes
27:06
almost no time to set up his shots. And this is why
27:10
most people don't watch golf. They're like, you know, the guy's sitting there scratching his
27:13
butt lining up his putt, walking around the ball 14
27:18
times, and then finally hits it. Right. And so it's pretty slow drama.
27:23
And not this guy. He's like Lee Trevino, which is a big
27:27
hero of mine. Lee would just get up and hit the ball. This guy's the
27:31
same way. He just gets up, hits it up for a putt, looks at the
27:34
hole, just lines himself up. Boom, gone. He has no
27:39
setup time. And then all of a sudden everybody's like, whoa,
27:42
who is this guy? I can't believe he can play like that.
27:47
So anyway, it's a big deal if you know golf. I do not
27:50
know golf, and I'm glad you told me. Right, right. So there you go.
27:53
So, so I'm going to be watching out for this guy because, you know,
27:57
I missed it, uh, because, you know, I was traveling.
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Yeah. So I kind of missed that Sunday. You know, a golf tournament like that
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starts on a Thursday. So you have 2 days of cuts,
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and so you have to score a certain score, combined score,
28:13
in your first 2 days, and then the field drops significantly in numbers.
28:17
Those guys go home, and then Saturday and Sunday they're
28:22
playing for the— you know, they had a purse of $17 million
28:26
that weekend. So, you know, it's not bad, not bad money.
28:30
I'd say it's, you know, for the top, I don't know, 100 players that make
28:33
that final cut. Whatever their cut was. But yeah,
28:37
anyway, dude, so I'm out of goofy stories. You got one left?
28:43
No, man. We did a bunch there. Right, right. Well,
28:47
our next podcast will dabble with the Tour de France.
28:50
I'm just waiting on some scandals to cut out and then I'll
28:54
teach our audience how to watch bike racing and all the juicy
28:58
stuff. I know, I know just a little, but not much.
29:01
Right. Right. Only what I learned from American Flyer. Right,
29:05
right. That's a teaser. That's a teaser, folks. All right.
29:09
Let's swing back to LeBron real quick. Okay. So you and I
29:13
are baseball fans, which means the Phillies— we're
29:17
not a fan of Phillies baseball. Right. And they're
29:21
National League. They kind of beat up on our Rockies, obviously.
29:25
And our dude Bryce Harper, we saw him.
29:29
In the Junior College World Series. The dude is one
29:33
of the best, but he's kind of a tool when it comes to
29:36
media and personality. What do you think? LeBron and Bryce
29:41
Harper gonna get along in the town of Philly? They will make
29:45
some appearances together. Already a bunch of pro athletes
29:48
have reached out welcoming him. Oh, okay. LeBron is,
29:52
you know, he's a brand. Sure, everyone wants to get a part of that,
29:55
man. That's a good way to say it. He's not a player. He's a brand.
29:58
He's a brand. No, no, no. They're all going to be like, hey, and but
30:02
guess what? I bet all those dudes own a house. I'm not
30:06
saying you live 24/7, right? 12 months out of
30:09
the year there. But they all live in the city.
30:14
Yeah, maybe. Maybe they don't. I don't know. Maybe they don't. But yeah,
30:19
that seems terrible. Hey, I'm going to play for you, but I'm going to live
30:22
in New York.
30:26
For security reasons, dude. I know you're blonde,
30:29
James, whatever. All right, well, hey, we don't know. We don't know all the
30:34
threats and stuff. Well, here's, here's, here's your research to do,
30:37
Jason. TMZ, you know, the gossip
30:42
news thing, they actually have a sports channel. So Google
30:46
TMZ Sports. I guess you'll follow LeBron there.
30:51
Okay. So there you go. Yeah, because they'll have it.
30:55
And because that's where I go.
30:58
Just, you know, just to kind of keep up on the weirdness in sports,
31:02
things that aren't making like, you know, the top headlines in my feed
31:07
or say any major news outlet.
31:11
All right. What's TMZ saying? Of course, the Tony Romo thing was there.
31:16
Yeah, the Kyle Shanahan thing was there. So yeah,
31:19
that's, that's where I go. And but dude,
31:23
guess what? What? We are out of time,
31:26
man. Hey, that was fun.
31:30
You know, I guess maybe this year I'll pay a little bit more attention to
31:34
basketball and LeBron because you said so. You have a way of— you go,
31:37
well, I got to see, you know, right? Either you want to see the train
31:41
wreck or you want to see it all Well, that's it. I think
31:44
he's going to crush it personally. I think he's going to just— he's motivated.
31:49
He's just going to crush it. Here I am talking smack and I
31:52
don't even watch. So anyway, so I
31:56
got to humble up here, watch, and then I can make a fair assessment later.
32:01
So how about that? But okay. Well,
32:05
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