Petros Papadakis on Hawaii, Tom Brady Roast, LeBron’s Legacy

Petros Papadakis joins Dick Fain to talk about Softy spending the week in Hawaii, Tom Brady’s roast last weekend, LeBron James’ legacy and what he is doing to the Lakers.

Episode Transcript

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are you hello? Where might thatdog bite you? All right on your
balls? But you know I'll tryto keep it a PG. Well,
you know, you're a man ofa more refinement than I'd like to think,

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so I see, I definitely Istill though, have a sophomoric bone
in my body. There's no questionabout that. There would be no I
mean, what would you want youto be doing working with soft That's right?
I mean, fart jokes are stillfunny to me, even though I'm
almost fifty years You know, I'malmost fifty years of age. Petros I
am. I am one month removedfrom the Big five. Oh man,
I'm just I'm just like like holdingonto my forties with like one finger around

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the bar as I'm dangling. Ihope you have a wonderful celebration. City
will come out. It's gonna belike bumber shoot, feel like bumber shot.
Well, Well yeah, I'm sureanytime Softie is around a party,
and uh you know, he'll he'llhe'll be part of the the scheming of
this whole thing, which is whichis always a good it's either a great
thing. When Softie is a schemingyour party or it's a horrible thing.

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It's really nothing in between. Sowe'll see how it goes. But uh,
he's at one for parties. Yeah, I'm not a big I'm not
a big I like I like smallgatherings. I'm more of a small gathering
guy. But uh, yeah,our man's in Hawaii. Are you you
gotta you gotta go to Uh yougotta go to spot in Hawaii? Well,
I used to go to Hawaii.We used to. My my in

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laws have a home in Maui.Beautiful, I mean. But the one
thing that always kind of struck meabout any place we lived when I was
a kid, my father was reallyinto surfing. Hm uh and uh we
we spent a summer or two inKawaiti with a friend of his from high
school who had beaten back nature outsideof Koloha town and set up like an

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art colony. So when I wasa kid, we used to stay out
there in the summer. And Kawaiiis very different, you know, you
can only build one story and it'skind of rustic in its way. Still
a lot of hotels and tourism andpeople being exploited in a lot, but
it's a pretty place. And Ihave to say I was a bunch of

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Maui because my in laws had aplace in Maui when I was first married
and before we got married, andwhen my wife was pregnant, we were
out there. And it's funny becauseyou kind of realize after you know,
unless you stay in a hotel,you got no clue. But if you
stay in like a condo and youtalk to people and you're around a little

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bit more than the people that youknow show up for the week, or
stay in a timeshare, you reallyrealize that there's not much there in Hawaii.
Like it's really like it really remindsme of kind of like a movie
set to where if you push onit, it falls over and there's nothing
there. I mean. And that'sno disparagement on the people of the island,

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because the people of the island arewonderful people and obviously very proud and
all that, but it's just it'samazing to me that if you're on any
island other than a Wahoo and somethinghappens to you, like medically, and
you can't survive a metavac to Honolulu, you're going to die, but you

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are going to die and I hopeI just remember this because my wife was
very pregnant and we were like,so, you know, because I started
that, I started to kind ofresearch it and ask questions. But my
wife was very pregnant and we werenot planning on having the baby in Maui,
but we just looked like, whatwould happen if we had some kind

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of premature birth too, And werealized that if you want an epidural to
have a baby in Maui, yougot to order it like before you're pregnant.
Well, you just got to havethe baby raw dog. You know,
all this crazy stuff, and it'skind of funny in some ways,
but also then you think about whathappened in Lahina, which is a place

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a lot of people from the WestCoast has spent a ton of time,
of course, and been fleeced astourists and maybe bought a bag of weed
at the Banyan Tree or something likeall of that. Like you start to
look around and be like, mygod, I kind of understand there was
no there. It was it waslike a shanty. There's no regulation,

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there was no there was no anything, no protocol. So anyway, it's
a long speech about Hawaii. Ihope Softy makes it back. I'm nervous
for him all of a sudden.Well, the other thing that freaks me
out, like I had a friendwho worked in sports information before you know,
the internet, back when it wasa really meaningful job and uh,
you know, back in the becktholedays, and we're still in the back

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I know, thank god. Butthis guy was overqualified, moved back to
Hawaii because that's where his family wasfrom, and realized that you can't get
a job because people only hire theirbrother in law, you know, stuff
like that. You know, it'svery difficult to penetrate the whatever system of

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opportunity there because people are pissed offbecause they used to live on the beach
and now there's a gigantic phallus ofa hotel at the beach, you know,
I mean it's a complicated place.But as long as Softie's able to
milk a good time out of thosepoor people, what does it matter?
That's right. I'm sure, I'msure he is Betro's papaegas joining us.

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What did you think and how muchdid you see of the Tom Brady roast?
Were you one like Hugh Millen andJackson Feltz who decided to devote three
and a half hours of your lifeto the Tom Brady roast. Were you
like me that? Just I gotthe highlights from social media. We gave
tickets away because it was at theForum, so in Inglewood, so we

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did gave give tickets away to it, and so in that way, I
was more aware of it than itwas coming. Maybe I had no idea,
like until like twenty four hours beforeit occurred, I had no idea
this was even happening. Yeah,it's interesting. And one thing like as
everybody's talking about, like, Okay, who are we going to do next?
And just come on, please,Lebron can't even Lebron can't handle being

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criticized even barely. I mean,you know that, which would make him
perfect. I was surprised that JimGray didn't, like, do a flying
tackle on somebody. That's right,Tim gra because he's Tom's buddy. Oh,
he's Tom's bitch, So you know, I don't know. It was.
It was the one of the douchiestgatherings of people that you could ever

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imagine in the history of the cityof Los Angeles. And I guess I
don't know why I don't under Maybeit was because he's going into television and
he's gonna start working at Fox,and he really wanted to disarm everybody,
and that was pretty disarming. Iguess yeah. And I do know.

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I mean that just popped into myhead because I've been thinking, like,
why would you do that? Youknow, why would you let And I
guess it's just so you could reallystart endearing yourself to the entertainment industry in
the city of Los Angeles. Ithink that's totally fair, because I think
there's a lot of people that thinkTom Brady's a d bag. Well I've
been I've been one of them.And this whatever my opinion of Tom Brady

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was before this roast, I wouldsay it has ticked in a more positive
direction than it has in a negativedirection since the roast. I've known,
I mean, I don't know TomBrady, but I've known Tom Brady since
we were in college. He usedto come and hang out with us on
the football team because his best friendfrom college from high school excuse me,

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Sarah high school, same place BarryBonds went up in northern California. His
best friend was the first basement atUSC, so he used to come around
and be around with his concave chestwhile he was playing at Michigan. And
you know, I didn't think hewas a d bag. I thought he
was a dork. Ye know,he's a huge dork. And when a

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huge dork makes a billion dollars,they have some serious d bag tendencies that
arise. Maybe, but I don'tthink that that's really his nature deep down.
I just think he's a huge dorkand that's okay. He's self effacing
and that's fine. But I knowfor a fact that he is around the

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Fox building all the time now,trying to get ready to call games and
training and trying to be trying tomake that serious career. I mean,
they're paying him like it is,and he didn't want to be bad at
it. So I guess, nowthat we've talked through it, Dick,
I think it has something to dowith him, uh moving into the entertainment

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world. And I never thought they'dpay anybody that much to call the right
I mean, the Tony Romo thinghas kind of gone belly up after one
good season that people thought he hadit, you know, and now they're
annoyed with him. I don't know, how it's gonna work out. But
he's going to be prepared though.I mean he boxes in La you know,

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so if he was going to workat Espen, they would have had
the roast in New York. SoI guess now it makes sense. I
gotcha Petros Papadegas joining us, youknow, and f Giselle if she gets
buttoned, it's like, you know, you shouldn't have started, should have
started to publicly cheat on your husbandwith the jiu jitsu instructor if you didn't
want kids being but hurt about agazelle, it's right, Brazilian strumpet shut

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up. Wo Well, you knowyou mentioned Lebron there. I think he'd
be the perfect next target for this. I am a Lebron fan, but
I totally understand why people aren't Lebronfans. I just kind of separate my
love for his basketball versus the offthe court stuff. And you know,
do you is he staying down there? Is he gonna be the coach of
the Lakers. Well, it's gonnabe the future here, like the the

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immediate future of Lebron James over thenext twenty four months. Sadly, what's
happened, you know, the Lakersare family owned, right right, which
and most a lot of these alot of these big look at the Dodgers,
who have had enormous success, youknow, regular season and stuff like
that. But the Dodgers make alot of money. They're the most visited

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sport on Earth because of the sizeof Dodger Stadium, the Latino fan base,
how good the team is, youknow, all these different things.
And the Dodgers used to be ownedby a family, and it was really
special. The O'Malley family, theone that brought him over from Brooklyn and
kicked all those people out of ChavezRavine and blew up their houses and all

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this stuff. And it was afamily and everybody could look to them,
and they took care of Vin andall that stuff. But nowadays the Dodgers
are owned by a gigantic corporation calledthe Guggenheim Group, and it kind of
feels like that's if you're one ofthe most recognized brands and sports, maybe
that's the direction it's going. Andthe Bus family still owns the Lakers.

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Doctor Buss is dead and if youlook at it, ever since Jeannie took
over Lovely Lady in My apologies tourand a friend of the show, but
it's a disaster. They've done anincredible amount of star effing, and they
gave Kobe a contract to end hiscareer that was crippling to the franchise.

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And it made sense to people becauseKobe was a lifelong Laker. Down here,
it doesn't make sense to people thatLebron James and his Clutch Sports crew
have basically taken over the Laker franchisefor all purposes because of their weakness.
They're weak, so Clutch Sports gonein and they dictate when the coach gets

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fired. They dictate who comes inand who comes out. And I think
the thing that really bothers people isit's always it's always somebody else's fault,
and Lebron is the most is theleast accountable superstar ever. And then he's
got all these you know, hefires a coach, he goes underground for
a week or two like he isright now. Let's all his minions work

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and say stupid stuff like Brownie Jamesreminds me of Gary Payton, you know,
just and we all just have tosit here and bend over and get
nailed by the King and I'm tiredof it. I honestly, I loved
him as a basketball player too,until he showed up in LA and I
and I and I got a realclose look at the act. And God

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bless you if you can separate thetwo. This guy's hard to watch.
But it's hard. It's hard thathe's in town that the legacy, though,
seems to be the most important thing. And if the most important thing
is the legacy, I don't thinkhe can stay in La. I'm gonna
ruin his legacy if he already hasn'tjust by around. Yes, and I
like it. I have thrown outwhat I think. If Lebron James were

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to go to that New York Knicksteam that is currently constructed and he bring
helps to bring a title to NewYork, nobody wants him. Don't you
understand that nobody wants to play withhim? But nobody is that close to
a title? Doesn't matter. No, he's divisive. There's a leadership problem.
He's the leader. He's not agood leader. Maybe he used to

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be, but he's not. Everybodysees that wherever he goes, if you
have success, it's because of him. And if you don't you're to blame
interesting, the coach, the players. I mean, this stuff doesn't happen
in a vacuum. I think thatthe NBA has gotten wind of it.
And look, I grew up inthe Kobe Bryant era in media. I

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would never think that there would bea more polarizing player in the history of
the Lakers more than Kobe. ButKobe looks like Captain America for the Lakers
compared to Lebron. Now, surethere's some revisionist history, and in the
way he died is just horrible andthat changes a lot of what people remember
about what they used to say.But it's amazing just how his lack of

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perspective. And maybe it doesn't matterbecause he considers himself to be the greatest
basketball player of all time and hedoesn't matter who says what about him or
anything. But Laker fans hate thisguy. Like I thought that Kobe was
polarizing, not even close. Likehe's ruining the Lakers. The Lakers are

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bigger than Lebron, but brand isbigger than Lebron, right, And somebody's
got to get Genie out of bedat two pm on a weekday and tell
her Beetro's Papa egg Is joined hisfinal couple minutes here. Petro's I've been
throwing this around when we were atthe the spring game. We were talking
to some of the Husky greats,Lincoln Kennedy and Shack Thompson and Mark Bruner

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was there, and Jake Locke looked, Yes, we had it was fun.
It was fun. I don't knowwhat if you if you watched,
you know any of it at all. But I stopped not to give you
a long answer. But even thoughI'm a college football analyst and I really
used to load up, I usedto travel, you know, I come
up and visit you guys, butuh, I used to really study in
the spring, and it happened,even happened before the portal opened up the

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way it has. But there's justno use in it. Yeah, you
know, some of these teams looksimilar once the fall comes around, but
the ratio of that is so smallthat it's it's a waste of time to
study. I'd rather rant and raveabout That's that's funny, because that's kind
of what John Wilner said yesterday.But I was going to ask you a
question. I asked them, Ikind of floated this around. In this

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new era of college football, weare going to have guys that come in
and do great things and could beconsidered legendary players in a program, and
they're going to now finish their careerssomeplace else. Do you think that you
can have a you know, notretire a jersey, but have a ceremony

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on the field for a Husky legendif a Husky legend decides I you know,
I e. You know, JabbarMohammad or something. When you guys,
you could have had this conversation asa U DUB type for the last
twenty plus years. Corey Dillon,you know, Corey Dillon showed up,
played ten games or whatever, neverwent to class. One of the greatest

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running backs in the history, allright, but he didn't go someplace else
after I'm talking about a guy hedid. He went to the pros,
you know what I mean? Likehe was like, you have to remind
like I was there. Yeah,So I stood there and watched him.
I didn't. I didn't play inthat game much. Maybe I did.
Uh no, No, I wasineligible. But I was standing on the
sideline and I remember Corey Dillon flyingunder the line of scrimmage against You see,

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we don't talk about him because hewas only there for eleven games.
I mean, did anybody even eversee him on campus? So I mean
that's a I mean to me,that's always an interesting and it's a Washington
thing. Uh, you know,it's it's weird and it sucks. I
mean, just from the reverse perspectivewith Oregon. One player, and there's

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a lot of examples, but Ican think of the he got drafted.
I think the safety Evan Williams outof Fresno. He played like four years
at Fresno and won a Mountain Westtitle and carried their water and he was
a Fresno god. And then forhis senior year he went and played at

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Organ. Perfect example. Is hegonna be a Fresno legend? Well,
they honor him. They treated himlike that, and I don't know if
they'll retire as jersey and all thatstuff. You know. The it's interesting
and I have friends who are beingrecruited and stuff in this works and basket
all as well. Like at thispoint in college football, if you're a

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big recruit or something, especially lookat basketball, where they're always bringing in
new people every year to take yourjob. Why not start at a smaller
place, develop your game, andthen play for a couple of years and
then go get paid at someplace bigger, you know, use that place as
a stepping stone. And I don'tknow if that's right or wrong, but
that's how a lot of kids arethinking, yep these days. But I

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mean this to me is like theend of a movie where the face starts
changing, and like the longer themovie goes on, the face starts changing
more and more rapidly. Right Like, this change is going to this weird
machination of the Big ten and theportal and the nil as we know it.
Right now, it's not going tobe a lasting thing. We're going

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to evolve into something now, somethingmore professional, and it's going to happen
sooner than later. But right now, yeah, we're at a very awkward
time, and I think it's goingto be like where you look back can
be like remember those couple of yearswhen everybody was going every well, you
know, I don't think it'll beas prevalent as it has been the last
couple of years. Petro's always apleasure. I hope Softy can make it

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back without an upper dural because hedid not order one two weeks in advance.
Now he's gonna be in a lotof paint, yeah he will.
All right, A great day,Jackson, you've met Petros popping day,
gizz. We'll chat with you millincoming up next on ninety three point three
kJ R FM.