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But it is that time. There's a tradition on this show,
and that tradition is none other than Petros Papadakis, the
co host of the Petros and Money Show, which you
can hear on the Blowtorch and five seventy LA sports
Fox college football analyst and find him on X at
(01:20):
the old p Petros good morning, Good.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Morning, Hello skirt, what Pete? What's going on? Oh?
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Is this the other Jello?
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Oh there's only one Jello.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
There's only one Jello.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
Hey, but I'll tell you what there isn't just one
of I was today years old when I realized, who
Jeff Bezo's just just married? Oh yeah, man, yeah, can
you give me because you're a LA guy, can you
give me some color on this?
Speaker 5 (01:51):
Bro?
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Sure?
Speaker 4 (01:53):
Because it is sports related? Oh yeah, his marriage is
sports related.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Make sure to add some color on it.
Speaker 6 (01:59):
There used to be there used to be a comedian
in uh in Gotham City who had a wife and
I think a pregnant wife or something, and was struggling
and went into a life of crime and fell into
a vat of chemicals. And that comedian came out with
green hair and and a weird white face. And now
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they're known as the Joker. The Joker, and she married
Jeff Bezos.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
No, I'm kidding.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
Uh, thank you Jonas.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
She uh she worked Miss and Discriminate though well, Miss
sin Chez worked at Channel eleven.
Speaker 6 (02:44):
Which is which one is that k t TV out here,
which is the Fox affiliate. So she worked at the
Fox affiliate, which is not where all the Fox people
like me work, uh, which is down the street, which
is the Fox lot, the movie lot, which they actually
sold along a few years ago to ESPN and.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
A bunch of other people.
Speaker 6 (03:09):
They don't own it anymore, but they rent their sports
building on the Fox lot, so if that makes any sense,
the twentieth century Fox Lot is really no longer owned
by Fox. But that's where we all work. KTTV is
on Bundy, which everybody knows from the OJ trial a
little ways over in Brentwood, West LA. And that's where
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Fox eleven is. She Sanchez worked there as a newslady,
and I believe that I don't know, I just like to.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Or Lopez.
Speaker 6 (03:46):
She she worked there at KTTV, and she was married,
even though it's not listed. She was married to a
famous old KTTV's foot soldier porter and really good play
by play guy who was a usc played by play
guy for se basketball and he was an Angels play
by play guy. And he passed away, uh kind of suddenly,
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but he was she was married to Rory Marcus for
a little while, was she really? Uh huh? And then
she uh yeah, Bryan Thompson, Yeah, she was married to him.
It was like the Kim, that black dude that Kim
Kardashian was married to first that everybody, Yeah, yeah, everybody
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acts like ray J was the first dude to date her.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
But uh so after that, she.
Speaker 6 (04:37):
Dated Anthony Miller, the wide receiver from the Chargers and Denver. Yes,
and then and then she dated Tony Gonzalez and had
a baby with him, and then she dated like Derek Fisher. Yeah,
and I mean she'd been around uh and uh then
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Bezos snatched her up. But she doesn't look the same
that she as she used to, and neither does he.
You know, he looks like this way different. He looks
like a sperm that lifted weights. So is it like
a small little sperm.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Is it fair to say that she she's got power
to all fields basically looking at her resume here, well,
I would.
Speaker 6 (05:20):
As far as I mean to me, it still seems
like she's she's one tool player.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Because Rory Marcus looks different than Anthony.
Speaker 6 (05:29):
Yeah, well Rory would be Yeah, that was you know,
the black guy that Kardashian. But uh, let's see if
I got any wrong. She got Tony Gonzalez, that was
her two thousand and Anthony Miller.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Then she was with Derek Fisher.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Yeah, and uh, Henry Simmons.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
I feel like Simmons whoever they're.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Good looking do super good looking Due played like a
police officer on on television.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
And well then she married another random white.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
Patrick White Cell. Then she she went back to the
other side, and then she came back. You know, well
she stays, yeah, you're right.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
She she she hits Happo.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
So yeah, she's not.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Yeah, she's not Tacoah real slock hit her and.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
She don't go and she don't stay a certain like
skin color either, Like she goes light skinned, dark skinned brown.
You know what, bring it, everybody up top. I mean,
she's United Nations. This is what the American dream, that's
what it's all about.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
I'm happy for her.
Speaker 6 (06:26):
Well, she's got a lot of friends who are like
people at Fox, like the kind of people the kind
of person that sued cowhard or who was who did
that Lady Sue and Sharp?
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Yeah, yeah, there a.
Speaker 6 (06:42):
Lot of those type of people were like people that
work at Fox Wardrobe people stuff like that, and then
you know Carrissa is very close with them, who does
a lot of work with Amazon. So it was there
was there was some people that I knew there, There
were If I was there, there would have been people
to sit.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Can I ask you a question of follow up to this?
What is it?
Speaker 4 (07:04):
What is it with La people sharing one another? Like
I've never like, maybe I haven't liked Hell.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
I don't know. I'm from here. No nobody cheer for me.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
They don't share you.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
They don't cheer me, show me or share me or
cheer me.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Yeah, share not chair not cheer leading. Sharing. Sharing is caring.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Like a lot of people share each other's people out here,
Like I get it.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
It's a weird culture of that in La. I have.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (07:36):
I used to know Maui pretty well, just from a
home there that my in laws owned, so we would stay,
you know, out of the hotel areas and stuff, and
you end up talking to people and you get to
know people that live there, and they don't they talk
about women there, that there's just not that many women,
and that there's not really that many people on the island.
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And I always think of a Hawaiian island, especially Maui,
as like a movie set, and sadly it was very,
very prevalent when they had the disastrous fire there in Lahaina.
But I always think of those places as kind of
a movie set, like it's beautiful. There's all these buildings
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that it seems like there's all this stuff, these stores,
these restaurants, but there really are no resources, and if
you push on it, it like falls over.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
It's it's false, it's not real.
Speaker 6 (08:31):
And you learn that when something bad happens, like an
individual disaster where somebody gets hurt catastrophically, and if you
can't survive a metavac to Honolulu, you're gonna die. This
is a long way to answer your question, but I
think it's prevalence.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
It's all right. What people feel, the relevance of this.
Speaker 6 (08:50):
What people say in Maui is you don't really get
your a relationship with a girl, you get your turnus.
You know, there's really not that many people there.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
You know. It's kind of like you know that old joke,
it's your night in the barrel.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
And so it's about eligible day. I don't I think
lacause there are a ton of people in l A.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Yeah, there's are people here.
Speaker 6 (09:18):
There are, but there's only a certain amount of people
that think that they're as cool as these idiot marginal
TV stars that you share.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
And god forbid sh and god forbid one of those
women who gets meta backed, you know, then.
Speaker 6 (09:30):
Oh yeah, they're never going to survive the medavac to Honolulu.
But they're just that it's a little tiny pond and
they just jumped from lily Pad to lily Pad without
really going anywhere.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Who's in the pond? Is it like they know where
to go? Like? Like, how do you like? This is
an impressive.
Speaker 6 (09:50):
There's a sign outside of the pond and it says
c AA.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
I mean that's seriously, you know, it's it's.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
The meet through Agencies.
Speaker 6 (10:01):
Yeah, it's agency bs. It's people who have you been
to these parties that you.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
Guys go to the Sleeper Bowl? Yeah, but you guys
go to the super Bowl, right, yeah?
Speaker 2 (10:12):
And I go to the parties.
Speaker 6 (10:13):
But you see all the TV people walking around these
space and they all act like they are seriously, like
at the at the GA seven conference, like they are
signing global law into.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
I mean, they really do act like they're doing something.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
Important and they only stay in their own space too,
by the way, like you see them moving around, but
they only acknowledge one another.
Speaker 6 (10:42):
Well, yeah, it's like being at those parties whenever. And
this happens to be at the Fox Seminar every year.
And I've been going to the Fox Seminar probably longer
than anybody else that's.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Worked there, because I've worked there for so long.
Speaker 6 (10:55):
But I mean other than Howie Long and Terry Bradshaw
people like that, but everybody that you talked to, it
feels like, at least me, they're always looking over your
shoulder for somebody cooler to show up, you know, And
that's that's kind of like the vibe of these people.
But not everybody's happy with the bezo sweating. I mean,
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there was massive protests, I don't know if massive, but noticeable,
noticeable protest in Venice where people were unhappy. They don't
love their tourists there, But I don't really know what
they have if they don't have tourists.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Just a bunch of stinking brackish water, and uh.
Speaker 6 (11:33):
It's grows and then I mean, can you imagine it's
literally thousands Yeah, it's thousands and thousands of years of
rotting city on disgusting water. But anyway, the people, the
people in Venice weren't happy. Charlie Throne took a shot
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at them from the Universal lot at some party, and
Katie Kurrent called it tacky, and so did others like
Bethany Frankel and people that weren't invited.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Does she count?
Speaker 6 (12:04):
I'm do who does count?
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Frank? I mean, I'm just saying there's some pushbacks.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Skinny Baka now Petros, I am wondering, Kitty girl, Margarita Arguer,
will you be tonight? Is a big night for the
Why what did I miss? Clayton Kershaw will go three
thousandth strikeout against the awful White Sox later Dodger Stadium.
Will you be live on location for that event later on?
Speaker 3 (12:34):
No?
Speaker 6 (12:34):
No, we inquired about being there and then we're not
going to be there, but usually we are there for
events like this. But either way, Yeah, the Kershaw thing
is happening tonight. He's had a long career Kershaw.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Excuse me, hold.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
On, bless you, sorry, bless you?
Speaker 3 (12:52):
No worries?
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Do you take do you take martial arts class?
Speaker 3 (12:57):
You?
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Yugi yi?
Speaker 3 (13:02):
You're a dishonor we were talking about Kershaw.
Speaker 6 (13:11):
Kershaw reminds me a little bit of Kobe in town,
you know, and I don't think people can really grasp
I mean, you could look at the numbers and all that,
and the playoffs were a.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Whole different rigamarole.
Speaker 6 (13:24):
But Kershaw has had a heck of a career and
he was so dominant when he was in his prime
as a pitcher. The Dodgers took a trip to Australia.
Remember when they played in Australia, we all remembered Korea
and Japan, but like seven, eight, nine years ago, they
played in Australia and to start out the season, and
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the long flight and the flight home ruined Kershaw's back
to where he needed to have back surgery.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
And he's never had elbow surgery.
Speaker 6 (13:57):
Imagine that. I mean, this guy's been pitching for twenty years.
Most guys by the time they're twenty years old have
to Tommy Johns now major league pitchers. This guy has
never had one, but he did end up having back surgery.
But he reminds me a little bit of Kobe in
that he was so dominant in his.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
Time and.
Speaker 6 (14:18):
Literally not very friendly with the LA media and just
you know, just not a cup cunnly warm guy, and
you got the the And I don't blame him, but
you know, he's from Texas, and you got the idea
that he was just didn't want to be here, you know,
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like Los Angeles was not a great fit for him.
But of course it's been a dream career and he's
had the whole thing here and him and his wife,
Allen have learned to adapt to the area during the
season and all that. But it does remind me of
Kobe because like the last three or four years, as
his career has just sort of unmercifully come to an end,
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and he keeps going and he's not throwing ninety five
ninety six anymore. He's throwing eighty nine and he's still
striking people out and he's still got a lot of
savvy up there. He's the oldest looking thirty seven year
old or whatever in the history of the world. I mean,
he looks like Greg Odin or DeAndre Ayton there. He's
got the old man look, deep crevices in his face.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
I mean, the sweat marks on his hat.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Yeah, he's wearing it.
Speaker 6 (15:27):
And now he's like all friendly and doing interviews and
he's everybody's BFF. And it's like, to me, it's a
little bit like Kobe. It's like, remember how you act
in the last sixteen years, you know, and all of
a sudden, now that you're on your way out.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
It's like, hey, I love you all. It's like, no,
you don't.
Speaker 6 (15:46):
But anyway, he's had a hell of a career and
he's had a terrible, terrible time of it in the playoffs. Also,
there's been a lot of ups and downs, and he
is an eye on and he would have gotten it
looked like he would have gotten into his three thousand
strikeout and uh wherever they were, Colorado, but they pulled
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him and when he had three left with only uh,
not that many pitches, so they could set the stage
for what otherwise might not be a very well attended
game tonight at Dodger Stadium against the White Sox. So
there'll be a coronation tonight unless he just goes out
there and gets his boob scooped out. But that's probably
I don't think that. I mean, the White Sox aren't
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very good.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Now you mentioned the plane ride. Is that the story
that everyone's going with that the plane ride from Australia
hurt his back, Yes, that's a real How.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
Are you saying that he was eaten by a dingo?
Speaker 1 (16:44):
So I'm just like, how do you like sitting on
a plane. It's not like they're taking.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
The plane ride.
Speaker 6 (16:49):
I mean the guid was never hurt, he never had
any issues, and the long plane ride he slept weird,
his back got weird and then he probably pushed it
on the bad back and made it work or something.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
I don't know, like it's not my back. I got
enough problem.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Were they taking the Romancing the Stone plane? Like what
are we doing here?
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Like that Romancing the Stone? It feels like they leave
me alone.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
They travel in luxury and he wouldn't have to worry
about back pain. I've never flown to Australia, so I
don't know exactly.
Speaker 6 (17:18):
You should book your favorite guy, David Vasse Dodger reporter,
because he is the guy behind the Kershaw's back was
ruined on the Australian plane.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Hey, Kershaw's the reason David Vassa attacks me on the air, Okay,
because David Vassay has got trauma from from back then
and he takes it out on me.
Speaker 6 (17:37):
So you know what You're right, he has a lot
of trauma for being bullied by baseball players over the years.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
I don't know what's going on. Are we almost are
we wrapping up the uh the era of being nailed
by the King Petros?
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Is it?
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Is it winding down here with Lebron Or what's.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Romancing the Stone?
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Romancing the Stone?
Speaker 4 (17:57):
Was that a how did they slip that into the
into the culture and nobody really took a good look
at it.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
But romance in the stone?
Speaker 2 (18:05):
What is the stone that's being romance?
Speaker 3 (18:09):
It's like a jewel that they were all at.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
Oh, you know, of course it is. And then there
was a who's the main character in that movie?
Speaker 6 (18:15):
Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner and Danny DeVito.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
Danny DeVito, no further than that first name. I already
know what Romancing the Stone is. When that first guy.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Is in the movie, that a reference to cocaine.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
No, Michael Douglas's he's horned up.
Speaker 6 (18:32):
I don't think there's any better like angry, pissed off
cocaine a hole give it up main.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Character than Michael Douglas.
Speaker 6 (18:42):
Just one angry on cocaine all pro not liked, you know,
just in black rain running around Japan getting pissed off
taking it.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (18:55):
The sequel to Jewel of the Nile was or was
Romancing the Stone was Jewel of the Nile, remember that.
And the song was by Billy Ocean Romance.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
In the Stone.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
That's right, never leave me alone taking it? You get
that look in, you get that facial expression, that looking in.
Speaker 6 (19:14):
I mean, look, we all remember, we all remember the
scene in Basic Instinct where he ripped off poor Jeanie
triple horns g string taking it. But uh, anyway, Lebron James, all.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Right, okay, there we go back to the point.
Speaker 6 (19:29):
I think what happened. Uh, And I'm not the only
one to say this. My radio partners the first one
to mention it, and it made sense to me. Was
it just feels like they offer the Lebron people tried
to get ahead of the new ownership and get a
new deal and get some more years on his deal,
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and they told him no. So then Lebron had to
release that really weird statement through shams to uh to
the what wasn't about the Oh just yeah, the Lakers
know that this is important and we've got to keep
an eye on the right, like it's an amazing thing.
(20:15):
Like basically Lebron saying I have my contract is crippling
to any franchise and no one will take it. So
I'm going to use this contract to cripple you, but
I'm also going to hold you accountable for your bad
roster that exists because of my bad contract. So it
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it could be winding down. But I do think we're
going to have another year of struggling with the King.
But I don't think that the uh, I don't think
that he is the Lakers priority anymore. And I think
that was very, very obvious to everybody when he was
when Luka Doncic showed up, So when that trade happened,
(20:59):
I think it was pretty obvious to everybody that the
Lakers are are are a Luca team and no longer
a Lebron team. So everything else that you hear out
of the Lebron people are like the death spasms of
his relevance in the city, which I.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Hope is ending. So is did it's just still moving?
Speaker 3 (21:18):
Yeah? Yeah, I mean it's a death rattle.
Speaker 6 (21:20):
But I don't think uh, I don't think they can
get rid of them, right, I mean without getting in.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
All the NBA loophole bs that everybody sits there.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
And what does that mean for Brownie?
Speaker 3 (21:32):
That's a great question, you know, what does it mean
for Bronnie? You know?
Speaker 6 (21:38):
And what does it mean? Oh, Eddie Grant sings Romance
in the Stone. I'm sorry, guys, All right, corrections and retractions.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Do you guys know who Eddie Grant is? I do
not Electric Avenue.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
I do I know who that We're going a.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
Rock down to the kind of a one hit one
under reggae star.
Speaker 6 (22:02):
And then but it's funny any he opened a studio
somewhere in the Bahamas or somewhere in the Caribbean, not Jamaica.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
He opened a studio, a.
Speaker 6 (22:13):
Recording studio where a lot of really famous albums ended
up being recorded. Eddie Grant, he's the guy that's sang
the Romance in the Stone song, which I don't ever
believe made it into the actual movie. It was only
in the trailer.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Huh, Petris, you got any special plans from fourth of July?
It's a Friday, so you're gonna get all banged up
and light off some piccolo pietz with the neighbors or what?
Speaker 7 (22:34):
No?
Speaker 3 (22:36):
I mean?
Speaker 6 (22:37):
I liked San Pedro is a is a where a
town I grew up in and around is is pretty
good for fireworks, where like everybody on the street has
their own mortars and stuff. And it's like Vietnam, you know,
like block by block, it gets really in. San Pedro's
that way, Wilmington's that way. Harbors It is that way,
(23:01):
Lamita is that way. You know, all the way up
through the city, and then all the way up through
the gateway cities between Orange County.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
And LA like Paramount.
Speaker 6 (23:10):
And Compton and Downey and Cerritos and Lamarada. I mean
they all, I mean, every single block has their own
iron dome. In Israel, you know, they just I mean,
it's it's a fireworks are illegal and everybody has file.
It's you know, it's like Jamaica. Guns are illegal and
(23:32):
everybody's got a gun. So it is, yeah, a chopper,
uh and uh. And so it's it's fun in that
regard because you get to higher ground, so to speak,
and you just watch the city explode. But it's also
like that when the Dodgers win. Yeah, an electric avenue,
(23:54):
no doubt about it.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
And you know, every year somebody loses a hand, like
the Dodger guy. Did you know so that got clean off?
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Give it the way, Petros always a good time here
on this Wednesday morning. Well there it is the coast
of the Petrose Money Show. You can hear it on
Romance in the Stunt, the blowtorch Am five to seventy
l a Sports Fox College Football analysts and are good
pal here at the oldp on X. Petros, happy forward
(24:24):
to you and the family. Appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (24:27):
Romance in the Stunt, Oh my gosh, this is ridiculously bad.
Great song, I mean, but it sounds like the type
of music Kirk Douglas will be getting.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
Just coked up taking what he wants.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Kirk Douglas. Kirk Douglas.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
Now, Kirk's the dad.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Which one is it?
Speaker 6 (24:46):
Mark's the dad with the dimple from Spartacus. Yeah, Michael Douglas,
coked up rapist.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
There you go. You should it?
Speaker 3 (24:54):
Not me? All right?
Speaker 1 (24:56):
Petrusse will do togain next week.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
Leave me alone.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
That's how you stick the landing. I mean, he stuck
it it is. So that's two pros and a cup
of Joe. Here on Fox Sports Radio, LaVar Arrington, Jonas
Knox with you here coming up next, though we could
be winding down, winding on down one era in the
world of sports for one franchise that's yours here on FSR.
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LaVar Arrington, Jonas Knox with you here. Coming up in
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up shop with another edition of Lee's leftovers, that'll be
yours here on FSR. You know, we did throw out
the idea of the whole era of the King winding
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down in La or being nailed by the King, as
Petros calls it, And I do wonder this. It does
feel like, at least if you were to take the
temperature of people in town here for those listening nationally,
it does feel like people in town are like, all right, yeah, Lebron,
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if you want to go, dude, like it's I.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
Mean, it's cool.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
I mean where you know, it's cool, Like we understand
what the situation is. Houston's gotten better, Oklahoma City just
won the title. We don't have a center. There's DeAndre Ayton,
there's Al Horford. Brook Lopez signed with the Clippers. You
talk to enough people who cover the league, they'll tell
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you the Lakers are probably at best the fifth seed
in the Western Conference. If that's the case, and you
could convince Lebron to waive his no trade clause, I
think the Lakers would absolutely do it and part ways
right now, get as many assets as you could while
he's still playing at a high level. Trade him to
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the Eastern Conference, where there's an easier path to get
to an NBA finals again, if that's what his goal is,
and let's just let's go ahead and just cut it here.
It's been fun, appreciate the bubble ring awesome, and then
you go in another direction. It feels like I think
more and more people would be open to the idea
of that's run its course, We're good, it's exhausted.
Speaker 4 (28:03):
I think this is a complicated one because, again, Lebron
James is still the face of the NBA, and that
one particular piece of information makes it complicated. It's not
that simple. Why would you leave that money on the table.
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Why would it be okay too? Now I can understand
the fans feeling that way, but the organization, we ain't
done yet.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
I would I would.
Speaker 4 (28:40):
Make sure that that horse is all the way drained
of everything that it has.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
If I'm if I'm the.
Speaker 4 (28:48):
LA Lakers, why would you get rid of a ticket seller,
a viewer driver, a lightning rod for the media, covered attention, notoriety.
There's so many things that come along with having Lebron
James on your roster. Why would you just say, okay, yeah,
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we're good here, We're done with this, We're gonna move
on from that. It seems as though there is a shift,
a power shift taking place anyway, and if that power
shift is going away from Lebron James, then now Lebron
James has a choice and he has to decide what
he wants to do, which I think he has a
very very large vested interest in playing by the rules
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because they gave him the ability to get his son
into the National Basketball Association, So I think he will
play by the rules. I don't think that it's a simple, okay,
time for Lebron to go.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
I don't.
Speaker 4 (29:45):
I think that there is a lot more to it
than just letting Lebron go at this point, because again,
he is still for better or for worse, however.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
You feel he is still the face of the NBA.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
I mean, I would argue Malik Beasley's of the NBA.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Yeah, I'm sure you would. I mean, like, that's the.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
That is that is a that is a true representation
of the NBA if you ask me, all right, anybody
who potentially is betting on on rebound prop bets in
his own games, that's that's a guy. I can I
can get around as far as putting is my face
in the league. But the Lebron situation, I just think
it feels like a renter who has forgotten who the
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landlord is. It's not his organization, and yet they have
operated as if it is. And I can understand. Look
Cleveland maybe another market, this is the Lakers, Like this
is a different entity altogether. And I don't think Laker
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fans have truly ever wrapped their arms around him, especially
not like they did with Kobe. It doesn't He's felt
like a mercenary the entire time. And I just think
if Lakers fans are being honest, they look at this team,
they look at the Western Conference, and they go, yeah,
it's probably not gonna happen. And if this is the
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final year and he's opting in on a one year deal,
why not try and get something back in return if
you could. I'm not saying the trade's gonna happen. It's
most likely not. But I just think that if you
were to ask enough Lakers fans, are you ready to
move on?
Speaker 2 (31:25):
I think that they would be Yeah.
Speaker 4 (31:27):
But I still think you're undervaluing his brand. His brand
is like I heard somebody who was it that was
there was a guy telling the story about Michael Jordan
and a comparison it was a player that was a really,
really good player for the Minnesota Vikings. I think he
was meant talking about Chris Carter, I believe, but I
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could be wrong. But he was talking about how I'm
the man at what I do, Dada domo man at
what I do, and going back and forth, trying to
go back and forth with Michael Jordan, and he was like,
you can't think you're better than me, because I'm the
best at what I do at the position that I
play in the NFL. And Michael Jordan's response was, but
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I am the game. I am the game. Lebron James's
brand is synonymous with the game. Whether you think he's
the winner of the Goat conversation and the debate, it
doesn't matter. He's in the debate of the goat of
all time. He is synonymous with the game. He's not
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just a player anymore. He's not just a roster spot.
He is a brand. And when you have something so
large and you have to pause, and you have something
so valuable, and you have that to offer that far
exceeds whatever it is that they're going to pay him,
it just far exceeds that, and that, by the way,
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isn't going anywhere. Whether his play diminishes or not, whether
he is a a championship holder of an MVP or not,
it will not change because the infrastructure that is around
Lebron James will only continue to grow and build his brand.
His brand is transcendent of the game. You can't just
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get away. You just don't give away that type of value.
So I think that one year hell renew him doesn't matter.
He's got his son on the team. He wants his
son to have an NBA career. Leverage that brand as
much as you possibly can. Mercenary or not damn.
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this all right, dullap, what do we got?
Speaker 7 (35:35):
Well, it's July second, so get your tenfoil hats out
because it is actually not national it is World UFO Day,
or I guess you could say UAP Day Unidentified Aerial Phenomena. Right,
they can put it on July second, because that's about
the time that the nineteen forty seven Roswell incident went down.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
So yeah, I know, I know you Jonas.
Speaker 7 (35:55):
You like to spread your little conspiracies, which I tend
to agree with easily.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
I'm you know, I don't even think you can dispute
the fact that these are real. Kind of like You've
got people that work for the Navy that are saying, yeah,
here's video, what is that? It's like a flying tic tac?
Speaker 2 (36:14):
I mean, can you guys confirm that.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
Yeah, darting in and out of the water.
Speaker 4 (36:18):
Yeah, I think confirmed that all the way, that it
is a extraterrestrial UFO instead of just being something that
somebody may have made.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
Yes, can confirm. Interesting, Yeah, can confirm. I just there's
too many people with credible backgrounds and too much information
and evidence out there that there's some funny stuff going on.
Like I've told you very interesting Moment of Contact. I
think it might be on Amazon Prime. That movie is wild.
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You talk about a creature who shows up in Brazil
and freaks out, Like everybody's got the same story. Uh,
there's still a mass of people see it. Well, I'm
not in there's there's a crash. But listen to this.
A guy carries the body, helps like helps carry this
creature or wherever they were taking him, developed some sort
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of a rash. Perfectly healthy guy dies four days later,
and then all the cover ups involved. Like it's just
you see enough of that stuff, you go, it's I
don't even think it's disputed anymore. And by the way, LaVar,
you're very judgmental for a guy who had nothing but
nice things to say about the very normal people of
Roswell and how they how they celebrate UFOs. You know,
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he got got a lot of nerve with it. I
was there, Yeah, I definitely was there. So they got
UFO parades.
Speaker 2 (37:43):
Yeah, it's crazy. Man. The alien it's an alien dip
Like they celebrate aliens.
Speaker 1 (37:51):
Wow, Yeah, that's what they're known for.
Speaker 3 (37:54):
What else?
Speaker 4 (37:54):
Why?
Speaker 2 (37:55):
Well, from aliens and dinosaurs.
Speaker 7 (37:56):
If you want to go see a movie Jurassic World
rebirth drops today, rare Wednesday drop for a movie?
Speaker 2 (38:02):
I might go see you today. I don't know.
Speaker 7 (38:04):
He's got fifty two percent on Rotten Tomato. If you
want to get your dinosaur fixed?
Speaker 1 (38:08):
What's the uh? What's different this time?
Speaker 7 (38:12):
It's got Scar Joe maherschel Ali, So you got some
A list talent in there. What's different is that it's
gonna be more of a monster film, and this one
turns into a hybrid DNA situation goes from dinosaur to monster.
Speaker 1 (38:24):
Oh jeez, all right, so it's gonna suck.
Speaker 2 (38:27):
It's gonna suck.
Speaker 1 (38:28):
Okay, what else we got?
Speaker 2 (38:30):
Lee? Did he update? Did he update?
Speaker 7 (38:33):
The four out of five counts have been A group
have been The jury has found the verdicts. The eight
men four women, But the judge has told them to
keep deliberating. After only thirteen hours, they have not come
to a consensus on racketeering.
Speaker 2 (38:46):
They say is the number one and probably the biggest
one of them all.
Speaker 4 (38:49):
Yep, that could carry out like he's going to get off.
He's going to get off on all of the ones.
They came to the conclusion that he's not guilty on
those those five.
Speaker 2 (38:58):
But that number one that are four is four?
Speaker 3 (39:02):
Is it four charges that they've come to a conclusion.
Speaker 2 (39:04):
Four that they've come to a conclusion out is a
five all together?
Speaker 4 (39:07):
That number one that represents the fifth, yep, is like
the largest one, And that they're.
Speaker 2 (39:13):
Going to get them.
Speaker 4 (39:14):
You think they're going to get just the one. They're
going Yeah, they're going to get him. He's going to
be he's going to be found innocent on the other ones.
But the reason why they're taking so long is that
there's somebody on that jeury that is like, if he's
innocent on the rest of these counts, why are we
making him guilty for this one in particular. That's what's
going on in that meeting room. I can guarantee it.
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So and so bye bye bye rule and The only
reason why I noticed because I've been paying attention to,
like the the experts on it. By rule that the
prosecution only needed to prove like two out of like
three or four things that would make him guilty of
that charge of that count, and they did it.
Speaker 2 (39:58):
They did it with evidence.
Speaker 4 (40:00):
It is it is proven by evidence that to at
least two things that they needed to prove were proven.
So that's what it is. I think that's what it is.
There's by by rule he has to be guilty, but
somebody don't want to make him guilty in that that
that meeting room.
Speaker 1 (40:17):
So what is he going away for life?
Speaker 2 (40:19):
Is that what I know? But it'd be about twenty
fifteen to twenty.
Speaker 7 (40:22):
Minimum for sex trafficking is fifteen, So if he's found
guilty of that, that's a minimum of fifteen.
Speaker 4 (40:27):
It's going to be like fitting And I don't know
that he'll do the Well, it's federal, so he's got
to do the whole.
Speaker 2 (40:32):
Whatever it is he gets, he's got to do it.
So that's a weirdo. He's out of here, so are
we