April 15, 2026 • 38 mins
On this edition of The Best of Stugotz and Company LIVE!: Stu and the guys discuss the play-in game between the Hornets and Heat as Lamelo Ball got away with a flagrant foul on Bam Adebayo. Stu and the fellas partake in a round of "Do Me A Favor". Plus, Emmy-award winning artist Zac Brown joins the show.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
This is the best of Stu Gotson Company Live on
Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Zach Brown going to join us today. Looking forward to that.
Tom Haberstrow is going to join us as well.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Country singer Zach Brown.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Yes, these singers, Zach Brown. I thought we'd start heating
hornets today, but I think we own.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
Apology to Ike.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
He said last week during the second round of the
Masters that Rory had won it.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
It was over.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
He was running away with it and he wasn't exactly right,
but he ended.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
Up being right. So our apologies to Ike. And again.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
I thought we'd start with heat and hornets the playing
game last night, but is He sends me a note
right before we get started here that the live golf
story is laugh out loud funny.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
I knew I should have done that. I knew it
would take your attention away from me.
Speaker 5 (01:01):
I knew three pm Eastern it's way too late for
you to go back and recap an NBA games so
you want to talk about Look, I just heard was
that ike on the update there? I just heard it,
looked it up and just it feels better than the
heat lost felt bad last night?
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Does that make sense?
Speaker 5 (01:21):
I'm giddy when I hear what all these guys who
went for all the money, the money might not be
there anymore and they might have to what come back
with their tail between their legs.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
And say, oh, I'm sorry? Can I play in your
tournaments again?
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Yes, they're playing a tournament right now for Live Golf
and Brooks captain. It makes you think, It makes you
think what it Brooks now because he came back a
couple of months ago.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
Yes, exactly?
Speaker 3 (01:46):
What's that a trading?
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Yes? Gotead so.
Speaker 6 (01:49):
John Rahm's reported deal with Live Golf was three hundred
to five hundred million. If I have to walk with
my tail tuck between my leg three hundred and five
hundred million dollars, isn't.
Speaker 5 (01:59):
The diamond and trusted tails, I'll gladly do it for
three to five hundred million dollars.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
I'm with Taylor on that, Yes.
Speaker 5 (02:09):
But I'd like to know what that contract includes, Like
does he guaranteed all that money? If they cut the funding.
What's John Roum gonna do. Just knock on the door
of the Saudi Public Fund people be like, he loo,
I would like the rest of my money please.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Regardless, he has haunted for the remainder of Todd, like
he'll go back to the PGA tour and he has
friends on the tour, but they'll all look at him
cross on because he decided to do that in the
prime of his career. Just totally sold himself out. I mean,
it's unbelievable. But we have to get to Heat and Hornets, Isy,
the floor is yours. We are sorry for your loss.
(02:42):
Taylor called it before anyone else did. Yeah, I'm not
the Hornet.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
He said.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
The Hornets are going for it right now, and I
think is he The only thing you can hope for
is that the Hornets and the Knicks meet up in
the Eastern Conference finals and then Taylor's really in some
sort of conundrum.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
I mean, how about that that's not gonna happen. That
is not going to happen, the Hornets not advancing. Man,
there was so much about that game, but Taylor put
this on the pole, if you will, Let's see if
I can word this properly. If LaMelo Ball were somehow
raised not by LeVar Ball, his father, but by Dell Curry,
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would LaMelo Ball be the best player in the NBA.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
That's a book, not a pole.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
I mean, jeez, I'll say it again and listen.
Speaker 5 (03:32):
If LaMelo Ball were raised not by his father, LeVar,
but by Dell Curry, would he be the best player
in the NBA? Because Taylor Stu answer this question for me.
What is LaMelo Ball's shortcoming? What is it that limits
him from being a great player?
Speaker 4 (03:55):
Shooting?
Speaker 3 (03:57):
No, he shoots great.
Speaker 6 (03:58):
The fact that he's a ball, I mean, the.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
Fact that he's the ball. That's probably the best answer.
It's his personality. It's the way he approaches basketball, right.
He is an unseerious human being and a unserious basketball player.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
He is.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
If he were to have been brought up with a
strict parent, who was you know, about the team, not
about selling yourself, right, he probably wouldn't be doing all
these antics.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
He probably wouldn't have well, this part I don't know,
but he probably wouldn't have a body for the tattoos.
But he probably.
Speaker 5 (04:29):
Wouldn't play the way that he plays with just no
respect for the seriousness of the game, and that's partially
why he does the stupid side sweep thing of bam
Adebio and injures him for the game. But everything about
him says, I'm playing this game in a playground, and
it's so annoying because he's so bleeping talented and he
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plays this ridiculous style of game, and I'm just wondering, like,
if he just grew up in a different household, that's it,
just you're up in a different household.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
It's very nurture versus nature debate.
Speaker 7 (05:02):
But would he be the best player in the game,
because physically there is absolutely nothing limiting him from being
the best scoring guard and probably the best overall point
guard in the game.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
I gotta tell you, it's an odd time to be
lashing out of the Ball family, to mister Ball, to
Lonzo Ball, to all the balls out there. Considering that
you lost the game, and you had a ninety seven
point five percent chance of winning the game, even with
everything that transpired, with about a minute thirty to go,
you should have won the game.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Is he wait till I got to the nipples. But
the thing about well, go ahead, Taylor.
Speaker 6 (05:39):
Stull, I'm so glad that you mentioned the ESPN analytic metrics.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Yes, that is.
Speaker 6 (05:45):
My nominee for the most overrated metric in all of sports,
because in that game, somehow both teams had over a
ninety five percent chance to win, and neither team won
in that situation.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Yeah, that's cooed.
Speaker 6 (06:01):
They both had to overcome it. So to the point
where I'm like, maybe I'm just missing you know, maybe
the only time I noticed the ESPN analytics is the
five percent of games, and somehow I notice every time
it's in the five percent of games, and then I'm
thinking about it, I'm like, no, this kind of seems
like a trend where ESPN analytics can't really catch up
to the fact that a ten point lead isn't really.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
A tench point aid nothing.
Speaker 6 (06:23):
It was ninety seven point five percent when the Hornets
were up six with like one forty five left, or
the heat were up six with one forty five left.
That's a two possession game. There's no way you're telling
me it's over ninety seven percent chance.
Speaker 5 (06:40):
Now, even when this is why it was so maddening
when the score, well, Amazon had technical difficulties.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
You can't do that in your play like stude.
Speaker 5 (06:51):
There's this whole debate in basketball right now about whether,
because Mike Breen chimed in on it on this last
regular season game, whether it's okay whether people are happy
that the national broadcast have all of the playoffs because
it used to be at least a first round would
be done by your local teams. I like that, it's
because it just feels like your team's on a bigger
stage when it's the national broadcast.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
But you can't screw up like that in your first
chance Amazon, well is.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
He let me say this, and you're right, you can't
do that if you're Amazon. Although that's not going to
stop any of us from going to Amazon. I went
there today. I had to buy something, So I mean,
that's that's just a deal. It was a terrible, terrible job.
But Joe Buck joined me and Taylor out in Lake
Tahoe and he actually talked about this, and he's the
guy doing the national games where he doesn't like that
the local cities, the markets don't get the local play
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by play guy for the opening rounds of the playoffs.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
He doesn't like it. Joe Buck doesn't like it. That's crazy.
Speaker 5 (07:42):
Yeah, So again, as somebody like. My opinion is, if
you've been listening to your local people all year long
and you're a real fan, I'm not going to bother
you that much. I think you know, you get a
different perspective from the national grip. It feels like you're
on a bigger stage, et cetera. So it doesn't bother
me too much. But you can't have technical difficulty.
Speaker 6 (08:00):
There's a lot of talk today whether or not LaMelo
Ball should have been ejected from that game or not
the theory I subscribe to Stu.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
Yeah, an eye for an eye.
Speaker 6 (08:09):
The second bam out of bio was ruled out from
that game, even if you can't go back. Whatever the
pool reporter is saying is the reason why they weren't
able to review that. The second bamount of bio was
ruled out for that game. Somebody should have stopped in,
dropped the eye for an eye theory and said, bamount
of bio's out. Eye for an eye, LaMelo Ball, you
are now out for the game.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Yeah, you have like a little a fluff what do
you call those?
Speaker 5 (08:32):
It this little like a corn cornhole bag, but it's
got a picture of an eye on it, and you
throw it out onto the floor, and it's just like, oh,
we have an eye for an eye claim, you gotta
take somebody out.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
Taylor.
Speaker 5 (08:44):
I'm so glad you brought that up because I tried
to start off with the you know, the Lamello ball
stuff and just because it is it is crazy frustrating
to me that all it is is a personality thing
that would make this guy.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Get an odd time to be attacking the balls. But anyway,
keep going.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
It's not an all time odd time.
Speaker 5 (08:56):
He took out Bam out of Bio on a BS play.
It's a perfect time to take out the balls. But
this is my frustration with this, okay, And you touched
on it, Taylor. There was a pull reporter who asked
that Zariba the lead official, and he said another play
had already happened. Therefore you couldn't go back to there
because nothing was called there. Stu, Why does it make
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sense that they can review it the next day, the
next day to see if LaMelo did anything wrong, but
you can't review it the next play. It's so ridiculous
that the only option that Eric Spolster had there was
to run out on the floor immediately and get a
(09:39):
technical foul. So that play could stop and then he
could point to there and say, now you have to
review that. That is so ridiculous that you can review
it the next day, but you can't during the next
time out say that was an egregious flagrant foul. Ejected like,
I don't The NBA needs to fix that to make
it make sense, because if you again, if you can
(10:00):
review it the next day, you should be able to
review it the next play. I think Carl Douglas would
like that because it rhymes. There's no way that they
shouldn't be able to review that.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
It's senseless.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Izy, did you ever think that you would hear this
sentence come out of any announcer's mouth. Kobe White is
from a different planet.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
He kind of looks like he came from a different planet.
Speaker 5 (10:24):
His face is a little hilarious like that that dude
was so sick and tired of losing to the heat.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
He is so sick.
Speaker 5 (10:31):
It was so sick and tired of his season ending
to the heat at this exact same time of year
that he's like, I'm just going to take everything.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
It's so funny that I text this to Taylor.
Speaker 5 (10:39):
What actually got Kobe White going in this game was
a banked in three pointer that obviously he didn't call.
And I want to say it was almost the very
next play, maybe a play after that, Pella Larson just
slips on a wet spot and gives the ball up,
and then LaMelo gives it to Kobe for a wide
open three. Those are two accidents that happened, but they
got him going and then he took that last shot
to take this game in overtime. It was a great,
(11:01):
like feel good performance for Kobe White. But yeah, it's
it's a little frustrating that LaMelo was in there at all.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
Stu.
Speaker 6 (11:07):
I know this isn't a mount Rushmore Monday, but I
think you can make the argument today that when it
comes to playing games, Kobe White is on the mount
Rushmore of playing games.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
The Mitchell's on there too.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Yes, we have a mister Game seven in hockey. He's
mister playing game. I mean he is.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
That's where Kobe White is at his best.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
So you have a mount Rushmore of guys a playing
game heroes teller because I can't well, I would think,
who is the guy who hit the big shot before
before Kobe hit his the Brandon Miller. He would be
on the team and he had a big three is
he could get that game to within reach for.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
The and not be the way he played. He was
so bad in the first half. He just kept fouling.
Speaker 5 (11:51):
He had terrible offensive foul for the third foul to
get him out of the game.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
That guy was not ready. The nipple was not ready.
It was not prepared.
Speaker 5 (11:59):
You saw how scared he seemed to look every time
they put the camera on him. It was just not
a great and so it wasn't a great shooting performance
except for three guys on that team. Three guys hit
five three pointers and that was That was a huge difference.
But LaMelo Ball shouldn't have been in that game, and
it's you know, if that official can get reprimanded afterward,
(12:20):
it Lamello Ball could potentially, I don't think it's gonna happen,
but could potentially get suspended for the next play in game,
which how is that going to help the Miami Heat.
If all of that could happen, then that referee should
be publicly reprimanded and should be suspended as well, because
there's still frames of him staring right at the play
and not calling anything. Although I do want to take
(12:41):
credit because I told Taylor is America's team, the Hornets,
the Heat were going to be playing against the referees
as well.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
And there you go.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
He's a homer.
Speaker 8 (12:49):
I mean.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
Started.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
He should have resorted to the thuggery is what they
should have done. Listen, this is all I'll say. We'll
take a quick time out, we'll take some phone calls.
Eight of its ninety nine on Fox eight seven seven
ninety nine on Fox. I understand what it is you're saying.
I understand why you would be frustrated. I know that
Ball committed the foul on Bam. I know it's frustrating
to lose a guy that could score eighty three points
on any given night if the coach leaves them in
(13:15):
too long. I get all of that, but I don't
want my best players not playing in games that have stakes.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
Attached to it. Okay, And so you could.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Throw out LaMelo Ball all you want. I'm glad they
left him in. He hit the game winner, He made
the game exciting. He himself is exciting because you never
know what's coming next with him on the court or
off the court.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Yeah, I don't care how exciting you are. You can't
cheat you can't take out the other team's best player.
Speaker 5 (13:37):
And then don't even get me started on his response
afterward if we can play it on the next segment,
but him basically saying, oh, we'll check up on him
to see he's okay.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
And and that's supposed to make it better.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
That's nice. I mean, mister ball raised them well.
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Speaker 4 (14:26):
What are you laughing at?
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Was it?
Speaker 7 (14:27):
That?
Speaker 4 (14:28):
Is that what you were laughing at? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (14:29):
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Speaker 1 (14:32):
Zach Brown going to join us at about fifteen minutes.
Looking forward to that. Tom Haberstrow is going to join
us at around four to twenty five to talk about
the playing games last night preview, the games coming up
playoff preview.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
I like to call it.
Speaker 5 (14:46):
He's a big Portland guy too, so it might be
schooling people on the Portland Trailblazers.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Yes, but it is time now for do me a favor.
I don't know if we have music imaging. I'm not certain.
I can't remember.
Speaker 6 (15:04):
The game.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
We play every week, not every Wednesday, just every week haphazardly.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
Whatever we feel like it.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Yes, but let's start here with bordop Ricardo for do
me a favor if he could pry himself away from
the day baseball that is going on right now, what
a soccer match is probably happening, bordop Ricardo, go ahead,
all right?
Speaker 9 (15:25):
Well, Happy Jackie Robinson Day, everybody first, one of my
favorite days of the year.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
Text day, right, Well, that's that's the ugly part of
the day, I guess.
Speaker 9 (15:34):
But Larry Dobie was the second African American player to
be playing in Major.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
League baseball after Jackie Robinson.
Speaker 9 (15:41):
Two months afterward, and I don't feel like he gets
any credit.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
So Major League Baseball, do me a favor. Give some
flowers of Larry Adobie. Do we need like a Larry
Adobe Day? Adobe Day sounds fun? I mean, that'd be fun.
Speaker 9 (15:54):
I'd be cool with that because he was the first
guy in the America, first African American, the American league.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
So that could justification college. And hey, yeah, I like it.
That's an excellent one. Board A Ricardo, Seriously, I agree with.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
You, meaning, but I these do me a favors.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Let's go to EP Jason out in Sherman Oaks. EP
Jason to.
Speaker 10 (16:12):
Everybody who hosts a national radio show or a national
sports podcast or television show, do me a favor if
you spend all of the NBA regular season telling us
how unwatchable it is and how nobody cares about it.
The players don't care, why should we care? Don't do
these deep dive takes about the NBA playoffs and who's
(16:34):
gonna win the series? And you have any credibility?
Speaker 3 (16:38):
What do you think about that? Is he's playing bo
shives and they can't do that. I love it.
Speaker 5 (16:44):
I mean, you can't complain about the league and then
just hop in in the postseason and be like, oh,
this is awesome and five that you can't have both ways.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
I'm with you, Jason, you can and I have for
twenty years now. So I mean, I don't know what
the time you're talking about it? Right?
Speaker 1 (16:57):
How about you make the regular season more interesting and
I'll jump in early.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
It's not so I jump in during the playoffs. How
about that?
Speaker 5 (17:02):
In your defense? Do you also don't really watch too
much of the playoffs either, so you know.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Listen, I was glued to the last night's game. I
saw that Kobe White three to take it to overtime.
I saw Tyler Herro choke down the stretch, and I'm
not certain Tyler Herrow was happy to hear his coach
say that Bams the best player on the team.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
He choked, he was bad. How I sending over Todd?
Speaker 6 (17:22):
How I knew Jason wasn't talking about Steve Gotts is
he said, if you care about your credibility, And if
there's one thing I know about Gotts, yeah he does
not care about his credibility. He's just gonna say whatever's
on his mind.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
You never have, never will. Thank you, Teller.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
I appreciate it and I'm sorry to eat p Jason.
Let's go to update anchor Ike Well. I also apologized
too earlier today because he told us Rory was going
to win the Masters.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
We laughed at him.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Go ahead, Ike, do me a favor it.
Speaker 11 (17:48):
People around sports media, make last night the last time
that a live streamed sports broadcast encounters technical difficulties during
crunch time. This one day might apply to the super Bowl.
Speaker 5 (18:05):
There's been a few of these, and they've been bigger
than last night. Last night was only two minutes, and
it was a play in game and you didn't miss
any like lead change or anything like that. But it's
annoying and it just it's terrible debut postseason for Amazon.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
I'd rather what happened last night than what happened at
the Masters, where I'm just seeing everyone and they're all
confused because no one knows where the golf ball is
on the eighteenth hole. Just black out, Okay, come back
what He's ready to hit his wedge?
Speaker 4 (18:35):
Yeah, daylor No, is it my turn? Yes it is.
That's why I was saying, yeah, Taylor, Yes, So.
Speaker 6 (18:42):
I'm watching up in Adam's k Adams Show on FanDuel
TV or FanDuel Network and Marcus Freeman is the guest
and Marcus Freeman, the entire head looks like it was
painted on. Marcus Freeman, Do me a favor, Come on home.
You're not fooling anybody with that, with that hair.
Speaker 5 (19:02):
Job, dude, if you haven't seen it, like he's approaching,
was it Cam Boozer, Carlos Carlo's Boozer. Wow, it's going
to be confusing for the rest of my life. Carlos
Boozer levels because.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
You don't even really need to zoom in.
Speaker 5 (19:16):
If any light is hitting off of his head, you
can see his real hairline and where the fake stuff starts.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
And man, it is thick.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Yes, anyone back in, anyone else back in Sherman Oaks,
have I know, Chris, you have one.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
Do me a favor, Ye, do me a favor.
Speaker 12 (19:34):
Athletic You're you're You're clearly gonna need an insider. And
I don't think he in Rapaport is gonna be long
from NFL network, considering consolidation and things that nature. I'm
just he seems like a nice guy. Just give him
a good landing spot. You know, he can do the job.
He can do everything. Rassini was doing. I can't imagine.
I can't imagine. Well, sorry, I Isaac just shot me
(19:55):
a particular uh glare at my praising So yes, I'm
gonna back.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
None of you know what Rassini was doing?
Speaker 1 (20:02):
No, no, no, no, I are you guys gonna continue to
put me.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
In bad spots with this? Is that? Is that the
goal of the game here?
Speaker 3 (20:09):
I mean, or you could just move along and go
to me.
Speaker 5 (20:13):
Since he got about a minute left in the second
go ahead, is he do me a favor? Miami Heat,
get himI hock Hez Junior off my team? Oh my god,
he's so frustrating. He might be six Man of the Year,
but I don't know if his basketball i Q reaches six.
It is so frustrating in critical moments to watch that
(20:37):
guy make some of the dumbest decisions. Congratulations to the Hawks.
Is his sister's clearly the best player in the family.
They won a national title at UCLA, But oh my goodness,
they maxed out what they're gonna get out of Heimi
Hawkes Junior.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
Get that man off of my team.
Speaker 5 (20:53):
I need him to do some studying when it comes
to NBA basketball, all right.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
And I guess we're seen over. He is seriously, he's
very emotional today.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Steph Curry, do me a favor. He's on a minute restriction.
Tonight Warriors are playing in a must win game. Steph Curry,
do me a favor. Remove the minutes restriction. Okay, if
you lose tonight, guess what you have nothing to do
for the remainder of the summer. Give him forty minutes
this evening. Because you're Steph Curry, do me a favor.
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Speaker 4 (21:33):
Very excited for this.
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New Artists in twenty ten and Zach Brown his band
will headline the UFC Freedom two fifty Fan Fest on
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the Ellipse in Washington, d C. On June thirteenth, the
day before for the MMA promotion host it's Mega events
at the White House. How did you get involved with
this headlining the UFC Freedom to fifty Fan Fast and
the big MMA match at the White House.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
How'd you get involved here? Man?
Speaker 13 (22:15):
I heard this was happening and going down, I text
Dana and I said, man, I want to be a
part of this. Let me know what can be? What
can I do?
Speaker 8 (22:22):
Can I be your service? He takes care of me
anytime I want to go to a fight. UFC is
my favorite sport, all time favorite sport, Avid MMA fan.
I did judo in college and then started understanding the
mechanics of it, and then thirty years of watching from
early even before UFC one, you know, watching MMA, you know.
Speaker 14 (22:43):
From the beginning from King of the Cage too, and
then following through Pride, following through everything and watching the
empire that you know, Dana and everybody built with UFC
and Rogan, which is such an integral.
Speaker 8 (22:56):
Part of you know, engaging a fan and explaining what's
happening and what's going on.
Speaker 13 (23:02):
So it's my favorite sport. I'm a huge patriot. I
love this country. I love all the people.
Speaker 8 (23:09):
We have an incredible facility we built here in Georgia
called Campus Southern Ground. We do thirty four weeks of
sleep away programs for our veterans there my alignment. Every
night will we play, we have soldiers come up on
stage and do a salute during Chicken Fried. This is
this is a chance to honor America and the service
people to be able to be there and to be
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able to be part of the UFC all in one
thing together for our Bosingtonians. So I am super pumped
to be a part of it. And I told Dane,
I'll do whatever you need and whatever you want. However,
and so we're playing to show. They're gonna do the
weigh ends. They've got the incredible stage set up. I've
seen the renderings of it. And then we're gonna play
and then the next day we're gonna do the anthem
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you know live and this this card is huge. I
think it's going to be streamed almost a billion homes internationally.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
It's a great flex.
Speaker 5 (23:59):
There's just being able to text Dana and say, hey,
could I be a part of this.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
That's impressive there.
Speaker 5 (24:04):
But you said you had such a long history of
fandom with the UFC. Just wondering who some of your
favorites were in the past, and maybe some of your
favorites currently still fighting what.
Speaker 4 (24:13):
Era I mean, well, I mean you.
Speaker 5 (24:15):
Can go back to one UFC one, So whatever era
you decide or your favorites on conversation, the.
Speaker 8 (24:21):
First fight that I remember was probably keep Patney against
Emmanuel Yarborough and it was like two twenty five pound
like kin po karate guy against the six hundred pounds
Suma wrestlers. And this was back when it was mainly
single discipline, so you know, they were just bringing you
bring your best, you know, representative of martial arts to
the game.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
That was wild times.
Speaker 8 (24:45):
From that to watching all the you know, the Chemo
and and oys, Tracy and Dude early earlier days like that,
from guys like you know Dan, Dan Severn and.
Speaker 13 (25:01):
I've watched it all. I've seen it all. I've followed
it throughout eras you know, I mean watching some of
the great champions. I always love seeing the champion that
can hold down a.
Speaker 8 (25:09):
Rain you know, multi year ragin, which is unpredictable in
the sport as it is.
Speaker 13 (25:13):
You know, from from Saint Pierre to Anderson.
Speaker 8 (25:17):
Silva's probably in my mind one of the greatest champions
ever holding it down for seven years, you know, to
people like Matt Views, which is just the strength of
that dude super early on coming in.
Speaker 13 (25:30):
And then guys like Carl Parisians early on was like
a you know, the first real Jodica that was.
Speaker 8 (25:36):
Really throwing people on their heads, you know, using that discipline,
you know. I mean there's so many eras of it too,
you know, to Chuck with Dell, to Randy Couture too.
Speaker 13 (25:48):
You know.
Speaker 8 (25:48):
I just think about the eras and the people, the
personalities that it had like coming along the way. But
I was there from the beginning, watching the evolution of
the athletes, watching the evolution of everyone training, all the
watching the UFC grow and form and continue to evolve,
but keep everything really pious and true.
Speaker 13 (26:08):
They did such a masterful job of keeping the quality
of the event.
Speaker 8 (26:12):
And then when other network started trying to compete and
bring things in and you see their commentators and you
see the way they talk about it or whatever, it
just reminded you of the bar in the UFC.
Speaker 13 (26:22):
It said, it was so hard to even get close
to that.
Speaker 8 (26:24):
So you know, current fighters, I mean, man, there's something
I mean days he's one of my favorite all time
explosive the way that he gets in I mean, he
throws upper guts. You don't even see him until they
hit people and so choked. He's gonna be fighting. Bo
Nichol is one of my new favorite fighters. Getting to
see Boat fight on this car. You know, a lot
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of the dominance of the incredible wrestlers, the people that
come out of wrestling world coming into UFC IS is
depressing to watch. I'm really excited to watch Bo Nickel,
excited to see Seanmalley fight. There's I mean, I love
it all. I watch every early prelm. I watched all
the free lambs. If I go from then, I'm sitting there.
I'm there early.
Speaker 13 (27:08):
I watch every single fight because I know there's people
up and coming.
Speaker 8 (27:11):
I haven't seen fight before, watching Peico fight in this
last I was there in Miami this last Saturday. I
was there watching some of the I mean, there's some
of the memorial fights that that hook It and Blade
fight is one I will never forget. That's like one
of the best ones that I've ever seen live. That'd
be such a character and personality, and I think that
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kind of thing is is is going.
Speaker 4 (27:34):
To carry a lot away.
Speaker 8 (27:35):
I feel like, honestly, a star was born that night
with him, and I just I love the evolution.
Speaker 5 (27:41):
Man, we talk to you for all the five minutes,
we can tell you're a certified die hard, like absolutely.
Speaker 4 (27:47):
Yes, yes, no doubt, go ahead, Jayler.
Speaker 13 (27:50):
Yeah, let's shot man.
Speaker 4 (27:52):
I love it, Zach.
Speaker 6 (27:53):
I'm also a massive baseball fan, and I love that
you got a part of the baseball season this year
with the Sunday Night song because yeah, well, first off
a banger too. I appreciate the fact that NBC is
dressing it up and making it feel like it's just
as big as Sunday Night Football. My question for you
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as a Braves fan, what's your mount rushmore of your
Braves favorite players, not the best players, but your favorite players.
Speaker 4 (28:21):
That is a great question.
Speaker 8 (28:23):
Yes, Al Murphy as a kid was one of my
favorites all time. That was back in like Dale Murphy,
Bob Horner days, like I remember being.
Speaker 13 (28:32):
At a game where Bob Warner hit four home runs
in a game.
Speaker 8 (28:37):
And then when when I was in high school, I
was a senior in high school when we had Glavin
and Maddox and Smolts and Avery and the domination in
the bullpen that we had that year, and it was
baby Justice and Terry Pendleton and all of the people
that I watched in different era, same thing as the
eras of it, right, I mean going back to you know,
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Phil Nicro, going back to throwing the weirdest pitches ever thrown, Like.
Speaker 13 (29:07):
It's a it's a lifetime journey for.
Speaker 8 (29:09):
Me through through sports and then seeing them, you know,
they gave me a ring when when they won the
same and I'm an honorary I have to be a
Socks fan also just because of Fenway, like Fenway is
we owed all the records from Fenway Park for selling
it out.
Speaker 13 (29:27):
That's my city.
Speaker 8 (29:28):
Also after Atlanta, So I got a ring when Boston
won the World Series, and I got a ring when
Atlanta won the World Series. And so I'm just like
I pinched myself at all the things that we get
to do and get to participate in because of the music.
Speaker 13 (29:41):
But I was a kid.
Speaker 8 (29:44):
When I was fourteen years old, I rode my bike
five miles five days a week to work at a
baseball car shop and the guy couldn't pay me in money,
so we had to pay me in cards. So I've
been collecting cards and that was early days. Like that
was when Eric Davis and Don Matting and Roger Clemens,
and like, those memories are forever seared because because I'm
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I've held their faces in my hands on baseball cards
for you know, a decade that.
Speaker 13 (30:13):
Was back like Jose Canseco. Yeah, and then you got
like the fire eras, you.
Speaker 8 (30:17):
Got everything like going all the way through watching the
evolution of baseball the same way as kind of it's
kind of similar to UFC.
Speaker 13 (30:23):
But I love I love the sport man. There's nothing
more American than than baseball.
Speaker 4 (30:30):
You have that damn Eric Davis Rookie card, don't you.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
I'm wondering if any of the cards he paid you
in baseball cards did you save them?
Speaker 4 (30:36):
Did any of them turn into something really valuable?
Speaker 13 (30:42):
Eric Davis Rookie card.
Speaker 8 (30:43):
My brother conned me out. He was five years older
than me, and I remember my granddad bought it for me.
Spent thirty bucks back then to buy me the Eric
Davis Rookey card. And he was bordering on the on
the Alzheimer's spectrum, my granddad, so I could take him
out and he would buy me cards. And my dad
be like, you spent one hundred what is this? And
then my brother was five years older than me and
conned me out of all my good ship back then.
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But these days, you know, I'm able to get the
stuff that I that I want, and I've actually and
I played I played Magic.
Speaker 13 (31:13):
Like the card game. I played that when I was
in high school. I made a living off of playing
cards in high school. And I was balling in high
school making money playing that game. So that's translated into
now like getting into one Piece lately.
Speaker 8 (31:25):
Like there's a new game i'll call One Piece that
is crushing investment wise, but I'm still a collector man.
And it's cool to be in this era right now
watching Otani doing what he's doing, I mean, the best
baseball player ever in the game. Being alive, like being
able to watch that happen and go down the best pitcher,
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the best hitter. Like it's cool to be alive in
moments like that, when you see a generational you know,
talent like that and then things coming through.
Speaker 13 (31:53):
I mean, there's this isn't so many incredible players out there.
Speaker 5 (31:56):
Speaking of cool moments to be alive, you probably had
some few pinch me moments in your career, like Chicken
Fried becoming such an anthem. How big of a deal
is it for you to have that song at the
beginning of Sunday Night Baseball and just you know, it's
got to be one of those moments in your career,
just like that's pretty darn cool.
Speaker 8 (32:15):
Absolutely, man, and Major League Baseball has been such a
great partner for us over the years, and we've played
all there. You know, a lot of the stadiums. I
love the baseball stadiums because they still feel intimate even
though it's a lot of people, and the sound is good,
the sounds coming kind of.
Speaker 13 (32:28):
Out of home plate and out. I love that that
part of it.
Speaker 8 (32:34):
I pinched myself every time that I get to go
out on stage. I never take that for granted. I
was just a kid playing in bars and hustling and
playing six hours a night or six nights a week
for ten years, trying to just make.
Speaker 13 (32:44):
It and let people know who I was.
Speaker 8 (32:46):
And then was able to be a people collector and
collect the right people to have around me to be
able to take it and to stay relevant.
Speaker 13 (32:53):
And I got a lot of energy, and I put
a lot of hard work and discipline into my business,
into my shows, and into my family first. But it's
it's incredible to have.
Speaker 8 (33:03):
The career that we've had and and to be able
to just keep going. You know, I want to be
among I want to be like spring Seeing or like Willie.
Speaker 13 (33:11):
I want to be somebody that's dedicated my life to
doing this.
Speaker 8 (33:15):
And in a world where we're in the middle of
you know, AI and a bunch of stuff like that,
people will always want to congregate and come together and.
Speaker 13 (33:21):
Be reminded of our you know how we're all the
same and we're there to make memories and to.
Speaker 8 (33:26):
Have fun and give me to give them the best
night possible. All my energy and times have been figuring
out how to create that every time we come back
to your city in a different way. And my band
is a testament the people around me I've got. I've
got one of the best bands in the world. People
are musicians that I have around me, the crew, and
everybody works hard, but they treat everybody like gold. And
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that's led by example.
Speaker 13 (33:49):
That's that's you can't you can't buy culture and momentum
and chemistry. You have to earn that. And we've done
that and we keep it going and we're hungry. Coort.
You know, I feel as good now as I've ever
felt I take good care of myself.
Speaker 8 (34:01):
I try.
Speaker 13 (34:02):
I try to stay fit, I try to stay active,
and I try.
Speaker 8 (34:04):
To stay dedicated to our fans because that's really the
only people we owe anything to and have an opportunities
like like major League Baseball or getting able to being
able to do they use our song for the you know,
Mark Madness for NCAA, get to do the UFC event,
getting to be on Survivors, which I just did.
Speaker 13 (34:22):
I'm on episode four of the season fifty and Survivor.
Like these are all dreams come true for me, and
I never taken for granted.
Speaker 4 (34:29):
Zach, do you ever get nervous before a concert?
Speaker 10 (34:32):
No?
Speaker 13 (34:33):
No, I'm like interesting, I'm like a fighter man, I'm
like warmed up, I'm ready to go.
Speaker 8 (34:37):
I get super excited. Like there's not any part of
me that that's like nerves or anything like that. It doesn't,
it doesn't affect me like that, Like I'm I'm an athlete.
I'm like ready to go, Like, let's get on stage
and get it done.
Speaker 10 (34:52):
Zach.
Speaker 6 (34:52):
Has anybody in the band ever tried to get their
name on the band.
Speaker 4 (34:57):
Over Zach's dead body Get out of here?
Speaker 12 (35:00):
HM?
Speaker 13 (35:01):
But they trust me. You know, I've earned their trust
over a lot of years. We've been in a lot
of crossroads where we didn't know what we were gonna do.
But they trust me.
Speaker 8 (35:08):
They trust me to lead it, and then I trust
them to help me to be my orchestra, to make
the exact thing that every song needs to try to
drive that emotion home on whatever it is. And you know,
the extraordinary people. I couldn't do anything by myself. I'm
pretty I'm pretty limited on it on my own. But
when my tribe around me, it is pretty incredible what
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we're able to do. And that's just a testament to
the people that are around me.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
You can only have one. Okay, you only have one
for the rest of time. Okay, you win another Grammy,
or the Braves win the World Series.
Speaker 13 (35:44):
I give it to the Braves.
Speaker 4 (35:49):
You would, huh? I take that Grammy? I would? You know?
Speaker 1 (35:56):
I'm assuming you're an Atlanta Hawks fan, correct, I'm assuming, yes, sir?
All right, So me and Taylor we are New York
Knicks fans, and I would like to make some sort
of bet with Zach Brawm with the Knicks Hawks series
coming up here. Okay, you guys are gonna break our hearts,
but you might as well win something when you do it,
you know, right, let's go. All right, so it's on
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us to come up with the bet.
Speaker 4 (36:20):
Is that what you're saying.
Speaker 5 (36:24):
I say it's pretty easy. I say, if the Hawks win,
he comes back and brags on it for the show.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
Okay, all right, So if the Hawks win, you come
back on the show and we'll listen.
Speaker 4 (36:32):
The floor is yours. You just let me and Taylor
have it for fifteen minutes, Okay, whatever you want to say.
Speaker 13 (36:43):
How about that, you gotta wear that Hawks dirt.
Speaker 3 (36:45):
Okay, we do.
Speaker 4 (36:46):
That, all right, we'll do that.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
We will wear Listen, I will I'll wear Dominique Wilkins jersey.
I won't be embarrassed about it because he's one of
the greatest players I've ever seen. But that's a deal, right,
hawks win, you come back on, you make fun of
me and Taylor were good, and I'll wear landing gear
while you do it.
Speaker 4 (37:02):
Okay, got it?
Speaker 11 (37:04):
You got it?
Speaker 4 (37:05):
All right?
Speaker 1 (37:06):
One more time, buddy, on the way out. We appreciate
you doing this. We have to run here, but one
more time on the way out, promote what it is
you're doing. With Dana White with the UFC with a
big event at the White House.
Speaker 13 (37:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (37:18):
So we're playing FanFest for UFC for the Boss Antennaial
of America. It's the first sporting event that's been held
on the grounds of the White House.
Speaker 13 (37:30):
We're so excited to represent American represent all of our service.
Speaker 8 (37:34):
People to get out there and help everybody have an
incredible night and being able to be part.
Speaker 13 (37:38):
Of that historical event. This is American history at its finance.
And I love the UFC and I love it.
Speaker 8 (37:44):
It is a story of the American dream, but bringing
in every international you know, discipline and people and all
of that, and it's really a unifier around the world.
Speaker 13 (37:55):
This will be one of the most highly.
Speaker 8 (37:56):
Broadcast events that's ever happened, and the only event that's
happened all.
Speaker 13 (38:01):
Along the White House. And we're Zach Brown Man. We're
so honored to be part of this, all.
Speaker 4 (38:08):
Right, Zach. Well, Yeah, we appreciate the time, man.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
We really enjoyed this and we look forward to speaking
to you again once the Hawks beat the Knicks and
four Okay, he's laughing at us.
Speaker 4 (38:21):
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Speaker 3 (00:26):
Country singer Zach Brown.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Yes, these singers, Zach Brown. I thought we'd start heating
hornets today, but I think we own.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
Apology to Ike.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
He said last week during the second round of the
Masters that Rory had won it.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
It was over.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
He was running away with it and he wasn't exactly right,
but he ended.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
Up being right. So our apologies to Ike. And again.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
I thought we'd start with heat and hornets the playing
game last night, but is He sends me a note
right before we get started here that the live golf
story is laugh out loud funny.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
I knew I should have done that. I knew it
would take your attention away from me.
Speaker 5 (01:01):
I knew three pm Eastern it's way too late for
you to go back and recap an NBA games so
you want to talk about Look, I just heard was
that ike on the update there? I just heard it,
looked it up and just it feels better than the
heat lost felt bad last night?
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Does that make sense?
Speaker 5 (01:21):
I'm giddy when I hear what all these guys who
went for all the money, the money might not be
there anymore and they might have to what come back
with their tail between their legs.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
And say, oh, I'm sorry? Can I play in your
tournaments again?
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Yes, they're playing a tournament right now for Live Golf
and Brooks captain. It makes you think, It makes you
think what it Brooks now because he came back a
couple of months ago.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
Yes, exactly?
Speaker 3 (01:46):
What's that a trading?
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Yes? Gotead so.
Speaker 6 (01:49):
John Rahm's reported deal with Live Golf was three hundred
to five hundred million. If I have to walk with
my tail tuck between my leg three hundred and five
hundred million dollars, isn't.
Speaker 5 (01:59):
The diamond and trusted tails, I'll gladly do it for
three to five hundred million dollars.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
I'm with Taylor on that, Yes.
Speaker 5 (02:09):
But I'd like to know what that contract includes, Like
does he guaranteed all that money? If they cut the funding.
What's John Roum gonna do. Just knock on the door
of the Saudi Public Fund people be like, he loo,
I would like the rest of my money please.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Regardless, he has haunted for the remainder of Todd, like
he'll go back to the PGA tour and he has
friends on the tour, but they'll all look at him
cross on because he decided to do that in the
prime of his career. Just totally sold himself out. I mean,
it's unbelievable. But we have to get to Heat and Hornets, Isy,
the floor is yours. We are sorry for your loss.
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Taylor called it before anyone else did. Yeah, I'm not
the Hornet.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
He said.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
The Hornets are going for it right now, and I
think is he The only thing you can hope for
is that the Hornets and the Knicks meet up in
the Eastern Conference finals and then Taylor's really in some
sort of conundrum.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
I mean, how about that that's not gonna happen. That
is not going to happen, the Hornets not advancing. Man,
there was so much about that game, but Taylor put
this on the pole, if you will, Let's see if
I can word this properly. If LaMelo Ball were somehow
raised not by LeVar Ball, his father, but by Dell Curry,
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would LaMelo Ball be the best player in the NBA.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
That's a book, not a pole.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
I mean, jeez, I'll say it again and listen.
Speaker 5 (03:32):
If LaMelo Ball were raised not by his father, LeVar,
but by Dell Curry, would he be the best player
in the NBA? Because Taylor Stu answer this question for me.
What is LaMelo Ball's shortcoming? What is it that limits
him from being a great player?
Speaker 4 (03:55):
Shooting?
Speaker 3 (03:57):
No, he shoots great.
Speaker 6 (03:58):
The fact that he's a ball, I mean, the.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
Fact that he's the ball. That's probably the best answer.
It's his personality. It's the way he approaches basketball, right.
He is an unseerious human being and a unserious basketball player.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
He is.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
If he were to have been brought up with a
strict parent, who was you know, about the team, not
about selling yourself, right, he probably wouldn't be doing all
these antics.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
He probably wouldn't have well, this part I don't know,
but he probably wouldn't have a body for the tattoos.
But he probably.
Speaker 5 (04:29):
Wouldn't play the way that he plays with just no
respect for the seriousness of the game, and that's partially
why he does the stupid side sweep thing of bam
Adebio and injures him for the game. But everything about
him says, I'm playing this game in a playground, and
it's so annoying because he's so bleeping talented and he
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plays this ridiculous style of game, and I'm just wondering, like,
if he just grew up in a different household, that's it,
just you're up in a different household.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
It's very nurture versus nature debate.
Speaker 7 (05:02):
But would he be the best player in the game,
because physically there is absolutely nothing limiting him from being
the best scoring guard and probably the best overall point
guard in the game.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
I gotta tell you, it's an odd time to be
lashing out of the Ball family, to mister Ball, to
Lonzo Ball, to all the balls out there. Considering that
you lost the game, and you had a ninety seven
point five percent chance of winning the game, even with
everything that transpired, with about a minute thirty to go,
you should have won the game.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Is he wait till I got to the nipples. But
the thing about well, go ahead, Taylor.
Speaker 6 (05:39):
Stull, I'm so glad that you mentioned the ESPN analytic metrics.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Yes, that is.
Speaker 6 (05:45):
My nominee for the most overrated metric in all of sports,
because in that game, somehow both teams had over a
ninety five percent chance to win, and neither team won
in that situation.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Yeah, that's cooed.
Speaker 6 (06:01):
They both had to overcome it. So to the point
where I'm like, maybe I'm just missing you know, maybe
the only time I noticed the ESPN analytics is the
five percent of games, and somehow I notice every time
it's in the five percent of games, and then I'm
thinking about it, I'm like, no, this kind of seems
like a trend where ESPN analytics can't really catch up
to the fact that a ten point lead isn't really.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
A tench point aid nothing.
Speaker 6 (06:23):
It was ninety seven point five percent when the Hornets
were up six with like one forty five left, or
the heat were up six with one forty five left.
That's a two possession game. There's no way you're telling
me it's over ninety seven percent chance.
Speaker 5 (06:40):
Now, even when this is why it was so maddening
when the score, well, Amazon had technical difficulties.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
You can't do that in your play like stude.
Speaker 5 (06:51):
There's this whole debate in basketball right now about whether,
because Mike Breen chimed in on it on this last
regular season game, whether it's okay whether people are happy
that the national broadcast have all of the playoffs because
it used to be at least a first round would
be done by your local teams. I like that, it's
because it just feels like your team's on a bigger
stage when it's the national broadcast.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
But you can't screw up like that in your first
chance Amazon, well is.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
He let me say this, and you're right, you can't
do that if you're Amazon. Although that's not going to
stop any of us from going to Amazon. I went
there today. I had to buy something, So I mean,
that's that's just a deal. It was a terrible, terrible job.
But Joe Buck joined me and Taylor out in Lake
Tahoe and he actually talked about this, and he's the
guy doing the national games where he doesn't like that
the local cities, the markets don't get the local play
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by play guy for the opening rounds of the playoffs.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
He doesn't like it. Joe Buck doesn't like it. That's crazy.
Speaker 5 (07:42):
Yeah, So again, as somebody like. My opinion is, if
you've been listening to your local people all year long
and you're a real fan, I'm not going to bother
you that much. I think you know, you get a
different perspective from the national grip. It feels like you're
on a bigger stage, et cetera. So it doesn't bother
me too much. But you can't have technical difficulty.
Speaker 6 (08:00):
There's a lot of talk today whether or not LaMelo
Ball should have been ejected from that game or not
the theory I subscribe to Stu.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
Yeah, an eye for an eye.
Speaker 6 (08:09):
The second bam out of bio was ruled out from
that game, even if you can't go back. Whatever the
pool reporter is saying is the reason why they weren't
able to review that. The second bamount of bio was
ruled out for that game. Somebody should have stopped in,
dropped the eye for an eye theory and said, bamount
of bio's out. Eye for an eye, LaMelo Ball, you
are now out for the game.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Yeah, you have like a little a fluff what do
you call those?
Speaker 5 (08:32):
It this little like a corn cornhole bag, but it's
got a picture of an eye on it, and you
throw it out onto the floor, and it's just like, oh,
we have an eye for an eye claim, you gotta
take somebody out.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
Taylor.
Speaker 5 (08:44):
I'm so glad you brought that up because I tried
to start off with the you know, the Lamello ball
stuff and just because it is it is crazy frustrating
to me that all it is is a personality thing
that would make this guy.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Get an odd time to be attacking the balls. But anyway,
keep going.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
It's not an all time odd time.
Speaker 5 (08:56):
He took out Bam out of Bio on a BS play.
It's a perfect time to take out the balls. But
this is my frustration with this, okay, And you touched
on it, Taylor. There was a pull reporter who asked
that Zariba the lead official, and he said another play
had already happened. Therefore you couldn't go back to there
because nothing was called there. Stu, Why does it make
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sense that they can review it the next day, the
next day to see if LaMelo did anything wrong, but
you can't review it the next play. It's so ridiculous
that the only option that Eric Spolster had there was
to run out on the floor immediately and get a
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technical foul. So that play could stop and then he
could point to there and say, now you have to
review that. That is so ridiculous that you can review
it the next day, but you can't during the next
time out say that was an egregious flagrant foul. Ejected like,
I don't The NBA needs to fix that to make
it make sense, because if you again, if you can
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review it the next day, you should be able to
review it the next play. I think Carl Douglas would
like that because it rhymes. There's no way that they
shouldn't be able to review that.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
It's senseless.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Izy, did you ever think that you would hear this
sentence come out of any announcer's mouth. Kobe White is
from a different planet.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
He kind of looks like he came from a different planet.
Speaker 5 (10:24):
His face is a little hilarious like that that dude
was so sick and tired of losing to the heat.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
He is so sick.
Speaker 5 (10:31):
It was so sick and tired of his season ending
to the heat at this exact same time of year
that he's like, I'm just going to take everything.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
It's so funny that I text this to Taylor.
Speaker 5 (10:39):
What actually got Kobe White going in this game was
a banked in three pointer that obviously he didn't call.
And I want to say it was almost the very
next play, maybe a play after that, Pella Larson just
slips on a wet spot and gives the ball up,
and then LaMelo gives it to Kobe for a wide
open three. Those are two accidents that happened, but they
got him going and then he took that last shot
to take this game in overtime. It was a great,
(11:01):
like feel good performance for Kobe White. But yeah, it's
it's a little frustrating that LaMelo was in there at all.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
Stu.
Speaker 6 (11:07):
I know this isn't a mount Rushmore Monday, but I
think you can make the argument today that when it
comes to playing games, Kobe White is on the mount
Rushmore of playing games.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
The Mitchell's on there too.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Yes, we have a mister Game seven in hockey. He's
mister playing game. I mean he is.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
That's where Kobe White is at his best.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
So you have a mount Rushmore of guys a playing
game heroes teller because I can't well, I would think,
who is the guy who hit the big shot before
before Kobe hit his the Brandon Miller. He would be
on the team and he had a big three is
he could get that game to within reach for.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
The and not be the way he played. He was
so bad in the first half. He just kept fouling.
Speaker 5 (11:51):
He had terrible offensive foul for the third foul to
get him out of the game.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
That guy was not ready. The nipple was not ready.
It was not prepared.
Speaker 5 (11:59):
You saw how scared he seemed to look every time
they put the camera on him. It was just not
a great and so it wasn't a great shooting performance
except for three guys on that team. Three guys hit
five three pointers and that was That was a huge difference.
But LaMelo Ball shouldn't have been in that game, and
it's you know, if that official can get reprimanded afterward,
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it Lamello Ball could potentially, I don't think it's gonna happen,
but could potentially get suspended for the next play in game,
which how is that going to help the Miami Heat.
If all of that could happen, then that referee should
be publicly reprimanded and should be suspended as well, because
there's still frames of him staring right at the play
and not calling anything. Although I do want to take
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credit because I told Taylor is America's team, the Hornets,
the Heat were going to be playing against the referees
as well.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
And there you go.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
He's a homer.
Speaker 8 (12:49):
I mean.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
Started.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
He should have resorted to the thuggery is what they
should have done. Listen, this is all I'll say. We'll
take a quick time out, we'll take some phone calls.
Eight of its ninety nine on Fox eight seven seven
ninety nine on Fox. I understand what it is you're saying.
I understand why you would be frustrated. I know that
Ball committed the foul on Bam. I know it's frustrating
to lose a guy that could score eighty three points
on any given night if the coach leaves them in
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too long. I get all of that, but I don't
want my best players not playing in games that have stakes.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
Attached to it. Okay, And so you could.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Throw out LaMelo Ball all you want. I'm glad they
left him in. He hit the game winner, He made
the game exciting. He himself is exciting because you never
know what's coming next with him on the court or
off the court.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Yeah, I don't care how exciting you are. You can't
cheat you can't take out the other team's best player.
Speaker 5 (13:37):
And then don't even get me started on his response
afterward if we can play it on the next segment,
but him basically saying, oh, we'll check up on him
to see he's okay.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
And and that's supposed to make it better.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
That's nice. I mean, mister ball raised them well.
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Speaker 3 (14:27):
Was it?
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That?
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Speaker 3 (14:29):
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Speaker 1 (14:32):
Zach Brown going to join us at about fifteen minutes.
Looking forward to that. Tom Haberstrow is going to join
us at around four to twenty five to talk about
the playing games last night preview, the games coming up
playoff preview.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
I like to call it.
Speaker 5 (14:46):
He's a big Portland guy too, so it might be
schooling people on the Portland Trailblazers.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Yes, but it is time now for do me a favor.
I don't know if we have music imaging. I'm not certain.
I can't remember.
Speaker 6 (15:04):
The game.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
We play every week, not every Wednesday, just every week haphazardly.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
Whatever we feel like it.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Yes, but let's start here with bordop Ricardo for do
me a favor if he could pry himself away from
the day baseball that is going on right now, what
a soccer match is probably happening, bordop Ricardo, go ahead,
all right?
Speaker 9 (15:25):
Well, Happy Jackie Robinson Day, everybody first, one of my
favorite days of the year.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
Text day, right, Well, that's that's the ugly part of
the day, I guess.
Speaker 9 (15:34):
But Larry Dobie was the second African American player to
be playing in Major.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
League baseball after Jackie Robinson.
Speaker 9 (15:41):
Two months afterward, and I don't feel like he gets
any credit.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
So Major League Baseball, do me a favor. Give some
flowers of Larry Adobie. Do we need like a Larry
Adobe Day? Adobe Day sounds fun? I mean, that'd be fun.
Speaker 9 (15:54):
I'd be cool with that because he was the first
guy in the America, first African American, the American league.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
So that could justification college. And hey, yeah, I like it.
That's an excellent one. Board A Ricardo, Seriously, I agree with.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
You, meaning, but I these do me a favors.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Let's go to EP Jason out in Sherman Oaks. EP
Jason to.
Speaker 10 (16:12):
Everybody who hosts a national radio show or a national
sports podcast or television show, do me a favor if
you spend all of the NBA regular season telling us
how unwatchable it is and how nobody cares about it.
The players don't care, why should we care? Don't do
these deep dive takes about the NBA playoffs and who's
(16:34):
gonna win the series? And you have any credibility?
Speaker 3 (16:38):
What do you think about that? Is he's playing bo
shives and they can't do that. I love it.
Speaker 5 (16:44):
I mean, you can't complain about the league and then
just hop in in the postseason and be like, oh,
this is awesome and five that you can't have both ways.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
I'm with you, Jason, you can and I have for
twenty years now. So I mean, I don't know what
the time you're talking about it? Right?
Speaker 1 (16:57):
How about you make the regular season more interesting and
I'll jump in early.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
It's not so I jump in during the playoffs. How
about that?
Speaker 5 (17:02):
In your defense? Do you also don't really watch too
much of the playoffs either, so you know.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Listen, I was glued to the last night's game. I
saw that Kobe White three to take it to overtime.
I saw Tyler Herro choke down the stretch, and I'm
not certain Tyler Herrow was happy to hear his coach
say that Bams the best player on the team.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
He choked, he was bad. How I sending over Todd?
Speaker 6 (17:22):
How I knew Jason wasn't talking about Steve Gotts is
he said, if you care about your credibility, And if
there's one thing I know about Gotts, yeah he does
not care about his credibility. He's just gonna say whatever's
on his mind.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
You never have, never will. Thank you, Teller.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
I appreciate it and I'm sorry to eat p Jason.
Let's go to update anchor Ike Well. I also apologized
too earlier today because he told us Rory was going
to win the Masters.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
We laughed at him.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Go ahead, Ike, do me a favor it.
Speaker 11 (17:48):
People around sports media, make last night the last time
that a live streamed sports broadcast encounters technical difficulties during
crunch time. This one day might apply to the super Bowl.
Speaker 5 (18:05):
There's been a few of these, and they've been bigger
than last night. Last night was only two minutes, and
it was a play in game and you didn't miss
any like lead change or anything like that. But it's
annoying and it just it's terrible debut postseason for Amazon.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
I'd rather what happened last night than what happened at
the Masters, where I'm just seeing everyone and they're all
confused because no one knows where the golf ball is
on the eighteenth hole. Just black out, Okay, come back
what He's ready to hit his wedge?
Speaker 4 (18:35):
Yeah, daylor No, is it my turn? Yes it is.
That's why I was saying, yeah, Taylor, Yes, So.
Speaker 6 (18:42):
I'm watching up in Adam's k Adams Show on FanDuel
TV or FanDuel Network and Marcus Freeman is the guest
and Marcus Freeman, the entire head looks like it was
painted on. Marcus Freeman, Do me a favor, Come on home.
You're not fooling anybody with that, with that hair.
Speaker 5 (19:02):
Job, dude, if you haven't seen it, like he's approaching,
was it Cam Boozer, Carlos Carlo's Boozer. Wow, it's going
to be confusing for the rest of my life. Carlos
Boozer levels because.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
You don't even really need to zoom in.
Speaker 5 (19:16):
If any light is hitting off of his head, you
can see his real hairline and where the fake stuff starts.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
And man, it is thick.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Yes, anyone back in, anyone else back in Sherman Oaks,
have I know, Chris, you have one.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
Do me a favor, Ye, do me a favor.
Speaker 12 (19:34):
Athletic You're you're You're clearly gonna need an insider. And
I don't think he in Rapaport is gonna be long
from NFL network, considering consolidation and things that nature. I'm
just he seems like a nice guy. Just give him
a good landing spot. You know, he can do the job.
He can do everything. Rassini was doing. I can't imagine.
I can't imagine. Well, sorry, I Isaac just shot me
(19:55):
a particular uh glare at my praising So yes, I'm
gonna back.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
None of you know what Rassini was doing?
Speaker 1 (20:02):
No, no, no, no, I are you guys gonna continue to
put me.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
In bad spots with this? Is that? Is that the
goal of the game here?
Speaker 3 (20:09):
I mean, or you could just move along and go
to me.
Speaker 5 (20:13):
Since he got about a minute left in the second
go ahead, is he do me a favor? Miami Heat,
get himI hock Hez Junior off my team? Oh my god,
he's so frustrating. He might be six Man of the Year,
but I don't know if his basketball i Q reaches six.
It is so frustrating in critical moments to watch that
(20:37):
guy make some of the dumbest decisions. Congratulations to the Hawks.
Is his sister's clearly the best player in the family.
They won a national title at UCLA, But oh my goodness,
they maxed out what they're gonna get out of Heimi
Hawkes Junior.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
Get that man off of my team.
Speaker 5 (20:53):
I need him to do some studying when it comes
to NBA basketball, all right.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
And I guess we're seen over. He is seriously, he's
very emotional today.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Steph Curry, do me a favor. He's on a minute restriction.
Tonight Warriors are playing in a must win game. Steph Curry,
do me a favor. Remove the minutes restriction. Okay, if
you lose tonight, guess what you have nothing to do
for the remainder of the summer. Give him forty minutes
this evening. Because you're Steph Curry, do me a favor.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
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Speaker 4 (21:33):
Very excited for this.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Zach Brown is a three time Granny winning singer, songwriter
and frontman of the multi platinum Zach Brown Band. He
has earned over ten awards with seventy seven over seventy
seven nominations throughout his career, including a Grammy for Best
New Artists in twenty ten and Zach Brown his band
will headline the UFC Freedom two fifty Fan Fest on
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the Ellipse in Washington, d C. On June thirteenth, the
day before for the MMA promotion host it's Mega events
at the White House. How did you get involved with
this headlining the UFC Freedom to fifty Fan Fast and
the big MMA match at the White House.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
How'd you get involved here? Man?
Speaker 13 (22:15):
I heard this was happening and going down, I text
Dana and I said, man, I want to be a
part of this. Let me know what can be? What
can I do?
Speaker 8 (22:22):
Can I be your service? He takes care of me
anytime I want to go to a fight. UFC is
my favorite sport, all time favorite sport, Avid MMA fan.
I did judo in college and then started understanding the
mechanics of it, and then thirty years of watching from
early even before UFC one, you know, watching MMA, you know.
Speaker 14 (22:43):
From the beginning from King of the Cage too, and
then following through Pride, following through everything and watching the
empire that you know, Dana and everybody built with UFC
and Rogan, which is such an integral.
Speaker 8 (22:56):
Part of you know, engaging a fan and explaining what's
happening and what's going on.
Speaker 13 (23:02):
So it's my favorite sport. I'm a huge patriot. I
love this country. I love all the people.
Speaker 8 (23:09):
We have an incredible facility we built here in Georgia
called Campus Southern Ground. We do thirty four weeks of
sleep away programs for our veterans there my alignment. Every
night will we play, we have soldiers come up on
stage and do a salute during Chicken Fried. This is
this is a chance to honor America and the service
people to be able to be there and to be
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able to be part of the UFC all in one
thing together for our Bosingtonians. So I am super pumped
to be a part of it. And I told Dane,
I'll do whatever you need and whatever you want. However,
and so we're playing to show. They're gonna do the
weigh ends. They've got the incredible stage set up. I've
seen the renderings of it. And then we're gonna play
and then the next day we're gonna do the anthem
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you know live and this this card is huge. I
think it's going to be streamed almost a billion homes internationally.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
It's a great flex.
Speaker 5 (23:59):
There's just being able to text Dana and say, hey,
could I be a part of this.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
That's impressive there.
Speaker 5 (24:04):
But you said you had such a long history of
fandom with the UFC. Just wondering who some of your
favorites were in the past, and maybe some of your
favorites currently still fighting what.
Speaker 4 (24:13):
Era I mean, well, I mean you.
Speaker 5 (24:15):
Can go back to one UFC one, So whatever era
you decide or your favorites on conversation, the.
Speaker 8 (24:21):
First fight that I remember was probably keep Patney against
Emmanuel Yarborough and it was like two twenty five pound
like kin po karate guy against the six hundred pounds
Suma wrestlers. And this was back when it was mainly
single discipline, so you know, they were just bringing you
bring your best, you know, representative of martial arts to
the game.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
That was wild times.
Speaker 8 (24:45):
From that to watching all the you know, the Chemo
and and oys, Tracy and Dude early earlier days like that,
from guys like you know Dan, Dan Severn and.
Speaker 13 (25:01):
I've watched it all. I've seen it all. I've followed
it throughout eras you know, I mean watching some of
the great champions. I always love seeing the champion that
can hold down a.
Speaker 8 (25:09):
Rain you know, multi year ragin, which is unpredictable in
the sport as it is.
Speaker 13 (25:13):
You know, from from Saint Pierre to Anderson.
Speaker 8 (25:17):
Silva's probably in my mind one of the greatest champions
ever holding it down for seven years, you know, to
people like Matt Views, which is just the strength of
that dude super early on coming in.
Speaker 13 (25:30):
And then guys like Carl Parisians early on was like
a you know, the first real Jodica that was.
Speaker 8 (25:36):
Really throwing people on their heads, you know, using that discipline,
you know. I mean there's so many eras of it too,
you know, to Chuck with Dell, to Randy Couture too.
Speaker 13 (25:48):
You know.
Speaker 8 (25:48):
I just think about the eras and the people, the
personalities that it had like coming along the way. But
I was there from the beginning, watching the evolution of
the athletes, watching the evolution of everyone training, all the
watching the UFC grow and form and continue to evolve,
but keep everything really pious and true.
Speaker 13 (26:08):
They did such a masterful job of keeping the quality
of the event.
Speaker 8 (26:12):
And then when other network started trying to compete and
bring things in and you see their commentators and you
see the way they talk about it or whatever, it
just reminded you of the bar in the UFC.
Speaker 13 (26:22):
It said, it was so hard to even get close
to that.
Speaker 8 (26:24):
So you know, current fighters, I mean, man, there's something
I mean days he's one of my favorite all time
explosive the way that he gets in I mean, he
throws upper guts. You don't even see him until they
hit people and so choked. He's gonna be fighting. Bo
Nichol is one of my new favorite fighters. Getting to
see Boat fight on this car. You know, a lot
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of the dominance of the incredible wrestlers, the people that
come out of wrestling world coming into UFC IS is
depressing to watch. I'm really excited to watch Bo Nickel,
excited to see Seanmalley fight. There's I mean, I love
it all. I watch every early prelm. I watched all
the free lambs. If I go from then, I'm sitting there.
I'm there early.
Speaker 13 (27:08):
I watch every single fight because I know there's people
up and coming.
Speaker 8 (27:11):
I haven't seen fight before, watching Peico fight in this
last I was there in Miami this last Saturday. I
was there watching some of the I mean, there's some
of the memorial fights that that hook It and Blade
fight is one I will never forget. That's like one
of the best ones that I've ever seen live. That'd
be such a character and personality, and I think that
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kind of thing is is is going.
Speaker 4 (27:34):
To carry a lot away.
Speaker 8 (27:35):
I feel like, honestly, a star was born that night
with him, and I just I love the evolution.
Speaker 5 (27:41):
Man, we talk to you for all the five minutes,
we can tell you're a certified die hard, like absolutely.
Speaker 4 (27:47):
Yes, yes, no doubt, go ahead, Jayler.
Speaker 13 (27:50):
Yeah, let's shot man.
Speaker 4 (27:52):
I love it, Zach.
Speaker 6 (27:53):
I'm also a massive baseball fan, and I love that
you got a part of the baseball season this year
with the Sunday Night song because yeah, well, first off
a banger too. I appreciate the fact that NBC is
dressing it up and making it feel like it's just
as big as Sunday Night Football. My question for you
(28:13):
as a Braves fan, what's your mount rushmore of your
Braves favorite players, not the best players, but your favorite players.
Speaker 4 (28:21):
That is a great question.
Speaker 8 (28:23):
Yes, Al Murphy as a kid was one of my
favorites all time. That was back in like Dale Murphy,
Bob Horner days, like I remember being.
Speaker 13 (28:32):
At a game where Bob Warner hit four home runs
in a game.
Speaker 8 (28:37):
And then when when I was in high school, I
was a senior in high school when we had Glavin
and Maddox and Smolts and Avery and the domination in
the bullpen that we had that year, and it was
baby Justice and Terry Pendleton and all of the people
that I watched in different era, same thing as the
eras of it, right, I mean going back to you know,
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Phil Nicro, going back to throwing the weirdest pitches ever thrown, Like.
Speaker 13 (29:07):
It's a it's a lifetime journey for.
Speaker 8 (29:09):
Me through through sports and then seeing them, you know,
they gave me a ring when when they won the
same and I'm an honorary I have to be a
Socks fan also just because of Fenway, like Fenway is
we owed all the records from Fenway Park for selling
it out.
Speaker 13 (29:27):
That's my city.
Speaker 8 (29:28):
Also after Atlanta, So I got a ring when Boston
won the World Series, and I got a ring when
Atlanta won the World Series. And so I'm just like
I pinched myself at all the things that we get
to do and get to participate in because of the music.
Speaker 13 (29:41):
But I was a kid.
Speaker 8 (29:44):
When I was fourteen years old, I rode my bike
five miles five days a week to work at a
baseball car shop and the guy couldn't pay me in money,
so we had to pay me in cards. So I've
been collecting cards and that was early days. Like that
was when Eric Davis and Don Matting and Roger Clemens,
and like, those memories are forever seared because because I'm
(30:06):
I've held their faces in my hands on baseball cards
for you know, a decade that.
Speaker 13 (30:13):
Was back like Jose Canseco. Yeah, and then you got
like the fire eras, you.
Speaker 8 (30:17):
Got everything like going all the way through watching the
evolution of baseball the same way as kind of it's
kind of similar to UFC.
Speaker 13 (30:23):
But I love I love the sport man. There's nothing
more American than than baseball.
Speaker 4 (30:30):
You have that damn Eric Davis Rookie card, don't you.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
I'm wondering if any of the cards he paid you
in baseball cards did you save them?
Speaker 4 (30:36):
Did any of them turn into something really valuable?
Speaker 13 (30:42):
Eric Davis Rookie card.
Speaker 8 (30:43):
My brother conned me out. He was five years older
than me, and I remember my granddad bought it for me.
Spent thirty bucks back then to buy me the Eric
Davis Rookey card. And he was bordering on the on
the Alzheimer's spectrum, my granddad, so I could take him
out and he would buy me cards. And my dad
be like, you spent one hundred what is this? And
then my brother was five years older than me and
conned me out of all my good ship back then.
(31:07):
But these days, you know, I'm able to get the
stuff that I that I want, and I've actually and
I played I played Magic.
Speaker 13 (31:13):
Like the card game. I played that when I was
in high school. I made a living off of playing
cards in high school. And I was balling in high
school making money playing that game. So that's translated into
now like getting into one Piece lately.
Speaker 8 (31:25):
Like there's a new game i'll call One Piece that
is crushing investment wise, but I'm still a collector man.
And it's cool to be in this era right now
watching Otani doing what he's doing, I mean, the best
baseball player ever in the game. Being alive, like being
able to watch that happen and go down the best pitcher,
(31:45):
the best hitter. Like it's cool to be alive in
moments like that, when you see a generational you know,
talent like that and then things coming through.
Speaker 13 (31:53):
I mean, there's this isn't so many incredible players out there.
Speaker 5 (31:56):
Speaking of cool moments to be alive, you probably had
some few pinch me moments in your career, like Chicken
Fried becoming such an anthem. How big of a deal
is it for you to have that song at the
beginning of Sunday Night Baseball and just you know, it's
got to be one of those moments in your career,
just like that's pretty darn cool.
Speaker 8 (32:15):
Absolutely, man, and Major League Baseball has been such a
great partner for us over the years, and we've played
all there. You know, a lot of the stadiums. I
love the baseball stadiums because they still feel intimate even
though it's a lot of people, and the sound is good,
the sounds coming kind of.
Speaker 13 (32:28):
Out of home plate and out. I love that that
part of it.
Speaker 8 (32:34):
I pinched myself every time that I get to go
out on stage. I never take that for granted. I
was just a kid playing in bars and hustling and
playing six hours a night or six nights a week
for ten years, trying to just make.
Speaker 13 (32:44):
It and let people know who I was.
Speaker 8 (32:46):
And then was able to be a people collector and
collect the right people to have around me to be
able to take it and to stay relevant.
Speaker 13 (32:53):
And I got a lot of energy, and I put
a lot of hard work and discipline into my business,
into my shows, and into my family first. But it's
it's incredible to have.
Speaker 8 (33:03):
The career that we've had and and to be able
to just keep going. You know, I want to be
among I want to be like spring Seeing or like Willie.
Speaker 13 (33:11):
I want to be somebody that's dedicated my life to
doing this.
Speaker 8 (33:15):
And in a world where we're in the middle of
you know, AI and a bunch of stuff like that,
people will always want to congregate and come together and.
Speaker 13 (33:21):
Be reminded of our you know how we're all the
same and we're there to make memories and to.
Speaker 8 (33:26):
Have fun and give me to give them the best
night possible. All my energy and times have been figuring
out how to create that every time we come back
to your city in a different way. And my band
is a testament the people around me I've got. I've
got one of the best bands in the world. People
are musicians that I have around me, the crew, and
everybody works hard, but they treat everybody like gold. And
(33:47):
that's led by example.
Speaker 13 (33:49):
That's that's you can't you can't buy culture and momentum
and chemistry. You have to earn that. And we've done
that and we keep it going and we're hungry. Coort.
You know, I feel as good now as I've ever
felt I take good care of myself.
Speaker 8 (34:01):
I try.
Speaker 13 (34:02):
I try to stay fit, I try to stay active,
and I try.
Speaker 8 (34:04):
To stay dedicated to our fans because that's really the
only people we owe anything to and have an opportunities
like like major League Baseball or getting able to being
able to do they use our song for the you know,
Mark Madness for NCAA, get to do the UFC event,
getting to be on Survivors, which I just did.
Speaker 13 (34:22):
I'm on episode four of the season fifty and Survivor.
Like these are all dreams come true for me, and
I never taken for granted.
Speaker 4 (34:29):
Zach, do you ever get nervous before a concert?
Speaker 10 (34:32):
No?
Speaker 13 (34:33):
No, I'm like interesting, I'm like a fighter man, I'm
like warmed up, I'm ready to go.
Speaker 8 (34:37):
I get super excited. Like there's not any part of
me that that's like nerves or anything like that. It doesn't,
it doesn't affect me like that, Like I'm I'm an athlete.
I'm like ready to go, Like, let's get on stage
and get it done.
Speaker 10 (34:52):
Zach.
Speaker 6 (34:52):
Has anybody in the band ever tried to get their
name on the band.
Speaker 4 (34:57):
Over Zach's dead body Get out of here?
Speaker 12 (35:00):
HM?
Speaker 13 (35:01):
But they trust me. You know, I've earned their trust
over a lot of years. We've been in a lot
of crossroads where we didn't know what we were gonna do.
But they trust me.
Speaker 8 (35:08):
They trust me to lead it, and then I trust
them to help me to be my orchestra, to make
the exact thing that every song needs to try to
drive that emotion home on whatever it is. And you know,
the extraordinary people. I couldn't do anything by myself. I'm
pretty I'm pretty limited on it on my own. But
when my tribe around me, it is pretty incredible what
(35:29):
we're able to do. And that's just a testament to
the people that are around me.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
You can only have one. Okay, you only have one
for the rest of time. Okay, you win another Grammy,
or the Braves win the World Series.
Speaker 13 (35:44):
I give it to the Braves.
Speaker 4 (35:49):
You would, huh? I take that Grammy? I would? You know?
Speaker 1 (35:56):
I'm assuming you're an Atlanta Hawks fan, correct, I'm assuming, yes, sir?
All right, So me and Taylor we are New York
Knicks fans, and I would like to make some sort
of bet with Zach Brawm with the Knicks Hawks series
coming up here. Okay, you guys are gonna break our hearts,
but you might as well win something when you do it,
you know, right, let's go. All right, so it's on
(36:19):
us to come up with the bet.
Speaker 4 (36:20):
Is that what you're saying.
Speaker 5 (36:24):
I say it's pretty easy. I say, if the Hawks win,
he comes back and brags on it for the show.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
Okay, all right, So if the Hawks win, you come
back on the show and we'll listen.
Speaker 4 (36:32):
The floor is yours. You just let me and Taylor
have it for fifteen minutes, Okay, whatever you want to say.
Speaker 13 (36:43):
How about that, you gotta wear that Hawks dirt.
Speaker 3 (36:45):
Okay, we do.
Speaker 4 (36:46):
That, all right, we'll do that.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
We will wear Listen, I will I'll wear Dominique Wilkins jersey.
I won't be embarrassed about it because he's one of
the greatest players I've ever seen. But that's a deal, right,
hawks win, you come back on, you make fun of
me and Taylor were good, and I'll wear landing gear
while you do it.
Speaker 4 (37:02):
Okay, got it?
Speaker 11 (37:04):
You got it?
Speaker 4 (37:05):
All right?
Speaker 1 (37:06):
One more time, buddy, on the way out. We appreciate
you doing this. We have to run here, but one
more time on the way out, promote what it is
you're doing. With Dana White with the UFC with a
big event at the White House.
Speaker 13 (37:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (37:18):
So we're playing FanFest for UFC for the Boss Antennaial
of America. It's the first sporting event that's been held
on the grounds of the White House.
Speaker 13 (37:30):
We're so excited to represent American represent all of our service.
Speaker 8 (37:34):
People to get out there and help everybody have an
incredible night and being able to be part.
Speaker 13 (37:38):
Of that historical event. This is American history at its finance.
And I love the UFC and I love it.
Speaker 8 (37:44):
It is a story of the American dream, but bringing
in every international you know, discipline and people and all
of that, and it's really a unifier around the world.
Speaker 13 (37:55):
This will be one of the most highly.
Speaker 8 (37:56):
Broadcast events that's ever happened, and the only event that's
happened all.
Speaker 13 (38:01):
Along the White House. And we're Zach Brown Man. We're
so honored to be part of this, all.
Speaker 4 (38:08):
Right, Zach. Well, Yeah, we appreciate the time, man.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
We really enjoyed this and we look forward to speaking
to you again once the Hawks beat the Knicks and
four Okay, he's laughing at us.
Speaker 4 (38:21):
Thank you so much, man,
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