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normal night here as we broadcast to you. You know,
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as you know, Mike and I we live in Los Angeles,
been here now for most of our adult lives, and
the wildfires in California and the LA area are just
mushrooming out of control.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Now.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
There is a huge fire in the Hollywood Hills that
makes it six fires right now that are zero percent contained,
and I look at a map and I see, you know,
you see how Los Angeles is just sort of bracketed
by all of these fires on the inside. Justin Frosburg,
our producers is close to an evacuation zone. He's got
a go bag ready in case he has to leave
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because he's in Santa Monica.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
We just found out.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
The evacuation zone for the Hollywood Hills includes the Doby
Theater where the oscars are held, and the Hollywood Bowl,
where where it's one of the biggest concert venues in
the entire world. I've been to hundreds of shows at
the Hollywood Bowl, and it's at the point where you
can't believe it's real, and you keep seeing videos and
you keep seeing the hillsides on fire. Really I go back,
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it looks like when you first see Mustafar in Revenge
of the Sith. It's unbelievable. And I think of all
the devastation, and I see the videos that are posted
and drone videos of entire neighborhoods and Pacific palis ages
that are just gone, that are burned on the ground,
and I think about the loss of property and the
loss of life that we have so far. I believe
(02:17):
five people have died as a result of this. And
I think about this, and I think about the human costs,
and I think about the whole city and Los Angeles
and the surrounding areas where we are, and I don't
know that la.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
I don't know when Los Angeles ever going to be
the same.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
I mean, forget about you know, hey, the Rams might
not be able to play Monday because of the air quality.
Might move the playoff game to Arizona against the Vikings
if they can't do it. And you know, I went
from earlier today going well, they'll get this set the
sort and it's still five days away and they'll be
able to play the playoff game here, you know, for
that because I'm thinking about getting this. But it's just
it's even worse than it was yesterday. And now I
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think about how is this city going to recover? How
do we get through this, and how do we recover
when all of this stuff is going on. Everywhere you
look there is a section of the city that is
on fire. You know, my daughter took our dog for
a walk because he had to get out of and
but out all day he wanted to stay out because
of the bad air quality, and we're like, okay, we'll
get him out, and she goes, oh, I could see
I could see a fire up here, and that's where
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she saw the fire. I mean it was you know,
it's ten miles away, ten twelve miles away in the
Hollywood Hills. But I'm like, it feels like it's right
outside your door. And it's just it's it's, like I said,
anything but a normal night to night. As we continue
and everybody continues to try to fight the fires that
are just raging out of control all throughout the greater
Los Angeles area.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
That's strange colored sky, right, that looks like something you're
messing with colors on the AI thing to try to
come up with some cool look for a painting you're
making or something. It's just odd. The air quality is
going to hell all the way down the shore. The
video clips of just what was once you know, tens
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of tens of millions of dollar homes, right, we're talking
you know estates and and different towns and restaurants that
you know, like if you ever visited Los Angeles, some
of the names, uh just spring right off your your
lips when you think about Malibu and all those areas
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and it's all gone, it's all rubble, and they had
people walking around doing influencer videos and like someone's gonna
just go and turn the hose on them at some point,
and it's just just absurdity, you know, people trying to
get their clout in the midst of absolute chaos and
carnage and and just the sadness and utter devastation. And
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now because it's California, it now takes the ugly political
turn that comes with it in the face of all
of the loss. It is just it's just horrible.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Twitter is Twitter is terrible for this. Twitter.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
But it's not even that it's just all news sources
all because it's well, it's it's the.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Thing about this, there's two things about the story. Whenever
there is a big news item, Twitter is always the
worst place to go because it's not about what's happening anymore.
You can't follow stories on Twitter, right, it's just it's here.
You know, as you said, it gets political, it gets
in and it's like I just want to know what's
going on. So it's already difficult because it with developing
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stories like this and not knowing where you're at and
what people are trying to cover on different news channels. Okay,
but you go to Twitter and you really you can't.
That's not the place to go. But there is no
place to go because everything is happening so fast. It's
impossible to find like how contained is the fire, where
is the fire spreading to it? You'll find a lot
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of stuff on the Hollywood Hills, but then you'll find
more stuff on the palis Ages. You'll find more stuff
on Pasadena and Alta Dina, And it's, like I said,
it's impossible to know which way is up. It really
is to try to follow because most things, most times,
when something happens all right, you can turn on a
television and watch a news story and see it. And
but this is just because it's happening so fast and
there's been no real progress. It's even worse than it
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was yesterday because there's more fires and there's more devastation
and it's still zero percent. I'm waiting to see at
least three percent contained then I can feel like, okay,
maybe we're we can get a handle on this. But
there's just nowhere to go to even know what the
latest news is And that's a really frustrating part of
this too, because you know, people want to know or
their friends okay, they're family okay, And it's the biggest
story in the world right now, and there's just no
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place to say, okay, I want to know up to
the minute stuff. This is where I go and this
is what I can find out. And that's a really
frustrating part of this.
Speaker 5 (06:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
I mean locally here in La I had our station
KFI on our news station and it was up with
that till probably about four in the morning, listening to
updates clips they had from different fire officials and responders.
And obviously then you start getting some of the clips
in from political figures in each of those municipalities trying
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to talk about but different advances they've been able to
make and processes in place. But at no point is
there any circling back to containment because you're trying to
find hope and telling people zero percent isn't going to
help relieve any of that stress, right. I mean, you know,
we've got a lot of folks. I've had people checking
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in from all over the globe today asking, you know,
if our team was okay and I'm like, honestly, we
know everybody's just did a bit of shock about it
and trying to figure out what's the next, you know,
the hammer to fall on this, and you know, wright
as we're coming.
Speaker 5 (07:37):
On air, you get the Hollywood.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
Hills notifications, so you know, wondering what's next. I mean,
it's just a terrifying situation out here, you.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Know, the thing today and is trying to watch the coverage,
and it's really difficult because all the interviews on all
the different stations are all here's someone who lost their
business and they're talking about it. Your heartbreaks, and here's
someone who lost their home and your heartbreaks. It's really
difficult to watch obviously, but you know, in turning all
the channels, I was on CNN for a few minutes
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and Bill Weir was on, and I'm like, oh, here's
Bill Weir, who's you know, has been a big climate
guy reporter for the last twenty I worked with Bill
Weir for a couple of years and at KBC Channel
seven here in LA when Bill was just you know,
just a sports guy, and now he's you know, he's
the preeminent climate reporter in you know, in in the
world and I'm watching him do do a hit from
to do a do a segment on CNN from somewhere
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in Pasadena, and he's taking he starts talking and he says,
I'm standing in front of a business that was full
and standing and untouched six hours ago, and now it's
it's burned to the ground and it's just it's just gone.
He said it was a subway or it was a
it was a nail. I forget what he said. But
he goes and this was here and now you can
see it's just gone. And that was alarming enough. But
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except the start that that got, that got both Pam
and I were watching, is that he's doing this report
and then there is a building behind him. Now he's
probably about fifty yards away from it, you know, fifty
or sixty yards away from it, and that building is
on fire and it's a business of some kind, and
I and and and it's and and it's on fire.
And I mean he's okay, he's far enough away, he's
doing his report, but we're just looking at them, going
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that is a building that.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Is absolutely on fire.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
And because because the fire department is stretched so thin,
there's nobody there fighting it. There's I mean, they have
to get everybody safe, and it's it's it's you know,
as we heard them say today the fire department said, look,
we are we are staffed for one to two wildfires,
not for not four or five. And so we're watching this,
here's this, here's this, this business that is burning and
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it's not being fought by a fireman. It's just it's
just burning. And I can't imagine if you're the person
that owns that building or works that building, going just
watching it burn and then there's no help coming, there's
no it's it's everybody is so is so consumed with
with saving lives and making sure people are safe and
making and trying to make sure this thing doesn't spread
that you there's so many things that are falling through
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the cracks on this and it's just I saw that
and I said, how many how many places? Is that
a normal thing right now? Where Yeah, it's just burning.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
We can't get there. We don't have the resources. I
don't know.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
I don't know how how it's not been an incredible
influx of resources to LA from across the country, like
I mean, twenty four hours, and it's we don't have
enough to fight. Where's there where where's all the help? Right, Like,
where's all where's all everybody coming in that it should
be able to help in a situation like this, where's
people sending different things like and I'm everybody that's had
something like this happen, any any sort of disaster, natural disaster,
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or any any any sort of tragedy. You go, where
is all the help? Where is all the help? And
and it hits you differently when when it's something that
happens that, boy, I can I can understand this, and
I understand the frustration everything that goes along with it.
It's it's you know, seeing that, hey, here's a building,
here's a business burning down, and no one's gonna go help.
But it just shows you how how helpless that that
everybody is, and how helpless we all are here just
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you know, hoping at some point the winds just blow
everything out to the wall. That's what we're waiting on,
you know, hopefully the winds die down and hopefully if
they you know, if they stay up, if they start
blowing everything out to the ocean, and then maybe we
have a chance to start getting on top of this thing.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
Yeah, I mean as we were talking about yesterday the
open call to anybody who's served as a firefighter recently
or if you were off duty for your you know,
forty eight off to please report and call in and
and everybody else that that could be made available. I mean,
we're watching video, you know, in the studio yesterday, Justin
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and Alex and I watching some of the reporters you
know where where they're doing their reports. Wow, that's that's
just I get it. You want to have someone in
the in the throws to really make you understand. But
just the danger involved there, or the shots that they
had of people at gas stations trying to do whatever
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they could to make sure they were hosing things down,
just trying to give themselves a little bit of respite
in case the fire came up basically across the street.
I mean, just just terrifying and looking at these businesses
and trying to figure out how do you get these resources?
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And this is where there's just a lot of questions
that need to be asked, and you can't get the
answers as you're trying to fight it, right, Those come
out in the wash later on about tactics and prep
and how do you get yourself prepared for something like
this again, you know you're ready for two fires, not five,
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not six, not how it's continuing to evolve and go
up and down the coast in that area. Just really,
I had gone through some old photos over the holidays,
right as you want to do, you clean off some
storage on your phone. And I remember when we had
it a couple of years ago, driving to and from work.
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We had it on the hills by the Getty Center, right,
which is about what four or five miles from the studio, uh,
and when those were on fire, and just driving to
that area of town, and now you just magnify that
on a whole other level.
Speaker 5 (13:11):
I mean, that was bad. This is I don't even know.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
The proper adjective to describe what we're witnessing now, Yeah,
I mean.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
I I don't.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
I mean, it's it's so I look at it and
and and my breath gets taken away, and I see
the fires kind of surrounding all of us, you know,
in the Greater Los Angeles area, and it's I mean,
it's it's a case of where the reason the fires
are burning the way they are, obviously is because of
all the is all the all the brush.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Right, it's been so windy here. It it's the wind
in any rain, right.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
No, normally we have like what two one thousands of
an inch of rain of something in the in the
last quarter, where we normally have at least three or
four inches of rain.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
So everything is dry, the winds are blowing.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
And if you live in the in the you know
the quote the city of Los Angeles, there's a lot
less greenery. There's a lot less you know, there's a
lot there. There's less trees, there's less things that will burn.
So that's kind of so far why the fires have
been the way they are where it's you know, they're
they're outside the city, right, but that's where the fires going,
and the fires can just continue to grow. And the
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scary part is that, yeah, they keep getting closer and
they keep expanding north as well. So because and which
is where more of that that brush is, Where there's
more forest and there's more there's more areas for this
fire to keep going. And it's I mean, I I
don't know, I don't know. It's it's very it's a
real weird night tonight. Obviously you're in here, Mike, and
(14:36):
I gonna be a little weird tonight obviously, with with
trying to figure everything out and trying to keep one
eye on this and of course keep you entertained and
do the show, because look it is you know, sports
is our business. And I say it all the time.
You know you're you're here to get away from all
the bad stuff. But just it was, you know, I
felt it was important tonight for us to start and
talk about, Look, this is kind of where we're at,
and you know, all of us are waiting. Are we
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gonna get an evacuation side or we're gonna get an
evacuation signal? Where are we going to have to go?
How is that going to be? So that's kind of, uh,
you know, where we're at right now, and we hope
to have good news as we keep going throughout the
night tonight. Hopefully the winds will die down again. It
seems like that's happening. But again I would have thought
that was good news, and then the Hollywood fire started,
So I keep thinking about the Hollywood Bowl and the
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and the and and north of Sunset where all these
areas are, all the all these businesses. Now you're getting
into the city area of LA and it's I'm again,
loss of life, loss of wildlife, loss of loss of property,
loss of business.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
I mean, I don't.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
I don't know how and when you know, how we
get through this and then Los Angeles can recover. I mean,
you're you're looking at devastation. That is just that we've
never seen anything like this before. That's just here's a
natural disaster that is just.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Now going to hit.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
You know, the the the second largest market in the
in the country, and all of a sudden, all these
things Hollywood and the glitz and the glamor and all
the things people come to vacation for come here to
get away from there. Uh, you know, they're the issues. Hey,
I'm going on vacation of going to La I'm gonna
go here. I'm gonna go see this' when go to
the beach. We all lead. I mean really, I don't.
I don't know how we recover. It's a it's gonna
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be a it's gonna be some kind of long road, man.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
It really is.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
Long road begins with that first step. Hopefully, Uh, good
thoughts with everybody that's fighting this stuff, and as you're
able to help, all the numbers go up, all the
usual different resources.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
That are out there. If you you have the resources
to be able to help h please do.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
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and again we'll have more developing wildfires in Los Angeles. Again,
Mike and I broadcasting from LA like we do every night,
and like I said, just to you know, forgive us
a little bit tonight, because tonight's gonna be kind of
a weird night, not knowing how things are gonna go,
and how the winds are gonna blow, and and if
Justin Frostsberger Alex Tischer are gonna have to evacuate because.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Of where they live.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
So it's it's just that kind of night everywhere. Continue
to have prayers and great thoughts for everybody fighting these
blazes and trying to stay safe in this time but
popular phrase I said a few minutes ago, I'll say
it again. Sports is our business. We're to get into
big stuff going on right now in the world of sports.
And clearly, Mike Carmon, Uh, no game bigger tonight than
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the Knicks ending that two game losing streak and beating
the Toronto Raptors one twelve to ninety eight. No game
O your year, the biggest game. No game bigger than that,
none whatsoever, No game bigger. Karl Anthony Towns is back.
So all the Frostburgs. Oh, I don't know he's fine.
Carl Anthony Towns was fine. He played the night. He
played thirty four minutes. He was great. He was twenty
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seven and thirteen. Everything is fine. Something must be wrong.
He only played thirty four minutes. Everything is fine. Well,
now you're upset there playing less minutes. Tips is playing these.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
Got fort I just said, I mean when he comes back,
he said forty forty two.
Speaker 5 (19:45):
So something surely is wrong with him.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
I'm glad he's in thirty four non played. He is
in thirty four minutes.
Speaker 5 (19:51):
No, all right, So.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
It's the Raptors, and it was a pretty easy score
in victory, so you're able to distance things and get
yourself a little bit of bench time with your guys
Shamit getting twenty one minutes and precious Head fifteen off
minutes off the bench, so at least the rotation got
a little deeper, a couple other guys getting two or
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three subcursory minutes. Your man Pain as well got into
double digits and minutes. But yeah, it's take the victory. Look,
with thirty eight forty games into the season, for all
these squads you got, you gotta just pace yourself. So
if there's anything going on there, TIBs. You're putting being
put on this man.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Now, the actual game obviously the game of the night.
And I was only kidding the Cavalty half the Thunder. No, no, no, no, no,
come on, this game. This was like an NBA Finals game.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
Man.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
The Cavaliers beat the Thunder.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Really entertaining, especially in the first half, really entertaining game.
But the Cavaliers improved a thirty two and four. And
I know that, I know both of these teams. They're
still the you know, the the average NBA fan was going, yeah,
but are they really this good? The Thunder were great
last year, they've been great, so yeah, but it's the
Thunder they're really gonna sustain. Uh No, it looked the
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Thunder and the Thunder are really good. But I get that, Hey,
are the Cavaliers really this good? Are they putting too
much emphasis on the regular season?
Speaker 3 (21:18):
Guys?
Speaker 1 (21:18):
Thirty two and four is thirty two and four. Man,
you can't cut it up any other way. They're the
best offense in the NBA. And here's the scariest part
of the night, right, the Cavaliers win a big NBA
Finals type preview game, and they win it on a
night where their best player was awful.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
Donovan Mitchell.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Now he hit a big shot near the end, but
Donovan Mitchell was three or sixteen from the floor tonight
for eleven points. Okay, if you're telling me, here are
the Cavaliers who win a game somewhat comfortably. It doesn't
come down to the final minute. You know, they make
free throws at the end, they had a lead going
to the final few minutes. It's not like they needed
big time heroics at the end. They win a game
like this where Donovan Mitchell was just bh and and
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and this is the guy that's gonna need them in
scoring every night. He's gonna be their best player, and
he has a night like this, and still the Cavaliers win.
And they win without it being one of those Trey
Young I'm gonna shoot it up from half court and
have it go in like this should if you have
any other I don't think there should be.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
But if there's any other.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Concern that, oh the Calves might not be No, this
is the game that you tell you that, because when
your best player stinks and as a baby, the first
guy to say, listen, I had a bad night. Did
the Mets sign anybody today. It's a huge Mets fan
and a Mets sign. I had a bad night tonight,
but a bad night like that and still they beat
the thunder. I mean this is this should get rid
of all of your doubts about the Cavaliers.
Speaker 5 (22:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (22:39):
What's fun watching this play out, right, is you had
three guys doing the distribution. Wasn't just Darius Garland. You
also had Jared Allen and Evan Mobley six and seven assists,
respect respectively. Alan and had twenty five points, Mobley at
twenty one. Balance all up and down. You had guys
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in double figure. But you know, I get enamored with
that twenty nineteen draft class, right because we spent so
much oxygen on Jahn Morant, so much oxygen on Zigned.
He played last night, was not available as they played Portland. Really,
you couldn't get him a couple of minutes against Portland.
Speaker 5 (23:20):
Anyway.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
But the fact that you got Garland with his eighteen
and seven he's plus seven on the night, seven of
fifteen from the field, and then Ty Jerome six of seven,
fifteen points. He's averaging ten points a game from the bench,
giving you some quality minutes each and every night. In
route to this thirty two and four mark. Now, Oklahoma
City is eventually gonna get Chet back and they'll have
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some opportunities there. They're thin on the front line, so
they certainly need him back, and I know that's obviously
gets people going, Well, he doesn't add any bulk, no,
but he's still a body that you have to contend
with around the basket. But the Cavaliers one of the
best stories going. It's it's unfortunate that they it won't
get necessarily the the media push elsewhere. But yeah, this
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is fun. Nineteen and one at home, absolutely crushing it.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
I mean, they're not going anywhere. Think I know, because
that's the thing is when you see.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
The smaller market teams win and they don't have the
big star power like we expected Cleveland to win when
they had Lebron James. But you know, you look at
some of these smaller market teams and you go, yeah,
but are they really gonna sustain You always look at
it and go, yeah, I don't know. You know, the
teams like the Thunder and the Timberwolves and the Calves,
like they're all the same, like they're all the same way. Yeah,
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they're really good, But are they really gonna sustain.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
They could be.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
They could have the exact same numbers and record as
the Celtics, and you'd get the average NBA fan go, yeah,
but the Celtics are great.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
I mean, come on, they wont the time they Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Okay, no, I'm not saying, but you gotta you gotta
afford them the same thing. Like teams that get this
good and you should actually be more impressed because it's
not easy to build a really good team in a
small market. Man in the NBA, it is not. You
gotta get lucky in the draft. You gotta get all
these picks, you gotta you gotta throw content, You have
to throw numbers to try to find out what works.
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You have to hope you get lucky in the draft.
You have to hope you have money in free agency
for the right guy or two to come in and
like guy like Isaia Hertenstein who's come in this year
and he's been the right guy so far for Oklahoma City,
Like it's it really you need.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
You need a luck to go right to do this.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
It's not the NFL where hey, we have a lot
of money, We're gonna sign a bunch of free agents.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
Were get more wins. This is it's really really hard
to do.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
And so teams like this, Yeah, they don't just show
up and say yeah, you know, hey, yeah we're playing
above our heads. No, no, I think everybody these teams
have shown that they are here and here to stay.
And the Cavaliers clearly are here to stay and are
not going anywhere.
Speaker 5 (25:42):
Youth movements and certainly you know, go back.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
I mean Shay Gildish, Alexander, we remember him as a
member of that Clippers team. Obviously, I celebrate everything lou
Dort does, except when he's minus fifteen on a night
like he was tonight.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
But they've got a.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
Good depth to I just look, they shoot fifty three
percent from the field and lose by seven. I mean,
this is one of those classics. I mean that third
quarter was absurd, right, Well, there wasn't a whole lot
of miss going on. I don't want to say they
weren't trying to play defense, but you couldn't tell it
by the box score if you just pile it out
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as Okay, see outscore Cleveland forty three, forty one in
that period. But yeah, it's it's fun to watch different
teams get into the mix though, right, same old stories.
We get some different names that get to pop up
and get on the radar and get.
Speaker 5 (26:37):
Through the clutter.
Speaker 4 (26:38):
You know, Lakers are still fun when Lebron and eighty
are playing, right, it's it may not be the great
results and you might have a couple of chuckles like
we did last night against you know, with some of
the stills and little video clips that made it made
their rounds, and we talk about the Knicks and whether
they'll be able to finish the marathon or if they'll
pull up in miles twenty four with a cramp.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Multiple multiple cramps, multiple cramps, man, multiple craps.
Speaker 4 (27:06):
Ay man.
Speaker 5 (27:06):
I was just like, if he's not.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
Taking it easy on anybody, man, he's still.
Speaker 5 (27:11):
He needs some water, keep going.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Midway through the game tonight, there was like eighteen total
bench minutes, and I'm like, come on, come on.
Speaker 4 (27:19):
Man, Hey, hey, he's just saying they're gonna get a
nice long break in about.
Speaker 5 (27:25):
Three weeks when we get to the All Star breaks,
you guys are gonna week off.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Then for now, shutty, you think he's gonna give him
a break, He's gonna it's gonna be too long of
a break. He's had them playing intrasquad scrimmages. He's gonna
have other teams coming in to play against it. Hey,
I got a local college coming in so we can
play these guys. We're gonna go forty eight minutes. Everything
I got, the officials got, Scott Foss was gonna referee
for us, and we're gonna make sure five days, six
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days without the game is too many.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
Man. We're gonna put two games in here over.
Speaker 4 (27:52):
The All Star break, and every basket you allow to
this college team, it's one hundred up downs.
Speaker 5 (27:58):
Let's go.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
And meanwhile, the college team is like in the movies
when oh yeah, I'm bringing in this college team and
it's all like these star players from real sports that
are just playing on this team. Yeah, like necessary roughness
when cheer comes Dick bud Gus and Joshell Walker and
Evander Holyfield.
Speaker 5 (28:17):
Robert the show a huge win tonight.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
You know, you know my favorite one of shows like
that where that happened And I keep thinking back, and
I got to explain some millennials was the.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
White Shadow right?
Speaker 5 (28:27):
Well classic?
Speaker 1 (28:29):
I mean Ken Howard was a former and with the Bulls,
right and being player with the Bulls hurt his knee,
ended his career, and he goes to coach this high
school team and that's a you know that that's that's
gotta you know. Then you meet the whole all the
kids that are playing Thorpe and Coolidge and Salami and everybody,
and they started playing one time, they started playing really well.
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Carver High was playing really really well, and he wanted
to uh uh, he wanted to make them feel like,
humble them a little bit. He goes, I'm gonna bring
a bunch of guys into play a practice game because
they had won a bunch of games on they were
all cocky and arrogant. So he brings in a bunch
of guys and I think they all had like cover
alls on, like they all like were working like in
a in a uh in a in a motorcycle shop
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or something, and they're like, you know, older, kind of
stooped a little bit, and you walking around going, yeah,
we could play a little bit. I guess, okay, okay,
And they get up there and they just start wiping
the floor with them because it's the Globetrotters, right, But
so they.
Speaker 3 (29:21):
Just start where what's going on?
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Why can't you cover it, and you know they're doing
the around the back and they're doing all the different things,
and they go in like after the first quarter into
the locker room, like I can't believe this, man, You
guys are good. These are a bunch of guys and
just mechanics and everything. And they come back out and
of course the Globetrotters are then all in their uniforms.
They're doing the magic circle. It's like he brought in
the Globe Trotters to play against them.
Speaker 4 (29:42):
I gotta go back and watch that. That show in
its entirety. I catch it every once in a while.
You have to go quick list of people that appeared,
Red Arbuck, Yeah, Bill Russell, Elgin Baylor, Rosie Greer, m
Joe Beth Williams, how about that, uh, and and everything
in the seventies, cause it's just true.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Jimmy Walker, Nicky Man. Now, Jimmy Walker was in one.
I don't remember. I should remember that.
Speaker 4 (30:07):
And the Globe Trotters, a couple of others, uh prominent,
but yeah, those are the big ones cover.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
I think they all had tools with them, like they
put like a tool box, a couple of wrenches that. Yeah,
I could play a little bit. We'll play a little bit. Yeah,
why not?
Speaker 3 (30:19):
You know why not a Globe Trotters?
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Uh exit out about a Fresca exit swollen down the
Jason Smith Show and the streaming for ren purchase. No,
but I guarantee that somewhere on YouTube. I guarantee that
scene is somewhere on you. I bet you it's there.
I bet it's there. If you do White Shadow Globetrotters,
I guarantee you'll get it. You know what, I'll look
(30:42):
at it. While we talked to Mancy Bolanos, who has
what's trending right now in the wide world of sports.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
Mancy, how are you?
Speaker 6 (30:49):
I'm all right.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
It's a tough day.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
Yeah, sound like you have a cold? You sound a
little uh? I actually yeah.
Speaker 6 (30:56):
I actually lost my voice last week, Like I had
no voice for two days. So it's coming back.
Speaker 5 (31:00):
This is okay.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
But you can't go to the wall for Clipper games
and spread that loud. This is what you need your
voice for a living.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
You can't do that.
Speaker 6 (31:08):
I can't guarantee that. I just am not gonna scream
and be loud in life. Jason, let alone at it
into a dome.
Speaker 5 (31:14):
You know what, I'm saying, okay, dancing through life. She's
also going to scream and.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
Shout, and then it was time all time.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
It was a game where Kawhi came back and I
just lost my mind for a couple of times.
Speaker 6 (31:25):
Exactly, exactly.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Yes, the Clippers are.
Speaker 6 (31:27):
Losing, not a Into It Dome, but in Denver against
the Nuggets. Eighty three point fifty nine is a score
halfway through the third quarter. Clippers playing without Kawhi Leonard.
He's out for personal reasons because of the fires happening
in LA right now, which we're all monitoring. Terrible situation
happening all around us. The league is still monitoring the
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situation as it pertains to Thursday's game between the Lakers
and the Hornets. The NHL suspended Tonight's King's Calgary Flames game,
and the NFL obviously they're keeping in mind what's going
to happen for Monday nights Wildcard game between the Vikings
and the Rams, were just supposed to be at SOFI.
They did say, if necessary, they will relocate the game
to State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, So any more
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details on that will keep everyone updated. At halftime back
in the NBA. The Bucks are beating the Spurs sixty
five to forty six. But the big game of the night,
as you fellas were just talking about, the Cavaliers have
officially won eleven in a row after beating the Thunder
one twenty nine to one twenty two.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
Yeah, it was an.
Speaker 6 (32:26):
Opportunity for ok see because you mentioned that Donovan Mitchell
three of sixteen. He did not have a good game,
but they still won. The Pacers topped the Bulls won
twenty nine to one thirteen. The seventy six ers survived
one oh nine to one oh three against the Wizards
and the Knicks. Yes, the next they took down the
Raptors one twelve to ninety eight Carl Anthony Towns twenty
seven points thirteen rebounds. The Pistons beat the Nets one
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thirteen to ninety eight, and the Trailblazers had a one
nineteen to one hundred win over the Pelicans. But wait,
isn't Zion Williamson back? Good question, fellas, he was back yesterday,
but the three sixty windmill dunk must have hurt him
or something.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
Because he rested today.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
For New Orleans.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
In college, you can't play well, you can't play him
back to the guys, come back.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
He's been out on the line of hey, you're playing again. No,
it's okay that he rested.
Speaker 5 (33:14):
Should played against Portland. He could go out out to sety.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
It's Portland.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
You should have played.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
You should have played.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
I know what happened months he bet the Pelicans tonight.
You didn't know that he was going to be out
until too late.
Speaker 6 (33:26):
Oh that's I did not know he was out until
too late. That is an actual fact.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
Yes.
Speaker 6 (33:32):
In college hoops, number seventeen Oklahoma on top of number
ten Texas A and m sixty three fifty four ten
minutes left in that one. Number eleven Kansas is beating
Arizona State fifty six forty five, also about ten minutes
to go, and number thirteen Illinois crushing Penn State in
basketball seventy to forty with about eight minutes to go
in that one. Earlier today, Villanova ended number nine Yukon's
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eight game winning streak. They came out on top sixty
eight to sixty six, and number five Alabama took down
South Carolina eighty eight to sixty eight on the ice
the Capitol's Edge the Connects two to one in overtime
and the Blackhawks had a three to one win over
the Avalanche.
Speaker 3 (34:10):
Back to you guys, thanks.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
A bunch, monci ye. How long was Monty's update Harmon?
About two minutes? Yeah, in that time, two of my friends,
my buddy Eric, just sending it to me.
Speaker 3 (34:20):
Send me a link to the White Shadow Globe Trotters episod.
Speaker 5 (34:24):
There you go. Hey, it takes a village.
Speaker 4 (34:28):
That's why we're all connected here on the Global Fox
Sports Radio Network. We thank you for every support and
giving Smith his little extra sweets tonight.
Speaker 5 (34:39):
I mean, I.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
Really hope I have my memory of it is is
what it was?
Speaker 3 (34:43):
You know, like it was, it was all of them coming.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
Out on I love We're here to play, and you know,
I really want to watch, but it's you know, just yeah,
you know.
Speaker 3 (34:50):
What, I'm gonna watch it. That's all I would say.
Speaker 4 (34:52):
All it comes down to, Jason is all of those
shows whatever it was, the all right stunt casting. It
was like the same five guys. Here's Bubba Smith, Here's
Dick Budkiss. Occasionally Bradshaw would show up that he his
buddies with the guys. I'm married with Childred. So you
popped in all the time, and then you'd get a little,
you know, from the basketball side. There were a couple
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of guys as well, and then Joe Namas showed up,
especially when it was the Brady Bunch to hang out
with Florence Anderson.
Speaker 5 (35:20):
So it's all good.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
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Speaker 3 (35:39):
Well.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
Coming up next, someone is about to get paid in
the NFL and it's gonna be awesome for that person
and it's gonna be terrible for their team.
Speaker 3 (35:49):
That's next Jason and Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (35:51):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
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Speaker 1 (35:59):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best
friend Mike Harmon live Fromthtirack dot Com Studios.
Speaker 3 (36:10):
And we knew this day was coming.
Speaker 1 (36:12):
We had a word for it, and it's a great word,
and it's here and it's coming, and the team has
told us the reality is upon us.
Speaker 3 (36:20):
The Brocolypse is here.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
The San Francisco forty nine Ers, now that their season
is over, underachieving year, they had a lot of injuries,
never got it going. Now the forty nine Ers GM
John Lynch, head coach Caryle Shanahan have said, listen, we
are going to reach an agreement long term for brock
Purty sooner rather than later. Right, all the people who
said a few months ago, Jason, you're crazy, Brocolips doesn't happen.
(36:46):
They'll figure it out for a year and then they'll pay. No,
you don't want to do that to a guy who
is your franchise quarterback. You're gonna sign him long terminal
happened after this year, and today you had words from
both Lynch and Shanahan saying this is gonna happen. This
is gonna happen soon, and they're gonna have time quote
in the coming weeks to put our plan together. That
is a priority, that position, and we'll give it that attention.
(37:07):
So it's happening, Rightrock brock Purty is getting that money.
The Brocalypse is here one of the more polarizing quarterbacks
the NFL. Brock Purty is Crazy's Tom Brady. No, brock
Purty is just a guy. I'm gonna tell you it
doesn't matter, because here's the reality. Brock Purty was making
about a million dollars a year last.
Speaker 3 (37:27):
A couple of years.
Speaker 1 (37:28):
Okay, his four year rookie deal had to add an
average value of nine hundred thousand dollars. Right, He's slated
to count just a million, just over a million against
the cap in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3 (37:40):
So I don't know.
Speaker 1 (37:41):
Maybe the deal they have will take place in twenty
twenty so, but they're gonna sign him long term, and
a big money is coming.
Speaker 3 (37:46):
To brock party. And here's the thing.
Speaker 1 (37:49):
It's gonna be awesome for himcause he's gonna get close
to what Dak Prescott is getting, who tops the market
right now, which is sixty million dollars a year. Is
he gonna get more than that?
Speaker 5 (37:57):
Maybe?
Speaker 1 (37:57):
Not necessarily. Is he gonna get around there? Yeah, he'll
get north of fifty to fifty five. Look if a
guy like Trevor Lawrence, who has achieved nothing, is fifty
five million. Brock Purty, who at least has been to
a super Bowl. He's gonna get something. So here's the thing.
It's gonna be great for brock Purty, right, Obviously, this
guy's gonna have generational wealth. He never I mean, look
at this, all of a sudden, he's going for mister
irrelevant now here I ad with a fifty five million
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dollars a year contract. It also is gonna spell the
end of the forty nine ers because the last four years,
that three plus years with Brock Party, they've been able
to overspend, bring guys in, sign free agents, go to
the wall this year to give extra money to players,
just for twenty twenty four to come in, because hey,
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we have one last run at the super Bowl with
this great group of talented guys and it didn't work.
So you haven't gotten the top of the mountain with
this team. When your quarterback is making a million dollars,
how are you gonna replace with talent? When suddenly your
quarterback is making fifty five million dollars a year, Like
if you couldn't do it, if this is as good
as you could be, when you add all kinds of
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money for other positions, you're not gonna have that money anymore?
Speaker 3 (39:03):
So how is it? How are the forty nine ers
gonna stay the forty nine ers? They're not. This was
the last Swans on the last.
Speaker 1 (39:09):
Year of their window, and now that window is gonna
be shut because brock Perty's gonna get paid, and he's
gonna get paid so much money that other positions are
You just don't have the money for it. You don't
have it. You don't have the cap you don't have
the capspan, you don't have room for it. So how
are you gonna do this? Well, well, all right, Rock
Purty will get paid. Hopefully he continues to get better.
But I got news for you. We've seen him for
three and a half four years now. This is who
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he is. He is a good quarterback with tons of
talent around him. Right when you have the best running back,
two of the top wide receivers, one of the top
five tight ends, Hey man, offensive line, hey, anybody's gonna
look good then. But now he's got to look good
with maybe one less good wide receiver and a couple
less good linemen and maybe well, you know, maybe the
tight end. You have so many things now that you
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cannot throw money at. How are you gonna be good,
like it's gonna be great for Rock Purty. But it's
the end of the Niners.
Speaker 5 (39:57):
Yeah, it's the curiosity. Man.
Speaker 4 (39:59):
We don't know the cap numbers, but they jump thirty
million for last year, So even if it's not a
one to one, you're gonna absorb a chunk of that
money there. Trent Williams. I hope he and his family
are well. I don't know that he comes back. There's
twenty two million we could start going through right now,
you've got eight guys making ten million, plus another three
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making nine or more million, and then it starts to
trickle off from there, a couple in that seven six,
seven eight range. But to your point, yeah, it's now
creativity with the cap, stretching deals out, converting stuff to
signing bonuses and playing some of those games with the
forty nine ers have been pretty good at historically. Where
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they do get hung up is what they did in
terms of sizing up and paying ayuk Because now you
gotta wring your hands because Deebo Samuel is he staying
or is he going? Should we play the song?
Speaker 5 (40:56):
No, He've got.
Speaker 4 (40:57):
Boso's a little older. George Kittle's gonna be thirty three.
All of that to say, you do have decisions to make,
but the salary cap going up will help you cushion
that at least a little bit. Yeah, I mean it's
it's yes, but from one million to fifty million, I
mean that's about Hey.
Speaker 5 (41:16):
What the market will bear A bitty next.
Speaker 3 (41:18):
Letup, Brocalypse coming up next.
Speaker 1 (41:21):
Got another big story out of the NFL Keeper right here,
Jason and Mike Fox