January 30, 2025 • 33 mins
Rob and Kelvin discuss Cam Newton’s controversial comments about not trading his MVP trophy for a Championship and breaking news of Terry Rozier being involved with a new gambling scandal in the NBA + tipping at food places in a new edition of Shop Talk!
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Will be joining us in about twenty seven minutes. We'll
catch up the Clippers with all of the injuries and
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They're still live. Listen around and I both we don't
agree on a lot. Thing we both agree on is
Tyler can coach.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
He really can, and if he wins ever, can win
another championship, like to go with the woman that would
solidify him for real.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Like he's the whole guy away from Lebron just right.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Because whenever you win more than one, I always say
that it does give you a little more cache. Not
that winning one doesn't matter, but it gives you more cache.
Our number two a little shop talk. We'll get into that.
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And of course Elijah on the social media heard him?
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Speaker 4 (04:19):
And he does a great job on social media. All right,
me welcome with my partner. He is, I'm fired up. Yes,
I'm ready. We got a lot to talk about on
this TV theme.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
So on Thursday and maybe this is like, uh, you know,
like let me see what what show could we that's unbelievable?
Remember that's that's what was the other show? No, that's incredible?
Was it able to show from the seventies and everybody
you should you should go look at it on YouTube
and what it would be when it would they would
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tell you some story about something happening and then they
would turn to the camera and they would do a
close up and one of the hosts, John Davison or
one of these other women.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
Would go, that's incredible. So that was the show. There
would be like some story the family fell off the mountain, their.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Car fell off the side of the mountain and they
survived and they drank ant water or something for three days.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
You know, they would tell us incredible story.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
And then they would come back to the to the
the the anchor and then a real close up, you know,
pull out.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
To the camera. That's incredible. Okay, so this Cam Newton.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Okay, that's what I'm saying that this is incredible. No,
that's unbelievable. Okay, that's the show, Cam Newton. He's not
on first take, He's on That's unbelievable. Okay, that's the show. No,
the hats, all the other stuff. So Cam Newton said
he would not give back his MVP for a championship,
a super Bowl championship.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
So let's hear the sound. This is Cam Newton first
take today.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
I ask you, Cam, if you could give back that
league MVP for a super Bowl championship, would you do it?
Speaker 4 (06:09):
Nope? Oh? Really? Really?
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Wow?
Speaker 4 (06:12):
What's more important? Impact or championships?
Speaker 7 (06:17):
Everybody's not going to be Michael Jordan, everybody's not going
to be Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
Everybody's not going.
Speaker 7 (06:22):
To be these individuals who have the luxury of saying, hey,
I not only dominated this sport, but.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
I also have championships to back it.
Speaker 7 (06:32):
Like, let me remind you, Brad Johnson won a Super Bowl,
Trent Dilfer won a Super Bowl. Respectfully, Nick Foles won
a Super Bowl. So yes, when you look at those
guys and you say, okay, what's more important? Would you
have preferred to win a Super Bowl? I think that
that's the humble approach. But if we're being honest, the
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impact of you holding yourself accountable to say everybody has
a responsible ability to do And you could say, as
an MVP Award winner or All American, you've hailed yourself
or you've hailed your end of the bargain down and
that's what it really comes down to it for me.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
I know that's not the popular pick.
Speaker 7 (07:14):
I'm trying to be popularized, but my take is I'm
taking individual success because I did my job. Football is
not about one guy trying to do eleven jobs.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
It's eleven guys doing one job.
Speaker 7 (07:31):
And if everybody does their job, best famous words of
our coach with Belichick, just do your job.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
Doing boulder dash poppy cock, total nonsense.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
If you told me I could be Sports Writer of
the Year or be a part of a reporting team
to win.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
A pulletzer, I'm winning a pulletzer. Okay, that was great.
I was wondering how you could tie it into what
we do. That was good, brother, But.
Speaker 5 (07:53):
That's how it would be to be sports writer of
the Year. That's cool, win a pulletzer. You know some
people win a super Bowl. Come on, man, ain't no
way you can equate the two. And basically, this was
a lame way of saying I played well. Those other
guys didn't do their job.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
That's why I didn't win a super Bowl because they
didn't do their job. No, that's not why you play.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Come on, really, I'm sorry, I don't I haven't spoken
to Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
I guarantee you if he wins.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
The MVP and you asked him, can you turn in
your three MVPs for a super Bowl championship, I guarantee
you he would take the Super Bowl. I guarantee you
without of what guy who plays doesn't want to hold
the trophy at the end and win a championship.
Speaker 6 (08:43):
Especially that position were you're judged ultimately by that. Absolutely,
Barry Sanders. If you ask a lot of pros that
say who the best running back of Barry Sanders. They
won't even hesitate. You know that you've covered it. The sport.
People love Barry. It's different for a what quarterback position,
you get judged differently.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
Now, let's walk down a few things.
Speaker 6 (09:04):
Rob Parker, Now it makes sense why Cam Newton didn't
dive on that ball.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
Thank you, because I'm glad you brought that. Because now
because he was like, let me ooh, I did my part.
I drove us down here. I ain't jumping on that ball.
Speaker 6 (09:17):
Right, you dive on that ball when it's us versus anything, right, everybody,
they're trying to win this gang. I'm jumping and even
in my shoulder gets dislocated and the backup got.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
To come in.
Speaker 6 (09:29):
We don't get we got the ball, the ball, we
still got a chance to be in this thing. So
that makes sense why he making business decisions for Cam.
Let's keep walking down this line. It doesn't mean to
win a thing without that ring. Again for the quarterback position.
And if you want to tie it into some things,
you have people who they may not make it, but
their hall of fame considered because they have rings. Robert
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Lorri is now eligible for the Hall of Fame because
it's seven rings. It's not because he has his own
personal accolades, because rob Or he has seven times.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
He was anything. He was a clutch performer.
Speaker 6 (10:04):
If you want to put what they got the Pro
Bowl activities going on right now.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
Eli Manning is right here. Can we turn?
Speaker 6 (10:13):
I mean, it's you and I argue about Eli all
the time. The reason why he's going to get in
the Hall of Fame is because he has two what
he rings, He has a pro but he's going to
get in because he has the rings and two Super
Bowl MVPs. So that's my point is you need those things,
especially at the quarterback to position, to continue to you know,
to elevate your career and your stature. And for me,
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he sounds like somebody who didn't win a championship. You
know what I mean, I didn't win You want to
stay high school battles. Let me tell you you wouldn't
give that up. Let me tell you what I want
to my championship in high school, which is minuscule in comparison,
You would never give that up. When I tell you
how much twenty whatever years later, that still means to me.
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And it isn't just simply because we won. It's because
I know what we went through to get that, know
what that team went through. I know what that guy's
personal situation. I know my own personal journey, how we
came together, differences we don't like.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
Dude, that meant so much to me. I believe it.
Speaker 6 (11:11):
And again, I don't even want to bring it up
because it's high school. It was I don't know, but
but I get it. I'm serious something. So for him
to say it just show I did what I did.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
We can't.
Speaker 6 (11:20):
Clearly you're one of the better quarterbacks or another team
would be, and you all did what you did. That's
why we're in this Super Bowl game. You know we
all did our thing right.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
Give me the ring.
Speaker 7 (11:30):
I don't.
Speaker 6 (11:30):
I think he sounds like somebody who didn't win. Well,
of course, I want to find a way to justify
and be okay with it.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
And be okay with it and let everybody know I
still want an MVP. You guys can't talk bad about
me because I want an MVP. We know where you
fit in as a quarterback. And then to bring up
like Brad Johnson and and Trent Dilford, those teams were
dominated by their defense.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
Of all times.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Those are like two of the greatest defenses ever and
nobody brings those guys.
Speaker 6 (12:01):
There are good examples in that. Okay, let's call Trendil
for Trendil for would you rather be swap out that
Super Bowl ring or give you an MVP give me
my super Bowl Trophy back?
Speaker 4 (12:11):
Yeah, and then he brought him Nick Foles the same thing.
And at least in next case. He balled out in
the super.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Bowl, no question about it. He ow Brady Brady. I mean,
that's one of the all time great performances. Didn't He
almost have five hundred yards in that Superman was balling
out of his mind. Yes, and he also caught a touchdown.
Speaker 6 (12:30):
He caught a touchdown, right, and think about that, He
got to catch a touchdown, win a super Bowl. Man,
he ain't he living His son's son son is gonna
live up on that moment. And you notice when you
go to the card shows and all that other stuff.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
Super Bowl winning quarterback put you on a different level.
Speaker 6 (12:51):
Come on, man, hits so MVP super Bowl winning court
you want a super Bowl look and MVP miants you
were incredible that season. But why Joe Burrow if he
wins one more extra game?
Speaker 4 (13:03):
Or two.
Speaker 6 (13:04):
He messed around and could have won an MVP this year.
You don't think he was to give that MVP back
for a Super Bowl ring, you know what I mean?
Joe Burrow had this a great season and had he
won a game or two extra it had really had
a shot at winning the MVP. He would absolutely give
that a way to be in the postseason, have a
chance to win a Super Bowl, win a super Bowl title,
and a Kia.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
I'm shot.
Speaker 6 (13:24):
I'm not shocked that Cam said it, given kind of
cal Cam's been Cam, But it makes a whole lot
more sense why he ain't dive on that football in
the Super Bowl?
Speaker 4 (13:31):
All right?
Speaker 1 (13:31):
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Speaker 4 (13:37):
This is real simple. We want to hear from you.
Are you with Cam Newton that the MVP is bigger
than winning a Super Bowl or on which Kelvin and
I think is poppycock? Or are you with us?
Speaker 1 (13:50):
It's always about the team winning a championship. That's what
Trump's everything winning a championship. That's why teams You know
this in Detroit, dyar In dear that going to work
two thousand and four, Piston team.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
Are you kidding?
Speaker 6 (14:07):
They're revered in that town everything, dude, And that's why
you can be a Michael Cooper here in LA who
wasn't MVP in it. Walk aheat on I never made
All Star Game. He can walk around this time. Man,
He'll get everything because people remember the championship runs.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
He was a part of it, and it matters all right,
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more our number two and gambling.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
Hitting pro sports again.
Speaker 6 (15:41):
Yeah, so you remember John Tay Porter obviously Michael Porter
Junior's brother. He was banned from the league for life
last year as investigators looking into performances of what he
was doing there some scandal. But now they're looking into
some other players kind of connected to this ring that
had him as well. Well, So you got Terry Rozier
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of course, veteran guard plays with the Heat. He is
the subject of part of this probe by this investigation
has him back twenty twenty three when he was with
the Hornets and they say it's an odd game where
he only played nine minutes and there was a bunch
of unusual betting on him and they had notified the league,
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notified the team, say something's going on. It's a bunch
of weird money. Going on for Terry Rogier. They know
when they see the money, they're like, this is too
much money. Only plays nine minutes, right, there's too much
money and probably the under on everything, right, and he's
out for the next week or so. So there's like
concerns about what was going on there. So there's a
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big probe going into not just him, but other players
and also just a ring at hole as a whole
that goes into the college ranks as well. So this
is where we are with this widespread investigation again into
a langed game fixing in the NBA also college basketball.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
I'm not surprised by it when they got in bed
with gambling.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Kelvin here we are, we're here, And you can't tell
me that if I'm in a locker room and I
know Kevin Durant's not playing, but he's not listed on
the sheet yet, right, And now nobody else knows.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
I'm a player on a team.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
I'm not gonna call my cousin or my brother or
my friend and say, dude, load up, Okay, he ain't playing.
Nobody knows. Get whatever the point is. And then they
announced right a game time he's out like that, Like
that kind of insider trading if you will, you know,
like you know these things. That's why they have all
this these rules about the injury report. You got to
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announce it in football, he announced it on Why do
you announce it on Thursday?
Speaker 4 (17:46):
Why to satisfy the gamblers that like, let's be honest, Yeah,
it wasn't right. I didn't know he wasn't gonna play.
I didn't know that.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
And that's why they do it, because they know if
they don't do it and people put more money up
and then they find out that guys aren't playing, they're
gonna be repelled from saying I'm not better. And then
all of a sudden, the money drives up in Vegas
and all this other stuff like they're they're in bed
with each other and there's gonna be more.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
There will be more. And we saw it with uh Porter,
Yeah who you know for.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Him for a guy not that great and his numbers,
for him to be aligned on him, and for so
much money to pour in on a guy like that,
You think they're not monitoring what money goes where it just.
Speaker 6 (18:33):
Gets Here's the thing you just mentioned it it gets
sticky when gambling has been around.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
We know for for forever.
Speaker 6 (18:40):
Right, people are gonna put they probably back in the day,
putting money on which you know, I bet you this
rowboat is gonna this canoe is gonna get there sooner.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
I mean, gambling has been happening forever.
Speaker 6 (18:50):
However, once you start to open the doors where it
becomes so widespread you you're talking about it. You literally
have shows dedicated, you have networks that have their own
gambling sites and things attached to it. You can start
talking about it again during the games, like it becomes
you got apps now, and you got states that are
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allowing it that weren't previously. Now it becomes a part
of the culture. And what happens is it becomes aligned
with the sport. And now it's aligned with the sport.
I guess you could say legally now it's aligned with
the sport. Publicly. Now it's not in the shadows. Now
it's in that taboo. It's right there out in the open.
And when you start to align yourself with this, you
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open up things to happen to the players, to fans
who might get messed up, to broadcasters because they might
be in the know, to the guy that you were
kind of what you were alluding to that guy who
works with the team, that manager, that that physical therapist. Yeah,
I know that person's like, hey man, I don't know.
All I know is I've been working on Player x's
knees for the last two weeks playing and got it
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right now. He gonna know he's gonna play. But I
know he in a normal self. So if the over
is twenty eight points to that, trust me, he ain't
doing that. He ain't got it tonight. I know his
ankles bad, know his needs, but I know his mom's sick.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
And you're putting people in position to where they have
inside information and they can pass it on.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
To all of them.
Speaker 6 (20:09):
And it's already been there again gambling, But now that
you've made it so commonplace, now you've just upped it.
You look at how sports align themselves with other things.
Sports align themselves with drinking. When you think of sports,
you think of let's either let's go grab a beer
and watch the game, or first thing you do when
you get a stadium, let's go grab a beer.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
And what happens because you've aligned yourself. You go to
a game.
Speaker 6 (20:32):
A ballgame always fights, everybody's drunk, everybody's hammer people getting
tickets later on because they were driving. And it's just
a part of sports. We've aligned ourselves drinking sports. What's
the main commercials to see Budweiser, this and that and
the other. So now it has gotten a place where
these sports franchise, these sports leagues have aligned themselves with gambling,
and bad things happen when you align yourself with it.
Speaker 4 (20:54):
Not that it doesn't happen.
Speaker 6 (20:55):
You never we try to quit, have people stop drinking
or having prohibition and next thing, you know, that's where
you get the mobsters.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
So things are gonna happen.
Speaker 6 (21:03):
But when you just say okay, we're opening the doors
and we open the floodgates, these things happen.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
But here's the thing that that people don't realize on
how much.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Sports repelled against gambling for a long time because they
did not want to, you know, jeopardize the integrity of
the game. That's what you don't want to lose is
the integrity. What I'm watching is this real or w
W E yep? And that's where where people you see
every weekend, what do you see on on Twitter trending
rigged for the NFL Kansas City Chiefs. But it's rigggged
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every game.
Speaker 6 (21:38):
It's something a man they saying, we are what's the
phrase everybody's been using the last few years in the
NBA and NFL, The script, The script is written. And
let's say somebody randomly at a fifty point nine, Oh,
he must not have read the script, or some some quarterback,
backup guy balls out and they're like, he ain't get
the script, meaning you weren't supposed to beat the Chiefs
the team.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Yeah, absolutely, And and here's back in the day, major
League Baseball was so against gambler. We already know the
p Road Store. He never got in the Hall of Fame.
The guy died without getting in, all right, because of gambling.
And when you walk into a clubhouse, you know this.
You've been in the Dodgers and the biggest sign in
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the room is about gambling. Okay, if you get caught gambling,
gonna be banned for life. There's no ifens or bus.
That's what they say because they don't want that. But
at one point they had Willy Mays and Mickey Mantle
became greeters at the casino in Atlantic City. Now you
know what a greeter is, like, Hey, come on in,
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Hey do you know that baseball would not allow Willy
Mays after they took those jobs as greeters for money,
to wear uniforms in any kind of thing and be
involved in like all Star games on any major league event,
even though they weren't gambling or anything, but just they
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seem know, gambling mob And this wasn't sports book, this
is just slot machines and stuff, and they still were like, no,
two of the greatest stars of a blade major league
bit Willi Maze and Mickey Mantle or prosada non gratae.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
Now, Bri, you have something you want to add to this, Well, I.
Speaker 9 (23:15):
Was reading that the NBA had already conducted the investigation.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
Yeah, this is worth yes, Yeah.
Speaker 9 (23:19):
And they said that they did not find a violation
of any NBA rules, And I think that's such a
little that's.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
A great point.
Speaker 9 (23:26):
And it was never nobody ever said anything about it.
We never heard about it, and it's been like what
a year and a half now, So.
Speaker 6 (23:32):
That's a great point that now you got this widespread
investigation that's beyond the NBA, because it almost turns into, oh,
we gave y'all shot. You know, it always happens with
it could be domestic violence. So say the team will
say we ain't find anything. We and then then they
go all right, well let us check and something comes up.
All we gotta do is talk about Bouco and Barry Bonds.
That was a government investigation would a net. They weren't
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looking for Barry Bonds. They were looking for uh, stuff
going on with this company. And they go through the
files and guess whose name is in there? Yeah, and
they thought it was gonna be more Olympic stuff too,
the track. And yet that's I've read a really good
book on that. And last morn I was gonna you
were just saying a minute ago. I always say, in
the era of so much reality TV, sports is the
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only real reality TV.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
That's why it still gets TV ratings. We talk about it.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
The only two things on television that get ratings National
news and sports live sporting events.
Speaker 6 (24:26):
That's it you because you don't know what's going on,
meaning the news is telling what's happening in the world.
Speaker 4 (24:31):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 6 (24:32):
Ah see last night, you didn't know that until you
saw the news. And NBA right now, right now, we
got we got all different sports on. We got college basketball,
we got hockey, over here. We got this going on.
This we don't know what's going to happen, right, even
with March madness. On paper, this two seed it should
beat this fifteen seed. But what happens always happens. I'm
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fifteen seed beats the number two seed. We love to
see it. Obviously twelve five always happened too. My point
is because we don't know, Oh, what's gonna happen. It's
the last reality TV, the only reality TV, and we
love it and the idea that stuff is truly rigged
and this guy is short changing us or he's affecting
the outcome in a negative way.
Speaker 4 (25:10):
He's you know, cheating the system. It ruins it.
Speaker 6 (25:13):
Man and in any NFL NBA MB they don't want
to be connected to that because the minute you start
to lose fans, these people are tapped out and it
becomes as you mentioned WWE, it's it's a lose lose
for all. So the NBA, as breaches brought up, clearly,
they're gonna be like, hey, that didn't happen. We didn't
see anything. It was just a move on, move on,
move on, move on. Then federal investigators start coming in.
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Hold on, hold on, let's try to get as many
people in on this.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Age seven seven ninety nine on Fox and the gambling aspect.
Here's the other last part. It's changed the way people
watch games. And it's not as enjoyable because every no,
with the gambling, it's not as enjoyable because.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
You're not rooting for the team. You just got to
hit another three, exactly, that's what you're looking for. And
when you don't get it.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
You've heard the players, the NBA players everywhere, exactly, you
cost me six thousand dollars.
Speaker 4 (26:05):
You bomb.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
You didn't get that you wanted. I needed you to
get one more free throw. People it's their own team.
Speaker 6 (26:11):
Yes, if your favorite team was the uh, the Indianapolis
Colts and they were playing some the Buccaneers, and but
you needed the Buccaneers and stool over, you know you're like, hey,
I don't go ahead and beat my team. It's definitely change.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
It has changed.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
In eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox, where are
you on gambling? Has it ruined your sports enjoyment? And uh,
do you expect like some big star at some point,
big athlete to go down in a gambling scandal. I
believe it's going to happen at some point. Uh so
we want to hear from you. Eight seven, seven ninety
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nine on Fox. It is The Odd Couple on a
TV Theme song Thursday, Rob Parker, kelvin Washington, right here
on Fox Sports Radio, Stick and Steak.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Odd Couple
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Speaker 4 (27:07):
App Beat Beaty.
Speaker 6 (27:11):
Now, now what show is this? Growing Paints, Growing pink Kirk.
I know the name of the Allen like this. Robin
thinks Dad Allen, think the actor he were a bunch
of these like he was going crazy with the pen game.
It is The Odd Couple, Robin Kevin on a TV
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theme song Thursday.
Speaker 8 (27:33):
I know somebody who's not thick anymore?
Speaker 9 (27:37):
Is that?
Speaker 4 (27:38):
Can we get an update? Oh? You want an update? Yes?
All right?
Speaker 6 (27:43):
This is for Rob G who was changing things, changing
some anatomy. What he got a haircut, That's what I'm saying.
That's changing things.
Speaker 4 (27:52):
Sometimes you gotta switch it up. Snip snip a little bit.
That's all.
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Speaker 4 (28:11):
All right, Stop shop talk.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Ain't nobody.
Speaker 4 (28:14):
Ain's still being a bump shop.
Speaker 7 (28:15):
You know that.
Speaker 5 (28:15):
Ain't nobody you talk about whoever, whatever, whatever you want
you in the box up?
Speaker 4 (28:20):
Why you know it's shop telling me? All right.
Speaker 6 (28:23):
So there's a new phenomenon that's been maybe two three
four years in the making that is tipping. And no,
I don't mean the traditional sense of tipping, Rob, I'm
talking about anything you do.
Speaker 4 (28:35):
They're swinging that screen around and they're asking for tipping
anytime soon.
Speaker 6 (28:39):
He ain't tipping no more right now. And so there
lies the conversation of today. I go to get my
chilatte and every day I go into the spot, or
every couple of days, they swinging around and it tip
tip tip, And you're like, man, I'm just ordering a
coffee or I'm just picking up a coffee already paid
for my app and they're still like Tip Manti. You
go to a restaurant, you ordered the head call ahead,
(29:01):
you paid for you even paid for it through the app.
Tip Tip everywhere, so Breed Mansi, Alex rob are you team?
Speaker 4 (29:09):
I tip any and everything, no matter what. Is there
a limit? Is there a hey?
Speaker 6 (29:14):
You gotta relax. I just called the order in. I'm
not tipping already paid. Where do you guys stand on this?
Speaker 1 (29:19):
I am against the idea that you go into a
carryout or even I was in a restaurant where you
go order at the counter, take your number to your table,
and they just bring you your food. It's not like
you order and there's a waiter or a waitress. I
don't believe that's a twenty percent tip. It's not as
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service me throughout the day.
Speaker 4 (29:42):
Right, you know what I mean? No, I mean I
leave a tip, but it's not twenty percent. The one
I hate the most.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
And we do this when we go to the NABJ
convention or you're a part of these big things and
you're at the hotel bar and they want a twenty
percent tip on drinks. Yeah, like no, I'm gonna leave
you a couple dollars like I would do if I
buy one drink right, but they give you a thing
and they want twenty percent.
Speaker 4 (30:06):
I just bought five drinks right for everybody at the
bar and it's one hundred dollars and they want a
twenty dollar tip. No, are you kidding?
Speaker 6 (30:13):
Yeah, it's it's the culture of it has gotten crazy.
And the worst part about it, manzie, they make it
has now become awkward for me the customer, and for
the person they don't They didn't do it.
Speaker 4 (30:22):
They're just an employee, some twenty three year old, but
they spend that things spinning around.
Speaker 6 (30:26):
It has a stamp, and now I gotta do that look,
they gotta do the awkward little turn.
Speaker 4 (30:31):
Like they're not looking because I don't want to stare
you and I now you're under pressure. Should a tip
shit or not? It makes it weird. Where are you?
I'm with Rob?
Speaker 10 (30:37):
Like, if I'm going to a place and I'm ordering
that a counter and I'm taking a number, like is
it just me and one other person? I'm probably not going.
Speaker 4 (30:44):
To maybe a dollar if I'm feeling it right.
Speaker 10 (30:46):
But if I like place to takeout order and it's
like eight people's order, I might lead and it's over
one hundred dollars.
Speaker 4 (30:51):
I might leave you ten, like a takeout order at.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
The restaurant, right right.
Speaker 10 (30:55):
Coffee is hard, right, somebody once told me like about
it because an alcoholic drink, you're supposed to tip a
dollar per drink.
Speaker 4 (31:01):
What I've always done, I've always done.
Speaker 10 (31:03):
You want to add a little bit more for just drinks. Okay,
So sometimes, like if I go to Starbucks, I might
like on the apply fifty cents because it's like, you
did make me a coffee that I'm not making.
Speaker 6 (31:12):
But but so the argument would be that's I their
employer and paying them. I missed the Starbucks and paying
said employee.
Speaker 10 (31:19):
Brief stay sense of it all, say like that's it
because it's like, yeah, thank you for making my drink
that I can't make.
Speaker 6 (31:25):
So I've become much more of a tipper even away
from this weird new phenomenon tip. But just in general, uh,
it's you know, God has blessed me. I like to
try to be blessed. That doesn't mean you need to own,
but the pressure, the pressure on it. I don't like
the new everything is every single thing is a tip.
Speaker 10 (31:43):
If I'm sitting, I'm tipping twenty or more percent.
Speaker 7 (31:47):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (31:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (31:47):
What I've realized is I need to have this screen
every time Calvin walks in here with thirty seconds left
for the braink because he's a tipper over here.
Speaker 4 (31:52):
You can tip me for the good shows. I've been
helping out with every for.
Speaker 8 (31:55):
Your advice on how to fascit like this. This is
my thing before any of this happened. Even the restaurants
where they demand me to tip them.
Speaker 4 (32:02):
What did you do for me?
Speaker 8 (32:03):
Did you come check my drinks? Did you bring my
food on time? Did you check if my food was good?
Like somehow we've lost the sensation of these people are
getting aid. Show me you want my value, so give
me good service. For some reason, we've lost it. I've
had people in arguments tell me twenty percent no matter what,
what if your food's called twenty percent, dude, I'm not
paying you for anything else. I'm paying for the food
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you asked, and that's what I'll pay for. But if
you help wine and dine, bring the extra base, I'll
give you some good I'll take care of you. Took
care of me, but at a freaking Starbucks place and
picking up food and like even delivery drivers.
Speaker 4 (32:35):
Now we're asking for tips. You're getting paid.
Speaker 6 (32:37):
You got a tip on asking by the way, a
delivery driver, I try to take care when you or something.
Speaker 4 (32:43):
Yes, I'm gonna tip you because I'm lazy. I should
look at my own food. I'm gonna take care of you.
Speaker 6 (32:46):
But the thing I also don't like is these apps
have now created it where they automatically put it in
there if you don't. If you don't, you don't tech
you right, Yeah, the tip will be in there automatically.
Speaker 4 (32:56):
So you're like, I.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
Always give a topic to say, hey, I got a
tip for you. Don't bet on the races, and that
would be the tip there you yeah, no, wait, what
do you mean racist?
Speaker 6 (33:05):
Like horse red? Okay, all right man, that stuff going
on right now we get a little nervous ce k.
Speaker 8 (33:10):
You know where it all went bad where the original
tippers were asking for money. The church is passing the
basket around the teams.
Speaker 4 (33:16):
Now you want to get philosophical theological, but.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
I usually get change out of the church basket. See
now I'll be fifty dollars and then I'll take seventy dollars.
Speaker 4 (33:24):
That's why I'm here. I'm a drag yall of heaven
with me.
Speaker 6 (33:27):
Hit him like anybody else, Get anybody else on your list, Kelvin,
I'm like I.
Speaker 4 (33:31):
Got alex a Rob. Come on, come on, Lord and
let him in. I'm just making man. I put in
a hundred. I'm making change Sports Radio
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Speaker 1 (01:37):
It's a TV theme song Thursday, and so much to do,
so little time. Adam Auslin, he's a Clippers pre and
postgame host. He'll be joining us Clippers Talk on YouTube.
Will be joining us in about twenty seven minutes. We'll
catch up the Clippers with all of the injuries and
all the other stuff.
Speaker 6 (01:56):
They're still live. Listen around and I both we don't
agree on a lot. Thing we both agree on is
Tyler can coach.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
He really can, and if he wins ever, can win
another championship, like to go with the woman that would
solidify him for real.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Like he's the whole guy away from Lebron just right.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Because whenever you win more than one, I always say
that it does give you a little more cache. Not
that winning one doesn't matter, but it gives you more cache.
Our number two a little shop talk. We'll get into that.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
And our number three, Mark Funky cole Medina in studio.
And why not be empty handed?
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Mark right and make sure Mark is probably listed, you know,
as he walks by the cheesecake factories, easily just pick
up a small vanilla bean cheesecakes. I'm just saying, you're saying,
Mark and last call. Of course, in case you can't
get in, you will be able to get in the
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last part of the show.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
Thought about something, what's that?
Speaker 6 (02:58):
If he brought it in, we will be teasing our
guy Alex, who is going on a forty five day
fast or something.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Alex won't mind, He'll just be looking at us while
we're eating cheese. Cat, you don't like that, curiously, I
could do, Alex.
Speaker 6 (03:12):
Yeah, No, I won't mind at all because I'm vibrating
off of the vibranium.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
Of the innovated level vibrating.
Speaker 6 (03:18):
Yes, so I don't even notice in which the cheesecake
of the aromas at these So yeah, he'll be in.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Yeah, you'll be in your enlightened state.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
You're right, never mind, you'll be okay, all right, and
let's welcome into the Odd Couple coup could. We wouldn't
be able to do this fine radio program without him.
Bree is our producer filling in for rob G.
Speaker 6 (03:36):
Matt, you can't get the bat and you get it, okay,
and we should let's do the rob G update.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
Yeah, what's the rob oh rob G is doing just five.
I have the audio of this procedure. You want to
hear it? You do there, you go, wow, that's why
you got two kids dropping like that.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Alex is our engineer. Manti is at the anchor desk.
You'll keep us on one of those days my program.
And of course Elijah on the social media heard him?
Who Elijah?
Speaker 4 (04:19):
And he does a great job on social media. All right,
me welcome with my partner. He is, I'm fired up. Yes,
I'm ready. We got a lot to talk about on
this TV theme.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
So on Thursday and maybe this is like, uh, you know,
like let me see what what show could we that's unbelievable?
Remember that's that's what was the other show? No, that's incredible?
Was it able to show from the seventies and everybody
you should you should go look at it on YouTube
and what it would be when it would they would
(04:55):
tell you some story about something happening and then they
would turn to the camera and they would do a
close up and one of the hosts, John Davison or
one of these other women.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
Would go, that's incredible. So that was the show. There
would be like some story the family fell off the mountain, their.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Car fell off the side of the mountain and they
survived and they drank ant water or something for three days.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
You know, they would tell us incredible story.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
And then they would come back to the to the
the the anchor and then a real close up, you know,
pull out.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
To the camera. That's incredible. Okay, so this Cam Newton.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Okay, that's what I'm saying that this is incredible. No,
that's unbelievable. Okay, that's the show, Cam Newton. He's not
on first take, He's on That's unbelievable. Okay, that's the show. No,
the hats, all the other stuff. So Cam Newton said
he would not give back his MVP for a championship,
a super Bowl championship.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
So let's hear the sound. This is Cam Newton first
take today.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
I ask you, Cam, if you could give back that
league MVP for a super Bowl championship, would you do it?
Speaker 4 (06:09):
Nope? Oh? Really? Really?
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Wow?
Speaker 4 (06:12):
What's more important? Impact or championships?
Speaker 7 (06:17):
Everybody's not going to be Michael Jordan, everybody's not going
to be Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
Everybody's not going.
Speaker 7 (06:22):
To be these individuals who have the luxury of saying, hey,
I not only dominated this sport, but.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
I also have championships to back it.
Speaker 7 (06:32):
Like, let me remind you, Brad Johnson won a Super Bowl,
Trent Dilfer won a Super Bowl. Respectfully, Nick Foles won
a Super Bowl. So yes, when you look at those
guys and you say, okay, what's more important? Would you
have preferred to win a Super Bowl? I think that
that's the humble approach. But if we're being honest, the
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impact of you holding yourself accountable to say everybody has
a responsible ability to do And you could say, as
an MVP Award winner or All American, you've hailed yourself
or you've hailed your end of the bargain down and
that's what it really comes down to it for me.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
I know that's not the popular pick.
Speaker 7 (07:14):
I'm trying to be popularized, but my take is I'm
taking individual success because I did my job. Football is
not about one guy trying to do eleven jobs.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
It's eleven guys doing one job.
Speaker 7 (07:31):
And if everybody does their job, best famous words of
our coach with Belichick, just do your job.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
Doing boulder dash poppy cock, total nonsense.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
If you told me I could be Sports Writer of
the Year or be a part of a reporting team
to win.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
A pulletzer, I'm winning a pulletzer. Okay, that was great.
I was wondering how you could tie it into what
we do. That was good, brother, But.
Speaker 5 (07:53):
That's how it would be to be sports writer of
the Year. That's cool, win a pulletzer. You know some
people win a super Bowl. Come on, man, ain't no
way you can equate the two. And basically, this was
a lame way of saying I played well. Those other
guys didn't do their job.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
That's why I didn't win a super Bowl because they
didn't do their job. No, that's not why you play.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Come on, really, I'm sorry, I don't I haven't spoken
to Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
I guarantee you if he wins.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
The MVP and you asked him, can you turn in
your three MVPs for a super Bowl championship, I guarantee
you he would take the Super Bowl. I guarantee you
without of what guy who plays doesn't want to hold
the trophy at the end and win a championship.
Speaker 6 (08:43):
Especially that position were you're judged ultimately by that. Absolutely,
Barry Sanders. If you ask a lot of pros that
say who the best running back of Barry Sanders. They
won't even hesitate. You know that you've covered it. The sport.
People love Barry. It's different for a what quarterback position,
you get judged differently.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
Now, let's walk down a few things.
Speaker 6 (09:04):
Rob Parker, Now it makes sense why Cam Newton didn't
dive on that ball.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
Thank you, because I'm glad you brought that. Because now
because he was like, let me ooh, I did my part.
I drove us down here. I ain't jumping on that ball.
Speaker 6 (09:17):
Right, you dive on that ball when it's us versus anything, right, everybody,
they're trying to win this gang. I'm jumping and even
in my shoulder gets dislocated and the backup got.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
To come in.
Speaker 6 (09:29):
We don't get we got the ball, the ball, we
still got a chance to be in this thing. So
that makes sense why he making business decisions for Cam.
Let's keep walking down this line. It doesn't mean to
win a thing without that ring. Again for the quarterback position.
And if you want to tie it into some things,
you have people who they may not make it, but
their hall of fame considered because they have rings. Robert
(09:52):
Lorri is now eligible for the Hall of Fame because
it's seven rings. It's not because he has his own
personal accolades, because rob Or he has seven times.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
He was anything. He was a clutch performer.
Speaker 6 (10:04):
If you want to put what they got the Pro
Bowl activities going on right now.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
Eli Manning is right here. Can we turn?
Speaker 6 (10:13):
I mean, it's you and I argue about Eli all
the time. The reason why he's going to get in
the Hall of Fame is because he has two what
he rings, He has a pro but he's going to
get in because he has the rings and two Super
Bowl MVPs. So that's my point is you need those things,
especially at the quarterback to position, to continue to you know,
to elevate your career and your stature. And for me,
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he sounds like somebody who didn't win a championship. You
know what I mean, I didn't win You want to
stay high school battles. Let me tell you you wouldn't
give that up. Let me tell you what I want
to my championship in high school, which is minuscule in comparison,
You would never give that up. When I tell you
how much twenty whatever years later, that still means to me.
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And it isn't just simply because we won. It's because
I know what we went through to get that, know
what that team went through. I know what that guy's
personal situation. I know my own personal journey, how we
came together, differences we don't like.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
Dude, that meant so much to me. I believe it.
Speaker 6 (11:11):
And again, I don't even want to bring it up
because it's high school. It was I don't know, but
but I get it. I'm serious something. So for him
to say it just show I did what I did.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
We can't.
Speaker 6 (11:20):
Clearly you're one of the better quarterbacks or another team
would be, and you all did what you did. That's
why we're in this Super Bowl game. You know we
all did our thing right.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
Give me the ring.
Speaker 7 (11:30):
I don't.
Speaker 6 (11:30):
I think he sounds like somebody who didn't win. Well,
of course, I want to find a way to justify
and be okay with it.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
And be okay with it and let everybody know I
still want an MVP. You guys can't talk bad about
me because I want an MVP. We know where you
fit in as a quarterback. And then to bring up
like Brad Johnson and and Trent Dilford, those teams were
dominated by their defense.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
Of all times.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Those are like two of the greatest defenses ever and
nobody brings those guys.
Speaker 6 (12:01):
There are good examples in that. Okay, let's call Trendil
for Trendil for would you rather be swap out that
Super Bowl ring or give you an MVP give me
my super Bowl Trophy back?
Speaker 4 (12:11):
Yeah, and then he brought him Nick Foles the same thing.
And at least in next case. He balled out in
the super.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Bowl, no question about it. He ow Brady Brady. I mean,
that's one of the all time great performances. Didn't He
almost have five hundred yards in that Superman was balling
out of his mind. Yes, and he also caught a touchdown.
Speaker 6 (12:30):
He caught a touchdown, right, and think about that, He
got to catch a touchdown, win a super Bowl. Man,
he ain't he living His son's son son is gonna
live up on that moment. And you notice when you
go to the card shows and all that other stuff.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
Super Bowl winning quarterback put you on a different level.
Speaker 6 (12:51):
Come on, man, hits so MVP super Bowl winning court
you want a super Bowl look and MVP miants you
were incredible that season. But why Joe Burrow if he
wins one more extra game?
Speaker 4 (13:03):
Or two.
Speaker 6 (13:04):
He messed around and could have won an MVP this year.
You don't think he was to give that MVP back
for a Super Bowl ring, you know what I mean?
Joe Burrow had this a great season and had he
won a game or two extra it had really had
a shot at winning the MVP. He would absolutely give
that a way to be in the postseason, have a
chance to win a Super Bowl, win a super Bowl title,
and a Kia.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
I'm shot.
Speaker 6 (13:24):
I'm not shocked that Cam said it, given kind of
cal Cam's been Cam, But it makes a whole lot
more sense why he ain't dive on that football in
the Super Bowl?
Speaker 4 (13:31):
All right?
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Speaker 1 (13:50):
It's always about the team winning a championship. That's what
Trump's everything winning a championship. That's why teams You know
this in Detroit, dyar In dear that going to work
two thousand and four, Piston team.
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Speaker 6 (14:07):
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wasn't MVP in it. Walk aheat on I never made
All Star Game. He can walk around this time. Man,
He'll get everything because people remember the championship runs.
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A little shop talk will do that, plus a lot
more our number two and gambling.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
Hitting pro sports again.
Speaker 6 (15:41):
Yeah, so you remember John Tay Porter obviously Michael Porter
Junior's brother. He was banned from the league for life
last year as investigators looking into performances of what he
was doing there some scandal. But now they're looking into
some other players kind of connected to this ring that
had him as well. Well, So you got Terry Rozier
(16:01):
of course, veteran guard plays with the Heat. He is
the subject of part of this probe by this investigation
has him back twenty twenty three when he was with
the Hornets and they say it's an odd game where
he only played nine minutes and there was a bunch
of unusual betting on him and they had notified the league,
(16:22):
notified the team, say something's going on. It's a bunch
of weird money. Going on for Terry Rogier. They know
when they see the money, they're like, this is too
much money. Only plays nine minutes, right, there's too much
money and probably the under on everything, right, and he's
out for the next week or so. So there's like
concerns about what was going on there. So there's a
(16:42):
big probe going into not just him, but other players
and also just a ring at hole as a whole
that goes into the college ranks as well. So this
is where we are with this widespread investigation again into
a langed game fixing in the NBA also college basketball.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
I'm not surprised by it when they got in bed
with gambling.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Kelvin here we are, we're here, And you can't tell
me that if I'm in a locker room and I
know Kevin Durant's not playing, but he's not listed on
the sheet yet, right, And now nobody else knows.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
I'm a player on a team.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
I'm not gonna call my cousin or my brother or
my friend and say, dude, load up, Okay, he ain't playing.
Nobody knows. Get whatever the point is. And then they
announced right a game time he's out like that, Like
that kind of insider trading if you will, you know,
like you know these things. That's why they have all
this these rules about the injury report. You got to
(17:43):
announce it in football, he announced it on Why do
you announce it on Thursday?
Speaker 4 (17:46):
Why to satisfy the gamblers that like, let's be honest, Yeah,
it wasn't right. I didn't know he wasn't gonna play.
I didn't know that.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
And that's why they do it, because they know if
they don't do it and people put more money up
and then they find out that guys aren't playing, they're
gonna be repelled from saying I'm not better. And then
all of a sudden, the money drives up in Vegas
and all this other stuff like they're they're in bed
with each other and there's gonna be more.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
There will be more. And we saw it with uh Porter,
Yeah who you know for.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Him for a guy not that great and his numbers,
for him to be aligned on him, and for so
much money to pour in on a guy like that,
You think they're not monitoring what money goes where it just.
Speaker 6 (18:33):
Gets Here's the thing you just mentioned it it gets
sticky when gambling has been around.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
We know for for forever.
Speaker 6 (18:40):
Right, people are gonna put they probably back in the day,
putting money on which you know, I bet you this
rowboat is gonna this canoe is gonna get there sooner.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
I mean, gambling has been happening forever.
Speaker 6 (18:50):
However, once you start to open the doors where it
becomes so widespread you you're talking about it. You literally
have shows dedicated, you have networks that have their own
gambling sites and things attached to it. You can start
talking about it again during the games, like it becomes
you got apps now, and you got states that are
(19:10):
allowing it that weren't previously. Now it becomes a part
of the culture. And what happens is it becomes aligned
with the sport. And now it's aligned with the sport.
I guess you could say legally now it's aligned with
the sport. Publicly. Now it's not in the shadows. Now
it's in that taboo. It's right there out in the open.
And when you start to align yourself with this, you
(19:30):
open up things to happen to the players, to fans
who might get messed up, to broadcasters because they might
be in the know, to the guy that you were
kind of what you were alluding to that guy who
works with the team, that manager, that that physical therapist. Yeah,
I know that person's like, hey man, I don't know.
All I know is I've been working on Player x's
knees for the last two weeks playing and got it
(19:50):
right now. He gonna know he's gonna play. But I
know he in a normal self. So if the over
is twenty eight points to that, trust me, he ain't
doing that. He ain't got it tonight. I know his
ankles bad, know his needs, but I know his mom's sick.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
And you're putting people in position to where they have
inside information and they can pass it on.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
To all of them.
Speaker 6 (20:09):
And it's already been there again gambling, But now that
you've made it so commonplace, now you've just upped it.
You look at how sports align themselves with other things.
Sports align themselves with drinking. When you think of sports,
you think of let's either let's go grab a beer
and watch the game, or first thing you do when
you get a stadium, let's go grab a beer.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
And what happens because you've aligned yourself. You go to
a game.
Speaker 6 (20:32):
A ballgame always fights, everybody's drunk, everybody's hammer people getting
tickets later on because they were driving. And it's just
a part of sports. We've aligned ourselves drinking sports. What's
the main commercials to see Budweiser, this and that and
the other. So now it has gotten a place where
these sports franchise, these sports leagues have aligned themselves with gambling,
and bad things happen when you align yourself with it.
Speaker 4 (20:54):
Not that it doesn't happen.
Speaker 6 (20:55):
You never we try to quit, have people stop drinking
or having prohibition and next thing, you know, that's where
you get the mobsters.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
So things are gonna happen.
Speaker 6 (21:03):
But when you just say okay, we're opening the doors
and we open the floodgates, these things happen.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
But here's the thing that that people don't realize on
how much.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Sports repelled against gambling for a long time because they
did not want to, you know, jeopardize the integrity of
the game. That's what you don't want to lose is
the integrity. What I'm watching is this real or w
W E yep? And that's where where people you see
every weekend, what do you see on on Twitter trending
rigged for the NFL Kansas City Chiefs. But it's rigggged
(21:37):
every game.
Speaker 6 (21:38):
It's something a man they saying, we are what's the
phrase everybody's been using the last few years in the
NBA and NFL, The script, The script is written. And
let's say somebody randomly at a fifty point nine, Oh,
he must not have read the script, or some some quarterback,
backup guy balls out and they're like, he ain't get
the script, meaning you weren't supposed to beat the Chiefs
the team.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Yeah, absolutely, And and here's back in the day, major
League Baseball was so against gambler. We already know the
p Road Store. He never got in the Hall of Fame.
The guy died without getting in, all right, because of gambling.
And when you walk into a clubhouse, you know this.
You've been in the Dodgers and the biggest sign in
(22:18):
the room is about gambling. Okay, if you get caught gambling,
gonna be banned for life. There's no ifens or bus.
That's what they say because they don't want that. But
at one point they had Willy Mays and Mickey Mantle
became greeters at the casino in Atlantic City. Now you
know what a greeter is, like, Hey, come on in,
(22:39):
Hey do you know that baseball would not allow Willy
Mays after they took those jobs as greeters for money,
to wear uniforms in any kind of thing and be
involved in like all Star games on any major league event,
even though they weren't gambling or anything, but just they
(22:59):
seem know, gambling mob And this wasn't sports book, this
is just slot machines and stuff, and they still were like, no,
two of the greatest stars of a blade major league
bit Willi Maze and Mickey Mantle or prosada non gratae.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
Now, Bri, you have something you want to add to this, Well, I.
Speaker 9 (23:15):
Was reading that the NBA had already conducted the investigation.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
Yeah, this is worth yes, Yeah.
Speaker 9 (23:19):
And they said that they did not find a violation
of any NBA rules, And I think that's such a
little that's.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
A great point.
Speaker 9 (23:26):
And it was never nobody ever said anything about it.
We never heard about it, and it's been like what
a year and a half now, So.
Speaker 6 (23:32):
That's a great point that now you got this widespread
investigation that's beyond the NBA, because it almost turns into, oh,
we gave y'all shot. You know, it always happens with
it could be domestic violence. So say the team will
say we ain't find anything. We and then then they
go all right, well let us check and something comes up.
All we gotta do is talk about Bouco and Barry Bonds.
That was a government investigation would a net. They weren't
(23:54):
looking for Barry Bonds. They were looking for uh, stuff
going on with this company. And they go through the
files and guess whose name is in there? Yeah, and
they thought it was gonna be more Olympic stuff too,
the track. And yet that's I've read a really good
book on that. And last morn I was gonna you
were just saying a minute ago. I always say, in
the era of so much reality TV, sports is the
(24:15):
only real reality TV.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
That's why it still gets TV ratings. We talk about it.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
The only two things on television that get ratings National
news and sports live sporting events.
Speaker 6 (24:26):
That's it you because you don't know what's going on,
meaning the news is telling what's happening in the world.
Speaker 4 (24:31):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 6 (24:32):
Ah see last night, you didn't know that until you
saw the news. And NBA right now, right now, we
got we got all different sports on. We got college basketball,
we got hockey, over here. We got this going on.
This we don't know what's going to happen, right, even
with March madness. On paper, this two seed it should
beat this fifteen seed. But what happens always happens. I'm
(24:52):
fifteen seed beats the number two seed. We love to
see it. Obviously twelve five always happened too. My point
is because we don't know, Oh, what's gonna happen. It's
the last reality TV, the only reality TV, and we
love it and the idea that stuff is truly rigged
and this guy is short changing us or he's affecting
the outcome in a negative way.
Speaker 4 (25:10):
He's you know, cheating the system. It ruins it.
Speaker 6 (25:13):
Man and in any NFL NBA MB they don't want
to be connected to that because the minute you start
to lose fans, these people are tapped out and it
becomes as you mentioned WWE, it's it's a lose lose
for all. So the NBA, as breaches brought up, clearly,
they're gonna be like, hey, that didn't happen. We didn't
see anything. It was just a move on, move on,
move on, move on. Then federal investigators start coming in.
(25:33):
Hold on, hold on, let's try to get as many
people in on this.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Age seven seven ninety nine on Fox and the gambling aspect.
Here's the other last part. It's changed the way people
watch games. And it's not as enjoyable because every no,
with the gambling, it's not as enjoyable because.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
You're not rooting for the team. You just got to
hit another three, exactly, that's what you're looking for. And
when you don't get it.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
You've heard the players, the NBA players everywhere, exactly, you
cost me six thousand dollars.
Speaker 4 (26:05):
You bomb.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
You didn't get that you wanted. I needed you to
get one more free throw. People it's their own team.
Speaker 6 (26:11):
Yes, if your favorite team was the uh, the Indianapolis
Colts and they were playing some the Buccaneers, and but
you needed the Buccaneers and stool over, you know you're like, hey,
I don't go ahead and beat my team. It's definitely change.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
It has changed.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
In eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox, where are
you on gambling? Has it ruined your sports enjoyment? And uh,
do you expect like some big star at some point,
big athlete to go down in a gambling scandal. I
believe it's going to happen at some point. Uh so
we want to hear from you. Eight seven, seven ninety
(26:46):
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TV Theme song Thursday, Rob Parker, kelvin Washington, right here
on Fox Sports Radio, Stick and Steak.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Odd Couple
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Speaker 4 (27:07):
App Beat Beaty.
Speaker 6 (27:11):
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I know the name of the Allen like this. Robin
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of these like he was going crazy with the pen game.
It is The Odd Couple, Robin Kevin on a TV
(27:32):
theme song Thursday.
Speaker 8 (27:33):
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Speaker 9 (27:37):
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All right?
Speaker 6 (27:43):
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All right, Stop shop talk.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Ain't nobody.
Speaker 4 (28:14):
Ain's still being a bump shop.
Speaker 7 (28:15):
You know that.
Speaker 5 (28:15):
Ain't nobody you talk about whoever, whatever, whatever you want
you in the box up?
Speaker 4 (28:20):
Why you know it's shop telling me? All right.
Speaker 6 (28:23):
So there's a new phenomenon that's been maybe two three
four years in the making that is tipping. And no,
I don't mean the traditional sense of tipping, Rob, I'm
talking about anything you do.
Speaker 4 (28:35):
They're swinging that screen around and they're asking for tipping
anytime soon.
Speaker 6 (28:39):
He ain't tipping no more right now. And so there
lies the conversation of today. I go to get my
chilatte and every day I go into the spot, or
every couple of days, they swinging around and it tip
tip tip, And you're like, man, I'm just ordering a
coffee or I'm just picking up a coffee already paid
for my app and they're still like Tip Manti. You
go to a restaurant, you ordered the head call ahead,
(29:01):
you paid for you even paid for it through the app.
Tip Tip everywhere, so Breed Mansi, Alex rob are you team?
Speaker 4 (29:09):
I tip any and everything, no matter what. Is there
a limit? Is there a hey?
Speaker 6 (29:14):
You gotta relax. I just called the order in. I'm
not tipping already paid. Where do you guys stand on this?
Speaker 1 (29:19):
I am against the idea that you go into a
carryout or even I was in a restaurant where you
go order at the counter, take your number to your table,
and they just bring you your food. It's not like
you order and there's a waiter or a waitress. I
don't believe that's a twenty percent tip. It's not as
(29:40):
service me throughout the day.
Speaker 4 (29:42):
Right, you know what I mean? No, I mean I
leave a tip, but it's not twenty percent. The one
I hate the most.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
And we do this when we go to the NABJ
convention or you're a part of these big things and
you're at the hotel bar and they want a twenty
percent tip on drinks. Yeah, like no, I'm gonna leave
you a couple dollars like I would do if I
buy one drink right, but they give you a thing
and they want twenty percent.
Speaker 4 (30:06):
I just bought five drinks right for everybody at the
bar and it's one hundred dollars and they want a
twenty dollar tip. No, are you kidding?
Speaker 6 (30:13):
Yeah, it's it's the culture of it has gotten crazy.
And the worst part about it, manzie, they make it
has now become awkward for me the customer, and for
the person they don't They didn't do it.
Speaker 4 (30:22):
They're just an employee, some twenty three year old, but
they spend that things spinning around.
Speaker 6 (30:26):
It has a stamp, and now I gotta do that look,
they gotta do the awkward little turn.
Speaker 4 (30:31):
Like they're not looking because I don't want to stare
you and I now you're under pressure. Should a tip
shit or not? It makes it weird. Where are you?
I'm with Rob?
Speaker 10 (30:37):
Like, if I'm going to a place and I'm ordering
that a counter and I'm taking a number, like is
it just me and one other person? I'm probably not going.
Speaker 4 (30:44):
To maybe a dollar if I'm feeling it right.
Speaker 10 (30:46):
But if I like place to takeout order and it's
like eight people's order, I might lead and it's over
one hundred dollars.
Speaker 4 (30:51):
I might leave you ten, like a takeout order at.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
The restaurant, right right.
Speaker 10 (30:55):
Coffee is hard, right, somebody once told me like about
it because an alcoholic drink, you're supposed to tip a
dollar per drink.
Speaker 4 (31:01):
What I've always done, I've always done.
Speaker 10 (31:03):
You want to add a little bit more for just drinks. Okay,
So sometimes, like if I go to Starbucks, I might
like on the apply fifty cents because it's like, you
did make me a coffee that I'm not making.
Speaker 6 (31:12):
But but so the argument would be that's I their
employer and paying them. I missed the Starbucks and paying
said employee.
Speaker 10 (31:19):
Brief stay sense of it all, say like that's it
because it's like, yeah, thank you for making my drink
that I can't make.
Speaker 6 (31:25):
So I've become much more of a tipper even away
from this weird new phenomenon tip. But just in general, uh,
it's you know, God has blessed me. I like to
try to be blessed. That doesn't mean you need to own,
but the pressure, the pressure on it. I don't like
the new everything is every single thing is a tip.
Speaker 10 (31:43):
If I'm sitting, I'm tipping twenty or more percent.
Speaker 7 (31:47):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (31:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (31:47):
What I've realized is I need to have this screen
every time Calvin walks in here with thirty seconds left
for the braink because he's a tipper over here.
Speaker 4 (31:52):
You can tip me for the good shows. I've been
helping out with every for.
Speaker 8 (31:55):
Your advice on how to fascit like this. This is
my thing before any of this happened. Even the restaurants
where they demand me to tip them.
Speaker 4 (32:02):
What did you do for me?
Speaker 8 (32:03):
Did you come check my drinks? Did you bring my
food on time? Did you check if my food was good?
Like somehow we've lost the sensation of these people are
getting aid. Show me you want my value, so give
me good service. For some reason, we've lost it. I've
had people in arguments tell me twenty percent no matter what,
what if your food's called twenty percent, dude, I'm not
paying you for anything else. I'm paying for the food
(32:24):
you asked, and that's what I'll pay for. But if
you help wine and dine, bring the extra base, I'll
give you some good I'll take care of you. Took
care of me, but at a freaking Starbucks place and
picking up food and like even delivery drivers.
Speaker 4 (32:35):
Now we're asking for tips. You're getting paid.
Speaker 6 (32:37):
You got a tip on asking by the way, a
delivery driver, I try to take care when you or something.
Speaker 4 (32:43):
Yes, I'm gonna tip you because I'm lazy. I should
look at my own food. I'm gonna take care of you.
Speaker 6 (32:46):
But the thing I also don't like is these apps
have now created it where they automatically put it in
there if you don't. If you don't, you don't tech
you right, Yeah, the tip will be in there automatically.
Speaker 4 (32:56):
So you're like, I.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
Always give a topic to say, hey, I got a
tip for you. Don't bet on the races, and that
would be the tip there you yeah, no, wait, what
do you mean racist?
Speaker 6 (33:05):
Like horse red? Okay, all right man, that stuff going
on right now we get a little nervous ce k.
Speaker 8 (33:10):
You know where it all went bad where the original
tippers were asking for money. The church is passing the
basket around the teams.
Speaker 4 (33:16):
Now you want to get philosophical theological, but.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
I usually get change out of the church basket. See
now I'll be fifty dollars and then I'll take seventy dollars.
Speaker 4 (33:24):
That's why I'm here. I'm a drag yall of heaven
with me.
Speaker 6 (33:27):
Hit him like anybody else, Get anybody else on your list, Kelvin,
I'm like I.
Speaker 4 (33:31):
Got alex a Rob. Come on, come on, Lord and
let him in. I'm just making man. I put in
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