February 27, 2025 • 31 mins
Rob and Kelvin tell us why the Kansas City Chiefs cannot – and should not – count on Travis Kelce being a real contributor next season, explain why NFL teams would be wise to allow Travis Hunter to become a full-time, two-way player at the next level and pay homage to the late, great Gene Hackman by listing their favorite basketball movies of all-time.
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Speaker 1 (00:28):
Rob g Let's kick it off. The announcement from the
Chiefs right that.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
They want to redo it with a Super Bowl? Would
they say no?
Speaker 4 (00:36):
Travis Kelcey news, Well, the Chiefs didn't even announce it.
Travis kelce didn't even announce it was actually Pat McAfee,
who read exclusively on his show earlier on Thursday a
textus change with him in Travis kelce where Kelsey basically
said I'm coming back in twenty twenty five because quote
I can't go out like that end quote.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
All Right, my reaction, what is it? The Chiefs are
making a mistake. They should be the ones to say
thank you, but no thank you?
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Did you watch Travis Kelcey in the Super Bowl? He
was a no show? Four catches for thirty nine yards.
Go back and watch the tape where Patrick Mahomes is
trying to escape Philadelphia defenders and he's running the way
around and Kelsey's in the middle of the field. He's
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not blocking, he's not trying to get open. He's standing
there and counting the attendance. He stood there like the
tin Man from the Wizard of Oz in a monsoon.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
He was frozen. Calvin, Let's face it.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
His best catch the last few years is that superstar girlfriend.
That's the best catch he's had. He'll be thirty six
years old in October. In dog years, that's fifty six.
I'm just telling you. People say he's got the dog
in him. Yeah, when it comes to the legs and moving,
(02:16):
he ain't going nowhere. Last year eight point three yards
of catch a career low.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
He's not wine anymore, Andy Reid.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
No matter what place he calls for him, he will
not be able to turn that water down tight end
into fine wine anymore. This is done, Travis Kelce, go
out with some dignity.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
You can't live in the past.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
This isn't a Lifetime Achievement Award TV show. When you
come up and you take a bow and they talk
about how great you were. This is the damn Football League.
The Chiefs will be making a mistake to bring back
a guy who's not the same player to depend on him,
(03:11):
to hope that you're gonna turn back time.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
You can't live in the past. You had a.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Great run, a Hall of Fame career, Thank you very much.
You had your parade, You got plenty of confetti in
your hair, and they gave you a ton of money
right off in the sunset, get lost, don't.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Let the door hit you on the way out. Thank
you boy.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
Put on this new orange quarter joint and came with it.
I see you, man. A lot of what you said,
especially the numbers, like he can't deny that, we can't
deny that nobody can die that the numbers weren't number
and that's for sure.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
I think what he's.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
Entering into now, Rob is the Travis Dudley era, the
eudonas Kelseley. And what I mean is Eudonna's has them.
Was with the Miami Heat for like five six seven
years where he literally was just a part of the team.
He wasn't playing, He was just a morale guy. He was, Hey,
I'll go out there. The last minute of a game,
but I'm really here for the team man at the
team building to help him be a part of the culture.
(04:21):
That is what Travis Kelsey is. And I believe the
Chiefs cannot go into this season Patrick Mahomes cannot go
into the season Andy REI cannot go into this season
saying Okay, good, we got Travis. They have to go
to it and say, all right, he's there. He'll be
part of the fifty to three man roster. He'll maybe
you know, get a catcher to a game. But they
can't go into it with him a part of the
(04:42):
game plan. And I'll tell you why, Rob g if
we got that from what I heard him say a
couple of weeks ago after the Super Bowl, this alarm me.
Then I pinned it because I knew I wouldn't need
it when he decided to come back play this for me.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Mary, that process could be grueling.
Speaker 6 (04:57):
It can, It can weigh on you, it can it
can make you better, and it can drive you crazy
at the same time. And right now it's one of
those things where it was kind of driving me crazy
this year. And I think that it happens as you
kind of tail off towards the back nine of your career,
as SVP would say, is as you see yourself or
(05:18):
not feel yourself have the success that you once used
to have. Man, it's a tough pill to swallow.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
He was talking about the grind, the process, putting in
the work, showing up, being at practice too a day's
He was talking about that, Rob and he already was
saying he didn't have it last year.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
And he was saying, it's one of those years. It
was tough. I just didn't have it that year. Well,
he ain't getting better a year older.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
He's not getting better with all the things and responsibilities
he has because you know what else he was doing. Obviously,
all that comes with the girlfriend. You mentioned Taylor, And
all right, let's fine, it's this girl. Everybody has a girl.
I get it, But all that contention that comes with that.
He taped a movie, he taped a new game show
in which he was the host, he tapes a podcast.
He had a lot going on. And if you're telling
me you have all that and the grind, you don't
(06:03):
like that. Anytime I hear of ex athletes when you say,
when did you know it was time? When I didn't
couldn't do the grind anymore. When I couldn't show up
to work, when I didn't have that same fervor, when
I didn't want to practice, when I didn't want to
do two days, I didn't want to do film. That's
when they knew it wasn't the games. Everybody loves the games.
It wasn't the camaraderie. What's the number one thing they
always say they miss the locker room, the camaraderie. It's
(06:25):
when they don't have the effort to put in the
work anymore. He just said he had that issue last year,
So I don't mind him being if they want him
on the team. You gotta have fifty three men on
the roster anyway. But the idea going into twenty twenty
five saying thank god we got Travis. They got to
move on from that and they gotta go get some
big boy toys for Patrick.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Mahomes, no doubt. I just I don't see any other way.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
I mean, I'm serious, And sometimes the chiefs have to
be the ones that determined save you firm what's going
to happen? Yes, because of course he wants to come back.
How you just said the most important thing. You don't
get better as you get older. Come on, man, stop it.
You don't love the grind, especially football, you just it
just doesn't happen.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
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Speaker 1 (07:18):
Rob g Let's talk about Travis Hunter and comments he made.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
Yeah, so of course he met with the media today
for the first time since going to the NFL Combine
where he was listed as a defensive back. Only remember
that was a big a dB talking point for us
here on this show. And if you saw the photos online,
it's gonna blow your mind because while most of these
guys have you know, fifteen twenty reporters around and maybe
five six ask questions, Travis Hunter had at least one
(07:46):
hundred different media members surrounding him.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Well, what was a Heisman trophy?
Speaker 4 (07:50):
And he's answering questions and to his credit, he didn't
answer all the questions, but he wasn't exactly you know,
elaborative in his answer. So the fact that he was
up there for so long was just shows how, you know,
what people think of him, that everybody wants to be
around and get some of Travis Hunner, and naturally during
his media availability, everybody's asking him about his insistence I'm
(08:14):
playing both sides of the football because he did so
in college. He was a Defensive Player of the Year
in the Big Twelve. He also was the National blendakov
wide Receiver of the Year. So he's got all the awards.
And when they said, hey, are you still planning on
playing both sides of the football. If so, do you
want to be full time like you were in college?
And he says absolutely. Quote They say, nobody's ever done
(08:37):
it the way I do it. But I tell them
I'm just different. I'm a different person. End quote.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
You know what? What's that They.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Should absolutely give him a chance of doing it his
first year. He's willing to do it and put in
the grind, put in the work, and the kid really
believes that he can do both. I don't understand it.
You don't stop a product. G We've talked about this before.
It's not for everybody. Everybody show TONI has been in
(09:07):
the big leagues for how many years.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Now, like four or five? Right?
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Yeah, Like he was with the Angels for how many
years it's been that I was in the sixth Yeah,
rob g find out is it six.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Years with the Angels? He just hit a three quarter
coach shot.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
But this is my point. You haven't seen anybody follow show. Hey,
nobody else might be able to you know what I mean.
There's an eight, right, but it ain't happened like now
you know, like right, And this is the same thing
with Travis Henley. I mean Travis Hunter. It ain't going
to We're not talking about If this is for everybody,
(09:46):
you give them a chance at one shot. So this
is his seventh year or seventh fold that he's passed.
He played seven years, that is eight year coming up?
Speaker 3 (09:58):
This very nice?
Speaker 1 (09:58):
This will be eight Okay, why MONSI runs those tours?
I know, I know, and she knows what's going on.
But you get my point is that he's nobody else
has come along, right, This might be a one off.
That's why you have to let Hunter explore this and
not just be like WHOA, I got news for you.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
They used to do it in the NFL.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Hello, before everybody got specialized and they had offensive with
your friends play both sides of the ball. It's not
like it's never been done in the NFL. I get it.
Back then they played eight games or twelve games or whatever.
It was the number, right, it was different. But you
don't want to see if this kid maybe it's something
(10:44):
special to give them a.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Chance at it.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
As soon as he's too tired as a dB or
whatever and he's getting burnt out there, or he's dropping
passes as a wide receiver, then as a coach, I
could say I'm done. But I think this is a
mistake not to let this kid explore everything that's laid
(11:09):
out for him. He's a special person because we just
haven't seen it.
Speaker 5 (11:13):
They've been telling him we can't do it every step
of the way to Rob, all right, you can't do
it in college like that. You can do a player too, Okay,
you can't. The dude plays like almost eighty ninety percent
of the snaps on both sides of the ball. It's crazy.
He's just a freak of nature like that. He's built
for it, and he and he wants to try. But
here I'm gonna go, I'm gonna scale it back even
a little bit more than what you were just saying.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Rob.
Speaker 5 (11:34):
You know, want to know why the NFL sometimes get
called the not fund League, the no fun league?
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Because let's say, Rob.
Speaker 5 (11:41):
Even if it makes sense what they say, Hey, that's
too much in the NFL. It's too hard, it's too specialized.
The guys are better than college players. Okay, I will
concede that point to you. He couldn't do both at
the combine and underwearing tank tops. He couldn't go dB
receiver at the combine.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
That's the stupidest thing for me. Everybody's there.
Speaker 5 (12:04):
Robb G just said, one hundred media folks there, he's
the Raindy Heisman Trophy winner. We can't just enjoy this
for two or three days in Indianapolis. Ain't nothing else happening. Okay,
I mean not take a shot at Indianapolis.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
I like, now they got the Saint Elbowles has great
shrimp cock.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Yet shout out to them, shout at them, have you No,
I haven't it a great restaurant. I'm telling them, I've
been to.
Speaker 5 (12:22):
The Indianapolis's pretty actually, got a bunch of Washington's out there,
a lot of family that I didn't even know I
had when I went out there.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
But that's not my point. My point is, I know.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Robb G's never been close to Indianapolis. That's just so
far from la.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
If I told him as a bunch of black folk,
he'd be there. You know, Robb g is Honorey Black.
Actually didn't even he's just black at this point. Now,
my point is it's the combine. You can't just go
to the combine and let him play dban receiver. Like
the NFL is a overthinking this. It's just a combine.
It's just to show. It's just a spectacle. Let him
do it there.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Now when we get to the league.
Speaker 5 (12:54):
I believe to your point, there's a big campaign you have,
Like if he signed with Nike, you can already see
the whole Remember Bo just does when Bo Jackson had
all those commercials. Bow knows, Bo knows this, Bow knows that,
Dion Sanders and the like. There's a whole campaign you
can build around this kid. What's he gonna do? What
is he canna be? You run with the mystery of it.
(13:15):
I believe eventually it plays itself out where he becomes
just a you know, a receiver, where he becomes just
a dB. Eventually you get to that place where all
right levels out, we know what he's gonna be. We'll
throw him a trick. Play here, gadget play here. We'll
let him return a kick punt or something, a punt
or a kick return here or there. But the idea
that you just cancel it right now is ridiculous. If
I'm a team that is about to get Travis Hunter,
(13:37):
We're gonna keep the mystery alive. I want people buying tickets.
I want it to unexpected, to surprise. You never know
what he's gonna be, what he can do, and you
build up the momentum for how unique and special vitality is.
I'm not gonna shut it down before it even starts.
So to me, I'm just shocked that they that they
won't see the opportunity for this in the marketing end
of it, for the fun of the league of it
(13:59):
and going back, that's about simple point. Not even in
T shirts and draws. Can the man be a dB
and a receiver? That's just come on with NFL, that's
just ridiculous. There's no reason why he should have did
both at the combine.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Right, That's as simple as a guest the easiest, right, right,
But I just think, what what's so wrong? Like they
could have they the Angels could have told show, hey,
what are you doing? Just come over here.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
All we need to do is play every day and
we need your bat or whatever.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
No, they were like, okay, nobody's done it since the twenties,
since Babe Ruth. Let's tell let's try it, and because
it's right and and the worst thing that can happen
is he doesn't play well on one of the two sides.
You decide, okay, as a dB or as a he's
not a wide receiver, he's a dB or whatever it is.
(14:51):
And then you go and say we're going to go
to that. No, no egg on his face, no issues, nothing,
It's just like, okay, we try. We think it's too
much for him to be able to do both, and
we're getting fifty percent of each rather than one hundred
percent on one.
Speaker 5 (15:08):
I think to just be saying no's right now is
crazy when we saw Deon Sanders do it from kick
returns and punt returns and obviously a couple of plays
here or there, you know, in a slot or something like.
To just say no already is what's crazy to me.
I'm gonna just play, see what we got, let it go,
let us see what the fans want to see from him,
and have a little fun with it.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
That's just me.
Speaker 5 (15:26):
And eventually, like I said, it'll level itself out, he'll
find his ground and find what he's best at between
the two positions and you move on from there. But
to just deny it right now before we even he's
even on a team, it's crazy. So if I'm a team,
I'm drafting him and I'm saying, man, the sky's a limit.
We can see what you can do, well, see how
far we can take this, and eventually we'll find a
home for you in a position.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
But let's just see, let's have some fun with it.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Absolutely, I think it's a mistake by the NFL. And
you're right, you said it earlier, the no fun league.
Speaker 5 (15:54):
Sometimes they out think him. Remember I told you that
one I remember were we talking about saying you overthink it?
Speaker 3 (15:57):
What was that again? Oh?
Speaker 5 (15:59):
Was the coach who went on the mic was like, hey,
don't stow in the court. Sometimes you just overthink things.
It to me the combine who freaking cares Let him
go be a dB and a wide receiver. If he
can do what he can do it, I think he can.
He just went trophies for both of them in college.
He's you know, NFL shoot let's not let's throw him.
You know, fifteen players of offensive game.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
You know what? There was? There was another rob g.
I don't know if you had you didn't have.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
This cut of a Hunter being an interviewed. You said,
how many people one hundred reporters and stuff for around him?
And then some people said, uh so, uh, you know
you could be a wide receiver or you could be
a dB and Hunter said this.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
What do you say?
Speaker 2 (16:40):
There?
Speaker 3 (16:40):
You go? Yeah? Woman? Was that from again? That's scared?
You think it was a little and the window in there?
I think so? And what did he mean by that? Well?
I think he was someking about the yellow brick road. Right. No,
but no, no, I don't remember the scene, you.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Know that, right, But but he's going some people go
this way, some people go that way, then again some
people go both.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
With me. That was the loss and they was freaky.
Speaker 5 (17:10):
Back in the thirties forties, it was freaky, and we
talk about it nowadays it's just more out there.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
They was freaking out. I'm gonna say this. On those
movies though, I'm gonna tell you this.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Women used to get beat up and slapped around and
movies in the forties, do you ever.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Watch those movies. Oh my gosh, all they do is
slap women. I can't even like, I can't even watch it.
Crazy to watch it. A little too much excitement in
your voice. I needed you to be. Back in the day,
they used to slap right up.
Speaker 5 (17:36):
I mean, honestly, me and Monty were kind of waiting
for you to get to your point where they were
like I thought he was going. I thought he's gonna anyway.
And I'm glad things have changed. I'm glad that hurry up,
geting that you had that nervous for a minute.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
No, I'm just saying around back then, I watched have
you seen it? Have you seen it? Excited? But they
used to be like you ever seen these movies? I
don't think I'm missing much either. No, No, they would be.
Speaker 5 (18:04):
It's always like, yeah, like that, you're going to be
home woman, I'm home when I'm home, Like it.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
Was just regular rob g am I lying or they
are not lying. You so right, you can't turn left
rock there you go. You got to check three right away.
One of the people. Look at the scarecrow cracking a
little in the windows. Back in the day. The point is,
what is.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
The point that he should be able to play both ways,
offense and defense. That's the biggest home us home. Well,
this is what I do. I'm supposed to make it. Okay,
here we go, pancakes, all kinds of stuff.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
I'm done, but one of them is accurate. The pancakes act,
Rob Jesus, here you go next year when we go,
we're not having breakfast with him, Rob g is that
we are not getting to get it before.
Speaker 5 (18:54):
You act like you didn't do this at dinner too,
eating the man bread hot hot fresh bread.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
You ate hot fresh buns of it? Did you? Did you?
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Did you?
Speaker 3 (19:04):
Did you? Now turned it to buns Manti.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
It was a big difference between buns and slice brand.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
I don't remember. Okay, it was a month ago. Some
people go both ways. Just brought us back full circuit.
We're ready to go for a tease, and you had
to make it weird. You do. I'm just saying, I
don't remember you made it weird. You asked for He
was like, can you bring out his buns verse? And
I was like, what's that brand? His bread? I ever forgot?
I remember.
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Speaker 1 (19:47):
We lost a great actor today. I don't know if
it was last night or today, but we lost the grend.
Speaker 5 (19:55):
We came out early. I was on my way to
it was like two in the morning. Was two three
in the morning West Coast time, Rob g.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
It was terrible news. A lot of us woke up
to it this morning.
Speaker 5 (20:06):
And we're not gonna get into the semantics and the
details of the investigation because as this goes on further
and further, it's getting.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
More and more murky. So we're not gonna worry about
that right now.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
But Gene Hackman, legendary actor, and his wife and their dog.
Actually we're we're all found dead today in their New
Mexico home. Authority set on Thursday. Again, without getting to
the details of the death, Gene Hackman gave us a
lot of great movies.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
What Rob G real quick?
Speaker 1 (20:31):
It was ninety five, Like really ninety five you should
die of natural causes?
Speaker 3 (20:37):
That ninety four?
Speaker 5 (20:37):
That well, that's the thing, Robert Firks. People were saying,
no file play and then they thought it was a
carbon side and another thing auspicious activities.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
I'm just saying.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
Yes, So let's focus on where we're going in the
positive part. Gene Hackman hits after hits after hits in
his career as an actor, including what any believe actually
is the greatest basketball movie of all time Hoosiers Love
in Basketball.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
Also, that's gonna lead to this discussion. I said a
black movie. Are you ready? Kelvin almost fell out, Honestly,
I was like, Rob just said that.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
I said that we got Hoosiers on the mind. But
Rob Parker, you may have given it away already. Give
us either number one your favorite or what do you
think is the best basket movie all time? And if
you got more, we'll think the top five as well.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
Rob, Yeah, I can top five. There is a correct
answer to this, by the way, let.
Speaker 5 (21:33):
Me see, well, well I did say.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
I did say loving Basketball, right, I really like that movie.
Speaker 5 (21:41):
So you're real these aren't in rankings. It just I
have it on my list. It's on my list. I
know it's on Rob G's list. Definitely, you with it.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
White men can't jump. That's number one. That's another one,
Rob G.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
That's right.
Speaker 5 (21:57):
That's a good one, right, there that that's the most fun.
That's it makes me happy, Like, that's a great.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
Did you guys see the reboot with Jack Carlo on it? Wow?
Speaker 5 (22:06):
Then that you said said, I'm straight Wesley Snipe's rolling
around and you know my theory to Harrelson.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
Roll around and number uh coach Carter. Yeah, Coach Carter's
a lot of people.
Speaker 5 (22:17):
I'm not it's not on my list, but people people
like that.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
That's not on my list. I wonder is a fish
the fish who say Pittsburgh? Is that not? Yeah? That
can be on your list, that's what that is on
my list? Doctor J Yes, I don't know. So what
do I have? There? Is that four? So you got three?
Speaker 5 (22:32):
Well, it's coach Carter on the list or you just
name you were just yeah, that's one of them.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
And then that's four.
Speaker 5 (22:36):
You got white man can't jump, Coach Carter, don't have
Hoosia Love.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
Who's that's my five? That's my five? Where are you
on that? Not? Mad? I think we got a handful
of the same. Number one.
Speaker 5 (22:49):
I'm not going in order, but this one is number
one because I know it's always and eternally will be
white man can't jump. That's just if it's on, it's
getting twenty five thirty minutes out of me. It's just
one of those great ones. I remember Gene, who's your
when he's probably yeah?
Speaker 3 (23:02):
What was that like?
Speaker 5 (23:03):
You remember that he was the newspaper, the taal or whatever.
He was always hitting his hand. Yeah yeah, yeah, uh
slow key. He was in a handful of sports movie.
You got that, you got the replacements. He kind of
played a few roles. I got a sleeper rob g
because it was a pioneer ahead of his time, because
they followed the family around for like five years. Hoop Dreams,
(23:26):
who I mean that came out in like ninety one
ninety two blew my mind.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
As a young hoop fan and playing ball.
Speaker 5 (23:33):
Hoop Dreams was if you haven't seen it, it's a
documentary that doesn't just do like a year two. They
followed these going into ninth grade, two players, one from
one side of town in Chicago, one from another, and
they followed them their whole entire high school career through
like their first year college ball and just the ups,
the downs, family members, drugs issues in the streets of Chicago.
(23:54):
Hoop Dreams that is up there that might even remember
that Yeah, that was incredible. Loving Basketball just a great movie.
It really is, and it was really cool. Recently, did
you see they had Sinai Lathan at the USC game
when the U c l A and they had the
honor because she played that character who went to USC.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
That was really cool. It's all right, Love Basketball for real.
That was about cheating.
Speaker 5 (24:17):
I'm gonna play for your heart, I mean okay, yeah, okay,
stay focused. The movie was two hours. Don't talk about
the last five minutes. Okay, don't give it away. Okay,
he got game, he got game. That's a good one.
Denzel played the mess out the role. Ray Allen tried
his best. Allen was not you know, that was supposed
(24:37):
to be That was supposed to be Stephan Marbray. I
believe it was was yeah here, supposed to be Kobe. No,
I think it was Kobe first, right, Mike said that
that was bad for his brand, so he didn't do it.
Let's go come on, man, you you know, come on,
you could have did that and then we you know,
Ray Allen tried his best.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
It wasn't like shooting three something he's great at. And
acting is not easy. No act like acting is.
Speaker 5 (24:59):
Very tell y'all something as somebody who moved to LA
with no job, looking for anything, and acting and commercials
and all that.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
When they would say, all right, just pretend you're.
Speaker 5 (25:08):
Eating a burger and you're not eating anything, like literally
just eating air, you never felt more like an idiot
just fake eating it.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
And I'm like, oh, this acting is hard, Like I'm
selling you on eating his burger.
Speaker 5 (25:19):
I'm but I'm eating air. I'm like, man, this is
no Acting is a whole new thing. But and lastly, Hoosiers, Uh,
that's my that's when I'm not I will. Me and
Robbie were saying it's really really good, but people put
it a little too high for me, like that was
the greatest not only basketball. I'll say it's the greatest
sports movie all hold up.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
But people will be like, uh, wouldn't they say Rudy
or anybody who say Rudy. I don't know, I know,
but I'm just saying you look like you would say Rudy.
Speaker 5 (25:45):
Are you into the Rudy because we're short, Cause every
now and again you make me mad when you say something, all.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
Right, rob are you on the on the on the movie?
Speaker 4 (25:54):
Well again, if Omar is in it. I'm in Yeah,
loving basketball, of course, Yes, that's stuff you guys make
it out of.
Speaker 5 (26:00):
The white man can't jump, he got a game above
the rim. To me, are locked number top three.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
And then we'll figure out that I was going to
bring up that's what Blue Chips was one I had
that I was gonna mention.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
I was I was gonna be in that movie. It's
gonna be called Chocolate Chips. But that's another stock.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
You took the same joke, and he's smutty as something else.
You're not fooling me, Rob Parker. I am familiar with
your game, yes, but then there's other like their basketball
is probably the only sport where there's a full catalog
of sports movies for whatever move you're in. If you
want a serious movie, you get right coach Coach Carter.
(26:42):
You want to you know, you want a dramatic thing.
And then there's just like the slapstick comedy that works,
and and two of them for me that I really enjoy, uh,
The Sixth Man starring Marlon Wayns where his brother dies.
I'm about to drop one of a I keep going,
and then and then another one, which is weird to
(27:03):
say as a Lakers fan, but Celtic pride with Damon
Wayans and he plays for the Jazz, a black star
for the Jazz.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
By the way, I don't know who legitimately are black.
Speaker 5 (27:13):
Wayns brothers and Damien Wayne, Damon Wayns, Marlon Wa.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
Those ones are.
Speaker 5 (27:17):
Like the off the wall court. You's got to be
taking seriously. I think Hoosia just got dropped from my list?
Why did you dropping Hoosiers?
Speaker 3 (27:24):
Really? When I tell you for what you really, I
could do that. Gene Hacking just he got yea, I'm
gonna let him live. Then fine, he got game, I
get kicked off. You know what?
Speaker 5 (27:32):
It might robs semi pro. See, that's another one, freaking hilarious.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
But isn't that I always think of that as what
was it called for? The football? Why am I thinking
of the hardest as long as Yeah? But isn't that
is a semi pro?
Speaker 3 (27:48):
No replacements?
Speaker 4 (27:51):
That's another Gene Hackman movie, Gene Hackman giving Omar a
run for his money.
Speaker 5 (27:57):
All sports movies. Wait wait wait wait wait No, that's
Kevin cost He's the king. Kevin Costner too, He's the
king of sports movies. The reason why semi pro I'm
in semi pro No, you're not a true story. Well
on my mama, on my hood.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
Like you see the back of his head.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
Yeah, somebody dropped a somebody got up the quarter and
they based.
Speaker 5 (28:20):
On Flint, Michigan. Where was I doing radio Flint Michigan.
They put the word out, we need a bunch of extras.
They shot it. You would know they shot it down
at it was off eight mile.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
I forgot.
Speaker 5 (28:30):
It's like an old old warehouse used, I mean not
a warehouse, used to be a thing back in the day.
And they put it was a real basketball court in Detroit.
Went down there, got paid eight dollars an hour as
an extra, got the whole little snacks and they call
it crafty.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
Where you go eat, I brought it.
Speaker 5 (28:44):
You're supposed to look seventies, so I brought a big
gold curly afro. They gave you your little some planic
gear because remember they the Flint Tropics, so it made
it look tropical.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
If you freeze it at.
Speaker 5 (28:56):
When they win fourth place, fourth place and they're running
out of the stadium, if you freeze it at the right.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
Part, you see your boy Robs.
Speaker 5 (29:05):
I swear, I swear to you, I'll show you the
pictures during the break a meal.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
You got your thirty two dollars. I think it was
like ended being like sixty four bucks. Did they pay
you that day in cash? Yeah, they know they made it.
Speaker 5 (29:15):
They gave us a check, got a sidecard I got.
I didn't have it then I didn't. I got that
movie when I moved there.
Speaker 4 (29:19):
Like a yeah, these digitals would be like eighty seven.
Speaker 5 (29:22):
So they know what they're doing. Non no union, they
know what they're doing. Eight dollars an hour. Flint Tropics
was the you know, the semiprograre, the Flint Tropics. I
ran out four play, had a whole little then I
bought an afro. I'm a I'm a fighter, I'm a
pose it, I'm a sodyall screenshot.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
So Semipro just kicked somebody out just because I'm in it.
He got game. You gotta go, wow Ones, you gotta go.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
He got game.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
Gotta get out for SMU pro wowns. You got anything?
So unanimous the loving basketball is and white man can't jump?
Speaker 1 (29:50):
Oh did you like loving basketball when you Okay? So
you know, because of Gene Hackman died. So we're just
trying to come up with five BA basketball related kind
of movies. Any that just off the top of your
head that I enjoyed, Coach Carter, I.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
Got a sleeper for y'all. Would you see Hustle? I haven't.
Speaker 5 (30:12):
It was really good, Yo, it was surprisingly good. You
got to see if you haven't see that about two
years ago, give or take Adam Sandler.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
Uh, he's like a retired sky watched too many movies
since nineteen thirty nine. I won't let me know that.
We know. I was even even new to basketball movies.
I went to the theater to see Love and Basketball.
Speaker 5 (30:34):
Yeah, that was in nineteen ninety nine, nineteen and I
went to the theater what's her name?
Speaker 3 (30:38):
I don't remember, but.
Speaker 5 (30:39):
Ibody, you didn't go. I know you had to go
going with somebody.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
No.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
I think it was two for one that day. Yeah,
you just went. Yeah. Did we mention space jam?
Speaker 1 (30:49):
You guys not the lebron nobody cares about.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
That is a good one. This is it was stop.
It was a waste. They don't know they I've watched
the Jordan one too. They love both of them. The
first one was great.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
First of all, tell your daughters to step and take
a stand and pick the good one and not.
Speaker 5 (31:08):
Absolutely tell your daughters to watch the movie Eddie with
woop Be Goldberg so they can say, hey, women can
coach professional basketball to him, Eddie. Yeah, you remember, I'm
bringing up all these movies for the culture. You have
no idea of over talking.
Speaker 3 (31:21):
I remember Eddie. I didn't see it, but I remember.
Not Murphy, friend of the show Colonies, has a speaking
role in that. He really is. I wonder if he
get in residual. He talks about a black hole for
some reason.
Speaker 5 (31:33):
Okay, Mary, like that.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
I ain't gonna lie to rob the residual.
Speaker 5 (31:40):
When you get some residuals, that's those things hit called
mailbox money. You just randomly go to mailbox me some
money up in there, like, oh shoot, that's nice.
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Speaker 1 (00:28):
Rob g Let's kick it off. The announcement from the
Chiefs right that.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
They want to redo it with a Super Bowl? Would
they say no?
Speaker 4 (00:36):
Travis Kelcey news, Well, the Chiefs didn't even announce it.
Travis kelce didn't even announce it was actually Pat McAfee,
who read exclusively on his show earlier on Thursday a
textus change with him in Travis kelce where Kelsey basically
said I'm coming back in twenty twenty five because quote
I can't go out like that end quote.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
All Right, my reaction, what is it? The Chiefs are
making a mistake. They should be the ones to say
thank you, but no thank you?
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Did you watch Travis Kelcey in the Super Bowl? He
was a no show? Four catches for thirty nine yards.
Go back and watch the tape where Patrick Mahomes is
trying to escape Philadelphia defenders and he's running the way
around and Kelsey's in the middle of the field. He's
(01:35):
not blocking, he's not trying to get open. He's standing
there and counting the attendance. He stood there like the
tin Man from the Wizard of Oz in a monsoon.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
He was frozen. Calvin, Let's face it.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
His best catch the last few years is that superstar girlfriend.
That's the best catch he's had. He'll be thirty six
years old in October. In dog years, that's fifty six.
I'm just telling you. People say he's got the dog
in him. Yeah, when it comes to the legs and moving,
(02:16):
he ain't going nowhere. Last year eight point three yards
of catch a career low.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
He's not wine anymore, Andy Reid.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
No matter what place he calls for him, he will
not be able to turn that water down tight end
into fine wine anymore. This is done, Travis Kelce, go
out with some dignity.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
You can't live in the past.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
This isn't a Lifetime Achievement Award TV show. When you
come up and you take a bow and they talk
about how great you were. This is the damn Football League.
The Chiefs will be making a mistake to bring back
a guy who's not the same player to depend on him,
(03:11):
to hope that you're gonna turn back time.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
You can't live in the past. You had a.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Great run, a Hall of Fame career, Thank you very much.
You had your parade, You got plenty of confetti in
your hair, and they gave you a ton of money
right off in the sunset, get lost, don't.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Let the door hit you on the way out. Thank
you boy.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
Put on this new orange quarter joint and came with it.
I see you, man. A lot of what you said,
especially the numbers, like he can't deny that, we can't
deny that nobody can die that the numbers weren't number
and that's for sure.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
I think what he's.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
Entering into now, Rob is the Travis Dudley era, the
eudonas Kelseley. And what I mean is Eudonna's has them.
Was with the Miami Heat for like five six seven
years where he literally was just a part of the team.
He wasn't playing, He was just a morale guy. He was, Hey,
I'll go out there. The last minute of a game,
but I'm really here for the team man at the
team building to help him be a part of the culture.
(04:21):
That is what Travis Kelsey is. And I believe the
Chiefs cannot go into this season Patrick Mahomes cannot go
into the season Andy REI cannot go into this season
saying Okay, good, we got Travis. They have to go
to it and say, all right, he's there. He'll be
part of the fifty to three man roster. He'll maybe
you know, get a catcher to a game. But they
can't go into it with him a part of the
(04:42):
game plan. And I'll tell you why, Rob g if
we got that from what I heard him say a
couple of weeks ago after the Super Bowl, this alarm me.
Then I pinned it because I knew I wouldn't need
it when he decided to come back play this for me.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Mary, that process could be grueling.
Speaker 6 (04:57):
It can, It can weigh on you, it can it
can make you better, and it can drive you crazy
at the same time. And right now it's one of
those things where it was kind of driving me crazy
this year. And I think that it happens as you
kind of tail off towards the back nine of your career,
as SVP would say, is as you see yourself or
(05:18):
not feel yourself have the success that you once used
to have. Man, it's a tough pill to swallow.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
He was talking about the grind, the process, putting in
the work, showing up, being at practice too a day's
He was talking about that, Rob and he already was
saying he didn't have it last year.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
And he was saying, it's one of those years. It
was tough. I just didn't have it that year. Well,
he ain't getting better a year older.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
He's not getting better with all the things and responsibilities
he has because you know what else he was doing. Obviously,
all that comes with the girlfriend. You mentioned Taylor, And
all right, let's fine, it's this girl. Everybody has a girl.
I get it, But all that contention that comes with that.
He taped a movie, he taped a new game show
in which he was the host, he tapes a podcast.
He had a lot going on. And if you're telling
me you have all that and the grind, you don't
(06:03):
like that. Anytime I hear of ex athletes when you say,
when did you know it was time? When I didn't
couldn't do the grind anymore. When I couldn't show up
to work, when I didn't have that same fervor, when
I didn't want to practice, when I didn't want to
do two days, I didn't want to do film. That's
when they knew it wasn't the games. Everybody loves the games.
It wasn't the camaraderie. What's the number one thing they
always say they miss the locker room, the camaraderie. It's
(06:25):
when they don't have the effort to put in the
work anymore. He just said he had that issue last year,
So I don't mind him being if they want him
on the team. You gotta have fifty three men on
the roster anyway. But the idea going into twenty twenty
five saying thank god we got Travis. They got to
move on from that and they gotta go get some
big boy toys for Patrick.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Mahomes, no doubt. I just I don't see any other way.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
I mean, I'm serious, And sometimes the chiefs have to
be the ones that determined save you firm what's going
to happen? Yes, because of course he wants to come back.
How you just said the most important thing. You don't
get better as you get older. Come on, man, stop it.
You don't love the grind, especially football, you just it
just doesn't happen.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
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Speaker 1 (07:18):
Rob g Let's talk about Travis Hunter and comments he made.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
Yeah, so of course he met with the media today
for the first time since going to the NFL Combine
where he was listed as a defensive back. Only remember
that was a big a dB talking point for us
here on this show. And if you saw the photos online,
it's gonna blow your mind because while most of these
guys have you know, fifteen twenty reporters around and maybe
five six ask questions, Travis Hunter had at least one
(07:46):
hundred different media members surrounding him.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Well, what was a Heisman trophy?
Speaker 4 (07:50):
And he's answering questions and to his credit, he didn't
answer all the questions, but he wasn't exactly you know,
elaborative in his answer. So the fact that he was
up there for so long was just shows how, you know,
what people think of him, that everybody wants to be
around and get some of Travis Hunner, and naturally during
his media availability, everybody's asking him about his insistence I'm
(08:14):
playing both sides of the football because he did so
in college. He was a Defensive Player of the Year
in the Big Twelve. He also was the National blendakov
wide Receiver of the Year. So he's got all the awards.
And when they said, hey, are you still planning on
playing both sides of the football. If so, do you
want to be full time like you were in college?
And he says absolutely. Quote They say, nobody's ever done
(08:37):
it the way I do it. But I tell them
I'm just different. I'm a different person. End quote.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
You know what? What's that They.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Should absolutely give him a chance of doing it his
first year. He's willing to do it and put in
the grind, put in the work, and the kid really
believes that he can do both. I don't understand it.
You don't stop a product. G We've talked about this before.
It's not for everybody. Everybody show TONI has been in
(09:07):
the big leagues for how many years.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Now, like four or five? Right?
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Yeah, Like he was with the Angels for how many
years it's been that I was in the sixth Yeah,
rob g find out is it six.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Years with the Angels? He just hit a three quarter
coach shot.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
But this is my point. You haven't seen anybody follow show. Hey,
nobody else might be able to you know what I mean.
There's an eight, right, but it ain't happened like now
you know, like right, And this is the same thing
with Travis Henley. I mean Travis Hunter. It ain't going
to We're not talking about If this is for everybody,
(09:46):
you give them a chance at one shot. So this
is his seventh year or seventh fold that he's passed.
He played seven years, that is eight year coming up?
Speaker 3 (09:58):
This very nice?
Speaker 1 (09:58):
This will be eight Okay, why MONSI runs those tours?
I know, I know, and she knows what's going on.
But you get my point is that he's nobody else
has come along, right, This might be a one off.
That's why you have to let Hunter explore this and
not just be like WHOA, I got news for you.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
They used to do it in the NFL.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Hello, before everybody got specialized and they had offensive with
your friends play both sides of the ball. It's not
like it's never been done in the NFL. I get it.
Back then they played eight games or twelve games or whatever.
It was the number, right, it was different. But you
don't want to see if this kid maybe it's something
(10:44):
special to give them a.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Chance at it.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
As soon as he's too tired as a dB or
whatever and he's getting burnt out there, or he's dropping
passes as a wide receiver, then as a coach, I
could say I'm done. But I think this is a
mistake not to let this kid explore everything that's laid
(11:09):
out for him. He's a special person because we just
haven't seen it.
Speaker 5 (11:13):
They've been telling him we can't do it every step
of the way to Rob, all right, you can't do
it in college like that. You can do a player too, Okay,
you can't. The dude plays like almost eighty ninety percent
of the snaps on both sides of the ball. It's crazy.
He's just a freak of nature like that. He's built
for it, and he and he wants to try. But
here I'm gonna go, I'm gonna scale it back even
a little bit more than what you were just saying.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Rob.
Speaker 5 (11:34):
You know, want to know why the NFL sometimes get
called the not fund League, the no fun league?
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Because let's say, Rob.
Speaker 5 (11:41):
Even if it makes sense what they say, Hey, that's
too much in the NFL. It's too hard, it's too specialized.
The guys are better than college players. Okay, I will
concede that point to you. He couldn't do both at
the combine and underwearing tank tops. He couldn't go dB
receiver at the combine.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
That's the stupidest thing for me. Everybody's there.
Speaker 5 (12:04):
Robb G just said, one hundred media folks there, he's
the Raindy Heisman Trophy winner. We can't just enjoy this
for two or three days in Indianapolis. Ain't nothing else happening. Okay,
I mean not take a shot at Indianapolis.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
I like, now they got the Saint Elbowles has great
shrimp cock.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Yet shout out to them, shout at them, have you No,
I haven't it a great restaurant. I'm telling them, I've
been to.
Speaker 5 (12:22):
The Indianapolis's pretty actually, got a bunch of Washington's out there,
a lot of family that I didn't even know I
had when I went out there.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
But that's not my point. My point is, I know.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Robb G's never been close to Indianapolis. That's just so
far from la.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
If I told him as a bunch of black folk,
he'd be there. You know, Robb g is Honorey Black.
Actually didn't even he's just black at this point. Now,
my point is it's the combine. You can't just go
to the combine and let him play dban receiver. Like
the NFL is a overthinking this. It's just a combine.
It's just to show. It's just a spectacle. Let him
do it there.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Now when we get to the league.
Speaker 5 (12:54):
I believe to your point, there's a big campaign you have,
Like if he signed with Nike, you can already see
the whole Remember Bo just does when Bo Jackson had
all those commercials. Bow knows, Bo knows this, Bow knows that,
Dion Sanders and the like. There's a whole campaign you
can build around this kid. What's he gonna do? What
is he canna be? You run with the mystery of it.
(13:15):
I believe eventually it plays itself out where he becomes
just a you know, a receiver, where he becomes just
a dB. Eventually you get to that place where all
right levels out, we know what he's gonna be. We'll
throw him a trick. Play here, gadget play here. We'll
let him return a kick punt or something, a punt
or a kick return here or there. But the idea
that you just cancel it right now is ridiculous. If
I'm a team that is about to get Travis Hunter,
(13:37):
We're gonna keep the mystery alive. I want people buying tickets.
I want it to unexpected, to surprise. You never know
what he's gonna be, what he can do, and you
build up the momentum for how unique and special vitality is.
I'm not gonna shut it down before it even starts.
So to me, I'm just shocked that they that they
won't see the opportunity for this in the marketing end
of it, for the fun of the league of it
(13:59):
and going back, that's about simple point. Not even in
T shirts and draws. Can the man be a dB
and a receiver? That's just come on with NFL, that's
just ridiculous. There's no reason why he should have did
both at the combine.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Right, That's as simple as a guest the easiest, right, right,
But I just think, what what's so wrong? Like they
could have they the Angels could have told show, hey,
what are you doing? Just come over here.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
All we need to do is play every day and
we need your bat or whatever.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
No, they were like, okay, nobody's done it since the twenties,
since Babe Ruth. Let's tell let's try it, and because
it's right and and the worst thing that can happen
is he doesn't play well on one of the two sides.
You decide, okay, as a dB or as a he's
not a wide receiver, he's a dB or whatever it is.
(14:51):
And then you go and say we're going to go
to that. No, no egg on his face, no issues, nothing,
It's just like, okay, we try. We think it's too
much for him to be able to do both, and
we're getting fifty percent of each rather than one hundred
percent on one.
Speaker 5 (15:08):
I think to just be saying no's right now is
crazy when we saw Deon Sanders do it from kick
returns and punt returns and obviously a couple of plays
here or there, you know, in a slot or something like.
To just say no already is what's crazy to me.
I'm gonna just play, see what we got, let it go,
let us see what the fans want to see from him,
and have a little fun with it.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
That's just me.
Speaker 5 (15:26):
And eventually, like I said, it'll level itself out, he'll
find his ground and find what he's best at between
the two positions and you move on from there. But
to just deny it right now before we even he's
even on a team, it's crazy. So if I'm a team,
I'm drafting him and I'm saying, man, the sky's a limit.
We can see what you can do, well, see how
far we can take this, and eventually we'll find a
home for you in a position.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
But let's just see, let's have some fun with it.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Absolutely, I think it's a mistake by the NFL. And
you're right, you said it earlier, the no fun league.
Speaker 5 (15:54):
Sometimes they out think him. Remember I told you that
one I remember were we talking about saying you overthink it?
Speaker 3 (15:57):
What was that again? Oh?
Speaker 5 (15:59):
Was the coach who went on the mic was like, hey,
don't stow in the court. Sometimes you just overthink things.
It to me the combine who freaking cares Let him
go be a dB and a wide receiver. If he
can do what he can do it, I think he can.
He just went trophies for both of them in college.
He's you know, NFL shoot let's not let's throw him.
You know, fifteen players of offensive game.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
You know what? There was? There was another rob g.
I don't know if you had you didn't have.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
This cut of a Hunter being an interviewed. You said,
how many people one hundred reporters and stuff for around him?
And then some people said, uh so, uh, you know
you could be a wide receiver or you could be
a dB and Hunter said this.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
What do you say?
Speaker 2 (16:40):
There?
Speaker 3 (16:40):
You go? Yeah? Woman? Was that from again? That's scared?
You think it was a little and the window in there?
I think so? And what did he mean by that? Well?
I think he was someking about the yellow brick road. Right. No,
but no, no, I don't remember the scene, you.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Know that, right, But but he's going some people go
this way, some people go that way, then again some
people go both.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
With me. That was the loss and they was freaky.
Speaker 5 (17:10):
Back in the thirties forties, it was freaky, and we
talk about it nowadays it's just more out there.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
They was freaking out. I'm gonna say this. On those
movies though, I'm gonna tell you this.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Women used to get beat up and slapped around and
movies in the forties, do you ever.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Watch those movies. Oh my gosh, all they do is
slap women. I can't even like, I can't even watch it.
Crazy to watch it. A little too much excitement in
your voice. I needed you to be. Back in the day,
they used to slap right up.
Speaker 5 (17:36):
I mean, honestly, me and Monty were kind of waiting
for you to get to your point where they were
like I thought he was going. I thought he's gonna anyway.
And I'm glad things have changed. I'm glad that hurry up,
geting that you had that nervous for a minute.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
No, I'm just saying around back then, I watched have
you seen it? Have you seen it? Excited? But they
used to be like you ever seen these movies? I
don't think I'm missing much either. No, No, they would be.
Speaker 5 (18:04):
It's always like, yeah, like that, you're going to be
home woman, I'm home when I'm home, Like it.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
Was just regular rob g am I lying or they
are not lying. You so right, you can't turn left
rock there you go. You got to check three right away.
One of the people. Look at the scarecrow cracking a
little in the windows. Back in the day. The point is,
what is.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
The point that he should be able to play both ways,
offense and defense. That's the biggest home us home. Well,
this is what I do. I'm supposed to make it. Okay,
here we go, pancakes, all kinds of stuff.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
I'm done, but one of them is accurate. The pancakes act,
Rob Jesus, here you go next year when we go,
we're not having breakfast with him, Rob g is that
we are not getting to get it before.
Speaker 5 (18:54):
You act like you didn't do this at dinner too,
eating the man bread hot hot fresh bread.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
You ate hot fresh buns of it? Did you? Did you?
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Did you?
Speaker 3 (19:04):
Did you? Now turned it to buns Manti.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
It was a big difference between buns and slice brand.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
I don't remember. Okay, it was a month ago. Some
people go both ways. Just brought us back full circuit.
We're ready to go for a tease, and you had
to make it weird. You do. I'm just saying, I
don't remember you made it weird. You asked for He
was like, can you bring out his buns verse? And
I was like, what's that brand? His bread? I ever forgot?
I remember.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
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Speaker 1 (19:47):
We lost a great actor today. I don't know if
it was last night or today, but we lost the grend.
Speaker 5 (19:55):
We came out early. I was on my way to
it was like two in the morning. Was two three
in the morning West Coast time, Rob g.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
It was terrible news. A lot of us woke up
to it this morning.
Speaker 5 (20:06):
And we're not gonna get into the semantics and the
details of the investigation because as this goes on further
and further, it's getting.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
More and more murky. So we're not gonna worry about
that right now.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
But Gene Hackman, legendary actor, and his wife and their dog.
Actually we're we're all found dead today in their New
Mexico home. Authority set on Thursday. Again, without getting to
the details of the death, Gene Hackman gave us a
lot of great movies.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
What Rob G real quick?
Speaker 1 (20:31):
It was ninety five, Like really ninety five you should
die of natural causes?
Speaker 3 (20:37):
That ninety four?
Speaker 5 (20:37):
That well, that's the thing, Robert Firks. People were saying,
no file play and then they thought it was a
carbon side and another thing auspicious activities.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
I'm just saying.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
Yes, So let's focus on where we're going in the
positive part. Gene Hackman hits after hits after hits in
his career as an actor, including what any believe actually
is the greatest basketball movie of all time Hoosiers Love
in Basketball.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
Also, that's gonna lead to this discussion. I said a
black movie. Are you ready? Kelvin almost fell out, Honestly,
I was like, Rob just said that.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
I said that we got Hoosiers on the mind. But
Rob Parker, you may have given it away already. Give
us either number one your favorite or what do you
think is the best basket movie all time? And if
you got more, we'll think the top five as well.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
Rob, Yeah, I can top five. There is a correct
answer to this, by the way, let.
Speaker 5 (21:33):
Me see, well, well I did say.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
I did say loving Basketball, right, I really like that movie.
Speaker 5 (21:41):
So you're real these aren't in rankings. It just I
have it on my list. It's on my list. I
know it's on Rob G's list. Definitely, you with it.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
White men can't jump. That's number one. That's another one,
Rob G.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
That's right.
Speaker 5 (21:57):
That's a good one, right, there that that's the most fun.
That's it makes me happy, Like, that's a great.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
Did you guys see the reboot with Jack Carlo on it? Wow?
Speaker 5 (22:06):
Then that you said said, I'm straight Wesley Snipe's rolling
around and you know my theory to Harrelson.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
Roll around and number uh coach Carter. Yeah, Coach Carter's
a lot of people.
Speaker 5 (22:17):
I'm not it's not on my list, but people people
like that.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
That's not on my list. I wonder is a fish
the fish who say Pittsburgh? Is that not? Yeah? That
can be on your list, that's what that is on
my list? Doctor J Yes, I don't know. So what
do I have? There? Is that four? So you got three?
Speaker 5 (22:32):
Well, it's coach Carter on the list or you just
name you were just yeah, that's one of them.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
And then that's four.
Speaker 5 (22:36):
You got white man can't jump, Coach Carter, don't have
Hoosia Love.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
Who's that's my five? That's my five? Where are you
on that? Not? Mad? I think we got a handful
of the same. Number one.
Speaker 5 (22:49):
I'm not going in order, but this one is number
one because I know it's always and eternally will be
white man can't jump. That's just if it's on, it's
getting twenty five thirty minutes out of me. It's just
one of those great ones. I remember Gene, who's your
when he's probably yeah?
Speaker 3 (23:02):
What was that like?
Speaker 5 (23:03):
You remember that he was the newspaper, the taal or whatever.
He was always hitting his hand. Yeah yeah, yeah, uh
slow key. He was in a handful of sports movie.
You got that, you got the replacements. He kind of
played a few roles. I got a sleeper rob g
because it was a pioneer ahead of his time, because
they followed the family around for like five years. Hoop Dreams,
(23:26):
who I mean that came out in like ninety one
ninety two blew my mind.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
As a young hoop fan and playing ball.
Speaker 5 (23:33):
Hoop Dreams was if you haven't seen it, it's a
documentary that doesn't just do like a year two. They
followed these going into ninth grade, two players, one from
one side of town in Chicago, one from another, and
they followed them their whole entire high school career through
like their first year college ball and just the ups,
the downs, family members, drugs issues in the streets of Chicago.
(23:54):
Hoop Dreams that is up there that might even remember
that Yeah, that was incredible. Loving Basketball just a great movie.
It really is, and it was really cool. Recently, did
you see they had Sinai Lathan at the USC game
when the U c l A and they had the
honor because she played that character who went to USC.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
That was really cool. It's all right, Love Basketball for real.
That was about cheating.
Speaker 5 (24:17):
I'm gonna play for your heart, I mean okay, yeah, okay,
stay focused. The movie was two hours. Don't talk about
the last five minutes. Okay, don't give it away. Okay,
he got game, he got game. That's a good one.
Denzel played the mess out the role. Ray Allen tried
his best. Allen was not you know, that was supposed
(24:37):
to be That was supposed to be Stephan Marbray. I
believe it was was yeah here, supposed to be Kobe. No,
I think it was Kobe first, right, Mike said that
that was bad for his brand, so he didn't do it.
Let's go come on, man, you you know, come on,
you could have did that and then we you know,
Ray Allen tried his best.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
It wasn't like shooting three something he's great at. And
acting is not easy. No act like acting is.
Speaker 5 (24:59):
Very tell y'all something as somebody who moved to LA
with no job, looking for anything, and acting and commercials
and all that.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
When they would say, all right, just pretend you're.
Speaker 5 (25:08):
Eating a burger and you're not eating anything, like literally
just eating air, you never felt more like an idiot
just fake eating it.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
And I'm like, oh, this acting is hard, Like I'm
selling you on eating his burger.
Speaker 5 (25:19):
I'm but I'm eating air. I'm like, man, this is
no Acting is a whole new thing. But and lastly, Hoosiers, Uh,
that's my that's when I'm not I will. Me and
Robbie were saying it's really really good, but people put
it a little too high for me, like that was
the greatest not only basketball. I'll say it's the greatest
sports movie all hold up.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
But people will be like, uh, wouldn't they say Rudy
or anybody who say Rudy. I don't know, I know,
but I'm just saying you look like you would say Rudy.
Speaker 5 (25:45):
Are you into the Rudy because we're short, Cause every
now and again you make me mad when you say something, all.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
Right, rob are you on the on the on the movie?
Speaker 4 (25:54):
Well again, if Omar is in it. I'm in Yeah,
loving basketball, of course, Yes, that's stuff you guys make
it out of.
Speaker 5 (26:00):
The white man can't jump, he got a game above
the rim. To me, are locked number top three.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
And then we'll figure out that I was going to
bring up that's what Blue Chips was one I had
that I was gonna mention.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
I was I was gonna be in that movie. It's
gonna be called Chocolate Chips. But that's another stock.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
You took the same joke, and he's smutty as something else.
You're not fooling me, Rob Parker. I am familiar with
your game, yes, but then there's other like their basketball
is probably the only sport where there's a full catalog
of sports movies for whatever move you're in. If you
want a serious movie, you get right coach Coach Carter.
(26:42):
You want to you know, you want a dramatic thing.
And then there's just like the slapstick comedy that works,
and and two of them for me that I really enjoy, uh,
The Sixth Man starring Marlon Wayns where his brother dies.
I'm about to drop one of a I keep going,
and then and then another one, which is weird to
(27:03):
say as a Lakers fan, but Celtic pride with Damon
Wayans and he plays for the Jazz, a black star
for the Jazz.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
By the way, I don't know who legitimately are black.
Speaker 5 (27:13):
Wayns brothers and Damien Wayne, Damon Wayns, Marlon Wa.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
Those ones are.
Speaker 5 (27:17):
Like the off the wall court. You's got to be
taking seriously. I think Hoosia just got dropped from my list?
Why did you dropping Hoosiers?
Speaker 3 (27:24):
Really? When I tell you for what you really, I
could do that. Gene Hacking just he got yea, I'm
gonna let him live. Then fine, he got game, I
get kicked off. You know what?
Speaker 5 (27:32):
It might robs semi pro. See, that's another one, freaking hilarious.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
But isn't that I always think of that as what
was it called for? The football? Why am I thinking
of the hardest as long as Yeah? But isn't that
is a semi pro?
Speaker 3 (27:48):
No replacements?
Speaker 4 (27:51):
That's another Gene Hackman movie, Gene Hackman giving Omar a
run for his money.
Speaker 5 (27:57):
All sports movies. Wait wait wait wait wait No, that's
Kevin cost He's the king. Kevin Costner too, He's the
king of sports movies. The reason why semi pro I'm
in semi pro No, you're not a true story. Well
on my mama, on my hood.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
Like you see the back of his head.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
Yeah, somebody dropped a somebody got up the quarter and
they based.
Speaker 5 (28:20):
On Flint, Michigan. Where was I doing radio Flint Michigan.
They put the word out, we need a bunch of extras.
They shot it. You would know they shot it down
at it was off eight mile.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
I forgot.
Speaker 5 (28:30):
It's like an old old warehouse used, I mean not
a warehouse, used to be a thing back in the day.
And they put it was a real basketball court in Detroit.
Went down there, got paid eight dollars an hour as
an extra, got the whole little snacks and they call
it crafty.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
Where you go eat, I brought it.
Speaker 5 (28:44):
You're supposed to look seventies, so I brought a big
gold curly afro. They gave you your little some planic
gear because remember they the Flint Tropics, so it made
it look tropical.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
If you freeze it at.
Speaker 5 (28:56):
When they win fourth place, fourth place and they're running
out of the stadium, if you freeze it at the right.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
Part, you see your boy Robs.
Speaker 5 (29:05):
I swear, I swear to you, I'll show you the
pictures during the break a meal.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
You got your thirty two dollars. I think it was
like ended being like sixty four bucks. Did they pay
you that day in cash? Yeah, they know they made it.
Speaker 5 (29:15):
They gave us a check, got a sidecard I got.
I didn't have it then I didn't. I got that
movie when I moved there.
Speaker 4 (29:19):
Like a yeah, these digitals would be like eighty seven.
Speaker 5 (29:22):
So they know what they're doing. Non no union, they
know what they're doing. Eight dollars an hour. Flint Tropics
was the you know, the semiprograre, the Flint Tropics. I
ran out four play, had a whole little then I
bought an afro. I'm a I'm a fighter, I'm a
pose it, I'm a sodyall screenshot.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
So Semipro just kicked somebody out just because I'm in it.
He got game. You gotta go, wow Ones, you gotta go.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
He got game.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
Gotta get out for SMU pro wowns. You got anything?
So unanimous the loving basketball is and white man can't jump?
Speaker 1 (29:50):
Oh did you like loving basketball when you Okay? So
you know, because of Gene Hackman died. So we're just
trying to come up with five BA basketball related kind
of movies. Any that just off the top of your
head that I enjoyed, Coach Carter, I.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
Got a sleeper for y'all. Would you see Hustle? I haven't.
Speaker 5 (30:12):
It was really good, Yo, it was surprisingly good. You
got to see if you haven't see that about two
years ago, give or take Adam Sandler.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
Uh, he's like a retired sky watched too many movies
since nineteen thirty nine. I won't let me know that.
We know. I was even even new to basketball movies.
I went to the theater to see Love and Basketball.
Speaker 5 (30:34):
Yeah, that was in nineteen ninety nine, nineteen and I
went to the theater what's her name?
Speaker 3 (30:38):
I don't remember, but.
Speaker 5 (30:39):
Ibody, you didn't go. I know you had to go
going with somebody.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
No.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
I think it was two for one that day. Yeah,
you just went. Yeah. Did we mention space jam?
Speaker 1 (30:49):
You guys not the lebron nobody cares about.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
That is a good one. This is it was stop.
It was a waste. They don't know they I've watched
the Jordan one too. They love both of them. The
first one was great.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
First of all, tell your daughters to step and take
a stand and pick the good one and not.
Speaker 5 (31:08):
Absolutely tell your daughters to watch the movie Eddie with
woop Be Goldberg so they can say, hey, women can
coach professional basketball to him, Eddie. Yeah, you remember, I'm
bringing up all these movies for the culture. You have
no idea of over talking.
Speaker 3 (31:21):
I remember Eddie. I didn't see it, but I remember.
Not Murphy, friend of the show Colonies, has a speaking
role in that. He really is. I wonder if he
get in residual. He talks about a black hole for
some reason.
Speaker 5 (31:33):
Okay, Mary, like that.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
I ain't gonna lie to rob the residual.
Speaker 5 (31:40):
When you get some residuals, that's those things hit called
mailbox money. You just randomly go to mailbox me some
money up in there, like, oh shoot, that's nice.
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