June 19, 2025 • 38 mins
Rob and Kelvin tell us if it’s fair to compare Oklahoma City Thunder forward Jalen Williams to Scottie Pippen, and the Odd Couple Crew debates concert cell phone bans in this week’s edition of Shop Talk. Plus, The Athletic’s Jovan Buha swings by to discuss the Buss Family’s decision to sell their majority ownership stake in the Los Angeles Lakers.
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Speaker 3 (01:17):
Johann Bouja, Oh yeah, we'll be joining us.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
Rob.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Do you like that?
Speaker 5 (01:21):
ID?
Speaker 3 (01:21):
And Butcher? It too bad? Did I? You did? But
it's okay?
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Okay, thank you anyway, senior NBA report to cover the
Lakers for the athletics.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
What is his name?
Speaker 1 (01:30):
How do you say it was a v in? There
wasn't the v wasn't silent? Okay, Jo vanneh whatever you
were yesterday and and shop talk as well. And I
do want to take this moment to honor someone who
I lost today. And I say someone Lorna Gladstone, who
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was a program director.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
She worked at w G in and chicag. She passed away.
And she was my first boss, the first person to
hire me. And she was tremendous Lorna Gladstone, and I
would always go every time I went to Chicago, I'd
have lunch with her. We stayed even years. She hired
me in nineteen ninety four, my first radio job. I
(02:18):
had no experience. Literally, she calls me at Fenway Park
in Boston her opening day and I'm in the press
box and there's like phone call for Rob Parker from
the Free Press. Nobody had cell phones. This is nineteen
ninety three, So I'm like, who's calling me? Like what
that's opening day? What do they want?
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Hello? Hey, this is Loana Gladstone. You don't know me.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
I'm a new program director for the new sports station
was starting in Detroit, and when you come back love
to interview you. I'm like, Wow, that's neat, that's cool.
She couldn't even wait to call me. She's calling me
at opening day. I thought that was cool, you know,
like she could have just waited on Rob's out of
town whatever she called, get to her office week later
or whatever. I'll get back in town a couple of
(03:02):
days later. I'm literally in there for five minutes.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
No, lie, I know.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
This isn't good for negotiation, but I want to hire you.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
You know, I'm thinking of myself.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
What so right away, I'm saying to be a weekend host.
There's no way giving me a radio show. I don't
even I've never had a radio show. Thirty years old
in Detroit. Column is for the Free Press. She says
she had talked to a ton of people and they
all said, Rob Parks, you got opinions, That's what she so,
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that's why she reached out to me. She didn't know me,
said she wants to hire me. Not only does she
hire me, she says, You're gonna do afternoon drive again?
Speaker 3 (03:47):
What? Yeah? Anybody who knows his business. That's that's mornings
or afternoons, afternoon drive. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Not only that, she's not gonna pick my partner, She's
gonna let me pick my partner.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
I don't even I've never had a radio show.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
She bringing people from out of town, we go out
to dinner, lunch, whatever, What about him?
Speaker 3 (04:06):
What about him? Now? I don't feel chemistry?
Speaker 1 (04:09):
What now?
Speaker 3 (04:11):
One guy was there already.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
He got hired to do the night show, a guy
named Mike Stone from Philadelphia. At all this time, I'm like,
I think me and Stony have some chemistry. We're always
arguing or whatever. She goes, Okay, if you think Stony's
the guy, let's do it. Let's The name of the
show was The Eye Couple with Rob Parker and Mike
Stone and Lorna Gladstone was the one who launched my
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radio career. Forever be thankful. Just a beautiful person, a
nice person. She was the boss, but she was caring, thoughtful,
and that's how I stayed in touch, even though you know,
we both went our separate ways and went on and
every time I went Chicago, we would always get lunch.
And two years ago, I think to celebrate the thirtieth
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anniversary of her hiring me. We went out for a
nice fat steak in Chicago and I brought her roses.
So I literally gave her her flowers before she passed
and said, thank you for giving me the opportunity, Thanks
for believing in me. And I'm gonna miss that woman.
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I really am. She really changed my life and I
wouldn't be on the radio today probably without Lorna Gladstone.
So I wanted a moment of silence for Lorna Gladstone.
Thanks for let me do that.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Yeah. Absolutely, listen, man, you and I we argue all
day and we debate about this and me, you and
Rob g will have these conversations. But ultimately, and I
know you. It's so funny. People always stop me, yo,
listen to the show or text me, man, how is
Rob for real? Or what's this? And that's why even
at that time when stephen A was talking to me,
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but about you as well. And you can talk and
yell and all that, but you're really a caring guy,
very thoughtful guys. So I know how much people matter
to you, and so for you know, you want to
honor your friend, your late friend. Obviously that's uh, you know,
this is definitely the platform to do that. And I
also will just echo that it is really great when
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someone sees something in you where maybe you're like me,
why I mean, I don't know, and somebody believes in you.
So they gave you that opportunity. And that's why I
gave her the flowers. And that's why I felt that way,
because it didn't.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Make sense, like seriously, like to walk in our office
five minutes she's talking to me.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
I'm I'm myself and she's like, oh no, I'm gonna
hire you. You don't like it. Yeah, And last point
I'll make anybody who's been successful, whether they know it
or have acknowledged it, has that person or that moment.
I have several for me where looking back it is
like why who? But what about them? They've been here
five six years? How did I get We all have
that moment? And I had dieter Off he was my
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high school counselor, and years later come back in town,
back in Michigan, my mom happened to be with me,
went to his house, loved up one hey, man's what
to say? Thank you? We're there for me. One of
the most important people, he said, in thirty years of
being in academia, you know, school system, no one has
ever said thank you. He never just came in. So
I said that to say to you giving her flowers
when I had that opportunity to do him. Sometimes you
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think it's oh no, everybody's probably saying thank you to
the person. It doesn't happen as much as you think.
And so I'm sure she's eternally grateful for you being
able to do that, because I've learned people don't get
it as much as you think. And so when you
get that opportunity, it's awesome that you can just think,
for that moment, thank you for I feel good about everything.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
You know what I mean that I actually gave her
those roses and we had lunch. So love it all right,
Thanks for giving me that time. We'll shoot, just did
couple them. We'll talk to you all tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
I need a chiss you, Alex. No, that's beautiful man.
So now we gotta transition back to sports. We want
to end out thankfully. It's not a segment where we
got to be hard on people. No, No, go ahead,
make your point anywhere I want you.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
No.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
No, I was just so the conversation Scottie Pippen, By
the way, Pottie Pippen, who it felt like for some
years kind of was in and out that you wouldn't
hear from him for a while, and then he popped back
up the last like ten years. If you got a microphone,
Scottie Pippen is there, if you got a TV show,
a podcast, you would think, because he's so great, so heralded,
six rings, you know, part of one of the greatest
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duos of all time, it'd be hard to get if
you can find Scotty. Hey, Scotty, what do you think
about this? He is gonna be all. Let me tell
you something, Mike, Michael Jordan is the best player ever.
Next time you see let me tell you something. Lebron
is the best player ever. I thought it was Mike,
but Scottie Piveen had something to say when I asked
about Jalen Williams, Jay Dubb and he talking about the
idea of him being possibly the best number two ever,
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which a lot of people have. Scottie Pippen has. Do
we have to sound on that at all? We don't.
We'll say it again, Rob Jim, Sorry, No, He spoke
to ESPN dot Com. Yeah, an audio, but I do
have the quote for you. Yeah, let me get that
quote just so I can talking about.
Speaker 6 (08:54):
Jalen Williams in because Jalen Williams of course a big wing,
defensive minded wing, and he's clearly the number two behind
a superstar player in SGA, so naturally the comparison has
always been, well, he could be Scotty to SGA's Michael.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
That's going to be the comparison.
Speaker 6 (09:09):
For his part, Jalen Wims was asked about He's a
very flattered, you know, kind of downplayed it a little
bit when they asked Scotty directly, though, in credit to
ESPN forgetting him on the record, here's what he said.
He is pretty special. I'm enjoying watching him. I see
a lot of me and him, for sure. I see
a guy rising to be one of the top players
in this league. He's definitely a player that is capable
of being able to lead the franchise to multiple championships,
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him and Shay, and I don't even want to put
a cap on him to say that he's going to
be me, because I see him being greater.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
So first off, I want to say shout out to
Pippen for not being just a naturally defensive person although
he was on the court to be like, oh, well,
you know, I mean he got he. I don't know
if he can be me, but I see he's pretty good.
Like the idea that he could possibly be better than me.
Him saying that is really, you know, refreshing to here.
He has a long way to go because and did
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it for a very long time. And obviously Jay Louias,
I'm glad you know that's a bald statement. And we'll see.
But I will say, Rob, it's one of those things
where if I told you this skinny kid who you
know was a three pick would be the greatest of
all time for North Carolina, and then it happens, Right,
if I told you this other skinny kid would be
drafted at seventeen years old and would be the closest
thing to Michael Jordan and Kobe Yeah, right, a high
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school kid. So it does happen where you kind of go,
I don't know about that, And then it can potentially
be he has the makings. He's defensive minded, he's team oriented,
he doesn't mind that. I know for sure I have
the guy that's better than me in front of me,
and I'm okay with that, and he comes out and
he can score, So to me, he has the making.
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And this is also partly why I said it the
other day, if they're able to stick together for a
handful of years. When you get two defensive minded wings
who can score like this, we've seen kind of the
formula and Jordan and Pippin and Lebron and d Wade
and Lebron and Kyrie of guys who in Klay Thompson
and stuff. When you get two wings like this who
can lock in together and are that dynamic, you can
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have a run Jaalen Brown and Jason Tatum where you
can have a run of a successful five, six, seven,
eight years And so they have the making for that. Again,
a long way to go, but physically, attitude wise and
want and will power. I think Jaylen Williams has to
do that. And that's what makes his Oklahoma City Thunder
team scary because you always there's a bunch of stars
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and talented guys and SGA looks like gonna be a
VP candidate for five, six, seven years. But when you
have that second guy that's locked in and is that
good and only getting better and entering into his prime
here in a little bit. That's a scary combination.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
I just have just an issue with them. It's just
way premature. It's just I get it. I want something
to talk about or throw it out there. And I
always bring up the Devin Bookers, Kobe Bryant, and Chris
paul Is in the top three now point guards. And
he just passed like that was a real conversation, right,
Senator round.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Oh, okay with the CP than the Booker. No, but
but the Book of One was there? Am I right?
Was that not the conversation? Yeah? People just trying to
project yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Yeah, like he oh no, he's the next Kobe and
what really? Like like seriously, and I get it. You
want to make comparisons, try to throw it out there,
be the first one to say it, you know.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
But you gotta be careful with that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
We know, Chris on this radio show that Patrick Mahomes
was Jordan ESQ. I don't I don't know if he
could really after last year's lost or whatever, do you
know what I mean? But but does he feel the
same as he did off his first three years?
Speaker 3 (12:34):
I don't think he does. Is that fair? Is it's
fair because only it's rob super So I get that's
why I said age. I get he's not putting a
forty fifty times. That's what the first three years want
to say. Jordan asks the numbers match the winning. The
numbers don't match the winning. Now do you see what
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I'm saying. So I'm not taking anything away from him.
He also got his butt.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Kicked in the bowl, like like there it's starting, Michael
Jordan never got his butt kicked.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
I'm just saying. So that's the one thing about Mike
that's gonna be hard to care that he never literally
never lost, and it wasn't even in Game seven, just heating.
And that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
The early start of that was that he was Jordanesque,
and I just don't think that that applies. As time
is going on and there's some chinks in the armor,
I still think he's jordan Esque.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Has said heavy on the esque, just because it's the style,
it's the way, it's the kind of the Bravado doing
something and he's throwing no look passes, he's doing behind
the backpack. He just left hand, right hand. That's not
that's not Jordan. But that's was Jordan the first little bit.
Remember the first Jordan was flying through the air Tunuy
doing stuff sixty three, and then it became winning. So
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he kind of did the opposite where he started with
the winning and had the flare, And now he's in
the Jordan fadera era where it's just gonna be in
the fishing thirty and I might not have the crazy
flying through the air stuff like I did.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
You might get mid rains for the rest, you know,
in your face all night. I really want to see
what like it could be.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Don't bring up the nine year gap. Jump doesn't win again?
You lucky. You had to start this segment with love
and peace because otherwise I'll jump over this table on
you right now. All right, but and uh so the
conversation too, is I just premature? Yeah, that's fair, But
I think quick last point I think while we got
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here is because there was a point, especially if you
all we all recall we're all sitting home during Quarantine
watching the Last Dance where everyone acknowledged, including the Pistons,
who they had a tart time to get past. They
were like, oh, once Scottie Pippin became Scottie Pippen. We
knew it was a rap because the first couple of
years we played the bulls. We knew, all right, Mike,
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go Mike, as long as we put our Jordan rules
on him and we'll win. And I think that's what
we're witnessing. We're now the arrival of Jalen Williams, which
is why this conversation became warranted because he has arrived
and he's a beast twenty five was it twenty seven forty?
And who knows what he's gonna do here in the
next twenty minutes or so, And that's why we got
to this point where he oh, it's pipping, like, oh,
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he has he arrived. Now where I got my solidified Robin.
Y'all better buckle up, And I think that's why we're here.
And the conversation becomes can he become one of the
best twos? The number two? We got to solidify one
and sga, can he be the best number two? And
who are those lists of best number twos? You know?
Is it Lebron and Kyrie? Because I think we both
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agree Shaq and Kobe. Once Kobe became Kobe, he was one, A,
one B. That was he wasn't quite no such thing.
Somebody's gotta be a b I'm sorry, you mean the two. Yeah,
somebody gotta be Yeah, there's no one a O one
b oh. That might be the one time. I don't know, Rob,
I disagree. I was allowed to deal with. Shaq was unstoppable.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Ain't no question. You can say whatever you want to know,
no question in that Shaq was unstoppable. He's at that
time all right, eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox
eight seven seven nine nine six sixty three sixty nine.
Do you think Jalen Williams could wind up greater than
Scottie Pippen? Or is too premature to even talk about it?
We'll have that conversation next with you. It is The
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Odd Couple on a TV tam so on Thursday, Rob Parker,
Kelvin Washington right here on Fox Sports Radio, stick and stay.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
As we pour one out in the USA.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Odd Couple
with Rob Parker and Kelvin Washington weekdays at seven pm Eastern,
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Speaker 3 (16:28):
Which one is this? Rob? This sounds like I dream
a genie? What game show is this I'm going again?
I was O for one with the other one Alex Newlywed.
I'm gonna be right one of these times. I like,
what else? What the show is there? That's an American
band stand? I don't know. No game show? Right? That
was kind of a game show. You had to like
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dance and compete. It's not beat the clock? Is it?
Speaker 4 (16:51):
No?
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Twenty up here of twenty one questions? What else is there?
Definitely from the or something? Yeah for sure? What is it? Password?
Hollywood Squares? I don't remember this song? I don't remember. Yeah,
theme song with it? It's the acouple Ron Parker, Kevin Washington.
We thought we knew teams TV theme songs. Did not
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get right on this Thursday. Uh, we got Joe bab
Bouh on the way. We'll talk to some of the
hoops with him, right, yeah, yeah, I mean well better
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and Alex just too much. Yeah I drink milk. What
do you drink your goat milk? And yeah, I do
this and I'm working out right now. You have my
prouteine shakes. Too much going on in now of the studio,
all right? Uh, we were talking about Jayalen Williams. Scottie
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Pippen says he has a chance to be him, if
not even better, And we're just talking about number twos
and what Jay dug potentially be eight seven, seventh ninety
nine on Fox Who we got? How about Brandon and Riverside?
Speaker 1 (18:07):
You're on the eye couple of Fox Sports Radio Riverside, California.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
What's up?
Speaker 4 (18:10):
B what's up?
Speaker 7 (18:12):
Fellas?
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Are you going to do happy June ten? Good?
Speaker 8 (18:16):
No?
Speaker 7 (18:16):
Right, but I'm still working.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
I told him drawing around the grave right now. We're working.
Speaker 7 (18:25):
About that. Oh you know what, jayn He's gonna be
a great player. But I'm I'm more leaning towards rops
that we gotta pump the break and we gotta let
him evolve and develop and see what type of run
they might have next year, and just see what type
of player. Because when you think about the second best
player ever, yes, from Chicago, from Chicago, So yes, I
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love those nineties bulls. That was like the best time
of Chicago and sipping. He did his job, but I
just don't see him there yet. He can come, Yes,
can he become that?
Speaker 6 (18:57):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (18:58):
Could he possibly any better than me?
Speaker 5 (19:00):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (19:00):
But when you think about the second best player, it's
we got history of like guys that was a great robber,
like you know, like Wade to Lebron Right, I agree.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
And then to be better than Pipino won six championships.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
I mean, why that's a mouth I think I think
Pitt was saying more like one of the things people
will talk about, by the way, thanks for the call,
is that there's a luxury and an availability for more shots,
more offense than this era of basketball. So Jalen Williams
because they're getting thirty extra possessions more you know, the
nineties get points, but didn't mean you're gonna win. I
agree with that.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
It's the winning point, I told Robber, not only winning
score ever than ever before.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
So so the points don't do it for me. And
I said the same thing to Robber And I also
don't think you have to have six to be better,
So you can have three and have a better career
than somebody. I don't think it has the apples and
apples that person won six. You have to win seven,
because then then nobody will ever be Bill Russell, or
no one ever be Jordan or never gonna be just
I don't know how you're gonna say. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Just say he's two and two and he went to
four finals. So let's go with the with the numbers,
d Wade you take.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
I'm assuming you would take Dwayne Wade over Scottie Pippen. No,
hold up, I wouldn't.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
I think I think Scotty gets the short understick because
he played with the greatest player.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
But he was a great player and he was not
mad at that, but the great the third greatest shooting
guard of all time, Jordan, Kobe and n d Way
like deal. Hold up. There was a ten year run
of d Wade that was insane.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
They had a lot of free throws off indoors Burg.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Why are you don't like free throws? Drew in New Jersey.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
You're in the couple of Fox Sports where you remember
that final was all due uh Drew, Buddy.
Speaker 5 (20:46):
Hey, guys, I think it's kind of crazy if you
think about it, because when the Cliffers were formed with
Paul George at the thought process was you have Kawhi Leonard, right,
and then you have your pipp in with with Paul
George because the win the defense. It's crazy that that
Paul George trade turned into HIA. I wonder what Sga
(21:08):
and Kawhi would have been had they not traded Paul George.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
I you know what, that's a great point, Drew. I
just don't think we would have seen it. Sometimes someone
has to especially so talented, has to go elsewhere Ala
James Harden. James Harden had to leave the Thunder. You
have to give to get to Yeah, And I think
James Harden had to leave the Thunder to go own
his own team and run his own team. He's that
he was that good and clearly we saw how good
he was an MVP Kennedy for like five six years straight.
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Sometimes you just too you never know how great guy
is until he's somewhere else kind of manning his own team.
All right, thank you for the calls. We got Joe
bon Boha getting ready to join us a little bit
talk some more NBA with him, but right now it's
Monte Blanio is gonna tell you what you need to know.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Odd Couple
with Rob Parker and Kelvin Washington weekdays at seven pm
Eastern four pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the
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Speaker 3 (22:01):
It is the Okapa, Rod Parker Kelvin Washington on a
TV Things on Thursday at juneteenth edition. And hopefully you're
enjoying yourself on this holiday. And we have Yova Boha
joining us now, senior NBA reporter covering the Lakers for
the athletic hosts of the Bujas Block podcast. Make sure
you check them out. Yovan, what's up brother? How you doing?
Speaker 4 (22:21):
I'm doing well?
Speaker 3 (22:21):
Thank you for having me, No, no doubt.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Man, Did you borrow any money from the Lakers now
that they got ten billion?
Speaker 3 (22:28):
A little bit of spare?
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Not?
Speaker 4 (22:30):
Not yet. I'm gonna be gonna be making some calls.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Yes, my goodness, gracious, what'd you make of it?
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Man?
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Maybe you were in the know a little bit more
so than Navatres. But it just kind of came a
couple of million, Yeah, just a couple of meal of
the ten bills, She'll be all right. Uh, that came
out the blue for most people. Have they been working
on something and just your initial thoughts when you go
and you got that info.
Speaker 4 (22:53):
Yeah, So I was surprised by the timing. I was
not surprised by who purchased the team. And you know,
going back to last season, there have been some murmurs
that this could be in the works at some point
in the future, but it was very unclear in terms
of a timeline. So obviously it happening a week before
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the draft, a couple of weeks before free agency. I
don't think anybody saw that coming. But if you look
at what they've been able to do with the Dodgers
and you know, winning a couple of World Series. I
think they've won eleven division titles over the past twelve years. Like,
I think it's a pretty good track record. And the
Lakers have won a championship, you know, since Genie Busts
(23:36):
has taken over as the you know, team governor. But
I don't think they've had quite the level of sustained
success that they had in the prior, you know, thirty
five forty years, you know, before that. So I think
for them, you know, I think it's it's like it's
time for them to start competing with the organizations like
(23:58):
the Warriors, the Celtics, the Clippers, these more modern organizations
in big markets that have the deep pockets. And now
they're going to have the deep pockets. So Genie will
continue to be the governor for the foreseeable future.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
No, I'm going to stop you there, because that's where
that's that's a pr thing because Mark Cuban said the
same thing.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
He sold the team he's going to be.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Involved in all that, and then he didn't even know
that they traded Luca. I do not believe Genie Buss
will be involved. If I gave you ten billion dollars,
you are not running my team, You're not signing people
the long term deals, you're not taking care of your friends. No,
I just gave you ten billion dollars for the There
was run like a mom and pop store, and I
(24:41):
totally agree. The Lakers have always been that and they
don't have money. They didn't get Ty lucause they didn't
want to pay the money that he wanted at that time.
But I just can't believe Genie bus is going to
be involved going forward with the Dodgers people and the
money they have and Magic Johnson being part of the
Dodgers that he's not going to have influence and Genie's not.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
I can't convince me otherwise.
Speaker 4 (25:04):
So I think there's a distinction here where there's a
couple of situations we can look at as examples. Where
one is the one that you just referenced with Mark Cuban,
where he was supposed to be still a part of
basketball operations and it seemed to be more of a
handshake deal, and clearly that did not go the way
that I think he expected it to go, at least
(25:25):
based on his public comments. Then you have Wick Grousbeck
in Boston, and he had it written in the sale
with the new Boston owner that he is going to
be still in charge as the governor. I believe it's
the next two or three years before making that transaction
or that transition, excuse me. So my understanding is that
(25:46):
is how this is going to go with the Lakers.
Genie learned from the mistake that Mark Cuban made of
not getting it firmly part of the sale, not getting
it in actual writing and you know, legal contract, whereas
Wick outsback. You know, the owner of the Celtics who
just sold the team for six billion, he had that
in that he is going to be a part of
(26:07):
this now. Now, I don't know the exact terms of
how long that's going to be. And I'm with you,
I share a level of skepticism because I just don't
see how you can fork over this much money and
at a ten billion evaluation and not have the final say.
So I don't know if it's just, you know, to
your point, more of an optics thing where maybe she's
in some of these meetings kind of reporting back. And
(26:30):
you know, I do know that Mark Walter likes to
be more behind the scenes and he likes to empower people.
So maybe for stability kind of continuity perspective, Genie will
be you know, continue to be the face and still
be the governor for now. But I do think, like
you know, five years from now, even maybe three years
from now, I'd be pretty surprised if that is how
(26:51):
things are going.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
And even when you started it, you talked about how
to Lakers, you know, they won their one championship, but
they hadn't been run like a top right flight organization
and Genie was running it. So now I'm gonna give
you money and then let the same person right who
wasn't able to get results run the team. That's all
I'm saying. I'm not trying to make I think it's
It doesn't make I think it's just a tie. You
(27:13):
didn't want to jolt the fan base, you know what
I mean. And now you still got the connection to
the old paths of the Showtime Lakers. You have the
familiar face that everybody around town loves and Genie and
you keep it. You keep it that way for you know,
a couple of years, and then you do what you
decide to do later on from there. Let's talk about
actually now having this new ownership group, knowing how they
run the Dodgers, knowing they're about that business, and they have,
(27:35):
you know, wider pockets. How does that benefit Luca because
we know Lebron's got one, maybe two years left. How
does that benefit Luca uh specifically as they look at
him as being the future.
Speaker 4 (27:46):
Yeah, well, Luca had a very supportive tweet. Yeah, I
saw about the ownership change and looking forward to meeting
Mark Walter, and I thought the most interesting part of
that was talking about winning championships. Because this is a
guy who is technically under contract for only one more year.
He has extension eligible as of August two, and you know,
(28:08):
it seems to be that the indications right now or
that he's going to sign some form of an extension,
whether that's a shorter extension so you can opt out
and get a you know, a bigger contract.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
He's in shape now, so you know what's sign.
Speaker 4 (28:24):
But in all seriousness, like I think what this can
do for Luca is again to the point I made
it a little earlier, like, if you look at the
way that the Clippers and Steve Bomber have invested in
the infrastructure of that organization, they are as deep in
every department as any franchise in the league. And what
I mean more specifically is like you look at their
(28:45):
front office and the experience and how how deep their
front office is. You look at the scouting, the analytics,
the medical team, the player development team. Like if you
compare the Lakers in those regards to the Clippers or
some of the other teams that are regarded as some
of the better staffed and uh you know again better
invested franchises. In a lot of those departments, they have
(29:08):
like half as many people or sometimes even less than
some of those teams. So I think the first thing
is like everyone's immediately going to go to the on
the floor stuff and what happens with that. There's some
limitations in the NBA that you just don't have baseball.
You can't go pay a player seven hundred million, at
least not yet. You got a hard cap, you know,
functionally with the second apron and the first a brand,
(29:28):
and like you got all these restrictions. But what you
can do is you can go deef up the basketball operations.
You can go get the you know, the medical staff
as has turned over multiple times over the last few years.
And look, I think everyone's going to be up for evaluation.
(29:49):
I think like this is going to be like if
you look at how they ran the Dodgers, that they
didn't make the grand sweeping changes immediately. But I think
there's going to be a period here over the next
two to three years where there's going to be evaluation
of who's going to be here long term and who's not.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
I got I heard Linda Rambus in her office the
other day once the trade was announced. What she say
and I heard her working, she said, one, two, three,
she was counting paper.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
Clips for the next two years. I mean he was saying, Yeah,
I do think the it'll be interesting. You know, a
lot of the the Lakers being family business, they've had
a lot of you know, whether it's giving Kobe an
extension when he was well passed his prime and injured.
A lot of things you do as a family business,
you know, because but loyal. Sometimes you can't do that
keeping people around because they've been around since the eighties.
(30:39):
And you do wonder how that's going to play out
moving forward. All right, real quick, very quick answer, running
short time. Jovan game six is starting out? What happens tonight?
Speaker 4 (30:49):
I think she closes it out when's the title? Simple
as that with hampered Haliburton, like I think if it
was full strength he pushed at the seven. But I
know he's playing, but still I think, Okay, he closes
it out.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
Yeah, we're in agreement on that. Rob disagrees, but we're
in agreement. I'm always going to disagree.
Speaker 4 (31:04):
I hope, okay, I hope Rob's right there. You go.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
That's the first time I heard that on the radio.
Somebody you ain't hearing that coming from this way.
Speaker 4 (31:11):
You got to bring me back on there you go.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
Always always that man. Appreciate you, brother, thank you, Appreciate
you guys. All right, make sure you getting check out
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Speaker 1 (31:23):
I like Bok because he is boohank because he's always
laughing at my stuff. Mature just you're just immute to
it because there's so much good me you know, Like
I guys, if I've had the virus, have anybody on
your level sitting at that desk, So everybody just kind
of laughing at your stuff.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
They just love me. They just is that what you're saying,
So it's not really funny. They're just they're just like, yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Like the weather persons like, oh god, okay, he's the anchor.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
Now, I guess I have to chuck it around. Hey, Alex,
cut that for me so I can send that the autumn,
so see what she has to say to that. She
used to like you, Rob, oh really, but cut that
in to me, like I'd like to stop being so
mean to that man. That's right, Stop being mean to me.
All right, shop talk on the way, Sue, Rob g
cooked up. It's The Odd Couple of Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
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Speaker 3 (32:20):
All right, Rob, I give up on seventies TV theme songs?
All right because this is not my bag? What is it?
I noticed? But I just I'm going one more time
Newly game. Oh all right, I'm over Odds twenty one questions, Pyramid, Uh,
(32:40):
this is what'd you say? Pyramid? Pyramid White twenty five thousand.
There we go. All right, I was half right. Listen,
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(33:02):
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Speaker 2 (33:30):
Ain't nobody ain't nip in the bumps shop you know that.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
Ain't nobody you would talk about whoever, whatever, whatever you
want to in the boss up. It's shop talking, that's right.
Speaker 6 (33:39):
It is shop talk here in the odd couple say
when we talk about something happened outside of the world
of sports and honor a Juneteenth. This week's topic comes
to us from Sabrina Carpenter.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
I did not I'm not gonna lie. I didn't expect that.
Did not expect that, you know, showing I'm a sip
of my espresso. Keep going. See you did there? You
did that.
Speaker 6 (33:55):
I'll know our songs is allegedly the next big thing
in pop music.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
I don't know about next week she is.
Speaker 6 (34:01):
She raised some eyebrows earlier this week when she said
in an interview that after going to a Silk Sonic
show in Vegas, and they have a policy in that venue,
says no cell phones allowed that she is thinking of
implementing such a rule during her own nationwide concert tour.
Speaker 3 (34:20):
So here's the question, guys, should there.
Speaker 6 (34:23):
Be a cell phone band at all major concerts and
or sporting events?
Speaker 3 (34:31):
Rob? I'm assuming this is easy for you, So you
go first. Oh whoa, whoa?
Speaker 1 (34:39):
You did.
Speaker 5 (34:46):
Said?
Speaker 3 (34:50):
I've never heard of bro. Here's a question of the
which one is it?
Speaker 1 (34:54):
You got a tissue for me? I have to think
about this one. I'm gonna say you shouldn't have them.
But I don't think that a band is gonna work.
I just think people are too connected to it, and
that will stop people from wanting to go to your car.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
Here's the better question, what are you people? No, I
wouldn't want to. I would like to have my phone. Okay,
that's what I'm saying. I want to. I'm not playing
solitaire at the concert, all right. I will smack you.
Your own friend gonna smack Covin. I'm just you just
the facts, okay. I listening to the odd couple. Why'd
you do that?
Speaker 5 (35:28):
Rye?
Speaker 3 (35:29):
You and me go way back right. Put the speaker
on me, Put the speaker on me. I'll go I
win it. The first time this ever happened to me.
I went to a Chris Rock show. Uh maybe seven
years ago, give a take, and uh it was first
time walk in to get your little kid. I'm like,
what you excuse me? What you doing? Now?
Speaker 2 (35:49):
You know?
Speaker 3 (35:49):
I got two phones, like Kevin Gates, but I put
it in the pouch and I had the other one.
But the point is, I like that, enjoyed the show.
You got to just watch it. Focus on the show,
not that I get the best angle, not let me
re wait, wait, hold on, get you okay, get a selfie.
Get enjoyed it, laughed, and it had to go old
school memory, like, oh what did he say?
Speaker 8 (36:07):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (36:07):
Then he said that when you're telling your friends at
the barbershop. So I like it, Daget, put the phone away, Manty,
where are you? Yeah? I like it too.
Speaker 9 (36:15):
I hate going I'm short, so I hate going on
like a concert and all I see is people's freaking
hands up with their phones recording. I'm watching the concert
through your phone because it's so I don't mind it.
I wish I could keep my phone, and I would
keep it and not bring it out. But obviously I
know this is the way it has to be.
Speaker 3 (36:31):
I don't mind it.
Speaker 9 (36:32):
It wouldn't It would not stop me from going to
a concert, right, I knew I had to turn my
phone in.
Speaker 3 (36:37):
Alex, where are you? It's one's Eazy Ron, your team,
your team, us, your Teamy and Manci on this. Oh yeah.
Speaker 8 (36:43):
Like, I think phones not only single handedly destroyed the
concept of living, but I think it's also destroying the
concept of actually enjoying things. Too many options, too much accessibility.
I'm watching everything for the future. Watch I'm not even
living in the moment anymore because I want to show
I was living in the moment. It's like, dude, I
can't tell you any times I go to like a
dope restaurant and everybody's taking pictures, Like there's a literally
thing called phone eats first, and like it's just I
(37:05):
think we've lost sense of controllability. So I think it
should be everywhere, Like if you go on dinner, get
rid of your phone concept and everything, Like, just get
rid of them.
Speaker 3 (37:14):
This is so easy, rob Oh wow, I'm glad everybody else.
We don't need it. We don't need cell phones.
Speaker 6 (37:19):
Okay, Okay, I'm it wasn't the best concert I've been to,
but I remember going to the On the Run tour
with Jay Z and Beyonce at the Rose Bowl.
Speaker 3 (37:27):
We had box seats.
Speaker 6 (37:28):
So if there was ever a time to be on
the ground like, oh look at me, look at all
these pets is down here, I'm in the box seats,
you know, overlooking this concert. I did not take my
cell phone at one time, and I had a ball awesome.
Speaker 3 (37:38):
First of all, don't ever talk about me flex, and
that was the most ridiculous that was ever two of
the biggest great friends. Box seats at the Rose Bowl.
Don't ever talk you got big money. That's a that
was a major flex still paying for it? Yeah, right,
uh are we missing my everybody got it? Yeah, that's
the good one right there. I think we all except
(38:00):
Rob Parker seemed to be down with it. But I
do wonder. I wonder where people would.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
Just where people are today, they're so like it's a
it's a connection.
Speaker 3 (38:10):
Thing to now you know that safety.
Speaker 1 (38:12):
It really is like something something's going on and you
don't know what's happening, like God forbid. Yeah, that's the
part that I think people would feel uncomfortable with.
Speaker 3 (38:21):
And I love that You're people just saying I appreciate
the honesty. I'd be all right. I've increasingly become that,
especially like with kids and what I'm post.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
Extension of me now. Just think of me as four
inches longer. I'm just saying with the phone, not six
years longer. Definitely not six years longer.
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Speaker 3 (01:17):
Johann Bouja, Oh yeah, we'll be joining us.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
Rob.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Do you like that?
Speaker 5 (01:21):
ID?
Speaker 3 (01:21):
And Butcher? It too bad? Did I? You did? But
it's okay?
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Okay, thank you anyway, senior NBA report to cover the
Lakers for the athletics.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
What is his name?
Speaker 1 (01:30):
How do you say it was a v in? There
wasn't the v wasn't silent? Okay, Jo vanneh whatever you
were yesterday and and shop talk as well. And I
do want to take this moment to honor someone who
I lost today. And I say someone Lorna Gladstone, who
(01:55):
was a program director.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
She worked at w G in and chicag. She passed away.
And she was my first boss, the first person to
hire me. And she was tremendous Lorna Gladstone, and I
would always go every time I went to Chicago, I'd
have lunch with her. We stayed even years. She hired
me in nineteen ninety four, my first radio job. I
(02:18):
had no experience. Literally, she calls me at Fenway Park
in Boston her opening day and I'm in the press
box and there's like phone call for Rob Parker from
the Free Press. Nobody had cell phones. This is nineteen
ninety three, So I'm like, who's calling me? Like what
that's opening day? What do they want?
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Hello? Hey, this is Loana Gladstone. You don't know me.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
I'm a new program director for the new sports station
was starting in Detroit, and when you come back love
to interview you. I'm like, Wow, that's neat, that's cool.
She couldn't even wait to call me. She's calling me
at opening day. I thought that was cool, you know,
like she could have just waited on Rob's out of
town whatever she called, get to her office week later
or whatever. I'll get back in town a couple of
(03:02):
days later. I'm literally in there for five minutes.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
No, lie, I know.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
This isn't good for negotiation, but I want to hire you.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
You know, I'm thinking of myself.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
What so right away, I'm saying to be a weekend host.
There's no way giving me a radio show. I don't
even I've never had a radio show. Thirty years old
in Detroit. Column is for the Free Press. She says
she had talked to a ton of people and they
all said, Rob Parks, you got opinions, That's what she so,
(03:36):
that's why she reached out to me. She didn't know me,
said she wants to hire me. Not only does she
hire me, she says, You're gonna do afternoon drive again?
Speaker 3 (03:47):
What? Yeah? Anybody who knows his business. That's that's mornings
or afternoons, afternoon drive. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Not only that, she's not gonna pick my partner, She's
gonna let me pick my partner.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
I don't even I've never had a radio show.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
She bringing people from out of town, we go out
to dinner, lunch, whatever, What about him?
Speaker 3 (04:06):
What about him? Now? I don't feel chemistry?
Speaker 1 (04:09):
What now?
Speaker 3 (04:11):
One guy was there already.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
He got hired to do the night show, a guy
named Mike Stone from Philadelphia. At all this time, I'm like,
I think me and Stony have some chemistry. We're always
arguing or whatever. She goes, Okay, if you think Stony's
the guy, let's do it. Let's The name of the
show was The Eye Couple with Rob Parker and Mike
Stone and Lorna Gladstone was the one who launched my
(04:35):
radio career. Forever be thankful. Just a beautiful person, a
nice person. She was the boss, but she was caring, thoughtful,
and that's how I stayed in touch, even though you know,
we both went our separate ways and went on and
every time I went Chicago, we would always get lunch.
And two years ago, I think to celebrate the thirtieth
(04:56):
anniversary of her hiring me. We went out for a
nice fat steak in Chicago and I brought her roses.
So I literally gave her her flowers before she passed
and said, thank you for giving me the opportunity, Thanks
for believing in me. And I'm gonna miss that woman.
(05:17):
I really am. She really changed my life and I
wouldn't be on the radio today probably without Lorna Gladstone.
So I wanted a moment of silence for Lorna Gladstone.
Thanks for let me do that.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Yeah. Absolutely, listen, man, you and I we argue all
day and we debate about this and me, you and
Rob g will have these conversations. But ultimately, and I
know you. It's so funny. People always stop me, yo,
listen to the show or text me, man, how is
Rob for real? Or what's this? And that's why even
at that time when stephen A was talking to me,
(05:54):
but about you as well. And you can talk and
yell and all that, but you're really a caring guy,
very thoughtful guys. So I know how much people matter
to you, and so for you know, you want to
honor your friend, your late friend. Obviously that's uh, you know,
this is definitely the platform to do that. And I
also will just echo that it is really great when
(06:14):
someone sees something in you where maybe you're like me,
why I mean, I don't know, and somebody believes in you.
So they gave you that opportunity. And that's why I
gave her the flowers. And that's why I felt that way,
because it didn't.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Make sense, like seriously, like to walk in our office
five minutes she's talking to me.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
I'm I'm myself and she's like, oh no, I'm gonna
hire you. You don't like it. Yeah, And last point
I'll make anybody who's been successful, whether they know it
or have acknowledged it, has that person or that moment.
I have several for me where looking back it is
like why who? But what about them? They've been here
five six years? How did I get We all have
that moment? And I had dieter Off he was my
(06:51):
high school counselor, and years later come back in town,
back in Michigan, my mom happened to be with me,
went to his house, loved up one hey, man's what
to say? Thank you? We're there for me. One of
the most important people, he said, in thirty years of
being in academia, you know, school system, no one has
ever said thank you. He never just came in. So
I said that to say to you giving her flowers
when I had that opportunity to do him. Sometimes you
(07:14):
think it's oh no, everybody's probably saying thank you to
the person. It doesn't happen as much as you think.
And so I'm sure she's eternally grateful for you being
able to do that, because I've learned people don't get
it as much as you think. And so when you
get that opportunity, it's awesome that you can just think,
for that moment, thank you for I feel good about everything.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
You know what I mean that I actually gave her
those roses and we had lunch. So love it all right,
Thanks for giving me that time. We'll shoot, just did
couple them. We'll talk to you all tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
I need a chiss you, Alex. No, that's beautiful man.
So now we gotta transition back to sports. We want
to end out thankfully. It's not a segment where we
got to be hard on people. No, No, go ahead,
make your point anywhere I want you.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
No.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
No, I was just so the conversation Scottie Pippen, By
the way, Pottie Pippen, who it felt like for some
years kind of was in and out that you wouldn't
hear from him for a while, and then he popped back
up the last like ten years. If you got a microphone,
Scottie Pippen is there, if you got a TV show,
a podcast, you would think, because he's so great, so heralded,
six rings, you know, part of one of the greatest
(08:17):
duos of all time, it'd be hard to get if
you can find Scotty. Hey, Scotty, what do you think
about this? He is gonna be all. Let me tell
you something, Mike, Michael Jordan is the best player ever.
Next time you see let me tell you something. Lebron
is the best player ever. I thought it was Mike,
but Scottie Piveen had something to say when I asked
about Jalen Williams, Jay Dubb and he talking about the
idea of him being possibly the best number two ever,
(08:40):
which a lot of people have. Scottie Pippen has. Do
we have to sound on that at all? We don't.
We'll say it again, Rob Jim, Sorry, No, He spoke
to ESPN dot Com. Yeah, an audio, but I do
have the quote for you. Yeah, let me get that
quote just so I can talking about.
Speaker 6 (08:54):
Jalen Williams in because Jalen Williams of course a big wing,
defensive minded wing, and he's clearly the number two behind
a superstar player in SGA, so naturally the comparison has
always been, well, he could be Scotty to SGA's Michael.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
That's going to be the comparison.
Speaker 6 (09:09):
For his part, Jalen Wims was asked about He's a
very flattered, you know, kind of downplayed it a little
bit when they asked Scotty directly, though, in credit to
ESPN forgetting him on the record, here's what he said.
He is pretty special. I'm enjoying watching him. I see
a lot of me and him, for sure. I see
a guy rising to be one of the top players
in this league. He's definitely a player that is capable
of being able to lead the franchise to multiple championships,
(09:32):
him and Shay, and I don't even want to put
a cap on him to say that he's going to
be me, because I see him being greater.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
So first off, I want to say shout out to
Pippen for not being just a naturally defensive person although
he was on the court to be like, oh, well,
you know, I mean he got he. I don't know
if he can be me, but I see he's pretty good.
Like the idea that he could possibly be better than me.
Him saying that is really, you know, refreshing to here.
He has a long way to go because and did
(10:00):
it for a very long time. And obviously Jay Louias,
I'm glad you know that's a bald statement. And we'll see.
But I will say, Rob, it's one of those things
where if I told you this skinny kid who you
know was a three pick would be the greatest of
all time for North Carolina, and then it happens, Right,
if I told you this other skinny kid would be
drafted at seventeen years old and would be the closest
thing to Michael Jordan and Kobe Yeah, right, a high
(10:22):
school kid. So it does happen where you kind of go,
I don't know about that, And then it can potentially
be he has the makings. He's defensive minded, he's team oriented,
he doesn't mind that. I know for sure I have
the guy that's better than me in front of me,
and I'm okay with that, and he comes out and
he can score, So to me, he has the making.
(10:42):
And this is also partly why I said it the
other day, if they're able to stick together for a
handful of years. When you get two defensive minded wings
who can score like this, we've seen kind of the
formula and Jordan and Pippin and Lebron and d Wade
and Lebron and Kyrie of guys who in Klay Thompson
and stuff. When you get two wings like this who
can lock in together and are that dynamic, you can
(11:03):
have a run Jaalen Brown and Jason Tatum where you
can have a run of a successful five, six, seven,
eight years And so they have the making for that. Again,
a long way to go, but physically, attitude wise and
want and will power. I think Jaylen Williams has to
do that. And that's what makes his Oklahoma City Thunder
team scary because you always there's a bunch of stars
(11:24):
and talented guys and SGA looks like gonna be a
VP candidate for five, six, seven years. But when you
have that second guy that's locked in and is that
good and only getting better and entering into his prime
here in a little bit. That's a scary combination.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
I just have just an issue with them. It's just
way premature. It's just I get it. I want something
to talk about or throw it out there. And I
always bring up the Devin Bookers, Kobe Bryant, and Chris
paul Is in the top three now point guards. And
he just passed like that was a real conversation, right,
Senator round.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Oh, okay with the CP than the Booker. No, but
but the Book of One was there? Am I right?
Was that not the conversation? Yeah? People just trying to
project yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Yeah, like he oh no, he's the next Kobe and
what really? Like like seriously, and I get it. You
want to make comparisons, try to throw it out there,
be the first one to say it, you know.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
But you gotta be careful with that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
We know, Chris on this radio show that Patrick Mahomes
was Jordan ESQ. I don't I don't know if he
could really after last year's lost or whatever, do you
know what I mean? But but does he feel the
same as he did off his first three years?
Speaker 3 (12:34):
I don't think he does. Is that fair? Is it's
fair because only it's rob super So I get that's
why I said age. I get he's not putting a
forty fifty times. That's what the first three years want
to say. Jordan asks the numbers match the winning. The
numbers don't match the winning. Now do you see what
(12:55):
I'm saying. So I'm not taking anything away from him.
He also got his butt.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Kicked in the bowl, like like there it's starting, Michael
Jordan never got his butt kicked.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
I'm just saying. So that's the one thing about Mike
that's gonna be hard to care that he never literally
never lost, and it wasn't even in Game seven, just heating.
And that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
The early start of that was that he was Jordanesque,
and I just don't think that that applies. As time
is going on and there's some chinks in the armor,
I still think he's jordan Esque.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Has said heavy on the esque, just because it's the style,
it's the way, it's the kind of the Bravado doing
something and he's throwing no look passes, he's doing behind
the backpack. He just left hand, right hand. That's not
that's not Jordan. But that's was Jordan the first little bit.
Remember the first Jordan was flying through the air Tunuy
doing stuff sixty three, and then it became winning. So
(13:46):
he kind of did the opposite where he started with
the winning and had the flare, And now he's in
the Jordan fadera era where it's just gonna be in
the fishing thirty and I might not have the crazy
flying through the air stuff like I did.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
You might get mid rains for the rest, you know,
in your face all night. I really want to see
what like it could be.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Don't bring up the nine year gap. Jump doesn't win again?
You lucky. You had to start this segment with love
and peace because otherwise I'll jump over this table on
you right now. All right, but and uh so the
conversation too, is I just premature? Yeah, that's fair, But
I think quick last point I think while we got
(14:26):
here is because there was a point, especially if you
all we all recall we're all sitting home during Quarantine
watching the Last Dance where everyone acknowledged, including the Pistons,
who they had a tart time to get past. They
were like, oh, once Scottie Pippin became Scottie Pippen. We
knew it was a rap because the first couple of
years we played the bulls. We knew, all right, Mike,
(14:46):
go Mike, as long as we put our Jordan rules
on him and we'll win. And I think that's what
we're witnessing. We're now the arrival of Jalen Williams, which
is why this conversation became warranted because he has arrived
and he's a beast twenty five was it twenty seven forty?
And who knows what he's gonna do here in the
next twenty minutes or so, And that's why we got
to this point where he oh, it's pipping, like, oh,
(15:08):
he has he arrived. Now where I got my solidified Robin.
Y'all better buckle up, And I think that's why we're here.
And the conversation becomes can he become one of the
best twos? The number two? We got to solidify one
and sga, can he be the best number two? And
who are those lists of best number twos? You know?
Is it Lebron and Kyrie? Because I think we both
(15:29):
agree Shaq and Kobe. Once Kobe became Kobe, he was one, A,
one B. That was he wasn't quite no such thing.
Somebody's gotta be a b I'm sorry, you mean the two. Yeah,
somebody gotta be Yeah, there's no one a O one
b oh. That might be the one time. I don't know, Rob,
I disagree. I was allowed to deal with. Shaq was unstoppable.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Ain't no question. You can say whatever you want to know,
no question in that Shaq was unstoppable. He's at that
time all right, eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox
eight seven seven nine nine six sixty three sixty nine.
Do you think Jalen Williams could wind up greater than
Scottie Pippen? Or is too premature to even talk about it?
We'll have that conversation next with you. It is The
(16:06):
Odd Couple on a TV tam so on Thursday, Rob Parker,
Kelvin Washington right here on Fox Sports Radio, stick and stay.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
As we pour one out in the USA.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
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Speaker 3 (16:28):
Which one is this? Rob? This sounds like I dream
a genie? What game show is this I'm going again?
I was O for one with the other one Alex Newlywed.
I'm gonna be right one of these times. I like,
what else? What the show is there? That's an American
band stand? I don't know. No game show? Right? That
was kind of a game show. You had to like
(16:48):
dance and compete. It's not beat the clock? Is it?
Speaker 4 (16:51):
No?
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Twenty up here of twenty one questions? What else is there?
Definitely from the or something? Yeah for sure? What is it? Password?
Hollywood Squares? I don't remember this song? I don't remember. Yeah,
theme song with it? It's the acouple Ron Parker, Kevin Washington.
We thought we knew teams TV theme songs. Did not
(17:14):
get right on this Thursday. Uh, we got Joe bab
Bouh on the way. We'll talk to some of the
hoops with him, right, yeah, yeah, I mean well better
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in that in that other studio right now between Brandon
and Alex just too much. Yeah I drink milk. What
do you drink your goat milk? And yeah, I do
this and I'm working out right now. You have my
prouteine shakes. Too much going on in now of the studio,
all right? Uh, we were talking about Jayalen Williams. Scottie
(17:56):
Pippen says he has a chance to be him, if
not even better, And we're just talking about number twos
and what Jay dug potentially be eight seven, seventh ninety
nine on Fox Who we got? How about Brandon and Riverside?
Speaker 1 (18:07):
You're on the eye couple of Fox Sports Radio Riverside, California.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
What's up?
Speaker 4 (18:10):
B what's up?
Speaker 7 (18:12):
Fellas?
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Are you going to do happy June ten? Good?
Speaker 8 (18:16):
No?
Speaker 7 (18:16):
Right, but I'm still working.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
I told him drawing around the grave right now. We're working.
Speaker 7 (18:25):
About that. Oh you know what, jayn He's gonna be
a great player. But I'm I'm more leaning towards rops
that we gotta pump the break and we gotta let
him evolve and develop and see what type of run
they might have next year, and just see what type
of player. Because when you think about the second best
player ever, yes, from Chicago, from Chicago, So yes, I
(18:47):
love those nineties bulls. That was like the best time
of Chicago and sipping. He did his job, but I
just don't see him there yet. He can come, Yes,
can he become that?
Speaker 6 (18:57):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (18:58):
Could he possibly any better than me?
Speaker 5 (19:00):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (19:00):
But when you think about the second best player, it's
we got history of like guys that was a great robber,
like you know, like Wade to Lebron Right, I agree.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
And then to be better than Pipino won six championships.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
I mean, why that's a mouth I think I think
Pitt was saying more like one of the things people
will talk about, by the way, thanks for the call,
is that there's a luxury and an availability for more shots,
more offense than this era of basketball. So Jalen Williams
because they're getting thirty extra possessions more you know, the
nineties get points, but didn't mean you're gonna win. I
agree with that.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
It's the winning point, I told Robber, not only winning
score ever than ever before.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
So so the points don't do it for me. And
I said the same thing to Robber And I also
don't think you have to have six to be better,
So you can have three and have a better career
than somebody. I don't think it has the apples and
apples that person won six. You have to win seven,
because then then nobody will ever be Bill Russell, or
no one ever be Jordan or never gonna be just
I don't know how you're gonna say. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Just say he's two and two and he went to
four finals. So let's go with the with the numbers,
d Wade you take.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
I'm assuming you would take Dwayne Wade over Scottie Pippen. No,
hold up, I wouldn't.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
I think I think Scotty gets the short understick because
he played with the greatest player.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
But he was a great player and he was not
mad at that, but the great the third greatest shooting
guard of all time, Jordan, Kobe and n d Way
like deal. Hold up. There was a ten year run
of d Wade that was insane.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
They had a lot of free throws off indoors Burg.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Why are you don't like free throws? Drew in New Jersey.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
You're in the couple of Fox Sports where you remember
that final was all due uh Drew, Buddy.
Speaker 5 (20:46):
Hey, guys, I think it's kind of crazy if you
think about it, because when the Cliffers were formed with
Paul George at the thought process was you have Kawhi Leonard, right,
and then you have your pipp in with with Paul
George because the win the defense. It's crazy that that
Paul George trade turned into HIA. I wonder what Sga
(21:08):
and Kawhi would have been had they not traded Paul George.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
I you know what, that's a great point, Drew. I
just don't think we would have seen it. Sometimes someone
has to especially so talented, has to go elsewhere Ala
James Harden. James Harden had to leave the Thunder. You
have to give to get to Yeah, And I think
James Harden had to leave the Thunder to go own
his own team and run his own team. He's that
he was that good and clearly we saw how good
he was an MVP Kennedy for like five six years straight.
(21:33):
Sometimes you just too you never know how great guy
is until he's somewhere else kind of manning his own team.
All right, thank you for the calls. We got Joe
bon Boha getting ready to join us a little bit
talk some more NBA with him, but right now it's
Monte Blanio is gonna tell you what you need to know.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
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Speaker 3 (22:01):
It is the Okapa, Rod Parker Kelvin Washington on a
TV Things on Thursday at juneteenth edition. And hopefully you're
enjoying yourself on this holiday. And we have Yova Boha
joining us now, senior NBA reporter covering the Lakers for
the athletic hosts of the Bujas Block podcast. Make sure
you check them out. Yovan, what's up brother? How you doing?
Speaker 4 (22:21):
I'm doing well?
Speaker 3 (22:21):
Thank you for having me, No, no doubt.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Man, Did you borrow any money from the Lakers now
that they got ten billion?
Speaker 3 (22:28):
A little bit of spare?
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Not?
Speaker 4 (22:30):
Not yet. I'm gonna be gonna be making some calls.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Yes, my goodness, gracious, what'd you make of it?
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Man?
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Maybe you were in the know a little bit more
so than Navatres. But it just kind of came a
couple of million, Yeah, just a couple of meal of
the ten bills, She'll be all right. Uh, that came
out the blue for most people. Have they been working
on something and just your initial thoughts when you go
and you got that info.
Speaker 4 (22:53):
Yeah, So I was surprised by the timing. I was
not surprised by who purchased the team. And you know,
going back to last season, there have been some murmurs
that this could be in the works at some point
in the future, but it was very unclear in terms
of a timeline. So obviously it happening a week before
(23:13):
the draft, a couple of weeks before free agency. I
don't think anybody saw that coming. But if you look
at what they've been able to do with the Dodgers
and you know, winning a couple of World Series. I
think they've won eleven division titles over the past twelve years. Like,
I think it's a pretty good track record. And the
Lakers have won a championship, you know, since Genie Busts
(23:36):
has taken over as the you know, team governor. But
I don't think they've had quite the level of sustained
success that they had in the prior, you know, thirty
five forty years, you know, before that. So I think
for them, you know, I think it's it's like it's
time for them to start competing with the organizations like
(23:58):
the Warriors, the Celtics, the Clippers, these more modern organizations
in big markets that have the deep pockets. And now
they're going to have the deep pockets. So Genie will
continue to be the governor for the foreseeable future.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
No, I'm going to stop you there, because that's where
that's that's a pr thing because Mark Cuban said the
same thing.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
He sold the team he's going to be.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Involved in all that, and then he didn't even know
that they traded Luca. I do not believe Genie Buss
will be involved. If I gave you ten billion dollars,
you are not running my team, You're not signing people
the long term deals, you're not taking care of your friends. No,
I just gave you ten billion dollars for the There
was run like a mom and pop store, and I
(24:41):
totally agree. The Lakers have always been that and they
don't have money. They didn't get Ty lucause they didn't
want to pay the money that he wanted at that time.
But I just can't believe Genie bus is going to
be involved going forward with the Dodgers people and the
money they have and Magic Johnson being part of the
Dodgers that he's not going to have influence and Genie's not.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
I can't convince me otherwise.
Speaker 4 (25:04):
So I think there's a distinction here where there's a
couple of situations we can look at as examples. Where
one is the one that you just referenced with Mark Cuban,
where he was supposed to be still a part of
basketball operations and it seemed to be more of a
handshake deal, and clearly that did not go the way
that I think he expected it to go, at least
(25:25):
based on his public comments. Then you have Wick Grousbeck
in Boston, and he had it written in the sale
with the new Boston owner that he is going to
be still in charge as the governor. I believe it's
the next two or three years before making that transaction
or that transition, excuse me. So my understanding is that
(25:46):
is how this is going to go with the Lakers.
Genie learned from the mistake that Mark Cuban made of
not getting it firmly part of the sale, not getting
it in actual writing and you know, legal contract, whereas
Wick outsback. You know, the owner of the Celtics who
just sold the team for six billion, he had that
in that he is going to be a part of
(26:07):
this now. Now, I don't know the exact terms of
how long that's going to be. And I'm with you,
I share a level of skepticism because I just don't
see how you can fork over this much money and
at a ten billion evaluation and not have the final say.
So I don't know if it's just, you know, to
your point, more of an optics thing where maybe she's
in some of these meetings kind of reporting back. And
(26:30):
you know, I do know that Mark Walter likes to
be more behind the scenes and he likes to empower people.
So maybe for stability kind of continuity perspective, Genie will
be you know, continue to be the face and still
be the governor for now. But I do think, like
you know, five years from now, even maybe three years
from now, I'd be pretty surprised if that is how
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things are going.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
And even when you started it, you talked about how
to Lakers, you know, they won their one championship, but
they hadn't been run like a top right flight organization
and Genie was running it. So now I'm gonna give
you money and then let the same person right who
wasn't able to get results run the team. That's all
I'm saying. I'm not trying to make I think it's
It doesn't make I think it's just a tie. You
(27:13):
didn't want to jolt the fan base, you know what
I mean. And now you still got the connection to
the old paths of the Showtime Lakers. You have the
familiar face that everybody around town loves and Genie and
you keep it. You keep it that way for you know,
a couple of years, and then you do what you
decide to do later on from there. Let's talk about
actually now having this new ownership group, knowing how they
run the Dodgers, knowing they're about that business, and they have,
(27:35):
you know, wider pockets. How does that benefit Luca because
we know Lebron's got one, maybe two years left. How
does that benefit Luca uh specifically as they look at
him as being the future.
Speaker 4 (27:46):
Yeah, well, Luca had a very supportive tweet. Yeah, I
saw about the ownership change and looking forward to meeting
Mark Walter, and I thought the most interesting part of
that was talking about winning championships. Because this is a
guy who is technically under contract for only one more year.
He has extension eligible as of August two, and you know,
(28:08):
it seems to be that the indications right now or
that he's going to sign some form of an extension,
whether that's a shorter extension so you can opt out
and get a you know, a bigger contract.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
He's in shape now, so you know what's sign.
Speaker 4 (28:24):
But in all seriousness, like I think what this can
do for Luca is again to the point I made
it a little earlier, like, if you look at the
way that the Clippers and Steve Bomber have invested in
the infrastructure of that organization, they are as deep in
every department as any franchise in the league. And what
I mean more specifically is like you look at their
(28:45):
front office and the experience and how how deep their
front office is. You look at the scouting, the analytics,
the medical team, the player development team. Like if you
compare the Lakers in those regards to the Clippers or
some of the other teams that are regarded as some
of the better staffed and uh you know again better
invested franchises. In a lot of those departments, they have
(29:08):
like half as many people or sometimes even less than
some of those teams. So I think the first thing
is like everyone's immediately going to go to the on
the floor stuff and what happens with that. There's some
limitations in the NBA that you just don't have baseball.
You can't go pay a player seven hundred million, at
least not yet. You got a hard cap, you know,
functionally with the second apron and the first a brand,
(29:28):
and like you got all these restrictions. But what you
can do is you can go deef up the basketball operations.
You can go get the you know, the medical staff
as has turned over multiple times over the last few years.
And look, I think everyone's going to be up for evaluation.
(29:49):
I think like this is going to be like if
you look at how they ran the Dodgers, that they
didn't make the grand sweeping changes immediately. But I think
there's going to be a period here over the next
two to three years where there's going to be evaluation
of who's going to be here long term and who's not.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
I got I heard Linda Rambus in her office the
other day once the trade was announced. What she say
and I heard her working, she said, one, two, three,
she was counting paper.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
Clips for the next two years. I mean he was saying, Yeah,
I do think the it'll be interesting. You know, a
lot of the the Lakers being family business, they've had
a lot of you know, whether it's giving Kobe an
extension when he was well passed his prime and injured.
A lot of things you do as a family business,
you know, because but loyal. Sometimes you can't do that
keeping people around because they've been around since the eighties.
(30:39):
And you do wonder how that's going to play out
moving forward. All right, real quick, very quick answer, running
short time. Jovan game six is starting out? What happens tonight?
Speaker 4 (30:49):
I think she closes it out when's the title? Simple
as that with hampered Haliburton, like I think if it
was full strength he pushed at the seven. But I
know he's playing, but still I think, Okay, he closes
it out.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
Yeah, we're in agreement on that. Rob disagrees, but we're
in agreement. I'm always going to disagree.
Speaker 4 (31:04):
I hope, okay, I hope Rob's right there. You go.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
That's the first time I heard that on the radio.
Somebody you ain't hearing that coming from this way.
Speaker 4 (31:11):
You got to bring me back on there you go.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
Always always that man. Appreciate you, brother, thank you, Appreciate
you guys. All right, make sure you getting check out
the host of the Buhaus Block podcast. Go to that.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
I like Bok because he is boohank because he's always
laughing at my stuff. Mature just you're just immute to
it because there's so much good me you know, Like
I guys, if I've had the virus, have anybody on
your level sitting at that desk, So everybody just kind
of laughing at your stuff.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
They just love me. They just is that what you're saying,
So it's not really funny. They're just they're just like, yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Like the weather persons like, oh god, okay, he's the anchor.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
Now, I guess I have to chuck it around. Hey, Alex,
cut that for me so I can send that the autumn,
so see what she has to say to that. She
used to like you, Rob, oh really, but cut that
in to me, like I'd like to stop being so
mean to that man. That's right, Stop being mean to me.
All right, shop talk on the way, Sue, Rob g
cooked up. It's The Odd Couple of Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
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Speaker 3 (32:20):
All right, Rob, I give up on seventies TV theme songs?
All right because this is not my bag? What is it?
I noticed? But I just I'm going one more time
Newly game. Oh all right, I'm over Odds twenty one questions, Pyramid, Uh,
(32:40):
this is what'd you say? Pyramid? Pyramid White twenty five thousand.
There we go. All right, I was half right. Listen,
I only knew three shows from back then. All right,
I'll know anything from eighty eight and up. I have
you on that one, dj Aly, Alex A couple, Robin
Kelvin on IT TV Things on Thursday. Also juneteeenth Happy
(33:02):
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to hear what he had to say my next stand up. Yeah,
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Speaker 2 (33:30):
Ain't nobody ain't nip in the bumps shop you know that.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
Ain't nobody you would talk about whoever, whatever, whatever you
want to in the boss up. It's shop talking, that's right.
Speaker 6 (33:39):
It is shop talk here in the odd couple say
when we talk about something happened outside of the world
of sports and honor a Juneteenth. This week's topic comes
to us from Sabrina Carpenter.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
I did not I'm not gonna lie. I didn't expect that.
Did not expect that, you know, showing I'm a sip
of my espresso. Keep going. See you did there? You
did that.
Speaker 6 (33:55):
I'll know our songs is allegedly the next big thing
in pop music.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
I don't know about next week she is.
Speaker 6 (34:01):
She raised some eyebrows earlier this week when she said
in an interview that after going to a Silk Sonic
show in Vegas, and they have a policy in that venue,
says no cell phones allowed that she is thinking of
implementing such a rule during her own nationwide concert tour.
Speaker 3 (34:20):
So here's the question, guys, should there.
Speaker 6 (34:23):
Be a cell phone band at all major concerts and
or sporting events?
Speaker 3 (34:31):
Rob? I'm assuming this is easy for you, So you
go first. Oh whoa, whoa?
Speaker 1 (34:39):
You did.
Speaker 5 (34:46):
Said?
Speaker 3 (34:50):
I've never heard of bro. Here's a question of the
which one is it?
Speaker 1 (34:54):
You got a tissue for me? I have to think
about this one. I'm gonna say you shouldn't have them.
But I don't think that a band is gonna work.
I just think people are too connected to it, and
that will stop people from wanting to go to your car.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
Here's the better question, what are you people? No, I
wouldn't want to. I would like to have my phone. Okay,
that's what I'm saying. I want to. I'm not playing
solitaire at the concert, all right. I will smack you.
Your own friend gonna smack Covin. I'm just you just
the facts, okay. I listening to the odd couple. Why'd
you do that?
Speaker 5 (35:28):
Rye?
Speaker 3 (35:29):
You and me go way back right. Put the speaker
on me, Put the speaker on me. I'll go I
win it. The first time this ever happened to me.
I went to a Chris Rock show. Uh maybe seven
years ago, give a take, and uh it was first
time walk in to get your little kid. I'm like,
what you excuse me? What you doing? Now?
Speaker 2 (35:49):
You know?
Speaker 3 (35:49):
I got two phones, like Kevin Gates, but I put
it in the pouch and I had the other one.
But the point is, I like that, enjoyed the show.
You got to just watch it. Focus on the show,
not that I get the best angle, not let me
re wait, wait, hold on, get you okay, get a selfie.
Get enjoyed it, laughed, and it had to go old
school memory, like, oh what did he say?
Speaker 8 (36:07):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (36:07):
Then he said that when you're telling your friends at
the barbershop. So I like it, Daget, put the phone away, Manty,
where are you? Yeah? I like it too.
Speaker 9 (36:15):
I hate going I'm short, so I hate going on
like a concert and all I see is people's freaking
hands up with their phones recording. I'm watching the concert
through your phone because it's so I don't mind it.
I wish I could keep my phone, and I would
keep it and not bring it out. But obviously I
know this is the way it has to be.
Speaker 3 (36:31):
I don't mind it.
Speaker 9 (36:32):
It wouldn't It would not stop me from going to
a concert, right, I knew I had to turn my
phone in.
Speaker 3 (36:37):
Alex, where are you? It's one's Eazy Ron, your team,
your team, us, your Teamy and Manci on this. Oh yeah.
Speaker 8 (36:43):
Like, I think phones not only single handedly destroyed the
concept of living, but I think it's also destroying the
concept of actually enjoying things. Too many options, too much accessibility.
I'm watching everything for the future. Watch I'm not even
living in the moment anymore because I want to show
I was living in the moment. It's like, dude, I
can't tell you any times I go to like a
dope restaurant and everybody's taking pictures, Like there's a literally
thing called phone eats first, and like it's just I
(37:05):
think we've lost sense of controllability. So I think it
should be everywhere, Like if you go on dinner, get
rid of your phone concept and everything, Like, just get
rid of them.
Speaker 3 (37:14):
This is so easy, rob Oh wow, I'm glad everybody else.
We don't need it. We don't need cell phones.
Speaker 6 (37:19):
Okay, Okay, I'm it wasn't the best concert I've been to,
but I remember going to the On the Run tour
with Jay Z and Beyonce at the Rose Bowl.
Speaker 3 (37:27):
We had box seats.
Speaker 6 (37:28):
So if there was ever a time to be on
the ground like, oh look at me, look at all
these pets is down here, I'm in the box seats,
you know, overlooking this concert. I did not take my
cell phone at one time, and I had a ball awesome.
Speaker 3 (37:38):
First of all, don't ever talk about me flex, and
that was the most ridiculous that was ever two of
the biggest great friends. Box seats at the Rose Bowl.
Don't ever talk you got big money. That's a that
was a major flex still paying for it? Yeah, right,
uh are we missing my everybody got it? Yeah, that's
the good one right there. I think we all except
(38:00):
Rob Parker seemed to be down with it. But I
do wonder. I wonder where people would.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
Just where people are today, they're so like it's a
it's a connection.
Speaker 3 (38:10):
Thing to now you know that safety.
Speaker 1 (38:12):
It really is like something something's going on and you
don't know what's happening, like God forbid. Yeah, that's the
part that I think people would feel uncomfortable with.
Speaker 3 (38:21):
And I love that You're people just saying I appreciate
the honesty. I'd be all right. I've increasingly become that,
especially like with kids and what I'm post.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
Extension of me now. Just think of me as four
inches longer. I'm just saying with the phone, not six
years longer. Definitely not six years longer.
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