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we'll do that.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
But rob G, we kind of touched on this and
one's got to goals coming up a two about forty
so minutes uh in this hour. But Rob G we
talked about the Which Paul podcast he was on him
and Max Keller.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
It's his own podcast, their podcasts I saw, I saw
some of it's a little strange. It's very because it's
not like me and you did it when we do
a show that turns into by the chemistry, are you
going back to that? This is it's almost like when
Max Max does those twenty four seven things on whatever,
you know, sit down boxing where it doesn't feel like
a give and take. It's like, tell me, that's not
(02:21):
like an interviews.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Like an interview, they don't have any chemistry, there's no
back and forth.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
You don't say rich, just interview exactly. Yeah. Man, I
just think when they trades it really you think he's
going there, okay, but Rich Paul had some stuff to say,
vetty vetty into this. That's right now.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
The Los Angeles Lakers take on the Spurs tonight in
the quarterfinals of the NBA Cup.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Is that really going on? What's happening? You never miss it?
It is? You bet money. I didn't even know what
it was on the game.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
But I'm not betting on like the cup, Like, oh,
who's gonna win the Cup?
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Who?
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Every time somebody wins a cup, they lose their job.
Ashampson somewhere mad at you right now. He got his
hand in pocket and then he still lost his jobs.
Right hand in his pocket.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
They are playing deny the Lakers one of the pleasant
surprises of the young NBA season. A lot of people
are excited about what they're doing off through a hot
start as of today's second seed in the Western Conference.
One person who is not feeling the vibes, though, in
La Lebron's agent, super agent Rich Paul take a list, James.
Speaker 5 (03:26):
I personally don't think the Lakers are good enough to
be contenders right now, not right now. I don't think
they have enough to get to the Western Conference. Fine,
then when you go into the playoffs, we sing. Last
year they ran into athleticism and length, they struggled. So
when you look at it now, athleticism, length, shooting, speed right,
because now can the Lakers play fast? I don't think so?
(03:49):
And style of play you can't. You know that style
of play is going to be very easy to guard.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
When you in with.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Just thank you very much. Should people cancel this season tickets?
He said everything other than uh, this is a waste
of time Lebron and Luca. If I'm Rob Polinka, I'm livid.
If I'm the new Dodger owners, I'm livid. I'm dead
serious because it looks bad not only on Rich Paul,
but on Lebron. Like like him and Lebron don't talk,
(04:20):
they don't talk. They're not contenders, right, they have no shot?
Is that what you're saying? They got Luca, they just
signed them to a gazillion dollars, they got Austin Reeves,
they were winning without Lebron even showing up, and now
you're saying that they're what is it?
Speaker 3 (04:38):
What is the end result? The end game?
Speaker 1 (04:41):
What do you get out of this? But he also
said in that same podcast that Lebron's.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Not going anywhere. I don't want to be traded. So
what is he playing for.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
At this age, this many years? Is it just a
compil stats? Is it Lebron playing to try to win
more championships?
Speaker 3 (04:59):
And your agent is.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Going out publicly and saying the team is garbage.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
You can saything as nice as you want. The team
is garbage.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
They can't defend their Lebron and Luca their statues. I
mean he didn't go that far, but that's what he said.
What it's unbelievable. You're paying Lebron a gazillion dollars and
his representative comes out and tells the fans of Los
Angeles this team is garbage on a podcast? Is this
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where we are? And there's nothing nothing? And the Lakers
just have to act like nothing happened. And if anything else,
if this was a reporter or somebody, they'd be ready
to pull their credential or or deny them access.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Am I right?
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Or make a stink with somebody. It's mind boggling. I
don't get it, because if that's the case, and he
really feels that way, then he should say and we
gotta work a way to get Lebron out of here, okay,
and it comes off as typical Lebron. And why so
many people have an issue with Lebron. It's never enough.
When he came to LA they had all these young
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talented players, get rid of everybody.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
I need somebody now.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
I can't wait for them to develop, right, I need
somebody to win now, blah blah blah blah blah. And
now again they went and pull up the trade for
Luca at the time, twenty five years old with five
first team All nbas and he don't have He still
don't have enough.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
I don't get it. What do you get from this? Well,
so I'm glad you asked that. So I'm a work backwards.
What do I get from this? I don't know what
I'm getting from this. Is this an ulterior motive with
Rich Paul? Because anything associated with Lebron, you do know,
is calculated, That's what I'm saying. So Lebron's agent and
very good friend, close confidant having a podcast going to
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then speak on Lebron, we know has to be some
type of calculation or some type of motive in that right.
And it's also interesting a lot of Bron's confidants and
inner circle. Maverick Carter has What the Shop. Lebron himself
had a podcast with JJ Reddick. JJ Reddick is now
coaching Lebron. Lebron continues to have podcasts. Now it's with
(07:13):
Steve nash Uh and it just goes in. Rich Paul
now has a podcast with Max. I said that to say,
a lot of messages gonna come out. You're not gonna
be in Bron's inner circle just talking recklessly about Bron,
you know what I mean, Like this is gonna be
something that is obviously designing. You know exactly what you're saying.
And also this gets weird because Rich Paul, if you
if you watch more that that podcast, Rich Paul, you're
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not a regular guy. You can't just throw out makeshift
drafts and trades and stuff like that. He started talking about,
I would love to see Patrick Mahomes with the Dallas Cowboys,
you know, I would love to see Luca doing this.
Imagine if Luca was that, like Rich Paul, your your
your your thoughts carry a lot of weight, because at
one point time half the Lakers team was a Rich
(07:58):
Paul client when they were on that championship run, a
handful of years ago. So him speaking is gonna it's
always gonna have people. What does this mean him doing
a pot every week? Rode, We're gonna go what's the message?
What is he really meaning? What is he really trying
to say? Because of what the pool that he has.
So I just don't quite get why Rich Paul feels
the need to have a podcast when he's such a
super powerful agent like this and specifically talking about Lebron,
(08:19):
who's his biggest client. And uh, and of course every
time he says something, we're gonna have to read fine
tooth comb what he means by that. So I don't know.
That's the only thing I can think is every time
he says it, what's the real message behind this?
Speaker 2 (08:35):
What?
Speaker 4 (08:35):
You know?
Speaker 3 (08:36):
What I mean? What is Lebron? I know he tried
to say in my opinion, I don't think you're in
a position to really have an opinion agent and almost
almost contractual standpoint.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Like but that, but that, But you're right, because it's
like when the fathers tweet about the team of a player.
You could say that's your own thought, but you know
everybody knows you talk to your son and needs the
conversations you're having when you're eating or going like, there's
no way that this is your your son has no
(09:08):
idea what you think about the team more, it's just
not believable.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
I will even add, just even if you didn't like
you're like, we had a reason, I forgot the father
who did that. But even if it wasn't with the bear,
was with the Bears receiver? Right, well, yeah, I think
it was the Bear's receiver. Dad was going crazy and
he needs to get out of their Kayler Williams ain't
throwing the ball all that. Even if that is just
Pops Pops, that's going to affect me. I gotta answer questions, Pete.
(09:33):
To your point, people are gonna wonder, is just really
what I'm saying? But my dad is saying it. And
so that's why again I don't get with Rich Paul
having a podcast. I don't. Just because you can doesn't
mean you should. I don't. I don't see the advantage
of this in this in this instance, because when you
talk about Lebron, we're always gonna assume there's something a
message with it. You can't just talk recklessly or casually
(09:54):
about Lebron. That doesn't work like that he's too big.
He means too much to the league, to the Lakers,
and to just the social you know construct. So you
can't just oh, I just think Lebron's not happy. I
think that what you're saying carries a lot of weight
without you know, clearly, especially in the league where again,
you represent so many massive stars, not just Lebron. He
(10:15):
can't just me and you can casually talk about right now, yo,
what you think y'all just want to do what he do.
A very large portion of the clients in the NBA
are his right. You can't casually get on the pot
just kick it with Max. It just doesn't even make sense.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Its like it puts the player in a bad situation
and the organization.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
If I'm the Lakers, I'm.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Furious, I really am, because it's terrible for the fan base,
you know what I mean for the fan base to
feel like this is like like what this this is
coming from the from Lebron's agent.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Lebron's one of his best friends. He thinks the team
that can't By the way, he ain't wrong, Okay, I
mean he ain't wrong as.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Far as no, But my point, that's not for him
to say. That's that's the only issue coming from him.
I mean, he tried to just put it on him.
But you're not just you.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
You're not. There's a you know what he's called. He's
a representative. Yes, you would represent so when you speak
all the time, all the time, fortunately for you. But
it's just the point you can't just be just my opinion.
That's gone. When you mentioned your most massive client in Lebron.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Unbelievable eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox is the
phone number.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
I just it's a strange pairing. By the way, this podcast, Roger,
you listen to a little bit of it, it's just
a little yeah, that's it. It's funny because after after
the podcast shot, I think.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Rich Paul he wanted to drop Max Kellerman too. Is
that not true? No, I'm just.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Jeesz. Now now now I'm Max got to answer some
question and now he's going to tell us how he's
the Muhammad a league of the New Pod. Don't do
that because he's I never worked with Max, you know what.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
I think I might have met him a couple of times,
but I've never met with Max never.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
I never. No, I'm just said I never wor you
know what, he's got a little bit of up to
you what kind of super chill? He's a New York god. Yeah,
Now Max school.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
You know.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Obviously I was at the other place with him for
a little bit, so I would see himaying, I don't act,
I got no knowing. But because he worked with Marcello's
before you and I was the morning show, they were
later in the afternoon. So did you replace him when
he went to first take? Then I came in there.
But uh yeah, cool, cool dude, cool, super smart, crazy smart,
like ridiculously smart. It is like you don't even want
(12:43):
to talk about nothing, Roger.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
Because did anybody say to you, dub oh, you're so stupid?
You don't ask you but you stupid? Is it stupid?
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Uh? Kelvin?
Speaker 4 (12:51):
The reason you don't like Max because he's blacker than you. No,
I didn't get Nobody ever said that. I think I
think you don't do you do that? He was about
to take you right now. I used to like Rob G.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Hey, hey he's gonna be at home. Put the FaceTime
on me. He's about you ever fixed your mouth to
say something like that about Rob G? I like it,
but I don't like you that much. What Mexican. Is
that it? What was the name of that show? Was
it Max and Marcella's Well, yeah, yeah, yeah, they had
a good run. How many somebody.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
Said they didn't know the show and listen to you
should know. Yeah, it was on in the afternoons.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
I didn't say that. I didn't know. I know. Rob
is the most closeted hater in the history of radio.
What are you talking about? I never missed.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
Done you see that chromo that they put out for you?
Speaker 3 (13:40):
I don't listen to the show, but I did see
that they said this about me, Roger. I was just
trying to I was gonna tell you to hush and
let him keep going. I want to see what else
he was gonna say. Listen to the show. I didn't.
I didn't know. I just asked. It was all right
about when you moved here. But I asked. I did
ask what the name of it, because I really wasn't
sure what it was called. It was Max and Marcellus
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and they had about a five year run. Then I
had about a two year run. And yeah, but he
went that's when he went the first take. What'd you
think of his what he had to say? You don't
want to go there. What he finally spoke after all
these years we heard him speak. I just I did speak.
I don't.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
I just don't think that so much time would have
passed for me to have.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
To answer that.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
That's just all I'm saying, Like I get it, you
know what I mean, like five years or whatever, it
was four years later or whatever. It just seemed like
it was a long time.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
But that's called you know what that's called, right, that's
called promo run Like I got this new show coming,
let me, let me get back out here. I don't
think he took him apart. I don't think he like
what he said. I thought he was above board.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
It wasn't like some angry Michelle Beatle kind of take
or whatever. And then she's applauding Max for attacking Steve.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
She was there too. Everybody was used to come up
that was it's just crazy wild time over there. Yeah,
I don't think she was there where at the radio station.
She was with Sports Nation. You know, they were literally
two doors down on TV, so they would all like,
you remember everything being in Bristol. I forgot that. Yeah,
everything was right there, all that same. I can't wait
for that podcast.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
Interview when they ask Rob Parker, what happened with you
and Chris Breusol.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Nothing happened with me and Chris. And I'm gonna be
the one.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
I'm gonna be the anonymous source, texting, awful, announcing and.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Athletic and what do you want to say? Oh my gosh,
how much time you got. They're gonna look at Chris
and be like, now you were a man of the cloth.
You can't lie.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
You can't lie in that scenario which one of y'all
is maxis wine of y'all Stephen A, someone's gonna be
really angry and what's gonna try to be mature about it? No,
Chris and I Rob's gonna be Stephen akinst No, I'm not.
I want to make it.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
I know you got the Lord on your side. We
don't have that. There's no issue there.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
When Chris drop comes Connecticut comes to the press box,
when Chris drove two hours to Connecticut to media on
my special day for the press box. Chris and I
have a twenty It started twenty five years and we
did the show together. Twenty five year friendship and we
had our fights and our battles over the radio show.
But it never affected our friendship. We text to this
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day and keeping talking.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
He's texting you right now, you're not responding. That's how
I know. That's how I know things are bad. I
got a show.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
He's got a bad TV show that's been off for
a couple hours.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
I'm just saying, we'll see what happens at breakfast at
the super Bowl week, We'll see. No, you already know
what's gonna happen. Rob G's got a pancake.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Dan No, Christian to Paine. He's on TV now, Chris
sitting there waiting for him to pick up to track.
Chris will give you a playlist at most. Tell me
I'm wrong Christmas? Sorry, you got my number? Oh, put
the camera on me, Elijah go.
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coming up here in about five minutes or so about
a late great individual. We'll get in a little deeper
dive onto Stewart Scott in just a moment, looking forward
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taking some calls about Rich Paul and had some things
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Roberts take some calls, so we got let's do it.
Max in Georgia. How you got Max call? We just
were talking about it. Now we call it in. That's right, Max.
What's up? Buddy? You're on the odd couple of Fox
Sports Radio.
Speaker 6 (18:28):
You know I had to get in on this one. Rob.
I'm just gonna say this. Lebron's entire career has been
predicated on his athleticism, which, let's be honest, at this point,
has run out. Jack Paul has been rolling in the
deep too much, too long. He's planting seeds like it
smacks bean stalk. The bean stalk was cut down years ago,
(18:48):
and it's time for the fairy tale to end. We
wanted to end.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Thank you. There you go. Wow waxing poetically on this
worship Wednesday, all right, said is he rolling in rolling?
I ain't know if he was talking about Adele Adele
or because that is hurt. They're not out together no more.
They still boot up. I thought they were married. They're
not married. We just spread like six g we had
them bro Rich Paul. They're not married. Engaged, Oh engage okay?
(19:14):
I thought Kevin in Culver City, you're on the couple
of Fox Sports Radio. What's up? Kevin is good all
the time?
Speaker 6 (19:24):
Larry, come on, you know, I know that's Todd of
the Creator Christmas album coming with him here, That's what
that's my damn right there, good Let me tell you something.
Let me tell you something right now, Rich Paul, you
got a lot of nerve. Man, You're the reason you're
there is because of lebron You were selling throwback jerseys.
The NBA wanted to straight your agent certification. Could you
(19:45):
see Bill Dufty or Aaron Goodwin or Dave David falking
something like that. It's ridiculous. The Lakers cost themselves a
championship window maybe by getting rid of Alex Caruso and
signing your client th H. T. Tucker, And then you
have the nerve to act like this. The Lakers drafted
Bronnie James for you, all your your players that they
signed for you. It's a it's a disgrace. And you know,
(20:07):
Rich Paul, you know he continues to do stuff like
this and and and nobody says anything about it. It's
just it's unprofessional, and it's it's really, uh, it's really
a side of the face of the Lakers. Organization and
all the.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
I'm the Lakers, I would be passed. I really would be.
Speaker 6 (20:22):
Yeah, take away the access. I mean, look, Lebron James
should be saying something about this. I mean the way
he the way he you know, carries himself as an
NBA agent, and he you know, to be to be
honest about it. Everybody's been in the rules for him,
so we you know, we can predicate to you know,
Rich Paul being in the league. But I mean the
celebrity of Rich Paul is all predicated on all the
(20:44):
actions that he gets. Even being having access to somebody
like Adele, Rich Paul has a lot of nerves to
be to be acting like that. Just this this is
this really is not He's not a credible NBA agent.
You know, nobody would get on a podcast talking crazy
like that. You know, by the school it's unprofessor.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
I think I would argue the opposite. I would think
he the reason he does it because he is certified.
That's why he's doing stuff that other people can't because
because of the access and the position that he's in.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
No, but because of Lebron. Once once that's over, we'll
see how powerful Rich Paul is. Like we'll see he's
already got he's got big. He didn't, he's already got
his foot in it.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Now I got it.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
But I don't think he'll be able to do what
he just did like he's able to say that. I
bet you won't be doing that with other people because
Lebron is there. They can't do nothing to Lebron. Do
you understand what I'm saying exactly? That's what you say.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
He ain't gonna be rolling in thedeed, no more, No,
all right, we got a good conversation coming up, a
bit different the late great Stewart Scott. They just dropped
to thirty for thirty of him. We'll do that. On
the other side of trending right now is Martin Weis
can get you updated.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
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Die Literally it's on one of our TVs. They just
showed a little teaser for it, a new dot about Stewart,
the late Gray Suscott.
Speaker 4 (22:28):
Yeah, the latest thirty for thirty for ESPN. He got
a great series going on there. Then tonight's episode actually
premieres in about thirty minutes on ESPN. It's called Boo
Yah thirty for thirty on Stuart Scott and his It's
calling an intimate look at the life and legacy of
the late Great Sports Center anchor and the trailblazing that
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he did for that show specifically, and how it has
evolved since his passing.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
Rob There's actually a lot of ways we can, you know,
have a conversation about him, but I'll start here with
me why his legacy matters so much. He started when
I was adolescent years you know, ten, eleven, twelve ish
like something like that at a ESPN and I think
the importance of seeing we talk about representation all the
time when you see somebody like a Stuart Scott. When
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you see Stuart Scott being able to be who he is,
his true authentic self, subconsciously, for a young Kelvin and
for other young people around the country, it's like, oh, shoot,
I get to be me. I get to say stuff
we kind of saying around the neighborhood. I get to
kind of okay. And it's subconsciously ways in the back
of your head. And around that same time you had
our Citio Hall was doing his show, and again you're like, wow,
(23:40):
so a young black man can do late night because
at that point there really hadn't been any for the
most part. So people like Stu, people like our Cityal Hall,
who's a friend of our show, of course shout out
to him. They start to put things in your brain.
A young Kelvin Washington like, man, I can do that,
I can look like that, I can be that, I
can be myself. And it's see, Stewart Scott was so
(24:02):
important and you know this haven't been in the industry.
One of the things that also the struggle with that
comes during a certain era you also fought with, well,
you can only be the only one, and so I'll
just then I don't think he'll mind because it's in
his book. Mike Hill talked about this shout to Mike
Hill in his book how when he got the ESPN,
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there was the attitude of, well, you can't do all
that that hippie hoppity stuff because Stewart already does that.
And I do think you had to fight through that
era of like, we already have one. And I remember
as I started to get into this industry, it's like
looking to be a news anchor, reporter, sports report, all
that stuff. You kind of felt like, oh, well, I
can't do that because they already got a brother there.
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And so it was he was fighting through with Stuart
Scott was such a being a bridge to the changing
of the guard, the bridge to opening up this country's
mind to what can be, being a bridge to the
ideology that you can have multiple African Americans who have,
you know, a little swag and being themselves and being
authentically themselves. He was a huge bridge to opening up
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what we see You and I might not be doing
the show if the changing of the minds didn't start.
We're oh, you can have two brothers on the show,
because historically that just wasn't how it was. So his
legacy is great. Obviously, his battle is fought with cancer.
He did that ferociously and the best of his ability,
obviously before his passing, and the legacy leads with his daughter.
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So I want to I'm interested in seeing that. But
just for somebody like me growing up watching him, seeing
who he was, how he represented, how he was himself,
that stuff made an impression on me. Rob It's like, oh,
I really can do this. There's really an opportunity in this.
Did you ever get to meet him? Yeah? Okay, And
for those who don't know you and I, we go
every year to NABJ National Association of Black Journalists and
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I got to see him. I got a picture with
him and got to chop it up with him a
little bit, and so I was very appreciative of that
because it wouldn't be too much later before his passing.
But yeah, did get to meet him. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
The only thing I want to see about uh as
someone who you know was there at the ESPN during
when Stuart was there, and I just showed you a
nice picture. It was me, Lomus Browns and Stuart Scott.
And I'm not saying that we were best buds or whatever.
But you know, we had a conversation, we had whatever,
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we saw each other or whatever. So but the only
thing I'm really interested in on when they do these
thirty for thirty and it's in house how much, because
because I always think you never get the real documentary
or real story if it's done by either the person
it's about, like you're doing your own doc so you're
gonna edit out stuff that makes you look bad and
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if you're ESPN for as much love as they give
Stuart Scott, now that's not how he came in. That's
what I want to see is do they tackle that?
Do they talk about uh, all the stuff that he
went through, and there was the hip hop slang and
black vernacular that a lot of viewers and main streets
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were didn't like and thought it was inauthentic, that it
was a stick rather than genuine and alienated some people
and even people in ESPN management. So he wasn't embraced.
In death, he's been embraced and wow, how hip and
(27:24):
cool he was. But I don't I don't think that
that was how it was originally when he first got
on the air. He's a talented guy and yes he
did what it wasn't an act. This is what his
conversation convo, the way he would talk about sports with
his friends.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
I've always.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Felt like First Take as much as people because because
First Take gets bashed a lot, and Debate TV gets
bashed a lot, and I take offense to it.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
I really do.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
And most of it is just because they're jealous of
steven A's success and his money. I believe that because
sports debate is what we've done in barbershops our whole lives.
So when I hear people talk about that, oh, that
debate stuff, I know what.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
That's what you do when you hang out with you
have chicken wings at the bar, or you at the barbershop. Crazy.
Give me Lebron over Kobe. No, you're crazy, right, you
do that with your homie.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
Come on, you just do that with you, And people
make it like it's some alien thing, something force, not real.
And when First Take really took off, the thing that
they couldn't understand management was why they had why we
had such a huge black audience. They used to come
to like stop, executive would stop me and go like,
First Takes audience is fifty percent black, and they would
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ask me, why do you think that?
Speaker 3 (28:50):
We said? He told me.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
One guy told me. He said, NFL's audience thirteen percent block.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
He said, he gave me.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
I could give you the numbers on all the other shows,
Sports Center six percent black, whatever, but first take is
fifty percent black. Why is that? I said, Ay, you're
talking to us. This is what we do in the
barbershop and this boys bar or whatever. And b we
finally have a voice. And that's something that you talked
about here in Stuart Scott. In a voice that you're
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comfortable and familiar with. It's the same thing we awe
you all the time, you guys. You guys been listening
to sports Talk Ratio forever. I had my first show
thirty one years ago, okay, and before that the fans
started in like nineteen eighty seven, the first all sports station,
and for years we were just how many times we
just have to listen to sixties rock music or seventies
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as bumper music, right, Like you're in Detroit, Stowe show
comes back on and there's some seventies rock song and
this was just a given you have for band you
put on anything else, right, So that's a part of it.
I'm curious to see how they tackle the I don't
want to say, hey, but the pushback that Stuart's got
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got for being different and being his own self.
Speaker 3 (30:07):
Anytime you're blazing a trail, it comes with that. I'm
gonna give you another example. Muhammad Ali. We love him now,
but a lot of people then this dude's too cocky,
he's too confident, he's too talks so much. He's this,
he's saying he's beautiful. You know, he's speaking up for
African Americans and in the world at large. He's speaking
up for people. People didn't like that. Then, you know,
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then you put up his his morals, is his religion.
Then he ends up obviously, you know, losing his his title,
the draft, draft people, he's dodging the draft and all that,
and he brought up ballid points. You want me to
go fight over there? I can't even be free of
my own country. And then obviously, as the years go by,
people start to catch you on and like, oh, Muhammad Ali,
But in real time, you're right, when you're blazing a trail,
(30:50):
in real time, you will not necessarily be loved. It
won't all be warning everything. They'll deal with it. How
do you how much I think they if they're doing
it justice, they have to say initially this was different,
and what different comes pushed back. I'm curious to see
that part because you're right, and like I said, I
mentioned and then once they finally accepted, okay, this kind
of work and it's not going anywhere, like Mike Hill
(31:12):
said it in his book, that then it turns into
well fine, Stuart can do it, but you can't do it.
Let's not get carried away. You know how it goes.
We already got the one doing it. We can't have
a bunch of you doing it. And that's just how
things go. It's kind of almost like a just a pathway.
It's just the steps of That's why I'm.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Surprised that you're here working with me, because we had
I had a white partner first, and then they somehow.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
They put you on the show. I was shocked. He's
just light skinned, light skinned. Sorry, I think that's all okay,
he's just light skin. Don't do that, all right, So yeah,
check out the doc when you get a chance. Good stuff,
all right. One does have to hear about it. I
got to see it, you know what I mean. I'm
really curious coming up. I think in about twenty minutes
or so. Obviously we'll be on the air, so I
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It is now time for one's got to go.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
The five crowd is that when I'm planning there, funny
even number figure it out.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
Hear me out to hear me out? All right, So
maybe you heard this one. In and Out the Fame
restaurants started here in southern California, now is going a
few other states around the west. In and out, Rob
they have basically said, nah, they have taken off. You're
not allowed to come in there anything that has to
do with six seven. So what was happening. Kids were
coming in, They might be ordered number six seven, they
(33:25):
might try to do a price that ends up being
six to seven, and then when they were saying all right,
order number sixty seven, all the one hundred kids would
go crazy and just start screaming and scaring customers. Literally,
you can see all the viral videos. So in and
Out said, nah, anything to do with six and seven,
and we ain't having it no more. So I started
to think, because I hate if I said thirteen, that
wouldn't work. No, I think you'd be good. Okay, yeah,
(33:47):
you'd be all right. It's just a six seven. That's
a balance. I'm not dealing with you right now, thank you.
So all this, I'm be thinking about all these social
media trends we've had over the last ten fIF you know,
ten twelve years or so. This is silly six seven
that dude, it's not even that clever to me, Like,
but don't don't say it's easy, hush, let me get
(34:08):
a eaz. So one of these social media trends has
to go. That kind of got popular over the last
handful of years. Remember when everyone was doing the flash
mobs where you're just run uping them all and all
of a sudden, two hundred people start flash mob and
start doing dances and all that, or stealing from Louis Vaeen.
That's a whole nother flashbob right there. Planking you remember
that rob GM Remember that Alex Martin planking. Everybody was
(34:30):
just going around. There was a flat surface. Everybody was
just playing. Do you remember that rob The Mannequin Challenge,
Flank Sausage, the mannequin challenge where people would just go
in somewhere and they would just freeze. And then also
the ice bucket challenge. Remember that it was for als
and you would say, hey, I'm such a subthing. You
dump yourself with ice and you would say I'm donating.
(34:51):
Then you would say, I, Rob Parker, I nominate you
to do it. So one of these has to go.
The six seven trend, the ice bucket challenge for al Us,
the flash mobs, the planking, and a mannequin challenge. What
about this? Which one? The chicken sandwich? No, that wasn't much.
Oh that wasn't That was just like a helped Popeyes.
(35:12):
The chicken was a I don't know if that was
a trend, but that.
Speaker 7 (35:14):
Was a trend. People just waiting sandwich sandwich kill over sands.
Speaker 3 (35:19):
Was literally it was actually literally somebody got shanked up
over the chicken sandwich. And let me tell you something,
ain't no chicken sandwich in the world that good.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
And when one of my students wind up I don't
know if you remember it came and brought it here. Yeah,
and I was like, because he had some apple where
he didn't wait that long he got it and he
was like, you want one?
Speaker 3 (35:37):
I want to try it, because I was like.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
What is going on this crazy? And it was okay,
you know, I love chicken. I chicken almost every day.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
I thought, it's good, it's good, it's good. I'm gonna
waiting two hours for this sandwich shanked people. I thought
it was Black Friday TV back in the early two thousands.
Speaker 7 (35:51):
It wasn't a milkshake at to a clock, it.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
Was not a midday milkshake. All right, Martin robs both
and Alex one gotta go flas planking mannequin ice bucket
challenge six to seven train one of these stupid social
media things we've done over the last ten years the UH.
I would like to do what honorready mentioned of the
crate running up the crates during COVID. We were bored
(36:16):
as here.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
People were really hurting themselves running up and down the
milk crates.
Speaker 3 (36:20):
It's some people might be paralyzed seriously to this day.
To this day, I would say, flash mobs, get the
hell out of my way, please, thank you. You're just
trying to shop in them all to a hundred people
running Dame. I want to live for ever started Dan,
I've got somewhere to be in today. Here, get out
the way, flash mob from Martin robb g Alex I'll
go real quick.
Speaker 2 (36:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (36:40):
Another honorable mention Martin Wis was the kids eating tide pods.
That call that social Darwinism. I loved the challenge that
was rid of. But this is what quick easy one
ice bucket. People were getting hurt. They were like, people
are getting hospitalized. They were dropping whole buckets.
Speaker 3 (36:54):
On each other.
Speaker 7 (36:55):
I thought it was like it was a cause.
Speaker 3 (36:56):
Yeah, all right, icebook challenge for Alex What you got? Robbed?
Six seven? That makes it? No one can explain what
it is. It's so done. And now my daughter does it,
and it's does she do it?
Speaker 6 (37:05):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (37:06):
Yes? They think that drives me crazy and she goes
hey yo, and I'm like, don't stop. She does running
around talk about that cess. That's cess. I would have
thought your daughter would have said four or five for
your height. Wow, you can't. You can't do her? Daddy
like that?
Speaker 2 (37:25):
Hurry out?
Speaker 3 (37:25):
We got thirty seconds? Okay uhod Mexican. The planking was crazy,
Rob He's not talking about the workout. He's talking about
the trend on social media. On social media, yeah, six sevens.
I think it's dumb. You really thought it was planking.
It's the ice fucking challenge for me because people were
doing it and nobody donated, No, nobody donated. Just getting
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buckets of cold with ice of water on you did
you donate my bad forgot four more five four five
is crazy.