042324 300 Jeff's Bucket of Crap

Are you on your cell phone too much? ESPN’s Mel Kiper apparently doesn’t have that worry and his workaround is bonkers! Nikola Jokic’s brother punched a fan at the Nuggets game last night!  

Episode Transcript

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of the Freak. I've got aquestion. If Mike is going to do
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so thank you you radio professional forkeeping me up to date with the time

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so I can keep it moving.Hey, love you, Bud. It's
the speak Easy on ninety seven onethe Freak. I'm glad you appreciate my
hard work here, sir. I'mdoing it for you. I'm doing it
for you and all the other freakersout there, and that's it, no

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other reason, just for you.All right, Let's see, we got
a little Hollywood swinging coming up herein just a little bit. Jewels will
have that for us. And atfour o five today, I believe it're
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all up into Mavericks basketball with thegreat one. Stand by for that.

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But right now, there's this.All we have to give is what's in
our bucket. Ye, spend alot of time on your cell phones.
Spend a lot of time on theremy fair share. Yeah, yeah,
too much. Yeah, perhaps alittle too much, too much time on
the cell phone. Well, here'sthe conundrum. I mean, I'm sorry,

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conundrum. Conundrum. Alert conundrum,Alert me with your conundrum. We
don't want to miss anything, correct, right, Yeah. If something were
to go on out there and itglided right by us and we missed it,
yeah, we'd feel really bad aboutthat, partly because we don't want

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to be left behind by any one, but also partly because we're kind of
in the business of not missing stufflike that, right, keeping you up
to date, it's right, itcan keep it in moving, also keeping
it moving. Uh yeah, soit's yeah, it's a little bit probably
unique to our profession that if you'regoing to do live and local radio,

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especially with multiple teams in the postseason, and like sports is the one thing
that it's happening now, like it'sa live thing and as news breaks,
you want to know it. So, I mean, that's where it starts.
Yeah, that's where But I agree, that's however, they've gotten us
with the addiction of the things,like we take it well beyond. Yes,

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I'm just making sure you stay uptoday. We doom scroller nuts.
We do. It is what wedo. Yeah, and that's the conundrum.
It's the conundrum. Conundrum. It'slike you when you're doom scrolling,
you kind of go into a blackhole and you lose your sense of time
and you don't realize, like howlong you've been doing it. You don't

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your and your happiness receptors die andyour sad receptors like, what's up?
We are? It just makes meway too tired because I stayed up going
down orchard poets departments, rabbit holes. Yeah, and what'd you get out
of it? Oh? But that'suseful. That probably brings you joy,
It kind of does. See,I'm just staring into nothingness, like I'm
just hitting refresh on each different socialmedia looking for something, and I'm not

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really looking for anything. It's justlike muscle memory, like this is what
I do. I grab my phoneand I look at things. Yeah,
I'm looking to score chicks, man. Yeah, how's that going for you?
He's scoring some chicks on there.I heard the buzzer that means no,
I'm sorry, it was brought tomy attention. I would have lost

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a lot of money if you hadtold me that this was the case,
because I wouldn't have believed you.But because like our industry, you guys
ever watch any of like the footballstudio shows, especially around the draft or
free agent see like Adam schefterroll Popon TV and he's grabbing a phone and
he's reading texts and he's doing he'sprobably faking it, I don't know,

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but like he's taking phone calls whilethey're on the air, and you're like,
oh, man, hustling, bustle. Well you would figure that someone
in that industry. Sure, youuse your phone a lot, use your
cell phone a lot. So Iwas surprised to find out the man who
created the NFL draft Mel Kiper.Yeah, he didn't create it, but

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he helped make it very very positivedraftman mel Kuiper, in his full head
of hair, yep, does notown a cell phone, doesn't even have
one. How do they get aholdof him? How does he stay up
to date or keep it moving?Yeah? Uh and so on a pardon

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might take the Barstool podcast. Theydidn't have mel Kuiper on because how would
you book him? There's no wayto get a hold of him. Instead,
they had his little buddy, ToddMcShay on to get to the bottom
of this, to see is itcould it possibly be true that a guy
in our industry that is viewed aslike one of the front men of NFL

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draft coverage. Is it possible hedoes not have a cell phone. Let
us investigate. You can tell meif this is wrong. Mel Kuiper doesn't
own a cell phone and he hasfive house phones. Yes, so let's
what. I've got one, two, three, four different numbers for mouth
and if I want a text,I was just texting the other if I
want to get through to Mel.Look at all these texts, what are

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they? Okay? All right?So to his wife and Jim, right,
hey, hey, Tod, howare you? Yeah, I'll ask
him, I'm sure, I'm sureI'll get back to you today. I'm
like, all right, great,So, like I got to work through.
And I always bust them on that. And the problem is you call
the house and and Kim will pickup and like hey, and I'll talk
it's a kid for like ten minutesbefore you even get to me, and

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then Metel will pick up from adifferent landline. Right, It's not like
a cell phone at home and all. It's just like back in the eighties
where it's like you hear another phoneand Tom, how are you. Yeah,
it's a it's definitely a throwback toour to my childhood. I don't
even know I was from. Yeah, no, yeah, house phones,
lines and all that. Yeah.I just picture Kuiper like pacing with the

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core getting stuck around. Yeah.Yeah. And it's just it's crazy to
have no cell phone but five landlines. Now, there is one part
of this that I'm not clear up. Grooves and I were trying to get
to the bottom of it earlier.Somebody's got to get to the bottom of
this, because he said, Ihave four numbers for Mel, and that

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their landlines where he texts his wife. But then he said if he calls
the house and the wife answers that, then Mel will pick up on a
different line, so that would bethe same landline. So that would be
on one phone number. Right,So I don't know if he has multiple
landlines or if he just has multiplephones, but he said he has three
or four numbers. Yeah, whereit's like maybe they're all routed to the

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each of the phone somehow you canswitch lines can get that. Well.
Back in the day, you feellike that technology kind of makes sense.
Now, back in the day,probably not. My family has ridden the
roller coaster of economy. We werepoor and then we got money. So
when we got money is when wemoved to the other side of Allen,

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Texas into a two story house.And we had two different phone numbers.
I believe one upstairs and one downstairs. There's two totally different phone numbers.
Now we're those divided between peas andkids. I think basically PE's down,
K's up. Yeah, pretty much. I think we had different numbers.

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Maybe we didn't urn because that makesit sound like he has multiple phone numbers
that I guess would be at differentwings of mel Kiper's stand. It's a
little confusing. If he didn't answerthe kitchen phone you call the east where
exaggerating about the five. But hedid say I have four numbers four mel

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Yeah, true, w TF?And I also L O L L M
A O L M b A ohokay, just about everything happened. Try
to acronym that shoopy b j AE nice h y. I wish to

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god I did I had followed themel Kiper life plan so he's never had
a self funny thing. I don'tknow. That's a great question, Like,
surely he had one at one point. Maybe, I don't know.
I guess Kim if you've got Kim, because he became the front voice of
NFL draft coverage a long time ago. Yes, that was probably that was

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pre cell phone. A yeah,I remember Brad Sham having his own,
having him on Sports Central well longbefore he got onto ESPN, So he
probably made it in the industry comfortablypre cell phone. Right, Yeah,

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it looks like he started with ESPNand maybe nineteen eighty four if I'm reading
this rock o, cause he wasahead of Yeah, well, Brad Sham
was having him on Sports Central likein the seventies. He was way ahead
of the cell phone. So Ibet he's never had one. And do
you guys know how much better themental health of our country and world would
be if none of us had acell phone? Oh my god, I

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bet mels so happy. I feellike the newer generation is doing something like
that. I think we maybe nevergot to the story, but I saw
that. I think more and morekids these days are pretty much constantly on
do not Disturb on their phone yes, and a lot are going anti smartphone.
Yeah, like kind of thing againto go back to, like slip

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phone, Yeah, the brick phonewhere you can call me, you can
text me. But I'm not ableto have five million apps going and I'm
not browsing something online at all times. I'd love to hand, I'd love
empty. I would love to try, because I've tried thinking like, Okay,
if I didn't have my cell phone, what does it affect, Like
we text each other some mm hmm, but I could do the job without

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us texting each other. And soreally the answer is, my cell phone
is ninety five percent poison, it'sninety five percent refresh social media apps.
Why don't we have the balls todo it? Because we're afraid? Why
are we all cowards? Why arewe all also stuck this stupid little thing.

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I think to not have a cellphone, you have to not have
any reason for like, you can'tbe accountable to anybody. Well, and
we're accountable to people because we havejobs. Yeah, other worries like family
emergencies, stuff like that, whichhopefully don't happen too often, but when

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they do, if you're not byyour phone, then what if I went
flip phone. I don't know,but maybe what if I went flip phone?
Should we all do that? Allright? What can flip phone do?
So? I think you could.Technically I had flip phones where I
could be on the Internet, likeI can hit browser, but it would
take forever, and it was incrediblyinconvenient, and it wasn't touch screen,

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so basically you would be calling andtexting, okay, and you could link
an email to a flip phone.But again, at least when I had
one, it might have just beenhow Internet was on phones back then.
It was very slow to do anythingon the Internet, and I think I
would one that to be true.The flip phone you would have to like
press the key like two times forB, yeah, two times for E

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or whatever, like you'd have todo yeah yeah. The T nine texting,
I believe, and I believe ithad predictive You could try to make
a word, but if you werewrong, you'd have to go flip through
individually. Now hold on, letme go. It would be so good
for our brains if we went flipphoning. And the Samsung A nine hundred

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was a great phone. It's likethe Samsung version of almost the razor kind
of like the razor, the verythin. I remember when I got a
pink razor. I was so exciting. Oh you were crushing with weren't you.
Yeahs were awesome. Razors were good. And then you start having the
ones where you could slide out akeyboard. Never had one of those.
I didn't. I don't know ifI did or not, because for a
while I worked at a cell phoneplace, and so I stole everything,

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uh BlackBerry, because blackberries when itwent smart, Yeah, if there's an
in between, like where the phonewas instead of flipping like its folded in
half and you flip up, itwas that the bottom half would slide down
and it had like a sideway's keyboard, and it was like, oh,
look at how you can text nowright, you got a whole keyboard.
But then you get to the blackberrying. Oh man, I could type so

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quick on a BlackBerry. Yeah,and you could play brick Breaker, you
could if it was the right BlackBerry. We all need to be mel kiper
guess what we gotta do. Ido think the kid's part throws it off,
because like if somebody needs well,they can call you. Yeah,
you don't have to have a smartphonefor your kids, but you can't always

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answer. That's why texting is good. We can text on a flip phone.
We need to do a flip phone. We need to lead the charge.
We have to a Julie. Wehave to I got too much going
on on my phone? What likeone hundred thousand text strings? You can
do that on a flip phone.You can text. That sounds so confusing
to keep up with all that,Like I just got a text for my

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daughter's teacher. Would have came toyour flip phone? It's yeah, that
would it came to your flip phoneand you would have gotten that text,
but it would have taken a longtime to read it and then to write
back. I don't think it would. We need to find out. You
can find out and report back.You guys are cowards. I am.
I'm not afraid. I'm intrigued enough. Flip phone challenge. I think we

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would find out that we got wayhappier. Yeah, but there'd be way
more things that are news to us, like, hey, did you see
like I sure did? Hadn't beenat a computer? I don't know,
I hadn't been at the laptop.Sorry. Here's someone that says I would
go to the smart list phone.But then how would I listen to you

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guys in Austin. Oh yeah,you guys have to keep your people to
us. You know what a badidea, scratch yourself segment. You all
have to keep your smartphone. Ifsomebody wants to know, how would you
play Pokemon Go, I'd have togive it up. I could play Pokemon
Go just at the house when I'mconnected to Wi Fi on a pad of

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some sort. How would you playCall of Duty? Well, that's on
the computer or the PlayStation. Ohthat's a good question too. Yeah,
I do not play that on thephone. Thought. Yeah, so there's
that. So anyway, you guyssee the Jokic stuff. Eh, saw
it on the phone. Oh,I saw it on the computer. Uh,

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Mike, are you familiar with theJokic brothers. No, you have
Nicola Jokic and he has two brothers. Oh really, yes? Are they
all seven four to two? Idon't. I don't know how tall they
are. They're big, strong men, but they look like they're seven foot
tall and three hundred pounds and likea stereotypical American bad guy in a TV

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show. Shooty, I think youwould become fascinated with them if you looked
into them. Yes, I willso once upon anyway, Okay, do
you pick sure him a certain wayright, Like he'll mix it up a
little bit on the basketball court,but afterwards he's just talking about his horse
farm and whatever. He just wantsto get to his horses. So he
seems like probably an even keel,calm guy, not super excitable. Yeah,

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his brothers are psychopaths, psychos,and because they're Eastern European to us
stupid Americans, they do seem likethey're probably bad guys who hurt people all
the time. And so after theNuggets Game two victory over the Lakers,

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we do have video of one ofthe Jokic brothers punching another fan directly in
the face. No oh really,yeah see this. Yeah, so he's
being investigated Strahinya jokicay, give ortake. But no. So they've been
in the news with him before anytimethat he has an issue. I believe

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it was twenty twenty one and Jokichshoved one of the Morris twins I think
it was ye Markeith and he gotsuspended and like so they had gotten into
it and the Jokic brothers then wereon social media threatening the Morris twins like,
guys, this doesn't have to bebasketball, we could meet you.

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And I was just like, holycrap. They're real life gangsters. Yeah,
they're scary. And then plus they'reEastern Europeans, so we just assume
that they have murdered a lot ofpeople. What I know, it looks
like the movie Taken or right now, I'm watching the TV show Bosh,
and anytime that there's a bad guy, it's Russian or other sort of Eastern
European. They have the accent.They're clearly doing gang stuff. What are

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you watching? Mark hold On,he's looking for it, probably trying to
find the Yokic put Yeah, Iam so. Yeah. They've been in
some uh yeah, they get insome kerfuffles, like there was a Son's
game in twenty twenty one where theSons and the Nuggets got in a little
scuffle. And then there's video ofthe Jokic brothers who like they want to

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come down on the floor and theywant to fight the NBA players. They
want to get down. Uh soone of them is now under investigation because
we have video of him punching adude directly in the face. Yeah,
he didn't even care no, nos, not even a little bit. And
it is such a clean punch.And I kind of want to shout out

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the guy that he punched, becausethat's a gigantic man that threw a really
strong right hand. That's the that'sthe brother, and that dude didn't fall.
Yeah, the guy's gigantic. Theguy who's up up up top,
Yeah, he throws the punch.They're both. Those are both the Jokis
brothers. Wow. And then theguy who's downhill just took a punch directly
to the face. Hey, hekind of took it like a chance.

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He kept yelling at him right after. Yeah, I would have fallen to
the ground and been like, ah, so like part of me, what's
the sound you would have made whenyou get the same sound we were doing
yesterday? But if we would,I'm b over. Anytime I fall to

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the ground now at this point inmy life, I go ah, because
it hurts, and it's just kindof sad. Okay, do you not.
I I don't make sounds when Ifall. I just get real embarrassed,
even if I'm by myself. Yeah, because I do fall sometimes.

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Do you know what those two brothersnames are? Uh Strahinya, yes,
and uh what is the other one? Neumonia, namanya ya namanja. Yeah.
I feel serious, you know,I feel real guilty because I don't
I don't like to stereotype, youknow, but I do watch enough TV
shows where they just make the badguys Russian, and so anybody who speaks

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with that sort of Eastern European accent, I just immediately go, oh,
you're gonna kidnap someone's daughter. Yes, actor is gonna have to come after
for you can the movie taken?And then Yokic's brothers go out there and
kind of confirm it that they're justout here raging and punching people in the
face even though everybody knows who theyare, and they're not gonna get away

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with it, and they don't care. They just want to fight. So
that's neat. Now you're up todate. You can keep it moving.
Thanks. Coming up next time togo Hollywood Swing and Jewels, where we
had to let's get to the bottomof some Hollywood rumors and also let's discuss
the noises that we can't stand.That's coming up next.