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November 30, 2023 • 21 mins
Is Mark Cuban preparing one of the Adelsons to take over the Mavs in a few years? Jeff has a sports nugget! Then we do the Two Minute Drill!
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Boy, nobody vamps like the Crusaders. All right, five thirty eight is
our time. This is I thinkseven won the Freak and you are listening
to the speakeasy Little Fun with EmilyJones for your edification. There, let's

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ninety seven to one, the freak. We have this item which came our

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way. Now, this is accordingto the New York Post. And you
can say what you want to aboutthe New York Post. Many do.
I love it myself. But onething the New York Post is not in

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is the business of getting things wrong. Because a lot of people don't like
the New York Post, what dothey do? So? Do they make
angry many people, many people inpowerful places, make a little gossipy?
Right, yeah, absolutely, it'sgossipy. I go to their ex account
for the stupid stories for Jeff's bucketa crap. They do a pretty good

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job of posting all the dumb stuff. Well, here is what they posted
today. Dallas Maverick's owner Mark Cubanmay be grooming Sheldon Addelson's adopted twenty something
meters sun to run the NBA teamafter the shock sale to the Lake Casino

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Magnet's family. The Post has learnedsource of say that Addelson considers Cuban a
mentor and he and Cuban is expectedto maintain operational control of the franchise for
now anyway, But sources have toldThe Post that Cuban's understudy will be and

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I have no idea how to saythis, Maton. I guess m at
An Adelson. He's a Stanford graduatewho once worked as an intern for the
club interesting for the mav I guessso huh huh, and recently joined the

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ranks of basketball team owners with thepurchase of a club in Israel. Yeah.
And apparently that team in Israel theyare putting a whole bunch of money
in to try to topple the bestteams in that league or whatever. They're

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trying to be the the Israeli Yankees, Yeah, which is what I don't
The one thing about the MAVs salethat's weird to me is if you're not
the majority owner. That would makesense if they have a secession plan for
Mark and mind that involves their family. Because the only part that threw me
is everybody's insistance They're like, yeah, and Mark's gonna run basketball operations.

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And I'm like, well, ifyou're not the majority owner, you're running
basketball operations until the day they decidethey don't want you to. Yeah,
and then you're fired. You don't. That isn't written in stone. Although
I guess you could write a contractthat says, even though you own more
than I do, I will stayin control. I guess you can put

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whatever you want in a contract,but I've never heard of it in sports.
And you know, in a contractlike that, control can be a
pretty nebulous area, right, Yeah, you can control whatever you want until
the owner says no. Yeah.The source close to the Addlestons says this,
I figure within five to seven yearsMaton, And again, I don't

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know if I'm saying that right ornot, Maton will be running the team
for sure by the time he's thirty. Wow, that's pretty wild, ya
a random source, but it makessense. We just got a new Cuban,
which a new young guy that's gonnabe like I've got this. Yeah,
I hope he doesn't do what Markdid. In a lot of ways.
Cuban will keep a roughly twenty percentstake in the MAVs, sources said,

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but the surprising sale raised speculation thatthe entrepreneur in reality TV star was
facing a liquidity crunch. Now skinthrough this idea out yesterday, I mean
that would make that would make sense? Yeah? What uh? Just because
like he likes owning the Mavericks.Sure seems like his favorite thing. That

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he's the face of a pro sportsteam that he bought because he liked the
pro sports team and he had enoughmoney to do it. You know what,
he's sixty five right now, soyou can still play with your toy
for a half decade while getting somebodyready and you can put a couple billion
dollars in your pocket. Yep.Sure. So this this guy, Mattan

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was an intern in the Mavericks corporatesponsorship department in twenty sixteen. Okay,
according to this article, well,you can buy your way to good positions.
But back in twenty sixteen, thefamily was already being linked to the
MAVs is Yeah, what I takefrom that this guy who has desires to

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own or run a team and hisfamily getting has all the money because he
they bought the other team that he'srunning the team owner. And then there's
a family member of a different placewith billions and billions of dollars. He
gets a hold of the other billionairelike, hey, our kids done with
college? Can he in turn foryou? You say, sure, why
not? That's kind of how theworld goes. Yeah, he wants to

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run a basketball team, and herehe is. However, many years later,
mom and dad truly buying the basketballteam, and then you'll have the
opportunity, and that can get dangerous, Yeah, I can. I think
it got dangerous with Mark when youhave a guy that I think, for
multiple years, thought that he couldoutsmart basketball people by being like, well,

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I've read the new CBA and here'swhat teams are going to do,
and so I'm going to do thisand this and this, And then when
the other teams don't do what youthought would be smart for them to do,
you're just an average ass basketball team. For Wow, you think that
they're going to zig, so youwill zag. But then when they wind
up zagging too and you don't knowwhat to do, then let's see this.

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Source close to the Addleston says Sheldonhad a relationship with Cuban for fifteen
to twenty years. I've viewed Ibelieve Mark viewed Sheldon as a mentor to
him. They've known each other along time. Yeah, huh, I
mean clearly he does. You knowwhat might go back aways with this family?

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You know what, Mike, what'sthat? Joe Luke is leaving?
Mark knows it. So he's out. Mark's not out, and Luke's not
leaving. Mark's dipping out, andhe knows Lucas not, don't you think
Now it's like Luke is asking outin a year or two, He's like,
Yep, we're done, I'm outof here. Let me get what
i can. Well, all themoney backing this team is going to be
good. I know he's already gotall the money and stuff, but it

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doesn't change how much you can makein the NBA. That's right, That's
what I'm saying. He's already got, He's already fine. He's already gonna
make as much as he is allowedto. So that doesn't change that.
But backing the team, and they'realready the facilities and spoiling the players,
and yes, if you're building acasino and everything that they hope to do,
assuming that gets approved someday, Iwonder what Dan Patrick is up to

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Dan Patrick's the lieutenant governor, andhe's the one who is staunchly eh not
in Texas. Yeah, with gambling. He's the one that even though inside
Texas sports wagering would win in alandslide on a vote, won't even let

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it get to the floor in whateverit's called the House or Congress or whatever.
He won't even might to get tothe floor because you need a two
thirds vote in each of those places. And he's like, it ain't even
getting on the floor, not whileI'm here. So now you've got people
with thirty something billion dollars, everyonewill change their They've already supported Abbott and
now they're going to turn And what'sgonna happen is the lieutenant Governor's gonna end

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up with a new car, acouple of businesses that he owns. They're
like, oh my god, howthat happened. And he's gonna be like,
look here's the thing, gamblings.Okay, I kind of like it.
That's what happened. So he wasre elected in twenty twenty two.
So I put them at twenty twentysix. Yeah, because they're trying to
get that on the ballot. Wasit last year? Or the year before,

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and he's the one that was justlike, Nope, it ain't even
gonna there's nothing to vote on here. You can't. If you could,
it would pass by far by partisanlee, it would pass. Can he
by himself keep things off of there? I guess I don't know how crap
works, man, do I?But my understanding is the governor is like

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whatever, I don't care. Whatare people? Oh, I just want
to keep being in office. It'spretty neat. And the lieutenant governor,
yeah, the lieutenant governor's house,yeah, in't no wild. This is
not about Greg Abbott. This isabout all the politicians whoever you are,
that you hate, but none ofthe ones you like. In a wild
the salaries for all these jobs aren'tthat big. But every person in government

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in a reasonably high position has multiplehouses and land, and they're all criminals.
The perks must be unbelievable. It'slike the president makes two hundred grand
and they're all worth five million.Yeah, one hundred million, And it's
like, oh, that's interesting.You're gonna stack that money up very responsibly.

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Good investment deals these guys make.The handshake deals just must be out
of sight. Yeah, slimy bastards. Well, should we do the two
minute drill? Not yet? No? Not yet? Yeah, okay,
we gotta we got all right,we're gonna get four or five to go.
We can reach into the well.You want to reach into the well?

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Doesn't sound like it does now?From now on, ork it sound
like that groovy. This is abrief sports note that just kind of surprised
me. I thought this morning fifteenof the NFL season is Monday Night Football?
Of that week is or was theKansas City Chiefs and the New England

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Patriots, and they have been flexedout of Monday Night Football and will now
play on Sunday that week. Clearlyone of those games that looked a lot
better then than it does now.Yeah, Chiefs Patriots on paper, Yeah,
whenever they were doing the schedule,sounds pretty juicy. Could you ever

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imagine the Patriots being that bad thata TV network would say, get Pat
Mahomes off of Monday Night Football?No, you would think there's still such
an allure there with him and theChiefs. And week fifteen is what are
we Some Cowboys have played eleven plusa bye, so I guess this is
week thirteen. So it's two weeksout. The game that's going in there

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is going to be Eagle Seahawks,which if the Seahawks will lose this week
and next week, then you're justgonna have really good team like you did,
yeah, against a not so goodteam instead of a really good team
versus a really bad team. AndI don't know, Maybe I'm wrong about
this. Philly is probably Northeast mightbe a bigger draw, as I say.

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I would think Kansas City is abigger draw to the national audience with
Pat Mahomes than Philly is, AndI could be wrong. I have no
idea. I just know Dallas isthe biggest and New York is good.
Yeah, New York is good,but Pat Mahomes I would think is pretty
good too. Yeah. I wouldthink they're one of the biggest draws in
the NFL, and on par atleast with Philly, I would think.

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Yeah. But that's just wild tome to see a Pat Mahomes football game
just got flexed out. That's howbad Bill Belichick's football team is that the
network said no, especially because Tayloris off from her tour so she could
be there, and then you getthe eyeballs. Yeah, they're not factoring
that. Um, okay, yeah, I mean it would have been in

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Foxborough, but that doesn't mean shewouldn't be there. Lives in New York.
Well. As a staunch reader ofthe Boston Globe, I know all
about what this season's been like forthe Patriots. Did you have an updated
tweets? And it has not beenpretty. I mean, everybody believes firmly

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that at the end of the season, one way or the other, Belichick
will be gone. It's just amatter of whether or not they've got the
stones to fire him or he quits, or just how it's going to come
down. All right, let meask you this, Michael, sportsman of
the highest regard and highest order.Let's say, just for fun, cowboys

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finish out the season like they've donethe last two years. They end up
twelve and five, they beat thewinner of the NFC South in their first
playoff game, and then they golose to Philly or San Francisco by six
points. Would you want Jerry toget rid of McCarthy and bring in Bill
Belichick for the possible chaos values Yes, okay, for my job, Yeah,

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absolutely, okay, I would,But I cannot imagine What does the
league think of him? Now?Do they view him as one of the
best coach? Because like their teamsucks And that's partly on him because he
has a lot of say in personnel. It is they draft like butt and
there are a lot of people whodon't like him. You know a lot
of people who don't like him.But if you like Will McLay, pick

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the players and just have him coach? Is he still quick one of the
best? Or was that Tom Brady? And I think a lot of it
was Tom Brady. I mean hehasn't been able to make any sense out
of mac Jones whatsoever. And there'soh he can't play, Yeah, there's
there's a really good reason for that. But somebody somewhere thought he could.

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Yeah, and he'll get a newquarterback this year and he make he makes
all those calls. Yeah, hecontrols the draft, he controls free agency,
he controls every aspect of that team. Two and four seventy eight seven.
Now you can do it. Yeah, two minute drill, let's get
it ready to go, get itall try stuff, dial up, dim
up, go all right, edictime. Here's how we do this.

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You get thirty seconds or until wedetermine that your story has become tiresome.
Whichever happens. First start whatever youhave to say with the words, I
think that be ready to go whenwe come to you, turn your radio
down. Don't ask us how weare, expect nothing from us by way

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of response or reply. And hereto these six simple ltics and this can
go wherever you like. Shooty,let's do it. You're on the two
minute drill. Go. I thinkthat Julie's heart broke when she found out
Twitter with her old folk. YeahI heard that happened. Yeah, yeah,

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yeah, she's sort of slumped overher in her chair. It is
definitely thirty five and up. You'reon the two minute drill. Go.
I think that this year the mediagods will come to their senses and realize
that Tom Brady is in fact notthe goat, but in fact, our

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own Kevin Gruber, who jumped shippedfrom the stub, is in fact the
goat. Marconi. Yep, KevinGruber. Hell yeah, you're on the
two minute drill go. I thinkthat the Cowboys will lose tonight and won't
make it to the playoffs. That'swhat we're talking about. To make the

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postseason you're on the two minute drill. Go. I think that you guys
have maybe addicted to nerd clusters inevery store I go to, I buy
a bag. Yeah, hello,you're on the two minute drill. Go.
I think that you guys are soawesome, Like, honestly, listening

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to everything on this radio station issuch a smile on my face every single
day. I appreciate everything all ofyou guys do. Love the printer guy.
We're going to give him so muchmoney. Tell your friends about it.
We're going to give him so muchmoney when we see him. Yes,
tell a friend about the freak.You're on the two minute drill.
Go. I think that I lovemy wife very much and I hope she

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has a great day tomorrow. Youhave been in the doghouse for so long.
God, but it is sweet.You're on the two minute drill.
Go. I think that grooms orrhymes he needs to do. Playing for
the uninitiated, why you call eachother shoopy? Nope, you're on the

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two in a drill and you gotthe last word. Go. I think
that AI robots are dumb. Iwent to a taco shop the other day.
Hey, I robot breathing my tacosa wrong table, Julie, you're
awesome. Kevin all You're great,Roy, I love you. Go cowboys.
All right, all right, thatis it for us for today.

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We certainly do thank you for yourtime and attention this afternoon, thanks to
Shoopy over there. See I callhim that again, Shoopy, That's what
I call him for making it allso wonderful in that way that only he
can now do. Stay tuned becausewe got a lot of good stuff coming
up here on the Freak tonight.Got the news junkies later on, so

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get your head right for them,and be by the channel tomorrow at two
when we are back with another editionof the Speaking's Now we're freaking the weekends
somewhere, right, fuckers, comehang out with it, all right,
pluckers in Plano ten to six.We will be there all day tomorrow,

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so we'll see you guys out thatway then. Until then, Jeff,
remember do you remember you have noidea what anyone's going through, So be
cool to everyone. We love you, Be easy, go team, enjoy

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it and have a couple of beersnight, but you know, get ready
to work tomorrow. I'm in arecover beer good show, love you,
Bye bye, have a good night.
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