Ryan Hollins and Mike Harmon Talk Gold for USA Hoops, NFL Preseason & More!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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He's Ryan Hollins. What's going on, buddy?

Speaker 3 (00:55):
Hey, what's going on? Brother?

Speaker 2 (00:56):
Well, you know I'm gonna go through the entire CV.
We'll get into your grade transcript and everything before long
as well all the different evaluations we had going back
to the draft. We can do it all as we
get ready for what is the final day of Olympic action,
as the torch will get handed to the United States
to bring it back here to Los Angeles. Lots of

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pyrotechnics and theatrics promise for later on tonight with all
the celebrity involved. But you know, Saturday was Championship Saturday
between the relay teams the women's soccer squad. I still
have issues with the off sides ruling and what is
and isn't offsides, but you know what, in this case USA, USA,

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it's a stupid rule and gets interpreted liberally. But you know,
in the end, it worked out for us this time,
Ryan Hollands. So we get the one nil victory and
the gold medal game and then had a couple of
minutes to pause and get an Errander two done. And
then I sat down to watch the United States and
France with the popcorn and full on accoutrement. Ah, so

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you got to get a French word in as well
to watch the United States and France get after it,
and boy, what a treat that was.

Speaker 4 (02:13):
For two hours.

Speaker 3 (02:14):
Oh man, listen, I think this France game in Serbia correct.
I feel like those are the two of the best
basketball games that we've watched. I'd say probably since that

(02:34):
three to one comeback where the Cavaliers were down to
Golden State and they came back and kind of like
history was made there. That's probably the best basketball we've
seen since. And I would even say from an All
Star caliber, I don't remember this excitement with you know,
All Stars and those guys on the floor. Maybe man

(02:56):
am I hunting and this is my generation. What Michael
Jordan's last last game, last All Star game where he
hit the fade away over Sean Marion. Just with the
excitement and everybody playing hard and you know, guys not
taking time off and the competition level on the other
side just as high. I mean, it's just I'm just

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still blown away from what we've seen because when we
see our legends are guys the best players in the game,
they're not playing hard, They're not giving you that effort.
And then to see them, you know, together or I
would say maybe having success. Also, you O'Curry hadn't had
the cast around them, Lebron hadn't quite been Lebron. Even

(03:41):
the Bubble Championship didn't have the feel when they beat
the Miami Heat. With all due respect, it's still the championship,
but just the excitement, man, and also something to be
proud of. Mike, Am I wrong? Like? Do you watch that?
Is there's something to be proud of.

Speaker 2 (03:55):
I think all of it, All of what you just
said is apt. I mean, go think about NBA season
to season. You know, the Warriors, we got excited as
a basketball loving group for about I don't know what
did that last a year? They changed the game and
all the excitement thereof, and then it became a I'm
tired of this because now every team is trying to

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emulate it and they can't do it. So we're getting
bad basketball, bad shooting, all of that stuff. And we
still see it across the NBA. You know, you mentioned,
you know, to a degree, the load load management and
shuffling through you know, our all Star games are you know,
a payal comparison to the regular season product. But the

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season is so long that a lot gets lost in
terms of, you know, giving you forty eight minutes of
effort every night. And it's not disparaging the players, just
being honest. You can't go at that breakneck pace for
as long as a regular season is. And anybody that
doesn't see that, they just want to shout at clouds

(04:58):
and windmills. But yeah, trying to figure out those moments.
But you like, this didn't have any asterisks to it, right,
the Cavaliers come back, you had the Draymond stuff, So
that mars it to a degree. It doesn't make it
any less impressive, you know from the straight Hey, you're
down three to one. But you know one of the

(05:18):
principal guys is missing for a game. We'll get to
him a little bit later because he had to inject
himself into the proceedings, of course. But yeah, I mean
there's very few moments that rallied together. I mean, selfishly
for me, I was on air when Kobe hit for sixty,
you know, in his walk off, and we had guys

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in here, like everybody had a jersey on right where
we're in Los Angeles for those unaware, here across our
vast Fox Sports radio network. We had Global on the
iHeartRadio app of course listening everywhere. But you know, we
had guys running around in Kobe jerseys. You had the
h you had the twenty fours, you had the All
Star jerseys, you had everything. And I couldn't get anything

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edited because guys were too busy running in the hallway
screaming and getting excited about what was going on because
it was amazing, right because he started off terribly. I'm like,
are we gonna watch one of these games? This isn't
how it's gonna end, is it? And then he caught fire. Yeah,
it took a lot of shots, but he gets to
sixty points, so on air, I mean, that's about as
good as it gets. But watching the last couple of

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games here, I would just say from the tournament as
a whole, because like a dope, you know, I said
an alarm and I actually got up and watched the
second half of Serbia Germany live. I didn't realize they'd
replay it for me in that window between soccer and
the gold medal game Ryan, So I was a bit
of a zombie yesterday thereafter. But just the tournament as

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a whole, just some of the best basketball you see.
Now you can question the interpretation of you know, foul
calls and the goaltending rules and whatever, you know, where
it's just a tweak off of what we normally see.
But all in all, you got guys for their countries,
for their teammates. From the opening tip to the final whistle,

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there was no give and that I think is all
you ask for is a sports fan.

Speaker 3 (07:14):
Well, two things. Uh. The one statement you made what
I love too is that you said, you know the
foul calls, and I thought those guys came in with
an experience and they were grabbed and held and they
didn't care. That was also something too, because we're used to,
you know, in the NBA game, and you have to

(07:35):
do this to survivor else they're gonna they're gonna beat
beat the mess out of you. Our guys got to
complain about fouls, and so you can't watch the game.
They're always complaining. There wasn't complaining, dude, No.

Speaker 2 (07:46):
I mean you got a couple where they're you know,
you thought you got mugged going to the rack, but
then you kind of turned said your.

Speaker 5 (07:53):
Piece and moved on.

Speaker 3 (07:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (07:56):
I'm hanging back and I'm gonna keep yelling at you.
I mean, Lebron did some good cherry pick and we'll
get into the coloring of his beard and what it meant,
because I think there's a lot of symbolism in it
one way or another. But but yeah, to your point,
they just played basketball. Yeah, Hey, even if they got
absolutely hammered, there might be a quick you know, mean
mug and look, but you know'll play on because that's

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just the rules of engagement.

Speaker 3 (08:18):
Oh, Devin Booker got full on low Bridge. He got
pushed out the air. That was one of the dirtier
plays if he I'm glad he didn't get hurt. They
didn't really bring a lot of it. They were just like, look,
play on like but he got pushed out of the
air in that gold medal game. I'm sure the Phoenix
Sun's staff and ownership was watching it just cringing.

Speaker 5 (08:38):
What No, that's just it.

Speaker 2 (08:40):
That doesn't mean there weren't a few of those moments
right especially around the basket. You know, you'd have guys
that would get run into the what would be the
third row of cameraman and behind the stanchion. But again
it wasn't drawn out. And I think Dennis Shrewder said
it best. You know, after they're met, match yesterday goes.

(09:02):
You know, it's high bad IQ basketball, and it's just
guys that know how to play, want to play and
are excited to be here. I mean, we could do
I could do an hour on Nikola Jokic based on
you know what he put up in this tournament and
then his celebration thereafter, and what it meant, right, the

(09:23):
guys you work with versus the guys you choose to
go play with, and all of those kinds of things,
and what it meant to him that didn't look like
a guy that was all right, I don't need to
do a celebration. I'm just gonna go back to my horses.
That looked like a guy who was ready for a
seventy two to ninety six hour run with his guys.
Now that this was done, you know, so you know,

(09:44):
just that different level of buy in and camaraderie. And look,
was this aesthetically clean basketball all the way through? No
sloppy as hell. We'll get into Steph Curry in a
couple of minutes, but you know, and I know Doug
Olan for it on his show on Monday, but like
he had tweeted out, and I think we all thought

(10:04):
the same thing, right, another sloppy turnover, the same clean
what are we doing? And then all of a sudden
he catches fire and all right, I guess that's a race.
Let's move on because we saw a number of those
communication issues. We're still there even in through the Gold game,
you know, with some of the turnover issues that they had.

Speaker 3 (10:24):
Listen, man, I don't know whatever. I haven't seen Lebron
James like, like Lebron was giving you the old man efforts,
you know in the last two seasons where you know,
when you get older, everyone you know over thirty probably
understands this. You can start and you can go, but
stopping is the problem. You know, Lebron did, I'm running,

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but I can't stop. And this time, man, he was
making multiple efforts. He's moved better than I've seen him
move in probably the last three years. You know, this tournament.
And also I got toot my horn right, Remember we
talked about it because I got to see the USA

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VERUS Canada game. I said, oh no, I said, no, no, no, no.
I said, the body language is there. I said, these
guys are locked in, they're playing hard. There's no complaining,
there's no there's there's there's no extras. I said, no, no,
They're serious about this. And it got started from the beginning.
And Mike, I want to know what you think about this.

(11:31):
I'm convinced, man, there's gonna be a lot of residual
effects from this game. And when I say residual, effects.
It's gonna effect impact the NBA season, free agency. Obviously,
most the most infamous move from USA Basketball was the
the Heatles coming together. And I don't know if it's

(11:53):
quite gonna be that, but some of these older guys
are gonna be going. I still got it build around me. Hey,
you know what, let's let's link up together. Some of
these younger guys. Jason Tatum gonna be disgruntled, is gonna
be make or break for him. Listen, There's a lot
of effects that are gonna be taking place from what

(12:16):
we just saw in the Olympics, and I'm interested to
see how it ends up playing out.

Speaker 2 (12:22):
But I will tell you right now, no, I agree.
I agree one hundred percent. We call it generally the
spidering effect is what we've always called it on the show,
Jason and I do, or at least that's my term
for it. Right we may have a single topic, but
it starts to spread like a spider web.

Speaker 5 (12:38):
Where you have myriad angles out of it.

Speaker 2 (12:40):
We talked about Anthony Edwards looking up to Kevin Durant
and I think the guy would have run through a
wall for him, like that was the hero worship, and
then they started hanging out more and more as we
got towards the end of this. Remember when Anthony Edward
who was rebounding for him and just staring back at him.

Speaker 5 (12:56):
I mean all of that plays and I think that's
exactly it.

Speaker 2 (13:00):
So we'll talk more about that, spider and fact coming
off of the Olympics and does winning cure everything? Ryan Hollins,
that is the major question I think we have to
ask coming out of these Olympic Games.

Speaker 5 (13:12):
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Speaker 2 (14:11):
Hey, welcome back in It's Fox Sports Sunday, Fox Sports
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with you this morning. Wherever however you're listening, Thank you
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(14:55):
more people to enrage and engage, entertain and inform. Ryan,
you know the jump off point that you gave there
is I think very key going forward LoveFest and a
lot of great ISO shots and you know me and
the collectibles world as always as to what's the next thing.
TOPS went out of their way immediately after the gold

(15:17):
medals were conferred to say, hey, we've got deals with
Lebron and KD and Steph and for the first time ever,
they'll be on a card together. Buy us now for
your opportunity to potentially get one. So you basically buy
into this program that they have called TOPS Now and
you buy whatever quantity of the card you want and
then randomly inserted. They're going to have some autographs from

(15:39):
those guys, including one of one of the three of them.
Wow that I'd like to know what the checks were
cut off for Steph, for KD and for Lebron.

Speaker 3 (15:50):
Right there, those are some pretty checks. I'll tell you
that Mozilla's are some pretty checks and they're going to
make a pretty penny coming from it, no.

Speaker 2 (16:00):
Question about it. But you talk about the team ups
and just five weeks the camaraderie and certainly everybody's looking
towards the elder statesman of where those three guys, in
particular with Stephan Lebron, you know the sadness of, hey,
now I have to leave this team which was so

(16:20):
good that we had several guys and not even get
off the bench more on them later, or come off
the bench and not really do a whole lot. And
then you get to go back to the Warriors and
the Lakers respectively for this coming season, which, as we know,
you're fighting towards playing status and wishing, wanting, hoping that

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things break your way.

Speaker 5 (16:43):
Is I think the nicest way to say it, right.
All the quotes that.

Speaker 2 (16:47):
Everybody had from Lebron just kind of saying, hey, this
may be my last chance to really play for something
on this kind of level. Very telling, and certainly, as
you noted, the effort from opening whistle to the to
the final seconds ticking off certainly showed that, man.

Speaker 3 (17:09):
It did, you know, And I think it's almost it
was just the desperation mode them understanding what's there. And man,
I honestly feel even bigger Anthony Edwards had such an impact.
I feel like Anthony Edwards is the first young name

(17:32):
that those guys respect enough to say, hey, if we
don't get our stuff together, or hey even if we do.
He's gonna take the throne.

Speaker 2 (17:44):
Well, and he also was very adamant that he could
go and do it. So you got that too well.

Speaker 3 (17:50):
And again, hats off to Anthony Edwards. I was talking
with one of my NBA buddies, as you'd like to
say yesterday.

Speaker 5 (17:57):
I mean, you got a network.

Speaker 3 (17:58):
I mean you there, you go.

Speaker 2 (17:59):
I mean, but it's not a pejorative term, Ryan, it's truth.

Speaker 3 (18:03):
Our our excitement was that Anthony Edwards, and kudos to him.
He's doing it the right way. He didn't come in
and some would be confused for confidence and cockiness, and
you know, on the court, you gotta see me, you
gotta go through me, you gotta beat me. But he
stepped into this environment and said, I'm the little homie,

(18:26):
I'm the young guy. I am gonna learn from these veterans.
I'm gonna soak it in. Kevin Durant was my favorite
player growing up. Make no mistakes there, and and these
are guys that I looked up to. And even when
he got his moment or didn't get his moment. You
know a lot of times we want to we want

(18:47):
to crown. I'm used to I'm used to hierarchies. Okay,
we want to crown guys. Maybe before it's time. Of
course he's the next step. Of course, maybe he had
more more gas in the tank, but he had no problem.
I'm deferring and saying it's not my time yet. I'm
gonna learn from Lebron, I'm gonna learn from stuff, I'm
gonna learn from KD and I'm gonna cheer these guys on.

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I'm gonna come off the bench. And everybody just clinged
and hung onto his statement that I'm option number one.
As this this whole thing started and was looking for.
Everyone was looking for the the dissension within the team,
the beef, the disgruntled, the you know who's mad about
playing time, and it's like, come on, dude, it's not
about that. But Anthony Edwards, in my opinion, helped bring

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this thing in with his buy in and just saying
it's you guys time. I'm here to support. And there
are many ways, you know where Anthony Edwards still has
some growing to do. He still has that, you know.
Lebron and Miami effect were like, hey, you don't you
don't really know how to win, yet we can teach
you how to win. That he got a chance to

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soak in and embrace, and he was unbelievable with the
minutes and you know the time that he did play,
but you can see the kind of growing that he
had to do when the game kind of got to
those championship levels and you almost think, Mike, did you
see Curry? We'll forget. When he hits the one shot,
he said, oh, you woke me up. I'm gonna show

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you how to do this. Okay, you want me? You
got me. You guys been scraping for Curry. Here's Curry.

Speaker 2 (20:18):
Yeah, the Curry run down the stretch because you know,
we we would be remiss if we didn't at least
revisit that and celebrate those four shots and the greatness
and the seconds that they gave us.

Speaker 5 (20:32):
Chris and Ian. If we can get a little bit
of Steph Curry, all right, well we'll effort that.

Speaker 3 (20:40):
Never mind.

Speaker 2 (20:41):
All right, So Steph Curry, as you know, we're talking
about turnovers, we're talking about being a sloppy because look,
they had twenty nine assists on thirty six makes so
overall the unselfishness and at times, look, a sloppy pass
is a sloppy pass. You know, I gave a lot
of kudos to the to the broadcast last week, now
this one, and in the last couple of games. Anytime

(21:01):
there was actually a mistake, it's like, no, no, no, it's
it's not that you could say they made a bad pass.
You could say it was sloppy. You don't have to
find excuses for it. Not everything they can do is
gonna be great. But we saw greatness from Steph Curry.

Speaker 8 (21:14):
Hurry up, triple stuff.

Speaker 9 (21:19):
Say calmed down, everybody.

Speaker 8 (21:23):
Curry, step back, Pulp Curry, what's tulars this?

Speaker 5 (21:29):
That's unfair?

Speaker 8 (21:30):
Steph Curry, hurry again, don't worry. No Curry dancing up
a tune for the couple team.

Speaker 3 (21:48):
That's a golden dagger.

Speaker 2 (21:50):
There you got Noah Eagle, Dwayne Wade on the call.
Uh courtesy of the the NBC Olympics coverage our partner
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Speaker 5 (22:02):
When we look at that barrage.

Speaker 2 (22:04):
And especially that last one right you and I were
trading messages yesterday, and the shot of Curry and the
follow through in the ball going over when Mindyama is
one that I think everybody who's gonna want a poster
of a trading card of whatever else. But I want
the alternate shot that shows that KD and Lebron are
both looking at him, like, why are you shooting the ball?

(22:26):
I'm right over. That's one of the greatest still shots
in sports history. I'm gonna go over a couple of
seven footers while two of the other all time greats
on the court with me are just standing there waiting
on the basketball.

Speaker 5 (22:42):
I mean, how great was that?

Speaker 3 (22:44):
That's unbelievable. But he was so hot. Look, man, I Curry,
the way he went off, Is it fair to say
that people forgot? Is that crazy for saying like, hey,
this tournament? And he would have been easy to forget
until the final two games. He didn't shoot particularly well.

(23:08):
You know, it's always there, you know, kind of lurking
and circling.

Speaker 5 (23:12):
But you know, wy, at some.

Speaker 2 (23:14):
Point, you know, you do run into a stretch of
games where you're not on. And so for Steph Curry,
I think we'd kind of hit that point of like
when is it gonna happen? And boy did it happen?

Speaker 3 (23:24):
The boy did it happen? Boy did it happen? Right?

Speaker 2 (23:27):
It was just one after the next, Like I told you, right,
remember that the famous Kobe Bryant play when he ran
through Paul Gasol. We saw that as the Olympics was
going on, right, like, hey, like here's Olympic memories and
everything else, Like what four of those nobody gets in
his chest?

Speaker 3 (23:46):
Well, the thing with Curry because he is shooting threes.
You can't touch a shooter, you know, like you can't.
You cannot put your hands on a shooter because you
put your hands on him. It's a it's a foul.
But like what just the way that Steph does it,
it's oh, gosh, dare I say it's stepfordless?

Speaker 5 (24:08):
Wow?

Speaker 4 (24:09):
Look at you.

Speaker 2 (24:11):
I don't know that I've heard that one. You might
want to trademark that one.

Speaker 3 (24:14):
Oh goodness.

Speaker 2 (24:15):
Either that or I will can start the legal proceedings.
We need to make some extra money off the show.

Speaker 3 (24:21):
I'm on it.

Speaker 2 (24:22):
Thanks buddy. Trademark searches, trademarks, patents, let's ai a logo.
Let's get that all going as we flow here on
an early Sunday morning, women's game has tipped off the
United States a fifteen and a half point favorite. A
lot of the rhetoric around that team also dying off

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as they win and the guards in the last game
actually played pretty well and accounted for forty two points. Meanwhile,
Caitlin Clark living your best life, hanging out with Aaron Judge,
prize pigs and having a statue of butter at the
Indiana State Fair. But the question I posed before we
paid some bills was does winning cure everything? We'll get

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back into the team ups and stuff a little bit
later on Ryan, But for Steve Kerr all of the questions, right,
you brought up Jason Tatum. You know, we Tyrese Haliburton
had the best Instagram ever, you know, when you do
nothing on a project and still get an a showing
up his gold medal.

Speaker 4 (25:25):
Oh, he had kin about it.

Speaker 3 (25:26):
He had two posts.

Speaker 2 (25:28):
I saw that one. What was the other?

Speaker 3 (25:30):
Ah, Man, there's the I don't know if if you've
seen it. There's just like a viral deal going around
where and I guess I should warn you before your
girls get you. Everyone in the group says, and no
one really understands what's going on. They say, show me
the money.

Speaker 2 (25:49):
Oh yeah, no, I've to me, it's dopey. But yeah, okay,
So they did one of.

Speaker 3 (25:54):
Those he got his dad and it went viral. Oh, again,
and his dad just goes, you know, he gets excited.
So what happens is you to scream out, show me
the money, right, and everybody starts clapping and sharing, and
there's this excitement and one person's not in on the joke.
So Halliburton's dad is not in on it. There's one

(26:16):
person not in and when he screams out show me
the money, nobody laughs, nobody points, and he's no clap
did the person just completely upset?

Speaker 2 (26:31):
So I mean the dad, I mean, depending on you know,
dad's temperament. I mean, that can end badly at times.

Speaker 5 (26:39):
It's like, oh, I'm the bad guy here.

Speaker 3 (26:41):
Well he's on camera. He's on camera, so yeah, well yeah,
so you want to get I guess primarily someone older.
I'm glad I got to see it so my kids
can't get me and we're showing me the money proof
now at this.

Speaker 5 (26:54):
Point, see, I didn't I didn't know the end.

Speaker 3 (26:57):
I see there you go, you come off with yall.
I know it, Yeah, you know, but I but I
know the bit right.

Speaker 2 (27:03):
I've seen the beginning of it, and I'm like, this
is stupid, and I keep scrolling.

Speaker 5 (27:07):
I know Mike's family was preparing just a phenomenal one
of these, and now we just ruined it.

Speaker 3 (27:13):
Yeah, if you know.

Speaker 2 (27:14):
My younger daughter though definitely not on board this kind
of stuff. The older one, I think could get sucked
in with the right group of folks saying, hey, let's
do it. The younger one, Nah, she did say, like
a couple of the teammates tried to do that to
their coach at a workout the other day, and he
just shut it down and made a brun a lap

(27:35):
because up done with that. In other words, I guess
one of his other teams must have already done it
to him, so he was already So instead they got
to run.

Speaker 3 (27:46):
Oh wow, that's too. Oh, come on, don't be a
salty swordfish.

Speaker 2 (27:52):
Another term I've not heard. I there's another trademark assault.
We're just getting all sorts of terms.

Speaker 5 (27:59):
A wit, stepherless and salty swordfish.

Speaker 2 (28:03):
That's good, Yeah, stepfortless.

Speaker 3 (28:04):
I think the great Steve Laviv former coach Steve lab Guys,
don't come.

Speaker 2 (28:10):
I haven't seen Steve in years.

Speaker 3 (28:12):
Yeah, doing a great job down there at San Diego.

Speaker 2 (28:14):
No, I'll have to go visit him. Then let's go
take a drive, all right, So back to back to
the Olympic stuff, and with Steve Kerr, I like that
little segue there, But Steve Kerr does it Does it
solve everything? Because I think US men's basketball has some
cleaning up to do. Even with the win, they didn't

(28:37):
cover by the way sixteen and a half. So Betters
did not get the best. Even with the heroics of
Steph Curry, they did not get the They did not
support their backers in that regard Ryan Hollins. But you know,
we're talking about the substitutions. The playing time we mentioned, Haliburton,
mentioned Tatum, Tatum's mom got into the mix, so many others,

(28:57):
Bob Coosey, you name it. Everybody had opinion on all
of this in terms of rotations and such. Is it
Is it something that is easily just repaired by the
fact that, hey, it's LA twenty eight or is this
something when you go to build your roster you just know, Hey,
I might not get the top twelve guys, but I'm

(29:18):
gonna get twelve of the top eighteen that you know,
they're not all gonna say no based on this and
need you know, promises of playing time and all those
other things.

Speaker 3 (29:31):
Oh, you're gonna definitely have to promise playing time. There
is no mistaking that Kerr is gonna have to promise
playing time or excuse me, better yet, Grant Hill is
gonna have to promise playing time to get guys the
next time around. But if you're Steve Kerr, somebody was
gonna be unhappy. Somebody was gonna be frustrated, somebody. You

(29:55):
didn't know who it was, it was gonna be somebody.
And you know, Jason Tate probably knew beforehand. Hey Jason,
you may not get the the Tata minutes here, the normal.
You may not get the specials, you know, So we're
gonna warn you right now. And I'm sure he was.
He didn't use a great sport about it. He understood,
and he did play in that last game. But and also, Mike,

(30:19):
I gotta tell you this too. The Olympics had social
media involved. I don't remember in the Olympics with social media.
You get what I'm saying, Like, this was different, right, right,
It's social media was all all over it, man, But
it's a different effect.

Speaker 10 (30:39):
What do you got, Chris Purpfett, come on in, Well,
I do think to your point, like we did not
have really much access to the Olympics in Tokyo because
not just because the pandemic and everything that was going on,
but also that we had this twelve hour difference. So
really the last one we would have had in the
age of instant social media, especially my blogging with Twitter

(31:01):
or now X, would have been Rio twenty sixteen, and
I feel like we had a little bit of that,
but it was mostly concentrated around the swimming team. The
big thing about twenty twenty four, to your credit, is
that this has been eminently accessible. This is the first
time I think they've gotten streaming right, because I remember
watching like London when it was streaming. It was kind
of a mess, but I still watch a lot of it.

(31:21):
But like, this is between gold Zone and how accessible
it is on the terrestrial TVs and on all of
Peacock and everything else.

Speaker 4 (31:30):
It's eminently accessible. Any event is eminently accessible.

Speaker 10 (31:34):
There's a lot of storylines and characters that have popped up,
people have identified and taken to social media. So yeah,
I do think this is like I'm not gonna say
it's the first we've had of social media for the Olympics,
but it's so far been the most accessible and successful one.

Speaker 3 (31:50):
You could become. And I love this for the Olympia.

Speaker 4 (31:55):
The Turkey shooter.

Speaker 3 (31:56):
Yes, a lot of Again, we'll get it.

Speaker 2 (31:58):
We get three hours. Example, he's part of a larger
play in our in our sporting universe. Because I also
looked at the clock and we need to talk to
Isaac Lohencron while we're sitting here and getting an update
on the US game. So much in the Olympics and

(32:19):
the rest of the world in sports.

Speaker 5 (32:20):
It's up Ilo.

Speaker 4 (32:21):
Hey, good morning, Mike, Good morning Ryan. I Oh, hang on, guys,
just got an email. Oh it's from confirmation at USPTO
dot gov. It reads your US patent and trademark claim
on the phrase stepfordless has been accepted.

Speaker 5 (32:41):
Sorry, Ryan, See he told you once again.

Speaker 4 (32:46):
I gotta be ruthless, scooped. Speaking of ruthless, that's what
Team USA is hoping to do in the gold medal
game at the Olympics right now, as they seek their
eighth consecutive gold medal and their sixty first consecutive victory
at the Olympics. Five thirteen in counting left in the
first quarter and they have an early six ' five
lead over France in the gold medal game. A short

(33:08):
time ago. American Jennifer Valente won the gold medal in
women's track cycling. Earlier today, in the gold medal match
in women's volleyball, Italy defeated Team USA three sets to nine.
An NFL preseason action on Saturday night, the Jacksonville Jaguars
defeated the Kansas City Chiefs twenty six to thirteen. Patrick
Mahomes played for some reason, I'm a pathball guy, Get

(33:29):
out of here. He completed three of four for twenty
seven yards. Remember his new backup quarterback this year, Carson Wentz.
He completed all four of his passes for twenty six yards. However,
new Chiefs receiver Marquise Brown dislocated his shoulder, Andy Reid
saying afterwards that Brown indeed will miss some time because
of the injury. Finally, in Major League Baseball, on Saturday night,
Matt Olsen of the Atlanta Braves at two home runs

(33:51):
that had six RBI in their eleven to eight triumph
at Colorado. Mike and Ryan back to.

Speaker 2 (33:57):
You appreciate you, Ilo at Isaac Low and crowd. Where
you find him in the Twitter verse. Find Ryan at
the Ryan Hollins Find me over at Swollen Dome at
Chris burfett Ian is just at Ian Roddy or do
you have a real or something with an underscore at
the end. There you go at the end. He had
to be different, Ryan, he had to stand out. That's

(34:18):
what his executive producers do. Why don't we stay on
the topic of the social media part of all of
this and what we're gonna remember from these Olympics. We've
got the Turkish shooter as one. What are the indelible,
indelibly etched moments of these Olympics. We'll talk about it
next year.

Speaker 3 (34:35):
On Fox.

Speaker 2 (34:37):
Welcome back in It's Fox Sports Sunday, Fox Sports Tradio
by Carmen Ryan Hollins with you coming up in ten minutes.
We'll circle back a little more on the United States
men's basketball team, what it looks like going forward. Tatum
had his statement and all of those things, and well,
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the hey we remember, we're gonna remember the Turkish shooter
seemingly walked off the street no special equipment and wins

(36:02):
himself a silver medal. Best meme I think of the
week was he was going getting on a plane and
someone just tweeted out as He's standing there with one
of the flight attendants saying, well, I guess we don't
need an air marshall on this one.

Speaker 4 (36:15):
Boom.

Speaker 2 (36:16):
But Ryan, I mean, look, let's take the Steph Curry
barrage aside. What's the what's the lasting image of the
Olympic Games for you? What's what's that indelible moment?

Speaker 3 (36:29):
Wow?

Speaker 2 (36:31):
I could skip him come back to you.

Speaker 3 (36:33):
No, there's so many, there's so many. I can't. It's like,
go ahead, get me, skip me, go all right.

Speaker 2 (36:38):
Ian our executive producer. For me, it's it's Scheffler. Okay. Yeah,
so coming back, you know, he was sixty to one
when that round started yesterday, started last Sunday.

Speaker 5 (36:50):
But this is what we were just saying in the
commercial break, is like, what what does he have to
do to set himself up to be the next Tiger?
There's not going to be a next Tiger quote unquote,
but you know this guy has all the makings of
being the next goat of golf.

Speaker 3 (37:03):
You know.

Speaker 5 (37:04):
So I'm really interested to see where he goes from here.

Speaker 2 (37:06):
Well at the fat winning and then maybe go back
and lean into the arrest and say you did everything
that they alleged I'm just kidding exactly.

Speaker 5 (37:13):
No, keep going. I'm sorry, No, I mean, that's that's
pretty much it.

Speaker 10 (37:16):
I just like it. To me.

Speaker 5 (37:17):
It's incredible. Like I remember, I woke up to that
news that he broke the course record to win, and
when I went to bed, he was in like sixth.
It's just and this is the Olympics we're talking about, too.
This isn't just like some random golfers he's gaining ground on.
These are the best in the world. Insane to that.

Speaker 4 (37:36):
I think I'm gonna have to do a three way split.

Speaker 10 (37:38):
We've talked enough about Steph Curry, but that's gonna be
it etched in my brain forever. While he was focused
on Scotti Scheffeler, I was focused on Djokovic going out
with like something that he that eluded him for his
entire career, a gold medal he had competed in multiple
other Olympics and just broke down after beating Alcaraz And
that was a phenomenal match. But uh, I've got a

(37:59):
real give it to Noah Lyles. You know, he talked
a lot of stuff in these years, in the years
leading up to it, you know, the whole World Champions
of what line and everything, and he's the fastest man.
He's throwing a kame on the side. Yeah, I don't
know about that. Let's let's get into a wheelchair and
COVID thing. There's some questions that come out of that.

Speaker 5 (38:19):
What was your third?

Speaker 4 (38:20):
No, that was the third? That wasn't like it was
Steph Curry, Steph Curry, Djokovic and Lyles.

Speaker 2 (38:25):
Here you go, all right, Isaac lowin Krown. Do you
have an image that's burned in your brain?

Speaker 3 (38:30):
A tie?

Speaker 4 (38:32):
I've got two of them. The first is the gold
medal won by the US women's soccer team yesterday. In
light of their disappointment at the World Cup last year,
they cleaned house. They have a brand new head coach
in Emma Hayes, and in her first major international competition,
they win the gold medal. And that is tied with
that's right, the chocolate muffins at the Olympic village.

Speaker 2 (38:55):
There you go, the legend Henrik Christiansen. Right, all right,
Ryan Hollins, we come back to you now. He wants
now Isaac has to buy muffins for everybody.

Speaker 3 (39:06):
There is a just a nostalgic moment. Man. We'll probably
see for a long time and for those hoopeas you
know exactly what I'm talking about. Lebron James drives to
his left hand, hesitates, Steph Curry's on the wing, oversails
the three ball, he cuts the back door, Lebron hits
him back door, Steph drives it, gets the ball under rim,

(39:27):
draws two kicks out to Kevin Durant for a wide
open three, and Durant knocks it down and you just
kind of as a hoop head, you scratch your head
and go, man, that's one of the sweetest things with
those who love real basketball. Forget the highlights. That was
one of the coolest things I'd seen and shout out
to Dwayne Wade as soon as he saw too. He

(39:48):
noticed it and said, man, that that was special. Turn
the broadcast so that play right there and watching those
guys like kind of celebrate, probably likely for the last time.
That was the moment.

Speaker 2 (40:01):
See, I have a very long list. We've covered a
lot of them. Shakari Richardson, looking to her right and
staring down the competitors as she meddled.

Speaker 10 (40:09):
How did I not think that home is I just
realized I forgot about Celine Dion at the opening ceremonies, tremendous.

Speaker 2 (40:16):
Aid Olympics right all the emotion and later on more
Tom Cruise cheering awkwardly and getting going. We've got the
women's basketball game we'll talk about next on Fox.

Speaker 1 (40:27):
You're listening to Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 2 (40:30):
Greetings and welcome in our two of the program. A
spirited Fox Sports Sunday US women's basketball team is out
and about six of eighteen from the field to get
things start. Oh for two from three point range, long
way to go in their gold medal match against the
home country France. Once again, we've got luminaries all over

(40:53):
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(41:13):
team assembled making a sound so pretty. We got Ian,
we've got Chris, and we've got Ilo at the news desk.
As we rolled through here, Ryan Hollins, and for the women,
they get asked, I think the same question that the
men's team did. You know, when meeting expectations sometimes still
doesn't quell everybody's thirst for dominance.

Speaker 3 (41:37):
Well, here's the thing, man, the women do an excellent job. Man,
They've delivered for years. They've not had the same woes
that the men's side has had. And again, part of
their excellence is, you know, halfway during the year they're stars.
A lot of them get a chance to go and
play overseas and they compete against the competition. So there

(41:59):
is it that shock of what the girls overseas and
the world has to bring to the table. From the
men's side, it is a shock because these guys don't
play against the world competition on the regular So the
women with the World Games pretty much they're light years ahead.
And several of the other sports too. I think about

(42:20):
that track and field of four by one hundred relay, man,
they could not get good handoffs together. That just enamors
me and I get it.

Speaker 2 (42:29):
Carl Lewis said, to blow it all up, Bryan Hollins,
blow it up.

Speaker 3 (42:33):
Look, I get it. I understand. These guys are thrown together.
They don't know each other's speed. Hey, man, those two
veterans out there that they have two jobs. Two veterans
out there that are in between it that are going
to run the relay and just give you a decent
time and then put the fastest possible guys in between

(42:54):
there so that you don't have these new handoffs. Because
what happened the guy comes up when you're so fast,
you don't know how quick that he is. And when
you don't know how quick that somebody is, you know,
you take off too soon or too slow, and there's
a zone where you got to be able to get
the handoff in. And also they're running, so they're running
much faster whatever it is once you get out there,

(43:16):
running much faster than you expect. And that's what the
veterans come in line. Well, it comes into play when
I talk about the women's team, because the women seem
to find a way to get it right all the time.
And I'm talking about the basketball side, the track side.
I mean, they're dominant. So hats off to the ladies. Fellas,
come on, we got to be better. Whatever needs to
be fixed, it's got to be fixed. But that four

(43:37):
by one relay man, we're too talented to have those
things happen.

Speaker 2 (43:40):
You're all through. We saw the four by four hundred
absolute dominance there, and on the women's side it looked
a lot like Katie Ldeki in the fifteen hundred, where
I can't pan out far enough to show you how
far behind number two is, and that was just a
sheer dominance. But we did have a sprinter, Kendell Ellis

(44:01):
that said she got scratched just four minutes before the
start of the race. She took to social media and
called out the process and everything that went on there.
I'm proud of the team that we put out there, obviously,
I think they were incredible. I feel disappointed, lied to,
and embarrassed. I feel like I was blindsided because I

(44:21):
told one thing this morning and for hours I thought
I was running in the final, and then it seems
like everybody knew except me. So she was told she
wasn't gonna run it, then she told that she was,
and then just minutes before the race, got tapped and
said I'm sorry, you're not running in this one and
said wait what, And that's how she found out from

(44:43):
another coach on the sidelines.

Speaker 3 (44:46):
Yeah, there have been some wacky things. And then Shakari
Richardson if I'm not mistaken. I don't know the story exact,
but I think with her and the Jamaican veteran man,
it couldn't get the proper warm up in time, or
they wouldn't let them the gate, whatever it was.

Speaker 2 (45:01):
I know that right, proper credentials to where it's like, great,
you don't know who she is getting through?

Speaker 3 (45:07):
Yeah, yeah, that that that that's gonna stain. I'm just
so I'm glad Schakr got her gold Man. That that's
that's tough. And she's still my opinion, hey, fastest woman
in the world, and you know, hey, hopefully she gets
that opportunity you know, at some point in time. But
my yelp that I just let out is the point

(45:29):
guard from France just hit a bomb from half court. Man.
So this is a game. If you're not watching, get
a chance and turn on this this gold medal basketball game.
They're going at it.

Speaker 2 (45:39):
Twenty three all two forty five left here in the
second quarter. Uh, the flashlights are up as if it's
a rock concert or if you're a wrestling fan, you
remember the late great Bray Wyatt and the Fireflyes. So
you've got all that going on all the luminaries there. Look,
I've watched a lot of Olympics coverage, Ryde Hall. I'm

(46:00):
talking first thing in the morning, all the way through
replays at night while I'm working with Jason Smith. I
had avoided Jimmy Fallon for almost three weeks. I hadn't
seen him. And then you had that monster dunk from
Lebron James and they did a shot to you know,
celebrity row as, like this guy in the sunglasses that

(46:20):
they cut through real quick. I'm like, I think there's
my first Fallon sighting.

Speaker 3 (46:24):
Sure enough it was you hadn't been watching Peacock. You
han't been watching on Peacock.

Speaker 2 (46:28):
Well, I've had it on Peacock. I mean I've been
all over the place, but somehow I'd avoided any references
or popins from him. I've seen Snoop a million times.
Like when I used to go to Vegas for conferences
and stuff, I'd run into him and the Bishop Magic
Don Juan almost every time I went there. I'm on
the elevator, there he is. I'm walking through a casino,

(46:49):
there he is. I'm going to eating dinner. And it's like,
for a while, I was like, am I supposed to
be part of your entourage. This is this what the
fickle hand of fate wants me hanging out. I mean, look,
he had the the green suit. What would I have worn?
You know, what would have been my proper color palette
to hang around in that entourage?

Speaker 3 (47:10):
I think you got something in the in the in
the tank we we can Snoop'll take you all right,
I'm in you fit.

Speaker 2 (47:18):
No, he's look. I got to talk to him about
his youth football league many many years ago. Everybody else
just wanted, you know, some kind of one liners or whatever,
and we got deep into his roots of youth football.
So you know, folks that think this is just a
full publicity thing based on being a judge on one
of their singing shows at all. No, no, no, God

(47:41):
loves his sports, Him and Flavor.

Speaker 4 (47:43):
Flavor.

Speaker 2 (47:43):
We'll get into ambassadorships a little bit later on, because
I think that's kind of a big deal. But watching
you know, the women's side and again running in parallel
with the men, I had a lot of criticism about
the selection process. Caitlin Clark, Angel Reese should they should?
The guard play kind of been a focus of a

(48:04):
lot of it. Ryan and look, the proof is, as
you put it out, gold medals, every Olympics, gold medal
game here once again, when you've got Breonna Stewart and
Asia Wilson that you can just jump on their backs
and be led to greatness. On the men's side, we
started a little bit last hour. But for those joining us,

(48:25):
you know, the dial changes all the time, folks coming in.
When we look at the Jason Tatum Tyrese Haliburton situation,
you know, I don't know how much you can promise
playing time because that was one of the big things
early in the tournament, right was well, clearly Joel Embiid
had to have been promised a lot of stuff. He's
already talking about playing in for Cameroon next Olympics. It

(48:47):
was cool to see all the teammates rise up as
the French booed him when he was getting his medal
and they were all egging him on like to a man, saying,
all right, bring whatever you got. And then he did
the degeneration x chop as he's wont to do. Adam
Silver can't find it for him when he's part of
the Olympics, right, But it just the idea of the

(49:09):
selection process for Grant Hill and Company. And you know,
as we talked about with Chris Baffett and Ian Roddy
are executive producer and technical producers, you know, talking about
social media and where everything is just magnified on a
whole different level, not that it already wasn't, but this Olympics,

(49:29):
you know, the the widespread just minute by minute because
I think NBA writers were more in tune because of
the the stakes for it. When you've got Steph, you've
got Lebron, you've got KD, you've got the older, older players.
Where for Steph it's you know, this is it right?
He said it all along that you're going to have

(49:51):
that changing in the guard and people were waiting with
their poison pens in the event that it failed, not
only for the players but also you know, Steve Kerr
and USA basketball.

Speaker 4 (50:01):
As a whole.

Speaker 3 (50:03):
Yeah, there's only one okay thing to happen, and that's gold.
So you know, for it, Steve Kerry, he's saying, I'll
be the bad guy, I'll hurt some feelings, but I
brought that gold.

Speaker 2 (50:17):
I mean it wasn't pretty, and I think you know,
to a large degree, I mean, look at we talk
about how great the basketball was, again owing to you know,
the international play and what is and isn't a fall,
and and kind of the interpretion interpretation thereof. I just
want consistency. That's all I ask for in any of
any of this stuff from youth sports all up. As

(50:40):
consistent as you can be. A fall on one end
should be the fall on the other. I still never
will understand why if I back into you with two
hundred and fifty pounds of force and knock you off
the block, that's okay. But if I'm facing up and
I'm staring you in the eye and I run you over,
it's a fall. But you know, we can talk about
that another time. But it's just the idea that you know,

(51:02):
you have these great competitions that come down to the
end and you had to sweat it out. Great as
a viewing audience, but still one of those weren't we
supposed to dominate?

Speaker 3 (51:14):
Weren't we?

Speaker 2 (51:15):
I mean it ended up being eleven point margin to
victory Steph Curry's heroics, but I could see you know
where you and I haven't done the full run of
notes and all, wait, what's going on with our USA
men's basketball team? And trying to find angles to chop
it down, even though everybody's biting their their gold medals.

Speaker 3 (51:35):
Well, I think we've all realized that the world has
caught up and in some ways, if it was ROLLED
versus USA, I think the USA it could be in
some trouble.

Speaker 2 (51:47):
But so now you're making the world the monstars.

Speaker 3 (51:50):
I like that if you put them all together, you
put Giannas and Yo kicch and you know, and bead
flips over. You know, hey, yeah, that's it confined absolutely, even.

Speaker 2 (52:00):
Though he's still got beef with the French government. Oh,
there was a big interview during Dan Patrick show earlier
this week. I saw part of the transcript kind of
talking about all the promises and all the help that
the French did for Joel Embiid, only for him to
go full heel and join Team USA because evidently the
Team USA players wanted him more than the French players did.

Speaker 3 (52:22):
So take that about the players there you go. But
the bigger key there is that you know, obviously you
expect gold, but the respect for the world is there.
And I remember when USA first what they bring home
a bronze and it was just like, how do you lose?
And these guys. Aren't this They're not that same energy

(52:43):
isn't there again? Like I said, the respect for the
world is now present because they have caught up. And
you think about, what was it eight nine ten NBA
players for.

Speaker 5 (52:57):
Team Canada and I had ten.

Speaker 3 (52:58):
Yeah, I mean the French Wimby. Wimby is the best
young Like I'm are we gonna beat the French next time.

Speaker 2 (53:07):
But his parting shot and it's like, you know, I'm
getting better four years it's like you know and and
well who you talking about? And he's just like everybody
like he was like a movie villain.

Speaker 3 (53:17):
No, no, no, no, he by this in the next
four years. Uh yeah, uld say, he's gonna have some
things to figure out because that young man. Wow, you
know that, you know the shot for me if we
say Wimby or you think about the world when he
was just crying tears, I'm like, oh no, it's over,

(53:39):
he's grown up. It's it's this is gonna be a
tough one. This is gonna be a tough one for
USA or even the rest of the NBA with him
moving forward.

Speaker 2 (53:50):
I will say this, the you know, coming out of
that as you say that, the tears flowing from him
that it was roundly praised because it was in supportive
country and I saw a number of folks and too
many to shout out one, but just putting up images
of Caleb Williams and other athletes having the same emotional

(54:13):
run over that somehow for Wemby in the international competition
it was okay. But in anything else, no context, no, no, no, no, no.

Speaker 3 (54:25):
Of course Wemby was okay. There's context, no.

Speaker 2 (54:28):
But what I'm saying is opposite these other guys. I mean,
they're competing not at the Olympics, but they're still competing
at a high level well ere experiencing the same level
of disappointment.

Speaker 3 (54:39):
Here's the thing that's tricky, And don't don't get caught
upon me saying that it's not okay for other guys
to do or other situations. But what happens is the
shoe has to fit. And I think what people, you know,
mistake or they don't understand, is that these guys have
things going on in their lives outside of sp and

(55:01):
sometimes after a game that doesn't seem as impactful or influential,
can happen. You can break down it can it can
catch you. You know and just and break you, and
it's not about that actual game. You you don't get it.
So to the naked eye, they're going, well, this guy's
just crying or this this game wasn't that much. These

(55:22):
guys deal with a whole whole lot. So I think
with with Kayln Williams, that's it. I don't think we
understand the full story or why that had had went on.
He just looked, he didn't look as tough, he didn't
look as masculine as you'd say, right. But I think
with with Wimby, you knew exactly what that was about.

(55:43):
And in an era where a lot of young guys
don't really care, they're into themselves, they're you know, they're
worried about all the wrong things. This guy's got his
head on straight and he gets the moment. Okay, a
lot of young guys in this era, they don't get
the moment. Okay, he ain't scrolling on his phone, he's
reading books. Okay, the guy's built different.

Speaker 2 (56:06):
Reading books. What do you think is on his reading list?
Because I was gonna make the obvious joke of the
first page, Lebron, but.

Speaker 3 (56:15):
No, I think that dude, you opened the door I
don't know. Yeah I had to no, no, no. So
for those who don't know, I think you gotta look
it up. Don't quote me on it. Somebody somebody tweet me,
let me know what it is. But I'm pretty sure
Wimby he's got some deal where he's like he reads
these uh this these a certain amount of books he's
got to read a day or like two hours of
reading or what. It's something something, something deep where you're going, wow, Okay,

(56:38):
this guy's no, no, he's the real deal. You have
a conversation with him, you hear him talking, go okay,
this guy's he's like he was built in the lab.

Speaker 2 (56:45):
Okay, because I know a lot's been made about his
sleep schedule, his cycle and all of that as well
in his first year in San Antonio. Well yeah, but
the legend just grows coming out of that game because
that was a performance that it's like, wow, if you
get beaten by him, Now hed BECs is a super villain.

Speaker 3 (57:02):
Gosh, I'm scared to see where it comes. Man speaking
get how is.

Speaker 2 (57:06):
No that's just said, he's just a kid. Coming up next,
we talk about some of the greatest troll jobs. I've
got three nominees from the week that was. As we
continue here at Fox Sports Sunday at the Ryan Hollins
find me over at Swollen Dome. Yeah, troll jobs and
Hall of Fame worthy perhaps for one of them coming
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Speaker 5 (58:22):
Now and we mentioned Joe.

Speaker 2 (58:23):
El Embiid in the gold medal ceremony a lot of
questions about his playing time and everything early on, but
certainly the games being in France, well that he was
gonna wear it from time to time, Ryan Hollins, and
certainly every time he touched the ball. It's a good
villain story, no question about it. But he also at

(58:46):
the gold medal ceremony had the degeneration X chop going
back to old school wrestling. Some folks might only know
Triple h A is a former great and now just
the guy in charge of WWE go back and hit
the old YouTube videos and have some fun with that,
as you will. So he's up for one of the
trolls of this week. We've got three guys that hit

(59:09):
the metal stand. We'll stick with the Olympic theme here,
Ryan Hollins. The second one Draymond Green. You may have
heard him referenced down the telecast by Noah Eagle and
Dwayne Wade a few times Steph Curry looking in his
general direction, or at least that's what they'd have you believe.
But Draymond Green, well, he was on a podcast talking
to Baron Davis earlier this week and he said he

(59:30):
was going there specifically for one thing, and I'm.

Speaker 3 (59:32):
Going, oh, come on, let's killing I know you shut up.

Speaker 4 (59:37):
I know where he's sitting, right behind the Franz.

Speaker 3 (59:42):
Bitch.

Speaker 2 (59:48):
How do you like that? Get on a plane. How
about my supper vacation. I'm gonna go see my guy, Steph.
I'll go see coach, but I gotta go talk to
Rudy Gobert.

Speaker 3 (01:00:00):
Unbelievable. That's unbelievable from Draymond. I mean it's believable. It's
unbelievable to the extent. I mean, obviously he was going
out for Steph and Lebron and his buddies with all absolutely,
but for the story, it was for Rudy Gobert. And
I don't know, Draymond is is is a troll? But
I think Embid wins because you forget the other instance

(01:00:25):
where he locks Rudy goes bear's legs, Yes, his head
between his legs.

Speaker 2 (01:00:32):
I think we can get a high rest picture of that.
Get joining bed to sign it.

Speaker 3 (01:00:36):
And he stands there, so that that's that's where Imbid wins.

Speaker 2 (01:00:41):
I think I'm gonna send that. I'm gonna get that
printed out. I'm gonna sharpie and send it uh to
the to the arena. When they're on the road in
Houston and then I'll tell him to come ask you
about it.

Speaker 3 (01:00:53):
Yeah there, Yeah, there are a couple of moments with
the big fella. He enjoyed himself and listen, and I
don't let's just say it's not even I don't know.
USA don't beat Serbia without them. No, that's did they
do not? And that's all the grand Hill and committee
for recognizing we gotta have there's some big fellas. There's

(01:01:18):
some big guys that we cannot match up with, We're
not gonna be able to play against, and we gotta
have Embiid. And for those who don't know, a lot
of times a you know, it's all it's it's just
all mixed up. Okay, there's a non uh you know,
I guess natural citizen, whatever you want to say. And

(01:01:38):
Embiid has been in America since he was in the
eighth grade. You know, he's been there for most of
his life. So for him to play for Team USA
is not that big of a deal. It happens all
the time for other countries, literally all the time. Okay,
Uh so you just.

Speaker 2 (01:01:55):
Go down to roster, yes, yeah, yeah, there did. Grandma
was grandma born here. Okay, no, you go back to
some of the family heritage, right, that's the way it works.
Do you have a roster spot?

Speaker 3 (01:02:11):
Yeah, so unanimously. There shouldn't be an issue with him
playing team USA, and I get it. There's you know,
I don't think if Cameron had enough there and maybe
they will next Olympics. I'm pretty sure he'll be playing
with this country.

Speaker 2 (01:02:28):
That's just it. Yeah, ad another four years. The market
continuing to evolve, much like we've talked about the coverage
of this right where we're getting to know more athletes
from more nations, and we've always gotten those you know,
five minute violin playing in the back stories of upbringings
and heritages and whatever, which are really tug at the

(01:02:48):
heartstrings and maybe make you lean in a little bit more.
Maybe you don't. You know, you can take it or
leave it as you will. I mean, you don't like it,
don't watch I quote Kevin Durant all the time, Ryan
Hollins when it comes down to a lot of this stuff,
because it's been a lot of belly aching over the
Olympic Games as well. Why is this an event? Why

(01:03:08):
is this on? It's like it's on Peacock, and there's
nine hundred channels and all sorts of different events. Find
one that makes you feel warm and fuzzy inside and
stick to it, and everybody else will watched the other stuff.
So I would say this, the one thing I would
have liked out of this process, owing back to the
conversation about to start the hour, is from both the

(01:03:31):
women's and men's selection. Forget about Hard Knocks, right, the
giants gave us a bunch of stuff. I don't think
in hindsight they really wish they would have, but maybe
they opened the door to a hall of the world
we're recording, Like, look, there's always a red light on
in your lives, whether you like it or not. That
and now we got the Bears and Hard Knock Episode

(01:03:53):
one included a guide to stripped down to an eagle
thong and then he promptly got hurt in the Hall
of Fame game. So there was your big storyline, A
bunch of Chicago reference points in there, of course. So
that was fun. But I felt like a tourist in
my hometown while watching a TV show and waxing poetic
and nostalgic about it all. But I want to hard

(01:04:16):
knocks of the selection process as they evaluate guys and
start going into fit personalities. You got white boards of
who's got beef with whom? And that was from twenty twelve.
Is that quashed? These guys will be able to get.

Speaker 6 (01:04:30):
Along, right.

Speaker 3 (01:04:33):
Listen, That'll end a lot of debates, you know, because
hey man, look we can, like you said, we don't
want to go down the rabbit hole. But Team USA
either made the Celtics two time champions or single handedly
discab But that's just it.

Speaker 2 (01:04:51):
Right, It's like going through that process as we're watching
this play out. The Jalen Brown stuff that's still in
the background. Grand Hill can did as many interviews and
stayed much longer than I think the interview requires. Like,
you guys are satisfied you bought that answer I gave you.
We're good with that, right, Like there's still a lot
with the Jalen Brown stuff that. Yeah, I don't think

(01:05:12):
we're ever gonna get a full one hundred percent clarity
on But Jason Tatum not playing playing eleven minutes. Look,
I know people were running the stats. You know, he
did not hit a single jump shot in these Olympic Games.
Oh for sixteen.

Speaker 3 (01:05:29):
Not his fault.

Speaker 5 (01:05:30):
I don't blame him for going oh for sixteen.

Speaker 3 (01:05:33):
No, No, I didn't have the same opportunities.

Speaker 2 (01:05:36):
Man, this is sixteen opportunities.

Speaker 5 (01:05:39):
Everybody hit one.

Speaker 3 (01:05:41):
Everything goes out the window. When playing Team USA, it's
a different basketball. This is not the basketball that you know,
all right.

Speaker 2 (01:05:52):
I obviously you played with Team USA and at a
high level. So I'll be just novice guy in the
corner going, I gave you sixteen shots. It's not a
ton I get that. It's but in terms of earning
more playing time, I think he could argue that when
given opportunities, he didn't necessarily earn the next next.

Speaker 3 (01:06:15):
He was never put in a position where where he
could like, here's the thing. For his entire life, the
ball has been in his hand, sure, and then all
of a sudden, it's like, not bald, not in your
hands right now. So it just it didn't It wouldn't
work in that regard. But I thought, so, here's the thing.
If Durant goes down or somebody else goes down, he's
gonna be hey, we need you to step up in

(01:06:37):
it's go time.

Speaker 2 (01:06:38):
Well, and that's the other thing is he may have
been psyched up for the fact that Kevin Durant. We
didn't know two weeks ago that suddenly he was going
to be able to come off the bench and the
Slim Reaper was going to go off like he did.
Remember we were on air watching that at the end
of the first half, looking at each other virtually, of course,
you and Houston, me here in LA and with our

(01:06:59):
guys behind the right, Ian and Brie and Shay and
Chris Pophat and everybody that's cycled into the show looking
at each other, going, I can't believe what I'm seeing,
because twenty minutes before the game, they're saying, yeah, he's
probably gonna get off and get a couple of minutes,
and then all of a sudden he goes on fire.
So if I'm Jason Tatum, my heart probably sank a
little bit once a dude did that.

Speaker 3 (01:07:20):
Oh of course absolutely did. There's no question there. But hey,
that was the spot and how Steve Kerr worded it
is I'm not just putting the five best players on
the floor. I'm gonna put the guys that fit. So

(01:07:41):
I want two guys on the floor that are gonna
just move the basketball and not look to take shots.
So Juwe Holliday, Derek White, there's a space for you
guys on this team. And then as far as the
rest of the guys, I'm not gonna put five scores
on the floor. I'm gonna try to have it out
of Bayo and Anthony Davis, guys that are gonna kind

(01:08:02):
of do the dirty work. So he plat out said,
I'm gonna mix the dirty work guys with the scoring guys. So, yes,
he fell behind Kevin Durant. He didn't want to play
him at all. Now, at the end of the day,
he's a world champ. He's got the crown right now,
so you can really argue, find a way to get
him on the floor, man like, find seriously, find a

(01:08:25):
way to get him out there. And that is gonna
be the controversy, uh kind of moving forward. And what's
tough is when you got guys out there that are
everyone's kind of playing well, it's like, well, who are
you gonna binch? Who are you gonna take off?

Speaker 2 (01:08:38):
Well, we'll see once they reconvene in October as we
kick off a new season as to whether you've created
Voltron between Brown and Tatum and saltiness, not to mention
so many bitter Celtics fans saltiness. Look, man, you brought
up what was it, the salty swordfish earlier.

Speaker 5 (01:08:56):
Yeah, let's go.

Speaker 2 (01:08:57):
The last troll of the week is diversity of Michigan.
We talked about it last week. With the show cause
penalty and the years on Jim Harbaugh, they've decided that
they're going to bring him back as the honorary captain
for the twenty twenty four season opener against Fresno State.

Speaker 3 (01:09:16):
Hey, you know what, why not? Why not? Just all
kind of wacky things going on now? Man, if you
want to do it, it just gets done.

Speaker 2 (01:09:24):
I just dig it and dig the lean into the
We did nothing wrong, you have no power here and
you're not taking our title.

Speaker 3 (01:09:32):
So beat it.

Speaker 2 (01:09:33):
His agent with the greatest statement ever. He's got eighty
million dollars. He's an NFL coach. What teeth does this have?
By the way, it was all still over the recruiting
stuff from the COVID era and nothing having to do
with Connor stallions and the sign stealing allegations. That's still underway.

Speaker 3 (01:09:50):
All right.

Speaker 2 (01:09:50):
Coming up next, we're going to get into ambassadorship. We'll
bring in the crew and talk about this one flavor.
Flav adopted the water polo team. Okay, so we talk
about putting his money. I'm not looking for cash inducements
to squads. But since it's in LA in twenty twenty eight,
who is the perfect celebrity to match up with the sport?

(01:10:13):
And we're leaving soccer and basketball out because they've got
nine thousand people that are going to line up on
either of those sidelines. So fix me a guy or
a woman with the respective sport at Swollen Dome at
the Ryan Hollins at Fox Sports Radio. We'll do that
in a few minutes. But first we've got our guy,
Isaac Lowkron. He's got an update on what's happening in

(01:10:34):
this sporting.

Speaker 4 (01:10:34):
Universe Mike and Ryan in the gold medal game of
women's basketball at the Olympics moments ago. France led Team
USA by ten points thirty five to twenty five with
six forty five left in the third quarter, but then
Team USA went on a game saving eight to nothing run,
keyed by Kelsey Plumb. She had a three pointer, then

(01:10:56):
hit Asia Wilson for a layup, and then Plumb hit
another three pointer. Like was tossing a T shirt into
a San Antonio crowd. So right now, with three forty
six left to play in the third quarter, we've got
a ballgame. France forty Team USA thirty five. The Americans
streak of sixty consecutive victories at the Olympics and eight

(01:11:16):
consecutive gold medals at the Olympics on the line. Earlier today,
American Jennifer Valente won the gold medal in women's track cycling.
Earlier today, in the gold medal match in women's volleyball,
Italy defeated Team USA three sets to nine. Finally, Mike
and Ryan kudos to at Justin c Underscore ninety nine

(01:11:39):
on Twitter because he procured the French telecast of Steph
Curry's amazing run of three pointers in the men's gold
medal game yesterday. So I'm going to play it for
you now. And literally the translation goes like this, this

(01:12:01):
devil named Curry is hurting us. Beware, beware, anytime he
can elevate to detonate attention, he is going to detonate that.
The translation in the English about what you're about to
hear in France. Take a listen to its.

Speaker 11 (01:12:25):
Show deal the step Jewey, What step Jewey, Show step.

Speaker 4 (01:12:36):
Jewey, Dilu Kedy Di lu Keddy Back to you guys.

Speaker 5 (01:12:45):
It all ties together. It's so crazy.

Speaker 2 (01:12:47):
And by the way, Kelsey Plums should be the official
quarterback for our flag football entry in twenty twenty eight,
referencing that viral moment that you did. Ilo at Isaac
Low and kraw Where you find him in the Twitter.
Find me over at Swollendome. Find Ryan at the Ryan Hollins.
We'll talk about ambassadorships. Hey, it's not a political thing.
We're just talking about making the games even that much

(01:13:08):
more fun. We'll do that next on Fox. Hey, welcome
back in Fox Sports Radio. It's Fox Sports Sunday by
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(01:13:29):
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(01:13:52):
again right after a little bit of a summer hiatus.
You can sit in the stands and be off in
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Certainly plenty of it in the evenings when I'm on

(01:14:14):
air with Jason Smith, to shake your fists at and
scream about, especially as we get back into football season
and more Jets talk. Although with the Bears, I may
be just as insufferable this year as I wear my
Jake Cutler Shirsey showing that I'm not new to the
program here, Ryan Hollins, that it's not just started here

(01:14:35):
in twenty twenty four.

Speaker 3 (01:14:36):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:14:37):
One of the things we've had circling around the Olympics, right,
you see the celebrities, right, Tom Cruise, He's going to
be part of the closing ceremonies as we get ready
to hand off to La But he was at the
soccer match. We've seen Mick Jagger all over the place.
He's attended so many different events over the last couple
of weeks, celebrity road during the men's basketball game yesterday

(01:15:00):
and all the way through the Olympics. But we had
Flavor Flav step up funding and being part of things
for the water polo squad and getting on board with
that we saw for women's rugby. Eventually there's Jason Kelsey,
He's part of it. I still need one of those
Maher shirts that has her face all over it. I'd

(01:15:21):
wear that now. Follow her on Instagram. She's really quite
funny and engaging, and my daughters are big fans, so
you know, we get to bond over that. Ryan Hollins,
But what I was wondering for twenty twenty eight, since
it is a world of celebrity here and movie magic
in Los Angeles, who do we pair celebrity wise men
women with an Olympic program. Now we take out basketball

(01:15:43):
because there's gonna be a lot of people hanging on.
We take out soccer, especially on the women's side, it's
gonna be a lot of people hanging on, right, We
got a lot of people invested in the you know,
National Women's Soccer League as their playo. Kick up our
guy Isaac Loncron on the call for Angel City FC
here in Los Angeles. So, do you have a program

(01:16:03):
that needs a celebrity attached? Is there one that stood
out for you an obvious fit for music? TV movies?
As to to get somebody involved with the program to
put them over, I've got.

Speaker 3 (01:16:15):
A fun one that you might like.

Speaker 2 (01:16:17):
What get it?

Speaker 3 (01:16:18):
Beyonce take Women's track and Field, jay Z take the
me inside. I think it fits right right for sure.
Beyonce's a go and I think just how fitting jay
Z take them inside? Now again, this is you put
me on the spot there, you know, because flavor flaving

(01:16:39):
water Polo don't necessarily know how that fits obviously basketball,
but that's just it.

Speaker 12 (01:16:44):
It doesn't have to be the natural fit. Yeah, yeah,
we're going to get a quirky guy in. You know, No, No,
I think that would be. That would be a fun
one there. But again, I you know, they're top, but
I think that would be I think that'd be really
cool for everyone to kind of see, you know, Hey,
be out, say jay Z Track and Field right.

Speaker 2 (01:17:05):
Check out there production level and certainly the pomp and
circumstance and pageantry is there. Chris Popherat, I know you've
had your thinking cap on for this one over the
course of the morning.

Speaker 10 (01:17:15):
M So, I love Olympic handball and I have been
trying to figure figure out how to get Team USA
into Olympic handball and how to get more people to
watch handball because it's a fantastic Olympic sport. And I've
been banning around and I think there's one guy out
there when you're talking about a sport that is a
lot of you throwing by your arm and requires some

(01:17:38):
pretty good dad bot out there. But I think there's
only one man who could bring handball to the top
of the world.

Speaker 3 (01:17:44):
And that Tom Brady could do that.

Speaker 5 (01:17:45):
Tom Brady could do that.

Speaker 4 (01:17:47):
Tom Brady.

Speaker 10 (01:17:48):
Put Tom Brady at mid court for Olympic handball, and
let's get Team USA rolling out in this glorious sport
with god.

Speaker 2 (01:17:56):
Lets and Blake and go and then look, obviously, you know,
the longer he's associated with Fox, that all spills down
to goodwill for the rest of us.

Speaker 3 (01:18:04):
Well, when he said Dad bought. All I thought is
Jack Black.

Speaker 4 (01:18:08):
Jack Black would be fantastic too.

Speaker 2 (01:18:10):
Oh, He'll show up somewhere.

Speaker 5 (01:18:11):
Jack Black in anything would be just a phenomenal choice
for this exercise.

Speaker 2 (01:18:16):
Tom Brady and Jack Black Well, I mean, look, Jack Black,
I mean we can find another event for him. I
like where we're going. What do you got? Ian Well?

Speaker 5 (01:18:23):
I feel like the name of the game is finding
the most just unanimously beloved people, and for me, I
think of The Rock as one of those people Dueene
the Rock, Johnson Rugby, rugby.

Speaker 4 (01:18:33):
Yeah, rugby.

Speaker 5 (01:18:33):
I I was thinking something like powerlifting or something, just
something where he actually would be like one of the
smaller people there. I think that'd be pretty cool to
just see him cheering on the US just people who
are actually smaller than him. That'd be pretty funny.

Speaker 2 (01:18:46):
I will say. The trailer for the Santa Claus movie
with him Evans and JK. Sim Yeah, take my money
right now? All right, Isaac Lowan Crown, do you have
an entry for this exercise?

Speaker 4 (01:18:58):
Keanu Reeves seems to be very popular, kind of under
the radar because everybody like encounters him in public and
he's like a super nice and sweet guy. So I'm
gonna go Keanu Reeves for surfing in an homage to
point break.

Speaker 2 (01:19:11):
Oh nice, because I had I had him for the shooting,
even though it's the antithesis of.

Speaker 10 (01:19:19):
No, I feel likes right there, we're going one way
air sooft.

Speaker 5 (01:19:27):
There's also the fact he apparently was a huge hockey
player growing up.

Speaker 4 (01:19:31):
So but that's winter.

Speaker 5 (01:19:33):
That's all we could do a field hockey though, Yeah,
same same difference.

Speaker 2 (01:19:39):
I kind of dig this. We've we've got a lot. Yeah,
the Keatu Reeves extension always to win the rock. Uh,
he's got more goodwill. The final boss character put him
back over. Uh yeah. So now we we just find
the guy for what Judo got a got an entry
for Judo, Chris, I know that's.

Speaker 10 (01:19:57):
Your econom McGregor maybe any uf guy really just get
any of the UFC involved.

Speaker 3 (01:20:02):
There you go.

Speaker 2 (01:20:03):
He's Ryan Holland, Thanks fellas. Coming up next. Look below
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Speaker 3 (01:20:50):
I mean, it doesn't get any better. Hopefully Team USA
one's out, but you can. I mean they're they're going
crazy in there and then letting get back. And that's
off to the French men's stain for coming and supporting
the ladies, got right. I wouldn't want to leave my
you know, my room, but I you know, I guess
this silver medal they can, Okay, they.

Speaker 5 (01:21:14):
Can team point dogs.

Speaker 2 (01:21:16):
Everybody you know, writing and pontificating was expecting a blowout.
I gotta be honest. I bought into some of that
that it would just be heads down and just get
after it. And then Wemby has the game that he did.
Uh and Webb and Yamba. I get to the Wemby
thing and I'm like, no, give the man his full surname. Uh,

(01:21:38):
when when we're talking can put some respect on it.

Speaker 4 (01:21:40):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:21:41):
The the fact that we've got the that squad came
and balled out and it took the heroics as we
played earlier of Steph Curry to take it over, uh
and take that game over to finish it. Now, who's
that going to be for Team USA as we get
down the stretch here we talk about Kelsey Plum has

(01:22:01):
given them some big moments here. Guard play has been
under fire for the entirety of the tournament. Even if
you win, right, the questions remain for the men's side,
the questions about rotations and playing time and everything, they
were all there. They're still there even after winning the gold.
Ryan Hollins, that's not quelling thirst for blood in our
international waters here, and certainly for you know, hot take punditry,

(01:22:27):
you know, the winning we need some style points when
you're expected to win with such a margin of victory.
And for the women's squad that is one time and
time and again the expectation was that they'd roll. But
because of the omission of Caitlin Clark, you know, there
are a thousand word two thousand word five minute videos

(01:22:48):
already written and recorded in the event that things go
down the other way.

Speaker 3 (01:22:53):
Yeah, absolutely, man. And it's tough on the committee as
they do their selecting, you know, and they want to
put put a product out there that wins. And you're right,
it is it's a lose lose. If you win, you
should have won. If you lose, you get mass secured. Ok.

Speaker 2 (01:23:09):
The way it works, heay, with great power comes great responsibility,
you know the old Spider Man quote. Or to whom
much is given, much as much as expected, Because, let's
face it, a lot of the breakdown of the men's
side after yesterday's gold medal winning was not just about
their accomplishments. But I saw so many memes that and

(01:23:31):
Instagram posts that made sure to put up their career
salaries like the hell's that got to do with anything?
But for the point of argument, that's that's what we do.

Speaker 3 (01:23:42):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:23:43):
One of the things that we also have swirling around
is week one of our National Football League exhibition season,
and we're talking about looking underneath the surface. And I
tie it back to the Olympics in this. Do you
know the composition of a gold medal of no, they
actually receive no, no, What is it a gold medal

(01:24:05):
at these Paris Games? Is one is a piece of
iron from the Eiffel Tower. Okay, so tying it to
the home nation, that's great. How much gold do you
think is in a gold medal, Ryan Hollins, Gold currently
had a spot price of twenty.

Speaker 5 (01:24:20):
Four hundred and forty two dollars an ounce.

Speaker 3 (01:24:23):
I would hope that it would be at least fifty
percent gold. You're scaring me right now.

Speaker 2 (01:24:30):
The answer, the answer in your seventeen ounce medal is
one point one percent gold. Oh god, the fact you
wanted to jime in er you got composition.

Speaker 10 (01:24:45):
Yeah, not even it's not gold medal specifically, but I
think the bronze medals I didn't realize they were using
metal from the Eiffel Tower. This makes a lot of
sense because some of the bronze medals people have taken
home are already starting to tarnish.

Speaker 2 (01:24:57):
Whoa, oh god, they didn't the sane no, and you
want to I.

Speaker 10 (01:25:04):
Don't know if this was just bad storage, but or
if it's just that that it's only like one percent
of the metal on here is like a plating or something.
But some of these bronze medals are already tarnishing, and
we'll probably see gold gold doesn't tarnish as easily, but
we could get there very soon.

Speaker 2 (01:25:19):
One point one percent gold ian. You want to guess
what the rest of it is?

Speaker 5 (01:25:26):
Just another metal?

Speaker 2 (01:25:27):
It's it it's silver.

Speaker 5 (01:25:29):
Oh god, so it's actually.

Speaker 2 (01:25:33):
It's almost ninety nine percent silver, and silver likes to tarnish.
So there, there you have it. So you're talking about
the value, like if you have the street value of
the seventeen ounce metal uh in gold, pure gold, you're
talking about a forty two thousand dollars hunk a metal
around your your neck. Now, the spot price of silver
today is a little over twenty seven dollars, so you know,

(01:25:55):
do the math. Far less expensive an option, but yeah,
just a small bit of gold to it. That is
to say, great value and you take a lot from it. Right,
It's gonna set some people up for life. They'll never
have to buy another drink or food item in their
home country or as they travel abroad. Again, we know

(01:26:18):
for for many it is you know, you wear it
out and you know the world's your oyster. Now I
bring that up because in the vein of our NFL world,
it's also about stats and one or two plays that
hit the highlight reel that have people ooing and eyeing,
and hopefully you got a chance to maybe look a

(01:26:39):
little bit more below the surface. See, I just kind
of killed everybody's love of gold medals, now, didn't I.
Look what I did there, well, ruined dreams.

Speaker 3 (01:26:50):
With that much gold? You said, it's about what you said,
forty thousand dollars.

Speaker 5 (01:26:54):
Well, if it was pure gold, this sa it's pure gold.

Speaker 3 (01:26:57):
What would be worth more forty thousand dollars if somebody's
gold metal?

Speaker 2 (01:27:02):
Well, the gold medal, I mean just it carries so
much other weight, Like that's the beauty right right, it's
the symbolism, it's the it's currency. It's a lifelong currency
in a sport, in an environment, and talk about you know, appearances, endorsements, speaking,
engagements for life especially you know, when you think about

(01:27:23):
some of the other nations, for the US, when you're
sending over what was it, five hundred and ninety four
athletes or thereabouts, you're still a gold medalist. There's still
going to be whatever sport you participated.

Speaker 3 (01:27:33):
In, is it worth forty thousand that's far more.

Speaker 2 (01:27:35):
Than forty thousand dollars.

Speaker 3 (01:27:37):
Okay, yeah, okay, okay, So obviously as we're talking about
a life. Okay, So now on Lyle's one hundred meters okay,
that values emits rights has been What if it's like
a you know, a breakdancing. Okay, breakdancing is under heavy, right.

Speaker 2 (01:27:54):
You bring up breakdancing. You know what, We'll do the
NFL in five minutes. This is better because breakdown dancing,
as we did our exercise of ambassadorships. And I know
breakdancing is not on for twenty twenty eight and it
pains me because we are here in Los Angeles. So
that's just garbage. Okay. And for all of you that
mocked it again, I cited it earlier. I cited again.

(01:28:15):
Kevin Durant said it. You don't like it, don't watch
You don't want to watch the Olympics. Don't watch the Olympics.
There's plenty of other stuff to keep you occupied. Go
watch your sorry ass baseball team, sorry white Soie fan,
go watch, Go watch people play it pick up at
your local park. Go watch a bad sitcom that's in reruns.
Go find your latest binge thing. You don't like it,

(01:28:38):
don't watch break dancing. Guess what spend seven bucks or
whatever it is on a Peacock subscription for a month.
You don't like it, scroll down one level. You got
parks and rec the office, go on all down the line.
For all the different comedies they've had during the years,
you can go watch those. But for break dancing, I
wanted in and I had the b I had the

(01:28:59):
perfect ambassad her.

Speaker 3 (01:29:01):
Is this more about the sport of the ambassament? I'm
starting to feel like this.

Speaker 5 (01:29:04):
No, it's both because I agree.

Speaker 2 (01:29:07):
We saw Chuck d we saw iced Tea, we saw
so many talking about not only because of the representation
of Flavor, Flave and Snoop for these Olympic Games and
how prevalent they were talking about hip hop on the
global stage. It's all interpretive, right, Like we've seen some
of these like basketball, you make a shot or you don't.

(01:29:28):
Right us up a point minute thirty two time out
on the court, you make a shot or you don't. Soccer,
you score a goal or you don't off sides. Be
damned USA USA again. Go back and watch it go
on down the line. There's a winner, there's a loser.
All these other things you're talking about. A woman that's
going to be have a metal taken back from her
five days later because they decided degree of difficulty and

(01:29:50):
they're fighting over how hard something was. Same thing with
break dancing. You either esthetically like what somebody's doing or
you don't.

Speaker 5 (01:29:57):
The ray Gun woman out.

Speaker 2 (01:29:59):
Of Australia, she got mocked, she went out and dinner thing.
You know what they always say, dance like nobody's watching.

Speaker 5 (01:30:06):
And the world is watching.

Speaker 2 (01:30:08):
But for Chuck T and for iced T, they were
talking about, Hey, hip hop and representation and everything. It's
a big part of our American culture right It's a
big part of who we are as a culture, and
the music we listened to style all of those things.
So for twenty twenty eight it makes sense. But in
that vein, I take a guy from another dancing movie,

(01:30:29):
and I take Channing Tatum, Magic Mike, all that is
Hollywood gambit in the latest Deadpool movie, and we bring
breaking back into the Olympics hell even if they don't
put it on. We should be inviting people from all
over the globe with these weird nicknames that they've given themselves,
and we should have them down on Venice Beach. We

(01:30:49):
should have them in Santa Monica or whatever else. And
we have our own competition. Olympics, be damned.

Speaker 3 (01:30:56):
They dance. Let's go.

Speaker 2 (01:31:01):
That is right, isn't that what we're always told. Dance
like nobody's watching. Get in yourself, get into your moment,
and you be you. And that's the message of this
morning from my pulpit.

Speaker 3 (01:31:14):
Unbelievable.

Speaker 2 (01:31:17):
So you saying that she was living her best life,
she had fun, she got an all expense paid trip.
Someone might be mad about it into the government that
funded I don't know, but they got a lot of run.
And you know what, did you know breaking existed before that?
Did you know it was part of the Olympics before

(01:31:37):
her performance? No, you didn't, And I mean that to
the collective you out there, mister and missus America.

Speaker 5 (01:31:44):
Oh god, And then you tuned in you wanted to
see it.

Speaker 2 (01:31:48):
I watched.

Speaker 5 (01:31:48):
I had a good laugh.

Speaker 3 (01:31:49):
Right.

Speaker 2 (01:31:49):
So McDonald's has this promotion going with their happy meals
where you get a pack of stickers.

Speaker 4 (01:31:54):
Guess what.

Speaker 2 (01:31:55):
I got one of those, and I ate that happy meal,
and I ate it proudly. And then I opened my
pack of stickers. First sticker, I got one of the
break dancers, and I smiled and I laughed, and then
I watched people rip open this tops product that came out,
and you've got Shoftly and you've got the DECKI, and
you've got Phelps, You've got all these legend you got
a Steph Curry card in there, and people are excited

(01:32:17):
to pull those and then they pulled the braker out
of five.

Speaker 5 (01:32:20):
It's like, what the hell is this? Like that's an
Olympic athlete?

Speaker 3 (01:32:24):
Hey, can I give you can I can I reference
this and maybe somebody else can chime in. One of
the greatest Olympic add on Zehr the ninety two Dream Team.
I don't know if you remember McDonald's went like all
in the cops. That's what I was gonna say, the cop. Yeah,

(01:32:47):
if somebody, man, I think we head on too those
cups for years.

Speaker 2 (01:32:51):
But Ryan Hollins, I'm gonna find you a set of
those cups.

Speaker 3 (01:32:54):
They had the players on the coups, dude from McDonald's.
That has to be some of the greatest a sports
memorabilia or Olympic memorabilia ever.

Speaker 5 (01:33:06):
Easy, my guy, I'm right there with you.

Speaker 3 (01:33:09):
Okay, why don't they do that stuff anymore?

Speaker 5 (01:33:12):
Like why don't they put the affect?

Speaker 2 (01:33:13):
I have a little surprised little surprised we didn't get
more of that this cycle, but I would guess for
twenty twenty eight, it'll be everywhere.

Speaker 5 (01:33:21):
Okay, And if they're listening to Harmon and Hollins, they'll
they'll be on it, right.

Speaker 2 (01:33:25):
I mean, it's it's a no brainer, right. They're all
sponsoring those at different levels, right, But those comps were
the best.

Speaker 10 (01:33:32):
I think the problem is that it's it's kind of
the problem of the collector's item culture and that like,
like I still remember when McDonald's came out with a
particular sauce based off of a like an adult cartoon
was one sauce, and like everyone went out and hoarded
those or bottom all out.

Speaker 4 (01:33:51):
It was a headache.

Speaker 10 (01:33:51):
I just don't think because these things would immediately be collectible,
just someone out there would be trying to hoard them,
and we just I think that's why they just don't
do that stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:34:00):
Isn't that that excuse?

Speaker 10 (01:34:04):
But they're like, like they want to roll this out
for kids. You want you to bring your kid here
and get a happy meal with this for this cup.

Speaker 3 (01:34:11):
Be first in line, first in line. But that's the thing.

Speaker 2 (01:34:14):
If you're not first your.

Speaker 5 (01:34:15):
Life, how about get college nights.

Speaker 3 (01:34:19):
Hello Hello Kiddy Night in Toyota Center was unbelievable.

Speaker 5 (01:34:23):
They do multiple out here in l A.

Speaker 2 (01:34:25):
Absolutely.

Speaker 3 (01:34:26):
You had you had people, uh, you had people getting
like like taking double tickets. You had people for Hello
Kiddy Night was a all my like it was a thing. Dude.

Speaker 2 (01:34:39):
No, but that's just it. They do the bobbleheads, they
do different like here's a shirt here, like all these
different things. It's like the Angels last year with Sho
Tani in his final year, I think there were eleven
giveaways for any one home dates.

Speaker 3 (01:34:55):
Yeah, but I'm telling you, Hello Kitty Knight was it? No, No,
that's that's it right to.

Speaker 2 (01:34:59):
Where folks are going. Look, I remember all the way
back at the Oaklanallomeda Coliseum, County Coliseum. Let me get
the full name. In back when I lived up there,
when I was working for Yahoo, they had bablehead nights,
you know, Eric Chavez and Barry Zito, Mark Mulder, Tim Hudson,
all those guys, Migey Tahata, and you'd have ten thousand

(01:35:19):
people lined up two hours before gates went and they'd
take their ticket and they'd go back at the end
of the line and they'd get as many as they
could again marketing sales, and you know the legitimately folks
getting them for friends and family that couldn't come, and
then they'd start making chase ones. They had an Eric
Javez that suddenly five hundred of what they were giving

(01:35:40):
out had a gold glove, so that was worth ten
times more. They did that with Otani here with a
bobblehead for the Dodgers earlier this year, they're selling for
crazy hundreds of dollars in the road uniform. So most
folks got the home, the others got the road. If
it gets butts in seats right and gets folks to
the right where they might not otherwise, whether it's a

(01:36:03):
Hello Kiddy night or here McDonald's with a cool toy
tie in in this case stickers, if nothing else, you're
getting a bunch of adults saying, give me a box
of stickers, all right, that'll be one hundred dollars. Okay, cool,
And you hope to find the shiny one of the
right athletes whatever, whatever's gonna get them through the doors.
And I don't know, if you follow the economics of

(01:36:24):
fast food places of late, they're trying to find a
buck wherever they can, just like everybody else.

Speaker 3 (01:36:29):
Maybe do you think wonder this hit because I want
to call them the dream team? For some reason, the
USA men's team was the first team that I remember that.
Do we even had word that you'd say rivaled the
Dream Team? Some say there's someone saying you gotta be
kidnamed don't even say those words, you're crazy, but some
feel like it does. Do you think that McDonald's didn't

(01:36:52):
kind of go all in and think that the USA
men's basketball would have this much star power here?

Speaker 2 (01:36:59):
I wonder if there's the larger thing because I remember
I mentioned the Tops trading card, this rarity with Lebron
and KD and Steph Panini still holds the licensing for
for NBA cards. Lebron James had an exclusive with Upper
Deck for autographs and imagery up until a couple of

(01:37:21):
months ago, so he's kind of a free agent and
Steph is in the same boat. Katie's kind of in
no man's land. I'm wondering if it was prohibitively expensive
because these guys are independent operators, as opposed to you
just sign it with the Olympic Organization Organizing Committee. That
would be the only caveat to and why we may
not get our cups.

Speaker 3 (01:37:41):
Michael Jordan definitely had to be exclusive.

Speaker 2 (01:37:44):
Well, but different times, different dollars, right the you know
we talk about contracts, those are some contracts that added
some more zeros along the way as well.

Speaker 3 (01:37:55):
Well, you know, hey, give them rights. That's it.

Speaker 2 (01:37:59):
We want those cups, Ryan Hollins, we.

Speaker 3 (01:38:01):
Want coups back at any costs.

Speaker 2 (01:38:02):
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a little bit of nickname game coming out of these Olympics,
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Speaker 5 (01:39:08):
We just watched the crazy.

Speaker 2 (01:39:11):
Ass end of a gold medal game, and I don't
think I'll do it justice, So why don't we hear
it from Noah Egle courtside.

Speaker 8 (01:39:20):
Kaliah Copper has been Kaliah gold today. No comeouts here,
Johanna's up ahead. It's Williams that was a two thanking
them a two goal and the United States is gonna
claim gold for the eighth consecutive Olympics.

Speaker 2 (01:39:38):
There you go, NBC Olympics. Uh, Noah Ego on the
call us sixty seven France sixty six. Gabby Williams with
the jumper at the buzzer. But the foot was on
the line.

Speaker 3 (01:39:53):
League game.

Speaker 5 (01:39:54):
Smokey, here Lee, your foot's over the line. Chaos, Ryan Holland.

Speaker 2 (01:40:00):
Some free throw makes down the stretch, Copper Plumb. You
had Wilson make a free throw with seventeen seconds left,
So down the stretch. Some big plays and in the end,
one point thirty points, gold medal.

Speaker 3 (01:40:18):
Greatest Olympics seven man or to date. Hey, I'm sure
there were more significant possibly another Olympics put all around.
My goodness, this has been a fun, fun outing. I mean,
he doesn't get any better. And man, I just think
that the star power, the world games man, the competitive

(01:40:39):
nature and the emotion. Man, look at the emotion. You
can't fake that once every four years you're fighting for
your country. The sportsmanship has been excellent. Everyone's been tasteful. Man.
The athletes have really put on a show. But man,
this has been a special Olympics. Man, this has been
really cool. And you can almost feel the anticipation going on.

(01:41:02):
And hey, well we talked about it last week. Why
not do this thing every two years?

Speaker 2 (01:41:05):
Let's go Asian Wilson twenty one points, thirteen rebounds in
this one, the only starter in double figures. Collier and
Stewart seven and eight points respectively, Gray and Young combining
for two points on one for eight shooting. But off
the bench, Plumb and Copper combined five of fourteen. Didn't

(01:41:26):
shoot it well, but they were money at the foul
line a combined twelve for twelve, and they combined to
score twenty four points.

Speaker 3 (01:41:36):
Wow, And I mean, hats off to the women. Will
we talk about earlier in this segment they take care
of business. This was not akqwalk. France came to play
and man A talk about one for the ages. Man,
This was really cool. This is really cool to watch.
But again, you know I didn't get referenced earlier. They said,

(01:42:00):
you know what they say, France was sixteen point underdogs. Yes,
you're gonna say, no way, no way. I'm not a
betting man, but I'd have taken that that. There's no
way at.

Speaker 5 (01:42:08):
Yesterday they weren't gonna show up sixteen and a half.

Speaker 3 (01:42:10):
Yeah, right as well. And here's the thing about sports,
Hats off to the USA men's and women's. You got
to show up and you got to play the game.
And the one thing that we know about, you know,
some of these guys you go, well, man, he had
a cup of tea in the NBA, or he's not this,
or he's not that. When these guys play for their
home country, they go super saying they turn into a

(01:42:34):
different monster. Okay, there's no other way, uh to put it.
So uh, you got to have respect for for the
you know, you know, the World Games. And again, you know, look,
I played under nineteens, I played in the Pan American Games,
and I'm telling you, man, these guys play far above
you know, whatever you would like to think or assume,

(01:42:56):
you know, that their talent level is. And even you know,
the guys like Wimby go bear the stars, they turn
into superstars.

Speaker 2 (01:43:03):
On the other side, emotion and all of that, the
patriotism all flows through adrenaline nerves on both sides are
going to find their way in and show up either
positively or negatively. One last thing from that Olympic shot,
because everybody went over to say hey to all the
men's team members that had shown up, including Lebron James.

(01:43:25):
We were talking about it a little bit behind the scene.
You know, he's clearly got it well kept. You know,
we referenced Jack Black a little bit earlier, right the
big bushy beard, but Lebron's got the gray going. Was
that the Hey, if I lose, I'm old, or if
I win, look how old I am.

Speaker 5 (01:43:41):
Bow down to me a little bit more nuts.

Speaker 3 (01:43:43):
It's summertime. When you go over there, you're likely away
from your barber.

Speaker 2 (01:43:47):
You don't have, no, don't tell me they don't have
a barber there.

Speaker 3 (01:43:51):
Yeah, it's not your barber.

Speaker 2 (01:43:52):
If you notice Lebron spence millions on his dollars, a
couple of thousand dollars, Yeah, exactly what I'm saying is
these he didn't have time for the old shellacking on
the beard.

Speaker 3 (01:44:04):
Look, man, you're a little stir crazy over there, That's
all I'm saying. I did it before. Listen, I'll show
you a picture of me under nineteens in Pan America.
You're out for like two months, dude, you just let
it go. You let me know. Do you want thing?

Speaker 5 (01:44:18):
To let it grow?

Speaker 3 (01:44:19):
Though?

Speaker 2 (01:44:19):
But you know, normally it's so well to a painted
like the finest black paint that you can find.

Speaker 5 (01:44:27):
Yeah, I don't know about the message and stuff and
the underlying Maybe he did, maybe he didn't, but I
definitely noticed that his beard was particularly well trimmed and
kept like it looked like he at least did it
up a little bit before the game.

Speaker 3 (01:44:40):
Okay, so we're saying, dusey trying to show I'm the
old man here, guys.

Speaker 2 (01:44:46):
And look at me dominating. Why not he deserves too,
or if it had gone the other way, had pity
on me, I'm old.

Speaker 3 (01:44:54):
Of course he deserves pity. Wow. No, the it's almost
forty dude, It's unbelievable that he's there.

Speaker 2 (01:45:07):
Oh, Lebron James Beard geat Olympics twenty twenty four. See,
they wont the gold medal, both the men and way.
But we gotta have something to talk about.

Speaker 3 (01:45:15):
Now. Let me ask this though. Yeah, in my opinion
to depending on who it is and from where, I
feel like there have been a couple personalities on the
USA team that maybe were not as likable. Maybe somebody
Embeid maybe isn't somebody's cup of tea. Maybe Lebron isn't

(01:45:36):
somebody's cup of tea. I feel like the performance that
these guys had in some eyes, not mine, made them
very likable, very I don't even want to say marketable,
but you know, just everybody.

Speaker 2 (01:45:50):
Say it was just a giddiness though right happy to
play with each other, so like there was a positivity.
But they all played for the forty minutes. They played
their hearts. So okay, because that's the big knock on
the NBA.

Speaker 3 (01:46:03):
Ryan, there's some Lebron apologists and there's some people that
no matter what Lebron that they can't stand him. Right,
do you feel like this suade some of the people.

Speaker 2 (01:46:14):
Budy guys, Except when it comes down for now, it'll
bike some goodwill for this week maybe, and then people
will take their last vacations before football season starts. And
then once Lebron and the Lakers get back to it
and JJ Reddick is there as a nice, willing and
open target for their verbal and written assaults, it's game

(01:46:36):
on for the new NBA season.

Speaker 5 (01:46:38):
Okay, in bosom goodwill for a week.

Speaker 3 (01:46:41):
We have jousted with this question for a while. Can
Lebron James be the best player on a championship team?
Can you argue now that he still has enough juice
to be the best player on a championship team? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:46:56):
If I got Steph Curry, Kevin Durant, Anthony Edwards and
the cast of you cast of thousands yeah, I can do, okay,
but it ain't taking me over with a regular team.

Speaker 5 (01:47:07):
And even here I would argue he wasn't the MVP.

Speaker 3 (01:47:10):
Well, no, any championship team is definitely not a regular team.
So I agree to that point. But could Lebron James right,
if he had enough enough of a team, did he
prove to you he can be the best player, because
because if you win a championship at this stage, you
got guys the error where you stay over here and

(01:47:31):
you stay over here and you stay over here, that's gone.
That's gone. All these guys team up, they play together,
they're talented, they're stacked. You know, the teams are stacking. Okay,
So you don't think he can be the best player
on a championship team. He didn't show you that with
Team USA. He was the best playeroff Team USA. Right,
we agree? There? No?

Speaker 5 (01:47:50):
Oh who was Kevin Booker?

Speaker 3 (01:47:55):
Oh? Oh gosh, no more?

Speaker 2 (01:47:57):
Nobody cares, no more, no more? Or give me the
two games Steph Curry had. Was Lebron consistent? Sure so,
you but I need but if I don't get all
of what Steph's got in those final two games, you know,
the ones in the Metal round, none of it matters.

Speaker 3 (01:48:15):
So you think Devin Booker was meant more to Team
USA than Lebron.

Speaker 2 (01:48:20):
James based on expectations and where we are, because it's
all a sliding scale, right, I'm talking about the way
we talked defense, we talk roles, we talk whatever else.
I would argue Steph first. So you say Steph was
Steph would have been the m v P and and
he struggled. But in the end, will you be the

(01:48:41):
best player that struggled?

Speaker 3 (01:48:43):
Sure?

Speaker 2 (01:48:43):
Because because in the time, might know Ryan because.

Speaker 5 (01:48:46):
In the two games they needed him.

Speaker 3 (01:48:47):
What did he do? He showed up? What did he do?

Speaker 4 (01:48:50):
He?

Speaker 5 (01:48:51):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:48:51):
And Anthony Edwards had that joke saying thanks for showing
up in the final two games. We actually had that.
That was one of you right back and forth.

Speaker 3 (01:48:59):
So fair, fair, fair, fair, we got it.

Speaker 2 (01:49:02):
So listen to this one.

Speaker 3 (01:49:03):
He just he just won a gold medal.

Speaker 1 (01:49:06):
Man, we got here friends, and he an said, I
just showed up three days ago.

Speaker 3 (01:49:11):
I got fair about three days ago.

Speaker 5 (01:49:13):
But we're so glad you got.

Speaker 3 (01:49:16):
I don't know what to tell y'all, man, this is
a it's a little while, bro. That a lot in
the games. This is right here, this is up there.

Speaker 2 (01:49:25):
See so I get it right behind the scenes, and
there's been talking Lebron's locked in and all that. I
don't doubt that for a second. But in terms of
the competition as a whole, and he had some ridiculous moments.
Did Lebron James, no question? But again with Steph Curry
the last two games, he doesn't go on those heaters,
they're done.

Speaker 3 (01:49:46):
I don't know if i'd say they're done.

Speaker 2 (01:49:51):
Yesterday. If he doesn't go off, they're not cooked.

Speaker 3 (01:49:54):
No, they're not cooked. The USA was still leading, they
weren't losing, they weren't behind. He just he just took
the shadow of a doubt that said, there's no shadow
of a doubt we're gonna win, and it's not even
a game anymore. But but I would I wonder what
the folks at home think. You know, Lebron James the
best player on TEAMSA. I believe that he was unanimously

(01:50:17):
and you feel like it was Steph Curry.

Speaker 2 (01:50:20):
Yes, I'll stay with that. At Swollen Dome at the
Ryan Hollins And again, I just wanted to give a
nod to Booker like Steve Kerr did where he said
since nobody asked about him, and a couple of years ago,
Kyle Kuzma posted something team USA needs this, this, this,
and this, and he just said in response, I'll do it.
And he came and did it and worked quietly, defensively,

(01:50:44):
and then came up with some big shots on his own.
So just making sure some other guys get run because
we talked a lot about embiid, a lot about Tatum
and certainly Lebron and Steph and KD have gotten a
lot of a lot of flowers and roses thrown at
their feet. Just a reminder, you got a squad that
came up and Steve Kerr will that's the longest exhale
perhaps in the history of man after that game went

(01:51:07):
final yesterday. So can I go back to coaching the Warriors.
Nobody's got any expectations for us over there?

Speaker 3 (01:51:13):
Oh yeah, yeah, listen against USA's lose. Lose, now that's it.
They would they didn't talk on something to say to them.

Speaker 5 (01:51:21):
They didn't cover minus sixteen and a half.

Speaker 2 (01:51:23):
Ryan Hollins that he's I was patriotic with my money
and they lost it.

Speaker 3 (01:51:29):
And then he's gonna go into to the season and
Joel and Beat's probably gonna be upset with the Tatum's
gonna be upset.

Speaker 5 (01:51:36):
Well, they all see the Celtics twice, so that'll be okay.

Speaker 3 (01:51:39):
Look, Halllett, Burton's gonna have some Hell. You may have
a point there that may be the best point we've
heard all seen. The guys on the Eastern Conference didn't
get the men. No, that's it.

Speaker 2 (01:51:50):
They're gonna be salty. And in those four games they
play against the Warriors, look out. He's Ryan Hollins, I
Bike Harmon. Will close up with some football and one
random stat to make you feel better about your day.
But first it's Isaac lowand Kron. He has what's trending
in our sporting universe.

Speaker 4 (01:52:05):
Oh what a day in Paris? Starting on the floor.
In the US women's basketball gold medal game against France,
the Americans fell behind by ten points in the third quarter,
but rallied to win the game sixty seven to sixty six,
the United States eighth consecutive Olympic gold medal. They have

(01:52:26):
now won sixty one consecutive games at the Olympics. Team
USA did it the hard way. They won despite shooting
just thirty four percent from the field, but they made
five of six free throws in the final seventeen seconds
of the fourth quarter to hold France off. Asia Wilson
led the United States with twenty one points and thirteen rebounds. Again,
the USA wins its eighth consecutive Olympic gold medal in

(01:52:50):
women's basketball, rallying from ten down in the third quarter
to beat France sixty seven to sixty six. American Jennifer
Valente won the gold medal in win women's track cycling.
In the gold medal match in women's volleyball, Italy defeated
Team USA three sets to none. Finally, Mike and Ryan,

(01:53:10):
I swear I'm not making this any I'm not making
any of what I'm about to say up, let's go.
A short time ago in Paris, French police arrested a
shirtless man with a British accent for attempting to climb
up the outside of the Eiffel Tower. He made it
about half way up the Eiffel Tower, which is about

(01:53:33):
five hundred feet, before he was intercepted and arrested. Here
is the play by play of a bystander who posted
this video on social media. And here it is just
a short time ago. As a dude climbing in the
Eiffel Tower. He just passed the blue ring. I don't

(01:53:55):
think he's wearing.

Speaker 6 (01:53:55):
A shirt.

Speaker 5 (01:54:01):
Shirtless. That guy is drunk.

Speaker 4 (01:54:03):
Then after he was actually detained and arrested, he had
the following to say, this guy in a British accent
and not wearing a shirt listen, funny minute, bloody warm minute.
Well there you go, the climber in the British accent

(01:54:24):
just a short time ago in Paris. And I'll tell
you what. That's the center of the universe right now,
isn't it fact to you?

Speaker 2 (01:54:30):
How about that that he got up five hundred feet
before anybody noticed. At Isaac Low and Crownway. You find
him for abably his latest find me over at Swollendome.
Ryan at the Ryan Hollins Coming up next, we'll finish
with those rookie debuts and our own one shining moment.
We'll do that next on Fox Welcome back in Fox
Sports Radio, Fox Sports Sunday. Mike Carmen alongside Ryan Hollins

(01:54:53):
here from the tirac dot Com Fox Sports Radio Studios
stat I want to give you to run to your
day and maybe you know, make you feel a little
better because there's always that win that is just around
the corner. The White Sox just had a twenty one
game losing streak, Ryan Hollins, I don't know if you
knew paying attention to that. I died a little bit

(01:55:13):
inside each day. Oh yeah, so they lose, they win one,
and then they lose the next day, and then they
fired their manager. So Grady Sizemore, you take the reins
for the rest of the way. Congratulations on that team
is Gavin Sheets. His father, Larry was on the Orioles
back in nineteen eighty eight. They started the season oh

(01:55:35):
and twenty one. Like father, like son. But you know what,
both of them eventually found a win. So even if
you're on a bad streak out there, people, you got
some issues at home, you got some issues at work,
you hate your car, you hate the traffic, food prices,
whatever the case said, you're gonna find that win. Damn it,
You're gonna find it. You're gonna go out and you're

(01:55:56):
gonna do it today, even if it's just smiling at
a dog as it crosses your path. You're gonna find
that win and it's gonna be a better day. I
say that as I wear Chicago Bears suresey of Jake
Cutler because Bears fans believe they've found their better day.
Caleb Williams in the debut yesterday, Ryan Hollins, in between
all my Olympic action, watching all the gold medal performances

(01:56:19):
and dominance, I saw Caleb Williams and I saw the
look in his eyes, and I saw that forty two
year yard shovel pass to DeAndre. So nevermind that Swift
did all the work. Oh, look at the field presence
of Caleb Williams. I'll take it. I'll take the positivity
because he later then delivered a great dart to Cold
Comet that got people excited. So we've got excitement there.

(01:56:41):
The eye test, it's like Hope Springs eternal. And as
a long suffering Bears fan that's still training on nineteen
eighty five, damn it, I need it now. The other
the Minnesota Vikings, they welcomed in JJ McCarthy with his
top receiver on the sideline, just miked up and just
hanging out. McCarthy after an early interception, he did this, I.

Speaker 9 (01:57:07):
Think I'm gonna kip oh, then we're gonna fire, Yes,
McCarthy forty five yards to Tristian Jickson and with Justin
Jefferson cheering.

Speaker 5 (01:57:27):
On the sideline, it's twenty four k Raiders.

Speaker 2 (01:57:31):
Dang JJ McCarthy the big strike, But that Justin Jefferson
on the sideline. He's every one of us if our
team showed anything in the first week of the preseason.
Right now, the Bears have won more games in August
than my White Sox have.

Speaker 3 (01:57:47):
Ryan Hollins, Listen, I hear you excitement and I hear
you paint at the same time. Look, man, Caleb Williams,
there's a reason why he had the hype around him.
He has the talent. I mean, he has the intangibles,
his comparables or Patrick Mahomes. So I think for him,
you hear me say it, a lot less is more,

(01:58:09):
you know, less is more in those situations. We'll see
how he comes along. Hey, for Bears fans, sorry, I guess,
and it's Chicago fans, it can't get any worse. And
you know, if he's rolling a young quarterback on a
rookie salary, changes the trajectory of your organization. You can
win immediately. There is no hesitation. You are right into

(01:58:34):
the race. So I'm intrigued to see how this ends
up playing out. But he's a stud. He has it,
and it's more so the off the field things where
people are questioning his heart, his desire to play football.
You know how good he can be. We went back
to school at USC. It wasn't the greatest year you'd

(01:58:54):
like to see, you know, for a player of his caliber,
but hey, all could be forgiven. You play well on
Sundays and and just that fast he's you know, the
excitements back for him.

Speaker 2 (01:59:06):
I could say this the one thing that the Bears
will do with ibra Flus and what they've assembled there
that USC did not. They'll actually play some defense in
support of Caleb Williams, ay my friends at USC. But
for Williams, you know, a big start, great expectations. You
got a great supporting cast and a guy, even if
he's a rookie, if he tells you to clean your

(01:59:27):
damn room, clean your damn room. That's a message I
send for all the parents, for all the kids that
are out there listening. Listen to your parents. Ryan, it's
been a blast. I and Chris Ilo, bri Bo, everybody
that's helped on the show, appreciate you. Dan and carry
are next.

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