May 25, 2023 • 38 mins
In hour 3 of the Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon, the guys discuss the new Guardians of the Galaxy movie, and how bad Chris Pratt was in it. Jason and Mike give their take on LeBron James’ future, but don’t think he’s ready to hang it up this quick. Plus, the guys discuss the Wiggles, Ja Morant’s cryptic social media posts and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Radio Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my
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My favorite scene is coming up soon.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
The role with the changes scene is coming to the
Finest Songs too.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
I mean, come on, I mean what My second favorite
scene just happened when when the group from Japan figured
out a way to stop the evil and now the
evil spirit will live on in this frog and Richard
Jenkins just gets really close to TV. It goes blank
you blank you blank you bank. The kids are all celebrating.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
We celebrate Richard Jenkins whole catalog too. Him and uh
Bradley Whitford getting after it. I mean he got some
good time.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Oh, the spirit will live in this happy frog. Yay,
they're all celebrating, sons yelling at the TV. Blank you blank.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
I just like the outfit of prototypical fifties worker.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
The yeah, short sleeve white dress shirt. Yeah, the Michael
Douglas falling down shirt. Yeah, the short sleeve dress shirt. Short.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Seventy five cents.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
No, no, Now, speaking of movies, before you get into
a big topic in the NBA, Yeah, it's been great
because the last two days I got caught up on
Marvel like that. Now you know me, I'm the original
Marvel guy. But after we got our new dog, we
couldn't go out to the Louise, so we missed ant Man.
He really finally started streaming. So we watched ant Man.
I realized, you have the dog that long. Yes, you
must have hit his appearance. He's tough, like a secret character.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
That got us.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
You can unlock this multi poo uh, And it's tough
because multipoos like really they they It's kind of like
I keep going back to Twilight where they've imprinted on
like they they they really take to one member of
the family. And you know, paman ZOWI really wanted the dog.
I've been allergic to dogs for the whole time, for
my whole life. So we found this breed that I'm
not allergic to, really, so it's good. So they wanted
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the dog conclusion of the really. In other words, I'm
slightly to me, you know. You know what it is
is that my allergies, I've never thought I could ever
have a dog, but we found through circumstances being around
this multi multipoos are okay, which half Maltese and half
uh poodle. And the only thing that gets me sometimes
is if I'll pet the dog or the dog will
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lick my hand and I'll scratch my eye and I realized,
oh I should have done that in my eye gets
a little, you know, in fact, for for a few minutes,
and I'm like, I washed my face and wait, that's
the only thing that really happens.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
So that's that's the one that's kind of general to
the allergy.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Right, no, but that's it. But that's the only thing
that I've happened. But he since he's really like he
he he, he has been every five second, every waking
moment of his life has been by Pam. And like
when when she walks out of the room. He stops
and sits there and waits for her to come back.
And I go, Benny, come over and be with me,
and he looked just be looking at me like blank,
you this one feeds me hey and you wait. So
it's been tough to get out, trust me, I know that.
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So now we finally got out, we've got out to
go to the movie. Then, the first one we've seen
in a while since I went to see Top Gun
with you guys and John Wick with you guys, not
Top Gun, John Wick with you guys about a month ago.
Is went to go see Guardians of the Galaxy and
we saw it yesterday afternoon, and I'm like, you know what,
it was way better than no spoilers. It was way
better than I thought it was going to be.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
See that's that's been out long enough that if you
you put out spoilers, billion dollars. Okay, I think it's over.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
I mean Darth Vader killing all of the Guardians, I
mean that was kind of surprising.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Well, I mean they are all part of the Disney universe.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
And just picked Rocket up and choked him. I mean
that was ain't Vader. If that's the end of Guardians
of the Galax, which it probably is. It's a pretty
good ending, well, at least this version.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
And I like, you got two members that are definitely
why well, one definitely wants out, the other probably with
enough financial inducement. It's kind of like the Rock wanting
out of the Fast and the furious business circumstances and
the reception of your other films sometimes necessitate that you
go home.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Yeah. But but but I'll say this, if the Guardians
are gonna be that scene from the end, I'm like, man,
who's gonna Who's come on, let's go oil it. No
one's gonna go see them. No one is gonna go
see that. It's like, oh, that to would be. But
I will say two things on it. Two things. I'd
be that guy it was bet you'll be the one guy. Hey, somebody,
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we did sell a ticket for this new Guardians of
the Galaxy. Uh. The two things beat again much better
than I thought it was gonna be very very good, Uh,
a little too serious. Guardians of the Galaxy is really
about fun more than anything else. And what happened kind
of like ted Lassel when they took Nate and made
him the the bad guy took all the fun stuff
that Nate did, but I still wanted to watch this
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story was still compelling. But the thing is fast forward. Yeah,
but Rocket is really funny and he had such a
serious storyline. I felt like you missed that a little bit.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
But the humor comes from the pain, just like me,
Just like you.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
This wasn't a lot. It wasn't a lot of humor
coming from that buddy. That was more.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
But that's where you become a sarcastic.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Sure, but but he just didn't have enough, you know.
Even though Rocket has a very central role in this,
It's like I felt like I could have gone a
little more funny from him. You could have got a
little more funny, couple more one. But outside of that,
I thought it was terrific and the characters were all great.
The callbacks to the Holiday special were great. The one
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thing that gets me is, and I think that this
should be the end, is like, wow, man, Chris Pratt
completely just I'm punching the clock and I'm getting a paycheck,
Like he is just mentally checked out from every single
scene I'm watching him, going, is he even is even
everybody else is trying? I mean, dude, this is your
I get to your probably bored because you're playing star
Lord again for the third time. And it's a lot
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of pressure because I'm carrying three franchises on my back,
so I gotta go back and do another Jurassic Park.
I got a contract there for like eight more movies.
I gotta keep I note. But come on, man, this
is your Dark Side of the Moon, your star Lord.
Why would you mail it in when this is what
people are gonna be gonna say? Chris Pratt, most famously
star Lord in the MCU. I just I don't get
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when actors just get to that point where it's such
an important thing for them and they sleep walk their
way through it. I get it if it's a bad movie.
You sign and do a bad movie and midway through
you realize this movie is just gonna stink and it's
not gonna be something ever gonna revisit. But I'm contracted
to do it, I'm getting paid. I got six more
weeks of work on and I'll just finish it. I mean,
this is a big deal, and it's a big deal
for you, and it's easy to see that I'm watching
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him going he's just delivering lines he's just it sounds
like he's in an acting class. I'm delivering lines. What's
the emotion I need to convey here? Okay, I'll kind
of give you half of that. I was really just
disappointed in that.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Yeah. I came away with it, not really worried about him,
like the rest of me.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
I'm not worried about it.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
No, no, But in terms of the movie, like to me,
he was an ancillary characters. Like we were talking about
ted Lasso a number of episodes in this season where
he's just a guy that pops in and pops right
back out. I felt like with Chris Pratt in this one,
it was much the same. He was too busy going
and doing reworks of the voiceovers for Mario or whatever
the hell he was doing.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Twittered out about a fresco Mike had swollen down the
Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon live
from the Tirereck dot Com studios. So with that going on,
I just want to guards the galaxy. Yeah, it was
really good.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Get the job done.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
I'm sure it did. Sure.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
I said to Madeline though, you know, because one of
the previews is The Little Mermaid, And I said, you know,
with all the stuff going on soccer and whatever this weekend,
I don't know that we're gonna get to see it.
And she looked at me, did one of those, dude,
and then just snapped. Her face just went dark. That
is not getting good reviews. That is not getting shocked
good reviews, not getting anything.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
I'm wow. That's I was like, whoa, this is gonna
be Oh no, okay, well maybe maybe I'll go see
John Wick again.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Ye now available in your home after buy.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Yeah, yeah, it's pretty cool. It's pretty cool. Uh. Let's
talk right now for a few minutes about the biggest
overreaction in the NBA playoffs right now. Okay, because this
is there's many things, many things. Lakers are bad. That
we did that was very big overreacting, I will give
you that, very big overreacting. The Knicks are bad. Okay,
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big overreacting to that. But okay, the biggest overreaction in
the NBA playoffs has been how everybody is reacting after
losing to the Heat. All right, the Bucks were so
pissed they fired their head coach. Okay, hey, we can't
lose to you. We're a one year and eight you
(08:58):
barely we got a fire coach man because this was unacceptable.
You dirt bags have been in third. Oh my sweet brick.
The Knicks were so mad they were drawing pictures of
trade me over Juliets Randall's face following the elimination.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Fans walking up and down any billboard they could get
you with a sharpiek.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Guy was All NBA two years ago, third team All
NBA this year. Now they want to get rid of Juliet.
Let's get him out because we lost to the Heat
and I can't believe we did that right the implosion,
And now you have the Celtics who want to fire
their head coach, break up Tatum and Brown and maybe
bringing an entirely new mix of players because we're losing
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to the Heat. A lot of accept the problems every time.
This is the biggest overreaction you have seen in the playoffs,
is how all the teams that the Heat are beating.
And I'll put the Celtics in there because are up
three to one and they're gonna win. And we saw
how fans in the media have been reacting to the
fact that the Celtics are in a hole. The heaters.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
I thought you were gonna say the overreaction was Celtics
are winning this in seven. It's never happened, but it's
gonna happen now because watch.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
The Heat are gonna win this series and the end
result is gonna be two coaches fired and two star
players traded. That's better than any super villain. That is,
like Fanos had all the I think Fanos number. I mean,
this would be more than Hambers would be two of
three coaches. What wide swath have you cut through the
(10:28):
playoffs with your scimitar? I gotta coach fired, I gotta
star cost you. That coach is fired, that star is traded.
What about the third round? Coaches fired and the star
is traded. Way do you get to the NBA finals?
They could get Yokis traded if they wind up winning.
We lost it. We lost to the Heat. That's unacceptable.
Michael Malone might have to go back to being called
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Mike Malone. That's what, Hey, you've lost that by losing
the Heat. It's such a big overreaction. I understand what
the stigma is of. Hey, we're losing to a team
that's an eight seed that has some undrafted players on
it that are playing pretty big roles. You know, what
Just because you're undrafted doesn't mean you can't be a
good player after a couple of years in the league.
(11:11):
These are not guys that are undrafted their first year
in the league. As nineteen year olds are all playing well,
everybody comes to their own I would say peak in
their own time. Guys get drafted in the top five
now that have to play in the G league and
maybe you don't see them at their peak until they're
in the league for three or four years. Right, that's
how it goes in the NBA, you guys, right over, Yeah,
(11:33):
there's no difference between a guy getting drafted number seventeen
overall and a guy going undrafted because you know, you
only have two rounds where their careers are in three years.
Right that that is completely overrated. I get it's a
it's a difficult optic to say we're losing to the
heat and it's one player and a bunch of guys
that are undrafted free ages. Why is this happening? But
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as we have said, the regular season means nothing. It
means nothing in the NBA. That's the biggest lesson anybody
can take away from this. Doesn't mean when you fall short,
you shouldn't look to tweak and make changes. But this
has been knee jerk from all three of these teams
and media and from the teams themselves, from the media,
from fans, Oh we're losing to the Heat. Oh we
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got to make big, big, big, big changes. No, you don't.
The Heat are pretty good. It's not like the Heat
got in the playoffs and they were twenty seven and
forty five, and ay they were get in because that's
where the tenn seed was. Now the Heat won forty
four games. That's a pretty good year. They're five games
worse in the regular season than teams they're beating up
above them. That's not that big a deal, especially when again,
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the regular season means nothing. It means just get in
the playoffs and win one game on somebody else's home court.
You got to do that in the series anyway, Do
that and you're fine. The stigma of having to have
home court advantage or not having it, not being able
to win that stuff is all gone, man, all that
is gone. It's completely overr most biggest overreactions. Let's go
(12:58):
crazy with how we have to reach tool this team
because we're losing to the Heat and everybody's following it well.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Whenever you get into the seating right that people just
get so excited about that, and it's like, no, they're
star players, they're in the playoffs. You got a guy
in Jimmy Butler who's well respected throughout the league, bam Adebayo,
and they're not new to this, and certainly the Heat
franchise the continuity there, and we've talked about it a lot, Jason.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
The last couple of.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Weeks is you've got a front office, a head coach,
and a philosophy in the building that hasn't changed. No
knee jerk reactions, no shuffling out of players just out
of some wild reaction unless they did something in the
locker room they don't know about. But they're not just changing,
making wholesale changes because they fall short. Whereas every one
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of these other teams, right, Budenolger gets fired a couple
of timeout situations, a couple of decisions, rotational things, and
then Yannis gave him the kiss of death by bringing
up how Drew Holliday was used defensively and some of
the minutes he played or didn't. As soon as he
did that and he went public with it, see yea
(14:12):
superstar is dissatisfied. You're gone with the Knicks. Thibadeau did
a great job. But Julius Randall, because it had happened before,
is that well, there he is on a big stage
again and he failed. So let's bring out the flamethrowers
and get after him with the Celtics. Now, you're just
hearing all of those rumors from before the season when
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Udoka got ousted. Many thought pieces now of did we overreact?
We're the players still upset about it. Well, I'd like
to think after six months, professional enough to get past it. Right.
You've created whatever the new situation is, whatever the new
dynamic is with Missoula. And he's made his mistakes, and
we've chronicled him on this show and certainly other hosts
(14:59):
on the network as well where there have been problems.
But the Tatum Brown thing was something that lingered all
season long. Marcus Smart was supposed to be a guy
to give you key minutes and key contributions to fill
up your stat sheet. Guess what, he's been a zero
oftentimes in this series and the heat they just keep
plugging along. After the loss in Game four, whatever, go
(15:24):
listen to some music, drinks some beer, have a glass
of wine, hang out with the guys, and then we'll
be ready for Game five. There's no panic button.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Say you move on.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
It's the ebb and flow and they're not even healthy
because that's the other thing lost in a lot of this.
The undrafted guys have stepped into a role because Tyler
Hero broke his hand, because Victor Oladebo is gone once
again with another big devastating injury. You Datas Haslam is
there as a guy to play referee in any locker
room disputes.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
It works.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Other teams could only hope to achieve ve such constancy
and and fluidity to the way they're the ebb and
flow of energy in their building. Is that's too much
reaction to national loudmouth and local beat writers calling for change.
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Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
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My best friend Mike Harmon. Yes, you know when we
say we lost a legend today, Yeah, Tina Turner passes
away at the age of eighty three. She had been
(17:05):
in declining health for a while, been living in Switzerland
for the last ten years, and even though she had
been in ill health, it was still a shock when
the story breaks the middle of the day today and
you see unadulterated love and respect and everything. You know,
we say king and queen a lot, and sometimes it's
overused or read's a little bit more hype machine. Tina
(17:28):
Turner Queen of rock and roll one hundred and fifty percent,
and she had some kind of career and you know,
and here here's her career that she had is that
I was too young for her first run right in
the late sixties, early seventies, proud Mary, and you know
I was that she had that, and then she had
the difficulties and the stuff she had to overcome and
(17:49):
domestic violence and abuse and everything. So I didn't get
it because just because I wasn't born yet and and
so I didn't really know a lot of teams.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
In the seventies, Like like as I was kid, right,
I'm born in seventy so as six seven years old,
Like it's part of the rotation in my dad's music.
But you're not distinct.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
So you're when you're you don't know what, you don't
know what that you just know.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
That in between, you know, the Jim Croche and Harry
Chapin and the lunatic playing the flute from Jeth Hotel,
you had Chuck Woman's voice that would occasionally pop through,
and so it was different, but you didn't recognize until later.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Yeah, And it wasn't like the seventies were great for
her musically. Again, she you know, she she hits it big,
and she goes through really tragic situations, domestic violence, she
overcomes that. And when she came to your comeback in
the eighties was when I first got opened up and
I thenk she was forty four at that point three
(18:49):
for her comeback, and I'm you know, like I'm thirteen,
fourteen years old, and suddenly Tina Turner here, like, Tina
Turner is back, and I'm going, I don't know who
Tina Turner is, and I'm I'm still figuring out my
music taste and everything else. And it's the age of
MTV and and you start seeing her have hit after
hit after hit after hit, and it's wow, and we
(19:10):
don't need another hero and private dancer and and simply
the best. And it's like, wow, she's having some kind
I mean, that's a comeback. And if she just had
that for her career, that would be, that would be,
that would be all you need. But she had that,
and she had her first run. I mean, that's some
kind of hall of fame career. And I love Tina Turner.
Like Tina, I was like, wow, I'm like, I remember
(19:32):
my mom telling me. He says, well, who do you
who do you you know? She goes, well, who do
you like?
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Like?
Speaker 1 (19:35):
When she's talking trying to talk to me about girls
and everything, you know, well, who do you like? I said,
what do you mean like? But who do you like?
Speaker 3 (19:40):
Like?
Speaker 2 (19:40):
You know?
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Actors, actresses, singers, and says it a couple And I
said and I like Tina Turner because I really like
Tina turn I thought Tina Turner was gorgeous. Oh my god,
those sequined outfits she would wear, and all the wigs
she would wear, she would look great.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Music videos.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Turn Tina Turner was gorgeous. I'm going and my mom
said Tina, and she goes, She's she's as oldest mommy
and Isaiah, Okay, Tina Turner, all right, what do you
want me to say?
Speaker 3 (20:10):
Mom?
Speaker 1 (20:10):
I remember having that conversation. I like Tina Turner and
she had I mean the career she had. I can't
get over it because to come back from everything she
came back from to have that career and then to
continue to sell out and tour and and have that
kind of impact. I mean, Queen a rock and roll,
Queen a rock and roll. They made the movie about
her in the nineties with Angela Bassett.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
And that's nineteen ninety three. That's how long ago it is.
Angela Bassett another I mean powerhouse career. You think, Oh
Jevity alongside furious styles, Lawrence Fishburne with a crazy performance
as Ike Turner. So I mean that's a classic that
many people will be revisiting, but hard to believe that longer.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
I mean that, Yeah, the movie about her life was
was was twenty almost thirty years ago. I should have
just gone from ninety three to twenty twenty three. That
wasn't good with the math there not for me, with
the math. I'm going Yeah at.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Seven seventeen twenty the guy carried a Yeah, it was easy.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
I could have done twenty three minus ninety three. Oh,
I'm stupid because I'm not meant. I was spending too
much time listening to Tina Turner and I should have
wound him doing more math.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
I mean that it really it blows you away when
you think about that kind of you talk about a
comeback and time away and how I mean being forty four,
who comes back? Who think about that? Now? Think about
a star now going away for whatever reason, twenty seven,
twenty eight years old, and then fifteen years later they
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come back and are as big as they ever were.
I mean, that's never gonna happen. To come back, great,
to come back and make music, but to come back
and be as big as you ever were and even
have more number one hits and have a bigger career.
And then she was in movies Max Beyond Thunderdolement to
have that kind of I mean, that's a that's a comeback,
that's better than your first career. And it was like
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fifteen years a gone by for her, said, that's amazing.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
It's like going to play baseball for a couple of
years and then coming back and winning three more times.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
No, that's only a couple of years. It's only a
couple of years.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Tried to make it about me and the bullets Jordan,
but no, just an amazing career, the timeline, the tributes
and obviously affecting people in myriad ways, going back to
the struggles and the problems in turmoil with Ike Turner
and what she overcame there, so, you know, groundbreaking person
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and role model in a lot of that of perseverance
and triumph and then just the hit after a hit
and it all started again with a cover of Let's
Stay Together. Yeah, and some of her year before that
big Private Dancer album came out.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
I mean, she had like like ten or fifteen top
ten hits of her own songs, and she had like
ten or fifteen top ten hits that were remakes because
she sounded so great singing them. Sure. Oh man, Tina
Turner rest in peace. Two time Hall of Famer. Eh, yeah,
you get get into it. So good, so good. I'm
in the Hall of Fame twice. Twitter At how about
a Fresco Mike get swollen down the Jason Smith's with
Mike Carmon. We have a big story out of the
(23:08):
NBA coming up in ninety seconds, But first let's check
in with what's trending in the wide world of sports
with Monte Monsey.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
What's trending forty nine ers for some reason, actually.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
The San Francisco forty nine San Francisco forty nine context
other than saying wait wait wait, wait, wait wait wait
wait wait is it?
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Is it a story about Hey, Sam Darneld looks way
better than Sam Sam Sam sad for the first two
days of OTA. Listen, I'll tell you I'm never going
to overreact to the first two days of OTAs think
I would do that with the Jets and Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Come on, man, come on, he walked onto a field.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Oh look at Rogers walking on the field. Look at
his gate.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
That's a champion's gate.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Zach Wilson can't walk on the field like that.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
He was s treppinacious. He was nervous getting down that field.
Aaron Rodgers said to my field, Now look at what
I opened here.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
You did. You did because you didn't have the story,
so you opened the door.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
It's fans, but it's trending.
Speaker 4 (24:08):
There is no story. It's fans just talking about their
quarterbacks and their situation. I really was like, why is
this trending? Okay, it's just fans talking. Fans are making
a trend. That is the power of the people.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
Just so you know, yes, certain things trend for no reason, right,
Like you don't have to like, you don't have to
open an update with, hey, I don't know ruin a
movie in one word? Okay, I'm gonna do that. Yeah,
Ted Lasso spoilers, Okay, I'm gonna give you something to
say Happy birthday to Bob Dylan. Things trend for different reasons. Okay,
I'm so surprised to see that at the moment Barbie
(24:41):
Movie promoted. You don't need to lead with that. Yeah,
you don't need to do. But I'm gonna I can't
wait to go.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Are we all gonna go see that together?
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Barbie movie?
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Hell? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Abs as in the Immortal words of Dan Patrick among
the things you won't be seeing.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Yeah, Opening Night, Baby, let's go go Barby.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
It's getting horrible reviews.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
I don't care. Cares it's Margot Robbie. Yeah, okay, Gosling exactly.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
Oh, they've never made a bad movie before. I don't care.
Margot Robbie's like on a four movie losing streak right now.
She's worse than the Mets. Okay, come on, now, you're
just well said. No, I'm telling you the absolute truth.
And let me guess you went and saw all of
those recent movies that Margot Robbie did, and you're the
last one of them. Could you spend like thirteen dollars?
(25:24):
And you're like, that movie stunk that time. I thought
I've got my dunk. That movie stunk.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
So no, no, no, she wasn't man, No, no, Amsterdam?
Was that Amsterdam?
Speaker 1 (25:36):
Yeah? Yeah, I like that. You were the one that
like that.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
That guy that like that.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
I haven't seen it. I haven't seen the one guy
that gave the yo it's got. It's got a one
percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes because Harmon keeps rating it
ninety nine percent, and he's the only one just because
you have no taste stop. I take you're you're the
one tasting rotten tomatoes. TJ sorry, Monty.
Speaker 4 (25:59):
Go fine no with them this I want I'm just
I'm into the Barbie movie anyway.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Anyway, now we're done with me. Come on, Barbie, let's
go party. Let's go party. Gum on, Barbie, Let's go
part o.
Speaker 5 (26:12):
The biggest Barbie Major League Baseball tonight was definitely the Orioles,
who scored eight runs in the seventh inning to come
back and beat the Yankees nine to six.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
The Marlins rock the Rockies ten to two. The Nationals
took down the Padres five to three. The Braves beat
the Dodgers for to three. Ossie Alby's with the walk
off sackfly. Atlanta avoided the sweep with this victory the
Cubs with the four to two victory over the Mets.
The Angels did complete a three game sweep of the
Red Sox, outscoring them seven to three. Mike Trout and
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Shoheyo Tani both homered. Mike Trout's homer was number three
hundred and sixty two, passes Joe Demascio on the all
time home run list. The Rays, who have the best record,
in Baseball thirty six and fifteen top the Blue Jays
seven to three the Rangers, John Palmosi saying he was
surprised about the Rangers.
Speaker 5 (26:59):
I agree.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
They edged the Pirates today three to two.
Speaker 4 (27:02):
The Brewers blanked the Astros for the second straight game,
winning today four zero. The White Socks with the victory
over the Guardians on the road six to zero. That's right,
Mariners took down the A six to one. The Twins
outscored the Giants seven to one at home. Joe Ryan
picked up his seventh win of the year and it
ties him for the most victories in MLB so far
(27:23):
this year. And how about Trey Turner After all those
booze after saying that he sucks, he was the guy
who hit.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
The two run homer in the bottom of the ninth an,
I'll tell you what sucks.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
I did not expect that in the update, I be honestly,
I'll tell you this whole place escalated quickly.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
He said he someone someone bet on someone either bet
on Trey Turner or drafted fantasy. He said he sucked.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
He did like a day or two ago.
Speaker 5 (27:51):
But he had the two run home run in the
bottom of the ninth inning to help the Phillies tie
the game. And then it was Alec Bohm who hit
the winning single. They down the diamond Back six to
five and ten innings was the final score. And on
the ice it's the Panthers. They're headed to the Stanley
Cup Final. They beat the Hurricanes four to three. Matthew
Kuchuk two goals in the victory. Back to you guys,
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Come on, Barbie, let's go party.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Yeah, thank you very much, Launcie. That's good. Thank you,
Come Barbie, let's go party. Go bon Barbie, let's go.
That's there. That's gonna be in my that's gotta doing
a full wiggle head flying all over the place. That's
gonna be in my head the entire night. Good. You know,
(28:38):
it's how you said, wiggle We should all dress like
the Wiggles one night, all with a different color T shirt. Okay, absolutely,
not absolutely. Why do you hate the Wiggles?
Speaker 4 (28:48):
Is that that like the Telly Teletubby.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
No, the Wiggles are all the different. It's way too different. No,
the Wiggles are people. Oh they like the fonta people
huge Fanta Fanta Fanta, Wait, you mean fanta? Like that
the soda. No, I want the Fanta No no, No.
The Wiggles Australian kids group. They've done a TV show
(29:11):
for years. All you have to do to be famous
to is one of us wears a red shirt, one
wears a blue, one, one wears a yellow, one wears
a green and we make music. Okay, and that's the Wiggles.
Look you gotta look at the Wiggles.
Speaker 4 (29:22):
I had no idea what you're talking about now.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Will Murray is the is the big brain. He's the
guy that does all them. The other guys just stand
and take up shirts. He's the guy who does all
the all the the best stuff.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
They think he got a bigger cut.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Of course Murray has to. I write the songs, I
sing the songs. I play the guitar. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
Barry Manilow made a lot of money off of I
write the songs. Yeah, he didn't write that song.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
No, No, he's like Axl Rose. I'm not. I'm not
splitting my money with the drummer. I'll split with you
Slash and you is he, But I'm not splitting with
the drummers. I'm not split with the guy with the
blue shirt or the guy with the yellow shirt on
red shirt Murray, and Murray wears a red shirt, red
shirt Murray, I'm red shirt Murray.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
I'm keeping a flat I think is he makes now
just putting out his own stuff.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
There is not a lot. There's the wiggles right there
there you go, look at Chris Prefect. No, you keep
the wiggles going here, hard pass. No, wiggles are great.
Why do we play? Gulp gulp drink some water. Gulp, gulp,
drink some water. It's the best thing you can do. Gulp, gulp,
drink some water.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
Your cadence there almost makes you sound like your thea
from the Uh.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Tim Burton, Charlie and the chocolate tomato soup running down
my throat. Here, spit it out, spit it out, spit
it out, Spin it out, Violet, spit it out, spit
it out. Uh. The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Carmen with the Wiggles. Gulp, gulp, drink some water. Gulp,
gulp drink some Uh coming up next. We had a
(30:51):
big topic in the NBA and it revolves around what
happened today with John Morant. It's a big deal. We
got it coming up next. Jason and Mike right here
is Fox Sports Radio. Oh, listen to the Wiggles, Go
Go Wiggles, Go Murray Go Murray, Go Murray Go Murray. Spaghetti, spaghetti, spaghetti.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
Think Manzi's gonna come in and choke you.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
How do you think I wrote the lyrics to this?
Speaker 6 (31:18):
Why if you just sayd spaghetti like like like twenty
times in a row, you don't need other lyrics. Just
keep saying spaghetti, spaghetti, spaghetti, spaghetti, Kids love repetition, spaghetti, spaghetti, spaghetti.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Roget rock stadro stadd So we get a three minute
song and it's just gotta be like four words any
entire time.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
Mash bananas, mash bananas, and.
Speaker 6 (31:43):
Then spaghetti, spaghetti, spaghetti, spaghetti, spaghetti.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
Is it potatoes bananas, potato?
Speaker 1 (31:49):
Potato? Potato says potatoes works banana. It's a hit song.
You get, we got We got on to Jason, WHOA,
what is that all about? It's British people, What is that?
What is that for? This is my normal British accent.
When I wanted to explain, I just like doing it British.
(32:12):
You want you want to? You want to? You want to?
Quick story? So uh just really quick. One of my
one of my good friend's daughters just got back from
a semester abroad. She spent in in Great Britain. She
went to school in England, and she's hoping she went
through an exchange program showping to get into USC after that,
because that's part of the thing, like do this exchange. Sure.
(32:33):
So she's been gone, haven't seen her in like eight months.
So I saw at the softball field this weekend and
I walked over and I said.
Speaker 4 (32:41):
Hey, how are you?
Speaker 1 (32:42):
Did you miss this? Way away? I could talk like
this to you, and she goes, if you talk like
that in England would kick your ass just right away.
She just said that to me, not I how you doing?
How you may if you talk like that, and they
would kick your ass.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
And then you slammed the table and said challenge.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
Accept it all right, bit, we're doing the old bail.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
No. Here's the problem is you're sounding too much like
Cordon and I think universally he's.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
Hated Wait why wait? No, it's not stuff, all right.
It is something that's gonna get you thrown into a bin.
Into a bin? What are you talking about? In the bin?
Into they call the trash cans in England. Oh oh okay, boy,
I tell you guys. You didn't know that. You guys,
you guys use different words here. I forget over here.
Manchester unit has called about Jamie's loan. They're gonna take
(33:27):
his house. No, no, no, his loan to Ted to Ted.
All right. So the big story in the NBA today
revolves around Jahn Morant, who put out a couple of
posts on social media before they were deleted and a
welfare check had to be run for him. In Tennessee.
He put a couple of posts on Instagram saying out
(33:51):
I love you, Pops, I love you, MA, love you
baby girl, and then he said I'm out, whoa why
is this happening? So police went. They saw the posts
and someone alerted them and said, hey, these were posts
that were put out here by John Morant. Can you
go check on him. Police went and checked on him
and they said he's fine. He said he's taking a
(34:12):
break from social media. And that would seem to end
the story except look, I'll be the first guy to
tell you that I look at social media differently, and
I think everybody does. You know, people our age look
at social media differently than Generation X from Generation Y
and Gen Z and John Morant's Gen Z, which is
(34:32):
the first generation to grow up with social media for
the entirety of their lives. They don't know a world
without social media and they treat it very seriously. It's
something you know, I can't believe they do. But this
is the younger gender. This is how they do it right.
Social media is very especially athletes, you know, they treat
social media seriously more serious than anybody else.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
Not to be fair, we have plenty of colleagues that
take it to that level we do.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
Which are they're kind of insane for that. But I
get that this is the younger generation and how they communicate.
They do things like this, and it's it's just different.
It's not good advant it's that they grow up with
social media, so they do it. I gotta think though,
that even with that knowledge, if you're taking a break
(35:20):
from social media, do you put out a message on
Instagram to your mom and your dad and your your girl,
your baby girl that hey, I love you, I'm out.
Do you do that? And then then the explanation is, oh,
I'm taking a break from social media. I don't think
you do that. I think if you if you you
would just text your mom or dad, you would just
call them. You would just even though social media is
(35:41):
that kind of thing, if that was what it was,
I would just send that. I wouldn't just say hey,
I love you, I'm out. I would if I wanted to,
I would put a message and say, hey, y'all taking
a break from social media and I'll be back in
a bit. That's it, right, That's why you have to
take all the mystery out of it. So yeah, so
you know, I know that this story seems like it's
put to bed, but I don't know. Man, this doesn't
(36:03):
fill me with confidence that everything is okay and that
that this situation doesn't need to be monitored more. And
he needs to be looked after and and when I
looked after him, people need to check in on him
and make sure he's okay. Because that's not how you
would do it. I don't care how old you are,
that's not how you would do it.
Speaker 2 (36:19):
Seems like you'd be, you know, able to communicate that.
I mean, you would do it personally. But in terms
of taking the time off social media, either just go
dark or you do put up the quick like the
last image was him in front of the microphone from
TNT and that's where it said to goodbye, Like okay
if you put that with it, but you still need
(36:39):
another line. Yeah yeah, right, yeah, either way, it's not
getting the notion that you're okay and taking a social
media break. I think all of us, unfortunately, we've seen enough,
We've heard enough, we've experienced and had people around us
experience enough loss, hurt and circumstance that your mind immediately
(37:02):
goes to a dark place. And this goes back to
the as you said, you know, make sure you're you know,
checking in, and that you're hoping is that you know
people are checking on him, communicating with him, and and
figuring out what kind of resources help he needs. And
hopefully everybody is doing that in their own lives as
best you can. I know we're all busy and have
(37:23):
a billion things going on, but checking in on your people,
even if it's just to send them a gift of
the Knicks losing again, what are you.
Speaker 1 (37:31):
Gonna do that? Why you use an example, there's no
gift of the Knicks losing. There's nothing you want me
to do. You could up of Aaron Rodgers playing well
him grabbing his calf.
Speaker 4 (37:43):
I mean, is just.
Speaker 2 (37:46):
Something positive, something the Nicks losing point being just checking
in on your people, make sure they're okay, even if
it's just a little poke in the jab to say hey,
I'm thinking about you, that kind of thing with John Moran.
This is is a difficult situation for the league to
try to adjudicate because there's so much swirling and so
much unknown, which is why this investigation is going into
(38:08):
week three.
Speaker 1 (38:09):
Now. I'm hoping that this is going to be a
case of, Hey, the police say everything is fine, and
that's what their public stance is, just so things don't
get out of control. But meanwhile, behind the scenes, hey
we're still you know, we'll check it. You should check
in on him. This is what happened when we found him,
and this is what he said. But if your concern still,
do that. So I'm hoping that's the case. It's still
(38:29):
one of those one of those times where Okay, the
story's not over, but it certainly seems like it is. Oh,
I don't know, he's fine.
Speaker 2 (38:35):
So I don't know, man, I don't think you put
that out there if you're fine, Yeah, I think that
part is done. So you get the I'm fine, I'm good.
I have to imagine the league is going to require
much more, and we'll facilitate much more for one of
their own.
Speaker 1 (38:50):
We have more on this story. Another big story as well,
out of the NBA, John Moore next right here Fox
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Radio Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my
best friend Mike Common. Now that hockey's over, yeah tonight
and most of the baseball is over. H huh. We
got Cabin in the Woods on one of the TV
My favorite scene is coming up soon.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
The role with the changes scene is coming to the
Finest Songs too.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
I mean, come on, I mean what My second favorite
scene just happened when when the group from Japan figured
out a way to stop the evil and now the
evil spirit will live on in this frog and Richard
Jenkins just gets really close to TV. It goes blank
you blank you blank you bank. The kids are all celebrating.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
We celebrate Richard Jenkins whole catalog too. Him and uh
Bradley Whitford getting after it. I mean he got some
good time.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Oh, the spirit will live in this happy frog. Yay,
they're all celebrating, sons yelling at the TV. Blank you blank.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
I just like the outfit of prototypical fifties worker.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
The yeah, short sleeve white dress shirt. Yeah, the Michael
Douglas falling down shirt. Yeah, the short sleeve dress shirt. Short.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Seventy five cents.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
No, no, Now, speaking of movies, before you get into
a big topic in the NBA, Yeah, it's been great
because the last two days I got caught up on
Marvel like that. Now you know me, I'm the original
Marvel guy. But after we got our new dog, we
couldn't go out to the Louise, so we missed ant Man.
He really finally started streaming. So we watched ant Man.
I realized, you have the dog that long. Yes, you
must have hit his appearance. He's tough, like a secret character.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
That got us.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
You can unlock this multi poo uh, And it's tough
because multipoos like really they they It's kind of like
I keep going back to Twilight where they've imprinted on
like they they they really take to one member of
the family. And you know, paman ZOWI really wanted the dog.
I've been allergic to dogs for the whole time, for
my whole life. So we found this breed that I'm
not allergic to, really, so it's good. So they wanted
(02:20):
the dog conclusion of the really. In other words, I'm
slightly to me, you know. You know what it is
is that my allergies, I've never thought I could ever
have a dog, but we found through circumstances being around
this multi multipoos are okay, which half Maltese and half
uh poodle. And the only thing that gets me sometimes
is if I'll pet the dog or the dog will
(02:41):
lick my hand and I'll scratch my eye and I realized,
oh I should have done that in my eye gets
a little, you know, in fact, for for a few minutes,
and I'm like, I washed my face and wait, that's
the only thing that really happens.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
So that's that's the one that's kind of general to
the allergy.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Right, no, but that's it. But that's the only thing
that I've happened. But he since he's really like he
he he, he has been every five second, every waking
moment of his life has been by Pam. And like
when when she walks out of the room. He stops
and sits there and waits for her to come back.
And I go, Benny, come over and be with me,
and he looked just be looking at me like blank,
you this one feeds me hey and you wait. So
it's been tough to get out, trust me, I know that.
(03:17):
So now we finally got out, we've got out to
go to the movie. Then, the first one we've seen
in a while since I went to see Top Gun
with you guys and John Wick with you guys, not
Top Gun, John Wick with you guys about a month ago.
Is went to go see Guardians of the Galaxy and
we saw it yesterday afternoon, and I'm like, you know what,
it was way better than no spoilers. It was way
better than I thought it was going to be.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
See that's that's been out long enough that if you
you put out spoilers, billion dollars. Okay, I think it's over.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
I mean Darth Vader killing all of the Guardians, I
mean that was kind of surprising.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Well, I mean they are all part of the Disney universe.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
And just picked Rocket up and choked him. I mean
that was ain't Vader. If that's the end of Guardians
of the Galax, which it probably is. It's a pretty
good ending, well, at least this version.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
And I like, you got two members that are definitely
why well, one definitely wants out, the other probably with
enough financial inducement. It's kind of like the Rock wanting
out of the Fast and the furious business circumstances and
the reception of your other films sometimes necessitate that you
go home.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Yeah. But but but I'll say this, if the Guardians
are gonna be that scene from the end, I'm like, man,
who's gonna Who's come on, let's go oil it. No
one's gonna go see them. No one is gonna go
see that. It's like, oh, that to would be. But
I will say two things on it. Two things. I'd
be that guy it was bet you'll be the one guy. Hey, somebody,
(04:41):
we did sell a ticket for this new Guardians of
the Galaxy. Uh. The two things beat again much better
than I thought it was gonna be very very good, Uh,
a little too serious. Guardians of the Galaxy is really
about fun more than anything else. And what happened kind
of like ted Lassel when they took Nate and made
him the the bad guy took all the fun stuff
that Nate did, but I still wanted to watch this
(05:03):
story was still compelling. But the thing is fast forward. Yeah,
but Rocket is really funny and he had such a
serious storyline. I felt like you missed that a little bit.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
But the humor comes from the pain, just like me,
Just like you.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
This wasn't a lot. It wasn't a lot of humor
coming from that buddy. That was more.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
But that's where you become a sarcastic.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Sure, but but he just didn't have enough, you know.
Even though Rocket has a very central role in this,
It's like I felt like I could have gone a
little more funny from him. You could have got a
little more funny, couple more one. But outside of that,
I thought it was terrific and the characters were all great.
The callbacks to the Holiday special were great. The one
(05:46):
thing that gets me is, and I think that this
should be the end, is like, wow, man, Chris Pratt
completely just I'm punching the clock and I'm getting a paycheck,
Like he is just mentally checked out from every single
scene I'm watching him, going, is he even is even
everybody else is trying? I mean, dude, this is your
I get to your probably bored because you're playing star
Lord again for the third time. And it's a lot
(06:08):
of pressure because I'm carrying three franchises on my back,
so I gotta go back and do another Jurassic Park.
I got a contract there for like eight more movies.
I gotta keep I note. But come on, man, this
is your Dark Side of the Moon, your star Lord.
Why would you mail it in when this is what
people are gonna be gonna say? Chris Pratt, most famously
star Lord in the MCU. I just I don't get
(06:28):
when actors just get to that point where it's such
an important thing for them and they sleep walk their
way through it. I get it if it's a bad movie.
You sign and do a bad movie and midway through
you realize this movie is just gonna stink and it's
not gonna be something ever gonna revisit. But I'm contracted
to do it, I'm getting paid. I got six more
weeks of work on and I'll just finish it. I mean,
this is a big deal, and it's a big deal
for you, and it's easy to see that I'm watching
(06:51):
him going he's just delivering lines he's just it sounds
like he's in an acting class. I'm delivering lines. What's
the emotion I need to convey here? Okay, I'll kind
of give you half of that. I was really just
disappointed in that.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Yeah. I came away with it, not really worried about him,
like the rest of me.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
I'm not worried about it.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
No, no, But in terms of the movie, like to me,
he was an ancillary characters. Like we were talking about
ted Lasso a number of episodes in this season where
he's just a guy that pops in and pops right
back out. I felt like with Chris Pratt in this one,
it was much the same. He was too busy going
and doing reworks of the voiceovers for Mario or whatever
the hell he was doing.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Twittered out about a fresco Mike had swollen down the
Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon live
from the Tirereck dot Com studios. So with that going on,
I just want to guards the galaxy. Yeah, it was
really good.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Get the job done.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
I'm sure it did. Sure.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
I said to Madeline though, you know, because one of
the previews is The Little Mermaid, And I said, you know,
with all the stuff going on soccer and whatever this weekend,
I don't know that we're gonna get to see it.
And she looked at me, did one of those, dude,
and then just snapped. Her face just went dark. That
is not getting good reviews. That is not getting shocked
good reviews, not getting anything.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
I'm wow. That's I was like, whoa, this is gonna
be Oh no, okay, well maybe maybe I'll go see
John Wick again.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Ye now available in your home after buy.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Yeah, yeah, it's pretty cool. It's pretty cool. Uh. Let's
talk right now for a few minutes about the biggest
overreaction in the NBA playoffs right now. Okay, because this
is there's many things, many things. Lakers are bad. That
we did that was very big overreacting, I will give
you that, very big overreacting. The Knicks are bad. Okay,
(08:37):
big overreacting to that. But okay, the biggest overreaction in
the NBA playoffs has been how everybody is reacting after
losing to the Heat. All right, the Bucks were so
pissed they fired their head coach. Okay, hey, we can't
lose to you. We're a one year and eight you
(08:58):
barely we got a fire coach man because this was unacceptable.
You dirt bags have been in third. Oh my sweet brick.
The Knicks were so mad they were drawing pictures of
trade me over Juliets Randall's face following the elimination.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Fans walking up and down any billboard they could get
you with a sharpiek.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Guy was All NBA two years ago, third team All
NBA this year. Now they want to get rid of Juliet.
Let's get him out because we lost to the Heat
and I can't believe we did that right the implosion,
And now you have the Celtics who want to fire
their head coach, break up Tatum and Brown and maybe
bringing an entirely new mix of players because we're losing
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to the Heat. A lot of accept the problems every time.
This is the biggest overreaction you have seen in the playoffs,
is how all the teams that the Heat are beating.
And I'll put the Celtics in there because are up
three to one and they're gonna win. And we saw
how fans in the media have been reacting to the
fact that the Celtics are in a hole. The heaters.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
I thought you were gonna say the overreaction was Celtics
are winning this in seven. It's never happened, but it's
gonna happen now because watch.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
The Heat are gonna win this series and the end
result is gonna be two coaches fired and two star
players traded. That's better than any super villain. That is,
like Fanos had all the I think Fanos number. I mean,
this would be more than Hambers would be two of
three coaches. What wide swath have you cut through the
(10:28):
playoffs with your scimitar? I gotta coach fired, I gotta
star cost you. That coach is fired, that star is traded.
What about the third round? Coaches fired and the star
is traded. Way do you get to the NBA finals?
They could get Yokis traded if they wind up winning.
We lost it. We lost to the Heat. That's unacceptable.
Michael Malone might have to go back to being called
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Mike Malone. That's what, Hey, you've lost that by losing
the Heat. It's such a big overreaction. I understand what
the stigma is of. Hey, we're losing to a team
that's an eight seed that has some undrafted players on
it that are playing pretty big roles. You know, what
Just because you're undrafted doesn't mean you can't be a
good player after a couple of years in the league.
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These are not guys that are undrafted their first year
in the league. As nineteen year olds are all playing well,
everybody comes to their own I would say peak in
their own time. Guys get drafted in the top five
now that have to play in the G league and
maybe you don't see them at their peak until they're
in the league for three or four years. Right, that's
how it goes in the NBA, you guys, right over, Yeah,
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there's no difference between a guy getting drafted number seventeen
overall and a guy going undrafted because you know, you
only have two rounds where their careers are in three years.
Right that that is completely overrated. I get it's a
it's a difficult optic to say we're losing to the
heat and it's one player and a bunch of guys
that are undrafted free ages. Why is this happening? But
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as we have said, the regular season means nothing. It
means nothing in the NBA. That's the biggest lesson anybody
can take away from this. Doesn't mean when you fall short,
you shouldn't look to tweak and make changes. But this
has been knee jerk from all three of these teams
and media and from the teams themselves, from the media,
from fans, Oh we're losing to the Heat. Oh we
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got to make big, big, big, big changes. No, you don't.
The Heat are pretty good. It's not like the Heat
got in the playoffs and they were twenty seven and
forty five, and ay they were get in because that's
where the tenn seed was. Now the Heat won forty
four games. That's a pretty good year. They're five games
worse in the regular season than teams they're beating up
above them. That's not that big a deal, especially when again,
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the regular season means nothing. It means just get in
the playoffs and win one game on somebody else's home court.
You got to do that in the series anyway, Do
that and you're fine. The stigma of having to have
home court advantage or not having it, not being able
to win that stuff is all gone, man, all that
is gone. It's completely overr most biggest overreactions. Let's go
(12:58):
crazy with how we have to reach tool this team
because we're losing to the Heat and everybody's following it well.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Whenever you get into the seating right that people just
get so excited about that, and it's like, no, they're
star players, they're in the playoffs. You got a guy
in Jimmy Butler who's well respected throughout the league, bam Adebayo,
and they're not new to this, and certainly the Heat
franchise the continuity there, and we've talked about it a lot, Jason.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
The last couple of.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Weeks is you've got a front office, a head coach,
and a philosophy in the building that hasn't changed. No
knee jerk reactions, no shuffling out of players just out
of some wild reaction unless they did something in the
locker room they don't know about. But they're not just changing,
making wholesale changes because they fall short. Whereas every one
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of these other teams, right, Budenolger gets fired a couple
of timeout situations, a couple of decisions, rotational things, and
then Yannis gave him the kiss of death by bringing
up how Drew Holliday was used defensively and some of
the minutes he played or didn't. As soon as he
did that and he went public with it, see yea
(14:12):
superstar is dissatisfied. You're gone with the Knicks. Thibadeau did
a great job. But Julius Randall, because it had happened before,
is that well, there he is on a big stage
again and he failed. So let's bring out the flamethrowers
and get after him with the Celtics. Now, you're just
hearing all of those rumors from before the season when
(14:36):
Udoka got ousted. Many thought pieces now of did we overreact?
We're the players still upset about it. Well, I'd like
to think after six months, professional enough to get past it. Right.
You've created whatever the new situation is, whatever the new
dynamic is with Missoula. And he's made his mistakes, and
we've chronicled him on this show and certainly other hosts
(14:59):
on the network as well where there have been problems.
But the Tatum Brown thing was something that lingered all
season long. Marcus Smart was supposed to be a guy
to give you key minutes and key contributions to fill
up your stat sheet. Guess what, he's been a zero
oftentimes in this series and the heat they just keep
plugging along. After the loss in Game four, whatever, go
(15:24):
listen to some music, drinks some beer, have a glass
of wine, hang out with the guys, and then we'll
be ready for Game five. There's no panic button.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Say you move on.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
It's the ebb and flow and they're not even healthy
because that's the other thing lost in a lot of this.
The undrafted guys have stepped into a role because Tyler
Hero broke his hand, because Victor Oladebo is gone once
again with another big devastating injury. You Datas Haslam is
there as a guy to play referee in any locker
room disputes.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
It works.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Other teams could only hope to achieve ve such constancy
and and fluidity to the way they're the ebb and
flow of energy in their building. Is that's too much
reaction to national loudmouth and local beat writers calling for change.
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Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
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My best friend Mike Harmon. Yes, you know when we
say we lost a legend today, Yeah, Tina Turner passes
away at the age of eighty three. She had been
(17:05):
in declining health for a while, been living in Switzerland
for the last ten years, and even though she had
been in ill health, it was still a shock when
the story breaks the middle of the day today and
you see unadulterated love and respect and everything. You know,
we say king and queen a lot, and sometimes it's
overused or read's a little bit more hype machine. Tina
(17:28):
Turner Queen of rock and roll one hundred and fifty percent,
and she had some kind of career and you know,
and here here's her career that she had is that
I was too young for her first run right in
the late sixties, early seventies, proud Mary, and you know
I was that she had that, and then she had
the difficulties and the stuff she had to overcome and
(17:49):
domestic violence and abuse and everything. So I didn't get
it because just because I wasn't born yet and and
so I didn't really know a lot of teams.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
In the seventies, Like like as I was kid, right,
I'm born in seventy so as six seven years old,
Like it's part of the rotation in my dad's music.
But you're not distinct.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
So you're when you're you don't know what, you don't
know what that you just know.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
That in between, you know, the Jim Croche and Harry
Chapin and the lunatic playing the flute from Jeth Hotel,
you had Chuck Woman's voice that would occasionally pop through,
and so it was different, but you didn't recognize until later.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Yeah, And it wasn't like the seventies were great for
her musically. Again, she you know, she she hits it big,
and she goes through really tragic situations, domestic violence, she
overcomes that. And when she came to your comeback in
the eighties was when I first got opened up and
I thenk she was forty four at that point three
(18:49):
for her comeback, and I'm you know, like I'm thirteen,
fourteen years old, and suddenly Tina Turner here, like, Tina
Turner is back, and I'm going, I don't know who
Tina Turner is, and I'm I'm still figuring out my
music taste and everything else. And it's the age of
MTV and and you start seeing her have hit after
hit after hit after hit, and it's wow, and we
(19:10):
don't need another hero and private dancer and and simply
the best. And it's like, wow, she's having some kind
I mean, that's a comeback. And if she just had
that for her career, that would be, that would be,
that would be all you need. But she had that,
and she had her first run. I mean, that's some
kind of hall of fame career. And I love Tina Turner.
Like Tina, I was like, wow, I'm like, I remember
(19:32):
my mom telling me. He says, well, who do you
who do you you know? She goes, well, who do
you like?
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Like?
Speaker 1 (19:35):
When she's talking trying to talk to me about girls
and everything, you know, well, who do you like? I said,
what do you mean like? But who do you like?
Speaker 3 (19:40):
Like?
Speaker 2 (19:40):
You know?
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Actors, actresses, singers, and says it a couple And I
said and I like Tina Turner because I really like
Tina turn I thought Tina Turner was gorgeous. Oh my god,
those sequined outfits she would wear, and all the wigs
she would wear, she would look great.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Music videos.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Turn Tina Turner was gorgeous. I'm going and my mom
said Tina, and she goes, She's she's as oldest mommy
and Isaiah, Okay, Tina Turner, all right, what do you
want me to say?
Speaker 3 (20:10):
Mom?
Speaker 1 (20:10):
I remember having that conversation. I like Tina Turner and
she had I mean the career she had. I can't
get over it because to come back from everything she
came back from to have that career and then to
continue to sell out and tour and and have that
kind of impact. I mean, Queen a rock and roll,
Queen a rock and roll. They made the movie about
her in the nineties with Angela Bassett.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
And that's nineteen ninety three. That's how long ago it is.
Angela Bassett another I mean powerhouse career. You think, Oh
Jevity alongside furious styles, Lawrence Fishburne with a crazy performance
as Ike Turner. So I mean that's a classic that
many people will be revisiting, but hard to believe that longer.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
I mean that, Yeah, the movie about her life was
was was twenty almost thirty years ago. I should have
just gone from ninety three to twenty twenty three. That
wasn't good with the math there not for me, with
the math. I'm going Yeah at.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Seven seventeen twenty the guy carried a Yeah, it was easy.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
I could have done twenty three minus ninety three. Oh,
I'm stupid because I'm not meant. I was spending too
much time listening to Tina Turner and I should have
wound him doing more math.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
I mean that it really it blows you away when
you think about that kind of you talk about a
comeback and time away and how I mean being forty four,
who comes back? Who think about that? Now? Think about
a star now going away for whatever reason, twenty seven,
twenty eight years old, and then fifteen years later they
(21:35):
come back and are as big as they ever were.
I mean, that's never gonna happen. To come back, great,
to come back and make music, but to come back
and be as big as you ever were and even
have more number one hits and have a bigger career.
And then she was in movies Max Beyond Thunderdolement to
have that kind of I mean, that's a that's a comeback,
that's better than your first career. And it was like
(21:56):
fifteen years a gone by for her, said, that's amazing.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
It's like going to play baseball for a couple of
years and then coming back and winning three more times.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
No, that's only a couple of years. It's only a
couple of years.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Tried to make it about me and the bullets Jordan,
but no, just an amazing career, the timeline, the tributes
and obviously affecting people in myriad ways, going back to
the struggles and the problems in turmoil with Ike Turner
and what she overcame there, so, you know, groundbreaking person
(22:30):
and role model in a lot of that of perseverance
and triumph and then just the hit after a hit
and it all started again with a cover of Let's
Stay Together. Yeah, and some of her year before that
big Private Dancer album came out.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
I mean, she had like like ten or fifteen top
ten hits of her own songs, and she had like
ten or fifteen top ten hits that were remakes because
she sounded so great singing them. Sure. Oh man, Tina
Turner rest in peace. Two time Hall of Famer. Eh, yeah,
you get get into it. So good, so good. I'm
in the Hall of Fame twice. Twitter At how about
a Fresco Mike get swollen down the Jason Smith's with
Mike Carmon. We have a big story out of the
(23:08):
NBA coming up in ninety seconds, But first let's check
in with what's trending in the wide world of sports
with Monte Monsey.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
What's trending forty nine ers for some reason, actually.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
The San Francisco forty nine San Francisco forty nine context
other than saying wait wait wait, wait, wait wait wait
wait wait is it?
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Is it a story about Hey, Sam Darneld looks way
better than Sam Sam Sam sad for the first two
days of OTA. Listen, I'll tell you I'm never going
to overreact to the first two days of OTAs think
I would do that with the Jets and Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Come on, man, come on, he walked onto a field.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Oh look at Rogers walking on the field. Look at
his gate.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
That's a champion's gate.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Zach Wilson can't walk on the field like that.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
He was s treppinacious. He was nervous getting down that field.
Aaron Rodgers said to my field, Now look at what
I opened here.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
You did. You did because you didn't have the story,
so you opened the door.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
It's fans, but it's trending.
Speaker 4 (24:08):
There is no story. It's fans just talking about their
quarterbacks and their situation. I really was like, why is
this trending? Okay, it's just fans talking. Fans are making
a trend. That is the power of the people.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
Just so you know, yes, certain things trend for no reason, right,
Like you don't have to like, you don't have to
open an update with, hey, I don't know ruin a
movie in one word? Okay, I'm gonna do that. Yeah,
Ted Lasso spoilers, Okay, I'm gonna give you something to
say Happy birthday to Bob Dylan. Things trend for different reasons. Okay,
I'm so surprised to see that at the moment Barbie
(24:41):
Movie promoted. You don't need to lead with that. Yeah,
you don't need to do. But I'm gonna I can't
wait to go.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Are we all gonna go see that together?
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Barbie movie?
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Hell? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Abs as in the Immortal words of Dan Patrick among
the things you won't be seeing.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Yeah, Opening Night, Baby, let's go go Barby.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
It's getting horrible reviews.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
I don't care. Cares it's Margot Robbie. Yeah, okay, Gosling exactly.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
Oh, they've never made a bad movie before. I don't care.
Margot Robbie's like on a four movie losing streak right now.
She's worse than the Mets. Okay, come on, now, you're
just well said. No, I'm telling you the absolute truth.
And let me guess you went and saw all of
those recent movies that Margot Robbie did, and you're the
last one of them. Could you spend like thirteen dollars?
(25:24):
And you're like, that movie stunk that time. I thought
I've got my dunk. That movie stunk.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
So no, no, no, she wasn't man, No, no, Amsterdam?
Was that Amsterdam?
Speaker 1 (25:36):
Yeah? Yeah, I like that. You were the one that
like that.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
That guy that like that.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
I haven't seen it. I haven't seen the one guy
that gave the yo it's got. It's got a one
percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes because Harmon keeps rating it
ninety nine percent, and he's the only one just because
you have no taste stop. I take you're you're the
one tasting rotten tomatoes. TJ sorry, Monty.
Speaker 4 (25:59):
Go fine no with them this I want I'm just
I'm into the Barbie movie anyway.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Anyway, now we're done with me. Come on, Barbie, let's
go party. Let's go party. Gum on, Barbie, Let's go
part o.
Speaker 5 (26:12):
The biggest Barbie Major League Baseball tonight was definitely the Orioles,
who scored eight runs in the seventh inning to come
back and beat the Yankees nine to six.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
The Marlins rock the Rockies ten to two. The Nationals
took down the Padres five to three. The Braves beat
the Dodgers for to three. Ossie Alby's with the walk
off sackfly. Atlanta avoided the sweep with this victory the
Cubs with the four to two victory over the Mets.
The Angels did complete a three game sweep of the
Red Sox, outscoring them seven to three. Mike Trout and
(26:43):
Shoheyo Tani both homered. Mike Trout's homer was number three
hundred and sixty two, passes Joe Demascio on the all
time home run list. The Rays, who have the best record,
in Baseball thirty six and fifteen top the Blue Jays
seven to three the Rangers, John Palmosi saying he was
surprised about the Rangers.
Speaker 5 (26:59):
I agree.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
They edged the Pirates today three to two.
Speaker 4 (27:02):
The Brewers blanked the Astros for the second straight game,
winning today four zero. The White Socks with the victory
over the Guardians on the road six to zero. That's right,
Mariners took down the A six to one. The Twins
outscored the Giants seven to one at home. Joe Ryan
picked up his seventh win of the year and it
ties him for the most victories in MLB so far
(27:23):
this year. And how about Trey Turner After all those
booze after saying that he sucks, he was the guy
who hit.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
The two run homer in the bottom of the ninth an,
I'll tell you what sucks.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
I did not expect that in the update, I be honestly,
I'll tell you this whole place escalated quickly.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
He said he someone someone bet on someone either bet
on Trey Turner or drafted fantasy. He said he sucked.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
He did like a day or two ago.
Speaker 5 (27:51):
But he had the two run home run in the
bottom of the ninth inning to help the Phillies tie
the game. And then it was Alec Bohm who hit
the winning single. They down the diamond Back six to
five and ten innings was the final score. And on
the ice it's the Panthers. They're headed to the Stanley
Cup Final. They beat the Hurricanes four to three. Matthew
Kuchuk two goals in the victory. Back to you guys,
(28:14):
Come on, Barbie, let's go party.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Yeah, thank you very much, Launcie. That's good. Thank you,
Come Barbie, let's go party. Go bon Barbie, let's go.
That's there. That's gonna be in my that's gotta doing
a full wiggle head flying all over the place. That's
gonna be in my head the entire night. Good. You know,
(28:38):
it's how you said, wiggle We should all dress like
the Wiggles one night, all with a different color T shirt. Okay, absolutely,
not absolutely. Why do you hate the Wiggles?
Speaker 4 (28:48):
Is that that like the Telly Teletubby.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
No, the Wiggles are all the different. It's way too different. No,
the Wiggles are people. Oh they like the fonta people
huge Fanta Fanta Fanta, Wait, you mean fanta? Like that
the soda. No, I want the Fanta No no, No.
The Wiggles Australian kids group. They've done a TV show
(29:11):
for years. All you have to do to be famous
to is one of us wears a red shirt, one
wears a blue, one, one wears a yellow, one wears
a green and we make music. Okay, and that's the Wiggles.
Look you gotta look at the Wiggles.
Speaker 4 (29:22):
I had no idea what you're talking about now.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Will Murray is the is the big brain. He's the
guy that does all them. The other guys just stand
and take up shirts. He's the guy who does all
the all the the best stuff.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
They think he got a bigger cut.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Of course Murray has to. I write the songs, I
sing the songs. I play the guitar. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
Barry Manilow made a lot of money off of I
write the songs. Yeah, he didn't write that song.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
No, No, he's like Axl Rose. I'm not. I'm not
splitting my money with the drummer. I'll split with you
Slash and you is he, But I'm not splitting with
the drummers. I'm not split with the guy with the
blue shirt or the guy with the yellow shirt on
red shirt Murray, and Murray wears a red shirt, red
shirt Murray, I'm red shirt Murray.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
I'm keeping a flat I think is he makes now
just putting out his own stuff.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
There is not a lot. There's the wiggles right there
there you go, look at Chris Prefect. No, you keep
the wiggles going here, hard pass. No, wiggles are great.
Why do we play? Gulp gulp drink some water. Gulp, gulp,
drink some water. It's the best thing you can do. Gulp, gulp,
drink some water.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
Your cadence there almost makes you sound like your thea
from the Uh.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Tim Burton, Charlie and the chocolate tomato soup running down
my throat. Here, spit it out, spit it out, spit
it out, Spin it out, Violet, spit it out, spit
it out. Uh. The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Carmen with the Wiggles. Gulp, gulp, drink some water. Gulp,
gulp drink some Uh coming up next. We had a
(30:51):
big topic in the NBA and it revolves around what
happened today with John Morant. It's a big deal. We
got it coming up next. Jason and Mike right here
is Fox Sports Radio. Oh, listen to the Wiggles, Go
Go Wiggles, Go Murray Go Murray, Go Murray Go Murray. Spaghetti, spaghetti, spaghetti.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
Think Manzi's gonna come in and choke you.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
How do you think I wrote the lyrics to this?
Speaker 6 (31:18):
Why if you just sayd spaghetti like like like twenty
times in a row, you don't need other lyrics. Just
keep saying spaghetti, spaghetti, spaghetti, spaghetti, Kids love repetition, spaghetti, spaghetti, spaghetti.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Roget rock stadro stadd So we get a three minute
song and it's just gotta be like four words any
entire time.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
Mash bananas, mash bananas, and.
Speaker 6 (31:43):
Then spaghetti, spaghetti, spaghetti, spaghetti, spaghetti.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
Is it potatoes bananas, potato?
Speaker 1 (31:49):
Potato? Potato says potatoes works banana. It's a hit song.
You get, we got We got on to Jason, WHOA,
what is that all about? It's British people, What is that?
What is that for? This is my normal British accent.
When I wanted to explain, I just like doing it British.
(32:12):
You want you want to? You want to? You want to?
Quick story? So uh just really quick. One of my
one of my good friend's daughters just got back from
a semester abroad. She spent in in Great Britain. She
went to school in England, and she's hoping she went
through an exchange program showping to get into USC after that,
because that's part of the thing, like do this exchange. Sure.
(32:33):
So she's been gone, haven't seen her in like eight months.
So I saw at the softball field this weekend and
I walked over and I said.
Speaker 4 (32:41):
Hey, how are you?
Speaker 1 (32:42):
Did you miss this? Way away? I could talk like
this to you, and she goes, if you talk like
that in England would kick your ass just right away.
She just said that to me, not I how you doing?
How you may if you talk like that, and they
would kick your ass.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
And then you slammed the table and said challenge.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
Accept it all right, bit, we're doing the old bail.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
No. Here's the problem is you're sounding too much like
Cordon and I think universally he's.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
Hated Wait why wait? No, it's not stuff, all right.
It is something that's gonna get you thrown into a bin.
Into a bin? What are you talking about? In the bin?
Into they call the trash cans in England. Oh oh okay, boy,
I tell you guys. You didn't know that. You guys,
you guys use different words here. I forget over here.
Manchester unit has called about Jamie's loan. They're gonna take
(33:27):
his house. No, no, no, his loan to Ted to Ted.
All right. So the big story in the NBA today
revolves around Jahn Morant, who put out a couple of
posts on social media before they were deleted and a
welfare check had to be run for him. In Tennessee.
He put a couple of posts on Instagram saying out
(33:51):
I love you, Pops, I love you, MA, love you
baby girl, and then he said I'm out, whoa why
is this happening? So police went. They saw the posts
and someone alerted them and said, hey, these were posts
that were put out here by John Morant. Can you
go check on him. Police went and checked on him
and they said he's fine. He said he's taking a
(34:12):
break from social media. And that would seem to end
the story except look, I'll be the first guy to
tell you that I look at social media differently, and
I think everybody does. You know, people our age look
at social media differently than Generation X from Generation Y
and Gen Z and John Morant's Gen Z, which is
(34:32):
the first generation to grow up with social media for
the entirety of their lives. They don't know a world
without social media and they treat it very seriously. It's
something you know, I can't believe they do. But this
is the younger gender. This is how they do it right.
Social media is very especially athletes, you know, they treat
social media seriously more serious than anybody else.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
Not to be fair, we have plenty of colleagues that
take it to that level we do.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
Which are they're kind of insane for that. But I
get that this is the younger generation and how they communicate.
They do things like this, and it's it's just different.
It's not good advant it's that they grow up with
social media, so they do it. I gotta think though,
that even with that knowledge, if you're taking a break
(35:20):
from social media, do you put out a message on
Instagram to your mom and your dad and your your girl,
your baby girl that hey, I love you, I'm out.
Do you do that? And then then the explanation is, oh,
I'm taking a break from social media. I don't think
you do that. I think if you if you you
would just text your mom or dad, you would just
call them. You would just even though social media is
(35:41):
that kind of thing, if that was what it was,
I would just send that. I wouldn't just say hey,
I love you, I'm out. I would if I wanted to,
I would put a message and say, hey, y'all taking
a break from social media and I'll be back in
a bit. That's it, right, That's why you have to
take all the mystery out of it. So yeah, so
you know, I know that this story seems like it's
put to bed, but I don't know. Man, this doesn't
(36:03):
fill me with confidence that everything is okay and that
that this situation doesn't need to be monitored more. And
he needs to be looked after and and when I
looked after him, people need to check in on him
and make sure he's okay. Because that's not how you
would do it. I don't care how old you are,
that's not how you would do it.
Speaker 2 (36:19):
Seems like you'd be, you know, able to communicate that.
I mean, you would do it personally. But in terms
of taking the time off social media, either just go
dark or you do put up the quick like the
last image was him in front of the microphone from
TNT and that's where it said to goodbye, Like okay
if you put that with it, but you still need
(36:39):
another line. Yeah yeah, right, yeah, either way, it's not
getting the notion that you're okay and taking a social
media break. I think all of us, unfortunately, we've seen enough,
We've heard enough, we've experienced and had people around us
experience enough loss, hurt and circumstance that your mind immediately
(37:02):
goes to a dark place. And this goes back to
the as you said, you know, make sure you're you know,
checking in, and that you're hoping is that you know
people are checking on him, communicating with him, and and
figuring out what kind of resources help he needs. And
hopefully everybody is doing that in their own lives as
best you can. I know we're all busy and have
(37:23):
a billion things going on, but checking in on your people,
even if it's just to send them a gift of
the Knicks losing again, what are you.
Speaker 1 (37:31):
Gonna do that? Why you use an example, there's no
gift of the Knicks losing. There's nothing you want me
to do. You could up of Aaron Rodgers playing well
him grabbing his calf.
Speaker 4 (37:43):
I mean, is just.
Speaker 2 (37:46):
Something positive, something the Nicks losing point being just checking
in on your people, make sure they're okay, even if
it's just a little poke in the jab to say hey,
I'm thinking about you, that kind of thing with John Moran.
This is is a difficult situation for the league to
try to adjudicate because there's so much swirling and so
much unknown, which is why this investigation is going into
(38:08):
week three.
Speaker 1 (38:09):
Now. I'm hoping that this is going to be a
case of, Hey, the police say everything is fine, and
that's what their public stance is, just so things don't
get out of control. But meanwhile, behind the scenes, hey
we're still you know, we'll check it. You should check
in on him. This is what happened when we found him,
and this is what he said. But if your concern still,
do that. So I'm hoping that's the case. It's still
(38:29):
one of those one of those times where Okay, the
story's not over, but it certainly seems like it is. Oh,
I don't know, he's fine.
Speaker 2 (38:35):
So I don't know, man, I don't think you put
that out there if you're fine, Yeah, I think that
part is done. So you get the I'm fine, I'm good.
I have to imagine the league is going to require
much more, and we'll facilitate much more for one of
their own.
Speaker 1 (38:50):
We have more on this story. Another big story as well,
out of the NBA, John Moore next right here Fox
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