May 25, 2023 • 46 mins
In tonight’s Best of The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon, Jason and Mike begin the hour discussing the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and reacting to the Panthers and Hurricanes Game 4 matchup. The guys discuss Ja Morant’s scare today, and talk about why it’s important to check in on the one’s you love when they post cryptic things on social media. Plus, Jason and Mike discuss the Panthers advancing to the Stanley Cup Final, and recap Ted Lasso.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
This is the best of The Jason Smith Show with
Mike Harmon on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Greetings and welcome inside.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Happy Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Today's Wednesday, Wednesday, Wednesday. I'm telling you,
since college, the days have just blended into one another
another one. Really, the days since college, the days are
just blended. I'm like, and I said, t is No,
it's not Tuesday, We're two days, thirdday, Wednesday, Birth, School
(00:52):
Work Death.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Who did that album?
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Somebody like Suicidal Tendencies or somebody did that album or
or no, no, no, uh hang on uh.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
It was right out Chili Peppers is the Godfather's was
the song?
Speaker 1 (01:06):
The Godfather of Soul? The Godfathers, the Godfathers. No, but
there's a that's the Bird school Work Death. Okay, that's
our end school, all right, that's what work death.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
So, I mean the days of the week, do they matter?
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Monday, Thursday, Wednesday, No, it's it's it's since since college.
It's like, okay, like Monday through Friday and Saturday Sunday
were always so just delineated when when when we were
kids and when you were a kid. Now it's like, yeah, my,
what what's the matter? Tuesday is the same thing as Thursday.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Doesn't matter.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Are the kids home early from school or not. It's
not a matter of the day of the week. It's
just becomes a rhythm, right as to the paces of
your life.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Yeah, I mean we we reset on Sunday.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
For for the NFL, we always recent on Sunday during
the fall Monday. Everybody's like, oh I hate Mondays. I'm like, yeah, okay,
but you know Mondays of work day.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Just like Tuesday. Just like I'm like, okay, I've never I've.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Never has coming off a long stretch of not working
in theory, yeah, I've never had many to the Mondays.
I mean, I've never had a k of the money.
You know, Tuesdays are worse for me. I mean, like
I work Sunday mornings, right, So flip of the schedule.
So Tuesday mornings are not my favorite, and Tuesday's gone
with the wind. But you know, you just keep rolling.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
I mean, get up, do what you have to do,
grab an extra cup of coffee, get your ass moving.
I mean, that's life.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
I think I was thinking of blood sugar, sex, magic
for school work death, blood sugar, sex, magic, birth, school
work death. I kind of like blood sugar, sex, magic
more than birth, school work death. I kind of like that, though.
I kind of like the first one better.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Yeah, I mean, in the end, sugar sugar fleas a
former you know, guest of the show, friend of the
show whatever.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Not a big fan of the Chili Peppers. Yeah, but
that's okay.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
I like sugar, I like sex, and I like magic.
So those are three good things, Bud. Okay, it's important.
Blood depends on is it. I'm losing my blood? Is it?
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Are we? That could be a thing? But three out
of f it's flowing. Okay. Yeah, But then you got.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Birth, school work, death, and you know birth is good, right,
School is okay, work is okay. Death is really bad.
So you know, but are you sure? I'm pretty sure
I don't want to be dead. I don't think anybody
wants to be dead that you know, it's tough to
really want to. I mean, you want to try to
avoid in the end, you know, you want to avoid that,
you know, kind of a while, like the tax man
(03:28):
would avoid the tax man.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Tax man.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Look if the more I pay in taxes means I
had a better year?
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Look, blood sugar, sex magic. Three out of the four
things are really good. Birth, school, work, death. You have one,
and then you have you. You have some up, you.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Have some air choices, so good, you take the bed.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Yeah, it's it's Sugar is not always good for it
because it can affect your blood. Sugar tastes so good, yeah,
but it can screw up your blood. I mean, it's
not too diabetic over here. Even that fake problem. Even
fake sugar is good.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Fake sugar, fake sugar, fake sugar.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Sure, because that has no long fake sugar sex, fake
sugar sex magic. All they needed to do is add
pizza to the mix and we would have had it all.
Was that under the Bridge was off blood sugar sex magic?
Or was that off californication?
Speaker 4 (04:11):
No?
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Californiation was later okay, because because under the bridge is
where they drew some Blood, so that should be on
Blood Sugar Sex Magic.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
I have to look it up because I'm not well.
You have a computer in front of me. All you
have to do is type in Blood Sugar Sex Matt.
The album would come up. Suck My Kiss was on
that one, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Yeah it was. Yeah, you're right, you're right. What did
you think when you started? I thought you were going
to start on the bridge?
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Yes, I found it, but you said a couple of
words there.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
You had a couple of words there that I didn't
know how you were going to finished. And I wanted
to make.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Sure I'm a broadcast. You think I'm putting us in danger?
Speaker 3 (04:51):
I don't tell you.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Do you work with me for a decade? Put us
in danger every single night?
Speaker 4 (04:56):
You're out of your mind?
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Single night? Are you kidding me?
Speaker 5 (04:59):
Right?
Speaker 1 (05:00):
And Mets talk and we how dangerous is that? The
Mets stop, We're gonna get swept by the bleeping Cubs.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
You know what's funny though, is you know, for all
the derision of the White Sox coming into today's games,
they were seven to three in their last ten. Yeah,
so all they needed me to do was excoriate them
on National Radio. Yeah, well look, look, well look they
still stink, and so do the Mets. And now in
a bad.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Division, they could rise above and.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
You know, and my hockey team is gonna go out.
We're gonna lose four straight by a goal every single game.
But you were that close in a Stanley cupper Bus season.
But you could be a Laker fan and talk about
how close you were in all these games.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
You're right there. Good, hey, you're right there.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
It is sweet and this is and this gets into
what I want to get into the first few minutes
here on the show, The Jason Smith Show with Mike
Carmon Lott the TIREC dot Com Studios. Is that just
take this for example, right for me, this is a
Stanley cupper Bus season for Carolina, Right, great team, great
regular season, but you had the playoff start. Three big
(05:57):
scores were injured. They got one back last round, but
still two of the top three players on offense got
hurt and they're done. So what to do? And you
look at the way this playoff has gone. The Panthers
are gonna go to the Stanley Cup if it's gonna
be the Panthers and the and Vegas, Right, it's gonna
be Florida in Las Vegas. We're gonna have Denver and
most likely the Heat in the NBA Finals.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
You don't like it, don't watch you know, let's go.
I'm not saying that. No, no, no, stop stip.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
You think this is where Isaac sag when you think
I'm gonna zag.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
I want I'm not giving you any of my zark nut.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Uh, here's where Isaac, Here's where izag where you think
I'm gonna do it?
Speaker 2 (06:34):
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Speaker 3 (06:34):
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that for all of the building. You've been talking a
lot about building teams in the NBA playss how the
Lakers were built this year and how much they're looking
forward to hey next year with this group together that
(06:58):
they put together at the trade deadline. Right, we got
Ruey hot Chimorro, we got D'Angelo Russell. We will have
more cohesiveness.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Right.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
We lost the Nuggets because they were more cohesive than
we were. And with a year more of these guys
playing together and Austin Ree's playing together.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
In theory, you would say we'll win more games.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Will take less pressure off of Lebron and Ad and
that's why we feel really good about next year.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
And I get that. I understand that in theory.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
That is also an archaic way that does not have
any basis in reality. In sports anymore, every professional sport,
you are on a year to year basis. You cannot
sit here and say, well, our plan is working. No,
because there's so many factors that come into play now
that didn't when you could say we're building and we
(07:44):
expect to be title contenders thruxt five or six years.
You don't know when players are going to stay healthy,
you know when players are gonna want out. Stars these
days are more mercurial and they may be done in
a situation. You don't know how other teams are going
to rise up around you, how the game is going
to evolve, and may be, hey, we're not as good
this year as we were last year because the games
evolving to hitting more threes or whatever. It's going to
(08:05):
be positionless NBA and we're not quite that way. All
of these things happen, and for to sit here and
say we feel really great about our future, No, it's
a year to year thing. What you do this year
in the playoffs is not gonna happen next year. This
is why teams when I hear the lad we feel
really good about where we are. Okay, but guys, this
(08:26):
is a complete missed opportunity. You were in the Western
Conference Finals and you still wound up getting knocked out, right,
even though you had you were in the Western Conference finals. Yes,
it's easy to say the Nuggets were better, because they were,
But the Nuggets aren't sitting here saying, hey, we got
five or six years ago, because you don't know when
Jamal Murray's gonna be healthy. They looked like they were
gonna be a championship team in twenty twenty, right, look
(08:48):
at Jamal Murray in the bubble, and then it's taken
three more years for the Nuggets to get to a
point where they could win a title. So many things happen,
there's so many variables. You can't sit here and say
we're stacked for the next three No, it is a
year to year thing. That's why when when when you
see that situation, it is the sense of desperation that
you have to have to win. And when we talked
(09:09):
last night to Mark Medena, NBA Insider, he said, look,
watching the Eastern Conference Finals, a lot of is it
about effort?
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Right?
Speaker 1 (09:16):
The Heat have been giving the effort and the Celtics
have it. They gave no effort in Game three and
they got killed. They gave all kinds of effort in
Game four and they wind up sending the series to
game five. That's what teams sometimes miss, the opportunity that's
in front of them, and they think, well, we're building.
If we lose, we're down, We're not quite as sharp.
We don't play with the desperation. It is year to year.
And when I hear a team say where's it up
(09:37):
for the future? I go, you really think you are?
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Really? I the sports god you make plans and sports
gods laugh. Oh you're thinking that? When do you see
what happens next year? For the Jets.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
I'm thinking this year. I'm not thinking, hey, the next
three four years. I know it's this year right now.
Aaron Rodgers, when he's pissed off at the Packers the
most while he loves the Jets more than I do.
That's it's now, this is the next It's this year.
I don't care about next year. They could stink next year.
Priests Hall could still be hurt next year. Who knows
what's gonna happen. Guys could leave in free agency, Guys
(10:07):
could want to get traded. Guys could not move on
as rookies or second year players. It's this year, and
I don't see that sense of urgency in the NBA
Playoffs from a lot of teams. I didn't see it
from the Knicks. I didn't see it from the Bucks.
I haven't seen it from the Celtics up until this one.
Didn't see it from the Lakers in the first couple
games of the series. I just didn't see it and
(10:28):
for all because you'll go back and go, well, we're
playing with house money. No, no, no, this could be
the only time you play with house money. I don't
see the urgency.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
I said yesterday, there's no such thing in my world
as house money. There is today there is the opportunity
because if you wanted to do the house money, you
would have done nothing at the trade deadline and happenstance
would have gotten you to this point, right, No, you
said this is no longer a fit in start contrast
to what we heard at the beginning of the year,
(10:56):
which was they're telling Lebron James he has to doing
it because he wanted Russell Westbrook.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Well, guess what come to trade deadline. They didn't.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
They didn't wave a white flag. They went and made
a bunch of moves that helped put him in position.
Add a bunch of injuries, in effectiveness, and problems across
the Western Conference playing good basketball, the schedule gods smiled
at him down the stretch, something that suddenly got conflated
into their the best defense ever. That's what we started here.
(11:25):
It's like, all right, and then later on it's like,
well they played a soft schedule, you know then, and
weren't ready, And it's like no, no, no, no, no,
you can't have it both ways. Tell me that they're
a top two, top three defense. And then later on,
well they were just overmanned by the Nuggets. I mean,
come on, no, you made all these moves, you had
the basketball gods smile on you, and that Lebron and
(11:47):
Ad were available the entire stretch run and into the playoffs,
you're banking on that. Again, you're banking on that whatever
you're able to construct that Austin Reeves doesn't an eighty
million dollar contract from someone that you have to suddenly
do some really fuzzy math to make things work. We
(12:08):
hear all these trade scenarios whatever, and that's all of
finding good. But you know, just saying you're well positioned,
we're gonna keep the core together.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
We joked about it yesterday, Kyle Kuzma saying, yeah, I
heard that before.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
I've been there.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
I've been down that road.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
You have no idea the way the season's gonna go.
It is a long damn year and the second season,
the playoffs are that long as well, so everything bouncing
your way. Look at Milwaukee, right, Lebron. We watched Jannis
with the showing cracks normally happy, go lucky. That failure
(12:44):
thing was he wanted to choke that guy out for
asking that question. He started to attack him and his
family in his livelihood before realizing what his image was
getting blown apart.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Yeah, they recognize how fleeting it all can be.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
You know, as time goes on with sports, I subscribe
to these slim Charles philosophy from the wire.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Okay, okay, when Slim.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Charles ain't to ask him about the history of the
streets of bald you know, because we worked on the
streets of character and everything, and he says, ain't no history,
There's only the street and the game and what happens
here today. And I'm like when he said that, that
reverberated Him's like, no history, there's the street and the
game and what happens here today. And obviously he's talking about,
(13:26):
you know, trying to stay alive and you know, with
everything going on in the wire, but that's it's sports.
Forgot about history. For there's the game, and there's what
happens here today, and that's it. And you think tomorrow
is guaranteed for your team, for you're gonna be great
and we're gonna go out.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
No, it's not. We make great plans. Yeah, okay, let's
see what happens.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Maybe it just isn't your year the next year, maybe
you're just not as cohesive with But so many teams
get to the point where I watch him in the
playoffs and I go, what the hell is going on here?
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Man?
Speaker 1 (13:56):
You think the Celtics as well, it's not our year
Joe Mizzool is not any good. We lost first two
games at home.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
No, I've gotten desperation from the heat every single game
they have played. That's why they're here in the Eastern
Conference Finals, are one game away from the NBA Finals.
I've gotten the desperation, the grittiness of we're gonna go
out there put this away. They've had forever.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
You know, that's it's really it's it's you buy in
the philosophy.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
I mean, all the big thought pieces on Jimmy Butler
come back to one basic element in almost every stop,
with the exception of his time working with Dwayne Wade
in Chicago, he had a bunch of guys he didn't
agree with their work philosophies, so there were clashes. And
now he's in a place where that's the thing where
you get the pad on the back of all right,
(14:38):
come in and do your job right. The we'll talk
about Belichick and the Patriots maybe working a little harder
than they're supposed to do, right, No days off, right,
no days off, cuie. But it's that type of philosophy.
But you know to to say, hey, you're gonna run
right back to this spot. Just give it and give
it time to marinate. Not the way it works. A
couple of guys. Also, you think Austin Reeves and Rui
(15:00):
looking at their basketball careers the same way as they did.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
Two months ago.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Well, no, you got guys that now have Hey, we
played on the biggest stage, and we performed on the
biggest stage.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
We saved the Bacon, Lonnie Walker the fourth. They can
be as humble as they want in an interview in
the middle of a series, but come at postseason, they
want to get paid, they want their minutes, they want
their part, and their agents are going to be in
their ear telling them all that yeah, it's it's a
different animal going next year.
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Eleven minutes ago in the third period, the Panthers lead
(16:28):
Carolina three to two. They are eleven minutes away from
the Stanley Cup Final. And I gotta say this, in
all of sports, in all of sports, we have blood,
we have sugar, we have sex, we have matt It's
a lot of stuff in all of sports. There is
no one individual that has more impact and can control
the series more than a hot goalie in the NHL playoffs,
(16:51):
not a quarterback in the NFL, not a starting pitcher
in Major League Baseball, everybody, not a superstar in the NBA.
There is nobody who can flip a playoff like a
hot goalie can. And that's what Bobrovski's been doing for
this entire series. I mean, he's allowed like two goals
on his last nine hundred shots, and the Hurricanes are
gonna lose four one goal games, uh, two to one, two, one, one,
(17:13):
three to two, and they're gonna get knocked out when
it should have been a Stanley Cup type year. But
that just happens. It's Gretz.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
What's great about hockey.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
It's also really frustrating that one guy can have that
much of a control over the series. And it doesn't
need to be a great player, it just needs to
be somebody who gets hot for a few weeks at
one time. Nobody has as much control and can flip
a series in playoffs than a goalie in hockey.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
No, well, we've watched some of these amazing runs through
I mean being here in Los Angeles, go back to
what Jonathan Quick was at the start of his run
and the legend that he built, and go on down
the line, and certainly for you in this series, the frustration,
the near chances. I mean, I was watching a TV
(17:57):
show and a goalie featured prominently in a different space
board uh earlier today, So the same thing, just change
a venue, change a field.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
He well, well, well, well, you already tweeted about it.
Let me just say, how good a game did Fandamn have?
How good was Fandamn?
Speaker 2 (18:13):
What a game?
Speaker 4 (18:14):
As soon as he put the mask on, it was over.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
I put on the mask and look at the time,
I mean everything, he stopped everything. Oh that's right. It
was awesome, no question about it. And here's the best part.
Here's here's the best part.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Either people know we're talking about and they agree or
they don't know, which is okay, or they don't know
and they will know, but they have no ideam, what
the hell.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
We're talking about all together? A game by Van Damn,
No question about it.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
Yeah, that's game. You'll ever really sad here for you though,
if if it is another one goal defeat, it is
going to be psychologically it crushes you.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Yeah, because you could say, boy, really close. But we
didn't win a game, right, So there's both of those.
What do you do if the Whalers are reinstituted? Oh,
I would have to go back to the Whalers. Yeah,
I would have to go I mean, you've got that
proposal the Whalers came back to. Yeah, I would have
to drop the Hurricanes and go to the Whalers, especially
this bunch of losers. They can't win a game's the
(19:12):
conference final, need one goal, second most points in the league.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
A bunch of losers out that drop up. I can't
concentrate when you played again, perfect shadow on right t
sn legend. Oh boy.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Uh so that's where we sit right now here from
the tire rec dot com studios. Uh to get into
the the the other NBA topic that was a big
deal today and there's no way to segue to this,
but we just know it's about as awkward because I
teased it and we got to talk about it.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
That's already lost. So just don't get your bunch of londo.
You lost to the Cubs again.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Come on, We're gonna get swept by the clubs. I know,
I know, what, what can I say? It's not our year.
Everybody thinks we a, oh, we're great with this. No,
we're five hundred. We're five hundred.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
We stink.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Police in Tennessee earlier today you probably saw this story
conducted a welfare check on Grizzly star John Morant following
some cryptic messages he put up on his Instagram account Wednesday,
and officials went to go see him, and they told
ESPN that he is quote taking a break from social media.
Now what happened earlier today? Morant put posts up and
(20:25):
then deleted messages and pictures to social media that said
love your mom with a blue heart emoji, love you,
Pops blue heart emoji, and you the greatest baby girl,
blue heart emoji, love you. Then followed up with a
post that simply said bye. So that became something that
raised some flags. The Shelby County Sheriff's Office went for
(20:45):
a welfare check on him, and they said that he
is fine. Obviously, he is still suspended from all team
activities following the video of him holding a gun that
circulated on social media back in the middle of May.
So this is where you know, okay, it takes your
breath through with his headline and then you see, okay,
he's fine. But here's the thing. Is he really fine?
(21:08):
Because I'll believe you the first person to tell you.
I know, I don't treat social media like gen Z does,
right and John Moran's Generation Z. I don't treat social
media that way. I don't treat it because a lot
of you know, and this is not this is not right.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
Or wrong.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
You love what you love, right, I mean I love
chocolate and I love the Mets. Some people love social media,
and you can see you can see how how some
people in social media it's extremely important them young athletes,
it is extremely important to them, extremely important.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
And to see somebody post something that says love you,
love you to you know, to three people, three family members,
and then you post by that's that raises a flag
with me.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
And I don't know that.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
I would just sit here and say, oh, he's fine,
he's fine, because again I don't know how I you know,
generation Z, it's it's it's a it's a difference in generations.
Obviously it's it's two because it's X, Y and Z.
But I got to think that even gen Z, if
you're taking a break from social media, are you you're
putting a message to your to your mom, your dad,
and your baby brother, Hey love you buy. I think
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if I wanted did everybody know I'm taking a break
from social media, I would just text my mom or dad.
I would say, oh, yeah, I'm not gonna be on
social media.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Probably three people that aren't checking your Instagram. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
To get that kind of messaging and but that's the
thing of your kid, you know. But the thing is
but you.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
But that's the thing is that that's how a lot
of people communicate.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
And I understand that.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
I understand that that's how some people instead of messaging
people communicate. But this is a different kind of communication. Sure,
this is I'm going on social media to tell you
I'm taking a break from social media.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Read that that that's what it is.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Really. I mean, I don't know that I would sit
here and say, yeah, everything is fun. Oh, I think
all of us in the immediate interpretation. We've had this
discussion before about folks posting cryptic things about you know,
rough days, happy days, whatever, the begging you to ask, okay,
what happened right? Good, bad, indifferent?
Speaker 4 (23:01):
This one just had that kind of chill to it,
given the build up of these events with John Morant
and the severity of what we believe is coming from
the NBA with regard to sanctions, whether it's a half year,
full year ordering, a bunch of steps and rehabilitation, whatever
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it is to get back into the good grace of
the NBA. I had of his five year, one hundred
and ninety four million dollar contract, all the stuff that
could be torn asunder based on what's gone through.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
So you think the worst, right, that's yeah, reacity. I
saw it and just went, whoa.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
If someone in my family posts that up there, Hey,
love you mom, love your dad, the love you baby.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Bye.
Speaker 4 (23:46):
Weh.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Hey, let's make a phone call, let's sun a text,
let's let's let let's check on something. And this is
where I get to the point of the one thing
that I would say, maybe a long suspect for John
Morant might not be the right thing. Now I realize
I've gone on the record and I've said he's got
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to be gone. It's got to be a year suspension.
This is a guy with a gun. You're trying to
protect the NBA. The NBA can't be city here saying hey,
you know, hey, we're all in bed with guns, right,
even though a lot of players have different backgrounds they
come from. This is not something you need. And he
also was given a chance to try to do the
right thing, and here he is back on Instagram with
a gun in his hand, and that's not great, right,
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So I get that, But this is when when I
saw this story today and saw the situation on social media,
I went back to something that Bill Parcells always used
to say. He always just say, you know what's the
what's the most nervous time you have as a coach,
And he said, it's always the off season, the amount
of time that a player spends away from the structure
of the team, Right, that's the high week. When when
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that's when my phone is going to ring late at night,
or something happens when you're not around the team, when
you don't have a schedule, when you're not beholden to anybody,
that's when bad things happen. Always the worst time. And
for someone like John Morant, who I can't defend anything
he's done. And should he be suspended for a long time? Yeah,
yeah he should. But what's that gonna do for him?
If he's away from the NBA, This is gonna take
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him away from any kind of structure, any kind of
of routine, any kind of being beholden, any kind of
good influence that he could have, And what's gonna happen
to him? Then hanging around with guys like Devonte Pack who's, hey,
I have no no problem ruining your career, Gonna do
an Instagram video you got the gun? And yeah, that's great,
let's do it. Man, I'm gonna ruin your grid. You
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got one hundred ninety four million dollars coming your way.
Guess what the Grizzlies right now? Is there any way
we can get out of this? Do we have to
how do we get out of it? If we have
to do? We have we on the hook to pay
him all of this money. So he's gonna be spending
time because you get upset, You'll get frustrated the NBA
as a wam, you feel bad about yourself, and you
make bad decisions, and bad decisions snowball into even worse decisions.
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So that's the one thing I can say is, hey, yeah,
long suspension, absolutely, because you're talking about the NBA and
one guy who is who was really not protecting the shield.
But at the same time, it's if he's away from
the team for that long, what could happen? And so
that's where I kind of sit back and go, ye,
is there something else we can do to work this
ads to some other way? Because I don't think he's
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someone that he's away from the team, things are gonna
go sunshine, lollipops and rainbows and tall you. I want
to get back in the league.
Speaker 4 (26:21):
Well, and that's one of the things as you go
through from the union side, their argument about what's been
done that's illegal versus the optics of the league and
as you say, protecting the shield, which we usually ascribe
to the NFL but applies here. And what Adam Silver
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and the front offices of all teams owners, governors whatever
we're calling him these days, and what your due process
is for this, you know, can it be done? One
of the big problems, and it came out in the
wash with Memphis, is that you also didn't have a
lot of veteran leadership there to kind of calm the
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Dylan Brooks scenario.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
Toody, but you.
Speaker 4 (27:09):
Guys think on the best, you know what I mean,
But to calm down and get him back in line
with Hey, we have focus and actually going and win
these games. We don't win by by being the loudest guy.
Uh in the media. Uh, it's not professional wrestling where
we get some love from the crowd just by being
able to do a good shoot interview.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (27:30):
That's not that's not helping your bottom line. But you
didn't have a lot of veteran voices in the locker room.
You have Steven Adams wasn't available to play, but that
that might have been part of.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
What was going on there.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
You didn't have a whole lot of control and unity
in the locker room. So figuring out how to fix
that internally is one thing. But for the league, you're
you're trying to make sure you don't lose one of
your brighter stars in both both senses of the word. Right,
he keeps going down a path with whomever, whether he's
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the guy that's instigating or it's these guys that he
hangs around. I don't know, chicken egg kind of thing,
but just sending him off is not doing anybody good.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
Yeah, in any way, shape or form.
Speaker 4 (28:18):
It's and for the league that they don't have one
of their top performers either.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
No, and that and that's the tough part is that
I don't see a good outcome, right, I mean then
now there's degrees of good outcomes, so that there's agrees
of not good outcomes, is what I want to say.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
Now, is it not good outcome?
Speaker 1 (28:34):
He doesn't get suspended, Well, wait a minute, So the
guy can do that and wave a gun a couple
of times, not gonna spend Is that a good outcome,
not a good outcome for the league. He gets suspended
for a year, Is that a good outcome? Probably good
for the league, Probably the worst thing for him because
now he's going to be away from the team for
allin who knows what happens. So that's something where yeah,
it's not. It's only the best solution of what we
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have going forw which is probably why the NBA is
taking so long on some kind of decision here, because
you have to take all of these things into account.
You would love to say, okay, well the next day
here it is, can't do it. Maybe David Starr would
have done that. But I like to think that maybe
they're taking a little bit into account of what could
happen as a result of this, of this, and is
there something we can do where we can be the
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fairest to everybody. We can be fair to him, we
can be fair of the league, we can be fair
to the image of the league, we can be fair
as a message.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
To the league what we want everybody to know.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
That's why I'm hoping they're taking time, and they can
take time because he's not playing now. It's not like
he's there's anything all he's allowed to play. Well, this
is happen. You can take time and you can come
up with the right decision. It's just tough because there's
no good outcome, you know, for anybody at all, no one.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
That's it right.
Speaker 4 (29:37):
You have a bunch of those allegations that were already
out there before this latest video, and then you had
a number of current former players like well, I have guns.
We have guns, like well, but you're not brandishing them
on IG Live. And where's that line drawn right between, Hey,
do you have to register with the league that you
you're owning a bunch of gun I don't think you
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have to disclose those things. So you have no idea.
You're just trying to hope that your constituents or you know,
your player membership are using the best judgment possible and
not putting the league to where that's you know, page
one on newspapers or the front section and front segments
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of newscasts for something that's gone awry. In the end,
out of this message, you hope that there's some weight
behind the last public statement that he made right of
recognizing the gravity of all this, and this was an
extension of it that it was just an outward and
that's all it was. They do the wellness check and
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hopefully that's it, but either way, it still strikes me
and the armchair psychologist that he's a guy that needs
a little bit of guidance and a little bit of
help in this process. And going back to your point before,
it is still National Mental Health Awareness Month, So you
know what, do pick up your phone, text your friend's family,
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just do check ins people you haven't talked to in
a while. You know, we have Jay Glazer on talking
about his work with Unbreakable and all the good that's
gone there, but the same idea, make sure you're checking
in on your people.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
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Speaker 1 (31:22):
I'm going to say something here and you're gonna go, WHOA. Okay,
So we just watched Look, the NBA is off tonight.
We're waiting for Game five tomorrow between the Heat and
the Celtics, which seems like a Game seven considering the
Nuggets swept the Lakers. The Western Conference and hockey's going
to be a sweep. We just saw a sweep in
the Eastern Conference Final. Oh yeah, this looks like it's
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an unbelievably competitive series. Everything we ever wanted in this series.
The Florida Panthers headed to the Stanley Cup Final for
the first time since nineteen ninety six when it was
the big Rat year Rats, and I remember covering it.
It feels like it was yesterday. Look, the Florida Panthers
is one of the newest teams to UH the NHL
and one of the newest teams in the sun the
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Sun Belt teams. And they went to the Stanley Cup Final,
and the big thing that year was rats because Scott Mellanbie,
who was a team captain, killed a rat in the
locker room before a game with a stick and it
became a f and I think he went out that
game and scored like two goals, so like they called
it like a rat trick or something like two goals
in one rat, right, So that became a whole That
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story gets out and they play really well at the
beginning of the season.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
They play well all year.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
They go to the final, they get swept by the
by the Colorado Avalanche. I think ove Croup scored the
game winning goal in overtime to win it. But it
was a whole big thing. And every time they would
someone would get a hat trick or in big games,
they would throw plastic rats on the ice and that
was the whole thing for the entire year. I remember
they went to the Stanley Cup Final. The first time
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they scored on Patrick Waugh, who was a goalie for
the Avalanche. It was an onslaught of plastic rats. He
went and sat in the in the net under it
so not to get hit by any that you think
people are throwing out of the stands. It was insane.
And now here's Florida back in the Stanley Cup Final.
More rats and they still threw some rats on there
well as the I mean, nobody celebrates rats.
Speaker 3 (33:11):
On Radio Org like we did. Sure, Oh yeah, yeah
the rat rankings. Florida's got to jump up. You really
do need to update. Miami's got it. Miami takes a
jump up for the rats.
Speaker 4 (33:19):
Now New York with their new ratsar what if I
were ever to leave radio for another post? Rats are
rats are of a Chicago or New York would be?
Speaker 1 (33:29):
I think that's a I think it's little pumptuous that
you would get the ratsar of a big city. You
have to work your way up. You got to be
the rats are. Yeah, but you can't just waltz right
into that job. But what do you what do you
think you're at your I've been watching Dale Gribble. You're
you're an acting out for years and you're an athlete.
You can have a great career. Just waltz on television
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or some episodes of Law and Order than I have.
Come on, dude, come on man, you did not you
know your kids like JJ reddick your way in and
say you know, hey, you know I played the game.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
Come on, man, you can't do that. Don't you know
who I am. You can't just do that. You gotta
work your You gotta playing. You gotta start, like in marketing.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
To pick up any rats, you got to go in
like market one for five, control the rat population there,
jump up to like market one, ten, market seventy, market
thirty market fit.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
Man, extra rats so I can really pad my numbers.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
Wow, you want you want to legal rats brought in
to pad your rat numbers?
Speaker 3 (34:24):
I don't know if they're legal really, Yeah, it's just
more of them. Can you.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
I gotta think it's to bring rats into No, I
don't know, charged with some felonies. I think the possibility
of the diseases and problems. Yeah they got yeah, right now,
they do cause problems. Not every rat is like the look.
Although people say pet rats are the best pets because
they're really smart and they're very affectionate. I mean, I
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saw that guy cook and if you're looking this, I
mean I can teach that guy. Think if I had
an army of them. No, no, there dining district of
rats that he's trained. Can you ask that You go
out to the reviewer and say, no, I'm sorry, I
got the rat cooking in the kitchen.
Speaker 3 (35:05):
It's fine, it's fine. You see a rat.
Speaker 4 (35:07):
He's he's rats cooking, cooking the meal. He's not being cooked.
We're not serving you rat. No, he's Look, he's got
the apron red apron on and everything. Look at he
even talks to me like Jackson. It really works out well.
The you know those little things you put on the
drumstick at Thanksgiving to dress up your turkey, it works
like a little hat for the rat. It's the same
size he's.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
Got and we get his little whiskers into a little mustache,
sadly whiplash, whichever you before, I before I give you,
I give you a real hot take because I do
believe this.
Speaker 3 (35:41):
Let's hear what did it sound like?
Speaker 1 (35:43):
Panthers goal with four seconds left to send them to
the Stanley Cup Final.
Speaker 3 (35:50):
Panthers poor cup right circle, go to the e go
like a truck in first shot.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
Stash Bristish bristis man good shuck the power play goal.
It's four three.
Speaker 3 (36:04):
Panthers flit four point.
Speaker 6 (36:06):
Three seconds to go in regulation time. The Panthers take
up four three lead in the wait.
Speaker 3 (36:14):
Eighty seconds a power play gold for Matthew could shuck.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
Panthers Radio network on the call in case you didn't know,
he scored three and thank god my voice was not
gonna hold up for overtime. It's just like that major
legal take over many I'm in the bass passes out.
But and I'm being completely honest with this, right, Let's
just say you could wave a magic wand see you
(36:41):
Mike Carmon had a magic Wand let's say you add
one and you said, Jason, I can wave a magic
wand I say, what can you do? Let's deal with
right now, because we're talking about right now. I could
wave a magic wand and I could put the Hurricanes
and the Knicks back in the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (36:57):
I would say, whoa, Okay, okay, you can do that.
Speaker 4 (37:00):
I do the I'm out shot in rewind, I.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
Got my I got me, yes, will obey after hang Time? Yeah, yeah,
that was Mark Jones and doctor Jack right on?
Speaker 3 (37:14):
Hanktime? Was that? Who Hank Time was?
Speaker 2 (37:16):
No?
Speaker 4 (37:16):
No, no, Hangtime was the sitcom?
Speaker 3 (37:19):
No?
Speaker 1 (37:20):
No, wait no no? What was the what was what
was the basketball show before that? It was a basketball
show before Yeah. Yeah, yeah, like Mark, doctor Jack and
somebody else. So I thought there was Mark Jones and
doctor Jack Ramsey.
Speaker 3 (37:33):
That's good. I forget.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
Okay, so you wave a magic wand and you tell
me I could put the Knicks and the Hurricanes back
in the playoffs, right, I said, okay, Well, what's the catch?
And you could say to me, you could have that,
or I could give you something else.
Speaker 3 (37:49):
I don't lose anything else. No, I could give you
something else, or you can have me. What are you
gonna give me?
Speaker 1 (37:54):
Right? The Knicks and the Hurricanes back in the playoffs?
Or I will give you something What are you gonna
give me, you said, I can guarantee that Richmond wins
the EPL on ted Lasso, And I'm pretty sure I
would take ted Lasso over the Nix and the Hurricanes.
Speaker 3 (38:11):
I'm pretty sure.
Speaker 4 (38:12):
I knowing the inevitability of them falling in a later.
Speaker 1 (38:15):
Yeah, because it's right now, you can put them back
in the playoffs. Okay, they'd be in the Eastern Conference
Final and be back in or the Greyhounds win the
EPL in the final episode of ted Lasso next week.
If you could give me one of these, I'm pretty
sure I would pick ted Lasso. You know how I
know this because what no spoorilers. But watching the game,
the big game they had in last night's episode that
that came in second to last season, Like I'm watching
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the game, like I'm watching a game that's real.
Speaker 3 (38:42):
Like, oh, come on, make that safe. Oh say to myself,
this is a television televigension. What I'm watching it like
a lunit. Two thoughts what it was by far the
best episode of the season. It was, and it was
a great episode, but.
Speaker 4 (38:57):
It was gonna have a lot of lolls and pride.
Speaker 3 (39:00):
No man, the Zava episodes were really good.
Speaker 4 (39:03):
Well, but they had moments.
Speaker 3 (39:04):
Yeah, but such a Zava being the character, just being
in the whole thing was pretty good.
Speaker 4 (39:09):
No, that was watching the I'm like alf like Madeline
immediately like, there was one scene and we're not going
to spoil it. It's still in the We gotta have
the forty eight hours, I think in this day and age,
because it was it was released early too, so by
time we're on area early, I think we're like, yeah.
Speaker 1 (39:26):
Somebody must have hacked into Apple Plus and be able
to do that.
Speaker 4 (39:29):
All I know is there there was one sequence with
a soccer related event that she looked.
Speaker 3 (39:36):
He goes, really, they couldn't. They couldn't.
Speaker 4 (39:38):
They couldn't film that better that they decided to do
one take?
Speaker 1 (39:42):
What was it?
Speaker 2 (39:42):
Head?
Speaker 1 (39:42):
You know what I always how? She just dead passed.
She goes watch this and then she rewinds it. He goes,
look at that and then rewinds it again. Go come on, dad, look,
don't make her. No, you know you gotta go back,
go back and look how many goals and this is
not a spoiler, how many goals are scored when a
player is offside and it's not even close.
Speaker 3 (40:02):
It was like, come on, what's that all the long balls.
Speaker 1 (40:05):
Out of said, come on, that guy's off side by
like ten yards. Meanwhile, you know I was watching earlier
it was what was it? It was Brighton and Man
City and the guy was ruled offside where his foot
probably couldn't have bit his toes.
Speaker 3 (40:24):
Like whoa.
Speaker 1 (40:24):
I mean, there's like, look, you're off side of your
not right, It's like if the part of your body
is up getting that first going. He's got like a
boy striker's got a ten yard lead on the plast defender.
That's not all just now going in the air whatever.
But I'm telling you just the look because this is not.
Speaker 4 (40:45):
Nicks, because it was more entertaining for me watching. I
love the lightning with you though it is fun.
Speaker 3 (40:51):
I love the Knicks. But do I think they would
win to have him back in but at the opportunity
against but he again.
Speaker 1 (41:00):
Yeah, but the emotion I've invested in Ted last years,
it's it's it's like it's one of my teams. I
already I think about crying knowing what is probably gonna
happen next week. Like you know, it went in certain
parts and I'm just talking about the game. I don't
mean anything outside of the games going on.
Speaker 3 (41:17):
I'm like, I'm insane. Oh they needed that one. I
actually said that iment.
Speaker 1 (41:21):
Oh he needed that save and said, what do you
mean they needed that?
Speaker 3 (41:26):
Say because you know you're right, You're right, you're right,
you're they needed.
Speaker 4 (41:29):
But even even live like you're doing the while they
dot this, So all right, here's what's gonna happen, and
then it's gonna come back over the top and that
and they surprised and didn't. By the way, hang time
to close that loop. Yeah, yeah, sure, Anthony Anderson, Jay
Hernandez and the Great Reggie THEUS Reggie Theis, Yes, yes, okay,
Reggie THEUS.
Speaker 3 (41:48):
Ok.
Speaker 1 (41:49):
He had that great poster with no shirt on. Right then,
Reggie Theis have that big poster back in the eighties.
Speaker 3 (41:53):
I got it. He was kinda have a big deal.
I mean it, man, I'm in the big a.
Speaker 4 (41:56):
We used to go watch him at the Chicago Stadium
and we avoided Rat in the third level.
Speaker 3 (42:01):
That's good. Always want you always want to they were there.
You always want to avoid rats. You knew they were there.
Speaker 1 (42:04):
We also want to avoid the band Rat because they're
very overrated. No, sure, the band Rat is completely I
get upset when I see their commercials.
Speaker 3 (42:10):
Go really rat just because the name rat. They're so overrated.
Speaker 4 (42:12):
They agreed to do a cheap thing.
Speaker 3 (42:14):
Overrated. Oh yeah, that's true. They probably they're very overraded.
Speaker 1 (42:17):
But no, I mean, are you talking about the Knicks
and the Hurricanes two of my main teams?
Speaker 3 (42:21):
Right?
Speaker 1 (42:21):
Like I got five main teams. I got the Mets
and the Jets, Syracuse well, Syracuse football and basketball, and
the Knicks and Carolina. Right, those are my teams, and
right now you could put two of them back.
Speaker 3 (42:31):
In or Richmond wins. I don't know. I think I
would take Richmond. No, that's not bad.
Speaker 4 (42:37):
He remember you also had coach Mike Katowinsky as played
by Dick Mudkus.
Speaker 1 (42:42):
Oh that's right, Yeah, yeah, yeah, I thought those it
would Katowinsky was the name of the guy from Saved
by the Belt.
Speaker 3 (42:46):
And I wasn't no, okay, no, I thought it was
all right.
Speaker 4 (42:49):
But there you go, there's hang time.
Speaker 3 (42:51):
I would bring us back, you would take? I think
I would take the EPL championship for Richmond.
Speaker 1 (42:56):
Sure?
Speaker 3 (42:56):
Why not? You kidding?
Speaker 1 (42:57):
All for Ted and Coach Beard. I want to spin
off a coach Beer Jamie and I will oh listen,
I'm hoping Adventures of Coach Beer. The thing is, is
there enough for a spin off? If it's if the
rumor is Jason Sakas wants to go and wants to leave.
Speaker 3 (43:14):
There are two ways to solve this one. Are you
gonna do play we're the miller's part. Tell here's one. No,
he comes, well, I don't think going to because.
Speaker 4 (43:21):
He won all the time cater thing where he does
another show that starts out his comedy and then becomes
nothing but a drama.
Speaker 1 (43:28):
No, look, I think the reason mainly is that Jason
Sadak is dune. He doesn't want to go to doesn't
want to spend all the time in Europe anymore when
he's got a family everything back here and other things.
Speaker 3 (43:37):
So it's it's a difficult thing.
Speaker 1 (43:38):
So the one, the one solving all of this is
they go on and it's a show and it's still
everybody there, right and and and Roy is the cut.
Everybody's everybody's still involved, and.
Speaker 3 (43:51):
No do that.
Speaker 1 (43:53):
Ray Ramona will come in as a guest kind of figure.
An's gonna be somebody different. There's phar Do you likes
soccer sure? Or or you do this think about this
for a coach soccer or or he comes back to
back home to Kansas and he gets the head coaching
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job with say Kansas City MLS, and he gets that
job because Rebecca buys the team and everybody comes with him,
and now suddenly it's fish out of water everybody from England.
Speaker 3 (44:27):
In the United States and Kansas City. Now would that work?
I don't know. It might you can get a season
out of it. It might, you could.
Speaker 1 (44:33):
It's like after Mash you could get a season out
of that though, cause you still have Jason Senakas, and
that's a big thing. Like when when you take away
the guy who's the central part of the series, can
you go on? You know, it was really good about
this episode. There was more Jason Sanaikas in it well,
and at Jason Sanaikas honestly feels like in the last
couple episodes he's trying a little bit more. I felt
like he's kind of sleep walking through the first few episodes.
(44:56):
This you're kind of like Chris Pratt slip walk through
Guardians of the Galaxy Part three, which we'll get into
later on.
Speaker 3 (45:01):
And I feel enjoyable overall.
Speaker 1 (45:02):
Yeah, but I feel like he's trying more like for
like he's like just disappeared, like checked out for wide
swaths of episodes this year, and I'm like, all right,
it's gonna come back, right, it's gonna We had these
crazy ass storylines that weren't really that interesting, but now
I feel like he's back. And last night was a
great episode. As long as great it was, it was
so many different, uh storylines coming in. But you know,
(45:23):
it's tough, man, when you take the guy who's the
name series Aft and take him out, can you do it?
Speaker 6 (45:28):
Or come into the United States? Kansas City? That's he's
the coach. Rebecca buys the team, think about it, hires
Keighley to come and be it's Rebecca and Keeley and Higgins.
You know, maybe Higgins wouldn't go because it Travis kel sure,
Oh yeah, you get Mahomes would be in there too,
and Red.
Speaker 3 (45:46):
Andy Reid would be coaching the team at some point. Yeah,
oh ye all have a big Kansas city.
Speaker 1 (45:50):
Yeah what Paul reud would come his ant man like
he would be there, his aunt because he would be great,
like if he could he can get a bunch of assists. Unofficially, well,
I mean, dude, come on, no one could. They would
try to hit him hard, but he would get really
smaller and then just push the ball by.
Speaker 4 (46:02):
I thought he would just he shrunk the whole time,
like he was a twelfth man. Well or he's really
big the whole time and then he just, you know,
just puts the ball in the net.
Speaker 3 (46:09):
And that's not a bad way to go. It works out.
Speaker 1 (46:12):
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Speaker 3 (46:21):
It really would. Who hurt you? I really would, Oh
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Speaker 3 (00:28):
Greetings and welcome inside.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Happy Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Today's Wednesday, Wednesday, Wednesday. I'm telling you,
since college, the days have just blended into one another
another one. Really, the days since college, the days are
just blended. I'm like, and I said, t is No,
it's not Tuesday, We're two days, thirdday, Wednesday, Birth, School
(00:52):
Work Death.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Who did that album?
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Somebody like Suicidal Tendencies or somebody did that album or
or no, no, no, uh hang on uh.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
It was right out Chili Peppers is the Godfather's was
the song?
Speaker 1 (01:06):
The Godfather of Soul? The Godfathers, the Godfathers. No, but
there's a that's the Bird school Work Death. Okay, that's
our end school, all right, that's what work death.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
So, I mean the days of the week, do they matter?
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Monday, Thursday, Wednesday, No, it's it's it's since since college.
It's like, okay, like Monday through Friday and Saturday Sunday
were always so just delineated when when when we were
kids and when you were a kid. Now it's like, yeah, my,
what what's the matter? Tuesday is the same thing as Thursday.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Doesn't matter.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Are the kids home early from school or not. It's
not a matter of the day of the week. It's
just becomes a rhythm, right as to the paces of
your life.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Yeah, I mean we we reset on Sunday.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
For for the NFL, we always recent on Sunday during
the fall Monday. Everybody's like, oh I hate Mondays. I'm like, yeah, okay,
but you know Mondays of work day.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Just like Tuesday. Just like I'm like, okay, I've never I've.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Never has coming off a long stretch of not working
in theory, yeah, I've never had many to the Mondays.
I mean, I've never had a k of the money.
You know, Tuesdays are worse for me. I mean, like
I work Sunday mornings, right, So flip of the schedule.
So Tuesday mornings are not my favorite, and Tuesday's gone
with the wind. But you know, you just keep rolling.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
I mean, get up, do what you have to do,
grab an extra cup of coffee, get your ass moving.
I mean, that's life.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
I think I was thinking of blood sugar, sex, magic
for school work death, blood sugar, sex, magic, birth, school
work death. I kind of like blood sugar, sex, magic
more than birth, school work death. I kind of like that, though.
I kind of like the first one better.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Yeah, I mean, in the end, sugar sugar fleas a
former you know, guest of the show, friend of the
show whatever.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Not a big fan of the Chili Peppers. Yeah, but
that's okay.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
I like sugar, I like sex, and I like magic.
So those are three good things, Bud. Okay, it's important.
Blood depends on is it. I'm losing my blood? Is it?
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Are we? That could be a thing? But three out
of f it's flowing. Okay. Yeah, But then you got.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Birth, school work, death, and you know birth is good, right,
School is okay, work is okay. Death is really bad.
So you know, but are you sure? I'm pretty sure
I don't want to be dead. I don't think anybody
wants to be dead that you know, it's tough to
really want to. I mean, you want to try to
avoid in the end, you know, you want to avoid that,
you know, kind of a while, like the tax man
(03:28):
would avoid the tax man.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Tax man.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Look if the more I pay in taxes means I
had a better year?
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Look, blood sugar, sex magic. Three out of the four
things are really good. Birth, school, work, death. You have one,
and then you have you. You have some up, you.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Have some air choices, so good, you take the bed.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Yeah, it's it's Sugar is not always good for it
because it can affect your blood. Sugar tastes so good, yeah,
but it can screw up your blood. I mean, it's
not too diabetic over here. Even that fake problem. Even
fake sugar is good.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Fake sugar, fake sugar, fake sugar.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Sure, because that has no long fake sugar sex, fake
sugar sex magic. All they needed to do is add
pizza to the mix and we would have had it all.
Was that under the Bridge was off blood sugar sex magic?
Or was that off californication?
Speaker 4 (04:11):
No?
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Californiation was later okay, because because under the bridge is
where they drew some Blood, so that should be on
Blood Sugar Sex Magic.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
I have to look it up because I'm not well.
You have a computer in front of me. All you
have to do is type in Blood Sugar Sex Matt.
The album would come up. Suck My Kiss was on
that one, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Yeah it was. Yeah, you're right, you're right. What did
you think when you started? I thought you were going
to start on the bridge?
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Yes, I found it, but you said a couple of
words there.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
You had a couple of words there that I didn't
know how you were going to finished. And I wanted
to make.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Sure I'm a broadcast. You think I'm putting us in danger?
Speaker 3 (04:51):
I don't tell you.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Do you work with me for a decade? Put us
in danger every single night?
Speaker 4 (04:56):
You're out of your mind?
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Single night? Are you kidding me?
Speaker 5 (04:59):
Right?
Speaker 1 (05:00):
And Mets talk and we how dangerous is that? The
Mets stop, We're gonna get swept by the bleeping Cubs.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
You know what's funny though, is you know, for all
the derision of the White Sox coming into today's games,
they were seven to three in their last ten. Yeah,
so all they needed me to do was excoriate them
on National Radio. Yeah, well look, look, well look they
still stink, and so do the Mets. And now in
a bad.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Division, they could rise above and.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
You know, and my hockey team is gonna go out.
We're gonna lose four straight by a goal every single game.
But you were that close in a Stanley cupper Bus season.
But you could be a Laker fan and talk about
how close you were in all these games.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
You're right there. Good, hey, you're right there.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
It is sweet and this is and this gets into
what I want to get into the first few minutes
here on the show, The Jason Smith Show with Mike
Carmon Lott the TIREC dot Com Studios. Is that just
take this for example, right for me, this is a
Stanley cupper Bus season for Carolina, Right, great team, great
regular season, but you had the playoff start. Three big
(05:57):
scores were injured. They got one back last round, but
still two of the top three players on offense got
hurt and they're done. So what to do? And you
look at the way this playoff has gone. The Panthers
are gonna go to the Stanley Cup if it's gonna
be the Panthers and the and Vegas, Right, it's gonna
be Florida in Las Vegas. We're gonna have Denver and
most likely the Heat in the NBA Finals.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
You don't like it, don't watch you know, let's go.
I'm not saying that. No, no, no, stop stip.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
You think this is where Isaac sag when you think
I'm gonna zag.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
I want I'm not giving you any of my zark nut.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Uh, here's where Isaac, Here's where izag where you think
I'm gonna do it?
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Uh?
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that for all of the building. You've been talking a
lot about building teams in the NBA playss how the
Lakers were built this year and how much they're looking
forward to hey next year with this group together that
(06:58):
they put together at the trade deadline. Right, we got
Ruey hot Chimorro, we got D'Angelo Russell. We will have
more cohesiveness.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Right.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
We lost the Nuggets because they were more cohesive than
we were. And with a year more of these guys
playing together and Austin Ree's playing together.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
In theory, you would say we'll win more games.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Will take less pressure off of Lebron and Ad and
that's why we feel really good about next year.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
And I get that. I understand that in theory.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
That is also an archaic way that does not have
any basis in reality. In sports anymore, every professional sport,
you are on a year to year basis. You cannot
sit here and say, well, our plan is working. No,
because there's so many factors that come into play now
that didn't when you could say we're building and we
(07:44):
expect to be title contenders thruxt five or six years.
You don't know when players are going to stay healthy,
you know when players are gonna want out. Stars these
days are more mercurial and they may be done in
a situation. You don't know how other teams are going
to rise up around you, how the game is going
to evolve, and may be, hey, we're not as good
this year as we were last year because the games
evolving to hitting more threes or whatever. It's going to
(08:05):
be positionless NBA and we're not quite that way. All
of these things happen, and for to sit here and
say we feel really great about our future, No, it's
a year to year thing. What you do this year
in the playoffs is not gonna happen next year. This
is why teams when I hear the lad we feel
really good about where we are. Okay, but guys, this
(08:26):
is a complete missed opportunity. You were in the Western
Conference Finals and you still wound up getting knocked out, right,
even though you had you were in the Western Conference finals. Yes,
it's easy to say the Nuggets were better, because they were,
But the Nuggets aren't sitting here saying, hey, we got
five or six years ago, because you don't know when
Jamal Murray's gonna be healthy. They looked like they were
gonna be a championship team in twenty twenty, right, look
(08:48):
at Jamal Murray in the bubble, and then it's taken
three more years for the Nuggets to get to a
point where they could win a title. So many things happen,
there's so many variables. You can't sit here and say
we're stacked for the next three No, it is a
year to year thing. That's why when when when you
see that situation, it is the sense of desperation that
you have to have to win. And when we talked
(09:09):
last night to Mark Medena, NBA Insider, he said, look,
watching the Eastern Conference Finals, a lot of is it
about effort?
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Right?
Speaker 1 (09:16):
The Heat have been giving the effort and the Celtics
have it. They gave no effort in Game three and
they got killed. They gave all kinds of effort in
Game four and they wind up sending the series to
game five. That's what teams sometimes miss, the opportunity that's
in front of them, and they think, well, we're building.
If we lose, we're down, We're not quite as sharp.
We don't play with the desperation. It is year to year.
And when I hear a team say where's it up
(09:37):
for the future? I go, you really think you are?
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Really? I the sports god you make plans and sports
gods laugh. Oh you're thinking that? When do you see
what happens next year? For the Jets.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
I'm thinking this year. I'm not thinking, hey, the next
three four years. I know it's this year right now.
Aaron Rodgers, when he's pissed off at the Packers the
most while he loves the Jets more than I do.
That's it's now, this is the next It's this year.
I don't care about next year. They could stink next year.
Priests Hall could still be hurt next year. Who knows
what's gonna happen. Guys could leave in free agency, Guys
(10:07):
could want to get traded. Guys could not move on
as rookies or second year players. It's this year, and
I don't see that sense of urgency in the NBA
Playoffs from a lot of teams. I didn't see it
from the Knicks. I didn't see it from the Bucks.
I haven't seen it from the Celtics up until this one.
Didn't see it from the Lakers in the first couple
games of the series. I just didn't see it and
(10:28):
for all because you'll go back and go, well, we're
playing with house money. No, no, no, this could be
the only time you play with house money. I don't
see the urgency.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
I said yesterday, there's no such thing in my world
as house money. There is today there is the opportunity
because if you wanted to do the house money, you
would have done nothing at the trade deadline and happenstance
would have gotten you to this point, right, No, you
said this is no longer a fit in start contrast
to what we heard at the beginning of the year,
(10:56):
which was they're telling Lebron James he has to doing
it because he wanted Russell Westbrook.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Well, guess what come to trade deadline. They didn't.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
They didn't wave a white flag. They went and made
a bunch of moves that helped put him in position.
Add a bunch of injuries, in effectiveness, and problems across
the Western Conference playing good basketball, the schedule gods smiled
at him down the stretch, something that suddenly got conflated
into their the best defense ever. That's what we started here.
(11:25):
It's like, all right, and then later on it's like,
well they played a soft schedule, you know then, and
weren't ready, And it's like no, no, no, no, no,
you can't have it both ways. Tell me that they're
a top two, top three defense. And then later on,
well they were just overmanned by the Nuggets. I mean,
come on, no, you made all these moves, you had
the basketball gods smile on you, and that Lebron and
(11:47):
Ad were available the entire stretch run and into the playoffs,
you're banking on that. Again, you're banking on that whatever
you're able to construct that Austin Reeves doesn't an eighty
million dollar contract from someone that you have to suddenly
do some really fuzzy math to make things work. We
(12:08):
hear all these trade scenarios whatever, and that's all of
finding good. But you know, just saying you're well positioned,
we're gonna keep the core together.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
We joked about it yesterday, Kyle Kuzma saying, yeah, I
heard that before.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
I've been there.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
I've been down that road.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
You have no idea the way the season's gonna go.
It is a long damn year and the second season,
the playoffs are that long as well, so everything bouncing
your way. Look at Milwaukee, right, Lebron. We watched Jannis
with the showing cracks normally happy, go lucky. That failure
(12:44):
thing was he wanted to choke that guy out for
asking that question. He started to attack him and his
family in his livelihood before realizing what his image was
getting blown apart.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Yeah, they recognize how fleeting it all can be.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
You know, as time goes on with sports, I subscribe
to these slim Charles philosophy from the wire.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Okay, okay, when Slim.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Charles ain't to ask him about the history of the
streets of bald you know, because we worked on the
streets of character and everything, and he says, ain't no history,
There's only the street and the game and what happens
here today. And I'm like when he said that, that
reverberated Him's like, no history, there's the street and the
game and what happens here today. And obviously he's talking about,
(13:26):
you know, trying to stay alive and you know, with
everything going on in the wire, but that's it's sports.
Forgot about history. For there's the game, and there's what
happens here today, and that's it. And you think tomorrow
is guaranteed for your team, for you're gonna be great
and we're gonna go out.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
No, it's not. We make great plans. Yeah, okay, let's
see what happens.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Maybe it just isn't your year the next year, maybe
you're just not as cohesive with But so many teams
get to the point where I watch him in the
playoffs and I go, what the hell is going on here?
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Man?
Speaker 1 (13:56):
You think the Celtics as well, it's not our year
Joe Mizzool is not any good. We lost first two
games at home.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
No, I've gotten desperation from the heat every single game
they have played. That's why they're here in the Eastern
Conference Finals, are one game away from the NBA Finals.
I've gotten the desperation, the grittiness of we're gonna go
out there put this away. They've had forever.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
You know, that's it's really it's it's you buy in
the philosophy.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
I mean, all the big thought pieces on Jimmy Butler
come back to one basic element in almost every stop,
with the exception of his time working with Dwayne Wade
in Chicago, he had a bunch of guys he didn't
agree with their work philosophies, so there were clashes. And
now he's in a place where that's the thing where
you get the pad on the back of all right,
(14:38):
come in and do your job right. The we'll talk
about Belichick and the Patriots maybe working a little harder
than they're supposed to do, right, No days off, right,
no days off, cuie. But it's that type of philosophy.
But you know to to say, hey, you're gonna run
right back to this spot. Just give it and give
it time to marinate. Not the way it works. A
couple of guys. Also, you think Austin Reeves and Rui
(15:00):
looking at their basketball careers the same way as they did.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
Two months ago.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Well, no, you got guys that now have Hey, we
played on the biggest stage, and we performed on the
biggest stage.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
We saved the Bacon, Lonnie Walker the fourth. They can
be as humble as they want in an interview in
the middle of a series, but come at postseason, they
want to get paid, they want their minutes, they want
their part, and their agents are going to be in
their ear telling them all that yeah, it's it's a
different animal going next year.
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Eleven minutes ago in the third period, the Panthers lead
(16:28):
Carolina three to two. They are eleven minutes away from
the Stanley Cup Final. And I gotta say this, in
all of sports, in all of sports, we have blood,
we have sugar, we have sex, we have matt It's
a lot of stuff in all of sports. There is
no one individual that has more impact and can control
the series more than a hot goalie in the NHL playoffs,
(16:51):
not a quarterback in the NFL, not a starting pitcher
in Major League Baseball, everybody, not a superstar in the NBA.
There is nobody who can flip a playoff like a
hot goalie can. And that's what Bobrovski's been doing for
this entire series. I mean, he's allowed like two goals
on his last nine hundred shots, and the Hurricanes are
gonna lose four one goal games, uh, two to one, two, one, one,
(17:13):
three to two, and they're gonna get knocked out when
it should have been a Stanley Cup type year. But
that just happens. It's Gretz.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
What's great about hockey.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
It's also really frustrating that one guy can have that
much of a control over the series. And it doesn't
need to be a great player, it just needs to
be somebody who gets hot for a few weeks at
one time. Nobody has as much control and can flip
a series in playoffs than a goalie in hockey.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
No, well, we've watched some of these amazing runs through
I mean being here in Los Angeles, go back to
what Jonathan Quick was at the start of his run
and the legend that he built, and go on down
the line, and certainly for you in this series, the frustration,
the near chances. I mean, I was watching a TV
(17:57):
show and a goalie featured prominently in a different space
board uh earlier today, So the same thing, just change
a venue, change a field.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
He well, well, well, well, you already tweeted about it.
Let me just say, how good a game did Fandamn have?
How good was Fandamn?
Speaker 2 (18:13):
What a game?
Speaker 4 (18:14):
As soon as he put the mask on, it was over.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
I put on the mask and look at the time,
I mean everything, he stopped everything. Oh that's right. It
was awesome, no question about it. And here's the best part.
Here's here's the best part.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Either people know we're talking about and they agree or
they don't know, which is okay, or they don't know
and they will know, but they have no ideam, what
the hell.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
We're talking about all together? A game by Van Damn,
No question about it.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
Yeah, that's game. You'll ever really sad here for you though,
if if it is another one goal defeat, it is
going to be psychologically it crushes you.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Yeah, because you could say, boy, really close. But we
didn't win a game, right, So there's both of those.
What do you do if the Whalers are reinstituted? Oh,
I would have to go back to the Whalers. Yeah,
I would have to go I mean, you've got that
proposal the Whalers came back to. Yeah, I would have
to drop the Hurricanes and go to the Whalers, especially
this bunch of losers. They can't win a game's the
(19:12):
conference final, need one goal, second most points in the league.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
A bunch of losers out that drop up. I can't
concentrate when you played again, perfect shadow on right t
sn legend. Oh boy.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Uh so that's where we sit right now here from
the tire rec dot com studios. Uh to get into
the the the other NBA topic that was a big
deal today and there's no way to segue to this,
but we just know it's about as awkward because I
teased it and we got to talk about it.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
That's already lost. So just don't get your bunch of londo.
You lost to the Cubs again.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Come on, We're gonna get swept by the clubs. I know,
I know, what, what can I say? It's not our year.
Everybody thinks we a, oh, we're great with this. No,
we're five hundred. We're five hundred.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
We stink.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Police in Tennessee earlier today you probably saw this story
conducted a welfare check on Grizzly star John Morant following
some cryptic messages he put up on his Instagram account Wednesday,
and officials went to go see him, and they told
ESPN that he is quote taking a break from social media.
Now what happened earlier today? Morant put posts up and
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then deleted messages and pictures to social media that said
love your mom with a blue heart emoji, love you,
Pops blue heart emoji, and you the greatest baby girl,
blue heart emoji, love you. Then followed up with a
post that simply said bye. So that became something that
raised some flags. The Shelby County Sheriff's Office went for
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a welfare check on him, and they said that he
is fine. Obviously, he is still suspended from all team
activities following the video of him holding a gun that
circulated on social media back in the middle of May.
So this is where you know, okay, it takes your
breath through with his headline and then you see, okay,
he's fine. But here's the thing. Is he really fine?
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Because I'll believe you the first person to tell you.
I know, I don't treat social media like gen Z does,
right and John Moran's Generation Z. I don't treat social
media that way. I don't treat it because a lot
of you know, and this is not this is not right.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
Or wrong.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
You love what you love, right, I mean I love
chocolate and I love the Mets. Some people love social media,
and you can see you can see how how some
people in social media it's extremely important them young athletes,
it is extremely important to them, extremely important.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
And to see somebody post something that says love you,
love you to you know, to three people, three family members,
and then you post by that's that raises a flag
with me.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
And I don't know that.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
I would just sit here and say, oh, he's fine,
he's fine, because again I don't know how I you know,
generation Z, it's it's it's a it's a difference in generations.
Obviously it's it's two because it's X, Y and Z.
But I got to think that even gen Z, if
you're taking a break from social media, are you you're
putting a message to your to your mom, your dad,
and your baby brother, Hey love you buy. I think
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if I wanted did everybody know I'm taking a break
from social media, I would just text my mom or dad.
I would say, oh, yeah, I'm not gonna be on
social media.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Probably three people that aren't checking your Instagram. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
To get that kind of messaging and but that's the
thing of your kid, you know. But the thing is
but you.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
But that's the thing is that that's how a lot
of people communicate.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
And I understand that.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
I understand that that's how some people instead of messaging
people communicate. But this is a different kind of communication. Sure,
this is I'm going on social media to tell you
I'm taking a break from social media.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Read that that that's what it is.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Really. I mean, I don't know that I would sit
here and say, yeah, everything is fun. Oh, I think
all of us in the immediate interpretation. We've had this
discussion before about folks posting cryptic things about you know,
rough days, happy days, whatever, the begging you to ask, okay,
what happened right? Good, bad, indifferent?
Speaker 4 (23:01):
This one just had that kind of chill to it,
given the build up of these events with John Morant
and the severity of what we believe is coming from
the NBA with regard to sanctions, whether it's a half year,
full year ordering, a bunch of steps and rehabilitation, whatever
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it is to get back into the good grace of
the NBA. I had of his five year, one hundred
and ninety four million dollar contract, all the stuff that
could be torn asunder based on what's gone through.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
So you think the worst, right, that's yeah, reacity. I
saw it and just went, whoa.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
If someone in my family posts that up there, Hey,
love you mom, love your dad, the love you baby.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Bye.
Speaker 4 (23:46):
Weh.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Hey, let's make a phone call, let's sun a text,
let's let's let let's check on something. And this is
where I get to the point of the one thing
that I would say, maybe a long suspect for John
Morant might not be the right thing. Now I realize
I've gone on the record and I've said he's got
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to be gone. It's got to be a year suspension.
This is a guy with a gun. You're trying to
protect the NBA. The NBA can't be city here saying hey,
you know, hey, we're all in bed with guns, right,
even though a lot of players have different backgrounds they
come from. This is not something you need. And he
also was given a chance to try to do the
right thing, and here he is back on Instagram with
a gun in his hand, and that's not great, right,
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So I get that, But this is when when I
saw this story today and saw the situation on social media,
I went back to something that Bill Parcells always used
to say. He always just say, you know what's the
what's the most nervous time you have as a coach,
And he said, it's always the off season, the amount
of time that a player spends away from the structure
of the team, Right, that's the high week. When when
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that's when my phone is going to ring late at night,
or something happens when you're not around the team, when
you don't have a schedule, when you're not beholden to anybody,
that's when bad things happen. Always the worst time. And
for someone like John Morant, who I can't defend anything
he's done. And should he be suspended for a long time? Yeah,
yeah he should. But what's that gonna do for him?
If he's away from the NBA, This is gonna take
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him away from any kind of structure, any kind of
of routine, any kind of being beholden, any kind of
good influence that he could have, And what's gonna happen
to him? Then hanging around with guys like Devonte Pack who's, hey,
I have no no problem ruining your career, Gonna do
an Instagram video you got the gun? And yeah, that's great,
let's do it. Man, I'm gonna ruin your grid. You
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got one hundred ninety four million dollars coming your way.
Guess what the Grizzlies right now? Is there any way
we can get out of this? Do we have to
how do we get out of it? If we have
to do? We have we on the hook to pay
him all of this money. So he's gonna be spending
time because you get upset, You'll get frustrated the NBA
as a wam, you feel bad about yourself, and you
make bad decisions, and bad decisions snowball into even worse decisions.
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So that's the one thing I can say is, hey, yeah,
long suspension, absolutely, because you're talking about the NBA and
one guy who is who was really not protecting the shield.
But at the same time, it's if he's away from
the team for that long, what could happen? And so
that's where I kind of sit back and go, ye,
is there something else we can do to work this
ads to some other way? Because I don't think he's
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someone that he's away from the team, things are gonna
go sunshine, lollipops and rainbows and tall you. I want
to get back in the league.
Speaker 4 (26:21):
Well, and that's one of the things as you go
through from the union side, their argument about what's been
done that's illegal versus the optics of the league and
as you say, protecting the shield, which we usually ascribe
to the NFL but applies here. And what Adam Silver
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and the front offices of all teams owners, governors whatever
we're calling him these days, and what your due process
is for this, you know, can it be done? One
of the big problems, and it came out in the
wash with Memphis, is that you also didn't have a
lot of veteran leadership there to kind of calm the
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Dylan Brooks scenario.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
Toody, but you.
Speaker 4 (27:09):
Guys think on the best, you know what I mean,
But to calm down and get him back in line
with Hey, we have focus and actually going and win
these games. We don't win by by being the loudest guy.
Uh in the media. Uh, it's not professional wrestling where
we get some love from the crowd just by being
able to do a good shoot interview.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (27:30):
That's not that's not helping your bottom line. But you
didn't have a lot of veteran voices in the locker room.
You have Steven Adams wasn't available to play, but that
that might have been part of.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
What was going on there.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
You didn't have a whole lot of control and unity
in the locker room. So figuring out how to fix
that internally is one thing. But for the league, you're
you're trying to make sure you don't lose one of
your brighter stars in both both senses of the word. Right,
he keeps going down a path with whomever, whether he's
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the guy that's instigating or it's these guys that he
hangs around. I don't know, chicken egg kind of thing,
but just sending him off is not doing anybody good.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
Yeah, in any way, shape or form.
Speaker 4 (28:18):
It's and for the league that they don't have one
of their top performers either.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
No, and that and that's the tough part is that
I don't see a good outcome, right, I mean then
now there's degrees of good outcomes, so that there's agrees
of not good outcomes, is what I want to say.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
Now, is it not good outcome?
Speaker 1 (28:34):
He doesn't get suspended, Well, wait a minute, So the
guy can do that and wave a gun a couple
of times, not gonna spend Is that a good outcome,
not a good outcome for the league. He gets suspended
for a year, Is that a good outcome? Probably good
for the league, Probably the worst thing for him because
now he's going to be away from the team for
allin who knows what happens. So that's something where yeah,
it's not. It's only the best solution of what we
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have going forw which is probably why the NBA is
taking so long on some kind of decision here, because
you have to take all of these things into account.
You would love to say, okay, well the next day
here it is, can't do it. Maybe David Starr would
have done that. But I like to think that maybe
they're taking a little bit into account of what could
happen as a result of this, of this, and is
there something we can do where we can be the
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fairest to everybody. We can be fair to him, we
can be fair of the league, we can be fair
to the image of the league, we can be fair
as a message.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
To the league what we want everybody to know.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
That's why I'm hoping they're taking time, and they can
take time because he's not playing now. It's not like
he's there's anything all he's allowed to play. Well, this
is happen. You can take time and you can come
up with the right decision. It's just tough because there's
no good outcome, you know, for anybody at all, no one.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
That's it right.
Speaker 4 (29:37):
You have a bunch of those allegations that were already
out there before this latest video, and then you had
a number of current former players like well, I have guns.
We have guns, like well, but you're not brandishing them
on IG Live. And where's that line drawn right between, Hey,
do you have to register with the league that you
you're owning a bunch of gun I don't think you
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have to disclose those things. So you have no idea.
You're just trying to hope that your constituents or you know,
your player membership are using the best judgment possible and
not putting the league to where that's you know, page
one on newspapers or the front section and front segments
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of newscasts for something that's gone awry. In the end,
out of this message, you hope that there's some weight
behind the last public statement that he made right of
recognizing the gravity of all this, and this was an
extension of it that it was just an outward and
that's all it was. They do the wellness check and
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hopefully that's it, but either way, it still strikes me
and the armchair psychologist that he's a guy that needs
a little bit of guidance and a little bit of
help in this process. And going back to your point before,
it is still National Mental Health Awareness Month, So you
know what, do pick up your phone, text your friend's family,
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just do check ins people you haven't talked to in
a while. You know, we have Jay Glazer on talking
about his work with Unbreakable and all the good that's
gone there, but the same idea, make sure you're checking
in on your people.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
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Speaker 1 (31:22):
I'm going to say something here and you're gonna go, WHOA. Okay,
So we just watched Look, the NBA is off tonight.
We're waiting for Game five tomorrow between the Heat and
the Celtics, which seems like a Game seven considering the
Nuggets swept the Lakers. The Western Conference and hockey's going
to be a sweep. We just saw a sweep in
the Eastern Conference Final. Oh yeah, this looks like it's
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an unbelievably competitive series. Everything we ever wanted in this series.
The Florida Panthers headed to the Stanley Cup Final for
the first time since nineteen ninety six when it was
the big Rat year Rats, and I remember covering it.
It feels like it was yesterday. Look, the Florida Panthers
is one of the newest teams to UH the NHL
and one of the newest teams in the sun the
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Sun Belt teams. And they went to the Stanley Cup Final,
and the big thing that year was rats because Scott Mellanbie,
who was a team captain, killed a rat in the
locker room before a game with a stick and it
became a f and I think he went out that
game and scored like two goals, so like they called
it like a rat trick or something like two goals
in one rat, right, So that became a whole That
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story gets out and they play really well at the
beginning of the season.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
They play well all year.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
They go to the final, they get swept by the
by the Colorado Avalanche. I think ove Croup scored the
game winning goal in overtime to win it. But it
was a whole big thing. And every time they would
someone would get a hat trick or in big games,
they would throw plastic rats on the ice and that
was the whole thing for the entire year. I remember
they went to the Stanley Cup Final. The first time
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they scored on Patrick Waugh, who was a goalie for
the Avalanche. It was an onslaught of plastic rats. He
went and sat in the in the net under it
so not to get hit by any that you think
people are throwing out of the stands. It was insane.
And now here's Florida back in the Stanley Cup Final.
More rats and they still threw some rats on there
well as the I mean, nobody celebrates rats.
Speaker 3 (33:11):
On Radio Org like we did. Sure, Oh yeah, yeah
the rat rankings. Florida's got to jump up. You really
do need to update. Miami's got it. Miami takes a
jump up for the rats.
Speaker 4 (33:19):
Now New York with their new ratsar what if I
were ever to leave radio for another post? Rats are
rats are of a Chicago or New York would be?
Speaker 1 (33:29):
I think that's a I think it's little pumptuous that
you would get the ratsar of a big city. You
have to work your way up. You got to be
the rats are. Yeah, but you can't just waltz right
into that job. But what do you what do you
think you're at your I've been watching Dale Gribble. You're
you're an acting out for years and you're an athlete.
You can have a great career. Just waltz on television
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or some episodes of Law and Order than I have.
Come on, dude, come on man, you did not you
know your kids like JJ reddick your way in and
say you know, hey, you know I played the game.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
Come on, man, you can't do that. Don't you know
who I am. You can't just do that. You gotta
work your You gotta playing. You gotta start, like in marketing.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
To pick up any rats, you got to go in
like market one for five, control the rat population there,
jump up to like market one, ten, market seventy, market
thirty market fit.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
Man, extra rats so I can really pad my numbers.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
Wow, you want you want to legal rats brought in
to pad your rat numbers?
Speaker 3 (34:24):
I don't know if they're legal really, Yeah, it's just
more of them. Can you.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
I gotta think it's to bring rats into No, I
don't know, charged with some felonies. I think the possibility
of the diseases and problems. Yeah they got yeah, right now,
they do cause problems. Not every rat is like the look.
Although people say pet rats are the best pets because
they're really smart and they're very affectionate. I mean, I
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saw that guy cook and if you're looking this, I
mean I can teach that guy. Think if I had
an army of them. No, no, there dining district of
rats that he's trained. Can you ask that You go
out to the reviewer and say, no, I'm sorry, I
got the rat cooking in the kitchen.
Speaker 3 (35:05):
It's fine, it's fine. You see a rat.
Speaker 4 (35:07):
He's he's rats cooking, cooking the meal. He's not being cooked.
We're not serving you rat. No, he's Look, he's got
the apron red apron on and everything. Look at he
even talks to me like Jackson. It really works out well.
The you know those little things you put on the
drumstick at Thanksgiving to dress up your turkey, it works
like a little hat for the rat. It's the same
size he's.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
Got and we get his little whiskers into a little mustache,
sadly whiplash, whichever you before, I before I give you,
I give you a real hot take because I do
believe this.
Speaker 3 (35:41):
Let's hear what did it sound like?
Speaker 1 (35:43):
Panthers goal with four seconds left to send them to
the Stanley Cup Final.
Speaker 3 (35:50):
Panthers poor cup right circle, go to the e go
like a truck in first shot.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
Stash Bristish bristis man good shuck the power play goal.
It's four three.
Speaker 3 (36:04):
Panthers flit four point.
Speaker 6 (36:06):
Three seconds to go in regulation time. The Panthers take
up four three lead in the wait.
Speaker 3 (36:14):
Eighty seconds a power play gold for Matthew could shuck.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
Panthers Radio network on the call in case you didn't know,
he scored three and thank god my voice was not
gonna hold up for overtime. It's just like that major
legal take over many I'm in the bass passes out.
But and I'm being completely honest with this, right, Let's
just say you could wave a magic wand see you
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Mike Carmon had a magic Wand let's say you add
one and you said, Jason, I can wave a magic
wand I say, what can you do? Let's deal with
right now, because we're talking about right now. I could
wave a magic wand and I could put the Hurricanes
and the Knicks back in the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (36:57):
I would say, whoa, Okay, okay, you can do that.
Speaker 4 (37:00):
I do the I'm out shot in rewind, I.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
Got my I got me, yes, will obey after hang Time? Yeah, yeah,
that was Mark Jones and doctor Jack right on?
Speaker 3 (37:14):
Hanktime? Was that? Who Hank Time was?
Speaker 2 (37:16):
No?
Speaker 4 (37:16):
No, no, Hangtime was the sitcom?
Speaker 3 (37:19):
No?
Speaker 1 (37:20):
No, wait no no? What was the what was what
was the basketball show before that? It was a basketball
show before Yeah. Yeah, yeah, like Mark, doctor Jack and
somebody else. So I thought there was Mark Jones and
doctor Jack Ramsey.
Speaker 3 (37:33):
That's good. I forget.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
Okay, so you wave a magic wand and you tell
me I could put the Knicks and the Hurricanes back
in the playoffs, right, I said, okay, Well, what's the catch?
And you could say to me, you could have that,
or I could give you something else.
Speaker 3 (37:49):
I don't lose anything else. No, I could give you
something else, or you can have me. What are you
gonna give me?
Speaker 1 (37:54):
Right? The Knicks and the Hurricanes back in the playoffs?
Or I will give you something What are you gonna
give me, you said, I can guarantee that Richmond wins
the EPL on ted Lasso, And I'm pretty sure I
would take ted Lasso over the Nix and the Hurricanes.
Speaker 3 (38:11):
I'm pretty sure.
Speaker 4 (38:12):
I knowing the inevitability of them falling in a later.
Speaker 1 (38:15):
Yeah, because it's right now, you can put them back
in the playoffs. Okay, they'd be in the Eastern Conference
Final and be back in or the Greyhounds win the
EPL in the final episode of ted Lasso next week.
If you could give me one of these, I'm pretty
sure I would pick ted Lasso. You know how I
know this because what no spoorilers. But watching the game,
the big game they had in last night's episode that
that came in second to last season, Like I'm watching
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the game, like I'm watching a game that's real.
Speaker 3 (38:42):
Like, oh, come on, make that safe. Oh say to myself,
this is a television televigension. What I'm watching it like
a lunit. Two thoughts what it was by far the
best episode of the season. It was, and it was
a great episode, but.
Speaker 4 (38:57):
It was gonna have a lot of lolls and pride.
Speaker 3 (39:00):
No man, the Zava episodes were really good.
Speaker 4 (39:03):
Well, but they had moments.
Speaker 3 (39:04):
Yeah, but such a Zava being the character, just being
in the whole thing was pretty good.
Speaker 4 (39:09):
No, that was watching the I'm like alf like Madeline
immediately like, there was one scene and we're not going
to spoil it. It's still in the We gotta have
the forty eight hours, I think in this day and age,
because it was it was released early too, so by
time we're on area early, I think we're like, yeah.
Speaker 1 (39:26):
Somebody must have hacked into Apple Plus and be able
to do that.
Speaker 4 (39:29):
All I know is there there was one sequence with
a soccer related event that she looked.
Speaker 3 (39:36):
He goes, really, they couldn't. They couldn't.
Speaker 4 (39:38):
They couldn't film that better that they decided to do
one take?
Speaker 1 (39:42):
What was it?
Speaker 2 (39:42):
Head?
Speaker 1 (39:42):
You know what I always how? She just dead passed.
She goes watch this and then she rewinds it. He goes,
look at that and then rewinds it again. Go come on, dad, look,
don't make her. No, you know you gotta go back,
go back and look how many goals and this is
not a spoiler, how many goals are scored when a
player is offside and it's not even close.
Speaker 3 (40:02):
It was like, come on, what's that all the long balls.
Speaker 1 (40:05):
Out of said, come on, that guy's off side by
like ten yards. Meanwhile, you know I was watching earlier
it was what was it? It was Brighton and Man
City and the guy was ruled offside where his foot
probably couldn't have bit his toes.
Speaker 3 (40:24):
Like whoa.
Speaker 1 (40:24):
I mean, there's like, look, you're off side of your
not right, It's like if the part of your body
is up getting that first going. He's got like a
boy striker's got a ten yard lead on the plast defender.
That's not all just now going in the air whatever.
But I'm telling you just the look because this is not.
Speaker 4 (40:45):
Nicks, because it was more entertaining for me watching. I
love the lightning with you though it is fun.
Speaker 3 (40:51):
I love the Knicks. But do I think they would
win to have him back in but at the opportunity
against but he again.
Speaker 1 (41:00):
Yeah, but the emotion I've invested in Ted last years,
it's it's it's like it's one of my teams. I
already I think about crying knowing what is probably gonna
happen next week. Like you know, it went in certain
parts and I'm just talking about the game. I don't
mean anything outside of the games going on.
Speaker 3 (41:17):
I'm like, I'm insane. Oh they needed that one. I
actually said that iment.
Speaker 1 (41:21):
Oh he needed that save and said, what do you
mean they needed that?
Speaker 3 (41:26):
Say because you know you're right, You're right, you're right,
you're they needed.
Speaker 4 (41:29):
But even even live like you're doing the while they
dot this, So all right, here's what's gonna happen, and
then it's gonna come back over the top and that
and they surprised and didn't. By the way, hang time
to close that loop. Yeah, yeah, sure, Anthony Anderson, Jay
Hernandez and the Great Reggie THEUS Reggie Theis, Yes, yes, okay,
Reggie THEUS.
Speaker 3 (41:48):
Ok.
Speaker 1 (41:49):
He had that great poster with no shirt on. Right then,
Reggie Theis have that big poster back in the eighties.
Speaker 3 (41:53):
I got it. He was kinda have a big deal.
I mean it, man, I'm in the big a.
Speaker 4 (41:56):
We used to go watch him at the Chicago Stadium
and we avoided Rat in the third level.
Speaker 3 (42:01):
That's good. Always want you always want to they were there.
You always want to avoid rats. You knew they were there.
Speaker 1 (42:04):
We also want to avoid the band Rat because they're
very overrated. No, sure, the band Rat is completely I
get upset when I see their commercials.
Speaker 3 (42:10):
Go really rat just because the name rat. They're so overrated.
Speaker 4 (42:12):
They agreed to do a cheap thing.
Speaker 3 (42:14):
Overrated. Oh yeah, that's true. They probably they're very overraded.
Speaker 1 (42:17):
But no, I mean, are you talking about the Knicks
and the Hurricanes two of my main teams?
Speaker 3 (42:21):
Right?
Speaker 1 (42:21):
Like I got five main teams. I got the Mets
and the Jets, Syracuse well, Syracuse football and basketball, and
the Knicks and Carolina. Right, those are my teams, and
right now you could put two of them back.
Speaker 3 (42:31):
In or Richmond wins. I don't know. I think I
would take Richmond. No, that's not bad.
Speaker 4 (42:37):
He remember you also had coach Mike Katowinsky as played
by Dick Mudkus.
Speaker 1 (42:42):
Oh that's right, Yeah, yeah, yeah, I thought those it
would Katowinsky was the name of the guy from Saved
by the Belt.
Speaker 3 (42:46):
And I wasn't no, okay, no, I thought it was
all right.
Speaker 4 (42:49):
But there you go, there's hang time.
Speaker 3 (42:51):
I would bring us back, you would take? I think
I would take the EPL championship for Richmond.
Speaker 1 (42:56):
Sure?
Speaker 3 (42:56):
Why not? You kidding?
Speaker 1 (42:57):
All for Ted and Coach Beard. I want to spin
off a coach Beer Jamie and I will oh listen,
I'm hoping Adventures of Coach Beer. The thing is, is
there enough for a spin off? If it's if the
rumor is Jason Sakas wants to go and wants to leave.
Speaker 3 (43:14):
There are two ways to solve this one. Are you
gonna do play we're the miller's part. Tell here's one. No,
he comes, well, I don't think going to because.
Speaker 4 (43:21):
He won all the time cater thing where he does
another show that starts out his comedy and then becomes
nothing but a drama.
Speaker 1 (43:28):
No, look, I think the reason mainly is that Jason
Sadak is dune. He doesn't want to go to doesn't
want to spend all the time in Europe anymore when
he's got a family everything back here and other things.
Speaker 3 (43:37):
So it's it's a difficult thing.
Speaker 1 (43:38):
So the one, the one solving all of this is
they go on and it's a show and it's still
everybody there, right and and and Roy is the cut.
Everybody's everybody's still involved, and.
Speaker 3 (43:51):
No do that.
Speaker 1 (43:53):
Ray Ramona will come in as a guest kind of figure.
An's gonna be somebody different. There's phar Do you likes
soccer sure? Or or you do this think about this
for a coach soccer or or he comes back to
back home to Kansas and he gets the head coaching
(44:14):
job with say Kansas City MLS, and he gets that
job because Rebecca buys the team and everybody comes with him,
and now suddenly it's fish out of water everybody from England.
Speaker 3 (44:27):
In the United States and Kansas City. Now would that work?
I don't know. It might you can get a season
out of it. It might, you could.
Speaker 1 (44:33):
It's like after Mash you could get a season out
of that though, cause you still have Jason Senakas, and
that's a big thing. Like when when you take away
the guy who's the central part of the series, can
you go on? You know, it was really good about
this episode. There was more Jason Sanaikas in it well,
and at Jason Sanaikas honestly feels like in the last
couple episodes he's trying a little bit more. I felt
like he's kind of sleep walking through the first few episodes.
(44:56):
This you're kind of like Chris Pratt slip walk through
Guardians of the Galaxy Part three, which we'll get into
later on.
Speaker 3 (45:01):
And I feel enjoyable overall.
Speaker 1 (45:02):
Yeah, but I feel like he's trying more like for
like he's like just disappeared, like checked out for wide
swaths of episodes this year, and I'm like, all right,
it's gonna come back, right, it's gonna We had these
crazy ass storylines that weren't really that interesting, but now
I feel like he's back. And last night was a
great episode. As long as great it was, it was
so many different, uh storylines coming in. But you know,
(45:23):
it's tough, man, when you take the guy who's the
name series Aft and take him out, can you do it?
Speaker 6 (45:28):
Or come into the United States? Kansas City? That's he's
the coach. Rebecca buys the team, think about it, hires
Keighley to come and be it's Rebecca and Keeley and Higgins.
You know, maybe Higgins wouldn't go because it Travis kel sure,
Oh yeah, you get Mahomes would be in there too,
and Red.
Speaker 3 (45:46):
Andy Reid would be coaching the team at some point. Yeah,
oh ye all have a big Kansas city.
Speaker 1 (45:50):
Yeah what Paul reud would come his ant man like
he would be there, his aunt because he would be great,
like if he could he can get a bunch of assists. Unofficially, well,
I mean, dude, come on, no one could. They would
try to hit him hard, but he would get really
smaller and then just push the ball by.
Speaker 4 (46:02):
I thought he would just he shrunk the whole time,
like he was a twelfth man. Well or he's really
big the whole time and then he just, you know,
just puts the ball in the net.
Speaker 3 (46:09):
And that's not a bad way to go. It works out.
Speaker 1 (46:12):
Twitter, And how about a fresca Mike could swollen down
the Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon.
I mean it, I think I would take Richmond over
the Knicks and the Hurricanes back in the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (46:21):
It really would. Who hurt you? I really would, Oh
the Nicks and the Hurricanes. Sorry, Aston answered
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