July 8, 2023 • 35 mins
Jason Smith and Aaron Torres are joined by NBA Insider Mark Medina to break down everything from Victor Wembanyama’s Summer League debut. A spoiler free Indiana Jones & Dial of Destiny preview. And Tom Brady lost $30 million on his FTX investment!
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debut of Victor Wembinyama in the Spurs win tonight nine
points eight rebounds, five blocks, two for thirty from the floor.
There was some good, there was some weird, and no
one better to break it down with us. The man
who had a front row seat to it covering Summer
League in Vegas, longtime NBA insider. You can follow him
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on Twitter at mark G Underscore Medina. That's at mark
G Underscore Medina. He sat right next to Britney Spears
and watched the whole game.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Mark, What was that like?
Speaker 4 (01:24):
Well, I think there was some Shorten fraud going on
because of all these allegations. You know what we were
talking about comparisons. We're wondering as did we see the
next Anthony sat up close or what?
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Wow, that's a hot take all rights.
Speaker 5 (01:42):
Wow, that's a blast of the past. Wow, they can
take Ford number one overall picks. So what did you
think tonight? You got to see him up claid. There's
some things I liked, you know, Aaron Torres and I
talked about. We liked his court vision.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
He looks like he's going to be a really good
passing big man sooner rather than later. Not as aggressive
as he probably needed to be when he got the ball.
So there's some good, some bad. Well what did you
think from seeing him?
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Yeah? Well, clearly, as you guys know, I'm being fasatious
about the early comparisons. I think that too late.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
I already put that out on Twitter late.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Mark Martin Medina says, Victor woman Yama is the new
Tony Bennett and I put a picture of Tony Bennett
and Lady Gaga up.
Speaker 6 (02:19):
So there's Tony Bennett like just singing.
Speaker 7 (02:24):
He just quit and starts singing. Oh sorry, guys.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Well, I was gonna say that comparison is not apps
because they Ben actually played well in Summer League.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
But I gotta put that out on Twitter again. Oh
my goodness, that makes threads. You gotta be on threads
for that one mark.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
That was a good one, all right, But in all seriousness,
hopefully this gets on Twitter and thread too. Is that
the pictures gonna be fine. He's he's gonna have a
successful season. But I think in the short term, no doubt,
fans that were here were at least hoping that there
would be some my cool Highway real moments. And really
the only high rate reel was when he got dunked
on by Kai Jones. But I think you guys fail
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in the head that he had a lot of good
comfort with his movement, He had some good passing, some
good defense. I think the negative, beyond the obvious missshot,
is that he seemed to be trying too hard, which
is understandable, but he was also getting very frustrated with
you know, fouls being called against them or whether when
opponents were being very physical. I remember one time in particular,
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and he got called for a foul and he was
incredulous because his opponent, like elbowed him in the throat.
And so he has a right to upset be upset.
But I do wonder, is that the inevitable recipe that
he's going to be facing this rookie season where guys
are going to just try to see how much they
can rough them up because of the whole moo that
he's got, you know, this muscle builder body type, and
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see if it gets them off his game. And I
know that ahead of this, a lot of people around
the NBA expected that that would be an adjustment, but
they also didn't think it was going to him from
showing the rest of his skills as a passer, as
a score, as a good post up player, occasional outside shooter,
and you know the work that he puts in to
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get better. But yeah, uh, summer League debut, I guess
the Silver Lions that the only can get better from here.
Speaker 6 (04:17):
That's really interesting, Mark, So you cause you know we're
watching in studio here. I didn't see that emotion on TV,
he was kind of a little bit yeah, for lack
of a better term, emotional about not emotional, but you
know what I mean, like a little whatever about some
some tiki tac calls and and and people boding him up.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Yeah, for sure. And you know what, I think you
can look at that from two lems there in one
the silver lining, it's it's a good thing because he
shows he cares, he's competitive, he wants to win. I
think the negative part of that is that things aren't
going to go your way in the basketball game and
cannot throw your game off. And so especially because of
his physique and that he's a rookie, it just seems
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like that that's going to be the inevitable approach that
the fenders put on him. Let's be physical, let's snock
him off his game, Let's try to get him frustrated,
and then see what happens. But you know, obviously this
is a learning experience, and when there's people you know
around the league town evaluators, they don't put a lot
of stock in summer leagues, and so when they're thinking
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big picture, while they do know that this is an
adjustment could take up the three years for him to
not like be a complete, you know, bulky big man
like Shack, but enough to withstand the physical pounding. They
think that he has a body of work that will
still show he's a great player, but clearly he has
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a lot to work on the showcase.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
You know, he kind of reminds me of if you're
looking for an app comparison to how his career is
going to go, like, you know, you want to compare
him to Lebron because he's that kind of prospect. Well,
Lebron came in with an NBA ready body at eighteen
and dominated right away.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
For when Bin Yama, I kind of look at it,
it's going to be a lot.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Like Gianni's where he's going to need some time for
his skill set to grow into his body and for
that to match. And when that happens, that's the kind
of player I expect to see.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Now.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Could it be three months, could it be a year,
could it be a year and a half yet, But
he's going to need that. When when my talent and
my body can sync up, that's when it's really going
to start happening for him.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
Yeah, I see the talent and body comparison, but as
far as him and Giannis. I do see some differences
here because when Ayanas entered the league, he frankly didn't
really have any skills. He had athleticism and that is it.
And I think the good thing for Victor is he
does have basketball skills. He has instincts, he has fundamentals.
So I think it's a foul. I think more to
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the earlier point that you mentioned about matching those skills
with his body type. The good thing is that's not
going to be his game. He's not the physique power
guy like Shack. He's going to always be this finesse
kind of player. But I think regardless of that, you
still need to be able to with down, with stand
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the physicality from other opponents. But I think, you know,
even beyond that, he's got to make shots. He's got
to know the timing of things, the rhythm of thing
is And I think ironically, when he wasn't having the ball,
he showed a lot of comfort level with his movement,
but once he had the ball, it seemed like he
was forcing a lot of things. There were a few
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possessions when he was posting up and charl was thrown
like three or four bodies at him, and he was
getting all these turnovers. And so that's where it's about.
Maybe this is this guy who's trying too hard a
little bit, but slow it down and be patient with
the process.
Speaker 7 (07:37):
Mark.
Speaker 6 (07:37):
You know, first of all, one thing I told Jason
a minute ago, I actually give credit to the Spurs.
I mean, the fans wanted to show the fans got
at least got him on the court. They brought him
back on the court with about four minutes to go,
and it would have been easy to shut him down.
Two kind of quick questions that are kind of intertwined. One,
do we have any sense for how much he's going
to play at Summer League?
Speaker 7 (07:58):
But two?
Speaker 6 (07:59):
Is there any official plan on how they'll use him
next year? I mean, you know, we live in an
era where guys don't play eighty two games a year anymore,
let alone a rookie coming into the league for the
first time on what we expect to be a non contender.
Do you have any sense for both this week? But
then the bigger picture of year one? How much the
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how the Spurs plan on using them?
Speaker 4 (08:22):
Yeah, I don't have the sense of exact details. I
have the exact sense of the of the big picture.
The Spurs aren't sharing all this, but people around the
league expect that he's gonna have a limited workload in
summer league. You know, maybe he plays another game, but
probably nothing beyond that. But that's in line with what
most teams do with their lottery players, regardless of whether
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they have an injury, they shut them down after opening weekend.
But to your other question about his rookie season, there's
a strong expectation from other people around the league that
there's no way he's playing eighty two games. And part
of that is because of his body, hype of physicality,
his workload of playing professionally in France for a good
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chunk of time, and also I think to just temper
the expectations that as much as the Spurs want to
win right away, they're not expected to be a playoff
team next season, so there's almost kind of a freedom
and that they might be able to have a kind
of treating this season as a bull Again, it's actually
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about player development, nothing else. So I don't know how
many games it's going to be, but it's not going
to be eighty two, and I want to be surprised
that when it comes to back to backs. He's not
going to play any of them. I mean he'll just
play one of them and then go from there.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Oh no, well for everybody, Mark, I mean, that's kind
of the thing. You know, We've talked about this a
lot the last couple of weeks. We talked about free
agency and teams getting older, like sixty five is the
new eighty two, Like I don't expect to see I
don't expect to see any star player play more than
sixty five games. And the ones who will play six,
he fi will be the ones that really want the
awards at the end, because that's so many have to
play in.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
The guys that don't care, we'll play sixty.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
I mean, really, that's kind of the new norm now
for stars and for for when Bin Yama. I like
it because I want his body to get used to
the NBA pounding and not be Greg Odin or you
get hurt very early. And the same thing with Chet Holmgren,
whose body's not ready. But yeah, I look at sixty
five as the top number. Yeah, guys are gonna missfait.
And this is if you're healthy all the way through,
you're gonna miss seventeen games to twenty games a year
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just for general rest all the star players.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
Well, yeah, I think sixty five you're dead on because
that's the minimum number of games that players have to
meet for being eligible for awards. So in Victor's case,
he could still be eligible for that Rookie of the
Year award. And I think that even with all the
concerns that I'm outlining here people around the league, I
certainly expect this as well. He's gonna live up to
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the pipe as far as showing that he has those
elite skills that we mentioned about passing, defending, playing really hard,
being a team player, being you know, at Jim rant
sue of the game, and he's going to make an
impact with that. But I think the other thing that
we have to stress here is that the Spurs aren't
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being conservative with him out of concern that he's injuried
chrone that was the case, I don't think they would
have drafted him. And while there's certainly question marks about
his height and just historically how guys if his stature
could have injuries, I don't think a lot of people
around the league are concerned about his medicals because in
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France he didn't have a lot of injuries, and so
really it's more about just phasing him into everything. And
I think I actually leave you know, Spurs fans comforted that,
you know, poor summer league debut, probably limited workload, rookie
season might be frustrating, but the big picture is going
to be a lot of good stuff for them to
feel good about Mark.
Speaker 6 (11:52):
So I was reading up a little bit on the MIDS.
I don't know if you call it mid, I mean
the in season tournament. I think it was Adrian Woldronowski
December seventh, in the ninth they're going to be the
semi finals and finals feels a little early to me, Like,
I get that, you know whatever, But I also the
whole thought was to create interest in the regular season,
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but now you're playing it in early December, and at
least in one of those nights you're going up against
Thursday Night NFL Football. Just your thoughts and what you've
heard about this in season tournament so far, because I
think we got a little bit of details this week.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
Yeah, well, I will be honest, I'll get even more
details tomorrow because some league officials are planning to be
available on Vegas to answer some of these questions. But
my early thoughts on this was partly what you said.
I was struck that was so early in the season,
because there is, even though it can't compare to the
NFL as the regular season, there is a little bit
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of buzz of Opening Night, and it seems too soon
to put that in there. And also they treated Christmas
Day games as as marquee events and the unofficial start
of the regular season, so I saw that they would
have it basically after the New Year, before All Star Break,
as a way to you know, get them out of
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kind of the dog days of the regular season. But
regardless of that, my initial thoughts is that clearly they're
doing this for you know, ratings purposes, ultimate revenue purposes,
create more meaning for non playoff game. But I do
have a fear that's just going to create more problems.
And here's what I mean. You could have teams that
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care about this plan tournament for whatever reason, so they're gonna,
you know, compete, and there might be teams that don't,
and so they're gonna sit there guys, or not give
a full effort, and then it'll flip on its own
for the normal regular season games where maybe the contenders
winners of the end season tournament, they're going to start
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having nights off and once they get back to the
regular season or before it. So I just feel like
this whole idea of this is a way to provide
a solution. So all the load management or disinterested non
playoff game isn't going to fundamentally solve that problem. That's
just adding a new thing that could career revenue. But
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it is a business, so I guess that shouldn't be surprising.
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Speaker 1 (14:26):
I'm okay because Tommy fam apparently is the Mets best player.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
I'm okay.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
I'm okay with hearing this song because that news is
really depressing, but I'm glad to hear.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Tommy Fam probably is the Mets best player.
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dot Com. You think I'm kidding At our Tours, Tommy
Fam just made it catch at the wall to keep
the game tied and baited a Padres player to making
a huge base running mistake threw him out in third base.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Tommy Fam is the Mets best player.
Speaker 6 (15:12):
I don't think you're kidding because I don't know enough
about the Mets to counter you with like, no, it's
Francisco Indoor.
Speaker 7 (15:18):
No, it's this guy.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Tommy Fam is a Mets best player.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
And I'm saying this is like I can't believe this
time say Tommy Fam is a Mets Bets player things.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
I never thought i'd.
Speaker 7 (15:28):
Say, why, But yet has it gone so bad?
Speaker 8 (15:31):
They suck because.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
They got old. They got old right away.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
And when you get old, it happens overnight, and it
doesn't happen slowly, it happens all at once. And the
Mets have a bunch of thirty three thirty four to
thirty five year old guys and two pitchers who were
thirty nine and forty who you're expecting to anchor the
rotation who have just been okay, that are probably done
being aces And it happened overnight, and you thought, well.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Verlander and shures Are will still be really good.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Nope, shures Are looked like he was slowing down on
last year and Verlander had happened to them all at once.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
So yeah, that's how it goes. The Mets. The Mets
got old right and that was my one fear.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
I said right away, what's the deal with My biggest
fear is the Mets are going to get old right away.
That's the only thing. The only thing slowed them down.
They've got a lot of talent, and that's what happened.
That's why here they are, you know, five games under
five hundred, playing the Padres, who are also just as disappointing,
but because they play in San Diego, people don't care
as much.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
So that's where we're at.
Speaker 7 (16:25):
That is indisputable. I don't discrew with them.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Another thing I want indisputable because I meant meant to
talk about this as well. So today we finally went
to go see Indiana Jones and The Dial of Destiny.
No spoilers, no spoilers, no spoilers, no spoilers.
Speaker 8 (16:40):
Playing at Santa Monica Airport.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Yes, and there there is a bit. Yeah, it's actually
was at a golf course. First of all, I will
say this, The Dial of Destiny still is the stupidest title.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
I don't understand how that got through.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
We're gonna call it the I know, I get it's
about a dial, and I get it it's a but
I mean, really, the Dial of Death?
Speaker 3 (17:00):
What the hell is the dialing?
Speaker 8 (17:01):
It sounds like your money.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
It sounds like Indiana Jones. I mean, I'm gonna go
see it. I mean in diala desty, sounds like a
title an eight year old came up within in three minutes.
How about Indiana Jones and the Dial of Death? That Hey,
that's good, let's matt.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
I mean, that's just though. It's just a stupid title.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
But here's the thing, I'm glad they got my money
because this is a non spoiler review. The first half
of the movie is amazingly good. I'm sitting here saying,
how are the reviews of this? Luke, I don't understand
the first half of this movie is absolutely fantastic.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
I mean it's like it's a I mean.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
They found a way to make it thrilling and not
make it seem too plausibly deniable with Indiana Jones being
eighty you know during this and the adventures going on,
and Phoebe Waller Bridges is fantastic. Shit like it's She's
the birth of a new action lead superstar. She is
absolutely terrific in this entire movie. The first half of
the movie is so good. And then I'm not lying,
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it's about forty five minutes too long.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
It is way, way, way too long. It's two and
a half hours.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
And there was a point where I said, this movie
just got too long, and I think it's got about
forty five minutes left to go, and it really was.
Then it got convoluted, it it got we got trying
to follow it a little bit, it got strange, and
it tried to do all these different things in the
last forty I'm like, this movie needed to have here here,
and it's really it's like, it's like forty five. It
needed to be about an hour forty five out two
hours at the most two thirty. Oh my goodness, I'm
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just going, when is this over.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
Jason, When is this gonna be over?
Speaker 8 (18:34):
How is that not a spoiler?
Speaker 3 (18:36):
When it's gonna be able.
Speaker 8 (18:36):
We just told people to leave halfway through.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
If you leave halfway through, you're gonna think this is
the best Indiana Jones since the third one, since last Crusade.
This is the best Indiana Jones they've had it twenty years,
because it is. It's just done so well, and I'm
so I was so excited, and then I'm like, this
just got really long, man.
Speaker 8 (18:55):
I mean really, So if you leave halfway, are you good?
Like you don't even have to know what goes on,
You're just good, right.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
Yeah, you're good.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
If you leave halfway, you would you would feel like, man,
I just saw I just saw a great movie.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
I just saw a great, great movie. And and you
would walk away and go wow.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
You would say, I really want to go see the
rest of it. Now you don't really know what I
really do. Now you don't really have to. There's there's
other things you can do with the last, uh, you know,
the next fifty five minutes.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
Of your life. No, but I really want to see it. Okay,
don't say it didn't warn you.
Speaker 8 (19:22):
And then bring the kid that was in the Originals
a short round.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
No, he didn't come back. It would have been great
if he came back, he just he just won the
Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. He could have shown up,
doctor Jones, Doctor Jones, I have an Oscar. No, they
did not bring him back, and they did well. And
here's another spoiler. I'll give you this spoiler. They did
not bring back Shia Labuff. He did not come back.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
And that No, there was there was. I'm not going
there was. Oh, there's no child a Buff. I'm not going.
I see that.
Speaker 8 (19:49):
I'm out too.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
No, there was no shy La Buff.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
There was no Shila Buff in this movie without show,
no nothing, nothing. They do reference him, but he's not. Yeah,
they referenced him, but he's not in the movie.
Speaker 7 (20:06):
They say, Shia slow is he in this movie?
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Because all of a sudden they come in and Harrison
Ford goes running for your life from Shia lah No,
uh no, they don't mention it.
Speaker 8 (20:17):
Yeah, how slow is he in this movie? Because he's
really old?
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Now he doesn't run a lot. They find a lot,
but they find an ingenious way to make everything thrilling.
Like I said, it doesn't make it seem like he's
you know, this guy can't be eighty years old and
still running around like this.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
No, they really, they really have.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
They have really good ways of making it seem thrilling
and not making it so far out of the ordinary
that oh wow, really that that's what's going on. Really,
he's he's he's leaping from roof to roof like this
and swinging.
Speaker 8 (20:46):
On his cruise.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
No, no, he's not. I thought it was over the
top when he went over the mountain with the.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Uh, but that trailer was in it. They showed that
trailer for Mission Impossible, and and the last shot of it,
of course, his crew is going over the mountain leaping
in the air, and I'm like, I can't wait for
that next week, man, I can't waitus. Oh, I think
I think we might go at midnight going Oh you
(21:13):
want to go at midnight on too?
Speaker 8 (21:15):
It's gotta be the Dolby Cinema again. That's the only
way to see the movie.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
Oh that was so my god.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
I can take anap again.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
Possible. Yeah, it's true. He didn't get John Wick four.
Speaker 7 (21:24):
He fell asleep in a movie.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
Oh dude, dude.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
We went to go see john wicknaymore the night it
came out, right, we were all excited.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
Was it was a movie? We do it once in
a while. We go.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
We always went, and it was a big movie out,
especially when Tysher says, Gee, I'm interested in this, but
I don't want to pay.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
So I said, come on, let's go.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
We'll take you the movie. So he went to go
see john Wick four. And john Wick four is so
unbelievably good. I mean, this franchise just gets better and
better and uh, and Harmon got two good quality naps
in uh to the point where both times when I
woke Hi up, I said, all right, here's what happened
to He caught up right away, but he got two
good ten minutes.
Speaker 8 (21:55):
Well, to his defense, Aaron, it's the theater where it's
the leather. See, it's basically a lazy boy that goes
all the way back. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (22:03):
Yeah, but I mean the rest of we were able
to make it through.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
Yeah. And the thing is Horman's always up till like
five o'clock.
Speaker 7 (22:09):
That's what I was gonna say.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
He goes home after.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
The show and like he grades cards and and and
buys stuff online and buys memorabilia and tries to figure
out wakes.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
He does all of these things.
Speaker 8 (22:21):
Biker gangs too.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Yeah, well he stopped doing that. Actually, yeah, he lost
a couple really bad, so he stopped doing that again.
Speaker 8 (22:27):
Surgery.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
Yeah, yeah, it was tough.
Speaker 7 (22:29):
I was gonna but that was what I was gonna say.
Speaker 6 (22:31):
Was I was like, you said, oh, he got a
few good naps, and I was like, I feel like
he need some sleep.
Speaker 7 (22:34):
Like I'm actually happy.
Speaker 6 (22:36):
I will say, though, that does really open up the
door for you know, every time that I've worked with him.
Speaker 7 (22:41):
Oh, you know, I get home, I can't really sleep.
I can't do this.
Speaker 6 (22:43):
I can't well, maybe you can't sleep. Maybe just need
to turn the lights off and uh, you know, sit
in the chairs put John Wick four on.
Speaker 7 (22:49):
Yeah John Wick four.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
Dude, you're not gonna sleep watching John Wick four. I mean,
I don't know. I don't know what happened to him,
but I mean, look, I I I don't understand, but
he fell asleep. But I get it.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Sometimes I feel that way. If I'm watching a movie.
It could be the most entertaining movie in the world,
but I'm like, you know what, I just need to
close my eyes. I just need I need to close
my eyes for five minutes. I'm sorry, the movie is
so good, but I just have to do it, but
usually after one nap, I'm good. Like Harmon fell asleep
a second time, and that's that's what kind of got
me like, Okay, the one time, Hey, we just did
a four hour show and we're excited to go see
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the movie. Now we come down a little bit. But
after the first time we wake up, it's like, dude,
come on, man, you got you gotta gotta stay up here.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Now.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
This is this is this is big stuff. Now John
John Wick is trying to make it up. All these steps. Man,
he didn't he didn't do this. You could fall asleep
and not watch that.
Speaker 7 (23:33):
That's incredible. I just the Harmone element of it has
me has me all sorts of twisted.
Speaker 6 (23:38):
But it's an interesting character that I feel bad that
I potentially have taken his job depending on how the
top of the ninth here goes.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
But the harm element that sounds like a movie. You
ever see the Harmon element?
Speaker 7 (23:50):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Mike Harmon's actually slept through most of it.
That's kind of crazy. Fell asleep. He fell asleep fifteen
minutes in.
Speaker 8 (23:56):
It's like most New Yorker's watching this Mets game here stop.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
That's in the Andreser tied at three apiece, and again
Harmon doesn't come back, and Aaron Torres has the gig,
and so does Kevin Wire as long as the Mets
keep winning, because when Harmon went on vacation, the Mets
started winning. Come up again, Tommy Fam will be coming.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
I know they have. Well they got two on for
vogel Back right now, so FAM's not coming up for
a little bit.
Speaker 8 (24:20):
That's basically you, if you were a metal do not Jason.
Speaker 7 (24:26):
That's a big boy right there.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Wait, Tommy Fam or Daniel vogel Back Vogel Oh come on, man,
I'm not Lefty.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Come on, Lefty, come on. I got I got wheels.
I got wheels.
Speaker 7 (24:36):
Do we know what's going on with these Padres uniforms?
Speaker 8 (24:38):
By the way, that's not good.
Speaker 7 (24:40):
Yeah. Is it like they look like the uh the
Will Ferrell movie.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
What was that?
Speaker 7 (24:45):
The basketball one?
Speaker 3 (24:46):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Yeah, the Sandy Tropics, the San Diego Tropics.
Speaker 7 (24:51):
Yeah, they look like I don't know if it's a throwback.
Maybe it is.
Speaker 8 (24:54):
I got a tropic right.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
When he was Jackie Moon. Yeah, sure, No, No, they're
very colorful. They're they're very color I you know, I
always default to the Potters should go back to the
brown and yellow, the mustard yellow, and the and the
and the uh.
Speaker 8 (25:09):
Temiro.
Speaker 7 (25:12):
This is what it says, they alternative City Connect uniforms.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
There you go.
Speaker 6 (25:17):
The tweet says that two cities, two cultures, one home.
I think it's a it's an ode to the Mexican
American population in San Diego because they have they have
green in there in their flag. I don't see any
pink in the Mexican flag though, So I'm a little kid.
Speaker 8 (25:34):
Like these should be the Marlin City Connect jerseys.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Oh, or they could be the jerseys that Marlins would
wear and they would stand outside you when they had
that big thing in the in the left.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
Field, like that big structure with all the colors on it. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Sure, h Twitter and out about a Fresca Aaron and
Aaron Underscore Torres, Jason Smith at and from Mike Harmon tonight.
Now it's funny you say this because I get to
this story that uh that came out today that's starting
to make ways and Tom Brady and other NFL players,
but Tom.
Speaker 7 (26:05):
DEVILELA game and the half inning, I should.
Speaker 6 (26:09):
Say, wow, did they really just pull out My career
is on the line here?
Speaker 3 (26:13):
Yeah, your career is on the line for that. Thank
you very much. Wow, yeah, you just well, all right,
Harmon's I guess Harmon's back on Monday. I guess Harmon's
back Monday. That's fine. What a surprise to give. What
a surprise, Starling Marte, What a surprise a guy? What
a surprise, Starling Marte? What a surprise? Guys got forty
stolen bases? Not what a surprise? What a surprise? Again,
(26:36):
I'm not surprised. I'm not surprised.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Uh So Tom Brady and other NFL players, how you're
now finding out just how much money they are losing
on all these different cryptocurrency ventures. And we found out
today that Brady lost thirty million dollars in the collapse
of cryptocurrency company ft where he was an ambassador. He
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did commercials for them. He was still with Giselle Bunch
and he was doing this. FTX filed for bankruptcy last November.
CEO Sam bankman Fred is facing federal fraud related charge
where they're trying to get him. They tried to get
him back from overseas.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
Brady was one.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
Of the people who's being sued by FTX investors who
want repayment from their endorsements. Also in the past, Shaq
has been sued Larry David Naomi osaka Steph Curry. You know,
I just I I see stories like this and I
just go man, athletes must just seem like marks sometimes,
(27:39):
Like I mean, you looked at cryptocurrency, and I get
the fad in it, But these people with a lot
of money, Hang on, do you really think there's gonna
be an alternate way to pay for things? Do you
really think we're gonna have that? Really, we've had one
currency for money for years, right, and there's stocks and
there's different ways here, there's different in Vena. But do
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you really think I mean, the players said I want
to get paid in bitcoin. Now I want my entire
signing bonus in bitcoin. So I can't believe that people
actually thought, Hey, this is a new kind of money
that's gonna be worth more than regular money, and I'm
gonna get to cash out and use it like I
use regular money.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
When did you think that was gonna happen? What did
you think? What did you think that was gonna get? Okay?
Speaker 1 (28:22):
Yeah, you know what, suddenly, yeah, we're gonna accept cryptocurrency
like we accept cash or credit cards or anything else.
The number of celebrities that they that really thought new
money was being invented and it was gonna be worth
more than the rest of it, I don't get. I
mean the commercials, but what these are all? Why do
commercials for it? Then if it's that unless you have
(28:43):
a you have a stake in it, And then you
hear people talk about being a Ponzi scheme and everything
else about it, and.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
Go, oh, now, I kind of now, I kind of wonder,
why is this all happening this way?
Speaker 1 (28:51):
I just I never understand how people with financial advisors
and all kinds of things. Yeah, I'm gonna get caught
up in a new thing, especially something like it's a
new money that's gonna be worth more than the money
we use right now.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
Yeah, sign me up.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
I want to I want to put some I want
to put all my my savings down on that. I
want to put cash down on that. Yeah, new money
that's gonna be worth in this money? What could possibly
go wrong?
Speaker 6 (29:12):
I you know, I'm so with you on this, Jason
Is I never understood the crypto. Uh, what's the right
word I'm looking for. The the excitement about it and
and you know I'm crypto craze craze yeah not yeah,
I just I'll just be honest, like like I I
never really understood it.
Speaker 7 (29:30):
And I had a buddy like, dude, you gotta get it.
Speaker 6 (29:32):
And I'm like, if I can't conceptualize something, I don't
want anything to do with it. And so it's like, oh,
there's this money that exists in the ether and it's
you know, it's a this, but it's not that. And
it's like, no, I want to be able to go
like and I know a lot of places are going
you know, cash list right now, but like I want
to be able to go to an ATM and pull
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out what I need to pull out and know the
actual value.
Speaker 7 (29:54):
So I never really understood the crypto phase.
Speaker 6 (29:57):
And I'm somebody, as you learn last night with Thread,
I'd rather be a few steps too late and make
sure it's legit that I would be the first one
in the front door.
Speaker 7 (30:07):
So I was very surprised.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (30:09):
I remain surprised that people are as into this stuff
as they are, but not surprised at the bubble burst.
And obviously, living in Los Angeles, we had a front
row seat with the former Crypto dot com.
Speaker 7 (30:21):
Arena, which hasn't been renamed yet. Is it's still called crypto?
Speaker 3 (30:24):
What is it called? It's still crypto. Yes, even though they.
Speaker 8 (30:26):
Stop paying bills, Yeah, shut cashed, it's gonna stay crypto.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Yeah, they don't sell the States anymore, but it's still
gonna be the crypto.
Speaker 6 (30:33):
Cash as in there the actual money. So they had
to actually go get real cash to pay the real bill.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
We lost.
Speaker 8 (30:40):
The Lakers want to give back money. It's gonna stay crypto.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
So there you go again. Oh, what could possibly go wrong? Yeah,
this is gonna be perfect.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
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Speaker 1 (31:00):
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Speaker 3 (31:05):
Harmon out tonight. Aaron Torres in for Harmon.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
And I'll tell you could be a permanent thing for Torres,
I've told you. Since Harmon's gone on vacation, the Mets
have not lost. The Mets have just taken a five
to three lead over the podcast Baby in the Top
of the Tenth Aerin Torres and Kevin Wyert get to
(31:29):
work every day as long as the Mets win, Harmon's out.
You guys are in now. We got to close this
thing out in the tenth inning to make it to tomorrow.
But so far, so far, so good for you guys.
Speaker 6 (31:38):
Here's my question though, Yeah, so obviously you're not gonna
be in tomorrow. You know, your your big time, you
take off Saturdays and Sundays and hang out with your family.
Does this only apply when you're in studio, when you're
on the air, like like if they lose tomorrow, but
you're coaching your daughter, I mean you might not even
know about it.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
No, this is strictly on air, Okay, so strict Yeah,
it's strictly on air.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Yeah, yea, yeah, yeah yeah you no, because I because
if you're doing you Harmon will have to work a
lot of stuff on the weekends, so that's gonna be
you know, I want to be able to still have that,
so yeah, so that'll work.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
So it's strictly on air.
Speaker 8 (32:10):
During the words of the Great Kenny Powers, Harmon bleeping outing,
I'll like shut now.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
We'll have more on the debut of WEMBN Yama coming
up in a couple of minutes. But you know you
mentioned this earlier we talked about getting stuff out there,
and now here's wembin Yama and everything trending all over
Twitter and Threads, and is Threads still going to be
the big threat to to Twitter as we've seen the
last couple of days. And I think there's like eighty
million sign ups now for Threads over the course of
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the last forty eight hours.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
It's insane.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
But let me tell you this because because now after
getting a chance to peruse some of threads today, I
will tell you the couple of things that need to
be solved before I before I really start to really
liking to adopt it. Like, for instance, you can't personalize
your feed, like you get people in your feed that
are just suggested to you by meta. Like I can't say, okay,
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I only want to see from the people that I follow,
Like I only want to hear from Aratares and Justin
Frossberg and Alex Fatt.
Speaker 3 (33:13):
No.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
No, you get people you don't follow in your feed
and there's nothing you do about it.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
So I kind of I don't like that.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
I don't why are you gonna give me people that
I don't know, I don't care about what they say.
I want to be able to follow the people that
I care about what they say. So that's the first one.
The other thing is there's no like hot topics right like, like.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
We told you.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
The big lesson that Elon Musk needed to learn from
this is that Twitter is a news aggregating site. It
is a news breaking site. It's not a stay in touch.
How do I make money off of this? It's not Facebook.
It is a news site, and this is where people
go to for news. I want to be able to
go to threads for news, and I want to be
able to find what people are talking about, what the
big topics are in whether it's sports or politics or
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something else.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
And there's nowhere for that. So that's a.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
Couple of things I think that need to be figured
out before I'd really say, hey, I can embrace threads
here and really jump over and start doing more stuff there.
It's it's not a it's not an easy jump into
with those couple of things that I really want that
I just aren't going to get right now.
Speaker 6 (34:13):
So I am still not on threads. I think, to me,
there's two things that stand out beyond what you've said.
One if the newsmakers that I care about are exclusively there,
and that's what that would be my play iff on
Mark Zuckerberg, say hey, Adri wo Janowski, I'll pay you
twenty million dollars a year, because what is that to
Mark Zuckerberg? Twenty million dollars a year, but you can
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only put your content on threads. Adam scheff a the same,
you know whatever. And I don't think that's a conflict,
by the way, with ESPN, because of course ESPN, of
course they're a different deal.
Speaker 7 (34:46):
So that's one.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
I think.
Speaker 6 (34:48):
The other thing for me is with Threads, I need
to see is it a place, even if people migrate
over there, is it a place that you can have
a fun conversation when stuff is actually going on? Because
as much as Twitter sucks, sometimes it is a lot
of fun during a big game, a big event. Now
we haven't had those, and we will not have those
probably until football season, but that to me is what
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stands out. Twitter is still fun during a big, live
sporting event. I don't know if Threads will have that capability.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
Yeah, because you want to be able to respond to
the people that you're listening to, and you can't like
I got all these people and I don't know who
they are. Oh, there's finally say eritrres. I'll respond to
what he's saying. It makes it harder to find There's
some things that need to be figured out. As far
as that goes.
Speaker 3 (35:29):
It just lunched today, but.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
There needs to be some things to get figured out
Twitter at how about a Fresco, threads at the real json.
Speaker 3 (35:35):
S Errotorus on Twitter at, Aaron underscore Taurus.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
So that those are kind of the other things. The
other thing is really quick is it needs a website version.
But we'll have more on webbin Yama coming up next.
Speaker 3 (35:45):
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debut of Victor Wembinyama in the Spurs win tonight nine
points eight rebounds, five blocks, two for thirty from the floor.
There was some good, there was some weird, and no
one better to break it down with us. The man
who had a front row seat to it covering Summer
League in Vegas, longtime NBA insider. You can follow him
(01:12):
on Twitter at mark G Underscore Medina. That's at mark
G Underscore Medina. He sat right next to Britney Spears
and watched the whole game.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Mark, What was that like?
Speaker 4 (01:24):
Well, I think there was some Shorten fraud going on
because of all these allegations. You know what we were
talking about comparisons. We're wondering as did we see the
next Anthony sat up close or what?
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Wow, that's a hot take all rights.
Speaker 5 (01:42):
Wow, that's a blast of the past. Wow, they can
take Ford number one overall picks. So what did you
think tonight? You got to see him up claid. There's
some things I liked, you know, Aaron Torres and I
talked about. We liked his court vision.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
He looks like he's going to be a really good
passing big man sooner rather than later. Not as aggressive
as he probably needed to be when he got the ball.
So there's some good, some bad. Well what did you
think from seeing him?
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Yeah? Well, clearly, as you guys know, I'm being fasatious
about the early comparisons. I think that too late.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
I already put that out on Twitter late.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Mark Martin Medina says, Victor woman Yama is the new
Tony Bennett and I put a picture of Tony Bennett
and Lady Gaga up.
Speaker 6 (02:19):
So there's Tony Bennett like just singing.
Speaker 7 (02:24):
He just quit and starts singing. Oh sorry, guys.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Well, I was gonna say that comparison is not apps
because they Ben actually played well in Summer League.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
But I gotta put that out on Twitter again. Oh
my goodness, that makes threads. You gotta be on threads
for that one mark.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
That was a good one, all right, But in all seriousness,
hopefully this gets on Twitter and thread too. Is that
the pictures gonna be fine. He's he's gonna have a
successful season. But I think in the short term, no doubt,
fans that were here were at least hoping that there
would be some my cool Highway real moments. And really
the only high rate reel was when he got dunked
on by Kai Jones. But I think you guys fail
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in the head that he had a lot of good
comfort with his movement, He had some good passing, some
good defense. I think the negative, beyond the obvious missshot,
is that he seemed to be trying too hard, which
is understandable, but he was also getting very frustrated with
you know, fouls being called against them or whether when
opponents were being very physical. I remember one time in particular,
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and he got called for a foul and he was
incredulous because his opponent, like elbowed him in the throat.
And so he has a right to upset be upset.
But I do wonder, is that the inevitable recipe that
he's going to be facing this rookie season where guys
are going to just try to see how much they
can rough them up because of the whole moo that
he's got, you know, this muscle builder body type, and
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see if it gets them off his game. And I
know that ahead of this, a lot of people around
the NBA expected that that would be an adjustment, but
they also didn't think it was going to him from
showing the rest of his skills as a passer, as
a score, as a good post up player, occasional outside shooter,
and you know the work that he puts in to
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get better. But yeah, uh, summer League debut, I guess
the Silver Lions that the only can get better from here.
Speaker 6 (04:17):
That's really interesting, Mark, So you cause you know we're
watching in studio here. I didn't see that emotion on TV,
he was kind of a little bit yeah, for lack
of a better term, emotional about not emotional, but you
know what I mean, like a little whatever about some
some tiki tac calls and and and people boding him up.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Yeah, for sure. And you know what, I think you
can look at that from two lems there in one
the silver lining, it's it's a good thing because he
shows he cares, he's competitive, he wants to win. I
think the negative part of that is that things aren't
going to go your way in the basketball game and
cannot throw your game off. And so especially because of
his physique and that he's a rookie, it just seems
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like that that's going to be the inevitable approach that
the fenders put on him. Let's be physical, let's snock
him off his game, Let's try to get him frustrated,
and then see what happens. But you know, obviously this
is a learning experience, and when there's people you know
around the league town evaluators, they don't put a lot
of stock in summer leagues, and so when they're thinking
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big picture, while they do know that this is an
adjustment could take up the three years for him to
not like be a complete, you know, bulky big man
like Shack, but enough to withstand the physical pounding. They
think that he has a body of work that will
still show he's a great player, but clearly he has
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a lot to work on the showcase.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
You know, he kind of reminds me of if you're
looking for an app comparison to how his career is
going to go, like, you know, you want to compare
him to Lebron because he's that kind of prospect. Well,
Lebron came in with an NBA ready body at eighteen
and dominated right away.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
For when Bin Yama, I kind of look at it,
it's going to be a lot.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Like Gianni's where he's going to need some time for
his skill set to grow into his body and for
that to match. And when that happens, that's the kind
of player I expect to see.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Now.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Could it be three months, could it be a year,
could it be a year and a half yet, But
he's going to need that. When when my talent and
my body can sync up, that's when it's really going
to start happening for him.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
Yeah, I see the talent and body comparison, but as
far as him and Giannis. I do see some differences
here because when Ayanas entered the league, he frankly didn't
really have any skills. He had athleticism and that is it.
And I think the good thing for Victor is he
does have basketball skills. He has instincts, he has fundamentals.
So I think it's a foul. I think more to
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the earlier point that you mentioned about matching those skills
with his body type. The good thing is that's not
going to be his game. He's not the physique power
guy like Shack. He's going to always be this finesse
kind of player. But I think regardless of that, you
still need to be able to with down, with stand
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the physicality from other opponents. But I think, you know,
even beyond that, he's got to make shots. He's got
to know the timing of things, the rhythm of thing
is And I think ironically, when he wasn't having the ball,
he showed a lot of comfort level with his movement,
but once he had the ball, it seemed like he
was forcing a lot of things. There were a few
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possessions when he was posting up and charl was thrown
like three or four bodies at him, and he was
getting all these turnovers. And so that's where it's about.
Maybe this is this guy who's trying too hard a
little bit, but slow it down and be patient with
the process.
Speaker 7 (07:37):
Mark.
Speaker 6 (07:37):
You know, first of all, one thing I told Jason
a minute ago, I actually give credit to the Spurs.
I mean, the fans wanted to show the fans got
at least got him on the court. They brought him
back on the court with about four minutes to go,
and it would have been easy to shut him down.
Two kind of quick questions that are kind of intertwined. One,
do we have any sense for how much he's going
to play at Summer League?
Speaker 7 (07:58):
But two?
Speaker 6 (07:59):
Is there any official plan on how they'll use him
next year? I mean, you know, we live in an
era where guys don't play eighty two games a year anymore,
let alone a rookie coming into the league for the
first time on what we expect to be a non contender.
Do you have any sense for both this week? But
then the bigger picture of year one? How much the
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how the Spurs plan on using them?
Speaker 4 (08:22):
Yeah, I don't have the sense of exact details. I
have the exact sense of the of the big picture.
The Spurs aren't sharing all this, but people around the
league expect that he's gonna have a limited workload in
summer league. You know, maybe he plays another game, but
probably nothing beyond that. But that's in line with what
most teams do with their lottery players, regardless of whether
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they have an injury, they shut them down after opening weekend.
But to your other question about his rookie season, there's
a strong expectation from other people around the league that
there's no way he's playing eighty two games. And part
of that is because of his body, hype of physicality,
his workload of playing professionally in France for a good
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chunk of time, and also I think to just temper
the expectations that as much as the Spurs want to
win right away, they're not expected to be a playoff
team next season, so there's almost kind of a freedom
and that they might be able to have a kind
of treating this season as a bull Again, it's actually
(09:27):
about player development, nothing else. So I don't know how
many games it's going to be, but it's not going
to be eighty two, and I want to be surprised
that when it comes to back to backs. He's not
going to play any of them. I mean he'll just
play one of them and then go from there.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Oh no, well for everybody, Mark, I mean, that's kind
of the thing. You know, We've talked about this a
lot the last couple of weeks. We talked about free
agency and teams getting older, like sixty five is the
new eighty two, Like I don't expect to see I
don't expect to see any star player play more than
sixty five games. And the ones who will play six,
he fi will be the ones that really want the
awards at the end, because that's so many have to
play in.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
The guys that don't care, we'll play sixty.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
I mean, really, that's kind of the new norm now
for stars and for for when Bin Yama. I like
it because I want his body to get used to
the NBA pounding and not be Greg Odin or you
get hurt very early. And the same thing with Chet Holmgren,
whose body's not ready. But yeah, I look at sixty
five as the top number. Yeah, guys are gonna missfait.
And this is if you're healthy all the way through,
you're gonna miss seventeen games to twenty games a year
(10:28):
just for general rest all the star players.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
Well, yeah, I think sixty five you're dead on because
that's the minimum number of games that players have to
meet for being eligible for awards. So in Victor's case,
he could still be eligible for that Rookie of the
Year award. And I think that even with all the
concerns that I'm outlining here people around the league, I
certainly expect this as well. He's gonna live up to
(10:51):
the pipe as far as showing that he has those
elite skills that we mentioned about passing, defending, playing really hard,
being a team player, being you know, at Jim rant
sue of the game, and he's going to make an
impact with that. But I think the other thing that
we have to stress here is that the Spurs aren't
(11:11):
being conservative with him out of concern that he's injuried
chrone that was the case, I don't think they would
have drafted him. And while there's certainly question marks about
his height and just historically how guys if his stature
could have injuries, I don't think a lot of people
around the league are concerned about his medicals because in
(11:32):
France he didn't have a lot of injuries, and so
really it's more about just phasing him into everything. And
I think I actually leave you know, Spurs fans comforted that,
you know, poor summer league debut, probably limited workload, rookie
season might be frustrating, but the big picture is going
to be a lot of good stuff for them to
feel good about Mark.
Speaker 6 (11:52):
So I was reading up a little bit on the MIDS.
I don't know if you call it mid, I mean
the in season tournament. I think it was Adrian Woldronowski
December seventh, in the ninth they're going to be the
semi finals and finals feels a little early to me, Like,
I get that, you know whatever, But I also the
whole thought was to create interest in the regular season,
(12:15):
but now you're playing it in early December, and at
least in one of those nights you're going up against
Thursday Night NFL Football. Just your thoughts and what you've
heard about this in season tournament so far, because I
think we got a little bit of details this week.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
Yeah, well, I will be honest, I'll get even more
details tomorrow because some league officials are planning to be
available on Vegas to answer some of these questions. But
my early thoughts on this was partly what you said.
I was struck that was so early in the season,
because there is, even though it can't compare to the
NFL as the regular season, there is a little bit
(12:48):
of buzz of Opening Night, and it seems too soon
to put that in there. And also they treated Christmas
Day games as as marquee events and the unofficial start
of the regular season, so I saw that they would
have it basically after the New Year, before All Star Break,
as a way to you know, get them out of
(13:08):
kind of the dog days of the regular season. But
regardless of that, my initial thoughts is that clearly they're
doing this for you know, ratings purposes, ultimate revenue purposes,
create more meaning for non playoff game. But I do
have a fear that's just going to create more problems.
And here's what I mean. You could have teams that
(13:30):
care about this plan tournament for whatever reason, so they're gonna,
you know, compete, and there might be teams that don't,
and so they're gonna sit there guys, or not give
a full effort, and then it'll flip on its own
for the normal regular season games where maybe the contenders
winners of the end season tournament, they're going to start
(13:51):
having nights off and once they get back to the
regular season or before it. So I just feel like
this whole idea of this is a way to provide
a solution. So all the load management or disinterested non
playoff game isn't going to fundamentally solve that problem. That's
just adding a new thing that could career revenue. But
(14:13):
it is a business, so I guess that shouldn't be surprising.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
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Speaker 1 (14:26):
I'm okay because Tommy fam apparently is the Mets best player.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
I'm okay.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
I'm okay with hearing this song because that news is
really depressing, but I'm glad to hear.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Tommy Fam probably is the Mets best player.
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dot Com. You think I'm kidding At our Tours, Tommy
Fam just made it catch at the wall to keep
the game tied and baited a Padres player to making
a huge base running mistake threw him out in third base.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Tommy Fam is the Mets best player.
Speaker 6 (15:12):
I don't think you're kidding because I don't know enough
about the Mets to counter you with like, no, it's
Francisco Indoor.
Speaker 7 (15:18):
No, it's this guy.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Tommy Fam is a Mets best player.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
And I'm saying this is like I can't believe this
time say Tommy Fam is a Mets Bets player things.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
I never thought i'd.
Speaker 7 (15:28):
Say, why, But yet has it gone so bad?
Speaker 8 (15:31):
They suck because.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
They got old. They got old right away.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
And when you get old, it happens overnight, and it
doesn't happen slowly, it happens all at once. And the
Mets have a bunch of thirty three thirty four to
thirty five year old guys and two pitchers who were
thirty nine and forty who you're expecting to anchor the
rotation who have just been okay, that are probably done
being aces And it happened overnight, and you thought, well.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Verlander and shures Are will still be really good.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Nope, shures Are looked like he was slowing down on
last year and Verlander had happened to them all at once.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
So yeah, that's how it goes. The Mets. The Mets
got old right and that was my one fear.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
I said right away, what's the deal with My biggest
fear is the Mets are going to get old right away.
That's the only thing. The only thing slowed them down.
They've got a lot of talent, and that's what happened.
That's why here they are, you know, five games under
five hundred, playing the Padres, who are also just as disappointing,
but because they play in San Diego, people don't care
as much.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
So that's where we're at.
Speaker 7 (16:25):
That is indisputable. I don't discrew with them.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Another thing I want indisputable because I meant meant to
talk about this as well. So today we finally went
to go see Indiana Jones and The Dial of Destiny.
No spoilers, no spoilers, no spoilers, no spoilers.
Speaker 8 (16:40):
Playing at Santa Monica Airport.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Yes, and there there is a bit. Yeah, it's actually
was at a golf course. First of all, I will
say this, The Dial of Destiny still is the stupidest title.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
I don't understand how that got through.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
We're gonna call it the I know, I get it's
about a dial, and I get it it's a but
I mean, really, the Dial of Death?
Speaker 3 (17:00):
What the hell is the dialing?
Speaker 8 (17:01):
It sounds like your money.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
It sounds like Indiana Jones. I mean, I'm gonna go
see it. I mean in diala desty, sounds like a
title an eight year old came up within in three minutes.
How about Indiana Jones and the Dial of Death? That Hey,
that's good, let's matt.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
I mean, that's just though. It's just a stupid title.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
But here's the thing, I'm glad they got my money
because this is a non spoiler review. The first half
of the movie is amazingly good. I'm sitting here saying,
how are the reviews of this? Luke, I don't understand
the first half of this movie is absolutely fantastic.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
I mean it's like it's a I mean.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
They found a way to make it thrilling and not
make it seem too plausibly deniable with Indiana Jones being
eighty you know during this and the adventures going on,
and Phoebe Waller Bridges is fantastic. Shit like it's She's
the birth of a new action lead superstar. She is
absolutely terrific in this entire movie. The first half of
the movie is so good. And then I'm not lying,
(18:02):
it's about forty five minutes too long.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
It is way, way, way too long. It's two and
a half hours.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
And there was a point where I said, this movie
just got too long, and I think it's got about
forty five minutes left to go, and it really was.
Then it got convoluted, it it got we got trying
to follow it a little bit, it got strange, and
it tried to do all these different things in the
last forty I'm like, this movie needed to have here here,
and it's really it's like, it's like forty five. It
needed to be about an hour forty five out two
hours at the most two thirty. Oh my goodness, I'm
(18:32):
just going, when is this over.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
Jason, When is this gonna be over?
Speaker 8 (18:34):
How is that not a spoiler?
Speaker 3 (18:36):
When it's gonna be able.
Speaker 8 (18:36):
We just told people to leave halfway through.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
If you leave halfway through, you're gonna think this is
the best Indiana Jones since the third one, since last Crusade.
This is the best Indiana Jones they've had it twenty years,
because it is. It's just done so well, and I'm
so I was so excited, and then I'm like, this
just got really long, man.
Speaker 8 (18:55):
I mean really, So if you leave halfway, are you good?
Like you don't even have to know what goes on,
You're just good, right.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
Yeah, you're good.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
If you leave halfway, you would you would feel like, man,
I just saw I just saw a great movie.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
I just saw a great, great movie. And and you
would walk away and go wow.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
You would say, I really want to go see the
rest of it. Now you don't really know what I
really do. Now you don't really have to. There's there's
other things you can do with the last, uh, you know,
the next fifty five minutes.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
Of your life. No, but I really want to see it. Okay,
don't say it didn't warn you.
Speaker 8 (19:22):
And then bring the kid that was in the Originals
a short round.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
No, he didn't come back. It would have been great
if he came back, he just he just won the
Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. He could have shown up,
doctor Jones, Doctor Jones, I have an Oscar. No, they
did not bring him back, and they did well. And
here's another spoiler. I'll give you this spoiler. They did
not bring back Shia Labuff. He did not come back.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
And that No, there was there was. I'm not going
there was. Oh, there's no child a Buff. I'm not going.
I see that.
Speaker 8 (19:49):
I'm out too.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
No, there was no shy La Buff.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
There was no Shila Buff in this movie without show,
no nothing, nothing. They do reference him, but he's not. Yeah,
they referenced him, but he's not in the movie.
Speaker 7 (20:06):
They say, Shia slow is he in this movie?
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Because all of a sudden they come in and Harrison
Ford goes running for your life from Shia lah No,
uh no, they don't mention it.
Speaker 8 (20:17):
Yeah, how slow is he in this movie? Because he's
really old?
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Now he doesn't run a lot. They find a lot,
but they find an ingenious way to make everything thrilling.
Like I said, it doesn't make it seem like he's
you know, this guy can't be eighty years old and
still running around like this.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
No, they really, they really have.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
They have really good ways of making it seem thrilling
and not making it so far out of the ordinary
that oh wow, really that that's what's going on. Really,
he's he's he's leaping from roof to roof like this
and swinging.
Speaker 8 (20:46):
On his cruise.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
No, no, he's not. I thought it was over the
top when he went over the mountain with the.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Uh, but that trailer was in it. They showed that
trailer for Mission Impossible, and and the last shot of it,
of course, his crew is going over the mountain leaping
in the air, and I'm like, I can't wait for
that next week, man, I can't waitus. Oh, I think
I think we might go at midnight going Oh you
(21:13):
want to go at midnight on too?
Speaker 8 (21:15):
It's gotta be the Dolby Cinema again. That's the only
way to see the movie.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
Oh that was so my god.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
I can take anap again.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
Possible. Yeah, it's true. He didn't get John Wick four.
Speaker 7 (21:24):
He fell asleep in a movie.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
Oh dude, dude.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
We went to go see john wicknaymore the night it
came out, right, we were all excited.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
Was it was a movie? We do it once in
a while. We go.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
We always went, and it was a big movie out,
especially when Tysher says, Gee, I'm interested in this, but
I don't want to pay.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
So I said, come on, let's go.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
We'll take you the movie. So he went to go
see john Wick four. And john Wick four is so
unbelievably good. I mean, this franchise just gets better and
better and uh, and Harmon got two good quality naps
in uh to the point where both times when I
woke Hi up, I said, all right, here's what happened
to He caught up right away, but he got two
good ten minutes.
Speaker 8 (21:55):
Well, to his defense, Aaron, it's the theater where it's
the leather. See, it's basically a lazy boy that goes
all the way back. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (22:03):
Yeah, but I mean the rest of we were able
to make it through.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
Yeah. And the thing is Horman's always up till like
five o'clock.
Speaker 7 (22:09):
That's what I was gonna say.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
He goes home after.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
The show and like he grades cards and and and
buys stuff online and buys memorabilia and tries to figure
out wakes.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
He does all of these things.
Speaker 8 (22:21):
Biker gangs too.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Yeah, well he stopped doing that. Actually, yeah, he lost
a couple really bad, so he stopped doing that again.
Speaker 8 (22:27):
Surgery.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
Yeah, yeah, it was tough.
Speaker 7 (22:29):
I was gonna but that was what I was gonna say.
Speaker 6 (22:31):
Was I was like, you said, oh, he got a
few good naps, and I was like, I feel like
he need some sleep.
Speaker 7 (22:34):
Like I'm actually happy.
Speaker 6 (22:36):
I will say, though, that does really open up the
door for you know, every time that I've worked with him.
Speaker 7 (22:41):
Oh, you know, I get home, I can't really sleep.
I can't do this.
Speaker 6 (22:43):
I can't well, maybe you can't sleep. Maybe just need
to turn the lights off and uh, you know, sit
in the chairs put John Wick four on.
Speaker 7 (22:49):
Yeah John Wick four.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
Dude, you're not gonna sleep watching John Wick four. I mean,
I don't know. I don't know what happened to him,
but I mean, look, I I I don't understand, but
he fell asleep. But I get it.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Sometimes I feel that way. If I'm watching a movie.
It could be the most entertaining movie in the world,
but I'm like, you know what, I just need to
close my eyes. I just need I need to close
my eyes for five minutes. I'm sorry, the movie is
so good, but I just have to do it, but
usually after one nap, I'm good. Like Harmon fell asleep
a second time, and that's that's what kind of got
me like, Okay, the one time, Hey, we just did
a four hour show and we're excited to go see
(23:20):
the movie. Now we come down a little bit. But
after the first time we wake up, it's like, dude,
come on, man, you got you gotta gotta stay up here.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Now.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
This is this is this is big stuff. Now John
John Wick is trying to make it up. All these steps. Man,
he didn't he didn't do this. You could fall asleep
and not watch that.
Speaker 7 (23:33):
That's incredible. I just the Harmone element of it has
me has me all sorts of twisted.
Speaker 6 (23:38):
But it's an interesting character that I feel bad that
I potentially have taken his job depending on how the
top of the ninth here goes.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
But the harm element that sounds like a movie. You
ever see the Harmon element?
Speaker 7 (23:50):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Mike Harmon's actually slept through most of it.
That's kind of crazy. Fell asleep. He fell asleep fifteen
minutes in.
Speaker 8 (23:56):
It's like most New Yorker's watching this Mets game here stop.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
That's in the Andreser tied at three apiece, and again
Harmon doesn't come back, and Aaron Torres has the gig,
and so does Kevin Wire as long as the Mets
keep winning, because when Harmon went on vacation, the Mets
started winning. Come up again, Tommy Fam will be coming.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
I know they have. Well they got two on for
vogel Back right now, so FAM's not coming up for
a little bit.
Speaker 8 (24:20):
That's basically you, if you were a metal do not Jason.
Speaker 7 (24:26):
That's a big boy right there.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Wait, Tommy Fam or Daniel vogel Back Vogel Oh come on, man,
I'm not Lefty.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Come on, Lefty, come on. I got I got wheels.
I got wheels.
Speaker 7 (24:36):
Do we know what's going on with these Padres uniforms?
Speaker 8 (24:38):
By the way, that's not good.
Speaker 7 (24:40):
Yeah. Is it like they look like the uh the
Will Ferrell movie.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
What was that?
Speaker 7 (24:45):
The basketball one?
Speaker 3 (24:46):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Yeah, the Sandy Tropics, the San Diego Tropics.
Speaker 7 (24:51):
Yeah, they look like I don't know if it's a throwback.
Maybe it is.
Speaker 8 (24:54):
I got a tropic right.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
When he was Jackie Moon. Yeah, sure, No, No, they're
very colorful. They're they're very color I you know, I
always default to the Potters should go back to the
brown and yellow, the mustard yellow, and the and the
and the uh.
Speaker 8 (25:09):
Temiro.
Speaker 7 (25:12):
This is what it says, they alternative City Connect uniforms.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
There you go.
Speaker 6 (25:17):
The tweet says that two cities, two cultures, one home.
I think it's a it's an ode to the Mexican
American population in San Diego because they have they have
green in there in their flag. I don't see any
pink in the Mexican flag though, So I'm a little kid.
Speaker 8 (25:34):
Like these should be the Marlin City Connect jerseys.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Oh, or they could be the jerseys that Marlins would
wear and they would stand outside you when they had
that big thing in the in the left.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
Field, like that big structure with all the colors on it. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Sure, h Twitter and out about a Fresca Aaron and
Aaron Underscore Torres, Jason Smith at and from Mike Harmon tonight.
Now it's funny you say this because I get to
this story that uh that came out today that's starting
to make ways and Tom Brady and other NFL players,
but Tom.
Speaker 7 (26:05):
DEVILELA game and the half inning, I should.
Speaker 6 (26:09):
Say, wow, did they really just pull out My career
is on the line here?
Speaker 3 (26:13):
Yeah, your career is on the line for that. Thank
you very much. Wow, yeah, you just well, all right,
Harmon's I guess Harmon's back on Monday. I guess Harmon's
back Monday. That's fine. What a surprise to give. What
a surprise, Starling Marte, What a surprise a guy? What
a surprise, Starling Marte? What a surprise? Guys got forty
stolen bases? Not what a surprise? What a surprise? Again,
(26:36):
I'm not surprised. I'm not surprised.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Uh So Tom Brady and other NFL players, how you're
now finding out just how much money they are losing
on all these different cryptocurrency ventures. And we found out
today that Brady lost thirty million dollars in the collapse
of cryptocurrency company ft where he was an ambassador. He
(27:01):
did commercials for them. He was still with Giselle Bunch
and he was doing this. FTX filed for bankruptcy last November.
CEO Sam bankman Fred is facing federal fraud related charge
where they're trying to get him. They tried to get
him back from overseas.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
Brady was one.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
Of the people who's being sued by FTX investors who
want repayment from their endorsements. Also in the past, Shaq
has been sued Larry David Naomi osaka Steph Curry. You know,
I just I I see stories like this and I
just go man, athletes must just seem like marks sometimes,
(27:39):
Like I mean, you looked at cryptocurrency, and I get
the fad in it, But these people with a lot
of money, Hang on, do you really think there's gonna
be an alternate way to pay for things? Do you
really think we're gonna have that? Really, we've had one
currency for money for years, right, and there's stocks and
there's different ways here, there's different in Vena. But do
(28:00):
you really think I mean, the players said I want
to get paid in bitcoin. Now I want my entire
signing bonus in bitcoin. So I can't believe that people
actually thought, Hey, this is a new kind of money
that's gonna be worth more than regular money, and I'm
gonna get to cash out and use it like I
use regular money.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
When did you think that was gonna happen? What did
you think? What did you think that was gonna get? Okay?
Speaker 1 (28:22):
Yeah, you know what, suddenly, yeah, we're gonna accept cryptocurrency
like we accept cash or credit cards or anything else.
The number of celebrities that they that really thought new
money was being invented and it was gonna be worth
more than the rest of it, I don't get. I
mean the commercials, but what these are all? Why do
commercials for it? Then if it's that unless you have
(28:43):
a you have a stake in it, And then you
hear people talk about being a Ponzi scheme and everything
else about it, and.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
Go, oh, now, I kind of now, I kind of wonder,
why is this all happening this way?
Speaker 1 (28:51):
I just I never understand how people with financial advisors
and all kinds of things. Yeah, I'm gonna get caught
up in a new thing, especially something like it's a
new money that's gonna be worth more than the money
we use right now.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
Yeah, sign me up.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
I want to I want to put some I want
to put all my my savings down on that. I
want to put cash down on that. Yeah, new money
that's gonna be worth in this money? What could possibly
go wrong?
Speaker 6 (29:12):
I you know, I'm so with you on this, Jason
Is I never understood the crypto. Uh, what's the right
word I'm looking for. The the excitement about it and
and you know I'm crypto craze craze yeah not yeah,
I just I'll just be honest, like like I I
never really understood it.
Speaker 7 (29:30):
And I had a buddy like, dude, you gotta get it.
Speaker 6 (29:32):
And I'm like, if I can't conceptualize something, I don't
want anything to do with it. And so it's like, oh,
there's this money that exists in the ether and it's
you know, it's a this, but it's not that. And
it's like, no, I want to be able to go
like and I know a lot of places are going
you know, cash list right now, but like I want
to be able to go to an ATM and pull
(29:52):
out what I need to pull out and know the
actual value.
Speaker 7 (29:54):
So I never really understood the crypto phase.
Speaker 6 (29:57):
And I'm somebody, as you learn last night with Thread,
I'd rather be a few steps too late and make
sure it's legit that I would be the first one
in the front door.
Speaker 7 (30:07):
So I was very surprised.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (30:09):
I remain surprised that people are as into this stuff
as they are, but not surprised at the bubble burst.
And obviously, living in Los Angeles, we had a front
row seat with the former Crypto dot com.
Speaker 7 (30:21):
Arena, which hasn't been renamed yet. Is it's still called crypto?
Speaker 3 (30:24):
What is it called? It's still crypto. Yes, even though they.
Speaker 8 (30:26):
Stop paying bills, Yeah, shut cashed, it's gonna stay crypto.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Yeah, they don't sell the States anymore, but it's still
gonna be the crypto.
Speaker 6 (30:33):
Cash as in there the actual money. So they had
to actually go get real cash to pay the real bill.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
We lost.
Speaker 8 (30:40):
The Lakers want to give back money. It's gonna stay crypto.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
So there you go again. Oh, what could possibly go wrong? Yeah,
this is gonna be perfect.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
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Speaker 6 (31:38):
Here's my question though, Yeah, so obviously you're not gonna
be in tomorrow. You know, your your big time, you
take off Saturdays and Sundays and hang out with your family.
Does this only apply when you're in studio, when you're
on the air, like like if they lose tomorrow, but
you're coaching your daughter, I mean you might not even
know about it.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
No, this is strictly on air, Okay, so strict Yeah,
it's strictly on air.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Yeah, yea, yeah, yeah yeah you no, because I because
if you're doing you Harmon will have to work a
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Speaker 3 (32:09):
So it's strictly on air.
Speaker 8 (32:10):
During the words of the Great Kenny Powers, Harmon bleeping outing,
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Speaker 1 (32:20):
We'll have more on the debut of WEMBN Yama coming
up in a couple of minutes. But you know you
mentioned this earlier we talked about getting stuff out there,
and now here's wembin Yama and everything trending all over
Twitter and Threads, and is Threads still going to be
the big threat to to Twitter as we've seen the
last couple of days. And I think there's like eighty
million sign ups now for Threads over the course of
(32:41):
the last forty eight hours.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
It's insane.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
But let me tell you this because because now after
getting a chance to peruse some of threads today, I
will tell you the couple of things that need to
be solved before I before I really start to really
liking to adopt it. Like, for instance, you can't personalize
your feed, like you get people in your feed that
are just suggested to you by meta. Like I can't say, okay,
(33:06):
I only want to see from the people that I follow,
Like I only want to hear from Aratares and Justin
Frossberg and Alex Fatt.
Speaker 3 (33:13):
No.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
No, you get people you don't follow in your feed
and there's nothing you do about it.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
So I kind of I don't like that.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
I don't why are you gonna give me people that
I don't know, I don't care about what they say.
I want to be able to follow the people that
I care about what they say. So that's the first one.
The other thing is there's no like hot topics right like, like.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
We told you.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
The big lesson that Elon Musk needed to learn from
this is that Twitter is a news aggregating site. It
is a news breaking site. It's not a stay in touch.
How do I make money off of this? It's not Facebook.
It is a news site, and this is where people
go to for news. I want to be able to
go to threads for news, and I want to be
able to find what people are talking about, what the
big topics are in whether it's sports or politics or
(33:55):
something else.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
And there's nowhere for that. So that's a.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
Couple of things I think that need to be figured
out before I'd really say, hey, I can embrace threads
here and really jump over and start doing more stuff there.
It's it's not a it's not an easy jump into
with those couple of things that I really want that
I just aren't going to get right now.
Speaker 6 (34:13):
So I am still not on threads. I think, to me,
there's two things that stand out beyond what you've said.
One if the newsmakers that I care about are exclusively there,
and that's what that would be my play iff on
Mark Zuckerberg, say hey, Adri wo Janowski, I'll pay you
twenty million dollars a year, because what is that to
Mark Zuckerberg? Twenty million dollars a year, but you can
(34:35):
only put your content on threads. Adam scheff a the same,
you know whatever. And I don't think that's a conflict,
by the way, with ESPN, because of course ESPN, of
course they're a different deal.
Speaker 7 (34:46):
So that's one.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
I think.
Speaker 6 (34:48):
The other thing for me is with Threads, I need
to see is it a place, even if people migrate
over there, is it a place that you can have
a fun conversation when stuff is actually going on? Because
as much as Twitter sucks, sometimes it is a lot
of fun during a big game, a big event. Now
we haven't had those, and we will not have those
probably until football season, but that to me is what
(35:09):
stands out. Twitter is still fun during a big, live
sporting event. I don't know if Threads will have that capability.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
Yeah, because you want to be able to respond to
the people that you're listening to, and you can't like
I got all these people and I don't know who
they are. Oh, there's finally say eritrres. I'll respond to
what he's saying. It makes it harder to find There's
some things that need to be figured out. As far
as that goes.
Speaker 3 (35:29):
It just lunched today, but.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
There needs to be some things to get figured out
Twitter at how about a Fresco, threads at the real json.
Speaker 3 (35:35):
S Errotorus on Twitter at, Aaron underscore Taurus.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
So that those are kind of the other things. The
other thing is really quick is it needs a website version.
But we'll have more on webbin Yama coming up next.
Speaker 3 (35:45):
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