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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
This is the.

Speaker 3 (00:22):
Best of The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon on
Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 1 (00:31):
Greetings, Welcome inside, Happy Thursday, The Jason Smith Show with
my best friend Mike hart Well, who is on vacation
in London, especially Levey Steve de Sega. He's in for
Ahman this week, So for the entire week I would
talk like this while Almond's gone. Then I'll go to London.
I talk like that for the week after back. Well,

(00:52):
that's not annoying at all. No, No, it's gonna walk out, right,
is it? Why if?

Speaker 4 (00:55):
Why if? What if?

Speaker 1 (00:56):
Why if?

Speaker 5 (00:56):
What if?

Speaker 6 (00:56):
What if?

Speaker 4 (00:57):
What if? What if?

Speaker 2 (00:58):
What if?

Speaker 1 (00:58):
Well?

Speaker 5 (00:59):
What if?

Speaker 1 (00:59):
We on something that's pretty good? It should be pretty good.

Speaker 4 (01:02):
You're sounding like the British tourists. I sat next to
it at Dodger game. Once, I was explaining in our
outfield pavilion seats, you realize the ball in the sport
leaves the field of play. A home run could actually
like be hit here. And the response was the ball
could come here, yes, actually yes. Later that night a
fly ball came over our heads. I watched it back

(01:24):
on the news. The two of us, my friend and
I were reaching for the ball. The two tourists were
literally cowering. If they could have gone on the concrete
under the seats.

Speaker 1 (01:34):
They would have. But it was that exact voice. What
happens if hit by that? What happens?

Speaker 4 (01:39):
What happens?

Speaker 1 (01:40):
He exploding? It's on the back of the ticket. Well,
when we used to have tickets. Sometimes the cricket it
goes out, but they throw it right back in it
how it goes.

Speaker 4 (01:47):
The other thing with that, with that accent was when
I said, hey, there's a runner leading off first base,
he could actually like try and steal and the pitcher
throws over and I hear sneaky.

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want to say, after watching the first forty five minutes
of the presidential debate, there is one clear choice for president,

(02:26):
and it's Grimace. That is the He needs it on
that stage right away with the METS hat and the
glove and start talking about I turned around the fortunes
of the Mets. I can do the same thing for
everybody here in the United States. Whatever you want ask
me questions. Well, mister Grimmas, what is your plan? I
throw out the first pitch in any city that's having
any kind of difficulty. What happens after that? They rebound?

(02:48):
So your bumper sticker would be purple over orange, exactly, exactly, exactly, yeah, exactly,
say hey, and I would say, you know, here's the thing.

Speaker 4 (02:56):
This is where we all come together.

Speaker 1 (02:57):
Because Republicans the color is red, Democrats the color is blue.
Oh you put it in your next Blue and red together
you get me, you get purple. So he's a great uniter, Grimace.

Speaker 4 (03:09):
So what you're saying is, if Krimis is our president
in this country.

Speaker 1 (03:12):
President Grimace. Don't him with respect.

Speaker 4 (03:14):
The whole presidential physical fitness for kids goes out the door.

Speaker 1 (03:18):
Yeah you have a shake every day? Yeah exactly, and
you wind up his size. Hey, kids would love that,
right way, I have to work out.

Speaker 4 (03:23):
I just have a shake the size of a bell
that was on your mom's shelf growing up.

Speaker 1 (03:28):
Like a protein shake that IM like, no, no, Noh's cream, chocolate,
whatever you want making a meal?

Speaker 4 (03:34):
What do you got, Frostburg.

Speaker 6 (03:36):
I'm following this debate very carefully here in the studio.
I got the volume up. Okay, this is like crazy.
They've actually agreed on something here, really and Trumpet.

Speaker 4 (03:45):
They both agreed. Okay, what do they agreed on?

Speaker 6 (03:47):
The bur altar should be fire.

Speaker 4 (03:50):
Sitting ovation?

Speaker 1 (03:56):
Oh my goodness, Yeah, I don't see. After you watch,
I gave it up. Okay, Well, things are still gonna
go well for the United States.

Speaker 4 (04:03):
Evenlowell immediately on the postgame show on Fox.

Speaker 1 (04:07):
I think he was I think he was foaming at
the mouse with what he had to say right away
after that, and it was unbelievable.

Speaker 4 (04:14):
I think I can quote him directly after the US
lost to Panama to one tonight, Boy, if the US
doesn't get out of its group on Monday Night after
that game against Uruguay, Greg Burholter will lose his job
and he deserves to.

Speaker 1 (04:28):
Oh yeah yeah, But it was much more like I
I'm shaking. I'm talking. It's like when you when what
are your kids does something that makes you so mad
or somebody's something so mad and you're just shaking because
you're so upset what you're saying. Burholter will lose his
job and rightfully so, I mean he threw that at
the end, and rightfully so. I mean it's and not
just getting it.

Speaker 4 (04:48):
And this is what I was thinking most of the
second half of tonight's game watching Fox, is you know,
it could be worse. The US could lose this game
and then a goal in the eighty third minute, and
they did lose this game to one to Panama, which
means now the US will likely need to beat first
place Uruguay on Monday Night just to advance out of
the group. That game's Monday Night on FS one. Why

(05:10):
you say would they have to win and not get
a tie because Panama, whom the US tied tonight, gets
to play last place Bolivia on Monday to finish up,
so probably a win there. Now, look, that's like your
homecoming game.

Speaker 1 (05:22):
Yeah, exactly, We're only gonna play seven or eight.

Speaker 4 (05:27):
We don't need to play all eleven. But Bolivia tonight
was down in the first twenty minutes or so, down
to nothing to ergo.

Speaker 1 (05:32):
Yeah, it was very quickly that happened, which is why
you heard the entire day. And most likely they will
need to beat Uruguay because they will be most likely. Yeah,
but we can't put it in pen. But that's yeah,
quite likely. Here's my two biggest concerns about US Soccer
and where they are right after losing today to Panama,
which was incredibly embarrassing. Yes, you had stuff happen during

(05:55):
the game. You had Tim way A getting an awful
red card and undisciplined punch the back of the head.
The official looked at it for all of three seconds,
so once said up, yep, red card, you're out. So
that changes everything. After video review, it's like, would you
like to upgrade to a red card? No, I'd like
to say to the elw super we're going to keep them.
We're going to upgrade you to a red card. Oh okay,

(06:16):
that's great. But here's here's the two things that that
really hit me about this and why Burholter. I mean,
I feel like we just have to go on from
this era.

Speaker 6 (06:26):
Please.

Speaker 1 (06:27):
We've seen so much of Greg Burholter, and you can
debate and here here's the thing about this. You can
debate his tactics during the game and what he did,
some adjustments that he made, some adjustments that he made worked,
some adjustes that he made didn't work. I don't know
that Baligan was got to take out of the game
at that point. I agree with Clint Dempsey. He had
just had it. He biffed a big scoring chance by

(06:47):
taking a shot because he got a little shot appy.
But still he was playing well. He scored the big
goal early. I have appreciate him.

Speaker 4 (06:52):
It's it reminds me of when Kristin Press was playing
for the US women. You could get instant offense and
somebody not afraid to shoot, and somebody that just doesn't
send the ball into the crowd actually makes the goalie work.
This guy's been good in the year less than a
year we've been seeing him with the US. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (07:08):
But outside of that, the two biggest things right that
I look at, I say, we need a change. And
this is why people are going to be watching the
game Monday night, hate watching because it's going to be Oh,
if we win, we move on. But if we lose, Hey,
we're gonna get rid of Burholter. Is that he's been
the coach now for a long time, right. I still
don't know what our identity is. If you said, what

(07:29):
does the United States do? Well, what do they do?
What do they game plan every every game to impart
their will on the game? What do they do?

Speaker 4 (07:37):
What is their identa?

Speaker 1 (07:37):
What does you know?

Speaker 4 (07:38):
We're gonna do.

Speaker 1 (07:39):
X and Y every single and other teams know we
have to stop X and Y. The only thing I
come up with is get the ball to Polisic, which
as a youth coach, I got it. I want to
get the ball to my best player too. I don't
know what the plan is at midfield. I don't know
what the plan is to try to figure out offensively?
Is he married to what he has up at striker?
I just don't know. I do is toughness going to

(08:02):
be part of our doubt? What is it? It's still
just a bunch of guys out there, and I don't
know what our identity is. This is one, and that's
a big and that's a big thing, right you'd think
by now you get the pieces. We're built on the
back line and everything comes out of there. We're built
in our midfields because we attack. We're built here. And
I don't know what that is. And that's a big question,
because this is what is falls under your category of

(08:23):
head coaches to we have to instill a culture. We
have to tell you what we're about. We have to
tell you exactly what our plan is and what our
identity is. And they still don't have one.

Speaker 4 (08:31):
A couple of holes on defense tonight, but as far
as him, and this is again through the last World
Cup cycle and then an interim coach for month after
month after month, and then they rehire the same guy,
which is a.

Speaker 1 (08:44):
Who led the search a search of my successor? Who
is it?

Speaker 4 (08:47):
It's me?

Speaker 1 (08:47):
Oh hey, that's great.

Speaker 4 (08:48):
That works. We all collectively did a literal face Paul,
not the emoji, but like, are you kidding me? And
the guess who's co hosting the World Cup in two years?
They got to figure this out. We have to let's
say this out loud. We're not the first to say
it out loud. We have to take advantage of the
crew that we have on the roster these days. We

(09:09):
have never in our lifetimes had this type of young
talent playing with the famous clubs in Europe. We're finally
getting that we're progressing as US soccer development, if you
want to call it that, and they've played together for
a few years now. We've got to get something out
of this generation.

Speaker 1 (09:26):
Before Polistic is thirty eight years old and it's boy,
I never actually got there. But the other part of
it is, and this is even bigger than instilling the
culture and what our identity is, right, which still is
amazing that he's been the head coach this long.

Speaker 4 (09:39):
We don't have one. Yeah, it's not like when you
bring up Harball for example. You know what kind of
identity win or loss you're gonna get. There's a focus,
you know.

Speaker 1 (09:47):
Even with Kleinsman, it was Okay, the identity was this
is Kleansman's team and his decision. Okay, it made a
like it or not like it, but that was what
the identity of this.

Speaker 4 (09:56):
He'll find every quasi American that you've never heard of.
He's living in Norway. A great player was yeah, whatever.

Speaker 1 (10:04):
But the bigger The bigger part of it for me
is this is that and again this is away from
the from the gimmicks, and away from the strategy, and
away from what Burlock does doesn't do. But this United
States team still is prone to bad decisions, emotional decisions,
stupid decisions, way and not controlling himself and getting and
getting a red card. I still see so many goals

(10:26):
we give up where I go, how do the defenders
not know who to be marking on this play?

Speaker 6 (10:30):
Right?

Speaker 1 (10:31):
I get the ten or fifteen minutes following the red card,
things get a little weird because, all right, we're trying
to figure out what the best alignment were, Right, you
get into the eighty the two goals, I mean that
the first goal, I'm like, okay, there were three players
surrounding their striker and they still scored. All right, I
get it. It's things are going. But that goal in
the eighty fifth minute, it's it's there's there's three guys
around there, and I'm saying, how do you not know

(10:52):
who to be marking? And we still see this. We
saw this at the end of the World Cup last time,
when we got absolutely embarrassed in the last game in
the knockout round where where players are running wide open
on the back end because we're not covering the right players.
And I still see that. I still see on the
field our defenders not knowing where to go, not knowing
who to mark, and I see the ball coming down

(11:14):
and one striker having it between three players and they
still find a way to get get it by them
in the back of the net. I don't see any
bit of of reliance or responsibility that the players have taken.
Why do we still talk about players being unmotivated and
up and down from game to game. This is the
United States men's national team. This is the best we've
ever been. How do you still take well Weston McKenny

(11:37):
and his motivation, Why is that still going on?

Speaker 4 (11:39):
Right?

Speaker 1 (11:40):
This all falls under the category of the head coach.
And I know the players are pros and this is
what they're paid for, but this is different. You have
to make sure everybody's on the same page and everybody
knows what they're doing. And there's still times during a
game where I go, I know that we do what
we were doing. I don't know what we were doing on
that left when they were pressuring us so hard. I
don't know that we knew what we were doing, and
usually the back line is pretty stout, but boy, there

(12:00):
position a lot and I go, this falls under Perhalter.
This is the fact that we don't have an identity
and you still see mistakes, whether they're emotional mistakes, whether
they're motivational mistakes or on field mistakes. There's just too
many of them.

Speaker 4 (12:13):
And defense with the veteran he's passed thirty five I
think now with Tim Breem, his man beat him to
get the first half shot off that scored the goal.
He also remember had the off sides that cost the
US a goal after reader review in the fifth minute
of the game, and Anthony Robinson in the first half
couldn't stop the goal that went in, and in the

(12:34):
second half the game winner. He handed Panama that possession
with a bad clearance pass, kicked it right to him
and in the eighty third minute of Panama goal wins
it two to one. So when we're talking about the
coach not doing a good job, certainly we're not only
talking about tonight, and we're not only talking about the
opening game, which was two nothing over an awful Bolivia team.

(12:55):
Let's just call it what it is. You know, tonight's opponent,
Panama's not ranked in the top twenty. They're not ranked
in the top forty. Olivia is not in the top
eighty in the world. That should have been at least
three or four. Nothing last Sunday. And remember one of
the tune up games was a US five to one
loss against Columbia, a real opponent, and ever since he's

(13:15):
come back. Well, let's go back to October. What's the
US record. It's five five and one. This is not
good enough.

Speaker 1 (13:22):
Yeah, but and against teams not named Mexico, what's our record?

Speaker 4 (13:25):
Yeah, exactly, oh eleven.

Speaker 1 (13:27):
I mean, I really it's I mean they don't get
to play Al Salvador all the time.

Speaker 4 (13:30):
Okay, by the way, the referee was from Al Salvador.
Tonight did not bathe himself in glory, No, no, no, no.

Speaker 1 (13:36):
But I mean that's what you look at. Why does
Greg Burholton me? Why do people say this? Forget about
because you can question a guy's strategy and should he
have done this? Should he had done this? If something
works out, it works out. If it does it doesn't.
But just those two things, the lack of an identity
and the mistakes that are still made both mental and physical.
How are we still going on with this? I mean, like,
how is this okay? I feel like John Oliver? How

(13:58):
is this okay? Brad Bridge? Okay, I understand. Okay.

Speaker 4 (14:04):
Let's bring it back to your hate watching comment, which
brings us back to a US super fan that we
have on the show all the time talking NFL, Jason
Locking for saying before this tournament started he loves these
players and he hoped the US got creamed and bounced
quickly out of this tournament so US Soccer would wise
up and do something about this ridiculous coaching we hire

(14:26):
and do something about it so we can actually plan
properly and get something set before we co host a
World Cup in two.

Speaker 1 (14:34):
Years exit, how about a fresca The Jason Smith Show
Steve de Sager in for Mike Carmon. I mean, talk
about all the strategy you want. Those two reasons right,
there should be those blinking red light blinking red lines.

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Speaker 1 (15:37):
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for Harmon tonight. You know I was thinking about this,
Stevo instead of Grimace running for president.

Speaker 4 (15:51):
Oh you know what if I.

Speaker 1 (15:53):
Ran under my normal my normal platform of gas and
milk under two dollars a gallon, everything else I figure out.
But Grimace is my running mate and Grimace is the
vice president.

Speaker 4 (16:05):
Even better? Yeah, there we go. Now, wait a minute,
how how do you get gas and milk under? Do
you like massive subsidies like keeping the w NBA afloat
so it's really not it's an artificial price in other words.

Speaker 1 (16:17):
Yeah, oh yeah, Well listen, here's the thing is I
have the ideas. I just will have smart people figuring
it out. Oh now you're what I have smart people. Listen.
What I do is here's I have the cabinet meeting or.

Speaker 4 (16:26):
Listen, that's what you're gonna do differently.

Speaker 1 (16:28):
Here's ideas I have and then I say it and
then it's up to them to go implement it and
I will take all the credit at the end. You
know what, I add this idea of sending Grimace in
to all the cities that need help and him throwing
the first ball outlet.

Speaker 4 (16:41):
Look, look what happened all.

Speaker 1 (16:42):
These cities there. They were in trouble. Here they need
the need money on education, any money. Schools were crumbling. Here.

Speaker 4 (16:47):
I send Grimace in for the first pitch. Look what
happens right away as a way to drive down those prices. Yeah,
what you're gonna do is instead of like Canada attacks
people so much so they get healthcare at this great
you're going to tax them so that milk goes down.

Speaker 1 (17:03):
Yes, milk, Yeah, milk goes down and gas goes down.

Speaker 4 (17:07):
And I get everybody, wait a minute, what's your focus
on Grimace and all the fast food for the kids anyway?

Speaker 1 (17:13):
I just need Grimace. I just need Grimace standing next
to me. It's like, Okay, I got Grimace now, and
I got all the kids telling their parents you got
to vote for Grimace, vote for the guy with Grimace.

Speaker 4 (17:22):
So this is like when the sugar commercial comes on
and the kid influences the parents. Yes, that's how it
would go. That's how I would do it.

Speaker 1 (17:29):
Yeah, and I would say this, Hey, listen, you know
you all get sick of me talking about my favorite teams.

Speaker 4 (17:34):
How about this.

Speaker 1 (17:35):
Every Jets win on a Sunday in the regular season.
Everybody's off from work on Monday in school, so.

Speaker 6 (17:43):
No days off.

Speaker 1 (17:43):
So basically three days off a year and one day
off in October. That's the Belichick cris maybe one in
November and one late December one too, But Jets win
on a Sunday, everybody's off on Monday.

Speaker 4 (17:56):
Well, this is actually gonna call whoever is the commission
her by then into play in the NFL geef. You
haven't heard the news of today's court case, but you
know that's kind of not really gonna mess with the
whole up and up aspect of everything's cool with the
referees not being influenced.

Speaker 1 (18:16):
I say this, free NFL access to every game to everyone.
Oh so you don't have to buy such ticket? No, no,
everybody gets every game, no matter what kind. As long
as you have a television, we get you andy, NFL
out of market game you can possible.

Speaker 4 (18:33):
You guarantee every postseason game we'll be on a regular channel.

Speaker 1 (18:37):
Oh sure, one hundred percent. Yes, I will do all
of that. Well, I might vote for you. I also
would have to guarantee the Jets make the playoffs every year.
They get to buy, they have a buy into the playoffs.

Speaker 4 (18:46):
They have a special playoff spot for the Jets. Raised
in eye brow. Yeah the other stuff, gas, great, gas,
I would like to see it. I'd like to see
that work. Uh, free TV for all the NFL playoff games?
Yeah yah, yeah, but then you win it of course
in a Jets direction for those who haven't heard the
show before. Of course, eventually you want off on Monday,
don't you?

Speaker 1 (19:05):
You want off on. You like to be off on Monday?
Wouldn't you you like that? You'd watch that Jets game
real interesting on Sunday? Wouldn't you come on the man
fourth and goal punches in, Yeah, I'm off tomorrow.

Speaker 4 (19:16):
That would be the only reason to watch the Jets,
of course, Jason.

Speaker 6 (19:20):
I think Steve told us without telling us that he
has bunny ears on his TV.

Speaker 1 (19:26):
When watching, his wife stands next to TV and puts
the hands on the bunny ears. All the receptions and
when you hold the bunny you're so stand there and
hold them.

Speaker 4 (19:34):
And what I'm telling you is that I work at
a place that, let's just say, did not have one
of the playoff games last year.

Speaker 1 (19:40):
Oh no, I may football for everyone. That has been correct.
Football should be for everyone.

Speaker 4 (19:47):
Football should be for everybody's you go.

Speaker 1 (19:51):
So there's my platform. Really, you talk about the US
men's national team not having an identity, that's my identity
as a candidate everybody can get behind. I want everybody
to win. That It's not my fault. Your team stinks,
but I want your team to win. If you need help,
you tell me, I'll send you Grimace. Grimace gets out
there the swag he'll come back with.

Speaker 4 (20:08):
This is for four years from now. You can't get
anything done on a short between June and November this year.

Speaker 1 (20:13):
I know I got to strike while the Irons hot
on Grimace now, but I can't.

Speaker 4 (20:16):
I can't. I can't shove Grimace until twenty twenty eight comes.
You know, if you've seen his diet, he may not
be around for four years. Grimace has been around since
nineteen fifty five. I think grim is gonna be He's
absolutely idea of Grimace has been around.

Speaker 1 (20:28):
I'm not sure that's they're gonna run out of costumes.

Speaker 4 (20:33):
No, they're gonna run out of guys who are on
that diet, if you know what I mean, plenty of guys.

Speaker 1 (20:37):
Hey, listen, you be Grimaces.

Speaker 4 (20:39):
Weeke that movie Dave where a different guy plays the president.

Speaker 1 (20:42):
Oh yeah, he just kep shoving a new guy in there.

Speaker 4 (20:44):
Oh there's White House Chief of Staff. How wonderful. Fore
we're walking where we're walking the old Donny Hunt. We're walking,
We're walking, We're walking. Uh.

Speaker 1 (20:52):
Meanwhile, while this was all going on that we had
the presidential debate, we had the men's national team both.

Speaker 4 (20:57):
In Atlanta, by the way, and they actually can congratulated
the US fans for being able to show up on
time to that game because it was six eastern and
roads were closed because of the debate. That's in Atlanta also,
and actually fifty nine thousand people were there.

Speaker 6 (21:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (21:13):
The one thing I didn't think they needed to do
was I didn't think Biden or Trump needed to congratulate
Georgia for beating Portugal yesterday.

Speaker 4 (21:19):
I don't think they knew that.

Speaker 1 (21:21):
You know, in swing stage they mentioned Kirby Smart a
couple of times, like, I don't think that's the right
that's not the right one. I want to go to
get away from that.

Speaker 4 (21:29):
I've never heard of this Shellish Kaushweli, who's the goalie. Okay,
maybe he's a naturalized citizen. Maybe I had something to
do with I could see that going through their minds.

Speaker 1 (21:39):
Meanwhile, Day two of the NBA Draft began at nine
am this morning, and you probably woke up and saw
that it ended and Bronnie James was a Los Angeles Laker.

Speaker 2 (21:50):
Shock.

Speaker 1 (21:51):
Just like I told you, I thought fifty five is
going to be Bronnie. I bet you he wears fifty
five in the NBA. Reminder of what my draft position,
was told you the Lakers were going to take him.
This amid reports that Rich Paul had been calling teams
and saying that if you draft him, he's not gonna
play for you. He's going to Australia. So if any
team outside of the Suns or Lakers, the only two

(22:13):
teams that Bronnie James worked out for, if any of
those teams drafted Brownny, he would go to Australia. Now,
I know there's a lot of people. I can't believe
an agent would do this. We have to get out
from under this. We can't let him run the league.
This would never happen in the NFL. Rich Paul telling teams, hey,
don't draft Bronnie James, who is going to play in Australia,

(22:35):
is like me walking into a restaurant and the maitre
d saying, hey, if you order a salad, I'm kicking
you out. Okay, yeah, don't worry about it.

Speaker 6 (22:42):
Well, I'm good.

Speaker 1 (22:42):
Let's sit down.

Speaker 4 (22:43):
I'm ready.

Speaker 1 (22:44):
I'm ready. Probably not you, I could be. It could
be a Caesar salad, it could be a Cops. Now
you order a salad of any kind, I'm throwing you out.

Speaker 4 (22:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (22:52):
No, I'm good.

Speaker 1 (22:52):
Where's my seat? Where's my sat here?

Speaker 2 (22:54):
Really?

Speaker 1 (22:54):
I mean the teams did they even look at a
fax or see the email and just delete it?

Speaker 6 (22:58):
Like facts, how.

Speaker 1 (22:59):
Many teams we're gonna say, yes, we want to draft
Brownie James.

Speaker 4 (23:03):
Let's just be honest. How many teams are gonna draft him?

Speaker 1 (23:06):
He was a player that you could take or not,
which is every player in the second round of the draft.
Every guy in the second round is a project. Maybe
he works, maybe he doesn't. Sometimes you find a diamond
in the rough and the guy turns into an All star,
like a Gilbert Arenas. Sometimes, most of the time, the
second round pick plays in the G league for a
year or two and then just disappears. Like, I don't
know why this was met with such sudden hatred him.

(23:29):
Oh well, I can't believe that ages trying to run
this deal. Nobody else was gonna take Bronnie James, Like
I get that. You want to be chesty about this
and say, hey, look at me, I'm pledge sports.

Speaker 4 (23:38):
None of us were gonna take him, Nobody.

Speaker 1 (23:39):
There was no rumor that any team was ever thinking about,
not even the Sons who worked him out.

Speaker 4 (23:44):
Wow, we'd really like to take him. No, no, no, no.

Speaker 1 (23:47):
This was where it was going all along. And the
fact remains, if he was a better prospect, it would
be a different story. But he was someone just like
anybody else taken in the second Aj Edwards, anybody else, Hey,
any of the Knicks picks who score like four points
a game. But it doesn't matter. They don't need it.
They have the best one three.

Speaker 4 (24:03):
I think in trade they picked up Tyler clok Cod
actually had a college career, yes, at Marquees.

Speaker 1 (24:09):
I mean, listen, I understand we got to worry about
France in four years in the Olympics, because that's gonna
be good. All of a sudden, it's gonna be difficult.
But nobody was gonna take Brownie. This was This was
an empty threat. And all it's gonna do is backfire
on Rich Paul because Rich Paul's got to get some
more clients if he wants to be continue to be such.

Speaker 4 (24:26):
A powerful agent.

Speaker 1 (24:27):
Because his guys, you'll be talked about it last night,
his main guys aren't going to be around for that
much longer. And you want to really want to stand
up and and and and get chesty about Bronnie James. Really,
that's what you want to, that's what you want to
He's going to Austra. Okay, hey, that's fine, thanks for
letting it know. I guess that's that's great. I really
appreciate that.

Speaker 4 (24:46):
Thank you.

Speaker 6 (24:47):
I get that.

Speaker 4 (24:47):
I'm not eating the salad. I'm not.

Speaker 1 (24:49):
Don't worry about it. I'm going right to a main course.
That's what's gonna happen.

Speaker 4 (24:52):
It gets to the secondary issue of Wow, that's therefore
a perfect story for ESPN to create, because it's ES
that keeps telling us Bronnie James is a prospect. It's
ESPN who tells us, Oh, what a great story for
the guy getting drafted into the NBA. It's a great dream.
And you know, he's talked a lot about trying to

(25:14):
get out from under his dad's shadow.

Speaker 2 (25:16):
It's a good thing.

Speaker 4 (25:17):
I was not eating when I heard that. For me, ESPN,
forget the fact that, Okay, he didn't control how he
was named. He's been wearing his dad's number. Yeah, he
went to the hand selected private school in the town
where his dad moved.

Speaker 1 (25:34):
He went to the.

Speaker 4 (25:35):
Hand selected private college, and he's going to go to
the dad's team and worked out for his dad's team.
But yeah, sure he's trying to get out from under
the shadow of his dad because what he's some top
ten prospect coming out of high school? He was not
because he averaged ten twenty points a game last year.

Speaker 5 (25:55):
He did not.

Speaker 4 (25:56):
He's Bronnie James. If he was Joe Smith, would he
have been take tonight? Joe Smith went pretty high in
the night he got it. I'm pretty sure.

Speaker 1 (26:04):
I'm pretty sure Joe Smith might have went number one overall.
Joe Jones, I'm Joe Jonas did not get a single
draft Joe Jonas will get drafted ahead of Kevin Jonas,
but maybe behind.

Speaker 5 (26:14):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (26:14):
I didn't joke not have.

Speaker 1 (26:15):
Been taken fifty fifth overall or otherwise. No, But but look,
this is and I still remember when his this is been.
This is going back about five years is that I
remember I was coaching my daughter's soccer practice, went to
the field normally where we practice, and all of a sudden,
there's helicopters hovering like a few hundred yards in the field,
and I'm like, what is going on? I didn't know

(26:38):
what was happening. I'm like, what it was? Just just practice?
Is like after school. Probably what is going on? Why
is this such a big deal? Because the middle school
that my daughter went she wasn't there yet. She's an
elementary school. But the one she woud up going to,
which is right there, you know, neighborhood middle school, elementary school.
That was Brownie James's first game. He is an eighth
grade transfer student and his first game was against the

(26:58):
middle school my daughter went up going to, which is
right near where we live. And that was the coverage
for basketball for Bronnie James. An eighth grade basketball game.

Speaker 6 (27:06):
That's doors.

Speaker 1 (27:07):
There's a helicopter flying over. No, no, no outdoors. Outdoors.

Speaker 4 (27:10):
It's an indoor hella. No, no, no, the game is indoors.
So if you have a hell, you actually arrivals for
everything else.

Speaker 1 (27:17):
No, the only indoor helici is in the mall going
hey look at this, I can make this fly to
the No, I'm saying, the game is taking two hours.
What is the point? There were live shots for for
local news and it was it was it was getting
I mean, look, this is how big a deal it
is for for Bronnie to come into the lake.

Speaker 4 (27:33):
You know, I thought enough breath was wasted on the
whole Aaron Rodgers first year with the Jets thing. This
has top that time three It's it's unreal how much
Bronnie James talk has gone on. Let's count two years,
two three years from now, and let's see if any
of that was worth it, I mean any of that

(27:54):
on a basketball level.

Speaker 3 (27:55):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays ten pm Eastern, seven pm Pacific.

Speaker 1 (28:03):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best
friend Mike Harmon. Panthers on the ice enjoying the Stanley Cup.
There your twenty twenty three, twenty four Stanley Cup champions,
beating Edmonton by the final of two to one. Edmonton's
near historic come back falls just short. But what did

(28:24):
it sound like on both of the radio stations? What
did it sound like for the Oilers call? What did
it sound like the five seconds for the Florida Panthers,
Because the end of the game was the puck was
in the corner, There was no shot, the puck was
in the corner and it was a scrum and the
puck was still loose enough for the referee not to
blow a whistle and the game ended with the Panthers

(28:44):
protecting the puck in the corner. The Oilers couldn't get
at it, and they are your Stanley Cup champion. So
let's hear the oilers side of it first. Okay, how
did the final second sound? The Oilers the clock ticking
off knowing they were fall just short of winning the
Stanley Cup.

Speaker 8 (29:01):
Ten seconds left? Two rock Panthers A dream thirty years.

Speaker 9 (29:06):
In the baby, he's a real the Florida Pitthers.

Speaker 10 (29:11):
Seven seconds Florida two and it's a one Oilers pulling
two seconds?

Speaker 2 (29:17):
What second? The season is over?

Speaker 10 (29:21):
The Florida Panthers have want this Stanley Cup two fun
eight day seven.

Speaker 1 (29:29):
That's enough for his voice this season of Farmer.

Speaker 6 (29:31):
I've done.

Speaker 1 (29:32):
I'm taking my microphone off, I slam it down, take
my headphones off.

Speaker 2 (29:35):
The season is over. We lost, but just approporately ty
shirt and bringing us back in with summers kiss Somebody
kisses over baby?

Speaker 1 (29:43):
What's over? Play the play that one back again because
the guy sounded like somebody playback this.

Speaker 10 (29:47):
Season seconds Florida two and it's a one Oilers pulling
two seconds?

Speaker 2 (29:54):
What second? The season is over? Florida Panthers have wants
this Stanley.

Speaker 4 (30:02):
Now, I got it.

Speaker 1 (30:03):
It sounds like John Kappenia, the comedian, doing uh a
Harry Carry impression.

Speaker 6 (30:09):
Yeah, Parker's in her corner.

Speaker 1 (30:11):
There's ten seconds left.

Speaker 5 (30:13):
The season is over.

Speaker 2 (30:15):
I'm trying to think I'm picturing in a actor though,
like doing a rant.

Speaker 1 (30:22):
But I'm not putting it in Wropper context. No, no,
not Bob Hope, not Bob Hope. No again, one more time,
John Cappanera doing a Harry Carry impression.

Speaker 4 (30:31):
One more time?

Speaker 10 (30:32):
Seven seconds two and it's a one boilers pulling two seconds?

Speaker 2 (30:38):
What second? The season is over? The corner Panthers?

Speaker 5 (30:43):
What this Stanley? Cover? Two?

Speaker 2 (30:46):
Eight days seven? In that time, hearing it a second time,
I figured out who it was. Go ahead, it is
Jack Klumpus.

Speaker 4 (30:56):
You know what I mean?

Speaker 2 (30:57):
It drive that car?

Speaker 6 (30:59):
Actually, Guys, that.

Speaker 1 (31:02):
Sounds like I'm drinking tequila in this greasy No, No
Grimace's voice. Grimace's voiced to be more of a hey,
that would be Grimace's voice. Yeah, I went to Sandy
Bear and Jack Clamps from Steinfeld.

Speaker 4 (31:17):
Creep goodness.

Speaker 6 (31:18):
You're trying to say about creep goodness?

Speaker 4 (31:20):
Creep goodness.

Speaker 1 (31:21):
Cousins of Patrick Starr yeah a little bit. Okay, should
be down that highway.

Speaker 6 (31:26):
No way.

Speaker 2 (31:27):
Remember he was supposed to be evil when he was
first Is it an evil?

Speaker 1 (31:31):
Yeah, but it was Evel in nineteen seventy one. Okay,
he's had time to change. We've seen it was it an.

Speaker 2 (31:36):
You've had time to change, but you haven't did really
give him time to change? Gribb carry out right a
film series about the evolution of Grimace.

Speaker 4 (31:46):
That's what he would say. His name.

Speaker 1 (31:50):
From the office, grimmis This is Kevin Malone. I am
not Grimace. Stanley is more Grimace, always phyllish than I am.
It's pretty good, Kevin Malone. It's not terrible because it's
not your worst. I channeled my the episode when Rain

(32:11):
Wilson impersonated everybody when he made the phone call to
David Wallace about it that a job Jim was doing,
and he was everybody, Dwight is Kevin Malone, This is
Stanley Hudson. This this Toby Flanderson.

Speaker 4 (32:26):
I'm Jim.

Speaker 1 (32:26):
I don't know what Jim is doing with this employee
of the one thing.

Speaker 4 (32:29):
I don't know his.

Speaker 11 (32:33):
Hey, Grimm Grimmers. Then let's go mets Let's go mets
On Gribbitts, grape Gribbitts. Let's go Mets, Gribbitts, gribbits. Now,
so that was the oiler side of it. How did
it sound from the Panthers side of it? I'm thinking
a little bit more excited and a little bit more
excited that the season was over.

Speaker 8 (32:50):
Ten seconds left, two what Panthers, I's lean thirty years
in the floor heaven the Stanley Cup.

Speaker 12 (33:03):
Rod Stanly is coming. You always have.

Speaker 9 (33:07):
The pleasants of Florida, bird, the Pithers, the broon the
Stanley Cup. For the first time Chize history. Start the
celebration South Florida. The Panthers have done it. Stanley Cup, Shady.

Speaker 4 (33:29):
You know who that was? That was classy Freddy Blassie.

Speaker 1 (33:33):
Dustiny, Come on now is the square gardener? I'll rap
you with Mike Caine. You penciled that gie Gala.

Speaker 5 (33:42):
Time's day, Dustiny?

Speaker 1 (33:46):
How about how about this? You're the play by play
guy right and you have this calleague? What am I
gonna say? If you're in right and you have this
call thirty years the making right? And not only do
you have to worry about the other guy jumping in,
but he just jumps in with.

Speaker 9 (33:59):
A He's away the Florida Pitters, he run, go ahead?

Speaker 1 (34:06):
Playbacks were getting the guys got an all play. Hey,
let the play by play guy do his thing. It's awesome,
but instead, no, just right when he starts saying, guys,
go ahead one more time?

Speaker 8 (34:17):
Ten the seconds left. Two What Pithers? I dreamed thirty
years in.

Speaker 9 (34:23):
The He's Away the Florida Pitters, Heaven the Stanley Cup.

Speaker 12 (34:30):
Ro Sanly is coming home.

Speaker 5 (34:33):
You always have the pleasants.

Speaker 12 (34:35):
Up Florida Bird.

Speaker 9 (34:39):
The Pithers the won the Stanley Cup for the first time.

Speaker 1 (34:44):
I had to drown my analyst because he kept talking
and wouldn't stop talking. Grabbed him by the scruff of
the nanske who poured a pitcher of water down. It's
We had our replica Stanley Cupp at the ready, and
I had to take my handless face and shove it.
I'm just gonna yell no, it hit me another thing?

Speaker 2 (35:05):
What what?

Speaker 1 (35:06):
What it sounded like again? I'm gonna say this. I
gotta hear it one more time. Let's play it with
I gotta haves, gotta have cow bell one more time.

Speaker 8 (35:17):
Ten seconds left. Two Pitthers A dream thirty years.

Speaker 9 (35:22):
The the Florida pitthers on.

Speaker 12 (35:28):
But stay come, Rod, Sally is coming.

Speaker 5 (35:32):
You always have the president of Florida.

Speaker 1 (35:40):
I know who that is.

Speaker 6 (35:40):
When did Ron Wolfy start doing.

Speaker 4 (35:45):
I got you one better? That's Frank.

Speaker 1 (35:46):
That's Frank the Tank. That is Frank the Tank. Oh,
come on, man, of course he does. That's what he
would yell.

Speaker 6 (35:52):
He's hanging with Grimace.

Speaker 5 (35:54):
Dude.

Speaker 1 (35:54):
They actually mentioned Frank the Tank on Saturday Baseball last
night to pee a lonzo.

Speaker 6 (35:58):
Who would you rather hang out for you, buddy? Frank?

Speaker 1 (36:00):
Yeah, well not good because because who would you rather?
Who would you rather hang out with? Frank the Tank
or Grimace? And Pedo is at all grimaced? He didn't
even hesitate. No, I'm not gonna say Frank the Tank.
Com on, man, But really that's how Frank the Tank
would yell. If if the Mets won the world, he
would say, and floods and quins. I can't get to

(36:23):
my game right now because they're incompetent. That that's land,
you know what I mean?

Speaker 4 (36:31):
For me?

Speaker 2 (36:31):
He's long jumped to shark at this point.

Speaker 5 (36:34):
Boy.

Speaker 4 (36:34):
Wait, God blessed that.

Speaker 2 (36:35):
He keeps uh the the cash flowing in trading cards
and memorabilia whatever else.

Speaker 1 (36:41):
But uh, if he went away, that'd be okay. Oh no,
I mean, come on, then, did the comedy that's there,
He's not. It's not comedy anymore. Sure it is, you
know the bit that does. But it doesn't matter. Just
the stuff that he says sometimes. And I know he's
not even thinking off the top of his head that
he's saying about Lindor or Jeff McNeil or whatever else
it is.

Speaker 2 (36:58):
Although I gotta say the analyst there when he was
being drowned or whatever, didn't kind of sound like when
Frank bites the towel or whatever the hell he's got going.
The Jerry Tarkanian kind of moved and he and he
keeps kinda jibber jabbler.

Speaker 1 (37:13):
Yeah, yeah, it's like the play by play guy was
doing his thing, and then he turned to a producer
nodded his head. The producer grabbed the picture of water
one and just start pouring it down his throat. Now,
when I signal to you, if he starts kneeling, when
I've given my final call and I've been waiting thirty
years to make, if he starts talking, you just bore
that picture of water down his throat.

Speaker 2 (37:33):
Do you think there was a pregame meeting with you know,
all the technical folks and Alex you can answer this
question of you know we're gonna have this this moment
right and when it gets down in the final second,
I know he's gonna scream. How do we separate the
tracks so I can get a clean one of my
call at the end. You know that conversation was at yeah,

(37:54):
oh yeah, sure, sure this blankety blanker is not screwing
up my call that I've been waiting for for all
these years.

Speaker 1 (38:02):
I'm sure in the production meeting they said, all right, look, look,
when it happens, let the call go, then come in
plan what you're going to say, and that's how it's
gonna go. But to how we fix this in post,
look's been too often the analyst, you know, our former
players who play with the team, and they're just they're
just excited and start screaming, Yeah, kind of like me.
When Devincenzo, We've been running it as a promo on

(38:24):
the network for the last month and a half. When
Devincenzo hit that big shot and I just went to
which I have been asked.

Speaker 2 (38:32):
I think by every person that has come into this
studio where you and I sit when they they've they've
all heard the promo.

Speaker 4 (38:39):
Huh and they say how do you do that?

Speaker 2 (38:44):
And I smile, and now I'll tell you talk about
how the drowning effect is what we're going to use
in the studio going forward.

Speaker 4 (38:52):
Well, if it's diet coke, I'll drink it. That's fine,
you have no problem. Just bring her out.

Speaker 1 (38:56):
I'll just start drinking and gug gledgleg led glug ligum.
I'll just car Yeah, I mean I had an utterance.
I mean there there's that viscer reaction. I know I
will never get to have that on air. Let's see,
because my team stinks white socks Bears.

Speaker 4 (39:10):
Bears are gonna be good this year.

Speaker 6 (39:11):
This will be okay, not after you just said that.

Speaker 2 (39:14):
Yeah, but see, now you join the cacophony of bases
that are trying to put them into some great things.

Speaker 4 (39:20):
This is bad for me.

Speaker 6 (39:22):
I don't see anything.

Speaker 1 (39:23):
That could go wrong with the Bears this year. There's
nothing that could go wrong. Every it's gonna be great.
There's nothing, no nothing, no podcast everything.

Speaker 5 (39:34):
Listen.

Speaker 1 (39:35):
You know you won like eleven championships in the NBA
in the nineties, so you had that, you won that level.
You won the super Bowl in eighty five. You were
in the Super Bowl in two thousand and eight, so
you've had a super Bowl in your lifetime. You know,
you're okay. You got a World Series in your lifetime,
You're okay. No, I'm the grand scale. I've been blessed.

Speaker 2 (39:52):
Blackhawks won a couple of championships.

Speaker 6 (39:54):
There, you're all right.

Speaker 2 (39:54):
They may be reduced to just the team on the
cup at this point, it's been it's been a minute.

Speaker 1 (40:00):
Yeah, all right, Better yell me when Devincenzo hit that
shot or or this guy yelling at the end, which one.

Speaker 2 (40:10):
Let's here, Let's hear you with the Devincenzo well, let
me wear that.

Speaker 1 (40:13):
Well, let's hear the first one. Let's hear the guy again.
Let's hear let's hear the Let's hear him again. Let's
hear the Panthers.

Speaker 4 (40:18):
Guy again, yelling him the witnesses.

Speaker 1 (40:20):
Let's hear the Panthers yelling and screaming, and the guy
the Panthers analysts here, the Panthers guy again.

Speaker 2 (40:25):
Ten seconds left, two Panthers.

Speaker 12 (40:30):
Leave.

Speaker 9 (40:30):
Thirty years the Florida Pitthers.

Speaker 5 (40:35):
Come on, let's Stanley come.

Speaker 12 (40:38):
What Sally is coming home?

Speaker 5 (40:41):
You always have the presents of Florida bag.

Speaker 1 (40:49):
Lord Stanley has stuff to suck. And it's just Lord
Stanley's coming home. What do we mean it's coming home?
You've never won the Cup before. That's visiting, you've never
been there.

Speaker 6 (40:57):
Stanley's gonna melt in South Florida.

Speaker 1 (40:58):
All right. So so that was so that was a
that was the call. But the mettle, oh I'm sorry.
We took that cup out to the salvage yard.

Speaker 2 (41:07):
Well it just melt down. So what's the metal worth.

Speaker 5 (41:11):
In a pool?

Speaker 1 (41:12):
So those were Those are the guys whose job it
was to call the game, all right, So here's me.

Speaker 6 (41:16):
It's not my job to be excited.

Speaker 1 (41:18):
But this is when the Knicks were trailing the Sixers
by five with twenty five seconds left, and it was
how are we gonna blow this game? But then Devincenzo
hits that big three to give the Knicks the lead
with about eight seconds left. And this was how we
broke it down and analyzed it very carefully on our air.
Ten sheconds left two, No, we need me now, tight shirt,

(41:41):
we need ten sheckage left we need No, no, no,
we don't know.

Speaker 13 (41:46):
No.

Speaker 1 (41:47):
I thought you had with me when I yelled with
the whole with the Devincenzo. That's you said, Wait went
the promo that we've been running for the last three weeks.
It's a promo that runs on our air. What do
you mean we don't have is just laughing at the
up that's what type getting the because that vein's sticking
out of your head. Now we've been playing this for
the last five minutes. Yeah, what do you mean?

Speaker 6 (42:07):
Wait?

Speaker 1 (42:08):
Wait, wait, wait, we've been just hitting the button. You
just get a refreshed one. But I thought you Steve
getting the de Vincenzo when I was yelling when we
know you weren't getting.

Speaker 4 (42:19):
That just like this one, not you, oh boy.

Speaker 6 (42:21):
And just because it's in a problem doesn't mean we
have it.

Speaker 4 (42:25):
That's true, that's true. I'm just saying, all right, that's fine,
that's fine, all right.

Speaker 1 (42:30):
I don't even have your show from Friday. I know, yeah, no, no,
do you know who we are? No?

Speaker 4 (42:36):
No, it's fine, I'm sure. Is the open you have?
Is the open you have?

Speaker 1 (42:39):
Steve Hartman and Pattle'brian, Where I am?

Speaker 6 (42:41):
Okay?

Speaker 3 (42:42):
Harm be sure to catch live editions of The Jason
Smith Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern,
seven pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio
app Fox.

Speaker 1 (42:56):
Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with My best Friend
Mike Harmon and Wow, up and up until Yeah. Congratulations,
LeVar ball I know you've been trying to get all
your kids on one team for years the Knicks.

Speaker 4 (43:06):
The Knicks are getting all the Nova Knicks.

Speaker 1 (43:08):
Together, Philandova's getting all the guy I've been trying to
do this for five years now, trying to get Lonzo
and Jello and yeah, all on the same team.

Speaker 2 (43:16):
But Jason. But Jason does win because Lonzo ball I
was able to exercise a player option for twenty one
point five million dollars with that despite not playing for
two years.

Speaker 1 (43:30):
Yeah, yeah, it's true. But I'm saying he wanted to
get all his kids together, and so I get it.
You know that that the Knicks are saying, hey, if
you went to Villanova, we could do that for you. Yeah,
but isn't this a bigger victory? And then come on,
think about the victory lap on that one. No, it's
bigger for the Knicks because We're winning the finals. Now
go New York, Go New York.

Speaker 6 (43:48):
Yeah, I can't even beat the Pacers.

Speaker 1 (43:50):
Uh statoo, just stop man, dudeude, your Dodgers can't even
beat the White Sox. It's like three to three in
the ninth inn.

Speaker 6 (43:55):
Come on, really four to three now from AOL Sorry bee.

Speaker 1 (44:02):
So up until the big mccal bridges trade to the
Knicks happened, this was gonna be the top story of
the night. Last night, we watched Tennessee win the College
World Series. They beat Texas A and M best of three.
A and M won the first game, and in a
very quick amount of time, Jim Schlosnagel, who was the
head coach. It's always weird and baseball has a head coach,
but okay, whatever.

Speaker 2 (44:22):
It's close to Bashnagel, but not quite.

Speaker 1 (44:25):
He leads A and N to its first men's College
World Series championship series, and there is a lot of
rumors going around last night that, hey, Schlosnagel, maybe this
is it for him because Texas big time opening and
he could wind up being the next head coach at Texas. Today,
he was named the head coach at Texas Okaya before

(44:47):
guys go, guys do really well in a tournament and
get named a head coach somewhere else. We see that happen. Yeah,
so okay, I get it. Yeah, arrival X A and
N to Texas, I get it. But this was Schlasnagel
last night, ask question he got of his press conference
following A and M's loss to Tennessee. This is how
he answered the question about, Hey, there's a lot of

(45:08):
rumors out there, Jim, that you could be going to Texas.
Can you speak about that? This is what he said.

Speaker 13 (45:13):
Yeah, I mean, I think he's pretty selfish of you'd
ask me that question. To be honest with you, but
I left my family to be the coach at Texas
A and M. I took the job at Texas A
and M to never take another job again, and that
hasn't changed in my mind.

Speaker 1 (45:32):
Well apparently eighteen hours later, something really big happened because
he changed his mind and now he's a coach at Texas.

Speaker 4 (45:39):
Oh my god.

Speaker 1 (45:40):
You know, there's a way to deflect this, and there's
a way to look like an absolute jackass, and that's
exactly what he did. I left my family to coach
Texas A and M. Okay, so I guess, hey, you're selfish,
and you know how I know you're selfish. Let me
tell you, let me tell you. I left my family
game recognized game. Okay, so yourself has questioned myselfish. So

(46:02):
Texas greater than Texas, A and M greater than Jim
Schloschnagel's family to say, I took the job at A
and M so I wouldn't take another job. And then
you take the job the next day, like you had
to know if this was gonna happen, Like there's no.

Speaker 5 (46:15):
Way this was.

Speaker 1 (46:16):
Well last night, I'm not doing it, not doing it,
and then today Texas called and said, we're gonna give
you all of this all now I'm taking the job. Like,
first of all, he owes that reporter in apology and
what just an awful look this guy? This guy, I mean,
he looked like a complete and total jerk by deciding
I'm gonna be combative over a question I could easily
blow off when full well, hey, in eighteen hours, my

(46:38):
answer is gonna change, right, Like, he just looked like
a complete and total jackass in this situation. And they
call it like I see it because that's what he did.
There's other ways to do it, other ways to be
classy and say things like, hey, not talking about that
right now. We just lost a championship game. Let's talk
about that another time. Anything you could have done. But
I'm gonna be combative. I'm gonna mention my family and

(46:59):
I'm gonna say I took this job so I could
never take another job. That's like when Nick Saban till
everybody in the Dolphins, guys, I'm not going to Alabama,
and then he goes to Alabama the next day. What
a jackass he looks like. Man.

Speaker 2 (47:09):
No, there's plenty of plenty of those. I immediately started
thinking of the Caden, some rowdy, roddy piper talking to
Bob Orton. Not only did you embarrass and Paul Orndorf, Right,
it's like you not only you embarrass me, you embarrassed Ace.
There's Bob Orton over there with his cast on for
three years. Do you embarrass youroll family?

Speaker 5 (47:30):
You keep my family out of this?

Speaker 2 (47:31):
And then they start fighting. Ah, that's exactly what happened here,
apologizing the guy. No, it's the greatest moment of this
reporter's life. He's gonna be on everybody's show. Are you
kidding me? How did it feel when he tried to
belittle you by saying this and you had to scoop?

Speaker 6 (47:47):
I mean, that's it.

Speaker 2 (47:48):
It gets us fifteen minutes of fame on it. I'm no,
it's not embarrassing for the reporter he asked the question
the guy jacket.

Speaker 1 (47:59):
It was an eight hour embarrassment. Until then everything changed. No, no, no, no, no.
It wasn't an embarrassment to the report. It was an
embarrassment to the coach and remained such no what the
only guy he's got to apologize? Judy's a man in
the mirror. No being a dope. He didn't take the
gig last night. He was still the head coach at
A and M. Last night. Everything was fine this guy Okay,
you asked me, I'm gonna make fun of you. Now.

(48:19):
Hopefully he lets him get the honor of the first
question as introductory press conference. Hey, coach, remember me, I
asked you about Texas. You told me I was a
selfish Just can you expand on that?

Speaker 2 (48:28):
Hey? Did my question send you down a deep dark
path of knowledge and introduction to a new job.

Speaker 3 (48:35):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific.

Speaker 1 (48:43):
Hey, Nick, Scott Bridges.

Speaker 4 (48:45):
Tonight, Hey, the Mets.

Speaker 1 (48:47):
Beat Yankees to not Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Carmen Live from the tire Rag dot
Com Studios. And look, whether you are happy the Knicks
are going to win the title next year? Are not happy?
Here's a story we can all agree on. A movie,
a movie that we're all gonna watch. Man, just stop

(49:10):
with the Pacers. They had their Nick said, they had
their moment, and now the Knicks are going to win
the title. It's it's how it's dude, it's it's science, man,
just what. They're on the rise two now, Like, no,
they're not. They were lucky to be where they were.
They were lucky to be there. Come on, net Martin
hit a three with his eyes closed and none of
his teammates could believe it. Okay, And that was the

(49:31):
end of the yeares right, there should have.

Speaker 6 (49:34):
Been the end of the acting. Like you guys landed
Sean Kemp.

Speaker 1 (49:40):
Team is red hot, Okay. Sean Kemp is fifty five
years old. Man, come on, he's still better than Bridges. Uh,
let's we'll get to Bridges in the second. We'll get
to Dorrith Colonel, We'll get to the Airman in the second.
But first, a movie that I think we all are
going to watch. An announcement today that there's gonna be
a big new Hallmark Christmas movie featuring the Kansas City Chiefs.

Speaker 2 (50:06):
Oh, let's go.

Speaker 1 (50:07):
It's a holiday movie and it's called Holiday Touchdown, A
Chief's Love Story.

Speaker 6 (50:13):
Is that the one where Mahomes makes out with the refs?

Speaker 1 (50:16):
This is the one where may the trailers already come
out and Mahomes is yelling saying, why don't you do
anything for me? I do everything for you, And then
it cuts to the referee that goes, you're right, uh
whistle late hit defense, first.

Speaker 6 (50:30):
Down, Chiefs.

Speaker 1 (50:31):
Oh, look at that. No, it's called Holiday Touchdown, A
Chiefs Love Story, and it's about a pop singer who
is tired of world travel moves back home to Kansas City,
where she connects with one of the players and they
plan a fall festival together. A fall festival. No, that's
not the plot, but it sounds like a great plot, right,
Like that should be the movie? Right it's not, But

(50:54):
shouldn't that be the movie? Right?

Speaker 4 (50:55):
Shouldn't you borrow from that?

Speaker 1 (50:57):
Should to be Here's a pop singer who is really
world white famous from Kansas City, but it is sick
of everything, and you know, you take license and move
it away from Taylor Swift obviously.

Speaker 4 (51:05):
Is maybe having.

Speaker 2 (51:08):
Ran so far away from there, you know.

Speaker 1 (51:09):
Like you haven't had a hit in a while or
something else, so you just you're tired, you need to
move back to Kansas City. Maybe you're taking care of
a relative of something. And then you know, hey, the
team is planning a fall festival of some kind, you know,
via a charity that one of the players works in,
and the players like, oh, I always had a crush
on so and so, and maybe I could find her
and she can help me put this fall festival on

(51:31):
using her star power. It can work. And then you
find out that they used to date in high school
and then they broke up when he thought that she
was going to break up with him and she thought
that he was going to break up with her, And
he went to college and became.

Speaker 2 (51:43):
She was sitting on the bleach. He was dating the
cheerleader and in.

Speaker 4 (51:49):
The bleacher, Like, wouldn't that that would be the plot?

Speaker 2 (51:52):
There's like a song that I'll probably hear on Sunday
night that has something to do with that.

Speaker 4 (51:57):
Yeah, I mean that'd be the plot.

Speaker 5 (51:58):
Who knew?

Speaker 1 (51:59):
Or the plot is, here's someone who used to be
a singer and was a singer like in the in
the two thousands, but stop because you know, done with
their career and they become a veterinarian and so you know,
they live in Kansas City and then hey, a player
gets traded to Kansas City. Turns out to be her
former boyfriend. It's a homecoming for him. They run into

(52:20):
each other. Turns out what she didn't know is that
he was married to her best friend after they left
high school. But now they're divorced and there's some sort
of of animal situation that invite He's got like a
bunch of dogs that you know, wind up, something happens
and she saves them and they get together.

Speaker 4 (52:38):
Like that's a movie, Like that's a Hallmark movie.

Speaker 2 (52:40):
That's that's pretty good. I actually have the synopsis of
what's going on here, and they're key actor to all
of this. What do you got prosperglieve about?

Speaker 6 (52:53):
Justin what's that?

Speaker 14 (52:55):
What did you say?

Speaker 6 (52:56):
I said? At what point in the movie does Chiefs
a Hall like fall in Love with Jail.

Speaker 2 (53:00):
Oh it's uh well, I mean that would be cool
if you had that that extra you know, fan contest
that goes around.

Speaker 1 (53:07):
Well, listen, when when somebody falls into trouble and it
looks like something's gonna happen, Casey Wolf comes flying in
and and and and makes a big save like on
the motorcycle, Casey Wolf flies in, well, grabs her, puts
her on on the back and takes off in Casey
Wolf and they ride off.

Speaker 2 (53:22):
Well, since it does have a fan of the Year
contest element to it, I mean we can get Chiefs
a Haul again. There he's disqualifying after being indicted.

Speaker 1 (53:31):
Now, both of my ideas, both of my ideas are
better than what the real idea is. The real idea
is actress Hunter King, who does a lot of Hallmark movies,
is a Chief.

Speaker 2 (53:41):
So I thought it was gonna be lazy.

Speaker 1 (53:43):
No, come on, Late Shamier is not gonna do this.
You don't get lazy Sjamaria and Danica mckeller for this.
Come on, I gonna do that. Hunter King is a
Chief super fan Tyler Hines Canadian actor. I had to
look him up. Uh, is the team's director of fan engagement,
and he's evaluate Hunter King and her family as they
are trying to win the team's Fan of the Year contest. Okay, okay,

(54:07):
so that's like it so far.

Speaker 2 (54:09):
You have director of fan Engagement, the guy who's monitoring
the message boards like the Seahawks GM know what's going on? Like, really,
is that a real job, director, There's gotta be there's
gotta be a whole department for that. Are you kidding me,
Director of fan engagement? Oh? Absolutely, yeah.

Speaker 4 (54:24):
So director of fan Engagement is picking the Chiefs fan
of the Year.

Speaker 1 (54:28):
Hunter King is a super fan and potentially he's a
value which already you can see that the the because
what I found out when I didn't know this about
romance novels and movies is there needs to be an
external conflict and an internal con I didn't know this,
but that's like the there's an external conflict, which is
always what you see what the main plot is, and
then the internal conflict, which is something that the main

(54:50):
character has that also puts them at odds with someone else.
So it's like you have to have the external and
internal conflict, and I see that here. Now the external
conflict is okay, well, here he is. He meets this woman,
maybe he's falling in love with her. But the internal
conflict is ooh, he's got to decide if she could
be the fan of the year, and that's his job,
and do you want to do that? You risk losing it.
So I can see that now. But the external and

(55:12):
internal conflict I thought was like, I feel like a
genius dog. Oh, I can see that. I can see
the external conflict.

Speaker 2 (55:17):
Or you really make it an internal conflict and you
make it like inside out too, where there's now lots
of internal conflicts with different the voices in your head.

Speaker 1 (55:27):
And and different people from the first movie, just like
Herman's head all those years ago on fox Ed Begley
Junior in this movie. Now, I don't know who he plays.
Maybe he's the coach of the Chiefs. I don't Maybe
he owns the Chiefs. I don't know. Maybe I don't
know owns. Yeah, they say it's her her grandfather. Okay,

(55:47):
it's a key part to the conflict here. Okay, all right, Okay,
his good luck.

Speaker 2 (55:52):
Winter hat goes missing?

Speaker 1 (55:55):
Really yeah he wait wait wait really yeah, he's missing
his good luck Winter hat and that's a big plot line.

Speaker 2 (56:03):
So fate, destiny, and the future with Derek all called
into question and doubt and then the Hail Mary Christmas miracle.

Speaker 1 (56:14):
Hallmark's got a call in five minutes. I could have
plots for five movies that are better than this.

Speaker 2 (56:19):
Look, man, we can program that whole damn channel between us.
Come on, you know this.

Speaker 1 (56:23):
We're really pushing man.

Speaker 2 (56:24):
You we got that, We got game shows, we got
reality battles.

Speaker 6 (56:29):
I mean, come on, Yeah, the real love story is
Mahomes and Reid and the rafts.

Speaker 1 (56:36):
And nuggies.

Speaker 2 (56:37):
How are nuggets plot point here?

Speaker 1 (56:40):
Yeah, there's gotta be nuggies. He's got you gotta have nuggies.
You gotta have nuggy No, it's that works. It's gotta
have that. You gotta have that. Uh, maybe they're filming
a commercial when something happens to me. There's all kinds
of stuff. Man, I am really good at coming up
with lifetime movies. Not so much because lifetime is more. Hey,
here's somebody who uh uh you know is uh is

(57:02):
a relative of a serial killer? You know they're there. Yeah,
it gets a little bit too dark, Like lifetime movies
aren't really fun. You know, but the Hamewark.

Speaker 4 (57:11):
Hey, it's fun.

Speaker 1 (57:12):
It's it's it's when you're in Kansas City. Things are
gonna be great. And of course the team is going
to be playing for a championship or play. We're doing
something and who knows what it's gonna be.

Speaker 2 (57:19):
And they're gonna make a statement by changing which state
they're they're playing from the headlines like an all Law
and Order episode.

Speaker 1 (57:29):
Here are the Topeka Warriors, right, hey, congratulations, look at them.
Look at them win so much here in the National
Football Association. What a trade time? This is their jersey
is gonna be all different colors. You're gonna watch this,
I mean we have to watch. It's homework for the show.
I mean we can't get content out of that. No, No,

(57:54):
you could just stand on the sidelines and and and
make your comments. What if you were in it fraud?
What if they needed to get You're sure there's gonna
be something happening at a game, because you know, they
gotta have some kind of thing where it's gonna end
with some kind of marriage at the middle of the field,
like maybe never a sign. Maybe they're playing the Chargers
in a game, and maybe you're gonna have a cameo
in it.

Speaker 6 (58:15):
Who's benefiting from it? The chiefs?

Speaker 2 (58:17):
Yeah, well you would benefit from the NFL would be
in a movie.

Speaker 6 (58:22):
Knew, augh like it would be the first one.

Speaker 1 (58:25):
Well, no, I'm not saying this is gonna I don't
want to know about that al time career Black Sunday
where they try to bomb bomb the super Bowl, that
movie from like nineteen seventy one. And I'm not saying
that I know, But what if you were in it?
What if this is again? What if you were in
like a like a like a walk off walk by
seat where you're you're walking with a bunch of papers
into the charges broadcast booth and one of them runs

(58:46):
into you and knocks you over and they say sorry,
and you just yell, I'm suing, I'm suing.

Speaker 4 (58:50):
Like that'd be a pretty good walk on for you.

Speaker 6 (58:53):
How did you know that happen?

Speaker 1 (58:56):
He also, I mean just told you he was in
other films. Have to go find his CV Frotzburg versus
Casey Wolf.

Speaker 4 (59:06):
All right, were coming up.

Speaker 6 (59:08):
Here, Mike. It's not easy directing and acting at the
same time.

Speaker 2 (59:13):
No, of course, you gotta get one of those helmet cams.
Like you're out Frank and Mobile unit. But let's but
let's be out, Like, couldn't you have done like and
I don't know what what the.

Speaker 1 (59:23):
You could do Inspired Buyer, you could just do enough change,
Like you couldn't do something where it's basically Kelsey and Tailor,
like you you're just basing it on. Here's a player
who meets a star singer, right and their relationship on
the chiefs and here's a Hallmark movie and you know,
are they gonna be together? Are they not gonna be together?
The internal the external conflict is do they like each

(59:43):
other enough? The internal conflict is I have my football career,
I have my singing career. Like you could do that
without having to pay a lot of money to Kelsey
and Swift, right, Like you could just say here's a player,
he's a quarterback and she's a country singer or something else,
or you know, he's a you know, he's a a
running back and she's a rapper or he's a I
don't know, you could do something like that, right, I mean,

(01:00:04):
I don't know why you couldn't do this.

Speaker 2 (01:00:05):
The DJ I'm a rapper. I like what you did there?

Speaker 1 (01:00:08):
I mean you could you you would have to pay
them that money, like you can know something.

Speaker 2 (01:00:11):
Like that, well, I mean the fact that it's being
tied directly to the the cheaps and not just a
fictionalized version thereof it starts to get a little bit complicated.

Speaker 4 (01:00:21):
You can't.

Speaker 1 (01:00:22):
You can't give the guy number eighty seven and say
his name is is is Thomas Kelson?

Speaker 2 (01:00:27):
No, no, no, we already saw that that was We
already saw that that was a gronking to remember one
in two.

Speaker 1 (01:00:33):
Yeah, I mean you can't.

Speaker 2 (01:00:34):
I don't think you know, you thought you thought we
forgot about a gronking to remember. Now you just you
just have to have it.

Speaker 1 (01:00:39):
They got to be like Billy Swift, you know, or
so I can't can't be Swift for a picture Billy Swift,
Like you can't, like you have to make just different names,
different positions, different nothing like what's happened in their life.
But just that's what it is. He's a player, she's
a rock star. They meet and you see what happens.
It's and hilarity ensues, and the big thing is going
to be does she you know, like they're like you

(01:01:01):
think they're broken up. They getting this big fight, right,
here because here's the end of the movie. They getting
this big fight and they're playing in the AFC Championship game,
and you know he's not done. How he's having a
bad week of practice. He's dropping all these passes. He's
rude to his friends. They all want to, oh, we
got to get her to the game. And then it
becomes a whole thing where he doesn't know she's trying
to get to the game, and she's taking a plane

(01:01:22):
and a train and all kinds of stuff happens, and
like playing Strains of Autobile, John Candy gives her a
ride halfway and then right before the game she shows up,
and that's how the movie ends.

Speaker 2 (01:01:32):
See, I thought, you don't just get a game, you don't.

Speaker 1 (01:01:35):
Need the game. She you know, on the sideline they go, hey,
look Travis, I mean, hey, look, Jim, what that Look
at the seat up there?

Speaker 4 (01:01:42):
And then in the box she waves to him and
that's the end.

Speaker 1 (01:01:44):
Of the sea.

Speaker 2 (01:01:45):
That's pretty good. The other way is that he's got
to get to whatever she's doing, a concert, And then
you can just rip from the other day when he
was in a tuxedo and lifted her up during the
I can do it with a broken heart.

Speaker 6 (01:01:58):
Actually watch that garbage.

Speaker 1 (01:01:59):
Oh well, you would do that in the middle of
the movie, like he got like there's two things, like
there would be the one piece where he goes to
see her, but then they kind of break up, and
then that's when she has to come see him. And
that's the whole thing, because it's really it's football. It's
about the Chiefs, right, So you gotta set a lot
of it an arrowhead. And we could be the sports
talk people on the air. Boy, I tell you, I'll
tell you. Uh, Jim Jim Jim Johnson hasn't been the

(01:02:21):
same since uh, since the breakup with Abigail Cruz. I
don't know what else to say. I mean, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:02:29):
I mean, instead of going into pass routes, it's like
he's simulating dance moves from The Lost Love.

Speaker 1 (01:02:35):
Yeah, oh yeah yeah. And we take the phone calls,
people go, we just got to bench this guy. He's
no good since they broke up. I can't believe they
would even let her into the stadium anymore. And that
and that's that. I'm telling you. That's the movie.

Speaker 14 (01:02:47):
Man.

Speaker 5 (01:02:47):
You you wouldn't it.

Speaker 1 (01:02:49):
You wouldn't have to ruin her You could absolutely do that,
and you go right through it again. You change positions,
you change the names, you change they do for a living.
Nothing has to do with anything. Him going to see her,
she comes to see him, and that's the end. It's
kind of it's got a little bit of silver linings
playbook in it. It's kind of you know, and of
course everybody's in the same place at the end. No,

(01:03:10):
it's good.

Speaker 2 (01:03:11):
I like this.

Speaker 1 (01:03:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:03:12):
I mean, we've already got sequels and spinoffs.

Speaker 6 (01:03:15):
Ready, I've got the Rogers one all written too well.

Speaker 2 (01:03:18):
Listen, hey, he's reving from another in love with ayahuasca.

Speaker 1 (01:03:24):
No no, no, no, no, no the Erin's a man
falling into the loaf. No no, Ayahuasca. No no, dude,
Come on man, darkness dude, here's here's the Aaron Rodgers
Hallmark movie. No no, no, no, dude. But I'm telling you,
Rogers is a quarterback. Right, He's hit on hard times,
he gets traded, he's not sure if he wants to play.
He goes on the Ayahuasca Darkness Retreat and he meets

(01:03:46):
someone in the dark, right, meets her in the dark.
They get along great, But does he really meet someone? No, no, No,
they're in the dark, so they don't see each other.
It's a darkness retreat, right, so don't see each other.
So they're in the dark and they get along great, right,
they get along great. It's awesome. But something, of course
happens and one of them leaves the room before the
lights go on, and Rogers leaves, never actually seeing her,

(01:04:08):
and you know, everybody thinks, okay, that was great. She leaves, Oh,
I met a guy I don't know about him. And
then slowly she finds out that you met Aaron Rodgers.
Aaron Rodgers finds out who he met at the Darkness Retreat,
and then it's about, oh, does she come to the game?
Does she not? And instead of the darkness retreat, they
wind up instead of at the game, they wind up
meeting at the end, back in the same room. The

(01:04:29):
lights go on, they see each other for the first time,
and cut the credits. There's your Aaron Rodgers movie man
right there, boom, light and dark.

Speaker 2 (01:04:37):
I just an.

Speaker 1 (01:04:40):
Oh, yeah, I like that.

Speaker 4 (01:04:43):
I like that.

Speaker 3 (01:04:43):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.

Speaker 1 (01:04:54):
The Jason Smith Show, Steve the saying, you're in for
Mike Harmon till we let the cat out of the bag.
Rick Buker is on the line waiting to talk to us.
Day two in the NBA Draft and the books we
all waited for Branny to get taken. He goes the
Lakers at fifty five.

Speaker 4 (01:05:09):
What now? Well, I mean, what now?

Speaker 1 (01:05:12):
Since we really didn't need the draft, since obviously the
Knicks have clinched Hilario O'Brien Trophy for next year, Let's
talk to Rick Buker anyway, find out what he's learned
about the parade route for the Knicks.

Speaker 4 (01:05:23):
Rick, what can you have for us here?

Speaker 6 (01:05:25):
At this time?

Speaker 14 (01:05:27):
It's going to go through Villanova the Villanova campus, is
what I understand. You will people from New York will
get a lottery tickets, and those that win will be
able to attend the parade in just outside Philadelphia. That's
my understanding.

Speaker 4 (01:05:47):
I think that's fine.

Speaker 1 (01:05:47):
I think that's fair.

Speaker 4 (01:05:49):
Look, if we need Villanova the title, we need Villanova
win the title.

Speaker 14 (01:05:52):
You know that that's fair Because at this point New
York Knicks fans will do anything to have it including travel.

Speaker 2 (01:06:01):
All right.

Speaker 1 (01:06:01):
Look now we'll get to the draft to de side,
but let me throw my greatest hot take by are
you ready for this?

Speaker 14 (01:06:06):
Okay?

Speaker 4 (01:06:07):
Jay Wright underachieved at Villanova.

Speaker 1 (01:06:11):
Look at all these guys he's gotten. Make it all
kind He only won two titles. He should have won
at least four, maybe five with these guys.

Speaker 14 (01:06:18):
Come on, Dan Hurley would have done it right.

Speaker 1 (01:06:22):
Alright, So look what do you make because look, I
look at the Knicks. Now it's a title or bust year.
For next year they have the best one through eight
roster in the league. When you talk about the injury
issues the Celtics have now Porzingis is out for a bit,
like they've they've become that big a title team that quickly.

Speaker 14 (01:06:45):
Well they certainly they certainly have the model that the
Boston Celtics used this year to win a championship. And
I know people are gonna take this into the slight
toward Jason Tatum and Jalen Brown, but like this is there.
There isn't any like transformative, transcendent superstar on the Boston Celtics.

(01:07:09):
And I actually had this conversation with thunder GM Sam Presty,
a while ago, and you can sort of see him
building the same team that he felt like where the
league was going with load management and everything else, that
depth and versatility was going to be the key going forward.

(01:07:29):
That the idea, if it was ever real, the idea
of being top heavy with you know, two or three
superstars and then filling out your roster as best you
could from there was not a model that was going
to work, that was going to work going forward, And
so we saw the Boston Celtics do it, and I

(01:07:49):
believe we're seeing the same with the Knicks. It's the
funny thing with saying the best roster one through eight
is that probably yes, one through eight. If you went
one through three, you'd probably say no. One through four
probably world. But but if you if you count like

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the full breadth of guys that are going to be
playing for you, and the chemistry that you have and
and the fit you know, it's one of the things
that I don't think we give enough credit to or
attention to, which is like, how do the okay, So
you've got great players, Phoenix for example, you got great talent,
but do their respective abilities mesh? Do you have guys

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who can play without the ball. Do you have guys
who are playmakers with the ball? Do you have shooting?
Do you have size? Do you have defensive versatility? All
those things? The Knicks look like they have a lot
of those things. The next the next question will be
can they keep Partnerstein because he is a key element
to all of this. They lose a tremendous amount of

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size if they're not able to keep him.

Speaker 4 (01:08:58):
Rick Steve Adam the fifty eight elections, we had at
number fifty five overall. Of course, at the Lakers drafting
Bronnie James, I'm azing there's a Bronnie James question out
of this interview. I'll go ahead and put it this way.
If his name is Joseph Jones, is he taken into
the NBA.

Speaker 14 (01:09:15):
I actually made this joke with a former editor of
mine the other day, just prior to the draft, and
I said, if his name was if Bronnie James name
was Auto Bucher, he'd either be staying in school or
he'd be playing in the second division in France.

Speaker 1 (01:09:33):
Hey, France is really good now, Rick, They're going to
kick the crap out of us in the twenty twenty
eight Olympics.

Speaker 14 (01:09:38):
You know, what it may be the fast way of
getting getting to the top of the draft. I mean
that's the other thing. You look at his NBA draft.
We got two French guys and a white du and
a small white dude at number three, Like, what the
hell happened to the NBA? So I look at Bronnie. Look,
I talked to a number of people around around the

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league about him and a great kid. He's he's obviously
undersized physically, He's going to be challenging. He's sort of
a combo guard, not a pure point by any measure,
and shoots and defends okay.

Speaker 4 (01:10:20):
For it too.

Speaker 14 (01:10:20):
But again that's where his size is going to impact him.
And so he look, he has he has a chance,
he's he's willing to defend. He can shoot a little
bit high basketball IQ. But let's face it, he couldn't
start on a USC team that was, if I'm not mistaken,

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under five hundred, but certainly didn't make the tournament. And
the guy starting ahead of him was the twenty ninth
pick in the draft, Isaiah Collier.

Speaker 3 (01:10:52):
So I just.

Speaker 14 (01:10:55):
Look, I don't The difficulty for me here is I
don't want to disparage Brownie because he's done nothing to
deserve disparagement. But if anybody asks me, like where does
he rank, and all of the hype around around him,
or Rich Paul making demands about we're not going to

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you know, we're not going to sign a two way deal.
I'm thinking between not starting at USC and then the
heart issue which cost him a number of games, not
even playing a primary role in high school, like he
should want to spend some time in the D League
just to get on the floor and get his game together.

(01:11:38):
So I struggle with the hype, but I wish him
the best.

Speaker 1 (01:11:44):
And USC was fifteen and eighteen, by the way, and
also there you go. More importantly, Otto Buker was a
rower for Switzerland in the Olympics who won the silver
medal in nineteen twenty eight as a member of the
Swiss rowing team.

Speaker 4 (01:11:59):
Well, I thought you were to say, got a rowing
scholarship to USC, and it would come full circle of.

Speaker 1 (01:12:04):
Ada Buker, real per Rick. I wonder if you related
to him, spelled the same way as your name.

Speaker 14 (01:12:08):
God blessed Google, God bless.

Speaker 1 (01:12:12):
Auto Buker.

Speaker 6 (01:12:13):
There was row.

Speaker 1 (01:12:14):
Now, look, there's been a lot of questions about the
contract that Bronni James is gonna sign because Rich Paul
very famously that no two way deals. None of this,
I mean a lot of it, I'm sure was to
scare teams away. I'm sure he will capitulate to what
the Lakers kind of want. But I still see this
as Hey, Bronny's gonna have some time with the team.
He'll play preseason games this year. There'll be some video
of him and lebron will play. Maybe he gets off

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the bench as a twelfth man a little bit at
the end of blowouts. But he's still gonna spend time
in the G League playing there as well. I mean
the whole Hey, is this gonna wind up being something
where he's foisted on the Lakers. I don't see that happening.

Speaker 14 (01:12:50):
It can't. It can't if they have any hopes of
I'm not gonna talk championship, but if they have any
hopes of making the most out of what they are.
You can't just unilaterally start giving a guy minutes. That's
the one thing that a coach has as leverage over
his players. And the second that you start giving somebody

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minutes who doesn't deserve them, who hasn't earned them, or
that the other players look at and recognize you're hurting
us by playing that guy. Then the coach loses all credibility.
And you're talking about a coach who hasn't coached before.
Can has no credibility to lose. He's trying to build

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it in JJ Reddick.

Speaker 1 (01:13:34):
So I agree with you in that.

Speaker 14 (01:13:37):
I think it's going I don't think it's going to
be some massive spectacle. You know, will probably will they
have him on the roster to start the season, and
will we potentially get a moment at the end of
the game depending on how it's going, you know, if
it's a blowout one way or the other, or do

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we get, like, you know, a minute or two in
the first quarter when it could be inconsequential. I could
potentially see that, and in fact, it might even benefit
the Lakers to do that, to kind of get that
out of the way and say, we've had the first
We've had the spectacle of the first father son duo
playing in the NBA. Now can we go on about

(01:14:21):
our business, try to win games.

Speaker 4 (01:14:23):
As far as the draft, now that it's concluded, I
didn't look at past lottery picks, but it seems like
there are more projects as lottery picks, because you get,
I mean somebody that we've actually seen at Yukon Stefan
Castle as an example, a good final four, but he
hardly was stringing a ton of those types of games
together through the year. And he's nineteen and hardly a

(01:14:44):
finished product and didn't shoot the three and he's drafted
number four overall. Is it really.

Speaker 14 (01:14:51):
You're only talking about because at least you saw him, Yes, exactly.

Speaker 4 (01:14:54):
The lottery pick doesn't seem to be the point of
pride that it used to be.

Speaker 14 (01:15:00):
Well, here's the thing, like, there's there's real there's no
real choice. You know, some some drafts don't have a
lot of talent, and yet they are still regarded as
lottery picks. The real danger is is the number one pick,
because the number one pick is generally, regardless of the draft,
supposed to be a franchise player, and he's supposed to

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be the best player in the draft. And in this draft,
resa say ends up being the best player. It will be.
It won't be this year, it won't be next year
like it would be at some point. But there are
guys that are going to make a greater impact right away. Uh,
simply because they have a greater body of work. You know,

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Klingon in Portland has a great opportunity to make an
immediate impact there. There are other guys that are being
It's a lot of it's going to come down to
the situation that they are put in, UH and the
team that they're with that is that shapes the role
that they have that's ultimately going to determine their their success.

Speaker 4 (01:16:08):
And that's how Luke Walton worked with the Lakers for example,
a second rounder.

Speaker 14 (01:16:12):
Yeah, yeah, exactly. I mean it's it really comes down
and you know, Castle being in San Antonio is actually
not a bad thing because all of the attention is
going to be on Wemba, Yama and UH. And if
San Antonio has a season similar to next last year,

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which I don't expect. I expect them to be better.
But he's he's he's not gonna have to face the
same media scrutiny. It's not you know, not being in
a big market. Any guy going to Salt Lake, I'm
feeling like you're in the right place. Like if you're
in this draft and you're in the I think Philipowski
went second round to Utah, great place, great place for

(01:16:54):
him to go. And because all of these guys, to
your point, all of these guys need time to develop.
And if you can develop without the hyper scrutiny of
you were the you know, the number three pick, the
number two pick, the number one pick. I mean that's
the other part that I had. I had someone say

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to me when when Atlanta drafted Research that they had
just drafted Nick Patomb. So if you if you like
Nick Patomb, then there you go, that's what you got.
But that's you're getting. You're getting, like potentially a very
accomplished role player at the number one pick. And most

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people would say, well I expected a little bit more
out of the number one pick than that. Well, sometimes
you just don't have a choice in terms of the draft,
the talent that's available in a particular draft.

Speaker 4 (01:17:49):
Michael lawa Candy comes to mind.

Speaker 2 (01:17:51):
Sure, Hey there, Bennett.

Speaker 1 (01:17:53):
There's a number one pick every year. Sometimes the number
one pick is wenby Anthony. Sometimes sometimes it's Auto Bucher.

Speaker 14 (01:18:00):
Ever, know, if we're talking rowing without.

Speaker 1 (01:18:04):
Rick is going on twenty three and me right now,
I got to make sure so related to this guy, I.

Speaker 14 (01:18:10):
Mean, maybe I was a soccer player in college. I
obviously went the wrong direction with my sports career. I
had I had the DNA of a great rower, and
I was at a school that had a rowing team.
So man, that I It's just information is really valuable
depending on the timing that you receive it. I also

(01:18:30):
regret that I know I didn't invest in Apple when
I had the opportunity. So now I have two regrets
to put on my list.

Speaker 2 (01:18:36):
Rick, Thank you, Rank you.

Speaker 1 (01:18:37):
Jason. Appreciate that Rick's hanging up the phone and telling
his family, Hey, we're all going rowing this weekend.

Speaker 4 (01:18:42):
Got to see what this family has.

Speaker 12 (01:18:44):
That's exactly right.

Speaker 2 (01:18:46):
That's right.

Speaker 14 (01:18:47):
I'm actually I'm down in Houston and my daughter's been
down here working out. She hoops and and you know
what we're I don't know where. I guess we're got
to fly to Seattle now and get find the regatta there. Yeah,
they're gonna get her, get her in a skull.

Speaker 1 (01:19:05):
The Buker Regatta coming to you very soon. Rick is
always buddy, appreciate it. And when the Knick spend one
hundred million on Hartenstein will call you sounds good, not
very good.

Speaker 4 (01:19:13):
There there goes right, Buker.

Speaker 1 (01:19:14):
Look, that's just the way it is. Sometimes in the draft,
when you have the number one pick, it's awesome, or
when you have a pick in the top three because
you're gonna get somebody that's a guaranteed superstar. Other years,
having the number one pick is just you have the
number one pick and the other guy saar.

Speaker 4 (01:19:29):
It could be great defense for many years. You know,
seven footer fine, So how it goes