July 6, 2022 • 38 mins
Jason and Mike react to Chet Holmgren lighting the Summer League on fire, Kyrie Irving will end up being a Laker, and the PAC 12 lost their two biggest schools for upcoming TV contracts.
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You're listening to Fox Sports Radio. Hello and welcome inside
the Jason Smith Show with my big friend Mike Harmony. Buddy,
yesterday was a great day, great fourth, happy fourth of July.
Happy Max Scherzerr day, Buddy. I mean we've been waiting
for this for a while now it's Max sharts a day.
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Pretty happy with this. Well, you know what, you gotta
come back and you face some more mighty minor league
hitting all the calendar, Well they did calendar. Damn will
controlled who they were? Keeps coming back against control the count.
We're gonna make Max look like a super hero. Who
is he coming back against Reds? When the scheduled center
in Cincinnati for the fourth, fifth and six. You're in
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Cincinnati on the fourth, fifth and six match, ready to go.
When's it gonna be ready, he ready for the fourth? Nah?
How about the fifth? Okay? Cool? So here we are.
Uh No, it's fantastic. I got trolled by our boss,
the Twins loving Mr Shapiro for the glorious eight five
triple play last night, which really I saw play in
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my head ninety seven times. That might be the worst
base running that I've seen since watching a bunch of
little leaguers many many years ago. When you completely just
forget to tag up all together and almost lap the
guy behind. Just really embarrassing. But uh yeah, bottom of
the fifth, two runners on for the socks down four
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and I'll bring you at the plate. I'll take plenty
of and look and if if the Mets really wanted
to wait to bring Max schers are back against the
a lower opponent, they would have waited for the White Sox.
I'm trying to look to see if we have them
on the schedule. But now the White Sox, here's the
thing is there. They're just good enough to be dangerous
because they do put streaks together what they did against
San Francisco and there have been some others. It just
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is offset by really ridiculous bad decisions fundamentals that you
learn as a seven year old that you've already taught
and ingrained in the heads of the girls you're teaching
softball to write. All those things that should have been
known long long ago are just out the window with
this White Sox team. Really can't wait till Sunday when
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I go and try to be as anonymous I can,
so I can yell whatever I want from the comfort
of my seats near the dugout. Yeah, this is why
it's perfect when we talk about, you know, the the
the the perspective on sports, because I give you the Hey,
the youth sports coach. You know, here's some here's some truth,
and and you're the the I rate uh fan with
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a flask. No, you have everything. Well, I mean I've
got I've got the truths and you do your coach speak. Hey,
you know what she's coming up? The girl has not
hit the ball in six months except for a fault tip.
Oh no, that swing is really coming along. Well, you
really should keep her in this league where she's projecting. Well,
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I hear the lies you guys spout to families all
the time. What are you doing coaching them up? That's
what we call it. That's the euphemism for they need
a little more help. Yeah, no, no, no, but yeah,
but you with the irate fan with a flask thing,
I think fits you. I think that works. I think
that might become a bit. I think that's always looking
for a you know, a red carpet kind of bit.
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And I mean, phone calls are one thing. Game shows
are another. Me ranting like a lunatic, lunatic as though
I've gone through some mad dog in a flask. It's
probably a little more entertaining for everybody. Now, meanwhile, let's
not bury the lead here because while you know, today
you look at his Max Sher's or day. CONGRATU happy
Max Sher's day. Uh, Now, the Mets are prime not lose.
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It's not. Of course, they can't score a run, so
we're prime to lose this game one great return for Max. Yeah,
Mets can't score Yeah, exactly against the Reds. They can't,
you know, I mean really, I mean, but so they're
primeing to lose this game one nothing which is going
to happen now. But I mean, let's not bury the
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lead because the lead of this tonight Welcome to the
chet era in the NBA cut Juga Cutugata. Welcome to
the chet Era, baby. I know, look, I know, it's
just summer league and there's look, there's no NBA players
playing here. The later guys that are gonna be legends.
You listen to people here in Los Angeles. Yes for
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the week. Yeah, oh wow, look at those gems that
they found. Dude, Cole Swider is gonna start over Lebron James.
That's how exciting it is from three point range. But
Chet home grin. I mean, the chet Era is here
now for the NBA and the Thunder. I get this. Look,
it's it's summer league. But it's just so much fun
to take the positivity. Given all the grief the guy
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got going into the draft because his name is chet Well,
I mean, he was going to come in and he
was gonna take over. He dressed like he did. People
had hot takes about that. He said, you know what,
I'm gonna be a great player in this league. I
like the confidence and I like the bravado. And people
immediately go to, oh, you're a stick, like can he
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shoot or can he not? But the number two overall
pick uh from the Oklahoma City Thunder in Summer League
tonight at eighteen in the first half. Okay, this is
just because this game has been so much fun to
watch because it's like, oh my god, Chat home Rin's
the new Kevin Durant, Like that's gonna be a superstar.
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Right in the first half? Tonight shead Homegrin. Right, and
now you wonder why can't Gonzaga can't win a national championship? Right,
shead home Grin Eighteen points in the first half. He's
made fourth Reese and he also has four blocks and
three assists. This is this is the chet era. We are.
We are with kat Juca Kojuka, the chet Araba. We
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are in the chet era now in the NBA, and
again I get it. It's summer league. Yeah, Frostberg, do
we yeah? Were playing? Uh no, he but do we
have any CHET highlights to play? Can we play some
CHET Highlights? Oh? Yeah, we got hundreds of them. We
gotta we gotta have chat I mean, come on, chet
the story just requestion. Yeah, yeah, but there there's some
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Relie highlights highlights. All right, now, let's not do that.
Let come on, Now, that's that's an off my conversation.
We don't do that. But you know, you should have
put in the requests for Chet highlights. By the way,
it's almost like they're they're doing a multi camera experience
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where one is on Chet. He doesn't even have the ball,
doesn't matter. I'm looking at me. He's getting ready to
maybe to play some defense. I don't know. I don't
know what he's gonna do next. You watch him, and
he doesn't move very fast, but he covers so much
ground because it takes him like three steps to get
from f court into the paint. And his he's got
ferocious slam dunks. He's got threes, he's got blocks. He's
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got blocks of players at way at least a hundred
pounds more than he does. I mean, Ilay, my guy,
Vick Law, former Northwestern. He starts to elevate, and you
can see in his eyes he already knows it's a
bad idea because Chet was coming across the lane. I mean,
this game that Chet Holmgren is having, he's absolutely dominant.
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I mean he just he just blocked a guy at
the rim right and and and again, who must outweigh
him by this one. At least Law must outwigh at
least by seventy five pounds, and Chet Homer and blocks him.
I mean at least at least I mean he had
a block earlier in the game. I go, he's got
to be that guy's gotta wait outweigh and by a
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hundred pounds. I mean he did get the foul call,
but Chet, the guy's back does He goes straight up
for the block and doesn't lose an inch, right, Like,
this is not where Okay, Now they're starting to take
it to the guy because you know he's seven feet tall.
When do you see the assist he just made? Are
you ahead of me? I ken't we're talking about are
you ahead of me? On? Chet? Are you? It's a
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beautiful bounce pass into the lane. Look at now he's
running the floor. He's breeding it up like a point guard.
Harm and take bats were ahead. Oh the Chet area
is here? Uh the assist he sets up the three
shot Chet he I mean he's so smooth. It takes
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them three dribbles to get up the court and and
then it suddenly he's there. It's amazing. And a couple
of big passes and he sets up a three. I mean,
Chet can do no wrong. I mean he really, he's
greater covering space than any villain you've seen in any
recent TV show. Hey, this is why I say it
was lucky that the Warriors squeezed out that last championship,
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because now Chet's gonna win them all. We're dying. I mean,
we're we'rening. Who cares where Kevin Durant goes, Kyrie Irving,
Jalen Brunson. What does it matter? Oklahoma City's gonna rip
off like eight of the next nine championships with Chet.
I mean, he's look I get, but he looks really
impressive down and said, get down court. I'm running stuff.
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And that's why we're at Man. He's got five blocks
in seventeen minutes. Chet Homegren. He's got five blocks and
to go along with the eighteen points and the four threes.
I feel like I want to go into the Wikipedia
page of famous people named Chet before you do that. No,
it's alphabetical. I do this here. I have the I
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have the quizit give list of famous people named Chet. Well,
I was just shame. From a theoretical standpoint, I want
to make sure he's first, because those are always alphabetical first.
Now there's no none of these other people, Well, they're
they're all much older because you know his name is
chet Um but then a none of these people are
more famous. But here here's the definitive. Let's have the
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top four Chets. You're ready, Top Fourchett of all time?
Number one clearly is chet Homegren. Clearly it's Chet Homebred.
I mean, I mean all right, so we're going top five?
Did you have a fifth guy? You want to bring
in four because you're already had a metal stand plus one? Yeah, okay,
I guess this is Mount Rushmore's of Chets. Okay, this
we'll have the Chet not Rushmore, that's the the chet Man.
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This is July fifth. So are you gonna keep it
the four? Are you're gonna go five? Like that? One guy?
You mean Magic Johnson? Yet? One guy? Good thing with
the guy in the place. Yeah, so so that's what
it is. So here here's the Mount Rutchmore of Chets. Okay,
I like that better. I like that better. This is
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the Mount Rushmore of Chet's um. So the mountin rush
is chet Holmegren. Yeah, alright, clearly it's Chet Homere. We
know this right, alright, So chet Homegren is number one.
Chet Lemons also on the Amount Rushmore of Chet's legendary
white Sox outfielder. Yes. Also on the all time Major
League Baseball Food Team. Chet Lemon, He's on the team.
Nicely done. Yes, chet Lemons on that team along with
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Darryl Strawberry also on the team. Uh, chet forty, I
mean the guy brought us, yeah, football, he brought us
Monday night football. Chet forty is on is on that
look and probably famous guitar classical guitarist chet Atkins. Yea
thousands of guitar players. My roommate, and this is this
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is what people always say to you. Hey, Jason, your
show puts me to sleep at night. But that's a
good thing, right when people say that. Uh, Like, my
had a roommate in college who love chet Atkins so much.
He would listen to chet Atkins big instrumentals, but to
go to bed every night. He does. Manager just love
chet Atkins, And I always would say, you can't love
him that much. You fall asleep, because yeah, but it
kind of sues me and I fall asleep. I go, right,
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But if was you were excited about it, you'd be
able to be be paying attention to it. You would
be able to go to sleep because no, no, no,
we would get in this big argument back and forth.
This is kind of now why I'm sure you know,
God said to me, oh yeah, ah, you're worried about people.
Final I gonna have people say that to you on
the street when they see your friends gaining acceptance. He
would listen to Chet Atkins all the time. I mean,
he had that that that little that that combination electric
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acoustic thing going on. I mean, there's your mount Rushmore
of Chets. No, it's pretty good. How about some runners up? Yeah,
we have runners up for Chets? Okay, Frostberg, what do
you got leaving out Chet Walters from Beverly Hills Ninja.
Oh alright there you okay, alright, alright, what about Chet
Alexander from Monsters University? Imagine? I mean you can't contain him. Oh?
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Him and Johnny Worthington from Monsters University. All right, that's
all I got. I really thought he was gonna come
up with at least one more there. Alright, check the
check the Rockets Denman the rock from Rookie of the Year. Okay.
I gotta say, been a minute since I've watched that one,
so I'm not remembering that one. But that's okay. I mean, look,
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we we just figured out them out rushmore chets. That's good.
Dare anybody to try to steal that one? Yeah, Hanks,
you don't watch Chet Hanks. Chet Hanks, wait because he's
Tom's kid, you know, you know you could leave Chat alone.
Chet's got a checkered history. Yeah but wait, wait wasn't he?
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Uh wait wait wasn't he? Uh you're thinking of the
other one. You're thinking of Colin? No, no, no, I
know Colin Hanks. Uh no, no, Chet Hanks. Was he
was just the news like not too long? Yeah, he's good.
Was it? What was it? I just remember the rapper
and yeah he's he he had some some roles. But
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if I'm not mistaken, wasn't he the he was the
rapper and was yeah? Yeah, yeah he was. He was,
Yeah he was. I forget what it was, but yeah,
you think okay chet Hanks. Yeah, but I was talking
about Ched Hanks, the son of Tom Hanks. Uh yeah,
that's what I was talking about, Harmon, Who are you
talking I'm talking about he's a rapper. Yeah he's a rapper.
I didn't know that. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, he's a Yeah,
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he's a Rapper's he's done a bunch of different He
and chet Hanks actually went to Northwestern, So congratulations. Yeah,
there's your mount rushmore of chets. Right. Yeah, he's got
a lot of controversy associated with him. Oh hey, let
tonight be known as the night the chet Era began
in the National Basketball Association. Really is genius? It is.
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It's fantastic. It's the chet Era again. Eighteen points, five blocks. Uh,
now maybe maybe it's six blocks now five rebounds for
it's it's the yep, Hey, Steph, glad you won that championship. Man,
that's your last one. Wow. I mean we've been talking
a lot about k D and Lebron and what he
thinks about everything. Kyrie, you'rving Russell Westbrook. Now it's time
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next nine championships, maybe where Kevin Durant and carry Irving
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wind up is going to be important. We have a
late breaking development on that story coming up next right here,
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Stop no spoilers, spoiler you leave meat low f out
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Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon. Neighbors
got mad at me earlier today. This was blaring. They
were none to please. One woman looked at me, goes,
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what is that? I go? Oh, just wait for it.
Come on on the night that ched Era has begun
in the NBA NBA Summer League. Seven rebounds, six blocks,
and four assays. I know it's summer league, but my god,
it so much. Did he play against the thing with
the guy in the place makes no Look, there's nobody
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playing that's gonna you know, there's not a lot of
guys are gonna make NBA rosters. Obviously that's case, but wow,
ched Holgren is so much fun to watch him just
dominate at a hundred and forty five pounds. I mean,
it really is. I mean it's going back to sid
held into dojo. Ramer, what are you doing? I'm dominating,
He's hitting threes, he's blocking shots. This is this the
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Chet error. Man, it's listen, after watching this game tonight,
don't you think Kevin Durant is gonna demand a trade
back to Oklahoma City so we can go play with
Chet Slim Reaper. It's like the posters we had on
our walls now available as n f T s H
one of the Slim Reapers. This is gonna be. Now
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there's the dual Slim Reapers. I mean, this is this
is gonna be, This is gonna be, This is gonna
change and and be done forget about waiting a while. Oh,
we don't would know when Kevin Durant is gonna get
traded when Kite. No, it's gonna happen tomorrow. Man, it's
gonna happen tomorrow because Katie is gonna say, I gotta
go play with Chet. Look at this man. He he
runs the floor like I used to. And he does
have a little bit of k D to his game,
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being able to do all that he can as tall
as he is. Uh, you know, not quite the physical
the physicalness down low because Katie's a different player, but
you know this definitely some similarities in the smoothest of
the game with Chet and k B. It's kind of fun.
I tried to navigate to the box score, thinking, all right,
I'll track what's going on and take a look at
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the players that are part of this, uh well part
of this affair. And uh, if you went to the
NBA scores on ESPN dot com, Nope, you get the
last game of the NBA Finals. Don't you have to
go find the separate summer league tab. It doesn't even
count under NBA scores. That's what we're not alone, And
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they're basically just saying, like, most of these guys are
gonna play, so let's put them in a separate tab
by themselves. Summer League is its own entity. I gotta
go all the way to the right, scroll down, click
click on scores. All right, and at least now, with
with the information being the way it is, we can
get an up to date box score. It's not like
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like a few years ago when it was when it
was a sport, it was an aspect of a sport
that people didn't care so much about. The only scores
we got we're well, I mean we got the box
scores from the Lakers when Lonzo Ball was there, right, yeah,
But like in general, you would be like, you know,
the NBA box scores is full of everything all the
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way through with offensive rebounds, defensive rebounds plus minus fouls,
turn off, and it's updating in real time. Like a
few years ago would be for NBA Summer League, it
would just be the score at the end of the quarter,
and who the high score was, you know, would be
like UNEE Oklahoma City high score Homegren fifteen, and that's
it unless you were actually at the game. You were
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not getting anything else. It was, there was so little
information there, Like at the beginning of like MLS, like
it would be like, okay, what's the score and we're
in the third minute? One nothing? What what about the game? Nothing?
That's the score. It's one nothing. Now you get everything
that we're up to the end of. Now everything is
being treated like, Hey, it's a big deal and pin
people love it. And I kind of dig that because
I like to be able to just go over a
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couple of tabs and click down and see how Chad
Homegren is doing. Yeah, really big. An important thing to
note here Utah as a team shooting under you know,
he's got six blocks, I mean six blocks. He he
changes direction, uh three steps, he's on you at the
ark like he will stalk you to the three point arcs.
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So I mean, you've really got to get that shot
up quickly. May that's a game changer. You want to
talk about a guy who's affecting the game on both
ends and number one in our hearts. Here on a
Tuesday night, Chet, Katie Chett and Katie back together again
in Oklahoma City. Watch up the Jason Smith sho with
Mike Harmon live from the Fox Sports Radio students. We'll
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have more on the official beginning of the chet ever
July five two. But we got news today that potentially
the trade for Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving may not
be as imminent as we expect it to be, as
sources New York Posts reporting that the Brooklyn Nets are
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in no rush to trade Durant or Kyrie. In fact,
this trade could get into late summer early September when
players actually start coming to training camp. So the Nets
are in no rush. They've gotten offers so far from teams,
but none of them have blown them away where they
have felt the need to go around the room and
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say yes, yes, yes, okay, Kevin Durant, you're now going
to play for Utah. Are you going to play for Denver? Uh?
So they are content with holding on to Kevin Durant
and Kyrie Irving for a while. So let's deal with
Kyrie first, all right, Kyrie Irving, it's it's just a
matter of time before he goes to the Lakers, right,
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this is what he wants to We talked about this
the other night and and it became a big deal
when you and I, you know, get on this yesterday
and the Dan Patrick Show. Is that this is what
he wants, and this is what the Lakers want, and
they're trying to figure out the right way to get it,
and the Nets are gonna wait because look, Kyrie Irving
kind of has them over a barrel because it's not
like they can throw stuff at Kyrie and say, well,
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we'll suspend you. What's he gonna say? Yeah, I don't
play that much anyway, So whatever you want to do.
I mean, what really can the Nets do to punish
Kyrie Irving? You know we're gonna withhold you said, okay,
yeah again, I don't play that much anyway. I play
what I want to. You can say I don't care.
I don't care about missing games. He's missed a lot
of games over the past few years for many different reasons,
whether it was COVID related or a birthday related or
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I just want a night off related. Uh, they have
no hammer against him because he doesn't care. So what's
gonna happen is either it's gonna get to the he'll
be a Laker sooner rather than later, And by that
I mean before we get a few games into the
NBA season, Because let's just say it gets to the
point where Kyrie's got to stay away from the nets,
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and he gets John Wald or Kemba Walker that you
know what, it's it's best if you stay away from
the team, you look for a trade for you. And
then shortly after the season starts, ten twenty games in
Kyrie Irving gets traded. Teams can see the geting of
the season didn't go the way they thought. They want
to make moves one way or another, and Kyrie will
end up playing the majority of the season for the Lakers.
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It's going to happen. It's just a matter of when.
And it could happen in the next few weeks with
with something going on, but more than likely it's gonna
be a little bit because the Lakers can afford to wait.
Because look, when you get training camps, that's you want.
That's when you want him in right, That's when you
want him there to be able to hit the ground running.
You don't want to make that trade of right up
against the regular season. You rather not do it in
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the middle of the season. But he's gonna be a Laker.
It's going to happen. It's just a matter of next week,
the week after, in a month, in two months, because
a week with Kyrie Irving is like six months with
everybody else. Maybe something happens and suddenly he can't even
be on the team anymore. I know the Nets have
toyed with the idea of hoping that maybe Kevin Durant
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Kyrie Irving would figure it out and they would show
up at camp together and be players that would say, oh, hey,
let's play together one more year. Now that's not happening.
That's not happening. But he's going to be a Laker,
So that's going And that's gonna be Rob Polinka pulling
a rabbit out of a hat with being able to
to get Kyrie Irving and not give up a ton.
And I'm sure lose Russell Westbrook in the same trade,
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whether he's going to the Nets or he's through the
Nets to somewhere else, because Nets are gonna have to
have more. They're gonna want more than than just here's
Westbrook in the first round pick and don't try to
give me here's Westbrook and Taylor Horton, Tucker not gonna
fall for that, Rob Polinka. But it's just gonna happen.
He's gonna be a Laker and it will be soon.
And if I had to put the over under at
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twenty games into the NBA season. I am really comfortable
saying way before that he's gonna be playing alongside Lebron James. Yeah.
I think that the biggest part is what you brought
up at the end there when when you get into
the Russell Westbrook side of things, whether Katie's stay in
there or not right and from all reports, yeah, he
wants to go to Phoenix or Miami or insert place
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here depending on the minute that you check odds, there's
Toronto there, all these other teams. Bulls were a third
favorite for a minute earlier in the week. While that
those kind of things that they don't want Russell Westbrook
in Brooklyn perhaps, right, So that's the thing that holds
it up, not even as a way station kind of thing.
So trying to figure out who that third component is
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to make sure they're made a hole in the process,
whether it is Taylor, Horton, Tucker and the ever elusive
number one picks at the end of the decade, that
there's that part of the component that needs of a
trade component that needs to be sussed out and for
a team to step forward that wants Russell Westbrook. And
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that's the other part, right, It's it's this isn't in
a vacuum, just all about Kyrie iring. He's like, what
if there's not that other team to help facilitate this thing?
That's a forty seven million dollar contract. And even if
you want an expiring contract, do you want the pain
that goes with it for the year or just to say,
all right, we're giving you forty seven millions, stay away,
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which is I guess the other blow it all up
option that is out there right with Kyrie? You know,
you always have the end game of all right, if
it is that acrimonious and you can't come to a
consummation of it, that at some point you just say,
all right, fine, here's the buyout, beat it and then
he shows up in Los Angeles for you know, his
six point two million dollars right all of it. Look,
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it's the fifth of July. There's no reason this has
to be done now. I mean we're barely starting to
scratch the surface. And what kind of an NBA Monster
chet Home Drink can be. I mean, his story doesn't
need to right it's final lines now, I mean what
maybe k D and Kyrie would stay in Brooklyn if
they could get Chet home. Grin, I mean there is that.
I mean that roster as it lays out in Brooklyn
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right now, it is pretty good. Yeah, it's it's like
when you want to make that call to that one
guy in fantasy where a rookie has a great first
week and and you think he's gonna be a superstar.
So you call the guy and with a with a
tremendous overwhelming offer, and the guy says, no, this guy
is gonna be a star. I'm not gonna trade this guy.
Do you after one game? But what is wrong with you?
I'm not gonna get But it's the NBA, so you
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never know. Maybe if you get Chet to Brooklyn, it's Kaby,
Kyrie and Chet, and you say, will lightning strike twice?
Or was he a one week one? Because now you
feel bad because you know you tried to say in
bag him and he caught it. Yeah. Fun. I mean
you look at the nuts roster, right Ben Simmons, we
don't know what he is, but Curry Mills or Neil Harris,
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Warren Thomas and then Katie and Kyrie. I think that's
the team I can win with if I was Dennis
Leary and Kevin Costner was looking at me saying, hey,
can you win with you? I can win with this. Yeah,
but I got Draft Day in here too. Who wait,
you're not watching chet on all four televisions, No, only
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on one. That's that's I mean, that's time for Dodger baseball.
That's blast. You got CHET on all for somebody that's
possessed and there's an exorcism going on and then okay,
it could be a John Wick three. I don't know,
is during the Dodger game. There's all right, I just
want to make Look Dodger Stadium there they they welcome
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all those people now. But look, look, Kyrie is going
to be a Laker. It's it's as sorry Frostburg, it's happening.
You want him? Do you want Russ to stay? It's
how's that for a choice? Pal? I want to find
a way to have them both to stay and Russ
I want to see that both. Can they both go? Now?
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Oh no, no, no, you gotta have at least one
of them. There's a rule in the NBA that says
that you have to have at least one of them.
But you're the only team that needs him. You're the
only team that I could say, yes, go get Kyrie
Irving because you have no hope already. Why do I
need a guy that doesn't show up. It does because
at least it's a different way, but he runs practices. Yeah,
it's you just watched them not win last year with
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Westbrook standing in the corner. Wait sucked. No, now you
get to watch Kyrie not at the games. Here here's
the thing. I saw the term relevant being used. You
know this is the way only way the Lakers become
relevant again. No, no, no, what did we talk about
all years? If they were relevant? They just weren't any
damn good. But they're still relevant. You have to go
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get Kyrie Irving. Is not a gamble for any other
team except for the Lakers, because the Lakers have nothing
to lose. You have not. All the other teams that
trade for Kyrie Irving have things to lose because they're
either trading assets they want to keep, or they're trading
a player they want to keep, or they're gonna go
get a guy that may come in and may not
be anything close to the player he is. Well, we got,
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we got hopes and dreams of Lakers are going we
got nothing, man, whatever you got, we'll take it. Okay,
So here comes Kyrie and maybe you catch lightning in
a bottle, and Lebron will really enjoy playing with Kyrie
Irving again because then Anthony's they've had that will come on,
Now you're asking for too much. Now you're asking come on,
that was the bridge too far. He probably still hasn't
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picked up a basketball since there's been plenty video and
photography to prove that he is now practicing his freaking
se because now they're going overboard the other way, like, look,
he's on a court. Are you happy? Hey, look there's
a picture. There's a picture he's there. Are you everybody's happy?
Uh No, but look that that's kind of just how
it's gonna go. Is the Lakers are the one team
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that can get him, the one team that can that
can benefit from getting him because maybe he'll be buying
in with Lebron again. Uh their relationship has been weird,
but they But you know, we've heard that Lebron really
wants to play with Kyrie again, Jordan Schultz telling us
that yesterday on the show, And so yeah, all right
now it's now it's worth it now it's worth that risk. Now,
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It's worth that because you have nothing else happening, and
it's gonna work. It's like I said, it's a matter
of time for Kyrie to be a lake. Be sure
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We'll have more NBA coming up in a few minutes.
But file this story under the category of something that
would have been better had we known about this yesterday.
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The Pack twelve is now in intense negotiations to nail
down their next media contract. Okay, so the Pack twelve
is pushing up negotiations for its next media rights agreement.
This is after USC and u c l A announced
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they were leaving for the Big ten, and after reports
that the Big Twelve, trying to stay relevant, is going
to get or try to get six other teams from
the Pack twelve. So now, so U c l A
at USC have left two teams in the second market
in the country. Uh, six other teams potentially are going
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to leave for the Big twelve. But hey, hey, let's
get our TV dot Now. This is the pack. This
is why the PAC twelve. Is it gonna exist in
like three days? Because this is how the PAC twelve
does things. Oh yeah, yeah, hey we should get on
that contract for television. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, you know,
do you think, Uh, do you think like ESPN and
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Fox and all those entities, like they know that USC
and U c l A are leaving? Oh they might not,
So let's get to that fast. And if they ask
about it, just pretend you don't know anything. What about
the other six schools that might leave, like Oregon and Washington? Yeah,
I wouldn't bring that up either. Maybe they don't know
about that. So let's go ahead. Let's try to get
a billion dollars, just like the Big ten's gonna get. Yeah,
let's do Okay, let's get that new television contract. This
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is why the PAC twelve is gonna cease to exist
as a conference. It's gonna cease to exist. We're not
gonna have anything. Everything's gonna be an all different conference
in the PAC twelve is gonna be Boy, look what
happened to us? Well, what kind of assets do you
offer as part of this deal? Well, there's gonna be
twelve teams. Oh cool, twelve schools. Awesome? Who are they right?
(33:51):
I mean? The reported value, the average annual value was
five million dollars a year. Was the expectation when the
rights were up in provided that you still had USC
in U c l A current anticipated value is approximately
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three million, to which I say that's about too high
based on losing those assets. And that's if the rest
of these teams stay and then you backfill with San
Jose or San Diego State and whomever else, not not
San Jose State, but with San Diego State new stadium,
playing good football the last couple and all those things,
(34:34):
you know, fine, but trying to come out after this done.
You know, you talk about a authorized for the act
of desperation and pleading things to kneel on as you
try to get a d S to sign up to
fill those vacant spots. That would I have that headline,
I would have believed they walked with bags of money
(34:55):
begging teams not to go that that headline I believe
like you go on through. I mean a couple of
teams you mentioned there. Ralph and I have been chatting
about it a little bit. You got you got Stanford
and Cal that are just kind of there, right, the
academic standards and and all of those things that you
love to tout, the history that gets out quaint campus
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sites and histories and and student bodies. But in terms
of moving the needle, they don't right at all. And
just saying hey, you got Berkeley and Palo Alto. I mean,
it's California is so fractionalized in terms of you know
what lays claim to different teams and and fan bases
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and such that just saying now we got part of
the Bay Area doesn't really quite work. You know, it's
really funny that we're talking about TV in the past
twelve when their own damn channels not even on TV. Well,
I mean that's the thing they're trying to get on TV.
Can where can we see a sampling of the content
you currently offer without the USC and U, C, L
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A and nobody's way that garbage this and I thought
it would look really nice, Well where's the actual product?
We signed a bad carriage deal. So I just if
they want money, why don't they go after Larry Scott?
He took it all. Oh Larry Scott, Larry you could,
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you could, you could? You can trace the end of
the pack twelve all through Larry Scott's regime. I mean,
this is not something that's brand new happening. This is
this has been going, This has been coming down the
road for a long long time. Look, this is a
perfect example of why the Pack twelve is gonna wind
up not existing because now is when oh hey, let's
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let's do new media rights. Now, who's gonna offer you
anything without any of these schools. We don't know. We're
not gonna have usc IN U, C l A. No,
what about the other schools? Yeah? Maybe, what do you mean? Maybe? Yeah? Maybe? Okay,
here's a billion dollars. We want you, just like we
want the big dead. I mean, this is insane. Who
makes these businesses? This is like Michael Scott making these
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this decisions. Hey, you know what he ended up doing
okay for his guys at the Michael Scott Paper Company
when it was all that done. This is what's the pack?
Pol saying, explain it to me like I'm five, and
Oscar explains it, and Oscar says, but next summer, and
Michael Scott says, I'll be six. This is that conversation. Now.
In the sporting card world, there's a lot of the hey,
(37:20):
blind bag kind of thing, or you know, the hit
pack kind of variety. What's the floor bucks, what's the ceiling? Well?
Shoot thousand, and then you start doing the mass like
there's gonna be a lot more floors. Get Ready for
the Pack twelve to hit. There's I'll put up that pack.
What do you got? I got a flear update back yea?
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You're listening to Fox Sports Radio. Hello and welcome inside
the Jason Smith Show with my big friend Mike Harmony. Buddy,
yesterday was a great day, great fourth, happy fourth of July.
Happy Max Scherzerr day, Buddy. I mean we've been waiting
for this for a while now it's Max sharts a day.
(00:44):
Pretty happy with this. Well, you know what, you gotta
come back and you face some more mighty minor league
hitting all the calendar, Well they did calendar. Damn will
controlled who they were? Keeps coming back against control the count.
We're gonna make Max look like a super hero. Who
is he coming back against Reds? When the scheduled center
in Cincinnati for the fourth, fifth and six. You're in
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Cincinnati on the fourth, fifth and six match, ready to go.
When's it gonna be ready, he ready for the fourth? Nah?
How about the fifth? Okay? Cool? So here we are.
Uh No, it's fantastic. I got trolled by our boss,
the Twins loving Mr Shapiro for the glorious eight five
triple play last night, which really I saw play in
(01:31):
my head ninety seven times. That might be the worst
base running that I've seen since watching a bunch of
little leaguers many many years ago. When you completely just
forget to tag up all together and almost lap the
guy behind. Just really embarrassing. But uh yeah, bottom of
the fifth, two runners on for the socks down four
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and I'll bring you at the plate. I'll take plenty
of and look and if if the Mets really wanted
to wait to bring Max schers are back against the
a lower opponent, they would have waited for the White Sox.
I'm trying to look to see if we have them
on the schedule. But now the White Sox, here's the
thing is there. They're just good enough to be dangerous
because they do put streaks together what they did against
San Francisco and there have been some others. It just
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is offset by really ridiculous bad decisions fundamentals that you
learn as a seven year old that you've already taught
and ingrained in the heads of the girls you're teaching
softball to write. All those things that should have been
known long long ago are just out the window with
this White Sox team. Really can't wait till Sunday when
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I go and try to be as anonymous I can,
so I can yell whatever I want from the comfort
of my seats near the dugout. Yeah, this is why
it's perfect when we talk about, you know, the the
the the perspective on sports, because I give you the Hey,
the youth sports coach. You know, here's some here's some truth,
and and you're the the I rate uh fan with
(02:56):
a flask. No, you have everything. Well, I mean I've
got I've got the truths and you do your coach speak. Hey,
you know what she's coming up? The girl has not
hit the ball in six months except for a fault tip.
Oh no, that swing is really coming along. Well, you
really should keep her in this league where she's projecting. Well,
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I hear the lies you guys spout to families all
the time. What are you doing coaching them up? That's
what we call it. That's the euphemism for they need
a little more help. Yeah, no, no, no, but yeah,
but you with the irate fan with a flask thing,
I think fits you. I think that works. I think
that might become a bit. I think that's always looking
for a you know, a red carpet kind of bit.
(03:38):
And I mean, phone calls are one thing. Game shows
are another. Me ranting like a lunatic, lunatic as though
I've gone through some mad dog in a flask. It's
probably a little more entertaining for everybody. Now, meanwhile, let's
not bury the lead here because while you know, today
you look at his Max Sher's or day. CONGRATU happy
Max Sher's day. Uh, Now, the Mets are prime not lose.
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It's not. Of course, they can't score a run, so
we're prime to lose this game one great return for Max. Yeah,
Mets can't score Yeah, exactly against the Reds. They can't,
you know, I mean really, I mean, but so they're
primeing to lose this game one nothing which is going
to happen now. But I mean, let's not bury the
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lead because the lead of this tonight Welcome to the
chet era in the NBA cut Juga Cutugata. Welcome to
the chet Era, baby. I know, look, I know, it's
just summer league and there's look, there's no NBA players
playing here. The later guys that are gonna be legends.
You listen to people here in Los Angeles. Yes for
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the week. Yeah, oh wow, look at those gems that
they found. Dude, Cole Swider is gonna start over Lebron James.
That's how exciting it is from three point range. But
Chet home grin. I mean, the chet Era is here
now for the NBA and the Thunder. I get this. Look,
it's it's summer league. But it's just so much fun
to take the positivity. Given all the grief the guy
(05:04):
got going into the draft because his name is chet Well,
I mean, he was going to come in and he
was gonna take over. He dressed like he did. People
had hot takes about that. He said, you know what,
I'm gonna be a great player in this league. I
like the confidence and I like the bravado. And people
immediately go to, oh, you're a stick, like can he
(05:25):
shoot or can he not? But the number two overall
pick uh from the Oklahoma City Thunder in Summer League
tonight at eighteen in the first half. Okay, this is
just because this game has been so much fun to
watch because it's like, oh my god, Chat home Rin's
the new Kevin Durant, Like that's gonna be a superstar.
(05:46):
Right in the first half? Tonight shead Homegrin. Right, and
now you wonder why can't Gonzaga can't win a national championship? Right,
shead home Grin Eighteen points in the first half. He's
made fourth Reese and he also has four blocks and
three assists. This is this is the chet era. We are.
We are with kat Juca Kojuka, the chet Araba. We
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are in the chet era now in the NBA, and
again I get it. It's summer league. Yeah, Frostberg, do
we yeah? Were playing? Uh no, he but do we
have any CHET highlights to play? Can we play some
CHET Highlights? Oh? Yeah, we got hundreds of them. We
gotta we gotta have chat I mean, come on, chet
the story just requestion. Yeah, yeah, but there there's some
(06:30):
Relie highlights highlights. All right, now, let's not do that.
Let come on, Now, that's that's an off my conversation.
We don't do that. But you know, you should have
put in the requests for Chet highlights. By the way,
it's almost like they're they're doing a multi camera experience
(06:51):
where one is on Chet. He doesn't even have the ball,
doesn't matter. I'm looking at me. He's getting ready to
maybe to play some defense. I don't know. I don't
know what he's gonna do next. You watch him, and
he doesn't move very fast, but he covers so much
ground because it takes him like three steps to get
from f court into the paint. And his he's got
ferocious slam dunks. He's got threes, he's got blocks. He's
(07:14):
got blocks of players at way at least a hundred
pounds more than he does. I mean, Ilay, my guy,
Vick Law, former Northwestern. He starts to elevate, and you
can see in his eyes he already knows it's a
bad idea because Chet was coming across the lane. I mean,
this game that Chet Holmgren is having, he's absolutely dominant.
(07:37):
I mean he just he just blocked a guy at
the rim right and and and again, who must outweigh
him by this one. At least Law must outwigh at
least by seventy five pounds, and Chet Homer and blocks him.
I mean at least at least I mean he had
a block earlier in the game. I go, he's got
to be that guy's gotta wait outweigh and by a
(07:58):
hundred pounds. I mean he did get the foul call,
but Chet, the guy's back does He goes straight up
for the block and doesn't lose an inch, right, Like,
this is not where Okay, Now they're starting to take
it to the guy because you know he's seven feet tall.
When do you see the assist he just made? Are
you ahead of me? I ken't we're talking about are
you ahead of me? On? Chet? Are you? It's a
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beautiful bounce pass into the lane. Look at now he's
running the floor. He's breeding it up like a point guard.
Harm and take bats were ahead. Oh the Chet area
is here? Uh the assist he sets up the three
shot Chet he I mean he's so smooth. It takes
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them three dribbles to get up the court and and
then it suddenly he's there. It's amazing. And a couple
of big passes and he sets up a three. I mean,
Chet can do no wrong. I mean he really, he's
greater covering space than any villain you've seen in any
recent TV show. Hey, this is why I say it
was lucky that the Warriors squeezed out that last championship,
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because now Chet's gonna win them all. We're dying. I mean,
we're we'rening. Who cares where Kevin Durant goes, Kyrie Irving,
Jalen Brunson. What does it matter? Oklahoma City's gonna rip
off like eight of the next nine championships with Chet.
I mean, he's look I get, but he looks really
impressive down and said, get down court. I'm running stuff.
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And that's why we're at Man. He's got five blocks
in seventeen minutes. Chet Homegren. He's got five blocks and
to go along with the eighteen points and the four threes.
I feel like I want to go into the Wikipedia
page of famous people named Chet before you do that. No,
it's alphabetical. I do this here. I have the I
(09:49):
have the quizit give list of famous people named Chet. Well,
I was just shame. From a theoretical standpoint, I want
to make sure he's first, because those are always alphabetical first.
Now there's no none of these other people, Well, they're
they're all much older because you know his name is
chet Um but then a none of these people are
more famous. But here here's the definitive. Let's have the
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top four Chets. You're ready, Top Fourchett of all time?
Number one clearly is chet Homegren. Clearly it's Chet Homebred.
I mean, I mean all right, so we're going top five?
Did you have a fifth guy? You want to bring
in four because you're already had a metal stand plus one? Yeah, okay,
I guess this is Mount Rushmore's of Chets. Okay, this
we'll have the Chet not Rushmore, that's the the chet Man.
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This is July fifth. So are you gonna keep it
the four? Are you're gonna go five? Like that? One guy?
You mean Magic Johnson? Yet? One guy? Good thing with
the guy in the place. Yeah, so so that's what
it is. So here here's the Mount Rutchmore of Chets. Okay,
I like that better. I like that better. This is
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the Mount Rushmore of Chet's um. So the mountin rush
is chet Holmegren. Yeah, alright, clearly it's Chet Homere. We
know this right, alright, So chet Homegren is number one.
Chet Lemons also on the Amount Rushmore of Chet's legendary
white Sox outfielder. Yes. Also on the all time Major
League Baseball Food Team. Chet Lemon, He's on the team.
Nicely done. Yes, chet Lemons on that team along with
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Darryl Strawberry also on the team. Uh, chet forty, I
mean the guy brought us, yeah, football, he brought us
Monday night football. Chet forty is on is on that
look and probably famous guitar classical guitarist chet Atkins. Yea
thousands of guitar players. My roommate, and this is this
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is what people always say to you. Hey, Jason, your
show puts me to sleep at night. But that's a
good thing, right when people say that. Uh, Like, my
had a roommate in college who love chet Atkins so much.
He would listen to chet Atkins big instrumentals, but to
go to bed every night. He does. Manager just love
chet Atkins, And I always would say, you can't love
him that much. You fall asleep, because yeah, but it
kind of sues me and I fall asleep. I go, right,
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But if was you were excited about it, you'd be
able to be be paying attention to it. You would
be able to go to sleep because no, no, no,
we would get in this big argument back and forth.
This is kind of now why I'm sure you know,
God said to me, oh yeah, ah, you're worried about people.
Final I gonna have people say that to you on
the street when they see your friends gaining acceptance. He
would listen to Chet Atkins all the time. I mean,
he had that that that little that that combination electric
(12:18):
acoustic thing going on. I mean, there's your mount Rushmore
of Chets. No, it's pretty good. How about some runners up? Yeah,
we have runners up for Chets? Okay, Frostberg, what do
you got leaving out Chet Walters from Beverly Hills Ninja.
Oh alright there you okay, alright, alright, what about Chet
Alexander from Monsters University? Imagine? I mean you can't contain him. Oh?
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Him and Johnny Worthington from Monsters University. All right, that's
all I got. I really thought he was gonna come
up with at least one more there. Alright, check the
check the Rockets Denman the rock from Rookie of the Year. Okay.
I gotta say, been a minute since I've watched that one,
so I'm not remembering that one. But that's okay. I mean, look,
(13:06):
we we just figured out them out rushmore chets. That's good.
Dare anybody to try to steal that one? Yeah, Hanks,
you don't watch Chet Hanks. Chet Hanks, wait because he's
Tom's kid, you know, you know you could leave Chat alone.
Chet's got a checkered history. Yeah but wait, wait wasn't he?
(13:26):
Uh wait wait wasn't he? Uh you're thinking of the
other one. You're thinking of Colin? No, no, no, I
know Colin Hanks. Uh no, no, Chet Hanks. Was he
was just the news like not too long? Yeah, he's good.
Was it? What was it? I just remember the rapper
and yeah he's he he had some some roles. But
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if I'm not mistaken, wasn't he the he was the
rapper and was yeah? Yeah, yeah he was. He was,
Yeah he was. I forget what it was, but yeah,
you think okay chet Hanks. Yeah, but I was talking
about Ched Hanks, the son of Tom Hanks. Uh yeah,
that's what I was talking about, Harmon, Who are you
talking I'm talking about he's a rapper. Yeah he's a rapper.
I didn't know that. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, he's a Yeah,
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he's a Rapper's he's done a bunch of different He
and chet Hanks actually went to Northwestern, So congratulations. Yeah,
there's your mount rushmore of chets. Right. Yeah, he's got
a lot of controversy associated with him. Oh hey, let
tonight be known as the night the chet Era began
in the National Basketball Association. Really is genius? It is.
(14:35):
It's fantastic. It's the chet Era again. Eighteen points, five blocks. Uh,
now maybe maybe it's six blocks now five rebounds for
it's it's the yep, Hey, Steph, glad you won that championship. Man,
that's your last one. Wow. I mean we've been talking
a lot about k D and Lebron and what he
thinks about everything. Kyrie, you'rving Russell Westbrook. Now it's time
(14:56):
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(15:40):
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(16:00):
Stop no spoilers, spoiler you leave meat low f out
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what is that? I go? Oh, just wait for it.
Come on on the night that ched Era has begun
in the NBA NBA Summer League. Seven rebounds, six blocks,
and four assays. I know it's summer league, but my god,
it so much. Did he play against the thing with
the guy in the place makes no Look, there's nobody
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playing that's gonna you know, there's not a lot of
guys are gonna make NBA rosters. Obviously that's case, but wow,
ched Holgren is so much fun to watch him just
dominate at a hundred and forty five pounds. I mean,
it really is. I mean it's going back to sid
held into dojo. Ramer, what are you doing? I'm dominating,
He's hitting threes, he's blocking shots. This is this the
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Chet error. Man, it's listen, after watching this game tonight,
don't you think Kevin Durant is gonna demand a trade
back to Oklahoma City so we can go play with
Chet Slim Reaper. It's like the posters we had on
our walls now available as n f T s H
one of the Slim Reapers. This is gonna be. Now
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there's the dual Slim Reapers. I mean, this is this
is gonna be, This is gonna be, This is gonna
change and and be done forget about waiting a while. Oh,
we don't would know when Kevin Durant is gonna get
traded when Kite. No, it's gonna happen tomorrow. Man, it's
gonna happen tomorrow because Katie is gonna say, I gotta
go play with Chet. Look at this man. He he
runs the floor like I used to. And he does
have a little bit of k D to his game,
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being able to do all that he can as tall
as he is. Uh, you know, not quite the physical
the physicalness down low because Katie's a different player, but
you know this definitely some similarities in the smoothest of
the game with Chet and k B. It's kind of fun.
I tried to navigate to the box score, thinking, all right,
I'll track what's going on and take a look at
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the players that are part of this, uh well part
of this affair. And uh, if you went to the
NBA scores on ESPN dot com, Nope, you get the
last game of the NBA Finals. Don't you have to
go find the separate summer league tab. It doesn't even
count under NBA scores. That's what we're not alone, And
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they're basically just saying, like, most of these guys are
gonna play, so let's put them in a separate tab
by themselves. Summer League is its own entity. I gotta
go all the way to the right, scroll down, click
click on scores. All right, and at least now, with
with the information being the way it is, we can
get an up to date box score. It's not like
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like a few years ago when it was when it
was a sport, it was an aspect of a sport
that people didn't care so much about. The only scores
we got we're well, I mean we got the box
scores from the Lakers when Lonzo Ball was there, right, yeah,
But like in general, you would be like, you know,
the NBA box scores is full of everything all the
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way through with offensive rebounds, defensive rebounds plus minus fouls,
turn off, and it's updating in real time. Like a
few years ago would be for NBA Summer League, it
would just be the score at the end of the quarter,
and who the high score was, you know, would be
like UNEE Oklahoma City high score Homegren fifteen, and that's
it unless you were actually at the game. You were
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not getting anything else. It was, there was so little
information there, Like at the beginning of like MLS, like
it would be like, okay, what's the score and we're
in the third minute? One nothing? What what about the game? Nothing?
That's the score. It's one nothing. Now you get everything
that we're up to the end of. Now everything is
being treated like, Hey, it's a big deal and pin
people love it. And I kind of dig that because
I like to be able to just go over a
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couple of tabs and click down and see how Chad
Homegren is doing. Yeah, really big. An important thing to
note here Utah as a team shooting under you know,
he's got six blocks, I mean six blocks. He he
changes direction, uh three steps, he's on you at the
ark like he will stalk you to the three point arcs.
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So I mean, you've really got to get that shot
up quickly. May that's a game changer. You want to
talk about a guy who's affecting the game on both
ends and number one in our hearts. Here on a
Tuesday night, Chet, Katie Chett and Katie back together again
in Oklahoma City. Watch up the Jason Smith sho with
Mike Harmon live from the Fox Sports Radio students. We'll
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have more on the official beginning of the chet ever
July five two. But we got news today that potentially
the trade for Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving may not
be as imminent as we expect it to be, as
sources New York Posts reporting that the Brooklyn Nets are
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in no rush to trade Durant or Kyrie. In fact,
this trade could get into late summer early September when
players actually start coming to training camp. So the Nets
are in no rush. They've gotten offers so far from teams,
but none of them have blown them away where they
have felt the need to go around the room and
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say yes, yes, yes, okay, Kevin Durant, you're now going
to play for Utah. Are you going to play for Denver? Uh?
So they are content with holding on to Kevin Durant
and Kyrie Irving for a while. So let's deal with
Kyrie first, all right, Kyrie Irving, it's it's just a
matter of time before he goes to the Lakers, right,
(21:38):
this is what he wants to We talked about this
the other night and and it became a big deal
when you and I, you know, get on this yesterday
and the Dan Patrick Show. Is that this is what
he wants, and this is what the Lakers want, and
they're trying to figure out the right way to get it,
and the Nets are gonna wait because look, Kyrie Irving
kind of has them over a barrel because it's not
like they can throw stuff at Kyrie and say, well,
(22:00):
we'll suspend you. What's he gonna say? Yeah, I don't
play that much anyway, So whatever you want to do.
I mean, what really can the Nets do to punish
Kyrie Irving? You know we're gonna withhold you said, okay,
yeah again, I don't play that much anyway. I play
what I want to. You can say I don't care.
I don't care about missing games. He's missed a lot
of games over the past few years for many different reasons,
whether it was COVID related or a birthday related or
(22:23):
I just want a night off related. Uh, they have
no hammer against him because he doesn't care. So what's
gonna happen is either it's gonna get to the he'll
be a Laker sooner rather than later, And by that
I mean before we get a few games into the
NBA season, Because let's just say it gets to the
point where Kyrie's got to stay away from the nets,
(22:45):
and he gets John Wald or Kemba Walker that you
know what, it's it's best if you stay away from
the team, you look for a trade for you. And
then shortly after the season starts, ten twenty games in
Kyrie Irving gets traded. Teams can see the geting of
the season didn't go the way they thought. They want
to make moves one way or another, and Kyrie will
end up playing the majority of the season for the Lakers.
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It's going to happen. It's just a matter of when.
And it could happen in the next few weeks with
with something going on, but more than likely it's gonna
be a little bit because the Lakers can afford to wait.
Because look, when you get training camps, that's you want.
That's when you want him in right, That's when you
want him there to be able to hit the ground running.
You don't want to make that trade of right up
against the regular season. You rather not do it in
(23:28):
the middle of the season. But he's gonna be a Laker.
It's going to happen. It's just a matter of next week,
the week after, in a month, in two months, because
a week with Kyrie Irving is like six months with
everybody else. Maybe something happens and suddenly he can't even
be on the team anymore. I know the Nets have
toyed with the idea of hoping that maybe Kevin Durant
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Kyrie Irving would figure it out and they would show
up at camp together and be players that would say, oh, hey,
let's play together one more year. Now that's not happening.
That's not happening. But he's going to be a Laker,
So that's going And that's gonna be Rob Polinka pulling
a rabbit out of a hat with being able to
to get Kyrie Irving and not give up a ton.
And I'm sure lose Russell Westbrook in the same trade,
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whether he's going to the Nets or he's through the
Nets to somewhere else, because Nets are gonna have to
have more. They're gonna want more than than just here's
Westbrook in the first round pick and don't try to
give me here's Westbrook and Taylor Horton, Tucker not gonna
fall for that, Rob Polinka. But it's just gonna happen.
He's gonna be a Laker and it will be soon.
And if I had to put the over under at
(24:29):
twenty games into the NBA season. I am really comfortable
saying way before that he's gonna be playing alongside Lebron James. Yeah.
I think that the biggest part is what you brought
up at the end there when when you get into
the Russell Westbrook side of things, whether Katie's stay in
there or not right and from all reports, yeah, he
wants to go to Phoenix or Miami or insert place
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here depending on the minute that you check odds, there's
Toronto there, all these other teams. Bulls were a third
favorite for a minute earlier in the week. While that
those kind of things that they don't want Russell Westbrook
in Brooklyn perhaps, right, So that's the thing that holds
it up, not even as a way station kind of thing.
So trying to figure out who that third component is
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to make sure they're made a hole in the process,
whether it is Taylor, Horton, Tucker and the ever elusive
number one picks at the end of the decade, that
there's that part of the component that needs of a
trade component that needs to be sussed out and for
a team to step forward that wants Russell Westbrook. And
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that's the other part, right, It's it's this isn't in
a vacuum, just all about Kyrie iring. He's like, what
if there's not that other team to help facilitate this thing?
That's a forty seven million dollar contract. And even if
you want an expiring contract, do you want the pain
that goes with it for the year or just to say,
all right, we're giving you forty seven millions, stay away,
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which is I guess the other blow it all up
option that is out there right with Kyrie? You know,
you always have the end game of all right, if
it is that acrimonious and you can't come to a
consummation of it, that at some point you just say,
all right, fine, here's the buyout, beat it and then
he shows up in Los Angeles for you know, his
six point two million dollars right all of it. Look,
(26:18):
it's the fifth of July. There's no reason this has
to be done now. I mean we're barely starting to
scratch the surface. And what kind of an NBA Monster
chet Home Drink can be. I mean, his story doesn't
need to right it's final lines now, I mean what
maybe k D and Kyrie would stay in Brooklyn if
they could get Chet home. Grin, I mean there is that.
I mean that roster as it lays out in Brooklyn
(26:39):
right now, it is pretty good. Yeah, it's it's like
when you want to make that call to that one
guy in fantasy where a rookie has a great first
week and and you think he's gonna be a superstar.
So you call the guy and with a with a
tremendous overwhelming offer, and the guy says, no, this guy
is gonna be a star. I'm not gonna trade this guy.
Do you after one game? But what is wrong with you?
I'm not gonna get But it's the NBA, so you
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never know. Maybe if you get Chet to Brooklyn, it's Kaby,
Kyrie and Chet, and you say, will lightning strike twice?
Or was he a one week one? Because now you
feel bad because you know you tried to say in
bag him and he caught it. Yeah. Fun. I mean
you look at the nuts roster, right Ben Simmons, we
don't know what he is, but Curry Mills or Neil Harris,
(27:21):
Warren Thomas and then Katie and Kyrie. I think that's
the team I can win with if I was Dennis
Leary and Kevin Costner was looking at me saying, hey,
can you win with you? I can win with this. Yeah,
but I got Draft Day in here too. Who wait,
you're not watching chet on all four televisions, No, only
(27:43):
on one. That's that's I mean, that's time for Dodger baseball.
That's blast. You got CHET on all for somebody that's
possessed and there's an exorcism going on and then okay,
it could be a John Wick three. I don't know,
is during the Dodger game. There's all right, I just
want to make Look Dodger Stadium there they they welcome
(28:04):
all those people now. But look, look, Kyrie is going
to be a Laker. It's it's as sorry Frostburg, it's happening.
You want him? Do you want Russ to stay? It's
how's that for a choice? Pal? I want to find
a way to have them both to stay and Russ
I want to see that both. Can they both go? Now?
(28:26):
Oh no, no, no, you gotta have at least one
of them. There's a rule in the NBA that says
that you have to have at least one of them.
But you're the only team that needs him. You're the
only team that I could say, yes, go get Kyrie
Irving because you have no hope already. Why do I
need a guy that doesn't show up. It does because
at least it's a different way, but he runs practices. Yeah,
it's you just watched them not win last year with
(28:49):
Westbrook standing in the corner. Wait sucked. No, now you
get to watch Kyrie not at the games. Here here's
the thing. I saw the term relevant being used. You
know this is the way only way the Lakers become
relevant again. No, no, no, what did we talk about
all years? If they were relevant? They just weren't any
damn good. But they're still relevant. You have to go
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get Kyrie Irving. Is not a gamble for any other
team except for the Lakers, because the Lakers have nothing
to lose. You have not. All the other teams that
trade for Kyrie Irving have things to lose because they're
either trading assets they want to keep, or they're trading
a player they want to keep, or they're gonna go
get a guy that may come in and may not
be anything close to the player he is. Well, we got,
(29:34):
we got hopes and dreams of Lakers are going we
got nothing, man, whatever you got, we'll take it. Okay,
So here comes Kyrie and maybe you catch lightning in
a bottle, and Lebron will really enjoy playing with Kyrie
Irving again because then Anthony's they've had that will come on,
Now you're asking for too much. Now you're asking come on,
that was the bridge too far. He probably still hasn't
(29:56):
picked up a basketball since there's been plenty video and
photography to prove that he is now practicing his freaking
se because now they're going overboard the other way, like, look,
he's on a court. Are you happy? Hey, look there's
a picture. There's a picture he's there. Are you everybody's happy?
Uh No, but look that that's kind of just how
it's gonna go. Is the Lakers are the one team
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that can get him, the one team that can that
can benefit from getting him because maybe he'll be buying
in with Lebron again. Uh their relationship has been weird,
but they But you know, we've heard that Lebron really
wants to play with Kyrie again, Jordan Schultz telling us
that yesterday on the show, And so yeah, all right
now it's now it's worth it now it's worth that risk. Now,
(30:39):
It's worth that because you have nothing else happening, and
it's gonna work. It's like I said, it's a matter
of time for Kyrie to be a lake. Be sure
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We'll have more NBA coming up in a few minutes.
But file this story under the category of something that
would have been better had we known about this yesterday.
(32:05):
The Pack twelve is now in intense negotiations to nail
down their next media contract. Okay, so the Pack twelve
is pushing up negotiations for its next media rights agreement.
This is after USC and u c l A announced
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they were leaving for the Big ten, and after reports
that the Big Twelve, trying to stay relevant, is going
to get or try to get six other teams from
the Pack twelve. So now, so U c l A
at USC have left two teams in the second market
in the country. Uh, six other teams potentially are going
(32:48):
to leave for the Big twelve. But hey, hey, let's
get our TV dot Now. This is the pack. This
is why the PAC twelve. Is it gonna exist in
like three days? Because this is how the PAC twelve
does things. Oh yeah, yeah, hey we should get on
that contract for television. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, you know,
do you think, Uh, do you think like ESPN and
(33:08):
Fox and all those entities, like they know that USC
and U c l A are leaving? Oh they might not,
So let's get to that fast. And if they ask
about it, just pretend you don't know anything. What about
the other six schools that might leave, like Oregon and Washington? Yeah,
I wouldn't bring that up either. Maybe they don't know
about that. So let's go ahead. Let's try to get
a billion dollars, just like the Big ten's gonna get. Yeah,
let's do Okay, let's get that new television contract. This
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is why the PAC twelve is gonna cease to exist
as a conference. It's gonna cease to exist. We're not
gonna have anything. Everything's gonna be an all different conference
in the PAC twelve is gonna be Boy, look what
happened to us? Well, what kind of assets do you
offer as part of this deal? Well, there's gonna be
twelve teams. Oh cool, twelve schools. Awesome? Who are they right?
(33:51):
I mean? The reported value, the average annual value was
five million dollars a year. Was the expectation when the
rights were up in provided that you still had USC
in U c l A current anticipated value is approximately
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three million, to which I say that's about too high
based on losing those assets. And that's if the rest
of these teams stay and then you backfill with San
Jose or San Diego State and whomever else, not not
San Jose State, but with San Diego State new stadium,
playing good football the last couple and all those things,
(34:34):
you know, fine, but trying to come out after this done.
You know, you talk about a authorized for the act
of desperation and pleading things to kneel on as you
try to get a d S to sign up to
fill those vacant spots. That would I have that headline,
I would have believed they walked with bags of money
(34:55):
begging teams not to go that that headline I believe
like you go on through. I mean a couple of
teams you mentioned there. Ralph and I have been chatting
about it a little bit. You got you got Stanford
and Cal that are just kind of there, right, the
academic standards and and all of those things that you
love to tout, the history that gets out quaint campus
(35:16):
sites and histories and and student bodies. But in terms
of moving the needle, they don't right at all. And
just saying hey, you got Berkeley and Palo Alto. I mean,
it's California is so fractionalized in terms of you know
what lays claim to different teams and and fan bases
(35:37):
and such that just saying now we got part of
the Bay Area doesn't really quite work. You know, it's
really funny that we're talking about TV in the past
twelve when their own damn channels not even on TV. Well,
I mean that's the thing they're trying to get on TV.
Can where can we see a sampling of the content
you currently offer without the USC and U, C, L
(35:59):
A and nobody's way that garbage this and I thought
it would look really nice, Well where's the actual product?
We signed a bad carriage deal. So I just if
they want money, why don't they go after Larry Scott?
He took it all. Oh Larry Scott, Larry you could,
(36:19):
you could, you could? You can trace the end of
the pack twelve all through Larry Scott's regime. I mean,
this is not something that's brand new happening. This is
this has been going, This has been coming down the
road for a long long time. Look, this is a
perfect example of why the Pack twelve is gonna wind
up not existing because now is when oh hey, let's
(36:39):
let's do new media rights. Now, who's gonna offer you
anything without any of these schools. We don't know. We're
not gonna have usc IN U, C l A. No,
what about the other schools? Yeah? Maybe, what do you mean? Maybe? Yeah? Maybe? Okay,
here's a billion dollars. We want you, just like we
want the big dead. I mean, this is insane. Who
makes these businesses? This is like Michael Scott making these
(37:00):
this decisions. Hey, you know what he ended up doing
okay for his guys at the Michael Scott Paper Company
when it was all that done. This is what's the pack?
Pol saying, explain it to me like I'm five, and
Oscar explains it, and Oscar says, but next summer, and
Michael Scott says, I'll be six. This is that conversation. Now.
In the sporting card world, there's a lot of the hey,
(37:20):
blind bag kind of thing, or you know, the hit
pack kind of variety. What's the floor bucks, what's the ceiling? Well?
Shoot thousand, and then you start doing the mass like
there's gonna be a lot more floors. Get Ready for
the Pack twelve to hit. There's I'll put up that pack.
What do you got? I got a flear update back yea?
(37:41):
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