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thirty pm on a Flex Alert,the final flex of this week. The
Roadie comes to an end after thesix forty five pm first pitch from the
Galpin Motors broadcast. Such a weirdRoadie with the weird start times in San
Diego. Everyone in San Francisco,like so many other places in California,
they've just given up and starting thegames that early feels well. It feels
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like putting Gail King on the coverof Sports Illustrated to the Swimsuit issue.
That's what it feels like, Matt. That's what these start times feel like,
the Gail King of start times hereon the West Coast. That's what
we Going back twenty five minutes andwe move back an hour is how it
works. That's the equation. Andwe're glad to be here. I'm glad,
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but he's happy. Oh, I'msorry. We're glad to be here.
Sorry about that. We are.We're thrilled to be here. Don't
go in there or you're going tolose your life, that's true. But
it is great to be here.It's great to be here at the kit
Kat Club. I want to saythis. I don't want to be labor
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it, and it probably won't bethe first time I say it on the
show today, but I want tosay this right now. Uh I from
my part, and I've gotten somany requests for this, Matt, so
much upheaval. I feel like I'mthe the the FCC and Janet's boob just
popped out, you know, andI got to put out fires everywhere.
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I think Vic's got to be onanother suspension by yesterday. Has been simmering
in my pan and I can't Ican't do it. And I heard in
the last hour. I mean itwas just a thirty yesterday. Yeah,
it was so egregious that we endedup going until two thirty. Totally,
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we blew the clock out of ourfirst hour, right, and then goes
to and Mono. Y'all right,and we're going to do the two Armano
games starting at two twenty nine,which is like my kids raising hell all
night, pushing bedtime, pushing bedtime, pushing and going will you read to
me? No, No, Iwill not. You've pushed it too far.
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And that's what happened yesterday and today. Egregiously, he's sitting there with
amnesia, being like, why didthe Lakers trade Josh Hart? He's the
heart of the mixed Why because yourking traded him. He threw him out
like a like the rapper of aBig League two. This is ridiculous and
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I'm tired of it, Matt.I'm tired of I'm tired of no longer
living in a meritocracy. And Iwill not do it. I will not.
He is that I suspended. It'simportant, it's important to ask,
and it's important to ask. Look, did Brony have a great scrimmage that
just ended about ten minutes ago?No, but it was considerably better than
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yesterday. He was I think fourof ten. He made three of his
first five shots and then missed fourof his next five, but solid d
had a couple of sists. Okay, well, Bronny I wanted Vick to
come on and celebrate that as No, no, no, Bronni is the
Dante Hicks of the NBA combine.He's not even supposed to be there today.
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The only reason he's there is becauseman, because his dad is.
We've talked about this, yes,God bless the young man. This is
a conspiracy by one of the mostpowerful basketball players in the history of the
sport to get us all to admitsomething that isn't true. Well, he
was wearing a shirt that suggested asmuch today. More than an athlete,
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he is a man that is pullingstrings behind the scenes in order to make
TV productions what they are, createheadlines where they must be. That is
more than He doesn't just play basketball, but listeners the media spread his gospel.
Listening to Vic call that kid whohas hijacked the twenty four hour news
media. It's not his fault,it's his dad. Listening to Vic trumpet
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that the way he did yesterday.It made me sick. I can't do
it. He's gotta be on suspension. I did not enjoy it either.
No, it was like a flogging. Yeah, I just want to again.
I want to make sure it isdidn't that look if Bronnie goes eleven
for twelve and breaks the record formost points scored in the combine scrimmage and
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we tell Vicky can't come on,then it looks like a little bit of
sour grapes, like, hey,no, you're not coming on to celebrate
the kid because I don't care.But that's not what happened today. I
don't care what the cake was.I don't care if a few more shots
went for Bronnie James. He's sixfoot one, great. I'm happy that
his dad was there. I don'tcare. Like I don't care about the
NBA Combine, we never cover it. What I can't stand is that there's
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this weird monopoly on the emotional truththat's not even really the truth anymore.
Everybody just creates their own little worldand they live in it, and it's
like, that's not how it usedto be, and it's one thing to
have it all around us, likesome wiggling gullet on ESPN doing it.
But to have Vic doing it onour show and pushing us, pushing us,
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pushing us like bedtime deep into thebreak was with propaganda. I think
it warrant suspension and I want tosuspend him now. Of course, it's
not all up to me. Thelast suspension, which was very recent for
Vic, was actually Ronnie Fossil ofall people. Oh it's right, Ronnie.
Remember Ronnie faded him out. Iremember that Vivid didn't take the echo
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anymore, wouldn't listen to him,would not take his direction. Ronnie lost
control of himself and he faded himout. And I'm I feel like I'm
there as well. I'm right onthe edge. I'm on the dizzy edge.
Let's spend this to order. Then, what kind of suspension are we
talking about here for Victor Jacies atleast today? That's it? Well,
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was the two time offender Petrose,just like somebody coming back for their second
DUI. I thought you were goingto see bring out the rack for a
week last year. Yeah, butyou know what, Cakes, it's not
the same crime. These are twothey're misdemeanors. Okay, they're not felonies
on this state and fifty dollars mightas well. Let's say out, Let's
say Vic is a mobster in NewYork where he grew up, so he
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would be into racketeering, you know, hookers and maybe drug brod. Right,
yeah, so so the Otani sanstuff, that's one lane of offence
right right, appropriation of Otani Shanand all that. You know, vis
vix Angel on Otani today. Bythe way, he's hitting better because he's
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sleeping better. According to Vic,it seemed like he was oblivious to what
was going on. Vic has notbeen outside his house since nineteen eighty eight,
yet he's somehow a guardian angel overOtanni's suite in the hotel room and
he's watching his rem sleep. Okay, I think they share Strava profiles,
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so he gets to see his staff. So that's one abbage knew, one
avenue of crime. So let's justsay it's hookers. That's like a fine
though, but that's okay, Butthat was publicly flogged for that. We
publicly flogged him for that. Andthen the other avenue on site was technical
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difficulties that he and Ilse done goto prison for a minute or to jail,
right, he's put in jail forI think two days, three days
a week. It was a fullweek. We didn't have money. Yeah,
remember he sent the food, that'sright. Yeah, that was a
one week. That was a oneweek jail term. I think it was
a Thursday to Thursday. That's plentyof time to get your plumbing rerouted.
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A week in there, exactly right. And now he's on trial over the
Brownie James stuff. So I don'tknow. I mean, if the technical
difficult now look that he was aserial, a serial technical difficulty or a
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trader. It was not a oneoff. It was a crime spree that
lasted years. It was so forhim to get well, it was almost
like you know it, that isunderstandable. It's almost like he was a
sanctioned criminal for the LAPD or something. Right, Like we let him operate
and then finally we're like, youknow what, that's it. We're cutting
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this guy's string. Like we gotfed up. But we we were complicit
in that operation for years. Imean we looked the other way. We
did, We totally looked. Welet the hookers on on Western Avenue in
Hollywood do their thing for years withoutbecause we took free tricks, and I
don't feel like we got any freetricks. That's the problem. Well,
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I mean, you know it.One would argue that Vic comes on and
he's part of the show as aguest, and you know, you know
that, you know he's helping provideus content. You could argue that you
and I know differently, matt Uh. That being said, Uh so,
Kate's it seems like a voting foran extra What do you want, Kate?
Well, I think this is that'sthe question. This certainly is not
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as the amount of crime that's beencommitted is not in step with what earned
him a week in the in thepokey the technical uh is it? It's
not a public flogging because he waspublicly flogged for his yesterday. Yesterday was
bad, so he might as well. He might as well. He might
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as well have whipped it out infront of the judge and dared him for
contempt, you know, so dronkand we're just keeping him in the We're
going to sober up overnight in thedrunk tank. Tonight. It's just tonight.
Hey, you can only hold herelegally, you can only hold me
for twenty four hours. Right,we'll let you go. Unless you're charging
me with the crime. You've gotto let me go. People want lifetime,
people want the month. You know, there's a lot of talk here.
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I think Matt's right. The wholetechnical issue that was going on for
three years, so a week suspensionwas was pretty right. I mean you
could even say that it was lenient. Yeah, really time, sir,
probably, and technical issues with Vicare still going on to this very moment.
See, yeah, he's still killingwell, you know, he's still
he's still on pros. He's lockedout of his company's email, and he's
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trying desperately to get somebody to helphim out, help me reset my passwood
y'all. You know. The otherday, and I hate to say this,
but I think it was yesterday,I saw Tim Conway and he goes
and and why doesn't Vic come towork? And I looked at him and
I said, you know what,in all honesty, I don't know anymore.
I don't I don't know. Wereattached his butthole, like you want
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to get back into your email comingto the building, once you know,
com into the building, coming tothe building. I have that answer.
I do not know. Yeah,that's what I said, I would say,
I think to take the other sideof that argument, since this is
a courtroom like setting. If Iwere to represent Vic, I would probably
say Vic loves being around people,and I think if he could be around
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us, he would be around us. Vic is a human contact kind of
person. You know that, well, he's lost he's lost touch Matt,
Hence the hotani san, hence thethree avenues of criminality, and that you
are correct. Vic needs to havehuman contact. He sometimes texts me at
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weird times on the weekend, asksasking me what I'm doing and if I'm
going to watch Spengouli on me TV. So is he is he chained to
the UH, to the to thethe heater or something at the house.
I think it's pretty much confined toa couple of rooms. He's a career
criminal, so he's already an inhouse arrest right now. Is what your
sister turned to a life of crime. He's got that thing around his ankle,
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the monitor. So the three avenuesof Vic's crime Japanese appropriation, technical,
egregious, egregious ignoring of technical issues, and and now living on Lebron's
balls like a fleet as if Lebron'sgoing to do something for him. Yeah,
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he's a ball flee right, andhe wrote We try to scratch him
off off the balls with the pawsall the time, and it's very hard
because he hops right back on.He's like the kids with the encampment,
you know, he cleared out thenext day, they're back. Well,
exactly, I will open it upto questions. Sorry, I think a
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twenty four hour, twenty four hourjail sitting says pretty pretty right on for
this. So we put him ontomorrow at three o'clock. He served what
forty eight hours in the drunk tank. Well, technically no, his technically
his his incarceration started eighteen minutes ago, you know, because he wasn't going
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to come out any other time outsideof the opening. So basically it's it's
a twenty four hour sentence or twentythree hours and forty minutes. So he
is a suspended yes till tomorrow,official suspension. Fair and not fight his
way off. He's not on holdright now and all of a sudden we're
going to hear his voice. Nope, and the crime, although he did
ask, the crime is ball washing. Yes, for the crime of ball
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washing. Vic the brick has beensentenced by the Petrosen Money Show Tribunal to
twenty four hours suspension from Great SportsTalk in the inability to push his propaganda
on our platform, which can bepodcast on the iHeartRadio app for your smartphone.
Tomno, yeah no, but toy y'all to twenty nine Yeah no.
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So I'm glad I got that offmy chest. Now here's a question.
This is a you know, apossibility tomorrow he comes back on and
just starts spewing more propaganda about BrownieJames. So that's after him. What
happens then you just we just disconnecthim and he's gone or basically arrested him.
What happens? You get released fromfrom the stony lonesome, your buddy
picks you up, You drive straightto the Best Buy and walk out with
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a VCR under Here. That's whatStan Getz did. Matt the famous saxophone
player, he got out of rehaband the first thing he did was rob
a liquor store to buy Heroinzy wentright back. Yeah, you're gonna go
right back. So if he comeson tomorrow at three o'clock and starts spewing
this crap about Brownie James and then NBA combine. It's back to jail
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for Vic. You know, Ireally wish that cam Rio still had the
Booby Hatch and we could really figureout what's going on. Send Vic up
to the booby Hatch to try addedroom looney bin evaluation. We got to
bring those back, Matt. Wedo bring back the booby Hatch. Put
them with the people that touch themselvesin the hallway, in front of everybody.
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I'll go. I just got atext from a a guy who should
be in the NFL Hall of Fame. Hell of we're in the NFL now
broadcaster one hell of a guy whosaid, free VIC. So there is
some support trickling in, I meantrickling in for VIC. But it's too
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late. The gabble has been hit. Yeah, it's too late to turn
back now. Yeah, it's toolate to apologize. I feel like we
paid a lot today. I do. I do. Thank you guys,
thank you for the VIC, thebrick tribunal. Now we're still hopeful,
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hopeful music at noon, Hopeful musicat noon for a peaceful resolution. But
you know, it's kind of like, you know, a war right now,
Matt. You know, what's theend game? What are we trying
to do here? I think it'swell what what what is the idea behind
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incarceration rehabilitation? Now? Does itwork? Don't know? And people push
either way on that. Some saysure, others say no, is it
a turrent? Is it not?Let's find out can we rehabilitate vic Vic
might come back just covered in tatslike de Niro and Kate fear all swollen
and mad, right, vengeance hismind? I mean maybe he is just
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the recidivism is his middle name,and he can't shake it. You're right,
And look at this, Matt.This text says feeling you hits different
in the booby hatch. Yes,it does. All right, Well,
I'm glad you know. That wassomething that really that kept me from having
a good night's sleep last night thinkingabout the PROPA. It's one thing to
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have propaganda spewed other places, butto have it spewed on our show for
thirty minutes when we're trying to getto Doug Gottlieb to celebrate him in his
schedule, right him short only gotabout one questioning, now, what if
it comes on the air tomorrow andapologizes he will or what if he comes
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on the air tomorrow is like,screw you guys, Bronni's the best.
Well, I mean, would yousay that's an appeal or right to defense?
Like, what do we No?I would be very surprised if that
were his approach. I would bevery surprised if that. I believe he
will come on contrite, Yes,contrite, conciliatory, rehabilitated. You know
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he has not because because you knowwhat, he's been rehabilitated on the Otani
and Yamamoto sound front. Yeah,he sure has so at least for now.
Yes, he's clean, but hemight go on a big h jag
soon. You never know. I'llsay this, Matt, I'm sure glad
that Poul smoking isn't a crime aroundhere, because you and I just be
dead air smoking poles. Smoke him. We'll be back with James Worthy,
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Polus. Is that James Worthy?Next? Kate it is? And then
Vassay at four thirty three, threethirty three thirty is the new four to
thirty this week till tomorrow. Thisisn't confusing at all. We're on the
air and that's what's important, andwe're able to come to a decision as
a show and that decision is twentyfour hour suspension for ball washing. Stay
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with us. James Worthy's going tojoin us next ignore us washing his balls.
That's trust some money. Early Flexalerts start two o'clock going until five
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Ford Tough. Well. I believeit's like Day twelve right that we don't
have a Laker coach still, butthat sounds right. They try to getting
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permission to talk to different people,various assistants, guys like Sam Cassell and
stuff like that. The Lakers arealways in the news, even if the
season is over and we are hislast job before he wraps it up for
the offseason. Our hero, JamesWorthy, Emmy Award winner, NBA Hall
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of Famer, available for keynote speechesand one of the greatest guys in the
history of great sports talk. Welove talking to him. James, how
are you? What's cracking? Daytwelve? Hey man, I'm just just
trying to improve my golf game nowand watching the playoffs, man, watching
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Denver and Minnesota and seeing, youknow, just trying to enjoy what's left
of the playoffs. And that's aboutit, man, before we get into
the Laker coaching search and whatever's goingon with the Lakers and what might happen
this offseason. Are you surprised thatDenver was able to storm back the way
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they were? It looked like itwas going to be young Buck City and
then all of a sudden, boththe Dallas I mean and Denver kind of
had to say punching back on OKCand Minnesota respectively. Yeah, I'm I'm
never surprised at what Denver can do. I thought that Minnesota would present a
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little bit more of a problem.That's why they were able to go in
there and steal those two. Nowthat was a strong They're just too experienced
and Minnesota's never been there before,so being up too oh and not knowing
how to handle that, not knowinghow to prepare for that third game,
not knowing how to take care ofthat game. One of those games is
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just this shows the inexperience I thinkMinnesota. Sticking with the playoffs, and
I think this will will probably pushforward to a certain son of a certain
superstar as well. But James,what what do you need to do when
you're because I'm thinking of Jalen Brunsonand what he's doing at six foot one
and how he's the best player onthe court, scoring from wherever he wants.
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Like, what are the keys tothose guys? I mean I know
that, like you know, Iversonwas just a prolific score, But I'm
sort of thinking about the you know, Isaiah guys that you played with,
the Isaiah Thomas is the tim Hardaways, Like what is it that they were
able to do to overcome their heightdeficiencies to be effective in the league like
Jalen Brunson has been for the Knicksthis season. You know, I remember
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when Dak Fisher came here at six' one. He just you know,
you have, first of all,you've come in with a mental approach that
you're the underdog, you're undersized,and you work on something to the point
where it becomes a perfection for you. Bronson is a lefty. He loves
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to get close to the body,and if you get close to him,
he's going to be able to geta shot off. He's a great contact
player. He loves that, andI think that's what he looks for.
And I used to see some oldclips of him when he was like twelve
and thirteen and his dad had himworking out. He wasn't that good.
He's a little chubby kid and hewould be going through drills and his dad
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would say stop, not fast enough, Stop, not quick enough, stop,
not strong enough. So he's it'sbeen drilled into Bronson and he's like
a late bloomer as far as youknow, not being a major star when
he came into the league, buthe just continued to grow. So did
Michael Jordan. They have something sittingon their shoulders and in between their ears
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that you can't teach. And whenyou add that to your talent that you
get a guy like Brunch, Youget Isaiah Thomas, who grew up in
Chicago playing street ball there. Hehad to be tough. So some guys
just boring like that and they growup playing and you know, school yard
whatever, and then guys like Bronson, you know, he knows he's not
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as good, and he just refusesto stop working until he gets to a
place where he's satisfied right now,he's satisfied what I was fortunate to call
a game there, a college gameearlier this year, the Yukon Saint John's
game. And I think when youdon't go to Madison Square Garden for a
while, you forget how old itis, just how much like the concourses
aren't great, the bathrooms are apain. But you know there is electricist
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It's a special level of electricity.How would you describe and like, what
do you make of Madison Square Gardennow that the Necks look like they're going
to punch their ticket to the conferencefinals and that city is freaking out.
I hate to say this because Idon't I don't put any city over the
other, but New York they knowthe game there. They love the game,
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they're watching it and you don't evenhave to be the nick player.
If you're playing well, they loveit. They'll give you a standing ovation
in there. But it's the mecca. There's been so many great players to
come out of New York and MadisonSquare Garden has proven to be the place
where everybody wants to go and perform. From the first time I came to
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the league, I know magic,love to go there, Isaiah, I
love you to go it. LebronTolby loved it. If it's something about
New York. They appreciate the gamedifferently than other cities, and this makes
you feel worthy there when you goplay, and they'll give it to you
when you're not playing well either.Just something about going in that small arena,
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Like you said, it smells,it's dirty, but all you've got
at the basketball court and those fans, So it's New York baby. The
Great James Worthy is our guest thathe is an LA guy baby, at
least ever since he left North Carolinato be a Laker and he became a
legend, and we always love talkingto him here on the show. Even
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though the Lakers are out of theplayoffs, we still continue our conversations with
Worthy because they are, like hejust said, worthy of our time,
no doubt about it. So howmuch attention do you pay to the Laker
coaching search and what do you thinkthey're looking for? What do you make
of this? Jj Redick as thefront runner talk man. They need to
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go down to South Carolina and getDawn Staley, bring her out here,
let her coach to Lakers there's asuccess story right there. I bet she
could do it at You don't know, man, it's different than I can
never remember. I played for PatRally for nine years. You know,
I know. You know players playin Boston. They played for Casey Jones
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for a number of years. It'sdifferent now, especially with the Lakers.
It's like every two years we're changingcoaches now. I don't know how stable
that is. I don't know whetherwe're trying to get a coach that could
take us to the Promised Land.You know, someone who could coach Lebron
and Ad and But I don't know. Look, I think a coach deserves
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an opportunity to make some mistakes.Yeah, I'm sure Darren looked at his
some of his decisions and probably said, you know, he could have done
something different. But my gosh,it's like Vogel gone, him gone.
I mean, it takes time toget used to a new coach and you've
got new players. So I don'tknow. I don't know what's going to
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happen. I mean, I loveSam Pacel. I like coaches who've been
sitting on the sideline as assistants,and I like for him to get a
chance I didn't really care for theNash thing in Brooklyn. I didn't care
for that. After all, thesecoaches are sitting over there waiting for a
job. I love. I likeReddick. I listened to him. He's
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extremely smart. I know he andLebron had that podcast. But uh,
you know, maybe you don't needexperience as a head coach anymore. Maybe
just maybe need to, you know, be a psychiatrist or something. I'm
not sure what it is. Ihave a podcast. What you need as
a podcast? Podcast? You getme a podcast. We've got to range
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for that game. We know people. Okay, I'm gonna have to come
in. We have to meet him. Well, we have to meet up
on that. There we go.I mean, watching the playoffs, seems
like experience does pay off. It'sRick Carlisle, It's Tom Thibodeaux, it's
uh got fanshup in Minnesota, longtimeassistant Michael Malone. When it comes to
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the to hiring the right coach,you know, James, what I think
the big sort of question and nota lot of people like to explore it,
and I think you got to kindof be careful how you worded.
But it's like it's really about Lebron? How do you get him to buy
in? What do you think isthe key? If you're hired, whether
it's your first ever head coaching job, whether you've been toiling as an assistant
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for twenty years, if you've alreadyhad a previous head coaching gig that maybe
didn't go as great as you wouldlike, like a Kenny Atkinson who's been
tied in to get like, what'sthe What do you think is the most
important thing for that coach to getLebron James to buy in. That's a
good question. That's a tough questionbecause I really, I really don't know
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what that answer is. I wouldhave to think that you would have to
have a coach that knows how tomaximize Lebron's games, which I don't know
if a coach has anything to dowith that. You know Lebron's going to
maximize his game, That's a toughone, man. You got to get
somebody that knows how to get thebest out of Ad and the rest of
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the players. I think if Lebronsees that you're able to maximize your bench,
maximize you know, those third andfourth, fifth players, I think
know that's that's what he's looking for, because I think Lebron you know,
knows what he can do, butI think he's looking for a coach that
can maximize and motivate, you know, guys like d Lo, guys off
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the bench, get you know,find a way to get Spencer and engaged
to be more productive. Find anoffense, an offense that flows and it's
easier when he's out of the game, when he you know, a passing
game or something where they can getmore product activity out of the whole team.
That might be something that Lebron's lookingfor. Do you ever pay attention
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to the NBA draft combine and areyou paying attention to it this year because
of Bronnie James. Everybody else is, including us. Yeah. I haven't
watched a lot of it, youknow, seen some of the results.
I want to understand, Bronnie's hada good combine, you know, so
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he didn't excel at the collegiate level, so we'll see what happens. I
mean, combine is combine. It'snot you know, it's not a game,
or it's not you're on a team, it's the combine. So it's
early and after I understand he hada really good one. I heard his
interviews were very humble and very gratefulas far as this opportunity for him.
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So yeah, we'll see, we'llsee. What is it? What is
it? You know, James,you came into the league with a reputation
having won a national championship. Youknow, I've played at North Carolina under
Dean Smith. What do you rememberabout that step, Like how big of
a step it was and how thatprepared you for it. I mean,
we're looking at this draft and it'sa bunch of teenagers internationally that are in
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like the top five six slots.There's very few guys that have been in
the lead. You know, beenin college, you know, more than
a year. How big of ajump is it, you know, for
for them versus kind of what yourexperience was and how ready you were to
play the second you stepped on anNBA court. Yeah, it's a huge
adjustment. I mean I was fortunateI had three years with Dean Smith.
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You know, Michael Jordan had threeyears with Dean Smith. So we had
the drills we had to work atthat, we had an understanding of the
game itself, and I think sometimesyou have one year or you come right
out of AAU or something. There'sso much more to learn that you haven't
picked up yet, and so it'sdifficult for a guy to come in who's
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hasn't had, you know, inexperienceat the collegiate level, hasn't been coached,
hasn't been doing a ton of drills. I mean, in the United
States, these guys AAU teams,they played six games a day on a
Saturday, and they're flying all overthe place. They're not practicing. In
Europe internationally, they're playing one gamea week and they're working on fundamentals the
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rest of the week. And that'sthe difference. That's the difference. And
I think that's where American players whocome in with a lot of hype they
get exposed. You can't go left. They don't know how to stunt and
get back simple things that you learnin college. Often reads four years at
Arkansas undrafted, but he did allthe drill work twenty minutes before practice even
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started. They was like guards downhere, big man down here, that's
do thirty minutes of this. Sowhen you get to the NBA, you
don't have to be taught, andthey don't have time to teach you here
in eighty two games. They don'thave time to teach you. So a
lot of times, these high talentedplayers, and we've seen a lot of
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them over the years, they getpushed you aside and eventually run out of
time and out of the league.The great James Worthy, there's nobody better.
We sure appreciate you. James.Have a great week and good luck
out on the course. All right, go Dodgers kicking the giants at James
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is weighed into stay tuned for that. Oh he's wait in all right,
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about forty minutes from now from SanFrancisco. Dodgers going for the sweep,
and we will be back to ourregular schedule tomorrow and Friday three to six
pm as the Dodgers in the midstof a thirteen game thirteen straight day with
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a game run so f against theRed starting tomorrow at Dodger Stadium, both
just after seven pm starts, Soenjoy the flex and the two o'clock hour
for the last time this week.It got a little ugly last night between
Vasay and I in what text waitwith without men or Hello? Yeah,
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yeah, I didn't. It wasn'tbetween my dad or you. It was
just Vassay and I because Pa hasstruck out again, and I wrote,
you know, he's like four forhis last thirty two or something, and
I was like, how's Pa hasdoing going back to Cuba with that,
Dave? And Dave's like, you'regonna go. You're gonna do it your
next show from OKC because that's wherehelp. It's good for shame he's got.
(35:44):
Really, I was like, how'syour Cuban clown got you? It
got a little ugly. Everyone canhave a zero for five night with four
strikeouts, Okay, it happens tothe best. I'm just saying, you
know, the same thing that happenedto Outman could happen to pie has it
can happen quick? And everybody's actinglike, no, this is what it
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is. No, it's not thebook is Oh the book is out on
pies and always going to adjust anyway. God, I don't know. At
least next months it was zero forfour again. Hey, how dare you
like a uh to tell your sonthat Max is and I I don't think
he's gotten a hit, and likeit seems to be about ten games for
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you know, everybody just wants tossall over me. Not really, I'm
so tired of it, Matt,you know, vest say, staying on
me about outman just because my father. It's not my fault. Why do
I have to be so connected tothe bottom of the Dodger's lineup? It's
not your fault. The only thingthat's a big hit in the game the
other night. That's right, that'sright, he did. All right,
let's do some texts. A secrettext does a fine brought to you by
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your so called Toyota dealers. Wemake it easy. Oh did you hear
about this? That leprechaun Rory McElroyis getting divorced and this text says,
can you believe ice Tea's marriage tothat balloon animal is lested longer. Why
I gotta catch straights? I don'tknow. It was a text, what
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do you want me to do?And frankly, yeah, I don't know.
Yeah, I can believe that IcedTea's marriage, that balloon Animal Coco
Tea happy together, not to beconfused with the great reggae artist Coco Tea.
Instead of a suspension, which franklyfor the Brownie James egregious crime as
much too lenient, I'd say,you guys make a pilgrimage out to vix
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Abode and blanket party his ass likethey did Gover Pyle in full metal jacket.
Now, this wouldn't be the firsttime that we threatened Vic with violence
or a home invasion, and franklythat didn't work out the last time.
No, the extraction was was anincredible plan, very detailed. We just
failed to execute it. So manyof our great plans fail in execution that
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one part of it. It comesto that execution part we fail. But
like Ron Washington says, we getan education every time we do. We
educate, we plan, We gotideas, zero follow through. This says,
y'all are a holes man let viccook. I think there's probably some
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of that. I can see that. What's he cooking? He's cooking the
same. That's what drives people crazy. Oh, Tony, I said,
Bronnie Brownie, Brownie, Bonnie lebronMy mom my, mam ma, ma,
mama. What's he cooking? Chicken? Chicken every night? Boiled chicken.
My man, I've had That's whyit looks so slim. I've had
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chicken a thousand different. Why catcha Tory Kiev Marsala paprika. He might
get choked out like a little puppet, Victor Brick. Don't look at me,
puppet. Uh yes, I'm sorry. Kate's Vick texted in, and
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do we need a timpany for that? Like? What do we like?
Is that a big text? Wasit a long like the other day?
I look, I hold up onthe timpany, kill it for a second.
You know how we got after Clyylelast week? Oh? I look
for not to remember, but rememberhow we did? Yes? And then
I looked at Instagram and she sentlike three paragraphs defending herself. Do you
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know them exactly? Delete? Delete? So unless this is contrite and short,
I'm not interested in it bring thetippany. This is Vix response to
his twenty four hour suspension for ballwashing Kate. Text message from Vic after
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the opening segment of the show,any suspension two words fun stuff? Sure,
fun stuff. I think that's bigsaying I don't take any of this
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personally or fun stuff like f youguys. You guys are just ribbing me.
Yeah, Like I remember there waslike this really angry English dad at
one of my daughter's soccer games.Well they were playing the game before.
We weren't involved at all, butthe team was really putting it on them,
like probably should have pumped the brakesince they're you know, eight year
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old girls and and this English dadwhen they scored like their sixteenth or seventeenth
goal, was like, yeah,why to go? Why don't you go
for the twenty day? You know, like sarcastic, right, that could
be the fun stuff, Like asarcastic could be like a great job,
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guys, fun stuff. Feeling yourabuse. Here's here's a fair point,
Matt Vic on suspension. While BrianVance is running around being a menace for
shame, I wish we could suspendBrian Vance. Do we have any power
to do that not up to us. Now I can make a call you
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you mean you haven't. I meanit'd be calling in a big favor.
Is it worth it? Matt?What if we could get the English chip
back? Still? Now, howabout the I the AI chick? Is
that the British when you're talking aboutyeah? Ai? And finally, Matt,
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a salient point to quote Vic Pee. I don't think ball washing in
Great Sports Talk is a crime.It's the ball that were worked on and
the level of shine that's put Vicon suspension. He shined him up too
much day, excessive shining and that'llearn you a day. That'll earn you
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a day suspension. Our show continuesin Great Sports Talk. We got your
word number. Song of the dayvast A live from San Francisco. And
if you're going to San Francisco,Matt, you know what you're supposed to
do? What are you supposed todo? Put flowers in your hair?
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I was thinking to go to MitchellBrothers. No, man, it closed. What
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thirty pm on a Flex Alert,the final flex of this week. The
Roadie comes to an end after thesix forty five pm first pitch from the
Galpin Motors broadcast. Such a weirdRoadie with the weird start times in San
Diego. Everyone in San Francisco,like so many other places in California,
they've just given up and starting thegames that early feels well. It feels
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like putting Gail King on the coverof Sports Illustrated to the Swimsuit issue.
That's what it feels like, Matt. That's what these start times feel like,
the Gail King of start times hereon the West Coast. That's what
we Going back twenty five minutes andwe move back an hour is how it
works. That's the equation. Andwe're glad to be here. I'm glad,
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but he's happy. Oh, I'msorry. We're glad to be here.
Sorry about that. We are.We're thrilled to be here. Don't
go in there or you're going tolose your life, that's true. But
it is great to be here.It's great to be here at the kit
Kat Club. I want to saythis. I don't want to be labor
(01:55):
it, and it probably won't bethe first time I say it on the
show today, but I want tosay this right now. Uh I from
my part, and I've gotten somany requests for this, Matt, so
much upheaval. I feel like I'mthe the the FCC and Janet's boob just
popped out, you know, andI got to put out fires everywhere.
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I think Vic's got to be onanother suspension by yesterday. Has been simmering
in my pan and I can't Ican't do it. And I heard in
the last hour. I mean itwas just a thirty yesterday. Yeah,
it was so egregious that we endedup going until two thirty. Totally,
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we blew the clock out of ourfirst hour, right, and then goes
to and Mono. Y'all right,and we're going to do the two Armano
games starting at two twenty nine,which is like my kids raising hell all
night, pushing bedtime, pushing bedtime, pushing and going will you read to
me? No, No, Iwill not. You've pushed it too far.
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And that's what happened yesterday and today. Egregiously, he's sitting there with
amnesia, being like, why didthe Lakers trade Josh Hart? He's the
heart of the mixed Why because yourking traded him. He threw him out
like a like the rapper of aBig League two. This is ridiculous and
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I'm tired of it, Matt.I'm tired of I'm tired of no longer
living in a meritocracy. And Iwill not do it. I will not.
He is that I suspended. It'simportant, it's important to ask,
and it's important to ask. Look, did Brony have a great scrimmage that
just ended about ten minutes ago?No, but it was considerably better than
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yesterday. He was I think fourof ten. He made three of his
first five shots and then missed fourof his next five, but solid d
had a couple of sists. Okay, well, Bronny I wanted Vick to
come on and celebrate that as No, no, no, Bronni is the
Dante Hicks of the NBA combine.He's not even supposed to be there today.
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The only reason he's there is becauseman, because his dad is.
We've talked about this, yes,God bless the young man. This is
a conspiracy by one of the mostpowerful basketball players in the history of the
sport to get us all to admitsomething that isn't true. Well, he
was wearing a shirt that suggested asmuch today. More than an athlete,
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he is a man that is pullingstrings behind the scenes in order to make
TV productions what they are, createheadlines where they must be. That is
more than He doesn't just play basketball, but listeners the media spread his gospel.
Listening to Vic call that kid whohas hijacked the twenty four hour news
media. It's not his fault,it's his dad. Listening to Vic trumpet
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that the way he did yesterday.It made me sick. I can't do
it. He's gotta be on suspension. I did not enjoy it either.
No, it was like a flogging. Yeah, I just want to again.
I want to make sure it isdidn't that look if Bronnie goes eleven
for twelve and breaks the record formost points scored in the combine scrimmage and
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we tell Vicky can't come on,then it looks like a little bit of
sour grapes, like, hey,no, you're not coming on to celebrate
the kid because I don't care.But that's not what happened today. I
don't care what the cake was.I don't care if a few more shots
went for Bronnie James. He's sixfoot one, great. I'm happy that
his dad was there. I don'tcare. Like I don't care about the
NBA Combine, we never cover it. What I can't stand is that there's
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this weird monopoly on the emotional truththat's not even really the truth anymore.
Everybody just creates their own little worldand they live in it, and it's
like, that's not how it usedto be, and it's one thing to
have it all around us, likesome wiggling gullet on ESPN doing it.
But to have Vic doing it onour show and pushing us, pushing us,
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pushing us like bedtime deep into thebreak was with propaganda. I think
it warrant suspension and I want tosuspend him now. Of course, it's
not all up to me. Thelast suspension, which was very recent for
Vic, was actually Ronnie Fossil ofall people. Oh it's right, Ronnie.
Remember Ronnie faded him out. Iremember that Vivid didn't take the echo
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anymore, wouldn't listen to him,would not take his direction. Ronnie lost
control of himself and he faded himout. And I'm I feel like I'm
there as well. I'm right onthe edge. I'm on the dizzy edge.
Let's spend this to order. Then, what kind of suspension are we
talking about here for Victor Jacies atleast today? That's it? Well,
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was the two time offender Petrose,just like somebody coming back for their second
DUI. I thought you were goingto see bring out the rack for a
week last year. Yeah, butyou know what, Cakes, it's not
the same crime. These are twothey're misdemeanors. Okay, they're not felonies
on this state and fifty dollars mightas well. Let's say out, Let's
say Vic is a mobster in NewYork where he grew up, so he
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would be into racketeering, you know, hookers and maybe drug brod. Right,
yeah, so so the Otani sanstuff, that's one lane of offence
right right, appropriation of Otani Shanand all that. You know, vis
vix Angel on Otani today. Bythe way, he's hitting better because he's
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sleeping better. According to Vic,it seemed like he was oblivious to what
was going on. Vic has notbeen outside his house since nineteen eighty eight,
yet he's somehow a guardian angel overOtanni's suite in the hotel room and
he's watching his rem sleep. Okay, I think they share Strava profiles,
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so he gets to see his staff. So that's one abbage knew, one
avenue of crime. So let's justsay it's hookers. That's like a fine
though, but that's okay, Butthat was publicly flogged for that. We
publicly flogged him for that. Andthen the other avenue on site was technical
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difficulties that he and Ilse done goto prison for a minute or to jail,
right, he's put in jail forI think two days, three days
a week. It was a fullweek. We didn't have money. Yeah,
remember he sent the food, that'sright. Yeah, that was a
one week. That was a oneweek jail term. I think it was
a Thursday to Thursday. That's plentyof time to get your plumbing rerouted.
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A week in there, exactly right. And now he's on trial over the
Brownie James stuff. So I don'tknow. I mean, if the technical
difficult now look that he was aserial, a serial technical difficulty or a
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trader. It was not a oneoff. It was a crime spree that
lasted years. It was so forhim to get well, it was almost
like you know it, that isunderstandable. It's almost like he was a
sanctioned criminal for the LAPD or something. Right, Like we let him operate
and then finally we're like, youknow what, that's it. We're cutting
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this guy's string. Like we gotfed up. But we we were complicit
in that operation for years. Imean we looked the other way. We
did, We totally looked. Welet the hookers on on Western Avenue in
Hollywood do their thing for years withoutbecause we took free tricks, and I
don't feel like we got any freetricks. That's the problem. Well,
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I mean, you know it.One would argue that Vic comes on and
he's part of the show as aguest, and you know, you know
that, you know he's helping provideus content. You could argue that you
and I know differently, matt Uh. That being said, Uh so,
Kate's it seems like a voting foran extra What do you want, Kate?
Well, I think this is that'sthe question. This certainly is not
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as the amount of crime that's beencommitted is not in step with what earned
him a week in the in thepokey the technical uh is it? It's
not a public flogging because he waspublicly flogged for his yesterday. Yesterday was
bad, so he might as well. He might as well. He might
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as well have whipped it out infront of the judge and dared him for
contempt, you know, so dronkand we're just keeping him in the We're
going to sober up overnight in thedrunk tank. Tonight. It's just tonight.
Hey, you can only hold herelegally, you can only hold me
for twenty four hours. Right,we'll let you go. Unless you're charging
me with the crime. You've gotto let me go. People want lifetime,
people want the month. You know, there's a lot of talk here.
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I think Matt's right. The wholetechnical issue that was going on for
three years, so a week suspensionwas was pretty right. I mean you
could even say that it was lenient. Yeah, really time, sir,
probably, and technical issues with Vicare still going on to this very moment.
See, yeah, he's still killingwell, you know, he's still
he's still on pros. He's lockedout of his company's email, and he's
(11:11):
trying desperately to get somebody to helphim out, help me reset my passwood
y'all. You know. The otherday, and I hate to say this,
but I think it was yesterday,I saw Tim Conway and he goes
and and why doesn't Vic come towork? And I looked at him and
I said, you know what,in all honesty, I don't know anymore.
I don't I don't know. Wereattached his butthole, like you want
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to get back into your email comingto the building, once you know,
com into the building, coming tothe building. I have that answer.
I do not know. Yeah,that's what I said, I would say,
I think to take the other sideof that argument, since this is
a courtroom like setting. If Iwere to represent Vic, I would probably
say Vic loves being around people,and I think if he could be around
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us, he would be around us. Vic is a human contact kind of
person. You know that, well, he's lost he's lost touch Matt,
Hence the hotani san, hence thethree avenues of criminality, and that you
are correct. Vic needs to havehuman contact. He sometimes texts me at
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weird times on the weekend, asksasking me what I'm doing and if I'm
going to watch Spengouli on me TV. So is he is he chained to
the UH, to the to thethe heater or something at the house.
I think it's pretty much confined toa couple of rooms. He's a career
criminal, so he's already an inhouse arrest right now. Is what your
sister turned to a life of crime. He's got that thing around his ankle,
(12:41):
the monitor. So the three avenuesof Vic's crime Japanese appropriation, technical,
egregious, egregious ignoring of technical issues, and and now living on Lebron's
balls like a fleet as if Lebron'sgoing to do something for him. Yeah,
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he's a ball flee right, andhe wrote We try to scratch him
off off the balls with the pawsall the time, and it's very hard
because he hops right back on.He's like the kids with the encampment,
you know, he cleared out thenext day, they're back. Well,
exactly, I will open it upto questions. Sorry, I think a
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twenty four hour, twenty four hourjail sitting says pretty pretty right on for
this. So we put him ontomorrow at three o'clock. He served what
forty eight hours in the drunk tank. Well, technically no, his technically
his his incarceration started eighteen minutes ago, you know, because he wasn't going
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to come out any other time outsideof the opening. So basically it's it's
a twenty four hour sentence or twentythree hours and forty minutes. So he
is a suspended yes till tomorrow,official suspension. Fair and not fight his
way off. He's not on holdright now and all of a sudden we're
going to hear his voice. Nope, and the crime, although he did
ask, the crime is ball washing. Yes, for the crime of ball
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washing. Vic the brick has beensentenced by the Petrosen Money Show Tribunal to
twenty four hours suspension from Great SportsTalk in the inability to push his propaganda
on our platform, which can bepodcast on the iHeartRadio app for your smartphone.
Tomno, yeah no, but toy y'all to twenty nine Yeah no.
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So I'm glad I got that offmy chest. Now here's a question.
This is a you know, apossibility tomorrow he comes back on and
just starts spewing more propaganda about BrownieJames. So that's after him. What
happens then you just we just disconnecthim and he's gone or basically arrested him.
What happens? You get released fromfrom the stony lonesome, your buddy
picks you up, You drive straightto the Best Buy and walk out with
(15:05):
a VCR under Here. That's whatStan Getz did. Matt the famous saxophone
player, he got out of rehaband the first thing he did was rob
a liquor store to buy Heroinzy wentright back. Yeah, you're gonna go
right back. So if he comeson tomorrow at three o'clock and starts spewing
this crap about Brownie James and then NBA combine. It's back to jail
(15:28):
for Vic. You know, Ireally wish that cam Rio still had the
Booby Hatch and we could really figureout what's going on. Send Vic up
to the booby Hatch to try addedroom looney bin evaluation. We got to
bring those back, Matt. Wedo bring back the booby Hatch. Put
them with the people that touch themselvesin the hallway, in front of everybody.
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I'll go. I just got atext from a a guy who should
be in the NFL Hall of Fame. Hell of we're in the NFL now
broadcaster one hell of a guy whosaid, free VIC. So there is
some support trickling in, I meantrickling in for VIC. But it's too
(16:11):
late. The gabble has been hit. Yeah, it's too late to turn
back now. Yeah, it's toolate to apologize. I feel like we
paid a lot today. I do. I do. Thank you guys,
thank you for the VIC, thebrick tribunal. Now we're still hopeful,
(16:32):
hopeful music at noon, Hopeful musicat noon for a peaceful resolution. But
you know, it's kind of like, you know, a war right now,
Matt. You know, what's theend game? What are we trying
to do here? I think it'swell what what what is the idea behind
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incarceration rehabilitation? Now? Does itwork? Don't know? And people push
either way on that. Some saysure, others say no, is it
a turrent? Is it not?Let's find out can we rehabilitate vic Vic
might come back just covered in tatslike de Niro and Kate fear all swollen
and mad, right, vengeance hismind? I mean maybe he is just
(17:22):
the recidivism is his middle name,and he can't shake it. You're right,
And look at this, Matt.This text says feeling you hits different
in the booby hatch. Yes,it does. All right, Well,
I'm glad you know. That wassomething that really that kept me from having
a good night's sleep last night thinkingabout the PROPA. It's one thing to
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have propaganda spewed other places, butto have it spewed on our show for
thirty minutes when we're trying to getto Doug Gottlieb to celebrate him in his
schedule, right him short only gotabout one questioning, now, what if
it comes on the air tomorrow andapologizes he will or what if he comes
(18:06):
on the air tomorrow is like,screw you guys, Bronni's the best.
Well, I mean, would yousay that's an appeal or right to defense?
Like, what do we No?I would be very surprised if that
were his approach. I would bevery surprised if that. I believe he
will come on contrite, Yes,contrite, conciliatory, rehabilitated. You know
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he has not because because you knowwhat, he's been rehabilitated on the Otani
and Yamamoto sound front. Yeah,he sure has so at least for now.
Yes, he's clean, but hemight go on a big h jag
soon. You never know. I'llsay this, Matt, I'm sure glad
that Poul smoking isn't a crime aroundhere, because you and I just be
dead air smoking poles. Smoke him. We'll be back with James Worthy,
(19:00):
Polus. Is that James Worthy?Next? Kate it is? And then
Vassay at four thirty three, threethirty three thirty is the new four to
thirty this week till tomorrow. Thisisn't confusing at all. We're on the
air and that's what's important, andwe're able to come to a decision as
a show and that decision is twentyfour hour suspension for ball washing. Stay
(19:26):
with us. James Worthy's going tojoin us next ignore us washing his balls.
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(20:07):
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the offseason. Our hero, JamesWorthy, Emmy Award winner, NBA Hall
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of Famer, available for keynote speechesand one of the greatest guys in the
history of great sports talk. Welove talking to him. James, how
are you? What's cracking? Daytwelve? Hey man, I'm just just
trying to improve my golf game nowand watching the playoffs, man, watching
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Denver and Minnesota and seeing, youknow, just trying to enjoy what's left
of the playoffs. And that's aboutit, man, before we get into
the Laker coaching search and whatever's goingon with the Lakers and what might happen
this offseason. Are you surprised thatDenver was able to storm back the way
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they were? It looked like itwas going to be young Buck City and
then all of a sudden, boththe Dallas I mean and Denver kind of
had to say punching back on OKCand Minnesota respectively. Yeah, I'm I'm
never surprised at what Denver can do. I thought that Minnesota would present a
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little bit more of a problem.That's why they were able to go in
there and steal those two. Nowthat was a strong They're just too experienced
and Minnesota's never been there before,so being up too oh and not knowing
how to handle that, not knowinghow to prepare for that third game,
not knowing how to take care ofthat game. One of those games is
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just this shows the inexperience I thinkMinnesota. Sticking with the playoffs, and
I think this will will probably pushforward to a certain son of a certain
superstar as well. But James,what what do you need to do when
you're because I'm thinking of Jalen Brunsonand what he's doing at six foot one
and how he's the best player onthe court, scoring from wherever he wants.
(22:18):
Like, what are the keys tothose guys? I mean I know
that, like you know, Iversonwas just a prolific score, But I'm
sort of thinking about the you know, Isaiah guys that you played with,
the Isaiah Thomas is the tim Hardaways, Like what is it that they were
able to do to overcome their heightdeficiencies to be effective in the league like
Jalen Brunson has been for the Knicksthis season. You know, I remember
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when Dak Fisher came here at six' one. He just you know,
you have, first of all,you've come in with a mental approach that
you're the underdog, you're undersized,and you work on something to the point
where it becomes a perfection for you. Bronson is a lefty. He loves
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to get close to the body,and if you get close to him,
he's going to be able to geta shot off. He's a great contact
player. He loves that, andI think that's what he looks for.
And I used to see some oldclips of him when he was like twelve
and thirteen and his dad had himworking out. He wasn't that good.
He's a little chubby kid and hewould be going through drills and his dad
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would say stop, not fast enough, Stop, not quick enough, stop,
not strong enough. So he's it'sbeen drilled into Bronson and he's like
a late bloomer as far as youknow, not being a major star when
he came into the league, buthe just continued to grow. So did
Michael Jordan. They have something sittingon their shoulders and in between their ears
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that you can't teach. And whenyou add that to your talent that you
get a guy like Brunch, Youget Isaiah Thomas, who grew up in
Chicago playing street ball there. Hehad to be tough. So some guys
just boring like that and they growup playing and you know, school yard
whatever, and then guys like Bronson, you know, he knows he's not
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as good, and he just refusesto stop working until he gets to a
place where he's satisfied right now,he's satisfied what I was fortunate to call
a game there, a college gameearlier this year, the Yukon Saint John's
game. And I think when youdon't go to Madison Square Garden for a
while, you forget how old itis, just how much like the concourses
aren't great, the bathrooms are apain. But you know there is electricist
(24:40):
It's a special level of electricity.How would you describe and like, what
do you make of Madison Square Gardennow that the Necks look like they're going
to punch their ticket to the conferencefinals and that city is freaking out.
I hate to say this because Idon't I don't put any city over the
other, but New York they knowthe game there. They love the game,
(25:00):
they're watching it and you don't evenhave to be the nick player.
If you're playing well, they loveit. They'll give you a standing ovation
in there. But it's the mecca. There's been so many great players to
come out of New York and MadisonSquare Garden has proven to be the place
where everybody wants to go and perform. From the first time I came to
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the league, I know magic,love to go there, Isaiah, I
love you to go it. LebronTolby loved it. If it's something about
New York. They appreciate the gamedifferently than other cities, and this makes
you feel worthy there when you goplay, and they'll give it to you
when you're not playing well either.Just something about going in that small arena,
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Like you said, it smells,it's dirty, but all you've got
at the basketball court and those fans, So it's New York baby. The
Great James Worthy is our guest thathe is an LA guy baby, at
least ever since he left North Carolinato be a Laker and he became a
legend, and we always love talkingto him here on the show. Even
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though the Lakers are out of theplayoffs, we still continue our conversations with
Worthy because they are, like hejust said, worthy of our time,
no doubt about it. So howmuch attention do you pay to the Laker
coaching search and what do you thinkthey're looking for? What do you make
of this? Jj Redick as thefront runner talk man. They need to
(26:30):
go down to South Carolina and getDawn Staley, bring her out here,
let her coach to Lakers there's asuccess story right there. I bet she
could do it at You don't know, man, it's different than I can
never remember. I played for PatRally for nine years. You know,
I know. You know players playin Boston. They played for Casey Jones
(26:52):
for a number of years. It'sdifferent now, especially with the Lakers.
It's like every two years we're changingcoaches now. I don't know how stable
that is. I don't know whetherwe're trying to get a coach that could
take us to the Promised Land.You know, someone who could coach Lebron
and Ad and But I don't know. Look, I think a coach deserves
(27:19):
an opportunity to make some mistakes.Yeah, I'm sure Darren looked at his
some of his decisions and probably said, you know, he could have done
something different. But my gosh,it's like Vogel gone, him gone.
I mean, it takes time toget used to a new coach and you've
got new players. So I don'tknow. I don't know what's going to
(27:40):
happen. I mean, I loveSam Pacel. I like coaches who've been
sitting on the sideline as assistants,and I like for him to get a
chance I didn't really care for theNash thing in Brooklyn. I didn't care
for that. After all, thesecoaches are sitting over there waiting for a
job. I love. I likeReddick. I listened to him. He's
(28:02):
extremely smart. I know he andLebron had that podcast. But uh,
you know, maybe you don't needexperience as a head coach anymore. Maybe
just maybe need to, you know, be a psychiatrist or something. I'm
not sure what it is. Ihave a podcast. What you need as
a podcast? Podcast? You getme a podcast. We've got to range
(28:22):
for that game. We know people. Okay, I'm gonna have to come
in. We have to meet him. Well, we have to meet up
on that. There we go.I mean, watching the playoffs, seems
like experience does pay off. It'sRick Carlisle, It's Tom Thibodeaux, it's
uh got fanshup in Minnesota, longtimeassistant Michael Malone. When it comes to
(28:42):
the to hiring the right coach,you know, James, what I think
the big sort of question and nota lot of people like to explore it,
and I think you got to kindof be careful how you worded.
But it's like it's really about Lebron? How do you get him to buy
in? What do you think isthe key? If you're hired, whether
it's your first ever head coaching job, whether you've been toiling as an assistant
(29:03):
for twenty years, if you've alreadyhad a previous head coaching gig that maybe
didn't go as great as you wouldlike, like a Kenny Atkinson who's been
tied in to get like, what'sthe What do you think is the most
important thing for that coach to getLebron James to buy in. That's a
good question. That's a tough questionbecause I really, I really don't know
(29:25):
what that answer is. I wouldhave to think that you would have to
have a coach that knows how tomaximize Lebron's games, which I don't know
if a coach has anything to dowith that. You know Lebron's going to
maximize his game, That's a toughone, man. You got to get
somebody that knows how to get thebest out of Ad and the rest of
(29:48):
the players. I think if Lebronsees that you're able to maximize your bench,
maximize you know, those third andfourth, fifth players, I think
know that's that's what he's looking for, because I think Lebron you know,
knows what he can do, butI think he's looking for a coach that
can maximize and motivate, you know, guys like d Lo, guys off
(30:11):
the bench, get you know,find a way to get Spencer and engaged
to be more productive. Find anoffense, an offense that flows and it's
easier when he's out of the game, when he you know, a passing
game or something where they can getmore product activity out of the whole team.
That might be something that Lebron's lookingfor. Do you ever pay attention
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to the NBA draft combine and areyou paying attention to it this year because
of Bronnie James. Everybody else is, including us. Yeah. I haven't
watched a lot of it, youknow, seen some of the results.
I want to understand, Bronnie's hada good combine, you know, so
(30:57):
he didn't excel at the collegiate level, so we'll see what happens. I
mean, combine is combine. It'snot you know, it's not a game,
or it's not you're on a team, it's the combine. So it's
early and after I understand he hada really good one. I heard his
interviews were very humble and very gratefulas far as this opportunity for him.
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So yeah, we'll see, we'llsee. What is it? What is
it? You know, James,you came into the league with a reputation
having won a national championship. Youknow, I've played at North Carolina under
Dean Smith. What do you rememberabout that step, Like how big of
a step it was and how thatprepared you for it. I mean,
we're looking at this draft and it'sa bunch of teenagers internationally that are in
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like the top five six slots.There's very few guys that have been in
the lead. You know, beenin college, you know, more than
a year. How big of ajump is it, you know, for
for them versus kind of what yourexperience was and how ready you were to
play the second you stepped on anNBA court. Yeah, it's a huge
adjustment. I mean I was fortunateI had three years with Dean Smith.
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You know, Michael Jordan had threeyears with Dean Smith. So we had
the drills we had to work atthat, we had an understanding of the
game itself, and I think sometimesyou have one year or you come right
out of AAU or something. There'sso much more to learn that you haven't
picked up yet, and so it'sdifficult for a guy to come in who's
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hasn't had, you know, inexperienceat the collegiate level, hasn't been coached,
hasn't been doing a ton of drills. I mean, in the United
States, these guys AAU teams,they played six games a day on a
Saturday, and they're flying all overthe place. They're not practicing. In
Europe internationally, they're playing one gamea week and they're working on fundamentals the
(33:00):
rest of the week. And that'sthe difference. That's the difference. And
I think that's where American players whocome in with a lot of hype they
get exposed. You can't go left. They don't know how to stunt and
get back simple things that you learnin college. Often reads four years at
Arkansas undrafted, but he did allthe drill work twenty minutes before practice even
(33:22):
started. They was like guards downhere, big man down here, that's
do thirty minutes of this. Sowhen you get to the NBA, you
don't have to be taught, andthey don't have time to teach you here
in eighty two games. They don'thave time to teach you. So a
lot of times, these high talentedplayers, and we've seen a lot of
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them over the years, they getpushed you aside and eventually run out of
time and out of the league.The great James Worthy, there's nobody better.
We sure appreciate you. James.Have a great week and good luck
out on the course. All right, go Dodgers kicking the giants at James
Worthy driven by the Ford F Series, America's best selling truck for forty seven
(34:06):
years in county at your Southern Californiafour dealers for great offers on a Ford
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reaction from listeners, trickling support forVIC the brick certainly not overwhelming and VIC
is weighed into stay tuned for that. Oh he's wait in all right,
(34:34):
that shows some money. AM fiveto seventy LA Sports Live Everywhere on the
iHeartRadio Appic. Thank you to JamesWorthy. Last segment, David vasse In
about forty minutes from now from SanFrancisco. Dodgers going for the sweep,
and we will be back to ourregular schedule tomorrow and Friday three to six
pm as the Dodgers in the midstof a thirteen game thirteen straight day with
(34:57):
a game run so f against theRed starting tomorrow at Dodger Stadium, both
just after seven pm starts, Soenjoy the flex and the two o'clock hour
for the last time this week.It got a little ugly last night between
Vasay and I in what text waitwith without men or Hello? Yeah,
(35:19):
yeah, I didn't. It wasn'tbetween my dad or you. It was
just Vassay and I because Pa hasstruck out again, and I wrote,
you know, he's like four forhis last thirty two or something, and
I was like, how's Pa hasdoing going back to Cuba with that,
Dave? And Dave's like, you'regonna go. You're gonna do it your
next show from OKC because that's wherehelp. It's good for shame he's got.
(35:44):
Really, I was like, how'syour Cuban clown got you? It
got a little ugly. Everyone canhave a zero for five night with four
strikeouts, Okay, it happens tothe best. I'm just saying, you
know, the same thing that happenedto Outman could happen to pie has it
can happen quick? And everybody's actinglike, no, this is what it
(36:07):
is. No, it's not thebook is Oh the book is out on
pies and always going to adjust anyway. God, I don't know. At
least next months it was zero forfour again. Hey, how dare you
like a uh to tell your sonthat Max is and I I don't think
he's gotten a hit, and likeit seems to be about ten games for
(36:27):
you know, everybody just wants tossall over me. Not really, I'm
so tired of it, Matt,you know, vest say, staying on
me about outman just because my father. It's not my fault. Why do
I have to be so connected tothe bottom of the Dodger's lineup? It's
not your fault. The only thingthat's a big hit in the game the
other night. That's right, that'sright, he did. All right,
let's do some texts. A secrettext does a fine brought to you by
(36:52):
your so called Toyota dealers. Wemake it easy. Oh did you hear
about this? That leprechaun Rory McElroyis getting divorced and this text says,
can you believe ice Tea's marriage tothat balloon animal is lested longer. Why
I gotta catch straights? I don'tknow. It was a text, what
(37:13):
do you want me to do?And frankly, yeah, I don't know.
Yeah, I can believe that IcedTea's marriage, that balloon Animal Coco
Tea happy together, not to beconfused with the great reggae artist Coco Tea.
Instead of a suspension, which franklyfor the Brownie James egregious crime as
much too lenient, I'd say,you guys make a pilgrimage out to vix
(37:35):
Abode and blanket party his ass likethey did Gover Pyle in full metal jacket.
Now, this wouldn't be the firsttime that we threatened Vic with violence
or a home invasion, and franklythat didn't work out the last time.
No, the extraction was was anincredible plan, very detailed. We just
failed to execute it. So manyof our great plans fail in execution that
(38:01):
one part of it. It comesto that execution part we fail. But
like Ron Washington says, we getan education every time we do. We
educate, we plan, We gotideas, zero follow through. This says,
y'all are a holes man let viccook. I think there's probably some
(38:22):
of that. I can see that. What's he cooking? He's cooking the
same. That's what drives people crazy. Oh, Tony, I said,
Bronnie Brownie, Brownie, Bonnie lebronMy mom my, mam ma, ma,
mama. What's he cooking? Chicken? Chicken every night? Boiled chicken.
My man, I've had That's whyit looks so slim. I've had
(38:42):
chicken a thousand different. Why catcha Tory Kiev Marsala paprika. He might
get choked out like a little puppet, Victor Brick. Don't look at me,
puppet. Uh yes, I'm sorry. Kate's Vick texted in, and
(39:05):
do we need a timpany for that? Like? What do we like?
Is that a big text? Wasit a long like the other day?
I look, I hold up onthe timpany, kill it for a second.
You know how we got after Clyylelast week? Oh? I look
for not to remember, but rememberhow we did? Yes? And then
I looked at Instagram and she sentlike three paragraphs defending herself. Do you
(39:28):
know them exactly? Delete? Delete? So unless this is contrite and short,
I'm not interested in it bring thetippany. This is Vix response to
his twenty four hour suspension for ballwashing Kate. Text message from Vic after
(40:00):
the opening segment of the show,any suspension two words fun stuff? Sure,
fun stuff. I think that's bigsaying I don't take any of this
(40:20):
personally or fun stuff like f youguys. You guys are just ribbing me.
Yeah, Like I remember there waslike this really angry English dad at
one of my daughter's soccer games.Well they were playing the game before.
We weren't involved at all, butthe team was really putting it on them,
like probably should have pumped the brakesince they're you know, eight year
(40:45):
old girls and and this English dadwhen they scored like their sixteenth or seventeenth
goal, was like, yeah,why to go? Why don't you go
for the twenty day? You know, like sarcastic, right, that could
be the fun stuff, Like asarcastic could be like a great job,
(41:06):
guys, fun stuff. Feeling yourabuse. Here's here's a fair point,
Matt Vic on suspension. While BrianVance is running around being a menace for
shame, I wish we could suspendBrian Vance. Do we have any power
to do that not up to us. Now I can make a call you
(41:30):
you mean you haven't. I meanit'd be calling in a big favor.
Is it worth it? Matt?What if we could get the English chip
back? Still? Now, howabout the I the AI chick? Is
that the British when you're talking aboutyeah? Ai? And finally, Matt,
(41:51):
a salient point to quote Vic Pee. I don't think ball washing in
Great Sports Talk is a crime.It's the ball that were worked on and
the level of shine that's put Vicon suspension. He shined him up too
much day, excessive shining and that'llearn you a day. That'll earn you
(42:22):
a day suspension. Our show continuesin Great Sports Talk. We got your
word number. Song of the dayvast A live from San Francisco. And
if you're going to San Francisco,Matt, you know what you're supposed to
do? What are you supposed todo? Put flowers in your hair?
(42:42):
I was thinking to go to MitchellBrothers. No, man, it closed. What
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