June 17, 2024 • 36 mins
Charles Barkley says next year on “Inside the NBA” will be his last as a broadcaster. Aaron Rodgers being absent from mandatory camp is an unacceptable distraction. Plus, Jonas disrespects a coworker on the FSR IR.
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Speaker 3 (00:39):
It is Two Pros and a Cup of Joe here Fox.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Reason why Dolly Parton gets away with it, It's because
she does it in a way that doesn't make her
seem like a granny.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
You know.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Randy wear different type of like setups like they don't.
They don't wear like Dolly is stay relevant, like she's trendy.
She stays trendy. Yeah, yeah, you know what I mean,
Like what would she wear? I mean, name one housewife
on on like Bravo that she doesn't like compete with.
(01:17):
She can compete with any of them. They all look
to say, they all compete, got the same plastic surgeon.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Compete with what? It just comes down again, It.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Just depends on how you you rocking your clothes and
what style of clothes you rocking. And you know what,
she stays relevant, so shouts out to Dolly part Dolly.
I mean she could keep disappointing a lot of younger women.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Like you're leaving me for Dolly Parton?
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Yes, I am all right, I get it.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Yeah, Yeah, that's that's that is possible. Oh man, Yeah,
even if you're twenty four.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Get that work.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
I get that work. You are unbelievable with you man
sing a Dolly Parton?
Speaker 1 (02:02):
So can we come back to like, can we do
this rain? Can we come back to a Dolly Parton song?
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Of course?
Speaker 4 (02:09):
Every single great for this hour.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
I don't know one off the top of my head.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
I don't either. I don't either. Don't. Let's make this
the Dolly Dolly Hour. Dolly Dolly, My Baby. That that
was super Cat. You know who's that with? Super Cat? Yes? That?
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Whereas that it is two pros and a cup of Joe.
Here on Fox Sports Radio, LeVar Arrington, Jonas Knox.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
With you here.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
No, Brady Quinn, Uh he will be back at some
point this week, uh as soon as his punishment is up.
But you can listen to hear from the tire you
know what man is acceptable? Yeah, that is acceptable.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
She'd be like, sure.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
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let's just fill it up for people that mayby are
a little bit confused here, we were discussing the fact
that Bill Belichick has got a twenty four year old girlfriend,
and there's a lot of people who would be critical
of that and maybe not be fans of that, and
we were trying to do the comparison like if your
if your kid walked in with somebody of that age,
and I brought up Dolly Parton because it was the
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first thing I could think of.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
I think, we'll make it.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
We'll make an exception, you know what.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
I mean, if you think about it.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
So there's a few guys out there, I guess, but
I mean, come on, let's think shade throw in there.
She hasn't aged a bit someone like Iman. She has
an age at all. Dolly Berry, what.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Are you reading off Lee's notes? Dang? Why you read
that at least tele a prompt to get your own?
Speaker 4 (04:03):
Dang, damn? You know, Sigourney Weaver, I don't know about that.
I haven't seen her.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Ah. Yeah, listen, there are exceptions to every rule.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
There are exceptions.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
That's what I've said, Dolly part might be the most
extreme one of them all.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Well, speaking of exceptions to the rule, when you start
doing broadcasting and you want to be a game analyst,
because we were talking about you know, Tom Brady and
what it's going to look like and sound like, you know,
there are certain things that you're taught like, you've got
to be this, You've got to be that, You've got
to do it this way, this is the way it's
normally done, so on and so forth. And then there's
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exceptions to the broadcasting rule. And one of those is
Charles Barkley, who basically does whatever the hell he wants,
says whatever the hell he wants, and does it in
a way that has made him one of the best
broadcasters of all time. Hall of Fame player podcasting career
even better. But he announced on Friday night after the
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Game four NBA Final game between the MAVs and the Celtics,
he was on NBA TV and he had this to
say regards to his future.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
I've been thinking, guys, I want to say this because
you guys in my family. I really love TNT, all
the people who work here NBA Television.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
You guys been great to me.
Speaker 5 (05:26):
For twenty four years, and I just want to say
thank you to my entire NBA family.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
I love you guys.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
You know there's been a lot of noise around our
network the last few months, and I just want to
say I've talked to all the other networks, but I
ain't going nowhere other than TNT. But I have made
the decision myself. No matter what happens, next year is
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going to be my last year on television, and I
just want to say thank you to my my NBA family.
You guys been great to me. My heart is full
with joy and gratitude. But I'm gonna pass the baton
at the end of next year. I hope the NBA
stays with TNT, but for me personally, I wanted you
guys to hear from me because I'm not doing any
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more interview. Don't y'all be calling me. Nobody calling me.
I'm not talking about this again, but I wanted to
tell my NBA and NBA TV and t TNT family
that I'm not going to another network, but I'm gonna
pass baton to either Jamal Crawford or Vince Carter or
you Steve. But next year, I'm gonna just retire after
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twenty five years, and I just want to say thank you,
and I wanted y'all to hear from me first.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
So that was Charles Barkley talking to NBA TV on front.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
I didn't realize who was in for that long.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Yeah, that's that's a that's a career, and he doesn't
need it for the money.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
I don't believe he'll know he's good. And I also
I know that you know when people retire a lot
of times it's like, ah, yeah, they say that now,
But man, I don't. He sounds like somebody who doesn't
want to go it, doesn't want to do the job
with anybody other than Turner Sports, Like he's not interested
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in going anywhere else. ESPN not a fit like all
the other places that would be possibilities NBC not a fit.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
And I how long did it take for him to build?
Like how long was he with that show? That show's
been around? Is that the twenty years?
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Yeah, two thousand. He started in two thousand, so it
was him, it was Ernie Johnson and I believe Kenny
Smith first.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
The original Yeah, and then Barkley.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Right then and then shot Shack Jump.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
I just think that when you realize.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
What something that takes so long to build, like like
think about this where where in year four?
Speaker 4 (07:58):
Yeah, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (08:00):
And when you think about all of the things that
we've had to do, you know, the behind the scene
moments sometimes we have and people don't even know, you know,
sometimes we have our moments as a show and you're building,
you're building that rapport and you're figuring out what the
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cadence is and how it's going to work.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
You know.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
One of the greatest compliments that you could ever receive
and doing a show is that people, for one, don't
realize that sometimes a lot of times, because of our
travels and the things that we have going on, we're
not in the same studio. When people say, like I
was talking to some of the coaches, because some of
the coaches from Tennessee listen to our show, shouts out
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to y'allf y'all listening right now. It actually takes time
to develop a rapport and a cadence and a feel
where when you do sillyess like like that, what you
do did like it's a part of the It's a
part of the DNA of the show. You know, it's
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a part of it's a part of what the fans
come to recognize and associate when listening to our show.
So you've taken we've taken three years, four years to
get to a point of where our show has either
been accepted by our listening audience and our listening audience
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feels so good about it now they tell somebody else
about it. They listen to it. You know, it's not
like we're a highly highly publicized advertised show. So we're
going to organically have to grow our listenership and have
a product that people want to actually tune into versus
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music or anything else. I mean, people don't just listen
to radio in their cards anymore. People listen to radio
in different places because there's so many technology wise, you
can just get a hold of what you want to
listen to, not to mention podcasting. So I could listen
to something that I want to listen to at any
point in time, I want to listen to it, and
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I don't have to be on a schedule. So understanding
like all of the elements that go into what it
takes to build a successful show, very few people will
understand that at the highest of levels. And when you're
able to build something as magical as they built, and
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you're able to monetize it the way that they monetized it,
and you just see the results of it and what
it turned into, it's a shame.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
It's a shame that.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Somehow, some way that show isn't being preserved the way
that it is.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
That's a crying shame. It's a travesty. In fact, we.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Talked about it, I think a few weeks back, and
I said I wasn't exaggerating, I would rather watch that show.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
Than the game.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Yes, yeah, like and like, na, it's not even close.
I mean, you look playoff games, NBA final games. You
know you can make the argument, but like a regular
season game, I don't care if it's the two best
teams in basketball and they go to triple overtime. I
would rather watch that show and miss the game than
vice versa.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
It's just it's just it takes but it takes so
long to build something up to where the audience one
can can decide that they do love it, and then
two it just becomes cold culture.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
It becomes cold classic.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Like that show is a part of of an NBA season,
that's a it's a it's it's a lock that somebody
that is watching basketball, NBA basketball, it's a lock that
that show is going to touch you.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
You're going to see something.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Like all the times they he's Kenny to the monitor
for him to do his demonstrations and making fun of
his legs and stuff like that, to shock tripping and
falling coming off of the stage and Shack sitting there
getting like bothered by by Charles and and wanted to
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you know, he talk trash. I mean every element of it.
The most successful shows become an extension of your day,
extension of your family, an extension of who you are,
and that's what they created. I just don't think I
don't think Barkley wants to try to recreate that. Now
you know, Shack already has a podcast and stuff, and
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he's already so diverse in the stuff that he's doing.
I don't know how Kenny Smith views it, but you know,
obviously Ernie wants to stay there. He does more than
just that show. But Jonas, when you build something like that,
it's just hard to recreate it. And if he feels
like he's got his feel well, you know, in terms
of what he's done in media by doing that show
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and having a twenty year run doing it, then god bless.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Look, if you wanted to, he could do you know,
his own podcast. I think him and Ernie Johnson do one,
but he could do something different and kind of make
his own schedule and all that. But I just think
to your point, he looks at it and goes, man,
this is a home run, like like why am I
going to try and you know, find it elsewhere? If
and you're not, yeah, it's.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
You're not like look at skipping Shannon right, Like Shannon
just got paid. Like, god bless, he's one of the
hottest dudes, if not the hottest dude in all of
sports as a personality.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
From a from a career standpoint, you're saying, correct, Okay.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
You stupid, stupid, but but the point is, it's you stupid.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
If that word.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
I heard, he's on that same date app that Bill
Belichick anyway, anyway, anyway, not my words is you know,
but it's not the same with him and stephen A. No,
it's not the same show. And for damn sure, it
ain't the same with I mean at least at least
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he's having success with with doing it with stephen A.
I mean it's it ain't the same though. It just
ain't the same. It's just not the same. But with
that being said, it is successful. Uh skip show that
fell off a cliff with no parachute or bungee cord
or safety net or nothing. That's just gonna be a plot.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
Yeah, it's a rat.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
It's a rap for that one.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Yeah, not gonna not gone well knocking smooth.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
So anyway, that's uh, that's just not what if you've
been able to do something. And that's why I do
up on game with TJ and Plexico because if if
and when you become like the next Colin cow Heard
and you leave the show or Q you know, he leaves,
I feel like I feel like the show obviously, because
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you guys did a show without me before anyway, I
was like the Shaquille O'Neill. They added me as a
wild card addition to to an already successful, good, great show.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
We just got a little while. You know, we wanted
to spice things up between yes and so we wanted
to bring somebody else, so pepper.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
You know, if you're gonna spice it up, you add
pepper to your soul. Like that's right, that's what they
you know, and that's that was.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
A great decision. Like I feel like it was a
great decision.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
But you know, one day you may leave, one day
Brady may leave. Like I feel like the show could
survive with everybody except maybe well no, I just feel
like as long as there's two of us, I feel
like the show could survive.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
But with that being said, I still look.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
At it like, you know what, let me have my bets,
you know, and let me let me keep plexing TJ,
you know, rocking, and we rocking together because we got
a pretty dope thing. And then we just replace you
know what you and I have done. Now everybody doesn't
think that way, but for me, you know, I was
feeling like, you know, you guys are so good and
this these spots are so hard to come by that
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if y'all decided to go to somewhere bigger, I'd be like, hey,
let's just set up on gaming here.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Well listen, and I just want you to know, as
the star of the show, Yes, I agree.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
I mean, listen, you got to be realistic in how
you approach things. The only way you got a chance
of winning in life is if you're you're realistic and
not delusional about the things that you know, you know
that you need to do or what you see. And
you know what, back to the original point, Charles Barkley
is being sensible and being realistic, not delusional about what
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it is that they've created and what it would take
to even possibly have a chance to try to created.
You're not going to recreate it. So good for him,
you know, in terms of having a great run and
him saying that he's going to acknowledge the fact that
he's going to step away. I mean, he clearly is
going to make a ton of money doing other things anyway.
I mean, whether it be you know, the speech circuit
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or you know, appearances, whatever it may be, he probably
already is killing that anyway, you know what I mean.
But He's totally solidified himself as a personality over that
twenty year span of time.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Hell of Roon, and next year will be the last.
According to Charles Barkley, it is two pros and a
cup of Joe. Here on Fox Sports Radio, LeVar Arrington
Jonas Knox of the Air coming up next here from the.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Don't say he was joking either, if y'all know this,
by the way, he ain't saying he was joking, and
he wasn't listen. I mean, you heard it here first
from me. I think, I think, I think you're the
next Colin cow Hurt. Like a lot of people don't
realize how talented somebody is until it's been talent for
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a long time, and then you like sneaks up.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
Like dang like Colin cowhard dope, you.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Know, and it's like bam, Like you had that feel
to you where you know it could just turn into
So I mean, you're doing that TV show.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
Didn't help your career, but definitely.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Gave you some reps. They give you some helpful reps
though you ume like talk about paying your dudes. Your
stripes got dang.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Like, let me tell you something, there's nothing like hitting
the big time. When you're sitting up in the freezing
cold and there's a Bubba Gump Shrimp company sign rotating
behind you.
Speaker 6 (18:43):
LeVar, Levar's making fun of your socks.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
You got Kat's reading teleproper scripts like literally on TV.
Speaker 6 (18:55):
My phone's buzzing in my shirt and pocket and I look,
it's our fuck And it's LeVar sniping us from a
rooftop bang, just laughing his ass off.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
And then the faces you make after our text message
you are the funniest fate.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
Like if only, oh, if only people knew the behind
the scenes, if they only knew, Well, listen, it is
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Speaker 3 (20:26):
Coming up here a little over fifteen minutes from now,
we are going to have a Monday tradition. It's an
FSR IR. We're reporting any issues, injuries, ailments from a
long weekend. We'll get into that. I'm gonna air myself
out for being a little bit of an a hole.
That'll be coming up here a little over fifteen minutes
from now on Fox Sports Radio. So where the hell's
(20:51):
Aaron Rodgers? All right, this has gone on long enough? Okay,
we have speculated. All right, there are people like I
saw I think it might have been rich Samini through
out there that he's guessing that Rogers is at the
Pyramids that before Rogers dies. In an interview, he said
that he wants to stand in between the feet of
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the sphinx like I like they're like this whole thing
has really gone off the rails, and nobody seems to
know or have answers as to where he is. And
I'm just wondering, is there any answer or any place
that he's at, or any excuse or event or gathering
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or whatever that will find out what it is and
he won't get heat from somebody Like it feels like
no matter what the answer is is to where Aaron
Rodgers is at right now and why he's not, he
wasn't at the Jets mandatory mini camp and he was
gone and unexcused and all the other things that came
along with it. I'm trying to figure out what would
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be an excuse that he gives that would be accepted
by people Like, Okay, now.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
I get it.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
You can't have a predetermined I'm not showing up to
And I said this the first time.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
We discussed it. You just can't give.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
A a a an excuse as to why you're not there.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
On mandatory practices.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Again, to me, we all look at it like this,
jonas if we're doing these if we're doing these practices,
and you know, Q kind of said, well, it's in
the CBA deal, and it's what look you know why
you have all of these things. You misrepresented them earlier.
I totally nailed him right there.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
Let's do that. Well, he's god, let's just do that
every time we do a Brady impersonation.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
Guys, it's in the CBA deal. Guys.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
Hold that's what hold up.
Speaker 4 (22:59):
That's hold up, it's in the CBA deal. That's why
they're doing the practices, you know.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
And they get paid X amount of dollars for X
amount of seconds, minutes, and hours that they're there at
the facility doing what it is that they do. And
then they go out there, they go, they go, they
go through their their progressions, and they throw the ball
and they hand the ball off and they you know,
and these are the reasons why they're going to be
there for those those mandatory anyways, the point is right.
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The point is is that it's mandatory, and it's generally
mandatory so that the offense can get their reps and
so that they can continue to find their timing and
work on the things that the offensive coordinator and the
coaches want to work on. That's generally what these practices
are for. Again, they're the most important part of the team.
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Everybody knows it, and everything is really catered towards making
sure that they get as much development and time the
coaching staff and with the players as they possibly can.
Speaker 4 (24:04):
And when you have a starter.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
That chooses, I could see voluntary and that's even frowned upon,
but to not be there for mandatories, it's ridiculous, bro,
And it's a bad, bad decision on Aaron Rodgers' behalf.
It's a bad decision because at the end of the day,
all things given, this is your job. This is your job,
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and within your job, and you preparing for the season
coming up, it would be like, you know what, guys, like,
I know we're in season, but hey, I told you
guys a while back that I had this scheduled and
I had this plan. I know we got you know,
Miami this weekend, or I know we got I know
we got a game this weekend, but I'm going to
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miss these two days of practice leading up to the
game because I had something else that I previously planned
to do. And then the coach has to come out
and say, we know that this is a game week,
but you know, Aaron Rodgers came to us and told
us that he had this plan and wanted to do
it and needed to do it, and he was going
to be away from the team, and it's in season.
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There's really no difference other than saying one is the
off season, ones in season.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
But it was mandatory.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
You missed something that was mandatory to your job, to
your job. That doesn't make sense. It doesn't add up.
And I said that to begin with. That does not
make sense. Like you guys saying, oh, I wouldn't make
a big deal of it, this, that and the other.
Speaker 4 (25:36):
Why not?
Speaker 3 (25:37):
Yeah, I'm fine with it.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Why would you not make a big deal out of
your star quarterback who hasn't been anything but a media star.
Speaker 4 (25:49):
He hasn't been an on field star for your team. Oh,
it's because he got injured. I get that. Well, what
was he supposed to do? He's got it, you got it.
You know he got injured four place. I get that.
I get that. But you have been nothing but hype
for the New York Jets so far. Is that fair?
Speaker 3 (26:11):
I no, I mean it's fair. I mean I don't
know that it's his fault, but.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
I mean it doesn't matter in life. It doesn't matter
if it's his fault. What matters is is that's what
the perception of it is all he has been thus
far is hype.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
That's it, because he hasn't played.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
So if I haven't played, and I know what I'm
standing on right now is just hype. Why would you
add this sort of attention to yourself? I heard Dan
Patrick talking about it, or maybe it was Colin Cowhert.
I'm not sure who it was, but they were talking
about the way that that Robert Salah handled it. And
I believe I've called this out too, so maybe they
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heard our show and took this from us. Damn, why
would you even put it out there? It was an
unexcus used absence. He met with me, He met with us,
and I'm fine with it. Yeah, but what about your teammates?
What about your teammates that are there, that are taking
their job seriously and know that that everything hinges upon
(27:17):
what what Aaron Rodgers is able to do.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
Yeah, but he was there. He's been there the entire offseason,
like there what there's probably times where he was there
and other teammates weren't. I don't see anybody.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Busting please man, please, Like it's if that's the comeback,
if that's the comeback for it, Like, oh, He's been
here all off season and he just decides and chooses
he's got to go off somewhere. And I predetermined this
is the schedule of which I'm going off to do it,
which is during the time we have official, mandatory, you know,
(27:49):
organized trainings.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
Like what let me tell you what what my thought
on this up?
Speaker 4 (27:54):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (27:54):
Please do I don't care that he missed two days,
like I really don't like it's you know, it doesn't
bother me, whatever, It doesn't affect me, like it is
what it is. I more care about why he missed
the two days. I want to know where he was at,
and I want to know whether or not we're going
to find out. And everybody seems to assume that we're
(28:15):
going to find out where he was at. And as
this is going on, more and more people are now
pointing out the fact that, yeah, it appears like he
went on another ayahuasca trip in Europe or someplace like that.
And if that's the case, I won because I was
the one who guessed that he went to go lick
(28:35):
a toad, which is in the same ballpark as ayahuasca.
If I'm not mistaken, I don't know. I've never licked
the back of a toad. That to my knowledge, and
if that happens, I won. On our guesses that we made.
LeVar had graduation, Brady had a hot air balloon ride,
and I had drugs.
Speaker 4 (28:54):
I believe try.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
I honestly was just trying to be sensible for him,
for his sake. I was just trying to be sensible
for him.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
By the way, if it comes out that he really
is on an ayahuasca trip, he will not hear the
end of it.
Speaker 4 (29:11):
No he won't.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
Oh my god, no, he won't. And I can't wait.
Speaker 4 (29:14):
And again, how how do you.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
How do you like justify I had to go on
my alauasca trip?
Speaker 4 (29:25):
How you how you justify.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
That is an ayahuasca?
Speaker 4 (29:29):
Right? I don't even I don't even care if I
got it right or if I got it wrong. I
don't care.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
I don't care because it's not my it's not that's
not even important enough for me to say. Oh, let
me go into my notes and make sure I'm able
to say alauasca islo pecia. I don't I don't give
a damn what the name is. I don't care. It's
not in my world. That's an alternate reality. So if
that's what he's doing, he's in further deep water with
(30:00):
his teammates because it's like, oh, you had to go
take a one of them tricks. You couldn't do that
after our two days that we had to be here too.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
By the way, I was just thinking about that video
that you found again of where somebody doctored the footage
of Chris Rock and Will Smith.
Speaker 4 (30:20):
Oh so funny, somebody going.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
Somebody changed the way Will said.
Speaker 6 (30:26):
Instead of them saying keep my wife's name out of
your mouth, they put yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
They switched it up and made it the opposite.
Speaker 4 (30:38):
If you can work that one out, I'm going going.
And for a very long time that was how we
responded to thinks.
Speaker 8 (30:52):
Oh man, So listen, hey, a rod you go do
what you gotta do, man, And please, please, can we
get to the bottom of it too, because I want
to hear the reaction.
Speaker 4 (31:04):
From a just regardless of what it is.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
It's a distraction, yes it is, and it just further,
it further goes down the lane of what Aaron Rodgers
has represented to organizations like and I'll just say an
organization organizations plural, because now he's added the New York
Jets to his list of Green Bay Packers.
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Speaker 9 (32:32):
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Speaker 3 (32:37):
All right, So I got something, all right, So Brian
family Fox Sports Radio family member. He got married over
the weekend. Really yeah, wait married?
Speaker 4 (32:52):
What are you married? Damn? Damn? Okay, go ahead, So
he got married and I'm not going to see him anything.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
Yeah, obviously you know it had sent me an invite
because he works. I work with him every Saturday.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
So that's why I'm gonna go ahead, clowning as much
as Okay, but go ahead. The problem was, I just
forgot he married himself. No, I just shride.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
No, I just uh, I completely forgot. I completely forgot
about it. He sent me multi he sent me multiple invites,
and I mean, of course, I wasn't gonna go once
I get this like twisted at all. I was not
going to go, but I will. I was at least
going to do him the courtesy of responding and letting
him know that I couldn't make it because I had
(33:41):
other stuff going on. But I didn't even do that.
And then I didn't realize that it was Saturday until
we were doing the show, and I was like, oh,
I wonder why Finley's not here today. And then I
go on Instagram and I see Ben Maller and Rob
Parker at his wedding and I'm like, oh there, Oh God.
So I texted Finley. I was like, hey, man, I'm sorry, dude,
(34:03):
I didn't I had no idea. I had an idea.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
I'm just glad in the circle enough where I even
have to feel bad about saying I ain't gonna be there.
Speaker 3 (34:12):
Yeah, because if everybody knows, like if they invite you somewhere,
you don't go. That's the problem. So like you're never
gonna go, like like Lee and I invite you out
all the time, you won't go. You literally don't go.
And so I think that's why people are, you know,
worried about having to invite LeVar anywhere? Am I wrong?
Speaker 4 (34:30):
We love how you turned this into me.
Speaker 3 (34:32):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (34:33):
I love how you turned this into like me, deal
about me. I mean, you're the one that didn't go
to Finley's. I didn't even needed to have witnesses there
to talk about this imaginary ceremony that was taking place.
I didn't even have a was there free booze there,
(34:54):
because if there was, then Lee should be coming in sound.
Speaker 4 (34:57):
Well I was there, you know, like you are.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
Oh, well you missed. Uh Lee had another wedding, he
went to, Yeah, I had a wedding this week.
Speaker 10 (35:06):
Dry wedding. Well it was drying quotation dry my ass.
Yeah not after I was done with it.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
Yeah, tell them that super soap. Tell him what the
edit out truck did.
Speaker 10 (35:20):
So they had an in and out truck, and after
the whole line cleared out, I went back for you know,
a refill on my pink lemonade, and uh, there was
nobody there. So I said, hey, guys, we're cool, right,
They're like yeah. So I bust out my flask and
emptied it into my pink lemonade and they all just
started cheering me on.
Speaker 3 (35:35):
It was awesome. It's very bonding moment, being the in
and out through.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
So you figured out a way, I wanted to say,
you stick it to the dry wedding.
Speaker 3 (35:44):
Hell, yeah, you figured out. Lee figured out a way
to get crippled at a dry wedding. Still like still
managed a way to have that happen.
Speaker 4 (35:56):
Nice, good for you.
Speaker 3 (35:58):
That's how it's done.
Speaker 4 (35:59):
Yes, sir, that's an all time that's an all time
Speaker 2 (36:02):
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Speaker 1 (00:42):
Reason why Dolly Parton gets away with it, It's because
she does it in a way that doesn't make her
seem like a granny.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
You know.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Randy wear different type of like setups like they don't.
They don't wear like Dolly is stay relevant, like she's trendy.
She stays trendy. Yeah, yeah, you know what I mean,
Like what would she wear? I mean, name one housewife
on on like Bravo that she doesn't like compete with.
(01:17):
She can compete with any of them. They all look
to say, they all compete, got the same plastic surgeon.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Compete with what? It just comes down again, It.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Just depends on how you you rocking your clothes and
what style of clothes you rocking. And you know what,
she stays relevant, so shouts out to Dolly part Dolly.
I mean she could keep disappointing a lot of younger women.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Like you're leaving me for Dolly Parton?
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Yes, I am all right, I get it.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Yeah, Yeah, that's that's that is possible. Oh man, Yeah,
even if you're twenty four.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Get that work.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
I get that work. You are unbelievable with you man
sing a Dolly Parton?
Speaker 1 (02:02):
So can we come back to like, can we do
this rain? Can we come back to a Dolly Parton song?
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Of course?
Speaker 4 (02:09):
Every single great for this hour.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
I don't know one off the top of my head.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
I don't either. I don't either. Don't. Let's make this
the Dolly Dolly Hour. Dolly Dolly, My Baby. That that
was super Cat. You know who's that with? Super Cat? Yes? That?
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Whereas that it is two pros and a cup of Joe.
Here on Fox Sports Radio, LeVar Arrington, Jonas Knox.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
With you here.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
No, Brady Quinn, Uh he will be back at some
point this week, uh as soon as his punishment is up.
But you can listen to hear from the tire you
know what man is acceptable? Yeah, that is acceptable.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
She'd be like, sure.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
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let's just fill it up for people that mayby are
a little bit confused here, we were discussing the fact
that Bill Belichick has got a twenty four year old girlfriend,
and there's a lot of people who would be critical
of that and maybe not be fans of that, and
we were trying to do the comparison like if your
if your kid walked in with somebody of that age,
and I brought up Dolly Parton because it was the
(03:36):
first thing I could think of.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
I think, we'll make it.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
We'll make an exception, you know what.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
I mean, if you think about it.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
So there's a few guys out there, I guess, but
I mean, come on, let's think shade throw in there.
She hasn't aged a bit someone like Iman. She has
an age at all. Dolly Berry, what.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Are you reading off Lee's notes? Dang? Why you read
that at least tele a prompt to get your own?
Speaker 4 (04:03):
Dang, damn? You know, Sigourney Weaver, I don't know about that.
I haven't seen her.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Ah. Yeah, listen, there are exceptions to every rule.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
There are exceptions.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
That's what I've said, Dolly part might be the most
extreme one of them all.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Well, speaking of exceptions to the rule, when you start
doing broadcasting and you want to be a game analyst,
because we were talking about you know, Tom Brady and
what it's going to look like and sound like, you know,
there are certain things that you're taught like, you've got
to be this, You've got to be that, You've got
to do it this way, this is the way it's
normally done, so on and so forth. And then there's
(04:44):
exceptions to the broadcasting rule. And one of those is
Charles Barkley, who basically does whatever the hell he wants,
says whatever the hell he wants, and does it in
a way that has made him one of the best
broadcasters of all time. Hall of Fame player podcasting career
even better. But he announced on Friday night after the
(05:04):
Game four NBA Final game between the MAVs and the Celtics,
he was on NBA TV and he had this to
say regards to his future.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
I've been thinking, guys, I want to say this because
you guys in my family. I really love TNT, all
the people who work here NBA Television.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
You guys been great to me.
Speaker 5 (05:26):
For twenty four years, and I just want to say
thank you to my entire NBA family.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
I love you guys.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
You know there's been a lot of noise around our
network the last few months, and I just want to
say I've talked to all the other networks, but I
ain't going nowhere other than TNT. But I have made
the decision myself. No matter what happens, next year is
(05:55):
going to be my last year on television, and I
just want to say thank you to my my NBA family.
You guys been great to me. My heart is full
with joy and gratitude. But I'm gonna pass the baton
at the end of next year. I hope the NBA
stays with TNT, but for me personally, I wanted you
guys to hear from me because I'm not doing any
(06:16):
more interview. Don't y'all be calling me. Nobody calling me.
I'm not talking about this again, but I wanted to
tell my NBA and NBA TV and t TNT family
that I'm not going to another network, but I'm gonna
pass baton to either Jamal Crawford or Vince Carter or
you Steve. But next year, I'm gonna just retire after
(06:38):
twenty five years, and I just want to say thank you,
and I wanted y'all to hear from me first.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
So that was Charles Barkley talking to NBA TV on front.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
I didn't realize who was in for that long.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Yeah, that's that's a that's a career, and he doesn't
need it for the money.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
I don't believe he'll know he's good. And I also
I know that you know when people retire a lot
of times it's like, ah, yeah, they say that now,
But man, I don't. He sounds like somebody who doesn't
want to go it, doesn't want to do the job
with anybody other than Turner Sports, Like he's not interested
(07:14):
in going anywhere else. ESPN not a fit like all
the other places that would be possibilities NBC not a fit.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
And I how long did it take for him to build?
Like how long was he with that show? That show's
been around? Is that the twenty years?
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Yeah, two thousand. He started in two thousand, so it
was him, it was Ernie Johnson and I believe Kenny
Smith first.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
The original Yeah, and then Barkley.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Right then and then shot Shack Jump.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
I just think that when you realize.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
What something that takes so long to build, like like
think about this where where in year four?
Speaker 4 (07:58):
Yeah, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (08:00):
And when you think about all of the things that
we've had to do, you know, the behind the scene
moments sometimes we have and people don't even know, you know,
sometimes we have our moments as a show and you're building,
you're building that rapport and you're figuring out what the
(08:20):
cadence is and how it's going to work.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
You know.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
One of the greatest compliments that you could ever receive
and doing a show is that people, for one, don't
realize that sometimes a lot of times, because of our
travels and the things that we have going on, we're
not in the same studio. When people say, like I
was talking to some of the coaches, because some of
the coaches from Tennessee listen to our show, shouts out
(08:44):
to y'allf y'all listening right now. It actually takes time
to develop a rapport and a cadence and a feel
where when you do sillyess like like that, what you
do did like it's a part of the It's a
part of the DNA of the show. You know, it's
(09:06):
a part of it's a part of what the fans
come to recognize and associate when listening to our show.
So you've taken we've taken three years, four years to
get to a point of where our show has either
been accepted by our listening audience and our listening audience
(09:29):
feels so good about it now they tell somebody else
about it. They listen to it. You know, it's not
like we're a highly highly publicized advertised show. So we're
going to organically have to grow our listenership and have
a product that people want to actually tune into versus
(09:50):
music or anything else. I mean, people don't just listen
to radio in their cards anymore. People listen to radio
in different places because there's so many technology wise, you
can just get a hold of what you want to
listen to, not to mention podcasting. So I could listen
to something that I want to listen to at any
point in time, I want to listen to it, and
(10:11):
I don't have to be on a schedule. So understanding
like all of the elements that go into what it
takes to build a successful show, very few people will
understand that at the highest of levels. And when you're
able to build something as magical as they built, and
(10:33):
you're able to monetize it the way that they monetized it,
and you just see the results of it and what
it turned into, it's a shame.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
It's a shame that.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Somehow, some way that show isn't being preserved the way
that it is.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
That's a crying shame. It's a travesty. In fact, we.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Talked about it, I think a few weeks back, and
I said I wasn't exaggerating, I would rather watch that show.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
Than the game.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Yes, yeah, like and like, na, it's not even close.
I mean, you look playoff games, NBA final games. You
know you can make the argument, but like a regular
season game, I don't care if it's the two best
teams in basketball and they go to triple overtime. I
would rather watch that show and miss the game than
vice versa.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
It's just it's just it takes but it takes so
long to build something up to where the audience one
can can decide that they do love it, and then
two it just becomes cold culture.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
It becomes cold classic.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Like that show is a part of of an NBA season,
that's a it's a it's it's a lock that somebody
that is watching basketball, NBA basketball, it's a lock that
that show is going to touch you.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
You're going to see something.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Like all the times they he's Kenny to the monitor
for him to do his demonstrations and making fun of
his legs and stuff like that, to shock tripping and
falling coming off of the stage and Shack sitting there
getting like bothered by by Charles and and wanted to
(12:20):
you know, he talk trash. I mean every element of it.
The most successful shows become an extension of your day,
extension of your family, an extension of who you are,
and that's what they created. I just don't think I
don't think Barkley wants to try to recreate that. Now
you know, Shack already has a podcast and stuff, and
(12:42):
he's already so diverse in the stuff that he's doing.
I don't know how Kenny Smith views it, but you know,
obviously Ernie wants to stay there. He does more than
just that show. But Jonas, when you build something like that,
it's just hard to recreate it. And if he feels
like he's got his feel well, you know, in terms
of what he's done in media by doing that show
(13:03):
and having a twenty year run doing it, then god bless.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Look, if you wanted to, he could do you know,
his own podcast. I think him and Ernie Johnson do one,
but he could do something different and kind of make
his own schedule and all that. But I just think
to your point, he looks at it and goes, man,
this is a home run, like like why am I
going to try and you know, find it elsewhere? If
and you're not, yeah, it's.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
You're not like look at skipping Shannon right, Like Shannon
just got paid. Like, god bless, he's one of the
hottest dudes, if not the hottest dude in all of
sports as a personality.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
From a from a career standpoint, you're saying, correct, Okay.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
You stupid, stupid, but but the point is, it's you stupid.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
If that word.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
I heard, he's on that same date app that Bill
Belichick anyway, anyway, anyway, not my words is you know,
but it's not the same with him and stephen A. No,
it's not the same show. And for damn sure, it
ain't the same with I mean at least at least
(14:21):
he's having success with with doing it with stephen A.
I mean it's it ain't the same though. It just
ain't the same. It's just not the same. But with
that being said, it is successful. Uh skip show that
fell off a cliff with no parachute or bungee cord
or safety net or nothing. That's just gonna be a plot.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
Yeah, it's a rat.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
It's a rap for that one.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Yeah, not gonna not gone well knocking smooth.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
So anyway, that's uh, that's just not what if you've
been able to do something. And that's why I do
up on game with TJ and Plexico because if if
and when you become like the next Colin cow Heard
and you leave the show or Q you know, he leaves,
I feel like I feel like the show obviously, because
(15:13):
you guys did a show without me before anyway, I
was like the Shaquille O'Neill. They added me as a
wild card addition to to an already successful, good, great show.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
We just got a little while. You know, we wanted
to spice things up between yes and so we wanted
to bring somebody else, so pepper.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
You know, if you're gonna spice it up, you add
pepper to your soul. Like that's right, that's what they
you know, and that's that was.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
A great decision. Like I feel like it was a
great decision.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
But you know, one day you may leave, one day
Brady may leave. Like I feel like the show could
survive with everybody except maybe well no, I just feel
like as long as there's two of us, I feel
like the show could survive.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
But with that being said, I still look.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
At it like, you know what, let me have my bets,
you know, and let me let me keep plexing TJ,
you know, rocking, and we rocking together because we got
a pretty dope thing. And then we just replace you
know what you and I have done. Now everybody doesn't
think that way, but for me, you know, I was
feeling like, you know, you guys are so good and
this these spots are so hard to come by that
(16:19):
if y'all decided to go to somewhere bigger, I'd be like, hey,
let's just set up on gaming here.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Well listen, and I just want you to know, as
the star of the show, Yes, I agree.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
I mean, listen, you got to be realistic in how
you approach things. The only way you got a chance
of winning in life is if you're you're realistic and
not delusional about the things that you know, you know
that you need to do or what you see. And
you know what, back to the original point, Charles Barkley
is being sensible and being realistic, not delusional about what
(16:54):
it is that they've created and what it would take
to even possibly have a chance to try to created.
You're not going to recreate it. So good for him,
you know, in terms of having a great run and
him saying that he's going to acknowledge the fact that
he's going to step away. I mean, he clearly is
going to make a ton of money doing other things anyway.
I mean, whether it be you know, the speech circuit
(17:16):
or you know, appearances, whatever it may be, he probably
already is killing that anyway, you know what I mean.
But He's totally solidified himself as a personality over that
twenty year span of time.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Hell of Roon, and next year will be the last.
According to Charles Barkley, it is two pros and a
cup of Joe. Here on Fox Sports Radio, LeVar Arrington
Jonas Knox of the Air coming up next here from the.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Don't say he was joking either, if y'all know this,
by the way, he ain't saying he was joking, and
he wasn't listen. I mean, you heard it here first
from me. I think, I think, I think you're the
next Colin cow Hurt. Like a lot of people don't
realize how talented somebody is until it's been talent for
(18:02):
a long time, and then you like sneaks up.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
Like dang like Colin cowhard dope, you.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Know, and it's like bam, Like you had that feel
to you where you know it could just turn into
So I mean, you're doing that TV show.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
Didn't help your career, but definitely.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Gave you some reps. They give you some helpful reps
though you ume like talk about paying your dudes. Your
stripes got dang.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Like, let me tell you something, there's nothing like hitting
the big time. When you're sitting up in the freezing
cold and there's a Bubba Gump Shrimp company sign rotating
behind you.
Speaker 6 (18:43):
LeVar, Levar's making fun of your socks.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
You got Kat's reading teleproper scripts like literally on TV.
Speaker 6 (18:55):
My phone's buzzing in my shirt and pocket and I look,
it's our fuck And it's LeVar sniping us from a
rooftop bang, just laughing his ass off.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
And then the faces you make after our text message
you are the funniest fate.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
Like if only, oh, if only people knew the behind
the scenes, if they only knew, Well, listen, it is
two pros and a cup of Joe here on Fox
Sports Radio. Coming up next here though, we're going to
get to try and get to the bottom of something.
There's a major mystery in the world of sports. We
(19:42):
are going to try and solve it. It's yours here
on FSR.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
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Speaker 3 (20:26):
Coming up here a little over fifteen minutes from now,
we are going to have a Monday tradition. It's an
FSR IR. We're reporting any issues, injuries, ailments from a
long weekend. We'll get into that. I'm gonna air myself
out for being a little bit of an a hole.
That'll be coming up here a little over fifteen minutes
from now on Fox Sports Radio. So where the hell's
(20:51):
Aaron Rodgers? All right, this has gone on long enough? Okay,
we have speculated. All right, there are people like I
saw I think it might have been rich Samini through
out there that he's guessing that Rogers is at the
Pyramids that before Rogers dies. In an interview, he said
that he wants to stand in between the feet of
(21:13):
the sphinx like I like they're like this whole thing
has really gone off the rails, and nobody seems to
know or have answers as to where he is. And
I'm just wondering, is there any answer or any place
that he's at, or any excuse or event or gathering
(21:34):
or whatever that will find out what it is and
he won't get heat from somebody Like it feels like
no matter what the answer is is to where Aaron
Rodgers is at right now and why he's not, he
wasn't at the Jets mandatory mini camp and he was
gone and unexcused and all the other things that came
along with it. I'm trying to figure out what would
(21:56):
be an excuse that he gives that would be accepted
by people Like, Okay, now.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
I get it.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
You can't have a predetermined I'm not showing up to
And I said this the first time.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
We discussed it. You just can't give.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
A a a an excuse as to why you're not there.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
On mandatory practices.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Again, to me, we all look at it like this,
jonas if we're doing these if we're doing these practices,
and you know, Q kind of said, well, it's in
the CBA deal, and it's what look you know why
you have all of these things. You misrepresented them earlier.
I totally nailed him right there.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
Let's do that. Well, he's god, let's just do that
every time we do a Brady impersonation.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
Guys, it's in the CBA deal. Guys.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
Hold that's what hold up.
Speaker 4 (22:59):
That's hold up, it's in the CBA deal. That's why
they're doing the practices, you know.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
And they get paid X amount of dollars for X
amount of seconds, minutes, and hours that they're there at
the facility doing what it is that they do. And
then they go out there, they go, they go, they
go through their their progressions, and they throw the ball
and they hand the ball off and they you know,
and these are the reasons why they're going to be
there for those those mandatory anyways, the point is right.
(23:28):
The point is is that it's mandatory, and it's generally
mandatory so that the offense can get their reps and
so that they can continue to find their timing and
work on the things that the offensive coordinator and the
coaches want to work on. That's generally what these practices
are for. Again, they're the most important part of the team.
(23:50):
Everybody knows it, and everything is really catered towards making
sure that they get as much development and time the
coaching staff and with the players as they possibly can.
Speaker 4 (24:04):
And when you have a starter.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
That chooses, I could see voluntary and that's even frowned upon,
but to not be there for mandatories, it's ridiculous, bro,
And it's a bad, bad decision on Aaron Rodgers' behalf.
It's a bad decision because at the end of the day,
all things given, this is your job. This is your job,
(24:30):
and within your job, and you preparing for the season
coming up, it would be like, you know what, guys, like,
I know we're in season, but hey, I told you
guys a while back that I had this scheduled and
I had this plan. I know we got you know,
Miami this weekend, or I know we got I know
we got a game this weekend, but I'm going to
(24:52):
miss these two days of practice leading up to the
game because I had something else that I previously planned
to do. And then the coach has to come out
and say, we know that this is a game week,
but you know, Aaron Rodgers came to us and told
us that he had this plan and wanted to do
it and needed to do it, and he was going
to be away from the team, and it's in season.
(25:13):
There's really no difference other than saying one is the
off season, ones in season.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
But it was mandatory.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
You missed something that was mandatory to your job, to
your job. That doesn't make sense. It doesn't add up.
And I said that to begin with. That does not
make sense. Like you guys saying, oh, I wouldn't make
a big deal of it, this, that and the other.
Speaker 4 (25:36):
Why not?
Speaker 3 (25:37):
Yeah, I'm fine with it.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Why would you not make a big deal out of
your star quarterback who hasn't been anything but a media star.
Speaker 4 (25:49):
He hasn't been an on field star for your team. Oh,
it's because he got injured. I get that. Well, what
was he supposed to do? He's got it, you got it.
You know he got injured four place. I get that.
I get that. But you have been nothing but hype
for the New York Jets so far. Is that fair?
Speaker 3 (26:11):
I no, I mean it's fair. I mean I don't
know that it's his fault, but.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
I mean it doesn't matter in life. It doesn't matter
if it's his fault. What matters is is that's what
the perception of it is all he has been thus
far is hype.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
That's it, because he hasn't played.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
So if I haven't played, and I know what I'm
standing on right now is just hype. Why would you
add this sort of attention to yourself? I heard Dan
Patrick talking about it, or maybe it was Colin Cowhert.
I'm not sure who it was, but they were talking
about the way that that Robert Salah handled it. And
I believe I've called this out too, so maybe they
(26:54):
heard our show and took this from us. Damn, why
would you even put it out there? It was an
unexcus used absence. He met with me, He met with us,
and I'm fine with it. Yeah, but what about your teammates?
What about your teammates that are there, that are taking
their job seriously and know that that everything hinges upon
(27:17):
what what Aaron Rodgers is able to do.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
Yeah, but he was there. He's been there the entire offseason,
like there what there's probably times where he was there
and other teammates weren't. I don't see anybody.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Busting please man, please, Like it's if that's the comeback,
if that's the comeback for it, Like, oh, He's been
here all off season and he just decides and chooses
he's got to go off somewhere. And I predetermined this
is the schedule of which I'm going off to do it,
which is during the time we have official, mandatory, you know,
(27:49):
organized trainings.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
Like what let me tell you what what my thought
on this up?
Speaker 4 (27:54):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (27:54):
Please do I don't care that he missed two days,
like I really don't like it's you know, it doesn't
bother me, whatever, It doesn't affect me, like it is
what it is. I more care about why he missed
the two days. I want to know where he was at,
and I want to know whether or not we're going
to find out. And everybody seems to assume that we're
(28:15):
going to find out where he was at. And as
this is going on, more and more people are now
pointing out the fact that, yeah, it appears like he
went on another ayahuasca trip in Europe or someplace like that.
And if that's the case, I won because I was
the one who guessed that he went to go lick
(28:35):
a toad, which is in the same ballpark as ayahuasca.
If I'm not mistaken, I don't know. I've never licked
the back of a toad. That to my knowledge, and
if that happens, I won. On our guesses that we made.
LeVar had graduation, Brady had a hot air balloon ride,
and I had drugs.
Speaker 4 (28:54):
I believe try.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
I honestly was just trying to be sensible for him,
for his sake. I was just trying to be sensible
for him.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
By the way, if it comes out that he really
is on an ayahuasca trip, he will not hear the
end of it.
Speaker 4 (29:11):
No he won't.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
Oh my god, no, he won't. And I can't wait.
Speaker 4 (29:14):
And again, how how do you.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
How do you like justify I had to go on
my alauasca trip?
Speaker 4 (29:25):
How you how you justify.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
That is an ayahuasca?
Speaker 4 (29:29):
Right? I don't even I don't even care if I
got it right or if I got it wrong. I
don't care.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
I don't care because it's not my it's not that's
not even important enough for me to say. Oh, let
me go into my notes and make sure I'm able
to say alauasca islo pecia. I don't I don't give
a damn what the name is. I don't care. It's
not in my world. That's an alternate reality. So if
that's what he's doing, he's in further deep water with
(30:00):
his teammates because it's like, oh, you had to go
take a one of them tricks. You couldn't do that
after our two days that we had to be here too.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
By the way, I was just thinking about that video
that you found again of where somebody doctored the footage
of Chris Rock and Will Smith.
Speaker 4 (30:20):
Oh so funny, somebody going.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
Somebody changed the way Will said.
Speaker 6 (30:26):
Instead of them saying keep my wife's name out of
your mouth, they put yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
They switched it up and made it the opposite.
Speaker 4 (30:38):
If you can work that one out, I'm going going.
And for a very long time that was how we
responded to thinks.
Speaker 8 (30:52):
Oh man, So listen, hey, a rod you go do
what you gotta do, man, And please, please, can we
get to the bottom of it too, because I want
to hear the reaction.
Speaker 4 (31:04):
From a just regardless of what it is.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
It's a distraction, yes it is, and it just further,
it further goes down the lane of what Aaron Rodgers
has represented to organizations like and I'll just say an
organization organizations plural, because now he's added the New York
Jets to his list of Green Bay Packers.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
Come on, man, it is two Pros and a Cup
of Joe here Fox Sports Radio, and coming up next
here it is a Monday tradition, the FSR I R
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Speaker 9 (31:37):
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Speaker 3 (31:49):
Two Pros and a Cup of Joe Here on Fox
Sports Radio. LeVar Arrington, Jonas Knox with you coming up
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from the tire rack dot Com studios. Listen. There's a
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We're gonna go ahead and dash all of that. All
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here on Fox Sports Radio. Reminder before we get to
(32:09):
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Speaker 2 (32:25):
Air, after your sports weekend happens.
Speaker 9 (32:32):
So it's time to get the fsr IR report.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
All right, So I got something, all right, So Brian
family Fox Sports Radio family member. He got married over
the weekend. Really yeah, wait married?
Speaker 4 (32:52):
What are you married? Damn? Damn? Okay, go ahead, So
he got married and I'm not going to see him anything.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
Yeah, obviously you know it had sent me an invite
because he works. I work with him every Saturday.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
So that's why I'm gonna go ahead, clowning as much
as Okay, but go ahead. The problem was, I just
forgot he married himself. No, I just shride.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
No, I just uh, I completely forgot. I completely forgot
about it. He sent me multi he sent me multiple invites,
and I mean, of course, I wasn't gonna go once
I get this like twisted at all. I was not
going to go, but I will. I was at least
going to do him the courtesy of responding and letting
him know that I couldn't make it because I had
(33:41):
other stuff going on. But I didn't even do that.
And then I didn't realize that it was Saturday until
we were doing the show, and I was like, oh,
I wonder why Finley's not here today. And then I
go on Instagram and I see Ben Maller and Rob
Parker at his wedding and I'm like, oh there, Oh God.
So I texted Finley. I was like, hey, man, I'm sorry, dude,
(34:03):
I didn't I had no idea. I had an idea.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
I'm just glad in the circle enough where I even
have to feel bad about saying I ain't gonna be there.
Speaker 3 (34:12):
Yeah, because if everybody knows, like if they invite you somewhere,
you don't go. That's the problem. So like you're never
gonna go, like like Lee and I invite you out
all the time, you won't go. You literally don't go.
And so I think that's why people are, you know,
worried about having to invite LeVar anywhere? Am I wrong?
Speaker 4 (34:30):
We love how you turned this into me.
Speaker 3 (34:32):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (34:33):
I love how you turned this into like me, deal
about me. I mean, you're the one that didn't go
to Finley's. I didn't even needed to have witnesses there
to talk about this imaginary ceremony that was taking place.
I didn't even have a was there free booze there,
(34:54):
because if there was, then Lee should be coming in sound.
Speaker 4 (34:57):
Well I was there, you know, like you are.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
Oh, well you missed. Uh Lee had another wedding, he
went to, Yeah, I had a wedding this week.
Speaker 10 (35:06):
Dry wedding. Well it was drying quotation dry my ass.
Yeah not after I was done with it.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
Yeah, tell them that super soap. Tell him what the
edit out truck did.
Speaker 10 (35:20):
So they had an in and out truck, and after
the whole line cleared out, I went back for you know,
a refill on my pink lemonade, and uh, there was
nobody there. So I said, hey, guys, we're cool, right,
They're like yeah. So I bust out my flask and
emptied it into my pink lemonade and they all just
started cheering me on.
Speaker 3 (35:35):
It was awesome. It's very bonding moment, being the in
and out through.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
So you figured out a way, I wanted to say,
you stick it to the dry wedding.
Speaker 3 (35:44):
Hell, yeah, you figured out. Lee figured out a way
to get crippled at a dry wedding. Still like still
managed a way to have that happen.
Speaker 4 (35:56):
Nice, good for you.
Speaker 3 (35:58):
That's how it's done.
Speaker 4 (35:59):
Yes, sir, that's an all time that's an all time
Speaker 2 (36:02):
Lowly, all time low
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