July 3, 2024 • 40 mins
The Old P, Petros Papadakis weighs in on the Lakers drafting Bronny James. Breaking News, LeBron signs a 2-year $104M max deal to remain in LA. Plus, the BQ News!
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time every Wednesday morning we turn it over to the
old Pe Petros Papadakis. He is the co host of
(01:18):
the Petros and Money Show, which you can hear on
the Blowtorch A five seventy LA Sports. He's also a
Fox College football analyst and you can get him on
Twitter again at the old Pe Petros. Good morning, happy,
I don't know, early fourth July to you and yours.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Oh, thank you? Yes, fourth of July what a holiday?
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Good morning certainly is.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
I can't wait for my fireworks show to be canceled
and turned into a drone show, A lame mass drone show.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
You don't like drones, not compared to fireworks.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Is that happening now?
Speaker 4 (01:53):
Yeah, everything's getting canceled, all the fireworks shows.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
And turned into drone shows.
Speaker 5 (01:59):
The fireworks racist or something. What happened?
Speaker 4 (02:01):
But no, yes, Actually probably because they're they're connected to
the environment and climate change, so they made the insurance
so difficult to get that a lot of these firework
companies can't afford to put on these shows, and they
cancel them and all this, and there's a clamor.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
To find live free fireworks.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
Some of the old shows that have been going for
like seventy years are canceled in town. Some of them
are on like July second or July fifth, which doesn't
make sense, but here we are anyway, Yes, happy early
fourth way to go.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
I am Petros. Brownie was introduced yesterday to the meeting.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Five am. Thing is not as savory I gotta be.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
Was this a brilliant idea of the general patent of
sports talk radio, Lee de Lap, the flatulent Lee to
Lap Yeah, flag, Yeah, this, guys. I mean, I am
just I am less. I'm a lot more ornery And anyway,
it's something we can discuss well.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
I mean, listen that. I think that's perfect. It's a
perfect segue to Bronnie James. I mean, I don't know
if you saw that, Petros, but he was introduced to.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
Let me read you today, let me read you a
couple of today's headlines. Yes, just think about this tomorrow's
headlines today.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
I've heard that somewhere Number one.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
The Lakers are proud to announce that thirty seven year
old Savannah James, wife of lebron is the organization's new
chief financial officer. Team owner Genie Buss said, Savannah's previous
job experience is unparalleled. That's a that's tomorrow's headline. Thursday,
Are you ready for Friday's headlines? Friday, The Lakers have
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announced that nine year old Zuri James, daughter of lebron
has earned a spot on the twenty four to twenty
five Lakers Girls squad. Team owner Genie Buss said, We've
had our eye on Zuri since she was in the
first grade, and we believe she's now ready to take the.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Laker Girls to new heights.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Tang a couple of headlines that are very believable at
this point. And yeah, they introduced Bronni, that poor connect guy.
They're sitting there with the guy who was their first
round pick, who played at a JC, then Northern Colorado,
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then took an nil deal at Tennessee, was one of
the best performing players in the SEC, if not the
best player in the SEC, and he's sitting there with
his Bama bangs listening to them talk about how Bronnie
James quote unquote earned this, and JJ Reddick talked down
to everybody about how this is earned and this is
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everybody who says otherwise is a troglodyte or some kind
of philistine, and we're all just supposed to accept it.
I mean, guys, it's been a lifetime of watching Lebron
James be a great player, and somewhere in there he
became this manipulator of rosters and firer of coaches and
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all of these different things that have been alleged and
alleged and alleged over the years. I'm know Lebron historian.
I'm not one of those people that knows the play
by play of what went down between him and Eric Spolstra,
or what went down between him and Kyrie Irving, or
what went down between him and pat Riley, or what
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went down you know, all of these people all over
the years that all of these things that we've had reported.
I'm not one of those people that has a real
grip or a handle on that, you know, that can
tell you exactly the timeline of what happened. But all
you need to know is this, here's a guy with
an incredible reputation for a manipula and doing stuff behind
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the scenes and then acting as if he has nothing
to do with it, and the Lakers have fired their coach.
They have hired a guy with zero coaching experience, zero
coaching experience, to be the new head coach who happens
to be Lebron's podcast partner. And then they just happened
to draft his son with a general consensusus not an
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NBA prospect. And then they just happened to put his
son on the roster and then tell everybody what a
holes they are for dissension and saying, well, this owner
hired this son to be a scout or every football
coach I've ever known has his kid as a tight
end coach. Yeah, that's different that that is not the
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meritocracy of the field of play or the court in
this case, and there is something about it. Look, didn't
I don't care who the Lakers draft in the second round,
Like I've never cared about that before. But when I
heard him say Bronnie's name, even though it was a
FATA compli or a foregone conclusion, it gross me out.
It disgusted me. And now this the aftermath of sitting
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there and JJ Reddick's like, I just want to clarify
Bronni has earned this, and it's like it's not this
kid's fault. He's just sitting up there doing whatever he's
doing because this is exactly what his dad wants, and
everybody's going to do whatever they can to make it happen.
And maybe in the world of the NBA you can
earn that and make that. I mean, I guess you can,
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but man, it is. It is a gross thing to watch,
and it's going to be an all summer long story
with the Summer League, and you know, any weird thing
that happens. I mean, you think Victor wembyden ya'ma'm knocking
Britney Spears over with his bodyguard as a story, wait
till the Summer League pops off? Meg my god, I
thought Mountain West Media Day was a big story.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
So so Petro's one of the things that I've kind
of read in regards to people's comments about this entire
situation is well, if it's to get Lebron back, so what? Well,
And you could say so what, but like the Bucks
brought in you know, Giannis's brother, he's twenty six.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
I get that.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
But you know some people would say, like, all right,
you know, how how does that kind of work out?
Speaker 4 (08:23):
I mean, he's going to get Yanni's to the freaking
place on time. You know, make sure he's there, you
know that kind of thing.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
I get that.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
And it's Milwaukee, you know the you know all of
these pushback arguments. Fine, if that's what it takes to
have an NBA franchise, and.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
You have to have you have star. You have to
have a star.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
You can't rebuild, you can't do it right, you can't
do it like anybody else. You have to have a
star that manipulates everything, polarizes the whole city, bastardizes the brand,
makes Laker fans feel like they're not Laker fans anymore.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
I get so many.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
Freaking text tweets people saying, I used to be a
Laker fan. I didn't even like Kobe, but I was
still a Laker fan. But this Lebron thing, it's over.
I'm done.
Speaker 5 (09:14):
Is this the worst thing that's happened to the Lakers
in your lifetime?
Speaker 4 (09:17):
Or what you can read it is, it's the grossest
thing they've ever done. It's amazing because this has all
happened in like a two week period where Jerry West died,
who really was one of the most honorable men in
the way front office works and the way you deal
with players, all of these things, and who he was
as a player and a front office guy, Hall of
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fame all the way through, and Genie Buss.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Banned him from the Lakers.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
They had terrible feelings and the sentiment toward Jerry West
in the world of basketball and in this town. When
people hear that Genie Buss did that, they're infuriated. And
that's like a story that just came out around this
same time, and under the backdrop of the Celtics, who
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are the Lakers big rival, just pulling ahead in the
championship count race, and one of those Lakers championships is
the Bubble Championship.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
So whatever.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
But I think that the Jerry West.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Snub or what they allowed to happen with their relationship
with Jerry West and this allowed manipulation from Lebron James,
are two of the darkest days or moments in Laker
franchise history.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
No doubt about that. Is that a good answer?
Speaker 4 (10:45):
Yeah? Yeah, all right, I mean, I mean, I think, yeah,
this is probably the grossest thing they've ever done, because
it's not so much what they're doing, it's like, Okay,
this is what you need to do. To keep Lebron.
All right, fine, do it, tell everybody you're doing it whatever.
We all just get nailed by the king anyway around here.
But it's the fact that they have these deployed army
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of media people who were either on the payroll literally
or on the emotional payroll.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Where they think it's the cool thing to do to tell.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
Everybody that Lebron's a better father than the rest of us.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
And any good father would do this for his son.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
What excuse me, I wouldn't do it for myself exactly.
Speaker 6 (11:26):
I mean, guys, is there any chance that Bronni can
play himself out of the situation that they've drafted him into.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
Yes, and and a lot of expert But you know,
that's the whole thing.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
I mean, this whole thing has been done backward.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
There's but that that would have happened years years ago.
That decision should have been made years ago. If he
wanted to stay in LA he should have gone and
played at UC Irvine or a place like that, develop
learn fight, become an all conference time a player by
the time you're a junior or a senior, and then
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earn your draft status. You know, sure you might get
drafted a little higher than you should have been because
you're a Lebron's son.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
But earn it.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
That's earning it, right. Or stay at USC and see
what Eric Musselman is gonna do. Or transfer to Quinnipiac
or whatever where Lebron's friend is coaching. Like fight, earn it,
make it work. He was not an impact player on
a bad USC team, and they turned around yesterday and
tried to blame the USC for that, and it's like, no,
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you handpicked that school, you manipulated that situation. It didn't
work out for you, and of course it's somebody else's fault.
He could play himself into being an NBA rotation player,
according to some experts. But I mean, I'm not a
draft expert. But when you're six foot one and you
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don't have a handle enough to play point guard, and
you don't shoot enough to play shooting guard and you're
only six ' one, how are you going to switch
off on defense? What are you doing out there? You know?
I mean I don't know. And also what does it
do to the dynamic of your team? You know, everybody
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in that organization is used to being nailed by the king.
But like, as far as the court, the competition part
of it that everybody's going to have to just absorb this.
How does that work? I don't know, I really don't.
I mean, the eye rolling must be off the charts.
You know, what does it do to the dynamic of
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your own culture if you even have one? I mean,
and JJ Redick sitting there talking about I'm going to
install culture and we're going to build out a holistic
player development program and you know, using all these weird
big words for you know, the same thing we've known
about for years on how to prepare a basketball team
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or a sports team for anything. Apparently he's got some
new innovative way. But I mean, let me ask.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
You guys a question.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
How do you install a culture with a forty year
old superstar quasar guy who controls everything, who just drafted
his son and gave him a guaranteed place on the roster,
and then everybody sits there and tells you he has
nothing to do with it. That's what insults me that
they just sit there and tell you straight face that
they didn't even talk to Lebron and he's got almost
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nothing to do with this, and we're just supposed to
sit there and wear it, and I don't like it.
I mean, I didn't think i'd care that much. I'm
more excited about the college football season getting started and
how weird it's going to be. But yeah, this situation
I don't like. I don't like it at all.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
I mean, we'll never hear this because he controls so
much of the media coverage that goes on and the
story surrounding it. But they've got to be the laughing
stock of the league right now. I mean, like Klay Thompson, Well, it.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Hurts the credibility of the NBA, Yes.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
It does. It's also like there's probably people around the
league that are going, man, I don't want any part
of that. Like I wonder if Klay Thompson looked at
the situation was like, listen, my dad played here. I
grew up a Laker fan. I love the franchise. Yeah,
they're offering me a lot of money. And then the
spin on it is, well, the state tax in Texas
and you know, a chance to play for It's like No.
(15:21):
I wonder if he looked at it and said.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Well, we know Michael Thompson pretty well. Yeah, Michael used to.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
Work with us when I first started working at well,
actually he got the job over me many years ago.
I auditioned for that job and I was told by
Steve Hartman, who works on weekends at Fox Sports Radio,
Oh yeah, when I was in my twenties, you're gonna
get it. You're in the league. You're gonna get this job.
You get this job right now.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
It's a foregone conclusion job.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
And I was like, damn, you know, I'm gonna get
that job. I'm gonna be the loose cannon. You know,
I'm gonna be with Steve Hartman. And it was the
longest running show in town and all that stuff. And
around that time, the Lakers ended up signing with five
seventy and they ended up hiring Michael as their color guy.
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And it ended up just going that way, at least
that's what they told me. And he's a wonderful guy.
I ended up at that station doing the afternoon drive
show and which I'm still doing. And we love Michael.
I mean, Michael was so much fun to be around,
even though he was a Kobe and Lebron ball washer
(16:30):
and all that. He was great. But what Matt and I,
my radio partner, thought, was like, Michael, who's a Bahamian
guy was like, you know, you got to be a
Lika and then like behind the scenes, you know, openly
in the papers and stuff, and you know, I want.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Him to be a Liqa.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
I love this frontchise and then like like deep down,
like you know, in his son's ear when he's hugging him.
Speaker 7 (16:57):
Get afarawe as your kid, Lebron is destroyed, displace, you know,
run son, run by.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
But I think I don't know.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
I don't know what happened there, but I think Michael
might have winked at him a little bit. I don't
know I would have if I were him, But you
have to sit there. I mean, he's been working for
the Lakers for decades. The Lakers changed his life when
they when they traded him in and he won a
championship with Magic and all them over the Celtics. I mean,
Michael is a life for Laker. But I wouldn't want
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my son in that situation. I mean, if your son
plays well, then great, Lebron made your son play well.
If your son fails or you guys don't win, whatever,
then it's his fault that he ruined Lebron's career. And
he's wrecking the end of Lebron's legacy. I mean, it's
getting old, and it's been decades of just getting nailed
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by the king, and I don't know, I feel like
people are tired of it. Everybody except for that toad
fat guy in Cleveland.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Jesus Petros.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
You mentioned earlier just about college football starting up. We
do have media days starting next week. Talk to me
a little going about the Mountain West with me. Who's
going to Bay.
Speaker 5 (18:18):
I'll be out there, baby, I'll be out there with the.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
And the and the two pack.
Speaker 5 (18:21):
That's what I'm calling the pack, coming to.
Speaker 7 (18:22):
The Pack two.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
I got invited to the pack to dinner. You didn't
get to take forty five minutes.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
You a whole. You didn't get that email. I did.
Speaker 5 (18:30):
I got that emails on that email, Petros.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
And I got the follow up email from my boss
which says, you'll be at this.
Speaker 5 (18:38):
It'll be you, me and about for the people.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
Yeah, John Canzano, John Wilner, maybe the ghost of Yogi
uh All.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
The email literally is like by the bye while.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
You're in Vegas, while you're in town for the Las
Vegas uh grateful dead at the sphere and the Mountain
West Media Day, Why don't you.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Bop on over to the Blagio and spend the evening
with the PAC two betros.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
You have coined the phrase bacon caller, I believe in
regards to I'm not sure if those are the draft or.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Combat the bacon neck. Yeah, yeah, bacon.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Excuse me no to tell me what people are missing
out on at these media days?
Speaker 5 (19:19):
Paid a picture for us.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Your experience is going to these what they're missing out,
what you'll be seeing there.
Speaker 4 (19:25):
Well, you know, my very first job ever at the
age of twenty three, right out of USC was to
interview Deshan Foster, who's now the head coach at UCLA,
at the PAC ten Media Day, which used to be
at the Sheraton, the Airport Sheraton for many years in
Los Angeles. And if you haven't seen Chip Kelly have
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a meltdown because they won't bring his valet car there,
then you haven't lived.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
But what is it like?
Speaker 3 (19:54):
I mean?
Speaker 5 (19:54):
For me?
Speaker 4 (19:55):
At these they usually bring me into what they call
a breakout room, which is like you know, some little
beating room in a hotel, and the different coaches all
come to me and for ten minutes apiece and tell
me their problems like a psychiatrist, and then I go home.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
That's usually what it's like.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
And there's a few radio shows set up like Weenie
in the Butt, you know, or whatever, and that's a
family guy thing.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
I love that show.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Yeah. Who was the other show? They had? Dingo and
the Baby.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
Oh, you guys have a lot of shows. You guys
have the nighttime show fat Head and Clean Dome.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
No, I've not heard of any of this.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
It's a good one, Jason Smith, the Fathead and Clean
Dome Show. Do you have the New York mailbox Head show,
Mailbox Head and Mailbox Covino and Rich Oh? Anyway, the
point is, oh, no, oh no, what were we talking about?
Who cares the media days?
Speaker 8 (21:01):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (21:01):
Yeah, they set up like it's like Jeff Schwartz. You
know Jeff Schwartz, that big ass lineman guy. Yes, yeah,
he just sits there and it's like, well, you know,
I really liked him.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Yeah, he also works here.
Speaker 7 (21:13):
We've got more of a zone feel here.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Hey, I like this. Just look at this power action.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
No, it's just a lot like that. It's all the
media guys sitting around and bs.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
And and there's nothing wrong with it.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
I actually like the media days because you see people,
you catch up with people, you give people a hug,
you're physically.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
In front of people. I like that.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
I've always liked that people look fat, people look skinny.
Speaker 5 (21:41):
Do you say anything to people who look skinny? He
used to look fat.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Do you say, oh, he lost?
Speaker 7 (21:45):
Wait?
Speaker 4 (21:45):
You guys remember Jim Herrick. He's still alive. One of
the great college basketball coach. There's a couple of controversies
here and there, but uh, he was the head coach
at Morningside High School many years ago, where Byron Scott
and Lisa Leslie and people like that played their coach.
But then he went to Pepperdine and then he won
a championship at UCLA in the nineties. Anyway, if you
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ever saw Jim Herrick, and he's very old and he's
very popular, so he probably doesn't remember your name, but
you could tell if you were fat or not just
by the way Jim Herrick greeted you, right, Because if
you were.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Skinny, he'd say, hey, stick.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
How's it going stick, And you'd be like, wow, okay,
I'm a stick. And then if you're fat, all he
would say is there.
Speaker 5 (22:33):
He is.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
There?
Speaker 4 (22:36):
He is and you're like, oh no, I was stick
last time. Last He's like, damn.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
Get him on Twitter at the old p Petros Papadegas
the Coast of the Petros some money show which you
can hear on the Blowtorch, a five seventy LA sports
Fox College Football analyst, also our buddy every Wednesday morning
here on FSR.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Pee.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
We appreciate it. We'll do it again next week.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
All right, I appreciate you guys right there, thank you
for having me there.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
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Speaker 3 (24:20):
Two Pros and a Cup of Joe. Fox Sports Radio,
LaVar Arrington, Brady Quinn, Jonas Knox with you here. We're
gonna have the BQ News coming up a little over
fifteen minutes from now from the tire Raq dot Com studios.
But right now we've got a little bit of breaking
news out of the world of sports, and for that
we turn it over to Eddie.
Speaker 8 (24:37):
Garcia breaking news from Fox Sports.
Speaker 10 (24:43):
Well, unfortunately Petros is not still with us to be
able to comment on this, but Adrian Wardarowski reporting this
morning NBA news. Free agent Lebron James agreeing on a
two year, one hundred and four million dollars max deal
to return to the Lakers. The deal includes a player
option and a no trade clause. Again, bron James a
two year deal, one hundred and four million dollars max
deals to stay with the Lakers.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
All right, nice, there you go? Does everything falling in place?
Speaker 2 (25:08):
See?
Speaker 5 (25:09):
Petros gets to get bent over for two more years?
Speaker 7 (25:12):
Wow?
Speaker 5 (25:13):
What Benover? Apparently says?
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Okay, that's his words, not mine.
Speaker 5 (25:16):
Don't put that in mine.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
I mean, he just I mean, I thought for sure
he was going to like look around and see what
else was out there. I can't just can't imagine that
this would be.
Speaker 5 (25:29):
What's the length of Bronni's deal.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
I don't know, just a multi year deal. They haven't
announced it.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
I thought it's not slotted like the NFL, but I
thought it's something similar.
Speaker 5 (25:39):
It isn't like they're short. They're short deals though.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
Oh no, And can I be honest with you, you
don't care, No, not really, because I just think it
is what it is. As long as Lebron's there, he's
going to be there, like he will have a place
on that roster with that organization for as long as
his dad is there and if he's there for just
the two years, or there's the player option after the
first year and they decide to go somewhere else. Like
it's just I mean, it is what it is. He's
(26:05):
running the show there. That's that's what the organization has
turned into. I just does JJ Reddick strike you guys
as somebody who can keep his mouth shut and just
coat well, like let this happen without at some point
being yeah, I think I don't think he can do
it either. I think at some point he's gonna get frustrated.
(26:27):
He was getting frustrated, you know, debating stephen A. Smith
and eventually just decide I can't do the show anymore,
Like I can't do it, Like I just wonder how
long this goes on before he's like all right, man,
like like what are we doing here? Like like am
I the coach? Or am I just kind of the
sidekick to Lebron's team and whatever he wants done with
the organization? Like he just feels like I just can't
(26:49):
see him keeping his mouth shut that long. But hey,
at least it's a storyline, you know, something do to
track and monitor and something to keep an eye on
and it'll give us Petro something to talk about each
week when he comes on with us, so that's always fun.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
So I've got a little info second round picks. Per
Article seven, Section six, paragraph K in case you really cared,
they are able to sign three to four year contracts.
Speaker 5 (27:16):
For the second round picks.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
So there you go.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Is it are the second round picks can be signed
to a two way NBA contract, which is something to
keep an eye on when Browny does sign his deal,
because if they truly do care about his development, you
would think that if he's not playing at the NBA level,
send him down, let him develop, oh yeah, and then
(27:41):
let him come back up. So that could would make
some sense if they put it in there. But typically
first round picks they get a two year deal. Then
there's two team options after year three and four, and
in the case of second round picks, I believe the
structure is somewhat similar.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Now, is he are second round picks normally guaranteed on
the fifteen man roster like reportedly is being being done
with Brownie James's contract, Like there, I.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
Guess, I'm just I don't know. I'm kind of confused
by how that exactly works. And I don't know how
many second round picks don't make the roster their first year,
So like I don't know if it needs to be
stated in there.
Speaker 5 (28:20):
I guess which is what is interesting.
Speaker 6 (28:23):
Oh, it's going to be stated in there. And even
if it isn't be clear, somebody's losing a roster spot
this year to Brownie James. Bottom line, that's the I
mean again, I think that that's the whole point of
why you draft him versus taking him.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
As a free agent.
Speaker 6 (28:42):
Is the whole idea of making sure that there's a
roster spot locked up for him.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
So I don't think it's just clout.
Speaker 6 (28:52):
I think it has there's a business piece to this
as well by by drafting him. So regardless, it's going
to I think the first domino in all of this.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
Pre or I let's say, post Lebron.
Speaker 6 (29:12):
Contract, post drafting, let's see what happens with the summer league.
I need to know is he playing. If he's not playing,
how is that being handled? If he is playing, how
is that being handled? Because I think everybody's coming to
the same conclusions. He doesn't handle the ball like a
point guard, so if he's not going to be a
(29:35):
true point guard handling the ball. Then where are you
going to have him? Where are you going to have him?
Are you going to have him as a two, as
a shooter? Where are you going to have him? And
how does that look at this level? How does that look?
And we'll get our first glimpses of what that looks
like if he does indeed play in the summer League.
(29:56):
I think that that's the one thing I'm I'm waiting
to see because you can do all the stuff that's
being done now that's behind the scenes, that's leveraging, you know, posturing,
But once you get to the point of.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
Where the rubber meets the road. And this is why
I would not do it for my kid.
Speaker 6 (30:16):
You can't hide your kid from what takes place on
the court. Like the relationships that you have to get
him on the team, great, But if that kid doesn't
have what it takes to be able to do what
he needs to do to look like a formidable player
and contributor to the team, then you can't. How do
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you get out of the way of that? And to me,
I almost feel like it makes more sense. If not,
I'm really saying it and hearing myself say it, out loud.
Doesn't it make more sense to have him not play
in the summer league so that you can justify him
having a roster spot. I'd rather sit there and say
he's not playing yet, he's not ready yet. Y'all can
say what y'all want to say, Think what you want
(30:59):
to think. Whatever we'll woo would develop him. He'll be
ready to go when he's ready to go. And you
don't have definitive evidence to say this kid doesn't belong
in the NFL, NBA.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
Because you can't see him get exposed. Because you can't
see it. Because if he gets exposed in the summer league,
imagine what happens.
Speaker 6 (31:15):
Well, you don't really have to play them in regular seat.
You play him here and their spot duty in regular season,
but in the summer league, cats are trying to solidify
themselves on a roster. They out there playing for keeps
and they have to have it, okay, so you won't
put him in that. I mean, I can't wait to
(31:37):
see how that plays out.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
What a mess, man, I honest, I swear to God.
I feel bad for Brownie Jams, I really do. I
just like not asking for any of this. I don't
know how crazy is about the whole thing. Seems like
a good kid and it's just been caught up in
this windstorm of drama. And his Petros pointed out manipulation
the entire way through. So ware we go. It is
(32:01):
two pros and a cup of Joe. Here on Fox
Sports Radio, LeVar Arrington, Brady Quinn, Jonas Knox with you.
All right, So for all the latest from around the
world of sports outside of just Bronni James and Lebron
James and Lebron' Caitlyn Clark as well too. It is
Eddie Garcia.
Speaker 10 (32:18):
All right, thanks Jonas, and we mentioned the news on
Lebron James two years, one hundred and four million dollars
Max Steeal to return to the Lakers. Cleveland Cavaliers and
five time All Star guard Donovan Mitchell agree on a
three year, one hundred and fifty point three million dollars
max extension that includes a player option in the final year.
In baseball, Phillies over the Cup sixty four Trey Turner,
a couple of homers for Philadelphia. They're a major league
(32:38):
best fifty six and twenty nine Oriols shut out the
Maritis to nothing, Baltimore started Grayson Rodriguez six and a
third shutout innings. He and three relievers combining on a
two hit shutout. Baltimore's got a one game lead on
the Yankees for first in the AL East. Yankees lost
to the Reds five to four despite Aaron Judge jating
is major league leading thirty second home owner of the year.
He's got twenty six homers in has last fifty games.
(32:59):
Astros lose to the Blue Jays seven to six. Houston
steal three back of Seattle for first in the AL West.
Guardians walk off with a seven to six win over
the White Sox. The Dodgers walk off with a six
to five win over the Diamondbacks. Tascar Hernandez walk off
single wins. It as La scored two in the ninth
with two out. Choeotani also hitting his national leading twenty
seventh home warn of the year, but announced he's not
(33:20):
going to participate in the All Star home run derby
Brewers getting a bases loaded hit by pitch to get
by the Rockies four to three twins over the Tigers
five to three. Minnesota with two home runs. They've got
at least one home run in twenty straight games now
and the Mets down the National seven to two to
ten innings. Mets are eighteen and eight since the start
of June. Best record in baseball over that span. WNBA
(33:40):
aces over the fever eighty eight sixty nine Kaitlin Clarkin
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Speaker 3 (33:51):
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that'll be yours here again coming up tomorrow. By the way,
if you've missed any of this show thus far, and
there's been a lot that's gone on, including well we
still haven't gotten the explanation as to why lead to
laughs walking around with out of shoes on? But what
just got no shoes on? Is that not smell? Oh jeesus, Rena, akay,
(34:53):
go there, I'm just zach Hey what the face that
went with it?
Speaker 4 (34:57):
No?
Speaker 3 (34:58):
Well that's not the smell. Oh good, Lee, you should
have been in here earlier. I mean, there could be
all kinds of dang, Lee and Tommy's classic Oh man,
Oh my god, Chilie Berger, I don't do the burger,
I do the hot dog. Dang that's worse, is it?
I guess.
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Speaker 5 (35:44):
Let's go to the news test.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
What nores Brady Quick? Yeah, Well, as much.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
As it pains for me to do this, we're gonna
have to do this because we're going to see the
Nathan's hot dog eating contest. It will not involve Joey Chestnutt,
who set a record by scarfing down seventy one hot
dogs last year. We already give you an update, and
he's gonna be doing a little bit of a different
hot dog competition with soldiers there in four.
Speaker 5 (36:09):
Plis, Texas.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
So let's talk about some of the folks who will
be partaking. First, up, Nick we we Re. I'm not
even how you're sure how you pronounce this, But he's
thirty five, he's got he got fourth place last ye
eight forty five hot dogs.
Speaker 5 (36:24):
It seems to he's.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
From Tampa, Florida, so he's got that going for him.
Outside of that, though, I'm not really sure what to
expect based on the name alone, not seeing a picture
of his face.
Speaker 5 (36:35):
Then he thoughts on how Nick's gonna.
Speaker 3 (36:36):
Perform, Well, he ate forty five last year, he'll give
fifty fifty fast, I think, so maybe maybe he takes
his foot off the gas with no Joey Chess not there. Okay,
maybe he's like, what was the next highest to Joey chestnuts?
Speaker 1 (36:51):
Seventy That's a great question that leads us to our
next contestant, Jeffrey Esper. He's forty nine. Good god, I
had to be forty nine and doing stuff like this.
He does appear to be in good shape. He got
second last year. He ate forty nine hot dogs. Just
those last few hot dogs are hard to get down.
Speaker 5 (37:12):
He's his career highlights.
Speaker 1 (37:13):
He's consumed twenty one pounds of strawberry shortcake in eight minutes.
Speaker 3 (37:20):
That actually sounds pretty good. No, twenty one. I don't
know how you could get to that amount.
Speaker 5 (37:26):
By the way, I did mean to mention for Nick Weary.
I guess I sorry, we'll pronounce it.
Speaker 1 (37:32):
He's set a world record for eating fifty our boiled
eggs in three minutes in four seconds.
Speaker 3 (37:38):
No, that's disgusting.
Speaker 5 (37:41):
You imagine how bad that dude smells.
Speaker 3 (37:43):
Now I am efforting betting lines on this event.
Speaker 5 (37:49):
Well, do you want to get through the rest of
the names before you? Okay, thanks, I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
Next up, James Webb's thirty five looks old as hell.
He got third and last year hot dogg geting contest
with forty seven hot dogs. He set a record just
just a month ago by doubting seventy glaze donuts in
eight minutes.
Speaker 3 (38:09):
Dang, now, I would have a chance with glazes. No,
you could not seventy glazed donuts in eight minutes.
Speaker 6 (38:16):
Bruh, you are Krispy kreame eater, right, I mean they're okay?
Speaker 3 (38:21):
Yeah, they go down pretty Yeah, those gotta quick. They
go down eight minutes. How many Christmy kreams?
Speaker 6 (38:26):
I don't know, man, I would never try because I'm
I'm too too like into my health journey.
Speaker 3 (38:32):
Here, yeah, okay, this.
Speaker 1 (38:33):
Next one's for Lafar because I think you might have
something in common with the contest.
Speaker 5 (38:37):
And here we go Patrick Bertoletti.
Speaker 1 (38:40):
Yeah, he actually didn't compete last year in the hot
dog contest, but his career highlights slurping down a record
thirty nine dozen oysters in eight minutes.
Speaker 3 (38:49):
I could do that. Yeah, I could slurp down a
ton of oysters. Oysters are so good, man, I don't know.
As long as they're prepped, as long as they're prepped
for me. It would be good.
Speaker 2 (38:58):
What do you do?
Speaker 3 (38:59):
And uh the I do horse radish and cocktail? You
do lemon on him?
Speaker 6 (39:06):
Yeah yeah, I could knock those down a lot of
them quickly.
Speaker 3 (39:11):
Yeah, all right, go ahue.
Speaker 7 (39:13):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (39:13):
Gideon og He's our next contestant, thirty two. He's the
tallest contestant, standing at six foot nine. He got sixth
place last year, but this one actually now kicks it
over to Jonas or maybe Lee. He's his his career
highlight's consuming one point three and change gallons of New
Mexico green chili stew in six minutes.
Speaker 3 (39:36):
Uh talk about the run, I mean like, uh, that
just seems like there's no way that ends well? Like
does he does he compete in a bathtub because there's
no like, what's the point? I mean, you're not getting
back to whatever room you're staying in it if you're traveling,
when you're when you're doing all that. By the way,
he is forty to one to win the tournament. Talk
(39:58):
about a colon.
Speaker 1 (39:59):
Glenheim to get We've only one more contestant, Higlight. That's
Darian Thomas. He's twenty five. You got ninth last year
with Swiss half hot sogs. His career highlights winning the
uh Smokes, Poucherini's amateur poutine eating contests, eating Damneen's heavy
so Jonas, if you would have much us, how much
(40:21):
have you consumed?
Speaker 3 (40:22):
Jonas? He's seventy five to one, Bertoletti is eight to one,
Nick Weary is plus five fifty, James Webb is two
to one, and Jeffrey asper As you mentioned that minus one.
Speaker 6 (40:38):
Did get a little dangerous when you turn to assume
that between the tournament.
Speaker 1 (40:43):
Green Sha that green Chili is still my goodness, what's
wrong with you?
Speaker 6 (40:48):
I want to say it, but I'm not going to
do it.
Speaker 3 (40:53):
All right, why not? Great job to you on the
on the news. Good luck to all the contestants.
Hey, thanks for listening to the Two Pros and a
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time every Wednesday morning we turn it over to the
old Pe Petros Papadakis. He is the co host of
(01:18):
the Petros and Money Show, which you can hear on
the Blowtorch A five seventy LA Sports. He's also a
Fox College football analyst and you can get him on
Twitter again at the old Pe Petros. Good morning, happy,
I don't know, early fourth July to you and yours.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Oh, thank you? Yes, fourth of July what a holiday?
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Good morning certainly is.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
I can't wait for my fireworks show to be canceled
and turned into a drone show, A lame mass drone show.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
You don't like drones, not compared to fireworks.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Is that happening now?
Speaker 4 (01:53):
Yeah, everything's getting canceled, all the fireworks shows.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
And turned into drone shows.
Speaker 5 (01:59):
The fireworks racist or something. What happened?
Speaker 4 (02:01):
But no, yes, Actually probably because they're they're connected to
the environment and climate change, so they made the insurance
so difficult to get that a lot of these firework
companies can't afford to put on these shows, and they
cancel them and all this, and there's a clamor.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
To find live free fireworks.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
Some of the old shows that have been going for
like seventy years are canceled in town. Some of them
are on like July second or July fifth, which doesn't
make sense, but here we are anyway, Yes, happy early
fourth way to go.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
I am Petros. Brownie was introduced yesterday to the meeting.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Five am. Thing is not as savory I gotta be.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
Was this a brilliant idea of the general patent of
sports talk radio, Lee de Lap, the flatulent Lee to
Lap Yeah, flag, Yeah, this, guys. I mean, I am
just I am less. I'm a lot more ornery And anyway,
it's something we can discuss well.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
I mean, listen that. I think that's perfect. It's a
perfect segue to Bronnie James. I mean, I don't know
if you saw that, Petros, but he was introduced to.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
Let me read you today, let me read you a
couple of today's headlines. Yes, just think about this tomorrow's
headlines today.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
I've heard that somewhere Number one.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
The Lakers are proud to announce that thirty seven year
old Savannah James, wife of lebron is the organization's new
chief financial officer. Team owner Genie Buss said, Savannah's previous
job experience is unparalleled. That's a that's tomorrow's headline. Thursday,
Are you ready for Friday's headlines? Friday, The Lakers have
(03:50):
announced that nine year old Zuri James, daughter of lebron
has earned a spot on the twenty four to twenty
five Lakers Girls squad. Team owner Genie Buss said, We've
had our eye on Zuri since she was in the
first grade, and we believe she's now ready to take the.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Laker Girls to new heights.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Tang a couple of headlines that are very believable at
this point. And yeah, they introduced Bronni, that poor connect guy.
They're sitting there with the guy who was their first
round pick, who played at a JC, then Northern Colorado,
(04:30):
then took an nil deal at Tennessee, was one of
the best performing players in the SEC, if not the
best player in the SEC, and he's sitting there with
his Bama bangs listening to them talk about how Bronnie
James quote unquote earned this, and JJ Reddick talked down
to everybody about how this is earned and this is
(04:53):
everybody who says otherwise is a troglodyte or some kind
of philistine, and we're all just supposed to accept it.
I mean, guys, it's been a lifetime of watching Lebron
James be a great player, and somewhere in there he
became this manipulator of rosters and firer of coaches and
(05:18):
all of these different things that have been alleged and
alleged and alleged over the years. I'm know Lebron historian.
I'm not one of those people that knows the play
by play of what went down between him and Eric Spolstra,
or what went down between him and Kyrie Irving, or
what went down between him and pat Riley, or what
(05:38):
went down you know, all of these people all over
the years that all of these things that we've had reported.
I'm not one of those people that has a real
grip or a handle on that, you know, that can
tell you exactly the timeline of what happened. But all
you need to know is this, here's a guy with
an incredible reputation for a manipula and doing stuff behind
(06:02):
the scenes and then acting as if he has nothing
to do with it, and the Lakers have fired their coach.
They have hired a guy with zero coaching experience, zero
coaching experience, to be the new head coach who happens
to be Lebron's podcast partner. And then they just happened
to draft his son with a general consensusus not an
(06:25):
NBA prospect. And then they just happened to put his
son on the roster and then tell everybody what a
holes they are for dissension and saying, well, this owner
hired this son to be a scout or every football
coach I've ever known has his kid as a tight
end coach. Yeah, that's different that that is not the
(06:48):
meritocracy of the field of play or the court in
this case, and there is something about it. Look, didn't
I don't care who the Lakers draft in the second round,
Like I've never cared about that before. But when I
heard him say Bronnie's name, even though it was a
FATA compli or a foregone conclusion, it gross me out.
It disgusted me. And now this the aftermath of sitting
(07:14):
there and JJ Reddick's like, I just want to clarify
Bronni has earned this, and it's like it's not this
kid's fault. He's just sitting up there doing whatever he's
doing because this is exactly what his dad wants, and
everybody's going to do whatever they can to make it happen.
And maybe in the world of the NBA you can
earn that and make that. I mean, I guess you can,
(07:36):
but man, it is. It is a gross thing to watch,
and it's going to be an all summer long story
with the Summer League, and you know, any weird thing
that happens. I mean, you think Victor wembyden ya'ma'm knocking
Britney Spears over with his bodyguard as a story, wait
till the Summer League pops off? Meg my god, I
thought Mountain West Media Day was a big story.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
So so Petro's one of the things that I've kind
of read in regards to people's comments about this entire
situation is well, if it's to get Lebron back, so what? Well,
And you could say so what, but like the Bucks
brought in you know, Giannis's brother, he's twenty six.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
I get that.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
But you know some people would say, like, all right,
you know, how how does that kind of work out?
Speaker 4 (08:23):
I mean, he's going to get Yanni's to the freaking
place on time. You know, make sure he's there, you
know that kind of thing.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
I get that.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
And it's Milwaukee, you know the you know all of
these pushback arguments. Fine, if that's what it takes to
have an NBA franchise, and.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
You have to have you have star. You have to
have a star.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
You can't rebuild, you can't do it right, you can't
do it like anybody else. You have to have a
star that manipulates everything, polarizes the whole city, bastardizes the brand,
makes Laker fans feel like they're not Laker fans anymore.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
I get so many.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
Freaking text tweets people saying, I used to be a
Laker fan. I didn't even like Kobe, but I was
still a Laker fan. But this Lebron thing, it's over.
I'm done.
Speaker 5 (09:14):
Is this the worst thing that's happened to the Lakers
in your lifetime?
Speaker 4 (09:17):
Or what you can read it is, it's the grossest
thing they've ever done. It's amazing because this has all
happened in like a two week period where Jerry West died,
who really was one of the most honorable men in
the way front office works and the way you deal
with players, all of these things, and who he was
as a player and a front office guy, Hall of
(09:39):
fame all the way through, and Genie Buss.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Banned him from the Lakers.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
They had terrible feelings and the sentiment toward Jerry West
in the world of basketball and in this town. When
people hear that Genie Buss did that, they're infuriated. And
that's like a story that just came out around this
same time, and under the backdrop of the Celtics, who
(10:07):
are the Lakers big rival, just pulling ahead in the
championship count race, and one of those Lakers championships is
the Bubble Championship.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
So whatever.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
But I think that the Jerry West.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Snub or what they allowed to happen with their relationship
with Jerry West and this allowed manipulation from Lebron James,
are two of the darkest days or moments in Laker
franchise history.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
No doubt about that. Is that a good answer?
Speaker 4 (10:45):
Yeah? Yeah, all right, I mean, I mean, I think, yeah,
this is probably the grossest thing they've ever done, because
it's not so much what they're doing, it's like, Okay,
this is what you need to do. To keep Lebron.
All right, fine, do it, tell everybody you're doing it whatever.
We all just get nailed by the king anyway around here.
But it's the fact that they have these deployed army
(11:08):
of media people who were either on the payroll literally
or on the emotional payroll.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Where they think it's the cool thing to do to tell.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
Everybody that Lebron's a better father than the rest of us.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
And any good father would do this for his son.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
What excuse me, I wouldn't do it for myself exactly.
Speaker 6 (11:26):
I mean, guys, is there any chance that Bronni can
play himself out of the situation that they've drafted him into.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
Yes, and and a lot of expert But you know,
that's the whole thing.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
I mean, this whole thing has been done backward.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
There's but that that would have happened years years ago.
That decision should have been made years ago. If he
wanted to stay in LA he should have gone and
played at UC Irvine or a place like that, develop
learn fight, become an all conference time a player by
the time you're a junior or a senior, and then
(12:03):
earn your draft status. You know, sure you might get
drafted a little higher than you should have been because
you're a Lebron's son.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
But earn it.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
That's earning it, right. Or stay at USC and see
what Eric Musselman is gonna do. Or transfer to Quinnipiac
or whatever where Lebron's friend is coaching. Like fight, earn it,
make it work. He was not an impact player on
a bad USC team, and they turned around yesterday and
tried to blame the USC for that, and it's like, no,
(12:34):
you handpicked that school, you manipulated that situation. It didn't
work out for you, and of course it's somebody else's fault.
He could play himself into being an NBA rotation player,
according to some experts. But I mean, I'm not a
draft expert. But when you're six foot one and you
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don't have a handle enough to play point guard, and
you don't shoot enough to play shooting guard and you're
only six ' one, how are you going to switch
off on defense? What are you doing out there? You know?
I mean I don't know. And also what does it
do to the dynamic of your team? You know, everybody
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in that organization is used to being nailed by the king.
But like, as far as the court, the competition part
of it that everybody's going to have to just absorb this.
How does that work? I don't know, I really don't.
I mean, the eye rolling must be off the charts.
You know, what does it do to the dynamic of
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your own culture if you even have one? I mean,
and JJ Redick sitting there talking about I'm going to
install culture and we're going to build out a holistic
player development program and you know, using all these weird
big words for you know, the same thing we've known
about for years on how to prepare a basketball team
(13:57):
or a sports team for anything. Apparently he's got some
new innovative way. But I mean, let me ask.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
You guys a question.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
How do you install a culture with a forty year
old superstar quasar guy who controls everything, who just drafted
his son and gave him a guaranteed place on the roster,
and then everybody sits there and tells you he has
nothing to do with it. That's what insults me that
they just sit there and tell you straight face that
they didn't even talk to Lebron and he's got almost
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nothing to do with this, and we're just supposed to
sit there and wear it, and I don't like it.
I mean, I didn't think i'd care that much. I'm
more excited about the college football season getting started and
how weird it's going to be. But yeah, this situation
I don't like. I don't like it at all.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
I mean, we'll never hear this because he controls so
much of the media coverage that goes on and the
story surrounding it. But they've got to be the laughing
stock of the league right now. I mean, like Klay Thompson, Well, it.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Hurts the credibility of the NBA, Yes.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
It does. It's also like there's probably people around the
league that are going, man, I don't want any part
of that. Like I wonder if Klay Thompson looked at
the situation was like, listen, my dad played here. I
grew up a Laker fan. I love the franchise. Yeah,
they're offering me a lot of money. And then the
spin on it is, well, the state tax in Texas
and you know, a chance to play for It's like No.
(15:21):
I wonder if he looked at it and said.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Well, we know Michael Thompson pretty well. Yeah, Michael used to.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
Work with us when I first started working at well,
actually he got the job over me many years ago.
I auditioned for that job and I was told by
Steve Hartman, who works on weekends at Fox Sports Radio,
Oh yeah, when I was in my twenties, you're gonna
get it. You're in the league. You're gonna get this job.
You get this job right now.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
It's a foregone conclusion job.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
And I was like, damn, you know, I'm gonna get
that job. I'm gonna be the loose cannon. You know,
I'm gonna be with Steve Hartman. And it was the
longest running show in town and all that stuff. And
around that time, the Lakers ended up signing with five
seventy and they ended up hiring Michael as their color guy.
(16:10):
And it ended up just going that way, at least
that's what they told me. And he's a wonderful guy.
I ended up at that station doing the afternoon drive
show and which I'm still doing. And we love Michael.
I mean, Michael was so much fun to be around,
even though he was a Kobe and Lebron ball washer
(16:30):
and all that. He was great. But what Matt and I,
my radio partner, thought, was like, Michael, who's a Bahamian
guy was like, you know, you got to be a
Lika and then like behind the scenes, you know, openly
in the papers and stuff, and you know, I want.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Him to be a Liqa.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
I love this frontchise and then like like deep down,
like you know, in his son's ear when he's hugging him.
Speaker 7 (16:57):
Get afarawe as your kid, Lebron is destroyed, displace, you know,
run son, run by.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
But I think I don't know.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
I don't know what happened there, but I think Michael
might have winked at him a little bit. I don't
know I would have if I were him, But you
have to sit there. I mean, he's been working for
the Lakers for decades. The Lakers changed his life when
they when they traded him in and he won a
championship with Magic and all them over the Celtics. I mean,
Michael is a life for Laker. But I wouldn't want
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my son in that situation. I mean, if your son
plays well, then great, Lebron made your son play well.
If your son fails or you guys don't win, whatever,
then it's his fault that he ruined Lebron's career. And
he's wrecking the end of Lebron's legacy. I mean, it's
getting old, and it's been decades of just getting nailed
(17:58):
by the king, and I don't know, I feel like
people are tired of it. Everybody except for that toad
fat guy in Cleveland.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Jesus Petros.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
You mentioned earlier just about college football starting up. We
do have media days starting next week. Talk to me
a little going about the Mountain West with me. Who's
going to Bay.
Speaker 5 (18:18):
I'll be out there, baby, I'll be out there with the.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
And the and the two pack.
Speaker 5 (18:21):
That's what I'm calling the pack, coming to.
Speaker 7 (18:22):
The Pack two.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
I got invited to the pack to dinner. You didn't
get to take forty five minutes.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
You a whole. You didn't get that email. I did.
Speaker 5 (18:30):
I got that emails on that email, Petros.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
And I got the follow up email from my boss
which says, you'll be at this.
Speaker 5 (18:38):
It'll be you, me and about for the people.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
Yeah, John Canzano, John Wilner, maybe the ghost of Yogi
uh All.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
The email literally is like by the bye while.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
You're in Vegas, while you're in town for the Las
Vegas uh grateful dead at the sphere and the Mountain
West Media Day, Why don't you.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Bop on over to the Blagio and spend the evening
with the PAC two betros.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
You have coined the phrase bacon caller, I believe in
regards to I'm not sure if those are the draft or.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Combat the bacon neck. Yeah, yeah, bacon.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Excuse me no to tell me what people are missing
out on at these media days?
Speaker 5 (19:19):
Paid a picture for us.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Your experience is going to these what they're missing out,
what you'll be seeing there.
Speaker 4 (19:25):
Well, you know, my very first job ever at the
age of twenty three, right out of USC was to
interview Deshan Foster, who's now the head coach at UCLA,
at the PAC ten Media Day, which used to be
at the Sheraton, the Airport Sheraton for many years in
Los Angeles. And if you haven't seen Chip Kelly have
(19:46):
a meltdown because they won't bring his valet car there,
then you haven't lived.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
But what is it like?
Speaker 3 (19:54):
I mean?
Speaker 5 (19:54):
For me?
Speaker 4 (19:55):
At these they usually bring me into what they call
a breakout room, which is like you know, some little
beating room in a hotel, and the different coaches all
come to me and for ten minutes apiece and tell
me their problems like a psychiatrist, and then I go home.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
That's usually what it's like.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
And there's a few radio shows set up like Weenie
in the Butt, you know, or whatever, and that's a
family guy thing.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
I love that show.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Yeah. Who was the other show? They had? Dingo and
the Baby.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
Oh, you guys have a lot of shows. You guys
have the nighttime show fat Head and Clean Dome.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
No, I've not heard of any of this.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
It's a good one, Jason Smith, the Fathead and Clean
Dome Show. Do you have the New York mailbox Head show,
Mailbox Head and Mailbox Covino and Rich Oh? Anyway, the
point is, oh, no, oh no, what were we talking about?
Who cares the media days?
Speaker 8 (21:01):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (21:01):
Yeah, they set up like it's like Jeff Schwartz. You
know Jeff Schwartz, that big ass lineman guy. Yes, yeah,
he just sits there and it's like, well, you know,
I really liked him.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Yeah, he also works here.
Speaker 7 (21:13):
We've got more of a zone feel here.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Hey, I like this. Just look at this power action.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
No, it's just a lot like that. It's all the
media guys sitting around and bs.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
And and there's nothing wrong with it.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
I actually like the media days because you see people,
you catch up with people, you give people a hug,
you're physically.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
In front of people. I like that.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
I've always liked that people look fat, people look skinny.
Speaker 5 (21:41):
Do you say anything to people who look skinny? He
used to look fat.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Do you say, oh, he lost?
Speaker 7 (21:45):
Wait?
Speaker 4 (21:45):
You guys remember Jim Herrick. He's still alive. One of
the great college basketball coach. There's a couple of controversies
here and there, but uh, he was the head coach
at Morningside High School many years ago, where Byron Scott
and Lisa Leslie and people like that played their coach.
But then he went to Pepperdine and then he won
a championship at UCLA in the nineties. Anyway, if you
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ever saw Jim Herrick, and he's very old and he's
very popular, so he probably doesn't remember your name, but
you could tell if you were fat or not just
by the way Jim Herrick greeted you, right, Because if
you were.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Skinny, he'd say, hey, stick.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
How's it going stick, And you'd be like, wow, okay,
I'm a stick. And then if you're fat, all he
would say is there.
Speaker 5 (22:33):
He is.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
There?
Speaker 4 (22:36):
He is and you're like, oh no, I was stick
last time. Last He's like, damn.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
Get him on Twitter at the old p Petros Papadegas
the Coast of the Petros some money show which you
can hear on the Blowtorch, a five seventy LA sports
Fox College Football analyst, also our buddy every Wednesday morning
here on FSR.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Pee.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
We appreciate it. We'll do it again next week.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
All right, I appreciate you guys right there, thank you
for having me there.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
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Speaker 3 (24:20):
Two Pros and a Cup of Joe. Fox Sports Radio,
LaVar Arrington, Brady Quinn, Jonas Knox with you here. We're
gonna have the BQ News coming up a little over
fifteen minutes from now from the tire Raq dot Com studios.
But right now we've got a little bit of breaking
news out of the world of sports, and for that
we turn it over to Eddie.
Speaker 8 (24:37):
Garcia breaking news from Fox Sports.
Speaker 10 (24:43):
Well, unfortunately Petros is not still with us to be
able to comment on this, but Adrian Wardarowski reporting this
morning NBA news. Free agent Lebron James agreeing on a
two year, one hundred and four million dollars max deal
to return to the Lakers. The deal includes a player
option and a no trade clause. Again, bron James a
two year deal, one hundred and four million dollars max
deals to stay with the Lakers.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
All right, nice, there you go? Does everything falling in place?
Speaker 2 (25:08):
See?
Speaker 5 (25:09):
Petros gets to get bent over for two more years?
Speaker 7 (25:12):
Wow?
Speaker 5 (25:13):
What Benover? Apparently says?
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Okay, that's his words, not mine.
Speaker 5 (25:16):
Don't put that in mine.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
I mean, he just I mean, I thought for sure
he was going to like look around and see what
else was out there. I can't just can't imagine that
this would be.
Speaker 5 (25:29):
What's the length of Bronni's deal.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
I don't know, just a multi year deal. They haven't
announced it.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
I thought it's not slotted like the NFL, but I
thought it's something similar.
Speaker 5 (25:39):
It isn't like they're short. They're short deals though.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
Oh no, And can I be honest with you, you
don't care, No, not really, because I just think it
is what it is. As long as Lebron's there, he's
going to be there, like he will have a place
on that roster with that organization for as long as
his dad is there and if he's there for just
the two years, or there's the player option after the
first year and they decide to go somewhere else. Like
it's just I mean, it is what it is. He's
(26:05):
running the show there. That's that's what the organization has
turned into. I just does JJ Reddick strike you guys
as somebody who can keep his mouth shut and just
coat well, like let this happen without at some point
being yeah, I think I don't think he can do
it either. I think at some point he's gonna get frustrated.
(26:27):
He was getting frustrated, you know, debating stephen A. Smith
and eventually just decide I can't do the show anymore,
Like I can't do it, Like I just wonder how
long this goes on before he's like all right, man,
like like what are we doing here? Like like am
I the coach? Or am I just kind of the
sidekick to Lebron's team and whatever he wants done with
the organization? Like he just feels like I just can't
(26:49):
see him keeping his mouth shut that long. But hey,
at least it's a storyline, you know, something do to
track and monitor and something to keep an eye on
and it'll give us Petro something to talk about each
week when he comes on with us, so that's always fun.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
So I've got a little info second round picks. Per
Article seven, Section six, paragraph K in case you really cared,
they are able to sign three to four year contracts.
Speaker 5 (27:16):
For the second round picks.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
So there you go.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Is it are the second round picks can be signed
to a two way NBA contract, which is something to
keep an eye on when Browny does sign his deal,
because if they truly do care about his development, you
would think that if he's not playing at the NBA level,
send him down, let him develop, oh yeah, and then
(27:41):
let him come back up. So that could would make
some sense if they put it in there. But typically
first round picks they get a two year deal. Then
there's two team options after year three and four, and
in the case of second round picks, I believe the
structure is somewhat similar.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Now, is he are second round picks normally guaranteed on
the fifteen man roster like reportedly is being being done
with Brownie James's contract, Like there, I.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
Guess, I'm just I don't know. I'm kind of confused
by how that exactly works. And I don't know how
many second round picks don't make the roster their first year,
So like I don't know if it needs to be
stated in there.
Speaker 5 (28:20):
I guess which is what is interesting.
Speaker 6 (28:23):
Oh, it's going to be stated in there. And even
if it isn't be clear, somebody's losing a roster spot
this year to Brownie James. Bottom line, that's the I
mean again, I think that that's the whole point of
why you draft him versus taking him.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
As a free agent.
Speaker 6 (28:42):
Is the whole idea of making sure that there's a
roster spot locked up for him.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
So I don't think it's just clout.
Speaker 6 (28:52):
I think it has there's a business piece to this
as well by by drafting him. So regardless, it's going
to I think the first domino in all of this.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
Pre or I let's say, post Lebron.
Speaker 6 (29:12):
Contract, post drafting, let's see what happens with the summer league.
I need to know is he playing. If he's not playing,
how is that being handled? If he is playing, how
is that being handled? Because I think everybody's coming to
the same conclusions. He doesn't handle the ball like a
point guard, so if he's not going to be a
(29:35):
true point guard handling the ball. Then where are you
going to have him? Where are you going to have him?
Are you going to have him as a two, as
a shooter? Where are you going to have him? And
how does that look at this level? How does that look?
And we'll get our first glimpses of what that looks
like if he does indeed play in the summer League.
(29:56):
I think that that's the one thing I'm I'm waiting
to see because you can do all the stuff that's
being done now that's behind the scenes, that's leveraging, you know, posturing,
But once you get to the point of.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
Where the rubber meets the road. And this is why
I would not do it for my kid.
Speaker 6 (30:16):
You can't hide your kid from what takes place on
the court. Like the relationships that you have to get
him on the team, great, But if that kid doesn't
have what it takes to be able to do what
he needs to do to look like a formidable player
and contributor to the team, then you can't. How do
(30:37):
you get out of the way of that? And to me,
I almost feel like it makes more sense. If not,
I'm really saying it and hearing myself say it, out loud.
Doesn't it make more sense to have him not play
in the summer league so that you can justify him
having a roster spot. I'd rather sit there and say
he's not playing yet, he's not ready yet. Y'all can
say what y'all want to say, Think what you want
(30:59):
to think. Whatever we'll woo would develop him. He'll be
ready to go when he's ready to go. And you
don't have definitive evidence to say this kid doesn't belong
in the NFL, NBA.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
Because you can't see him get exposed. Because you can't
see it. Because if he gets exposed in the summer league,
imagine what happens.
Speaker 6 (31:15):
Well, you don't really have to play them in regular seat.
You play him here and their spot duty in regular season,
but in the summer league, cats are trying to solidify
themselves on a roster. They out there playing for keeps
and they have to have it, okay, so you won't
put him in that. I mean, I can't wait to
(31:37):
see how that plays out.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
What a mess, man, I honest, I swear to God.
I feel bad for Brownie Jams, I really do. I
just like not asking for any of this. I don't
know how crazy is about the whole thing. Seems like
a good kid and it's just been caught up in
this windstorm of drama. And his Petros pointed out manipulation
the entire way through. So ware we go. It is
(32:01):
two pros and a cup of Joe. Here on Fox
Sports Radio, LeVar Arrington, Brady Quinn, Jonas Knox with you.
All right, So for all the latest from around the
world of sports outside of just Bronni James and Lebron
James and Lebron' Caitlyn Clark as well too. It is
Eddie Garcia.
Speaker 10 (32:18):
All right, thanks Jonas, and we mentioned the news on
Lebron James two years, one hundred and four million dollars
Max Steeal to return to the Lakers. Cleveland Cavaliers and
five time All Star guard Donovan Mitchell agree on a
three year, one hundred and fifty point three million dollars
max extension that includes a player option in the final year.
In baseball, Phillies over the Cup sixty four Trey Turner,
a couple of homers for Philadelphia. They're a major league
(32:38):
best fifty six and twenty nine Oriols shut out the
Maritis to nothing, Baltimore started Grayson Rodriguez six and a
third shutout innings. He and three relievers combining on a
two hit shutout. Baltimore's got a one game lead on
the Yankees for first in the AL East. Yankees lost
to the Reds five to four despite Aaron Judge jating
is major league leading thirty second home owner of the year.
He's got twenty six homers in has last fifty games.
(32:59):
Astros lose to the Blue Jays seven to six. Houston
steal three back of Seattle for first in the AL West.
Guardians walk off with a seven to six win over
the White Sox. The Dodgers walk off with a six
to five win over the Diamondbacks. Tascar Hernandez walk off
single wins. It as La scored two in the ninth
with two out. Choeotani also hitting his national leading twenty
seventh home warn of the year, but announced he's not
(33:20):
going to participate in the All Star home run derby
Brewers getting a bases loaded hit by pitch to get
by the Rockies four to three twins over the Tigers
five to three. Minnesota with two home runs. They've got
at least one home run in twenty straight games now
and the Mets down the National seven to two to
ten innings. Mets are eighteen and eight since the start
of June. Best record in baseball over that span. WNBA
(33:40):
aces over the fever eighty eight sixty nine Kaitlin Clarkin
lost thirteen points and eleven assists. Come back to Brady Quinn, Barrio, Rictennay,
Jonas knoxon tirerac dot Com, Fox Sports Radio Studios.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
Thanks Eddie. Two Pros and a Cup of Joe here
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tirerak dot com studios, we will close up shop with
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Speaker 8 (34:01):
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Speaker 3 (34:12):
Two Pros and a Cup of Joe Fox Sports Radio,
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we'll be back on the air tomorrow, Happy fourth of July,
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(34:32):
that'll be yours here again coming up tomorrow. By the way,
if you've missed any of this show thus far, and
there's been a lot that's gone on, including well we
still haven't gotten the explanation as to why lead to
laughs walking around with out of shoes on? But what
just got no shoes on? Is that not smell? Oh jeesus, Rena, akay,
(34:53):
go there, I'm just zach Hey what the face that
went with it?
Speaker 4 (34:57):
No?
Speaker 3 (34:58):
Well that's not the smell. Oh good, Lee, you should
have been in here earlier. I mean, there could be
all kinds of dang, Lee and Tommy's classic Oh man,
Oh my god, Chilie Berger, I don't do the burger,
I do the hot dog. Dang that's worse, is it?
I guess.
Speaker 6 (35:19):
The fact that you are unconscious about how you deliver
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Speaker 5 (35:44):
Let's go to the news test.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
What nores Brady Quick? Yeah, Well, as much.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
As it pains for me to do this, we're gonna
have to do this because we're going to see the
Nathan's hot dog eating contest. It will not involve Joey Chestnutt,
who set a record by scarfing down seventy one hot
dogs last year. We already give you an update, and
he's gonna be doing a little bit of a different
hot dog competition with soldiers there in four.
Speaker 5 (36:09):
Plis, Texas.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
So let's talk about some of the folks who will
be partaking. First, up, Nick we we Re. I'm not
even how you're sure how you pronounce this, But he's
thirty five, he's got he got fourth place last ye
eight forty five hot dogs.
Speaker 5 (36:24):
It seems to he's.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
From Tampa, Florida, so he's got that going for him.
Outside of that, though, I'm not really sure what to
expect based on the name alone, not seeing a picture
of his face.
Speaker 5 (36:35):
Then he thoughts on how Nick's gonna.
Speaker 3 (36:36):
Perform, Well, he ate forty five last year, he'll give
fifty fifty fast, I think, so maybe maybe he takes
his foot off the gas with no Joey Chess not there. Okay,
maybe he's like, what was the next highest to Joey chestnuts?
Speaker 1 (36:51):
Seventy That's a great question that leads us to our
next contestant, Jeffrey Esper. He's forty nine. Good god, I
had to be forty nine and doing stuff like this.
He does appear to be in good shape. He got
second last year. He ate forty nine hot dogs. Just
those last few hot dogs are hard to get down.
Speaker 5 (37:12):
He's his career highlights.
Speaker 1 (37:13):
He's consumed twenty one pounds of strawberry shortcake in eight minutes.
Speaker 3 (37:20):
That actually sounds pretty good. No, twenty one. I don't
know how you could get to that amount.
Speaker 5 (37:26):
By the way, I did mean to mention for Nick Weary.
I guess I sorry, we'll pronounce it.
Speaker 1 (37:32):
He's set a world record for eating fifty our boiled
eggs in three minutes in four seconds.
Speaker 3 (37:38):
No, that's disgusting.
Speaker 5 (37:41):
You imagine how bad that dude smells.
Speaker 3 (37:43):
Now I am efforting betting lines on this event.
Speaker 5 (37:49):
Well, do you want to get through the rest of
the names before you? Okay, thanks, I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
Next up, James Webb's thirty five looks old as hell.
He got third and last year hot dogg geting contest
with forty seven hot dogs. He set a record just
just a month ago by doubting seventy glaze donuts in
eight minutes.
Speaker 3 (38:09):
Dang, now, I would have a chance with glazes. No,
you could not seventy glazed donuts in eight minutes.
Speaker 6 (38:16):
Bruh, you are Krispy kreame eater, right, I mean they're okay?
Speaker 3 (38:21):
Yeah, they go down pretty Yeah, those gotta quick. They
go down eight minutes. How many Christmy kreams?
Speaker 6 (38:26):
I don't know, man, I would never try because I'm
I'm too too like into my health journey.
Speaker 3 (38:32):
Here, yeah, okay, this.
Speaker 1 (38:33):
Next one's for Lafar because I think you might have
something in common with the contest.
Speaker 5 (38:37):
And here we go Patrick Bertoletti.
Speaker 1 (38:40):
Yeah, he actually didn't compete last year in the hot
dog contest, but his career highlights slurping down a record
thirty nine dozen oysters in eight minutes.
Speaker 3 (38:49):
I could do that. Yeah, I could slurp down a
ton of oysters. Oysters are so good, man, I don't know.
As long as they're prepped, as long as they're prepped
for me. It would be good.
Speaker 2 (38:58):
What do you do?
Speaker 3 (38:59):
And uh the I do horse radish and cocktail? You
do lemon on him?
Speaker 6 (39:06):
Yeah yeah, I could knock those down a lot of
them quickly.
Speaker 3 (39:11):
Yeah, all right, go ahue.
Speaker 7 (39:13):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (39:13):
Gideon og He's our next contestant, thirty two. He's the
tallest contestant, standing at six foot nine. He got sixth
place last year, but this one actually now kicks it
over to Jonas or maybe Lee. He's his his career
highlight's consuming one point three and change gallons of New
Mexico green chili stew in six minutes.
Speaker 3 (39:36):
Uh talk about the run, I mean like, uh, that
just seems like there's no way that ends well? Like
does he does he compete in a bathtub because there's
no like, what's the point? I mean, you're not getting
back to whatever room you're staying in it if you're traveling,
when you're when you're doing all that. By the way,
he is forty to one to win the tournament. Talk
(39:58):
about a colon.
Speaker 1 (39:59):
Glenheim to get We've only one more contestant, Higlight. That's
Darian Thomas. He's twenty five. You got ninth last year
with Swiss half hot sogs. His career highlights winning the
uh Smokes, Poucherini's amateur poutine eating contests, eating Damneen's heavy
so Jonas, if you would have much us, how much
(40:21):
have you consumed?
Speaker 3 (40:22):
Jonas? He's seventy five to one, Bertoletti is eight to one,
Nick Weary is plus five fifty, James Webb is two
to one, and Jeffrey asper As you mentioned that minus one.
Speaker 6 (40:38):
Did get a little dangerous when you turn to assume
that between the tournament.
Speaker 1 (40:43):
Green Sha that green Chili is still my goodness, what's
wrong with you?
Speaker 6 (40:48):
I want to say it, but I'm not going to
do it.
Speaker 3 (40:53):
All right, why not? Great job to you on the
on the news. Good luck to all the contestants.
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