Matt Money Smith on the Chargers, Chiefs, Bronny and Ryan from the PMS Union + Who's the A-hole

The FnA Podcast with Kevin Figgers and Adam Auslund with Brie Brie. Matt Money Smith joins the show to talk about the Chargers 4 game winning streak and the Ravens game on Monday + how Ryan from the PMS Union went broke betting against him + Bronny. In Who's the A-Hole with Brie Brie!

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Well, you know this is great because good start. Coming
up today on the show, we have Who's the A Hole?
And Brie will probably say Adam, although she says that
every time we do a show, so that's no different.

Speaker 2 (01:53):
But we have it Who's the A Hole?

Speaker 3 (01:55):
Coming up on them saying you're saying that to me?
You're saying that to me right now?

Speaker 5 (01:59):
The look that just shot to add him, Oh my god,
my god, let's could kill I was about to just
jump out of the window like nope, and he's sitting
none of that my direction. I'm not catching any any
strays off that. So we have Who's the A Hole?
Returning the voicemail the Talk Ass Hotline at nine seven
eight eleven ninety seven.

Speaker 3 (02:19):
We have a voicemail at hey, how about talk about time?
About damn time? I mean, it's our fault. We weren't
doing a show for a while, so I didn't expect
any but it's good to have the voicemail back up
and running. And we do have Who's the A Hole
with Bree Denise twenty six coming up later in the show.
Before that, though, Kevin.

Speaker 2 (02:38):
Yes, we have one of our favorite favorite guests.

Speaker 5 (02:41):
You know, we have a big, big game coming up
this coming Monday Night on Monday Night Football, and it's
been a while since we've had our last guest on.
We had his counterport on last week, so let's uh,
let's get to it Monday.

Speaker 3 (02:58):
Yeah, we're getting back to here in our return to
the FNA podcast. So we got our radio heroes on
and back to back weeks the p and PMS last
week with Petros and today the m with Matt money
Smith Voice of the Bolts.

Speaker 2 (03:12):
Money.

Speaker 3 (03:12):
How are we doing?

Speaker 1 (03:14):
I'm good if I figured out what time it was
for some reason, I thought we were doing it at
noon and I'm busy. I'll give you exactly. I'll pull
back the curtain. Why you caught me by surprise because
I probably just listened to my tenth Jameis Winston post
game victory quote. I can't get enough, Like I truly
can't speak. He's got to be one of my favorite
athletes of all time. Like, I cannot get enough of it.

Speaker 3 (03:35):
It's so good the horse you ride in on. But
the Lord is what helps you win. I forget what
Elly said, yeah, but it is. It's inspirational. Speaking of inspirational,
I mean, I guess Harball is pretty good with that stuff.
What's been the difference in this four game winning streak, Matt?
With you guys taking down the Bengals and holding on
to that late victory last week? But what's changed over

(03:57):
this winning streak? Have they just set in with the
Jim Harbor rules now?

Speaker 1 (04:01):
No, I honestly, Adam, I think it's just hurt in
his ankle. You know, I think you're seeing what the
vision was of how Greg Rowman and Jim Harball wanted
this offense to operate with just the incredible gifts, the
physical gifts that Justin Herbert possesses, and that's you know
a lot more using his legs legitimately like running the football,

(04:22):
not just extending plays, but taking off and use him
and the guy hit. I think what twenty I read
twenty point three eight miles per hour last week on
one of the runs. I mean, like he people don't
realize what an athlete is. So I think that's really
what it is. You're starting to see him run. Because
of that, Teams are now having to back out, teams
are having to honor that. So before they were just

(04:42):
kind of stacking the boxes. Herbert was sort of checking
it down because he couldn't really run. They weren't afraid
of it, they weren't afraid of the receivers, and it
just kind of, you know, the offense was sort of
stuck in the mud a little bit, you know, and
their defense was able to carry him to a five
hundred record and then auto to buy bang Herber's ankle field. Great.
He's throwing the ball downfield more than any other quarterback

(05:03):
in the league, and he's got the best numbers throwing
the ball down field of any quarterback in the league.
And I think a lot of that is just tooe
to help and the fact that he's able to really
kind of be the justin Herbert that we used to seeing.

Speaker 5 (05:15):
You had a few players after last week's win talk
about just the vibe around the team in general. The
culture is different. A game like that last year under
the previous coaching staff where they had a big lead
and they let the team come back, they probably would
have lost, and just the vibe is different.

Speaker 2 (05:28):
They feel confident, they know that they're going to win.

Speaker 5 (05:31):
Just I know, you go to practices and you talk
to these guys obviously throughout the week, just from what
you observe from training camp till now.

Speaker 2 (05:38):
What is different?

Speaker 5 (05:39):
If there is something tangibly different about this team mentality
wise or otherwise from last year to this year under
the first year.

Speaker 1 (05:46):
Under Harball, Yeah, I think, Kevin, I think it's physical
as it is mentally. I think everyone keeps pointing sort
of to the emotional and mental side of it that
you know, and that's a huge part of it. No
doubt that that Herba that has instilled this belief that
they're gonna win every game, that you guys are tougher,
you guys are stronger, you guys are better. He's constantly

(06:08):
building them up, showering them with praise. Every player on
the roster from Jalen Rager who might get ten snaps
to Justin Herbert, you know, and everybody sort of has
that belief. But I think the other part of it
is you mentioned training camp, Kevin practice, and it's the
fourth quarter OTI period, and you know we have I
do a podcast with Julie La Dai every other week

(06:29):
for Chargers Weekly. He's in there with me and you're
talking to Joelt yesterday he brought that up. He's like, yeah, dude,
I hated it when it was going on. You're in
the middle of training camps, it's ninety degrees out, you're
sweating your ass off, and then as soon as you're
done with the breakdown. Normally on other teams and a
guy said this. He's like, yeah, I've never done the
OT period that you guys do. And he said, normally

(06:51):
you break down and then you go into the locker room,
you hit the tub, you hit massage or whatever, and
you go home. He's like, as soon as we break
that thing down, it's twenty more minutes minutes of flipping
sleds of you know, they have these flip sled things
that weigh like four hundred pounds that they got to
flip over bear crawls, pulling, you know, four hundred pounds
of weight on a sled behind them. It's all that

(07:12):
sort of stuff. And the idea was, no games are tight.
That's that's the NFL. They're mostly one score games. So
make sure you're able to outlast your opponent in those
final ten minutes. And I think you've seen that in
a lot of these games, where they're able to kind
of put that nail on the coff and get that
one last scoring drive when maybe you look at the
opposite side and whether it's offense not executing your defense

(07:34):
with their hands on their hips. I've just felt like
I've seen a lot of that this year in these
seven wins.

Speaker 5 (07:38):
You know, you've mentioned the passing game has come alive
over these last few weeks, and that's attributable to Justin
Herbert being healthy. And I know a big question mark
for a lot of people coming into the season was
going to be the passing game because they, you know,
lost so much from a receiver standpoint, and now you're
leaning on a rookie like lat McConkie, and you know,
Quentin Johnson has had issues of drops in the past.
Do you think how much of that is just a

(07:59):
progression between the receivers and Herbert and working together and
finding a rhythm together and now the passing game is
opening up. Or do you just think it's as simple
as Herbert wasn't healthy and that's why I wasn't hitting
early on.

Speaker 1 (08:10):
Yeah, I think it's a little both, Deev. I think
it's you know, he was injured for two and a
half weeks in training camp, so it's hard when they're
installing the offense for him to get on the same
page as all these guys, all these new well a
the new way that they were using Quinton, you know,
based on you know, compared to what they were doing
last year where they just kind of asked him to
replace Mike Williams, which is not you know, his strong suit,

(08:30):
and be just the new guys, you know, Lad McConkey,
Will Disley, Hayden Hurst, JK Dobbins out of the backfield.
They're just won't enough reps there. And then you know,
you get into the season and all as well, and
in week two he gets a gnarly high ankle spring
that he just wasn't right. So I think once you
get past that, you know that's now this is sort

(08:52):
of like where they maybe would have been in Week
one and going through all those practice reps and getting
on the same page and making that connection. I think
the other part, too, is just Lad's so good, and
I think maybe for rookies it takes him a second
when you're the seventh receiver picked, you know, and you're
not Malik Nators or Marvin Harrison Junior. But he's someone
who's trying to figure out, you know, how do I

(09:14):
fit into this whole thing, and that's freaking justin Herbert
throw me the ball. And I think for Lad, they
just kind of finally made that connection, and maybe he
was finally like, yeah, I am good a shot to
get out of this thing being the best rookie receiver
out of the group because of A who's throwing me
the passes, B who's called in the plays, and then
just kind of see his own ability, his own talent.

(09:34):
So there's you know, I think all of that is
sort of coming together right now for Lad, and man,
it's fun to watch him. He's separate, he creates separation,
he gets off press, he breaks tackles, he makes people
missing wide open spaces like he is a you know,
I think some people might hesitate to call him a
true number one just because he's not that big sid

(09:54):
that physical specimen that you can put out there at
the X and he can get off press coverage no problem,
regardless of who's opposite him. But man, he's damn close.
Is it looks different, he's built different, But I think
production wise, he could end up having those you know,
Julian Edelman type seasons where you're talking about twelve hundred
and thirteen hundred yards in double digit touchdowns.

Speaker 3 (10:15):
Matt, you mentioned JK Dobbins. There, you guys are taking
on his former team Monday Night in the Ravens. He
did his ACL a couple of seasons ago, his achilles
last year. Did anyone expect this level of production with
him and Jim Harbor this season?

Speaker 1 (10:29):
I did, I'll be honest at I mean, he was
someone that I'm not doing it to kind of you know,
say hey, I told you so, But I mean he
was like my number one free agent guy. I knew
how they were going to spend money, that it was
going to be these one year deals, these flyers, either
guys that maybe were being used wrong or coming off
with injury, and I was like, Dobbins went healthy, is

(10:49):
a top five back in this league, and he's the
only guy that's going to be available in their budget
that has that sort of potential. You know, they can
find serviceable backs, but when healthy, Dobbins is a star,
like a legitimate superstar at the position. So why not
take the flyer on him? And it's paid off, you know,
because you can't argue with the production when he's been healthy.

(11:12):
It's five and a half yards per carry, it's those
thirty yard runs. It's the ability to have vision and
see and create a three yard run, you know, and
turn a three yard run into a twenty nine yard
touchdown run like he did last week. So you know,
to me, yeah, it's as simple as if he's healthy,
if his body is right, this guy is you know,

(11:35):
he's that guy. He's a top five back. So so far,
so good. I hope he stays healthy. It's an incredible
story when you look at all the different injuries he's
had to contend with. I can't imagine anybody else winning
Comeback Player of the Year. I know Sam Donald might
be the favorite because he's a quarterback, but Dobbins is
as important to his success as anybody and man, knowing
what he's been through and the amount of you know,

(11:57):
where his body has taken to to maybe get out
of this thing with a twelve hundred yard season and
double digital you know, thirteen fourteen tds, it'd be pretty
sweet for him. You know.

Speaker 5 (12:07):
Defensively, we know the Charges have been pretty dominant all
season long, but the detractors will say, well, you haven't
played anybody, you haven't played any top offenses until this
past weekend. Will you play at the Bengals? And they
got their share of yards to say the least, and
now you have a big test coming up against Baltimore.
When people say I don't know if the charges are
for real or not, especially defensively because they haven't played
any top offenses, I guess what is your retort to that?

Speaker 1 (12:29):
Yeah, I think it's twofold, keV. I think it's one
you can only play who's on your schedule, so you know,
I don't know what you want them to do. It's like, yeah,
they've played the teams that were on the field on Sundays,
and you know they've dominated. And the last time I
checked in Arizona team they played and held the seventeen
points went on the score I think thirty one, twenty

(12:52):
eight thirty one. In their next three they held the
Chiefs team to seventeen and their next three they scored
like twenty eight thirty five. So those performances were there.
You know, they were losses, and maybe that's why people
didn't pay as much attention to them. But the defense
was still dominant, and I think, you know, beyond that, Yeah,
the Bengals had that eight minute stretch, and it's the Bengals,

(13:15):
It's Joe Burrow. It might be the best quarterback in football,
you know, might be. It's definitely the best receiver duo
when they're healthy, Jamar Chas and T Higgins. So they're
going to get theirs. You know, they're going to get theirs.
But and I also think in that window, you know,
if I'm just going to keep on making excuses, the
secondary was just kind of falling apart. You had Christian
Folton's dealing with a hamstring. He was in and out

(13:37):
on multiple snaps. You had your your other outside corner,
Cam Hart, who they were letting plays. He's a big guy,
they were letting him kind of beat up Chase A
little bit not throwing any flags. He goes out with
a concussion. So now you've got your slot who was
getting picked on John Taylor moving to the outside. You've
got Tarheeb, who's your backup nickel, playing on the outside,

(13:57):
and you got Darwin James playing your nickel. I mean,
it's like, yeah, s is going to go sideways on you.
Probably when you got Jamar Chase big it's a Joe
Burrow up there. And it did. And you know, to
their credit, like you said Adam earlier, maybe this one's
a loss in previously previous years. But Harvall looked at
at Herbert and said, hey, dude, go win us the game.
You got forty five seconds, you're on your own sixteen

(14:18):
yard line. But I got faith in you go figure
it out. And what do they do? They score a
touchdown and twenty seven sackings. Pretty great.

Speaker 5 (14:26):
So do you see this game against the Ravens as
as as the Chargers need a litmus test? Some say, well,
they're going to see if they're legitimate. Now they're going
to play against the team that many people will leave
as the best team in the AFC, even though the Chiefs,
you know, still are floating there with no losses. So
how do you feel do you think this is going
to be a true litmus test for the Chargers to say, Okay,
now they're for real or regardless of what happens this weekend,

(14:46):
do you think they're a legitimate contender whether they win
or lose against Baltimore.

Speaker 1 (14:50):
Yeah, oh no, I think they're You know, you got
seven wins and you got six games left, and so
for me and for them, when I look at this team,
I just asked, Okay, can they just get in? If
they can get in, and when they get in, if
everybody's healthy, then I feel really good about their chance
to make a run. So that's kind of how I look. So,
whether it's a win or a loss against the Ravens,

(15:13):
as long as they can get to ten, it'd be
great to get to eleven or twelve. Then I think
they can win on the road. I think they can
win anywhere outside inside, it just feels like this is
a game that can This is a team that can travel. Right.
You could pack a defense, you can pack a running game,
you can pack justin Herbert, and you know, if Derwin's
healthy and Joey Bosa and Khalil Mack and all those

(15:34):
guys are healthy at the right time. I don't think
it's necessarily about regular season litmus test. Like I would
never want, you know, Coach Charbo to hear me say this,
because you know, it sounds almost like a loser's mentality,
and I don't mean it too. But when I looked
at the schedule, I'm like, Okay, you got the Bengals
and the Ravens in back to back weeks. Split them. Man,

(15:55):
if you can manage to get a split, that's a
huge win. But it's not anymore. How it feels like, nah, dude,
went out knock off the Chiefs on Sunday night and
see if you can win this division and you know,
finish thirteen and four, fourteen to three and be the
one seat. I think you know that. That's kind of
how this team is starting to think now.

Speaker 5 (16:14):
Game high and i'mnn spoke. By the way, the Chiefs
lost the Buffalo last week.

Speaker 2 (16:16):
They're not undefeated. My bad, good at it.

Speaker 3 (16:18):
I mean, outside of that, though Mahomes putting up pretty
pedestrian numbers on the season, does it feel like this
division is more up for grabs? But the Chiefs are
actually vulnerable or are they just sandbagging like always and
they'll to flip the switch.

Speaker 1 (16:31):
Matt, Well, you know, I think it's a lot like
last year, Adam, where I felt like the AFC was
wide open, and that's why there was so much hope
around the Charger team that ends up finishing five and twelve,
because you saw what the Chiefs had to do. You know,
they had to go on the road, they had to
you know, get these crazy you know, and look, they
create their own luck. Don't get me wrong, but just
so many bounces went their way in Buffalo and in

(16:53):
Baltimore that you know, it's just bad execution by the opponent.
Maybe it's forced by the defense. You have a special
team's Miss Hugh and Buffalo and like they just end
up getting into the Super Bowl. I feel like it's
the same way this year. Like, dude, I could I
could see the Chargers doing that, being the team that
goes on the road and has to win a couple
of games and is still able to pull it off.

(17:13):
And that wouldn't surprise me in the least. You know,
the Bills look really good, the Ravens, I mean, the
numbers that Lamar and this offense with Derek Henry are
putting up are crazy. You know, you saw the Steelers,
who were the number two seed, kind of have a
huge hiccup last night and against the Ravens they end up,
you know, barely winning a game that the Ravens miss
two field goals, have three giveaways, and yet it still

(17:36):
comes down to the very end. So I feel like
it's lie open, you know, with what's in front of them.
I don't think it'll be easy, but I don't think
i'd be the least bit surprised if a wild card.
You know, right now the wild cards are the Chargers,
the Ravens, and the Broncos. I wouldn't be the least
bit surprised if the team that reps the AFC and
the Super Bowl comes from a wildcard this year and that.

Speaker 3 (17:58):
Week sixteen Broncos Chargers game getting flexed to Thursday night,
Amazon Prime style. Uh, Matt, I had something kind of
outside the Chargers here. Ryan from the PMS Union was
fading your picks earlier this season before he went bankrupt.
How how good did that feel to take him down
like that?

Speaker 4 (18:17):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (18:17):
Not good at all. No, I'm not kidding him.

Speaker 2 (18:21):
He listens to the podcast, Please go after him.

Speaker 1 (18:24):
No, it's all right. He uh, I don't ever want
people to lose money, you know. I mean, it's it's
totally fine. I was kind of happy for him that
he was able to make some money when my picks
were so bad. But you know, it's football's weird, and
there's a reason why these you know, it's like like,
you know, all old men say, there's a reason why

(18:44):
those casinos are so big and so fancy, you know
what I mean, they usually win. They know what they're doing,
so it's up to pick games. But yeah, I kind
of went on a little bit of a heater there,
and and I think I think I had a four
and one week that kind of busted them out because
he was throwing some real money at it, Like he
was not messed up. I give him credit for that.
He wasn't just throwing twenty bucks. He was putting like

(19:05):
four hundred bucks per game.

Speaker 3 (19:07):
Well, la'st how you get the social media cloud, you
got to.

Speaker 1 (19:10):
Yeah, it's like, so for that, I give him credit, Like, hey, dude,
you're not just half ass in this. You're really getting
after it. So no, I have no problem with that
sort of stuff. It does not bother me in the least.
If I'm gonna puff my chest out pretend like I
know what the heck I'm doing and I'm costing people money,
at least somebody's making money off it.

Speaker 3 (19:27):
Lastly, for me, Matt, I know you guys have talked
a lot about Brownie James, and to some degree I
was defending it early on because pick fifty five, who cares?
But this crap where he's not traveling with the South
Bay Lakers, this is so indefensible. I cannot believe what's
going on at this point.

Speaker 1 (19:46):
Well, I mean, look for me, I'm with you, Adam,
it's picked fifty five, who cares? My problem was the
sort of the I don't know if it's straight, the
conditions that Rich Paul tried to put on picking fifty five.
So you'll get to do that, like you don't get
to tell to suggest that you're telling other teams they
can't draft him, that the only teams, you know, the

(20:07):
teams that draft him, cannot make him a two way
player when all of his resumes suggest an A. He
probably shouldn't be drafted, and if he is, he's a
two way player, and he's probably going to spend the
year in the G League. So like, that was my
big problem with it, is you're trying to sell something
that's you absolutely know is not the case, and then

(20:28):
to have JJ Redick come out and hit the stage
and say he earned this. We didn't give you anything.
Yes you did, and that's fine, but you don't need
to try to chastise media for intimating that that's what happened.
Just let it go. Just don't address it, to address
it so emphatically and say that we're wrong and they're

(20:48):
right when they know and we know that no other
team was going to draft him, that no other team
thought he was an NBA player yet that maybe they
would take a flyer on him, but it would. He
is a two way player and the guy that's got
to spend a couple of years in the G league
and that helps your G league brand, you know, you
sell out your games and people are going to see
him because Bronnie's a big social media star, as dad's

(21:10):
one of the greatest players ever. But so that's kind
of what my whole thing was. I did not like
the way that it was presented. And my other thing
too was look, Mozella who's kind of in control of
the second round and he's undrafted free agent. He's really
good at finding these guys, Like, he's really good at this,
and he's the guy that finds Austin Reeves, and he's
the guy that finds ken Basemore, and he's the guy

(21:31):
that finds Alex Caruso. So to take that away from him,
you know, you don't know what you left out there,
because he's just really good at that, and that's something
the Lakers, you know, you could probably point to as
being one of the best teams in the league at
finding the second round and undrafted guys that can work
their way into rotation players and sometimes something even better.

(21:52):
So that's just kind of I think what really set
me off and why I've been on this sort of
you know, I feel I don't want to call it
an anti Bronni campaign, but just sort of the anti
publicity of Brownie campaign is sort of where I feel
like it that's the lane that I'm driving in.

Speaker 5 (22:11):
I think that's like it's a crowded lane. It's an
easy lane to drive in to trust me, I'm right
there with you.

Speaker 3 (22:15):
It's not even a two way, it's a one way
he only plays those G League games at home. What
the hell?

Speaker 2 (22:20):
Yeah, that lane ain't moving that perpetual block.

Speaker 1 (22:25):
He's not playing well in the G League and the
whole game, it's like he's he's playing terribly in a league.
You know, he's missing open like when you watch I
don't know if people watch the games. I watched this
last one and I was like, holy crap, he legitimately
looks like a high schooler. Try you know that that
ended up in a pickup game with a bunch of

(22:47):
college players. And it's it's not it's it looks bad.
You know, it's not. It's not good.

Speaker 3 (22:54):
He's dangerously far away.

Speaker 1 (22:56):
I would say, yeah, yeah, exactly. It's the old who
was that couple? What was the guy's name? Out of Brazil?
The famous line from Fran that he's two years away
from being two years away league player of a G
League player.

Speaker 5 (23:13):
The big issue, too, man is by trying to justify
it through and I think it was Shams who reported,
but obviously we know who he was getting his information from. Well,
we don't want to bring him on the road because
of all the attention he's going to bring, like he's
the Beatles or something as that's a justification as to
why he can't travel with the team makes no sense.

Speaker 1 (23:31):
Yeah, get over yourself. That's it's ridiculous. It's not going
to be that much attention. I can promise you that
it's not at all. People are going to get over
a real quick It's it's not like Lebron's traveling with him,
so you know, when the G league's on the road,
people aren't going to stalk out freaking United terminal at
lax to get a shot of Bronni. That's just not

(23:51):
going to happen.

Speaker 3 (23:52):
And the solution isn't a good one. Well, we're just
not going to play him on the road, so he
can't develop, he can't get more reps. Are you kidding me? Yeah,
he's very far away.

Speaker 2 (24:01):
Well just on the on the big club before we
let you run here, Matt.

Speaker 5 (24:04):
As far as the Lakers and how they've played recently
under JJ Redick, I guess your takeaways on how the
team looks and whether you think that they could potentially
be a contender to maybe win a series in the playoffs,
maybe get to the conference finals again. I know what's
early on, and there could be moves to be made
but just your early takeaways from how the Lakers look
so far under.

Speaker 1 (24:22):
JJ, Yeah, I mean I think a lot of it's
just Dalton Connect. I mean, if if he keeps shooting
the ball like this, yeah, I think they can make
a real run. It's what they've needed, and it's what
they've tried to get, you know, and gavee Vincent. That's
who they wanted him to be, you know, and they've
tried to find the shooters and it's just not happening.
And if Connect can be that guy and he's like
legitimately a forty four per you know, if he's a

(24:45):
Klay Thompson, like he's shooting forty plus percent on threes,
and Anthony Davis stays healthy, which I know is a
big ass, but he did it last year. Bron stayed
healthy last year, then yeah, I think they can. I
think they do some damage, absolutely, because it's just they've
needed it so desperately, and you know, Russell is way
too streaky, you know, hotcha Murle just go into these

(25:08):
one month funks. So if Connect is that consistent outside
force that can keep things open for Davis to dominate,
then yeah, I'm totally thinking it. And I haven't really
had a big problem with the way j Jason coach.
I think he's done pretty dark job, you know. I
feel like the rotations are solid and he's totally fine
running with a hot hand. He's calling plays out of

(25:28):
timeouts for connect to get open threes and the guys
are running them. So on that front, yeah, I think
it's actually gone pretty well. He is.

Speaker 3 (25:35):
Matt mney Smith will be on the Call Monday Night
Chargers hosting the Ravens on Monday Night Football on ninety
eight seven Money. Thanks for joining us here on the
Fday Podcast.

Speaker 1 (25:45):
Absolutely good to be back, guys.

Speaker 5 (25:47):
Thanks Matt, beautiful, Thanks brother, appreciate.

Speaker 1 (25:49):
It all right, guys, Yeah, we'll talk to you damn bite.

Speaker 5 (25:54):
Before we move on. We have a voicemail to get
to here, Adam. Can you guys, can you put me
on game exactly as far as we this Ryan betting
Matt thing and going bankrupt.

Speaker 2 (26:03):
I have no idea what any of this is about.

Speaker 3 (26:05):
Uh So, I guess he thought Matt was so bad
with his picks the last few years when it came
to dvance finances picks every week on the Petro Some
Money Show, that if he faded them if he just
went the opposite way and bet the opposite of whatever
Matt said was the team and the spread, he would
end up a rich man. But then money went on

(26:27):
a heater, as he mentioned there, and he had that
four in one week, and I think, yeah, Ryan was
betting some really really big money. Was the fix in?
This was no joke and he called it the system?
I think it was. And the system failed. And I
wonder if Matt getting put on notice that somebody was

(26:51):
actually betting against him, you know, that changes the parameters
a little bit. He didn't know that was going on
before that. People were just fading his picks like that.
I mean some may have been because it was pretty
bad for a little bit, But because of that, does
it change the equation? And therefore he was digging deeper
into selections and maybe trying to be a little bit
more accurate with things. Didn't sound like that from the

(27:11):
way he just talked about it.

Speaker 5 (27:13):
So is Ryan now like peddling on the side of
the four five freeway, like, I mean, how bad? How
bad are things for for our guy? You know, I
don't know, what do you say?

Speaker 7 (27:20):
He's fine, He's fine. But I think it was just
a rough going there for a while.

Speaker 5 (27:24):
Can he no longer afford to go to keffe yoga anymore?

Speaker 7 (27:26):
Like?

Speaker 2 (27:27):
Is it that bad?

Speaker 6 (27:28):
Or like what's the Oh he actually recently got engaged?

Speaker 2 (27:31):
Oh congratulations, brother.

Speaker 6 (27:32):
Definitely got to like definitely, you know, tighten up.

Speaker 2 (27:35):
O might'll be nicer to Adam. He's in a better mood.

Speaker 3 (27:38):
It ain't gonna be an open bar at the wedding though,
after the best.

Speaker 5 (27:41):
Let's bring your own drinky b on that now. Also,
before we get to a voicemail. As we mentioned before,
we got to money. It's one of our favorite segments.
Let's get to it.

Speaker 8 (27:51):
Major asshole in real life, surrounded by assholes.

Speaker 3 (27:54):
Thanks, but it's support asshole. Hey asshole, you're just an asshole?

Speaker 5 (27:59):
Hey asshole? Householes you as whole?

Speaker 3 (28:05):
Who's the ahole? Returns with bravery? Of course?

Speaker 7 (28:08):
I know. I don't understand if there's the theme here.
I'm so tired of the shape, guys, I really am
just tired of the theme.

Speaker 3 (28:15):
Well, you seem to have the most interactions where we
have to decide who the ahole is or you just.

Speaker 6 (28:19):
Asked you do you have one? And I'm like, okay.

Speaker 3 (28:22):
You come through every time all right, so what do
we got, bree.

Speaker 6 (28:26):
Okay, well, it's very like a vague asshole kind of thing.

Speaker 7 (28:30):
It's like who who's like the worser person kind of thing?

Speaker 3 (28:34):
Who's the ale?

Speaker 2 (28:35):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (28:35):
So who?

Speaker 5 (28:37):
No, it's just a it's just a revision, a remix.
Who's the bigger a hole?

Speaker 2 (28:40):
Is what you and I think.

Speaker 6 (28:42):
I just don't think it's like that much. It's not
that big of an issue.

Speaker 7 (28:45):
Okay, So this is my last little like dating thing
that happened.

Speaker 6 (28:50):
I met up with a guy.

Speaker 7 (28:52):
He was a brewer, which I thought was really really cool.
Worked at a local brewery near me. Really interesting, dude.

Speaker 5 (28:59):
Okay, I want to say he's a breweries will ayadamis
lock him u because he's about to get paid.

Speaker 2 (29:03):
Oh my god.

Speaker 3 (29:05):
Wrong brewer, sorry, Haveler Hammer Christian Yelich.

Speaker 2 (29:09):
I think he's already married.

Speaker 6 (29:09):
But go on, it's okay, you get divorced, it's fine.

Speaker 3 (29:13):
Wow, it's fine, but first down, he's mine.

Speaker 5 (29:19):
Okay, go on.

Speaker 7 (29:21):
Anyway, So yeah, we went on a few dates and
I really I thought we everything was great. I had
a period of time in my personal life where I
lost two people really close to me, not to get
all serious. But back to back weeks, I lost two people,
and I just kind of was just in his zone
and just not in like a personal zone.

Speaker 6 (29:42):
I was just in a work mode.

Speaker 7 (29:44):
I was in kind of like my own kind of
mode because one of the people was actually one of
my coworkers and my mentor for fifteen years. It was
a very traumatic experience. So I just wasn't in his
zone to like talk to anybody. Just was just me.
He reached out only like one time to say are
we going to meet up? And I just never really

(30:05):
and I don't usually do that.

Speaker 6 (30:07):
That is not how I roll.

Speaker 7 (30:09):
Accidental ghosting, yes, and and and it wasn't in it
not and not even really accidental. It's like I really
wanted to explain, like, hey, like I'm actually going through this,
I don't. I don't think it's a good idea for
me to meet up. I'm not I'm in a weird zone.
I'm not in a good place, and so it was
just not ideal for me to meet up. So I

(30:31):
accidentally ghosted his message.

Speaker 8 (30:33):
But you couldn't just have told him because you accidentally
you intentionally decided you were not going to Well, I
think we just found out how the hole, but I'm
jump until the story is gone.

Speaker 7 (30:45):
So the point is okay, so I probably, you know,
like another week or two go by, and I'm kind
of like, okay, well, I'm just gonna you know, I'm
just gonna reach out and apologize and say, you know what,
you're awesome. I know I messed this up, like I have.
I'll take full responsibility, like I'm not, I have no
I you know, no, no, I don't know. Basically, yeah,

(31:06):
I'm taking full responsibility for my action.

Speaker 3 (31:08):
You were just like emotionally vacant for a little bit,
very much. So do your finger still works so you
could type on the phone, Like I just I don't know,
I feel for the guy.

Speaker 7 (31:18):
So anyway, so I reached out and I was just
like hey, I was like, you know, you didn't deserve that,
you know, I really we were supposed to meet up
and like, you.

Speaker 6 (31:26):
Know, and also but he didn't reach out to be
like are we meeting up?

Speaker 5 (31:29):
So I mean it was kind of well, I mean
he reached out to you once, He's not going to
blow your phone up like some crazy Yeah.

Speaker 3 (31:34):
Yeah, if I were in his.

Speaker 5 (31:35):
Position, I would have done the exact same thing.

Speaker 2 (31:37):
I send it.

Speaker 5 (31:38):
If she does a respond for two weeks, I'm like,
well all right, well that didn't.

Speaker 7 (31:41):
Work, so okay, so I did you know, I explained it,
and I'm like, I'm so sorry, like I understand if
you don't want to see me, like I basically I understand,
like I wish you the best of luck. I really
thought you were great though, you know. And I basically
let that out there and he responded and he was like, hey, like,
oh my gosh, like absolutely no problem.

Speaker 6 (31:57):
I really like you.

Speaker 7 (31:58):
I would love to see you again, blah blah bla.
So I was like, okay, well then we're okay.

Speaker 6 (32:02):
All right.

Speaker 7 (32:03):
I thought I was really honest about everythings it so,
so then I said, okay, well, and I was a
little bit more proactive than I had been before with
my like texting obviously, because I'm trying to like see you,
like you know, make up make up the effort. And
I'm like, okay, well, you know, let me know what
day works for you. I'll make sure to take that

(32:23):
day off. YadA YadA. So we we set up a
time or we set up a day or maybe not
a day, but not a time. And then he took
like four days before he got back to me of
like if we were actually going to meet up or not,
and I was like, are we still meeting up?

Speaker 6 (32:41):
And then he didn't.

Speaker 7 (32:42):
Text me back, and then that was a day we
were supposed to meet up and I never heard from him, but.

Speaker 3 (32:46):
You texted him? Are we still meeting up? Yeah? And
they never never texted and.

Speaker 6 (32:50):
Then like the next thing, he's like, oh, sorry about that.

Speaker 7 (32:52):
So then I was like okay, so I had no
reason to like reach out and be like hey, I'm
so sorry.

Speaker 6 (32:57):
YadA YadA he was. And then he like apologizes to
oh my god, I'm sorry. I've been so busy. I like, okay,
well can we do this day?

Speaker 2 (33:03):
Right? Beer man? Come on?

Speaker 6 (33:06):
No, it was just.

Speaker 7 (33:06):
It was just a very weird situation. It was just
a very odd thing. And then he really was apologetic,
and I'm like, you know what, And then he wasn't
like respond. It was taking him days to respond, like
I said, and I was like, hey, I was like,
you know what, I think we're both really busy right now.
I don't want to be looking at my phone waiting
for a response from you because you're taking like days
now to respond when usually it wouldn't take you days like, yeah,

(33:28):
I said, I'm not going to wait for.

Speaker 5 (33:29):
You like response to that response once you responded five
weeks later, Yeah you know that.

Speaker 6 (33:34):
But this text was like five minutes of course. Oh yeah.
He was like I never.

Speaker 7 (33:40):
Expected you for you to wait to wait for me
to respond. I'm so sorry. This isn't good because I
really liked you. I really messed this up. I'm sorry,
like you know, best of luck to you too, and
I'm like, okay, well.

Speaker 5 (33:52):
Before any of the issues popped up, what was the
back and forth like when you guys are just talking
on the app before you even met, it was there
are large gaps of time before the two of you
will respond to each other.

Speaker 7 (34:03):
That was actually the reason why I was like, oh well,
it was like a consistent like maybe it was like
once or twice a day and then like the next day,
like very chill and something that's manageable for me. You
know that I appreciated. Also, I love that he didn't
like ask me for my number right away. He just
talked on the app for like two weeks and then
asked me for my number.

Speaker 6 (34:23):
Thank god. He was one of those weirdos. I was
like what's your Instagram?

Speaker 7 (34:25):
And I'm like, bro, like I'm not that girl, Like
there's nothing there, no, no, no.

Speaker 6 (34:32):
So anyway, so I really appreciated that.

Speaker 7 (34:34):
So yeah, so that's why I could just you know,
there was a distinguishable difference and and so but I
can tell like, like I said, it's not really like
an asshole thing. But it's like if I would have
just said how I said, like, hey, I'm sorry, like
I messed up. You know, a period of time has passed.
I wish he would have just accepted that and been like,
you're right, like a period of time has passed.

Speaker 6 (34:54):
I'm busy dad, and like not gone through this last
little portion of that.

Speaker 5 (34:58):
He is intentionally spiteful and vindictive and took days to
get back to you, just as like I see, I
can do it too.

Speaker 6 (35:05):
I think it was like it was like a backburner thing.

Speaker 7 (35:08):
Like I feel like I was treated like a back
burner and I like, I don't.

Speaker 5 (35:12):
I mean, it's also did you take yeah, you said
two weeks, right, So within two weeks he could have
started talking to other women.

Speaker 2 (35:18):
He could have.

Speaker 6 (35:20):
So that's why I was like.

Speaker 7 (35:20):
So as soon as I text him back, I would
have appreciated if he was like, you know, this isn't
gonna work, like you know, I you know, I met
so and so I'm really busy.

Speaker 6 (35:28):
But bluh, I'm like, why are you even going to
even try with me?

Speaker 5 (35:31):
Is out of the Roman possibility that within the time
that he sent that to you, that he was talking
to somebody else and he heat it up and maybe
he was Luke warmer about it and he wanted to
keep you at arms distance and all. Yeah, whether that's
oh no, of course, but whether you like it or not,
that's online dating, sister, That's how it works anymore.

Speaker 7 (35:46):
I can't I'm over it, like I'm done, cat lady.
But it's just like it was just the like I said,
the principle of yeah, it's like I was just like
I felt back burner and I.

Speaker 6 (35:55):
Didn't like it.

Speaker 3 (35:56):
I don't how do you think he felt what he
did to respond to him for two weeks? So let's
let's review. The communication was fine up until you took
two weeks off, and then from there it was kind
of off. I mean, it seems I'm gonna saying it's
your fault, but well, it's not.

Speaker 5 (36:13):
Anybody your fin's fault, but you are I understand recognize.
We talked about I mean you and I off air
about what you went through, and it was very tough
and difficult.

Speaker 2 (36:23):
I realized that that's a lot.

Speaker 5 (36:25):
To Adam's point, it just takes you don't even have
to go on the long drawn out like, hey man,
I'm going through a lot in my personal life right now,
I kind of need to back off for a little
bit something just that even that that's a two sentence
text message.

Speaker 3 (36:35):
Eaven someone guessing for two weeks, you can't know what
you're going One of.

Speaker 5 (36:39):
The biggest things I had to test is when you
go somebody and.

Speaker 6 (36:43):
Everyone purpose like I wasn't purposely doing it. I was
just like, didn't ever another day? Is how am I
going to explain this?

Speaker 1 (36:50):
Like what?

Speaker 5 (36:50):
It gets worse and worse had to me the more
and more days go by, Because if it was three
days and you say, hey, I've been.

Speaker 2 (36:55):
Going through a lot.

Speaker 5 (36:55):
I lost some friends, they're like, oh my god, yes,
you know someone close to you died. Don't say anything
for two or three days.

Speaker 3 (37:00):
But for two weeks, yeah, it just seemed like the
communication was fine, and then the breakdown happened after two weeks.

Speaker 6 (37:07):
I really did calendar. Let's just stay like a week
and a half. I really.

Speaker 2 (37:12):
Splitting hairs between ten days and fourteen days.

Speaker 5 (37:15):
I will say this, and that's a great question, Adam,
because if it was Christian.

Speaker 3 (37:18):
Yelich, it wouldn't have been two weeks.

Speaker 2 (37:20):
We found a way to.

Speaker 5 (37:21):
Tell him, Oh my god, you know, something devastating just happened.
Please don't go nowhere. I gotta take care of this
and I'll be right back. So how much did you
actually like him? Because if you liked him that you
were lukewarm. That's the way that I'm feeling, because if
you liked him that much, you would have gone out
if your way to make sure that you let him know. Hey, man,
don't go anywhere. I'm going through some stuff right now. Hopefully,

(37:43):
you know, in the next week or so and my
head is clear, we can get together.

Speaker 2 (37:45):
But right now, you know, I just can't do it.

Speaker 6 (37:48):
I'm just going to take that ol. I'm not going
to answer these.

Speaker 3 (37:51):
Yeah, well, it sounds like you put him on the
bath for.

Speaker 7 (37:56):
Question.

Speaker 5 (37:57):
Look, anybody should be in in that situation, and yes,
the back burnert to your personal life, yes, but again,
if you liked him well enough. I tend to think
that you would have gone out of your way to
say something within the first couple of days of all
this converging ones.

Speaker 3 (38:11):
You know you're not wrong, Okay, so you so you wrong?

Speaker 2 (38:16):
So to at this point you were lukewarm on this
guy too.

Speaker 3 (38:21):
Yeah, so you kind of self sabotaged, like subconsciously.

Speaker 6 (38:26):
Right, it was very subconsciously and you wanted.

Speaker 5 (38:28):
It, did at any point because you did want At
any point in that week and a half, did you
pick up the phone and say a better message blank?

Speaker 2 (38:36):
Or did that never once cross your mind?

Speaker 6 (38:38):
And then I'd be like, I don't even know what
to say that. I just put the phone down. I
was like, I don't even know.

Speaker 3 (38:44):
Like, you can't deal with this right now.

Speaker 6 (38:46):
You're not that dramatic.

Speaker 5 (38:48):
Yeah, you know it was Kyle Korver you find something
to say, Yeah, you'd be like, don't go.

Speaker 3 (38:54):
No, I know you're going to be around forever because
you're a vampire, but please don't go.

Speaker 7 (38:58):
You know, Okay, I'm taking them right, We've established it.

Speaker 3 (39:05):
I'm sorry for On's again two weeks hold on?

Speaker 6 (39:10):
Whoa hold on?

Speaker 1 (39:11):
Uh?

Speaker 6 (39:11):
Oh fucking rewind here? What do you mean? For two weeks. Woman,
was the last time I was the a hole with
the kids.

Speaker 3 (39:17):
Thing or the kids in the airport?

Speaker 5 (39:20):
Yeah? What was the other dating situation.

Speaker 3 (39:22):
That you had with the crazy guy?

Speaker 2 (39:24):
Yeah? Yeah, you definitely were not.

Speaker 6 (39:27):
So I'm sorry.

Speaker 3 (39:27):
Get in the car that was.

Speaker 5 (39:29):
Able and the guy that ate my mac and cheese,
the guy who said he wasn't hungry but then he
wanted to usually this the other way around, the woman
eats off the man's plate.

Speaker 6 (39:36):
He was definitely. Yeah, so I was ont the a
hole in that situation.

Speaker 3 (39:40):
Okay, you're right now, I'm the a hole because I
thought every time you were the pretty.

Speaker 5 (39:44):
Much how it always ends, we have free and then
Adam just ends up being the a hole by the
end of it.

Speaker 3 (39:48):
So yeah, I dig my grave here. By the end
of the.

Speaker 7 (39:51):
Story, I just will just add this cute little thing.
The Suns went fifteen for fifteen in the third quarter,
I guess the clippers and so it was an adorable thing,
and I.

Speaker 5 (40:00):
Was just we'll see what that means.

Speaker 2 (40:01):
In June, it was so much.

Speaker 7 (40:04):
It is such an exciting moment for me. I went
to McDonald's and I got a fifteen dollars and thirty
cent It should have been zero three whatever.

Speaker 3 (40:12):
But I told her that. I was like, wait, why
is it thirty cents should be three because third quarter
not thirty quarter.

Speaker 5 (40:17):
Rob Parker would have haggled over that, you know whatever,
the twenty five to thirty cents, He was like, no,
you guys overcharged me.

Speaker 2 (40:23):
Give Hi about ten cents back.

Speaker 7 (40:25):
I got him a gift card like as like, just
like you know, and I watched his YouTube. That was
the first night I watched his YouTube channel.

Speaker 5 (40:31):
Was that night Clipperstalk Yes on YouTube?

Speaker 7 (40:34):
Yes, So it was. It was such a big day
for me. So I got that gift card to punk me.

Speaker 3 (40:40):
Don't act like it was some nice gift. Actually, you
did it just so you could say, ha ha, fifteen
three get it they had fifteen for fifty, said something,
it's great.

Speaker 2 (40:52):
I think it's pretty funny.

Speaker 3 (40:53):
You guys won the championship in October. Way to Go.

Speaker 7 (40:55):
Wow was so dramatic. I'm just saying I just thought
it was a cute. Sure, very thought, Oh.

Speaker 5 (41:01):
No, you were a trolling It wasn't a thoughtful friendship
thing at all. You're definitely you are definitely being an
a hole. Yeah, think in the best ways, though. I
think that's really this is.

Speaker 6 (41:08):
A positive a hole. I was a hole before.

Speaker 3 (41:11):
I respected that is something I would you.

Speaker 5 (41:13):
Know, and you know fifteen oh three can buy you
like one big Mac nowadays.

Speaker 2 (41:16):
So there you go, exactly give it to him.

Speaker 6 (41:18):
I will say, also, we should had that in there.

Speaker 3 (41:20):
I never got it.

Speaker 2 (41:20):
Wait what wait?

Speaker 5 (41:22):
So you got him the gift car but she never
actually gave it to him. No, so you just told
him I bought you a gift car. But yeah, I
wouldn't got myself some nuggets instead.

Speaker 1 (41:29):
Of with it.

Speaker 3 (41:29):
You use it on yourself after you broke up with
this guy.

Speaker 2 (41:31):
Even if you're a triple a hole. Now hold on
our schedule.

Speaker 7 (41:34):
Ceiling got for me to drop it, drop it off
at his place. So then I was like, you.

Speaker 2 (41:38):
Just used it.

Speaker 7 (41:39):
Yeah, Like three days later it was a traumatic Monday,
and I was just like, you know, have a fucket.
I got a big Mac and I got hi mcflurry.
Those many mcflurry's come in some kind of plastic shit.
Now I'm really angry about it. I just want to
say it's disgusting.

Speaker 2 (41:51):
I don't know if I've ever had a.

Speaker 6 (41:52):
Mcflu well right now, but I'm sorry, but I've.

Speaker 2 (41:55):
Been to McDonald's one time in the last like fifteen years.

Speaker 3 (41:58):
So it wasn't that for me. Actually, didn't you roll
through the quarter pound?

Speaker 1 (42:02):
Now?

Speaker 5 (42:02):
I mean he went as far as got food for me.
I've gotten food for you.

Speaker 3 (42:05):
Well, I still appreciate it.

Speaker 5 (42:06):
I got food for my wife at one point back
when we were still engaged, as a matter of fact. And
then I went once and I got a big Mac
and it's awful, absolutely awful.

Speaker 3 (42:14):
What about the big chicken Mac now that they have.

Speaker 5 (42:17):
I don't never I don't know. That just sounds wrong,
I know, but no, I've never had mcflury before.

Speaker 7 (42:21):
Well, right, what now it's in this like kind of
like I don't know, environmentally safe, some kind of bullshit
plastic thing, and it just doesn't make sense on how
it fits.

Speaker 6 (42:29):
So I'm just now I'm a little angry.

Speaker 3 (42:31):
Paper straws, paper.

Speaker 5 (42:33):
Fries, breeze, like, bring me all the BPA, I'll take it.

Speaker 3 (42:36):
I can't believe there. Three days later, you decide to
use the gift card yourself instead of waiting to give
it to me. Our schedules didn't line up.

Speaker 2 (42:42):
That's almost a bigger a hole move. Than ghost and
the guy.

Speaker 3 (42:45):
You're like looking for excuses to get rid of this guy.
You're looking for excuses to use the gift card on
yourself that was supposed to troll me excuses.

Speaker 7 (42:55):
There was layoffs. I was traumatized. I need to eat
my feelings away largely.

Speaker 5 (43:00):
Also, you were guilt eating is what it was. Yeah,
you're a guilty eating what But.

Speaker 7 (43:04):
You know it all worked out for the best. I
fed myself. It was a karma for me. I was
like very like stressed out.

Speaker 6 (43:09):
And look what happened.

Speaker 3 (43:11):
You know, Yeah, there you go, because you.

Speaker 7 (43:12):
Were probably stressed out with at fifteen points right, fifteen
for fifteen.

Speaker 3 (43:15):
It wasn't that stressed.

Speaker 2 (43:17):
I was.

Speaker 3 (43:18):
I know luck when I see it, I know fluky
shooting when I see it. And the Suns will never
do that again in the history of their franchise.

Speaker 5 (43:25):
Let's get voicemails. Hey nine four seven eight eleven ninety seven.
Thank you for that, Bree. It was entertaining seven eight
eleven ninety seven to call the Talk Guess hotline and.

Speaker 2 (43:38):
Leave a voicemail.

Speaker 5 (43:39):
We have one that came in yesterday, as a matter
of fact, yesterday afternoon.

Speaker 2 (43:42):
Let's see what we have.

Speaker 4 (43:45):
F and a Peter from North Dakota here, Kevin, congratulations
on fatherhood. Can't imagine what that's like. Adam so close
to ten percent body fat. It is very funny if
you put your two big goals in accomplished next to
each other. So you're the random question. I have a
friend who moves to California recently and she's trying to

(44:07):
make friends. And I've been able to do that throughout
my life.

Speaker 1 (44:11):
I've moved a lot.

Speaker 4 (44:12):
If you two were picked up and dropped someplace new,
how would you make friends? What would you go about it?
Where do you think you'd find your best friends? And
where have you made friends as an adult? Not a
sports related question, but a life related question. Glad to
have you boys back?

Speaker 3 (44:29):
Fine, this is a good question.

Speaker 5 (44:31):
Actually, I think the easiest place to start is work,
because these are the people you see the most often,
and if you gravitate towards people that you have, you
know that you can cultivate relationships with. Like one of
my best friends now, the best man in my wedding,
I met here. He was working upstairs at a Kiss
FM in Real ninety two three. He joined us on
five seventy raw We got to know each other over

(44:53):
the last few years and he's one of the best
friends that I have. One of my best friends in
life is at work. Adam is a good friend work.

Speaker 3 (45:00):
I really thought you were gonna say, well, the best
places is a ball.

Speaker 5 (45:04):
Well, I feel like that's a default for a lot
of people to say. It's like, hey, just start going
to a local watering hole and whoever you bump into.
But there's also like, is that more of like an
acquaintance thing? You know, you sit there and have a
few yeah, and then you go, you split off and
go your separate ways.

Speaker 3 (45:18):
At the end of the night, you forget him.

Speaker 5 (45:19):
Anyway, you can't cultivate deeper relationships from that. But I
feel like the easiest way is so whatever their work
situation is, or I would say, go to places where
like minded people are. So I don't know, if you're
into poetry nights and crap like that or whatever else,
go to those events, meet up with people who have
similar interests, and see if something deeper can be cultivated

(45:40):
from that. That's at least my outlook. What do you say, Atam?

Speaker 3 (45:42):
I think the gym could be one.

Speaker 5 (45:44):
Sure when I get like minded individuals.

Speaker 3 (45:48):
Yeah, I've become friends with Jacob here at work through
the gym.

Speaker 2 (45:52):
The gym so wait, so you guys.

Speaker 5 (45:54):
Stark was the gateway, but so you just bumped into
each other and at the same gym at one point,
and then I know, you guys work out together a lot.

Speaker 3 (46:01):
I think, Yeah, we initially were at Blink together. I
need a benching partner. I'm basically just using him so
I can have We're not even that good at French,
I understand.

Speaker 5 (46:10):
No, I love.

Speaker 3 (46:11):
Jacob orks at KFI here. Yeah, once you get older,
it is more difficult to make French. You're not going
to school, You're not going to youth group where I
made a lot of friends growing up. Maybe you're going
to church. You can make some friends there.

Speaker 5 (46:24):
Join a small group community like minded people, you know.

Speaker 3 (46:27):
A running group. I've been thinking about joining one of those.

Speaker 2 (46:31):
They do have. I don't know if it's still a thing,
but meet up.

Speaker 5 (46:34):
They have meet up groups who have like minded individuals,
who comedy nights, all that sort of thing where you
can sign up and you can get in for free
if you say you're part of that group, and you
can intermingle with a bunch of different people.

Speaker 2 (46:45):
I think.

Speaker 5 (46:45):
So there are resources out there for people that are
being dropped into situations where.

Speaker 2 (46:49):
They don't know anyone and it can actually help them.

Speaker 3 (46:53):
Maybe if you're one of those guys just has just
bad luck in the dating scene, well you end up
getting friend zoned a lot, so you get a lot
of friends that way interrectly happen. Sure, like the guy
that dealt with Bree.

Speaker 2 (47:04):
Yeah, Bree, do you have any any advice on that?

Speaker 7 (47:07):
I was gonna say, work too, but some people are
so weird at work and like to like separate their.

Speaker 6 (47:11):
Lives, and some do.

Speaker 1 (47:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (47:13):
Yeah, I think like trivia nights seem like they'd be
a really cool place to go, and some like some cute.

Speaker 6 (47:20):
Pubs and bars.

Speaker 7 (47:21):
Yeah, those are are becoming a lot more frequent.

Speaker 6 (47:24):
Ye place.

Speaker 5 (47:25):
Yeah, if you go to a trivia night every Tuesday
at a certain bar and you see the same people
going every single week, you can strike up relationships that way, like.

Speaker 6 (47:31):
That competitive edge you kind of like, you know, kind
of feel like, oh my god, you're so cool. You
knew that answer, Oh my god. You know.

Speaker 3 (47:37):
Yeah, some people become friends just with fans of the
same team that they're fans of sure, you know, they
look for those people. I've become friends with people on
X and on Twitter because they're Clippers fans, which is great.
So that stuff still happens.

Speaker 5 (47:51):
Yeah, So that's the advice that we would give their Peter,
and thank you for the congrats on fatherhood and maybe
slightly different actually more similar than you can thing between
fatherhood and trying to get the temper sent body body.

Speaker 3 (48:02):
Weight, which is more important.

Speaker 2 (48:04):
Who knows, that's a that's a tough question. I don't know.

Speaker 3 (48:08):
I gave birth to some lean muscle mass.

Speaker 2 (48:10):
Yeah, see there you go.

Speaker 3 (48:11):
All right, Yeah, thanks for the phone call, Peter nine
four seven, eight eleven ninety seven. Is the talk as
hotline eight eleven ninety seven.

Speaker 5 (48:23):
We mentioned at Clippers Talk is where you can find
Adam daily content, daily Clipper content.

Speaker 3 (48:28):
Yeah, you want to be friends, be a Clippers fan
and you can be my friend.

Speaker 2 (48:32):
Yeah, and hit the follow button.

Speaker 5 (48:34):
You know you'll get alerts on your phone, through your
YouTube app or your email address if you want the
moment that Adam puts up new.

Speaker 3 (48:40):
Content seven days a week. Absolutely, Thanksgiving, Christmas. I don't
take any days off at Fox committed. Yeah, at follow
Adam a is where you can find him on X.
I am at Kfiguan on X, at Brednise, I always
forget twenty six. Yeah, but where are you guys at
on Blue Sky?

Speaker 7 (48:55):
All right?

Speaker 3 (48:55):
You getting on Blue Sky? You're a bad person if
you don't get on Blue Sky.

Speaker 6 (48:58):
I have a piece of shit. I'm going to help.

Speaker 3 (49:00):
That's how I feel when I remember saying aren't you
coming to Blue skuy? Mans like I Man, I have
enough social media platforms. I don't want to do this.
I know it's going to be done in a month,
just like Threads was. You guys all wanted to go there,
it didn't happen.

Speaker 2 (49:12):
I'm on everything because I just don't know what the
future is gonna look like.

Speaker 5 (49:14):
So I have not signed up for Blue Guy yet,
but I'm honest with you, I probably will. I have Threads,
I have TikTok, which I never use. I have X,
I have Instagram, so.

Speaker 3 (49:23):
I want less I got it?

Speaker 2 (49:26):
So U I am on TikTok.

Speaker 3 (49:28):
Yeah, I saw an ex earlier. Kendrick Lamarg just shopped
a new album today out of nowhere.

Speaker 5 (49:35):
That seems to be the norm over the last decade
or so. That's the thing that the hot artists do.
We don't need to do the media tours and the
promotions and all that. If you're Beyonce or Kendrick, i'd
say Drake, I'm Drake has taken a bit of a
step back, and it's taking that jihant ill Kendrick.

Speaker 2 (49:49):
Has he done anything since then the way.

Speaker 3 (49:51):
I think he has, but he probably shouldn't have. Still
coaching me k do though. Yeah, this was very unexpected.
There were no rumors, no murmurs. I don't know how
you keep this stuff away.

Speaker 2 (50:04):
I find it odd.

Speaker 5 (50:04):
You know, the Dodgers use it as their rallying cry
they not like us, and that he, I mean Cube
is great and Cube's a West Coast legend. The fact
that Kendrick wasn't around to do anything either at the
victory of parade or anything else, knowing that they used
his song as kind of their their theme song.

Speaker 3 (50:17):
He was underground doing working, I guess so, using the
lab work and doing his thing.

Speaker 5 (50:23):
Thank you guys for listening as always, thanks to our
guy Matt money Smith for joining us as well, talking
some charges in a little bit of Lakers, and thank
you guys for all your support. We greatly appreciate it.
Next week is Thanksgiving week, so.

Speaker 3 (50:36):
We might be out.

Speaker 2 (50:38):
We might not.

Speaker 3 (50:38):
We might have I mean, I know we have some
Thanksgiving stuff, yeah, Adam usual annual Thanksgiving show.

Speaker 5 (50:45):
Adam, you know, one of the more underappreciated by the
way holidays, in all of holidays, is Thanksgiving because everybody
jumps right over straight to Christmas. But Adam puts together
a phenomenal list of Thanksgiving movies that you should watch,
and he adds some and I think takes them away
every single year, just like as Highween movie list.

Speaker 1 (51:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (51:01):
Sometimes.

Speaker 5 (51:01):
So it is our goal next week to do an
f and a podcast where we can get some holiday
movies or some Thanksgiving movies. Excuse me out there to
you guys, so you guys know exactly what to watch
once your family gets drunk and hungover on trip to
fan and you're sitting there by yourself wondering what the.

Speaker 3 (51:17):
Hell we have a movie for every setting during Thanksgiving?
Basically absolutely do.

Speaker 5 (51:22):
Yeah, So we look forward to that next week. Thanks
against you guys for listening. Thanks against Peter for calling
in nine four, nine seven, eight eleven ninety seven, bre
thank you for everything that you do. We will talk
to you guys next week on another edition of the
FNA podcast, A minor