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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Exploring the latest headlines and in depth conversations. It's the
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Speaker 2 (00:19):
Ready to roll this Monday.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Right here on this Monday edition of the Richmond Weaver Show,
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mister Trey Falco behind the board and behind the mic
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And it is a Monday, as we just mentioned after
July fourth, so we were off on Friday, getting to
be able to celebrate the birth of America and the
greatest upset in history, as I like to say, because
there's no way we should have ever won the Revolutionary War,
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but we did, and that's part of our DNA, being
that underdog, and that's why we love being able to
talk about it. And I know we talked quite a
bit about July fourth and some of the antics that
go on, right with the fireworks all of that, and
not even so much that there's fireworks, but just the
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pallethora of the fireworks starting almost like a week before,
and there might even be some tonight exactly there on Monday.
But interestcently enough, mister Falcon, and I see you're silent
over there with this.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
I couldn't believe it.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Okay, it's Friday night, right, Julianne and I my wife,
we went played golf and then had dinner out and
got back to the house and it was probably around
eight thirty is maybe nine o'clock somewhere around in there,
and we could hear a little rumbling. Okay, there, boom boom,
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there's a few fireworks or whatever. And then probably around
ten thirties when it really cranked up. Oh yeah, and
it was going and then I don't know, it was
like a little after eleven o'clock, and I'm like, I
think it's over.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
It's quiet.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Yeah, it was quiet, yes, and went to sleep and
maybe I heard a couple throughout, but nothing like it
has been in previous years, and even more so than
on Saturday.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
I mean, it was minimal.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
There was hardly anything, and we didn't hear any last
night Sunday night.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
So I'm wondering, did.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
We speak it into existence, we got the word out,
did we promote did we have that opportunity of actually saying, hey, guys,
I know.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
You love fireworks, we like fire rice.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Also, let's just do it in a responsible amount of
time exactly, And I think that's what happened. So I'm
understanding just from your facial expression in your body language
that maybe you experienced the same thing.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
It was really similar. Uh, definitely, Friday night was the heaviest.
But to your point, I mean, I think around like
eleven thirty midnight, I realized I was like, I don't
hear anything. I don't think I hear it, and maybe
i'd hear like one pop or something that's right, and
I was like, I think they're done. And then yeah, definitely,
to your point, Saturday maybe a little bit. Definitely not
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anything that I remember Saturday night. Nothing yesterday. I think
there was a little bit that ramped up Thursday, but
I mean that's okay.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
This Friday too, Yeah, exactly, that's a little bit different.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
But other than that, like Thursday Friday. But yeah, yeah,
I mean we'll see tonight obviously. You know, I agree
with you, like, we'll probably hear something tonight because it
feels like it extends well beyond it, definitely, Yes, And
it's that little bit of calm before the storm.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Maybe that's part of it too, is that Okay, Hey, yeah,
we made you think we were not going to have
explosive fireworks for seven straight days, but we are going
to do that now. Interestingly enough, also is that I
have talked to several other people outside of this area. Yeah,
and their number one complaint, oh these fireworks. They lasted
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it until three am. So I'm like, okay, something changed
in at least my area of Greenville here in the
upstate that they did not have the same type of
bravado that they were going to carry on yeah late
into the night, which I was so thankful for.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
Well, I mean it helps with dogs too. We talked
about that, you know, Big Taters Day. Now Friday, we
were off Friday, but we talked about it.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
You've got dogs.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
I've got dogs, and it, I mean, it terrifies them.
They're shaken like leaves and time. There's nothing that you
can really do about it, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
I know you could.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
You could put they make like what thunder blankets or
something whatever, thunder jackets or whatever that's like a vest
for the dog.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
And those can kind of help. But I mean the
big thing.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Is it's like it's their ears. They hear so differently,
no doubt, and that's part of it. And it's crazy
how some dogs I don't even pay any attention to it,
and others, I mean, they absolutely freak out.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
And that's probably true with humans.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Also there are some people that yeah, no big deal,
and there's other people and obviously we do know just
from a PTSD stamprant right veterans. Yes, of course, I
can't even imagine, you know what that would be like.
And in speaking of that, because I want to talk
about a movie.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Oh yes, yes, yes, when to go see F one nice?
So you did it? I did it?
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Yes, absolutely amazing. But tying into that, I remember and
again you know, I I love filmmaking. I love storytelling.
I love and that's one of the reasons why I
was so interested about F one, because they did things
a little different than we've traditionally seen, especially for a
movie of this magnitude and being able to film it.
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But I know Steven Spielberg did things a little bit
different also in Saving Private Ryan, Oh, you talking about
cinematic masterpiece, just in terms of the filmmaking and making
it as real as possible. And I remember reading a
story about this, because this was before podcast really were
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a thing, but I remember reading the story about it,
and they were having a premiere, but it was just
for World War Two veterans that actually interesting were there
at D Day, Yes, And so they had these veterans
there and showing the movie and there were apparently like
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twenty to thirty of the people that were there, the
veterans there watching the movie, who again were there in
per during D Day and again remember it's nineteen forty four.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Yeah, and.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
They were weeping like, I mean, like wailing like and
had to leave the theater because it brought back those
memories so vividly that they hadn't they had just compartmentalized,
you know, for fifty years or whatever, and hadn't even
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thought about that or tried to block it out of there. Yeah,
and this, you know, unfortunately for them, it brought back
all of those scared moments, those memories and just the
survival and seeing you know, their their friends, their colleagues
that you know, all that get killed. Just I mean,
and that's what I mean. So it's a it's a
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tough thing, but it also just shows you what Steven
Spielberg was able to do to have it that realistic, right,
and how crazy that was. And so I say all
that because again, the fireworks can bring that out in
some of these veterans who've been in war and just
why I couldn't even imagine that type of scenario playing out.
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And I know this is a completely different tangent. We're
trying to the positive side here, but as part of also,
I mean, it's our history too, and yes, it's even
going back to the Revolutionary War, right, I mean, I
can't even imagine that you're standing there and you see
these guys walking towards you and they've got muskets. Yeah,
you know, you know, like okay, it's either me or him.
(08:34):
Oh yeah, I don't understand it. I don't understand how
you get to that point mentally until you're actually there
and that it's you know again, it's that flight, you know,
fight or flight right type of mentality, and that's how
we wired as humans.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
One. I think it depends on the person too.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
I mean there's certain people they may never get that, Like,
it doesn't matter how far you push them. People are
just wired differently. They are, And that's just talk about it.
We talked about just with animals, you talk about it
with humans too. But to your point about just the
movie and the way that you can capture things in
the cinematic thing, that's what's so special about I think,
especially the big screen are just movies in general is
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the way you can really like you can do it
with books, and if you've got a really vivid imagination,
it's probably easier, but there's something totally different with the
soundtrack and the way it moves and the sound effects
and just everything captured on screen. So I'm curious to
hear f one.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
How was one?
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (09:30):
It was absolutely fantastic.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
And I know we had Brian Kite, author of Dailydiscipline
dot com, on last week and him talking about his
experience and saying, hey, don't walk run to the movie
theater to see this, and make sure you see it
in IMAX. And I would agree with him one thousand percent.
Maybe you don't have to run, I understand that, but
(09:53):
I think you do need.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
To see it in Imax.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Yeah, and because they filmed everything with Imax cameras. Oh,
so it is automatically set up for Imax. And not
to say that you still won't have a great experience,
you know, in a standard movie theater, sure, but Imax
it was definitely different. Now, this was actually my first
Imax experience.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Really, I think I've been to one. This was while
this was my first one.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
So not only is it from a cinematic standpoint, but
the audio design as well, and that takes it to
a completely different level. And that's why, you know, I
there's something about for me even also summertime means movies,
also the blockbuster movies the summer.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
That's what it used to be.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
And I think it's maybe lost some of its luster
to a certain degree because we have so many different
options now.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
When everything goes like streaming, streaming, Yeah, you can watch
it on like some go directly to Netflix, and you know,
it's it's definitely different.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
But what I loved about this is again being able
to see it on the big screen and if you
don't know anything about it, not that I'm gonna give
away any secrets or you know, tell you the ending,
but it is one of those movies where I think
you can probably predict the ending, right, but you're still
not a bad thing though. No, it's not a bad thing,
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and you're still captured by it. Yeah, that's the beauty
of it. Two and a half hours and it didn't
feel like two and a half hours. The longest part
for me was sending through the thirty minutes of commercials
and previews, right, and I love previews, but it was
like ten minutes of previews and it was twenty minutes
of commercials.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
It's a lot that's way too much.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
It definitely took away from the movie theater experience and
one of the things that I love about going to
the movies. What you talked about is you get to
see it in a different vantage point. It was meant
to be the way it was meant to be viewed,
and that's what I love. But here at F one,
it's a fictional story about a Formula one car and
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the driver and the team there and they're down and out,
you know. And so Brad Pitt is this character, Sonny Hayes.
He's a retired F one driver and you know, he's
had a checkered past after he's exited out of F
one and somehow, you know, he gets found to hey,
(12:16):
come we Nobody is willing to take this role as
a driver because everybody a guy had gotten hurt and
all these things transpired where nobody was willing to take
on the role. Because there's also a rookie driver. There's
a hot shot you know, doesn't want to listen to anybody,
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and the team is doing terrible and they're going to
be sold because they're doing so terrible. But what I
loved was just the groundbreaking technical achievements in this movie.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
And that's why I think it's a must see.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
And as I mentioned, also last week, I listened to
a podcast with Brad Pitt and he talked about it that,
I mean, you did have this fictional story, but they
had the real F one teams involved. F one was
officially a partner in this movie. And this movie, I mean,
it's like a three hundred million dollar budget, so this
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is no joke. And they were able to film in
actual F one events in twenty and twenty three and
twenty and twenty four. Yes, so, And again they had
like fifteen minutes right before race started that they had
to get their filming done on the track, and the
F one drivers that were going to be racing, they
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were actually part of the filming, so they were out
there doing the filming and then would come stop and
then reset and get ready for the race. So it's
interesting this in Brad Pitt and the rookie driver there
in the movie. I mean, they did their stunts, so
they were driving two hundred miles per hour on these courses,
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and that's what made it also even more from a
cinemat viewpoint, it was real. Well, I mean it looked
real because it was real.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
You know.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Now they had to do some things, you know, they
couldn't capture everything on the track, but I'm telling you,
the way they were able to blend it all together
was quite impressive. And that was the other side that
I thoroughly enjoyed. And then you add the soundtrack to it,
ok and the music and the emotions to it also,
(14:27):
But it's that story of a comeback story. And again,
as I mentioned, you could script it yourself, of course,
But why is it that.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
We love these comeback stories?
Speaker 3 (14:40):
A down and out guy somehow gets resurrected or whatever
it is. I mean, there's something about the DNA of
a comeback story, and especially in sports that we love.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
If I had to guess, I would say, and this
is just me maybe because it fels uniquely human, no
doubt the comeback story at any point in time. I
feel like, and I'm not going to speak for everybody,
but I feel like most people could probably say, yeah,
I was there, I was down and out. I was
I was at rock bottom. Most people have been there
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and felt that, no doubt. Not everybody's climbed out, but
people have climbed out. So there's this idea of hey,
that mimics my story, I climbed out or that's what
I want, that hope, that hope.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
And That's what I'm wondering too, is that human spirit
element side and maybe you are experiencing something and haven't
been able to get out right, but then you see
somebody fictional or not sure, does it give you that
motivation and you know again it taps into I think
(15:47):
our love for resilience, yeah, and being able to be
that overcoming some type of injury. And now i'm talking
sports here, you know, or a slump or personal struggles,
what you're talking life. And that's why I mean the
sports is just a metaphor for what we're going through
absolutely in life. And that's what I love about these stories.
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And that's why it doesn't matter how many times it's told,
people are still going to be entertained and watch it
because it's again, as much as I talk about the
Revolutionary war and being an underdog is in our DNA,
but as humans, I think this is in our DNA
as well, just the resiliency side of things.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
One hundred percent.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
You see it all throughout history from just the stories
that humans.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Tell and have told.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
You go back to obviously the Bible, the biggest one
day liath, yes, but then I mean you look at
like the Iliad, things like that, through Greek mythology, Roman mythology,
like it's all throughout Egyptian mythology, all of that. It
is uniquely human. It is something that we have always
been drawn to. Why I'm not sure we're just wired
that way.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
We are just wired that way, and I was thinking,
even from a perspective of this story, and is it
even you know, I'm a huge Michael Jordan fan.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
I don't think he's a goat.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
And just even like when he came back out of
retirement and it was there in nineteen ninety five and
he'd been playing baseball and now the Bulls are in
the playoffs and it was almost okay, you were so
invested to see could Michael Jordan, could he have this
(17:21):
comeback and lead the Bulls to another championship. Now he
didn't do that year, but he did it three more
time after that, you know, and so you do love
that type of story. And even just like the New
England Patriots in Atlanta Falcons.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
You're down twenty eight to three, yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
And somehow you come back. It's and it's you know,
a Tom Brady. And not that Tom Brady was washed
up anything, but there was you know, questions, I mean, well,
we're starting to see the chinks in the armor with
Tom Brady and somehow he's able to you know, make
that happen.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
And then I even look at it from.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
A personal standpoint and locally here the Herman Paladins, Oh yeah,
you know, having that shot that beat them in twenty
twenty two by Chattanooga David John Baptiste, knowing that they
were that close, I mean four point three seconds away
from winning a Southern Conference tournament championship for the first
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time since nineteen eighty and then having the resolve to
come back the next year and then claim that championship.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
And then they go on.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
And beat Virginia in the NCAA tournament, and they were
down by double digits at points in that game and
somehow scrapped and clalled and found a way to win.
And it's that that comeback story again. I don't care
how many times it's going to be written.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Will be entertained by it.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
It doesn't matter the landscape, it doesn't matter the environment,
whatever it is, we will be entertained about by it.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
And that's what movie executives they.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
Know they a formula for There's a formula for it,
they definitely know. But I highly encourage you go check
out to F one with Brad pitt As, Sonny Hayes
and Joseph Kazinski. The director there did an absolutely fantastic job,
and the soundtrack is also very good. Hans Zimmer with
the soundtrack there and again that was recommendation from Brian Kaite,
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author of Daily Discipline dot com. He talked about the
soundtrack also, but I would definitely highly recommend F one.
And we'll continue this Monday edition another Richmond Weaver Show
presented by Ingles Markets, and a little bit of NBA
action goes who's going to be the face of the
NBA at one point once Lebron is done?
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Good question. We'll talk about that right after this.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
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we know everything going on right now with the NBA.
We've got all these trades and we will talk a
little bit later about the big trade in the NBA
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with Kevin Durant, right, and now it's official and it's
a record trade with the number of teams, seven teams
in this trade.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Yes, I don't even understand it.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
Like back in the NFL or any other organization or
not organization, but league doing something like that.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
That's insane.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
It's insane, and some of it doesn't even make any
sense because it's all rain actual type of moves. So
like Atlanta, you know, signed Clint Capella, but then it
was a sign in trade, so they sign him and
then they immediately trade him, and I'm like, well, why.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Are you even sign him? Just yeah, you don't even
have to pass through your doors. You don't even need
to do that.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
But there's salary cap scenarios that play out, and that's
where it gets very convoluted and understanding.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
All of that.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
But I was thinking though about there's a lot of
discussion going on with Lebron James. Oh yeah, what is
he going to do? And we know the NBA is
a star driven league. There is no question about it.
You can go all the way back to when we've
first really started seeing these stars that burst on the
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scene in the NBA, because then they started televising the
games more often.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Oh yeah, as Larry Bird and Magic Johnson, those were.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
The first true stars of the NBA because they captivated
audiences because they had a rivalry that went back to
college where they played and played against each other in
the national championship game, Indiana State losing to Michigan State,
and so Magic Johnson had one leg up on Larry Bird.
And then of course, of all things, Larry Bird goes
(23:14):
to the East coast with the Boston Celtics, Magic Johnson
to the West coast right with the Lakers, And you
couldn't script that any better because you got East versus
West rivalry and both organizations were good, and we're competing
for championships and met several times in the NBA finals,
so that definitely helps. And then obviously we saw the
Doctor Jays, and we saw Michael Jordan coming through Shaquille O'Neill,
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and then we see Kobe Bryant, you know, those type
of stars, and then Lebron James, right, but.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Lebron James, he's he's exiting out.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
Yeah, this is it you know this is probably going
to be his last season, And if it's not his
last season, then.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
We know there's not going to be many more.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
We do know that, And so I'm just curious who's
going to be that guy of the NBA. Who's going
to be the Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, the Michael Jordan,
the Kobe Bryant, the Lebron James. And I want to
say immediately, oh, it's gonna be Steph Curry. And there
is some validity to that, but Steph Curry's on his yes.
(24:23):
So I mean, is it going to be Anthony Edwards
in Minnesota? Is it going to be an Sga, Jay, Gilgess,
Alexander And I would I would say, and it's not
going to be Jokic because he's just not that guy.
He's not that guy. And it's almost do we need
an American? And I'm not trying to pit international players
versus American players, but as fans of the NBA, I
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think more fans are going to gravitate towards somebody that
they grew up watching, even if it was one year
in college, whatever it might be. Like Luca Muches, a
lot of people love Luca.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Is he the face? Is he going to take on
that torch? Can he be the guy?
Speaker 3 (25:05):
And like even SGA, his personality just doesn't lend itself
to that. Now Anthony Edwards person Yeah, that's a personality, yes,
and like John Morant might have been that guy, but
he's got too many off the court issues, right, He's
not all there as far as what it would take
(25:26):
to shoulder super stardom in the NBA, where I think
Anthony Edwards he could definitely be that guy, Like even
like a Jason Tatum, it's.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Not in his DNA, but it's not his personality.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
To be that that guy, that mamba vitality not only
on the court, but also just that persona. And that's
why I think the NBA is in a little bit
of trying to figure out who is going to be
that guy.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
And I don't think it's a clear picture right now.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
Yeah, I'm inclined to agree with you on the skip
excuse me, the Steph Curry part as far as that
feels like the next natural progression, But again, how much
longer does he have in the NBA? And I feel
like the NBA is at a point right now, like
me when I think of like a face. If you're
going to have a face of the brand, like Lebron,
like Michael Jordan, like a Kobe, it needs to also
(26:18):
appeal to the casual fan. And from a casual basketball fan,
there's not one person that I can point to and go, hey,
that's probably the guy. In my opinion, it looks like
whoever the next face might be. I don't know that
they're in the NBA yet, because I'm looking at like
an ant Man. I know Ant Edwards feels like he
has the personality that might be the most logical step.
What might end up happening is and we see it
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in various different avenues, not just the NBA, but other places.
Maybe they just pick a guy and they go, this
is this is who we want. This is who we
want to be the face, and they start pushing him more,
they start they start broadcasting his games more. Whoever that
might be. I look at a Jokic again, just not
the personality. I love Jokic, Don't get me wrong. I
think he's phenomenal, phenomenal talent, yeah, but just his personality
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that's it's not It's just not a face type of personality.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
I don't I don't know who it would be.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
That's right, And that's why I do think it's interesting
that that you mentioned they might not be in the
NBA right now, because there's not a scenario that will
always play out that it's a seamless transition, right you
know that it's the passing of the torch. We we
see it h and how it's coming right now. There
(27:30):
has been a little bit like we knew at some
point Lebron was going to be it. Oh, I mean,
because he was living up to the expectations all of that,
and we could see that happening. But maybe, I mean,
is it a Cooper flag? I was going to say,
don't know the first one that came to mind, but
I don't know. Yes, there's way too many questions left
unknown right now. But I do think that it is
(27:55):
okay if the NBA hits a little bit of a
lull and does have that true face until they can
have that superstar, because what I do think can be.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
I don't know what's the right word, not.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
Hurtful or detrimental, but I don't think it's authentic when
you try to push the narrative for somebody who's not
really it you know. And that's why it's forced. Yes,
because we do know. You can have the personality of
Anthony Edwards. You can have that to Mama mentality and
all that, but guess what.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
You have to do. You gotta go win, exactly, straight,
You gotta go win.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
You have to be able to go win championships and
you have to get the accolades also, and you have
to be able to be the guy that hits the
game winning shots, makes the key plays, elevates the team
consistently consistently, Yes, exactly, and that's why you know, like
(28:57):
an SGA, he's got a long way to go in
many areas, but he's much more of the quiet type
of guy, you know. And I mean, you can't have
success that way. I'm not saying that he can't. And
maybe he comes out of his shell a little bit.
And shell might not be the right word because it
sounds like I'm saying that it's a negative that he's
(29:19):
not this big extrovert. I'm not saying that at all,
but I'm saying in relation to to.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
Be a star, you have to be that guy.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
You have to be comfortable in owning it and also
going back to being authentic that has to be who
you are, you know, and I know Michael Jordan wasn't
necessarily this persona flambuoyant and you know, going out raw
raw rah, but what he did out on the court
(29:52):
was different than what we have seen and the domination
that he had was different. And that's why he was
that face of the NBA. Yes, and he backed it
up because he would he would go out there and win.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
Exactly and he would dominate well.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
And I think when you talk about being the face
of the of a whole league, now, it's different being
the face of an organization. If you're the best player there,
you're the flashiest player, whatever, it doesn't matter. When you're
talking about being the face of the league. You need
to not only dominate, but you need to know that
you dominate.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
You have to own it.
Speaker 4 (30:31):
You have to own it and that They're like, I
feel like Jokic is one of those guys where he
kind of dominates where it's hard to stop him. It's
hard to play against the Yokich, but he doesn't. He's
so humble and meet that it's like, okay, yeah, but
how do I gravitate towards that? Whereas there's some players
that have the attitude, but it's like, okay, but what
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are you doing out on the court and.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
Is it consistent?
Speaker 4 (30:56):
We don't have one guy right now that's doing both,
that's out there and goes, yeah, I own the league
and that's me and everything runs through me.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
That's right. Yes, I mean we have that in Lebron Well, yeah,
of course.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
But he's going, like we said, he's about to go out, about.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
To go out, new were up and coming.
Speaker 3 (31:08):
I don't know that there is one that I don't either,
And I don't think Kevin Durant is the guy because
again he's on the tail end of his career, right,
you know, so there's not this one guy.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
Now.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
I would love it to be Steph for a couple
of years, yeah, because I love Steph and the story
and again it's not a comeback story necessarily, but it
is that underdog story that there's no way Steph should
be the greatest shooter we've ever seen, right.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
Maybe to Davidson.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
Now he's hardly recruited, and look what he has become.
And he's also he's got the personality though he does.
You should see him. I've seen him in some of
these celebrity pro ams in golf and just the other day,
I mean he's playing in one and he has this
long putt and he puts it. And if you've ever
(31:55):
watched him in his warm ups and some of the
shots that he does in you know, for right before games,
he does all these type of trick shots. And he's
also done it in games where he'll shoot a three
pointer and then he'll turn his back to the basket.
He doesn't even see the ball go in, but he
knows it's going in right when he releases it, and
he'll like, you know, make uh you know uh, he'll
(32:19):
motion to the crowd, or he'll do something to the crowd,
and I mean it's epic.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
And so he did this on the golf course and
he had this long putt.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
He puts it, and he's watching it, and he's watching
it and he just has the wherewithal he he knows it's.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
Going in, and he turns and he starts, he's not even.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
Watching the putt go in, and he's already, you know,
bantering to the crowd. That's the type of yes guy
that's people are going to gravitate towards, you know, and
that's why you know, I'd love to see him have
that opportunity in the NBA for a few years to
be the guy in the NBA, and still I think
he can. But there's going to have to be a
(32:59):
transition where somebody is going to have to grab that
torch and that will be interesting to see in the
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Ready to roll this Monday.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Right here on this Monday edition of the Richmond Weaver Show,
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as always, and yes, this is the early edition of.
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then a live hour again starting at three pm each weekday.
And it is a Monday, as we just mentioned after
July fourth, so we were off on Friday, getting to
be able to celebrate the birth of America and the
greatest upset in history, as I like to say, because
there's no way we should have ever won the Revolutionary War,
(01:20):
but we did, and that's part of our DNA, being
that underdog, and that's why we love being able to
talk about it. And I know we talked quite a
bit about July fourth and some of the antics that
go on, right with the fireworks all of that, and
not even so much that there's fireworks, but just the
(01:40):
pallethora of the fireworks starting almost like a week before,
and there might even be some tonight exactly there on Monday.
But interestcently enough, mister Falcon, and I see you're silent
over there with this.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
I couldn't believe it.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Okay, it's Friday night, right, Julianne and I my wife,
we went played golf and then had dinner out and
got back to the house and it was probably around
eight thirty is maybe nine o'clock somewhere around in there,
and we could hear a little rumbling. Okay, there, boom boom,
(02:18):
there's a few fireworks or whatever. And then probably around
ten thirties when it really cranked up. Oh yeah, and
it was going and then I don't know, it was
like a little after eleven o'clock, and I'm like, I
think it's over.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
It's quiet.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Yeah, it was quiet, yes, and went to sleep and
maybe I heard a couple throughout, but nothing like it
has been in previous years, and even more so than
on Saturday.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
I mean, it was minimal.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
There was hardly anything, and we didn't hear any last
night Sunday night.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
So I'm wondering, did.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
We speak it into existence, we got the word out,
did we promote did we have that opportunity of actually saying, hey, guys,
I know.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
You love fireworks, we like fire rice.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Also, let's just do it in a responsible amount of
time exactly, And I think that's what happened. So I'm
understanding just from your facial expression in your body language
that maybe you experienced the same thing.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
It was really similar. Uh, definitely, Friday night was the heaviest.
But to your point, I mean, I think around like
eleven thirty midnight, I realized I was like, I don't
hear anything. I don't think I hear it, and maybe
i'd hear like one pop or something that's right, and
I was like, I think they're done. And then yeah, definitely,
to your point, Saturday maybe a little bit. Definitely not
(03:40):
anything that I remember Saturday night. Nothing yesterday. I think
there was a little bit that ramped up Thursday, but
I mean that's okay.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
This Friday too, Yeah, exactly, that's a little bit different.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
But other than that, like Thursday Friday. But yeah, yeah,
I mean we'll see tonight obviously. You know, I agree
with you, like, we'll probably hear something tonight because it
feels like it extends well beyond it, definitely, Yes, And
it's that little bit of calm before the storm.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Maybe that's part of it too, is that Okay, Hey, yeah,
we made you think we were not going to have
explosive fireworks for seven straight days, but we are going
to do that now. Interestingly enough, also is that I
have talked to several other people outside of this area. Yeah,
and their number one complaint, oh these fireworks. They lasted
(04:28):
it until three am. So I'm like, okay, something changed
in at least my area of Greenville here in the
upstate that they did not have the same type of
bravado that they were going to carry on yeah late
into the night, which I was so thankful for.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
Well, I mean it helps with dogs too. We talked
about that, you know, Big Taters Day. Now Friday, we
were off Friday, but we talked about it.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
You've got dogs.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
I've got dogs, and it, I mean, it terrifies them.
They're shaken like leaves and time. There's nothing that you
can really do about it, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
I know you could.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
You could put they make like what thunder blankets or
something whatever, thunder jackets or whatever that's like a vest
for the dog.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
And those can kind of help. But I mean the
big thing.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Is it's like it's their ears. They hear so differently,
no doubt, and that's part of it. And it's crazy
how some dogs I don't even pay any attention to it,
and others, I mean, they absolutely freak out.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
And that's probably true with humans.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Also there are some people that yeah, no big deal,
and there's other people and obviously we do know just
from a PTSD stamprant right veterans. Yes, of course, I
can't even imagine, you know what that would be like.
And in speaking of that, because I want to talk
about a movie.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Oh yes, yes, yes, when to go see F one nice?
So you did it? I did it?
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Yes, absolutely amazing. But tying into that, I remember and
again you know, I I love filmmaking. I love storytelling.
I love and that's one of the reasons why I
was so interested about F one, because they did things
a little different than we've traditionally seen, especially for a
movie of this magnitude and being able to film it.
(06:06):
But I know Steven Spielberg did things a little bit
different also in Saving Private Ryan, Oh, you talking about
cinematic masterpiece, just in terms of the filmmaking and making
it as real as possible. And I remember reading a
story about this, because this was before podcast really were
(06:26):
a thing, but I remember reading the story about it,
and they were having a premiere, but it was just
for World War Two veterans that actually interesting were there
at D Day, Yes, And so they had these veterans
there and showing the movie and there were apparently like
(06:51):
twenty to thirty of the people that were there, the
veterans there watching the movie, who again were there in
per during D Day and again remember it's nineteen forty four.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Yeah, and.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
They were weeping like, I mean, like wailing like and
had to leave the theater because it brought back those
memories so vividly that they hadn't they had just compartmentalized,
you know, for fifty years or whatever, and hadn't even
(07:26):
thought about that or tried to block it out of there. Yeah,
and this, you know, unfortunately for them, it brought back
all of those scared moments, those memories and just the
survival and seeing you know, their their friends, their colleagues
that you know, all that get killed. Just I mean,
and that's what I mean. So it's a it's a
(07:49):
tough thing, but it also just shows you what Steven
Spielberg was able to do to have it that realistic, right,
and how crazy that was. And so I say all
that because again, the fireworks can bring that out in
some of these veterans who've been in war and just
why I couldn't even imagine that type of scenario playing out.
(08:12):
And I know this is a completely different tangent. We're
trying to the positive side here, but as part of also,
I mean, it's our history too, and yes, it's even
going back to the Revolutionary War, right, I mean, I
can't even imagine that you're standing there and you see
these guys walking towards you and they've got muskets. Yeah,
you know, you know, like okay, it's either me or him.
(08:34):
Oh yeah, I don't understand it. I don't understand how
you get to that point mentally until you're actually there
and that it's you know again, it's that flight, you know,
fight or flight right type of mentality, and that's how
we wired as humans.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
One. I think it depends on the person too.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
I mean there's certain people they may never get that, Like,
it doesn't matter how far you push them. People are
just wired differently. They are, And that's just talk about it.
We talked about just with animals, you talk about it
with humans too. But to your point about just the
movie and the way that you can capture things in
the cinematic thing, that's what's so special about I think,
especially the big screen are just movies in general is
(09:16):
the way you can really like you can do it
with books, and if you've got a really vivid imagination,
it's probably easier, but there's something totally different with the
soundtrack and the way it moves and the sound effects
and just everything captured on screen. So I'm curious to
hear f one.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
How was one?
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (09:30):
It was absolutely fantastic.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
And I know we had Brian Kite, author of Dailydiscipline
dot com, on last week and him talking about his
experience and saying, hey, don't walk run to the movie
theater to see this, and make sure you see it
in IMAX. And I would agree with him one thousand percent.
Maybe you don't have to run, I understand that, but
(09:53):
I think you do need.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
To see it in Imax.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Yeah, and because they filmed everything with Imax cameras. Oh,
so it is automatically set up for Imax. And not
to say that you still won't have a great experience,
you know, in a standard movie theater, sure, but Imax
it was definitely different. Now, this was actually my first
Imax experience.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Really, I think I've been to one. This was while
this was my first one.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
So not only is it from a cinematic standpoint, but
the audio design as well, and that takes it to
a completely different level. And that's why, you know, I
there's something about for me even also summertime means movies,
also the blockbuster movies the summer.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
That's what it used to be.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
And I think it's maybe lost some of its luster
to a certain degree because we have so many different
options now.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
When everything goes like streaming, streaming, Yeah, you can watch
it on like some go directly to Netflix, and you know,
it's it's definitely different.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
But what I loved about this is again being able
to see it on the big screen and if you
don't know anything about it, not that I'm gonna give
away any secrets or you know, tell you the ending,
but it is one of those movies where I think
you can probably predict the ending, right, but you're still
not a bad thing though. No, it's not a bad thing,
(11:13):
and you're still captured by it. Yeah, that's the beauty
of it. Two and a half hours and it didn't
feel like two and a half hours. The longest part
for me was sending through the thirty minutes of commercials
and previews, right, and I love previews, but it was
like ten minutes of previews and it was twenty minutes
of commercials.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
It's a lot that's way too much.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
It definitely took away from the movie theater experience and
one of the things that I love about going to
the movies. What you talked about is you get to
see it in a different vantage point. It was meant
to be the way it was meant to be viewed,
and that's what I love. But here at F one,
it's a fictional story about a Formula one car and
(11:55):
the driver and the team there and they're down and out,
you know. And so Brad Pitt is this character, Sonny Hayes.
He's a retired F one driver and you know, he's
had a checkered past after he's exited out of F
one and somehow, you know, he gets found to hey,
(12:16):
come we Nobody is willing to take this role as
a driver because everybody a guy had gotten hurt and
all these things transpired where nobody was willing to take
on the role. Because there's also a rookie driver. There's
a hot shot you know, doesn't want to listen to anybody,
(12:38):
and the team is doing terrible and they're going to
be sold because they're doing so terrible. But what I
loved was just the groundbreaking technical achievements in this movie.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
And that's why I think it's a must see.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
And as I mentioned, also last week, I listened to
a podcast with Brad Pitt and he talked about it that,
I mean, you did have this fictional story, but they
had the real F one teams involved. F one was
officially a partner in this movie. And this movie, I mean,
it's like a three hundred million dollar budget, so this
(13:12):
is no joke. And they were able to film in
actual F one events in twenty and twenty three and
twenty and twenty four. Yes, so, And again they had
like fifteen minutes right before race started that they had
to get their filming done on the track, and the
F one drivers that were going to be racing, they
(13:34):
were actually part of the filming, so they were out
there doing the filming and then would come stop and
then reset and get ready for the race. So it's
interesting this in Brad Pitt and the rookie driver there
in the movie. I mean, they did their stunts, so
they were driving two hundred miles per hour on these courses,
(13:56):
and that's what made it also even more from a
cinemat viewpoint, it was real. Well, I mean it looked
real because it was real.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
You know.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Now they had to do some things, you know, they
couldn't capture everything on the track, but I'm telling you,
the way they were able to blend it all together
was quite impressive. And that was the other side that
I thoroughly enjoyed. And then you add the soundtrack to it,
ok and the music and the emotions to it also,
(14:27):
But it's that story of a comeback story. And again,
as I mentioned, you could script it yourself, of course,
But why is it that.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
We love these comeback stories?
Speaker 3 (14:40):
A down and out guy somehow gets resurrected or whatever
it is. I mean, there's something about the DNA of
a comeback story, and especially in sports that we love.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
If I had to guess, I would say, and this
is just me maybe because it fels uniquely human, no
doubt the comeback story at any point in time. I
feel like, and I'm not going to speak for everybody,
but I feel like most people could probably say, yeah,
I was there, I was down and out. I was
I was at rock bottom. Most people have been there
(15:16):
and felt that, no doubt. Not everybody's climbed out, but
people have climbed out. So there's this idea of hey,
that mimics my story, I climbed out or that's what
I want, that hope, that hope.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
And That's what I'm wondering too, is that human spirit
element side and maybe you are experiencing something and haven't
been able to get out right, but then you see
somebody fictional or not sure, does it give you that
motivation and you know again it taps into I think
(15:47):
our love for resilience, yeah, and being able to be
that overcoming some type of injury. And now i'm talking
sports here, you know, or a slump or personal struggles,
what you're talking life. And that's why I mean the
sports is just a metaphor for what we're going through
absolutely in life. And that's what I love about these stories.
(16:09):
And that's why it doesn't matter how many times it's told,
people are still going to be entertained and watch it
because it's again, as much as I talk about the
Revolutionary war and being an underdog is in our DNA,
but as humans, I think this is in our DNA
as well, just the resiliency side of things.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
One hundred percent.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
You see it all throughout history from just the stories
that humans.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Tell and have told.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
You go back to obviously the Bible, the biggest one
day liath, yes, but then I mean you look at
like the Iliad, things like that, through Greek mythology, Roman mythology,
like it's all throughout Egyptian mythology, all of that. It
is uniquely human. It is something that we have always
been drawn to. Why I'm not sure we're just wired
that way.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
We are just wired that way, and I was thinking,
even from a perspective of this story, and is it
even you know, I'm a huge Michael Jordan fan.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
I don't think he's a goat.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
And just even like when he came back out of
retirement and it was there in nineteen ninety five and
he'd been playing baseball and now the Bulls are in
the playoffs and it was almost okay, you were so
invested to see could Michael Jordan, could he have this
(17:21):
comeback and lead the Bulls to another championship. Now he
didn't do that year, but he did it three more
time after that, you know, and so you do love
that type of story. And even just like the New
England Patriots in Atlanta Falcons.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
You're down twenty eight to three, yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
And somehow you come back. It's and it's you know,
a Tom Brady. And not that Tom Brady was washed
up anything, but there was you know, questions, I mean, well,
we're starting to see the chinks in the armor with
Tom Brady and somehow he's able to you know, make
that happen.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
And then I even look at it from.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
A personal standpoint and locally here the Herman Paladins, Oh yeah,
you know, having that shot that beat them in twenty
twenty two by Chattanooga David John Baptiste, knowing that they
were that close, I mean four point three seconds away
from winning a Southern Conference tournament championship for the first
(18:20):
time since nineteen eighty and then having the resolve to
come back the next year and then claim that championship.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
And then they go on.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
And beat Virginia in the NCAA tournament, and they were
down by double digits at points in that game and
somehow scrapped and clalled and found a way to win.
And it's that that comeback story again. I don't care
how many times it's going to be written.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Will be entertained by it.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
It doesn't matter the landscape, it doesn't matter the environment,
whatever it is, we will be entertained about by it.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
And that's what movie executives they.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
Know they a formula for There's a formula for it,
they definitely know. But I highly encourage you go check
out to F one with Brad pitt As, Sonny Hayes
and Joseph Kazinski. The director there did an absolutely fantastic job,
and the soundtrack is also very good. Hans Zimmer with
the soundtrack there and again that was recommendation from Brian Kaite,
(19:25):
author of Daily Discipline dot com. He talked about the
soundtrack also, but I would definitely highly recommend F one.
And we'll continue this Monday edition another Richmond Weaver Show
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The thing is is, I feel like we do such
a good job of covering things that it doesn't necessarily
feel like it. But yes, we could have gone, and
we have gone now that we've started this second hour
so much deeper on topics because when you're doing that
three to four hour, you're on a clock on a.
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we know everything going on right now with the NBA.
We've got all these trades and we will talk a
little bit later about the big trade in the NBA
(21:37):
with Kevin Durant, right, and now it's official and it's
a record trade with the number of teams, seven teams
in this trade.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Yes, I don't even understand it.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
Like back in the NFL or any other organization or
not organization, but league doing something like that.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
That's insane.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
It's insane, and some of it doesn't even make any
sense because it's all rain actual type of moves. So
like Atlanta, you know, signed Clint Capella, but then it
was a sign in trade, so they sign him and
then they immediately trade him, and I'm like, well, why.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Are you even sign him? Just yeah, you don't even
have to pass through your doors. You don't even need
to do that.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
But there's salary cap scenarios that play out, and that's
where it gets very convoluted and understanding.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
All of that.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
But I was thinking though about there's a lot of
discussion going on with Lebron James. Oh yeah, what is
he going to do? And we know the NBA is
a star driven league. There is no question about it.
You can go all the way back to when we've
first really started seeing these stars that burst on the
(22:46):
scene in the NBA, because then they started televising the
games more often.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Oh yeah, as Larry Bird and Magic Johnson, those were.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
The first true stars of the NBA because they captivated
audiences because they had a rivalry that went back to
college where they played and played against each other in
the national championship game, Indiana State losing to Michigan State,
and so Magic Johnson had one leg up on Larry Bird.
And then of course, of all things, Larry Bird goes
(23:14):
to the East coast with the Boston Celtics, Magic Johnson
to the West coast right with the Lakers, And you
couldn't script that any better because you got East versus
West rivalry and both organizations were good, and we're competing
for championships and met several times in the NBA finals,
so that definitely helps. And then obviously we saw the
Doctor Jays, and we saw Michael Jordan coming through Shaquille O'Neill,
(23:39):
and then we see Kobe Bryant, you know, those type
of stars, and then Lebron James, right, but.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Lebron James, he's he's exiting out.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
Yeah, this is it you know this is probably going
to be his last season, And if it's not his
last season, then.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
We know there's not going to be many more.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
We do know that, And so I'm just curious who's
going to be that guy of the NBA. Who's going
to be the Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, the Michael Jordan,
the Kobe Bryant, the Lebron James. And I want to
say immediately, oh, it's gonna be Steph Curry. And there
is some validity to that, but Steph Curry's on his yes.
(24:23):
So I mean, is it going to be Anthony Edwards
in Minnesota? Is it going to be an Sga, Jay, Gilgess,
Alexander And I would I would say, and it's not
going to be Jokic because he's just not that guy.
He's not that guy. And it's almost do we need
an American? And I'm not trying to pit international players
versus American players, but as fans of the NBA, I
(24:46):
think more fans are going to gravitate towards somebody that
they grew up watching, even if it was one year
in college, whatever it might be. Like Luca Muches, a
lot of people love Luca.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Is he the face? Is he going to take on
that torch? Can he be the guy?
Speaker 3 (25:05):
And like even SGA, his personality just doesn't lend itself
to that. Now Anthony Edwards person Yeah, that's a personality, yes,
and like John Morant might have been that guy, but
he's got too many off the court issues, right, He's
not all there as far as what it would take
(25:26):
to shoulder super stardom in the NBA, where I think
Anthony Edwards he could definitely be that guy, Like even
like a Jason Tatum, it's.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Not in his DNA, but it's not his personality.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
To be that that guy, that mamba vitality not only
on the court, but also just that persona. And that's
why I think the NBA is in a little bit
of trying to figure out who is going to be
that guy.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
And I don't think it's a clear picture right now.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
Yeah, I'm inclined to agree with you on the skip
excuse me, the Steph Curry part as far as that
feels like the next natural progression, But again, how much
longer does he have in the NBA? And I feel
like the NBA is at a point right now, like
me when I think of like a face. If you're
going to have a face of the brand, like Lebron,
like Michael Jordan, like a Kobe, it needs to also
(26:18):
appeal to the casual fan. And from a casual basketball fan,
there's not one person that I can point to and go, hey,
that's probably the guy. In my opinion, it looks like
whoever the next face might be. I don't know that
they're in the NBA yet, because I'm looking at like
an ant Man. I know Ant Edwards feels like he
has the personality that might be the most logical step.
What might end up happening is and we see it
(26:41):
in various different avenues, not just the NBA, but other places.
Maybe they just pick a guy and they go, this
is this is who we want. This is who we
want to be the face, and they start pushing him more,
they start they start broadcasting his games more. Whoever that
might be. I look at a Jokic again, just not
the personality. I love Jokic, Don't get me wrong. I
think he's phenomenal, phenomenal talent, yeah, but just his personality
(27:03):
that's it's not It's just not a face type of personality.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
I don't I don't know who it would be.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
That's right, And that's why I do think it's interesting
that that you mentioned they might not be in the
NBA right now, because there's not a scenario that will
always play out that it's a seamless transition, right you
know that it's the passing of the torch. We we
see it h and how it's coming right now. There
(27:30):
has been a little bit like we knew at some
point Lebron was going to be it. Oh, I mean,
because he was living up to the expectations all of that,
and we could see that happening. But maybe, I mean,
is it a Cooper flag? I was going to say,
don't know the first one that came to mind, but
I don't know. Yes, there's way too many questions left
unknown right now. But I do think that it is
(27:55):
okay if the NBA hits a little bit of a
lull and does have that true face until they can
have that superstar, because what I do think can be.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
I don't know what's the right word, not.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
Hurtful or detrimental, but I don't think it's authentic when
you try to push the narrative for somebody who's not
really it you know. And that's why it's forced. Yes,
because we do know. You can have the personality of
Anthony Edwards. You can have that to Mama mentality and
all that, but guess what.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
You have to do. You gotta go win, exactly, straight,
You gotta go win.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
You have to be able to go win championships and
you have to get the accolades also, and you have
to be able to be the guy that hits the
game winning shots, makes the key plays, elevates the team
consistently consistently, Yes, exactly, and that's why you know, like
(28:57):
an SGA, he's got a long way to go in
many areas, but he's much more of the quiet type
of guy, you know. And I mean, you can't have
success that way. I'm not saying that he can't. And
maybe he comes out of his shell a little bit.
And shell might not be the right word because it
sounds like I'm saying that it's a negative that he's
(29:19):
not this big extrovert. I'm not saying that at all,
but I'm saying in relation to to.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
Be a star, you have to be that guy.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
You have to be comfortable in owning it and also
going back to being authentic that has to be who
you are, you know, and I know Michael Jordan wasn't
necessarily this persona flambuoyant and you know, going out raw
raw rah, but what he did out on the court
(29:52):
was different than what we have seen and the domination
that he had was different. And that's why he was
that face of the NBA. Yes, and he backed it
up because he would he would go out there and win.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
Exactly and he would dominate well.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
And I think when you talk about being the face
of the of a whole league, now, it's different being
the face of an organization. If you're the best player there,
you're the flashiest player, whatever, it doesn't matter. When you're
talking about being the face of the league. You need
to not only dominate, but you need to know that
you dominate.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
You have to own it.
Speaker 4 (30:31):
You have to own it and that They're like, I
feel like Jokic is one of those guys where he
kind of dominates where it's hard to stop him. It's
hard to play against the Yokich, but he doesn't. He's
so humble and meet that it's like, okay, yeah, but
how do I gravitate towards that? Whereas there's some players
that have the attitude, but it's like, okay, but what
(30:53):
are you doing out on the court and.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
Is it consistent?
Speaker 4 (30:56):
We don't have one guy right now that's doing both,
that's out there and goes, yeah, I own the league
and that's me and everything runs through me.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
That's right. Yes, I mean we have that in Lebron Well, yeah,
of course.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
But he's going, like we said, he's about to go out, about.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
To go out, new were up and coming.
Speaker 3 (31:08):
I don't know that there is one that I don't either,
And I don't think Kevin Durant is the guy because
again he's on the tail end of his career, right,
you know, so there's not this one guy.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
Now.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
I would love it to be Steph for a couple
of years, yeah, because I love Steph and the story
and again it's not a comeback story necessarily, but it
is that underdog story that there's no way Steph should
be the greatest shooter we've ever seen, right.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
Maybe to Davidson.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
Now he's hardly recruited, and look what he has become.
And he's also he's got the personality though he does.
You should see him. I've seen him in some of
these celebrity pro ams in golf and just the other day,
I mean he's playing in one and he has this
long putt and he puts it. And if you've ever
(31:55):
watched him in his warm ups and some of the
shots that he does in you know, for right before games,
he does all these type of trick shots. And he's
also done it in games where he'll shoot a three
pointer and then he'll turn his back to the basket.
He doesn't even see the ball go in, but he
knows it's going in right when he releases it, and
he'll like, you know, make uh you know uh, he'll
(32:19):
motion to the crowd, or he'll do something to the crowd,
and I mean it's epic.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
And so he did this on the golf course and
he had this long putt.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
He puts it, and he's watching it, and he's watching
it and he just has the wherewithal he he knows it's.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
Going in, and he turns and he starts, he's not even.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
Watching the putt go in, and he's already, you know,
bantering to the crowd. That's the type of yes guy
that's people are going to gravitate towards, you know, and
that's why you know, I'd love to see him have
that opportunity in the NBA for a few years to
be the guy in the NBA, and still I think
he can. But there's going to have to be a
(32:59):
transition where somebody is going to have to grab that
torch and that will be interesting to see in the
NBA who that is going to be. All Right, We'll
continue our two of the Richmond Weavers Show presented by
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