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Speaker 1 (00:00):
They say, don't meet your heroes.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
I am gutted. Today is a bad day. Yesterday was
a bad day and I didn't even get to meet him.
So I love basketball and my favorite basketball team is
the Detroit Pistons. And in two thousand and four, the
Pistons won the NBA Finals. I was nine years old.
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It was an unbelievable moment in my life, like genuinely,
like the happiest, like when you think of joy, it's like, oh,
just I think I was flying when they won. It's
because of the NBA Finals MVP that they won, Chauncey Billups,
which you might have heard his name in the last
two days. This isn't a sports segment. This is a
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meeting your hero segment. I want to hear about the
time that maybe that was a true statement. I want
to know.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
The time you met your hero and they sucked.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Or even a celebrity that you like, like them have
be a hero fair enough, because I got one.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
I was on my top of the oh too. And
it's not going to affect the job, I promise. If
I say it, talk to me.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Then I'll never forget.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
I was obsessed with the killaroy. I loved him.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
I thought he was gonna have this great personality and
be very kind and I don't know if he was
having a bad day, but he was at jingle Ball
to Shorten and he was not friendly at all.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
He was quiet.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
He was just to himself, and he was just dropping
f bombs like all in the interview. I was like, WHOA,
you're not You're not the same person who I thought
you would have been just listening based off.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Your music and that turned you off.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Have not listened to a Kilroy sung after that? Really really,
and I had him all on my playlist.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
I just never listened to him, So there you go.
It didn't really surprise me. I was like, yeah, I
guy's a douche, shut me wrong.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
This one's got some local ties, but uh, brick flair.
Really yeah, I was like a little disappointed. But I
don't know if he was I think, well I believe so,
I don't. I can't really say for certain, but I
think he was a little office rocker, like he had
a little too much to drink, and maybe that was
why he's a little weird or a little like disgruntled.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
But I try to get a picture with you. He's
like Yeah, he was just like you said no to you. Yeah,
well he's probably bothered.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Record.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
I want to say, even with thee to the roy like,
these are humans, Like maybe they had a bad day,
but in that moment when I'm excited, of course you're
being mean to me.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
I'm going to be like, oh, you're rude.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Chauncey Billups, the guy that he was allegedly this is
all alleged like in with the mafia and they were
doing these like poker rooms where they were stealing from people.
It's all you can there's a little bit of it. Okay,
here's a little bit of what happened.
Speaker 5 (02:50):
Individuals such as Chauncey Billups, Damon Jones, cashp Individuals such
as Chauncey Billups, Damon Jones, and Terry Rozier were taking
into custody today former current NBA players and coaches. What
you don't know is that this is an illegal gambling
operation and sports rigging operation that spanned the course of years.
The FBI let a coordinated takedown across eleven states to
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arrest over thirty individuals today responsible for this case, which
is very much ongoing. Not only did we crack into
the fraud that these perpetrators committed on the grand stage
of the NBA. But we also entered and executed a
system of justice against La Casinoshra to include the Bonano, Gambino,
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Genevesi and Luchas crime families, the.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Big Bambino family.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Easy to want to make them mask You're right, yeah, no,
I got no problems with them.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
I love all Italians one hundred percent, all of them.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
All of them. What eight four own nine ninety three,
ninety three. Maybe meeting your hero wasn't the best idea
at all. Let's talk to Anna right now. I want
to talk to Anna, who is in lake.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
And Hi, Anna, Hey, how are you doing? Fantastic?
Speaker 6 (04:13):
Anna?
Speaker 1 (04:14):
You met who? And it was kind of a leftdown.
Speaker 7 (04:17):
Well Cogan, Oh no, yeah, I know. Well we were
on Clearwater Beach and my kids were preteen. This was
like thirty some odd years ago, and girls were there,
so you know where the attention was because he was
doing like a shoot or something, and my kids were
trying to say hi, and I had to kind of
holler at him and reprimand him to make him say
hi to my boys.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
I mean, he was around beautiful women.
Speaker 7 (04:42):
What do you expect Yeah, I understand the reasoning, but
I felt like my kids were way more important.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
That's fair enough, that's fair.
Speaker 8 (04:50):
I think that gives He did say hi to them.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
See that's cool.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Then sounds like it turned into a good thing, right,
it turned out fine.
Speaker 7 (04:58):
It's just everyone on the beach and knows my true personality.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
I like it. Anna, thank you so much for calling
in and sharing. And uh, let's not talk to Tammy.
Let's see what's going on with Tammy right now. Meeting
your hero didn't go as well as you thought it would. Tammy,
who was it?
Speaker 6 (05:18):
Hold on, let me get you off my car.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Tammy's a caller because of that?
Speaker 8 (05:24):
You there? Emmitt Smith, really, why what happened?
Speaker 6 (05:32):
He was at a Gator game. This was years and
years ago, and he was at a Gator game and
my ex brother in law was just a kid, and
you know, asked him if he could have his autograph
because he was a diehard Gator fan. You liked him
at Smith and he told him if he wanted his autograph, he.
Speaker 8 (05:49):
Would have to pay him how much?
Speaker 6 (05:53):
I don't know, but I mean, wild thing to say,
especially to a kid.
Speaker 8 (05:59):
Yeah, yeah, I mean I I I also feel bad,
like what if they are, Like Ashley said, day, but
what I kind.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Of take that into consideration. Yeah, who knows.
Speaker 6 (06:14):
You can't kids like that though, I don't care.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Yeah, it's true.
Speaker 6 (06:19):
It's the kids being a jerk the I'm sure. But
he was just excited about seeing somebody that he looked
up to and he was like, Oh, can I have
your autograph? And that was his response.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Does it ruin him forever?
Speaker 6 (06:33):
Yeah, he didn't like him after that. He could he
could have literally said anything, I'm sorry, man, I don't
have tongue, you know, anything.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
That I got paid for it. That's the worst thing
to hear, especially as a twelve year old had saved
up for Emitt smith autograph that meeting.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
I'm writing in my journal, Oh this is the first
meeting ever. I wonder you know how much? That's what
I want to know?
Speaker 3 (06:59):
How much it shouldn't have been a topic, shouldn't have
been a price, no matter that it could have been
five dollars, ten dollars.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
It's not worth it.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Kids. You don't charge adults. They just go to the
card shows and they pay like Oodle's amount of money
for autographs.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Hmm. Anyone else you guys have met that it wasn't good.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
Can I run down my list of baseball players that
I met, because I used to come like just mat
In Matt spring training and I'll now just say, okay,
Tony LaRussa, who is actually I think is from West
Tampa total ahole. I would say, what do you mean?
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Grade? Like f is in total? Like what do you
what do you mean by grade? Joe?
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Like, uh is like the worst in the grading system,
and like.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Oh yeah it is the best.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
Like he's just like okay, uh. He was not pleasant,
no disrespect. I love Jim Leland, but Jim Leeland was
a little bit of a hard o where okay, eh,
Justin Verlander, oh my god. I met him when I
was fifteen years old. He was trying to sneak around
the back part of the If you've ever been to
the Tigers stadium up in Lakeland, he's sneaking around the
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back part of it, and he's like I saw him
in between the fences. I was like, mister Bland, okay,
get shoutography he's like Christ and that he got kind
of rolled his eyes at me and.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Then yeah, but also he's going to work. He was
leaving work and he was trying to.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
Trying to get time with like, so I would give
him like, has.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Anyone ever met us and thought we were rude?
Speaker 1 (08:30):
No, we're talking about celebrities. We're local celebrities. You put
us in that.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Kind of they have met Joe. They actually made his
face the f l Z photo on a Yelp. That's
they met you on the internet.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
That doesn't count. Okay, Okay, that doesn't count. Okay.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
I think I'm nice to everybody I meet. Yeah, I've
seen it on very nice. I'm overly nice sometimes, Ohmira,
Yes you met b Wow.
Speaker 8 (09:01):
I did.
Speaker 9 (09:03):
I actually lived in La for about ten years and
a friend of mine opened up a burger joint and
he came in because he was one of the investors
of the burger poice and he had just started dating
his wife, Haley Bieber, and he was very stand offish.
My daughters were like six and seven years old, and
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they asked, you know, to take a picture with him,
and he was like, and he like looked at them
and gave him a Nazi look and just turned around
and kept on walking. And it wasn't even it wasn't
even like, you know, he was busy or it was
in a situation where he was, you know, doing something.
It was something as simple as, oh my god, he's
my hero. And my girls were so let down and
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it was really sad.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
How do they feel about him now?
Speaker 9 (09:52):
They can't stand him.
Speaker 10 (09:55):
And they can't stand Hailey because Haley was like so
shoved up his you know what, because like they had
just started dating, and you know, she had insecurities, like
you could tell because she was.
Speaker 9 (10:06):
Like grabbing at his arm and like all upon him,
like mothering him six and nine.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Six and I or, oh, they're not going to take
your man.
Speaker 10 (10:20):
Exactly, and that's what I That's what I thought, like she.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
I'm sorry nothing, go ahead, Sorry, no, I.
Speaker 9 (10:29):
Didn't hear you.
Speaker 8 (10:29):
What did you say?
Speaker 10 (10:34):
Oh my god, that's terrible.
Speaker 11 (10:40):
But honestly, like I thought my girls, like they were
so cute because he was a child star, and like,
you know, I thought you would could relate. But like
his ego is so out there that now when I
see him on TV and.
Speaker 9 (10:55):
Stuff, I'm like, whatever, what ha comeback? And it goes
back to that memory, you.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Know, go off, Yeah, all right, Ohmira, Hey when we
play Bieber, do you change the channel?
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Don't do that.
Speaker 10 (11:08):
I try not to. I just lower the volume.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
We take that. We'll take that.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Oh, Mayra, you're the best. Thank you for calling. And
I'm sorry that that happened.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
And I'm sure that.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Many people have good stories with all these people as well.
I want to meet Rick Flair so bad.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
See, you'm at my breakfast place all the time. Oh cool,
If you want to meet him, just come on a
Saturday with me tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
You go every Saturday, I mean most of the saturdays
that I go, he's there.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Usually he's gonna be that. He's not gonna be.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
I'm not going on and know why I'm not going tomorrow?
Why because I just asked him? He goes possibly.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Yeah, it's cool. I mean he's so literally every no, no,
it's cool, dude, it's cool. You go to him. So
he's there literally every weekend. Look at that. He gets
a girlfriend all of a sudden, he doesn't want to
get breakfast