From Wendy's, to the NFL: Ryan Fitzpatrick

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Speaker 1 (00:23):
Good evening, everybody. Welcome to us Ports Exchange. We have
the fountain of youth here. When I mean the fountain
of youth older, we really had the fountain of youth.
We welcome the youngest person ever to be on this show.
His name is JJ Metz m Etz not relation to
M E. T S, the team that's not in the playoffs.
All right, I'm sure he's play and I'll come a

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low where I get old. A plenty of time to
school appears at but you weren't getting this one at
And before I let change introduce himself. Welcome back, Jacob.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
How you doing tonight. I JJ's good to have you here, buddy.

Speaker 1 (00:56):
And we have Candy Hambling.

Speaker 3 (00:59):
Glad to have JJ. Welcome to the the Crazy group.

Speaker 1 (01:04):
And we got George Ikhn who's got more lives than Morris.

Speaker 4 (01:08):
Hey, what's going on everyone?

Speaker 1 (01:10):
All right? And Marvin Paul, my full back, and and
my latest pupil, who's got a book that will be
on the way probably hopefully in the next few days,
so by an email.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
Just think of it this way, if you ever want
to play for the Mets one day, take a look
at George. He's actually just twenty five years old. You
know that's what you look like after you play for
the Mets.

Speaker 1 (01:32):
You know what George is saying, Why is everybody always
picking on me? All right, go ahead and say.

Speaker 5 (01:38):
Three to three, at least three of us have caps on.
We we we protect ourselves our heads. Okay, j JJ,
you're still young enough.

Speaker 3 (01:48):
I protect one.

Speaker 4 (01:49):
Too, all right.

Speaker 2 (01:53):
You know I love George, you know that.

Speaker 1 (01:56):
Alright, you have some words of wisdom for the little man.

Speaker 6 (01:58):
Listen, I've already done my duty as an se alumni.
I've been recruiting him since since my first word to him,
and I'm looking forward to seeing him on campus.

Speaker 1 (02:09):
Oh look you go, all right gg yeah, a lot
of options and we do too. Let's get this bad
boy rolling up with the NFL. The first meeting between
Ben Johnson, who is thirty nine years of age, and
Pete Carroll seventy four, is in the books. The fun
fact is that head coaches in their thirties are twenty one,

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fifteen and one all time against each other against head
coaches in their seventies. The Bears obviously defeated the Raiders
twenty five to twenty four, and in this games, obviously
you can just take that twenty one and fifteen and
make it twenty two and fifteen. Also another side note,

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Gino Smith had led the NFL in interceptions with four.
That was about a couple of weeks ago when they
were one and one with one TV versus four interceptions. Well,
let's go ahead and modify the stat Okay. Now, Gino
Smith currently leads the NFL with seven interception Smith thirty
four of his two three interception games. That's in weeks

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two and four. So all right, Shane J. Will let
you start the topic off. What are your thoughts about
young versus Old?

Speaker 7 (03:19):
Yeah, first off, Scott, thank you so much for having
me on and thank you for everyone for the conwords
at the beginning. As you just mentioned, you know, Gino
Smith leads the NFL in interceptions and he hasn't been
his best And we saw at Seattle, we've seen it here.
He's really nothing special. He can manage a game well,

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but so far this season he's struggled to protect the
football and turned it over a lot. And as you mentioned,
the young versus old matchup between Pete Carroll with the
Raiders and then against the Bears, and I thought that
the Bears played a pretty solid game.

Speaker 8 (04:00):
Uh, you know, came down to the wire there.

Speaker 7 (04:03):
Overall, Ashon Genti has been very solid in the run
game for the Raiders, and I think that's helped them
out a lot and kept them into the game. He
had that very long rush for a touchdown there, and
you know, they got a really good draft pick in
him from Boise State. But through the receiving game, Gino's

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not getting the help he has, and I think that's
the difference between the two. You know, Caleb Williams being
able to find DeAndre Swift out of the backfield multiple
times and have that guy he can trust. So overall,
I think, you know, the age comparison of young versus old.

Speaker 8 (04:44):
They're both head coaches.

Speaker 7 (04:45):
Yes, the game has changed from the start to now,
but you know, I think that we can really just
see that it doesn't really matter in terms of age.

Speaker 1 (04:56):
Very good. I know. One thing it don't matter about
your age is you're a break kid. Man starts off
at tennis. He's four years in the business at fourteenth.
What's something he kept biting. This is the newest people
on the plot in the program, all right, Marvin.

Speaker 9 (05:10):
Yeah, JJ said it.

Speaker 6 (05:11):
Uh, you know, definitely gentry in the run game needs
to show up, and you know, had a good game
last week in regards to numbers, but I think he
started off slow and that hasn't go at all. Seven
interceptions is not how you get it done. Pete Carroll
is he's he's big on turnovers. You know when he

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took over the head job, took over the job at
USC in his first meeting with the players, the first
thing he addressed over everything was how important it is
for us to have the ball. With that said, you
could look for QB change if this keeps up, because
in a seventeen game season, it's so long that you
can start off slow and things happen and you know

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you have some momentum second half of the year. So
regardless of how it looks with the numbers, may say
the maybe the truth is with so many games left,
they're still life seven picks this early in the season,
Genal's gonna have to have a much better performance in
the next game. In regards to their comparison between young
coaches and old I mean, listen, Pete Carroll is an
old school guy. You know, he wants to play traditional football,

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running that ball. Ben Johnson's out there with the number
one overall draft pick Caleb Williams, who at this point
is on pace to be one of the most successful
number one overall draft picks of all time, and that
through his first twenty one games he has twenty one
touchdowns and eight interceptions, which is the best of all
the quarterbacks who have been drafted number one. So you know,

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this is the guy Ben Johnson's out here. They're throwing
the ball a little bit, but obviously trying to run
behind their running back. That's similar to Pete Carroll in
regards to the old school mentality. But but yeah, the
biggest thing here, the biggest difference between these guys is
the quarterback that they have at jail seven picks is

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not good for my man, Pete.

Speaker 1 (07:01):
Carroll, no question about it. George.

Speaker 4 (07:05):
Yeah, I don't have too much more to add.

Speaker 5 (07:07):
I mean, I'm not a big a big guy on
age versus youth, but they do have a would you say,
Scott twenty two to fifteen advantage? Now, the young coaches
when they meet up with the elder ones.

Speaker 4 (07:20):
Those are both both good guys.

Speaker 5 (07:23):
Of course, Johnson is brand new as a head coach
in the NFL, and he does have a good, very
good quarterback there.

Speaker 4 (07:30):
I don't know Gino Smith.

Speaker 5 (07:32):
You know, they fall they fall off, these veteran quarterbacks.
You know, they cannot maintain consistency a lot. And he's
got to cut down on the intercept. It's no question
about it.

Speaker 4 (07:42):
He can.

Speaker 5 (07:43):
They cannot continue with that. The Raiders. You know, it's
just been a it's been a sad, sad situation out
there for years and years, whether they're in Oakland or
in Las Vegas. But all this to say, Carol's a
good coach, but they got to turn this thing around.

Speaker 4 (07:58):
And I agree with you, Marvin.

Speaker 5 (08:00):
If Geno's not the man, you gotta start looking on
that depth chart and you got to start thinking about
a change.

Speaker 4 (08:05):
That's all I got to say.

Speaker 2 (08:06):
Yeah, yeah, Jacob, Yeah, it's just about time. Better go
get you better trade for Kirk Cousins, even if you're
dealing with that contract seriously, because I mean by itself,
I mean, I will say this, he is not a
super Bowl quarterback. But you can't have especially with Jant
running like that. You can't blow the game with three

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interceptions like that, and they really did. They really should
have won that game. Good for the Bears, and yes,
JJ I am a Bears fan as much as it
drives me crazy. Sometimes they had good for the Bears
two in a row. I don't see that often, so
it's that they in truth. In truth, they don't ever
have these games. Like the last game I saw that

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was then gone completely wrong and then came back at
the end was twenty nineteen in Denver. That was the
last one I ever saw and that's been six years,
so that doesn't ever go their way. So I am
it's obvious Ben Johnson was the right choice. I love
the guy I already have even with the first two losses.
But overall overall, they're gonna have to make the right

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decision on this whatsoever. They're gonna have to just trade.
Don't get another guy put in there, because truthfully, with
that run game, they could get very very dangerous with
the way they have the run game going. And if
they don't get it, and if they do the wrong
thing whatsoever, these they're gonna lose certain players, and I
can imagine Max Crosby being one of them. They can

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lose certain players. That's gonna just hurt their future for
the longest time.

Speaker 1 (09:41):
I can't he.

Speaker 3 (09:43):
If you had told me at the beginning of this
game that there would be four turnovers by the Raiders,
that the quarterback ratings for both these quarterbacks for the
end of the game were seventy three point three and
seventy three, that the Raiders would only lose by one.

(10:05):
I would have been like, are you kidding me? You
had four turnovers and you only lose by one? Like
it took the Bears that last drive and they scored
with what a minute something left to win that game? Yeap,
that tells me that the difference there was Pete Carroll

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that he granted they didn't win the game, but they
overcame a lot of those turnovers to keep it close
like that. That takes a lot.

Speaker 4 (10:34):
I mean.

Speaker 3 (10:36):
Now, yes, they have Ashton genty one hundred and thirty
eight yards compared to Swift's thirty eight yards for the Bears.
You know, these are these two teams are not that great.
And I know some of you are real high on Chicago, but.

Speaker 2 (10:53):
Who says I'm high on Chicago. I would just tell
you I was.

Speaker 3 (10:55):
Glad to win to Row I know, I know, but
you know it was a total The Bears had two
hundred and seventy one total yards for the game. We've
we've listened to Scott. We were talking to somebody and
who was it. There was a team that had four
hundred and fifty yards in the first half. Like this
is just you know, but kudos to the Bears were

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pulling it out and winning it.

Speaker 1 (11:22):
Yeah, kudos. The one thing I'll say about the Bears
in their history, they still have never had a four
thousand years pastor and well rich.

Speaker 9 (11:30):
That well this year?

Speaker 2 (11:31):
Are you sure of that? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (11:34):
Yeah, but they still have it up to this point.
I'm talking President Kanas tell you.

Speaker 2 (11:42):
The only four thousand it's going to be is the
amount of colors that he has for his fingernails.

Speaker 1 (11:46):
Yeah, maybe that might be true, He's true. Hey, that's
not what we're talking. I don't you know, Hey, Jacob.
The bottom line is they still haven't had it yet.
I get it. But the alle is the situation Gino
Smith is over the hill and through the woods to
grandmother's house we go. And that's as much of the
thing as you're going to get until I see otherwise. Yes,

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Kirk Cousins might be the answer, but then again, with
some of the quarterback goes around here. The Falcons might
as well keep them. Get whatever they can get for
him now, because as the quarterbacks drop, you never know
if his value goes up. A lot of more topics
to get to. We're gonna go down Nyhorn territory. We're
going to talk religion. I never talk religion, but I

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will now now that I got everybody's attention. The Chicago
Whiteside honor Pope Leo. Yes, we have a pope sighting
everybody by marketing seat from the World Series to be attended,
and that he attended in two thousand and five near
section one point forty that rate field, Robert Pravas sat

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in road nineteen, seat two, unlike Bob Buker way up there.
If you want to see the pope seat, go over
the right field and do that because we have a
Pope Leo Robert Forcing next to the Chicago White Sox.
All right, JJ, Well what do you think about the
Pope at rate field? And you're on mute. Until you

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get off of mute, I will get a no comment.
So you want to comment about the Pope having your
place over at right field.

Speaker 8 (13:18):
Look, I'm not too familiar, you know with the White Sox.
The whole history.

Speaker 7 (13:22):
What I'm aware of is that, you know, they've been
pretty terrible the last few seasons. All the fans in
Chicago go to the Cubs games, and you know, it's
it's hard to watch them because they're always below five hundred,
and they've been the most dysfunctional franchise in baseball the
last ten years. So in terms of the Pope in

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right field, I wasn't too aware of that. I did
see that they had a few staff changes today, a
new pitching coach, a new hitting coach, and a new
catching coach, which we're all made today, which is you know,
at least they're getting some change done in the organization.
But I don't have too much much on the pope,
too much information.

Speaker 1 (14:02):
Well, don't worry. I understand the nature of your age
here that this happened in what was the two thousand
and five. I'm dealing with a guy who probably wasn't
even born then, but he asked just to give you
some information. That's okay. I told you on Saturday night
that I was going to throw some different stuff out there.
I get it. But the reality is, as they are
honoring them, Okay, the word honor, what they see in

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that particular area that he attended the World series. But
that's okay. It's good that you gave us a White
Sox update because nobody would even want to do it.
But the fact that you're sharp enough to follow it
works for me. Okay, Marvin, Yeah, I mean the Pope
is he's the most famous person in the world, I
would think so, you know, and he has followers in Chicago,

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has a lot of Catholics, and I would think that
if you could get near the seat or sit in
the seat that he was in now would be special.
You know, we live in a society where celebrity matters.
I think you'd have the same reaction of Taylor Swift's
thatt in that seat.

Speaker 2 (15:03):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (15:03):
So you know, I'm sorry gesture by the socks. Okay,
they have a lot more to do, all right, George,
I'm sure you'll have more on this than anybody else
because I know that you you definitely are an individual
who does the right thing on Sunday, right georgh.

Speaker 5 (15:23):
Yes, right, thank you Scott for those the kind words.
I really, I really really think that it's a great
thing not only for the Pope, but a great thing
for the White Sox as well, because he's the first
American born pope in history and he's a baseball fanatic.

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He loves baseball, and so what the White Sox did
was tremendous and what an honor that they did. You
bet there be a fight over those seats, or get
your picture taken next to the seed, that kind of stuff.
And you know, they presented him a bat to saw
one photo of him getting a bat, and then.

Speaker 4 (16:02):
Also they flew in some pizza from Chicago.

Speaker 5 (16:05):
So all that to say, the White Sox don't have
too much to cheer about these days. But I'm sure
that it would be great if he does make a
pilgrimage to the United States, and Chicago definitely has to
be on his short list of cities to visit because
they would turn out in mass they would have.

Speaker 4 (16:25):
A huge crowd. So it's all cool, it's good stuff, Scott,
I like it.

Speaker 1 (16:30):
Yeah. I figured you would be a point where I
put a topic in here that you can relate to
that doesn't mention Detroit. And this one definitely hit the bell.
All right, Jacob, this one's in your city, so okay.

Speaker 2 (16:44):
No, I mean, of course they would have to show
up in Mass Georgia is every Sunday. That's his job.
They got to get all those people in Mass. No,
but let me let me tell you this. Let me
tell you this. Though it's rate field only because he
hasn't been there lately, it would be guaranteed rate field
if he showed up again. So that's just the whole thing.

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But really, by itself, I'll say this about the White Sox,
I know who they've switched up everything.

Speaker 1 (17:13):
I like Will.

Speaker 2 (17:14):
I like what Will Vin about what he's done. I
like what he's done with the team they gained. I
think like twenty game wins this year. I mean, you
can and you gotta give that credit. You know, they
had about the same team as last year, so they're
playing harder. So good for them on this. But really,
by it, really, by itself, you gotta realize, there's three

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hundred and thirty three million people in the United States.
Fifty three million are Catholic, So you know, dark goodwill,
someone's gonna go find that seat and they're gonna put
all their beads there. They're gonna put everything, any kind
of oil, They're gonna have all that stuff. Feel blessed.
There's gonna be so many people going to that, and yes,
it will catch it will catch some interest.

Speaker 1 (17:57):
Candy in a Game.

Speaker 3 (18:00):
One of the two thousand and five World Series, which
the White Sox won, ending an eighty eight year drought.
He is a noted White Sox fan. He was voted.
He was elected back in May of twenty twenty five.
He made a public Vatican appearance in June twenty twenty five,
wearing a White Socks baseball cap. He also the team

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has honored him by creating a mural near his seat,
and then they also did in June twenty twenty five,
a celebration and mass were held at the White Sox
Bullpark to honor the new pope. The Pope sent a
video message during the event, speaking to young people and
emphasizing hope and faith.

Speaker 1 (18:47):
There you have it or crack statistician, Candy. I'm just
planning to They're doing something. They went there for the
World Chair. If you can honor them, more power to them.
We have a broadcasting note that I should talk about.
It's just in time for the NBA. Terry Gannon joins
it NBC Sports NBA coverage as I play by play voice.
I will have it, but do you know anything about
this one, JJ, I don't know. No, It's okay. You'll

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get to know when you start watching the NBA. There's
the one thing about the Wednesday sports exchanges will definitely
be some more NBA topics. But I have some things
that you recognize, but other people can probably talk about them.
No big deal, JJ, Believe me, I have a lot
of content built in here with your name on it. Nob.
All right, Marvern, what are your talks about Terry Gannon
joining NBC covered to the NBA? Uh?

Speaker 3 (19:34):
Not not.

Speaker 6 (19:35):
I can't say I know a lot about Terry to
be honest with you, It's okay.

Speaker 9 (19:40):
Yeah, I hope. I hope is good commentary.

Speaker 1 (19:43):
Yeah, no problem, all right?

Speaker 5 (19:45):
George Terry Gannon. Yeah, he's a very knowledgeable sports caster.
He's been around for quite a number of years.

Speaker 1 (19:53):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (19:54):
He's he does the figure skating at the Olympics all
the time, does a great job with that.

Speaker 4 (19:59):
He was at the Ryder Cup.

Speaker 5 (20:01):
He did play by play along with Dan Hicks this
past weekend for the Ryder Cup. And also he's done
a lot of different things like football and basketball.

Speaker 4 (20:11):
I think it's a good move. He's a veteran.

Speaker 5 (20:14):
I'm not so sure how deepest knowledges of the NBA,
but I'm sure he's gonna hone up on it, really
really in a deeper level. But yeah, he is one
of those guys that's not like al Michaels. He's not
Jim Nantz. He's not Mike Trico at that level yet.
But he's the next next level down if you want

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to say that he's a good guy, though he doesn't.
He doesn't octabat, he's not controversial. I think they'll like him.

Speaker 2 (20:43):
Jacob Well, Terry gannon Is, he's golf. He's a golf guy.
I mean we said Ryder Cup. He's done a few more,
He's done a bunch of others. In truth, this is
this era even though we don't know him the way
we knew if past summer all a, you know Scully,
all of those guys, we don't know him the same.
This is this Aras version because we have so many

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specialists now in the announcing booth. You know, they do
only do basketball, they only do football, they only do
this that it's like he's kind of that guy who's
done everything, like those guys I just mentioned. So here's
the thing I'm not gonna turn my back on him
or I'm not gonna say.

Speaker 1 (21:21):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (21:22):
We'll get to see because I can talk about everything.
It's like, that's just the thing. It's like I have
I study everything to talk about everything. He can study
everything to be able to talk about it. So I mean,
I just see how good he does.

Speaker 3 (21:36):
Candy, So he's gonna share share play share NBA play
by play duties with Mike Cherico and Noah Eagle. Yes
he has, and it began it's eleven year media right
still with the NBA October of twenty twenty five. He's
a versatile broadcaster known for his working golf and Olympic

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coverage since joining NBC Sports in two Also, he has
a background in basketball, as he was a player on
the nineteen eighty three North Carolina state championship team and
has previously called Big Ten men's basketball for the network.

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So he has a basketball background because he played it,
so he should be able to call it and do
play by play absolutely.

Speaker 1 (22:27):
And by the way, JAYJ, I know you can fit
in with this one. Noah Eagle went to Syracuse University.
That tells me, I know you got your head on straight.
So if you know anything about Syracuse University because you're
going out there and planning going there. Noah Eagle there.
And let me tell you, this guy is somebody I

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knew about the North Carolina connection, so I knew about
the name. I didn't know about him as much as
everybody else has. But NBA is really on. NBC is
going to be a really good watch. I think bringing
in some big, big names and Terry is just another
example of what they're trying to do to be committed
to that sport. All right, So let me ask you

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a question, JJ. Do you know much about Inner Miami
and soccer?

Speaker 8 (23:13):
No, I can't say I do.

Speaker 1 (23:16):
Well, I'll tell you if you learn about it. I
might have connections down there, but I'll tell you what.
Here's what we're going to put out there. Inner Miami's
one billion stadium will debut in twenty twenty six. Freedom
Park Stadium there scheduled to open for the twenty twenty
six MLS season. And let's say, never know if you
learn a little bit about soccer. Although I know you
have her set I said on other things, talk to me.

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We'll see if I can get your credential there. I
don't care if you have Lionel Messy or not. I'm
sure they're definitely looking for good coverage at Inner Miami.
What are your thoughts about the fact that they are
building a new soccer stadium in Miami, know that they
could attract some good type of events over there. JJ.

Speaker 7 (23:56):
Yeah, So the majority of the population in South Florda
is in the city of Miami, and right now the
stadium is located in the northern Fort Lauderdale area, which
means that most of the population has to drive up,
you know, forty forty five minutes north, and that's not
ideal for most fans. Therefore, I think it's a very

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good idea that they're building a stadium right in the
heart of Miami because it's more accessible for fans to
be able to go. And you know, the atmosphere was
wild in north Fort Lauderdale, but just imagine what it's
gonna be in the heart of Miami. You're gonna get
all the die hard fans there. However, you know, I

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also think it's good for some of those fans who
live in Fort Lauderdale because it isn't that far south
to so if you are a die hard, you can
still make a trip. It's not like they're moving to
a completely different city like the Chargers did from San
Diego to Los Angeles. This is just a minor, thirty
five minute switch. So I think it's a great decision

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by the organization because you're gonna have a bigger and
better fan base. Now your actual team can represent the
city you play in because Inner Miami is now gonna
be in Miami.

Speaker 1 (25:12):
Great point, j Okay, Mervin genius.

Speaker 6 (25:17):
I think it's really smart. You know, Miami, South Florida,
you know, Latin capital of the world. People love soccer.
I think JJ hit it right on the head. I
think you're gonna have big turnout, big fan base, outstanding
business move. I'm not myself, not a big soccer guy,
but I lived in South Florida for fifteen years and

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I know.

Speaker 9 (25:41):
That there are people.

Speaker 6 (25:42):
I was there for two World Cups in the time
of two World Cups that were held elsewhere. But I
saw how the city came together when it was World Cup.
And I'll tell you what, man, those fans out there
are going to be extatic and that stadium is gonna
be rocking.

Speaker 4 (25:58):
Well.

Speaker 1 (25:59):
I mean, I've been knowing a few matches over at
the stadium that was We're a lot our TAM's a
nice place for in eighteen thousand stadium, but they sell
Florida soccer. Seen goes back to the Fort Lauderndille Strikers,
and I'm old enough to have covered that team back
when I moved here in the early eighties. George Eichorn.

Speaker 5 (26:18):
Yes, I think it's a positive move too for the
city of Miami. Soccer is extremely important in a lot
of the Southern States due to the large population of
you know, the South Americans and the Central Americans especially.

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They really really really love that sport. And anytime you
could put the wherewithal together to have a stadium that's
uniquely built for a sport such as soccer, it's a
definite plus. It's a difficult, more harder to sell in
a big stadium, But boy or boy, when they get
in that sweet spot between twenty and three thousand, they

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build these stadiums, that's.

Speaker 4 (27:03):
That's that's awesome I think for soccer. So good move,
Good move, Candy.

Speaker 3 (27:10):
So it's gonna be a multi use development. Let's face it,
it's twenty five thousand seat stadium scheduled the open spring
of twenty twenty six. It's a one hundred and thirty
one acre project that includes extensive public parkland, retail, restaurants, hotels, offices,
tech spaces, and it's entirely let me repeat that, it's

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entirely privately funded. No public funds were used to build this.
And it's gonna be a stadium that has a canopy roof,
it's a two tier seating bowl. It's gonna have over
five hundred thousand square feet of retail, restaurants and entertainment venues.

(27:55):
So it's not just gonna be for Miami. It's gonna
be for people to come from all over to come
stay at the hotels, you know, you spend their money. There.
Kudos to Inner Miami for a for it to be
privately funded, because we've heard so many people have so
many problems when somebody, uh, you know, doesn't want to

(28:16):
fund this or they don't want to be involved with that,
and they so kudos that are doing it privately funded.
And I think it's going to be close to the airport,
so it's not far. There are worse very there's a
lot of worse areas of Miami you could put it in.
So I think it's going to be really good for

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Miami and for inner Miami.

Speaker 2 (28:41):
Well, it's a brilliant idea brilliant because here's one thing
that people don't realize. And you guys all brought up
the stats. Just now, think of this in a few
years now, not now for obvious reasons, but when new
climates change, when climates whatever change, all that kind of
stuff will wherever and whoever might be. Who's about ninety

(29:02):
miles away from Miami. You got it, you got it.
Imagine that friendly Imagine that friendly match. That's the thing
about and the craziness because Cubans would be coming here too.
Cubans to the United States and United States is the thing.

(29:23):
Just imagine that. I'm just saying this based off of
the thank you very much for catching that one. Just
there's little thing like this whatsoever. It's in Miami. I mean,
you got I mean, we're not even gonna have the
South American thing. It's like all the other South America
countries are so far away. This one is just nothing
as far as distance. The main thing about it is

(29:44):
just political climate. So there's something you could really play
on if that ever changes, whichever way it goes.

Speaker 1 (29:54):
Yeah, well, let me tell you this number one. A
lot of people thought the Miami Marlins were an ideal
fit for Miami as well. The problem is of parking.
They're limited to garages. I think it's a lot more
space to park over at Freedom Park as well. I
don't think how that problem they fall in. The Latin
community has done well, especially when you look at the world,
may fall fastic about what they've done. So I think

(30:17):
there's no question inner Miami. I see what they've done
in Fort Lauderdale. I don't know. I mean, and you
have David Beckham behind the whole thing as well, and
they spend money to put a good product on there.
So I don't think there'll be any problem with Inn
Miami being able to get across twenty five thousand put
the amount of money that Internet Miami does put it
there as well. All right, Well, what that said, let's

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something The Big Ten announces that Michigan and USC will
kick off at seven thirty pm Eastern Time on October eleventh. Well,
Marvin will start off with you. We've seen some interesting
times at USC in the last few weeks. This one
appears to be a little bit more normal than most.

Speaker 4 (30:57):
Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 6 (30:57):
We Uh, we had eleven kickoff, We had a kickoff
that had a three and a half hour delay. We
had a kickoff that was at nine am Pacific.

Speaker 3 (31:08):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (31:08):
So this is you know, a little bit normal hopefully,
you know. And it's and it's gonna be in Los
Angeles so our guys don't have to travel. And I'll
tell you what. This is a big game for USC,
a big game for Lincoln Raleigh. We have a bye
this week. We're coming off a horrible loss. Uh. Michigan

(31:28):
has a young dynamics stud quarterback behind a big offensive
line and two big running backs and Shamar Moorri's back
from his suspension now, so they have a big one
this week against Wisconsin. But but yeah, I'm happy to
have a normal kickoff time, somewhat normal, and give our chance,
give our guys a chance to have their bodies be

(31:51):
normal and set and adjusted probably so we can go
out there and kick that Wolverine butt.

Speaker 1 (32:00):
Marvin, you and I agree on just about everything, but
I have a Philly we I agree on this one.
But that's okay. I understand it, I appreciate it. I
know you represent that dollard real well, that's Okay, it'll
be interesting to watch the best part about it is
I get to watch it without having to record this.
Candy and I have a weekend free of no football

(32:21):
that we have to go anywhere. That'll be good enough.
With no Miami, no FAU. We have a weekend off,
all right, JJ, what are your thoughts about the USC
Michigan game being at a time where we can actually
watch it it's home that weekend. I don't think they are.

Speaker 8 (32:36):
Yeah, Marvin said it perfectly.

Speaker 7 (32:38):
If you will be hosting UA B that weekend, I'm
pretty sure about that one. But yeah, I think Marvin
she said it all. You know the kickoffs with the
Big Ten. Now, when you have to travel to a
three hour different time zone with the new Big Ten,
it definitely can't affect some of these kids and the
time that they have to wake up and practice in

(33:00):
the morning and go through walk through. So that's definitely different,
and it's definitely great that they actually can start at
a normal time. As for the game itself, this is
a very pivotal game for both teams. Both teams already
have a loss on their season already, and for USC,
I think you could argue it's more important for them

(33:21):
because Lincoln Riley there are a lot of questions on
him heading into the season. So far this season, you know,
the loss to Illinois wasn't the best, although they kept
it close. And you know, they have the number one
recruiting class in the country, so they got to keep
winning these games to keep that class to make sure

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they sign. And then as for the team itself, Jaden Mayalva,
you know, if they if they start winning games, maybe
you could keep him for a senior year where he
won't go to the draft and want to come back,
so we could win a college national championship. So it's
very important for those reasons. And you know, USC they
haven't really lived up to expectations the last couple of

(34:02):
years under Lincoln Riley. After you know, Caleb Williams first year,
it hasn't been that good for them. The Miller Moss year,
last year, the year two years ago you got where
they went eight and five. As for Michigan, Marvin said
it perfectly. Bryce Underwood, young quarterback, he has struggled though
throughout the season. He hasn't been perfect like his recruiting rankings,

(34:25):
says as him being a five star, number one in
the country. But we know what Michigan's gonna do. They're
gonna lean on the run game. Justice Haynes is one
of the best running backs in the country, and when
he gets outside on the perimeter, you really can't stop him.
There's a lot of speed and it's really hard to
tackle him. So they're gonna want to go to him.
That's gonna be their game plan, and it's gonna be

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up to us. He's front seven to stop the run.
As for the receivers, you know, Michigan hasn't been all
that good in the receiver game, so Mas Morgan has
a few drops on the year already, which has been problematic.
Look for Bryce Underwood to use his cool threat ability,
get outside the pocket, maybe use his legs if no
one's getting open. But overall, it's going to be a

(35:06):
really interesting matchup and it's great to see it start
out in normal time.

Speaker 1 (35:10):
For you, Hey, George, can I ask you a question?
Do you know this much?

Speaker 9 (35:19):
How do you follow that?

Speaker 5 (35:21):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (35:21):
I can't. I can't take that. Thank JJ, you're really
on top of this situation. I can.

Speaker 5 (35:27):
I applaud you, congratulate you as far as you mister Paul.

Speaker 4 (35:32):
You know what you were getting into when you joined
the Big ten.

Speaker 5 (35:35):
Okay, so don't give me any song and dance about
eleven o'clock starts. Well, how do you think how do
you think our Michigan State fans felt waiting till eleven
pm to start that game out last Saturday or the
night before, the day of the week before. Now now
they're in prime time seven thirty. That's good. It's four
to thirty your time. You guys will be I'll be

(35:55):
ready to roll.

Speaker 4 (35:57):
I I mean, you.

Speaker 5 (35:59):
Know this was Oregon and all these teams U, C,
l A and the USC you know, you know this
is what the consequences what are gonna be. And that's unfortunate,
I understand. But you still got a good team, Marvin,
and it'll be.

Speaker 4 (36:14):
A hell of a game. It really will be.

Speaker 5 (36:16):
So we'll be watching it and intently, and uh, I
really think that you are.

Speaker 4 (36:23):
You guys are going to bounce back. I just hope
it's not against Michigan.

Speaker 1 (36:29):
Nice handy.

Speaker 3 (36:31):
Scott. Just just so you're aware, Yes, Florida Atlantic is
home on that Saturday. They are playing at six o'clock
against UAB just so you're aware. But okay, uh, as
far as Michigan USC, Well, let's hope. I can only
hope that Michigan would be upset with losing to Wisconsin

(36:56):
this weekend to make the matchup even more going out
to USC. Now, do I think that's really gonna happen? No,
but I can dream, right, Oh yeah.

Speaker 2 (37:07):
Yeah, I'm a little fickle on that thought.

Speaker 3 (37:11):
Oh I'm a whole lot yeah over there.

Speaker 1 (37:14):
Yeah, that's right. I have the Green Bay Packers Detroy
Lyons version of it on Saturday with Candy. It'll be
interesting on this place, So that'll be all right. But
that's okay, go ahead, Jacob.

Speaker 2 (37:25):
Oh, you know something when I when the US season,
when the US season, all of them from that to
the time went to the went to the Big Ten,
I worried about the Big Ten because they really don't
have any enormous I mean, I'm just say high flying
offenses like these pack pack twelves or pack fifteen or

(37:45):
twenty five or whatever amount of number they had to
have points. It's like it's like they didn't have that
high flying offense. But I also miss something what I
saw from the Illinois USC game. Illinois beat the top
are out of them physically. They did and it's like,
and then I saw and I'm just saying, it's like

(38:07):
just seeing even though I'm just saying this is just
an all big ten idea beyond g Iowa and Indiana
was a trends physical batch up, I'm just saying that
with that, Indiana barely survived it. And it's like, and
these are and these are the kind of teams, These
are the kind of teams USC has to face. I
have to remember that part when I was worried about

(38:29):
the high flying stuff. They're not used to that kind
of beating. These the UCLA's the USC. They're not used
to that kind of beating. It's like they've had one
side overall and Michigan is going to give it to
them again. Now here's the thing. Does that mean USC
won't win? I mean, I'm not going to say that
either they're a good team. There's definitely not Miller Moss

(38:51):
out there. But see, but the biggest situation, yeah, and
I agree with you JJ No, No, the biggest situation
you have by this whatsoever, is USC finally has to
learn to kind of toughen up because if they can't
beat Illinois, and Illinois is a good team. Now, but

(39:11):
they can't in Michigan's another level. If they can't be
they might have a long day.

Speaker 1 (39:16):
Well, the only thing I say about this is I'm
going to go back to a George set a little bit,
and that says they signed up to come into Big ten.
It's one thing with the travel, but remember when they
played in the Rose Bowl, they were playing on a
neutral surf. In many of those games when in southern
California and UCLA and USC had prohibitive home field advantages.
Any team on the West Coast had their West Coast
over there. This is a different animal. You come east,

(39:39):
you play in snow and you play in bad weather.
You go west, you're not playing the road will you're
playing in their place with the pack houses. So there's
a lot of different variables. At George, you were kind
of working around it. Now I'm behind you on this one.
You know the USC and Michigan play. It's this is
a regular season conference game. There's a lot more when

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you're playing a conference game against a good conference. Okay,
let alone the one that there was a high flying
affair over at the Pac twelve. That was a different animal.
So you're right in the ballpark. I Corn just wanted
to try to ditch you over the top on this
one to realize that regular season versus a Bowl game
is a totally different animal. With that said, let's stay

(40:24):
on the Wolverine for a moment. No Wolverine game last say,
no problem. As Zach bryan made history of drawing over
one hundred twelve thousand fans to Michigan Stadium aka the
Big Housing Inarmor for the largest ticketing concert and US
histories are passing the previous record of one hundred and
seven thousand and nineteen set by The Grateful Dead in

(40:47):
nineteen seventy seven, and no relation to Puba Robber. Okay,
the Grateful Dead, you can't put him in the same category,
So Pubert Robber, you're the ungrateful Dead. So if that said, George, okay,
one big crowd.

Speaker 4 (41:04):
Oh gosh, oh you're not kidding Scott.

Speaker 1 (41:07):
We talked about this once, that this was going to
actually take place in the Big House. I wanted to
follow up with it here tonight and be able to
put an attendance mark by it. Zach Bryant was a
big success for the Wolverines financially as well as a
Great Nights entertainment for those that went there, all one
hundred twelve thousand of go ahead, George.

Speaker 5 (41:27):
Well, yeah, and it was a very well managed event
as well too. Thank goodness, we didn't have any big
incidents happening. And I know I'm not going to get
into that, but the crowd management was spectacular. It was
over the top.

Speaker 9 (41:42):
What I heard.

Speaker 5 (41:42):
I did not go to the concerts. And again, let's
not forget that the Big House hosted the New Year's
Day game against Toronto and Detroit. Way back in the day.
There used to big crowds. There, used to big crowds,
but they're not used to the sock. I'm sorry this
concert crowd the country music lovers. But it turned out great,
it really did. And I say to myself, you waited

(42:05):
how many years I have a big concert like this?

Speaker 4 (42:09):
But that's okay, it finally happened.

Speaker 5 (42:11):
And kudos to Michigan and the security and everybody in
the you know, in that area of making this a
great event.

Speaker 1 (42:20):
Marvin.

Speaker 6 (42:21):
Yeah, in this day and age, no, you're we thank
god that you can have that many people out and
it's just about having a good time and there's no drama,
I believe. I also heard read that they did like
five million dollars in merch in the stadium at the concert. Yeah,
I thin did five million dollars in merch, which I mean,
that's insane when you think about that.

Speaker 9 (42:43):
But hey, but they had a great event and they
made a lot of money.

Speaker 1 (42:50):
All right, what are your talk, JJ, that's a lot
of people. How many games would it take for YU
to come up with one hundred and twelve thousand?

Speaker 7 (42:58):
I would ask the meet at twelve thousand games, so
ten fau games one hundred and yeah, twelve thousand hundred. Yeah,
so one hundred percent agree with both Marvin and George there,
And as someone who witnesses this in firsthand, and as
someone who's still in school right now. You know, when

(43:18):
my friends they listen to one or two people, Zach
Bryan or Morgan Wall and country music is really the.

Speaker 8 (43:24):
Main thing now.

Speaker 7 (43:26):
You know, three four years ago everyone listened to Wrap Drake,
you know, Kendrick, But now everyone's starting to listen to
country music. So I'm not surprised. And you know, Zach
Bryant's had a few good hits. So the Big House
obviously has the name for the reason it can fill
up a lot of stands and as we could see
the country music Zach Bryan really was able to do

(43:48):
that last Saturday on the Bot Candy.

Speaker 3 (43:52):
You know, if you look back at history of the
Michigan Stadium, the actual highest attendance was the Michigan versus
Notre Dame football game on September seventh of twenty thirteen,
where there was one hundred and fifteen thousand, one hundred
and five, one hundred and nine fans. So that's the

(44:13):
highest on campus attendance for a college football game in
NC two A history. So obviously they're used to big crowds.
They have a big stadium. The one thing I would
challenge the NFL. You go overseas to all these other stadiums,
all these other places, how about playing a couple of them
in these college stadiums, especially like Michigan Stadium. I would

(44:37):
think it would be kind of cool to see the
Lions play outdoors home game Michigan Stadium.

Speaker 1 (44:44):
That would be interesting. Hey, once upon a time Tiger Stadium,
but nothing like that at the Big House. Pointy. I
like that creativity there you go, just catching on really good.

Speaker 2 (44:55):
Jacob one hundred fifteen, one hundred and nine in Michigan, right,
you guess there day, but it wasn't in notre day
because one hundred thousand wuld be priests wouldn't have enough room.
But the but really by itself, you're right about that, JJ.
The country used to kind of getting big, and these
crowds are getting bigger, I mean going down. I'll just
say this, George and Scott. Remember WrestleMania three and the

(45:18):
Silver Dome. Some say eighty thousand, some say ninety three.
But either way, that giant of a crowd. Either way
it be either way it's being a concert and the
pope and like you know, within a lot of two
weeks stretch. So it did that. But that was enormous crowd.
And now we hear these one hundred thousand person crowds

(45:39):
all the time, which in truth I love seeing it.
But in truth, I really believed it was after COVID
and people are just like, no, we're not sitting in anymore.
I truly believe that we're not sitting here anymore. It's
like we're not because it's like it's one of those
where I think people too, I think people took their freedom,

(46:02):
not necessarily freedom for by politically, but freedom for like
just being out of their house.

Speaker 4 (46:06):
Sat.

Speaker 2 (46:06):
I think I took it for granted big time, and
it took two years to get out of it.

Speaker 1 (46:09):
Sometimes.

Speaker 2 (46:10):
So people are just gonna be going like crazy with
these you know what I'm saying with going to these
big states, going to these big things. And there's more
and more of these big stadius are going to get
built now over the years, so we're gonna see these
records fall.

Speaker 1 (46:23):
Yeah, college campuses, they're building stadiums right and left. I agree.
I was just planned to stay Michigan put on a show,
and they definitely maximize the opportunity of Zach Bryant. We
had brought it up on this network before. This is
just a good opportunity to do and update. Well you
know what. But that said, we're gonna go to our
first non sports topic of the night. Everybody's waiting for this.

(46:44):
I know Mar.

Speaker 4 (46:46):
To come up with.

Speaker 1 (46:47):
He got broken in the hard way with Charlie Kirk
last week. I gave him something that no rookie would
have survived except down on this show. And Marts survived good.
This one not so bad. The other's two of them
will start with this one. Spirit Airlines filed bankruptcy for
the second time in two years, says it will now
trink its fleet network and a bid to cut costs

(47:09):
by hundreds at millions of shares and have plunged more
than seventy percent in the past month. Has lost us
filed up. I remember that Spirit Airlines is a popular
air line. I used to fly from Fort Laurel to Detroit.
Delton obviously has taken over. So that said Jacob with
her talks about Spirit Airlines showing anything but Spirit.

Speaker 2 (47:33):
Remember the show Wings. Remember the show Wings way back when. Yeah,
I think Sandpiper's going to buy the Spirit at this point.
It is ridiculous. No, the biggest thing about it is
it's not a shock because we've had you know, we've

(47:53):
had sports personalities that you know, just that around Facebook,
that around everything I talked about going on. You're in
and different areas, like their first air their first airplane
ride would be Spirit and everything, and they get made
fun of. Yeah, yeah, they get made fun of because
it's Spirit. And then it's you know, any of these
the low cost airlines, and it's like, if that's the reaction,

(48:17):
then yeah, we're gonna see a couple more we're gonna
see a chapter seven to one before you know, and
then that's it. Then liquidation comes unless someone besides the
buy it. I'm like, I don't know who wants that.
Maybe Gordon get go Okay, Candy.

Speaker 3 (48:35):
The carrier has been racing the slash cost and really
recently announced plans to cut forty routes. They furloughed about
one third of its flight attendants. The airline is in
talks with its pilots union and is seeking about one
hundred million dollars in cuts from that group alone. Last month,

(48:57):
Spirit said it was drawing down the entirety of it's
two hundred and seventy five million, and it's revolver like.
This is the second time in less than twelve months
that it's filing for bankruptcy. I get the airline, but
the airline businesses is cutthroat, and it's hard right now
because a lot of people don't have the extra income

(49:20):
to do a lot of flights. So a lot of
people aren't taking some of those flights, or they're driving
some of them because they just can't afford. So here's
an airline that charges you for the little things because
they the cheaper on the regular flights they do. I

(49:41):
think they are based out of I think down here
for Lauderdale, I think is one of their because I
know I've I've talked to some of the pilots before.
I've met some of the pilots for Spirit. It's just
sad because we all still like to go places. We
all still need airlines, we all still need competition because

(50:03):
you don't want there to be too few airlines out
there choices because that just drives, you know, the price up.
So but something's got to be done because I can't
keep bailing them out either.

Speaker 1 (50:19):
George.

Speaker 5 (50:20):
Yeah, And I wanted to add one of the things, Candy,
when you mentioned about the NFL the Detroit Lions to
have several exhibition games at UFM Stadium way back in
the day. I just wanted to make sure because I
know that, but they never had a regular season game.

Speaker 4 (50:35):
I just wanted to share that with you.

Speaker 3 (50:37):
Spirit.

Speaker 5 (50:38):
I'll tell you what, I have met more people, friends
and relatives alike, that do not speak well of Spirit
on their flights from as Scott mentioned, from Detroit to Florida.
I've only flown them one time. They nickel and dime
their all their extra costs. I don't even think you
get a bag of peanuts or whatever.

Speaker 1 (50:58):
Airline, George, they're the ones that get in the phoenix.

Speaker 5 (51:02):
Well, okay, one Spirit, Thank you. Spirit has a a
real problem with customer satisfaction.

Speaker 4 (51:13):
I'll just leave it at that.

Speaker 1 (51:15):
Marvin.

Speaker 6 (51:16):
Yeah, anybody who's ever flown Spirit, when they hear that headline,
they're like, I'm not shocked because, as everyone has said,
you know, you don't really understand what it is to
fly a budget airline until you fly Spirit and you
see how what a pain in the neck it is,
and just how the customer experience is just not like

(51:36):
a bigger carryer, let's say, like Delta. It's it's a
it's just a night and day experience, you know. And
if you're willing to fly with no luggage, no no
need for water, no need for no need for you know,
a seat belt, then you know, go ahead and Spirit.
But now it's listen, a lot of this is just

(51:58):
like a lot of companies, man going down.

Speaker 1 (52:00):
It's tough.

Speaker 6 (52:01):
Everybody ain't traveling, and you know there's hard time to
I hear for some of these people.

Speaker 2 (52:07):
Hey, Marvin, to tell you this, let me say this.
I heard a story about Tampa Bay years ago when
they were first in the league seventy six, they had
they took an airline called McCullough Airlines and the first
time they got on the plane, the pilot was dealing
with the wiring, and then and they was dealing with
the wiring and they were and it's like filling with it.

(52:29):
And then they had to take off before they hit
the water at the beach. And so that's how bad
the things was. That still sounds better than Spirit. It's
I mean, I don't think I don't think Hugh Cooper
House would even deal with us.

Speaker 9 (52:43):
Spirit that Spirit before Spirit Man.

Speaker 1 (52:48):
I'll to be honest with you, one of my least
favorite airlines in Frontier. I can't stand them. They talk
about a ripoff. Candy and I both on the leg
to pay up the wing wing with them, and I know,
real Southwest. I actually enjoyed them for a while. You know,
they at least they were on time. When I was
flying on peanuts or not, I never cared. I'll take
as many peanuts as they were willing to give me,

(53:09):
and out there grab as many and sweet talk to
the stewardess that have given me a bunch when I
was doing it on my own, I pused off my
pockets on that candy with me. I gave her a
future peanuts because she put up with the show and
against she always does. I don't know what airlines changings
flies me personally, I like to drive, but there's Alzeimer thinking,
put a cramp in my style getting behind the wheel

(53:29):
and we'll make it come back on the road. I
just don't know when, but at least I know like
co pilots are to fail me out, JANJ. Have you
phoned on many airlines yet? Yeah?

Speaker 8 (53:38):
I have phone on a few airlines.

Speaker 7 (53:41):
I haven't phone on Spirit yet, And now I'm pretty
fortunate that I have, just based on the reputation. Me
and my friends have a joke and there's like this
flight tracker that you have, and you have all these airlines,
American Airlines, Delta, United, every airline, and there's a thunderstorm
and they all fly around the thunderstorm, and then Spirit

(54:03):
flew right.

Speaker 8 (54:03):
Into the thunderstorm.

Speaker 7 (54:05):
And that's what I know about Spirit, which is that
you know it has a bad reputation, and obviously you
know the cut show that people don't want to fly
on that. But to me, you know, no matter the service,
a plane is a plane and if you can get
from one place to another, no matter you know, the luxury,

(54:25):
everything is the same as long as you land safely,
and that's all that matters to me.

Speaker 3 (54:31):
Over So, Scott, can I add to a couple little things?
So Spirits competitors are considered United Airlines, Frontier Airlines, Jet
Blue Airways, and Allegiant Airlines. Spirit has struggled for years
with an engine recall and a failed acquisition by Jet Blue.
And they are a Dania Beach, Florida based airline. Just

(54:55):
so everybody is.

Speaker 1 (54:56):
Aware, well yeah, that's why they fly a lot on
a for lover hill. That's why we were able to
take them for a while until their situations became what
they did and they become a bearable knowledge is by Delta.
But that said, I know, George, we don't use the
hel My town much anymore because we have so many
good topics. But I want to make Di Corsehill a
little bit at home when we come up with two
before we hit a station break. A total of two million,

(55:19):
four hundred and thirteen thousand, four hundred and forty two
total fans of k America Park in twenty twenty five
and most in twenty sixteen. And the Tigers have played
great baseball all year. Their series against the Guardians is
tied at one to one. How a team leaves fifteen
runners on base and their bullpen goes to the toilet
remains me saying. But don't blame it on the fans,

(55:39):
because they put a two million, four hundred thirteen thousand
and four to forty two. It's pretty good for Co America.
I've always regarded Detroit's one of the best sports sounds
in the country, Tigers fans and everybody in the Midwest
and the Detroit area. That number is backed up. What
are your thoughts about those numbers?

Speaker 5 (55:55):
George, Well, yeah, I mean, obviously, like you said, it's
the the biggest turnout gate turnout in years. I really
think though that, you know, the fact is is that
they're not hosting this first round and that's cost them
the team millions.

Speaker 4 (56:13):
But that's their own own fault.

Speaker 5 (56:15):
But the Fians here your rights got They're very loyal,
they're very supportive. They buy a lot of Tiger merchandise,
as you know, and I and you know, the ballpark
is friendly it's nice, it's friendly, it's clean, and owner
Chris Illage has made some improvements over the last four
or five years in that stadium, which is was soortainly needed.

Speaker 4 (56:36):
So yeah, no, I'm all for it.

Speaker 5 (56:38):
I'm glad they finally got above two point four that's wonderful.

Speaker 4 (56:41):
Two point four million. Yeah, good fans, loyal fans.

Speaker 9 (56:44):
You're right, Marvin.

Speaker 6 (56:47):
Yeah, it just reminds you that there are people in Detroit,
and as you said, Detroit is a real sports town.
It's a lot of people. I would have never thought that,
you know, they had those kind of numbers. I don't Finally,
no baseballys in one of my top sports and I
definitely don't follow. That's right, But that's impressive because especially
considering you know, I would I would think it's uh.

(57:07):
I would never thought that that those numbers were and
existence for Detroit.

Speaker 1 (57:12):
Okay JJ.

Speaker 7 (57:14):
Yeah, this year, the Tigers have had a great season overall,
and you know, no matter if they're winning or losing,
the finn seem.

Speaker 8 (57:22):
To show up well. So that's pretty good for them.

Speaker 7 (57:25):
And they're a real sports city, and the pitching this
year has been really good for them to reach Scuoble
has really turned it around and had that triple Crown campaign,
and I think he is the best pitcher in baseball
at least for this year. So it's great to see
a city in Detroit which has had a lot of

(57:45):
disappointment in sports now have the Lines who are Super
Bowl contenders and the Tigers who have really turned it around.

Speaker 3 (57:55):
Indeed, So the Tigers were hot early, which really I
think helped them with these attendance figures. They actually are
sixteenth in MLB for average attendance for this year, so
kind of almost middle of the pack really, but kudos

(58:16):
to them. Like they still have an outdoor stadium, so
that is like almost to strike against them because they're
not guaranteed a game because it could be they could
have rainouts and want you know that. But they got
hot early and that I think really helped smart in
the team and help their attendance figures. It's too bad

(58:38):
they've they fallen off near the end there that they
didn't have a weren't playing better at the end. Let's
hope that you know, they have one, they have a
one game playoff tomorrow that they can do it there
for you guys, Jacob.

Speaker 2 (58:54):
Well, I really really hope that Detroit does well and
they win. And I'm just being very honest on this
because between Trek Schouball and Paul Schemes, they're in the
areas that you normally wouldn't have gotten because you're always
thinking they'd go to the Yankees or Dodgers, right, and
and they're in They're in good areas, good base and
Detroit's good. Pittsburgh's horrible. But I mean, if Pittsburgh can

(59:18):
make changes, like you know, ownership, but they can do
something like that and get themselves back. But the biggest
thing about it is it's good to see this. It's
good to see these whatsoever and get to be able
to get themselves back. And maybe in the future they
can be able to because remember what was at six
when they went to the World Series.

Speaker 4 (59:38):
Twelve then twenty twelve to twenty twelve.

Speaker 2 (59:40):
Yeah, yeah, you know, it's one of those things that
it's really good to see those things once in a while.
Because joking aside, we wanted to say, oh, we want
to see another Dodgers and Yankees again. I kind of
joke online. But it's always nice to see something a
little different, you know, it's like even if the ratings
aren't going to go so well, I mean it probably won't.

Speaker 4 (59:59):
You know.

Speaker 2 (59:59):
It's so they probably won't just because a lot of
they're always looking for casuals. Casuals want the people that
they know. But it'd be really really nice to see, say,
Detroit and the Cubs put those right there.

Speaker 1 (01:00:15):
No, yeah, many one of that series back in nineteen
eighty four with the Padres put a debt and that
one will later that, all right, but yeah, it's good
to see two point four million in there for sure.
All Right, we'll go to one more Detroit topic. We'll
go to a station break after that for one that
Marvin's been waiting for anyways. I know he's waiting for
some big bomb to be dropped. There's biggest way to

(01:00:35):
deal with. Last week, the Lions were criticized for not
acknowledging podcaster Charlie Kark. The Lions, of course, there were
a bunch of other teams were, but they were singled
out to the data and Charlie. All right, Marvin, I.

Speaker 6 (01:00:49):
Don't see why an NFL organization has any duty to
acknowledge anything outside of their own organization.

Speaker 9 (01:01:00):
Was good for them.

Speaker 6 (01:01:01):
This is something again, I didn't know who this person
was until he was killed, you know, and rest in peace,
and the thoughts goes out to his family, because that's
really the first thing I thought.

Speaker 9 (01:01:11):
A guy was so young. I know he had a
young I mean, I saw you a young wife.

Speaker 6 (01:01:15):
But I just don't understand why they have a Why
it's an issue that an organization chooses not to now
if they wanted to. I mean, the team is probably owned.
They could do what they the owners could do what
they want to do. But I don't see it as
an issue, and it's not. Again, this is someone who
I understand now. His when he was alive, it was controversy.

(01:01:39):
So if you died in the midst of controversy, you
still have people on one side who loved you when
you were alive and and people who are on the
other side of that as well. Uh, that doesn't change
when you pass it away. Those people still exist and
they stay in those zones of liking you and not
liking me.

Speaker 9 (01:01:54):
So it wasn't like it was. He was universally loved.
He has nothing to do with the NFL.

Speaker 6 (01:02:02):
I don't know if Detroit is a big, you know,
super right wing town.

Speaker 9 (01:02:07):
I would say no, but I don't. I don't see
the big deal. To be honest with you.

Speaker 1 (01:02:14):
Well, I'll go back to what we talked about last
week when he broke to subject number one. Okay, I
didn't know who he was either until this unfortunate tragedy
took place. And I'll say it again, rest in peace
to the person. And I know that his wife has
to be a single parent, and we'll leave it at
that and best off for the children. But keep in mind,
the Lions were not ily see out, but there are

(01:02:36):
a bunch of other NFL teams that didn't either. There
was a lot that did, but there are a lot
that didn't, so they're not alone. But where I got
this information was that they were talking about about the Lions,
if I recall correctly, and maybe candyal researched it. I
think Say Steele made a big deal out of it,
is what I believe she did. That's right, I thought
I heard it. But anyway, but there are a bunch
of other teams that rebelled against it too. The Lions

(01:02:58):
were just one of the ones that were mentioned. Okay,
j J, what are your thoughts about this?

Speaker 7 (01:03:02):
Yeah, you want to answer, so I have no comment
on politics. I'm not going to discuss any of that.
I'm underage anyway, But this is a human life that
was taken away, and no matter if you agree or disagree,
he didn't deserve that. He didn't deserve to die. He
had a wife, he had two kids, and a human
being is worthful and shouldn't have you know, died based

(01:03:24):
on his beliefs. What he tried to do is speak
out and share his beliefs. And you know, he gave
an open mic to everyone. Anyone could go up to
the mic say what they thought, and he would debate them.
It's not like he, you know, didn't promote freedom of speech.

Speaker 8 (01:03:40):
He did. I'm I don't really.

Speaker 7 (01:03:42):
Know policies or politics, but you know, I saw a
lot of his content in his main base that he
targeted was my age. So I've been watching Charlie since
twenty nineteen, twenty eighteen on a weekly basis, so you know,
I've known him for a while just through content purposes.

Speaker 1 (01:04:00):
Yeah, and you know what, JJ, we don't go that
far with this either. I'm I'm bringing it up in
a sports reference that the Lions were singled out. Otherwise
this topic doesn't really get talked about a whole lot. Again,
keep in mind JJ here on a sports show, but
yours truly here. Every once in a while, we'll throw
a curveball appropriate for this time of the year, right,
you know, course ball. Okay, we'll leave it at that, Katie.

Speaker 4 (01:04:22):
So.

Speaker 3 (01:04:25):
After a Thursday night football showdown between the Washington Commanders
and the Green Bay Packers on September eleventh, the day
after Kirk's death, featured a moment of silence for the activists,
a league decision. According to an NFL statement, teams hosting
games on Sunday were left to decide for themselves whether

(01:04:46):
to honor him in similar fashion. The Titans, Chiefs, Cowboys, Cardinals, Dolphins, Saints,
and Jets all did so. The Vikings, Steelers, Colts, Bengals, Lions,
and Ravens did not. The Steelers did hold their American
flags at half staff, observing a Trump order about flags

(01:05:07):
on public grounds, which some state and local officials meanwhile ignored.
On Monday night, the Houston, Texas marked a moment of
silence for victims of violence without naming Kirk by name,
while the Las Vegas Raiders made no reference, veiled or
otherwise to the issue. You know, I'm kind of getting.

(01:05:32):
I understand the NFL and most of the teams, almost
all of them are privately owned. I get that, so
they can make statements if they want or not. But
sports is separate from politics, and I get it's a platform.
Do I think that that's the right platform to acknowledge?

(01:05:57):
I think depending on how they did it is good
or bad. I think trying to polarize the country is
what's wrong, and trying to segregate people into different categories
is what's wrong. If they want us, you know, say,
be against all violence, I get it, and that I'm.

Speaker 1 (01:06:16):
Gonna just leave it at that, Jacob.

Speaker 2 (01:06:20):
I will say. The reason that this is such a
big battle right now, and I'm just gonna bring this
part is I was reading a story, and I can
say that this is just one example. I was reading
up a story about as a lady that went into
a city council in Dearborn talking about a talking about
them called the Prayer for the Muslims at about five

(01:06:42):
am in the morning and all that kind of stuff
in the big controversy had caused and she got absolutely
land based it over it. Yeah, I mean said I
mean to some call racists, some called her the xenophobic,
some called her all this. And so when there's such

(01:07:03):
a divided deal out there, and it's like when they're
saying that they're allowing this with people some of them
come into the country illegally and some of them did not,
and they allowed this part. But then you can't do
this with Charlie. I'm not saying what's right or wrong
with this. I'm saying that's where a lot of this
with Michigan is gone. Is you have something in Dearborn
right now that's going on with that. So there's going

(01:07:26):
to be that fight whatsoever. But really by itself, the
reason that they would say you have to you can
decide it on your own is because it was pretty
much almost fifty to fifty on who was going to
do it and who wasn't. Right and remember Penn State
did it. They gave up five thousand freedom shirts the
one he died in over in de penn stated during

(01:07:48):
the wide out. So it was just people. They just
made their decision.

Speaker 1 (01:07:53):
George.

Speaker 5 (01:07:55):
Yeah, And as far as I know, the only two
people that could answer this question and the owner she
afford him, and of course the president of Operations, Rod would.

Speaker 4 (01:08:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:08:09):
I mean, in a real world, we're all together on
this and every team does it.

Speaker 4 (01:08:13):
But we're not in that space right now.

Speaker 5 (01:08:15):
We know that, so we're not going to have unanimity
on the moment of silence.

Speaker 4 (01:08:21):
I knew. I do know that.

Speaker 5 (01:08:24):
The teams that did it obviously reached a consensus somehow
and how that was handled. But even though it was
not an elected offisher, it was still a terrible, terrible
In fact, it was an assassination, that's what they called it.
And of course when we had assassinations for any number

(01:08:45):
of people, but they were more prominent, I guess or whatever.
Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr. And John Kennedy come
to mind. Those hall had moments of silence. But again,
Charlie was not an elected official. That could be some
of the thinking. But I'm not upset about it.

Speaker 1 (01:09:02):
Yeah. Well again, I'll reiterate one last time we go
to the station break after this. It's a sports topic.
They were talked about it, and that's why it's on
this show again. Rest in peace, Charlie. More importantly, I
wish the family well. Seeing a single parent is a
tough situation, and that's where I'm with Erica Kurt on

(01:09:22):
that at least all right station, right time. Candy.

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Scott all Right.

Speaker 1 (01:10:44):
On our feature topic of the night, Why would I
come up on a headline like desk from Wendy to
the NFL? Really? Seriously? Really? Yes? Brian pat Patrick is
a guy. I'm talking about. Former NFL star quarterback Ryan
Patrick worked at Wendy's for two weeks get this, people
before he was reportedly fired. He was fired Donald Trump.

(01:11:07):
I know you use the word pretty well, Okay, but
Ryan allegedly gave a bun without a burger in it
and complaint to management about this. Fits went on to
Harvard and became one of the greatest seventh rounders people. Now,
he had a pretty good career everywhere, Okay, and now

(01:11:29):
he's on Thursday Night Football Amazon Prime. Can't see him
doing to Wendy's commercial though. What are your thoughts about this? JJ?

Speaker 7 (01:11:37):
Yeah, Fitch, he's a great guy. The whole Wendy's stinging.
Fired after two weeks. I wasn't aware of that situation.

Speaker 9 (01:11:44):
Show.

Speaker 8 (01:11:44):
I'm probably not the best to give you insight on that.

Speaker 1 (01:11:47):
However, we don't need insight once in a while, a
little buddy, we need opinion, we don't need You don't
have to be an encyclopedia of information every time. Opinions
work on this show. That's why it's a wide open
I'm I'm pitty with you.

Speaker 8 (01:12:04):
Yeah, based on what you said.

Speaker 7 (01:12:06):
If I had to give an opinion, I mean, if
he he did something wrong at Wendy's and deserved it,
I don't see why it would be wrong of them.
But has an opinion for me about his career. You know,
he's just an all around great guy. He got the
chance to speak with him, and he's a guy who
I towards when I first started getting into sports. You know,

(01:12:28):
at seven eight years old, he was still in the
league and still a veteran and was talked about a
lot as that guy who is a you know, on
thirteen NFL teams. Now he has a great career and
I take a lot of inspiration from him on Thursday
Night Football.

Speaker 8 (01:12:42):
But yeah, I don't want to.

Speaker 7 (01:12:44):
You know, I'm not too aware on the on the
Wendy s thing, So let someone else take that, all.

Speaker 1 (01:12:50):
Right, Well, burger. That's okay, they didn't He didn't have
a burger and a bunny was upset about it. Well,
that's okay. I don't think he's doing Wendy's commercials.

Speaker 9 (01:13:01):
Hey.

Speaker 6 (01:13:01):
I love these kind of stories, man, stories of guys
who persevered and you know, had a low drama or
trauma or.

Speaker 9 (01:13:09):
Just ups and downs in life.

Speaker 6 (01:13:10):
And uh, you know, he was working fast food and
now this sky's sitting on a desk doing Thursday night
football after having made you know, millions and millions of dollars.

Speaker 9 (01:13:22):
I love it for the guy.

Speaker 6 (01:13:23):
I do low draft pick, low chance of making a
roster coming out the IVY League, and the guy persevered
sixteen years. It's tough, man. It's tough to stay focused,
you know, and have to fight and travel. And he
has a wife and kids, and you know, you love
those stories, man, I do. And it's great for anybody,

(01:13:44):
any young people out there right now. You know who's stuck,
who working in fast food opportunities, who aspire for more.
So kudos to him. And I appreciated his time when
he was in New York.

Speaker 4 (01:13:58):
George.

Speaker 5 (01:14:00):
Yeah, without knowing all the particulars I mean about being
fired or let go.

Speaker 3 (01:14:06):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (01:14:06):
It is really difficult for anybody that you know loses
their job in the NFL. For example, what am I
gonna do?

Speaker 1 (01:14:15):
Now?

Speaker 4 (01:14:15):
What am I gonna do next?

Speaker 5 (01:14:16):
So I bought him for going and being hired by
Wendy's and Flippenberger's for However, a couple of weeks, I
think you said.

Speaker 1 (01:14:23):
No, George is before he went to Harvard, before he
went to Harvard.

Speaker 4 (01:14:28):
Okay, let me put that conversation in the rear view mirror.

Speaker 1 (01:14:32):
That yeah, good idea.

Speaker 4 (01:14:34):
I don't know. I don't know the people at Harvard.
I don't the people at Wendy's.

Speaker 5 (01:14:38):
There could have been something else beside that, but I
don't think it's a big thing. I really don't. I mean,
these people are used to coming and going. All the
fast foods are. But this guy, I like him because
he is a good guy. He's a good quarterback, well
not a great quarterback, but he is a guy that
really really loves the NFL and obviously in his role

(01:14:59):
until elevision helps him out.

Speaker 1 (01:15:01):
So again, now, George, that was before he went to Harvard.
He got fired because he did he served a meal
without a burger and usually generally when was the last time.

Speaker 4 (01:15:12):
You had a burger, George, uh, last week?

Speaker 1 (01:15:16):
And can I ask you what they had in it?

Speaker 4 (01:15:19):
Ah? They had cheese and a hamburger.

Speaker 1 (01:15:21):
Yes, yeah, okay, so you had a bun. Okay, you
had a burger and they had cheese. So in other words,
you had bun, a bun, a burger and cheese. You
had all the ingredients, right, George, Yes, okay. Well he
protested that one of the ingredients wasn't there, and in
the eyes of Donald Trumps, you're fired. Of course, he

(01:15:44):
went on the Harvard to the IVY League and what
else can you say? People? Yeah, my god, the r
V League, Amazon Prime don't get any and of course
the NFL didn't hurt either. All right, George, you get it.

Speaker 4 (01:15:57):
Yes, thank you for clarifying.

Speaker 1 (01:15:58):
Appreciate Okay, I had to make sure I got a
fourteen year old. You have to set a good example
for this kid. You know, he's learning, and he's doing
a good job with his first act there, know when
he wants to give us all his facts and learn
some of the little finer points of the industry, right, JJ,
you're learning some of the finer points of this industry. Oops,

(01:16:21):
they're muted. Are you. Are you learning some of the
finer points of this industry? JJ your first act.

Speaker 7 (01:16:31):
Hey, I'm having trouble with the hearing. It's going breaking
in and out. Okay, you said finer points of.

Speaker 1 (01:16:39):
This industry, the business, the media. Are learning anything.

Speaker 8 (01:16:45):
From you guys? Yeah, oh yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:16:48):
I mean you guys have had a lot of analysis,
a lot of questions that I wasn't aware of, and
I've definitely learned a lot of you know, a lot
of what you guys have said is really resonated and
made a lot of sense. And some of the cave
your using and specific terms and analogies I really am
learning about and making sure that I remember to utilize
them in future episodes in podcast. So I'm definitely learning

(01:17:11):
from you guys. You guys have been on point on
a lot of stuff, and all of you guys have
done an excellent job so far throughout the show.

Speaker 1 (01:17:18):
So as far as you're concerned in the eyes of
Karen Carpenter, we've only just been gone. All right, Candy,
go ahead, you know Karen Carpenters, No, no, least, don't
worry about it. That's okay. I'm learning a lot about
you tonight. That's okay, a lot of good things, all right, Candy,
What are your thoughts about the Wendy's controversy?

Speaker 3 (01:17:36):
So I'd be really surprised if he was fired for
just that. First of all, he has admitted that it
happened on his watch. He did not claim responsibility, because,
let's face it, when you're in the fast food industry,
there's one person cooking the burger, there's one person assembling,

(01:17:57):
there's one person packaging it. Especially back like when we
were talking, because we're talking this was years ago. This
was not like, oh yeah, there's computers that are making
all these and assembling all of these these days. You know.
So what was he responsible? Was he the manager on duty?
I mean, he was only working there two weeks. Hard

(01:18:17):
pressed to think that he was responsible for the whole thing.
But again, I'd be surprised if he got If this
was the only reason he got, let go for it.
There's normally got to be normally you have warnings, there's
like other things that would have to have taken place
in order to warrant a firing. But hey, you never know,

(01:18:40):
Wendy's can do what Wendy's wants to do.

Speaker 1 (01:18:44):
Okay, I like the chilli. All right, Jacob, Yeah, I
worked at Wendy's.

Speaker 2 (01:18:49):
I've worked at everything, did I take the I mean,
especially in fast food. Let me say this part here
for the This is a guy who was a the
quarterback in every level high school college, especially the Ivy
League and the NFL. That's a leader for somebody like that.

(01:19:11):
Then he went to Harvard, he went to all this stuff.
Wendy's would not be anywhere near what he would you know,
his type of place to work in the first place.
Let me let me say this, he's looking for leaders.
When you're a quarterback, your coach is your leader. You're
looking for leaders you want to know. I can name one.

(01:19:31):
I can name one fast food guy that could be
a leader, you know, a true leader in Isaiah's junior
Bridgman and he ended up hoping three hundred and twenty Wendy's. Yeah,
outside of that, but vast majority of fast food I'm
just gonna say it's just honesty, vast majority of fast
food management losers. He isn't going to listen to them.
He's he had the high end, high quality coaches to

(01:19:54):
listen to a sport. So it's just the truth. He
isn't going to listen to that. He He's gonna shut
them right down, especially when I know these type of
managers and everything. They scream all the time. They tried
to I mean, they tried to scream, they tried to
look tough, they tried all that kind of stuff, and
he just got to laugh at them. So he probably
had an obnoxious streaked to him a mile wide that

(01:20:16):
got him fired in the first place. And I don't
blame him.

Speaker 1 (01:20:20):
Well, you know what time to go to in basketball
before I do that. I'm gonna go one more non
sports topic before I do that, and we're gonna really
finish up on the floory with some NBA stuff. Telegram,
the Telegram, founder of plans to leave seventeen billion fortune
to his one hundred and six children. He asked people,
one hundred and six children, that makes Sean Alelexander looking

(01:20:42):
small at fourteen. Okay, but here's the thing. Pavel Derav's
children came from sick personal relationships. One hundred born annament
anonymously across twelve countries. None will see a dime until
twenty fifty five. People, as Durrov insists, a grow up,

(01:21:02):
self reliant, not spoiled by well twenty fifty five. I
know where I'll be in twenty fifty five, and we'll
be doing this stuff. But what do you think, jj,
I think you're going to be a dynamite forecaster, graduated
from Syracuse or wherever you want to go twenty fifty five.
I'll be up in heaven watching you do it, knowing

(01:21:23):
you just started here. What do you think about this?
Babo Durroff and his attention to wait till twenty five,
twenty fifty five for all one hundred children. Surreal, isn't it?

Speaker 7 (01:21:35):
It definitely is surreal, one hundred percent. And as you mentioned,
you know, hopefully I'm alive by then, you know, another
thirty years till now.

Speaker 1 (01:21:44):
Show like you're on better than mine.

Speaker 8 (01:21:47):
It's great that he's helping out.

Speaker 7 (01:21:49):
And you know, as you mentioned, I hope to be
in the media industry as a professional then on sportscasting
on TV. But I'll remember, you know, you giving me
the opportunity always in the fact that I get to
speak to everyone here who gives shreuch great and now
it's just in great opinion, Joel, So again I want
to thank you for that opportunity.

Speaker 1 (01:22:11):
You'll be great on your first day. We're gonna end
up with the NBA after we get done in fund
of fund, we'll wrap it up at the end. What
are your thoughts, Mervin?

Speaker 6 (01:22:19):
Okay man, I mean, this dude has one hundred and
sixty something kids. This guy was was was busy, he
was busy. What I respect the fact that this guy
wants his kids to have some type of work ethic
and have goals and dreams and go out there and
get this, you know, take care of their own life
and build their own life and create their own life.

(01:22:41):
I respect that especially, Uh, you know, JJ's an anomaly. This
guy is, this young man is so impressive. But my
thought is that most young people don't have the drive
in the real discipline that JJ has here. So I
respect the fact that this guy wants to make sure
that all these kids, all these people that he's created,

(01:23:03):
you know, fine purpose and meaning in life.

Speaker 9 (01:23:05):
I get it. I do. I'm also wondering.

Speaker 6 (01:23:09):
If maybe that's harsh considering I mean, what kind of life?
What kind of father can you really be to one
hundred and sixty people?

Speaker 9 (01:23:18):
You know what I mean?

Speaker 6 (01:23:20):
What kind of impact can you have? Well, if you
got seventeen billion dollars. I think that's the name. You said.

Speaker 9 (01:23:25):
You have a lot of impact. I don't know.

Speaker 6 (01:23:28):
It's a surreal topic, to be honest with you, but
I respect you.

Speaker 9 (01:23:33):
Know he has uh.

Speaker 6 (01:23:36):
This guy has a way of thinking, and he's old
school with his thoughts, and he wants his kids to
build their own life.

Speaker 9 (01:23:43):
I get it.

Speaker 6 (01:23:44):
Do it the old American way, you know, start at
Wendy's and build your way up, just like Fitzpatrick.

Speaker 1 (01:23:50):
Yeah, oh, I love the way your time. Well, you're
getting better on every show.

Speaker 9 (01:23:55):
Learned from you and JT learned from JJ.

Speaker 1 (01:23:58):
By the way, get ready next Wednesday night to tell
your story. I'm gonna leave you the first time mental.
Let everybody know your story. Everybody wanted to get to
know you to not get an idea how you're gonna
handle these topics. They're getting a segment all to yourself,
little buddy, So at least that's the only thing you'll
be prepared to do well. Everybody else will be guessing
what I'm gonna throw out their I courn won't be
on this show next week, kill me on fire up

(01:24:19):
next Thursday night. For sure, I can rest assure that
he'll be on baseball all right, George, what are your
thoughts about this telegram guy and all that money that
he can hand out to those kids at twenty fifteen?
But even though the odds are I know, I'm not
gonna be here, Alzheimer's gonna wipe me out, wait further
than that, But that's still a pretty good gesture, isn't it.

Speaker 4 (01:24:36):
Oh, definitely is.

Speaker 5 (01:24:38):
And as far as the wait goes, yeah, that is
a lot longer than I ever heard that you would wait.
But like you were kind of alluding to Marvin, you know,
the kids, he's not going to give it to him
on a silver platter. He obviously wants to wait and
see and hopefully they're advancing in their own livelihood, their
own careers.

Speaker 4 (01:24:59):
Maybe that was part of his decision.

Speaker 5 (01:25:00):
But boy, that's very generous of him, and it really,
it really is something that I hope these young people are,
however aged, they are grateful to for his gift to that,
and that's the important thing, you know, have a good attitude,
be grateful. And even though you got to wait till
what twenty twenty five or I mean twenty twenty fifty five,

(01:25:23):
that's five Oh my God, yeah, that's a long wait,
but hey, betterly than never. But they got to really
plan their future not based on just that gift money,
but what else they're going to do with their life
and career.

Speaker 1 (01:25:37):
Candy no research to doing this opinion will work.

Speaker 3 (01:25:42):
I understand from the woman's side of it, one hundred
and six kids? Are you kidding me? What kind of
a job do you have to be able to support
one hundred and six kids? Like that just blows my mind.
And also, like Marvin said, how much time can you

(01:26:03):
invest in each of these kids? You know that That's
where I feel bad for the kids because A you
need to support them monetary, monetarily and have an impact
in their life. I don't know with one hundred and
six kids how you can effectively be in their lives

(01:26:27):
and support them, you know. Granted I don't know if
they all live in the same city or if they
go to the same school like you know, but like,
how do you support them, Like if they're playing sports,
then you know when they could be all over I
don't know. I have a hard time with that that one.

Speaker 2 (01:26:48):
Jacob huh was one of his kids. Allen Iverson seriously,
but the biggest thing about it is this sounds like
he also wants there's also grandkids out there somewhere, and
he wants to be able to protect the morning does
the kids, and he hopes the kids will be around,

(01:27:09):
and they will and they be able to make their
own way. But by itself, all I think about is
one hundred and sixty kids, and I'm like that, But
think about this right now, Tyreek Hill just broke his legs,
so he's got time. Now, he's got time to get
it to catch up to that. So but no, really,
by itself, it's like, this is what that is. I
mean in itself, I mean, in a certain way, Warren

(01:27:32):
Buffet's doing the same thing. He's telling his kids, you're
gonna get a certain amount of ninety nine percent is
going to go to charity, and it's going to go
against charity. So there's that, you know. So I mean
there's an americanized version. There's that version.

Speaker 1 (01:27:44):
Okay, Well, there's a topic that's a little disturbing for me,
but I'm going to mention anyway because it's a media
topic one that I'm not happy about. Local news reporter
turns himself in or Rolex step Michael Huda turned himself
in stealing his neighbors eighteen sixteen thousand dollars rolex. His
neighbor gave him a spare key in case of emergency

(01:28:06):
because he had left for Spain for two weeks. Who
that ponded and with his own ID. He's a reporter
for WSVN ABC Channel seven in Miami. This is annoying. Sorry,
this was maybe a little over your head too, JJ,
But unfortunately, maybe this industry doesn't pay a lot. I
don't know what was going through this guy said when
he didn't and he thoughts about the Rolex media guy

(01:28:29):
that will find himself not living in his own apartment
if indeed bigger charges are brought against him.

Speaker 2 (01:28:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:28:37):
I mean, if he turned himself in, at least he's
admitting the mistake that he made and understanding that it's wrong,
and at least it was most likely returned if he
did that. But as you mentioned, you know, some people
need to have these things, and if the industry and
their job doesn't give them the financial means to want

(01:28:58):
to have that, then you know, I can't say understand it.
I think it's horrible that he would steal someone else's rolex.
And I don't understand why you steal.

Speaker 8 (01:29:09):
A role x. If you're just going to turn yourself in, you.

Speaker 7 (01:29:12):
Might as well just steal it overall. But yeah, I
mean you turn himself in, so at least he's admitting
the mistake. I think it's a horrible thing. As you mentioned,
it's seventeen or eighteen thousand dollars if someone else's material,
and that's something they bought and worked very hard for,
so it should be theirs and they shouldn't have to

(01:29:33):
worry on if someone else is going to steal it
from them.

Speaker 6 (01:29:37):
Marvin, just think about in our culture, the relationship you
have with the person who you give a spare key to,
you know, the trust you have in them and the
comfort that you have and knowing that you have that
kind of person in your life, and then they go
in and do something stupid like this, you know, and
it's just makes you just want to stay in the
house and not deal with these human beings at all. Right,

(01:29:58):
So just demoralizing and defeating, uh with someone just change
to trust like that, And it's unfortunate, you know, the
idea that he there was a little bit of accountability
here and that he acknowledged that acknowledged his wrongdoing, turning
himself in.

Speaker 9 (01:30:12):
All right, that's cute.

Speaker 6 (01:30:14):
You know, we'll consider that of sentencing, I guess or
what however, he's penalized.

Speaker 9 (01:30:18):
But this is really.

Speaker 6 (01:30:19):
Unfortunate, man, And this is uh, this is one more
it's one more unfortunate example of some of the bad
things you got to deal with.

Speaker 9 (01:30:27):
I hear with these human beings, George, Yeah, I mean.

Speaker 4 (01:30:32):
This is something that doesn't make sense to me.

Speaker 5 (01:30:35):
He had a career in broadcasting, like you said, Scott,
the local stations in Miami, and and really it was dumb.

Speaker 4 (01:30:43):
I'm sorry.

Speaker 5 (01:30:44):
It was dumb for you to think that a you
could get away with it and be that it wouldn't
cost uh, I mean that it could even cost you
your job. I had a friend recently, real quick, and
he did something very similar. He was gone for a
while from his health and he gave the key to
the next door neighbor boy and sure enough of stuff

(01:31:04):
was missing. So it's not that uncommon, but it is
very sad, and especially like you said, Scott, in the
news media, you're there to report news, as the saying goes,
you're not here to make news. But this guy certainly
did with that role X shame shame.

Speaker 1 (01:31:22):
Yeah, that's unfortunate and I read, but again I have
to get it up there as part of our industry
that does is what happened in JJ. The lesson we learned,
it's called the right to know, and that's where I
come up with these topics, is the right to know,
whether they're good, bad, or ugly. It's a right to know.
And that's what we aim to do here on the network,
is to inform and educate and entertain, and that those

(01:31:42):
of the valuable lessons JJ you're going to get as
time goes on.

Speaker 3 (01:31:45):
Candy, So the victim and who that were neighbors for
six months, who deck adds a spare key to his
neighbor's apartment for emergencies. The theft occurred in July of
twenty twenty five while the victim was on a two
week vacation in Spain. After he returned, the neighbor discovered

(01:32:07):
his rolex was missing, despite no signs of forced entry.
The watch was eventually traced to a local pawn shop,
where records show Houdec had used his Florida ID to
pawn it for seven thousand dollars. According to the rest report,
the victim was shown a text message from Hudec admitting

(01:32:28):
to the theft. He surrendered to police on August twenty
eighth of twenty twenty five and was charged with felony
counts of grand theft and burglary of an unoccupied dwelling.
You know, I mean, come on, you knew it was wrong.
Why even do it? Like there are a lot of

(01:32:53):
jobs that once they learn that you have been charged
with a felony, you're done. You're done. It's just the
way it is. And uh, obviously he was desperate for something.
He must have needed some money for whatever reason, and
that's not coming out. It's sad. Uh. But I in

(01:33:18):
the same breath, I'd be hard pressed after I knew
somebody for only six months to be given them a
key to my to my house. Nowadays when hm hmm,
there's so much identity theft, so much and not just
theft of your possessions, but there's identity theft and everything

(01:33:39):
that you have to be so careful about. So I don't,
like I said, I wouldn't do it after six months.

Speaker 1 (01:33:48):
I agree, Jacob, you know, I think it's stupid. I'm
glad he's gonna paint a price with charges. Think Hi
got the last words it with a flurry of NBA
topics and pundit punet. We will have time to get
everything in there, the stuff I had going forward. kJ
I know you can do easily work. Just pay the knights, Okay,
so hang with us, all right, you're doing a great job.
Go ahead, and Jacob. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:34:09):
The thing is we have to ask why these people
do this. It's like the ones that would look like
that they have some kind of wealth or they're they're
fine with their money. I mean, I've heard things from
when on a writer years ago for shoplifting, which this
is right in the middle of her career. You hear
these type of I mean, you hear these stories all

(01:34:31):
the time. You hear you hear these NFL players, some
of FL and some of the college players with an
nil hold sticking people up at this point. I mean
all that because it's not like that they needed money
at this point of time. It's a mental illness. It's like,
in this guy's case, how do we know and you
brought up a good point, Kenny, how do we know

(01:34:52):
that you know you didn't have a gambling problem. But
there's already there's already a certain one in Detroit right
now who got his got his checks pulled and everything
like that because he had a gambling problem, right And
it's like, how do we know that? I mean, they
make the money, but do they keep the money? And
it's like and they get themselves desperate, and it's like, really,

(01:35:12):
a lot of it is just a mental illness. A
lot of them they get in over their head. That's
just what it is.

Speaker 1 (01:35:17):
Okay. On some stuff. Would you like a new owner
in with the Knicks? Marvin? Are you a Knicks man.

Speaker 9 (01:35:28):
To a degree? To a degree?

Speaker 6 (01:35:30):
Again, I'm my loyalty is to the brond them Lakers.
But yeah, growing up between LA and New York, I
absolutely read Root for the Knicks back in the day
when they have Patrick Ewing, and we absolutely need a
new owner without question.

Speaker 1 (01:35:44):
Okay, good, this this topic definitely for you. Okay. I
was hoping you would say that. So coming from Magic Johnson. Okay,
if James Doan ever puts the Knicks up for sale,
I will be the first in line. This comes from
Magic Johnson. Would you be a Nick fan of Magic Johnson?
Owned it?

Speaker 6 (01:36:03):
Absolutely? I think Magic knows exactly how to how to
run an organization. I think he's you know, he's been
involved as an executive, he's been involved as a head coach,
obviously as a player. He's had a relationship with the owner,
and he understands the inner workings of a team. He
understands culture, he understands winning. Hopefully, you know, if that
would have happened, he would just be able to find

(01:36:25):
a GM that he would trust. But I would absolutely
be way more inclined to follow the next and get
the Knicks merchandise if Irvin Magic Johnson was the owner
of that team.

Speaker 1 (01:36:37):
J Jason.

Speaker 7 (01:36:39):
Yeah, So as someone who was born in New York
and lived my first eight years of my life there,
I do have ties to that. And yeah, you know,
the franchise, the team is probably the most famous in
all the NBA, the most famous arena in terms of
the ownership situation.

Speaker 8 (01:36:56):
You know, the Celtics just.

Speaker 7 (01:36:57):
Sold for six billion dollars and some may argue that
the Knicks may sell for more. And looking at you know,
Magic's networth right now. In his salary as of September thirtieth,
twenty twenty five, it says he has one point four billion,
noting that the Celtics just sold for six billion. It
you know, you don't know if he's gonna want to

(01:37:19):
do that, if he has the means to do that,
I would look for more of a you know, a
guy who we can one hundred percent of sure can
buy them. But yeah, I think he'd be a great owner.
He's a great guy. He knows the game of basketball
better than anyone else. And I think the Knicks, you know,
might need a new ownership for sure.

Speaker 5 (01:37:40):
George, Yeah, I mean, it is difficult to comprehend. That's
Celtic sales so much money, my goodness, and I you know,
but if the guy is if it's you know, if
they're all vetted, very vetted, if you will, the end

(01:38:00):
is very good about that, and the NIXT seem to
be stuck in this, you know, same kind of mode
that a lot of teams are, you know, first round. Okay,
got to the second round after you beat Detroit this
past season. But I really am not close enough to
say that the owner has been that bad, but I
know you are, Marvin, and I will definitely agree that

(01:38:21):
the change of ownership in this situation would help.

Speaker 4 (01:38:24):
I think it would help the Knicks. They just got
to get to that next level.

Speaker 9 (01:38:28):
Yeah, yeah, they do, they do. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:38:34):
With the history that he's had in this league, I
would definitely say he should be an owner, and I
would support that wholeheartedly, even though I am not a
Knicks fan.

Speaker 2 (01:38:48):
Jacob dol it's horrible, So yeah, they need a change.
I think you're the thing of Magic though, just a
little piece of this. Magic and Larry grew up together.
I mean basically play together and retire together. You know
that had their rival. But let me say this part.
Larry knew how to piece things together. I mean within

(01:39:12):
as far as being like a president at GM and
all that stuff, Magic doesn't. Magic's a tremendous owner. He's
a tread's owner, meaning he could be able to hire
the right people. He's been He's done great with the
Dodgers and his partial ownership. He's done great with the Commanders.
He's done all these wonderful but as a coach horrible,

(01:39:33):
as any kind of president or GM horrible. It's like
he can be able to hire the right people. And
he's a charmer. He's the big smile and he's a charmer,
so he can go get the right people to be
able to do the job, but makes it make sure
it's ownership that he can get the right people. Don't
let it be any more than that.

Speaker 1 (01:39:54):
Okay, one more basketball thing and then we're going to
yes and no basketball. Then we go to fund fund that.
Ray Allen said Celtics mistreatment led to his move to
the Miami Heat. I understand where you're placing my value.
Once they started signing everybody else, they pushed me down,
and I can see it. They're not calling me back

(01:40:14):
and they're saying, we're going to wait and do your contract.
You're not gonna place any value on me to get
anything done. All right, Well, that sounds like a guy
JJ that didn't feel like he was appreciated with Boston
came to Miami. What are your thoughts about ray Allen?

Speaker 7 (01:40:33):
You know, that's a guy who was way before my generation.

Speaker 8 (01:40:38):
So I probably don't have the best idea on him.
I'm more of a.

Speaker 7 (01:40:42):
Modern YUY and so I don't feel like I'm good
to speak on him.

Speaker 6 (01:40:47):
No big deal, Okay, Marvin JJ from the Steph Curryer
listen Ray Allen one of the greatest shooters in the
history of the game. Without question. He was considered elite
during his day, and he's body who is relevant with
that question. Yeah, he I mean, ultimately they I think

(01:41:07):
it did push him out. I think he kind of
rot as welcome a little bit. It seems like a
lot of those guys in Boston are still united and
stayed cool, and he was an odd man out. So
I kind of tell he kind of tells you it
may have been him being the issue. I don't know,
but he was a hell of a player, one of
the most iconic shots in the Heat history.

Speaker 1 (01:41:26):
George.

Speaker 5 (01:41:28):
Yeah, I mean it definitely smells of him being pushed out.
I've always liked him as a ballplayer. I mean, he's
very talented, good shots, good shots selection and I really think.

Speaker 4 (01:41:39):
That Ray Allen.

Speaker 5 (01:41:42):
You know, it sounds like you get the short end
of the stick. But like you, like you said, Barbara,
we don't know the whole situation. We don't know everything,
but yeah, I think that he's got a right to complain.

Speaker 1 (01:41:55):
Candy.

Speaker 3 (01:41:59):
I Ray Allen. He was a Milwaukee Buck for years.
He played with the Bucks from ninety six to two
thousand and three. Then he was traded to Seattle and
in that trade was Gary Payton if you don't, if

(01:42:19):
you all remember, it was determined that they thought that
ray Allen had kind of a contentious relationship with coach
George Carrol at the time, and that was probably why
he was dealt. But he was a great shooter, all
around shooter. He could put it up wherever he was

(01:42:41):
on the court, especially especially on the three point line.
But was he moved on and pushed out I'm guessing yeah.
I mean that was near the end of his career too,
Like he started with the Bucks back in ninety six,
so he had already been in the lead for how
many years at that point as well?

Speaker 1 (01:43:03):
Take him.

Speaker 2 (01:43:06):
Ray Allen was picking. Ray Allen's situation was just the
fact that he was in those quote unquote wrong era,
Because if he was on the Celtics in this era
where they shoot nine hundred and seventy two threes a game,
they would have thought about him first, they really would have,
because this this is the three point era. So that's
why they did by itself. There they're looking at him

(01:43:26):
as basically a cog, you know, and the main man
was like, what was that Kevin Garnett, you know and
all those guys, and he's the main guy of the
three and then that's what they're thinking here now Ray
Allen would be the megastar. It's a three point set
and he was a phenomenal three point shooter. But they
they didn't they like they said that. I mean, I

(01:43:48):
was making a little bit of exclamation there, but they
shoot nine hundred three is a game. He'd be right
in this era, right now, right on the right up there.
So the big thing about this is is yeah, but
I mean by itself. But you know something, he helped
Miami and it's like you can't go back, and I
don't think he wants to.

Speaker 1 (01:44:09):
Well, bottom line, I felt like I feel like it
was just affected in Boston. That's why I went to
Miami and his career, so to speaking. Believe it at
that all right, real quick question, punting and you know what, JJ,
if we get a minute, I want you to tell
your story at the end of the show. I think
it's something a lot of people will be impressed. Okay,
and we brought you on here. You've been really quite
I know there's some topics that they're a little bit

(01:44:31):
before your time, but you've handled him really well. But
that you've been able to do, and you definitely bring
a breath of fresh air and youth to this show,
something that it certainly is glad to have now. All Right,
So with the final NBA typic of the night, Kendrick
Perkinsay's rage on Rondo should make the Hall of Fame
if Reggie Miller and Chauncey Billups did. I hope nobody

(01:44:51):
takes this with disrespect. You know. Okay, we'll start off
with you, Jacob. You think Rondo belongs in the Hall
of Fame? Yes or no?

Speaker 2 (01:45:00):
It's the first and only time going to believe in
in Kendrick Perkins. It's like, yeah, I'm gonna believe in
that because my main thing is he was an absolute hustler,
an old school hustler from the time, and I am.
I'm absolutely for that. But I mean, take a look
at this time stamp. Right now, we're at about ten
fifty three of this era, like ten to one, and

(01:45:22):
I have a and this would be the last time
that I'm gonna believe in anything. Kendrick Perkins says.

Speaker 1 (01:45:27):
It's pretty good. Well, you have a pun of funded
but okay, you know what I'm kind of with you.
I'll say what I have to say I agree with you,
and it is the last time that I'll agree with
anything that Kendrick Perkinson got too all the way, Andy,
yes or no? Do you think he belongs in?

Speaker 3 (01:45:42):
You know, I'm kind of on the fence. I mean,
he played from two thousand and six to twenty twenty two,
but he has he only scored nine three hundred and
thirty seven points. We just talked about ray Allen, and
I know that we said ray Allen was a shooter.
For ray Allen, he's twenty four thousand and five points. Okay,

(01:46:06):
that's gonna be my So I'm on the fence with
with whether Rono deserves to be in the Hall of
Fame or not.

Speaker 1 (01:46:13):
I'm only gonna say yes because he's won championships.

Speaker 4 (01:46:15):
George, Yeah, I I would say yes. I think he is.
He should be elected. Maybe not.

Speaker 5 (01:46:23):
Without a lot of further betting, but the fact of
the matter is is he did have a very nice
career in the NBA.

Speaker 4 (01:46:29):
So I'm gonna say yeah, I think he should be.

Speaker 6 (01:46:33):
Marvin, I think they I think the Hall of Fame
is for the very very best, not the very very good.
But what that said, the NBA lets everybody in. I
feel like, I feel like everybody gets into the the
Pro Basketball Hall of Fame, and you're right if they're
gonna let Chohncey in and let uh, you know, Reggie
Mailer run, even though Reggie I think was a different
caliber player. You know, when you first asked the question,

(01:46:55):
answer is no. But as I heard people speak and
I thought about it, particularly Jacob, absolutely, Ronald should be in.

Speaker 1 (01:47:03):
You have any opinion on this?

Speaker 7 (01:47:05):
Yeah, I think he should definitely be in the Hall
of Fame, winning two NBA titles and you know his
playmaking ability. He led the assists three times in twenty twelve,
twenty thirteen, twenty sixteen. And right now, what is the
NBA missing. It's missing a lot of defense and defense played.
And he played defense a lot. He's a four time

(01:47:26):
defensive team and you know that shows a lot of
defensive toughness and not the fact that he just wants
to score himself, because he playmakes a lot and gets
his teammates involved with him being a three time assist
leader and then also playing very tough defense. And then
also he is a four time NBA also.

Speaker 1 (01:47:48):
Right stop, lot, this kid good stop.

Speaker 3 (01:47:52):
So can I just add Marvin, you talked about a
lot of people get into the NBA Hall of Fame.
There's actually been over four eight hundred players have appeared
in at least one game in NBA's history, and only
three percent are actually in the Hall of Fame.

Speaker 9 (01:48:10):
Okay, I feel I feel like everybody gets in. I
do well.

Speaker 1 (01:48:14):
Baseball one get in, so three is better than one.
Great information all the way around. All right, pundit, pundit Jacob,
I know you're waiting, thanks to your patience timestamped ten
fifty six. We're getting near the end anyways, and then
time permitting, I want JJ to give a couple of
minutes about his background for you young people. This kid's

(01:48:35):
in inspiration, looking forward to hiving them on Wednesday night.
Now that he's been I have to make sure some
of these topics are a little bit closer to what
he's able to do. But now I know what I
have and I know how I have to constructions going
forward with JJ on great first tact o kid. All right,
go ahead, Jacob, Pundit's fundit, JJ.

Speaker 2 (01:48:52):
This is this is the best pundit's pundits for you tonight.
This is a little thing I wanted to tell you
about I was. I was very I'm very impressed with you,
very impressed the knowledge that you have and all that
kind of stuff. And I'm happy to see there what
you're doing. To understand why I'm this impressed and stuff
is because at six years old I got into sports. Okay,

(01:49:15):
I absorbed all of it. I absorbed all of it,
Like I mean, I was like by eight years old,
I was doing I was doing Oakland. I'm a Chicago
Cubs fan, and I was doing Oakland AD's nineteen seventies
that starting lineups in my head. I was kind of
the Circus Act at every place I would go, which
my brother loved, and my dad drove them nuts. You know,

(01:49:38):
I don't think he wanted the Circus Act for a sign.
But you want to know what I didn't do.

Speaker 1 (01:49:45):
Like you did.

Speaker 2 (01:49:46):
You're working, You're put in the extra you put in
the extra mile. I did it late in life, so
I'm proud of you. I want you to know that.

Speaker 1 (01:49:57):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:49:57):
I want to give you a little piece of advice though,
as you get older, as you get into this world
and it's like this is a very divided world, be
independent and true to yourself. That's the first step that
it's going to be whatsoever, don't follow anybody. It's the deal.
I always have a saying that I was talking about today.

(01:50:17):
There are the people that follow their way are They're
the people that run their own business or follow their
own way. And then there's the cattle. There's just the
workers that do what the I'll just say it for
this world. They're the ones that do what the editors want.
There's I call it or they want. They do what
they want to like you know, they do what the
person wants to say. I Wendy's will bring that up.

(01:50:40):
They do everything they want. They're waiting for the boss
to say something. That's what I call cattle, and they're
ready to be slaughtered. You've got you are something special
with what you're doing, not only having the knowledge, yeah,
the same amount of knowledge as I had, but you work.
And I'm proud of you for that, and I'm very
proud of you for that. The biggest piece of it,

(01:51:03):
I've gave you that one piece of advice. The other
piece of advice I can say is the one thing
I do every morning is I check emails because I
have everything on emails, everything from sports, business to regular
business to I mean, I'm not kidding you as a Joe,
this is funny, but Chinese banking everything, I learn everything,

(01:51:23):
learn everything. Number one. Me and Marvin right over here
by the way. Marvin, I've met him already, and we
met out of the little party of his that he's
set up for the NFLPA. Find every one of those places.
Find every one of those places, go to them, shake hands,
be charming because I know you can be. You got

(01:51:46):
over here and you did well with all of us.

Speaker 1 (01:51:49):
Well you know what, you know what, Jacob, I'm proud
of you for doing a pun pund it when you
could have talked about anything and talked about him. Good
stuff to you, and I'm glad you had my book
and I'm looking forward toographing has all right for the
next two minutes or so two and a half minutes
of what time, JJ, the floor is yours. Now that
you've won, you have five new friends here. I want

(01:52:09):
you to give everybody a brief overview of what you've
done when you started where you're at, and we have
about two or three minutes, and Candy'll do so not
in the floor is yours. Whatever you did say earlier
saying out but in your version of who you are
and really introduce yourself.

Speaker 7 (01:52:25):
Well, first off, Jacob, thank you so much for the advice.
I'll definitely take that into account for sure, and definitely,
you know, really appreciate the kind words about actually working
at this age, and I'll definitely make sure check my email,
learn as much as I can, and you know, meet
and make as many connections, whether it's at a party

(01:52:46):
or whatever it is, with as many people as possible.
So thank you so much for that. I really appreciate
that a lot, and I really will take that into account.
And again, this is a lot of fun coming on
today's show, so you know, I had a lot of
fun learning and talking. So yeah, So to get into

(01:53:07):
my story, as Jacob said, you know, when he was young,
when he was six, he loved sports, and I loved
sports just as much as him. And you know, when
I see my parents, they start a work week on Monday,
they're not enthusiastic, They're not excited to go to work,
and that's because I don't think that they love their job.
So when I'm older, what I wanted to do is

(01:53:28):
be able to love my job, and I want to
find something that I love, and when I was ten
years old, as Scott said, I wanted to do something
that I was passionate about. And I've always loved sports,
so why not talk about sports and why not create
my own podcast? So I created my own podcast at
the age of ten, and I wanted to talk about

(01:53:50):
FAU because they were the local team here to boker Reton, Florida,
and it was very easy to be able to go
to games, and at the time, I was going as
a fit So I did that for about a year
and an FAU media site called fau Al's Nest, they
saw the podcast, they picked it up. They said, hey,
we love you to write for us, We'd love you

(01:54:10):
to podcast for us. And from there everything really took
off in my career. I started getting credentials for them.
I got a job with Dolphins Talk where now I'm
credentialed for them, and I grew my own social media
page through that, and then when FA you made the
Final four, I got a credential to go to that

(01:54:30):
and that's when, you know, my page started doing very well.
So that's overall how it started, and I've gotten you know,
a plethora of other opportunities throughout my few years and
I'm taking every chance that I get. I've also, you know,
something that really sparked my interest is going to yearly

(01:54:52):
summer sports broadcasting camps, which are a lot of fun
and I get an opportunity to experience rep live on camera.
And what I'm trying to do now is put my
name out there, get as much experience as I possibly can,
and talk about what I love to do, because when
I'm older, I want to do something that I love

(01:55:14):
and this is really what I love and what my
passion is, and I want to continue to do this
when I'm older. Sold the fact Scott that you're giving
me this opportunity means so much to me, and again,
I really appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (01:55:28):
Oh, I appreciate you being on You're going to get
to know JJ Mitch every Wednesday night Sports and say
nine o'clock being on me each time. Candy, go ahead,
give us one last station break. We'll whip around the horn.
But well before we do that, everybody, Jacob, everybody know
how they get a whole deal. Will whip around the horn.
Candy will end it. Wave up two and a half
minutes to get this puppy wrapped Up. Go Ahead, Jacob.

Speaker 2 (01:55:46):
I'm Jacob Christener on Facebook, Sideline one Sports on TikTok.
I'm Jacob Christner Underscore on Instagram. I also I also
do a little bit of scripts here and there, and
a little bit writing when I get the chance, if
I'm not busy.

Speaker 1 (01:56:03):
Great stuff, George Acorn.

Speaker 5 (01:56:06):
Yes, you can follow me on the South Florida Tribune
under the contributor section, and there's a little note at
the bottom about my book Detroit Sports Broadcasters on the Air.
If you're interested in pursuing that, you reached me best
at gi Cron at yahoo dot com or sam G
Sports ninety nine on X or Twitter.

Speaker 6 (01:56:28):
Marvin Marvin Marvin on Mike as my handle. You can
reach me here with Scott Tuesday evenings and Wednesday evenings.
I'm on Lockdown USC Monday and Friday. You can catch
me at USC Jay on Saturday.

Speaker 1 (01:56:45):
Hey jo J.

Speaker 7 (01:56:47):
Yeah, I actually saw Marvin last week on a Mark
show Locked on USC. He was telling me that they'd
have no problem with Illinois.

Speaker 8 (01:56:56):
I saw that episode of Big.

Speaker 7 (01:56:57):
Go without knowing you were on this, But yeah, make
sure you follow all of them. You can find me
at JJ Metafe you o X and that's my primary
shortsh oft posting show data.

Speaker 1 (01:57:11):
And JJ, now your teammates with Mervin Wednesday nights, Candy
take us the rest of it away.

Speaker 9 (01:57:15):
Good job, JJ, good job JEL.

Speaker 1 (01:57:18):
I'm probably kid, absolutely okay.

Speaker 3 (01:57:21):
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(01:57:42):
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(01:58:02):
in the chat room and when they got all the
contributors and JJ, welcome to the team and the family.
Glad to have you here. You did a great job.

Speaker 1 (01:58:11):
He did. Jay's going to contribute as a writer, and
of course I'm going to be bringing him on a
lot of shows. Wednesday Night will be there regular night
on Wednesday, and I may bring him on some other shows.
So watch out. We have a rising story or on
the network of JJ MENSI. He was outstanding and I'm
glad everybody was able to gravitate to this young guy.
And I'm telling you, JJ, we are proud of you

(01:58:33):
and I hope you enjoyed your initial experience to take
this show. And don't worry now like Marvin had to
deal with last week. Now he's prepared for anything. And
now you got your first taste of it. But I'm
probably a kid, but I knew you were good Saturday Night.
Now I have witnesses people, really seriously, really, yes, I
got witnesses. This kid's good, really really good. That doesn't

(01:58:55):
see you next Wednesday Night on the Sports and Change.
I may have a Jacob Canday, Joe Mervin and j J.
This has gotten Morgan Russell city Menoral, thank you having
good night and we'll see you for tomorrow night program
and on Saturday. Enjoying the playoffs. I know, h

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