WEBVTT - HOUR 3 3-20 0:00:01.400 --> 0:00:04.320 On air at AM five seventy LA Sports and I'm 0:00:04.400 --> 0:00:07.960 demand on the iHeartRadio wapp. This is the Petros and 0:00:08.039 --> 0:00:11.600 Money Show. You are one of the kind, hosted by. 0:00:11.480 --> 0:00:14.680 Petros Papaday guests left school after sixth grade. Look at 0:00:14.720 --> 0:00:17.800 him and the voice of the Bolts that money Smith. 0:00:17.920 --> 0:00:20.880 The answer is on money. There is nothing you can do. 0:00:21.320 --> 0:00:25.600 You know it's coming. This is the Petros and Money Show. 0:00:25.480 --> 0:00:29.240 On the home of your world champion Los Angeles Dodgers. 0:00:29.520 --> 0:00:32.240 Make us your top preset on the iHeartRadio app. 0:00:32.360 --> 0:00:34.239 I don't crack. Use the under pressure. 0:00:34.040 --> 0:00:39.640 Puss, Puss puss every damn night. 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We gave that away earlier, 0:01:26.440 --> 0:01:30.080 but we still have that huge prize pack to the 0:01:30.200 --> 0:01:34.840 Fanatics Flag Football Championships tomorrow. That's gonna be like on 0:01:35.000 --> 0:01:37.679 field passes and meet and greets and all of that, 0:01:37.840 --> 0:01:40.520 So stick around. We will still give that away after 0:01:40.600 --> 0:01:43.199 we already gave away the Freeway Series pack. 0:01:43.880 --> 0:01:46.240 Yeah, those guys are really aggor at each other. A 0:01:46.240 --> 0:01:48.040 lot of a lot of as talk and a lot 0:01:48.040 --> 0:01:49.960 of trash talk, and a lot of fighting, a lot 0:01:50.000 --> 0:01:53.000 of Yeah, that's where they're going. TBSA is going down. 0:01:53.080 --> 0:01:55.120 Hey, Jalen Daniels, good to see you over there. Glad 0:01:55.120 --> 0:01:58.080 your mom, let you come out and play. 0:01:58.200 --> 0:02:01.000 I'm in a chest though, I'm Tom Brady. I can 0:02:01.000 --> 0:02:03.360 take it. I got roasted so hard about Giselle. Now 0:02:03.360 --> 0:02:07.080 I can just roast everybody, roast everybody that like a 0:02:07.160 --> 0:02:15.880 Roastereas Dodger, San Diego tonight, David Vase Night. We'll be 0:02:15.960 --> 0:02:19.640 around at five point thirty for the pregame. Everybody looking 0:02:19.680 --> 0:02:23.040 forward to the season getting started. When we're back on Monday, 0:02:23.160 --> 0:02:27.040 schedule talk. We will start at two, yes, two be 0:02:30.919 --> 0:02:33.640 for the Propers Freeway Series, which is the get the 0:02:33.720 --> 0:02:35.840 dimensions of the park for a couple of days kind 0:02:35.880 --> 0:02:40.640 of deal, and then we will launch into Opening Day 0:02:40.960 --> 0:02:44.000 on Thursday. Stay tuned for all the giveaways and fun 0:02:44.080 --> 0:02:48.160 on your Dodger station. M seventy l A Sports Now. 0:02:48.240 --> 0:02:51.560 Time for the Top Story of the Day, Top Story 0:02:51.639 --> 0:02:52.880 of the Day. 0:02:54.080 --> 0:02:56.720 One thing that we know, and it's back to back 0:02:56.800 --> 0:03:00.600 Lakers top stories. It's part of what makes him as 0:03:00.639 --> 0:03:03.600 great a player as we've seen ever in the history 0:03:03.600 --> 0:03:05.400 of the NBA, and it's also what makes him one 0:03:05.400 --> 0:03:09.600 of the most polarizing and instead of universally beloved players, 0:03:09.680 --> 0:03:13.799 loathed by a pretty healthy percentage of casual sports fans 0:03:13.800 --> 0:03:18.600 and even the most diehard roundball fanatics. Lebron is incredibly smart. 0:03:18.720 --> 0:03:22.639 He's incredibly calculated. If you're just really good at basketball, 0:03:22.720 --> 0:03:25.720 you're gonna make your hundreds of millions, you know, three 0:03:25.800 --> 0:03:28.280 hundred million bucks or something, and you're gonna probably blow 0:03:28.360 --> 0:03:31.400 most of it, and we're not gonna hear about y'all 0:03:31.440 --> 0:03:35.160 that much off the court until it's revealed that you're 0:03:35.280 --> 0:03:39.000 like going bankrupt and you blew it. You don't become 0:03:39.320 --> 0:03:43.360 a billion and a half dollar entity and brand if 0:03:43.400 --> 0:03:47.760 you're just some lunkhead that's really good at basketball. Yesterday 0:03:47.880 --> 0:03:52.520 we focused on Luca and how he seemingly has shifted 0:03:52.520 --> 0:03:57.760 his focus. Now we both have differing philosophies. I tend 0:03:57.760 --> 0:04:00.040 to believe it's after he picked up that fifteen he 0:04:00.280 --> 0:04:04.520 technical he was able to hone in and avoid the 0:04:04.600 --> 0:04:06.640 extended conversation with referees. 0:04:06.880 --> 0:04:08.880 Just say whatever you want, Matt, I don't have a 0:04:08.920 --> 0:04:12.680 crowd of Mexican Americans to uh to pand or two. 0:04:12.720 --> 0:04:16.000 Now there's nobody. I don't care. You go ahead and 0:04:16.040 --> 0:04:18.719 compliment them all. You say what whatever reason you want 0:04:18.720 --> 0:04:20.640 to come up with for what lucas doing, well, you 0:04:20.680 --> 0:04:21.560 can have it. Matt. 0:04:21.800 --> 0:04:24.360 I no longer gave you the window to chime in. 0:04:24.480 --> 0:04:25.640 I don't care. I don't want it. 0:04:25.800 --> 0:04:29.640 You close the window and share your Baltic female theory. 0:04:29.800 --> 0:04:33.080 Well, I mean, I'm sure he feels some semblance of freedom. 0:04:33.400 --> 0:04:36.240 But again, without my Mexican American backup, I don't really 0:04:36.240 --> 0:04:37.960 feel it necessary to push back here. 0:04:38.360 --> 0:04:41.920 Luca was on the periphery of the MVP conversation, maybe 0:04:42.000 --> 0:04:45.800 the first guy out at the All NBA First Team ballot. 0:04:46.440 --> 0:04:48.960 Now I might start bringing in like a studio audience 0:04:49.000 --> 0:04:51.640 like best W's two. Oh, just line up like twenty 0:04:51.720 --> 0:04:54.760 Mexican guys every day just to you know, just so 0:04:54.880 --> 0:04:59.320 hander them have an audience to pand or two. But look, 0:04:59.440 --> 0:05:01.560 I mean if you tell me that I used to 0:05:01.560 --> 0:05:04.599 be with a comedy spy and when she left, I 0:05:04.600 --> 0:05:07.719 started scoring fifty at night and stopped yelling at the officials, 0:05:08.200 --> 0:05:09.960 it'd be pretty believable to me. Like it is to 0:05:10.040 --> 0:05:11.480 my friends in Montabello. 0:05:11.720 --> 0:05:15.479 I don't feel like they necessarily subscribed to that position. 0:05:15.800 --> 0:05:17.479 I don't feel like that that was you know, like 0:05:17.520 --> 0:05:21.280 a vote was taken and they're like, yes, comedy spy. 0:05:22.240 --> 0:05:25.280 Your feelings are probably you know, going to be you know, 0:05:25.600 --> 0:05:30.000 just whatever it is actually biased against against conspiracy theories 0:05:30.000 --> 0:05:32.240 that I have, and that's fine. You just go from 0:05:32.360 --> 0:05:35.000 say it's because Luca has some basketball reason. 0:05:35.040 --> 0:05:38.960 Yeah, fine, whatever it is. This last week, this eight 0:05:39.000 --> 0:05:43.080 game win streak, Luca has firmly placed himself on that 0:05:43.120 --> 0:05:46.080 first Team All NBA. It will be his sixth appearance 0:05:46.120 --> 0:05:48.920 in seven seasons. It has likely moved him into the 0:05:48.920 --> 0:05:53.880 top three MVP candidates, jumping the Joker Nikola Jokic and 0:05:53.920 --> 0:05:57.880 depending on how this whole thing finishes. While it doesn't 0:05:57.920 --> 0:05:59.760 seem likely at this point that he's going to be 0:05:59.760 --> 0:06:04.680 able to push Sega, shake Gildess Alexander off that podium 0:06:04.920 --> 0:06:08.400 and the number one spot, he does still have two 0:06:08.480 --> 0:06:11.960 head to heads against the Thunder before this thing is done. 0:06:12.000 --> 0:06:15.080 And if he continues to drop fifty like he has, 0:06:15.240 --> 0:06:17.800 or sixty like he did last night, or triple doubles 0:06:18.400 --> 0:06:20.760 like he is damned near average in the month of March, 0:06:20.800 --> 0:06:23.960 and the Lakers continue to climb the standings firmly entrench 0:06:24.040 --> 0:06:26.640 themselves as the three suit or maybe even get to 0:06:26.680 --> 0:06:29.840 the two, then he still has a shot at that hardware. 0:06:29.960 --> 0:06:33.120 He is averaging over forty points per game on this 0:06:33.160 --> 0:06:35.440 eight game stretch, not to mention just shy of triple 0:06:35.480 --> 0:06:38.320 double numbers and rebounds and assists. They are not empty stats. 0:06:39.040 --> 0:06:42.760 The games are tight, they're digging out of fifteen point deficits, 0:06:43.200 --> 0:06:46.640 they're sending games into overtime, they're winning at the buzzer, 0:06:46.920 --> 0:06:49.640 and they are doing it like they did last night. 0:06:49.920 --> 0:06:52.960 Because Doncic is draining back to back to back three 0:06:53.040 --> 0:06:56.279 pointers in the span of ninety seconds after it looked 0:06:56.279 --> 0:06:58.360 like JJ Reddick was about to pull the plug and 0:06:58.440 --> 0:07:01.480 rest his guys for the Saturday game against the Magic 0:07:03.120 --> 0:07:04.800 as the heat just look around and they're like, what 0:07:04.800 --> 0:07:06.719 the hell just happened? This guy was supposed to be 0:07:06.800 --> 0:07:09.600 fat and on a bad diet and he was supposed 0:07:09.600 --> 0:07:11.400 to be gassed by now. And there's other dude's like 0:07:11.480 --> 0:07:13.760 forty one, why are they still playing? And why are 0:07:13.840 --> 0:07:16.680 we losing games that we led by fifteen in the 0:07:16.720 --> 0:07:22.320 second half. Luca's game winners are viral. They've got millions 0:07:22.440 --> 0:07:25.600 and millions of views, whether they're step back threes or 0:07:25.680 --> 0:07:30.720 those Luca Magic off balance, fading away opposite direction he's shooting. 0:07:31.200 --> 0:07:32.920 And yet it's nothing but the end of the net 0:07:33.120 --> 0:07:35.280 at the end of it. And look, if you follow 0:07:35.280 --> 0:07:36.920 the Lakers, you already know this. I'm not telling you 0:07:37.000 --> 0:07:40.320 anything that's breaking news. But going back to the initial 0:07:40.360 --> 0:07:44.360 statement of our top story, why is it happening? How 0:07:44.400 --> 0:07:48.560 did we get here? And it's because Lebron is no dummy, 0:07:49.240 --> 0:07:52.560 and it is no coincidence that on March twentieth we 0:07:52.600 --> 0:07:54.600 have arrived at this point. 0:07:54.800 --> 0:07:57.600 The public narrative finally overwhelmed Lebron James. 0:07:57.800 --> 0:07:59.880 It took him a moment pee, it took him a 0:08:00.040 --> 0:08:04.000 minute to get there, to accept and realize. And I 0:08:04.000 --> 0:08:08.040 do think the public perception is part of it, but 0:08:08.120 --> 0:08:12.160 I think the bigger part is the current state of 0:08:12.280 --> 0:08:17.200 his playing career and how he thought it was supposed 0:08:17.240 --> 0:08:20.440 to look this season to get what he wanted versus 0:08:20.440 --> 0:08:23.960 what he really needed to do to get what he wants. 0:08:24.560 --> 0:08:28.040 And that's another one hundred million dollars to add to 0:08:28.120 --> 0:08:32.440 his war chest of cash, to his career earnings. And 0:08:32.559 --> 0:08:38.160 how unthinkable this might have been just eight weeks ago. 0:08:38.440 --> 0:08:40.800 Is that what an NBA player's bank account is called 0:08:40.800 --> 0:08:41.680 a war chest? 0:08:42.080 --> 0:08:45.760 It is a war chest in the billions with a bee. 0:08:46.960 --> 0:08:50.760 Instead of trying to dominate the ball. 0:08:49.840 --> 0:08:52.320 I started making so much money, I just started buying 0:08:53.120 --> 0:08:54.599 different tactical. 0:08:54.120 --> 0:08:59.920 Weapons exactly right, like blood spinning equipment, a hyperbar chamber, 0:09:00.520 --> 0:09:03.320 something to fix my sciatica or some form of it. 0:09:04.720 --> 0:09:07.319 He has stopped trying to dominate the ball. He has 0:09:07.360 --> 0:09:11.560 stopped demanding he be the alpha, and he has now 0:09:11.640 --> 0:09:16.960 stepped back and for all intents and purposes, said yes, 0:09:17.080 --> 0:09:20.520 this is Luca's team. I will play in a way 0:09:21.400 --> 0:09:26.520 that will support him in every manner possible. Luca is 0:09:26.600 --> 0:09:29.120 legitimately one of the three best players in the league, 0:09:29.920 --> 0:09:33.400 I Lebron, James, and probably somewhere between fifteen to twenty. 0:09:34.160 --> 0:09:37.360 I've got to accept that Luca needs to dominate the ball, 0:09:37.559 --> 0:09:40.280 to dominate possessions, to try to take over late when 0:09:40.320 --> 0:09:44.200 the game is close, something he was doing early in 0:09:44.280 --> 0:09:49.080 the season, making things incredibly awkward and wonky. Instead of 0:09:49.120 --> 0:09:51.840 just recognizing your standing next to one of the best closers, 0:09:51.880 --> 0:09:55.000 if not the best closer in the game in Doncic, 0:09:55.400 --> 0:09:57.839 just hand them the ball, get the f out of 0:09:57.840 --> 0:10:01.920 the way, and scream and yell like a fan when 0:10:01.960 --> 0:10:04.760 he does what he's capable of doing. And that's essentially 0:10:04.800 --> 0:10:09.040 what we've watched on this eight game stretch. Now. I 0:10:09.080 --> 0:10:12.120 don't know how Lebron got to this point. I don't 0:10:12.120 --> 0:10:16.600 know what reconciliation he had internally, if there was self reflection, 0:10:17.800 --> 0:10:22.000 if there was, as you pointed out, the public perception, 0:10:23.040 --> 0:10:26.600 the public opinions getting louder and louder. 0:10:26.800 --> 0:10:29.720 I think when he lost Windhorse, he knew that he 0:10:29.800 --> 0:10:31.360 had to flip his approach. 0:10:31.559 --> 0:10:35.520 Oh nonhuse out the stark realization that if he didn't 0:10:35.559 --> 0:10:38.320 fix his ass in a hurry, and if he wants 0:10:38.400 --> 0:10:41.800 to continue playing in the NBA, he was going to 0:10:41.880 --> 0:10:44.600 have to do it somewhere else. That this idea that 0:10:44.720 --> 0:10:47.319 Jeanie Buss and the way she used to do business 0:10:48.240 --> 0:10:50.560 of we want to keep our stars. We want this 0:10:50.600 --> 0:10:53.840 to be a place where stars know how much they're appreciated. 0:10:54.880 --> 0:10:57.640 That that was over and it was not going to 0:10:57.679 --> 0:11:01.439 happen this offseason. If he can continued to play basketball 0:11:02.080 --> 0:11:05.880 and force Luca and Austin Reeves to play basketball around 0:11:05.960 --> 0:11:09.600 him the way they were, it is no coincidence. And 0:11:09.640 --> 0:11:11.680 he's able to push this now because I do not 0:11:11.720 --> 0:11:14.079 think it's a coincidence that Lucas in the best shape 0:11:14.080 --> 0:11:17.439 of his life, that he hired a trainer, a nutritionist, 0:11:17.840 --> 0:11:20.120 that he stopped eating fast food all day every day, 0:11:20.160 --> 0:11:22.480 which was the word in Dallas, that he embraced a 0:11:22.559 --> 0:11:26.280 more Lebron like approach to his fitness, and that would 0:11:26.280 --> 0:11:29.760 be something Lebron Camp is going to push on Mark Walter. Look, 0:11:29.880 --> 0:11:32.640 you need to take care of your superstar. You know 0:11:32.720 --> 0:11:34.840 what he was like in Dallas. You know what his 0:11:34.880 --> 0:11:37.240 fitness was like in the postseason and how we'd get 0:11:37.240 --> 0:11:39.679 gassed and have to come out of games. Look at 0:11:39.679 --> 0:11:42.400 the effect that I'm having on him. I want one 0:11:42.480 --> 0:11:45.920 hundred million dollars over two years, because we've seen it 0:11:45.960 --> 0:11:48.360 in back to back games against Houston and Miami, even 0:11:48.360 --> 0:11:51.199 going back to the overtime win against the Nuggets. All 0:11:51.200 --> 0:11:53.439 the Lakers have to do is stay close, which is 0:11:53.520 --> 0:11:56.440 ultimately what the NBA playoffs are all about. If you 0:11:56.520 --> 0:11:59.960 can keep it within a few possessions in the final 0:12:00.080 --> 0:12:03.920 five minutes of a game, there are ups and down, 0:12:03.920 --> 0:12:07.480 there's runs by each team. It ebbs, it flows in. 0:12:07.520 --> 0:12:11.640 Whichever squad has the best closer, and the best clutch 0:12:11.679 --> 0:12:15.319 player typically wins. And if he is now out of 0:12:15.360 --> 0:12:19.360 the way and you can have your possessions and you 0:12:19.400 --> 0:12:23.640 can maximize them in the playoffs, you win. If you can't, 0:12:24.240 --> 0:12:28.560 you lose. They got twelve games left, two are against 0:12:28.600 --> 0:12:31.200 Oklahoma City in a five day span. I never thought 0:12:31.240 --> 0:12:35.280 i'd say it, but after last night and how easy 0:12:35.400 --> 0:12:38.319 sixty points looked for Luca and how they dug out 0:12:38.320 --> 0:12:42.920 a two fifteen point deficit holes because of him, I 0:12:42.920 --> 0:12:44.920 don't think anything's off the table for this team. If 0:12:44.920 --> 0:12:47.400 that's how he's going to keep playing. This is what 0:12:47.440 --> 0:12:49.640 we thought they were trading for last year when we 0:12:49.679 --> 0:12:52.360 said the entire Staples Center is going to be seventy 0:12:52.400 --> 0:12:55.240 seven jerseys. People are going to forget about Lebron and 0:12:55.280 --> 0:12:57.480 all they're going to care about is what does Luca 0:12:57.559 --> 0:12:59.560 look like in the final five minutes. And that's what 0:12:59.600 --> 0:13:02.319 I'm buying the ticket to see. And he just stayed 0:13:02.360 --> 0:13:03.960 in the way too long. He was too much of 0:13:04.000 --> 0:13:07.600 a bitch to let it come to fruition. And that's 0:13:07.600 --> 0:13:10.080 why they got bounced in the first round last year 0:13:10.080 --> 0:13:12.959 because he was still crying about Anthony Davis and crying 0:13:12.960 --> 0:13:15.720 about how good the defense was and how they blew 0:13:15.760 --> 0:13:19.120 It was something that was finally coming together. And now 0:13:19.720 --> 0:13:22.360 he has got out of the way. He is not 0:13:22.400 --> 0:13:24.160 doing what he did for the first two thirds of 0:13:24.200 --> 0:13:26.560 the season. This looks different. His usage rate is cut 0:13:26.640 --> 0:13:30.120 in half. He's playing off the ball, He's letting Luca 0:13:30.200 --> 0:13:33.120 go to work, he's letting Austin Reeves go to work, 0:13:33.360 --> 0:13:37.560 and he is just filling in cracks. And I'm sure 0:13:38.360 --> 0:13:41.040 he wants to win another championship, obviously, but to me, 0:13:42.280 --> 0:13:47.640 this is all self preservation. I want a hundred million bucks. 0:13:48.120 --> 0:13:51.079 I don't want it from the Cavaliers or however much 0:13:51.120 --> 0:13:53.400 it's going to be eighty million dollars seventy million bucks, 0:13:53.480 --> 0:13:56.160 whatever that number is that he would get on the 0:13:56.200 --> 0:13:59.040 open market from a legitimate championship content. I don't want 0:13:59.080 --> 0:14:02.400 it from I'm san Antonio or what her golden state. 0:14:03.040 --> 0:14:04.520 I want to continue to live in out. 0:14:04.600 --> 0:14:07.319 Kicher done at Canyon, and I'm still very close with the. 0:14:07.280 --> 0:14:11.839 Pets, very close. I want to do it here. And 0:14:11.960 --> 0:14:15.559 I think he quickly realized, ain't gonna happen with Mark Walter, 0:14:16.000 --> 0:14:18.440 not gonna happen with Andrew Friedman. If you continue to 0:14:18.600 --> 0:14:23.040 sabotage this team because of your arrogance and your inability 0:14:23.080 --> 0:14:25.400 to recognize that you are no longer the best player 0:14:25.400 --> 0:14:27.000 on your team, and you have to get the f 0:14:27.040 --> 0:14:29.360 out of the way and let that guy go to work. 0:14:30.080 --> 0:14:34.120 And now that it's working and he's a supporting role 0:14:34.240 --> 0:14:37.960 character in these viral videos, he's like, Oh, I'm gonna 0:14:37.960 --> 0:14:40.320 get my money. I'm gonna get my I'm gonna be 0:14:40.320 --> 0:14:42.560 able to stay. We're going to go on a run 0:14:43.120 --> 0:14:44.760 and I'm gonna get my one hundred million bucks and 0:14:44.880 --> 0:14:47.480 p you know what that means. It means the King's 0:14:47.480 --> 0:14:48.120 giving it to us. 0:14:48.440 --> 0:14:50.520 Yeah, it means another year getting nailed. 0:14:50.360 --> 0:14:53.840 By He's gonna get nailed by another year. 0:14:54.160 --> 0:14:56.480 Just because you're saying it doesn't mean it's gonna happen. 0:14:56.640 --> 0:15:00.680 He is so he is playing so different games. I'm 0:15:00.720 --> 0:15:01.800 like you, mother Effort. 0:15:02.040 --> 0:15:03.080 We'll see what happens. 0:15:03.080 --> 0:15:05.640 You're gonna get that contract and you're gonna f us again. 0:15:05.800 --> 0:15:08.760 Certainly makes the ending of the season more interesting. But 0:15:08.800 --> 0:15:10.800 I don't think anybody wants that guy around, not in 0:15:10.800 --> 0:15:11.280 real life. 0:15:11.480 --> 0:15:13.040 No, we shall see. 0:15:13.240 --> 0:15:15.760 Coming up next, we'll talk to Tom Brady's best friend, 0:15:15.760 --> 0:15:20.520 the BFF of the flag Football World, Michael Rubin, who 0:15:20.520 --> 0:15:23.120 had to move that event from Saudi Arabia to La 0:15:23.200 --> 0:15:25.280 which is why you're hearing all the fanfare about it. 0:15:25.600 --> 0:15:27.840 He will join us next and tell us what's popping 0:15:27.920 --> 0:15:30.440 off a bemo tomorrow, and we have tickets to give away. 0:15:36.000 --> 0:15:38.040 This is Petro Send money. 0:15:37.880 --> 0:15:43.800 On to Mad Demand, Petro saying money and five seventy 0:15:43.800 --> 0:15:46.880 Ela Sports Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app, your home 0:15:47.080 --> 0:15:50.200 of the Dodgers and again remember Opening Day coming up, 0:15:50.200 --> 0:15:54.360 Freeway Series coming up, our sweet tickets giveaway all coming up. 0:15:54.440 --> 0:15:57.120 Continue to listen here on your home of the back 0:15:57.120 --> 0:15:59.760 to back world champion the Dodgers. As spring training games 0:15:59.800 --> 0:16:02.160 can tinue to be played throughout the course of their 0:16:02.200 --> 0:16:05.680 Camelback schedule, followed by the Freeway Series, followed by the 0:16:05.720 --> 0:16:08.000 opener that will be at against the Diamondbacks. We are 0:16:08.000 --> 0:16:09.560 excited to be the home of the Dodgers pea, but 0:16:09.600 --> 0:16:11.120 we also love football. 0:16:11.400 --> 0:16:15.440 Yes, in flag football. The Fanatics Flag Football Classic has 0:16:15.480 --> 0:16:21.000 its inaugural star studded five on five tournament, hosted by 0:16:21.160 --> 0:16:26.840 our guest Fanatics CEO Michael Rubin, and it is all 0:16:26.880 --> 0:16:31.680 on Saturday at Bemo, Tom Brady, Saquon Barkley, all kinds 0:16:31.680 --> 0:16:34.920 of stars involved. This was originally going to be in 0:16:34.960 --> 0:16:39.080 Saudi Arabia, It's been moved to Los Angeles and the 0:16:39.200 --> 0:16:42.680 event is getting a lot of fanfare here in La 0:16:42.800 --> 0:16:46.480 so joining us right now. The CEO of Fanatics, a 0:16:46.520 --> 0:16:48.760 man making a lot of moves in the sports world, 0:16:49.120 --> 0:16:52.200 Michael Rubin on the Petro San Money Show. What's cracking, Michael, 0:16:52.200 --> 0:16:52.640 how are you? 0:16:53.480 --> 0:16:56.320 I'm excited, man, can't wait for this game this weekend. 0:16:57.160 --> 0:16:58.920 The smack that's being talked to me by each of 0:16:58.920 --> 0:17:01.640 the people playing this game is pretty intense. See what's 0:17:01.680 --> 0:17:03.000 gonna happen. It's gonna be a lot of fun. 0:17:03.680 --> 0:17:06.960 Uh, just explain to us a little bit about how 0:17:07.000 --> 0:17:10.119 many teams there are playing, because there's five dudes on 0:17:10.200 --> 0:17:13.199 a team and you have a lot of there's a 0:17:13.200 --> 0:17:17.360 lot of superstar NFL types and then flag football types 0:17:17.520 --> 0:17:21.000 that are that are more accustomed to that brand of football. 0:17:22.000 --> 0:17:24.280 How do you get involved in this game if you're 0:17:24.320 --> 0:17:25.480 one of these guys. 0:17:26.280 --> 0:17:30.080 Yeah, So it's it's a round robin competition. There's three teams. 0:17:30.119 --> 0:17:33.520 The first team is led by Tom Brady and Jalen Hurts, 0:17:33.920 --> 0:17:37.440 second team is led by Joe Burrow and jayde and Daniels, 0:17:37.640 --> 0:17:40.359 and the third team is led by the USA Flag 0:17:40.359 --> 0:17:44.720 Football Team, which has actually won the last five straight championships. 0:17:45.280 --> 0:17:46.880 And it's gonna be super interesting. 0:17:46.920 --> 0:17:50.000 I just found out this morning from actually our sportsbooks 0:17:50.040 --> 0:17:53.359 telling us that they have the USA Flag Football Team 0:17:53.800 --> 0:17:57.920 is roughly six point favorites, which somenthy. I then called 0:17:57.960 --> 0:17:59.679 a couple of quarterbacks to tell them that they were 0:17:59.720 --> 0:18:01.840 under dogs, and they told me they were going to 0:18:01.920 --> 0:18:05.160 smoke these guys. So Tom Brady's forty eight years old, 0:18:05.200 --> 0:18:07.560 he told me, he said, there's nothing I love more 0:18:07.560 --> 0:18:09.920 than beating Heisman Trophy winners. I think that was a 0:18:09.960 --> 0:18:11.920 little bit of a shot toured on Joe Burrow and 0:18:12.000 --> 0:18:14.159 Jaden Daniels, and he told me there's nothing that's going 0:18:14.200 --> 0:18:16.160 to enjoy more than beating these flag football guys. 0:18:16.200 --> 0:18:17.679 So it's gonna be fun. 0:18:17.920 --> 0:18:23.399 It's one pm at Beibo here in La on Fox 0:18:23.440 --> 0:18:25.600 as well, and you're going to see some serious flay 0:18:25.600 --> 0:18:26.120 football play. 0:18:26.160 --> 0:18:27.680 Football is one of the fastest. 0:18:27.280 --> 0:18:30.159 Growing sports in the world. Obviously going to be here 0:18:30.160 --> 0:18:32.200 for the Olympics in twenty twenty eight. They're going to 0:18:32.240 --> 0:18:35.199 be played at BMO, which is exactly what we're playing. 0:18:35.440 --> 0:18:36.840 And you got, as you said, some of the best 0:18:36.880 --> 0:18:39.639 stars in the world in addition to the four incredible 0:18:39.760 --> 0:18:42.600 NFL quarterbacks actually three nine. Got to remember Tom Brady. 0:18:42.600 --> 0:18:45.399 He's not an NFL quarterback anymore, but he's still an 0:18:45.520 --> 0:18:49.160 NFL quality quarterback. Matter of fact, he tells me every 0:18:49.200 --> 0:18:50.720 day that he could beat just about any of the 0:18:50.800 --> 0:18:51.720 NFL quarterbacks. 0:18:51.960 --> 0:18:54.480 So it's going to be interesting, Michael. 0:18:54.760 --> 0:18:57.119 And by the way, tickets are at ticketmaster dot com. 0:18:57.160 --> 0:18:59.280 Still some available and get in for as little as 0:18:59.280 --> 0:19:00.920 thirty five bucks. And then why wouldn't you want to 0:19:00.960 --> 0:19:03.159 be somewhere where you mentioned You get Tom Brady and 0:19:03.240 --> 0:19:06.880 Joe Burrow, Jayden Daniels, Did you have to sell these 0:19:06.920 --> 0:19:09.840 guys and if you did, how hard was the cell? 0:19:09.960 --> 0:19:13.040 You mentioned they're talking smacks so their competitors. Was it 0:19:13.080 --> 0:19:15.359 an easy sell to get them all involved because it 0:19:15.400 --> 0:19:17.359 is an impressive list of guys that are going to 0:19:17.440 --> 0:19:17.840 be playing. 0:19:19.040 --> 0:19:19.320 Yeah. 0:19:19.359 --> 0:19:22.440 Look, I think anytime you start something new, it's hard 0:19:22.480 --> 0:19:25.280 the first year, and then it's really easy thereafter. Now, 0:19:25.320 --> 0:19:28.199 this was Tom Brady's idea, was his vision to do this, 0:19:28.600 --> 0:19:30.800 you know, kind of create this flag football competition. He 0:19:30.840 --> 0:19:32.280 called me one day last year said, look, I got 0:19:32.320 --> 0:19:34.439 an idea. I want to build the greatest flag football 0:19:34.480 --> 0:19:37.480 game ever. Let's make it the Fanatics Flag Football Classic. 0:19:38.040 --> 0:19:38.720 As you said, we. 0:19:38.640 --> 0:19:41.119 Were originally going to do it in Saudi Arabia. Obviously, 0:19:41.160 --> 0:19:42.680 with what's happening in the midd least right now, that 0:19:42.800 --> 0:19:45.040 just did make the time you work, you know, the 0:19:45.160 --> 0:19:47.399 NFL Stars is you know, have a very limited amount 0:19:47.440 --> 0:19:49.560 of offseasons, so this one we could really you know, 0:19:49.720 --> 0:19:52.240 do the games. And we moved it to Los Angeles. 0:19:52.240 --> 0:19:54.399 We thought that was great, knowing that the Olympics were 0:19:54.400 --> 0:19:55.879 here in twenty eight this is going to be a 0:19:55.920 --> 0:19:58.840 game in the Olympics at the same venue at Bimo Park, 0:19:59.160 --> 0:20:00.359 and I'd say, what we call all. 0:20:00.200 --> 0:20:01.000 These these guys. 0:20:01.240 --> 0:20:04.159 I think everybody's original reaction is yeah, I want to 0:20:04.200 --> 0:20:06.560 do it for sure, and then people just work through 0:20:06.600 --> 0:20:08.639 things and you know, look, it's a big commitment. No 0:20:08.640 --> 0:20:10.960 one wants to be embarrassed. Everybody wants to win. But 0:20:11.080 --> 0:20:14.000 I'll tell you, we got twenty four guys who want 0:20:14.040 --> 0:20:15.720 to kill each other and want to win this game. 0:20:15.760 --> 0:20:18.720 This is not some friendly playing football game. This is 0:20:18.760 --> 0:20:21.320 a you're going to have, you know, two teams primarily 0:20:21.359 --> 0:20:24.920 benetball Stars and another team of the USA play Football Champions. 0:20:25.240 --> 0:20:27.240 They're going to be out there playing for their lives. 0:20:27.960 --> 0:20:31.119 So kind of walk us through how you mentioned Tom 0:20:31.160 --> 0:20:33.240 Brady called you. But you know, we kind of look 0:20:33.240 --> 0:20:35.399 at our one sheet for you as we prepare for 0:20:35.440 --> 0:20:39.439 this interview, and we fanatics basically sells every you know, 0:20:39.560 --> 0:20:42.639 sort of supportive gear for fans for every freaking league 0:20:42.640 --> 0:20:45.399 in the world. It feels like you got tops. I 0:20:45.440 --> 0:20:48.440 don't think trading cards have ever been bigger than right now. 0:20:48.600 --> 0:20:49.959 Kind of take us through what you do and how 0:20:50.000 --> 0:20:52.359 you get involved in these things and if this's gonna 0:20:52.480 --> 0:20:55.040 be something you're doing more of live events and live 0:20:55.080 --> 0:20:55.800