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Speaker 3: Yeah, those guys are really aggor at each other. A
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Speaker 3: Time for the Top Story of the Day, Top Story
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Speaker 4: One thing that we know, and it's back to back
Speaker 4: Lakers top stories. It's part of what makes him as
Speaker 4: great a player as we've seen ever in the history
Speaker 4: of the NBA, and it's also what makes him one
Speaker 4: of the most polarizing and instead of universally beloved players,
Speaker 4: loathed by a pretty healthy percentage of casual sports fans
Speaker 4: and even the most diehard roundball fanatics. Lebron is incredibly smart.
Speaker 4: He's incredibly calculated. If you're just really good at basketball,
Speaker 4: you're gonna make your hundreds of millions, you know, three
Speaker 4: hundred million bucks or something, and you're gonna probably blow
Speaker 4: most of it, and we're not gonna hear about y'all
Speaker 4: that much off the court until it's revealed that you're
Speaker 4: like going bankrupt and you blew it. You don't become
Speaker 4: a billion and a half dollar entity and brand if
Speaker 4: you're just some lunkhead that's really good at basketball. Yesterday
Speaker 4: we focused on Luca and how he seemingly has shifted
Speaker 4: his focus. Now we both have differing philosophies. I tend
Speaker 4: to believe it's after he picked up that fifteen he
Speaker 4: technical he was able to hone in and avoid the
Speaker 4: extended conversation with referees.
Speaker 3: Just say whatever you want, Matt, I don't have a
Speaker 3: crowd of Mexican Americans to uh to pand or two.
Speaker 3: Now there's nobody. I don't care. You go ahead and
Speaker 3: compliment them all. You say what whatever reason you want
Speaker 3: to come up with for what lucas doing, well, you
Speaker 3: can have it. Matt.
Speaker 4: I no longer gave you the window to chime in.
Speaker 3: I don't care. I don't want it.
Speaker 4: You close the window and share your Baltic female theory.
Speaker 3: Well, I mean, I'm sure he feels some semblance of freedom.
Speaker 3: But again, without my Mexican American backup, I don't really
Speaker 3: feel it necessary to push back here.
Speaker 4: Luca was on the periphery of the MVP conversation, maybe
Speaker 4: the first guy out at the All NBA First Team ballot.
Speaker 3: Now I might start bringing in like a studio audience
Speaker 3: like best W's two. Oh, just line up like twenty
Speaker 3: Mexican guys every day just to you know, just so
Speaker 3: hander them have an audience to pand or two. But look,
Speaker 3: I mean if you tell me that I used to
Speaker 3: be with a comedy spy and when she left, I
Speaker 3: started scoring fifty at night and stopped yelling at the officials,
Speaker 3: it'd be pretty believable to me. Like it is to
Speaker 3: my friends in Montabello.
Speaker 4: I don't feel like they necessarily subscribed to that position.
Speaker 4: I don't feel like that that was you know, like
Speaker 4: a vote was taken and they're like, yes, comedy spy.
Speaker 3: Your feelings are probably you know, going to be you know,
Speaker 3: just whatever it is actually biased against against conspiracy theories
Speaker 3: that I have, and that's fine. You just go from
Speaker 3: say it's because Luca has some basketball reason.
Speaker 4: Yeah, fine, whatever it is. This last week, this eight
Speaker 4: game win streak, Luca has firmly placed himself on that
Speaker 4: first Team All NBA. It will be his sixth appearance
Speaker 4: in seven seasons. It has likely moved him into the
Speaker 4: top three MVP candidates, jumping the Joker Nikola Jokic and
Speaker 4: depending on how this whole thing finishes. While it doesn't
Speaker 4: seem likely at this point that he's going to be
Speaker 4: able to push Sega, shake Gildess Alexander off that podium
Speaker 4: and the number one spot, he does still have two
Speaker 4: head to heads against the Thunder before this thing is done.
Speaker 4: And if he continues to drop fifty like he has,
Speaker 4: or sixty like he did last night, or triple doubles
Speaker 4: like he is damned near average in the month of March,
Speaker 4: and the Lakers continue to climb the standings firmly entrench
Speaker 4: themselves as the three suit or maybe even get to
Speaker 4: the two, then he still has a shot at that hardware.
Speaker 4: He is averaging over forty points per game on this
Speaker 4: eight game stretch, not to mention just shy of triple
Speaker 4: double numbers and rebounds and assists. They are not empty stats.
Speaker 4: The games are tight, they're digging out of fifteen point deficits,
Speaker 4: they're sending games into overtime, they're winning at the buzzer,
Speaker 4: and they are doing it like they did last night.
Speaker 4: Because Doncic is draining back to back to back three
Speaker 4: pointers in the span of ninety seconds after it looked
Speaker 4: like JJ Reddick was about to pull the plug and
Speaker 4: rest his guys for the Saturday game against the Magic
Speaker 4: as the heat just look around and they're like, what
Speaker 4: the hell just happened? This guy was supposed to be
Speaker 4: fat and on a bad diet and he was supposed
Speaker 4: to be gassed by now. And there's other dude's like
Speaker 4: forty one, why are they still playing? And why are
Speaker 4: we losing games that we led by fifteen in the
Speaker 4: second half. Luca's game winners are viral. They've got millions
Speaker 4: and millions of views, whether they're step back threes or
Speaker 4: those Luca Magic off balance, fading away opposite direction he's shooting.
Speaker 4: And yet it's nothing but the end of the net
Speaker 4: at the end of it. And look, if you follow
Speaker 4: the Lakers, you already know this. I'm not telling you
Speaker 4: anything that's breaking news. But going back to the initial
Speaker 4: statement of our top story, why is it happening? How
Speaker 4: did we get here? And it's because Lebron is no dummy,
Speaker 4: and it is no coincidence that on March twentieth we
Speaker 4: have arrived at this point.
Speaker 3: The public narrative finally overwhelmed Lebron James.
Speaker 4: It took him a moment pee, it took him a
Speaker 4: minute to get there, to accept and realize. And I
Speaker 4: do think the public perception is part of it, but
Speaker 4: I think the bigger part is the current state of
Speaker 4: his playing career and how he thought it was supposed
Speaker 4: to look this season to get what he wanted versus
Speaker 4: what he really needed to do to get what he wants.
Speaker 4: And that's another one hundred million dollars to add to
Speaker 4: his war chest of cash, to his career earnings. And
Speaker 4: how unthinkable this might have been just eight weeks ago.
Speaker 3: Is that what an NBA player's bank account is called
Speaker 3: a war chest?
Speaker 4: It is a war chest in the billions with a bee.
Speaker 4: Instead of trying to dominate the ball.
Speaker 3: I started making so much money, I just started buying
Speaker 3: different tactical.
Speaker 4: Weapons exactly right, like blood spinning equipment, a hyperbar chamber,
Speaker 4: something to fix my sciatica or some form of it.
Speaker 4: He has stopped trying to dominate the ball. He has
Speaker 4: stopped demanding he be the alpha, and he has now
Speaker 4: stepped back and for all intents and purposes, said yes,
Speaker 4: this is Luca's team. I will play in a way
Speaker 4: that will support him in every manner possible. Luca is
Speaker 4: legitimately one of the three best players in the league,
Speaker 4: I Lebron, James, and probably somewhere between fifteen to twenty.
Speaker 4: I've got to accept that Luca needs to dominate the ball,
Speaker 4: to dominate possessions, to try to take over late when
Speaker 4: the game is close, something he was doing early in
Speaker 4: the season, making things incredibly awkward and wonky. Instead of
Speaker 4: just recognizing your standing next to one of the best closers,
Speaker 4: if not the best closer in the game in Doncic,
Speaker 4: just hand them the ball, get the f out of
Speaker 4: the way, and scream and yell like a fan when
Speaker 4: he does what he's capable of doing. And that's essentially
Speaker 4: what we've watched on this eight game stretch. Now. I
Speaker 4: don't know how Lebron got to this point. I don't
Speaker 4: know what reconciliation he had internally, if there was self reflection,
Speaker 4: if there was, as you pointed out, the public perception,
Speaker 4: the public opinions getting louder and louder.
Speaker 3: I think when he lost Windhorse, he knew that he
Speaker 3: had to flip his approach.
Speaker 4: Oh nonhuse out the stark realization that if he didn't
Speaker 4: fix his ass in a hurry, and if he wants
Speaker 4: to continue playing in the NBA, he was going to
Speaker 4: have to do it somewhere else. That this idea that
Speaker 4: Jeanie Buss and the way she used to do business
Speaker 4: of we want to keep our stars. We want this
Speaker 4: to be a place where stars know how much they're appreciated.
Speaker 4: That that was over and it was not going to
Speaker 4: happen this offseason. If he can continued to play basketball
Speaker 4: and force Luca and Austin Reeves to play basketball around
Speaker 4: him the way they were, it is no coincidence. And
Speaker 4: he's able to push this now because I do not
Speaker 4: think it's a coincidence that Lucas in the best shape
Speaker 4: of his life, that he hired a trainer, a nutritionist,
Speaker 4: that he stopped eating fast food all day every day,
Speaker 4: which was the word in Dallas, that he embraced a
Speaker 4: more Lebron like approach to his fitness, and that would
Speaker 4: be something Lebron Camp is going to push on Mark Walter. Look,
Speaker 4: you need to take care of your superstar. You know
Speaker 4: what he was like in Dallas. You know what his
Speaker 4: fitness was like in the postseason and how we'd get
Speaker 4: gassed and have to come out of games. Look at
Speaker 4: the effect that I'm having on him. I want one
Speaker 4: hundred million dollars over two years, because we've seen it
Speaker 4: in back to back games against Houston and Miami, even
Speaker 4: going back to the overtime win against the Nuggets. All
Speaker 4: the Lakers have to do is stay close, which is
Speaker 4: ultimately what the NBA playoffs are all about. If you
Speaker 4: can keep it within a few possessions in the final
Speaker 4: five minutes of a game, there are ups and down,
Speaker 4: there's runs by each team. It ebbs, it flows in.
Speaker 4: Whichever squad has the best closer, and the best clutch
Speaker 4: player typically wins. And if he is now out of
Speaker 4: the way and you can have your possessions and you
Speaker 4: can maximize them in the playoffs, you win. If you can't,
Speaker 4: you lose. They got twelve games left, two are against
Speaker 4: Oklahoma City in a five day span. I never thought
Speaker 4: i'd say it, but after last night and how easy
Speaker 4: sixty points looked for Luca and how they dug out
Speaker 4: a two fifteen point deficit holes because of him, I
Speaker 4: don't think anything's off the table for this team. If
Speaker 4: that's how he's going to keep playing. This is what
Speaker 4: we thought they were trading for last year when we
Speaker 4: said the entire Staples Center is going to be seventy
Speaker 4: seven jerseys. People are going to forget about Lebron and
Speaker 4: all they're going to care about is what does Luca
Speaker 4: look like in the final five minutes. And that's what
Speaker 4: I'm buying the ticket to see. And he just stayed
Speaker 4: in the way too long. He was too much of
Speaker 4: a bitch to let it come to fruition. And that's
Speaker 4: why they got bounced in the first round last year
Speaker 4: because he was still crying about Anthony Davis and crying
Speaker 4: about how good the defense was and how they blew
Speaker 4: It was something that was finally coming together. And now
Speaker 4: he has got out of the way. He is not
Speaker 4: doing what he did for the first two thirds of
Speaker 4: the season. This looks different. His usage rate is cut
Speaker 4: in half. He's playing off the ball, He's letting Luca
Speaker 4: go to work, he's letting Austin Reeves go to work,
Speaker 4: and he is just filling in cracks. And I'm sure
Speaker 4: he wants to win another championship, obviously, but to me,
Speaker 4: this is all self preservation. I want a hundred million bucks.
Speaker 4: I don't want it from the Cavaliers or however much
Speaker 4: it's going to be eighty million dollars seventy million bucks,
Speaker 4: whatever that number is that he would get on the
Speaker 4: open market from a legitimate championship content. I don't want
Speaker 4: it from I'm san Antonio or what her golden state.
Speaker 4: I want to continue to live in out.
Speaker 3: Kicher done at Canyon, and I'm still very close with the.
Speaker 4: Pets, very close. I want to do it here. And
Speaker 4: I think he quickly realized, ain't gonna happen with Mark Walter,
Speaker 4: not gonna happen with Andrew Friedman. If you continue to
Speaker 4: sabotage this team because of your arrogance and your inability
Speaker 4: to recognize that you are no longer the best player
Speaker 4: on your team, and you have to get the f
Speaker 4: out of the way and let that guy go to work.
Speaker 4: And now that it's working and he's a supporting role
Speaker 4: character in these viral videos, he's like, Oh, I'm gonna
Speaker 4: get my money. I'm gonna get my I'm gonna be
Speaker 4: able to stay. We're going to go on a run
Speaker 4: and I'm gonna get my one hundred million bucks and
Speaker 4: p you know what that means. It means the King's
Speaker 4: giving it to us.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it means another year getting nailed.
Speaker 4: By He's gonna get nailed by another year.
Speaker 3: Just because you're saying it doesn't mean it's gonna happen.
Speaker 4: He is so he is playing so different games. I'm
Speaker 4: like you, mother Effort.
Speaker 3: We'll see what happens.
Speaker 4: You're gonna get that contract and you're gonna f us again.
Speaker 3: Certainly makes the ending of the season more interesting. But
Speaker 3: I don't think anybody wants that guy around, not in
Speaker 3: real life.
Speaker 1: No, we shall see.
Speaker 3: Coming up next, we'll talk to Tom Brady's best friend,
Speaker 3: the BFF of the flag Football World, Michael Rubin, who
Speaker 3: had to move that event from Saudi Arabia to La
Speaker 3: which is why you're hearing all the fanfare about it.
Speaker 3: He will join us next and tell us what's popping
Speaker 3: off a bemo tomorrow, and we have tickets to give away.
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Speaker 3: Yes, in flag football. The Fanatics Flag Football Classic has
Speaker 3: its inaugural star studded five on five tournament, hosted by
Speaker 3: our guest Fanatics CEO Michael Rubin, and it is all
Speaker 3: on Saturday at Bemo, Tom Brady, Saquon Barkley, all kinds
Speaker 3: of stars involved. This was originally going to be in
Speaker 3: Saudi Arabia, It's been moved to Los Angeles and the
Speaker 3: event is getting a lot of fanfare here in La
Speaker 3: so joining us right now. The CEO of Fanatics, a
Speaker 3: man making a lot of moves in the sports world,
Speaker 3: Michael Rubin on the Petro San Money Show. What's cracking, Michael,
Speaker 3: how are you?
Speaker 7: I'm excited, man, can't wait for this game this weekend.
Speaker 7: The smack that's being talked to me by each of
Speaker 7: the people playing this game is pretty intense. See what's
Speaker 7: gonna happen. It's gonna be a lot of fun.
Speaker 3: Uh, just explain to us a little bit about how
Speaker 3: many teams there are playing, because there's five dudes on
Speaker 3: a team and you have a lot of there's a
Speaker 3: lot of superstar NFL types and then flag football types
Speaker 3: that are that are more accustomed to that brand of football.
Speaker 3: How do you get involved in this game if you're
Speaker 3: one of these guys.
Speaker 7: Yeah, So it's it's a round robin competition. There's three teams.
Speaker 7: The first team is led by Tom Brady and Jalen Hurts,
Speaker 7: second team is led by Joe Burrow and jayde and Daniels,
Speaker 7: and the third team is led by the USA Flag
Speaker 7: Football Team, which has actually won the last five straight championships.
Speaker 8: And it's gonna be super interesting.
Speaker 7: I just found out this morning from actually our sportsbooks
Speaker 7: telling us that they have the USA Flag Football Team
Speaker 7: is roughly six point favorites, which somenthy. I then called
Speaker 7: a couple of quarterbacks to tell them that they were
Speaker 7: under dogs, and they told me they were going to
Speaker 7: smoke these guys. So Tom Brady's forty eight years old,
Speaker 7: he told me, he said, there's nothing I love more
Speaker 7: than beating Heisman Trophy winners. I think that was a
Speaker 7: little bit of a shot toured on Joe Burrow and
Speaker 7: Jaden Daniels, and he told me there's nothing that's going
Speaker 7: to enjoy more than beating these flag football guys.
Speaker 8: So it's gonna be fun.
Speaker 7: It's one pm at Beibo here in La on Fox
Speaker 7: as well, and you're going to see some serious flay
Speaker 7: football play.
Speaker 8: Football is one of the fastest.
Speaker 7: Growing sports in the world. Obviously going to be here
Speaker 7: for the Olympics in twenty twenty eight. They're going to
Speaker 7: be played at BMO, which is exactly what we're playing.
Speaker 7: And you got, as you said, some of the best
Speaker 7: stars in the world in addition to the four incredible
Speaker 7: NFL quarterbacks actually three nine. Got to remember Tom Brady.
Speaker 7: He's not an NFL quarterback anymore, but he's still an
Speaker 7: NFL quality quarterback. Matter of fact, he tells me every
Speaker 7: day that he could beat just about any of the
Speaker 7: NFL quarterbacks.
Speaker 8: So it's going to be interesting, Michael.
Speaker 4: And by the way, tickets are at ticketmaster dot com.
Speaker 4: Still some available and get in for as little as
Speaker 4: thirty five bucks. And then why wouldn't you want to
Speaker 4: be somewhere where you mentioned You get Tom Brady and
Speaker 4: Joe Burrow, Jayden Daniels, Did you have to sell these
Speaker 4: guys and if you did, how hard was the cell?
Speaker 4: You mentioned they're talking smacks so their competitors. Was it
Speaker 4: an easy sell to get them all involved because it
Speaker 4: is an impressive list of guys that are going to
Speaker 4: be playing.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Look, I think anytime you start something new, it's hard
Speaker 7: the first year, and then it's really easy thereafter. Now,
Speaker 7: this was Tom Brady's idea, was his vision to do this,
Speaker 7: you know, kind of create this flag football competition. He
Speaker 7: called me one day last year said, look, I got
Speaker 7: an idea. I want to build the greatest flag football
Speaker 7: game ever. Let's make it the Fanatics Flag Football Classic.
Speaker 8: As you said, we.
Speaker 7: Were originally going to do it in Saudi Arabia. Obviously,
Speaker 7: with what's happening in the midd least right now, that
Speaker 7: just did make the time you work, you know, the
Speaker 7: NFL Stars is you know, have a very limited amount
Speaker 7: of offseasons, so this one we could really you know,
Speaker 7: do the games. And we moved it to Los Angeles.
Speaker 7: We thought that was great, knowing that the Olympics were
Speaker 7: here in twenty eight this is going to be a
Speaker 7: game in the Olympics at the same venue at Bimo Park,
Speaker 7: and I'd say, what we call all.
Speaker 8: These these guys.
Speaker 7: I think everybody's original reaction is yeah, I want to
Speaker 7: do it for sure, and then people just work through
Speaker 7: things and you know, look, it's a big commitment. No
Speaker 7: one wants to be embarrassed. Everybody wants to win. But
Speaker 7: I'll tell you, we got twenty four guys who want
Speaker 7: to kill each other and want to win this game.
Speaker 7: This is not some friendly playing football game. This is
Speaker 7: a you're going to have, you know, two teams primarily
Speaker 7: benetball Stars and another team of the USA play Football Champions.
Speaker 7: They're going to be out there playing for their lives.
Speaker 4: So kind of walk us through how you mentioned Tom
Speaker 4: Brady called you. But you know, we kind of look
Speaker 4: at our one sheet for you as we prepare for
Speaker 4: this interview, and we fanatics basically sells every you know,
Speaker 4: sort of supportive gear for fans for every freaking league
Speaker 4: in the world. It feels like you got tops. I
Speaker 4: don't think trading cards have ever been bigger than right now.
Speaker 4: Kind of take us through what you do and how
Speaker 4: you get involved in these things and if this's gonna
Speaker 4: be something you're doing more of live events and live
Speaker 4: sporting events.
Speaker 8: Yeah, so for me, I have the greatest job of
Speaker 8: the world.
Speaker 7: To build fanatics is something that you know, I really
Speaker 7: got going with the twenty eleven I'm kind of fifteen
Speaker 7: sixteen years into it. You know, I wake up every
Speaker 7: morning with a you know, burning passion to you know,
Speaker 7: want to build the greatest company in the world, to
Speaker 7: build one of the most important sports brands and you know,
Speaker 7: certainly one of the most important consumer brands. And you know,
Speaker 7: I feel like we're just getting started. We certainly do
Speaker 7: work with a lot of the best sports properties, teams,
Speaker 7: players to say, but we feel like we're just getting going.
Speaker 7: We did get in the collectible's business about four and
Speaker 7: a half years ago. I'll tell you, I think the
Speaker 7: growth and the collectibles business people thought when we got
Speaker 7: started that really collectible as were to all time high.
Speaker 7: And what we recognized is there really been no product innovation.
Speaker 7: There did no marketing. So for us, it's been I
Speaker 7: think relatively easy to start to build this business a
Speaker 7: meaningful way. There's been so many product innovations, We've had
Speaker 7: so much you know, kind of interest in marketing and
Speaker 7: then really getting athletes about and they're also been betting
Speaker 7: in the gaming business with the Finax Sports book at
Speaker 7: Finax Casino. So we're twenty two thousand people today, about
Speaker 7: thirteen billion dollar company, But we feel like a big startup.
Speaker 7: We feel like we're just getting going every day. We're
Speaker 7: fighting for our lives and you know, we got one
Speaker 7: job relentlessly enhanced the fan experience. We just talked about
Speaker 7: live events. We like doing things like this because it's
Speaker 7: you just do great things for sports fans. That's why
Speaker 7: we created a Fanatics Best that's the biggest sports festal
Speaker 7: in the world. We started two years ago. You have
Speaker 7: the biggest stars that all come out that last year
Speaker 7: we had, you know, from Tom Brady, Lebron James to
Speaker 7: Kevin Durant to you know, I think we had the
Speaker 7: Jake Paul Mike Tyson press conference there. Maybe that was
Speaker 7: two years ago. You've got people like Jay Z, Travis Scott,
Speaker 7: Kevin Hart. You know, you've got you know, best athletes
Speaker 7: in the world. Certainly Kevin Hart would not qualified from
Speaker 7: the best athletes so well, but yeah, he's definitely.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I didn't mean to put him an athlete.
Speaker 7: Yeah, every once in a while we try to give
Speaker 7: some credit you shouldn't got credit, but no, Look, we
Speaker 7: like doing these events because it's how he brings sports
Speaker 7: fans together and Fanatics Best is probably the best example
Speaker 7: that we have two hundred thousand people over four days
Speaker 7: to come together this summer Fanatics Best.
Speaker 8: But the fanatics like football. Cassic is just another example.
Speaker 7: That like who won't want to watch Tom Braden Jalen
Speaker 7: Hurt's work together? Who won eight Super Bowls to go
Speaker 7: out and try to, you know, take on jayde and
Speaker 7: Daniels and Joe burb you know, and then the USA
Speaker 7: play football team. So we like things like this. It's
Speaker 7: a lot of fun.
Speaker 8: This is the first year. This will be a tradition
Speaker 8: every year that will do this.
Speaker 7: In the spring, and certainly there's so much more momentum
Speaker 7: around playing football.
Speaker 3: Michael Rubin, the founder and CEO of Fanatics taking over
Speaker 3: the world of sports joining us now and the big
Speaker 3: event at BEMO Ticketmasters still available The Flag Football the
Speaker 3: Fanatics Classic. Michael, how high on your list of concerns
Speaker 3: for you as we head towards Saturday is flag guarding
Speaker 3: and how and also like a guy that like puts
Speaker 3: his flag on and then tucks it into his underwear,
Speaker 3: So it's really stuck in there and you can't yank
Speaker 3: it out that easily. How high on your list of
Speaker 3: concerns are these things?
Speaker 1: You know, here's the good news.
Speaker 7: There's three or four hundred people that putt on the
Speaker 7: game to know a lot more about how to do
Speaker 7: it than I do. What I can do is help
Speaker 7: Tom when he had this big idea, help you bring
Speaker 7: the people together, help him put on this competition when
Speaker 7: it comes to flagguard. I can't speak to this specific,
Speaker 7: but I can tell you there's nothing being missed. And
Speaker 7: we've been really lucky. The NFL has been super involved
Speaker 7: in this, helping us in every way, shape.
Speaker 8: Or form, you know, working together with them.
Speaker 7: You know, certainly play football is a big initiative of
Speaker 7: the NFL's I don't think we could be here without
Speaker 7: the help and support of the NFL.
Speaker 8: So you know this is going to be, you know,
Speaker 8: a game with.
Speaker 3: The highest level.
Speaker 7: And you talk about the caliber of people playing in
Speaker 7: the game. You talk about, you know, the co commissioners
Speaker 7: that we have, Drew Breese, Aire Gerald, and you just
Speaker 7: talk about by the way, Roger Bedell's coming out for this,
Speaker 7: many the owners are coming out for this. I mean,
Speaker 7: this is a serious competition and it's going to be
Speaker 7: treated in the most serious of ways.
Speaker 3: I mean, just because you're a big NFL star or
Speaker 3: an ex Hall of Famer doesn't mean you can't put
Speaker 3: an extra clamp on that flag. You know, it's an
Speaker 3: issue at every level.
Speaker 4: Now you wrap that thing around the.
Speaker 7: Beltw Well, also are going to have to make sure
Speaker 7: the securities step in their eyes on you guys. I'm
Speaker 7: assuming you guys are coming out. Got to make sure
Speaker 7: security is carefully watching you guys.
Speaker 4: Well, we come out, the people come out. You can
Speaker 4: get your tickets. We're gonna give away a package by
Speaker 4: the way here at the end of this conversation, but
Speaker 4: check ticketmaster right now. It's this Saturday out there, bemo.
Speaker 4: One o'clock start Saturday, March twenty first, and it is
Speaker 4: happening right here in our backyard. If I may, Michael,
Speaker 4: shift just briefly to the giant business you have that
Speaker 4: is fanatics. Have you ever made a phone call or
Speaker 4: have you ever had a conversation when you've seen a
Speaker 4: uniform adjustment or you know, memorabilia or a gear adjustment
Speaker 4: that you're just like, come on, man, this ain't gonna work.
Speaker 4: We got to talk through this and let's kind of
Speaker 4: maybe redirect a little bit so we can move some
Speaker 4: units here. Has that ever happened?
Speaker 8: Of course.
Speaker 7: Look, we're in a business where we we have you know,
Speaker 7: we have tens of millions of the best sports fans
Speaker 7: in the world to buy from us every year. They
Speaker 7: have really incredible expectations they want. You know, the great
Speaker 7: thing about sports fans is they're so passion. There's nothing
Speaker 7: that brings people to get other more than the sports
Speaker 7: unifies people, brings people together, and they've got really high expectations.
Speaker 7: And I'll tell you what, sports fans make you the
Speaker 7: best company you can possibly be. So if I told
Speaker 7: you that everything went perfectly, that would be like not
Speaker 7: a normal day fanatics. There's always, you know, things that
Speaker 7: you want to work to be better at. There's always
Speaker 7: things that look, you know, we're a decent sized company.
Speaker 7: We keep growing. You know, certainly it's a very visible business.
Speaker 7: So there's always things that we work to do better.
Speaker 7: There's always things who work to push our partners who've
Speaker 7: been better at the sports properties we work with, and
Speaker 7: they push us in sports fans push us.
Speaker 8: To be the best company.
Speaker 7: We can so if I told you no, I think
Speaker 7: you have to, you know, check out my mental well
Speaker 7: being to see if I was giving you good accurate answers.
Speaker 3: Bemo Stadium Saturday. It's happening with the Flag Football Classic,
Speaker 3: the Fanatics Flag Football Classic, Tom Brady and many others,
Speaker 3: Joe Burrow and the like going at it and they're
Speaker 3: angry at each other. You heard Michael say it. Michael,
Speaker 3: congrats on all your success and good luck with this
Speaker 3: event and all the stuff in the future. Thanks a
Speaker 3: lot for coming on.
Speaker 8: I appreciate.
Speaker 7: But before I let you guys go, you got some
Speaker 7: of who do you think is gonna win? Which are
Speaker 7: the three teams? You guys got to go on record
Speaker 7: right now?
Speaker 3: This is no like maybe the Flag foot I'd say
Speaker 3: probably the flag football guys, because they're just gonna go out,
Speaker 3: you know, they're going to flag football it up and
Speaker 3: they know the angles that the NFL types do not.
Speaker 4: I got some faith in Gronk, right, could Gronk just
Speaker 4: like destroy everybody out there? He looks like he's still
Speaker 4: in pretty good shape. Whose team is he on?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 7: The draft is tonight, by the way, seven thirty PSD.
Speaker 7: You can watch it live at NFL's YouTube channel, Fax
Speaker 7: YouTube channel. My guess is Brady's going to very quickly
Speaker 7: be picking Gronk.
Speaker 2: It.
Speaker 7: I did just through an interview where someone said, if
Speaker 7: they were Jaden and Joe Burrow, the first thing they
Speaker 7: do is pick Gronk just to mess with with on
Speaker 7: Tom's head.
Speaker 4: It's a bold strategy. I like it, Michael, we appreciate it.
Speaker 4: We're gonna give away a heck of a package for this.
Speaker 4: By the way, at some point throughout the course of
Speaker 4: the show, talking about on field access, Meet and Greet's
Speaker 4: official game merch live hardbreaks from card Vault by Tom Brady,
Speaker 4: all of that to a grand prize winner. So continue
Speaker 4: to listen for your opportunity to win that. And again,
Speaker 4: if you want to head out, why wouldn't you. It
Speaker 4: is this Saturday in our backyard Bemo Stadium. Ticketmaster dot
Speaker 4: com has got all of your tickets for the one
Speaker 4: pm start. Good luck, Michael, thank you for joining us.
Speaker 4: We appreciate it, Thanks for having us.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, you know how hot it is outside. It's even
Speaker 6: hotter in the desert.
Speaker 3: Guys.
Speaker 4: It is just.
Speaker 6: I'm surprised by day what it's so hot that tomorrow's
Speaker 6: final game TV only is at eleven am, not one o'clock.
Speaker 3: They moved it up because of the heat, and arezont
Speaker 3: it blew me away? Because you're like, if you think
Speaker 3: it's hot here, I didn't wait until you get out
Speaker 3: to the desert.
Speaker 4: It gets hotter in Arizona than it is in southern California.
Speaker 4: Like when we're dealing with ninety degrees, what are they
Speaker 4: dealing with? What are we talking about here?
Speaker 3: Guys?
Speaker 6: Apparently it gets hotter over there, so add ten degrees
Speaker 6: or whatever it is here, So let's.
Speaker 3: Add ten degrees from my house to Burbank. Copy that. Uh, yeah,
Speaker 3: it is hot out there, so whatever. Uh. It's for
Speaker 3: your dead and the Life guy, Birthday of the Day,
Speaker 3: beating out the great Roman poet Ovid and the Great
Speaker 3: Jerry Reid. The claw we do Jerry Reid all every year.
Speaker 3: This year we'll talk about down Edwards to keep the
Speaker 3: j read Curly Burnett theme. This week he would have
Speaker 3: been eighty seven today. Don Edwards from Bouton, New Jersey,
Speaker 3: but left New Jersey a restless bronc buck at sixteen
Speaker 3: with a pink carnation and a pickup truck, and he
Speaker 3: went to Texas to work on the Texas oil fields
Speaker 3: and experience life in the West. And he did become that.
Speaker 3: He became a great Western bard in Troubadour. In a
Speaker 3: similar move to Travis Kelcey, Dawn worked at six Flags
Speaker 3: back then it was the original six Flags over Texas,
Speaker 3: Oh Yeah, And he worked there as a singer, an
Speaker 3: actor and stuntman for five years. Sheryl Crow, Ladies and gentlemen,
Speaker 3: Man cow They're going to freak out my man. And
Speaker 3: then he left for Nashville like Bobby Bones, to seek
Speaker 3: fortune and fame, and he found it immediately in Nancy
Speaker 3: Griffin's Nancy Griffiths Grammy Award winning album. Edwards released more
Speaker 3: than a dozen solo albums and the greatest hits for
Speaker 3: about thirty years. Man albums like My Hero, Gene Autry,
Speaker 3: and High Lonesome Cowboy with Peter Rowan, which was Grammy nominated.
Speaker 3: He is in the Western Music Association Hall of Fame,
Speaker 3: which might just be only on the Internet. He played
Speaker 3: the character Smoky in Robert Redford's The Horse Whisperer, not
Speaker 3: to be confused with The House Whisper, which is a
Speaker 3: weekend show on KFI. Very friendly with Don Martin and
Speaker 3: Robin Bertolucci say all her names. What they're not friends
Speaker 3: with the House Whisper. I thought they went to Italy together.
Speaker 3: The Dean Dean Sharp.
Speaker 4: Yeah, good head of hair on Dean.
Speaker 3: James Earl Jones called him the singing scholar of the
Speaker 3: Old West. They were good friends. Married to his wife
Speaker 3: Kathy for forty five years. Don Edwards lived on his
Speaker 3: ranch in Hicco, Texas, where he died in twenty twenty two.
Speaker 3: Don Edwards also a proligent, prodigious yodler.
Speaker 9: Now the longhorns are gone, and the drovers are gone,
Speaker 9: the comanches are gone, and the outlaws are gone.
Speaker 3: Now now it's just one big water Burgers.
Speaker 9: Gone, Stana what is gone? And the lion is gone,
Speaker 9: and the red Wolf is gone.
Speaker 4: It snow, lady a, but it's pretty good.
Speaker 3: Oh, lady A. My favorite is Confederate Road with their
Speaker 3: song White Black Label and White Lies.
Speaker 4: All right, man, you're alive.
Speaker 3: Guy Scottish News. Hi, Yo, wean ball by.
Speaker 6: Hi, it's Goltish news news.
Speaker 3: It is Scoltish. What's your wished? Hi? Do you have
Speaker 3: an understand the word I'm saying? Got yoursel II?
Speaker 6: You own with the Scoltish News.
Speaker 4: Well, I've told this story before, but allow me to reminisce.
Speaker 4: It is one of the few pleasant memories in a
Speaker 4: sea and a career of disappointment. A few shows that
Speaker 4: I had been to in all my years in the
Speaker 4: music business that stop you dead in your tracks and
Speaker 4: you know you're watching something special that will take off
Speaker 4: that in order for it not to be successful, something
Speaker 4: will have to go horribly wrong, and you'll remember back
Speaker 4: to that moment when you and everyone else in the
Speaker 4: room was there because of the buzz, because they were
Speaker 4: told this is going to be the next big thing,
Speaker 4: and it usually disappoints, but in this particular case, in
Speaker 4: March of two thousand and four, south by Southwest Buffalo,
Speaker 4: Billiards pool hauled downstairs Rock Venue upstairs, same place I
Speaker 4: saw my Morning Jack under the same circumstances, not knowing
Speaker 4: much about them, Franz Ferdinand had just put out a
Speaker 4: single in the UK a month before, was about to
Speaker 4: be released in the US two months later, and Today's
Speaker 4: a Live Guy. Alex Kapranos, frontman of Franz Ferdinand, was
Speaker 4: a g damn superstar. He delivered. He held the crowd
Speaker 4: of jaded music industry folks in the palm of his
Speaker 4: hand and took everyone on a journey over forty five
Speaker 4: minutes that left everyone saying, all right, that one finally delivered.
Speaker 4: They closed with the song Missfire. Figured that was going
Speaker 4: to be the big hit. Of course it was take
Speaker 4: me out whole place, jumping singing by the end of it,
Speaker 4: and I ended up getting back to the radio station
Speaker 4: on Monday, put the song into heavy rotation immediately, and
Speaker 4: that album, as you hear Dark of the Matinee in
Speaker 4: the background, delivered four or five singles, three million copies sold.
Speaker 4: A Pranos p a Greek like you.
Speaker 3: If he was a Greek like me, I'd have been
Speaker 3: raised in Scotland.
Speaker 4: His father was a Greek and he was raised in Glasgow.
Speaker 4: Earned his theology degree from the University of Strathclyde, but
Speaker 4: did not do much with it obviously, as he was
Speaker 4: working odd jobs bartender, chef, waiter, delivery driver while simultaneously
Speaker 4: being a fixture in the Glasgow music scene. He got
Speaker 4: together with the guys that would ultimately become Franz Ferdinand.
Speaker 4: Went through a number of different iterations yummy fur embryo,
Speaker 4: all driven by our live guy Alex Caapranos. Today. He
Speaker 4: recruited his friend Bob Hardy to play bass after Mick
Speaker 4: Cook of Bell and Sebastian suggested Alex do the same,
Speaker 4: but He's like, noah, man, I'm gonna get my man
Speaker 4: Bob to be bass player. He had then convinced guitarist
Speaker 4: Nick McCarthy, who had returned to Scotland after doing jazz
Speaker 4: in Germany, to join and they settled on the name
Speaker 4: Franz Ferdinand. Why sure, you have an idea, but no,
Speaker 4: it was a horse of the same name. They were
Speaker 4: watching together win the North Humberland plate in two thousand
Speaker 4: and one, and so they decided to name their band
Speaker 4: not after the Archduke, but a horse that was named
Speaker 4: after the Archduke. They recorded some demos they signed to
Speaker 4: independent Domino Records. Tore Johansen of The Cardigans produced the record,
Speaker 4: their debut single Darts of Pleasure got some play. Take
Speaker 4: Me Out Quick hit huge in the UK. They did
Speaker 4: not have a US distributor, which is why it was
Speaker 4: sort of unknown, but the Southwest Southwest Show launched them
Speaker 4: heavy rotation everywhere. MTV sold over a million copies. Number
Speaker 4: one at Alternative Rock Nmy named it the Album of
Speaker 4: the Year. They played at the Grammys, nominated for the
Speaker 4: Best Rock Performance. Lost Up did well two million copies.
Speaker 4: Do You Want To was a sort of hit and
Speaker 4: then just kind of faded away.
Speaker 3: They went away.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they're still going though, five albums later. Our man
Speaker 4: Alex Today's a live guy, has expanded his celebrity over
Speaker 4: there in Scotland and the UK. He is a presenter,
Speaker 4: he is a voiceover actor, He is a narrator. He
Speaker 4: is a filmmaker. He dated Eleanor Friedberger from The Fiery
Speaker 4: Furnaces for a while, but they broke up and he
Speaker 4: married a French musician, Clara Luciani. They have two kids
Speaker 4: and he's fifty fourth today. I guess we could have
Speaker 4: gone with British news, we could have gone with Greek news.
Speaker 3: No, he's a Scottish Schoolish. He's a Scotsman. Yeah, We'll
Speaker 3: be back with your quick hits and the fun fact,
Speaker 3: and then we will say goodbye for the weekend. You'll
Speaker 3: have Dodger Baseball to enjoy those, so don't worry about that.
Speaker 3: Five point thirty. David Vasse will be here for Marango.
Speaker 3: Well no, no, no, not yet, just the pregame show
Speaker 3: Marago Casino, Dodgers on Deck, start Win Kates Sunday Night,
Speaker 3: and then we strap in for the season opening days. Stuff,
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