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Speaker 1: Podcast listeners and Cleveland sorta. This is for you. Welcome

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Speaker 1: to No Dunks, presented by FanDuel. I'm test Melie with me.

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Speaker 1: It's the man who's always making the magic happen. It's JD. Hello,

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Speaker 1: what's up, JD? Here we are in the studio. It's

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Speaker 1: great to be back for me. It's been a while

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Speaker 1: I've been here. Oh, yesterday I did a little short

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Speaker 1: show about the three team trade that happened. It's still

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Speaker 1: eating me because at the end of the show, is

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Speaker 1: going through Dallas's roster for next season, and I said,

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Speaker 1: Olivia Maxon's prosper is on the Mavericks roster because I

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Speaker 1: was looking through the roster and he's still being paid

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Speaker 1: by the Mask because he was waved by them last year.

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Speaker 2: And I said he was going to be on the

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Speaker 2: roster next year.

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Speaker 3: But he's a grizzly and.

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Speaker 1: It's still eating at me. So I had to get

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Speaker 1: that off my chest. It's off my chest a correction

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Speaker 1: to start the show. We got to be real here. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I know it's eating at me all night and I

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Speaker 1: thought to myself, I'm not going to start the show

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Speaker 1: with that. I'm not going to start the show with that,

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Speaker 1: but I ended up starting the show with that. What

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Speaker 1: I did want to start this show with was a

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Speaker 1: huge review of my Yellowstone Park.

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Speaker 2: Yes, no, I'm kidding, I'm not going to do a

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Speaker 2: huge review.

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Speaker 3: It was great.

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Speaker 1: It's magical. It really is magical. Old faithful, old faithful

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Speaker 1: picture pictures. You know, they don't do it justice. They

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Speaker 1: really don't.

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Speaker 2: I'm not kidding.

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Speaker 3: I hear it. Yeah, I've never been, so I'd love

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Speaker 3: to go.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you gotta go. It's wonderful.

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Speaker 3: I saw a picture of you on a horse.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that wasn't planned. I was surprised. I was surprised.

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Speaker 1: We took We ended up going. This was outside of

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Speaker 1: Yellstone Park. I went to Jackson, Wyoming. I got my

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Speaker 1: kids on horses. That was surprising. A six and a

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Speaker 1: half year old, a little risky.

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it wasn't a wild horse like controlled uh

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Speaker 1: the situation, controlled environment? Yes, yes, yes, so yeah we didn't.

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Speaker 2: She's just it was just know. She was great.

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Speaker 1: She was so into it. My horse was named Big

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Speaker 1: Mac because as soon as I sat on him, he

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Speaker 1: spit up some white stuff. And they call him Big

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Speaker 1: Mac because everything he spits up. Kind of looks like

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Speaker 1: big Mac sauce. Yeah, he was disgusting. The guy, the

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Speaker 1: guy who was leading our ride said, I love this horse.

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Speaker 1: He's beautiful. His mane was trimmed so nicely. But he's disgusting,

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Speaker 1: is what he said. Then his uh spit turned green

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Speaker 1: after a while. But great horse, okay, uh and yeah,

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Speaker 1: great ride, really really fun ride. I didn't We've we've

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Speaker 1: brought it up on the show before, way back when

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Speaker 1: a lot of us don't really like horses, but I am.

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Speaker 3: I enjoy a horse. Yeah, I like horses. Sure, why not?

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Speaker 2: I'm with you now after that ride?

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Speaker 3: Wow, Yeah, you've turned the corner on a horse.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, because they are controlled.

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Speaker 1: I guess the worry is and maybe the the.

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Speaker 3: Unknown of the horses.

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Speaker 2: Well, he could be a wild one.

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Speaker 3: You know, absolutely, but if you get a trained one, yeah,

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Speaker 3: a broken one, I hate to say.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: That was and that's the great thing about Yelstone Park.

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Speaker 1: No animals are broken there. They all feel they were riding.

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Speaker 1: It was just so fun.

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Speaker 3: Did you gallop and trot or was it just a walk?

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Speaker 1: It was just a walk pretty much. We did have

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Speaker 1: a nine year old who was the co leader of

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Speaker 1: old on a horse. He did some galloping. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: that was cool to say.

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Speaker 3: That's fun, like if you can get on a horse,

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Speaker 3: like on a more advanced rides where they take you

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Speaker 3: like trotting. Trotting is tough because it's like up and down,

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Speaker 3: but once you're in a gallop and you're with the horse,

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Speaker 3: it's it's very cool. Yeah, that's awesome.

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Speaker 1: That's where we were worried about our six year old kid.

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Speaker 1: Is that gallop? But she looked like she was flying

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Speaker 1: off that thing. Yeah, so you've done the I've done.

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Speaker 3: I've done ride it like rides like tours basically, but

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Speaker 3: more advanced tours through trails and stuff. Yeah, that's what

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Speaker 3: we did, and but like portions of it were like that.

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Speaker 3: We were on a full on gallop, like through the

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: It was awesome, man.

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Speaker 2: Yeah we did that. That's what we did.

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Speaker 3: So you did, like you ran on the horse.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well but ran. I reluctant to say ran because

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Speaker 2: it's slow.

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Speaker 3: Okay, well then you didn't run because it's fast when

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Speaker 2: We weren't flying around. It was slow. But yeah, the

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Speaker 2: whole thing was premeditated.

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Speaker 1: We know what we're doing. The horse knows what it's doing.

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Speaker 1: It goes through water, it takes a sip of water,

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Speaker 1: it trots on rocks. I was kind of worried looking

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Speaker 2: But they're hooves are no problem. They know how to

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to fall on rocks anyway, neither does

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Speaker 1: the horse. Yeah that's a good point. Well, I'm more

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Speaker 1: likely to fall off the horse than Yeah.

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Speaker 3: True, the horse falls, you fall. That's that's a guarantee.

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Speaker 2: All right.

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Speaker 1: So getting back here into the studio, it was fun,

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Speaker 1: obviously to be back here in the studio, was debating

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Speaker 1: what kind of show are we doing. We're talking about

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Speaker 1: Summer League and the Golden State Warriors winning the thing. No, no, no,

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Speaker 1: Although it was a fun ending because there aren't many

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Speaker 1: memorable Summer League moments where you say, I remember twenty fourteen,

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Speaker 1: This one is kind of cool where the Warriors won.

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Speaker 1: Jaxel Lndenborg won MVP and he was interviewed after he said,

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Speaker 1: we came back on the Grizzlies because their butts were

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Speaker 3: It's a good that's a good quote.

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Speaker 2: It's a good quote for summer league. That's a really

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Speaker 2: good quote. So I debated that.

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Speaker 1: I debated, as Lebron still making his decision, should we

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Speaker 1: just go over his career the best moments of his

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Speaker 1: career is Nah, let's take it off the court with Lebron.

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Speaker 1: I wanted to look at everything, you know, the whole

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Speaker 1: been around for twenty three years. So I decided, let's

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Speaker 1: look at the twenty most iconic off court moments for

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Speaker 1: Lebron through these last twenty three years. Whether it's holding

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Speaker 1: the US flag at the Olympics or Taco Tuesday, or

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Speaker 1: becoming a billionaire. We'll get to all of that, but

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Speaker 1: I want to start with him becoming a villain in

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Speaker 1: twenty ten. It's sort of chronological that we'll go through

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Speaker 1: here and we'll start in twenty ten. When the decision happened.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you remember this CD, but it

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Speaker 1: was an hour I forget.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, it was not an hour. It was

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Speaker 3: ninety minutes, it ninety I think it was ninety minutes. Really,

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Speaker 3: it felt like ninety minutes.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, ninety minutes sounds absolute nuts. I'm pretty sure it

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Speaker 3: I'm seeing seventy five minute ESPN special to announce he

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Speaker 3: was leaving his hometown. Seventy five minutes. That's an odd time.

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Speaker 2: That's an odd time.

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Speaker 3: Maybe I'm being misinformed here. It was long task, is

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and not only long the broadcast itself, but just

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Speaker 1: the excruciating weight to find out what he was doing,

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Speaker 1: especially for the people of Cleveland, and then for it

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Speaker 1: to be announced that he was going to make his

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Speaker 1: announcement on this TV show. Yeah now, yeah, in twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty six. It seems impossible that someone would do that,

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Speaker 1: especially somebody who's so media savvy. Yeah, and you know,

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Speaker 1: we'll get to more media savviness as the years go on.

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Speaker 1: But spend that much time sitting in front of the

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Speaker 1: Boys and Girls Club, as they had to sit awkwardly

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Speaker 1: and watched a chunk of it.

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Speaker 2: It was so cringey. It was just so difficult to watch.

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Speaker 1: I wonder what the mentality was back then. It was

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Speaker 1: it to soften the blow that I'm leaving Cleveland, and

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Speaker 1: this allows me to kind of elaborate and just speak

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Speaker 1: on everything. I mean, it kind of feels like, I

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Speaker 3: It felt like he was going to try to explain himself,

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Speaker 3: but it ended up making it way worse for people.

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Speaker 3: It did raise money for charity.

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Speaker 2: Though, this is true. This is a good point.

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Speaker 3: So that's a good thing, absolutely, Yeah, but also it's

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Speaker 3: a small consolation. The Cleveland fans. They were literally getting

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and now it's sort of the absolute reference for

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Speaker 1: He just absolutely cannot do this any corrected himself years later,

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Speaker 1: But that's what this is. I think now it's just

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Speaker 1: a reference point how not to do it. Yeah, you

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Speaker 3: That's right. He fell off the horse, So the rest

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Speaker 3: of people, they'll avoid falling off the horse, right right, right,

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Speaker 3: getting the horse. Okay, we're done talking about horses.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we're done talking about that moment, but we you know,

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Speaker 1: stay chronologically. The villain at number two of these twenty

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Speaker 1: moments remains because later that year, he announced, well, he

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Speaker 1: was part of the Heat press conference where the whole

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Speaker 1: thing happened with him and Wade and Bosh, where they

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Speaker 1: introduced themselves and how many titles they were gonna win,

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Speaker 1: not one, not two, not three, not four, not five,

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Speaker 1: not six, not seven.

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Speaker 2: Ah, And obviously they didn't do that.

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Speaker 1: And I wonder if he didn't do the decision months earlier,

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Speaker 1: if this still keeps him as a villain, if this

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Speaker 1: villain if he didn't have that whole right decision part

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Speaker 1: and part I would assume, Yeah, I.

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Speaker 3: Mean, look, correct me if I'm wrong. But this was

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Speaker 3: sort of the almost rock concert event, right right right?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I call that a press conference, but really but.

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Speaker 3: It's like there were like smoke machines. I don't even remember.

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Speaker 3: That's how it is in my mind, Like, yeah, there

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Speaker 3: lashing lights, a dark stage, you know, smoke machines going off,

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Speaker 3: Chris Bosh flexing and doing his like scream, right, that's

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Speaker 3: where this was said. Yes, you could argue that he

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Speaker 3: got caught up in the moment, right, but also you

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Speaker 3: know they're trotting out this super team you know, which,

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Speaker 3: Uh it just felt tone off, I guess. And also

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Speaker 3: it's ridiculous to try to guarantee over seven.

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Speaker 2: Hey, it was just seven, wasn't over?

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Speaker 3: He stopped.

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Speaker 2: He stopped at seven?

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Speaker 3: Okay, so seven? Yeah, I mean it made it to

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean Apple bought beats for three billion I think. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: I don't know, they're a little they will lean too

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Speaker 1: In my opinion, I appreciate it and that no need

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Speaker 1: Lebron signed a lifetime deal with the Nike in twenty fifteen.

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Speaker 3: A really good question. I've never signed a lifetime deal

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Speaker 1: Well, you're right, it it definitely should. Yeah, that you

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Speaker 2: I guess I probably. I say it's maybe too early,

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Speaker 2: Best known for Lebron. It's Tacco Tuesday.

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Speaker 1: Now, am I kind of forgetting banana boat and all that. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: He did say Lebron made it more popular. You know,

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Speaker 2: I think this can live.

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Speaker 3: For I think so you talk about Tuesday is here

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Speaker 3: He's going around the room getting everybody to say, talk

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Speaker 2: As you say, exactly, do you do a good job

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Speaker 1: Athlete controlled media, Lebron has made that a part of

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Speaker 1: later became part of spring Hill Company, which Lebron founded.

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Speaker 1: Later on, Uninterrupted his athlete empowerment brand featuring videos from

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Speaker 1: episode of The Wall?

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Speaker 2: No, JD.

439
00:25:12,840 --> 00:25:15,359
Speaker 3: I didn't even know Chris Hardwick was still in the game.

440
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Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah cool. Yep.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the sorta plinko that type of thing. Yeah

442
00:25:24,440 --> 00:25:27,960
Speaker 1: right right, yeah. So it's a good one. It's a

443
00:25:27,960 --> 00:25:29,800
Speaker 1: fun one, and that's why it's lived on for a

444
00:25:29,800 --> 00:25:33,480
Speaker 1: long time. The Wall has been on TV for long,

445
00:25:33,640 --> 00:25:39,880
Speaker 1: so yeah, he'll be getting paid forever. Since twenty sixteen,

446
00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:45,040
Speaker 1: so a decade. Okay, Moving on to part of the

447
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Speaker 1: spring Hill Company. It's HBO's the shop. We're sitting there,

448
00:25:50,119 --> 00:25:54,520
Speaker 1: we're just talking shop in the barbershop, just people talking

449
00:25:54,560 --> 00:25:59,880
Speaker 1: about whatever. It's obviously had eight ton of people who

450
00:26:00,119 --> 00:26:03,800
Speaker 1: come on and been part of it. I did see

451
00:26:04,200 --> 00:26:07,080
Speaker 1: these three people on one episode, or I saw that

452
00:26:07,160 --> 00:26:10,399
Speaker 1: they were on an episode. I'd watch Fat Joe, Amy

453
00:26:10,400 --> 00:26:13,679
Speaker 1: Schumer and Don Lemon. I am I'm curious of that

454
00:26:13,800 --> 00:26:18,720
Speaker 1: old dynamic. That's an interesting one. Amy, she is going

455
00:26:18,760 --> 00:26:22,200
Speaker 1: to get another shoutow later on shout Out. She will

456
00:26:22,200 --> 00:26:24,359
Speaker 1: be mentioned later on, But anyways, HBO is the shop

457
00:26:26,240 --> 00:26:28,560
Speaker 1: something that Lebron just wanted to do, and obviously it's

458
00:26:28,920 --> 00:26:31,919
Speaker 1: it's been on for a long time, so yes, the

459
00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:36,960
Speaker 1: whole athlete controlled media. I think this is the most

460
00:26:37,160 --> 00:26:41,720
Speaker 1: prominent thing that he's he's done as far as producing

461
00:26:42,240 --> 00:26:47,040
Speaker 1: a show that will live on or sort of been

462
00:26:47,040 --> 00:26:52,399
Speaker 1: in the the athlete mold form that he wanted to

463
00:26:53,280 --> 00:26:54,760
Speaker 1: and that any athlete.

464
00:26:54,600 --> 00:26:55,159
Speaker 2: Kind of wants to.

465
00:26:55,320 --> 00:26:58,000
Speaker 1: You know, we're just talking sports here. Draymond's been on everybody.

466
00:26:58,040 --> 00:26:59,560
Speaker 1: A lot of people have been on it, right.

467
00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:03,639
Speaker 3: This is a pitch that people have made countless times

468
00:27:03,880 --> 00:27:07,760
Speaker 3: over the years. Put it in a barber shop, you know, let's.

469
00:27:08,480 --> 00:27:09,600
Speaker 2: Let's just chop it up.

470
00:27:09,760 --> 00:27:13,600
Speaker 3: But it's never been executed like this, and it was

471
00:27:13,640 --> 00:27:16,280
Speaker 3: actually successful. So he actually pulled it off because it's

472
00:27:16,359 --> 00:27:21,320
Speaker 3: actually hard to do just a free flowing conversation like that,

473
00:27:21,600 --> 00:27:28,240
Speaker 3: and they he did it incredibly well, and kudos to him.

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00:27:30,080 --> 00:27:32,760
Speaker 2: You know, yeah, that's its simple as that.

475
00:27:32,760 --> 00:27:34,760
Speaker 1: It's a good way to put it all right, Moving

476
00:27:34,800 --> 00:27:39,840
Speaker 1: on to Lebron the activist, two events stand out, the

477
00:27:40,080 --> 00:27:45,280
Speaker 1: shut Up and Dribble clap back in twenty eighteen, after

478
00:27:45,359 --> 00:27:47,760
Speaker 1: Lebron and Durant. They had to sit down interview with

479
00:27:47,840 --> 00:27:51,359
Speaker 1: Kerrie Champion where they were critical of President Trump. Fox's

480
00:27:51,600 --> 00:27:55,000
Speaker 1: Laura Ingram told him to shut up and dribble, and

481
00:27:55,119 --> 00:27:58,760
Speaker 1: Lebron turned it into a title for a nine episode

482
00:27:58,840 --> 00:28:03,720
Speaker 1: doc he executive produced on Showtime. So that kind of

483
00:28:03,800 --> 00:28:11,040
Speaker 1: full circle response from an athlete is again similar to

484
00:28:11,040 --> 00:28:13,679
Speaker 1: what I said. It's a leader. I say, here, you

485
00:28:13,760 --> 00:28:14,800
Speaker 1: gigglin over there.

486
00:28:15,600 --> 00:28:19,040
Speaker 3: I just love I think I read somewhere he took

487
00:28:19,119 --> 00:28:22,880
Speaker 3: her insult and turned it into intellectual property, you know,

488
00:28:23,440 --> 00:28:25,560
Speaker 3: which is awesome. It's like the best revenge.

489
00:28:25,800 --> 00:28:31,960
Speaker 1: Yes, absolutely, yeah, he did that. And what I was

490
00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:36,200
Speaker 1: surprised was here moving to the tenth of our twenty

491
00:28:36,240 --> 00:28:41,480
Speaker 1: Moments where he feuded publicly with Donald Trump. It was

492
00:28:41,800 --> 00:28:45,320
Speaker 1: an infamous tweet. It was back in twenty seventeen. It

493
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Speaker 1: was about the Warriors not going to the White House.

494
00:28:49,800 --> 00:28:52,440
Speaker 1: I was surprised that he still has this up. Kudos

495
00:28:52,440 --> 00:28:53,400
Speaker 1: to him for keeping it up.

496
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Speaker 3: You bum.

497
00:28:54,400 --> 00:28:59,280
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, Lebron tweeted, quote you bum. Stephen Curry already

498
00:28:59,280 --> 00:29:02,960
Speaker 1: said he ain't so therefore ain't no invite. Going to

499
00:29:03,040 --> 00:29:05,440
Speaker 1: White House was a great honor until you showed up,

500
00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:09,760
Speaker 1: and he kept that up, and then he turned that

501
00:29:09,800 --> 00:29:13,440
Speaker 1: public feud into organized action. He founded More Than a

502
00:29:13,520 --> 00:29:17,960
Speaker 1: Vote in twenty twenty, again responding the way he wanted

503
00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:23,600
Speaker 1: to respond and creating a clapback for himself.

504
00:29:25,560 --> 00:29:26,280
Speaker 2: As simple as that.

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00:29:26,360 --> 00:29:29,480
Speaker 1: Those two things there as far as his activism goes,

506
00:29:29,520 --> 00:29:32,880
Speaker 1: even though there will be more, and there is one

507
00:29:32,920 --> 00:29:38,120
Speaker 1: here with more of a legacy activism. In twenty eighteen,

508
00:29:38,360 --> 00:29:41,520
Speaker 1: or eleventh of twenty things that Lebron did off the court,

509
00:29:42,160 --> 00:29:46,400
Speaker 1: he opened the I Promise School in Akron in twenty eighteen,

510
00:29:47,240 --> 00:29:51,040
Speaker 1: which was same time he was leaving Cleveland to go

511
00:29:51,080 --> 00:29:53,320
Speaker 1: to la but he had already planned to open this

512
00:29:53,880 --> 00:29:58,520
Speaker 1: I designed specifically to help at risk students by providing

513
00:29:58,560 --> 00:30:03,840
Speaker 1: specialized STEM curriculums, extended school years, and comprehensive family wrap

514
00:30:03,880 --> 00:30:10,560
Speaker 1: around support. And as Lebron said, he started it with

515
00:30:10,560 --> 00:30:12,640
Speaker 1: two hundred and forty kids, one hundred and twenty and

516
00:30:12,760 --> 00:30:15,960
Speaker 1: third grade and one hundred and twenty in fourth grade.

517
00:30:16,520 --> 00:30:18,760
Speaker 1: And as he said, quote, I believe that's where it

518
00:30:18,800 --> 00:30:20,680
Speaker 1: all kind of starts, and that's where it started for me.

519
00:30:20,760 --> 00:30:24,160
Speaker 1: You know, fourth grade, I missed eighty days of school

520
00:30:24,400 --> 00:30:27,520
Speaker 1: end quote. So he made sure that this I promise

521
00:30:27,560 --> 00:30:31,640
Speaker 1: school was there an Akron to support kids, So that

522
00:30:31,720 --> 00:30:36,760
Speaker 1: will live on forever, I'm sure for a very very

523
00:30:36,760 --> 00:30:38,960
Speaker 1: long time. So good for Lebron to do that. And

524
00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:44,960
Speaker 1: there's the activism portion of the twenty list, but he's

525
00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:49,360
Speaker 1: done so much, as you said, even during the decision,

526
00:30:49,560 --> 00:30:52,280
Speaker 1: JD Human, it's not activism. But yeah, the charity giving back.

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00:30:52,720 --> 00:30:57,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, they got bikes at this school. What I think,

528
00:30:57,520 --> 00:31:00,960
Speaker 3: I think so I think for kids to get to school,

529
00:31:01,040 --> 00:31:03,440
Speaker 3: to get to some of the kids, they just getting bikes.

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00:31:03,680 --> 00:31:06,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, isn't that's a wonderful thing. It's a wonderful thing.

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00:31:06,240 --> 00:31:09,880
Speaker 1: In America, especially where there's a lot of drop offs

532
00:31:10,200 --> 00:31:13,520
Speaker 1: in carpools if you can't get there because it's too far,

533
00:31:15,600 --> 00:31:19,040
Speaker 1: which is annoying. Yeah, so yes, this is It's awesome

534
00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:23,360
Speaker 1: seeing a kid ride to school or right right anywhere and.

535
00:31:23,400 --> 00:31:26,640
Speaker 3: Like take off their helmet so old school. I love it.

536
00:31:26,800 --> 00:31:29,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's so cool and they're so in control. That's

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00:31:29,880 --> 00:31:35,800
Speaker 1: that is awesome. Number twelve of our twenty points here

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00:31:35,960 --> 00:31:39,600
Speaker 1: the pregame tribute to Kobe Bryant. After Kobe Bryant's passing

539
00:31:39,600 --> 00:31:42,040
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty, while he was with Lebron was with

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00:31:42,080 --> 00:31:46,640
Speaker 1: the Lakers. I felt this was one of his raws

541
00:31:46,800 --> 00:31:51,640
Speaker 1: moments where he put the speech down and just talked

542
00:31:52,800 --> 00:31:58,840
Speaker 1: and there was support and love for Kobe, you know,

543
00:31:59,160 --> 00:32:01,720
Speaker 1: and also every one else who passed in that helicopter.

544
00:32:01,800 --> 00:32:06,120
Speaker 1: He mentioned it before he got into what Kobe meant to.

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00:32:06,120 --> 00:32:07,160
Speaker 2: Him, and.

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00:32:09,040 --> 00:32:13,480
Speaker 1: You know, it's not something that he had to do,

547
00:32:13,840 --> 00:32:16,840
Speaker 1: but he chose to do it. And I thought he

548
00:32:16,880 --> 00:32:20,520
Speaker 1: did a good job of just just being Lebron, being himself,

549
00:32:23,160 --> 00:32:26,760
Speaker 1: swearing at the end of it, just just being himself again.

550
00:32:26,880 --> 00:32:32,120
Speaker 1: So yeah, that's one of those moments where Lebron was Lebron.

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00:32:32,360 --> 00:32:38,880
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think he he is was the face of

552
00:32:38,920 --> 00:32:44,120
Speaker 3: the Lakers, right yea, And it was like a moment

553
00:32:44,160 --> 00:32:48,520
Speaker 3: where he's rising to that responsibility, you know, in such

554
00:32:48,560 --> 00:32:52,640
Speaker 3: a genuine way. Yeah. I mean it was such an

555
00:32:52,640 --> 00:32:57,680
Speaker 3: emotional time, right, I mean it was awful, awful tragedy,

556
00:32:57,840 --> 00:33:02,240
Speaker 3: and he was able to put it into words and

557
00:33:02,240 --> 00:33:06,240
Speaker 3: and just be a true leader in that moment.

558
00:33:06,440 --> 00:33:10,080
Speaker 1: So yeah, it was great, Yes, Yes, And that was

559
00:33:11,360 --> 00:33:15,440
Speaker 1: yes days after Kobe passing on on the Sunday. This

560
00:33:15,600 --> 00:33:21,400
Speaker 1: was on the Thursday, I'm pretty sure. And yeah, after

561
00:33:22,520 --> 00:33:25,840
Speaker 1: everyone trying to wrap their head around what what what is?

562
00:33:27,320 --> 00:33:30,640
Speaker 1: What happened on that Sunday Lebron stepped up and grabbed

563
00:33:30,640 --> 00:33:33,760
Speaker 1: the mic at center court and was able to do that.

564
00:33:33,760 --> 00:33:37,160
Speaker 1: That was the year that the Lakers won the championship

565
00:33:37,200 --> 00:33:41,880
Speaker 1: as well. That was uh, that was a time that

566
00:33:42,080 --> 00:33:47,880
Speaker 1: was Yeah, obviously so sad, and Lebron was able to to.

567
00:33:47,800 --> 00:33:48,600
Speaker 2: Be himself again.

568
00:33:49,440 --> 00:33:52,960
Speaker 1: He had this the speech in his hand and he said,

569
00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:55,600
Speaker 1: I'm not doing it. I'm just going to try and

570
00:33:55,960 --> 00:33:59,160
Speaker 1: talk from the heart, and he did for several minutes. Okay,

571
00:33:59,200 --> 00:34:02,240
Speaker 1: moving on to Hollywood, Lebron, We've got a couple of

572
00:34:02,280 --> 00:34:07,160
Speaker 1: moments here where we're very important. You start in space Jam.

573
00:34:07,640 --> 00:34:08,319
Speaker 1: The second one.

574
00:34:10,360 --> 00:34:12,320
Speaker 3: Space is very important, very important.

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00:34:12,360 --> 00:34:16,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is the the handoff of the torch, Michael

576
00:34:16,320 --> 00:34:19,239
Speaker 1: handing off the torch to Lebron. James, this is your

577
00:34:19,320 --> 00:34:23,880
Speaker 1: space Jam. Now you know it wasn't quite the first one.

578
00:34:24,640 --> 00:34:27,000
Speaker 3: But that's not Lebron's fault.

579
00:34:27,600 --> 00:34:29,359
Speaker 2: No, I don't think. Tell me more.

580
00:34:29,480 --> 00:34:31,319
Speaker 3: Well, I think Lebron was fine in the film.

581
00:34:31,440 --> 00:34:31,759
Speaker 2: He was.

582
00:34:31,800 --> 00:34:35,480
Speaker 3: It was just a terrible, terrible movie. That's it.

583
00:34:36,080 --> 00:34:38,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it was. It was.

584
00:34:38,440 --> 00:34:44,719
Speaker 1: There's too much from what I remember on Lebron and

585
00:34:45,600 --> 00:34:47,640
Speaker 1: his kid in that part of it, you know, like

586
00:34:48,280 --> 00:34:52,800
Speaker 1: there just wasn't enough of a plot. Don Cheetah was

587
00:34:52,800 --> 00:34:53,239
Speaker 1: all right.

588
00:34:54,280 --> 00:34:59,360
Speaker 3: Yeah. But also this is not the performers, this is

589
00:34:59,400 --> 00:35:02,080
Speaker 3: the direct and writing, and there were a lot of

590
00:35:02,120 --> 00:35:05,839
Speaker 3: hands in this pot. It felt like making the film. Yeah.

591
00:35:05,880 --> 00:35:09,880
Speaker 1: I included this as one of the twenty Memorable moments

592
00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:14,840
Speaker 1: for Lebron over even better performances that he's had in

593
00:35:14,880 --> 00:35:17,920
Speaker 1: better movies that he's had like train Wreck. Yeah, with

594
00:35:18,040 --> 00:35:22,279
Speaker 1: Schumer and Hater, he was good. He was funny, like.

595
00:35:22,239 --> 00:35:25,400
Speaker 3: There's there are commercials that he's in that he's hilarious.

596
00:35:25,600 --> 00:35:28,960
Speaker 3: And you know, we had very high hopes. I remember

597
00:35:29,040 --> 00:35:34,479
Speaker 3: going into Space Jam a new Legacy and see I

598
00:35:34,520 --> 00:35:37,200
Speaker 3: was convinced that he no no, no, I mean like us,

599
00:35:37,480 --> 00:35:40,080
Speaker 3: we were gonna watch it because they streamed it. It

600
00:35:40,120 --> 00:35:43,080
Speaker 3: was pandemic still, so it was in the theaters, but

601
00:35:43,200 --> 00:35:46,799
Speaker 3: it was streaming on HBO Max the same day, as

602
00:35:46,840 --> 00:35:51,000
Speaker 3: I remember, Okay, and I had such high hopes for

603
00:35:51,040 --> 00:35:55,160
Speaker 3: it because they had all of the Warner Brothers catalog

604
00:35:55,520 --> 00:35:58,040
Speaker 3: to go off of, you know, to you know, they

605
00:35:58,239 --> 00:36:01,960
Speaker 3: had like clockwork orange characters on the sideline, stuff like that,

606
00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:06,320
Speaker 3: which was crazy and creative and stuff, but also none

607
00:36:06,320 --> 00:36:10,080
Speaker 3: of that really came came through in the end. It

608
00:36:10,120 --> 00:36:14,000
Speaker 3: was just sort of these weird little cameos and stuff.

609
00:36:14,560 --> 00:36:19,960
Speaker 3: But Lebron himself has shown himself to be a good performer,

610
00:36:20,120 --> 00:36:23,360
Speaker 3: and we were thinking that he's going to surpass Michael

611
00:36:23,440 --> 00:36:26,399
Speaker 3: Jordan in terms of acting, which is not that hard

612
00:36:26,400 --> 00:36:29,120
Speaker 3: to do, let's be honest, But Michael Jordan is Michael Jordan.

613
00:36:29,400 --> 00:36:33,600
Speaker 3: And you know, the unfortunate thing is Lebron was better

614
00:36:33,640 --> 00:36:38,120
Speaker 3: playing himself in train Wreck than he was in Space

615
00:36:38,200 --> 00:36:41,799
Speaker 3: chap which is disappointing.

616
00:36:42,640 --> 00:36:45,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, you reminded me of all those those cameos, the

617
00:36:45,920 --> 00:36:49,480
Speaker 1: little easter egg type things that were in it. But yeah,

618
00:36:49,480 --> 00:36:55,720
Speaker 1: it was unfortunate that the movie wasn't fantastic. Still makes

619
00:36:55,760 --> 00:37:00,480
Speaker 1: the list, and so does this other memoir turn film

620
00:37:00,520 --> 00:37:03,160
Speaker 1: about his high school teammates at Saint Vincent Saint Mary

621
00:37:03,320 --> 00:37:08,000
Speaker 1: Shooting Stars, because this is where he came from and

622
00:37:08,480 --> 00:37:11,880
Speaker 1: in this was twenty twenty three if I have my

623
00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:17,200
Speaker 1: dates right, and he decided to get his high school

624
00:37:17,239 --> 00:37:22,480
Speaker 1: teammates essentially as actors. At what I had forgotten, Scoot

625
00:37:22,520 --> 00:37:26,440
Speaker 1: Henderson was played or played I should say, Romeo Travis,

626
00:37:27,200 --> 00:37:32,319
Speaker 1: his teammates Scoot Henderson, Jed Howard played Carmel Anthony, and

627
00:37:32,400 --> 00:37:38,000
Speaker 1: Wood Harris played Lebron's coach Drew Joyce. The second So

628
00:37:39,200 --> 00:37:40,080
Speaker 1: I had not just.

629
00:37:40,160 --> 00:37:42,160
Speaker 3: Heard of this until I saw it in the dock

630
00:37:42,280 --> 00:37:42,800
Speaker 3: this morning.

631
00:37:43,320 --> 00:37:46,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, i'd forgotten about it too. I have not watched

632
00:37:46,080 --> 00:37:52,239
Speaker 1: it neither Sorrus. So yeah, it's more put it on

633
00:37:52,320 --> 00:37:56,560
Speaker 1: thumb war you can watch it. Yeah, sure, why not?

634
00:37:56,960 --> 00:37:58,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's.

635
00:37:59,239 --> 00:38:03,360
Speaker 1: Does it matter that it wasn't an extremely prominent movie

636
00:38:03,840 --> 00:38:05,440
Speaker 1: that people didn't know a ton about it?

637
00:38:05,480 --> 00:38:06,400
Speaker 2: I don't think it matters.

638
00:38:07,040 --> 00:38:10,879
Speaker 1: In the end, you created something for essentially for his

639
00:38:10,920 --> 00:38:14,719
Speaker 1: teammates and where he came from. He probably wanted to

640
00:38:14,760 --> 00:38:15,280
Speaker 1: be bigger.

641
00:38:15,800 --> 00:38:16,720
Speaker 2: But in the end.

642
00:38:18,239 --> 00:38:21,239
Speaker 1: It's part of I think the twenty memorable things that

643
00:38:21,280 --> 00:38:24,560
Speaker 1: he did. Even if as you didn't know about it,

644
00:38:24,840 --> 00:38:26,080
Speaker 1: like you didn't know about it, I'm sure a lot

645
00:38:26,080 --> 00:38:27,200
Speaker 1: of people didn't know about it.

646
00:38:27,239 --> 00:38:30,080
Speaker 3: But why release it in twenty twenty three, you know,

647
00:38:30,480 --> 00:38:35,600
Speaker 3: like this is an authorized biography. You're still in the league, man, Like,

648
00:38:35,960 --> 00:38:39,120
Speaker 3: why not wait until you retire and then it's going

649
00:38:39,200 --> 00:38:43,960
Speaker 3: to have more legs, more pop It's easier to promote

650
00:38:43,960 --> 00:38:45,120
Speaker 3: it after he's retired.

651
00:38:45,480 --> 00:38:47,960
Speaker 2: You know what I mean, You're not wrong, So that's

652
00:38:47,960 --> 00:38:50,280
Speaker 2: a good question. That's a very good question.

653
00:38:50,560 --> 00:38:51,000
Speaker 3: I don't know.

654
00:38:51,120 --> 00:38:55,719
Speaker 1: Let's write these down. Let's ask Maverick Carter what up

655
00:38:55,760 --> 00:39:00,279
Speaker 1: with that? Moving to fifteen of our twenty moment, it's

656
00:39:00,320 --> 00:39:08,719
Speaker 1: here billionaire status. This one's simple because we don't know

657
00:39:08,760 --> 00:39:12,000
Speaker 1: anything about being a billionaire. But he became the first

658
00:39:12,040 --> 00:39:14,919
Speaker 1: active NBA billionaire in twenty twenty two.

659
00:39:17,960 --> 00:39:20,040
Speaker 2: That's an end of statement. That's impressive.

660
00:39:23,680 --> 00:39:26,160
Speaker 1: And moving on to the next one, which is tied in,

661
00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:32,239
Speaker 1: he bought an ownership steak in Liverpool FC. Again not

662
00:39:32,360 --> 00:39:36,640
Speaker 1: just rich, but a stakeholder in other institutions. So it's

663
00:39:36,680 --> 00:39:39,839
Speaker 1: for other athletes to model their enterprise after even if

664
00:39:39,880 --> 00:39:42,920
Speaker 1: they aren't going to be billionaires. He originally purchased a

665
00:39:42,960 --> 00:39:46,160
Speaker 1: minority share in twenty eleven for about six point five

666
00:39:46,239 --> 00:39:50,439
Speaker 1: million through his marketing agencies deal with Fenway Sports Group,

667
00:39:50,440 --> 00:39:53,240
Speaker 1: and in twenty twenty one, Lebron and Maverick Carter traded

668
00:39:53,239 --> 00:39:56,440
Speaker 1: their initial soccer shares for a one percent stake in

669
00:39:56,560 --> 00:39:59,440
Speaker 1: Fenway Sports Group as a whole. This gave Lebron ownership

670
00:40:00,320 --> 00:40:03,280
Speaker 1: ties not just to Liverpool, but also to the Boston

671
00:40:03,320 --> 00:40:09,239
Speaker 1: Red Sox, the Pittsburgh Penguins and other FSG assets.

672
00:40:11,360 --> 00:40:13,120
Speaker 3: FSG is Fenway Sports Group.

673
00:40:13,200 --> 00:40:17,480
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, and they got a stake in all those things.

674
00:40:17,560 --> 00:40:20,040
Speaker 1: I just meant all those teams that I just mentioned

675
00:40:20,160 --> 00:40:23,440
Speaker 1: and a lot of stuff. So yeah, simple as that.

676
00:40:25,440 --> 00:40:25,960
Speaker 3: I'm mogul.

677
00:40:26,160 --> 00:40:26,680
Speaker 2: I'm mogul.

678
00:40:28,880 --> 00:40:29,040
Speaker 3: Yeah.

679
00:40:29,080 --> 00:40:31,080
Speaker 1: I mentioned Shack as the guy who's got his hands

680
00:40:31,160 --> 00:40:37,200
Speaker 1: in everything, like Magic Johnson even before him, Lebron has

681
00:40:37,239 --> 00:40:42,080
Speaker 1: taken it to another notch in modern media ownership and production.

682
00:40:42,680 --> 00:40:45,719
Speaker 1: Let's get to seventeen of our number, seventeen of our

683
00:40:45,760 --> 00:40:49,320
Speaker 1: twenty moments. This was it's a little bit on the court.

684
00:40:49,840 --> 00:40:51,040
Speaker 1: But I couldn't help that.

685
00:40:51,040 --> 00:40:52,640
Speaker 3: That's the court.

686
00:40:52,760 --> 00:40:56,239
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, but yes, I had to. I had to.

687
00:40:57,000 --> 00:40:59,319
Speaker 2: It's it's the record, it's the d had.

688
00:40:59,239 --> 00:40:59,800
Speaker 3: To have twenty.

689
00:41:00,280 --> 00:41:02,279
Speaker 1: I had to have twenty. Well, at first I had more.

690
00:41:02,360 --> 00:41:04,880
Speaker 1: I tied it to twenty three seasons. Got to have

691
00:41:04,920 --> 00:41:08,840
Speaker 1: twenty three moments, Okay, but you know I trimmed a few.

692
00:41:09,280 --> 00:41:14,399
Speaker 1: I collabed a couple. This one, you know, it isn't

693
00:41:14,440 --> 00:41:18,720
Speaker 1: so much about the play where Thomas Bryant was calling

694
00:41:18,760 --> 00:41:21,040
Speaker 1: for the ball down low and Lebron saidn't ask it.

695
00:41:21,080 --> 00:41:23,239
Speaker 1: I'm going to hit the shot. It's always forgotten. Thomas

696
00:41:23,280 --> 00:41:26,160
Speaker 1: Bryant did celebrate right after, but he was kind of

697
00:41:26,160 --> 00:41:28,480
Speaker 1: playing basketball and thought that he should be able to

698
00:41:28,520 --> 00:41:32,200
Speaker 1: score on a smaller player. But anyway, he got the

699
00:41:32,200 --> 00:41:35,320
Speaker 1: record there in twenty twenty three, hit that jumper, play stopped.

700
00:41:36,400 --> 00:41:39,200
Speaker 1: The captain gave him the ball, Kareem Abdul Jabbar gave

701
00:41:39,280 --> 00:41:42,799
Speaker 1: him the ball as he passed him. Lebron spoke on

702
00:41:42,840 --> 00:41:50,200
Speaker 1: the mic, mentioned the late David Stern, and it was

703
00:41:50,640 --> 00:41:53,520
Speaker 1: just a wonderful moment. He had his son, who he

704
00:41:53,520 --> 00:41:58,919
Speaker 1: would later play with, filming from the sideline. Bronnie looked

705
00:41:58,920 --> 00:42:03,560
Speaker 1: like such a kid like film everything. And also another

706
00:42:03,680 --> 00:42:07,400
Speaker 1: moment where it felt like Lebron was just being himself,

707
00:42:08,400 --> 00:42:15,319
Speaker 1: thanking his family and thinking everybody who contributed to it,

708
00:42:15,360 --> 00:42:19,000
Speaker 1: and also said quote, fuck man, thank you guys.

709
00:42:19,200 --> 00:42:23,000
Speaker 2: You know another swear. I always got to appreciate.

710
00:42:22,600 --> 00:42:25,400
Speaker 1: That when he was just himself, and you can see

711
00:42:25,480 --> 00:42:29,719
Speaker 1: I could see as he said, fuck man, remember a

712
00:42:29,760 --> 00:42:32,880
Speaker 1: person who works with the NBA immediately smiled as he

713
00:42:32,960 --> 00:42:35,400
Speaker 1: swore right behind him because.

714
00:42:35,160 --> 00:42:36,240
Speaker 2: He was just being himself.

715
00:42:36,760 --> 00:42:40,880
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's a sneaky basketball one in there, But

716
00:42:40,920 --> 00:42:44,880
Speaker 1: to me, it was more about the moment, the moment,

717
00:42:45,160 --> 00:42:47,399
Speaker 1: the whole thing. We are talking about a basketball player.

718
00:42:47,400 --> 00:42:50,000
Speaker 1: You got the record, and then during the SP's that

719
00:42:50,160 --> 00:42:55,440
Speaker 1: year he was awarded because he became the all time

720
00:42:55,560 --> 00:42:58,160
Speaker 1: leading scorer, and then he was on the mic there.

721
00:42:58,360 --> 00:43:01,920
Speaker 1: That's something I trimmed out all times when he he

722
00:43:01,960 --> 00:43:07,160
Speaker 1: spoke at the SP's. But yeah, there's that one great moment. Yeah,

723
00:43:07,160 --> 00:43:09,480
Speaker 1: I'm moving on to a few here as we end it.

724
00:43:09,880 --> 00:43:15,200
Speaker 1: A couple surrounding the Olympics and his family because in

725
00:43:15,239 --> 00:43:19,839
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four, he carried the US flag at the

726
00:43:19,880 --> 00:43:25,680
Speaker 1: opening ceremonies, the first basketball player as far as males go,

727
00:43:26,480 --> 00:43:31,720
Speaker 1: to do that, which was a very nice moment. Of course,

728
00:43:31,760 --> 00:43:36,160
Speaker 1: you were watching the opening ceremony, JD on that on

729
00:43:36,200 --> 00:43:41,120
Speaker 1: that rainy boat, Lebron holding that flag, and yeah, it's

730
00:43:41,200 --> 00:43:45,200
Speaker 1: kind of a full circle from the eight Redeemed Team

731
00:43:45,239 --> 00:43:48,560
Speaker 1: era that he was a part of as well, so

732
00:43:49,719 --> 00:43:53,319
Speaker 1: him bringing the USA back from the four Olympics and

733
00:43:53,360 --> 00:43:57,480
Speaker 1: of course losing to Greece in the six World Championship

734
00:43:57,520 --> 00:44:01,640
Speaker 1: Fever Cup now it's called Yeah, I'm sure we'll talk

735
00:44:01,680 --> 00:44:04,520
Speaker 1: about that later. It's a twenty year anniversary in wow,

736
00:44:04,719 --> 00:44:05,400
Speaker 1: six weeks.

737
00:44:05,480 --> 00:44:05,680
Speaker 3: Wow.

738
00:44:05,960 --> 00:44:09,359
Speaker 1: Yes, but yeah, Lebron got to be the first male

739
00:44:09,440 --> 00:44:12,080
Speaker 1: US basketball player to do it. Don Staley did it

740
00:44:12,160 --> 00:44:15,880
Speaker 1: for the women in two thousand and four in Greece.

741
00:44:16,880 --> 00:44:19,840
Speaker 2: So yeah, simple as that, you get to hold the flag.

742
00:44:21,320 --> 00:44:24,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, who's he holding with Coco?

743
00:44:24,120 --> 00:44:24,640
Speaker 2: GoF Yeah?

744
00:44:24,680 --> 00:44:29,200
Speaker 3: Okay, yes? And what an Olympics for the US team

745
00:44:30,239 --> 00:44:33,160
Speaker 3: and just the Olympics in general in Paris was incredible.

746
00:44:34,120 --> 00:44:37,439
Speaker 3: Skeets Nora and I did Summer champions that year and

747
00:44:37,600 --> 00:44:43,200
Speaker 3: it was just an incredible seventeen days of amazing sports

748
00:44:43,239 --> 00:44:46,520
Speaker 3: in general. And then for the US to take the

749
00:44:46,520 --> 00:44:51,359
Speaker 3: gold the way they did, I mean, you know, just

750
00:44:51,600 --> 00:44:56,319
Speaker 3: an incredible honor and experience for him and just the

751
00:44:57,200 --> 00:45:01,360
Speaker 3: who else you know, I mean aside from Coco, but like,

752
00:45:01,440 --> 00:45:04,279
Speaker 3: who else to hold the flag in that particular. It

753
00:45:04,280 --> 00:45:05,719
Speaker 3: was just perfect And you didn't know it was going

754
00:45:05,800 --> 00:45:08,040
Speaker 3: to be perfect until the end of the Olympics, but

755
00:45:08,200 --> 00:45:08,760
Speaker 3: it was great.

756
00:45:10,200 --> 00:45:10,480
Speaker 2: Yeah.

757
00:45:10,560 --> 00:45:14,279
Speaker 1: I can't believe that's two years ago. You guys were

758
00:45:14,280 --> 00:45:18,880
Speaker 1: doing shows every single day, right, It doesn't feel like

759
00:45:18,880 --> 00:45:22,680
Speaker 1: two years ago. No, But are you excited for the

760
00:45:22,800 --> 00:45:26,799
Speaker 1: twenty eight Olympics? Here Angelos.

761
00:45:27,080 --> 00:45:27,440
Speaker 3: Yeah.

762
00:45:27,640 --> 00:45:31,839
Speaker 1: Yeah, while I was at Yellowstone and then I went

763
00:45:31,920 --> 00:45:37,759
Speaker 1: to where I was riding horses in Jackson, Wyoming. I

764
00:45:37,840 --> 00:45:41,560
Speaker 1: was reading the local newspaper there in Jackson, Wyoming, and

765
00:45:41,600 --> 00:45:45,759
Speaker 1: there's an article about freestyle skiing being introduced in the

766
00:45:45,800 --> 00:45:52,440
Speaker 1: twenty thirty Olympics. And they're excited there because they do

767
00:45:52,560 --> 00:45:55,240
Speaker 1: some some wild stuff.

768
00:45:55,239 --> 00:45:56,839
Speaker 2: They've got some really steep.

769
00:45:57,000 --> 00:45:59,279
Speaker 3: Oh, Jackson Hole is amazing ski.

770
00:46:00,440 --> 00:46:03,000
Speaker 1: Yes, it was. It was really really cool to see

771
00:46:03,360 --> 00:46:07,760
Speaker 1: all those spots going up that mountain and they're excited,

772
00:46:07,840 --> 00:46:12,680
Speaker 1: you know, for their potential athletes that could be that

773
00:46:12,760 --> 00:46:16,000
Speaker 1: have ridden their mountains, whether they're from you know, Jackson

774
00:46:16,120 --> 00:46:21,040
Speaker 1: or not, to be involved in the twenty Olympics.

775
00:46:21,120 --> 00:46:23,319
Speaker 2: So twenty thirty, twenty thirty, twenty thirty.

776
00:46:23,080 --> 00:46:25,760
Speaker 3: Freestyle freestyle was already in the Olympics.

777
00:46:25,800 --> 00:46:30,720
Speaker 1: So this one is called who is it called free ride?

778
00:46:30,880 --> 00:46:33,920
Speaker 1: It's the debut. Did I say freestyle? I meant free ride.

779
00:46:34,239 --> 00:46:39,200
Speaker 1: So it's different. It's different than freestyle. Okay, whatever that means.

780
00:46:41,000 --> 00:46:43,160
Speaker 1: If we can get into it if you want, but I.

781
00:46:43,040 --> 00:46:46,040
Speaker 3: Don't have to get into it. I'll google it later. Yeah,

782
00:46:46,120 --> 00:46:48,359
Speaker 3: we'll bring it up in the winter of champions if

783
00:46:48,400 --> 00:46:48,960
Speaker 3: we ever do that.

784
00:46:49,160 --> 00:46:53,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, but yeah, the Teat and Range mountains over there,

785
00:46:53,960 --> 00:46:57,319
Speaker 1: they're steep, and so yeah, apparently there's they're excited about

786
00:46:57,320 --> 00:47:01,000
Speaker 1: that tie into the twenty thirty Olympics. In the French shops.

787
00:47:01,000 --> 00:47:01,439
Speaker 1: Are you going?

788
00:47:02,400 --> 00:47:05,360
Speaker 3: Am I going? I hope? So I do have to say,

789
00:47:05,400 --> 00:47:09,359
Speaker 3: like when when Tom Cruise showed up at the end

790
00:47:09,400 --> 00:47:13,319
Speaker 3: of the Paris Olympics and Karen Bass was there too,

791
00:47:13,480 --> 00:47:15,960
Speaker 3: then they handed it off like this is the closing

792
00:47:16,080 --> 00:47:21,320
Speaker 3: ceremony and then we went, you know, to the beach

793
00:47:22,120 --> 00:47:25,560
Speaker 3: in La and Doctor Dre and Snoop Dogg were there.

794
00:47:26,320 --> 00:47:28,640
Speaker 3: I was kind of worried. I was worried. I'm like,

795
00:47:28,719 --> 00:47:31,880
Speaker 3: this is the Paris Olympics were so perfect. It felt like,

796
00:47:32,200 --> 00:47:36,759
Speaker 3: other than the shit in the Seine, it was it

797
00:47:36,840 --> 00:47:39,320
Speaker 3: kind of went off without a hitch and the backdrop

798
00:47:39,360 --> 00:47:42,360
Speaker 3: of Paris was so spectacular, and I was like, how's

799
00:47:42,480 --> 00:47:45,520
Speaker 3: La gonna be after Paris? But after the World Cup?

800
00:47:45,800 --> 00:47:50,800
Speaker 3: I'm pumped, but like the just the way US Mexico.

801
00:47:50,880 --> 00:47:54,160
Speaker 3: But there were games in La. I think it's gonna

802
00:47:54,200 --> 00:47:57,480
Speaker 3: be awesome. I can't wait. It's gonna be incredible.

803
00:47:57,560 --> 00:48:00,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a fair worry about them being able to

804
00:48:01,440 --> 00:48:05,920
Speaker 1: make it all happen. But it's not quite like the

805
00:48:05,920 --> 00:48:08,720
Speaker 1: World Cup where they are going to have a range

806
00:48:09,080 --> 00:48:11,720
Speaker 1: throat throughout the country, but they are going to space

807
00:48:11,760 --> 00:48:12,400
Speaker 1: it out right.

808
00:48:13,719 --> 00:48:16,840
Speaker 2: So yeah, and just the way.

809
00:48:18,120 --> 00:48:22,440
Speaker 3: America or North America rose to the just embrace the

810
00:48:22,440 --> 00:48:28,359
Speaker 3: World Cup, which is not necessarily the top three sport here,

811
00:48:28,440 --> 00:48:32,399
Speaker 3: you know. Yeah, but yeah, it's going to be great.

812
00:48:32,440 --> 00:48:32,920
Speaker 3: I can't wait.

813
00:48:33,080 --> 00:48:35,759
Speaker 1: Yeah, looking forward to it. Yeah, it is a challenge though.

814
00:48:36,320 --> 00:48:41,719
Speaker 1: Interesting stuff. Okay, So one more family moment that cannot

815
00:48:41,840 --> 00:48:45,640
Speaker 1: be ignored. Lebron played with his son.

816
00:48:46,440 --> 00:48:48,480
Speaker 3: Also on the court, but will allow it.

817
00:48:48,560 --> 00:48:49,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's allowed.

818
00:48:52,680 --> 00:48:55,040
Speaker 1: At the same time, he didn't play with him Aton,

819
00:48:55,560 --> 00:48:58,000
Speaker 1: so you could say this is more just about him

820
00:48:58,000 --> 00:49:00,239
Speaker 1: being out there together. But at the same time they

821
00:49:00,239 --> 00:49:04,560
Speaker 1: did play, they did chant Bronnie, Bronnie. Whenever La went

822
00:49:04,600 --> 00:49:09,560
Speaker 1: to go play in Cleveland. He ended up passing an

823
00:49:09,600 --> 00:49:13,600
Speaker 1: alley oop to Bronnie in the playoffs in twenty six. Here,

824
00:49:13,719 --> 00:49:17,640
Speaker 1: it's two full seasons and started twenty four and Bronnie

825
00:49:17,680 --> 00:49:20,439
Speaker 1: was able to finish that alley oop, which he could

826
00:49:20,440 --> 00:49:23,799
Speaker 1: have missed because it was an up and under sort

827
00:49:23,840 --> 00:49:25,720
Speaker 1: of finish. It wasn't a dunk. It was a finish

828
00:49:25,719 --> 00:49:28,000
Speaker 1: on the other side that he was able to finish

829
00:49:28,080 --> 00:49:31,359
Speaker 1: with his off handsles and a sweet, sweet moment for

830
00:49:31,440 --> 00:49:35,560
Speaker 1: those two simple as that, two seasons of Bronni playing

831
00:49:35,600 --> 00:49:38,200
Speaker 1: with Bronnie le Bron playing with his son.

832
00:49:38,520 --> 00:49:39,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's beautiful.

833
00:49:40,239 --> 00:49:40,640
Speaker 2: It is.

834
00:49:40,960 --> 00:49:46,440
Speaker 3: I Jack my son joined our pickleball team. Yeah, and

835
00:49:46,480 --> 00:49:48,919
Speaker 3: so I had the opportunity to play with my son

836
00:49:49,000 --> 00:49:53,160
Speaker 3: in an actual competitive game. We got our asses handed

837
00:49:53,200 --> 00:49:56,120
Speaker 3: to us, but it was still fun. It was great.

838
00:49:56,560 --> 00:50:03,120
Speaker 3: It's playing with your son on a you know, he's eighteen,

839
00:50:03,239 --> 00:50:06,279
Speaker 3: so you know, he's basically an adult. And the two

840
00:50:06,360 --> 00:50:10,000
Speaker 3: of us together being able to play a quote unquote

841
00:50:10,040 --> 00:50:14,600
Speaker 3: sport together. It's not Lebron and Brownie, but I got

842
00:50:14,640 --> 00:50:17,000
Speaker 3: a little taste of it, and it's was pretty sweet.

843
00:50:17,320 --> 00:50:19,160
Speaker 2: Well, you can't. It's a sport.

844
00:50:19,719 --> 00:50:22,880
Speaker 3: Yeah, sure, it's a shoard, it's a sport.

845
00:50:23,000 --> 00:50:24,280
Speaker 2: Yeah.

846
00:50:24,680 --> 00:50:28,560
Speaker 1: So is this the same scenario where dad is the

847
00:50:29,160 --> 00:50:30,600
Speaker 1: prominent player, the best player.

848
00:50:30,840 --> 00:50:36,080
Speaker 3: Absolutely, he's actually better than me, and I had no

849
00:50:36,160 --> 00:50:40,160
Speaker 3: influence on drafting him the way Lebron had Lakers.

850
00:50:41,680 --> 00:50:43,040
Speaker 2: Okay, okay.

851
00:50:42,400 --> 00:50:49,000
Speaker 1: The twentieth most iconic off court moment for Lebron James

852
00:50:50,120 --> 00:50:55,560
Speaker 1: was the will he retire farewell tour that were in

853
00:50:56,440 --> 00:50:58,280
Speaker 1: And this is just to wrap it all up. How's

854
00:50:58,320 --> 00:51:01,600
Speaker 1: it going to end? What is going to happen these

855
00:51:01,640 --> 00:51:05,280
Speaker 1: next couple of years, and will there be a farewell

856
00:51:05,320 --> 00:51:07,520
Speaker 1: tour in that final year? Will he come out and

857
00:51:07,560 --> 00:51:09,319
Speaker 1: say at the beginning of the season.

858
00:51:09,960 --> 00:51:10,440
Speaker 3: This is it?

859
00:51:10,880 --> 00:51:12,759
Speaker 2: That's a great, really good.

860
00:51:14,160 --> 00:51:17,520
Speaker 1: It's a good debate because everyone thinks, oh, Lebron loves

861
00:51:18,440 --> 00:51:21,960
Speaker 1: the ceremony and all that, that whole aspect. But I

862
00:51:22,000 --> 00:51:24,759
Speaker 1: wonder if he will. I sure do think you know

863
00:51:24,800 --> 00:51:27,600
Speaker 1: as we sit here on Monday, July twentieth, that it's

864
00:51:27,640 --> 00:51:31,200
Speaker 1: going to be more than one season that he plays.

865
00:51:31,560 --> 00:51:33,960
Speaker 1: He ain't done after the next season. I don't think,

866
00:51:34,440 --> 00:51:36,919
Speaker 1: you know, physically, if he can't, then he'll decide it'll

867
00:51:36,920 --> 00:51:39,560
Speaker 1: be over. But it feels like he's going Tom Brady's

868
00:51:39,560 --> 00:51:45,080
Speaker 1: style and going till whenever he can. So that's that's

869
00:51:45,080 --> 00:51:47,640
Speaker 1: how just me wrapping it up, wondering where do we

870
00:51:47,680 --> 00:51:48,319
Speaker 1: go from here?

871
00:51:49,760 --> 00:51:50,440
Speaker 2: As simple as that.

872
00:51:51,040 --> 00:51:56,200
Speaker 3: I mean, he is very good at milking and potentially

873
00:51:56,280 --> 00:52:00,840
Speaker 3: monetizing uncertainty, you know what I mean, no other player

874
00:52:00,960 --> 00:52:06,480
Speaker 3: in our career doing a show about basketball has affected

875
00:52:07,120 --> 00:52:11,840
Speaker 3: us in terms of, oh, Lebron did something, drop everything,

876
00:52:11,960 --> 00:52:14,719
Speaker 3: let's go. Like when he went back to Cleveland, we

877
00:52:14,840 --> 00:52:19,279
Speaker 3: had to abandon a succulent buffet in Las Vegas, And

878
00:52:19,719 --> 00:52:24,000
Speaker 3: right now we are on call. Basically, if he decides

879
00:52:24,040 --> 00:52:27,840
Speaker 3: he's going to sign somewhere, well he is going to decide.

880
00:52:27,840 --> 00:52:32,080
Speaker 3: But when that happens, we will be dropping everything and

881
00:52:32,680 --> 00:52:35,880
Speaker 3: doing an emergency podcast. And of course, you know, you

882
00:52:36,040 --> 00:52:40,680
Speaker 3: just did one for lou Dort. But Lebron is special,

883
00:52:41,040 --> 00:52:45,840
Speaker 3: you know, and even in his twilight years, he will

884
00:52:46,560 --> 00:52:51,560
Speaker 3: dictate our lives until he's out of the league, which

885
00:52:51,600 --> 00:52:56,120
Speaker 3: is great, but also he knows what he's doing from

886
00:52:56,239 --> 00:53:01,680
Speaker 3: the decision to the final this final decision that he's

887
00:53:01,719 --> 00:53:03,160
Speaker 3: going to make, and it's not even going to be

888
00:53:03,200 --> 00:53:07,600
Speaker 3: his final decision, but he will. He will not announce

889
00:53:07,640 --> 00:53:13,040
Speaker 3: his retirement until he's until he's not getting meaningful minutes

890
00:53:13,200 --> 00:53:14,920
Speaker 3: off of even off of the bench, do you know

891
00:53:14,960 --> 00:53:15,279
Speaker 3: what I mean?

892
00:53:15,360 --> 00:53:16,319
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, you're right.

893
00:53:16,560 --> 00:53:19,080
Speaker 1: Every moment that he decides to do something, we have

894
00:53:19,160 --> 00:53:24,279
Speaker 1: to talk about exactly. And Wednesday, Tray will be back

895
00:53:24,760 --> 00:53:28,240
Speaker 1: from his vacations, so we've got the challenge of coming

896
00:53:28,320 --> 00:53:30,359
Speaker 1: up with something else, which we will. We'll do something

897
00:53:30,440 --> 00:53:33,200
Speaker 1: else because it's you know, it's difficult to just talk

898
00:53:33,280 --> 00:53:36,839
Speaker 1: about Lebron and where he's going, and I know other

899
00:53:36,920 --> 00:53:40,799
Speaker 1: networks do that. Is it Cleveland, isn't Miami. We can

900
00:53:40,840 --> 00:53:42,400
Speaker 1: talk about that until we're blue in the face. So

901
00:53:42,440 --> 00:53:44,040
Speaker 1: that's why I decided to come up with something a

902
00:53:44,080 --> 00:53:46,520
Speaker 1: little different, and we will do that on Wednesday when

903
00:53:46,560 --> 00:53:50,360
Speaker 1: Trey comes back. I do want to ask one question,

904
00:53:50,960 --> 00:53:54,719
Speaker 1: because I have forgotten about that succulent buffet that we

905
00:53:54,760 --> 00:53:55,680
Speaker 1: had in twenty fourteen.

906
00:53:55,719 --> 00:53:59,080
Speaker 2: What was what? Where were we? What were what were

907
00:53:59,080 --> 00:54:00,080
Speaker 2: you eating? That was so.

908
00:54:00,280 --> 00:54:03,760
Speaker 3: Honestly, I can't remember. In fact, I hate a buffet

909
00:54:04,040 --> 00:54:07,480
Speaker 3: and it was what was that place called the something Fork?

910
00:54:07,640 --> 00:54:11,560
Speaker 3: It was in the Cosmo. I don't remember what it

911
00:54:11,600 --> 00:54:14,720
Speaker 3: was called. It was expensive. I mean, the food was fine,

912
00:54:14,880 --> 00:54:18,320
Speaker 3: but I'm not a buffet. But it's fun to say succulent.

913
00:54:18,440 --> 00:54:25,239
Speaker 1: So I just said, all right, I've got I'm trying

914
00:54:25,239 --> 00:54:28,399
Speaker 1: to think of a succulent segue here, but I don't

915
00:54:28,400 --> 00:54:30,239
Speaker 1: have one. I'll just say that we did have a

916
00:54:30,280 --> 00:54:35,200
Speaker 1: podcast where we pitched our movie series. Yes, that we're

917
00:54:35,200 --> 00:54:38,160
Speaker 1: covering the summer. Well, in fact, we're debating which movie

918
00:54:38,200 --> 00:54:41,719
Speaker 1: series we will be covering, whether it's Indiana Jones, The

919
00:54:41,719 --> 00:54:45,040
Speaker 1: Pirates of the Caribbean, Superman and Transforms. We had that

920
00:54:45,120 --> 00:54:47,879
Speaker 1: debate and now that there still is a poll up

921
00:54:47,920 --> 00:54:51,040
Speaker 1: at our substack page. The link is in the show

922
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Speaker 1: notes to help us decide which one should we do.

923
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Speaker 1: There's a couple of days left.

924
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Speaker 3: What's leading? I forget Pirates.

925
00:54:59,520 --> 00:55:03,760
Speaker 1: Are the care at last check took over from Indiana Jones.

926
00:55:03,800 --> 00:55:08,680
Speaker 1: That was leading for a while. I get I think

927
00:55:08,840 --> 00:55:12,240
Speaker 1: the thing that the Pirates of the Caribbean has going

928
00:55:12,320 --> 00:55:16,280
Speaker 1: for it. It's more recent than the Indiana Jones series,

929
00:55:17,960 --> 00:55:18,839
Speaker 1: the beginning of it.

930
00:55:18,920 --> 00:55:21,200
Speaker 3: You know it's older, but I said, ain't as old

931
00:55:21,200 --> 00:55:22,000
Speaker 3: as Indiana Jones.

932
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Speaker 1: I'm just guessing why people have picked Pirates of the Caribbean.

933
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Speaker 3: I think it's Pirates.

934
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Speaker 2: Pirates are people love.

935
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Speaker 1: Hey, That's why I picked to pitch it because it

936
00:55:33,040 --> 00:55:35,560
Speaker 1: was fun every moment I watched of it, even though

937
00:55:35,600 --> 00:55:37,319
Speaker 1: I hadn't watched a ton of it. But I am

938
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Speaker 1: looking forward to if The Pirates of the Caribbean wins,

939
00:55:39,960 --> 00:55:44,840
Speaker 1: looking forward to covering the the trilogy part which blend altogether.

940
00:55:44,880 --> 00:55:49,319
Speaker 1: It's it's a great plot and then the downhill of

941
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Speaker 1: four and five. So that makes it fun for people

942
00:55:52,080 --> 00:55:54,279
Speaker 1: to listen to the good and the bad.

943
00:55:54,480 --> 00:55:57,120
Speaker 3: You know, it's not fun to watch them, but well

944
00:55:57,160 --> 00:56:00,319
Speaker 3: I guess it's fun to all that. I only seen

945
00:56:00,400 --> 00:56:03,120
Speaker 3: the I think I've seen the first two, which I liked.

946
00:56:03,160 --> 00:56:04,719
Speaker 3: I think, yeah, I.

947
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Speaker 2: Think you did. I don't know, but I think you did.

948
00:56:09,880 --> 00:56:13,520
Speaker 1: All right, we will be back Wednesday, but for now,

949
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Speaker 1: Clipper bros.

950
00:56:14,840 --> 00:56:17,399
Speaker 3: You heard it here first. Have a great time, turn up.

951
00:56:17,560 --> 00:56:19,280
Speaker 3: Love you guys awesome.

952
00:56:19,239 --> 00:56:22,040
Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us, and remember lebron has had a

953
00:56:22,080 --> 00:56:24,560
Speaker 1: lot of nicknames, but some were left on the cutting

954
00:56:24,600 --> 00:56:31,719
Speaker 1: room floor. Libro the Hero Lebronathan and the sixth day

955
00:56:31,760 --> 00:56:32,960
Speaker 1: of Christmas.

956
00:56:34,040 --> 00:56:34,680
Speaker 2: It's birthday.

957
00:56:35,360 --> 00:56:37,960
Speaker 3: Interesting Yeah, well I just made that up.

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Speaker 2: Never never as stuck. Anyway, We'll see you on Wednesday.