Speaker 1: We lost the legend. This past weekend, Ricky Henderson passed
Speaker 1: away from pneumonia. Oakland, A's legend. Town Legend had a
Speaker 1: field named after him at the Coliseum. Nineteen nineties MVP,
Speaker 1: two time World Series Champ, all times runs leader and
Speaker 1: stolen based leader. The style he brought to a game
Speaker 1: that was kind of dry back in the eighties, with
Speaker 1: the Jerry curl, the batting stands, the way he used
Speaker 1: to snap people off in the outfield, the way he
Speaker 1: would get these monstrous leads with his lime green gloves
Speaker 1: and wigless fingers, and the pictures can throw over ten
Speaker 1: to fifteen times, and no matter what that one time
Speaker 1: they didn't throw over, he was gone. Ricky's energy and
Speaker 1: smile can light up a room. I recently got a
Speaker 1: chance to finally meet my idol about a month ago
Speaker 1: at the Reggie Jackson celebrity softball game, and I didn't
Speaker 1: ask for a picture, and I'm kicking myself to this day.
Speaker 1: Did get a chance to sit down and talk to
Speaker 1: him a little bit. I mean, everyone was kind of
Speaker 1: gathered around him as he was telling stories and talking shit.
Speaker 1: But to hear other players talk about him and what
Speaker 1: he meant as he sometimes talked about hisself and the
Speaker 1: third person. I heard Harold Reynolds tell a story about
Speaker 1: a year that Ricky got hurt and Harold Reynolds ended
Speaker 1: up winning the stolen based title with like sixty something
Speaker 1: stolen bases, and Ricky called them and told them, Hey,
Speaker 1: this is Ricky, only sixty bases. Ricky gets that at
Speaker 1: all Star Break and hung up on him. It just
Speaker 1: some of the you know, legendary stuff you hear about
Speaker 1: Ricky Henderson. But I'm sending my deepest condolences to the
Speaker 1: Henderson family. Alexis's daughter. We were actually scheduling sit down
Speaker 1: with Ricky, but unfortunately that didn't happen. So I want
Speaker 1: to send my deepest condolences, my thoughts and prayers to
Speaker 1: the family. And Ricky will be missed. Now let's welcome
Speaker 1: in and my brother from another Steven Jesse, Ulysses, Jackson.
Speaker 2: Betholomu, barth Oloby.
Speaker 1: What up, bro?
Speaker 2: How was vacation? Man?
Speaker 3: It was a blessed and man I didn't want to go,
Speaker 3: but found out that it was much needed.
Speaker 2: I needed to unplug.
Speaker 3: I needed to go brainstorm and collect my thoughts and
Speaker 3: the different spas and the time where white peoples definitely needed.
Speaker 1: Bro.
Speaker 2: I had a great time. Bro.
Speaker 1: You always be talking about how you don't want to
Speaker 1: go somewhere, and then every time you do, you always
Speaker 1: have a good time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I had a great You just.
Speaker 1: Be trying to set yourself up.
Speaker 2: I'm glad.
Speaker 1: I'm glad you guys got some family time.
Speaker 2: Man, Let's get to it.
Speaker 1: This past weekend, Juju versus page sc versus yukon big game,
Speaker 1: two of the brightest young stars in the game. Jack,
Speaker 1: what was your takeaway from this game?
Speaker 2: It was much CTV.
Speaker 3: I mean, I didn't it was that day was a
Speaker 3: big sports day, but everybody was talking about USC versus
Speaker 3: juicr on page Buckets versus Juju. That was a highly
Speaker 3: anticipated game and everything that it was supposed to be.
Speaker 2: Mad it was I think Juju for Juju, she showed.
Speaker 3: How she's really ready to jump out there and be
Speaker 3: the face women's college basketball and be the best player
Speaker 3: because she had USC ready to play in a big
Speaker 3: game like that. You know, when you playing big games
Speaker 3: like this, Matt, you're gonna get each team's best shot, right,
Speaker 3: And USC came out and played it, and they showed
Speaker 3: they wanted to win that game, but also the big
Speaker 3: girl from Yukon Strong. She showed, you know, the experience
Speaker 3: and the championship pedigree that they come from a Yukon
Speaker 3: where they fought back in the game, and she basically
Speaker 3: dominated and got him back in the game. And the
Speaker 3: Page start playing well too of her and Juju was
Speaker 3: going back and forth, but USC was able to pull
Speaker 3: the game off. But that was that game was probably
Speaker 3: one of the most entertaining games I've seen this year,
Speaker 3: and I'm happy to say it came from a women's
Speaker 3: basketball game.
Speaker 1: I was disappointed.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: The twins played at the same time, so I was checking, uh,
Speaker 1: I was checking on my phone to kind of watch,
Speaker 1: but I saw at one point sc was up or
Speaker 1: was it twenty or almost twenty points And then next
Speaker 1: thing I know, here comes Page and you come and
Speaker 1: Sarah Strong is at her name. Yeah, the big freshman
Speaker 1: that was out there working on that low block. And
Speaker 1: next thing you know, it's coming down to the wire.
Speaker 1: So a big game. Juju twenty five points, seventy five
Speaker 1: percent from the three point line. Page finished with twenty two.
Speaker 1: Juju is now averaging twenty five six boards for Cysts,
Speaker 1: two blocks and two and a half steals.
Speaker 2: Jack.
Speaker 1: I really feel like she I think obviously everyone does.
Speaker 1: She's next in line. I feel like, obviously with the
Speaker 1: entry of Andrew Reese and Kaitlin Clark this year, it
Speaker 1: kind of reminded me of Magic and Bird back in
Speaker 1: the day and kind of shifting the viewership and and
Speaker 1: you know the explosiveness of this game, and then you
Speaker 1: have Juju coming down the pipeline. Sc is now eleven
Speaker 1: and one. They took a tough loss to Notre Dame
Speaker 1: if I'm not mistaken early in the season. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: you know, obviously this is a big bounce back against
Speaker 1: Gino and Page. So Juju is one player who Jack
Speaker 1: is her game strong enough to change the rules? You know,
Speaker 1: all women have to go to school for at least
Speaker 1: four years before they can make the jump. Is Juju
Speaker 1: someone that can possibly push the line with that rule?
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I mean I think, you know, yeah, I
Speaker 3: look at it different. I think she's definitely ready to
Speaker 3: for the WNBA. Now she could be you know, if
Speaker 3: it's time to change the rule, why shouldn't she be
Speaker 3: the face of it. But you know, I've always felt like,
Speaker 3: if you can go to war at eighteen to put
Speaker 3: your life online. You should be able to take your
Speaker 3: family and play a sport at eighteen as well.
Speaker 1: And you got to think too, she's like the legitimate
Speaker 1: age in the day and age where there's whole backs
Speaker 1: and double hole backs and super red shirts and people
Speaker 1: talking about juco players get eighteen years in college now
Speaker 1: like Juju is someone who is really if I'm not mistaken,
Speaker 1: she's still eighteen or may just be nineteen, so she's
Speaker 1: her actual age.
Speaker 2: In the right grade.
Speaker 1: So to be able to see her talent, she's really special.
Speaker 1: So really excited to continue to see what this season
Speaker 1: holds for college basketball.
Speaker 2: On the women's side.
Speaker 1: Christmas Day, Jack, did you get a chance to play
Speaker 1: any Christmas Day games?
Speaker 3: I think I did. Maybe if I did, it was one.
Speaker 3: If I did, I don't know. Maybe if I did,
Speaker 3: it was one, But I might have it.
Speaker 2: I don't think it happened, you know what. No, I did.
Speaker 2: I had Christmas Day shoes when I was in Charlotte.
Speaker 1: Okay, they just gave you shoes. Doesn't mean you had
Speaker 1: the game though, did it?
Speaker 2: No? No?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: Because they were red and we had to wear it
Speaker 2: because it was a Christmas Day game.
Speaker 1: Okay, it looked the bombcasts on TV for Christmas must
Speaker 1: have had a hand in that.
Speaker 2: On TV. We probably had a Christmas game, he said,
Speaker 2: he wasn't on TV. Yeah, we just had a game
Speaker 2: on Christmas.
Speaker 1: Motherfucker's had a scrimmage on Christmas Day. I was lucky enough, man,
Speaker 1: I got to play in like I think like four
Speaker 1: or five maybe even more. I got to play a
Speaker 1: lot on Christmas. That was amazing. But recently Charles Barkley,
Speaker 1: obviously with the ratings where they're at, Barkley said to
Speaker 1: fix the ratings issue, that the season should start on Christmas.
Speaker 1: If I'm not mistaken, Jack, our twenty twelve season started
Speaker 1: on Christmas, and I actually loved it. I was with
Speaker 1: the Lakers then or the Clippers, one of the two.
Speaker 1: But I know we played on Christmas. But I think Jack, obviously,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of different things that go into the ratings,
Speaker 1: and you can blame it on whether you want to
Speaker 1: blame it on the election, the NFL, college football, the
Speaker 1: style of play, the Hornets, and the Bullsmith seventy five
Speaker 1: three pointers combined the other day, something has to be done.
Speaker 1: What are your thoughts on possibly shortening the season to
Speaker 1: you know, gain the most traction and hopefully bring some
Speaker 1: fans back.
Speaker 2: That's just crazy.
Speaker 3: But somebody you can even say that about a professional
Speaker 3: game a right, nuts.
Speaker 2: That's because all they want to do is shoot threes.
Speaker 3: I mean, like you said, it's any it's a million
Speaker 3: things that need to change, But what it boils down
Speaker 3: to is the players.
Speaker 2: What it boils down to is the players. They depends.
Speaker 3: The players are allowed to do whatever the fuck they
Speaker 3: want from play when I want to. I don't want
Speaker 3: to play like it's just it's just to me. They
Speaker 3: can get the appreciation back for the game. You know, everybody,
Speaker 3: regardless how much money you make, and you're gonna go
Speaker 3: out there and put your life on the line every night.
Speaker 3: When you get started to get more of those guys
Speaker 3: back because the guys like that they're not in the league.
Speaker 2: They pushing those guys down.
Speaker 1: They want the good guys, although yeah, those guys are
Speaker 1: on the way or out. Those guys are on the
Speaker 1: way out.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So when the game gets back to that and they
Speaker 3: get away with stop launching a half court shots.
Speaker 2: Everybody who can shoot the furthest.
Speaker 3: Like I hated Matt, and I'm glad it's low because
Speaker 3: I ain't watching it. Nobody want to watch that bullshit.
Speaker 3: Shit is bad. It's bad basketball. There's no IQ basketball.
Speaker 3: All these kids out here are super talented, all the talented,
Speaker 3: super talented, all the talent in the world, but think
Speaker 3: passed the fucking pre throw line. So it's a lot
Speaker 3: that they can fixed, Matt, But for me, I would
Speaker 3: say they need to get their hunger back, and they
Speaker 3: and their appreciation for the game.
Speaker 1: I got a chance to see yesterday. I just really
Speaker 1: took the day off from life and just watched a
Speaker 1: ton of TV and I saw the two thousand Damn.
Speaker 1: I don't remember the year, but it was tamac on
Speaker 1: the Magic See where it was on the kings A.
Speaker 1: I saw that All Star Game where these dudes were
Speaker 1: going at it in the All Star Game or like
Speaker 1: really Garden trying to block dunks and like they was
Speaker 1: really going at it. And I'm thinking, like I probably
Speaker 1: saw one time ten Hall of Famers on the quarter once,
Speaker 1: and I'm thinking, like, if these guys can play this
Speaker 1: hard for an All Star Game, like what is the
Speaker 1: excuse for the current All Stars? But then the league
Speaker 1: as a whole man, I mean, obviously.
Speaker 2: I don't mean to cut you off, but I don't
Speaker 2: mean to cut you up.
Speaker 3: But you're talking about to me the best All Star
Speaker 3: game ever because I played in the rookie game that year.
Speaker 3: That was in two thousand and three. That's when Steph,
Speaker 3: Steph Ai, Vince car That's when they came back right
Speaker 3: with the small line, Vince Carters, Tracey McGrady, Steph, Steph Ai,
Speaker 3: and somebody else.
Speaker 1: Yeah, bro, you exactly right. That was the best game
Speaker 1: in the West. The West had Tim Duncan, Kevin Garnett,
Speaker 1: and Chris Webber as there as they're from.
Speaker 3: Time.
Speaker 1: Shit was insane, bro, But you know it's it's to me, Jack,
Speaker 1: is it? You know it's you never want to point
Speaker 1: a finger at you know, Steph because he's been incredible
Speaker 1: for or what he's been able to do for this
Speaker 1: game itself. But I think a lot of people think
Speaker 1: that they have that Steph Curry or Klay Thompson ability.
Speaker 1: And this is a copycat league. So remember when the league,
Speaker 1: when we first came to the league, you couldn't even
Speaker 1: shoot the ball unless the post touched it first. Rarely rarely,
Speaker 1: I mean they're beagle. Probably name five guys in the league.
Speaker 1: They can come down and just pull up. Used to
Speaker 1: have to go inside out and work your offense. Now
Speaker 1: people are running three on one to get three pointers.
Speaker 2: They're winning the.
Speaker 1: Three on one fast break one defender with three offensive guys,
Speaker 1: and these guys are running to the three point line
Speaker 1: and just pulling three after three. So I definitely think
Speaker 1: this is an issue jacking, and to be honest with you,
Speaker 1: the issue can grow even next year because next year
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to chase the games. You're gonna have
Speaker 1: to go. There's new streamers, and it's gonna be all
Speaker 1: over the place, so it's not gonna be the normal
Speaker 1: place that you find it. So I think Adam Silver
Speaker 1: really has a lot of work to do this offseason
Speaker 1: to try to figure out how to re store because
Speaker 1: the NBA has been on a hell of a trajectory.
Speaker 1: You know, obviously with the new money and the new partnerships,
Speaker 1: the growth of the game is going up, but the
Speaker 1: viewership is trash right now, and it's because I think
Speaker 1: the main reason, like you said, is that the product
Speaker 1: in which they're putting on the floor, which brings me
Speaker 1: to Christmas Day, and normally Christmas Day is for just
Speaker 1: the NBA. But guess who's snuck in on Christmas. The
Speaker 1: NFL said, fuck that, we're gonna come get some of
Speaker 1: these ratings. So now the NFL is on Christmas Day too.
Speaker 1: But here's a slate. You got the Spurs at the Knicks,
Speaker 1: the Wolves at the MAVs, the Sixers at the Celtics,
Speaker 1: the Lakers at the Warriors, and the Nuggets at the Suns.
Speaker 1: And I'm right with you, you don't. You don't beat that.
Speaker 1: What game is she performed? Does anybody know what football
Speaker 1: game she's performing? It's a Texans It's a Texans game. Jack,
Speaker 1: Are you gonna make time to watch any if these
Speaker 1: this slate of five NBA games I just threw at
Speaker 1: you for Christmas Day?
Speaker 2: Absolutely not. I'm glad my family it just chilling out.
Speaker 2: I think I gained more of my day play a
Speaker 2: call of duty than watching that shit cood.
Speaker 1: So you're gonna be killing and not chilling, Yeah, killing
Speaker 1: and not chilling. Oh, Man, I might grab a couple
Speaker 1: of these. I might peak at a few, Jack twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four. Man has been obviously coming to the end
Speaker 1: of this year. It's been a tremendous blessing for our company.
Speaker 1: We launched All the Smoke Productions January won, twenty twenty four,
Speaker 1: and as I'm here in La sitting in our new building,
Speaker 1: it's beautiful. What has been your thoughts on just our
Speaker 1: elevation in twenty twenty four?
Speaker 2: What?
Speaker 3: Just two things me, I'm just appreciating everybody on our team,
Speaker 3: like just be here. You know, a lot of a
Speaker 3: lot of people in this face. A lot of people
Speaker 3: are trying to do the things we're doing, but we're
Speaker 3: actually doing it, and we all a lot of things
Speaker 3: that have worked in our favor, you know, from from
Speaker 3: Brian Delly on down. So I'm just honored to be
Speaker 3: a part of this team. I'm honored to be in
Speaker 3: this situation because I never expected it. You know, I
Speaker 3: never expect to be doing what we're doing and being
Speaker 3: a part of a great production company, great shows, Like
Speaker 3: I did something that I never even thought of after
Speaker 3: basketball and two, I ain't gonna be the one to
Speaker 3: fuck it up we here, this shit is crazy. I
Speaker 3: ain't gonna be the one.
Speaker 1: To puy not me.
Speaker 2: Huh. Now it's been dope.
Speaker 1: I mean to echo what you said, I mean, the
Speaker 1: whole entire All the Smoke team. We love you, We
Speaker 1: appreciate you guys, because obviously we couldn't do it ourselves.
Speaker 1: But it's been a crazy run, you know. Also also
Speaker 1: shout out DraftKings for forgiving us the opportunity to really build,
Speaker 1: you know, build this situation. But twenty twenty four has
Speaker 1: been great. Right now, we wanted to talk about who
Speaker 1: had a great twenty twenty four, Who owned twenty I'm
Speaker 1: gonna give you a list of some people, and you
Speaker 1: tell me who you think had the best twenty twenty four,
Speaker 1: maybe the top three. So obviously Kendrick, you know him
Speaker 1: and Drake went back and forth, and you know, from
Speaker 1: May on, not like us has been a problem. Caitlin
Speaker 1: Clark broke multiple records in the w n b A
Speaker 1: and the NCAA has kind of changed the game as
Speaker 1: far as viewership and opportunity in the women's game. The
Speaker 1: Kelsey's and the Swifties, We're gonna put them together, the
Speaker 1: biggest music artists in the world. Best selling tour of
Speaker 1: all time, two billion, Travis Wentz a super Bowl. The
Speaker 1: Kelsey Brothers get one hundred million dollar podcast deal.
Speaker 2: Amazing.
Speaker 1: Shout out to Fellas. Jason gets his own show, on
Speaker 1: ESPN Anthony Edwards gold medal. First thing that Jashoe future
Speaker 1: face of the NBA, Pat McAfee got, the ESPN execs
Speaker 1: fired College Game Day and WWE he's doing this thing,
Speaker 1: show Hal Tani biggest contract in Major League Baseball history,
Speaker 1: in Woner World Series. And our brother Dion Sanders shutting
Speaker 1: the haters up, turning this whole organization around, and him
Speaker 1: and Travis excuse me, Shador and Travis could possibly go
Speaker 1: one and two. Jack, you shook your head on everybody
Speaker 1: I mentioned. Who am I missing the person at all?
Speaker 3: Twenty twenty four And congratulations to him because he's owned
Speaker 3: it with Shannon Shark.
Speaker 1: Shannon Shark ooh got to keep I'm not mad at that, Jack,
Speaker 1: I'm not mad at that. That's a good call. Shout
Speaker 1: out Shannon Man. He definitely changed the game him and
Speaker 1: you know, obviously Shannon has been doing this thing. But
Speaker 1: I think that that Cat interview opened up the door
Speaker 1: to what is catterprophet is? Can you see the future?
Speaker 1: I love well, Jack, you know the crazy shit was
Speaker 1: That's the trip I got sick. Remember we were supposed
Speaker 1: to have Cat the same time we had Warren g
Speaker 1: I remember I got sick that one day and I couldn't
Speaker 1: come in, and Jolanni field in for me. You know,
Speaker 1: we're supposed to have cat that trip, and then like
Speaker 1: two weeks later he was on Shannon's thing.
Speaker 2: But that's a great call.
Speaker 1: Shannon definitely did his thing this year, definitely established his brand,
Speaker 1: his company, obviously the big deal with ESPN in first
Speaker 1: take Man's that's a that's a really good call. Who
Speaker 1: else do you think? Who are a few other people?
Speaker 1: If we got Shannon number one? Who else do we
Speaker 1: got to kind of round this out? We got Pat Showhy,
Speaker 1: Dion and Edwards, Caitlyn Clark, Kendrick. You gotta throw Kendrick
Speaker 1: in there.
Speaker 2: You got.
Speaker 1: Caitlyn in there. Not mad at that? So those three, Shannon, Caitlyn,
Speaker 1: and Kendrick, Yeah, I'm not mad at that. Shout out
Speaker 1: everyone else who had a solid year.
Speaker 2: Jack.
Speaker 1: Who comes to mind when we think about twenty twenty
Speaker 1: four When they asked me this question this morning, I'm like,
Speaker 1: you guys, got no God damn we I don't even
Speaker 1: remember who we interviewed in twenty twenty four, But does
Speaker 1: anyone jump out for best all the time? Smoke guests
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty four. Our throw a few names, obviously, Kamala,
Speaker 1: Sean Kemp, Dianna Shadoor, Pat McAfee.
Speaker 2: Mike Epps. In Indy.
Speaker 1: We did Mike Epps twice. People don't know, man, we
Speaker 1: had Mike Epps at the same ship, so we were
Speaker 1: supposed to have Cat. We were supposed to have Cat
Speaker 1: the same two days. We had Mike Epps the first time,
Speaker 1: I remember. So we filmed so y'all little story. We
Speaker 1: filmed Mike the first time in La and then he
Speaker 1: hit us up and said he was too wild and
Speaker 1: could we redo the interview, And we're like, damn, we
Speaker 1: never had that happen before. So we're like, all right.
Speaker 1: And then we were able to get him in uh,
Speaker 1: get him in Indy and he was to me, he
Speaker 1: was even more cracking in All Star Weekend.
Speaker 2: It was way more popping.
Speaker 1: It was a fun run and Mike was classic Bro.
Speaker 1: Mike had me rolling. Then he didn't. Pat mcaveee give
Speaker 1: us some some some some butt sweat gummies that we
Speaker 1: ate with them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the whole weekend.
Speaker 1: I said, you know, hey, hey, we cracked in Indiana.
Speaker 2: Bro.
Speaker 1: Indiana was a fun little trip. It was cozy shit.
Speaker 1: But Indiana was fun and we had great guests that run.
Speaker 1: So does anyone Yeah, does anyone stand out in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four for you? I mean, obviously we did our
Speaker 1: live shows in twenty twenty four. Anybody stand out?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I'm a one that stood out to me was
Speaker 2: a LJ.
Speaker 1: There Johnson, Oh live show that was.
Speaker 2: That was a side of interview, great kept pride. LJ
Speaker 2: was Yeah.
Speaker 3: You know, that was my first time getting a chance
Speaker 3: to spend time with him and Bill Ron. So it
Speaker 3: was that interview on that show was more than I
Speaker 3: thought it would be.
Speaker 1: What about when Sebastian Telfer threatened to kick your ass
Speaker 1: after the show? Man, I'm just praying for him, and
Speaker 1: he said, you gave him counterfeit?
Speaker 2: How much?
Speaker 1: How much money of these.
Speaker 2: You can with?
Speaker 1: One thousand dollars a counterfeit money.
Speaker 2: Pray for that boy, man, Pray for that boy.
Speaker 1: Oh Man, Bassie Man, We love you, bro. Hope you're well.
Speaker 1: Happy holidays? Oh shit, that was funny, Jack. You get
Speaker 1: all your shopping done?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: You know, man, you know, I really don't too much
Speaker 3: celebrate Christmas. You know, it's really for my kids and
Speaker 3: my family, you know, with me being mug and I
Speaker 3: don't celebrate Christmas.
Speaker 2: But at the same time, I love the family time.
Speaker 3: You know, I don't. I don't get away from the kids.
Speaker 3: You know, my wife still does the things for the kids,
Speaker 3: so I don't have to. But I'm just here to
Speaker 3: continue to spread joy people love around and just happy
Speaker 3: to be here. You know this, This is what I
Speaker 3: really enjoy about this time of year, Not really the holidays,
Speaker 3: just been able to spend time with family and see
Speaker 3: how grateful we are, how blessed we aren't just be
Speaker 3: happy to say that you live to see another year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, man, it's the little things. Well, unfortunately I'm not Muslim,
Speaker 1: and you beat all sign the world absolutely. I signed
Speaker 1: an application. I'm gonna be working at home depot to
Speaker 1: get a second job after all the goddamn money I
Speaker 1: just spent this Christmas on all seven of my kids
Speaker 1: and family and helping friends out and helping all these
Speaker 1: motherfucking people out.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: So starting twenty twenty, you guys catch me at a
Speaker 1: home depot in Chatsworth.
Speaker 2: I'll be running sho.
Speaker 1: I'll be running shifts out there you can find me.
Speaker 1: I also be selling weed out the store, So just
Speaker 1: let me know what you need, man. But Jack, has
Speaker 1: been a.
Speaker 2: Great year, Bro. I love you.
Speaker 1: I appreciate you. Continue to take this shit to the
Speaker 1: next level. Obviously, we launched all the Smoke fight this year.
Speaker 1: We got the NFL side jumping with Deshaun and Shady,
Speaker 1: hoping to add MMA this year and also golf in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. Man, So be on the lookout for
Speaker 1: all the smoke productions in twenty twenty five. We continue
Speaker 1: to grow, we continue to elevate, continue to do.
Speaker 2: It the right way. Jack.
Speaker 1: Before I get you out of here, one new Year's resolution.
Speaker 2: To make the best of every opportunity. There you go.
Speaker 2: I like it.
Speaker 1: My new Year's resolution is to be more disciplined. And
Speaker 1: it's really only on the eating side. Everything else. I'm
Speaker 1: pretty disciplined. I beat bullshit and when I eat, Bro,
Speaker 1: and I hate it because I work out so hard
Speaker 1: and I'm just like, yeah, why is it shit not
Speaker 1: coming off like you used to in your forties. That
Speaker 1: shit just don't be falling off.
Speaker 2: I didn't know you all the time. I've never really
Speaker 2: seen you snack.
Speaker 1: I'm not I just it just depends I get in
Speaker 1: these moves where you know all go in the pantry.
Speaker 1: We know, we got eighteen kids, so there's always gotta
Speaker 1: be some bullshit in the pantry late late nights, I'm
Speaker 1: up watching my shows or you know, I just you know,
Speaker 1: I just be doing shit I shouldn't be doing in
Speaker 1: that pantry. So my dedicated my New Year's resolution is
Speaker 1: just dedication. I think I'm really dedicated at every other
Speaker 1: aspect of my life, and I need to tighten up
Speaker 1: on the bullshit snacks. Well, I appreciate you, bro, love you.
Speaker 1: Happy holidays, and shit, I'll see you next year.
Speaker 2: I love you more.
Speaker 3: And everybody in the background in that studio, I love
Speaker 3: y'all too, man, Happy holidays.
Speaker 1: I want to welcome in now Frank Correllia, someone I
Speaker 1: found on social media, maybe like two or three years ago,
Speaker 1: and what drove me to your content was just the
Speaker 1: in depth storytelling you find hitting gems with former players,
Speaker 1: current players, guys who didn't make it interesting stories just
Speaker 1: all around sports and really do a deep dive in tone.
Speaker 1: But you do it in a little compact package in
Speaker 1: just a few minutes.
Speaker 4: What if I told you it takes just one minute
Speaker 4: to prove why Michael Jordan is the goat. Seeing NBA history,
Speaker 4: only one guy ever has averaged forty points per game
Speaker 4: in multiple playoff series. It was Jordan and the last
Speaker 4: time anyone else even did it once was Rick Barry
Speaker 4: in nineteen sixty seven. Also, only four times in NBA
Speaker 4: history has someone won the scoring title MVP, the Finals
Speaker 4: Finals MVP, and was first Team All NBA and All.
Speaker 5: Defense in the same season. Every single time.
Speaker 1: It was Mike, and I remember reaching out to you saying, bro,
Speaker 1: I don't have a company yet. I'm going to build
Speaker 1: a company. But once I do build a company, I
Speaker 1: want to work with you. And shit, all the smoke
Speaker 1: Productions is here now and we have the ball rolling.
Speaker 1: So Frank, first of all, welcome and thank you for
Speaker 1: your time. And where did that passion for these stories
Speaker 1: and your story intellian ability come from?
Speaker 5: So yeah, thanks guys so much for having me.
Speaker 4: All of this started back in early twenty twenty when
Speaker 4: I was a sophomore Seaton Hall. I got into collecting
Speaker 4: sports cards. Didn't know anything about the space, and now
Speaker 4: as I was learning, I saw no content. It was
Speaker 4: hard for me to find information. So I said, screw it.
Speaker 4: I'm going to be the one that makes the content.
Speaker 4: So I started a daily newsletters, started making videos on
Speaker 4: just market trends. Some cards are going up in price,
Speaker 4: down in price. But as I went through that journey
Speaker 4: of collecting, I realized how many rich stories there are
Speaker 4: in the space of why is this baseball card worth
Speaker 4: a million dollars? Right, there's collectors out there that have
Speaker 4: put together fifty million dollar collections. How did they find
Speaker 4: these cards? So built a whole business out of it
Speaker 4: with Trove, and now we work with all the top collectors,
Speaker 4: all the top auction houses to bring these items truly
Speaker 4: to life. And by doing that over the last four
Speaker 4: or five years, for fun, I was like, you know what,
Speaker 4: I love sports stories too, right, obviously sports is my
Speaker 4: primary passion. So just for fun on all old NBA players.
Speaker 4: I love what happened to this guy? How did this
Speaker 4: guy make the league? All these people have such incredible
Speaker 4: journeys and it's just fun. I just try to make
Speaker 4: cool short videos that people want to share with their
Speaker 4: buddies and hopefully you learn something new in sixty ninety seconds.
Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely. I mean again, that's what drove me to you.
Speaker 1: I mean I went down a rabbit hole on your
Speaker 1: page one day, I was like, Yo, this dude is dope.
Speaker 1: But I heard just so many different crazy stories. I'm
Speaker 1: just like, we got to do something together. We actually
Speaker 1: sat down with Uncle Luke not too long ago, and
Speaker 1: Uncle Luke, aside from you know, being the leader of
Speaker 1: two LIVEE Crew and all the cool shit he did
Speaker 1: with that, he was INIL before nil and they used
Speaker 1: to have a bounty program, oh b at Miami. He
Speaker 1: would take care of the guys here and there. So
Speaker 1: we tasked Frank to do a deep dive with this story,
Speaker 1: and Frank went in with his hard hat and did
Speaker 1: some research. So tell us about a little bit about
Speaker 1: what without giving it away, tell us a little bit
Speaker 1: about what you found and how fun was this story
Speaker 1: for you?
Speaker 5: Yeah, it was awesome.
Speaker 4: So yeah, we're gonna be dropping a longer video on this,
Speaker 4: going into the full story, but just short. In the eighties,
Speaker 4: Miami football was the greatest dynasty in college football history, right,
Speaker 4: they're coach that came. Coach Snellenberger came in nineteen seventy
Speaker 4: nine and he completely changed the program. And he said, Miami,
Speaker 4: all we have to do to dominate is if we
Speaker 4: just get all the top recruits in South Florida. Don't
Speaker 4: worry about recruiting anywhere else.
Speaker 5: We get all these guys, we will be great.
Speaker 4: And from eighty three to ninety one won four national championships.
Speaker 4: So Uncle Luke was biggest Miami football fan and he
Speaker 4: wanted to help the guys out because they were getting
Speaker 4: no money back then. Players in the eighties you would
Speaker 4: get thirty bucks to feed yourself and go out on
Speaker 4: the weekends, which isn't possible if you're a three hundred
Speaker 4: pounds star football player at Miami going out at night life, right,
Speaker 4: So he would look out for them. So what they
Speaker 4: had was this pay for big play bounty program where
Speaker 4: let's just say you get a sack, you make one
Speaker 4: hundred bucks.
Speaker 5: You get a big touchdown five hundred bucks. And every
Speaker 5: week they had a big.
Speaker 4: Play are or whoever is the biggest hit that week
Speaker 4: gets all the money. So maybe it's fifteen hundred bucks.
Speaker 4: Whoever knocks out the quarterback.
Speaker 5: You get the fifteen hundred bucks. Fine.
Speaker 4: The thing was, you have to win the game. If
Speaker 4: Miami didn't win the game, nobody.
Speaker 2: Gets paid no money. I like it.
Speaker 4: That may be a reason why Miami from eighty five
Speaker 4: to ninety four fifty eight consecutive home games.
Speaker 5: They didn't lose. They want to get paid.
Speaker 2: That's nuts. I love that.
Speaker 1: Well, Frank, thank you man. Along with obviously this story,
Speaker 1: we're going to be clabbing on much more. You bringing
Speaker 1: more stories to life about the Collectible space. So Frank,
Speaker 1: before we get you out of here, you know, tell
Speaker 1: everyone where they can find you. Obviously, Trove is your mothership,
Speaker 1: so tell everyone where they can find you.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So for Collectible's content, it's find your Trove on all platforms,
Speaker 4: and for my personal handle it's Frank Rallia.
Speaker 1: Well sounds good, Frank, definitely looking forward to work with you.
Speaker 1: Thank you for your time today, bro, and we'll talk soon.
Speaker 5: Sure, Thank you guys.
Speaker 1: Before we get out of here, I want to give
Speaker 1: you guys my picks for this holiday week bed last week, guys,
Speaker 1: I apologize one in three nasty work, but I'm gonna
Speaker 1: get better. Starting with the Chiefs. So someone lied to me, man,
Speaker 1: Someone told me Pat Mahos wasn't playing. So I went
Speaker 1: against them, and although who they play, yeah, I feel
Speaker 1: like they should have won. There's a few very questionable
Speaker 1: calls down the stretch, but it shows me that's what
Speaker 1: I get for going against the Chiefs. But this week,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna make that mistake. Kansas City at the
Speaker 1: Steelers on Christmas Day minus two and a half, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go with the Chiefs. Ravens at the Texans on
Speaker 1: Christmas Day, I'm gonna go with the Ravens minus four.
Speaker 1: Packers versus the Vikings. On Sunday, let me take the
Speaker 1: Packers plus two and the Falcons versus the Commanders. Commander's
Speaker 1: coming off a big win against Philly this past weekend,
Speaker 1: let me take the Commanders minus five. Appreciate you, guys,
Speaker 1: Happy Holidays to you and your loved ones, and we'll
Speaker 1: catch you guys in twenty twenty five.