Speaker 1: The volume. Hi, everybody, welcome in for an instant reaction.
Speaker 1: As the Celtics cut the Miami Heat series lead. The
Speaker 1: three to two Celtics took control. We figured they would
Speaker 1: no Gabe Vincent, Tyler Harroll could never play in this series,
Speaker 1: and the last couple of games Miami has really felt
Speaker 1: like they were down a shooter or two. Both teams
Speaker 1: actually shot the ball very well tonight, according to Stan
Speaker 1: Van Gundy. He said at the end of the game,
Speaker 1: Boston was like, I don't know thirty eight and two
Speaker 1: when they shot over forty percent on threes this year,
Speaker 1: and they did again tonight. So they've quickened the pace
Speaker 1: since being down three to zero in the series. They're
Speaker 1: moving it. That means they're getting better shots. There are
Speaker 1: excuses and there are reasons. I don't think Miami's talented
Speaker 1: enough to miss both Tyler Hero and Gabe Vincent and
Speaker 1: went on the road. I think They're going to go
Speaker 1: back home and win and shut out the series, and
Speaker 1: then Tyler Hero and Vincent will both be available for
Speaker 1: the Denver Nuggets, and I think it's a really good finals.
Speaker 1: I don't care what their ratings are, you know, I
Speaker 1: was thinking about this is that I've probably bounced around
Speaker 1: the country just because of my job more than the
Speaker 1: average person. Some of you have lived one or two
Speaker 1: other places, but you know, as many of you know,
Speaker 1: I grew up in the Northwest, and then I went
Speaker 1: to Vegas, and then I went to Tampa. Then I
Speaker 1: went back to the Northwest. That I went to the
Speaker 1: East Coast, which I love for eleven years, and then
Speaker 1: now I'm in Los Angeles. So I don't have this
Speaker 1: burning loyalty or passion for individual teams. There are certain
Speaker 1: players I really liked Tom Brady Lebron. Obviously, I'm a
Speaker 1: fan of the Warriors, but I was a fan of
Speaker 1: the Patriots when I lived in the Northeast, just because
Speaker 1: of the efficiency and the intelligence of the coaching and
Speaker 1: the players. I like smart sports. I like Lincoln Riley.
Speaker 1: I think he's really smart. I like Jim Harbaugh. I
Speaker 1: think he's really smart. My wife grew up in Michigan.
Speaker 1: Why would I like the Wolverines. I just think Harball
Speaker 1: wins everywhere. His teams get tough, they get efficient, they
Speaker 1: get smart. So I'm kind of wherever I move, I
Speaker 1: watch sports for that region heavily. I can remember being
Speaker 1: in the Northeast and really getting into the Red Sox,
Speaker 1: really getting into the Yankee Series, and then loving the
Speaker 1: vacation in Rhode Island and Nantucket. I still miss it.
Speaker 1: I still miss the Northeast. I go there every summer.
Speaker 1: So I don't have this birding loyalty or passion for
Speaker 1: any one team, maybe outside of USC football, which I
Speaker 1: like poking people in the ribs. I don't even know
Speaker 1: if I like them as much as I say I do,
Speaker 1: but I like to irritate people sometimes it's a personality flaw.
Speaker 1: But I do think there I root for interesting. I
Speaker 1: think Boston's a fascinating team. If they lose, if they win,
Speaker 1: they're back in the finals. They could certainly beat Denver.
Speaker 1: I would take Denver, but it would be very close.
Speaker 1: I think Denver would have the better coach, a dominant
Speaker 1: the best player in Jokich, and multiple scores. I think
Speaker 1: Boston would be the better defensive team. I think Denver
Speaker 1: would be the more efficient offensive team, with an edge
Speaker 1: clearly in coaching. Plus it's harder to win in Denver,
Speaker 1: certainly this year if you look at the Celtics record,
Speaker 1: than it is to win in Boston. So I would
Speaker 1: take them in like six games, the Nuggets. But there
Speaker 1: are certain teams, and I think Boston's one of those.
Speaker 1: When you get a franchise that has great history and
Speaker 1: high expectations like the Celtics, and they have this group
Speaker 1: and they can't quite get the ring yet. Now Tatum's
Speaker 1: only twenty five. You got to be patient. But you know,
Speaker 1: this is a city that's had Bill Russell with eleven titles,
Speaker 1: Bobby Orr and the Bruins KG and the Celtics won
Speaker 1: a title, Paul Pierce Reel and Coach Dock Rivers. So
Speaker 1: there's a history here that when they're good, they win,
Speaker 1: and this team is one of those. When they're really good,
Speaker 1: they didn't win last year and they just feel like
Speaker 1: they don't quite deliver in big games, often at home.
Speaker 1: So I think Miami goes and wins again. But I
Speaker 1: think I think the Celtics are a fascinating team. And
Speaker 1: remember both Jalen Brown and Tatum have qualified for the Max,
Speaker 1: so they have to pay over six hundred million dollars
Speaker 1: to those two players. Now, if they come back, Dad
Speaker 1: is going to absolutely limit what you can surround them with,
Speaker 1: and you're not going to be able to just go
Speaker 1: get a brogged in and you're going to be thin.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's the reality is. Once you pay multiple players,
Speaker 1: you don't have much of a bench. So, like I
Speaker 1: think this is really a results driven decision. If they
Speaker 1: can win a championship, you pay them the money. If
Speaker 1: they can't get to the final, I think you have
Speaker 1: to consider moving Jalen Brown because I think you can
Speaker 1: get a ton form. One of the things I've learned
Speaker 1: through the years watching sports, and never every time you
Speaker 1: think a player is unmovable John Wall Westbrook, somebody always
Speaker 1: one on talent, somebody always thinks they can solve a
Speaker 1: player's issue, don't kid yourself. Jalen Brown has no issues.
Speaker 1: His hands injured, so he's not shooting it particularly well.
Speaker 1: You could get you could get first round picks, you
Speaker 1: could get a starter and a bench player. You could
Speaker 1: get a ton for Jalen Brown. And this idea that
Speaker 1: you know when I throw out my Warriors idea, Wiggins
Speaker 1: a draft pick in Jordan Poole. Whether it happens or not,
Speaker 1: if you can't get to the finals, this was the
Speaker 1: year to get to the finals. Mbiden Harden unraveled, Miami
Speaker 1: knocked him off for you. Miami was down, Tyler Hero,
Speaker 1: twenty point a game guy. Cavaliers were too young. Tibbs
Speaker 1: is a culture guy. He's too RIGI and the Knicks
Speaker 1: are absolutely going to get somebody and be better next year,
Speaker 1: Like this is the year to win it. The Bucks
Speaker 1: got bounced. They were too old. It was laid out
Speaker 1: for you. And by the way, Victor Oladipo comes back
Speaker 1: next year, Tyler Hero, if you played the Heat again,
Speaker 1: would be back next year. So this will be a
Speaker 1: better Miami team next year. So this is the year.
Speaker 1: If you can't get to the finals, get there. Got
Speaker 1: to take phone calls. So it's very results based decision
Speaker 1: for the Celtics, which I think makes Game six in
Speaker 1: Miami absolutely fascinating. If Gabe Vincent plays, I take Miami close,
Speaker 1: Miami four or five points. First three went to the Heat,
Speaker 1: next to go to the Celtics. It's been a streaky series.
Speaker 1: I'd take Miami all right, quick break two non sports topics.
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Speaker 1: the code colin ceeliin so two non sports topics. So
Speaker 1: one of the things that's a big turnoff for me
Speaker 1: in the political media. And there's a handful of people
Speaker 1: I really respect and like, but if I know, I
Speaker 1: know which way you're leaning, it's kind of a non
Speaker 1: starter for me. I'm not really interested in partisan politics
Speaker 1: from reporters and pundits, and it's very, very hard to
Speaker 1: find those people. So when Elon Musk bought Twitter, the media,
Speaker 1: the conservative media all supported him. Left leaning media didn't
Speaker 1: give him a chance. And my takeaway is, I'm a
Speaker 1: pretty independent voter. I've voted for you know right and left,
Speaker 1: and I feel like sometimes I'm on a very small
Speaker 1: island with non crazy people and everybody twenty percent of
Speaker 1: conservatives are batshit crazy far right, and twenty percent of
Speaker 1: liberals are left of Hollywood. I just feel like there's
Speaker 1: this island and I'm on it. Of independence who socially
Speaker 1: lean left and maybe fiscally or moderates or lean right.
Speaker 1: I know there's a lot more people we think because
Speaker 1: they don't go on Twitter. Remember, ninety five million Americans
Speaker 1: are on Twitter. The country has three hundred and thirty
Speaker 1: five million people. Most people are not on sixty five
Speaker 1: seventy percent of Americans are not engaged on social media
Speaker 1: giving you their opinion. So the independence and the moderates,
Speaker 1: they're mostly mostly not hanging out. So I felt with
Speaker 1: Elon Musk taking over Twitter, I just wanted to give
Speaker 1: him a fair shake, and I said it, I'm going
Speaker 1: to give him three four months I started the volume.
Speaker 1: It took me nine months to a year to hire
Speaker 1: a staff management. We made a lot of mistakes, So
Speaker 1: you have a right when you buy a company for
Speaker 1: forty some billion dollars to make mistakes. But I will
Speaker 1: say I'm never going to leave Twitter, and if I do,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to announce it. I don't need the attention.
Speaker 1: If I'm going to leave it, I'm going to leave it.
Speaker 1: But my takeaway is it's gotten significantly worse. Too many
Speaker 1: fight videos, too much violence, too many small commercials. I'm
Speaker 1: constantly muting. I probably I was never somebody who blocked
Speaker 1: a ton of people, and mostly just mute people who
Speaker 1: are annoying or trolls. I have a lot of filters
Speaker 1: on mind, so I don't really see a lot, nor
Speaker 1: I don't run it all the time. I have people
Speaker 1: on my staff at the volume or FS one that
Speaker 1: kind of run all my social I have I think
Speaker 1: seven eight social accounts. I don't know the password to
Speaker 1: any of them. Twitter is the only one I'm on.
Speaker 1: So I don't follow a lot and read a lot,
Speaker 1: but I do from time to time. I go and
Speaker 1: read articles and I want to see the response of
Speaker 1: people to other people's articles. It's more nasty comments, way
Speaker 1: more violence, too many commercials, and for me, it's a
Speaker 1: massive turn off. So instead of complaining about it, I
Speaker 1: just I just don't go on it much. And you know, Friday,
Speaker 1: when my show's over, a lot of times, I'll put
Speaker 1: that puppy down until Sunday. Maybe I'll have somebody on
Speaker 1: the staff tweet stuff. But I try to be fair.
Speaker 1: I try to be reasonable. I think Twitter's never been
Speaker 1: more corrosive. I think those images of constant violence, I
Speaker 1: think they're bad on your psyche. I think they're I
Speaker 1: think they're bad for all of us. Left right, independent, man, woman,
Speaker 1: old young. I think it's bad for all of us.
Speaker 1: So I gave Elon Musk a shot. It's not political.
Speaker 1: I couldn't give a rip. It's just Twitter today is
Speaker 1: ugle ear that it's been, and I go on it less.
Speaker 1: Second opinion I had, there's a big writers strike, and
Speaker 1: you know, nobody outside of you know, LA and Hollywood
Speaker 1: cares much about what Hollywood thinks. But I will tell
Speaker 1: you I've known two or three people in my life
Speaker 1: who are actors, not many, and I've known a half
Speaker 1: dozen writers, and I always had I always try to simplify,
Speaker 1: you know, complex negotiations. Maybe I'm not smart enough to
Speaker 1: figure out the complex stuff. But I always thought my
Speaker 1: wife and I'll sit down and watch a streaming show
Speaker 1: and she really gets into him, and she's got a
Speaker 1: really good eye for writing, and we will if we
Speaker 1: start a Hulu show or a Netflix show, or an
Speaker 1: Amazon Prime show or a Paramount show, whatever it is.
Speaker 1: I like Acorn, which is more British stuff. It feels
Speaker 1: more realistic. People don't look like Ryan Gosling, you know,
Speaker 1: or Tom Cruise. It doesn't matter who the actors are.
Speaker 1: If the writing is poor, we'll turn it off. We'll
Speaker 1: give it about ten minutes. If the writing stinks, I mean,
Speaker 1: if the writing's bad early, if you can't sell me
Speaker 1: in the first ten minutes, then what's the middle of
Speaker 1: it going to sound like? And so I bet you
Speaker 1: I've watched a dozen streaming shows, Acorn, Hulu. I don't
Speaker 1: know any of the actors. Now I don't buy People magazine.
Speaker 1: I'm not into that stuff. But I don't know any
Speaker 1: of the actors, and I'm completely utterly captivated because the
Speaker 1: writing's great. There's a reason even great actors Robert de Niro,
Speaker 1: Kevin Costner, Denzel Washington, Hanks, Michael Keaton, there's a reason
Speaker 1: they've been in bad movies. They didn't become worse actors.
Speaker 1: The writing sucked. And one of the things I was
Speaker 1: told very early in this business that musicians get taken
Speaker 1: for a ride because the suits, you know, the corporate
Speaker 1: heads always looked at musicians as really vulnerable and not
Speaker 1: really paying attention to the bottom line before it was
Speaker 1: too late. And second in that was you know, in
Speaker 1: Hollywood a lot of times, you know, they put their
Speaker 1: thumb on the people. I mean, if you didn't have
Speaker 1: a union for writers, you think they'd pay them. So
Speaker 1: I've always fallen on the writers. Just watching television, A
Speaker 1: very simplistic solution is good writers equal good series. Doesn't
Speaker 1: matter how good the acting is. Now I'm not saying
Speaker 1: I always feel like with actors there are a little
Speaker 1: bit like play by play announcers. I've never watched as
Speaker 1: good as Joe Buck and Troy Akminar, as good as
Speaker 1: Jim nance is now Michaels. I've never watched a game
Speaker 1: because of them, but they do have an ability to
Speaker 1: elevate my experience of the game. Now, in an opinion
Speaker 1: show or a talk show, I will watch Bill Maher's
Speaker 1: show only if Bill Maher is on, and that's why
Speaker 1: he makes more. I will only listen to a podcast
Speaker 1: if the star podcaster is on. Play by play, guys,
Speaker 1: I'm going to watch the game, a bad guy can
Speaker 1: erode the quality of the experience. I feel the same
Speaker 1: way with actors. I'm not saying that Tom Hanks doesn't
Speaker 1: make a movie better. Don Cheadle, Ed Norton, Meryl Streem.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying they don't make a movie better. But
Speaker 1: if the writing's good, I really don't care about the actors.
Speaker 1: I really don't. For all the technology and all the
Speaker 1: advancements in society, very few things are more entertaining to
Speaker 1: me and make me happier than a great movie or
Speaker 1: a great streaming show at a great sporting event on TV.
Speaker 1: Maybe I'm a old school I love sit in front
Speaker 1: of a and watch a great movie, a great streaming show,
Speaker 1: or a great game. And who creates great sports the athletes,
Speaker 1: but they need coaches. Who creates the great streaming shows?
Speaker 1: The actors, and they need great writers. So as I
Speaker 1: drive around, I'm one of those nerds who occasionally honks
Speaker 1: to show support for the writers. It's very liberal of me.
Speaker 1: I'm going on a vacation with my son talking a week.
Speaker 1: The volume