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And Rob, 0:01:29.760 --> 0:01:32.600 you and I spent the last hour arguing about the 0:01:32.680 --> 0:01:35.360 National Football League and Tom Brady. And you know I 0:01:35.440 --> 0:01:38.480 said already in my timeline people are hashtag and stuff 0:01:38.520 --> 0:01:42.760 with h Boat, which is the boat. You're the boat 0:01:42.840 --> 0:01:45.520 right now, that's right, the hay this brother of all time. 0:01:45.640 --> 0:01:49.040 That's when Christmas saw it calls me. I like that 0:01:49.160 --> 0:01:51.120 the Boat. I think that's a real good nickname. I 0:01:51.160 --> 0:01:55.520 like that, Rob Parker. Now are you doing your show 0:01:55.560 --> 0:01:59.000 this afternoon? You're back on with Christmas Afternoon? Yes, we 0:01:59.040 --> 0:02:02.200 will be back on four to seven of course Pacific time, 0:02:02.280 --> 0:02:06.040 the odd couple and seven to ten pm Eastern, so yes, 0:02:06.120 --> 0:02:08.560 double dipping. Are you doing a show? Are you off tonight? No, 0:02:08.639 --> 0:02:10.960 I'm off. I did the show last night and I 0:02:11.000 --> 0:02:13.560 got done at eleven, and now I was back on 0:02:13.600 --> 0:02:15.760 this morning, so I'm actually off tonight. It's a quick 0:02:15.760 --> 0:02:19.400 turnaround time. It's one of those things where I'm like, okay, 0:02:19.400 --> 0:02:21.400 I'm gonna go to bed, and now the alarm clock 0:02:21.440 --> 0:02:23.040 goes off at Oh, now I'm up again and I'm 0:02:23.040 --> 0:02:25.760 doing another show. Okay. It's it's doing nine hours of 0:02:25.919 --> 0:02:28.720 radio in a in a fifteen hour span. It's oh yeah, 0:02:28.720 --> 0:02:31.240 it's a lot of un and we've done a number 0:02:31.240 --> 0:02:33.760 of shows together filling in and it's always fun. So 0:02:34.600 --> 0:02:37.079 buckle up for the next two hours. We've still got 0:02:37.120 --> 0:02:40.720 more to go. We got more NFL on the way, 0:02:40.760 --> 0:02:44.120 but the NBA for a bit here as look, every day, 0:02:44.320 --> 0:02:48.079 I get we're still only a couple weeks into this 0:02:48.120 --> 0:02:51.160 coronavirus and isolation, and everybody's cutting kind of antsy. They 0:02:51.200 --> 0:02:53.440 want to know when things are going to return to normal, 0:02:53.480 --> 0:02:55.640 even though you know, we keep being urged cautioned by 0:02:55.639 --> 0:02:58.320 the experts, which always listen to the experts, you know, 0:02:58.360 --> 0:03:02.600 because and because sports is still the live sports that 0:03:02.680 --> 0:03:05.040 we that we are used to getting every day, it's 0:03:05.040 --> 0:03:09.200 still very fresh in our minds, you know, the talk 0:03:09.240 --> 0:03:12.200 about them coming back dominates every single day. I mean, 0:03:12.280 --> 0:03:14.640 it's weird. I don't know that we can keep having 0:03:14.680 --> 0:03:17.320 conversations every day as to when sports are going to 0:03:17.400 --> 0:03:19.680 come back, as it coming back today. But we're getting 0:03:19.720 --> 0:03:22.600 new plans at least to pass the time from the NBA, 0:03:22.639 --> 0:03:25.880 from the NHL, from Major League Baseball as they try 0:03:25.919 --> 0:03:28.079 to figure out what their plans are to when they 0:03:28.120 --> 0:03:30.960 do resume playing. And you know, of all the things 0:03:30.960 --> 0:03:33.640 we've heard the past the past few days about what's 0:03:33.639 --> 0:03:35.960 going to happen with the NBA because the NBA. I 0:03:35.960 --> 0:03:38.120 think everybody is looking to the NBA to be the 0:03:38.200 --> 0:03:41.440 leaders here because look, the NBA shut down the United 0:03:41.480 --> 0:03:44.960 States because of Rudy Gobert. Once Rudy Gobert's positive test 0:03:45.040 --> 0:03:47.600 was out, we had no sports. That was the last 0:03:47.680 --> 0:03:49.760 night of sports. Then the next day we started to 0:03:49.800 --> 0:03:52.800 realize that we weren't having it for a while. Isolation 0:03:52.880 --> 0:03:56.120 started and we really dealt with the coronavirus head on, 0:03:56.200 --> 0:03:59.320 because that was the big talking point for it. The 0:03:59.440 --> 0:04:01.960 NBA ke putting out ideas of Hey, this is what 0:04:02.000 --> 0:04:04.840 we can do to continue to play and maybe finish 0:04:04.880 --> 0:04:08.000 this season. And it's really admirable with all these plans, 0:04:08.000 --> 0:04:10.200 and the big one this week has been, Hey, we're 0:04:10.200 --> 0:04:13.360 gonna go to Vegas and we're gonna put the players 0:04:13.360 --> 0:04:16.320 in kind of a quarantine and they're gonna finish the 0:04:16.360 --> 0:04:19.320 season somehow, whether it's everybody plays at least, you know, 0:04:19.400 --> 0:04:21.920 three games to finish their quote regular season and then 0:04:22.200 --> 0:04:25.080 have the playoffs in Vegas. And I get that this 0:04:25.200 --> 0:04:28.640 is very ambitious and I understand this, but Rob, do 0:04:28.680 --> 0:04:30.479 you think this is a feasible thing to see? The 0:04:30.600 --> 0:04:33.520 NBA actually playing in Vegas to finish the season like that. 0:04:34.040 --> 0:04:37.039 I just don't see it. I understand why they want 0:04:37.040 --> 0:04:40.280 to get the season back on. They've already lost a 0:04:40.279 --> 0:04:43.040 ton of money from the incident with Darl Morey and 0:04:43.200 --> 0:04:47.359 the China situation early this year, remember that Jason that 0:04:47.520 --> 0:04:50.440 hurt the NBA, and now to lose the TV money 0:04:50.440 --> 0:04:54.400 that goes with these games and playoffs. So I get it. Financially, 0:04:54.440 --> 0:04:56.719 they want a season. They want to and they're coming 0:04:56.800 --> 0:05:00.200 up with all these ideas, no fans and we'll will 0:05:00.200 --> 0:05:02.720 sequester all the players and they'll all be in the 0:05:02.720 --> 0:05:04.920 same spot. But I don't know if they can guarantee 0:05:05.640 --> 0:05:11.720 that people will still be safe in that environment, because 0:05:11.920 --> 0:05:16.919 it's not about Jason. Ten players, a basketball, a referee, 0:05:16.920 --> 0:05:19.640 and two coaches. There's a lot of support people that 0:05:19.800 --> 0:05:22.719 also have to be involved in order to make a 0:05:22.760 --> 0:05:26.920 basketball game, a professional basketball game run, And there's just 0:05:27.000 --> 0:05:29.479 a chance. What if you have these guys there and 0:05:29.680 --> 0:05:33.599 somebody has a family emergency right and they have to 0:05:33.680 --> 0:05:37.280 leave to go see their family or circumstance or situation. 0:05:37.680 --> 0:05:41.080 There's so many other things that are that are involved 0:05:41.360 --> 0:05:43.520 that I can't believe that players are going to sign 0:05:43.560 --> 0:05:46.200 off on it. I know they want to make their money. 0:05:46.560 --> 0:05:49.080 I know the league wants to make its money, but 0:05:49.240 --> 0:05:53.360 I think it's far fetched. Jeff Van Gundhi, of course, 0:05:53.400 --> 0:05:57.080 an ESPN analyst for the NBA, says he thinks the 0:05:57.120 --> 0:06:00.839 season will be canceled ultimately that to try to get 0:06:01.839 --> 0:06:05.760 players back in shape and ready to go. When Jason, 0:06:05.800 --> 0:06:08.960 if you're looking at three months of not playing, remember, 0:06:09.600 --> 0:06:11.560 unless you have a gym in your home, and most 0:06:11.600 --> 0:06:14.479 guys don't, even as rich as they are, most people 0:06:14.520 --> 0:06:18.400 don't you know, you can't work out. Uh, And then 0:06:18.440 --> 0:06:20.440 a lot of guys are are you out of shape 0:06:20.440 --> 0:06:22.200 because you're not going to the gym, you can't do 0:06:22.320 --> 0:06:24.560 the things that you want to do. I just think 0:06:24.560 --> 0:06:26.880 it's far fetched. Well, I look at two things that 0:06:26.960 --> 0:06:28.800 tell me this is this is not gonna happen and 0:06:28.920 --> 0:06:32.400 and and one is are they really gonna be in 0:06:32.440 --> 0:06:35.120 isolation and quarantine? Are really gonna go to Vegas? And 0:06:35.160 --> 0:06:37.360 that's gonna be their lives? You're not gonna see anybody, 0:06:37.400 --> 0:06:38.960 You're not gonna go out, You're gonna play a game 0:06:38.960 --> 0:06:41.080 and go to the hotel. You're gonna be by yourself. 0:06:41.120 --> 0:06:42.720 You're just just gonna be with the guys on your team, 0:06:42.760 --> 0:06:45.240 and you're gonna be isolated away from your family and 0:06:45.320 --> 0:06:48.280 everybody else for the next month or month and a 0:06:48.320 --> 0:06:51.919 half or whatever it's gonna be. I don't see that 0:06:51.960 --> 0:06:54.159 as being something the players want. I don't see every 0:06:54.160 --> 0:06:56.719 team wanting to continue the season. If you're a team 0:06:56.720 --> 0:07:00.120 that's that's that's at the bottom of the standings, and 0:07:00.279 --> 0:07:02.240 you know, if you're the Hawks or the Knicks or 0:07:02.279 --> 0:07:05.040 the Warriors or a team like that, and it's and it's, hey, 0:07:05.040 --> 0:07:07.080 we're gonna go play three games to end this season. 0:07:07.440 --> 0:07:09.200 I think some of those teams are gonna go, Yeah, 0:07:09.240 --> 0:07:11.160 you know, we're not sold on that. I don't know 0:07:11.200 --> 0:07:13.280 that it's going to be safe. And none of our 0:07:13.280 --> 0:07:15.040 guys really want to go do this, so we're not 0:07:15.080 --> 0:07:16.680 going to go play. I mean, I can see and 0:07:16.760 --> 0:07:19.560 I can see NBA players saying that. And the players 0:07:19.560 --> 0:07:22.400 are way more powerful than they are in any other sport. 0:07:22.440 --> 0:07:27.200 Adam Silver has elevated the players almost two. There's two commissioners. 0:07:27.200 --> 0:07:29.920 There's Silver and his co commissioner or Lebron James, and 0:07:30.000 --> 0:07:32.280 the NBA players, and they're the ones that are going 0:07:32.320 --> 0:07:35.360 to make the decision on this. But you know, with 0:07:35.600 --> 0:07:39.600 that being said, just the fact that I don't know 0:07:39.640 --> 0:07:41.640 that you're going to be able to take players and 0:07:41.760 --> 0:07:44.520 tell them that listen, it's not safe to have the crowds, 0:07:44.840 --> 0:07:47.200 but it's safe for you guys to play against each 0:07:47.200 --> 0:07:50.280 other where you guys are banging and you are swapping 0:07:50.360 --> 0:07:54.600 body fluids and that's okay. I don't think players are 0:07:54.600 --> 0:07:55.880 going to be down for that, because look at what 0:07:55.920 --> 0:07:59.600 the Chinese Basketball Association did earlier this week. Started up, 0:08:00.040 --> 0:08:02.000 they try but what did they realize. Wait, there's too 0:08:02.040 --> 0:08:05.440 many people that could be asymptomatic of the virus and 0:08:05.800 --> 0:08:07.960 they still could spread it. We have to push it back. 0:08:08.560 --> 0:08:11.200 That's gonna be a really big thing that players. Once 0:08:11.240 --> 0:08:13.480 we get to the point of coming back. I get 0:08:13.480 --> 0:08:16.000 that the players now are like, yeah, we're we're ready, 0:08:16.040 --> 0:08:18.040 We're loaded on coming back. You know, we really want 0:08:18.040 --> 0:08:19.440 to play, We want to keep this going. But what 0:08:19.520 --> 0:08:21.880 it gets down to it and the NBA says, Okay, 0:08:21.920 --> 0:08:23.880 here are the games, and we have to do this 0:08:23.960 --> 0:08:26.679 to make it really really super safe. Players are gonna 0:08:27.200 --> 0:08:29.520 falter on that and they're gonna waiver and go oh, 0:08:29.600 --> 0:08:31.640 but is it really super safe or do we need 0:08:31.680 --> 0:08:33.439 to wait a little bit longer and make sure this 0:08:33.440 --> 0:08:36.480 thing doesn't come back. And I'm not at any risk entirely. 0:08:36.720 --> 0:08:38.440 I think a lot of players, when it comes down 0:08:38.480 --> 0:08:40.960 to it, are gonna go. Yeah. I don't know about that. 0:08:41.040 --> 0:08:42.600 I think we need a little bit more time, and 0:08:42.640 --> 0:08:45.160 suddenly that's going to throw the NBA's plan up in chaos. 0:08:45.440 --> 0:08:47.600 All of those things I see is happening before the 0:08:47.720 --> 0:08:51.160 NBA tips anything off in Vegas. Yeah, I'm with you, 0:08:51.240 --> 0:08:55.680 and I think ultimately, you know, the players will will 0:08:55.720 --> 0:08:59.080 of course, because once they decide that they're not doing it, 0:08:59.080 --> 0:09:03.320 it's all over. You know. Um, I thought you saw 0:09:03.360 --> 0:09:05.680 that and you and you even mentioned about some teams 0:09:05.720 --> 0:09:08.440 not being down with it as well. I could see that. 0:09:09.040 --> 0:09:13.559 Remember the NCAA March Madness Tournament got canceled. You know 0:09:13.559 --> 0:09:17.160 when it got canceled, Jason, It got canceled when Kansas 0:09:17.360 --> 0:09:19.640 and Duke said, that's nice, you can have the tournament, 0:09:19.679 --> 0:09:21.880 but we're not coming. Do you remember that. Then all 0:09:21.880 --> 0:09:23.839 of a sudden, oh yeah, wait a minute, yeah, we 0:09:23.920 --> 0:09:26.720 better cancel it. Because they were trying everything. Oh let's 0:09:26.720 --> 0:09:29.640 do it without the fans, let's do this, let's do that. 0:09:30.000 --> 0:09:32.240 They were trying. They wanted the money from CBS and 0:09:32.320 --> 0:09:35.520 T n T and TB. I get it, there's a 0:09:35.559 --> 0:09:39.000 lot of money at stake, but you can't there's no 0:09:39.080 --> 0:09:43.240 price you can put on players safety and their health. 0:09:43.880 --> 0:09:48.280 And again three months if if it is three months 0:09:48.320 --> 0:09:51.640 later that you have to sit out, what kind of 0:09:51.679 --> 0:09:54.480 basketball are we getting? Are we putting people in harm's way? 0:09:54.600 --> 0:09:57.800 Jason that they hadn't played in three months and now 0:09:57.800 --> 0:10:00.040 we're trying to restart the basketball season. I don't I 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:02.440 think that's good. You know, it's funny you say that 0:10:02.640 --> 0:10:04.960 the Dan Patrick Show Jason Smith and Rob Parker in 0:10:05.080 --> 0:10:07.240 for Dan and the Dan Nets, because that's kind of 0:10:07.280 --> 0:10:10.320 was Rick Buker's big point this week Fox Sports one 0:10:10.440 --> 0:10:13.280 NBA insider who went on Colin Coward Show and said, Hey, 0:10:13.360 --> 0:10:15.640 I don't think Lebron actually wants any part of the 0:10:15.640 --> 0:10:17.640 playoffs and some of the things he's been saying to 0:10:17.720 --> 0:10:20.319 an interview with Richard Jefferson in his road Trip and 0:10:20.400 --> 0:10:22.839 podcast last week, saying that, well, I don't want to 0:10:22.880 --> 0:10:25.240 play if we don't have fans. What's it going to 0:10:25.360 --> 0:10:27.559 be like if I'm going for a loose ball against 0:10:27.600 --> 0:10:30.079 somebody who had coronavirus. Am I going to think twice 0:10:30.120 --> 0:10:32.680 about it? And it just doesn't seem like he's as 0:10:32.840 --> 0:10:36.200 into the playoffs as you know, you think he would be. 0:10:36.440 --> 0:10:40.040 And you know, Rick Buker and said that, listen, Lebron 0:10:40.120 --> 0:10:42.640 just doesn't want to restart again because now the Lakers 0:10:42.640 --> 0:10:46.080 are at a real kind of disadvantage, and you know, 0:10:46.200 --> 0:10:49.120 Lebron is just kind of everything that he's saying comes 0:10:49.160 --> 0:10:51.320 from that space right now is okay. Now after having 0:10:51.520 --> 0:10:54.040 whatever kind of time off, here's a veteran team, and 0:10:54.080 --> 0:10:55.800 I have to try to get my body back at 0:10:55.920 --> 0:10:58.640 you know, thirty five years old, to get me back 0:10:58.640 --> 0:11:00.480 to where I need to be. It's going to be 0:11:00.559 --> 0:11:03.760 too tough. And every time, you know, Lebron talks and 0:11:03.800 --> 0:11:06.800 he says stuff like we talked about the other night, 0:11:06.840 --> 0:11:10.600 putting out his best highlights of all time on social 0:11:10.600 --> 0:11:13.280 media and doing some kind of chat about it, I 0:11:13.280 --> 0:11:15.120 feel like Lebron is just, you know, he's sitting at 0:11:15.160 --> 0:11:17.320 home and he's talking, and I wonder how much he 0:11:17.360 --> 0:11:19.439 wants to continue on with the playoffs, and how much 0:11:19.480 --> 0:11:22.240 any player wants to continue on with the playoffs when 0:11:22.280 --> 0:11:24.760 it's all said and done, if they're really thinking about, Okay, 0:11:24.960 --> 0:11:27.600 is it really that important to play this season versus 0:11:28.000 --> 0:11:30.880 being safe and then coming back when we get absolutely 0:11:30.880 --> 0:11:32.959 clean bill of health, which could be next year. And 0:11:33.400 --> 0:11:35.880 the other part is, while Lebron maybe doesn't want to 0:11:35.920 --> 0:11:40.840 restart the team in his way, the Clippers, those guys 0:11:40.840 --> 0:11:43.240 probably have gotten healthy. They're younger, do you know what 0:11:43.280 --> 0:11:45.800 I mean? They were the ones who weren't playing their 0:11:45.880 --> 0:11:48.400 full team or roster and they have been rusted. So 0:11:48.520 --> 0:11:51.080 when they come back, they're gonna be an even better 0:11:51.080 --> 0:11:53.440 shape because they've gotten the time off to get healthy. 0:11:53.679 --> 0:11:55.480 So I agree, I don't. I don't think that that's 0:11:55.520 --> 0:11:59.040 going to be something Lebron wants to even deal with now. 0:11:59.080 --> 0:12:04.160 When it comes to Lebron and his or his normal 0:12:04.240 --> 0:12:08.440 social media outpourings that usually come late at night somewhere, 0:12:08.440 --> 0:12:10.959 whether it's a podcast or him online because he's bored. 0:12:11.720 --> 0:12:14.000 I know you're not a big fan of him going 0:12:14.080 --> 0:12:16.640 forward with this. Hey, here's some of my best highlights 0:12:16.640 --> 0:12:19.079 of all time, and I'm gonna put this out there 0:12:19.120 --> 0:12:21.080 and take questions and go over some of the big 0:12:21.080 --> 0:12:24.480 moments of my career. Not at all. And Jason, when 0:12:24.520 --> 0:12:28.400 I heard that, originally I thought to myself. Here's Lebron 0:12:28.559 --> 0:12:33.080 James trying to upstage Michael Jordan. And because ESPN had 0:12:33.120 --> 0:12:35.560 just announced that they were what moving up the ten 0:12:35.600 --> 0:12:39.960 part documentary right about that final championship year, right with 0:12:40.040 --> 0:12:44.120 the Bulls. So I thought to myself, you know, Lebron 0:12:44.400 --> 0:12:46.320 is convinced that he was to go. Remember when he 0:12:46.360 --> 0:12:49.200 came back from the three one deficit to the Warriors. 0:12:49.240 --> 0:12:51.560 That's when he proclaimed that he was the goat and 0:12:51.600 --> 0:12:54.360 he knew it. Not that most people think that he 0:12:54.480 --> 0:12:57.560 is the goat. Most believe Michael Jordan is. But this 0:12:57.640 --> 0:13:01.360 is a chance for him too. When everybody is like, 0:13:01.720 --> 0:13:04.600 you know, like all the Lebron minions who refuse to 0:13:04.640 --> 0:13:07.920 acknowledge Michael Jordan as the greatest of all time, you know, 0:13:07.960 --> 0:13:10.520 they can watch Jordan's thing, and then Lebron puts out 0:13:10.559 --> 0:13:13.559 his highlights. We'll remember when I did this, Remember when 0:13:13.600 --> 0:13:16.679 I went against this team. So it just seemed kind 0:13:16.720 --> 0:13:20.600 of suspicious to me that right after that he decides 0:13:20.600 --> 0:13:22.760 that he wanted to do and remember the whole thing 0:13:22.840 --> 0:13:25.800 was half baked because he hasn't even really thought it out. 0:13:26.280 --> 0:13:29.720 Am I gonna put it on Instagram? Maybe I'll just 0:13:29.760 --> 0:13:31.920 hold on to it, maybe I'll do it later. Just 0:13:31.960 --> 0:13:35.360 the whole notion that he put it out there without 0:13:35.400 --> 0:13:37.840 really going through it or thinking about it or saying, hey, 0:13:38.240 --> 0:13:41.120 I've been working on this for a while. Maybe because 0:13:41.559 --> 0:13:44.360 content is low, this might be the time. It just 0:13:44.440 --> 0:13:48.200 seemed suspicious and maybe I'm one of those guys. But 0:13:48.240 --> 0:13:50.520 that was the first thing I thought of, why is 0:13:50.520 --> 0:13:53.640 he coming out with this now, especially with the Jordan 0:13:56.520 --> 0:14:03.559 The Jordan the ten part documentary, ten part documentary. So see, 0:14:05.440 --> 0:14:07.280 I take it from a different perspective on it because 0:14:07.320 --> 0:14:10.280 I disagree on on Lebron doing this to upstage Jordan. 0:14:10.920 --> 0:14:13.600 Is a lot of times when he says something, I 0:14:13.640 --> 0:14:16.480 think he's saying it because he's very calculated. Look, Lebron 0:14:16.520 --> 0:14:19.400 always is is calculated about what he has to say. 0:14:19.440 --> 0:14:22.440 And the stuff about starting the season, I think is him, 0:14:22.920 --> 0:14:26.600 you know, sending a big flare up, telling Adam Silver 0:14:26.720 --> 0:14:28.240 you know it just because you guys want to start 0:14:28.240 --> 0:14:30.720 this season up so bad. Doesn't mean all of us 0:14:30.720 --> 0:14:32.560 players are going to be down for it when it happens. 0:14:32.760 --> 0:14:35.520 But then there's times where I think, like Lebron just 0:14:35.760 --> 0:14:38.800 does things and says things, and it's part of who 0:14:38.880 --> 0:14:41.680 Lebron has been his career where sometimes he just says 0:14:41.680 --> 0:14:44.240 stuff that's a bad idea and is polarizing, you know. 0:14:44.280 --> 0:14:46.840 And that's that's one thing you can say for Lebron, 0:14:46.880 --> 0:14:49.800 whether he was nineteen or twenty or now at thirty five, 0:14:49.880 --> 0:14:53.200 is sometimes he says things and it, you know, it 0:14:53.280 --> 0:14:56.440 polarizes us because it's not something that you would say, 0:14:56.440 --> 0:14:59.000 It's not something you would normally see somebody say, Like, 0:14:59.200 --> 0:15:02.960 I don't think this situation here with with Jordan is 0:15:03.000 --> 0:15:06.360 because he wants to over shadow Jordan, because like, what's 0:15:06.400 --> 0:15:08.400 gonna be the difference? You know, you're talking about Lebron 0:15:08.520 --> 0:15:12.000 late at night on social media going over as biggest 0:15:12.000 --> 0:15:16.000 plays versus a ten part documentary on ESPN. It's gonna 0:15:16.040 --> 0:15:18.120 be you know, ten weeks long or whatever it is 0:15:18.120 --> 0:15:20.560 with here's Michael Jordan and what people are gonna be 0:15:20.680 --> 0:15:23.400 tweeting about and talking about every single night because the 0:15:23.480 --> 0:15:26.240 desire to see this is so big. I just think 0:15:26.280 --> 0:15:29.040 this was Lebron going, Oh, yeah, they're gonna if he's 0:15:29.080 --> 0:15:31.880 doing as what you think he's saying, Oh, George's gonna 0:15:31.920 --> 0:15:33.760 do that, I should do that. You know, I just 0:15:33.960 --> 0:15:36.000 believe that, Oh I should do that, and I could 0:15:36.000 --> 0:15:38.080 do that first, and that's something I'm gonna do next 0:15:38.120 --> 0:15:39.800 week and then I'm gonna be on to something else. 0:15:39.960 --> 0:15:42.960 But you just said it. Everybody will be talking about 0:15:42.960 --> 0:15:45.680 it and tweeting about it. It will just shed more light. 0:15:46.200 --> 0:15:49.200 Lebron James to this day is still in competition with 0:15:49.240 --> 0:15:52.080 Michael Jordan, whether people want to believe it or not. 0:15:52.440 --> 0:15:55.080 I know that dad can't play against each other and 0:15:55.120 --> 0:15:57.960 Mike hasn't played him fifteen or twenty years or whatever, 0:15:58.160 --> 0:16:00.880 fifteen years or whatever it's been. But that's not that 0:16:01.200 --> 0:16:05.280 he is still chasing that. He might have said that 0:16:05.320 --> 0:16:07.640 he's the goat, but he deep down knows that he 0:16:07.680 --> 0:16:11.920 hasn't convinced other people. And you said it. Social media, 0:16:12.280 --> 0:16:15.160 everybody getting a chance to watch the Jordan thing. For 0:16:15.240 --> 0:16:17.640 a lot of millennials who really don't know the Michael 0:16:17.720 --> 0:16:21.640 Jordan's story, they don't they they haven't seen it. So 0:16:22.160 --> 0:16:24.520 here's a chance for you to look at what he 0:16:24.600 --> 0:16:28.120 was able to accomplish the second three pet with the bulls, 0:16:28.640 --> 0:16:32.960 And I think Lebron realized that and was like, what 0:16:33.040 --> 0:16:35.000 can I do to kind of get a little attention 0:16:35.600 --> 0:16:38.520 during this time and get people to understand and see 0:16:38.560 --> 0:16:41.000 all the stuff that I've accomplished. I really believe it's 0:16:41.040 --> 0:16:44.320 more calculated than you think. This wasn't just some random 0:16:44.360 --> 0:16:47.160 thought at at in the middle of the night with 0:16:47.400 --> 0:16:50.680 nothing to do. This was how can I keep my 0:16:51.680 --> 0:16:55.680 my minions still locked in on where I am, how 0:16:55.720 --> 0:16:58.160 great I am, and that I'm the goat. When this 0:16:58.280 --> 0:17:03.920 whole Michael Jordan ten piece documentary, I mean, not too 0:17:03.920 --> 0:17:07.600 many people get that ten piece. So you know, you 0:17:07.640 --> 0:17:09.600 might get a ten piece of chicken, but a ten 0:17:09.680 --> 0:17:15.440 piece is highly unlikely for most people. Hey, when I 0:17:15.520 --> 0:17:17.639 used to get the eighteen McNuggets be able to eat 0:17:17.680 --> 0:17:19.879 all of them pretty easy. I mean that's back in 0:17:19.920 --> 0:17:22.040 my big eating heyday, and I was like, oh man, 0:17:22.080 --> 0:17:24.280 I'll tell you what eighteen McNuggets out down that in 0:17:24.280 --> 0:17:27.439 about ten minutes. Wow. But I look, this is not 0:17:27.560 --> 0:17:30.359 like Lebron is going to time things out and say, Okay, 0:17:30.400 --> 0:17:33.560 every night that the Jordan documentary years, I'm gonna look 0:17:33.560 --> 0:17:36.920 at the best. He'll do it the night before. He's 0:17:36.920 --> 0:17:38.880 gonna he's gonna do it once and then he's gonna 0:17:38.880 --> 0:17:40.560 be on to something else, because that's kind of what 0:17:40.680 --> 0:17:44.320 Lebron does. Look, not everything is well fought out. I 0:17:44.359 --> 0:17:47.120 don't think Lebron will fought out the move to Miami. 0:17:47.480 --> 0:17:49.480 You know, this was him and Dwayne Wade and Chris 0:17:49.480 --> 0:17:51.160 Bosh and the Olympics going, hey, this would be fun 0:17:51.160 --> 0:17:53.120 if we all played together, wouldn't it. Yeah, let's be yeah, 0:17:53.200 --> 0:17:54.960 let's go do it. What could possibly go wrong? And 0:17:55.000 --> 0:17:57.200 then look at all the stuff they had to overcome 0:17:57.240 --> 0:18:00.440 those four years. They were much more difficult than thought 0:18:00.440 --> 0:18:02.760 it was. You know, sometimes it just things aren't well 0:18:02.760 --> 0:18:04.120 thought out. And this is one of those things where 0:18:04.160 --> 0:18:06.000 I think he just said, oh, you know, Jordan's doing that, 0:18:06.040 --> 0:18:07.479 I'll do that too. One day, you know, maybe one 0:18:07.520 --> 0:18:09.800 day next week, I'll set it up and I'll take questions, 0:18:09.800 --> 0:18:11.560 and then I'm going to do something else the week 0:18:11.600 --> 0:18:14.320 after and something else the week after that. I you know, 0:18:14.520 --> 0:18:16.040 I don't think this is going to be met with 0:18:16.080 --> 0:18:18.639 a Okay, how do we you know, siphon things away 0:18:18.680 --> 0:18:21.679 from Jordan and and and make sure I get all 0:18:21.680 --> 0:18:24.040 the attention instead of him, because look, you're not going 0:18:24.119 --> 0:18:26.320 to overshadow it, you know. Like I said, it's one 0:18:26.400 --> 0:18:29.840 thing for Lebron to show some highlights and take questions 0:18:29.840 --> 0:18:33.480 on social media versus the power of this documentary that 0:18:33.720 --> 0:18:36.119 you know has been moved up because so many people 0:18:36.160 --> 0:18:37.879 want to see it. I mean, look, how many people 0:18:38.040 --> 0:18:40.480 really want to sit back and say, hey, I really 0:18:40.480 --> 0:18:42.720 can't wait for Lebron to show the highlights of his career. 0:18:43.160 --> 0:18:45.640 Not many. Yeah, it's like, Okay, I've because I've seen 0:18:45.800 --> 0:18:48.359 It's not a following out there. Yeah, but but the 0:18:48.400 --> 0:18:50.360 average person, the average sports rooms all right, I've seen 0:18:50.440 --> 0:18:52.439 Lebron's and I'm mentioned to see what he has to 0:18:52.480 --> 0:18:54.680 say after. You know, It's like it's like when a 0:18:54.720 --> 0:18:56.919 when a celebrity writes a book. Oh, here comes a 0:18:56.920 --> 0:18:59.000 big book coming out. Does anybody read the book or no? 0:18:59.160 --> 0:19:01.280 Ahead of time? We can all the best passages and 0:19:01.320 --> 0:19:03.399 we find out what's being said, and we talk about it, 0:19:03.400 --> 0:19:05.320 and that's how you consume it. That's kind of this 0:19:05.359 --> 0:19:07.640 thing with Lebron. Okay, I don't think people are really 0:19:07.680 --> 0:19:09.680 gonna go and go watch him do this, but if 0:19:09.720 --> 0:19:11.800 he says something when we talk about it after, sure, 0:19:12.080 --> 0:19:15.119 Whereas this documentary with Jordan is everybody's gonna want to 0:19:15.160 --> 0:19:17.240 see it and talk about it, just like when a 0:19:17.400 --> 0:19:20.479 Ric Flair documentary goes on, or Andre the Giant whichever 0:19:20.520 --> 0:19:23.680 one you know that is gaining a lot of attention 0:19:23.760 --> 0:19:26.640 because sports docks are really powerful. And you know, that's 0:19:26.680 --> 0:19:30.160 the difference I think between the Jordan and Lebron aspect 0:19:30.160 --> 0:19:32.640 of what they're both trying to do here. And speaking 0:19:32.680 --> 0:19:35.920 of books, if you're looking for something to read, pick 0:19:36.000 --> 0:19:40.760 up my book. 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