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Speaker 1: Welcome back to another episode of Unplugged. She's damned as

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Speaker 1: she does, and she's damned if she don't. Let's take

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Speaker 1: a second right now to have a moment of silence

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Speaker 1: for Washington Mystics owner Shelley Johnson, who suggested that the

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Speaker 1: WNBA as a whole should have been on the cover

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Speaker 1: of Time magazine instead of just Caitlyn Clark, who graced

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Speaker 1: the cover last week, which is probably some of the

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Speaker 1: stupidest shit I've ever heard. And that's no disrespect to

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Speaker 1: the ladies in the league, and we'll get to that,

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Speaker 1: but the Twitter community was quick to remind Shelley that

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Speaker 1: a majority of their success as far as attendance, came

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Speaker 1: from the Caitlyn Clark effect. Over thirty one percent of

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Speaker 1: the Mystic's entire attendance was in two games the Caitlin

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Speaker 1: team played against the Mystics. The Sparks, the Aces, the Mystic,

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Speaker 1: the Dream all moved games when Fever came in town

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Speaker 1: because of the attention that Caitlyn and her teammates have drawn.

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Speaker 1: That last season, Fever's jersey sales was up one thousand

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Speaker 1: and they had the largest attendance on average per year,

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Speaker 1: just over seventeen thousand per game. Let me say this,

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Speaker 1: Kaitlyn Clark deserves all the flowers. I think she took

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Speaker 1: a lot of shit and and a lot of skeptics

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Speaker 1: coming into the LIGA. She should like she had to

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Speaker 1: really prove herself, missed out on the Olympic opportunity, and

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Speaker 1: really had a lot of hard knocks early on in

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Speaker 1: the season where she was getting beat up and her

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Speaker 1: teammates were just watching her. I think the comraderie that

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Speaker 1: made the playoffs, made a nice little run and had

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Speaker 1: a solid season. In the article the Time article, Caitlin

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Speaker 1: obviously accepted the you know the honor, but Austly was

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Speaker 1: quick to pay homage to the black women of the

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Speaker 1: w's past who helped pave the way for herself today.

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Speaker 1: So Kaitlin is someone who has, if you look at it,

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Speaker 1: done everything you're supposed to do and has been criticized

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Speaker 1: along the every step of the way. Again, she's damned

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Speaker 1: if she does and she's damned if she doesn't. While

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Speaker 1: the NBA's ratings continue to drop over thirty percent as

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Speaker 1: they try to figure out who is going to feel

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Speaker 1: the shoes of Lebron James, Kevin Durant, and Steph Curry.

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Speaker 1: The WNBA has a golden goose sitting in their league

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Speaker 1: and has done it's gotten better, but has done everything

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Speaker 1: to kind of discredit the momentum and eyeballs she's brought

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Speaker 1: to this game. And I'm not saying her alone because

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of talented players. She is not the

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Speaker 1: best player in the in the league. I think obviously

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Speaker 1: and there's a ton of other very talented players. But

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Speaker 1: Caitlyn has brought a ton of new opportunity, a ton

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Speaker 1: of new eyeballs, and more money to the sport. So

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Speaker 1: instead of downplaying the magnitude of who she is and

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Speaker 1: what she's brought, enjoy the ride and take advantage of

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Speaker 1: the ride, and do everything you can do to show

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Speaker 1: the fan base why they should have been watching before

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Speaker 1: Caitlyn came. Along with that said, let me welcome to

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Speaker 1: the show, my guy, Trevor Reza Trevor thoughts on the

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Speaker 1: impact that Caitlyn has made.

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Speaker 2: On the WNBA man first of all, she's she's unbelievable talent.

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Speaker 2: You know, the things that she's doing is is great

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Speaker 2: in her own right. She's creating her own space, her

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Speaker 2: own she's doing her own thing. But if we had

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Speaker 2: to compare from what we've seen from the NBA, it

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Speaker 2: would in her effect probably something similar to Larry Bird.

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Speaker 2: And you know, people want to bring race into it

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Speaker 2: or whatever. So if that's the case, I think Larry

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and there has been and and and we can

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Speaker 1: has been because obviously, you know, Angel Reese also deserves

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Speaker 1: her finding, her laying and the audience and eyeballs she's brought.

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Speaker 1: But Angel has spoken up and talked about the racism

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Speaker 1: think what's made this great crevice. Their storyline started in college,

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Speaker 1: But it was just ship talking back and forth. Neither

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Speaker 1: You know, So this is something and what's made this great.

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Speaker 1: And I think what the NBA lacks the storylines. And

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think they're doing an amazing job with, like

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Speaker 2: you said, telling the story and the players are actually

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Speaker 2: doing their thing when they get there. Yes, you know,

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Speaker 2: like you mentioned these couple of players, but Caitlyn being

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Speaker 2: but she's doing her things.

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Speaker 1: She told her as she's definitely holding you know, holding

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Speaker 1: the ability to shoot the ball, from anywhere is always

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Speaker 2: Well she's you mentioned Steph, and it took Steph a

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Speaker 2: she's coming in and doing it as a rookie. So

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Speaker 2: you know, her following the machine of college and everything

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Speaker 3: We hoped that it would do.

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Speaker 2: As we all now we're starting to support women's sports.

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Speaker 1: When you see the people say it's not just her,

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Speaker 1: there's other players, and again we're not destructed. We understand

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Speaker 1: that the depth of talent in that league, but when

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Speaker 1: you also see the numbers that back up the fact

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Speaker 1: that Caitlyn has a huge effect Kaitlin Clark is responsible

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Speaker 1: for nearly twenty seven percent of the WNBA's league wide

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Speaker 1: activity in twenty twenty four, including attendance. One in six

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Speaker 1: tickets sold to the WNBA arena attributed to Caitlin Clark.

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Speaker 1: TV viewership was up three TV viewership was up three

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Speaker 1: nearly five hundred percent with Caitlin Clark ranking number one.

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Speaker 1: I mean, obviously surrounded with all the hype and all

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Speaker 1: similarities of when Caitlyn's come in the league to back

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Speaker 1: when Broun. I think you were in college back then, right.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I was in college. Roan came into you. But

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Speaker 2: you know, not as timing. Know now that social media

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Speaker 2: it's different. So I believe Bron's thing was a bit

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Speaker 3: Legend old school. Yeah yeah. And with the.

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Speaker 2: Social media thing it, you know, everybody could just pick

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Speaker 2: you know, I think that the push is different, maybe

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Speaker 1: The same, similar, similar to just the manitude and the

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Speaker 1: but the best. I wish the league nothing but the best.

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Speaker 1: where the Angel Reeses and the Caitlyn Clarks and you know,

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Speaker 1: You know, they continue to push the game to the

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Speaker 1: what Caitlyn will affect as the business of women's basketball. Man,

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Speaker 1: So we wish them the best. Uh, definitely excited to

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Speaker 4: So, you know, I try to be very clear on

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Speaker 4: I'm saying to open up for me. I saw not

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Speaker 4: even an opportunity. I won't call it an opportunity, you know,

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Speaker 4: had the supplemental supplemental Benefits card. You know, if you

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Speaker 4: lose it. And I saw it sitting there, and I saw,

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Speaker 4: And I'm not pointing a finger at anybody, but I

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Speaker 4: I embrace it. You know, I'm apologetic for it, and

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Speaker 3: They better fucking figure it out.

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Speaker 1: I was a villain right now.

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Speaker 5: League is the new ship, the ship that we loved

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Speaker 1: imagine going you could use only UCLA for one year?

436
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Speaker 1: Could you imagine for the six months use at UCLA?

437
00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:02,400
Speaker 1: If they gave you seven minut to go there? Man,

438
00:23:02,440 --> 00:23:04,399
Speaker 1: would you have made it? I for sure would have

439
00:23:04,440 --> 00:23:04,760
Speaker 1: made it.

440
00:23:05,320 --> 00:23:10,760
Speaker 2: But man, that's a good point you bring up, because

441
00:23:11,280 --> 00:23:13,959
Speaker 2: I guess it all just depends on what your goals

442
00:23:13,960 --> 00:23:16,800
Speaker 2: are and what your focus in your circle. In your circle,

443
00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:20,040
Speaker 2: and if your goal is to max out in the nil,

444
00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:25,440
Speaker 2: then you know you're selling yourself short, especially if it's

445
00:23:25,440 --> 00:23:27,800
Speaker 2: only for one year. If you have potential to be,

446
00:23:28,520 --> 00:23:30,679
Speaker 2: you know, make seven million dollars in one year, that

447
00:23:30,760 --> 00:23:34,520
Speaker 2: means the potential of the crazy that you are crazy

448
00:23:34,600 --> 00:23:37,560
Speaker 2: you making a million dollars, fifty or sixty million dollars

449
00:23:37,560 --> 00:23:37,880
Speaker 2: a year.

450
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Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure.

451
00:23:39,600 --> 00:23:43,280
Speaker 2: And again when you look at how much money the

452
00:23:43,320 --> 00:23:46,360
Speaker 2: players are making and where you know the salary cap

453
00:23:46,440 --> 00:23:49,120
Speaker 2: is going and where the max is going. Players got

454
00:23:49,119 --> 00:23:52,600
Speaker 2: a chance to make seven hundred million dollars, So that

455
00:23:52,640 --> 00:23:56,480
Speaker 2: would be That's the goal I would try to push

456
00:23:56,520 --> 00:23:57,200
Speaker 2: to my kids.

457
00:23:57,240 --> 00:23:58,159
Speaker 3: That's in that space.

458
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Speaker 1: I mean as a father, as who has a son

459
00:24:00,760 --> 00:24:02,679
Speaker 1: who is one of the top ten juniors in the

460
00:24:02,680 --> 00:24:06,000
Speaker 1: country who I'm sure nil is. How do you keep Taj?

461
00:24:06,040 --> 00:24:07,600
Speaker 1: I mean we've heard Gil with Arena speak on this

462
00:24:07,680 --> 00:24:10,719
Speaker 1: and how he's kind of keeping the nil away from

463
00:24:10,760 --> 00:24:13,720
Speaker 1: Elijah and then trying to keep that focus. Sometimes that's

464
00:24:13,800 --> 00:24:15,679
Speaker 1: easier said than done. How have you been able to

465
00:24:15,720 --> 00:24:19,840
Speaker 1: help Taj navigate you know what this new basketball because

466
00:24:20,119 --> 00:24:22,080
Speaker 1: the startom is starting so much earlier now and obviously

467
00:24:22,080 --> 00:24:23,399
Speaker 1: the money is pouring in now.

468
00:24:23,280 --> 00:24:30,960
Speaker 2: Too well as as like Taj experiences journey, he's starting

469
00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:34,919
Speaker 2: to experience more and more people pulling at him. My

470
00:24:35,080 --> 00:24:39,520
Speaker 2: message is always going to be the same. Shut everybody out,

471
00:24:40,600 --> 00:24:44,040
Speaker 2: focus on your goals, focus on getting better every single day.

472
00:24:44,800 --> 00:24:48,040
Speaker 2: Only work on your game, and work on and pay

473
00:24:48,080 --> 00:24:51,880
Speaker 2: attention to school. Everything that you want will come with

474
00:24:52,359 --> 00:24:55,119
Speaker 2: you putting the work in to what you're doing, the

475
00:24:55,160 --> 00:24:57,719
Speaker 2: things that you love to do. You know, try to

476
00:24:57,800 --> 00:25:00,679
Speaker 2: sharpen up on your tools and your skills, make yourself

477
00:25:00,720 --> 00:25:04,520
Speaker 2: a better person. And by time you look up, you

478
00:25:04,520 --> 00:25:08,000
Speaker 2: don't even know what's going on. You already killing the

479
00:25:08,080 --> 00:25:10,439
Speaker 2: game doing things that you just love to do. But

480
00:25:10,640 --> 00:25:13,520
Speaker 2: just pour it into yourself, point to the game and

481
00:25:13,560 --> 00:25:14,720
Speaker 2: everything else to take care of it.

482
00:25:14,760 --> 00:25:18,200
Speaker 1: So keep the first thing first. Yeah, if for guys

483
00:25:18,320 --> 00:25:21,240
Speaker 1: that and I think you funny. It was interesting what

484
00:25:21,280 --> 00:25:24,679
Speaker 1: you said, you know, max out in the nil space

485
00:25:24,720 --> 00:25:27,520
Speaker 1: for these guys that don't have guidance and leadership. You know,

486
00:25:27,560 --> 00:25:29,720
Speaker 1: I didn't come from a family had any money, so

487
00:25:29,840 --> 00:25:33,000
Speaker 1: you know most of us came from that. So you know,

488
00:25:33,560 --> 00:25:35,639
Speaker 1: can these kids keep the focus, the drive, and the

489
00:25:35,640 --> 00:25:38,320
Speaker 1: dedication they need with no real guidance around them. You

490
00:25:38,320 --> 00:25:40,200
Speaker 1: got to think I remember getting the little twenty five

491
00:25:40,240 --> 00:25:42,520
Speaker 1: hundred dollars pail grand three thousand dollars grand in West.

492
00:25:42,520 --> 00:25:45,240
Speaker 1: But you and you couldn't tell me nothing, you know

493
00:25:45,280 --> 00:25:47,080
Speaker 1: what I mean. So I couldn't imagine having a half

494
00:25:47,080 --> 00:25:49,360
Speaker 1: a million, you know, one point two one point three

495
00:25:50,119 --> 00:25:52,439
Speaker 1: as a seventeen, eighteen, nineteen year old kid with no

496
00:25:52,520 --> 00:25:55,560
Speaker 1: real guidance, Like I wonder that the long term effects.

497
00:25:55,560 --> 00:25:57,040
Speaker 1: Are we going to see a lot of burnouts? Are

498
00:25:57,040 --> 00:26:00,840
Speaker 1: we going to see a lot of bus because everything

499
00:26:00,880 --> 00:26:02,600
Speaker 1: that these kids are getting now we had to fight

500
00:26:02,640 --> 00:26:04,120
Speaker 1: for and didn't get to the league. If we got

501
00:26:04,119 --> 00:26:06,400
Speaker 1: it before, we risked our whole careers.

502
00:26:06,720 --> 00:26:09,239
Speaker 3: Well, we've seen it with some players.

503
00:26:08,720 --> 00:26:10,760
Speaker 1: Mike we see them. I think Mikey was one of

504
00:26:10,760 --> 00:26:13,840
Speaker 1: the first imani Bates. Some of these guys were some

505
00:26:13,880 --> 00:26:16,160
Speaker 1: of these first nil guys and you see his talented there.

506
00:26:16,200 --> 00:26:18,479
Speaker 1: They still haven't really cracked that and got to that

507
00:26:18,480 --> 00:26:20,560
Speaker 1: next level obviously. Then is in the G League.

508
00:26:20,400 --> 00:26:22,919
Speaker 2: We also seen players get to get the money and

509
00:26:22,960 --> 00:26:26,560
Speaker 2: do well too, like LaMelo. You know LaMelo, I remember

510
00:26:27,240 --> 00:26:31,080
Speaker 2: bro driving Lambos and all that grade or.

511
00:26:31,040 --> 00:26:33,359
Speaker 1: Or you know that whatever years he was driving, was

512
00:26:33,400 --> 00:26:38,679
Speaker 1: moving very professionally and he's murdering Pops was on his

513
00:26:38,760 --> 00:26:45,320
Speaker 1: ask though. Yeah, guy, Plus he also have brothers. You

514
00:26:45,359 --> 00:26:48,240
Speaker 1: know that was paving the way for him. So it

515
00:26:48,400 --> 00:26:51,640
Speaker 1: just depends on again, what your goal is, who are

516
00:26:51,640 --> 00:26:55,800
Speaker 1: you competing with? And you know, like Doling used to say,

517
00:26:55,920 --> 00:26:58,800
Speaker 1: what's driving you? What is your what is your driving force?

518
00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:01,000
Speaker 1: I just wonder what the future college basketball is going

519
00:27:01,040 --> 00:27:03,760
Speaker 1: to because it used to be muskwatch TV, march manags

520
00:27:03,840 --> 00:27:05,879
Speaker 1: used to be the shit, and it's still cool, but

521
00:27:05,960 --> 00:27:07,680
Speaker 1: it's just not what it was because there's so many

522
00:27:07,680 --> 00:27:10,640
Speaker 1: other avenues now for kids to be one and done

523
00:27:10,920 --> 00:27:12,920
Speaker 1: or go overseas for a year and get to the league.

524
00:27:13,240 --> 00:27:14,960
Speaker 1: I think everyone's in such a hurry to get to

525
00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:17,200
Speaker 1: the NBA when they're not necessarily ready. But on the

526
00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:20,240
Speaker 1: flip side, I fought the NBA because it used to

527
00:27:20,280 --> 00:27:23,040
Speaker 1: be a little bit of potential and a lot of talent.

528
00:27:23,119 --> 00:27:26,399
Speaker 1: Now it's purely potential. They draft off like they're drafting

529
00:27:26,520 --> 00:27:29,280
Speaker 1: kids that are averaging six points and five rebounds in

530
00:27:29,320 --> 00:27:31,640
Speaker 1: the top ten now, or they've played overseas and it's

531
00:27:31,640 --> 00:27:33,920
Speaker 1: certain like they haven't proven it yet, And I think

532
00:27:33,960 --> 00:27:36,400
Speaker 1: everyone in such a hurry to get there when they're

533
00:27:36,400 --> 00:27:37,920
Speaker 1: not ready. And that's why I feel like, and I

534
00:27:37,920 --> 00:27:39,720
Speaker 1: say there's all due respect, because there's a ton of talent.

535
00:27:40,080 --> 00:27:43,399
Speaker 1: I think this generation will be the biggest bust because

536
00:27:43,440 --> 00:27:45,280
Speaker 1: a lot of these kids are going too early and

537
00:27:45,320 --> 00:27:49,120
Speaker 1: then they can use another year or two under their belt.

538
00:27:49,160 --> 00:27:50,520
Speaker 1: You know, you look at Bronnie and I'm not saying

539
00:27:50,520 --> 00:27:52,320
Speaker 1: Bronnie's going to be bust. We don't know what Brini's

540
00:27:52,320 --> 00:27:53,680
Speaker 1: going to be. But Brinnie could have definitely been in

541
00:27:53,680 --> 00:27:56,320
Speaker 1: front of it from another year at USC or even two.

542
00:27:56,640 --> 00:27:58,919
Speaker 1: Amani Baits could have spent some more time, you know.

543
00:27:58,960 --> 00:28:01,720
Speaker 1: So it's just like there's a lot of these kids

544
00:28:01,760 --> 00:28:04,600
Speaker 1: that are so fast to get there, and the NBA

545
00:28:04,760 --> 00:28:06,600
Speaker 1: is a welcoming matt and then at once you get there,

546
00:28:06,640 --> 00:28:08,520
Speaker 1: you were like, oh shit, this is real. Yeah, and

547
00:28:08,560 --> 00:28:09,800
Speaker 1: no one can hold my hand no more.

548
00:28:09,880 --> 00:28:12,480
Speaker 2: Nah, No one definitely is holding your hand because everybody

549
00:28:12,960 --> 00:28:16,879
Speaker 2: is professional, so everybody is competing for those spots, and

550
00:28:16,920 --> 00:28:19,760
Speaker 2: if the turnover is so fast, you're not getting a

551
00:28:19,880 --> 00:28:23,680
Speaker 2: chance to actually get a chance to develop because potential

552
00:28:23,840 --> 00:28:26,840
Speaker 2: only lasts for so for so long. And these young

553
00:28:26,920 --> 00:28:30,120
Speaker 2: boys are you know, they're they're they're coming in really

554
00:28:30,160 --> 00:28:33,240
Speaker 2: young with the young mentality, and once you come to

555
00:28:33,280 --> 00:28:36,320
Speaker 2: a professional space, nobody is really holding your hand like

556
00:28:36,359 --> 00:28:36,880
Speaker 2: that no more.

557
00:28:36,920 --> 00:28:38,800
Speaker 1: They're gonna let you fuck up until you fuck yourself

558
00:28:38,880 --> 00:28:39,720
Speaker 1: up exactly.

559
00:28:40,360 --> 00:28:44,360
Speaker 2: So just getting people around you in your corner that's

560
00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:49,560
Speaker 2: going to keep you accountable to to growing and growth

561
00:28:49,640 --> 00:28:52,280
Speaker 2: is uncomfortable all the time. So if you stay in

562
00:28:52,280 --> 00:28:54,120
Speaker 2: a comfortable space, you're not really growing.

563
00:28:54,680 --> 00:28:57,360
Speaker 1: Trip, man, We appreciate your time. Thanks for stopping by.

564
00:28:57,440 --> 00:28:57,560
Speaker 3: Man.

565
00:28:57,560 --> 00:28:58,320
Speaker 1: We'll catch up with you.

566
00:28:58,280 --> 00:28:59,000
Speaker 3: Soon for sure.

567
00:28:59,200 --> 00:29:03,120
Speaker 1: Yep, right now, I love to introduce mss Bella Ivory.

568
00:29:03,600 --> 00:29:06,960
Speaker 1: She's a teacher at Beverly Hills High School. Her lawyer, Brad,

569
00:29:07,240 --> 00:29:13,760
Speaker 1: and a concerned parent. They had an incident about a

570
00:29:13,800 --> 00:29:15,360
Speaker 1: month ago, now six weeks ago.

571
00:29:15,560 --> 00:29:16,840
Speaker 6: It's been a little bit over a month.

572
00:29:16,880 --> 00:29:18,400
Speaker 1: Yet a little bit over a month ago that I

573
00:29:18,440 --> 00:29:24,280
Speaker 1: saw on social media when Trump was declared the next president,

574
00:29:24,600 --> 00:29:26,040
Speaker 1: and it was probably leading up to this is just

575
00:29:26,040 --> 00:29:28,240
Speaker 1: what I saw on social media. Kids were storming the

576
00:29:28,240 --> 00:29:34,360
Speaker 1: halls with Trump flags and harassing, intimidating, shouting slurs and

577
00:29:35,040 --> 00:29:37,760
Speaker 1: really kind of just running amok. And I saw it

578
00:29:37,760 --> 00:29:40,520
Speaker 1: on social media and I sent it to my assistant

579
00:29:40,640 --> 00:29:41,959
Speaker 1: and I was just like, I need to find this

580
00:29:42,040 --> 00:29:46,360
Speaker 1: teacher and shout out Pharah. Within like three hours, she

581
00:29:46,520 --> 00:29:50,160
Speaker 1: had found some information on her and we connected. And

582
00:29:50,200 --> 00:29:52,440
Speaker 1: I think the reason why this touched me was because

583
00:29:52,560 --> 00:29:55,440
Speaker 1: you know, I've talked about BEFOREMS on my shows. I

584
00:29:55,480 --> 00:29:58,280
Speaker 1: faced a lot of racism in high school with the

585
00:29:58,360 --> 00:30:03,320
Speaker 1: KKK burning down bathrooms and hanging mannequins and swastika. So

586
00:30:03,760 --> 00:30:06,120
Speaker 1: I have a soft spot in my heartfor situations like this,

587
00:30:06,480 --> 00:30:09,720
Speaker 1: and when I saw this situation, I immediately wanted to

588
00:30:09,760 --> 00:30:12,719
Speaker 1: connect and help any way possible. So we're here today

589
00:30:13,360 --> 00:30:15,840
Speaker 1: to kind of let my audience know and put more

590
00:30:15,880 --> 00:30:19,160
Speaker 1: light on what's been going on pretty much right under

591
00:30:19,160 --> 00:30:23,360
Speaker 1: our nose. So Bella, I want to give you the

592
00:30:23,360 --> 00:30:25,480
Speaker 1: floor and just kind of explain what's been going on

593
00:30:26,040 --> 00:30:27,880
Speaker 1: that day, if there was stuff leading up to that,

594
00:30:28,120 --> 00:30:29,320
Speaker 1: and currently what's going.

595
00:30:29,160 --> 00:30:33,560
Speaker 6: On well leading up to it. It's been a problem.

596
00:30:33,600 --> 00:30:36,880
Speaker 6: It was already a problem at the school February twenty

597
00:30:37,040 --> 00:30:40,920
Speaker 6: twenty two, I had students with me being the only

598
00:30:40,960 --> 00:30:43,080
Speaker 6: black female teacher at the school, and it's been like

599
00:30:43,080 --> 00:30:45,920
Speaker 6: that whole time I've been there since twenty twenty. But

600
00:30:45,960 --> 00:30:49,400
Speaker 6: in twenty two I sent an email to the principle

601
00:30:49,840 --> 00:30:51,959
Speaker 6: and I told them we have a diversity issue because

602
00:30:52,040 --> 00:30:54,400
Speaker 6: the kids were coming to me there were, you know,

603
00:30:54,520 --> 00:30:57,680
Speaker 6: disclosing things that was happening to them within the classroom

604
00:30:58,480 --> 00:31:01,960
Speaker 6: and just around campus. So it's been going on. It's

605
00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:05,280
Speaker 6: been lingering for a while. It's just gotten progressively worse

606
00:31:06,200 --> 00:31:10,080
Speaker 6: and leading up to the fifth of November, that's when

607
00:31:10,200 --> 00:31:12,840
Speaker 6: the incident happened with me and I had seven other

608
00:31:13,160 --> 00:31:16,600
Speaker 6: black kids in the room with me, and I guess

609
00:31:17,520 --> 00:31:20,080
Speaker 6: there was some type of Trump rallies or whatever going

610
00:31:20,120 --> 00:31:22,480
Speaker 6: on campus. I was not privy to that information. I

611
00:31:22,480 --> 00:31:25,080
Speaker 6: didn't know that was going on. So me and the

612
00:31:25,200 --> 00:31:27,360
Speaker 6: seven black students were sitting in my classroom.

613
00:31:27,440 --> 00:31:28,920
Speaker 1: Is this lunchtime or during class?

614
00:31:28,960 --> 00:31:32,440
Speaker 6: Okay, during lunchtime, so we were sitting in they were

615
00:31:32,480 --> 00:31:33,000
Speaker 6: having lunch.

616
00:31:33,280 --> 00:31:35,680
Speaker 1: That's a pretty common thing. Like we talked off camera

617
00:31:35,760 --> 00:31:38,520
Speaker 1: that very few black teachers there, but you're one of

618
00:31:38,560 --> 00:31:40,560
Speaker 1: the ones they feel safe and comfortable with. So your

619
00:31:40,640 --> 00:31:41,960
Speaker 1: room is kind of a hangout spot.

620
00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:44,840
Speaker 6: Absolutely, okay, and not just for the black kids, but

621
00:31:44,880 --> 00:31:48,719
Speaker 6: for all kids, but in general. But I was I

622
00:31:48,760 --> 00:31:52,640
Speaker 6: started heading the VSU, which is Black student union, last year,

623
00:31:52,680 --> 00:31:54,240
Speaker 6: so this was my second year doing it. So of

624
00:31:54,280 --> 00:31:56,400
Speaker 6: course I've gotten a whole lot more close with those kids.

625
00:31:56,880 --> 00:31:59,760
Speaker 6: So they were they came in. They had a little

626
00:31:59,760 --> 00:32:02,200
Speaker 6: pot luck the week before. I was not there. I

627
00:32:02,280 --> 00:32:04,880
Speaker 6: was sick. They were telling me what happened. So during

628
00:32:04,920 --> 00:32:07,480
Speaker 6: the potluck, while they were having their potluck, it was

629
00:32:07,560 --> 00:32:11,200
Speaker 6: kids coming in. Just they came in, they bombarded their potluck,

630
00:32:11,360 --> 00:32:13,880
Speaker 6: was taking their food. And so I told all the

631
00:32:13,920 --> 00:32:16,760
Speaker 6: other students, Okay, we're going to have a conversation. I'm

632
00:32:16,760 --> 00:32:18,960
Speaker 6: going to close the room off and let's talk about it,

633
00:32:18,960 --> 00:32:21,480
Speaker 6: and you guys tell me what happened. I saw closed

634
00:32:21,480 --> 00:32:24,000
Speaker 6: the door. When my door was closed, it all the way.

635
00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:26,400
Speaker 6: It locks. So we're in there talking and all of

636
00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:29,160
Speaker 6: a sudden, close to the end of lunch, we started

637
00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:32,600
Speaker 6: hearing noise outside the door, and I was like, what's

638
00:32:32,640 --> 00:32:35,240
Speaker 6: going on? So I ran to the door because where

639
00:32:35,240 --> 00:32:37,320
Speaker 6: my desk is, I can't see the door. There's a

640
00:32:37,440 --> 00:32:39,520
Speaker 6: window in the door. Ran to the door and I'm

641
00:32:39,560 --> 00:32:41,800
Speaker 6: looking out the door and I see a bunch of kids,

642
00:32:42,840 --> 00:32:47,080
Speaker 6: a bunch of white faces outside the door and they're

643
00:32:47,160 --> 00:32:51,680
Speaker 6: just screaming, you know, f kamala. And someone banged on

644
00:32:51,760 --> 00:32:54,840
Speaker 6: the door. That's what really got me to get up

645
00:32:54,880 --> 00:32:56,760
Speaker 6: and say what's going on? After I heard the voices,

646
00:32:57,240 --> 00:32:59,120
Speaker 6: soone banged on the door. Then I heard someone try

647
00:32:59,160 --> 00:33:01,000
Speaker 6: to open the door to come in. So I ran

648
00:33:01,280 --> 00:33:03,040
Speaker 6: to the door to look what was going on and

649
00:33:03,040 --> 00:33:05,240
Speaker 6: it was just a bunch of kids, a mob of

650
00:33:05,320 --> 00:33:09,800
Speaker 6: kids outside my door. And so the kids that was

651
00:33:09,840 --> 00:33:12,040
Speaker 6: with me in the room, I did not realize that

652
00:33:12,080 --> 00:33:14,040
Speaker 6: they came and ran behind me and was looking outside

653
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Speaker 6: the door too, and so we heard another pale on

654
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Speaker 6: the door. So I was holding tightly onto the handle

655
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Speaker 6: of the door, and one of the girls said miss pella,

656
00:33:24,840 --> 00:33:27,000
Speaker 6: miss pella, please don't open the door. So when I

657
00:33:27,040 --> 00:33:31,520
Speaker 6: turned around, I saw the kids behind me and I said, okay,

658
00:33:31,520 --> 00:33:33,320
Speaker 6: I said, I'm not going to open the door, don't worry,

659
00:33:33,520 --> 00:33:36,360
Speaker 6: and she yells out, oh my gosh, they look like KKK.

660
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Speaker 6: And I said, don't worry. I'm not going to open

661
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Speaker 6: the door. And so the kids start walking and I'm like,

662
00:33:43,800 --> 00:33:45,480
Speaker 6: and I'm looking out the door, I'm like, what is

663
00:33:45,480 --> 00:33:48,080
Speaker 6: going on? I saw a teacher, I saw security guards,

664
00:33:48,520 --> 00:33:51,040
Speaker 6: and at the end behind the mob of kids, I

665
00:33:51,040 --> 00:33:53,920
Speaker 6: saw the principal. So I'm like, what in the world

666
00:33:54,080 --> 00:33:58,960
Speaker 6: is going on here? So after that happened, if you

667
00:33:59,120 --> 00:34:03,360
Speaker 6: see the footage, the camera footage, because there's a camera

668
00:34:03,480 --> 00:34:06,840
Speaker 6: a security camera right above my door. I waited for

669
00:34:06,880 --> 00:34:08,239
Speaker 6: a minute. I opened the door for a second. I

670
00:34:08,280 --> 00:34:10,080
Speaker 6: looked out of closed the door again because the kids

671
00:34:10,080 --> 00:34:13,040
Speaker 6: were like, please, don't open the door. I said, you

672
00:34:13,040 --> 00:34:14,920
Speaker 6: guys are gone. I'm gonna outside and see what's going on.

673
00:34:14,960 --> 00:34:17,680
Speaker 6: So I went outside. There was another student out there

674
00:34:18,120 --> 00:34:20,480
Speaker 6: and he was recorded. I asked him, I said, did

675
00:34:20,520 --> 00:34:22,480
Speaker 6: you see what happened? He said, I recorded. He said,

676
00:34:22,520 --> 00:34:23,960
Speaker 6: do you want to see me? I said yeah, I said,

677
00:34:23,960 --> 00:34:28,160
Speaker 6: can you send me that to me? And so that's

678
00:34:28,520 --> 00:34:29,359
Speaker 6: what happened that day.

679
00:34:29,800 --> 00:34:33,080
Speaker 1: So you saw a teacher, you saw security, saw the

680
00:34:33,120 --> 00:34:36,920
Speaker 1: principal behind the kids. You've obviously taken your issues up

681
00:34:36,960 --> 00:34:40,319
Speaker 1: with the school, and you've spoken to administration and kind of,

682
00:34:40,640 --> 00:34:42,959
Speaker 1: you know, said what you've been seeing and feeling, and

683
00:34:43,320 --> 00:34:44,600
Speaker 1: how's that been met?

684
00:34:45,960 --> 00:34:49,480
Speaker 6: There was nothing. It was dad silence from twenty twenty

685
00:34:49,480 --> 00:34:53,600
Speaker 6: two up until the school year. So I don't nobody

686
00:34:53,760 --> 00:34:57,040
Speaker 6: approached me, nobody said anything about it. I said something

687
00:34:57,080 --> 00:35:00,560
Speaker 6: about it again. Actually last year, at the beginning of

688
00:35:00,560 --> 00:35:02,239
Speaker 6: the school year. Last year, I bought it to I

689
00:35:02,320 --> 00:35:04,840
Speaker 6: actually first told him man. I bought it to the

690
00:35:04,880 --> 00:35:08,279
Speaker 6: attention of the district. The following year. I mean last year,

691
00:35:08,360 --> 00:35:11,160
Speaker 6: at the beginning of last school year, still nothing.

692
00:35:11,680 --> 00:35:14,120
Speaker 1: So these aren't necessarily isolated, and so this kind of

693
00:35:14,160 --> 00:35:17,000
Speaker 1: seems like just the environment you're in. I mean, we

694
00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:19,960
Speaker 1: were talking before and one of my producers, his son

695
00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:21,920
Speaker 1: has faced this, and he's been talking to us in

696
00:35:21,920 --> 00:35:25,400
Speaker 1: a group, and I learned like there's nigger passes, Like

697
00:35:25,520 --> 00:35:29,239
Speaker 1: they go around asking black children, can I have a

698
00:35:29,320 --> 00:35:33,080
Speaker 1: nigger pass? And most of them kind of unreally knowing

699
00:35:33,080 --> 00:35:35,759
Speaker 1: what it is or not wanting to stir stuff up,

700
00:35:36,080 --> 00:35:39,000
Speaker 1: kind of nod the head. And now these white kids

701
00:35:39,040 --> 00:35:43,359
Speaker 1: and Persian kids are freely just saying nigger anywhere. There's

702
00:35:44,160 --> 00:35:47,920
Speaker 1: swastikas found in the bathroom, and what it was?

703
00:35:47,920 --> 00:35:49,440
Speaker 6: A swasaga on my desk.

704
00:35:49,320 --> 00:35:50,359
Speaker 1: A swaska on your desk.

705
00:35:50,400 --> 00:35:52,600
Speaker 6: I wanted, not my desk, but one of the in

706
00:35:52,640 --> 00:35:53,680
Speaker 6: your classroom, one of.

707
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Speaker 1: Those tables in right now, I want to bring a

708
00:35:57,719 --> 00:36:01,200
Speaker 1: concerned parent who has a student at the school who

709
00:36:01,280 --> 00:36:05,480
Speaker 1: has obviously faced some of this, and told me a

710
00:36:05,560 --> 00:36:10,040
Speaker 1: very interesting story about polling middle school kids and who

711
00:36:10,080 --> 00:36:12,239
Speaker 1: they voted for and if you voted for if you

712
00:36:12,280 --> 00:36:15,400
Speaker 1: didn't vote for Trump, it was an issue, So speak

713
00:36:15,440 --> 00:36:18,560
Speaker 1: to kind of the experience as a parent, someone who

714
00:36:18,640 --> 00:36:23,279
Speaker 1: actually graduated from the school in the late eighties, but

715
00:36:23,480 --> 00:36:25,719
Speaker 1: now as a parent with a student there and your

716
00:36:25,760 --> 00:36:26,439
Speaker 1: concern level.

717
00:36:27,719 --> 00:36:31,000
Speaker 7: So at the middle school, it has been brought to

718
00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:34,640
Speaker 7: our attention that kids were polling as they were coming

719
00:36:34,680 --> 00:36:37,840
Speaker 7: to school after election to see who voted for Trump,

720
00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:41,279
Speaker 7: and if you said anything other than Trump, the kids

721
00:36:41,280 --> 00:36:47,200
Speaker 7: were kicked, slapped, they were basically assaulted. Some kids in

722
00:36:47,239 --> 00:36:50,239
Speaker 7: fear of seeing what happened to the other kids lie

723
00:36:50,360 --> 00:36:54,400
Speaker 7: so that they wouldn't get hit. But then there was

724
00:36:54,440 --> 00:36:57,680
Speaker 7: also the whole isolation. Oh, you can't sit here, you know,

725
00:36:58,040 --> 00:37:04,440
Speaker 7: just total, total, just chaos and these kids can't even vote.

726
00:37:05,480 --> 00:37:11,400
Speaker 7: Is coming from that home, This is coming from the household,

727
00:37:11,600 --> 00:37:17,239
Speaker 7: and it seems to be okay. It's common nature as

728
00:37:17,280 --> 00:37:19,880
Speaker 7: we see that incidents are happening at both the middle

729
00:37:19,880 --> 00:37:22,839
Speaker 7: school and the high school, and there are some rare

730
00:37:22,880 --> 00:37:25,240
Speaker 7: incidences even at the elementary school.

731
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Speaker 1: So this is a district. This is a district, So

732
00:37:27,360 --> 00:37:30,800
Speaker 1: this is bigger than just these three middle school, elementary

733
00:37:30,800 --> 00:37:32,760
Speaker 1: and high school. This is a bigger issue overall.

734
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Speaker 7: You feel it's a Beverly Hills community issue, It's a

735
00:37:37,480 --> 00:37:40,239
Speaker 7: PD issue. Brad can speak to that. But there are

736
00:37:40,280 --> 00:37:45,000
Speaker 7: over one hundred concerned parents of all races that have

737
00:37:45,080 --> 00:37:49,080
Speaker 7: come together and addressed the district in a letter, and

738
00:37:49,120 --> 00:37:51,240
Speaker 7: we're still waiting for a proper.

739
00:37:50,880 --> 00:37:56,360
Speaker 1: Response, Brad. So now this has turned into a case.

740
00:37:56,880 --> 00:37:58,479
Speaker 1: I know Bell and I have been speaking a little

741
00:37:58,480 --> 00:38:02,960
Speaker 1: bit of at the journey of the case and the

742
00:38:03,000 --> 00:38:06,680
Speaker 1: school's stance on her and really trying to discredit everything

743
00:38:06,760 --> 00:38:08,960
Speaker 1: she's seen and heard and the students have said, So

744
00:38:09,520 --> 00:38:11,560
Speaker 1: speak to me currently where you guys are at and

745
00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:13,399
Speaker 1: kind of your guys's plan of action.

746
00:38:14,080 --> 00:38:18,399
Speaker 8: Sure, we start with a governmental claim that's the precursor

747
00:38:18,480 --> 00:38:22,280
Speaker 8: to a lawsuit. We filed that. I now have three

748
00:38:22,320 --> 00:38:27,160
Speaker 8: different black teachers who have come to me for representation.

749
00:38:26,520 --> 00:38:29,640
Speaker 1: From the school from Beverly Hills High School, and there

750
00:38:29,680 --> 00:38:32,439
Speaker 1: isn't too many black teachers there right, I have most

751
00:38:32,480 --> 00:38:33,919
Speaker 1: of them, more than half.

752
00:38:34,200 --> 00:38:39,040
Speaker 8: And about the parents of about ten different black students

753
00:38:39,080 --> 00:38:42,960
Speaker 8: have also spoken to me about the problems that their

754
00:38:43,040 --> 00:38:47,480
Speaker 8: kids are facing, being called racist terms, being physically attacked

755
00:38:47,520 --> 00:38:51,480
Speaker 8: and threatened as well. So this is a very serious problem.

756
00:38:51,920 --> 00:38:54,320
Speaker 8: The school has been aware of this for many years,

757
00:38:55,320 --> 00:38:57,279
Speaker 8: and the district has been aware of it, but they

758
00:38:57,280 --> 00:39:01,960
Speaker 8: don't take any action. So what happens is it keeps escalating. Now,

759
00:39:02,120 --> 00:39:05,719
Speaker 8: schools are where children learn how to behave as good

760
00:39:05,800 --> 00:39:10,160
Speaker 8: model citizens. You would think that Beverly Hill's school district

761
00:39:10,440 --> 00:39:13,880
Speaker 8: would want to teach their children. You don't say these terms.

762
00:39:14,200 --> 00:39:18,480
Speaker 8: Everyone is equal. Racism is wrong. But when they take

763
00:39:18,560 --> 00:39:21,520
Speaker 8: no action, when they deny it, the school is saying

764
00:39:21,560 --> 00:39:25,080
Speaker 8: everything is okay to do racism, and it breeds hatred

765
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Speaker 8: and it turns children that could be saved into racist adults,

766
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Speaker 8: which has all kinds of problems for society.

767
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Speaker 1: It's so wrong. I mean, I think, obviously we all know,

768
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Speaker 1: being parents and teachers, this is a learned trait. Just

769
00:39:42,600 --> 00:39:46,320
Speaker 1: as love is taught, hate is taught well and obviously

770
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Speaker 1: I think it starts in the home, and then, like

771
00:39:47,960 --> 00:39:51,400
Speaker 1: you said, if it's not met with any kind of repercussion,

772
00:39:51,440 --> 00:39:54,280
Speaker 1: it continues to fester until it really turns into something

773
00:39:55,760 --> 00:39:59,759
Speaker 1: a belief. Again, I wanted to have you guys come

774
00:40:00,120 --> 00:40:04,600
Speaker 1: and speak today because there needs to be something done

775
00:40:04,600 --> 00:40:05,040
Speaker 1: about this.

776
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Speaker 8: And you know, it's not just the school in the

777
00:40:07,600 --> 00:40:11,319
Speaker 8: city of Beverly Hills. I happen to be representing one

778
00:40:11,360 --> 00:40:15,720
Speaker 8: thousand and eighty five black individuals that have been racially

779
00:40:15,760 --> 00:40:17,480
Speaker 8: profiled by the police department too.

780
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Speaker 3: I'm doing that Hills.

781
00:40:20,520 --> 00:40:24,800
Speaker 8: We have two different class actions now. And what happened

782
00:40:24,880 --> 00:40:28,960
Speaker 8: is ninety two percent of the people arrested on this

783
00:40:29,160 --> 00:40:31,640
Speaker 8: task force were black in a city that's less than

784
00:40:31,680 --> 00:40:35,719
Speaker 8: two percent black. Wow, and you've got one thousand and

785
00:40:35,840 --> 00:40:38,840
Speaker 8: eighty eight black people were arrested in a two year period.

786
00:40:39,400 --> 00:40:43,040
Speaker 8: Only three of them had any criminal conviction or plea deals.

787
00:40:43,320 --> 00:40:45,799
Speaker 8: So everybody else was arrested, put in jail for a

788
00:40:45,880 --> 00:40:48,880
Speaker 8: driving wall black and then they were just let go.

789
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Speaker 8: So it was clearly an attempt by the city.

790
00:40:53,080 --> 00:40:55,399
Speaker 1: To keep black black people at it right.

791
00:40:55,520 --> 00:40:57,760
Speaker 8: And the school is just more of that same symptoms.

792
00:40:57,840 --> 00:40:58,840
Speaker 3: So it's a big problem.

793
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Speaker 8: That's why this is we're so passionate. My law for

794
00:41:02,719 --> 00:41:05,759
Speaker 8: Brad Cage law is so passionate about going after them.

795
00:41:06,360 --> 00:41:08,200
Speaker 1: I got to connect with my guy. I always filmed

796
00:41:08,200 --> 00:41:13,120
Speaker 1: the police and he's been Uh, he's actively in Beverly Hills,

797
00:41:13,120 --> 00:41:17,239
Speaker 1: white guy who is debunks everything. He's talking shit to

798
00:41:17,320 --> 00:41:19,960
Speaker 1: police in their face and not even in a negative way,

799
00:41:20,080 --> 00:41:22,959
Speaker 1: just kind of reminding them like what you're doing is wrong.

800
00:41:23,000 --> 00:41:25,400
Speaker 1: He's always filming them and it's a really interesting guy

801
00:41:25,440 --> 00:41:27,239
Speaker 1: who's drawn a lot of attention, so we definitely have

802
00:41:27,320 --> 00:41:28,880
Speaker 1: to talk to him. But Bella, before we get you

803
00:41:28,880 --> 00:41:32,200
Speaker 1: guys out of here, how has this been for you personally?

804
00:41:32,200 --> 00:41:34,680
Speaker 1: Obviously teaching is something you love to do with your passion.

805
00:41:35,640 --> 00:41:37,800
Speaker 1: You told me you're not sure if you're even gonna

806
00:41:37,960 --> 00:41:42,240
Speaker 1: most likely return there. So what has this been like daily?

807
00:41:42,280 --> 00:41:45,320
Speaker 1: Since it's really kind of hit and went public.

808
00:41:45,640 --> 00:41:49,520
Speaker 6: It's been hard. It's been really hard. It's I've been

809
00:41:49,560 --> 00:41:55,200
Speaker 6: attacked like endlessly, emails and emails. I've got a death

810
00:41:55,320 --> 00:41:59,640
Speaker 6: threat in my school email address. It's been very hard.

811
00:42:01,560 --> 00:42:03,360
Speaker 6: Would I go back if it was just going to

812
00:42:03,400 --> 00:42:05,760
Speaker 6: be me and the kids and doing what I've been doing?

813
00:42:06,320 --> 00:42:10,200
Speaker 6: Of course, I love what I do. I'm not a

814
00:42:10,239 --> 00:42:12,160
Speaker 6: teacher by trade. I didn't go to school. I went

815
00:42:12,160 --> 00:42:14,120
Speaker 6: to school to be a fashion designer. So that's what

816
00:42:14,160 --> 00:42:17,000
Speaker 6: I've done. And so then I bought the fashion design

817
00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:21,719
Speaker 6: program too, I wrote I started that program. Everything before me,

818
00:42:21,800 --> 00:42:23,799
Speaker 6: it was no fashion design program at Beverly Hill. So

819
00:42:23,800 --> 00:42:31,320
Speaker 6: it's my baby. But because the climate is it's.

820
00:42:31,080 --> 00:42:34,680
Speaker 1: So dire, I just to the point where it's unsafe.

821
00:42:34,920 --> 00:42:38,360
Speaker 6: It's very unsafe. My son. He's in the middle school

822
00:42:38,480 --> 00:42:42,000
Speaker 6: and he's been homeschool now because I'm afraid for his safety.

823
00:42:42,080 --> 00:42:45,920
Speaker 6: So I just feel like, if they can't protect the

824
00:42:46,000 --> 00:42:49,319
Speaker 6: kids that I love at the school that aren't my kids,

825
00:42:49,320 --> 00:42:52,560
Speaker 6: but there are my kids because I love them, how

826
00:42:52,560 --> 00:42:56,080
Speaker 6: are they going to protect my child as a parent.

827
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Speaker 1: Who still has a young son there, Like, what are

828
00:42:59,840 --> 00:43:02,600
Speaker 1: your guys' conversations day to day? Is he scared?

829
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Speaker 7: Like, So we've talked about leaving the district because we're

830
00:43:08,600 --> 00:43:12,520
Speaker 7: new to the district and I would have never enrolled

831
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Speaker 7: my child if I had any inclination that this was

832
00:43:15,880 --> 00:43:18,520
Speaker 7: the climate that I was bringing him into. In fact,

833
00:43:19,040 --> 00:43:25,240
Speaker 7: I asked the principle, how many you know black parents,

834
00:43:25,239 --> 00:43:28,360
Speaker 7: how many black kids? How many black teachers? And I

835
00:43:28,400 --> 00:43:31,120
Speaker 7: feel like I was misled in that in that I

836
00:43:31,280 --> 00:43:34,680
Speaker 7: was told by even the parent ambassadors who do the tour.

837
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Speaker 1: All your kid will be fine.

838
00:43:35,800 --> 00:43:39,920
Speaker 7: I made it very clear I am concerned about my

839
00:43:40,080 --> 00:43:44,720
Speaker 7: kid being in a diverse and inclusive environment. I'm okay

840
00:43:44,760 --> 00:43:47,799
Speaker 7: with him being a minority as long as this a

841
00:43:47,880 --> 00:43:52,400
Speaker 7: collective environment. And I think I was misled, completely misled.

842
00:43:52,760 --> 00:43:56,279
Speaker 7: So we've been having conversations about what it looks like

843
00:43:56,480 --> 00:43:58,080
Speaker 7: to you know, to go somewhere else.

844
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Speaker 1: His grades dropped.

845
00:43:59,480 --> 00:44:04,480
Speaker 7: Even his algebra teacher said that she saw a decline

846
00:44:04,560 --> 00:44:07,239
Speaker 7: in his grades. And it's not just my child, it's

847
00:44:07,280 --> 00:44:10,680
Speaker 7: all the kids that are struggling fight or flight. There's

848
00:44:10,800 --> 00:44:14,879
Speaker 7: kids who have been physically attacking or hiding in bathrooms

849
00:44:15,160 --> 00:44:19,600
Speaker 7: because they don't want to engage, or they'll go to

850
00:44:19,800 --> 00:44:23,880
Speaker 7: get counseling, but the counselors don't look like our kids.

851
00:44:25,040 --> 00:44:28,040
Speaker 7: So it's a constant conversation. It's the middle of the

852
00:44:28,040 --> 00:44:31,319
Speaker 7: school year. We just want the district to do what

853
00:44:31,440 --> 00:44:34,560
Speaker 7: the district is supposed to do. And Bella's program is

854
00:44:34,600 --> 00:44:39,640
Speaker 7: a shining program. They use her program to recruit families.

855
00:44:39,719 --> 00:44:42,680
Speaker 7: Like when I toured the school, every time I toured,

856
00:44:43,200 --> 00:44:47,360
Speaker 7: they went to Bella's classroom. She has a capstone program,

857
00:44:47,600 --> 00:44:49,239
Speaker 7: and so I feel like they need to do more

858
00:44:49,520 --> 00:44:53,200
Speaker 7: to protect her and to protect her program.

859
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Speaker 3: It's just bad.

860
00:44:57,480 --> 00:44:59,160
Speaker 7: You don't want to be here. But then you're also like,

861
00:44:59,200 --> 00:45:04,120
Speaker 7: if I don't and fight for a change, what's going

862
00:45:04,200 --> 00:45:07,120
Speaker 7: to continue? So maybe maybe this is why we're here

863
00:45:07,440 --> 00:45:08,240
Speaker 7: to make a change.

864
00:45:08,280 --> 00:45:10,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, Like I said, that's why I stepped in, was

865
00:45:10,520 --> 00:45:12,600
Speaker 1: to help make a change, bring more attention to it.

866
00:45:13,040 --> 00:45:14,920
Speaker 1: You know, I've already talked to Tamika Mallory, I know

867
00:45:15,080 --> 00:45:16,960
Speaker 1: her names have been mentioning this. I'm going to reach

868
00:45:16,960 --> 00:45:20,680
Speaker 1: out to Angela Raie and any other activists or just

869
00:45:20,760 --> 00:45:21,560
Speaker 1: concerned parent.

870
00:45:21,880 --> 00:45:22,000
Speaker 5: Uh.

871
00:45:22,320 --> 00:45:24,319
Speaker 1: You know, it's not just about black and brown, It's

872
00:45:24,320 --> 00:45:26,720
Speaker 1: about everybody, because this is an environment that our children

873
00:45:27,280 --> 00:45:28,920
Speaker 1: are living in. So I'm going to definitely keep you

874
00:45:29,000 --> 00:45:33,600
Speaker 1: guys updated on what's going on, get the NAACP involved,

875
00:45:33,640 --> 00:45:35,439
Speaker 1: and really just go up there and kind of see

876
00:45:35,480 --> 00:45:37,120
Speaker 1: what we can do. I know you guys had a

877
00:45:37,320 --> 00:45:41,359
Speaker 1: a a gathering last week or is it two weeks

878
00:45:41,360 --> 00:45:47,120
Speaker 1: ago press conference conference, some of the.

879
00:45:46,600 --> 00:45:50,200
Speaker 8: White students trying to heckle us at the event at

880
00:45:50,239 --> 00:45:55,160
Speaker 8: the event, and it made me realize. Between that and

881
00:45:55,280 --> 00:45:57,759
Speaker 8: I've had death threats over this case and so much

882
00:45:57,760 --> 00:46:01,000
Speaker 8: hate mail that you can't believe it, it makes me

883
00:46:01,120 --> 00:46:05,880
Speaker 8: realize how widespread this problem is. I feel so bad

884
00:46:05,960 --> 00:46:09,600
Speaker 8: for Bella and my other clients that I represent, because

885
00:46:09,680 --> 00:46:12,960
Speaker 8: these are good people that deserve to be treated well

886
00:46:13,360 --> 00:46:17,240
Speaker 8: and they're only going through this because they're black. And

887
00:46:17,600 --> 00:46:20,600
Speaker 8: you know it's offensive to me. I'm a white man,

888
00:46:20,719 --> 00:46:23,680
Speaker 8: but it's offensive to me to see white people or

889
00:46:23,719 --> 00:46:28,000
Speaker 8: anybody going against someone else based on their race. And

890
00:46:28,320 --> 00:46:31,920
Speaker 8: that's why this is so important. I want to bring

891
00:46:32,040 --> 00:46:36,919
Speaker 8: this darkness out into the light and sort of help

892
00:46:37,000 --> 00:46:40,600
Speaker 8: to eliminate it so that other folks don't have to

893
00:46:40,760 --> 00:46:42,560
Speaker 8: put up with what we're seeing.

894
00:46:42,280 --> 00:46:43,080
Speaker 3: Here right now.

895
00:46:43,560 --> 00:46:45,680
Speaker 1: Well, you guys have myself and my platform, and I'm

896
00:46:45,719 --> 00:46:47,960
Speaker 1: going to bring a lot of my friends and we're

897
00:46:48,000 --> 00:46:50,319
Speaker 1: definitely going to make some noise and hopefully bring more

898
00:46:50,400 --> 00:46:53,239
Speaker 1: light to this situation and come to some sort of

899
00:46:53,520 --> 00:46:56,239
Speaker 1: understanding or conclusion because what's been going on and how

900
00:46:56,239 --> 00:46:57,840
Speaker 1: it's been swept on the rug, just like it was

901
00:46:57,840 --> 00:47:01,000
Speaker 1: swept on the rug in my high school in Sacramento,

902
00:47:01,520 --> 00:47:04,200
Speaker 1: is unacceptable. And like you said, if you leave, you know,

903
00:47:04,239 --> 00:47:06,439
Speaker 1: you're you're you're leaving the door open for the next

904
00:47:06,440 --> 00:47:08,520
Speaker 1: set of you know, young kids that are going to

905
00:47:08,560 --> 00:47:11,000
Speaker 1: come into this environment. So thank you guys for coming today.

906
00:47:11,360 --> 00:47:13,400
Speaker 1: We would make sure we stay in touch and and

907
00:47:13,400 --> 00:47:15,840
Speaker 1: and keep you guys posting on the progress of the situation.

908
00:47:17,640 --> 00:47:19,800
Speaker 1: No problem. I want to welcome back to the show

909
00:47:20,680 --> 00:47:21,600
Speaker 1: the neighborhood hater.

910
00:47:22,200 --> 00:47:23,239
Speaker 3: What's up man? How about you?

911
00:47:23,600 --> 00:47:25,840
Speaker 1: How? How was the hate on Instagram, Ben, are you

912
00:47:25,880 --> 00:47:26,439
Speaker 1: getting used.

913
00:47:26,320 --> 00:47:26,759
Speaker 3: To it yet?

914
00:47:26,920 --> 00:47:27,080
Speaker 8: No?

915
00:47:27,200 --> 00:47:29,879
Speaker 3: Actually, man, she's hurting my feelings. You guys. Fuck all,

916
00:47:29,960 --> 00:47:31,600
Speaker 3: y'all know.

917
00:47:32,080 --> 00:47:34,800
Speaker 1: You got some new found I mean, your your followers

918
00:47:34,840 --> 00:47:36,799
Speaker 1: have grown, know you. You've got some new fans. But

919
00:47:36,840 --> 00:47:39,040
Speaker 1: maybe they're just becoming fans to talk ship to you.

920
00:47:39,120 --> 00:47:40,600
Speaker 9: Yeah, they just want to hear it though, you know

921
00:47:40,640 --> 00:47:43,040
Speaker 9: what I'm saying. What do they call that ship that

922
00:47:43,080 --> 00:47:44,960
Speaker 9: they do? That's what they are.

923
00:47:46,120 --> 00:47:48,319
Speaker 1: You're too old to understand that I am. I see

924
00:47:48,320 --> 00:47:50,920
Speaker 1: that new DJ Kelly Die has got your beer?

925
00:47:53,280 --> 00:47:53,680
Speaker 3: You like that?

926
00:47:54,120 --> 00:47:55,719
Speaker 1: Yeah, so they might need to get you a little

927
00:47:55,719 --> 00:47:56,080
Speaker 1: deal with that.

928
00:47:56,520 --> 00:47:57,680
Speaker 3: I want my face on the box like.

929
00:47:57,719 --> 00:48:00,359
Speaker 1: People don't know. You want your face in a box

930
00:48:00,400 --> 00:48:04,600
Speaker 1: like normal people don't know, Like if die it shit

931
00:48:04,719 --> 00:48:06,960
Speaker 1: is all gray right here though, right? But what's the

932
00:48:07,000 --> 00:48:08,120
Speaker 1: what's the color called? You got?

933
00:48:08,360 --> 00:48:12,160
Speaker 3: I think this? What is this? Good? That midnight cocoa bean?

934
00:48:12,680 --> 00:48:15,000
Speaker 1: She looked good on you both? He look good. Well,

935
00:48:15,080 --> 00:48:16,759
Speaker 1: let's get back to why you're here. Man tenth in

936
00:48:16,800 --> 00:48:20,600
Speaker 1: the West fourteen and twelve on the season had a

937
00:48:20,680 --> 00:48:24,919
Speaker 1: nasty loss to the Blazers, UH one beat the trail

938
00:48:25,040 --> 00:48:29,759
Speaker 1: or beat the Timberwolves, while Lebron was out uh beat

939
00:48:29,800 --> 00:48:33,600
Speaker 1: the Grizzlies just the other night. What's up with your team?

940
00:48:33,640 --> 00:48:36,360
Speaker 1: Bron took a little time away from the team. Uh

941
00:48:36,440 --> 00:48:41,080
Speaker 1: AD's having a career year. Lakers said they have no

942
00:48:41,200 --> 00:48:43,680
Speaker 1: rop was a quotea by Rob Polink. I think they

943
00:48:43,760 --> 00:48:45,560
Speaker 1: came out with something today that said they have no

944
00:48:45,680 --> 00:48:49,120
Speaker 1: interest in trading eighty or Lebron, but if they requested,

945
00:48:49,239 --> 00:48:52,080
Speaker 1: something could happen. They got some pieces that we've been

946
00:48:52,080 --> 00:48:56,560
Speaker 1: talking to D'Angelo Russells and the Hachi Moras and a

947
00:48:56,600 --> 00:48:59,759
Speaker 1: couple other guys. Where are you guys at currently? I

948
00:48:59,800 --> 00:49:01,719
Speaker 1: think we're a little bit of over a quarter of

949
00:49:01,719 --> 00:49:04,480
Speaker 1: the way of the through the season fourteen to twelve fourteen,

950
00:49:04,520 --> 00:49:06,480
Speaker 1: and to us or it was a quarterway through the sea,

951
00:49:06,600 --> 00:49:09,880
Speaker 1: or we're our quarterway through the season. I mean, obviously

952
00:49:10,120 --> 00:49:12,640
Speaker 1: normally we say let things play out. It's still early,

953
00:49:12,680 --> 00:49:15,120
Speaker 1: but Laker fans don't like to let things play out.

954
00:49:15,200 --> 00:49:18,880
Speaker 1: You guys want ship now. So what's happening with y'all?

955
00:49:19,160 --> 00:49:21,600
Speaker 3: I mean we're kind of stagning right now.

956
00:49:21,760 --> 00:49:25,799
Speaker 9: All the all the headlines talking about this person's trade, this,

957
00:49:26,239 --> 00:49:29,200
Speaker 9: we're gonna get traded to hear when are we gonna

958
00:49:29,239 --> 00:49:31,080
Speaker 9: do something like I mean, I saw the Golden State

959
00:49:31,120 --> 00:49:33,719
Speaker 9: Warriors just you know, put a deal out. Not that

960
00:49:33,719 --> 00:49:35,359
Speaker 9: that's going to actually help them, but at least they're

961
00:49:35,360 --> 00:49:37,759
Speaker 9: trying to make a move and make their team better.

962
00:49:37,800 --> 00:49:42,640
Speaker 1: Picknis Schroeder absolutely bad. Solid Lakers are ready to give

963
00:49:42,680 --> 00:49:45,719
Speaker 1: him some bread a few years ago. Real Brillian, Yeah.

964
00:49:45,680 --> 00:49:47,520
Speaker 9: You know, and I'm glad we didn't give it to him.

965
00:49:48,200 --> 00:49:53,000
Speaker 9: Question that's okay though, But still we're stagning right now.

966
00:49:54,200 --> 00:49:57,520
Speaker 9: They're talking about the Lebron trade and Lebron and ad

967
00:49:57,640 --> 00:50:00,480
Speaker 9: nobody's taking a forty year old and given us back

968
00:50:00,520 --> 00:50:03,080
Speaker 9: anything for it. You don't think so to take a

969
00:50:03,080 --> 00:50:05,040
Speaker 9: forty you out right now, in the twilight of his career,

970
00:50:05,080 --> 00:50:06,720
Speaker 9: to give us actually back something ABOUTUE.

971
00:50:06,800 --> 00:50:09,080
Speaker 1: I think the only team that would do that is

972
00:50:09,120 --> 00:50:12,120
Speaker 1: Golden State because they're going to try to maximize steps

973
00:50:12,200 --> 00:50:14,839
Speaker 1: run where you could possibly get some quality piece, young

974
00:50:14,880 --> 00:50:18,040
Speaker 1: pieces back. But I mean, I don't disagree anyone else.

975
00:50:18,080 --> 00:50:20,360
Speaker 1: I mean, what did you think about his first game

976
00:50:20,400 --> 00:50:24,799
Speaker 1: back foot injury, came back eighteen eight and eight, you know,

977
00:50:24,920 --> 00:50:28,319
Speaker 1: five turnovers. I think the unfortunate thing with Lebron is

978
00:50:28,680 --> 00:50:31,560
Speaker 1: we live in one of the best things that happened

979
00:50:31,760 --> 00:50:33,480
Speaker 1: was social media, but one of the worst things that

980
00:50:33,560 --> 00:50:36,760
Speaker 1: also happened with social media because now obviously at forty,

981
00:50:38,120 --> 00:50:41,120
Speaker 1: mother natures just eventually starts to take over, and we

982
00:50:41,200 --> 00:50:43,920
Speaker 1: see it with all of our great heroes and players

983
00:50:43,920 --> 00:50:48,279
Speaker 1: are just they slowly start to get old, and we're

984
00:50:48,320 --> 00:50:52,400
Speaker 1: seeing Bron do stuff we've never seen. You know, the mislayups,

985
00:50:52,440 --> 00:50:53,320
Speaker 1: I think is one.

986
00:50:54,680 --> 00:50:54,919
Speaker 3: Thing.

987
00:50:55,080 --> 00:50:59,879
Speaker 1: But what are your thoughts on just you know, he's

988
00:50:59,880 --> 00:51:01,759
Speaker 1: not going to be able to gracefully age out of

989
00:51:01,760 --> 00:51:04,000
Speaker 1: this game. Although there was a bunch of hate before,

990
00:51:04,040 --> 00:51:05,640
Speaker 1: he's always been able to shut that shit up with

991
00:51:05,680 --> 00:51:08,160
Speaker 1: great play and I know he still has more left

992
00:51:08,160 --> 00:51:09,440
Speaker 1: than the tank. We're going to see a lot of

993
00:51:09,480 --> 00:51:14,680
Speaker 1: spectacular spectacularness from Bron this season, but he's not going

994
00:51:14,760 --> 00:51:16,480
Speaker 1: to be able to age out of this game gracefully.

995
00:51:17,080 --> 00:51:17,600
Speaker 3: No, he's not.

996
00:51:17,800 --> 00:51:20,439
Speaker 9: And I think it's about time for us to start

997
00:51:20,440 --> 00:51:21,920
Speaker 9: bringing out the rocket chair for Lebron.

998
00:51:22,400 --> 00:51:25,239
Speaker 3: That the farewell for Lebron, Oh the tour? Yeah?

999
00:51:25,239 --> 00:51:27,080
Speaker 9: Absolutely, I mean, are we really going to win a

1000
00:51:27,160 --> 00:51:30,080
Speaker 9: championship this year or next year? It's not looking too

1001
00:51:30,120 --> 00:51:33,160
Speaker 9: good for us for that man, And but Laker fans

1002
00:51:34,280 --> 00:51:35,160
Speaker 9: you know how it goes.

1003
00:51:35,520 --> 00:51:37,839
Speaker 1: I don't know. That's why you're like, I want you

1004
00:51:37,880 --> 00:51:40,920
Speaker 1: on this show because I was a Laker, was a player.

1005
00:51:41,880 --> 00:51:44,200
Speaker 1: I think from the fan perspective, was also think from

1006
00:51:44,200 --> 00:51:47,680
Speaker 1: a basketball player's perspective, but also think from a business perspective.

1007
00:51:48,000 --> 00:51:53,759
Speaker 1: You're a strictly LA sports hater fanatic, so you have

1008
00:51:53,840 --> 00:51:56,800
Speaker 1: a lot of people that think the crazy and wild

1009
00:51:56,880 --> 00:51:59,640
Speaker 1: and drastic shit that you do. That's why I think

1010
00:51:59,719 --> 00:52:01,960
Speaker 1: you know, you being on this show and you popping

1011
00:52:02,000 --> 00:52:04,120
Speaker 1: your ship. It's not just on some that a lot

1012
00:52:04,200 --> 00:52:06,920
Speaker 1: of people think and talk as reckless as you do

1013
00:52:06,960 --> 00:52:08,080
Speaker 1: when it comes to the Lakers.

1014
00:52:08,120 --> 00:52:09,000
Speaker 3: But there the Dodgers.

1015
00:52:09,040 --> 00:52:10,960
Speaker 9: But they also think I'm a Lebron hater, which I've

1016
00:52:10,960 --> 00:52:13,640
Speaker 9: never been a Lebron hater until he kind of put

1017
00:52:13,680 --> 00:52:14,440
Speaker 9: on our jersey.

1018
00:52:14,760 --> 00:52:17,040
Speaker 1: Oh you hated him once he got here, so you

1019
00:52:17,120 --> 00:52:18,279
Speaker 1: loved him before he got here.

1020
00:52:18,480 --> 00:52:20,359
Speaker 3: That's a weird thing happening right now with that.

1021
00:52:20,480 --> 00:52:23,279
Speaker 9: Like, really, now that he's put on our jersey, I

1022
00:52:23,320 --> 00:52:26,640
Speaker 9: have a different perspective on him. Eight years one chip

1023
00:52:27,120 --> 00:52:29,799
Speaker 9: like which will basically be what it is after he's

1024
00:52:29,800 --> 00:52:30,200
Speaker 9: done here.

1025
00:52:30,280 --> 00:52:32,640
Speaker 1: I mean, some teams haven't won a chip period yeah,

1026
00:52:32,680 --> 00:52:36,120
Speaker 1: but with the Lakers, you're different. Come on the forum

1027
00:52:36,239 --> 00:52:41,359
Speaker 1: Staple Center parades. He's been here for eight years?

1028
00:52:40,840 --> 00:52:42,640
Speaker 3: When this is year seven right now?

1029
00:52:42,840 --> 00:52:43,279
Speaker 1: Is it so?

1030
00:52:43,320 --> 00:52:45,160
Speaker 9: It'll be eight years? Next year, the last year of

1031
00:52:45,160 --> 00:52:47,480
Speaker 9: his contract, it'll be eight years one chip.

1032
00:52:47,880 --> 00:52:53,080
Speaker 1: Do you think this he does the Kobe farewell uh situation?

1033
00:52:53,320 --> 00:52:55,239
Speaker 1: Or do you think Bron will be someone that just

1034
00:52:55,280 --> 00:52:58,359
Speaker 1: says enough is enough, I'm done.

1035
00:52:58,520 --> 00:53:00,960
Speaker 9: If he has on our jersey, do us a favor, bro?

1036
00:53:01,560 --> 00:53:05,560
Speaker 9: Let right, don't take us through this ship next year?

1037
00:53:06,160 --> 00:53:07,040
Speaker 9: Like I can't take it.

1038
00:53:07,080 --> 00:53:08,480
Speaker 1: Bro, We love you?

1039
00:53:09,360 --> 00:53:10,960
Speaker 3: Do you? Do you? Really? Though? Ron?

1040
00:53:11,160 --> 00:53:13,279
Speaker 1: That doesn't sound like love you just get right there?

1041
00:53:13,560 --> 00:53:21,120
Speaker 1: That sounded like some sassinessas ridiculous. I mean we talked,

1042
00:53:21,239 --> 00:53:25,960
Speaker 1: I think we talked with Brandon Jennings about does he

1043
00:53:26,040 --> 00:53:30,399
Speaker 1: deserve a statue as a Laker. Let me just name

1044
00:53:30,480 --> 00:53:32,759
Speaker 1: some of the people who have statues around the Staples Center.

1045
00:53:32,840 --> 00:53:36,440
Speaker 1: Oscar de la Hoya, Raing, Gretzky, Jack hern elgend Baylor,

1046
00:53:37,040 --> 00:53:41,560
Speaker 1: Magic Johnson, Jerry West, Shaq, Kareem Cobe.

1047
00:53:42,520 --> 00:53:42,959
Speaker 3: Mm hmmm.

1048
00:53:43,280 --> 00:53:44,920
Speaker 1: Does Lebron fit there? I mean, like you said, when

1049
00:53:44,920 --> 00:53:46,600
Speaker 1: it's all said and done, he'll be have been here

1050
00:53:46,880 --> 00:53:50,160
Speaker 1: eight years. We got got y'all, but he still got

1051
00:53:50,239 --> 00:53:53,920
Speaker 1: y'all Chip, and arguably top two or three could be one.

1052
00:53:53,960 --> 00:53:55,920
Speaker 1: In a lot of people's opinions, players.

1053
00:53:55,560 --> 00:53:57,920
Speaker 3: All ship but participation in trophy.

1054
00:53:58,080 --> 00:53:59,759
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter what they say. Man, we can go

1055
00:53:59,800 --> 00:54:03,000
Speaker 1: back for I mean to me, I flipping and say

1056
00:54:03,040 --> 00:54:04,720
Speaker 1: that's probably the most difficult.

1057
00:54:04,320 --> 00:54:06,040
Speaker 3: And championship you.

1058
00:54:06,080 --> 00:54:08,680
Speaker 1: I'm just sat with the Yeah, who's saying that?

1059
00:54:08,880 --> 00:54:12,359
Speaker 9: The people, the haters that don't like the Lakers ship

1060
00:54:12,560 --> 00:54:17,160
Speaker 9: Bubble Chip, Cracker, jack box Chip, I can't take that ship.

1061
00:54:17,880 --> 00:54:20,040
Speaker 9: She would have a toned for one. Then we will

1062
00:54:20,120 --> 00:54:21,960
Speaker 9: be talking about him having a statue outside.

1063
00:54:22,040 --> 00:54:23,640
Speaker 1: So you don't so the only way you think he

1064
00:54:23,680 --> 00:54:25,120
Speaker 1: can get a statue if he would have got.

1065
00:54:25,000 --> 00:54:27,800
Speaker 9: To multiple chips. Absolutely, we at least be not hating

1066
00:54:27,840 --> 00:54:29,719
Speaker 9: on it. You know what I'm saying, Like, does he

1067
00:54:29,760 --> 00:54:34,360
Speaker 9: deserve to be out there with Bean the logo elgiin.

1068
00:54:34,040 --> 00:54:36,600
Speaker 1: I'll masking, this is your this is your franchise, Sha

1069
00:54:37,160 --> 00:54:38,240
Speaker 1: chick hearn.

1070
00:54:39,280 --> 00:54:42,240
Speaker 9: Come on you guys, let's let's put his jersey up. Okay,

1071
00:54:43,160 --> 00:54:46,880
Speaker 9: Let's have a Bible knight form biblehead knife for him.

1072
00:54:47,080 --> 00:54:49,120
Speaker 9: You said give him a free parking spot.

1073
00:54:49,000 --> 00:54:55,120
Speaker 1: Jersey and the Rafters, b I p part forever. So no, no,

1074
00:54:55,120 --> 00:54:56,200
Speaker 1: no statue.

1075
00:54:55,800 --> 00:54:56,520
Speaker 3: No chance. Bro.

1076
00:54:56,560 --> 00:54:58,759
Speaker 9: I'm sorry, Bron, but no, But you're gonna get to

1077
00:54:58,880 --> 00:55:01,919
Speaker 9: Cleveland and Miami. They got you set up already.

1078
00:55:02,280 --> 00:55:03,720
Speaker 3: Damn you.

1079
00:55:03,760 --> 00:55:06,160
Speaker 1: So the Lakers will not be unveiling Lebron's statue in

1080
00:55:06,160 --> 00:55:06,760
Speaker 1: the next twenty.

1081
00:55:06,600 --> 00:55:08,279
Speaker 9: Years unless he wins us a chip Man. And I'm

1082
00:55:08,280 --> 00:55:09,719
Speaker 9: not saying it can't happen this year.

1083
00:55:10,000 --> 00:55:12,439
Speaker 1: You sounded like you can't, though, but you sound hurt

1084
00:55:12,880 --> 00:55:14,520
Speaker 1: a miracle and I am. Bro. There's a little bit

1085
00:55:14,560 --> 00:55:16,840
Speaker 1: of like, if we keep talking, I might see a

1086
00:55:16,880 --> 00:55:20,600
Speaker 1: tearful and then I'll see the beard dye drip onto

1087
00:55:20,640 --> 00:55:21,840
Speaker 1: your sweater.

1088
00:55:22,560 --> 00:55:23,680
Speaker 3: The mom's like that though.

1089
00:55:23,840 --> 00:55:25,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, I told you, Bro, if you didn't, if you

1090
00:55:25,960 --> 00:55:27,840
Speaker 1: just were Captain Gray Beer, you'd have so many of

1091
00:55:27,840 --> 00:55:32,480
Speaker 1: these older Cougars may mountain lions.

1092
00:55:32,520 --> 00:55:34,319
Speaker 9: I'm making them feel like Cougar's now, even though we're

1093
00:55:34,320 --> 00:55:39,319
Speaker 9: the same age. You dig know what I'm saying, Well.

1094
00:55:39,320 --> 00:55:41,160
Speaker 1: She's the same age as you, She's she's close to

1095
00:55:41,200 --> 00:55:43,040
Speaker 1: mountain lion, like Cougar than mountain Lion.

1096
00:55:43,120 --> 00:55:46,080
Speaker 9: I'm still on though he's definitely still cracking I'm still cracking,

1097
00:55:46,080 --> 00:55:46,959
Speaker 9: So that's that matter.

1098
00:55:47,239 --> 00:55:48,920
Speaker 1: Like you said, put your face on the box or

1099
00:55:48,960 --> 00:55:51,840
Speaker 1: in it box, whatever it takes. Hey, bro. One of

1100
00:55:51,880 --> 00:55:56,360
Speaker 1: the hottest topics of late has been Travis Hunter and

1101
00:55:56,680 --> 00:55:59,520
Speaker 1: not a play m but it's fiance.

1102
00:56:00,400 --> 00:56:00,800
Speaker 3: Hmmm.

1103
00:56:03,000 --> 00:56:06,000
Speaker 1: It's tough because he's been such a spectacular player, winning

1104
00:56:06,080 --> 00:56:08,759
Speaker 1: several awards, obviously taking home the Height has been in

1105
00:56:08,880 --> 00:56:15,360
Speaker 1: salute for that, but all this outside noise getting in

1106
00:56:15,440 --> 00:56:17,319
Speaker 1: the middle of his relationship with his lady him in that.

1107
00:56:17,360 --> 00:56:18,080
Speaker 1: But that's what happens.

1108
00:56:18,080 --> 00:56:18,239
Speaker 3: You know.

1109
00:56:18,280 --> 00:56:20,480
Speaker 1: People say he's too young, he's twenty. We shouldn't be

1110
00:56:20,520 --> 00:56:22,840
Speaker 1: talking about this, but it's out there. It's a topic.

1111
00:56:22,840 --> 00:56:26,279
Speaker 1: I think it was on ESPN today, it's everywhere. What

1112
00:56:26,400 --> 00:56:29,560
Speaker 1: have been your thoughts on just kind of the dynamic

1113
00:56:29,680 --> 00:56:32,800
Speaker 1: between him and his fiance overshadowing the praise he should

1114
00:56:32,800 --> 00:56:35,160
Speaker 1: be getting for a great season he's had.

1115
00:56:35,360 --> 00:56:37,480
Speaker 9: It's sad because he's a one in a lifetime town.

1116
00:56:37,600 --> 00:56:39,919
Speaker 9: Oh man, He's like he's on some different shit out there.

1117
00:56:40,080 --> 00:56:40,480
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1118
00:56:40,680 --> 00:56:44,600
Speaker 9: I hate to see a relationship bring that to an

1119
00:56:44,680 --> 00:56:47,360
Speaker 9: end or a close or even have any effect on

1120
00:56:47,400 --> 00:56:49,560
Speaker 9: it at all, because he hasn't even gotten drafted yet.

1121
00:56:49,800 --> 00:56:51,759
Speaker 9: He hasn't played one down in the NFL, be a

1122
00:56:51,760 --> 00:56:54,239
Speaker 9: top three pick, and you know what we always talk about,

1123
00:56:54,840 --> 00:56:58,400
Speaker 9: I think until you're twenty four years old, we should

1124
00:56:58,440 --> 00:57:00,600
Speaker 9: be out there doing your thing anyway. And I'm not

1125
00:57:00,640 --> 00:57:02,839
Speaker 9: saying that you shouldn't be out of your relationship, but

1126
00:57:03,400 --> 00:57:04,839
Speaker 9: still your first it's just tough.

1127
00:57:04,920 --> 00:57:07,320
Speaker 1: I mean, I think I think what I saw was

1128
00:57:07,320 --> 00:57:09,719
Speaker 1: obviously they've been together for five years. Even if she

1129
00:57:09,760 --> 00:57:12,319
Speaker 1: had been the picture perfect image of a girlfriend and

1130
00:57:12,360 --> 00:57:16,000
Speaker 1: done everything right fiance, excuse me, everything right. Being a

1131
00:57:16,080 --> 00:57:18,200
Speaker 1: top pick and going into the NFL or the NBA

1132
00:57:18,680 --> 00:57:23,440
Speaker 1: married or engaged is a tough heel to climb. And

1133
00:57:23,440 --> 00:57:25,360
Speaker 1: we don't even need to get into the eighty percent

1134
00:57:26,920 --> 00:57:30,840
Speaker 1: failure rate of relationships when it comes to that, but

1135
00:57:30,880 --> 00:57:33,200
Speaker 1: it's probably even higher when you're younger. You know, there's

1136
00:57:33,200 --> 00:57:34,920
Speaker 1: just some shit. He's gonna be a top two or

1137
00:57:34,920 --> 00:57:37,840
Speaker 1: three pick, maybe number one. A lot of shit is

1138
00:57:37,880 --> 00:57:39,760
Speaker 1: coming his way, and it's going to take a really

1139
00:57:39,800 --> 00:57:42,280
Speaker 1: strong woman to be able to hold that down. And

1140
00:57:42,280 --> 00:57:47,120
Speaker 1: we've seen situations where we're into into women's credit. All

1141
00:57:47,160 --> 00:57:50,280
Speaker 1: women got fucking attitudes, period, you know what I mean.

1142
00:57:50,320 --> 00:57:54,280
Speaker 1: So she's not even out of pocket for what's been

1143
00:57:54,320 --> 00:57:56,760
Speaker 1: going on, because we don't really necessarily know the dynamic.

1144
00:57:56,800 --> 00:57:59,360
Speaker 1: But my whole thing is just like, and I don't

1145
00:57:59,360 --> 00:58:01,320
Speaker 1: even want to say this because we're older and we've

1146
00:58:01,360 --> 00:58:04,320
Speaker 1: been there, but you're almost setting yourself up for failure

1147
00:58:04,360 --> 00:58:07,520
Speaker 1: when you go into the NFL or the NBA at

1148
00:58:07,960 --> 00:58:09,720
Speaker 1: late teens or early twenties.

1149
00:58:10,240 --> 00:58:19,320
Speaker 9: Married Christians have to say the Christians.

1150
00:58:18,400 --> 00:58:22,240
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think. I don't think any ethnicity is immune

1151
00:58:22,280 --> 00:58:25,840
Speaker 1: to this professional sports life and getting in there and

1152
00:58:26,280 --> 00:58:27,720
Speaker 1: just the crazy shit you're gonna.

1153
00:58:27,520 --> 00:58:29,840
Speaker 3: See that baby daddy life is crazy.

1154
00:58:30,160 --> 00:58:33,960
Speaker 1: It was expensive, so it's a it's expensive.

1155
00:58:33,360 --> 00:58:34,720
Speaker 9: And I don't want them to I don't want him

1156
00:58:34,760 --> 00:58:36,520
Speaker 9: to have to deal with that, but he has to

1157
00:58:36,520 --> 00:58:38,480
Speaker 9: go through it, dud his twenty early twenties.

1158
00:58:38,880 --> 00:58:42,040
Speaker 1: I think that's the best. The best lesson is is experience,

1159
00:58:42,440 --> 00:58:44,560
Speaker 1: and you can tell we've all been in relationships where

1160
00:58:44,560 --> 00:58:46,000
Speaker 1: you can't tell me if I'm in love, you can't

1161
00:58:46,000 --> 00:58:46,520
Speaker 1: tell me shit.

1162
00:58:46,800 --> 00:58:50,479
Speaker 3: And I've never told you shit. You haven't never once,

1163
00:58:50,680 --> 00:58:51,000
Speaker 3: But you.

1164
00:58:51,000 --> 00:58:54,080
Speaker 1: Can't a young man. You can't tell him nothing about

1165
00:58:54,120 --> 00:58:56,840
Speaker 1: his life, and it's gonna make them. I'm sure this

1166
00:58:56,960 --> 00:58:59,680
Speaker 1: drama has hopefully drawn them closer, you know, But when

1167
00:58:59,720 --> 00:59:01,760
Speaker 1: you see him having to explain and then her trying

1168
00:59:01,800 --> 00:59:03,760
Speaker 1: to get out and explain and start crying, it's just hard.

1169
00:59:03,760 --> 00:59:06,960
Speaker 1: And I feel bad because they are such babies, But

1170
00:59:07,000 --> 00:59:08,840
Speaker 1: I think they're going to have to take this head on,

1171
00:59:09,000 --> 00:59:11,760
Speaker 1: and and and and and try and experience this and

1172
00:59:11,880 --> 00:59:14,280
Speaker 1: and and hopefully wish them the best.

1173
00:59:14,400 --> 00:59:17,960
Speaker 3: I hope this ship doesn't like mess with his draft sat.

1174
00:59:18,120 --> 00:59:19,880
Speaker 1: I don't think he's too good yea, yeah, I think

1175
00:59:19,880 --> 00:59:21,680
Speaker 1: he's too good, uh for this to mess with his

1176
00:59:21,760 --> 00:59:23,720
Speaker 1: draft side. But to me, it's it's the mental side

1177
00:59:23,720 --> 00:59:26,200
Speaker 1: of it. You know, what are guys. You know a

1178
00:59:26,240 --> 00:59:29,840
Speaker 1: lot of bad games, injuries, a lot of ship has

1179
00:59:29,880 --> 00:59:33,360
Speaker 1: gone on because you're not fully focused on that field

1180
00:59:33,440 --> 00:59:35,760
Speaker 1: or that quart or that diamond. So I'm not saying

1181
00:59:35,800 --> 00:59:37,840
Speaker 1: that's going to be the issue, but it's just we've

1182
00:59:37,880 --> 00:59:39,560
Speaker 1: we've talked to guys, we've been a part of that

1183
00:59:39,600 --> 00:59:42,920
Speaker 1: ship and known that when that that home life gets rocky,

1184
00:59:43,320 --> 00:59:45,000
Speaker 1: you know, our our game is mental. Once you get

1185
00:59:45,040 --> 00:59:46,640
Speaker 1: to the top, it's ninety percent mental. So to be

1186
00:59:46,680 --> 00:59:48,280
Speaker 1: able to keep his mental focus, but I mean, we

1187
00:59:48,320 --> 00:59:50,360
Speaker 1: wish I wish you the best. I wish you know,

1188
00:59:50,480 --> 00:59:54,200
Speaker 1: you're you're you and your fiance the best and you know,

1189
00:59:54,680 --> 00:59:57,320
Speaker 1: a happy journey. It's just gonna be tough, bro, And

1190
00:59:57,320 --> 00:59:59,680
Speaker 1: and and make sure you know you're not afraid to

1191
00:59:59,720 --> 01:00:01,400
Speaker 1: reach and lean. I mean, you got one of the

1192
01:00:01,520 --> 01:00:03,720
Speaker 1: persons give you the most game and coach Prime Tree.

1193
01:00:03,760 --> 01:00:05,720
Speaker 1: He's already done that. But there's gonna be times during

1194
01:00:05,720 --> 01:00:07,880
Speaker 1: this journey where you're gonna need to reach out to

1195
01:00:07,880 --> 01:00:10,480
Speaker 1: somebody and really lean on on how to figure and

1196
01:00:10,560 --> 01:00:12,760
Speaker 1: navigate this shit out. And I hope you do that

1197
01:00:12,840 --> 01:00:15,280
Speaker 1: because we all want to see the best for you,

1198
01:00:15,560 --> 01:00:17,040
Speaker 1: and we all want to see the best of you.

1199
01:00:17,320 --> 01:00:18,439
Speaker 1: So we're definitely looking forward.

1200
01:00:18,440 --> 01:00:18,600
Speaker 3: Man.

1201
01:00:18,640 --> 01:00:22,160
Speaker 1: Congratulations on the Heisman. Good luck in your guys's bowl game, Man,

1202
01:00:22,200 --> 01:00:24,280
Speaker 1: and we can't wait to see where you land Draft day. Bro.

1203
01:00:24,560 --> 01:00:26,680
Speaker 3: He deserves to be the number one pick him a

1204
01:00:26,680 --> 01:00:27,760
Speaker 3: shador Yeah, one and.

1205
01:00:27,720 --> 01:00:30,080
Speaker 1: Two for sure, Shador up there. I'm excited.

1206
01:00:30,400 --> 01:00:32,560
Speaker 9: So, Matt Man, what advice would you give Travis Man

1207
01:00:32,560 --> 01:00:33,560
Speaker 9: to resolve this situation?

1208
01:00:33,600 --> 01:00:35,160
Speaker 1: But you know, I'm the last motherfucker that should be

1209
01:00:35,160 --> 01:00:39,200
Speaker 1: giving any relationship advice. If I'm just being honest with you,

1210
01:00:39,360 --> 01:00:41,360
Speaker 1: I'm not necessarily give you a relationship I could just

1211
01:00:41,360 --> 01:00:44,240
Speaker 1: give you some og. I'm about to be forty five advices.

1212
01:00:44,280 --> 01:00:46,640
Speaker 1: This shit's gonna be a tough. It's tough when you're single.

1213
01:00:46,680 --> 01:00:48,320
Speaker 1: It's tough when you got a girl, But when you're

1214
01:00:48,360 --> 01:00:51,360
Speaker 1: married going into this space, it's very tough and it

1215
01:00:51,440 --> 01:00:58,160
Speaker 1: takes two understanding, committed people to make it hopefully work,

1216
01:00:58,920 --> 01:01:01,360
Speaker 1: you know. So just the numbers are stacked, But to

1217
01:01:01,400 --> 01:01:03,360
Speaker 1: think the numbers have always been stacked against his kid,

1218
01:01:03,600 --> 01:01:05,600
Speaker 1: you know, and for him to be here now and

1219
01:01:05,640 --> 01:01:07,240
Speaker 1: be winning the Heisman and being one of the most

1220
01:01:07,240 --> 01:01:10,000
Speaker 1: electric college players we've ever seen, and we hopefully that

1221
01:01:10,040 --> 01:01:12,640
Speaker 1: translates to the NFL. But yeah, I'm probably the last

1222
01:01:12,640 --> 01:01:15,520
Speaker 1: person to really be given relationship advice. I just wish

1223
01:01:15,600 --> 01:01:17,200
Speaker 1: you the best, bro and and and make sure you

1224
01:01:17,240 --> 01:01:19,560
Speaker 1: reach out to people if you need help, because sometimes

1225
01:01:19,600 --> 01:01:20,360
Speaker 1: that should get heavy.

1226
01:01:21,000 --> 01:01:21,479
Speaker 3: Mm hmm.

1227
01:01:22,600 --> 01:01:24,440
Speaker 1: Well, Gino, man, we appreciate you. Yeah, I mean, I

1228
01:01:24,440 --> 01:01:25,920
Speaker 1: could obviously be someone you can reach out to. I

1229
01:01:25,920 --> 01:01:26,960
Speaker 1: can give you a little bit of a game on this

1230
01:01:26,960 --> 01:01:28,960
Speaker 1: ship because I didn't been through it, like you said,

1231
01:01:28,960 --> 01:01:31,040
Speaker 1: that baby Daddy game. It's crazy.

1232
01:01:31,240 --> 01:01:33,680
Speaker 3: It's expensive, man.

1233
01:01:34,000 --> 01:01:35,520
Speaker 1: You know how much money I would have if I

1234
01:01:35,520 --> 01:01:38,520
Speaker 1: didn't let's not even get into that shit. Gino. Man,

1235
01:01:38,520 --> 01:01:43,080
Speaker 1: we appreciate you and your hate. I'm disappointed that you

1236
01:01:43,160 --> 01:01:46,200
Speaker 1: said that that La doesn't feel like bron deserves the

1237
01:01:46,240 --> 01:01:47,560
Speaker 1: statue at Staples.

1238
01:01:47,760 --> 01:01:49,680
Speaker 3: And if you stop playing that, we'll whack out your mural,

1239
01:01:49,800 --> 01:01:54,880
Speaker 3: baby boy. So come on playing man.

1240
01:01:55,120 --> 01:01:57,880
Speaker 1: Well, thank you for your time, sir. I just got

1241
01:01:57,880 --> 01:01:59,880
Speaker 1: those shoes. I didn't know I was gonna be copying you.

1242
01:02:00,040 --> 01:02:00,480
Speaker 1: I like them.

1243
01:02:00,560 --> 01:02:01,400
Speaker 3: I appreciate you.

1244
01:02:01,920 --> 01:02:04,320
Speaker 1: Before we get out of here, let's get my picks

1245
01:02:04,320 --> 01:02:06,840
Speaker 1: for the week, brought to you by DraftKings. Three and

1246
01:02:06,920 --> 01:02:09,920
Speaker 1: one a week ago, two and two last week. Right there,

1247
01:02:09,960 --> 01:02:12,760
Speaker 1: this point spread, I'm used to just picking the teams.

1248
01:02:12,760 --> 01:02:14,640
Speaker 1: The point spreads by kind of been fucking me up

1249
01:02:14,640 --> 01:02:17,280
Speaker 1: when I'm learning this space. But I know football and

1250
01:02:17,320 --> 01:02:20,960
Speaker 1: I'm getting to it. So this week we got Saturday,

1251
01:02:21,360 --> 01:02:25,040
Speaker 1: Steelers at the Ravens, the Ravens minus six. It's getting

1252
01:02:25,040 --> 01:02:27,160
Speaker 1: down to crunch time. I like the Ravens, man, I

1253
01:02:27,200 --> 01:02:29,040
Speaker 1: like the Rains. I like the Steelers. Steelers off a

1254
01:02:29,040 --> 01:02:33,080
Speaker 1: tough loss last week. I'm gonna take the Ravens at

1255
01:02:33,080 --> 01:02:40,560
Speaker 1: home minus six. Sunday Vikings at Seattle. I'm voting against

1256
01:02:40,600 --> 01:02:45,440
Speaker 1: any NFC West teams, although there's no hope for the Niners.

1257
01:02:45,440 --> 01:02:49,120
Speaker 1: I just I'm a behater. Very few times I'm a behater.

1258
01:02:49,520 --> 01:02:52,360
Speaker 1: I'm just so sad about what happened with my Niners

1259
01:02:52,840 --> 01:02:56,320
Speaker 1: and the just the implosion. Dude, any want to play

1260
01:02:56,440 --> 01:02:58,120
Speaker 1: left the game in the third quarter. We didn't even

1261
01:02:58,160 --> 01:03:01,400
Speaker 1: get to that. But that's bananas. I'm gonna take the

1262
01:03:01,480 --> 01:03:07,200
Speaker 1: Vikings in Seattle minus three and a half Eagles at Commanders.

1263
01:03:08,040 --> 01:03:09,480
Speaker 1: This is gonna be a good one. I think the

1264
01:03:09,520 --> 01:03:12,680
Speaker 1: Eagles have found a little rhythm. Big win last week.

1265
01:03:13,080 --> 01:03:15,880
Speaker 1: Commanders are looking you know, they're in the playoff hunt.

1266
01:03:15,880 --> 01:03:19,000
Speaker 1: It's the Commanders at home minus three. Shit, I'm gonna

1267
01:03:19,000 --> 01:03:21,880
Speaker 1: go ahead and take the Eagles plus three at the

1268
01:03:21,880 --> 01:03:26,760
Speaker 1: Commanders and the stunner of the week, but it's not

1269
01:03:26,840 --> 01:03:29,240
Speaker 1: much of a stunner since Mahomes is out. I'm gonna

1270
01:03:29,280 --> 01:03:31,920
Speaker 1: take the Texans minus two and a half to go

1271
01:03:31,960 --> 01:03:36,760
Speaker 1: into Kansas City and get that done. Appreciate you guys

1272
01:03:36,760 --> 01:03:39,080
Speaker 1: from following. Make sure you guys tap in next week.

1273
01:03:39,280 --> 01:03:41,560
Speaker 1: You can catch this on the DraftKings Network and the

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01:03:41,560 --> 01:03:46,400
Speaker 1: All the Smoke Productions YouTube. See y'all next week.