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Speaker 1: What's like the one thing that you learn the most

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Speaker 1: from your dad that you use in your life.

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Speaker 2: Now, if a deal isn't good for both sides, then

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Speaker 2: it's not a good deal. A one sided deal is

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Speaker 2: eventually going to either fall apart or come back and

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Speaker 2: haunt you. It's just not the way to do business.

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Speaker 2: And my dad was a very fair man and didn't

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Speaker 1: I love that that was a fair trade with Luca thing.

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Speaker 1: I guess, I mean it had to go there. GEDI

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Speaker 1: welcome to Games with Names. I'm Julian Edelman. They're Jack

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Speaker 1: and Kyler, and we're on a mission to find the

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Speaker 1: greatest game of all time. On today's episode, we are

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Speaker 1: covering game six of the twenty twenty NBA Finals, Miami

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Speaker 1: Heat versus the la Lakers, with co founder of Wow

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Speaker 1: Women of Wrestling, La Icon and Lakers Governor Jeanie Buss.

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Speaker 1: We get into talking Lebron James Bubble Championship.

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Speaker 2: Lebron comes over and hugs me and whispers in my ear,

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Speaker 2: I told you we would do this.

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Speaker 1: What Kobe Bryant means to the Lakers.

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Speaker 2: I know that Kobe knew how much we loved him.

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Speaker 3: You can't replace that.

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Speaker 1: And behind the scene of the Luca trade, it could.

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Speaker 2: Blow up our season, so it was completely kept under wraps.

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Speaker 1: And then we're checking in with Jackie in this week's

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Speaker 1: chill Zone, presented by Whor's like you Gotta stick around

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Speaker 1: to the very end. Games with Names is a production

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Speaker 1: of iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 4: October eleventh, twenty twenty, ESPN Worldwide Sports Complex, Lake Bueno Vista, Florida.

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Speaker 2: Uncertain times make for an unprecedented path to winning it.

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Speaker 1: All, but one things for certain.

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Speaker 4: Lebron James and the Lakers have banners seventeen in their sights.

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Speaker 2: This is the banner seventeen games.

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Speaker 1: Well, we have a very very special guest, the Queen

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Speaker 1: of la the Queen of sport. We got Genie Buss

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Speaker 1: in the nuthouse. Welcome to the nuthouse. In one sentence,

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Speaker 1: why did we pick game six, twenty twenty NBA Finals

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Speaker 2: Because that was the most recent one, most recent championship

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Speaker 2: and a unique game because it took place in the bubble.

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Speaker 1: Is it the greatest game of all time? No? I

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Speaker 1: mean that's an integrity type score.

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Speaker 3: But I think it's the most interesting.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it is a very interesting game. I want to

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Speaker 1: dive into it, but at first, can you walk us

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Speaker 1: through the day to day life of an owner of

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Speaker 1: an NBA team. I'm interested because I kind of know

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Speaker 1: what the NFL is. You guys have so many less players.

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Speaker 1: You have to have such intimate relationships with like all

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Speaker 1: your players. What's your day to day life.

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Speaker 2: Well, we like to color ourselves governors as opposed to owners,

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Speaker 2: and I'm a co owner. It's my family's team, and

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Speaker 2: we have other partial owners. But I'm the governor, which

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Speaker 2: the governor means that you are responsible for every decision

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Speaker 3: You know, there's only one governor.

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Speaker 2: There's only one governor, so you know, it's it is about,

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Speaker 2: you know, putting out fires when things go wrong, and

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Speaker 2: But you know, I oversee the business operations, which includes broadcast, marketing, sponsorship,

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Speaker 2: season seat sales, you know, social media, and then of

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Speaker 2: together the roster, hiring the coach. You know, we're a

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Speaker 2: And they've already you know, really taken their place in

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Speaker 1: and it's awesome. I also have a really important question.

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Speaker 3: Are you interested in that?

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Speaker 2: You know, Bob Craft was really really good friends with

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Speaker 2: But he you know, they were talking about the Patriots

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Speaker 3: And so he got.

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Speaker 2: He bought the Patriots history. He's a great honor an.

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Speaker 1: He's an unbelievable guy. Like I love mister Kraft. We

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Speaker 2: That it's awful circle.

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Speaker 1: It's awful circle. What's it like on an NBA team?

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Speaker 1: got to have some crazy perks out here in La

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Speaker 1: Do you know the tunnels? Is there underground tunnel system?

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Speaker 1: I'm really interested in that. Is that? Is that real?

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Speaker 2: But I still don't understand why you don't want to

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you this right now. I love football, and

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Speaker 1: I learned from probably two of the greatest sports minds,

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Speaker 1: Craft as an owner, UH coach Belichick and Tom Brady

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Speaker 1: But I remember as a player, I would leave a

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Speaker 2: How about just don't rule it out completely? And do

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm a podcaster.

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Speaker 2: Okay, all right, so the perks you asked me, what

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Speaker 1: You know you need a podcast?

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Speaker 2: No, I don't know.

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Speaker 3: So my husband has a podcast, but and I was.

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Speaker 2: That's actually how we got anyway, So I I guess

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Speaker 3: Anywhere I want.

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Speaker 2: No, I'm just kidding, you know.

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Speaker 3: It's it's for me.

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Speaker 2: It's about the fans, and it's about doing things the

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Speaker 2: and it really is about putting together a team of talent.

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Speaker 2: But by coming together as a team, they can and

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Speaker 2: And you know, my dad, you know, I mean, I

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Speaker 1: That's really good.

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Speaker 2: And so you know, he talked about, you know, really

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Speaker 1: It's so gnarly. You talk with so much passion about

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Speaker 2: Now, you know, it's about if a deal isn't good

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Speaker 3: It's just not the way to do business.

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Speaker 2: And my dad was a very fair man and didn't

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Speaker 2: Look what we had to give up though, I know

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Speaker 2: Do you know how hard that was? We were not

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's a mega. That was a mega.

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Speaker 1: and that's got to be awesome. And that's so exciting

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Speaker 2: I didn't anticipate the global impact it would have. I mean,

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Speaker 2: And you know another story that I'd like to tell

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Speaker 2: And he kept trying and trying to find on this, Like, Dad,

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Speaker 2: It's a game of patience and you have to wait

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Speaker 2: And you know we did that. We got Anthony Davis

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Speaker 1: Man. You know, my dad's still around, but I still

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Speaker 1: How big is this move going forward?

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Speaker 3: You mean the trade?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, you know, we I think we need

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Speaker 2: It's very interesting to watch him play with Lebron. We

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Speaker 2: I really had no idea how great of a mind

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Speaker 3: So it's exciting.

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Speaker 2: But people got to remember he hadn't played in months.

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Speaker 2: But I think there's just gonna be it's gonna be

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Speaker 1: See Luca jerseys everywhere in Brentwood. It's crazy again how

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Speaker 2: And I love that he wears seventy seven because we've

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Speaker 1: He's got his own. Yeah, it's just it's waiting to happen. Now,

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Speaker 3: And I said, well, I hope you.

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Speaker 2: Told him that we're not trading Anthony Davis, like that's

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Speaker 2: It's hard for them to recalibrate, so you know what

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Speaker 2: Well, unfortunately, and this shows maybe the lack of our

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Speaker 2: You know, it's it's kind of like what you have

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 2: It's like it's kind of like the most important decision

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Speaker 2: And you know, I had told our general manager, you know,

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Speaker 2: and I want you to to think differently, Like don't

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Speaker 3: So, you know, we.

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Speaker 1: And.

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00:27:07,280 --> 00:27:13,560
Speaker 2: JJ and you know, Rob was impressed with both of them.

440
00:27:13,680 --> 00:27:17,880
Speaker 2: Both of them had a philosophy that matched his philosophy,

441
00:27:18,800 --> 00:27:22,280
Speaker 2: and you know, we kind of went on a parallel path,

442
00:27:23,119 --> 00:27:28,720
Speaker 2: and you know, the Dan Hurley path didn't work out,

443
00:27:30,160 --> 00:27:34,359
Speaker 2: and so we pivoted to JJ and had him meet

444
00:27:34,440 --> 00:27:39,200
Speaker 2: with key people in the organization and he just kept

445
00:27:39,240 --> 00:27:44,040
Speaker 2: impressing everybody. And you know, it's certainly a risk when

446
00:27:44,080 --> 00:27:48,000
Speaker 2: you hire someone who's never been a head coach. And

447
00:27:48,440 --> 00:27:53,359
Speaker 2: he was very, you know, very forthcoming about like I

448
00:27:53,440 --> 00:27:57,040
Speaker 2: don't have experience as a head coach, So you know,

449
00:27:57,200 --> 00:28:01,760
Speaker 2: I need coaches on my staff that are going to help,

450
00:28:02,359 --> 00:28:05,560
Speaker 2: you know, shore up what I don't know. So we

451
00:28:05,680 --> 00:28:11,119
Speaker 2: have probably the best coaching bench in the league in

452
00:28:11,280 --> 00:28:17,200
Speaker 2: Scottie Brooks and Nate McMillan, you know, who've had tons

453
00:28:17,200 --> 00:28:21,560
Speaker 2: of experience and tons of success in the NBA. And

454
00:28:21,800 --> 00:28:25,120
Speaker 2: you know, it all just came together the right way.

455
00:28:25,359 --> 00:28:28,600
Speaker 2: The one concern I had was, you know, his wife

456
00:28:28,720 --> 00:28:31,159
Speaker 2: is going to say, no way, I'm not moving to

457
00:28:31,280 --> 00:28:38,920
Speaker 2: l Yeah. They had just built a home, they had

458
00:28:38,960 --> 00:28:44,440
Speaker 2: just built a home in Brooklyn, and you know she

459
00:28:45,200 --> 00:28:46,000
Speaker 2: jumped on board.

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00:28:46,360 --> 00:28:48,800
Speaker 1: I mean, I think it's a it's been a great

461
00:28:48,840 --> 00:28:53,720
Speaker 1: little move. Like he's like for me, I love former

462
00:28:53,760 --> 00:28:57,520
Speaker 1: players that become head coaches. We just did that with

463
00:28:57,560 --> 00:29:01,080
Speaker 1: the Patriots with Mike Rabel. Guys that have performed at

464
00:29:01,080 --> 00:29:03,880
Speaker 1: a high level know what the locker room's about, but

465
00:29:03,920 --> 00:29:07,680
Speaker 1: that are also brilliant minds. Like I'm sure guys that

466
00:29:07,760 --> 00:29:09,520
Speaker 1: played with JJ thought he was going to be a

467
00:29:09,560 --> 00:29:12,720
Speaker 1: coach because he seems like whenever he talks about basketball,

468
00:29:12,800 --> 00:29:14,680
Speaker 1: he knows, like all the x's and o's. That's a

469
00:29:14,680 --> 00:29:16,880
Speaker 1: football term. Do they use it for basketball?

470
00:29:17,080 --> 00:29:17,320
Speaker 3: Yes?

471
00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:20,920
Speaker 1: Maybe all the x's and o terms. Like he just

472
00:29:21,120 --> 00:29:23,320
Speaker 1: is one of those brilliant minds. But he also can

473
00:29:23,360 --> 00:29:25,560
Speaker 1: communicate with the young fellows because he's been in that

474
00:29:25,560 --> 00:29:29,080
Speaker 1: locker room as such an early like not that far removed.

475
00:29:29,280 --> 00:29:33,840
Speaker 1: So I think it's amazing. You gotta tell me about

476
00:29:33,880 --> 00:29:35,800
Speaker 1: the Forum back in the day. What was the vibe like?

477
00:29:37,840 --> 00:29:42,040
Speaker 2: It was exactly what the eighties were all about.

478
00:29:42,280 --> 00:29:45,160
Speaker 1: Oh, man, I walked down those hallways because we did

479
00:29:45,160 --> 00:29:47,800
Speaker 1: the roast at the Forum. Oh that's right, So we

480
00:29:47,840 --> 00:29:50,160
Speaker 1: did the roast at the Forum. He walked down these

481
00:29:50,160 --> 00:29:52,240
Speaker 1: and this is my first time at the Forum. I

482
00:29:52,320 --> 00:29:54,680
Speaker 1: walked down these hallways and I see all these pictures.

483
00:29:54,960 --> 00:29:56,800
Speaker 1: You see the pictures of all the stars that have

484
00:29:56,880 --> 00:29:59,080
Speaker 1: been there, that played there, and there's just like an

485
00:29:59,160 --> 00:30:02,600
Speaker 1: aura about the Forum because you're in the parking lot

486
00:30:02,800 --> 00:30:05,640
Speaker 1: of the other place. And then with the Forum, it

487
00:30:05,840 --> 00:30:09,200
Speaker 1: just it's a it's a landmark. You walk in there.

488
00:30:09,440 --> 00:30:11,240
Speaker 1: We went and saw I just took my daughter to

489
00:30:11,280 --> 00:30:15,160
Speaker 1: Billie Eilish there. Oh it was rocking. Well, like that

490
00:30:15,240 --> 00:30:17,880
Speaker 1: had to be. Did that help you with your experience

491
00:30:17,880 --> 00:30:23,440
Speaker 1: a learning pro ownership, all that experience that you had

492
00:30:23,760 --> 00:30:26,120
Speaker 1: doing all the Forum stuff and all your other leagues.

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Speaker 3: Yes, it was.

494
00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:31,720
Speaker 2: It was a very important experience for me. I ran

495
00:30:32,120 --> 00:30:35,920
Speaker 2: the Forum for five years in the nineties and that

496
00:30:36,200 --> 00:30:38,800
Speaker 2: I need. I needed that experience for the position that

497
00:30:38,880 --> 00:30:44,160
Speaker 2: I'm in now, because you know, when you operate a venue,

498
00:30:44,800 --> 00:30:50,520
Speaker 2: you're dealing with the unions, the people, the box office,

499
00:30:51,160 --> 00:30:55,720
Speaker 2: you know, the food and beverage, customer service. And it

500
00:30:55,760 --> 00:31:01,920
Speaker 2: was security, security, it was really good. And the Forum

501
00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:05,640
Speaker 2: is just one of the most beautiful buildings ever built.

502
00:31:06,280 --> 00:31:12,320
Speaker 2: And if you notice, the Forum is built halfway underground

503
00:31:12,960 --> 00:31:16,479
Speaker 2: so that it's not this big behemoth that sits on

504
00:31:16,560 --> 00:31:21,960
Speaker 2: top of the grounds. It's it's beautiful to look at. Yeah, well,

505
00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:25,400
Speaker 2: the whole thought my dad didn't build it. Jack can

506
00:31:25,520 --> 00:31:30,640
Speaker 2: Cook built it. And his thought was when people walk

507
00:31:30,800 --> 00:31:34,600
Speaker 2: into the building, half of them are going to walk downstairs.

508
00:31:34,640 --> 00:31:37,560
Speaker 2: Like I'm sitting in the front row. I'm in the

509
00:31:37,600 --> 00:31:42,840
Speaker 2: downstairs section right. That's it was all marketing. And I'm

510
00:31:42,840 --> 00:31:45,360
Speaker 2: glad that your daughter is a Billie Eilish fan.

511
00:31:45,600 --> 00:31:50,240
Speaker 1: She's cool, She's really cool. When we're talking about eating

512
00:31:50,360 --> 00:31:53,720
Speaker 1: lunch girls lunches and stuff, it's a little a little

513
00:31:53,760 --> 00:31:55,880
Speaker 1: too much for an eight year old, But dad, try

514
00:31:55,920 --> 00:31:59,880
Speaker 1: to be cool. We will hit the concert of what

515
00:32:00,240 --> 00:32:02,960
Speaker 1: there's got to be what's the funnest memory you have

516
00:32:03,040 --> 00:32:04,000
Speaker 1: of the Forum?

517
00:32:04,920 --> 00:32:07,600
Speaker 2: Oh, there's so many, gotta.

518
00:32:07,400 --> 00:32:09,000
Speaker 1: Be one crazy story.

519
00:32:09,320 --> 00:32:12,040
Speaker 2: You know what it just pops in my mind is that,

520
00:32:12,400 --> 00:32:17,280
Speaker 2: you know, my dad was the first, you know owner

521
00:32:17,400 --> 00:32:22,280
Speaker 2: to have the Laker Girls, you know, and and you know,

522
00:32:22,320 --> 00:32:26,560
Speaker 2: people ask me, why isn't there a male dancer with

523
00:32:26,760 --> 00:32:31,320
Speaker 2: the Laker Girls. And the whole point that he made

524
00:32:31,440 --> 00:32:37,640
Speaker 2: about having a dance squad was that when the men play,

525
00:32:37,960 --> 00:32:41,560
Speaker 2: they're the center stage. When they take a break, now

526
00:32:41,600 --> 00:32:44,760
Speaker 2: it's the women's turn to be center stage. So it

527
00:32:44,800 --> 00:32:48,600
Speaker 2: was all about equal opportunity and giving women the chance

528
00:32:48,720 --> 00:32:52,240
Speaker 2: to perform in front of a huge audience. And so

529
00:32:53,240 --> 00:32:56,480
Speaker 2: one of the very first Laker Girls was a girl

530
00:32:56,520 --> 00:33:00,720
Speaker 2: by the name of Paula Abdul and because she yeah,

531
00:33:00,920 --> 00:33:04,600
Speaker 2: so this is that's how she was discovered because she

532
00:33:04,640 --> 00:33:08,160
Speaker 2: did a lot of the choreography for the Laker Girls.

533
00:33:08,280 --> 00:33:12,400
Speaker 2: And at that time, Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson, all the

534
00:33:12,480 --> 00:33:16,280
Speaker 2: Jacksons would come to Laker games and they liked the

535
00:33:16,320 --> 00:33:20,120
Speaker 2: way the Laker Girls danced, and they hired Paula to

536
00:33:20,280 --> 00:33:24,960
Speaker 2: do the choreography for their music videos and then that

537
00:33:25,080 --> 00:33:27,240
Speaker 2: led to her music career.

538
00:33:27,320 --> 00:33:30,440
Speaker 3: So it's it's stuff like that that like it was.

539
00:33:30,480 --> 00:33:34,080
Speaker 2: Just kind of the whole world came together for Laker

540
00:33:34,200 --> 00:33:37,200
Speaker 2: games and the show. It's a show, it's showtime.

541
00:33:37,680 --> 00:33:41,640
Speaker 1: It's like when I went there, I didn't realize they

542
00:33:41,680 --> 00:33:45,080
Speaker 1: don't even dim. They dim all the crowd. It's like

543
00:33:45,120 --> 00:33:47,080
Speaker 1: one of the only places that does that because they

544
00:33:47,080 --> 00:33:50,360
Speaker 1: want everything on the show. It's like the damn circuses

545
00:33:50,400 --> 00:33:52,160
Speaker 1: in town or something you get excited with.

546
00:33:52,320 --> 00:33:53,600
Speaker 2: Like boxing matches.

547
00:33:53,640 --> 00:33:54,360
Speaker 3: That's what they do.

548
00:33:54,480 --> 00:33:57,000
Speaker 2: It's like, this is what you're everybody focused on.

549
00:33:57,200 --> 00:34:00,400
Speaker 1: How cool is that that story about doctor b Us

550
00:34:00,800 --> 00:34:04,680
Speaker 1: giving the girls the whole floor. This is their time

551
00:34:04,720 --> 00:34:07,360
Speaker 1: to shine. Hey, the boys go sit down and get

552
00:34:07,400 --> 00:34:09,640
Speaker 1: some water. Let the girls get a little shine exactly.

553
00:34:10,040 --> 00:34:14,640
Speaker 2: And that's where it's like, like, why are like, and

554
00:34:14,840 --> 00:34:19,719
Speaker 2: you know, we do pay the girls to money to rehearse,

555
00:34:19,800 --> 00:34:20,640
Speaker 2: to do everything.

556
00:34:21,160 --> 00:34:24,880
Speaker 3: It's the teams that you know, don't do that that

557
00:34:25,360 --> 00:34:25,680
Speaker 3: I think.

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00:34:25,719 --> 00:34:30,560
Speaker 2: It's it's not fair to you know, because girls, you know,

559
00:34:30,840 --> 00:34:34,240
Speaker 2: they they have to sacrifice to be there, to practice,

560
00:34:34,280 --> 00:34:36,239
Speaker 2: to be a Laker girl, so they should.

561
00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:37,479
Speaker 3: Be compensated for their time.

562
00:34:38,040 --> 00:34:43,279
Speaker 2: And so but why they started canceling the girls the

563
00:34:43,320 --> 00:34:47,319
Speaker 2: women's dance teams is I don't understand it because it's

564
00:34:47,640 --> 00:34:48,560
Speaker 2: it's equal time.

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00:34:48,840 --> 00:34:52,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've never even thought of that. That's like such

566
00:34:52,600 --> 00:34:56,359
Speaker 1: a great perspective. How how hard was it to leave

567
00:34:56,440 --> 00:34:58,600
Speaker 1: the Forum and go to the Staples Center.

568
00:34:58,719 --> 00:34:59,640
Speaker 3: Oh, it's awful.

569
00:35:00,239 --> 00:35:03,080
Speaker 2: It was like I remember getting in a fight with

570
00:35:03,160 --> 00:35:08,040
Speaker 2: a fan who said, I don't want to drive down

571
00:35:08,160 --> 00:35:11,520
Speaker 2: to downtown La. I want my same seed at the Forum,

572
00:35:11,920 --> 00:35:14,560
Speaker 2: And I said, well, you could have your same seed

573
00:35:14,600 --> 00:35:16,879
Speaker 2: at the Forum, but the Lakers won't be there.

574
00:35:17,920 --> 00:35:18,840
Speaker 1: So it's.

575
00:35:21,040 --> 00:35:23,960
Speaker 2: It's like and when you when the fans are upset

576
00:35:24,040 --> 00:35:28,000
Speaker 2: with a building, like the hot dogs taste bad. They

577
00:35:28,040 --> 00:35:33,000
Speaker 2: complain about everything, right, and so I recommend everybody moving

578
00:35:33,040 --> 00:35:38,840
Speaker 2: into a new arena that win a championship that first season,

579
00:35:39,280 --> 00:35:42,560
Speaker 2: because then all the complaining goes away, so that you know,

580
00:35:42,760 --> 00:35:46,640
Speaker 2: of course, that's exactly what happened. Lakers had hired Phil

581
00:35:46,719 --> 00:35:49,800
Speaker 2: Jackson as the coach, we had Shack, we had Kobe,

582
00:35:50,080 --> 00:35:53,920
Speaker 2: We won a championship, and the fans never looked back,

583
00:35:54,360 --> 00:35:57,080
Speaker 2: like you know, they were worried about losing the mojo

584
00:35:57,360 --> 00:35:59,759
Speaker 2: that the Forum had and that will never win in

585
00:35:59,800 --> 00:36:02,719
Speaker 2: an new building. Well we did, and we won three

586
00:36:02,760 --> 00:36:03,680
Speaker 2: in a row as well.

587
00:36:03,800 --> 00:36:07,080
Speaker 1: Fack, that's crazy because that's what mister Craft did. Maybe

588
00:36:07,080 --> 00:36:10,000
Speaker 1: you took another page out of your dad's book. We

589
00:36:10,040 --> 00:36:15,360
Speaker 1: won a championship after we left Foxboro Stad. This scripted,

590
00:36:15,680 --> 00:36:17,399
Speaker 1: Genie is this.

591
00:36:17,320 --> 00:36:19,520
Speaker 2: Script the universe has it.

592
00:36:20,480 --> 00:36:24,200
Speaker 1: We'll be right back after this quick break. All right,

593
00:36:24,239 --> 00:36:27,560
Speaker 1: let's let's let's jump into our segment where we go

594
00:36:27,640 --> 00:36:30,680
Speaker 1: back in the time of when the game took place

595
00:36:30,719 --> 00:36:32,960
Speaker 1: and we go over to pop culture. This game took

596
00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:37,000
Speaker 1: place October eleventh because of the COVID season. This is

597
00:36:37,040 --> 00:36:40,440
Speaker 1: weird timing. This is like literally what saved COVID was

598
00:36:40,520 --> 00:36:44,040
Speaker 1: being able to watch these damn things. Twenty twenty number

599
00:36:44,080 --> 00:36:48,640
Speaker 1: one movie, which this everyone was just glued to their

600
00:36:48,800 --> 00:36:52,400
Speaker 1: screens of some sort. But you couldn't go anywhere. This

601
00:36:52,480 --> 00:36:54,880
Speaker 1: was This was a weird year, wasn't it.

602
00:36:55,880 --> 00:36:56,200
Speaker 3: Yes?

603
00:36:56,640 --> 00:36:58,560
Speaker 1: I mean I wasn't. I had to do I was

604
00:36:58,600 --> 00:37:01,400
Speaker 1: still playing, and I remember we had to get tested

605
00:37:01,520 --> 00:37:05,319
Speaker 1: every day. You guys did the Bubble, which I think

606
00:37:05,320 --> 00:37:07,360
Speaker 1: would have been kind of cool. It'd been like summer

607
00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:11,239
Speaker 1: camp if you think about it, you know, but the

608
00:37:11,760 --> 00:37:15,200
Speaker 1: routines and stuff of the twenty twenty was so terrible.

609
00:37:16,200 --> 00:37:19,560
Speaker 1: Number one movie, The War with Grandpa? Is that? Have

610
00:37:19,640 --> 00:37:20,399
Speaker 1: we heard of that one?

611
00:37:20,719 --> 00:37:23,000
Speaker 6: The real pop culture thing here is Queen's Gambit.

612
00:37:23,520 --> 00:37:26,080
Speaker 1: That was the best one. Everyone was playing chess in

613
00:37:26,120 --> 00:37:27,000
Speaker 1: the locker room after this.

614
00:37:27,280 --> 00:37:28,280
Speaker 6: You were just playing checkers.

615
00:37:28,320 --> 00:37:30,680
Speaker 1: Then now I could play some chess.

616
00:37:31,600 --> 00:37:34,359
Speaker 6: Last Dance was released around this time too, That.

617
00:37:34,440 --> 00:37:37,120
Speaker 1: Was also that was huge. What did you think about that?

618
00:37:37,520 --> 00:37:37,799
Speaker 1: We need?

619
00:37:37,920 --> 00:37:38,080
Speaker 5: Oh?

620
00:37:38,120 --> 00:37:38,640
Speaker 3: I loved it.

621
00:37:38,840 --> 00:37:44,000
Speaker 2: I knew I knew. What happened was that last year.

622
00:37:44,520 --> 00:37:47,360
Speaker 2: They knew the Bulls were going to break up because

623
00:37:48,280 --> 00:37:51,719
Speaker 2: they had the Bulls management had told Phil Jackson, this

624
00:37:51,760 --> 00:37:53,799
Speaker 2: is your last year. We don't care if you want

625
00:37:53,840 --> 00:37:55,680
Speaker 2: a championship, You're.

626
00:37:55,480 --> 00:37:58,680
Speaker 3: Not coming back. So they knew that. They that's why

627
00:37:58,719 --> 00:37:59,400
Speaker 3: they called.

628
00:37:59,200 --> 00:38:01,720
Speaker 2: It the Last Dance. This is our last time together.

629
00:38:02,520 --> 00:38:07,680
Speaker 2: And so NBA Entertainment, being smart, said, hey, if this

630
00:38:07,719 --> 00:38:10,320
Speaker 2: is going to be your last year, can we film

631
00:38:10,360 --> 00:38:15,440
Speaker 2: everything and then we'll lock the footage in a vault

632
00:38:15,440 --> 00:38:18,279
Speaker 2: for twenty years and no one will see it so

633
00:38:18,320 --> 00:38:21,560
Speaker 2: that everybody by the time it comes out, everybody will

634
00:38:21,600 --> 00:38:26,680
Speaker 2: be retired, so there won't create any animosity because everybody

635
00:38:26,680 --> 00:38:30,319
Speaker 2: will be out of the game. And so there it

636
00:38:30,440 --> 00:38:33,560
Speaker 2: was twenty years later. You couldn't ask for better timing

637
00:38:34,400 --> 00:38:38,880
Speaker 2: for it to come out, because it was everybody wanted

638
00:38:38,920 --> 00:38:42,440
Speaker 2: to They were so hungry for something new, and it

639
00:38:42,480 --> 00:38:45,200
Speaker 2: was all footage that had never been seen before.

640
00:38:45,560 --> 00:38:48,319
Speaker 1: NBA TV. Is it what it's called? The Is that there,

641
00:38:48,560 --> 00:38:53,160
Speaker 1: NBA Entertainment, NBA Entertainment, Yeah, locked away for an a

642
00:38:53,239 --> 00:38:56,600
Speaker 1: vault twenty years. I actually recently just looked out. It's

643
00:38:56,640 --> 00:38:58,439
Speaker 1: kind of reminded me of when I wrote a letter

644
00:38:58,480 --> 00:39:02,359
Speaker 1: to myself in eighth grade that I got it when

645
00:39:02,400 --> 00:39:05,640
Speaker 1: I was going to graduate. It was like, hopefully you're

646
00:39:06,239 --> 00:39:10,160
Speaker 1: going to the NFL. You're you're graduating from the University

647
00:39:10,160 --> 00:39:14,080
Speaker 1: of Miami with the national championship, and uh, you're happy.

648
00:39:14,680 --> 00:39:18,920
Speaker 1: So Braxton Barrios is living Braxton Barrios is living my life.

649
00:39:21,960 --> 00:39:26,480
Speaker 1: Now champions you guys want it this year? Aaron Rodgers

650
00:39:26,920 --> 00:39:35,680
Speaker 1: Giannis this huh be honest, the Greek freak. Now, what

651
00:39:35,719 --> 00:39:38,799
Speaker 1: are your thoughts on all the international players, Like, there's

652
00:39:38,800 --> 00:39:41,680
Speaker 1: no American guys. Like the last NBA m v p s,

653
00:39:41,719 --> 00:39:43,280
Speaker 1: they've all been international people.

654
00:39:44,480 --> 00:39:45,640
Speaker 3: I mean it's a global.

655
00:39:47,360 --> 00:39:51,560
Speaker 1: I think as an American player, for me, like, I'm like, boys,

656
00:39:52,520 --> 00:39:55,120
Speaker 1: let's get let's get on the asphalt, let's get better.

657
00:39:55,960 --> 00:40:00,120
Speaker 1: We gotta get it going. What was life like for

658
00:40:00,200 --> 00:40:02,959
Speaker 1: Jeanie Buss in twenty twenty You were in the bubble.

659
00:40:02,680 --> 00:40:05,480
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, I mean I'd like to kind of go

660
00:40:05,640 --> 00:40:09,880
Speaker 2: back to how that season started, back to you know,

661
00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:15,680
Speaker 2: the off season of you know, twenty nineteen we made

662
00:40:15,680 --> 00:40:19,160
Speaker 2: the trade to get Anthony Davis. Yeah, so now we

663
00:40:19,200 --> 00:40:23,719
Speaker 2: have this new player that comes in the NBA.

664
00:40:24,200 --> 00:40:25,480
Speaker 3: Every couple of years.

665
00:40:25,239 --> 00:40:28,560
Speaker 2: You're required to go play overseas, and you know that's

666
00:40:28,600 --> 00:40:31,799
Speaker 2: happening in every sports league that you have to go overseas.

667
00:40:32,160 --> 00:40:36,640
Speaker 2: So this that year October of twenty nineteen, we were

668
00:40:36,680 --> 00:40:38,760
Speaker 2: scheduled to be in China.

669
00:40:39,920 --> 00:40:43,440
Speaker 1: So logistics for that as an owner.

670
00:40:43,360 --> 00:40:44,040
Speaker 3: It's awful.

671
00:40:44,280 --> 00:40:47,080
Speaker 2: I mean, it's I mean, that's that's it's a big

672
00:40:47,120 --> 00:40:48,399
Speaker 2: burden to put on a team.

673
00:40:48,400 --> 00:40:50,080
Speaker 1: You got to bring like six hundred people.

674
00:40:50,760 --> 00:40:56,719
Speaker 2: And so now we are flying over to China. The

675
00:40:56,760 --> 00:41:01,200
Speaker 2: team I stayed in la but our GM a bunch

676
00:41:01,200 --> 00:41:06,200
Speaker 2: of executives are with the team and a tweet comes

677
00:41:06,239 --> 00:41:13,040
Speaker 2: out from another executive in our league that talks about

678
00:41:13,719 --> 00:41:22,560
Speaker 2: freeing Hong Kong from you know, the rule of you know, yes,

679
00:41:23,560 --> 00:41:26,160
Speaker 2: and it didn't sit well.

680
00:41:27,520 --> 00:41:30,880
Speaker 3: And so as the team's flying.

681
00:41:30,640 --> 00:41:34,799
Speaker 2: Over there, they land and now the decision has been

682
00:41:34,840 --> 00:41:38,680
Speaker 2: made by the Chinese government that they are no longer

683
00:41:38,920 --> 00:41:43,279
Speaker 2: going to televise the games that we've flown all the

684
00:41:43,280 --> 00:41:48,200
Speaker 2: way over there. They did allow us to televise them

685
00:41:48,280 --> 00:41:51,480
Speaker 2: back to our country, but that's the whole reason you

686
00:41:51,560 --> 00:41:55,640
Speaker 2: go is to like celebrate, you know, the NBA and China.

687
00:41:55,880 --> 00:42:00,640
Speaker 2: And now they they you know, took down. There was

688
00:42:00,680 --> 00:42:03,560
Speaker 2: no mention of the games. They still allowed us to

689
00:42:03,560 --> 00:42:07,440
Speaker 2: play the games. They even thought about not allowing fans

690
00:42:07,480 --> 00:42:11,640
Speaker 2: to attend the games. So it was very intense because

691
00:42:11,680 --> 00:42:15,000
Speaker 2: our players kind of they didn't understand what was going

692
00:42:15,040 --> 00:42:19,080
Speaker 2: on because there was there was literally they watched them

693
00:42:19,160 --> 00:42:23,240
Speaker 2: take down all the banners of the players, the advertisements.

694
00:42:23,480 --> 00:42:25,840
Speaker 3: It was. It was intense and.

695
00:42:26,920 --> 00:42:32,400
Speaker 2: You know, thankfully they got back safely. But during that time,

696
00:42:32,560 --> 00:42:38,200
Speaker 2: Anthony Davis got injured, injured his thumb, and you know,

697
00:42:38,280 --> 00:42:41,840
Speaker 2: so the season didn't get off to the right start.

698
00:42:43,440 --> 00:42:46,960
Speaker 2: Once we got back home, the team did start to

699
00:42:47,080 --> 00:42:52,160
Speaker 2: gel and you know, we were doing really well, and

700
00:42:52,920 --> 00:42:59,640
Speaker 2: for me personally, in December of twenty nineteen, my mother

701
00:42:59,680 --> 00:43:06,240
Speaker 2: passed away and very suddenly. And I remember them calling

702
00:43:06,280 --> 00:43:09,200
Speaker 2: me and saying because she was an assisted living and

703
00:43:09,239 --> 00:43:12,319
Speaker 2: she's they said, we're going to transport your mom to

704
00:43:12,400 --> 00:43:19,440
Speaker 2: the hospital because she's having trouble breathing it and she

705
00:43:19,600 --> 00:43:22,080
Speaker 2: went so quickly, like I couldn't even get.

706
00:43:21,920 --> 00:43:22,800
Speaker 3: There in time.

707
00:43:23,360 --> 00:43:26,359
Speaker 2: And it makes me think that that might have been

708
00:43:26,400 --> 00:43:30,080
Speaker 2: the beginning of COVID, right, because they talked about how

709
00:43:30,120 --> 00:43:32,399
Speaker 2: people all of a sudden they can't breathe, and then

710
00:43:32,440 --> 00:43:37,960
Speaker 2: they passed like that, and so that was, you know,

711
00:43:38,480 --> 00:43:42,600
Speaker 2: hard on me. Then a couple of weeks later, David

712
00:43:42,640 --> 00:43:46,720
Speaker 2: Stern passed away, and then a couple of weeks later,

713
00:43:47,080 --> 00:43:51,880
Speaker 2: Kobe and Gig passed away. So this all happened in

714
00:43:51,880 --> 00:43:56,880
Speaker 2: the matter of December and January, and it was just

715
00:43:57,040 --> 00:44:02,480
Speaker 2: really difficult to process all of what happened. When Kobe passed,

716
00:44:03,600 --> 00:44:06,600
Speaker 2: we asked the league if if we get you know,

717
00:44:06,719 --> 00:44:09,360
Speaker 2: we had a game the next day against the Clippers,

718
00:44:10,080 --> 00:44:14,840
Speaker 2: and our organization was in such shock. We couldn't function

719
00:44:15,719 --> 00:44:18,960
Speaker 2: and we had to bring in grief counselors. It was

720
00:44:19,520 --> 00:44:23,120
Speaker 2: it just what I what I can't get over was

721
00:44:23,320 --> 00:44:27,359
Speaker 2: how our fans they didn't know where to go and

722
00:44:27,440 --> 00:44:32,400
Speaker 2: so they they just went to the arena because everybody

723
00:44:32,480 --> 00:44:36,160
Speaker 2: needed to be together, and it was it was like

724
00:44:36,200 --> 00:44:39,480
Speaker 2: we were lost, like we just it just it was

725
00:44:39,520 --> 00:44:46,839
Speaker 2: so hard to comprehend this loss. And you know, I

726
00:44:46,840 --> 00:44:50,399
Speaker 2: mean it's still hard to accept five years later, but.

727
00:44:52,719 --> 00:44:53,480
Speaker 3: You know it, it.

728
00:44:53,920 --> 00:44:59,360
Speaker 2: Just really struck me how important the team. We started

729
00:44:59,360 --> 00:45:03,520
Speaker 2: this whole comversation about community and what a team means

730
00:45:03,560 --> 00:45:08,040
Speaker 2: to the fans, and it showed me this is like

731
00:45:08,200 --> 00:45:13,000
Speaker 2: our strength, this is what brings everybody together, is under

732
00:45:13,080 --> 00:45:17,400
Speaker 2: the purple and gold umbrella, and how they process the

733
00:45:17,440 --> 00:45:22,080
Speaker 2: good times when we're winning, but also process the devastating

734
00:45:22,200 --> 00:45:29,239
Speaker 2: news and you know, the Clippers were very nice and

735
00:45:29,360 --> 00:45:33,640
Speaker 2: agreed to postpone the game. But then we eventually had

736
00:45:33,680 --> 00:45:38,720
Speaker 2: to get back to basketball. So we played January thirty first,

737
00:45:39,719 --> 00:45:44,960
Speaker 2: and Lebron addressed the crowd and he gave such a

738
00:45:45,000 --> 00:45:49,640
Speaker 2: moving speech about how we have to lift each other

739
00:45:49,840 --> 00:45:53,520
Speaker 2: up and that through the game of basketball is how

740
00:45:53,560 --> 00:45:59,440
Speaker 2: we cope with our grief, and that he said, I

741
00:45:59,560 --> 00:46:03,520
Speaker 2: have I have big shoulders, Let me carry you, let

742
00:46:03,560 --> 00:46:06,640
Speaker 2: me climb on board, like we're going to get through

743
00:46:06,640 --> 00:46:07,280
Speaker 2: this together.

744
00:46:08,239 --> 00:46:10,120
Speaker 3: And you know, that just.

745
00:46:11,640 --> 00:46:16,720
Speaker 2: Made you know, made me realize his ability as a leader,

746
00:46:16,880 --> 00:46:20,120
Speaker 2: and for him to articulate all of what we were

747
00:46:20,160 --> 00:46:23,760
Speaker 2: feeling and what we needed to hear was beautiful.

748
00:46:24,200 --> 00:46:27,239
Speaker 3: And you know, so we get back to basketball.

749
00:46:27,400 --> 00:46:31,160
Speaker 2: We're doing really well. We won nine of the next

750
00:46:31,200 --> 00:46:37,839
Speaker 2: ten games, and you know, we're looking great. And then

751
00:46:38,160 --> 00:46:41,240
Speaker 2: at the beginning of March, you know, you're hearing stuff

752
00:46:41,320 --> 00:46:43,359
Speaker 2: about COVID now.

753
00:46:43,200 --> 00:46:46,279
Speaker 3: And you know kind of what's happening, and when you

754
00:46:46,480 --> 00:46:47,000
Speaker 3: are in a.

755
00:46:48,760 --> 00:46:52,960
Speaker 2: Business where you interface with the public, you know that

756
00:46:53,080 --> 00:46:57,200
Speaker 2: you bring people together. We were monitoring it very closely.

757
00:46:58,080 --> 00:47:01,440
Speaker 2: But then there was you know, famous press conference with

758
00:47:01,560 --> 00:47:06,560
Speaker 2: Rudy Gobert where he kind of challenged Covid to come

759
00:47:06,560 --> 00:47:10,360
Speaker 2: get him, and sure enough, the next day the league

760
00:47:10,440 --> 00:47:13,480
Speaker 2: shut down. And at first it was going to be

761
00:47:13,520 --> 00:47:16,400
Speaker 2: like for a week, you know, until we figure this out.

762
00:47:16,480 --> 00:47:19,400
Speaker 2: All everyone thought, yeah, and then it became two weeks.

763
00:47:20,000 --> 00:47:24,520
Speaker 2: Then it became you know, it was like, are we

764
00:47:24,560 --> 00:47:29,120
Speaker 2: ever going to finish this season? And as time went on,

765
00:47:29,800 --> 00:47:35,160
Speaker 2: the isolation was unbearable because we were dealing with the

766
00:47:35,280 --> 00:47:39,640
Speaker 2: loss of Kobe and Gig And I remember I would

767
00:47:39,680 --> 00:47:44,000
Speaker 2: wake up and I'd been crying in my sleep.

768
00:47:44,080 --> 00:47:44,960
Speaker 3: I didn't even know that.

769
00:47:45,040 --> 00:47:49,480
Speaker 2: Was physically possible, but it was just so the sadness

770
00:47:49,640 --> 00:47:54,360
Speaker 2: was was so overbearing, and the idea that we couldn't

771
00:47:54,560 --> 00:47:58,279
Speaker 2: come together as a community, it was like the total opposite.

772
00:47:58,320 --> 00:48:02,520
Speaker 2: We had to isolate and be disconnected. And then of

773
00:48:02,560 --> 00:48:06,840
Speaker 2: course zooms and you know, thankfully they that gave you

774
00:48:06,920 --> 00:48:10,000
Speaker 2: a little bit of comfort to see other people and

775
00:48:10,520 --> 00:48:14,080
Speaker 2: talk about how you were feeling, and you know, the

776
00:48:14,160 --> 00:48:19,160
Speaker 2: last dance and you know, just things that you know,

777
00:48:19,280 --> 00:48:22,560
Speaker 2: sports could you know, soothe you take you out of

778
00:48:22,640 --> 00:48:25,640
Speaker 2: your head. So then the league came up with the

779
00:48:25,680 --> 00:48:32,840
Speaker 2: idea of salvaging the season by creating this bubble. It

780
00:48:33,000 --> 00:48:38,560
Speaker 2: really was brilliant, but it was a huge sacrifice because

781
00:48:38,600 --> 00:48:43,879
Speaker 2: now you're taking everybody away from their families and they

782
00:48:43,920 --> 00:48:46,560
Speaker 2: have to commit to being We were in the bubble

783
00:48:46,600 --> 00:48:50,600
Speaker 2: for like ninety days, like that's months and months, and

784
00:48:51,960 --> 00:48:54,760
Speaker 2: that's a huge sacrifice that the players had to make.

785
00:48:55,480 --> 00:48:59,399
Speaker 2: And they were able to figure out, Okay, we'll take

786
00:48:59,440 --> 00:49:03,040
Speaker 2: the twenty two teams out of thirty that looked like

787
00:49:03,120 --> 00:49:05,439
Speaker 2: they were going to make the playoffs, and then we'll

788
00:49:05,560 --> 00:49:08,920
Speaker 2: created this schedule and you know, I mean, it was

789
00:49:09,080 --> 00:49:13,240
Speaker 2: it was something, and you know, the players union agreed

790
00:49:13,320 --> 00:49:19,759
Speaker 2: to it, and we took off for Orlando, and so

791
00:49:20,400 --> 00:49:24,279
Speaker 2: you know, they get that going because now when they

792
00:49:24,280 --> 00:49:27,320
Speaker 2: get to Orlando, they've got a sequester for two weeks

793
00:49:27,400 --> 00:49:30,719
Speaker 2: before they can all come together. I mean, it's just

794
00:49:31,000 --> 00:49:34,040
Speaker 2: it was so complicated how they did it, but it

795
00:49:34,080 --> 00:49:36,799
Speaker 2: was it was the only way to make sure that

796
00:49:36,880 --> 00:49:40,600
Speaker 2: you would have a pristine, you know, area that would

797
00:49:40,640 --> 00:49:45,320
Speaker 2: not get infected. And so they started playing and doing

798
00:49:45,360 --> 00:49:52,040
Speaker 2: all of that, and then there was a police shooting

799
00:49:52,360 --> 00:49:58,080
Speaker 2: in Wisconsin of a person by the name of Jacob Blake, and.

800
00:49:58,040 --> 00:50:00,320
Speaker 3: It was again another.

801
00:50:02,120 --> 00:50:07,520
Speaker 2: You know, seemingly you know, police shooting for no reason

802
00:50:08,239 --> 00:50:16,240
Speaker 2: for you know, and everything stopped again. The players wanted

803
00:50:16,280 --> 00:50:19,359
Speaker 2: to decide if they wanted to continue to play or not.

804
00:50:20,160 --> 00:50:22,879
Speaker 2: And mind you, they're worried about their families back home,

805
00:50:23,520 --> 00:50:26,839
Speaker 2: and this was exactly the kind of things that they

806
00:50:26,840 --> 00:50:33,799
Speaker 2: were worried about. And so the bubble was fragile, and

807
00:50:34,160 --> 00:50:37,400
Speaker 2: the players asked to meet with all the governors on

808
00:50:37,440 --> 00:50:42,200
Speaker 2: a zoom call, and you know, it was a conversation

809
00:50:42,360 --> 00:50:45,280
Speaker 2: that needed to be had in order for the players

810
00:50:45,320 --> 00:50:50,080
Speaker 2: to feel that we were partners with them in you know,

811
00:50:50,400 --> 00:50:56,400
Speaker 2: wanting things to change. And you know, the players agreed

812
00:50:56,440 --> 00:51:00,520
Speaker 2: to resume playing again. So after another four days break,

813
00:51:00,640 --> 00:51:06,200
Speaker 2: we came back and played the games, and the Lakers

814
00:51:06,239 --> 00:51:11,680
Speaker 2: were playing great, and the playoffs started, and I kept saying, well,

815
00:51:11,719 --> 00:51:14,839
Speaker 2: I'll come to the bubble if if it looks like we,

816
00:51:15,400 --> 00:51:19,040
Speaker 2: you know, might go far on the playoffs. So eventually

817
00:51:19,280 --> 00:51:24,160
Speaker 2: I joined the team in Orlando and we kept winning

818
00:51:24,719 --> 00:51:29,440
Speaker 2: and we found ourselves in the championship against the Miami

819
00:51:29,520 --> 00:51:34,200
Speaker 2: Heat with Jimmy Butler and of course my idol.

820
00:51:34,239 --> 00:51:35,400
Speaker 3: Pat Riley.

821
00:51:36,120 --> 00:51:39,120
Speaker 2: And you know, I had mixed feelings about having to

822
00:51:39,160 --> 00:51:43,319
Speaker 2: go against Pat because you know, he's kind of.

823
00:51:43,280 --> 00:51:47,759
Speaker 1: Like family, like family, right We'll be right back after

824
00:51:47,800 --> 00:51:51,839
Speaker 1: this quick break. Let's let's jump into it and break

825
00:51:51,840 --> 00:51:54,839
Speaker 1: down the teams real quick and let us jump into

826
00:51:54,880 --> 00:51:55,239
Speaker 1: the game.

827
00:51:55,600 --> 00:51:58,440
Speaker 7: Also, the Miami Heat went forty four and twenty nine

828
00:51:58,440 --> 00:52:02,000
Speaker 7: this year. If they're twelve season't under Eric Spolstra. This

829
00:52:02,160 --> 00:52:05,359
Speaker 7: was their first season without Dwayne Wade since the two

830
00:52:05,360 --> 00:52:07,279
Speaker 7: thousand and two two thousand and three season and the

831
00:52:07,280 --> 00:52:09,640
Speaker 7: prior season back in July twenty nineteen, they traded for

832
00:52:09,680 --> 00:52:13,640
Speaker 7: Jimmy Butler. This was also Tyler Hero's rookie season. Tyler

833
00:52:13,680 --> 00:52:16,719
Speaker 7: hero Hey culture pat Rise.

834
00:52:16,760 --> 00:52:19,360
Speaker 6: The main takeaway from the Heat here.

835
00:52:19,800 --> 00:52:22,120
Speaker 1: What's a fun pat Riley's story? When you were probably

836
00:52:22,160 --> 00:52:24,000
Speaker 1: like a little kid. But how was he as a coach?

837
00:52:24,440 --> 00:52:28,160
Speaker 2: Well, you know, he really kind of backed his way

838
00:52:28,200 --> 00:52:30,560
Speaker 2: into being a coach. I mean, he wanted to be

839
00:52:30,600 --> 00:52:34,960
Speaker 2: a coach, but he was. You know what happened was

840
00:52:34,640 --> 00:52:39,200
Speaker 2: he was he was the color commentator with chaquern on

841
00:52:39,280 --> 00:52:43,760
Speaker 2: the broadcast. We had hired a coach who had an

842
00:52:43,840 --> 00:52:48,080
Speaker 2: accident at the start of the season, so his assistant

843
00:52:48,120 --> 00:52:52,680
Speaker 2: coach had to take over for him, and at that

844
00:52:52,880 --> 00:52:55,240
Speaker 2: time he only had one assistant coach.

845
00:52:55,480 --> 00:52:57,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, this was the olden days.

846
00:52:57,640 --> 00:53:03,040
Speaker 2: And they needed to phill the assistant coach spot. So

847
00:53:03,400 --> 00:53:07,359
Speaker 2: Paul west Head said, how about pat Riley Because he's

848
00:53:07,400 --> 00:53:10,480
Speaker 2: been with the team, he's watched practice, he was at

849
00:53:10,520 --> 00:53:11,280
Speaker 2: training camp.

850
00:53:12,440 --> 00:53:13,719
Speaker 3: He would be a good fill in.

851
00:53:13,880 --> 00:53:18,879
Speaker 2: So Pat became the assistant coach under west Head. We

852
00:53:18,920 --> 00:53:22,840
Speaker 2: won a championship that year, but then west Head wanted

853
00:53:22,880 --> 00:53:27,120
Speaker 2: to change the offense. Magic Johnson didn't like that. West

854
00:53:27,120 --> 00:53:29,839
Speaker 2: Head was let go and pat Riley became.

855
00:53:29,840 --> 00:53:30,600
Speaker 3: The head coach.

856
00:53:31,280 --> 00:53:35,280
Speaker 2: And I'll never forget because you know, I'd known Pat

857
00:53:35,320 --> 00:53:40,399
Speaker 2: when he was, you know, just the radio guy. And

858
00:53:41,920 --> 00:53:45,480
Speaker 2: I was walking down the hallway one day and his

859
00:53:45,600 --> 00:53:49,160
Speaker 2: nickname was Ryle's, like that's what you call, like, hey Ryles.

860
00:53:50,239 --> 00:53:56,359
Speaker 2: He stopped stop me, He said, call me coach. I'm

861
00:53:56,400 --> 00:53:59,440
Speaker 2: coach now. And that's when he like started slicking back

862
00:53:59,520 --> 00:54:03,200
Speaker 2: his hand, you know, like he knew, like everybody knows

863
00:54:03,239 --> 00:54:07,400
Speaker 2: me as this, I have to like now command respect

864
00:54:07,600 --> 00:54:10,840
Speaker 2: as the coach, So everybody needs to think of me

865
00:54:10,880 --> 00:54:13,720
Speaker 2: as coach. So from then on I called him coach.

866
00:54:14,200 --> 00:54:17,439
Speaker 1: So he went, Gordon, getto From then on, ye, slick back,

867
00:54:17,600 --> 00:54:18,839
Speaker 1: is he the best dressed.

868
00:54:18,520 --> 00:54:21,600
Speaker 2: Guy in It's like he was like the most handsome.

869
00:54:22,000 --> 00:54:23,560
Speaker 2: That'stra I mean he was.

870
00:54:24,320 --> 00:54:25,959
Speaker 3: He was La for sure.

871
00:54:26,200 --> 00:54:34,560
Speaker 1: Freaking pat Riley Ryles. I'm not called. I'm calling. Let's

872
00:54:34,640 --> 00:54:36,799
Speaker 1: jump into the the Lakers.

873
00:54:37,200 --> 00:54:38,680
Speaker 6: They went fifty to nineteen.

874
00:54:38,840 --> 00:54:41,799
Speaker 7: This is their first season under Frank Vogel, second season

875
00:54:41,880 --> 00:54:46,120
Speaker 7: of the Lebron James era in Los Angeles. In the

876
00:54:46,160 --> 00:54:48,760
Speaker 7: off season, as you mentioned July twenty nineteen, the Lakers

877
00:54:48,800 --> 00:54:50,279
Speaker 7: trader for Anthony Davis.

878
00:54:50,719 --> 00:54:53,919
Speaker 1: What makes Lebron special? You told the story about him

879
00:54:54,160 --> 00:54:59,640
Speaker 1: and his leadership post Kobe after that through this run,

880
00:55:00,680 --> 00:55:02,920
Speaker 1: what when did you say, Like this guy is a

881
00:55:03,000 --> 00:55:06,080
Speaker 1: bad man in a great way, like bad man meaning

882
00:55:06,120 --> 00:55:06,520
Speaker 1: good man.

883
00:55:06,960 --> 00:55:12,279
Speaker 2: Just watching him work like in practice, I mean, it

884
00:55:12,480 --> 00:55:17,879
Speaker 2: just it doesn't it's it's hard to comprehend what he does, yeah,

885
00:55:18,080 --> 00:55:20,520
Speaker 2: at his age, and that he's hungry for it, and

886
00:55:20,520 --> 00:55:23,719
Speaker 2: that he works so hard because there's no shortcuts for

887
00:55:23,760 --> 00:55:28,920
Speaker 2: this guy. It's Kobe esque, yeah, but in a different way.

888
00:55:29,160 --> 00:55:35,919
Speaker 2: You know, Like he he's just I mean, he's his

889
00:55:35,920 --> 00:55:39,359
Speaker 2: his physique, he's like a train. Like he's just so

890
00:55:39,440 --> 00:55:43,279
Speaker 2: strong you can't stop him. There's if I saw him

891
00:55:43,360 --> 00:55:46,040
Speaker 2: coming at me, I'd be like, oh my god, scream.

892
00:55:46,640 --> 00:55:47,960
Speaker 3: I'd be sc sick, Harry.

893
00:55:48,640 --> 00:55:51,960
Speaker 1: I mean, that's probably what ninety percent of the league says, exactly,

894
00:55:56,000 --> 00:55:57,879
Speaker 1: what's the first thing that comes to your mind when

895
00:55:57,880 --> 00:55:59,319
Speaker 1: you think of this team?

896
00:55:59,600 --> 00:56:04,440
Speaker 2: Well, here's here's you know, I will say that I

897
00:56:04,680 --> 00:56:07,560
Speaker 2: kind of came from the philosophy, you know, kind of

898
00:56:07,600 --> 00:56:14,040
Speaker 2: inspired by Phil Jackson that when a team wins a championship,

899
00:56:14,920 --> 00:56:21,000
Speaker 2: they should have the right to defend their championship. And

900
00:56:22,400 --> 00:56:26,759
Speaker 2: we didn't do that and I regret that. And one

901
00:56:26,800 --> 00:56:30,480
Speaker 2: of the players on the list that Markuith Morris just

902
00:56:31,760 --> 00:56:35,279
Speaker 2: rejoined the team in the in.

903
00:56:35,239 --> 00:56:36,600
Speaker 3: The trade for Luca.

904
00:56:37,120 --> 00:56:40,880
Speaker 2: He was one of the players that came and I

905
00:56:41,320 --> 00:56:44,480
Speaker 2: told him, I said, I'm really sorry that we didn't

906
00:56:44,520 --> 00:56:48,319
Speaker 2: get a chance for you to defend that championship. And

907
00:56:48,600 --> 00:56:49,960
Speaker 2: I'm really glad you're here.

908
00:56:50,760 --> 00:56:52,560
Speaker 3: And you know, so.

909
00:56:54,280 --> 00:56:58,000
Speaker 2: We just you know, obviously didn't win a championship the

910
00:56:58,040 --> 00:56:59,040
Speaker 2: following year.

911
00:57:00,680 --> 00:57:05,760
Speaker 1: But that's still like the year you guys had going

912
00:57:05,840 --> 00:57:10,440
Speaker 1: into this. It's like storybook ending stuff. Yeah, this is

913
00:57:10,480 --> 00:57:11,399
Speaker 1: storybook ending.

914
00:57:12,400 --> 00:57:17,680
Speaker 2: LA needed that need it. LA was heartbroken over the

915
00:57:17,720 --> 00:57:20,720
Speaker 2: loss of Kobe and this and you know, there was

916
00:57:21,320 --> 00:57:26,520
Speaker 2: one play that AD won a game I think against

917
00:57:26,640 --> 00:57:30,480
Speaker 2: in the Denver series where he hit a shot at

918
00:57:30,520 --> 00:57:35,080
Speaker 2: the buzzer and he screamed Kobe's name and everybody heard

919
00:57:35,080 --> 00:57:37,640
Speaker 2: it because there was no fans, but everybody could hear

920
00:57:37,680 --> 00:57:40,360
Speaker 2: it on the microphone, picked it up and it was

921
00:57:41,000 --> 00:57:42,040
Speaker 2: That's how we all felt.

922
00:57:42,120 --> 00:57:43,200
Speaker 3: This was for Kobe.

923
00:57:43,720 --> 00:57:46,880
Speaker 1: What does Kobe mean to Lakers organization.

924
00:57:47,080 --> 00:57:54,120
Speaker 2: Because he he came and played twenty years for one team.

925
00:57:54,360 --> 00:57:58,480
Speaker 2: That made him very special because he could have easily

926
00:57:59,200 --> 00:58:03,520
Speaker 2: been traded and chased rings or whatever. But he went

927
00:58:03,560 --> 00:58:08,760
Speaker 2: through one rebuilding period after winning three, you know, we

928
00:58:08,800 --> 00:58:13,640
Speaker 2: traded Shack to Miami, kind of hit bottom for a

929
00:58:13,680 --> 00:58:17,480
Speaker 2: couple of seasons, but then pau Gasol came and he

930
00:58:17,600 --> 00:58:21,000
Speaker 2: won two more. So I think that that really endears

931
00:58:21,040 --> 00:58:24,880
Speaker 2: a player to fans because they stick with it, they

932
00:58:24,920 --> 00:58:29,160
Speaker 2: stick with their team, and you know, he loved the Lakers,

933
00:58:29,240 --> 00:58:32,840
Speaker 2: and the Laker fans loved him. And you know, I

934
00:58:32,960 --> 00:58:38,840
Speaker 2: talk about how glad that we had the opportunity because

935
00:58:38,840 --> 00:58:42,400
Speaker 2: we retired both his numbers. He wore eight and twenty four,

936
00:58:43,080 --> 00:58:46,760
Speaker 2: And if you just took his career as number eight

937
00:58:46,960 --> 00:58:50,600
Speaker 2: in his career while wearing twenty four, both of those

938
00:58:50,680 --> 00:58:53,320
Speaker 2: players would have gone in the Hall of fame. So

939
00:58:53,760 --> 00:58:57,720
Speaker 2: we decided to retire both his numbers, and we had

940
00:58:57,760 --> 00:59:03,560
Speaker 2: an opportunity to celebrate him while he was still alive.

941
00:59:04,240 --> 00:59:06,520
Speaker 3: And I know that.

942
00:59:08,920 --> 00:59:13,120
Speaker 2: He Kobe knew how much we loved him and appreciated him.

943
00:59:13,600 --> 00:59:18,200
Speaker 1: What's your favorite memory of him? Your story? Like you know,

944
00:59:18,240 --> 00:59:20,480
Speaker 1: what's what's the one thing like your happy place?

945
00:59:21,400 --> 00:59:25,600
Speaker 2: You know? He he was somebody that you know, after

946
00:59:25,680 --> 00:59:31,520
Speaker 2: my father passed away, he saw that I struggled, and

947
00:59:32,080 --> 00:59:36,480
Speaker 2: you know, he was always trying to cheer me on.

948
00:59:37,480 --> 00:59:42,640
Speaker 2: And you know, I was, you know, with Phil Jackson

949
00:59:42,760 --> 00:59:43,840
Speaker 2: for fifteen years.

950
00:59:44,640 --> 00:59:48,240
Speaker 3: And when Phil took.

951
00:59:48,040 --> 00:59:51,200
Speaker 2: The job to go to the New York Knicks, the

952
00:59:51,360 --> 00:59:56,200
Speaker 2: NBA literally made us sign a you know, an agreement

953
00:59:56,480 --> 00:59:59,680
Speaker 2: that he and I would not talk about basketball because

954
00:59:59,680 --> 01:00:05,480
Speaker 2: there cahoots, right and you know, but when two brothers

955
01:00:05,520 --> 01:00:10,160
Speaker 2: are running two different teams or you know, it's something

956
01:00:10,280 --> 01:00:15,400
Speaker 2: about the male female relationship, which I don't know how

957
01:00:15,440 --> 01:00:20,000
Speaker 2: fair that is, but anyway, that kind of became that

958
01:00:20,120 --> 01:00:24,160
Speaker 2: kind of eroded my relationship because he was in New York,

959
01:00:24,240 --> 01:00:24,920
Speaker 2: I was in LA.

960
01:00:25,600 --> 01:00:32,560
Speaker 3: But when Phil laughed, he said, you know, I want.

961
01:00:32,360 --> 01:00:35,600
Speaker 2: You to know I can't help you anymore like you

962
01:00:35,640 --> 01:00:40,520
Speaker 2: can't call me and bounce ideas off of me. But

963
01:00:40,640 --> 01:00:44,520
Speaker 2: you always have Kobe, and Kobe will always have your back.

964
01:00:45,400 --> 01:00:49,320
Speaker 2: You know you can trust Kobe, and you know Kobe

965
01:00:49,480 --> 01:00:54,200
Speaker 2: was that friend for me and you can't replace that.

966
01:00:54,600 --> 01:00:57,880
Speaker 1: No, sorry for bringing it up.

967
01:00:58,080 --> 01:00:58,640
Speaker 3: No, that's okay.

968
01:00:58,720 --> 01:01:00,760
Speaker 2: I love to talk about Kobe always.

969
01:01:01,320 --> 01:01:03,400
Speaker 1: I can see how much you care about him through

970
01:01:04,240 --> 01:01:07,360
Speaker 1: how you answer your questions and how big of an

971
01:01:07,360 --> 01:01:13,560
Speaker 1: impact his career had with the Lakers. It's it's it's

972
01:01:13,720 --> 01:01:16,880
Speaker 1: very touching. It's crazy. Everyone remembers that day, you know,

973
01:01:17,040 --> 01:01:19,760
Speaker 1: if you're a sport fan or any kind of fan, anyone,

974
01:01:19,800 --> 01:01:20,919
Speaker 1: everyone remembers that day.

975
01:01:21,360 --> 01:01:26,240
Speaker 2: Well, in Luca's press conference once he was traded here,

976
01:01:27,120 --> 01:01:31,040
Speaker 2: he said this, the only thing that would make this

977
01:01:31,200 --> 01:01:33,640
Speaker 2: better is if Kobe and GG were here.

978
01:01:34,040 --> 01:01:39,680
Speaker 1: Yeah. So even he he understands, Yeah, he understands. You know,

979
01:01:40,880 --> 01:01:44,840
Speaker 1: the Lakers, you guys have so many great players, and

980
01:01:45,360 --> 01:01:48,080
Speaker 1: I you don't want to miss any of them. We

981
01:01:48,120 --> 01:01:50,400
Speaker 1: got to do like a word association. We got to

982
01:01:50,440 --> 01:01:52,720
Speaker 1: do to word association. First word that comes up to

983
01:01:52,760 --> 01:01:57,560
Speaker 1: your mind when we bring up a player, Chack goofy, goofy.

984
01:01:58,080 --> 01:02:00,600
Speaker 2: He loved to like play ranks.

985
01:02:00,720 --> 01:02:04,080
Speaker 3: Do you know he just it's like a big kid.

986
01:02:03,960 --> 01:02:09,160
Speaker 1: Kareem brilliant mind, brilliant magic.

987
01:02:10,240 --> 01:02:13,680
Speaker 2: His smile could light up you know, los Angeles like

988
01:02:13,760 --> 01:02:16,040
Speaker 2: he he.

989
01:02:15,320 --> 01:02:18,560
Speaker 3: He and Los Angeles are soulmates.

990
01:02:19,240 --> 01:02:27,680
Speaker 1: Lebron tough, Phil Zen, your dad.

991
01:02:28,800 --> 01:02:33,680
Speaker 2: He loved this team, He loved this He's just synonymous.

992
01:02:33,800 --> 01:02:37,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, synonymous. Yeah, let's break down this game.

993
01:02:37,520 --> 01:02:37,760
Speaker 2: Okay.

994
01:02:38,440 --> 01:02:38,560
Speaker 1: Oh.

995
01:02:38,600 --> 01:02:41,560
Speaker 7: The season was suspended on March eleventh, twenty twenty, after

996
01:02:41,560 --> 01:02:44,040
Speaker 7: all one hundred and forty one days. The season returned

997
01:02:44,320 --> 01:02:47,040
Speaker 7: July thirty first in Walt Disney, twenty two teams went

998
01:02:47,080 --> 01:02:49,880
Speaker 7: to the Bubble. The Bubble consisted of thirteen Western Conference

999
01:02:49,880 --> 01:02:52,480
Speaker 7: teams and nine Eastern Conference teams. They would play eight

1000
01:02:52,480 --> 01:02:55,480
Speaker 7: regular season games to nail down playoff seedings. And there

1001
01:02:55,520 --> 01:02:58,200
Speaker 7: was also a play in game on August thirteenth between

1002
01:02:58,240 --> 01:03:00,240
Speaker 7: the Portland Portland and Memphis that would go want to

1003
01:03:00,240 --> 01:03:02,200
Speaker 7: play the number one seed Lakers not to start the

1004
01:03:02,240 --> 01:03:05,000
Speaker 7: tournament and the Miami wore the fifth seed from the East.

1005
01:03:05,240 --> 01:03:09,240
Speaker 1: And this is post Dwayne Wade Game five, the game

1006
01:03:09,320 --> 01:03:11,960
Speaker 1: play this thing. It was kind of a BLOWOUTI or

1007
01:03:12,000 --> 01:03:15,240
Speaker 1: Game six. It's kind of a blowout, wasn't it? When

1008
01:03:15,280 --> 01:03:19,160
Speaker 1: did you know the game was kind of because you

1009
01:03:19,160 --> 01:03:21,480
Speaker 1: guys went up twenty and then they came back and

1010
01:03:21,480 --> 01:03:24,840
Speaker 1: then it got when did you feel all right, I'm

1011
01:03:24,840 --> 01:03:27,880
Speaker 1: getting we're getting it. It's in it. It's in the bag, yeah,

1012
01:03:28,000 --> 01:03:28,920
Speaker 1: like by.

1013
01:03:28,800 --> 01:03:31,479
Speaker 2: The second half. But can we go back to game five?

1014
01:03:31,760 --> 01:03:34,440
Speaker 2: Because well, I mean we don't have to. I mean

1015
01:03:34,800 --> 01:03:39,200
Speaker 2: it's just that Game five we lost and I wore

1016
01:03:39,320 --> 01:03:40,920
Speaker 2: my best outfit.

1017
01:03:41,240 --> 01:03:42,880
Speaker 1: Thinking what was the outfit?

1018
01:03:43,720 --> 01:03:46,400
Speaker 2: I don't remember, but it was like, you know that

1019
01:03:46,480 --> 01:03:49,480
Speaker 2: I've thought, okay, I'm going to be accepting the trophy

1020
01:03:50,040 --> 01:03:51,240
Speaker 2: because we win.

1021
01:03:51,520 --> 01:03:53,000
Speaker 1: And like, did you have a did you have a.

1022
01:03:53,200 --> 01:03:56,600
Speaker 2: It was my better outfit? Like my outfit that I wore.

1023
01:03:56,800 --> 01:03:58,960
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm in the bubble. There's no you can't

1024
01:03:59,040 --> 01:04:02,360
Speaker 2: go shopping, there's no I've been there for weeks.

1025
01:04:02,360 --> 01:04:04,320
Speaker 1: You know, and I recycled. What did you do for

1026
01:04:04,360 --> 01:04:05,000
Speaker 1: the next outfit?

1027
01:04:05,240 --> 01:04:07,960
Speaker 2: I just you know, I just wore a blazer and

1028
01:04:08,040 --> 01:04:11,200
Speaker 2: a shirt. I mean it was like I had a

1029
01:04:11,240 --> 01:04:15,200
Speaker 2: better outfit for gam there I wore it for I mean, yeah,

1030
01:04:15,440 --> 01:04:17,320
Speaker 2: so it reminds.

1031
01:04:16,960 --> 01:04:19,840
Speaker 1: Me of like you have a good hair day for

1032
01:04:19,880 --> 01:04:22,680
Speaker 1: a man, you don't want it. You have to shower

1033
01:04:23,520 --> 01:04:25,760
Speaker 1: you don't want to shower because it'll mess up the

1034
01:04:25,800 --> 01:04:27,200
Speaker 1: hair and you're never going to be able to get

1035
01:04:27,200 --> 01:04:29,040
Speaker 1: that hair like that. Again, that's my hair.

1036
01:04:29,080 --> 01:04:30,640
Speaker 3: I had a bad hair day too.

1037
01:04:30,920 --> 01:04:34,160
Speaker 1: Hair day. Well, what was the day like in the bubble?

1038
01:04:34,560 --> 01:04:36,040
Speaker 1: Like pregame? What's your pregame?

1039
01:04:36,920 --> 01:04:40,640
Speaker 2: It's like there's nothing to do in the buffet. Yeah,

1040
01:04:40,680 --> 01:04:44,360
Speaker 2: there's like there's like they had a menu, but there

1041
01:04:44,440 --> 01:04:46,880
Speaker 2: was like three things on it. Oh yeah, So like

1042
01:04:46,960 --> 01:04:47,880
Speaker 2: you're eating.

1043
01:04:47,560 --> 01:04:49,200
Speaker 3: The same thing every day.

1044
01:04:49,440 --> 01:04:53,040
Speaker 2: You're having the same conversations because it's only you know,

1045
01:04:53,320 --> 01:04:55,480
Speaker 2: like fifty people there.

1046
01:04:55,920 --> 01:04:58,120
Speaker 1: You didn't send someone to go get you little Jimmy

1047
01:04:58,160 --> 01:04:59,880
Speaker 1: Butler coffee that he was selling in there. I heard

1048
01:05:00,120 --> 01:05:01,400
Speaker 1: was slanging coffee with me.

1049
01:05:02,920 --> 01:05:07,080
Speaker 2: But they they kept you so far apart, like you

1050
01:05:07,160 --> 01:05:10,640
Speaker 2: just couldn't. It wasn't like a party. It was like

1051
01:05:11,440 --> 01:05:12,800
Speaker 2: just go to your room, Go.

1052
01:05:12,720 --> 01:05:13,440
Speaker 5: To your room.

1053
01:05:13,480 --> 01:05:14,360
Speaker 3: It was awful.

1054
01:05:14,800 --> 01:05:19,560
Speaker 1: Now, the atmosphere inside when they had like the fans

1055
01:05:19,600 --> 01:05:21,640
Speaker 1: and the fake fans and you know what I mean,

1056
01:05:21,640 --> 01:05:24,000
Speaker 1: how was that had to be almost like a practice.

1057
01:05:24,200 --> 01:05:24,960
Speaker 3: It was bizarre.

1058
01:05:25,240 --> 01:05:28,960
Speaker 1: When we were playing our games, we played in empty stadiums,

1059
01:05:29,680 --> 01:05:33,440
Speaker 1: and I remember playing in Seattle and it reminded me

1060
01:05:33,480 --> 01:05:37,000
Speaker 1: of like reminded me of high school football when you

1061
01:05:37,000 --> 01:05:39,880
Speaker 1: were scrimmage scrimmaging against another team because you could hear

1062
01:05:40,080 --> 01:05:43,080
Speaker 1: we could hear them making their calls. You know, you

1063
01:05:43,080 --> 01:05:45,920
Speaker 1: could hear the coach, their coaches on the sideline. You

1064
01:05:46,000 --> 01:05:47,920
Speaker 1: can never hear any of that. It was just like

1065
01:05:48,000 --> 01:05:50,680
Speaker 1: all you heard was like the love of the game,

1066
01:05:50,880 --> 01:05:55,040
Speaker 1: which there was something special about that, you know. Was

1067
01:05:55,080 --> 01:05:58,320
Speaker 1: it like that for basketball? All you hear is just yes,

1068
01:05:58,400 --> 01:06:01,400
Speaker 1: that's all you hear it because there's no surrounding noise.

1069
01:06:01,680 --> 01:06:01,960
Speaker 5: Yep.

1070
01:06:02,120 --> 01:06:04,840
Speaker 1: So you guys have it in the bag. You have

1071
01:06:04,920 --> 01:06:08,760
Speaker 1: your second best outfit. Yeah, did you have something prepared

1072
01:06:08,880 --> 01:06:11,360
Speaker 1: for afterwards to say the team? Yeah? I had.

1073
01:06:11,480 --> 01:06:16,160
Speaker 2: I had my speech and you know, written out and

1074
01:06:16,920 --> 01:06:18,480
Speaker 2: that's like your Super Bowl.

1075
01:06:18,640 --> 01:06:19,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, so like I, you know, I.

1076
01:06:21,480 --> 01:06:25,320
Speaker 2: It was really important to me to get that right

1077
01:06:25,600 --> 01:06:30,400
Speaker 2: because that's you know, that's what the governor does. And

1078
01:06:31,520 --> 01:06:36,360
Speaker 2: if you notice in my speech, you know, I talk

1079
01:06:36,400 --> 01:06:40,479
Speaker 2: about the fans and how it was really for them

1080
01:06:40,720 --> 01:06:43,680
Speaker 2: and that we were going to bring the trophy.

1081
01:06:43,320 --> 01:06:46,400
Speaker 3: Back to LA where it belongs.

1082
01:06:46,600 --> 01:06:51,240
Speaker 2: And so now I'm done with my speech and normally

1083
01:06:51,960 --> 01:06:55,320
Speaker 2: the commissioner would hand you the trophy, right, but we

1084
01:06:55,400 --> 01:07:00,400
Speaker 2: were like everybody was like eight feet apart, so so

1085
01:07:01,400 --> 01:07:04,320
Speaker 2: you know, that part didn't happen. And I didn't want

1086
01:07:04,360 --> 01:07:07,560
Speaker 2: to walk over and pick up the trophy myself and

1087
01:07:08,560 --> 01:07:13,000
Speaker 2: I so I said to the players, that's your trophy.

1088
01:07:13,320 --> 01:07:15,800
Speaker 2: You pick it up, like I'm not going to hand

1089
01:07:15,800 --> 01:07:18,840
Speaker 2: it to you, Like I don't need the photo of

1090
01:07:18,920 --> 01:07:23,560
Speaker 2: me holding the trophy. So I like, if you notice

1091
01:07:23,640 --> 01:07:27,080
Speaker 2: I never hold the trophy. I walk over to the

1092
01:07:27,160 --> 01:07:33,480
Speaker 2: team and Lebron comes over and hugs me and whispers

1093
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Speaker 2: in my ear. I told you we would do this. This,

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01:07:37,800 --> 01:07:40,480
Speaker 2: you know, this is what we This was our goal

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01:07:40,560 --> 01:07:44,520
Speaker 2: and we did it. Like enjoy this moment, and that

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01:07:44,680 --> 01:07:48,120
Speaker 2: was really you know, he's done it a few times. Yeah,

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01:07:48,120 --> 01:07:49,960
Speaker 2: I better practice at it that I did.

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Speaker 1: It's something different though in your Laker I mean it's

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01:07:53,080 --> 01:07:59,840
Speaker 1: it's it's the Lakers. Yeah, there's the Celtics Lakers. That's basketball.

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01:08:00,120 --> 01:08:04,080
Speaker 2: Yeah. So now like we win seventeen, now we're tied

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01:08:04,400 --> 01:08:09,320
Speaker 2: with Boston in terms of championships, but then they went

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01:08:09,480 --> 01:08:11,439
Speaker 2: one number eighteen before we did.

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01:08:11,840 --> 01:08:17,800
Speaker 1: So we'll get there more, it'll get it'll get there.

1104
01:08:18,880 --> 01:08:20,080
Speaker 1: So the clockhead zero.

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01:08:20,720 --> 01:08:23,920
Speaker 6: Lakers wearing one six ninety three clockhead zero.

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01:08:24,560 --> 01:08:26,080
Speaker 1: First thing you think about.

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01:08:26,280 --> 01:08:29,160
Speaker 3: Do I go over and give pat Riley a hug?

1108
01:08:31,600 --> 01:08:31,760
Speaker 2: You know?

1109
01:08:32,439 --> 01:08:37,080
Speaker 3: And I didn't. I mean I felt bad, you know.

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01:08:37,280 --> 01:08:40,240
Speaker 2: I mean it's hard you talk.

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01:08:40,600 --> 01:08:44,200
Speaker 1: You talked about it about sport being so much about relationship,

1112
01:08:45,000 --> 01:08:48,280
Speaker 1: and I mean the relationship that you've had with pat

1113
01:08:48,320 --> 01:08:52,519
Speaker 1: Riley and the success that you guys those memories to

1114
01:08:52,640 --> 01:08:55,160
Speaker 1: see after the game, in between the lines. During the game,

1115
01:08:55,200 --> 01:08:59,240
Speaker 1: everyone we want to kill you, but the aftermath, like

1116
01:08:59,280 --> 01:09:02,519
Speaker 1: that's when you you appreciate your competitor and that real

1117
01:09:02,640 --> 01:09:07,559
Speaker 1: human side comes where you're like, oh man, but it

1118
01:09:07,600 --> 01:09:10,000
Speaker 1: was you know, did you hug them? No?

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01:09:10,040 --> 01:09:12,080
Speaker 3: I did not hug up, and I felt bad, but.

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Speaker 1: It was still kind of weird to hug people.

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01:09:14,280 --> 01:09:17,360
Speaker 2: Then yeah, yes, And we were all still wearing masks

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01:09:17,439 --> 01:09:18,519
Speaker 2: until we got down.

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01:09:18,640 --> 01:09:20,320
Speaker 1: I was just thinking about, what would you talk about

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01:09:20,360 --> 01:09:22,360
Speaker 1: Lebron hugging you. I was like, man, people probably got

1125
01:09:22,360 --> 01:09:25,719
Speaker 1: so scared about that during COVID, like people touching.

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01:09:27,160 --> 01:09:33,800
Speaker 2: But just recently I had the wonderful opportunity to be

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01:09:33,960 --> 01:09:36,200
Speaker 2: on a Zoom call with a bunch of our former

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Speaker 2: Showtime players and surprise, pat Riley with the announcement, our

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01:09:41,040 --> 01:09:45,280
Speaker 2: next statue is going to be pat Riley that we're

1130
01:09:45,600 --> 01:09:47,240
Speaker 2: going to have at Crypto.

1131
01:09:47,600 --> 01:09:48,160
Speaker 1: Let's go.

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01:09:48,840 --> 01:09:51,520
Speaker 3: So, so we're in good. We're in good.

1133
01:09:52,240 --> 01:09:54,639
Speaker 2: You know, our relationship is still great.

1134
01:09:54,640 --> 01:09:57,800
Speaker 1: That statue garden, by the way, it's cool, right, I

1135
01:09:57,840 --> 01:09:59,960
Speaker 1: mean that thing is awesome.

1136
01:10:00,200 --> 01:10:01,200
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1137
01:10:01,320 --> 01:10:03,080
Speaker 1: What's the threshold to get in the statue?

1138
01:10:03,720 --> 01:10:07,280
Speaker 2: There really isn't yet, but like pat Riley, you know,

1139
01:10:07,560 --> 01:10:10,880
Speaker 2: just you know, so cool.

1140
01:10:11,000 --> 01:10:12,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, people want to see it.

1141
01:10:12,600 --> 01:10:14,080
Speaker 1: Let's put a bow on this game.

1142
01:10:15,360 --> 01:10:18,600
Speaker 7: So, as we mentioned, the Lakers won their seventeenth NBA championship.

1143
01:10:18,680 --> 01:10:21,400
Speaker 7: This is the eleventh for the Bus family and first

1144
01:10:21,439 --> 01:10:23,120
Speaker 7: Regina Number Trail as governor.

1145
01:10:23,640 --> 01:10:26,240
Speaker 6: And the Celtics have won five since the Bus took over.

1146
01:10:26,280 --> 01:10:29,920
Speaker 7: Everyone likes to do Celtics, Celtics Lakers, but five to eleven,

1147
01:10:29,960 --> 01:10:30,280
Speaker 7: let's go.

1148
01:10:30,400 --> 01:10:32,720
Speaker 1: He's from Boston too, and I'm a hockey guy.

1149
01:10:32,720 --> 01:10:33,599
Speaker 6: You don't want to hear right thing?

1150
01:10:34,479 --> 01:10:34,960
Speaker 2: Thank you?

1151
01:10:36,200 --> 01:10:40,280
Speaker 7: And this was the longest season in NBA history, three and.

1152
01:10:40,240 --> 01:10:41,360
Speaker 6: Seventy seven days.

1153
01:10:41,920 --> 01:10:45,200
Speaker 1: Much needed though. We needed this because there was no entertainment.

1154
01:10:45,240 --> 01:10:47,920
Speaker 1: Everyone was so bored out of all the same streaming stuff.

1155
01:10:48,240 --> 01:10:52,599
Speaker 1: That's what's awesome. About sport, brings brings people together.

1156
01:10:52,640 --> 01:10:54,400
Speaker 6: There's only so much Tiger King you can watch.

1157
01:10:55,439 --> 01:10:57,920
Speaker 7: Lebron James won Finals MVP and got his fourth ring

1158
01:10:58,600 --> 01:11:01,160
Speaker 7: and moved the first and career playoff games with two

1159
01:11:01,280 --> 01:11:04,000
Speaker 7: hundred and sixty. The Lakers and the Dodgers both won

1160
01:11:04,040 --> 01:11:07,400
Speaker 7: a championship this year, and then in twenty twenty four,

1161
01:11:07,520 --> 01:11:09,000
Speaker 7: LA hired JJ Redick as head coach.

1162
01:11:10,360 --> 01:11:12,000
Speaker 1: That's the aftermath, and so.

1163
01:11:12,000 --> 01:11:17,960
Speaker 2: I was the first female govin or to win a championship.

1164
01:11:18,000 --> 01:11:18,519
Speaker 1: Freaking go.

1165
01:11:19,479 --> 01:11:22,360
Speaker 2: My first thought was who's going to be the next?

1166
01:11:22,960 --> 01:11:24,200
Speaker 2: Who's going to.

1167
01:11:24,120 --> 01:11:26,920
Speaker 1: Be the next? I mean your first thought, who's going

1168
01:11:26,960 --> 01:11:29,960
Speaker 1: to be the next? And you're also the first female

1169
01:11:30,280 --> 01:11:32,879
Speaker 1: and first owner in general to win the in tournament

1170
01:11:34,040 --> 01:11:37,080
Speaker 1: in season tournament. Yeah ever, yeah that'll go down.

1171
01:11:37,160 --> 01:11:39,679
Speaker 3: Thank you. That was cool too.

1172
01:11:40,240 --> 01:11:44,679
Speaker 1: Let's score this game, so the last thing before everything,

1173
01:11:45,080 --> 01:11:47,960
Speaker 1: we score the game and we see where it stands

1174
01:11:47,960 --> 01:11:50,880
Speaker 1: on all the games that we've done. Because the reason

1175
01:11:50,920 --> 01:11:53,600
Speaker 1: for this show is determined, what's the greatest game of

1176
01:11:53,600 --> 01:11:59,160
Speaker 1: all time? Let's name the game banner seventeen game. These

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01:11:59,200 --> 01:12:01,240
Speaker 1: are some that we came up with. If you have

1178
01:12:01,360 --> 01:12:02,880
Speaker 1: a name that you want to name the game. You

1179
01:12:02,920 --> 01:12:06,920
Speaker 1: can name it as well, South Beach versus Sunset, the

1180
01:12:06,960 --> 01:12:12,160
Speaker 1: Bubble Banner, Bubblicious balling in the Bubble Love, Bubble Championship,

1181
01:12:14,640 --> 01:12:17,840
Speaker 1: or any anyone that you have that comes up to

1182
01:12:17,880 --> 01:12:18,280
Speaker 1: your mind.

1183
01:12:18,760 --> 01:12:20,160
Speaker 3: It's like Banner seventeen.

1184
01:12:21,120 --> 01:12:25,120
Speaker 1: We still like call it that Banner seventeen. Let's score

1185
01:12:25,200 --> 01:12:27,439
Speaker 1: the game. Is this the greatest game of all time?

1186
01:12:27,960 --> 01:12:32,599
Speaker 1: Let's score it? Stakes genie, zero to ten decimals, okay,

1187
01:12:33,000 --> 01:12:37,840
Speaker 1: steaks of this game? Six game to cap off the championship.

1188
01:12:38,040 --> 01:12:40,400
Speaker 2: Stakes of this, I would say it's nine.

1189
01:12:41,320 --> 01:12:46,880
Speaker 1: I'd say like nine to two because this was like

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01:12:46,920 --> 01:12:53,240
Speaker 1: a needed thing. I'm just saying for like the world, this,

1191
01:12:53,400 --> 01:12:56,000
Speaker 1: like basketball was like the only thing we had, going,

1192
01:12:56,600 --> 01:12:57,960
Speaker 1: only thing we had and fighting.

1193
01:12:58,200 --> 01:13:01,040
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, Jack got a eight point one. I

1194
01:13:01,040 --> 01:13:02,080
Speaker 6: had an eight point zero.

1195
01:13:02,720 --> 01:13:07,840
Speaker 1: Star power of this zero ten decimals, Okay, nine point five,

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01:13:08,120 --> 01:13:11,200
Speaker 1: nine point five, I'm gonna I'm gonna go with eight

1197
01:13:11,240 --> 01:13:14,439
Speaker 1: point eight because they didn't have the fans and the

1198
01:13:14,479 --> 01:13:17,519
Speaker 1: star power of the Lakers. Does Jack Nicholson have to

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01:13:17,520 --> 01:13:22,639
Speaker 1: pay for his courtside seats? No? What's a fun Jack

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01:13:22,920 --> 01:13:25,840
Speaker 1: Jack story? He's gotta be one fun Jack story.

1201
01:13:26,080 --> 01:13:29,320
Speaker 2: Well, there's let's put it this way, there's a reason

1202
01:13:29,520 --> 01:13:33,080
Speaker 2: we have him sitting next to the visiting bench because

1203
01:13:33,120 --> 01:13:36,040
Speaker 2: he's they just never know if he's gonna be the

1204
01:13:36,240 --> 01:13:38,320
Speaker 2: Jack from the Shining.

1205
01:13:39,680 --> 01:13:43,840
Speaker 1: Johnny exactly awesome. Game play.

1206
01:13:44,160 --> 01:13:45,840
Speaker 7: Jack got an eight point seven out of seven point

1207
01:13:45,840 --> 01:13:48,320
Speaker 7: eight gameplay zero ten decimals.

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01:13:48,320 --> 01:13:52,240
Speaker 3: Okay, I would say an eight.

1209
01:13:53,120 --> 01:13:55,400
Speaker 1: It's a it's an integrity type score because it was

1210
01:13:55,720 --> 01:13:58,639
Speaker 1: it was blowing out, then they came back. I'm gonna

1211
01:13:58,640 --> 01:13:59,479
Speaker 1: go seven point two.

1212
01:14:00,680 --> 01:14:02,599
Speaker 6: Jack had a six point five out of six point one.

1213
01:14:03,000 --> 01:14:07,800
Speaker 1: And then lastly, we grade the name of the game

1214
01:14:07,880 --> 01:14:14,280
Speaker 1: banner seventeen, ten, ten. Yeah, I'm gonna go with a

1215
01:14:14,400 --> 01:14:18,080
Speaker 1: nine because we all know what it like, the culture reverence.

1216
01:14:18,640 --> 01:14:20,000
Speaker 1: Everyone knows banner seventeen.

1217
01:14:20,840 --> 01:14:23,240
Speaker 6: Jack at eight point five. I had a six point three.

1218
01:14:23,400 --> 01:14:24,519
Speaker 1: What's it come up to?

1219
01:14:26,360 --> 01:14:28,120
Speaker 6: An eight point one seven?

1220
01:14:28,400 --> 01:14:31,040
Speaker 1: Or does it stand on the list that puts us.

1221
01:14:32,840 --> 01:14:33,559
Speaker 6: Right here?

1222
01:14:34,760 --> 01:14:38,840
Speaker 7: Twenty sixth just below the Shrug Game nineteen ninety two

1223
01:14:38,960 --> 01:14:42,120
Speaker 7: NBA Finals Game one, Blazers versus Bulls, and just above

1224
01:14:42,160 --> 01:14:43,320
Speaker 7: the Millennium.

1225
01:14:42,840 --> 01:14:47,920
Speaker 1: Wave with Larry hand Hamilton. You remember the Millennium Wave. No,

1226
01:14:49,840 --> 01:14:51,040
Speaker 1: it was on Time Magazine.

1227
01:14:52,040 --> 01:14:53,920
Speaker 3: Do you mean just the wave that he was riding.

1228
01:14:54,080 --> 01:14:58,200
Speaker 1: Yea, oh my god, the heaviest wave of WA all time.

1229
01:14:58,320 --> 01:15:02,439
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's probably yeah, yeah I do, and that like,

1230
01:15:02,520 --> 01:15:03,240
Speaker 2: oh I love that?

1231
01:15:03,360 --> 01:15:03,559
Speaker 3: Then?

1232
01:15:04,000 --> 01:15:04,960
Speaker 1: Is that what? Like?

1233
01:15:05,000 --> 01:15:06,880
Speaker 3: Who came up with that name? Did you guys come

1234
01:15:06,960 --> 01:15:08,559
Speaker 3: up with that Millennium Wave? Yeah?

1235
01:15:08,640 --> 01:15:09,599
Speaker 1: I think time did.

1236
01:15:09,800 --> 01:15:11,679
Speaker 6: We wanted him on the show because he's awesome.

1237
01:15:11,960 --> 01:15:13,320
Speaker 3: No, he's amazing.

1238
01:15:13,439 --> 01:15:15,960
Speaker 2: So did you give him other suggestions?

1239
01:15:16,040 --> 01:15:16,320
Speaker 5: We did.

1240
01:15:16,360 --> 01:15:19,839
Speaker 7: We googled some stuff and because he's not a competitive surfer,

1241
01:15:19,880 --> 01:15:21,760
Speaker 7: he's like against the ocean, we like looked up and

1242
01:15:21,800 --> 01:15:24,720
Speaker 7: then we found this thing like the Millennium Wave, and

1243
01:15:24,760 --> 01:15:26,240
Speaker 7: we looked into it. It was like in two thousand,

1244
01:15:26,320 --> 01:15:29,080
Speaker 7: he rode this crazy wave that was like the heaviest switch.

1245
01:15:28,880 --> 01:15:31,960
Speaker 1: And we broke down the wave. We were breaking out

1246
01:15:32,000 --> 01:15:34,439
Speaker 1: the game, and then we broke down the surfer of

1247
01:15:34,560 --> 01:15:37,719
Speaker 1: Larry and his resume of the other waves that he surfed.

1248
01:15:38,160 --> 01:15:39,919
Speaker 1: But this wave is taking lives.

1249
01:15:41,040 --> 01:15:44,200
Speaker 2: Can I find this list somewhere? Yes, I gotta go.

1250
01:15:44,160 --> 01:15:45,760
Speaker 7: Through this brand new We can send it to you,

1251
01:15:45,800 --> 01:15:47,360
Speaker 7: but it's actually now send it to me.

1252
01:15:47,479 --> 01:15:50,120
Speaker 2: I mean, honestly, this is amazing.

1253
01:15:50,400 --> 01:15:52,800
Speaker 7: We've had some fun little Patriots heavy if you look

1254
01:15:52,880 --> 01:15:53,439
Speaker 7: up to the top.

1255
01:15:53,960 --> 01:15:56,479
Speaker 1: Of course, I don't know what you're talking about. This

1256
01:15:56,240 --> 01:16:00,000
Speaker 1: is this is completely there's no bias in any of them.

1257
01:16:00,960 --> 01:16:04,880
Speaker 1: I don't know what you're talking about. Well, Jeanie, do

1258
01:16:05,000 --> 01:16:05,879
Speaker 1: we miss anything?

1259
01:16:06,600 --> 01:16:06,880
Speaker 3: You know?

1260
01:16:07,600 --> 01:16:10,240
Speaker 1: We we all gotta we gotta, we gotta plug some

1261
01:16:10,280 --> 01:16:12,679
Speaker 1: stuff the wow can you talk to us about Wow?

1262
01:16:13,000 --> 01:16:17,519
Speaker 2: Yeah? I it's it's my passion project. I've invested my

1263
01:16:17,600 --> 01:16:22,479
Speaker 2: own money, not LA your money. I you know, saw

1264
01:16:22,520 --> 01:16:27,280
Speaker 2: a need. You know, there's so many great Division one

1265
01:16:28,000 --> 01:16:32,040
Speaker 2: female athletes that don't get a chance. Unless you're a

1266
01:16:32,040 --> 01:16:36,799
Speaker 2: basketball player, you know, or you know, a golfer or whatever.

1267
01:16:36,960 --> 01:16:40,519
Speaker 2: There's no place to go pro after and you know,

1268
01:16:40,600 --> 01:16:46,400
Speaker 2: if you played field hockey or you know whatever. It's like,

1269
01:16:47,000 --> 01:16:51,720
Speaker 2: women deserve a place to go. And they've become athletes,

1270
01:16:51,840 --> 01:16:55,120
Speaker 2: they've shown the dedication and the sacriface of what it

1271
01:16:55,200 --> 01:16:58,599
Speaker 2: takes to be an athlete. So where can we help

1272
01:16:58,680 --> 01:17:02,320
Speaker 2: them get a platform where they can perform? And so

1273
01:17:02,640 --> 01:17:08,000
Speaker 2: we're the only all female wrestling outfit. We're in our

1274
01:17:08,080 --> 01:17:13,200
Speaker 2: third season. We're in syndication in LA. We're on KKEL

1275
01:17:13,320 --> 01:17:15,400
Speaker 2: on Saturday nights at eleven o'clock.

1276
01:17:15,600 --> 01:17:16,639
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, and.

1277
01:17:17,960 --> 01:17:21,920
Speaker 2: You know, I just I can't tell you the amount

1278
01:17:22,000 --> 01:17:24,920
Speaker 2: of talent that we have. And what we do is,

1279
01:17:25,840 --> 01:17:28,000
Speaker 2: you know, women come and try out and if they

1280
01:17:28,320 --> 01:17:34,040
Speaker 2: show potential, we train them. And you know, it's character driven.

1281
01:17:34,160 --> 01:17:38,679
Speaker 2: It's good versus evil. It's wrestling. But our characters are great.

1282
01:17:38,800 --> 01:17:42,599
Speaker 2: They're over the top. But what's important to me is

1283
01:17:42,640 --> 01:17:48,160
Speaker 2: that these women fight their own battles. They don't run

1284
01:17:48,240 --> 01:17:51,320
Speaker 2: to a man to save them. And I think that's

1285
01:17:51,360 --> 01:17:55,479
Speaker 2: an important message for young girls especially there's so much

1286
01:17:55,520 --> 01:17:59,800
Speaker 2: bullying that goes on and to be able to stand

1287
01:17:59,880 --> 01:18:02,480
Speaker 2: up for what you believe in, stand up for yourself,

1288
01:18:03,880 --> 01:18:07,440
Speaker 2: you know, and you know, so that you know, there's messages,

1289
01:18:07,840 --> 01:18:12,880
Speaker 2: but it's still entertainment and about ten years, okay, no,

1290
01:18:13,000 --> 01:18:16,479
Speaker 2: I it's like dad, you're a girl, Dad.

1291
01:18:17,840 --> 01:18:18,120
Speaker 5: Years.

1292
01:18:19,160 --> 01:18:21,599
Speaker 3: And so I also if I.

1293
01:18:21,560 --> 01:18:27,959
Speaker 2: Could plug next week, there's a show that will premiere

1294
01:18:28,080 --> 01:18:32,800
Speaker 2: on Netflix called Running Point, and I'm an executive producer

1295
01:18:34,120 --> 01:18:39,000
Speaker 2: along with Mindy Kayling created the show and it's it's

1296
01:18:39,040 --> 01:18:42,920
Speaker 2: loosely based on a character like me that you know,

1297
01:18:43,200 --> 01:18:46,920
Speaker 2: ends up running NBA team. It's the teams called the

1298
01:18:47,080 --> 01:18:47,759
Speaker 2: La Waves.

1299
01:18:47,800 --> 01:18:48,799
Speaker 3: It's not the Late.

1300
01:18:50,200 --> 01:18:53,959
Speaker 2: It's much easier I had to get league approval.

1301
01:18:54,240 --> 01:18:56,479
Speaker 6: We're dealing with that right now with the project so small.

1302
01:18:56,640 --> 01:19:00,559
Speaker 2: So see like that's I'm very happy and so gives

1303
01:19:00,640 --> 01:19:04,600
Speaker 2: us license to be able to come up with storylines.

1304
01:19:04,680 --> 01:19:10,320
Speaker 2: It's really funny. And the lead actress is Kate Hudson,

1305
01:19:10,520 --> 01:19:13,120
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, who is a movie star. So the idea

1306
01:19:13,120 --> 01:19:16,559
Speaker 2: that we were able to get her to do this part,

1307
01:19:17,280 --> 01:19:21,360
Speaker 2: she's fantastic. So that drops February twenty seventh. That's called

1308
01:19:21,439 --> 01:19:22,080
Speaker 2: running point.

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Speaker 1: Running point.

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01:19:23,120 --> 01:19:25,240
Speaker 6: We've been talking with Max Greenfield to come on.

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01:19:25,520 --> 01:19:30,400
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, wrote the show. He plays my character's Beyonce,

1312
01:19:30,640 --> 01:19:31,439
Speaker 2: who's a doctor.

1313
01:19:31,720 --> 01:19:34,320
Speaker 1: Well, thank you so much for taking time and coming

1314
01:19:34,360 --> 01:19:37,120
Speaker 1: to the Nutthouse. We are so happy to have you.

1315
01:19:37,439 --> 01:19:40,120
Speaker 1: We feel like we finally made it being in La

1316
01:19:40,479 --> 01:19:45,200
Speaker 1: and Geenie Buss in the Brentwood studio. Thank you so much. Genie,

1317
01:19:45,240 --> 01:19:47,599
Speaker 1: thanks so much. It's so fun to learn from you

1318
01:19:47,640 --> 01:19:51,679
Speaker 1: and hear your passion for the game and your memory

1319
01:19:51,720 --> 01:19:55,240
Speaker 1: for everything has been crazy, just like hearing your knowledge

1320
01:19:55,240 --> 01:19:58,280
Speaker 1: of all the rosters when we're breaking down in roster

1321
01:19:58,800 --> 01:20:01,720
Speaker 1: like not of like the Magic Johnson's but we were

1322
01:20:01,760 --> 01:20:04,640
Speaker 1: talking about the guy who you just traded. Yeah, like

1323
01:20:05,840 --> 01:20:09,320
Speaker 1: that's crazy. That's how in depth you are with everything

1324
01:20:09,400 --> 01:20:14,120
Speaker 1: from the hot dog stand to freaking charity events, making

1325
01:20:14,160 --> 01:20:17,280
Speaker 1: your own other enterprises. It's been so awesome to get

1326
01:20:17,280 --> 01:20:19,200
Speaker 1: to have you here. Thank you so much for coming.

1327
01:20:20,920 --> 01:20:22,400
Speaker 6: Gee, what an interview?

1328
01:20:22,520 --> 01:20:23,599
Speaker 1: Well, what an interview?

1329
01:20:23,760 --> 01:20:24,080
Speaker 5: Owner?

1330
01:20:24,880 --> 01:20:26,400
Speaker 1: No governor governor?

1331
01:20:26,479 --> 01:20:29,040
Speaker 6: That's right, no governor, governor class.

1332
01:20:29,920 --> 01:20:32,040
Speaker 1: I didn't know, that's the thing. I had no clue

1333
01:20:32,640 --> 01:20:34,559
Speaker 1: there is there a governor in NFL.

1334
01:20:36,000 --> 01:20:39,680
Speaker 7: After that, other mayors too. You should have saw the

1335
01:20:39,720 --> 01:20:41,240
Speaker 7: face she made. I don't know if I can say this,

1336
01:20:41,320 --> 01:20:43,840
Speaker 7: but afterwards, because you and Jay Moore were going through

1337
01:20:43,880 --> 01:20:45,280
Speaker 7: the whole thing, and we gotta get him on the

1338
01:20:45,280 --> 01:20:45,720
Speaker 7: show too.

1339
01:20:45,760 --> 01:20:49,280
Speaker 6: He can't. We told talk about the score.

1340
01:20:49,200 --> 01:20:50,800
Speaker 7: Like, man, I was really impressed to give a great score,

1341
01:20:51,000 --> 01:20:53,679
Speaker 7: really integrity score, and I was like, you know, Mark

1342
01:20:53,720 --> 01:20:55,680
Speaker 7: Cuban gave tense to everything, and she was like had

1343
01:20:55,720 --> 01:20:58,160
Speaker 7: the biggest eye roll on the planet, which is just

1344
01:20:58,200 --> 01:21:01,559
Speaker 7: like she's like classic Mark, It's just.

1345
01:21:01,520 --> 01:21:03,840
Speaker 1: Like the Owners Club. Yeah you didn't.

1346
01:21:03,880 --> 01:21:06,840
Speaker 7: I wish you dive into more of like the Owner's dynamics,

1347
01:21:06,840 --> 01:21:08,719
Speaker 7: but I know, yeah, it was okay.

1348
01:21:09,040 --> 01:21:10,000
Speaker 1: We can get Genie again.

1349
01:21:10,080 --> 01:21:10,800
Speaker 6: Yeah, she was great.

1350
01:21:11,240 --> 01:21:14,240
Speaker 1: You know what I ever since we you know, we've

1351
01:21:14,280 --> 01:21:19,000
Speaker 1: done this episode watching those Lakers a little, a little closer.

1352
01:21:19,040 --> 01:21:22,960
Speaker 6: I know you're gonna get a little flirting with the enemy.

1353
01:21:23,040 --> 01:21:25,559
Speaker 1: I'm not flirty, but it's just like I'm out here

1354
01:21:26,400 --> 01:21:30,799
Speaker 1: Celtics games on at fucking five o'clock. I'm still fucking

1355
01:21:30,960 --> 01:21:34,639
Speaker 1: I'm at soccer practice at five o'clock. I can't catch

1356
01:21:34,640 --> 01:21:37,719
Speaker 1: a Lake or the Celtics game. I get Lily down.

1357
01:21:38,680 --> 01:21:40,880
Speaker 1: You know, she's in bed by the time. That's it's

1358
01:21:40,920 --> 01:21:43,200
Speaker 1: fucking We're in the third quarter of the Laker game,

1359
01:21:44,000 --> 01:21:46,519
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, I see Luca and Austin

1360
01:21:46,600 --> 01:21:53,080
Speaker 1: Reeves and fucking Lebron balling. It looked pretty good, Genie.

1361
01:21:53,280 --> 01:21:56,439
Speaker 1: Let's go. Well, it's about that time. It's that time.

1362
01:21:57,280 --> 01:21:59,360
Speaker 1: It's time for the chill Zone, brought to you by

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Speaker 1: Visit Coreslight dot com, slash g w N celebrate responsibly.

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Speaker 1: Oh that's a great sound. It is a great sounds,

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Speaker 1: like a refreshing sound.

1367
01:22:14,960 --> 01:22:17,640
Speaker 6: Or today, I've got a little surprise for you.

1368
01:22:17,720 --> 01:22:22,439
Speaker 1: What do you got, Jackie, boys, what's up?

1369
01:22:23,000 --> 01:22:23,400
Speaker 6: What's up?

1370
01:22:25,720 --> 01:22:28,320
Speaker 5: I'm hanging in there, but I'm I'm hurt. Man. Bob

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01:22:28,400 --> 01:22:29,720
Speaker 5: Sugar was in the nuthouse without me.

1372
01:22:29,960 --> 01:22:32,560
Speaker 1: He's pretty cool too. You guys would have fuck. He's

1373
01:22:32,600 --> 01:22:38,280
Speaker 1: a he's a Jets guy, Day Moore and he you

1374
01:22:38,320 --> 01:22:41,519
Speaker 1: could tell he he knows sports. He loves sports, even

1375
01:22:41,600 --> 01:22:44,240
Speaker 1: kind of communicating via text.

1376
01:22:44,880 --> 01:22:46,200
Speaker 5: Oh is he trying to sign you?

1377
01:22:46,240 --> 01:22:51,200
Speaker 1: Bro? He's uh no, I think he's I think we're podswapping.

1378
01:22:51,520 --> 01:22:53,040
Speaker 1: We gotta get him on the pod. I think he'd

1379
01:22:53,040 --> 01:22:56,760
Speaker 1: be a fun guest butt fumble butt fumble game, yeah,

1380
01:22:56,840 --> 01:23:01,160
Speaker 1: or some sad Jets game, but fumble might be. He's hurt.

1381
01:23:01,680 --> 01:23:04,280
Speaker 1: Jeanie was awesome. You would have loved her.

1382
01:23:04,960 --> 01:23:06,519
Speaker 5: Is she gonna hook us up with some court sides

1383
01:23:06,600 --> 01:23:06,840
Speaker 5: or what?

1384
01:23:08,080 --> 01:23:10,559
Speaker 1: You know? A? Yeah, I'm not kidding.

1385
01:23:10,560 --> 01:23:11,120
Speaker 5: I'm not. I want to.

1386
01:23:11,160 --> 01:23:14,639
Speaker 1: I'm if you're you know I won't. I'm not an asker.

1387
01:23:15,400 --> 01:23:17,599
Speaker 5: I know we can't. We're not that kind of guy.

1388
01:23:17,880 --> 01:23:19,200
Speaker 1: You have a mouse to cook the ash for a

1389
01:23:19,240 --> 01:23:24,800
Speaker 1: glass of milk. Okay, maybe she gives the rafters. I

1390
01:23:24,880 --> 01:23:27,200
Speaker 1: know the Celtics already came in town, so.

1391
01:23:28,439 --> 01:23:30,280
Speaker 5: Fuck, I know, maybe I have to wait till the finals.

1392
01:23:33,200 --> 01:23:38,320
Speaker 1: You are you? Are you saying Luca I don't know

1393
01:23:38,439 --> 01:23:42,280
Speaker 1: Austin Reeves le taking them.

1394
01:23:42,520 --> 01:23:44,120
Speaker 5: Wait a minute, you guys already cracked the bad words

1395
01:23:44,120 --> 01:23:47,880
Speaker 5: without me, by the way, get up in there ready.

1396
01:23:48,200 --> 01:23:50,200
Speaker 5: It's like when Lil Wayne used to spark the lighter

1397
01:23:50,200 --> 01:23:50,679
Speaker 5: into the mic.

1398
01:23:52,080 --> 01:23:57,720
Speaker 1: Oh, oh good, do that sound that sounds good? Oh?

1399
01:23:57,840 --> 01:24:01,719
Speaker 1: Jackie settled down, jack So I'm just so excited.

1400
01:24:01,960 --> 01:24:03,040
Speaker 5: I'm just so excited.

1401
01:24:03,080 --> 01:24:06,559
Speaker 1: It's so good when it hits your lips where you been.

1402
01:24:07,479 --> 01:24:09,120
Speaker 5: I'm gonna pull back the curtain a little bit. We

1403
01:24:09,160 --> 01:24:12,040
Speaker 5: talked about this internally at the nuthouse, but this hasn't

1404
01:24:12,080 --> 01:24:15,320
Speaker 5: really gotten out to the people. So I'll speak candidly

1405
01:24:15,360 --> 01:24:16,360
Speaker 5: here if you will, Jules in.

1406
01:24:16,320 --> 01:24:18,719
Speaker 1: Your mind, yeah, go ahead and speak Candy. There comes

1407
01:24:18,760 --> 01:24:20,760
Speaker 1: a moment when I like that course light in the

1408
01:24:20,800 --> 01:24:26,240
Speaker 1: background too, Yes, Therr. The where you get is that

1409
01:24:26,320 --> 01:24:28,880
Speaker 1: where you get lost in the background? Is that where you're.

1410
01:24:30,840 --> 01:24:32,320
Speaker 5: That's where I get my foot picks off?

1411
01:24:34,479 --> 01:24:36,479
Speaker 1: All right? Where you've been, where you've been?

1412
01:24:36,479 --> 01:24:40,760
Speaker 5: Where As you know, in the nuthouse world, when you

1413
01:24:40,800 --> 01:24:43,680
Speaker 5: hit a certain age, you gotta go out on your

1414
01:24:43,760 --> 01:24:48,880
Speaker 5: nuthouse mission. Kyler went down to I don't know the rainforest.

1415
01:24:48,920 --> 01:24:52,080
Speaker 5: I think in Brazil or something. You were in the

1416
01:24:52,080 --> 01:24:54,680
Speaker 5: the out back out in Australia. So I'm over here

1417
01:24:54,680 --> 01:24:58,080
Speaker 5: in the American southeast, moving up into the rust belt,

1418
01:24:58,479 --> 01:25:01,439
Speaker 5: you know, uh, mid Atlantic. I'm just trying to convert

1419
01:25:01,479 --> 01:25:04,200
Speaker 5: these people to being nuthouse members. Bro.

1420
01:25:05,280 --> 01:25:09,559
Speaker 7: Spread the circumcise the people of Southeast Tea.

1421
01:25:09,640 --> 01:25:13,439
Speaker 1: But it's more of the Mormon route. Bro, We're just

1422
01:25:13,479 --> 01:25:17,639
Speaker 1: sitting them out there. Instead of the the shirt and tie,

1423
01:25:17,720 --> 01:25:20,320
Speaker 1: the little slurt short sleeve shirt and tie, we give

1424
01:25:20,360 --> 01:25:21,240
Speaker 1: him nuthouse hat.

1425
01:25:21,960 --> 01:25:25,360
Speaker 5: We go forty seven brand hitch hats, we wear black Tea's.

1426
01:25:25,760 --> 01:25:28,400
Speaker 5: We get a company issued Honda ruckas. And I'm just

1427
01:25:28,439 --> 01:25:31,960
Speaker 5: going door to door, bro, knock knock. Have you heard

1428
01:25:32,000 --> 01:25:35,080
Speaker 5: the good word of Ernest Adams? Maybe the teachings of

1429
01:25:35,560 --> 01:25:38,559
Speaker 5: William Belichick? Mind if I come in and then I

1430
01:25:39,640 --> 01:25:40,360
Speaker 5: do you think.

1431
01:25:40,240 --> 01:25:41,559
Speaker 6: The goodest of all time?

1432
01:25:41,680 --> 01:25:43,200
Speaker 1: Is? Wow?

1433
01:25:44,000 --> 01:25:46,799
Speaker 5: You'd be amazed how many people they don't know about

1434
01:25:46,920 --> 01:25:50,760
Speaker 5: the Millennium waver or you know game six of the

1435
01:25:50,800 --> 01:25:54,280
Speaker 5: two thousand and seven opening round, you know, Baron Davis Dunk.

1436
01:25:54,320 --> 01:25:55,040
Speaker 5: They they just don't know.

1437
01:25:55,120 --> 01:25:57,519
Speaker 1: Dude, what's the weirdest doorstep?

1438
01:25:57,600 --> 01:25:57,920
Speaker 5: You like?

1439
01:25:57,960 --> 01:26:00,280
Speaker 1: There's some weird people over in those appellations where you're

1440
01:26:00,320 --> 01:26:04,800
Speaker 1: at Yeah, oh yeah, any did you go into it

1441
01:26:05,000 --> 01:26:08,639
Speaker 1: like it's been That's what I want to I want

1442
01:26:08,640 --> 01:26:11,080
Speaker 1: to know. This is what I want to know. They

1443
01:26:11,120 --> 01:26:17,760
Speaker 1: should make uh, they should make a TV show of all,

1444
01:26:17,840 --> 01:26:21,680
Speaker 1: like the crazy stories of the Mormons going into neighborhoods

1445
01:26:21,960 --> 01:26:25,679
Speaker 1: that they probably shouldn't have been in, and like there's

1446
01:26:25,720 --> 01:26:30,040
Speaker 1: got to be some crazy stories about like like Mormons

1447
01:26:30,080 --> 01:26:32,479
Speaker 1: going to Texas going on like property line guy the

1448
01:26:32,520 --> 01:26:36,439
Speaker 1: shotgun coming out chasing him, or going up in the

1449
01:26:36,439 --> 01:26:37,240
Speaker 1: hood and stuff.

1450
01:26:37,360 --> 01:26:40,000
Speaker 6: You know, what's the Book of Mormon about?

1451
01:26:40,800 --> 01:26:44,000
Speaker 1: I forgot, but I saw it. It was really funny.

1452
01:26:43,120 --> 01:26:46,080
Speaker 5: Then they get sent on their mission, they go to Orlando,

1453
01:26:46,280 --> 01:26:48,080
Speaker 5: or do they want to go to Orlando? They get

1454
01:26:48,120 --> 01:26:53,480
Speaker 5: sent to Africa? Yeah, so they Yeah, hilarity ensues.

1455
01:26:53,240 --> 01:26:57,280
Speaker 1: Exactly, Like what about those Mormons that roll up into

1456
01:26:57,360 --> 01:27:01,160
Speaker 1: Africa and like some there's got to be a group

1457
01:27:01,160 --> 01:27:02,880
Speaker 1: of people that are like, what the who are these

1458
01:27:02,880 --> 01:27:03,639
Speaker 1: fucking people?

1459
01:27:05,200 --> 01:27:07,679
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's insane, bro, it's insane.

1460
01:27:08,040 --> 01:27:14,680
Speaker 1: I mean hat in mid combo hat I just.

1461
01:27:14,640 --> 01:27:20,120
Speaker 5: Got drafted bro by Team Cores. But the thing is, dude,

1462
01:27:20,360 --> 01:27:23,400
Speaker 5: you don't really get kicked off porches or pulled shotguns

1463
01:27:23,439 --> 01:27:24,880
Speaker 5: on you when you got the cores on your arm.

1464
01:27:25,240 --> 01:27:25,960
Speaker 5: They let me right in.

1465
01:27:26,000 --> 01:27:26,880
Speaker 1: They let you right in.

1466
01:27:27,560 --> 01:27:29,599
Speaker 5: Next thing, you know, you're talking about the Subway series

1467
01:27:29,600 --> 01:27:31,880
Speaker 5: from two thousand, Mike Piazza, bro.

1468
01:27:32,240 --> 01:27:33,920
Speaker 1: All right, give me the I want. I want to

1469
01:27:33,960 --> 01:27:37,639
Speaker 1: hear it right now. Yeplay, you're knocking on my door.

1470
01:27:38,360 --> 01:27:42,320
Speaker 1: Let me hear, let me hear your pitch. Yeah, what

1471
01:27:42,360 --> 01:27:43,160
Speaker 1: do you want, dude?

1472
01:27:43,800 --> 01:27:46,360
Speaker 5: Sure do you have a moment to hear?

1473
01:27:46,520 --> 01:27:47,760
Speaker 1: A moment for fucking What.

1474
01:27:48,800 --> 01:27:50,840
Speaker 5: Do you know about twenty eight to three or some

1475
01:27:50,880 --> 01:27:52,200
Speaker 5: of the other greatest games of all time?

1476
01:27:52,479 --> 01:27:54,920
Speaker 1: You mean when them Atlanta Falcons pissed down their leg?

1477
01:27:56,800 --> 01:27:58,160
Speaker 5: Yep, that that is the game, sir?

1478
01:27:58,880 --> 01:28:01,360
Speaker 1: What about that game? Oh, Brady boy? Pretty good?

1479
01:28:02,760 --> 01:28:04,840
Speaker 5: Would you like to know what happened at halftime in

1480
01:28:04,880 --> 01:28:08,439
Speaker 5: that game? Or who came up with the phrase gotta believe?

1481
01:28:09,120 --> 01:28:11,599
Speaker 5: Just a few more things about it to really learn

1482
01:28:11,600 --> 01:28:12,320
Speaker 5: about this game?

1483
01:28:12,439 --> 01:28:13,960
Speaker 1: What? What? What else we got? Kid?

1484
01:28:14,960 --> 01:28:17,040
Speaker 5: I gotta I got a twelve back? Of course?

1485
01:28:17,800 --> 01:28:21,840
Speaker 1: Come on in? Why didn't you say so? Come on in?

1486
01:28:22,760 --> 01:28:25,240
Speaker 1: Works every time, brow.

1487
01:28:25,160 --> 01:28:28,000
Speaker 5: Works, every time I see he told you it's something else, man.

1488
01:28:28,240 --> 01:28:31,960
Speaker 5: A lot of full conversions, some partial conversions. So I

1489
01:28:32,000 --> 01:28:33,960
Speaker 5: gotta I got a whole book full to show you

1490
01:28:33,960 --> 01:28:34,559
Speaker 5: when I get back.

1491
01:28:34,720 --> 01:28:35,960
Speaker 1: I can't wait to see the book.

1492
01:28:36,720 --> 01:28:40,080
Speaker 5: Yeah, of course a full is you subscribe to the

1493
01:28:40,080 --> 01:28:44,559
Speaker 5: YouTube rss feed and us on all social platforms. Partial

1494
01:28:44,720 --> 01:28:47,080
Speaker 5: is just maybe r ss.

1495
01:28:46,680 --> 01:28:49,040
Speaker 6: Dick doc on Spotify.

1496
01:28:49,840 --> 01:28:51,680
Speaker 5: Yep, we'll take what we can get. But you'd be

1497
01:28:52,439 --> 01:28:55,200
Speaker 5: kyler man. It's it's eye opening, bro. You'd be amazed

1498
01:28:55,400 --> 01:28:57,799
Speaker 5: how many people they don't even know what the RSS

1499
01:28:57,880 --> 01:29:01,320
Speaker 5: feed is or a YouTube short. So I'm just doing

1500
01:29:01,360 --> 01:29:03,640
Speaker 5: a lot of a lot of teaching, bro, but a

1501
01:29:03,640 --> 01:29:08,280
Speaker 5: lot of a lot of fellowshipping and evangelizing and proselytizing it.

1502
01:29:08,400 --> 01:29:10,760
Speaker 1: It's great as long as you're spreading the Gospel of

1503
01:29:10,800 --> 01:29:12,040
Speaker 1: the nuthouse.

1504
01:29:13,120 --> 01:29:16,959
Speaker 5: Every day. Brother, I'm doing it the right way.

1505
01:29:17,640 --> 01:29:21,000
Speaker 1: And our Holy waters core is light. You just sprinkle,

1506
01:29:22,200 --> 01:29:25,840
Speaker 1: sprinkle you with it a little dabble, do you there?

1507
01:29:25,880 --> 01:29:26,160
Speaker 1: You go?

1508
01:29:26,439 --> 01:29:30,080
Speaker 7: Thank you, Jackie, Thanks you assume guys, people back home. No,

1509
01:29:30,960 --> 01:29:33,479
Speaker 7: jack is Jack's a part of all the shows right

1510
01:29:33,520 --> 01:29:37,240
Speaker 7: when he's even not here, he's in Riverside. He's texting

1511
01:29:37,280 --> 01:29:40,320
Speaker 7: me constantly. So like if anything's like smart comes out

1512
01:29:40,360 --> 01:29:42,360
Speaker 7: of my mouth mostly it's just Jack's line.

1513
01:29:42,720 --> 01:29:46,080
Speaker 6: So like Jack, Jack dming us. So Jack's very much

1514
01:29:46,120 --> 01:29:47,679
Speaker 6: a part of the show, even if he's just sliding.

1515
01:29:47,920 --> 01:29:51,839
Speaker 5: DM Kyler's wearing a wire every year, Bro, he's.

1516
01:29:51,640 --> 01:29:53,280
Speaker 1: Wearing a wire. He's had an ear piece.

1517
01:29:55,200 --> 01:29:57,800
Speaker 5: Yeah all right, Jack Man. You can't wait to be

1518
01:29:57,840 --> 01:29:58,759
Speaker 5: back in the flesh boys.

1519
01:29:58,800 --> 01:30:03,320
Speaker 1: I love you you boys late late. Great to hear

1520
01:30:03,360 --> 01:30:05,920
Speaker 1: from Jack, so good to see him. Excited to get

1521
01:30:05,960 --> 01:30:06,719
Speaker 1: him back soon.

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