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Speaker 2: There are a couple of investigations going on in MLB

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Speaker 2: Cleveland Guardians pitcher Louise or Tez all right, there were

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Speaker 2: some there's some shady betting activity, and so they're looking

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Speaker 2: And so there was some suspicious betting activity with a

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Speaker 2: So it's like, all right, they're investigating that. There's also

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Speaker 2: a federal investigation into NBA player Malik Beasley. There is

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Speaker 2: some suspicious betting activity. They're looking into it. Was he

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Speaker 2: providing information that he shouldn't have been. Was he trying to,

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Speaker 3: So they're investigating these things. And when it.

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Speaker 2: Comes to this, I'm sure you've heard it. I've heard

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Speaker 2: it many many times. You'll hear people say these leagues

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Speaker 2: they're not. Like they have partnerships with sports betting companies

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Speaker 2: and then they punish players for betting on sports. That

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Speaker 2: might seem hypocritical. It's not hypocritical. Like just because the NFL, NBA, MLB,

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Speaker 2: whatever it happens to be, because they have partnerships with

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Speaker 2: like that's hypocritical, it doesn't make sense to me. You

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Speaker 2: don't think the same way when it comes to alcohol companies, right,

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Speaker 2: Like there are alcohol partnerships between leagues and those companies.

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Speaker 2: That doesn't mean that the players can just drive drunk

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Speaker 2: don't know the NBA has a partnership with michelob Ultra

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Speaker 2: you can't do anything to maam. You got this partnership over,

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Speaker 2: you still have rules. It's not hypocritical to still enforce

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Speaker 4: So the alcohol one is the one I always refer

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Speaker 4: back to when it comes to this discussion, right, because

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Speaker 4: you know, if a player drives drunk, which is obviously

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Speaker 4: no one, everyone always says, well, the player's responsibility right

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Speaker 4: it's the gambling company's responsibility for them to No, it's

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Speaker 4: not right. It's you're an adult. There are rules set

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Speaker 4: mean you're allowed to do that, right. It doesn't mean

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Speaker 4: that there's undue influence on players to drink. I always

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Speaker 4: see when there's you know, the Ortez report came out.

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Speaker 4: You know, there's always be replies on social media saying

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Speaker 4: And I'm like, well, when there's a dui that say,

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Speaker 4: it's the player responsibility. I'm like, it's the same thing here,

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Speaker 4: it's the it's the now you you can say all

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Speaker 4: different for why the player we think was gambling, but

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Speaker 4: that the legal sports wagering has made it easier and

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Speaker 4: more readily available player props. Right for players that they're

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Speaker 4: that was not available, And bro, I'm not I'm sure

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Speaker 4: more available. Okay, that's true. So those markets are able

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Speaker 4: We have local sports wager and we also have checks

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Speaker 4: the reason why sports leagues are so harsh on punishing

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Speaker 4: people that gamble on their sport, they're way it's way

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Speaker 4: more harsh than anyone that's committed you know, domestic violence,

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Speaker 4: right a dui. It's more because and you don't want

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Speaker 4: impossible to fix it, but like drop a pass, you know,

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Speaker 2: Well, I would hope there have been enough stories and

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Speaker 2: investigation with Malik Beasley. We'll see what happens with Luiz Ortiz.

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Speaker 2: But I would hope that professional athletes, now Jeff would

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Speaker 3: And it really.

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Speaker 2: Like, if I go down this road, I am literally

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Speaker 2: I'm sure they went about it thinking I'm not gonna

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Speaker 2: I'm gambling with my career here. They're monitoring this stuff

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Speaker 3: You have to look at it like that. You are

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Speaker 2: If you're trying to doctor your props or you're trying

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Speaker 2: And now they're having to hear about it day in

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Speaker 2: But really what it is, it's the checks and balances

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Speaker 4: it's just it's being talked about. And if you don't

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Speaker 2: I don't know if this is a hot take or

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Speaker 2: So he brought up, hey has the Super Bowl drought

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Speaker 6: Has a Super Bowl drought for the Kansas the Chiefs started.

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Speaker 6: Here's why I suggest that we all forget in the

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Speaker 6: Patrick Mahomes has already won his three. Are we in

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Speaker 4: Are way, way way better than the Kansas City Chiefs.

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Speaker 6: The Buffalo Bills from a roster perspective are not way

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Speaker 4: The Chargers, they are up and coming.

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Speaker 2: I do like the end part that was cut off there.

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Speaker 3: Hell no, this is crazy.

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Speaker 2: He's not buying it. Not buying the Chiefs ten year drought?

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Speaker 4: Jeff? Well, the Chiefs just playing in Super Bowl, so

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Speaker 4: But it was just one game, right in the NFL.

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Speaker 4: and I think he'll use last year's motivation. A lot

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Speaker 4: Travis Kelce is entering year whatever thirteen. Even entering last season,

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Speaker 4: They gotta prove they could beat Kansas City because no

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Speaker 4: they can't beat the Chiefs, Brian so till someone actually

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Speaker 3: No, I can't either.

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Speaker 2: And the first part when he's explaining it, where I'm like, wait, oh,

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Speaker 3: I got a question here.

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Speaker 2: Do you agree with this that the Eagles and the

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Speaker 4: Well, I mean, the Chiefs are better a quarterback than

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Speaker 2: Well, the thing with the Eagles is they've lost a lot.

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Speaker 1: Be sure to catch live editions of two pros and

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Speaker 3: You see this Bronnie James.

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Speaker 2: Bronnie James scored ten points in a Summer League game

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Speaker 3: He wouldn't be in the NBA. You can't get me.

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Speaker 3: Like all those things.

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Speaker 4: game like that's not nothing. He had nine points in

432
00:23:15,480 --> 00:23:18,199
Speaker 4: another game, like it's not it's not nothing that he

433
00:23:18,320 --> 00:23:20,840
Speaker 4: that he he scored. He started slow in his career,

434
00:23:21,240 --> 00:23:23,240
Speaker 4: to play a couple of minutes here and there, but

435
00:23:23,280 --> 00:23:25,040
Speaker 4: it's sort of the last, you know, the last sort

436
00:23:25,080 --> 00:23:27,159
Speaker 4: of month he got to play a little bit more.

437
00:23:27,200 --> 00:23:28,440
Speaker 4: He was got a little bit better, and we saw

438
00:23:28,440 --> 00:23:31,399
Speaker 4: the summer league yesterday or was it two days ago,

439
00:23:31,480 --> 00:23:33,720
Speaker 4: how much he's gonna I think he's going to be

440
00:23:33,760 --> 00:23:36,040
Speaker 4: fine eventually. So I mean it's fair to say two

441
00:23:36,080 --> 00:23:40,080
Speaker 4: days one not in NBA went out his dad. But

442
00:23:40,160 --> 00:23:43,800
Speaker 4: also I find it pretty cool if I was in

443
00:23:43,840 --> 00:23:45,560
Speaker 4: this situation, I don't think I'll be in the situation

444
00:23:45,640 --> 00:23:51,040
Speaker 4: to play in the NFL with my son if I yeah, yeah,

445
00:23:51,040 --> 00:23:52,680
Speaker 4: as I sit here with like a with a towel

446
00:23:52,720 --> 00:23:54,960
Speaker 4: behind my back to stretch my back out, so it's

447
00:23:54,960 --> 00:23:59,200
Speaker 4: not too tight. Sitting here as we do this. I look,

448
00:23:59,359 --> 00:24:01,399
Speaker 4: I think it's it's super cool that he gets to

449
00:24:01,520 --> 00:24:04,800
Speaker 4: choose to play with this kid. I love it. I

450
00:24:04,840 --> 00:24:07,160
Speaker 4: think it's it's great. He's not taking a roster spot

451
00:24:07,200 --> 00:24:09,560
Speaker 4: from anybody, you like, all these things like you're just

452
00:24:09,600 --> 00:24:11,880
Speaker 4: like whatever. Man, He's just on the roster. Like it's

453
00:24:11,920 --> 00:24:14,680
Speaker 4: not a big deal. Lebron's good enough to be able

454
00:24:14,680 --> 00:24:18,480
Speaker 4: to demand essentially this to happen. It's not hurt anyone.

455
00:24:18,880 --> 00:24:21,640
Speaker 4: No one else on the no one else who would

456
00:24:21,640 --> 00:24:23,600
Speaker 4: know me be in the roster is taking getting a

457
00:24:23,680 --> 00:24:26,960
Speaker 4: roster spot taken up by Brownie. He's not plain enough

458
00:24:27,040 --> 00:24:29,240
Speaker 4: to really matter at all anyways. But then when he

459
00:24:29,280 --> 00:24:31,440
Speaker 4: gets a little bit of time thirty minutes here, thirty

460
00:24:31,480 --> 00:24:34,680
Speaker 4: minutes there, we see a little bit of improvement in

461
00:24:34,800 --> 00:24:37,000
Speaker 4: Summer League, a little bit of improvement. And I think

462
00:24:37,040 --> 00:24:39,200
Speaker 4: that the more time he gets, the more it's being

463
00:24:39,320 --> 00:24:41,880
Speaker 4: justified that he is in the NBA. And I think

464
00:24:41,880 --> 00:24:45,040
Speaker 4: that's kind of my point, is like he's he's good

465
00:24:45,119 --> 00:24:49,520
Speaker 4: enough with more time to show that the talent is there.

466
00:24:50,200 --> 00:24:52,600
Speaker 4: If you give him some more minutes, you can see

467
00:24:52,760 --> 00:24:54,080
Speaker 4: a role for him in the NBA is a back.

468
00:24:54,119 --> 00:24:55,720
Speaker 4: It was never going to be a starter, but his

469
00:24:55,840 --> 00:24:57,920
Speaker 4: role from as a backup, And I'm glad you mentioned

470
00:24:58,080 --> 00:25:01,760
Speaker 4: the thing that here Cardiac evented us see like that's important.

471
00:25:01,800 --> 00:25:03,560
Speaker 4: He didn't really play a Streshman season, so we never

472
00:25:03,680 --> 00:25:04,479
Speaker 4: even got to see it.

473
00:25:05,440 --> 00:25:07,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, well that's the thing is.

474
00:25:07,960 --> 00:25:12,399
Speaker 2: I think the disconnect here I understand where there are

475
00:25:12,400 --> 00:25:13,959
Speaker 2: a lot of people that have an issue with it.

476
00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:16,720
Speaker 2: They don't like the nepotism thing, and it's like, Okay,

477
00:25:17,400 --> 00:25:18,560
Speaker 2: I get your criticism.

478
00:25:18,560 --> 00:25:19,360
Speaker 3: I understand that.

479
00:25:19,840 --> 00:25:23,720
Speaker 2: But the disconnect and the divide is like where there's

480
00:25:23,720 --> 00:25:25,120
Speaker 2: a four K in a road, you go that way,

481
00:25:25,160 --> 00:25:29,480
Speaker 2: I go this other way. Is you're acting like anyone

482
00:25:30,040 --> 00:25:34,480
Speaker 2: who got an opportunity due to nepotism never panned out

483
00:25:34,520 --> 00:25:37,200
Speaker 2: to be anything, you know what I mean? Like that

484
00:25:37,240 --> 00:25:39,399
Speaker 2: there's a difference right there. Okay, you're bent about the

485
00:25:39,400 --> 00:25:44,359
Speaker 2: initial opportunity. Okay, I can't tell you you're automatically wrong

486
00:25:44,400 --> 00:25:46,920
Speaker 2: if that's how you feel. But if you think that

487
00:25:47,640 --> 00:25:51,240
Speaker 2: Bronni will never be any good whatsoever just because he

488
00:25:51,359 --> 00:25:54,600
Speaker 2: got that initial opportunity because of nepotism.

489
00:25:54,560 --> 00:25:55,560
Speaker 3: I don't agree with that.

490
00:25:55,640 --> 00:25:59,960
Speaker 2: Like, think how many opportunities have come over the years,

491
00:26:00,440 --> 00:26:05,560
Speaker 2: whether it's an athlete in basketball or football, or like ownership.

492
00:26:05,640 --> 00:26:10,679
Speaker 2: Think about how many times like a guy owns a

493
00:26:10,760 --> 00:26:13,840
Speaker 2: team and then passes it on to his kids who

494
00:26:13,880 --> 00:26:17,800
Speaker 2: never would have gotten that opportunity if not for that nepotism,

495
00:26:17,840 --> 00:26:19,600
Speaker 2: and then turned out to be really good at what

496
00:26:19,680 --> 00:26:21,119
Speaker 2: they did as well.

497
00:26:21,160 --> 00:26:22,000
Speaker 3: Like that happens.

498
00:26:22,080 --> 00:26:25,920
Speaker 2: Just because you get an opportunity that you probably wouldn't

499
00:26:25,960 --> 00:26:28,879
Speaker 2: have gotten if not for that relationship or if not

500
00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:33,280
Speaker 2: for that nepotism. That doesn't mean you're automatically doomed to

501
00:26:33,400 --> 00:26:36,200
Speaker 2: failure and you're never going to be anything.

502
00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:37,320
Speaker 3: So that's right.

503
00:26:37,359 --> 00:26:39,600
Speaker 2: I can understand people being upset about it.

504
00:26:39,640 --> 00:26:42,320
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm not, but if you are, I get it.

505
00:26:43,080 --> 00:26:45,639
Speaker 2: But to act like he's never going to amount to

506
00:26:45,720 --> 00:26:50,199
Speaker 2: something because he initially got that opportunity you thought he

507
00:26:50,280 --> 00:26:52,399
Speaker 2: didn't deserve, I just don't agree with that. There are

508
00:26:52,440 --> 00:26:54,919
Speaker 2: many examples of that being the case where they do

509
00:26:55,040 --> 00:26:57,719
Speaker 2: pan out and they are good at something they wouldn't

510
00:26:57,720 --> 00:27:00,320
Speaker 2: have gotten. Opportunity in happens a lot.

511
00:27:00,720 --> 00:27:07,159
Speaker 4: It happens a lot. And look, I understand if you

512
00:27:07,200 --> 00:27:11,200
Speaker 4: know you are getting passed up for jobs because nepotism.

513
00:27:11,280 --> 00:27:13,960
Speaker 4: I get how that would make someone. I mean, I mean,

514
00:27:14,440 --> 00:27:18,720
Speaker 4: you know, in the sports media world, Brian get passed

515
00:27:18,800 --> 00:27:21,920
Speaker 4: up for not nepotism, just like what's the right way

516
00:27:21,920 --> 00:27:24,800
Speaker 4: to put it, like, uh, cloud nepotism Like you play

517
00:27:24,880 --> 00:27:28,840
Speaker 4: more years? Right, Like it happens all the time. So

518
00:27:28,880 --> 00:27:32,199
Speaker 4: I certainly get that feeling. I totally get it. But

519
00:27:32,240 --> 00:27:34,720
Speaker 4: then if someone gets that opportunity and does really well,

520
00:27:35,160 --> 00:27:37,120
Speaker 4: I have to just be like, yeah, like they got

521
00:27:37,119 --> 00:27:38,880
Speaker 4: the job, and maybe I would have done as well,

522
00:27:38,960 --> 00:27:41,480
Speaker 4: but they've earned that opportunity. Now that they've gone in,

523
00:27:42,040 --> 00:27:44,000
Speaker 4: they've earned that chance. I would imagine that, you know,

524
00:27:45,400 --> 00:27:49,720
Speaker 4: you know, uh, what's uh, what's Iron Eagle's son. Noah's

525
00:27:49,800 --> 00:27:51,480
Speaker 4: really good. I'm sure people really good.

526
00:27:51,720 --> 00:27:52,320
Speaker 3: Yeah.

527
00:27:52,320 --> 00:27:53,840
Speaker 4: I can't believe he's getting a job over me.

528
00:27:55,080 --> 00:27:58,120
Speaker 3: Call it Olympic basketball. He's done a great job. Will

529
00:27:58,119 --> 00:27:58,800
Speaker 3: be the NBC.

530
00:27:59,359 --> 00:28:02,719
Speaker 4: Yeah, sure. So there are there are chang there are

531
00:28:02,880 --> 00:28:05,240
Speaker 4: times when they do end up you ends up panning

532
00:28:05,280 --> 00:28:10,679
Speaker 4: out and look again for Bronny. The the best case scenarios,

533
00:28:10,720 --> 00:28:14,560
Speaker 4: he is a career backup. You know, he he plays

534
00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:17,080
Speaker 4: six seven years. Maybe he's a two way deal, or

535
00:28:17,080 --> 00:28:18,560
Speaker 4: he goes overseas for a few years.

536
00:28:18,560 --> 00:28:19,359
Speaker 3: Like that's it.

537
00:28:19,560 --> 00:28:21,520
Speaker 4: It's it's not no harm, no foul, right, He's not

538
00:28:21,520 --> 00:28:25,320
Speaker 4: taking a rospot from anybody. And the guy who brought

539
00:28:25,359 --> 00:28:28,040
Speaker 4: you a championship and is the face of your team

540
00:28:28,080 --> 00:28:30,439
Speaker 4: in your league and Lebron gets to be happy to

541
00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:34,560
Speaker 4: play with this kid. Yeah, I mean feels like really harmless. Brian.

542
00:28:35,040 --> 00:28:38,000
Speaker 2: Yeah. No, I think people are are very worked up,

543
00:28:38,320 --> 00:28:42,080
Speaker 2: and it might stem from, Hey, I'm incredibly fond of Lebron,

544
00:28:42,240 --> 00:28:45,040
Speaker 2: and now we get nepotism and now we're off and running,

545
00:28:45,360 --> 00:28:46,200
Speaker 2: you know, and people.

546
00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:51,880
Speaker 4: Are the Lebron hate to me just seems so misguided.

547
00:28:51,920 --> 00:28:55,239
Speaker 4: Sometimes I just don't get it. He is, he has

548
00:28:55,360 --> 00:28:56,320
Speaker 4: never gotten in trouble.

549
00:28:56,520 --> 00:28:56,720
Speaker 1: I know.

550
00:28:56,800 --> 00:28:59,720
Speaker 2: I'm kind of like you where yeah, I'll let you finish.

551
00:28:59,760 --> 00:29:01,840
Speaker 2: I mean to butt in, but I'm with you on

552
00:29:01,920 --> 00:29:06,040
Speaker 2: this where I don't understand why you can't be more

553
00:29:06,160 --> 00:29:08,360
Speaker 2: like a waffle as a sports fan, you know what

554
00:29:08,400 --> 00:29:11,720
Speaker 2: I mean, where a waffle has these sections, it's like

555
00:29:11,840 --> 00:29:15,959
Speaker 2: everything blends together. It's my sister told me about this

556
00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:18,560
Speaker 2: book where it's like men are like waffles, women are

557
00:29:18,600 --> 00:29:19,360
Speaker 2: like spaghetti.

558
00:29:19,800 --> 00:29:20,960
Speaker 3: You know, where I don't.

559
00:29:20,840 --> 00:29:24,400
Speaker 2: Know if you have a thing at your job, and

560
00:29:24,440 --> 00:29:28,240
Speaker 2: then it's this relationship with the family men, and everything's together.

561
00:29:28,440 --> 00:29:31,920
Speaker 2: You know, everything blends together. Men can separate and compartmentalize

562
00:29:31,920 --> 00:29:34,840
Speaker 2: a lot. Sports fans sure can't. I don't know what

563
00:29:34,960 --> 00:29:39,840
Speaker 2: it is. If you dislike Lebron in any capacity, about

564
00:29:39,880 --> 00:29:43,280
Speaker 2: any opinion he shared, or whatever the reason is. Somehow

565
00:29:43,400 --> 00:29:47,360
Speaker 2: they cannot separate that from Lebron James the basketball player,

566
00:29:47,480 --> 00:29:51,320
Speaker 2: Lebron James the athlete. It all blends together, and it's ridiculous.

567
00:29:51,360 --> 00:29:54,360
Speaker 2: You gotta separate stuff. I'll never I don't mean to

568
00:29:54,360 --> 00:29:57,320
Speaker 2: go on a rant, Jeff, but I remember doing radio

569
00:29:57,400 --> 00:30:00,800
Speaker 2: at the time when Michael Vick was back in the NFL.

570
00:30:01,040 --> 00:30:03,320
Speaker 2: This is after the dog fighting thing, and I can't

571
00:30:03,320 --> 00:30:05,880
Speaker 2: tell you how many people would call in he shouldn't

572
00:30:05,880 --> 00:30:08,680
Speaker 2: be considered for the MVP he was. I'm like, that

573
00:30:08,760 --> 00:30:12,560
Speaker 2: has fighting dogs, has nothing to do with his MVP credentials.

574
00:30:12,600 --> 00:30:15,240
Speaker 3: Nothing. You gotta get over it. It doesn't even apply.

575
00:30:15,800 --> 00:30:18,760
Speaker 2: But people are trying to shoehorn it in there, and

576
00:30:18,800 --> 00:30:21,640
Speaker 2: it's like, you gotta separate stuff, and people cannot separate

577
00:30:21,680 --> 00:30:23,800
Speaker 2: stuff when it comes to Lebron how they feel about

578
00:30:23,840 --> 00:30:26,960
Speaker 2: him and how unbelievable he's been throughout his career.

579
00:30:27,160 --> 00:30:30,280
Speaker 4: But I don't even I understand why people would be

580
00:30:30,360 --> 00:30:33,720
Speaker 4: would be like anti Michael Vick. Okay, I don't know

581
00:30:33,760 --> 00:30:36,440
Speaker 4: what Lebron has done to where you would be anti fair.

582
00:30:36,520 --> 00:30:39,040
Speaker 4: It's like, I just don't know what he's done. He

583
00:30:39,720 --> 00:30:42,480
Speaker 4: eleven years ago he did an hour long special with

584
00:30:42,600 --> 00:30:44,280
Speaker 4: it raised three million dollars pretty for the Boys and

585
00:30:44,320 --> 00:30:48,920
Speaker 4: Girls Club. You know, I just I don't know what

586
00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:52,840
Speaker 4: he what he did. He's a little corny with Taco

587
00:30:52,880 --> 00:30:56,680
Speaker 4: Tuesday sometimes. I don't know. He's in mid forties, dad.

588
00:30:56,760 --> 00:30:59,000
Speaker 4: I mean, I would imagine my kids probably feel him

589
00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:01,760
Speaker 4: a little corny sometimes too. I'm not forty quite yet,

590
00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:02,400
Speaker 4: but may.

591
00:31:02,240 --> 00:31:04,480
Speaker 3: He's definitely got an ego, he definitely.

592
00:31:04,520 --> 00:31:06,600
Speaker 4: But who doesn't have an ego. He's he's the best

593
00:31:06,600 --> 00:31:08,040
Speaker 4: player for twenty years.

594
00:31:08,160 --> 00:31:10,200
Speaker 3: It's been hard not to have an ego. That's fair.

595
00:31:10,240 --> 00:31:13,120
Speaker 3: But I'm just trying to I don't hate him for

596
00:31:13,120 --> 00:31:13,640
Speaker 3: these reasons.

597
00:31:13,680 --> 00:31:15,920
Speaker 4: Why I know, but it just seems so like I

598
00:31:15,960 --> 00:31:18,600
Speaker 4: get if you don't like ex player because they had

599
00:31:18,600 --> 00:31:22,160
Speaker 4: an off the court incident, right or he said he Actually,

600
00:31:22,480 --> 00:31:25,360
Speaker 4: I think it's pretty remarkable that there's some superstars like

601
00:31:25,440 --> 00:31:30,640
Speaker 4: him that have just never had Like, think about all

602
00:31:30,720 --> 00:31:34,760
Speaker 4: the attention he's had the spotlight since he was sixteen

603
00:31:34,800 --> 00:31:37,920
Speaker 4: years old playing for who was who he played for?

604
00:31:38,040 --> 00:31:42,000
Speaker 4: Was it not? Okay? Okill's St Mary's Sat Mary's. Yeah,

605
00:31:42,240 --> 00:31:44,520
Speaker 4: like he was on Sports Illustrated.

606
00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:47,800
Speaker 3: Like fifteen years old and never not one scandal.

607
00:31:48,480 --> 00:31:50,640
Speaker 4: Scandal is his son plays with him for the Lakers.

608
00:31:50,800 --> 00:31:53,920
Speaker 2: I know, it's wild, right, Like, and think of some

609
00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:57,840
Speaker 2: of the scandals that we've had of in recent years,

610
00:31:58,080 --> 00:32:01,200
Speaker 2: whether it's Deshaun Watson, Justin Talker, what have you could

611
00:32:01,240 --> 00:32:03,320
Speaker 2: just you know, rattle stuff off left and right.

612
00:32:03,520 --> 00:32:05,560
Speaker 4: Justin Tucker, by the way, so innocent that he he

613
00:32:05,600 --> 00:32:07,440
Speaker 4: accepted the right.

614
00:32:07,640 --> 00:32:10,400
Speaker 2: You know, I won't fight this ten game suspension even

615
00:32:10,440 --> 00:32:11,960
Speaker 2: though I'm completely innocent.

616
00:32:12,040 --> 00:32:14,560
Speaker 3: That that adds up. But yeah, like.

617
00:32:16,040 --> 00:32:19,400
Speaker 2: You could be bent over those things. That's something to

618
00:32:19,440 --> 00:32:22,240
Speaker 2: be upset about, Yeah, something to be angered about. Yeah,

619
00:32:22,240 --> 00:32:26,000
Speaker 2: but Lebron, I don't know, doing these goofy things begging

620
00:32:26,080 --> 00:32:29,200
Speaker 2: for more attention, which, yeah, you can roll your eyes

621
00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:33,600
Speaker 2: from time to time, but in comparison to those other things,

622
00:32:33,640 --> 00:32:38,520
Speaker 2: it's pretty ridiculous to really be upset about that. But yeah, man,

623
00:32:38,600 --> 00:32:41,160
Speaker 2: that's the way it goes. It's weird, it's strange how

624
00:32:41,200 --> 00:32:45,040
Speaker 2: that goes. But I think that factors into like put

625
00:32:45,080 --> 00:32:49,640
Speaker 2: it this way, who's who's an athlete that is so

626
00:32:50,120 --> 00:32:53,840
Speaker 2: well liked that if his son got an opportunity he

627
00:32:53,920 --> 00:32:57,360
Speaker 2: otherwise wouldn't have gotten. People wouldn't have been nearly as

628
00:32:57,440 --> 00:33:00,400
Speaker 2: upset about is there someone like Steph Curry. I don't

629
00:33:00,640 --> 00:33:02,840
Speaker 2: like Steph Curry's son gets an opportunity. I don't think

630
00:33:02,840 --> 00:33:04,440
Speaker 2: people would be nearly as.

631
00:33:06,520 --> 00:33:07,520
Speaker 4: Caitlyn Clark's daughter.

632
00:33:08,240 --> 00:33:10,840
Speaker 3: I know they would. They would be irate about that.

633
00:33:11,080 --> 00:33:14,680
Speaker 4: It was so angry. I don't know, I don't, I

634
00:33:14,680 --> 00:33:19,080
Speaker 4: don't know. I mean, it's just so unlikely to see

635
00:33:19,120 --> 00:33:21,240
Speaker 4: because it's funny. Is I was too young for the

636
00:33:21,240 --> 00:33:24,760
Speaker 4: Griffy thing? It was anyone like when King Griffey obviously

637
00:33:24,800 --> 00:33:26,080
Speaker 4: was a Hall of fame, which makes it, you know,

638
00:33:26,120 --> 00:33:28,080
Speaker 4: if Brownie was better, I think people would look at

639
00:33:28,080 --> 00:33:30,760
Speaker 4: it a little differently because a lot of times when

640
00:33:31,080 --> 00:33:33,880
Speaker 4: father son duos have played, it's been they've both been

641
00:33:33,880 --> 00:33:37,200
Speaker 4: really superstars, right, been really good, and Bronnie just is not.

642
00:33:37,640 --> 00:33:40,000
Speaker 4: And again he's a backup in the NBA at best.

643
00:33:40,760 --> 00:33:43,000
Speaker 4: I'm trying think of another player that people would be

644
00:33:43,080 --> 00:33:45,720
Speaker 4: this upset if they're if they're their their kid.

645
00:33:45,880 --> 00:33:46,960
Speaker 3: Oh as upset.

646
00:33:47,040 --> 00:33:48,719
Speaker 2: I could come up with the athletes like that, but

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Speaker 2: the opposite like not upset. You know they're they're so popular,

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Speaker 2: you're really not upset that his got this opportunity.

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Speaker 3: I think I think Steph could be on the list.

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Speaker 3: Steph is very well.

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Speaker 4: Very positive, could be thinking of any like any like

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Speaker 4: football players.

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Speaker 3: Like Mahome's kid. I don't know.

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Speaker 4: People people would not like that. That that feels impossible

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Speaker 4: to happen. Let me think of uh, could.

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Speaker 2: You before Aaron Rodgers kid?

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Speaker 3: Oh tote past?

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Speaker 4: We don't even I'm just I'm looking forward to seeing

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Speaker 4: the wife. The wife has been.

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Speaker 3: Just hiding everything in his per.

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Speaker 4: We've seen Otani's wife, like we've seen her before, like

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Speaker 4: she's been to some events, and yes, he does a

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Speaker 4: good job of hiding her, which is, uh, you know,

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Speaker 4: I don't know how they do it. I mean, obviously

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Speaker 4: that's incredible that that think about Towni's fame and that

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Speaker 4: we just really don't see his wife ever.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's pretty wild, crazy.

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Speaker 4: Like that's it's incredible how they're able to again it's

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Speaker 4: a great work life balance. If you can achieve that,

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Speaker 4: I mean, that's fantastic. I know some athletes just you

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Speaker 4: could do that. And oh Tani, can you know he

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Speaker 4: was like plus two fifty to one m v P

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Speaker 4: this year, Like the numbers seems so low, but I'm

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Speaker 4: gonna cash that chicken.

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Speaker 3: Very easily, no doubt.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's I haven't heard the same venom with like

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Speaker 2: Giannice's brother, you know, with Fanasis in the n b A.

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Speaker 4: I haven't no one better is better, worse than lebron

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Speaker 4: than Brownny.

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Speaker 3: We need to have one on one, one on one

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Speaker 3: competition