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Keep in mind we checked that 0:02:05.720 --> 0:02:07.240 a couple of times a week, so we don't check 0:02:07.280 --> 0:02:10.600 that on a, you know, every single day type basis. 0:02:10.600 --> 0:02:12.720 We are joined yet again from a man who crossed 0:02:12.720 --> 0:02:22.000 over from the four oh five David Gascons. What a weekend, amazing, gusting, 0:02:22.120 --> 0:02:23.919 and I thought you would call himself the three you 0:02:24.000 --> 0:02:28.680 are man, I'm uh, I'm huffing and puffing got back 0:02:28.720 --> 0:02:30.800 to work yesterday. I don't know if you're aware, but 0:02:31.560 --> 0:02:35.720 the state of California decide to allow allow students to 0:02:35.760 --> 0:02:39.400 go back to school, and high school football, oddly enough 0:02:39.440 --> 0:02:41.400 in southern California has taking place. So I had a 0:02:41.400 --> 0:02:45.440 game yesterday from Long Beach Pauli and Sarah High School 0:02:45.440 --> 0:02:49.520 of Guardina, and we're there fans at this Yeah, there 0:02:49.560 --> 0:02:53.000 were ye parents were allowed from Sarah to buy two 0:02:53.000 --> 0:02:56.560 tickets and so they were there. What if you're from 0:02:56.560 --> 0:03:00.359 a divorce family, could you get four tickets? I next 0:03:00.360 --> 0:03:03.880 week you can actually bulldozing their campus at least their fields. 0:03:03.880 --> 0:03:05.639 So they're playing all their road games, so I think 0:03:05.720 --> 0:03:08.360 next week they get four. But yeah, it's pretty wild. 0:03:08.440 --> 0:03:10.680 You get a handful of games for these kids, and 0:03:10.720 --> 0:03:13.120 then a lot of these guys that are signed or 0:03:13.240 --> 0:03:15.920 are getting recruited, I mean, they're right back to the 0:03:15.960 --> 0:03:17.800 Division one level in a couple of months once they 0:03:17.800 --> 0:03:21.080 graduated high school. I don't know the the dynamical of 0:03:21.120 --> 0:03:22.520 all that. I don't like what you would do if 0:03:22.520 --> 0:03:25.200 you were getting recruited at that level. But some of 0:03:25.240 --> 0:03:27.960 the coaches on both sides actually held out players from 0:03:28.000 --> 0:03:31.240 playing because they got bigger aspirations in a few months, 0:03:31.280 --> 0:03:34.280 so you don't want to damage the goods. So they're 0:03:34.280 --> 0:03:36.640 actually holding out high school. That's like a move you 0:03:36.720 --> 0:03:40.360 make in Oh really they're holding It's like an NBA 0:03:40.440 --> 0:03:43.400 team not playing Andre Drummond because they're gonna trade him 0:03:43.440 --> 0:03:45.120 and they don't want to the Cavaliers. I don't want 0:03:45.160 --> 0:03:46.640 him get hurt. Yeah. Well, I mean I think it's 0:03:46.640 --> 0:03:48.280 a little bit different though, in the sense that you're 0:03:48.320 --> 0:03:51.680 protecting the kid's future, right because God forbid, what if 0:03:51.720 --> 0:03:57.400 he tours a c l warn Achilles or Yeah, I 0:03:57.440 --> 0:04:00.920 don't I don't like the helicopter coach. I'm not a 0:04:00.960 --> 0:04:03.160 fan of it. I understand why they do it, and 0:04:03.200 --> 0:04:06.160 there's an argument to be made, but you gotta live 0:04:06.200 --> 0:04:09.200 your life, and you can't, you know, limiting risk and 0:04:09.240 --> 0:04:14.080 all that, you end up creating fear, and I think 0:04:14.320 --> 0:04:17.680 it does more damage. You can get injured doing anything, 0:04:18.000 --> 0:04:20.839 speaking of sitting in your house and a helicopter comes 0:04:20.880 --> 0:04:24.039 crashing in or whatever. I mean, things happen to be morbid, 0:04:24.160 --> 0:04:27.480 But I mean, it's your time. It's your time, how 0:04:27.480 --> 0:04:31.360 about that? Speaking of statement? Speaking of morbid, I am 0:04:31.400 --> 0:04:34.080 I'm waiting for the week that I get a set 0:04:34.080 --> 0:04:36.720 of text messages from you, and the news that you 0:04:36.800 --> 0:04:39.880 sent me is actually parody, It's not real news. It 0:04:39.960 --> 0:04:42.640 seems like every week I can't tell the news that 0:04:42.720 --> 0:04:45.840 you sent me is real or the Babylon be or 0:04:45.880 --> 0:04:51.200 the Onion like it is fucking lunacy, canceling cartoon characters 0:04:51.960 --> 0:04:58.040 and Jemima, we're canceling. I mean, Mr potato Head, that's wrong. 0:04:58.480 --> 0:05:03.479 And you know school, what's that? Gina Krano, Gina Krano. Yes, 0:05:03.720 --> 0:05:06.599 they get rid of Gina Corano. And Dr SEUs. I 0:05:06.720 --> 0:05:08.640 knew I was going to be a racist when I 0:05:08.640 --> 0:05:10.640 was a kid because I read Dr SEUs. I knew that. 0:05:10.839 --> 0:05:14.039 And Peppe Lapew. Let me tell you something. I've raped 0:05:14.080 --> 0:05:16.240 all the women I want to rape, but because of 0:05:16.279 --> 0:05:20.120 Peppe Lapew, which is none. By the way, can you 0:05:20.160 --> 0:05:22.039 believe that guests cut on? I mean, think about that, 0:05:22.080 --> 0:05:27.520 every kid doing I mean Tom and Jerry has got 0:05:27.520 --> 0:05:30.680 to be next, right, So that's violence, that's violence, and 0:05:30.760 --> 0:05:34.880 really it's mocking. You know the relationship between cat and mouse, 0:05:34.960 --> 0:05:36.800 and you know that's for all. Do you think that 0:05:36.839 --> 0:05:41.200 they will cancel Jessica Rabbit because she dressed provocatively? And 0:05:41.320 --> 0:05:44.640 who friend Roger Rabbit? Yeah, well no they were. You know, 0:05:44.800 --> 0:05:48.160 it's like they did in space jam Right, you're apparently 0:05:48.200 --> 0:05:50.520 that's a bad thing to be a sexy woman, to 0:05:50.600 --> 0:05:53.240 have a curvaceous body. He is down, You're supposed to 0:05:53.279 --> 0:05:57.000 have a very non sexy body. I don't It seems 0:05:57.160 --> 0:05:59.440 very bizarre, the whole thing. But hey, you know, but 0:06:00.040 --> 0:06:04.000 as I've said many times on the Overnight, the only difference, 0:06:04.160 --> 0:06:07.239 the only difference between now and they've always been people 0:06:07.240 --> 0:06:09.479 complaining about things, so this is all right, we should 0:06:09.480 --> 0:06:12.120 cancel this or that. But no one ever listened to them, right, 0:06:12.520 --> 0:06:16.760 People just dismissed them as losers and uh and wretched 0:06:16.920 --> 0:06:20.479 human beings. Right, And now for some reason they've been 0:06:20.520 --> 0:06:26.160 able to convert big corporations and big businesses. And now 0:06:26.200 --> 0:06:31.520 there's like this crusade has has picked up so much, um, 0:06:31.560 --> 0:06:34.599 you know, so many believers in it that now that 0:06:34.760 --> 0:06:38.479 the people that that I'm convinced these people deep down 0:06:38.480 --> 0:06:40.480 know how stupid this is, but they still play along. 0:06:40.960 --> 0:06:44.039 They still play along, and they helped spread spread the 0:06:44.160 --> 0:06:47.800 doctrine of cancel and all it takes you gotta you know, 0:06:47.800 --> 0:06:49.440 write what right. A column in the New York On 0:06:49.520 --> 0:06:51.640 op ed in the New York Times and then boom, 0:06:51.920 --> 0:06:54.839 uh no more pepper la pew. We must get rid 0:06:54.880 --> 0:06:57.320 of that, this, that and the other things so stupid 0:06:57.400 --> 0:07:01.480 and as I have pointed out also guests gut this that. Uh, 0:07:01.640 --> 0:07:07.440 if you look at something long enough, you will find 0:07:07.520 --> 0:07:10.880 something wrong. Right, if you're looking to find something racist 0:07:10.960 --> 0:07:14.840 or something you know that's outdated in pop culture, if 0:07:14.880 --> 0:07:17.560 you look at it, examine it, you will find a 0:07:17.640 --> 0:07:24.240 way that literally everything in society, in American culture is 0:07:24.320 --> 0:07:27.720 wrong in one way. And you know it's the old 0:07:27.920 --> 0:07:30.760 orwell thing which everyone brings up. The book n which 0:07:30.800 --> 0:07:32.800 I like to remind people, was actually published in nineteen 0:07:33.560 --> 0:07:36.760 and George or World died in nineteen fifty and uh, 0:07:36.840 --> 0:07:40.320 you know, seventy plus years ago, and many of his 0:07:41.040 --> 0:07:46.720 fictional fictional takes have come to reality. It's it's crazy, 0:07:46.800 --> 0:07:50.080 but they found a way, the people in these little 0:07:50.200 --> 0:07:54.920 minority groups of clicks have found the way to monetize 0:07:54.960 --> 0:07:58.720 and victimhood. And it's much like you get the booty 0:07:58.760 --> 0:08:02.760 models on Instagram or on Facebook or MySpace back in 0:08:02.800 --> 0:08:06.280 the day. They've found a way to monetize that kind 0:08:06.280 --> 0:08:09.480 of a platform, and in turn, they've created this type 0:08:09.480 --> 0:08:16.200 of echo chamber that gravitates towards other individuals as opposed 0:08:16.200 --> 0:08:20.040 to just free thinkers that are willing to challenge thoughts, 0:08:20.240 --> 0:08:24.160 opinions and sometimes information, which is a beautiful thing because 0:08:24.200 --> 0:08:26.800 we do it in the sports world on an everyday basis. 0:08:26.800 --> 0:08:29.080 We could have difference of opinions and whatnot. But it's 0:08:29.080 --> 0:08:31.840 not like it's like fuck you Ben, fuck you Dave, 0:08:31.880 --> 0:08:34.280 never talking to you again, You're a racist, You're a 0:08:34.280 --> 0:08:35.800 busy Oh no, no. But there's some of that. I mean, 0:08:36.120 --> 0:08:39.000 there's there's now even in the sports world, it's tribalism 0:08:39.000 --> 0:08:41.480 in anything. You only want to hear, you want the 0:08:41.520 --> 0:08:44.440 echo chamber that tells you that you're right and there's 0:08:44.480 --> 0:08:48.559 no other side. And it's over hyper mega sensitivity also, 0:08:48.679 --> 0:08:51.480 which is this is a big word. I think it's 0:08:51.480 --> 0:08:54.720 actually three words, but it's it's all it's all tied together. 0:08:55.120 --> 0:08:59.439 And uh yeah. And there's there's also the red herring factor, 0:09:00.240 --> 0:09:03.679 Like a lot of these things are just red herrings 0:09:03.720 --> 0:09:08.720 and their distractions right to something else. I don't know 0:09:08.720 --> 0:09:10.120 what else is going. I'm sure there's other things that 0:09:10.160 --> 0:09:14.600 we're not paying attention to. Um and and these these 0:09:14.640 --> 0:09:19.480 are just mislead they're they're misleading things that distract from 0:09:19.640 --> 0:09:22.480 something else that we probably should be paying attention to, 0:09:23.080 --> 0:09:24.960 but we're not paying attention to. So it's a very 0:09:25.000 --> 0:09:28.120 successful diversionary tactic because guys like us just scream and 0:09:28.120 --> 0:09:30.560 complain about Mr Potato Head or Answer Mim or Uncle 0:09:30.600 --> 0:09:34.960 Ben or the escobo pie, and there's other trouble brewing 0:09:35.040 --> 0:09:37.280 on the horizon. What a pain in the acid is here? 0:09:37.280 --> 0:09:40.160 What an inconvenience this is? Guess God, I'm well aware 0:09:40.160 --> 0:09:42.360 of that because you do a great job of misdirecting, 0:09:42.400 --> 0:09:45.800 typically during the NBA season when the Lakers are in 0:09:45.840 --> 0:09:48.200 a rough patch and you try to deflect from your 0:09:48.320 --> 0:09:51.480 putrid l A Clippers and the demise and the falls 0:09:51.520 --> 0:09:53.520 and demise. I mean, the Clippers have been one of 0:09:53.520 --> 0:09:56.000 the model franchises in the n B A. I know 0:09:56.080 --> 0:09:59.240 that's annoying to you. All you need to know about 0:09:59.280 --> 0:10:04.119 how important the Clippers are is the amount of blowback 0:10:04.240 --> 0:10:08.199 I get from the historians about the Clippers relocating. They 0:10:08.280 --> 0:10:11.040 the Clippers should go to the Clippers should go to 0:10:11.160 --> 0:10:15.240 loos figures, the Clippers should go to Louisville. Yeah, yeah, 0:10:15.559 --> 0:10:19.280 it's so funny. You're so jealous of the popularity of 0:10:19.280 --> 0:10:21.240 the Clippers any and really, what it is about the 0:10:21.240 --> 0:10:24.560 Clippers that really annoys people is that that's the working 0:10:24.600 --> 0:10:27.959 class team, the Lakers, of the Hollywood elites. And it 0:10:28.080 --> 0:10:29.880 must bother a guy like you get. I mean, you're 0:10:29.920 --> 0:10:31.520 west of the four or five and all that, you're 0:10:31.559 --> 0:10:34.960 part of that crowd. But that's what the Lakers symbolize. 0:10:35.040 --> 0:10:41.000 Lakers symbolize elitism. They symbolize um, the one percenters, the 0:10:41.120 --> 0:10:46.240 one percenters, and the Clippers are are the antithesis of that. 0:10:46.240 --> 0:10:49.880 That they represent the working class. Right. They're not about 0:10:50.040 --> 0:10:55.960 the the privileged status in society that you are. No, no, no, 0:10:56.160 --> 0:10:58.120 they're they're the people that roll up their sleeve, the 0:10:58.559 --> 0:11:02.439 blue collar worker. And it bothers the because a lot 0:11:02.440 --> 0:11:05.559 of the Laker fans actually are like that, and it must, 0:11:05.679 --> 0:11:09.600 deep down on some level trouble them greatly that they 0:11:09.640 --> 0:11:13.800 are supporting the privilege, the heimbrow. They're not like that. 0:11:13.880 --> 0:11:16.720 They should really become Clipper fans because that's the team, 0:11:16.880 --> 0:11:19.880 the people's team. We call it the people's team for 0:11:19.920 --> 0:11:23.600 a reason. They're not the one percenter's team. That's the Lakers. Yeah, Well, 0:11:23.720 --> 0:11:27.040 nothing says working class quite like the guy that invented 0:11:27.120 --> 0:11:29.920 load management in Kawhi Leonard and also the other guy 0:11:29.960 --> 0:11:32.920 that doesn't show up in the postseason and Paul George. 0:11:32.960 --> 0:11:36.760 So yeah, that's like the That is your typical blue collar, 0:11:36.920 --> 0:11:40.600 hard hat worker showing up to work unless he does 0:11:40.600 --> 0:11:45.000 it well. You support a franchise that took COVID relief 0:11:45.040 --> 0:11:48.400 funds that were designed for mom and pop businesses. Yes, 0:11:48.440 --> 0:11:51.880 you take Genie Bus and the Lakers put a claim 0:11:51.880 --> 0:11:56.960 in to get money, taking away money from people that 0:11:57.120 --> 0:12:00.600 needed that money. Uh, that was not design for them. 0:12:00.640 --> 0:12:03.840 A billion dollar business like the Lakers, that's who you support. 0:12:03.920 --> 0:12:07.720 You also support Lebron James, who loves to say he 0:12:07.760 --> 0:12:10.240 has an opinion about everything. I didn't see him have 0:12:10.320 --> 0:12:13.080 much to say this week about Meyers Leonard of the 0:12:13.120 --> 0:12:15.440 Miami He set that one out. I guess he shut 0:12:15.520 --> 0:12:17.920 up and dribbled at the beginning of that whole Meyers 0:12:18.040 --> 0:12:20.800 Leonard controversy in Miami. Of course, Lebron has had his 0:12:20.800 --> 0:12:26.800 own anti Semitic problems. You support Lebron James, who's used 0:12:27.120 --> 0:12:31.160 anti semitism via music in the past. There So that's 0:12:31.200 --> 0:12:34.079 what you have as a Laker fan. I don't support 0:12:34.120 --> 0:12:36.240 what the players do. But I do support Jennie Buzz 0:12:36.280 --> 0:12:38.480 for what she was doing. It's just gamesmanship, right, I 0:12:38.480 --> 0:12:41.080 mean she's taking advantage of the system. I mean we 0:12:41.360 --> 0:12:45.640 live in a state which gave out millions and millions 0:12:45.679 --> 0:12:49.719 and millions. You support corporations taking morning that is designed 0:12:50.080 --> 0:12:53.920 for struggling people's the US government has been doing. You're horrible. 0:12:54.040 --> 0:12:58.840 You're a wretched human being. You are a wretched ignorant, unaware, 0:12:59.040 --> 0:13:04.080 un educating with being. I'm very aware of what's going on, snob, 0:13:04.520 --> 0:13:08.280 pompous a whole. I got a bachelor's degree from San 0:13:08.320 --> 0:13:12.920 Diego State of master's from Northeastern University, Kumlanie graduate as well, 0:13:12.960 --> 0:13:16.360 with a a glorious g p A. I would say that, yeah, 0:13:16.559 --> 0:13:20.080 and you have no Yeah, you're educated, but your book smart. 0:13:20.120 --> 0:13:23.520 But I'm street smart, Okay, And there's a difference here, right, 0:13:23.800 --> 0:13:28.360 there's a difference book smart versus street smart. I attended 0:13:28.440 --> 0:13:31.560 the School of Hard Knocks and then I also I 0:13:31.640 --> 0:13:34.240 have a minor from the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and 0:13:34.240 --> 0:13:38.440 Bailey clown College. So I combined street smarts with a 0:13:38.520 --> 0:13:42.400 clown College degree, and I have both. I have both 0:13:42.559 --> 0:13:45.800 and street smarts beats book smarts in a fist fight 0:13:46.000 --> 0:13:53.000 every single time, every single time you goober you. I'm 0:13:53.000 --> 0:13:55.440 a little I'm a little offended by this conversation. I 0:13:55.440 --> 0:13:57.640 feel like you're attacking me. I don't feel comfortable in 0:13:57.720 --> 0:14:01.240 my own skin right now. I feel very like a 0:14:01.280 --> 0:14:05.360 safe space. Like you want to need my bubble, I 0:14:05.440 --> 0:14:07.480 need my echo chamber. Can I get my echo chaver? 0:14:08.360 --> 0:14:11.839 I understand, Well, don't worry. Call blowing to the bugle goal. 0:14:11.920 --> 0:14:14.680 The local roddy will come down. They will come down 0:14:14.760 --> 0:14:19.080 from the mountaintops. They are here just getting the fetal position. 0:14:19.120 --> 0:14:21.800 Start sucking your thumb. Everything will be all right. We 0:14:21.840 --> 0:14:24.680 have a selfie station over to the right there and 0:14:24.800 --> 0:14:28.240 uh and I think tomorrow is the day the therapy dogs, 0:14:28.440 --> 0:14:31.480 the weekly therapy dogs coming there to manage your anxiety. 0:14:31.520 --> 0:14:33.040 So everything will be good. Now, do you think it's 0:14:33.160 --> 0:14:34.680 there's a chance that we can put you on a 0:14:34.720 --> 0:14:37.920 recall list, much like our district attorney here in Los 0:14:37.920 --> 0:14:41.200 Angeles and our governor in the state of California? Can 0:14:41.240 --> 0:14:44.720 we do that for you? Attacking the hard working individuals 0:14:44.720 --> 0:14:48.720 like myself to support your show. Now, are you against 0:14:48.840 --> 0:14:53.800 the district attorney that has the same name as you, 0:14:54.320 --> 0:14:57.720 the same last name signed the recall petition for real, 0:14:58.280 --> 0:15:04.720 So it's gascon Verse is against gascone, the campaign Gascons 0:15:04.720 --> 0:15:08.600 against Gascone. Gavin Newsom has got over two million signatures 0:15:08.640 --> 0:15:11.720 on his recall petition too, So I'll be fascinated to 0:15:11.760 --> 0:15:14.320 see what happens in the coming days and weeks with 0:15:14.320 --> 0:15:16.320 with both guys that are under the well listen, UH, 0:15:16.680 --> 0:15:20.280 we got a lot of venomous snakes in California politics here, 0:15:20.720 --> 0:15:24.880 and let's get rid of the venom uh. And I 0:15:24.920 --> 0:15:28.000 look forward to the day. If you have atomic waste, 0:15:28.040 --> 0:15:31.240 you must dispose of that atomic waste. And these people 0:15:31.600 --> 0:15:33.560 I feel like I need a hazmat suit living in 0:15:34.160 --> 0:15:39.160 uh in California where I do there, and you know, 0:15:39.000 --> 0:15:42.120 you know the obviously the problem is this, I mean, 0:15:42.360 --> 0:15:45.720 the people, the electorate of California keep voting for the 0:15:45.760 --> 0:15:48.720 same type of people. So it's like, you're gonna get 0:15:48.840 --> 0:15:51.920 rid of Gavin Newsom. I believe he's done and Gascone 0:15:52.040 --> 0:15:54.640 is done, but then you're gonna bring in some more 0:15:54.680 --> 0:15:57.200 flotsam and jetsam. You know. It's it's like the guys, 0:15:57.320 --> 0:15:59.960 this old dude I was in line at Walmart return 0:16:00.280 --> 0:16:02.080 something years ago. I've told the story a few times, 0:16:02.080 --> 0:16:04.480 but it's old guy who was living in Texas. He 0:16:04.520 --> 0:16:07.600 was out in California visiting some relatives and it was 0:16:07.640 --> 0:16:09.920 a long we were online, it was a long line 0:16:10.040 --> 0:16:12.320 and he starts talking. I don't like to talk to anybody. 0:16:12.560 --> 0:16:14.600 I like to keep to myself. I'm an introvert. But 0:16:14.600 --> 0:16:16.600 he wanted to talk to him like a nice guy, 0:16:16.800 --> 0:16:19.000 and uh, I was like, all right, whatever. We started 0:16:19.040 --> 0:16:21.760 talking and he just started ranting and raving about how 0:16:21.800 --> 0:16:25.040 he's lived in Texas all these years, and all you know, 0:16:25.080 --> 0:16:29.040 this this influx of Californians and they all they all 0:16:29.080 --> 0:16:30.600 say the same thing he's tell me. He's like, well, 0:16:30.640 --> 0:16:34.000 they leave California because they don't like what California is, 0:16:34.120 --> 0:16:36.760 and they don't like the politics in California, and they 0:16:36.800 --> 0:16:39.920 go to Texas and they metiate. They then immediately vote 0:16:39.920 --> 0:16:45.120 in the same garbage politicians, the same mindset of the politicians, 0:16:45.600 --> 0:16:48.720 and so they bring the problems they had in California 0:16:49.200 --> 0:16:52.560 with them to Texas. They bring the sewer of California 0:16:52.680 --> 0:16:57.320 to Texas. And it's happening. It's it's crazy. Whatever happened? 0:16:57.440 --> 0:17:01.560 Holding everybody accountable, not just one cical party, but everybody, 0:17:01.600 --> 0:17:06.560 including so called experts that work in these different industries. Well, 0:17:06.560 --> 0:17:13.720 it's entertainment, news, weather, medicine, politics, athletes, celebrities, like whatever 0:17:13.880 --> 0:17:20.120 happened to that? Never around? Yeah, I mean, well it's 0:17:20.160 --> 0:17:22.679 it's it's something to the to the effect. There's a 0:17:22.720 --> 0:17:26.160 famous quote there about whoever controls the media, the images, 0:17:26.200 --> 0:17:30.639 controls the culture, and one side of the political process 0:17:30.720 --> 0:17:35.520 in America controls the culture because they control me. I 0:17:35.560 --> 0:17:37.440 think that's an Alan Ginsburg quote, by the way, I 0:17:37.440 --> 0:17:40.359 think that's a but it's, uh, it is true. I mean, 0:17:40.400 --> 0:17:45.520 whoever controls the media and they have control over the culture. 0:17:45.640 --> 0:17:48.959 So that's that's you can say who's at fault at that? 0:17:49.080 --> 0:17:52.280 And you know that's really should be the battle. I 0:17:52.280 --> 0:17:53.879 mean that that's got to be the beginning of the 0:17:53.880 --> 0:17:56.320 battle if you're talking about you know, red versus blue, 0:17:56.680 --> 0:18:01.480 Blue controls the media and so that's that's really an 0:18:01.480 --> 0:18:04.080 issue with Team read that they let that happen. They 0:18:04.080 --> 0:18:08.320 did not do enough to control have some say in 0:18:08.680 --> 0:18:13.040 the images and the things that are being spread in 0:18:13.560 --> 0:18:15.359 the media. Landscape, as we know because we work in 0:18:15.440 --> 0:18:17.800 media is much different now. It used to be just 0:18:17.840 --> 0:18:19.920 a few channels and a few places and a few 0:18:19.920 --> 0:18:25.840 big newspapers, and now everyone is their own media empire. Yeah. Well, 0:18:25.960 --> 0:18:28.880 whatever the cases with media, I I must admit that 0:18:29.000 --> 0:18:32.000 no matter what happens day and night, I will continue 0:18:32.000 --> 0:18:36.359 to fall follow the color green that is our stock market, 0:18:36.560 --> 0:18:40.879 and it is piping hot for some people. Um, I 0:18:41.000 --> 0:18:43.440 must encourage you to one day get out of your 0:18:43.440 --> 0:18:47.920 comfort zone and start tailing if you will. Um, you 0:18:48.000 --> 0:18:49.280 got a lot of You got a lot of things 0:18:49.280 --> 0:18:51.800 to make up for, especially since those bad stock picks 0:18:51.800 --> 0:18:55.080 by a blind Scott and the well, it was a weed. 0:18:55.200 --> 0:18:58.720 It was a weed stock where I've lost about of 0:18:58.760 --> 0:19:02.160 what I put into it and it got the original 0:19:02.200 --> 0:19:06.400 business was bought by somebody else and then uh yeah, 0:19:06.480 --> 0:19:10.200 I went I lost a bunch of But actually I've 0:19:10.240 --> 0:19:12.760 been doing better this this last weekend. Again. My new 0:19:12.800 --> 0:19:15.399 thing is that I am only now from now on 0:19:15.400 --> 0:19:20.680 only buying stocks that are paying dividends as a nice 0:19:20.720 --> 0:19:23.240 way to make a little more a little more income, 0:19:23.280 --> 0:19:25.920 a little more income there, and you know see how 0:19:25.960 --> 0:19:28.000 that goes. I'll try that. And because that way I 0:19:28.000 --> 0:19:31.040 look at it, I'm not as depended obviously making more 0:19:31.040 --> 0:19:33.399 if the stock price goes up and whatnot. But as 0:19:33.480 --> 0:19:36.000 long as the divod end is where they say it's 0:19:36.000 --> 0:19:40.160 gonna be, then that's fine. That's a good spot. I'm 0:19:40.160 --> 0:19:42.359 okay with that. Speaking of investments, I need to ask 0:19:42.359 --> 0:19:45.119 you this personal question. Since you have been a huge 0:19:45.200 --> 0:19:47.920 jock since the days that you were born watching sports. 0:19:48.720 --> 0:19:54.160 If you had a prize possession your favorite player, basketball, baseball, football, hockey, 0:19:54.240 --> 0:19:57.080 whatever it may be, and you had a prize possession 0:19:57.119 --> 0:20:00.440 and you found out it was worth a significant amount 0:20:00.440 --> 0:20:04.879 of money in today's market, would you depart with that 0:20:05.000 --> 0:20:07.480 item and sell it for profit or would you keep 0:20:07.520 --> 0:20:13.959 it because of sentimental and nostalgic reasons? Uh? See, there 0:20:14.000 --> 0:20:16.879 must be something you're getting at here that I don't know. Uh. 0:20:16.920 --> 0:20:21.800 You know, it really would depend on how I was financially, 0:20:22.400 --> 0:20:25.840 but I have because of some life events that I've 0:20:25.960 --> 0:20:29.280 experienced here in recent years, I would be more inclined 0:20:29.320 --> 0:20:32.080 to get rid of it. Oh. I would be more 0:20:32.119 --> 0:20:33.720 inclined to get rid of it than I had been 0:20:33.720 --> 0:20:36.760 in the past, because I have learned from having people 0:20:36.840 --> 0:20:38.280 very close to me pass away that you don't get 0:20:38.280 --> 0:20:40.640 to take anything with you. It's not it's not like 0:20:40.680 --> 0:20:42.600 we're in in the Middle East back in the day, 0:20:43.119 --> 0:20:45.440 you know the tombs where they put all your jewels 0:20:45.480 --> 0:20:48.000 and all your gold, and they built these big, massive, 0:20:48.720 --> 0:20:52.560 uh structures and what. But no, you're done. You check 0:20:52.600 --> 0:20:55.280 out with everything you came with, which is nothing. So 0:20:55.920 --> 0:20:58.600 that's so I'd be more inclined to do it. All right, 0:20:59.000 --> 0:21:01.200 what about what what you referring? Well, the reason why 0:21:01.160 --> 0:21:04.920 I'm asking is because I have an old nineteen eighty 0:21:05.080 --> 0:21:10.399 four tops rookie card of of John Elway and a 0:21:10.440 --> 0:21:12.159 colleague of ours, Mike Carmen, who we had on the 0:21:12.160 --> 0:21:17.280 podcast a few weeks ago, he sent me comps on 0:21:17.440 --> 0:21:20.280 that same card that was getting auctioned off at certain 0:21:20.320 --> 0:21:24.920 events and the range was anywhere from seventy two to 0:21:25.000 --> 0:21:28.679 a hundred and twenty five thousand dollars. And obviously you 0:21:28.680 --> 0:21:32.000 need to get these cards graded. But you know that's 0:21:32.240 --> 0:21:35.280 that's the don't just dismiss getting them graded. That's a 0:21:35.440 --> 0:21:39.320 very expensive process. Yeah, well, I'm already in the process 0:21:39.400 --> 0:21:41.440 of doing that. So you have sent the card in, Yeah, 0:21:41.480 --> 0:21:44.080 I have, all right, then you're on your way. Yeah, 0:21:44.160 --> 0:21:46.359 but just a piggyback off of that, had a buddy 0:21:46.400 --> 0:21:49.280 of mine that actually has a handful of old school 0:21:50.040 --> 0:21:53.720 Kobe Bryant. Like David Robinson, I think he has a 0:21:53.840 --> 0:21:58.359 Bird Rookie card as well. Um, So I'm you're curious 0:21:58.359 --> 0:22:00.760 if if those are your child the hood of heroes 0:22:00.840 --> 0:22:03.400 or what you adored growing up as as a kid 0:22:03.880 --> 0:22:08.080 watching sports, like where is that push pull? And you 0:22:08.160 --> 0:22:11.840 mentioned obviously with your life circumstances, but Fox Sports Radio 0:22:11.920 --> 0:22:14.720 has the best sports talk lineup in the nation. Catch 0:22:14.840 --> 0:22:17.640 all of our shows at Fox Sports Radio dot com 0:22:18.240 --> 0:22:20.840 and within the I Heart Radio app search f s 0:22:21.040 --> 0:22:24.320 R to listen live. Well, No, I mean I'm facing 0:22:24.400 --> 0:22:31.280 a similar conundrum here, quagmire, because I um, with the 0:22:31.359 --> 0:22:34.359 events that took place this year, I now have everything 0:22:34.440 --> 0:22:36.000 that I had been kind of like holding away in 0:22:36.119 --> 0:22:37.720 story when I was a kid has come back to 0:22:37.800 --> 0:22:41.919 me like a boomerang. And some of it is actually 0:22:41.960 --> 0:22:43.639 worth a lot. Of it's not worth anything. Some of 0:22:43.720 --> 0:22:48.480 it is worth a lot, And obviously for sentimentality in nostalgia, 0:22:48.720 --> 0:22:52.879 you would like to hold on to that. Um, but 0:22:53.920 --> 0:23:00.200