WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.520 --> 00:00:08.080 This is I on the Wall with Steve Rivera and Jakonsalis on Fox Sports fourteen 2 00:00:08.640 --> 00:00:14.279 powered by Nova Insurance Services. Hey, sure your most prized possessions, katz 3 00:00:14.679 --> 00:00:18.640 R two SID and i Heeart Radio Station. Yet the good afternoon, everybody. 4 00:00:18.640 --> 00:00:21.480 Welcome to I on the Ball here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm 5 00:00:21.480 --> 00:00:26.359 Steve Rivera, He's Jakin's also got a guy Jason in today working machines. 6 00:00:26.440 --> 00:00:30.199 Hopefully everything will go okay today. We did okay yesterday though, didn't we 7 00:00:30.320 --> 00:00:32.520 except for the stepper didn't come on at the start. We didn't know what 8 00:00:32.719 --> 00:00:36.119 one of the buttons was not pressed. Okay, cool, Cool, It's 9 00:00:36.119 --> 00:00:39.000 Wednesday. It's hot at the beginning of the summer. Yeah, it's getting 10 00:00:39.039 --> 00:00:41.920 hot. Sucks, it is what it is. Let to see you. 11 00:00:41.960 --> 00:00:46.719 Jason. Wasn't sure you'd be here after last night's Denver win. Yeah, 12 00:00:46.719 --> 00:00:50.200 I'm not worried about it, so I am. Yeah, I am. 13 00:00:50.600 --> 00:00:53.439 Good game last night. Yeah, but you know, um, you know, 14 00:00:53.520 --> 00:00:56.399 Denver got out on them big. But the you know, the Roaring 15 00:00:56.439 --> 00:01:00.200 Back, the Lakers stayed with it and gave themselves, gave them was a 16 00:01:00.240 --> 00:01:03.679 chance to win. Darn hand man. Some adjudgments. So that was good 17 00:01:03.679 --> 00:01:07.560 to see some in game adjustments let the Lakers come back into the game. 18 00:01:07.879 --> 00:01:11.079 So you kind of feel almost like, even though the Lakers are down you 19 00:01:11.120 --> 00:01:15.159 know, one zip, it was almost a win a win win situation for 20 00:01:15.159 --> 00:01:18.120 them because the Lakers, you know, they were getting blown out then didn't 21 00:01:18.120 --> 00:01:19.879 get blown out. So certainly they have to feel good about that. You 22 00:01:19.920 --> 00:01:23.879 know, you're supposed to lose on the road in the playoffs and so, 23 00:01:23.439 --> 00:01:26.280 um, you know, I'm I'm thinking the Lakers feel pretty decent about themselves 24 00:01:26.760 --> 00:01:30.000 the way they came back, and then obviously Denver feels good because they won. 25 00:01:30.640 --> 00:01:34.599 Yeah, I would say so. Obviously there's no more victories than playoffs. 26 00:01:34.640 --> 00:01:38.599 But I think all things considering, the Lakers feel pretty good about where 27 00:01:38.599 --> 00:01:42.400 they're at. Um, they were able to you know, close the gap 28 00:01:42.719 --> 00:01:46.439 in the game to make it a you know, respectable loss, and so 29 00:01:46.879 --> 00:01:49.799 I think they feel pretty good. They beat the point spread. I bet 30 00:01:49.840 --> 00:01:53.280 they feel good about that defense. Who better. Yes, Yeah, that's 31 00:01:53.280 --> 00:01:57.159 why you didn't bet it unless you guided at six, right, because it 32 00:01:57.239 --> 00:02:00.040 was the line was six and a half that I saw right before the game. 33 00:02:00.480 --> 00:02:04.680 I didn't do anything with it. Steve. I, I you know, 34 00:02:05.200 --> 00:02:07.400 I let you off the hook. I figured with about two minutes stuff. 35 00:02:07.400 --> 00:02:10.639 I said, Damn Jay, he probably pulled the trigger on something. 36 00:02:12.120 --> 00:02:15.319 He's got some bad mojo. I know you thought that, dude, Jason, 37 00:02:15.759 --> 00:02:17.960 Yeah, I thought it might go out my favorite but you know, 38 00:02:19.199 --> 00:02:22.639 yeah, well you were hoping for the way. Yeah, the kiss of 39 00:02:22.680 --> 00:02:25.120 death hit one of my fantasy pictures. Today, Dust and May for the 40 00:02:25.159 --> 00:02:29.439 Dodgers, came out, came out with a he had you know, he 41 00:02:29.479 --> 00:02:34.719 had Tommy John surgery last year, and he came out with a painful right 42 00:02:34.759 --> 00:02:38.319 elbow. So haven't said, you know what the deal is. But he 43 00:02:38.159 --> 00:02:42.280 came out in the first inning, so he can even last long. Another 44 00:02:42.520 --> 00:02:45.960 another one bites the dust, another one bites the DUTs. Okay, okay, 45 00:02:46.000 --> 00:02:46.960 so we got two minutes. If you want a call. We have 46 00:02:47.000 --> 00:02:52.240 a pretty good show today, eclectic show. Uh should be fun. It 47 00:02:52.240 --> 00:02:57.159 should be fun. Jan Yeah, we talked to him about three four weeks 48 00:02:57.159 --> 00:02:59.960 ago. Right, we talk about the season opener. Now, I'm interested 49 00:03:00.080 --> 00:03:01.560 about being an owner in the FC two song. Right, they put a 50 00:03:01.599 --> 00:03:05.520 thing out on social media that you can invest in the team, you can 51 00:03:05.560 --> 00:03:07.680 be a part owner. Well, ask him, you know what do you 52 00:03:07.719 --> 00:03:09.800 get with that? Right? Right? And uh, you know and and 53 00:03:09.800 --> 00:03:13.520 and you know what's really what's the purpose? You know, what are they 54 00:03:13.560 --> 00:03:15.360 doing this? You know, is it a Green Bay Packers thing where they 55 00:03:15.360 --> 00:03:19.319 just want the community to be invested in it. Yeah, you know, 56 00:03:19.360 --> 00:03:22.319 it's probably not an opportunity to you know, make any money if you're an 57 00:03:22.319 --> 00:03:24.840 investor, but it's an opportunity to raise money for them because people say, 58 00:03:25.199 --> 00:03:29.240 you know, all these people who are part owners of the packers, they 59 00:03:29.240 --> 00:03:31.199 don't make any money off. Yeah, they don't get any pro They can 60 00:03:31.240 --> 00:03:35.439 just say they've got a you know, I want a thing on the wall 61 00:03:35.479 --> 00:03:39.759 that says I'm a part owner. They get discord of tickets something we'll check. 62 00:03:39.800 --> 00:03:43.400 I don't know, we'll see, but we'll see what all that means. 63 00:03:43.439 --> 00:03:46.360 But yeah, he's uh, they're listening, uh for people to invest 64 00:03:46.400 --> 00:03:51.280 in in a FC two soon. Also ask him about this, this women's 65 00:03:51.280 --> 00:03:53.680 pro soccer team and does FC two soon have anything to do with that? 66 00:03:54.479 --> 00:04:00.560 Uh? USL women's Pro team coming to coming to Tucson. Okay, I 67 00:04:00.599 --> 00:04:02.759 didn't know that. You didn't see that. I got announced At the same 68 00:04:02.800 --> 00:04:06.120 time a couple of days ago. I don't, I don't, I don't. 69 00:04:06.319 --> 00:04:11.080 I don't think you got put out as an FC two song, okay, 70 00:04:11.280 --> 00:04:13.759 or if it is, that's not how I read it. It's just 71 00:04:14.280 --> 00:04:16.079 I don't know if it's a separate franchise or we'll ask okay, cool, 72 00:04:16.120 --> 00:04:20.879 cool. And then in the second hour, we're gonna have the Jay Perry, 73 00:04:21.319 --> 00:04:25.959 a female. She runs the committee to the CEO, the female jed, 74 00:04:26.439 --> 00:04:30.600 I made a mistake when you know, um Andrew Andy. Uh, 75 00:04:31.199 --> 00:04:35.560 he's a friend of but forget to beg now Yeah, okay, So so 76 00:04:35.600 --> 00:04:39.879 he's ahead of a PR guy. So he sent me this note. Do 77 00:04:39.920 --> 00:04:41.920 you want to have her on? I said, oh, jay on? 78 00:04:42.040 --> 00:04:46.439 I think sure? Let him know. No, No, her name is 79 00:04:46.519 --> 00:04:48.759 Jay Perry. Yeah. So former of the Super Bowl, right, she 80 00:04:48.879 --> 00:04:53.560 ran the she ran the last super Bowl host commedie and now she's running the 81 00:04:53.560 --> 00:04:56.879 final four host commedie. So you know, just continuing to work. You 82 00:04:56.920 --> 00:04:59.560 know, how do you get that job right? How do you get right? 83 00:04:59.680 --> 00:05:02.560 But that's what's the career ladder jobs they do that The super Bowl is 84 00:05:02.560 --> 00:05:05.319 pretty big deal and this one. See what they have planned because she was 85 00:05:05.360 --> 00:05:09.920 in town today to talk I guess maybe do some pr stuff in the in 86 00:05:09.920 --> 00:05:12.800 the community. So we'll see a ball all about that. She's gonna call 87 00:05:12.879 --> 00:05:15.399 him maybe ten minutes or so. Yep, Um, so that'd be fun. 88 00:05:15.439 --> 00:05:16.480 That'll be fun, and then we'll take your calls. A lot of 89 00:05:16.600 --> 00:05:20.360 interesting breaking news locally that has some local stuff to it. Uh. You 90 00:05:20.399 --> 00:05:24.519 didn't go to the baseball today, did you? There was a they had 91 00:05:24.519 --> 00:05:28.439 a press cover with Chip Hale, Uh to talk about what's going on. 92 00:05:28.920 --> 00:05:31.000 Um, maybe maybe we'll see what's going on tomorrow. They got a big 93 00:05:31.000 --> 00:05:33.720 series against the USCA. Again. You gotta win. They gotta win. 94 00:05:33.720 --> 00:05:36.639 They got they're just trying to get into the packed off tournament because there's only 95 00:05:36.720 --> 00:05:41.199 nine teams get in and they're tied for ninth place right now with Cal you 96 00:05:41.279 --> 00:05:44.120 know, so, uh, you know, they gotta get They just gotta 97 00:05:44.160 --> 00:05:47.000 get in the tournament to have any shot. But you know, I I 98 00:05:47.040 --> 00:05:49.600 think you know, I think it's pretty as they gotta win the tournament. 99 00:05:50.399 --> 00:05:53.240 Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, you know to do it, they're not 100 00:05:53.279 --> 00:05:57.720 gonna get in that kind of like probably the women's the women, Um, 101 00:05:58.240 --> 00:06:00.879 I always we're gonna have hikey on tomorrow. I don't know how all couches, 102 00:06:00.920 --> 00:06:03.279 but I probably asked ask you the questions like how we do um, 103 00:06:03.839 --> 00:06:06.079 And I've said this to you, Jane, I think you've agreed with me. 104 00:06:06.680 --> 00:06:12.759 I thought the fall sports were the anchor sports and made this universe. 105 00:06:12.800 --> 00:06:15.120 She kind of come back feeling a feeling of a nice comeback right over the 106 00:06:15.199 --> 00:06:18.800 last few years, right, not this year. No, it's been a 107 00:06:18.800 --> 00:06:23.199 struggle, you know, um, you know, I mean the basketball team 108 00:06:23.240 --> 00:06:27.680 did great but then left a bad taste and everybody, yeah, and women's 109 00:06:27.879 --> 00:06:30.759 women's as well, and then you know, again the you know, the 110 00:06:30.360 --> 00:06:34.720 signature spring sports baseball and softball haven't done well. Tracks done okay, Golf, 111 00:06:34.800 --> 00:06:38.560 tennis, Yeah, all those teams did okay. But you know when 112 00:06:38.600 --> 00:06:42.920 you hang your hats sort of on baseball and softball in the spring and then 113 00:06:42.959 --> 00:06:45.160 they don't do well, that's kind of how people see it, right, 114 00:06:45.360 --> 00:06:47.000 right, So there you know what happens. You know, I can't. 115 00:06:47.040 --> 00:06:50.120 I always have a bad hair day every now and again. Well you don't 116 00:06:50.120 --> 00:06:57.439 have much left though. It's a bad hair days. You know, you 117 00:06:57.519 --> 00:07:00.199 can't look good all the time. Well you can. We don't take well, 118 00:07:00.279 --> 00:07:03.240 we don't, right, we don't. It's hard it's it's it's hard. 119 00:07:03.279 --> 00:07:08.560 I'm pam way past that. That's what SI would admitted a hat exactly. 120 00:07:09.040 --> 00:07:12.000 Okay, so we'll talk to he keep about it tomorrow. Anybody want 121 00:07:12.000 --> 00:07:14.360 to call in, please do. We didn't getting calle yesterday. But what 122 00:07:14.439 --> 00:07:16.079 are we talking about yesterday? Baby? Ask you? Uh? Or you're 123 00:07:16.079 --> 00:07:18.639 a fan, You're a kid, you have all the he loves everything. 124 00:07:19.079 --> 00:07:21.800 Uh, like I'm not a sports fan. We talked about that Jay's a 125 00:07:21.920 --> 00:07:24.759 fan. We had that. We had the discussion about, you know, 126 00:07:24.879 --> 00:07:28.279 what's the definition of a sports fan? And do you are you a sports 127 00:07:28.319 --> 00:07:31.399 fan of what teams? Kind of you don't what I'm saying that sports are 128 00:07:31.439 --> 00:07:34.839 you not? Or are you not because you don't want to meet your heroes. 129 00:07:34.879 --> 00:07:39.040 That's what I kind of explained to people what we can what we're at 130 00:07:39.040 --> 00:07:42.759 think where we settled was it Steve said, he's he keeps saying he's not 131 00:07:42.839 --> 00:07:46.439 a sports fan, but because he's not a fan of a spe specific team. 132 00:07:46.040 --> 00:07:49.399 I said, but if you watch sports and you have fun watching sports, 133 00:07:49.480 --> 00:07:54.480 and you fall, you watch college football, you watch NFL, you're 134 00:07:54.519 --> 00:07:57.160 a sports fan. You're just not a sports fan of a team. I 135 00:07:57.800 --> 00:08:01.480 don't have an NFL team that I'm fan, but I'm still a huge NFL 136 00:08:01.560 --> 00:08:05.079 fan. Yeah, because he's got juice. He's got juice, right, 137 00:08:05.240 --> 00:08:09.839 well, yeah, but still you have no Yeah, I was a huge 138 00:08:09.879 --> 00:08:15.800 fan. You watch games because you have to put juice. Oh, I 139 00:08:15.839 --> 00:08:20.720 would still watch the NFL. Okay, Okay, I have said the story 140 00:08:20.839 --> 00:08:24.879 that I really wasn't a big fan of the super Bowl until we started. 141 00:08:24.720 --> 00:08:28.319 Okay, going to a sports book and making bets on proposition, bet your 142 00:08:28.360 --> 00:08:31.399 honor, I rest my case, the defense rest. I give you that 143 00:08:31.559 --> 00:08:35.200 much. I give you that so you understand. Yeah, but you're I 144 00:08:35.320 --> 00:08:37.720 used to love I got into this, miss because I was your age. 145 00:08:37.759 --> 00:08:39.840 I love this stuff. You get to go games for free to feed you. 146 00:08:39.960 --> 00:08:43.639 But yeah, and then all of a sudden, I met my heroes 147 00:08:43.679 --> 00:08:46.039 and I sell crap. I don't want to do this anymore. Okay, 148 00:08:46.200 --> 00:08:48.360 I guess that's un terrible. But you're you're you know you're a fan though 149 00:08:48.399 --> 00:08:50.320 even yeah, you don't feel like you're a fan. I don't need to 150 00:08:50.519 --> 00:08:52.840 be a fan of a specific team. I think if you just love the 151 00:08:54.360 --> 00:08:56.720 sports in general, it could be a sports fan. You don't have to 152 00:08:56.960 --> 00:09:01.559 which I again I submit that you would not be here doing this show if 153 00:09:01.600 --> 00:09:03.279 of course, big of course, that I have all that, all that 154 00:09:03.440 --> 00:09:05.399 to be us in my back, in my head that I have to get 155 00:09:05.440 --> 00:09:09.039 if you and I both know neither one of us are making enough money in 156 00:09:09.240 --> 00:09:11.759 us for us to put the time and effort we do into this. Sure, 157 00:09:11.799 --> 00:09:15.360 if we didn't love sports. Sure, And you know, we talk 158 00:09:15.399 --> 00:09:16.519 a lot of crap, and we talk a lot of crap. People know, 159 00:09:16.600 --> 00:09:20.039 we talked a lot. Had some fun conversation with my legal team talking 160 00:09:20.039 --> 00:09:24.279 about, oh yeah, the Delora thing, what are the varying we are 161 00:09:24.279 --> 00:09:26.080 the varying No, they just they you know, the question is what the 162 00:09:26.159 --> 00:09:28.960 hell happened in Hawaii? Oh right, And that's always going to be the 163 00:09:30.039 --> 00:09:33.600 case. If you have if you have you know, you have one side 164 00:09:33.679 --> 00:09:37.919 saying that he pleaded guilty to a sexual assault. You have another side saying 165 00:09:37.919 --> 00:09:41.200 he did not plead guilty and he was not convicted of a sexual assault. 166 00:09:41.000 --> 00:09:43.840 You know what's going on. And then the discussion was, you know what 167 00:09:43.960 --> 00:09:48.559 we already said. Unless somebody unseals the record, you're never gonna know, 168 00:09:48.799 --> 00:09:50.600 correct, And so everybody just got to get used to it. This is 169 00:09:50.639 --> 00:09:56.159 how it's gonna sit. You watch enough dating lines, I DS all these 170 00:09:56.279 --> 00:09:58.840 channels to know that there's two sides to its story and the one that can't 171 00:09:58.840 --> 00:10:03.080 be told is the sealed right exactly, And so it's just gonna stay the 172 00:10:03.120 --> 00:10:07.960 way it is. And uh, if you're unhappy with that, then you're 173 00:10:07.039 --> 00:10:11.120 unhappy with it. And there's that's you're just gonna have to suck it up 174 00:10:11.159 --> 00:10:13.440 and be unhappy with it. And I think a lot there's people are unhappy 175 00:10:13.440 --> 00:10:18.279 with the people because what did I mean, Steve, something did happen? 176 00:10:18.360 --> 00:10:20.559 Oh yeah, yeah, right, well you know something did happen? Question? 177 00:10:22.080 --> 00:10:24.000 You know the question? You know, it's it's really semantics. Well 178 00:10:24.039 --> 00:10:28.000 did he plead guilty to a crime or not? Right? So we'll see. 179 00:10:28.200 --> 00:10:31.240 But yeah, I think it's just gonna hang out there. And you 180 00:10:31.320 --> 00:10:35.480 know, we had that conversation that a smart thing to do would you just 181 00:10:35.559 --> 00:10:37.799 come out one time, answer all the questions and then that's gonna wrap it 182 00:10:37.919 --> 00:10:41.080 up into a little box and put it and put it away, Yeah, 183 00:10:41.120 --> 00:10:43.200 without question, without question, And maybe that happens, maybe it doesn't. 184 00:10:43.240 --> 00:10:46.080 We'll see what happens. Okay, So if you don't talk about all that 185 00:10:46.240 --> 00:10:50.039 with sports being a sports fan. Blah blah blah. Uh, give us 186 00:10:50.080 --> 00:10:54.200 a call. We're gonna have um um John Jonathan Perlman on the end about 187 00:10:54.240 --> 00:10:56.799 ten minutes or anything else going on. We started, I don't want to 188 00:10:56.879 --> 00:11:01.440 get into your breaking news start, uh, because there's a lot. Yeah, 189 00:11:01.600 --> 00:11:03.600 yeah, there there is. Well, you know, okay, I'll 190 00:11:03.639 --> 00:11:05.919 leave I'll leave that one out. Funny conversation too, we had about Jordan 191 00:11:05.960 --> 00:11:09.080 Geist when you asked him about and I am, oh, yeah, yeah, 192 00:11:09.159 --> 00:11:13.279 yeah right now. He said, I didn't really get anything and how 193 00:11:13.360 --> 00:11:15.960 we call him how? He said, oh, that's a football and basketball 194 00:11:16.039 --> 00:11:22.279 thing. I thought that was a very telling comment about that, because arguably 195 00:11:22.679 --> 00:11:31.080 Jordan Geist is the most accomplished athlete in the Arizona athletic program. Right, 196 00:11:31.159 --> 00:11:33.600 well, I totally agree, right, I mean you can talk to Laney 197 00:11:33.679 --> 00:11:39.600 Chanelle's you know, an olympian. Um really, who who else is up 198 00:11:39.639 --> 00:11:43.080 there? Yeah? Individually? No? Right? Even football? Yeah, 199 00:11:43.120 --> 00:11:45.720 yeah, in any other sports, you know, arguably the most. And 200 00:11:45.840 --> 00:11:50.600 yet you know, you hear rumors that guys like you know, uh Cresn 201 00:11:50.799 --> 00:11:56.120 and Tabellas and Cedric Henderson and Gordon Raemy were getting hundreds of thousands of dollars, 202 00:11:56.879 --> 00:12:01.279 rumors, rumors, rumors, rumors, and yet a guy like Jordan 203 00:12:01.360 --> 00:12:07.120 Guist, who maybe bringing as much in terms of honors to the program is 204 00:12:07.240 --> 00:12:11.559 just kind of like not anything. I'm going totally get it. I totally 205 00:12:11.600 --> 00:12:13.919 get it. So so Jason, if we're playing football, you're the center 206 00:12:15.000 --> 00:12:18.279 on the quarterback, you're blocking for me. I get fifty thousand dollars, 207 00:12:18.600 --> 00:12:22.759 you get five. You're a little pissed, of course. Yeah, totally. 208 00:12:22.360 --> 00:12:26.279 We talked about that. Yeah, yeah, and that you wonder if 209 00:12:26.360 --> 00:12:31.720 that's gonna happen, if that's gonna kind of be a growing thing in the 210 00:12:31.919 --> 00:12:35.240 NIL world, you know, and then what what you know, does somebody 211 00:12:35.320 --> 00:12:37.039 like Jordan Guist right who he's finishing up his careers, you know, but 212 00:12:37.120 --> 00:12:39.759 I just use him as an example. Let's say he's two years into it, 213 00:12:41.039 --> 00:12:43.600 he's let's say he's won a national championship, a bunch of pack wall 214 00:12:43.720 --> 00:12:46.279 championships, and he's really not getting anything, and all of a sudden, 215 00:12:46.519 --> 00:12:48.240 here comes Oregon, you know, says hey, you know what, come 216 00:12:48.279 --> 00:12:52.399 on over, our program will get you, you know, twenty five thousand 217 00:12:52.399 --> 00:12:56.320 dollars per semester. Yeah, who would you take that. Why do you 218 00:12:56.360 --> 00:13:01.120 think the girls, the girls maybe have left UCLA and other and those guys 219 00:13:01.159 --> 00:13:05.360 who went to USA. Would you blame them? No, No, I'm 220 00:13:05.399 --> 00:13:09.159 gonna give you a raise to go from IBM to Z Rocks whatever. Yeah, 221 00:13:09.879 --> 00:13:13.799 I've talked. My resignation has been tendered. I'll be right there. 222 00:13:13.919 --> 00:13:16.000 I couldn't get out of the door fast enough at the Star when I got 223 00:13:16.039 --> 00:13:18.279 two weeks better job. Don't worry about it. I've done that. I 224 00:13:20.159 --> 00:13:22.840 mean it was like a Tuesday, and they said two weeks from Tuesday? 225 00:13:22.960 --> 00:13:24.120 Is it right? Right? You know? Right? I didn't even let 226 00:13:24.159 --> 00:13:26.200 it go to a Friday or something. Yeah, no, of course, 227 00:13:26.200 --> 00:13:30.440 because you don't what They're gonna replace you, and they'll find somebody else. 228 00:13:30.480 --> 00:13:31.360 You know. That's just the way the world is. Right in there. 229 00:13:31.960 --> 00:13:35.559 No, that example, it fits it perfectly. I don't blame them, 230 00:13:37.279 --> 00:13:39.600 especially to the to the guys like the guys and the tennis players who have 231 00:13:39.679 --> 00:13:45.000 been fantastic, and you know, and and Kenzie Foller said it without saying 232 00:13:45.080 --> 00:13:50.240 it that Oklahoma has a stranglehold on college softball. And why is that right? 233 00:13:50.720 --> 00:13:56.360 Because they've got resources to uh, you know, to pass around and 234 00:13:56.600 --> 00:14:00.600 and other other programs do not who knows what softball is getting if anything? 235 00:14:00.799 --> 00:14:05.080 Yeah, right right, so and if you you know, if you can 236 00:14:05.159 --> 00:14:09.000 go to and an LSU or you know in Oklahoma or Texas or somewhere where 237 00:14:09.000 --> 00:14:13.559 even if you're gonna get just a little bit, jay, you're gonna go. 238 00:14:13.759 --> 00:14:16.679 There's a reason why Kendrea got out. There's a reason why Rudio got 239 00:14:16.720 --> 00:14:20.320 out. Uh and coach Slope has got out way before all this. But 240 00:14:20.399 --> 00:14:24.120 he probably he would not have a deal with this crap. He would not 241 00:14:24.200 --> 00:14:28.320 have come on, would you you? And then you have a quarterback or 242 00:14:28.360 --> 00:14:31.879 whomever position players saying I just hated the fact that when I was coaching high 243 00:14:31.879 --> 00:14:35.399 school baseball, one of our best baseball players didn't come out because he just 244 00:14:35.480 --> 00:14:37.519 wanted to play basketball, you know, twelve big ball, one side of 245 00:14:37.519 --> 00:14:39.799 the year, Like, what the hell? Well, you know, I 246 00:14:39.840 --> 00:14:41.519 got I got a chance. I said, you don't have a chance at 247 00:14:41.519 --> 00:14:46.720 anything. Okay, you're five foot six, you're Mexican, and you can't 248 00:14:46.799 --> 00:14:50.120 shoot okay, which means you can't jump. Your dream crushing you, you're 249 00:14:50.159 --> 00:14:56.159 a dream crushing Yeah. How do I know this? Because I'm that guy. 250 00:14:56.200 --> 00:15:00.679 I was you you look what I'm doing. All right, let's get 251 00:15:00.720 --> 00:15:07.159 out of here. We're gonna come back with Jonathan Prolo, who's going to 252 00:15:07.200 --> 00:15:09.320 talk to us a little bit about the things going on at FC two. 253 00:15:09.360 --> 00:15:11.320 So you want to buy part of the club, here's your chance. So 254 00:15:11.399 --> 00:15:13.559 we'll talk to him about what they're doing with that. 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We got Jonathan Perlan on now from FC two. Soon Jonathan, 313 00:19:45.400 --> 00:19:49.079 how are you hem great to talk to you and Jagan. Yeah, 314 00:19:49.319 --> 00:19:52.200 we've we've found you intriguing and what are you doing over there? FC two 315 00:19:52.200 --> 00:19:56.240 song? First of all, you've already played one or two. We've played 316 00:19:56.519 --> 00:20:00.319 three, actually two families in one league. Okay, how did that league 317 00:20:00.359 --> 00:20:07.319 match? Good to draw on the road, very exciting game one Mond in 318 00:20:07.400 --> 00:20:11.319 front of a good crowd at Redlands, which is a good new team, 319 00:20:11.960 --> 00:20:14.559 and we were happy. I mean, obviously going on the road, it's 320 00:20:14.559 --> 00:20:17.559 always great to get a point or three. Um, I think we had 321 00:20:17.599 --> 00:20:22.359 some opportunities to win, but definitely for us early in the season going on 322 00:20:22.440 --> 00:20:26.440 the road and getting a tough point against actually a really big crowd there, 323 00:20:26.799 --> 00:20:29.839 which was great to play in front of. We're really happy with that result. 324 00:20:30.759 --> 00:20:34.640 Okay, cool, So John, We're we're curious about where are you 325 00:20:34.720 --> 00:20:41.200 going on? What's going on with these selling pieces of the team. Yeah, 326 00:20:41.240 --> 00:20:44.240 I mean we've done a lot going on, so you know, basically, 327 00:20:44.680 --> 00:20:47.960 what we wanted to do is give people the opportunity to you know, 328 00:20:48.119 --> 00:20:52.359 be not just a fan and be an owner. So lots of local teams 329 00:20:52.440 --> 00:20:56.039 do this and it's done been done across the world. So we're offering a 330 00:20:56.559 --> 00:20:59.599 you know, up ten percent of what we've done at FC two, son 331 00:21:00.240 --> 00:21:04.200 Um and our in our company Arizona Soccer holdings to people who want to be 332 00:21:04.440 --> 00:21:07.200 uh, want to be connected in that way. So I mean again, 333 00:21:07.240 --> 00:21:10.920 our fans, you know, are so important to us, our long time 334 00:21:10.960 --> 00:21:12.319 supporters, and you know, if they want to be part of that, 335 00:21:12.480 --> 00:21:18.519 they can check out the rays we're doing there um on start Engine UM. 336 00:21:18.640 --> 00:21:23.000 So we're very excited about that. And all those details are right there on 337 00:21:23.039 --> 00:21:26.880 our website and on the start Engine website. So give us a quick rundown. 338 00:21:27.079 --> 00:21:34.519 What do investors get? Yeah, I mean so because of SEC final 339 00:21:34.720 --> 00:21:38.640 filings, I can't really talk too much about that kind of how that works. 340 00:21:40.119 --> 00:21:42.839 Everything is detailed very clearly on the on the site, but there's some 341 00:21:44.279 --> 00:21:48.200 some perks. There's some opportunities there. But what they do is they're again 342 00:21:48.240 --> 00:21:52.400 they have you known, official stake in the team, UM, which is 343 00:21:52.440 --> 00:21:56.160 exciting. And again you know, fan ownership is something that uh, you 344 00:21:56.200 --> 00:21:57.440 know is done across the world. And you know, what we're trying to 345 00:21:57.519 --> 00:22:03.960 do is again strengthen our our ability to uh do business and help all the 346 00:22:03.799 --> 00:22:07.680 organizations and help our team be as good as it can be. So I 347 00:22:07.759 --> 00:22:11.000 mean, really that opportunity laid out there for our fans is uh something that 348 00:22:11.039 --> 00:22:15.559 we were We've been sure, we've been striving towards and uh we're excited to 349 00:22:15.640 --> 00:22:18.359 offer that. You know, we we've for years we've always heard about you 350 00:22:18.440 --> 00:22:22.480 know the Green Bay Packers are you know, uh owned by you know, 351 00:22:22.559 --> 00:22:26.119 their fans and stuff like that. Is this similar to that or how was 352 00:22:26.160 --> 00:22:29.559 it? How was it the same and how is it different? I'm not 353 00:22:29.640 --> 00:22:33.160 sure exactly how the packers set it up. UM. This is UM this 354 00:22:33.400 --> 00:22:37.720 is a little bit different. It's structured in a way. And again what 355 00:22:37.880 --> 00:22:41.759 I would the best way I could say a Jay is, uh, you're 356 00:22:41.759 --> 00:22:45.000 investing in the future of the team. UM. With investments like these, 357 00:22:45.160 --> 00:22:48.480 like any type of you know, risk you might take on a new product 358 00:22:48.599 --> 00:22:52.480 or on somebody that's trying to expand their business. I mean they're there's certainly 359 00:22:52.680 --> 00:22:56.400 uh, you know, opportunities there, but I mean I think the Packers 360 00:22:56.440 --> 00:23:00.880 may be different and there's a set of voting rights and they might have some 361 00:23:02.039 --> 00:23:06.119 decision making, but ultimately, you know, we wanted to give a chance 362 00:23:06.160 --> 00:23:08.559 for people to have a piece of the team and not just be you know, 363 00:23:10.000 --> 00:23:14.039 just a season ticket. Over where that goes we can't say, and 364 00:23:14.160 --> 00:23:18.720 we're actually not allowed to say, but all the details of every fine I 365 00:23:18.799 --> 00:23:22.880 detailing you can imagine is available at the link that we have on our website. 366 00:23:22.599 --> 00:23:26.960 I'm sorry to be sounding on there and and not really being direct. 367 00:23:27.640 --> 00:23:30.880 It's it's kind of set up in a way where you know, we have 368 00:23:32.240 --> 00:23:33.960 things that we can talk about. What it is is a great opportunity. 369 00:23:34.480 --> 00:23:38.920 We'd love people to check it out. Every point in detail and piece of 370 00:23:40.000 --> 00:23:42.839 that is laid out there and you can ask further questions on the website. 371 00:23:44.400 --> 00:23:48.119 But most importantly for us, we love our fans. People have asked about 372 00:23:48.200 --> 00:23:52.000 us doing something like this. Each each one of these within teams has done 373 00:23:52.039 --> 00:23:56.799 differently. I mean the Sounders can you know, can vote out there their 374 00:23:56.039 --> 00:24:00.400 chairman and do things like that. It's not set up that way, but 375 00:24:00.640 --> 00:24:04.200 um, you know, suddenly there's an opportunity to be deeperly, more deeper 376 00:24:04.319 --> 00:24:07.079 involved in what we're doing NFC. Well, that's gonna say. It's just 377 00:24:07.119 --> 00:24:11.359 basically a chance to be a more part of the team than otherwise, you 378 00:24:11.400 --> 00:24:15.160 know, than like you said, than just being a season ticket holder or 379 00:24:15.160 --> 00:24:18.799 whatever. And listen, we're very happy to have season ticket holders. We're 380 00:24:18.960 --> 00:24:22.240 very happy to people that come to a couple of games a year because they 381 00:24:22.359 --> 00:24:26.880 loved sports entity. Obviously, on Saturday, we're doing Teachers Appreciation Day, 382 00:24:27.000 --> 00:24:30.640 so we're excited about the fact that we were able to give, you know, 383 00:24:30.680 --> 00:24:34.839 five hundred tickets away to all various school districts across Pema County. And 384 00:24:36.240 --> 00:24:38.759 you know, we just want people to know how much we appreciate our teachers 385 00:24:38.839 --> 00:24:44.119 and appreciate our fans, and obviously we'll look to get another win. So 386 00:24:44.359 --> 00:24:45.880 I was going to buy part of the team only because I want to tell 387 00:24:47.119 --> 00:24:48.400 you know, Jonathan, I owned part of the team, and that striker 388 00:24:48.519 --> 00:24:53.319 wasn't in the right position. Yeah, I think that's the big challenge when 389 00:24:53.359 --> 00:24:57.279 you do something like this, and obviously there there are you know, different 390 00:24:57.359 --> 00:25:03.119 levels of investment in this piece, but I hear that anyway, give you 391 00:25:03.240 --> 00:25:07.960 one to pony up down and demand justice for me. I'm very accessible. 392 00:25:08.039 --> 00:25:11.240 I stand in the crowd. People do that with doing best in anyway. 393 00:25:11.519 --> 00:25:15.200 People yell at, yelled everything you could costly imagine me. And all I 394 00:25:15.359 --> 00:25:21.960 care is that three thousand people show up to yell at me everything, and 395 00:25:22.039 --> 00:25:25.680 if they do, I'll do my best, get pelted whatever it needs to 396 00:25:25.720 --> 00:25:30.759 be pelted with, to answer every question possible, and if they demand justice, 397 00:25:30.839 --> 00:25:33.640 I'll give it to them the best. You ever feel like a little 398 00:25:33.720 --> 00:25:37.519 league coach or a high school coach with that stuff and the parents are just 399 00:25:37.720 --> 00:25:41.920 yelling at you all the time. Well, I think it's almost worse if 400 00:25:41.960 --> 00:25:45.839 they don't, because then there's no passion, there's mistaking. But it's always 401 00:25:45.880 --> 00:25:49.119 the balance, isn't it. I Mean, nobody wants to see ultras going 402 00:25:49.279 --> 00:25:53.400 and attacking their coach, jumping on the field. Nobody wants to be booed 403 00:25:53.799 --> 00:25:57.359 out of the stadium like that can happen if the Yankees are red Fox. 404 00:25:57.440 --> 00:26:02.839 But again, it's that past, it's that connection to the community, elicits 405 00:26:02.960 --> 00:26:06.000 that reaction. So while you don't want to taper down, you want to 406 00:26:06.039 --> 00:26:08.119 control it in a way where it's uh, you know, positive and it 407 00:26:08.240 --> 00:26:11.519 makes you know. I want to be challenged all the time. I'm challenged 408 00:26:11.559 --> 00:26:15.039 by you, guys. I'm challenged by the media. I'm challenged by my 409 00:26:15.160 --> 00:26:19.200 own self, my own drive, challenge d But ultimately, listen, I'd 410 00:26:19.279 --> 00:26:23.440 rather have overly passionate fans to complain than fans that are just in different and 411 00:26:23.519 --> 00:26:26.599 don't show up. Yeah, apathy is the killer of death. So you 412 00:26:26.640 --> 00:26:30.680 want to ask him about the women. Yes, So we saw the announcement 413 00:26:30.720 --> 00:26:36.519 that there's a pro women's soccer team moving into Tucson. Does that have any 414 00:26:36.559 --> 00:26:38.400 connection to it to you guys or what's that? What's that all about? 415 00:26:40.480 --> 00:26:44.960 Yeah? So for us that what that's about is Jeff Arnold and I, 416 00:26:45.079 --> 00:26:51.279 who both own FC two Soon, have bought a franchise for the USL Women's 417 00:26:51.279 --> 00:26:56.839 Super League and it's an incredible moment um. We own both FC two Son 418 00:26:56.960 --> 00:27:00.720 and the WPSL fctwo Son. But this is a effort denture with of course 419 00:27:00.759 --> 00:27:04.839 a lot of connection that will be made later, but just to clarify that 420 00:27:04.960 --> 00:27:08.799 it is a New Denture. But it's one that we've been focusing towards as 421 00:27:08.839 --> 00:27:11.880 an ownership groups, as a team, as a partner, and there'll be 422 00:27:12.200 --> 00:27:15.920 other people being added to that group as well. But this moment is a 423 00:27:17.039 --> 00:27:21.839 key moment for Tucson where Tucson will now have a team of a women's team 424 00:27:21.880 --> 00:27:25.799 and we haven't had a women's pro team for about twenty years. And you 425 00:27:25.920 --> 00:27:30.920 talk about the Arizona Heat Softball and I think not that many people remember that, 426 00:27:30.200 --> 00:27:34.200 but we're talking about a women's team that's competing at the Division one sanctioned 427 00:27:34.319 --> 00:27:40.079 level, and that's the intention of the league, which means that our team 428 00:27:40.759 --> 00:27:44.559 is playing in the most popular sport in the world at the highest level you 429 00:27:44.640 --> 00:27:48.799 can be sanctioned. And with Phoenix Rising having a team in the league as 430 00:27:48.799 --> 00:27:52.440 well, we're going directly against the pro teams from Phoenix. We're not a 431 00:27:52.559 --> 00:27:57.599 Triple A, we're not a level below. We are going against playing at 432 00:27:57.640 --> 00:28:02.079 the highest level and have a chance to play any team across the world that's 433 00:28:02.079 --> 00:28:07.799 at that same level, whether it's Chelsea women or Club America from Mexico's women's 434 00:28:07.839 --> 00:28:11.480 team, or you know, any of the other teams that you're that are 435 00:28:11.519 --> 00:28:15.559 well known with national team players in this country and be able to complete at 436 00:28:15.599 --> 00:28:18.920 that level and have that in Tucson is an opportunity that we think we couldn't 437 00:28:18.920 --> 00:28:22.880 miss. There's one hundred and three professional men's soccer team in this country and 438 00:28:23.000 --> 00:28:27.119 this twelve women's team, So it's not equal. That doesn't provide enough opportunity 439 00:28:27.160 --> 00:28:30.799 for the number of great players, considering the number of World Cups that we've 440 00:28:30.880 --> 00:28:34.279 won and how great we do in the world stage. So we just see 441 00:28:34.279 --> 00:28:40.720 an opportunity, and we know we have a community that has incredible female sports 442 00:28:40.839 --> 00:28:45.039 history through the uf A, incredible female leadership throughout our government and our state, 443 00:28:45.440 --> 00:28:48.200 and we just felt the time was right. Well, what's the timeline 444 00:28:48.240 --> 00:28:52.279 for this team? When when will we see that? That team will take 445 00:28:52.400 --> 00:28:57.279 off in August twenty four and they're on a what's called the international schedule al 446 00:28:57.319 --> 00:29:02.039 they'll run from September the way through June. There's a break in the winner 447 00:29:02.119 --> 00:29:06.400 because some of the markets obviously don't have our fantastic weather. But the great 448 00:29:06.440 --> 00:29:10.200 news for us is we can continue on. We have our fantastic preseason. 449 00:29:10.640 --> 00:29:14.599 You know, we have opportunities to host friendly games and we really are just 450 00:29:15.079 --> 00:29:18.759 going to dig in deep to a market I think that's been sorely understood in 451 00:29:18.839 --> 00:29:22.640 this country and in this community. So it won't impact the FC two soon 452 00:29:22.759 --> 00:29:26.160 women now or moving forward. No, the best thing you can do is 453 00:29:26.200 --> 00:29:30.319 support FC two some some women. We're always going to have a platform that's 454 00:29:30.359 --> 00:29:33.640 plea pre professional so that you know, in the clubs here, players that 455 00:29:33.720 --> 00:29:38.480 are from two Son that are playing college soccer can come back and represent their 456 00:29:38.519 --> 00:29:42.799 city and do well. That's never going to change where we decide to play 457 00:29:42.880 --> 00:29:47.119 that as an ownership group, you know, may alter a bit, but 458 00:29:47.200 --> 00:29:49.480 there's always going to be that opportunity to both on the men's and women's side, 459 00:29:49.920 --> 00:29:53.720 and as we pursue men's professional we will always keep that as well. 460 00:29:55.039 --> 00:29:59.000 Because what you need really to be successful in the long term is that full 461 00:29:59.359 --> 00:30:03.240 integrated pathway where you can start playing soccer and two son at three and finish 462 00:30:03.319 --> 00:30:08.000 his career playing at the highest level possible professional Lewson should that be their dream? 463 00:30:08.480 --> 00:30:11.640 You know, looking at I'm just sitting here thinking about all the you 464 00:30:11.720 --> 00:30:14.920 know, all the local well the local sports that we have, right, 465 00:30:14.960 --> 00:30:17.480 You've got that, You've got you guys got the Sugar Skulls, You've got 466 00:30:17.640 --> 00:30:21.880 the Bowl Game, the Tucsons, Saros. You know, baseball, you 467 00:30:21.920 --> 00:30:26.359 know, they bring some Mexican baseball up here. Soccer seems to be you 468 00:30:26.480 --> 00:30:30.680 know, I growing up here, I felt like Tucson was a baseball town 469 00:30:30.759 --> 00:30:33.359 when it came to professional sports. But what you guys are doing with soccers 470 00:30:33.519 --> 00:30:37.920 really seems to be overtaking that. Partly because there's no spring training year, 471 00:30:37.240 --> 00:30:41.039 but you guys have seen maybe seeing that as an opportunity to kind of be 472 00:30:41.720 --> 00:30:45.480 the ones leading the way out there a little bit. Yeah, we really 473 00:30:45.519 --> 00:30:48.880 believe, I mean, the growth of the game in this country, the 474 00:30:48.000 --> 00:30:52.480 growth of the women's game in this country and across the world, and you 475 00:30:52.559 --> 00:30:59.000 know, the weather we have in the our proximity to Mexico, the fantastic 476 00:30:59.119 --> 00:31:02.960 fields that have been essiting by p MC County in the city. You know, 477 00:31:03.319 --> 00:31:07.759 we really see that opportunity and again getting it right and getting it perfectly 478 00:31:07.880 --> 00:31:11.759 right with local owners and local partners and local support. And really I think 479 00:31:11.799 --> 00:31:15.720 it's just so critical and I'm so lucky, and I tell you guys, 480 00:31:15.759 --> 00:31:21.119 among them, the media has tried to cover us and tried to tell the 481 00:31:21.200 --> 00:31:25.960 story the best thing can you guys ask such insightful questions, And my job 482 00:31:26.079 --> 00:31:29.559 is to make sure I'm telling people why this is special, why this opportunity 483 00:31:29.640 --> 00:31:32.839 is great for the community, what it gives back to the community. And 484 00:31:32.960 --> 00:31:36.200 again, we're just We're just happy to tell the story. And we have 485 00:31:36.319 --> 00:31:38.680 so much more to tell on this new piece, but you know, we're 486 00:31:38.759 --> 00:31:41.279 really focused on right now. We'll be doing a lot of work behind the 487 00:31:41.319 --> 00:31:45.880 scenes for that team, but for the summer, it's supporting these fantastic athletes 488 00:31:47.119 --> 00:31:51.559 that we have on two so an FT two some women who are currently unbeaten, 489 00:31:51.720 --> 00:31:53.799 and the women get to kick off on the second and the third, 490 00:31:53.880 --> 00:31:57.960 and we're just we're just trying to do great summer programming that people can enjoy 491 00:31:59.039 --> 00:32:00.599 for a reasonable price. So, so, Jonathan, you and I have 492 00:32:00.680 --> 00:32:04.200 known each other for a long long time, obviously with the kids, But 493 00:32:05.119 --> 00:32:07.680 did you ever imagine I don't know how old are you, about fifty forty 494 00:32:07.720 --> 00:32:15.880 something, I'm I'm drinking milk, Stephen, pretty good, good for you. 495 00:32:15.400 --> 00:32:17.839 I did do that. So when you're in your twenties, when you 496 00:32:19.279 --> 00:32:22.599 knew each other, did you ever imagine this getting to this point in your 497 00:32:22.640 --> 00:32:25.319 life. No, you know I didn't, Steve, and I'll tell you 498 00:32:25.440 --> 00:32:30.880 this, and it's it's true. I'm also still going out there and coaching 499 00:32:30.359 --> 00:32:34.640 this year, you know, I'm back to coaching a U twelve team in 500 00:32:34.720 --> 00:32:38.400 the Old Club. The realities. I came here originally from law school and 501 00:32:38.519 --> 00:32:43.279 I ended up getting my teaching certification. I love working with kids. I 502 00:32:43.359 --> 00:32:45.759 love working with young people. I like inspiring them. For me, that 503 00:32:45.920 --> 00:32:50.960 so that was always enough. But when opportunities knocked and I thought I had 504 00:32:51.000 --> 00:32:54.039 something to offer, I've always pushed myself to do as much as I possibly 505 00:32:54.119 --> 00:32:58.680 can for the people I care about in the community that I care about. 506 00:32:58.720 --> 00:33:02.119 So ultimately, it's not really personal ambition so much as my ambition for the 507 00:33:02.200 --> 00:33:06.160 community. I mean, certainly I want to be good at whatever I do, 508 00:33:06.599 --> 00:33:10.319 but I'm what I love doing is facilitating opportunities for talented people. And 509 00:33:10.559 --> 00:33:15.160 there's so many talented people here in Tucson. There's so much opportunity that Tucson 510 00:33:15.279 --> 00:33:21.359 needs to realize of itself. I think it's not even operating at the full 511 00:33:21.440 --> 00:33:24.279 capacity of the kind of city that it can be without having growth. It's 512 00:33:24.359 --> 00:33:29.839 un control and making it like Phoenix which we're so different from. But I 513 00:33:29.960 --> 00:33:32.000 think there's a place for this sports team. I think there's a place for 514 00:33:32.119 --> 00:33:36.200 pro soccer. I think we have to do it thoughtfully with people in the 515 00:33:36.240 --> 00:33:39.880 community. And again I'm a huge it can be in conjunction with these other 516 00:33:40.000 --> 00:33:44.359 great sports properties like the Sugar Salls, like the U of A, and 517 00:33:44.839 --> 00:33:49.799 in complimentary moments, it's us elevating each other and promoting each other, and 518 00:33:50.200 --> 00:33:52.359 that's what we intend to do. Yeah, okay, nice Nice. Next 519 00:33:52.519 --> 00:33:57.400 is running for office, Like I say, incredibly well said, you gotta 520 00:33:57.559 --> 00:34:00.119 you know, you know, get yourself a stadium and yeah, you know, 521 00:34:01.240 --> 00:34:05.799 oh yeah, listen, these these things are all in process and for 522 00:34:05.960 --> 00:34:08.280 us, the announcement was critical for the league, but you know, for 523 00:34:08.440 --> 00:34:13.880 FC Tucson in this new Super League property, we were very much focused on 524 00:34:13.960 --> 00:34:15.760 what we're doing, you know, micro with the team here, making sure 525 00:34:15.840 --> 00:34:20.000 that's excellent. But you know, the announcement came down, I wanted to 526 00:34:20.039 --> 00:34:22.880 make sure I was available to everybody. But yeah, all that stuff is 527 00:34:22.920 --> 00:34:27.639 in processing. You're gonna start, We're gonna reach out again as we get 528 00:34:27.679 --> 00:34:30.599 into August and September. S we sort through these things so we can tell 529 00:34:30.679 --> 00:34:35.159 people, who's going to be on the team, where, what's it called? 530 00:34:35.559 --> 00:34:37.199 Where we're gonna play, because those are the questions that are reasonable. 531 00:34:37.559 --> 00:34:42.320 But all those things are being worked on. But when the league is making 532 00:34:42.440 --> 00:34:47.480 the watershed announcement likeness like the USL did, obviously we want. But we're 533 00:34:47.519 --> 00:34:52.119 planning thoughtfully and carefully, and there's so much more to come. And h 534 00:34:52.360 --> 00:34:55.239 I'm always happy to get on the radio here at fourteen fifteen and tell you 535 00:34:55.280 --> 00:34:59.199 guys about it. Great and Okay, thanks so much, John, thank 536 00:34:59.239 --> 00:35:01.880 you, Jonathan. All. I hope to see everybody out there's on Saturday 537 00:35:01.920 --> 00:35:06.360 after the teacher sad O can't tell me time by time again? Sick more 538 00:35:06.400 --> 00:35:12.920 time gates eleven thirty this Saturday. So looking forward to fantastic. Okay, 539 00:35:12.960 --> 00:35:16.239 thank you, Jonathan, appreciate you. Jonathan Perlman noting for a long time 540 00:35:16.280 --> 00:35:21.519 I didn't know he's going to law school. Smart dude. Smart dude can 541 00:35:21.599 --> 00:35:23.679 tell you, smart dude. Yeah, and some lawyers aren't smart dude because 542 00:35:23.679 --> 00:35:25.840 he's a smart dude, right, And it doesn't act like he's the smartest 543 00:35:25.880 --> 00:35:29.599 one in the room. Right. That's that's that's the cool thing. Yeah, 544 00:35:30.519 --> 00:35:32.239 A humble guy loves coming on herselves. Yeah, I was talking about 545 00:35:32.239 --> 00:35:36.079 what he does. Okay, let's take a breaking come back and maybe take 546 00:35:36.119 --> 00:35:38.239 some calls. 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It was 595 00:39:07.480 --> 00:39:09.880 like because that when you walk out from coal to Hotti, you get those 596 00:39:09.960 --> 00:39:14.599 tingles. Yeah, it's really weird. But then you get by the time 597 00:39:14.639 --> 00:39:17.360 you get to your car, your sweating and saying all you're shiny and stuff, 598 00:39:17.400 --> 00:39:21.440 and we're saying, what the heck is going on exactly? Hey, 599 00:39:21.440 --> 00:39:22.440 if you don't want to call, please do. If you want to call, 600 00:39:22.679 --> 00:39:27.440 you do five two oh foe seventy four forty. We promise we'll keep 601 00:39:27.440 --> 00:39:30.440 an eye on the call. We haven't heard from Howard, so I think 602 00:39:30.480 --> 00:39:34.320 we're who knows. I don't think Howard's doing well. No, he might 603 00:39:34.400 --> 00:39:37.400 not be. He probably changed the subject on us anyway, Yeah, or 604 00:39:37.519 --> 00:39:40.719 Nico, who knows Nico couldn't be in the desert. Nico takes it easy, 605 00:39:40.840 --> 00:39:43.440 you know, he just be just went and got a little, you 606 00:39:43.519 --> 00:39:45.880 know, a little lettuce and took it out into the desert and he was 607 00:39:45.920 --> 00:39:49.920 fine. He's chill, He's chill, Okay. I don't worry about Nico 608 00:39:50.280 --> 00:39:54.639 like that. I do worry about Howard sometimes you just wonder what what makes 609 00:39:54.719 --> 00:39:58.119 him tick and or what we'll make his tick or stop, you know, 610 00:39:58.360 --> 00:40:01.679 and losing like the way the the Suns did. So I don't know, 611 00:40:02.039 --> 00:40:06.679 just weird stuff. But you know, a lot a lot of discussion about 612 00:40:06.760 --> 00:40:10.199 where these coaches are gonna go because four good coaches got fired. Yeah, 613 00:40:10.639 --> 00:40:14.519 so you know, there's a bunch of teams that don't have coaches as good 614 00:40:14.519 --> 00:40:16.280 as the four they got fired. So you wonder, you know, where 615 00:40:16.360 --> 00:40:22.239 are they just gonna gonna you know, you know, just kind of shuffle 616 00:40:22.320 --> 00:40:25.159 them around and are they gonna be coaching it? Sure, it's just places 617 00:40:25.159 --> 00:40:29.000 and change your address, change your address. That's how it is. And 618 00:40:29.039 --> 00:40:32.119 I'll breaking news about the locals that maybe possibly going to another school or to 619 00:40:32.199 --> 00:40:36.679 another program. Yeah, so that's interesting. Um, just a lot of 620 00:40:36.719 --> 00:40:38.280 a lot of things going on all right, so we were talking about the 621 00:40:38.559 --> 00:40:40.840 game time. What's your take on the game, Jason, because you're a 622 00:40:40.960 --> 00:40:44.679 resident expert in the room. Yeah, honest, I'm not to be sure 623 00:40:44.679 --> 00:40:46.880 about this one. I know the heat has has some time off, so 624 00:40:46.960 --> 00:40:51.199 they might come out a little bit rusty versus the Celtics just came off in 625 00:40:51.239 --> 00:40:54.239 Game seven, right, So I think the Celtics probably win Game one because 626 00:40:54.360 --> 00:40:59.440 it's in Boston. It's a you know, more game ready. I feel 627 00:40:59.480 --> 00:41:01.440 like then the heat and I like the heat well, you know, want 628 00:41:01.480 --> 00:41:05.920 to kind of feel it out, see how Boston is playing seat there no 629 00:41:06.119 --> 00:41:07.480 intensity level and kind of just feel it out. So I think I think 630 00:41:07.559 --> 00:41:10.159 Boston takes Game one. But the don't you think at this time of the 631 00:41:10.239 --> 00:41:14.960 year, though, that the rest that the heat have gotten is better than 632 00:41:15.239 --> 00:41:19.199 not having the rest and as you say, you know, being rest. 633 00:41:19.320 --> 00:41:21.400 Wait wait, wait, we've had this When you said that, I was 634 00:41:21.480 --> 00:41:24.760 gonna bring this discussion up because we've talked about it just depends to me, 635 00:41:24.920 --> 00:41:29.880 rust doesn't. It's a term we're using. It's like moments, not because 636 00:41:29.920 --> 00:41:31.679 this is what they do for a living. You're good at your night right, 637 00:41:32.039 --> 00:41:35.880 two day rest, one day it doesn't really because it's right, but 638 00:41:35.960 --> 00:41:37.800 I think you know, the feel of the game, the pay is like 639 00:41:38.480 --> 00:41:43.320 it's what they do, but like practicing and like actual game, you know, 640 00:41:43.480 --> 00:41:45.840 speed and everything is different. Right, So I think they're gonna be 641 00:41:45.880 --> 00:41:49.480 ready for the game obviously. But what you said, and I think this 642 00:41:49.599 --> 00:41:52.559 is why I went the way I did. Yeah, Boston's at home, 643 00:41:52.800 --> 00:41:55.239 right, that's why they should That's a big deal. That's in the NBA. 644 00:41:55.400 --> 00:41:59.360 That's a huge deal. Right, Denver hasn't lost at home all all 645 00:41:59.719 --> 00:42:02.079 see Yeah, play playoffs, Ye, I don't think this has happened. 646 00:42:02.559 --> 00:42:07.079 Lakers have. I think they haven't, so Okay, so there's a rub, 647 00:42:07.239 --> 00:42:10.920 right, So if they go seven, you'd go with Denver realistically, 648 00:42:12.000 --> 00:42:15.119 but one of them is gonna lose, Yeah, I think at least. 649 00:42:15.159 --> 00:42:17.360 Yeah. Um and and I we don't know enough about heat, do we. 650 00:42:17.960 --> 00:42:21.079 You know, Boston's pretty darn good, right, I think they eat 651 00:42:21.079 --> 00:42:27.800 it pretty good. But but they've been fantastic in Milwaukee. But they always 652 00:42:27.840 --> 00:42:31.039 go on this role at this time of year. Yeah, and then forget 653 00:42:31.079 --> 00:42:34.960 about December, January or last time. This is the time they play. 654 00:42:35.079 --> 00:42:37.119 Yeah, I mean they plug you know, they've looked great in the past 655 00:42:37.159 --> 00:42:39.760 couple of years in the playoffs. Um, they've not got over the hump. 656 00:42:39.800 --> 00:42:43.239 You know, I'm winning the finals, but they've they've got there. 657 00:42:43.320 --> 00:42:45.440 So dude, okay, so let me give you this, and we're not 658 00:42:45.719 --> 00:42:51.159 look at the calls, uh five best players in the five best players in 659 00:42:51.239 --> 00:42:55.039 the league right now maybe the players Butlers could be top three. Yeah, 660 00:42:55.079 --> 00:43:00.039 he's definitely top three. I would say that right now. Who's one who's 661 00:43:00.079 --> 00:43:04.400 doing I think I think Butler. I think Butler is playing bad than Jason 662 00:43:04.480 --> 00:43:08.239 Tatum right now on the playoff. Oh Davis see him? Yeah, okay, 663 00:43:08.280 --> 00:43:13.400 where is Lebron fitting this smith? Lebron's you know, maybe five six 664 00:43:13.559 --> 00:43:16.280 yeah, five six probably yeah, because Murray's done good too, I would 665 00:43:16.280 --> 00:43:21.559 say, yo, kid, um, Anthony Davis, Butler, Jason Tatum. 666 00:43:22.679 --> 00:43:25.000 So yeah, yeah, I mean I think Lebron is, you know, 667 00:43:25.119 --> 00:43:28.719 kind of in the distance. Yeah, he's still doing what he what 668 00:43:28.880 --> 00:43:30.920 he does. Yeah yeah, and you know what, he's thirty eight years 669 00:43:30.960 --> 00:43:32.920 old. I mean he's doing what he and he's he's gonna go off for 670 00:43:32.960 --> 00:43:37.000 one of these games. Yeah, so he'll say I'm thirty eight, but 671 00:43:37.119 --> 00:43:39.679 watch me. Yeah, yeah, I still think and I think I said 672 00:43:39.800 --> 00:43:43.800 this to somebody last thing, the keyta Lakers is gonna be Davis. Oh 673 00:43:43.880 --> 00:43:45.559 yeah, for sure, Lebron can do this. But if Davis doesn't, 674 00:43:45.599 --> 00:43:49.280 and he had a forty, he had a great game. I think if 675 00:43:49.400 --> 00:43:52.519 the small guard lineup they had in the first half was really what lost in 676 00:43:52.599 --> 00:43:57.079 the game. They just started off way too slow and then the Nuggets went 677 00:43:57.159 --> 00:43:59.639 up you know, twenty or thirty points whatever was in the first half. 678 00:44:00.000 --> 00:44:01.760 The Lakers were just fighting back the entire game, so they never caught up. 679 00:44:01.800 --> 00:44:04.880 You never caught up. So I think they'll make the ad judgment like 680 00:44:04.920 --> 00:44:07.320 they did in the second half, and they'll be much better. I used 681 00:44:07.320 --> 00:44:09.880 to like your Lakers. Yeah, yeah, you don't like them anymore. 682 00:44:10.360 --> 00:44:13.559 The Lakers. No. I love my Denver. I love the Denver. 683 00:44:14.000 --> 00:44:15.960 Yeah, I think both fan bases. No, I feel pretty good. 684 00:44:16.320 --> 00:44:19.679 Yeah. Yeah, And like you said, if they hadn't lost at home 685 00:44:19.760 --> 00:44:22.360 yet, well that tells you how tough they are, right exactly. So. 686 00:44:22.000 --> 00:44:25.159 Yeah, so you know, the Heat are plus four hundred to win 687 00:44:25.280 --> 00:44:29.559 the series. That's a good number, that's a that's a fair price. 688 00:44:29.679 --> 00:44:32.039 It's a good price. I think if you bet if I were you, 689 00:44:37.840 --> 00:44:45.159 I want to give you the twenty so you have some series. I don't 690 00:44:45.199 --> 00:44:47.840 know. I just have Boston, uh tonight in a party. But but 691 00:44:47.920 --> 00:44:52.320 I think Boston's a better team. So I so I bet Denver to win 692 00:44:52.360 --> 00:44:54.960 it all a long time ago. And I think realistically, if Milwaukee was 693 00:44:55.159 --> 00:45:00.320 is not there and they're not, Boston would be the next team up after 694 00:45:00.400 --> 00:45:02.480 those two. I couldn't tell you after that, right, Okay, it 695 00:45:02.519 --> 00:45:07.320 doesn't make sense. The interesting thing is that any anyway, any of these 696 00:45:07.360 --> 00:45:08.840 four teams can win it. Yeah, because you know, I mean, 697 00:45:08.920 --> 00:45:13.400 while while while the Nuggets have been really good, they're not unbeatable by these 698 00:45:13.519 --> 00:45:16.039 by these the Lakers can beat him, that Heat can beat him. The 699 00:45:17.199 --> 00:45:20.800 Celtics can honestly beat him. Yeah. What what I think? And that 700 00:45:20.920 --> 00:45:23.079 you were playing the the one of the clips from this morning? Yeah, 701 00:45:23.079 --> 00:45:27.039 I think what or maybe I saw this today on TV? What people are 702 00:45:27.039 --> 00:45:29.519 finding out because no one watches Denver, right, no one watches, not 703 00:45:30.199 --> 00:45:34.280 until now? And what people can say that guy can play yeah, when 704 00:45:34.320 --> 00:45:37.199 everybody else knew that guy could play. Yeah. I think today it was 705 00:45:37.239 --> 00:45:40.320 the first time I've ever heard on like any national media that jokers got actually 706 00:45:40.360 --> 00:45:44.480 like the recognition he deserves and he was called the best pay on the planet. 707 00:45:44.760 --> 00:45:46.239 Was the first time I've ever heard ever, like today on TV and 708 00:45:46.519 --> 00:45:51.639 he's MVP on MVP and like, how you really get recognition for it? 709 00:45:51.760 --> 00:45:55.519 How somebody, Yes, somebody, somebody recognizes it. Right. I think 710 00:45:55.519 --> 00:45:59.079 you're right. Like fans in general, you know, when they think about 711 00:45:59.079 --> 00:46:00.639 the best players in the league, they think of Lebron, they think of 712 00:46:00.800 --> 00:46:05.039 they think of Steph. Yeah, they think because they see the vind because 713 00:46:05.039 --> 00:46:07.239 they see them. I'll give you a perfect point of how we deal with 714 00:46:07.280 --> 00:46:09.159 it. And during the NCAA tournament, we watched the Dukes, we watched 715 00:46:09.159 --> 00:46:14.039 the Houston's, we watched the kansass we never watched n fa U, Right, 716 00:46:14.159 --> 00:46:15.320 we never watched it. Who are they? Right? And then they 717 00:46:15.400 --> 00:46:19.360 show up and kick your ass? And you wonder who are these and they've 718 00:46:19.400 --> 00:46:22.239 been going thirty four and three all year? Yeah? And he said, 719 00:46:22.280 --> 00:46:23.880 oh, oh, I didn't know that. Yeah, So whose fault is 720 00:46:23.920 --> 00:46:28.119 that? That's the person not watching right? Right? Yeah, I think 721 00:46:28.119 --> 00:46:30.639 it's you know, den veris in the big you know New York, right, 722 00:46:30.760 --> 00:46:34.760 Boston, La Market, So you know they don't get like the media 723 00:46:34.960 --> 00:46:37.159 visibility. Yeah that you know, some of those other markets get, but 724 00:46:37.199 --> 00:46:39.239 I feel like as experts who covered the support, they should you know, 725 00:46:39.360 --> 00:46:44.639 be familiar with like every all the stars at least on all the teams. 726 00:46:44.679 --> 00:46:47.760 And one of the things when I when she went with Denver is because Murray 727 00:46:49.079 --> 00:46:51.559 has been hurt the last two or three years. So everyone's saying, oh, 728 00:46:51.599 --> 00:46:53.039 they're just gonna do the be the Buffalo Bills and fall apart at some 729 00:46:53.119 --> 00:46:57.760 point. Right, Well, there's the guard that who has been around. 730 00:46:58.239 --> 00:47:00.239 Now he's around, yeah, and he's pretty darn good. Yeah, when 731 00:47:00.280 --> 00:47:02.039 he's healthy, he's one of the best guards in the league, one of 732 00:47:02.039 --> 00:47:05.519 the best players in the league, honestly, and he's showing that right now. 733 00:47:05.639 --> 00:47:07.519 So so it's not just a one guy punch. No, it's a 734 00:47:07.599 --> 00:47:10.639 one two punch with Porter coming out though playing well. Yeah. And then 735 00:47:10.760 --> 00:47:15.760 who's the guy who's the double name guy? Uh, they played really well 736 00:47:15.840 --> 00:47:19.239 last night. Um, I think he might have been with Sons. He 737 00:47:19.320 --> 00:47:24.239 had twenty one points, twenty two points. Name not coming to my head 738 00:47:24.320 --> 00:47:27.239 right now. Okay, so that guy, Yeah, I don't have that 739 00:47:27.360 --> 00:47:30.559 guy. So but all those pieces don't. Yeah, I know the nuggets 740 00:47:30.599 --> 00:47:34.400 that up like everyone could played well honestly likes to have to get that has 741 00:47:34.400 --> 00:47:37.800 to happen. Like they were making like crazy shots like shot. I'm like 742 00:47:37.679 --> 00:47:42.320 they were making everything mry like so, I mean everyone played well. They 743 00:47:42.400 --> 00:47:46.559 look like Princeton. You know what. We don't need any more of those 744 00:47:46.639 --> 00:47:50.239 chiefs from Okay, we really don't. I wanted to see your face. 745 00:47:50.519 --> 00:48:00.960 Yeah, well there's your finger too. You know. It's funny, Steve, 746 00:48:01.000 --> 00:48:07.320 because we sit here every day and I see the dig coming and then 747 00:48:07.360 --> 00:48:10.400 I still get I still get hit by it. I see it coming and 748 00:48:10.679 --> 00:48:14.199 and it's still like it still gets there. Right, I can't get the 749 00:48:14.239 --> 00:48:21.719 gloves up in time. It's all right, Okay, A lot of good 750 00:48:21.800 --> 00:48:22.480 a lot of a lot of things happened. I can't wait to get to 751 00:48:23.039 --> 00:48:27.719 breaking a lot a lot of good breaking news stuff. If PJA starts tomorrow, 752 00:48:27.960 --> 00:48:30.639 I'm excited about that. You know, I love I love the Majors. 753 00:48:30.199 --> 00:48:34.199 Um PJ is sort of the I don't pay attention to go ahead. 754 00:48:35.079 --> 00:48:37.320 It's sort of always been the step child of the Majors, right like the 755 00:48:37.400 --> 00:48:40.400 fourth one. But you know they've moved it up. You know it used 756 00:48:40.400 --> 00:48:45.039 to be played in uh In in August, and it was the last one 757 00:48:45.119 --> 00:48:47.599 now you know, to put it to get a major in each month, 758 00:48:47.880 --> 00:48:52.199 you know, from April, May, June, and July. It's now 759 00:48:52.280 --> 00:48:54.079 played. You know, it's it's it's coming up this week and it's you 760 00:48:54.159 --> 00:48:59.280 know, it's a major where a lot of guys who get their first major 761 00:48:59.400 --> 00:49:04.320 at this time. Jason Day who won last week for the first time in 762 00:49:04.440 --> 00:49:07.639 like several years, you know, um doubts his only major. Uh, 763 00:49:07.760 --> 00:49:10.199 you know, it's kind of like a place to get your first one. 764 00:49:10.239 --> 00:49:14.400 And so it's gonna be at Oak Hills and in Rochester. I love the 765 00:49:14.480 --> 00:49:16.920 majors, I really do, and I pay attention to these. So I'll 766 00:49:16.920 --> 00:49:21.480 be talking a little with you guys next. So well, how I rudely 767 00:49:21.519 --> 00:49:23.480 interrupted you. I want to ask about to live Is that kind of is 768 00:49:23.480 --> 00:49:28.000 that kind of falling to the It's still something something going on with there because 769 00:49:28.000 --> 00:49:30.599 they didn't they lost some publicity. That's where you can a bunch of weird 770 00:49:30.639 --> 00:49:34.559 stuff. You know, they got on the CW and like they got some 771 00:49:34.599 --> 00:49:37.920 bad publicity because uh, they were getting to the end of a tournament and 772 00:49:37.000 --> 00:49:39.760 they cut them off so they could put the Flintstones on or whatever is the 773 00:49:40.280 --> 00:49:45.039 you know whatever is on the CW programming um and and actually, uh that 774 00:49:45.199 --> 00:49:49.960 tournament when it went to a playoff and nobody got to see it, isn't 775 00:49:50.000 --> 00:49:52.679 that Remember how they have the football game, the game, the Hidie game 776 00:49:52.760 --> 00:49:55.719 years ago, So those there's some of that. There's still a lot of 777 00:49:55.800 --> 00:50:01.119 friction between the between the two tours, although the the live guys can play 778 00:50:01.199 --> 00:50:04.679 in the PGA, so they're you know, some of those guys are in 779 00:50:04.679 --> 00:50:07.360 the Brooks Keptuf, Phil Nicholson, those guys are Dustin Johnson, are all 780 00:50:07.400 --> 00:50:10.280 in the PGA. You know. It was funny, it's kind of anticlimactic 781 00:50:10.360 --> 00:50:14.599 when all those guys played in the Masters. People the people were thinking, 782 00:50:14.639 --> 00:50:15.920 oh, they're gonna be at each other, you know, they weren't. 783 00:50:16.000 --> 00:50:21.679 No, Yeah, they're they're friends and they know some guys disagree with the 784 00:50:21.760 --> 00:50:23.159 fact that these guys all went to the live tour, of course, but 785 00:50:23.480 --> 00:50:27.239 in the end they're gonna get out. It's a gentleman's game. They're gonna 786 00:50:27.280 --> 00:50:30.679 play and nobody's gonna give each other any crap. And and so I think 787 00:50:30.760 --> 00:50:32.920 that's kind of settled a little bit. There's a lot of different things. 788 00:50:32.960 --> 00:50:36.920 There was there was some rumblings for a while that Greg Norman was gonna get 789 00:50:37.320 --> 00:50:42.039 get the boot. They started talking about doing a woman's live tour. That's 790 00:50:42.159 --> 00:50:45.559 conversation is out there. There are guys who are leaving the Live Tour because 791 00:50:45.559 --> 00:50:50.719 they're getting kicked off, you know, because they're not performing performing. Um, 792 00:50:51.079 --> 00:50:55.920 well, the DP Tour, which is basically the overseas tour, the 793 00:50:57.360 --> 00:51:00.719 uh it's not just Europe, it's you know, it's it's overseas. They've 794 00:51:00.840 --> 00:51:04.320 they've gone steadfast. And they're saying, if you want to be in the 795 00:51:04.440 --> 00:51:09.320 DP, in the in the live tour, you owe underco because of your 796 00:51:09.360 --> 00:51:13.639 contract with the DP Tour, you owe us hundreds of thousands of dollars. 797 00:51:13.960 --> 00:51:15.960 And they're saying, I'm not paying, and so they're not they're not getting 798 00:51:16.440 --> 00:51:20.280 to play. Stuff like that. There's just still a lot of friction like 799 00:51:20.360 --> 00:51:22.400 that. But you know, uh, brooks Kep guy I think I saw 800 00:51:23.199 --> 00:51:30.559 is the is the third favorite, just behind behind Scotti, Scheffler and and 801 00:51:30.920 --> 00:51:35.079 uh and Ron wrong. Wrong. So the guy I was talking about is 802 00:51:35.119 --> 00:51:39.079 called Will Pope. Oh okay, he's by the Lakers. Yeah, Well 803 00:51:39.480 --> 00:51:42.159 he used to be with we used to be. Now he's with. He 804 00:51:42.239 --> 00:51:45.079 had a good game. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know too, 805 00:51:45.800 --> 00:51:47.519 So it should be fun at least I think we should be fun. Yeah. 806 00:51:47.639 --> 00:51:51.880 Um, it's what it's what keeps us interesting because we don't want to 807 00:51:51.960 --> 00:51:54.760 do in the regular season. We don't and and you know, and I 808 00:51:54.880 --> 00:52:00.519 feel like I should, but I mean it's as far as we can catch. 809 00:52:00.840 --> 00:52:04.119 Well, I think did you see that kur Kur talked about that the 810 00:52:04.199 --> 00:52:07.519 punch and it was very obviously, very obviously how they didn't get along. 811 00:52:07.000 --> 00:52:10.480 They played, they played, but they didn't get along, and how that 812 00:52:10.719 --> 00:52:15.840 kind of was the key to the whole season. Well, well, Draymond 813 00:52:15.880 --> 00:52:19.199 Green came out and said that, he said that he thought that they lost, 814 00:52:20.079 --> 00:52:22.079 that they got eliminated at this time. It dated all the way back 815 00:52:22.119 --> 00:52:27.559 to that and what the hell did you do it? Well? Because he 816 00:52:27.719 --> 00:52:30.360 is who he is and and and pull pissed him off, I mean, 817 00:52:30.239 --> 00:52:34.400 pull us a little punkish, you know, how do you how do you 818 00:52:34.559 --> 00:52:40.639 get through that? That'll be interesting to see how the Warriors changed things up. 819 00:52:40.639 --> 00:52:45.599 I mean, they won a championship just last year. But it's funny 820 00:52:45.639 --> 00:52:47.960 how things have changed so quickly. And then you know, maybe you gotta 821 00:52:49.079 --> 00:52:51.760 you gotta get rid of a couple of guys, you know, discussion about 822 00:52:51.800 --> 00:52:53.880 James Harden. You know, people saying, okay, you gotta fired, 823 00:52:53.880 --> 00:52:58.360 you fired the coach. You know, well you gotta get rid of James 824 00:52:58.440 --> 00:53:02.880 Harden too. So worries James Harden go back to Houston. Yeah, okay, 825 00:53:04.199 --> 00:53:07.719 first hour almost complete. So we're gonna have some breaking news by you, 826 00:53:07.119 --> 00:53:09.199 Jason, yep, and I'll probably all of us. We have a 827 00:53:09.280 --> 00:53:14.960 little get some little things. And thanks to John Promer for joining us and 828 00:53:15.280 --> 00:53:16.960 telling us how we can buy part of them. Yeah, well we have 829 00:53:17.039 --> 00:53:21.320 to go do some research. Well don't we always. We have to invest 830 00:53:21.400 --> 00:53:25.440 money, I know, do our work for us. All right, let's 831 00:53:25.679 --> 00:53:29.119 let's take our break. We'll come back. Jason will be on with breaking news.