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Speaker 4: Yo, what's going on everybody?
Speaker 5: Hope everyone's having a great Thursday, April to twenty twenty five.
Here Thursday, the beginning of the weekend. Unfortunately no l
shoot baseball to look forward to tonight, but oh I know,
but probably for the best given uh giving Cage one
hundred and thirty pitch incredible complete game performance last week.
Very excited to watch him and Sam Dutton do battle
tomorrow night.
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hopefully coach Johnson as well at some point during the
show today, h a Lodger seems to have got hit
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We got Jordan filling in. We got Taytay and Jakey
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What's up, dude, man, we're doing good today.
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Speaker 5: So real quick, because okay, here's where it gets a
bit odd, is uh. I know we're a local show
and we're going to talk about local sports, and due
to our enslavement to the algorithmic gods that rule you Tube,
we will reach to talk about the Saints topics and
LSU topics today. But I'm sorry, there's nothing more interesting
on the planet than the drama that played out with
Luka Doncic last night.
Speaker 4: It is something that is so rare.
Speaker 5: This entire ordeal from the trade day to now is
so rare and so insane that I don't care that
we're a baton reason more to it, Like we're going
I have to talk about it right now. First off,
I don't know We didn't talk about this yesterday, but
did y'all see what like the Mavericks are you know,
planning to do for Luka Jake. They put t shirts
on the seats and said thank you for everything in Slavinian.
Speaker 4: They a tribute video ready to go.
Speaker 5: When I learned about that, I found I got angry,
Like you don't get to have your cake and eat
it too, Mavericks. Yeah, you can't deny this man the
Supermax rip him out of his home, out of nowhere
on the way out, tell everybody it's because he's fat
and lazy and not dedicated, and then turn around six
weeks later and be like oh thank you, oh thank you,
Like like he didn't leave for age, he didn't retire.
You kicked him out and talked crap about him on
the way out. Yeah, it's so disingenuous. And and that's
the thing is a kid, you hear your favorite athlete
getting traded or whatever.
Speaker 4: Not your favorite.
Speaker 5: You just hear about Athene getting traded and Jay. You
can speak to those better better than we can. But
it's like as a kid, you're like, okay, yeah, whatever,
you know, he's on new team cool. As an adult
you appreciate everything that comes along with that. I mean, no,
it's it's it's moving. It's a completely new set of friends,
completely new social scene, routine, geography, culture, everything. And for
Luca it was probably especially shocking given that he grew
up in Dallas. He arrived there a kid and there
became a man and had no desire to leave, and
Nico Harrison ripped him away, called him fat on the
way out, and then tried to be all Levy Devey
last night.
Speaker 6: Af that.
Speaker 5: Did y'all see Luca Crin during the tribute video?
Speaker 3: Of course?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Bro, there is.
Speaker 5: Nico Harrison. Shouldn't just be fired, he should be tarred
and feathered, like we need to go full Enlightenment era
here and shame him. He needs to be Game of
Thrones walk through the streets of Dallas and shamed.
Speaker 4: Yes, I would. I don't know how I.
Speaker 5: Would recover if I was a Mavericks fan.
Speaker 4: Did you see him after the game?
Speaker 1: I saw him being very that that arena was full
the entire time they stopped, they took pictures with him,
He shook hands with people. I mean they were cheering
Luka Dancic for dropping forty five on their team as
he was walking out of the arena.
Speaker 5: How I mean that would break me as a fan?
Oh yeah, legitimately I would never be a fan of
the like I don't. It's man, it's it's mind boggling.
Speaker 6: It's trading your superstar in the height of his career
for really no reason and for nothing in return street clothes.
I mean, he'd be like trading Drew Brees for Derek
Carr whoa I mean sinister right in like twenty sixteen, Yeah,
in his prime.
Speaker 5: It's it's unfathomable as a fan.
Speaker 4: It reminds you of how.
Speaker 5: Agent what's the word powerless? How you have no agency
at all?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 5: Right, I mean you deeply love this thing, and yet
your fate is just tied to the whims of a
few rich a holes just because old Patrick Dumont and
Nico Harrison wanted to trade Luca. Your fandom is rude,
the team you love is no more.
Speaker 6: And what you're talking about earlier about like kind of
being blindsided by it now. I mean Luca is completely
different level than I ever thought about being obviously, but
it is. It's very difficult when you have a family
and I remember when I got released by San Diego.
Speaker 4: You know, no idea was it was good, No idea
it was coming. No. I mean I was a captain
the year before, I was a Pro Bowl alternate.
Speaker 6: Like I felt good about signing back with them, and
it was like the eleventh hour, like two hours had
passed since the cuts were made, you know, you think
you're good.
Speaker 4: I was about to go to Sea World in San Diego.
Speaker 6: I remember exactly where I was, and then I got
the call, Hey, bring your iPad.
Speaker 4: NORF wants to see you. And I'm like, well, I
knew immediately then.
Speaker 6: But it's like, we've got this house we've now got
got to move on from, and you've got your you
know everything, school and your church you're going to and
your friends set up because it's been five years.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you established yourself.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and you've got great friends, and it's just all
of a sudden that's taken away from you. It's like
from where you were established and everything you had going
for you in your life.
Speaker 4: It's like, hey, you know, you.
Speaker 6: Got a couple of weeks and you're probably gonna be
going to another team and you're gonna be moving across
the country and moving on and probably those people that
have been in your life were five years you probably
I gotta see them anymore.
Speaker 4: No, that's just the way life is. It's a that's
just how it is.
Speaker 5: Everybody's a lot of times as adults, you're friends with
the people that you're friends with, and it doesn't mean
that you're not like real friends and you know, love
each other. But it's because your schedule allows y'all to be.
As awful as that sounds, that's just kind of the
reality of this situation.
Speaker 3: Like, Yeah, the craziest part of me though, was like
I watch a lot of Luca games the whole time.
Last night when he's usually frying a cooking the team,
he's talking crazy, he's yelling at the rest, he's doing this,
pointing at the crowd. He didn't do none of that
last night. Like it was kind of he was sad
giving him a forty part, Like that was the saddest
forty it is.
Speaker 5: It is literally like Shakespearean. Yeah, it's like he had
to kill his old he had to kill his family
for some sort of greater good or something, and and
and you could see him, uh kind of yes, mournfully,
mournfully doing.
Speaker 3: So Lucas cooking you. He's over there like, oh, you
can't guard me all that. I didn't do none of
that last night.
Speaker 1: No, no, he said in the postgame interview, he was like,
when they played the tribute video, I didn't think I
was gonna be able to play this game.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I mean.
Speaker 4: It just wasn't. And here's the other thing. That's how
good he is.
Speaker 1: He won't even inspired and just dropped forty five.
Speaker 5: If I'm a fan, that tribute video would make me
want to physically riot. All you're doing is reminding me
of how astronomically asinine your decision was. All you're doing
is reminding me of how incredible he was. That we
just played for an NBA Finals and you decided to trade.
Speaker 4: It for nothing. Idiot there? And how about this?
Speaker 5: So there's an article in ESPN yesterday that dove into
a few topics about the return, like you know, did
the Mavericks tried to lie up all kind of sponsors
for the night to make some money and Luca was like,
uh nah.
Speaker 4: No, no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 5: You're not you know business that used to work with Lucay.
He's no, no, you're not using my name at all.
And then somebody did. Basically, like financial analysis, the Mavericks
are expected to lose dozens of millions of dollars this
year alone in revenue, getting up to nine figures long term.
And it's funny because I'm saying they didn't want to
pay the Supermax. Okay, you don't want to pay the money, Well,
you're losing money. You might end up losing three hundred
million dollars. At least if you had paid Luca, you
would have gotten return. And it's the rare move. We
talked about this a lot when you talk about things
that kind of like a bit of corporate greed because
you don't want to spend the money, right, Like, uh,
let's say most of the times when corporations make it
to vision like that, there's at least a short term
fiscal benefit, but some long term damage that I think
eventually drives customers away. Right Like, if you're a big company,
you cut customer service, Okay, that's off the payroll. So
profits increase in the short term, shares go up, dividends increase,
but long term, the customer experience is worse, and they
might walk away because they're like, well, the customer service
has gone I can't get anything fixed, blah blah whatever,
Oakland Athletics, this is the rare case where you made
a decision that both lost you millions of dollars in
the short term and shattered your long term brand identity.
I mean, it is the most astronomically bad decision I
have seen as an adult covering sports. Is there is
there is that an exaggeration?
Speaker 6: No, I don't think so, because you're talking about one
of the five I mean, no matter who you ask,
five best players that think overall in the NBA, and
you traded him for an aging, always oft injured star
in Anthony Davis Christy, who's like how many minutes did
he play? You know last night he played twenty eight,
but he came off the bench only scored eleven points.
So combine the two guys you traded him for scored
twenty four points, and so you got nothing in return
for this superstar. And Dallas is like a market where
like Luca would have been loved forever forever, like he
would have just they would have always shown up, that
would have always been in the building, and you traded
him for like nobody's coming to see Anthony Davis.
Speaker 4: No, not one person in Dallas.
Speaker 6: Like, oh, you're going to watch ad tonight, not one
person because he's not gonna play well. Even if he does,
you're right fifty chance. So like, it's a head scratcher
on every single level. Nothing about it makes sense. There's
not literally, yeah, there's not one thing you can circle
in the pros and cons. It's a pro for the
Mavericks making this move, and I can't think of another
trade his diet that as soon as it happened, Like,
as soon as it happened, you couldn't like at least
just like circle one pro or okay, it helps you here,
there's not one. There's never been one, and there's not
going to be one.
Speaker 5: It's even so insane that Nico Harrison was so proud
of himself for keeping it so quiet. But the problem
there because you know, obviously right like he didn't want
it to start to leak and and all the drama
woulded too. The problem there is, well, first, if you
chopped him on an open market and said reaction be damn,
you could have maximized what you got. Yeah, But secondly
you could have at least gotten an idea like it
would have maybe the fan reaction would have slapped you awake?
Speaker 4: Like, was Nico.
Speaker 5: Harrison so far up his own ass he couldn't see
the sun?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Like he completely got blinded by his own ass.
Speaker 3: He's one of those guys that they buried. Absolutely, he's
that guy.
Speaker 4: Trade what he initiated the trade? No, I know it's in.
Say it's in.
Speaker 3: Say hey you want Luca Dodget You serious? Yeah? For who?
I'm not trading Lebron Anthony Davis hungko real quick? He
wants to trade.
Speaker 5: I mean, I cannot fathom what went through Rob Palinka's head.
Speaker 3: I promise he jumped out of seat, like.
Speaker 4: Is it like the calendar? Did he have to pinch
himself and be like, am I am? I? Am? I awake?
Is this is this real life? What? And look what's happened? Okay?
Speaker 5: And in case you think this is all just you know,
uh whatever. Since that moment, the Lakers are now well,
it was eleven and two, they're now twelve. When it began,
the Lakers are only three games up on the maps.
Speaker 4: Now the Lakers are twelve and two.
Speaker 5: Since the maps are seven fourteen, the Lakers are battling
for the three seed and the Lakers are now eleven
games up on the MAVs. On real, Patrick Dumont, you better.
I hope you get that casino in that new stadium
you're planning, because it's all you give a damn about anyway,
dirt Nowitzki said when the trade was announced, he was
on a family vacation in the Maldis.
Speaker 4: It was the last day of the vak.
Speaker 5: They had a big family lunch planned and he was
so shocked that he skipped the family lunch to stay
in his hotel room and figure out.
Speaker 4: If the trade was real.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and just processing that's the biggest legend in your
franchise history.
Speaker 5: Like I don't like the Lake, I don't like the
maver I don't care about any of these teams. But
it's a situation so absurd that I do have real
empathy for Mavericks fans, Like I am mad on Mavericks
fans behalf well.
Speaker 3: I hate the Lakers, and I think it's crazy, like
the Lakers get billed out now.
Speaker 5: And that's the other part. If you do at the
Lakers like we all do. You just offered him a
golden parish. Now they get to go from Lebron to Luca.
Speaker 3: Why every time?
Speaker 4: Why they get it?
Speaker 3: They get a superstar that falls in her lap every time.
I swear the NBA colludes to get the Lakers to
be like contenders. I mean, they start to be a
falling star. Somehow they get a blessing out the sky
to get Lebron jeans.
Speaker 5: It's like, well, I mean look back to even Shack, right,
the magic shit there developed Shack forever. Okay, well, now
he's a lost Ange, just like you can go back
well Anthony Davis North.
Speaker 4: Okay, well now he's a lost ange. Draft Night, you
trade Vlotti Diva for Kobe.
Speaker 3: Kobe Bryant for Kobe Bryant the Pelican's draft.
Speaker 4: I don't think I was aware of that.
Speaker 6: Actually, yeah, Bloody Diva was drafted by this then Charlotte Hornets,
and they traded him on Draft Knight for Kobe.
Speaker 4: What did They're not?
Speaker 5: And it's not like Los Angeles are good people, can't
be karma, They're awful people exactly.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they're elitist.
Speaker 3: Evil empire. That's the real evil empire.
Speaker 4: God, I don't know your decisions sometimes.
Speaker 5: Look, I know it's mysterious to us here on earth.
I don't know but like, the only way I can
imagine that this trade went down is because Nico Harrison
was possessed.
Speaker 4: I don't know if it was.
Speaker 5: By the devil or what, but there had to be
some sort of possession in play, some substance.
Speaker 4: To make him think this was a good idea.
Speaker 5: Unreal, Matthew says, isn't the room that the new owners
of the MAVs are tidy? Casino has been pushing Dallas
and Texas legislature to allow gamble because they didn't get.
Speaker 4: Done for another year.
Speaker 5: Yes, they desperately want to build a new stadium with
a casino attached. That is the That is what Dumont
and all of them are are into.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you cannot gamble in the state of Texas. The
only thing you can do, I believe, is daily fantasy.
Speaker 4: That's it. No gambling.
Speaker 6: So a lot of people that I was talking with
that are covering the Final.
Speaker 4: Four like, you can't. You can't gamble in Texas.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Daniel, basta.
Speaker 4: This is a classic case of that.
Speaker 5: Eric Andre mean where he shoots Hannibal and he's like,
who could have done this?
Speaker 4: Yeah? One hundred percent said all.
Speaker 5: Right, on the way out here, and then we'll wrap
it up. Tote give us the player introduction. Don't want
to see the MAVs fans reactions to Luca last Night season.
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we're about to talk about, I had no idea who
this guy was. Hand to god, he's kind of intriguing,
and that is Arkansas wide receiver Isaac Tesla. The Saints
are expected to host him on a visit, and we
talked a lot in this pre draft process about the
need for a big body receiver. Right, you got ya Lave,
you got Shaheed, Like you got the small guys, you
lose MBS. We need a big guy. Well, Isaac Tesla
is not just big, but he is an athletic freak.
He's six four two fourteen and he ran a four
four three forty avert of thirty nine and a half
inches broad jump ten nine shuttle four oh five three
cones six eighty five, hell even bitch two twenty five
seventeen times and Jake, wait till you get a load
of this. A relative athletic score ras the Saint's favorite metch.
Speaker 4: Of nine to nine to three. So I don't know, Jake,
You probably know not.
Speaker 5: Probably you know way more about the draft than I do.
Do you have any idea where Tesla's kind of being mocked,
Like what pick would this be for the North? He
had a five hundred yards for Arkansas last year as
their second leading receiver, and he's one of.
Speaker 6: Those guys that's going to go anywhere between the fourth
and the sixth round.
Speaker 5: Oh okay, I kind of love that as a value
play and.
Speaker 6: More closer to the sixth round than the fourth round,
if that makes sense. And I think it's because of
what you just laid out as far as how athletic
he is. And look, he had over five hundred yards
in the SEC. He transferred to Arkansas from Hillsdale College,
which is Division two, right, So he's not somebody that
was identified at a high school. So a little bit
of a late bloomer or just somebody missed on him,
because he's got all the measurables and he certainly has
the athletic ability to be able to go out there
and be successful. He's got returnability as well, and so
that's something the Saints, you know, could use because you
have a Rashid Shahad, who probably doesn't need to do
that anymore, even though he's really.
Speaker 4: Good at it. You got to keep that guy healthy.
You need him as your number two receiver.
Speaker 6: This is also somebody that was really good down in
Mobile at the Senior Bowl.
Speaker 4: He was turning him really Yeah. I mean I understand
every reason why he would be on a visit. I mean,
you take a shot on this guy.
Speaker 5: You're telling me six round pick with those numbers, that's insane.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and again, like everything that you need at that position,
like he fits, like you're looking for somebody that's not
the five eleven one nine five or the six foot
two hundred pound receiver, Like you're looking for somebody six
four two fifteen mm.
Speaker 4: So he's coming on a visit.
Speaker 5: Georgia edge rusher Michel Williams just had a visit with
the Saint Saints. It also met with him when they
hosted That didn't for all the Georgia players. So they've
done their homework on Mkel and I know that if
the Saints were to draft him, it would trigger a
lot of people because he's kind of a potential type
of guy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's got freakish numbers.
Speaker 5: Freakish size, but he's a pass rusher that has not
met his ceiling at all. But I also want to
hesitate Jake like he is a potential guy, but he's
not Marcus Davenport and Peyton Turner.
Speaker 4: No.
Speaker 5: I mean, he has fourteen career sacks. He did in
the SEC. He started on a he was a key
piece and started on a Kirby Smart Georgia defense for
multiple years. Like this is not I know, with the
same sort of draft him, and I understand it cynically,
people would probably be up in arms, and I'm not
saying that I wouldn't be a little like that's an
exciting but I also don't want him painted like drafting
Marcus Davenport Peyton Turner because it's also definitely not that.
Speaker 6: No, it's not that it's somebody that's done it at
the highest level in the Southeastern Conference. I think, no
matter who you ask, he is a surefire top ten
prospect you're coming up in this draft, and so you
wouldn't be reaching. Like when I think I think we
were together, I don't remember I was with someone when
the Saints selected Patrick Turner, and I just remember we
all were like.
Speaker 5: I think it was maybe at the said the Pelican
Son's game was that the draft?
Speaker 4: I don't know, I don't know. Were you at don
Juan maybe or no? Yeah, yeah, okay, I don't think
I was there that night. It was Jimmy somebody and
we're looking at each other, like, what in the hell.
Speaker 3: If you said Pelican soigns And it definitely was twenty
twenty one draft.
Speaker 5: Okay, yeah, yeah, funnily enough, Jake, you actually just called
him Patrick Turner. I'm sure, I'm sure nobody batter than
I because who knows what his actual name is?
Speaker 4: He's given you no Remember.
Speaker 6: I did this before because Peyton Turner is not as
good as Patrick Turner, the receiver was in the NFL. Yeah,
you know, he at least played games, so Peyton Turner exactly.
Speaker 5: But when they mean again, I'm just I'm not calling
you out. I'm trying to reinforce the point.
Speaker 4: I don't care.
Speaker 8: No.
Speaker 6: When they selected him, I was like, who's Peyton Turner?
And I feel like I know the draft pretty well? True,
and I was like, who who's this fella? But Ed
Rusher like, we asked Nick this the other day and
he he didn't really have an answer and not calling
him out.
Speaker 4: I just don't think it's it's clear.
Speaker 6: But if you asked me and maybe what you have
to have, I do think ed Rusher is something that
you have to have, which.
Speaker 4: Because you drafted Trey Eddridson.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and you just gave you just gave Chase Young
a lot of money.
Speaker 5: You drafted Trey HENDRICKSONID what the funny NFL sack leader,
and now you're out here shaking your hat for d Rushers.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Hendrickson replacements don't have a combined as totally as interesting.
Speaker 5: It's insane crazy Tay t we gotta go to break.
But I saw you move your mic over? Did you
want to add something here? You need to stop talking
about my new favorite Dallas Cowboys. What you need to
stop doing?
Speaker 4: Mckel oh? Oh yeah, my bad, My bad, my bad.
Come on, man, this is where he turns his career.
Speaker 5: You know, you maybe should be excited because the Saints
have a little bit of Pelicans disease right now, where
anytime a guy leaves a flourish so like Peyton Turner
could actually flourish to.
Speaker 1: Your point, like Arner Johnson all over.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's just like the Pelicans I'm seeing like Dyson
Daniels kick ass the Kale. Alexander Walker's out here taking assout.
Speaker 4: Daniels is up for NBA Defensive Player of the Year.
Why do we keep giving these guys away?
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Speaker 5: Feel says if Dyson stayed in New Orleans, he'd likely
get hurt tying his shoes for the year.
Speaker 4: True, Now it would be something more just obscure and random.
Speaker 6: He'd be having Beignet's and the sugar would get caught
on the bottom.
Speaker 15: Of his shoes, and he a diabetic coma and then
never wakes up sugar. Are they calling him the great
Barrier Thief?
Speaker 3: Yes? He also just signed an exclusive shooto with Adidas.
He didn't have this type of motion on the.
Speaker 4: Pelicant What a sick nickname? A sick name?
Speaker 3: The most steals in the season in NBA history, Dyson
Daniel shout out, I mean, man. He also said the
Pelicans were soft and cursed.
Speaker 4: He did say they were soft, and they are soft.
Speaker 3: He said that, Oh no way, what's the Pelican school?
Speaker 12: Man?
Speaker 3: I cover everything.
Speaker 4: I know. I'm sorry.
Speaker 5: I look, I too have been. I've been talking about
the Mavericks having their fandom broken. My Pelicans fan has
been broken. I've been checked out. Yeah, Ford almost two
years now, almost two seasons.
Speaker 4: It's very sad.
Speaker 3: And headlines again for not basketball reasons.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm not gonna blame this one on him, but yeah,
I mean, this is just a crazy stalker.
Speaker 3: But I will.
Speaker 5: But yeah, but that's because you're still checked in and
all you're dealing with like you're just surrounded by negativity.
I'm like, there there is not even a ray of sunshine.
That's where the Pelicans need to hire Michael Malone. Do
you think he would come here because he's obviously going
to be a hot candidate. Anybody who needs a coach
who's gonna want Michael Malone.
Speaker 4: Depends on what else comes with I don't know. Okay,
so let's play this game again, though.
Speaker 5: Let's play it because if healthy, the biggest if history.
The Pelicans should have a pretty attractive starting five and
they're young.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and then de Jontay Murray.
Speaker 3: But the problem, though, is Desante's not back till twenty
twenty six. Trey Murphy just has surgery last month for
torn What.
Speaker 5: Do you mean he's not gonna be back at the
start of this next season. He got hurt in the
first game.
Speaker 3: No no, no, no, no.
Speaker 4: Hurt one. He broke his hand Game one.
Speaker 3: A perennial iron man in the NBA breaks his hand
the first game he plays with the Pelicans. Keep that
in mind.
Speaker 5: I did not know that about Murray. He was viewed
as an iron man. Oh yeah, before that.
Speaker 3: He's one of those guys that doesn't miss games like
he Okay, so we're just curs. I mean, you know,
he breaks his hand Game one, whatever.
Speaker 4: Just cursed.
Speaker 5: Never mind, So Michael Mlum's definitely not coming here.
Speaker 3: No, I mean no, no, yeah, it sucks though it's
so Yeah, you're looking at Dedonte not back till twenty
twenty six, Herb Jones, torn Labram, Trey Murphy torn Labram
so Zon gratefully, I know it's remember reported he's he's
not hurt. They just tank and he's finally healthy going
to off season. So that's good. But you don't have
a choice. The problem with Zion is his biggest I
guess downfall is free time. He is one of the
worst people I've managed, so babysitter.
Speaker 4: I saw.
Speaker 5: Of picture or little video of Mariah Mills yesterday, and.
Speaker 4: That's just freakish.
Speaker 5: That is that's Zion. Come on, man, you don't need
to be messing with Mariah Mills.
Speaker 4: That woman.
Speaker 5: And and this is me, but she looks like a
circus freak like it's it's it's I I think, I
think deeply unattractive. Tell him the truth, it's deeply unattractive.
Speaker 4: That is devious levels.
Speaker 5: Of of horny from Zion, just truly devious stuff.
Speaker 4: You guys.
Speaker 1: De Jeany Murray is going to make his debut next
season before Zion. Okay, let's just let's just get that
out of the way.
Speaker 3: Now, Zion is not hurt. He's not hurt.
Speaker 4: Has no kids he needs to have baby. No, he
doesn't has two kids. Hees two. I thought he'd want.
Speaker 6: I'm looking at this box score from the Nets game,
the last game the Pelicans played.
Speaker 5: I don't know any name you're about to read, do you, Jeorge?
Speaker 4: Do you know these names? I mean I know you,
I do know.
Speaker 5: You.
Speaker 4: Do you do a Pelicans podcast? Like? Who are these people?
I want to hear them?
Speaker 3: Antonio Reeves, Carlo mckovich, who else? Yeah, you don't know
who's Leicster? Yeah? They just called that guy from Birmingham.
Speaker 5: The thing is Jake knows NBA names though, yeah, gambling
and fantasy like Jake normally knows the depths of rosters
to the way that always impresses me. And even the
Pelicans have extended beyond his knowledge base.
Speaker 6: How many times is Elford Peyton been with the with
the Pelicans?
Speaker 3: Hell, he balls on every time he does.
Speaker 6: He does, he does, and I and I love watching
him play, but it's like, yeah, he's back on a
ten day anyway. This cat lester whose last name I
can't even try to pronounce, he got twenty minutes.
Speaker 4: Last night, Jamal Cain got sixteen minutes. He scored fifteen points. So, uh,
Chad's Jamar Caine. I thought he was coaching. Where's he
at Miami?
Speaker 16: Now?
Speaker 4: Uh, Broncos? Right, is that what it is? Oh? Yeah
it is Broncos.
Speaker 5: Yeah this is Jamal Uh okay, chat say why that's
very upset We're talking about Pelicans. Why the negativity this morning?
Speaker 3: Look, it's we're not local.
Speaker 5: We kind of we kind of stumbled into this, and
yeah we're not. And we haven't had a good Pels
refresher in a minute. And we have our local Pelican expert,
the guy who still covers the team.
Speaker 4: Then nobody else wants to.
Speaker 6: So I think it was a true Trendon Wafford did
have twenty two points against the Pelicans, former l basketball player.
The Pelicans also let Drew Timmy give him sixteen to nine.
Speaker 10: Damn.
Speaker 4: I've thought about Timmy a long time. The glue.
Speaker 3: Yeah, man, looks.
Speaker 4: It's all Timmy gave you sixteen to nine.
Speaker 3: But it can be worse. Though. Listen, if they this
lottery is anything out the top three, cold red, hit
the butt, blow it up.
Speaker 5: It's all bad. Was the Dallas tribute to Luca Weird.
It is mister big, absolutely weird, dumb, all of it.
Our two coming to Well, let's close out our one
then we'll kick off our two.
Speaker 2: Off the Bench. Welcome back to the best morning sports
show around sort of. It's off the Bench with Hester
and t Bob No Dreams.
Speaker 5: When Hey, you want to see a cool video, Taylor
go in.
Speaker 4: I'm loving this. I don't even know this history. I'm
loving this.
Speaker 3: Wait, you said you want know who this is?
Speaker 4: I mean, Michael, you don't know who it is just
by listening to it?
Speaker 3: Wow?
Speaker 4: No, I wouldn't really, I wouldn't say they like you
knew who this was.
Speaker 5: Huh yeah, yeah, like the first first sound of the boy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, I didn't even care what the song was.
Speaker 5: Right, Hey, okay, look where it says Mary Juicemiths and
get me that video. Yeah it's a lazy because y'all
know what today is. Yeah, it's a Bronco chase. Right,
That's not what I was gonna say.
Speaker 6: It was massive April tenth, a pair of white Bronco
I believe this is Bronco Chase day.
Speaker 4: Make sure.
Speaker 5: No those June seventeenth, what do they call this juice Miss.
Speaker 4: On the road show?
Speaker 5: In the jungle, I've been getting bombarded with stuff or
they're talking about juice Miss and it's some OJ anniversary.
Speaker 4: I don't know why they.
Speaker 5: Celebrate it, but the point is one of the listeners
ended up sending me this video is a real blast
from the past night pregame show.
Speaker 16: I'm a little Cajun boy from cut off Louisiana, about
fifty miles off of the Orleans. But I never looked
at myself and I still don't. As a celebrity, you
can talk to people I went to high school with
college that I haven't changed. I'm the same person I
was when you know, I won the state championship in
high school in nineteen seventy seven.
Speaker 2: Hey bear rolling to the right, Kirk Bark, what's pressure
in the past called the touchdown?
Speaker 5: The South of Coast bands are going crazy being a
local kid.
Speaker 7: Do you think that is that made it tougher for you?
Speaker 16: I mean, had you, oh, without without a doubt, I
mean made the man a lot from it. On nineteen
ninety when I sat out, it was like I was
trying to run away from home. Why d you if
I came here and play well and has success. I
mean I can run for governor of Louisiana or mayor
of Arms and get a lot of votes within if
I wouldn't win and win have success. Didn't want to
hang you by the narrows tree?
Speaker 4: Did they say that?
Speaker 7: How frustrating was it when you had to make the decision.
Speaker 4: That you wanted out of here?
Speaker 16: Well, actually it wasn't that hard because it was a
business decision, football decision. I looked at the market, and
you know what, I thought I should be getting paid
as far as how I produce. So people would say,
what did you gain from ninete ninety holding out? Well, now,
I think it's all come in the past. The way
the judge has ruled on plan bing has been declared illegal,
and nobody was damaged more than me on the Plan
B because I was the only guy to miss a
whole season.
Speaker 7: It's very distasteful. I think a lot of things were
said that shouldn't have been said. I think there's a
total misunderstanding of what happened. Very frankly, but that's history
and I'd rather not dwell on that. I hope Bobby
is happy back here with the Saints, and I hope
he continues to play here until he's ready to retire.
Speaker 16: You know, it's the things. I don't know if it
was the older football mentality, but the matter what age
you are. But if you're younger than him, oh he's
a good kid. You know, he's a hard working kid.
It was like, Hey, I'm a man just like you,
so treat me like a man. But you know, I'm
not a vindictive person. I'm easy to go along, easy,
have a go lucky person, and I get a with anyone.
If they don't want to get along with me, you know,
it's because they don't want to.
Speaker 4: Put your relationship about it. No, it's okay. So it
doesn't bother you at all that they would allow you
to sit at home and not play at all.
Speaker 16: Right, Well, no, because I think that's why you have courts,
and that's why I think eventually I will reap the
benefits from that. And so you know, I'm just gonna
look at it from a positive point of view, and
I'm not gonna and it will be hard headed and
hold a grudge. That's not gonna you know, accomplish anything.
But I'm not naive. I've been around long enough to
know that when they say they care about you, man,
they don't really care about if they care about you.
Speaker 4: If you can play.
Speaker 16: If you can't play and you can't produce, they're gonna
get rid of you. I mean, that's just the way
football is. And you know, you tell these young guys
sometimes and they talk about, oh yeah, they will take
care of us. Man, you better believe that they'll take
care if you can play. If you can't play, you
be on the streets getting a real job.
Speaker 5: Hell yeah, dude, shout out to the candid. So again
it started as an OJ thing, but neverget that's pretty crazy.
Speaker 4: You're gonna talk about being a man of principal.
Speaker 5: That man set out an entire year in his prime
and was a key part in creating what we know
today as free agency.
Speaker 4: Uh that that that I thought that was. Man, he
sounds different. Huh, he does sound different. He still got
these younger you got that thick caging accent. Still kind
of lost a little bit over there.
Speaker 6: You don't.
Speaker 5: You don't realize so you hear something like that.
Speaker 6: But yeah, when he was trying to say with with.
Speaker 4: Oh man, that was great.
Speaker 5: Uh, screw you, Jim Finks our two TV coming up
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