Speaker 1: Stephen Presley joins us and we're gonna talk a little
Speaker 1: bit about NBC budget cuts and who's getting blamed for it.
Speaker 1: You can follow Steven on Instagram at thunder Pop TV,
Speaker 1: same thing on YouTube. Give us the story on this. First,
Speaker 1: I didn't know there were budget cuts at NBC. And two,
Speaker 1: why is Michael Jordan getting blamed for it?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: How does it get to back to mj So, Yeah,
Speaker 3: there's been these cutbacks this summer at NBC. For one thing,
Speaker 3: they're canceling shows with a following, like the actual seemingly
Speaker 3: popular shows. The Night Court reboot got slashed, Lopez Versus Lopez,
Speaker 3: which is the George Lopez vehicle. Also the new Suit
Speaker 3: reboot Suits.
Speaker 1: One in Hollywood or LA or something they got canned.
Speaker 2: Suits La got canned.
Speaker 3: A lot of shows people thought were doing well being
Speaker 3: canceled by NBC because of the budget cutbacks and speculation
Speaker 3: as the Internet started to connect the dots was going
Speaker 3: back to their NBC. Their NBA rights deal that they made.
Speaker 3: That's a two point five billion a year deal they
Speaker 3: made to get NBA back on NBC and along with
Speaker 3: that they inked to deal with Who would have thought
Speaker 3: Michael Jordan doing television that's not commercials, doing as it
Speaker 3: coming on being a participant in the NBA pregame show
Speaker 3: that they're going to be doing this year. He's going
Speaker 3: to be a contributor. So the big money they paid
Speaker 3: for Michael Jordan for getting him to come on board
Speaker 3: because Michael Jordan, listen, he doesn't need I don't think
Speaker 3: he needs the money. I think he's hurting for the money.
Speaker 3: So they had to pay him pretty good to get
Speaker 3: him to leave the house.
Speaker 2: I'm sure.
Speaker 3: So a lot of people are speculating the combination of
Speaker 3: the NBA rights and getting Michael Jordan. Paying that big
Speaker 3: money for Michael Jordan has led them to have to
Speaker 3: make these cutbacks, and.
Speaker 1: NBA basketball ratings are just going down, down, down. People
Speaker 1: love the pregame with Chuck with Charles Barkley and Shack,
Speaker 1: but they're not watching the games.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, I mean in general, like everybody wants to
Speaker 4: double down on sports because it's one of the only
Speaker 4: things people watch.
Speaker 2: In real time anymore.
Speaker 4: Correct, But I didn't know the status of the NBA
Speaker 4: or they're just not enough big stars.
Speaker 1: Since can you tell me who's in the NBA? Can
Speaker 1: you tell me who's in the finals right now, I
Speaker 1: have no clue.
Speaker 2: No, there you go.
Speaker 1: There's there's your answer right there, Oklahoma City and Indiana.
Speaker 4: Meanwhile, the Lakers just sold for how many billion?
Speaker 2: Ten billion dollars?
Speaker 4: He bought it in the late seventies for like sixty
Speaker 4: sixty seven million, seven million.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Jerry Boss, that's incredible. That's a great I think
Speaker 1: it's on HBO Winning Time. It's a great, great story
Speaker 1: of the La Lakers and how they came to be.
Speaker 1: It's kind of like documentary style, but it's done with actors.
Speaker 1: I don't know what that's called, but it's pretty good
Speaker 1: if you want to check that out. Moving along, Steven
Speaker 1: the Future of Television. So I thought we were done
Speaker 1: with TVs. Everyone's got ten of them hanging on their walls.
Speaker 1: They cost about fifteen cents to buy. But the new,
Speaker 1: the new ones, what's going on?
Speaker 3: Yeah, the future TV? And these are already TVs you
Speaker 3: can go and buy.
Speaker 2: You can. You can order one on Amazon right now. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it on Instagram first.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's been on my feed on Instagram, so it's
Speaker 3: probably coming your way soon. It's these new swivel TVs
Speaker 3: there they can be vertical, but they can also be widescreen.
Speaker 3: They're on a swivel and they're on a stand. They
Speaker 3: have wheels. There's no power chord. It's just about three hour,
Speaker 3: but you can charge them up like your phone, and
Speaker 3: then you can roll this their sleek looking they come
Speaker 3: in white or black. LG makes one they call it
Speaker 3: the LG Stand by Me, and you can roll this
Speaker 3: TV around your house. So it's it's kind of a
Speaker 3: hybrid tablet TV. But it would would allow you know,
Speaker 3: kids that like to watch stuff vertical, like you know
Speaker 3: the tiktoks can watch that content and then they can
Speaker 3: move it over wide screen and watch their movie or
Speaker 3: favorite TV show and a cinematic version the cinematics dial.
Speaker 2: So yeah, they're more sleek looking. They're mobile nucks.
Speaker 4: I like this is in the fall, rolling it out
Speaker 4: in my backyard to watch football outside.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but it's a three hour bat. I need a
Speaker 2: little more time. They need a little more run time there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, three hours is not good. That's what they're saying,
Speaker 3: is that that no power cord is the three hour battery.
Speaker 3: Maybe you have to run the extension cord from that
Speaker 3: power outlet or.
Speaker 4: It kills that that kind of kills the effect of
Speaker 4: having something I can just put anywhere outside.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but this is first gin, so maybe the first gen.
Speaker 3: You know, the first gen is always kind of and
Speaker 3: then then they get it better on the second and
Speaker 3: third gen. Right now, they're estimating this version of television
Speaker 3: is projected to make two point six billion by twenty
Speaker 3: thirty two.
Speaker 2: Is a growing trend.
Speaker 1: Wow, And they're going to come down in price too,
Speaker 1: they always do. It's a touch screen, all the stuff
Speaker 1: that you just told us, Yeah, but it's an android.
Speaker 2: I what to do? Watch it? Said that, like, you're
Speaker 2: just the most disgusting thing ever.
Speaker 1: I just you can hand me an android phone. I
Speaker 1: wouldn't know anything. I couldn't do it. I honestly would
Speaker 1: know how to place a call on one. And this
Speaker 1: whole TV system is an android. I don't know one,
Speaker 1: but you know the other the other operation.
Speaker 2: I might get one.
Speaker 1: I just don't want friends over to watch it with me.
Speaker 1: What was that, Stephen?
Speaker 3: Well, the other operating systems will probably come out with
Speaker 3: their own to challenge this one and compete with it.
Speaker 3: So hopefully we'll get maybe an Apple version or something
Speaker 3: like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm sure Apples. Yeah, they'll put one on. That's
Speaker 1: pretty cool though, very very cool. So Stephen Presley always fun.
Speaker 2: Visit with you.
Speaker 1: If you want to hang with us for another break, Yeah, sure,
Speaker 1: all right, stay with us. JB's got a harrowing story
Speaker 1: to tell. He's out minding his own business and someone
Speaker 1: tried to kill him. Kill him, try to kill one
Speaker 1: to kill you, JB. Right, this probably happens more often
Speaker 1: than you realize. Hey, if you're a brand need listener something,
Speaker 1: you may that know. JB is an avid, longtime cyclist.
Speaker 1: He's I don't know, as long as I've known. You're
Speaker 1: always out riding your bike, used to race your bike,
Speaker 1: do all kinds of crazy rides and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: So JB's a cyclist, that's what he does. Not But
Speaker 1: but you're doing it. You're doing it. But you had
Speaker 1: a weird encounter out where were you near creed More? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, it's funny.
Speaker 4: I was doing this group ride on Saturday morning and
Speaker 4: then I just wasn't feeling it.
Speaker 2: I was up most of the night. I just was.
Speaker 2: I just was like, oh, I got to peel off
Speaker 2: and go home.
Speaker 4: And you probably know it a lot of people know
Speaker 4: where Texas Disposal System is it's there's Old Lockhart Road.
Speaker 2: So I peeled off there.
Speaker 4: They kept going south towards San Marcos and I peeled
Speaker 4: off there.
Speaker 2: I was going to go back. So I'm solo.
Speaker 4: I'm riding solo, and this truck goes by me and
Speaker 4: then like a small Honda and I don't know if it's
Speaker 4: a Honda or a or a Toyota, but small sedan,
Speaker 4: and the guy buzzes me like you're supposed to give
Speaker 4: people three feet, you know, and that he didn't. He
Speaker 4: buzzes me and lays on his horn.
Speaker 2: A Honda or the truck.
Speaker 4: The truck went by me, fine, actually gave me your room,
Speaker 4: passed normally. And then the next car behind it just
Speaker 4: lays on the horn and buzzes me. And I was like, ah, sorry, sorry,
Speaker 4: that was.
Speaker 2: What I was thinking at the time. Sorry. Uh. And
Speaker 2: then he pulls up.
Speaker 4: So I'm on Old Lockhart Road. No one else within
Speaker 4: a mile. He like, couldn't see anyone forwards or backwards.
Speaker 4: He pulls over in front of me, and I'm like, God, dang, crap,
Speaker 4: I'm in the middle of nowhere with this guy. And
Speaker 4: he throws it in reverse and guns it towards me,
Speaker 4: ah wow, And so I move out into the center
Speaker 4: of the road as quickly as possible.
Speaker 2: And then he gets close enough. Oh wait a minute,
Speaker 2: wait a minute. You moved to this to give him
Speaker 2: more room to hit you in the cinel.
Speaker 4: Well, no, if I had stayed, if I had stayed
Speaker 4: where I was, he would have hit me.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, I gotcha, gotcha.
Speaker 4: And then and then when he got back to me,
Speaker 4: just as I was about to pass him, he just
Speaker 4: flips me off and takes off, and I'm like, this
Speaker 4: is so stupid, like I you know, and there's probably
Speaker 4: some people listening. It serves you right riding the bike
Speaker 4: out here, but it takes no time for someone to
Speaker 4: go around me.
Speaker 2: None.
Speaker 5: And there was nobody else out there, right, You weren't
Speaker 5: holding up traffic, not.
Speaker 4: None whatsoever, you know, on the edge of the road.
Speaker 4: It's just because you had just asked me recently what
Speaker 4: this cycling climate is like, and I said, it's actually
Speaker 4: a lot. I mean, it's more congested, but people are
Speaker 4: more accepting, if you will, right, probably a better word
Speaker 4: is tolerant. And you know, hey, I I honestly am considering,
Speaker 4: you know, carrying a weapon when I start going on rides,
Speaker 4: at least when I go by myself.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you could put a bow and arrow over your back.
Speaker 2: You're protected.
Speaker 1: Like like like like Robin Hood just reach back and
Speaker 1: pull one out. That's hysterical. I think all cyclists should
Speaker 1: be armed with bow and arrow.
Speaker 6: Maybe the David and Goliath, you know what, you know
Speaker 6: would be easy to carry though in your in your
Speaker 6: cycling jersey, A couple of Chinese throwing.
Speaker 2: Stars, throwing stars, throwing stars. Hang on, let me slip
Speaker 2: on my ninjas first.
Speaker 1: Could you carry some nun Chucks with you?
Speaker 2: You know, yeah, chucks. You know, I'm thinking. You know,
Speaker 2: you've said it before in Texas. You got to assume
Speaker 2: someone in there.
Speaker 4: Let you should make the assumption that someone in a
Speaker 4: vehicle has a gun here.
Speaker 5: That's statistically Why you say it like that, because you, oh,
Speaker 5: because you think that I I provoked?
Speaker 2: You do you provoke? Fight?
Speaker 1: You pick fights on the road that I will have
Speaker 1: to finish. And I don't want to the real brave
Speaker 1: because you should.
Speaker 4: You shouldn't make everyone that gets into considers road rage.
Speaker 4: You should first. And I say this too with cyclists
Speaker 4: now too. They might be armed. Yeah, make the assumption
Speaker 4: they're armed, and then someone's dying over nothing.
Speaker 5: Right, Right, So this guy was like, I'm just going
Speaker 5: to kill this cyclist reverse and just aimed for you,
Speaker 5: And if you hadn't moved or been able to move,
Speaker 5: he would have run over you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and then I didn't think quickly enough to get
Speaker 4: out my phone and video and get.
Speaker 2: His so frustrating. Yeah, it doesn't make much sense.
Speaker 1: I mean, just if you keep going without doing what
Speaker 1: this guy did, you drive ten more seconds, your brain
Speaker 1: will completely change and you'll be like, you'll be over it.
Speaker 1: Whatever the frustration was. Ten seconds later, you're over it, and.
Speaker 2: No one's dead.
Speaker 4: I know when and when people are frustrated with with
Speaker 4: cyclists and going around him, I'm like, how much time
Speaker 4: did that take out of your day?
Speaker 1: Exactly? Exactly. Well, we're glad they didn't get you, JB.
Speaker 1: I think they might eventually, but get that bow and.
Speaker 2: Arrow read, I might eventually just send a message.
Speaker 1: Next thing, you know, we're gonna see cyclists all over
Speaker 1: Austin with bow and arrow on their backs.
Speaker 4: Or there used to be the spear guy that would
Speaker 4: march up and down three sixty.
Speaker 2: Do you remember him? Wow, he had a feather in
Speaker 2: his hair. Oh yes, yeah guy.
Speaker 4: You'd see him all around town and he had a
Speaker 4: very he marched like, walked with purpose. Yeah, yes, I
Speaker 4: remember that guy. He had a pointed spear, like an
Speaker 4: old school spear. Yeah, and feathers on his arm. Yes,
Speaker 4: I remember that guy. I wonder what happened to him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's weird.
Speaker 1: Wonder wonder. Steven, thanks for hanging with us today. It's
Speaker 1: always fun.
Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks for having me all. Have a good weekend.