Speaker 1: Thank you, John.
Speaker 2: It is seven oh five here Kentucky and it's Morning
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Speaker 2: h as.
Speaker 3: It's one of my favorite Eddie Money songs.
Speaker 1: Eddie Money's pretty good to me some water.
Speaker 4: We were in Toronto when he died and we got
Speaker 4: the news and we listened to it all. They were
Speaker 4: doing a documentary on him on the radio all the
Speaker 4: way back from Trap.
Speaker 2: It was it wasn't expected, right like you Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean it was in ill health, but nobody talking.
Speaker 1: About you die. Yeah great, So any money a legend, yep,
Speaker 1: no doubt.
Speaker 2: All right, So we will talk with Rory on Neil
Speaker 2: of NBC News coming up a little bit later on
Speaker 2: this morning, and get the latest on what is going
Speaker 2: on in California. Los Angeles, of course, is getting the
Speaker 2: majority of the attention for obvious reasons as far as
Speaker 2: the protests that are going on that probably won't die
Speaker 2: down anytime soon, but maybe I'm wrong, But again, we'll
Speaker 2: get the latest when it comes to what's happening. It's
Speaker 2: not just LA, it's also San Francisco. And then you're
Speaker 2: also seeing protests happen in other places, including right here
Speaker 2: in Louisville. It happened yesterday downtown at the Massoli Federal
Speaker 2: Building near Metro Hall as well, and it was peaceful.
Speaker 2: A lot of members there were from the Metro Metro
Speaker 2: Council members, a couple of them folks from from BLM,
Speaker 2: different community members. And I think you're going to see
Speaker 2: this continue probably here and and a lot of different
Speaker 2: places across the country. And seven hundred US Marines from
Speaker 2: Camp Pendleton have been deployed to LA to support the
Speaker 2: federal federal efforts here amid these violent protests and riots.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: And again, I know there's some that see see.
Speaker 2: What they want to see, I suppose when it comes
Speaker 2: to coverage footage rather it be photo video of what's
Speaker 2: going on. But yeah, the there's the amount of of
Speaker 2: the amount of people from the National Guard as well
Speaker 2: as the Marines. I mean, I think that tells you
Speaker 2: that that they're they're prepared to continue to have some
Speaker 2: real pushback as far as those that are protesting the
Speaker 2: the immigration situation and the Trump Internet fight. I mean,
Speaker 2: that's what it feels like to me, that it's another
Speaker 2: and it's not just playing out on them. It is
Speaker 2: playing out on the internet. But you know it's also
Speaker 2: not just on the internet. But last week it was
Speaker 2: Elon Musk, and this week it is it is Gavin Newsom,
Speaker 2: who of course is the governor of California. Who Trump
Speaker 2: is is. I mean, what's the right way to word it.
Speaker 2: I mean, he's he's threaten to arrest him. He threated
Speaker 2: to arrest the governor of California, which is not something
Speaker 2: that you see very often, but here we are.
Speaker 3: I mean, can he do that? That's my question.
Speaker 2: I mean, I think a lot of folks are asking
Speaker 2: the same the same kind of thing. So this is
Speaker 2: not a surprise, I think, to some to see that
Speaker 2: these two guys are on the same page when it
Speaker 2: comes to this kind of stuff. But Newsom is called
Speaker 2: the deployment unconstitutional and inflammatory, claiming local police had the
Speaker 2: situation under control. And he's also suing the Trump administration
Speaker 2: alleging a violation of state sovereignty. So that's the disconnect,
Speaker 2: is that you've got law enforcement there in LA claiming
Speaker 2: that they were overwhelmed to an extent I'm paraphrasing. But
Speaker 2: then you have Newsom saying that it was under control
Speaker 2: and this wasn't needed. So Trump then suggested that Newsom
Speaker 2: could be arrested for gross incompetence. His press secretary said
Speaker 2: Newsom risks arrest if he if he obstructs federal law enforcement,
Speaker 2: though no plans are confirmed.
Speaker 1: Once the mention of a potential.
Speaker 2: Arrest threat of arrest, I suppose uh. Newsom then fired
Speaker 2: back on social media, daring Trump's borders are Tom Holman
Speaker 2: to arrest him. So that's that's where we are. It's uh,
Speaker 2: it's it's one of those things that again I just
Speaker 2: throw it in that that mixed bag of things that
Speaker 2: that you can't you can't make it up.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's well.
Speaker 3: We've got to see how you know, and you see
Speaker 3: how fast things can change.
Speaker 4: We went just yesterday we were talking about you know,
Speaker 4: Trump and eedon Musk and now it's Trump and Newsom
Speaker 4: and same with the protests.
Speaker 3: You know, these these are going to run their course
Speaker 3: as they should.
Speaker 4: And I love the fact that we here in Louisville
Speaker 4: are able to come out peacefully. We had members from
Speaker 4: all different avenues that come out, even maybe the folks
Speaker 4: that support President Trump here can come out and speak
Speaker 4: their mind, but do it in a peaceful manner. And
Speaker 4: so we don't repeat what we saw obviously during the
Speaker 4: Breonna Taylor cases down here. But also at the same time,
Speaker 4: you know people being able to exercise their voice, and
Speaker 4: I think Louisville, if you can hold your head high
Speaker 4: in that respect and make sure that.
Speaker 3: We maintain this course.
Speaker 4: But as we've seen in protests like this, it takes
Speaker 4: one person to kind of throw things for a loop
Speaker 4: and somebody gets a little old.
Speaker 2: Because that one person could then shift it from being
Speaker 2: excessful to being everything. But yeah, and these protests are
Speaker 2: not that uncommon really at all, especially in the last
Speaker 2: you know, decade or so. But what really seems to
Speaker 2: stand out currently is that you've got I think you've got.
Speaker 2: It's not just about the immigration I mean, I think
Speaker 2: that's clearly what obviously the Trump administration's trying to get
Speaker 2: under control, and there's clearly people protesting that they don't
Speaker 2: like the way they're going about it as far as
Speaker 2: the immigration plan. But to me, there's the local control
Speaker 2: versus federal muscle fight here, right Like Gavin Newson was claiming, look,
Speaker 2: we've got this, we don't need you. Yeah, you've overstepped
Speaker 2: your you've overstepped your bounds. Whereas President Trump obviously sees
Speaker 2: it differently and is taking action and sticking with what
Speaker 2: he what he wants to do. So that's the fight.
Speaker 2: It's local control versus federal muscle here. That's the new
Speaker 2: layer to this situation, which is again, protests aren't that
Speaker 2: uncommon anymore.
Speaker 4: No, it's traditionally, you know, the right is all for
Speaker 4: give it more local control to the states, to local communities,
Speaker 4: and maybe we're seeing kind.
Speaker 3: Of a flip at the script in this new day
Speaker 3: and age.
Speaker 2: Yep, all right, we've got another update of traffic and
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Speaker 2: seven fifteen here at Kentucky and it is Morning News
Speaker 2: with Nick Coffee on News Radio eight forty whas. We'll
Speaker 2: have another update on sports coming your way in about
Speaker 2: ten minutes, and a big story here locally that has
Speaker 2: really dominated the conversation when it comes to local sports
Speaker 2: since about maybe five o'clock yesterday afternoon, and that was
Speaker 2: once it became I guess official, but not totally official.
Speaker 2: There's not been any kind of statement released, press release
Speaker 2: announcement from u of L, but Vince Merrill the assistant
Speaker 2: coach longtime assistant coach for Mark Stoops at Kentucky. In fact,
Speaker 2: his current title at the website for UK Athletics is
Speaker 2: associate head coach. And if you are familiar with Kentucky
Speaker 2: football and the Mark Stoops here, are really at all,
Speaker 2: I think you are very well aware of Vince Mayor.
Speaker 2: I don't think it's a stretch to say that he
Speaker 2: is more known than most assistant coaches on staffs just
Speaker 2: because he's probably would be a stretch to call him
Speaker 2: the face. But he's the hype man and it's worked.
Speaker 2: He's a great showman and a great salesman, which is
Speaker 2: why he's been one of the best recruiters in college
Speaker 2: football for quite some time, the different caliber recruit that
Speaker 2: started coming to play football at Kentucky. I don't want
Speaker 2: to give all the credits of Vince Mario, but certainly
Speaker 2: he deserves a lot of it, and I don't think
Speaker 2: even if Mark Stoops was being honest.
Speaker 5: He would dispute that. So for this guy to.
Speaker 2: Be a long time right hand man of Mark Stoops
Speaker 2: be a big factor in the success that Stoops has
Speaker 2: had in Lexington. Decide to leave in the early summer
Speaker 2: months here to go take a job at the rival,
Speaker 2: a job that is an off the field role, and
Speaker 2: I'm sure he'll be compensated well, but wouldn't shock me
Speaker 2: if maybe he takes a pay cut here because he
Speaker 2: was making a lot of money at UK and he
Speaker 2: was the associate head coach. Now he's going to be
Speaker 2: the GM. And that's tough to really gauge what that
Speaker 2: role is moving forward, because it could be a different role,
Speaker 2: same title, depending upon which program you're talking about, because
Speaker 2: really it's basically just managing the roster. It is handling
Speaker 2: the transfer portal, being a guy who's the lead recruiter,
Speaker 2: and he's been good at that, meaning I mean, that's
Speaker 2: really where that's his calling car when it comes to
Speaker 2: college football, meaning merriw he's a recruiter.
Speaker 1: But there is a connection here.
Speaker 2: And this is something that I didn't realize until I
Speaker 2: guess the end of this past season, because there were
Speaker 2: rumors that this could happen and I just kept thinking.
Speaker 1: Well, man, there's no way.
Speaker 2: I mean, why would a made man in Lexington, a
Speaker 2: guy who was beloved by Kentucky fans, who I don't
Speaker 2: want to say he has the easiest job in the world,
Speaker 2: because I don't want to act as if he doesn't
Speaker 2: work hard at it, but you know, he's not really
Speaker 2: held accountable when they lose. You know, he coaches the
Speaker 2: tight ends and he recruits, and you know, they don't
Speaker 2: have talent at Kentucky to the level of an Alabama
Speaker 2: or a Georgia, but their talent level is better now
Speaker 2: than it's been maybe ever, as far as just consistently.
Speaker 2: I mean last year they went four and eight, and
Speaker 2: that roster was not good enough to win the SEC,
Speaker 2: but it was certainly a roster that was better than
Speaker 2: four and eight. So I just assumed the rumors that
Speaker 2: were out there towards the end of the regular season
Speaker 2: were just that rumors, because it just didn't make any
Speaker 2: sense for a guy to one leave a place where
Speaker 2: he's a made man, he's beloved to go to the rival.
Speaker 2: But the connection that I was made aware of it at
Speaker 2: that time is that Brom and Vince Marrow were teammates
Speaker 2: in the XFL. Yeah, whenever Brom of course has that
Speaker 2: had that clip that lives forever.
Speaker 1: On the internet.
Speaker 2: You know that the the XFL days that is that
Speaker 2: is I guess where the relationship started, and it sounds
Speaker 2: like they have had a relationship to an extent since then.
Speaker 2: The rivalry has clearly been in full effect. But when
Speaker 2: Jeff Bram and his crew took over at u of
Speaker 2: L for Scott Saderfield, it was pretty clear that there's
Speaker 2: there was a level of respect that Stoops and his staff,
Speaker 2: including Marrow, had for Brom and the way they go
Speaker 2: about things. And I don't know this for certain, but
Speaker 2: there has been some talk that even whenever Jeff was
Speaker 2: at Purdue, he tried to bring up Vince Marrow. So
Speaker 2: Vince Marrow has turned down other jobs at other places.
Speaker 2: I mentioned this earlier. He was offered a position on
Speaker 2: Bill Belichick's staff at North Carolina this offseason, but he
Speaker 2: decided to turn it down. But it's the rival school
Speaker 2: that ends up prying him away from Lexington.
Speaker 4: Well, to your point, I looked at some of the
Speaker 4: coaches who left rival schools to go to other schools,
Speaker 4: most notably comes Boat Shambuckler, he left Ohio State to
Speaker 4: go to Michigan. Lane Kiffin jumped from Tennessee to go
Speaker 4: to Alabama, and then you look at Tommy Tumberville. I
Speaker 4: forgot about that he went from old miss over to Auburn.
Speaker 4: That's right, not really a rival. But Brian Kelly goes
Speaker 4: from Cincinnati to Notre Dame. I remember that day he left.
Speaker 4: They were playing Pittsburgh. Cincinnati was I remember when he
Speaker 4: left without telling this.
Speaker 2: Place, and let me guess that was one of those
Speaker 2: moments where Cincinnati, like a lot of programs, have to
Speaker 2: kind of humble themselves and realize, yeah, you've been great, Yeah,
Speaker 2: but it's Notre Dame, right, just like when Charlie Strong
Speaker 2: went to Texas, like, yeah.
Speaker 3: He's wait, he's on on this list.
Speaker 4: And also I did forget why I met Paul Bear
Speaker 4: Bryant went from Kentucky to Alabama, now necessarily rivals.
Speaker 2: A lot of people mentioned the Patino situation, which is
Speaker 2: true but different because he he didn't go from directly
Speaker 2: from Kentucky to little but still I get it. It's
Speaker 2: it's that's it. It's an unheard of kind of thing.
Speaker 2: And then all, well, so the only player I can remember,
Speaker 2: and I'm sure there's been others, but a notable player
Speaker 2: that moved from Louisville. From Kentucky to Louisville was the
Speaker 2: late Marvin Stone, who played basketball for Tubby Smith and
Speaker 2: then decided to finish his career with Rick Patino. Just
Speaker 2: things you don't see very often and understandably so if
Speaker 2: you're on the wrong end of that rivalry transaction, it's
Speaker 2: probably something that really sticks with you. You know that
Speaker 2: you don't like because hey, it's the rival you don't
Speaker 2: want them to go there. I get it, all right,
Speaker 2: We'll take another break and get an update on Traffick
Speaker 2: and Weather. We'll also get another update on sports with
Speaker 2: Scott right here on News Radio eight forty whas.
Speaker 1: Thank you John.
Speaker 2: It is seven thirty six here at Kentucky had this
Speaker 2: morning News with Nick Coffee on News Radio eight forty
Speaker 2: whas Scott fitzghared alongside John Alden also with us as
Speaker 2: we've got the full team assembled.
Speaker 1: I have a question for you guys.
Speaker 2: Yes, sir, if in fact a Hollywood producer or maybe
Speaker 2: somebody that is putting together one of the Sorry my fault,
Speaker 2: but all good, no noorries, somebody that's putting together a
Speaker 2: series that's gonna stream and be Netflix's biggest series, and
Speaker 2: they needed a home to film in, meaning they needed
Speaker 2: they needed to set up and basically be the house
Speaker 2: that you see more than any other house in this
Speaker 2: show or movie they want to use your house, would
Speaker 2: you let them if they paid you, you know, let's
Speaker 2: say a million dollar one time fee, would you sign off?
Speaker 4: Great question, a lot of it, because you know it
Speaker 4: sounds great in the beginning, But not only are you
Speaker 4: inviting the entire world into your home. And I just
Speaker 4: in fact, I just put a social media post up
Speaker 4: today about how important home is. That's kind of our
Speaker 4: sort of fortress of solitude. It's our retreat. But then
Speaker 4: you've got camera crews and people probably up at all nights.
Speaker 3: I like my routine at night.
Speaker 1: Well, you're not there when they're filming. You just let
Speaker 1: them borrow your house.
Speaker 5: Yes, oh I got it.
Speaker 1: You get it back.
Speaker 5: But like they're gonna I don't know what about you, John, I.
Speaker 6: Think I absolutely would, and I would take that money. Yeah,
Speaker 6: I would say yes, because of the money you could take.
Speaker 6: You could use that money and have a temporary living
Speaker 6: space somewhere, you know, not near where you live, do
Speaker 6: something different.
Speaker 2: So the reason I bring this up is because this
Speaker 2: is a rare situation where the house that was used
Speaker 2: for this very very popular. I mean, it's one of
Speaker 2: the most popular shows I think of all time. I
Speaker 2: don't think it's a stretch to say Breaking Bad is
Speaker 2: one of the most popular shows ever. And the house
Speaker 2: that they used in Albuquerque, New Mexico, it is now
Speaker 2: owned and lived in by a woman by the name
Speaker 2: of Joanne Quintana. Her parents actually first purchased the house
Speaker 2: or maybe they built the house in nineteen seventy two,
Speaker 2: so they decided to let them use it for the
Speaker 2: show Breaking Bad, of course at that time, not knowing
Speaker 2: that Walter White and Breaking Bad would become such a
Speaker 2: iconic show. So what they did is they let let's see,
Speaker 2: there was a one time location fee for filming that
Speaker 2: the family was paid. As far as how much money
Speaker 2: that is, it doesn't say here. But it has led
Speaker 2: to now the show no longer of course, being I mean,
Speaker 2: the show has been gone for a long time, and
Speaker 2: the house still relatively look it looks relatively the same,
Speaker 2: and it's just become such a burden to where people
Speaker 2: just show up every day just to say they were
Speaker 2: in Albuquerque and they were around the Breaking Bad house,
Speaker 2: and it's it's become to the point where she doesn't
Speaker 2: want to live there anymore.
Speaker 4: Well, I think a lot of people were coming over
Speaker 4: want and to eat pizza on the roof from that
Speaker 4: yes this episode, yeh.
Speaker 2: That's what's happened, is that people, they don't just want
Speaker 2: to come over and eat pizza. Fans would show up
Speaker 2: and throw pizzas on her roof a nod to you know,
Speaker 2: a nod to that scene that is in season three,
Speaker 2: and they don't realize that somebody lives here, this is
Speaker 2: their home, Like you actually can be criminally charged for
Speaker 2: doing something like that. But people don't think that's such
Speaker 2: a not real life thing because they're looking at a
Speaker 2: house that they probably got way lost in, not meaning
Speaker 2: actually in the house, but just lost in the series
Speaker 2: to where they don't ever even consider, oh, somebody actually
Speaker 2: lives here. You know, we're not here just to you know,
Speaker 2: this isn't a tourist spot. So what she's decided to
Speaker 2: do is take a big gamble. She's listed the home
Speaker 2: for four million dollars despite its market value being around
Speaker 2: three hundred and fifty five or three hundred and fifty thousand,
Speaker 2: so she hopes that there's going to be a buyer
Speaker 2: that will turn it into some kind of a museum
Speaker 2: or an airbnb to profit off the fans who she
Speaker 2: can't stand. But of course if there was a situation
Speaker 2: where they could. She's a very normal I shouldn't. I mean,
Speaker 2: I guess normal is very subjective. But she's she's she's
Speaker 2: got a career. She's not a celebrity by any means.
Speaker 2: She had the resources to run her own Airbnb out
Speaker 2: of her own home, Yeah, she probably wouldn't want to.
Speaker 3: No, it's like what they did with the Brady House.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 4: Could you imagine where you own that and you live there.
Speaker 4: I mean, you can get a moment's piece.
Speaker 3: Yep, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: So she's hoping that she can sell it for a
Speaker 2: lot and move on because she doesn't really want to.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's it's a home she grew up in. Yah.
Speaker 2: But I don't think as long as she's there, she's
Speaker 2: gonna be able to keep the fans from showing up
Speaker 2: and wanting to get a selfie and just bothering her
Speaker 2: being in the way. Yeah, I'll never forget. I went
Speaker 2: to Chicago as a kid. First time I went to
Speaker 2: the Windy City. It was in the mid nineties. I
Speaker 2: was a young kid. My favorite show was Family Matters,
Speaker 2: although at the time when I get just called it
Speaker 2: the Erkele Show, and I remember they would show you
Speaker 2: that house in Chicago and they were doing the intro
Speaker 2: the theme song to Family Matters, and we ended up
Speaker 2: driving by where it was, and it broke my heart
Speaker 2: that my father had to tell me they don't actually
Speaker 2: film the show in there. It's on a Hollywood set
Speaker 2: in front of a crowd. I'm like, what you're telling me,
Speaker 2: Carl Winslow's not in there right now in Erkele's next door,
Speaker 2: it was.
Speaker 1: It crushed me.
Speaker 4: It's the Roseanne House over in Evansville. Yeah, oh yeah, Nowaday,
Speaker 4: Actually it's in Evansville, and.
Speaker 2: A lot of people show up to the full House
Speaker 2: house in the Bay Area because it's such you know,
Speaker 2: you just I mean, a lot of people could pick
Speaker 2: that one out of the lineup. So anyways, I if
Speaker 2: you're gonna pay me a million dollars, you can you
Speaker 2: can use my house for for a while, because that's
Speaker 2: that's a lot of money to someone like myself, just
Speaker 2: saying all right, we've got another update of trafficking weather
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Speaker 2: seven forty six Here at Kentucky, its morning news with
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Speaker 2: another update on news with John Shannon coming up here
Speaker 2: at eight o'clock. So Game three of the NBA Finals
Speaker 2: will be tomorrow night, and next year the NBA is
Speaker 2: going to look a lot different. And what I mean
Speaker 2: by that is just where you are watching games, because
Speaker 2: it was a really lengthy process. But TNT Turner no
Speaker 2: longer going to be a part of the NBA coverage. However,
Speaker 2: the crew that has become legendary, Ernie Kenny, Shaq, Charles,
Speaker 2: those guys inside the NBA, they're going to be basically
Speaker 2: leased to ESPNS, so you'll see them as part of
Speaker 2: ESPN's coverage. But next year you've got NBC getting back
Speaker 2: into the mix, airing NBA games for the first time
Speaker 2: in a long time. Peacock will have exclusive Monday night
Speaker 2: games Amazon Prime. We'll also have up to I think
Speaker 2: sixty six regular season games including Friday nights. So this
Speaker 2: is a lot different than what we've become used to
Speaker 2: for many, many years. And what's happened is each network
Speaker 2: is trying to assemble a team to cover the NBA
Speaker 2: that is competitive, and I'm sure they want it to
Speaker 2: be the best. They want to say, Yes, you've got
Speaker 2: a lot of different NBA coverage with different networks all
Speaker 2: wanting a piece of the pie here, but we want
Speaker 2: to put the best team together as far as coverage.
Speaker 2: And there's been some slow gradual announcements from each network
Speaker 2: as far as who's going to be a part of it.
Speaker 2: Amazon has leaked has announced some names that are going
Speaker 2: to be of course, you know, play by play guys
Speaker 2: and whatnot. But imagine being someone like Peacock or ESPN, Slash, ABC, Amazon,
Speaker 2: and you're sitting back thinking, hmm, I wonder what NBC
Speaker 2: is going to do here, and you're expecting them to
Speaker 2: do something that you're gonna have to counter, right, and
Speaker 2: you're gonna have to say, Okay, we see your talented
Speaker 2: edition here as a play by play guy. We've now
Speaker 2: got this guy as our studio analyst. Well, I imagine they
Speaker 2: folded their hand, meaning ESPN, Peacock and Amazon Prime. When
Speaker 2: NBC announced that we've got Michael Jordan, He's going to
Speaker 2: be joining our team as an analyst, you fold because
Speaker 2: Jordan's just different. He's and he could be really bad
Speaker 2: as an analyst when it comes to those who I
Speaker 2: guess analyze analysts as far as who's good and who's not.
Speaker 2: But people like me won't care because it's Michael Jordan.
Speaker 2: And I think because he's been in the background so long,
Speaker 2: he's not been in private. He couldn't be private if
Speaker 2: he wanted to. He's Michael Jordan. But he's been involved
Speaker 2: in sports, an owner, not a great owner, to be
Speaker 2: honest with you. When it comes to the Charlotte Hornets.
Speaker 2: He's also been involved in NASCAR, had some success, but
Speaker 2: he's been He's been behind the scenes incomfortable and content.
Speaker 2: Michael Jordan could say he wants to talk at any moment,
Speaker 2: every camera would show up, but he doesn't want to
Speaker 2: do that, doesn't need that, certainly doesn't need money. So
Speaker 2: I've always asked myself since since this news broke, what
Speaker 2: made him want to do this after so many years
Speaker 2: of being behind the scenes. Well, money talks. The report
Speaker 2: that forty million per year was the deal that apparently
Speaker 2: has been shot down by Front Office Sports. They claim
Speaker 2: that's a big exaggeration. However, he is making a lot
Speaker 2: of money, which makes sense as to why he would
Speaker 2: want to do it. But steven A Smith did say
Speaker 2: on the Sports Illustrated Media podcast with Jimmy Traina that
Speaker 2: he expects and I don't know this claims that steven
Speaker 2: A Smith and Michael Jordan are friends. Do we believe
Speaker 2: their friends or is this stephen A wanting you to
Speaker 2: believe he's friends with everybody? There was a great SNL
Speaker 2: impression they did of steven A where he was basically
Speaker 2: talking about Lebron James is I was in the broom
Speaker 2: when his son was boil Like, you're just exaggerating, because
Speaker 2: anytime steven A Smith would talk about NBA players, he
Speaker 2: would let you know some level of connection that they had,
Speaker 2: like you know, wanting to let everybody know he's rubbing
Speaker 2: elbows with. So maybe they are friends, maybe they're not.
Speaker 2: I don't really know. But steven A Smith has said
Speaker 2: that when Jordan is going to be in that role
Speaker 2: as a studio analyst, I think he's going to be
Speaker 2: a part of some coverage when it comes to games
Speaker 2: here and there, that he will he's going to be
Speaker 2: brutally honest and maybe be as critical of NBA play
Speaker 2: and players as we've ever seen, which see that I
Speaker 2: could see it just knowing sort of when we have
Speaker 2: heard from Jordan. Yeah, he's wired a little bit different.
Speaker 2: That's I think what's made him so great. He's such
Speaker 2: a competitor. I think not only would this be interesting
Speaker 2: to see, I think it could be good. I think
Speaker 2: because sometimes I don't want to hear analysts, former players,
Speaker 2: former coaches that end up in those roles just take
Speaker 2: this side of the association because it's the code. I
Speaker 2: want brutal, honest opinions and you know, people that aren't
Speaker 2: afraid to tell it like it is without hurting feelings.
Speaker 4: Well, if you watch Full Speed, the Netflix documentary on
Speaker 4: NASCAR that features Michael Jordan in twenty two eleven racing,
Speaker 4: and he's very very open in that respect. But he's
Speaker 4: also what he's good at is getting out of the
Speaker 4: way in letting fo do what they do best. And
Speaker 4: I think that's where Jordan brings the best of both.
Speaker 4: Was I personally want to hear Michael Jordan talk about
Speaker 4: the game.
Speaker 2: Michael Jordan could talk about anything, and I think I
Speaker 2: would be I'd be listening just because it's Michael Jordan.
Speaker 2: He's one of the legends in all of sports. So
Speaker 2: I am eager to see what he brings to the table.
Speaker 2: But again, he could be terrible. He could say very little.
Speaker 2: He could be Bill Belichick for all I know, as
Speaker 2: far as in front of a camera on a microphone,
Speaker 2: and I think I would just have that look on
Speaker 2: my face like, oh my gosh, it's Michael Jordan. It's
Speaker 2: the Jordan effect. All right, quick break, We've got another
Speaker 2: update of traffick in Weather coming your way, and also
Speaker 2: another update on sports with Scott
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