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Speaker 2: Well, we talked, we will talk a little bit more
Speaker 2: when we get into the eleven o'clock hour about what's
Speaker 2: going on with the US Agency for International Development. USAID
Speaker 2: staffers were told to stay out of the Washington headquarters.
Speaker 3: Today.
Speaker 2: Elon Musk, of course, announced that President Trump agrees with
Speaker 2: him that USAID should be shut down. They said they
Speaker 2: tracked more than six hundred employees reported being locked out
Speaker 2: of the agency's computer system overnight. Secretary of State Marco
Speaker 2: Rubio I'll get used to saying things like that soon.
Speaker 3: Not yet.
Speaker 2: Secretary of State Marco Rubio has confirmed that he is
Speaker 2: now the acting director for USAID. He was taking questions
Speaker 2: down in El Salvador. He said, USAID is not functioning.
Speaker 2: It has to be aligned with US policy. It needs
Speaker 2: to be aligned with the national interest of the United States.
Speaker 2: They're not a global charity. These are tax payer dollars.
Speaker 1: So well, there was the dragnet in Georgia. You remember
Speaker 1: a fourteen year old accused of shooting two students and
Speaker 1: a pair of teachers at Appalachi High and Georgia. That
Speaker 1: happened on September fourth. Well after that shooting, a flurry
Speaker 1: of threats seemed to rise on social media, an unusual
Speaker 1: number two very unusual. One of the girls involved with
Speaker 1: the dragnet. Her name is Laurie. There was Laurie lying
Speaker 1: in bed with her stuff juniunicorns and her Hello Kitty dolls.
Speaker 1: She's in ninth grade and she thought it was a
Speaker 1: funny idea. She's just sitting there board with her stuffings
Speaker 1: and she opens up Instagram, puts on a hot pink
Speaker 1: background and begins to type blowing the school up tomorrow. Well,
Speaker 1: she had forgotten about it. A few hours later one
Speaker 1: of her friends is like, hey, you should probably take
Speaker 1: that down.
Speaker 4: It was too late.
Speaker 1: The next day, a little Lori, fourteen years old, was
Speaker 1: put in handcuffs barely fit her risks.
Speaker 4: She was charged with a felony.
Speaker 1: She was taken to the Valusa County Detention Center for
Speaker 1: three weeks. The day after that, another fourteen year old
Speaker 1: charge for a comment on Instagram that read, if y'
Speaker 1: all cry babies don't showed up, I'm gonna shoot up
Speaker 1: your school. The day after that a thirteen year old
Speaker 1: charge for a post on TikTok it said, I will
Speaker 1: be shooting up Heritage Middle School and then the date.
Speaker 2: It's weird because when we see events like this, it's
Speaker 2: not unusual to have I don't know if copycat is
Speaker 2: the right word, but people playing off of the event
Speaker 2: itself contagious, contagious.
Speaker 1: And everything's so trendy on social media. What one does
Speaker 1: a bunch of other people do right away?
Speaker 2: The Washington Post found that at least four hundred and
Speaker 2: seventy seven people were arrested in the two weeks after
Speaker 2: that shooting in Georgia. That's about one hundred more than
Speaker 2: in the aftermaths of the three previous mass school shootings combined.
Speaker 1: Valuses elected sheriff is the guy behind this. His name
Speaker 1: is Mike Chitwood. He is a registered independent. He's from Philadelphia,
Speaker 1: and he's had enough of in his opinion and maybe
Speaker 1: yours too, that this is parents not raising their kids right.
Speaker 2: He says that he has deployed dozens of deputies spent
Speaker 2: tens of thousands of dollars in taxpayer money on this.
Speaker 2: He said on a previous night his office had received
Speaker 2: fifty four tips. At a news conference, he talked about
Speaker 2: this is just a short time ago, tracking down a
Speaker 2: couple of more kids at thirteen and a twelve year old,
Speaker 2: but he laid it at the feet of the parents here.
Speaker 5: Since parents you don't want to raise your kids, I'm
Speaker 5: going to start raising him.
Speaker 6: Every time we make an a rest, your kid's photo.
Speaker 5: Is going to be put out there, and if I
Speaker 5: could do it, I'm going to purp walk your kid
Speaker 5: so that everybody can see what your kid's up to.
Speaker 5: The Second point of this is if I can any
Speaker 5: way find out that a parent knew what was going
Speaker 5: on and wasn't doing anything, you're just getting purple walk
Speaker 5: with them. The purpose of four to five Florida is
Speaker 5: to send in tips that we're going to investigate because
Speaker 5: you believe something is going to happen. To keep setting
Speaker 5: in these tips over and over and over again and
Speaker 5: think it's a big joke and nothing's going to happen
Speaker 5: to it.
Speaker 6: Starting Monday, we're.
Speaker 5: Going to have a billboard, We're gonna have a poster
Speaker 5: at I'm going to show you every kid that's been
Speaker 5: arrested and where they go to school.
Speaker 3: He says, Monday, like you say Monday.
Speaker 2: We've been talking to you about Mike Chitwood, who is
Speaker 2: the elected sheriff of Alusia County down in Florida, and
Speaker 2: after just north of Florida's state line with George at
Speaker 2: Appalachi High School in September, there was a fourteen year
Speaker 2: old who shot a couple of students and a pair
Speaker 2: of teachers. Mike Chitwood, the sheriff, recognized a whole new
Speaker 2: slew of dozens of kids, most of them kids who
Speaker 2: had gone online and threatened similar violence at schools, and
Speaker 2: he said, I'm not taking it anymore.
Speaker 4: So we started arresting them.
Speaker 1: Just a couple of weeks after that school shooting four
Speaker 1: hundred and seven twenty seven as you mentioned people, ninety
Speaker 1: percent of them students. He said, this is absolutely out
Speaker 1: of control and it ends now. One of the boys,
Speaker 1: a boy named Armando, eleven years old. Armando was sleeping
Speaker 1: with his tan baby blanket when his mom rubbed his shoulder.
Speaker 1: He opened his eyes. She says, the police are at
Speaker 1: the door. It was four am. He puts sweatpants on,
Speaker 1: goes in the living room black vests. Men in black
Speaker 1: vests storm in, searches room for guns. Armando bright, young kid,
Speaker 1: round faced. He loses his breath when he talks too fast.
Speaker 1: The detective said, we saw you on that FaceTime call
Speaker 1: with your friends. You were showing off your collection of
Speaker 1: knives and airsoft guns. And Armando tells the investigators in
Speaker 1: a voice yet to reach puberty, that he was pretty
Speaker 1: sure that he mentioned to his friends that the guns
Speaker 1: were toys. And his mom says, did you write a
Speaker 1: list down? And he says no, I didn't, and then
Speaker 1: says I did. Yes, will detectives already found that notebook
Speaker 1: names jotted down in black marker. One of the investigators
Speaker 1: said to Armando, did you joke and say it was
Speaker 1: a hit list or a kilt list? Armanda says, I
Speaker 1: said it was a hit list. It was a joke.
Speaker 1: But mom says, does this look like a joke to you?
Speaker 1: Armanda was arrested just one of those stories. I mean,
Speaker 1: this played out, like you said, four hundred and seventy
Speaker 1: seven arrests, mostly students.
Speaker 4: Not everybody loves this.
Speaker 1: Some experts in child psychology and criminology have condemned Chitwood's approach.
Speaker 2: This elected Sheriff Deborah wise Brought is a psychiatry professor
Speaker 2: Stonybrook University said that there's no evidence that this is
Speaker 2: going to be helpful reducing the level of threats.
Speaker 3: How is that?
Speaker 2: How would you? How could you possibly say that public
Speaker 2: shaming like this? And I don't mean to belittle what
Speaker 2: the sheriff is doing, because I think he is doing
Speaker 2: something important. It's also incumbent upon the parents to come
Speaker 2: out and say this is not acceptable or I mean,
Speaker 2: it's not something.
Speaker 3: If you have a kid that has.
Speaker 2: Leaned towards the potential to say something stupid like this,
Speaker 2: you have to get to that kid early. You can't
Speaker 2: wait until after they make the threat.
Speaker 4: Amen.
Speaker 1: This psychiatry professor Deborah is an ass hat. She says,
Speaker 1: I think it's possible that this could further humiliate and
Speaker 1: embarrass a child and they could go further underground. No,
Speaker 1: this is something that needs to be addressed, especially if
Speaker 1: it's spreading like wildfire. If they are at least four
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy seven people making threats to shoot up
Speaker 1: a school, most of them being kids, you got to
Speaker 1: nip it in the bod. Like you mentioned, this, sheriff
Speaker 1: is no stranger to controversy. In twenty twenty three, he
Speaker 1: led a public campaign against white supremacists, frequently referred to
Speaker 1: them as scumbags. He says, by the way, there has
Speaker 1: been a precipitous drop in arrests of kids after you
Speaker 1: began publicizing names and faces, from five the week of
Speaker 1: to seven to two to one to zero.
Speaker 2: Well, and the argument that the child psychologists making that
Speaker 2: this is going to drive them further underground or whatever,
Speaker 2: and the distress was that led them to make the
Speaker 2: threat in the first place. The sheriff pointed this out.
Speaker 2: One hundred percent of these threats are just that they're threats.
Speaker 2: There's no either ability to carry out the thing. They're
Speaker 2: just talking out their butts. They have no idea what
Speaker 2: they're doing, They have no idea the impact that's That's
Speaker 2: okay to drive somebody to suppress a thought like that
Speaker 2: is okay. It's okay to have the kid think about
Speaker 2: what it is that they're doing or saying and what
Speaker 2: impact it's going to have on it. Right, if someone
Speaker 2: has a propensity to shoot up a school, it's not
Speaker 2: going to be a sheriff that's going to prevent them
Speaker 2: from doing that.
Speaker 3: Just it's weird that.
Speaker 1: The I would like my kid to be scared straight.
Speaker 1: I mean, some parents don't have that kind of leverage
Speaker 1: over their own kids to scare them straight like that.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you got to bring in the big gun, so
Speaker 1: to speak in terms of law enforcement. But that, I mean,
Speaker 1: that would scare, That would scare the hell out of
Speaker 1: a kid to the point where they wouldn't think it
Speaker 1: was funny anymore to threaten to shoot up a school.
Speaker 2: And that's the point, right, That's why it should be there.
Speaker 2: All right, we got some rain we could see coming in.
Speaker 2: Of course, this week we could see some potential damage
Speaker 2: in the fire burned scar areas.
Speaker 3: We'll talk about that.
Speaker 2: We'll talk about roads that reopened as well, and then
Speaker 2: later this hour, Luka Doncic, you're going to have to
Speaker 2: learn how to pronounce it.
Speaker 4: I don't think that's it.
Speaker 3: I spell it.
Speaker 1: I think it's a hard see, Jacob, it's a hard see.
Speaker 1: At the end, how do you.
Speaker 3: Say Luca's name, Doncic.
Speaker 1: I don't think you pronounced the H. I didn't hear that.
Speaker 1: I've never heard that you call him.
Speaker 3: Don't get you.
Speaker 4: Here's the other thing about me.
Speaker 1: I haven't watched basketball since nineteen ninety eight.
Speaker 3: Well, maybe that's weird.
Speaker 1: Maybe two thousand and one, two thousand and five strong
Speaker 1: case for twowo thousand and five. I think that was
Speaker 1: the Laker Celtics fun times, resurgence of their fun times,
Speaker 1: their rivalry. So I know nothing. We will be getting
Speaker 1: into our AI desk coming up later. Deep Research is
Speaker 1: an AI offshoot that can help you research things. It
Speaker 1: used to take you a month. It can do it
Speaker 1: in a matter of seconds because you know AI. It's fancy. Also,
Speaker 1: there's all this uproar that people are using AI to
Speaker 1: craft wedding speeches, text messages, even obituaries. Guess what people
Speaker 1: have been cheating away that stuff for centuries years. You
Speaker 1: think that that text you got from that girl wasn't
Speaker 1: carefully crafted by six of her friends. You think that
Speaker 1: wedding speech was original, or that that person came up with.
Speaker 4: All of that.
Speaker 1: No, we all get a little help from your friends
Speaker 1: when it comes to obits, wedding speeches, break up text.
Speaker 2: Moment of complete honesty here. I thought about this for
Speaker 2: burial Pluza coming up in a couple of weeks, because
Speaker 2: want me to say something, as we inter our parents
Speaker 2: back into the earth from whence they came?
Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't know what the process. I don't know what
Speaker 2: it sounds like. I don't know any of that stuff.
Speaker 4: You know, your parents, that's all that counts.
Speaker 3: I guess so, and AI doesn't.
Speaker 1: You know, AI does not. They do not know the
Speaker 1: little things. They do not know the things about your
Speaker 1: parents that they both enjoyed. Leaving the cook turkey on
Speaker 1: the laundry machine for three days before Thanksgiving. You can't
Speaker 1: get That's the kind of stuff you can't get with AI.
Speaker 4: You know what I mean.
Speaker 2: So we were there this weekend, and we still still
Speaker 2: to this day, are finding foods that have expired by
Speaker 2: ten years, foods.
Speaker 1: That expired, the spices alone from nineteen seventy two, the
Speaker 1: dead birds in the house, the fact they slept outside.
Speaker 1: AI couldn't do your parents an ounce of justice. That's
Speaker 1: true in that moment, that is very true.
Speaker 2: Well, this morning PCH reopened. Basically, access to the neighborhood
Speaker 2: and along the palisades will remain restricted to residents, law enforcement,
Speaker 2: and then contractors who are there to help out.
Speaker 3: But that's it.
Speaker 2: All of PCH itself, between McClure Tunnel and Carbon Beach
Speaker 2: open this morning, one lane each direction, is open, you
Speaker 2: can't go more than twenty five miles an hour. Mayor
Speaker 2: Bass said, you can expect congestion. There is an active
Speaker 2: construction zone, red flashing signals, et cetera, and no parking
Speaker 2: along PCH until further notice.
Speaker 3: All this had something to do.
Speaker 2: She wanted to do it on Sunday, but she was
Speaker 2: going to do it without restrictions, and then cants. I
Speaker 2: don't know what she was thinking, the idea that you
Speaker 2: would allow PCH to reopen without restrictions because there's enough
Speaker 2: people who are so interested in what's going on.
Speaker 3: We've all seen the.
Speaker 2: Lookie loose who feel like they need to be there
Speaker 2: to see the destruction themselves.
Speaker 4: The podcasters.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and the honest truth is you don't need to
Speaker 2: be there to see that for yourself. It is an
Speaker 2: I mean it just it's an awful place to be
Speaker 2: and for you to be there simply out of curiosity
Speaker 2: is an insult to the people who lost their lives
Speaker 2: and lost everything in those fires. Yes, so, as of
Speaker 2: the way they're going to do it now, National Guard
Speaker 2: is extended quite a bit so that they can actually
Speaker 2: do some of the I guess pass control in those checkpoints.
Speaker 2: So that LAPD has the ability because LAPD's been on
Speaker 2: tactical alert since the fire started January seventh.
Speaker 1: I'm going to need some ominous music. Do you have
Speaker 1: any ominous music, because folks tell me if you've heard
Speaker 1: this before. But the storm door is open.
Speaker 3: And that didn't work.
Speaker 4: Oh, I think it started to work at the end here.
Speaker 4: Let me do it. Take two.
Speaker 3: No, no, let me try it.
Speaker 1: Because the storm door is open. If you know people
Speaker 1: up north, yep, it has been an atmospheric river say
Speaker 1: goodbye that has slammed into those folks. Well it's headed here.
Speaker 1: The first of a series of three atmospheric river.
Speaker 4: Storms has arrived.
Speaker 1: They're hoping that this may lift us La County from
Speaker 1: our fire station a fire season.
Speaker 4: But the problem is is that.
Speaker 1: With that comes you know the threat of mudslides, debrisflows,
Speaker 1: things like that.
Speaker 4: So when is it supposed to hit.
Speaker 1: Widespread rain expected tomorrow through Wednesday.
Speaker 4: Ventura County may get the brunt of it there.
Speaker 3: The peak time for rain just north of their.
Speaker 2: Santa Barbara, SA and Louis Obispo counties have gotten rain
Speaker 2: today and they will continue to get rain. The biggest
Speaker 2: issue I think right now now is going to be
Speaker 2: the risk of mud slides and debris flow. Even from
Speaker 2: that storm that we saw last week, there was a
Speaker 2: certain amount short, not short, small amounts of mud slides
Speaker 2: that close down pH and Dapanga, for example. But if
Speaker 2: this is a significantly heavier rainfall, then we could see
Speaker 2: some bigger issues. Does this end fire season? Nothing ends
Speaker 2: fire season here.
Speaker 1: I look forward to sitting inside and seeing the rainfall
Speaker 1: and being cozy and doing nothing and being okay with it.
Speaker 3: That's the sound your couch made.
Speaker 4: Wow, coming in hot? Who hurt you over the weekend?
Speaker 3: Everything?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 6: That's right?
Speaker 4: You have ailments?
Speaker 3: Did you?
Speaker 2: Speaking of which this just reminded me. It's whoever wrote
Speaker 2: the story wrote ending dry January obvious?
Speaker 3: Howd to go?
Speaker 1: Oh, I'm still drunk? I had set six shots this morning.
Speaker 3: No, I'm just kidding.
Speaker 4: I feel so good. I'm just kind of like rolling
Speaker 4: it over. Really, I just I feel freaking great.
Speaker 1: I mean, There'll probably come a time, but for the
Speaker 1: time being, I'm sticking with it.
Speaker 3: So this show doesn't necessarily prompt you to drink every day.
Speaker 5: You mean you.
Speaker 1: Yes, which you know I've learned to deal with in
Speaker 1: other ways, other coping mechanisms.
Speaker 4: But no, it does not.
Speaker 1: This is actually a great you know, it's not like
Speaker 1: I'm digging ditches. Maybe if I was digging ditches, I
Speaker 1: want to go home and hit the bottle and cheap.
Speaker 1: That actually sounds very relaxing. John used to I think
Speaker 1: it was sheep. John used to do, from time to
Speaker 1: time an extended daydream about how he would like to
Speaker 1: be a sheep hurder and just live in a field
Speaker 1: with his sheep.
Speaker 3: And it could be that, and no's that seems.
Speaker 4: I don't know if Sean, I think has a I
Speaker 4: may have a way with sheep.
Speaker 3: Maybe he does. He's the great sheep whisperer.
Speaker 1: Perhaps I haven't heard him talk about that in a while.
Speaker 1: I wonder what happened. I'll have to ask him about
Speaker 1: that today. I thought there was a terrorist attack this
Speaker 1: morning or something. My phone kept going off like crazy,
Speaker 1: and I pick it up.
Speaker 4: I'm like, what is this?
Speaker 1: And there's like six alerts about this massive NBA trade.
Speaker 1: I'll be the first to tell you I know nothing
Speaker 1: about the NBA.
Speaker 4: I played basketball.
Speaker 1: I loved basketball, watching the Celtics and the Lakers rivalry.
Speaker 1: My dad was dialed in one hundred and fifty percent
Speaker 1: to all of that in the eighties when I was
Speaker 1: growing up and all, and then I just kind of
Speaker 1: fell up the Kings that whole bit in Sacramento. That
Speaker 1: was kind of fun for a minute. Chris Weber and
Speaker 1: then the Warriors, and that was.
Speaker 4: Kind of fun.
Speaker 1: And then I just I moved down here and I
Speaker 1: couldn't root for the Lakers because then my family wouldn't
Speaker 1: speak to me. So I haven't watched basketball about twenty years,
Speaker 1: so I have no frame of reference when it comes.
Speaker 1: I know that they're both stars. Anthony Davis, big deal
Speaker 1: for him to come to the Lakers. And then the
Speaker 1: guy whose name I can't pronounce, Luca. He's also a
Speaker 1: big deal with the Mavericks. That's a lot of hate
Speaker 1: going on with the Mavericks. Was it GM or Owner,
Speaker 1: what have you? It's all Chinese to.
Speaker 3: Me, well or Serbian? I think? Is he Serbian? Yes,
Speaker 3: that's true, that's right.
Speaker 2: Kevin Figures has joined as producer at Straordinaire for our
Speaker 2: friends over at KLAC, but also one of the hosts
Speaker 2: of the f NA podcast.
Speaker 1: F NA podcast is where you find him kfig on
Speaker 1: social media as well.
Speaker 6: Thank you guys for having me.
Speaker 3: By the way, thanks for coming on. So discuss Luca. Okay,
Speaker 3: is this the biggest trade in NBA history?
Speaker 7: Yes, one, because Anthony Davis, an aging superstar, gets traded
Speaker 7: to the Dallas Mavericks, who claimed that they want to
Speaker 7: make a deal to win right now when they just
Speaker 7: went to the NBA Finals last season with arguably the
Speaker 7: second third best player in the entire league and someone
Speaker 7: even say the best player in the league and Luka Doncik.
Speaker 6: That's the thing that's what makes it such a big
Speaker 6: music I sorry, that's it.
Speaker 1: I was right.
Speaker 4: It's that hard it is.
Speaker 3: That's what it is.
Speaker 4: There's no age. It's a hard end dochic like.
Speaker 7: Let's I'll try to use a frame of reference since
Speaker 7: you haven't watched the NBA in twenty years, there Shannon,
Speaker 7: if I possibly can, so, let's.
Speaker 1: Imagine you can ask for a football analogy. I can
Speaker 1: try for baseball is just like the Dodgers and the Mavericks.
Speaker 1: The Dodger's trying to get better, the Mavericks trying to
Speaker 1: get better.
Speaker 7: Well, there's a lot of interesting dynamics when it comes
Speaker 7: to that, but just think of if football. I'll just
Speaker 7: use an example, maybe not the best quarterback in the league,
Speaker 7: but a top three quarterback. Let's say Lamar Jackson. If
Speaker 7: Lamar Jackson just overnight got traded from the Baltimore Ravens
Speaker 7: to say, the Las Vegas Raiders or something, and now
Speaker 7: they got a good Blair think got Max Crosby into
Speaker 7: the bunch number one picks, like, oh, you got good players.
Speaker 7: But this is like a face of a franchise top
Speaker 7: of play, Like that's the equivalent or Josh Allen.
Speaker 6: You know what it hits closer to home.
Speaker 7: What if they traded Josh Allen or excuse me, they
Speaker 7: traded Justin Herbert from the Chargers for lamarg Herbert's a
Speaker 7: really good player, and I'm not You don't have to
Speaker 7: say anything.
Speaker 6: I'll just talk to you. Gary. Herbert's a very good player.
Speaker 6: I do think that Charger.
Speaker 7: Fans, as much as they love Justin Herbert, probably would
Speaker 7: not shed a tear if they knew they were getting
Speaker 7: Lamar Jackson, a three time potentially three time MVP coming
Speaker 7: back the other way. That's kind of the way this
Speaker 7: shapes up. And it happened in the dead of night.
Speaker 7: This is something that just doesn't happen anymore in the
Speaker 7: NBA where it's so player driven and agent driven, and
Speaker 7: they're the ones that are usually directing traffic when it
Speaker 7: comes to where they want to play, who they want
Speaker 7: to play for. This was literally old school Rob Polenka,
Speaker 7: the GM of the Lakers and the GM of the Mavericks,
Speaker 7: whoever a previous relationship from when Rob was Kobe's agent
Speaker 7: and the general manager of the Mavericks now was a
Speaker 7: Nike executive. They just met over coffee last Thursday, kind
Speaker 7: of came up out of nowhere, talked between the two
Speaker 7: of themselves, and then all of a sudden, on Saturday
Speaker 7: night at nine o'clock, this trade happens. Nobody knew. Anthony
Speaker 7: Davis didn't know, Lukadantik didn't know. Ro James had no idea.
Speaker 2: Wow in the dead of night discuss that relationship. Now, Luka,
Speaker 2: Doncik and Lebron James both on the Lakers.
Speaker 7: So well, tactically speaking, that's going to be rough. They're
Speaker 7: both very ball dominant players, but usually in the NBA,
Speaker 7: Hogs is strong Gary. But I would say they both
Speaker 7: thrive with the ball in their hands. Neither of them,
Speaker 7: I would say, are really good players without having the
Speaker 7: ball in their hands. Now that's something the Lakers are
Speaker 7: going to have to figure out, which is fine. Again,
Speaker 7: you have one of the best players, top three players
Speaker 7: in the league, and Lebron is still a top ten
Speaker 7: player at worst. Right now, you'll figure it out. Relationship wise,
Speaker 7: Lebron James and Luca get along great. Luca has always
Speaker 7: looked up to Lebron James. From what I understand, they
Speaker 7: have a really good relationship. And for people saying that
Speaker 7: Lebron James might request a trade because Anthony Davis was
Speaker 7: his guy and they have the same agent, it sounds
Speaker 7: as if Lebron James has no desire of asking for
Speaker 7: a trade. Now, that could be for a couple of reasons.
Speaker 6: His son plays for the.
Speaker 1: Team, right, isn't that what he's doing now? Yes, that's
Speaker 1: his passion project.
Speaker 7: Yeah, so he doesn't want to be traded away unless
Speaker 7: the Lakers traded both of them, which I guess is
Speaker 7: somewhat possible if they really wanted to. And one the
Speaker 7: Lakers actually see Lebron James as a mentor to Luka
Speaker 7: Doncik and the big reason why he was traded away
Speaker 7: from the Dallas Mavericks.
Speaker 6: If you're to read the reports is.
Speaker 7: That they have issues about his health and his conditioning
Speaker 7: and his commitment to staying in shape.
Speaker 2: He showed up what thirty pounds overweight or or I
Speaker 2: don't know if i'd say overweight.
Speaker 3: I mean the guy's huge anyway, so be in two seventies.
Speaker 6: Yeah, two seventies, a little heavier than I like to be.
Speaker 1: And he showed up in Chicago twice the size. He
Speaker 1: still did have had a productive season.
Speaker 7: Yeah, look, Luka Doncic when he's played now, he's only
Speaker 7: played twenty two games this year because he has a
Speaker 7: calf injury. Now, whether that's due to him being overweight,
Speaker 7: I don't know.
Speaker 6: I'm not a doctor. I can't speak to you.
Speaker 7: I don't know what the Slovenian delicacies are.
Speaker 1: Smoker.
Speaker 6: That's a good question, and I don't really know.
Speaker 7: I guess it's possible, but I really I can't speak
Speaker 7: to that. I'm not one hundred percent sure. I'll say this,
Speaker 7: regardless of his weight issues or discipline issues, whatever you
Speaker 7: want to call them, whatever he's doing is working. He's
Speaker 7: his second highest league score in NBA playoff history, behind
Speaker 7: Michael Jordan.
Speaker 6: Yeah, how insane was that?
Speaker 4: He won me a lot on prize picks, did.
Speaker 6: He Yeah, yeah, that's going to lie. I believe it.
Speaker 6: Guy is a luck. He's a walking triple double. He's
Speaker 6: a phenomenal player.
Speaker 7: And even if you have concerns about his durability or
Speaker 7: his health moving forward, if you're the Lakers, it's a
Speaker 7: deal that you have to take.
Speaker 6: This is twenty five years old.
Speaker 7: Yeah, so if he does get himself into shape and
Speaker 7: become the player that you wanted to become, he can
Speaker 7: be the next face of your franchise for the next
Speaker 7: ten twelve years.
Speaker 1: Who was in shape at twenty five? I was eating
Speaker 1: like pounds of bacon for dinner.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you also weren't a professional athlete. I mean,
Speaker 2: this guy gets paid to be in shape.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: No, I know, but it takes a while to understand
Speaker 1: the importance of that when you're a young player.
Speaker 2: And I know, the ugly stepchild in all of this
Speaker 2: is going to be the Dallas Mavericks. But they got
Speaker 2: ninety one dropped on him in the first half yesterday.
Speaker 6: Ninety one.
Speaker 7: That's hard to do well, especially when you say defense
Speaker 7: wins championships is what the general manager. Now granted, Anthony
Speaker 7: Davis wasn't there yet they have a couple of key players,
Speaker 7: including Luca, who wasn't going to be there anyway because
Speaker 7: he's been hurt.
Speaker 4: So are we in the basketball season right now?
Speaker 2: Well, we're almost to the All Stars and we are
Speaker 2: waist deep into the All Star season.
Speaker 4: I want to win like this season, That's what Alis
Speaker 4: is saying.
Speaker 6: Again, they say they want to win this season. Yet again.
Speaker 6: They went to the NBA Finals last year, right.
Speaker 4: So what happened there? Did they win?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 6: They lost to the Boston Celtics.
Speaker 4: Celtics ranted.
Speaker 7: I think a big reason for that is because Luka
Speaker 7: Doncic is. When I say terrible defensively, that's an understatement.
Speaker 7: He just has no interest in playing defense.
Speaker 4: That's a problem.
Speaker 7: It's a bit of a problem because the Boston Celtics
Speaker 7: basically just picked on him the entire series and that's
Speaker 7: why they lost.
Speaker 6: In five games.
Speaker 3: It's showtime, Lakers they're here for. I mean, you want the.
Speaker 4: Weight problem though too. It's hard to get back.
Speaker 7: When you're hauling an extra but that you With that
Speaker 7: being said, he's so dynamic on the offensive enno the floor.
Speaker 6: He's an offense in and of himself. Like I said,
Speaker 6: if you're the Lakers. It's a risk you have to take.
Speaker 6: I love it.
Speaker 4: I love it now, I'm into it. Now I'm gonna
Speaker 4: maybe a.
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