Here we go, Fred, Rogan, Rodney Pete in five seventy LA Sports Big three hours show today A lot to get to How big Fred? How big? Oh? This is big? This is big? You know why? You know why the show was so big because I was walking through the hall here today. Yeah, you're walking through the halls I was, and uh you know, you know where you walk down by Dave Weeese and Blackamo and then you make a turn by Don Martin's office and you head on in here. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Don Martin. I don't know who
he's talking to. He's on some zoom call. And to think about it is and if you know, don you know if he's on a zoom call, I mean we could hear him here in the studio and it sound prooved. It goes down the other side of the building. Correct. Okay, So I'm walking by you know, I hear uh oh Fred and Rodney. I hear it the name. So your ears perk up because you hear it. Right, here's somebody talking about us. So I'm walking a little slower now, just a little slower, checking it out right. I don't know
who's yeah, drop a little bit. I had to. I heard our names. Of course, you don't know what's going to happen here. No, you don't. You don't want to get on somebody's bad side. Oh So, anyway, I'm walking down the hall, I hear our names. I slow down a little bit, and then I hear Fred Rodney. I can't really hear what the other person is saying, but then I hear don say this. They're killing it. They're killing it. They're killing it. I heard it try. I think he said if there was any way possible,
we would put them on for five hours. M. So I don't know what they were talking about, what they were thinking, what it means for anybody else, But I did hear him say, A, they're killing it, and B if there was any way possible, we'd put them on for five hours. M M. Yeah, I hear that. I hear that. I think we don't want to be on five because you gotta give him. You gotta keep them coming back and wanting more. Yeah, you know what I'm saying. So three is perfect because that is just the amount
of time of pupley. Oh no, you guys don't go off yet. We need more and we come back tomorrow, right right back to I don't know what was going on, but I thought I would share that off the top. Appreciate that. Yeah, it's good to know. That's good to know, all right. I mean I knew it, but you've verified it, and I like that. Yeah you've heard the whispers. Yeah yeah, yes, yeah, yes, yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah. You know. Anyway, I guess it's confirmed now and we'll take that. We will take
it, all right, let's go uh interesting. So you know when the Lakers were in New York and they were playing the next and we had the hour Glass tweet from lebron and you know, and he's wearing a Knicks towel and everybody's going, well, what could this lead to? What could this mean? I think we all know what it means. But whatever mark Stein writes today, there are a couple of teams that think lebron what out and
take less money to sign with them if they draft Bronny. So that brings to mind, this is Bronnie ready to be drafted into the NBA right off the bat. I don't know if he is. I don't know if he's a one and done. So it leads to that, is he ready to be drafted into the NBA and then for Mark Stine to say, yeah, there are a couple of teams that think he would leave money on the table to go and do that. Okay, Rodney, right off the bat,
what are your thoughts on the report? Do you think Lebron would do that? He would leave the Lakers. Some speculate he might leave money on the table to ensure he could play with his son. Do I think as a possibility, Absolutely, yeah, I do. I mean it's a kind of a once in a generational lifetime, multiple lifetime opportunity if it were to present itself. I think a few years back, there was a question of whether or not Lebron would be I guess healthy enough at his age at the time
Bronni was ready to be drafted. Could Lebron hang on long enough? Well, I think that question has been answered. That Lebron's got at least two three four more years left in him, if not more, based on the way he's played this year. And I'm with you, I'm not sure. I'm not sure Bronni is ready ready for to be drafted. But then again, outside of two or three guys coming out of college, who's really ready
to join the NBA. Certainly, part of joining the NBA is understanding the NBA more so than the physical part, because once you understand that you're pro and you're hanging around guys that are thirty and thirty five years old, and the lifestyle and the money that comes with it and all these things, that is a culture shock for or a young kid that is nineteen years old. Well, Bronnie's in a different category because he grew up around it. He's
not in awe of the NBA's in. He's not gonna be in awe of Oh my god, I'm playing with so and so over here, you know, let alone my dad. But I'm playing. Let's just say it's the Lakers, right, I'm playing with Anthony Davis. I'm playing you know, oh my goodness, Spencer did with he just we just I'm playing with these guys that I've been watching. No, he's not gonna have that because he's been around it his whole life, So that all factor's gone. And then
the money factor that you're coming at me, he's already making it. He's already making it because Nil and what he's making right now, I want to say, his equivalent to the NBA, salaries. But it's close. It's close. Yeah, Bronnie is close. So in that respect, I could see it happening. Do I believe it's gonna happen? And no, because I do think that Bronnie I'll be going to have to take another year in
college and then go. Yeah, and when he comes out of college, there's no guarantee that he is going to be a starting player making a huge difference and if you just use one but that's not the point for Lebron. It's just wanted to be on the same team, right, But there's but there's also, you know, the point that he might not make a huge difference, and as you said, he's probably not ready. Probably not ready. I don't care what his last name is, he's probably not ready.
Okay, Right, So now that would lead to this, do you think the Lakers would draft Bronni to ensure that Lebron would stay? Like, I don't know the Lakers draft status what it is off the top of my head. But if there's a if there's a second round pick out there, is that what he's saying, Yeah, not necessarily wasting a first round, but if there's a second, if they've got a second round? They do?
They do? They say, they picked you know, twenty fourth, right, in both rounds, they picked twenty fourth, twenty I don't know what it is in the first round, and then what it is in the second round, twenty fourth? And say, can I see them drafting Bronni in the second round to sign him keep Lebron as a Laker? Yeah, I can see that. I can see that. Could you see that? I
could see it. But my question would be, are they drafting him to hold on to Lebron or are they drafting him because they believe that he is going to be a good player. Because I gotta be honest with you, I mean, there's a lot of hypes arounding Bronni because he's Bronnie, and he's a very talented kid, and he overcame, and oh my god, what he overcame. He's already won the game. He's already won. No matter what happens, he's already won. Give him what he overcame. But
I don't know how good of a pro he's going to be. I don't know, if you know. I mean, how do we know how good he's going to those? No one knows. And at the college can he play, Can he play with some of the guys in the pro level, Well, let's try this at the collegiate level. Right now. I think he's a nice player. I don't think he is h exploding. I think he's a nice player. He's a solid player. There are a lot of
solid players in college that never even get to the NBA. Right But I think you got to look at him more so as this year is this is a like a recovery bonus bonus year is right a recovery year. The fact that he's on the court is a miracle in itself. The fact that he's even playing as a miracle self. So I don't think people are looking at him how he plays at USC, and USC is not a very good basketball team right now, looking at him and how he plays this year as this
is this is the ceiling for Brownie. He's not gonna get I think they're looking at it like and evaluating him. Does he have the potential to continue to grow and become a really good player. And if that's the case, then yeah, I think somebody takes a chance on him and drafts him. But I think right now we're not seeing how good Ronnie can be because I think he's just he is. Like I said, it's a miracle that he's playing, and this is more of a recovery year after suffering the cardiac arrest
and then coming back. No nobody thought he was gonna even play this year and he's playing. So I don't think people are looking at Oh, well, he's only scoring six eight points a game, he's not playing a whole lot of minutes. Us, he's not a very good team. I don't think they're evaluating him that. I think they're looking at him. Does this kid have the potential to be getted to be pretty good? And we don't know outside of every year two three guys, Okay, that guy's gonna be
a star in the league. We don't really know. We don't And there's guy's been guys been drafted number one that turned out to be horrible, and guys that or a second round and not even drafted, and I'll be pretty good. So I just I could see it happening with the Lakers, not necessarily a first round, but a second round pick and say, okay, yeah, yeah, we'll draft him, keep you here, Lebron for another four years. Yeah we'll draft him. Absolutely, So the question becomes,
when would that happen? And uh, you know, from what we're saying, this year might be a little soon. He probably needs another year of college basketball, one more year, get him. Who what other team you think is gonna draft him, not knowing for sure that Lebron's gonna come. If they draft him, is that a guarantee? No, I mean it's a pretty good idea that he may. Yeah, but here's who's gonna roll that dice. If you're the other team, Well, here's the thing.
If you're gonna roll that dice, you better be pretty damn sure that Bronni can play. Let's just put it like that. If you're gonna use a pick on Bronni with the expectation that Lebron may show up and give us another one hour Glass tweets, you don't know. You simply don't know. You've got to draft Bronnie because you think he can play, right, all right? If Lebron comes to what a nice bonus, what an incredible bonus bonus?
Yeah, but still still, you know what, but you you're you're probably not drafting him this year unless you know Lebron's coming, right, And I don't think Lebron will leave. I think he'll stay here another year. I don't think he wants on leave period, to be quite honest with you, No, I don't think so. I think this is not a lot of huffing and puffing, and I don't think he's going anywhere. Yeah,
I don't think so either. Yeah. Plashki wrote interesting, uh that when the Lakers didn't make that deal with the trade deadline, Yes, they sire they signed Spencer Dinwiddie you know afterwards, but with any way, I think it's we're going to talk about that. But I think that's a big, big signing. I really do, by the way, and that's the guy they wanted. Yeah, and why any that name thrown around last couple of years, right, Yeah? And when your Fred your friend, Buddy Heal,
Buddy Heal, Buddy Heill. He may be here next year. You never know what, Buddy Hill, He's everywhere. Spencer Dinwoode was a guy they wanted, and you know they got him in the buyout marker, which is even better. Here's a question. He was sitting at the game with Rob Polinka. They were watching, you know, and everybody said, oh, there they are together, and boom, they sign them. Why does Rob Polinka always look so miserable? Every time you see Rob Polink on the
crowd, he looks miserable. I never see him smiling. Even when he was sitting with Spencer Dinwiddie, it looked like they were talking about going to a funeral. I don't understand why Rob Polinka, who is everywhere. I've never seen a general manager be shown as much as Rob Polinka. Why does he ever smile? I think it's one of those jobs, and there are a few of them in sports, but certainly GM of the Lakers is definitely
one of them. Well, you can't ever relax, You can't ever relax because the the spotlight is always on you, especially if you're not in the conversation of winning championships. Everybody's looking at you, blaming you. And I think it's it's it's it's the stress of the job I really do, and it's not going away. That's why he always looks unhappy. I don't know if he's, you know, not unhavvy. I'm sure he's enjoyed himself, but it's certainly not not not smiling and laughing and joking as much as he
was as an agent. Yeah, many times you've seen much stressful as a GM than an agent. How many times you've seen Brian Cashman yucking it up and smiling at a game? I mean there's a pressure any lesson Rob than it is on a situation like that. It's the same thing, right, Yeah, exactly, your mind is always working, yucking it up. Yeah you ever see you ever see less need in the box during the game. Right, So they got Spencer dinwddie. But Bill Plaski wrote that in one
way or now, that the Lakers actually stood up to Lebron. I found this interesting. He wrote that at the trade deadline he wanted de Jonte Murray and had spoken to the Lakers about it. That's no surprise, and we already knew that they would talk to Lebron and Ad and those guys would offer up suggestions. He said that when the Lakers would not give Atlanta what they wanted, day in essence had told Lebron, we can't do that. We're
just not going to mortgage the future. Sort of like if you think back to when he went to Miami and he wanted Eric Spolster fire and pat Riley said, we're not doing that well, this is kind of what Bill acquaints it to. That's a lot different. Well, the point is, the point is no, no, no, The point is Rodney Lebron asked for something and didn't get it. That's the point. And that's what Plaski said. I'd not heard that by it. I don't know Plaski was in those
meetings with Lebron and Palinka. I didn't know that was an open door meeting that they had discussing Atlanta and trading situation. I didn't know that. Let me know when that article comes out that who else was in that meeting with them? Yeah, well when that or when that meeting took place For him to write that, I don't think he would fabricate it. And actually it's the kind of thing that I think somebody fed him. Now he'll never admit
that, but I think somebody fed him that. Who I don't know and why, I have no clue. But to me, it's again I'll go back to why are we Why are we blaming Lebron on every bad situation that happens? Well, I don't think is Lebron getting blamed here? I don't think so. You just did wahaa haaha Lebron, you didn't get your way. Ha ha. Laker said, no, tell Lebron, really, I don't think I said it like that. No, but Plaski didn't, so
yeah, yeah he did. Laker said, no, you could see it if he if it was a voice over that article, it would be just like that, just like that. Again, it goes to I don't know what superstar is not involved and conversations about trade guys around the league. Who would you like to play with? You think this guy is a good fit. I don't know who is not involved. And the only one I would say of a superstar of that magnitude that probably is not involved or doesn't care,
it's Kawhi Leonard. You just I'll play with anybody who just put him on the court, I'll play. I just want to play basketball. But everybody else who's a superstar. You don't think Kevin Durant had anything to do with Bradley Beal ended up in Phoenix. I mean, I don't. I don't get why this is like, oh my god, this is a this is an anomaly. Lebron. Lebron got shut down because he wanted Jontay Murray. Oh, Lebron, you don't get your way. Really really, it's
so ridiculous to me, it's ridiculous. And then we're just gonna sit there. If things go well, they went, they reached the Western Conference championship, and everybody believes that it was turned around after the trade deadline last year and all of a sudden, Rob Polinka should be Executive of the year. Executive of the year, No mention of Lebron having any end and constructing the
team. Yet there were Lebron constructing the team rumors and hatred to start the season last year when they started with one in ten or whatever they started. Lebron better do something, Lebron better do something, not Rob a Linka Lebron. How many times we heard Rob a Linka said, I make the decision on this scene. We're not taking him at his word? Well, sure we are. We're certainly we're taking them as his word right now. According to the what Bill Plashki wrote, we are. I'm making the decisions.
You came, you've chatted, we looked at it, we evaluated, and we decided we're not doing that. Why is that? Why is that any different though than any other No, I'm just responding to who's making the decisions. I think there it is. I think Rob Polinka would get tagged for this, not Lebron. Ah what why is that really? Really? Yeah? But then why didn't Lebron get the credit for last year of constructing the
team, not playing, but constructing the team. And we're gonna put him in that GM sea when things are bad and he didn't get his way and he didn't do anything, why can't we say, after the trade dead, where was Plaski's article last year? What great moves by Lebron? He wanted these guys here, he got Hotch and Morrow, he got these guys here, and look what a difference they made. They't made it all the way to where's that praise? Where's that? Show me that article? I can't
find it exactly. I can't find that article exactly. I can only find this one. So until you find me that one, I don't read this one. Oh right, Well, are we gonna try to get Plashki on this week? Kevin? We are. We tried to get him today and he wasn't available, so we're trying to give him another day this week? All right? Yeah, come on, Platsky, he went on an article where you praised where you praised Lebron for any kind of construction of the team.
Okay, well we'll bring him on this week. Yeah, we have Dylan Hernandez. Later he'll come out and blow somebody up. But what he can be an issue, of course he will. That won't even be a question of last week. That's right, that's right. Mookie doesn't care about baseball. Yeah, so I didn't care about winning and playing in the playoffs. That's right. Yeah, Dente will be here. We'll take care of that then, bottom of the hour. Let him know your squad squad today
is the Lakers. We'll give you a cue to call uh and when we come back. You know the gondola from Union Station to Dodger Stadium. Some love it, some hate it. Everybody should stop worrying about it because I think I know what's going to happen to it. We'll have that. Come out, Come out, Roddy Pete, Fred Rogan on a Tuesday, Big show, Big show. Let's go all right, So are you excited about the gondola, the Frank McCart gondola. They would build it at Union Station.
It would take you into Dodgers Stadium and ultimately what they would do is build an entertainment area. That's the ultimate plan, even if they're not seeing it in the parking lot, ballpark village in Saint Louis. What they're doing
at Wrigley Field an entertainment area with restaurants and bars around the stadium. So basically, the land in the parking lot would be used three hundred and sixty five days a year and there would be a reason to go to Dodger Stadium now and at one point they were even thinking about building condos out there. All right, Now, if you really look at the ccnrs of the gondola project, that's kind of what they're laying out. But first you have to
build the giant gondola. So we know that there are people in this city. Frank mccourtz company doing it, his Soun's running it. They want the gondola, and they are trying to drum up the kind of support and necessary to get this thing passed. It's the metro board. First City of Los Angeles will weigh in as well. But now you have people in Koreatown who are going, we don't want the gondola. I don't want this enormous five ton thing driving by my window or over the top of my house. I
don't want it. And really what it is is posturing now, you know, manipulating the public into what side should you be on. So when you read articles when it's positive, okay, well that got there for a reason. But then you turn around and read something else it's negative, Well that got there for a reason too. Everybody's posturing now and trying to gain support or deny support for the gondola. So I know what's going to happen with
the gondola? Uh oh oh, I have the answer. He's got his relocation Rogan hat On, he's got his what's happening around the city had On. Let's go. You want to know what's gonna happen with the gondola. Yeah, all right, here's what's gonna happen. There's not going to be a gondola. That's what's gonna be. Gondla. No, that's what's gonna happen. There's not going to be the gondola. And here's why. At one point, the city of Los Angeles will kill it and that will be
the end of it. And you go, well, why would they do that? Why would they kill the gondola. All right, So if you have this enormous thing now flying over the top of your house, what does that do to property values? How does it opt right? How does that affect the people below? Well, you know, my property was worth seven hundred thousand dollars now it's worth one hundred and fifty thousand. No one's putting
up with that. No one is doing that. At the end of the day, they will look at what it will do to property values and that's what ultimately will kill it. So start walking from Union station. You're not taking Why are we going down this road? Then? Fred? Why are we wasting all this time, effort, energy, money to have this this vote? And then there's all this speculation that you know, McCord has got some some new figures on his side, some opponents have now come around.
I mean, why are we going through all of this if at the end of the day it is about property value and folks in the area concerned about their value being dropped, which is what's going to kill it. Why are we going down this road? Because it seems very simple that if you pose it to the city la and city council superintendent and all of those folks and they look at it and the issue of property value comes up. I don't know how you can argue that it goes down. So when that happens,
why does it not just get killed before there's even a vote? For the same reason. For about a year, people really believed that the Chargers and the Raiders would be in a new football stadium in Carson for the very same reason, because what you want to do is get your message out and try to convince people. And if you pelt them with it and they hear it often enough and then you're throwing a little sprinkle here and there, you go,
oh, oh the god, all is a great idea. It's like the Chargers and Raiders are going to Carson, which they was never happening, not for one second, no, never, never was it happening. And I've told the story. When they had that vote in Houston, Dean Spano sat in the room and when they announced it with the Rams, it's like he'd seen a ghost. He couldn't believe it. He couldn't believe it because the guy he hired did such a good job of trying to convince people that
he even convinced Dean Spanos. Yeah, and Dean Also he got uh, I guess led astray by Jerry Richardson, who believed it was going to happen, who told him he had the inside track and he knew the votes, and he knew how the other owners were going to vote, and that he had all you know, he had a number of owners on his side. Jerry Richardson being the late owner of the Carolina Panthers that at the time carried a lot of weight around the league. He was very respected around the league
until he had his issues off the field. But he and Dean Spanels were together on this deal in Carson and he told he told Dean and the hey, we're gonna get this thing. This is gonna happen. I got good, good evidence that this is gonna happen. And they totally went one h against what Jerry Richard thought was gonna happen, the people, the owners that he thought he had in his pocket. When that vote came down, it was a thirty one to one. Mark Davis actually voted for the Rams,
Yes, exactly. Well, Mark knew he was going to Vegas at that point, but he voted for the Rams. That was hilarious. Yeah, yeah, yeah, so crazy So for the same reason that the people in this city believed, oh the churches and raiders are going to Carson to play on a toxic waste dump, that's the same reason people think there'll be a gondola. Yeah, but if you just no chance, Well, when you hear that, okay, here's why it's not going to happen. Just tell
me it's going to ruin people's property values. Okay, So not happening. Soon as you say that, and you know, you get an analyst to come and look at it and say, okay, well, this is this going to add to the property value or decrease diminish the property value, And every one of them, one hundred percent would say I can tell you, based on my years of experience that the probably did value surrounding this gondola is going to decrease. Right, So would you say in the story, Yeah,
I mean, you know, here, good news, Rodney. They're building a gondola from where you're at right now to Dodger Stadium and the best news of all and it'll be great for you because you'd like to go to Dodger games. Yeah, the gondola will go directly over your house. What's that going to do your property value exactly what is it gonna do? And let me ask you this from just a fan perspective, if the gondola was in effect, would you drive to Union Station from your house to catch the
gondola or just continue to drive to Dodger Stadium to go to games. I'm going to Dodger Stadium right right, So unless you're i mean really like kind of close by and walking distance or something. You know, you work downtown and you just want to hop over there real quick and jump on the gondola. Who's coming from the west side or driving from the valley like you normally go to Dodge the games. Who's gonna stake that stop and Union Station to
catch the gondola to go to the game. The reason they want to build it, as we learned, I mean, yes, to take you to Dodger Stadium for games. No, to take you to the Dodger Stadium entertainment area. That's why they wanted to build it. Once we got that up, now we're ready to go. We're just gonna put restaurants over here and bars in the parking lot and it'll be a destination. Three hundred and sixty five days a year. That's what it was. That's what it was.
Pretty simple when you dig a little deeper into everything, that was the plan. But I don't think the Gondala is gonna happen. I think it's done. You think so, I think so normal. I just saw this in our notes, Fred, did you know this? I think you probably mentioned this yesterday because we we were on with Eric, so we had a lot to get to that that this was the most watched super Bowl ever. Yeah. Yeah, one hundred and twenty three something million people. Yeah, and
watch it. That's pretty incredible. You think what do you think it was Vegas? Do you think it was the matchup? Do you think it was forty nine Ers fans? People love forty nine Ers and Chiefs to see if they can win back to back, and they like Mahomes and that whole story and Taylor Swift kind of coming through the whole thing. What do you think added to the to the fact that it became the highest watch most watched super Bowl ever? I think all of that contributes. Uh, And I also
think it's the way you can consume it now. You can see it on network TV. They had it on Nickelodeon, stream it through Paramount Plus, stream it through Paramount Plus. There are more ways to see it, more places to see it. And really the super Bowl and it's we didn't do it yesterday, you know there were still the stories. Well, the Monday after the super Bowl should be a holiday because we've had such a big day and we're all so hungover. You know. My feeling is, get your
ass up and go to work. Get up and go to work. We all have to work. Go to work. You don't get to work it out individual with your employer. You can work that out individually, work it out, but that it doesn't need to be a national holiway, I mean, right, right, So, no, the I thought the numbers. I thought the numbers were great, which is good. And also the game
goes into overtime. So even if you're not watching the game, if you're one of the people that is not watching but you hear the game goes into overtime and you're near some sort of device where you can see it, there's a good chance you'll turn it on, kind of like an NBA game, right, click it over. Yeah, you get those alerts, Hey, this game is in two minutes left and it's tight, right, you go, you go and watch it, right, So those numbers increase at the
end as well. They they escalate because people are probably going, oh my god, the super bowls in overtime. Well I want to see that, right. I mean, it happened to all those people that were gonna boycott and not watch the super Bowl in the NFL. That's the way it always wore years back. I told you the story, very adamant about it. Oh, never watch, That's not the way it works. I mean, I told the story. We did a thing out on the TV show them
Palm Springs that upset everybody. I brought this guy on and he just blew the show up one night, just blew it up and started saying stuff. People are incensed. They're writing these terrible emails attacking him, attacking me and you. I'll never watch again. I will never That is it for me. I am so finished with you and the station and this guy. I'll never watch again. Okay, So the next night I go on and I'd read all those emails. I just read them, read them on air.
Yeah you know this guy said this and I'm an ass. I mean somebody called me an ass. I read that. I didn't care because there I'm just trying different stuff. So I just read them all from the people that would never watch again. Know what happened after I read those they all emailed me thank you for reading my email. Well, how in the world would you know I read it unless you were watching. I'll never watch again. Okay, you'll never watch again. It's like funny people here. I'll never
listen to you guys again. We get that sometimes, Yeah, we get that. You guys. I hate you. I'll never listen to you again. Right, and you read a tweet? Yeah, two days listen to you guys? You got You're terrible. You're wrong. I mean, it's so wrong, you Lebron lover. What's wrong with you? I know? Yeah, you're not You're not listening anymore. You're done. That's why when people say that to me, I always go, Okay, don't. We don't want to upset you. We want your life to be happier. If
we're contributing to unhappiness in your life, please don't listen. It's fine, Please don't watch. Don't watch. It's good bye me. I should play you. I'm not gonna do it. I should play you. The four minute story I did on somebody on the TV showing palm springs. Kevin, I don't even think I showed this to you. No, I haven't seen
I don't even know what you're talking about. Okay, So somebody, somebody writes to me and calls me an entitled white person, an ass tells me that all of my friends are white, that I don't understand anything, that I don't know anything. I mean, it was this manifesto, Rodney. It was four pages long, and I was trying to wrote you a four page yeah, and I was trying to think think about what I was going to do with it, because I was going to turn it into a comedy
bit. I've got to have an eight year old kid stand there and read it with music behind going there in ass. I didn't do that, then, I was going to ask you and Kevin because I had no black friends to go No, I'm his friend and I'm black. I was going to do that, hacks. All three of my best friends are black, right. I mean, I was really trying to figure out what I was going to do. So I went back and forth with this person and found out
something that I had realized many years ago. In Austin, Texas, and I think I told the story of the person that sent me a postcard in Austin, and it was blistering and it was scathing, and I had gone on. I was like nineteen years old on TV and I picked University Texas to beat Notre Dame. I lived in Austin, and I knew that was the thing to do. Right, this guy sends me a postcard, call me nay. I can't even use the language. I can't even say it.
I mean, we'll get thrown off the air. We will get thrown off the air. But back in the day, I was young, and I thought, well, you know, if somebody has a complaint, I'd like to figure out why. So on the postcard they had the return address. And in the day, you would call directory assistance with someone's address to get their phone number. And I got the phone number and I called the person. I haven't told you this, all right? And I called the
person and the guy answers the phone. He is blustering, he is irate, he is as rude as he was in the postcard. So I said to him, look, here's the deal, boy, you really feel strongly
about this, So why don't you send me? I said, I have your address, and because you feel as strongly as you do, and I'm sure other people agree, I'm gonna go on TV tonight and put your address on and tell everybody where you live, so then they can come over and agree with you, because, after all, everybody has to feel the way you do. Okay, Now, this big tough guy starts crying, starts crying. Right, I've told this what are you crying for? He goes,
I'm a war literally crying, crying, crying, Ridney crying. I said, what are you crying for? I'm a nineteen year old kid. What are you crying for? I'm a war veteran, I'm a shut in. I lost both of my legs. No one talks to me. I'm alone, and I'm miserable, and I'm sorry. Okay, that was forty
six years ago. So I get this thing in Palm Springs from this person, this manifesto, and I write the person back and I go, hey, you know what, I'm sure people feel as strongly as you do, so why don't you send me all of your social media hands and your picture so when I run this, people will know who you are and be able to reach out to you, because I'm sure they agree with you. What was the response, I'm a war veteran, I'm alone. People discard us, no one talks to us. I'm a nobody. And I went on
and I said, no, everybody's a somebody. And I talked about the story from forty six years ago, and I said it was wrong forty six years ago, and it's trong as we sit here today, because you are discarded and it's unfortunate. You've sacrificed for your country, You've given for this country, and people don't appreciate you, and you end up alone, and that's not the thanks you deserve, so I said at the end of it. So maybe this will shed light on the issue. I appreciate your writing.
And if nobody said this to you today, thank you for your service. And I always remember stories like that when somebody says, I'll never watch again, I'll never listen again, I'll never watch the super Bowl again, I'll never do this again. The truth of the matter is, you're not really upset with us. We know that you're really not upset with us. We might say something to upset you, but you're not upset with us. Then again, you probably have every reason to be mad about your situation.
But we yeah, but we know you're not upset with us. And that's why when you say, I'll never listen again, Okay, I'll talk to you tomorrow, No problem, We'll talk to you tomorrow. I'll never watch again. Okay, I'll see you tomorrow. I'll give it a second thought, give it a second thought. Okay, We're gonna play Know your Squad Next Hour, Kevin, I Know your Squad Next Hour? Also next Hour, Dylan Hernandez at the Times jumps on the phone. Today afternoon Delight is
Dance Alone by Sea. This track is the first single off the singer's fourth coming album, entitled Reasonable Woman, which will be her first studio album since twenty and sixteen. While this song features Australian pop legend Kylie Minogue, the album will also include appearances from Shaka Khan, Paris Hilton, Tierra Wack and Moore Again. Today's afternoon Delight is Dance Alone by Sea featuring Kylie Minou. All Right and Now from the Court to the court Room with Jacob em Ronni.
Okay, now our weekly chat with a good friend. Jacob em Ronni probab partner of the Lakers, and Jacob, how are you I'm doing great. How are you guys doing well? Jeb tastic, fantastic? Jacob? Well, you know, Jacob really was that sincere? I mean the dream, Jacob, live in the dream, Bamon, Jacob, Come on, Jacob, we can't all be Fred Rogan, but we can try to aspire to be as close as That is so true, that is so so so, so so so true. True. Yeah, you know what I'd say,
I'd say, dare to dream something else. You don't want to be that. You do not want to be there, all right, Jacob a report, mark Stein said he hears whispers from executives at other NBA teams, but lebron might opt out if he had the opportunity to play with Bronnie and somebody else drafted Bronnie. Do you buy that. It's hard for me to understand that, just because you know, he's got so much invested here.
And actually it's funny. I was talking to the other day and say, why if lebron wants to play with Bronnie, why is it so important for Bronnie to even get drafted? Why can't he go to Austin Reeves draft. Why can't he just tell people, do not draft me and pick whatever team he wants to go to, which will be the Lakers right here and they'll play together. It's not like he needs the money, that's what you said.
Yeah, just yeah, don't you don't have to nobody has to really even waste a pick or anything like that, and just say don't draft me, because uh, I'm not going I want to be free to pick my team and I'm picking the Lakers boom. And that's what Austin Reed did. And yeah, yeah, Austin Reeds told people did not pick him, and he decided to go to the Lakers, and you know, he he paved
his own you know, he paved his own path. And I think what I mean, we keep talking about as if he has to get drafted, he has to go somewhere, you know, if that's really the ultimate goal, I would think that that may be, especially with as much power as Lebron and you know, his team have. I'm sure they're you know, the people that teams are not going to want to ruin their relationship with you know, Plutch and Lebron and all of them by picking up Ronnie where he
doesn't want to go. You know, everybody makes a big deal about Lebron wanted to play with son. Let me ask you this, if you were Bronnie James, would you want your father watching you constantly while you were playing in the NBA? In other words, Dad, you know, let me bring a little bit here. Dad. It's like you're keeping an eye on me the whole time. Yeah, but I don't think it's you know, if it does indeed happen, it's not going to be like, oh,
they're gonna play this fifteen year career together, right. It is for a moment, you know, a moment in time where they can do do something historical. You know, Ken Griffy and his dad, you know they played together that believe that one year and it was historical. They got to be
in the same outfield for a season and then it was over. So I don't look at this like, oh, this is something where he's got to, you know, go through practice with Lebron for the next ten years, and he's gonna be looking over his shoulder and treating him like a son while he's at practice and blah blah blah. Now it's just a moment in time. That is a could be a very historical and cool thing to put on
your family resume at the end of the day. No word in that, that's right, Jacob Any concerns where the Lakers are right now, I mean they're they're treading water here. You know, I'm not concerned because I mean I was hearing rumors about the fact that they wanted to change, you know, they were going to move Delo to New Jersey just so they could get Dian Witty. They ended up picking up Dan Witty, you know, basically
for nothing. So they got them for free. And you know, we were talking right before the deadline and we said, no trade is better than a bad trade, or basically just making a trade to make a trade. And if you know, if the conversations are right, that they are actually concentrating on what's coming up in the summer when they're you know, their opportunities we're going after other stars, you know, is going to be higher, especially because I guess now they only have one first round pick to offer,
but in the summer they'd have three first round picks to offer. So if that's where the management is going, I was completely okay with no activity during the trade deadline, because I honestly didn't see anybody that was going to make a difference for us. It's just this team has to play better and maybe, you know, bringing in another scoring guard like Dinwid he can help.
And there's other guys that are going to be on the buyout market, and if they feel like somebody else can help, then I'm sure you know, they have enough room that they can let somebody go at the end of the bench and bring them in. Yeah, I liked it Dinwiddy move. I think he's gonna he's gonna help the Lakers just in scoring and then on the other end of the court as well. What do you feel about the move getting signing him. I liked it. I liked it a lot. And
I think you know, we've seen him play. You know, he's a guy who can get his own shot. You know, he's another guard and that's good to have. You know, I don't know how great he is on defense, but you know, if you can get another scorer on the floor, I think that would help a lot. And I think you just want this team to play together. And this is the time, I mean, the All Star breaker is right around the corner and as long as they start to be, you know, playing more as a team, get some
of the injured guys back. I think you have a good team, and you just, you know, hope that they go into the playoffs and they make some noise. Jacob Our listeners love when you do this. I have a question. It's Valentine's Day tomorrow and it's a time where you want to take care of your loved ones. So how can you do that when it comes to insurance? Yeah, you know, the biggest thing here is that I cannot tell you how often I get people who can afford good insurance,
but they have the worst insurance. I don't think people realize how important it
is to have good car insurance until they're involved in an accident. And you know, I would say one of the things that would be a great gift is to make sure that you get your loved ones could car insurance, because god forbid, if they're ever involved in an accident and they're driving around with just your basic fifteen thousand dollars liability, you will realize how much the expenses are going to suck up that fifteen thousand dollars and there's not much you can
do. I was just on the phone right before we got on with a client who was involved in an accident. Her and two of her friends were in the car, and not only was she injured, but she ended up losing about four months of work, which costs her about twenty five grand. But the person who hit him only had a fifteen thousand dollar policy, and I asked her, I said, did you buy any coverage on your own? Did you buy an insured motorists, He says, at that time,
I had the worst insurance. I bought the California minimum. I didn't want to spend a lot of money on insurance, But now that I realized one accident cost me almost thirty forty grand just out of my pocket, and because the person who hit him only had fifteen thousand, couldn't even pay that back, she says, now I went and bought the best insurance. Obviously it's
not going to help her in the accident. We're helping her in But those are unfortunately the less that people actually learn after the facts, and when we talk about these things, I'm hoping that our listeners are going to go out there and protect themselves and their loved ones with gas good insurance because it really doesn't cost much to protect yourself. All right, great advice, Jacob, Thanks for coming on. I always appreciate it and look forward to it.
My pleasure. Guys, have a great rest of your day. This hour, Delan Hernandez is a camelback ranch with the Dodgers. He will join us, and when we come back, let's talk about Yamamoto and what he's doing there.