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Speaker 1: coming up on today's show. We pay our respects to
Speaker 1: Muhammad Ali. Instead of the usual beats that my man
Speaker 1: t D draws up, we're gonna drop some of the
Speaker 1: quote is from the best poet slash athlete, uh slash
Speaker 1: what else would you? Revolutionary man that transcended boxing. So
Speaker 1: he is uh He's a guy that we're gonna pay
Speaker 1: how much to throughout the show with sound bites throughout
Speaker 1: his career. Um the latest news. We're gonna talk key
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Speaker 1: TV came with that I love. So we're gonna talk
Speaker 1: about that and we got some good stuff. We're gonna
Speaker 1: talk Steph Curry. But you know it's it got a
Speaker 1: twist on it, so please stay tuned to it's gonna
Speaker 1: be entertaining. Um. Speaking of t D, t D. Tell
Speaker 1: the people, what's up? Man, what's going on? People? What's
Speaker 1: going on? Rand appreciate you joining us. What's something? As
Speaker 1: I always say, what you need to do, especially this week.
Speaker 1: And a lot of Muhammad Ali content is out there,
Speaker 1: great content. The man, by the way, the man took
Speaker 1: the best photos on any athletes that would do it.
Speaker 1: It's insane. His his photo collection is crazy. Please check out.
Speaker 1: No one does Ali like Ali, but the actor Billy Crystal,
Speaker 1: the legend reactor Billy Crystal, who does a really good job.
Speaker 1: And what he what's called fifteen rounds Billy Crystal? Google
Speaker 1: search fifteen rounds? Billy Crystal. Wouldn't just watch him. It's
Speaker 1: more or less performing Muhammad Ali for Muhammad Ali at
Speaker 1: his retirement. And I believe there's less than a handful
Speaker 1: about four people that are gonna speak at his service,
Speaker 1: and Billy Crystal is one of the fantastic one of
Speaker 1: the eulogies. I guess he Muhammad Ali agreed to certain
Speaker 1: people speaking for him at his funeral and then certain
Speaker 1: people carrying the casket. Side note, Will smith is gonna
Speaker 1: be one of the men carrying the casket. How about that? Crazy?
Speaker 1: How it's crazy? Mohammad Ali said, Smith, I want you
Speaker 1: to carry me to my grand And obviously people remember it.
Speaker 1: Will Smiths played Muhammad Ali. Yeah in the in the movie.
Speaker 1: So um, definitely please check that out. And oh so,
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Speaker 1: watch late night, two guys talking on TV, real topics
Speaker 1: that really are bigger than just the typical sports talking.
Speaker 1: We got this, so I would ask for a beat
Speaker 1: at this moment. But let me get a little oddly,
Speaker 1: and I said, Joe's gonna come out smoking and I
Speaker 1: ain't gonna be joking. I'll be pecking and a poking
Speaker 1: one watching only smoking. And then this my shocking the major.
Speaker 1: But I will destroy Joe Frasier, Man, how about that? Listen.
Speaker 1: So and in my own little head, uh, I'm very
Speaker 1: aware of who I am and what I was able
Speaker 1: to do with what I was blessed with. So I
Speaker 1: don't have this inflated view of who I am. I'm
Speaker 1: just a guy with average talents over exceeded at moments.
Speaker 1: I made some good money in this league. Um, I'm
Speaker 1: not Calvin Johnson. I'm not you know, Odell Beckham, Antonio Brown.
Speaker 1: But I did okay in this league. But when I
Speaker 1: approached my job as an athlete, as a football player,
Speaker 1: as a brand, as an artist, as a guy who
Speaker 1: can rap um, all these things were pieces of a
Speaker 1: blueprint from Ali. Now there are certain guys that can
Speaker 1: come on the show. We had T on the show,
Speaker 1: and you know I I sat there and I told him,
Speaker 1: man that there was parts of you know, me celebrating
Speaker 1: that I took from you. Period. I saw you do it,
Speaker 1: and I knew how it helped you as an athlete,
Speaker 1: right as this this this thing that people wanted to
Speaker 1: invest in. Um, but Ali, when I talk about blueprints
Speaker 1: that I take and my father's on the list obviously
Speaker 1: in different athletes that I can remember over time, Ali
Speaker 1: has the biggest impact on my career because when I
Speaker 1: was young and I was a kid, and I was
Speaker 1: popping in VHS tapes and my pops sitting me down
Speaker 1: and explaining who this guy was. Um, I saw this
Speaker 1: black man talking about how black and proud he was.
Speaker 1: I saw this black man telling people how good he
Speaker 1: was and then going out and improving it, improving it.
Speaker 1: And then I saw this black man rymey. So like
Speaker 1: if anybody knows me, obviously this show is it's pop culture,
Speaker 1: sports hip hop. We do everything. I sit there and
Speaker 1: I spent my little bars and I I've done some
Speaker 1: songs in the past, and I record things. What people
Speaker 1: don't know is Muhammad Ali had the biggest influence on
Speaker 1: my career and who I am and how I've kind
Speaker 1: of etched out. When Nate Brolison is there was no
Speaker 1: boundaries to him. So for me, I said, all right, yeah,
Speaker 1: I can go out here and be the best why receiver.
Speaker 1: I can be within this timeframe. I can also build
Speaker 1: my brand. I can also wrap. I can do whatever
Speaker 1: I want. Ali did whatever he wanted to. And when
Speaker 1: you look at all the athletes, I said this, Yester
Speaker 1: down t A. You look at all your favorite athletes
Speaker 1: are You're polarizing athletes, Floyd Mayweather, Richard Sherman, even Michael
Speaker 1: Jordan Lebron, James cam Newton, whoever it is that you
Speaker 1: look at and you can appreciate for what they do
Speaker 1: on the field, how much money they make, what they
Speaker 1: do on the court, what they do in the ring,
Speaker 1: whatever it is. They all have pooled these pieces from
Speaker 1: Ali's career. Richard Sherman, he went out there and he
Speaker 1: talked crazy, crazy, and it was it was a love
Speaker 1: hay relationship. Some people that some people hated him, but
Speaker 1: guess what, he would not improved how good he was.
Speaker 1: And then he got paid, which is for me, Ali ESQ.
Speaker 1: You either loved him or you hated him, But what
Speaker 1: everybody did is they tuned in hate him. One of
Speaker 1: the highest paid athletes of all time. If that ain't Ali,
Speaker 1: then I don't know what is. Yeah, you look love him,
Speaker 1: hate him, but you gotta respect him. And you know,
Speaker 1: with Muhammad Ali, what's really interesting is I think what happens,
Speaker 1: especially with social media these days, you look at the
Speaker 1: outpouring of support for Ali, and very few of the
Speaker 1: individuals who you see waxing poetic about how amazing he
Speaker 1: was had the depth of knowledge of who he was
Speaker 1: that you do because you look to him as a
Speaker 1: role model, some a vision of what could be uh
Speaker 1: and it actually did shape your life. But a lot
Speaker 1: of these folks don't have many historical understanding who Ali was.
Speaker 1: And I'm one of those people who, because I didn't
Speaker 1: live through those times, I couldn't fully grasp what Ali
Speaker 1: meant to society at that moment in time. And I
Speaker 1: think it's very hard for anybody that didn't live through
Speaker 1: that period to get it. But one guy who did
Speaker 1: live through it was my my adoptive father. My adoptive
Speaker 1: father is a white man from the Midwest. He grew
Speaker 1: up in Florisan in uh In uh In, Missouri, uh
Speaker 1: where they had a lot of the racial unrest of
Speaker 1: the issues there. UH. He then went on to wrestle
Speaker 1: at Wisconsin. Yeah, and he went on to wrestle with Wisconsin.
Speaker 1: He said, Look, Uh, when Ali came into my consciousness
Speaker 1: was around sixty three. I was a senior in high school.
Speaker 1: And man, did I hate that guy, Like he was
Speaker 1: so brash and we've never seen anything I believe, so
Speaker 1: I believe right. And my dad is pretty good with
Speaker 1: this kind of stuff. He's kind of a Storian. So anyway,
Speaker 1: the point is he went through this story and it
Speaker 1: was really incredible. Uh, he tells incredible stories, but most
Speaker 1: of these days he wants to know what's one on
Speaker 1: in my life. I asked him, tell me a little
Speaker 1: bit of Ali, and for thirty five minutes, man, he
Speaker 1: went on the entire arc of Ali's career and how
Speaker 1: from the beginning of that career he was someone that
Speaker 1: my dad just could not resonate with. My dad is
Speaker 1: very conservative. He doesn't like people that uh tooth their
Speaker 1: own horn, you know, right, he is against all of that.
Speaker 1: But he also was a man who had never been
Speaker 1: exposed to African American culture and inter city culture, country
Speaker 1: culture like any of those things. He only knew what
Speaker 1: he knew, right, He said, over the arc of Ali's career.
Speaker 1: By the end of it, he absolutely adored the man
Speaker 1: for everything that he meant to society and a social sense.
Speaker 1: Here was a guy who not only was willing to
Speaker 1: speak up on issues that mattered to people, really really
Speaker 1: mattered civil rights issues. Mind you, if it's sixty three,
Speaker 1: the Civil Rights Act pass wasn't passing until sixty four.
Speaker 1: So in reality, under the law, these people, these folks
Speaker 1: that were speaking out against these things of black panthers,
Speaker 1: whoever it would make maybe uh, John Carlos, all those guys,
Speaker 1: they're fighting for something that's real, intangible. It's just you
Speaker 1: had disagreements about methods, right and now those for my
Speaker 1: dad to take a step back and say, he was
Speaker 1: the most incredible athlete from a social and athletics standpoint
Speaker 1: that I've ever seen in my life at seventy two
Speaker 1: years old, as a guy who uh competed at very
Speaker 1: high level and wrestling and other sports. That meant something
Speaker 1: to me. And I think that that will be the
Speaker 1: last thing mark that Ali left on our society that
Speaker 1: will stick with me, was that he was a man who,
Speaker 1: aside from his incredible athletic exploits, really affected society and
Speaker 1: he pushed social change forward, and that's something that I
Speaker 1: think you have to revere. You said it best, not
Speaker 1: just athletically, but outside of the sports. Tod what you got, Man, Listen,
Speaker 1: both of you guys and your dad's both came up,
Speaker 1: and the same is true for me. I'm obviously a
Speaker 1: lot younger than you guys, and growing up, I didn't
Speaker 1: have the best relationships with my father. But remember alive.
Speaker 1: There's last few days reminded me with memories of my dad.
Speaker 1: I didn't even know I had so because I just
Speaker 1: remember him and he would he would try to mimic
Speaker 1: all these movements kind of like you know, especially telling
Speaker 1: me I'm a young gun and I missed out and
Speaker 1: seeing Ali and his prime and you know, just kind
Speaker 1: of right, Jeb. A couple of jobs here and there,
Speaker 1: and it's almost funny, like it seems that's a lot
Speaker 1: of young guys. There's that relationship your dad telling you
Speaker 1: Muhammad Ali and those Now, like I said, I even
Speaker 1: know I had those memories, and now those are memories
Speaker 1: I will never forget because of mommat Ali. So I
Speaker 1: wrote a little post about that and I just thank
Speaker 1: you to Mom, and I a leave for that, because,
Speaker 1: like I said, I don't have a ton of memories
Speaker 1: of my dad growing up, so that's really definitely one
Speaker 1: of them. But overall to what I already liked the
Speaker 1: mah Mhammad Ali, what really stood out was kind of
Speaker 1: like how Pro Bowls. So you see there's a Pro Bowls,
Speaker 1: NBA All Star Games, or Team USA Basketball. When the
Speaker 1: cream of the crop, from the top of the top
Speaker 1: all come together, you see which quarterback gets to start,
Speaker 1: which quarterback is the main guy of the top quarterbacks?
Speaker 1: Paygin's out there, Rogers your Brady's. You're trying to see
Speaker 1: who rises to the top. Saint hoops and point guards,
Speaker 1: Chris Paul's your your Westbrooks. You're trying to see who's
Speaker 1: that guy who's gonna lead everyone, obviously Steph Curry. Muhammad
Speaker 1: Ali was that before all black entertainers. He was the
Speaker 1: guy when everyone came together, Like Drake said, they want
Speaker 1: to be like us and we want to be like them.
Speaker 1: Muhammad Ali didn't want to be like anybody else. Everybody
Speaker 1: wanted to be like Muhammad Ali. Everybody he was. He
Speaker 1: was the standard man. Yeah. Yeah, to think about it,
Speaker 1: when when we talk about NBA, which I'm a huge
Speaker 1: NBA fan, and obviously TD is too. You gotta check
Speaker 1: out TV's podcast, Make It, Take It the podcast, check podcast,
Speaker 1: This Dope podcast. But when we talk about the best
Speaker 1: players of all time, we always stack them up against Jordan's.
Speaker 1: It's just what we do because Jordan was the greatest.
Speaker 1: When you talk about boxing, you talked about Floyd may
Speaker 1: Whether being undefeated at fort nine and O is he
Speaker 1: as good as Ali? When we talk about how great
Speaker 1: Tyson was just the absolute dog in the ring, we say, hey,
Speaker 1: you think Ali could beat uh Tyson or Tyson standard?
Speaker 1: He is the standard. He is that. And you know,
Speaker 1: we were talking about this on t A yesterday, and
Speaker 1: you know with TV we only have a certain amount
Speaker 1: of time, so I couldn't really get into really what
Speaker 1: I wanted to say, But I'm glad I had my
Speaker 1: podcast to say this little tidbit along with his athletic achievements,
Speaker 1: along with um, him being the standard, along with him
Speaker 1: breaking down these barriers, like you said, right, Um, one
Speaker 1: thing I can appreciate about Ali which people didn't do
Speaker 1: now and they don't necessarily We didn't do then, but
Speaker 1: they don't necessarily do now, is that he never hid
Speaker 1: from his flaws or issues or his down times, and
Speaker 1: there were plenty. If you know Ali's story, he had
Speaker 1: moments where he was broke, He had moments where he
Speaker 1: was embarrassed, He had moments where he was battling mainstream
Speaker 1: ideology and what he believed in, moments where physically he
Speaker 1: had ailments. Um. What comes to mind is him holding
Speaker 1: the torch of the Olympics and him shaking. Um. He
Speaker 1: didn't hide from any of that. Nowadays, when athletes, celebrities,
Speaker 1: people in general have flaws, they hide because we don't
Speaker 1: want the world to judge us, We don't want the
Speaker 1: world to see us. Ali never did that. I mean,
Speaker 1: he was very open and if you really think about that,
Speaker 1: that is one of the most inspiring things about Ali,
Speaker 1: because you know, we're prideful men and women and were
Speaker 1: we always feel judged, so we always feel the need
Speaker 1: to show everybody the best part of us. Right, Ali
Speaker 1: showed us the best part. He showed us the worst
Speaker 1: part of him, which made us love him, which made
Speaker 1: us become extremely familiar with him, and and that that
Speaker 1: was motivating. I was thinking about that over the last
Speaker 1: twenty four hours because I wanted to say it on TV,
Speaker 1: and then I thought, well, how about you just don't
Speaker 1: say and they didn't live it, because you know, if
Speaker 1: there's something about you that people might not understand, don't
Speaker 1: hide it, just explain it and own it everything. I
Speaker 1: couldn't agree with that more. And and that's the thing,
Speaker 1: you know, the one lesson I've learned in my short
Speaker 1: time in the journalism space or the reporting spaces, the
Speaker 1: best thing you can be is authentic, right. And Mars
Speaker 1: Shawn len said something about it today Uh in an
Speaker 1: article was released as sixty Minutes Interviews Experts excerpts released,
Speaker 1: and he basically said the same thing, like, why would
Speaker 1: you want to be anything else? If you tell one lie,
Speaker 1: you gotta tell another line of steam rolls before you're
Speaker 1: caught up behind the whole pile of lies. Ali was
Speaker 1: himself from the moment that we he came into our
Speaker 1: consciousness and tell the moment that he left this earth.
Speaker 1: And one of the beautiful things about Ali uh and
Speaker 1: guys like him, and there haven't been many, but eyes
Speaker 1: like him are. Uh. The beauty in his passing is
Speaker 1: overwhelming because his legacy is rehashed people from generations that
Speaker 1: missed him, like your pop said, go back and study him,
Speaker 1: and he inspires a whole new generation of folks who
Speaker 1: were gonna go out there and push the boundaries forward.
Speaker 1: And to me, uh, that is the mark of a
Speaker 1: man who lived a fantastic, fantastic life. You're right about
Speaker 1: that man, all right, So let's let's move it on
Speaker 1: and shout out the moment. Ali rest in peace. Um
Speaker 1: latest NFL news key to lead. He suffered minor guns
Speaker 1: shot to the leg. Uh. This was in Dallas at
Speaker 1: a club around two am. I just saw a video
Speaker 1: yesterday on TMZ where there was one guy recording and
Speaker 1: he had a Southern draw, so obviously he was like, man,
Speaker 1: it's about to pop off or something. And then you see,
Speaker 1: like in the distance, you see a group of men
Speaker 1: just kind of doing a little talk and shoving. I
Speaker 1: don't want to make light of this, because you know,
Speaker 1: you don't make light of anybody getting shot. And then
Speaker 1: you hear four shots, right, and I'm like, whoa, it's
Speaker 1: just got real. He the guy holding the camera, he ducks.
Speaker 1: He I think he's in his car. And that's where
Speaker 1: we are left. So Rand, you being our main man
Speaker 1: when it comes to the inside of what's going on.
Speaker 1: What have you heard on the latest in this incident? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean so I have not. This is an interesting scenario,
Speaker 1: you know, when it comes to gun violence or gun
Speaker 1: mishaps or whatever the case may be. You know, it's
Speaker 1: a scary element of society. And it's not just with
Speaker 1: football players. But and this is something that I'm sure
Speaker 1: that you're quite familiar with. Like, there are elements though
Speaker 1: of the life that people in the public UH sphere
Speaker 1: lead that your average lay person wouldn't understand. Why does
Speaker 1: a guy feel the need to have a gun on
Speaker 1: him in the first place? These are questions to get
Speaker 1: asked consistently, right, and my answer is always, well, you
Speaker 1: never know what another man's going through, so I try
Speaker 1: not to judge. If it's legal in society, Uh, then
Speaker 1: you know, allow folks to make their own decisions and
Speaker 1: for better for worse, you know. That's uh, that's how
Speaker 1: I think we should allow. You know, the majority of
Speaker 1: society living in the number realms, I haven't heard anything
Speaker 1: that would lead me to believe that the situation with
Speaker 1: uh tve is something that he U provoked provoked, would
Speaker 1: necessarily get in trouble. That being said, we don't really
Speaker 1: have full information right there problems with some inconsistent statements.
Speaker 1: From what I've been able to read what he told
Speaker 1: the UH cops. The statement that he gave in the
Speaker 1: hospital was that he didn't remember, uh, you know, what
Speaker 1: had occurred. That maybe he was a little bit too
Speaker 1: intoxicated to remember what occurred. But the reality is, uh
Speaker 1: that is that is that is that an assumption or
Speaker 1: is that are is that I saw it reported that
Speaker 1: he was, that he had no no, no, that he
Speaker 1: had made that comment to the authorities, or or I
Speaker 1: don't is is that also the G code for anybody listening,
Speaker 1: the G code of the street code is you know,
Speaker 1: let's just keep it real. This is what we do TV.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, but you don't snitch, right, And I know
Speaker 1: people listening they're like, oh, that's corny. People don't snits.
Speaker 1: But when you're familiar the streets, I'm not saying from
Speaker 1: the streets, you don't snitch in any circumstance, even if
Speaker 1: you are victim. So I was just saying it could
Speaker 1: be one of the It could be that he didn't remember.
Speaker 1: It could be that he literally has no idea. He
Speaker 1: could be that he was drinking it could also be
Speaker 1: he's like, you know what, I'm not gonna snitch on
Speaker 1: anybody because I don't want to put anybody in the
Speaker 1: situation that could put them in jail. If the shooting
Speaker 1: was accidental, it could have been any number of things.
Speaker 1: I mean, within the realm of possibilities. Could also be
Speaker 1: he actually did not remember right at the moment of time,
Speaker 1: and he became familiar with what occurred through folks telling
Speaker 1: him or whatever. We don't know. All that we know
Speaker 1: is here was a situation that could have gotten a
Speaker 1: lot scarier than it did. Thankfully, it was a superficial wound.
Speaker 1: Sounds like he's gonna be back in time to play
Speaker 1: for the season at this juncture, and from a from
Speaker 1: a punishment standpoint, that's first thing that pops into mind.
Speaker 1: Right Especially Tyler has had some some incidents in the
Speaker 1: past where he's had some close calls. Um, we don't
Speaker 1: have any information as yet they would indicate that he's
Speaker 1: going to face any kind of sanction for this, But
Speaker 1: I think that's the thing to keep an eye on,
Speaker 1: right is what is uncovered in the investigation. Right now,
Speaker 1: the NFL is actively looking at the situation. I don't
Speaker 1: think it's been framed as an investigation, but certainly anytime
Speaker 1: one of their their players, especially when it's prominent in
Speaker 1: him as him, suffers from a gunshot wound of any kind,
Speaker 1: they want to know how it happened, right, So you
Speaker 1: know this. On our podcast, we don't call out anybody.
Speaker 1: That's not what we do. But when I hear something,
Speaker 1: I have to address it. So I was listening to
Speaker 1: another network that I won't necessarily promote, but obviously with
Speaker 1: the name, I'll say, you can figure it out. So
Speaker 1: Skip Bayless was like, well, you know he's in his
Speaker 1: thirties and he's at the club. I don't understand. You're
Speaker 1: at the prime of your career. Why don't you wait
Speaker 1: to go to the club when you're done playing. You
Speaker 1: know you got money and you got this, and you
Speaker 1: shouldn't be in the club. Skip, let me say this time. Um,
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter if you're wide or black. It doesn't
Speaker 1: matter if you have money or not. It doesn't matter
Speaker 1: if you're in the league or you work at Burger King.
Speaker 1: If you want to go out and enjoy yourself, whether
Speaker 1: you're with your boys or whether you're with your wife,
Speaker 1: whether you're with your girlfriend, you should be able to
Speaker 1: do that. The issue isn't why is he in the club?
Speaker 1: The issue, like Rand said, is why do we have
Speaker 1: gun violence at two in the morning where people are
Speaker 1: trying to enjoy, you know, good drinks and music with
Speaker 1: the people that they love. So that's that's why I
Speaker 1: had to get that off my chest, because you know,
Speaker 1: you have this platform and say, well, these guys shouldn't
Speaker 1: be in a club. Now, it's not the case, because
Speaker 1: if you go to Vegas and celebrate something, you're gonna
Speaker 1: be in the club. Like if if you're celebrating the life,
Speaker 1: which most of these young men who have accomplished more
Speaker 1: than they ever dreamed, do that more often than everybody does. Well,
Speaker 1: this speaks to like, and this is a conversation. We
Speaker 1: can have an entire you know, podcast on but these
Speaker 1: are and we've talked about this a lot. It's cultural ignorance, right,
Speaker 1: and I'm not talking about cultural from an ethnic standpoint.
Speaker 1: It's not just black folks to go to the club
Speaker 1: thirty three, Right. You can definitely catch me out in
Speaker 1: the city if you get into spots on Matt hashtag
Speaker 1: l a night. But there's a reason for that, and
Speaker 1: that's because I want to be in places that are safe,
Speaker 1: that are classy, right, where we can also have a
Speaker 1: hell of a time and we do right. And hey man,
Speaker 1: i've seen you fresh with the fresh deeds on out fly.
Speaker 1: All right, So let well, we'll take a little bit
Speaker 1: of time because any time I can tell a story,
Speaker 1: I like tell a story. TD likes me to tell
Speaker 1: a story. So we'll take this moment right now to
Speaker 1: do a hashtag camp fire football. Will we all gather
Speaker 1: around the campfire, kids, Nate is going to tell you
Speaker 1: a story that relates to this latest news about a
Speaker 1: key to leave getting shot. So a few years ago,
Speaker 1: UM in Michigan playing for the Detroit Lions, and I'm
Speaker 1: with a group of guys that will remain nameless. I'm
Speaker 1: out at a location. I'm out of the location that
Speaker 1: will remain nameless. So I'm with guys that I play with,
Speaker 1: and I'm also with guys that are from Detroit, right not.
Speaker 1: I don't roll around with a group of guys that
Speaker 1: are paid to be my security. These is just my
Speaker 1: homeboys from the city. Now, my homeboys from the city
Speaker 1: of Detroit. These are real dudes, like these are guys
Speaker 1: that might not necessarily have a job. These are guys
Speaker 1: that they might be rappers, they might do this, do that,
Speaker 1: but these are good men. So we're out chilling having
Speaker 1: a good time. A young player who just signed to
Speaker 1: the team, a little bit intoxicated, lightweight, full of himself,
Speaker 1: starts acting up and he's being disrespectful to the people
Speaker 1: that are at the location, people that are servicing us,
Speaker 1: the waiters, And I'm trying to be the big brother,
Speaker 1: which are always them, So I'm trying to come down like, yo, chill,
Speaker 1: get some water, let's relax. He walks up to one
Speaker 1: of my guys and he grabs his chain and swings
Speaker 1: it around his neck like in the Usher video. He
Speaker 1: swings kind of like like that man like that. I
Speaker 1: gotta jump in. Back in the day, I had to.
Speaker 1: I had a chain with a sen with my last
Speaker 1: name is St. Matthew Daniels, had a chain with it
Speaker 1: that I used to spin around back in the day
Speaker 1: that you've got a bad days. I need that picture
Speaker 1: because I know that somewhere. Um so he doesn't. So
Speaker 1: my man comes up to me like yo, Nate, um,
Speaker 1: your your boy is tripping. So I'm like who I'm like,
Speaker 1: y know, who's like one of your guys tripping. He's
Speaker 1: dispecting everybody in here, and he's also taking a step further.
Speaker 1: And he walked to me, grab my chain swinging around
Speaker 1: my neck, made a comment and walked off, and I'm like, Yo,
Speaker 1: this isn't a good thing, so I will never forget this.
Speaker 1: He said, you guys should get out of here, because
Speaker 1: if he does that to somebody that doesn't know who
Speaker 1: you guys are, it could end real bad. I he said,
Speaker 1: I had to pull my guy off of him because
Speaker 1: he wanted to harm of course, your teammate. And then
Speaker 1: he stopped. He paused, after I was already figuring the
Speaker 1: situation out, kind of getting everybody to the exits, he
Speaker 1: grabbed me. Said it sounds really intense, but it was.
Speaker 1: At the moment he said, the difference between my shooters
Speaker 1: and the police is they don't have to report to anybody.
Speaker 1: So if your man is being extremely disrespectful, he can
Speaker 1: easily be shot out here in Michigan, right, And I'm like, WHOA, Right,
Speaker 1: it's time to go. So I rallied all the troops
Speaker 1: and obviously my man wasn't gonna let any shooting go off,
Speaker 1: but he was basically saying like, you should really be
Speaker 1: careful with the company you keep, because say he takes
Speaker 1: his step further, gets in a fight, shots bust off,
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, I'm there. News comes out
Speaker 1: the Burlison shot at midnight. The assumption is it was
Speaker 1: in a place was supposed to be and he was
Speaker 1: doing something was supposed's doing. It could be that I
Speaker 1: was at a restaurant and one of my teammates was
Speaker 1: acting up in somebody that doesn't care about the value
Speaker 1: of life started shooting right. So um, that was one
Speaker 1: of those kind of like wow moments. And I love Michigan.
Speaker 1: I love it to death and I still do. That
Speaker 1: moment didn't scare me at all, But it also it
Speaker 1: allowed me to realize that it doesn't matter where you
Speaker 1: are or what you're doing, you can always be touched
Speaker 1: in a situation that might not be your own doing. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: d J. Quick had a song back in the day,
Speaker 1: uh where the notion was, you know, it doesn't matter
Speaker 1: where you go. He went on the road. He grew
Speaker 1: up in Compton, He went on the road and he
Speaker 1: was like, Yo, Denver's just like Compton. Right, Different places
Speaker 1: around Albuquerque can be just like Compton. It just depends
Speaker 1: if you find that element right. And so we deal
Speaker 1: with us all the time. You know, I've got friends
Speaker 1: who work on the basketball side, on the marketing capacity,
Speaker 1: and those guys a lot of basketball players like to
Speaker 1: go to the spots where you know, bad things may occur.
Speaker 1: And I'll get invites, Hey, you want to go to
Speaker 1: this whatever day thing with me or whatever, And my
Speaker 1: answer is always like no, thank you know, I'm good
Speaker 1: because it's not that you can't have a great time.
Speaker 1: You can. It's that the risk to me, the potential
Speaker 1: risk far outweighs the reward of the good time you
Speaker 1: can have, especially when you can go to a spot.
Speaker 1: For instance, when I go out in the city, I'll
Speaker 1: go to Hide on Sunset a lot. Why it's extremely exclusive.
Speaker 1: I know folks up there very well. Uh, they know
Speaker 1: how to ensure that you've got, you know, all of
Speaker 1: the safety measures that you need, the right kind of
Speaker 1: crowds where you don't have to deal with any nonsense
Speaker 1: in that regard. And that's not the only spot, but
Speaker 1: it is a place that I've been, you know, a
Speaker 1: number of times without incident. If you go to a
Speaker 1: place too three times, or into a certain type of
Speaker 1: area around a certain type of element, and there's problems
Speaker 1: that are potentially life threatening, and any kind of gun
Speaker 1: violence is those are places that I think for Talib
Speaker 1: or any other human being, like, you really got to
Speaker 1: work hard to avoid those situations just because you've got
Speaker 1: so much at stake, not just your money, your life right,
Speaker 1: and you just don't want to be around and stuff.
Speaker 1: So I think I hope for him, you know, this
Speaker 1: was one of those things where thankfully it's not a
Speaker 1: serious injury, but he does get to the point where
Speaker 1: we don't have another conversation about Tyler in the wrong
Speaker 1: place at the wrong time exactly. Man, it's crazy. Man.
Speaker 1: I'll tell the quick story before we move on because
Speaker 1: I want to hear. But I was going in the league.
Speaker 1: I remember being out in Michigan a separate time and
Speaker 1: this guy walked up to me. He's like, yo, nigh,
Speaker 1: what's up. How are you doing. I'm like, I'm good, man,
Speaker 1: chilling man. I was at a club, me and my teammates.
Speaker 1: He was like, let me know if you need anything.
Speaker 1: I'm like, no, I'm good. He's like, you know, people
Speaker 1: be tripping out here. We got you covered. I said, man,
Speaker 1: I'm not really confrontational. I'm good. He was like, no, no,
Speaker 1: I'm just saying if anything pops off, we got you
Speaker 1: them Like we like, what are you talking about? He's
Speaker 1: like me and my man's we're good. They say you
Speaker 1: can't get guns in here, but we're good. He looks over.
Speaker 1: There's a dude by the door. He's not security, he
Speaker 1: doesn't work there. He nods to him. The guy nods back,
Speaker 1: looks up the shirt, got the burner arm, he got
Speaker 1: a gun on him, and he's just basically saying, like,
Speaker 1: I'm your hood security. He pops off, I got shooters
Speaker 1: in there, right. So I was like, yo, respect, I
Speaker 1: appreciate that. Walked to my crew and said, this is
Speaker 1: in a place you make that decision. So, um, you
Speaker 1: know you always got like you said, you have to
Speaker 1: digest the information that you received in a certain situation
Speaker 1: and then make your decision based off that. So, like
Speaker 1: we said, we hope that the key is all right
Speaker 1: and that we all learned from this. Um, but gun
Speaker 1: violence is stupid, all right, Ran, Let's talk about the NFL,
Speaker 1: any insides, any potential new deals, anything you've heard, I mean,
Speaker 1: Ran is one of the realists, like, can't we just
Speaker 1: can we just all acknowledge the fact that he gave
Speaker 1: us a breaking news on rock Oswilt like that kind
Speaker 1: of shook up the world, like Muhammad Ali I shook
Speaker 1: up the world. And I remember seeing Ran, and Ran
Speaker 1: was so swaggy that day. I said, oh my god,
Speaker 1: look at my guy. Everybody was light wait hayting like
Speaker 1: they was breaking and I'm like, yo, my man, it
Speaker 1: is doing it and you know me and it Ran
Speaker 1: we talk off camera off Mike and I don't think
Speaker 1: people really appreciate the amount of effort um that you
Speaker 1: put in, and not just people think if you're inside
Speaker 1: you're just digging. Uh, it's established relationships that you have
Speaker 1: built in the past that allow you to get information
Speaker 1: that nobody can get. So I can appreciate you, man,
Speaker 1: because appreciate breaking news. It's more than just breaking news.
Speaker 1: People have to understand it's work. Um, but what's going
Speaker 1: on in the league, bro? Yeah, man, Well, first and foremost,
Speaker 1: I appreciate you as always. And uh, this goes back
Speaker 1: to like what we said earlier. It's it's uh, like
Speaker 1: Jay said, all I need is the love of my crew,
Speaker 1: oh and hate me, I thug my way through, right,
Speaker 1: and it's it's it's a real notion. And uh, you know,
Speaker 1: despite the despite that the hate, there's a lot of left.
Speaker 1: So I appreciate that. In terms of what's going on
Speaker 1: around the league. Um, you know, this is kind of
Speaker 1: contract season. A lot of guys that are up for extensions.
Speaker 1: Those things are being discussed behind the scenes. I tried
Speaker 1: to stay out of the to the greatest extent possible. Uh,
Speaker 1: Team A and player be are discussing a contract extension.
Speaker 1: Like in a lot of cases, it's kind of a
Speaker 1: no brain of For instance, Eric Berry, he and the
Speaker 1: Chiefs have been discussing extension for an extended period of time.
Speaker 1: Eric Berry is one of the most unique players in
Speaker 1: the NFL in terms of the contract leverage that he
Speaker 1: currently has. Uh And also, uh, you know who he
Speaker 1: is as a person off the field, right, and that
Speaker 1: who he is off the field factors into the leverage
Speaker 1: that he has in a contract negotiation. Here's a guy
Speaker 1: that's coming off of defeating Hodgkinson pote lymphoma. He was
Speaker 1: a multi time Pro Bowl player who came back from
Speaker 1: dealing with cancer and became uh, every bit of the
Speaker 1: player he was before he left, and some would argue
Speaker 1: maybe he's even playing better. So here's a guy that
Speaker 1: had maybe his best year yet one year after dealing
Speaker 1: with a fight for his life quite literally. Uh, and
Speaker 1: now he's got a contract situation that he's dealing with.
Speaker 1: He has been franchise tagged so he could play under
Speaker 1: the tag this year. I don't know it off the
Speaker 1: top of my head, unfortunately, not looking at but I
Speaker 1: believe it's somewhere in the twelve I think it's in
Speaker 1: the twelve million range. Now we know guys have got
Speaker 1: more than that. The row Wheve's got sixteen for one
Speaker 1: at the at the corner position safety, the safety obviously
Speaker 1: position you're gonna you're gonna attach the strong safety and
Speaker 1: the free safety. To come up with that franchise number,
Speaker 1: I believe maybe they're separated anyway. Point being, it's it's
Speaker 1: a decent amount of money, but it's not the kind
Speaker 1: of money that a player like him probably well probably
Speaker 1: get on the on the open market. Right, So what
Speaker 1: the teams will say as well, he's not on the
Speaker 1: open market. Uh, So we gotta deal with this number.
Speaker 1: You can get this one year franchise number. Uh two years.
Speaker 1: I believe would cost twenty four million or so if
Speaker 1: you tagged him twice. That's a substantial amount of money
Speaker 1: for no long term security. From the chief's perspective, they'd
Speaker 1: like to keep that player around for a very long time,
Speaker 1: not just because the player is on the field, but
Speaker 1: everything means that community off the field. And so behind
Speaker 1: the scenes, I think what's occurring is, you know, the
Speaker 1: two sides are working really hard to try and find
Speaker 1: um a point at which they can both walk away
Speaker 1: happy with how Eric Berry has been treated. Uh, that
Speaker 1: he he's going to be a chief for life hopefully
Speaker 1: and continue to add incredible value to that franchise in
Speaker 1: a number of realms. So that's when I really am
Speaker 1: pained very close attention to. And it's a player who,
Speaker 1: uh you know a lot of players people say, well,
Speaker 1: he doesn't deserve that money, or what's he complaining about.
Speaker 1: You don't ever hear anybody say that about Eric Barry
Speaker 1: deserves every penny that's coming his way. So what's the
Speaker 1: latest with Fitzpatrick. I'm curious about it. I know people
Speaker 1: are probably sick of hearing about this situation, but what what,
Speaker 1: what's what's the deal like? As far as you know,
Speaker 1: the numbers that were offered and where they stand right now.
Speaker 1: This is another thing. I mean in any contract negotiation,
Speaker 1: leverages the end all be all, And for Fitzpatrick, it
Speaker 1: seems like they both have a leverage. As a team.
Speaker 1: They say, well, your market isn't high because nobody else
Speaker 1: is coming after you, But fits is he has leverage
Speaker 1: because when you look at the roster, I believe he's
Speaker 1: the best choice, and obviously he does too, and his
Speaker 1: agents saying the same thing. As a team, are you
Speaker 1: gonna go with Gino? Um? All right? Are you going
Speaker 1: to go with what's the young? Forgot? They got the
Speaker 1: kid Bryce Petty Petty? So I think they both have leverage.
Speaker 1: So are they just at a stand still? The Jets
Speaker 1: are betting that they have more leverage because uh, Fitzpatrick doesn't,
Speaker 1: as far as we can tell, have any other suitors
Speaker 1: that are willing to pay him starter money. Otherwise you
Speaker 1: would have signed a deal. So from Fitzpatrick's standpoint, one
Speaker 1: thing you can do is you can sit around and
Speaker 1: wait through these camps and see if God forbid, anybody
Speaker 1: gets injured, And if they do, then maybe you've establish
Speaker 1: a little bit more leverage because now there is a
Speaker 1: suitor out there that's willing to pay you a tack
Speaker 1: above what the Jets are willing to pay you. But
Speaker 1: as of right now, what the Jets are saying, it's like, look,
Speaker 1: wait as long as you want, our offers are offer,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna pay you one year essentially bottom level
Speaker 1: starter money, and we want to keep you for three
Speaker 1: and we're willing to pay you six per over the
Speaker 1: last two. So the money ends up being elite backup
Speaker 1: money for the last two and bottom and starter money
Speaker 1: for that first year. If you're a player, really hard
Speaker 1: not to feel disrespected. And so you know what, And
Speaker 1: they also they also got Hackenburgh right, yes, uh, second
Speaker 1: round picks right, So we'll see that. That's that's interesting.
Speaker 1: That's that's gonna be one of those storylines. We have
Speaker 1: to stay tuned in, all right. So U t D.
Speaker 1: Let me get some Ali. And you're always talking about Mohammed.
Speaker 1: You're not the same man you were ten years ago.
Speaker 1: While I asked your wife and she told me you're
Speaker 1: not the same man you a two years ago, two
Speaker 1: years ago, Howard Coast Sale, that's two greats conversation and
Speaker 1: talking to each other, Ali and Haward Coastal. Alright, so
Speaker 1: let's let's go. Depth Chart debates. Um, we got a
Speaker 1: little bit more time in this podcast when Ranto the building,
Speaker 1: feel like we can take we can take this all
Speaker 1: day long. Man. Um, all right, so Depth Chart debates. Uh,
Speaker 1: there's there's obviously a train of thought that a wire
Speaker 1: receiver is one or two things. He's your absolute burner
Speaker 1: that's faster than everybody that can catch, or he's just
Speaker 1: a dog that can catch everything. For me, if you're
Speaker 1: talking about the best in the game, you blend the two,
Speaker 1: you become, you know, a speaster, but a guy that
Speaker 1: has that dog in him. Um, let's take it back
Speaker 1: to when I was in high school. My freshman year,
Speaker 1: I was at practice, the first practice at Lindbergh High School,
Speaker 1: and I played like wide receiver tight end d n
Speaker 1: growing up because I was tall and I was skinny.
Speaker 1: It wasn't like the fastest guy. Um. So I remember
Speaker 1: being at Lindbergh, which is a public school and renting,
Speaker 1: and the coach was like, hey, who wants to play quarterback?
Speaker 1: And one guy raised his hand. He's like, who wants
Speaker 1: to play receiver? And a few guys raised in and
Speaker 1: I was like, this is an odd way of picking
Speaker 1: your physicians, right, usually look at the guys and then
Speaker 1: they go out and they kind of earned a position.
Speaker 1: So he says, who wants to play running back? I
Speaker 1: never played running back in my life, but I knew
Speaker 1: I just kind of looking at the crop of young
Speaker 1: boys that I was the most athletic guy and a
Speaker 1: small school and rent um So I raised my hand.
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, I want to play running back. Of course,
Speaker 1: you know I grew up idolizing Bray Sanders and I
Speaker 1: watched exactly. Um So we went on to have a
Speaker 1: very historic season at oh and eleven. We didn't score
Speaker 1: it to the last the last game of the season,
Speaker 1: and I didn't score a touchdown the whole year. All
Speaker 1: that do is we all sweep right, sweeple left, like
Speaker 1: our playbook was terrible, and I would just do spin
Speaker 1: booth spin move, get hit spin woosp and um. I
Speaker 1: remember thinking after that year, like, you know what, I'm
Speaker 1: just not cut out to be running back. Under my thing,
Speaker 1: I was getting banged a t D, I was getting rocked,
Speaker 1: and I remember so then I I transferred into O Day,
Speaker 1: which the private school my brother had just transferred, and
Speaker 1: I wasn't a athlete that was scholarship. I was just
Speaker 1: a guy that was going to My mom and dad
Speaker 1: were paying for me and my brother to go school
Speaker 1: there UM, and I was like, you know, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go back to playing my receiver. We were a running team,
Speaker 1: and I it up having sevn t d s off
Speaker 1: of fourteen catches my senior year. I mean, we literally
Speaker 1: never threw the ball. And I got recruited UM out
Speaker 1: of high school to run track, to run hurdles, UM,
Speaker 1: to play basketball, to play cornerback, and to playright receiver.
Speaker 1: So I had options. I thought to myself, this is
Speaker 1: exactly what I thought. I don't want to go and
Speaker 1: play point guard for four years because I don't like
Speaker 1: the pressure of having everybody depend on me as the
Speaker 1: quarterback of the court. Because our high school rest in
Speaker 1: Peace UM coach Lumpkin was pass pass, pass shoot, pass pass,
Speaker 1: pass shoot, and all the pressure was on me as
Speaker 1: a point guard. Loved it. It made me an all
Speaker 1: state point guard. It offered me scholarships, but I was like, man,
Speaker 1: if it was this intensive high school, imagine what's gonna
Speaker 1: be like in college. So that was off. I didn't
Speaker 1: want to run track because I hate running. That's very simple.
Speaker 1: So that was off, and I was a hurdle champion.
Speaker 1: I won the low hurdles and the State of Washington
Speaker 1: my senior. So then it came down to me playing
Speaker 1: cornerback or wide receiver. And I thought to myself, cornerbacks
Speaker 1: don't touch the ball that often. Wide receivers get occasional catch,
Speaker 1: but when they catch it and they score, everybody looks
Speaker 1: at him. So me, being this kid who was completely
Speaker 1: full of himself, said all right, I'm gonna go in
Speaker 1: my room. I'm going to count the most letters that
Speaker 1: I had from one school and that's where I'm gonna go.
Speaker 1: And my dad was like, that's not necessarily how you
Speaker 1: picked your school, and I was like, well, you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know what else to do. So I went
Speaker 1: in and I just like counted them off, and University
Speaker 1: of Nevadarino sent me the most letters. So then I
Speaker 1: was like, all right, I'm gonna go there. On the visit.
Speaker 1: I had University of Washington deck, I had Washington State
Speaker 1: on deck. I had some small schools for track, I
Speaker 1: had Clemson for basketball. Um, and I was like, you
Speaker 1: know what, I'm gonna go to the Vedarina. The coach
Speaker 1: came in. He set in my living room. He said,
Speaker 1: how many catches did you have your senior year? So
Speaker 1: I had fourteen, sir, he said, uh, well in one
Speaker 1: game at this time they were throwing that rock around.
Speaker 1: Your eyes lit up. I said what. And you know,
Speaker 1: at the time, I was not even I thought, man,
Speaker 1: this could happen like this crazy. Then I got to college,
Speaker 1: I'm like, man, really, am I going to catch them
Speaker 1: any one game my junior year when I had the
Speaker 1: best season of my life at catches, we were playing
Speaker 1: uh uh. It was as a team in the White Conference,
Speaker 1: and I had nineteen catches. So their promises came trump.
Speaker 1: So that was my decision on being a wide receiver
Speaker 1: in college because I didn't have to have all the
Speaker 1: pressure on my shoulders, but I could go out and
Speaker 1: make plays, you know, at my own on doing U
Speaker 1: Ran let me ask you, in your opinion, who is
Speaker 1: the best receiver in the game. And we talked about
Speaker 1: this before the show. It's this decision is harder now
Speaker 1: than it was five years ago. Our tens fifteen years a. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's ridiculous, and I mean especially as the game gets
Speaker 1: more spread out and in the rockets passed around. I'm
Speaker 1: a lot more right. You're looking at so many guys
Speaker 1: like the first guy that pops in mind when you
Speaker 1: say who is the best receiver in the game, the
Speaker 1: first guy that pops into my mind. And I'm not
Speaker 1: saying this is the guy, but des Bryant immediately on
Speaker 1: like dead at is a beast. But that being said,
Speaker 1: what I look at when I look at this is
Speaker 1: not necessarily who's the best, but who's the most fun
Speaker 1: to watch? And there are some young guys that are
Speaker 1: really really am having a good time watching DeAndre Hopkins,
Speaker 1: chief among him. The way that dude plays the game,
Speaker 1: I mean literally, And Brock I said this the other day, said,
Speaker 1: look with with New anything you throw in his direction,
Speaker 1: I don't think he there's such thing as an uncatchable
Speaker 1: ball for him. And then you watch his high huge
Speaker 1: it's insane, and he's so smooth and and this isn't
Speaker 1: a guy that like jumps off the tape to you
Speaker 1: as an absolute burner. He's not the quickest guy, he's
Speaker 1: not the fastest guy, he's certainly not the strongest guy,
Speaker 1: but consistently makes these highlight real catches, and that's a
Speaker 1: lot of fun. Another guy who I don't think it's
Speaker 1: credit he deserves, who's a ton of fun to watch
Speaker 1: is Jarvis Landry. He's so much fun to watch. Another
Speaker 1: guy that just catches everything that comes his way. So
Speaker 1: those are two players I have a lot of fun watching.
Speaker 1: I think DeAndre Hopkins can certainly be in the discussion
Speaker 1: as a top five receiver. Jarvis isn't quite there yet,
Speaker 1: but he's certainly in the discussion for elite receivers in
Speaker 1: the game. In my opinion, I love Antonio Brown. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's my guy. He's the best receiver in the league.
Speaker 1: But like you said, he's not the tallest, fastest, strongest,
Speaker 1: but he's such a good playmaker and he gets double
Speaker 1: and triple teams and just continues to get open. People
Speaker 1: really don't appreciate how good of a route runner he is,
Speaker 1: but he's one of the best in the game. It's crazy,
Speaker 1: Peter Crazy. You gotta mention Julio is a monster. And
Speaker 1: then there's a J and then there's oh b J.
Speaker 1: Like there's so many guys, like you can't really say
Speaker 1: there's one can guy. But I have to we're running
Speaker 1: out of time here. Let's do this real quick. Give
Speaker 1: us your top three, ran, give us your top three.
Speaker 1: You go. I'm going right now. An Tonio's number one,
Speaker 1: Oh man, this is tough days. Healthy is my number two?
Speaker 1: Um number three? I gotta go Julio, all right, you
Speaker 1: got t d I gotta lory my way out of
Speaker 1: this one. Bro said, I can't take positions in a
Speaker 1: hard line, so I'll just I'll just say it's difficult
Speaker 1: to argue that those are three of the best receivers
Speaker 1: in the game. And then I would add in like
Speaker 1: I said, Uh, if you look at Daz, if you
Speaker 1: look at DeAndre Hopkins, this is crazy to me. Guys,
Speaker 1: we've been talking about this to five minutes and Odell
Speaker 1: Beckham has not come up. He's Odell. O'Dell is a
Speaker 1: great receiver. But if you're telling me that you would, uh,
Speaker 1: ten times out of ten choose Odell after Daz, We'll
Speaker 1: probably just have to agree to have a fundamental disagreement
Speaker 1: if you, I mean, I'm sorry before friends getting a
Speaker 1: lawyer on us. O man, man, Odell makes those plays.
Speaker 1: You can't sit there and put the pressure on us.
Speaker 1: Give me your and finally goes to three. Antonio Brown
Speaker 1: is the number one man. That dude is a splash
Speaker 1: reel waiting to happen. He's like Steph Curry of the
Speaker 1: of the NFL. I'll go odell number two. Man, what
Speaker 1: that guy has been able to do his first two
Speaker 1: seasons game after game, put up those numbers and still
Speaker 1: get better. He's legitabug athlete, makes crazy plays. And number
Speaker 1: three I almost agree with you though. A healthy dad
Speaker 1: is a monster. He's he's a force to reckon, to
Speaker 1: be reckoned with. So that would be that would be
Speaker 1: my three. I can dig it, man, that's what's up? Man?
Speaker 1: All right? Well, TD, I know you got a sound
Speaker 1: bite scored to do this right, give me some my lead.
Speaker 1: I'll never fight another fellow stuff as Jones. Not even
Speaker 1: that big old bad sonthing left? Is he on? Next fight?
Speaker 1: Well after I now late this hind the coop. I
Speaker 1: want that bad bad What can happen? He might be great,
Speaker 1: but he'll fall. And eight I'm the priest fight in
Speaker 1: the ring today. That's my label, the rellist man. All right?
Speaker 1: So or not? Yep? Time for or now? Where I
Speaker 1: ask you guys a question and you tell me whether
Speaker 1: you're with it or no. So this week's topic is
Speaker 1: I know you guys saw the Warriors of two. Oh,
Speaker 1: let me get through it. The Warriors of two against
Speaker 1: the Cabs. It's been so dominant that the story lines
Speaker 1: really have been you know, Steph celebrating on the bench,
Speaker 1: was talking to a woman on the bench name are
Speaker 1: the soccer player Namorro soccer player. Was kicking in with
Speaker 1: the Warriors after the game. And then also in the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter of the third quarter of the game doing
Speaker 1: a blowout, there was this Instagram model, as the kids
Speaker 1: like to say, I G model that was looking at
Speaker 1: Steph Curry. Once again, let the kids say, willing to
Speaker 1: risk it all? And that was that was caught on Twitter.
Speaker 1: That was called on Instagram and a lot of people
Speaker 1: have fun with that, where hey, people say, please play
Speaker 1: pray for Steph Curry man because he's a target right now.
Speaker 1: And uh, so again, should we pray for Steph Curry?
Speaker 1: Do we need to pray for Steph Curry or not? Absolutely?
Speaker 1: Did you see that she was looking at me? Listen man?
Speaker 1: Uh where was aish? I had to be scoping from
Speaker 1: the side she had she had that Oh my god,
Speaker 1: it's real out here. I got this post. I'm just
Speaker 1: reading no dispeck to this young woman. I don't know her,
Speaker 1: and I'm not saying that she is uh got or
Speaker 1: anything like that. But people are clever online. So they
Speaker 1: got the picture and they put it up and she
Speaker 1: is looking as seductive as ever. And then the quote is,
Speaker 1: when you've gotten past all the thoughts on i G,
Speaker 1: now you must battle the final boss. Stop. That's a
Speaker 1: great one. That's a good one. Another one was, hey,
Speaker 1: let's stop the game right now, I have a play
Speaker 1: play the i G model one on one. Basketball's crazy.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna just say this, bro, like it's real in
Speaker 1: the field, like it gets especially for hoopers though. See
Speaker 1: at least in football, there's some distance between you and
Speaker 1: the sidelines, right you guys all be on face masks
Speaker 1: with basketball players. As you see, here's the end of
Speaker 1: the bench and here's or girl that he was chopping
Speaker 1: up with, whoever the player was. He was just having
Speaker 1: a casual conversation right right, which is crazy, which is crazy.
Speaker 1: But it was funny though, because you know she came
Speaker 1: out afterwards and said, look, I was just trying to
Speaker 1: have a sip of my drink. And uh and just
Speaker 1: provide you know, the warriors with little motivation. So of
Speaker 1: course her I G account became this thing that folks
Speaker 1: started publicizing and whatnot. And you know it's clear that
Speaker 1: she is uh energy attention, you know what sis attention.
Speaker 1: So but look, yes, pray for that, man, because you
Speaker 1: think about that, you're dealing with that all times. He
Speaker 1: probably did not notice her then, but the middle of
Speaker 1: the regular season, I bet you noticed a lot more
Speaker 1: other than the stands. He's super focused. Man. Yeah, it's crazy, man. Listen.
Speaker 1: Uh that that right there is UH is the prime
Speaker 1: example of how real it gets. And social media doesn't
Speaker 1: let that stuff slide at all. Like my boy said,
Speaker 1: social media is undefeated and they will always win when
Speaker 1: it comes to any picture that lands in their hands. Um.
Speaker 1: That that's is that all the r and all we
Speaker 1: need man. That that's it. Man, listen, Ran, I appreciate
Speaker 1: you joining me. That's a fun show. We gotta do
Speaker 1: it again, bro, we always just more often. Um, come
Speaker 1: back and tell some stories and and and fill us
Speaker 1: in on what's going on in the league. T D.
Speaker 1: I appreciate you dropping the Ali sound bites. Rest in
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Speaker 1: What would you like people to think about you when
Speaker 1: you've gone. I'd like for them to say he took
Speaker 1: a few cups of love. He took one tablespoon of patience,
Speaker 1: one tablespoon teaspoon of generosity, one pint of kindness. He
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Speaker 1: expanding a lifetime, and he served into each and every
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