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Hi guys.
What's up, var?
How you doing?
What's up, Var?
Hey, how you guys doing?
Hey, Jonas.
Hi.
Hey, guys.
Good morning.
Boot on the ground.
Do you guys know the cats are going to the top of the kids?
Yeah.
Yes.
Whoo.
It's on the ground coverage.
Whee.
All right.
What was the what was the scene like there, Mr. Rie?
Oh, man.
I mean, you guys know like any playoff atmosphere is amazing playoff hockey.
I just it takes up a notch.
I don't know why there's something about it.
The crowd was incredible.
It's not like Carolina fans travel.
So you have to worry about that.
You know, the Toronto series a little different.
But just an incredible atmosphere right when we walked in to the game.
I mean, they score within what 30 seconds of the first period?
Yeah, it was.
So it was already like gray vibes like, all right, this is it.
We're not bad luck.
We're not the mush, you know, and you walk in and the it's just it's so hard to to describe
the like kind of not terrible towels, but whatever the towel was, you know, everyone's
out there waving their towel or bros.
I played really well.
Yeah, they're watching.
Where they were?
They were saying my song.
No, they weren't that big.
No, they weren't like a frisbee.
Yeah, you know, they would have been serving drinks on those.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It was a Captain America shield.
It wasn't it wasn't an ice man towel, though.
Panthers did ask if they could use it.
Bob Rofsky could use it.
Although Anderson needed a little bit more.
It's look, I've been, I think three NHL playoff games.
I went to a couple of games at the igloo Stanley Cup final games and oh nine when the
Penguins played the Red Wings.
I went to a Kings Vancouver Canucks game with my brother back in like 2011 or 12.
It's the best as far as playoff games.
You go see live over NFL over, you know, NBA major league baseball NHL playoff games live
are unbelievable.
It's like a rock concert.
It makes me wish I played hockey.
Like it really does.
There's not mean, I mean, I played football, baseball, basketball, all growing up, play
golf, play other sports.
It makes you wish you played hockey.
It really does.
And I honestly can't.
I never feel like that until that moment where you're like, it's such a unique atmosphere.
To be and see a game like that.
It's the only time I ever am like, man, I wish I would have played hockey.
Listen, I spent a lot of time with the capitals when I did local radio.
So much so where I ended up going down with Bruce Boudreau and all of them and hanging
out in the locker room and putting stuff on and going out on the ice.
Hell no.
Can you skate?
You could skate though, right?
I could skate.
Yeah.
He barked skate.
Yeah.
I'm from Pittsburgh.
I can.
I can skate.
You probably can.
You probably like roller skated.
I was a rollerblader.
Actually, I rollerblade hockey.
I mean, I'm from Pittsburgh.
Nice pair of Bauer roller blades growing up.
I did.
Bauer.
No, K-2.
I had in lines.
Yeah.
In line.
Okay.
Yeah.
Yeah.
In lines.
Remember K-2?
No, I don't know.
There were a pair that look, there were a pair that looked like ice skates though.
My in lines look like ice skates.
Anyway, bro.
The way those skates make your toes feel.
And then I saw like I saw.
Armor of the K-2s.
Let me see them.
Remember those are like the official.
Oh, that guy plays.
Those are bad ass.
Yeah.
K-2s are awesome.
That was the that was the issue right there.
260 bucks Jesus.
Is that how much they are now?
Yeah.
The people still wear it over.
What are the bucks back then?
Hockey's expensive, man.
Oh, yeah.
It's very expensive.
They all look like they have like what's it called like like frostbite or like gang
green on their toe like their toes are bang.
Those are that they are easily the ugliest beat up toes in all the sports hockey player
feet.
I just wouldn't be able to do it.
Plus it's cold.
You know, I'm a black man.
I like tropical weather.
You know, and it's a it's a although I while I loved going to the games.
I was always happy when I could go warm back up.
I don't know.
I'm cold right now.
Yeah, but if you guys did play, you realize you probably could still be playing just because
although the physicality like there's not a lot of knee injuries because you're just
gliding all the time.
So there was like groin, right?
Yeah, like I like unless the guy gets, you know, lit up into the board, but that would
have been how I would have been playing.
I just don't feel like I would have lasted long.
Well, I actually I couldn't play because I can't grow facial hair.
You know, all these guys grow up like playoff beards.
I would have nothing.
Come on.
Yeah, you really can't grow like if you try to swear I tried for a no shave November
one time when I was in Kansas City playing with the Chiefs and Jim Zorn our quarterback
coach was like for his horny.
That's just that's just disappointing.
Wait, what?
Well, that was a DC thing we created.
That was the slogan.
That was what we did on my show.
I don't know.
Did you ever get to know Jim?
I did it.
He's the nicest.
I know he's a nice dude.
We used to spank him on air though.
I mean, I felt bad because I could tell he was a nice dude.
Real good guy, but we just it was so bad.
It was so toxic in DC.
Yeah, we call it.
We created horny for Zorny because he's a good looking dude, you know, bad looking
dude.
He was a baller too.
Yeah, and he was a baller.
Was he a lefty?
They used a lefty, right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, but watching that game last night was awesome.
Just seeing the atmosphere and seeing the whole crowd.
The game winner with four seconds left.
It was unbelievable.
How low were you?
Where you low or where you up?
Yeah, I got to be nose.
Here's the thing is I don't even want to say because I thought we were going to be as
close as we were as we were.
So when we got the tickets, we were the fourth row and I was like, oh, okay.
That's like far enough up, but it's close up.
We were like, well, being a really good spot.
We were we were the second row behind the panthers penalty box.
So so we got I mean, we were right there.
Right there.
That's why I was getting it with sweat.
Oh, kind of 20 feet from the sin bin.
There's Brady and Lee and Ben.
Yeah, go take a break.
You get time out, buddy.
Oh, man, it's awesome.
That is the one thing though, when you because you know, obviously there's the home and home
with the NBA and the NHL, but like you don't get that with the NFL, the Super Bowls neutral
site in college football, it's neutral site.
Like how many when the college football playoff expansion happens, like that is for sure you're
going to have, you know, home games in college football for those playoff games because I
would love to be see what that atmosphere is.
The first round.
Yeah.
God, that's going to be so much fun, man.
I've seen seeing the crowd go berserk and seeing that whole atmosphere because last night
was awesome.
Got a clean sweep.
And now one of the chances, you know, we see another one for the final.
I mean, I mean, I'll tell you this much.
It's an exciting time.
I mean, obviously this hasn't happened for the Panthers, the cats since 1996.
There were rats being thrown on the ice to kind of give you flashes of the old days when
that was the case.
And it's it's such a contrast when when I was up in Boston and you think about all the success
of the Bruins franchise and I talked about walk through the airport.
You see all the banners that were hanging or all that.
You know, the Panthers only have three jerseys retired.
Two of them are players, one's an owner.
I mean, it's not like there's that rich of a history, obviously for the franchise.
Can I guess one of the players?
Yeah, John Van Briezburg or whatever his name is.
No, no, it's not Van Biesburg.
No, I was actually surprised by by one of them.
All right.
Eddie Garcia, can you name the two player jerseys retired by the Florida Panthers?
Uh, off the top of my head noise.
By the way, is it Wayne Heisenga that has his?
Yes.
Okay.
He's the non player.
I believe it's like number 37.
It's like an odd number, I think.
Well, don't ask me.
I'll tell you that.
I certainly would not be able to give you anything.
Oh, uh, uh, Pablo Beret.
Uh, yes.
At least he's one of them.
How many years did he play there?
I remember him in 96.
He was part of that team that beat the penguin.
Sorry, Var.
That brings up bad memories.
And by the way, Eddie, how do you spell that last name?
Uh, Beret B-U-R-E.
Oh, maybe it's not him.
Oh, maybe it is.
I forget.
Uh, go ahead.
Go ahead.
Well, no, because now I'm thinking they spelled it different than that.
I was like, but I'm like, uh, that's probably how you pronounced it.
Oh.
I know the long goes one of them.
Oh, we're all right.
The long go.
I think there's one other, but anyway.
Yeah.
Long go.
I mean, I'm looking at, uh, I looked it up.
I'm looking at Bill Tory.
Tory.
That was 93.
Bill Tory.
Yeah.
So there's that.
There was, I was going to tell you guys about Bill Tory.
Did you guys know that?
By the way, Lavara wrote it down.
He was, uh, Bill Tory was also not a player.
He was an executive.
So they've got one player.
So they've got one player.
I just wanted to let you guys know that Bill Tory was not a player.
You know, thank you.
And that there's only one player.
How did, how did B's brook not get his jersey retired yet?
What's that about?
Is there bad blood there Eddie?
I don't think so.
No.
Number 34.
I remember him.
Yeah.
Is that what, is that what number?
Yeah.
It was number 34.
I was a goaltender for the Penguins.
And I, I want to say it was Ken Reggit, but I, I don't know if I have that going in the
playoffs.
Hey, Eddie, what, what do you think of the game?
I thought it was great.
Uh, it's, it's a, it's a great story.
These, the Panthers, as we talked about, I mean, they really shouldn't have gotten the
playoffs.
The Panthers got lucky with Pittsburgh choking.
They're sorry, Jonas and Lamar.
They needed help to get in.
And now they're just, uh, they're just rolling.
Eddie, you've been doing enough playoff games and other sports is the NHL.
Number one.
Yeah, it is.
Come on by a wide margin.
Come on.
LaVar, I'm telling you, man.
Yeah.
And look, I, I was not a believer either.
I didn't grow up playing hockey, being around a much at all.
I mean, we literally had the Columbus Blue Jackets with tug nut as the goal.
Tug nut.
Tug nut.
Tug nut from president.
Like I said, I was like, we're not even any good, but growing up around that, I was
like curious.
And then now a brother in law, you know, plays and just being around the whole, it's the
coolest thing.
It really is.
It's such a neat sport.
Yeah.
That was fun.
Fun atmosphere.
And that listen, if we get, uh, cats, uh, Vegas goldenites.
I mean, you got a Florida Vegas and Florida, I mean, who knows, see if we can make it happen.
I mean, this is a big show, you know, big time, you know, low.
There were a number of people who said they listened in the mornings.
I was like, well, I'll be, I'll be there tomorrow morning.
Oh, that's a good morning to you guys.
I mean, yeah, it's just a guelph.
It's working where you're at.
You think that's the cat's to the cup after that party last night.
You think they're up listening to this show?
Yeah.
Yeah.
They're saying, I don't know.
Maybe some, some of them probably have to go to work.
Yeah.
They're steam rooming, you know, yeah, steam roping all out.
We're like steam rolling.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Steam rolling.
Yeah.
That's true.
That's fair.
It is.
You know, y'all are, y'all pampered down there.
What was that mean?
You went to Southern California, pal?
Oh, that's true.
You just still got basse on.
I'm cold as hell.
Geez, I'm cold.
I put your mask about it.
I got out of my vehicle this morning, Brady Quinn.
And I was like, oh my gosh.
Oh my gosh.
Oh my gosh.
I'm looking up at Johnson.
Look at him.
He's freezing.
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Big out.
What's happening?
What's up, guys?
What up?
Just hanging out.
Now, all I got to ask you at these meetings during the course of the week was the Thursday
night flexing the most contentious part of all the votes that were being had or what
was your takeaway from there?
I actually don't think it was the most contentious.
The most contentious was probably over the kickoff rule and all the lobbying that went
on there and everything else.
But yeah, I mean, the Thursday flex is definitely, you know, a point of contention among some
of the owners.
And what's so interesting about that one, guys, is if you look at the Got Team 2 voted
against it, right?
It's 24 to 8.
The Giants, the Packers, the Steelers, the Bears, the Lions, the Raiders.
It's legacy franchise.
It's families that have owned teams forever.
And you know, I think the reality is the NFL is being driven now by, you know, these
ownership groups that come from big money and want to operate the league as big business.
And, you know, whether it's player safety, the good of the fans, none of that matters
as much anymore as continuing to grow the revenue of the game.
And you know, that's sort of Roger Goodell's mandate now.
So, you know, where they wouldn't have been able to pass that back in March, now they're
able to pass it.
And there are a lot of reasons why they shouldn't do it.
But the one reason they should do it, which is to make more money and to play Kate Amazon
and to make sure that streaming partners remain engaged is the most important thing.
What's the interesting about this one, guys?
I know I'm being a little long-winded with this answer.
But somebody brought up a great point to me about this is that the streaming partners,
we get to keep them happy because they don't need the NFL the way the networks do.
You know, ABC and Fox and CBS and NBC, they need live sports.
People aren't watching over the air.
They're just the same way they used to be.
Amazon, Netflix, you know, Apple TV, they don't need sports that way.
And so, you know, the NFL knows that that's where everything's going and they know they
have to keep those specific partners happy.
I'll challenge that though, because I think that's...
Because here's the thing is, eventually the streaming will need live sports.
Like you can say whatever you want about, you know, cord cutting and where things are
going, but we're not there yet.
Like there are conferences in college football who thought streaming was going to bail them
out and they thought they were going to get these big rights fees and it wasn't for broadcast
partners.
They thought it was going to be from streaming partners, the Pac-12 specifically.
And it never came.
And the reason why it never came is because I personally don't feel like we are there.
I know there's other professional leagues like the NWSL, the Women's Professional Soccer
League, DMLS.
They've gone on that idea, but the reality is that's a fractured subscription that some
fans of those teams are going to sign up for, but you're leaving out a large majority of
people who now aren't going to watch because they don't want to have to pay to have access
to that specific team.
Or, you know, you know what I'm saying?
Like, I think the idea that streaming partners are going to come at some point and be the
future of the league.
I think that's further away than most realize.
Yeah, I would agree with that mostly, but the thing is Brady, the NFL has to build towards
that.
You know what I mean?
And we may be 10 or 15 years away from what you're talking about, but like eventually
the NFL is going to need the streaming partners.
They don't need them now, but they're eventually going to need them.
And they need them to bid on these now because they want to keep driving the prices up, but
eventually they're going to need them, period.
And the question is, like you said, is whether or not those streaming partners are going to
need live sports the way the networks do now.
And I don't know.
I mean, you know, the model that the live television model is driven by ad revenue, it's
hard to get to anybody to watch anything live anymore.
And that's because in the age of DBRs and again, streaming and all the different options
everybody has, it's just hard to get people to, you know, sit down at a certain time and
watch TV.
And you know, live sports, the one thing that makes people do that.
And if they're ever going to be a reason why, you know, your Apple TV or your Netflix,
your, your, your Amazon are going to need live sports that way.
It's possible.
It's definitely, look at it for the same reasons you're making for the leagues.
You're basically saying, well, they, the leagues, like obviously they, they need to continue
to keep driving up revenue.
That's what the NFL wants to do.
So do the streaming part platforms.
I mean, you look at Netflix now, Netflix, we just talked about this yesterday.
Now if you're somebody who's not a user in the account, you're going to get charts 799
a month if they find out about it.
They're adding in ad subscriptions as well.
It's all, if it shifts all to streaming at some point, that's fine.
But it's all going to be a similar revenue model of what cable used to be.
It's just now going to be on a streaming platform.
You're going to have your subscriptions.
You're going to have your ad revenue.
You're going to have everything that comes from it.
I mean, live sports is always going to exist in some capacity because of live betting.
Like that's what's going to drive it, especially as gambling continues to come influenced.
Like, I don't want to get off on a tangent on this.
It's just, I think if that's what you feel like it is, it's the new money who's now driving
the league.
Don't you feel like that's a really dangerous thing for the NFL moving forward where they
can find themselves almost creating a league that it's the NFL.
It's dominating now.
And 20 years from now, could it be overtaken by something else because of some of the decisions
they're making right now?
Yeah.
And I think that's what the, and I think that's why you see the feel like that the families
that have decades and decades and decades of background in doing this, that's why they're
the ones that are tapping the brakes.
I absolutely think that that's like a piece of this is those families saying, all right,
so like now we're going to take our best teams and put them in multiple short weeks.
What does that mean for the actual players?
Like the star players, are those star players going to be in the best position to compete
at the highest level when we get to our biggest stage in January and February for the playoffs,
right?
Like if Patrick Pahom's and Travis Calcian and Chris Jones are playing a short week in
November and then they get flexed into a short week in December, like what sort of shape
are those guys going to be at their very best in January and February?
And that's one question.
I think the second question is looking at who you're pissing off here.
And yeah, it's a small percentage of fans that are the ones that are going to go, you
know, on trips with their buddies to games in December.
And they're the ones that get screwed up the game, get flexed to Thursday over Thursday,
game gets flexed to Sunday or if a Monday game gets flexed to Sunday, they're the ones
that get screwed.
And the NFL is making the bet that, well, you guys are going to come back anyway, like
we have you, so we don't need to worry about that, right?
But is there something to that?
Like the idea of pissing off your biggest fans, your core fans, right?
And if they don't come out to the stadium anymore, well, what does that mean?
You know, so, you know, I think the bets where, again, like the families that have had
these teams through generations have some wisdom when it comes to this stuff.
And I'm with you 100% that there certainly is risk that I think certain NFL owners are
ignoring and driving all of this.
A.B., I'm going to switch gears on you and I'm going to ask you about the whole turf
situation.
I do read and talk about the turf versus natural grass debate.
I mean, this is a real thing, right?
The conversation of it, the approach of it, where are things at with that?
Because there are a lot of different philosophies that are surrounding, you know, artificial
turf and why it has become such a major part of professional and even college and even
high school playing surfaces.
But now the whole idea of going back to natural grass.
There are things on that.
Yeah, I mean, I think it's something that, well, I mean, for the players, and you guys
can speak to this better than me.
You know, I, well, I don't know if you would have played on, I mean, I played on Astro
Turf at one point.
Yeah, you played on the old set.
I was going to say I played an event.
I played in three rivers.
I played on Astro Turf.
Yeah.
College.
Right.
But you were played on the new turf to Brady, right?
Like, so, you know, I, well, when I played a beast.
You see that 10 bucks of a stadium.
That was Astro Turf.
When I, when I played the carrier dome for Syracuse, when Walter Reyes ran for like a
bajillion yards against us, that was on Astro Turf.
They had like a trap door around like the 35 yard line.
I'd never forget like stepping on it and being like, huh, sounds hollow.
And literally you could rip up the turf and look and there was like a drop down.
Like, I don't know where that went, but it was like the tunnel to nowhere.
Yes, we were, we were around long enough to play on the way they created, like what
they call the grass tip artificial turf.
Like, I definitely in the flubber, like, yeah, I was, we were definitely around for that.
The flow.
I remember the, well, I remember the, I played on the old turf in high school and I can remember
the burns and what that felt like and have it to shower the fish.
Oh, man.
Yeah.
The next day.
Yeah, I got guys, I think like talking to players about this, like it's, it's the injury
risk of course, you know, but it's also how they feel, you know, like I, I just get the
sense like from players who, you know, played on this stuff a lot that there's just a certain
soreness and toll it takes in your body day to day beyond just the serious injuries.
And no one seems to like playing on it, you know, and I think it's even like, it's, it's
interesting to look at a couple of things like how many teams that have field turf on
their state in their stadiums?
How many of those teams practice on natural grass, right?
You think you'd want to practice what you play on what you play on, but yet like a lot
of these teams practice on grass, right?
Why is that?
Well, because the teams know it takes less of a toll on the players' bodies.
You know, why are these teams willing to bring in natural grass to accommodate soccer teams?
You know, international soccer teams come over here.
The world couple be here, what, in three years and, you know, to accommodate the soccer
teams.
All these NFL teams bring in natural grass because the soccer teams and the soccer leagues demand
it.
You know, I think we all know what this is about, which is the price point of NFL teams
and the price point of NFL stadium has gotten to a point where you can't justify having
one of those stadium all game, eight regular season games and two pre-season games or
nine in one every year, right?
It just doesn't work.
The economics of it don't work anymore.
So more and more, all these owners have wanted to pack those stadiums with tons and tons
and tons of events.
Well, what happens then?
Then it becomes harder to maintain a grass field.
And so what's the solution?
You rip up the, you're up of the grass, put up, cook down turf and put every event under
the sun in your stadium.
And I think like the two that kind of stick out to me as places that should never have
our artificial turf but now do are Tennessee and Carolina, right?
Like Charlotte and Nashville should have natural grass based on the climate they're in.
You should be able to make that work.
And like that, those teams want to turf tells you everything about where the league is right
now.
Right?
There are ways to make it work.
Like Green Bay in northern Wisconsin is able to maintain a grass surface, right?
Why is that?
Because they don't have an owner who's pocketing the difference, right?
Look over in Europe, you know, and a lot of teams, now I've talked to Nick Post about
this, he's really militant about the grass versus turf things.
He's like, well, how come all these European soccer teams can make it work?
Playing football, it's not the same.
I understand that.
But like I think if you're willing to invest, you know, in finding solutions, you guys should
see what Real Madrid did with their field.
There are ways to make it work.
But you know, again, this comes back down to money, comes back down to putting a ton
of events in your stadium and it comes down to the fact that, you know, maintaining a
turf field is a whole lot cheaper than maintaining natural grass.
Who knew Alber was such a grass expert?
Oh, man, that's incredible.
I know.
I feel like I could have a turf management degree after the last couple of years of the
year. What, what, what the basketball coach, you put that in your pipe and smoke.
Yeah.
You're doing that with the grass, huh?
Hey, Albert, we got to ask you.
Obviously, if anybody follows you on Twitter, they know how passionate you are about the
Boston Celtics.
I was just curious.
Do you feel like at the end of tonight's game with the heat that the Celtics will have
won by, I don't know, more than eight and a half points.
I'm going to play that game again.
Is it an eight and a half point line?
No way.
That's what I was talking about.
Wow.
That seems high.
I would say if the Celtics will win it, it'd probably be like less than eight and a half
point.
Pretty, are you a big, you big heat guy now that you're down there?
Not, not a big heat guy.
I would say that's one of the most more interesting things about being in a sports town like Florida,
which is a little more transient because you don't have a ton of locals where they like
their grow up, you know, and they were like big fans of that team.
It is kind of cool when people move to a place like that, though.
They kind of adopt it and it's almost like a melting pot of fans from all over.
But I'm definitely rooting for the heat over you, the rest of the Boston fans, also my in-laws.
So I'm definitely, it's just really talking trash to my in-laws for the most part.
You're in-laws are big, sell big people?
Well, they're from Boston.
So they're a big Bruins fan, Celtics fans, Red Sox, all of it.
Any time.
My own team's fan.
Well, is that all I hate them at all?
No, not at all.
It's more of just bragging rights, especially for the swearing where South Florida's dominated
them so far.
Yeah.
That's true.
That was not a great showing by the Bruins in the first round.
It makes you feel a little bit better that the Panthers actually are legit.
They've lost like one game that series, right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
I think it's something like that, though.
The Cats.
All right.
Well, I'll listen now.
We'll be watching.
Good stuff as always.
Get them on Twitter at Albert Breer.
We appreciate it.
And we'll do it again next week.
Joe Heat.
All right.
Joe Heat Albert.
Good.
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LeVar Erington looking all jacked.
Stacked and jacked.
I'm looking cold is what I'm looking.
Nah nah nah nah.
Brady you got to see him he's all piped up.
I am piped up.
Yeah.
Yeah.
No longer the obese flabby piece of S that I've been for like the last seven years.
What was the workout you did with your kid yesterday?
A hundred reps of each?
A hundred reps so we did a thousand reps yesterday.
Every exercise was a hundred reps.
Nice.
Every exercise.
So we were supposed to originally do 10 but we were like hyping each other so we were
making it to like sometimes we make it to 30 sometimes we make it to 20.
I think our average was 20 we make it to 20 before we stopped and then switched.
But a thousand rep thousand rep workout.
It is a bang girl.
That'll put some hair on your chest huh.
You feeling it today little sore?
Hell yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I woke up.
You know it's like sometimes when you do them lag workouts like and we did like we did
uppers and lower but sometimes you don't feel the lag workout until the next day.
So I got up to you know for your morning respite and right when I rolled out to get up I felt
that burn and couldn't figure out why it felt the way that it did and then I remember
it like a hundred reps on legs on what was it so we did extensions curls the end what
is it inductor and abductor deal where you like you squeeze in and then you got to push
out on the other one you know I'm talking about you sit down on that.
Yeah it's abductor and adductor.
Adductor okay yeah yeah.
Adductor and abductor.
Okay there you go.
Then we did calf raises and then we did leg press and leg press was the heaviest one.
You don't go super heavy when you do hundred reps obviously you can't get to a hundred
if it's too heavy.
Tell my college strength coach that.
Yes yeah.
Bro he put on I remember when we were in college one time he put on 500 pounds.
He goes I want you to do 30 and I looked at him like huh.
30.
And obviously he knew exactly what was about to happen I did not and so I think I repped
out I don't know maybe 10 or so and then he took off a plate on each side.
He's like alright keep going keep going and by the end of it I did more than 30 and I
don't even know how much he stripped down to but it was like he would put dudes in that
leg press and make them cry.
Yeah it was awful.
We're going to do that today we're going to do strip downs today.
Hell yeah.
So we'll put on what is it 25s 25s on bench like 25s on most of the work sets that we
do today and they'll be stripped down.
That's right man.
You just keep you keep serving them up man.
Keep serving up those workouts and yeah thank you.
Yeah I feel really good about myself.
Yeah yeah where you serving up.
Well now I'm here this one while you're serving up 25 pound plates apparently lawyers are
serving up Shaq papers for this FTX scam going on.
So as Shaq gets ready to be part of TNT's coverage for game five of the Eastern Conference
finals coming up later on tonight which by the way as we mentioned earlier the Boston
Celtics eight and a half point favorites for some inexplicable reason back at home where
they've been awful the past couple of years in the playoffs.
Shaquille and Nia will be there.
And apparently he's these lawyers scouted him out and knew exactly where he would get
a B because they said he's been dodging them or whatnot.
So they waited until there was a spot during the telecast where I don't where they at commercial
or do they walk on the camera and give these papers out.
I'm surprised Charles Barkley didn't make mention of this on the air at some point but
as a class action lawsuit and Shaq has been served as they as they waited for him to to
go to break it.
He got served while working on TV at the game.
Yes.
That's cold blooded.
That is cold blooded.
I mean I don't want to say.
Why not.
But I mean imagine being an attorney and you're coming up with like they probably watched
the game before to figure out exactly like where he goes during the breaks and what he's
doing and all that.
And then they they came up with a plan for the next game knowing exactly where he'd
be what he was going to do to then serve him.
Like you got it.
That's some conniving stuff right there.
It's also especially when you consider you know during the basketball season every Tuesday
and Thursday night he's at the the Turner studios in Atlanta.
You could literally get him as he walks out the door and serve him there.
But now we got to make a scene of it.
Where's the most eyeballs going to be?
Where's it going to draw the most attention?
So did they now did the attorney buy a ticket to the game just to serve Shaq?
Did he even stick around for the rest of the game where he just said I'll serve him
up and then walk out.
That's a good point.
It's just like it's it's it's such a ploy.
It gives good lawyers a bad name.
You know what I mean?
I mean it sounds that is this their good lawyer out there.
Yeah that's fair I guess.
I guess it depends on who you are.
I'm right.
They took a book out of the massage Watson page.
Oh no.
You know.
Gosh.
You know the bugs be.
Oh buzz.
How many buzzy buzzy buzzy.
He went to the game to show a solidarity you know.
Right.
Support.
You know.
Want to be seen.
Got a sweet got a got a sweet.
You know they probably got a sweet too and took took all the clients that are a part of
that class action lawsuit against Shaq's company and they hung out and watched the game
and then half time they went served him up and then came back and got some more hors d'oeuvres
and said yeah we served the big diesel.
We served a big Shaq this.
Do you think that Shaq knew it was coming?
Do you think somebody took him off and said it was coming at some point but yeah I don't
know that he knew it was coming at that moment.
Over on to our half time before Charles Barkley makes reference to it tonight during the telecast.
You know he's going to.
I mean think that all we have is Shaq gives him a hard ass time all the time though.
Yeah but Chuck is right back.
Yeah he does.
I don't know man because Shaq Shaq we.
Shaq can really want to knock out.
No one can understand Shaq sometimes though.
We talk about.
Oh yeah.
Boy.
Boy.
I understand.
I understand.
I thought we were clearly you know be saying what I'm saying.
But his voice is so deep.
When he talks I got four rings you got none.
You stay out of this.
Well Jonathan thank you.
I mean Birdo.
Do you hear the way LaVarsa just said that?
What you mean racist.
Thank you.
What do you mean that's just inappropriate.
Can't be racist.
I'm black.
It's not racist Bertop.
All right.
Fair.
Ununfairly.
Oh my now that was racist to tell you it wasn't racist.
Bertop can we hear your Shaq impression.
That's racist.
I'm just killing you.
That's racist right there.
The big Aristotle.
That's it right there.
That's racist.
Racist.
Thank you.
That was actually pretty good.
The bigger Aristotle.
The bigger Aristotle.
He does say that.
I'm a bit of a Shaq just a bigger Aristotle.
I bet at some point someone makes a comment.
It might be Kenny because Kenny slick like that.
Yes.
So over under your saying before halftime.
I'm gonna take.
I'm gonna take that over.
And they'll say something like you know they were really serving it up weren't they.
Oh like they're gonna go they're gonna go that direction they have to.
They will.
Well you think Shaq they were serving them up.
Yeah.
Like that and you'll be like don't play with me.
All right.
Yeah.
That's gonna be where it goes.
It's gonna be early.
That might be early.
I'm changing.
I'm going under.
He thinks I'm going under.
I think I'm going the under too.
I don't think they get out of pregame before somebody makes a joke about it.
It's got to happen.
It has to happen.
I mean the fact that is being talked about on nationally syndicated radio shows and this
morning I mean and it's making its ways around I'm sure.
Yeah I'm sure that through something.
By the way apparently there was a welfare check done on La Barra's guy John Moran because
he took to social media started putting up some cryptic messages like.
Oh no.
Oh geez.
Oh no.
Love you ma love you pops.
Like he said something about his baby girl.
Why can't he just text them and then just say bye.
Well you don't get enough attention that way.
It's all about attention.
I'll be honest with you not to get off on a tangent.
That's one of the things I hate most about social media.
Thank you.
La Barra we're just talking about that.
Like people are like oh hey man happy birthday.
It's like why don't you just call.
Agreed.
Just give them a call or they use or they use social media to directly communicate with
people in a way where it's like why are you putting that here.
Like where are you putting that here for.
It's a giant pity party.
I was on a business Zoom yesterday and one of the people on the call.
This is actually it was a woman who used this phrase but she goes have you tried sliding
in their DMs.
Oh my god.
And I started to laugh and I'm like do we not have a more professional way of describing
direct messaging people.
I was like and I'm just sitting there like laughing myself thinking like this is supposed
to be a business professional atmosphere.
And meanwhile like the suggestion was to contact another company to slide in their DMs.
And it was actually quite effective.
I go trust me.
I understand it's effectiveness.
I go I just I thought in this setting maybe we'd use different vernacular.
Listen it's taken over the world social media is taken over the world and when you get it
want to get some attention and you want to throw and I know listen John Moran you know
nobody wants him to do any harm to himself.
Nobody wants him to do any harm to anybody else but I'm sorry I don't feel bad for this
guy at all.
I don't feel bad for him at all.
Yes he's 23.
Yes he's made mistakes but there are opportunities to get it right.
It's not the end of the world.
All right you own up to what happened.
Don't play the victim poor me crap on on Instagram or social media or Facebook and all
that.
That's why I got rid of my Facebook a long time ago because I was sick and tired of people
just begging fishing for compliments fishing for concern.
If there's a problem just come out and say you have a problem or stay off social media
and go see a therapist like but this this crap loses me.
And for some reason this guy just continues to go down this road.
Like he's got to use social media to just showcase all his flaws.
It's crazy man.
Like at what point are you trying to convince people that you want to end it?
Like that's what it seems like.
Let's look at it this way.
Like social media has not been good to him.
Like no he's just take a break from it all together.
Like he's in this position because of the stuff he's put out on social media.
Like dude shut up and race the app.
You know whatever you need to do but like maybe let's start there.
Why don't you get away from social media and get back to the real world and go seek
the help that you need.
You know instead of going on a social media app.
There's no help there for you.
Did you guys break that to you?
Did you guys see what Gilbert Arena said about it?
What's that?
Oh basically like he's got a drug problem and he needs to go get help for it before it
ends like horribly bad.
Like that's basically what he said.
I mean does he have confirmation of that or is that just reckless speculation?
I mean it could be considered reckless speculation but I'm just saying that's what Gilbert Arena
is offered up on his show the no chill gill show and I mean while while you talk right.
Okay.
I mean them circles are kind of small.
Them circles are kind of small.
I mean that's been sort of the speculation again not me but speculation with Antonio Brown.
Like when he started to get erratic that there's a lot of.
Just just chemical and balance seem to have a lot of energy for a lot of stuff and still
be the hardest working guy at any.
I just I don't see how you could be sober and do what he did in the metal art.
It's not the metal lines anymore do what he did in New York and then go show up to the
basketball game that night was it that night or the next day it was that night right.
But he did show up to the basketball.
Ran up off the field almost butt naked and so I quit and then showed up to the next game
later on.
That's not cool.
He's a player owner you know now he's in an arena team.
I mean imagine you walking down from a business meeting right on the field and other players
his moment.
I forgot he went to the next game or was it the Nets game whatever it is you got you got
to be there's got to be something there.
There's got to be something there.
What something are you talking about?
Some type of a substance is going to be out of the sky.
It's not going or what it might have been flurries.
But it could have been so many different things like there's something like because now this
whole playing killer you know epidemic is is like kind of like the thing like pill popping
is is a real thing like that's not always been a thing though.
It's not like how it has been lately like like like and I mean like kids are frickin dying
left and right off.
It is the fit and all do like and the amount of fentanyl it takes I think Brady and I were
talking about this the amount of fentanyl it takes to get into whatever substance you
use to kill you is so it's like a a a a grain of sugar or something like that it's so small
and you just see people you know without knowing it ingest it and that's a wrap.
It's sad man.
Yeah it's really sad.
I said I'm doing to look like paz's you know the paz the dispenser.
So you say it was a paz or paz?
Paz.
Paz are they paz's or paz's or paz's?
Paz.
Paz.
Paz.
Shut up.
Who?
Who?
Yeah you know I'm from Pittsburgh.
I got it.
You said it got to it.
By the way this still make paz.
Was there like a knockoff brand of paz called paz's?
Paz.
Maybe paz.
I mean I thought it might have been an A.
Dude I thought it was like a cultural thing.
Maybe you like the cultural difference was paz.
That's what I'm saying.
Who?
That was where I'm spicier you know.
No it's one of those things like you don't know how people grew up like I remember like
the best man my one of my best friends when he moved my town like junior high like I went
over to his you know family's house around Christmas and it never dawned on me like Santa
Claus looks different depending on how you grow up and so like that was the first time
like I went to his house I was like oh oh okay like that that's just like oh your Santa
isn't the same as mine.
I didn't say that.
I'm starting to figure out how Santa is able to deliver all them gifts.
Your Santa goes comes to your house mine comes to mine.
Birdo goes to his like he got up his we just got enough Santa's moving around.
That's all.
I just said like homely on the non blouse.
What are you saying?
Maybe this was the Santa Claus.
It was close.
Yeah it was paz.
Were you grew up with paz right now?
I just don't remember them but I know I remember them.
I just didn't remember.
I do like the A or any.
I do like the smooth transition we went on this show from booger sugar to pills to fentanyl
to paz.
I do like how every food group was represented there.
That's every food group.
That's every food group.
They call me the show man bitch.
Your Santa Claus looks a little different.
Your Santa Claus looks a little different.
Why is your Santa Claus ever sombrero on?
I don't get it.
It's not Santa.
That doesn't fit down too many.
Because they leave it at the top and put it back on when he comes out.
How does that work?
Your Santa has dreads.
Do we cook this first Santa or a sombrero?
What are we talking about?
By the way, this is a true Santa.
Some jerk tickets and a patty.
So this is a true story.
We have this inflatable Santa at our house and it's called tamale Santa and these tamales
pop.
They pop up out of the bucket.
And so my sister-in-law brought a kid over and a kid looked up and saw the tamale Santa
and said why does Santa have french fries in his basket?
I don't know man.
Like a pot further review.
They do look like fries.
They look like anything like tamales.
I'm a pot further review.
But yeah.
So Merry Christmas to you.
What is Lee Santa Claus look like?
That's why I'm a double.
He's mixed.
Bing rams.
He's mixed.
That's the mixed one.
Yeah, Lee, what is your channel?
By Rachel.
We were discussing that.
How to decorate the new place.
It could look like Jimmy Buffett.
I actually did find a Santa with like a Hawaiian shorts on.
Oh God.
Oh my God.
It looks like Todd.
Just a little bit of a little.
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