Bam Adebayo’s 83 Point Game, LeBron + Luka Doesn’t Work, Bears Win Total, Best American Actor?

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4:06you know there's always this debate is the economy good is it bad how do you what's the indicators is it an inflation is at the stock market is the housing market and i've always kind of um i remember years and years ago when i would come to Chicago somebody at ESPN gave me a driver gave me a number for a driver it was Bernie Mac the late comedians driver so he used to tell me it's just hilarious Bernie Mac stories who i love Bernie Mac wow that's almost yeah he was just uh he just told because i love Bernie and oceans eleven at the time had come out and i just i can't get enough Bernie Mac stories and um and i remember talking to him one time and i said how are things in Chicago and he said well the traffic's getting bad again that means the economy is good and i was like oh that's interesting he goes yeah yeah yeah in Chicago he goes i i can tell you what the economy is when the traffic's lousy people are going and coming on from work right coming and so i thought oh so i have always thought about that and i

5:09tend to use airlines if the airlines are full i don't care what the economic indicators tell me are people are flying and there's kids on the plane that means you're like literally talking your wife and do let's fly the kids down to see grandma that's expensive that cost a lot a lot of money so i'm making some travel plans this summer and so i want to take my my son is doing some schooling in he every year he goes in the summer or late spring he goes to Europe and does a couple of weeks of you know classes through his school so he's in Madrid and i said hey why don't i why don't we go a week early and you and i can hang out and then i'll leave and you just stay and do your classes for a couple of weeks so you have a long Spanish you know summer just dad will just hop on early and we'll hang out together and so i'm booking because i he's going to go with me he's going to fly into Chicago and go with me and here's my test of the economy so i said let's go yeah let's do business class one way

6:13just to Madrid because i'm going to get my own way home he's going to come home of this class late night sleeping most of business class one way two people seventeen thousand dollars and i went i went okay the the economy is good so i said jack i'm going to buy some gummies we're going to sit in economy and you know get stoned or something but we're going to sleep and we're going to sit in the back of the plane because dad's not going to spend it seventeen thousand dollars economies like twenty three hundred business is seventeen grand and i said i like sleep i don't like it fifteen thousand dollars worth for seven and a half hours to Madrid so as i'm doing this i'm thinking to myself and there were only two seats left in business class who are these people it's a huge plane there's sixty business seats they're all full the first class are double that

7:15they're all full and i'm like this is just one flight out of Chicago to Madrid and so and at night and so my takeaway is how do you judge the economy i just i said to my son i said and we would laugh about it i'm like you can't tell me the economy's not rolling for somebody because the whole damn plane what so if that flights full how many of New York Philly Boston or full first so first of all can we do gummies together i didn't know that was i didn't know that was on the table uh and how so that opens up a whole new world of possibilities for Danny and Uncle Colin uh second of all uh it would it'll be hilarious for anyone to see Colin Coward in 31 C all zonked out on milligrams like so that they're gonna be like that Colin Coward he's riding in coach

8:18yeah you know he saw it was the sign of the economy um so that's phenomenal uh and Madrid's great and Spain's great you guys will have an amazing time um how do i judge the economy well i will say like i don't think it's the stock market that's not a good that's not a good indicator because you know there's the the Fortune 500 companies but then there's like the big seven and like are the big seven carrying everything else and the AI boom and like all these stocks just go up up up up up uh so to me it's not the stock market um grocery's feeling expensive is something for me that like if i'm noticing that our grocery bill feels expensive and we definitely you know it's not all organic but we shop at a nicer grocery store try to eat healthy we have the what fruit do you want today for the kids they have multiple options in the house you know i mean

9:20so if i feel like groceries are not something i'm very fortunate not something that i have to budget for but if i am noticing that it's like that sure that we spend how much on groceries this week if it don't even if i'm noticing it i'm thinking that someone who is significantly less privileged than me must be hurting from it and so like like yeah so like when people say the economy's ripping i'm not positive that like because if you're going to fly to Europe it's flying over nice not a bad way to do it because you can sleep on the plane not have jet lag and go and between two major hubs and business class it's like company travel it's business travel like so you know i do get the sense that like inflation is hurting people who make normal money like if you're if you're if you're right if you're the breadwinner of your home and you're making sixty thousand dollars life is hard right now

10:22and expensive i think that there is just a spread between you know the the wealth gap is group the number of billionaires is growing and so like wealth inequality is growing and so in terms of like a single indicator i don't think that they're the i think you have to go a little smaller than business class to Europe because i just think that like there's a lot of people i know someone who just got she makes pretty good money not not not six feet but like she's in her mid-twenties um lives in new york and makes nearly six figures we'll say so you know a salary that a lot of people would be happy to make it 26 years old but when you're in the most expensive city in the world it's a lot she she just won what they call the housing lottery out here where she gets to they they have they have every building that comes up and i don't know all the details of them but every building that comes up every place where you they have to have a certain number of like rent

11:23controlled apartments and she gets to move into a one bedroom for twenty three hundred bucks but like in an amenities building in a building it has a pool and a gym and an elevator yeah and so and she is talking about it about it like it's like winning the actual lottery because of the relief of she will be spending less money on a nicer place that she spends on her current studio apartment to grind it out making whatever 90 grand a year in New York so i think that the economy be like doing well i think you just have to i think you have to scale it down a little bit more in terms of like the thing that you look at on whether or not people are are spending the money on things like that i have my stepson and his fiance are moving to Brooklyn they're at our house tonight and then then tomorrow they drive the rest of the way they've moved from LA to Brooklyn and they're paying 4,600 for a two bedroom in Brooklyn it's a beautiful cool building with a

12:29beautiful gym like a real gym and a rooftop like bar for young p it's very young hipster place and i actually told them i said for the quality here you're not going to get anything in california that nice and like they can it's Brooklyn so they next to a park they can walk everywhere and i'm like god i said i economically i'm maybe in a bubble but god that feels reasonable to me yeah well i mean yeah Brooklyn is super popular and i wait it's the thing that i need to like explore more in New York i just i'm in the northern i'm in the burbs north of New York so i i never get down there but like all the people like the foodies here and the restaurant scene everyone says like all the best spots are are opening up in Brooklyn and yeah it's it's obviously all relative sometimes word you're detached from my level of earning i'm detached from some other level oh yeah yeah yeah i know i'm living in a bubble i so i lived through my kids i asked my kids all the time what i look at them what's rent i well you know i asked my studies in college how's the money situation he's like i'm getting by he likes to cook that helps so he you know

13:31that helps him out and but it's um i just when i heard that business class i was just like and they're like there's and there's like four flights a day and i'm like well i'm going on the least desirable one and that's the price i was just florian yeah no listen i mean nixon japan right now and i was like so you flying first class it's a long flight he's like not for 30k i'm like 30 000 dollars to fly to japan it's like it's crazy when you you you could buy my car what are you talking about what are you talking about so i defended bam out of buy you in my heart and here here's what my two things is first of all if john morant scored 83 far less of a player than bam out of buy you not even the same stratosphere bam's just bigger more mature uh more reliable two-time Olympian five-time all defense

14:38but if john morant scored 83 people would celebrate it because he's cool aesthetically he's appealing it would look cool there'd be at least like for unbelievable spinning place bam scores 83 and it's like what my neighbor and waste management has a nicer house than i do this i don't like this at all be one thing if it was bent aflick it's like you know i tend to think in the NBA style matters and i think it's off-putting for bam to shoot 43 free throws when he averages five and i mean kobi brion stayed in a game against an awful raptors team and scored in the last four and a half minutes eleven points in a route he was in the 70s he was high 60s 70s and he just kept going and people celebrated there was no pushback i mean in the fourth quarter he's one of only the one of the only lakers that took a shot he was like he shot like

15:3914 of the 17 shot and nobody batted an i but bam does it and i think i just don't think stylistically we feel like he's the guy that should do it so that's why that's why i defended it but not disagree more um i don't personally think it has much to do with bam or his style i definitely think it has some to do with kobi but you brought up kobi let's just go back to the 81 it it became a blowout but i just pulled it up so i have it exactly correct they were down seven after the first they were down 14 at half and they were up six going into the fourth quarter that game that game was a real game now was kobi going for the record yes did kobi take all of the shots late no doubt about it but kobi did that all the time like kobi kobi could be a bit of a ball hog um that i mean that was literally at one point in the fourth quarter or six point game

16:44i think that bam is a great story a very very very good player all-star olympian he worships kobi Bryant he clearly has friends in the league respecting the league i mean derand came out and supported him immediately yannis lebron he's he's a well-liked pro's pro who's one of the best defensive players of his era i thought it was cool the day shawylson was there i have a group chat of people who like really care about the mba and bam having 43 at half time hit the group chat my wife was out to dinner i was watching uh uh wembee against the Celtics so when bam is 43 at half time oh that's interesting i'll throw it on the the second tv on the league pass then bam has over 63 three and i'm like okay something's clearly happening here what's main tv it with volume jalen brown had been ejected by this point from the Celtics let's flip the screen situation i'm gonna lock it on this

17:45so i did not watch like highlights of it or box score it i watched the second half of that basketball game sometimes the story is the record and i know it's not the right welts is the record but it's the modern scoring record sometimes the story is the record other times the story is how you got the record how michael stray hand got the single season sack record it became more about how we got it than the record doesn't mean he wasn't a great player doesn't mean it wasn't a great season but getting the last one against barb when farve laid down you're like uh that doesn't sit right doesn't look right don't love it when david robinson won the scoring title over shack the clippers sat all the starters after five minutes he was clearly gunning for it he got 71 we don't talk about it as an all-time great scoring accomplishment we talking about it as kind of game the system a little bit but okay he's the scoring champion the last six or seven

18:46minutes of that basketball game last night it was just not basketball they are intentionally following to maximize possessions up 25 in the fourth quarter against the wizards spulster now it's doc spulster is challenging offensive fouls on bam on a charge with four minutes left in a twenty point game to try to get him extra free throws his teammates are intentionally missing free throws to try to get him extra possessions like I have it was a great game I have no problem with them going for the record I have no problem but when you are manipulating possessions in order to do it and Kobe's yes he shot all the shots but it was at least a competitive game minutes into the fourth quarter it became a blowout because of his dominance I just I didn't like how he got the record it doesn't mean it wasn't an all-time great performance when clay Thompson

19:49scored 62 on 29 minutes he's sat the fourth when Kobe had 65 I think against the mavericks and they were blowing him out he sat the fourth there's just like there was something about it that just didn't sit right if you were watching it because he didn't get it by playing real basketball if he just scored he had 62 at the end of three if he just if he just ended with 71 and they didn't do that you're saying if he just scored 68 and didn't do that it sits much better yeah of course I mean we've booker Lillard Luca they all have 70 point games like it's scoring is going up the teams are tanking teams are bad like all of those it when David Robinson did it it hadn't happened since David Thompson and there were three guys ever to do it then after David Robinson did it there's a long gap until Kobe did it then there's it it's happening more regularly like I I was going back and forth on sound to Rico and Reggie during the Celtics game are talking about what BAM did

20:54and Reggie's like openly opining that someone's going to get a hundred and he's I mean he's he's right if what happened last night is immediately celebrated when it's not basketball like someone's going to get hot a team is going to decide to game it and go for it and that guy will be hot from three damn took a bunch of threes he only hit like seven of them he shot yeah he shot less than 50 percent from the floor so like and I know people have been in my mentions and comments all day like all you do all you guys do is you just want to complain about basketball like I promise I love basketball I was watching two games by myself on a weeknight in the regular season I love the sport I just don't like how we got it and here's a take or a theory that I haven't said publicly I wanted to save it for you I think because he Kobe was his favorite player I think if he would have tied him at 81 no complaints I think if he would have I think if he would have

21:59done it as a tribute to Kobe it would have been like oh my god how cool and like yeah the wizards and yeah they were gunning for it but there is something about Kobe's 81 in the flow of a game and bams 83 when he is being triple teamed and his teammates are passing up layups and they're intentionally following guys and challenging calls and missing free throws it it wasn't basketball I have no other way to describe it other than it wasn't basketball and so I just it I don't want it to take away from bam because it was cool but I can't sit here and celebrate it in the same way as Kobe Bryant's I can't I can't do it reasonable minds can disagree today show brought to you by our presenting sponsor hard rock bet florida sports book so it's march baby college basketball center stage stakes are high and now is the time to hit it

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27:17out if a PSA blood test is right for you the PSA blood test can be the first step in screening so talk to your doctor to evaluate your risk determine when to get tested and discuss screening options and the next steps it's easy. Here's another take I had I said through Lebron's career you know it's almost like I use the example of David Schwimmer on friends he could be a mobster in his next 10 roles to me he's Ross on friends he's been typed yes kind of the white whiny kind of he was such a strong character on friends and he played it for so long that's what and who he is and so similarly Lebron has been tightcast is that Lebron makes everything work he and Dwayne Wade were not a perfect fit neither was really a great catch and

28:22shoot guy the team had no center or no true point but they work because of sheer athleticism he and Kyrie Irving shouldn't have worked Kyrie needs the ball Kyrie plays no defense and yet Lebron made that work Lebron made Ilgunas Elguscus work in Cleveland got him to a finals he made him suddenly we talked about this guy is this energy guy without much touch it's just unbelievable Anthony Davis had a label as a soft player didn't fight through injuries not in great shape no he wins with him too and it's perfect so every Matthew Delavid Delva JR Smith was a broken player everything for 20 years Lebron had been tightcast it just works so then when he plays with Luca it's like of course this is the easy one and it's the it's the one that doesn't because neither wants to be off ball Luca so much better at this point than Lebron is so Lebron has to play

29:24off ball he's having a bad jump shooting season and if you play with Luca you have to be good defensively to cover up his flaws that's why the one time he went to the finals with Dallas big athletic they acquire that trade deadline PJ Washington rim protectors suddenly you're like oh Luca stinks on defense it doesn't matter he just pushes people to this then takes off pushes people runs them off the three-point line so there's a way to build around bad defensive players Steph Kyrie Lebron never was that and so there's this belief that Lebron and Luca it will eventually work it's over a year in the net rating the defensive rating it's atrocious when Lebron and Luca are together in fact when Luca and Austin are together it's fantastic and nobody wants to hear this Luca and Austin are great Luca without Austin and no Lebron's great Austin just take Lebron out of

30:29all the plus minuses everything works unless you put Lebron in it on the Lakers and nobody quite knows what to make of it because he's still a very good player yeah Lebron is still a very good player it's the Lakers fault in terms of the roster construction because to your point they were together last year and we've watched Lebron and Luca long enough we should know but I think there's a time when Lebron and Luca could have worked but not when Lebron's 41 because I mean Lebron was first team all defense I think 2009 to 2013 like he's not he doesn't have as many he doesn't have as many as Florida yeah six times all in his 20s but there are no great defensive players in the NBA in their mid 30s on they're just not and so that's the thing like there was a point in time when

31:30Lebron and Luca obviously could have worked but it is not when Lebron is in his 40s and everybody should know that so you know they haven't played a ton of minutes together this year relatively speaking but we we want to make them a story because they're good for ratings it's the Lakers it's celebrity Lebron matters a lot to the league and like it's a good offensive team they're fine yeah exactly right and you and you like when they walk onto the court feels yeah it feels big and it's like and I'll admit like oh damn that's an impressive five like you know like when you like when they when they walk onto the court you're like why don't you give a night it feels like they could score 125 points and just and just I'll score you but the West is too good and like the thunder are too good defensively and the rockets are too good defensively and the spurs are way too good defensively and the wolves are too athletic like they're drawing dead

32:34they're they're they are they'll make the playoffs and they are drawing dead but they have so much star power and brand power that people like us almost feel compelled frankly to talk about them because it's good for business but like I can't tell you how many times I've seen like Lakers contender or pretender I've been on shows where the question is like Lakers and they they're not a contender they're not a contender nope it's very it's very obvious and like and so like they're worse with Lebron is that Lebron's fault if like if he is still very good and he's 41 he's like well you you guys want me to be Scotty Pippin like I'm not that anymore like so I just I guess it's a criticism of Lebron but at 41 years old I don't expect him to be a lockdown defensive player given that that's never happened in the history of the sport bears nine and a half is that the easiest bet of the off seat bears have added Kobe Bryant Devon Bush Bradley the center

33:40Caleb's going to get better second year they by the way they play the NFC South and the AFC East so you know they're beating the dolphins yeah jets bears nine and a half I love I love it the the regression case is simple they had seven comeback wins they led the league in takeaways and left guard center right guard right tackle all played over 90% of your snaps so you're going to have some offensive line injuries and obviously the Dolman injury you already you've already lost your center out of out of that equation so there's going to be it's going to be a different offensive line even if they're bringing the other you know three pieces back you know that's that's the three prongs case for regression is what I just said offensive line won't be as healthy as it was you won't lead the league in takeaways and you're not going to have seven fourth quarter come backs but Caleb is going to be better this is he is going to be better and the well Colston

34:43loved on Luther burden at the end of the year we're accelerating they became like like like Colston loved them became is he like the second best tied in correct and I think so yeah I think the bears have an incredibly high offensive ceiling this year like I think they're going into the year thinking that they can be the best offense in football now probably a third of the league believes that Dallas believes it the Rams believe it the Jaguars believe it the you know the Niners believe it so I'm not saying I'm picking them to be the number one offense in football but like they absolutely are going to go into the year thinking that they can be the schedule point that you made as a good one and that's the like Caleb's improvement in year 200 Ben Johnson year three in the league like it's the year for the leap and he got better every month during the season last year as he was learning the system so I cannot even imagine how big of a leap he can take from year two to year three so yeah you're not going to hear me coming on here and being like I think the bears are an eight win team no shot okay so I just watched one battle after another yes I watched

35:49watched it and then I flew back from Florida and I watched it again I think it's an exceptional movie I've only seen it once but yeah I saw it in theaters it was great I just watched Marty Supreme the other night but go ahead how's that uh shallow my it was incredible incredible incredible but sorry go ahead so I watched that movie and after it was done I said I said to my wife I said I think Christian Bale is the best uh European actor Russell Crowe is the best actor in Australia and I said I think Sean Penn is our greatest domestic actor wow I think he is our greatest I think he's the greatest actor in our country and I watched that movie first of all part of being a great actor is I cannot take my eyes off you when you enter a scene it doesn't matter who else is in the

36:50scene if you're in the scene my eyes go right to you the second thing I judge is if you don't talk a lot and you still have power Anthony Hopkins in silence with lambs he's only on screen 11 minutes he has very little dialogue literally dominates dominates the movie it's one of the greatest performances in the history of acting 11 minutes dominates uh and also that movie was released very early in the year so which is like uh not a recipe to win Oscars like you usually want it to be released right before the Oscars that was came out long before but I'm watching that movie and Leonardo DiCaprio is obviously brilliant and yet Sean Penn when you juxtapose him when you put him on the screen together I'm like no Sean Penn dorsely in order to caprio and I I I just came out of that movie and I'm like I'm not sure there's a lot of great actors and I'm not it's not a short

37:53list it's a long list right there's a densel there's a densel argument there's a Tom Hanks argument there's a leo argument and sure there's them yeah there's there's this brilliant people everywhere um you know in my lifetime Meryl Streep Dustin Hoffman like there are people that I mean Meryl Streep just doesn't make me angry I can't get over the performance got the in the in fact before I won't you know I won't give too much away but before the demise of uh Colonel Law Sean Penn even the last two scenes you're like I don't know how they did it that's the greatest makeup artist in the history of the industry I I and by the way I want my artists I don't want them to look like john ham I don't I don't want my artist to look like densel I want them to look like artists and be off and different and unique and that's why I think it's so effective when you

38:54get like you know it's it's robin Williams could play he just he was just different robin's brain was functioning in a mill you could do Mrs. Doubtfire he could do good well hunting he was just he was a different human being uh from stand up to his humanity to his I mean just this cavernous ability to do uh reservoir of different characters and voices I think Sean Penn's the best actor in this country well listen it's a great it's a great take it's obviously super subjective um he's got a real good shot at winning best supporting actor uh you know yeah but like Benicio was incredible too in that movie also as a nominated best supporting actor he was he was funnier right like I think Sean Penn's character stole so many scenes in that movie because I think it's the best movie I've seen I think it was my favorite movie I've seen when I

39:57watched it a second time I liked it more I think it's my favorite movie I've probably seen in 12 months yeah I mean listen it's it's a really good year uh sinners was great one battle after another Marty supreme like those it's a it's a it's a fun best actor and a fun best picture uh race this year in the odds seem to suggest that it's pretty wide open and the I don't remember which one won it what but I know that like sag after a golden globes the bafters like I it's been kind of split like it had like one person hasn't won all of the awards leading up to it so there's a lot of debate on and who's gonna you know take home take home the hardware at the at the academy awards and what a spot for Conan I know you and I've talked about Conan but like what a hosting spot for for Conan next week with the rob reiner tribute and trying to balance everything that's going on with like the industry and that and that's just an I can't wait to see how he handles it

40:57because I you know I it's more of my generation than you but I think he's brilliant um what I would say about de caprio's case that I like for the best for the best actor and I guess maybe it's more of a chalk opinion than Sean Penn is has never done a franchise and has been crushing it since he was little and like he won the best actor for the for the revenue and I'm like is that even one of his five best performances he barely spoke yeah yeah like it was just you know like Gilbert grape incredible um a seamstiler and a huge ensemble cast in the departed you know that going blow for blow with Jack Nicholson obviously you know uh he's a very good he plays a great strained human yeah but it's it's just they're all you know they're all singular characters

42:01and they're like they said no franchises a lot of original ideas big movies small movie like he's just he's spectacular uh Hank's doing all the biopic work that he can do is pretty incredible like he actually plays people like you know and it's like and then he's like oh wow you're you're now selling like okay yeah I believe it you know I believe it but I think Sean Penn why he stole the scenes in that movie it was like it was like the most it felt like he was the most unlike Sean Penn because he was like such an evil vile person what and he was such an inappropriate he was saying he was so vile scene was inappropriate oh Leonardo Leonardo DiCaprio was kind of a weird stoner like I buy it you know like how much how much how much work did you do like what you tell you would tell the story it's a great story of how he like prepped for the coalude scene

43:01in Wolf of Wall Street and he's like I watched a video of a guy who was really messed up on YouTube it's like okay like yeah you've also done a lot of drugs uh so you can you can get into the game like yeah that was a pretty incredible performance by Sean Penn and I listen I'm not like a death of Hollywood like totally fatalistic person about it but I see why every actor's like I want to work with Paul Thomas Anderson because like that is such a yes there's the source material of a book but like you've been working on it for decades it's a huge epic piece they're it's shot in all these different locations it's like a totally original it's a totally original take like I would just imagine all these actors that are getting like oh I could be the fourth person to be the Hulk or the sixth person to be Batman or Spider-Man like it's just like you get a script like that it has to just be so refreshing because like what a singular movie like like that might be a defining shot he's not he didn't mystic river like he's done unbelievable things and it's like oh that's the

44:04defining thing for Sean Penn it's pretty cool I thought it was fascinating the road scene that lasted about 15 minutes oh yeah it you could write that down in a script and it's not captivating but when you watched it and the and the move and the music they used under that that intense music that went like 12 minutes of watching cars drive up and down a desert road could not take your eyes off it the second time I'm like god it was great and like you know it's a longer movie but it didn't feel long at all like that that that is a great test of a movie like did you think it should be shorter if you thought it should be shorter it's not a great movie it can be a good movie it can be a movie that you would like and recommend to somebody but it's not a great movie like if you have a long movie that you're like it's great and I wouldn't cut a thing it's like that's that's a great film because that movie was a it was an epic it was it was an it was just like

45:06and there's not there's not that many anymore that like you were you're like I have to see it in the theater I have to see it how the filmmaker intended you know the Tom Cruise movies are like that because of the special effects um yeah I wanted Christopher Nolan movies are like that because of the scope you had to see Oppenheimer in a theater I can't wait to see Odyssey uh in a theater um but yeah Paul Thomas Anderson doing a movie with with that cast it was I was I was happy to fork over the money for the popcorn oh my god this is a great podcast that I was all over the man you were you were but it was fun I like it I like I like just bouncing around hang on these hours fly by man the volume shoot your shot get paid double only on hard rock bed hard rock bed is Florida's only legal way to bet the NBA teams players points and more he shoots he scores and when you sign up for hard rock bed your bets paid double winners don't just count the basket count it twice he's on fire now

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