The Right Time with Bomani Jones - LeBron James Uncertain Future with Lakers, Malik Beasley Scandal, Ace Bailey to Jazz | 6.30

Episode Date: June 30, 2025

On today's episode of The Right Time, Bomani Jones discusses the Ace Bailey saga, LeBron James' future and the Malik Beasley investigation. Bo starts off the show by asking what did Ace Bailey actually want out of all of this (1:28) and whoever was representing him was making terrible decisions (11:57). Bo moves onto LeBron James opting into his $52M deal with the Lakers which makes life difficult for Rich Paul (13:36) and begs the question - is LeBron still severely underpaid (14:28) ? Bo rounds out the basketball discussion by saying Malik Beasley betting on props won't bother the general public (26:20) but why this will continue to ruin the integrity of the sport as long as we can bet from our phones (29:40). And finally, we have another round of If You Haven't Heard stories involving weight loss products, air conditioning in the summer and a dating app based on your search history (35:28). Then Bomani listens to some voicemails about the time a fight broke out during a pickup basketball game. (45:57) If You Haven't Heard Contributors: Emily Stewart, Business Insider, "The rise of Ozempic has Americans chasing dubious muscle-building miracles" https://www.businessinsider.com/americans-obsessed-exercise-shortcuts-lose-weight-easily-fitness-workout-hacks-2025-6 Matt Fuchs, Time, "Can Air Conditioning Make You Sick?" https://time.com/7293248/can-air-conditioning-make-you-sick/ Jason Parham, Wired, "An Experimental New Dating Site Matches Singles Based on Their Browser Histories" https://www.wired.com/story/an-experimental-new-dating-site-matches-singles-based-on-their-browser-histories/ . . . Subscribe to Supercast for Ad-Free Episodes: https://righttime.supercast.com/ Subscribe to The Right Time with Bomani Jones on Spotify, Apple or wherever you get your podcasts and follow the show on Instagram, Twitter, and Tik Tok for all the best moments from the show. Download Full Podcast Here: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6N7fDvgNz2EPDIOm49aj7M?si=FCb5EzTyTYuIy9-fWs4rQA&nd=1&utm_source=hoobe&utm_medium=social Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-right-time-with-bomani-jones/id982639043?utm_source=hoobe&utm_medium=social Follow The Right Time with Bomani Jones on Social Media: http://lnk.to/therighttime Support the Show: Download the DraftKings Pick Six app NOW and use code BOMANI. Better payouts. Bigger wins. Only with Pick6 from DraftKings. The Crown is yours. Go to zbiotics.com/BOMANI to learn more and get 15% off your first order when you use BOMANI at checkout. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the right time, a wave original. My name is Beaumani Jones. Thanks for listening wherever you get your podcast. Thanks for watching us on YouTube. Subscribe, like, rate us, review us, give us five stars. He only gives us four stars. I'm inclined to believe you are a hater. We got a lot to get into. One of these fools allegedly got caught up with the gambling again.

LeBron's doing LeBronny things. but I need to start with a couple of the funniest things I saw this weekend, and both of them are related to the same story. In fact, it may be three of the funniest things. Okay, they all have to do with this A. A. Bailey situation. I understand that I've talked about Ais Bailey a great deal on this show. I've talked about Ais Bailey as a draft pick far more than I ever talked about Ays Bailey

as an actual factual basketball player. I get that. But okay, I want us to walk through these steps because I had a lot of people who hit me on the low asking how I felt about this, that, and the third, because people love to give free shows, right? So we all saw it. Ace Bailey got drafted fifth by the Utah Jazz. And, of course, it's made all the funnier by the fact that it is the Utah Jazz, okay?

And it seemed fairly clear that Ace Bailey did not want to go play for the Utah Jazz, though I'm going to be perfectly honest. I have no idea with Ace Bailey himself. actually wanted, right? Maybe he felt about Utah the way that Derek Fisher felt about Utah. And if you were unfamiliar, you can go look up when Derek Fisher played. I think he was playing for the Mavericks again, and the Mavericks were terrible. And there was a word going out that he could be traded to the Utah Jazz.

And people were a little mad at him because he did not go because the jazz had a chance to win a championship. And he was like, nah, I got nothing wrong with Utah. But if you like Utah so much, go live in Utah. Right? Like, it's the spot that people say that nobody wants to go live. Now, everybody understands why. Okay?

I don't think that the Utah, what they call Ryan, the mammoth? Is that what they called their hockey team? The mammoth or the mammoths? I believe they're just the, like, the Utah hockey club. Oh, no, no, they got a name now. They got a name now. Yes. So I believe they are now the mammoth.

Like the NHL has gone full science fiction. We got the cracking. We got the mammoth. We already had the predators. It is the Utah mammoth. Mammoth. Mammoth. Not multiple mammoth.

Singular mammoth. Okay. Singular mammoth. Or is, is the plural of Mammoth? It's a moose situation. Okay. Got you. Got you.

Well, it's never, you're right. Two mooses, two mooses is moose. They're not meese. Correct. Okay. Anyway. You know, you talk about, first of all, the man, the boy calls himself Ace, right? Aries Ace Bailey living in Utah.

Eh, you know, we can understand why he would not want to go there, but it is obvious that is a gentleman named Omar Cooper, who is running the show for him. Now, Omar Cooper had a son or has a son named Sharif, and Sharif went to McKeachard High School right outside of Atlanta. which is also where Ace Bailey went to high school. There's a four-year gap between the two guys, but I'm going to take that as an indication of how exactly it is that they came across each other. And the other part is Mr. Cooper appears to have a fairly lengthy rap sheet. Or at the very least, a rap sheet a little lengthier than what would prefer,

generally speaking if they were interviewing agents. Now, to me, I will say that having that rap sheet is actually not really a disqualifying factor. I've talked about this on this show many times, my feelings about agents, which is, it is a very interesting job in the sense that anybody can do it, but not everybody can do it, okay? Right? Like, the game that you need to be an agent is not really game that you're going to get in school. It is, to me, it seems to be a very intuitive sort of skill to understand what other people can and cannot do or are not willing to do, right, figuring out their incentives and stuff like that, while also, and this is the big one, having the stomach to truck through discomfort, right? The ability to look a motherfucker in the eye and be

like, no, this is what we about to do. And you know that's what we bought to do. Right. Some of the job is finesse, but another part of it is just the ability to sit in the discomfort. And if you can sit in the discomfort longer, you're going to win. Rich Paul is a great example. One thing that Rich Paul is really good at is waiting until the very end of something. You're not going to rush him. We saw that in various negotiations that he has done. Tristan Thompson with the Cleveland Cavaliers about 11 years ago or 10 years ago was paid to be the most notorious to that. But he'll sit there and we'll two days before camp. Okay, we ain't got no deal. We just going to do. We just going to sit in it, right? So yeah, a dude that used to do some things, I think might have the proper temperament

to handle a big part of the job of being an agent. My concern with the dude is I don't really know what association attachment or whatever it is that he has with Ace Bailey and how much he actually cares about the dude. And the reason I bring that up, and this is like one of the funnier things that I saw over the weekend. I saw a picture where A.S. Bailey was up there in East Orange, New Jersey, taking a picture by a concrete basketball court with Vin Rock from Noddy by nature. Now, you may be wondering. The fuck is Ace Bailey doing in East Orange, New Jersey?

That's what I was wondering. It turns out that Cooper fella is from East Orange, and it sounds like Ace was there doing him a solid. And that's where I'm like, bro, he's supposed to be in Utah right now. Like, he was supposed to have gone with his team. And maybe he didn't need to still be in Utah, but he hadn't been in Utah, but he had been in East Orange, New Jersey. And the way I look at that and the way that I view that with him being there is that is the player serving the interests of the agent and it should never be that.

It's not how this works. This is not I do for you, you do for me relationship. This is a you do for me and I pay you a percentage relationship. That's how that's supposed to work. So when I look at that, I'm like, oh, okay, I don't really understand. exactly what this cat is in it for because he could have been all those other things do you watch boxing you know what i'm saying lots of people do lots of business in boxing while also have a criminal past now granted a lot of them also steal but he could be fully capable of doing his

job having the other stuff but what it can't be is the 19 20 year old is serving whatever it is you say you need it can't be that and then saw the picture on the the video that people put up on the internet. Uh-do, right? And let's just say he don't look like nobody that got no LinkedIn page, right? It just doesn't seem like the person you're supposed to get. But next thing I know, the next funny thing I saw on the internet, I look up and it's a white man on front office sports who now claims to be ACE's representation.

I've heard some things about how this white man got here. I don't fully understand it. I don't know who made whatever call. but I'm a little ashamed to admit this. But I was kind of relieved when I saw that white man on the screen. I was like, oh, okay, maybe things are going to start calming down just a little bit, right? And so the white man was up there and he started talking about how Ace is very happy to go to the Utah Jazz. He talked about the Cooper fella and he was very nice and he was very kind about that.

But I think I wasn't so much relieved at seeing a white man because I thought a white man. because I thought a white man could do better, but I did feel like the Utah Jazz would perhaps deal with this a little bit better and it might make things a little smoothly. It sounded like they was moving in the path to getting Ace to go to Utah, okay? And he had to go to Utah.

And the thing I don't think that people understand here and what I don't think Cooper understood here was that if you're going to try to pull off, I'm not going to the place that drafted me, a la Eli Manning, a la John Elway. got to have a couple of things at play here. Number one, you have to have another team that wants you. Number two, you have to have an agent who can finesse it. And so I had seen a report or seeing somebody make the point that apparently what happened was Charlotte wanted to take

Cod Cnapple, right? They wound up taking him at four, but they wanted him at Cinniple to take him. The Wizards wanted Ace Bailey. They were at six. They were willing to trade up to four in order to get ace. But then Danny Ains sitting at 5 said, well, if you do that, I'm just going to take Cinnipple. And so the hornish did not make the trade. You see what I'm saying? That's the game that needed to be played. Somebody needed to figure out how to massage all these things. He didn't have an agent that was capable of pulling that off, right? And then in the end, it's a draft, man. And so as much as I hate the draft and I'm an opponent of the draft, this is what the draft is, this is how the draft works. You can't have everything that you want out of the situation, right?

You got to figure out a way to make it happen. His guy did not have the tools in order to make it happen. And then once it didn't happen, you just needed to be like, all right, well, I guess I'm going to Utah and buy all the way in on going to Utah. Okay. And eventually at some point, Ace Bailey did buy in on going to Utah. And Ryan, I know he bought in on going to Utah because he went to the press conference and I don't know who they put in charge.

But the funniest thing I heard about this weekend is Ace Bailey showed up at that press conference with his dog wearing a Utah jazz bandana. It's a pro move. If you want to in, in grace of your shit, yeah, that's just a slow clap,

you know. Yes. If you want to, if you want to end all controversial real quick, show up, show, that's almost better

than showing up with your kid after a game where you don't do well. That's right. That's right. Preemptively with the dog. With the dog,

let me tell you whose idea that was not. That was not Omar Cooper's idea. I'm here to tell you. right now. Somebody else is running this operation and shout out to whoever that was. Everything's okay, Ace. Everything, you know, you had a little bump in the road there. You might need to show up with the dog everywhere you go for quite a while. But for right now... And we still train camp. That's right. Great job, though. That was an amazing move. But in the end,

you can't always get what you want. What we're talking about here, right? That is what Bailey learned there. I didn't care that he didn't want to go to the team that drafted him, right? I wasn't offended that he didn't try to get out of it. He was just making terrible decisions. Whoever was in charge, and I don't think he was making any of those decisions, but they were making terrible decisions, right?

Now, I actually say all that to lead in to a discussion about somebody else and that somebody else is LeBron James. Bra James had a player option in his deal for $52 million. LeBron opted in on the $52 million, but then after opting in on the $52 million, Rich Paul put out a statement that I think we'd all agree was a little, huh? LeBron wants to compete for a championship. He knows the Lakers are building for the future. He understands that, but he values a realistic chance of winning it all.

We are very appreciative of the partnership that we've had for eight years with Jeannie and Rob and consider the Lakers as a critical part of his career. We understand the difficulty in winning now while preparing for the future. We do want to evaluate what's best for LeBron at this stage in his life and career. He wants to make every season he has left count, and the Lakers understand that are supportive and what's best for him. Ryan, did he just opt in and asked for a trade? at the same time?

It certainly these sorts of statements from Rich Paul as someone who's we followed the LeBron saga now for two decades certainly the unhappiness saga for over a decade and a half.

This usually comes right in the middle of the season, not going into the year. Yeah, and so this is tough for me and I can only imagine how tough it is for LeBron and quite honestly,

I can only imagine how tough it is for Rich Paul because let's, be clear. They are not a team. Okay. Rich Paul plays for LeBron. LeBron tells Rich Paul what to do. And this appears to be what Rich Paul was told to do because Rich is bright. And Rich has to know he has a losing proposition here.

And when I say he has a losing proposition here, this is what I mean. Okay. LeBron gave up, took less than the max rather. He took less than the max in Miami. to facilitate winning and got absolutely no credit for it from none of y'all, right? He took the less than the max and got no credit for it. He is a man who, in truth, in his career, has probably been underpaid by something in the neighborhood of a billion dollars, if not more.

I don't really have much of a doubt of that. I think LeBron has probably been worth over $100 million to this league every year that he has played, right? Like he has been drastically underpaid. He will never take a penny less than the max ever again. And he ain't got to explain that to me. He ain't got to apologize for it to me, right? He wants his bread, this league owes him his bread, and keep in mind, this is the man that got Spotify with the advertisements in it. Okay?

He's serious about his money. problem is in the year of our Lord 2025, you cannot win a championship paying LeBron James $50 million a year. The reason you can't win a championship pay LeBron $50 million a year is I don't think that you can win a championship in this league when your second best player makes $50 million a year. I don't think you can win a championship with LeBron as your best player, meaning he can be at best, your second best player. but you can't win a championship which is second best player making $50 million a year. It's a no win proposition in a way where I don't really understand what he's going for, where he's trying to work himself into what exactly it is that he is trying to engineer. I don't get it.

And what I say is you can't get everything that you want out of this situation. It's not going to happen. and so for him it becomes a matter of what to prioritize. Well, they already took the 50, right? So we're already there with him on the 50. I think he and the Lakers are stuck with each other. I don't think either of them can truly afford to move on. What I mean when I say that or why I say that.

Jeannie Buss finds it to be very important that the Lakers are viewed as a franchise that takes care of its stars. Okay, we first really got a glimpse into this in the way that they humbled themselves trying to keep Dwight Howard in 2013 with billboards and everything else, even though he wound up leaving, right? They tried, they gave it a go, okay? We all know what the problem was there, but, you know, you got to be careful of the

things we say about this. So they wanted to keep Dwight because that's what. they do. Okay. They got LeBron. LeBron has been there now for seven years, not the eighth that Rich Paul said, which I found to be interesting because Rich Paul knows how many years it's been. Okay. It'll be eight at the end of this year. I don't know exactly how that mistake got made or whether he was already looking into the future, but you're not going to tell me he doesn't know exactly how many years LeBron has been there. But that's the longest continuous stretch. LeBron has been anywhere in his career. It's tied with the first run in Cleveland. That was a seven-year

run. Okay. So Jeannie wants to keep LeBron, but they have already invested in the Luca era. Okay. That's the future. They've made that call. He is the next star. Okay. But the Lakers can't say we're not going to reside LeBron James. That is counter to what they do. I don't think that they're in the, well, we're going to trade LeBron James. Ooh, who? I don't really think that one's in the cards either for a player of that caliber. That runs counter to the brand that they are trying to build. On the other hand, LeBron James clearly wanted to be a Laker. One of the big things that we heard when he went there was he wanted to be part of one

of the bigger established iconic brands of the sport, one of the great franchises. He wanted to have that anchor, okay? Plus, he wants to be a Hollywood player. Now, business for Spring Hills a little bit different. They got bought out by somebody. right? So that game has gone a little bit different, but he wants to be a guy in LA, right? There was even to the point where he wanted, like, the thought of him being like an action star. Like, we've seen him in the movies, all that thing. But a player in Hollywood and a player in Los Angeles is what he wanted to be.

And having that relationship with the Lakers helps a lot toward his goal. What, you tell me, LeBron going to go back to Cleveland? I don't think so. In fact, I think it would be silly for Cleveland to do. But LeBron going back to Cleveland, don't see it. where is he going to go just to win that championship if that's what it comes down to that is truly helpful for him and again will truly put him in a position where the team can win a championship? I personally don't see that on the board for him. Where I think he made a mistake or where I would have advised him is how he treated this relationship with the Lakers. and I think that he has mismanaged it basically from the very beginning.

Here's why I say that. Simply being on the Lakers was not going to be enough to achieve what I believe LeBron J. wanted. Okay. To be attached to the Lakers in the way that he wished to be attached to the Lakers, he needed to go all in on the idea. of being a Laker. Keeping in mind that he is the successor to Kobe Bryant with the Lakers, which took on an additional magnitude after Kobe passed.

Okay. Kobe Bryant loved the Lakers. Even with the trade situation of 2007 and all of that, Kobe Bryant identified himself as a Laker fan and loved being a Laker and his relationship with that fan base is familial. It is a relationship where over that time they went through things. They had highs, they had lows. But the association with Kobe Bryant, as sociopathic as he was about the basketball stuff,

felt very real and very warm with the franchise. LeBron, for reasons that make perfect sense and are informed by his lived experience, does not relate to franchises that way. I think he came to relate to like Cleveland or North East, like Cleveland specifically, because Akron and Cleveland are not the same place. But he came to feel that way about Cleveland and that relationship became different after they went through some things, right? And then they got the championship.

But that was the thing for LeBron there. There's a real thing there with him and the people. The relationship with him and the Lakers has always felt transactional. And that was not going to get him what he wanted to be. you're dealing with a fan base that spent a long time rooting against you because you're not Kobe Bryant. And Kobe never seemed to really, really, really wrap his arms around LeBron. Now, LeBron will tell you that isn't the case, but I'm saying from here it didn't appear that way. And whether it's the truth or not, it doesn't matter in terms of application of which your relationship is going to be with those people there.

Okay. Everything needed to be, I am a Laker for life. I am, this will be my last stop. right i would like to win one more championship with the lakers you could be like will chamberlain who played for two other franchises but in the end was a laker and an l a l a lay guy and became that dude right that's what i think he needed to say and he needed to do because winning a championship is really really really really unlikely and lebron told us rain culture is overrary got it should have leaned in I think, just on being a Laker.

Make the transition to set and look at Dantjeet's up if you want all of those things. To me, that is the long run play. Even if you take the 50, okay? Take the 50 and be like, I'm never going anywhere else. I'm staying here. This is where I'm going to be.

Instead, Ryan, it's not like LeBron. I think he can play forever. It's a wild thing because by any metric, he was one of the 10 best players, in the league during the regular season. But everything the finals taught us were that finals was won by young dudes and teams that have a lot of dudes.

Yes. And things you can't do if you pay two players $50 million with the new CBA. It's impossible. And even if he's a top 10 player, he is too old to give you LeBron, like LeBron LeBron, but so often. Right. Right? Like there's going to be, yeah, it's kind of what Bruce Bowen talked about, man.

These cats ain't supposed to still be playing basketball this long. right but it's complicated by the fact that he's so good yeah but not quite that level anymore right but he needs to say i am a laker i think that's the win but all the stuff you want to get you want to be uh paid this much you want to have this chance and winning a championship and kind of the coldness of the tone in the way they now man you're not going to be able to get those things I don't think those things are available. But I'll blame them at all. Get that money.

If that's what you want. Try to get yourself to the best chance at a championship. If that's what you want. Try your hardest. It's just not going to work. Oh, guys, guys, guys, guys, I have been saying for a very long time, I feel like I got a little bit too much credit for saying this obvious thing and making this obvious point.

But we're ticking closer and closer to a big gambling scandal. Now, we don't really have a big one right now, but we did get word that Malik Beasley is under investigation by the feds for gambling. I can only presume that this news has been leaked because Beasley is a free agent and somebody needs us all to understand why it is that nobody's going to sign him. And it is probably going to be this because it is too risky. I have no idea if Beasley actually did what he is accused of. And I or being investigated for. That is a better way to put it. Our guy Tom Havistro did a really interesting look at the allegations or what the

investigation is in. And a game that in the report that Shams Sharania did for ESPN, a game that they're looking at is when Milwaukee, when Beasley played there, played a game at the Portland. trailblazers and it was an over under bet on rebounds and that right before the games there were a lot of

bets on rebounds, right? On his over, under for rebound. But the thing is, there was a huge surge of action on the under and Beasley went way over. And Haberstrode looked at the clips.

It was like, it does not look like he was out here trying to do what they said. Like the eyeball test at the very least did not match. Again, I have no idea how this is going to turn out. But Habistro did a really interesting look at it. And on its face, it is not a slam dunk case against Malik Beasley. I think thus far the league is fortunate that all the stories that we have heard about are about props. Okay.

And I don't think the general public cares about Malik Beasley. running game on props. Like him running game on how many rebounds he gets, I don't think the general public cares about that. I think the general public cares about point shaving and fixing games. That's the concern. And so when these stories come out like these, like John T. Porter is saying,

way, I don't think anybody cares about that. I don't. I think it matters within buildings and teams have to make decisions about whether they're going to have those guys, but this is not the stuff that threatens the integrity of the game. hasn't happened yet, but it's coming. I don't see any way that anybody can think that it's not going to wind up coming. And the reason that I think is going to wind up coming is I think it's so incredibly stupid to try to run the game that they're trying to run on Malik Beasley, for example.

So let's say for a moment that Beasley was in on some kind of fix, right? And all these people rush and put this money in on his under for rebounding. Because the under is really the only part that you can feel confident that you can fix, right? So let's say the Beasley comes in and hits the under on the rear. Everybody puts in the money on the under for rebound. Ryan, I think you've seen this also. The way that they catch you is that once you have this odd betting behavior, this unusual amount of activity,

they take it off the board and now they start paying attention. Because they're like, who are all these people that care about Believe Beasley getting rebounds? It's the thing that always blows my mind about these stories is, you know, the way they, they always phrase it is defrauding a gambling enterprise. You know what the normal way of saying that is? Trying to steal from a casino. Yes. Which all of us know. Terrible idea.

Yeah. We've all seen the movies. Yeah, we've seen the movies. It's very difficult. Excuse me, sir. Why don't you come back here and get you check, huh? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Back in this other room.

And the next thing, you know, you got your finger in a vice. Like, like, or, oh. No, no, this is a hook. They're going to notice all these. Who the fuck is betting on Malik Beasley getting rebound? You understand what I'm saying? Like the caliber of player that gets caught up in this is the caliber of player nobody bets on.

Like everybody's... It's a very easy thing to catch. It is a very... You know why it's a very easy thing to catch? Because they got a whole department whose entire job is catching you do these things. Catch you stealing from the casino. Hold on. The casino.

not the bodega, the casino. You might be able to shoplift from the bodega. That's fine. The Nordstrom looked like Howard Hughes with the room with all the screens on it. They go get you, right? And so the caliber of player that gets caught up in this is typically a guy like this. And I just feel like everybody involved, why do you think you can get away with this? Now, maybe you think you can get away with it because you get away with it once

and they let you get away with it once. and then they just let it keep going and you too stupid to realize that they just letting you rack up a fella. You don't understand that that's the direction that this is going in. Maybe that's it. I don't know. But this is the small part. This is only the beginning. This is only the beginning.

And the more and more it happens, the more it eats away at the integrity. of the sport, and that's when this all falls apart. This is not wrestling. What makes this compelling is the real live drama that is involved, and it is based on the sanctity of what happens. And so, like I say, it's a thin line. I think people can live with the props. Once it takes one more step.

And look, I saw something, and I don't understand this one. And it's a game, now this is pretty hilarious. It's a game where Michael Beasley's, I mean, like a Michael Beasley, sorry Michael Beasley, Malik Beasley. Scores like seven points in the last minute of the game, and the Timberwolves then covered. Like they were something like eight and a half point underdogs, and they wound up covering because he went on this barrage at the end of the game.

But that, if you bet on your own team to cover, or you're part of an operation that bet on your own team to cover. Like it's a bad idea. You shouldn't do it, right? But that's not the one I think that's going to really shake people up that much. That's part of why people wanted to let Pete Rose slide. It's because, hey, well, he always been on his team.

That one doesn't really offend people in this way. But it's going to go farther or farther. And the assumption always is that somebody who does this, like, John Jay Porter is desperate and owes people money. And that's how they get caught up. This gambling thing is going to hit our entire society. It's going to. And the reason it's very simple.

It's one thing when you had to go to the track to bet, but now the OTB is in your pocket. Right? Like I told you, I was reading this book that made a very important point about being online is that online used to be a place you had to go. Right? You had to sit down on your computer and that's thinking, you know, you was online. Well, now online is a place that goes everywhere that your phone goes. You're always online. That means with the casino that you're always at the casino. know. Somebody is going to get themselves in this trouble because it's almost impossible not to. We are addicted to our phones as is. You think somebody's not going to get addicted to the part of the phone that you can make money with? It's going to come. It's here. Right. And so these slow trickle of stories that's coming out, okay, my question is, what else they know?

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Everybody wants this great summer body, but we'd rather not spend endless hours at the gym getting it. And so we look for all these sorts of fitness miracles. Sometimes stuff is pretty questionable. There are a bunch of contraptions that promise to whip us into shape with little or no effort. In the 50s, housewives were sold these vibrating belts that supposedly did the trick. Nowadays, we have ab belts and vibrating platforms and shake weights and all sorts of devices that supposedly help us get fit.

The claims around this stuff can be pretty dubious. Marketers obviously overstayed their effectiveness, and a lot of the research on these products is done by the companies that make them. So you can maybe see the problem there. Experts say that some of this stuff does have some purpose, depending on the thing and the circumstance. And honestly, if some random tool gets you started exercising, that's fine. But you might quit pretty quickly. But we're also in the age of Ozmpic and weight loss drugs. And people are really looking for more miracles and quick fixes. They figure if this shot can make them

thin. Why can't some electromagnetic vest make them fit? The tough thing is that fitness is this ongoing kind of slow game. Same with health. It would be really great if a shake weight could get your arms ready for summer, but it's probably not your best bet. You know, Ryan, I talk about this, that I'm the wrong person to really, I can only say for so much on this. Like, I have metabolism that makes it such that, like, I once saw John Oliver was talking something about the Irish one, and he was like, I can't really say anything about it because I talk like this, right? Like, he, like, I feel like I'm in a very similar situation. Like, I can't really get on y'all about these things and moves. I'm just,

this isn't how the world works man like this is just as an absolute across-the-board thing I'm just going to press this button and it's going to that's not it don't go that way none of those things are going to do the job that you're hoping for yeah I mean usually I think a good rule of thumb for most things and if it's too good to be true then it probably is yeah but it's and I feel bad for people because like people who have giant level, like, huge weight loss swings, right? And I'm getting the words wrong. But, you know, people who have a situation where they lose a lot of weight. One thing I hear them say is they realize when they lose weight just how much people hate fat people. Right? They can instantly tell

the difference in how they're treated and how people look at them. And that's tough, you know? Like, and so if you're in the position where you feel like people look at you like that, yeah, you'll want to do anything to make it such that it doesn't go that way. But we read these stories about like, oh, Zempic changing the way what it is to go out to dinner with people because people don't want to eat. Like that doesn't, that doesn't sound fun at all. Right. Like none of that sounds like the game that you want to play. So I get it.

People want to can't get everything you want, right? Like we want to find a way to eat all the stuff that we want to eat and do all the fun stuff and not take the consequences that come with it. Right? and you just got to figure out which one you want. Like I realize this is obviously I'm not like at a risk of obesity necessarily, but I'm a big fan of sugar, right? I enjoy those things greatly. Hey man, I realize that there's some limitations of some of my goals

that come up from eating all this ice cream, right, and drinking all these simply fruit drinks. I recognize that. If I stop for a little while, I get the thing I'm looking for. I have decided I would rather eat ice cream. That's the call that I've made. Yeah, I mean, we've all got to make our decisions. Yes, yes.

All right, this next one's about summer. Hi, I'm Matt Fuchs, contributing reporter for Time magazine. I recently wrote an article about the science of using air conditioning in ways that'll keep you cool without making you sick. AC is a great invention for getting through summertime without a heat-related illness. ACs cool you down and reduced dust, pathogens, and outdoor pollution like particulate matter 2.5. AC also drops humidity, which helps prevent unhealthy, mold, and dust mites. But, use the wrong way, AC can work against you. Breathing in very dry air makes your body add moisture, and that moisture leaves your body with every breath.

According to experts, I spoke with, this can dry up your airway, causing coughs, sore throats, and vulnerability to microbes. It's probably worth getting a fairly cheap humidity sensor. If humidity drops below 40%, give the AC a rest. If humidity tops 60%, crank it back up. Also, change your AC filter regularly. With a dirty filter, the coil and ducts could become cesspools of mold, bacteria, and allergens, which the AC blows into your home. People view AC as this magic black box for making cold, researchers told me.

We just think about it when it stops making cold. But even if the cold magic still works, a specialist should inspect the coil and ducts yearly to ensure they're clean. Experts point to another issue. If the AC is always on with windows shut, your air may be rife with an indoor toxin, volatile organic compounds or VOCs, released by personal products and linked to chronic diseases. ACs don't filter them out, but a HEPA air purifier with a carbon filter can. It traps VOCs and particularly matter 2.5.

VOC monitors aren't always reliable, but monitors for PM2.5 are better, and they show humidity levels. Every home is a unicorn, so try these strategies. check your monitor and find what works best to stay healthy, not moldy, this summer. Hey, man, I appreciate our man putting us up on game about this air conditioner because let me tell you something, brother. If the AC kills me, that's just what it does. I don't care if it's Legionnaires disease.

We're going down. You and me both. Brother, that's just how it has to go, Matt. Ryan, we completely skipped. Let's go hang out at the park weather in New York City. Completely blew through that. It did not happen. Like, I love going to just sitting in the park.

It, not a chance. I don't, I don't know what, just went right through it. I'm just in here running this air conditioner, baby, running it hot. That, look, I'll do all those things that man said, okay, I'm going to change out every filter. I'm going to get all these pathogens, eat toxins out the air, whatever it may be, right? And look, maybe it ties into what I was just saying about the weight loss, right? what we talk about with the AC is not how to whirlwork.

It's not supposed to be so easy. You can just press a button and it's cold. You know what? It's not. It ain't supposed to be that way, but it is now. I'm going to push that bottom on that cold box and make it go cold as long as it can. Man, I got a new air conditioning set up, and it's so weird to where, like, I like to sleep with it's super cold. And it won't let me take it down below like 65.

And I'm like, no, no, no, we need to keep going, baby. I got to figure out how to fix that. that. Keep it going. Keep it going. I can't think of my boy George, boy, he talked about his daddy. He said his daddy said a thing. I'll never forget this as long as I live. He said, I'll work too hard to be hot in my own house. I refuse. Refuse. Being hot outside is terrible. Being hot indoors is worse. Yeah, no, no, no, no, no. Like, so a thing about living in New York that's kind of hard to explain is that nobody has everything they want out of their home. Nobody. Like, it's just, it just, it don't work that way here. Everybody's making some

level of trade. It ain't about to be to AC, brother. It's not. There's a lot of these old buildings that ain't got, you know, where AC is not an option. No, sir, no sir. Can't be. I'd be out there on the street looking for the ice man, bro. We just have a block on a fan in my house at all times. Does me not. Hell not. All right. Our last story is from dating. There's a new experimental on dating site called browser dating, which aims to match singles based on their web browsing histories. The unconventional approach analyzes users' online interest and activities to create compatibility scores. Site emphasizes transparency, allowing users to see their browsing habits, how their browsing habits influence potential matches. The platform seeks to foster

connections based on shared interest, behaviors, challenging traditional mating methods that often rely on superficial metrics. Bo your thoughts. Absolutely not. No chance. No chance. I might as well let you put something on my brain that tells you all my thoughts. I don't know how to describe this without sounding, you know, like gross.

I wouldn't let anyone see my browser history. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. If I had known that that was going to be an option, I would have browsed different. Of course. This is not. And on top of that, let me tell you something. The last thing I want to be is with somebody who browse the same stuff as me. We got a, no, no, no, no.

Yeah, yeah. Not what are we? Yeah, no, no, no. I ain't, I don't, uh-uh. No, no, no, no. Like, it's a very interesting idea. I see why somebody would do. It's certainly the most honest representation of what your thoughts actually are.

Yes, I actually think that all that's going to do is make it harder to find somebody. Like, I would be, it says, I don't, is compatibility, if compatibility is done this way, is it measured by similarity? Is it measured by like complementarity? I don't know if that's word, but, you know, but like how they fit together rather than whether or not they're just like straight ahead. Like, I'm not exactly sure. The scary thing about that to me is what you'll have is just people who like all the same memes. I can see that. Well, that will just lead to couples who just think the same.

same memes are funny. Now, I will say, though, that if you have this service and one of the factors that you put on there is, shall we say, what is your search term? That might work. Could work. Right? But you got to, you got to leave it there. You got to leave just at the term. Just leave it there. And by the way, keep it highly confidential. Highly confidential. Let them find out together that they have that in common. All right. Voicemails oldie but a goodie. Tell us to the best fight you've seen in the pickup basketball court. Great responses, as always. Here's the first one.

Hello, Bumani. This is Arthur. I'm a big fan that following you since your ESPN days, and I wanted to respond to your question about best fight that you've seen on a pickup game. So at university, my best friend was playing a pickup game, and I just, my team at loss, I was off on the side. I'm watching, and they're playing against this guy that's on the soccer team, university and he's playing like an athlete that doesn't play basketball if you know what I mean

especially like football players are the best example of that and he's been about for my friend he's like six four two 20 pretty big athletic guy and the soccer players like typical soccer player size like five nine maybe something like that small but he's playing really hard really hard hustle hustle hustle and then my friend started getting more serious with them and just started abusing them on the post and getting bored and stuff like that so then the soccer player decided to get into a soccer player bag, and he head-budded my friend. Now, my friend, his mom is a vice president at this school.

So I'm like, I need to go protect my friends. So I run out there, me and this other guy, go out there and we grab my friend. We're like, we don't want you to destroy this other guy. This is not going to be a good look for you, for your mom, or whatever. And we try to calm them down, and we do calm them down a bit. The soccer dude just kind of ticks off at this point. Then I look at my friend, and I see some mouth.

And then his two front teeth are like pushed back in. And I'm like, oh, damn, I should have let him fight him. I thought pretty bad about it. So it wasn't much of a fight, but it was just kind of crazy to see that in a rare moment because I'm a pacifist at heart. I don't like seeing a fight, but at that time I was like, damn, I really should have let him, you know, throw some haymakers at that blend. Again, I've been following you for a long time, money, enjoy the show.

Thanks. Take care. Yo, like you did the right thing. I want you to always know that you did the right thing. You did what your friend needed. But it's been all these years. You could facilitate making it happen at another place. You know what I'm saying?

Like in the same school, it could be a homecoming or whatever. But the next time y'all see that, you know what time it is. All right, here's our next one. Yo, Bo, this is Jay from PG County, Maryland. And I'm going to tell you a time where I would, a fight broke out at a basketball game that I was participating in. So I set the scene. This is about the year 2000.

I'm in Atlanta, Georgia. I'm playing on a, I don't want to say it's in Clark, but it's around the Clark campus. I have a couple of Morris Brown, I went to Morris Brown. I have a couple of Morris Brown guys with me, and we're playing hoop. I have my roommate, my roommate at the time.

We're going against these two older classmates. They had been at Morris Brown for at least two years. So they were upperclassmen. They knew each other. Me and my roommate was still getting to know each other. We had summer school together. And so, you know, coming into the fall, you know, we were still trying to get to know each other.

and so we're playing the game against these two upper-classmen. And I, for some strange reason, blacked out. And when I mean blacked out, I mean everything I'm shooting is going in. It's never happened to me. Those kind of games, my whole life probably happened three times. I'm 44 years old. I probably had these games a grand total of three times in my entire life. So this is one of those times.

Everything's getting in, going in for me to a point where they start, you know, bickering about who's going to guard me. And so they make the switch, and then everything continues to go in. And so now we've stopped the game, and these two are in each other's faces. The upperclassmen at Morris Brown are in each other faces about to fight each other other because of what I was doing on the court. It was the first time I felt bad and good, and it was weird because I couldn't really enjoy it because I'm seeing these two dudes literally. And yes, they got, they threw blows.

Yes. Blood was drawn. It wasn't a big gash, but it was a gash over one of the guys's eyes. Yeah. And it was just crazy, man. I will never forget that. Shout out to Morris Brown. Shout out to Atlanta.

Those are some fun times in my life. I'm back in Prince George's County now. And I've never had a game like that since. So that should tell you how far and beyond those games are for me. Thank you for listening. Appreciate you. Keep doing what you do, Bo. Brother, I would have left.

Like, this is like the next, all that's waiting on you after that is a hard foul because somebody got to show what it is. is also when you say hooping around Clark that reminds me at that time I played some ball in University Homes and it was the one time I dunked in a game and we should have left right away because the locals did not appreciate the

milestone that I had achieved in that very moment. Man, man, yeah. Well, hey man, at least they wouldn't fighting you. All right, here's our last one. Hey, Bo. So I'm slightly outside of the criteria with this one. It was a practice fight, but it's still

a good story. So we had these two dudes, this was in college, they were like power forwards, a little bit heavier dudes, so they were like, you know, 6, 6, 6, 7-ish, they start going at it in practice. Just sort of seemed out of nowhere, but like just haymakers. So when I say seeing two dudes who are a little heavyset at 6-6, then toe to toe, just throwing haymakers for like probably 10 to 12 straight seconds, that sounds really. short, my God, it was forever. I went and was like, oh, I'm going to jump in there and break it up.

You know, my teammates fighting, blah, blah, blah. Coach holds me back. He's like, the hell are you about to do it? I was like, you're right. I'm probably going to get knocked the hell out. So anyway, the way that this fight ends is one guy just cold clocks the other, goes down, hits the ground, kind of comes back too, and then just throws up on the court. I'm like, so totally nuts.

Starts dragging himself off and the other dude yells at him. Yeah, that's right. Throw up, you little bitch. So just totally nuts. I'm like, okay, that's got to be it. Like he cold-clocked you, called you a little bitch as you're dragging yourself off the court and your own vomit. No, my man gets to his feet.

He looks at him from across the court with every, the whole team between the told me he goes, that's all right. I'll catch you in the locker room, stab you to death. Yo, what? What are we doing here? So, like, you know, these sound like big words, and some of your listeners might be like, oh, my God, what happened next?

Man, nothing. We got down into the locker room and those two dapsed each other up. We started talking about what had happened in practice and what we were about to do after because that's how college basketball works. All right, man. Talk to you later.

Hey, brother, let me explain something to you right now. I don't know how long ago that was, but you need to know this, and I mean this. That stabbing is still in the cards. It's still on the board. That stabbing doesn't have a statute of limitations? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It may take some alcohol to bring it out or whatever. Like, dude realized right then and there that stabbing him was probably not the best play,

but his desire to stab him has not gone away, right? Now, granted, it's clear that he was given a concussion. and so maybe that, but no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, don't you think this is this is not over. This is not, no, no, no, no. I am going to stab you. Hey, man, I don't want no parts. Any dude that's willing to stab you, that's a real man right there, boy. You don't, like any, the problem with a gun is anybody could be a killer with a gun.

A knife, you got to have it in you. Yeah, no, no, no, not loud. Yeah. No, no, no, not me. No, sir. No, sir. But ladies and gentlemen, thanks so much for joining us here on the right time. We do this here three days a week.

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