The Right Time with Bomani Jones - Pacers force game 7 vs Thunder, Lakers sell for $10B, Shedeur Sanders speeds | 6.20

Episode Date: June 20, 2025

On today's episode of The Right Time, Bomani Jones discusses the Indiana Pacers winning game 6 of the NBA finals over the Oklahoma City Thunder. He also breaks down the ramifications of the Los Angeles Lakers selling for $10 billion and why Shedeur Sanders has to have better judgment after being pulled over twice for speeding this past month. 01:10 - Pacers force Game 7 15:11 - Lakers big payday 29:57 Shedeur Sanders gets caught speeding 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. You only give us four stars. I'm inclined to believe you are a hater. We got a little talk about what's going on.

We should do a Sanders a little bit later. Also, the Lakers being sold for $100 billion. But I would like to take this most. to send a brief shout out. But thank you of sorts to the Indiana Pacers. And I like basketball, so I enjoy the idea that there's going to be a game seven. I have found this to be a good series. I would like to see another game of this series. I love everything that goes into the idea and notion of a game seven. Totally here for it, right? Shout out to my homie, and the rest of the people that are covering this series who have another round of connecting flights.

You know, no, there's got to be a little bit of time. But anyway, I want to thank the Pacers because I get one more show worth of content out of this. That's what I'm talking about. Teen Word made the DreamWere, baby. You have to understand. None of us win when the basketball season ends like that. The basketball season just ends. and then we out here scraping the bowl on what to try to figure out what to talk about. Hell today, if that boy hadn't been driving his car so goddamn fast, I'm not entirely sure what we would do with this year's show. You know what I mean?

That's what we down to. That, you know, that's what it comes to. Hey, anybody get arrested? Like, back when I used to do daily radio, especially when I did it in North Carolina where you don't really have proteins to talk about all you got is college. And it wasn't at that point where you could get away with talking about because of college baseball.

on the radio, baby. I'd be waiting every day hoping somebody would get their ass locked up. It would be fantastic. I ain't want them to be out here like committing real deal felonies. That wouldn't be cool. But a really foolish, humorous misdemeanor, clutch. That's what we get reduced to. And there ain't no more basketball. But we get one more game here. Now, game six, I'm really not sure what there is to talk about from game six because it was such a blowout. I think the one thing that becomes clear about that game to me is something that we've talked about going into this. And it was a big part of the reason that people had apprehension about Oklahoma City despite their regular season record the last two years is they're still crazy young. Like I don't think I realize the statistic that this is the second youngest team ever in the NBA finals. Right.

So no matter how good they are, no matter how much better they can be on the other side, young people still do. silly, ridiculous things. Young people still struggle with concentration and for recognizing the true magnitude of the stakes before you. On one hand, people can make the argument that the beauty of being young is, oh, man, they don't even realize what a big deal that is. This is. I struggle to buy that argument, but I understand where people are coming from, right? But if you do buy that, they, the young people just so, they're so young, it's carefree. Now, sometimes you do need to know what the stakes are. It's not a matter in this game or whatever you're talking about life, wherever you go, there is no real benefit for not knowing what the stakes are. The only benefit

for not knowing what the stakes are is extrinsic, not intrancy. What is ex-transically good about not knowing what the stakes are is if the idea of the stakes puts too much weight on your shoulders, being aware of what it is makes you nervous, then yeah, it's probably better that you don't realize how big a deal it is. The true test of this is to be in a position where you do recognize what the stakes are, but you've got the shoulders to carry. That is. the place in your life that you hope to grow to, right? Like that is where you want your team to mature to. It's that place where you recognize, hey, fellas, this is what it is. And now we're going to go out here and we're going to get this done. The thunder looked like a team to me that was aware of what the stakes are, aware of what was in front of them.

And it was just a little bit too much. They started off hot. You know what I mean? They started off early, like, very, very, very. very early at least. They started off getting it done and then they just got their doors blown off in the second quarter, right? Wasn't really much to talk about after that. And so now what you hope for, if you root for the thunder, is that there's going to be weight and there's going to be pressure when they take it back home. But those people that are screaming are going to be on their side, they're going to get to sleep in their bed. It's now going to be the dudes on the other side. that know the weight, know the expectation, but they ain't got no friends in the bill. That's what you're hoping for. The other thing that you're hoping for is that

whatever minutes Tyrese Halliburton played will be a detriment to him going into the next guy. The big winners of the scheduling right now, I think, have to be the Pacers. And I think a lot of us, and understandably, have not enjoyed having these two days off between games and the feeling that it kind of slows the momentum. But I also, think that we win in a way in that the players are one day healthier going into the games. And at this point, those margins do in fact matter. And this is a huge win for the Pacers who get to give Halliburton another day of whatever magic they do.

Like, I guarantee you, he in there getting rubbed on and they putting electricity in his shit and everything else. Like, you know, like a job job. He isn't there nine to five. Yeah, I don't know what sort of vitamin T they give NBA players. whatever they gave his calf, it worked. I guess we also don't fully understand the magnitude of the injury. Because look, I think many of us are in the same position.

And maybe we're overly concerned and I recognize I'm not a doctor. And I don't fully understand how all of these things work. But when I hear he's going to play through a strained calf, I think Kevin Durant tearing his Achilles in 2019. Right. I don't know if every strained calf, is a heartbeat away from a torn Achilles. I don't.

I am inclined to believe, though, under these circumstances, that if the Pacers really thought that there was a torn Achilles situation, that they would not play him. This is not like Kevin Durant, where the last game that Kevin Durant played in the 2019 season was absolutely going to be the last game that he played for the Golden State Warriors. I don't think that if Kevin Durant said, I can't play, the Warriors would have tried to force him.

But I do think that the states and how you make the decision are just a little bit different when your time horizon is so readily apparently different, right? Like the warrior's only incentive under those circumstances to say, nah, bro, you're not going to play, would be purely out of the goodness of their own hearts if they thought that Durant could contribute. And by the way, he was killing it before he got hurt in that game and before he got hurt generally. But in that game, he was killing it before he got hurt, right? The Pacers got a much wider time horizon to think of with Halliburton. I feel like in their eyes, they would like that to be a guy that plays with them for another 10 years. They're not going to, I don't think they're going to tank out his Achilles, even to win under these circumstances, because he's only but so good. Ryan, that being said, they were a plus 25 in his minutes, and he scored 14 and 23 minutes on 5 for 12 shooting.

He wasn't great. He has no lift. Yeah, he has no lift, but he can still do things. Yeah, he can still run their offense. and he's still part of their relentless brand of basketball, right? Like they're still pushing the pace. They're still doing everything they need to do. But, I mean, also his injury allows for the fan favorite.

Oh, man. McConnell Ladova. Yeah, McConnell-Ovo. Be out there, boy. And I forget who made the point where I've seen people make the argument about, like, what would happen if T.J. McConnell play 38 minutes. And it would be nothing like that. This Tasmanian devil shit that he does only works because, you know,

he ain't going to be out there for very long. You know what I mean? Like, these other cats are running like the 800, the 1500, the 300 steeful chase. It's a 60-meter dash every time McConnell Ladova, aka Nelly, be out here on the floor. That's what it is. And look, he's getting the job done and he is one game away from immortality. That's right. He is one game away for them retiring his jersey for the Indiana.

Pascals. Pascal Seaccom, not for you, buddy. That ain't going to happen. I don't care how good you play. The Indiana Paces, again, who have only retired four players, jerseys. Reggie Miller, Mel Daniels, George McKinnis, and Roger Brown. Which is to say, they have not retired anybody's jersey who was drafted in the last 40 years, except Reggie Miller, and that was 38 years ago.

McConnell Ladova, it can. be you. Tyrese Halliburton, it might be you. McConnell Ova, it's your time, big boy. It is your time. Now, going back over there to the thunder, Ryan, and I'm curious if you feel this way also. Like, Jaila Williams didn't play a great game there, but I really do think for them, it just really comes down to how, what version of Chet shows up? If Chet shows up making shots and being aggressive, that Oklahoma City is probably going to win. Right. And I think that Chet is currently the biggest variable

into their short-term and long-term success. If he is also a top 25 player in the NBA, they're not only going to win this title, they're going to win the next two of the next three titles, right? So it's going to be interesting to see when you see him out on the perimeter doing things out there, if he's having an impactful game offensively and defensively,

they seem impossible to beat. I am a big Chet guy, right? I think people who listen to this show for a while understand this. That's where I ride with it. At the same time, Miles Turner has been cheats this series in a way that I didn't think it was possible that Indiana could be at 3-3 in this series. With him being this bad.

With him being this bad. And even in the game of last night, it was one for nine. Like, I did not think that that could happen. But I, all of us who are in this business, we have a chance to pour ourselves into this man. Like this is a game seven with players who are slash can be the future of this league. Regardless of what you said about, oh, market size or anybody else that was caught up in that nonsense like they're a shareholder or anything else. This is what you want.

This is a game seven to close out the. NBA finals, right? Correct me, if I'm wrong, we have not had this since 2016, which to me is one of the best, most memorable basketball games that I can remember of Golden State Cleveland to close that out. Yeah, that's probably one of the, probably one of the four most impactful basketball games in my life. And one stat I found interesting is in the last 20 years, you know, teams that win game six down three, two have won that game seven, you obviously talk about Cleveland, you talk about LeBron's heat in 2013, and also going back to 2010, the Lakers won that game seven after being three down. Three down, three to Boston. Now, the interesting quirk on this, though, because this also applies to 1988 with the Lakers and the Pistons. It also applies to 1994 with the Rockets and the Knicks.

What is different here than those series, it does apply to 2016, though, is we're in a 2211 format where it was a 232. other. So in the others, game six and seven were being won by the home team in both cases. By the way, I'm a big go back to 232 guy. Like this, this decision to go to 2211 is silly. If you went into 232, we might not have to have these three, these two nights in between games. And then, you know, Hoover is really rooting for 2211 to go away is the people fly on connecting flights from. Well, the whole explanation for why they went to 232 and it made perfect sense was They were going from Boston to L.A. all the time.

We're going from L.A. to Philadelphia. And it just didn't make any sense to keep doing these transcontinental flights in that way. And they held it all the way through 2013. 2014, the Spurs won that series in five and they won it back at home because they brought the game five back over there. No, it is. And I know the arguments that people make behind why you go, if you have home court advantage and then you lose a game at home. and then you can maybe not get a chance to bring it back the other way. Well, maybe you shouldn't have lost that game at home, big boy.

You know, maybe that's what it comes down to. But anyway, Oklahoma City gets this in that loud-ass building. They get it there. They have, there's nothing and no reason why they should not be able to close this out. The other team's best player is very obviously injured. They cobble it together with those other. dudes, right? I have believed that we've gone overboard with the Rick Carlisle love in this series. However, I do think that he has done a better coaching job than Dagono. This is going to come

down to him, I think, in large measure. What do you have to take on your guy, right? This is about you. What do you have? Because you got to be the one. If you in that squad that you had with those guys, cannot beat Indiana with Tyrese Halliburton on one leg, it all comes back to you. You and the MVP did not have in it with an opportunity to close this out, the MVP did not show up like they needed him to show up. Like that was a game where the way he played for those five minutes, he needed to play like that for 15, for the game basically.

Those five minutes in game four, they needed a game like that from him. Like when we start talking about guys being on the superstar tier, What you talk about is a game like that in the, okay, I guess I got to go get this done now. He did not do that there. He did not. You might want to give it a try at the crib. Otherwise, y'all going to be sad.

All right, so the Lakers got sold at a valuation of $10 billion. Yeah. So a guy named Mark Walter, Mark Walter already owns a pretty big chunk of the Dodgers. Now he owns the Lakers. How much this matters, I think, is a fair question for people to ask. Because who owns a team? Generally speaking, if it's not your team, it's not that big of the team. What most people do not realize about the Lakers is that the success that the Lakers have had,

by and large, through the era of the bus family, has been they kind of riding on natural talent. and the natural talent for the Lakers is we are the Lakers and we are in Los Angeles. So what I say that, this is what I mean. Jerry Busses real advantage as the owner of the Lakers. Number one was building into a truly glamorous franchise. If you have read Jeff Pearlman's Showtime or watched any of winning time that was on HBO, you understand what I'm saying. Like the glitz and glamour and everything around L.A.

that really kind of permeates from the 1980s, that gives you the brand that you have right now. That is a Jerry Bus Edition, right? The Forum Club and the Laker Girls and everything else, right? Making this a Hollywood entity. That was his thing. His other thing was his willingness to spend money on players in order to keep the team good. The issue was the game changed on what it meant to be an owner throughout his tenure and continue to change as the bus children,

who are not children, they're clearly adults, but as the second generation old buses took over the tea. And what changed is the rest of the owners got a lot richer. The buses, on the other hand, basically all their money is from the tea. This is a very similar situation to the Steinbrenner, post George with the Yankees. But all their money is money from the team. What they have is money that was in the valuation of the franchise.

And so what you would hear when people would want to talk about the Lakers in charming terms is that they were a mom and pop operation. They were a family business. That's the way you would put it. They were a family business. They were a family business. and Jerry Bus used to fly Southwest. And I'm not saying there's anything wrong with him flying Southwest.

I'm just saying if he himself was flying Southwest, how much money you think they were spending on other stuff? Right. There are plenty of stories about the shallow pockets of the Lakers and the money that they have not spent over the years. They have done all of this while being. a touch cheap and relatively speaking a little bit broke. That's what they've done and they pulled all of this off.

Now they're bringing in a man who got enough paper behind him that he could buy the majority share of the Lakers at a $10 billion valuation. My question is this stuff. You don't pay $10 billion for a team like that because you don't want to make money. That's number one. And number two, the collective bargaining agreement is in place to make it difficult. Even if you want to spend way more money than everybody else, they then ultimately hamstring you in other ways and prevent you from doing other things that nullify the impact that you have of being able to spend all that money.

Now, what Mark Walter and this new operation can do is trick to place out a little. bit, right? They can make it a little cushier, make it a little cozier, make it a place that players want to play. My only thing is, they already want to do that. Now, what they can do is, for example, beef up like the analytics staff, which I'm not mistaken. It's something that when JJ Reddy got there, he asked them to do what they did, right? Like, they can beef up things at those margins, but I am still largely a believer that this is about players, and I'm not exactly sure how all of this money is going to make them better at filling out the roster. Perhaps it will make them better at acquiring data points that can be then synthesized

into the core of your decisions. But I'm not, I'm not sure. I don't, you know, I don't, I'm not positive. It makes that much of it. You can't get, you can't do what the Dodgers are doing with Shohei Otani. No. Like you can't just defer all this money, spend all the money you want and just outspend. and the rest of the roster.

That error of the NBA is gone. You can't just simply say fine, then I'll pay the tax. Correct. Even if you are willing to just say, fine, then, and pay the tax, there's going to be stuff on the other, like what the apron stuff, like what trades you can make, how you can match up salaries, so forth and so on, all those things. None of those things change.

It's essentially a hard cap now. Yes. And so now what we have is, I think the idea is all that money will allow them, allowed them to do all of the little things, and maybe the little things will be what pushes them over the top. I'm not sure, but I am pretty sure that all the other owners have known at some point a day like this could come for the Lakers, because it is the Lakers that terrifies everybody. It was the Chris Paul trade to the Lakers that made Dan Gilbert write that letter to David Starring to be like, brough, I thought we talked about this. Right? Like the Lakers are different. The Lakers

are the special franchise. The Lakers are the one that every other team's fans, got a tendency to hate on and especially their owners. They are those ones. So it'll be interesting to see how the things change. I don't necessarily think it's seismic in that regard. But what I do think it is, though, is a sign for you to understand even bigger money is coming into these games and it ain't the so many people who's got that much money. Okay? It's not. It's not. It's not. It's Not that many. The NBA made it such very recently that you can start taking money from private equity in order to build out your team that they can take minority ownership. That to me is simply the beginning step, right?

I thought with the Lakers that if there is something to think about, it is, at least it wasn't the Saudis. Like I told people, I talked about this around Lib golf and everything else. But once they started letting private equity in, that I thought it was a matter of time before the Saudis or somebody over there made a real big play at either the Lakers or the Yankees. And the big reason is, I thought this is once you got a team that's owned by a bunch of siblings or some number of siblings, not all of them are going to care about the team, but they all going to care about the money. And so if somebody pulls up and says we got X billion dollars and like with the buses it's six of them, three or four want to get the money, you're going to wind up going to the money, right? And so you basically, if an entity like that money whips them, then you're going to have those people perhaps in charge of a glamour franchise. Everybody kind of knows Hal Steinbrenner with the Yankees. They don't really care about baseball like that. It's not that big a deal. If those folk pull up and, you know, money whip them, is MLB going to say no? given that the valuation of everybody else's franchise is going to go up based upon what's happened with the Lakers. Now, with Mark Walter, it's not the same thing, right?

However, you can Google them up and go look at who to some of the people are that that TWG group does some money with. That's some of their money being involved in this. That is some of that money over there from the Middle East, being involved in this. That I do think is the beginning of where these. games are going to go and where the money is going to come from, right? Like I'm looking at this,

Ryan. This is from April of 2025. It is a press release and it's TWG Global. That's their company, the Mark Walter company, TWG Global and Mubadala Capital enter multi-billion dollar investment alliance. And the Mubadala capital, the company is based in Abu Dhabi. That is where they are. TWG had a $15 billion equity raise. $15 billion equity raise, Ryan. Billion. Billion. Okay.

That's the kind of business we're talking about here. That's the level of money that's coming into this now. This is the beginning. I mean, I think an interesting point you make with the Saudis and just the sell and the amount of money involved is at some point, these prices are going to go so high. there's only so many potential buyers. Right. And who will always be sitting there with stacks and stacks of seemingly limitless disposable income in cash is, you know, these oil magnets. They have so much money.

It is impossible to explain. They have so much money to the point where they just got to do something with this money. Like you have to explain to people what you're doing with all. this money. Oh, we're buying a sports team. Yeah. Because they just got so much money. So that's what the fun part is for me, like long run

on this. Like if you want to get into the business of it, I don't know how much it affects the basketball. But the direction that we're going to go in of where this money is coming from and what that means for the leagues, I think those are the questions that we are going to ask ourselves. But boo boy, imagine being

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Go in 90, missed the court date, went 100. Come on, man. So there's two levels of this for me, right? The missed the court date is the, come on, man. Right? And that is honestly the part to me that if I am the Browns, that's the one where I'm really, really, really, like, you have the right to wag your finger at him

if you're the Browns about missing the court date. Like that is just, that is, that is irresponsible in a way that you cannot simply write off to you or immaturity, right? You are a quarterback in the NFL. You got to go to court. You can't forget this. I don't care how old you are. You are in a grown man's game, a grown man's world, a grown man's life, okay?

You can't miss the court date. Okay. even if you want to simply make the argument that he got caught slipping for driving as fast as he did, you can't miss the court date. That's it. And I don't think there's much more that somebody like me can say about that. Everything there is self-evident. It does not make him a bad person, but that was just like a real, that was a silly, childish move for you to make.

at a point in your life where you cannot do silly childish things. You just can't, right? But the other part I want to talk about is the speeding itself, because I've seen, I have overwhelmingly in the response to this, seen people who have, I feel like, preemptively responded to a backlash that hasn't truly come. I could be missing it. And if I am, that's fine. Please feel free to correct me.

But I haven't seen that many people truly hammering Shador for the speeding itself. I have not seen that. But I've seen people. I saw Stephen A. Smith and a couple other people on the, you act like you ain't never been, you ain't never speeded before. You act like you ain't never driven too fast. Da, da, da, da. You know, like I saw Stephen A on TV and he was talking about him speeding and going to work

something like how glad he is that the cops haven't been around him when he's been speeding or a time that he was speeding because he had to go to the bathroom and he was glad the cops didn't stop him because he wasn't going to make it and da-da-da and all of this stuff. And, hey, you get caught going

70 and a 55, you're right. You know, that could happen to the best of us. Play us fuck up too. you go on 101 and a 65. We're talking about something entirely different. And look, I understand, man, he's driving a fancy car. That buck-oh-one probably don't even feel like no 101.

I get that. I do. I, however, view this through a much different lens than I think I have seen people talk about this. And to me, the discussion to have with Chodor Sanders about speeding is this one. Like this is what I would say if I knew him. Okay. And if we we had some sort of relationship or whatever it is or it came to a place where I had to talk to him, I would say this to him. I don't have that many things that I look back on from when I was younger and just be like, man, you was tripping. I don't have that many of them. But I used to drive really fast in different

in places. Got my tickets, all of that stuff, but I used to drive really, really fast. And really fast in places where it probably didn't make sense to drive really fast. And I look back

on it and like I can think about some of those times and I can actually get a little bit emotional because it was so stupid. Like I had no appreciation at the time for like how much I was putting my actual life in danger.

You know what I mean? Like how many things could have possibly happened or gone wrong or somebody pull up short or somebody come over here or it's a traffic jam up there and I don't know it or whatever it is and I hit these breaks late or all of this is? I did not, in spite of all these people dying in car accidents, and maybe it's about the idea of like the invincibility that you feel being a young person, so forth and so on, I don't know. But I can just look and see so many times where I'm like,

that could have been your day. Like driving on the freeway and catching a blowout and stuff like that. Hey, man, that could have been your day for what? you late. You see what I'm saying? And in these cases, I don't even think he was late to anything. He was just driving fast, right? But think about how often we are willing to die behind running late. I mean, it really is that simple. It really and truly is that basic. You run in late. You go and you do all of this and it feels good to drive fast or whatever, done or die and everything. else, but it is just not work. It isn't. Now, Chador, it seems like is a clean living young man.

So the other lecture that I would give him doesn't work, which is, hey, man, they always try to get in your car and look around. Don't give them no reason. They might find something, you know? But take care of yourself. You know, like if I were Dion or anybody else that's around him, my thing wouldn't have been, hey, man, everybody speeds every now and then. It ain't that big a deal. No, brother, it's a big deal. It's not a big deal that requires me to moralize or to wag my finger at you. It's to let you know.

That Henry Ruggs thing, that could be you, man. And obviously, the difference between Henry Ruggs and Chodor Sanders is the drinking element of it, right? But that's if you're looking at it through the lens of moralizing. You know? Like a big part of why we're so hard on people for

DUI is because I think that we as a society are consistently looking for ways to rationalize our own drinking. And so you put these parameters on what is responsible drinking and then the responsible drinkers get to chastise

the other drinkers for doing it wrong. You know, like I think, I think that's a big part of it. But in the end, now, Brooks are driving like a buck 50. Like, I mean, that's NASCAR shit. But in the end, you drive away too fast. You drive away too fast. And if you drunk, yeah, your reaction time is cut down. You're driving 100 miles an hour. Your ability to react. That time is cut down too. The bottom line of it is, it's still just unnecessarily unsafe. And if you say you love him or that you care, about him, even if you're talking about it in the parissocial ways that people do on the internet, then what you're not doing is saying, well, what about such and such? And what you're saying is, I'm glad the cop got him instead of an ambulance. I'm glad the police got him instead of a medic, right? I am glad he got pulled over instead of getting flipped over. Because any of those things I talked about are reasonable circumstances when you're driving 100 miles now. All of those them are. And that's before we get to the idea, yo, rich black ass driving your fancy ass car

getting pulled over by the police. I know we don't really be talking about that stuff anymore. But aside from my, you don't want them looking in your car. You also don't want them getting nervous about you. That cop pulled up. It was like license of registration. And I was thinking the whole way, man please tell him everything you do before you do it so there ain't no misunderstandings you know what I mean like it's just such a range of things that could possibly go wrong and so we don't have to turn this into a polarized sports radio topic but I admit on my end it makes me think about what are the things that have happened in my own life and how much differently those things could have gone And when I look at young people, like the message you got to give them about that speed and is, hey, man, this kills people, right?

Kills them. Henry Ruggs was just at some event this week where he apologized to the family of the woman, you know, that he killed and was just talking about how he wishes they knew a different person or whatever. And I'll make this point about Ruggs just to throw this out there. I met somebody the week of that accident at an event I did in Atlanta. And this gentleman taught, Ruggs is from Montgomery, Alabama. And he taught Ruggs in high school. And he told me, you have no idea what it took for him to get to where he was. That he had to do everything right to get as far as he did.

And then you see what happened. And Ruggs talked about how he felt like he was a person who was trying to escape in that time. But it took that much for him to get to where he was. And being a dumb ass that one night, look at what happened. Killed somebody, wound up in jail, you know, all of those things, all that after being a dumb ass that one night. The one thing that you don't ever want to have to talk about in your life is something that stays with you forever and ever. just because you was being stupid one night.

You know what I mean? And so I hope for your doer's case that he don't wind up in those situations where it ever comes up like that, where that happened. But when it comes to these topics, like I said before, we fill in our show runs, man. We don't have that much to talk about. And so that is a topic that becomes one. I could talk about this in the context of the Browns and da-da-da-da. And I mean, I did that a little bit early, but no, that's not the big one to me. I see this and I see myself as a young person and I see how easily I could wind up not just the

situation that he was in, but a worst one. And I hope that that's the part that somebody imparts to him because that's a part that really ain't got nothing to do with playing football. But ladies and gentlemen, thanks so much for joining us here on the right time. We do this here three times a week. Ryan Brumley handles everything behind the scenes. Thank you, sir. Remember, hit the voicemail line. 3-2-3-9-6-7-7-67-oldy-be-goody. You remember that time you got matched up against a future professional or maybe even just got really good in college. You know what kind of story I'm talking about. 3-2-3-596-77-67-7. Remember, follow the right time, subscribe, like, rate us, review us, give us five stars. You only give us four stars. I'm inclined to

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