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How are you? Oh? You are here? Okay,

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I'm good man, I'm good. What's going on?

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All is good? Happy Jackie

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Robinson, day to you, mister Broussard. Yes,

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happy Jackie. Robinson Day to you as well.

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I'm kind of sad I wanted

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to stick around and stick around in New

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York. I guess Rachel Robinson is going

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to be at City Field or probably

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for the game tonight. She's one hundred

1:47

and one, Chris. Unbelievable,

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am I right? She's

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one hundred and one and just all

1:54

the stress she lived with, you know what I mean for Jackie

1:58

and he died at fifty three.

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But that's incredible. I love

2:02

that. I know that's isn't it.

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That's incredible one hundred one. But

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thank God for Jackie Robinson. That's

2:10

all I got to say. You know, Chris, that

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he took the brunt for us and

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probably cost him his life, had an early death

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and all that. Uh so we can always

2:18

be thankful at number forty two

2:20

in our hearts.

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Nobody else will ever wear that. And I love that

2:23

baseball did that for him. I really am.

2:26

Yeah. Definitely man an

2:28

American hero. Yeah, just a black

2:30

American change this country for

2:33

the better. Shame on

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America for making

2:38

it wait that long. But thanks

2:40

God for his courage and

2:42

his strength and definitely

2:45

a great man and glass at honoring.

2:47

No doubt.

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And Chris I have a topic in about thirty

2:50

minutes. Yeah, it's never been seen

2:53

it. Yeah, this will be fun but

2:56

interesting.

2:57

Yeah.

2:58

Well it's a difference. It's a difference,

3:00

man. When I was talking about it, right, okay,

3:03

all.

3:03

Right, let's get it popping.

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We got the eye, a couple of crew and full effect

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on the ones and twos?

3:14

Right, why are you married? Man?

3:16

Were making Mary famous? And you know what,

3:18

I'll tell you this.

3:22

Rich was just in the studio with them in

3:24

the in the engineer room or whatever. And

3:27

Mary had never heard of in Living Color.

3:30

And you know again, she's young.

3:32

Isn't she from South May you from South Africa?

3:35

No, that is the wrong place.

3:38

Are you from Africa? Yeah? I mean where

3:40

what country? Saddan?

3:42

From the Sudan? Okay, okay, that's

3:45

when did you come over here? How were you when you.

3:47

Came from I was I was born here, but

3:49

my mom came two thousand

3:52

and one and my dad came two thousand and two.

3:54

Okay.

3:54

Yeah.

3:55

Living Color was on. That

3:57

was in the nineties. Yeah, and it only was on

3:59

for about about three four years, but that was

4:01

impactful. That's show.

4:02

And look at all the big come comedians that came

4:05

out of that, Jamie Fox

4:07

and Jim Jim Carrey.

4:09

Jennifer Lopez, No, was.

4:11

It j Lo? Was she on?

4:12

It was a dancer? Yeah? I mean

4:14

you go Wayne's family.

4:16

But I told Mary that she should go look at the w runs

4:18

Chris and see that it was really good.

4:21

Initially I thought after a while they just got

4:23

kind of silly. Yeah, yeah,

4:25

but it was great. You're right, she should definitely

4:27

check it out.

4:28

All right.

4:28

On the one social media,

4:31

Elijah Sabuna and on

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the updates you heard him, Steve Disager

4:36

and of course the super producer.

4:39

Rob g is in the house. All

4:41

right, Rob, let's get it started. Man.

4:43

The NBA play in is

4:45

here. I told

4:48

you last week. I loved it. Props

4:50

to Adam Silver. I I

4:53

really like to play in and the

4:55

Los Angeles Lakers. Rob the eighth

4:57

seed will visit the

4:59

New New Orleans Pelicans the seventh seed

5:02

tomorrow for the

5:04

winner is in at the seventh seed

5:06

and they will play the Denver Nuggets.

5:09

The loser will play the winner.

5:12

I know it sounds is a lot, but the

5:14

loser of that game will play the winner

5:17

of tomorrow's nightcap between

5:19

Golden State and Sacramento

5:22

and then the winner of that game will

5:25

be the eighth seed and face

5:27

Oklahoma City.

5:29

Now, Rob, the Lakers have

5:31

owned.

5:31

The Oklahoma City they

5:33

beating them three out of four games this season.

5:37

Obviously, they've got a huge experience

5:40

advantage over okaseed

5:42

with Lebron with four championships, Anthony

5:45

Davis with one.

5:47

And then OKC. ROB. Props

5:49

to SJ.

5:50

Shay Gilders, Alexander and their whole

5:52

team check Holgren and crew because

5:55

Rob, they're the youngest number one

5:57

seed in the history of the

5:59

league and to do it

6:01

in this Western Conference, which is brutally

6:04

tough, that's impressive.

6:06

So props to them.

6:07

Their coach, Mark Dagnault is

6:10

my Coach of the Year on my ballot,

6:12

So I think you'll win it, but we'll see.

6:15

But anyway, they.

6:17

Have owned the Lakers the

6:19

thunder but Denver

6:22

has owned the Lakers, as we all know.

6:24

They've beaten them eight straight times, including

6:27

four straight in the Western Conference finals

6:29

last year to get to the

6:32

finals and win their first championship.

6:34

And so Rob, there

6:36

is a school of thought.

6:38

Out there and Manuel

6:40

Acho, Mike Greenberg,

6:44

Stephen A didn't advocate it, but he kind

6:46

of playfully toyed with it, and

6:49

you know, thought it made a little

6:51

sense jokingly, but.

6:53

People are throwing it out there, Rob that.

6:57

The Lakers should purposely

7:00

we lose tomorrow

7:02

night and then

7:05

win of course the next game, and

7:07

as the eighth seed, they would face

7:09

Oklahoma City, a team

7:12

they should they would probably be and I would

7:14

favor him.

7:14

I would pick them to win that series.

7:16

A lot of people would rather than

7:18

face Denver, where most

7:21

folk field, they have very little chance

7:23

to beat the Nuggets.

7:25

And Rob, what is your thought on

7:27

this take?

7:28

I just I don't believe

7:30

that people who competed would

7:33

really sit there and tell people not to try

7:35

to win. I just it goes against

7:37

everything, Chris. If you want

7:39

to be champed, We've

7:42

seen this a million times, trying

7:44

to avoid a certain team and then that team

7:47

just beat you. Anyway, like

7:49

trying to play that game. If you're really

7:51

good and you're gonna win a championship, you

7:53

face who's ever in front of you. You don't go

7:55

into something thinking, well, we'll lose

7:58

this game on purpose. And

8:00

I don't know how a professional

8:04

athlete even gears himself. What

8:06

is the conversation there? I remember

8:09

the Texans, Chris, was that the

8:11

Texans would with when

8:14

they could have should have lost the

8:16

game, and Lovey Smith went

8:18

forward and remember they won the game at the end

8:20

and changed their drafts position, and

8:23

look what happened to them. Right,

8:26

everybody said they were stupid,

8:28

what are you doing?

8:30

What are you doing? And

8:33

guess what, they

8:35

got.

8:35

The best quarterback, Chris, because they

8:38

won. Think about

8:40

what I'm saying it, right, Absolutely,

8:43

that's why you don't play that game. If

8:46

you're gonna dress up, put on your uniform,

8:48

Chris and go out there, you gotta

8:50

give your roll and try to win all the time.

8:54

I just really, let's

8:56

try to lose because I think we can beat this other

8:58

team, and we don't want to knock off Denver.

9:00

If you knock off Denver, Chris, I

9:03

would.

9:03

Clear they knocked off Denver.

9:05

I think they well, they become the favorite

9:08

in the West, and

9:10

I would actually think they might win it all

9:13

if.

9:14

They beat Denver. But go ahead.

9:16

I'm just know you're right. I

9:18

don't buy into this at all, Chris. Guys really

9:22

lose.

9:24

I completely agree

9:26

with you, Rob. And and here's

9:28

the other thing. You're

9:31

not guaranteed to win the

9:33

next game for the eight seed, right,

9:35

I mean you could easily do that and lose.

9:38

Look, Golden State has beaten

9:40

the Lakers three out of four times this year.

9:43

Sacramento has beaten the Lakers

9:46

eight of the last nine times

9:48

they've played. Anthony Davis

9:50

doesn't know the feeling of

9:52

beating Diamont to Saboni right

9:54

because.

9:55

He never done it right.

9:56

And so, I mean something

9:59

you could just see it happening where you

10:02

tank and lose to New Orleans and

10:04

then go ahead and lose the next game and don't

10:06

even make the playoffs. I

10:08

mean, and again, I think they're

10:10

better than Golden State, But

10:13

in a one game scenario, let

10:15

Steph Curry and crew get hot

10:18

and you could be gone. Anthony Davis

10:20

rob out of nowhere yesterday

10:23

backspasms?

10:24

What if that happened in the playoff game, yep?

10:27

Or play in game right?

10:28

I mean, you just don't know, And

10:31

so I'm totally with you, and

10:34

you gotta play.

10:36

You know, at the end of the day, the

10:38

goal is to win the championship, right.

10:41

It's nice to get as far as you can

10:43

and to the conference finals if possible,

10:46

but the.

10:47

Goal is to win the championship.

10:50

Rob Nobody's going to praise the

10:52

Lakers nobody's going to put

10:54

Lebron ahead of Jordan if

10:56

he gets to the second round or the third

10:59

roundhead of the

11:01

finals, all right, instead

11:04

of the first round, I should say, where if you get

11:06

bounced by Denver. So I mean,

11:08

it's if you gotta win the championship,

11:11

you have to go through them. At some point, you

11:13

might as well go through them in the first round.

11:16

Some people think, of my colleague.

11:18

Nick right Rob, that the best

11:20

time for the Nuggets or

11:22

for the Lakers to face the Nuggets is the first

11:25

round. I disagree because

11:27

I think Jamal Murray,

11:29

who is critical to their

11:31

chances as great as Jo Kisch is. Denver,

11:34

in my view, cannot win the championship.

11:37

I don't even think they'd win the West without Jamal Murray.

11:41

He's injury prone. Though he's

11:43

fresh now, he's been back for about five or

11:45

six games. You know, he's

11:47

balling out.

11:49

But yeah, he's kind of like an Anthony

11:51

Davis right where Yeah, you don't

11:53

know, I mean three weeks from now, who

11:55

knows how. We don't want anybody to get hurt

11:58

of but it's just it's just right,

12:00

yeah, yeah, And so that's

12:03

why I think it's not best to face

12:05

them. But hey, this is the situation you're

12:07

in, and you've got

12:10

two of the best players in the league. Still

12:12

you gotta go out and get it done.

12:16

I just aren't you a little surprised

12:18

that athletes would be talking about that?

12:20

Well? I, well, yeah, Icho, I was. Have you

12:22

heard anything I know? Icho?

12:24

Obviously Mike Greenberg was

12:26

an express.

12:27

That sounds like a radio foight

12:29

of Chris from people whoever

12:32

competed.

12:33

No, I'm no, I agree. You

12:35

can't. You can't play

12:37

around like that, Robert.

12:40

You remember the Celtics, Remember when

12:42

they were tanking under Rick Patino to

12:44

get Tim Duncan and they didn't win the lottery.

12:47

And that's when that when Patino said

12:50

bird McHale and parents were walking

12:52

through that door.

12:53

Yeah yeah, and that's what And it didn't

12:55

work for them by doing that.

12:57

That's what I'm saying. You can't go out there.

12:59

But I think that dumb that

13:01

Texas Chris is probably the best example

13:04

of.

13:04

That's a great Now. I mean what they have picked

13:07

Bryce Young. I don't possibly

13:10

Rob because a lot of people love Bryce Bryce

13:12

Young Game one and that would have been

13:14

different from c J.

13:15

Stroud.

13:16

I think Chris, that's the example,

13:18

really, yeah, that's a great everybody knock

13:21

lovey. Oh he's dumb. What are you doing

13:23

whenning that game?

13:24

Right? Nah? Absolutely?

13:26

Right?

13:26

Rob g quickly you're the Lakers fan.

13:29

Uh, you want him to win or tank or we

13:31

gotta win. You can't mess around and have a

13:33

chance where you're not even making the playoffs. Try

13:36

to gain rist One and done, man, it ain't

13:38

seven games? Is one and done?

13:40

All right?

13:41

Eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox You'll

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do you think about the idea, the notion

13:48

of the Lakers tanking so

13:51

they do not face.

13:55

The Denver Nuggets and instead with face

13:57

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We're talking about the Lakers.

14:47

A lot of people out there saying they should tank

14:49

so they don't have to play the big, bad

14:52

Denver Nuggets, and instead they

14:54

get the very unintimidating

14:57

Oklahoma City Thunder in the first

14:59

round. Even there the number one seed, a

15:02

seven, seven ninety nine on Fox, What

15:04

are your thoughts?

15:06

All right, let's kick it off Chris with Tommy in

15:08

Austin, Texas. You're on the couple of Fox

15:10

Sports Radio.

15:11

What's up? Tommy?

15:13

Hey, what's go up?

15:14

Rob?

15:14

Chris best show on radio?

15:18

Very much what you said.

15:21

As a devout Laker fan and Lebron

15:24

fan, I look at it this way. If

15:26

you've got to play the Nuggets, play them

15:28

early. Everybody on your team

15:30

is fresh. You don't want to have what happened

15:33

last year. You went through a couple

15:35

of tough series, so by the time

15:37

you got to Denver last year, Lebron

15:40

and ad were pretty much gassed. I

15:43

looked at it. That's a point you're

15:45

you're going to be You're going to be on

15:48

about the same amount of time

15:50

playing. So go ahead,

15:53

beat the Pelicans and get prepared

15:55

for Denver. What what good does

15:57

it do you to meet them at

15:59

the in the finals and moves?

16:01

All Right, we're gonna you might have to play them

16:03

anyway. Right, we're gonna beat them. What's the difference?

16:06

For real? What is the difference?

16:07

And so?

16:09

And to your point, I mean, there's a

16:11

good chance Lebron and a d

16:13

We know they could get injured at any point,

16:16

or they could just get worn down.

16:17

Yep.

16:19

So yeah, and you got if you win, if

16:21

you win tomorrow, you've got a nice little

16:24

several days to recover.

16:25

Thanks Tommy, you're healthy, Yep, no doubt.

16:28

Let's go to Mike

16:30

in Montana. You're on the odd couple of Fox Sports

16:33

Radio. What's up, Mike?

16:34

Okay, guys, how are you doing?

16:36

How are you good?

16:38

I got I gotta say I wish it was a trash

16:40

talk on Tuesday, because all I heard from Lakers

16:42

fans last year in the final or in Western Conference

16:45

finals how after every single

16:47

game there was an excuse and the

16:49

Lakers were gonna come back, and the Lakers

16:51

were gonna do this, and the Lakers are gonna do that,

16:54

and all that happened is the Nuggets have beat them eighth

16:56

straight times. In

16:58

my opinion, the Lakers should just lose for the next two

17:00

games so we can stop talking about it. The

17:03

real basketball teams that actually have a shot

17:05

at winning the final that's not the Lakers.

17:08

Because if the Lakers lose against the Pelicans,

17:10

they better hope that Sacramento doesn't

17:13

beat beat Golden State because

17:15

Sacramento has owned them too.

17:16

So yeah, that's the thing. Golden

17:20

State or Sacramento could beat them.

17:21

And Mike question, Mike you there,

17:24

Yes, I think that was the official

17:26

Chris, that was the official

17:28

Monday edition of Trash talking

17:31

to you. It was thanks

17:33

Mike, definitely. Andre

17:37

in Massachusetts. You're on the odd couple of Fox

17:39

Sports Radio.

17:40

What's up, Dray, how

17:42

you doing?

17:42

Thanks for taking the call. Listen. The Lakers,

17:44

they don't have a winning tradition

17:47

or a winning spirit to speak of this

17:49

year, especially with Anthony Davis

17:51

playing seventy six games, so they got to take

17:53

advantage of them mentioned, they have them to agree with the other

17:55

callers early and just try to win

17:57

as many games as possible and get hot and get some

18:00

momentum. Let's remember that's what happened

18:02

with Miami, the Miami Heat last year. They should

18:04

have been an after thought. They squeaked

18:06

the playoffs, losing their first playing

18:09

game, and then they found their momentum. They found

18:11

their groove. Now they got some help, you know,

18:13

with Giannest being out and coach Budd not

18:16

kind of being at his best. But this, you know,

18:18

you have to get that momentum early and

18:21

keep that if you are will.

18:23

You think it's best for them to meet

18:25

the Nuggets in the first

18:27

round or later in the conference finals

18:29

if they if they were able.

18:32

I think Denver is the favorite in the West. So you know,

18:35

get your medicine early, okay, get them,

18:37

get them to start, and you

18:40

know that that that's just and.

18:44

And and people are saying ready for next

18:46

year.

18:48

Sure, you know, but either

18:50

or they're going to have that difficult matchup

18:53

with the upstart Oklahoma City team or

18:55

Denver team that that that season. If

18:57

you're the Lakers, you have you know, Ad

19:01

is playing his best basketball Lebron's playing for

19:03

his legacy. They're supporting players.

19:05

Get out there. You got to punch your chance

19:07

early and just kind of see the cards fall

19:10

rather than this load management, tanking,

19:12

junk science. Thanks taking the call.

19:14

Yeah, I appreciate it. How

19:16

about Tim in the Inland

19:19

Empire. You're in the odd couple of Fox Sports

19:21

Radio in California.

19:22

I E, I E. What's up?

19:24

You're in the odd couple

19:26

couple.

19:26

What's up?

19:27

Guys doing

19:29

good?

19:29

Man doing good?

19:30

Uh?

19:31

Yeah, I love your take with Robin

19:33

being competitive, but stop it. We're

19:36

talking about Lebron teams Lebron.

19:39

The L stands for a least path,

19:42

path of least resistance. Are

19:46

oh I oh, I used to be, but I don't like Lebron.

19:49

But for real, like it's it's let's be honest.

19:51

They're looking at okay, can we get away with resting

19:53

Ad? And I'm getting okay,

19:56

see in the first because they know they'll eat those kids

19:58

alive. But do they really want Denver? No?

20:02

But let's be real, like you know it,

20:04

he's he's always taking the easiest path.

20:06

So some people.

20:08

Some people were talking about

20:10

AD's backspasms hit late

20:13

in the game, and some people

20:15

were just like, oh, here we go. Hey,

20:18

I don't believe that he looked like he

20:20

was in pain. He's he must be

20:23

a great actor if he really wouldn't

20:25

seriously hurt. But hopefully

20:27

it's nothing serious, you know, backspasms,

20:30

nothing to joke about. But

20:33

yeah, so they're already those throwing that

20:35

out as a conspiracy theory. All right,

20:37

Rod has a hot and

20:40

I do mean hot take about

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Jackie Robinson Day that we'll get to next.

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All right, thank you, Steve.

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If it is Chris

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Bruce Rob Parker live from the tire

21:04

Rack dot com studios. And as

21:06

we said earlier, Rob, it is Jackie

21:08

Robinson Day all around

21:11

baseball.

21:11

I didn't want to say this, Steve. Was it your

21:13

birthday yesterday? Yeah?

21:16

It might have been happy birthday you every birthday.

21:19

We did not know happy birth Was it not a merry birthday?

21:21

On the day before, Well,

21:24

she was eating cake and it wasn't mine. It

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was both cake. It was a whole lot of cake, though yes,

21:29

happy birthday, Steve, for real, thank you?

21:31

Yes, all right, rob

21:34

Jackie Robinson day. As you said, they're

21:36

not wearing are they players? Are they wearing the number

21:39

forty two everybody?

21:39

Yep?

21:40

Yeah, and the blue forty two from the Dodgers,

21:42

Chris, in every uniform. It looks great. It

21:44

does no name on the back,

21:47

just to plane forty two.

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So, uh, you've got an interesting

21:52

take on this, do share, Chris,

21:54

I just thought about this.

21:57

Rachel Robinson is

21:59

a hundred and one years old,

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Chris, a hundred

22:03

and one. I believe she was

22:05

scheduled to go to City

22:08

Field today to be there for

22:11

Jackie Robinson's celebration at City Field.

22:13

Obviously, Jackie played in

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New York and Brooklyn. At Ebittsfield,

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the Mets have their whole rotunda

22:20

when you walk in, all

22:22

dedicated to Jackie Robinson. So

22:25

they're all the way in because the old owner the

22:27

will Ponds were

22:30

Brooklyn Dodger fans.

22:31

Chris.

22:31

They're born in Brooklyn and all that, so they

22:34

love Jackie Robinson. But I thought

22:36

to myself, Rachel Robinson never

22:38

got married, Chris. Jackie

22:40

Robinson I believe died

22:44

when he was fifty three. Years old.

22:46

Man, she may have been younger than him, right,

22:49

very possible she was younger, right, but.

22:51

Fifty three, Chris, And

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she's never been married again since then. And

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I thought to myself, it

22:59

makes sense. I

23:01

think there are certain women

23:04

or people you know, who are married to

23:06

really famous, famous

23:09

people who probably can't

23:12

get married again or take somebody else's

23:14

name or or hyphen it.

23:16

You know what. I don't mean they're unable.

23:19

I don't mean in

23:21

a philosophical sense.

23:23

Yeah, like like I never thought that Karna

23:26

Scott King would ever get married again,

23:28

you know what I mean?

23:29

Like to say, she's another one on that list for

23:31

me, Betty Shabbaz

23:35

Malcolm X's wife, do.

23:37

You know what do you think they're Do you think that's the case

23:39

or my my tripping because I'm

23:41

not surprised she never got married again. That doesn't

23:43

mean she do have a partner or whatever. But

23:46

but to to you're

23:49

you're Jackie Robinson's wife, Chris, that's

23:51

who you are.

23:52

I disagree, okay, And

23:54

I am a traditional I believe

23:57

in traditional roles and things like that,

23:59

but it's just not fair. If

24:02

they choose not to get married, then

24:04

that's fine, but it's

24:07

not fair to say you

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can.

24:10

I know you don't mean. I mean you mean

24:12

in a philosophical sense.

24:13

I'm just hey, you were married to Jackie Robinson,

24:15

you were married to Martin

24:18

Luther King, So you can't get remarried?

24:21

Why not?

24:22

Especially now? I mean women.

24:24

That's chauvinistic because I don't think

24:26

anybody would say that about a man.

24:29

I don't know.

24:29

I don't think anybody would say the man can't get

24:31

remarried if a man was married

24:33

to uh

24:36

Kamala Harris or

24:40

I mean, you know, Hillary Clinton, or you know,

24:42

whould have the highest

24:44

ranking women if you will in

24:47

our country, if you want to say famous

24:50

Serena Williams, I don't know, you

24:52

know, but.

24:53

Nobody, I don't think. I don't care who what woman

24:55

it was.

24:57

I don't think anyone would say the

24:59

man was in the wrong

25:02

or disrespecting her or something.

25:05

I mean, some people might gossip dial

25:07

he's disrespecting, but but I don't think

25:09

they really come down on

25:11

the mayor for getting remarried, So

25:14

why should they come down on a woman.

25:16

I think it's I think it's more about

25:19

a man doesn't take the woman's name.

25:22

Well, that's not always happening

25:24

nowadays. But I'm saying, women aren't taking

25:27

the man's name. So I'm talking about on these and

25:29

that's only America, like some

25:31

some nations is different.

25:32

It's different in a lot of countries.

25:35

But I'm saying, and I

25:37

remember there was a story and maybe I'm

25:40

hoping that I'm gonna repeat this correctly, but

25:43

Joe Montana tried to get his

25:45

wife to change her name

25:47

in San Francisco Montana. No, no

25:50

to, not to once they got divorced.

25:52

Chris, I'm sorry, once they got divorced,

25:55

he wanted her to drop his name.

25:57

Okay, because she lives in the Bay Area.

26:00

Your name's Montana is

26:02

gold you know what I mean, Chris, you call up

26:04

for a reservation or like

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she wanted her to drop, Like we're

26:09

not married anymore, why are you still going around

26:11

as Montana? And that's because

26:13

I felt like he has a special

26:16

last name that has

26:18

but that has weight.

26:19

Now I'm just saying that Jackie Robinson's case,

26:22

I mean, Robinson obviously is a common name.

26:25

My mother in law, Robert, I think her

26:27

and my father in law, my late father

26:29

in law.

26:30

I think they were only married maybe

26:32

five years if that.

26:34

My wife was a baby when they got

26:36

divorced, and she kept she

26:39

kept her name from that

26:41

marriage. I mean this was,

26:43

you know, obviously a little while ago, you

26:45

know, when you

26:48

know, women were generally taking the

26:51

last name of their husband pretty

26:54

much universally in America. But she

26:56

kept that last name, you

26:58

know, to this date. And so

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it's just I just

27:03

disagree.

27:03

I hear.

27:04

I understand where you're coming from,

27:06

but I just don't think it's fair.

27:09

I'm not saying fair.

27:10

If she would love fell in love with somebody

27:13

and wanted to get remarried forty

27:16

years ago, thirty years

27:18

ago, whatever, you know.

27:21

I mean, she could have done that. Sure,

27:23

she could have. I do think that on.

27:26

Anybody if they would have been like, oh, hell, dare

27:28

you you Jackie Robbinson's wife

27:30

for you please?

27:32

It's just that, like I said, and

27:35

I've been known for people to think

27:37

I got chauvinistic tendencies. But I mean,

27:41

what do you think? So you

27:44

think so I do? I do think you have something

27:46

I do. Well, that's a whole

27:48

nother shit, don't I mean, we'll do that.

27:50

I think I'd like to hear that because

27:52

you may, you may, I may think things differently.

27:55

Than you think I do.

27:55

But anyway, but I just definitely

27:58

did back in the day, years

28:00

ago. But

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I don't know.

28:03

This isn't fair. It is not fair to me.

28:05

I think it's gonna be an extraordinary situation.

28:08

And I mentioned Coruna Scott

28:10

King, you know, like someone of that ilk

28:13

after you married Martin

28:17

Luther King or Jackie Robinson? Whose

28:19

name could you take? You're gonna replace

28:22

your You're gonna take your name away, Chris right,

28:24

if you get married and and you're no

28:26

longer Rachel Robinson, You're gonna

28:28

be Rachel Smith.

28:29

Like who does that? Well? Smith?

28:33

Rachel?

28:33

You know Smith Robinson? You would remove

28:36

Robinson for your from your name. No,

28:39

I don't think anybody in their right mind would do it.

28:42

Well I first of all, if

28:44

they wanted to, Yeah, I'm sure,

28:47

I mean, but secondly,

28:49

today you know what I mean, Like, there

28:51

are a lot of women that keep

28:54

their maiden name or they you

28:56

know, publicly kind of go by their

28:58

maid name because that's what made him famous,

29:01

you know what I mean? But like, let's

29:03

say if Oprah had gotten married and

29:06

she you know, passed

29:09

away, God forbid. I

29:11

mean, you don't get much more famous or bigger

29:13

than Oprah.

29:14

So you mean literally like if she married, if she married

29:17

Steedman.

29:17

And let's say they married and then she passed

29:19

away, Stepman couldn't remarry.

29:22

Stepman didn't take her.

29:23

We only know about Stepman because of what

29:25

Stepman said about the name, because

29:28

that's what it is.

29:28

It's it's linked to the name.

29:29

And then one of my students today, Chris

29:32

in class, and this is the last part to

29:34

this thought that Vanessa

29:37

Bryant can't get remarried. She's

29:39

a young woman, and

29:42

I get it. You think she's on then in

29:44

that area where.

29:45

She wouldn't had

29:49

a right to get remarried.

29:50

I said, to have the right, I don't. I don't want people,

29:53

but I'm saying they don't have the right.

29:54

I just get what you're saying, but I make

29:57

it clear that I'm not saying they can't

29:59

get married.

30:00

Literally yeah, but I mean, you're

30:03

your own person. You have to live the rest of

30:05

your life. I completely understand

30:08

where you're coming from.

30:09

I just want to make sure you're not thinking I'm saying

30:11

just that I can't get married.

30:13

No.

30:13

Yeah, but it's just not fair.

30:15

And I mean, you

30:18

know, you get benefits from but she still would

30:21

be Kobe Bryant's ex wife.

30:24

She's not giving up that name.

30:28

I mean, I, you

30:30

know, well again, obviously

30:32

she wouldn't have to to get married, but

30:36

I uh, and I am in that

30:38

regard.

30:38

I do.

30:40

Believe in women taking their husband's

30:43

last name if you want to get my wife.

30:45

My wife was like.

30:46

When we were getting married, she was thinking, well,

30:49

you know, I might want to keep my last name. You

30:52

like, why you want to keep your last I said, we're gonna be a family.

30:55

Were gonna our kids are gonna have Bruce Ard

30:57

in their last name. They're not gonna be Collins.

31:00

I'm sorry. That was her maiden named Collins.

31:02

And you know, like we all

31:04

all of our family, our

31:06

immediate family, we didn't know at that time we were gonna

31:08

have just two kids, but you

31:10

know, our four, the four of us.

31:13

I want us to have the last name, the same last

31:15

name.

31:16

And and she, you know again, thinking maybe

31:18

I'm a little chauvin this thing. She was

31:20

like, well, when if we have girls,

31:23

would you want them taking their husband's

31:25

last name?

31:26

You know?

31:27

And I said, yeah, I will

31:29

if they asked me, if it's even a question

31:31

with them, I will tell them.

31:33

I think you should take your husband's last name. The only

31:35

y'all all have the same last name.

31:37

I think that's why some some parents

31:40

when they when their mothers get divorced.

31:43

I know that was the case with my mom. When my

31:45

mom and dad got she kept your dads. Yeah,

31:47

we were always because she I think,

31:49

Chris, it was exactly like that. It wasn't

31:51

like she's gonna go back to Smith

31:54

and then all her kids of Parker and then

31:56

you gotta go like, no, it was mss Parker

31:58

and those are her kids, and they were born

32:00

in a marriage, right, and the marriage didn't

32:03

work, Chris, But it was like that. It

32:05

wasn't like she had three kids, you

32:07

know, and she was single or whatever.

32:09

Her name was Smith, and they

32:11

took the name of the of the father

32:14

who had the you know what I mean.

32:15

So so she never changed. This would

32:17

be a good This would have been a good topic

32:20

for calls. Yeah, I'm just curious,

32:23

Mary, Mary, yes, the female

32:26

on the show today, Where

32:28

are you at on this?

32:29

I'm not gonna lie, like I get

32:31

it.

32:31

It's lucky, like dang, you kind of become untouchable

32:34

in the sense of like you're you were

32:36

married to the most famous

32:38

person ever. But at the same time

32:40

it's like who cares?

32:42

Yeah, I mean that can't change. You still

32:44

were married to him. I think

32:46

the easy thing to do, I

32:49

mean again, the easy thing to do would

32:51

just be to keep your own la your own name, you know what

32:53

I mean.

32:53

Keep that last name. I see a

32:55

lot of women on Facebook.

32:57

What they do is they you know, because they get

32:59

lost, you know, like you know what

33:01

I'm talking about, because when

33:03

they put their their married name, all

33:05

their friends from high school looking up the name

33:07

that they know them from. Right, I went to school

33:09

with someone's her maiden name. If you put

33:12

that in Chris, she's not listed. So

33:14

at a lot of women I see they have their

33:16

maiden name and their name. So if you do a survey,

33:19

I think my wife did that.

33:20

Otherwise nobody, absolutely nobody

33:22

would be able to find her.

33:23

They don't know she married you. I'm talking about friends

33:26

from child absolutely absolutely.

33:28

All right, it's the Eye couple, Christian Rod.

33:30

I'm gonna show this right,

33:33

I got it. The w NBA

33:36

draft has it already started?

33:38

If I'm behind, she's already

33:40

been drafted. She's already been drafted. All

33:43

right, Well, we'll get into that. Next is

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All Right, it is The Odd

34:02

Couple Chris and Rob

34:05

live from the tie rack dot Com Studios.

34:07

Fun, fun discussion. I just

34:09

went and talked to my wife about it.

34:11

Rob.

34:11

She said, Uh, Rob's tripping.

34:17

I'm glad. I'm glad you're asked.

34:18

Though.

34:21

I just always wondered, you know what I mean, And

34:23

I thought about it.

34:23

Look, I don't doubt I mean, I would imagine

34:26

that when when Martin Luther King was

34:28

killed that at

34:30

that time, that was the feeling, you

34:33

can't get married, you know what I mean. Like, I'm

34:35

sure people probably even told her that

34:38

Betty Shabbaz Malcolm X's widow.

34:40

Yeah, I'm sure that was the feeling. All

34:42

Right, it's time y'all for Shekel City.

34:45

All right, here we go, Chris, some baseball,

34:48

best bet. I'm taking the Saint Louis Cardinals

34:50

minus one and a half runs. They

34:52

were in Oakland taking on the A's Mariners

34:56

minus one and a half run. They're already down up.

34:58

They always have early season struggles

35:01

and they are there already six and ten

35:03

to start the season. That team has too much talent. I

35:06

got them tonight minus one and a half runs.

35:08

They are hosting the Cincinnati Reds

35:11

up in Seattle. And

35:15

third, the Dodgers take on the

35:17

Nationals. Dodgers

35:21

minus two and a half runs. Chris hosting

35:23

the Nationals in LA. You know,

35:25

Dodgers score a lot of runs. I don't know about

35:27

all the walks. Well, they have fifteen

35:29

walks in the game US today.

35:32

Crazy fifteen? Is that

35:34

real? That's almost unbelievable, right right?

35:37

So again, Dodgers minus two and a half runs,

35:39

Mariners minus one and a half runs, and the Cardinals

35:42

minus one and a half runs. And remember, I'm

35:44

not telling you who to bet on. I'm telling you

35:47

who I bet on.

35:48

All right, it is the Eye couple.

35:50

As we were saying, rhyme, it's the w NBA

35:52

Draft taking place right now.

35:55

As expected, Caitlin Clark

35:57

goes number one to the.

35:59

Indie and the Fever

36:02

and Rob.

36:03

Here's what I want to ask you, what do you

36:05

expect? What type

36:07

of season do you expect

36:10

from Caitlyn Clark in the w

36:12

NBA. I

36:14

heard one w NBA player actually,

36:17

who's working as a commentator, say

36:19

that she expected

36:21

her to average somewhere between twelve

36:25

and seven. Twelve twelve, and

36:27

that's what I'm like, she better not average

36:30

though, freaking twelve.

36:31

She's averaging twelve.

36:33

I want my Indiana feb season taking

36:35

money back, Chris, I

36:37

didn't pay for that.

36:38

Twelve is surprised.

36:40

I was like, Wow,

36:42

she shooting low, she shooting logo threes,

36:45

Chris from She's gonna

36:47

get twelve points duarding

36:50

her from the inbounds.

36:52

Is that what you're telling me in a regular season game?

36:55

Man?

36:56

I look, I'm with you, but let

36:58

me give you a few These

37:00

are like legendary players

37:04

and.

37:04

What they averaged their rookie years.

37:06

Now.

37:07

Remember some of the older school players were

37:09

older. So like Cynthia Cooper,

37:12

she was thirty four in her first year in the WNBA,

37:14

because remember she was already had

37:16

been a pro when it started.

37:18

She averaged twenty two point two as a

37:21

rookie.

37:22

But a lot of the other ones Rob Diana

37:24

Tarassi seventeen, Lisa

37:26

Leslie fifteen point nine, Cheryl

37:29

Swoops got hurt I assume because

37:32

she only played nine games or rookie year average

37:34

seven points, but she averaged fifteen point

37:36

six her second year Superb

37:38

fourteen point four, Kelsey

37:40

Plume eight point five, Swing

37:43

Cash fourteen point eight.

37:45

Those are just.

37:46

Some I'm gonna be honest,

37:48

and I'm you know, I don't watch mss

37:50

WNBA, but.

37:51

So what here, I'm gonna say it. I expect

37:54

Caitlin Clark to go out there and get busy.

37:57

I'm gonna be honest, But if she does go out there

37:59

and averages like thirteen points, my

38:02

respect level not that I don't respect

38:04

it, but I will under I will

38:06

be like, oh, it

38:09

really is like a lot different

38:11

than college, you know what I mean?

38:12

Like the NBA.

38:13

I obviously watch it more

38:16

have covered it, and I do feel like, okay,

38:18

there might be a you

38:21

know, growth period for a rookie,

38:23

although rob even in the NBA,

38:26

the players that have been at

38:29

Caitlyn Clark's level in college

38:31

basketball tend to come into

38:33

the NBA and do their thing right. Michael Jordan

38:36

twenty eight points as a rookie.

38:38

Magic was great right away. I obviously

38:40

won the championship. Bird was great right away.

38:43

And remember Kaitlan Clark has stayed four years.

38:45

She's not a one and done coming out of

38:48

high school.

38:48

When she's not fully developed yet. Right,

38:51

Duran average twenty as a rookie.

38:53

Like, you know, Shock came in and was

38:56

dominant as a rookie, so I expect her to

38:58

be dominant and you know, score.

39:00

A bunch of points and a bunch of assists.

39:02

Keep it locked. Two hours left.