Hour 1: Guest Host O’Shea Jackson Jr, LeBron Free Agency Latest, plus Big3’s Montrezl Harrell 

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1:37That's a problem, man. Today's guests. Big three basketball star Montrezl Harrell. Fantasy football analyst Matthew Berry. WWE superstar Tiffany Stratton. And now, sitting in for Rich, it's O'Shea Jackson Jr.

1:59O’Shea Jackson Jr.:Ladies and gentlemen, I am film and television's O'Shea Jackson Jr. It's great to see you guys. And to the listeners, that smooth molasses in your ear is me once again. That's right. Filling in for Rich. As you know, the crew's here. Chris Brockman. What up, Shay? As Brockman as ever. How you doing, buddy? Doing great, man. And also the biggest connection of LA and New York since my dad teamed up with the bomb squad. Michael Del Tufo, bro. I love you, bro. Del Tufo, 2028, bro. I'm telling you. I like that. Are we doing this today? I'm telling you, man. 2028. And of course, the greatest tag team partner in the world, my man TJ Jefferson over there.

2:40O’Shea Jackson Jr.:Hey, yo. Yeah, sir. What's up, peoples? It will be complete nonsense today. So make sure that you guys call in 844-204-RICH. 844-204-RICH is going to be taking calls. I'm going to be talking about whatever I want, which is dangerous around here. So, how are you guys doing, man? Been some wild, wild stuff has happened since I've been gone. You know, and you were just here like a week ago. Was it a week? Yeah, it was Wednesday. It was last Wednesday. Either way, LeBron still has a picture, too. I know. That part. What's going on? Yeah. He's trying to join the Avengers. Also, the Avengers. We're going to talk about Avengers.

3:18We're going to talk about that Doomsday trailer today. I mean, I don't understand people on the internet.

3:25O’Shea Jackson Jr.:I don't listen to them anymore. I'm excited. You're out in those internet streets, though. Yeah. It is a treacherous place, the internet. But I find myself at home there. Born in 1991, bro. That's when the internet started popping off. When were y 'all born? 1980? The internet did not start popping off in 91. We're lucky we had phones when I was born. like landlines like landmines actual bones forget the internet listen landlines bro shout out to my parents they still have their landline you know a little little home phone might as well you never know if the tower goes down i mean and i gotta intercom you from the kitchen to whatever room you're in it that's that's that baller talk tj that's what i love to hear but i mean let's get into it can we get into the avengers let's do it we talk about this Doomsday, the trailer comes out and it is what I needed to see you know, it's an all-star game if you've been following Marvel you see all the characters that you know you just started falling in love with hints of the X-Men can't wait to see what either they messed that up or it goes right and Steve Rogers Steve Rogers makes an appearance in the trailer for Doomsday and you seem puzzled by that Well, I pointed this out this morning in the pre-show.

4:46Someone I was scrolling, and they had a side-by-side of what Steve Rogers, we've come to know him to look like, and what he appears to look like at the end of the Doomsday trailer. And that doesn't look like the same person, Shay. Not my Steve Rogers. So what's going on with Steve Rogers?

5:04O’Shea Jackson Jr.:Listen, they introduced the idea of these variants, so we just don't really know. on top of the next Avengers is going to be Secret Wars. What does that even mean? You know, like there's a number of questions added. But, yeah, it doesn't, that smirk once he caught the hammer, it doesn't make me feel comfortable. It makes me feel like he's evil. And correct me if I'm wrong, you're a bigger nerd. I use nerd lovingly. Hey, pal. Nerd is a good one. You're a bigger nerd here than I am. Isn't Thor the only one allowed to hold the hammer? No. No. No. If you are worthy. You have to be worthy. Yes, you can hold it.

5:50O’Shea Jackson Jr.:But so far, there's only been like two people that I can think of that. Who's that? One was Cap. Yep. Wasn't one his sister? Oh, Thor's sister. Yeah. Ella. Yeah. But, you know, she was worthy in a sense of like she's just so powerful. It didn't even matter. there's a third one that they showed vision vision also that's right in the films so yeah it doesn't necessarily mean that you're pure of heart okay so it can definitely be an evil cat now where my mind goes i think it's going to be evil versions of a lot of people i think there's going to be some a lot of deceit happening because there's no way in the world they're gonna see robert downey jr and not think oh that's tony is that not tony and mind tripping like there's no way you see his face and it's just like oh yeah that's doom so we're we're in the uh the insta era of everything yeah nobody likes to wait and see doesn't really make good radio to be like let's wait and see But that's what I think so far.

7:01O’Shea Jackson Jr.:Instant reactions to the Doomsday show. Doomsday comes out, what, end of the year, December, something like that, right? I forgot the number. I was so excited, I just hit retweet. See that, Disney? Speaking of waiting and seeing, like you said earlier, you were here last Wednesday, and we were talking about LeBron because he mentioned us and his Instagram story and the 22 frying emoji. Us is strong. Us is crazy. Well, TJ and I were in the story video. That was about you. I was. That was about you. Del Tufo got mentioned in the article, and he wasn't even here that day. I mean, come on. He's a national treasure.

7:34O’Shea Jackson Jr.:Thank you, O'Shea. Why did they mention Del Tufo? Don't be crazy. It's now seven days later, and still no team for LeBron James. Right. And it's still the same usual suspects that we are out there in terms of possible landing spots, Miami, Cleveland. He's at the Philly airport the other day, TJ. Golden State has curiously been kind of left out of any conversation, which makes me think they're still in the mix. Maybe they're keeping that off to the side as kind of an okie-doke. You're in the streets. Are you hearing anything? Rich Paul said nobody knows nothing. So are you buying that? Is that accurate?

8:13Or do people know things?

8:15O’Shea Jackson Jr.:People know things for sure. Simply because, like, Rich Paul says that nobody knows anything. but then there's also reports of LeBron saying that oh well if you've been paying attention I've already pretty much told everybody where I want to go but if that's the case then just go there like it's you know and hold up also I just don't think he wants to see the Laker crowd more than once you know throughout the season like being in the Western Conference especially Especially as hot as it is right now, like, you want to go out east. I think the funniest joke of all time, which I know won't happen, so calm down, TJ, because I see the fangs coming out, and I don't like it.

9:01O’Shea Jackson Jr.:At this point, I don't know what you're going to do. But the funniest thing in the world would be if he just signed with the Lakers. If he was just like, did all of this, waited for us to get our roster real nice, and was like, I'll take the minimum. Don't feel like moving. I saw a tweet that nobody liked for whatever reason on Twitter, and the guy said the same thing. He goes, what? It'd be hilarious. Can he just go back to the Lakers? Yeah. I was like, oh, well, yeah. I mean. Because, like, I look at the things that have been said of, like, you know, it was disrespectful to ask him to take less.

9:31O’Shea Jackson Jr.:And then all of a sudden it was like, you know, he's willing to take the minimum. And then, like, oh, man. Yeah, the Lakers really shunned him when they made him third option. And then a report comes. He's willing to take whatever role is needed of him. So, like, a bunch of that just leads to, well, then why won't you just go to the Lakers then? If this is your way of thinking, why wouldn't you just go back to the Lakers? I know this is a Laker fan pipe dream right now, but it makes a lot of sense. It would make a lot of sense. I know poor Richard Jefferson. This talk drives him crazy. It drives him so crazy.

10:09O’Shea Jackson Jr.:Why are you beefing with Richard Jefferson, man? Why are you beefing with him? Because he, first of all, after I was here on the Rich Eisen show, he left a comment on the Rich Eisen page like, oh, they love you when they don't have you or whatever that was. When I was speaking nothing but positive about LeBron since he's been here. Since he's been here. So, and then he says the whole thing about the Lakers. It's going to be interesting the next five years. Right. And I'm glad he's effing out of L.A. what's going to happen the next five years that hasn't already happened the previous five years bro you're just you're just being mean to la and i can't handle it so i gotta get you back yeah man and my man demarcus cousins talking about oh luca man you know those laker fans they'll uh they'll turn on you if you don't deliver sorry yeah i'm gonna boo you if you give me something to boo we can't just like and demarcus didn't go too crazy plus demarcus where your ring more baby where you wear that 2020 a little bit more baby but yeah he didn't go too crazy so I'm not gonna go too crazy but like yeah if you don't deliver fans boo this isn't Sacramento like that's just like how things gotta go yeah we're the Lakers man you know I'm never gonna say we're not gonna be all right I I begged for Andrew Gowdlock minutes man you know Kendall Marshall was like the greatest thing ever for like a good couple of months.

11:37O’Shea Jackson Jr.:I was behind Xavier Henry, baby. Xavier Henry is going to change the game. You're wrong about it. I was cheering. Like he was the face of the franchise going into Christmas games. So like me having Luka Doncic, you think I'm just going to jump ship right now? No. I think it's kind of interesting too. You've seen all the former players on all the random player podcasts, and they're all predicting different teams. Channing Frye is saying Cavs. P.J. Tucker is saying Warriors. Love me some Channing Frye. And then you got the Heat social team. Man, somebody's key card didn't work this morning. Wow.

12:14They accidentally publish a YouTube video of a LeBron James introductory press conference for the 27th, and then that quickly gets deleted or taken down. What is going on here? Oh, that's terrible. Do you think this is an indication of Miami? What would you do? Where are you leaning? What are you thinking?

12:35O’Shea Jackson Jr.:Now, I will say, after that dropped, all of a sudden the Cavs jump up to the number one odds favorites. So, like, are you really? That would drive me crazy if that was the reason why he didn't sign with the team. Like, you want to go there. That's where you want to be. And they jump the gun a little early and delete it. Yeah, exactly. And so you're like, you know what? I'm out of here. Every positive thing I thought about you, I'm going to go to Cleveland now. I've always thought he was going to end up in Cleveland. That roster, like, you know, they didn't win a game against the Knicks. But it's definitely, like, where his storybook should close.

13:17O’Shea Jackson Jr.:I think he's going to go up to 25 years. We're all going to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Braun, which is insane. That's crazy. Crazy. Like the marketing alone, he's not going to stop at 24 seasons. No. 25th anniversary of Braun. Nike alone is drooling more than what the NBA is. So it's just too much money to be made in that. It's too glorious. I don't think I can't picture somebody of his magnitude getting to 25 years again. So, yeah, I think that's where it's going to be. I think Cleveland is, you know, the beginning of the book, end of the book, bam. So Rich Paul has made it seem, we played the clips yesterday with Max Cullerman on their podcast.

14:02Rich Paul has made it seem like LeBron still really doesn't know what he wants to do. Are you buying that? Do you think that he's known for a month? Do you think this is all for the ego? And so shows like us and everyone else will just keep talking about it and talking about it?

14:17O’Shea Jackson Jr.:Yes to all of it. I think he knew where he wanted to go. It's like when you go to a restaurant and, like, you know what you want to order, but you're still reading the menu. You know what you want. But, like, on the offbeat chance that I'm like, oh, you need to read an ingredient that you want to try, bam. I think he's known where he wants to go. There's been movements and things like that to maybe entice him. But, like, you know where you want to end up, man. You know where you set your mind. And now, like, there's all types of reports of, like, Yeah, the only reason why I went to LA is because Savannah wanted to live there.

14:54O’Shea Jackson Jr.:Even though you put out a whole front page in the LA Times talking about the lore of the Lakers and yada, yada, yada. And now, you know, he's talking about what his daughter wants. And so he knows where he wants to go. It's just if anybody can take him from that. So speaking of the restaurant thing, you and I know this very well. The last time we went to lunch, we went to a spot. we both were going to get different things. And then the waitress pointed out, Chris and Mike, there was a menu on the item that said Royale with cheese. Neither one of us was going to get a burger, and we both looked at each other and was like, all right.

15:32O’Shea Jackson Jr.:Yeah. We got to get the Royale with cheese, you know? So it sounds too good. So your mind, you can be swayed. Yeah, you can be swayed. And so, like, you know, that's why he's giving himself as much time as possible. We might not know where LeBron James is going to end up until the first tip-off of the NBA season. We better know before that. But it's crazy. Adam Silver is like, dude, make a decision because we need to finish the schedule. But that's also on them. Adam, that's enough out of you, bro. I'm LeBron James. I'm dead. The league cannot allow one player to hold that up. I'm sorry. I know it's LeBron James.

16:03O’Shea Jackson Jr.:It's LeBron James. But it's like Rich said yesterday, you see the teams that are being discussed, right? Yeah. Put those teams in Christmas Day. Right. That's all they want anyway, right? So put them all on Christmas Day. He's going to sign with one of these four, apparently. You kind of have an idea where he's going. Put those in the big money market, I guess, day games. Oh, the NBA is like, hey, LeBron, do us a solid. I don't care, man. You know, what you going to do if I don't? You know what I think? That's what I'm saying. That's what I think. Just do your business. At this point, obviously, you guys, massive wrestling people, no contest wrestling, huge hit.

16:41I've been a fan for a long time. I'm kind of back in the mix with Cage. He should do. You know, at Royal Rumble, there's always like a couple of people who are kind of surprise entrance. All of a sudden, the music hits. You're like, whoa. LeBron should honestly, at this point, wait until opening night. Don't announce. And he just shows up at the arena wherever he is going to play for that. That's what he is. You just say that. And even still, he doesn't. You don't even know which team he's going to play for. Because if it's opening night and say it's Warriors Heat opening night and LeBron just walks out.

17:12You don't know what robe he's taken off and what jersey he's going to be wearing.

17:18O’Shea Jackson Jr.:Hey, do it. If you're going all out, do it. It would be just a moment in NBA history. Just like if you came back to the Lakers. It would be your greatest heist ever. They would hate you. The internet would have to implode on itself because of how mean your homeless fans have been to us Laker fans. It would be hilarious. By the way, all you LeBron fans, I just follow LeBron. You're still homeless. What's that like? I couldn't imagine. The Lakers. Sorry. You know I got to let my internet beefs come here. Of course, of course. You don't have to. I don't. We don't. That's not how. We don't swim in those gliders, as Rich says.

17:57O’Shea Jackson Jr.:But, you know, I get it. Start foaming at the mouth. You know. All right, guys. Let's do it. The voice in my head is totally. Snowtime Lakers. Going to break. We have a good show for you guys. We got Montrez Harrow. Yeah. We got Tiffany Stratton coming on and Matthew Berry to talk them fantasy news. It's Tiffy time. Oh, yeah. Yeah, man. Montrez had a huge game on Sunday for the Big Three. Record setting. We were going to talk to him. For Coach Dr. J. But we'll be right back.

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20:39O’Shea Jackson Jr.:are talking to montrez harrow of the big three right now after his record-setting night in chicago but the chicago triplets who montrez plays for the coach by dr j julius irving who our trophy is named after. Last year, coming so close to finally getting that trophy with his name on it. This year, you guys are undefeated. You guys are going in strong, top team in the league. How much of the effort you guys have put in is for Doc to finally get the trophy with his name on it?

21:16Honestly, because like you said, we was in that position last year and came very close on last year, horsing up that trophy a couple of plays with a one our way. Um, we don't want it. Uh, but honestly we're locked in as a group, as a collective group, because we have guys back, um, who not only was a part of that run, um, you know, but help us get there in a mirror, um, and myself and their body bag. And we kind of know like what we wanted to do, um, this upcoming season, which we want to make sure that, you know, it turns with a different ending this year. Um, I think with talking with doc, talking with a mirror, um, who all was, you know, vocal parts and actually putting our team together.

21:53I think we did a great job, man. And, you know, it's actually showing the, you know, scouting and everything that we did to actually put this team together. It's paying off.

22:01O’Shea Jackson Jr.:Now, you not only set the single game record, but you were able to do it in Chicago in front of the home crowd. Timing couldn't be better. What did that mean to you to be able to do that in Chicago? and as you go into Detroit now against the Detroit Amps, how excited are you to keep that crowd quiet? I mean, honestly, like I said, I don't never really go into a game predetermined on how I'm going to play or how things are going to actually go, man. I just come into the game with the right mindset and playing the right way and respecting the game and respecting the basketball guys. Like, I'm real big on superstition, man, so that's one of the things that I actually constantly do.

22:43So, you know, it was just a blessing that everything was happening to fall. It was one of them days for me, man. I'm not even going to lie to you. And honestly, it was just one of those things where I just wanted to come in and make sure I continue to keep being better for my team, but actually keep putting us in a position to, you know, move further and further up that ladder, man, to the point where nobody's going to be able to stop us when it's time to, you know, play for that trophy that we were so close to having last year. but really man like I said I'm added you know credit to the team that we already have man these guys have played three tough nose games without me man and we're still able to come out with wins in it so like I said it just goes back to the testament to Doc and Amir of all the studying and all the conversation that we had because I think man we started talking maybe like a week, week and a half right after we lost that you know championship down in Atlanta no matter how we wanted to come back as a team what we wanted to bring back as a team who we wanted to bring back, who we wanted to go after, man.

23:40And really, I think we did a great job. As far as Detroit, it's a little bit different for me. I'm not even going to lie to you, man. I don't want to give Nas any type of confidence, any type of hope, honestly, man, because he did play for us last year. He's going to come into that game with a lot of chip on his shoulder and something to prove. But at the same time, man, we're not really focused on that. but at the same time, we're not going to give him that grace or give him that sigh of relief, man, because he's also on the team that hasn't really, you know, came out with a win, man, that we don't expect it to happen tomorrow.