36 Burst results for "Julius"
Real Estate Coaching Radio
A highlight from Real Estate Agents Complete Door Knocking Guide (Part 4)
"Welcome to Real Estate Coaching Radio, starring award -winning real estate coaches and number one international bestselling authors, Tim and Julie Harris. This is the number one daily radio show for realtors looking for a no BS, authentic, real time coaching experience. What's really working in today's market, how to generate more leads, make more money and have more time for what you love in your life. And now your hosts, Tim and Julie Harris. We are back. And actually we are picking up where we left off a week ago when we were talking about door knocking. And I have to say, Julie, the door knocking podcast series that you wrote has become one of our biggest downloaded and listened to podcasts. And now it's quickly becoming one of our biggest downloaded and viewed YouTube videos, which it is something door knocking and learning how to be a proactively generator is definitely something that everyone wants to know how to do, needs to know how to do, because really a lot of the passive lead generation stuff from social and from buying leads, it's had its day in the sun, all these passive ideas and as the economy changes, as the housing market changes, people are realizing they are going to have to actually get off their dust and learn how to be proactively generators and had to have real meaningful conversations with real estate perspective, real estate clients. And in doing so, and I know you're reading this as well from our people who email us and text us and all the rest of it, they're having more expensive, more expensive, right? They're having more success from that experience faster than they thought. They that they had no clue, frankly, that they're going to be able to generate so many leads so quick. Yes, absolutely. And here's the thing. This doesn't cost you anything. Right. And at the same time, there's so many added benefits. For example, of course, your skills are going to increase your ability to have really great, valuable conversations about real estate. That's going to get better and better with every conversation you have. Of course, we all know that most real estate transactions do indeed come from a face to face conversation about real estate. Most people will choose to work with the first person they talk to about their situation. Your job is to be that person. And another great byproduct of this, Tim, is that it creates a lot of lead follow up for these guys where also you have a high likelihood of setting your next appointments from. But, you know, really, all those things are the practical, tactical reasons you want to, you know, door knock or do any kind of proactive lead generation. But I'll say the biggest psychological mindset reason why is because a lot of agents right now, most agents right now are looking for a sense of direction. They feel the markets change. I mean, really, I don't know. Did I tell you this, Jules? They're originally they were expecting there to be five point five million home sales this year. And now they're actually projecting. I believe it's NAR that's projecting now it's only five million home sales. So five hundred thousand fewer home sales. But that's actually a million home sales fewer than last year or something like that. So you're talking about a very significant number of real estate agents who won't be doing real estate transactions at all. And a lot of the agents who are listening to us right now and are in the business have only been in real estate, frankly, for the last five years or less. And if you've not sold real estate for more than really 15 years, you've not sold real estate during a transitioning market, you're at an advantage and you're at a disadvantage. And the disadvantage is, you know, or the advantage is you don't have the battle scars, you know, so you don't have the bad memories of what that market's like. But the disadvantage is, is you don't know how different things really can be and how quickly they can change. And if you've been in real estate only in the really the last five or even 10 years, you've come up during a very sort of bizarre time in the real estate industry because there's been this advent of all this lead buying and team building and branding and marketing. These things really have hit their peak. Why? Because there was so much money that was in real estate, so many agents looking to spend money, so many agents not really understanding how to decide what they should spend their money on, if they should spend their money at all on anything. And so as a result, that's brought in a lot of these businesses that were venture funded. And, you know, I don't want to bore all of you, but the moral of the story is a lot of those businesses are washing out a lot of these ideas that never really worked in real estate, even in the best of times, are really going to prove out not to work certainly in a changing market like we're experiencing now. That's the reason every single one of you need to accept the fact that we're in a new market. And that's fantastic. There's going to be fewer transactions in most of the country. And that's actually not a bad thing either when you take into consideration that your biggest competitor, for the most part, isn't the seasoned grizzled veteran. Your biggest competitor is the other agent who just got their license or maybe the other agent who the seller might know because their kids played together or just some social connection. But as those types of agents who aren't really serious about the business get out of the business, the ones that have skills are actually they're absolutely going to clean up. That's the reason that during a market shift like this, you always see. Well, you see one or two things. You see new kings crowned, new queens crowned in the marketplaces. Those are the agents that were able to adapt to the new market, learn the new skills. They didn't wait around for the market to change back the way it was. They said, this is what it is. I'm going to make the most of it. And then sometimes you also see the agents who are at the top of the market, who are the actual dominant agents. They actually start to get more market share. So you could. But here's where it's interesting. It's fascinating. I have to be careful saying this because it offends some people, but it's still true. A lot of what happens in a market like this are the dug in grizzled teams and brokers refuse to change. They still try to carry their old way of thinking and their old expense structure into this new market. And when they do that and the new market essentially doesn't allow them to, frankly, make it work cash flow wise, they go out of business and they have to hit a hard reset on their personal and business lives. I'll suggest if you're in that bucket, if you're in that bracket, if you're realizing that you're essentially trying to model your business after something that worked in the past market, you need to take a seriously hard look at adapting very quickly to the new realities. Otherwise, frankly, you're going to most likely suffer needlessly. Don't wait to learn what I just said is true. Get ahead of whatever is going to happen next, because, guys, a million fewer transactions is a million fewer transactions. That's a lot of transactions that are leaving the marketplace. And a lot of you, again, have been buying your business and the quality of the leads. Have you noticed the quality, especially the buyer leads has really gone to pot? Well, that's just going to get worse as well. So please, please, please, please don't wait to experience hardship to realize what I'm telling you is true. Take action on all that now. So we're going to get back to door knocking. And this is the last part of our four part series. So, Julie, point number 13. Yes, part four point number 13 post on social media, especially on YouTube, a video of you starting to prospect a specific neighborhood. This should be you in front of the neighborhood sign or something recognizable about where you are. Share some fast facts and explain that you'll be there this afternoon, connecting with all of the neighbors and answering any real estate questions. Give your mobile number posted on all of your social media. And of course, you can refer to our podcast series about how to utilize videos for real estate agents. Now, let's I'm going to talk real briefly about this. First of all, YouTube is now migrating towards trying to be a little tick tocky. And so is Instagram. In other words, it's starting to give more priority to short videos, which is perfect because short videos don't have to be really produced at a high level. It's great. And what Julie just said, why are we telling you to do this? Because what's going to happen is as you're door knocking and getting to know the neighbors and essentially building your centers of influence and past clients, they're most likely going to do a little bit of googling on you to find out what your your story is. And so if you created a lot of these little short snippet, you know, tick tock type videos and they're on Instagram, they're on YouTube and maybe even on tick tock, what's going to happen is those search results will come up and they're going to see your very proactive in the community. You get it? So all we're trying to do is use the social to reinforce, use the passive, the social media to reinforce the proactive, which is you door knocking. That is closing the loop. That's creating a Web. Now, there is a way to do these videos. And Julie gave you some ideas. We also include in our premier coaching, which is free for all of you, a 12 month social media marketing plan. It's something a lot of you, frankly, are struggling with because you don't know what to talk about, what to do. And we give you a lot of great ideas, kind of model out your entire year what you should be doing. I just gave you some ideas right there. If you want to join premier coaching for free, you heard that right. For free, simply text the word premier to four seven three seven two. Text the word premier to four seven three seven two. Or you can always go to members dot Tim and Julie Harris dot com if you don't want to text or if you're outside of the continental United States. But the easiest way for sure is just to text the word premier p r e m i e r to four seven three seven two. And when you do, we'll text you back a link. You click that link and you can join premier coaching and usually about 20, 22 seconds and you will have instant access to premier coaching, which includes a daily semi private coaching call daily, as in every workday, Monday through Friday, semi private coaching call. You have immediate access to our private members only Facebook groups. You have immediate access to the scripts, the objection handlers. A lot of the things that we talk about on this podcast you get for free. So don't wait on this. This is a perfect time of year for you to be getting your skills 100 percent in alignment with this new market. So text the word premier to four seven three seven two. Remember, when texting message and data rates may apply. Yes. So back to point number 13, just for a second. So let's say that you went door knocking today in Oak Creek. You talked about it. You gave some fast facts. You let everybody know you'll be there this afternoon. Well, maybe this weekend somebody in Oak Creek is thinking about listing their property. One of the first things they're going to do is go to Google and say agents or realtors or real estate agents in Oak Creek. They want to know who actually sells that area. And guess whose video is going to pop up, assuming that you did point number 13. Well, you know, you're going to get me we're never going to move past 13. But this is really this is such a sweet thing that she just said. You all should do this experience or experiment. Go to your phone, go to open up Chrome, assuming you have that on your phone, and then do a search for Julius using Oak Creek. I mean, Oak Creek's a subdivision we used to sell in. But use the name of a subdivision in a community, like as if you were a buyer looking. And then what I want you to notice is the first ads that come up are the pay -per -click ads. And then after that, what you're going to see is usually in the second or usually the first, second or third search results, you're going to see search results from YouTube. In other words, you're going to see that Google is starting to give priority to these short little snippet videos that I just described to you, and they're prioritizing the videos above the normal search results. In other words, you're going to get primo search results. Why? Because they want people to click search results and they know people will click video search results, like at a 5 to 1 ratio, more than a textural search result. So you need to be doing these little short videos in conjunction with what you're already doing. Now, it's not enough just to do the video. You're going to have to use a system like the one Julie and I use is called vidIQ to make sure you're getting all the YouTube SEO stuff right. You have to title it right. You have to put in tags. It's all very... None of that's hard, though. Oh, it's super simple. I mean, frankly, if you and I know how to do it. Right. And vidIQ is so cheap, I don't even remember how much it costs. There's a free version. OK, there you go. And we're not we're not affiliated with vidIQ. It's just vidIQ. And then it'll tell you essentially how to make it so that your videos get higher placement. The key is always to have very drilled down titles in your descriptions saying today I'm door knocking and getting to know the neighbors in Oak Creek subdivision nothing and a lot of you know, you don't need a lot of blithering and blathering, just very three or four lines. And then you want to put your links. You want to if you'd like to contact me about home for sale in Oak Creek or if you're thinking about selling your home in Oak Creek and then give your cell phone number, things like that. And what you'll find is you'll start generating leads from your YouTube. But what you're really trying to do is close the loop. Door knock. Hello. Hi, it's Bob at my door. Bob's here to provide me some information about recent home sales. Bob's, you know, very nice, very approachable. I like Bob. Bob's great. He's obviously trying to do a great job getting home sold in our community. Well, I'm more curious. I'm curious about Bob before I actually want to further my relationship with him. I have my phone in my pocket. I pull it out. I Google Bob's name, but I find Bob's actually very proactive. You guys get it. This is all free. Every single thing we told you how to do so far is free. Yes. And the super cool thing about doing the video in addition or in conjunction with your actual door knocking is that that video is going to live on and the search results will live on. So it gives a boost to that door knocking. OK, point number 14, door knock the neighborhood prior to all of your open houses. Again, give out a flyer with the stats for the neighborhood and add your home brochure for the home that you'll hold open. Ask who they know who you should invite to the open house. Ask permission to place your directional signs in the yards. And don't forget to ask, who do you know who could use my help buying or selling real estate? Well, let me give you a little bit of an enhancement to this. Now, this will work pretty much in all price ranges. But what our best age we have agents that are making, you know, millions of dollars per year. One of their primary lead drivers is doing exactly what we talk about. One of the things you want to do, it works sometimes unbelievably well in certain neighborhoods, usually more expensive neighborhoods realistically. But one of the things you want to do is you want to have a neighbors only open house prior to the main open house. And so what you can do is you can go and door knock the neighbors, invite them to the open house, and then by inviting them to the open house, you're going to maybe have the open house, the normal one for the public open from one till four, where you're going to have the neighbors only open house from, say, you know, 12 till one or something like that. What you're doing is you're just showing that you're more proactive and you're getting to know all the neighbors and the neighbors are going to think, you know what? This gives me the opportunity to go through that house and look in their garage and see if they ever gave me my mower back or my, you know, search for that search for the missing, you know, whatever, see if my neighbors accidentally snatched it. That's a bad joke, but you guys get the point. What we're really trying to do is position you, put you in. You're now door knocking. You're now having conversations. You're now delivering value to people. You're now being the person you want to be and you're working in the communities you want to work. You're actually doing real work of real estate. How does that make you feel? How does that make you feel versus, say, for example, working on your CRM more or less confident? How does that make you feel knowing you're having direct conversations with people versus, say, building a big funnel that hopefully maybe you're going to spend a bunch of money trying to get people to go into so you can drip on them door knocking, having real proactive conversations. It immediately energizes you, immediately makes you more in alignment with your highest and truest purpose in this planet, which is being of service to other people. Point number fifteen. Yes, and number fifteen is a mindset point. Believe that door knocking works and it will work. How you speak with someone when you're prospecting is greatly influenced by how you're thinking about what you're doing. Napoleon Hill said, what the mind can conceive and believe it can achieve. You'll have more energy and enthusiasm when you're all in versus I'm going to try it out or I'll see how it goes. I'm just going to do this for one day and see whether it works or not. So believe that it's working. Be consistent about it and your your attitude about it will cause you to have better results. And also with regards to that, when you're door knocking, use the scripts that we give you. We talked about those a little bit on the first couple of shows of the series, but obviously these are all waiting for you over on premier coaching and all of you are ready to join premier coaching. Don't wait. Just text the word premier to four seven three seven two and you can join right away. Remember when texting message and data rates may apply. Yes. Now our final point, number sixteen is number sixteen in a four part series because it's a bit more advanced. It's also one of my favorite points about door knocking. You can create a neighborhood directory as a way to get everyone's contact information and connect the community. This can be digital and or hard copy. It's a great excuse to door knock and you're providing value to the community. You can include a map of the neighborhood, phone numbers to the utility companies who service the neighborhood and a section for other recommended providers like the sprinkler guy, a pool guy, a painter, a dog walker, a babysitter. And of course, your real estate ad with testimonials will be in that section as well. Or you could put it in the back cover as directory sponsored by Bob Smith of Exp Realty, for example. This is why hard copy is nice. It stays in their kitchen with your information on it and they use it all the time. They're not going to throw it out. This is such a huge idea when you do it well. And of course, Julie and I did this as well. And yes, we could have leaned into one of those online portals. What was the one that was in Georgetown, like nextdoor .com and they provide. But they're keeping all of that pertinent information behind a paywall and you're not in control of it. So really, what you want to do is there's a couple of different ways to go about this. I would say you'll experience, again, depending on the price range, you're going to experience 50 percent of the people are going to be very apprehensive about giving their information out. So here's the move is you want to essentially create a fill in the blank flyer and the fill in the blank flyer has no required information. Now, you can have an address associated with a name. You don't have to have their permission to say one, two, three Elm Street is lived in by Bob and Betty Jones. Right. You can do that. All their other information, they have to decide whether they want to share it, their phone numbers, their email addresses, whatever else it is. So you will door knock and you will say we're putting together a directory as a community service. And this directory is only going to be given to people in the neighborhood. It's not going to be shared any other way. It's only going to be in print format. It's not going to be a digital format. No one's going to be able to essentially email it or anything like that. So you don't have to worry about any nefarious marketing that might happen as a result of it. This is just for the neighborhood. In addition to that, we're going to include a list of the service providers. So if you've got any on the same fill in the blank thing, who is your favorite babysitter? Who's your favorite roofer? Who is your preferred landscaper? Who is your preferred all the rest of it? Right. If you're from Columbus, Ohio, like where Julie and I are from, who's the best, most reliable person that's going to show up in the middle of the night and move the 14 feet of snow off your driveway, all that sort of thing. Right. Give them the babysitters, all these types of things. But that's really valuable. You know, I mean, how many times do you, oh, I got to go Google that and then I've got to look at reviews and I got to sift and sort all that out. What if you knew, and we talk about this all the time, that when somebody needs a service provider, what do they do? Who do I already know? If I don't already know somebody, I'm going to ask a trusted friend or advisor. I'm probably going to ask a neighbor because they're going to know who services the community. So this is a really valuable thing for you to put together. That will have shelf life. And of course, you can sponsor the back cover. You can include yourself in the service providers. There's lots of ways you can work this. And so you can you should do this. This is just thinking big here. You should do this every year. Now, when Julie and I did this, what we did was we do it. Actually, I don't think we updated it every year. I think we updated it like every 18 months or 24 months. But it was it was obviously completely voluntary. At first, people were apprehensive and then they felt left out. They had FOMO if not being in the directory.
Bloomberg Business of Sports
Fresh update on "julius" discussed on Bloomberg Business of Sports
"Here to talk a little bit about his latest book, Football Done Right, setting the record straight on coaches, players, and the history of the NFL. Plus we'll hear about how Lionel Messi might be the key to helping out the struggling Chicago soccer franchise. All of that straight ahead on the Bloomberg Business of Sport Show. But first, the NBA's most successful franchise over the last That'll do it. It's over. The Golden State Warriors return to a familiar place. They're on top of the NBA world. The fourth title in eight years. The Dubs dynasty is still very much alive. That's right, a group of minority investors is thinking about selling a chunk of the Golden State Warriors. Here to to talk us about that is our friend of the show, Bloomberg U .S. sports business reporter, Randall Williams. Randall, welcome to the Bloomberg Business of Sports, old buddy. Thank you for having me once again. Well, first of all, who's up in play for thinking about buying the Golden State Warriors? Your guess is as good as mine. It's one of these things where sports franchises are getting so expensive that the pool of people who can even buy into a team. It's just very, very small. So I mean, me personally, I don't really understand why you would want to sell the Warriors. Now, there is some speculation within the story about why someone would want to sell the Warriors or I wouldn't say speculation, but maybe some ideas as to why you would want to sell the piece of the Warriors, but this is one of the most valuable sports franchises in the world and there are some people who want to get out. So who are those sellers exactly, Randall? I don't know that they've made themselves public just yet. And one of the reasons for that is because the quieter these things are generally, the quicker that the process can go along. If you open it up for everybody, then you're going to have a bunch of people who may not even have the money to just want to throw their hats in there for the publicity of saying, I want to buy a piece of the Warriors and they can actually afford it. So I'm not really sure yet. Just remind me, I mean, we've seen, by the way, we've seen and remind audience, our please, some really big deals in the NBA just in the last year alone, you know, talk to us about those numbers really quickly again. I mean, the Hornets, Michael Jordan sold the Hornets for $3 billion after purchasing them for, I think, less than $300 million. Obviously Sarver bought the Suns earlier earlier this year for $4 billion. And if you think about the Warriors, this story has them at $7 billion, which is more than both of them can buy. This 10 % stake could go for $700 million or something along those lines. How many people have $700 million, whether that be in cash or in investments all over place, the to just offer up and say, hey, I'm going to be a part of the Warriors. It's a difficult thing to do. Hell, I don't have $70 right now on my wallet. I mean, this valuations is the are just going through the roof. And I was thinking about this because I spoke about another NBA great, Magic Johnson, who is thinking about for the first time, maybe, just maybe the New York Knicks, because he doesn't want to buy a team that's going to conflict with the Lakers, but he's maybe I could buy the New York Knicks. Yeah, it's one of these things where you're better off seeing four rainbows than James Dolan is to sell the Knicks. There have been New Yorkers for many years who have asked him to sell. I don't think it happens anytime soon. And don't get me wrong, there is a long list of people who would be interested in buying the Knicks who think they could run it better than James Dolan, who think they could bring in superstar players better than him. There's a lot of people, but the price tag for the Knicks, I mean, I can only imagine, I would not be all right. It exceeded $10 billion. So, here's the funny thing, we said $7 billion, I mean $10 $7 billion, billion wow, for the, I mean, what other teams are even in that ballpark, not just in the NBA, but you know, in other courts as well. It's the Cowboys, it's the Giants, it's the Jets, it's the Rams, it's the Knicks, it's the Lakers, it's the Yankees. It's not that many teams that get in that, at say, $6 or $5 .5 to $8 to $9 billion range, depending on what you value the teams There at. aren't a lot of teams, the NFL has the most in large part because of their media business and sometimes the businesses that the teams the build around stadiums and the product on the field. It isn't just about, oh, you know, we have a football team that's very expensive. Naturally, these things are going to get more expensive over time. But in terms of what else can you bring fans and spectators to your stadium or the things around your stadium, those things matter. The Patriots have Patriot place and the Cowboys have what feels like a palace down there in Arlington. So it's one of these things where the more you build around your stadium and the facilities, the more people have to. I wonder, would that make the Warriors more expensive than the 49ers? It could be. I mean, that's nuts. It's possible. Yeah, I was just going to bring up the point that all the teams that you mentioned, Randall, they have one major thing in common and they're all in major big league cities. Exactly. It's one it's one of these things where if you're in a big city, you can naturally assume that you are going to make a lot of money just strictly from the market you're that in. Now, the NFL, in some ways, it's more of the same, but you see some of their smaller franchises still who have a bigger valuation, whether you look at Forbes or Sportico. Their franchises are big, like Green Bay, for example, valued is higher than the Bengals, which are in Cincinnati. And Green Bay has done a number of things to create different streams of revenue that you wouldn't think of. I mean, they sold stock for $300 in their team and that generated, I think, $65 million. It's one of these things where if you can come up with fun, creative ways for fans to be a part of your franchise or feel like they're part of your franchise, then they will engage. Yeah, well, I mean, Randall, point you rightly out in your article that Arctos bought an 8 % stake valuation of $5 .5 billion in the Warriors back in December 2021. So at least we sort of have a framework for the valuation of team. the I wonder if I could just shift gears, you know, and ask you another question. Taylor Swift. Where are we going? Taylor Swift, we have to ask you about Taylor Swift. I know you love Taylor Swift. Don't say, you know, come on the Eris tour. I know I there. saw you But seriously, you did not see me there. No, do not put that out there. There are no photos of me at the Eris tour. But I mean, we got to talk about what just happened and the impact on the NFL between the relationship between Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift. I mean, the numbers alone. I mean, the merch sales. Talk to us about all that. It's probably the craziest thing that I have seen in terms of celebrity impact on something that is pure speculatory. we did when they walked out of the stadium, they weren't even holding hands. They drove away But the impact is undeniable. I mean everyone in connection to Taylor gained Swift followers. It isn't just Travis Kelce who gained over 400 ,000 followers. It's also his mother and his brother who have also gained followers. And all of this is from being on agency who tracks some of the social media metrics and things like that. But it's of one these things where you can't expect it. And I just got off the phone with the head of content at the NFL and social media and even he said like this is a magic that you just can't recreate and they out found that she was going to be attending a couple hours before the game. Now the buzz that was recreated after, my god I cannot escape it. You know and I said when this story came out I said I'm not going to talk about this I got other stuff. But then I'm forced to talk about it because jersey sales for Travis Kelce went up 400 % since that you saw the shot of Taylor Swift, Kelce. So I mean and you said this you got to bring this up. Okay so basically I don't have my own TikTok account but my wife does and so we were looking at I guess wives are playing Swifties are playing jokes on their husbands oh yeah yeah saying oh can you believe that Taylor Swift just made this NFL player Travis Kelce like instantly famous overnight and it's going yeah it's a head explode Julius Randall's wife just it did on them and it's hilarious but here's the thing that is outside of whatever if they're dating if not they're it doesn't really matter but this is an example of why
Divine Naples Podcast
A highlight from Rich asked where all the LARD is going and Matt had to think about it. Irish thing to do is to give a kid 3 first names to make life easy. Kiss that did not change the frog into a prince. Episode #402 August. 1st. 2023
"And hello on Tuesday August 1st, 2023 episode 402 from This Mike Ridge and from This Mike Ridge. It's the day after my birthday. I survived. And I even shaved for you. I know and you're wearing a sporty red shirt. Yeah, you said I haven't. Don't talk about the red shoes. I retired. You said I have one tire. The red shirt hides the tire. Man, you're getting in shape though. I need to take that back. You're all right. You're all right. You know what? It's not like I called you fat. Exactly what you called me. It doesn't matter what it is. You have one which is yellow. Let me see what it is. It's chocolate you have. I like chocolate, but you know I eat chocolate all the time. No, not yet. Really? It looks like it's got chocolate in too. Hazelnut. Yeah, that's mine. Oh my. You know how much I love hazelnut. I can't do that on purpose. That's too bad. What country is this from? Well, you can tell them. You can read the manual in the bag or the bird's head ticket. That's pretty good. I just see a bunch of ingredients. You've got to fold this thing all over to try to find it. That's the bird's head ticket. I don't see it. That's a European. That doesn't have an evil in it. Dude, I can't even read this language. That's fine. So this is made. Well, let's see. Well, I can tell you right now. This is just read the name. I don't know how you write. You just read the way you write. Tatranka. Tatranka. Tatranka. Tatranka. Tatranka. Oh, there I got it now. It doesn't sound Russian to me. No, it's not. But go ahead and stuff your face. Why don't I see? Is it from the Balkans? No, it's not. It doesn't matter. It's country. We're not going to say where Alan is from. Say Alan, thank you. Alan, this is delicious. There's not many people that think about us like this. Oh my gosh, that's delicious. I'm so happy he brought it in and he enjoyed our forecast, you know. I mean, when we had shut down and Fauci virus, people, you know, appreciated. They brought us cookies. That's why we have two tires now. No, you're down to one. Yeah, you're down to one. But that was really nice. I stopped chewing because you started rebuking me yesterday. You know what? Telling everybody, hey, if you hear a bunch of noise in the background through the mics, it's him munching on his cake. Yeah, because he sounded like that animal. It is you that brought me the birthday cake while we're taping. It's the appropriate thing to do, right? Right, but you don't scold somebody and give them a bunch of guff because he's eating during the show. That doesn't mean you have to bury your face in it like a piglet in the ground. I actually did that thing. Exactly what happened. That spoon was like a shovel right in the mouth. I didn't stop. That whipped cream was delicious. I tell you what. Episode 402. Four hundred two. I still cannot like the four on the beginning. Is it 402 or is it 401? That was yesterday. Are you sure? Yeah, I know what's going on here. You don't know. You just come here to feed yourself and get a coffee. Occasionally you open your pie hole and you say something smart. And you sound really good on that. Yeah, so we have a lot of things. Just stick with this. We have a lot of things that we found in the news. And we want to share with you what's going on in Naples and what's going on around here. But before we start, we have to say Julian Bruce again. Thank you for the music. We've been singing in your intro because we just love that energy. We love the Divine Naples song and we love us in our life. Official sponsor or unofficial sponsor, whatever you want to say it. The sponsor of the show is beachesos .com. And that's the only service that you're going to get if you go to the beach and you forget something. Or you're hungry on ice cream or you need drinks. Alcohol, cocktails, beers, wines, champagne. You know, whatever you wish for. There's 250 items to choose from. Plenty of sandwiches. I think 75 different sandwiches. Can you believe it? We've got croissants, desserts, everything. Yeah, everything. Snacks. We bring it swiftly in what? Our red fire truck with a big, huge Julius Meinl coffee cup on top. You can't miss it. And another thing, if you need to print some money, you can do it at home. Yes, you can. And legally without a federal government being involved with that. And it's called coupons. That's because it's not called legal tender. It's a coupon. And we have $500 in savings for you and a website. divineapals .com forward slash discount dash coupon. Again, divineapals .com forward slash discount dash coupon. Yep. So go ahead and print them off and you won't have any visitors from the Treasury Department knocking on your door. Yeah, we don't get on bank to anything, you know, the weather because that's just nonsense. I've been repeating same numbers every single day and every single day is more than those numbers. Let me guess. It's going to start out 91. Yeah, that's what I say. But when you get outside, it's like somebody slap your face with a heated hand. You know, it's like you get this, you know, like somebody take iron and just slap your face with the iron. Oh my God. That's a little rough. Well, that's how it feels like. It does. Maybe to you. I kind of like it. You do. Yeah, but I'm kind of a different type guy. Yeah. And when end of the day, like when you're on the outside all day, do you have any greasy spots on your clothing? No. No? So you're not melting away? No. No? No? Well, that's funny. Not at all. Yeah. Well, it's... So where is that lard going then? Maybe because it's all disappeared. Oh yeah, vaporizing it. It's vaporizing. I don't think so. I don't think so. You got something? No, you said you had a few things to share with us. I have so much. Later, I have a few national days I want to share with everybody if you're all right with that. So you want good news or bad news? I... You know, I... I have one bad news. Okay, one bad news. Go ahead. We don't really want you to do this, but I think paying tribute to some very important people that have been through our lives in history and we just shouldn't just forget about them. We need to acknowledge them and maybe hopefully before... What did you say today if you die one day? I said... It's like a epitaph on your stones and it's like, here lies Matt. He made a difference. I mean, just make a difference in people's life. What did I say? There's a Matt, clean your shoes. You're not supposed to step on somebody's grave and you're told to walk on you. But just your name itself, you know, you have three first names in your life. It's an Irish thing, you know, I don't know. Maybe they just got confused. Matt, Patrick, Kenny. Which one is it? And you have no idea. Sometimes the times I get called, hey, Kenny, like that's my first name. And then, you know. It was like there was one policeman, a very good friend of ours, he moved away. His name was Chris Travis and everybody called him, hey, Travis, that's your last name. Because it could be, Travis is the first name too. And he goes like, yeah, I'm used to it, you know. I don't think you would want to walk around with your last. I'm not going to say it. My last name? Yeah. It's simple. Yeah. Say it. But you're not going to. It's not Mueller. You don't even know who. Yeah, that just reminds me of Ferris Mueller. It's Miller. Ferris Mueller's day off. It's German name, Miller. Yeah. Yeah, that's what it is. Okay. So don't screw my name. I won't. Please. Yeah. I have class. I won't. What class? Well, I have class. I don't have any class. You made the class like, am I going to school somewhere? Or the type of class like, you know. Yeah, you probably confused because you went to class and now you think you have class. No. You barely have any class. Yeah. You are able to destroy everybody with your tongue very quickly. No problem with that. Oh my God. You do it your way. I tell you, I have to give you credit. Very intelligently, if somebody has not that level, they really don't know what you said. Right. But when they do, they know. Yeah, then they know what's up. They know what time it is. So, let me bring the bad news and that is, you know, PV actor? Pee -wee Herman? No, I don't. What happened? Well, his name is Paul Reubens. Yeah, Paul Reuben. Unfortunately, we have to announce that he died yesterday of cancer at 70 years old. Really? Pee -wee Herman. Yeah. What show? I mean, what shows? It was a movie, but I think it was some kind of morning show that it started. We'll have to. I tell you what. I see his picture and just like, I don't know. I think he had that character in the movie and he was living that character for the rest of his life. The haircut and everything else. So, unfortunately, we lost another one. We lost Pee -wee Herman. What am I going to do? I don't know. We can replace him. It should be easy to have that look. Thanks a lot. Now you say I look like Pee -wee Herman? That should bring me all the ladies in to find out who this single guy is behind here. Hey, let's go. I'm going to go date Pee -wee Herman. Yeah, exactly. But anyway, I like his stuff was pretty funny. What was the name of the guy that we celebrated the other day? The exercise guy? Richard? Richard Simmons, man. Between Richard Simmons and this Pee -wee Herman, you probably get idea what he's mad. Oh, thanks a lot. Something in the middle. Oh, that's great.
Divine Naples Podcast
A highlight from Rich asked where all the LARD is going and Matt had to think about it. Irish thing to do is to give a kid 3 first names to make life easy. Kiss that did not change the frog into a prince. Episode #402 August. 1st. 2023
"And hello on Tuesday August 1st, 2023 episode 402 from This Mike Ridge and from This Mike It's the day after my birthday, I survived. And I even shaved for you. I know and you're wearing a sporty red shirt. Oh yeah, you said I haven't. Don't talk about the red shoes. I don't, I was tired of them. You said I have one tire so I red, the red shirt hides the tire. Man, you're getting in shape though. I need to take that back. You're all right. You're all right. Well, you know, you know what? It's not like I called you, you're fat. Exactly what you called me. It doesn't matter what it is. You have one. Let me see what it is. It's chocolate. I like chocolate, but you know, I eat chocolate all the time, but what do you really, it looks like it's got chocolate into the hazelnut. Yeah, that's mine. Oh my, you know how much I love hazelnut on purpose. That's too bad. What country is this from? Well, you can tell them, you can read the manual in a bag or a bird's ticket. That's pretty good. I just see a bunch of ingredients. You got to fold this thing all over to try to find it. I don't see it. That's a European. That doesn't have an evil in it. Dude, I can't even read this language. That's fine. So this is made, well, let's see, well, I can tell you right now, this is just read the name. I don't know how you write. You just read the way you write. Tatranka. Tatranka. Yeah. Tatranki. Tatranki. Oh, there I got it now. Yeah. It doesn't sound Russian to me. No, it's not. Go ahead and stuff your face. Why don't I see, is it from like, is it from the Balkans? No, it's not. It doesn't matter. It's country. We're not going to say where Alan is from. Say Alan, thank you. I tell you this. Alan, this is delicious. There's not many people that think about us like this. Oh my gosh, that's delicious. I'm so happy he brought it in and he enjoyed our forecast, you know, I mean, when we had shut down and Fauci virus, people, you know, appreciated. They brought us cookies. That's why we have two tires now. No, you're down to one. Yeah, you're down to one. But that was really nice as take, I stopped chewing cause you started rebuking me yesterday. You know what? Telling everybody, Hey, if you hear a bunch of noise in the background through the mics, it's him munching on. Yeah. Because he sounded like that animal. Did I bring, it is you that brought me the birthday cake while we're taping. It's the appropriate thing to do, right? Right. But you don't scold somebody and give them a bunch of, uh, guff because he's eating during the show. That doesn't mean you have to bury your face in it like a piglet in the ground. I actually did that thing. Exactly what happened. That spoon was like a shovel right in the mouth. I didn't stop. That whipped cream was delicious. I tell you what, episode 402, 402, I still cannot, like the four on the beginning. Is it 402 or is it 401? That was yesterday. Are you sure? Yeah. I know what's going on here. You just, you don't know, you just come here to feed yourself and get a coffee, you know, occasionally you open your pie hole and you say something smart and you sound really good on that. Thank you. Yeah. Yeah. So we have a lot of things. Just stick with this. We have a lot of things that we found in news and we want to share with you what's going on in Naples and what's going on around here. But before we start, we have to say Julian Bruce again, thank you for the music we've been singing in your intro because we just love that energy. We love the Divine Naples song and we love us in our life. Official sponsor or unofficial sponsor, whatever you want to say it. The sponsor of the show is beachesos .com and that's the only service that you're going to get if you go to the beach and you forget something or you're hungry or ice cream or you need drinks, alcohol, cocktails, beers, wines, champagne, you know, whatever you wish for. There's 250 items to choose from. Plenty of sandwiches. I think 75 different sandwiches. Can you believe it? We've got croissants, desserts, everything. Snacks. We bring it swiftly in our red fire truck with a big, huge Julius Meinl coffee cup on top. You can't miss it. And another thing, if you need to print some money, you can do it at home and legally without a federal government being involved with that and it's called coupons. That's because it's not called legal tender, it's a coupon. And we have $500 in savings for you and a website, divinenapels .com forward slash discount dash coupon. Again, divinenapels .com forward slash discount dash coupon. Yep. So go ahead and print them off and you won't have any visitors from the treasury department knocking on your door. Yeah. We don't get on banks or anything, you know, the weather because that's just nonsense. I've been repeating the same numbers every single day and every single day is more than those numbers. Let me guess, it's going to start out 91. Yeah, that's what I say. But when you get outside, it's like somebody slab your face with a heated hand, you know, it's like you get this, you know, like somebody take iron and just slab your face with the iron. Oh my God. That's a little rough. Well, that's how it feels like. It does? Maybe to you. Not you? I kind of like it. You do? Yeah, but I'm kind of a different type of guy. Yeah. Well, and when end of the day, like when you're on the outside all day, do you have any, any greasy spots on your clothing? No. So you're not melting away? No. No. No? No. It's not at all. It's yeah. Well, it's. So where is that lard going then? Maybe because it's all disappeared. Oh, yeah. Viperizing.
The Eric Metaxas Show
A highlight from Frank Turek (Encore)
"Folks, welcome to The Eric Metaxas Show, sponsored by Legacy Precious Metals. There's never been a better time to invest in precious metals. Visit legacypminvestments .com. That's legacypminvestments .com. Welcome to The Eric Metaxas Show. Would you consider yourself smart, insightful, precocious, astute, clever, wise beyond your years, and good at checking a thesaurus for synonyms? Well, then you've come to the right place. Here now is the handsome, attractive, striking, gorgeous, and quite frankly, breathtaking, Eric Metaxas! Hey there folks, welcome to the show. I am excited because I have a friend on today who is a Christian apologist. Have you heard that term? An apologist? No, no, no, he's not apologizing. As a Greek, I know the word apology, the original meaning is apologia, of words, of understanding. So to be an apologist is to make a defense, like a lawyer would, for the faith. And Frank Turek is the author of many, many books. He's the president of CrossExamined. You can go to crossexamined .org. And Dr. Frank Turek has a new book out. Excited to have him to discuss the new book. It's called Correct, Not Politically Correct About Same -Sex Marriage and Transgenderism. Dr. Frank Turek, welcome to the program. The great Eric Metaxas. How are you my friend? Unbelievable that you have a stadium -sized crowd in your little office there. That's very impressive. Thank you. I got to tell you seriously, we're friends and I just enjoy whenever I get to bump into you and talk to you. But you are really prolific. You keep coming out with these extraordinary books. And the new one, unfortunately, is very important about same -sex marriage and transgenderism. So as believers, those of us who say, I'm a Christian, how do I understand this? You have written a book to help with that. Because unfortunately, you know that there seems to be some confusion about how we're supposed to deal with this. So what is the principal thesis of the book before we get into the details? Well actually, this goes all the way back to 2008, Eric, when I saw that same -sex marriage was being more and more accepted. And a lot of people didn't know why they shouldn't accept same -sex marriage. And so I wrote the first edition of this book back in 2008. And it's not a book filled with Bible verses. This is the natural law medical case against same -sex marriage and now transgenderism. Because as you know, that has come out even more in recent years. And so the third edition of this book just was released about a month ago. And it's got a brand new section on this transgender issue. Because as you've spoken about, Eric, when you're talking about Letter to the American Church, is that pastors don't even seem to want to touch this issue. And if pastors aren't going to touch this issue, who is? Well, ironically, Eric, there have been atheists that are talking more about this issue. People like Bill Maher, people like Richard Dawkins, people like Douglas Murray, are who actually not Christians, but they're saying there's a big problem here. And we need to speak out against it. And it's really a stain on the American Church that the Church hasn't spoken out about it, Eric. So anyway, this book, Correct, Not Politically Correct, is the third edition. And it's not quoting Bible verses. It's there to show you from a natural law medical perspective why both same -sex marriage and transgenderism are not good for individuals or societies. It's so interesting to me what you just mentioned, how we have non -believers, people who are not Christians, who seem to see clearly the problems with transgenderism and are talking about that. And of course, most extraordinarily, you have gay, people who identify as gay, who are conservative, speaking out against the transgender madness. So they don't identify as Christians. They identify as gays. But they say, wait a minute, we were not advocating for this. This is lunacy. I was literally with Douglas Murray last night at a dinner here in New York City. I was with Brandon Strzok here in New York recently. Both of them identify as gay. Both of them are conservatives. And both of them are totally outspoken about the transgender lunacy. So obviously, we disagree on some pretty basic stuff. But on this, many people who are not Christians see the madness, are speaking out about it. And as you just said, many in the church are silent. And this is the scandal. And that's why I wrote my book, Letter to the American Church. But I don't go deep into this issue. You, my friend, Mr. Apologist, Dr. Frank Turek, you get into this. So I do want to get into it with you from a biblical perspective. And I want to be clear, too, when you say natural law perspective, ladies and gentlemen, that's a biblical perspective. We're just not talking about quoting scripture verses. We're talking about logically talking from a biblical viewpoint. But how are we supposed to approach this? Well, first of all, let's talk about whether or not love requires approval. I always ask parents, because our culture somehow thinks, Eric, that love requires approval, that if you want to love me, you have to approve of what I do. And I always ask parents, if you approve of everything your kid wants to do when he or she is 13, are you a loving parent? Of course not. You need to stand in the way of evil to love people. And we, even in the church, have bought into the lie that to love people, we have to approve of what they do. No, we don't approve of what they do if we love them, if they're doing evil. This is why Paul says, by the way, in the passage, Eric, that everybody reads at their wedding, but nobody obeys, that love always protects, that love does not rejoice in wrongdoing, love rejoices in the truth, that love always perseveres. How do you protect people when other people want to do evil, or when they themselves want to do evil? You call them out on it. And that, of course, is what I'm trying to do in Correct Not Politically Correct. That's what you're trying to do in Letter to the American Church. We're trying to tell people that if you love people, you will speak out against this evil. In fact, Jesus himself said it would be better to have a millstone hung around your neck than to lead one of these little ones astray. And, Eric, that's what we're doing. That's what I document in Correct Not Politically Correct. We are actually trying to transition minors. We're mutilating their genitals. We are giving them puberty blockers and cross -sex hormones that are making them old men and old ladies way before their time, sterilizing them, and we're calling this love? This is not love. This is evil, and we need to stand against it. And if Douglas Murray can stand against it, if Richard Dawkins can stand against it, if my friend Dave Rubin, I just did a show with him down in Miami just a couple of weeks ago, you know, he identifies as gay too, if he can stand against it, where are the pastors? Where are the Christians? Where are the common sense people, Eric? What are we doing? We're allowing this on our watch, and we're silent. We can't be silent anymore. Well, I, you know, in my book, Letter to the American Church, I'm trying to reach those pastors and Christians who are kind of on the fence, who are confused, who don't know what to do, so they're being quiet. And it's why I love you, because you help us understand why we need to speak out. I mean, I talk about it a little bit, but you go into depth to explain the biblical worldview, God's idea of sexuality, transgenderism. Now, what's interesting to me, Frank, is, of course, Scripture isn't silent on transgenderism, right? I mean, right in the beginning of Genesis, we are created in God's image male and female. Very, very clear, there are only two genders. So when somebody puts out this idea, which they came up with 10 minutes ago, oh, yeah, there are all these many, many genders, you want to say, where did you get that from? Everyone, you don't need to be a Christian to know that's preposterous. You don't need to know that, you don't need to be a Christian to know that a rooster cannot lay an egg. Everybody from the beginning of time has understood that there are two genders, so that's number one. But number two, you know the passage where Paul talks about who will inherit the kingdom of God. And the Scripture, you know, when you look at the Greek, you get different translations. It says homosexual, sodomite, sometimes it says effeminate, whatever. What it's referring to there in that first word has to do with those men who blur the line, who feminize themselves. And it makes it very clear that that is wrong. And so it's interesting, the Scripture is not silent on these things. There's plenty in Scripture about this, whether you're looking at the Old Testament or the New Testament. So that's why it's all the more shocking in a sense that Christian pastors and leaders have been silent on this. I understand why, but folks, that needs to change. When we come back, we're going to get into the details. Frank Turek is my guest. The book is titled Correct, Not Politically Correct. We'll be right back. Tell me why Relief Factor is so successful at lowering or eliminating pain. I'm often asked that question just the other night I was asked that question. Well, the owners of Relief Factor tell me they believe our bodies were designed to heal. That's right. Designed to heal. And I agree with them. And the doctors who formulated Relief Factor for them selected the four best ingredients. Yes, 100 percent drug free ingredients in each one of them helps your body deal with inflammation. Each of the four ingredients deals with inflammation from a different metabolic pathway. That's the point. So approaching from four different angles may be why so many people find such wonderful relief. If you've got back pain, shoulder, neck, hip, knee or foot pain from exercise or just getting older, you should order the three week quick start discounted to only $19 .95 to see if it'll work for you. It has worked for about 70 percent of the half a million people who've tried it and have ordered more on one of them. Go to relieffactor .com or call 800 for relief to find out about this offer. Feel the difference. Legacy Precious Metals has a revolutionary new online platform that allows you to invest in real gold and silver online. In a few easy steps, you can open an account online, select your metals of choice and choose to have them stored in a vault or shipped to your door. You'll have access to a dashboard where you can track your portfolio growth in real time, anytime. You'll see transparent pricing on each coin and bar. This puts you in complete control of your money. The platform is free to sign up for. Visit legacypminvestments .com and open your account and see this new investing platform for yourself. Gold can hedge against inflation and against the volatile stock market. A true diversified portfolio isn't just more stocks and bonds, but different asset classes. This new platform allows you to make investments in gold and silver no matter how small or large with a few clicks. Visit legacypminvestments .com to get started. You're going to love this free new tool that they've added. Please go check it out today. That's legacypminvestments .com. Folks, welcome back. I'm talking to my friend Dr. Frank Turek. You can find him at crossexamined .org. He is on 180 radio stations per week. The show podcast is called I Don't Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist. So, Frank, let's keep talking about this. How do we know there are only two genders? How do you know? How do I know? How do we know this? Let's just leave the Bible out of it for just a minute. Let's just look at the natural design of the body. The natural design of the body proves there are only two genders, Eric. Because, look, if you're a human being, and this is true in all mammals, you can only produce either a sperm or an egg. There's no third category. And anybody that can't produce a sperm or an egg, that's an incapacity. That's not a third capacity. So we know by the design of the body that there's only two genders. Secondly, transgender advocates, and this is all in the book, correct? Not politically correct. Transgender advocates, on one hand, deny there are only two genders. They say everything is fluid. But on the other hand, they unwittingly have to presuppose two genders. Why? Because if I'm a man and I think I'm a woman, I have to have some idea what a man is and some idea what a woman is to know that I have this psychological mismatch between my psychology and my biology. And secondly, if I'm going to try and make the so -called transition, which is impossible, and we'll get into it by the way, but if I'm going to try and do that, if I'm going to try and become a woman, I have to have some idea of what a man is and some idea of what a woman is to try and make the so -called transition. If there were no fixed genders, Eric, there would be no way I would know I had gender dysphoria, and there would be no way I could try and make the so -called transition. So it presupposes it, on one hand, while denying there are fixed genders on the other. Can I tell you how I know there are only two genders? Here's how I know. Amazon was selling a shirt that said, like, these are the 20 different categories of gender, and it was on the front of the t -shirt. And the shirt came in sizes for men and for women only. That, to me, is hilarious. When it says male, female, like you want to buy a shirt, like you got to click on male or female. At some point, this becomes funny, because we all understand this is troubled people. These are people that are deeply, deeply troubled. I can't begin to imagine what it would be like to be so confused or so angry or so whatever. So we do have to have compassion, and I think that's where the silence comes from on the part of many Christian leaders. They think that to say nothing is to be compassionate, and in some cases that's true. In some cases, there's a time to speak and a time to be quiet, but we have a responsibility to disciple our flocks. We have a responsibility to our own children to tell them the truth about these kinds of things. And, you know, the famous statement, silence in the face of evil is itself evil. When you're quiet, it can often mean consent. It means, I'm not saying anything, which means I'm going along with this. I just don't want to, I'm just not going to say so, but you get the message, because I'm saying nothing. Well, Eric, let's draw a parallel between gender dysphoria and, say, anorexia, which is what Dr. Paul McHugh at John Hopkins University, a psychiatrist, draws. He that says if someone is anorexic, but they think that they are overweight, you would not help them by saying, you know, honey, I'm going to get you some liposuction. You're right. You know, you are really overweight. No, you would say, honey, your mind is playing tricks on you. You're suffering from a mental delusion. Let me get you some psychiatry. Let me get you some cognitive therapy. Let me get you some counseling. Let me help you fix your mind, because you can change your mind. You can't change your biology, by the way. You can change your mind. Also, Eric, if your daughter came to you and said she was a mermaid, would you take her off the coast and drop her in the ocean? No, of course you would say... If I loved her, of course I would. Whatever you want to be, honey, whoever you are today, you want to be a kite? That's right. Follow your heart. No, I tell you, Frank, again, this is the logic of it. If somebody says to you, I'm Napoleon Bonaparte, I'm Julius Caesar, I'm Winston Churchill, how do you respond to that? Well, you might just nod politely because you realize, wow, this person is deeply messed up. But imagine affirming them in that lie. I have to say that, you know, if there's a way to help them see the truth, you would do it. Now, some people are beyond that. There's some people you can't do anything. But what is amongst ourselves, we wouldn't start calling that person Jesus of Nazareth because he just said, I'm Jesus. We, you and I, would say, you know, that guy there thinks he's Jesus of Nazareth. We obviously know that he's not. He's so messed up. I don't know how we can get to him. Maybe we can't. But let's not pretend amongst ourselves. Let's not tell everybody, call him Jesus because that's the loving thing to do. You would never do that. No, and the well -meaning people who try and say, well, we need to accommodate these people. We have to use their pronouns. You have to have your own pronouns and all this. If you think about that, if someone is suffering from a delusion, you don't help them by trying to keep them in the delusion. If deaf people were to come to you and say, Eric, you know, I can't hear and I'm upset every time you listen to music, stop listening to music, stop speaking. You must use sign language. You would go, OK, I'm going to do everything I can to accommodate you because you have a defect that you can't get over. But I'm not going to change my life completely. So you're not offended because I listen to music or I or I speak. And yet that's what seems to be happening with the entire trans movement. They want to pull the entire world into the delusion in order to make some people who really need mental health care feel better when the best way to help them feel better is to get them mental health care, not to affirm them in that particular delusion. And by the way, the data show, which is what we cover and correct, not politically correct, Eric, that nearly all of the people, not maybe not all, but most of the people that suffer from so -called gender dysphoria have some kind of traumatic childhood event that has triggered them into this. Now, say that again, because I have not really heard that. I was wondering about this. Yes. You're a data guy. I'm not really. So talk about that. And again, this is in the book. Correct. Not politically correct. Talk about that. Yeah. Walt Iyer, who for eight years tried as try to live as a woman, but then became a Christian and then started the Web site and ministry called Sex Change Regret, Sex Change Regret Dotcom. And he has counseled thousands, according to him, thousands of people. And in his research, he says there's nearly always an event. There's always some sort of traumatic event that causes the person to think I'm in the wrong body. And for example, the people that truly have gender dysphoria, not the social contagion that's spreading on the Internet right now that, you know, a lot of young girls are just there. It's the hip thing to do it. They don't really have gender dysphoria, but they're trying to get approval of the crowd and they're trying to stick it to their parents sometimes when they do this. But the people that truly have gender dysphoria say, Eric, that they had an event. In fact, Walt Iyer puts it this way. Sometimes when a man thinks he's a woman, he has been sexually abused and he wants to get rid of the genitalia that was abused. So you can understand the psychology behind it. They want to rid themselves of the organ that was abused in that event. Okay, folks, we got to be clear. We're talking about evil. Evil, when someone is sexually abused as a child, there's almost nothing that you can think of that's more evil than that. It is pronounced evil. It's not just wrong. It's pronounced evil. And when you quoted Jesus earlier, you know, better that we would find the largest millstone and have it hung around his neck and he be cast into the sea than that he should lead one of these little ones to go straight. We're talking about some very, very dark stuff. And we have to have compassion to understand if someone has been through that, it is hard for us to imagine how that would mess you up, how your brain, your psyche would try to accommodate that trauma. And as you're saying, as this guy says, who you can find at sexchangeregret .com, sexchangeregret .com, he is saying that is often the case, that someone has had a profound trauma. So first, we want to weep for these people. We want to weep what they have been through, but we don't want to affirm them in the way they're dealing with this any more than you deferment. Somebody who's like, you know, who's on heroin because of some stuff that happened to him, you know, in Vietnam or during his childhood. And you wouldn't want to say, like, hey, if heroin is your way to deal with this, good for you. I'm all in. Let me buy you, you know, some horse. No, you would you would try to actually help him, like really help him. And, you know, Eric, you can change your mind. You can't change your biology. Look, if I'm a man and I think I'm a woman, why not think that instead of my body being wrong, that I'm actually, instead of saying I'm a woman trapped in a man's body, why shouldn't I say that I'm a man enveloping a woman's mind? Then if I can just change my mind and fix the problem, I can't change my biology. I can't change all hundred trillion of my cells. I can't change my DNA, but I can change my mind. And every single one of ourselves, folks, can tell any doctor whether you're a man or a woman. This is not like an up in the air thing. We'll be right back talking to Frank Turek, T -U -R -E -K. Frank Turek, the book, correct, not politically correct.
Mark Levin
Gregg Jarrett: Previewing New Book 'The Trial of the Century'
"The trial of the century what is the trial of the century Which one You know there have been a lot of famous trials that have been dubbed as such by the media over the years The Nuremberg case Julius Ethel Rosenberg the O. J. Simpson double murder case which I covered for 9 months in Los Angeles They pale in comparison to the 1925 scopes monkey trial Because it stake was our cherished free speech rights America was at the precipice there was an effort and it was succeeding to ban books for example on evolution and they weren't going to stop there They were going to ban a variety of science books and other books And in the state of Tennessee they made it a crime for a teacher to teach out of the state approved textbooks a chapter on the cornerstone Darwin theory of evolution Because they feared it would undermine the story of the divine creation in genesis in the Bible Which it didn't Their harmonious and Clarence Darrow was incensed over it So when a young 25 year old school teacher was handcuffed criminally charged in front of the host gal Darrow came to the rescue the greatest trial lawyer who ever lived And he for free descended John scopes It became known as the scopes monkey trial which was derived from an evolutionary misconception that humans evolved from monkeys or other primates I traveled a couple of years ago to the courthouse in Dayton Tennessee where the trial took place It's closed now but buried in the archives of the basement and I gained access was the original trial transcript
AP News Radio
Knicks punch back, avoid elimination in Game 5 against Heat
"Jalen Brunson and the Knicks have forced a game 6 in the Eastern Conference Semifinals by defeating the heat one 12, one O three. Brunson played all 48 minutes in the potential elimination game, accounting for 38.9 rebounds and 7 assists. Just trying to do everything I could to win. We did that, and I was on the game 6. RJ Barrett pumped in 26 points for New York, which denied Miami's first attempt to become just the second number 8 C to reach the Conference Finals. Julius Randle added 24 points to the win. Jimmy Butler had 19 points, 9 assists and 7 boards for the heat. Game 6 is Friday in Miami. I'm Dave ferry.
AP News Radio
Heat take 3-1 lead, hold off Knicks 109-101 for Game 4 win
"The Miami Heat moved to win away from their third trip to the Eastern Conference Finals in the last four years by topping the New York Knicks one O 9 one O one in game four. Jimmy Butler scored 27 points and added ten assists. We always got a shot to win whenever regarding we're just playing hard and playing together. Bam adebayo finished with 23 points and 13 rebounds, max truce scored 16 and Kyle Lowry added 15. Jalen Brunson finished with 32 points and 11 assists while RJ Barrett scored 24 and Julius Randle added 20 for the Knicks. I'm geffen cool bar.
AP News Radio
Butler scores 28, Heat top Knicks 105-86 for 2-1 series lead
"Jimmy Butler returned from his spraying to ankle to score 28 points in the Miami Heat topped the New York Knicks one O 5 to 86 to take a two to one lead in their Eastern Conference semifinal series. It's never on one individual. All year long, we've been a team that plays team basketball on both sides of the floor. Max truce had 19 points, bam adebayo added 17 and 12 rebounds for Miami. Jalen Brunson scored 20 for New York, Julius Randle, added ten points and 14 rebounds for the Knicks game four is Monday. I'm geffen cool bar.
AP News Radio
The latest in sports
"AP sports I'm David Schuster, it's round two for both the NBA and NHL playoffs and Tuesday night at Madison Square Garden. It was game two between New York and Miami and Tom Marion was there. The next show some heart when they needed it most to beat the heat one 11 one O 5 and game two to tie their Eastern Conference semifinal series at a game of peace. The Knicks already down a game where down 6 points of the heat with 7 minutes remaining, but outscored Miami 24 12 the rest of the way, as Jalen Brunson and Josh Hart combined for 20 points down the stretch. Jimmy Butler missed the game for the heat with an injured ankle, but Julius Randle returned from his ankle sprain to score 25 for the Knicks. Brunson let all scores with 30. Meanwhile, out in the Bay Area, Anthony Davis had 30 points at 23 rebounds. The Lakers taking game one against Golden State one 17 one 12. Over in the NHL, it was game one between Florida and Toronto and John leatherbee has the details. Part of her hanky scored the tie breaking and eventual game on a goal in the second period as Florida doubled up Toronto four two at Scotiabank arena for hanky took a breakaway pass beating Ilya Samsung for his third goal of the postseason. Nick cousin Sam Bennett and Brandon montour also scored for the peppers, while Matthew nyes with his first NHL goal and Michael bunting replied for the buns. Charlotte widow for four on the power play at Sergei bobrovsky made 34 stops for the win. Game two is Thursday night. And down in Dallas, Yanni gourde scored the game winner in overtime Seattle prevailing 5 four over the stars, turning the baseball, the Yankee snapped their four game losing streak forward to over Cleveland, Gary Cole, with another good outing. It was a good punch and counter punch and I was glad to be able to get deep enough that, you know, we could use our guys, you know, and leverage if we did indeed get the lead, which we did. In Tampa, the rays improved to 24 and 6 with a four one victory over Pittsburgh. Elsewhere, Ryan monkcastle hit two home runs Baltimore 11 7 over Kansas City, and Connor Wong had two home runs, Boston 7 6 over Toronto and back in pro basketball, Joel embiid of the Philadelphia 76ers named the league's MVP. I'm David Shuster, AP sports.
AP News Radio
Brunson, Randle help Knicks beat Heat 111-105 to even series
"The Knicks already down a game we're down 6 points to the heat with 7 minutes remaining, but outscored Miami 24 12 the rest of the way as Jalen Brunson and Josh Hart combined for 20 points down the stretch. Hard also snatched 11 rebounds as New York dominated the boards. Jimmy Butler missed the game for the heat with an injured ankle, but Julius Randle returned from his ankle sprain to score 25 for the Knicks.
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
Is This the Wrong Time for Ron DeSantis to Run for President?
"There's every indication that Ron DeSantis having produced a successful record in Florida is very seriously considering running for president. Now there have been some recent reports coming more from the left, but also some from the maga. Trumpsters that desantis is having some setbacks. He's running into some roadblocks. This is not a good idea. It's not going very well for him. I don't put a whole lot of stock in all that. I want to actually ask a different question. From desantis own point of view, is this the best time for him to run? And I'm going to ask this as someone who is well disposed toward desantis has nothing against him, has only admiration as I described in the last segment for what he's done and for his record. So I'm not looking at whether a desantis is a nuisance for Trump or whether desantis is I'm looking really at whether desantis is doing himself a favor by running now as opposed to waiting it out for the next time around. Now, the case for dissent is running now. And I think this is what a lot of the desantis people are seeing on social media is basically the idea you get it in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. There is a tide in the affairs of men and the ideas you gotta take the wave when it comes and go for it. But let's remember that this is stated by who. I believe it was stated by Brutus, maybe cassius, one of the two of them right before a battle that they lost.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Democrats Cross the Rubicon As Trump Gets Indicted
"Country that I grew up in has been dying for quite some time. Many people say, well, Charlie, don't we get our country back easily? Yesterday? The Rubicon was crossed. The river Rubicon, of course, goes to the story of Julius Caesar, deciding to start a Roman Civil War. The Democrats did this. Front page of The New York Times. Trump indicted. There is no going back. There is no reversing it. We are now in a new set of circumstances. The republic that we once enjoyed that we celebrated that we were appreciative of it that we were thankful for, it's over. They decided they killed it. It's not to say that the country is over, but we are in a completely new set of circumstances. A completely new scenario. And yes, I am wearing the hat for a reason because you better believe right now. That this is a direct assault, a direct attack on every single one of you. Those of you that pay your taxes. Those of you that go to church. Those of you that believe that America is the greatest nation ever to exist the history of the world. They hate you. This was a revenge indictment. These people are pathological. They're petty. They're personal. And of course, they're political. They hate the fact that the character that they were laughing about on SNL ever became president. They hate the fact that Amy Coney Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch are on the Supreme Court. They hate the fact that he showed that the border could be secure. The economy started to grow. He brokered Middle East peace, kept China in check, Putin never invaded. Hey, the fact that middle class wages were going up, hated the fact that Donald Trump was creating a beautiful diverse movement of people of all different backgrounds and ages, religions, to believe in the revitalization of America. Hey, the fact that he was able to get violent crime and check, he was going after the cartels. No, all of this is centered on revenge, but more than that, they want to do a Soviet style show trial, a public humiliation. You can not see what happened yesterday with the indictment of Trump and be naive any longer. And I am not an alarmist. I'm not someone who says, oh, you know, this is time to engage in hyperbole. The Democrats have not believed in elections for quite some time.
AP News Radio
AP Sports SummaryBrief at 12:53 a.m. EDT
"BP sports. Coaches on the move in college basketball. Rick Pitino is headed back to the Big Apple. Patina will leave his coaching job at iona to take over at St. John's getting a 6 year deal, bettina was guided 5 different schools to the NCAA tournament. And former Notre-Dame coach Mike bray, who recently stepped down, takes over at South Florida. And the NBA, Philadelphia, honored its 1983 NBA championship sixers team. It was the Chicago Bulls doing the celebrating one O 9 one O 5 over the sixers in double overtime and New York got 57 points from Julius Randle, not enough though, has been a soda topped the Knicks one 40 to one 34. In the NHL, Dylan Ferguson, 48 saves for Ottawa and the Sens defeat Pittsburgh two to one. Women's NCAA tournament, another number one drops as top seed Indiana got beat by 9th seed Miami. Japan over Mexico 6 to 5 of the world baseball classic that sends them at the tonight's championship game against defending champ the United States. AP sports
AP News Radio
AP Sports SummaryBrief at 1:21 a.m. EDT
"Leapy sports. I'm sure freedom coaches on the move in college basketball, Rick Pitino has headed back to the Big Apple, patina will leave his coaching job at iona to take over at St. John's getting his 6 year deal. Former Notre-Dame coach Mike bray, who recently resigned, takes over at South Florida. In the NBA, Philadelphia celebrated its 40th anniversary of the 1983 NBA title, but it was all Chicago Bulls in the second overtime. The bulls went at one O 9 one O 5 or the sixers. Bull centered Nikola vucevic says the team showed a lot of fight for a big win. This year, no matter what was going on, we always kept coming back and fighting back. We had light up and downs, let it tough bosses, a lot of things were we could have just kind of quit and gave up. But we keep battling, obviously, there's still a lot to play. Memphis rallied late to beat Dallas one 12 to one O 8. It was the New York Knicks getting 57 points from Julius Randle, not enough, though, has Minnesota topped the Knicks one 40 to one 34. We gave him confidence in a team like that that can really score the ball. He gave them confidence early. They're going to stick around. Utah beats Sacramento, Memphis over Dallas as the gris rallied late. Charlotte over Indiana and Golden State snapped an 11 game road losing streak in downing Houston. NHL, Florida defeated Detroit 5 to two Alexander barkov set the Florida franchise record for most career points. Dylan Ferguson had himself a game in the nets for the sins as Ottawa defeated Pittsburgh two to one Ferguson had 48 saves. It's still sinking in to be honest. My big focus tonight was just go out there and be me. Don't try to be anyone I'm not. And just stay in the moment. Colorado shout out to Chicago 5 nothing. It was Los Angeles blowing out Calgary and it was Edmonton defeating San Jose in overtime. Women's NCAA tournament another number one drops as Indiana got beat by 19 Miami. World baseball classic Japan over Mexico 6 to 5, Japan faces defending champion United States in tonight's championship round. Shek Freeman, AP sports
AP News Radio
Wolves overcome Randle's 57 points, beat Knicks 140-134
"It was a crazy offensive game that saw Minnesota beat the Knicks one 40 to one 34 in defeat Nick Julius Randle scored 57 points, but put the loss on the lack of defense. No, I mean, they didn't feel our presence from the beginning. So we gave them confidence in a team like that that can really score the ball. You give them confidence early. You know, they're going to stick around. Terry and prince had 35 for the T wolves, he had all 8 of his three pointers. Minnesota snapped the three game slide as they struggled for a postseason spot at 36 and 37, the 42 and 31 nicks had won three straight. Mike mancuso, New York
AP News Radio
Quickley scores 38 in start, Knicks outlast Celtics in 2 OTs
"Emmanuel quickly scored 7 of his 38 points in the second overtime as the Knicks earned their 9th consecutive win. One 31 one 29 in Boston. Quickly also had 8 rebounds and 7 assists starting in place of Jalen Brunson, who was out with a sore left foot. Julius Randle had 31 points and RJ Barrett 29 in New York's second win over Boston in a week. Jayson Tatum ported 40 points and grabbed 11 rebounds for the Celtics. Al Horford had a 20 points and 11 boards, but mister potential game winning three point attempt just before the final buzzer. I'm Dave fairy.
Bloomberg Radio New York
"julius" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"To the pro hardwood, nicks, they kept things rolling. They've now won 8 straight. That's the second best record in the league in terms of winning streak behind Milwaukee's won 16 in a row as they escape in your second half meltdown in Miami one 22 to one 20. Thanks to Julius Randle did it again another 40 plus point performance he had 43, including an off balance game winning three pointer. He was one of four next to hit double figures. He sank 8 triples. He was three for four from the charity strike, jaylen Brunson, 25 points, Emmanuel quickly and ice game off the bench with 21. New York comfortably the 5th seed, they're a game and a half behind Cleveland. They're also ahead of the natsu had a great game themselves in Boston, beating the best record in the league, one 15, one O 5 over the Celtics, 6 nets in double figures, and they were plus 7 in the turnover margin. Mikhail bridges led the way 38 points is best game in a Brooklyn uniform. College basketball on Saturday, seaton hall is at Providence. Number 6, marquette entertains St. John's and Cornell puts up Columbia in the Ivy League spring training first full week of grapefruit league play in the books, Yankees fell 5 to three to the tigers Aaron judge two for threes hitting 500 early on both hits were doubles, Garrett Cole working on that arm strength three scoreless innings meant they were pounded in Port St. Lucie 11 6 by the nationals Max Scherzer took a loss up against his former team. With your Bloomberg sports update, I'm rob buscher. This is a Bloomberg money minute. Automakers are taking different paths as they move toward building electric vehicles. Today, Tesla maintains a huge lead while Ford has slipped ahead of its traditional rival GM, Korean automakers Kia and Hyundai have also established a presence among others. GM has based its EVs on its ultium battery used for everything from a small electric Chevy Equinox SUV to the Hummer EV, CEO Mary Barra says it's important to offer EVs at different price points. To get to 40, 50 and beyond a percentage of all new vehicles sold to the electric vehicles. GM has vowed to expand EV revenue to $50 million by 2025 and do so profitably. We took 92 weeks out of our development process to do our electric vehicles. We've reduced complexity. Vera tells Bloomberg television. She believes this will be a breakout year for GM. This is a year that we will clearly demonstrate and pull away from what people consider traditional OEMs. I'm Ed Corey, Bloomberg radio. Hi, everyone. Al Roker here. As a guy with his own catch phrase, I appreciate that smokey's only said only you can prevent wildfires. But I'm feeling it because there's a lot more to report. Like when there are parched or windy conditions out there, you
AP News Radio
Randle scores 43, Knicks stay hot with 122-120 win over Heat
"The Knicks stretched their winning streak to 8 games by pulling out a one 22 one 20 victory at Miami. Julius Randle nailed the go ahead three pointer with 1.7 seconds left and finished with 43 points on 16 of 25 from the floor. Nick's coach Tom thibodeau marveled at Randall's game winning shot. Unbelievable. You know, so tough shot, put it in, you know, tip your hat. Randall also was 8 of 13 from three point range. Jimmy Butler scored 33 points and Tyler hero added 29 for Miami, including a layup that put the heat up by one with 23.1 seconds left. I'm Dave ferry.
AP News Radio
Brunson scores 39, Knicks rout Nets 142-118 for 7th straight
"The Knicks have a 7th game winning streak following a one 42 one 18 collaborating of the nets. Jalen Brunson scored 30 of his 39 points by halftime for the Knicks who made 78% of their shots in a 47 point first quarter. Brunson furnished 16 points on 6 of 6 shooting in the opening period. Quentin Grimes all over 22 points, and Julius Randle added 21 with 8 rebounds and 8 assists. Cam Johnson scored a season high 33 points for the nets who have been blown out in their last two meetings with the Knicks. I'm Dave ferry.
Cancelled
"julius" Discussed on Cancelled
"41 games out of Anthony Davis in an 82 game season, in either scenario, I think you're dead in the water. Yeah, I agree. Like, you do the miles turn a buddy heel deal. You talk about any of the jazz permutations on a deal. We just talked about. None of it matters if Anthony Davis plays half that season. You're not getting anybody where you can say, well, if AD gets hurt, this guy's going to fill in. Like, okay, hey, Julius Randle, if you go do that deal. In theory, he could go step into that Anthony Davis minutes or whatever, but he's not going to drag you to the play. Anthony Davis is the defensive force on that end of the floor. He's blocking shots at the rim. He's doing all kinds of crazy stuff there. But then he can also provide the offense of output that you need as well. And there's no replacing him. There's no replacing him. So if he's not healthy, you're probably done for anyway. So I'm leaning that side. Okay, makes sense. All right, last question I thought this was an interesting one. We look at this roster build. Do you think, with all the young signings, the Lakers will lack veteran leadership, especially in the playoffs. So the Lakers focused on younger players, everybody signed so far has been under 30 years old, Juan toscano Anderson 29 has been the oldest player. You've got some guys like Troy brown's what 22 Lonnie walker's 23. Thomas Bryant is I want to say 25 or so same for Damien Jones. So these guys that they're bringing in have all been, I mean, it's been the opposite of what we saw last season. Does that create some other issues though in terms of a lack of experience, particularly if this team does make a playoff push? I don't want to say it's overblown because that sounds like it's not important. I obviously think that having a veteran on your team is good just as a locker room guy and someone to mentor the young guys on your roster, but I mean, presumably you'd have to assume that LeBron and AD can kind of fill that role a little bit. You don't really think of them because they're superstars as the veteran leaders. But in actuality, that's what they are. So I think the Lakers, if they have they're sitting at the trade deadline, or pass the trade deadline, they still have an open roster spot. Maybe they want to add someone like maybe it's Carmelo Anthony, who knows. Then I can see them using that spot for that, but really, I think the priority will always be get me guys that I can throw on the floor and make an impact versus just having the Udonis Haslem guy on our team. I don't really necessarily think that's for every team, per se. And while I think the Lakers could use that guy, it's just not my priority for one of those spots. I can see the benefit of it. I don't think that's going to prevent them from getting into the playoffs. And I don't think getting that guy would put them into the playoffs. I think you need guys who are going to be able to contribute throughout the course of the season. And I think it would be beneficial to have a rondo Jared Dudley. That type of guy on your roster. I think that would certainly help particularly if you could find somebody who has experience with darvin ham as well who can help kind of carry that message. That's what we talked about. Your guy Wesley Matthews, players like that.
Cancelled
"julius" Discussed on Cancelled
"And either reddish or quickly and then you've got whatever Derrick Rose, maybe you consider it there. If you can get the added benefit of freeing up another draft, it's a more draft capital for trade. Makes sense? But again, you got to get that first and it's got to be, again, I need to sit down and really think about it. But it would have to be a strategically placed first round pick in order to undo some of the damage that the pelicans did. And then we're on polynomial accepted in terms of making sure that the Lakers couldn't move future first on pics. You would want to unwind some of that with the move. Long story short, we need both New York teams to figure out their lives. Figure out life, Nixon nets, come on in jazz, but yeah. Well, let's continue to talk about trades. Let's get into the bail back here. Because our first question has to do with this. And again, I just said, I'm assuming you agree. The Knicks trade is the dead last for me in terms of trade options. Are you with me on that? Absolutely. I mean, the Indiana deal, no brainer. Utah's got a bunch of pieces I like if that deal falls through. I had to explore stuff with San Antonio at that point. If those two don't work out and then yeah, that's definitely New York at the bottom there. Okay, and now I again, baby, the benefit is you don't have to give up draft capital, but what we'd have to see. But iron duds in our mailbag was sent down to my Instagram account, not Trevor lane NBA, said the jazz trade makes more sense than any other besides Kyrie. Love the show. Do you agree with that? I mean, we've been talking a ton about buddy hill and miles Turner and how they would fit. Yep. I think I might agree. If you can get Utah has so many different guys that you can fit into a deal, it just makes a lot of sense to do something with the jazz, if a Cairo trade is not is not available. I mean, my column, the Patrick Beverly, Jordan Clarkson, by ambar danovich, Malik Beasley, there's somebody I'm leaving out there. Rudy gay, it could be in the mix. Jared Vanderbilt, sure. I think Utah will be. They'll probably want to keep. But that's a name. That's in there too.
Cancelled
"julius" Discussed on Cancelled
"This up when I look at this and I think about what are the pros and I like Julius Randle. I know it sounds like I don't, but I really do like Julie's Randall. I just don't think, again, if I could swap out Julius Randle for Russell Westbrook, contracts are gone. I do it in a heartbeat. But this the fit doesn't make sense with LeBron and AD to me. Particularly with the goal, if the goal is indeed to move AD to the four, even if it's just half the time at the fore. This doesn't fit with that type of agenda. In terms of having them on the floor, the benefits, hey, if LeBron needs to take a game off or whatever, Randall can be that big physical bruising guy that can help you on the boards can handle the ball a little bit. I understand that Randall LeBron AD is absolutely what your pants terrifying in transition. If you're a defense and you've got those three guys coming at you, my God. That's the stuff on nightmares. But then when I step back and I think about it, in order to sell someone on Randall to the Lakers working on the floor, it feels so similar to the arguments for why Russell Westbrook was going to work with the Lakers. And that is absolutely terrifying. Well, think about it, right? That was the whole, I think that was our main selling point last off season. I mean, again, to your point. We said, wow, you know, Russell Westbrook can't really shoot, not a great defender, but boy, they get turnovers and get in transition, Russ grabbing the board, Adrian LeBron, LeBron on the wing, 80 trailing. That's going to be super fun. But how often did we see that? One, and then two, when you think about it from a playoff perspective, when the pace slows down, how often do you have those opportunities? I guess I'm just not entirely sober on my three best players only being quite as effective in transition versus in half court situations.
Cancelled
"julius" Discussed on Cancelled
"That if we look at this and we say that's who he is, I don't think that's great. I also don't think it's fair to say that he's the 41% shooter from three that he was during his all star season. Sure. He's probably somewhere in the middle. But even so you mentioned the fit, if you do this, if you bring in Julius Randle and the amount of money that you've committed to, and we've got that up on the screen, aren't you then committing to Anthony Davis at the 5 for the majority of his minutes? You have to. It's kind of the only way this works, right? I mean, do you just darvin ham? Toy around with ultra small ball lineups with Randall at the 5 when AD is off the floor, maybe? That could be an option. But the vast majority, like over 90%, I want to say like 96% of his minutes at the four with the next last season. Sure. And you know, that's tibs being a traditionalist, right? They always had someone like Mitchell Robinson on the floor, someone like I know Jericho Sims got run at the end of the year. Taj Gibson was there also. They had a pretty crowded front court, so maybe it was by necessity. And which, you know, maybe that explains why Randall was pushed out to the perimeter so often was just because he didn't have force facing bigs. On the Lakers, presumably, maybe he has more space to operate, or maybe again, like I mentioned darvin ham gets more creative with how he utilizes him. But still, to me, I don't want to take that risk if I'm the Lakers, really. And the other thing too here is we keep talking about the contract. It's just, if you're trading for Randall, you're basically committing to this guy for at least the next couple of years next to Anthony Davis. They played together with the pelicans. Sure. I mean, yeah, that's fine, but that was four years ago. I mean, I didn't know the optimistic thing would be well. It worked before. He's presumably a better player now. In theory, it should work out, but about the Trevor? Do you think the replicate their success if this trade goes down? No. I'm not optimistic about this kind of a move. I don't see, again, because I think you win and you added some pieces in Damien Jones, and Thomas Bryant, that suggests that you want to have that four spacing 5 out there. And we don't even know for sure that Anthony Davis is a floor spacing 5 anymore he's got 18% from three last season. If Julian cradle isn't a 35 plus percent three point shooter, those two guys can't be on the floor together, right? If they're both, let's say AD is 28% and Randall was what, 31% less, let's say, Randall continues to be 31%. You can't really play them together. Maybe it works. Again, I think Randall is a better shooter than what we saw last season, but that would have to happen. There's no leeway. There's no room for error there. Randall went have to go back to being at least a 35% three point shooter. Otherwise, your toast when it comes to spacing, trying to play Randall and AD together. And that's, that's a challenge. That's a big, big challenge. It's a big bet to do that when you've got this many years on his contract. But that being said, Julius Randle at 23.7 million does not balance out Russell Westbrook at 47 million. So are there things that you would add from the next side? We've got their salary here.
Cancelled
"julius" Discussed on Cancelled
"I'm not sure if you're going to get too much optimism for me out of the potential deal like this. Julius Randle, you know, part of the Lakers young core, a phrase that we echoed a lot during those downtrodden years in LA. Yes, it would be cool to see it back in the Lakers, Jersey. I was personally a fan of him when he was still developing and finding his way in the NBA with the purple and gold, but I think a lot of people when they hear Julius Randle's name, they initially get excited because he has an all star birth. He looked really good last season and coming into this season. We thought, oh, can he replicate it? And it turns out the answer is a resounding no. Most of his numbers are down across the board. And that's before you even start to get into his contract situation, which is why I'm extremely queasy about trading for him. Trevor, for 2022, 2023, Randall makes 23.7 million. Okay, not bad, but then you look at the rest of that deal. He has three extra years left, 2023, 24, 25.6 mil, 24 25, 27.5, 25, 26 player option for 20 9 and a half. Yep. I'm putting it up on the screen now for everybody to see what this contract actually looks like. God, player options just remain the worst, don't they? Great for the player. Great for the player, but from the fan side for the team signed. They are the worst. Yeah, the player option at the end of this is not great 23.7 million. Look, if Julius Randle goes back to his all star year numbers, 23.7 million is fine. If he doesn't, it's a problem. I mean, this is look, if you were to tell me, forget about the contracts. Contracts thrown out the window. Next season, you can have Julius Randle on your roster or Russell Westbrook on your roster. Give me Julius Randle all day every day. Absolutely. Give me the younger player. We can question the fit on the floor alongside LeBron and AD and we'll get to that stuff in a minute. But when you add in the contract, here's my problem. What if it doesn't work? And I don't think the Lakers gave enough thought to this before I executing the Russell Weiss portrayed. What if it doesn't work? Can you fix it? Do you have enough flexibility to get out of it? And with the Russell Westbrook deal, the answer was pretty much no, and now we're kind of seeing that where it's extremely difficult to get out of this. If Randall does not work, let's say Randall just replicates his numbers from last year. And again, we'll get into those numbers in just a moment. There's no getting out of this. This contract is going to be very difficult to move. You have to believe, no, no, no. You have to know that last year was an outlier and that Randall shooting numbers are going to bounce back and he's going to look a lot better playing alongside LeBron and AD because if they don't, the number of years remaining on this contract are a big, big problem.
NBA Front Office w/ Keith Smith & Trevor Lane
"julius" Discussed on NBA Front Office w/ Keith Smith & Trevor Lane
"Clippers are almost assuredly going to be much better. Minnesota looks like they're not going away. The pelicans are playing pretty well, and they're probably going to get Zion back. And then have a full year CJ McCollum. I know it probably seems like it's, you know, might as well be talking about flying to the moon here, but I believe the Lakers will be far better next season than they are this season. And then Portland's talking about, hey, we're going to flip this thing real quick. I mean, you start looking at the teams behind you. Never mind the teams ahead of you. It immediately tied with you. And all of a sudden, it's like, man, we got to figure this out. We might be looking at a string of 44 win seasons coming up here where we're fighting to stay out of the plane. Tournament. And that's something they got to look at. By the way, you went Dallas at the four seat and not Denver. But I'm sorry, yeah, sure, correct, Dallas. But yeah, we'll see. We'll see what winds up happening here with the Utah Jazz and soft season. They could be a busy off season for them, particularly with Danny ainge involved now. So we'll see. Yeah, well, that's the other thing. I'm glad you called that out because hill poetry. I mean, I know it's very close. Yes. But yeah, but I think Danny ainge likes nothing more than a tear down in a restart. Yeah, I think he relishes that opportunity. I think he would love to do that and not often comes with. I'm gonna hire my own coach and I'm gonna pick a coach to my guy to lead that. So yeah, very, very interested to see what happens. And I mean, hey, I'm not going to rule it out. Maybe they go on a little run here in the playoffs. And this all becomes a moving point later, but right now it doesn't look like it. Brandon knight gets a ten date with the Mavs on a hardship deal. Trey Burke and health and safety protocols, which is what opened that up. We do need to get to the next though, Julius Randle. Nearly acting like he might want to be out in New York, might want to trade. What are your thoughts on that? The Knicks potentially moving on from Randall this off season, does it feel like, I mean, he didn't have as good of a season obviously this season as last season, but it felt like he also got a lot of the blame to for what happened with the Knicks this season. So do they move on from Randall this summer?.
Bloomberg Radio New York
"julius" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Thank you 5 35 while Wall Street and that's time for the Bloomberg sports someday Good morning John Stan share All right good morning John Julius Randle of course that the breakout season last year the NBA's most improved player with the additions this year the improvement of RJ Barrett makes more balance but in Philadelphia it was all Randall 31 points 12 rebounds he made 5 three pointers in the next after blowing almost all of a 19 point lead held on to win one O three 96 to sixers were without their two best players Joel embiid Tobias Harris both in COVID protocol The next 5 game win streak ended in Chicago the bold won the fourth quarter 42 to 17 and won the game one 1895 Kevin Durant scored 38 for Brooklyn Good went for the rangers at the garden four three over Florida Chris kreider's going to the power play and then Adam Fox sword handed rangers led four to one until two late goals at the end by the Panthers who suffered just their second loss their first in regulation The Monday night in Pittsburgh Steelers at a two touchdown lead the bears rally the Steelers pulled it out The Steelers trailing by one The snap is down the kick is on its way long enough high enough that kick is good Boswell and incredible light in Heinz field has put the Steelers on top with 26 seconds to go DVE and Pittsburgh golf Pittsburgh won 29 27 Every Chicago loss helps the Giants who own the bears first round draft pick Garrett Cole named a finalist of the ALC on the ward Yankees need a new third base coach the post report they're likely to hire ex Matt Metz manager Louis Rojas Michael conforto declined the Met's qualifying offer He'll be a free agent Don't cash our Bloomberg sports dunk All right thanks John It is 5 37 on Wall Street Time down for the tri state business report and for that we're joined by Bloomberg's Ed Corey Private employers in New York State will be required to notify their employees if they plan to monitor workers telephones or emails under legislation governor Kathy hokus signed into law Monday It requires employers to notify their employees upon hiring if they plan to monitor or intercept telephone or email conversations Douglas elliman real estate wants to become a publicly traded company Its parent vector group will file paperwork today to spin off the brokerage as a stand-alone company Now if it's approved the shares would trade on the New York Stock.
The Takeaway
"julius" Discussed on The Takeaway
"His organization has been involved in the fight to free. Julius jones and i asked him to remind the key facts of the case julius jones as an oklahoma in a black man who was convicted for the murder of paul howell was an affluent white businessman in nineteen ninety nine Julius jones was then sentenced as part of that conviction to die in the state of oklahoma. Julius jones has exhausted at exhausted. All of his appeals and Yet in reviewing the the the case for julius we found ineffective counsel inconsistent. Statements made By his codefendant and just a complete preponderance of evidence that julius had not received adequate counseling had not actually committed the crime. and so the that case Which which happened now twenty. Two years ago is now on its final Or has been on. Its final sort of defense. Which is the commutation process through the pardon and parole board. What happened yesterday in this Commutation hearing so the commutation hearing we heard from The victim's family we heard from The state's attorney and we heard from julius counsel each each party was given Between twenty to thirty minutes to to make their case the victim's family really talked about just the incredible pain loss and in my heart breaks for for that family and for what they've been through over these past twenty two years that pain is real and is absolutely valid and then we heard from the state's attorney's office essentially a doubling down on their Conviction in their their practices from twenty years ago and really just a an overall Sort of demeaning of julius character at one point. The state's attorney said well look at this photo of him While he's currently incarcerated look at his tattoos. You can tell he's again you can tell that he's you can tell that he's a continued threat. And so i found that that is the exact same bias that really convicted him in the first place. They didn't actually get into the merits of their case at all They rather got into what they felt. Julius as a person was and and had some very demeaning things to say and and then third and finally we heard from julius attorneys and they talked about evidence that was not presented which included You know the inconsistency with the witnessed description of julius jones Julius had short hair..
Chase the Vision with Isaac Mashman
"julius" Discussed on Chase the Vision with Isaac Mashman
"The best method i think. Definitely it's more strategy for me It's kinda like you don't want to show people too much because also gotta think in the back of my mind. Not everybody is already heard of me. And i wanna make sure that i'm very consistent so i don't want a pov to sound so different from the next single. I want everything kind of sound similar When i do switch it up. I try to make sure that it's very slight so that the adjustment doesn't throw people off ford. It doesn't deter a listener on the previous work. So that's that's the reason why i don't necessarily chase a hit. Any more cottages one of his key goal with strategy so that way we gain warmer following little by little. That's got an important for any any upcoming artists. You know stay consistent on strategy will always be chasing the hit no matter how much time. How much little timing you had strategy is very water because you can have that today and tomorrow not have anything to follow up. So that's why. Like i just i just keep with strategy want. That's what i really want you to touch onto. Because looking at the way that you've branding yourself even prior to working with with noble Your you know spotify profile your discography since you've made that transition a longtime ago from nest to nest. Julius was methodical like it was something that you that you took time to really plan and if you were to go to your profile you see a similar theme you see a similar sound what i've also noticed as if we were to compare your profile under discography to that of an artist who's been out for. Let's say a decade or five years and has millions of millions of streams. Your discography will match. There's not only innocence of quality but in a sense of you can tell that this is his lane this is what he thrives in and this is what people know him for. And it gives you like a-list impression before you hit. And i think that that's something that really stood out when i first came across your music because i'm like the music you make isn't stuff that i would normally sit down and listen to every single day it's not on on replay normally my playlist. But i came to really really appreciate the planning. The artistry that went into the cover arts and Speaking of coverage man. I think a good thing to talk about would be cool. Designs them a design an artwork. Okay now.
Xtra Sports Radio 1300 AM
"julius" Discussed on Xtra Sports Radio 1300 AM
"Growth takes him. Julius Randle. Most improved playoff. AM I P has been m I A in this series. He's done nothing. He's at 13 baskets in 10 turnovers. Didn't want less than 30%. He's been awful Alice his first trip in the playoffs, and some guys don't meet the moment some guys do. I mean, you saw Game one with Trey Young did in his first ever playoff game on the road. Making a basket at the very end. That's a sign of you've got a special player there for Atlanta, and I know you know the Knicks even the series, but the other night. I mean, that was a disaster. For Tom Thibodeau. The offense was just absolutely awful, and he's getting up and out of R. J. Barrett. And you know the one thing you know about this. Syriza's that the Knicks have to grind stuff out. They have toe, you know, overachieving a lot of ways because Atlanta has more talent, so right now, I'm not surprised by how the serious is gone. RG Barrett and Julius Randle. Especially Julius Randle have to bring it. I don't know if they will. They can't be trusted. So, like I said, the Knicks are gonna go as far as Derrick Rose takes him and I don't know how far you can take him. Maybe not even out of this round. Imagine thinking that like couple years ago if you were to say it's Derrick Rose and how far he could take the New York Knicks what we'd be saying it would be an impossibility that out. Derrick Rose, who went M M I A at one point when he was with the Knicks in the Phil Jackson or so it's been a great turn around for him. It's always great to see a player like that. Who can reach back from his past and we all know he's with M V P from the past, but hey, injuries caught up with him. He's reinvented himself. He looks great. But if you're pinning your hopes on him to even get you out of a first round against the team that's never been in the playoffs. You know what you're you're you're up against it because I don't know if it's gonna happen or not. We'll see what Atlanta does. I mean, from their perspective, it's been a great story under name. McMillan Anthony. What, after the firing of Floyd Pierce how the teams responded to him. We'll see what happens with Trey, I. I just You know, It's great to see you mentioned John Moran. It's great to see guys like Trey Young John Moran, Luca don, just these guys who are the next wave of big time superstars in the MBA. How they can take what they do in the playoffs. If they can take over if they can meet the moment because that's where you make your legacy. It's not how many All Star games it's made. You make it when you get your team to the playoffs. How do you perform? How do you separate yourself? And right now, guys like John Durant, Trey Young Luca Dodge it yet it looks like they can. Unfortunately, Chris Paul has not been able to do that very much in his career, some of the playoff woes for his team, not always his fault. And now, unfortunately, he gets injured. You talked about where he should have been in the M V P balloting, and now he's playing with one arm tied behind his back This serious, probably over, right, Mitch? Yeah, before you know the thing about Chris Paul and everybody wants to No, we talk about Where does he rank along? Time Among point guards. Listen, he's had four. I've counted four There might be more, but there's been four serious where he had major injuries. He was either knocked out where he was compromised. This is one of them. Of course, the one we all remember. His three years ago when he blew out his hamstring against against Golden State, and they had a great chance Houston when they were up three to against that juggernaut team with Durant and Steph Curry and Clay. And he got hurt, and that there went to Syria. They weren't Mike D'Antoni could probably keeps Mike D'Antoni on. Also, James Harden up and I'm thinking about the what ifs. They probably could have beaten Cleveland if they had advanced. But now, so that's when people want to rank where Chris Paul ranks all time when they talk about that. Here's the problem is that you have to factor in the fact that Chris Paul can't answer the bell or is compromised in these big spots. And you know, that's what separates also great players from other great players who time after time. Game after game doesn't get hurt in the playoffs and makes big game changing production production, where he impacts the game, And unfortunately for Chris Paul, who snaked it here, That's the only way you can explain it with all these injuries. That's the knock against him. When it comes to the all time ratings. He just doesn't stack up. He can't stay on the court. He can't stay healthy at times on. It's just terrible Now. I don't think Venus was going to beat them anyway, even with the home court because they had too many young guys like Devin Booker and DeAndre and Anthony, who are just learning. Playoff hopes the first time in and you're going against LeBron James and Anthony Davis. If those guys are healthy or close to healthy if they can play, and they can impact the games like they know they can especially LeBron theres. No way Phoenix is being them with LV, Chris Paul, but I think they would have you know it would be a closer Syria's Now it's just gonna be. This could be a route from here on out A couple quick ones should be great crowd in Boston today, but they can't expect a timeto have toe score 40 or 50 again right that Brook Brook Lynn's just gonna be too much, I think You would think a bounce back off performance where they gave up 50 the other problem for Boston. Look, Tatum. He's been phenomenal. He's not going to give you 50. You would think the Nets would figure out how to get the ball out of his hands. The other problem is Campbell Walker. Continued problem with that left knee, which is bugging him since January of 2020. He's questionable. We have to see what kind of explosion he has. What kind of lift etcetera etcetera, So no, I would expect the Nets to go on and win this series and Great second now round match up. A lot of people think that the eventual NBA champions from there, we'll see about that. LeBron still gonna have a say, but looks like it will be next Buck second round and I'm gonna make the argument that this Dallas Clippers game tonight, especially Don church will see his health for that game is questionable. I think this could be as big Game for this offseason as it gets because the Clippers fall fall down 31 all the Kawai stuff is gonna get re ignited. All the Clippers over reaction is gonna be reignited. Well, if they just win this game, I mean, they might be a really good shape to win this series and move on..
Everyday Talkies
"julius" Discussed on Everyday Talkies
"Messing with the make you misguided with the pit. What's be tomato media guy. They had using them under julius to something on a duty facing many. Call your news. Butlers hunting ahead. Give me a hat. I just wanted to get rid of this idea of juice media unusual setting behind the arby's big way in the general public the cup but he's gotten us up a capital gimmicky. Boola a data. We might bring in for an episode where we discussed News debates and news holistically button. Thank god it's been great after school of this and people like what god of say. Follow him on star.
WGBB Sports Talk New York
"julius" Discussed on WGBB Sports Talk New York
"Yeah you know that was That was like total koto. Bs matter orioles rights. issues. Because you know may fourteenth in california degree teams in texas so states. They had multiple teams. And and you know. Even now the nixon brooklyn i mean brooklyn. I'm sure any territorial right now. Right money to the To the to the knicks and vice versa. So i may happen Whereas with that beal was brokered by my agents Irwin lena Doing that It was the It was the nets Felt as though it would be very detrimental to the nets franchise to deal with the mix and for the discussion whereas You can go anywhere else except dix so graphically You know. I had established governor family and long island. And you know i just kind of look for the close displace Detained the closest place is by default. South affiliate go north of boston and And so was commutable. You know from long island. World manhattan is now containment train income long island. It's a couple of hours right by car. Or whatever. So i oversee hard even knowing the franchise and you know doing so much. Their homework that gets done. These days. I ended up going to philadelphia for geographical. Now when you went to philly doc you became really a more team oriented player than you were in In new york. You had. George mcginnis lloyd free doug collins but you became more of a team ballplayer down with the sixers. I felt as though my squires years in the chain. Yeah and my nazi is. We did play team basketball and In philly with gene shoob You know we tried to play this balance style of basketball but there was a lot of individuality and philadelphia that. It took a couple of years to to to get rid of and even though in that first year he played for the nba championship and Seventy six seventy seven season Lost apartment You know it took several years and some coaching changes in order to really find the team that you know we had eighty eighty two eighty three In which we compete with it but a championship for To times Well actually eighty eighty two and eighty three three times Winning running and eighty three s. You know so When you say that the team game you know probably by you know you start looking at maybe my individual stats and you know there was much higher than aba tire and and with the nets But they were actually the highest with the squires in those first couple years. Charlie scott on the team and Race scott Fatty taylor berry williams jambo jamaicans so curve and and you know the year yield town was on that team and we had albie yankees coach. Albie was really a great coach and And hall of fame scout having loughry in and and billy cunningham so so i was able to be influenced by some Great coaches who were former players and And each had their own style but The fun time fun time for me. Was you know the virginia. Years with the squires and the and the and the nazi is in long hours. So you know that that's always going to be you know. Home chameleon home cooking right. And we're glad to hear that doc. That's for sure. Now i wanna talk to you about one of your signature moves. The baseline move now. The one of the most memorable plays i remember. It was during the eighty. Nba finals It was impossible finger roll behind. The backboard drove past. I think it was mark landsberger on the right baseline and then kareem. Kareem comes into the picture right. Yeah yeah yeah you know that We just kind of call it the layup up and under up in under probably To the thing about it was the hang time now that i was able to To take off you know on the right side of the basket and shoot the ball on the left side of the vaccine and actually took off outside of the the free throw lane. you know. they're lying going down up and down from the free throw line and Just kind of You know sort an air for a while has the ball in one hand hanging out away from the defense and then when it got to the other side of the basket there was an opening too to bring it up and -unding spinning spin off the glass with kareem abdul-jabbar standing there with his arms hoisted. Yeah and he never jumped. And i just remember distinct stinks. Wish lee Fall into the ground. And you know 'cause. I had just exhausted my My job and you know. For whatever reason i could land on my feet are be just hit you know hit sideways and selling the ground and got up and ran down the court and then suddenly you know pants. The next day is just like this series of photos depicting that move in that game. And it's something that you know has lived on all of these years For sure was in college now. They're black and white photo. There's the yeah there. There's a an. I see i see.
WGBB Sports Talk New York
"julius" Discussed on WGBB Sports Talk New York
"How did you take it to that level. Well i think for me. I mean i went in hempstead. I went to prospect entry school. That was a k. Through eight school in there and they always had these These two baskets that were back to back and one was eight feet and the other one was at nine thirty so so So when i we would have recess. You know we even get a chance to play basketball. Though we we got there and play football and and You know we just do recreation. The in the school in the back and i found it a very very interesting and To to play on that eight faster for five and six. I had a big hand. You know we played Horse would play pig you know spoke to eliminate the next guy right and you know i had a big hand and i could hold the ball with one hand. We didn't always so the basketball sublime you know a soccer ball to stay Dadfar something so you know everybody was everybody was able to gifted and rip it and basketball thing. I was just one of may be cooped players who can hold it in these things in the air with basketball. And then he started on eight v and deal with bill out they when i got tested and they're ultimately on a ten foot basket you know when i was probably like thirteen years old. How so the developing game just came by. If he vaulting from coming you know on on a playground with With lower rams and then finally get into the big ram and then eventually getting to the time And it's so funny. You would say that. Because while i was in college you know when they took the dunk out of the game. And that's right and that was one of my weapons. Then they took it out of the game. So i had a lot of pent up anger wanting to know once. I got to the pros because My that i created for basketball in college. I couldn't walk them all. Yeah that was terrible. I remember that now. You signed a contract briefly with the atlanta hawks stock. And you had the chance to play with pistol pete. Now i know you. And he had some some matchups there In practice or undecided. Tell us a little bit about your time with pistol. Pete marriage katie. No i do He was he was great You know he was a gym rat he he had the whole package. I mean he could. He could shoot the ball from distance. You know there wasn't a three point. Shot around when he was when he was playing in still average over. Forty points a game in college and You know it'd probably would've been fifty. Three point shouted has been out there and it's such as dad was coaching and he And he is he was a great athlete was wiry. he's tall. I mean you know six five six six And so we. When we went we went to camp with a with We hit it off right away and you know. We played a lot of one on one basketball. And there's a there's a tape out there Somewhere where he. And i are in the in the superdome with Dick cabinet okay. And it was for the cavs show and it. Was you know it was the first time when philadelphia played New orleans i'd say the new orleans jazz at that time and pistole was their main guy. And george mcginnis with you know the main guys From from fairly and we did show in the in the state of no fans and it was done at half court and it let me just two marriages actually very special Testimonials the basketball because You know we both love the game so much and And was student at a game. I'm gonna have to check you for that. I know i've seen the Tapes of pistol. Pete and the ice man Playing one on one. But we'll have to check that for you and pistol. Pete marich now on the nets doc. Those early days up the block here at the nassau coliseum. We all love the kids. We love the run and gun style. We love the red white and blue ball. The three point shots and of course was the florida involved. Girls that were in bed. Even we had mr k. billy. Paul spraying taylor. Super j and coach buy lottery. What a ball club right. Yeah yeah billy schaeffer. On their team. John williamson right out scanner my gale of rich jones. Tim bassett Cam use jimbo jamaican. Eventually you know. This is over the three years just their whole assortment of teams brian taylor the bt express. Okay can't forget him from princeton yeah so carribean and ride Believed that was probably my most enjoyable time Pro basketball You know in there. In the winter. I played for the net and then the summer and i play for the west side in the rucker league and a lot of my teammates. Play with me georgie. Button and billy paul's alley taylor and a lot of guys from from the aba as well as the nba. You know played that that game Iraq apprach the So but the nets and in terms of our start. And i'll beginning you know the controversial Trade that got me the nets from virginia squires. You know had that experience with marriage in atlanta and i signed a contract with atlanta. I was really trying to go to atlanta and ended up Back regain your for a second year and then know the deal with Probably back home To long island. And what back to new york. And you know that that part of of my life my time Was very special. You know became a basketball champion. Became an mvp came husband. Became a father is was a thorough like lightning in the bottle. All of those things to happen there between nineteen seventy four. Nineteen seventy right Years to remember we are speaking with the great factor. J. julius erving tonight on sports talk new york now. The merger comes along doc. The nets are poised to play in the nba but then people may not know the knicks. Slap them with a fee to play in the nba. Hey you're infringing on our territory you have to pay. I think it was four point. Eight million or something like that roy. Bo can't pay it. So the nets offer you to the knicks and they turned.
WGBB Sports Talk New York
"julius" Discussed on WGBB Sports Talk New York
"Country care official podiatrist of the new york. Lizards have been delivering state of the art. Foot care with good old fashioned carrying too long island residents for over thirty years specialists in sports medicine with injuries country foot care can be reached at five one. Six seven four one feet or online at country foot care dot com stay connected sports new york on w. g. b. by following us on facebook twitter and instagram gb sports on flippable unflappable unlikable. Ghostbuster is the only umbrella that won't flip inside out rip tear or leak capable of withstanding winds over fifty five miles per hour. All of our umbrellas are constructive finest quality materials and backed by a limited lifetime guarantee. What are you waiting for. Visit gust buster dot com and. Get your gas buster. Today you're listening to sports talk in new york on long island. Gb back to the show all right. We're back with sports soccer york on gdp here in beautiful downtown merrick long island this of course the debut of our new format here new logo new site new presence on social media. Same technical problems right. We wish everyone a happy new year out there and we're going to keep the sports memories rolling along here our next guest. He's really regarded as one of the greatest and most influential basketball players of all time. He helped legitimize the american basketball association and he was the best known player in that league when it merged with the nba. Back in seventy five seventy six. He was an nba champion. Thousand nine hundred eighty three a two time. Aba champion with the nets. He's been an mvp in both leagues. A member of the nba's all time fifty. That great book that came out a couple of years ago. If you guys pick that up and he was elected of course to the naismith memorial basketball hall of fame up in springfield mass in one thousand nine hundred eighty three. It's an honor and a pleasure for me to welcome to the show tonight. Julius erving julius good evening good evening how are you. Oh it's great to have you with us a real pleasure. Thank great be with you. Great to be connected back to you. Know where i was born and raised long island couple miles up the block. Yeah that's for sure dr. That's for sure. Now tell us a little bit about your your childhood. Who are your favorite teams and players when you when you were on the playground up and roosevelt. Well you know. I think i used to only see basketball on tv. Until i was about thirteen fourteen. And then how coach at the Salvage nami used to find a way to get us into going into madison square garden That was always a free and garden. Known for doubleheaders Van so i i see The knicks celtics Philadelphia seventy sixers and By the baltimore bullets you see mostly and I always always loved the you know watching the game on tv on once a week. You know elgin elgin. Baylor became My favorite player. he's he's a guy who style You know he played the Played the forward position and was just called the fourth position and and He was score a rebound fast break and you know. He just had a subscription movements and body control that i was just fascinated with lucy and that type play great choice. That's a great choice for sure. Now i met you dr j. back in the early seventies at. I don't know if you remember gus. Southie areas all american basketball camp out at saint anthony's and smith down. Remember those. yeah you were there. Huby brown raleigh mass amino coach. Carnesecca john roach and excuse me. There was a kid from from umass One of your boys from umass was there by the name of richie. Well we used to call them richie back that. He didn't become become rick so he got to the pros but he was one of the coaches back. Then yeah you. You have just made the usual suspects now. We're we occurs. We enjoyed listening. Go ahead dr orrock locker in loughry on in today then you really have the usual suspects and they you know is Anticipate having a personal friendships with those guys over the that. So much I learned so much from so many of them and we we learned so much about each other because he go out and compete on the golf for down at pine terrorists carolina hosted by dean smith and You know it's just working. Girls names out man very very meaningful. Yeah you know rick. Pitino in that camp For one thing shamrock basketball camp. It was it was. It was a real treat. You know he'd always have guess. Pros command right Well acquainted embry commands. Probably i first time i met him. Danny green's You know who lives on long island. Actually looking roosevelt walk past his house on my way to high school now. That was a great time for high school hoops on the island doc. I don't know if you remember there. Were guys in babylon babylon. You had ruling out and say him The vickers boys and Just a great time for hoops on long island. Guy named bobby vaca. Yeah you remember him. Been the leading score on the on the on the Aisling in suffolk and Our williams over 'em sick rick boegli from salonika who Who with the mass with me and For us we We were actually on a zoom call with a lot of our teammates from the seventies. Al skinner asking who went to malvern and Was also umass. Grad also played with me with the net as well as the seventy six. now you elevated the dengue doc into really it was pure artistry on the court The evolution of the dunk from the earliest the early days to your time..
WGBB Sports Talk New York
"julius" Discussed on WGBB Sports Talk New York
"Cool. it is. Yeah ozzie. Smith at the same thing to say what incredible time you guys had on that. Now let's talk about your new book. Turn your season around. How god can really change your experience in life. There's a passage in your book darrow. When you talk about your hitting coach yet and you to focus on really slowing down and getting back to basics when you're slumping and right now it seems like the whole world is in a slump. How are you getting through the pandemic as a preacher. Well i'm getting through it. Well and thanks for you know invited me on the show and really being a good to have a conversation about you know the pass baseball and and and change a life you know because you know nothing lasts forever and i think a lot of times people think that lasts forever baseball. No it doesn't last forever only lasts for a certain period. Then you gotta move on and cross over into life and you know i crossed over into real life. You know after you know baseball so many different trials and tribulations and i just had a transformation to change my life to be a different person and know i because my mother always wanted me to be this person that i am today. I just wasn't this person when she was alive. And i wish she would have the opportunity to see me Have a ch change. A life and deal with life is such a different way and you know. I'm just grateful for this book. Because you know i don't write a book to say the brag about me put through brag about what god did in my life. High changed my life after looking at Players like mookie. Wilson and gary carter when they had to hide it a career on the team and they lived a different life and everybody thought they were strange because they didn't go out. Drinking and chasing girls are just in that they were go to dinner and stuff with now. Always stop that. I wanted what they had. I wish i could have had with. Gary carter had an mookie at at the time of my career and stuff like that and i didn't but later on in life would come to this place and i would have my life changed and here it is. I'm writing another book. That's coming out january twelfth about turn your season around like i said it's nothing great about me under supposed to surrender my life. I was very persistent. Go after god and surrender my life and they come into a new place and and become a minister of the gospel and just loving people and care for people. That's really what it's all about at the end of the day because people love me and care for me. So i'm just getting back. What was given to me speaking with darrell strawberry tonight on sports. Talk new york. When did you start this project. Daryl and what do you hope people can garner from from this particular work. Why started this project on. This book with started Right before even before the pandemic came out and had the title already written. I was in the middle right in this book from the pandemic came out so limited. I know we all would have to be in a seeing that we will have to turn it around and it's just like a baseball season. All you know a lot of people you know talked about the first half of the season media talked about the first half of season while he's having a poor first half but what they forgot. I have another second half of the season. Another eighty to ball games left. That's a lot of all games one second half of the season and it's just the same way in life you know we've had a season that everybody's been through over the last eight months or whatever it may be We're gonna have to come into a place. There's a whole second another half of a season that's coming in twenty twenty one and we gotta look at how we turn ourselves around. How do we turn out south around at the time to each other. Not just because of the pandemic you know you think of the racial issues and all the things that we've been through as a nation. How do we come back to a place of love each other and care for each other and you gotta remember. God loved us first so he gave us law so it should teach us that we should love and look at each other and not look at the color of each other skin and say this guy that that guy. Because he's been through some bill. We all have been through several. So hopefully this book with all wake up and realize what's really important in our society and are like right. That's what people should take away from the book. Now you in my research for for our chat tonight darrell. I typed your name into google and they give you like five questions that come up About the person one of them is is darrell. Strawberry in the hall of fame. And the second one. I was kind of taken back by it. Says is darrell. Strawberry dead now. There were some times in your life where it seemed like both might be a possibility. You are doing better than ever. What the second one is their own meals. Dad okay right yeah. They just didn't realize he's daddy no longer live you know. I got a better life than i had planned baseball doing. Ministry and travel the country. You know two hundred fifty times a year preaching and standing on platform increasing the son of thousands of people and helping people with programs and helping people who have addiction problems and and young kids helping them incurs them wanna schools telling them the danger of drugs opiates and heroin and they do know. I have such a better Productive life than i ever did you know being on the field you know. I had a lot of productive days but this is more more significant to me than anything else. Because of the fact. I'm able to you know get back myself to help somebody else and i think that's really what's important. I think a lot of fans. View your career daryl and i hate to read it when people say it was a wasted opportunity but from the perspective that you have now. How do you view your baseball career. Did it help set you up for what was to come. It wasn't wasted. Yeah it helped me set. Set me up for what what was to come after baseball. Because he's so many people could go on and have successful careers and get into the hall of fame but they never have a transformation. Life is still the same person. He's still chasing after the dream of uniform. The applause people and my life has been separated so totally different Of what kind of people following me today. I don't really have a lot of people who talk to me about the baseball. They talked to me about my face. They talked to me about you know. How did you get there. How did you change your life. How you walk so different. Why do you listen to different. Why you so happy. Why do you have such a beautiful family. Why kids and and and you're doing the things you saw those that think it's a waste you know go look up on ministry and just see what i do you know and and and and reese from there from yourself the joy that has come from you know meet given my life to christ and doing so many other things and and being what what gary carter always thought i would be because he had told me your life. God's gonna use your life for an incredible for himself. And i think a lot of times. We don't see that when the rest of us plan and win the uniform. And you know i know. I no longer dangle with the uniform of number eighteen dollar strawberry. I'm grateful for that grateful for all the mets fans. And all the yankee fans an all new york has i love new york city. I'm grateful for everything. I was able to accomplish in new york city. More more grateful for who i am today. Not a baseball player. But a man you know. That doesn't wear uniform but that walks with faith and help so many other people find their way. We are speaking with darrell strawberry tonight about his book. God can transform your life Turning your season around is is the main title of the book. And that's what we're talking about tonight. We speak about the kid darrell. We really miss that guy. that's for sure. Now you talk a lot about the importance of taking off your baseball uniform. We just spoke about that. I remember a passage. We your wife. Tracy used to say. Leave this guy alone at meetings He he's out of his baseball uniform. You know he. He's not this guy anymore. I in your book. You say you say your uniform is merely a facade for greatness shielding the broken this that ached within me. And how did that change. How did you..
WGBB Sports Talk New York
"julius" Discussed on WGBB Sports Talk New York
"Graves. Of course is with us and helping us out. We got a great show lined up tonight as we roll out our new format up. I will talk to one of the most popular players ever to take the field in new york. He was a real fan favourite at shea stadium. A member of the one thousand nine hundred eighty six world. Championship team darrell. Strawberry will join us. And then the second half of welcoming another local legend grew up just blocks from here. He's a member of the hoops hall of fame. We will get a checkup from the doctor. Dr j. julius erving will be with us. So sit back. Relax get comfortable enjoy sports. Talk new york tonight on. Gb we've had some great people with some great stories up ahead as always. We are on social media facebook. Sports talk new york so much information out. There stopped by giving a look. Also you can follow me on twitter. I am at be donahue w gb and if you miss a show don't worry because we have them all out on our website you can give them listen there. Well our first guest. He played seventeen seasons in major league baseball throughout his career. He was one of the most feared sluggers in the sport known. For his prodigious home runs intimidating presence in the baddest box and a real sweet swing that people elicited comparisons to the great ted williams. He's a four time world series champion. Eight time all star national league rookie of the year in one thousand nine hundred ninety three. He's got a new book out which we will discuss with him called. Turn your season around. How god transformed transforms your life. I welcome to the show tonight. Darrell strawberry darryl good evening. Good evening bill. How are you guys doing where i do it about. As best as we can darah working through some kinks here. We got a new format coming out tonight and we're hanging on like loose buttons here but that's all right. That's all right. It's good to be with you guys. And congratulations on your new start and everything. It's a new year. Hopefully everybody can get started with something new and the new exactly down now. You grew up in los angeles as we know who are your teams who you guys back. Then when you were a kid well. I grew up in los angeles. I grew up a dodger fan. But i grew up with pete. Rose fan lasted. Dot are used to watch the dodgers and cincinnati reds and the big red machine and i used to see all these great players on each team but i saw this one particular plan by the name of pete rose and his uniform just seems to be dirty thirty and all the rest of the guys you know uniform so dirty all the time and i thought this guy is a real baseball player with the dirty uniform. That's what baseball whether look like exactly. Yeah that's a good choice. You made daryl now. I wanted to ask you something. I recently saw on social media about when frank cash and fired davey johnson. He told him just to leave. Don't talk to anybody. They'll be car waiting for you outside to take you to the airport. He wasn't able to address you guys at all and Frank want wanted him just to take off. Did you know about that. No i had no idea about that I know a lot of conflict there between Frank casting david. Johnson davies was more of a player manager which was great. He's just let us be loose and let us play. Let's have our way. Come to the ballpark. Be ready to play. Strap it on. And he was he was one of those guys that just really open. Open the door for place. I mean when you have a manager that understands the game david. Johnson joe torre because they played know what players are like kinda let your players be free and let them just be there be ready you know and that was the one thing for us. Just be there be ready to kick some but when gangtok came. And that's what we're all about right. Yeah definitely now you guys. Of course a powerhouse ballclub. Would you say your biggest disappointment. Darryl was nineteen eighty eight. Eight eight was really tough to swallow you. Know after losing to the dodgers. We beat them so many times on the course that season and then we fell into that play all serious and there was some lucky bounces for them. You know that's the name of the game. You know that some things with their way. You know People shelby you know walks with to count you. Don't alright kirk gibson hits a home. Run your complaints that happened. You know things that happen. And i mean we had opportunities to close it out and we just in close it out when we needed to close it out right now. You left new york. You sign with the dodgers. Did they make any effort to bring you back to the mets darrell. No no there was never any efforts to really come back to the match. I mean i think they were about to. They were changing. You know i saw the change coming along and you started Losing a lot of players from the eighty eight sixteen and eighteen started you train guys. Who traded lenny. Often start saying guys who different place. I mean when you when you grow up and you play with a group of guys you you hopefully wanna finish with those kind of guys and i saw the organization was about to take a different turn and they were bringing up some young players but my whole thing was with the younger players bill. What ready to play in new york. See a big thing when you have to be in new york city and you have to play especially with what we had already made the team great for those many years and the fans are already excited about it. So we continue. That and i didn't know if we'd be a continue with younger players being able to handle the pressure because hernandez was gone. And you know all the players came in Day payment and job. Jeffrey stayman and a lot of times. You're not ready and built for that kind of pressure plan in new york and you're not gonna be able to pursue Those big games like you're used to with the players that we had exactly. You're exactly right daryl. Now you come back to new york. Last year stint on the west coast with the yankees your reunited with guys like david cone and doc. Gooden's there on the yankees that now every guy ask always has great things to say about the boss. How was your relationship with george. Steinbrenner georgia's incredible bosses. Incredible person He's treated every player. I don't care what your life was like what you were going through. He cheated every player. Like you family. When you put on the yankee uniform and i think every player i can tell you that. And that's why so many guys claim to that. You know yankee tradition. Because they were a family organization they never pushed players out. You know and say you'll this year that and because you had some troubles you know and i think that's what was great about your thin. That's what's great about. New york fans liked players who have struggled and have troublesome bounce back but you know That organization was organization full of that when george brow players over there and his caring for players. I just thought it was remarkable. I had a great relationship with him. There is no ex yankee. I talked to darrell. That has anything bad to say about. George steinbrenner and i think that's a remarkable legacy that he holds now. I often mentioned to my guest Daryl you know you've made it when you've had a bobble head made of yourself or when you've been on the simpsons now you have both now. People may may not remember they can look it up homer at the bat that tremendous episode. When you guys are playing softball for mr burns and tell us a little bit about the experience you had working with those guys on the simpsons. Jay was a great experience working with and a lot of fun To be able to work with a project like that and you know so many other players were involved in two and at the at the top of of the mountain. You call it when you hit the simpsons because that's really what they call it when you hit a show like that because that that show lasts forever i have more fans comes to me with pictures from that and out and doing a show or something like that and want me to sign that and some people say. I'm not a baseball fan. But you own the sensors i love..