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Loyalty vs the Bag: Family Wars Nobody Survives
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What happens when siblings mix family, money, power, and ego—and nobody wants to back down? In this episode of Unsolicited Perspectives, Bruce Anthony and Jay Aundrea kick off with sibling banter before diving into a jaw-dropping real-life story about a legendary sports dynasty torn apart from the inside. From podcast storytelling lies and internet “life coaches” selling nonsense, to accountability, self-awareness, and a $10 billion decision that permanently fractured a famous family, this episode explores what loyalty really costs. Funny, uncomfortable, and painfully honest—this is one conversation you’ll have opinions about. #familydrama #losangeleslakers #jeaniebuss #johnwick #robertmccall #actionheroes #popculture #unsolicitedperspectives
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Chapters:
00:00:00 Siblings Fight — Who You Picking to Save You? 👊🏽👀🔥
00:00:10 Welcome to Unsolicited Perspectives 🎙️✨📢
01:51 Snowstorm Panic Sparks Power Outage Survival Anxiety ❄️⚡😬
02:39 Bruce Confesses He’s Absolutely Useless Without Electricity 📵😂🧠
04:35 Six Eggs a Day? Protein Math Turns Into a Full Argument 🍳💪🏽🤣
07:07 “He Was Capping” — Calling Out Lies in Podcast Storytelling 🎙️🚩😒
14:45 Internet Life Coaches, Fake Gurus, and Selling Nonsense 💭📉🤨
17:45 Kimbo Slice Wisdom: Realizing You’re Your Own Worst Enemy 🥊🧠🔥
20:18 Accountability, Self-Awareness, and Mental Health Reality 🪞🧘🏽♀️✨
22:17 “Let Me Tell You a Story…” — Sibling War Officially Begins 🧨👨👩👧👦🔥
24:11 Building a Sports Dynasty Inside One Family 🏆🏀💰
26:41 Patriarchy, Succession, and Ignoring the Obvious Heir 👑🚫😤
31:40 Firing a Brother Ignites a Full-Blown Family War 🧑🏽⚖️💥😳
35:15 Secret Siblings & a Family Bombshell 💣🧬😮
40:56 Ten Billion Dollars on the Table — Loyalty vs the Bag 💰🤯⚔️
48:00 When Money Can’t Fix Family Damage 💸💔😔
50:25 Loyalty vs Legacy — Who Really Betrayed Who? 🧬⚖️🔥
56:39 The Kidnapping Hypothetical That Breaks Everyone’s Brain 😳🚨
59:43 Now Flip It — Who Loses to Save You? 😶🔄💀
1:02:51 Can One Person Beat Whole Armies? 🧍🏽♂️⚔️😳
1:06:00 Final Verdict: Humans vs Machines 🧠⚔️🤯
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Introduction and Episode Theme: Sibling Happy Hour
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Siblings fight. And who do you pick to defend your life? We gonna get into it. Let's get it.
00:00:18
Speaker
Welcome. First of all, welcome. This is Unsolicited Perspectives. I'm your host, Bruce Anthony, here to lead the conversation in important events and topics that are shaping today's society. please to Join the conversation and follow us wherever you get your audio podcasts. Subscribe to our YouTube channel for our video podcasts, YouTube exclusive content, and our YouTube membership.
00:00:37
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Rate, review, like, comment, share. Share with your friends, share with your family, hell, even share with your enemies. On today's episode, it's the Sibling Happy Hour. I'm here with my sis, J. Andrea. We're going to be dilly-dadding a little bit. Then I'm going to be telling you a story about siblings that are fighting each other.
00:00:55
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And then me and my sister are going to pick the teams to save us if we were kidnapped. But that's enough of the intro. Let's get to the show. What up, sis?
00:01:13
Speaker
What up, brother? I can't call it. I can't call it. You know something? What's that? Winter is coming. Not just up there. Down here, too.
00:01:23
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Okay, so this is what I want to say to all the people out
Snowstorm Concerns and Coping Strategies
00:01:26
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out there. This is coming out january to twenty Friday, January the 23rd. We are supposed to get a snowstorm, a really bad snowstorm, I guess, both up here and down there in Atlanta. Up here, it could be really, really bad. They're saying it could be 24...
00:01:43
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twenty four Inches and ice. Yeah. Which means that we might lose power. Unfortunately, if we lose power, I can't upload any episodes or anything. So if you don't see anything, and I'll try my best to put it on Instagram and threads or wherever, TikTok or wherever we are in the social media, to let you guys know that there won't be any shows, but that's only you Power gets knocked out from these snowstorms. And I'm hoping that power does not get knocked out because I don't know what do with myself if I don't have any power.
00:02:19
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yeah i mean Yeah, I mean, you don't. i Of course, I have puzzles, board games. I could read a book. There are million things I can do without power. That's just fine. But you, I don't know how you're going to survive without electricity. i honestly am a little worried for you.
00:02:37
Speaker
For dude that reads... Every day. All day long. I'm not picking up no book. And here's the thing, ladies and gentlemen.
00:02:48
Speaker
I become obsessed and fixated. So when I read a book, nothing else is important except for me finishing that book. Kind of like me with like ah a TV series. If I start binging a TV series, I may have to wake up early in the morning. I'm going see the next episode. I'm going to see the next episode. And so I've got to read the next chapter. I've got to read the that I won't stop. That's the reason why I only read on vacations because that's a designated time where I can just read all day.
00:03:18
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Yeah. So i just read articles and stuff. But just want to let the people know, I don't know what I'm going to do. you know And all of that is electronic. Like, you're not reading the newspaper. Like, you're reading it online. Right.
00:03:30
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Yeah, I don't know what you're going to do. Now, conversely, you guys are getting, what, like maybe two feet? Yeah. We're getting a half inch. But a half inch in Atlanta with ice accumulation. Like, a half inch in Atlanta is...
00:03:48
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substantial. I mean, North Georgia is getting more, but as far as like city of Atlanta, I mean, that's going to shut this whole place down. So I'm going to the grocery store right after this because I don't have no food. It's not coming until Saturday night.
00:04:03
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Yeah, but everybody is probably thinking, okay, it's going to be crazy Friday. So we'll go Thursday. And I'm saying it's going to be crazy Thursday and Friday. So I'm going go on Wednesday.
00:04:18
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You know, I did it the last weekend. Amazon. I did it at your house. Amazon deliveries be working. I got 18 eggs or a dollar and bought five things at 18 eggs. now Eggs is only good for about two, three weeks. Yeah, but I i did the math and that's 18 eggs a week for five weeks, right?
00:04:41
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And that ain't nothing but three breakfasts. So it worked out. You have six eggs in a breakfast? What?
00:04:52
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Jay, yes. I'm 235 pounds. I eat one egg yeah and two slices of bacon. Right. you don't You don't need as much protein as need. Six eggs. Yes. saying I didn't know you ate that. I didn't know. Yes. I eat a lot of protein. You saw how much chicken I eat.
00:05:15
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Yeah, you do. Yeah, you eat lot of chicken. Yeah, I eat. I eat. You got to have that protein. You got to feed the beast. So gentlemen, don't be upset with us if no episodes come out next week. Because up here, we're supposed to get it bad. Not as bad as some other places. They're saying some other places they're going to get three inches of Yeah, that's crazy. It is crazy. They're saying some people could lose power like Texas did that one time where Texas didn't have power for like a a year. texas wasn't It wasn't a year, but it was a really long time. it was something close to that. They're on that like grid that's like, it's the companies that run it or the state runs it or something. it's something Some bad setup they got down there in Texas. Yeah. with their power grid and i definitely hope that does not happen for them again um because people don't think it's gonna yeah i don't i'm i'm hoping the cold weather and all that the snow and ice does not reach texas no it's gonna hit texas oh oh yeah no gonna hit texas yeah
00:06:23
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I am praying for, you know, Atlanta will just be inconvenienced. Like we won't be able to go anywhere. Probably my power will go out, um you know, but definitely hoping not to see a repeat of what happened in Texas last time.
00:06:37
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Well, all I know is as long as my power don't go out, this is heaven sent. That means I ain't got to leave the house for nothing for a couple of days. And I got an excuse. I mean, don't leave a house anyway, but I got an excuse not to leave the house. right This wasn't the only thing that I wanted to talk about, though, in the dilly-daddling. You sent me something earlier today.
00:06:55
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And it was this morning and where i opened it. And it was guy Tori. Guy
Racism Claims on Podcast: A Sceptical View
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Tori, on a podcast talking about filming the movie Life.
00:07:07
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And he talked about some racist happenings that happened on Life. Now, i completely believe that some racist happenings happened on American History X, because Edward Norton is a method actor.
00:07:20
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Supposedly, they had some real skinheads. So I can believe that. I... i said immediately when you sent me that video, he was capping about racism, a specific thing where and a stick figure with a noose was found around his neck on the set. Like that didn't happen. And, and people get on these podcasts and start capping. They start embellishing. And that's a problem with old people anyway, because guy is not young.
00:07:47
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Guy is not got me by 10 years. Okay. He's in his fifties easily. Yeah. Um, The older you get, the stories you tell... 57. fifty So he's almost 60 years old. The older you get, the stories that you tell get crazier and crazier and crazier. Yeah, it's the old, we had to walk 15 miles and and six feet of snow to get to school type of thing. You know, that old people like, we had to do... And they're like, man, shut up. No, you didn't. With no shoes on. And you're like, man, shut up. No, you didn't. With no shoes do i think...
00:08:23
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that there might have been incidents that could be construed as racist on the set and that Eddie, maybe once, maybe twice, had to say something or have someone removed or something like that.
00:08:40
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Yes, I think that's the whatever the story was. I can't remember. Some guys said some guy was the picket pickaxe thing where supposedly God was swinging a pickaxe. And one of the one of the crew said, hey, that's not how you swing a pickaxe. And he was like, i don't talk to him like that. and And the guy wasn't on the crew any longer. Like, yes, I do believe stuff like that. But the noose around neck.
00:09:05
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No, believe that. but But did it go down like that? Like as a ah racist incident? I don't think so. I don't think that the response was, hey, we know how to swing a pickaxe. We've been swinging a pickaxe, you know, right here because those are actors. They don't know how to swing a pickaxe.
00:09:24
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There are some things that are just not inherent to us on the strength of us being black. I've never swung a pickaxe in my eye, Tyler. I don't swung a pickaxe. You just swing it, right? Just swing it. don't know how to play the bass.
00:09:37
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no You know what I'm saying? Like, there are some things that like don't just assume all black people can do this or do do this. Like, so, yeah. Do I feel like he was probably putting 20 on on five? Yes. Not 100 on 10, 20 on five. That's a that's new one. I ain't heard that before. Yeah. a little bit, but it's it's harmless. like So that's why I said 20 instead of 100. That particular story about the noose is not harmless. And the reason why immediately I said capping is because
00:10:12
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i'm Such a nerd. anytime They always have these little tidbits, documentaries on things you didn't know about this movie or this book or this TV series. I'm watching all this time and I'm always watching interviews specifically about life because I want to hear any story that's about Bernie Mac.
00:10:29
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If yeah that had happened, somebody would have at least hinted about it a little bit. Yeah, especially if it was something that, like, Eddie responded to personally. Right. to a I think his overall message was, hey, Eddie really looked out for us in it on this set and made sure that we were treated well. Like, that could have just been the story. But in order to make it entertaining, because, again, remember, its core, a guy, Tori is a comedian. He's stand-up comedian. So in order to make it entertaining, you know, you put a little extra little sauce on it. Yeah, I'm sure if there was a doll with a noose around its neck found in on set, more people would have told that story for sure. Absolutely. um
00:11:20
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But I think the general message is probably once...
Podcast Exaggerations and Interview Skills
00:11:24
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Eddie had to stand up for them and somebody got fired. And from Guy Torre's perspective, from that moment on, Eddie Murphy was not just his comedic hero, but is you know his professional one as a as well. Yeah. yeah it just it got you know When you sent that to me, you know I watch a lot of these interview podcasts just because I'm like,
00:11:46
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One, I'm always watching just to see, to learn how to interview better, right? Like ah yeah trying to interview better and i figure people that... When you watch on the wrong podcast, like some of these guys are not interviewers.
00:12:00
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Well, sometimes they show you what not to do. Yeah. Okay. Sometimes you can learn from these interviewers the beats and how there's a lull and how... And I pick up on it like, oh, come on. They need to speed up the conversation. They need to... This person that they're interviewing is having a hard time finding words.
00:12:21
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Put words out there to see if that yeah that helps speed up the conversation. I watch... them yeah I watch ah see these interview podcasts a lot of times and they don't edit out the long...
00:12:33
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pauses. We don't have long pauses. yeah Just by the nature of the way we talk, I don't like a lot of dead space unless we're chuckling. But a lot of these people, whatever, I'm not going to critique these people. What I have found out is these people get on these podcasts and just start saying anything. And it it could be a nobody or it could be like a celebrity. And I'm like, that's not true. Ryan Davis just got interviewed on Club Shay Shay.
00:13:00
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And I was like, you know what? It feels like a lot of what he's saying is absolutely fact. And then there might be a little bit of embellishment on some of these stories because you get going and then you just like, man, let me put a hundred on 10 real quick. Or as you say, 20 five.
00:13:16
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Right. Like, it's like Cat Williams. Right. but glove i say That felt a lot of it felt like embellishment, um especially when talking about like his past and his like educational upbringing all that. I read eighty nine thousand books in two months. Like it was like, oh, you didn't. But all right. Like, you know, or ah or Jaguar. Right. You know, why is like a Jaguar. Right. But some people make a stuff up. Some people have them on there just to be yeah who they are because that's going to numbers. Ladies and gentlemen, that'll never be us anytime. And I have interviewed people. I've stopped the interview dead in the middle of the interview and be like, I can't continue on with this.
00:14:02
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and And they're like, what do you mean? I was like, you're not telling the truth. Like, this yeah this didn't happen. Because I do my research before I interview somebody. was like, this this is, no, this isn't true. yeah Like, I'm sorry. I just can't continue on. This will never air. Thank you for your time. Goodbye. ah yeah But this is an interesting segue into the final thing I want to talk about in Deadly Daddling.
00:14:29
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And another thing that you didn't send me, but just popped up right after you sent me that video, I got on Explore and just was exploring. These mindset coaches, I'm i'm in i'm on my high horse right now and telling people stop doing exactly the same stuff that I'm doing.
00:14:49
Speaker
These mindset coaches be killing me. And self-help coaches. What is mindset coach? They're supposed to set your mind to to be able to focus on the things that you need to be able to focus on. Like a life coach.
00:15:02
Speaker
Oh, okay. I don't know that I believe in like life coaching. i i Yes, you do because you believe in mentors. Yeah, okay. I think the way sometimes life coaching is is packaged and sold, particularly to Black women, it it feels like a lot of very obvious things, like...
00:15:27
Speaker
That it doesn't feel like any new information, you know? it just, it doesn't feel personalized. It just feels like a bunch of people trying to get rich off of selling you some sort of ebook or seminar or something like that. And they'd be gobbling it up. And I'd be like, y'all, I've been to a couple. And I was like, yeah, this is some bull. Like, this is...
00:15:51
Speaker
I could have told the chat. GPT could have told you all of this. Like you didn't need to come pay $120 for this seminar. Not to toot my own horn, but toot toot. Because I'm a fitness professional, that's not just what I do. Because you have personal relationship. that the shortest The shortest amount of time I have with any of my current clients, I think it's two years right now.
00:16:16
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and go So all of them are over two years. One is we're starting our, I think it's 15th or 16th year together. hu These are people that tell me about their life.
00:16:28
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Yeah. Because you spend two, three hours with a person a week. They're going to talk about their life.
Scepticism Towards Self-help Coaches
00:16:35
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Yes. And they asked me my opinion on things. And to me, it's all very common sense. Right.
00:16:41
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Right. Like, oh, OK, this is what you're going through. This is what's going to happen. You should probably do this. Right.
00:16:49
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That's so somebody told me recently, they're like, you're not just ah um a body coach. You're a mind and body coach. You're like a life coach. And I was like, OK, but I would never got to have to be both. But I would never sell myself as that.
00:17:01
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Right. I would never say I'm going to be a life coach. But this one video that popped up was from a mindset coach. And I'm not even going to promote them because I went on their other stuff and I was just like, he he's spreading a bunch of bull.
00:17:15
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But in this one particular video, you remember Kimbo Slice? He was the street fighter from yeah ah Florida. Okay. Kimbo Slice got invited to be in one of the Tough Enough contests in the UFC.
00:17:29
Speaker
And it was the first time he had ever been away from his family and like really alone with his thoughts. And he said something that I was like, I agree with it. He said, I've always been fighting the enemy.
00:17:40
Speaker
But I've realized through this time, me being by myself, that the enemy is the inner me. It's not an outside thing. It's me on the inside.
00:17:52
Speaker
Now, I see your face. But I believe it's true. Sometimes our biggest... That's not a unique thought. i know it what it it was unique for Kimbo Slice. Okay. No, I mean I've heard that exact same thing before. I've heard it too, but it just resonated with me today.
00:18:12
Speaker
Right? Okay. Like a lot of times your biggest op is you. When I look at all my romantic relationships, I can easily say, man, these women ah that i deal with, crazy as hell.
00:18:25
Speaker
Or i have a poor taste in judging people that I date. The common denominator... Both be true. Both can be true, but the common denominator is moi, right? When I'm looking at my bank account and I'm like, how the hell did this happen? I know just how the hell it happened.
00:18:44
Speaker
Yeah. It happened because of me. That's right. So I was like, okay, this is cool. This is something that is good for for this mindset coach to put out because a lot of people always try to blame outside factors for their circumstances and don't want to look within, i.e. the President of the United States. But but i was like, okay, this is good. Then I went on their other stuff and I was like, there's some bull. So ladies and gentlemen, the point of this is saying sometimes you can pick up stuff from a person that'd be wrong half the time. A broke clock is right twice.
00:19:17
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Yeah. Yeah. i What do you think about that? The inner me is my enemy. Yeah, again, that's not...
00:19:28
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Like, thought this was going to some huge payoff, but Bruce, I done heard that before. No, yeah, I've heard it before. i think... ah
00:19:37
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Yeah, that's not... Okay. Well, good for him. Yeah. i like i feel yeah But i feel like, you know, self-reflection, I think, is just a part of any mental health journey. It's like, okay, I need to take stock of ways in which I contribute to the chaos in my life. Like, everybody has to do that. The enemy is for everyone.
00:20:05
Speaker
They enter me. That's how it always is. Well, a lot of ah lot of people out there do not see that. A lot of people do not take accountability ever. It is yeah never their fault.
00:20:17
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That's like a huge thing that a lot of people are pushing for is that people be accountable. Yeah. that So it's... And to have some sort of like, you know, i can't think of the word I'm trying to use, but it just have some kind of like understanding of self.
00:20:35
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Right. Yeah. yeah Self-awareness. Self-awareness. There we go. Yeah. To have some self-awareness and be accountable. This is that's not these not new concepts. Yeah. You got to OK.
00:20:46
Speaker
I mean, but all right. You know, good for him for coming to that. I mean, he was a bohemian man from Florida yeah that I don't think graduated high school in 2008. Bohemian or Bohemian?
00:20:58
Speaker
Right. That one. Okay. That one. Look. I'm not a mindset or life coach or a verbal coach. Ver-bo coach. Yeah, I messed that word up too. I'm going to get us the hell out of this segment. But before I do,
Sports Dynasty Family Drama
00:21:14
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speaking of accountability, Jay, I'm going to tell you a story about some siblings that you won't believe.
00:21:22
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Oh, boy. And that's coming up next.
00:21:34
Speaker
Jay, what if I told you that a family that was responsible for a sports franchise hu had nothing but internal infighting that has caused six siblings to almost be bitter enemies?
00:21:53
Speaker
I would say that that makes ah complete sense. Hold on. Now, I want you to do, I'm going to tell a story, but don't worry. I want you to interject with questions, little interlobes, right? yeah and and But why do you say that makes complete sense?
00:22:11
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First of all, it's six them. So if you take six people together, And have them do any singular task, you're going to run into obstacles.
00:22:22
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Because that's a lot of cooks in the kitchen. Then you make them siblings. So now they know each other intimately, right? They like they know each other deeply. They're siblings. deskalb That adds a whole other layer of complexity to a working relationship.
00:22:42
Speaker
ya Okay? Yeah. Then you throw in a lot of money. lot of money. That's a recipe for disaster.
00:22:54
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You're right. It's an age-old thing of a family coming from something, a family dynasty, even royalty, where siblings would stab each other in the back for that prize, right? Yeah.
00:23:08
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I can't identify with it. Because the three of us, even though we've had ups and downs through the years, are pretty solid. Yeah. But I can see how there could be fraction because even in the dynamic of the three of us, each one thinks the other two is a click.
00:23:30
Speaker
Yes. It's been accused, right? It's been accused that by our brother that we're clique. It's been accused by you that I and our brother are a clique. It's been accused by me that you and our brother are a clique. And it's like, no, yeah we're we're all one clique, but we all have different relationships with each sibling. Right. Yes.
00:23:50
Speaker
Well, the patriarch of the family, the father, hu brilliant man wanted a sports franchise and bought one. And the sports franchise had some history, but not a whole lot of history.
00:24:07
Speaker
okay But it was in a major market. And he turned this franchise into a dynasty. Nice. And ruled that sports league for decades.
00:24:20
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He had four children. Two boys, two girls. When he started the franchise, of course, he hoped his oldest son would go ahead and be his right-hand man and be able to take over the family business, be just like him.
00:24:36
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er His older son wasn't like him. Didn't really care about the business, dibbled and dabbled a little bit, but wasn't really into it. The oldest daughter, yeah she wasn't really in the sports like that. She did some other stuff.
00:24:52
Speaker
The next son, he would rather go out there and do sports on his own. Didn't really care about the business. But one of his daughters was exactly like him.
00:25:03
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Kind of like you and our father. It was exactly like him and wanted in nothing more, nothing more to eventually take over and run the business. But there's a problem.
00:25:15
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Because this is the old times. And of course a woman can't run a men's sports league team, franchise organization. Can't be. Has to be one of his sons.
00:25:25
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But each time he tries to bring in the sons, they kind of show interest. Kind of don't show interest. They want to show, do their own life. But the daughter always shows interest.
00:25:37
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Eventually, he divorces his wife. And sometime down the road, he gets remarried. It has two more kids, two more sons. Now, the age difference between the oldest and the youngest is 31 years. Goodness.
00:25:52
Speaker
They're little kids. Yeah. Against adults. All of them are adults. These are yeah little kids. They grow up with a different father. Because as the patriarch of the family was building this dynasty, it wasn't really home that much.
00:26:07
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Oh, by the way, Papa was a Rolling Stone. So he was out there in the mix doing it that. He's rich. He owns a sports franchise. He's out there living his life.
00:26:18
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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That daughter, though, is always there by his side. so finally, it comes time time where the old man is starting to get old.
00:26:29
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And so he has got to decide how how this is going to happen with the family, because his hope is... His dream is, is that his children and his grandchildren continue on running the franchise, right?
00:26:44
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And he throws all types of stuff in there to make it incentive that they would never sell the team. He does a prepay on hand inheritance tax. He structures things a certain way. So grandkids are part of trustees. So they will always be taken care of. He structures everything.
00:27:03
Speaker
Right. And he puts each kid kind of in place. All of them have different jobs within the organization. But the one daughter is pretty much the one running things. Right. She handles the business side. One of the sons is getting interested in running the sports side.
00:27:21
Speaker
Papa dies. And of course, the infighting starts. Now, just from the first part of this story, what is your initial thoughts about what's going on with this family?
00:27:36
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um
00:27:39
Speaker
Patriarchy is trash. Because the whole time he could have just been, you know, preparing the child who was interested in Taking over could have just been preparing them and setting everybody up with their little trust funds or whatever rich people do, putting them on the payroll somehow. I don't know how rich people live their lives. That don't have nothing to do with me. But instead, he's holding out hope for people who are not that interested or interested but want to do things their own way so they're not really interested in working under him, like apprenticing or or doing what they need to do to get like get up to speed. So it's like, wow, the patriarchy really screwed him on this because he could have already had all of this
00:28:35
Speaker
resolved and done before he even got to that second wife honestly he could have already been saying okay this child is taking over because they're the ones that showed interest and aptitude for it and so that's how this is gonna go but instead patriarchy Right. Now, that daughter does explicitly become controlling owner, but it's on the business side, right? This is the business. One of the sons that's been actively in it has is doing the the the sports side. And the two youngest sons are involved, too. They're doing the sports side as well with, like, analytics and scouting. And...
00:29:22
Speaker
lo little Little Birdie told them that they'll be the ones running things because the way this was structured was that when eat when a sibling dies, their shares get divided up between the rest of the siblings. So it's essentially...
00:29:40
Speaker
The last person that lives gets it all. And of course, they're 31 years apart. but So immediately when the dad dies, some of the older siblings...
00:29:53
Speaker
Two of them, out of the four to be exact, are like, don't we just sell? When the dad explicitly was like, no, I don't want y'all to sell. I want you to. But the valuation of this franchise is growing so much that it's yeah starting to be like, man, we throwing money away. Besides, the business model of this sports league is changing. Owners used to be millionaires. They're now billionaires. And now it's getting harder to compete with with billionaires. You think because you're a millionaire, you cool, but you ain't a billionaire.
00:30:26
Speaker
It's a totally different ballgame. yeah Now, what happens is once-dominant sports franchise is no longer that dominant.
00:30:37
Speaker
They have a whole lot of lean years, don't make the playoffs for a lot of years. In the previous 20 years, they had only missed the playoffs twice.
00:30:47
Speaker
When Papa was alive, after he died for 11 years, seven years, they did not make the playoffs. They only made the playoffs four times. yeah So one of the brothers is the one handling the basketball side.
00:30:59
Speaker
So what does that mean? So now I know it's NBA. dam it I was trying to keep it. Narrows it down.
00:31:10
Speaker
Was handling the sports side, right? Yeah. But they not winning. So what do you think happened next? Sis fired him, probably. Sis fired him.
00:31:23
Speaker
Yeah. But he was thinking, well, you can't fire me. I'm part owner. And she was like, I fired you from that job. Not for you being owner.
00:31:34
Speaker
the other brother was like, no, you can't do that to us. He didn't get fired. He was just like, you can't do that. So those two brothers joined forces um to try and steal...
00:31:46
Speaker
The franchise from her, not her portion, like her ownership, but control. So she's no longer in control. So they tried to maneuver this way to create a board and they had to go to court and everything. And the judge was like, no, it says in the dad's will.
00:32:02
Speaker
Yeah. She is the controlling owner. She has the right to fire you. But guess what happens? Now siblings ain't rocking with her.
00:32:13
Speaker
Yeah. but But this is, listen, this is business. And you're it's been 11 years, seven of which we have not made it to the playoffs.
00:32:24
Speaker
Which means there got to be some changes. Right. so you're not doing You're not doing the things. Right. you're not making the things happen. So you got to go.
00:32:37
Speaker
Once lawyers got involved, Thanksgiving was over, right? yeah yeah It became personal, no longer professional. They took great offense to that, probably because they always felt that they were supposed to be the heir parents because they were the men, right? It was supposed to go to them.
00:32:53
Speaker
Funny thing, because there's now six of them, and the two youngest are adults now working with the organization. They sided with the sister. They had grown close to the sister.
00:33:05
Speaker
They had become friends with the sister. The organization makes a big deal about signing a player. We go down the road for a little while. They make a big deal about signing a player. ok And the new GM...
00:33:20
Speaker
The new basketball op. Damn it. The new. All right. The new basketball operations guy. Yeah. He's doing a press conference announcing this huge signing and he's starting to thank people. And he thanks one of the brothers.
00:33:35
Speaker
that tried to overrule the person that put him in place, the sister. And so the two younger brothers was like, wait a minute, that's a little confusing. Why is he thanking the brother that was trying to take over?
00:33:47
Speaker
So one of the younger brothers calls the sister, the owner, right? The controlling owner calls the sister. He's like, yo, what's this about? And the conversation takes a left-hand turn.
00:33:59
Speaker
Their mother, the four siblings' mother, is dying. It came out that before the oldest son was born, the mother and the father had a daughter, but they didn't have any money.
00:34:16
Speaker
So they gave the daughter up for adoption. Adoption. adoption You know, with all this 23andMe stuff, she was trying to find her family, found out that she's related to this famous family. She didn't come in for no money or nothing like that. She just wanted to get to know her family.
00:34:35
Speaker
yeah Another secret came out. Okay. That the mother and father of the four kids... Because they gave that daughter up for adoption and she never wanted to have kids like half kids. Right. and mean She made him promise the patriarch. She made him promise that he would never have kids outside of her.
00:35:00
Speaker
This all comes out later now. And so the sister that's running the organization finds out about this. huh And so when the younger brother calls, she's letting him know about an older sister that they had that they just found out about it. And then makes the comment that, yeah, mom and dad had an agreement that there was not going to be any other kids besides the four of us.
00:35:24
Speaker
So you should have never been born.
00:35:30
Speaker
now I'm to take a pause for part three. And just from the little bit that I gave you, What do you think about all of that?
00:35:40
Speaker
She said that to her two younger siblings? It said that she didn't, but they said that she did. Mm-hmm.
00:35:54
Speaker
Mm-hmm. i Well...
00:36:00
Speaker
Should not have said that if... it Even if the... the the The promise between two adults does not have anything to do with the children.
00:36:13
Speaker
So they made a promise, but he got, she passed away or no, she didn't pass away. He got remarried. he got They got divorced and he got remarried and he had two more kids. So like the he didn't keep the promise. I think that's kind of a ridiculous promise to make, but They could i obviously.
00:36:38
Speaker
Well, I'm sure she knew he was Rolling Stone. so Oh, yeah. Just don't have no kids on me like that. That might be like the basis of that promise of like, I know you out in these streets. Don't have no other kids on me. Right.
00:36:52
Speaker
These are it. But them getting divorced and him getting remarried, like, that nullifies that because y'all not even married no more. So there was really no reason to even bring up that promise. That had nothing to do with the two youngest children. So even if she didn't say that explicitly, like, just bringing it up, what was the point of doing that?
00:37:18
Speaker
Like, that seems messed up. Yeah. So because of this conversation, remember, there's two younger brothers. And they're tight because to them, they're brothers, right? Like they are full brothers. yeah And there's an age gap.
00:37:34
Speaker
There's such an age gap, yeah. But this conversation had them realize that there's always been kind of this deep resentment towards them.
00:37:45
Speaker
And so they were like, okay, maybe people was humoring us, but now we're adults. They still look at us as little kids or not even supposed to be here. Maybe they think that we have any claim to be a part of this. Meanwhile, we were the closest to dad because dad was actually around when we were growing up. Like, we know him better than yeah they probably know him because he wasn't around, which also has some resentment that they got the life that the other four never got.
00:38:15
Speaker
Yeah. And they're pissed off about it. Yeah, but that's, again, that's not your sibling's fault. If you have if you had an issue with that, you should have raised that with your father. Like, that's not your sibling's fault. they didn't They were born into a family just like you were born into a family. Like, it doesn't it doesn't make a difference. Like, so I just feel like bringing all of that up,
00:38:42
Speaker
What was the point? And at the end of the day, even if you feel some type of way about your younger siblings and this, then that, and the third, your father still named you controlling owner.
00:38:56
Speaker
Right. At the end the day, he didn't make one of them. Now, if he had made one of the younger siblings controlling owner and you'd be like, okay, I was here all along. Right. but I've been here all along. What's up?
00:39:09
Speaker
Then, okay, I could say you have some a leg to stand on, but the fact that you are, even with them growing up, he he knew them growing up. He was close to the two them. He still named you controlling owner. So really, at that point, what are you doing except being petty?
00:39:29
Speaker
Oh, let's get to part three, because pettiness does not end there. So the two brothers are starting to hear murmurings from two of the older siblings, not the controlling owner one, but the two two other ones are just like, hey, man, like, why we sell this team?
00:39:48
Speaker
Right? Because the money is starting to get crazy. yeah And they know that if the four of them join together and want to sell the team, that they're outnumbered in the vote. Right. ah So they were like, OK, they worked with their lawyers and everything. And they said, well, people are stressing because the money is getting crazy. Why don't we do a minority sell? Well, we sell a small portion of the franchise. We get some money that we could throw into their pockets.
00:40:16
Speaker
Right. But we still control. We still have absolute control the. the franchise. Right. So as they're starting to put this together and they're talking to a couple of siblings, they're trying to call other siblings. Other siblings ain't answering the phone. I'm talking about for weeks, not answering the phone. One day, the two brothers get called into an office The two younger ones. The two younger brothers get called into an office, say, hey, they want to meet with you by some of the people in the business side of the of the franchise. And they were like, hey, we got this offer to sell the majority ah the team.
00:40:52
Speaker
The family is going to still hold about 17% of the franchise, but the rest of the franchise is going to be sold. And the rest this franchise is going to be sold for $10 billion, dollars which means every sibling gets a half a million dollars.
00:41:07
Speaker
Now, the brothers was like, wait we don't really want it. 10 billion. 10 billion. Yes. All the siblings get half a billion.
00:41:20
Speaker
Oh, you say half a million. That's why I was like, that math ain't. All right, look, billion is what meant to say. Half a billion. Okay. That's a that's so lot. lot. Money. that's a lot money That's a lot of money. So the siblings that were kind of on the fence, the thing they was going to get tens of millions or maybe, you know, a few hundred million is like, wait a minute, I'm going $500 million. Let's sell. The brothers are thinking about what their dad always said.
00:41:44
Speaker
Dad always said he wanted us to have control. That's the reason why we were talking about selling a minority share. We would still get some cheddar cheese. It wouldn't be yeah nearly as much, but we would still hold on to dad's dream that we would control it. Now we're selling the control away. Right. Except the sister that was the designated the owner negotiated a deal, even though she said she didn't negotiate a deal. She said it was an offer. There was no negotiation. that Even though they would sell 10%, I mean, ten they would sell the majority of this franchise, did she would still get to stay on as the, like, controller. Like the the head boss of the entire franchise. And they were just like...
00:42:26
Speaker
This sounds like the bull. But everybody was supposed to keep their job, right? Yeah. Everybody was still supposed to keep their job, still have a part in the organization. If you wanted to have a part, cool. If you wanted to go away, fine. So the boys was like, look, it's four to two. We don't have no choice. We could try to fight this in court because if we feel like they didn't really try to like get the best offer available, they just took this offer and ran with it.
00:42:50
Speaker
But they were like, it's not worth it. We'll still have a place in the organization. It's all good. We'll be set for life. Our kids will be set for life. And we won't win anyway. So unanimously, it was voted six to zero to do this.
00:43:04
Speaker
yeah As soon as the deal was finalized, a couple of weeks later, Everybody was called into the office. All the siblings. Well, five of them.
00:43:16
Speaker
And they were all fired. Yeah. Except for that one that had control. Yeah. She's still on. Because she was smart enough to negotiate her position being part of the contract.
00:43:30
Speaker
The other siblings that probably didn't have it in writing, right? They didn't even get to see the deal. They just, her sister just said that it was an offer.
00:43:42
Speaker
She said there was no negotiation because if there was a negotiat negotiation, they would all have to be brought in because there are six owners. Yeah. Right? Yeah. She said it was an offer. They said they didn't even get to look at the paperwork. They were just like, this is an offer. We got to take it or leave it. But somehow,
00:43:59
Speaker
The person that purchased the majority was like, well, no, we want to keep you on to be like the head, which would kind of make sense. Like, you want to keep the CEO on. yeah But then, you know, the rest of the siblings were fired and the brothers learned through back channels. It was definitely the sister that that gave the OK to fire him.
00:44:18
Speaker
Yeah, because, again, she's controlling owner. No, she's not controlling all of her. She's just now that she's... I mean, CEO. Yes, basically she's CEO. Yeah, she's the CEO. She's president or whatever. Yeah. um Yeah.
00:44:33
Speaker
So it would come from... Like, the person who has the rope HR in... and for it would have It would come from her. It could have came from the owners as well.
00:44:44
Speaker
The owners could have jumped her. They could have. True. Because the owners are now the board. The board is actually the boss boss. Right. But I bet you're wondering what franchise I'm talking about.
00:44:55
Speaker
Yes. did you get Could you guess what it was? No. Well, you know it's basketball. It's the Los Angeles Lakers. Really?
00:45:06
Speaker
Yes. The Los Angeles Lakers. And now the person that owns the Dodgers also owns the Lakers. And so I was reading this article and I was like, wow.
00:45:17
Speaker
And at the end of it, none of her siblings talk to her anymore. Yeah, of course. Even though they're all filthy rich.
00:45:27
Speaker
Filthy rich. And still own a piece of the team. 17%. seventeen percent They all still own And, but... When I was reading the article, I was like, yeah, you got to make tough decisions.
00:45:41
Speaker
But it's it's the way that she was moving that didn't sit well with me.
The Lakers Sale and Sibling Betrayal
00:45:46
Speaker
like but but But could... at No, I'm... I agree with you. But I think also at that point in her mind, she's like, I can't trust any of them.
00:45:58
Speaker
Yeah, that's true. So I got to do what I got to do to protect me. Right? Yeah. And...
00:46:07
Speaker
Everybody else, hey. and And also, y'all can't get mad if you didn't take time to have your lawyers go over this offer.
00:46:19
Speaker
They said they didn't have enough time before the vote, but also that... um Then you vote no. Yeah. Then you're like, nah, need to look at the details of this. Yeah. Then you vote But it's tough when you got other siblings who don't really don't really care to be a part of it anymore, and they're like, $500 million? dollars Like, what are we talking about here? Like, think about it. If the three of us was in that type of position... Mm-hmm.
00:46:43
Speaker
Right. and Say it was this podcast and our brother had a piece of it and we were three co-owners. Right. Right. But I had the controlling like say so. Yeah.
00:46:54
Speaker
And we got an offer where all of us would get half a billion. Yeah. But I was like, I don't know about this. Y'all would be like, you better take half that billion.
00:47:07
Speaker
No, I want to see the paperwork. Like, I'm sorry. I want to see the offer. And I want to, i because here's the thing. How often has there been a takeover of a company or something like that or a merger and everything? Oh, yeah, everybody will still have their jobs. And then a few weeks, a month in everybody from the old company is fired. Like, that's obviously. So for me, if I realize, okay, yeah, I'm getting a lot of money, but I'm losing controlling interest.
00:47:38
Speaker
and I'm just relying on the word of somebody I kind of trust, even though they're my sibling, but only kind of trust at this point because we've been back and forth through them courts. Like, and then especially if I'm the two youngest, I really don't trust because you was acting like I ain't even supposed to be here.
00:47:55
Speaker
Right. um I want to see that paperwork and make sure that I'm protected and make sure I'm covered. And if not, then I'm not doing it.
00:48:07
Speaker
And if I get overruled, then I get overruled. If you and our brother decide to go forward with it and I get overruled, then so be it. But if I get screwed in the end, it's to hell with the two y'all because I said from the beginning, i want to make sure that I'm protected in this deal. Right.
00:48:27
Speaker
And y'all didn't make sure that that happened. It's just, oh, another thing that I left out in the interview. The other sister. So you got the one sister that had to control answers. The other sister who had who worked for the organization, does things for the organization, made a comment oh that said, and yeah, the other two, they may have been upset about everything, but let's not forget They're not even supposed to be a part of this because they weren't supposed to be here.
00:48:59
Speaker
So that is the sentiment from at least two of the older four siblings. Yeah. Which is nuts. And man, would that hurt. Yeah, Because you know that those two don't do nothing but look up to the older siblings because they're like, cool, you got to know dad when this thing was building. Tell me stories. And they are they are heartbroken. Yeah, because that's not their fault.
00:49:28
Speaker
You got to understand the context in which that promise was made, because I guarantee you it was she's she's saying, don't you have no outside babies on me? yeah But they were divorced and he was remarried. So it's not the same thing. And even if it is, their promise don't have nothing to do with the two lives that exist regardless.
00:49:52
Speaker
And that just lets me know that y'all don't look at them like your siblings. Yep. At all. You look at them as your father's other children.
00:50:02
Speaker
Yep, exactly. And that's messed up. But at the end of the day, I have no sympathy for any of them because y'all are half billionaires. Oh, money does not reduce your trauma. Okay. You can pay for the therapy, boo. Like I'm,
00:50:25
Speaker
ah This is going to be real sappy. But if I had the choice of half a billion dollars, but I don't get to have you and my brother, you and our brother in my life, I'm not taking the money.
00:50:40
Speaker
Yeah. Now, a billion? I'll throw you all a little bit and then keep on rolling. I'm joking. But there's just there's just some... I know people can't be bought.
00:50:53
Speaker
And it's just sad because I see so many stories of siblings that fall out. And y'all know what I'm talking about. If you're listening and watching the show, you might not be talking to a sibling right now. You may have been talking to a sibling for 10, 15 years at one time.
00:51:08
Speaker
Y'all played in the sandbox together. Right. Or maybe you didn't. Maybe there was 31 years between you. yeah But the fact of the matter is, it it honestly, ah especially with that age gap, it was really incumbent upon them older siblings to foster that relationship with their younger siblings because they were little kids and y'all were grown people. And the fact that you look at them as them two over there lets me know that as chances are y'all look at the four of y'all.
00:51:38
Speaker
that four That first four, y'all look at each other as them over there. Because just in the way y'all are handling each other in this entire scenario, y'all were never siblings.
00:51:49
Speaker
You were always each other's just competition. But you know where it all stems from? Whose fault it really is? The father. Yes, you're absolutely right. Dr. Jerry Buss, great man, but damn, he was i he was a horrible family man.
00:52:05
Speaker
I mean, it's also like the time, right? The patriarchy thing and yeah and him not being able to really like invest in his daughter to take over, even though she ended up taking over eventually anyway, because times change. And wields a lot of power in the and NBA governors, because that's what they're not called owners anymore. They're called governors. the and NBA Governors Association. She wields, she has, she's got a lot of respect, a lot of respect.
00:52:31
Speaker
A lot of respect. Yeah. But just, you know, making sure that... First of all, that whole thing about don't have no more kids...
00:52:43
Speaker
That should have never been shared amongst the children in the first place. Well, the mother was sick. So that could have came out. think she had cancer. So that could have came out while she was sick. Because they just found out about it. Like was just recently within the last, I don't know, 10 years, maybe. Maybe not even 10 years. But they were already treating that. They didn't need that. That was just honestly kindling on the fire. the mama man did that on purpose. She might have. Mm-hmm.
00:53:10
Speaker
I mean, we don't know. We don't we don't know. We know the lives, the inner workings of rich folk. We don't know. But it's crazy. They live different code. Yeah. It's crazy. I want tell you this story. you like that, like Running Point. It's a show on Netflix, Kate Hudson.
00:53:24
Speaker
It's very, very similar, except... Yeah, you told me about that. I said, this is Jeannie Buss. They just stole Jeannie Buss' story. Yeah, that's Jeannie Buss. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway. Yeah. Yeah.
00:53:35
Speaker
But in that one, her her brothers are just like, one has a drug populum and like the other two are just inept. and And then there's a a half sibling that I guess pops up and is just trying to find their place. But the what about this oldest daughter?
00:53:56
Speaker
look She just was like, look, y'all bucket, and I don't really want no person under this. Yeah, she just wanted it. She didn't ask for nothing, didn't want nothing. You know, she's like, hey, just want to know my family. And they were like, we got an older sister? Like, that's kind of crazy. don't know. But she ain't getting none of that? I don't know the details. I think she wasn't in the trust, in the will. So maybe, I mean, maybe one of them, the slaughter a little bit.
00:54:20
Speaker
don't know. Depending on how close they get. But... not That's enough of sibling talk. We're going to talk about choosing teams to fight for your life. I'm going to explain it all. We're going get into that next.
Action Heroes Team Game: Hypothetical Scenarios
00:54:42
Speaker
I sent you something, Jay, and it was this Instagram posting that had four teams of four, and you had to choose two teams to defend your life while two other teams was hunting you. And a lot of the people that were on the teams, I didn't know.
00:54:58
Speaker
But I thought that was an interesting game. So i re I created or remixed the game myself, and I was... And I said, i gave, eventually i' would get this down. Ladies gentlemen, I've been talking all day, so bear with me. There's 10 people that I created a list of, right? Okay.
00:55:17
Speaker
Okay. And you have to choose four to rescue you because you've been kidnapped. Okay. All right. So you got to choose four of these 10 people to rescue you.
00:55:28
Speaker
And then you got to choose the four that they got to go against. And all eight of these people come out of the 10 of this list I'm about to give you. Okay. Now, in the thing that I sent you, it was 16 people, four groups of four.
00:55:43
Speaker
One thing I noticed, not a damn woman in here. Not one. But in my list, we have women in the list. Okay. And who's on this list? What is this list of? It's a list of action characters.
00:55:58
Speaker
Okay. So you got... Let me look get a piece of paper because I we don't remember all 10. I thought you got the the rundown. So I put it on the rundown. Oh, it's on there. Oh, oh it's on the rundown for you. So I'm just you I'm doing it for the audience. OK, that's behind the scenes in front of the camera. So the 10 people are Jack Reacher.
00:56:20
Speaker
OK, Jason Bourne. huh Ethan Hunt. James Bond. ah The do do James Bond. well the new dude.
00:56:34
Speaker
The dude, the right the recent James Byrne. I can't remember his name, but go ahead. I'll look it up while you... yeah yeah Byron Mills.
00:56:45
Speaker
Taken. That's all you need to do is know. Taken. yeah John Wick. Robert McCall. A.K.A. The Equalizer. Sarah Connor.
00:56:56
Speaker
You know Sarah Connor, the mother of John Connor. Just think Terminator 2. The bride. Daniel Craig. Daniel Craig. Daniel Craig is James Bond. Yes. The bride from Kill Bill, Uma Thurma's character.
00:57:09
Speaker
yeah And Natasha Romanoff. Beatrix Kitto. Beatrix Kitto, the bride, Kill Bill. And then the final person, Natasha Romanoff, also known as the Black Widow.
00:57:22
Speaker
Now, Jay, of those 10 people, choose four that must, that you want to come and rescue you. Now, they're a team of four that are banding together to come and rescue you against a team of four that kidnapped you, that they got to fight. It's got to be four on four fight. So who's your four that you're picking?
00:57:43
Speaker
Okay. So I'm going to obviously have Robert McCall, the equalizer. Okay. And John Wick. Okay. Why? Because have gone up against...
00:57:57
Speaker
Just a one person, two whole rooms of people, whole teams of people, entire mafias, entire countries. ah And they survived. Okay. So they're going to be first.
00:58:13
Speaker
Next is going to be Brian Mills, Liam Neeson's from Taken. Why? Because lot of people got Taken and he got them back. yeah ok And that's just the truth.
00:58:25
Speaker
And last is going to be...
00:58:31
Speaker
That's a toss-up. Ooh, that's a toss-up. but up up up bu but but but But I think it's going to be Beatrix Kiddo. Because, again...
00:58:42
Speaker
went up against a crazy 88 when she knows the five point palm exploding heart technique. Um, so like this, this is somebody who's gonna, she killed bill. I mean, she's accomplished the thing. Um, so, you know, she went through a lot of people to do it.
00:59:02
Speaker
Um, and, uh, went from being just paralyzed, it To whooping all kind of ass. Yeah. So that would be my four.
00:59:14
Speaker
Okay. Now I'm going to take that as your top four. Right. Yes. So that means that they're going against people that kidnaps you, which would be your bottom four.
00:59:27
Speaker
Yes. Who would be your bottom four? Bottom four, we're going to start with Sarah Connor. Sorry, girl. What? I'm so sorry, girl. She fought at Terminator and won. She sure did. She sure did. Twice. She sure did. And that's cool. But no. Sis, um...
00:59:49
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That was just two fights. And you barely got off them two fights. You won, and that's great. But that was two fights. Okay. And you barely got off them two fights. Okay.
01:00:02
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Next is going to be James Bond. All right. Daniel Craig's James Bond. great athletic uh got good can fight kid get slipping and stuff uh all of that very cool don't know about his kidnapping skills i don't know that they're that good are they that good i don't know okay they've already got you they've already got you they've got to make sure that they keep you so it's more like a defense skill not necessarily kidnapping Okay.
01:00:36
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Well, again, great fighter. i i just really see him in a lot of one-on-one matchups. Okay. And I'm really looking for people that'll take a whole, like, just be in Italy and just take on Italy.
01:00:51
Speaker
Okay. All of Italy. Okay. Yeah. And i don't know I've seen James a lot of one-on-one fights. All right. um Next is going to be Ethan Hunt. Okay.
01:01:02
Speaker
Yeah. a Mission Impossible. He can get into stuff. He can a he can accomplish impossible missions. Right. But, again, a lot of one-on-one matchups with that.
01:01:15
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And truly the bottom of the list
01:01:20
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truly is going to be Jack Reacher. Wow! What? That is, yeah. What? Reacher is the bottom of the list? Reacher is going to be the bottom of the list, even beyond, because I don't think Reacher could have beat Terminator.
01:01:35
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I don't think anybody on this list could have beat Terminator besides Sarah Connor. Bull. Okay. I was about to say, but no. Okay.
01:01:46
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John Wick. Brian Mills, Robert McCaul, they can beat Terminator. Okay. Yeah, Reacher's gonna be at the at the bottom.
01:01:56
Speaker
Wow. Yeah. And then Jason Bourne and Natasha Romanoff are kind of riding somewhere in the middle. Wow. So your list, the bottom four, is Sarah Connor, James Bond, Daniel Craig's James Bond, Ethan Hunt, and Jack Reacher. And your top four are Robert McCall, John Wick, Taken, Byron Mills, and Kill Bill.
01:02:21
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Yes. ah Okay. Because, again, I'm looking at... Can you fight scores of people right no on your own and walk away barely hurt, honestly?
01:02:37
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Right. No, I get that. Can you handle multiple kinds of weapons? We've seen Robert McCall just, I mean, he worked in that Home Depot-esque ah supply store. took on whole Russian mob.
01:02:51
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And took on a whole mob with just stuff around the store. Yeah, yeah. Okay. Brian Mills. He didn't know where his daughter was taken. He didn't. He didn't know where the hell she was, but he found her. and He did. He did find her. He found her in the nick of time.
01:03:08
Speaker
Okay. It killed a lot of people to do it. So that's, and then, and then again, what else can I say about Beatrix kiddo? Like she had a list. And she went through that list.
01:03:20
Speaker
Of the top of the top assassins. Dare we say a bunch of John Wicks. Yes. Who all had different specialties and all had different. And she methodically went through killed them all. Methodically.
01:03:36
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Yeah. Yes. Yes. Okay. My turn. Mm hmm. two For the people that are my top four, the ones I want to come save me, two of them are exactly the same as you. Robert McCall, John Wick. Now, these aren't my top two, but these are two of the top four because what they do best is equalize.
01:04:00
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And they're going equalize something. They're going to equalize it. yes Now, people are going to accuse me for my next two to for, you know, Bruce, he just trying to be this whole equality stuff.
01:04:11
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No. These are some badass women. Okay. And the first one who's top on the list, who was one of the bottom people for you, is Sarah Connor. Because she took on two different from the future Terminators, okay? They were so bad, they took out whole police armies and didn't have a dent. You couldn't kill them. And she didn't take out just one. She took out two. The liquid metal one was ah even more advanced because the first Terminator came back and he couldn't even beat them by himself. They had the tag team together. She didn't beat two Terminators. No matter how big, no matter how bad,
01:05:00
Speaker
John Wick and And Robert McCall has been, they ain't fought no damn Terminators, okay? A Terminator would have killed everybody on them stairs and got up the stairs way quicker than John Wick did. A Terminator where a with he would have stood out front and just leveled the Russian mob in that Home Depot. It's a Terminator. So the first answer is Sarah Connor.
01:05:30
Speaker
I think you still get at like no, no shade. Like she did get land the killing blow on two Terminators. Right.
01:05:43
Speaker
She killed them both. She killed them both. She killed the first one with no weapons. what She crushed him with the hydraulic press. But she had a fight a Terminator with no weapons. Right. She had to run away and stay alive until she could... youre Right. Did she fight a Terminator?
01:06:07
Speaker
ah You know, so here's the thing about a Terminator. that I don't think you understand. Okay, they're really set up for these kind of mass killing type of things, but you put them one-on-one with somebody. That's some bull. I'm not... You're just trying to stretch it. I feel like... No, you're just trying feel like they're not equipped to... Because ain't no reason why, honestly and truly, Sarah should have beat two Terminators. Yeah.
01:06:37
Speaker
it But she did. Especially T-1000. But she did. And the second time she was trained. Remember how ripped she was? She was trained. No, I understand that.
01:06:48
Speaker
No, I get it. And then she came back for a fourth one and was just as ripped and was killing Terminators again. Sarah Connor. Let me finish my list. Because there's another female on the list.
01:06:59
Speaker
All right. Now, we talk about the John Wicks. And we talk about the Beedrus kiddos. They're assassins. Yes. The Black Widow has literally fought aliens.
01:07:13
Speaker
Okay. She's fought Avengers and aliens. Yes, but has she fought them on mass? I'm looking at if you're coming to rescue me and you're up against four solid like even though they're at the bottom of my list, they're obviously at the top of like humans being able to accomplish incredible things. Right.
01:07:38
Speaker
Like, even though, I mean, Sarah Connor still, I couldn't beat no Terminator. So, like, they're at the bottom of that list of 10 amazing people. Like, let's put that in perspective.
01:07:50
Speaker
But I'm looking for people. You got go up against these four people that got me kidnapped for some reason. yeah Because they they think I'm a computer scientist and I'm not. I'm a data scientist. I can't hack that mainframe.
01:08:04
Speaker
Y'all picked the wrong person. Jay? Black Widow can shoot a gun. She can flip around. She took aliens, multiple aliens. Remember in Avengers, they was coming down from the sky. She was out there fighting.
01:08:16
Speaker
And she was looking at them. No, she was fighting. She was shooting she'd do a little thing where she'd jump on you and wrap her legs around your neck and flip and flip you down. But she's also an assassin and is yeah also beating up large groupings of people. deep She's the Black Widow. She's the main assassin.
01:08:36
Speaker
Yeah, i know and I understand that. S.H.I.E.L.D. snatched her up and she's like S.H.I.E.L.D. was like, this the assassin. She's badder than John Wick. No, I don't know. don't know that. Yeah, she's badder than John Wick. Because I've seen John Wick 4.
01:08:51
Speaker
And so I just... child like Anyway, that's my top four. okay Sarah Connor, Natasha Romanoff, John Wick, and Robert McCall.
01:09:01
Speaker
Okay. Now my bottom four...
01:09:05
Speaker
Two of them are going to be similar to yours. Okay. Because Daniel Craig James Bond got his ass whooped a lot. A lot. And Ethan Hunt, I've seen him get whooped a lot.
01:09:18
Speaker
So I'm going go ahead and take them out. Yeah. Jason Bourne, he got a go-to. I was on the fence about that. ah But to me, you know, it was kind of really, he kind of snuck in like sort of like middle of the road for me.
01:09:36
Speaker
But he got to go. And then my last one, this is going surprise you. Mm-hmm. This is to surprise you because I can't believe you threw Jack Reacher out there. That's crazy. Taken.
01:09:47
Speaker
That's insane. This is the reason why. The whole thing is that I've been taken. right right Right, right, right. But he ain't fought no assassins. And so I'm not putting any assassins below him.
01:10:01
Speaker
Right. but The brat is not going below him. Jack Reacher isn't going below him because I've seen Jack Reacher do the same thing taken has done each and but every season he's on. got to think about it holistically.
01:10:15
Speaker
I don't know. Okay. I've got my three assassins. all Right. And then I got the dude specializing in getting people back who've been taken. Yeah. Okay.
01:10:27
Speaker
No. So that's, that's the team. No. All he said was he had a special set of skills and he got back yes his daughter, then his wife. And then I think his daughter again, which by the way, why was she kidnapped twice?
01:10:39
Speaker
Again, like you ain't learn nothing, girl. ain't learn no self-defense. You ain't learn nothing. But also the people I chose all rescued somebody as well.
01:10:50
Speaker
No, no, no. His movie is literally called Taken. Right. ive In this scenario, I've been taken. Robert McCall went to Turkey. Yeah. Just because ah he saw a woman crying that she and lost her child. Her husband took her child and went to Turkey randomly. He had no connection to it at all. He went to Turkey and got the child back.
01:11:13
Speaker
Yeah. That's Taken. taken happened three times. Yeah. well Each time he got them back. Yeah. Well, I just, I don't know. I feel like that's the team.
01:11:27
Speaker
All right. Well, ladies and gentlemen, I'm going to put the list up. Y'all decide who would be your team or four to rescue you and who would be the bottom four that you would want guarding you so that they lose. On that note, Jay, what do you want tell these people out here?
01:11:42
Speaker
In real life, you and I both know, and and the world, y'all know this too. Ain't no way Sarah Connor is beating two Terminators like it's not happening. She did. She did. if if If it could be taken three times, then Sarah Connor could be two Terminators. He already said he had a special set of skills. Sarah Connor didn't have no special set of nothing. She learned. She learned.
01:12:03
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and had And got pregnant with a baby on the way. to read them over Well, i mean, she got pregnant, so that man, her baby was on the way, but you know what mean. Ladies gentlemen, on that note, I want to thank you for listening. I want to thank you for watching.
01:12:17
Speaker
And until next time, as always, I'll holler.
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