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Speaker 1 (00:04):
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I bet that's a good start.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
This is Tanner, Drew and Laura's Donkey Show.
Speaker 4 (00:11):
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Drew's here, Laura's here, buster as Marcus is here, Court
maybe joining us in a few minutes. Marcus actually is back.
We missed him a little last week because he had
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to go to Vegas for work. Yeah, which is not
the reason you want to go to Vegas. But right,
did you get a chance to like enjoy the city at.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
All a little bit?
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Man?
Speaker 5 (00:42):
We were eight to five the first day of the
got their Wednesday at like you know, late afternoon, had
some dinner. It was pretty nothing day, and then we
were there from eight to five.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
On Thursday.
Speaker 5 (00:53):
There was like a happy hour from six to eight,
and then we went to dinner with clients right after that.
So while we did go out and run around Fremont
Street a little bit, there wasn't a lot of time.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
But Friday night was an interesting night.
Speaker 5 (01:06):
I got invited by some basically some competitors in our space,
which is kind of funny, to Top Golf. They bought
a couple of booths up there and they were buying
drinks and food for everybody, and it was just, you know,
that's what these conferences are about. You spend eight to
five figure. Now if you're a vendor, who you're taking
to dinner, and if you're a trucking fleet, who you're
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going to dinner on their tab with? Right, So played
some Top Golf, had a good time. Everybody that I
was at Top Golf with wanted to go to a
Sammy Kershaw concert. I think, listen, I'm sure it was great.
I know he's really good at the guitar. I was
not interested. Guys that I was there with were not
done with dinner yet. So I walked down from Top
Golf just down the street to this little casino off
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strip that me and my friends have loved for going
back fifteen years. It's called Ellis Island. It's just right
across the street from the MGM signature towers, but an
off strip kind of you know, a little bit dingier
casino in fact, the casino's in a day's in if
I'm not mistaken.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
Yeah, it's tough there, but I like it because I
remember the odds on blackjack were better. They had really
good pizza by the slice, had a great price. It
was a cool little price.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
You guys went there with me, Yeah, you guys went
there with us during the Bachelor or dere Tanner, you
did during the bachelor party, and great place, like, we
have so many good memories from all of our yearly
trips of that place. And I thought, hey, well I'm
waiting for these guys. I'm right next to it, and
go down and play some blackjack. Easy enough, right, find
a ten dollars table, just like you said, Tanner, great odds.
There's two people sitting at the far left, two seats
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of the blackjack table, and that's it.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
It's completely open.
Speaker 5 (02:36):
And these are probably I would say sixty sixty five
year old. Looks like husband and wife to me the
way they're communicating and sitting together. So I sit down
two seats away from them. So there's two seats between
me and the wife, and I play four or five hands.
You know, it's going just like it does, up and
down and I get dealt two fives against a four,
and all of a sudden, this voice approaches me over
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my left shoulder. And I do not know that there's
anybody standing behind me at this point, not that I'm
not being perceptive. There was nobody there until there was. Yeah,
And right as I'm getting ready to make my decision,
in my ear, I hear you're gonna split those fives
about like that, okay, like about like that, and it
startled me a little bit. And I looked over my
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shoulder to see probably a twenty five year old guy,
maybe maybe thirty, and he looks really into my hand,
and personally, I don't like to split fives. I'd rather
double against a four because I don't like making two
worse hands out of one good one. So I said, no,
I'm gonna double, and he goes ew.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
So I'm weirded out.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
Okay, officially weirded out at this point, but whatever. It's
just a guy watching blackjack. Maybe he's drunk, I don't know.
So I go ahead and double and I win, and
he sits down right next to me immediately and kind
of man spreading a little bit towards me. Okay, kind
of quartered away from the people sitting to his left.
And what I know, you guys, he doesn't put a
single chip down on the table. He doesn't put any
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cash down, he doesn't put a player's card down. He
sits down at the blackjack table to watch, which by
that all accounts that I've ever done.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
They will not let you do.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
They won't even let you pull out a chair if
you're not putting money on the table.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Right.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Yeah, I mean.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Is that your guys's experience took n R in or out? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (04:25):
So but this kid, he sits down, he's got he's
dressed just normal like me. He's got a new Cookies
T shirt on, He's got some you know, just some
regular Chino shorts on, some skate shoes whatever. And as
I said, he's man spreading kind of towards me. And
as the cards come out, I realize he's taking his
right hand and kind of that that padded part of
your palm right below your your thumb, and he is
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aggressively rubbing the spot where his upper thigh would connect
to his hip on my side, really rubbing like one, two, three,
four rubs, okay, and just instant rubs, and it just
keeps happening.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
So I see it happening. It's right next to me.
I kind of I take a beat.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
I let those cards come, I let the table go,
and I say, I'm gonna give this one more hand,
and if this hasn't stopped, I'm gonna say something which
seems reasonable to me, So one more hand. Sure enough,
nothing happens. The cards come out for the third hand,
and I just looked down him and I go, are
you came in just like that?
Speaker 3 (05:18):
You came in?
Speaker 5 (05:19):
And he goes yeah, really enthusiastically, really excited about saying yeah,
that he's okay. And by this time the rubbing has
gotten incredibly aggressive.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
You guys all know what I think he's doing, okay.
Speaker 5 (05:32):
I wouldn't ask him if he was okay if I
didn't think he was rubbing one out right there at
the table.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
He's pumping up a chub for you, dude.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
That's exactly what I thought.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
And I at this point, guys, it's it's less than
two feet away from me. I cannot focus even if
I wanted to play blackjack at this point. And obviously
the dealer says nothing. The two other people at the
table say nothing. Nobody acts like this is weird, but me,
so I just get up and I say, after you know,
two or three hands of it happening, I say, I
think I'm gonna have you color me up.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Thanks, And that's all I said to the dealer.
Speaker 5 (06:01):
And the dealer looks back at me kind of annoyed,
and she goes, he's fine. The dealer said this to me,
and I thought, you know, I appreciate that. I'm just
not The luck at the table's not good. I've lost
some money. I just think I'm gonna go try my
luck elsewhere, at which point the woman that's sitting at
the table two four seats to the left of me,
excuse me that has said nothing the entire time I've
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sat down, stares at me with the most vile, disgusted,
angry face I've ever seen, and says, he's our son.
He has a brain injury.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
And I'm just.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
Left breaked down to two inches tall and stand next
to the table, and you guys, I have no idea,
And you guys know me well enough to know that
my only way out of this is to start apologizing
all over myself. Just listen, I am so sorry. I
did not mean to offend this is. This is a
strange situation. I hope I didn't ruin your night. I'm
gonna remove myself from the situation. And I'm telling you,
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I walked all the way across that casino and they
glared at me, mother, father, and dealer the entire time
until I got out of sight. And I've never in
my life experienced something like this that a I felt
like I went from one second I was completely in
the right. This is inappropriate, this shouldn't be happening to
I'm the biggest asshole in this entire casino and maybe
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the entire city at this moment right now. And dude,
it broke my fucking brain for a solid three hours.
Like I was on the phone with my wife. I
tried to get back to my guys. They were worried
that I just got, you know it, sexually assaulted at
an alley somewhere, because all I told them via text
was some shit went down and I'm headed back.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
So, yeah, you guys, I am.
Speaker 5 (07:42):
I am I the asshole here. I love these m
IV asshole prompts, but this one, it really does confound me,
and I want to know what you guys think.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
Well, I missed the last the sixty seconds of the
story because I had an eas test. Oh okay, and
I had to take my headphones off, so you go ahead,
because I only I only heard the build up. I
stain guy was maybe rubbing one out.
Speaker 6 (08:02):
And he has a brain he had a traumatic brain injury.
And the other people who got mad at Marcus at
the table were the parents of this guy who that
was why he was acting strange, and so Marcus basically
he exited the thing like he was, you know, watching
a dude beat off, when in reality, the guy's got
some issues.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Now, I will say, if if we're playing.
Speaker 6 (08:25):
Who's the A hole here, I don't think you're the
a hole because you didn't have all the information. You know,
like obviously, when you know that somebody has something going on,
any sort of a personality disorder or a disability, you
approach them differently than you would if say one of
us sat down next to the other one and started
pumping up you know what's in your shorts. I don't
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think that it's fair in a public space where you're
a perfect stranger to judge you on that level, like
where they're gonna eyeball you and make you feel like
you're six inches tall. I don't know what you could
have done differently. If you're uncomfortable and a man's spreading
his garbage at you and looks the part of someone
who should be controlling themselves, I don't see how you're
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the a hole.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Yeah I would. I would say they're the a holes
like not.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Informing you sooner, right, because making that happen.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
When first of all, when he comes up behind you
and says something like I can understand why the parents
maybe didn't speak up then because he was kind of
just minding his own business. But I would say when
he sits down and starts jerking about, and then you say, hey, bro,
are you okay? I feel like that would be the
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time that the parents should step in and be like, hey,
just a heads up. This is our son. He's got
a brain injury. He's cool. But instead, and you didn't
even leave the table. You were like, whoa, this guy's
creeping me out. I'm out of here, thanking. All you
said was, you know what, I'm gonna try my luck
somewhere else, which is your prerogative, you know what I mean.
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So I don't think you're the ahole at all. I
think they should have done a better job communicating that
this was the situation. It's like, how were you supposed
to know?
Speaker 4 (10:12):
Well, maybe, Marcus, you know, I'm gonna say that I
think he was the a hill. Maybe he should have
just chilled out and just like, maybe scope the situation
not a little bit more before he jumped a conclusion.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
And if I thought some adult many out next to me,
I would be maybe you saw uncomfortable, Maybe you wait
and go dizzy rubbing went out and you just sit
there and wait before and make sure that you're seeing
what you're saying before you start jumping conclusions.
Speaker 5 (10:34):
I did wait for three hands to be dealt like
I was there for a little while.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
I'm just saying that it was.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
It sounds like you jumped conclusions, didn't scuff the situation.
Speaker 6 (10:41):
No better, you wouldn't have thought about it for three
hours if you don't think he jumped a little.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Yeah, that's very true. That's very true.
Speaker 5 (10:49):
And here's but I guess my biggest hang up with
the thing is the dealer was the first person to
say anything, which suggests she knows exactly what's going on. Yeah,
you're also allowing somebody to break a a one oh
one Vegas rule, which is sitting at a table without
playing and also kind of bugging the people that are
just handing the casino money at this point.
Speaker 6 (11:09):
That's yeah, I feel like they violated the game rules
by allowing a third party to be there without chips.
Because if I'm distracting you Tanner while you're gambling and
it causes you to lose, I feel like they're doing
you a disservice.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Yeah, yeah, I see it.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
It almost feels like they're in it together.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
Yeah, he boggles you up and they rake the cab. Yeah,
but I say, I say no, I say simple misunderstanding.
You know, maybe next time you just you keep that
in mind, like before you say anything, you just try
to scoop it out, and then maybe they should speak up.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Maybe this's a lesson learned from them next time, that
they should speak up and let people who around them know.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
But in fact, the fact that they mean mugged you
and made you feel bad, that's a rough deal.
Speaker 5 (11:47):
Like come on, probably ruined their night, Like they got
to go back to their hotel and talk about the
asshole with the blackjacks like you.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Three hours, you're not was ruined three and a half
hours of their night was ruined.
Speaker 6 (11:57):
See as soon as I saw Marcus's face turn bradish red.
As a parent, even of a special needs kid, I
would be like, Okay, he he understands what the levity
is here, and because of how ready is, I'm going
to give him a pass.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
That's what I would do.
Speaker 6 (12:13):
But maybe they've just they've been through it enough times
to where they're a little.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Or maybe he jumped to conclusions a little too quickly.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
But the parents. Either way, the parents, I feel like,
should have been like, hey, Scott, don't sit at the
table stand behind us. You know. I feel like the
parents it was their responsibility.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
I don't think you're taking account how irritated Marcus already
was before the kids sat.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Down, so he was already on maybe maybe so.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Anything can set him off.
Speaker 6 (12:36):
Should have gone to the Sammy Kershaw show with everyone else.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
I probably Sammy be a team player.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
I thought Sammy kersh Art isn't he Isn't he a
country artist like a super Bowl.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Marcus works for a trucking company.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
I just didn't even know Sammy Kershaw. It's a name
I haven't heard.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
He's not a breakdance group. He's got sixteen studio albums.
Guys respect on his name already. Geez, the great Sammy Kershaw.
I don't. I didn't know.
Speaker 5 (13:06):
Was over the moon about going to Sammy Kershaw. So
they were a little bit taken by my response, which was, Okay,
what's the.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Matter with you? You don't want to see you get you?
Guys haven't heard.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
The the guy sitting next to you at the black.
Speaker 6 (13:19):
Like third rate romance yard sale. These are all I've
never heard of him before.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
I know you can't play it on the air, but Tanner,
see if we have any Sammy Kersh on the Sammy
Kersh because I feel like he was a nineties star
who my mom?
Speaker 1 (13:33):
But we had a country station so we probably probably
did and we were a classic country.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
So if you list some of his biggest hits, I
might right now.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Sammy Kershaw, do you have a Queen of my double Wide?
Speaker 2 (13:44):
It's Queen of my Double Wide?
Speaker 6 (13:46):
Getting I remember that one. I remember. That's one of
his hits. Second biggest song.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Clean my Wow.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
They always have to think about the same ship.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Hair. I feel like country music, so think about living
in a trailer.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
The country is definitely more hip hop lyrics.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Twang.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
Okay, Sammy, what's his name, Sammy, Simmy Kershaw. That's with
a seat, Sammy Kershaw. Oh yeah, we got some in here.
Frosty the snow Man. Oh yeah, she don't know she's beautiful.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
She don't know, she's beautiful.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
Jam.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
That's his jam.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
He also did Christmas. Christmas times are coming up on
the house step, Chris Christmas, National Working Woman's Holiday.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
I remember, I remember National Work in Women's Holiday classics.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Well you missed when Marcus.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
With me?
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Yeah, exactly. I did see David Lee the story. No,
not David Roth. Sorry, Sammy Hagar just kicked off a
residency in Las Veg. Guess oh nice.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
And he's calling it the best of all worlds residency,
not the best of both because it's a little.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
It's a little it's a little stab.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
I think at David Lee Roth because you know, they
they're on an album together called the Best of Both
Worlds and it's the best of the best of van
Halen album.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
So is he's singing all the van Halen songs?
Speaker 1 (15:17):
I think he's singing a bunch of van Halen song like.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Look, I don't want to hear Sammy Hagar sing like Panama.
Speaker 4 (15:22):
I don't know that he's singing those Okay, he might,
but if he's, if he's doing it, it's just a
middle finger to davidly Rong.
Speaker 6 (15:28):
I wouldn't be surprised if he has someone else in
his band who sings those parts.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Mate.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
What y'all should look at your email right now? What? Why?
Speaker 1 (15:35):
When you do?
Speaker 2 (15:36):
I'm sorry?
Speaker 6 (15:37):
Middle is something it to me? No way, no way,
The trail Blazers are for sale.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
No freaking way I'm reading this. The estate of Paul G.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
Allen today announced it is commenced a formal sales process
for the Portland trail Blazers NBA franchise. Consistent with Allen's
directive to eventually sell his sports holdings and direct all
estate proceeds to philanthropy. The estate has selected investment bank
Allen and Company and law firm.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Hogan Allen and Company, Nice Selection.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
Hogan Levels Lavel's on Level Leavel's to lead the sales process,
which is estimated to continue to the twenty twenty five
twenty twenty six basketball season. The NBA Board of Governors
must then ratify a final purchase agreement. This news does
not affect the Seattle This news doesn't affect the Seattle
Seahawks NFL franchise or the estate's twenty five percent interest
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in the Seattle Sounders MLS in neither of either of
those sales.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
So call Phil.
Speaker 6 (16:41):
Somebody called Phil, because it's time to It's time to
win the bidding war.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
They they shucked it off before. But that's enough, dude.
You mean uncle Phil, Phil Knight.
Speaker 6 (16:52):
Phil Knight, because nobody has been more loyal to this
city and this state than him.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Give it.
Speaker 6 (17:01):
Don't give it to him, Sell it to Phil. Wow,
Phil Knight for ownership.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Let's start. I'll put the sign in my yard immediately.
That's crazy.
Speaker 5 (17:12):
I'm so excited about this, you guys, I told you
going back and Drew, I'm sure you remember this that
I had until they sold this team. Since Jody Allen
took it over, I was not spending another dime on
Blazers anything because I don't agree with the way that
they're just feel like they kill our team over and
over and over again. They don't care about us, the
fans who've been there going back twenty thirty years. Just
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in my case, obviously there's Blazer fans much older than me.
I cannot be happier about this, and I sincerely hope
that Phil Knight is the guy, because I think he'll
do right, just like you're saying, by the city and
by the state and by the people that he has
known his entire life. I'm so excited, you guys, I
didn't know this. This is breaking news for me.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
We're just happening and I can't I'm just trying to
imagine Portland without the Trailblazers.
Speaker 6 (17:58):
Well, I don't think they're They would have to be
voted out of the city. So that like, that's not
like there's any time it's for sale.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
It's not off the table, That's what I'm saying, Like
that thought is kind of insane.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Well, that's that's a terrible I mean, and it's very possible.
It's a terrible thought, but that's like the like that's
the worst case.
Speaker 6 (18:16):
Worst case scenario's still a scenario because it's the same thing.
Look at Seattle when they sold to a group out
of Oklahoma City and they're like, oh no, it's all
good though, We're we're staying, and then they bounced because
they could, so you know, they'll just pick up a team.
You'll take your raiders and they'll run with them.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
You know.
Speaker 6 (18:34):
It's so you have to be careful that we don't
fall into that type of a trap. But if they
that's why Phil Knight will keep the team here. If
he buys it, and he did offer before. I don't
know what the price tag is going to look like, but.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Let's just do this. Let's make this easy.
Speaker 6 (18:51):
The fact that they're like, hey, it's going to go
into next year is a little bit daunting.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Cour there is no better suitor than Phil Knight. Cor
just walked in to hear the news. Yeah, I mean
he sent us, sent you see the news that you
sent us. But this is kind of crazy. What was
your initial reaction?
Speaker 7 (19:08):
I mean, I am I was surprised that it was
that that was happening right now, just because I kind
of kind of forgot that that was the thing. But
it's it is, it was coming, it was, it was
supposed to come a long time ago. Actually, because when
when when Paul Allen died, that was his directive is like, Okay,
you got to get rid of both these teams. But
the Seahawks eventually will get sold as well, just not yet,
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just not yet. So, but that's but that is was
part of his directive in his will, and so it
was could have happened a few years ago. I Phil
Knight was trying to buy the team. I think he
offered two billion dollars something like that.
Speaker 6 (19:42):
They turned it down, so I because they weren't ready
to sell. So I'm hoping we can circle back to
that conversation because right before you walked in, you sell
it to a group out of another city, we're at risk.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (19:54):
Well, and there was also another group that was around
like that Terry Porter was part of. There was like
a whole bunch of like X Blazers and a small
group of people that wanted to buy it. They're all
get a pony up and threw money into the into
the kiddie And so that didn't work out as well
because again they weren't ready to sell. So they've got
at least a couple options already and probably more.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
Having a bunch of people on like a board, Yeah,
it sounds like a nightmare people making decisions.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Yeah, just like one guy guy it.
Speaker 7 (20:21):
Would be nice and Phil Knight would be that guy.
He'd be great to because he already obviously knows sports
he knows.
Speaker 6 (20:27):
He runs a team already, he was already passionate about
our squad.
Speaker 7 (20:30):
It's not like, yeah, so it makes all the sense
in the world. Then again, if the Terry Porter group
came together, you got former basketball players. They know the
ins and outs, so that probably wouldn't be a bad
thing either. The real question is if you're gonna get
somebody like I know, Elon musk or or Jeff Bezos,
or somebody who would just have more money than God.
There's like a scrout two billion, three billion, I don't care,
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I'll buy it whatever, and then you end up with
some crappy owner who doesn't really care about the team.
They just want the prestige of owning a team.
Speaker 6 (20:59):
I really want it to be a person who is
the head of it, you know, wherever more we're getting
to wear a company or like you said, a board
of investors.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
It's better when there's one guy with a vision.
Speaker 6 (21:10):
Like Steve Balmer, I believe his name, the one who
from Microsoft who bought the Clippers. He brought passion and
excitement and a promise. You know, when Mark Cuban bought
the Dallas Mavericks, he brought a passion and a promise
now that I'm we're we're gonna do this together. I'm
a fan and this is gonna be sick like they're
like in it. That's what we need, not some some
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wallflower or someone who's just gonna mail it in. We're
coming up on the fiftieth anniversary of our one championship
fifty yep. I mean I don't have to tell you
I wasn't alive for that.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
You know that's it's.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
Been too long and that this does this points to hope.
So okay, that was just announced today. If you're listening
to this on Tuesday, May thirteenth, I'm recording it at
ten thirty in the morning. Uh, we just you know,
found out today. When when are we going to hear
more information?
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Now?
Speaker 1 (21:55):
How long is this going to take until we hear
anything else?
Speaker 7 (21:57):
It's gonna take a bit, I bet, because you know
they probably already have some ideas who's going to buy
it in the background, but they there's you have to.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
It's like when you have a job opening, you have
an idea who legal to post yes? Right, even though
we're not hiring any of these people who said a emails.
Speaker 6 (22:11):
So I wouldn't be surprised if Yeah, like you said,
these negotiations have been going on behind the scenes and
now it's public information.
Speaker 7 (22:19):
It's not like putting a transam out on the front
yard with a sign on the window. They know who's
going to buy this thing.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
We are kind of the trans am of the league.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
Wow, so interesting. Obviously it's Portland's the only professional team
to be terrible if we lost Yet if he lost them,
that's the worst case scenario.
Speaker 7 (22:37):
Yeah, of course, Yeah, I don't. I don't think the
Blazers are going anywhere. There's there's enough support for this team.
I mean, even in the worst times, there's there's support
for the team. So I don't think that the NBA
is going to yank the team.
Speaker 6 (22:47):
Can you imagine an arena up to code. That's part
of why Seattle lost out. They couldn't get the people
to approve the arena and so they fled for greener.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Past and the worst.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
Like, let's say the worst case scenario did happen, Like
you just have the Moti Center just sit there, and.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
I mean sure shows and stuff, but yeah, it shut
it right, It would just like you just rot.
Speaker 7 (23:07):
There's not enough to keep that place open.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
Without the Blazers.
Speaker 6 (23:10):
I don't have the mental capacity to believe that they
could leave, because it would be like getting the news
that Elvis was dead right devastating that it would be awful.
Speaker 7 (23:20):
Well, and I mean the other thing with the sale,
I believe they also have to sell the arena. That
could be sold separately, but right now Vulcan, who owns
the Blazers, also owns the arena. I believe they will
sell both both at the same time. And if somebody
like Phil Knight buys it, it's not going to be
the Motus Center anymore.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
That would be so sick.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
It would be cool.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
I mean, no offense. The Motus centers down as well,
but just a big old.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Swoon insurance company.
Speaker 4 (23:51):
We all heard Modus Center and we all said the
same thing, What the fuck is Motive We all looked
it up.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
Yeah, oh, it's an insurance company.
Speaker 6 (23:57):
Nike might be the I mean, outside of maybe Amazon
is maybe the biggest brand in the world, Coca Cola, Nike. Sure,
I can't really think of what's bigger than that.
Speaker 7 (24:06):
And you wouldn't even have to like write Nike on
the sidea You're done.
Speaker 6 (24:10):
And if you had a big like a fluorescent light
that changed colors and could have could be you know,
based on different times of year.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
It would be bad at a little spear type light.
Speaker 7 (24:22):
Yeah, yeah, we'll see what happens.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Now, we're all pipe dreaming I get a championship in
the wind. But that's the news.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
We just got that Blazers are officially up for sale
and yeah wow, not expecting to see that today, but
we'll keep you posted. You can get more info online
at one five nine dot com.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
And yeah, man, that's that's why that's big news. All right, guys.
Well gang gang, gang bang bang.
Speaker 4 (24:48):
We will.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
I had a bunch of other stuff. We'll just have
to get to it tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Sorry that I gasped in the middle.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
No, I know, I know you.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
I know you hate that.
Speaker 4 (24:54):
It was legitimate this time because I always think, like scary,
like something scary you just happened.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
I don't like to be frightened.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Yeah, like to frighten either.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Somebody goes and looks at their phone.
Speaker 4 (25:04):
I go, okay, terrorist attack, Yeah, fired, you know, like fired,
like what's happening?
Speaker 7 (25:08):
Yeah, exactly, And I got the call from the bigger boss,
who was you know, he reached out to me. He's like, dude,
we need it all, you know, all hands on deck
sort of situation. Blazers are for sale, and we said that,
like I I pooped a little bit.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Right, get some cleanup going over here.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
All right, well, we'll see it tomorrow. We will have
more tickets to see Breaking Benjamin in three days Grace.
When A five nine the Brew presents that show in October,
we'll send you there at seven thirty in the morning.
My oh shoot, I just excellently closed my.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Laura show. That was pretty good.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
All right, we'll end up there
Let me know when you're ready.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
I bet that's a good start.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
This is Tanner, Drew and Laura's Donkey Show.
Speaker 4 (00:11):
Donkey Yeah, what's happening y'all? Thanks for checking out Tanner,
Jow and Laura's Donkey Show pod casto heard online at
one of five nine on the brew dot Com, our,
iHeartRadio app or wherever you listen to podcasts. Some Tanner
Drew's here, Laura's here, buster as Marcus is here, Court
maybe joining us in a few minutes. Marcus actually is back.
We missed him a little last week because he had
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to go to Vegas for work. Yeah, which is not
the reason you want to go to Vegas. But right,
did you get a chance to like enjoy the city at.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
All a little bit?
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Man?
Speaker 5 (00:42):
We were eight to five the first day of the
got their Wednesday at like you know, late afternoon, had
some dinner. It was pretty nothing day, and then we
were there from eight to five.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
On Thursday.
Speaker 5 (00:53):
There was like a happy hour from six to eight,
and then we went to dinner with clients right after that.
So while we did go out and run around Fremont
Street a little bit, there wasn't a lot of time.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
But Friday night was an interesting night.
Speaker 5 (01:06):
I got invited by some basically some competitors in our space,
which is kind of funny, to Top Golf. They bought
a couple of booths up there and they were buying
drinks and food for everybody, and it was just, you know,
that's what these conferences are about. You spend eight to
five figure. Now if you're a vendor, who you're taking
to dinner, and if you're a trucking fleet, who you're
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going to dinner on their tab with? Right, So played
some Top Golf, had a good time. Everybody that I
was at Top Golf with wanted to go to a
Sammy Kershaw concert. I think, listen, I'm sure it was great.
I know he's really good at the guitar. I was
not interested. Guys that I was there with were not
done with dinner yet. So I walked down from Top
Golf just down the street to this little casino off
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strip that me and my friends have loved for going
back fifteen years. It's called Ellis Island. It's just right
across the street from the MGM signature towers, but an
off strip kind of you know, a little bit dingier
casino in fact, the casino's in a day's in if
I'm not mistaken.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
Yeah, it's tough there, but I like it because I
remember the odds on blackjack were better. They had really
good pizza by the slice, had a great price. It
was a cool little price.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
You guys went there with me, Yeah, you guys went
there with us during the Bachelor or dere Tanner, you
did during the bachelor party, and great place, like, we
have so many good memories from all of our yearly
trips of that place. And I thought, hey, well I'm
waiting for these guys. I'm right next to it, and
go down and play some blackjack. Easy enough, right, find
a ten dollars table, just like you said, Tanner, great odds.
There's two people sitting at the far left, two seats
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of the blackjack table, and that's it.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
It's completely open.
Speaker 5 (02:36):
And these are probably I would say sixty sixty five
year old. Looks like husband and wife to me the
way they're communicating and sitting together. So I sit down
two seats away from them. So there's two seats between
me and the wife, and I play four or five hands.
You know, it's going just like it does, up and
down and I get dealt two fives against a four,
and all of a sudden, this voice approaches me over
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my left shoulder. And I do not know that there's
anybody standing behind me at this point, not that I'm
not being perceptive. There was nobody there until there was. Yeah,
And right as I'm getting ready to make my decision,
in my ear, I hear you're gonna split those fives
about like that, okay, like about like that, and it
startled me a little bit. And I looked over my
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shoulder to see probably a twenty five year old guy,
maybe maybe thirty, and he looks really into my hand,
and personally, I don't like to split fives. I'd rather
double against a four because I don't like making two
worse hands out of one good one. So I said, no,
I'm gonna double, and he goes ew.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
So I'm weirded out.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
Okay, officially weirded out at this point, but whatever. It's
just a guy watching blackjack. Maybe he's drunk, I don't know.
So I go ahead and double and I win, and
he sits down right next to me immediately and kind
of man spreading a little bit towards me. Okay, kind
of quartered away from the people sitting to his left.
And what I know, you guys, he doesn't put a
single chip down on the table. He doesn't put any
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cash down, he doesn't put a player's card down. He
sits down at the blackjack table to watch, which by
that all accounts that I've ever done.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
They will not let you do.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
They won't even let you pull out a chair if
you're not putting money on the table.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Right.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Yeah, I mean.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Is that your guys's experience took n R in or out? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (04:25):
So but this kid, he sits down, he's got he's
dressed just normal like me. He's got a new Cookies
T shirt on, He's got some you know, just some
regular Chino shorts on, some skate shoes whatever. And as
I said, he's man spreading kind of towards me. And
as the cards come out, I realize he's taking his
right hand and kind of that that padded part of
your palm right below your your thumb, and he is
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aggressively rubbing the spot where his upper thigh would connect
to his hip on my side, really rubbing like one, two, three,
four rubs, okay, and just instant rubs, and it just
keeps happening.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
So I see it happening. It's right next to me.
I kind of I take a beat.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
I let those cards come, I let the table go,
and I say, I'm gonna give this one more hand,
and if this hasn't stopped, I'm gonna say something which
seems reasonable to me, So one more hand. Sure enough,
nothing happens. The cards come out for the third hand,
and I just looked down him and I go, are
you came in just like that?
Speaker 3 (05:18):
You came in?
Speaker 5 (05:19):
And he goes yeah, really enthusiastically, really excited about saying yeah,
that he's okay. And by this time the rubbing has
gotten incredibly aggressive.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
You guys all know what I think he's doing, okay.
Speaker 5 (05:32):
I wouldn't ask him if he was okay if I
didn't think he was rubbing one out right there at
the table.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
He's pumping up a chub for you, dude.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
That's exactly what I thought.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
And I at this point, guys, it's it's less than
two feet away from me. I cannot focus even if
I wanted to play blackjack at this point. And obviously
the dealer says nothing. The two other people at the
table say nothing. Nobody acts like this is weird, but me,
so I just get up and I say, after you know,
two or three hands of it happening, I say, I
think I'm gonna have you color me up.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Thanks, And that's all I said to the dealer.
Speaker 5 (06:01):
And the dealer looks back at me kind of annoyed,
and she goes, he's fine. The dealer said this to me,
and I thought, you know, I appreciate that. I'm just
not The luck at the table's not good. I've lost
some money. I just think I'm gonna go try my
luck elsewhere, at which point the woman that's sitting at
the table two four seats to the left of me,
excuse me that has said nothing the entire time I've
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sat down, stares at me with the most vile, disgusted,
angry face I've ever seen, and says, he's our son.
He has a brain injury.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
And I'm just.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
Left breaked down to two inches tall and stand next
to the table, and you guys, I have no idea,
And you guys know me well enough to know that
my only way out of this is to start apologizing
all over myself. Just listen, I am so sorry. I
did not mean to offend this is. This is a
strange situation. I hope I didn't ruin your night. I'm
gonna remove myself from the situation. And I'm telling you,
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I walked all the way across that casino and they
glared at me, mother, father, and dealer the entire time
until I got out of sight. And I've never in
my life experienced something like this that a I felt
like I went from one second I was completely in
the right. This is inappropriate, this shouldn't be happening to
I'm the biggest asshole in this entire casino and maybe
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the entire city at this moment right now. And dude,
it broke my fucking brain for a solid three hours.
Like I was on the phone with my wife. I
tried to get back to my guys. They were worried
that I just got, you know it, sexually assaulted at
an alley somewhere, because all I told them via text
was some shit went down and I'm headed back.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
So, yeah, you guys, I am.
Speaker 5 (07:42):
I am I the asshole here. I love these m
IV asshole prompts, but this one, it really does confound me,
and I want to know what you guys think.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
Well, I missed the last the sixty seconds of the
story because I had an eas test. Oh okay, and
I had to take my headphones off, so you go ahead,
because I only I only heard the build up. I
stain guy was maybe rubbing one out.
Speaker 6 (08:02):
And he has a brain he had a traumatic brain injury.
And the other people who got mad at Marcus at
the table were the parents of this guy who that
was why he was acting strange, and so Marcus basically
he exited the thing like he was, you know, watching
a dude beat off, when in reality, the guy's got
some issues.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Now, I will say, if if we're playing.
Speaker 6 (08:25):
Who's the A hole here, I don't think you're the
a hole because you didn't have all the information. You know,
like obviously, when you know that somebody has something going on,
any sort of a personality disorder or a disability, you
approach them differently than you would if say one of
us sat down next to the other one and started
pumping up you know what's in your shorts. I don't
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think that it's fair in a public space where you're
a perfect stranger to judge you on that level, like
where they're gonna eyeball you and make you feel like
you're six inches tall. I don't know what you could
have done differently. If you're uncomfortable and a man's spreading
his garbage at you and looks the part of someone
who should be controlling themselves, I don't see how you're
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the a hole.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Yeah I would. I would say they're the a holes
like not.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Informing you sooner, right, because making that happen.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
When first of all, when he comes up behind you
and says something like I can understand why the parents
maybe didn't speak up then because he was kind of
just minding his own business. But I would say when
he sits down and starts jerking about, and then you say, hey, bro,
are you okay? I feel like that would be the
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time that the parents should step in and be like, hey,
just a heads up. This is our son. He's got
a brain injury. He's cool. But instead, and you didn't
even leave the table. You were like, whoa, this guy's
creeping me out. I'm out of here, thanking. All you
said was, you know what, I'm gonna try my luck
somewhere else, which is your prerogative, you know what I mean.
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So I don't think you're the ahole at all. I
think they should have done a better job communicating that
this was the situation. It's like, how were you supposed
to know?
Speaker 4 (10:12):
Well, maybe, Marcus, you know, I'm gonna say that I
think he was the a hill. Maybe he should have
just chilled out and just like, maybe scope the situation
not a little bit more before he jumped a conclusion.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
And if I thought some adult many out next to me,
I would be maybe you saw uncomfortable, Maybe you wait
and go dizzy rubbing went out and you just sit
there and wait before and make sure that you're seeing
what you're saying before you start jumping conclusions.
Speaker 5 (10:34):
I did wait for three hands to be dealt like
I was there for a little while.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
I'm just saying that it was.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
It sounds like you jumped conclusions, didn't scuff the situation.
Speaker 6 (10:41):
No better, you wouldn't have thought about it for three
hours if you don't think he jumped a little.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Yeah, that's very true. That's very true.
Speaker 5 (10:49):
And here's but I guess my biggest hang up with
the thing is the dealer was the first person to
say anything, which suggests she knows exactly what's going on. Yeah,
you're also allowing somebody to break a a one oh
one Vegas rule, which is sitting at a table without
playing and also kind of bugging the people that are
just handing the casino money at this point.
Speaker 6 (11:09):
That's yeah, I feel like they violated the game rules
by allowing a third party to be there without chips.
Because if I'm distracting you Tanner while you're gambling and
it causes you to lose, I feel like they're doing
you a disservice.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Yeah, yeah, I see it.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
It almost feels like they're in it together.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
Yeah, he boggles you up and they rake the cab. Yeah,
but I say, I say no, I say simple misunderstanding.
You know, maybe next time you just you keep that
in mind, like before you say anything, you just try
to scoop it out, and then maybe they should speak up.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Maybe this's a lesson learned from them next time, that
they should speak up and let people who around them know.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
But in fact, the fact that they mean mugged you
and made you feel bad, that's a rough deal.
Speaker 5 (11:47):
Like come on, probably ruined their night, Like they got
to go back to their hotel and talk about the
asshole with the blackjacks like you.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Three hours, you're not was ruined three and a half
hours of their night was ruined.
Speaker 6 (11:57):
See as soon as I saw Marcus's face turn bradish red.
As a parent, even of a special needs kid, I
would be like, Okay, he he understands what the levity
is here, and because of how ready is, I'm going
to give him a pass.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
That's what I would do.
Speaker 6 (12:13):
But maybe they've just they've been through it enough times
to where they're a little.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Or maybe he jumped to conclusions a little too quickly.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
But the parents. Either way, the parents, I feel like,
should have been like, hey, Scott, don't sit at the
table stand behind us. You know. I feel like the
parents it was their responsibility.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
I don't think you're taking account how irritated Marcus already
was before the kids sat.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Down, so he was already on maybe maybe so.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Anything can set him off.
Speaker 6 (12:36):
Should have gone to the Sammy Kershaw show with everyone else.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
I probably Sammy be a team player.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
I thought Sammy kersh Art isn't he Isn't he a
country artist like a super Bowl.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Marcus works for a trucking company.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
I just didn't even know Sammy Kershaw. It's a name
I haven't heard.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
He's not a breakdance group. He's got sixteen studio albums.
Guys respect on his name already. Geez, the great Sammy Kershaw.
I don't. I didn't know.
Speaker 5 (13:06):
Was over the moon about going to Sammy Kershaw. So
they were a little bit taken by my response, which was, Okay,
what's the.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Matter with you? You don't want to see you get you?
Guys haven't heard.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
The the guy sitting next to you at the black.
Speaker 6 (13:19):
Like third rate romance yard sale. These are all I've
never heard of him before.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
I know you can't play it on the air, but Tanner,
see if we have any Sammy Kersh on the Sammy
Kersh because I feel like he was a nineties star
who my mom?
Speaker 1 (13:33):
But we had a country station so we probably probably
did and we were a classic country.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
So if you list some of his biggest hits, I
might right now.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Sammy Kershaw, do you have a Queen of my double Wide?
Speaker 2 (13:44):
It's Queen of my Double Wide?
Speaker 6 (13:46):
Getting I remember that one. I remember. That's one of
his hits. Second biggest song.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Clean my Wow.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
They always have to think about the same ship.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Hair. I feel like country music, so think about living
in a trailer.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
The country is definitely more hip hop lyrics.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Twang.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
Okay, Sammy, what's his name, Sammy, Simmy Kershaw. That's with
a seat, Sammy Kershaw. Oh yeah, we got some in here.
Frosty the snow Man. Oh yeah, she don't know she's beautiful.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
She don't know, she's beautiful.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
Jam.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
That's his jam.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
He also did Christmas. Christmas times are coming up on
the house step, Chris Christmas, National Working Woman's Holiday.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
I remember, I remember National Work in Women's Holiday classics.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Well you missed when Marcus.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
With me?
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Yeah, exactly. I did see David Lee the story. No,
not David Roth. Sorry, Sammy Hagar just kicked off a
residency in Las Veg. Guess oh nice.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
And he's calling it the best of all worlds residency,
not the best of both because it's a little.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
It's a little it's a little stab.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
I think at David Lee Roth because you know, they
they're on an album together called the Best of Both
Worlds and it's the best of the best of van
Halen album.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
So is he's singing all the van Halen songs?
Speaker 1 (15:17):
I think he's singing a bunch of van Halen song like.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Look, I don't want to hear Sammy Hagar sing like Panama.
Speaker 4 (15:22):
I don't know that he's singing those Okay, he might,
but if he's, if he's doing it, it's just a
middle finger to davidly Rong.
Speaker 6 (15:28):
I wouldn't be surprised if he has someone else in
his band who sings those parts.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Mate.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
What y'all should look at your email right now? What? Why?
Speaker 1 (15:35):
When you do?
Speaker 2 (15:36):
I'm sorry?
Speaker 6 (15:37):
Middle is something it to me? No way, no way,
The trail Blazers are for sale.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
No freaking way I'm reading this. The estate of Paul G.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
Allen today announced it is commenced a formal sales process
for the Portland trail Blazers NBA franchise. Consistent with Allen's
directive to eventually sell his sports holdings and direct all
estate proceeds to philanthropy. The estate has selected investment bank
Allen and Company and law firm.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Hogan Allen and Company, Nice Selection.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
Hogan Levels Lavel's on Level Leavel's to lead the sales process,
which is estimated to continue to the twenty twenty five
twenty twenty six basketball season. The NBA Board of Governors
must then ratify a final purchase agreement. This news does
not affect the Seattle This news doesn't affect the Seattle
Seahawks NFL franchise or the estate's twenty five percent interest
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in the Seattle Sounders MLS in neither of either of
those sales.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
So call Phil.
Speaker 6 (16:41):
Somebody called Phil, because it's time to It's time to
win the bidding war.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
They they shucked it off before. But that's enough, dude.
You mean uncle Phil, Phil Knight.
Speaker 6 (16:52):
Phil Knight, because nobody has been more loyal to this
city and this state than him.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Give it.
Speaker 6 (17:01):
Don't give it to him, Sell it to Phil. Wow,
Phil Knight for ownership.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Let's start. I'll put the sign in my yard immediately.
That's crazy.
Speaker 5 (17:12):
I'm so excited about this, you guys, I told you
going back and Drew, I'm sure you remember this that
I had until they sold this team. Since Jody Allen
took it over, I was not spending another dime on
Blazers anything because I don't agree with the way that
they're just feel like they kill our team over and
over and over again. They don't care about us, the
fans who've been there going back twenty thirty years. Just
(17:35):
in my case, obviously there's Blazer fans much older than me.
I cannot be happier about this, and I sincerely hope
that Phil Knight is the guy, because I think he'll
do right, just like you're saying, by the city and
by the state and by the people that he has
known his entire life. I'm so excited, you guys, I
didn't know this. This is breaking news for me.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
We're just happening and I can't I'm just trying to
imagine Portland without the Trailblazers.
Speaker 6 (17:58):
Well, I don't think they're They would have to be
voted out of the city. So that like, that's not
like there's any time it's for sale.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
It's not off the table, That's what I'm saying, Like
that thought is kind of insane.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Well, that's that's a terrible I mean, and it's very possible.
It's a terrible thought, but that's like the like that's
the worst case.
Speaker 6 (18:16):
Worst case scenario's still a scenario because it's the same thing.
Look at Seattle when they sold to a group out
of Oklahoma City and they're like, oh no, it's all
good though, We're we're staying, and then they bounced because
they could, so you know, they'll just pick up a team.
You'll take your raiders and they'll run with them.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
You know.
Speaker 6 (18:34):
It's so you have to be careful that we don't
fall into that type of a trap. But if they
that's why Phil Knight will keep the team here. If
he buys it, and he did offer before. I don't
know what the price tag is going to look like, but.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Let's just do this. Let's make this easy.
Speaker 6 (18:51):
The fact that they're like, hey, it's going to go
into next year is a little bit daunting.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Cour there is no better suitor than Phil Knight. Cor
just walked in to hear the news. Yeah, I mean
he sent us, sent you see the news that you
sent us. But this is kind of crazy. What was
your initial reaction?
Speaker 7 (19:08):
I mean, I am I was surprised that it was
that that was happening right now, just because I kind
of kind of forgot that that was the thing. But
it's it is, it was coming, it was, it was
supposed to come a long time ago. Actually, because when
when when Paul Allen died, that was his directive is like, Okay,
you got to get rid of both these teams. But
the Seahawks eventually will get sold as well, just not yet,
(19:30):
just not yet. So, but that's but that is was
part of his directive in his will, and so it
was could have happened a few years ago. I Phil
Knight was trying to buy the team. I think he
offered two billion dollars something like that.
Speaker 6 (19:42):
They turned it down, so I because they weren't ready
to sell. So I'm hoping we can circle back to
that conversation because right before you walked in, you sell
it to a group out of another city, we're at risk.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (19:54):
Well, and there was also another group that was around
like that Terry Porter was part of. There was like
a whole bunch of like X Blazers and a small
group of people that wanted to buy it. They're all
get a pony up and threw money into the into
the kiddie And so that didn't work out as well
because again they weren't ready to sell. So they've got
at least a couple options already and probably more.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
Having a bunch of people on like a board, Yeah,
it sounds like a nightmare people making decisions.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Yeah, just like one guy guy it.
Speaker 7 (20:21):
Would be nice and Phil Knight would be that guy.
He'd be great to because he already obviously knows sports
he knows.
Speaker 6 (20:27):
He runs a team already, he was already passionate about
our squad.
Speaker 7 (20:30):
It's not like, yeah, so it makes all the sense
in the world. Then again, if the Terry Porter group
came together, you got former basketball players. They know the
ins and outs, so that probably wouldn't be a bad
thing either. The real question is if you're gonna get
somebody like I know, Elon musk or or Jeff Bezos,
or somebody who would just have more money than God.
There's like a scrout two billion, three billion, I don't care,
(20:53):
I'll buy it whatever, and then you end up with
some crappy owner who doesn't really care about the team.
They just want the prestige of owning a team.
Speaker 6 (20:59):
I really want it to be a person who is
the head of it, you know, wherever more we're getting
to wear a company or like you said, a board
of investors.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
It's better when there's one guy with a vision.
Speaker 6 (21:10):
Like Steve Balmer, I believe his name, the one who
from Microsoft who bought the Clippers. He brought passion and
excitement and a promise. You know, when Mark Cuban bought
the Dallas Mavericks, he brought a passion and a promise
now that I'm we're we're gonna do this together. I'm
a fan and this is gonna be sick like they're
like in it. That's what we need, not some some
(21:31):
wallflower or someone who's just gonna mail it in. We're
coming up on the fiftieth anniversary of our one championship
fifty yep. I mean I don't have to tell you
I wasn't alive for that.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
You know that's it's.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
Been too long and that this does this points to hope.
So okay, that was just announced today. If you're listening
to this on Tuesday, May thirteenth, I'm recording it at
ten thirty in the morning. Uh, we just you know,
found out today. When when are we going to hear
more information?
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Now?
Speaker 1 (21:55):
How long is this going to take until we hear
anything else?
Speaker 7 (21:57):
It's gonna take a bit, I bet, because you know
they probably already have some ideas who's going to buy
it in the background, but they there's you have to.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
It's like when you have a job opening, you have
an idea who legal to post yes? Right, even though
we're not hiring any of these people who said a emails.
Speaker 6 (22:11):
So I wouldn't be surprised if Yeah, like you said,
these negotiations have been going on behind the scenes and
now it's public information.
Speaker 7 (22:19):
It's not like putting a transam out on the front
yard with a sign on the window. They know who's
going to buy this thing.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
We are kind of the trans am of the league.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
Wow, so interesting. Obviously it's Portland's the only professional team
to be terrible if we lost Yet if he lost them,
that's the worst case scenario.
Speaker 7 (22:37):
Yeah, of course, Yeah, I don't. I don't think the
Blazers are going anywhere. There's there's enough support for this team.
I mean, even in the worst times, there's there's support
for the team. So I don't think that the NBA
is going to yank the team.
Speaker 6 (22:47):
Can you imagine an arena up to code. That's part
of why Seattle lost out. They couldn't get the people
to approve the arena and so they fled for greener.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Past and the worst.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
Like, let's say the worst case scenario did happen, Like
you just have the Moti Center just sit there, and.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
I mean sure shows and stuff, but yeah, it shut
it right, It would just like you just rot.
Speaker 7 (23:07):
There's not enough to keep that place open.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
Without the Blazers.
Speaker 6 (23:10):
I don't have the mental capacity to believe that they
could leave, because it would be like getting the news
that Elvis was dead right devastating that it would be awful.
Speaker 7 (23:20):
Well, and I mean the other thing with the sale,
I believe they also have to sell the arena. That
could be sold separately, but right now Vulcan, who owns
the Blazers, also owns the arena. I believe they will
sell both both at the same time. And if somebody
like Phil Knight buys it, it's not going to be
the Motus Center anymore.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
That would be so sick.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
It would be cool.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
I mean, no offense. The Motus centers down as well,
but just a big old.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Swoon insurance company.
Speaker 4 (23:51):
We all heard Modus Center and we all said the
same thing, What the fuck is Motive We all looked
it up.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
Yeah, oh, it's an insurance company.
Speaker 6 (23:57):
Nike might be the I mean, outside of maybe Amazon
is maybe the biggest brand in the world, Coca Cola, Nike. Sure,
I can't really think of what's bigger than that.
Speaker 7 (24:06):
And you wouldn't even have to like write Nike on
the sidea You're done.
Speaker 6 (24:10):
And if you had a big like a fluorescent light
that changed colors and could have could be you know,
based on different times of year.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
It would be bad at a little spear type light.
Speaker 7 (24:22):
Yeah, yeah, we'll see what happens.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Now, we're all pipe dreaming I get a championship in
the wind. But that's the news.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
We just got that Blazers are officially up for sale
and yeah wow, not expecting to see that today, but
we'll keep you posted. You can get more info online
at one five nine dot com.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
And yeah, man, that's that's why that's big news. All right, guys.
Well gang gang, gang bang bang.
Speaker 4 (24:48):
We will.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
I had a bunch of other stuff. We'll just have
to get to it tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Sorry that I gasped in the middle.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
No, I know, I know you.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
I know you hate that.
Speaker 4 (24:54):
It was legitimate this time because I always think, like scary,
like something scary you just happened.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
I don't like to be frightened.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Yeah, like to frighten either.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Somebody goes and looks at their phone.
Speaker 4 (25:04):
I go, okay, terrorist attack, Yeah, fired, you know, like fired,
like what's happening?
Speaker 7 (25:08):
Yeah, exactly, And I got the call from the bigger boss,
who was you know, he reached out to me. He's like, dude,
we need it all, you know, all hands on deck
sort of situation. Blazers are for sale, and we said that,
like I I pooped a little bit.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Right, get some cleanup going over here.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
All right, well, we'll see it tomorrow. We will have
more tickets to see Breaking Benjamin in three days Grace.
When A five nine the Brew presents that show in October,
we'll send you there at seven thirty in the morning.
My oh shoot, I just excellently closed my.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Laura show. That was pretty good.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
All right, we'll end up there
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