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He is in New York City. We're about 24 hours away from Game 1 of the NBA Finals. Yeah, we've talked about it. It's just been such a long layoff.
There's been so much that's gone on as well. NFL contracts, Justin Jefferson. We talked about Deebo Samuel.
He's like, yeah, they tried to trade me, but here I am at work. Even the Browns are getting attention. The general manager and their head coach, they both got contract extensions.
Whoop-de-doo. Congrats to them. And then of course, oh yeah, I guess with no NBA basketball, the WNBA had to take over. Man, we got more. Hickey, there are more people talking about the WNBA than the NHL. Because?
Partly? What you're looking for? The drama. Intensity. The hatred. How does the NHL inject more drama into the league?
What do they do? Maybe have a press conference that says Connor McDavid stinks. He's not the best player in the league.
He's overrated. Oh wow. Okay. We gonna find out sooner than later.
They get started on Saturday. Wow. WNBA getting a lot of attention. And how could it not, right? And this is, trust me, this is all gonna tie together with the top six list.
I'm gonna share that list with you momentarily. How could anybody top this when you got a rookie player who is just like Angel Reese? Listen to this.
You remember this from a couple days ago? It all started from the national championship game and I've been dealing with this for two years now. And understanding like, yeah, negative things have probably been said about me, but honestly, I'll take that because look where women's basketball is. People are talking about women's basketball, but you never would think that we'd be talking about women's basketball.
People are pulling up to games. We got celebrities coming to games, sold out arenas, like just because of one single game. And just looking at that, like I'll take that role. I'll take the bad guy role and I'll continue to take that on and be that for my teammates.
And if I want to be that, and I know I'll go down in history, I'll look back in 20 years and be like, yeah, the reason why we watching women's basketball is not just because of one person. It's because of me too. And I want y'all to realize that.
Damn. A few inaccuracies there. I don't think the only reason that people are watching is because of one game between her and Kaitlyn Clark kind of trash talking. But anyway, it seems like she knows how to talk, whether or not what she says is fully accurate.
I don't agree with it, but damn. Imagine if she actually had a foil who would talk trash back to her. Who's saying anything to her?
Nobody. It's like don't feed the trolls. It's like she wants to feed the trolls and then respond when they bite her back. It doesn't work that way. If you're going to talk trash, you got to be able to back it up. You got to have some substance there.
You got to actually give it a full go. So with all this damn talk this week, some of the backs and the fourths, it made my brain, it started working. It happens on occasion.
My brain started working. I said to myself, well, damn, she's talking a lot. Who are some other athletes that have done a lot of talking?
Angel Reese might be, I don't know, the number one trash talker in women's sports. I don't know. We haven't had this yet. But I know in a general sense, we've had a lot of people do a lot of talking.
We've had a lot of people come through and tell you what they were going to do before they did it. They insulted you. They lowered your confidence. They took your soul. They took a championship from you.
And they made money while they were doing it. That's why I love sports. This ain't scripted. This is as real as it gets. And a trash talk?
Oh, yeah, it can be for show. Sometimes a trash talk, it ain't no joke. And so as I do every single Wednesday, I'm bringing you a new top six list. And tonight, right now, I'm going to give you my top six list. Some of the biggest trash talkers that we've ever seen in sports.
Let's go. Six, five, four, three, two, one. It's time to get JR's latest top six list only on the JR Sport Brief. It is the JR Sport Brief show here on the Infinity Sports Network. And it's time to talk about some of the biggest trash talkers that we've ever seen in the world of sports. Who has the gift, the gab?
Who can chat it up and then back it up at the same time? It's a top six list of trash talkers. It's a countdown. And we start with this number right here.
Number six. Oh, this man is coaching at Colorado right now. Man, you would say that he might be out here trash talking his own college athletes. He trash talks some of them so bad when he showed up, he said, hey, go ahead and hit the transfer portal.
And it's Deion Sanders. He's been talking for a very, very long time. Man, he's been talking since he got drafted by the Falcons. This man kept talking when he went to the Niners. He kept talking when he went to the Cowboys.
He has talked perennially forever. I do remember when he was gone from the Falcons here and he was with the 49ers and he returned here to Atlanta in the Georgia Dome. And Deion Sanders was going to face off against his former teammate Andre Rison. Well, Deion Sanders let everybody know from before the game and during the game and after the game whose house this still was. It was Deion's house. Listen to this courtesy of CBS Sports.
Deion Sanders who returns to Atlanta for the first time since signing with the 49ers. And of course, he'll be looking at Mr. Rison today. I mean, if it was possible, I would love for everyone else to get off the field so we could just go at it one on one. Yeah, I mean, I'm that kind of guy.
If you want to go one on one, we can go one on one all day. Hey, we got some duking going on. Andre Rison and Deion Sanders.
That's a classic. Orange has time and his pass is intercepted. Uh oh, they're not catching them down the sideline. Deion Sanders is dancing.
He had to get backwards from about the 40 yard line. They're going to do a number on the crowd here. I got one thing to say. This is my house. I built this and this is my house. I don't care if I'm lit to thousands or not.
This is my house and this will always be my house. Yeah, the 49ers won that game 42 to 3. And you heard the touchdown by Deion. Rison also only had 32 yards receiving. Oh, that's not it for Deion.
I told you this man only did his talk. I mean, when he was on the NFL network, like Tony Romo made a joke about him, not never wanting to tackle. He was looking at Marcus Peters. He's like, hey, Marcus Peters, he doesn't tackle, you know, almost like Deion Sanders never tackled, even though he was a great player.
Well, and Deion Sanders, even in retirement, went back at Romo. Damn. Peters doesn't want to tackle. That's one of the things I'm telling you. He's really good out there at the corner off coverage, but in tackling? Not his thing.
No, and he makes Deion Sanders look good at tackling sometimes. See, Tony, I tried my best to take the high road, but I don't know the address to the high road. So I got to come at you, man.
Ten years as a starter, you're two and four in the playoffs. You ain't won nothing. I tried to bury the hatchet. Both of us worked for CBS. I went and shook your hand and say, Tony, you're doing a great job this year.
I thought that would be it. But nevertheless, you keep on shooting at me. Tony, what's going on, man?
I got a gold jacket that I didn't buy. Dax says hi. And bye. Tony, leave me alone, man. I got a lot of ammunition, man. How many interceptions?
19 in 2012? Come on, man. You're through to everybody but me. Tony, come on, man. You know you never won the big one.
You know you never won the big one. So stop, man. Leave me alone.
I tried to take the high road, but I don't know the address. Damn. Active player, retired coach. You want to talk about a trash talker? Oh, Deion Sanders. I got him at number six on the list. Well, who can possibly be higher on the list? What's the next number?
Number five. Oh, my God. I could do a whole show on this guy. One of the most vulgar, crass individuals that we've ever seen in the world of sports.
He also has to be happens to be the highest grossing MMA fighter of all time. His name is Conor McGregor. I can't even play half of the things that this man said. I am not even going to replay what I've told you before. What we've played here with a man sat on the mat with a broken leg and basically insulted another man's wife in front of him with a broken leg.
So instead, I'll take you back to 2016. This is a press conference for UFC 205. Conor McGregor ultimately went on to knock out Eddie Alvarez. But during the press conference, Conor McGregor is like, hey, I got no challenges, not Eddie, not nobody here. And then Jeremy Stevens decided to chime in. And Conor McGregor?
Well, he decided to ask. Well, just listen. Conor, take a look around you. You got a lot of champions, a lot of grizzled vets. Who do you think would give you the hardest fight out of anybody on stage? Right here.
Right here. The hardest hitting 145 pound. The real hardest hitting 145 right here. This guy TKO's people.
When I knock people out, they don't move. Who the fuck is that guy? Who the fuck is that? Who the fuck is that? I don't know. When I take that guy's belt, I'm looking around.
I don't know what anyone else has for me around here. I might have to jump up and drag Floyd Mayweather out there and see what the fuck he's at again. Oh, my goodness. Oh, that dude is he's nuts for real. He might be fighting again. We don't know UFC 303.
We have no definitive word. But when he comes back, I don't know if he gonna win. It's been a while since he's done that convincingly. But we know he gonna talk. He knows how to sell tickets and pay per views.
Good for him. You want to talk about a trash talker? I got Conor McGregor number five on my list. I can't even play 80 percent of what he says.
And it's not because of the accent. If I got Conor McGregor at number five, what's the next number? Number four. The trash talk by this next man is legendary. They said he would walk into rooms and say, hey, who's gonna come in second? They said that this man would walk onto a basketball court and tell you every single thing that he was going to do, and then he would do it. Not the fastest, not the tallest, not the biggest, not the strongest, but he was one of the best. It was Larry Bird. You want to know one of the best defenders that the NBA has ever seen? His name is Gary Payton. And I want you to listen to Gary Payton sit down with, ironically, J.J. Reddick and tell J.J. a story about how Larry Bird walked him through how he was going to beat him on a basketball court and did it.
J.J., he was cold, man. He'll tell you like this. He'll bend down, say it's salty. He's like, you know what? I don't know what you got for Christmas, but I know what I'm going to get you. What I'm going to do is I'm going to take you on this block.
I'm going to dribble two times. And then I'm going to pull up in your face and the neck is going to say shoop. And then after your Christmas present from me, I was like, whoa, you cold as a man. He used to tell you where he going to shoot it in your face and how you couldn't stop me and how you ain't no good to him. And I was like, whoa, man, that's just a little bit disrespectful. And then it happened.
That's the whole cold thing about it. Everybody used to say Larry Bird was slow and all that game. I mean, I don't care what nobody said. He had the ultimate game and he used to do it. He used to back it up. Hickey, it's crazy to think about Larry Bird talking trash to you and then he would tell you the sound the net would make like that's that's that's something different, man. Next level and attention to detail, huh? Yeah, right.
How about that? That's that's that's some wicked stuff from Larry Bird. I got him in number four here on my list to tell somebody what you were going to do and then go do it in such detail.
Yes, that's that's sick. Larry Bird was a sick man, also a three time champ, a two time finals MVP and an MVP from 84 to 86. That's a bad dude who trash talked his way into a lot. I got Larry Bird in number four, top six trash talkers. I don't even know what the hell to call this guy. What's the next number?
Number three. I know this next guy's dealing with ulcers. I know this next dude is supposed to be fighting a man who's not really yet a legitimate fighter. But when he was in his prime, come on, he's one of the best heavyweight champs of all time. His name is Mike Tyson. Trash talk?
Do I call it trash talk? I don't know what to call it. I would say it's fear inducing. This is one of the most dangerous human beings. He scares the to this day right now. He scares people. Oh, my God. I don't look anyway. It's Mike Tyson.
All right. This is etched into my brain because I watched it live. This was Mike Tyson, Lou Savarese. He knocked him out in 38 seconds in Scotland.
This was in the year 2000. And after the knockout, Mike Tyson was in the ring and Mike Tyson, he was getting asked all of these questions on Showtime. I forget the guy's name, the same dude that tried to make Pete Rose admit to being a cheater. And Mike Tyson wasn't having any of it. He was praising God. And then he was threatening to eat a guy's kids.
Listen to this. I'm coming for you. Is it frustrating to train like you did and then have this in seven or eight seconds? I only trained probably two weeks or three weeks for this fight. I had to bury my best friend and I dedicated this fight. I wasn't going to fight. I dedicated this fight to him.
I was going to rip his heart out. I'm the best ever. I'm the most brutal and vicious and most ruthless champion there's ever been. There's no one who can stop me.
Linux is a conqueror. No, I'm Alexander. He's no Alexander. I'm the best ever.
There's never been anybody as ruthless. I'm Sonny Liston. I'm Jack Dempsey. There's no one like me.
I'm from there, Claude. There's no one that can match me. My style is impetuous. My defense is impregnable. And I'm just ferocious.
I want your heart. I want to eat his children. Praise be to Allah. OK. And that was Jim Gray asking the questions and Jim Gray now, you know, he hangs out with Tom Brady because what else is he going to do? Can anybody but Mike Tyson do that?
Like praise God, praise Allah and then say I'm going to eat somebody else's kids? By the way, Lennox Lewis didn't have kids at that time. And then about a couple of years after a couple of years after they actually fought and Lennox Lewis knocked out Mike Tyson. Be careful what you ask for, OK? But Mike Tyson, that was one of the most wicked things I ever heard a guy say.
Any place. That's that's some real trash talk. I'm going to eat your kids.
Whoa. Let's get away from Mike Tyson before he comes after me. Let's go to the next number. Who's a top six trash talker?
Number two. Oh, come on. Michael Jordan, you've seen the last dance. Maybe you were alive when he played and it wasn't so much that Mike was trash talking you. You best just shut up against Mike. Come on. Somebody who didn't know how to shut up himself was Reggie Miller, and he told the story to Jimmy Kimmel about a preseason game.
Listen to this. My rookie year, we were playing the Chicago Bulls and this is Michael Jordan's third or fourth year in. OK. And we were playing the next exhibition game in some obscure place. And most veterans do not like to play in exhibition games.
They want to get to the real thing. I'm a wide eyed, energetic rookie and we're playing this exhibition game and Michael's going through the motion. And Chuck Person, who's on my team, who's a trash talker as well, is like, can you believe Michael Jordan, the guy everyone's talking about, who's supposed to be able to walk on water? You're out here killing them, Rich.
This is in the first half. You should be talking to him. He's like, you know, you're right, Michael, who do you think you are?
The great Michael Jordan? That's right. There's a new kid on town, right? Kind of looks at me and starts shaking his head. So at half, I have 10 and he has four points, right?
I'm doing all this talking. He's like, OK. Into the end of the game in the second half, he ended up with 44 and I ended up with 12.
So he outscored me 40 to 2. And as he's walking off, he's like, be sure and be careful. You never talk to Black Jesus like that.
I'm so sorry, Black Jesus. Hey, said he could walk on water, right? Michael Jordan said, yeah, I can. You better be careful.
Watch your mouth. And that's from a guy who didn't shut up. I see Reggie Miller has been annoying people since the 80s. And how about this, Michael Jordan?
We heard this in his own, you know, The Last Dance documentary. Michael Jordan was just minding his business in the locker room, chatting it up with his teammates. He had a cigar in his mouth.
He had a baseball bat in his hands. And Michael Jordan wanted to pretty much give advice to when it was OK to talk trash. Listen to his advice. Let's see if all that trash talking starts when it's 0-0 instead of five, six point lead. That's where it starts.
That's the sound of a good man. If you can talk s**t when it's even score or talk s**t when you're behind score. When you're ahead, it's easy to talk. OK, advice from Michael Jordan.
Shut up. Yeah, don't talk the talk when you're leading. Talk the talk when you're losing. Tell me you're going to come back and talk the trash when it's even. Don't talk trash when you're ahead. I would say that that's J.R. wisdom, but that came from the mouth of Michael Jordan. It's the J.R. Sportbrief Show here with you on the Infinity Sports Network. I'm giving you a top six list of some of the biggest trash talkers the sports world has ever seen. I just gave you five. When we come back, I'm going to tell you who's number one.
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I'm about to share with you who I have at Numero Uno. Let me give you a quick recap. And why are we talking about trash talkers? Because we had a lot of trash being spoken all this week. The difference is a lot of it takes place on social media. A lot of it isn't said in front of somebody's face. So people want to run and hide and they want to talk when it's convenient.
They don't want to stand up when things get tough. And so today I'm giving you a top six list of some of the best trash talkers. At number six, I gave you Deion Sanders. At number five, I gave you Conor McGregor. And number four, I gave you Larry Legend, Larry Bird. And number three, Mike, I want to eat your children, Tyson. I'm happy he's a little bit more mellow now, right? He's selling that THC and all that other stuff. Good for Mike Tyson.
Hopefully no more ulcers. At number two, I gave you Michael Jordan. Leave him alone. Just don't say anything.
Leave him alone. So if I got Michael Jordan at number two as my top trash talker, then that leaves us here. Number one, I feel like this man helped set the stage for a lot of these guys to talk trash. I think this man popularized talking trash and being a salesman and being a salesperson and being an entertainer. You want to talk about the top trash talker of all time? He happens to be the real greatest of all time. Forget all these stupid conversations about who's the GOAT. And number one, I got Muhammad Ali.
Come on, everybody gets a little bit of inspiration from somewhere, right? Muhammad Ali loved professional wrestling. He looked at somebody like Gorgeous George and said, man, I could sell fights like him.
What? And Muhammad Ali took it to another level. And some of it got real nasty. Go ahead and ask Frazier.
Some of it got nasty. Go ahead and ask George Foreman. Except for he went out there, especially in the case of Foreman.
He backed it up. OK, I could sit here forever. I can give you a top six.
I can give you a top 20. Of Ali poems and quotes and interviews and trash talk. But let's just go to 1974 as I told you about George Foreman. We all know the rope adult, the rumble in the jungle. Well, Muhammad Ali.
And what was pretty nuts, you might remember some of these poems. I want you to listen to this. This is Muhammad Ali. He's basically telling you, I'm going to show you how great I am.
Listen. Who knocks out everybody and no one can whoop him. That's when that little Cassius Clay from Louisville, Kentucky, came up and stopped Sonny Liston. The man who annihilated Floyd Patterson twice. He was going to kill me. But he hit harder than George. His reach was longer than George's.
He's a better boxer than George. And I'm better now than I was when you saw that 22-year-old undeveloped kid running from Sonny Liston. I'm experienced now. Professional. Jaws been broke, been lost, knocked down a couple of pounds.
I'm bad. Been chopping trees. I done something new for this fight. I done wrestled with an alligator.
That's right. I have wrestled with an alligator. I done tussled with a whale. I done handcuffed lightning, throw thunder in jail. That's bad. Only last week, I murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalized a brick.
I'm so mean I make medicine sick. Bad dude. Bad. Fast. Fast. Fast.
Last night, I cut the light off my bedroom, hit the switch, was in the bed before the room was dark. Incredible. Fast. Incredible. And you, George Foreman, all of you chumps are going to bow when I whoop him.
All of you. I know you got him. I know you got him picked. But the man's in trouble. I'm going to show you how great I am. Yeah, Muhammad Ali, he was he was picked as an underdog in that fight. And if there was any proclamation, I told you that that the Muhammad Ali was going to tell you that he was the greatest. And I mean, all these years later, and God rest his soul, who's who's going to debate the fact? He's not here with us anymore.
But if you needed a reminder, here's another one. He said he was going to retire George Foreman. And in the same breath, he was letting you know that I'm the greatest.
This man want to retire. If you think I whoop Sonny Lister, you wait till I get George Foreman. He talks too much.
He's ugly. He's pretending I'm the true champion and they make me the underdog. I'm going to show them all their wrong because I'm the champion. I'm the real champion.
There'll never be one like me. And all of you people in Britain who rank me as the greatest. I'm going to prove I'm the greatest. I'm going to prove to you I'm the greatest. We're going to prove to the world I'm the greatest. This is my last fight. I don't want none of you to miss it. So please come to theaters. I'm going to eat some raw meat and I'm going to train.
I'm going to get ready and chop some more trees. Listen, everybody who tries to sell a fight, whether it's a Conor McGregor, Floyd Mayweather. I mean, the guys now are just obnoxious. I couldn't even tell you. Gervonta Davis. He was selling fights. Adrian Braun.
Look, everybody. Dwayne The Rock Johnson isn't a real fighter. Looked up to the greatest. Want to talk about the top trash talk of all time? Number one on my list is Muhammad Ali. 855-212-4227.
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Phone line's open if you want to give me a holler. Talk to the super producer and host here, Ryan Hickey, get his thoughts on a trash talker. That's what we do.
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It's 855-212-4227. It is Wednesday. What I do on Wednesday is bring you another top 6 list. Today was no different. Today we talked about some of the best trash talkers that the sports world has ever seen. And I'm talking about people who can talk trash and then go out there and back it up.
Not people running and hiding. Let me give you a recap. At number 6 I gave you Deion Sanders. At number 5 I gave you Conor McGregor. At number 4 I gave you Larry Bird. At number 3 I gave you Mike Tyson. At number 2 I gave you Michael Jordan. And at number 1 on my list, the all-time trash talker, it was Muhammad Ali.
If you missed the segment, if you missed all the wonderful audio that we played, go ahead and hit rewind on the free Odyssey app. You know, another element that I really appreciate about Muhammad Ali and his trash talk, it is so easy nowadays. So easy. Because nobody has a filter and everything is uncensored, everybody wants it raw. Muhammad Ali wasn't out there spewing vulgarities.
Muhammad Ali didn't have to, and yes he went through a religious conversion going from Cassius Clay into Muhammad Ali. He didn't MF this and screw that. He just shot you straight.
He was entertaining. To be honest, I think a lot of it, take it from a guy who talks for a living, trust me, I don't, well I'm not on air, I don't got the cleanest mouth, I got a potty mouth. But the fact is, I think in a lot of cases vulgarities, and a lot of times, can show, hey, well, do you need to rely on it? Are you using vulgarities for emphasis?
Is that all you know? Do you need to use these words? I think there are better things to say. Nowadays, everybody with a podcast, everybody online, just cursing around like a sailor.
My point is, if you're going to curse, make it count for something, right? I'm swinging around all over the damn place. 855-212-4227. That's 855-212-4227.
When I talk about trash talkers, who comes to your mind? Kelly is calling from Alabama. You're on the JR Sportbreeze show. What's up, Kelly? What's up, JR? Man, love your show all the time.
Just wanted to tell you, you did great. Top 6, can't agree, I can't disagree with you more, but number 7, gonna have to give it to Bill Romanowski. Okay, I would say dirty and cheater, but go ahead, explain.
He was, he was, but he talked a lot of stuff. Uh, come on now. How the hell could he just, oh my God, how did he just, did I set myself up for that one? I must have set myself up for it. Hickey, I set myself up.
What are the odds? Like high or low? Uh, for this topic, maybe higher than normal, we'll say. I just, I just said, I find it so, I basically said you can do better than just throwing around vulgarities, and then the guy accidentally drops a dirty word. Come on now. Do better. Be like, how about this? Be more like Muhammad Ali and less like Conor McGregor, okay?
Conor McGregor is like, oh yeah, I wish I could be Muhammad Ali. Come on. Do better. 855-212-4227. That's 855-212-4227.
We're talking about trash talkers. Jeff is calling from Wichita. You're on the JR Sport Reshow, the Infinity Sports Network. What's up, Jeff? Hey man, uh, I got three, and I don't know if they're gonna be number one, but uh, Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, hold on. What do you mean you don't know if they're gonna be number one?
What does that mean? Well, Muhammad Ali, Jordan and Bird are my top three. Mike, Tyson, love him, but he's not in my top five. Uh, the three I was gonna throw out was Ray Lewis, Mike Singletary, and Dick Bucket. Did you play linebacker in high school? No, man, I played tight end, but I know I picked three linebackers, but I felt like all of them backed it up.
We're gonna be here all day, baby. Mike Singletary is one of the greatest cuts ever. NFL films started every one of them. Loved it.
And I just always thought those guys laid the wood, talked a bunch of trash, and also lived up to everything they said up, you know, everything they said. Okay. Well, thank you, Jeff, for calling from Wichita. I appreciate you, man. Alright, man. Have a good one.
No problem. Also pretty wild. You talk about Mike Singletary, I will never forget that story about how when he became a head coach and he was in charge of the Niners, that Mike Singletary, he dropped his pants and showed his backside to kind of inspire the score. I mean, what? Is that trash talking? Is that inspiring? I don't know.
I don't know if I want to see my coach's ass to inspire me. Okay. Alright. 855-212-4227. That's 855-212-4227. Fred is calling from Birmingham, Alabama. You're on the JR Sport, be sure. What's up, Fred? Ain't much, JR. Hey, yeah, man.
John McElroy is the man, man. He'll tell you just like it is. You couldn't do him but accept it. Yeah. Now, would you say he was more of a trash talk or a complainer? Well, he was a trash talker along with a comedian too.
He knew someone without but he had to give you a laugh about it. Yeah. Well, I mean, I think this is what has made him an excellent broadcaster as well for tennis. A great ambassador.
That's a good point, Fred. Thank you. Well, thank you for calling from Birmingham. My next door neighbor. Appreciate you.
No doubt about it. 855-212-4227. Mike is calling from Baltimore. Mike, when I say trash talker, you say? Hey, JR. How you doing, my man?
I'm very well. Hey, you know, I agree with your list wholeheartedly but one of the commentators on the list I think could have been on there and that was Gary Payton. I heard he talked to me in game two.
Oh, he did? The glove. You know what? I thought about having Gary Payton on this list. It was too easy to put Gary on the list. It was too easy.
It was too easy. You know what? I used to work with Gary Payton. One day we'll get Gary Payton on the air, okay? And then you can hear him talk trash to me. Would you like that?
Oh, that'd be great, man. I heard his son is just the opposite. His son is soft-spoken. Isn't he Gary Payton genius? Yeah, he don't bother nobody. Mike, that's most of these guys in the NBA.
They don't do nothing. You could probably count on your fingers the amount of NBA players that actually are about something. Come on now. Right. Listen, let's put it this way, Mike. Gary Payton and Gary Payton's son, they grew up in very different ways, okay? Right, right.
I'll put it to you that way. Mike, thank you for calling from Baltimore, man. No problem. Appreciate you.
Appreciate you. Listen, I love Gary Payton, and Gary Payton loves the San Francisco 49ers. You didn't know Gary Payton's from Oakland. Gary Payton is not a joke, okay? You sit down and you talk with Gary Payton, you feel like you are talking to your best friend down the block. Gary Payton pulls no punches about anything.
855-212-4227. Rafael is calling from California. When I say trash talkers, Rafael, you say? I said Gary Payton, but they beat me to it, and The Rock. Fictional character, but man, it entertained for quite a few years there.
Yeah, well The Rock got it from Muhammad Ali. I mean, you got the windows down? No, I'm commuting, man. I got an hour drive home and I just get on the call with you, man. I love your show too, man.
Well, thank you. Well, what's the favorite thing that The Rock says? What's your favorite insult? Man, I mean, does it really matter? No, it doesn't matter what you think, Rafael.
When you ask that question, then it doesn't matter. Well, damn. You got to work on your comedic timing, Rafael, okay? Alright, man. You take care.
It's nice talking to you. Wait, wait. Hold on, Rafael. I got a question for you. Yes, sir? Can you do me a favor? Yeah. Can you repeat your name? Rafael?
It doesn't matter what your name is. I couldn't help myself. I couldn't help myself. I couldn't. It was another terrible joke back to him.
I couldn't help myself. Hickey, why did he even do that? Why did he say that? How could he say that to me?
That's messed up. What, what I did or what he did? What he did. Started it. Wait, did he try to get me first?
Yeah. He did. He tried. I think he tried. I thought I tried to get him. He started it. You finished it. Well, yeah. That's what happens when it's your show.
You got the buttons in front of you. Yeah, do whatever I want. I didn't think that we'd get The Rock named here as a trash talker, but that goes to show how amazing he was, right? I mean, it's The Rock. If you smell what The Rock is cooking.
And now I see he's going to play an MMA fighter? Yeah, The Rock is pretty entertaining. I've never seen any. I haven't seen not one Rock movie. Hickey, you've probably seen a Rock movie. I haven't seen one. What is that?
What is that supposed to mean? Well, I've never seen him. Have you seen a movie with The Rock in it?
Not off the top of my head. Yeah, I've never seen none. I saw him fight a volcano.
I saw him fight a giant monkey or ape, whatever it is. I never saw a scorpion king. I've never saw a tooth fairy.
Fast and the Furious. I've never seen not one of those movies. I've never seen The Rock act in a film.
Never, ever, ever. And you say I'm uncultured. Have you seen The Rock in a movie? You say no. I know. I know him from, you know, NFL, or UFL, XFL, and wrestling. That's it. I say trash talk and you say, who?
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