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He's holding it down for us in New York City. I hope you're well. I hope you're safe.
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How about this as well? The trade is official. DeAndre Hopkins is officially a member of the Kansas City Chiefs. He's like, hey, listen, I'm finally on a real team.
He didn't say it like that, but that's kind of what he said. We're getting ready for the World Series. Yep. World Series gets started tomorrow. Scott Miller is going to join us. New York Times contributor to talk some baseball. The Dodgers, the Yankees. This is going to be the 12th time that we've seen this matchup in the postseason. This is the most frequented matchup in Major League Baseball playoffs history. We'll talk about Judge.
We'll talk about Otani. We got the NBA started last night. And we got more NBA tonight.
Victor Wambenyama makes his season debut against the Mavericks. The Celtics are likely going to smash the Wizards in another hour. The Thunder play the Nuggets.
The Timberwolves take on the Kings. We got more basketball and then there's football and then there's baseball and then there's hockey. There's a little bit of everything. So whatever you like, we got you covered.
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OK, that is Twitter, X, Facebook, Instagram. I'm not tick tock and I'm not there, but I'm everywhere else. OK, go ahead and find me on this beautiful Thursday, October 24th. And of course, at the end of the show, we'll take a look back in time, go through a bunch of things that took place this day in sports history as well. Hey, Ryan Hickey, how are you on this this Thursday?
I am good, J.R., doing well today. Ready for week number eight of the NFL to kick off. Ready for the world's well, I can't I'm not going to lie and say I'm ready for the World Series. I'm still bitter about last week. No, no, the Mets losing. That's that's the problem, right?
That is the problem. I'd be very much excited if they were in it and playing tomorrow. But obviously, expectations and excitement is tampered down a little bit with that exit.
But still excited for what should be a really good sports weekend. Terrific, man. Did you go to the the parade, the New York Liberty parade? I did not. Oh, man, you missed out. There was space for you.
There was space. I don't want to be a fraud, I'll be honest. Oh, you know, I did go to one game this year, although I was not rooting for the Liberty. So I would have felt like I was a fraud if I showed up there, you know, when it's time to celebrate and just act like, you know, I was a day one supporter.
I think that was for the diehards. So you're not you're not a New York Liberty fan? I'm not not.
Oh, wow. A New York Liberty fan. I don't really have an allegiance per se. OK, so I just didn't want to I just pride myself on not being a bandwagoner. And I would have felt that way if I just showed up to a victory parade today to bask in all the glory without going through the trials and tribulations of previous failures. Oh, good.
Yeah. Good on you for not being a fraud. Good on you then. You know, I want to congratulate the New York Liberty for not being a bunch of drunks at the parade today, Hickey.
I do because it does appreciated that. What do I want to see them running around being drunk? Have some class, right?
No. Not to say that who was drunk last year, all this Asia, was she drunk? She was tipsy. Let's just put it that way.
I don't need that. I did see Brianna Stewart. And this is what a bold world that we live in.
I never thought I'd see this, but I think I've seen it before. Like right before the parade started, she went on Twitter and asked for someone, Hey, somebody along the parade route, can you just give me some, can you give me a bottle of wine? And she is literally walking down the parade route and somebody hands her a big brown paper bag. And I got it.
You gotta be kidding me. And somebody did really get her a bottle of wine. And then I also saw her drinking champagne and I watched the parade because I'm rooting for the Liberty been rooting for them for 28 years.
I'm happy. They finally got themselves a championship after losing to the Houston comments and, and everybody else. So there was no drunk Tom Brady impressions. Nobody almost threw the trophy into the Hudson river.
Nobody did a clay Thompson and almost trampled over a fan and Brianna Stewart, John Cole Jones. These are some big old women. They're tall. Six, four, six, six, Hickey mom. Am I going to get in trouble for saying what I just said again?
Am I getting in trouble again? You said they were tall. Well, we can leave it there.
That is factually correct. I said big. That's all. Yes. Okay. I heard, I wasn't going to say it, but I said what I said.
They are, they got a foot on what's well, not, not necessarily, but almost man. John Cole is almost a foot taller than me. Hmm. And she ran you over.
You'd be in trouble. Oh, six, six. Ooh. You said they're throwing another party in the Bahamas. Good for her. Good for her. And they got a party going on at the Barclay center.
So maybe tonight, after a long day of, uh, I don't know, drinking and taking naps and looking at fans and hanging out with that elephant, Ellie, you know, maybe they'll get a chance to, uh, to relax. And it was nice. Brianna Stewart, when it was finally time for her to speak and she wasn't drunk, this is great. Listen to Brianna Stewart says, bringing the Liberty, their first title feels amazing. It means a lot to be able to bring the first championship here.
Um, my first WNBA game was a Liberty game when we played at MSG. So to be able to full circle moment, come here, come back, bring the championship here. I mean, I appreciate you guys so much.
This has been an incredible journey. We're not done yet. Yeah. Go win another one. Okay. Sabrina, UNESCO, big old Nike athlete has billboards and shoes and there's a clothing line.
You go into the Nike store, her face is all over the place. Sabrina UNESCO says it feels good winning the title. I mean, it's been amazing. Um, being able to be drafted here and knowing the work that we've put in to get to this point today, being at this parade, um, able to see so many people just celebrating us.
Um, I can't put it into words what it means to be a part of this community. And I think I'm a New Yorker now. Oh, good for her.
Yeah. Originally from California played for the ducks and drafted by the New York Liberty. One thing I did find funny, obviously the New York Yankees are hoping that they have a parade sometime maybe at the end of next week or the week after that, as the Yankees get ready for game one of the world series tomorrow in Los Angeles against the dodgers.
I will say this hickey. I found it hilarious. New York city's, uh, alleged crooked mayor. He was there. He was right there. Did you see that man?
I did not. He's still showing himself in public, huh? He was right there for the big old, you know, they do the presentation part of it, the ceremony. They did the ceremony at city hall and of course he was there. What else what else is he going to do? Did he give away the key to the city? Yes. They announced him.
Listen, this is very, this is very important. They announced the mayor of New York, Eric Adams and the fans booed the people within everybody booed. Right. And then they said, and, and along with them are the girl scouts to give away the keys to the city. They try to protect him with the girls.
I guess A plus for creativity. Yeah, they did. They did.
They did. They're like, here's Eric Adams to give away the key to the city with the girl scouts. Yeah. Oh, that is funny. The self-awareness is there. Yeah. Everybody got their booze in real fast. And then the next thing, you know, the guy is like with the girl scouts is like, okay, we can't, we can't go out here and boo the girl scouts.
So yeah, you get it in where you can. Congratulations to the New York Liberty. The New York Yankees are trying to win a championship and have a parade just like the Liberty and probably be a much bigger parade, but they will also try to have a parade. So yeah, one basketball season ends. Another one begins last night. We had things get underway in the association. You know, I was able to catch up with some, some buddies after the Hawks and next game ended last night, people leaving and working at the arena had a chance to check in on the sons and Clippers. That new wall that Steve Ballmer built.
We'll talk about that wall later on. And then somebody who we did not see what a shock, not a surprise. There was no Joel Embiid, but we knew this and the NBA is actually going to investigate why this gigantic man, this big man is not playing basketball. Is he hurt? Is he not healthy? Is he busted up?
Are y'all just resting just resting him? Like what's the deal with Joel Embiid? Anyway, the Bucks smashed them 124 to 109. That's a smash into me and Damian Lillard.
And he's just like, listen, I don't got to, you know, just pass the ball too out to the Kumpo. He had 30 points. Giannis had 25 and Maxie having to be the boss, the lead dog.
He had 25 points. And even while this investigation is going on, Tyrese Maxie was just like, yeah, we got to figure out life without this Joel Embiid guy. Us winning can't be solely on Joel Embiid. Like it just can't. That's not, there's no championship team out there that is solely like if they, if Joel doesn't play and if we lose every single game like that, then we can't win like that.
You know what I'm saying? So I feel like tonight we got to make shots and we got to keep playing the right way. And I think we'll bet we'll be better. I'll definitely be better.
So I'm not gonna worry about that. Man, ain't nobody in expecting Joel Embiid to just carry the load. We know he can't, he's always hurt, but he has to be out there if y'all want to win a championship. Paul George still recovering from a bone bruise in his knee. He's gone.
He's probably going to miss a bunch of games throughout the course of the year, whenever he gets healthy as well. And then Doc Rivers on the other side with a season, he's able to start the season with the Milwaukee Bucks. Doc Rivers says, man, I love Giannis. I love Dane.
But then of course, he said it with a raspy hoarse voice because he's been yelling for the past 40 years like a crazy man. They're both dominant, you know, just the way they're playing. They're being patient, not forcing a lot.
The floor is wide open. Our spacing is great. And that helps Giannis and Dane. Hickey, why can't we cast him as like a like he can do voiceover for a villain in a movie, right? Like cartoon, cartoon Batman or something like that. I like that idea. I like that idea a lot. He doesn't have to coach these lazy ass millionaires. He could just go out there and sit in a dark room with a microphone and make money.
I don't know. He could be Bane from Batman. I mean, I guess the only thing is I think he just likes coaching too much. And he could have been that, you know, essentially the deep voice ish guy, not deep, but raspy voice. I mean, he was the raspy voice for ESPN and said, no, thank you. I'm out of here.
Little could not wait to get ahead of the booth. Wow. Who's calling the games for ESPN, by the way? Do we know? Yes.
Doris Burke was on the call. Okay. And JJ Reddick is gone. So who replaced him? It's a great question. We don't know.
We don't know. Hubie Brown is 100 years old and he's still out there. Right?
Probably calling a game tonight. Yeah. Just let Hubie go out there like a Jimmy Carter and a problem solved, right? Hubie's doing a lot better than Jimmy.
That's for sure. Is he? Yeah, he is. What's the age difference?
Five years? You wouldn't know about looking at him. God bless Jimmy. He voted, right? Didn't he vote early? He let everybody know that vote is in.
Yeah. Folks exercise your right to vote. Do what you need to do. Exercise your right.
Like President Carter did. And God bless Hubie Brown too. Hickey, I can't wait to turn on the sound at some point and hear Hubie. That'll make my day. Same.
I'm looking forward to it. Shout outs to Hubie. Hasn't aged a day.
Not at all. It's the JR Sportbree Show here with you on the Infinity Sports Network. We are just getting warmed up.
We're just getting started. We got Vikings Rams on Thursday Night Football, Puka Nakua and Cooper Cup. They sound like a professional wrestling tag team, but they're going to be back playing for the Los Angeles Rams. We're going to talk to Scott Miller from the New York Times.
Get into some Major League Baseball World Series. I told you we're going to get into the Clippers and that brand new wall. Victor Wambenyama makes his debut. Well, his season debut tonight. Bryce Young is back.
Deion Sanders is not happy about Colorado's schedule. And I told you this a few minutes ago as well. DeAndre Hopkins, the trade moving him from the Tennessee Titans to the Kansas City Chiefs.
It's official. And he spoke to the media today. He had some interesting things to say about some of his former teams. We're going to hear from DeAndre Hopkins on the other side of the break.
Jamison Williams. He failed a drug test. Doesn't know what happened. We got a lot to get into.
I'm not failing anything. I'll be back on the other side. It's the JR Sport Brief Show here with you on the Infinity Sports Network. You're listening to the JR Sport Brief. It is the JR Sport Brief Show here with you coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network. 855-212-4227.
That's 855-212-4227. He had told you the DeAndre Hopkins trade, it's official. The man passed his physical. He's now a member of the Kansas City Chiefs. He can go catch passes from one of the greatest quarterbacks of all time and Patrick Mahomes.
And all is right with the world. Tennessee Titans will continue to stink with or without DeAndre Hopkins. Will Levis bust it up. Doesn't even know what to do with a football when he is healthy. Besides giving it to the other team.
That's not what you're supposed to do. Kansas City Chiefs are already undefeated. Been dealing with injuries to their wide outs. Rashee Rice is done for the season and Juju Smith-Schuster dealing with a hammy Hollywood breath.
Everybody's busted out. So now DeAndre Hopkins walks in. The five time Pro Bowler. And he spoke to the media today.
DeAndre Hopkins right out of the gate. He said, you know what? Now that I'm on a good football team, I'm actually gonna play games that matter. Listen to this. It takes your game to a different level. Takes your focus, your drive, knowing that you're playing for something. It takes a game to a different level. I haven't played meaningful football in a couple of years since, you know, we probably started 8-0 in Arizona. So, you know, it takes a game to a different level. Yeah. Well, in Tennessee, he didn't play nothing.
No, nothing meaningful. I mean, even this season in six games, DeAndre Hopkins only has 173 yards receiving. This is someone who's been one of the best wide outs in the game over the past five to ten years. That's some of the best hands in the game. 173 yards receiving. Is Will Leviss before the injury, is he that blind?
The answer might be yes. Kansas City Chiefs, they take on the Raiders next. Expect them to go 7-0. Look for DeAndre Hopkins to probably haul in a bomb and take it to the house. He's gonna have himself a game. As a matter of fact, is he going to play against the Raiders? Does he understand the route tree? Does he understand the offense? Does he just need to line up and run? Andy Reid, when the hell is he going to play? Well, it could be this weekend. Yeah. We'll just, we'll see how he picks up. I've got to get him on the practice field. But right, you know, I mean, why wait, right? If he can, without putting him in a bad position. Okay.
All right. Hickey sounds like he's doing better today. Slightly.
I mean, we got a good laugh from him. A little less heavier breathing. Hickey, I want to have a cheeseburger all the time. Like him, does he have one every day? If not every day, most days, right? I would say at least four to seven days, would you say? Four to seven days? Sorry, four out of every seven days?
Oh my. Yeah, four out of, so four a week. Yeah.
Right. Would you say, would you say that's no, no, no, no, no. He's you think he's having one cheeseburger. Oh, if I said the over under of cheeseburgers per week at seven and a half, what would you take? Oh, because maybe you're right.
Maybe it's under, come on. He's, he's getting older. He can't just have a cheeseburger every day at a week.
Well, what if like it's, what if it's every other day, but it's like two at a time. I don't know how big the burgers that he's eating are. Well, that's what I'm saying. He's not having, yeah.
So maybe it's over. Well, if you get it from the facility versus like a fast food place, do you think it's healthier? You think air frying cheeseburgers for him? Compared to the grease that you probably get anywhere else. Maybe didn't the players association of the NFL find that the Kansas city chiefs are one of the cheapest organizations in the NFL?
Yes, that is correct. Probably giving these guys sloppy Joes, man. Like the spam cans again, sloppy Joes from the span. The lunch lady is grinding that up in the back and the meat grinders grinding it through.
You want to know it's crazy. Is that what we feed our kids? Because I haven't seen a sloppy Joe since I was in the fifth grade. And that was a long ass time ago. Okay.
I hope not. I really, if they're still are, we are in big trouble here, man. You, you went to Penn state.
I commuted to school when you were on campus. Did they, it was sloppy Joes. Were they on a menu? They were not, they were not on the menu. So maybe we've at least moved past that sloppy Joe's great American food.
How about that? What is a slot? What is it? Is it ground beef? What is it?
Why is it so sloppy? Is it burger meat? What is it? It's I'm pretty sure right ground beef with like, it's not like, I mean, not tomato sauce per se, but like some sort of like tomato esque sauce. It's like, let's slap, let's slap some something together for you to put in your stomach so you can have the bubble guts while you sit in class.
What are we doing? It's a great question. Great American food.
You know, Hickey, I thought about that last night. Somebody was telling me about a pub and I like, ah, I went to a pub and uh, is it Scotland or Ireland pick one? I don't know. And there was a section on the menu that said American like American foods, you know, I guess for the Americans who go out overseas and they don't know anything. Right.
So of course we have to feed you what you're used to because you're a stupid American. Right. Right. Sloppy Joes was in that section. Oh geez. This is what they think we eat.
Oh boy. Like, you know what we can give an American? Sloppy Joes.
What else? Apple pie. Yeah. A hamburger. Pizza.
Pizza and some chicken wings. Yeah. That's what those Americans like to eat. Yeah. Stupid fat Americans. Here you go.
All things that Andy Reid will probably eat. Yeah. He's loving it.
I love it too. I haven't had wings in a couple of weeks. I'm due. Maybe when I get out of work, I'll go to JR crickets or something here in Atlanta and get me some wings.
If you're here in Atlanta, you hear me, please deliver some wings to the studio. Uh, anyway, speaking of, uh, ingesting things, digesting things, speaking of wide receivers, we all learned that Jamison Hickey, I can't even take myself seriously. I'm such a jerk. I'm trying my best folks. I'm trying my best. When we come back, Hickey, make sure you play one of those, uh, those listeners that talk about how, uh, sophisticated and nice I am. Okay.
Not the ones that said they make you, uh, make them laugh their ass off. No, no, no, no play. We need balance.
We need balance. One of the best to ever do it. Mature. Yeah. Mature play one. I don't think I have one of those.
I have to do some doctoring in the break here. Not sure if any callers use the word mature and JR in the same sentence, but yeah, somebody said something like that along the lines and, but maturity is something that Jamison Williams needs. Yeah. The Detroit lines wide receiver. He gone, he's gone for a couple of weeks. You're going for two games.
What a sad story. This is every time this guy gets wound up. He's just like, you slap right back down to game band performance enhancing substances policy. And I said yesterday, I said, and Hickey, we're like, well, what did the guy take two games? Like if he, if he was doing hard drugs out there, if he was really doing hard drugs, man, they would have put them away for a year, put them in a program. They would have given him a bunch of games, two games.
And I made a joke that how bad could it be? He must've got one of those pills from the gas station. Like, okay, well he took the wrong Flintstone vitamins, two games.
How about Jamison Williams? Doesn't even know what he took. How about he has no clue what triggered this positive test leading to a two game suspension. He is not going to appeal, but he says, this is a complete surprise to him as well.
This is kind of crazy. He says, I don't take supplements or vitamins, and I'm overly cautious about even taking over the counter medicine. At no time have I ever taken something in an attempt to cheat or look for an unfair advantage.
I understand that I am responsible for everything that goes into my body and I have to take accountability in this instance. We have no idea. I don't know. I don't know if there's a suspension trifecta. This man has already been suspended for gambling. He's been suspended for performance enhancing drugs. And let's just all hope and pray that he doesn't get suspended for anything else into the future. This man is the second leading wide receiver for the most dynamic offense in the NFL right behind Amman Ra St. Brown.
This year, Jamison Williams, 361 yards receiving to go along with three touchdowns. This guy's a burner. It doesn't seem that he needs to take a performance enhancing anything specifically for the football field. This guy breaks off the line of scrimmage and he gone. Amman Ra St. Brown, he spoke to the media today and he says, you know what? Yeah, he's suspended for two games, but he is being an adult about it. Listen, you know, we trust him a lot. Like Dan said, you know, he was out there practicing with us the past two days. I'm pretty sure he'll be with us next week too. So he's only missing a few days of actually him actually being in the facility. Obviously we're going to miss him on game days out there on Sundays, but he's here. He's getting reps and mental reps, all that stuff.
It's unfortunate that he has a two he has a two-game suspension, but I think, you know, we all talk to him as receivers. I mean, he's doing fine. His mental space is good. You know, whatever happened happened and he's going to move on from it. And he's, he's, he's handled it like a grown man. What else is there for him to learn about?
Right? I don't know. The suspension is a surprise to him. Well, did you do something different? I don't know. Is he vaping? I don't know.
How do you get something in your body and don't know what it is? And okay. You said it's a surprise. Fine. Last year was the gambling at the, the, the team facility or stadium. Just stay on the field, dude.
Just, just stay on the field. 855-212-4227. That's 855-212-4227. Greg is here from Michigan. You're on the JR sport breeze show. What's up, Greg?
JR, Mr. Positive. Thanks for taking my call. Hey, real quick. I've been in the industry. You can take products that are over the, uh, over the table and they can have banned substances in it.
Uh, for instance, protein pre-workouts just, uh, give you a heads up. And I just got to ask you, did you win the Powerball? Someone won in Georgia and I thought of you. No, I didn't play.
I've never played Powerball in my life. Am I missing out? Well, yeah, it would have been about 450 million. A little bit.
You'd have missed out a little bit. Just a little bit. What am I gonna do with it? Well, they're going to tax half of it and I'm gonna go broke with the other half, right? Oh, stop it.
It's good. You could give it away, help people give it away. JR does best help the world become a better place. Give it away.
Well, you know, your family, charities, yourself, you know, indulge. I got to ask you. Yes.
Yes. Um, we lost hutch. Um, we're not going to get Crosby. We're not going to get Miles Garrett. We need somebody to make someone get uncomfortable in the pocket, like Patrick Mahomes or Josh Elvis Allen. Who do you recommend? We're, we're, we're not going to the Super Bowl unless we get an outside pass rusher.
We need one chair. Who do you recommend? Nobody, man.
I think you asked me this. I think they stand pat. Like you said it, who's available for them to go out there and get it. I don't think anybody is.
I think the offense, I think the offense is prolific enough that they're going to hang in games with anybody. Yeah. You're missing Aiden Hutchinson, but there's nobody, nobody who's going to replace them. Nobody, nobody. It's like, Hey, and I'm, I'm not putting him in that space yet. If, if Lawrence, if Lawrence Taylor went down, could you, could you trade for a guy to replace him? Uh, you're spot on.
No. If Reggie, if Reggie, if Reggie white went out, you just going to trade for another guy to replace. If Aaron Donald went down, like some guys who don't.
Yeah, you don't. This man, how many sacks did he have before he was hurt? Seven and a half. Yeah. Seven and a half. This dude was on his way to maybe your sacks come and go.
He could have pushed 20. I mean, unless you, unless you've got some scheme where you're just going to wake up and just say, Hey, you know, we got TJ watt and we, God knows that ain't happening. Forget about it. Okay. Okay.
Sorry. Can you, can you play edge? Can you play? No, I'm chubby. I used to bench five and squat and double 700, but no, I'm, I'm old. I'm 63. I'm over the hill.
My friend was like, you can still give something. Damn. That's all. No, no, no. Hey, love you, JR. Everybody go for your dreams. Thanks. Thank you so much, Greg, for calling from Michigan.
I feel like I had disappointed him with the reality. The lions will still be fine. The lions will still compete for a title. Are they going to have somebody who's who looks like a future hall of fame pass rusher after only being here for what, two, three years?
Uh, no, they're not going to have him. They'll be fine. They'll be fine.
They put up the points. They'll be fine. Lions will be good.
Tell Jamison Williams to show up the work and stop taking the drugs, whatever the hell he took, stay off all of it. It's the JR sport. We show here with you on the infinity sports network, the lions yet. They'll still compete for a championship tomorrow. We got two teams and major league baseball. They're going for a championship. We got the Dodgers. You got the Yankees, two of the biggest markets in America. I guess America is going to tune in and root for both of them to lose.
It's impossible, but you can root for both the loose. We'll talk about them on the other side of the break. You're listening to the JR sport brief. It's the JR sport brief show here with you coast to coast on the infinity sports network.
8 5 5 2 1 2 42 27. That's 8 5 5 2 1 2 42 27 NBA season is underway. I told you we got some more games coming Celtics and the wizards in a few minutes that are going to be ass whooping, uh, hit me up in about an hour. I'll be here in the studio talking to you and I will be watching the Spurs and the Dallas Mavericks.
That's 7 foot 4, 7 foot 5. Victor, when Benyama picky, he's my favorite player in the NBA. I want to see him smash everybody shot, just block Luca into oblivion. And he sounds like he's very motivated coming into this year, so he absolutely could do that. Did he called a lot of these NBA stars lazy?
I want to see what when Benyama does in year number two. And right before we went to break, we talked about some of the wide receivers in the NFL. We're going to get into the Minnesota Vikings in the Los Angeles Rams at the top of the hour.
And that's our Thursday night football matchup. And I told you, and you heard from DeAndre Hopkins, who is fondly a member of the Kansas City Chiefs. And then we talked about, uh, Jamison Williams from the Detroit lions. Who's now facing, or he's not facing. He is, he has been suspended, uh, two games for performance enhancing drugs.
And I got to tell you this news that I'm about to share with you now is not surprising. Josh Reynolds already, he's injured for the Denver Broncos. He's already hurt, right? This man was shot leaving a strip club in Denver last week. Reynolds and two other men were reportedly followed while leaving the strip club and were shot at while riding inside a blue Ford Bronco. Reynolds was reportedly shot twice, once in the back of his head and once in his left arm. Another man was shot in the back.
A third victim was wounded by broken glass. Damn. Oh my goodness. Hickey. Oh, you can't make this up.
You can't. Are you ready for this Hickey? Are you ready for this?
I'm ready. The incident occurred at shotgun Willy's in suburban Denver, the same strip club where grizzly star Jon Morant infamously brandished the firearm on a live stream. If I ever make it out to Denver, um, no disrespect to the great people at shotgun Willy's. I think I'll go somewhere else.
Is this a, is this an SNL spoof or is this reality? How is shotgun Willy's still open? How do they have a license?
Maybe change the name. Sorry that it's like the shotgun out of the name and they, they must be paying people off. They must be putting money under the table. I don't, do strip clubs have inspectors? Do they? They got a liquor license. I know they have that. That they do. Do they have inspectors though? That's a great question. I mean, well, would you, would you sign inspectors there?
What are they inspecting is maybe the question. Would you sign up? I mean, there's still time. I mean, like when this show ends, you can be a inspector. You can do that. You can do that job on the side.
I guess you're right. I mean, I guess the question is when do you inspect? Do you inspect when people are there and it's busy or do you inspect when it's quiet so you can actually really move around?
The ones I know are open almost all day, you know, 10 AM to 3 AM. Okay. You expect when things are busy, you know? Uh, right.
You kind of get the, the vibe, right? Makes us fire hazards. Yes. Things actually play out in real time.
See how God forbid if there's a fire, how people get out. Right. Right.
Lots of moving pieces and parts to the Rogers calling from Arizona eight five five two one two 42 27 eight five five two one two 42 27. Roger, how are you? Good. How are you doing?
JR? I'm amazing. What's up?
Well, I tell you what, I'm just calling because I, I have a job that I can listen to the sports shows throughout the day, kind of off and on. But I just, you, you just have the best show. And I just want to tell you that when you can get my attention for a whole segment and a half, and even now I'm even kind of curious what happened in regards to an umbrella that you, I like that is a good talk show.
That is good stuff there. So I never did find out. Did you ever get your umbrella back or not? Oh, you, you mean, you mean, oh, you, I don't, you mean my friend Eddie, who I see every day at a hotel guy who took my umbrella?
Yes. He gave it back. You talked about, I was just laughing, just having a great time. Listen to that umbrella as you kept on bringing up that umbrella.
But I never found out what happened to the umbrella. Yeah. Yeah. I talked about it.
Yeah. Well now, you know, but I did, I did reference it the next day. I was surprised. And so for anyone now, now Roger, now I got to tell the umbrella, it was pouring rain.
It was the hurricane when not, not the last one, but one of the stupid ones that came by that just have ripped the country apart. And so I was, I was walking into the building here to come to the studio. And one of my good friends is a hotel connected to the studio. And one of my buddies saw my umbrella. He works, sees the head valet man. And he says, Hey man, I need that umbrella. He's walking in the rain and I can't leave my guy.
I see him every day when I come to work. And so I gave him my, my fancy golf umbrella. That was a gift to me. It's the best umbrella ever had in my life, but I had to give it to him because he's my friend and he treats me nice. And I told Hickey and I told everybody, I said, my umbrella is gone. I said, I just gave it to a hotel valet. I know I'm never seeing this umbrella again. And sure enough, when this show finished and I walked by the valet just to see if my umbrella was there, I did not see my friend Eddie, but I looked under the valet's table and my umbrella was right there. And then all of a sudden my guy, Eddie popped up and I said, yo, Eddie, you really, you really had, he said, of course, my friend, I got you.
And he did. So there's, there's a story of my umbrella. Yeah. Well, I'm glad you got your umbrella back and I again, appreciate your show and you and Hickey just made my day. So keep on doing your thing.
Cause it's fun to listen to. Well, thank you, Roger. We're going to chop this up and use this in perpetuity. Okay. All right. Thank you so much. Take it easy, Roger.
Thank you for calling from Arizona. Yeah. Like I want to, I want to have a fun show and say fun thing. It should be fun. Oh yeah.
You know, just have some fun. Why not? 855-212-4227.
That's 855-212-4227. People try to make sports miserable enough. Yell and scream and be angry at people. And I don't, I don't know anything about nothing. I'm just a guy who sits here.
Okay. David is calling from Dallas. You're on the JR sport re show us up, David. JR, I don't understand why these boys got to go out and do all this party in downtown when they got so much money, they can hire the strippers. They can, they held their, their estates are big enough to build nightclubs.
Then why keep going out? And also, if you haven't noticed, there's always one demographic that's doing it with Peyton Manning was there. He wasn't at the shotgun Willy's.
Joe could use it at the shotgun Willy's. Oh my God. You saying the black people are the only people going to the strip club? No, but they seem to be the ones with the gun issues and, and you know, everybody's getting killed.
Remember the Bronco players got killed there 20 years ago. Oh my God, David. Hey, let me tell you, tell me you're racist without telling me you're racist.
David, get out of here. Are you serious? People getting shot all over the place everywhere. How about it just so happens to be that maybe 70% of the NFL players are black.
And did you, did you account into that? Last time I checked, he wasn't leaving a strip club, but we had a guy walking through downtown San Francisco. He got shot by a Latino person. This guy's white. People are getting shot all over the place. It's awful. It's terrible.
Maybe it's, maybe it's because most of the athletes are black. Did you, did you think about that? Sheesh. Picky, why is that guy so racist? Not that you have an answer, but geez.
I, I have no answer. I was shocked. He's like, Hey, did you ever notice that the black people in the NFL are getting shot at the strip club? It's like, yeah. Have you noticed seven, eight out of 10 NFL players are black?
That would, I think that would have an effect on it. You don't think your best friend, Billy's getting shot at the strip club. Oh yeah. Billy's white, but he's not an NFL player. What are you supposed to do? You talk about athletes. Hey, I just noticed too the 70 to 80% of the NBA players, they're black too. What am I doing?
What am I doing? Picky, who's the most famous white American basketball player right now? Let's think about them. Who is it? You got to think hard, right?
American makes it tricky. I know, right? No Jokic. No Luca. Oh man.
Who is it? Damn. Wow. Oh, come on. Holy. Oh, there has to be somebody here that we are just a girl or European, right? No whites basketball, American basketball.
I mean, right now, do you have to go to the college? Oh man. Oh wow.
Who else is Duke pushed out here? Oh man. Everybody I'm going, Kyle Korver. Kyle Korver, Jimmer Fredetti, these guys are done. Oh man. Jimmer mania. Oh man, I'm hickey.
This is, I'm really out of luck. There's gotta be, oh damn. Max Drews. Does he count? Max Drews. Oh man.
Should we think? No, no, no. We'll get to, I can think NFL.
I go, it's all the quarterbacks. That's easy. Or most of them. Damn. Damn. We, we've been, I'm not looking it up. I get, if I go through a list of like top 50 NBA guys, I'd be stumped. Uh, Sabonis. Does he count? No, right? No, no, no. Not Sabonis.
I think he was born in America, but we're not going to count him. Uh, damn. Wow.
Yeah. What was that guy's name from Denver? Uh, no, it was David from Dallas.
David from Dallas. You're dumb ass. Does this help answer your question? Why is it only the black people that we hear about? Well, the majority of them happen to be in the leagues. You're genius. It's the JR sport reshow. Be better than that guy on the infinity sports network. We're going to talk some baseball and try to answer this question on the other side. Don't move.
