"LeBron James"

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Speaker 3 Sean, I just want to say as right as we start at the top of the show, I just want to say

Speaker 3 this is our 52nd episode of Smart Land. 52? That's a year.
In a year. That's a one.

Speaker 2 In a year. Freaking year.

Speaker 3 A whole year.

Speaker 3 God. This is the 52nd episode of Smartland.

Speaker 3 Smart.

Speaker 3 smart

Speaker 3 less.

Speaker 3 Oh my god.

Speaker 4 So, yeah, let's get to it. This is, I'm not sure if you guys are aware, but this is our 52nd episode, which means we have hit one year

Speaker 4 since we started the nonsense.

Speaker 2 Yeah. 52 weeks.

Speaker 3 Isn't that amazing? Isn't that incredible?

Speaker 2 Remember when we first started talking about doing this?

Speaker 3 Yeah, I do.

Speaker 4 Yeah, I thought it was really just going to be three, four, five weeks, maybe something like that.

Speaker 4 And then we'd COVID would be over and we'd be back to our day jobs.

Speaker 4 But, God, this is. Thank you, everyone, for listening.
Yeah, thanks to the listeners for letting Will, Sean, and I continue to visit with one another every week.

Speaker 3 Coming

Speaker 4 friendship alive.

Speaker 3 For me,

Speaker 3 it really spending this last year with you guys in this way, even more than normal has been a really great sort of antidote to an otherwise not amazing year and uh being able to hang out with you guys has been fucking a real savior to me anyway for my mental health i i really mean that likewise it's been a nice thing to be able to count on once a week i feel so lucky to um be even closer to you guys and have this experience to echo what will said together and uh and and the opportunity to laugh together which to me is life And it's not just the three of us.

Speaker 3 Obviously,

Speaker 3 it's our whole team. And the other part of that team is Bennett Barbicow and Rob Armyarv and Michael Terry.
But we always know that Rob's name is always Rob Armyarv. Armyarv.

Speaker 3 Is that how you say it, Sean? Because Jason says it.

Speaker 2 I like to say it the phonetic way. I like saying Rob Amjerv.

Speaker 3 Well, that's how it's spelled. Yeah, that's himself.
So that's instead of Armyarv. Because even he doesn't know how you're supposed to say it.

Speaker 2 He doesn't even know how to say Rob.

Speaker 3 Oh, he doesn't know how to say the Rob. Om Yarv.

Speaker 4 Om Yarv.

Speaker 3 Om Yarv. Bennett Barbicow, that's easy to say.
And Michael Terry, that's easy to say. Yeah.
But they make it happen. Those guys are fucking champs.
And honestly, it's.

Speaker 3 We wouldn't be here without them.

Speaker 3 I want to see the socials line up in appreciation for Bennett, Rob, and Michael. Yeah.

Speaker 4 Truly, honestly, sincerely, thank you to anyone who has been spending some time with us and

Speaker 4 letting us keep the lights on, as I think they say.

Speaker 3 Yeah, and putting up with our nonsense and knowing that we're just here having fun, just like you guys, honestly.

Speaker 4 I'm so glad you guys don't have to pay for this.

Speaker 3 It's free.

Speaker 4 It's priced right.

Speaker 3 But

Speaker 3 we can announce, right, Jason?

Speaker 4 We can officially say that we are going to do a Smartless tour.

Speaker 3 We are doing a Smartlist tour. We're going on tour.
That's right. Smartlist is going on tour.
We are going to six cities in North America.

Speaker 3 And we have a ton to discuss, dates, venues, even a special promo code for our listener.

Speaker 4 Yeah, yeah, yeah, but that's too much to make our guest wait for. So that's going to be at the end.
But right now, we got to get to what might be our greatest of all time.

Speaker 3 Oh, oh, yeah.

Speaker 4 We have with us someone that would be best described as a true force.

Speaker 4 He's taken the gifts he's been given and the influence he holds and pointed them towards a full menu of things that are truly too long to mention in an intro.

Speaker 4 However, a couple to throw out there would be the creation of a world-class elementary school and a family foundation.

Speaker 4 He's part owner, Will, of one of the world's most famous soccer teams. What? And he has starred in five films.
He's married to his high school sweetheart. He has three kids.

Speaker 4 He was recruited to play football by Notre Dame, but instead, this fool took a gamble on basketball where he just can't seem to find any success. Guys, please meet Mr.
LeBron James.

Speaker 3 Yes.

Speaker 4 Did I have you fooled?

Speaker 3 That was a good intro right there, Jason.

Speaker 4 That's a pretty good intro. You've never been introduced like that before, right? People go on about that.

Speaker 3 Jason, that was a good one.

Speaker 4 It's a good one.

Speaker 4 Oh, my God. But truly, let me tell you something, LeBron, going through, and I don't do a lot of research, as the guys will attest.
I will go to a Wikipedia page, though. Your page is more of a book.

Speaker 4 And I just, I just hit F it real quick. I didn't know where to begin.

Speaker 3 There's so much stuff.

Speaker 4 But truly, the stuff about philanthropy and family and all that stuff, we're going to get into because I think everyone else knows the other stuff. But, men,

Speaker 3 go ahead. Will, you got something to say.
First of all, I was going to say, I just took off. I was wearing a Lakers t-shirt.
This is crazy. I just took it off because I worked out.

Speaker 3 And you don't want to get into my workout routine, LeBron, because it's a good thing.

Speaker 3 I bet he'd love to hear it. I mean, well, these shoulders, you know, they don't quit.
I mean, I've tried to fuck. Those are natural.
They don't quit. Yeah.

Speaker 4 But what about the Liverpool element? That was a real shocker to me. That's, you know, I'm not a smart guy, but Will, did you know that? Will's a huge soccer fan, LeBron.

Speaker 3 I read that. I'm a big Liverpool, I'm a big Liverpool supporter, and I have been for a number of years, and I'm friendly with a bunch.

Speaker 3 But I had read that you were part owner, which is so crazy because I'm like another thing that LeBron and I have in common.

Speaker 3 Oh, yeah. There it is.
You know what I mean? The shoulders, the soccer stuff, dominating the shoulders.

Speaker 3 The shoulders in Liverpool. LeBron,

Speaker 3 I have to say,

Speaker 2 this is especially exciting for me because I know who you are.

Speaker 3 Oh, boy. Yeah.

Speaker 4 We've had a few athletes on the show, and Sean just goes to start playing Candy Crush, and we pick it up after the guest goes away.

Speaker 3 I think it's absolutely thrilling.

Speaker 2 I can't believe you're here. This is so exciting.
Thank you very much.

Speaker 3 I have so many things I want to say to ask you that I've just thought about.

Speaker 3 One of the things is you're such an incredible, Jason's right, you are a force, and you've been such an incredible, you're so iconic already, which is crazy because you're still a relatively young man, a lot younger than we are.

Speaker 3 We could be his dad. We could be his dad, but you've done so much, and it's so impressive to watch you do it, and you do it with such,

Speaker 3 there's a grace about you.

Speaker 3 Part of the problem I think about being on top, and I wouldn't know, but part of the problem is that you are subjected to a lot of slings and arrows

Speaker 3 from people from all sides. Not the least of which is, I think every year since you got drafted, people are like, who's the greatest of all time? Is it LeBron?

Speaker 3 There's a poll every six hours. ESPN will put it on their page like, and who, is LeBron greater than Michael Jordan? It's like, guys, he's LeBron.
He's his own person.

Speaker 3 That shit must get exhausting, be honest. It must be exhausting.
No, it can. It can't be exhausting.
I mean, you said it, but

Speaker 3 I've always looked at it like anytime you compared or or you even mentioned it with the greats that ever played this game, it's just become humbling for me because, you know, the same people they put me in the category with or saying compare this, compare this to that guy, are the same guys that I looked up to for inspiration when I was growing up.

Speaker 3 And I needed that inspiration, you know, growing up in the inner city here in Akron of Ohio.

Speaker 3 So, you know, to have, you know, the Michael Jordans and to have the, you know, the Kobe Bryants, to have Ken Griffey Jr.'s and the Deion Sanders, all those unbelievable sports figures, you know,

Speaker 3 when I needed it, you know, they helped me. So it's like, wow, you guys are comparing me to these greatest players that I've ever seen when I was growing up.
It's just like, it's such humbling, man.

Speaker 4 Yeah, the stats will certainly put you in that category without even trying. But

Speaker 4 what you've done off the court, the stuff you don't need to do, but you find yourself drawn to do, and as a result of your success on the court, has given you access to do and the capital to do, I find really, really admirable.

Speaker 4 I'm envious of it.

Speaker 4 There's a drive, though, that has to fuel that because you're tired, I'll bet, doing the stuff that is your day job. How do you find Jason's tired for you?

Speaker 4 But I'm sure you have a great infrastructure of people that can identify some charitable endeavors that are worthy of your time and the attention that you can put on them.

Speaker 4 I'm sure you rely on them a bit, but a lot of that's got to be your own self-drive and to motivate those people to be diligent in how they assess certain charitable organizations and whatnot.

Speaker 4 Where does that drive come from,

Speaker 4 that drive of philanthropy?

Speaker 3 No, you just, I mean, you said it, Jason. I think for me, the drive comes from my upbringing.

Speaker 3 And, you know, growing up the way I grew up, you know, I'm a part of a single parent household, just me and my mother, no siblings, you know, not much care.

Speaker 3 My mom worked on and off, you know, my whole childhood. So, you know, every day was kind of a struggle for us as a family.

Speaker 3 So, I felt that if I've ever was even put into a position, this is also part of my inspiration too growing up.

Speaker 3 If I was ever put in a position where I could succeed at doing anything and I can make any kind of dollars, anything as far as capital, that I want to give a lot of it back. I want to give

Speaker 3 a lot of it back to my community because I understand what those kids are going through on a day-to-day basis. Because I've walked those same streets, I've tackled those same corners.

Speaker 3 I know the hardships of what a single parent household kid could feel like and the pressures and the adversity and all that stuff that comes with it.

Speaker 2 And to see that change. Yeah, yeah.
To see the change

Speaker 2 happen from your efforts, it's got to be unbelievably rewarding.

Speaker 3 Yeah, I mean,

Speaker 3 to hear some of the family shine and like, Will, you know, you guys, I mean, just to see some of the families come and tell, you know, either, you know, the faculty members that's at my school or the teachers that, you know, I've changed their lives or tell my mother because now my mom is huge into the foundation and she welcomes a lot of the is she a part of it?

Speaker 3 What? Yes.

Speaker 3 She's like one of the head advisor boards of my foundation where I basically have an apartment complex here as well

Speaker 3 where I welcome a lot of the underprivileged families in and we set them up with room and board, you know, that we're not in a position where they can, you know, afford their own living. So,

Speaker 3 you know, it's pretty cool. My mom welcomes all these families in.

Speaker 4 That's awesome. So she's kind of like an ambassador, yeah?

Speaker 3 Exactly, exactly.

Speaker 3 But you say, like, you came up, you know, you talk about your own childhood and to recognize, look, I really struggled, and so I want to be able to give back and really do it in a way, in a really practical way.

Speaker 3 A lot of people talk about it, but you actually do it. And, you know, look at Sean.
Sean grew up. You had a tougher, you know, childhood and stuff.
And you turned your back on your community.

Speaker 3 And you've got to do it.

Speaker 3 He went the other way. He kept things simple.
He lives in a mansion and he spends his money on. And I watched it.
I would send people headshots. I

Speaker 3 free though.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 3 And Jason doesn't know what the what, you know, Jason jumped the line famously to in line for the first iPhone. So like we all have our own thing.

Speaker 3 Let me just say this.

Speaker 3 LeBron, you could have

Speaker 3 every single incarnation of the iPhone. You know what I mean?

Speaker 3 But my point is this. My point is, you could have gotten, you've had everything, you've had so much success.
You could have just sailed away on a yacht and never looked back.

Speaker 3 He's finding time to do that too right we get some yacht hours each year yes yeah yeah yeah we get some yachts chase we get some yacht hours yeah

Speaker 3 wade have you been on a yacht with lebron and you haven't told us but i know how to get to the daily mail right i mean listen

Speaker 3 um

Speaker 3 So so you're a kid.

Speaker 4 So you're a kid.

Speaker 4 You're hanging out and you're thinking, boy, if I can ever get this jump shot to really go down in a consistent way, I might be able to get myself to a place where I could either get out of here here or stay here and help give back to this community.

Speaker 4 What was the moment when you thought to yourself, oh, you know what? This is going to work. And I think I've got a very realistic chance of making it.

Speaker 4 And now I'm starting to think about what I'm going to do if I do make it, starting your plans about philanthropy. And, you know, because a lot of kids fantasize in school.

Speaker 4 When I'm older, I want to be a teacher. So I don't have to do any of the school work.
And I can give, like, what was that moment like? And what were those first few plans?

Speaker 3 Do you remember that? Was there a moment? Yeah, I feel like, yeah, the beginning of my junior year, I was 16 years old.

Speaker 3 So it was right after my sophomore year in the summer, going into my junior year.

Speaker 3 I was on the cover of Sports Illustrated. That'll do.
And

Speaker 3 they dubbed me the chosen one at 16 years old.

Speaker 3 And I love it. No pressure.
By the way, no pressure. Right, right, right.

Speaker 4 And the jinx of the cover on top of it all.

Speaker 3 Right, and the jinx of the cover.

Speaker 3 So a lot of NBA execs were talking and they were saying that, you know, if I entered the draft, you know, right now I could be the number one pick and, you know, but, you know, doing all those things.

Speaker 3 So I felt like I seen the success that I was having. And the reason that I knew I wanted to come back and give back to my community is because I knew the success that I was having.

Speaker 3 Yes, it had to do with my God-given abilities and my talent and me putting in the work, but the support that I had from my coaches and my friends and my mom, they stayed on my ass every day.

Speaker 3 Like, listen, this is what we're going to do. this is what we doing we all listen we have an opportunity to make this bigger than even what other people are saying let's not fuck it up like that's all

Speaker 3 you know so you know it's tough on a 16 year old because listen me and my friends we want to do you know first year driving we want to go to house parties we want to go you know hang with the other high school kids and do kid things but you know

Speaker 3 right yo jason knows about the kid things right like driving off the warner brothers lot when you're 16 and divorce but listen wait I have a question. I have a question.

Speaker 2 But with your, but LeBron, with your kids, your own kids, what an incredible story you have to pass down to them about your struggle and then how you turn it around and how you're giving back.

Speaker 2 Is it something that they get? And if they don't get it, do you grind it in their brains? It's like, you've got to keep looking at me. You've got to keep looking at my story.

Speaker 2 You have got to learn how to give back. I mean, it's so cool to have a dad that does all that.

Speaker 3 There's absolutely nothing I can do, nothing I can do to give them the same moment or aspirations or like drive that I had. It's just too, I mean.

Speaker 2 You can't teach ambition.

Speaker 3 No, I can't. I grew up in Akron, Ohio in the inner city, you know, and the hood is what we call it, the projects.

Speaker 3 And my kids are growing up four years in Miami on South Beach and now four are going on five years in Brentwood. So,

Speaker 3 you know, and when we were here for those four-year run, when I was in Cleveland, they were younger. You know, we're in it.
We're now in the suburbs.

Speaker 3 So I went to public schools and challenged in public schools until I got to high school because of my basketball ability. But these kids are growing up in private schools.

Speaker 3 So the one thing that I can do is instill the morals and what we do in this house.

Speaker 3 And this is how you need to represent yourself when you lead a house as a young man. I got two boys, two teenage boys.
I got a daughter that's seven years old.

Speaker 3 So you give them the blueprint and then then you got to let them, you know,

Speaker 3 I hope that they have some adversity. You know, they need some hardships.

Speaker 3 I hope they find some along this way because you really only know who you are and you're only going to be able to come back from situations because the best teacher in life is experience. Yeah.

Speaker 4 Yeah. And I bet you lean on mom a lot too, right? Your wife.
I bet your wife is incredibly important to with all the time you're spending on the road.

Speaker 4 I mean, the three of us know as well, the amount of time you spend away from home is immense. and you really have to lean on your

Speaker 4 partner.

Speaker 4 Like my wife is part-time dad, too, you know?

Speaker 3 Yeah, for sure. They're literally the boss of the household.
Like, we're gone so much. We all know that, dad, it's hard for us to come home and be like, okay, this is the hell we're doing.

Speaker 3 This is how we're doing. And like, dad, you've been gone for four or five months straight.
Like, like, dad, okay. Like, mom already told us, go sit down, dad,

Speaker 3 I mean, listen, it sounds like your kids are going to have a little bit of adversity, but that sunset traffic coming out of Brentwood, getting over over the 405. Forget it.

Speaker 4 The crawl to Barrington is just a matter of time.

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Speaker 1 20th Century Studios presents the upcoming comedy, Ella McKay, from Academy Award-winning writer-director James L. Brooks.

Speaker 1 Emma Mackey plays Ella McKay, an idealistic young woman who juggles her family and work life in a story about the people you love and how to survive them, featuring an all-star cast, including Emma Mackey, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jack Louden, Kumale Ninjani, Iowa Deborey, Julie Kavner, with Albert Brooks and Woody Harrelson.

Speaker 1 Ella McKay, in theaters December 12th.

Speaker 2 And now back to the show.

Speaker 3 You know, you do all this stuff and you've got this school

Speaker 3 where you provide opportunities. I mean, Jason brought it up.

Speaker 3 I love the way, by the way, as you were talking about growing up, you kept saying, we, you know, that the people who are around you are saying, we have an opportunity. We have an opportunity.

Speaker 3 You know, we got to keep going. We got to keep doing the things the way that you were part of something and that you relied, like as you talked about, these people that you leaned on.

Speaker 3 I love that you talked about in that we. I think it's so important to sort of have that kind of support system.

Speaker 3 But as you talk to kids who don't have the jump shot that you had, as you, what do you say to those kids who are like, look, man, I hit the lottery. I had a tremendous amount of skill.

Speaker 3 I had great people around me. I had God-given gifts and I had the willpower to do it.
That was the perfect storm. That's not going to be the experience for 99.9% of the kids.

Speaker 3 No question, no question about it. That's the one thing that we have, like at my school here,

Speaker 3 we don't even have a basketball complex at my school, you know, but we have, we have an art, we have an art room, we have a music lab, we have a technology lab, we're a computer.

Speaker 3 So like we're, we're, we're all every single day asking our kids, what do you want to do?

Speaker 3 You know, a lot of them say sports, but a lot of them like, listen, I want to be a doctor, you know, so we have doctors that come in and talk to our kids. A lot of them say, okay, I want to be a cop.

Speaker 3 You know, we got cops, you know, obviously at the front door when they walk in, that's so kind to our kids and they can talk to them and give them guidance. Like, what do you want to be?

Speaker 3 Like, what do you want to be? What's your aspiration? What are your dreams? You might not even know what your aspirations are right now, but you do have dreams.

Speaker 3 We all had dreams about what we wanted to be.

Speaker 3 So, you know, if it's something that they have passion about, we try to bring it to the school and try to give them the resources to, you know, let's see if we can tap into it. And

Speaker 3 you might fail that first one, you know, let's try it again. Or you might say, I don't, let's try something else.
You know, that's all about being a kid.

Speaker 3 You try so many things until you finally figure out, okay, oh, this is what I want to do. And then let's try to give them the resources.
That's my whole thing.

Speaker 3 I want to just give them the resources to be able to tap into whatever they want to do. I love that.

Speaker 2 And now,

Speaker 2 I want to ask you stuff about playing in the game because, you know, I played basketball when I was a kid, and I was like, I know.

Speaker 4 I was like,

Speaker 2 no, I did. And I was like, when everybody, when the ball would be rebounded.

Speaker 3 Here we go.

Speaker 3 When you did.

Speaker 3 When you're saying the LeBron, you're describing playing basketball to LeBron James. Sorry, I interrupted.

Speaker 2 So when I was a kid, I played.

Speaker 4 Tell them about your experience playing basketball.

Speaker 2 I played basketball, and whenever there was a rebound, and everybody would run to the end of the other opposite end of the court i'd go go no you guys go i'll catch i'm right behind you

Speaker 3 because seriously you guys are cherry picking i'm so close i'm i'm i'm just gonna take a beat but i'm right behind you guys

Speaker 3 take a beat

Speaker 2 my breath but wait but here's the thing but i look at you because i've been to a couple lakers game live courts i was lucky enough to have courtside seats and and seeing you i have to say seeing seeing seeing you play live and seeing the the whole team play live is so much more thrilling than tv but tv is thrilling too but to see it live it's just unbelievably exciting and and i don't i couldn't even possibly begin to understand

Speaker 2 how you do what you do but here's the thing here comes the question guys it's worth the wait

Speaker 2 when you're running down i mean it seems like it's

Speaker 3 tired yeah it's just an endless amount of energy who cuts the oranges Do the parents take turns bringing oranges for halftime?

Speaker 3 Sean's going to ask you guys.

Speaker 3 There it goes.

Speaker 3 No, you've been doing it for so long.

Speaker 3 Do you get tired?

Speaker 4 Oh, God.

Speaker 4 LeBron, I got a question.

Speaker 3 Here's now.

Speaker 4 What about your phone?

Speaker 2 Wait, I want to know about injuries.

Speaker 3 My whole point was asking about injuries. Okay.

Speaker 2 So I'm obsessed with medical stories, right? I host another podcast. It's called Hypochondriactor because I'm an actor who's a hypochondriac anyway.

Speaker 2 And I just wanted to know what kind of injuries you've ever had. What was the worst one you've ever had? And did you play through it?

Speaker 3 The worst injury I had tore my groin two years ago. How does that happen? Playing on Christmas Day in Golden State.

Speaker 3 Sean did the same thing in Mikonos. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 But it was so worth it.

Speaker 3 I was just

Speaker 3 sitting up there and I was hit hard.

Speaker 3 Oh, my God. I swear, if I was in Meek and those at Tour, my girl would have been working too.
I tell you that.

Speaker 4 Daily Mail would love it.

Speaker 3 Oh, I know. I did not keep playing.
I felt like my balls was ripping off.

Speaker 3 It was over with. Yeah, it was over with.

Speaker 3 Oh, really? Yeah.

Speaker 4 Something that I think is very, very interesting, among many things, is Randy Maverick and Rich. Now, fellas, these are three of of his best friends from growing up, and you guys figured out a sort of

Speaker 4 a four-legged table to go through the rest of your life. And everyone kind of talked about, I would imagine, what their lanes would be and how we can be a unit and we can drive this thing.

Speaker 4 What were those conversations like and how early did that start?

Speaker 3 Well, it started, I mean, it was early on. After

Speaker 3 my rookie year in the NBA,

Speaker 3 I realized at 19 years old, that the representation that I was under at that time wasn't best suited for me

Speaker 3 and it wasn't going to allow me to grow not only as a basketball player, but also as a, I wanted to be a businessman as well.

Speaker 3 I wanted to be in control of my business and it was something that was unprecedented and shone upon in the NBA because everyone always expects for you to have an agent, an NBA agent.

Speaker 3 But when I parted ways with my NBA agent and agency and started my company, LRMR with Maverick, Rich, and Randy, Randy. People were like, they're uneducated.

Speaker 3 They don't know anything about the sports world. They don't know anything about business.
This is going to be a complete disaster.

Speaker 3 For me, I didn't give a damn about what they were talking about because I feel like if I'm,

Speaker 3 who are the people to trust more than the people that I know?

Speaker 3 And we can all learn together because I don't want to learn at a rate that now these guys are so far below me, then how can I ever bring them into any room? Let's all learn at the same time.

Speaker 3 Let's learn at the same rate. Let's take bumps and bruises.
Let's take, let's fail at the same time while we're all going along this journey.

Speaker 3 So when we get to a point where, oh, we've done so much, we've learned so much, we've experienced, you know, failure, but we've done it together.

Speaker 3 So we know how to, you know, when the next point come up, we know how to attack it. So, you know, that was my whole mindset.

Speaker 4 I think it's just incredible that not only were you guys successful at that, you didn't fall on your face. They did negotiate great contracts for you.
You have found incredible business opportunities.

Speaker 4 But I'll bet what you're probably most proud of is that you were able to navigate all of that and still maintain the friendship.

Speaker 4 That it, I'm sure it got complicated at times, but that you guys stayed so close and so trusting and probably felt very equal.

Speaker 4 Everybody respected each other. I mean, I'm sure that takes a ton of work.
It's like a marriage, right?

Speaker 3 No, absolutely. I mean, every day, every single day.
And we're still going.

Speaker 3 I mean, we're still, you know, we've been in this for almost 20 years now, but I mean, we're we're all relatively still young. I mean, I'm the, obviously I'm the youngest out of the crew,

Speaker 3 but I'm 36. My guys are in their, you know, early 40s or mid 40s.

Speaker 3 And, you know, we are in a good place today, but we want to continue to climb because it's, you know, we want to continue to build and build relationships and build great content for everyone. Yeah.

Speaker 3 And you get to do with the people, you get to do with the guys, like you said, that you trust, but who are your friends. And that's nice.
And we go through the same thing here.

Speaker 3 I mean, we get to do this podcast with, I get to do with two guys that I love and who are my friends. And I'm not the youngest, but I sort of, I'm not in my, I play 38, but, you know, I'm sort of,

Speaker 3 I mean, I could probably, or like a 40, or just like a kind of a rugged 40. But the point is, is that we, we get to do it.
And I get that. And that's, it's part of the experience.

Speaker 3 I mean, you might as well do the experience the way you want. I love the way you also, you answer that.
Like, you're like, people say that you guys didn't know what you're doing.

Speaker 3 You don't know the sports world and all that stuff. And you're like, I don't give a damn.
Like, who gives a shit? There are always. Who gives a shit? Who gives a shit? Life is way too short.

Speaker 3 And that was kind of like my earlier question. Like, it's part of the problem about being on top is people always have opinions and you hear it all the time.
And you do, you know, incredible.

Speaker 3 You have a lot of people who support you and you're so great at what you do, but you always have this really organic, kind of natural way about you. And you're very much, you're very authentic.

Speaker 3 And that comes across. And I think that that's so admirable.

Speaker 3 It sends such a great message of like all these, all these critics, the people who want to, I remember the, do you remember the decision, Sean? Do you you know what the decision was?

Speaker 3 So when LeBron was going to leave Cleveland the first time, he was deciding, and tell me if I got it wrong or whatever, but I think this is right.

Speaker 3 You were going to leave, and you were deciding where you were going to go.

Speaker 3 And there were people who criticized it, who still to this day have time on their hands enough that they want to go back and re-litigate something from 15 years ago.

Speaker 3 It was international news, that whole thing.

Speaker 3 So what? Let him do it how he wants to do it.

Speaker 3 It's not your experience. Why are you mad about it?

Speaker 3 What the fuck do you got to do with it? You know what I mean? Yep, yep. I know that.

Speaker 3 That's funny, man. You know, so at the end of the day, I mean, you know, you'd be so successful.
You try to be so successful to where when we reap the benefits, I do it with my friends.

Speaker 3 So, you know, when I see Sean and Mika Nos and with my guys, then we can all just fucking we can all tear our groins together and have some rose. I mean, there you go.
Rose and ice.

Speaker 3 Sounds like incredible.

Speaker 3 What an image.

Speaker 4 So when you're talking about having success and having

Speaker 4 the courage to try to have success in other areas, one of the things you said was content. And of course, you got Space Jam coming up, which looks incredible.

Speaker 3 That's so exciting.

Speaker 4 Where does this drive for entertainment, for acting, producing, and all that stuff? Were you always a fan of the entertainment industry, or is that something that's just kind of grown?

Speaker 3 Yeah, Jason, always, man. When I was a kid, you know, not only was the inspiration coming from like sports figures, it was also coming from like, you know, TV shows that I was watching.

Speaker 3 Like, I always felt like i wish i was the fresh prince of bel-air i wish i was the fresh prince of akron ohio you know i was in the suburbs of akron ohio in bath township and i could you know look up to a mansion you know coming from the inner city like you're the fresh prince of brentwood yeah yeah the fresh prince of brentwood like i've always i love that storyline or like you know i wish you know at times like you know just you know just being in certain movies like action movies and things of that nature growing up so like

Speaker 3 Yeah, like the

Speaker 3 passion of watching that and seeing that and being a kid, like just trying to find any inspiration that's where it kind of came from and i've always kind of respected that i did not had no idea of the damn hours that you guys did oh

Speaker 3 just watching paint drive yeah yeah

Speaker 4 the hours but i always respect let me ask you this like look at what dwayne johnson has done could you ever see yourself

Speaker 4 at some point retiring and then starting and having an incredible career as an action star in movies?

Speaker 3 I'm not against that.

Speaker 3 I mean, mean, listen to Rock, man. Dwayne Johnson is incredible.
He's, I mean, shit, I was watching him when he was in the WWE. Right.

Speaker 3 You know, growing up, and he had all the hair at that time, you know.

Speaker 3 But you could crush that, LeBron.

Speaker 4 LeBron, you'd be fantastic. I've seen you act.

Speaker 4 You get it. You absolutely get it.
And you've got all the charisma and the size to be carrying around two or three weapons.

Speaker 3 When you, I remember when you first hosted SNL, my, my ex-wife at the time, Amy, was on the show. And I remember I was kind of, we actually met briefly.

Speaker 3 I wouldn't expect you to remember, but we, we, at the time,

Speaker 3 everybody talking about how natural you were, kind of to what Jason was saying. Like, you were really great in that episode.
Yes, super comfortable.

Speaker 3 Thank you. Thank you.
Yeah, I was, I was having, I was having a, I just wanted to have a hell of a time. I like having a great time, man, and just diving into it.

Speaker 3 And, you know, I like like comedies, that's like really my thing because I'm a fucking jokester with me and my friends.

Speaker 3 and all we do is like rank on each other and joke on each other but it's fun man what's the thing that's making you laugh right now are you are you watching a a show or a movie um or what what's what's your what's your brand of humor are you more of like a money python silly guy or or more cerebral kind of dry humor i i i'm a little bit of everything so i'm a i'm a i'm a sinfield funny guy yeah i'm also like a wedding crashers funny guy right yeah i'm yeah like i and i'm every a road trip kind of guy.

Speaker 3 Old school. Like I'm any, I'm all of that.
Like, and I'm also like, like scary movie, like those type of right. Yeah, silly crazy parody movie.
Yeah, yeah, so I'm like all over the genre of comedies.

Speaker 3 Yeah, for sure.

Speaker 4 And where are you taking a lot of these in? On the plane in between games, or are you a kind of guy that sits at home and nests and just gets all comfy on the couch?

Speaker 3 Yeah, I'm a guy that gets comfy on the couch. That's what I'm a guy.
You imagine with a glass of wine on the couch. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure.
For sure.

Speaker 4 Now, do you let your kids watch r-rated comedies i do my boys do how old were they when you let them start to watch stuff that was really kind of edgy edgy comedy because i'm dealing with that right now with my 14 year old daughter yeah yeah i i let i'll let my my boys start watching around like 10 yeah

Speaker 3 11 years old yes my daughter can watch certain but not i don't let her watch she's only six going on seven so i'm gonna wait till she gets a little older where are you on cursing my kids have just

Speaker 3 wait jason what did you just let your uh frannie watch something what was it uh pulp fiction and uh

Speaker 3 she was confused in a couple of spots and i didn't bother she loved the heroin overdosing right she loved

Speaker 3 she loved the epi pen yeah jason and this weekend aren't you guys you're you're this weekend aren't you guys watching human centipede

Speaker 4 wait lebron where are you on cursing my 14 year old i'm allowing her to now i haven't started complaining about her cursing rash you know she's not like a like a like a sailor, but, you know, she's just casually using the S word or the F word or whatever.

Speaker 4 And I'm like, well, I guess I was doing that afford, or she's doing that with her friends. So why can't she do that with us? Where are you with that? The kids, kids walking around the house?

Speaker 3 So my boys are, they have an exception to the rule of cursing when they're playing sports.

Speaker 4 So they can curse when they're playing sports?

Speaker 3 Yes. Because, yes, they could curse when they're playing sports because it's a lot of emotion.
I get it, you know.

Speaker 4 But then you get teed up, right?

Speaker 3 Yeah, you know, they could get teed up.

Speaker 3 But but they don't, my kids don't mess with the refs much, but like if they, you know, miss an assignment, they say, fuck, or they like, or, you know, or something happened, damn, or shit.

Speaker 3 Like, you know, but my oldest son in this past tournament over the 4th of July weekend, a kid was talking a little smack to him. Uh-oh.
And he told him to fuck off. And I started laughing.

Speaker 3 I started laughing.

Speaker 3 I thought that was hilarious.

Speaker 3 Wait, LeBron, I saw you in that tournament. And the reason I saw you is because it was on like one of the, on the internet.

Speaker 3 And I'm thinking, like, who's letting these photos be taken of this high school basketball game? Like, what is going on? Oh, my God. Let's hear it.
Are they photographers?

Speaker 3 Yes, yes. There were photos.

Speaker 4 Well, it's families with phones. No, they really had no.

Speaker 3 There were families with big lens cameras, like their own set. Really?

Speaker 3 Oh, wow.

Speaker 4 Trying to capture this stuff and sell it to the internet?

Speaker 3 Yeah, they capture it. Yeah, yeah.
So, yep, yep.

Speaker 4 Maybe you should turn around and tell them to fuck off.

Speaker 3 Right, I should have taken a page out of my son's book. So, wait,

Speaker 4 so if he spills a cereal in the house and he says, god damn it, son of a bitch, that's not okay.

Speaker 4 Right? That's when he's got to go to his room.

Speaker 3 Yeah, it did. Hey, what the hell are you talking? Oh, oh, sorry.
Sorry, Dan. Sorry, Dan.

Speaker 4 And if you were to punish him, what are the punishments? Like with my kids, you take away the iPad and that straightens him out. What's the kryptonite there?

Speaker 3 We tried taking away his video game system before.

Speaker 3 Okay, he still had his phone. Right.
And then without his phone,

Speaker 3 he had his iPad. Yeah.

Speaker 3 And then he had his desktop. If he didn't have his desk, he had his desktop.

Speaker 3 What are you going to do? Sending them to the room is actually not a punishment. They actually want to do it.
Yeah. Yeah.
They want to be in the room.

Speaker 3 I just tell them to come downstairs and sit down here with mom and dad. Just come sit down here with mom and dad.
That's not what I said. Tell us about your day.
Yeah. Right, right, exactly.

Speaker 3 I say, if you guys don't, if you don't, you know, smarten up,

Speaker 3 I make them FaceTime with Sean. Yeah.

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Speaker 4 Talking about electrolytes, doing my incredible research, LeBron. Tell us about ladder.

Speaker 3 What's ladder? Yeah, what is it? So ladder is a supplement. It's a powder form supplement that you put into water.

Speaker 3 It has electrolytes. We also have like pre- and post-workouts.
So what happened was in 2012, I caught cramps during the NBA finals and my legs, I could not get the cramp out.

Speaker 3 So I was able to work with some scientists from Harvard and some other institutions. And we were able to find all organic product that helps out with electrolytes and it gets to the system faster.

Speaker 3 And it stopped.

Speaker 3 I haven't had that problem in nine years after that.

Speaker 4 I want some of that.

Speaker 3 So we have, I'll make sure I get some to you guys. I'll make sure I listen to you guys.
Jason,

Speaker 4 we've got to record it here.

Speaker 3 I'll make sure I get some ladder to you guys. Yeah, I would love that.

Speaker 2 LeBron, I want to know, like, you know, everybody associates you with the obvious things that we see, like the talent in basketball, the talent on the screen when you decide to act and stuff.

Speaker 2 What is the thing that would be so surprised? Like, would I ever find you at the Hollywood Bowl listening to some classical music?

Speaker 3 you know what's funny sean that you say that i love classical music oh you do i really do like if you if you if you would happen to pull up on the side of me when i'm not in the dark dark tint car yeah uh you could catch me out of light listening to some old uh beethoven mozart come on type music that's as opposed to the new ones yeah yeah

Speaker 3 that's you know that's

Speaker 4 i'm i'm fully i'm fully addicted to that stuff uh and so is sean sean's a classically trained uh pianist right yeah yep oh wow

Speaker 4 that's cool I love that now are you ever listening to classical music on your headphones as you're getting ready to play or are you listening to something that's that gets gets the blood flowing a little bit more no I'm listening to something get the blood flowing a little bit more before I play for sure and that's

Speaker 4 and that changes each game or is there like a go-to that if you if you need to really get it going yeah like who is it you want to share with us it's not a go it's like it changes it's not a go-to you know um you know I'm listening to a lot of like hardcore hip-hop.

Speaker 3 It could be like either Wu-Tang or it could be like

Speaker 3 some DMX, some early DMX,

Speaker 3 or some NWA.

Speaker 3 I want to get into a real or even like Eminem, like when he was doing his thing at a higher level too. So

Speaker 3 I tap into it to a whole nother, I'm not the father at home with the kids, LeBron, when I tap into that mode. I'm like, get the hell out of my way.
I'm ready for war. I'm ready for war.
Yeah,

Speaker 3 you should listen to our podcast right before the game is.

Speaker 3 Just with your headphones on, and you're coming in. That's going to give you the fighting spirit.

Speaker 4 Tell us a little bit about Space Jam before we let you go. You've been very generous with your time, but I'm very, very curious about this because that was a great first film.

Speaker 4 This one is, is it pick up where it left off?

Speaker 4 How is it different? And what reads it to it?

Speaker 3 No, it's different. First of all, it's totally different from the first one that came out 25 years ago.

Speaker 3 But I was very intimidated just from when i got when the script came to me and i sat it on my desk i was very intimidated just because i understand you know the legacy behind the first one um you know i was i was one that was like in all of it i was 12 years old or 11 when it first came out and loved the looney tunes obviously my aspiration for michael jordan is out of this world so very intimidated but i was able to get myself to a point where i was like i want to I want to do this.

Speaker 3 I felt like, you know, the Space Jam legacy is so iconic and so great. I wanted to to be a part of the legacy.
And obviously, the movie is now called A New Legacy is kind of how I worked myself out.

Speaker 3 But we was able to, I worked with a great director of Malcolm Lee. Don Cheeto is in the film as well.
He's great.

Speaker 3 Yeah, he's so, I love him. He

Speaker 3 helped me out a lot when we were on set. But I just dove into it.
I gave everything to it.

Speaker 4 How'd you like working with all that green screen and all that?

Speaker 4 I need you to look over here.

Speaker 3 and just trust that later we're gonna we're gonna paint in a little character.

Speaker 4 You gotta look at like a little C-stand with an X on it, right?

Speaker 3 Exactly. It's like working with Sean.

Speaker 4 It's just a nightmare, right?

Speaker 3 Yeah, working with Sean. Yeah.
Or you mean the green screen? Oh, my goodness.

Speaker 2 Green screen gives more.

Speaker 3 No, it was a nightmare the first few weeks. Yeah.
Of course. It's weird, right? So it's super weird because they're like, no, no, no, you're eye,

Speaker 3 you have to be looking up.

Speaker 3 So LeBron,

Speaker 2 was that like a three-picture deal? Or we're going to see how the first one goes? Or what did you do? Is it just the one?

Speaker 3 No, no, it was just the one. But, I mean, listen, I've been hearing so much about people's reaction to it so far.
That's actually seen the movie so far. We've got an opportunity to private screen it.

Speaker 3 So, you know, if Warner, you know, wants to, you know, tackle it again, I wouldn't mind, you know, trying to see if we can fit the right script in and keep it going.

Speaker 3 But I think this one is going to surprise a lot of people. This is a

Speaker 3 family movie. It's a family movie with a lot of laughs, obviously a lot of looniness.
I'm dealing with the damn tunes. They craziness.

Speaker 3 But it's a family movie. Is your daughter excited about it or are your sons a little too old for it or what? My daughter is super excited about it.
She doesn't know.

Speaker 3 I mean, she's too young to know about the original tunes, but now because of her dad, she's getting back into it now.

Speaker 2 Was she on the set and was she like, wow, look at that?

Speaker 3 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yep.
My whole family stopped by set, you know, a few times and they just like, wow. And my boys are 16 or 14.

Speaker 3 They only care about how cool that the person that's playing them in the movie looks. Like, dad, does he look like me? Is he wearing my hairstyle? Is he dressing the right way?

Speaker 3 Like, I don't want somebody playing me and not like me.

Speaker 4 So you cast some actors to play your sons?

Speaker 3 Yes, we cast the actors to kind of look like my family. We changed the names, but they are, yes, I got an older son, a younger son,

Speaker 3 and a daughter and a wife in the movie. So, yes, it's kind of the same.

Speaker 4 Your kids didn't have approval over that casting?

Speaker 3 No, I didn't let them because it would have took too long. I said, dad got to get on work.

Speaker 2 And after long hours, did you mix them up?

Speaker 3 Oh, the kids.

Speaker 3 Yeah, I almost brought my fictional family home one time.

Speaker 3 As long as I don't bring the fictional wife home, I was good.

Speaker 3 Yeah, right.

Speaker 3 Wait, so LeBron, let me ask you, after all this stuff and everything you're doing, get back to basketball. You've had a lot of success with the Lakers already.

Speaker 3 I don't want to put you on the spot, but I mean, you could conceivably just keep going. You're so good at what you do.
You're still at the top of the game.

Speaker 3 How long do you see yourself playing for the Lakers? And how cool is it playing for the Lakers? A great storied franchise. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 I mean, listen, I truly hope that I can finish my career with the Lakers and how many years that is. If it's four, five, six, whatever.
There we go. I hope I continue to play the game.

Speaker 3 You know, I love being in LA. My family loves being in LA.
Being with a historical franchise like the Lakers is something like, it's like me, you know, being a space jam now.

Speaker 3 I never thought it'd be possible. You think about Kareem and Magic and Wilt and Jerry West and Elgin Baylor, Kobe Shaq, all the whole list goes on.
And Lewis Cage, you know, Lewis Cage.

Speaker 3 Lewis Cage, you know, the great Lewis Cage. Lewis Cage, the greatest Lakers fan of all time.

Speaker 3 He's like the greatest.

Speaker 4 Well, LeBron, can't thank you enough for spending some time with us.

Speaker 3 Oh, man.

Speaker 3 appreciate you guys that was really exciting what a thrill we're all huge huge fans of yours and uh feel very very flattered that you you chose to spend some time with us so thank you i appreciate it jason will shine i appreciate it man hopefully see you guys in person soon man yeah that'd be great yeah all right pal can't wait man such a fan yes uh

Speaker 3 love guys thank you bye bye

Speaker 4 I could have talked to him all day, but I wanted to respect his time. He had a hard out, and I think we just, we were like one minute over it, but man, I could talk to him forever.
Yeah.

Speaker 3 What a, what a, what a cool

Speaker 3 career he's had so far. I have to be honest, like, I was floored.
I was like, me too, me too.

Speaker 2 It's LeBron James, like, looking.

Speaker 3 It's LeBron James, the living legend. So crazy.

Speaker 4 He was one of the, he was one of the earliest people I'd sent to Michael, our producer, to see if we could get.

Speaker 4 And I honestly had forgotten that I'd put him down as one of the people I'd love to grab on my list.

Speaker 4 And then he sent me a text a couple of days ago saying, so LeBron's people reached out. They can do it on this day, but only this time I was like, oh my God, that's right.

Speaker 3 LeBron James, he's going to do it.

Speaker 4 Like, I've been in like a panic for like 36 hours. Like,

Speaker 4 we're going to be talking to LeBron James. And then doing the research, looking at his, I was just like, screw this.

Speaker 3 I just, I can't. There's too many.

Speaker 3 It makes your neck. I mean, after like only, it was only a couple of weeks ago that we had Thoreau, and then now we have LeBron James.

Speaker 4 I didn't think we could get any higher.

Speaker 3 I know, because we were so scraping with Justin and his stories about it growing up.

Speaker 4 And I don't want to get all the MVPs Justin has gotten.

Speaker 3 You know what I mean? But the rose bar.

Speaker 2 Justin's Wikipedia page.

Speaker 3 My God, that's wrote it himself.

Speaker 4 The shoulders is, you know,

Speaker 4 there's a comparable element there on the shoulders, but the shoulders are much else.

Speaker 3 He does. He does.

Speaker 2 I don't know why, but whenever we meet like just huge, gigantic celebrities like LeBron James, I'm so surprised that they're just normal and down-to-earth people. Like he is so down-to-earth.

Speaker 4 Even though he's literally huge and gigantic. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 3 And off the earth. He spends a lot of time off the earth in the air.

Speaker 4 Yeah. He's got great, great leaps, incredible vertical.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 4 Right. But, you know, we are very generous with our, oh my gosh, this person was so great and we love them and they're so down to earth.

Speaker 4 But genuinely, this guy, I mean, he could, he doesn't need to talk to us. He doesn't even need to talk about it.

Speaker 3 No, no. And Jason, you're right.
We do, we do do that a lot. We do do that a lot.
A lot of the episodes where we're like, oh my God, this person was so great. And we do feel that way in the moment.

Speaker 3 We're not lying.

Speaker 3 We really like the people.

Speaker 4 But this guest could literally qualify as the greatest of all time.

Speaker 3 And yeah, he could. He could.

Speaker 4 I could go on forever. But let's not.

Speaker 4 Let's give the listeners what we promised, which was a little bit more detail on our tour.

Speaker 3 Yeah, let's talk about the tour. Yeah, sorry.
Let's get back to the tour. Let's get back to the tour.

Speaker 3 So we're going to six cities. So we start in Toronto, Massey Hall, Wednesday, February the 2nd.

Speaker 2 And then February 4th, we go to Boston, Massachusetts. I'm not sure how to to pronounce it, Bach or Botch, Center Wang Theater.

Speaker 3 The Wang Theater, yep.

Speaker 2 And then February 5th, Brooklyn, New York at King's Theater.

Speaker 3 Yep.

Speaker 2 February 8th, Chicago, Illinois at the Chicago Theater.

Speaker 3 Yes, Sean. And then where are we going February 9th? Jason, can you guess? We're driving.
Go ahead, Jason. We are driving.

Speaker 4 So we're going to fly between those cities.

Speaker 3 And then from Chicago, we're going to just

Speaker 4 up the coast there a little bit, the lake coast.

Speaker 3 It's not really on the coast. No, it's more central.
It's nowhere near the coast, but go ahead.

Speaker 4 Well,

Speaker 4 the coast of the lake, right?

Speaker 3 Sure, sure.

Speaker 3 No, you're thinking of Milwaukee, but no, but where are we going to

Speaker 3 end up going?

Speaker 4 Madison, Wisconsin to go to the next stage.

Speaker 2 That is right, Madison, Wisconsin, at the Orpheum Theater to see Tracy, my sister.

Speaker 3 Wednesday, February 9th.

Speaker 4 Tracy, you better start laying out your outfit right now because you're coming up on stage.

Speaker 2 And then we end on February 12th, which is Saturday in Los Angeles, California, at the Orpheum Theater.

Speaker 3 And just like the show,

Speaker 3 we can't announce who the guests are. Those will be a surprise

Speaker 3 on the night.

Speaker 2 But here's what's really, really cool for you guys who have been so awesome and kind and loving to be listening to us all the time we wanted to give you guys something in exchange which is a head start on tickets so if you go to smartlist.com and put in the password which is

Speaker 3 tracy

Speaker 2 spelled with an e spelled with an e t-r-a-c-e-y

Speaker 3 you get a head start on tickets before the rest of the uh general audience so when you want to go and and you want to buy tickets to this tour uh you just you use the code Tracy,

Speaker 3 T-R-A-C-E-Y,

Speaker 3 right? Correct. And it's starting today, Monday, 9 a.m.
Eastern through Thursday at 10 p.m. local time.

Speaker 3 And tickets go on sale to the public this Friday at 10 a.m. local time for all those venues.
And Thursday, July 15th at 10 a.m. local is the local venue pre-sale.

Speaker 3 So head to our website to buy tickets and you can get more information at smartlist.com. And again, Wednesday, February 2nd, Toronto, Massey Hall.
Friday, February 4th, Boston, Massachusetts.

Speaker 3 Saturday, February 5th, Brooklyn, New York. Chicago is February 8th, Tuesday.
February 8th. Wednesday, Jason, February 9th.
You know where we're going, just up the coast there, right?

Speaker 3 Just the coast of.

Speaker 4 Just up the eastern coast there to Wisconsin.

Speaker 3 Yeah, to Wisconsin.

Speaker 3 I guess they didn't have a geography class in

Speaker 3 the trailer. Universal War.
Yeah, at Universal.

Speaker 3 And then Saturday, February 12th, back home in Los Angeles with our family and our friends and everybody at the Orpheum Theater. So guys, we're so excited to bring the show to you and we're so

Speaker 3 honored that this is even a possibility and we can't wait to have fun with y'all live. Hope to see you there.
Anyway, see you at the show. I'll see you guys at the show.

Speaker 3 We're going to go together, right? We'll go together.

Speaker 4 Yeah, let's go together. We'll travel together.
We'll stay in the same hotel room together.

Speaker 3 Maybe

Speaker 3 we'll stay in the same hotel. It's going to be in the same hotel room.
We're losing you, Sean.

Speaker 4 Are you driving together?

Speaker 3 We're going to shake hands. We're going to bump fists.
We're going to high five people.

Speaker 4 I know Sean's going to take a bow, probably. Maybe a

Speaker 3 tall or something. I'm going to wear tails.

Speaker 2 I'm going to wear tails. Is that cool?

Speaker 3 Believe me, Sean's going to have a spotlight on him, so he's going to do a fucking song. You watch.

Speaker 2 A top hat and cane. I'm sad.

Speaker 3 So, anyway, so that's that's all the info that you need to have for our big tour. I mean, that's it.
Those are the dates and the cities.

Speaker 4 That's very exciting.

Speaker 3 How great is it that the promo code is Tracy? Again, T-R-A-C-E-Y. T-R-A-C-E-Y.
And that's where you can go and you can buy buy

Speaker 3 your tickets. Buy your tickets.
Buy them.

Speaker 3 Smart.

Speaker 3 Yes.

Speaker 3 Smart.

Speaker 3 Yes.

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