Podcast Episode 90: LBJ or Fortune Cookie
2016-03-07https://soundcloud.com/ctb-5/podcast-episode-90-lbj-or
It’s time for everyone’s favorite game show, LeBron or Fortune Cookie! Today, we ask contestants, “Was that a LeBron James tweet, or did that koan come inside a delicious crispy shell?”
In this episode, Ben Werth, Cory Hughey, and Nate Smith also discuss the week in Cavs: the miracle of Richfield anniversary, the wins, the road trips, LeBron, Kyrie, Kevin, and the gang. It’s all here.
Listen above, on Soundcloud, or on iTunes.
Great pod guys! Sorry, I got to it late because of work…
Also… who gave Cols sugar?
Evil nails the perfect end note.
was that Nate who mentioned Hardcore History? Thats the best podcast! Common Sense is quite good as well
Also 99% Invisible
Sound Opininos
FiveThirtyEight Elections
Hot Takedown
The Lowe Post (except when he’s gushing about the Warriors or beautiful basketball
The Starters
Vox’s The Weeds
Will Leitch
These are all pretty good podcasts
How often do you guys clean your bathrooms?
If you are wondering if its time for you to clean yours, the answer is “yes.”
The answer was “yes” about ten posts ago. Can you say “hijack” another thread.
I was giving my take on the podcast. Feel free to give yours.
Future LeBron cryptic tweets:
“The goose flies low over the barren field. #SFG #TheDC”
“Follow not the ghostly spectre of defeat into the arms of a succubus. #SFG #TheDC #Q97”
“Motivation is a thawing lake. A king will rise. A sheep will bah. A donkey will bray. #SFG #SVG #TheWB”
“A Man, A Plan, A Canal… Panama” #SFG #BFG #TheDC #TheOC #DawnOfJustice
Overall one of your better podcasts. But it needs more EvilGenius
Honestly, the game was that bad. Nice job.
wait, who live in Youngstown???? That’s where I’m from.
No, it’s not the worst place in the planet.
Meant to say the game is not that bad.
And Youngstown if fun and it rules. If you can’t have fun there, that’s on you.
I’m close to Canfield. I don’t really like the “traditional” Youngstown. It still needs revamped. Alot of us stick around Boardman, Austintown way. Mill Creek Park is very nice BUT they have an E-Coli outbreak on the 3 Lakes there. Same thing as always. Sewer lines are old and outdated. WHen there is a heavy rainfall; sewer leaks into the lakes.
Agree Love is playing to many consecutive minutes. I’ve made it a point to really pay attention these last few games. He’ll play the 1st half until maybe the last 2 mins of 2nd quarter. He’ll start 3rd and he plays the whole 3rd quarter. He is just gassed by 4th quarter. And it’s because he is playing so physical banging up against those big bodies in the post. I know someone like Randall gets more breaks than Love. If Love is going to play like these guys for the most part, he should get the similar breaks they do… Read more »
YES!!! Of course you are reading way too much into everything LeBron says.
It’s called trolling. And you all fell for it.
OK, so I made the mistake and went onto this “game”.
Where and why does Nate have so many fortune cookies.
Ok, I messed up, the game doesn’t start until 1:06
but Nate makes up for his super smart statement about uplayers not systems, with the “Cavs are stuck with Thompson since they drafted him”
Which makes no sense, since
A. Thompson is good
B. Once the cap increase happens his contract is completely reasonable.
C. TT>>Biyombo
If you guys talk about Biyombo I might go crazy.
1. It doesn’t matter who we play in the first round, we will sweep any team
2. I told you the Bulls were frauds all of last year, and its true every year. They suck, but NBA people talk them up every year.
Remember, it doesn’t matter who we play in the first round at all.
I would actually love to hear political commentary from you guys. Maybe if you could record a podcast somewhere else and post a link, would be interesting.
OH no. NONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONO
I bet Nate votes for the most obscure candidate he can find just to prove how pure and good he is.
Actually…
I have to agree 2000% with Cols on the politics topic. CtB is our safe haven from that awful world!
Lol ok ok relax. Doesn’t have to be, and probably shouldn’t be here. But would be interesting to hear somewhere else.
Sometimes there are clues on twitter?? But they are very random.
PtB: Politics the Blog?
Or… in Cols speak…
Oh no, the tweet game. this is going to be a very sad attempt at humor. Should I soldier on, or quit now. I’m quitting now, Starts at 59:00 or so for those who don’t want to be infuriated.
For all the love the Warriors get, their expected win-loss record by their point differential is not all-time great. The 1995 Bulls would run them out of the gym.
Poker analogy is pretty stretched here.
Ugh, more Warriors talk. I don’t know how much more I can take.
OMG NATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
At 50:30 or so, you state it’s the players, not the system.
Yes, yes yes ye syes
Oh man, I think I just made a mess on the keyboard
this is the most true thing you’ve ever said in your entire life. Of course it’s the players not the system. Stars not system is how you win. Now, go reconcile this with your Celtics takes please.
every NBA owner should take Walton over thibs. Thibs proved he couldn’t win already.
Uh, wrong. Thibs won plenty in Chicago. If not for playing LeBron in his prime + two other HOF’s, that Chicago team might have won a ring.
If you want to blast Thibs’ coaching style, sure. But to say he proved he couldn’t win, well, that’s idiotic.
More GSW love. Hey guys, this is a cavs podcast.
LOL seriously? Mr. “Don’t talk about anything Cavs related unless it’s to say everything is awesome!”
Come on man.
Yes, if Byron Scott coached the Warriors they’d still be awesome. Because Steph curry is really really great.
Oh man, I’m going to have to fast forward through the Andy convo, starts at 44 minutes if anyone else is so so so so sos os os
sick of hearing about the most overpaid and oft-injured Cav who gets way to much run on these podcasts just because he has fun hair.
Kevin Love just posted about Apple Jacks!?!?! What does it mean? Double rainbow?
Tweets by kevinlove
My daughter proudly informed me this morning that it was National Cereal Day, so yeah, hard to argue with KLove.
Fun cereals ranked
1. Fruit Loops
2. Apple Jacks
3. Lucky Charms
4. Frosted Flakes
5. Cinnamon Toast Crunch
Froot loops? I hope youre not as wrong about basketball as you are about cereal
Fruit Loops are no good?
Andy sucks. Do we really need to have another Andy conversation. He’s not going to be any sort of reason the GSW win or lose
Larry Hughes sucks, Ugh, Danny Ferry
LBJ Still needs to shoot threes, because he can do it as we’ve seen in the past. He needs to get his shot back.
Wade is awesome. If he wanted to come to the Cavs, we should welcome him with open arms. What a weapon off the bench he’d be.
Nice pod. I enjoyed the LeBron or Fortune Cookie segment.
Also enjoyed Cory talking about how DG is trying to legitimize the franchise as much as he can.
No, it’s not strange that LBJ wen to Miami.
He likes Miami.
He likes Wade
People losing their minds over this is so dumb.
No, Chalmers didn’t lose that Finals, Wade and Bosh lost those finals, Plus the Spurs went nova.
Yeah. Crazy what can happen when stars like Patty Mills and Boris Diaw are on your team.
Troll
3 HOF in Parker, Duncan, and Ginobili. And Leonard.
That’s why they won. Miiami had the best player in that series (look up James stats, he destroyed Leonard), but SA had the next 4.
So Ginobili is a star now in your celestial NBA ranking system? Interesting. NBA Rank for the season the Spurs went “nova” 1.) LeBron vs 12.) Tony Parker 16.) Tim Duncan vs 18.) Dwayne Wade 24.) Chris Bosh vs. 34.) Kawhi Leonard 86.) Manu Ginobili vs 94.) Ray Allen Heat Average NBA Rank for their top 4 players: 34.25 Spurs Average NBA Rank for their top 4 players: 37 The Spurs didn’t go NOVA because they had more star power. I can’t even believe you’re making this claim. They went NOVA because: Danny Green + Boris Diaw + Tiago Splitter… Read more »
Nope. they went nova beacsue Wade and Bosh were awful in that series. And the broken air conditioner. Otherwise the Spurs are down 2-0 heading to Miami.
The Spurs played great. But they don’t win beause their role players, they won because their top 4 players played much better than everyone on the Heat ebsides LeBron.
Yes, Conley is underrated. But Memphis still has no shot.
Yes, Boston needs some talent. That’s what they need. They are exhibit one of why you need talent to win.
Enough enough with the Boston talk. They suck. They are a first round sweep. They play hard, but that doesn’t get you very far in the NBA.
Stars win titles. Not teams full of bench players.
Yes, Rondo sucks. He’s sucked for years.
Stevens may be a good coach with a bunch of scrubs, but I doubt he’d be as effective with great players.
No, of course they can’t ratchet it up in the playoffs. This is their main problem. They do not have any extra gears.
Yes, i also like Marcus Smart.
OMG, no non ononononon
PUt Whiteside on the Celtics and the Cavs still sweep them in the playoffs.
No, the Celtics wouldn’t be dangerous with just one more scorer. No, they are not scary. They are a team full of crappy role players. They need at least two more stars.
Stop worrying about the Celtics.
Yes, of course it the Celtics got Durant they’d be much better. Any team would be much much better with Kevin Durant. This isn’t PhD level analysis.
No, you do not sit JR Smith if he starts off cold. Dude has been killing it this year. Show some respect.
Yes, Kyrie mid rangers are just a fine shot. He makes a ton of thsoe.
Delly doesn’t pull up because he can’t make that freaking shot. That’s why. If he could actually pull up and make the shot, of course he’d shoot it.
Do you have the stats to back this up?
Who cares about the Tweets is what I meant…
Didn’t mean to post this here.
You’ll have to wait a few hours while Cols heads over to FearTheSword to ask those guys for the stats.
Haha.
don’t out me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LMAO You have him pegged! I don’t even go on there anymore. So vitriol filled with venom. Life has been better for me as CtB my #1 and Only Cavs Blog!!! Yeah!!
Guys – so are we all buying into the theory that LeBron is trolling the media, or is he actually acting like a teenage girl with his cryptic tweets? I’m a huge Cavs fan and a former unabashed LeBron supporter, but I’m thinking the latter. He’s not the leader that he thinks he is. He doesn’t have the huge basketball IQ that he thinks he does. He’s basically a teenage girl with generational basketball talent. Sorry, I had to say it, but I’m open to other ideas here.
Trolling. He’s completely trolling.
No offense. But who really cares?
Who cares about the Tweets is what I meant….
It matters because it potentially has a detrimental impact on team chemistry. This team has been miserable this year, and we had a coach who was fired. You don’t think LeBron is responsible for any of this?
Well, the team is starting to play better as of late, so I don’t see it as detrimental. I don’t think LeBron is solely responsible for chemistry problems or the firing of the coach.
He’s not. But some fans hate LeBron James. To their detriment, I might add. There will not be another time in our lives where we have a top 5 NBA Al-Time player on the team that we love. Yet people like Raff22 choose to be miserable about it instead of just enjoying it.
Dude you don’t know me. I’m always positive about Cle sports – regardless of how miserable things can be at times. I’m not miserable – I’m disappointed. This is the best Cavs team we’ve ever seen, and yet the ride this year hasn’t been as fun as it should be. I get that we should appreciate LeBron, but let’s not be blinded by his talent and overlook his pretty sizeable flaws, which are mostly not basketball related, I might add. I’ve always defended LeBron, even after he left for Miami, but his behavior this year has been hugely disappointing.
HIs behaviour??????
Like leading his team to the number one seed in their conference? You are disappointed by this?!@$#@LJK434;j
I do not have anything to say to people like this
“I do not have anything to say to people like this”
Can someone look up on webmd what to do when you roll your eyes so far back they get stuck. Cus, you know, I can’t read webmd with my eyes like this.
My two cents:
I think he is just goofing around, and I think it has no effect on anything. If you buy into the nefarious interpretation, all of this is somehow related to his love of DWade and frustration with KI. But KI and LBJ have had great chemistry of late, and are super fired up on the floor.
Tom – haha, perfectly put. I guess some people are incapable and unwilling to have a nuanced discussion.
Hot Sauce – good point. It seems like a waste of time for him to send cryptic tweets – not very becoming of a superstar. But yes, you’re right about the play on court as of late. I just hope they can keep this up.
Raff, do you really think LBJ doesn’t have an amazing bball IQ? I didn’t even think that was in dispute around the league. Would love to know where you think he comes up short.
LeBron is absolutely responsible for all of this. Also for the ozone hole, and the North Koreans having a bomb.
Thank god for Raff22, who can see where all else are blind.
And yes, of course LBJ is 100x better than green. Stop this nonsense.
Oh goodness, no LBJ doesn’t watch film of Draymond freaking Green. That’s absurd.
Of course the Cavs have to be challenged. It’s not like they are in danger of losing the #1 seed.
3 game win streak, but of course Nate has to discuss the losses before the aweseomness. Nevermind that one loss was when they clearly didn’t care and the Toronto one was tough.
I haven’t listened yet, but I personally love that LeBron is trolling the media. He knows they will blow anything he says out of proportion and try to read into every little thing. He’s doing a great troll job.
I wish I could troll as well as he does.
Wait, you haven’t listened yet, but you are complaining about the podcast? Oh yeah, we do this every week.
So now we are going to make fun of LeBron’s tweets? Just because nothing bad happened this week doesn’t mean we have to make up reasons to be unhappy. Sigh, I wanted an Everythign is Awesom podcast.
LeBron James on his recent tweets: “I’ve got a beautiful mind and, sometimes, I like to use it in a social manner.” #Cavs — Hayden Grove
I think I read this in a fortune cookie somewhere?!?!?