Chris Vernon podcast appearances

9:08

Hmm.

9:10

That no one...

9:11

Everybody looked at their off-season and turned it into the, "Wow, did we see the best of the Jokić years go by?" And they lost Peyton Watson, and maybe they shouldn't have paid Christian Braun or whatever, but these small moves around the edges, I can foresee, this is why it's semi-bold, I can foresee this really working out.

9:35

Uh, the Cam Whit- Cam Whitmore is saying everything right.

9:40

He has looked fantastic, and looks like somebody that could actually, like, really fit alongside.

9:47

And he's saying, like, "I love having all these veterans around," and his career has not gone like he wanted it to go.

9:54

And again, it's the preseason, but he's saying all the right things, and if there is one thing that no one denied about Cam Whitmore, it is real talent with a real, like, ceiling that is higher than many of his peers.

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Chris Vernon joins! Semi-bold predictions for the 2026-27 NBA season | The Kevin O'Connor Show

53:17

Yeah

Yahoo Sports NBA

Oct 12 · 1h 21m

9:08

Hmm.

9:10

That no one...

9:11

Everybody looked at their off season and turned it into the, "Wow, did we see the best of the Jokić years go by?" And they lost Peyton Watson, and maybe they shouldn't have paid Christian Braun or whatever, but these small moves around the edges, I can foresee, this is why it's semi-bold, I can foresee this really working out.

9:35

Uh, the Cam Whit- Cam Whitmore is saying everything right.

9:40

He has looked fantastic and looks like somebody that could actually, like, really fit alongside.

9:47

And he's saying, like, "I love having all these veterans around," and his career has not gone like he wanted it to go.

9:54

And again, it's the preseason, but he's saying all the right things, and if there is one thing that no one denied about Cam Whitmore, it is real talent with a real, like, ceiling that is higher than many of his peers.

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Yeah

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Sep 30 · 1h 46m

24:15

Yeah, when him and

24:16

Gigi are like the longest tenured guys.

24:18

So I think that's the thing.

24:20

And the other one is... you see how many good players they have on the team.

24:25

Like, you know what I mean? They keep rolling them through, and you're like, you know what? Like, maybe it's not the A-plus guys in the league, but they do have real depth.

24:33

Like, they're reeling them in.

24:35

Everybody's interviewing them.

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Sep 23 · 1h 52m

27:27

Yeah.

27:27

So we all got wing wars guests coming in today, and you and I were talking about, uh, wings earlier, 'cause, uh, I got Tiffany Wiley from, uh, Rico's Kickin' Chicken coming in.

27:35

And, uh, I, I've actually been there.

27:36

Me and Lou have been there for, for lunch one day, and, um, 'cause he loves wings.

27:41

Like, if you ask him, "Hey, bud, you wanna, what do you wanna get for dinner?" He might really say, "Not pizza, not hamburgers." Wings comes out of his mouth.

27:49

And your point was you don't even really remember eating wings when you were a child, and I don't guess I'd ever processed this or thought about it, but I don't have a wing memory as a child.

28:32

Right.

28:32

So I mean, I, I know it's part of the culture here.

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Sep 16 · 1h 48m

31:05

Right

31:05

... that's still preserved over there, The Handy House.

31:08

Um, and that's where, like, we just parked right next to it.

31:11

It's kinda behind, uh, [smacks lips] New Daisy, uh, close to there, at, uh, at the end of Beale Street.

31:17

And so anyways, we used to park there all the time.

31:19

I never thought twice about it.

31:20

And when we were about to have our first kid, obviously you're dishing around names and whatever else, and I was walking to work one day, and I parked at The Handy House no less, and for whatever reason, I was...

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39:05

I was excited for him, too.

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Sep 9 · 1h 49m

25:31

Chris Vernon up next.

25:33

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Right, right.

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Aug 26 · 1h 53m

33:38

A sad day, but I

33:40

smiled a lot.

33:41

Yeah, I mean, I figured, you know what I mean? There's some of these people that end up...

33:46

She had done these videos recently.

33:47

So I had really looked forward to, I was going to go see her.

33:53

She was doing a residency in Vegas while we were there.

33:56

And that got canceled.

36:50

that moment, for that moment, not for an album for that moment.

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Aug 19 · 1h 42m

27:37

Yeah.

27:37

And it's like, bro, he has got...

27:39

I mean, it's, it's unbelievable.

27:40

He's really, like, he's very persuasive.

27:42

And again, he, he keeps sa- He takes all the bullets out.

27:46

He's like, I, I think he understands how good he is at talking about himself, football, the world, you know, whatever it may be.

27:56

And he alway- A- almost after he makes this, like, incredibly poignant point, or he always at the end says, "And none of that matters-

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Aug 12 · 1h 38m

23:36

Right

23:36

... for as long as I could take.

23:38

And then yesterday I went out there and saw my guys at the Ping truck, and [laughs] bro, these guys were walking into this truck after they'd like, you know, one guy had to run a headcover out to Thigolla.

23:49

Another guy was working with Hovland on...

23:51

You know, these guys that work these trucks are just working on whatever clubs they're gonna use for the upcoming week, making any tweaks or whatever else.

23:58

But they, I, I was just hanging out in the truck with these guys, and [laughs] they walk back to the truck.

24:02

I mean, they're drenched, bro.

Why the Pentagon is betting $500m on a NSW critical minerals mine

27:34

[laughs]

Radio National Breakfast

Aug 11 · 5m

1:37

Uh, what's it found in?

1:40

Um, it's often found in, um...

1:42

Oh, I'll tell you where China and Russia, uh, get it from.

1:45

Uh, in China, it comes from, uh, titanium processing, um, wastes, effectively.

1:51

And in Russia, they, uh, extract it during, uh, the aluminum, um, uh, manufacturing process.

1:58

But here in Australia, that, uh, deposit at, um, uh, Symiston, uh, the one that Sunrise has, it's actually a very unusual deposit because it's really a nickel cobalt deposit, but there's a halo, what geologists call a halo, of scandium-rich mineralization around the outside.

2:16

So it is going to be the world's first primary scandium mine.

3:58

What are the properties of scandium, Chris, that make it so, uh, valuable and effective in things like defense, aerospace, and other technology areas?

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Aug 5 · 1h 55m

27:09

This is a bad thing.

27:09

Yeah.

27:10

And you know what? I know y- you tried to make it about, you know...

27:14

It, there is a big picture of, like, Memphis, and obviously we've got still a lot of work to be done in order to be properly proud of our city and want everybody to wanna be here and love the city as much as we do.

27:27

That being said, I mean, this is about FedEx, bro.

27:30

And, and, and that is true of virtually everything in this town, including the arena that sits next to us, including Memphis Athletics, including Ole Miss Athl- I mean, i- i- you think about almost everything in this town, in some ways usually has a very clear or at least partially clear connection to FedEx.

27:50

Their contract runs out.

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I'm asking you, why do you think we're losing it?

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Jul 29 · 1h 24m

Lang WhitakerHOST

37:27

Mm-hmm

37:27

... and Isaiah Stewart can stay healthy and, and Boozer is the rookie that I think he is, your front court is gonna give you a massive advantage, so you're gonna be able to win the possession battle a lot of times, and that goes a long way towards winning.

37:41

Um, I think, you know, and again, maybe I'm just looking at the, maybe I'm looking at a glass half full, but I think they're gonna be better than what, you know, those expectations say.

Lang WhitakerHOST

37:57

Yeah.

37:57

You know, people could say, "Oh, well, Jrue Holiday was top five in MVP." He was, and he was consistently great, even though they did trade him.

38:04

Um, but I watched that team and I was like, "I still don't like that," and, and obviously their roster, what it is showed up when it came to playoffs, and they're just preparing for one team.

38:13

But on a night in, night out basis, when people look across from you and they don't pay you any mind, um, I think you can win a lot of games just playing, uh, just playing hard every night.

38:24

And, uh-

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Jul 15 · 1h 51m

47:36

Z-Boat,

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bro.

47:37

Come on.

47:38

I remember years ago, somebody in the front office told me, there's practice Z-Boat, there's game Z-Boat, there's national TV Z-Boat, there's playoff Z-Boat.

47:53

And it will raise every step of the way.

47:55

That's right.

47:57

Every step of the way it will get raised.

50:38

It could.

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Jul 8 · 1h 51m

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he's a lunatic.

25:01

Yeah.

25:03

But I mean, like he was like the guy that probably stayed too long and then went at 31 to Boston, but then proved, you know, was the backbone of a team that won a title and honestly probably would have won another title if he doesn't get hurt or Perkins doesn't get hurt.

25:18

And, um, And yeah, like you never hear anybody ding his career.

25:24

You never hear anybody, you know, maybe, you know, I'm sure in his mind, maybe like rank lower on the greatest power forwards ever list or whatever.

25:33

But still, I mean, he...

25:36

I think he has always been massively confident and self-assured.

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There was

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Jul 1 · 1h 34m

34:25

When those guys outnumber the quote-unquote other guys, that's how you got good stuff.

34:30

Well, and the other thing is, if we're being fair, and look, I am a Morant fan, but Morant has been unhappy for three years.

34:38

That permeates, too.

34:40

Because they do follow his lead.

34:43

And that's why we were, you know, everybody was saying, you're like, bro, we need the guy doing the gritty back.

34:47

we need the guy that's happy.

34:49

And because we went the three consecutive years, he was suspended for 25, and then he hurt his shoulder, and he's out for the whole year.

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LeBron, where's he going to

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Jun 17 · 1h 40m

25:54

I guess it shouldn't have.

25:56

Nobody ever.

25:57

But again, you could have done this.

26:02

I mean, look, when your team has a losing record, nobody's going to care about the stuff if you become a winner, right? As we always say, winning cures everything.

26:12

Gary, I would tell you this.

26:14

You could have said, how many of you guys would redo the Desmond Bain trade? And it would have been 95% no and 5% yes.

26:21

How many of you? How many of you wish you could take back the Jaron Jackson trade? That one did come up.

30:27

But that's crazy to

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Jun 10 · 1h 32m

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Coach Thorp, before the season, you were very, very high on Cedric Coward.

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Right.

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Jun 3 · 1h 49m

25:53

Right.

25:54

Right? That's the way that goes.

25:55

Celtics, you know, Jrue Holiday, Kristaps Porziņģis, these guys go elsewhere.

26:00

And so it's like unless you have some vet that is willing to play below market value, you're not really gonna be able to have a bunch of good veterans on your team.

26:11

You're gonna have to do it with a number of awesome players that are on their rookie contracts.

26:19

And that is what makes you, you know, hopeful w- you know, that rebuilds can be faster than you thought if you get really good players, because you have an advantage by being able to have more good players [laughs] on your roster simply because they're not getting paid that much.

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Mm.

Why the government is backing NdPr mining

44:16

It's just not happening.

Radio National Breakfast

Jun 2 · 4m

2:15

Are there specific environmental concerns about extracting these two critical minerals?

2:20

Yeah, for sure.

2:21

And if you just go and Google, you know, environmental impact, rare earths, you'll see these massive toxic lakes of nasty chemicals that are waste.

2:30

And these all come from places in the world that you probably think might have pretty lax environmental standards.

2:38

One of the things I like about...

2:40

I'm a yimby, not a nimby.

2:42

Yes, in my backyard, because I know that here in Australia we do a much better job at environmental controls...

3:40

Will they be processed here or somewhere else?

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May 20 · 1h 50m

24:43

But it's crazy.

24:44

crazy.I thought I was...

24:48

My co-host on The Mismatch, Jacoby, is a big New York fan, and he's like, "Look, they came back from 17 on Christmas Day." He's like, "They're gonna come back in this game." And I always do the math in my head, and so I was thinking at the end of the third quarter, I think they cut it to 14, and that...

25:05

'Cause I always try to think of, like, the way I see scores on a box score, and I was like, 36-20 gets it done, but you've gotta score 36-

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Yeah

30:59

... that has taken things by storm, um...

31:01

And I had a friend who's... whose son, like, like that's what he...

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31:06

They drove up here from Nashville- Yeah ... 'cause that's what they wanted to do.

The Bill Simmons Podcast

May 11 · 1h 46m

Bill SimmonsHOST

57:30

Yeah

57:30

... certainly Wilson has got the whole, like, "I have this crazy motor," that kind of.

57:38

So I think he...

57:39

Honestly, I think both of them can fit in terms of, like, the city.

57:45

Um, Wilson's the kinda guy that, like, will s- like, it'll be every kid's favorite player.

57:51

He'll be the one smiling.

57:52

Like, he's got, he's got, like, a personality, whereas, uh, Boozer is obviously much more businesslike.

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Joe HouseGUEST

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Yeah

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May 6 · 1h 33m

26:21

And three-point shooting is down.

26:23

Dramatically.

26:26

And it's not three-point shooting...

26:28

It's not always the amount of three points that are shot, even though that's down as well.

26:34

But it is the players that are getting the three-point shots.

26:37

Defense has caught up at a rapid pace.

26:43

And I think part of that is because the same way that shooting took off because Golden State won the title and people went... oh, well, we got to be able to battle them.

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got to win

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Apr 29 · 1h 45m

31:21

Right.

31:21

And they're gonna...

31:22

So if, if, if there was a game si- these closeout games, uh, my man Raheem Palmer had one last night where I, I wanna say outside of obviously Oklahoma City and San Antonio, uh, you know, laid waste to their opponents and, you know, showed a killer instinct.

31:41

But I wanna say, let me find this stat for you, um, that so far during these...

31:48

We've had four closeout games.

31:51

This was before, you know, the, the last one last night.

31:54

Four closeout games, the teams were O and four against the spread and one and three straight up.

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33:10

Right.

The Kevin O'Connor Show

Oct 20 · 1h 6m

2:23

Chris, you want to get us started?

2:25

I mean, this is not that easy because I didn't know at what level of semi-bold I should go.

2:33

Um, all right, I'll start like super easy, right? So one of the things that I've been going crazy about is this rookie class, that this rookie class already looks like it's gonna be an absolute all-timer.

2:47

Uh, I've been so impressed with all the players that we've seen so far.

2:50

I understand it's just the preseason, but from summer league now to the preseason.

2:54

But the semi-bold prediction is that last year's NBA draft class is going to look infinitely better this year than it did a year ago.

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3:10

Last year's draft class sucked in terms of us going out of our way for entertainment to watch players, right? We weren't seeking out Reece Ashay or Sar, Sheppard wasn't getting to play.

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The Bill Simmons Podcast

Oct 10 · 2h 8m

Bill SimmonsHOST

95:19

Yeah.

95:19

... and it's a four...

95:20

In all of the games, there's been 15 times that an international game has posted a line six or above.

95:28

The favorite has covered that line, it's 12-3.

95:33

So if they post it where somebody is supposed to win by a touchdown, I mean, 12 out of the 15 times that has happened.

95:42

So whe- when I know those are the numbers and that typically the big favorites do perform extremely well in the international games, and I already thought on the front end, "Oh my god," I...