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Ice Cube's BIG3 The Detroit Amplifers
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Ice Cube's BIG3 The Detroit Amplifers

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Oh, man. There's stuff going on. There's stuff going on. I love this. I'm like so excited. First off, I was excited to see the Tigers playing the way that they've been playing lately. I mean, if you haven't been to a Tigers game in a while, go to a Tigers game and go enjoy how much fun it is to actually sit on a winning side now, which is awesome. We obviously know that the Lions were doing amazing this year. Red Wings kind of putting it together. Pistons, unbelievable, the Pistons. Well, now we even have a brand-new sports franchise that is right here in the Detroit area. And you're going to have a chance for the very first time to witness them play their first home game in Detroit. Have you followed, Shannon, the big three at all, The basketball league, the three-on-three basketball league.

00:02:52 - 00:02:55 | Speaker 1:

So I only know about the big three from you guys constantly talking about it.

00:02:56 - 00:03:36 | Speaker 3:

This is the league that was put together by Ice Cube. Cube! And they came to town, I don't even remember when it was. Was it five years ago? Came to town five years ago to do games in Detroit. Oh, we had Ice Cube in studio. I remember, yes. And Little Caesars Arena was packed. They actually had more fans at that thing than they did at a Pistons game back in the day. Now we have our own team, the Detroit Amps, which is owned by two of our very, very good friends, Anthony Tomey and TJ Lang, and then another rich dude from Eastern Michigan. What's his name? Keith Stone. Can I meet this guy?

00:03:37 - 00:03:39 | Speaker 4:

Come on Sunday, yeah. No, he's a great guy.

00:03:39 - 00:03:49 | Speaker 3:

I hear nothing but great. So I was talking to a buddy of mine who is on the board at Eastern Michigan, and he just says, man, this guy is making that university.

00:03:49 - 00:04:20 | Speaker 4:

I mean, he's given $34 million over the last three years to the technology school. We have our own Game Above Technology, School of Technology. We're the number one school in the country in autonomous cars. He just built an $8 million indoor golf facility for Eastern. We do a ton with the school. We give back. This whole thing Game Above started as a philanthropy group. Yeah. You know, he does all this stuff, and, like, TJ and myself and Charlie Batch, all the pro athletes from Eastern, there's not a ton of us, right? There's more. There's more now. What's his name?

00:04:20 - 00:04:22 | Speaker 3:

My dog from Max Cross? Yeah, Max is the dog.

00:04:22 - 00:04:53 | Speaker 4:

Yeah, I mean, now there's, you know, we're getting some people out there, but there wasn't a ton, right? And so we started this a while ago, and then he approached TJ and I. He's like, hey, listen, we love what you guys do. Anthony, you're really doing well in the community with your businesses. TJ, obviously, is a local celebrity. Anything I do, let's do it together. They were like, how do you say no to that, right? And then he's like, let's go buy sports teams. I'm in, dude. I'm in. It's like a kid's dream. It's a dream, right? It's a dream. You play professional sports. I'd love to own this team someday. It's a dream that you would never. I do own, by the way.

00:04:53 - 00:05:18 | Speaker 3:

I just want you to know I play all the time Madden. I was going to say, no big show. You know, franchise mode. So this is Anthony Tomey. You've heard him before on our show. You have seen his beautiful label of Born in Detroit. He's got the store downtown off of Woodward. He's also owner of a bunch of great businesses like the Jimmy John's locations around. But he is now the owner. Are you, what do you call yourself, the general manager, owner?

00:05:19 - 00:05:28 | Speaker 2:

No, I'm just a co-owner. Keith and Skye, his son, they're the owner-owners. Yes, we're just, you know, we're part of the deal. We're owners. We're owners, you know.

00:05:28 - 00:05:30 | Speaker 3:

Do you walk around with a lanyard with your name on it? Please don't do that.

00:05:30 - 00:05:38 | Speaker 2:

I mean, I don't do that. No, I just walk around like a normal guy, and I try not to tell people that we own it. But, yeah, we're part of the deal. Detroit Amps. Yeah.

00:05:38 - 00:05:39 | Speaker 1:

I love the name.

00:05:39 - 00:05:48 | Speaker 3:

By the way, thank God that radio station is off the air. Otherwise, I would have been pissed at the name. No, no, no, no. I would have been so mad. Do you remember when we were in Farmington and you guys didn't have a name at the time? Yes. We all said the What Up Dose? Yes.

00:05:49 - 00:05:52 | Speaker 1:

I do remember. Wait, weren't you guys considering that? We were considering anything.

00:05:53 - 00:06:12 | Speaker 2:

This kind of came out of nowhere. The amplifiers were like, man, I don't know about that. And then it became the amps and everyone else came up with their names. Like, our name is so much better than everyone else's name. The Miami 305s, the L.A. Riot, the Houston Righam. The L.A. Riot. That's a crazy name. It's kind of a bad deal now.

00:06:12 - 00:06:19 | Speaker 1:

Okay, I kind of like Miami 305s, though. I mean, that is crazy. It's like unbelievable.

00:06:19 - 00:06:21 | Speaker 2:

It was just a precursor to what was going on.

00:06:21 - 00:06:25 | Speaker 3:

Is the New York team the World Trade Center? I may not. I may not.

00:06:25 - 00:06:46 | Speaker 2:

Yeah, so, but, you know, we're actually the only ones that came out with our own merch, our own merch line. And, you know, the way it's been working, we have to have a third party to put it in. So we're the only ones with the storefront. That's great. So it's worked out really well for us to have that. Sales have been great. You know, we're getting out there, we're in store, we're online, we're just doing it all.

00:06:46 - 00:07:08 | Speaker 3:

So you guys have a game this weekend on Sunday at 3 o'clock at Little Caesars Arena where the Detroit Amps are going to be playing. And listen to this, the commissioner, or the man, the myth, the legend, the Hall of Fame greatest music legend around, rap legend around, hip-hop legend around, Ice Cube is going to be performing at that game.

00:07:08 - 00:07:28 | Speaker 2:

Oh, straight to us. He just announced yesterday. We may have known beforehand, but we didn't say anything. And he went on yesterday and just announced, made a whole video about it, and said, yeah, I'm going to be performing. First time he's done that. That's crazy. Which he's owned for almost his eighth season. So pretty crazy, and we're really excited to have him out there. Who's on our team that I would know?

00:07:28 - 00:07:30 | Speaker 3:

Bro, shout out Jordan Crawford from Detroit.

00:07:30 - 00:08:05 | Speaker 2:

Yeah, Jordan Crawford, Renaissance guy. He played not for us, but he plays in the league. He plays for LA. Okay. Joe Johnson is our best player. He played 14 years. Call him ISO Joe. Is that the guy that was on Atlanta? Yeah. This guy can play, man. His first two weeks, he had 29 points and 30 points. Then he got hurt. And at 43 years old, man, he's not coming back that next week. I tell you that. So we actually end up having to get another player because he's been out for two weeks. And this kid shows up, never played in the big three ever, went to Cal State Bakersfield. Those were the 28 points yesterday on Sunday night. Who was that? I think it was Cam Smith. Okay. Lidded up, had like seven threes.

00:08:05 - 00:08:14 | Speaker 3:

You know who you guys should sign? you should sign Beasley from the Pistons and let him gamble on the games. I mean, the other Beasleys probably was the MVP, Michael Beasley.

00:08:14 - 00:08:19 | Speaker 2:

Yeah, we'll probably stay away from that for a little bit. Can you gamble on these games?

00:08:19 - 00:08:21 | Speaker 3:

Can I gamble on the three-on-three games?

00:08:21 - 00:08:48 | Speaker 2:

With me, you probably can, or someone else. I don't think you can go online. It's not on DraftKings? No, it's not on DraftKings, amazingly. I thought it would be, but it's probably for the best that you don't because no one knows what the hell is going on with these games. Yeah, really? We won the first two games, lost by 20 the next game, won by 10 this week. Like, it's a coin flip, man. It's a coin flip. Dwight Howard, Nick Young, Mike Beasley. There's been some good fights. And Lance Stevenson, this guy fights everybody. I'm not kidding.

00:08:48 - 00:08:58 | Speaker 3:

So tickets are available at AmpsTickets.com, A-M-P-S-Tickets.com, to get your tickets. Can you walk in and show up again?

00:08:58 - 00:09:23 | Speaker 2:

Oh, yeah, you can walk in. You can get them, AmpsTickets.com. You can go to my store, either in-store at Born of Detroit or at BornofDetroit.store. If you order $30 worth of Amps merch, you get two free tickets. Oh, wow. Pretty good deal. I mean, you buy a T-shirt, you get two free tickets. It's a pretty good deal to get out there and just kind of – we want to encourage everyone to be there, right? We want the merch to go out there. We want you wearing our stuff. And we just said, hey, let's just make it available to everybody.

00:09:24 - 00:09:46 | Speaker 3:

Anthony, you're an athlete, obviously, a professional baseball player and stuff. I will tell you this. Anytime that I pick up a basketball, I look at it and I go, I think I can hit a three. And then I realize I cannot even hit the fricking rim anymore. Like I am so out of shape and so bad. Do you ever play with these guys? Do you ever get out there and do it? I have not. Do you play pickup basketball?

00:09:46 - 00:09:54 | Speaker 2:

Yeah, I play all the time. Do you really? Where do you play? Like Wabik or where do you play? I play at Doha, at Shenandoah a lot. And I played, you know, just with a bunch of guys on the side.

00:09:54 - 00:09:57 | Speaker 1:

Is it called Doha now? Yeah, Doha. Oh, Doha. Who wouldn't say Doha?

00:09:58 - 00:10:00 | Speaker 2:

By the way, if you've never been to that place. Seriously?

00:10:00 - 00:10:03 | Speaker 1:

Well, I have for the Chaldean Chamber of Commerce event.

00:10:03 - 00:10:14 | Speaker 2:

No, the basketball. Oh, okay. When I go eat there, I'll look into the gym. And there's like a bunch of little Joey Nemos running around in there playing.

00:10:14 - 00:10:22 | Speaker 3:

Yeah, I try not to play anymore because I'm old and my knees are, I've had two surgeries and I'm good. I just work out instead. I just do regular stuff.

00:10:22 - 00:10:31 | Speaker 2:

This is going to be so much fun. So Sunday, 3 o'clock is the very first home game for the Detroit Amps. Is it on television, too?

00:10:31 - 00:10:35 | Speaker 3:

It is on CBS. So every week is on CBS. Is it live on CBS? Oh, yeah.

00:10:35 - 00:10:39 | Speaker 2:

So those games are live. I always thought those were taped or something like that. I mean, no, no.

00:10:39 - 00:10:47 | Speaker 3:

They're live, man. Everything's going on. It's actually a really, it's a legit deal. This is a pro team. These guys are getting paid. We're selling out places. It's legit.

00:10:48 - 00:10:52 | Speaker 2:

I was watching, and iHeart must be a sponsor because there's iHeart logos all over the place. We are.

00:10:52 - 00:11:04 | Speaker 3:

IHeart's another sponsor of the league. Game Above is the other sponsor on the patch up there as well. So we're kind of all over the place. We have our own commercial we just randomly made last week. That's cool. And we're on TV all the time. Buddy, this is great.

00:11:04 - 00:11:09 | Speaker 2:

This is fun. Congrats to you. Thank you. Thank you. When you and TJ came in, which, by the way, I can't believe TJ didn't show up.

00:11:09 - 00:11:12 | Speaker 3:

I think TJ's just being lazy. He texted me already this morning. Where is he? He's up. I mean, I know he's up.

00:11:12 - 00:11:15 | Speaker 2:

You know what he's doing? He's playing golf right now at Orchard Lake.

00:11:15 - 00:11:20 | Speaker 3:

No, I'm playing at the Invitational tomorrow at Orchard. Are you in the blue coat with him? Yeah, I'm playing blue coat with Jeff Caponegro.

00:11:20 - 00:11:41 | Speaker 2:

Can I say something real quick about TJ Lang? He used to, back in the day, be this awful golfer. lessons and stuff took less now he won't play with guys like me anymore he mentioned that yesterday i'm a 23 handicap and he only plays with guys like scotty jonah you know guys are good 3.3 i

00:11:41 - 00:11:44 | Speaker 1:

couldn't believe all right is that good because i don't know what the hell yeah so the lower you're

00:11:44 - 00:12:05 | Speaker 2:

the lower like if you're a scratch golfer it's basically nothing negatives aren't always the winners and those are the good guys okay okay gotcha tj used to be one of the guys now he's no longer one of the guys he just sits there he won't he won't hang with that all the rest of us text me right now what's wrong with that you know what we're talking about you gotta elevate if i was mike milenny he would he'd be hanging out with me but you know yeah we're playing three days

00:12:05 - 00:12:09 | Speaker 3:

straight so i don't think he's playing today but maybe i think he's just being lazy the truth his

00:12:09 - 00:12:51 | Speaker 2:

wife is the only one that's nice enough to say hi to me i'm a blank family i know they're greatest kids too seriously and then there's and then there's tj tj do you know in his locker so our lockers are right next to each other at the golf course in his locker he has i don't even know if i should say this he's got like i think he keeps his own like drinks in there or something like he'll he'll go buy a bunch of of uh these like i don't know what they are they're uh they're like in the can things and he'll sit there and then he'll put them in his his locker and i'll look in his locker sometimes he's got size feet like this so i see i trip over his shoes going in my locker all the time but he's got like he was sitting there the other day and he's like pounding drinks he's like i can't have another all right i'll have another one more one more

00:12:51 - 00:12:59 | Speaker 1:

Yeah, it's a secret sauce. Look, I'm on the Born in the Trey site looking at the Amplifiers basketball merchandise. Is it good? I got some fire stuff on here, man.

00:12:59 - 00:13:02 | Speaker 3:

Mad Men sure is the best. Yeah. Best seller. Hoodies, T-shirt.

00:13:02 - 00:13:03 | Speaker 1:

I like the shooting T-shirt.

00:13:03 - 00:13:19 | Speaker 3:

With the players on the back. Our stuff is legit. Our stuff is designed by Sky, who's Keith's son, but he's one of the partners of us. And he's so talented, made all the merch himself, all the designs, everything. He's got his own line called Relic, a really badass line of clothing as well. Shut up to Sky.

00:13:19 - 00:13:27 | Speaker 2:

Have they ever talked about, because I know with the WNBA being as big as it is, have they ever talked about signing a female to one of the teams?

00:13:27 - 00:13:39 | Speaker 3:

Last year, before she was drafted, Kaitlin Clark, Cube went on air and offered her $5 million to come. I mean, normally she probably would have, but she had that Nike deal for $20,000, so she was probably doing okay.

00:13:39 - 00:13:40 | Speaker 2:

What did she make at the Fever?

00:13:41 - 00:13:47 | Speaker 3:

Like $78,000. Yeah, rookie minimum. Isn't that crazy? That's what the women make. They make $78,000. It's nuts.

00:13:47 - 00:13:48 | Speaker 1:

A lot of them have to play overseas year-round.

00:13:48 - 00:14:15 | Speaker 3:

Yeah, that's why I remember Brittany Griner. She was playing overseas in Russia. They have to play overseas to make money. I didn't realize it was that. It's getting better now. It's getting better. She got them on the private jets or on the team planes now. She's the Tiger Woods, Michael Jordan of the women's basketball. In what way? She helped the league step up. Just put the face of the league, right? She put them on the mat, I think, right? He still thinks that.

00:14:16 - 00:14:19 | Speaker 2:

I'm going to tell you what. He thinks the girl from the sky is better.

00:14:19 - 00:14:31 | Speaker 1:

I just want to say she brought a lot more eyes, but we're not going to act like there weren't a lot of women that were incredibly gifted, incredibly talented. No, no question is yes. No question is yes. I just want to make sure that story is also being told.

00:14:32 - 00:14:33 | Speaker 3:

I hit a touch point, man.

00:14:33 - 00:14:37 | Speaker 1:

That's because he always tried to act like it's a pattern. LeBron or Michael, which one are you?

00:14:37 - 00:14:41 | Speaker 3:

There's not even a question. Michael. Michael, all day, every day. All day, every day.

00:14:41 - 00:14:44 | Speaker 1:

Y'all only want to talk about the six championships. He played 15 years.

00:14:44 - 00:14:50 | Speaker 2:

That's why these guys didn't hire you. The Detroit Amps hired me. I'm the in-stadium announcer. Did you know that?

00:14:50 - 00:14:52 | Speaker 1:

I guess now I got to go.

00:14:52 - 00:14:56 | Speaker 2:

That's my new side hustle. I'm the in-stadium announcer for the Detroit Amps. Good luck, Anthony.

00:14:58 - 00:14:59 | Speaker 3:

Basically, we don't pay him. He just gets free Jimmy.

00:15:00 - 00:15:09 | Speaker 5:

If you can get TJ just to hang out and play a round of golf with me, that would actually be my opinion. You show up tomorrow.

00:15:10 - 00:15:12 | Speaker 6:

We'll tell Frank, this is his partner, Frank Zombo. I'll tell him, hey, see ya.

00:15:13 - 00:15:14 | Speaker 5:

I'm not a good enough golfer.

00:15:14 - 00:15:16 | Speaker 1:

I know Frank. He works with my husband.

00:15:16 - 00:15:40 | Speaker 5:

Do you know how much I feel like the kid that never got chosen on the team anymore? I'm sorry. Because a TJ won't play with me anymore. I'll let him know about him. All right. I'm a bum, TJ. All right. Anthony told me the greatest guy in the world. born in detroit uh detroit amps uh i mean you own the world no no you own everything you're one of the biggest proponents of this city in detroit so i've taken a lot of pride in the city and what

00:15:40 - 00:15:56 | Speaker 6:

we do here and and giving back i'm actually building a new jimmy johns in cork town here right now are you really good yeah right down right where chase bank is right in the corner michigan trumbull the old tiger stadium yeah we're building a cork town right now maybe freaky fast to us here at the studios? Will that be the one? I don't know, but yeah.

00:15:56 - 00:15:59 | Speaker 5:

Is that the one that we would order from then if we were in order?

00:15:59 - 00:16:01 | Speaker 6:

Yes, I believe so, yeah. Okay, perfect.

00:16:02 - 00:16:07 | Speaker 5:

All right, we'll be back. He has the most beautiful family, too. You ever see this guy's family?

00:16:08 - 00:16:19 | Speaker 6:

Sunday, LCA. LCA. Three o'clock. Well, our game will probably be at five. Five, okay. We're the third game, but three o'clock. Yeah, bornindetroit.store. You can get your stuff online. You order 30 bucks, two free tickets. Excellent.

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