We are celebrating Ron Magill's upcoming 65th birthday today! We kick it off with an episode of Tony Tunite where Ron and Tony visit the world-famous Arbetter's Hot Dogs to discuss Ron's legendary career. Then, Ron joins the show to discuss turning 65, whether or not sharks are death machines, and how he ruined the chupacabra myth. Plus, Ron is fired up about the Cyclones after last night's massive comeback win and counters Billy's criticisms from earlier with compliments to management for the team they've put together. Then, we cap off the hour with a discussion of the Lakers' strong defensive metrics with LeBron James and Luka Doncic so far and Anthony Davis's new prank show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: Who is Ron Magill and why is his birthday significant?
All right, coming in to meet the legendary Tony here at the legendary Arbetters, baby. Tony, three-point Tony, man. How you doing?
Good to see you, Ron. This is hollow ground. It is hollow ground. Your name is on the wall. Well, you know what?
Did you pay for it? I spent a lot of time here, man. High school days, this was the stomping grounds. We'd come in here and we'd rag on the Columbus guys.
Where'd you go to high school? Miami Palmetto. Palmetto. Okay, so we're already bitter rivals from the beginning because I'm a Killian guy. Oh, big cat trophy. I'll have you say that. I won it every year that I went to school. Really? I didn't win it once. The reason why, Tim Hardaway Jr. stopped me every single time. Oh, that's right. Can you take us back to the beginning?
I was born and raised in New York City. My father was Cuban. My mother from Colombian descent. My first language was Spanish and I purposely forgot Spanish. I was like, yeah, yeah, I purposely forgot it because I just thought that was that was like a bad label for me because it gave people a reason to make fun of me. Right. I never played a sport in my life.
OK, it wasn't until in high school that the coach put me out of the hallway and said, hey, Ryan, you're going to play basketball. I laughed at him. I said, have you seen me walk? I mean, come on, it's ridiculous. And we went to the tryouts, you know, you go to the tryouts and then they'll pin up the people who make the team on the list. And I go up there and then I see my name on the list.
I see these guys who didn't make it. And then I'm ridiculed even more.
You just got there because you're tall.
I got there because I was tall, you know, and... And I went to the coach and said, Coach, you're killing me. I don't even want to be on this team. It's just making things worse for me. I don't forget what he told me. He said, at the time, because I was so tall, he said, Ron, you can't coach height.
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Chapter 2: How did Ron Magill's career lead him to television?
The defense rest.
Really? Ron, I saw a story. I saw a story of Turks and Caicos where a tourist like last week had her hands bitten off because she tried to take a picture with a shark in like very shallow water.
Well, what does that reflect on? You know, I'm so sorry she lost her hands. But listen, common sense just isn't common anymore. And I don't know what's happening in this world. And I think a lot of this stuff is being driven by the stupid social media.
Don't get me started in the social media with these people putting their backs to alligators to take selfies, trying to pet a freaking bison in Yellowstone. I'm tired of stupid. You can't fix stupid. The way you fix stupid is you get rid of it. And some of the animals are doing it for us.
So the people have it coming, is what you're saying.
Darwin's hand.
Stupidness has its pitfalls.
A woman lost both her hands to a shark?
Yeah. Yeah, but if that was a tuna, she'd have two hands. Because sharks are dangerous.
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