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“Charles Barkley, our good friend Chuck. I think we can say good friend now because he came back on the”

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The crown is yours. Today is Friday, July 17th and we are all living in Messi's world because

Argentina has gone on to the final. It is not coming home, PFT. It's never going to come. It was

its edging home. It was an incredible, incredible game. I would like to read it in listen. I don't want to make it about this other guy, but I'd like to read a tweet to you real quick, PFT from Bobby BS underscore. He said the dumbest person you know still thinks Ronaldo is better than Messi. That's so true. Zach. I don't know maybe you're just sitting here. I'm sorry. That wasn't that wasn't directed. You're not the dumbest person. Yeah, you're not. You also think that Ronaldo is better

than Messi, but he's talking about a different guy that thinks the dumbest person. You're not the dumbest. All right. I'll take that. Yeah. It was, what did you take? What was going through your head Zach

“on the game yesterday? Yeah. Honestly unbelievable. I mean that second goal, the cross with the”

cross and the second goal. I want to be a hater a little bit. I really can't. You can't anymore.

I can't. I don't think it's possible, too. If he wins the world cup again, there is not really, I don't know where anybody goes from here. Okay. So if he was the world cup again, I'm prepared to say he might be the goat goat. Yeah. Like the goat of goats. I'm can probably now I think Michael Jordan and Muhammad Ali are both tied for the goat goat and secretary. And secretary. But Messi could get on the Mount Rushmore of goat goats.

And like if he wins the, uh, was the golden boot. Yeah. Right now I think he's tied with Mbappe. Mbappe is playing the third play game. Very excited to see England's performance in the third play game. Yep. It's the most hilarious thing that the world cup makes these guys play.

“The losers of the semi finals. You have to go play in the third play game on Saturday. And I actually,”

I did some research this morning on the history of the third play game at the world cup. Okay. England has, they've got the possibilities set the all time record for most third play game losses. Wow. Right now they're tied with Brazil with two. If they lose another one, then that would mean that they have that record on their own. And if you look back through history, uh, early this recent history, three of the last five champions of the world cup, go on to win the third play game the next year.

Who's that would mean that France would win this third play game in England would etched their names into history. Okay. The losing is the third play game team in world cup history. Okay. Now we have the

it was, here's a crazy stat. Yeah. Okay. So they parked the bus. They scored a goal immediately

“put on defensive substitutions. Uh-huh. They, they tell a graph that they were going to do. They're”

just like, we're going to park the world's saddest bus in the penalty area and hope that Messi doesn't do it to us. So in between, um, 66.05 in game time and 84, 42 in game time. So about 20 minutes of game time. Uh-huh. Guess how many accurate passes England hit to each other amongst themselves. How many how many passes accurate complete passes did England have in those 20 minutes? Four, they'd two, two, they'd two passes in 20 minutes and they were from the goal lead to the center back and the

center back back to the goal. I saw the stat that they had 12 percent possession from the moment

that England scored their first goal to the game winning goal. 12 percent possession. They completely

turdled. They went into, I will let's just hold on. They did the herb Edwards. You played a win the game, but they did the opposite. You don't played a win the game. They were just, essentially, the, the last 25 minutes, especially after the hydration break, which they, we can all agree, the Argentina's best fourth quarter team in the league. That's not even close. They've just been doing this in every single game. They're the New York mix of football. It's been insane. The, uh,

but, but from that moment on, it was, England just basically standing with everyone in the box and getting an Argentine taking shot after shot and then England kicking it out and doing nothing with it. And like you said, they put in their defensive subs. They had no speed on the field. They couldn't, like I don't even know what the plan was if it went to extra time. They, they, they, they,

they basically were just playing to try to win it. One nothing expecting messing up to do it. And

here's the, the, the, the greatness of messy because you could go through the stats and the stats are insane for, for, he's 39 years old and he leads Argentina in goals, assists, shots, shots on target, chances created, big chances create. It's literally the entire list. He leads the team in that. But it was crazy to watch because you could just see in the game that England was essentially saying we're not going to let messy score. Yeah. And messy realized they're not going to let me score.

They're sending three guys at me. Every time I have the ball, why don't I just have the most

“sublime assist possible with the cross that was the game winning header? That's what he did. He was like,”

I, I will adjust and I don't have to be a Ronaldo type where I, where I try to, you know, tap it in.

I'm just going to win this game by setting my, my teammates up. And even the first goal,

it was a great shot. It was awesome shot, but also it's the same thing like two, three guys were running at messy. It's the gravity thing. It's like, Steph Curry. Where he's like, I'm, I'm going to lay it off. You're going to, if you can make a 25 yard shot. Yeah, go for it. It was a pretty good shot. I think the, what's his name? Pickford. Pickford. Yeah. He should have gotten it. It's the, the gravity thing of Steph Curry where it's like, even if Steph Curry's not making threes, the defense

has to focus so much on where this person is at all times, that a chain, it tilts the whole field and messy realized that and was like, okay, you're going to just keep sending guys. There's going to be a mismatch somewhere else. It was brilliant. He's, we're, we're black. He's 39 years old. He's 39 years old and he's basically saying, I will find a way to win this game even if I don't have, even if I'm not the one scoring the goal. Zach, tell me what you think about this.

Your box fan, you love Baker Mayfield. They sure, both things true. Teams should have rules that say, do not fuck with Baker Mayfield during the game because he's just going to use that and he's going to get that. That's what they did to messy. They poked the bear with messy. Belling him. Belling him. Belling him. Belling. He, he got in his face and messy gave him the look like it was like, okay. It, okay. It was, it was essentially, he was just basically doing

Robert Neuro in countless mob movies where he just gave him the, all right, I'm going to kill you. I'm going to kill you and that's what all it's going to happen to then he backed it up and killed. What's that, is it Bronx tail the one where the guy goes, now he's can't leave?

“Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's what messy said. Like he was like, you fuck you. Okay. You want to do that?”

It was one of the most badass looks you could ever have. It was stupid. It was stupid. And you know that look because you've, you've seen that happen a baker before. He should have known better. Yeah. He had no business doing that. And then for him to throw his hands up in the air when they do inevitably let that second go in like, oh, we've, how have they lost the game for us? It's like, well, you kind of started this fire. Yeah. Why are you? I don't know.

You should have left it alone. And for them to like, we've seen this throughout the entire world cup, teams think they can get up on Argentina and the ones like, well, just park and try to survive. There is no just trying to survive. They should have tried to win the game. Yes. Because if you just sit back, they're going to just chip away and do what Argentina does. It was so tilted. It was just shot after shot after shot. Another crazy stat about Argentina

in the knockout stage. They have not led the game in the 90th minute of any of their knockout

stat that I read about them. Also, this, this goes to speak. I know there's the third place game PFT that you talked about England versus France. The third place game has already been decided. It's Cape Verde. Cape Verde won the third place game. Yeah. They took the finals of the World Cup Argentina versus Spain. They took both of those teams to tied into extra time. They tied Spain overall. They lost to Argentina in extra time three to two. But they had both of the World Cup

finalists on the ropes. Yeah. As a country. After there. Pardon my takes official third place winner of the World Cup. It's Cape Verde. I wish Hank was here to celebrate this with us. It's a great

day. It's a great day for was his name, Vizinho. Yeah. The four-year-old goalie. He was there. That is incredible

to look at, be like, they took both of these teams to the wild. Here's the stat. So, against Cape Verde and the knockout round, they won in the 11th minute against Egypt and the knockout round. They won in the 92nd minute against Switzerland. They won in the 112th minute against England. They won in the 92nd minute. They have not led after 90 minutes of any knockout game and they're in the final. That's just what they do. It's just kind of like, I don't know,

you can't kill them. It's his World Cup. It is. It's his World Cup at 39 years old. Is it his to lose now? No, I think that, I mean, look, he's in a situation where he either becomes the goat goat or it's still, it's a passing of the torch or passing of the bath water. Mm-hmm. It's just like he had nointed the next goat. Yeah. So, we can spend ourselves in that if we have to. Also, I just got to say shout out to Argentina because they know that if I were the Indian

a fever head coach, I would watch Argentina games with my entire team there and say, see this because every time Messi is fucked with or hit or anything, it is instant that the entire team is

“over there being like, that's how you protect your goat. They are a perfect team in that”

respect. They're all, they're all there to serve Messi in one way or another and and Messi will then give it back to them being like, hey, I'm not going to score. I'm going to give you that, that cross. I must have watched it a hundred times. It is the most picture perfect cross you could ever have. It's insane. It was special, man. Yeah. It's like there's, there's nothing to get things you can say about this team and Messi at this point. We won't see something like this again. Did you?

I don't think. Did you ever think going into this world cup that it would be this bad for you and Ronaldo? Say space? No. Right. It's actually getting, we were on it early, we were like, it's getting mean. It's getting to the point where it's like he's, Messi's doing stuff that is awe inspiring. And Ronaldo is sitting, putting, you know, coconut oil on his abs somewhere, been like, well, I was back for a second against his back yesterday. And you know he's watching

his every month. It doesn't sound pretty good. Yeah. He's back. It was back to the game with special,

“that was special. I think that should lead one shining moment. Yes. So back. So back. I felt good at”

what the use backest tank game was. Okay. This could be Portugal's World Cup. What do you guys

think about Argentina's jerseys? Love. The alternate's? Always. I love all their jerseys. The blue ones?

Yeah. I don't have a problem. I think in terms of all the alternate jerseys out there. Yeah. They're, they're the best. Yeah. And their classics obviously are the best. Right. But they, you can't have the white stripes on there without Diego Maradona. Yeah. He would love those. No, they have, they have great, they have great jerseys. They're great. Really good jerseys. Yeah. It's like it's UNC. They're the UNC of South America. What do you guys think about the colors on the jerseys?

I always think it looks soft there. It feels like you shouldn't be like golfing or something. The Zinglin had colors. And England, I mean, poor England. I don't really feel bad for him, but it is all they have. And they just lose. We said it a couple of weeks ago where it's like,

“remember when I, I think it was the Mexico game. And someone asked me who I was rooting for. I was like,”

I'm actually rooting for England because this wouldn't be tragic enough. Like, if they lose to Mexico in, in the asteca, it's like, hey, you can put your hands up. We're in close. I was like,

I need, I need England heartbreak in an exceptional way. And they always deliver. And then,

yeah. So originally, we called it in the Norway game. And then we said, that's two examples. It feels, it feels right that they would lose to Argentina. Yeah. Um, and then losing to our, I didn't even expect it to be this bad. I don't know that they can do any worse. I feel like this is silver lining. Probably as bad as it gets if you're England. Oh, I don't know. They'll find a way to make it worse. I don't know how I can get worse against Argentina in a 39 year old Messi in extra time.

And it's when you do it to yourself. Like, they had that game. And they just said, we're going to be giant posses. Yeah. And it's especially twist in the nice knife because their manager took what was supposed to be the, the, the, the master and the tactician and not like

team to play all 90 minutes and turns out they're the exact same. It's kind of beautiful that you can depend on England for that. Oh, isn't it? It's great. Like, if they're ever coming home, all these years,

“and they just, they can't help themselves. How did debate in the gambling cave yesterday?”

Would you rather lose? And let's just not talk about what round it was in. Let's say, for both these two teams, it's the quarter final. So you lose in. Would you rather lose a game in the knockout stage like England did? Where you have the lead and you play really, really well for most of the game? Or would you rather get your teeth kicked in like the United States against Belgium? I would rather get curb stomped by Belgium than have a lead and then become the biggest

bunch of chicken shits ever and then have to live the rest of your life being like, we had that game and we just, we just mentally shot ourselves. We're shooting your head max disagree disagree disagree. Okay. What race debate embrace debate? I'm thinking about my answer. We've got absolutely shit on by a team that wasn't even that good. If we made it to the final four and we're competing in the 90th minute. You didn't hear that would have changed. You didn't hear that would have changed.

You didn't hear that would have changed. You didn't hear the start of the hypothetical. I may have missed the start. It was throw out what stage it's in. Let's just say it's got it. Both quarter final games are both round of 16 or whatever. What about just the nature of the loss? And I still think the nature of the loss of what have been, we were like, we're competing against one of the best, the best nations in the world. We belong on that level. Nope. The US just got embarrassed and was like, oh no,

there's we were never in that game. Exactly. So it's like we did, I never had the opportunity

to get excited about it. I think back to the Washington Commanders in the NFC Championship game. What happened in that game? You smoked a fuck out. Okay. And then the bills go on to have the most heartbreaking defeat ever later on that day. And I'm like, thank God, I got my ass kicked. That's way better than how the bills lose. I disagree. We'll go ahead. I mean, I'm as a former loser. I, it turned my coffee. It's kind of a dick thing, though, losing heartbreak and fashion.

“Well, so that was, that was kind of where I was going. I was thinking about it because you have to”

kind of take the US men's national team out of this hypothetical, just because we suck at soccer. And it's like, but if it was just, let's say two European countries, there is something about the battle scars of losing in that way, where when you get embarrassed,

you're like, well, there was never even a chance. I don't know. It's a, it's a good question.

Because losing like we lost, you're not, you're not even replaying the game in your head. No, you're not like, oh, if this went different, if this went different, if this went different. You burned the tape. And man, that England, I think I'd probably go the, the four, one loss because the England, like, they had it. All they had to do was not be pussy's about it. And they couldn't. And they couldn't. Winston Churchill would be so furious. Oh, man. We'll fight on the beaches.

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Okay, we'll be streaming the World Cup final. We'll come, I'll be there too. We have a bonus bet that we have to, we have to figure out what we're going to bet. I don't really want a bet aside. I'm nervous to bet aside. If our word to bet aside would be Argentina,

“I think we got to do something fun. I don't know what that fun is. Corners, corners, corners and goals.”

But it's Spain's so annoying. That's the thing, Spain is so annoying. They just hold the ball and they're so good at holding the ball and getting the ball back. Can you bet cards, yellow cards? Good. That would actually be a good fun. If we can find that market, that would be fun.

I don't know. I don't know. Right? I don't know. But also the guys who have no cards are like,

hey, fuck it, we don't care. There's no game af getting a roll over minutes right out. If you're Zedon, you just let it off. If you guys think, I mean, Zach, we know you're rooting for Spain. I want Argentina to win.

“I got a root for Argentina. Yeah. I think Spain's defense is really, really good.”

There are everything that looks like the Boostamani former CIA guy that goes home on the podcast. You know, the professional podcaster just talks about what it's like to be a spy. He's probably still in the CIA. The guy that looks like him, I forget his name on Spain's defense, that dude's a fucking monster. He is a monster. What do you got, Zach? Those guys aren't eerily similar with the hair. Yeah. Unbelievable similar. You think he was actually in the CIA?

Yeah. I get another time, I guess. I think I think it's going to be a good game. Definitely going to be a

good game. Email just has his entire life still to win the world cup and measure this is it. Yeah. It's a big time passing the torch game if Spain wins. And none of it makes like the baptism stuff. None of it makes sense. It's like, how are we here? No. And all the outcomes that have come together. This is where we're at. Yeah. And in that pick, he's such a funny looking baby, too. I know. He's a hilarious, absolutely hilarious looking baby.

It's a little brother. It's the star of the world cup. It's it's it's so crazy. And he needs to learn what off sides is though. Yeah. I haven't seen a more off sides player in the world cup than he loves being awesome. He loves hanging out off sides style that ship back a little bit

buddy. Okay. Last thing before we do our Mount Rushmore is LeBron ever going to decide,

this is so annoying. No. No, he's not. And now we got clues being dropped. Did you guys see

“there was a, there was a ESP, I think it was PTI's podcast that had nothing to do with LeBron”

that was titled how Steph is behind LeBron's big decision. And then there was a video of Steve Kerr. Someone yelling at him when he was driving and saying, we need to get LeBron. He said, oh, we got him. Yeah. So that. Yeah. So what's going on? I'm now at the point where I'm annoyed. Well, we've already reported LeBron to the cabs. We have. But I'm not sure has there been a material change? I think we go material change and say, we don't know. We don't care. There might be material

change. We talked about a little bit with when horse of the idea that that another team could could scoop up Bronny, almost like hold them hostage. I was thinking more about this this morning. If a team like paid way above market value and a trade with the Lakers to get Bronny, if they're one of the three teams that LeBron said, LeBron, I'm down to the last three years. You get Bronny on your team. And then you say, if you don't, if you don't sign with us, we're shipping

Bronny's asked the G league for the rest of his career. And he's going to rot in the G league. I like that. And if you don't, if you don't believe me, try me because we love to. I like that a lot. I will ruin your son's life if you don't want to move you about if you don't join the team. I think it's probably

“the best. They don't have any any real leverage with LeBron. That's the only way you can get leverage.”

Yeah. If you ever want to see your son again, is Max, are you even focused on the Bron? Yeah. I mean, I just wanted that I know it's not going to be in fill. I know he's not going to fill me, but there's a chance. And like, they're back in my head. I'm not said, you know he's not going to come to fill. But until he decides somewhere, there's a chance. That was the fastest reversal on I know I know in my heart, but he might. Yeah. I know like I need, I just need it to happen. I

need him to say that he's not coming to fill. So I can stop worrying about it. I'm sick of it. Where are the odds right now? It's changing like so rat. It'll be different by the time this podcast comes out. Let's see what we're at here. And we need a better LeBron reporter. Yeah, we do. Are LeBron reporters? Oh, yeah. Your assistant's the last guy. Every day comes up to me. He's like today's the day. Yeah. It's been a different day and a

different team every day this week. Yeah. It was Monday. Today's a day, signing with Miami today's day, signing with the Warriors today's the day, signing with the, it's every day. It's something different. Okay. So what, what is he waiting for? I was thinking about it today. I'm starting to think maybe the Warriors. The Steve curve video. And then also, I get the feeling like they might be putting together a trade package. What? To get AD. Oh, I think you're right. I also think he wants the

calves to trade for someone too. Like, I saw a couple of Kyrie reports. So I think he's just waiting for one of his guys to get traded to one of these. Or Tyre's Maxi, one of his guys. Already there. What do you mean? Oh, he's already got his guy. He's already got his guy. But I mean, he's, he's said that he would love to play with Tyre's Maxi with Maxi and AD. And I feel like now is when the Warriors are put together. They're trying to make that happen. The fact that I still

go back to the Dreyman Green, you could get a fleecing off of this BFT. I could get a fleecing

LeBron. Yeah. It's true. You're in a good spot. Yeah, brownie. The wasler. I might still want brownie. Yeah. Yeah, just for kicks. I saw he also wants Kevin Love. Really? Kevin Love is just in Utah. So D-Way's just gonna come back. Can you play the last year? He was up and down. I think I can't I get my years mixed up. I believe last year might have been the year's father passed away. So I

“think he was out for a while. No, and he was healthy because remember that clip of when the”

jazz were tanking. So they basically were like Kevin Love, we don't want you to play. I think Kevin Love could still be a good player for 20 minutes again. I believe in Kevin Love.

Yeah, it's up throw that I'll never stop believing in Kevin Love. We have another NBA news story here.

I don't know this came across your desk with Kat, but Steven Chey, front of the pod, brought this to my attention online. Did you see Jason Tatum last night? Yes. At the was that the SP awards? Yeah. That he was at? He asked me if I cared that he was in an undershirt and I said no. So here's Chase Tweet. Thanks for wearing your nicest undershirt to this black tie event, Jason Tatum. What a douche. It's the SP's. It's literally the SP's.

It's the black tie event in question is a made-up award show that nobody watches. So is it because I was gonna say maybe this is just me getting older? I don't know. And we've also like the last few years we've done the home run derby during this. I feel like I don't give

a fuck. I feel like like like 15 years ago the SP's kind of had a little pop. They don't have any

no pop. Zero pop. Zero pop. Nothing. Don't care at all. This black tie event. What a douche.

“What a douche. Well, I think it's also it's hard because you have a, like it's hard to give”

awards for something they already gave the awards for. Right. The next party won the NBA title. It'll be like, I don't need an award for winning the NBA title. They won the NBA title. Yeah. It'll be like whoever won the NBA won the NBA best, best basketball team of the year. Yeah. It should just be going to the next. They should actually do a reverse SP's. That would actually get me interested. Just worse team of the year. Yeah. That would be an interesting

award show. It would be. By the way, we have the take he's coming next Friday. Just a reminder. Everyone get ready. Take he's. And then I said one more thing. Yeah. I think what award a manual is about to get fired. Oh. Why? What happened? The 80th Michigan. I know. I know. I know. Yeah. He's, uh, they've leaked a few things to the media. Yeah. Regarding the investigation and uh, in the things that they've leaked, they've squarely pointed finger at

award manual and been like, Ward knew the entire time. In New Everything. Everyone knows everything when it comes to these colleges. Yeah. These leaks don't happen unless they're, they're, they're setting the narrative for why they're about to fire. Yeah. It's, it's, it's hard for any big time, uh, school to be like we didn't know. Yeah. It just, it's not how it works. Zach, you're still thinking about messing with all the, I'm excited for the game. I'm gonna

forward to it. Can you, can you read some game? It's over dude. It's over. Like, put your sword down. There's no weapons on me right now. My thought process was, this is a, this is a, this is a small piece of my thought process. I'm not saying it's the final thought process. You mean, what does have a lot of life left? If Messy does it again, just legacy wise for the sport, it would be, it would be something. Okay. That's just part of the thought.

I'll leave it there. Yeah. That was well said. That was your full thought process yet. No. No. Come on to side it. But like at a certain point you can't deny greatness. Yeah. I mean, really the,

“the only move that the real Messy haters have left is you have to just pretend that you're never”

an all of a family, you've always been payla. And then you can, if you've all wins, be like your

malls, actually. Yeah. Next up. We've always you mall. Yeah. You can pull the move of, of pointing at payla, and then talking about how many world cups he has. Three. But that would chase. That would be incredibly disingenuous. You have to live with that. You have to live with yourself and that. You know, like, has your brother as your brother and give it to you? Oh, I mean, yeah, every time we're on face him, I'm just trying to see how his days go and I hate how his work, how's your day? And he just

like, when I was a bum, you see, you see the game, and Messy did it again. Yeah. Extra time. You see this, you'll never see when I'm going to make cross like that. I'm like, aren't they? No, that's actually true. I don't listen. I'm not saying he doesn't bring up good points. It's just the first thing that comes up on like, hey, what's up, dude? Love you, Missy, when he's like, you got to see this shit, Messy's to go. Yeah. He reminds me of, I get a lot of gifts, you know, I'll get a lot of

like, hey, don't forget. And my dad does a family group chat. So you know, she's in it for every side. I think if it comes in here, we're just giving it to you. Yeah, you guys, maybe everybody's right. I don't know. Yeah, I mean, I appreciate you sticking with a take because he is so good, we're all so good. But I can't put I can tell I can tell in this world cup that like, you know,

You just don't want to turn your back on, because I show speed settings. Yeah, that's what it is.

“Uh, I'm not sure because that's not a bomb. I think he said there's there's a, there's a”

probably nothing. I think he's probably the same sentiment. It's in the nival. Some stuff is just under the nival. If I would side of the fence, you stand on which way you're looking at it. It's like, well, yeah, all you got to give credit with credits, dude. Mm-hmm. Okay, let's, uh, let's do about Rushmore. Let's kick it to ourselves. Mount Rushmore of birds. And then we have Charles Parkley and Austin Reeves. Okay, it's time for Mount Rushmore. It is brought to you by our friends.

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it, we could do a Mount Rushmore of just Reeves products. Mm-hmm. It would be the greatest Mount Rushmore of all time. The Reese's, by the way, the Reese's cups with Oreo. Zach, you know

what I'm talking about. This is fantastic. Incredible. Reeves is the number one candy. It is the

greatest candy ever. It is like Argentina right now. It's messy. It's the messy of candies. That's what I would say. Except, you know what? If you get met, you can link your fingers. That's true. That's true. It is, it is like the Carolina hurricanes. It's like the New York Nicks. The greatest. Right now, it is Reese's. So, Reese's, yeah, we were going to say, I was just going to say, write your name on the cup. Yeah, Reese's. Write your name on the cup. Reeves is the official candy partner

bar stool sports. Go to go get Reese's wherever you shop. Reese's the greatest candy of all time. All right, Mount Rushmore time. Henry is out. So, Zach is solo. And right now, the score is sit. Myself, Max, and memes are 23 PFT 18, Hank and Zach 13. Nice run a second places for you. Zach,

“how are you feeling? Feeling okay. I think we continue string notes together. We could be okay.”

Okay. All right. Good. Good. You string those together. You could be okay. Also, memes. How do you feel about leaving being left out by the PGA Superstore? That was very mean. Not great. That was what one of my suggestions that I brought up during when we were talking about it. Yeah. So, last, yeah, PGA Superstore tagged Max and I in a tweet saying, "Hey, we got a place for you." It was a PGA Superstore next to a Bass Pro shop. Did not tag me. Would you say that this is a good morale thing for your

team free to bring this up right now? I think it doesn't matter. Okay. All right. If I being totally honest, I would say maybe not the best from around. Well, it's not. We didn't do anything. I didn't do a Superstore. I liked it. Yeah. There you go. Yeah. There you go. Thanks, memes. Okay. Still came in last. We're doing the Mount Rushmore of Birds and we did no Google. No Google. So free balling. It's going to be Zach already told me that he struggled to get 12 birds.

Big catch. Did you go solo on this again since we've already set that precedent? Well, we already, we already kind of game planned together. We talked about it. Yeah. I didn't give many suggestions last time. Yeah. So yeah. Last time he went, we should have thought of that when we were before we started. Mm-hmm. Yeah. I was just looking at the room right now. I was like it would make sense to just stay in the room. But yeah, yeah, you could just, yeah, you just go solo. We can solo trips. Yeah. All right,

“fine. I'll go solo. I'll let you know my two cents, but you should go solo. Okay. I'll go solo.”

You guys chime in when you think that I should pick something. Okay. What is it? That's fair. That's fair.

Or first. We're up first. Okay. No, I'm up first. Big hands. You guys aren't doing this one.

You're just going to tell me which number I should pick. That's one one and then is Zach too. Or am I too? You pick three when we pick one. So you're picking three. Okay. Okay. Check a one one. Yeah. Clear one one. It's good solo. Good solo pick. But yeah. All right. Mount Rushmore birds. I'm going to start with the ball deagle. It's great. It's a very, very easy. Just, just, I mean, it's America. Majestic. And it's also like one of those birds that, you know,

do you guys, whenever I see a ball deagle, I am a little loud. I'm going in the wild. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Don't think about it. Yeah. No, I mean, look at it. It's a special moment when you see a ball deagle. You're like, oh, fuck. There's a ball deagle. There's not many birds that can show stop you like that. I, I grew up thinking that we were out of ball deagles. And then at some point we got too many ball deagles. Like, they're, they're overpopulating in some places. Yeah. They were endangered. And then they

then they fuck that time to fuck. Yeah. A lot of fucking. Yeah. So shout out whoever got to ball deagles to hook up. Like that. Okay. All right. Yeah. I would like to take. No, it's you. It's solo. I would like to take for our team terredactyl. Okay. Um, this is where the no Google hurts us because I have no idea if that's a

I don't mind flying reptile is what Google. Okay. So not a bird. No worries. Now. Okay. I did think it was.

“I wasn't trying to, I mean, it's a great pick. I just don't, I honestly, I didn't know. And I”

also couldn't look it up. If we could be honest for a second, the, the archaeologists don't know

if they had feathers or not. Correct. I agree with that. They just found some no terredactyls are not birds. Okay. So we'll pick it from that and we'll go. Good pick though. Yeah. We would have been, would have been an awesome. We should do dinosaurs. Yeah. That would be fun. Yeah. I'm a very fun one. I smelled the T-Rex's breath suit in the field museum. Real nasty. Real nasty. All right. We're going to go with an owl. What are you looking at like that for? What does that mean? There's a,

there's an exhibit. Sue is the T-Rex at the Field Museum in Chicago and there's a, uh, little portion where you can go up and you can smell what Sue's breath would have smelled like. Hat, it's foul. How would they? I don't know, but they're just going with their, yeah. I was just guessing there. They're just like, how can we make these little kids smell this? Yes. And my, my two sons smell that they're like daddy. You got to smell it. I was like, I don't

“want to. Like you have to. And then I did it. And I was like, uh, and I'm like, I'll do it again.”

I smelled like seven times sucked. Great museum though. Oh, that's a great pick. That's that owl. Ow. Ow. Yep. Very good pick. Snow owl. Barn owl. Just owls. I think I'll take owls. Yeah. Okay. I'll give you just owls. Yeah. I'll give you just owls. Yeah. We should take owls. Yeah. The fact that they can rotate their neck is pretty fucking cool. Yeah. Like that's just, that's a cool thing. The owl's incredibly not eternal and great at like hunting prey.

Mm-hmm. Who? Hunting prey? Who? Who? Oh, no, Max. I love watching Max get it like five. Watching Max get it like five. Watching Max get it like five. My brain was just a little bit crazy. It's just a little bit delayed of it. That wasn't exactly like the head scratching his jaw. That was a four-year-old team. Yeah. That was a John Groot and does that job. I thought what, I thought hunting prey was a person

that I didn't know about. Ah, okay. Because Zach kept saying hunting prey and I was like, is that a famous, is that like a celebrity? I don't know, so I'm sorry. Mm-hmm. I apologize. It's all the listeners.

All right. I'm going to go with one one Larry Bird. Okay. Larry Bird. I think that's a pretty solid third pick.

And then my second pick, I'm going to come back. I'm going to go Eagles in golf. Eagles, parenthesis. Okay. Go off. Okay. We're going to take, pair it. Oh, good pick. Okay. Take and talk. They can't. Mm-hmm. Um, vacation skills from a bird. You can fly and speak English. Yeah. Right. I'm going solo here, but I think I think I go three, and then the other, the person that memes throughout there, the first person memes throughout there.

“I think three would be strong. Don't think you need to put put. Okay. The qualified. Okay.”

And then do you like the first name person that memes throughout there? 11. Oh, wait. It will number. Well, again, I'm going solo. Uh, it'd be 10, but it'd be the person. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I love that. Yeah. All right. So we're going to go Falcon, can pick. I, I, we're going to take all Falcons, but the pair of green Falcon, that's just something that everyone knows because they're the fastest animal on earth. Mm-hmm. So that's just like a

fact that everyone knows. Um, and I, I'm a guaranteeing because we didn't use Google that I spelled it wrong, but either way, pair of green Falcon, but we're taking Falcon. And then we're taking Tony Hawk. Good pick, it's good pick. Yeah. Great pick Hawk. We would like to take Flamingo. Great pick. Great pick. Yeah. Class, as a classic. It's a classic bird. I mean, Zach just run on the football. Yeah. Good job, Zach. I, I like your, I like your draft. Yep. I respect you guys. It would be

a real shame if Zach came in with this, be your guys first, first place. Yeah, we're so we're still

chasing the first. We'll get there when this would be, there would be a real shame. Okay. It'd be a real shame. The thing is though it wouldn't bother Hank at all, but he doesn't, I think we said this, but Hank, Hank is fully like it took whatever nine years for him to just finally admit that he sucks it Mount Rushmore. Yeah. And he's, he said it in like a moment of like true honesty, because in the, in years past, he is, he has tried to find any which way to tell us how it's rigged,

how it's not fair, blah, blah, blah. Do you remember the year that him and I were partners and then he went on vacation for a week and yeah, I was in first and that week. Yeah. And then I went on vacation for a week and then we came in line. Right. So he, I think he finally though, it took nine years, but he finally is like, hey, I might just suck at this. Hmm. Yeah. Credit to him. Okay. Pips, you get your last two. We go big bird. Okay. It's gonna pick. Take him big bird and then

I'm going to go Nick Fulz. Because you pick zero birds. Big bird. Big bird is a bird.

Big bird's bird. Well, yes, I had bald eagle. I had Falcon, the draft and shake out the way that I wanted. I also had Hawk, but then you just took Tony Hawk and I can't, you can't put Hawk next to Tony. No, no, that's gonna be a bad look on the other thing. Can I change my last pick? Nope. All right. What was it? Nick Fulz. Nick Fulz. Nick Fulz is a great pick. Yeah. Go birds. Excellent pick. Go birds. I remember him as a Jaguar.

I remember him as a bear. Yeah. Yeah. Oracle. Chief. Chief. Can't say I even remember the last two. Legend. He was a cult, right? spiritually. Yeah, I think so. Uh, no. Carson Wentz was a cult. Was it gold?

Wait, you look at the future. You google Nick Fulz first. That's how we remember him.

“Nick Fulz is a cult. That's how Google remembers him. Do we miss a team that he played for?”

The Rams, but oh yeah, the Rams. That's right. So he played. Yeah. So Eagles, Rams, Chiefs, Eagles, Jaguars bears cult. Yeah. He was a perfect cult. Yeah. There's like, hey, we're going to we're going to keep just trying to find old quarterbacks that were at one point good. It was right in the thick of that. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Zach. All right. And you remember Matt Ryan on the cults? That was something. Yeah. I'm special. Our fourth pick we would like to take.

We're going to take ostrich for a fourth pick. Okay. That's a good pick. Okay. Good pick. All right. Our fourth pick. I think it's a bird. We might have to google it. But we will take

penguin. Yeah. Is that a bird? Yeah. It's a bird. I don't know. You could tell me a bird. A

penguin is something totally different. I guess I didn't have penguin. Yeah. They're birds. I was in the process of writing penguin for honorable mention right now and you took it. Yeah.

“Penguins are very sick effect. I think I got confused. I got confused because we, I think at one point”

we're going to try to take penguins for aquatic animals. Which I think also could have played. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The duel. Okay. What do we miss? A lot. Pelican. Pelican. I think there's a classic three that we had our list that I don't know if they're Mount Rushmore, but they are in the category of I will stop and be like, Oh, that's cool. Cardinal orial blue jet. All three of those. If you see one in your back yard, you're like, Oh, that's awesome. Yeah. Orials are absolutely beautiful birds.

Yeah. I think hummingbirds play in that category. Oh, hummingbirds are very fucking pick. I come to the feeder and edge kind of. Damn it. What are the, what are the ones that peck? Is that a peck? What peck? Woodpecker. Woodpecker. Woodpecker. That's a good pick too. We missed so many good birds. That's my list is, I don't want to influence the vote. But if I was voting, I would not vote for my, you know, you don't feel confident in your list. Listen, here's,

here's some birds that were still on the board that I didn't even write down. Yeah. Woodpecker didn't write it down. Humming bird. The Danny Woodhead of birds did not write that down.

“Penguin did not write that down. Ostridge didn't have that down. Raven. What am I doing?”

I have Raven. And birds can fly. Vulture. Vulture is a bad attitude. They're, I mean, the bird of death. Yeah. Yeah. They're bad at very ugly birds. Vulture is a graphic on the road. We're not, we're not doing pretty as birds. No. Albatross. Albatross, yeah. They can fly for like hundreds of miles over the, over the ocean. The only one that I was, the only one that I was proud of that I was able to come up with without course. Oh, Albatross, yeah. The only one I was proud of

to come up with on my own was the, the magpie. Those birds, do you know the birds in Australia? They like attack bicyclists. Yeah. So that was the only one where I was like, oh, I, I know my birds. This isn't just your generic Oriole Cardinal Blue J, but that was where it stopped. I had nothing after magpie. What about the Finches? Not too familiar. Not familiar. Finches? Yeah, um, boobies. Yeah, boobies. Boobies. Oh, I wrote that. You did write boobies. I just didn't think it was a

real bird. Oh, it's a, yeah. Oh, boobies would look. That, that, that, that honestly could have gotten vetoed on a graph. That's just, that's just a, that's just a fake graphic. You're just playing the graphic. Yeah. You know how boobies, when they try to fuck when they're horny, they see each other and they start doing a little dance. They like move their feet and they do like, like the chorus line, leg kicks, and then the other boobie looks down and it's like, that's a good looking boobie.

Yeah. That's got the core to each other. Yeah. That's pretty impressive. Oh, the blue, the blue foot boobies. Yeah. Those are cool. Um, and a red foot boobie. We missed, uh, doves, swans, swans are good. Swans are good. Swans are good. Swans are thick heads. Canadian geese would be the Mount

crackles on that list for the Mount flush more birds. I don't know what a crackle. If you've

lived in Texas and you've gone to a grocery store in the parking lot is just covered with

“crackles and their assholes. Yeah. I think a turkey or chicken tasty picks. Yeah. Those are birds.”

I got them. Um, what about, I'd like to, I think I'd like to forfeit. I have a principle. I was so bad today. You just went, you just, you just, you just went off course. I did. I got off course. I didn't get back on. The happens. What is the, um, oh, pigeons, pigeons? Listen, I get it. No. Well, let's, we're doing our momentions. Let me make my case for pigeons. Piggins are kind of like the, the rough and tough like, like a neighborhood

guys. You know what I mean? They're like the Italians of birds. They're also over in, you know, they're just eating out of the trash and they're kind of talking all weird and they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're men of the street and men of the people. Yeah. They're trying to get up a go. And pigeons are also not the smartest. They, they're just getting in the way. What? Some would say the most surveillance state. Let me make. Oh, yeah. That's true. Let me

“make a, uh, uh, my case for pigeons actually being the smartest. They've, they've essentially just”

over the years been like, hey, you know where we should live, right where the people leave their trash. We don't have to hunt for anything. We don't have to go fucking diving for worms and fish and all that shit. That's smart. Some guys going to eat a calzone and not finish it and we're going to we're going to finish it. So pigeons might be the smartest bird. There is one group of pigeons that I, I did have on the list. There was a, uh, a world war two core of pigeons that we used over and

oh, and instead of like doing like radio transmissions, yeah, they would, they would, they would send pigeons flying back and forth of notes that would fly for like 100 miles. That's pretty cool. Drop something off those smart those pigeons like our metal of honor winners. That's not Harry Potter. Yeah, respect. You're racing pigeons are pretty fun too. Racing pigeons. Yeah, much out. Like a nice one. Yeah. What about two cans? You can pick great cereal. Yeah.

Paracastic. Yeah. Not a huge fan of paracutes. I'm not familiar much with paracutes and what they do. They do the ones that like pets. They're kind of like bright small birds. What are the ones that copy you? That's paracutes. It's paracutes. Oh, paracutes. Paracutes. And yeah, the African gray parrot. What do we think about? What do we think about Seagulls? Fuck Seagulls. Yeah, I'm kind of off Seagulls suck. Seagulls suck. Yeah. If you're on a beach and you're trying to do anything, they're so fucking annoying.

I fuck Seagulls. That's a number one amount flush. When I looked at the Jersey Shore, I put a, uh, that's why I'm saying. I put a $500 bounty on catching a Seagull with your bare hands. I'm not talking traps. I'm talking just chasing a Seagull grabbing it with your bare hands. If you can do it 500 bucks. All you have to do is just start eating some french fries and they'll just come into your fucking hands. There was worse. Seagulls are the worst. We looked up a story on the act a few months ago for Guy who

got arrested because a Seagull went and took his like five-year-old daughter's french fries and he just snapped his neck. That, that seems like self-defense. I think he had some other shit going on so it was got a little sideways. I'm not, I'm not, I'm not getting into the story. Well I'm about that Seagull.

Let me just say this. If you, if a Seagull takes a french fry and then your first

action is to snap its neck, you might have some rage issues. Or maybe maybe that's the fair assumption. You might just be trying to protect the rest of the beach. Yeah. What about the Seagull, though,

“the grab the hot dog, and wriggly, that guy was cool. The perfect shot. Do you remember that photo”

that someone took in like April? Yeah. It was just a Seagull flying in the outfield with a hot dog and it's mouth, like a perfectly untouched hot dog. That Seagull's cool. Yeah, but he probably stole that hot dog from, oh, but it's with bun. It's with bun. It's a full untouched hot dog. That Seagull, I can, I can, I can fuck with that Seagull. No, because that Seagull stole that hot dog from someone. But he had a lot of paperwork, Max. Yeah. He, he, he, he can eat the scraps after the game's over.

Max, respectfully, if you're dumb enough to get your hot dog stolen by a bird, you deserve to not eat. What if also it was just someone dropped the, I bet you someone dropped it. That, okay. That would be fun. And he's came in and swooped it up. And it's also just the coolest photo. So it is a cool photo.

The, the Auburn War Eagle that flies around the stadium. That's a critical bird. That's a really cool bird.

The Phoenix? Uh-huh. Hot, hot, hot British ladies? Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah, I said, I said, D for Moe Sony. Yeah. Oh, yeah, bird. She's a bird. Superd. Superd. Oh, Brian Cardinal. Throw back. Mm-hm. I'm trying to think of what other birds sports. Lane Johnson. Also had him on the list. AJ Hawk. AJ Hawk would be a good one. Uh-huh. AJ Brown. Yep. No longer. Yeah, but he said he was the greatest Eagle of all time. That's true.

Max, I bid on something that I don't think I'm going to get, but I've really was thinking about you.

Don't tell me. Why? If in case I get it. Yeah. I don't think I'm going to get it. All right. It was a signed placard from AJ Brown's locker room after a game. It was a dotting Tim Bond's game. Oh, wow. I hope I, we haven't got any response. So how, it, it's, how do you know if what, from a game? It's like authenticated. It says this is Eagle's Broncos. They change those after every game. I guess so. That's where there must change everything. Yeah. Maybe he requested a move.

Maybe maybe. Yeah, probably because Dying Tim Bond's. He didn't want to say next to Jill anymore. Yeah. You guys, we don't lose that game. Actually, don't remember. That was a game you didn't think got physical. I think they lost that game.

“Then I think Denver looked like the very worst team in the league like the next week, right?”

Oh, no. Did Denver go? Yeah, because they went over to work. Yeah, somewhere over there. Yeah. Broncos Eagles. How many years ago was that?

Yeah, you did lose that game. It was last year. 21 17. Dying Tim Bond's. That was a tough game. Oh, that was a tough game. I can't wait for football to football. So close. So close. It was getting physical games. I was just running to the death chart yesterday. It's just football so bad. It's so bad. So bad. The F-15 Eagle. That's a good bird. 104 or no lifetime record. Oh, we're about Birdman. Birdman. The rapper or

Paul Sanderson. Both. Yeah. Both Birdman. Mm-hmm. Good pick. Mm-hmm. Well, wasn't a pick. Good on. As soon as I said, yeah. Yeah. It would have been a good pick. It would have been a good pick. Mm-hmm. But a good pick. It was not. We're thinking of so many things after the fact. Yeah.

I'm just, I'm just discussed through myself. Duck a bird.

Yeah, that sucks a bird. Oh, man. Why did we pick Dots? My favorite duck. I didn't know if it was a bird. My favorite food in the world. What else would it be? I don't know. I thought it was a, I thought Doug was going to tear Dots up, walking across the street. KB duck. By the way, I'll shout out the, the documentary. It's on YouTube. Listers. It's these two dudes. Who, there's like an entire burger community that all they do is just try to go find as many

birds as they can in a given year. Like, there's a competition every year. And these two guys, I think they're from St. Louis, uh, kind of like regular just two brothers. And their 20s were like, hey, we're just going to become list. We're going to become birders for an entire year. And they, they went on the hunt for to, to see as many birds as they possibly could. Cool. How many did they get? I think I got like 150 or something. There's so many. There's too many birds.

There's so many fucking birds. It's insane. Yeah. I had a couple other birds. What were they? I'm just going to do a quick Google, coolest birds. Let's see. Dodo. How do we feel about the Dodo? RIP. Yeah. Idiot. All right. Top 20 coolest birds. Emo. The, the Gernie's Pitta. I don't even know. See, this is where it gets a little. It's like, there's too many birds. Blue J made the top 20 here. Kakapu. Yeah. I'm out on birds now. There's just too many.

“We're about to McCaw. That's what, when you think of a parrot, I think we think of McCaw.”

And that I'm not familiar with. It's like the Jimmy Buffett parrot. That's the McCaw. Okay. Yeah. I like that. Yeah. All right. Good Mount Rushmore. I ain't going to be back on Monday. Yeah. Full team dissembled Monday. Yeah. You, did you like doing it? You said you'd prefer to do it on your own. No. I like, I like the unity of teamwork. You also said that you think Hank is bringing you down. I didn't, you guys are, these are all false accusations. I think I can get Hank back in the

spirits of Mount Rushmore. Okay. Oh, so you agree that he's not in the spirits of Mount Rushmore? Mm-hmm. Yep. That's what I heard. Well, you guys spoke a little bit early on in the show about historically, he said he is not all way in sometimes, or maybe he's not the same. You're, you're finding that. I said he is all the way in. You're agreeing. Well, how are you going to get it back? You're trying to get him back. Because because that's going to end right now. Because he has double stuff. It's like double story. It's like he's back.

He's going to end. No, he can't, he can't, he can't be back if you weren't ever out. Like when we're not all scored two goals against it, it was Becca Stan and he was like, I'm back. I'm back.

“Iconic moment. Double back. Yeah. He was back from what?”

From not being very good. Yeah. Just on the world stage, playing good footy. I guess he was Becca Stan. An entire, an entire country. Sounds like a big deal to me. Oh, there's good at it. There's one other bird of the shoe bill. Do you guys are you familiar with the shoe bill? No, that's the one that looks like a dinosaur. And so one that's like five feet tall. Bring up a video of the shoe bill, Max. That's where you

should have taken shoe bills. I mean, I just shot the bed entirely. I mean, there's a bird brain draft. Oh, that's cool bird. Yeah. It's an entirely lurking bird. Yeah. These things are fucking crazy. Yeah, but it's cool. You don't see that very often. This is cool. This picture's cool. It's a

shoe bills. Mm-hmm. They're just, where do they live? Hell. Okay. Yeah. If I see one of these things, I'm running. I could fuck that thing up so easily. What, what are you looking at me like that for exact. I just need to be a challenge for anybody. I can

“kick that thing so hard and look at that beak. Dude, I think that's a weapon. If you want to”

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I appreciate it, brothers. Appreciate it. Looking forward to it. How to good time. Last year glad to be back. We had a blast last year, so we're back at the American Sentry Championship. Let's start with that. How's the golf game feeling? I feel like you, you went from,

“there was that stretch where it was like, hey, if you want to go viral on the internet, you just post”

Charles Barkley's T-box swing and now you're just, you're good. Well, I wouldn't say good. I'm playing well. Shout out to my coach, Stan Utley who changed the whole dynamic of my golf game. I mean, I love to play. You know, you can't stand the house, especially doing the summer. I love just walking, being out there. There's one of the few plays you can go and get peace and quiet. Now, you meet a lot of crazy people who say stupid stuff to you. Like,

why are you at the dry climate? Because I got clothes. I need to be directly. They're like, why are you at the supermarket? Because I need food to eat. I was at just stupid stuff.

I always land. Like, why are you at the supermarket? Because they got food and stuff here.

But golf, you get, you get to go out here. There's no fans around. You just go out there with three of your friends and just talk trash, smoke some stogies, and that means the best. It's gamble on some golf. Yes. Yes. Yeah. Are you up or down this year, gambling on golf? Well, I'm probably down. But I bet like I'm, I'm a, I think I'm a better, I bet like I'm a better player. I think I really am. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And that's a problem. Yeah. Last year, that's the thing

about golf, though. Listen, you have to play to your handicap. Yep. And so I've got to do a better job of scoring. That's my problem, scoring, not getting up and down, making double bokeh instead of bogey, which is, that's golf. But I got to do a better job of scoring. It's at one shot at, you know, like, kind of par five where you're like, oh, shit. If I hadn't hit my,

Like, yeah. Well, and I think the main thing is when you stupid like myself,

you're hitting the trees and you're throwing them, trick shot. Oh, yeah. Like, I've never seen a

tree. I got, yeah. I saw a guy try this on TV. He cut it out of the woods. Let me try it. You know, instead of chipping it back in a fairway, like a, like a smart man. Yeah. Hey, I saw this guy cut this shot out of the trees. Hmm. Whenever you say, I've got a window. You never have a window. That should be

“a trigger actually. If you hear yourself say, I think there's a window. No, absolutely not. You know,”

so it does probably no button where I was more golfed at me. And you're here with somebody guys that he's got a window. Like, what window? And then when I did not get into trees, I'm like, I see that window that I was talking about. Yeah. Yeah. But last year, so we sat down and we talked last year. And then you went out there and you played, I think, yeah, I don't know if that was the best round of your life. But you had an eagle on the front nine. Yeah. And you had, you put up a good

score on the first day at Terminal last year. I played, I think it was my best round ever. The first round.

But then the drinking in a gambling called up with me, because I'm going to drink and I'm going to gamble. Yeah. So my scores, I got to figure out how to play better as I get drunk or in gamble more in the last couple of days because the first day, I'm good. Right. And then the late night gambling and drinking catches up with you. Yeah. Yeah. So I'm actually putting together, I'm trying to do a study at Barstool Sports. And I've got, I've got 10 people signed up for. I'm trying to do

actual science because we got a, we have indoor golf simulator at our place. And I'm trying to study

“the exact perfect right amount of drunk that you should be to play golf at your best. Because”

no, it's like, I think it's like three drinks. It ain't about being drunk. Because you, you don't normally play, I don't normally drink when I play golf. But there's a great line in a schooler rock when Jack Black is talking to the students. He says, I got a hangover and when the kid says, you're drunk. He said, no, I was drunk yesterday. Yeah. Yeah. So I'm not drunk when I'm playing, but because I was drinking in the night before and up all night gambling, you got, you're getting

mentally and physically fatigued. Now, there's no way in the hell, I'm gonna go to bed and get a good night's sleep if I'm in Lake Tahoe. So I just got to find a way to manage it better. Yeah, they can see those right there. Yeah, they put it right there for you. 100% reason. Yeah. How did you do last night? I broke even, I was a win. Oh, yeah, that's a win. Yeah, they were kicking me pretty good. I got on a roll, got back to even. And then like, you know, let me go get some rest.

So I'm, I'm, I'm even. So that's a win. Yeah, you mentioned people just like, you know, seeing you in public and talking trash. How to go when you had to go down to San Antonio. They were great. Really? So was there any, because I saw you, you know, there's a lot of people are very friendly. I think most people understand that what you're doing at the end of the day is you're having fun making sports fun, not being mean-spirited, but were there any rogue like, hey,

what the hell? Because there was some weird shit that happened between San Antonio and New York. Yeah. Well, the people of San Antonio, they can take a joke. You know, I think people don't understand. We're on television from 7 o'clock to 2 in the morning. Nobody want to talk about basketball, even me from 7 to 2 in the morning. My job, our job is to entertain the fans. I think we do a good job with that, but you know, that stuff I said, it made people laugh hopefully,

but it's so funny now. I mean, everybody's offended by everything now. Yeah. You know, there's a great line in Ted Lasso. The hot blonde chick says it. I think her name is Hannah Waddington. She says, oh, I know it. She was talking to Roy, I think, one time. And this is where you a lot of people are. They don't know it. Like, oh, I know you. You're the guy who, if we give you a shit sandwich,

“you would want more shit sandwich. Some people just ask holes. You have to let them like,”

okay, I get it. And some people just like, they always want to be offended about something.

Instead of saying, hey, man, don't take yourself that serious. But I thought that was a great line. Some people just like shit. Yeah. And I was like, no, no, no, I'm not going to let you out. Get on my nerves. If you came take a joke, just shut the hell up and don't watch the show. Yeah. And then I was watching that first game in San Antonio when they said, and now we're going to bring on the mayor of Santa. Yeah. And I was like, oh, but then she was cool with the two.

I feel like I feel like she was in San Antonio. And when people make fun of me, I can take a joke. Yeah. Right. Like, I don't even know what we got as a society where people can't joke anymore. I'm like, no, I never want to be part of a world where people can't joke and have fun. I mean, we asked it talking about sports sports a great, but they're not really important. We're not like teachers or firemen or policemen or somebody like that, nurses or,

You shouldn't be watching sports. Yeah. I agree with that. There's actually some just came out right now from the, from the NBA. So it kind of curious you're reaction on that. It says the, the Clippers Raptor's trade that center on quiet Leonard will not be complete until the NBA investigation into the Clippers is over. So the, the trade might not happen now, depending on what, what they, uh, well, they find out. Well, the Clippers got busted. It looks like, yeah.

Clippers got busted. I'm not sure why they're dragging their feet. What's interesting is,

what is the proper penalty? Right. Because you can't find the Clippers a million to all the

five million dollars. Got the guys worth $20 billion dollars. So it seems to me like

“they probably gonna suspend Kawai Leonard. I think he per, I think bomber personally has to”

plant like 2,000 trees. That would be perfect. Right. He's shovel. I can hear you go. I'm a big bomber like him a lot, but they just got busted. And, uh, it all, listen, a lot of teams do it. A lot of teams do stuff under the table. Yeah. Um, when I played for the rockets, they asked me to take no money for a year. So we could sign Scotty Pippin, uh, and we did. Now two things happen. Number one, Scotty Pippin in my brain, Michael Jordan with that was

the bad thing. And, secondly, the rockets didn't pay me what they was supposed to pay me. So they screwed me out of money. But teams do that crap all the time. Yeah. So they just got busted. Listen, uh, Kawai doesn't want to be there. Let him go to the, let him go to the Raptors. Well, he won a championship and just keep him with it. But that's interesting. They did, did you say it that? Because, yeah. Go, they just got busted cheating, playing with something.

Yeah. I, I, I think they like, they're, it's pretty clear what was going on. 100%. And they would just weren't careful about it. Yeah. And you just better hope that if you're another NBA team like a public tour call as you do not answer the phone. Mm-hm.

Just don't talk to that guy. Yeah. Be careful. I'm never going to, I'm not talking

to a public tour because I'm scared of what he'll do. Do to me. Yeah. Um, so you, you mentioned before we started taping your infilly for the summer. Yes. Playing a lot of golf. Um, how many courses have given LeBron James a membership and hopes that he plays for the 76ers? Which I, I don't think, you know, personally, any of that's going to happen. I don't think he's true.

“The, the right thing for LeBron do is go back to Cleveland. That's what he's going to do.”

No, I tell people, I said, if he, if he, the one big criticism of LeBron James has been, he's stacked his teams to win championship. If he goes to the Warriors or the sixes it be to me, he'd be like trying to stack his team again. He has no affiliation with any of those teams. The only team he has no affiliation with what he's a legend is to Cleveland Cavaliers. That would be the right way to finish this career. That's just my opinion.

Him chasing readings trying to chase the ghost of Michael Jordan, going to the Warriors, or going to the sixes would, would be a bad luck. He should go to Cleveland, the finishes career. That would be a great finish in the story. Yeah, we, uh, we you, uh, we shot by the gentleman Brown trade because I feel like it still is like, how how is this would end up happening with a guy who's a 15 guy in the league? I, well, I think two things,

not once the prize you got to trade it, right, because he was clearly going to get traded. Yeah, I was the prize you got to trade it to Philly because number one, you're in the same division. You're going to be in the same playoffs structure. So you've got to see that man a lot. But, um, and then it, it's said that it saves the sixes franchise because they were dead in the water because Paul George's aging, Joel has not been able to stay healthy and they got both

of those guys for another few years. Now, the happiest guy in the world should be maxi. Uh-huh. Because his career was going to be in the toilet for the next few years because he's a hell of a player, but the sixes were relevant and only going to get worse. But now, they, you know, I have zero idea who's going win the East right now. Uh, I'll tell you this,

“I think if LeBron go to Cleveland, I think they're probably favored in the East,”

but the Nixon regressing because they losing some players. The Celtics obviously regress. The sixes are going to be better with Jalen. The raptors, if they get that, and they're going to be better. But, man, I got zero idea who the best team in the East is right now. Yeah, do you think that you think the parity in the NBA is good for the NBA that we had what eight different champions in the last eight years? I think it's great for the NBA. I thought this was great for the NBA

at the next one. I think a lot, man. It was that atmosphere in New York was one of the most in the game, street and foreign game five in San Antonio, like had to have 7,000 Nick fans. That

was crazy. Not so it was one of the most incredible things I've seen those two games in New York.

And I thought it was great for the NBA at the next one. Yeah, I mean, we said when the thunder won last year, like they might win three out of the next four. We might already annoying them. Listen, if Jalen had to be in healthy and AJ, they'd have the kid AJ. They probably

without a second best player who's an all-star and in other kid AJ got hurt. So the thundered are going to be the team to beat for the next probably five to seven years. Yeah, you're not saying that the spurs are inevitable at this point. Because they did so much stupid stuff in the finals.

“Like they're a great team, I think. And obviously, what they did, they did not play well and they”

going to be right there. Well, listen, you're going to have to beat okay seeing the spurs the next five to seven years. You're going to win the championship. Right. Yeah. How is, how's the Swiss ESPN Ben? Because last year last year, we obviously were in the great unknown. Yeah. You didn't know what was going to happen. I feel like the start might have been a little rocky, but it felt like the show kind of got back to where it was. Yeah, you know what they were awesome. They didn't

bother us all year. They were a fun and work with and a really cool thing about it to be honest with you. And Ernie talked about it and I talked about it. It was really fun. And like we got a perfect storm between New York and San Antonio. It was really cool to work the finals. But it's time. And we got a great finals. And like I say in New York and in San Antonio, two great fan bases. But it was really pretty cool work in the finals for the first time. I mean, Ernie talked about that. It was pretty cool.

What about the budget for like the food spread when you guys have those long nights and you're

working, you know, we just, we same. No, I spray us always different. We all, we all order from a

different restaurant. Okay, but they didn't like, they didn't cheap out on the, on like what you guys are able to expense, right? Well, we don't, they don't know that work like that. Like we got about 50 restaurants. And we order, check orders, something, order, something. And I'm all over the place. I'm nice. I get Mexican sometime. I get Italian. Sometimes I, I'll get a steak or Chinese. But we don't normally have a spread at work to be honest with you. We just order from a restaurant.

Who's paying for that? TNT. Okay, all right. Okay, all right. So that's staying the same. Yes. But do you say you usually don't order from the same place? No, we don't. We got all different. And we, and we, and we all eat at different times. I, I like to eat later. Like I like to eat it probably eight, eight, 30. Because I don't want to eat again at midnight or one or two in the morning. Yeah. Manch, manchack probably the two latest eater. Ernie, Ernie goes in like three o'clock in

after noon or earlier. So he likes to eat around six. And we don't show up to six, 30. Me, Shack and Kenny. Yeah. So, and I like to do this show, the hour pre-game before I order. Like I said, I don't want to eat at midnight. Right. I had a question about the show with Drainmon. Yeah. So that clip that went viral this year. I actually said right after when we did our show, I was like, this is actually awesome for Charles. So because you played it so

perfectly. You just sat there. He was kind of talking out of his ass. And we like Drainmon. We had him on a few months ago. He's kind of talking out of his ass. And then the reaction on line is, people don't remember how good Charles Markley was. And it was like, almost like everyone's like, hey, this guy was way better than anyone. He's like, he's done a bad job of helping his own legacy by being so funny and, you know, you make fun of yourself. But he was fucking awesome.

Well, it was interesting about it. I didn't pay that much of attention.

“Yeah, you should have because they were lazy. So, so we go to the live die bar”

after work all the time called a pub. It stays all about three, four, the morning because we move the jack when you get off television. So we always go to the pub and driven what we meet at night. And then I always kiss like a semi-clockwise flight back to Phoenix. And so I'm not even paying attention to it. Like I don't do the internet. I don't do internet shit. So I fly and I land and I got 100 messages. I'm like, what somebody got treated or something?

And then it was about to dream on stuff. And I was like, I never even get out of the second thought.

But I was really surprised how many people went out for a dream on and defended me. It's the man. I, I'm not sensitive at all because I say stuff about players. I hope they're not sensitive. Because if I see it, I believe it. I don't mean I'm always right. So that didn't infase me whatsoever. I mean, I can take, I can take it as much as I can dish it out. Yeah, so you went, you went out to the drinks with dream on after that. Yeah, he probably knew though because he is online.

He's like looking at, but we were two beers a drink into Keela the word about online at that time.

“Yeah, that's good. That's good. Sometimes I think the dream on does shit. So he can talk about it on his podcast.”

Probably. Yeah, it gives him, it gives him like little ratings boost. Yeah, but I want to hear what Dream on said about getting kicked out of that game.

Yeah, I don't, but I can say, man, I don't, I'm never going to be sensitive. Yeah, you should have gone online that day, though.

Dream on is a good player. I was a great player. I don't, I don't go back and forth.

That's trying to defend. He's a very good player, but we're not on the same level. Right. Yeah. Yeah. It's like the whole bus driver thing that you guys talk about. It's driving the bus. It would have been, if you had seen what people were saying, it would have been a little bit like attending your own funeral.

“Because that's how nice people were saying it's awesome. I know you don't go to funerals. I heard you say that.”

Weddings of funerals. So, but no funerals ever. Like you have to go to some funerals. If somebody is really special, I'll make an exception. But I'm just not going to go to somebody who was a casual friend of mine's funeral. They don't know I'm there to do it. Yeah, that's a fact. So, all your friends know this like, hey, there's a good chance. I'm not going to your funeral. And they won't know it, though. Yeah. What if they try to trick you to take this or not? Where the hell's Chuck? No, that's just not my thing, man. I don't want to see if, like,

if somebody is special to me, I will go. But I don't really want to go and see somebody who I like. Just last time I saw him was dead. Yeah. Period. Yeah. What about? So, you, you were probably one of the only people in the country who got invited to Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey's wedding and decided not to go. I don't go to weddings. I love Travis. He haven't Jason a great friends of mine. I got a lot of love, I respect him. I've all met Taylor one time. She's an awesome person. That's from a distance.

And I'm happy for them. But like, not in one, I don't, I don't know, politely decline. Yeah. Because I love both of those guys. Jason and Travis. A lot. I like a lot of love and respect for them. But like, nah, not going to the zoo. So you just don't go to weddings? I do not. What is there a reason for the, because that's the opposite of a few months ago. That's just the Bride's Pressure Day. Let her, let her enjoy herself. That's just huge you.

Yeah. Yeah. That's just huge you. Yeah. That's just huge. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's your special day.

“What if the bride's only wishes to have Charles Barkley and her wedding?”

She needs to get some a life. He needs to get a life. Is it, is it about? I mean, no, by the way, I love this. I, I'm think I'm going to adopt. I didn't know you could do that. I didn't know you could just be like, yeah, I don't go to funerals. Yeah. I'm going to start doing that. He's like, I don't go to them. Pressure my age. I'm going, there's a lot of my friends with dropping dead. So I'd be busy all the time. Yeah. With the funerals are more about like, you don't want to travel for it. Because I understand that.

No, not travel. No. I just like, I don't want to see somebody. I really, really like, did last time. No, before wedding. For a wedding, I just like, that's the brass pressure day.

I want her to have all the shine. I've always wanted to charge because you are, you've been so big

in the media for so long that there's everyone thinks that they've got a Charles Barkley impression. And most of them suck. Most of them are really bad. Do you, do you pay attention to the Charles Barkley impression? Yeah. People seem to be all the time. The only problem I have with it, the not impression is every short ball, fat, black guy walks up to me all the time. Tom about how they look like me. Right. It drives me nuts. Yeah.

First of all, they're all those short fuckers. And other than being ball and light skin, you look nothing like me. But every now and then I meet somebody who look like me. Yeah. Oh, I'll tell you a funny story about the impression thing. My agent called me. It's probably 40 years ago now. No, I'm buying a 30, 30 somewhere. He says, hey, John Madden is looking for you. I said, oh my God, he's going to give me a number. It's a question. Good John Madden, my number.

Because, you know, he says, you don't let anybody give anybody a number. I said, yeah, losers. But he's John Madden. So John Madden says, Mr. Barkley, I say, hey, Mr. such an honor and thank you for leaning example of the media and blah, blah, blah. He says, all right. Thank you. Thank you. He says, hey, you know, this guy Frank Caliando. I said, yes, sir, he lives as one of my neighbors. What an asshole. I want to put a stop to him doing impersonations of me. And I'm trying to get some of

you other celebrities he do to, like, sell him a stop. And I like, what? He says, we need to stop. I says, first of all, I think Frank is great. And he, and I said, first of all, take us to honor, but somebody had to do that. And I says, Mr. Madden, I understand where you're coming from. You might not like it, but I think it's, I think he does a great job on me and you and all the other people. All right, Sarah, waste it through time. I think I just pissed off John Madden.

But Frank does a fabulous job with his impersonations. And I always considered flattering.

Yeah, I thought you were going to say that it was Frank Caliando calling you up doing an impression. No, man. No, no, no, but I was laughing. I was like, man, somebody doing a personal

“you, you should take it like, yeah, there's an honor. Yeah, that means you're having an iconic voice.”

Yeah, like, whatever you do. 100%. Yeah. Where are you out with MJ? You guys going to reconcile? Yeah, we are. Okay, nice. Because I actually was our mutual friend.

And I was like, I don't know. Yeah, so one of my friends is here. I was sitting at the house

“a couple of months ago. And his name popped up. And I said, what's up, Motherfucker? That's where we”

talked to each other. He said, no, Motherfucker is MJ. And they were playing golf together. And we said, I said, oh, man, how you doing? I hope you're doing great, blah, blah, blah. I mean, like, young man, let's let this bullshit go. We were, we were great friends, brothers for a long time. And both of us being selfish and stupid. And I said, yeah, we are. We both selfish and stupid and stubborn more than anything. He says, hey, man, so this basketball is over. Come down to my

golf course and let's play. And I said, man, I'd be honored to, you know, I miss your friendship. And he's a, I miss your friendship. So we like, so this, he's out of the country right now. But as soon as we get the chance, we're going to get together. I'm going to go down to his golf course and play with him for a couple of days. That's awesome. Does it mean it feels like too, especially you guys both love golf so much? Like, those, there's years and years of history

between the two of you. And that's a friendship. I would imagine there's not a lot of people who can give MJ shit, like you could probably give him shit. 100%. You know what I mean? Like he doesn't have a lot of people who are going to probably give it to him the way that he gives it to other people. He can do that. And I'm definitely going to do that. Yeah. So he needs you in his life. Yeah. And it is. And I'm, I'm Mr. Friendship, too. I'm looking, looking forward to reconnected.

What if he, who usually wins if you guys play golf? Well, he would, he quit playing with me when I had to yips. So we hadn't played together. He's a better golfer to me. But I'm really looking for it to put my game up against him. He stopped playing with you when you had the yips. He's like, I'm done playing with you. This is not fun for me to watch. But he did, he said, I'm not playing with you anymore. You've got to play with the group behind me. But now, I don't have a yips anymore. I'm

“looking forward to playing with him because I think I can compete. Yeah. What's your handicap out now?”

10. Oh, that's really good. And what's he had? I don't know. We haven't played together. We didn't speak for like 12 years. So I don't know what he had. But you know, he got to be a good player. If you're going to be on your own golf course, you should be a good player. Yeah, that's true. You don't really have an excuse. Yeah, your own golf course. It's a match. You shouldn't be a shit chef. If you got your own restaurant. Yeah, true. Maybe I just, maybe I'm forgetting. But what was the start of that?

The whole riff date. Because it sounds like it's something that you guys are looking at with the

right perspective right now, where it's like, okay, a lot said that he was never going to be good. It's

running a team because he didn't, he had a bunch of kisses around him. Mm. And how do you think that turned out? Well, after he cursed me out, we didn't talk with 12 years. Yeah, now we're back. You might not have been wrong. Now we're back. We don't want to, unless he needs to go back. I'm not going to get invited to play. Imagine it's really the clip that makes it. You guys don't play golf. Yeah. It's great though. I'm glad that you guys are smoothing things out. Yeah, I hope that

you, I hope you go out and play really well this year. I want to see, I want to see Charles Inc. and Tae Man. Well, I'm going to, I'm going to play well. I'm going to have, you know, what's crazy about this tournament? This is the only place in the country. It's not hard as hell. Like, yeah, it's like, it's, like, I saw a looking at the weather last week. It was like a hundred and 15 in Phoenix and like a hundred and some in Philly. And I'm like, yeah, I'm what

to always like, 10 days away. And I pulled up the weather report and like, you know, man, how

to hell is it hot? Every single place in the country is sublake to hell every year. It's incredible. It's incredible. This place is like, it's heaven. It is wake up. It's 60 degrees. You put a sweatshirt on and by like nine o'clock, you can be sure. If I went to gambling with the generate,

“I literally wouldn't move here. Yeah, I think you guys like us can't be living that close to”

you. I can't live this close to you. You cannot. But if I listen, I really, I look, I like, for that, because you get, I mean, it's so hot everywhere. If I wasn't a gambling of the generate, I really would actually buy a place here. Yeah, yeah. And then it's, 'cause I get out of, I live in Philly all summer 'cause it's too hot to be an Arizona, but literally, I tell people, if I was not a gambler, I would literally buy me a place here.

Yeah. It's beautiful. It's beautiful. All right. I know you got to get, you got to get out of there. Oh, we got one last question. Robac question, Rachel, back.com, promo code Take. 20% off your first purchase, Qsips, Polos, hoodies, joggers, shorts, robeck.com, promo code Take.

Chuck, thank you always for doing this. We love having you on. It's honestly a thrill.

All right, Zach. This is Zach. How are you doing, Taser? A quick question for you. I know in a 96, when everybody's feeling space jam, they built like a bubble facility, it was a practice facility, for maybe some guys to get some runs in. I was just curious if you took part in those runs, or they were recording the movie. Yeah, you know, that's when MJ was at the peak of his superpowers. And he had, when we were at a close back then, and he was like,

and nobody works out hard at a Michael. And this is when he ran in the world. He was like the most popular player, and I mean, it was amazing. And he would not go without working out.

And they built him a gym. There was one of the most incredible things. They built him a gym

of full-length basketball court. A stands, we had probably 3,000 people packed a night. Well, he could work out in the morning, film, then we would scrimmage at night. But he was so popular. They built him a full-length basketball court gym with stands. And there's so many players like

“Reggie Miller was still in college. I think at the time he came out. And there's probably another”

20 NBA players. But he would work out in the morning, film all day, then we would scrimmage. And it'd be like 3,000 people. It was one of the most incredible things I've seen. So yes, that was amazing. Maybe because we had, I also could chat Patrick Ewing and Sean Bradley and Muggsy Boggs and Larry, I think, we were all in the movie. But then all these college kids and

NBA players came in. It was incredible. So yes. Nice. Nice. Good question. You got follow up real quick?

Follow up. We have had some like blockbuster trades here recently. And Leo Ion is going out to heat. We got a jailing going to the six years. Next, they did win the cup and the chip. Could we get like an extremely early NBA champion prediction from you today? Wow. Well, if you look at the West, it's going to be spurs at Oklahoma City. They're going

“to be balling for the next 10 years. The East would brown go on the filly, quad maybe going to”

Raptors. The NYX already lost Mitchell Robertson and probably going to lose another couple players. Wizards got better. Oh, the Wizards. We don't know if after Dave is in trade young and the bombs to like, I got zero out of deal who's going to win the East. Like, because like I say, I don't know how health the jailing beast is going to be. Like if if

the beat is healthy, which he's never been has, you take maxi, as calm, jailing brown, if

MVP can play at an elite or an all star lever, the six has might be the team to beat in the East. So it's too early because I got to wait and see, I luck a while Leonard and Scotty Barton. I've been saying for the last three or four years, Scotty Barton is the most underrated player in the NBA. He's great. We just don't have a shoulder rafters, but man, the East is going to be interesting. If we don't forget about the Pacers either, they were just in the yellow, he's got it. You're right.

They got that big boy from L.A. Who's going to, he was Iván Bizubas and you got, they don't get a halibur in back, you know, air button, a kid from Canada, forget his name, the small forwards,

“a siakum man. I think, honestly, you could say the East is probably better in the West right now.”

Deeper. Yeah, yeah. So I wish I could give, but I'm saying everything going through San Antonio in Oklahoma City the next few years, but man, the East, I got to see what happens before I can even make an educated guess who's going to win the East. All right, you're certain thing every time. All right, Chuck, you're the best. Good luck this week. Thanks, brothers. Thank you. Charles Barkley was brought to you by our great friends over at Fruit of the Loom. Fruit of the

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from the Los Angeles Lakers. Oh, I should say one time MBA Cup Champion, Austin Reeves from the Los Angeles

“Lakers. We're here at the American Century Championship, Austin. I think you know what the first”

question is going to be because I think a week out from you signing your new deal, 185 million. We saw the picture. You're on the golf course. My question is how did the rest of the round go? Because I feel like when you find out that you signed for 185 million, you probably can't think about much else, especially golf when you're out there. So the good thing was, I had played 18 earlier that morning. I went and dinner with my mom and the lunch with my mom and then went back

and I was playing me and my dad were just messing around playing from the reds and we were on nine but we started on the back so we were on 18. So I didn't have to you know play thinking about it. And that picture was actually a little bit before I decided that I was resigning. It was when I got the offer from the Lakers and it was just obviously a breath fresh air. Yeah so how did the process work? Because I know the pistons were involved too. So was it

like were you just deciding between where you wanted to go? You kind of knew that it was going

to be a lot of money no matter what? Yeah I mean I always knew I wanted to go back to LA.

That was the main thing from day one was being back in LA. It's basically my home away from home. I enjoy the good weather. You're around golf. So getting back there was the most important thing and people say that there was other moves to be made out there. I don't know about any of that so LA is where I wanted to be the whole time. Would you have resigned with the Lakers if you had known that they were going to only sign white guys? You're not special anymore. You are. It's actually

crazy we were joking about it last year that my first couple of years that I was the only white

“guy on the team and now I think we have like six or seven. But no it's crazy but I mean at”

the end of the day it's all about who can who and you know I feel like we've got you know some guys that can really play. Yeah that was a massively loud alarm that just went off. That's that's why is your alarm going off at one or two PM talking the mic talking the mic talking the mic just loud and slow down. Everything's off we're going to go I apologize for any kind of interruption right there. I just run through the page at night time I made it right in a little

bit too late it will never happen again. I'm about to go set on alarm every day so it has a money hit

your account. I actually I technically haven't even signed yet because of honestly I couldn't even tell you what all that like it's like a cap hold and all this stuff that you're still listening to all this. It gives the lakeers more cat space to make moves so I'll be I'll technically be the last person to sign when everybody else sign so know the money hasn't hit and it probably won't hit until August or something but you know we've done pretty well last couple of years. That is

very cool congratulations that's awesome like I know that you've bet on yourself and you know you took some chances there were some parts of your career along the way might not ever think that you get here or maybe you did. I don't know did you did you have doubts that maybe you won't ever reach this level? When it came to basketball, no but I just didn't think that I was going to get the opportunity.

“You know I was at Oklahoma you know my junior and senior year and I was I think honorable mentioned”

all big 12 team my first year and then first team all big 12 my second year and it was still like you know I was on you know draft boards but late 40s 50s but I just knew at the end of the day all I needed was an opportunity and you know because I've been playing basketball for forever

and you know the confidence in basketball will always be there. Yeah that's very cool. I think

you're the that's the biggest contract ever for an undrafted guy. Yeah that's crazy. We see which is pretty cool so yeah and now I don't know how how do you see this dynamic work it's going to be like what three fifths of the lineup is going to be different this year. Yeah so I just seen something other day that said that games one through four in the rocket series are whole starting lineup is gone you know Marcus left bronze leaving where he's going to be determined and then

I'm very excited for what we are building. Yeah very cool. Can I can I ask a question to 12 your old Austin Reeves about all this for sure okay so to 12 your old Austin Reeves you hate

“LeBron we hate LeBron what's the thing you hate the most about LeBron. I just honestly was a Kobe”

guy. The meme was funny so we don't know he had the what was it was I'm putting my phone on LeBron mode yeah it was when I need some sleep I put my phone on LeBron mode no rings and it was a picture of Kobe like this but no I mean I I was I was a die hard Kobe guy so you know by default I didn't did LeBron yeah and it's funny when that had came out we were in New Orleans and after the game we were getting the locker room coach comes in talks whatever and then I pulled my phone up

and it's just like text after text after that I pulled my Instagram and the first thing I see is ESPN posted it like tweet of mine from when I was 12 and I was like shit what do I do so I just went over to him and was like yeah I ain't got a lot to you I used to I used to be a hater and I turned my phone right he just started laughing yeah it's actually like a compliment to LeBron that he's played so long in the NBA that he has guys who are 12 years old who hated him

and trolling him online are now his teammate it's crazy yeah I mean it's I mean and then the crazy

“thing was is everything that you know I think the outside world thinks of him as a person you can't”

really think he's a bad player that's impossible he's so good I was completely wrong on it

had been fucking phenomenal for day one never I mean I was on a two-way and he treated me the same

as he does today yeah was there a moment where you you realize that you had his respect or at least like his attention yeah I mean I think it grew over time but so I was on a two-way and I went to his many camp that we have we had usually before training camp it was usually the weekend before and we went down there we were playing like three on three and I was playing really well and I made a move and went by Rondo so I got a rebound, rewind a little bit I got a rebound and it's just

me on a two-way like nobody really knows what I am so I get a rebound and Bronn was on my left and Russell Westbrook was on my right and 80 was Garden Bronn, Carmella was Garden Russ and Rondo was Garden Me and in my head I'm like I should just fucking pass the ball I shouldn't have to ball so but I dribbled up and I went by Rondo and I went to shoot a layup and I was seeing 80 coming out of the corner of my eye so I like threw a behind the back pass abroad and he dunked it

“Jim went crazy and then I think that's where it kind of started and that's you know kind of the”

first step of me getting a real contract yeah and now how how is this golf game I assume that you're

much better than him at golf Bronn yeah yeah you could say much better yeah what's your handicap I'm a plus one seven right oh so yeah you're really really good yeah I mean I play a lot so you're way better than LeBron yeah just say that I mean yeah I mean we don't have to put it I think you're you're closer to being as good as LeBron James at basketball than he is being as good at you at golf yeah I mean that's a crazy way to think of it yeah but it's

really it's also very true way to think about it all yeah so I'm guessing you played with them yeah we've we've got out a couple times which it's crazy because I had been begging him to come play for five years because I mean I've played ever since I got in the league and every time he's like no golf stupid golf student I'm like yeah what just tried one time and he called me a couple of years a couple of summers ago and he was like I went out and I was like

went out where and he was like the golf and I was like oh shit and he goes yeah I'm addicted so

I've gotten basically half of our roster at Lucas into it now JJ's played for a while but

yeah we have our team has an addiction to golf yeah yeah I'm sure you know he's still kind of a beginner but once he retires and just dedicates himself full time to playing golf he's gonna be really good yeah now he can get there he just needs I mean obviously fixing a couple of things in a swing but one thing he does he's pushed about really well which is crazy because I mean that's one thing I struggle with is putting but we were in Orlando earlier this year and we played on like a Thursday

night and we were leaving Friday like midday so we had got a big scramble together it was me bra and luke and luke canard against our coaches staff like JJ and bunch of them and I think bra we I think we shot like 13 or 14 under and bra that made like 9 or 10 of the burdy puts damn it's pretty good you know here's another crazy stat about this upcoming season with the legers do you know that right now you're the oldest guy I didn't see that that's insane it's insane are you like what

are you gonna you're gonna have to be the old head you're gonna have to do the Lebron stuff I guess but I mean in my brain I'm still 15 years old just running around and I'm throwing Lebron yeah that made way yeah I still do that to this day would you have been a Lefron guy in the replies what's that

replies being like Lefron and be like you know in this championship because the thunder were too young and then the spur the heat you know the rail and shot they basically yeah I make every tremendous championship look like it doesn't count very much suspended yeah I don't know if I've ever did that a lot I'm sure I've that had some lunch table arguments about something but yeah I mean

that's all fun yeah you've always been a Laker guy right like even grown up you mentioned Kobe

I don't know if you saw this that but if you look at this guy crazy the first five years of your career compared to the first five years of Kobe Bryant's career your points per game almost identical as you track it along so first season you were 7.3 Kobe was 7.6 second season 13 he was 15.4 third season 15.9 he was 19 next 20.2 you were he was 22.5 and then this most recent season I believe it was like 25 for you 28 for him but it tracked along like

very close to being like kind of not saying you're the same player but it's it's cool that you got to play for a team that you grew up rooting for and kind of like following in those footsteps so when when did you become a Laker fan? Uh young my my grandma was actually Kobe fans so we would have seen watch the games together and you know really just from a young age admired his mentality and the way he approached the game it was killer be killed to him you know he didn't

have friends in the league and I think that that's a missing part of you know sports today everybody's buddy buddy which is cool I guess but you know at the end of the day you know we're

“we're on a court to win and that's the main thing and I feel like that's what he did at the highest level”

yeah I like that I like to bring the heat back yeah I agree that's what I don't I people think I talk a lot of shit which I don't I was more of a I'll talk if someone talks to me but nobody talks in the NBA anymore all right so let's do a role play we've been like tests if you talk to yet PFT and I are the Oklahoma City Thunder you sucked dude I mean I can't say the other champions okay well 90 more actually well I mean I got one I don't know yeah okay so that was bad that was bad

shit talking by you were the spurs we're we're we're we're we're we're we're we're we're we're we're we're we're

what the fuck you sure you're short I mean I fuck you's first seven five what am I supposed to say

are we gonna work on the shit oh yeah I mean that I haven't talked shit in a long time it was back in high school when I used to and then I guess that I mean people kind of stop I got a question about that so you're from a town of what like 1200 people in Arkansas yeah what at what point in your high school career like this is just so easy for me and did you have a game where you're

“like what are we even doing here because I love like the people don't I think most people”

realize but some people still don't get it like guys who are in the NBA guys who are in majorly sports like they have been just so dominant at every step of the way like especially in high school I'm sure you played multiple sports could have done multiple sports but was there a game or like what is why are they even trying uh they're probably I mean there was a couple my I junior in senior year but how many points I scored seventy three okay yeah so that was that was one

that would be that got it was triple overtime it was yeah I don't know I was saying I shot I think I shot thirty seven three those oh shit so they flew SGA free free free free for court man press the whole time and just ran and jump so shot a lot of free those but honestly like my my I played senior how my ninth and obviously tenth grade year but I moved up my ninth grade year and my brother two years older than me and he was our best player by far so I didn't really I didn't start like

dominate games until after he left so my junior and senior year but more so my senior year like I

would I would go into games and like obviously went into the most important thing but we'd never really

you know there was only a handful of games throughout the year that we didn't think that we could win right we knew it was going to be close um so some of those games I would either you know go in trying to get 50 or get a triple double yeah wait so I read a story that you're your older brother you never won anything when you were growing on no so the important question is did he stop playing you when he realized that you could beat him because that's bullshit if he did that it's no no no it's

actually crazy because we would I mean we could go play one on one right now and he would give me more problems than half of our team and he played he played using the top league in Germany

“but I think it's just one of those things essentially yeah it's like I mean for a long time”

we played a lot of tennis together and for a long time I couldn't beat him I finally got over the hump not too long ago and saw beat him three or four times since but uh he gives me more

they should sign your brother no you don't know you play off now just feel like it just let's not father just having sit on the bench being like what are you gonna do now the Austin stop it he did not he's he's gover he's that so I also read that your mom was a pretty good basketball player

she playing college how how old were you when you first beat her she never would play me

and one on one all she would do is play me in horse or pig and she would go from left elbow to right elbow shooting bank shots and I couldn't beat her yeah and such a I don't it's such a parent move to just keep like fundamentals I like well I don't know I genuinely I don't know if I've ever beat her in horse or pig which is crazy yeah well she she beat me really bad one day and she and she was in her house shoes and she was she was talking to it and she beat me and walked

in the house and was like I've never played in you again yeah she was like she was basically like you're not good enough yeah I love that but I used to when I used to play my dad in horse I would just try to chuck threes and then he would just go like five feet away with one hand and I would miss it because I would just be like shooting from you know 40 feet away yeah yeah I

“also read I read a profile of you I think it was done by maybe the LA times but they went to”

your your farm your family farm in Arkansas with you and one part jumped out to me because we actually have a guy Hank over here Hank does a really good cow noise he does a great cow impression he does breaking moves for us oh here we go as a cow noise and in the article it said that you do a cow impression too so I wanted I think I think you might a lot of that article okay yeah said that you can they I said you can make cow noise but just maybe judge Hank's

action for me yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah that's really good yeah yeah you can come work on the farm do you have do you have one I don't know if I make cow noises I don't think you might have made that do you have any other noises make no just okay I'll teach you had noises so yeah dog can you do dog noise now I'll do anything cat stop not what was it like like growing up on a farm

were you working like the farm when you were a kid no so my mom gave me basically uh she was like

getting the gym and get your school paid for go get a job so I picked go to the gym basically every day route instead of actually having a job yeah that's I was smart but my my grandpa was I mean he was the one that took care of everything and you know days I would go out with him and just hang out and I would go time what kind of font like would I would you have cat all cat I did you were you surprised that you didn't get more offers coming on high school oh it's surprised yeah

I mean I just feel like no the main thing that everybody was saying was as I was too skinny

“and but it's like they make a wait room for a reason like obviously I think the majority of”

people could see that the skill was there so it's like you look at the NBA draft for example anybody passed you know 15 20 they all go off potential and so I didn't understand why people didn't you know see the potential in the skill that I had because you know skills gonna you know outweigh almost everything at the end of the day but you know it is what it is yeah I don't know if you saw this the other day it crazy highlight that I saw from I think it was summer league they're testing out the new

foul shot system is it is it one one yeah so like I think the last two minutes you shoot normal foul shots yeah but before that if you get foul shooting at three you take one shot and it's worth three points what do you think about that I think it's dude yeah I agree it's very interesting I mean they actually change they they do that in the glee games you do yeah which I mean I think is I don't know what what are they saying in the speeds up the game yeah like a couple minutes but it's

like it's not you got to make it free they get so that's the fun of it like high pressure moments and free throws yes I don't like them how many's most free throws you ever made in a row I don't have an exact number I would say probably 60 or 70 that's pretty good we once made 41 in a row with two Mulligans and also a ringer shooter that we've been doing it no big deal yeah how many threes have you made in a row I was shooting on you know what they call the gun

“the thing that you know those of all about I think I made 52 in a row from the top of the key”

that's pretty good I made nine once that's say it's not bad not bad yeah I don't shoot there's a lot of people in this world that would make not I just did right at the top of the key yeah made nine oh do you like in your nicknames uh not a really care he'll be a little Kobe it's cool okay all right so we're okay all right I know I know we were like Luke Warman we're first came out but I think it was you know timing and you know count of the things that

you know happened you know we co we the couple years before right you know I was never

that's kind of corny but um no one of my one of my GA's Oklahoma I think it was in my first or second year there he came up to me and was like I got a nickname and I was like what he said he'll be a Kobe and then well someone heard it on a team and they kind of ran with it and then obviously going to the lakeers you know someone else picked up on it and it kind of went from there yeah I

“think it's a cool nickname for what it's worth I think there was people like it I say with respect yeah”

yeah speaking of names did uh did brownie ever fuck up and call LeBron dad I don't think I ever heard it no oh man we did LeBron ever calm son I guess that would be that would be like I'm sure

he did at some point uh but Brownie calling LeBron dad would be kind of embarrassing always I think

it would just be like I mean it's it's a crazy you know uh you do know if you really think about it because I mean you see I've been sitting in practice you know they're in the middle of practice and I'll see you know Brown obviously analyzes everything and you know he was on one team and Brownie was on another and uh I mean he he does it to everybody it doesn't matter if he's on your team or not but uh Brownie did some made a mistake or saw him and he went over and talked to him

and I was like this is fucking crazy yeah talk it to his son right now it's not yeah was there ever moment because it does feel like all the stories of LeBron is like the way he thinks the game is just at such an elite level no one's really thinking the game like him was there ever a moment where he gave you a tip or was like hey this guy's gonna do this and it just worked perfectly

yeah I mean not that bad that happens you know basically every game I remember we were playing one

“for example we were playing I think maybe Atlanta at home or something and we went to an empty corner”

picking roll with me and AD and I think we got a bucket or something and there was a timeout and he came uh it came over to me and the timeout was like uh he was like next time we go to the empty corner picking roll he was like rejected go baseline he was like my guy will drop as the X man the good low man will rotate and he was like I'll you know cut from you know the hash and he was like just throw it up and I was like I won't be able to see you and he was like I don't care just

throw it up and I threw a shitty pass and he caught a doctor that's awesome so I mean there's there's little things I mean in the OKC series we were running basically you know a cross screen to get him the ball on the post and they kept releasing off his body early and going high and beating him to the spot so we were both sitting on the bench and I was like yo like if if they keep doing that like he was like yeah throw it up and so we were already on the same

page so there's a clip of me I had the ball on the left wing and we were running the action and I just threw the ball and everybody's like where the fuck is this going he caught it and dunked it so it's just little things like that that he picks up you know during the flow of the game that that makes it easy yeah to see gain weight during games gain weight there was that rumor when he was in Miami that that he actually gained weight I mean Miami promise differ I think

yeah you hated him yeah I wanted to say but yeah now I think I mean he played it like to 70 almost in Miami but I don't know if he's gain weight during the game was pretty hard to do yeah this is Chuck Jim Cookies that Pat Riley took away yeah that's kind of fucked up yeah did you ever see LeBron eat the Chuck Jim Cookies I've seen him eat one or two chocolate cookies yeah it's good that they haven't taken it away yet no they haven't I mean but sadly he won't be

there next year so hopefully we still get a chuck at you yeah that's true that's true what's uh what's what's your relationship with Leuka like because it feels like this is a transition year for the Lakers where it is his franchise now I heard the story that he's very very competitive than everything that he invited you over his house one night and you thought he was going to go chill and it was just like a bracket style bowling competition but that just hit you out of nowhere

it was I don't know if it was necessarily a bracket style but there he does have a bowl of Allen is basement and I think it was New Year's Eve I went and they with my people and then go and home he called me and he had some friends over you know for New Year's whatever and I went over there and I think we ended up bowling till like five thirty in the morning

“he can't beat me um that's pathetic he has a bowling that's what I'm saying yeah I tell”

in that too I'm like yo you can't even beat me in your own house this is you should never lose if you

have a bow for sure I mean we've played we've put a lot of the ping pong I don't think he's beat me in ping pong we briefly played darts but I won that I played shuffle board I beat him and that I mean the one thing you probably beat me that's what I probably need to you know care about more as basketball yeah yeah yeah you got him and everything else yeah I guess that goes to something yeah how did you find out about the trade so we were in New Year and we just beat

the shit I mean I say beat the shit we we beat the next by you know 15 or so but we basically controlled the whole game and 80 was hard at the time so but everything it felt like you know things were falling into place like everybody was kind of understanding their role like Max

locker room at right after media and we was just talking my random shit and we both looked at each time we were like we're gonna be we're gonna be all right when we get 80 back like obviously he's a staple for what we're doing but once we get him back like everything's kind of falling in order and so I talked to my people that were there and then get on the bus and go home and that's when so our group message started going off and I hardly ever looked at our group message I'm

not active in the group message so but I've seen 80 had text and he said they traded me and I just put my phone down I was like yeah whatever like you ain't getting in there so pulled up Instagram Shoms had posted it and so I called my agent and everybody's like this can't be real and I was like they can't be like so I was like if you're anything let me know so one of the assistant coaches bow that I'm close with calls me and I was like what the fuck is this and he was like

he went to say something and I was like there's no way it's real and he was like oh he was like I'm sitting by Max Christie it's real and I was like holy shit so it was crazy it was I mean I was I was really close with both of them actually but me and 80 you know had built a really really good relationship you know after games like we would fade I mean we'd be on FaceTime with

this kid so it was you know that part always sucks but then again you flip the page and

look there's one of my best friends in the world yeah how long after did he did you get the

“notification like Anthony Davis has left the chat I think it was later that night he had FaceTime to be”

we were in New York so it was probably two or three in the morning there but he was back in LA Rehaven and he faced I mean I was like oh what the fuck happened he was trying to me so I think he left it all you know all the group messages that night yeah after Luca was there any like I don't want to say animosity towards and probably no animosity but like you're not my friend AD like was there like a feeling of period right there yeah for sure I mean I think that there was a

period where he needed to you know kind of be comfortable with you know what happened you know you look at a guy like that and you don't think that he's ever I mean nobody thought he was

going to get traded so I think you know we kind of stayed distant from each other at first just

because you know I didn't want to be a I don't want to force a friendship or relationship like I want that to grow naturally so he was kind of standoffish and I kind of just let him do his thing and it was definitely a weird period of time because you know you have somebody that you'd been with for you know 34 years that that leave and a new guy and you know obviously we all knew what he could do basketball wise but as a person nobody knew him so but you know the

summer come around and we all got back together and then we you know he started fucking talking shit and you know he likes to you know bet on you know shots and stuff so we do a lot of that and

“I was okay I think maybe we're going to get along yeah yeah so start kicking his ass and every game”

that yeah yeah well he I mean the thing about it is if he hears this and sees this he's going to deny it a hundred percent I already expected yeah so so it Lucas one of your best friends on the team friends horse around have you ever like picked Luca up could you pick Luca up my

made basically yeah like or maybe you couldn't put now you can oh that's a strange question but

like I think yeah just like nobody's sometimes yeah like like I don't think I've ever tried to pick me up but like in the one of my guys shape yeah and a couple months I will be able to do I mean so you're getting in shape yeah yeah right like was like when Luca got traded were you like oh man I can't pick that guy up but then he goes off the summer he comes back you're like oh now I could pick him up I don't think that that ever went through my brain

I'm making a way joke about Luca I mean I think I do think that there was a big mental aspect of you know the trade and stuff that got to him and you know it was good to see him he's happy now and let's go did you ever ask him what happened with that beer that I think

“it was Michael Finley to I've seen the video yeah I've never asked him you should ask him I should you should be like hey was”

was that it was that was at the end it might have been I would know yeah I like if another man takes a beer out of my hand it's probably it's probably it's probably I know that the relationship actually yeah yeah what's it like playing for JJ he's so he's been on the show a couple times his good friend of ours is it like you I mean he's he's a young head coach is he when you when he took the job it's a tough job to take with the bron there what's it what's it been like playing for

him how well do you'll know JJ pretty well yeah I actually used to be neighbors with him he's a fucking psycho yeah he's not he's awesome I mean I've I've loved every minute of it you know he looked at me

gonna agree on everything he was like but you know the main thing to all of this is communication he was like if you ever think that you know if you ever wanted he said you could say anything to me it was like you know as far as like you know if I'm fucking up coaching or what it is

personnel I whatever it is he was like we can always have a real conversation so there's been

there's been instances in games where he's too am I asked about something and I don't think I'm

“wrong so I'm going back at him and it's healthy though because I mean I think that that's how you”

build something special so I think that he's done everything that anybody could ask him to do and even more I think that you know his confidence in himself and his staff I mean I feel like he genuinely feels like he's the best coach in the NBA yeah he want that like you want guys that feel like they're they're at the top and they can out coach anybody outplay anybody so our relationships been you know it's really grown throughout the years and you know we've

like I said we've played a lot of golf together so we've we've spent a lot of time together if you ever want to get in his head on the golf course just be like do you think people still hate you as much as they used to we talk about all the time what does he say because people hated they all they hated and he was like I don't even he told me he didn't know why people hated all that you know that's like they for too good yeah he was good and I was like he was actually

good yeah now there's there's actually he is there's a better way to get in his head all the golf of course if you ever get out there with him he's terrified of his shadow well if he has a shadow that's like if Sun's back here and he's you're aiming this way and the shadows like over the ball or right behind him just mention it and he like a brain will start spinning would have a round hog would I don't terrified of his shadow I don't know I don't know he's gonna hate me if

I just didn't but yeah he he come to me one day last season and he was like I've overcome it and I was like what do you talk he was like my shadow problem and so we were we went and played it bell air the next week and there was a shadow in his way and he actually hit a good shot and I was like maybe he did and then he came back the next day and he was like no it's that's something I guess it's something about you know seeing his self when he swings yeah seeing the movement

and stuff I guess he's just over things that's so funny I mean I do think he's a really really good coach and he is a psycho and that is like great quality to have if you're going to be a head coach have you seen the is it the sports center commercial which one of him when they walk into the room and he's the analytic uh no I don't think I saw that I'm looking up and that's exactly happening because I mean they basically walk in and he he's got all this you know he's got a

marker and he's riding on the board and he's like screaming and he's drank like six cups of coffee yeah exactly yeah that's the guy you want to go to war with or sure yeah do do you ever get brought into those conversations like about numbers do they do they go through analytics with you

“guys or do they try to distill it down as much as possible I think that they do it as a staff”

and then bring it because I don't think a lot of play I think players respect the analytics but I don't think that a lot of players think that it tells the full story I think that there's like a feel aspect of you know flow of game all these things so I think that they do a good job of getting the analytics and getting the numbers that they think you know that show worked the best and then basically instill it and kind of how we want to do things yeah are you are you still close to

the 80 we talk of it out then yeah how excited should I be as a wizard's fan I like what they

guy going on over there yeah are you was curious I guess I never thought of that either yeah it's

spreading yeah I mean the young you with some good stuff I mean I think the AJ is going to be really good you know obviously trays showing that you know he's at all stark and take a team you know deep in the playoffs and then if 80 you can stay healthy he's one of the best players in the NBA and then we got eight and yeah if you can find that spark again and even you can stay healthy

“not I mean watch out not for sure I think it's one thing a lot I mean a lot of people talk you know”

shit about D.A. and kind of how he goes about the game but you know when he was when he was in a good headspace for our last year he was he was top 10 big in the league it was just you know trying to manage the ups and downs you know kind of was hard but then he was a good dude and good to be around so you've been in a league for what is your six year this is going six going six was there a moment in the first five years where people stop talking shit because they're like oh shit he is he can

hoop is that imagine when you were like early on lakers always have a target yeah maybe talk shit

be like this guy sucks yeah I think it was more so teams would talk shit more to our team because

really good they were you know top two three in the west couple years in a row they they've got they would come into L.A. and and beat us pretty bad and talk shit the whole time but we we finally

got our get back on them and in the playoffs my second year so that was nice but it's I mean never

people really know like single people out just know Adam what are your thoughts on Memphis uh as a city and maybe the hotels actually I grew up close to Memphis uh there you go maybe see you get a laker who likes Memphis if I don't know if I tell like it is I don't I mean

“I think it it is what you make it yeah obviously I think that you know the hotels could be better”

the best workshop pyramids got hotel at the top interesting it's really nice is it I stayed there it is beautiful wow I don't know that yeah you said I've been to Memphis a lot we used to go and watch shows a red birds games the AAA team when I was younger so I've spent a lot of time in Memphis I don't I don't hate it do you ever go to Oakland in Arkansas hot springs for the high average track I have no some friends this went up there and it's awesome went out there yeah yeah that's where

I think Al Capone tried to cure his syphilis interesting with the hot springs yeah he's like I'll just take a jacuzzi and I'll be fine it didn't work did not work clearly yeah do we want to get yeah yeah let's see we got all right we got a rowback question alright show back dot com promo code take

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I'm wearing rowback right now great golf stuff Zach you saw him earlier for the alarm I do an answer I did have a quick question someone who's made it's like you know the the biggest stage in basketball have you ever had the urge to maybe like go undercover let's say Ellie fitness her a YMCA and just absolutely run up the score have I ever had the urge yes have you ever gotten it no but maybe maybe in the future yeah I mean because I I can get away with

being a normal looking human I just got it but I had to change a couple things up and I think we could get away with it yeah maybe it's go wig make shiny mass mustache could play I feel like that would

“work definitely I mean yeah you should do it but just like don't even tape it just do it for your own”

just just like I want to kick somebody's ass right now yeah that's actually great idea I've thought

I've thought about doing that yeah yeah okay yeah yeah I can go follow up quick follow up question if through all the air is a basketball if you need to a simple starting five but you got to be on the team who are the four guys you want to run with all time yes sir all the older people don't be mad at me because I'm talking personally from what I've seen and watched if you leave George Mike and off this list yeah exactly um stuff at the one god I've got to put myself in there

yeah I can't coach no you got to run the court um stuff at the one me at the two I'm going oh yeah it's so much easier if I don't have to put myself there because I put Kobe at the two um we're going to go Kobe at the three brown at the four and shack at the five so no Luca and no brownie as of now no wow so then brown that would actually no law you would leave yeah no you just lost brownie folks okay yeah that will piss people off we're

going to make into a graphic yeah I mean I got to see it for all right so what if what if you're off the team co be too yeah I would probably go Steph Kobe people are going to kill me for leaving MJ you could put them on right now no Steph Kobe Brown maybe like Tim Duncan shack or that's pretty good or so no magic or Katie in shack magic Johnson I just could I know I got in watches I don't really I couldn't no cream no James worthy didn't watch it yeah okay I mean it's pretty important part of history yeah

not for sure yeah I mean I'm seeing clips but I like watching real basketball games I'll put Kermis out there I just remember this is my god is he is he as intense as you know

“all the all the clips that we've seen the stories I've heard I think basketball wise obviously”

the clips do that justice I think off the court and like just talking to him around the practice of facility and stuff he's very mellow god just kind of Moses on around about his day works out you know he's he's a basketball head at the end of the day so he loves you know talking hoops with anybody yeah all right so this tournament we might run this after the tournament so tell us where you finished and are you like when you play in this or you like I

got to try to beat all the other basketball players they think Kawawari, Ray Allen, Steph,

grew so might have you no I mean actually I don't know actually I've never seen him play golf

but yeah I feel like I got an opportunity to win if I if I put it well that's kind of been my Achilles heel out here the last couple years I think I've hit it decent but um I don't really I'm not sitting there looking at you know staff for Seth or Kuru so I'm like oh I got to finish ahead of him okay just go I'm playing as good as I can and wherever that plans it lands it's got to be one guy that you're like I got to beat him uh Charles Barkley yeah yeah it's correct if I don't beat

him uh we quick off what I quit golf yeah no because I love it so much but uh should you quit golf for a week I actually hadn't played for like a week coming here two weeks then

“that's just a road trip so yeah okay fine if you if you lose Charles Barkley you have to”

quick off for two weeks so we're gonna track it you're gonna let us know when you quit and then you're less know when you're back and he's gonna have to quit golf too yeah for two weeks for two full weeks that's not happening no Hank agrees thanks yeah long time yeah oh let's book

and it are you gonna what's the first purchase you're gonna make when the new money comes in

do you have anything in mind oh splurge on something no I mean I'm about house that's really I don't it's a pretty good purchase I don't really I'm not a spin I don't spend money to be honest with you I do I don't enjoy you know basketball golf you know that rather bad stuff for you know my friends of family I don't really care to spend stuff on myself so I actually had to you know talk with my advisors other day and they told me to spend more money so I'm working talk working on it and yeah

but I guess it's happening everyone maybe yeah I mean now I could let my girlfriend go shop or some of them yeah I hate shopping wait oh last last question can you can you get on any course

“being an NBA player for the most part yeah how does that work do you have to like do you say like”

hey Austin Reeves might have honestly I don't ever use my name for anything I have my best friend lives with me and works for me and you know he'll reach out to the course so he'll be like hey he'll be like you know we're in the we're in the area do you care if we come out you know some courses say yes of course I say no that's awesome I would say the majority say yeah yeah yeah it's funny I mean the only one I have I mean the one that I really want to go to

that I have events Augusta so that's fair yeah we're gonna make it out there at some point it was funny when like like LeBron got a membership and outside of Cleveland everyone's like freaking out it's like I'm pretty sure LeBron can get a membership anywhere he just calm up and they'll give me a lot you know what's crazy is LACC they don't let they don't let like anybody in the entertainment business

“like as far as like athletes they don't let anybody like huh only person I think I know that's”

it and there's bomber and he's got a lot of money it's got a lot of a lot of money but for the most part they keep it strictly like tech people I think so yeah but it's a it's a beautiful boys out there yeah yeah all right well awesome thank you so much man we really appreciate it and congrats again man appreciate you man Austin Reeves has brought to you by Morgan Morgan and this firefest is also presented by Morgan and Morgan America's largest injury law firm you want to hire the right person to

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my favorite first this week we spoke I think it's about a week ago about that green robot everyone saw online didn't look very impressive did laundry full to close correct I think we're with this new company x one that just dropped a robot arm this week I think we're dangerously close like robot soldiers and the whole robots taken over the world thing isn't as far away as we thought it was

this robotic hand from x one like they say can it so can plug in USB charge it can pick up single coins it can like the way it moves is like a hum is for real look it looks like a human hand right and I just think that we're like in a really bad spot and I didn't think it would come

in our lifetimes but it might be over what do you think the first use cases for a completely synthetic

but realistic feeling hand would be I think a lot of like household tasks are good I'm more so worried about when they build the full body quickly from the hand and also like of course guys are probably going to end up dripping off with it yeah yeah that's probably that's going to be the first thing most people do I think do you think that that's where the robots will then turn on us being like hey we were made to be able to to to solve any problem or do any task and all we're

doing is jerk and guys off and they and then believe like create a militia yeah they're like we're tired of giving hand jobs we're over it that's the two things I've seen is the hand job robot

“and then there's the toilet robot that runs into your room when you have to take a shit so yeah”

they're not going to like it's very much I think it's coming like in the next ten years this is we're going to wear out our welcome real fast with robots this is keeping you up at night I was just like thinking about it last night after I solved this hand because like if the rest of the body works like the video of this hand we're actually done for you got to get the blue blocker uh classes the chef Donnie recommended to me I put them on at night and I'm out

in like five minutes it's insane like little gentlemanly work well yes they legitimately work I get instantly tired be sure they can call you sleep no I take them off okay I put them on and then you get tired all my phone got it play little euker and then I'm just like five minutes just like holy shit I'm tired I'm telling you get get the the blindfold that's got the Bluetooth speakers in it I do that that's it's it's it's it's the best way to fall asleep also I was thinking about

“Bluetooth today we haven't really updated Bluetooth technology in a long time what do you mean”

like it it's still the it's still the same process of like going into your phone hitting the button to connect hitting the button on the thing then you connect to it what do you like it to be it needs to be easier I feel it's pretty easy I feel like we don't want it to be too easy imagine if your phone just connected to a Bluetooth speakers you were walking by it that could be a dangerous situation that is a dangerous game that you could be playing yeah but I want to be able to opt in but it

is crazy that the underlying technology problem I I feel like it has not been changed in 30 years 25 years do you guys have like a million Bluetooth yeah and I'm feeling it sucks because I don't want

to get rid of one yeah because I don't know which ones are are they good ones it also like they never

the Bluetooth like half the time it doesn't actually give you what you're singing to it some random word yeah or name it's like dude I just wanted to say like this is this speaker you know why I I never delete any of that stuff it's kind of like nostalgic for me it's like a time capsule so you're like oh look at this it reminds me of like this enterprise rental car had like yeah five years ago nice like remember when I got that truck yeah you remember when I I rented that

shitty beach house yeah yeah it like it takes you back it's kind of nice it is never just like television it's always like Samsung 20130X dash B it's like well this could be anything to see my neighbors yeah I want to clean it up I want to clean up my phone so bad I just haven't

been able to pull the trigger like all the apps that I just never ever use just delete them but you

guys know like how it goes with the phone is that if you delete a bunch of apps then the apps that you do use are not in the place that usually are and those are all memory of like I know exactly where to press for this yep so I'm fucked then you're yeah then you're screwed and you're just

“everything needs nap now too many apps too many apps okay good far from you guys I think I should”

watch out when a bad spot I think you're fun I agree I agree that do you guys see the hand I actually have not seen the hand yet no I'll show you guys the handle later it's terrifying send me the hand on Twitter X1 yep if they really want to make some money from the freaks they would go just the foot can I can I say something real quicksack I think I've I've just resigned myself to being the guy that is just not gonna concern himself with any future problems and then when the

future problem arrives I will be first in line being like why didn't anyone warn us of this so like AI robots climate change all this shit I don't think about it I don't worry about it but when the day comes that it actually is a big problem I'll be the first to complain and be like why didn't anyone tell us even though people have been telling us all along ignorant is bliss until you find yourself bunkerless right like so I'm fully aware that I should be paying more attention to it

but I've opted out and then the next time I opt in we'll be purely to complain and blame everyone else around me for not alerting me even though they did I kind of like you should probably stay

what you're a paranoid anxiety guy yeah we're talking everything is paranoid we're talking about robot armies though max if that's not something that can't be checked about so many things right now it's robot armies though those are terrifying yeah that's fair that's fair Zack sent me news from two years ago okay I had a slow stomach ache on Monday that's true and sent me a video that said you could get Listeria from Kso so I thought I had Listeria for five minutes

“but it was from twenty twenty four so wait you can't get Listeria from Kso I think there was a”

Listeria outbreak in Kso in twenty twenty four and memes stomach was hurting from eating too much Kso so I'm just trying to find Kso relative illnesses and I was like well could be this

but then it was two years ago but I mean Kso does have dairy so could you could always get

Listeria from Kso oh I should just do my firefighter right now because that was my firefighter that was on Sunday night memes ordered me we so every every Sunday we order food we ordered dinner together and memes is in charge of it yeah and let me just first by say thank you memes you do a great job and it's not an easy job because you get people like Shane who just never reply that that's hard but you ordered Mexican food we all got Mexican food and I just assumed

chips and salsa was just guaranteed more than that chips and Kso I didn't I think they've got the best case on the city yeah and but I didn't have to I didn't think I had to say something about that apparently I do because we didn't get chips and salsa or chips and Kso and then memes ordered it later and it's like dude the moment's pan can't have the salsa and then I got sick from it yeah but what do you can we just establish that like that's when you get when we get Mexican it is

always chips and salsa goes with it or chips and Kso I agree I was also leaving my apartment

and it was waiting for every text I said already blame Shane we need to establish that once once we write orders you you have a five-temit window I like that to send it in I like that got to be at least time but that also has nothing to do with you forgetting the chips I was just waiting for Shane I also were thinking about the chips I like went and out and then you waited too long for Shane

“and it it flew out and I had to go to submit order I think it should it going forward it should be”

10-minute clock and then you just order because we do order from pretty much the same place every time it just it goes back to your last order you just order it you know what I mean or he says it doesn't reply he just gets what he ordered last are you you just do a double of the person that sits close into that person I like that and then you got to eat what your neighbors eat yeah oh that was also when Hank just said two bowls and he thought that that pissed me off

well we were all putting in our orders and then everyone one person said a bowl one person said burrito one person said tacos and Hank just goes two bowls and I was like wow all right Hank we we in bulking we we in bulking season for the summer right now and he was like no I just wanted it to add on to the other persons bowl and make it look like two total bowls yeah that was confused we got to clean it up we got to clean it up boys as a team I think we got to do better

and that's this is not on memes because again memes has a tough job but I think we all need to take personal accountability when it comes to ordering and and how we go back and forth we can't

“answer to my credit you guys suck at ordering I think maybe you should just surprise us every”

Sunday down because sometimes like I'm down for that that sounds fun yes surprise us because it is it is a long drawn-out process of like no one wants to make a decision although then you turn into the jack McCarthy yeah that's absolutely crushed when yeah you go or something bad yeah we have to guess like jack is like I'll take it as techable and then you click on that as

techable yeah you guys just got to be specific I always send you screenshots I go into the app

and I send the screenshot of exactly what I want yeah also we did a home on journey on Wednesday and I have no power left in my body yeah I don't feel that's so great today we're finally getting to the point of where age is really like I just don't I I could still swing I still make contact but I just don't feel any power not me you don't feel good about anything yeah when it when even when I make contact and it goes a long way it's like that was it worth it

maybe not yeah I won you did well yeah you'd be to punch it I was rooting for your whole way guys I mean we we'd be chasing kittiness and a all-american a guy that's gonna be drafted next she's a kid has hadn't swung about in five years Max beat a 17 year old in sports yesterday yeah and a guy had swung about in five years chasing kittiness ah 10 times and I'll be playing okay just shout just give shut up he's the man he's the man right dude also take

something I that you know about your boy also and he just shows up with the the strongest 17 year

“old in the world the the levels to it because I was wondering because kittiness I hit him up”

and I was like hey kitties come to this he's like yeah man I just you know I haven't swung

a batten in five years so when he came his first like 10 swings weren't great and then he found

it the two moments where it was like oh shit here the levels to it one was when we did opposite field and he was just like all of us were kind of struggling to like you know figure out like aim it he just got up there and just was hitting nukes up oh and then the bun he just did it every single bun it's like oh yeah this guy's done everything on a baseball field yeah alright pifty my favorite firefest of the week is I tried to be a mechanic and everything went

really really wrong yeah I'm not talking about my old Camino so I I got a golf cart I love my golf cart it's fun to drive around in and it's a six-seater so it's like a stretch one it's a big boy problem with it when you start going up hills you lose some of that miles per hour you you crawl down to like eight nine miles an hour so you feel like if there's enough people in the

cart you feel like you're never going to get over the hill so I thought you know what maybe

I'll trade in the golf cart and get some a little more horses get some with some more speed and then my buddy Pat the beef he hit me up and he was like hey do you want to soup that thing up I was like when the guy asks you do you want to soup up your golf cart you say yeah you got damn right I want to soup up the golf cart so I didn't know what it was going to entail but he goes online he ordered a giant lithium battery and then he ordered something called

a soul annoyed and a heavy duty motor controller then we proceed to take my golf cart apart on Saturday he gets there at about like three thirty p.m. we get all the tools out we start ripping the seat off we take all the paneling off to get to the wires we start soldering wires together I don't know what's up he's soldering is what you've gone too far he's got a soldering gun or soldering whatever you call it we're ripping wires out we're screwing shit in

I'm afraid I'm going to get electrocuted every single step of the way and then about 12 hours later we're like we're not really any any close to them we were we started so we go to that brought out the solder gun did you think it was actually going to work no like that at some point

“no along this process you should have been like we need to cut our losses there's no way”

that the outcome of this is going to be good so this is like it's it's a hobby for him he likes he likes tinkering with stuff and I'm I'm trying to learn soldering is a hobby soldering is is a bridge too far where I'm actually like melting wires together and then wrapping them up and then tying them together and she was I pulled that thing out I would be like I got to call some but this is way above my pain but we're having a good time we're in the past fair this we got

yeah it's just guys in the garage max you want to stay yeah you're right so you fix your golf cart so we spin about it's been about 12 hours on Saturday and we've got the world cup games on and there we've got the UFC fight going and it's about on a two o'clock in the morning and we're like we should probably go to bed and then we wake up in the morning go back to it spin another like five hours

on Sunday morning working on this thing finally get to a place where we've got everything connected

“and then the moment of truth you put the key in and you turn it absolutely zero power absolutely”

nothing nothing is happening with this thing and at that point I was just like I don't even know where to start like I don't know what went wrong I don't know how to diagnose what went wrong but I just spent probably a good I don't know 17 hours I started with a perfectly fine golf cart I want to be clear about that on Saturday morning I slow just a little slow on up hills yeah unlike steep up hills but I had a perfectly fine golf cart that was running I could have

used that golf cart for the rest of my life and probably been pretty happy yep and then by the end of it now I have like the Flintstones car with no seats because I ripped the seats out the dashboard and the steering panels off the batteries been removed and I basically tore out all the electric guts of the car and they're sitting on the chair and then I had to call an adult and I had to call a golf cart repair company to come to my house and pick up my golf cart

and I had to I had to ask the guy I was like hey we thought we could do this on our own we couldn't and then I got big time judged then I called the golf cart place today just checking on my baby I'm struggling a lot of things by the way I'm about to pick up the El Camino yeah I got the golf cart now the golf the fucking golf cart's the new El Camino so that's in the repair shop so I called up the repair shop today and I was like hey just checking in

and seeing if you need like any more info for me about the work that we did because you put a lot

yeah you know we're probably not going to get around to that till next week so it's been sitting there

“for the last four days I have no golf cart now I'm golf cartless and I guess I guess”

I learned a lesson kind of it was fun what was their reaction when they saw the state of the current golf cart and you told them what you did all weekend the guy goes oh wow yeah yeah he gave me no wow and I was like no it's not that bad because like everything that I took off I put in this plastic bin right there and then I I all the panels and stuff from the side those are right here the seats are over here the six batteries that I pulled out those are over there

so and we did like 95% of the work he just has to probably like he's just going to you loosen it yeah he has to change one wire like but I'm telling you one project has to plug it once this in get yeah once it gets back it's going to be going like upwards of 30 miles now so they are going to hold the upgrades into it yes okay I was not sure if they were just trying to

“get it working again no they they got to put the upgrades in it I was okay very clear with that”

so yeah I basically spent like $3,000 and about 17 to 18 hours of my life to destroy my own

golf cart damn and then then I found out that path to the beef didn't tell Kate where he was going the entire weekend yeah and so he showed up at my house I was like oh you stay over here tonight he's got damn right I'm going to stay over we're going to work on this bucket thing and then I found out that that she didn't know where he was and the kids were like where's daddy and she's like I don't know he's working on a golf cart to go work on a golf cart some more

it's real man shit real man shit yeah but I do feel like I learned something this weekend which was call an adult yeah or just buy new golf cart yeah by by a better call really

I started to think after about hour 12 I was just I started to look up golf carts again

because right now I might I might just buy a new golf cart and not even trade in it just be like keep the old one because they make sick ones I got I got to I got to write this off let's just call it a wash I fucked up yeah okay anything in the boots you guys good oh yeah I got my identity

“stolen I still don't believe it I think you just bought four phones randomly one day two years ago”

stop saying that because there's a little part in the back of my head that is still believed that that is wait Max were you you needed some recommendations to host a podcast on Google and Amazon what is that what it was and you clicked that link no the actually got he no I actually got my real someone so it bought four phones and then closed the account four years ago so I am in the beginning process of looking to buy a home here in Chicago and I met with

a lender and he was like your credits and like not very good like what's going on here and then I did a deep dive into my credit and someone opened up a somebody opened up a phone line under my identity like not not my name just I think just my identity tell your name but no because when I asked them they're like you don't have any accounts under this name okay but then when they did it like a credit credit check they were like oh yeah there was an account that was open for

30 days they opened it got four phones closed it right away and you've owed $5,000 every month for the past two years so it is absolutely tanked my credit so I spent the entire day yesterday filing claims filing a police report this this and that and my credit still fucking sucks right now and I still don't have an answer and all of their replies are like yeah we'll get back to you when we get back to you but what couldn't you find the answer by just looking it up on one of your

four phones I don't have the I didn't I didn't get those phones I don't know how it happened there must have been some like deal with Verizon in 2024 where it was like sign up now no like don't have to put your card down that sign at signing and then the guy did that got a bunch of phones and then cancel it before you do actually have to put your phone down and he walked in and he said my name is Max Dilente I don't know why I don't know how it happened but he walked in didn't say his name he said

this is my social security number and it was Max's I was calling these people from Verizon yesterday and they were like oh yeah so we'll just take this payment now and and I'm like I haven't been a Verizon customer at like ever like I this isn't me I didn't buy these phones and they were like oh okay I have to send you to a different department now and that department was like okay so we'll just take the 5,000 and I'm like I was like no I need to file a claim this isn't me this is identity theft

and it sucked I need to find the surveillance footage of the guy that walked in got these phones

I don't know or the real one yeah memes just keep telling me that that I that I that I'm

“100% you just bought oh Max they're just how long ago? 2024 we just say that you uh you drank a lot of”

beers in 2024 no I went back and looked at my calendar on Thursday on the day that it happened it was a Monday big cat and I did a meet and greet are you what she needed to take picture yeah are you sure that it wasn't because I've been around you when you lost your phone before

I know memes said this you got a history of losing your phone but four phones yeah

memes said this same two sodas four phones yeah if it's got all your information but not your name maybe like the phone salesman just fat thing or some other guy social yeah you got four phones I got to say whoever the thief was whoever is is the fraudster he picked the absolute best he did and he really did four years no two years two years you got to wait with it for two years four phones four phones two years like talk about Scott free that guy that guy man bank off you Max

it's a full-family plan yeah that's good run if anybody out there is looking to fraud someone if you're stuck come on you know this is this is just not what something that we need to be saying on these airway Max is the easiest mark in North America it's what I'm saying and and we'll add in the bonus of memes and I will try to gaslight and do them thinking that he actually

“did it he's so I had a serious talk with Zach I was like there's no way I actually did this I think”

you did there was a second where Max was doing the police report and he put his drivers license

he was like wait am I coming trouble if I bought these phones he's such he's such a good target that not only will he get away with it for two years but then after those two years are up he'll raise his hand take responsibility for what you've done yeah he's the best I just hope my credit gets fixed I numbers for showboys in a 7 E1 18 65 but he won't do it anymore more back 18 good number yeah if you got this have you got the

pick up I have both of the time oh yeah you got your affinity so many yep well yeah you say I have 23 33 33 of Terrence rolls yep there's for a lazy happy birthday to Connor Bradard happy birthday to OG and Anobi happy birthday bam at a bio happy birthday to the Booser Twins happy birthday hundredest Thompson it's also Leonard Weaver in bail happy birthday to the back the island boys

“really cool yeah yeah I think they did it yeah more like to buy bilin boys”

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