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Presented by draft Kings, the crown is yours. Today is Monday, March 9th, and Max Crosby you are a Baltimore Raven. Congrats to the Ravens. Congrats to Jessie Mentor. Yep. This is a

good, a great move. I, when this happened, the first thing I actually thought of like,

what is John Harball doing right now? And how upset is he? He's like, I leave and then they go out and they make a move with the first round pick and they get a stud. Obviously like, Max Crosby

“again, wanted to be a red Max Crosby. I think handle the trade request the best way possible”

for any superstar to ever do it. Given how bad the Raiders are as well. Given how bad the Raiders are, like they had dead no choice. Max eventually reached the end of his road and the end of his road was not letting him play for a shitty team. Yep. When they benched him, when they said, you're not a lot to play for a shitty Raiders team because we want to get a higher draft pick. He said, that is a bridge too far. Trade me out of town. And I mean, if you're the Raiders, good for you.

You got two first round picks. Two first round picks at all. Yep. You're going to pick twice in the first round this year. Twice in the first round next year. There's a lot of teams now have two first round picks. It is interesting because the Ravens feel like the team for however long. I mean, pretty much their entire history. It's like what they do is they draft really well. They don't have to do these type of moves. And then they do this move after John Harball's

fired or whatever the parting of ways, Jesse Minters there. And it's interesting to see because it's like, oh, yeah, maybe the Ravens haven't drafted as well recently. So now they do have to do. They have to join everyone else and be these guys. Their defense is going to be scary.

I loved the transition from Max Cross B was always meant to be playing in a badass uniform.

So Raiders to Ravens is like, okay, that's like if he went to the dolphins, I would have been upset. It's going to look really, really weird. Yeah. But it's going to look awesome. Let's give it a look. So the purple Ravens uniform with Max Cross. Actually, it's going to be really weird for Pittsburgh fans to be bullying a guy named Cross. Yeah, there's a lot of memes going around Joe Burrow having to face Max Cross. We miles Garrett and TJ Wat. He then went on a

possible date with Jessica Alba. So good job Joe Burrow. Yeah. I, so I wanted back when on a possible date possible date. It was at a blackjack table. So I don't know if it was, I don't know if that's a, they happen to be there at the same time. Okay. I would put that on a repossible date.

“Yeah, late night. I think it was late night. Yeah. I think it was late night. So possible date.”

Yeah, Joe Burrow and Jessica Alba playing late night blackjack. That's good. It's down the road

had to zoom in because I was like, is that actually Joe Burrow? He, Joe Burrow can look different in every picture. Yeah. Well, the hair just always, he always has a different hairstyle and it's always a great hairstyle. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, all right. So Max draws me. I, I wanted Max draws me on the bears and I think that we as fans do this thing where if you don't get the guy you want, you immediately say, well, two first rounds. I'm so happy we didn't get Max draws me. I think it's

okay to say, hey, you know what? I really want to Max draws me on the bears. Yeah. I did. I want to be is every team should want Max. Yeah, but you know how you, how you immediately cope and you're

like, oh, well, I would never have traded two first rounders. No, Max draws me is really

fucking good. And it would have been awesome to have Max draws me playing on the bears. Now you got to do it the other way. You got to, you got to nail your draft picks and the Ravens, the Ravens now have to like, the question I have for you, P. F. D. Is, oh, the Ravens basically saying, Lamar Jackson, he's 29. He's got, we got like a three, four year window where we're going to have to go all in here because it does, you're kind of, you're, you're like, fork in the

rotor, you try, are you trying to keep your draft capital to keep reloading around Lamar Jackson? You're like, hey, let's go win this right now. Yeah, I think that what they're doing is with a new head coach, they promise their new head coach. They're going to be aggressive. Yeah. And now they're being aggressive for him. Like, that's why I'm saying like, I thought of Harball at first because

like, this is something that every coach and the NFL should want. Yeah. And so I think with mentor,

they're, they're like, because there were other teams that wanted him as their head coach. Yeah, I think they said come to Baltimore. We've got Lamar Jackson and he will be here for the, for civil future, but also like, if you come here, we promise that we're going to be aggressive.

“Yeah. We're going to try to win ASAP. So that's what they're doing. And yeah, I think that,”

yes, the bears did want Crosby. A lot of people really saw some prayers to the Dallas Cowboys who are now leading the NFL in number of guys that they're monitoring. Yeah. Well, they were only for trades, but for also free agency, they've been monitoring every situation. So they were monitoring the Crosby situation extremely closely. And they're very disappointed that they did not get Max Crosby despite the fact that they're monitoring. They offered a first in a second.

It's what was said. They said devastated. They're devastated. They didn't get them. Which would have

been actually like an incredible move for the Cowboys to basically get Quinney Williams and Max Crosby

trade micro Parsons and still kind of net out ahead. But yeah, the price got too high because it was two first. I have a question for you Hank. Yeah. Did you want Max Crosby? Of course on the Patriots. Would it surprise you say no to Max Crosby? Agreed. Yeah. I want Max Crosby back. Would it surprise you to know that Tom Brady did not want Max Crosby on the Patriots? No. It would not surprise you. It would not. It would surprise you to know that he he actively may have been the one that prevented him

from going to the Patriots per who. This is per a source on ESPN.com that talked to a belief Jeremy

“Fowler. I saw Mike Mike Florian. He wrote an article about the article. That's what Mike does. So he's an aggregator”

and sounds like a tall tail. A tall tail. Okay. Here's the exact quote. One person involved in the trade meet an interesting point about the Patriots chances at Crosby. No way Tom was sending Max to variable. Why went that person name? Why wouldn't they reveal their source name? Well, because if you're journalists, you don't reveal your source name. It's tall tail. Because then people wouldn't talk to it. And there's probably like a pretty high chance it was just

out of square arrow. Yeah. Do you think, but I don't think out of square arrow would say that about Tom. What do you? No. No. He would outscrew Mike just be the source on every week. Every okay. Yeah, you know what I'm saying? Yeah. You just talking to everyone. No, I mean, the way Brady's like the last year went was a little weird with how he talks about Drake main in the Patriots so that doesn't shock me. If it was true, I'm not confer. I don't believe that it is true. Are you Matt? If it's

true, are you Matt? No. Okay. So you know, if it's not true, are you Matt? Yes. Oh, you're if it's not true, you're Matt. It's not true. I'm Matt that the media is once again trying to try to try. Yeah, yeah, strong. Hank is saying like it's bullshit that they made this up, but even if they made it up, I don't care. Right. Got it. You're Matt. You just said. I made it up like here. If it's true, I don't care.

“Right. But that's what I said. No. It feels like if they made it up, I don't care, which is not true.”

But if it was, if it were true, you don't care at all. No, I mean, there's clearly something there's, there's a, there's a, there's a, there's a little bit of weird energy around Brady, Craft, Bellachack, everything, but we're not, we're focused on variable, May, and the team in front of us. You think that it's because Brady wanted to buy part of the New England Patriots. Could be. And Robert Craft said I would prefer not to sell you part of the team,

because that would be a lot of money, and you can't afford it. Broke boy. Come to broke boy. Yeah. And then Mark, I will give you a hometown discount. Well, Mark Davis is like, as a broke boy. Yeah. I'm happy to, for you to join the broke boy. Correct. Or it's just like, we're assembling a team of Lady killers out here in the desert. Mm-hmm. Hop. Let's not, let's not. Let's, let's, let's.

saying that he might be able to afford the inheritance acts. Yeah. The Mark Davis was just like,

“hey, Brady, we're going to, we're going to be putting together a pussy patrol out here. You want in?”

He's like, yeah. Yeah. So like, Mark Davis walking around being like, yeah, we're, we're actually dating Alex Earl. Yeah. It's just the boy. Say, say, he's counting that as a, it's a, it's a win. It's a win. You know, I also think Brady, Brady's a smart guy. If the deal was just as good if not better, like he would have taken it. He might not have like wanted to deal with Patriots, but if, like, yeah, it was a good deal. He would have done it. Do you think Mark Davis, you,

you remember, Mike McDonald at the end of the year showed that he had a, a big spike, and it was just all the helmets of the teams they built. Mm-hmm. The Mark Davis has that with all the, the checks. He and Tom Brady are slain. Yeah, probably. He probably does it his office. He's just, he's got an actual notch that he puts on his bedpost, but a pretty bang to check. He's, he's not doing any of the banging, but Brady's out there for him. He hangs Brady's tie up on his, on his office store. It's a quick,

my break pickup. We got some last night. Are the cameras okay? Cameras are wild and outright. No, cameras are, cameras are, cameras are good. I've just been seeing them going in all the different directions. What was up with one that was just staring straight down at Henry? There's,

“we were just, we were just going for a new angle for Hank there. Oh, no. How does he angle?”

Oh, it looks good. It looks artistic and nice. All right, what's up, Hank? Nice. Okay, so we also had Cleo Max signed back with the Chargers. Tyler Beatitch signed with the Chargers as well. That's another center off. He's a very good player. The bills recign their center. So the center market actually feels like it's the hottest market out there. The, the packers signed their center. We started seven

games, signed for 11 million a year. Yeah, Linda Bob might get every penny of what he's asking.

Yeah, like this might be the craziest center market ever. I saw one tweet, I forget who had it, but it may be laugh when the news about Dalman came out last week. That was like, first of all, I hope he's okay. Second of all, there has to be some recourse that we can have at fans. Yes, fans when players do this. Yes, we need to have something. And so what, what is that guy talking about? Do you think, President, do you think he's talking about sending guy to jail?

I think he just wants hires all the money back every and the feelings to draft picks,

“compensation, like you should reparations, take out a pay, whatever happened to take it out of full”

page in a newspaper. Yeah, we need reparations. Yeah, thanking, thanking all the fans. Mm-hmm. I agree with that guy. Maybe he has to give away like 100 footballs or something. Signed footballs. Yeah. Something like that. But yeah, so Connor McGovern recign with the bills. And then you have the center market, like the Garrett Bradbury, I think the trade happened on Friday. Garrett Bradbury was traded from the Patriots to the Bears. And I was thinking the whole time like

this can't be the answer at center for the Bears. But then you see the other moves, like the center market, just might be the hottest market in the world. Yeah, do those good move by poll? Do those don't play center anymore. It's crazy. I don't know who the besides linder bomb and there's going to be like five teams that are going after linder bomb. Mm-hmm. I don't know what the plan is for the commanders. It's weird that we moved on from British because he's,

he was a really good player for us. Yeah. And he's just a great center and you saw like a

lot of teams are interested in it. You got 30 million. I don't know what the plan is if it's because of what

we're trying to do, like with David Blau's high octane offense. That's true. Maybe he's in the center. Maybe no center. A positionless offensive line. Mm-hmm. I don't know. Anything could happen with David Blau. That's the one thing that's for certain. Yeah. What other big, uh, with there any other big site? I mean, we, free agency basically starts as you're listening this today, uh, at noon, non-tampering, which is going to be totally tampering. Yeah. But was there any other big, oh yeah,

Jordan Davis got recent as jail and Carter on the market, Max? Now that's Floria. Oh, that's, you got Floria. Okay. Uh, what about this memes? Is this a Florioing? Or is this a real, real take? I don't want to is Gino small returning to the jets of a possibility. By the way, we, before you hate that one, before you answer this, the fact that we went on on Thursday, a hypothetical, what's sadder to a or dare car, and then immediately after they're like, actually car some

once. Yeah. And Gino Smith. Mm-hmm. I apologize to, like, that was, that got even worse. That got darker. Gino, maybe not, but cars once got, that got dark. Although, Max likes to pretend that he still likes cars. Lance? Still got some of you recently. What, what about Gino? Yeah. What do you think? You're not supposed to look before. You're not opposed to Gino? Not opposed to Gino. Uh, I saw one stat that showed he did something good last year. Oh,

who's like, when receivers were open, I'd have to find the exact person. He threw the ball. So when receivers opened, he was good at hitting him. He was behind Josh Allen and Caleb Williams. Okay. When, when he had wide open receivers. Or no, when he wasn't rushed in the, in the pocket. Okay. I got to find the stat. Yeah. Yeah. I'm not about that at all. Yeah. We got to get through the wide open receivers. We got to get the stat. The jets don't have iK in Empire, whatever his last

name is on the roster. So that's, oh, whoa. That's a good. Take it easy, Jersey. Wait, that's what?

at the NFL honors. Everyone's like, you stole this moment from them. Oh, well, yeah, I mean,

but the guy, the guy, it's either somebody mispronouncing his last name or the guy that broke Gino Smith's draw. Yeah. Whichever way you want to go with that guy. What do you, I just watched memes type in Gino Smith, Josh Allen. No, it was a name. I'm okay. I was trying to figure out

“a way that I could possibly search this. Okay. So you're going to, how are you, what are you?”

Well, he said it was behind Josh Allen and Caleb Williams. Oh, he said, like, got it. We need to find the stat. Bad. Oh, just stat. So yes, on Gino. Yeah, why not redemption story. Start his career here. I'm coming home video home. Yeah. That would rock anything's better than Carson once. That is true. Yeah. Yeah. Can I interest you in Andy Donton? Nope. Actually. Well, Andy Donton, Gunterhead, Andy Donton, the Carson once. Oh,

gunned in my head. Carson once. That's that's also incorrect. I'm going to give you, actually, it's best here under Frank Wright. I'm going to give the jets a big comp in here. This

is just an incredible way for them to anchor negotiations where they can, like Carson went

and skits you as low as possible. Then you're in for Gino Smith. It's kind of like the bears stadium situation, which I've been saying all along, like when they first said Arlington Heights everyone's like, you can't move the bears out of Chicago, then they're like, what about Indiana? No, you can't move out of state. Okay. What about Arlington Heights? Oh, that's sick. They're basically saying, hey, Carson went. So no, we can't have Carson once. Okay. What about Gino Smith?

Oh, actually, that's pretty good compared to Carson once. Smart. No, you're correct. I just don't think Aaron Glenn who's probably going to get fired at the end of this year is going to risk his his pre-fire. I think so. I think he's dead man walking. Sleeping man? Yes, sleeping man walking.

But if I had to guess who would be Jacobi preset and tie Simpson going into the season. Oh,

I actually tie Simpson is worth it, like seeing what's what's up. Kicked the tires? Yeah.

“Absolutely. Yeah, we'll see, but that's that's what I've been seeing on on the old X app.”

So the raiders haven't, they haven't released Gino yet. Have they? No, I don't think you can until the league new league year star. Do you think there's any chance of Tom Brady? Pretty much the present of the raiders is going to be like, Gino Smith is so good. I'm going to trade them to the jets just that he can beat the Patriots twice every year. No. Okay. But maybe the shadow commissioner? Yeah, Tom Brady. I'm going to look at every every transaction that the raiders make in the

in the light of will this hurt the Patriots or not? That's all he's thinking. Yeah, that's all he's not. He's not managing the raiders as much as he is just like anti matter to the new in the Patriots right now. Yeah. I'm wondering what like is there going to be anything that's truly shocking us on on when free agency starts? I think it feels like a lot of quarterbacks where you're going to have to sell yourself on trading places. Yeah, and Tyler Lindabomb will be big. I think we're Kyler decides

the go is going to be very interesting. Yeah, because no matter where he goes, I think we'll be able to say some very definitive statements about Kyler. That might might be wrong, but we'll definitely say them. If he goes to Minnesota, we'll be like, oh, well, he's fixed. Yeah, his career's awesome and Kyler is great. He's going to walk off there planning to be better. Right. If he goes to the jets, it's like, oh, Kyler want to take a paycheck. Right. And he still doesn't care about football. Right.

“And then we might be wrong. We might be right. But yeah, that's what I'm really interested in. See,”

where he ends up. Do you think you think Russ is just sitting and being like free agency about to start? See how this goes? Yeah. I'm going to get some calls. Yeah. He might Joe Flacco said he wants to compete to be a starter. I want him to compete to be a starter too. I want him to want that. Yeah. I want to see Russ like cold calling teams like sitting down in a boiler room. Yeah. Like, hey, can I interest you, Sarah? I'm calling about your extend warranty on your quarterback. Can I

interest you in a young, super bold champion quarterback, young in terms of globally? Yes. Yes. Can I have you? Have you? I have noticed that your team is operating under a limited mindset. Can I interest you in someone who could be unlimited? Yeah. I'm interested to see what the Cowboys do because again, like if you've paid attention, what they keep saying Jerry Jones is monitoring everything at all times. Can we talk? He's got a situation room. The deck? Yeah, I was just saying

you talked about the Cowboys big story this weekend. So I don't know how much this is true, but deck in his fiancee have called it off a month before the wedding. And it happened during combo bachelor and bachelor of parties. I don't know the combo. I think it was a combo. Join, yeah, join bachelor. That right there is where you fuck like that is the, I can't stress this enough. If you do a joint bachelor bachelor, I part of you just, that's pre-cryb.

That's the most insane thing possible. I didn't realize I was joint that's insane. I like,

it's bad, bad behavior. That means you just don't trust each other and also it's weird and it's

“going to be a weird. The entire party is going to suck because you're going to be like, oh yeah,”

the boys are doing this today. The girls are doing that. They were going to meet for dinner. What? No, that's not how it works. That's crazy. Banning it. You shouldn't be allowed to get married. Well, they're not getting married. Well, yeah, no, so maybe that's maybe someone stepped in. They're like, oh, you guys are doing this joint. So a deck press got split from fiancee just one month before they're wedding after blow up argument on joint, bachelor and bachelor up party. No duh,

you can't do that. You can't do the joints. That's crazy. Apparently, she invited a bunch of other wives and girlfriends from the Cowboys. Like other players on the Cowboys. Yeah, they're significant

others. We're hanging out with them. He is like the Dallas Cowboys and then Dax,

girlfriends, friends, who are also Cowboys players. Girl, I got to know what the argument was about. Here's about to preen up. Oh, I thought it was about like, hey, we're not going to the

“strip club tonight. Or no, we don't want to play beer pong anymore. Because that's what I would”

imagine is the starter of every joint bachelor bachelor party fight, right? I see that that or steakhouse or pasta. Yeah, steakhouse storytelling. Well, I truly believe you can get through anything in life as long as you have really great friends. He says he'll so much. She posts that two days ago with the picture of the party or not. Was that post breakup or during post and they stayed up? I got to know also what at what point in the weekend do they break up? Because then it just

becomes an awesome weekend. If the breakup is official, then you go your shepherd ways and you have

a great time. That might have been the move. Maybe Dax actually is genius because he's like, yeah, she dragged me to a, she insisted on a joint bachelor bachelor party. This is going to suck. But what I'm going to do is I'm going to break up with her on Friday, have my bachelor party, and then we'll get back together on Tuesday. That's that's that's got to be what happened. I'm going to as a guy who believes Dax is the 17th best quarterback in the NFL. I'm going to say that's

probably what happened. I defend Dax. I question is decision making just from the start on this. Yeah, QB1, you do, you do your own bachelor party. A better yet, you just, your bachelor party is just training. Just meet up with the boys out in Arizona. It's just practicing for a week. Yeah, play the best golf club and he proposed she's big golfer. Oh really? He proposed with a, a ring and a fake golf ball. I love that that story. He got on your radar. I was just,

I was reading it. It was a ring inside of a fake. Wow. I hid the ring in a fake golf ball. I dropped it. She almost hit it. I'm just glad you said, yeah, super blessed. There's no way she almost hit it. Let's fake golf balls all look so fake. So he, I don't understand the concept of the fake golf ball. He like, he teed it up for? Yeah, or just dropped it on the, he's like, I dropped it on the green. I found your ball and she's like, wait, are you already cheating? Oh, wow. It's not a ball.

It's an engagement ring. Gotcha. This was doomed. They, if they out, man, awkward for people who

“were planning to go to the wedding. That's what kids. Oh, okay. I didn't know that. A little mess here.”

Put that disclaimer at the start of this conversation. Do not, do not do that. That sucks. They'll probably be good athletes. So she is a certified wine and spirit specialist. That's a great job. She's got a good career. Yes. So why, why are we believing it's nonsense about a prenapping sounds. She's independently wealthy. My, my hand up. I want to say part of the laugh was when you said wine and spirits, I forgot spirits are alcohol, but it, it would also be funny if it was wine

and like spiritual, spiritual. Yeah, wine and ghosts. Yeah, she just, faith-based wine sales. Yeah, or just like, yeah, wine and crystals, like healing power. Okay. So that's a big, Dallas Cowboys move. I do think they have to figure that out before they even dip their toe in for agency. Like, "Dak, what's going on here?" Talk us through this. Let's watch the tape. Maybe that's what they need to do is, Sean Heimer has to sit in like, it's a true like Monday morning

film session. And they're like, "All right, here's a picture of you guys on the boat. Here's a picture guys at dinner. What, what was going through your head? What, what, what, what made you make this decision to do this joint patch report?" I'm, at least I'm going to wait for all the facts to come out and by facts. I mean, I'm going to wait to see what Skipalis says. Yeah, about the situation, because him and Ernestine broke down the Iran war. I saw that it was really, it was compelling stuff. And when I say

Skip and Ernestine broke it down, Ernestine was like, "Let's talk about the war in Iran." And then Skip talked for like seven minutes. Yeah. But whatever he said, he's still got it. They are Skip and Ernestine are very like, the 101 Dalmatians, you know, the opening scene when every owner looks like they're dog, they're getting, they're sort of like, "Well, a lot of like,

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no instruction. Yes, someone's like they were just not telling us the truth. He was fine. He's fine. He was a little, I mean he took him like a half to truly get warmed up. He did have like a blow by tongue that he just got stuff by the rim, but that kind of comes with time and minutes played. He looked good though. He was still taking on some of the injury report. Yeah. Okay. Well, he's out. They said he's out. Yeah. So yeah. Okay. It's crazy that he's back this fast and looked completely fine.

Yeah, he looked good. I love the fact that he was kind of traveling. He spent the whole year traveling with the team all year round. Oh, he was traveling with the team. No, traveling traveling with the team. I thought they were, I thought he came back. He was just traveling. He's been establishing his pivot foot. Yeah. Gather stuff. It's just, he looks so good. The Celtics looks so good. There's a little shine on you. If you're, if you're a guy, if you're a guy, if you're a guy, if you're a guy that had a 15 to one

future, 14 to one, something like that, you're probably sitting pretty right now. It's all the way down to five and a half to one. Yeah. I was very sharp play. I cashed out because Hank immediately was like, I can't believe that he's doing this to me again. And I didn't want to see my boy Hank go through. Listen, I beat up on Hank pretty good during the Super Bowl run. Like I broke him and I didn't want to continue doing that. I like how Hank and I, our relationship has gotten better since the

Super Bowl. I didn't want to go down that road. I want it to be a spring of friendship. So I cashed out of, oh, yeah. Oh, that is, it's going to be back on, but it's going to be back on and much, much worse ways. I just want you to know that. Like it's, it'll get worse. It's going to get worse. What's the worst ways? I'm not, I'm not going to tell them. Okay. I just want you to agree to getting worse. I don't agree to anything. I didn't agree to you or disagree with like you taking the future, but you called

you a cow. You cashed out. That was a coward. I cashed out the next day because you were crying about it. Oh, that was not crying about it. Hank was crying about it. Hank was crying about it. I can't work in his pride. It was not crying. So you think it's soupy? Zach, he was crying. Wasn't he? He's so I'm crying. I didn't see he might have cried. I don't know, but there's been false claims

“of crying before and like so he could have not been crying. Are you thinking, are you thinking championship?”

Yeah, I mean, the way he came back and looks, it's not that he's back. Like the fact that he's back is nuts. The fact that he's back and also looks like the same guy is mind-boggling. He looks

the same and there are obviously already second in the East. Missulu is such a good coach and

like I said, I think the fact it's not like some players they get injured. They have a big injury like that. They kind of go away from the team. He's been around the team. He's been watching every game. He's been in the locker room, been in the film. He's been able to see kind of how he can step in and still help the team get better, which is huge. I think he's he was facilitating well. He's going to, you know, be able to step up and have his moments, but he's also not forcing

it and like trying to take over because when your team's already second in the East, you don't need to come back and be a superstar. He'll run. Come back and help the silly state.

“Jill and Brown. Yeah, but actually I think the funniest now would be if he, if he gets, if the”

Celtics win the NBA championship and he gets finals MVP, then Jill and Brown's out and Jill and Brown is not going to handle that well. Yeah. Did you see Jill Brown? I disagree. I love Jill and Brown talking about it. It's like they're in walks up. They, they don't listen to the media at all and it's just great to see them talk about it because it's like he's just happy to see his friend back doing what he loves. Did you see Jill and Brown's quote about how he thinks he's the best

two-way player in the NBA? Yeah, so good. He said, when I say I'm the best two-way player in the league, it's not counting Wemby. He's not even human. I'm the best human player. It's a great quote. Yeah.

Wemby, by the way, that was awesome on Friday night. It's top of a crying. Yeah, I liked it. Same.

I know it's cool. So Wemby, they, they had back to back games. Wemby also had earlier in the

“week. Like one of his best friends went missing for, I think it was like maybe 12, 24 hours.”

He was, he was actually in Chicago. Got dropped off the airport. Didn't port his flight. Like kind of, you know, scary. Wemby was posting about it. So his friend got found on Tuesday, played on Thursday, one, played on Friday. They were down 25, come back and win. And he was crying after. It was like, this is awesome because he just seems like the guy who just loves basketball. And he's an alien. He's an alien. Absolutely. Yeah. I was actually

looking at the MVP regular season MVP odds. There's a good chance that like the top two

guys or the top three guys aren't eligible. Yeah, they're eligible. Like we're on, we're on

game's missed watch. Oh, yeah, big time. For like what, Shay, Wemby, and Yoke, right? Yep. That's why K, does I think pretty high up in the odds? Do you guys trust the pistons? No. I don't trust them. But here, here's my one big desire for the NBA posties in this year. I just, I would love to see

“the Celtics and the Sixers go out of, yeah. I think they'll be great. I'm down. Yeah. It was a suck. The”

whole team's hurt. Two to the head. I would just love that. Two to the head. I love it. Is there a world where that can happen? Yeah. Yeah. The sixers are eight. They make it. Yeah. They might not make it. Mm-hmm. Oh, play in. Max, Heather. If the sixers are on the plan, would you prefer that they just lose that? What's the implication for your draft picks? Because I know you and, okay, see you have something to go on. To the plan's fun. It's so fun. The plan is not fun. You complain about

the plan every year. I would like to not be in the plan. The plan is so fun, dude, because you get to play in and then get your ass kicked. Play. Yeah. Like the sixers suck. Play in Paul George, honestly. Playing, losing Paul George is like ruin the season. He'll be back. I guess. Yeah. He's suspended. He's not

heart. They suck. Jeremy Kane's ball. He is balling. Good point. I never wanted to get ready

to Jared McCain. We're going to talk about it without screws on whether he'll do a TikTok with him in our interview coming up. All right. We talk some, oh, wow. I would just hit a three, uh, tie against Nebraska. That's a good game. The college basketball. The bubble, the bubble is bursting. Everyone on the bubble on Saturday. Final regular season weekend of the year. Pretty much everyone who was on the bubble lost. And now it's becoming a slop fest to see who's going to get in the

tournament. Auburns at 16 and 15 is just like the, the, the, the, basically the poster boy of we don't need more of this yet they keep somehow surviving all these teams losing and, and being, you know, somewhat still alive. So on Saturday was Virginia Tech, Missouri, SMU Cincinnati Cow, New Mexico, Indiana and Auburn all lost all firm bubble teams, both on the right and wrong side. And now we have a mess. Indiana is on the right side, though, right? Wrong side. And he has the wrong side.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. They're, they're in trouble. They're in trouble. The monkey's paw. Yeah. They're curling up in Bloomington. They're like, I, I hope that my team is good at football for once. And it's like, what's the cost going to be? Yeah. Well, you're just not going to make the dance. Yeah. But we have, uh, we have some conference tournaments that are happening, which is awesome. We had the LIU fins up. They're officially in the dance, because they get in on the stupidest

technicality in all sports. They're playing in the championship game against Mercyhurst, but Mercyhurst

“is a division one team as of like a year ago. So they can't be in, fins up. Um, we had, I think it was”

Northern Iowa's back in the dance for, I love, I love school. This what I love about March 2 is when you have a team that has done one big thing. At any point in their history, it just doesn't nostalgia comes like, washing back like a Valpo gets in, you're like, Oh, Valpo's in. Northern Iowa's in that category. We pay we. Yeah. I mean, they're in. Yeah. Yeah. It's just like, this is fun, because you just know like there, there's memories to be had. San Diego State. Yeah. But there's

be, yeah. But I mean, San Diego State, very, you know, final four, but yeah, Northern Iowa, and uh, we're going to get to relive all that they had. So they're in a bunch of, a bunch of teams have, have gotten in. And now we have Conference Championship, which I'm very excited for. What do you think about the clock operator in the BU game? Uh, I thought it was more crazy that Navy just didn't play defense on the, on the final possession. But yeah. And now there's a lot of

people complaining about the, this is, this is something that I've noticed that has jumped up this year. I don't really take it too much credence into it, but people complaining about, uh, teams, conferences, one-bid conferences, not sending their best team because their best team gets

that's the best part. Yeah. You can just win everyone's still eligible all throughout the season.

“You can still get in. Yeah, chaos is what makes, that's what makes March March. We're not going”

to be missing out on any of the teams that can win the championship, but we might get some crazy ones in there that really have their business being in the tournament. But that's fun. That's what makes sports fun. That's what makes March fun. I like how upset Miami's making people continues to

make people. So Miami, first of all, that game Friday night was unbelievable. My whole

aisle versus Ohio, like, just everything you want. Maxim high scoring middle fingers, big intense to the, yeah. I don't know about the middle fingers if you're, if you're a guy didn't play in the game. I got too much pinch mob. Whatever. Yeah. Uh, it's the most aggressive benchmark of the rivalry game. Yeah, rivalry game. The, my level high was so simple to me in that they should a hundred percent be in now that they've run the table. And one, they're 31 and 0 and they won every conference game.

It's also okay to say they've played absolutely no one, which is totally fine. They're, they're not, they're not coverage schedule was dog shit, but it doesn't matter to me, it doesn't matter to me. If you, if you, if you win every game in your conference and you're 31

“and 0 on the last weekend of regular season, you should be in no matter what happens in the conference,”

some, they're not even favorites to win the Mac conference tournament, have they played this year? Uh, let's see, I'll pull it up right now. I mean, I know they're, non-conference schedule was very bad. They're 90th on Ken Palm. Yeah. Uh, in the top 200, it's top 100, top 200 because they haven't played a team in the top one. Yeah. Oh, no. Akron is the top 100 teams. They did beat Akron, top 100 team. Um, top 200,

they write state one, uh, two, three. Never been the princess of four, five, six, seven,

eight teams in the top 200. That's pretty hilarious. And, uh, like I said, only one team in the top 100, they're, they're non-conference schedule. They beat teams like Trinity Christian, Indiana East, and Milligan. Listen, one thing we're not going to do in part. But I don't care, they should be in. I do not care. One thing we're not going to do is insult a team for having beaten a bunch of terrible, terrible teams when it comes playoff time. That's not, that's not the DNA of

“the show. But it's so funny because everyone at everyone's in fits where it's like you have to,”

you have to decide which side you are on here and I feel like you don't. You could just say, "My evil Ohio deserves to be in. 100% deserves to be in the tournament." I actually think it'd be really funny if they gave them a one seed being like they're undefeated. But they deserve to be in, they also played a shady schedule. And a lot of it wasn't their fault. They tried to schedule a bunch

of these teams. They didn't, they said no. We could have Miami Miami in the first round of the playoff,

right? Yeah. Like the way that these two teams are, are shaking out of the brachatology. Yeah. I think, I don't know where, I think my, yeah, maybe in second round, Miami Ohio is 11 right now. And Miami is eight. Oh, there's no thing, things should have to. Well, if my Ohio wins, they're, the Mac, they might go up to a nine. Yeah. That would be, I would like, and I also, I hate, like, people being, like, can't wait for them to get their asses kicks in the

tournament. Why? They're a fun story. This is, we've lost their love for March. I don't like, I saw someone throw out a crazy take that was like, we should make the tournament 32 teams because the other 32 have no business being in it. And it's, it's the whole idea is to decide a champion, not Cinderella. It's like, no, no, that sounded absolutely not. It's, it is different from football. Like, it's much, you can have a, a much worse team like any giving game in the tournament.

You catch fire. It's all, that's, that is literally why we love March. Up sets early. Good teams late. Give it to us. I'm a little worried though, because we are getting some, some, back to the conversation about the conference should be sending their best teams. It is, like, having these moments early on where you have some big time upsets in the conference tournament, it does make it a little bit easier for the, like, first four seeds in, in the first round. Because you just have, you got,

you get like a 14 and 15 team as the, as the, as the 15 seed, like, they're not going to win. Okay. Yeah. And isn't the stat, I think, I pulled it up here the other day. Yeah, I got it right. You want to be, if you're thinking about, like, second round wins, you would much rather be a 10 or an 11, then you would be, oh, yeah, a nine seed. Yeah. I mean, that's, that's our native seed. I mean, that makes perfect. You don't have to play the number one seed. Yeah. Yes. It's not someone saying that

or like, it was novel and being like, wow, I've, I've just found this crazy thing. You don't want want to be on the eight nine line. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

Once you get to the final four. - What do you mean? - Like what? - Oh just an easy. - It's just because of--

- Weird Villanova? - Just because of weird luck over the years. - Yeah, eight seeds, I think, have like a--

“- Well, I think it's just 'cause of Villanova in 1985, right?”

- I think there've been a couple other eight seeds, but I'm pretty sure you and C was an eight seed, right? - So when it all? - Not until 2011, Kentucky, 2014, North Carolina, 2011.

- But those teams didn't win it. - Only once again, it's Villanova. - Oh, to get to the final four. - No, to play once you're in the final four. - Yeah.

- You're the semi-final game. - Butler Kentucky, North Carolina. - They all won as eight seeds. - Yeah, final four. - Yeah.

- Okay, yeah, so there we go. So you just gotta get there. - You just gotta survive. - And then you're guaranteed to win as an eight seed, yeah. - Yeah.

- Sorry about Caleb Foster. - Walking for you? - Walking for you? - Walking for you? - Are you, do you accept my advice, sorry?

- I don't, but I guess I will. - 'Cause it's not true. - What do you mean he's not true? - He's not true. - He's gonna be out for you.

- I'm sorry about Caleb Foster. He got hurt again. - You can't say on the street. - You can't say on the street. - What do you mean?

- What do you mean dude? I want to turn, no one wins or got hurt. And yet, the Badger's did just go and win and Purdue and that was cool. Without no one wins or hopefully gets better.

But I want injuries off, dude. - All right, then I accept it. - Okay, I don't believe it. - I don't believe it. - I want injuries off.

- I think Shardin. - This time he's gonna be out for the entire comfort tournament. - Yeah. - Yeah.

- So what do you mean it's not true? - Big cat. - No, he's not true. - I did speak to him. - I did speak to him too, yeah. - Yeah, he was sorry, where do you mind Reader?

- I am a face reader and he's a hater. - I mean, Duke is so good, it doesn't matter, but I'm sorry.

“- I think I got two guys in walking boots right now.”

- Yeah. - I got punched with your staff or if you don't put your foot on me out my dad's a lot of your house sue you can do rest of ghosts. - In terms of seating is Yukon is probably lost her chance at a one seed. - Market. - Hey, called in, he did, you did call it.

I thought they'd go on a rock. - I love when you do this, when it's like, yeah, I don't want to. - Eddie College of High School, you just throw a take out there. I don't even know why you said Market. - I'm Max looking for value and they were.

- And then boom. - Right away. - Hanks right. - They beat you. - They beat Yukon.

- I've laughed at you. - You guys laughed a lot. - Yeah, we did. I did the Market yesterday, so I at least came around before tip off. I better get spread out and take, I didn't have the balls to do money line.

- The Hurley Double Box just pulled them freaking out at the same time was great. - I love the angle that Dan Hurley took when he was getting the ref's face. - Fully. - He was putting like 50% of his body weight via his forehead on the back of the ref said, and then his explanation after the game was great, he was like, I was just screaming

into the back of his head. I didn't know that we weren't allowed to do that. - Yeah. - And see what the problem was there. - He should have gone to tech earlier.

You got it with less than a second left.

- He was doing the smooth criminal into the back of the ref said. - Yeah. - I love it when the Hurley's get this fired up. - Oh man. - So yeah, that was the big shake up though, because now it feels like Yukon's going

to go to the two seed line floor is going to be a one seed and a conference championship week. Just so fucking excited. You guys also see the celebration that is probably going to be replicated many many, many times the three pointer and then shotgunning the three pointer.

- Yeah. - He was by Kansas bench guy while Wilder Evers, who's perfect name for Kansas band.

“I think he's played in six games this year, but he shot under his three pointer.”

- Is he from Kansas? - I don't know. - It's a great Kansas name. - Wilder Evers. - Yeah.

- That one's going to go. - That one's going to go. - Or George. That could be a good George name. - Let's see.

Wilder Evers. Let's see where he is from. Albema. Birmingham Albema. Wilder Evers.

It's six games this year, it's average in 2.8 minutes and I think that was his second

puck of the year. That's pretty cool. Yeah, he's got to be so sick to be like the 14th guy, the 15th guy on Kansas. How awesome would that be? - Especially this time of year.

- Well, just like about it. - We got a guy here. We could talk to him about it. - Yeah. - Yeah.

- You're going to get this. Watch a shitload of college basketball games for free. Not only that, but you, like, really good game. - And if you go to, like, a Kansas or a Kentucky or Duke or UNC, like, there's a, as long as you're a decent hang, you're going to be best friends with an NBA superstar.

- Yeah. - Yeah. - Yeah. I mean, like, he's, for the rest of your life, you're going to be like, oh, yeah. I got his name.

- Yeah, like when it was number. - We were at the, at the final four, I think that was Arizona a few years ago. And I had taken a lot of mushrooms that night and, uh, I was, I was tripping pretty bad we're at the bar. And then all of a sudden, Greg Oden just pulled up to hang out tight as, yeah.

And meeting Greg Oden for the first time, when you're on mushrooms, is not a great,

- Totally not that. - No. - It's very, it's a great time again.

“- By the way, I think, uh, Nebraska is now doing fins up.”

- You can't do fins up. I mean, they are two fins up. - You know, I know a couple of guys that went to Nebraska, I don't think it's beneath them to be copying. - Yeah, that's true.

- This is very, this is, they're doing fins up for the free throws. - Will Compton just hit up the, with his, yeah, it was, like, fellas. - I just think, I think, great f*cking idea. - It's called fins up. We should try it.

It seems so sick. - I love will. - What else we got for college basketball? - Max, where's your, where are you at? We, you feel good about Villanova going?

- I mean, they're fine. - I got a lot better. - If they don't want to bet with you. - We can anyways, but. - Villanova to win the big, big East tournament.

- I'm going to troll that, it's because- - No, it's because he's not. - It'll make people cry. - This is, oh, it wasn't troll, but. - Oh, yeah, no shit.

No f*cking shit, Hank. - Well, it was a great bet that you just lost money on some. - Yeah. - I, this is not troll bet because I talked, Max and I talked, talked ball a lot.

And I was talking to him before and I said, I, I feel like they have a great draw. And you can't take one of the favorites. So I was like, yeah, might sprinkle a little Nova to win the big East.

- Yeah, I like it. They can't beat St. John's.

“So the only way they can win is if St. John's doesn't make-”

they can be Yukon, they can't beat St. John's. They just match up so poorly. - What about if Rick doesn't do the, uh, white suit? - They killed us twice this year. - Yeah, it's a good counterpoint.

It's a good counterpoint. I just wanna, I wanted something to ride. I haven't excited to see Matt. I'm excited to see, excited to see you back in the action, Max. - I'm excited. - Yeah, I'm excited.

- I'm excited for Realville Nova Basketball. I'm excited for the tournament. - Real Nova Basketball. - And I was saying earlier that like, I'm now to place, 'cause Wisconsin winning on Saturday was awesome.

Not like, I didn't really expect it because Nolan went to his out and he's very important. But Wisconsin, do you tell me they go to the final four because they just torch everyone from three

or they lose in the first round 'cause they hit,

they went four for 40 and I'm like, yeah, I can believe either. - I thought, but I'm so, they're such a joy to watch. I don't care, boy, it is such an animal. He just took over the game late and blackwell as well.

Like, they're just, it's fun. - It doesn't make sense that you've got Braden Smith and Laurie Fletcher still playing basketball. - Yeah, it doesn't make sense, but I love it. - I know, I've seen your day.

- It was kinda nice. - I was pretty nice. - This better be the last, we're not getting any more of them. - I don't think so. - I'm coming back next year. - We're talking right in here too. - Pushing people into screens and then pretending

he did nothing. - Yeah, it's fun, although it did feel a little bit like,

“Purdue has, I think they lost five home games this year”

so it really doesn't, you're like the last of the party. You're the last of the game, Bing. - Yeah, we showed up, we're like, we're like team won 25 to the Bonnie Blue gang bang with Purdue this year.

- Everyone had their fun with Purdue at home. - It doesn't matter, it had sex. - Yeah, did it. - Everyone had a good time in Mac. - Yeah, you can count, you check it out.

- That is a Mark Davis's notch on your bedposts. - Yeah, but yeah, I mean, listen, which causes three of the best wins of the year probably. So, that was, that was also funny watching Stephen Pearl.

He basically is 16 and 15 Auburn.

He's just like, we beat Florida. - Yeah, I mean, which is true. - He did, like, did, they beat Florida. - You just need to keep reminding people that you beat Florida.

- There was a time when you beat Florida. - That's a hell of a point. - Yeah, you can make. - You did beat Florida, right before Florida got figured it all out, you beat the shit.

Well, no, you loved one by like two, but you beat Florida. - You beat Florida and then in then Florida was like, okay, fuck this. - No, they won by nine, I take that back. Yeah, Florida has just demolished everyone's sense at point.

So in watching Florida, you're right big cat. They are dominant. They've been just crushing people. - I love watching Playball. - Do you think that their style is turning ready?

- Yeah, you know? - Yeah, 100%. - They don't have, they don't have the guys that hit from the outside like they did last year. - They've gotten significantly better

as the months have gone along. They were hitting like 27% from three in November. They're now back up, they're up to like 36%. They had a transfer from the Ivy League. Xavier Lee, who looked like he was overwhelmed

early in the year, now he's come back around Boogie Flynn. Like they have guys, all they have to do is hit, I know it's not all yet, but like 35%'s not crazy. If they hit 35% I think they will be in the final four.

I really do, 'cause every one of them is that good.

Well, I mean, they probably don't have to do it in the first round.

Maybe not even the second round, 'cause they're so overwhelming. Okay, any other stories, do you wanna talk a little golf? The Arnie? - Get your burger?

- That was sad. - Sad, it happens. - Let's go. - He led wire to wire and then lost. - He led wire to wire.

- I'll actually tie it up on 17 and then one and play off. - At the six major. - I don't know if it's the six major. Fifth major, come up this week, players.

- Scott didn't get his first one until he was 25.

- Okay. - So, he's next up? - Yeah, he went pro right after high school. So he's been on tour for a while, but that's impressive. - I like this ball.

- Like he's on top. - I like the golf course. I like the umbrellas everywhere. I actually looked at up 'cause I didn't understand what did Arnold Palmer have to do with umbrellas.

Why is that his logo? Do you know why? - I don't. I know I bought it. I just played it in the sixties.

I was like, I wanna buy this. - Oh, you mean the piece of land? - Yeah. - Yeah, oh, it's a fucked up, demented golf course. I thought they just build holes around lakes.

I know I try to cut these corners, you can't. But I was interested to see why that's his like brand logo. The umbrella. So I looked it up and he was having a meeting with some executives back in like the sixties.

And they're trying to establish Arnold Palmer enterprises.

“Like what are you gonna do in terms of golf course development?”

You're branding, et cetera, et cetera. And they suggested like two golf clubs that crossed, which I think is what Bryson ended up using way later. And then another one that was like a forest. And he was like, I don't like these.

So they said, okay, well, let's take a break. And when we come back, we'll do some more brainstorming. On a Palmer stood up and then he looked outside and saw a really hot chick getting out of a car. And she had an umbrella.

And he was like, fellas, I've got it. Unbrellus. We got to do umbrellas. So he just got horny, he got horny for a chick. He happened to see, and he's like, we're doing umbrellas.

Put that down and let's move on. And it's been a hell of a logo. It's a good logo. You recognize the logo. So Akshay, next up, don't feel bad for Daniel Burger.

Nah, I mean, it's golf. It's it's it's it's you got you got to you got to close up. Yeah, I love the, I love the four aces. I'm quizzing, yeah, that's really my who's back. But yeah, that I mean, four aces, they're all the way back.

So we could save it. Okay, we could save it. But I wanted to shout out one, maybe our next goal key depending on how they do from high point. USC, this kid Chase Johnson, he is shooting 40%

from three this year. And so he's 64 for 132 from three. He's over four in two point field goals. I love it. He's taking four.

Yeah, I love it. It's just too sad. It's too short. It doesn't. How awesome is that guy?

It doesn't feel right. I need him to just go nuclear. Yeah. His name translates to bunny blue. I'm curious of how many of those were like three

to where his foot was on the wall. Yeah, I hope, I hope all of it. Or it would be even funnier if it was like a wide open layup and he couldn't hit it. He just can't, what his damn perception is off.

What's his free throw? Free throw percentage for this guy. Free throw.

“This is like our guy, Scott Morris from UNH, remember?”

Yeah, for the free throw contest when we looked up his stats and we're like, oh, he's sucked at free throw.

He's like, dude, they never let me go inside the arc.

Yeah, his free throw percentage is 100% this year. Okay. And I don't know how many of them we see. Let me see how many he's taken. He is taken.

It looks like he is four for four on free throw. So he doesn't get to lie. Yeah, because he's always out there. That's awesome. He's taken four free throws all year.

And he, you know, he plays like 10, 15 minutes of game, but still, that's so sick. This guy's life is pretty sweet. Yeah, just go to practice. Stand in the corner and just get wet, buddy.

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Live Hong Kong, who are the four races?

They won the team tournament or the team event, John Rom, won the individual event,

first time winning on live, huge.

Wow, huge for him. You can't overstate that. That's a coincidence. And the fruit, isn't it? What?

He's like, kind of been rumoring these unhappy. We committed, he recommitted to live and then won. And then leave and then all of a sudden, he's like, oh, yeah, I won. No, it is, it's interesting.

It's a coincidence. It's not not. No. Okay, it's not a coincidence. I don't understand that.

He was, he's the best player on the tour. But he hadn't won yet. No, and then he said he was upset and really didn't want to be here anymore, and then he was like, you know what?

Well, he did not say that. No, no, we picked up on the bottom. Yeah, no, he didn't even. No, he did not say that. He did not say that.

He chose to stay on it. Highly speculated that he'd be leaving. Yeah. And then he's like, no, I'm staying. Oh, we're weird.

I just want my first one. I don't understand where you're going with that. He's not. You know exactly where I'm going. But yeah, he won.

It sounds like they're keeping him happy. Mm-hm. So you're saying all the other players-- The Saudis did some of that. Maybe magnets in the balls.

Maybe. Who knows?

“I think they even had some rings in them.”

Yeah, really said the Fanatics flag football thing isn't happening inside of you. Maybe anymore. That's tough. No, it's happening.

It's in LA now. Yeah, a lot of things. A lot of stuff going on. A lot of things happen. We can get into it.

Damn. Yeah, I trouble him this guy's over Kuwait. Tell you that much right now. Friendly fire. Perhaps the F-15 Eagles now 104 and 3.

Oh, we're at the perfect season. He's like, Lenny Dijkstra's stoppin. We're on the perfect season. 104 and oh, lifetime. Oh, those were in the blink of an eye.

All right, so live for it. Not coincidence. The genre I'm on. Definitely not a coincidence. And not yet.

Now we were talking about it, yep. Well, no, we were talking about the four racists. Yeah, but if so, it also wins on the-- So we would not have done the other-- Who on the couple weeks ago?

Anthony Kim. Oh, that's interesting too. So then let's see, who would the next interesting one be? Does Johnson Johnson's got to win? Johnson might win.

Did she Tigers team get the whole and won at the TGL?

“Oh, you know, basketball for a whole time, yeah, in our friend Max Homo on that team?”

Yeah. I mean, Max is team? Max's team? Yeah. Jupiter.

Max's. He can get any team to the victory. Jupiter and GC. Yeah. That's who I represent.

Okay. I'm just a Jupiter. Never run. I'm not going to say the name of the fan group that I was inventing. What week do you think?

I decided not, the big red spots. That's what we call ourselves. What do you think? What week do you think? President Trump's going to win a live golf event?

It's got to be coming, right? Well, I think I show a speed would probably get more. Yeah. Did you see that? Did you see it?

Guy, Guy comes back one of the greatest. No. I don't hate job problems at all. Show it what they have to give him. You guys are like, oh, I don't hate job problems at all.

I'm just saying easy. It's a little, the timing is a little bit interesting. That live is struggling. Who's struggling? Who's struggling?

Buzz, everything, never better, does this settled, never been better.

Brooks, come back, our guys come home and then, oh, now it's just the most remarkable. Oh, John Rump, first ever win on live. Oh, Anthony Kim hasn't won in 50 years. He hasn't won.

“I think there should be asterix on all of these because they're playing 72 holes now.”

Like that's not live golf, live golf when I used to enjoy the sport was 54 holes. And shorts, yeah. And shorts, yeah. Show me who's playing in live right now, I'll pick the next winner. Who is the winner after 54 holes?

I'll pick the next winner. We're here to talk about the four of you. Oh, Phil Micosin's going to win one now. You didn't win this one. Yeah, I know.

That's exactly there. Get them ready. I'll price it. Yeah, price is not a win one for sure. Phil's going to win.

Phil's going to win one this year. What's his name? Kim. Kim Smith. Kim Smith will probably win one because he's kind of a John Rump situation.

Yeah. People thought he would leave. Yeah, if you just say you want to leave, they'll just give you a win. Yeah. That's a live golf, baby.

Crazy.

Uh, he never said he wanted to leave.

You know what? I'm thinking about leaving live golf. Yeah. I've heard the same thing. I've heard the same thing about taking my talents.

We're here to talk about the four races and the fact they won team championship. First time in a few years, they're getting interviewed. Oh, that's interesting. The four races. The first time the four races that get talked about and insane amount on the number one

sports podcast. They also won. Yeah. Oh, that's interesting. Ha.

The script writers are going crazy. So who are the current four races again? It's Dustin Johnson. Yeah. Anthony Kim.

And the Twin Thompson. Okay. Wow. Easy. Easy.

Remember. Hey, who are the Twin Thompson? Thomas Peters. Thomas D. Tree. Okay.

Twin Thompson. Twin Thomas. But after the round, after the the win they're doing a celebratory press conference, on the suming it was the AWO reporter, as Dustin Johnson.

All on that team. Interesting. And yeah. Can we just play the clip. Dustin Johnson.

Yeah. No idea. Oh. Which was the most relatable. I woke up and saw that clip.

And I've never related more to a golfer in my leg.

And none of this is interesting. Being like, uh, Patrick Reed, um, shout to him. None of this is interesting to you. No. Okay.

“I think you're giving yourself too much credit.”

I know. I'm giving you huge, huge, huge. You're the guy. You're the four races guy. What's the guy here?

The live golf guy. What percentage of four races discussion do you think has been brought to the table by myself or big cat in the history of this show? Most of it. That's just.

We just ask you. Yeah. Well, you're bringing up the live topic. You bring up the four races. And then we ask a very simple question, which is who are the guys on this team?

And you're probably like one for, uh, well, before the Twin Thomas era, I would say you're probably like one for 30. And then, and then knowing all of that history, live golf, and the John Ram history, live golf is like, let's have John Ram win and also the four races and then a question about who are the four races that last won.

Huh.

And then also, I think that live golf engineered two guys being named Tom to be on.

So Hank only had to remember three. Yes. So. Huh. Whatever.

Four races on the top. It was such a late on top. It's such a funny clip because it really was just our podcast. Yeah. It is.

Can you play it? The audio. Three races. One of them. So DJ, uh, you may not even remember who you won with in 20, 23.

It's changed so much. Yeah. Who was it? Come on. In 20, 23.

Three races. One of them. Sorry to see him go. Um. Yeah.

Yeah, I have two more. Yeah. So that's just Hank. Hey, Kevin.

And a lefty golfer on PGA tour.

Huge. Yeah. Coincidence too. No. No.

We don't talk about lefty golfers on this show. Got it. We're talking about the lift. There's a good video out though. We'd lefty Lockwood.

Yeah. Are people being nice in the comment section? I think so. I think it's fair. Fair.

Half mean. Half have somewhat nice. That's like that. That's right. Yeah.

Okay. Come on. Who's back? PFT. You're his back.

My who's back in the week is. Yeah. Oh, yeah. That's nice. People really nice.

The camera work is like the Blair Witch Project. Oh, nice. People are being mean to me. Has Max ever operated a camera before? Oh.

“Is Max like he was live streaming in Earth's Quake?”

Is Max also going left handed for this video? I am left handed. Kind of. Yeah. We got some interesting half lefties.

Yeah, right. Hank Swing does look better lefty. Yeah. He's not a better golfer yet left handed, but he will be a better golfer one day. Yeah.

Thanks. And then there's a lot of stuff because I am supporting my boy Hank Lockwood in his journey to being a left handed golfer. There's a lot of really nice stuff that I want to say about Hank that I'm not allowed to say about Hank because he got very upset at me for saying nice things about him in

this video. And he had them edited out and they were very nice things. Is that true? I was being nice. We had, I mean, there's a pretty fine line we've done the show for 10 years where it's

like when we say things before we say them like, "Hey, this is off the record like not for content." Yeah. That's a preface. Yeah.

And then PFT broke that. I was going through the video is literally the start of the video. But it was a very nice thing. Right? Well, like it's not, I wouldn't have said, I would not have said, "Hey, let's not say

this on air. This is not for content and have you agree." If I thought you were going to say it for the record, I said it because I knew you were going to see. Right.

And then you were going to be right. Yeah. I told you not to say it. Yeah. Okay.

I was back the week as Logan Paul backing out of stuff. Yeah. He's backing out of this fight against La Valle, can he saying that WWE has a problem with him getting into celebrity boxing matches?

“I think this is still part of the big work that he's putting on and WWE is going to be like,”

"Yes, you certainly can do this. Let's also get him involved in the wrestling storyline." It did seem a little. Everything is a work, everything in the news with, if your last name is Paul, even the Tom Brady stuff, like when Tom Brady was talking to Logan Paul, we're all being worked all

the time. So anything that comes out from a Paul brother, if he's talking about baseball cards, he captured it. Pokémon. He captured the internet for a few days and then weirdly got a call when he was live

on air from Triple H being like he can't do it. Yeah, we're all being worked all the time. So he's backing out of this, but then he's going to back out of backing out on this. And then the fight's going to happen. The fight's going to suck and he's probably going to win the fight.

And then he's going to be like, "See, I'd be at a real boxer," and then Rinsen repeat six months from now.

Yep. So we just fast forward.

“The other who's back the week is baseball.”

Oh yeah, that was mine. Yeah.

Well, baseball class two years.

Awesome. Yeah. Sure, but, sure we're hitting a home run got me in my feels like this actually rocks. And then like the Dominican, I was Puerto Rico too, like the dances and just the fans going nuts, the crowds in Japan.

Also, I don't understand why Chinese type ages has the best Taiwan time. Oh, yeah. Sorry, Taiwan has the best little league team every year and then they're pro just suck. Yeah. I don't get that.

It is interesting. But yeah, like this moment, like there's just been, was that that was the Dominican and Nicaragua game. It's been awesome. And they also did the schedule crack, I looked ahead, the semi finals and finals are on

the Monday and Tuesday before March Madness begins. Yeah. Which is perfect. Which is great. What?

It's beautiful. Beautiful. You rarely see it in sports where they actually time it up well, that it goes selection Sunday, semis, final March, like that is because you're, you need something those, those two days to get you to get you to March Madness.

Perfect. It's great having that there, would you like it better if the all star break was a little bit longer and this happened in the summer time? Yes. I think that would be a better schedule.

Just because guys would be better too. Yeah.

“Well, that's what we need to do for the Olympics.”

And as Google, as Google coming back, he, I saw that. He went, he went, he pitches in a year or two and then he was like, I had feelings that I didn't know I had about the country. Yeah. He's now trying to talk, Scott Boris and the Tigers into letting him pitch more.

So we, we all love the world baseball class until somebody gets hurt and then and then people turn on it. Yeah. And then it's like, why are we doing this? Google said, I didn't expect these type of emotions to run through my brain or my

thoughts to differ. I was committed to making it starting getting back to camp. Things have changed. Obviously, I'm going to have some conversation to try to figure out a plan. Love that.

Need him. Need. I want to win this thing. I want to win this thing. But it's also good to have Aaron judge as a scapegoat in case we lose.

Yeah. It's all his fault. And just prepare yourself like if we do win, don't let that to see you into thinking that Aaron, he has not earned his pen stripes from this. He's earned stripes from the horizontal stripes, red and white stripes is what he will

earn. Yes. But not the pen stripes. But yeah, the world baseball class rocks. Yeah.

Big, big fan. I mean, the walk offs, it all comes out to the players caring about it. Yeah. And if the players care about it, then I care about it. Yeah.

Absolutely. I mean, the guys who are not MLB players playing for their country care a lot. Yeah. That's where it gets like very excited. Okay, Zach.

You're who's back. Ah, by the way, Zach. How to go. How to go in the internet, I'm proud of it. I signed off for a little bit.

I signed back on note today. And we're back online. People have different opinions on all sorts of stuff. We're talking fame in for me. It was a good week and on the internet.

A lot of guys had a lot of opinions and I respect all those opinions. That's what the internet's all about. Were there some hurtful tweets? Uh, yeah. There's some, yeah.

There's some like words regularly used like a cop, it felt like copian pasted from, like I was saying the same thing. I, I'm not going to say what they were saying. I retreated this one from Talia B, who's a sports reporter for Notre Dame.

She said, just listening to the most popular sports podcast in the US for the first time.

And they spent a solid 20 minutes arguing about whether I show a speed or Trump is more famous. That wasn't our first time. Also, now your first time and second of all, that we didn't argue, Zack tried to argue. We, we said what the facts are.

Yeah.

“We just established a baseline of what I think any independent journalists such as yourself”

would understand is being our responsibility as journalists to just counter his claims with the facts. I think of Zack. I get ready for Mount Rushmore season. I've had like a way to face it like dinner or something.

He could. He could convince her. Oh, yeah. So, sometimes you got to embrace debate, would you be able to do a date with Talia? I'm, I'm.

It's Talia was open. Let's do a certain conversation. Conversation. Conversation. Let's have a debate.

Yeah. We're not calling it a day. It sounded like she, I'm just picking up the vibe, sound like she wanted to continue the debate. She liked it so much.

I'm always not in embrace debate for sure.

I think she might be intimidated by how intelligent you are. Yeah. The integrity of opposing viewpoints is always fun. Yeah. Actually, other parts of Zack is like, it's, I think part of the reason why I went so long

is because Zack is the nicest person in the world to debate with. Yeah. He doesn't, nothing gets mean. He just keeps saying like, we all have different viewpoints. But he's also tenacious.

Yeah. This is the thing. Sometimes we're not able to convince each other at the other side. Right. Right.

It's kind of bullshit. What is it doing? He's, he's basically making us feel like he's gaslighting us to be like, hey, it's an even debate. It's not.

Yeah. Exactly. Let me ask this. He had had a sports round table where he tried to fix college sports.

We're not all though. We're not all though. Yeah. Messy. Yeah.

So the biggest need to come to rent. Coming to rent. Yeah. It's been a good amount of time together. Yeah.

“That's what's going to be as well if you guys want to check that out.”

Yeah. He got some guy. I'm going to tell him to be round might be somewhere. Yeah. Big three and speed.

And Tom Brady. Yeah. So it sounds like, yeah. I mean, Zack might be winning me over. Yeah.

So neatly. I'm looking forward to seeing what the executive order to fix sports is going to actually say. That's going to be a good one. Yeah.

It might be a lot of pages though. Might be a lot of pages. Is that what's going to happen? When it comes out, yeah. It's going to have to put it in a tweet for us.

I can do spark notes, maybe. Okay. I kind of like some heavy hitting bullet points. I like when that comes out, I would like you to distill it. I'm not going to read it.

I'm not going to read any articles about it. I want you to tell us how college sports we fixed. Yeah. I can do that for you. I'm sure.

Thank you. Sure. Okay. What do you got for his back? My who's back the week is also a little bit world baseball classic adjacent.

More so for the attendees because I've you guys seen the Tokyo dome sandwich. Oh, yeah. Ice cream sandwich. Yes. How do you?

How are they wrapping the cone around the ice cream 100%. I. That's a question for you, pal. Is it injected? No.

That's what they're going to have to figure out because I want one and you got to get it. You see how the bite to you go all the way through. So like the middle is not like the toughest ice cream. We can you describe this for the listeners and myself.

So it's like it's incredible with a stone on the outside and ice cream on the inside.

It's almost like a horned egg bar swap the chocolate for a cone. Yeah. It's perfect. So get in the lab. Yeah.

We'll get in. You can buy a waffle iron like whatever you need. Okay. We'll do. Yeah.

We'll get tasty. Well, yeah. I mean, I assume you're going to have to have some. Put that in the. I think you're going to have to win. No, I think he's going to have to make me.

Yeah.

“I think you're going to have to make custom sandwich like waffle iron that's the only way”

to do it, right? I think we're going to have to build a mold. Yeah. You're right. I'm not sure to go about that, but we'll find out for you.

No, but that's not what he's looking at me. I can't. He's going to have to build a mold. It's not ice. It's not soft serve though.

But how do you get the bread around the ice cream? That's what we're trying to figure out. I guess it's two halves, but it doesn't seem coming apart a little bit. Oh, two years. There's a seam.

Yeah. There's a seam. Get to work. That does seem to be like a structure exterior, right? I'm going to give you till the end of the world baseball classic.

I was going to say next month. Yeah. Okay. And the world baseball classic. That's next Tuesday.

Yes, sir. I want it. I want it. I want it.

We're going to throw to the type, but I don't want to be the first.

I want it. I want it. I want it. Bad. We'll get the best guys on the case.

That's you. Jacob, only myself. Yeah. Three ice cream guys. See Talia?

This is what you're signing up for. Guys, he's a problem. Oh, they look so good. So good. Oh, my God.

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One and a half time NBA champion, Alex Cruiso, in studio, and I gotta ask, you've won one and a half NBA titles, but would you say that making the cover of pardon my book,

“the 10 year anniversary of pardon my take that's coming out in August, is that a hire?”

Is this the official announcement for that year? You're on the back. That's amazing. Wow. Oh, bad cover.

So I mean, the front cover was split into second, second, between the two champions. I just double checked and you're on it. Is that your, you wearing it on your shirt right now? He's not, he doesn't have the shirt on anymore. Don't have the shirt.

But you are officially on the cover. I'll send you the pick. You're on the cover.

I think it's you and in thunder gear, we would never put you in lakers gear, but you're

on the cover. So that's pretty cool. That's amazing. Adam Morrison. Flow.

Yeah. That's like almost a Mount Rushmore of White Guy, but I was going to say that. Actually, it was tough to make the cover because like, you know, we got a lot of white guys. So we're like, oh, shit.

We got to make a cut somewhere. You're on there. So congratulations. Yeah. Thank you.

Thank you. That's probably the biggest announcement of 26 for me so far. Yeah. Easily. Yeah.

So how is this year been? I feel like this has been a pretty good six months for you. Yeah.

“I mean, honestly, it's, we're winning basketball games, winning games when you're professional”

athlete makes life a lot easier. Yeah. We do that. It's like just, you know, get, stay healthy, get to also rate, play some golf. And now it's time to try and like ramp it up.

But are you guys bad for basketball? Bad at like the thunder? Yeah. Are you bad for basketball for the sport? Too good.

No. No. No. We went to seven games twice last year. So it's not like, you know, we didn't, you know, 2000s, like, here's one in like

17 games, the warriors, whatever. We're like, just the right amount of good for basketball. Yeah. And that was the worst team that you're going to have in this dynasty. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. I have a statement I would like to make that I think is a compliment. But you can tell me if this is not a compliment. Yeah.

Oh, no, no. I think it is. Okay.

“I think you have entered into all-time role player level.”

Ooh. That's a good conversation. Yeah. Is that a good, that's a compliment. I would.

It's a major compliment. Yes. And I mean this in the fact that you can even see it in this year's thunder team. It means just basketball or like all of, maybe everything. You can make your case for everything.

But for basketball, I think that you are in that level now where you're such a weapon and the way you're used to, to, you know, create energy, turnovers, chaos, hit threes. That nugget scheme a couple nights ago, which I want to talk about the Yokech fight. I know you would have fucked him up if you were. You weren't on the court, right?

No. Yeah. You would have fucked him up. We know that for a long time. The way you're able to change a game and tell me of this wrong.

But I think my theory is you've been used this year. Like I was looking at your minutes and it was like somewhere like 18, 19 minutes a game and then if it's a big game, it's like 23, 24 minutes. You're the secret weapon for the thunder. Were you giving away the game plan now?

Oh, okay. Why don't you say? We talked about, you know, I mean, that's, that's a great conversation to have for basketball. For sure. I think I can, I can sneak my way into a amount of rush more.

Yeah. A couple of championships and a couple of all like personal accolades. I think that gets you onto the, onto the role player conversation for all of sports. That's tough. Yeah.

That's, there's a lot of sports. There's a lot of sports. There's a lot of sports there. I mean, you're trying to, trying to think to soft the top of my head. Like we talked about like the best role players in basketball history.

I, I don't know if I would consider a guy like Dennis Rodman to be a role player because he's like too good at what he does really at his one specialty. I would say, I would say he is. But like, it's like, I think anybody who's not a 30 point of game score, you know, like the 20 to 30, like takes most of the shots, is pretty much a role player.

I mean, Robert, or he would be like the top of the first one that came to mind, just because

of clutchness, Steve Kerr, yeah, sports and the balls.

one, right. Right. You know. For me.

And like the teams that have won and knowing that if you take that guy off the team,

he's not the best player on the team, but if you take that guy off the team, it actually like significantly hurts them. Yeah.

“And I think that's where you're at with the thunder.”

So the question, though, is I have this thinking suspicion that you've been used as a secret weapon. Do you, like, does coach tell you for a game? Yeah, but don't just coach tell you before a game, hey, this is going to be like a playoff atmosphere because there are certain games.

And nuggets game is specific one where it's like nuggets thunder Friday night, big game atmosphere. TV. And he whispers in your ears like, hey, this is like a playoff game and then a light like goes off.

And you're like, all right, I got ready. Yeah. I'm going to follow this up. No, I mean, you, you know, certain matchups are going to be elevated just based off of, you know, competition and talent.

Like anytime you play somebody that's like a top 16 in the West, it's like it's going to be a brawl, like show up, be ready, and then TV game. And that one the other night had like a, had a special feeling around it and the, and like, lead up to the game, it felt like a, like, kind of like a mini playoff game and a K rich, Cambridge Williams told like, we're on the end of the bench before tip.

“And he, like, to me, it didn't really click, like, I was just going through my routine of”

like, what I do before the game handshake sit down and he goes, he goes, kind of feels a playoff game here. And I look around and I was like, you're kind of right. And like, you don't recognize it until like, you know, we played Dallas last night. And like, they're half, they're not even half a team 75% of their team isn't playing.

Right. And the atmosphere is completely different. Like, oh, yeah, that was kind of, like that, that makes it stand out even more.

But yeah, I, Mark will tell me when I'm going to go in the game after we drop our first

play. And I go to like the scores table to do handshake. So everybody, he'll look at me and tell me when I'm going to go in and he's like, see or what? And depending on what time in the first quarter I'm going to go in, that's how I know, all right, tonight's going to be, you know, a couple more minutes versus the

18, 19. And that game specifically, like SGA is on a minute's restriction. So then you have to close the game. Yeah, I don't think we knew that. I, I didn't know that.

We, we go to, we're not doing, like, I missed, I missed a shot to win the game in regulation and chat gets it misses it. We go to the bench and in my head, I'm just like, no, I like, we're going to go in the game. Whatever, like, this is, like, we, we're going to have a minute.

We get shades can be fine. And then Mark goes to the bench and he's like, he said, he's done, he's done. He's like, you're in, he's like, Jay will, you're in.

“I think it was, I joke him and it would force to, and we're just like, okay, cool.”

He's done. Yeah. It was a weird feeling though, because we've been playing without him for the last, like, month and a half. However long it's been, I, we had this, like, weird confidence over, we're, we're just, we're

going to go in the game now. Right. And then we scored, like, the first seven points of overtime, just running. Yeah. And it was like, that's exactly how this team is played.

Didn't cover the spread, but that's neither here nor there. The other question off the, the game, how are you so good at forcing turnovers on transition? Because I think that's a superpower you have that I don't, I don't think there's anyone who's doing it your, at your level where if a team has a transition and they're making

an extra pass or whatever it may be, you just, always are in the right spot.

I think it happened twice in that game late where you, like, fucked him up and they, look like they were going to get an easy bucket and then your hands are everywhere. And it's like, oh, no crew said did it again. Yeah. I, I don't know where, you know, like that, I don't know if that's, like, it's not a skill

that you, like, go in the summer and work on, like, obviously, someone that is, like, God given talent where I'm just, like, able to process and anticipate stuff. Um, also just, like, knowing personnel, knowing who guys are, um, like, one of them Christian Brown was going to go up for Layout, like, I knew pretty much who's going to either try and use his right hand or, like, load up big to go for a dog.

So it's like, just time it and game, we'll go for the steel chest there if you miss it. He'll probably block it. Is that, is that, film work? Yes. I mean, some of that, some of that, like, knowing tendencies and knowing who players are and, like,

what they like to do, like the second one with, with hardaway where he jumped in the air is, like, I'm just going to kind of see if we'll go finish the layup and, like, just go play the guy in the past and then I saw Christian Brown's face light up. So I was like, surely the balls there. You just, you know, throw your hand up and he threw it to my hand, like, yeah, everyone's

making this deal. Like, I made, like, a great play. It's like, I put my hand up. No, but that's, that's interesting, like, it's almost like a defensive back in, in football. Yeah.

I'm eating the other person's body language. It is. And it's like space, spatial awareness, um, anticipation of stuff. You know, it's some of it is, is, is, I love soccer. Like, I watched Premier League for, like, 15 years now and there's a lot of that, like,

element of matching up, man to man versus ball movement and, like, finding space and, like, where's the danger going to be? Um, so maybe some of that playing a lot of FIFA, you know, he's a team.

Okay. All right.

I had a lot of heat for that, but I've been watching them since, like, 20 minutes.

I'll say, once they arrive in a row.

“So, are there other guys in the NBA that watch a lot of, uh, EPL?”

Yeah, there are, um, I think, uh, I know, well, I know Larry, dance and T.J. McConnell, or both leads guys, but I think they have ownership and the team. Makes sense. Yeah.

Helps push them towards that, um, I know some guys are, like, most of the big teams. I don't know anybody that, that has, like, a, like, a West Ham or Wolverhampton, like, it's all, like, United Chelsea Arsenal. Arsenal. Yeah.

Have you seen, have you seen the draw? Arsenal got in the, yeah. Of course. It's a crazy draw.

They're planning against some team in Norway that doesn't, they were, well, they didn't

know it. We need to line on the road and one of the champions League matchups. We did have a couple guys because we suspended those one all our center backs are hurt too. Uh, but yeah, it's looking favorable, like, they're, they say the last, the last winner

“from, like, the last 12 years from Champions League, I think, is on the left side.”

Yeah. Uh-huh. They're just going to kick off. It's on the left side. It's easy.

Yeah. It's like city and, city and Madrid, like, real. They're going to play each other and the winners are going to play bar in Munich. Battle tested. Yeah.

Yeah. Um, do you guys have, uh, do you guys have a spurs problem? Yeah. Does Oklahoma City have a spurs problem? Ooh.

There aren't spurs in a, you know, Oklahoma City. It's like these little tumbleweed. Yeah. I'm just saying, like, I'm looking at the NBA Cup. Yeah.

No. Yeah. We probably should win that game. Um, and then we played better in the NBA Cup game. We do.

We can't win the Cup. I'm so annoyed because, like, we go to Vegas two years in a row and, like, I really want

“one, you get paid, like, that's what we'll put to it.”

It's like, there's a trophy and, like, there's some, like, pride to it. And then there was that clip of me like bitching in the hallway going back to the locker room and then everybody started calling me like a sore loser, so yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

and then everybody started calling me like a sore loser. I'm supposed to be happy that we just lost. I liked that though because it's the cup like the cup means it did you notice that the other team We talked about like as a team like we want to win everything like that's like the mindset so like if we're playing in the cup games like we want to go and win the cup and we just for whatever reason maybe like the atmosphere and Vegas just like kind of throws it off because it's it's pretty neutral and they dim the lights like staples in it and it's not like like I think this is my hot take of the day

I think it would be much better if they just did it like playoff series where they just had you know whatever the tie breakers are and just have the better like whatever team is ranked higher Host the game all the way even even through the championship game Like yeah, I like maybe the maybe the championship you do neutral sight like how the Super Bowl Yeah, like Super Bowl or like the the Premier League like the FA cup and all that they go to Wimbley like Maybe the last game you do a neutral sight like leading up to it like the best games in the cup are the are the games that

Lead up to Vegas. Yeah, after pool play the first couple bracket play games like those are the best ones do the crazy courts ever fuck you out No, I kind of like them. Okay. I haven't played on one that I think was terrible like I think probably the the worst one was Maybe the one here in Chicago the first year when it was just like blood red. Yeah, but even then it was like Kind of cool yeah kind of cool for one off. So if you don't win an NBA cup in your career I can't move the I can't be on the role play. Yeah. No, we will date we will ding you for that

Yeah, I thought I could never get it done in mid December. Yeah

So what you want about a screw somebody choke to a multiple NBA Do you know what do you know much money you've made in the NBA? It's pretty awesome right now. Yeah, or like for the rest of your career if you I know I made like guarantee money. I made like five and a half and then like

39 so just ran out to four in an 80 so like one 15 yeah, you'll be 123. Oh nice pretty Yeah, I mean that and I got to win a couple things now We're talking about role play about rush word. Yeah. Yeah. That's not even that shit. It was just more like that was yeah No, I know that wasn't a question Bordle's once and he was just like. Oh, fuck. That's so sick. He's like

He is much more natural. He had no idea. He was just like, oh, I made 50 mill. That's so awesome It's pretty cool. You ever just like look at your bang and you're like, oh fuck yeah, yeah That's pretty close. No, because I have a guy there for that. It is much smarter than me Yeah, let him handle that. Yeah, yeah Have you become better basketball players since you got married?

Yeah, I mean I have I think I've gotten better since August love that. Yeah, so it's actually what if you got in better at I'm a lot more patient on the court. You know a lot more understanding yeah More team oriented. Yeah, you know. Yeah, my lessons off the court. Yeah, I'm like you'll do the dirty work Great at home lessons that I carry over. Yeah, you take out the trash on the court

Every husband's a role player. Yeah, this is a dumb question, but we're getting up to March madness Does it suck? It's March. Yeah, it's March. It sucked out the end of the watch all March madness Yeah, honestly those days those days like because it's so it's the first weekend at least Yeah, like first weekends the big one. Like that's the one where like

“8 a.m. To yeah, and you you have to like work. Yeah, depending on the schedule. I haven't even looked as why I would never be in the NBA”

I would never give up watching Marley two weeks away. Yes, two weeks away. Oh, I'll look

But I don't know what our schedule is. I think we might be on the road. I'm gonna tell you right now I'm gonna bum you out the same a football too. I can't watch football sometimes. Yeah Sundays are tough when you're traveling Dude, this is this NBA thing. That's not worth it. It's really good. Oh, no. You did not tell any man You did watch baseball because I saw I saw you tweeted out. I remember it was like game seven

You tweeted out imagine not liking sports. Yeah, dude Yeah, and then LeBron. I think he replied. I think he was like, yeah, that would suck dude. Yeah, like you guys you guys still keep in touch That was probably the last time before I saw this year I saw that he's getting really into YouTube golf recently. Yeah You golf in general, but YouTube golf for sure. Yeah

“There's a very funny video of him before the game against the warriors. He's out in the course at Olympic. Have you seen that yet?”

No, could we bring that video up of LeBron golfing before the game against the warriors? By the way, somebody snuck a phone onto the course Yeah, and took a very mean Long distance shot of him heading like a three-wood off the deck. It's not a great look I mean, LeBron has to realize this is the game that you get into with YouTube golf, isn't it? Oh, yeah, for sure. It's everything. I mean golf in general. Yeah

People love to laugh at you. Yeah. Yeah, you're miserable. You're allies. Yeah, by the way. You're good for the schedule You have a game on Wednesday of opening Round and then you have a game no game Thursday Friday game Saturday no game sun that's big time and the game Saturday is the wizards of four blocks That's something doesn't really count yeah four clots of my advice clothes probably. He'd yeah I'm gonna get them morning sleep. Yeah, that's it. That's the best I've had. Yeah. That's the best you're gonna get to do it

All right, maybe the hundred twenty three makes sense. I'm not going anywhere to your here's a run. Let's get your your feedback on LeBron swing here Hey, you got to go out there with him. You got to fix him up. I played Olympic club last year Yeah, I got that little laptop. Yeah, a little bit of a top little fat and move the body very much Causing mistakes. What is Rotated pretty well for a big man. He does. Yeah. I mean you

Given the one of the best athletes ever play sports that much credit. You know, he should be doing that. He's pretty good in sports overall What is what's your handicap right now? Right now is probably not a true tell but I got down to like a two last summer and yeah I played over all start break and I played better than expected like I I played a we went to Scottsdale So we I've been to Scottsdale my boys because we go play TPC because they have all the stuff it's a week after the tournament

Yeah, so they got all the the stuff still up and then we go out there and play Grass clippings actually this par three course the little night par three course that places amazing and then So we've tried to get out there and play

That's awesome. Yeah, we always laugh at people that are like seeing Kian Koon loser like the fans that talk shit

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, can't Koon has a fawn idiot. You lost Okay, yeah, I will I'm in the prime of my life I know these dollars. I'm gonna go to can't Koon and have maybe the best week of my life I'm going to very much enjoy that so you guys missed out on on some of your summer That's that's kind of like an under-discuss thing in the NBA is like the better you are as a team

The longer your season becomes Yeah, so an officer's gonna make sure you win, you know, cuz like like right so when I saw you out Tahoe, right? Yeah, that's like two weeks after the championship two and a half weeks after the after we won and I think it's after The Wednesday or Thursday practice round that I played with with some of the you know the people who pay for whatever the scramble teams

My dad looks at me because there's so many people out there, right? There's so many fans and they're like, oh, congrats Like you want to change each of great season. Yeah, that was like he said imagine if you would have lost and had to Yeah, and everybody would have just been like do tough one great season But maybe you'll get them next year and so now I'm just reliving this like two weeks I probably would have started to like slowly get over it

It's like that could have been much a much much worse two and a half three months of food lost. Yeah What was crazy about that tournament was Charles Barkley kind of got good at golf again

“Yeah, you remember that? Yeah, yeah, yeah, he what he he hold out for for Eagles something”

After we got good the first day. He was like I think he was top 25 really rude him to be honest to overshadow my first day

Yeah, which was just phenomenal. Would you shoot? It's just 74. It's like the best round of ever shot in my life Yeah, nobody talked about it. I was ball and whole and I you know They quickly breezed over because there's like Charles shot in five didn't know how to play golf all of a sudden

Yeah, people are still talking about that outstru. So 74. You know, it's you know

It's hilarious about that too. I played so well the first day and then the second day

I get out and I'm playing with the playing with Adam Theland and Taylor Twelman and like they both played very well Yeah, Taylor was like in it. He's like really a player apparently. Yeah He was they were striping all day, but I get up there on the on the first he box after going You know tied career best low round with Internment place like I count that as the best round of golf I've ever played. I just hold top it on this on the first T box in front of like

You know 400 people Luckily I did just like I shook it off hit one Got on the green made the bogey put and got out of there with like zero point So it's a little bit of confidence booster, but the the topping it in front of you know Couple of people after they do the whole intro thing. I don't know how you guys do it. It's tough out there

It's got to be more nerve wracking than playing an NBA 100% yeah 100% up until you make I made my put I made par on whole two every day. I made like a three footer on on on two That was the put both days that kind of calming down, but before that the first 7-6-7 shots that I took it was like full Like arms not connected to the body Dude, it's it's

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And the finals obviously like those two games like I have a pretty Strict standard routine that like I do before all the games were like go home, nap, eat whatever I couldn't really nap like I took like a 20 minute nap and I was just like I'm not gonna be able to sleep Yeah, I'm just gonna get up. Would you if you go back game seven NBA finals would you and you could make it

So the Tyre's however it doesn't get hurt. Would you do that? Sure. Wow, that's a you're incredible guy

“Yeah, you're an incredible guy. You want to beat the back two points to you. One. I think we would have one regardless”

Yeah, but still that too. He doesn't tears the kill use. Yeah, I know that's a you're an incredible guy You probably will move you would want that because now the the pace is gonna get a great draft pick And they're gonna be the best team out of us. Yeah, and then they'll come and kick your ass later because you got hurt and gay Yeah, I don't want to I was gonna make a joke. It's really it's the best tanky strategy ever. Like For your best play that tears the killies that's part. Yeah, the biggest mind fuck. Ever. It's talk

I threw down the war room as you just said. Yeah, I don't know. We could just like not win games Yeah, they have our best player be out for a whole year. Yeah. How where does it play against tanking teams like is it? Can you feel the vibe or they it's just got to be like there's been a lot of discussion about the NBA Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, but when you're actually playing a tanking team I'd imagine it's a little harder to get up for a team that's like actively not trying to win games

Yeah, I mean at that point it just becomes like you got to find different things to like play for you know like you're like Do you play for us? I can't do that on the wizard's game. Okay. Yeah, I'll do that for play for us specifically for us

“I would like to see a I would like to see two bounce passes since for me. Okay. I guess that's how you'll know”

Yeah, I know yeah, I'll point to the camera We actually will be watching March man. It's so we would even know Yeah, sure. It would be nice. Highlight. It'll play for us. We'll get the clip and I'll send it to you It's like a little Jimmy in the hospital, Babe Ruth hitting two home runs from it's like to fundamentally sound like three quarters bounce passes yeah, it's left foot forward. Yeah, they interview you after it's like you put it in a solid like eight four and four

You're like yeah, I did that for the PMT guys. Yeah, that's easy. Yeah, I mean is is there a way to prevent tanking? I don't think that there is this thing is like we can have this discussion and try to figure out

How to how to have the most competitive games that we can get but the reality is the way that League set up

You kind of have to tank if you want to get good. Yeah. I mean, that's the biggest you is like it's proven to be successful

You know, we have to hit the picks. So like if you have a you have to throw all the pain

“That's the biggest it's still messing it up is like they're not drafting well and it's like if you're going to like”

You just get stuck in you know the revolution if you don't draft well and then you try to lose again Then you don't draft like you like that's part of it for us is like we've had great picks, you know some of our guys on our team like AJ Mitchell Jalen Williams Aaron Wiggins Obviously trade for shame. You hear like there's just there's Isaiah Joe like we've we've found different ways to like build a team That's really good and it hasn't just been you know

Loose the shit ton of games and we have a top three pick for five years in a row. Yeah. I don't know how you fix it like every every one of these like you know You've seen like a couple different

Examples or options that people brought up of like what to do. It's like there's always a flaw in one. Yeah, there's always a loophole that someone will yeah

There's always one that's like it's like that doesn't it looks good on paper until you like really like Think it through and talk about it and like put it into like real-world perspective I don't know how you do that and you also don't want to have a situation where you you make it so bad teams can just never get good again

“Yeah, I mean, well, that's the that's the fine line is like making it competitive and even for like, you know”

You want small market teams to be able to like have good players and keep good players, but you don't want to make it to where you know There's a competitive advantage too much one way for for the draft like it's it's like I said It's just it's a difficult thing to do. Yeah. Yeah, I'm gonna dumb question for you Do they give you different thickness of headbands or do you just have the extra thick ones? No, no

It's just the same ones the same ones. There's two different ones. There's like a there's like a spandex like you know like a Was it polyester yeah, and then there's like the Cotton almost like it's like elastic cotton like it's got some stretch to it That's the one I have okay people people think that that's like a fashion statement. I sweat a lot Like the other night they heart after the Denver game took my heart andstein took my headband off and put it on our our

Team TV guy Nick Gallo and I'm looking at him and as soon as he took it off and goes towards nobody dude

I was like don't put that on him. Yeah, you don't want like we just I just played a whole second half an over time with that

Yeah, like 28 minutes and for I switch a half On yeah, I switch it half time. Oh, you switch it half so sweaty. Yeah, it's so sweaty. I have to we got a switch He put it on him and I immediately when he took it off and gave it back to me like walk off and like give to a kid I like dude that's discussing I like squeeze a little and Sweat comes out of it like it's it's arranged. Yeah, so we after game you'll give it to a kid

You feel bad about giving a sweaty headband You know the kids love it, but there are sometimes we're like I would like you know You give a little like a toss where it's not a hand off. Yeah, and the kid will have like an outstretched grab it and the sweat will just fly off behind them in their face

It is like I feel terrible, but you know the kids apparently they are just so excited to have a sweat man

They don't even yeah, they're like I'm not a little conscious that that's like sweat coming off of my head into the Yeah, into the sweat man. Do you sweat more with the ball-tad? Yeah, when I when I didn't hear the hair The cod everything yeah, well, it can look you didn't have a lot of hair What do you but it is enough? Would you go to turkey?

Imagine I came out like close retirement. Yeah, yeah, yeah, like opening night imagine I come up next year is just a fade Do you know yeah imagine if you'd done it right after you won and then like banner night How long does it take to recover from that so I think a couple months? I think it's like a like a couple weeks Oh, you can't like do stuff like sweat or get like yeah, and then after that I mean most of the guys like in a few months, they look normal

“Yeah, yeah, because I've been such a good luck. You should do it banner night. You walk out there championship pair”

Did you see by the way kill me so funny. It sucks kind of stole your luck Yeah, no, he did he went he came back from also rake with the with this fall shit. Yeah All right, so there's motivation when you play the magic we got one more game to see we're that yeah that trip before March madness were playing Okay, so there's your motivation find that they're not tanking, but still. Yeah, but you got to find it Just need a win. They're gonna try win the game. Yeah. I mentioned the yokech thing you would have fucked him up right. Yeah, for sure

You're in the pounds and like a foot taller me wouldn't imagine what was the conversation in the locker room after I would imagine it was a lot of you know like if you get in a bar fight with your boys like yeah You see what I see the move I pulled oh, yeah, there's a lot of There's a lot of talk about what somebody would have done Like wasn't out there. That's like the running joke on our team is like whoever's not in the game if somebody doesn't handle it the right way

It's like you know You just should on the whole time. Yeah, like I'll do your soft like I you didn't even get in the mix something like that So who who didn't get in the mix enough? Well, no, that was perfect. Well

It's like that's like NBA rule number one like if you know you're gonna get ejected or you know you're gonna get like a second tech Like you just yeah, go all in keep going Yeah, it's a bunch of like the guys who like go up to the refs individually when they were like they've gotten a second tech

“And they're just F U F U F. Yeah, it's like that's what you got to do make it worth”

Yeah, absolutely. Did you know that the the finals games seven average 2.4 billion viewers

Did that yeah, it's pretty crazy. That's good for us on ABC. That's like yeah, a third of the world tuned into that game I might have gotten sentled when I saw that and I was like yeah, it makes sense because cruise it was how many of those do we think our bot streams for like India probably a lot probably like one But I do feel like the the product I don't want to speak for the league as a whole But I enjoy watching thunder games. Yeah, you guys play a very entertaining style of basketball. Is it is it?

It's fun to watch as a viewer is it more fun to play the style as a player? Yeah, I mean, I love the way we play um, obviously Lot goes into that like you need to have good players to like play well and then be a pro sports in general Right, like you got to have good players Yeah, I mean pretty good now. I mean good players you go in

But now I love it. I mean I love you know, there's a lot like I said there's a lot of stuff that goes into it

But like the way we play is just fun. You know, it's entertaining and in the guys are like competitive so that makes it fun But like to to the point of the finals like I think that's you know, even though it was obviously game seven is gonna be game seven people are gonna tune in just because of the name The label of a game seven But like the the Pacers last year in the playoffs like they played how we play. Yeah, they were like random offensively super aggressive physical defensively And I think that's why

You know, there was so much success with the finals in the playoffs last year in general Is the basketball like so what you want during the regular season, you know like guys don't play You can't play it play off level for However many games 82 games or however many games play 70 games, but like once you get to the playoffs like the basketball is pure

“Yeah, if it's not you lose. Yeah, like if you don't play good hoops and like what do you have to say ethical hoops like if you're not like”

Taking care of fundamentals playing hard to shit like competing at the highest level like you go home And I think that's probably why People tune in so much that like playoffs in general for any sport because they know it's gonna be like the highest level in peer is formed Well, and I also think like the the playoffs I love the NBA playoffs because it it is very like you have to go and and take your lumps to then get over the mountain and like you can't

You can't look into it. It's just like right before games again somebody even even last year You guys are the best team and you go to seven games against the nuggets and seven games against the page It felt like there were moments that you guys were learning how to win that championship along the way where it's like, yeah It takes that do you feel like you guys are the hunted this year? Do you feel like you're a bullseye? Yeah, for sure

But like that's that's a good thing yeah, like you know you wouldn't It would be weird if you want a championship and everybody's like nah We don't believe like that's like we don't think they're actually that good right. Yeah, but yeah

“I mean you like the fake bubble championship. Yeah, like wherever was like what do we even have it?”

Yeah, they forgot it should have actually I would put the NBA cup Over the bubble championship. Oh easily. Yeah, well, we said what was the The the book cover is too. Yeah, yeah, we go we go right we go Thunderchampion chip book cover

LA. I have heard. Oh, I think it goes Thunderchampion chip book cover NBA cup second

Second place second place and be a cup third place. Oh, even the third bubble. Okay, that's here. First team all defense Yeah, yeah, I put a bottle of personal accolades The 74 it and top For tans off of the bug me that ones above the cup gives people got to talk about it more I did I just watch this video of a foreign steam taken your headband

That that's a gross headband. You can cut your head is very very sweaty. Yeah, it's sweaty That's 10 seconds after like I mean. Yeah, it's that's a tough one. You like sorry, man You're real pro. You continue doing the interview. He wants you to continue. He does and actually you all respected Nick like that's that's for him You know like he he is I don't know he he's uncrackable like we've done so many different things to him like put like people put their chains on him Yeah, we've put like 30 towels on him before he's un-unwaverable like he's locked when see gets the mic in his hand

So earlier you were saying that you know when you're gonna play against the magic again. Do you know do you have like the rest of your schedule memorized? No, I just know that because that's part of that long road trip and you look at a long road trip in March and you're just like you It's just kind of gross. Yeah, yeah, he's game East Coast road trip Now I usually go like two or three games at a time like increments. Do you ever wake up in a city or like we wear am I again? Yeah, occasionally like once or twice once or twice a season and it's usually like into December January

Everything looks the same. Yeah, we're like you forget your hotel room number like you go to the you go to the hotel room from the last road trip

Ten eight ten o eight some of that and it's like you're doing the key and like why is it?

“I work in and then it hits you like I'm gonna be it. What about like walking out of your hotel room in the morning and knowing which direction you go for the elevator?”

Yeah, there's some there's some that are like the the hotel here the elevator It's not just like elevator too long-haulways. Yeah, say elevator too long-haulways But then there's an opening to go to a back hallway that's also connected. It's like You wake up after you get in at three a.m. And you got to like go some re-oriented. Yeah, you're just hoping to make it

$100 million. It's tough. Yeah, that's the only reason you could make this. What's your guys plane situation?

We're having this to beat the other days. Is it all is it all first class? Yeah, so is it a plane just of first class? Yeah, it delters like the sponsor for the team like there was a they put in a rule a couple years ago that they grandfathered anybody in but like no personal team jets Because they said it was like unfair advantage to have, you know Special whatever that you can like some owners are richer than others. Yeah, yeah, yeah for it

But but league-mandate is like delta charters and it's first class all the way through. Okay. Mm-hmm What's uh, what's your go-to card game on plan? Boo Ray are you good? Yeah, I mean, I know how play who's the best? I mean, there's a lot of luck involved I don't know if you can say who's the best who's winning who's up the most this year? Probably me or jowl oh shit We sit next to each other on the you got to you got a target on that to guys have like communication like you you don't need to talk nonverbal

“We don't have to play the game so like yeah like we understand you understand when to go for a tie and when you should try to like boo some”

Buddy and go for the win. Are there anybody on the team that's not good? It's like we're gonna take his money. Yeah, chets down. Yeah This team doesn't play for like like high stakes like this is this is the most calm At least like monetary wise be ready, but he's he's down. He's down. What's it like being you're I mean you're officially the vet on the team, right? Yeah, yeah, is it weird like having

Guys that are all you know, there's some guys that are 10 years younger than it it it it feels normal until like one so week

Where it's like they have a conversation about something or in somebody and I'm just like I would never talk about that

Yeah Nothing that even crosses my The scope of reality for me and it's also probably you've played so many guys Like with or against so many guys They're like oh shit that guy. I remember yeah, that's also like the running joke is like whenever they

They'll be you know, they'll see any old player like they could play from the 70s and Case in does this a lot case and well, so we built you play with him We did a we did like a like our TikTok or social media before we got the plane We traveled on my birthday and they had like a little bunch cake for me and everybody else I thought that was it like that was it that I was the only one for the the day

But they did like birthday messages and anybody that wished me a happy birthday like with a number It was 45 to 60 somewhere between 45 and 60 was the number like happy 48th birthday. It's bullshit. It's like how on dude. Hank does that so it's all the time He had us at we're 41 he had us at 40 for like the last eight years. Yeah, well, that's that's the other things

People are younger. They just bump you up to the next we're gonna be 50 now in a minute You're 41 you're 50. Yeah, it's it's pretty much the same thing is pretty much the same

Yeah, I just had an idea. We were talking about Boo Ray a second ago doing it like a world series of poker

But an MBA cup for Boo Ray between the teams I feel like that would get a lot of views during all stars. Oh, that would get a I would that would do numbers If you have a slam dunk. Yeah, yeah, it's a slam dunk. You have like team like you know Best two from each team. So like what's the buy-in for like each player? I don't know what what do you think it would have to be to get people interested?

Well I know that some people in the league like I've heard I've heard some action on a couple numbers like people who gamble way too much money for for teammates like yeah, and they're not as nice like we do it for more of like past the time Comradery just like play cards on a flight talk. I know some people that like they gamble game We're like there's like tens of thousands of dollars being exchanged. I mean if we get it during all star like the all star week

Like a 20k buy-in all right, and I was just a more like hundred thousand hundred thousand

“If I and you can probably find 10 guys in a league that will do that's what I'm saying and then the trash talking that table”

being pretty intense. I feel like people compete harder at that Then they would in the all star game. Oh, yeah, well, you put that much money on it for sure. Yeah, because that's their money going to somebody else That's like that's like gambling in general. I like to kiss you know. It's like I don't get how people go to the casino and play poker Crazy like if I lose the house cool lost right. How is this supposed to be right? How's it gonna take so many money if I'm playing poker with a table with y'all and you take my money

Yeah, I'd rather just do it home with friends. I can't I get why those videos that you see the the videos and the casinos We're like guys will stand up and just like somebody's getting knocked out. Yeah, I get it Yeah, somebody probably said some slideshirt took took two grand from this guy that like is working paycheck to paycheck

I have one last question for you There's been awesome great to have you back. Miss you. Let's see you in south today in Chicago What are you gonna be in solid? Yeah, yeah, that's not the last question. All right, so we'll see you in two questions

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“No, I don't but I'm talking about it though for a second. That was the quickest response. No, I think it was a little bit as a taste anyone can win the one”

You know, that's a flea anybody can win one in half. No one on one one total Let me ask in a different way who on the team would you guys be most pissed about if they went on a podcast and guaranteed a title Thank you Who's most likely or who would be the vote? I would be both. Yeah, honestly I don't think anybody's likely to like they're they're they're young, but they're very well. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, I don't think anybody would slip up

Who would be most pissed about? It had it would have to be somebody that's like that doesn't play Yeah, you know, it had to be somebody that doesn't have like an actual influence So we'd have to do like one of the young guys on our team Jeremy Jared McCain

Didn't a tick-tock Jeremy K. He did a tick-tock like why the thunder gonna win the title that almost could be the worst Will you do a tick-tock with him? Yes, but maybe yeah, that's come on. You got to say yes. No, I mean I'm not a big tick-tock guy in general. You don't have to be on tick-tock. He just records it

“But that's what I'm saying like it depends what it is. It's a dance. Like I'm not dancing”

I guess I might not my you got a dance tick-tock. I'm not what if he came up to you was like, hey If you don't do this tick-tock with me dancing I'm gonna do a tick-tock here in chicken title It's holding you house. I got you now. That's it. Oh, that's a tough one He's like I'm I'm ready to go locked and loaded. No, I mean at that at that point

I'd probably just do okay. So I'm a good teammate. All right, so Jeremy K. That's the way if it came to that Yeah, he asked me that and really like in reality. I'd be like we got talking about some stuff I'll be held off in a loss in pillow gunpoint it to do a tick-tock or you're gonna You'd have to do it. You have to do it. It would be it would be it would be much easier than then that All right, Jake will do it the other day, but like he did it and they're just standing the background

I was like, this isn't even. Yeah, you could just be background dancer. Yeah, they didn't even dance They're just standing just standing. Yeah, it's do a standing tick-tock. Yeah, all right. Well Alex, thank you so much. We love having you on. We'll have you on after you win the title again this year. Yeah We'll do it. We'll do a championship a Double championship Tahoe and yeah, and uh NBA. Oh, so you kind of guaranteed that I will yeah

That I'm much more comfortable saying I'll guarantee you because I don't think it'll happen Okay winning the Tahoe championship as well. Would you 74 would you guarantee an NBA cup for next year? Oh Oh and oh and but you've ever guaranteed. I don't think anybody's ever guaranteed and I think that's our issues Yeah, we need the more press say we're gonna win the NBA Cup next year. I hope we're gonna win it

“No, you have to get a lot. That's really a lot. I really have never let NBA Cup. You don't you have to”

Like you're not the haunted in the NBA. Yeah, I was true so great player could never do it for the NBA Cup

Yeah, we can't get it out of the server. We can't win the mid one with when the lights get as bright as possible in the NBA Cup. He chokes Your chokes when this stage is at its midest He cannot step up to the plate. All right, man, thanks so much. Yeah, great time. Thanks I'll excruciate was brought to you by our great friends over at Nutriple If your hair isn't playing like a dinner or 20s it might be time for real come back not another work around because throwing on a hat is not a strategy

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“That's what's say you guys see that some dude broke the record for the half marathon today. Don't care”

It's okay with that. Half marathon. It's got to be the lamest thing to break. He ran a four twenty-two mile first But do like is it like the 10,000 or twenty-two mile Yeah, no I agree big head if this was called the the length of the race. Yeah then like the 13-point is 200 like the the 13-point and you ran 200 meters as fast and you could run 200 meters right now for 13 miles correct. Well, yeah, I'm slow

Correct, but I don't like that. It's called a half man, but that's that you could sprint a 200 yeah, but dude

Call it a 10,000 was a 10,000 batters you should be able to run a 200 fast. That's a marathon runners running. No 30 miles through What we talking about marathoners are so fast dude You think he you see the finish of the LA marathon? You think you should be able to run faster than like the fastest marathoner like for a 200 like Like they were hunting they're their pace is sprinting. They just sprint for it. They just well better doing sprints

Watch the end of the Los Angeles marathon today. This is fucking insane Just guys talking running look at so oh gets caught. There's a guy that was like he looked like he was about 50 yards ahead Oh, man 100 yards left. Do you catch them any catches? Oh, that's incredible. That's yeah

Hank, I don't think you understand how fast he's got. I would never let that

I you don't understand you don't care I don't care about speed no this shit with no you guys think you said it was Zach You said it with the Olympic sprinter You guys don't care you know respect for you're not underspinning your argument for speed You're you're not you're so you're dumb little brain can't understand my argument because it's not when I talk about golf right now We're talking about what you say rather be a figure skater than a sprint what?

Going back to the Olympic speed skating well that was that one got a little confusing because then we also made it So you like you couldn't run anywhere bought a track and you but you could also figure skate everywhere The debate got very conspiring. Yeah asses impressive. Yes, I

“Dude they are really really fast you saying that like oh you should be able to run faster than a marathon or pace wise for two or three meters”

No, they're so fast what they're doing is That's what our sprint is fast in our way what is the actual pace on there's my my point My proud is marathon is bullshit making a full marathon or making a 10k or whatever It's just a red half marathon just sounds ridiculous. Does it not No, it's then what's difference?

Way more impressive somebody says I set the world record in the 800 meters then I exact if somebody says I set the world record in the half mile I have no idea how many how long 10,000 meters is but if someone told me they set the record for it I'd be like holy fuck dude. That's insane. I will say that marathon is like a it's like a joke Sport thing that like people who can't commit to a full marathon run a half marathon

I will say that the guy that sets the record should be the only person that's allowed to put the 13 point once correct back in their car But I didn't even know they ran competitive half marathons. I didn't yeah They're usually like you get you throw like a bunch of color dust on you you just stop listening after we started making our point I don't like I respect speed, but I so you did stop listening after Once you say it's a happy I respect the fuck out of the number one marathon and half marathon respect your who's your favorite marathon

You didn't even tweet about it So I love it Just want that. You didn't even tweet about the fucking women's winning the girl metal. I don't fucking know anyone I'm not I I I do I guess I respect speed more than you. I hate you're talking to a guy

Let's do the numbers. Okay

“What are we happy you brought this up no it's good to bat”

But it ain't just he won't listen to what I'm saying has nothing to do with speed as to what the fact that the half marathon in principle is a joke That's a joke of a race It is

“That's your take. Well, you saw is someone has the fastest turkey trot? Are you gonna be like wow?”

That's incredible if it's really fast. Yes. I'll respect it. All right 23. Can you 48 56?

13. 21

I hope this is 13 because then I'm not gonna give it this is a lot because you said

We got 75 35. Oh, it's going place one more one more

“I'm dying for it to be 13. Well, I think he said the last one was right. Yeah, I'm machine”

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