Ryen Russillo In Studio, NFL Schedule Release, Zoo Trades, Playoffs And Fyre Fest

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“slow, roll process, but we do have some prime time games, some games we're going to talk about.”

Football is almost back. Football is almost. I've got my own schedule release, big cat. Okay. Anyone any time anywhere? There you go. Nice. Alley, back valley. No, it doesn't matter. Yeah, Valley, Cali, Alley. It could be anywhere. It could be a decetaxous. It could be T.C. Williams High School. I'm going to show up and kick some. China. Yeah. Yeah. There we go. We're going to talk some playoffs, and then we have a firefest, a contentious one, and then we're off to grit week. So before we do all that,

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and that the leaks are annoying and just fucking give it to us. Yeah, if you're a real die hard, like we are, the real schedule release is the schedule release for the schedule release. Last week, when they said, hey, the schedule release is going to be next Thursday. That's when real football guys get excited. Have you heard the new slur that's going around? No. The S slur, the shieldy. Okay. It's a lot of college football fans. If you only pay attention to the NFL,

they start to call you a shieldy. Oh, I like it. But this is a big time shieldy holiday. It's a Thursday. But this, um, yeah, I don't really, I can't get it up for the schedule release, because it's it's, if you explained what the schedule release was to Vince Lombardi, he'd call you a pussy and spit your food. Are we, I would, do you think we're in the majority when we're talking like this? Because I like, like, I like looking at the bare schedule, but I'm not going to get so excited

about schedule release day that I'm like, oh, man, like, I have to, like, when I see it, I'm going to look at it, and then I'm going to, I'm going to do like a quick win loss in my head,

“and then I'm going to probably look at it again in August. Yeah. I mean, the only thing that you”

really look at is where the buy is going to be. And if you have any international games that Hank is going to watch in prime time and how many prime time games. Yeah. Yeah. NFL just tries to make everything prime time that doesn't, like if this got it, if it was one o'clock, it's a better just during the day thing. Yeah. Actually, they should do it during the day to let everyone have a little thing time to fuck off from work, because it's not a prime time to like who cares waiting all

day for the release of a schedule. Yeah. So we are taping this to the afternoon, but we have the majority of the schedule Hank, congratulations. You're opening the season. Yeah. That's Wednesday night. Yeah.

I thought that was going to be the pair. I was wrong. I think Kirk actually had a first. He

reported it before anyone else. This is schedule release reporting season two. Are you nervous about

and that you guys have going into the game, too, because Drake may have the most passing yards ever in the fourth quarter of a Super Bowl. Exactly. That's just right out of time. So now you're built.

Now that momentum is carrying into the first quarter of week one. And then we have the Australia game,

which we knew about the Rams and your such a piece of shit. There's so many international games here. It's crazy. The Rams and the Niners playing in Australia. That's really game is crazy. I just want to say one last time. Yeah. And I'll probably say it again. It's crazy that we're asking the 49ers and the Rams to fly all the way to Australia. I agree. Play a football game and then fly back. Yeah. That's insane. It's nuts. And then Hank, what are you you're scoffing again? Why are you

sitting in first class planes? 18 hours. Yeah. Maybe less than that from the West Coast. But it's a long flight. All right, Hank. So I'm going to do the rest of the rest of week one. Sitting for a long time, travel. The rest of week one is the Dallas New York Giants game on Sunday and I football. Then the Monday projected game is the Chiefs and the Broncos to be great. We'll match where home is you playing.

“We'll be Justin Fields. I think Patrick will. I do too. Hank, since you love the international”

schedule, so God damn much. What was your favorite international game that's been released without looking at your phone? Patrick's Alliance. Okay. Where are you guys playing? Germany. Where? Come on, Hank. You got this. I don't have a hamburger. How do you not know? Yep. Yeah, there we go.

Great. Second best. Probably one in Rio de Janeiro, which is Broncos. No, actually Brazil.

Brazil. Yeah. No, it's not. It's Ravens Cowboys. And what was your favorite international game last year? Oh, good question. You love all of them. So probably that Colts Daniel Jones game. The Colts Daniel Jones game. The one where Daniel Jones played for the Colts. Yep. And who would he play against? He just, he played so a lot. I remember who he beat the team. The Colts did the Colts have an overseas game last year? Yeah, they did. They played the golf in this maybe.

They played the Falcons. That's Daniel Jones. Bloody mouth game. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Are you excited for the Madrid game week nine? Yes, of course. Who's playing? I don't know. I thought you would have memorized. Why would I do that? Listen, listen, I was going to fight my tongue, not breaking news. The fans of the show, you guys football is back. You love to say that. It's May 14. I don't give. I'm excited for, I'm excited to look at it. Like you said,

I'm not going to think about the schedule for another two months. Yes, at least. It's a look at it for three minutes and then forget about it. Yeah. I do like it the way the college football does it though, where they say, hey, just so you guys know, in 2042, we're going to have the University of Washington doing a home in home with Wisconsin. Yeah. I'm not Wisconsin. That wouldn't work right now because it was, but with like Miami. And then you now you have like 15 years to buy the hotel rooms.

With the NFL, they should do, they should draw it out even longer. It should be one game that that Roger Gidal release is per day. Yep. For the entire off season. Yep. And then at the end of it, he's like, okay, let's play some balls. Yeah. Roll the ball out there. You do have to go

through a toe and then you, you look at your own team schedule and you say, we got screwed. It's always

“like you're going, every team's going 10 and 10 and 7 or 11 and 6. Yep. But you have to look through”

see where you get screwed. So do you want to go around the room and say where we think our grievances are going to be? Yeah. I mean, I, I don't like that the bears have to play Thanksgiving and Christmas day. Yeah. Just one of the other would be fine. Although, I'm going to say something nice about Roger Gidal on the NFL. The Thanksgiving day schedule is fucking awesome. Oh my god. So we have that it's the best day of football. I think maybe ever. It's Wednesday night is the packers versus the

Rams. Then Thursday, Thanksgiving day is bears lions, eagles, cowboys, chiefs, bills. And then Friday is Broncos Steelers. That, that will be great. That will be great. Good job. Like the day of Thanksgiving. Yeah. That's the best day ever. That will rock. But yeah, I, I, I, I, I would have preferred the bears not play on both of the holidays. Yeah. One of the other would have been fine. I actually like the Thanksgiving. I like Thanksgiving early game. That's actually a fun game to, to participate in.

We're probably going to accept for the eberfluous flashbacks. We're probably going to be deep front and turkey at that. Yeah. Yeah. Eberfluous two years ago when I sat my garage for like an hour and a half because I was just like, I was so fucking mad. What, what are your grievances? My grievances are starting the season off going back to back on the road, divisional games. I don't like that.

“Go into the Eagles, then go into the, the Cowboys and then fall in that. I think actually the”

commanders have a pretty tough opening four weeks where they go to the Eagles to the Cowboys,

And we all know how Daniel Jones plays in the overseas game. This will be really funny if we got any of this wrong. But we are going off with this guy, Ozzy, who seems like I'm rooting for him to have it all right. Are you talking about the NFL nerd guy? Yeah. This is that episode. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. This guy's awesome. I want him. It looks great. Yeah. I want to go back. I do want to cross reference his prediction when he did the mock schedule. And I want to see how many of these he got right. Yeah.

Grievous is Hank, any? Give him a look. No, I've looked. Okay. There's nothing that popped out as like a grievance though. I mean, the Germany game is awesome. You got to play good teams. We have a buy. Yeah, we got to play good teams. We get the, the jets, which is a nice like lamp week 16 leading in the Broncos and the dolphin. So we got like kind of two easy wins and then a tough challenge week 17. The one nice thing that we have is the the Eagles Monday night inch cargo in the Patriots Thursday night

inch cargo. We can go to those. Yeah. That's a total of two games. We'll be attending both those. Are you going to the Thursday night one? Yeah. That's just we can get back. We can get back in 20 minutes. Yeah. Yeah. That was my that. That was my biggest takeaway from the Eagles schedule is that I was excited that not only can we go to that game, but at the Monday night. So we don't have to record. Yeah. So we can actually enjoy it. Enjoy it. Yeah. We can have fun talking about talking about

Bruce. He's with the boys. Yes. Yeah. And I think I'm going to shout away for later later in this show. I love Bruce. He's with the boys. I'm going to try to make that road trip to San Francisco in October if it doesn't conflict with NBA opening week and you go see a Monday night football. And that's going to be fun because in the big bell bottom in the big bell bottom because I feel like that's when San Francisco is the nicest, right? October. Well, it's not San Francisco. Yeah.

Yeah. Santa Clara. Yeah. But that's when it's the nicest out there, right? I don't know.

“I think it's always coming. Wizards Wizards could have a huge game. That's what I'm saying. If that's”

opening week in the NBA, I might not. I might not even watch that game. You can't miss a wizard game. Oh, what do you guys got in the boot? Any any issues? Any any grievances? Eagles have seven prime times. Seven prime times. There's have six. Yeah. It's way more prime time than not prime time game games for the Eagles. Open to open to a lot of scrutiny. But yeah, that's not true here. What? How do you just schedule open that? That doesn't check out. I want to see how your schedule

opens. Where are the first like, how many games are in this season? Seventeen Hank.

I should have said way more prime time than one o'clock starts. God. God. God. Okay. That's fair. What are the first like six games that you guys have? We are. I am actually rooting for us to get this all wrong. Home against commanders, at Titans, at Bears, Home against them. There's people. Listen, there's a not no until the season starts. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's pretty tough start. I mean, at Titans, I want to think that that's okay. What week of the season do you think you'll

“be like, fuck, Seriani. Never. That's what I was trying to get at. It's like, what's the toughest”

three game stretch that you're looking at? Toughest three game stretch. Yeah. Probably that middle. The schedule's not too bad. Pairs. Honestly. I'm looking at it right now. It's going to be tough schedule. Maybe at the end of the season, we go at Seahawk or Home against Seahawk's home against Texans at Niners. Yeah. Yeah. Or at Bears, Home against Rams, London against Chad. That's what it could be right there. Like Seriani might get left on the tarmac. Yeah. He's not coming home. Yeah. Just leave.

Your Philly fans are going to be like, leave this guy in England. Mm-hmm. What are you memes? Jet schedule. It's only like bits and pieces have been released, but it's like one through four is out, start with Titans, and then you go to Packers. Home against Packers. Home against Packers. That's what it said. Packers. Lions Bears. So it's a mini-gong. Let's just start the season. Yeah.

And Zach, we have something to like. Game Zach. We do our first bears. We have a prime time action going.

Yeah. Before that sunny night game, we have double divisional games. So my head space going into that sunny night game will be very dependent on how the two divisional games go beforehand. Yeah. That's an important little stretch there. Yeah. Actually, I have a first Atlanta. And then wait. Is that, oh, that's sunny night. So we have to record. We can't go to that game. Sure.

“Uh, okay. That's enough schedule to talk, right? We're good. I think we're good. Yeah. I think we're good.”

We're good. I got nothing else to say. Okay. It's the schedule. It's schedule. Schedule. Schedule hop. You already knew who you were playing and where you were playing. I like my yoga max says that. I feel, it feels good. Yeah. He's had that take. It's, it's a strong take.

Anyone at any time anywhere. Yeah. It's not overseas. You're basically just checking to see

when you got prime time game. Yeah. So you're checking to see if you're going, if you are someone who is planning travel, you're planning your travel today. That's like, when, oh, okay, we can go to this one. That, that was what I said. That's the, the only thing I was excited about is we, I can go to the

And if you look at the Thanksgiving schedule, I don't know if you, so we looked at that Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. It's Gidel's Masterstroke, not just with how good the games are, but every single game is on a different network or provider. Mm-hmm. Every single one is. And he checked all, checked all the boxes. Yeah. I am going to have to, PFT. I am going to have to, like, perfectly time my turkey at your house. You know, start at halftime. I don't know if it's

started halftime or starting like the end of the first quarter and then leave it halftime.

So you take it home, but then you're going to, you're going to have to like carve it up and eat it right when you get home. And then that's going to be a sort of halftime. Yeah, I'll come over at halftime. Okay. Yeah. That works. Damn. That's, I mean, these are the problems. Yeah. Thanksgiving games. You know, it's hard to predict when they goes that far in the season. I'm excited for those things. Oh, it's been great. Is that, did that happen with Christmas now this year?

What? I thought it was like, oh, my God. Yeah. Yeah, Christmas schedule ever. Yeah, my home's got it.

“That's what I just said is that it's not. No, I know. Yeah. Yeah. The only thing you can really,”

like, predictive of the schedule is like the international games are going to rock. Yes. Yeah. I want detailed notes on maybe we'll do that this year. Maybe we'll do, maybe we'll do talking about the bloody mouth. Daniel Jones. You just said Daniel Jones cults. And did they play a game internationally? Yes. So was I correct by answering that? Yes. It was the bloody fucking mouth game. Daniel Jones. Yeah. I can't see. I think we got to pick one game.

What if I just go to all of them for the whole season? Do they have good golf and spin? I'll find out. Okay. Yeah. We should pick one game PFT where we agree to not watch the international game and have Hank give us the full recap. Okay. Okay. Let me maybe Bengals falcons. What's the slay? No, no. What's the slay? There's a couple. I mean, you play in London. The Cowboys and Ravens. I want to watch that. The Eagles, Jags, the Texans, Jags. Maybe Texans, Jags.

Texans, Jags sounds pretty good. Texans, Jags. What if I just go on an 11 week international game trip? It's a lot of time. I'm just been away from your kids. I'm working with me. No, I think you'd have to mimic how they do it though. You'd have to fly back immediately after the game. So you can see the rigors that the NFL athletes have to handle. No, because they don't. They stay like the Jaguar stay there. Do you pick one team?

That's days there. Everyone else falcon. They're only playing one game. Everyone else falcon. I would love to give a detailed presentation on pros and cons of each city. Something about. Okay. Okay. I'll think about every city. We'll think about 11. I'm willing to show

“how much I care about these international games. And I think the only way to do real journalism is”

to go and then feel it and take it in yourselves. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe I come back after 11 weeks and I'm like, you know what? Okay. How about, like, red? Yeah. Vikings and honors, Mexico City. Done. See ya. Have fun. Okay. Our streets are awesome. I'll get you to that. That's Sunday night. I have to come back like right after. Yeah. Right after. Yeah. Right after. Yeah. That's our hours.

Okay. You the PGA championship has started. Shout out our guy. Big dom incredible for us over.

What? I incredible. Yeah. Before we squash the beef, I probably would say other things. But now that we squash the beef, it's like I kind of love like damn good thing we squash the beef. What a fucking legend. Right. He crushed it 10 out of 10 performance. Would you like to seem to more? Yes. He should. Yeah. He's a star. PGA partner. He's like, he's it's contract negotiations are leaked. Like he's he probably has paparazzi. Like following him. I'm sensing some sarcasm here.

Max. Good day from the course. Yeah. You're a really good day from the top. I mean these greens are top. The greens are top Bryson had that one hilarious put that he just like touched. But that's Bryson.

“He's just so strong. Can I just work out so much? Can I say one last thing about big dom?”

Because I did text him congratulating him as like that was a great voice over. And he said,

thanks. Crazy. They kept asking me. I never played golf never will. Love that. That's awesome.

That is good. I like that a lot. We have a new star though. We have a new star that we need to talk about on the podcast. That's football guy. Yeah. That's a football guy. You don't get it. You don't get it. No golf. Never will. New star. Garrick Higo. Garrick Higo from South Africa. Yeah. He slept in. Well, not really slept in. But he misses T-time by like a minute. And so he's penalized two strokes. He actually shot. I think it's 69 today right? Yeah. Well, I'm there. So pretty good.

All things considered. But then he gave the most hilarious press conference of all time afterwards.

wand the way that he was talking about sleep or missing his T-time. Try to follow these these quotes. Because he really makes a lot of sense when you think about it. I was there on time. But the rule is

if you're one second late, your late. So if you think about it, I was there on time. If you know what I mean.

When we meet, what do we mean by that? He's there on time. If you think about it. If you know what I mean, I'm thinking about it. Sounds like he was there on time. Well, he said the rule is if you're one second late, your late. I was obviously on time. But late. One second is tough to define. I think when he like, I think people are like, oh, how do you miss your T-time? Like like a normal person where they're just like are driving up to the course and park in our there in time. He was on the grounds. He was there and

prepared and ready to golf. He just wasn't in the exact zone. You need to be at the exact time. But that's crazy. I know. But that's what I interpret what he's saying. Yeah. That is crazy. I was there. And he was there. But he wasn't. Well, he was obviously on time. He'd be tied for the lead right now. Yeah. Yeah. Zack thoughts. These things do happen. It sounds like he was actually just there. Yeah.

He was exactly the same with the zone. Yeah. What? He said one second is tough to define.

“Is it like a like chalk lines or is it just like the physical hole you have to be at?”

Oh, we should we should make a zone for that. I'm curious about the zone. Yeah. So why is task? Like he has to check in. Just like in the zone punch the clock. But there may be check points throughout the way. Like hey, on this guy, you go a little more in the cart on this guy. Mm-hmm. Is he tagged? When it is a geo fence, he like enters the area and they get a notification. Like next call for his enter the T-box. Do you think what he hits a checkpoint? He's a stable

set check point. So like he can't go back to the start. You can't go back there to like safe safe. Right. Tiger struggles with checkpoints. Mm-hmm. Tiger's back.

Yeah. He's very bad in America. Can you define one second, Zach?

Partial makes up a minute. So it's like, you know, building blocks of a minute. Yeah. He hit the building blocks of a minute. Yeah.

“Can you define time PFT? No. Yeah. What like who's to say what's on time? What's not?”

Time is life. It's relative. Mm-hmm. Like literally. Like ask Einstein. He'd be like, well, one second on Earth is somebody could be in a spaceship. It's like 500 light years away. And they blink their eyes. They come back to Earth, everybody's dead. Yeah. So think about it that way. Every second on one planet is a year on another planet. I think every second on an interstellar. I think every second here is a gift. When you're around Hank. Like great. Facts. Being with you.

Time doesn't exist. Yeah. There you go. But first of all, I love this guy's name. Garic. Garic. Higgo. Mm-hmm. It sounds completely made up. Mm-hmm. And then just him refusing to take any accountability afterwards was awesome. Yeah. Shout out. Garic. Higgo. We're rooting for him. Yeah. Rory was bad. Blister. Blister. Blister's got him. Blister. Blister. Blister. Blister.

Blister. Blister. Blister. And then Brooks. Good start. So Brooks, he, yes. Partially good start. Well, I mean, no. Great start. Yeah. Great start. Well, it's one. Yeah. Great start. But minus one after the first days, he's not, he's like not dead or any. No, no. That's put best tea to green in the

“field. That's what I'm saying. Like he's putting. His putting was terrible. Okay. And so he said,”

I feel good. Every round just seems to be the worst I can shoot. The putters absolutely horrendous. Ball striking is absolutely phenomenal. That's been the story of the years. New putters. He's just got to figure out the putters. Once he figures out the putters, then I feel like unstoppable. Yeah. He was a 170 second if he could just be 70 second rolling. Winning. Mm-hmm. Do you have any tips for him? Just, you know, put the ball in the hole. Confidence. Get the ball in the hole. You see,

blocky. Start legend. Yeah, blocky. Start. It sees that pot that he made. Then he pretended to have a heart attack. Yeah. That's his classic blocky. He should do the hamstring. Justin Jefferson. Oh, yeah. When you, when you get a ticket for a blocky round, it's not just golf. You also get an improper performance job. Yeah, man. Blocky. I mean, he, he knows how to get the people going. Who's drive? Is it anyway? Blocky. Fuck you. Blocky. Okay. Let's talk soon. Playoffs. Before we do that,

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or racing.draftkings.com. The calves, James Harden. Big game James, are we max? Are we currently rewriting the narrative on James Harden? I am bad at writing narratives. Okay rewriting though. You're bad at writing them but are you better at rewriting them? I'm bad at all of them. I am dumb so probably what if I say yes that means no. If I say no that means yes. I'll re-for James. I have no problem reen for James Harden. I'll say no. He stinks and he's not big game James.

“What if James Harden just like what if he just does it? What if it does it all?”

It's perfect. I think that right now we're rewriting with James Harden is the exact spot that we need to be in for him to have another all-time big game James game. I would say so. He played pretty well last night. We'll get into a little bit with a silo. Down the stretch I actually don't think he was as good as the box score will tell you that he was. If that's all that you saw. The end of that game was absolutely insane. The pistons kind of given it away

and then the pistons at the very end. You could have made the argument that there was a foul at the very very end of the game which could have had the pistons win in regulation if they went to the foul line. But then you had Mr. Brothers getting on the mic, getting a lot of screen time. That was good for America. I think Max Shrew's dog. Max Shrew's also Charles Barkley wants to fuck Max Shrew's. I don't know if you saw the postgame with Sir Charles. But he was just like

Max Shrew's. That's a good looking man. That's a very, very good looking man. And he's right. He scored he was six rate from three. He was rebounding that play sequence when he just stole the ball from Cape Cunningham after the end bounce. The pistons did have that game and the calves just wanted it. They just fought harder at the end. And then over time it just felt like they had the wave of momentum and it took them there and the pistons again, especially with Duncan Robinson out,

they just don't have any score. That was tough. So he had, is it back issues? Yeah, not good. They just don't have anyone scoring. Jenkins was like a good change of pace going to the rack and stuff. But still, it's just like Cape Cunningham has to do it all. They just feel like a very flawed team in the calves. I don't really know what to make of them other than they have enough guys that are, that they have guys that can actually like, if they need a big bucket,

James Harden, Donovan Mitchell, Max Shrew's Evan Mobley, like they have guys who can do it. So I said that I like the calves. Meems told me that it was impossible for them to win on the road.

But this is, it is their first win at the postseason on the road. But I was told that it was

strictly impossible for them to do that, Meems. Every reverse, James, I'm using has worked. Oh yeah, you're welcome, Cleveland. I did that. Why? I just want the Cavaliers to win. Oh, you want to play the calves? Yeah. Okay, but wouldn't you rather the pistons won last night

“and then the calves win at home and then it goes seven, so you get even more time off?”

Mmm. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No. Yeah. No. Yeah. No. The calves can still win at seven.

They haven't. They haven't. Do you want to say? I'm not, I don't know, I don't know, reverse,

Jake. So the series finally started because the road team won a game. The playoffs finally started

for the calves. Yeah, playoffs officially in. Yeah. So now from this point on now we start judging James Harden. Yep, based on his playoff. That's fair appearances. It means I love and Zach too. I love how confident Nick's fans are. To be fair, you guys have every right to be confident because you've looked awesome and these two teams don't look like they can beat you. But it, it doesn't scare you. How confident you are and how certain you are that the Nicks are going to win in the Eastern

Conference finals. It does. I mean, these, these teams are both talented. I'd rather play the Cavaliers because we get to it with Rosillow. The Pissons have like a plus 89 point differential against the next season. Okay. That's why I would rather play the Cavs. But also the minutes played

“between the two teams. That's why I'm not really that scared. Zach, how confident are you?”

I feel good about it, but it is, you know, won't game in a time. You won't get too far ahead of yourself and you think it happened. But from what I'm seeing, the guys feel good. So if they feel good, I feel good. All right. Did you feel good? I think I would like to play Cavs, well, though, to piggyback on that. I would like to play Cavs. Friday night, we're going to find out if we were going on to the Conference finals because we got both teams for Friday night. We

were to off night tonight. By the way, the, the abs, wild game was incredible. I mean, tough,

tough for Minnesota fans. Minnesota fans in a, in a couple decades of tough playoff losses for Minnesota sports fans. That is right up there with any one of them. And biz is literally dancing on their grays. He's so happy. Yeah. He had a spin. He hates Minnesota. Uh, McKinnon was incredibly, I mean, he was incredible all series. He's been incredible all playoff. He scored in six straight games. And that goal he scored at the end of the game was unbelievable. Like that. It was basically

like the wild had it. And they just, they let, they let go the rope pretty much the same shot that he had in the Olympics. Except there was a goalie that was in the win this time. And he made this one. And then after the game, he was also mad at biz too. Yeah. He was, because biz put on the snorkel. Yeah. And he was like, hey, that's not very funny. I'm not answering any of your questions, Mr. Biz. Yeah. I'm a mermaid. Let me leave you alone. I'm those playing. Yeah. It was playing

“snorkels. I, I'll contend. Um, I think that might be the best, the best way to win a game both”

in a series and like the way that abs did it by coming back and winning an overtime. But to win a game in five in a series in five and not have to go back on the road has to be the greatest feeling ever. Oh, it feels, especially on a weekend. Yeah. Like, game seven, like winning a game seven,

obviously awesome, but it's probably an emotional exhaustion. The calves or the abs basically cancel

plans. Do we want to get to cancel all their plans this weekend? Do we want to say it congratulations to the Colorado avalanche on winning the Stanley Cup? Listen, Nathan McKinnan right now is plus 200 to win the consmith. I'd like to say congratulations to the abs. It's a pretty good bet if you were, if you're a betting man, which I am. Yeah, congrats the abs. You did it. Choose your adventure who won the Sabers game. Sabes? Yeah. I think the docks won. I think the Sabers won too.

I think the Golden Knights won. Oh, so that's here. It's over. Yeah. Good Reak and the Sabes. The Sabes won. Yeah. Okay. Maxi Pucks. I wonder how I, I wonder how I did on my predictions in the first round. Probably great. Probably awesome. Probably pretty good. You know, Puck, you do know, Puck. You know, Puck big time. Fly it up. I have watched less less hockey recently. Because the flyers are no longer in it. You're no longer fly it up. Yeah. And also, once it, once it

looked like they had no shot of being the hurricanes, I got less it. It is true that when you don't have a team that's in the Stanley Cup playoffs, you watch all the games. And then when you do have a team in and they lose, you just, you say, "Fuck hockey for a few days." So I can't even look at ice.

“I don't, I don't want to feel cold. I'm not even gonna say it. I'm not really good at that. I think I just”

kind of the NBA started to heat up a little bit. So I kind of remembered the basketball exists. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I had a stupid idea. This is about horse racing, but I feel like it's a stupid idea that's worth seeing out loud. So other people can tell me how dumb it is. We, by the way, we will have for any Moss on back for the Belmont when Golden tempo races again. I talked to him. He was like, yeah, he'll be, he'll be back. He was, we have our schedules were kind of fucked up

this week. So we missed him, but he'll be back for Belmont. So this isn't, you know, how we used to do drunk ideas on the show? Yeah. Not a drunk idea. This is a sleepy idea. So like I woke up in the middle of the night, and I had to pee. And then when I went back to bed, I thought about this idea.

been fucked in the years and the years past when the Kentucky Derby winner does not race in their race.

Correct. Why isn't the prickness just say screw it to the Kentucky Derby and scheduled their

“main race for like three weeks before the Kentucky Derby? You want to play hardball?”

In the Kentucky Derby goes three weeks before that until it gets too cold until they come all the way back around the schedule. Yeah, but I'm just saying like you want to play hardball. Yeah, you could play hardball. Yeah, let's play some hardball. It did, it sucks. I hate it. Yeah, it's, it's just, it's so shady. The triple crown. I like rooting for the triple crown. It's like a, it's a fun thing. Yeah. It's just rude. I feel like if you, if your horse wins the preceness, if it was scheduled

for before the Derby, you're not skipping the Derby. No, you got to run in the Derby.

Got to do the Derby. Hey, do you have anything to say about the big trade?

Oh, you don't know about the big trade. Oh, breaking moves. Oh, my god. How do you know about the big trade? This guy pretends that he's paying attention to. Yeah, Mr. Boston. Why don't you why don't you guess what the big trade is? Break moves. Oh, guess what the big trade is? That was a clean move. That shouldn't have gone unnoticed. Okay, to get, guess it. I don't fucking New England Revolution like no bigger. Yeah, bigger. The Boston common golf. No, bigger.

The uh, this got to be live for Boston and bigger. Yeah, with the big trade, we're talking about here is, uh, the gorilla. Yeah, the gorilla trade. Have you guys all seen the gorilla trade? The Boston Zoo, the Franklin Park Zoo and the Pittsburgh Zoo, have swapped gorillas. So the gorillas, the gorillas, Frankie Pittsburgh 70-year-old male western lowland gorilla will be heading to Boston and in exchange. Boston will send 33-year-old little Joe the silver back to Pittsburgh. I think

little Joe escaped one time. Did he? Yeah. I don't want that up. This actually is a tall tail. I think this might be a good. I was reading more about this, which is probably pathetic. Uh, but I think it's, I think I think, I think Boston got fleece. No, we don't. No, we don't. No, we don't. No Boston, Boston, Boston, fleece Pittsburgh. He's, Boston got younger. No, no, PFT. Great. Yeah, I'm so, I was reading about it. Frankie got traded. 70-year-old Frankie got traded

to the Boston Zoo. He's going to just be chilling with a bunch of other dudes. Mm-hm. Little Joe got traded to Pittsburgh because he's going to be mating and making new gorillas. So that's great for little Joe. Like, because if I'm little Joe, I want to get out of that locker room. I want to get to a place where my talents will be used. But Pittsburgh is thinking about the future of the franchise. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. So like I see from little Joe's perspective,

he probably forced this trade. Like, little Joe probably demanded a trade, so he could go somewhere and start to fuck again. But now he's in Pittsburgh and that suits his skill set. But Boston got fleece. Boston should have traded for a female gorilla to make more gorillas. Instead, Pittsburgh's the ones going to be making more gorillas. But are we sure that Frankie is a boy? Frankie's a boy and Frankie's just, hey, it literally said

they're like, he's going to go hang with some other dudes. Okay, well, so Frankie's seven years old. So Frankie is an upside pick. They're getting young. I don't know Frankie can fuck. He's a nice piece. I don't think they said the Frankie's just going literally like he's going on a bachelor party.

“That's what I read. I think they're taking a 33 year old, getting him out of town,”

hoping that Frankie will step up. For what though, he's always doing his on a boy's trip. Sometimes

come with that. Yeah, because you're going to try to make new gorillas, little Joe's going and he's going to make some new ones. Sometimes in the NBA, if you have, so you don't have to build from within the farm system. You're in a win now mode Pittsburgh's in a long term. They're building for a decade of dominance. What are you talking about? He's old, but he's going to make new gorillas, but maybe those gorillas won't be able to get a gorillas' life expectancy. Long. No, seriously,

long. Unless you're a Cincinnati gorilla and then you get shot killed. Yeah, you know, this is a credit to Boston Great Sports Sound. In 2003, little Joe escaped and attacked a girl and it's babysitter. Yeah, so you get rid of a locker room and they didn't kill it. They just subdued it as you should. Life sends often extends into their 50s. So little Joe's got another like

“10 years of fucking. I just, I like this move for Boston. I think that the GM, who's the GM of your zoo?”

Damage. Damage did it again. Like, when the Boston Zoo calls, don't pick up the phone because about to get fleece. See, I see it the other way. I think Pittsburgh has got nice. They're really setting themselves up for the future because, because little Joe's going to be making some new baby gorillas. I think that a seven-year-old Western lowland gorilla, if all goes the corner play, if you have a good structure and a good, good training process around them, that gorilla is going to

they do. Frankie, who gets high praise for his keepers for good vibes, join a recently formed bachelor group with two other male gorillas. Pizzards, Pittsburgh Zoo explains it as young male gorillas mature. They reach a point where they're too old to be juveniles, but too young to be silverbacks. Usually they band together with other blackbacks. These bachelor groups allow non-breeding males to live social lives. These guys, guys, they're basically having found themselves yet.

It's like little Joe, it's like when we brought this like us bringing Gerry O'Connell and

people like Frankie's going to show up and be like, I never want to leave you guys. Yes, just get to

hang out all the time. Yes, so little Joe's shown up to Pittsburgh. There's two females. He's about to bang. And there's two young baby gorillas. The move comes after Ivan died. So the father died and Harry died. So two dads died. Now little Joe's going, he's doing a gang bang. So little Joe is, but he's also going to be the step dad. No, that's the step dad that stepped up twice. Ideally, it's twice. Ideally, and we don't know because little Joe sounds like he's got some wild hairs in him.

He's had some issues and some character concerns and distraction issues. They say that he's actually kind of chilled out though. Oh, that's it. I hope so. Because I don't know if they've got a locker room like they're doing in general. He's intelligent and gentle. I don't know. Little Joe's got it. He's I mean, he's getting to get to do two chicks at the same time. Or Frankie's just going to play beer dye. But is is beer dye in Frankie Park sounds fantastic. He's a little Joe. Like does he,

“is he a five tool player like that? He's going to show it. Be the step dad and also fuck. I think so.”

I think he's got it all. He's walking into a ready-made fam. Baby mama drama. It is a lot of pressure. It's like, yeah, if you don't, you don't win now. It sounds like Pittsburgh's in win now mode.

You know what never has drama when you drink beer. No, Pittsburgh's not win now mode. They're

going to make new ones. They're in the long long haul. They're going to make this guy. This guy is got to be a step dad. He's got to be a father. He's got to be as a student. They're making a gorilla factory in Pittsburgh. I'm all I'm saying is if you, if you got a great veteran presence in your locker room, you don't get rid of them. And if you didn't, they both died. If you have two controllers, you don't have one. No, I'm saying that Boston got rid of little Joe. Like if

if he was a great gorilla, they would hang on to them. You don't let a gorilla like that walk in free agency or in a trade situation. I don't have more gorillas. It tells me that Pittsburgh's

“farm sister got one for the police. Yeah. Yeah, we should. Means can you take care of a gorilla?”

Did you guys see that? There's a baby rhino at Lincoln Park Zoo so cute. Saw him in person on Sunday. So fucking cute. He's like two months old. Go check him out. What's his name? I actually don't know whose name. It's like a hundred pounds. What's his name? It was, I wanted to just pick him up in Smoocham, Hazina. He is pretty cute. Yeah. Isn't that that's a cute little baby rhino? Right there. Tell me that's not it. Tell me you wouldn't want to take that baby rhino home, Hank.

Tell me. Tell me. Tell me. Tell me. You're not going to tell me, are you? Look at that. Yeah, it's adorable. It's not that adorable. Oh, my God. You just even have his nose horn yet. Hank, that's a cute baby rhino. Oh. That's adorable. Fuck yeah. Who see Adam Shepter for zoos? Yeah, there's some more zootrates. Megan Swift is the one who broke this dude. It's so funny. I want like future draft picks like everything.

How does he even work? We should probably get a zoo guy off. Yeah. We should get we should do a PMT trip to the zoo. I'm down. I'm down. And yeah, underneath I want Megan Swift's replies to be like, no, yeah, fleece to like announce the draft to the San Diego zoo. Yeah, fire the GM for the Pittsburgh zoo. Yeah, like Philadelphia doesn't how we, yeah,

“how's it going to fit in the offense? Yeah. Philadelphia's got a good zoo. Do they?”

I don't know that's a zoo. All right. I feel like it's like the San Diego zoo and then everyone else. San Diego's pretty good. I've been in the San Diego zoo all some time. There's a late, really fun. Kansas City surprisingly good zoo. I've been getting, I've been in a hot street. I like the like it parks. Yeah. I've been in a hot street. I've been, I think, like, Parkland. I think my kids in the league parks do a bunch. And I've been in a hot street. I've been seeing

all the animals. They've all been out. Yeah. So pollabers the other day. That time of year. So the drafts, the muscrats, everything. I like the, there's snapping turtle up there. Yep. That's snapping turtle rocks. Yep. It's awesome animals. Okay. Anything else? Any other news?

Any other sports or, oh, I had a quote that I wanted to read you guys. It's actually the first time

that I have lost confidence in this team. The quote goes, I'm not thinking about how I could have

I know that. Joey Chestnut. Nice guess so. That was actually. Can I, yeah. That's G.A. said that? Yeah. That's not that. I'm not thinking about how I could have ate more. Yeah. I'm thinking about how I could win ate more. That's fucking hard. Come on. Yeah. That's a, that's a, that's a, that's a, that I don't know about that. I mean, me nervous. Maybe nervous. If he's got that much time to like think of quotes like that. Yeah. Like he's, he's up to something. Yeah. Okay.

Anything else? The new, uh, congrats. PFT, the J&D knows on the quarterback three season. Yes. Yeah. I'm excited. Kind of for that to see what gets put in. I'm pretty sure with that series, it's like everybody involved has to sign off on everything. So, um, I guess it'll be intro. Actually, no. I'm not interested because you're relieving a bad to bad. See, it's a really

bad year. And it's just going to be him rehabbing from like a million different injuries. It's actually

it's Cam Ward. Baker Mayfield who got injured for half the season. Joe Flacco and J&D knows. Joe

“Flacco is the only one that's going to be somewhat happy. Yeah. Yeah. True flat. I think Baker”

will be okay because they, they started off really good. Yeah. But he got hurt. So like the first few episodes will be great for the box. I'm, there's really nothing about last season. You know what, I watched the one that has the charges game. That game was awesome. Yeah. Okay. Let's get to a good friend Ryan Racer. Before we get to facilities brought to you by Nutriple, you know how it sports everyone's got a can't miss training hack. And most of them don't actually move the needle. That's

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Okay, we now welcome on a very very very very very special guest. There's our good friend, Rhinersilah. In studio, perfect timing for you Rhinersilah. Here for the NBA combine. Everyone go listen to the Rhinersilah podcast. He's got a bunch of people players, executives from the combine, but perfect timing for you to be here. Because we're taping this on Thursday morning. There are no games Thursday night, which is the first break we've had in NBA playoffs and I think

since the start. And is big game James back? Yeah, I kind of wasn't like ready to start with this.

Yeah, no, but we have to. Because James Harden here's here's what I'd say in defensive

games. James Shields big game. We were joking the other day that like everyone who's gotten big game James has never been big in a big game. Yeah. Look, he's been really good since that fourth quarter of game three. You know, he he put together like a really good stretch of like nine straight points in that one, which they desperately needed. His entire game four was really good. Last night, I don't know that I thought the entire game was great. Like his entry passes in the first half.

Like that's my issue with him. It's like, hey, man, there's like a playoff intensity in pace,

“which I think is always like the biggest disconnect beyond all the other things that we want to talk”

about with his significant playoff drop off. But last night with Mitchell not playing well,

super hard time with the way he's officiated and I thought Detroit Detroit's a mess offensively a mess.

“But yeah, I don't care like I'm not doing it. I'm not giving it to you. Yeah, after the five you should be happy”

actually that he won that he's been playing like this because it just sets up for him to be in a game six or seven that he's going to fail. I mean, look, it gets so bad with him that I'm like, well, I expect there's going to be some kind of 30 point game. Yeah. I mean, he's got the ball on his hands the entire time. He's a terrific shooter. He's a great passer. I mean, he had some dimes in game four, but you know, even I couldn't help but like at the end when he needed the free throws,

it's like he missed two of the last four because it's like that tells me there's just something about him that's gone. It's on rebound though. He did because it's really kind of him didn't box him out. Right. There's no one he was thinking. He's like, there's no way James is going to try him. Yeah, we're offensive rebound. And honestly, he just bounced right back to him. Yeah. And then he misses another free throw. But he, look, he was really big for them because the Mitchell part of it just

wasn't happening until Mitchell hits that three in the right corner. But I thought the fishing last

“night was terrible. I normally don't say that after a game. I mean, at one point, I think it was like 17”

files on Detroit, nine on Cleveland, but Cleveland deserves to lose on top of everything else. Like they can't figure out anything once Kade gets double. And and Durn is killing them. I think about this

read is their third string center. I don't think he'd played any minutes. Be ball, Paul. Yeah,

sorry. And then he plays all the fourth quarter and then all of over time. So you're going into your 61 team who's a one seed and you're going into overtime playing your third string center because you're all NBA center, which I don't know if I'll make third team all NBA, I voted for him. Can't do anything in this series. Yeah, I actually thought the James Harden, if you look at the statline 30 points, it was impressive statline. They needed it. Look, he deserves credit. I'm just

not going to see it here and be like, hey, he's, I mean, some of this stuff gets ridiculous. Well, I think into the game, he tried to give it away. Not to say anything about the free throws. The mist lay up and then he did the foul baiting thing, bringing the ball up the court slammed on the brakes, trying to draw foul. It ended up just falling on his ass and then doing like a soccer throw in over the half court line, turning the ball over. Like he made his share of really stupid plays.

But I agree with Big Cat that this is actually, it's a perfect setup because now we've reached

“the point where we're like, I think James Harden has finally figured it out in the playoffs.”

And we forget that we've said that probably nine times. Yeah. You're getting, you're getting the best set, like James Harden playing in a game seven is exactly what you want. Yeah, this is it. You said, and you know what, even if he's sometime, somehow comes through, I'm sure he'll figure out a way to get to game seven and get to the next. Yeah. And then, and then we'll get to judge him. Yeah, whatever is going to, like even when it's going bad as bad as it was, like I think in the

first two games, if he's not James Harden, you bench him for Dennis Schroeder. Yeah. We just go,

hey, we need somebody with a little bit more energy and more intensity who's like a little bit more alive here because it's just, I mean, there were stretches in game one and two or I'm like, I cannot believe this is like, it's not the makes or the misses. It's not when he doesn't want to shoot, you know, because there's that one that happens. There's just the floating of like, what are you, where are you going? It kind of rocks. So it's like, uh, it's absolutely great and pick up. It's actually

when you kind of fall, I think what happens to him is when you, you know, when you go on a long drive and you, and you just forget that you were driving, you know, you get there and you're like, oh, shit, I've been driving for three hours. I think that happens to him when he starts dribbling sometimes, where he's just dribbling and he starts perfect. He forgets that he's dribbling and he forgets that he's in a playoff game and then he just keeps dribbling until he turns it over and he's like,

oh, shit, I forgot I'm playing a game right now. I get so mad at the officials just because of not like even the specific team last night, because, you know, this deep into the playout, these are the best officials and whenever I'm prepping for the drafts and I'm watching all these college games, I'm reminded of like, thank God for NBA officials and I think to be fair to him, think of the times we are home and you're like, I can't believe they call that and then you see

the replay, like, how often they're actually right with the call, where you're like, oh, that guy reached in like that was stupid, but the two hard and well, there's probably like more than four, but I'm not going to take the full hour doing that. You still owe me a cut-up, a highlight real of all the James Smith's case. You said that that would be on my desk right and it wasn't there, it was going to break it down. Yeah, but you caught me like, you asked for, I think I'm like a three

game day and then I had to go back and like, look at my time stamp notes. But you offered it, I didn't, I didn't, you know, it was passion at that night. We're in the car and we were leaving the live show that we did. And it's not like I was like, hey Ryan, can you make me a mashup of James Lawrence worst plays? Ryan, you said, I'm going to send you a highlight real of everything that James Harden has done for the last two games and it's going to blow your mind and I was like,

I can't wait to see that and you're like, it'll be on your desk. And then our listeners, they expect me to dive deep. I've had people come after me for it. I was walking around town and I was like, oh, here we go again. They want fame, you'd be paying up fame tax and it wasn't that at all,

a shaping up, if you, if you've talked to Nick's fan, they're dangerously confident. Like they should be

confident. Because if you go back to the regular season games and, you know, you try to like figure out, okay, what really matters and then you look at the lineup stuff like it's going to come up with San Antonio, no KC and you're like, okay, it's four of the five went San Antonio's way, but okay,

“so you completely pun it. I think they were like, took out their top 10 guys in that fifth game,”

which I'm just so tired of like that gamesmanship stuff, like Detroit did it to OKC and it's like, this is a number one seed versus number one seed regular season game. Like this game is supposed to be the headliner. Like NBC had a stretch where I think like three straight big time headline or games. One of the coaches is like, hey, don't be great. Let's just fuck with the other team and not play anybody tonight. So having a set all that, it was hard to watch Detroit, New York and not feel like,

hey, Detroit's physicality and their defense messes up New York in a way that feels very real. And so if you're a next fan and then watching last night go on like, I hope Cleveland wins this, based on what you saw in the regular season and that just kind of speaks to like how we are this Eastern conference is in general. But it's such a weird conference. I know and it does feel like it's also the conference of teams that were like the peasants were are a try hard team and I don't

say it in a bad way. You're totally right. Put there the tie hard team of the regular season, Celtics were kind of the same way where their bench was deep and like, I don't care about

“benches in the playoffs. And so the nicks have the most talent. So it shouldn't be a shock, right?”

Like they have the the best starting five. They do, but then you can dig into like some of the net rating stuff that was crazy because Minnesota's five guys when they were healthy. Those five guys played more minutes than anybody else. All right. It was like 200 more minutes than the next line up of the five guys. So you think of like, okay, that's the most played line up New York's five guys. The second most played line up of any team in the league this year and Minnesota had

an incredible net rating. You know, even at the land and once they got the McCollum in there,

like that was a crazy net rating. And then you're looking at the next you're like, why is it only plus two on the season? Right. Like that's like there's all sorts of lineups that have these incredible like plus 13 plus 17 five guys that teams will tell you like, hey, if we get those five guys in there in a series, like we're a different team, like don't worry about our depth. And with New York, I'm like man, why isn't that number better? Like what does that tell us about this group?

And then the way OG was playing before the hamstring injury, I was like, you know, I liked them. And I was just falling in love with them because he was making every single shot. Right. And he's so versatile defensively. So then you start going like, all right, you know, am I actually like collectively unimpressed with everyone in the east, but to the point where you go every one of these fan bases should think they have a chance. You know, obviously,

Philly being eliminated now, but maybe that spoke to them going like, hey, Boston was that messed up. The you guys looked at good. Yeah. Then New York reminded you that you actually still aren't that good. So I don't blame any Nick's fan for having confidence through the roof and then feeling even better. The Cleveland's up 32 because Detroit's offense to get these next two. Like just let me just throw

this at you. A number one seed with 60 wins that if Franz doesn't get hurt loses in the first round.

Yeah. Okay. And they still don't know who they're closing five is. Whether it's they want to go a saw and give up the offense or if they want to give up the defense and go with Dennis Duncan was hurt last night with the injury, but during is is your guy and then you're like, we're going to play people like that speaks to them going like looking down the bench going, is there any combo we can have right now? And as much as you all love read, like he's driving in to devise Harris and then Jared Allen's there to help or he's driving into Allen.

And if the SARS playing, then mobly now is on a sorrow most all the time. It was hard in the beginning of the season or the series. And now moblies like this is awesome. Yeah. Yeah. I didn't do anything. And even if you're boxing out Allen, if you're during you're boxing out Allen and you guys are fighting, then mobly just just to walk over and grab the rebound. So Cleveland's talent's better. Like this series, I really think Cleveland should have won pretty convincingly because of this offensive

flaw that Detroit has had all season long. Also, Max Drew's, Max Drew's, Drew's was awesome last night. Also, I put him rip and cade on that huge. Yeah, that was crazy. Like that's an awful lot of love Kate. I think we all like Kate better, but the turnovers with Kate, they he's got to clean it up. Yeah, the one thing I'll say about the piss, because it has been tough to watch the entire playoffs, is that I do think Kate is a, you know, generational guy. He's going to be a, yeah, he has the

makings of a superstar. You just got to build like you've, you've, you've stepped that part. The hard part

“is done in that Kate is the guy. You just have to build around him. You have to get to find the”

combination. And that's really just you have to find guys who can, who can score. Yeah, look, I give Serruti credit because we were talking about game five. We were just hanging out during the tapings yesterday. He's like, you know, this is what you had an IV was supposed to be. This off ball on ball guy. Like when you think about him in college, and especially like NBA front offices

playing with those guys, like he's just so dynamic and you couldn't in theory have him play off the ball. Like if you're doubling Kate and you had this really good version of Jade and IV, that's exactly

what they need. They need somebody who's off the ball that can create and Danis is an incredible

story, but he's probably a backup. He's going to play a long time, which surprises people,

“but it's like, hey, you have to bail us out or a star who's not really going to take it off the”

dribble. He's certainly not going to shoot it. Harris had like two good looks, where if he had hit one of him in the during regulation, off a double team when they went one four, like maybe they win the game and then you still are sitting here. But like there are, you need multiple guys in these playoff possessions that can make something out of nothing and they have four guys standing around. Yeah, I'm glad that we have you on the show right now because it looks like we might be

dealing with maybe a double header of all time, rest versus rust discussions, the way that these series are going. So we're going to have two teams that are going to have swept and be sitting on their hands for a while and then a team that goes either six or seven games, you know more than anybody, you're a gym guy, you know that there's a fine line, your muscles, they need rest, right? Like they do. A good night's sleep is also a form of its own workout. If you want to maximize your

“gains, that's what they say. But then you go too long and it's atrophy. So when it comes to the MBA,”

how does how does that relate to your experience, Ryan? I worked out this morning like seven something and I was not ready. So it wasn't a good night's sleep. I would have liked to have slept better. I would have liked to have gone a little bit later. I would have, but I got invited on this big podcast. I'm sorry about that. Yeah, now I appreciate it because it was immediately like something's wrong. And I was like, "What hurts?" Yeah, I was late too. I feel like San Antonio

needed to be challenged more than OKC did. You know, OKC, this is embarrassing. Like their second

best player, unless you want to say it's chat, let's just say it all in BA caliber, like a guy that was flirting with being considered a top 10, top 15 player because of Jamie Williams defense. He's played two of these eight games. They haven't needed him. They are throwing in guys in the second half that you're like, "Is he even going to play in a close game?" And they're going to come in and just make it like, "I don't even know if McCain actually plays in the spurs series." Yeah.

And he probably does at some point. But because they've already been through it, you know, the Dallas loss, which maybe is their playoff seasoning for a young group in 24, running through everybody last year, but not in a dominant way. Like they still had the game seven series against Denver, who knows what happens if Haliburton isn't going to get her and get. Like we kind of look at OKC is the, "Oh my god." It's like, "Man, they had like a couple of series where you're going,

I didn't expect this." Certainly against the Pacers. So, now that they've been through it, I don't know that they needed as much, even though the two teams they played clearly had no chance. And this version of Minnesota, even though a lesser version of Ant, no Deven Chenzoe, they're trying

“to figure it out. They've kind of shortened up the rotation. I think the fight that this series is,”

that these guys are really physical and to see the way you've got two rookies, right? You've got

Carter, you've got Harper, you've got a second year player in Castle. These guys are just up for the

physical challenge of what Minnesota is in a way that's really impressed me. Even the game four thing is really cool because they ended up just going to your sleep point. They went back to the hotel in Minneapolis where like, let's just sleep here tonight and then we'll wake up late and then we'll go back instead of just immediately leaving and landing in San Antonio like 4am. So, I think they needed it. So, it's not a clear, hey, okay, C's going to win because they had all this rest. I think San Antonio

needed to learn some stuff about themselves that they weren't going to learn in the Portland series for their first time ever going through it. So, even though it's going to go longer than maybe to expect because of the game four situation, I think there's a benefit to it for them because all of this is just like still new. Are you a little nervous if you're okay, C? I'll read you a tweet though from from one of the the best NBA brains on Twitter. This is from no tech band. He said,

"Only two guys to be okay, C and a championship round the past two years are Wemby and Yannis. There's a specific archetype that is their kryptonite." We will see that again. "Only two guys to be okay, C and a championship round the past two years are Wemby and Yannis." Are they talking about the cup? "Yes, that would be the NBA cup." "Yeah, I don't." "That's their kryptonite." I mean, that's facts. They lost in the championship

last year to Milwaukee in the NBA Cup final. They lost in the semifinals of the spurs. "I like to Buffalo Bills of the NBA Cup." "Yeah." People are starting to ask questions about it. "The Blueprint's Out." "When the stakes get highest in the NBA Cup." "Yes." "Yeah, single elimination. There could be some issues there." "Yeah, I'd really thought of that."

"No, actually we had that wake-up bar stool." Steve and Cheyne kind of brought up a similar point being like, "Because I believe that the spurs, I mean, yes, of course I could win it all, but you got to go through it to then win it all." And Steven Cheyne was like, "What about the NBA Cup? Do you not respect the NBA Cup and Ryan was just like, "No, I do not." "Like, point-like, do not." It's going to be, hey, 4-1, you know, in the regular season. And, you know,

to kind of that Nick's Pistons thing where I don't want to watch those games if they're playing each other and say, like, and again, Pistons got some work to do for Nick's fans even after worry about it. But, like, I saw real things in that that worried me about New York.

“So, I've got to remember that. You know, I'll be these games in the regular season.”

Like, don't forget what this felt like and what this looked like. And there were times, like, "OKC had a game against Houston," I remember, where I was just laughing, going, they can't start their offense. Like, "OKC, whatever they did out of the break, you're like, "Hey, let's, let's take their soul right now, defensively." And OKC can do that. They didn't even shoot it well in the playoffs last year. That was the difference where they would

just have this kind of 12-0 run where you're just like, we can't do anything against these guys. It sucks. And OKC normally does that to other teams. In San Antonio, in that game, I felt like it was, it was the one time I'm like, "Man, they're making OKC, look like an OKC opponent here." Like, this looks really, really hard. And even if you want to get into some of the lineup stuff, like, when these most minutes played against OKC and any regular season game, this year was 28 minutes.

It's like 21-21-24-26-28 or something like that. So they weren't even using, like, a full 35-minute version of him. And I've had times this year when I've watched them going, like, "I kind of want to be

“the guy that goes, you know, in February, you know what? I've seen enough." I think when he's that special,”

that they're going to still be able to be OKC, because it's not like OKC went through everybody last year, like Golden State did when those five guys were all right. Right. I mean, when he's been, he's been so impressive this year, it's been unreal. The best. He's the best watch in the NBA. I'm telling you, after that first quarter, the other night, I'm like, "What's more fun than this?" There's nothing that's where, like, you see something with Wimby that you have

never seen. Like, watching him play is, it feels like, how, you know, like, when you were a kid,

and you were playing Kush, like, like, a Kush basketball set, or like, a baseball set above that. I always thought you were going to talk about weed. No, Kush, yeah, yeah, yeah. As I know, well, I know you don't like weed, but I'm not a drug doctor, but you're, you were with us at the Bachelor Party confirmed. Drunk truck guys? No. But you remember when you were, I was so confused multiple times that I was like, I don't know what's going on right now. Yeah, we're just leaving the room.

Yeah, the other room. I had to use a bathroom. Yeah. I got a little bit of sweet on top of the sweet. I've got a small little bladder. It's shrinking. I feel like don't worry about Rassillo. He's taking notes. Also allergies. The desert. Lots of lots of allergies. But why is this guy napping? That doesn't make any sense. You remember like, yeah, being a kid, though, and playing like

“nerve basketball with a hoop above the rim and how, how low everything fell. That is how that's how”

we play as basketball and NBA quarter where it's like, oh, yeah, he's just going to step around people, not really leave his feet throw the ball down into the basket. So like, he gets credit for a lot of dumps, but he's just like throwing the ball down on half of his shot. So he's not

dunking. And then his defense is just absolutely incredible to a point that we've never seen

anything like it before. And just the steps that he's taking this year, he is the most fun to watch. I want him. I want the spurs to keep advancing because I want to keep watching Wimbie and like maximizing my years where I'm rooting for Wimbie because there will be a tipping point where I say this sucks. This is bad for basketball. He's too tall. It's not fair. Like you kind of women's hoops. Exactly. So Wimbie, I want to maximize the time that I have like actually rooting for Wimbie and

and actually feeling good about watching Wimbie on TV because I'm writing the thick of it right now and you think they have a real chance to beat the thunder. I do, but I'm not going to pick them. Okay. Yeah, I've basically, and I wish I had something cooler to say other than, hey, okay, he's been through it a little bit more and this is just the way this whole thing works. But I'm just like, don't fall for it. Don't fall for the regular season. Part of this,

even if it feels like, you know, Wimbie's kind of this unsolvable thing. And you're right, because I was thinking about it last night. Like the timeline of a star. And then what we do to these guys, right? Like where it's, it's so much fun and everybody loves them in the beginning. You know, like even aunt, although aunt's probably even though he was hurt here. And I don't think anybody should

feel bad about Anthony Edwards and be like, hey, we have to reassess this. But basically what happens is

like if you're really special. And I'm not talking about like that second tier of star, who gets the kind of hide and doesn't take all the shit of like the top six or seven guys. Like a beehomes in the NFL? Yeah, I can kind of like the radar. But like in the home, I'm saying the other way. Like my homes, we all love them until we didn't until it was like, okay, he's done this too. But at least he backed it all up. Yeah.

I think this guy's really, really special. But now it's year seven. And now we just have to shit on you. And if Wimbie say, it goes like the first six years without one, which seems unlikely, but it's still a lot, you know, whenever you're sitting there. And I remember like being on some of the debate shows and somebody across from you would be like, well, I don't think this guy's ever

going to win a championship. And you're like, okay, that's a really powerful statement.

And the odds are in your favor, do it. But you don't, you don't know that, but I can't argue with you and say, yes, I guarantee this guy wins one. Wimbie feels like it's a guarantee at some point. But say, they don't get through OKC this year. Say he's heard again, because I still feel like he falls down so much that his gear's a shit out of me. Say people figure out he's French. Yeah, that'll, that'll be some, but in the past, people are going to turn. But it also depends

where our relations are. Yeah. As you remember, like early 2000s when it was like, let's call him freedom of rise. It's stop wearing gray groups, gray groups, the club. Yep. Mm-hmm. You guys don't talk about it. Yeah, exactly. I was free them kissing. Yeah, I scroll. I wasn't making out. I wasn't, yeah, it was fun, seven minutes and half. Did you freedom her? I framed her. Yeah, we freed him last night. I do think that with the, with the spurs, tell me if I'm crazy,

“think this, it might, it might be prison at the moment, but throughout these playoffs, I think”

Dylan Harper might be the best guard that they have. I even wondered, like, if there were some castle possessions where they could, to give a few more to Harper, and then Castle wants the game got tied, you know, San Antonio blows that lead. And Minnesota's coming back, is there a tough fucking team man that the mentality that teams terrific, Champagne hits a three, and then Castle just goes in his own little 6-0 run where he just dropped the entire toolbox and was like,

yeah, I do all these different things. Because I'm with you, like Harper is so good, and he's working some really good defensive players where I think even they're a little surprised, because it's so smooth. You know, Castle is not smooth. He is like rough course, sandpaper, and then it works, and Harper's just like, oh shit, and then he finished on the other side, all these different stuff. I thought, like, is it too much to ask for him to be the guy to close out some of these games?

I mean, what he did in Portland in that one game, it's like, all right, yeah, I'm a rookie, and I'm going to close out a playoff game and just be completely unstoppable. I mean, it's stupid how good and comfortable some of these young players are. But I'd imagine Harper, like the progression of this team, is that Harper has more of these possessions that Castle has now, but I don't mean that is like a knock-on castle. It's just really good. I just think Castle's such a good

defender that that's the underrated part of it. Like they're both, he's caught. I voted him all

“defensively. Yeah, I don't think he's going to make all defense, but I think Castle's on ball”

stuff, because he's going to use all of his fouls. And he fouls so much, if they're kind of like, we're not going to call all these. Watch Castle off the ball. It's great. It's on like a really good offensive player. They had him playing against Yokech, one of those last regular season games,

that would be awesome. It's first not gets fun. You're taking down Randall too. Yeah, I mean,

like it's, you can put them anywhere. And we saw him live when we went to the tournament. Yeah, that's right. And you were like, that guy in two years is going to be this on the spurs. It's crazy. They've, they've nailed it. I mean, they have, if three guys under 21, they would do it those three guys. Harper Castle and, and Wemby. Yeah, and the card Brian, who probably could have the ball a little bit more, comes in. And he's like, yeah, I'll just be a

three indeed guy. Like, obviously until I get my rookie extension, I'd like to get some more shots, it's more stats and all that kind of stuff. And then he's totally bought in. Like Shannon went in him and he was like laughing at Shannon. And then he had a play where like, he and Randall slammed into each other. Whatever the scores are and who's hitting shots and all that stuff. The, the, hey, your first time through in Minnesota's now made it pretty deep the last couple of years. And these

guys have been around for a while. Like, as a young team going to respond, are they going to keep looking back to the bench? Are they going to keep looking at the reps? And instead, there's kind of looking at the opponent going, you're not, we're not intimidated by any of this stuff. Yeah. All right. I got a quick, let's play a game of, are they screwed? Sure. Lakers. No, because Luca is there. And you know, you're thinking about that trade going, like,

imagine if this were Davis LeBron Reeves eliminated in the second round and you're going, like, what do you do now? What do you do now? So the keys to canard? Probably, but he's a free agent. No, shit. Yeah. We're going to have to maximum who knows. Well, the credits like if I sign you for a huge number, people are just going to say that you remind me of me. And I don't, I don't need that kind of controversy. Yeah. They're not screwed because they

have Luca, but I mean, they have a ton of work to do, smarts a free agent. I mean,

8 and has a player option for 8 million. These things, I wouldn't think they'd want him to pick it up.

Uh, you think he'd still be able to do 8 million somewhere else. And then it's like, hey, can I just go to a bad team where I can maybe play like 40 50 games and get to where

“someone like my fancy shit. Yeah, play some video games. Right. Right. Like, can we just do like 50 games?”

Yeah. Get 14 and 10. Yeah. Right. In a 30 point loss. I can't, I couldn't believe like

Portland if you're a Lakers fan last year. And then I just go, look, he's not a Fox old guy. Then he

think he's making 79% of his shots. And off of Luca, like his job should be super easy to be able to give 50 points. Just stay engaged and catch all these lobs. And he's got great touch. I mean, there's a reason he went one. He's an incredibly talented guy. But he's just not a Fox old guy at all. And then Lakers fans find that were like, oh, maybe there were some points that were made here that were fair about him. I don't know what they're going to do with the LeBron thing. I can't

imagine that he was just going to retire in secret. Yeah, as he seemed like that'd be him. He doesn't want to be on the Lakers anymore. You see that whole the story about I did them giving the ball to JJ Reddick for his 100th win when LeBron had the most wins in the same game. I did. I just don't know why he cares about a lot of this pointless shit. Right. Because somebody had to care enough to make that point to the reporter.

“Or again, you like use it. He likes to say, I think he likes hearing himself say, you know,”

I'm a bit of a basketball historian. I think he thinks that that adds like a little bit of

penash. I always more behind LeBron James. Part of it I get because they're chasing this one guy. So it's

almost like every single thing is like trying to stack an extra little chip to get somebody. By the way, I don't know that I've ever met anyone that's neutral on the MJ LeBron thing. Have you ever met anyone that's ever changed their mind? No, no. Minds will never get changed. That's that's beauty behind it is like you say you're open to changing your mind when new facts come out. But no, I mean the longer LeBron plays the more he gives you the stats that you can then use against them. Like

he's the first guy to get swept in four different decades. Mm-hmm. Yeah, but I don't even, I don't care about that kind of stuff. It doesn't become like what's your favorite like flavor of ice cream. It's like are we going to argue what you like first what I like? Yeah, and we're kind of doing it right now. Yeah. I think it drives him crazy. I think that's kind of like even after the last

“dance. Like I think there was a lot of, I don't want to call it propaganda, but like”

floating out like there was one time what he had said, hey, I won the two toughest championships in NBA history and we talked about this in wake up our stool. And 16, I would get that come back. Like I think it's the toughest one I've ever seen. But I don't think the bubble one was tough even the way of acknowledging it and think it's a championship. You guys are, you guys are dicks about it. Yeah. Uh, no, for some people does count. Yeah. For you, it's fun. Yeah, it's fun. Yeah, it's fun. Yeah,

it's fun. Yeah, it's fun. Yeah, it's fun. Yeah, it's fun. Yeah. It does count. We went down the roster on Wednesday. He went through who gets it. Yeah, there was some halves given out. There's some half shares. There was some full shares. I think this year was actually pretty drama free considering, but there's, like I said, I just think there's a lot of like public messaging, a lot of PR with him that's kind of a waste of time. Like he wasn't one of, well, I thought he was actually

really good in the playoffs, right? But he knocked over something. Um, it was like he is no one's ever been

a better third option. No one's ever accepted their role better. And you were like, well,

of course, like, it still should go through Luca. Yeah, when Luca's right, this is one of the five best players in the world. You know what? You're right, people don't change their minds about it,

“but I think some people should like, if you compare it to political discourse in this country,”

you have, there's actually a market out there for somebody to be like, I've been a Jordan guy my entire life, and they left me behind. And now I'm a Lebron guy. And I'm reformed. I've changed my mind. They went too woke on me with Drake and did it. Saw that clip after the after the the car race win. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. I saw that in the open at this point. You you drive a man. So the overton window is shifted so far on Jordan. And now I find myself without a party and I have to be a

Lebron guy. Yeah. There's a market out there for a guy like that. Yeah. What a Ralph, who's Ralph Nader NBA. Oh, the green party. That's probably J. R. Smith. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. J. R. Seems like he would have might be Kobe. Yeah. Mm. Getting votes. Yeah. But I think that's too many. Shack too many votes. Yeah. I don't know. I don't know who that would be. Oh, maybe Yoke. Right. Yeah. What is Katie going to do? What is options going to look like this off season?

Uh, look, their whole thing is I have I have their GM on in like a couple hours. So I can't wait for that. But it, um, their big thing is like if we had had Fred Vanneville eat, we would have been fine. Now, not fine. Like hey, we're going to be okay. So that's a real point to know. But it was pretty clear. And that's just where like the playoffs exposes your stuff and like doesn't you can't lie anymore in the playoffs. And you're like, okay, the immense and point card thing like

isn't a thing. Um, read shepherd who I still really like. It's a lot to ask when you didn't really even want to play him because he may can't stand his defense, even though I think there's some things that he holds up better. But again, if you're going to pick on somebody, you're not going to pick a men overreed, uh, you know, to ask him to be like, hey, run our offense and these playoff games. Like that's not going to look great either. And when they play shingoon and a men

together, and then Durant's just fucking miserable because he's like a men's guy doesn't play him if he's outside. And then if shingoons outside, nobody plays against him. And then Durant,

times, like why are you bringing the ball up and walking right into a double team? Um, 30 feet away from the basket. And then like nobody's respecting anybody outside of you because they just don't

feel like you have real shooting, uh, even with somebody like Tarys and his first half of the season,

he just was on fire and then it fell off a cliff. So I understand him looking around and going like, hey, I can't be asked to bail us out of every single one of these possessions despite how great my resume is as an offensive player and like what a matchup. I mean, I remember when he's bitching about the Lakers double teaming him. Yeah. It's like no shit, man. Like you're gonna get double, like look at the matchups here. Of course, like the playoffs, you start selling out a little

bit more with your rules going like, let's really try this. You know, it's back to that mobly,

“a star thing where you just go, what if we just have mobly on him and he never plays them?”

Yeah. Yeah. If he hits a shot or two, fine. But now we get to play against four guys with five and the extra five is a former defense player of the year. So I imagine because he's already gotten the extension and everything that the whole thing is, it'll be so much better when Fred is back and don't worry about it because I don't think he's gonna want to say like, hey, I need to go somewhere else again. Oh, I'll be so funny. You guys are so funny. Yeah. I mean, yes, I am. Absolutely.

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know go further with Copilot can learn more at m365 Copilot dot com slash work m365 Copilot dot com slash work and now more Ryan Racer. What about the nuggets of the nuggets screw? No, I don't think they're screwed, but the Aaron Gordon not being healthy thing back to back playoff runs here. It's not great. Yeah, I mean, he was he was really hurt last year and I mean, you want to talk about somebody who's playing hurt because sometimes you get pissed like the team gets

eliminated and he's like, you know, that guy's ankles actually was mean, you're like, I couldn't even tell

“man Aaron Gordon you're like, oh, what is running around with his hamstring last year? What are you doing?”

Even this year when it was like he can't even jump up to contest like if anybody's going to jump up and try anything it's that guy. So I think Cam Johnson's year was generally a disappointment and then Christian Brown in the playoffs, but he's under contract wasn't great. They had they had real depth this year. Man, they had depth that you felt like, okay, this is going to be able to help them stay competitive in those few non-yokage minutes in the playoffs because, you know,

the regular season numbers, whatever, like he's going to take off his normal sub pattern, but he's going to play more minutes in the playoffs and that was something during the regular season that was like a big improvement for them, even if a couple of the other guys I thought were like a little down, but you know, they're not a team that's known for paying the tax, which is incredibly unfortunate. Like if you're going to pay the tax, it should be when you have one of the

greatest players in the history of the game. Yeah. Yeah. And then what's your official prediction what LeBron does this off season? Where would you, you know what, I'm not going to say prediction. I want Ryan to use his imagination. Where would you like to see LeBron next season? Where would I like to see? I don't know that I care enough to say like I'd really like to see this. I mean, if he cares about money, he'd be funny to just be like, all right, go to Chicago,

then you've got all this capacity. Finally, do you finally do it from that summer? Right.

“Is that the way to surpass Jordan? Yeah. That would be very important. You play for any other teams.”

I want to wear also to go to try to master things. You'll be the question here by PFT. Yeah, I love the Jordan Wizard years. I've got to see a lot. They're great. I have a hard time believing that he wouldn't work something out with O.A. Yeah, but think about J.J. Reddit got that ball, that came ball. So that was pretty good. That was bad. You think Reddit would just go, hey, man, here's the ball. Yeah, here. You know what, you have the ball. Yeah, I can't imagine

Reddit carrying scribbles over it. Yeah, that'd be odd. It's just duct tape. Yeah, two LeBron. It basically wonder how many balls LeBron has in his house. How many, how many, how many meaning hundreds? Does he have, if he's that fired up about this one? I know, because I used to get annoyed about the Emmett Smith thing. Yeah. I was like, you're going to keep all of them. Hmm. And I don't know why bother me. Yeah. Because like, if you, you either love the cowboys,

you hate the cowboys. And granted, I was a kid. So it's far more irrational about stuff. It's like, oh, you're going to keep that one. I'd be like, watching a game. And I mean, there's some trainer writing it down. Yeah. It was like number three 11 17. Speaking of, um, do you want a gift?

Yeah, I mean, your purse that you've been walking around with has been pretty nice. And now I got

“dressed pretty gay this week. I think people need to see us. Yeah, sure. I thought the Ryan was, uh,”

his a. I thought Ryan was pit bull when he walked in the office this morning. Well, and you can also say, 'cause he's not like your single and lifelong single live by yourself. So it's not people aren't asking questions. He came in with a like, when Ryan, when Ryan came in today, he came in with the presence. It was like, uh, it was almost, it was almost like, oh, a wind came with you. Oh, all right, sit sit down and do the rest of the interview with that. Can you hear the model post? Like,

you did when you rocking that reseller hoodie. You just looked awesome. You look awesome. I told you, well, this was on the live show. So we people didn't hear this, but I, I said, like, when we were at

the Kavanaugh, your, your body looked awesome. Thanks, man. You had your shirt off, and I was like,

damn, what kind of glasses are this? Uh, these are Louis Vuitton's. Phrase nice. Yeah, ever heard of them. Yeah. I wish you like your gift. Yeah. I mean, obviously, this isn't going to go well. No, I actually think it's going to go pretty well. Well, you can see you guys. So my expectations are somewhat muted. Well, listen, hey, hey, uh, I don't know if you know this, but uh, you know, you're, the show you do

“Ryan Racer podcast, uh, it, it is recorded and people can listen to it. So when you said, I think the exact”

quote was, uh, big cat, what a waste of a great frame. That one heard a little. You know what, though, nothing is, nothing is worked. I don't know. So nothing has worked so far. So sometimes you need tough coaching. Mm-hmm. You know, I remember all the fat would have been better. You're disappointment when you said the exact quote, what, what a waste of a great frame. I also think that's like that might be. I've said it a few times. It might be. Yeah. I was Billy Football take, too. I think he said

the exact same thing. Kyle's Rudy both gave like a, like, not like a, there's, yeah, you know that that's bad. Yeah. There's like no one says anything and they just go, but I also, you think I'm saying it to be insulting. No, you got money. Yeah. And I appreciate that. Also, I was a little upset, too, because the life advice, you guys had a life advice where it was very funny. It was a 41 year old dude who, that was why this came up the frame thing because the guy said he had a comp of my body.

But the 41 year old dude married a 29 year old girl. Okay. And the 29 year old girls, youngest brothers, 23. Yeah. Keep calling them a pedophile in the group chat. And you guys took it way too seriously. That kid rocks. You think he's awesome. Yeah. And Paul's brother-in-law, a pedophile would be like, serious about it. It's funny. It's fucking. Yeah. I didn't think of it that way at all. Yeah. Oh, I want to hang with that dude. Yeah. Because I all I could think of

him was that he grew up thinking everything was terrible and like you could put some label on everything like he was raised by Twitter, so that he was like, I can't believe my brother-in-law's a pedophile. Yeah, dude. You got to relax. Like, you know, when people are just funny. Yeah, but just there's certain things where it's like some of these, the power of some of these categories have been ruined because you're saying it about like anybody. Yeah. No, but that guy, he might be right.

You don't know. He's married to basically a 30-year-old. Yeah. But I didn't know that. It's kind

“of funny that he had right. That's why he was 30 and he was 11 years older than your kid. Well,”

you have a thing about what about when the guy who wrote in when he was 22, his wife was what, 11. That wasn't the email. But that's bad. I'm telling you the 20-year-old. Either way, when I heard him say that, when you're like, it keeps calling me a pedophile. I laugh so hard. That guy

is fucking funny. Did you ask when they met? That day they never met three years prior. So he

was 38 and I think it was 38, 26 and then 41, 29. But to like think of like a mirror, everyone's like on a group chat with their family to think about a 23-year-old male like being on a group chat with his family and being like, yeah, your husband's a pedophile is very funny. It's really funny until it's actually real, though. Like, imagine being the guy who emails in and his brother and law is calling him a pedophile like to everyone, and then go with it. Okay, but how would you? Like,

if you actually were the guy who emailed and you, I probably talked shit back to the 23-year-old. I'd be like, I'm picking your sister up from school, hang on, I'll get back to you. Yeah. And I'd be like, hey, dude, you're pretty obsessed with me being a pedophile. You got something you want to tell us? Yeah. Like, virgin. Yeah, well, no, just like, maybe you're thinking about how often you think about pedophilia. Yeah. Reverse it on them. Meg, we do an intervention.

That would be an awful, great prank, though, interventions with people that don't need them. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I got golf trip to life. I'm addicted to calling strangers pedophiles. Yeah. Just keep doing it. Either way, I thought that kid rocks. So, uh, maybe I'm a little

ready for the gift. I am. You, I'll, I'll, I'll preface this gift with saying, if you

look, it looks damaged. It, well, I open it to confirm it was it. Uh, if you don't want to bring it home with you, I will, uh, find a place for it here that we can celebrate it. Okay. Okay. All right. There you go. Oh, wow. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. This looks like it might be awesome. Yeah. It is awesome. All right. Because I know you've been on this memorabilia. Yeah. I have crazy. This is the flag of Sri Lanka. No, it's way better.

Is this a sale? I don't have a sale, though. It's way better. You can, maybe look at the sale for your boat. Oh, no way. Yeah. Say, say it in the, it's a banner. It's pretty damn cool. Right. The link about it says it says the NBA finals. The NBA finals is 14 foot, uh, long banner. This is an awesome gift. Yeah. But, which titles is it? Good question, bubble. No, you know which finals of this. That NBA finals banner hung in the concourse

in Phoenix, Arizona for Chris Paul's only NBA finals, which he lost by the way up to oh,

“you honestly did every three. You're pretty excited about that, too. Yeah. I mean, I know”

it's the purple. So I was a little. Wait. So why do you have it? I thought it for you. Well, I appreciate it. I'm going to send a picture to Chris Paul right now. Yeah. Well, be careful because he might, he might relapse because when he got that, he was like, I'm kind of addicted

to going to the finals. So he's, he finally called Turkey get rid of that. If you send that back,

he might backslide. Would you want me to hang it here? Do you want to take it home with you? Man, I don't know. I'm trying to think which room it works in. It's important to think. What have I hung it outside? And like, no, be cool. When people drive by Manhattan Beach because different people have flags on their house. Yeah. And then I was like, I can't tell if that's that might actually be hilarious. Oh, like, he's just a finals guy. I might have to put like a

sea anchor in behind it with the wind we get down there. All right. You need to sign. It is a gift for you. But if you don't, because it is kind of an annoying gift. This is a great gift. This is a great gift. This is a great gift. Yes. It's one of Chris Paul's only fun. You want to talk about like, I have this little briefcase from Sarah Walsh that I've said is the nicest gift anyone's ever gotten me. Now, I feel like number one and number two, a right next to each other. I'm not even sure what number one

“is. Ryan, what I think you should do, at least for the podcast that you put out during the”

NBA finals, the NBA says they're going to put the Larry O'Brien trophy on the court to give it like a little extra flayer. You should just have that in the background of every podcast, turn the finals. Yeah. Only during the finals. Yeah. That way, people know. Yeah. I'm going to take it. Okay. I love the game. We can have Dom ship it to you. Yeah. I want to put it in your back. Yeah. Because I don't, I don't know how I would fit it. They'd be like, hey, you can't

have any of your clothes. Yeah. I mean, what if I wrap myself in this? That'd be pretty cool. I think you could make a suit out of this. Oh, little photoshoot for the NBA finals. Wait a minute, the why did Phoenix get rid of it? So I was in a veil. I found it on eBay. To me, that's that at all the things that we've gotten at this office, I think this is the most impressive one that big cat's gotten because I don't see a lot of teams getting rid of like NBA finals participant

banners. Do you think it was, it wasn't like a banner that was, this was a banner in the like concourse. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Like you could, this is like probably outside of like 104, 104, 104. Okay. It still sounds in 104. Yeah. There you go. But yeah, it's, it's a cool banner.

It's an awesome gift because I was never going to play in one likely. So never send the finals. Yeah.

Never say never. Let me see if he put any other details. This banner was hanging at the Phoenix suns arena for the NBA finals. Phoenix suns for Milwaukee best bucks. Yeah. It's beautiful. Used in game. Love it. I'm, I'm really appreciative. Yeah. Seriously. I'm going to hang it in the, uh, the backdrop of the pod. Grab the finals. Great. Chris Paul decided. That would be cool. I don't think I'm going to do that. I got Andrew

luck to sign the semi final banner. Yeah. He was like, yeah, he was like, yeah, sign it. We want to get every, we want to get as many people in that game to sign that banner. Yeah. I actually feel like that, that banner went from being probably worthless to a very great piece of NFL merchant. Oh, yeah. That'd be pretty crazy if your whole long play was to buy these things that you can't believe exist and then you guys kind of raise awareness and then you're just flipping these. Oh, no,

they're, I mean, well, Hank's sitting there. He doesn't see division, but I, I have no intention of selling any of these things, but like a Buffalo Bill stadium trough that also was impartial

“HQ would go for more money. It would. I'm not going to sell any of these, but yes, I think that would be”

if things went bad. You know, yeah, they're like those guys are getting a little old for some of those jokes. Yeah. Then we just start to just run it off. Yeah. Yeah. Someone, everything. Just doing

cool to call this brother-in-law, pedophile. Well, I think it'd be that way. I'm not sure if you

“stop talking to Ryan because he tells us you're right. Yeah. I was like, Ryan, this is an MBA draft”

preview. You're doing a lot of scouting on 19-year-olds yourself, so maybe I can, I've got a similar problem that you can help me with. I know, I'm getting too nice though as I get older. Yeah, no, I, I saw this, this guy, this kid is just like he's a ballbuster to the, to the extreme level. I guess maybe I took it personally because if I do get married, it's probably going to have it to me. Being a pedophile? No. Younger wasn't what I was. Younger wasn't what I was.

Luckily, it would be a little bit younger. What does that mean to a vendor? But maybe May September relationship? May September. Yeah, you know, May November, that would, you would describe some older couples. Like the, if the guy's 60, the ladies in her, like late 20, so it would be a May November relationship. But you are looking maybe for like a May September. I see what you're saying. Yeah. Yeah. I remember I just, I was in Vail once and I saw some old

guy just ripping darts in a ski outfit, and it was clearly a second wife. He was a little bit

messier than maybe I'd want to be. But it was a little early. He's still in a ski outfit. And he just, I was like, is that guy? Got it all figured out? You know, because you're great for him. Yeah.

“You know, but I don't know. Yeah, maybe that's why maybe that's why I didn't go there because I was like,”

I'll likely be 10 years older if I ever get married. Yeah. You know what I would like to do at some point with your permission? You know how like, so I pity some people have, they've got packs. Where it's like, hey, if we're both single and we're 50, we're getting married. That sort of thing. I'm not making a pack of you. Not with me, but at some point, like, is there a date where we can do the Rhino Solo dating show? Yeah. No. I think you'd be a catch-rine. I don't know. What about the Rhino Solo bachelor party? We were thinking

about doing that with my college buddies. They were like, can we just have a bachelor party,

even though you're not engaged? And I was like, yeah, I probably, I mean, it's so basically you

have an excuse for yep. And they're like, are you going to tell your wives that I'm not that there's no wedding invites, save the date or anything coming? And they're like, we'll just say that it got called off. And everyone will believe it. That's fucked up. That part's messed up. Because one guy was like, we're just going to say it was called off. And I was like, well, you know, like, you think it's going to be challenged? Red flag comes out. Yeah, I was like, oh, yeah,

that's, I was like, that'll be an easy sell. And then guys are like, come on, let's do it. Like, let's, it's been forever. And then they were kind of like, if you would've got married in your 20s, that bachelor party would've sucked. This would've all had to pay for everything, including you. But now, like, I was like, it also started to sound like I'm going to pay for all of it now, which is not what's supposed to happen. No. So I'll tell you what, you guys are invited to my bachelor party.

Nice for a wedding that's really likely not going to happen. Okay. Yeah. So yeah, it might

you ever know. Yeah, never say never. Yeah, I did the drop of pin pot. And I admitted like,

sometimes I wonder if I do the travel logs because it's an excuse to be by yourself. Where if I just did the solo trips without any documentation, then you'd be like, hey, dude, this is getting old. Yeah, it's a bummer. Yeah. Do you not want to share some of these experiences? Some of you care about. And then it's like, well, I've got to take notes. I got to figure out what the spice trade was from the 1400s. So I don't, I can't. I couldn't have anyone here. She's like, oh,

are you outlining day four again? Working. Yeah. And if you're like, hey, we have to make it, make sure we see these waves. It's going to take us six hours to drive there. And she'd go, like, can we just stay in extra day here and get brunch maybe and sleep in? I'm like, no, the tides are perfect today. We're on a schedule. Yeah. So like I, I'm just admitting it right now. That's exactly why I do that. Yeah. But there's nothing right. You don't, you don't have to have it. Like,

there's nothing wrong with one of our shows wasn't, they were like, this is fucking, I was like, I'm just telling you guys, because are my friends, Saint Bart's soul. I was like, this is fucking

“stupid, man. Yeah. That's a very like guy. You should be here with sexy place to go. Yeah. That's a”

good romantic place. Yeah. I'm admitting there's nothing wrong with traveling alone. Some people like how about for 15 years to numerous examples. If you like, it sounds like you enjoy. I do like, he's kind of telling us something right here that maybe the, like, I'll admit, I've walked around a couple of villages in the last couple of years going, hey, man, what are we doing? Yeah. So I'm just sharing that with you. Okay. Well, hey, listen, PMT, bachelor party at gmail.com. If you're interested,

hit us up. That email address is still being monitored. Ryan, um, listen, there's, there's a big question out there that's on everybody's mind. We've talked for long enough without, uh, discussing the Washington wizards on this podcast. I love how in you are. Uh, next you have any Excel's from that gear. I did send me all mediums. It's crazy. The shot shot up. There's a senior thighs. Yeah. Good point Ryan. Uh, right after Hank and I made our bet, a giant box got put at my

shout out to them. I made a bet with Hank the other day, um, because he's stuck in a, uh, an old mindset of like, you know, the mid 90s, mid 2000s wizards, where he doesn't think they'll ever do anything good. And he doesn't understand the new regime. Um, we made a bet that the wizards are

“going to finish. I think in the top eight next year. And now this is assuming that AD sticks around,”

which I think he is. And it's assuming that they, uh, keep the number one pick and they don't trade it to the jazz and they have to banster, which is the assumption right now. But with that, I think that they're going to be a top eight pick. Hank does not think so. Top eight seed or top eight seed. Sorry, top eight seed in the east next year. Does that mean they have to like make the pick, they be a 10 seed win the plan. No, no, not. But they could be an eight seed and lose in the plan.

Right. Look, if those two guys are healthy, they should be in the top eight. Thank you. Thank you. And the thing is I actually like some of the other guys, like I think

saw her had a really good second year. Um, I really like Kicheon George. Yeah. I think trade

Johnson was one of my favorite players in that draft class. Blaw and Bubb are kind of like a weird, like which version of it do you want? And it's like if they were just a hybrid person, then it'd be like, well, that's impossible. At least the science now who knows. There's a lot of things that I, I like from like a competitive standpoint. And when you look at the east this year, like how crazy it was, which kind of gets us back to where we started with this whole thing,

is Detroit makes this monstrously, but then you're like, are you okay, but were you a full,

“kind of your tri-harp part of it? Which I think Charlotte also was is like you're playing kind of”

your peak all regular season. Right. And then it gets exposed a little bit when there's like another level. And I think for Detroit, it's not so much that they tried too hard. It's just the

offensive thing. Right. So the Celtics things kind of weird. The sixest thing is always weird.

The team that made it to the finals is missing the best player. So they end up tanking a year after being in the NBA finals. So that's crazy. Cleveland Pivot's midseason into something that never works during the playoffs historically, but they might be in the eastern conference finals. I already mentioned Orlando who I think should have been a top 14, but they're a fucking mess. They can never stay healthy and they bring in pain and they're actually a worse shooting team,

which doesn't make any sense because I think pain's been great for them. So when you run through all of it and I'm still leaving out like, who knows what the heat's going to look like? Yeah. Heat, heat are always good for what I like. I didn't mention Toronto. I don't necessarily love the construction of the roster. How much they've spent on some of these guys. But if they're to your k-point, like when we're done with this, let's not not k-t if they don't get through this,

“because I think we're all realizing like, hey, k-t could end up becoming the best point card in the NBA.”

Some of the stuff that I worried about with Scotty Barnes, of what is these league? Future face of the league. How many guys are eligible for that? I think it's just Scotty Barnes. Future face of the league. That's just, we just say, I quote a lot here because of the coach. Yeah. Future face of slick. Max, you said. Max, you said. Put the phones on real quick. I knocked him over. You have a, I didn't know Max had a dart. Oh, he loves it.

I'm Max has a lot of stuff. Future face of the slick. Good. That's really good. That was so good. I love Scotty Barnes even more after this whole thing. So Toronto's probably good for, you know, a couple, um, I don't know. I mean, maybe there's a tweak here or there. The point of this whole thing is there's stuff in the way, but if the 26 season told us anything is like, you can't really eliminate any of these teams other than the

nets, the bulls, um, you know, you know, Atlanta. The Atlanta's five is good. They'll be, you know, you can't just sit there and say, hey, everybody's telling you better. No, yeah. There's elegance. Unless they move conferences, uh, with AD and tray, even though, look, tray's not exactly my favorite and you get something like, you know, you get kind of like a Dylan Harper season out of who the number one pick ends up being. I don't think it's crazy. Yeah. Okay. I don't think it's crazy. I mean, I might not

happen, but I don't think it's crazy. Yeah. It's not like you're saying they're going to be a top 4C. The

one argument you can make is 80 gets hurt. 80 gets hurt, but I always say like, if he's healthy,

I've said if he's healthy, probably 500 times. Yeah. But that's half the league. Yeah. I don't know. I think that they're going to be fun at the very least. And I was telling the guys about this about how historically they've been over the course of the last like 50 years. So they haven't won 50 games since 1979. I can't 80 that. The wizards have never been to a conference finals or 150 games in a season since the invention of the three-point shot. Think about that. We won the championship,

the next year we won 50 games. I think we lost in the finals the next year. And then the year after that, they put in the three-point shot and the wizards, the bullets at the time, bullets were

embraced analytics? Not yet, not but now, now we are. Wingers, Steve Hersling, get rid of the three-point

“line. Wingers who I like a lot, we had them on the pod. He's an awesome basketball guy. Tons”

of respect. It doesn't mean that you just get to fix everything immediately. I also wonder why the debons of things become like consensus the way that it has this week. Like I feel like it's I just wouldn't I don't know anything but I'm just telling you like I don't Peterson is so much better than debons and when they play against each other and if you don't believe me which is fine because I kind of like prep late for the draft but Gavoni who's really

good on this stuff. Like he had a clip that came out this week was Aquilo where he just goes hey

I've watched him play like eight to ten times in person. I've never once thought debons it was better

than him and I know the Peterson season is crazy in regard to everything to happen. I don't believe the creatine thing at all because it'd be like hey what's wrong with you? Oh I started taking this supplement a month ago. Okay well hey you could be the number one fucking pick in the NBA draft. So how about we stop taking the supplement or find a different creatine like that doesn't make any sense that it would happen all season long and like hey we figured it out. Now everything's fine

just not going to take not going to take this stuff micronized we're out on it. I just think that Peterson like to just turn the page on this the way the consensus kind of has that it's like oh yeah that's just AJ and they're going to take him now you may take him because I wouldn't blame any GM for being like a little scared. Yeah, you know of going like it's kind of scared to shut out of me a little bit. Yeah. If I'm going to be wrong like I want to be wrong because AJ ends

up not being a great player. I don't want to be wrong in three years where Peterson isn't playing it's like hey dickhead you know like Mark health full. So I mean yeah that that was that came out of nowhere coming up. But yeah where you have a Martin. Yeah, right. There was that shoulder thing that some people tell you if you would see him play before he had that shoulder injury that they were like hey there's a reason why like teams still believe in him as the number one

overall guy. So I'm only saying that is like I'm I'm surprised that as soon as the lottery was drawn it was the wizards and it's like people ready to make a jersey for AJ and they still may end up picking him I just wouldn't think it's a I I would feel like it's a challenge for front office to turn the page on Peterson that quickly. Yeah, I would agree I don't have it set and

“stone is being AJ I think that also people looking at the roster the wizards and saying”

AJ makes more sense right now. But I don't think that that should actually impact if you really believe in a guy going number one. That's where I think you make the biggest mistakes in the draft. Is is drafting for fit? Yeah it's like Martin films. You know he's just like hey you know pick the best guy you'll figure it out later if he's the best guy. Right. Who do you think is going to have the better career? A cuff or waggler. Wow. Because a cuff does something like right now

that immediately translates where you just go okay he's going to get by everybody at the time and yeah I know he sucks on defense but some of the stuff I think is I think it's really fixable especially

like with big times scoring kids or like they've never really had a play defense or whole life but

there's other teams that just think like it's so bad. You know waggler's thing was that he was like in control of every possession and I want to compare him to SGA but there's some SGA type stuff where it's like he keeps the possession alive beyond his own shot decision with him where there's a composure to him but it doesn't look it's not physically as impressive as other guys which is kind of SGA's downfall is that it doesn't ever look as cool as ant doing something

it's just way more efficient historically efficient for a two guard. So if you were getting like the R-a thing being like a knock on SGA which I kind of get but it's like I'd rather have that though

“and I think waggler has some of that stuff in where once they just gave him the keys to that team”

like that guy was unbelievable. So I'm going to go waggler. Okay. All right, you got to go Ryan.

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Q-sips, Polos, hoodies, joggers, shorts, rowback.com from a code take, put on the headphone Zach. Oh yeah, Zach. I went ahead phones free on this one. Yeah you did. You brought dog debt. It's going on around how are we doing today? I'm great Zach. It's so good to see you. Great to see you as well man. I did have a quick question with you being a well-traveled man. This may be some life advice. Was there a particular country where you found was like this

made sense to find a life partner there or is that something you think should be done domestically? It's a great question. It's a great question. Because I thought about it like when I went to when I landed in Rekvick, I was kind of like, I was like, man, it's three hours to Minneapolis and I was like, and they just go straight up to Rekvick. I was like, this is like less than five hours. It's like, if I meet somebody here, this is even that bad of a commute. I mean, if granted you be saying,

like, oh, I'm going to go see my girlfriend in Iceland. Right. And you'd be like, you couldn't, you live in Los Angeles, man. Like, Rekvick? Yeah. Outside of Rekvick, the western fjords. I don't think we're going to find a lot there. But I really think it should be done domestically.

I'm not entirely opposed to that, but you're right. I probably shouldn't be like a green card target.

“But you're not opposed. Not 100% opposed. You know, like, I haven't been to South America, though.”

So I'm sure, like, my mind, that's where you were kind of going with that. Like, Zach. I don't hate the, like, Columbia, maybe. Yeah. I like the, this is what Jersey Jerry warned us about. Italians aren't going to exist anymore, because they're all attracted to Columbia. And now you're next in line, right? Yeah. I feel like the Columbia thing is is over because everyone talks about it. I could see that, like over saturation in the market.

Yeah. Zach, it seems. Thoughts? I miss my Colombian girls. Yeah. The strip club. We're not really. We've just said that a couple of times. I miss my Colombian girls. It's just a big weekend. It's just a big Colombian weekend all around for us.

Yeah. Max is special. The problem is, is like, if you're going to these hot Instagram spots,

like, they're just as unapproachable as like going out in Manhattan and fighting over nines with financial guys. Yeah. But Zach is a, these are, these are attractive guys. No, he's a demon. I get that. But I just, like, there's, there's a language barrier thing. So I don't

“know, you know, it's just tough. Like, I remember walking around this one town in the South of France.”

And I was like laughing out loud about how hot everybody was. And I was like, you're not going to do anything about it. I was like, of course, I'm not going to do anything about it. I'm just going to go home. Like, hey, how's it going? I'm solo. And I'm a little bit older than I look. Good questions. You like film. If we're going to domestically run, not to branch off a little bit, if we're going to domestically, not online, where we, where's like, where the, here's right here.

You're in it. I'm telling you right now. Chicago is the most attractive slash approachable fairer sex of any major city in the United States. And I'm telling you right now, like, you don't have to deal with a Northeast thing. You don't have to deal with the Southern, why aren't you marining me in six months thing? You don't have to deal with the Southern California thing where it's like, hey, you're nice, but a linebacker in the NFL is also DMing me. You know, you are in Chicago.

And if there's one thing that is consistent about this place, Midwest values, Midwest sensibilities. And girls, they're cute that you can actually talk to. Yeah. And you're, I mean, he knows. He plays a little quiet. He needs to get it as DMs. I guarantee you they're lit up right now.

I appreciate the advice, Ryan, more than you know. Thank you. His eyes are incredible. He lost the

soft eyes. Yeah, incredible. It sounds like exact thought about that very question before, like what what nationality would you be most attracted to? Yeah. When sure if I feel like romance could be like a global thing. So I wouldn't sure. I figured as a world travel man. Yeah, Germany, though, Germany. Yeah, little village. That might not like the guy like, yeah, there's I'm telling you when you're attracted, you're just attracted and you get through those barriers.

Mm-hmm. Love transcends language. Is that what you're telling me? Yeah. Basically, German, little German villages. Got like you roll in with those shoulders. Whoo! Whoo. All right, Ryan. You're the best. Everyone listen to Ryan, we're so podcast. And you want this. I want it. Fuck you. I did six shows. I wasn't able to do mostly sports. Oh, that's tough. I know. That's tough. Yeah. I didn't hear from those guys. Yeah.

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Honestly, nothing to report. It's been a good week. Whether it's Wethers coming. Whether it's coming. Whether it's coming. What do you mean by that? I mean, it's sunny out. It stays light out till past eight o'clock, which is just the best. Can I throw something out there? No, no, no. I'm just, maybe this is just me losing my mind a little getting old, whatever. If it feels like it's lighter, we are earlier.

Yeah. Like, I noticed that. Yes, sure. I know. I know. I know, obviously,

“no, duh, dude. That's what happens when we switch to clocks all that shit. But it feels like”

even more earlier than usual. I agree. I got the wake up at like 540 and been like, what? Did I sleep in? What the fuck? We got like one more month, right? Of it getting lighter, earlier and staying light later. Yeah, and not soon. So we're not even done yet. Some's up with the sun. Some's going all with the sun. What do you say? I don't know. I the sun.

I'm on to you, bro. Well, this is, it's the second sun. You guys know that, right?

They're late. They're late. They're placed the sun high in the 1970s. By the way, no fall out for my early and talk the other day. They do shit. Yeah, they're waiting. Maybe you're an alien. Yeah, sure. This is actually making more sense now. For a group of next week's super exciting for group week. And yeah, there's, I got nothing. I really racked my brain. But I got nothing. I was, you know, it was a long week last week. I was happy to be back. Feel good. Feel healthy.

You, you're, you're finally over because you haven't go from Max's Bachelor Party LA Live Show to

“then a wedding. Like, I don't know how you did that. No, it was a lot. I, I pushed my body to the”

absolute limit. But then I came back, Sunday, potted. And then Monday, I just went to, you know, just, there's a, there's a Russian bathhouse in Chicago. Just went there, sweating for three hours. Feel like I got all the toxins out of my system. And now you get see your kids today. On Friday. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I got, I got, I got this, visitation. I don't know if you know how we do this show. No, I know. But yeah, Daddy's home.

Yeah. Do you think they remember you? I also long week. You're going to see. They're probably going to be upset with me. It might not go well. But you're not going to recognize them. You're like, I've been going for so long. I know. I feel, do you feel guilty? Yeah. I, I, I feel terrible whenever I go this long without seeing my kids. And it, like, I can't sleep

a night. But when you see him like the second they see you, it's all worth it. And yeah, you just never

want to say goodbye. Is it like a, um, I just be there for, I'm, it's been 10 hours with my kids. It's like a military homecoming. Yeah. She'd have hang hide in the box, roll them out to the first T box. It's Kathy season. When he steps out of his car and goes up to him just jumps in his arms.

“Miss you. Okay. So you just, your life is awesome.”

Yeah. Listen, we do like a can't force a fire fest. I have them a lot. Uh-huh. I got nothing this week. Okay. Good. We won softball. Yeah. Yep. Bad fun. Yeah. It's a great week. Yeah. I also love that that's like your number one priority. Like your priority. Like everything went good this week. What am I softball game? Well, usually like things that, that things that happened outside of work that become fire fest. Like I didn't really do anything like I, I was relaxing

outside of work this week. And the one thing we did we want. So yeah. Gohandily. Hey, the dog. Yeah. He did. Nice. I saw that on the recap. Inside the park. Who had a recap? The, uh, maybe squeeze a little robot. Are they all inside the park? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. This one almost laughs. But would this have been a home run on most ball fields and have a fence? Probably except for Fenway. Just because it was so long. Yeah.

The monster went down. Yeah. All right. Cool. Yeah. Okay. My fire fest of the week. I don't really, I'm kind of with Hank on this. But there is something. There is something. Because I've had a

pretty good week. And again, like, we coming up next week. I'm so excited to drop the first interview.

I'm also so excited for Fenway. Yeah. That's going to be, we haven't been in a Fenway would had no long time. It also feels like doing growing this time of the year feels correct. Yes. Yeah. And what? One of my favorites makes it more exciting. I don't know. I do the same way. No, because when we do it in August, there definitely is a feeling of like, okay, we've had a long, you know, we packed some things into the summer, especially last summer. It was like,

we did this, this, this, this. This is like a kickoff in two songs. Yeah. I'm excited. One of our group firefests could be that Max is being a big pussy about Fenway would have. Yeah. Terrified to ride in a baby. It's being a big baby. It's not true. Yeah. You're being a

are going to do. You called me into a conference room freaking out that we were not going to have enough time to drive. I still don't think. Yeah, you don't understand. You guys just love scheduling things and don't think about time. We'll do. It's pretty, buddy. You got a fucking, if we don't sleep, we don't sleep. We got 24 hours in the bed. We did all nighter. Yeah. We're, we probably will. Okay. Great. Good. I see the difference. You guys are going to be talking cranks. No,

we're out. How no. Hey, hey, hey, hey, what happened? Hank didn't get breakfast one night. Oh, hey. Well, guess what, bitch. There's a lot of waffle houses. So we can hit those. Love it. Yeah, that might be a groupfire festival. PFT announced he's going to eat every meal waffle house, which means we have to eat every waffle house. Oh, no. Great. I don't know. It's a great idea. Well, I would like to get some any we're going to New Orleans. I'd like to get some.

“Oh, you should do it. Come on. Yeah. Come on. Last time I came back with a kidney filled with”

gravel. That's, that's grit. Yeah. That's, or I could just see grits every meal. Yeah. I'd probably shouldn't have said that out loud. Mm-hmm. As a mistake to say it out loud. But I do love waffle house, but yeah, a groupfire festival has been a big baby about grit week. I'm just, I'm just doing a producer and trying to actually plan and you guys just be like, oh, let's do this.

Let's do this. Let's do this. I'm like, yeah. We don't have enough time to day for all of this. The answer is always

yes. You're trying to get the show that you end down the five big time. I'm not. For a week is, it's one week. We just got a fucking do it, dude. Sack up. Sure. Sack up. I'm going to do it. I just wanted to make sure that everyone was aware of how, oh, I'm aware of how big of a baby you're being. Yes. You've done a very good job. How quanky you bet. You've raised a lot of, yeah, good awareness to that. The actual firefest that I was going to go with, I realized that I had a lot,

like I was smarter when it came to most things when I was in eighth grade than I am today. Oh, definitely. I was thinking about like obviously math. Like eighth grade me would run circles around my brain today when it came to like any sort of math problem, but science too in understanding how to do like how to set up any sort of a science experiment to figure something out because I've been trying to sort this out. I actually dove into it like a pen and a paper this week.

I want to do an experiment and maybe you guys can help me with this. It could be I think a good experiment we could do together as a group or we could do it in like a parcel after dark setting.

But the bottom line is I went out. I bought, I bought breathalizers like keychain breathalizers

and I brought that along with us to Vegas so we could like I had max blown to a few times good numbers by max, by the way, on that breathalizer. But it's been my quest to figure out what that golden ratio is for how good you get out of sport determined by how slightly buzzed you are. So like when you're playing beer pong or you're playing darts or you're playing a game like that,

“maybe even golf. My hypothesis is that you have to be between like a 0.04 and a 0.06.”

And that's when you achieve like the best results. Yeah, I mean this isn't new. Yeah, when you play beer pong, you suck when you're sober. Exactly. And then you get good and then you get bad again. Exactly. So it's been it's been discussed before. But now that I've got the breathalizers, I want to do like a scientific experiment. You got to get real breathalizers though.

Where we, well yeah, I can upgrade. I can always upgrade the breathalizers. But I want to do like an actual

experiment. And I've been trying to figure out how to set up the experiment and it's escaping me. And I can't I can't nail it down. My idea was like you shoot a hundred shots sober. Then you shoot a hundred shots after you've had like two beers. Then a hundred after you've had four beers. But then you might also get better because you've practiced shooting 200 times. No, I don't think it's a hundred shots. Yeah, it's like it's it's playing a gate. It's like yeah, like 10 shots.

And then have a couple beers. Then 10 shots. Yeah, you can't you can't do. If you shoot a hundred shots,

“you're going to be better on the second hundred. Right. And then I think we need like a big sample”

size of people that would be engaging in this. You actually know you know what you can easily do is you could just do a hundred shots sober, another hundred shots sober, another hundred shots sober. So it establishes like where where you get better just baseline sober. Yeah, and then add the drinking. Then you had the drinking. Yeah, because then then you'll have a good sense. Yeah, I feel like this would be a good barsel after dark stream though. Yeah, I feel like this is

I want to do some scientific work on this and see exactly like where the human body peaks physically. Mm-hmm. I like this. The idea of getting like an eighth grade you being smarter. I'm like, I'm like a year or two away from my oldest son being smarter than me. And I'm terrified of it. When they're they're they're teaching math in a totally different way, too. Yeah, I don't even understand. Like imagine imagine trying to help with algebra two homework. No, no.

Or like trigonometry. I took algebra two and college. Yeah. Yeah. No. Okay. My firefest is sitting right

finals flagged at hung in the concourse of Chris Paul's only NBA finals. I was really hoping he wasn't going to accept the gift. So I could hang it in the office and he has accepted the gift. This is just I guess this is what what being a good friend means. Because I was I was really hoping he'd be like, nah, I don't want it. But he wants it. So I got to find another one. It's really nice. Do you think he knows that you wanted that? And so he's just I pretty

“made it popular. Do you think he likes it? I think he wants it because it's a cool last thing.”

Like that's a cool thing to have in your house. NBA finals band. You think Ryan or Silas putting this up in his house? I think he's going to put it up behind him for the NBA finals. I do think he will do that. Then maybe he'll send it back.

It's not going to fit. Yeah, dude. He's got to do it. You don't think he's like, you've never

said, yeah, yeah, yeah. And then it's house. And then also, and then and then keep it in the box. You know, he might send it back. That's where I guess my only hope. Yeah. But he also might it might be like next to his Christmas tree wherever year when the NBA finals comes around. He goes to the garage. Takes out his NBA finals banner. We'll get another one. Yeah, we need another one. We definitely need another one. And then my other firefest is Max's mad at me because we are

undefeated in a softball. He yelled at me on the sidelines. Well, he'd be mad at you.

“I thought you guys are joking. No, he's mad. He gets mad. He's mad. I understand why he's mad, but also.”

Yeah. Why's he mad? I don't understand. I told him he swung too hard and he gets me. He gets mad whenever I say he was, well, big cats like the nine year old baseball coach that knows nothing about baseball or

swinging it or swinging a bat. Okay. So he just does like the squash the bug when he's never played

a day of baseball in his life. Okay. That's not true. I definitely, I played all the way through when I was 12 years old. Yeah. Two. Hold on. We're not playing baseball. And that's my whole entire point. No, it's not. The whole point is a 16 inch softball. If you swing as hard as you can, against a 16 inch softball, it will always, I have been the best pinner for I had one bad game. And now big cats like the, the, no, I just said, I just mentioned that you were swinging too hard.

But you say that to everyone and it drives everyone on our team and say because every single person on our team and say we haven't lost. Yeah. But then we have innings where everyone fucking tries to hit a home run and they hit a pop up. But you, like you saying that you, you think like no one is trying to get out. You know what this is. You know what this is? You know, you know nothing. You know nothing. You know nothing. You know nothing. I've, I've, I've, I've played more 16 inch softball than you in your life.

It's swinging a bat. I, who is one to bat more in their life. It doesn't matter. I truly, 16 inch softballs not baseball. Did you swing too hard last night? No. Yes. No. What, what, what did you go? That is, what did you go? You know, one for five. Any home runs? Yeah. Any popped out to the first base

“in twice. Okay. You know what this is? Here's the thing. I am so much better than you. I never said you weren't.”

So I know what I'm doing. You do not. Well, last night you didn't. I, yeah. I'm not going to have a good game every single game. I was a bit of every single play. You should do your great in defense. You could hit a line drive like laser every time. I, I was, the problem was I, I was getting over antsy and I was not letting pitches. I was not looking at pitches. I was swimming at pitches. I were getting that we're going to drop before the plate. That was the problem. I was not swinging too hard. There's,

anyone, here's, here's the lesson for all the kids out there. Yeah. Youngsters. Anyone who tells you that you swing too hard is a fucking loser. Swing the fucking back. You're, I want to come to see the ball moves there. Hit the fucking ball. Swing it. Hey, can you know what this is? This is, this AJ Brown. This is Nick Syriott. That's exactly what you said. Nick Syriott, he's played a lot of football in his life. But that is not baseball. You idiot. It's fucking so fucking thing. It's not.

Yes, it is. Nick Syriott, I was never in the NFL. It's not. He played it all through college. It's not,

but you're catching play through your play through 12. You're being a little well in a lot of 16 inch softball. You're forgetting that part. It's a fucking bad. It's a fucking bad. You're being a little bit of a diva designated hitter. No. No. He's not the coach. Big cat is not the coach. He's another player on the team. Oh, so now Pete, no, you can't like accept any coaching points. Yeah. He's not a coach, but he's still giving you coaching tips. Yes, because he was bad. It wasn't even a tip. It was just,

it was actually just a statement. He's, he swung to our point of view. Like big cat is, the, the vibes at big cat brings. Oh, my god. We have a bad ending. It's the fucking work. Because no one else can say it. Say it to him. Oh, yeah. First of all, I, I haven't, I haven't said to swing too hard and last season, I said it because the entire roster had never played six years softball before.

out. And I was like, guys, six years softball is not about swimming hard. That's what I said. And I was right. And we're playing better now. Now fucking that. This is, it's the Eagles, because like your team's winning and you're just making it a terrible experience. Sorry. Sorry. I'm, I want, I want, I want my, my loop. He went in the hitter to fucking rock it. Yeah. You know how I do that is I swing the fucking bad. Okay. Okay. I'm not, I'm not going to go up.

They're like, pussy may as well go up their right hand. It. There's something to think about. Memes in Hank, you guys, you're there. Do you think he's wrong to our best friend? He definitely swing to our best friend. I'm the best hitter on the, he made awesome way. I made awesome way. He made awesome plays in the field. He actually made a play. He made a play. He made a play going back and catch like a Willie Mays catch.

And then through the ball back and the guy didn't move off the third base and he goes, I respect his arm.

And I was like, fuck yeah, you do. Fuck yeah, you do. So yeah, it's, uh, we gotta get to the book to read in the. For another. Yeah, for no, for no.

“He did a Italian hand to me. That's how bad he was. Well, I mean, he went like this.”

When he does the, the wizard vase argument hands where he started shaking his hands like this. Yeah. Also for the record last night, I know that it noise max. So I was gonna say no matter what. Like that one. I was gonna say it. It annoys everyone. I'm just, I don't say it to anyone else anymore. I don't say it to anyone else. I said I, the only thing I say is hit the ball on the ground. And that's a fact. Hey, you play 60's softball now. If you hit the ball in the ground, usually good things happen.

If you're right handed. Yes, left handed makes that more difficult. That's a lot easier to make the play. Unless you're fast. When we have our worst innings, it's because we just all try to hit your right in the air. - 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, no, no, no, no,

I only said it to you and I only said it. Hey, is this true? I don't think that piss off. I think you only won that. Yeah, you don't talk to the guys like I did.

Whoa, shit, but I only said it one time last year the first game.

Oh my god. Oh my god. Hank, that's a lot one time. Maybe a couple times because we fucking hit it. Hank. Shit in the air, but none of that he's lost. I said it a couple times. You did a couple times three game last year. A couple times a game. No, no.

A couple times a game. So everyone hates me on the team is what you're saying. No, you're pretty much your saying. They hate when you. I don't know. I don't talk to the guys. No, memes. You talked to the guys. Everyone's complaining about me.

Does meme talk to the guys? Max? No, they like you. Okay.

“They, but they don't like when you're like, whoo, when you stop swinging?”

Name names. Everyone. Oh, you, Hank's everyone memes everyone. I'm, no, you're the one who's trying to bring this, this team down. No, I'm saying the one who said everyone and I have two guys sitting right here. Yeah, I'm not, I'm, Shane almost quit last year because you kept saying that.

No, he did. He did? Yeah. He was really that pissed. Yeah. Shane also wears two batting gloves. Not anymore. We've shamed him out of it. I think you get the most mad by far and then you were sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You were yelling at me last time.

Because I'm the only one who's going to say anything. He's not interested in it because he's taking on all the complaints. Every, but all the guys on the team got it. I also haven't said it this year.

I literally said it the first time last night because Max did swing too hard.

I'm not said it this year. memes does Max swing too hard. Not, Max, you do it every once he's still good. Sounds like everyone's in Timber for Flex. Yeah, Matt is true. Everyone's afraid to say anything to Max.

No, we have two games this year when nobody hit except Max. Yes, and you, and you, and you, and you want us to game. So he, he, he, he, do whatever he wants. Can't wait to eat Chris, that's next week. They can't end Hank did scoff at the line up before the game started. All right, maybe if we're just doing complaints.

I mean, whoever made the line up put our best hitters at the bottom of the line up.

“And I know, we were wrong, they, I think I'm, I was hitting five.”

We did not have our best hitters. The person who put him, who put him, that was Brian's the one who made the line up. And he put himself at the bottom of the line up. Sometimes it's good to have like a second lead off batter at the end. No, he said that he just wasn't hitting well, so we wanted to punish himself.

I also just like to scoff. Yeah, true, you are scoffer scoff law. And we are for no, yeah, you would think that we haven't won a game. Yeah, we, that's not true. I said we were for no, it's the Eagles.

Who thinks can be true? Yeah, that's what I'm saying.

The vibes can be worse.

Screaming of me, he was like, yeah, never beat that baseball horse.

Oh, because I, you're, you're, you're, you're being a baby now. You're a fucking baby. We were up eight runs and you're like, hey, man, you really got to stop. I actually, that's not true. That's not true.

I said it after because I knew it would piss you off. And I said, you swing too hard. We got a baby.

“Well, like, how does, how was that, how was that good for the team?”

Oh, it was just for you. I didn't say to anyone else. Yeah, how was that good? Because you were funny. Don't driving this conversation.

Max, don't you want to be funny? Not funny. I was, I was laughing. There you go. Everyone ever, I talked to everyone on the team.

They laughed. No, you don't talk to the people on the team like Max does. Because it got beers with the guys one single one time. How many times you got beers every single game? Okay.

And I fucking, I have three kids, and I, I got 18. I got 18. Yes. I was kidding. I'm sorry.

I've only played three games. I just got 18. So I've missed beers three times. My bad. Thanks got 18 kids.

I mean, why would I get beers anyway? Look at Hank in the fucking, what's the fucking thing or what? Why would I get beers? Max told me that everyone doesn't like me. Yeah.

What's next? Why would I get beers? I said people.

I'll never, there's probably a group talk about that.

Definitely. Definitely. You should, you should chug slower. Yeah. Actually, you would chug your life, dude.

You didn't enjoy that beer more if you drank.

“No, I think that's much better sugar than me.”

I wouldn't tell him how to chug. I wouldn't get upset if you did. Yeah, you wouldn't. No, I wouldn't. Yes.

I would say, I would just be like, okay, I'll chug faster. That's why. Also, 60 samples on baseball. That's productive. I think it's actually bad.

No, yeah. Bad spot now. Yeah, no, no. Now, now, now what you just did is you just wrote, you just wrote in our best center because now, and right now, I'm going to be up there, I'm just going to be thinking

about you. No, I like it. He's Ricky Henderson now. He's talking third person. Oh, bitch.

I never said my name. I know, but you're referred to yourself like, you know what you just did? You just ruined our best header. Yeah. Yeah.

You just did. Because now it's going to be a thing, and I'm going to pop out in the first ending of the next game, and I'm just going to look on the bench, and he's going to have this stupid, I'm, I might not play. I might, I might be done because he's going to have this stupid fucking grin on his face.

And I know it. He has the same fucking grin every single time. He doesn't even say anything. Oh, no. I get it.

Dang, I understand what you're saying now. I can't even exist. I can't even, I can't even enjoy being out there with the boys. I'm, I may as well, I'll just be designated field or next game. I'm not going to hit.

That's a lie. All right. Well, I mean, both of us are out because I, everyone hates me. So I'm out. I said everyone hates when you tell them how to swing.

That's a damn bad behavior. I know. I know. I actually agree. You haven't, you haven't done it this year, because I told you not to do it.

He said, yeah, listen, bitch. So you're the coach. Yeah. So it sounds like I can take coaching, but you can't. Because you told me not to say anymore.

I stopped saying it. That's true. I told you to stop swinging so hard and you're going to keep swinging. That's, one of them is not coaching. Yeah.

I mean, you get it. I'm coaching you on behalf of people. Yeah, yeah, yeah. A big cap makes a good point. I told you, which is that he heard criticism and he adapted with it.

Correct. You hear criticism. You cover up both the ears and you're like, nobody's better than me. I'm just strongest boy. It's me, Max.

I'm so strong. Big head is real. I don't want to run with poopy pants once. I did do that.

“Max, I think you're really good at softball.”

No, I'm done with you. You're really good at softball, dude. You are. You're fucking next fire, fastball. Monsta.

What you got for us? This is off. My focus is weeks and week, quick one, I'm just, you know, three days into a lifestyle change and I just can't stop thinking about canish. It's kind of consume me.

There's a daily down the street for my house. Oh, man. I was open up to the world of canish. Probably about three weeks ago, it became a mainstay. I don't think I want to start by converting because it's my, it made me my favorite

food of all time. It's so good. It's one of the good. What is it? I don't even know.

I don't really know what's in the middle. I do like the savory. It's like a meat situation and the potato on the outside. Sometimes it's like a potato with dough around. It's like a, almost like a fried pro gear, like a, like it's, it's a bread and then

potatoes in the middle or meat. It's good. They're like a, maybe baseball sized. You can get a tray really quick from this place down the street and I keep thinking about I'm like late night and I don't know if it's an issue or how I'm going to overcome

this and I kind of wish I never ran into them.

It's like a, it's like the cousin of a, a Progi and the cousin of a empanada. You said convert what is the convertible.

I was gonna say it. Just delicious. Yeah.

“You might, I mean, it'll solve itself on Saturday, right?”

They won't be open. Yeah.

They do have weird hours, which is, is not my favorite part about it.

Like, sometimes in the middle of the week, they'll be like all the clothes are three, which I didn't really see coming because there was a couple days where like towards the end of the day, you ever look forward to something when you get home. Yeah. Like, oh, I'll get a five pack when I get home.

This can be fantastic and they were closed. So I didn't really know where to pivot from there. I probably can get over this hurdle, but for right now, I'm absolutely in the condition. And that's my first week.

I do love that, that every culture has figured out like their version of this dish, like the colachi or the hot pocket, they got the connished. That looks so good. So are they potato connishes? Do they all have potatoes in them and then something else?

For my experience, all potatoes on the outside and then inside, like meat, I don't think I've ever had a meat connished. I've only ever had just the potato one. It's like, the ones I had are like mashed potatoes on the inside and then like a fried some sort of dough on the outside.

Do dip them? There's sauce on the side, but I have yet to dip. See, that's, I would start to explore the sauces. That seems like an entire new lane, too. I feel like the sauce could take away from the integrity, though.

There's raw dog in the connishes when they're warm.

“And honestly when they're cold, they do look pretty good.”

You've never had a connish?

Do you have to eat? I don't think I have. There's big long island thing, there's a lot of good connishes in the island. Yeah, my mom would make them and it's stuff on which she's really good. It does look good.

I've been a big progey guy, I'm a big colachi guy, nothing better, maybe connishes. But all the filled foods are bad for you, some of the filled foods are the best foods and they're bad for you. Gosh, we got to pay that, we got to find a way, and it starts here. How many connishes are you putting down a day?

Initially, we just two with the sandwich, but then the sandwich is okay. So I just started ditching the sandwich and just going to sit them back. A seven pack of connishes. Yeah, but they look pretty good. One meal of the day, just, you know what I mean?

Yeah, so when you're, yeah, bring your burgers. That's, that's coachable, right? Max Valentay has replied, I hate this guy. I think that was, that was supposed to be in your separate group text that, with the one with the guys who actually talked to. I don't know if this separate group text is firing off right now.

Oh, yeah, that's, was that, I mean, like, I apologize, yeah, like, my bet, oh, I think loved it. Larry, our thumbs up. Thank you. Appreciate it. I feel seen.

“Wait, I'm about to lob a grenade in here, this is where the safety of the security is just in the group.”

Yeah. You know, he was on the roster, he was on the ground. Yeah, he was on the ground. I retired, I did an error in Roger. I retired before the season started.

Jack wants to know if you can chew a nap with them after. They're absolutely nothing. That's what I got. Yeah. One time it told me so on too hard.

I just asked Quicks's bot that he has in there if there's a second group chat without big cat.

Let's see what AI says about this. Oh, there we go. He responded. No comment on the second chat question. Yeah, being happy.

No comment. But he's not an ally in the beer. So we tolerate it. Is that true? I don't know.

It's a big hand paid for the league, so yeah. He can overcoat. I don't overcoat. I just. But give me just said he did.

Yeah. We woke his last night. It's all back. All right. Good show boys.

Wait, oh, give me a reply. You just don't. You already said that this chat's this bot sucks. Big cat, don't sweat it. Max needs to hear this more than anyone stop over swinging your right last year and you're

right now. Two for it. Two for infield flies just to try to kill the ball. That's the problem. Give him the same advice.

That's AI chat. That's AI. I also keep trying to get the AI chat to call 911. I keep trying to command it and Quicks gets freaks out every time. Okay.

Good show. Numbers. 11. Shane's on the team. Shane.

Everyone hate me. 15. On the team. I see this is where you just. What you saying?

What I say. Did everyone hate that I told last year I told them that they're so long too hard. I haven't heard anything about it till. Yeah, I haven't said it this year yet.

I didn't say it like maybe a couple times. Yeah, a couple times last year. I did not say it every year. I didn't. A couple times.

Hank, if you listen to what Hank said he said you said it a couple times a game. No, I don't. I don't think I can. A couple times a game. I only played Spring last year, but it's also like what I'm just saying it out loud.

Don't sweat too hard. Who cares? You just not listen. Except Max does listen and gets mad. Yep.

We're probably not gonna win out of that.

This is great. I'm happy. You do this every year. I did not win every year. I did this last year.

Every year. Well, how do we win the team last year? We wouldn't. All. You want to ask Tom late?

Yeah. And then we won after that. No, we didn't. Yes, we did.

“Big cat wasn't at the game where Tom took a tumble.”

Thank you. That was me. Yeah, thank you.

That was so, so warranted.

Thank you. Thank you. Looks like Max is in un, uh, trustworthy narrative here. Looks like Hank ruined the team. Yeah.

So take it back, Max. The comic fall was not me. I did not bring that back. This is the one thing that we do without content and then we just have to make it content every single.

This is barely content. It's a boring minute. It's the last two or three minutes. It's the argument between the two of us. We won 18 to six.

I made every single plan to field.

“I went 18 to five, and it's like 18 to 10.”

I went. I did this. I did that.

Yes, because he is the one who decided me.

I'm not criticizing you. What do you mean you're not criticizing me? I said, yes. What do you want? What the fuck is that then?

How is that not fucking criticism? Are you dumbass? I'm 27. I'm quitting. What finals?

21 finals. That was so close that I'm serious. I'll quit. Yeah. He's not the fucking coach BFD.

We got the fucking coach. 56. And then we got three. Three. Is that you?

Me? Did you say three? Don't. I'll switch it up. Let's see one more.

Three. Three. Two. Two. Two.

Two. Two. Two. Two. Two.

Two. Fifty-two. Fifty-two. No one? Not.

Happy birthday to Ray Lewis. You miss Smith. Ryan Leaf. John Smoltz.

“And then Saturday, happy birthday, Gardermanchoo.”

Happy birthday to Janet Jackson and Megan Fox. Also on Saturday. Shout out, Megan Fox. It means. I got nothing.

Yeah, that's right. What? Catch. Love you guys. [Music]

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