Austin Rivers on the Duke Scare, Plus the SGA vs. Luka Debate & Giannis at Odds with the Bucks

Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. The Rhyber Solo Show is presented by Draft King. So we have Austin Rivers. We start in real time talking to him about Duke's issues against Sienna down at the half as you know now. They came back one that came, but we finished it before. So we talked NBA with Austin Rivers, including kind of like that Lucas, GA conversation we've been having, also some insight on.

Jonas, I think he's really good on, then me, Steve Kyle, we talk about the bracket as do wins that final in some other stuff, some bracket thoughts. So we have we share our final force and then a

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Peacock's coverage of the NBA. It's been fantastic. We've talked about it a bunch of season. We've had a bunch of the guys on, but the oddity of this taping was I was like, hey,

do you want to do it after the do came before the do came and it's like you had a million

things going on. It's like, all right, look at Sienna. As we are just starting to tape this game went to halftime in the 16th season. Sienna is now leading Duke 43 to 32. This probably brings back some terrible memories for you. That's the way we're starting off. I mean, I'm sorry, man. Yeah, it does. Yeah, I'm like seeing brown jerseys right now, running around. It's awful. And for those, forget $2,000. $5,000 Sienna. Sienna. It was a two 15 game.

CJ McCollum went for 30. I don't know if you gave Seth Curry shit for his shooting performance in that one. No one really shot at that great for you guys that day, but I'm going to actually again take it where you want on this one, because it's probably, you know, it's the top. Yeah, no, it is. It's crazy. The dynamic is, you know, you're the better team. And if we played Lehigh 10 times, we'd beat him 9 out of 10. But the, you know, this is why people love March Manus.

The reality is all it takes is one game. And if it seems confident,

again, we're talking division one basketball players at the end of the day. You know, these aren't guys that just learned how to play. They might be a small college, but as we've seen in the NBA, some of the best stars have come from small programs. You know, guys can still play ball. So, you know, you go against a team like Lehigh and what happens when, you know, you take a team lightly or when you come in with, you know, the not correct mindset of your team is not fully

together. Guys have different agendas, whatever. It's too late to turn it on. What's the game's going?

“You know, and that's what happens. And then you find yourself in a ball game. And what's”

you playing against, guys, you have confidence. You can't turn it off. I'm already seeing it right now. Or, you know, these guys are cutting, moving, driving to the basket. They're living in the paint. Going against the top tier defensive duke team. And they're living in the paint. Backdoring, they're playing confidence sticking out their tongue. You see, you see this shit. When, when did you know you were troubled against the end? I remember where I was because

because I mean back then, everybody's just rooting against Duke anyway. So we were all to jam and guys just stopped. And it was like the one TV that was up and everybody's just coming out. >> You're talking about Vr's Lehigh? >> Yeah, I'm just wondering when you guys were going into time now.

Because you had to lead it to half, but I'm still a little alarming. It was only a two point game. >> I knew it was going to be a ball game two minutes into the game. Three minutes into the game. Because I already seen film, even at that time,

I had already watched the C.J. And, you know, before the tournament game, you do your due diligence, your research, you watch some film, the other team. And then I could tell in the warm-ups with how they were looking and smiling. And they were, you know, not in their head like we wanted this game any time.

Who's that confident? You know, like already, you're going to play. Now, I knew our team was much better. Something like maybe better beat you on our 20. Three minutes into that game when it's back and forth already.

Somebody, this is going to be one of those games. You could just feel it. And I thought, all right, well, we're just going to go to the distance and beat them in the end. We're up to it half time.

And then it just, when it went south to second half, I was like, oh, this isn't good.

You know, you could just feel the momentum just slipping away.

“I'm hoping, you know, down 10 or not, what are they?”

Nine, 10 right now. >> I think it's 11. >> It's 43. >> Yeah, it's 43. >> Yeah.

332, we're down 11. You know, the concern is very high right now. And I'm not saying we were going to lose a game. I only reason I still have confidence in this doop team is because of how elite they can be on defense, which has not shown, has not shown so far.

And I don't know if it's a defensive issue, it's more than our offense, which is a hundred of the thing.

You know, it's the lack of guard scoring and playmaking, you know, has been the Achilles heel.

So now you ask, well, who do we have to put just on the ball to, like, hey, please just bail us out other than a big man, you know what I mean, like, who does so much force, but like, you know, we don't have a connephal, could it Cooper or some elite guard out there, they could

“like, hey, man, things aren't going right now, shit's going south and we need you to just”

bail us out. You know what I mean? We don't, we don't have that. So, I am concerned right now, but I, I'm hoping our defense can just step it up like how we bid a top to a defensive program all year long and like, kind of slow them down.

And then we could just grid our way back, you know, we have a grid of offense. We just kind of, some guy who had a shot or two and then we camera just gets us a foul line and he just, we just crawl our way back. That's the way they're winning this game. We don't have a guy that's going to just go get 20 in this half.

It's not happening. You know what I mean? So it's like, it's, that's not what this team is. We have good all around solid guard through play art and can make some plays and, you know, could make a shot here and there.

We don't have a top kick guard that's, you know, just going to go get a done for us. So we're got to get out of the mud. Dad 11 is very concerned. Well, we'll have a score update as we navigate to the NBA and we'll get you out of here in time to watch the end, especially if it's tight there.

You know, I was curious how L.A. was going to handle the Houston rockets. I'm not high in the rockets anymore. This offense, I cannot watch in the fourth quarter and yet you're at their place twice. Over three days, you know, you're thinking like, hey, if Houston's anything, they've got to get the second one.

They've got to split these things.

And that doesn't happen in the first game.

“I think I kind of tend double teams on Kevin Durant in the fourth quarter.”

And I cannot even though I think he may as a terrific coach, I can't believe that Houston would just let him walk into a double team and then have no plan or maybe have somebody else bring up the ball and then bring him off of some stuff. And so clearly, like, they were a little bit more ready for what you're seeing at all the time, teams late in the game, hey, we're just going to double Kevin and we don't care

about any of the other guys. And I'm care with their three point shooting numbers are we just don't care. And she can go and didn't play in the first game. But I guess it's, it's one, it's a credit to the Lakers defensively, something that we think is probably a flaw with them as we map them out for the playoffs.

But I just wonder how when you're watching that happen, how frustrated maybe you get that it feels like, hey, why would you be this predictable when it's clearly not working the Lakers are prepared for it? As far as Houston goes, I do think it's a, it's a get to the curse of Katie's brilliance and offense sometimes.

And the way he's able to just bail you out with tough shot, making a ability, right? When you play against elite teams to sustain that, to make tough shot or tough shot, it's very hard to win that way. All right. And what you're seeing on the flip side would be like what you saw from the Lakers

early on this season when, and I say, very early, you know, kind of, they had a spell where they went through this. I once, because they had some good spurts even early, but there was a time where like Luka would just try to just will them with wins, just off his greatness. What you've seen is a flip, which I've touched on the Lakers a little bit, but with Houston,

I've seen this for a lot of Kevin's teams. Do you don't know saying, and this happened with Phoenix that it, some of their games there was like, weird, down the stretch, and you were like wondering, how is this happening because you have David and Kevin, who are both both terrific closers and our clutch players. So it's a dynamic where things just get stagnant and then the lack of shooting to be completely honest around him, you know, with the exception of read, they don't have elite just not down shooters around him.

So it, it gets choppy out there. So yeah, it, it is hard to watch, and it's, you know, sometimes it's like, man, they need to figure out ways to get

So it's, it's, it's, it's easy to, to consistently get something with them, this from what I've seen offensively, whereas the Lakers right now have two guys who are closing games,

between, except between Luca and Reeves, and you have a LeBron James, who underratedly, I say this, has bought in, to being like a third option.

“He's, but that, that lab last night or him cutting baseline, he's, he's turned into a like, you know, I can air and go in my way on the way. That's how great he is.”

And his age, he can now turn into like an air and go to the type of role, before he's a superstar, he's still averaging, I know great numbers, but that's what he's now doing. He's got in slot driving, get the ball in his hands, move around out the ball, being a little bit more tactical when he gets it, a little bit more quick decision straight line driver. Like, if he can buy into that and be like, yeah, we're going to play to Luke and Reeves, he's our guys, and I'm going to be a guy who can still have my moments because I'm LeBron James, even though I'm at 40, whatever your zone, but I'm going to be more this role.

Much better, and they did that last night down the stretch, and then you have a guy like Luca, so it's like that is simplified, whereas Kevin, it's like a here here Kevin.

We're waiting, but they're not really guarding me, they're just sitting there because I'm not, I'm not a knockout shooter.

“It's, it does look good, so it's, it's hard to win like that, and I don't, that's why people, they had trouble being San Antonio, it have trouble being OKC, all the elite teams, they've had trouble closing.”

Unless Kevin just come to God, just bail them out, there was greatness. Asking them to do it, and I've seen it live now, to asking him to do it and catch it, and it's 30 plus feet away from the hoop, and two defenders are on him. Just sitting there, it's just, you're asking a ton of him, like you can be a Kevin Durant to track or whatever, but I'm like, look, I see these possessions, I'm like, why the fucking, you help the sky out?

Why can't you bring, why can't you put him on the block, have him run up to one screen, have him crawl on a second screen, like why can't you have him coming off of something?

Kevin, why are you just letting him dribble across half court, and I granted like the back court and the first game on Monday or like, dude, what are you doing? But, and then he starts to get real frustrated, but you can see all the stuff in the court where he's like, you know, and then he, and if he gets it away and then they mess up the four on three, then he's pissed, because then he thinks he gave the ball up. So, I would just say like, of all the people that don't like Durant, it all goes back to like a decision 10 years ago, fine, but you have to be a little fair with how much harder they seem to be making it on him, because this isn't going to work, and it hasn't worked all season, the fourth quarter, stuff, the clutch stuff have been over it, and that's why like, look, L.A. is on a roll, Denver's disappointing Minnesota's disappointing ants out and all the stuff, Phoenix, you know, with Brooks back, we'll see Mark Williams the same thing, because they're missing some guys.

“But, I think I like Houston the least out of like seven of these teams.”

It's tough, man, because Talua's on paper, you look at these names on their roster, and you're like, man, this is such an elite team, but then you go to their coach, you may you do because one of the best coaches in basketball, so it's like, they have all the dots. Now, like everything they have their weaknesses, shooting is just one of them, around Kevin and the way they're closing games, that is very problematic, because you're asking him to make these plays like you just alluded to, to like shoot over two almost, he gets to a spot, and he does, because he's Kevin Durant, and he's one of the greatest players to ever touch at basketball, and he's one of the greatest scores and shot makers of all time.

I'm a huge fan of Kevin, the way they're closing games right now, I don't know if that's a preference of him, so I'm going to email one of her here, because you know, you have said like, why don't they do a screen or a slot screen, or why can't he cut across the middle and get a lower to the basketball, he's only a step away or two feet or, you know, realistically five, six feet away, where he's writing his basket of middies, and he can just float, shoot, I don't know, a dual action where they have read coming off, so at least alleviate some type of action going,

there's some type of focus going where he can operate without all this, every time he takes two dribbles, and it reminds me of what the timber would sometimes turn into in the playoffs, where aunt just tries to take on like two or three guys, he saw it with okay see, this guy would go left when he would spin move, crushoes sit right there with his hands open, it's just like it didn't look good, you know what I mean, so it's just that I don't know what that is, if it's, you know, so it, it is frustrating the loss because on paper,

and then at times, you see them play a certain way, I don't know if read has to be more demanding with the ball in his hands, you know, I don't know if he has that, like Fred Fred would grab the ball and like, hey, oh, you've got two bad shots in the row, we're going to get something good here, do you understand what I'm saying? Yeah, yeah, I mean, so that's, that's something we're read as a young guard is still trying to establish himself has to be at some point like, let's calm down. Kevin, we're going to run this play, we're going to get it to you, but we got to do it this way, because this way's not working.

I don't know if that's happening out there.

Right, but exactly the best option because they get to space it out and like, you know, they still, I think they have some real flaws and like what they're closing line up can be because it's like, I'd be actually ignore these two guys, everything condenses down. That spurs used in game, like the rants get sworn by three guys because, yeah, two, a man and, and shingoon, depending on where they're positioned, they're defenders are like, we didn't even care about you guys, you know, like we don't care.

Yeah, we don't care. And if you want to tell me the Tariys in from three is this, like, go ahead, make three of those and then maybe change up what we're going to go ahead and do. I want to pivot though to Luke up because we started talking about it. We had like a really good mailback question on the ten good minutes and be a thing that we do here.

“It was like, when did Shay surpass Luca and with this run from the lake or some momentum, there's some people be like, hey, you know what, like, are you sure about that, right?”

I think the general, yeah, the general conversation is basically like once Luca gets through 24 and is in an NBA finals, like nobody's saying that Shay's necessarily better than him, even though this Shay stretch started three years ago, and then the last two years, statistically, are off the charts. I would say on the advanced stuff, it's still heavily favors SGA in comparison to Luca, I would say, I'd rather have SGA because I know where his floor is. Still so much higher than everybody else's were Luca can have a game every now and then where it just completely gets away from him.

But I'll ask it to you this way, not specific to a defensive matchup for you and your abilities. But overall, like as a team, if there's another guy that game is tied and you can pick Luca, you can pick SGA, you pick anybody else in the league. But like how many people are you actually taking ahead of Luca in that spot, game time, shot clock off 10 seconds to work and you get a good look. The only other guy would be Shay. That's what it's those two for you.

It's those two at the top and I think there's a gap and then there's some other guys. Then you throw in like there's a loop, so you have those two and then there's a gap and then at the end of the game. You throw in like an ant. You throw in a cape cutting him the way he's been able to control games, Jalen Brunson, for the next is a big shot maker. You know, Tyrese Maxi, there's some guards in that group, but I can't put those guys in the same group in Shay and Luca, it's just not.

And honestly, what Shay's done over the past few weeks, I know Luca's having to run right now, I just called that Denver game. He was unbelievable man. And you don't appreciate it because his game is boring sometimes, because he's not assuming. Like that.

“Yeah, so the game, I'm like, he's got what?”

Like how many points and it wasn't some free throw night either. So keep going. I just, I want to emphasize that. Yeah, that's just like he's got 36 again. What the fuck?

That's exactly the point I was going to make.

Because I was like, I always hit the free throw merchant and he's so boring to watch, I hate watching a place.

I'm calling this game. And I'm watching this guy make and take the most unbelievable mid-range. Christian Brown is writing his face. Just contested to like they're nothing. He'd look over the bench and smart.

Like he wasn't even in like fifth gear. He was in like just cruising regular season. Like it's a good fun game for regular season. Like that's how he was playing. And he just took over the game when he needed to.

He's unbelievable. I mean, the first thing I saw was the play I was thinking of too. Because it was like totally on him. He kind of backs it up a little bit. He goes for 40.

Yeah, I mean, I know he took a million shots in that game.

But like they kind of needed him too. Because that Orlando was up for the fight after their disaster against Atlanta and like before. And I'm like, I'm not even three. They're like, oh, he's got 36. And he ended up a 40.

I was like, damn was that just the most unassuming 40 spot. You're going to see from a guy in the league. Where Lucas, it'll be a stretch of three threes in a row. It's an n1 and he's taking over this four minute thing. It feels more dramatic.

I wonder if this game were just more demonstrative. Like and like an ant or like some of these other perimeter guys that there would be more appreciation for him. But he's 100%. Yeah, 100%. Some of his game is not sexy for the eye.

And because of that, we get lost and lose his brilliance and what he's doing.

First off, he dominates games through the mid range, which is a lost art.

Like, just people just don't do it. He does it, especially late game. And he has a steady diet of it between every quarter. He has a steady diet of those shots. He finishes at the basket, well, and knows how to get found.

And Denver double team, the shit out of him in the second game, and he ends up with 15 assists. Yeah, that's just like. So, you know, there's only a handful of guards in the NBA that make that in my opinion, adjustment. Who are guys who score 30 every night.

And if the team is really going over the top to take away driving lanes in ISO opportunities, he will find and make the right play. Kate cutting up is another guy who I have up there. He's headed that when.

“Kate cutting him is the best American guard I think in the NBA.”

That's my opinion. And I think he's been in the NBA. I think he's a better playmaker than it. Yeah, I think. And it's more electrifying.

You know what I mean? And it has these characteristics about him just as a personality that make him exciting.

I don't think Kate can score like Anne.

“And it shoots the ball from three, like a mid range.”

Kate can't do that yet. But Kate has a smooth operating way about him. And just what he's doing right now with the Troy on the team that again, lack shooting. They have Duncan Robinson, but off side of that. They don't have any shooting.

This guy figures out ways to get in generate good offensive every night and close games. But they don't seem to want to play and hurt or don't can together. Which. No, they don't. I'm not saying, hey, what a huge mistake.

But it's pretty clear that that's that's just a combo. They don't want to do all that. I'm attracting all the minutes all that much lately. And the cave news absolutely sucks with this long situation because that's scary, man. Like what the hell?

You know, especially to someone like that who's young and obviously takes care of himself. It's like, wow. Yeah. It's true stuff. How much hope do you still have for Denver?

Figuring this out on the fly before the playoffs start?

Uh, I can never count Denver out because they have the best play in the NBA.

Um, so you still think, like. I got five, let's just do your top five right now. It's still your coach. Nicole is one out of respect to have to put shade two. I'd put Luca three.

Um, I put Win before for what he does just on both sides of the basketball. What he does defensively is just insane. Um, and then five right now this year has been jail of Brown.

“Um, if you want to get an honest like just the inherited hey, it's still unison when he's right.”

There aren't five players better than him. That's a fair point. That's what I would do. It's, it's, but I would. I would put, I, yeah, I'm going off this season.

If we're going off overall. Yeah. Yeah, and this would be. I mean, obviously, honest could be two, three, four. You could put him in any of those.

I mean, you could be the second best player.

I know someone's been in a cold in my opinion, but Yannis has a right to be like, yeah, awesome. I'm, I'm second. I'd be like, yeah, you're. You don't have to be like, you can put Yannis anywhere in there too.

I guess. Yeah, but for this year, the Jalen Brown point, you know, like, I get what you're saying. Because I would. Jalen Brown has done as, I think, Jalen Brown has surpassed what I think we all thought he was. I think we all knew he could score.

“And he was obviously, you know, defensively capable boys and, you know, a lead athlete.”

But what he's been able to do just. Officially, with the lack of players that had been available, whether they, you know, I, he's been, he's been a superstar. So I put him in there. He's been a modern day quiet, like, player.

You know, he's taken that mold of being a two way player and being complete. With that being said, yeah, maybe Wendy's out. I don't, I hate putting Wendy nine to top five. He's just what spurs are what he does on both sides of the ball. I guess it was a Jalen Brown.

Is that what you're saying? All right, I got it there, maybe. Shay and Luke are in there. Nicole is in there. I would put you on us in there.

You have to. You're right. That's four. The fifth spots, Wendy are Brown for me. And then right after that, I go KDM.

But that's the five. You know, I think, yeah. Wendy is, like, I don't know where that. I mean, this thing could end up being like. I think number two is in play.

Number one could be in play next year for him. I'm going to go really live again against the clippers and it's just. It's stupid. I'll share. I share it with the audience.

But like I went back to watch the second half of the Charlotte game. Now, because there were moments that were that still was the game there for Charlotte and they had had, you know, a bit of a tough stretch on once they got that road trip started after kind of running through a bunch of teams that also went against Boston. So whenever I watch a Wendy game, I'm like, I just want to see with the other team.

It's like willing to do and deal body had an attempt that was just packed back to them and then all it felt like he wanted to do is bad as the shot attempt. And be he just wanted to get it off and it almost like hit the top of the backboard and it almost felt like a win because when we didn't block it, didn't block it. And so then I was tracking their like decisions with the ball in the second half.

And I counted in the 14 plus minutes that when we played in the second half when he was in. There was 25 times that I felt like their decision was impacted just by him being there. So whether it was a block or turning down a shot passing. And then Grant Williams had one where he you turn he just drives is like. Yeah, that's what you got.

Yeah, thank you. Being a tied up ball and you just like there's no one else in the league that is even in that category. Forget the points where you've got 25 like guy with ball decisions that are impacted solely by his presence. And so there's just a different way.

Like sure he's never going to get a shot off the way.

Luka is the way even in and Kate obviously SGA. Yoke of 21 wants to take attempts and plenty of other perimeter guys that you want to think about. But there's just I don't know how there's anyone even close to getting that many people to rethink that they want to do. It just changes everything for that. No, he's he's Rudy go bare on acid. Like that was prime Rudy effect that right good people people.

Well, that's the thing right like Rudy's one one three four four.

Four he's picked all time or some shit. Are he tied like Matumboh or something crazy. I don't know he's up there right he's like him and Ben Wallace and like something else. But like he's considered one of the greatest defensive bigs of all time. And his numbers in awards point that you got four defensive player the years you are automatically in the conversation for greatest of all time defensive player.

People laugh and scoff at that because Rudy has these blatant plays where he gets across because he has heavy feet that are slow so he can look silly and goofy and Luka would hit a game three on him. Or you know, and people target him in the pick and roll and they're like, how can you be a great defensive player if you get target in the pick and roll? It's the Rudy effect on defense every team you place for is topped here in defense.

They're always one of the top defensive teams when you go to the paint even if he's not there.

You think about of Rudy prime Rudy you think about if he's in the basket. So guys with mislayers shoot high contested floaters keep affected shots and change shots shots that he didn't get credit or block core. He altered the effect of the him being the anchor.

“His teams are always one two or three in defense. That's why he won four awards the overall effect he has.”

This is what it when be is doing but on a different level because he doesn't have slow feet. He has quick hands. He has guard like ability and skills. I've never seen the coordination with this tech of light. It's just never happened. So he's that play you have a garland. We're garland. I mean shook him four times and just couldn't get away this guy was separated one time. He got five feet of separation.

But because of when he's so long he put his arms out he still can get a shot off. And then he tries to go shoot a quick float after blowing by him when he just takes it out of the air. It's not natural. He is a freak of nature. He's unbelievable when you watch a live you're like that's not real. I noticed times where he's on what would be the wrong block depending on what's coming down from like a high pick roll with everybody else.

And they're trying to get him away on however he's defensively aligned like he can be get him to a corner. And there'll be times when like I think he's for everyone else in the league he'd be on the wrong side. But what he's actually doing is he staying in the play if they were to throw it to the corner for three and he's shutting that down just by his presence. He can still make up the ground getting across the pain if you go the other way in a way that nobody else can do it. So yeah, I'm not saying the coordination you just have.

Yeah, I feel like I interrupted your Denver thought though because we started going top five, which I did appreciate there. Because look, they desperately need Watson back is any other guy to relieve Christian Brown of having to play against SGA. And then Luca as the like a 30 plus minute defensive assignment is just not going to work for literally anybody. And not that I like you know, I don't really like a slight like the long slight guys against Luca. I actually think you're doing him a favor because he's going to bump you so much with all that stuff.

Yeah, with this Lakers run.

“And I think the LeBron point that you've made is perfect because a guy with his resume normally would not be willing to.”

Like concede certain things and you know, look he's just fine.

It finally happened at age 41 where his body doesn't look as crisp as it should.

Yeah, for for what the vision that we have of LeBron, this exactly how it should look. It should actually look worse for somebody that has as much mileage, but it's still just alarming in those moments where he looks a little old. You know, somebody gets a jab, dribble on him and he backs up and he's has to let get his balance again. You know, like this is so weird to see this this all time great. Look a little off balance is something because he just didn't see it for 20 years.

Yeah, are you willing to pick LA against Denver against Houston against Minnesota in the first round, depending on who they go up against. It depends on the consistency of the things that we've talked about and I know that's like pretty vague, but it's like. Can LeBron continue to be this even when playing this way. Things aren't going right is now when you step in and like all right, it's by turning it or are you doubled down on what you're doing right now and how you're playing. Can Luca be consistent enough with this role with with Reeves.

Can they can they share that ball without it getting sticky and then LeBron then gets frustrated because now he's not getting the ball at all.

“You know what I'm saying like how consistent can these three be in these new roles and I say new because it's this the first time in my eyes.”

We're all three of them have been on the court and it's clear which each guy has to do and what they're doing. And there's a freeness in that which is allowing them to play well and free. Can that consistency be there when it's not working because not everything's going to work all the time. The great teams are the ones who don't switch up things when things don't go well. Like you could be up 15 versus the warriors in prime of the prime warriors and like they just come out kick your ass.

They didn't change anything. They just things shots didn't fall. Some assignments were missed. It's part of basketball. It's an imperfect game.

But they're consistent who they are. The spurs of the same way they did for years. They didn't change anything. Some years they won the finals.

Some years they lose the Memphis first round the playoffs.

They didn't change anything. You know I'm saying like so I it's what can they. What can they do? What are they going to do? Because it's going to be a time to play off for their down game in the series.

And it's second quarter and they're down 15 and Luca just hoisted up a tough shot.

He didn't get fouled and then you know what I'm talking about right.

Yeah.

“So that's what the question is with likeers.”

Can they be consistent all the way through? Canating. He's had all these quotes. I bought it now. I had to come to the mirror and see who I am.

And I realized what I have to do and give 100. Okay. Okay. I've seen it the past couple of games. You've been great.

I think it's been really good. Yeah. It's been fantastic. Shout out to the Andre. A couple weeks super engaged the whole thing.

Again. So these are all. Yeah. Okay. That's what I'm saying.

Yeah. All of these new rules. All these guys are doing right now. JJ's got them locked in. Shout out to JJ right.

I guess well.

Let's I need to see this and the playoffs as well when times aren't always perfect.

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“I'd rather ask this question without the key injury, but with Tatum back, getting his legs,”

the totals have been terrific. So it's not like he's putting up these, these duds from just a box score stand like you're a little dude. He's kind of right back to where you'd expect him to be when he's fully healthy. But whatever version of this will be, it'll be even better and we'll get a few more

weeks into this. I've been so impressed with Jason Taylor man, like for one obviously for him to even come back with like that level of an injury is scary and you can still see his legs and like how he moves his jumping like it's there. He's still building back that muscle that memory that trust.

So it's kind of scary. It's alarming. Like when you're out there and you're watching him, you're just like, oh my God, please, man, God, take care of this kid. For him to even have the rhythm of like coming up, pick it roll.

You know, well, right, came off the picking roll that they like got right into it. I'm like, God, leave it. This guy's towards the Achilles, you know, you're just shooting threes at the very least. I know where I can get super star Tatum and then put that expectation on him is weird and

it's just not right. But if you could at least he's a guy like you said, stretch the forehead, big shots. You know, I mean, like you still got even 60% of Tatum is better than 90% of the NBA. So it's like I haven't amounted there is it changes things to a team that was already a surprise in terms of just how competitive it had been.

“I people people undervalued pain pressure, I think they knew he's good, they unvalued”

undervalued him.

And the people undervalued Derek White, I think he will always known he's one of the

better role players. I don't think people understand he has star capability. And this is why he is on USA teams, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. This team is a high level basketball club and they're very well coached. So you add Tatum back to the mix.

Even if it's 60% of him, he's still better than 95% of the NBA. I said 90's probably 95. So that team is scary in a wide open East where I only look at Boston, New York, and Detroit as like serious serious candidates. And that's that's wide open.

Yeah. I don't want to get in trouble here because your dad's the coach, all right. But I have some yana spots. I have some theories. So you do.

Yeah, go ahead. Go ahead. You need to do. Oh man. I'm good.

He said all sorts of things this year. He clearly wants out and then he says that he doesn't and it feels like a battle of semantics. And maybe he's just a free thing here and is like, look, I can't be this definitive about anything. And now the newest, the newest story is he goes up for a dump recently. He's such a specimen that you're like, is he hurt?

Is he not hurt? And then he said, I'm not hurt. He want to come back and play. They didn't want him to. They want to shut him down for a bunch of different reasons.

I'm a little surprised that he wouldn't want to be shut down considering he's looking at this massive extension that could be on the table from either Milwaukee or if it's a new

Do you think he's he's looking for reasons to get mad at Milwaukee because I don't really

understand. I know we such a competitor. And that's my favorite thing about him is that maybe just loves to hoop, man. Sometimes we forget that. But this seems like a lot over something that is pretty understandable that Milwaukee would

want to, like, want to come up. I think it's a good question.

“Honestly, I think it's to your point of what you love about him.”

Because, listen, it can't be, you know, and I understand it's, you know, people for people to think, oh, he's trying to find reasons to get irritated and he just, you know, he wants to leave. And he's, you know, this isn't that. And he's made it clear.

He wants to be there. Otherwise he wouldn't still be there. Or he would have really forced something at the trade deadline or been a little bit more demonstrative in terms of his interviews, even more so than what he was. He's been there that long.

At this point in his career, if he's going to make that change, you would have or he'll

make it this summer. Whatever the case may be, right, at this point, like you said, it doesn't make sense for him to put his body in the line for a team that's not going to go to the distance and doesn't have a realistic shot of even competing at any level, really. In terms of playoff aspects, I think it reminds me of just a competitive guy who's unwilling

to accept the inevitable defeat, and he's been used to that team being the playoffs. Doesn't matter if they're realistic chances of winning or not. Everybody that goes into the playoffs thinks they can win. You know what I mean? That's just the delusion of what makes it athletes great, right?

He, especially a guy who's won a title here who's been in the playoffs damn near every year. All right. Even if they don't even have a good roster, just his greatness alone, usually just does the job. It wills a team to the playoffs, right?

It's not a team to share that hasn't happened. So, you know, I did that interview with him for the mire for the game pod, or not pod a show with peacock and he's over here like, man, I used to be a beast. And I was like, he used to be a beast, they go, man, you start our beast here in animal. He was just like, yeah, it's just a little bit nuts saying.

And I was just like, bro, if I, these are career numbers, I never average anything in these

numbers. Man, are you talking about, you know, I'm just, I'm looking at my perspective. Now you sit back at the landscape with the season has gone in his injuries and you know, how he doesn't pop back off the floor and how things are, you know, father time, even LeBron, like we see it, it affects everyone.

Everyone's are delayed. Yannis and people like LeBron are free because they're able to play for so long with that type of level of dominance and athleticism, but it's happening and it's, and it's, they're not making the playoffs because of, you know, it's not because of him, but he wasn't even able to get them there.

I think he's like, I'm not shutting it down. I want to play. I'm going to play it through. That's why I'm just going to sit me down. We're not on that.

We're not a lottery team. That's all like a competitive mindset, you know, that's how he's wired. The guy who goes to play off every year, guys. You know what I mean? You know, he want to finals, you know, not too long ago, you know, so it's like, I don't

think him not making the playoffs, like something that's realistic, especially when like a year ago, a year to half ago, they got the day in trade and everything was so exciting. And this is it. I mean, this is where his guy's head's been at. They got, you know, griffin' out, they got docked and they're like, "Oh, we're going to

win."

“However, realistic or delusional that is, that's what was being said, okay?”

So now to be here, and I remember speaking to him before the year and started, you know, we did that interview right with the year, started. People are underestimating us. We have so much shooting. I have all these shooters around me.

We have five guys at the top 10 of percentage, but, but, but, but, but, he was, I mean, that's what it was, okay? So I'm telling you now months later, they're not making the playoffs. And they're in the 11th or 12 spot. They're losing games, and then they're like, "Hey, we're going to shut you down. You think this guy is going to be like, "Cool, I get it.

No problem." He's like fucking them. I'm not sitting down. I don't want to sit down. I want to play.

You got under, you don't say it. That's who he is. It doesn't make sense. You're right. It's not smart.

I don't think he gets a fuck. I think he loves to play. Yeah, I think that's the best answer, because it's like, it's the least sexy. And it shoots down the conspiracy theory that I'm sharing with like, "Oh, it's because sometimes when you like want to break up with somebody, you just start like overreacting about

shit that doesn't even mean me." Yeah, you start finding shit. That's why I started thinking I was like, "I wonder if he's like, "I mean, it's--" I can't believe you booked Florida. You know?

It's just when we play Florida. Only the winner. I hear you. I got it. Yeah.

It's not a bad theory, Ryan. I can't hop on that boat. I can't hop on that boat. I like it. I like to push back, because I was-- I'm exploring the theory.

I'm not married to it. I'm exploring it. And I think you-- I hope you're right. I think you convinced-- look, you convinced me.

“And I think you should convince a lot of listeners that sometimes this stuff is real”

simple. When you see somebody, and again, my favorite thing is those in bead games and in bead use to play, I used to love those games. Because you honestly would be like, "Hey, I don't know how it's going to go to that.

And I just love to those games, and you're like, "That's what that dude is about."

And maybe it-- he's not looking at the extension. He's like, "I'll probably get it anyway." Maybe I don't care about that. Yeah. He doesn't even get back.

He doesn't get back. He doesn't get back. Yeah. Yeah. It's pretty black at white with him.

You ever talked to him? He's just like, "I want to win." Yeah. He wants to win. the playoffs and they're like sit down and he's like sit down. He's like sit down. He's

just sitting down. I'm not sitting down. I'm not the number. I'm not a max. Some of the other numbers for him this year are like again completely off the charts. So there isn't like some dip for him. And he's getting max. He's getting a five whatever. He wherever he wants. He's getting and he's already thought that he thought that before he feels pretty sure the youngest feels that if he tours ACI, he's still getting max. That's that's that's the outlook of how people think

“of y'all. That's how he feels. I don't think even think guys like that don't even think about”

their extensions man. They think it's like guaranteed already. Especially guys you've already gotten two or three. You can buy an island and Greece. I don't know what else he's thinking. I don't think he cares guys. He's got a big extension. He's fixed these already. He's already making 70's. What is he making? I don't know. What do you think he cares guys? He's coming. It's coming his way. The drink trucks are in his backyard. They're already there. What's your next game for NBC? I've come thank

God. Wimbie. Alright. Wimbie heat. See the band. A mystery 83. Mystery 83. It's Wimbie. Now we're now we're talking about. Yeah. If he scores more than 30, I'm going to challenge you right now, Ben. If you score more than 30, verse, Wimbie, it'll be just as impressive to me as you getting 80 points. I want 35 plus. You give me 35 plus, Ben. I'll tip my hat more than you getting 80, verse, the fucking wizards. And that's no slice of the wizards, but the wizards are in a rebuild right now.

They're not even there. Like, especially at this point in a season. Like they're not having their best product on the floor competing consistently. You know what I mean? They're given these young guys time to develop. They're developing rebuilding stage. And again, 83 points is not

“size. It's double my career. It's fucking insane. But so you were 41 42 for you 41 41 against who?”

You don't remember the number? You remember the number? You don't remember who was. No, I know. I finally go. It was the Kings. Oh. And they were good though. They're in Fox. You know, it was the check. It was Fox and Harrison Barnes a little bit. And Monk, you know, harder. Those guys, I think other team. And he's going to get plenty of time for Detroit. It'll happen because they're

going to need shooting. The problem is right now, you can't sit Jennings after everything he's

done for you this year. And then harder is not playing well enough or shooting well enough to where you could find anything in the game. They like Dennis a lot because I think he allows them somebody who's good with the ball. You know, where they can trust like when something breaks down, it gets sloppy. Because I, I've watched enough of this year that I'm still like, hey, if he's in the closing five, like, are you getting out of the East there? And maybe I'm just being, I shouldn't be as St. John's

guy, you know, but I, you know what I have to love about Dennis is I've seen him go up against anybody in transition. He will go, like, guys are doing U-turns on Wemby. He had a play in one of those games or he's like, fucking, I'll try. He's competitive as shit. He plays with that. He plays with that, that hunger that I haven't got a big check yet hunger. It big time. He just has it. Yeah, he has the desperation about him. He has a chip on a shoulder. Some guys are able to keep that

“even when they do get paid, which is great to see, but he has that right now. And that's why”

they're playing them. If Kevin was shooting 45 or three, I promise you, he wouldn't be playing. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, because I think Kevin was obviously like, he's not 40. Is there a shooting line up out there with this combination? But then what are you giving up defensively? If it's defensively, again, again, you know, heard her. Desperation, a great note to end on because it's getting desperate

here. 62 to go in the second half, 16 to go in the second half, CNN still leading. Number one,

see Duke 61 to 60. So we'll let you get caught up on your blue devils. Okay, we'll see what's the score, what's the score? 61 to 60, CNN to six minutes ago. Oh, okay, crazy. We're doing it. We're doing it. We're going to hunt them down. Again, the same issue is the red flag. I think we'll get past the end up because we're, we're much better team. Well, when we play in elite team and it's 88, you know, 77, you know, you, who do you throw that ball to if it's not cam? Do we have a guard? That can

consistently come off and make some place or some hope in one of these guys. You know, I'm going to try to admit, does things to guys, you know, we'll see, but man, man, see how to shout out to them. I hate saying it, but the man, first round, 161, here we are. People marches funny and it's just such

not when you were there, no offense, but I mean, I grew up just hating it. Like everybody else did if you're from. What is this? Is it just, I don't want to get into that, because that's a B pancer, but is it, is it, is it the, um, I just hate it? I hate it so much. Yeah, five at school, bought air, is that that's right? Yeah. I don't know what it was, man, but it was like,

there was always one guy in the team that you were just like, oh, here we go. Like,

is there's some weird prep school that just sends everyone to like the most unlikable faces ever? I hear you. We had a role where our stars were guys that could easily, I get it. Yeah, I don't, I don't know what it was. I mean, it can't be a white thing for me when I'm white.

“That would be weird. That's what I'm saying. I was like, that's what I'm hearing,”

but you'd be surprised at how many white guys I talked to going, I hate Duke. I'm like, why? We got a history of guys like you balling out. What's the problem? Yeah, I should love something. You still love, right? J. J and later are like the man. But I would say the Zion year, I actually just wanted to keep going. So I was like, rooting for it because it was like, it was this little shift. And then I've watched,

I'm just so enamored with what Shire does with every group that he gets in there offensively.

And what he's just, I was like, every single guy. And look, K had it going to. There became a respect. Once I started working at ESPN, started working with more Duke guys. And it wasn't even just having K on the show a couple different times. But I think I just as I got older, I started going like, hey, if you respect the right things with basketball, then you should appreciate this more than you should despise it. But yeah, I'm sorry. Like when it was Lehigh,

“you guys, you know, fell in a 14 years ago. I was definitely rooting against you. I'm sorry.”

But now I get to know you. We have you on the pod. It's all good. Many events as we age. Oh, usually good friendships start out as follows. Score update. All right, still 61, 16. Enjoy the last five minutes, man. Appreciate it.

My guy. Appreciate you. I'm going to talk to him.

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advice. Maybe you go a little deeper here. I need to do a better job. But do pull it out against Sienna, Kaden Bozer. That was a big time layup. But classic kind of like, love the fight in Sienna. But there was about that five minutes stretch where you're like, this is getting really tough for you guys to score. And do pulls pulls it out? Yeah. Well, nervous. I have Duke of my final. So I did have Sienna plus 20 and a half though. So shout out to that. That was yeah. You saw

that. That was good. Well, I can't take it for that. That was a shot. Millmen over here. No, no, no, no, no. I listen. I like to listen, you know, to a bunch of pods, different people. Shout out to Anthony DeBundo. Shout out to Tate. It's a bunch of different guys. And you know, whoops, guys. That's a great DJ right now. No, I'm just, I'd say I mean, I don't want, I'm not going to sit here and tell you, I watch a ton of college hoops. Sienna is in the same conference.

It's going to be, I've seen them play. It's going to be actually beat them earlier this year. What's up? Take that. Rico. But yeah. No. So that a good day. Yeah. Part of me wonders if that was marist. What would have happened? Just kidding. That's right. So that's the real match.

“I know I do. It's an untapped resource of college hoops knowledge. What's your final four?”

I have Michigan beating Duke. And I have Houston because they play in Houston. So I feel like that's kind of a no brainer there. And then we're research. Let's see how they want to have Arizona. Arizona. Yeah. I wanted to pick Arizona, but it felt like everybody picked Arizona. So I went with Michigan. But Michigan's like picked Arizona. So it's not like I'm being that cute. Kyle, what's your final four? I had the four once he denied Arizona, but I can't, I was looking

today. I can't remember which one I did the bracket on. It's not in Yahoo. It's not in my ESPN. I mean, it's just like, it's like lost. I just did the classic like, you know, so much easier when you can just like, you know, tap it on your phone instead of the, you know, go over to King

physical copy, you know, I wouldn't be, I wouldn't be kind of confused up here. But I know I had Arizona.

“I think we're taping this to our bet is still alive. You've got Michigan State to cover, which is”

like 16 and a half, my game's later. What do you have Ryan? I think you had a Santa Clara. Yeah. So TV date. Yeah. You'll already know when you listen to this. That one's still three to have the line is the same there. I had a Calcutta last night, get pretty. A lot of drama. I don't know, little recap all of that. Try everybody that's involved. But yeah, went deep, went deep in the night with that one. Um, one guy just kept bidding because he's like, I don't want to go home.

You know, with some guys that just come back to them. They're like, you're not married. Wow. So like, what are you going to do tonight? I was like, I can probably get dinner by myself. Watch the liquor's game. But sound like, man, it's really freaking lonely, actually. It's really lonely. And sometimes north of 50, you start going, hey, is this pointless. But we're talking about the bracket, not my inner dialogue. Do you ever just take a night walk? You ever just go out and just be like, I bet if you're not that old.

Yeah, you don't think a night walk? All right. Now I should make sure everyone's garbage cans are in the right spot. Well, I thought about it. Yeah. Like, let me slide this in. That's such a great call, Kyle. God, you were just, you guys are on it today. I love what you're bringing. I didn't like Wednesday show. Like, I was off. I was off. No, you were not to say anything. No, I was understandable. I was not good. And had nothing to do with anything anyone else did. But as the, let's say,

“I think I'm probably the leader of the show. You know, the energy is dictated by my energy. And so”

there you go. I just didn't think I had a very good show. And so for you, Kyle, to point out that when you start adjusting garbage containers for strangers, that is like just order the sketches now. Flip in through every moment. Yeah, that's so good. No, no night walks because I was kind of like, you know what? I'm like, I'm going to, I got to get back and watch this fourth quarter Houston in the last course. Yeah, I know. Because I was like, the longer it takes, if it takes me

20 plus minutes to walk, that's 20 minutes. Like, instead, I can spend 14 bucks to go home with tip. I'm at tip and like, crazy. Like, just paint it forward. Nice. To guys. I don't know. I don't know what's going on with me. Let's talk about the bracket though. Uh, St. John's, how far do you have him going? Kyle, I haven't been Kansas. And then I had him losing to Duke, which you can understand. I was very excited with what we were seeing while we were working. Um, but yeah, whatever. We'll just have to

beat him the old fashioned way. We didn't talk about this, but like, it kind of sucks to Duke in St. John. I'm sorry. Uh, you kind of St. John's from the same region. Yeah, considering there's no Blakey's teams other than filling over. Yeah. I don't know man. That's weird. It's also like, why is why is me, I mean, this is, I'm not trying to do this. I guess I am money money quarterback but like, why is Vanity going to play potentially Florida in the sweet 16 after just play it again,

it played two times already the season. It just feels like we could be better there. Anyway, yeah, I wouldn't have minded maybe St. John's getting the floor spot where Nebraska was. Um, but I think I'd rather play Duke than Florida. And I'm not just saying that after the Santa game, I thought Duke was the worst of the four Cs even though they ended up being the number one overall C because of the injuries to Dongba and Foster. So I, I don't know. I mean, here's Nebraska.

I cannot believe that's that. And I'm sure you guys already know this. They'd be Troy the Killing.

That's their first win ever in the history of their basketball program. That is such an amazing

stat. I almost feel like the football fan base. I'm locked to talk less shit. Like, I know it's doesn't make it. It's completely nonsensical. Like, why would you say that? But if your team's never

“won a tournament game prior to today, like I almost feel like your football team, you should”

guys, well, maybe the football team's enough evidence that you guys should show the fuck out sometimes to Nebraska fans, even though everybody loves them, everybody loves the link in. It's the best and so I don't want to sound like a dick. But too late, I realized that. But that's unbelievable that you could be Nebraska and never have won a tournament game. Yeah, it doesn't sound real. Doesn't when I read it, I was like, how does that even happen? I'm trying to think,

are they were they the only power four team to never win a tournament game? I'm looking

up. I'm still in the P5, um, you know, no oneclature for college hoops, right? Yeah, for the things. Okay, the bandies. Yeah, all right. Yeah. So, all right. But like sure, P5 then, yeah, I'm looking up now. You just go power conference and I just leave it up to the imagination. I think it was north-western before them, them, north-western, north-western, one, one, and twenty-seven teams. It looks like that is correct. So, correct me if I'm wrong. But it's like rockers is one, one.

Rockers is sneaky, D. Are they? No, they just didn't. They've had a few guys fill it up at times.

enough now. But, uh, now the smart guys last year were like, don't listen to the idiots. It's not

going to be good. But it was exciting because they were, you know, I had to pull them up. I had to throw up the Quincy Dooby stats. Let the nation scoring because junior year Rutgers 20 years ago today, maybe not on the day. But that Rutgers team went 1914 at a Gary Waters.

“If you guys remember that. But yeah, Quincy Dooby was lighting it up and then it was like,”

is this guy a pro? Like probably not. Gary Waters last run Cleveland State. Nine and twenty-two has less season there. So, you can come back. So, yeah, we're doing a little bracket, little Cleveland State getting that in there as well. Are you guys doing anything like, uh, you changing up the venues for any of the days this weekend, or are you just going to be

big TV in the house? I'm not going anywhere. I actually, this is more of a Steve question.

I hand you my car over to the dealership tomorrow. Yeah, right, we know what you're doing. Yeah, we know what you're doing. We need a confirmation. I'm actually going, this, you were going to not like this. I'm actually going to see Project Hail Mary and theater tomorrow. I'm acts. Oh, I'm excited about this one, but I think I'll probably wait. But is it in the morning? I'm turning my screen off if you guys are acting. I saw I was confused

by it. Yeah, that's fun. All right, I guess Kyle and I will talk. Yeah, I'm going to, but it's in the morning. It's like 11 a.m. I'm in a matinee. So, I'll miss like a little bit of the early stuff, but I should be back and have it. Now, my plan is to just sit my butt the couch and not too much.

“All right. Well, I think it would have give B-dubs a try. You're getting out. Well, there's a”

puppy. There's a, you know, I ran into a bunch of guys this week who, like, I don't know. I'm like, maybe I'm expanding my group of friends a little bit. I'm like, could we be dudes that like, hang out and stuff and I was talking to them about like, where should we go? They're like, it's not a lot of great TV bars around here, which could be a market inefficiency if anyone's listening from the area. But, um, that's like, I was thinking to be enough. I felt like a little

bit of like, uh, that's like mainstream, but I could be mainstream at times, uh, and then there's some other bars that I think I might, I really really have one day to pull this off and there's like, it might just be some TV problems. So I don't know if should I go for the ambiance and, and lose the TV problems or, or go, just be a B-dub guy, like, you know, you don't strike barriers. I mean, this is no disrespect. You don't strike me as a mainstream bar guy. I'm not, I'm really not,

but I was just thinking for this exact moment, it seems like B-dub's is the answer to the equation. So we'll see. I don't know. You just want to come for some camaraderie. Yeah, Sunday. I don't know. It'll be a game time decision. No pun intended. All right. Well, I'll leave no help. So the Johnny's would play Kansas then that day, potentially. Yeah. Oh boy. Okay. Yeah. Rines back. All right. I'm back. Okay.

All right. Here we go. Um, life advice, life advice, [email protected]. Couple, maybe quick follow up. Let's make it a little bit deeper here. Hey, Ryan, Steve and Kyle, apologies for the long email. Go on, Ryan. Tell me it's not that bad at all. You have been doing three-year-old five-six King reporting it. No joke stats. Usually occasional lifts pint glass. People like the What's Up King thing. I got a lot of things about that. So thank

you guys a lot of that. A lot of that. I met somebody that was like, yeah, I dated a short King for a while. And I was like, I kind of did he know? She's like, he loved it. It's like, you're my short King. So I think it's, I think it's great. Although I was texting with somebody else. It was like, what do you think you would be like if you were five-six? Here go. I didn't even think we can share any of it.

It'd be an unbelievable segment. But then I feel like it sucks for all the five-six guys to be like, you just guys seriously doing 30 minutes on this. Dix. So let's not do that. I'll lay out. Yeah, nice guy. Be tougher to knock over. Tell you that. Yeah, lower center of gravity. I don't know. Some pluses in there. The airline, laying it all the way back.

Not never. Never. Laptop. Probably wouldn't be. Oh, shout out to our guy here. This is about the guy

who suddenly thinks he's pep. What's his name? Serity. Gordiola. Gordiola. Oh, y'all not sure. I produced a couple of ringer fc's and I had to fill in. Yeah, tough time. I'll be my guy. I just got bouncing the champions league and embarrassing fashion. But hey. Probably not the right guy. That's usually what happens. You're not getting clothed. I got a couple of others. Whoa. Yeah. No, the Guardiola's the right guy. Okay. This is there. They're doing all right.

Was clopped the one that smelled as fingers? Oh, no. That was yoking low. The Germany head coach. Yeah, that was a couple more cups of guys. That guy got a good whiff.

“Oh, it was a whiff. It was a runner-back. I forget. I think it was back, right?”

What? Oh, was it a? Oh, he did like a armpit? Like an oil chest. What was what? What it was that?

Well, we're back situation. Yeah. Like you know, dipping a little lower stuff. Well, we get research on that. What do you want me to type in? I guess I'll do it. I don't want it. I don't want it. I don't want it. I don't want it to be. I browned it into a better situation. Maybe I was sick about Molly Shannon. Man.

It's a huge bummer if you just Google his name. But the first thing that comes up is

your camera, sniff me and it's smelling fingers. It's all, it's all bad. If he didn't even be. Oh, here we go. It's your mini coach. You open most sniffs his balls and ass. That's the first video that comes up. Tough look. You don't want to be known as that guy. I don't know why I didn't think it was that bad. All right. It was that. Yeah, because it is. It was just like a nose pick, you know,

“whatever tastes the situation. It was a full. I don't know. I think if you pick your nose”

and ate it on TV, it'd be tough to bounce back from it, but I think I think some guys out. Sometimes you just need a status check and I mean, that's not the right place, but I mean, sometimes you wonder whether it's worth it or not. Not that bad. Yeah, I don't think it's, I think most men would agree that sometimes you're like, what's going on down there? Yeah. There's an illustration of him. Oh my god. There's a whole combination of him just putting his

hand in different body part areas and just like putting around his mouth and nose. This is a tough. Your shoes are like an E60 on it. You could just sit here. I guess I get massive anxiety. And this is how I, and then it's like everybody's on this side. Yeah, now that how the turn table

exactly, you know, he never really got a job after that. So maybe that's people just weird

up. I'm all they did. He did win a world cup. I believe. Give it a look. I shake his hand. What's a female's this guy? That's gone from his fist bump. Like, isn't it six feet? Yeah. That was like five years ago, though. Now we're still distancing. Yeah. Yeah.

“All right. Back to our email. As an Englishman, Ryan, you're welcome for the language”

democracy, modern engineering, comedy music, and the concept of cues, the guns are on you. This guy's fucking letting us have it. Boys, I could tell you that. I have a few retorts in my head, but you know what? Makes a lot of good points. We'll just keep it moving. I was in Chicago last year on a once in a lifetime US sports trip. My wife and I went to a bar on a Sunday to watch the NFL. The Arsenal Man City game was live on a smaller screen in the

corner. So I kept had half an eye on it, even though neither are my team. Hashtag Derby County. Some thoughts on them. So we're really real quick. No, they have a lowest point, point to open history of the Premier League, so not great. Okay. Then for Americans in Britain, the Arsenal shirts started in demand of the TV in front of us. And the rest of that into the bar, be switched to the soccer, quote, the funny fine. They're about 400 other

screens showing the NFL. God bless America. No one else seemed to too, uh, too worried. But once the match started, these guys, at least the worst soccer analysis I'd ever heard.

“Basic rules, not even close, confidence level through the roof. After a few beers and despite my wife”

repeatedly asking, what are you doing? What exactly are you trying to prove here? I started gently correcting them. Uh, hey, that's nowhere near offside. Uh, there's nothing in that get up.

There and the occasional Arsenal have always been like this. Just little miners at the sport

existed before 1994. I'm not sure those were found less than here except this to the original email or learn a bit about the game and drop a few will-time knowledgeable comments. The dad has absolutely no idea. You can out-expert him with minimal effort. Oh and develop an English accent. It always works. Getting the American English guys is undefeated. Yeah. In the American defense, offside can be tricky for me. I find it to be tricky.

Yeah, the refs get it all the time. So I'm not going to not argue with you. They're if you heard about bar bars, the disaster. We had a bar and when we have, it's essentially in replay, but it's like somehow worse. And then they don't tell anybody why things happen. They just do it. It's pretty, it's pretty crazy. Yeah, vars tough. I've dipped my toe in a bar. Looks like it just seems like. I mean, if you like imagine not knowing anything about the NBA

and then you see a replay and you're like, well, the other guys swipe down like a atart stark execution on the other guys arms, but it touched his, his like fingerprint and they showed on the replay and that means he doesn't get the ball. Like, well, that doesn't make any sense. But like, yeah, for like 80 years, everybody was fine with it until we started doing this. It's way better though. It's a real game. Oh, way better. Yeah, way better. Massive improvements.

Okay, let's get to some emails. Some thoughts. A lot of, a lot of, a lot of these are sent out on money. Tax time right around the corner. So maybe that's, I don't know if there's a correlation sub boss. We're getting a lot of this too. Yeah. Cool. All nicknames. That's fun. 41 years old, 6, 300, 200 pounds. No recent gym numbers since an injury a couple of years ago, but I'm deep in a serious inversion power hot yoga dam. All right, good for this guy. It sounds like 41.

But I mean, he's getting ahead of it. Some people are like, I have 50. You know, maybe this is 50. The sequel to this is 40. And the guys just all signed for yoga went to an NBA game recently. With two co-workers, Hornets Hornet Town, we wanted to see La Melicon and the young guys playing with simple lower ball in the 100, 200 dollar range. On the way to the arena, one guy's text

follows up. He was driving on the phone with me and buying at the same time and got

“cooked tickets were actually 700 each. So now he's out 2100 for three borderline”

courtside seats at a game that absolutely did not require borderline court side seat pricing. He has a picture of the seats. So it's like the front row. That's the gap to then the two

court side seats. Right. Because those seats would never be 700 bucks. But like real court side

baseline, the row behind that, which is extremely pointless to spend all that money to be the row behind the row you want to be in, which is too expensive. And then where everybody sort of walks. I'd kind of like to be there. I'm always afraid to spill in a drink. You know, I'd rather I'd rather go to that first row of seats than be all the way on the court. I just, I've seen someone recently do that. And it was like, God, kill me. I definitely would. I'm just saying like if you were going

to buy them the thousands, it would cost four side ones and then like 2,000 and have the ones behind them. You're like, what am I doing? Like I'm still, I don't, especially by shorking. Well, for those seats, not great. I don't know if I want to stay on this theme. It feels too mean, especially going into the weekend. And it's not like I'm some looker anymore. We had agreed to around $200 each. We're just co-workers going to a game. I can afford more,

but it feels like a principal thing. Also, when we met up, he was finishing a joint and then sat near total silence all night like he just lit his savings account on fire. Meanwhile, I'm trying to enjoy the game on doing mental Venmo math. Well, you know, if you had need to split expenses,

you get the Venmo card, you know, give you so some merchandise. The third guy here was my

direct report and I had offered to take him to the game, just not a $700 one. Oh, man, so you offered your super screwed on this one. What's the move? Do I just pay the $200 we talk about? Since this was a reckless purchase, or eat the full 700 to avoid already oncoming awkwardness, trying to balance

“fairness without looking like a total jerk. Love the show. Wait, does he has to eat $1400 or $700?”

Because that would make a big difference. I mean, $700 like a little bit past the line, but you can maybe talk to yourself. They do it. But if you're just like, oops, the guy you brought also, you're paying for him. Right. Like, in what sense do you think he said, eat the $700? Let's keep the discussion around $700. I think he would have said, maybe he invited they all agreed,

hey, we're all paying for our own ticket, $100, 200 bucks. I don't know that he invited the,

I think if he was on the hook for his ticket and the other guy he invited, then he would have said $1,400. Yeah, he said $700, when he says $700, he said $700, eat that. Let's go with that. All right. It cannot escape the joint guy. How big of a fuck up this is? I'm sorry. It can't be just like a oops, like he has to understand how bad this is if you are actually going to pay it. I mean, it's probably not going to make you feel any better, but it just sounds like the guy's

“a little bit cavalier and a lot of aspects of his life and it's finally hurt someone else.”

So I don't know. Would you pay it sliding scale, maybe? He pays more than you, but you pay more than you want, like, not a good compromise, everyone's upset. I kind of feel like it's all or nothing, all right? Because like it, is an extra 100 bucks. I mean, I guess yeah, he would be happy about that, but it's still like, you know, you still screwed up. So I'm still paying you for your screw-ups. So I don't know, because the other route is like you just like pick up beers and food or whatever,

but that's not going to amount. They amount that's probably going to change his life or make them unless you have the best night ever at the stadium. This is tough because the relationship, like I've had my friends do something that really fucks up the whole gang and it's like we all just have to be like, all right, we have to take this and we push onward, but this is co-workers that you're trying to go. It's not a core guy, like, you know, that's a real bad fuck-ups where

we just had to like, all right, we're either not friends anymore or we are and we got to move forward. This is tough. This is tough. This is tough because you're not there. It's not a lot of the side. Yeah. It depends on how you feel about the guy. It depends on the dynamic of the relationship. If you're doing way better than he is and you really like the guy than maybe willing to eat some of it, I just don't like coming down with the hay, mistakes happen and so therefore now you're out all of

this money, you know, right, that doesn't, that doesn't feel great, but I mean, how do you feel about this guy? You know, and it's he, it's probably a lot of how he handles it, too, right, but if he's a little aggressive with it, I mean, like, hey, you know, I mean, that's 700. And so we're not going to discuss the transaction at all. Like, there's no part of you that's a little bit like, hey, so that's where I think the compromise does come in. Where if he understands that he screwed up, that's a lot of money.

I mean, that's a lot of money when you think you're spending one or 200 and you're spending 700.

Like, I've had situations where the grand scheme of things I'm way up in the ticket game, right,

but I've still had some ticket experiences where I'm going. I cannot fucking look when I took you guys to the Super Bowl and no one played in that six or four years game. And I was like, I just

“spent six grand on this. I wasn't there wasn't internal math where I was like, hey, who cares?”

I was like, this sucks. Yeah, there was a couple of this sucks, but splash sports, awesome time. Yeah. And we had a really good time. Yeah. Yeah. So, um, how do you feel about the person? How do you want that relationship to continue? Is really the guiding principle throughout all of this? I don't think you think the go ahead. I was just going to ask, do you think there's a route in which like, if he was super aggressive

and almost like was trying to bully you into paying it, would you be more likely to do it?

Or would dig in as like, super nice and it was just like, oh man, like, I'm so obsessed.

I screwed this. Like, which way do you think you would be more likely to pay? I think I feel like I can be more likely to pay. Yeah, humility would have, yeah, humility would have helped. I think I think it would be well within your right to be like, hey, as the fumbleer here, how much do you think you should pay? And then maybe I can work with you. If there's like a non-aggressive way to be like, all right, looking at the replay here,

that's your man. What do you think we should do? Maybe that's like, you should get here. That's like a non-aggressive way to see where his head's at. If he's like, well, obviously we're splitting it, then I don't know. How long would you milk come in? If you guys did this, would you expect? I personally would not expect them to do that to pick up the tab on my mistake.

“I would feel what year's in my life is it? That's it. Am I taking the fucking bus or not?”

Yeah, let's say it's like, let's say it's the bleakest time. You don't know. I mean, yeah, yeah, I get it. But like, I feel like my pride would be so high that I would be like, I'm not,

I'm not going to like bring my buddies down with me. It's basically a coworker, too. Like, I just,

I don't want to feel like that, too, fresh on the road. I don't want to like the loser in that situation. So I would, I would just shit, I would like start, you know, I don't know, doing odd jobs. I'd figure out. Start dashing. Like, yeah, I get on task grab. I do whatever. Yeah, I figure it out. I think a lot of it has to do with one. What we've already said about everything. He'll have a kind of a future of that. What's that? The first thing we said 10 minutes ago is like,

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Hey guys, my pon hockey comp is Victor Stahlberg on Rusty Eges. Sometimes my legs move faster than my hands. You guys have any other hidden knowledge and strawberries. You know, he's actually pretty good. Pretty good plus minus. No. Alright, sometimes my legs move faster than my hands. The pain is drying and time is of the essence so I get right to it. Uh oh. As beginning of the year, my wife bought a house where thrilled we grabbed a sneaky big, mostly affordable home in a beautiful town.

It's still very livable, but desperately needs a full interior paint job. The previous owner had kaleidoscope taste and most of the rooms are bright red, blue or shamrock green. Well, just, I mean,

some people like a good accent. Although, I'm not against that.

But that's still in. Although, you know, what do I give a fuck? I've never, you know, paint your house.

Whatever. I heard you can just paint the ceiling of weird color. I'd be like, well, look what that did to the space. Yeah. I remember some kid in high school like painted his thing like black, black, black, black, black, or than real black. Yeah. I had some of the element in it. I thought it was a useless thing in the world. So I can't even see where the walls

“end. You have unlimited space in here. Yeah. Are we outside?”

name is smoke weed. I was thinking that. So anyway, uh, suit after getting the keys, we headed over to the local big box to pick out a couple of cans of primer and paint. The next day, my wife breaks out the brushes while I'm at work. Oh, wait, this is like home painting, not yeah, all in art and landscapes. Yeah. That's actually works. Could be more frustrating. Yeah. And with you, she just did it herself. That's a hmm. So here we go. Next day, she breaks out the

brushes while I'm at work when I get home. She's excited to show me how nice province blue looks in the bedroom. But to my dismay, she's boxed the job. We're talking deep runs, sloppy trim work all around worse coverage than last year's cowboys, immediately at grab a scraper, which wasn't the feedback my wife wanted. Fair enough, she put in the work. And before I go full taffer, I need to get eyes on her technique.

And time we paint together, work. I'm no problem. My contractor buddy fed me some pointers. And sometimes I watch this a lot on YouTube. So while I may not be the Bob Ross of baseboard, you better believe I'm cutting out and keeping a wet edge. Oh, guys, I love this guy. Yeah, my wife is not. She's all over the place. Not to mention no tape, no drop cloth. And she hates cleaning her brush. I offer a couple of tips, so that doesn't go down great either. Here's the

catch. She's fast. And the time it takes me to tremendous window. Well, no shit, she's fast. Got once you start a business, really emergency painters. We're in an out in 45 minutes.

You don't never want to see us again. The marines of painters.

In the time it takes me to tremendous window, she'll have half the room painted. I'm meticulous and slow. Always have been. Yes, there's a lot to do, but without kids yet, and all our money wrapped up in the house. We have nothing but time. I'll be staring at the ceiling above our bed for the next 20 years or sizing up that footprint behind the toilet every time I take a leak. My wife wants the walls to look better quickly. I want to take my time to make them look great.

With whom do you guys stand and how can I handle it better? Love the show. Yeah, everybody knows. Everybody knows that a proper paint job, the prep, is takes more time than the actual painting. Measure twice, cut one. Yeah, yeah, exactly. So if you're taping, I mean, taping sucks. I bought those edges things before those. I don't like those. Yeah, some of those things are to no respect. You've seen those videos where the

guy just comes on it. He's has the wall. He's like a three foot wide brush and just bang, bang, bang,

“bang, bang, bang. I think it's done in literally 10 seconds and you're just like, that's awesome.”

Three foot wide brush. Sounds like a carnival. Oh, yeah, roll, roll, roll, roll. Yeah, sorry. Yes. That's like a carnival. Yeah. He just gets one of those like, like, what is the shop fat or the brushes, you know, the ones from Home Depot, dips that in there. Yes. Going out of the wall. That'd be aggressive. What's the name for that? Why am I kidding? I think of the name for those brushes. I'll push broom. Yeah, okay. I'm going to

shop back. I'm like, that's not right. Um, I don't know what the fuck you're doing right now, but I'm hanging up. Sorry. Yeah. I got lost to my own DIY thoughts there. Yeah. No, I've done

this before. So when we, my, my first house, we painted, we paid all the rooms in there,

based on the first thing we did before we moved into the end. And, you know, as a combination of a lot of family members, Yada Yada, and I could tell which room was done by who I was reminded of, but every day, and it bummed me out. So I'm with our guy. Like, I know the, like, you're

“going to look at that wall every single day and be annoyed. So I think the, can you convince”

her in, like, a year that it's actually not the right paint color, and just to just, like, yeah, it, yeah. Well, because you're, you're going to hurt her feelings either way, right? So book, and you can, can you convince her that any, like, any year hey, this is actually, this isn't the paint color for us. We should go this other way. And then, like, you can kind of do the painting and do it the way you want. Maybe that's the way. But I think, I think without

hurting your feelings, you're going to have to kind of wait this out. It's he more talking about what should you do about this room that's already screwed up or how am I going to get through the rest of the house when this is how it works. If he's saying, like, how do we finish the job with this sort of work dynamic? Now, I wouldn't suggest, like, giving her, like, tasks that don't actually mean anything. She'll probably sniff that out right away. But can you be, like,

is she doing it while he's at work? Is that, is that part of the problem here or is part of it while he's doing his slow and steady work? She's blazing through. If he's like, can you be the person that that tapes all this off and and prepped so that we can get here? And, like, can we just change the division of labor instead of, you know, how are both, like, just going, doing doing this

It would really help, I think, the way that this gets done, if you could be the one who tapes

everything off and you get everything prepped, you know, if you feel like you really want to help while I'm unable to. Because I know that part sucks, right? No, we want to do that part. Oh, yeah, but we're all adults here. She just want to be the paint person, you know. I know who she is. I know who this person is and is something about painting. You know, I was trying to think of other things that are like this, like, what could somebody be ridiculously bad at,

but wants to prove some kind of point. And there's probably some cooks out there where it's like, hey, I'm, like, no one likes any of this food, but it's like a local idea today. Like, who's ready for lamb, like, wait to wait till we get through the advertising. You know, it's just so, the person is so excited. You know, there's actually a lot of good qualities usually in this kind of person. They're like, let me, let me, let me take control of this. Let me learn something new.

Let me see what I can do. But then there's this odd ego that gets in the way of it where it's like,

“hey, this tastes like shit and stop doing this. Like, I remember how to grow from that made me an”

army supply of meatballs, army supply. And she was so excited because she was, you know, I was younger than she was like trying to prove some point. She was going to be domesticated and she didn't salt any of, there was no seasoning, no salt pepper on any of it was just hamburger balls, boiled bread ground marinara. And it was the worst. It was so bad. And I told her, I'm like, did you not use any salt pepper on any of this? If she was like, oh my God, how fast did you tell

her that did? Probably the first thing. Oh, man. She was disappointed. I saw her face, but we

corrected it. We corrected him mistake and it laid the groundwork. Now, somebody else, you know, credit to her. She took it well. And, you know, we were like, look, let's get back in the lab. It sounds like you might have a wife that's not going to add any salt pepper to the meatballs. Because if she's happy, if she thinks it's totally, if she's taking such pride in her do it herselfness, that there's an actual footprint of paint on the tile behind the toilet and

that edges just don't matter. Like, you could watch videos, you know, granted, the first thing you do. You see somebody hold a brush and you go, oh, you've got it. No, you don't have it. I already know how she holds the brush. It's probably holding it like this, you know, like a toothbrush. I said a lot between the fingers kind of thing. Well, no, I mean, the brush needs to be deep into your hand and you control the

base of it, not the handle. But it's, you just see it. There's something about painting that everybody thinks they can fucking paint. Probably more so than even cooking. So this is not rare.

“There's probably so many great qualities about this person because I think again, like I said”

somebody that's like, hey, I want to attack this, take on this new challenge and all this stuff. It's like, yeah, but it's also our house. Like, if you bought a brand new car, would you want to work on the ignition to prove a point? They're like, hey, the car doesn't turn over anymore. It's like, yeah, but you know what? I fucking get in there. I get my hands dirty. You know, like, well, now I'm walking a work. Um, some people know that have the wives. Well, as it's some people

notice, like, like, like, somebody will walk and, somebody would eat that meatball situation. It'd be totally fine with it. Don't ask any questions and they're just like, whatever, man, I'm eating meatballs and spaghetti. You know, happy. Right. You got to go summit. Yeah. Yeah. You know, like, my dad, you know, like, when I, when I, when I would cut the lawn when I was younger, I was like, yeah, I'm doing like a good job cutting the lawn. And my dad would be like, dude, and I would have no idea. And I did a bad

job. I didn't do that. I was like a bliviest to the job. Like, I was like, I got the lawns cut. What are you talking about? I was like, the lines were all messed up. You didn't go and strip patterns. You had a yada. There's things I just didn't even know that I didn't know back then. Maybe she's just, she just doesn't know. She just put me on a wall. She sees the color. And she's like, this is great. The room looks totally different. Can we get her a job? Oh boy. So she's not at home. You know,

yeah, I'm actually that alone. You said the word domesticated and then you just wait for great man. Two sex. Is there any part of, like, once the dust settles and in this case, the paint dries and then edges are all fucked up and all your trim work has these swells of blue paint. We're supposed to be this crisp white edge. Can you just go, all right, look, we gave it a pass.

“We gave it a shot. Let's break out some videos. You know, like, if you want to learn how to do it,”

because it's actually not that hard. Load up the brush, drag it away. The paint sort of fills it in. It's not. It's not that hard. Well, sounds like I'm going to scoop it. It's sanding too. Now, if you're going to have to sand those bad boys down there, they don't fix them. I don't know. You get those streaks in the wall. Those who just come out would be putting you paint over it,

but they're before. Yeah, that was texture. The problem is it says it's a sneaky big house.

to get you through that you can't just develop an ulcer while you move from the kitchen to the

“living room, because you're just like not saying the words that you need to say,”

I mean, is there anything we can say about that? If this job is nowhere near done, and he needs something, he needs something. If we're not just talking about eventually getting to redo this blue bedroom, is it like we've got a lot left? That's the problem. You're saying this wall, that room is dead. Like we're leaving a pile. Yeah, the bigger we're talking about. Save his usual wall. Save your problem. Is the sneaky big house? Maybe there's, you know, an office that, you know,

isn't even going to be rotten to for another couple of weeks. Maybe you should tell her that you're going to take the next one, right? And, you know, it'll probably be better. Maybe people will notice it looks better. Yada, yada, yada, yada, or you can just say, hey, like, I just like, like, look, see how this, see how this is a little straight. Like, do it, show her how, because again, maybe she just does not know. She has no sense of what it's supposed to look like. Do you do it,

do it right? And then you can kind of show it to her. And then you hopefully have privileges for the rest of the house. A little more on the Hail Mary on comfortable side. Can you bring one of your parents over

“that you pulled the sign and be like, wow, who are the painters that you hired, hired to do this?”

And then like, I don't know. I mean, that's a little bit on the ridiculous side. But if you get

someone who could be like objectively, we're going to have people over here. And the first people we

came in to the construction site is like, who the fuck did this? Like, maybe there's something there. I don't know. It's easier to say that to do it. But I'm just thinking of a way to get through to where this is not you being in great, you know, in great of a husband. We'll do one more of these for the weekend. Hey, boys. No basketball comp. This one is titled Ferrari and shitty apartment. Six foot, 203 pounds. Love the specificity. Go to various three times per week, use the 65s.

Walk three and a half miles, five to seven days per week, run three and a half miles, two to three times a week. So I try to stay in shape. It sounds like it, buddy. Good for you. Need your input in a little situation this past Sunday, a little context. You can be vague, but I'll be specific for your own education. We live just south of. All right. Well, yeah, I guess they're in Santa Monica, where it's a mix of very expensive condos, town homes, and regular apartments. We live in one of

the very expensive condos and have cheap apartments on both sides. I think $2,000 a month, which is cheap in LA, which is right. And that's awesome. Two buildings down is a very crappy apartment building. So yeah, I think like there's certain, look, there's just certain pockets when you're driving

through LA, and certain neighborhoods, you're like, okay, that house is amazing. And then the next one

is like, what's going on there? Gotta happen one at a time, you know? Yeah, right. I mean, it's not some city here. You can't just wipe out on the tire zone and fix it then after noon. I wish they'd bring that game back. But at the same time, kind of glad they're not. My wife, eight months pregnant, she and I were out for a walk, our daily walk on Sunday constantly, people in the city aren't paying attention. We've almost got hit many times. So I'm very vigilant on our walks. So some some back

dated experiences here. Well, walking back to our house, a guy in the crappy apartment building, who keeps his older red Ferrari and Porsche GTS, something or other, I'm not a car guy, is backing out of spot, not looking either way. There's spot is basically on the sidewalk, which is how those spots are oriented. So you have to cut it sharply to hit the declines. So you don't bottom out. You have to be looking. We stop sure because you just started going and I

go, whoa, whoa, whoa, you got to look both ways. He rose down his window, looking obviously miffed and says, oh, you're saying something because I'm in a Ferrari, but if I was going to test like, you wouldn't have said shit. Uh oh. I just love his Ferrari. Anything you want to do or say,

“we're on the emailer side here. I think I am. Imagine all three of us are. Are you fucking serious?”

I think I'd be more inclined to say something in a Tesla. Your Tesla probably would have beeped at you. Hey, fucking stop it. Yeah, Tesla would have just like, you're about to hit someone. And when I had the whole Rivian thing, I was like, I can't believe this guy's getting out of a Rivian. He wants to fucking kill me. He was like, I was feeling a lot more confident. I just thought it was a Rivian until like I got pretty worked up. Um, I say,

exaggerated. You live in an apartment. Oh, damn. That is right to the bone. He puts his car in

park. My wife keeps walking ahead of me. I keep walking me basically gets out of the car saying

you got something to say over and over. He was really mad. And I just say, you almost hit us look both ways. He yells, how was it going to hit you going one mile an hour? Keep shelling, but my wife and I already walking in our house. So obviously the guy's a psycho. I already apologized to my wife. She's from the group West. I'm from Boston. I love you, too. Yeah. So our tolerance and desire for random confrontations is markedly different. Yes, it is. My question is one,

is the really nice car to 2000 apartment just in LA thing. Stereotypically people would say that

that that's exactly what people care about. I lived in there for 10 years to be like, obviously,

not everyone's like that, but I know that that's like the stereotype of, you know, just get all the things and you can, you know, live in a hovel. So yeah, right, right. I would imagine it's probably more of an LA thing than anywhere else I could think of because in New York, if you're trying to do that, you just better off don't have it in the car. Like so many people in New York, like what's the point? Yeah, I'm going to cut down to certain type of clothes and bags and

shoes. Yeah, that's where it goes. Yeah, you probably just get the bags. On weekends. Right. I've been to LA 10 10 years and this is the only place I've ever experienced too. Does this guy know how embarrassing is to have $100,000 cars while living in a hovel? Your word cut. Wow, that's crazy. Three does you know that my U-live in apartment was referring to how embarrassing it is that he's driving for, I think he's sick while going home to his shitty apartment. Love the pod.

I look, he started it such an aggressive look. He almost hit you in your wife. You're already pre-disposed to be looking out for this stuff because everything is happening and again, the pregnant wife part of this. It's very common. The next guy I catch breaking into my fucking car, I don't know what's going to happen. It's happened 15 times and I swear to God, he might be in June your high and I'm worried about it. I fucking believe you. I'll tell you that much.

I don't know. I fucking believe you. Whoever stole the shit out of my car last time, he stole my little brother stuff and I'm like, now you're, you're, you're not just fucking with me. You're

“fucking with family. Maybe you should start taking Night Walks dude fucking bad. Yeah. Yeah.”

So when something keeps happening to you, like this guy going on his walks, like you're pretty. So you didn't say anything other than like, hey, don't hit us. He's used to getting all sorts of shit because he's in a Ferrari. But when he says you're just saying it because I'm in Ferrari, I think everything is on the table. So even for a non-confrontational Midwestern wife. Yeah. It's so funny. He's clearly the guy that will totally fuck up traffic. Well,

given you the middle finger because you beat that him, he probably does this all the time.

He's never wrong. And I think we've all been accused. Or we could all probably be accused of like

fucking up the rules of the road and then just because you're in your car, you're just like zero to a hundred. You're like, yeah, we'll fuck you, buddy. This is crazy because it's like pedestrians. You pretty much are always in the wrong almost always. I mean, you know, so people get a little you know, happy feet out there, start crossing the street all which ways. Well, they're looking down on their phones. Like even as a gym, like I catch myself looking down at my phone while somebody's

backing out in the parking lot. And then they're all apologetic to Kyle's point because you just always

“feel like you're in the wrong when it's a person walking here in the car. Who could destroy who?”

You know, I'll try to like dart out of the way going like, hey, I was looking at my phone. It's looking at my phone. Like, I could keep, I could be more aware so we could all work on this together. But I don't care who you are. You've been guilty of this on either side of it at some point. And normally you just kind of feel bad acknowledge you feel bad and then keep it fucking moving

because we got stuff to do. But this guy's just the guy who's never wrong. And it's just like any

sort of, you know, any sort of suggestion that he's, you know, maybe not paying attention is like a total insult to his intelligence and he just has to fire back at you. So that was never going to go any other way. So what's the the most question is what like did he did he handle this correctly? Like, did he do something wrong? Because if that's, I mean, no, I think, I think it's actually that seems like he's my worst relation. He's more interested in the Ferrari guy actually feeling

the dig. I feel like he's, he wishes that his. It does. Yeah. Yeah. It's like does he even know how stupid that is to have those two cars? I'll leave it if he runs again. Well, his car's out. He said it was outside. He starts to leave a note on his car anonymously. He got funny. Might be covered. Probably is for a problem. I'm gonna stick you know. I don't know. I figured out one of those paper clip like the clamp ones for a bunch of papers and just make sure it doesn't

“go anywhere attach it to some Mackenzie canvas product. Look, I think you're probably going to run”

a new one again though, aren't you? Yeah. He's a big walker. It doesn't know's where you live, right, because you're, you guys are going in your house. So it's guys you walk in everywhere. Yeah, and I imagine that guy takes separate trips in the Ferrari. It's like, all right, we'll go, we'll go, we'll go grocery shopping and then we'll get gas later. Do that to drive to Alpac. Yeah. Yeah, this is good. You're going to run into each other. So.

I look. There's another thing, Kyle sit here and finish. When you're in your car, you'll lose your mind. Yeah. So when Steve is the most unstable, he's admitted it many times. It's like, I don't know what happens to be bad. It's really bad. It's really bad. I have the least amount of pain. You feel, I feel like you guys, I'm, I'm like a pretty patient, even keel guy. If you flat line Steve,

a Matt yet. Yeah. Yeah. Well, no. That while you should drive would be more. Yeah, we have that.

I could down there. Maybe that magic that tweet if we're from her or former coworker, comparing

Palabin character to Bayes Harris. That might have been the best ever. I wasn't even Matt.

“I was Matt. I think I was Matt. That's fine. I'm Matt on your behalf. That'll do it for the show”

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