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impact will be. I still think San Antonio would be the biggest basketball impact. I don't know if he's interested in signing up for the spurs culture. It's interesting because I think if it was a different team, although sometimes I wonder, you know, the spurs culture of that or is it that they were incredibly lucky in winning the lottery. But look, I think that'd be dismissive of how well run the spurs are, so I shouldn't go down that road. But I think a lesser team, just meaning

identity and standards and all that kind of stuff, they probably be willing to just tell LeBron,

“you can do whatever you want. If you want to come here because I think from a basketball standpoint,”

he would actually like fit a need even if I think at some point we have to kind of lower expectations of what he's going to be. So look, we're all waiting on what that will be and a little curious to see if it ends up being Cleveland. If you'll have somebody say, hey, Cleveland's clearly the favorite. And granted this TV, this is podcast and this is all these different things. Somebody's going to say it. Saying that Cleveland's now the favorite of the

East, I'm just not sure that that's actually going to happen. But I'm not sure that we've had an offseason as much as I love this where we've had this many transactions without any one standing out as if we're looking at that team's chances completely different. The West is simple. The West is really simple and figuring out why there isn't another transaction out there for a team because what you have is in it's only an okay C, the gap feels insurmountable.

I probably feel worse about Denver because I'm not sure how they're going to put it all together. LA, even with all these moves where I like all the moves, I do not like the price paid for

“Walker Kessler. I think when you get any situations where you're like, we have to do something”

that's when you end up paying just way too much of a price on some stuff. So even though collectively I like what they've done, you also could sit here and say, hey, they might not be any

feel the same even though you could argue last year was kind of a disappointing regular season

for Minnesota, but getting that first round series went against Denver. You didn't see it coming

and they end up getting blasted by San Antonio with all of their injuries. So I still think Minnesota, like all of you, hey, they're in the mix. Nobody's going to pick up against okay see your San Antonio and even though the lamella transaction isn't exactly my favorite. I'm sure they're going to have a really good regular season if everybody's healthy. So whenever we look at these moves, they're kind of like in a hurry to wonder if any of them can close any kind of gap.

It's just not going to happen in the West with those other two teams. In the East, it's totally different. I was looking at it again this morning because you've had all of these moves and

“you add up all the teams. I think there's with the Pacers who, again, I think it's accurate to”

kind of feel like nobody's talking about them. But with the Pacers coming back healthy and then whatever you think of the wizards, where if tray young and Anthony Davis are playing and you throw in the number one pick and debonsa, like there's a real expectation that they're not just making the playoffs that hopefully they can make some kind of noise. That's with Washington 12 teams in the East. And with the Pacers, maybe the reason they're not being talked about, it's not like it's the

return after a gap year of some 60 win monster. When they made it to the NBA finals, they were 50 win four seed, which during their journey through the playoffs, you're like, this doesn't really happen. My kind of point was that if this team were to win a title without a clear cut number, well, I would say a top 10 player in the NBA, even though Halbert was entering that

discussion, we had never said it before. That's always another one of my rules where like here's a

“perfect example. There are real conversations about is Brunson better than Luca, or Luzing Brunson”

worse for Dallas than it is, Luzing Luca. If you've never said it ever in multiple years, but you're saying it right now, you're probably making a mistake. And I don't even really want to get into like the Brunson Luca thing right now, but it's just an example of the times we'll have this very short window and it relates back to the Halbert and Run and the 25 finals of if we've never said he's a top 10 player, but now we feel like we have to because they're in the

NBA finals, does that mean we're actually making a mistake? So that may lead to people overlooking Indiana and all of these different moves around them in the East, but they bring back Halbert, healthy, they add in Zuboats, it's an exciting team. They might be the best team in the East. Imagine being Brunson right now. Year three years through your reset, the lottery doesn't go

your way. You have a collection of a bunch of pieces, a million guards, and it's like, hey,

guess what? It's going to be year four of this reset in a crowded East. So the other part of this that I was looking at was with the odds. Sanitone in OKC are both plus two 70 to win the NBA title as of today. Obviously this stuff is going to change. Health, there's some other trans actions probably out there, whatever. The nicks are third at plus eight 50, which still feels like partly navigating the East and how incredible their run was last year. After the nicks,

Boston has the fourth best odds for an NBA championship. They're a 13 to one, Philly's at 20 to one. So that tells you both front offices and Las Vegas, think James Brown is a little overrated. But if you look at the rest of the East, Detroit has four teams ahead of them in the odds. Now the odds aren't everything, but when they overrun the wind totals come out, like good luck navigating that. I'm wondering if like you're going to have 10 teams within eight

“games to be each other on the over under projections. Like I think it's going to be that ridiculous.”

Imagine being Detroit. Now this is a completely unfair thing to say, but if I were doing Detroit local radio, maybe to crank up some July calls, you might say like, is Detroit's window close? Now that's a ridiculous thing to say, because Kate might end up becoming a perennial top five player in the league, he might end up being the best point guard in the league. There still moves to be made. I don't know what they're going to do now as the list of of to-do things or options

gets more limited as we navigate through July. So it would be unfair to say like, is Detroit's window closing? But when you think about the opportunity they had last year, being the one seed, granted being challenged by Orlando, the Cleveland series is really disappointing. I don't know if they would have beaten New York, but in the regular season, they seem to give New York a ton of problems with all of their defense. So it's too young of a team and Kate is too good, even with

the concerns with Duren, like he had a bad first playoff experience. It happens to some of the best players in this game. I don't think it's totally unreasonable. Go, what if what if Detroit just doesn't get out of the East for a bunch of years? Because right now it just feels so incredibly crowded.

or better odds to win an NBA championship. Last year it was six, the previous two years it was

“only five. And even though it's Janice going to Miami, all of us, I think accurately are like,”

all right, he's incredible. At worst, he's probably what the fourth best player in the world. Maybe

you want to put Luca ahead of him, I'd allow the argument. I might disagree. Maybe he hasn't been healthy enough certainly not at the end of the year to just be gifted the fourth best player in the league. But that's basically like the worst he's ever been during this half-deck-aid run for Janice. So Miami adds that kind of player and yet with the rest of the roster or the rest of the East. I like, yeah, I still like New York better than them. The pace is might be better than them.

Boston even with this Jalen Brown tobacco, which I think just the price of what you had to pay to get rid of Paul George's probably two first round picks. You get those picks and then you take on Paul George's contract and then you're also trading Jalen Brown. That's just the thing I cannot wrap my hands around. All of these teams are ahead of Miami because we still don't know.

“I feel like in the past years, we've had some major transactions that made us think completely”

differently about a team and that's not happening. At least in 2026, if you go back to 2020, you've got the Drew deal to Milwaukee. 21. I know you're going to laugh, but when Westbrook went to LA, people said some ridiculous stuff in 21. In 22, you have the jazz blowing it up. Rudy goes to Minnesota, Mitchell goes to Cleveland. In 23, that's the other Dame deal, where it's Dame and it's Drew. Dame goes to Milwaukee. You're like, are they actually the favorites with these

guys? Wait a minute, how to Drew end up with Boston? Would Milwaukee have still done the deal. If they knew the holiday was going to end up in Boston, that leads to a championship in 24 you have the bridges deal before the draft with the nicks and the nets. And then you have the

cat deal much later on, which is always a nice little reminder that sometimes work is done far later

than this time of the year where we think all these deals have to be done. And then last off season, you have the KD deal, which makes you look at Houston completely different. And then you have the main deal and despite a really disappointing season with Orlando, you're like, that's exactly what they need and he was terrific for them. I don't know if we have any trades, even though they're big headlines, I don't know that we have any trades that have allowed us to react to the

transaction going, okay, now I look at this team completely differently. Yes, we look at Miami as a much better team, but if you had them fourth or fifth, I'm not going to sit here and tell you, you're wrong. And here's the other thing, free agency is debt. This is just a fact. Here are the biggest transactions for a player going to a new team based on money. So the most money paid to a player switching teams during free agency going back to 2020. You have Gordon Hayward

to the Hornets. You have Kyle Oary in 2021. In 22, it's Brunson. His was the biggest free agent deal. And even though Dallas didn't want to pay him 100 million, it felt like all right, that's a lot for Donald Prunson. Now, granted, it's worked out. He is beyond what even he thought he would be. So all of us that got that one wrong as far as the maximum impact, none of us saw that coming, but that was technically the biggest money deal done in that offseason for a player

switching teams. In 23, it's Fred Vandley in 24, it's Paul George, which felt huge. Mission accomplished. The sixes actually did it. They cleared cap space. They waited on the extension for Maxi. They signed Paul George and they couldn't wait to get him out there. And then last year, it was Miles Turner in that move where they waived or stretched in way of Damian Lillard. So that's a bunch of off seasons, which is a great reminder of those are the major free agent acquisitions.

So if you're sitting around as a GM, going like hoarding cap space, good luck. And we've been talking about that for years. Cap space, I didn't even think we can call it overrated anymore because everybody knows that it's just not that valuable. So we have parody because I'm not complaining. As much as I love this time of year, I don't want to sit here and tell you that I'm

“underwhelmed. I think it could just be the 2026 thing. It could just be what the east is collectively.”

But we haven't seen parody like this since the 1970s, since the the repeat for the Warriors in 2018, 2019 and on. That's eight different champions in the NBA, which is supposed to be the point. Like all of this is supposed to be better. The whole point of these leagues and being a fan is feeling like you have a real chance. And maybe that's exactly what we're in. Because a lot of this stuff started before the second apron. These signings that I'm talking about, the lesser

impact stuff in free agency, it was before the parody was starting before the second apron. But the

second apron obviously makes this a lot harder. And we've always had teams kind of with that NFL

quarterback thing where you pay your quarterback more than you want to out of fear of not having one.

worth this. But with the way our cap rules work. If we don't sign this player at a number,

“we don't even like, then we can't even replace him because we're over the cap anyway. But what I”

tell you is that we are in this stretch, and at least 2026 the way I'll look back at it, is that these teams have are entering like a phase of limited options that again, I'm not complaining about it, but it just speaks to how hard this is and why I would say collectively like this offseason, you have teams willing to do B minus and C plus deals because waiting around perfect as I've always said is just pointless because you're going to be waiting a really long time. But general

managers willing to make some of these trades are like, I don't know that this really even moves the needle, but what else am I supposed to do? I want to get the fill out of your perspective, on this trade with J.L. Brown heading to Philadelphia and obviously Brad Stevens would depends on when you listen to this pod maybe he'll already trust the media by then because I certainly have some thoughts, but to help us dig a little bit further into this, he's covered the six

short-long time he was at the athletic and now the broad-streep bulletin it's retirement. Thanks for doing this. I know you're on vacation. So the offseason, whenever we get out of town, we know that

there's always a moment we might have to dial up a pod. So just real simple first question,

you're reaction to this happening. Stunt, like actually stunned. I saw the the shums I have him on the text alerts and you know I saw on my screen the Boston Celtics blockbuster have traded J.L. Brown. I said, oh that's that's pretty interesting, but when I opened that up and saw that not only he was being traded to the sixers, but that it was only for a couple picks. It was like one of those moments where you had to take a step back and be like, wait that's it, like that's

all they're giving up. It was something where I did not think that the sixers would be in a position

“to be buyers of any sort in this offseason for reasons we can probably get into, but I think”

ultimately after the initial shock more off, as much as I am skeptical about the sixers and Ryan I've seen so much stuff go wrong with his franchise over the years, I think he just had to do it. Like you know the word no brainer has been thrown out a bunch and maybe I wouldn't go that far, but I just think you eventually just have to do this for the talent upgrade, the durability upgrade, and the ability to get off-pulge or just contract. So yeah, I mean it definitely took me my surprise.

Yeah, I wasn't surprised that it wasn't some overwhelming package coming back. I mean you're not going to trade one of the guards, which is really the only other move, but the thing that I've had a harder time with, at least on the incoming part of it is if you were to trade, Paul George dumped the contract, I think it would take both of these picks. Yes. So that's where you go. Okay, and then what was the other part? Like they get

chain of brown who may be overrated. Okay, he may be really expensive. I'll say it one more time. I don't know why anyone cares about what he's eligible for an extension this week when he's early under contract without any team or player option for three years at a significant number. You could just say, Jalen, like, yeah, hey, we don't have to send you for like two years. So we're not going to worry about that right now. I don't know how much perspective you have on the reaction

of the deal afterwards, but they have to be thrilled even if Jalen's expensive that George is gone in a deal where they would have had to include major assets to even find a team that would take

111 million remaining for Paul George. They have to be, they have to be absolutely thrilled.

And I thought it was a weird spot for Mike Gansy, and I guess Bob Myers before him hiring, Mike Gansy, to come into because when you looked at the six years Ryan, they were just in percotoring. Like I just, those embed and George contracts, I thought, you know, if the league

“was going to act like I grew with you, I think it would have taken those two picks to get off”

Paul George's contract. And to me, the prudent move would have been just wait them out. And that's not a good answer. And you know, you're obviously relying on Joel and Paul to play more games than they have in the past. And maybe you get lucky and lightning strikes for around like it did in these past playoffs. But obviously that is not a great answer. So the idea of being able to dump both of those picks for Paul George. But yeah, then to get Jalen Brown who I think up to your regular season for

fight so much by the sheer fact that he just plays basketball, unlike Paul George over these past seven years, like he just jailing Brown has played so much more basketball. He's been so much more available and consistent. And yeah, I thought like for the six years to dump those picks, they would have gotten what back. Like, they expiring contracts, maybe unwanted salary. But nowhere

proven postseason performer as well like Jalen Brown. So yeah, I mean, I think they played this

correctly where their offer was not great, right? It was these two first-round picks, like you said,

they didn't touch touch maxi or orvj, didn't really throw anybody else in. And maybe they got fortunate. Maybe the whole league mess this up with Jalen Brown because I'm surprised he went for that little but but for them to sort of stay at that price and and Brad Stevens for whatever reason, whether it's, you know, whether Jalen Brown wanted to still be on the team after all these trade rumors, whether it's the analytics, I don't, you know, from a six-year standpoint, they don't even

have to care about that stuff. For them to stand at that offer and get him for this price when moving Paul George would have cost that anyway. It's yeah, it seems like a great deal.

“It really does. Okay, basketball fit. How do you see this working?”

So that's the trickier part, right? Because it's not, it's not a home run on the court. And so for a lot of the, the sixers probably over the past, I don't know, decade, but especially the past two years when when Joelle and PG were here, it's if we can get these guys all on the court at the same time. And I think the conversation shifts a little bit with Jalen Brown because history tells us that he is going to be on the court. And, and for the regular season, I think that's going to be a huge

deal man like they, they end up getting these seven seed, they beat Orlando in the play end. But last year, if you look, they had a negative point differential. They had some ugly games last year in part because they didn't have a ton of depth and Joelle and PG missed a lot of games. So they got hammered a bunch in the regular season and they were able to piece it together and then okay, they all came back to the playoffs and that was great. Having Jalen Brown solves what I think are the two biggest

problems in the regular season. And that's number one, Joelle and beat doesn't play enough basketball. Number two, Tyre's Maxi probably plays a little bit too much basketball. And not only that, you ask too much of him as well. Like Tyre's Maxi, it's not just that he let the league and minutes and I'm not even trying to be the minutes police here. But getting him off the ball, he is a great off ball three point shooter. I know that's the case for a lot of guys over their

MBA career. But if you look at him, he's pretty consistently like mid 40s, catch and shoot probably like low 30s to mid 30s off the dribble. So the idea of Jalen Brown to just soak up and scale up our soak up the possessions and scale up like he didn't boss them when in beat is hurt and also just take a little bit off Maxi's plate. That's a big deal. Now, when the three of those are together, that's a little bit more of a question, right? And I'm curious about what Jalen's

“mindset is coming in here because these are two high usage guys when they play together. I think”

Paul George for his words when he was healthy, he was happy being the most expensive third option

in the history of basketball. And I think we saw like in the Boston series, he played that role really well. You know, shooting threes, coming off screens, playing defense, and then once in a while, like doing some on-ball stuff. How will this work with Jalen Brown who's not quite as clean of a fit? I don't know. I think the six years it was still a worthwhile move to make. Let's see how that works because this is a guy that is a proven playoff player. And you know, positionally it still works

you know, one, you know, sort of a three and then a five on that scale. But yeah, there are some question marks there and I'm not going to tell you that I know it's going to be like perfect and all three. Yeah, because it isn't perfect, you know, it's kind of the point in my open is if you're waiting around for all these perfect things. I mean, just pricing alone,

“awful Paul George, improved many plays all the time. I'm totally with you because I think I've been”

really focused on like how does it work with envy, when in fact, it's like, okay, well, we'll get to the

envy topic here in a second. Maxi, I'm sure he's having a blast as a young player and putting up

huge numbers and being considered all NBA and all that kind of stuff. And like there's some teams. When I did that top 10 thing that I did that I tried to do twice a year before the playoffs. And then before the seasonal star I'll do it again. And that was asking a bunch of different teams like who were your top 10 players in the NBA. Maxi wasn't in the top 10 but he was mentioned enough that it was significant. And as great as he is and how hard he is to deal with, especially when he

gets any kind of momentum, I do worry a little bit of like he's kind of going through that swaying way, phase of just he's falling down every time on these drives. And it's probably better for like the long-term preservation to go, hey, Jalen can take a lot of these shots for you. And I also was thinking about when KD went to the Warriors, which again, this is not KD going to the Warriors but you were thinking, okay, who was going to sacrifice shots? Steph, it was a couple,

Clay kind of stayed where he was at. And then it was Dramon shot attempts that went down as you're trying to figure out how to incorporate like 20 shots there for KD. Jalen's not ever going to get 20 shots again. Like he's not going to get within the fully formed version of this team.

stunted here with opportunities. But the challenging part is going to be, you know, when in beat is healthy and he gets that catch at the free throw line, it's still one of the most

“unstoppable offensive possessions that you have in the NBA. And I think there's going to be a lot of”

off-ball moments where Jalen's going to be watching that maxi and beat thing. And maybe that's

incredible that you have Jalen watching and maybe builds you out with some sort of drive or hits a

three. But it's it's going to be a completely different world for him in the healthiest version of Philadelphia. And I'm not sure how he's going to handle that. Yeah, I mean, you just look at like the geometry of the court, like the the he's going to have to problem some more than he did in Boston. Boston, it was pretty straightforward, right? I think for for all of the complaints and I found it interesting, is somebody who has been on the other side watching Boston, but some of the

Boston people talking about, you know, Tatum and Brown's fit, like is it like you said? Is it perfect? I actually thought it was pretty close to perfect, honestly, where you had this pristine spacing and you had these two apex predator wings that could just hunt matchups and get to the rim and shoot threes and all that stuff. Yeah, this is like he's going to have to figure out how to space off all a little bit more like you said, Joelle, at the free throw line, that's an area of the

jail and Brown likes to get to. So he's going to have to figure that out probably a little bit more. I'm happy you mentioned Maxi though, because I also think like the the biggest reason to make this trade is to preserve Tyre's Maxi's prime because I talked earlier about how they were in purgatory, right? It's waiting out those two contracts. Like that sounds good and, you know, it might

“have been the only thing that Citrus could have done if this deal didn't present itself to them,”

but and like the idea of Tyre's Maxi's age 26 through 28 seasons playing on these sort of no

hope teams where he also has to like shoulder so much of the load because you have $110 million

tied up and part-time players like I didn't love that idea either. So in the back of my head and this is something that nobody in Philly was talking about, but back of my head I was thinking like all right, if you're stuck with these contracts, is the unpopular thing, the best thing to see what you could get from Maxi like you said, a top, you know, 10/11 player, let him play for, you know, do do right by him and let him play for a real team, a team that wants to win a championship

and then reset in three years with the with the picks and VJ and whatever else you could get, it's nice that Tyre's Maxi now has somebody that's more his age that can help him play a little bit. Like they can ease the load on him a little bit more as well. So that's that's something my MB timeline and I've talked to you about this off the year, even because when I was the MVP vote, I like I remember calling you and like trying to talk about it and I'm voting for MVP that year and

let me figure out how to make this quick. I went from loving MB to let's say not loving him.

“I think the MVP year kind of messed him up with the way he went about playing basketball.”

There's times where I'm like I just want you to play ball and not worry about getting fouled because he's so good at drawing files that I think sometimes it kind of takes out the actual like purpose of the possession or I just feel like he's not playing ball as much as he's just going like I'm like I'm going to get the free throw line and it kind of screws everybody up and he doesn't play a lot. So there's that but when they had that moment, I forget exactly

when it was when some people started going kind of like anonymous source on him like this is not the greatest hang ever which is not to be said that MB's the only face of a franchise that knows you can get away with stuff and will then go ahead and get away with that stuff. But MB's reaction

to it was more about he couldn't believe somebody would say this. It was never about like hey,

I need to do a better job which is usually what people will say even if they don't mean it. And that I thought was a little alarming and so I kind of wonder from a personality standpoint like Max, he was never going to say anything because he was too young, BJ is not going to say anything. Paul George is a differential personality. He's never going to say anything. Brown is not that. Like Brown is somebody and I think he's good at maybe doing it privately maybe not so much lately

on Twitch but I wonder if there's any moment with MB if if this is somebody that's going to challenge MB because of Brown's resume where Philadelphia was actually excited to see what that could look like as opposed to everybody just getting out of Joel's way. Yeah and so the good thing with MB for like you said this is a different personality than he is dealt with. He is dealt with. Tyres Max or you who is just like I mean he's got like a curry

like quality where like you know he lifts everybody up everybody's spirits. He seems like you know a guy that the organization is happy to build around not only the player but the person as well because of the work ethic and because of how much he wants to involve his teammates it seems like V.J. Edge come look I'm not going to put him in that bucket there yet he's only played one year seems like the intangibles on him are really good as well. This is different right? Yeah this is

So you know we'll see how it goes. I mean it's funny I actually think back to the Jimmy Butler

time with the Sixers and those two actually did get along pretty well now they were a little bit different of personality. Jimmy was sort of just like it was like comical amount of like hard work

“and getting on people where I think Joel sort of he sort of vibe with that a little bit.”

If J.L. Brown from what I can tell it gets like a little more passive aggressive and cryptic and those type of things then yeah it's something that I am certainly worried about Ryan I think like I would assume that the Sixers talk to M.B. at about this and you know try to get him on the same page and I'm probably over indexing too much on those early twitch streams that I watched but it was notable to me that he was calling Maxi and Edgecomb and not M.B. does that mean

anything? No M.B. might just be a guy that he's just tough to reach in the summer but yeah like

M.B. when he plays on the court is going to be a huge part not only of the like on court product but also the energy of this team and how he measures with Brown. Yeah I'm curious to see you mentioned like the flopping J.L. Brown called him a flopper the day after game seven of the series right he went on his twitch stream and was just like great player but I can't really deal with with this stuff and they had some great back and forth in that game like I was watching that game seven

“and just love and how much they were they were going back and forth with each other. I think the”

Sixers probably hope that okay maybe they'll let bygones be bygones or two competitors and they'll they'll figure it out at this point like yeah like the idea that those personalities could be combustible and if the on court fit doesn't work things could go wrong yeah that's a hundred percent

of like for sure athletes always get over that stuff really quickly so I wouldn't even worry

about that going back and forth and J.L. even you know even though it can drive me crazy like him laughing about it at the time tells me like even in the game he's not exactly taking it all that personally the Butler dynamic is just bringing it up but I would tell you like I love that J.L. I loved that one so I imagine it was an easier basketball teammate to get along with back then when you felt like you could rely on him and this is like a bigger picture thing but

in what you else contract it's not like there were options for him but is there as there are clock there like do you think there's a clock there where if it's another year where he's available for 40 games and then it's an early playoff exit which is still in play despite the high marks across the board here which is just another point of this entire off season it's so crazy it's like oh my god what a great deal it's like okay they might be the four or five series okay okay okay yeah

like yeah probably a four or five seed is there we're getting out of ourselves here but do you think any kind of clock is is ticking on how many more years the six years would allow the refranchise to have another indeed season that is is unfaffilling as the other ones. It's a good question and it's it's sort of the same framing as PG right it's like what would it take to get off his contract what what would you get back in terms of assets what would you be

able to turn around and do to fill the center position which and as you've seen around the league is it's getting pretty expensive that that spot right now both in terms of picks and and also salary so you would need a backup plan as well but like logically getting off PG I would say this relatively painlessly probably increases the odds that that something could could happen down the line you know so you know we'll just sort of have to see how it plays out

would you say though that like whenever I listen to podcasts and and people who are or neutral and just have a good sense of the entire league like he's still considered the worst contract with the league right and so or one of them like if he's not number one he's these way up there and at a time where it's hard to move bad money it just it just seems like how the big cost prohibitive to move him at this point maybe you know in some ways maybe him having a

good year like maybe him playing 55 games and having a good play off series he's exactly 55. 55 like oh my god there's it look I kind of hope it's in there still and I don't I don't know if it is I mean if you watch any video from six years ago of him running around you're like how did it look like this so quickly you know this looks like it should be a 12 year gap not a six year gap of of his movement and I understand he's had a ton of injuries and when you're a bigger guy it's

like tougher to keep some of that that weight off but as gifted as he is and he truly is one of the

“most gifted big men I've ever seen I think we'd all agree on that it's it's just a hard thing it's”

you know I think there's some iverson parallels for different reasons but you have this player that's such an attraction and it's so decorated and yet you wonder are we just being held hostage

like we're stuck we're stuck and eventually fill it off you knew that they were stuck with iverson yeah so and and that's that's the worry for sure it's just like even even if he wants to prop max the up and say hey we're going to run the dribble hand off you're going to be the guy it it does turn into just just he is very involved when he's on the court I will say one small note

“of optimism because again I think as we just but you should I'm not I don't think anybody should”

be saying like I'm I'm with you here even though I've obviously leaned into kind of some of people like you know it's just a huge shoulder shrug where you go okay cool like but whatever but go ahead and finish your thought here no and I'm the same way obviously like you're just waiting for the next injury to happen I will say this kind of went under the radar because they got swept by the nicks and next team that was better than we probably even thought at the time considering

how well they played for the rest of the postseason and all those nicks fans took over the exciting mobile arena for game for it was pretty embarrassing look for for the pictures in their franchise it got lost it got swept under the rug and all that but after that game was over Joelle did saves and this was different like I've I've listened to him talk for a long time like he was like my knee feels really good I'm surprised at how well we have managed at this year and he said you know

obviously he fell apart physically in that second round series but he said that had to do everything

with the emergency appendix I have like my knee which has been the big thing that has held me back for the past three years at this point you know because he's 23 24 he was playing the best basketball of his career and then the coming thing happens in the middle of the the season and and you know things have gone downhill since then he seems more optimistic about how they've managed that through throughout the past year so that would be the hope that that okay you know appendectomy is in

the rearview mirror and he's feeling better with his knee that he'll be able to do it and I kind of wonder like this is probably too much credit to this I do wonder if Mike Gansy and Bob Meyers looked at him and and talked with him and thought okay you know he does sound like he's in a better place physically than the past few years and and maybe because of that reason we're able to to more justify pushing these chips in and making them move for Joelle and Raptor and he's also been so

unlucky man the oral loan the bills policy the kind of death of me I mean it's just I can

“want to hand I can say hey you got to get lighter you've got to Tim Duncan this you have to”

figure out a way to get lighter your knees your limbs everything's going to hold up better any doctor would tell you that kind of stuff and then it's like okay but you're also going to have three things to have nothing to do with you being in our out of shape and it sucks it sucks because when he's right I do I know it doesn't sound like this way to six or six hands but when he's right

I do really enjoy him and I originally always enjoy this personality and then it just kind of

became you know tougher to justify with with some of the stuff and it's as it's developed on the Paul George front massive disappointment I gave Darrell all the credit in the world for executing a plan a plan that's almost impossible pull off in today's free agency because either you won't have the cap space or more importantly everybody's resigned with their current team so the free agent market is extremely thin it's it's it's thinking about 2019 this morning and I'm like you

had kawaii on the move you had the Durant Kairi thing and now it's like hey we got Fred van Belie you know and and I like Fred all right I put like that's the point we had one off season where Kyle Laury was the biggest money signing from a guy going from one team to another which just I even looking at it this morning I was like oh my god I can't believe if that was the biggest number here so Paul George was that uh the plan was executed they're able to use it on them and then

“I swear as soon as he has expectations it's the worst thing that can happen to him so give me a thought”

on the Paul George experiment or experience I should say you got to guess both would apply in the two years of what Boston should be looking at yeah and I think like a Boston fan might look at at the playoff series and say hey and like he played some great defense on brown and Tatum and I agree like he was awesome in that series but if you watched him for two years like he's just on the bench a lot and it's for a myriad of different reasons right he got hurt in his

first preseason he never seemed I think he tweaked his his knee and that uh it was a preseason game

that Lana a couple years ago and he just never seemed to get right from that and then he has the 25 the 25 games suspension that was like that was a tough look man like they were they were just getting and beat healthy they were starting to play sort of their best regular season hoops of the past few years and then it's like oh yeah Paul George he's not going to be back for another two months and just like man that's just like it's just bad timing and there was it felt like

there was a lot of bad timing it's funny the in Philly there was a uh I feel like the encapsulation

the Super Bowl he had the bright idea to drive down broad street during uh the big Eagles celebration on broad street and years Paul George and this sick car and he's just like caught in the middle

of all these crazy people and it just it felt like symbolic of a guy who just never quite fit

“in to this exact spot for him and look I think for Boston you're probably going to miss a little”

bit of the secondary creation and you know the primary creation that Jalen Brown did in these past few years when Paul George is healthy like I think as like I said like the most overpaid third option in history he does a lot of helpful things his awful defense is still pretty sick man and the numbers bear it out that he was the six years most impactful defensive player last year it's just you don't want to give him the ball too much on on offense at this point like

doesn't shoot at the rim at all anymore like his rim attempts have just crater these past few years but the idea of Boston with all of their depth with with Mitch Robinson now at center and with Tatum back for a full year the idea that he could slide in and give them passable play like I I think that that's on the table I just worry about the main thing history says that he's not going to really stay healthy um that's number one and then like number

two like you know what what are you going to be able to get for him next off season but you know it's uh he's still a very helpful piece but it will be a sort of different type of impact than Jalen Brown so yeah the first year was so bad with Philly I mean the advanced stuff is it's not even who he is

“it is somebody you would cut from a team that's how bad it was and I kept waiting for a deterrent”

and I'm going okay well it can't like this is awful and so he was much better last year but I mean we're still talking about 70 eight games for Philly or two years he hasn't played over 60 games except for the 70 one he played before his free agent market which I don't know if that's coincidence or if he was just healthier whatever but that's one season with over 60 games since 2019 so even if there's less expected of him even if he's able to slide in I still cannot believe

they moved 111 million in this deal um and then got back Jalen Brown on top of the picks going

out all right let me end here who do you think's a better team right now boss or Philadelphia that's funny the people in Philly might get mad at me for this uh I think the six of our better playoff team I would I would probably pick Boston to be a better regular season they just at their regular season wins machine man and they'll just they'll play in Missola ball they'll shoot all these threes they'll have Tatum back healthy but I do think in a playoff series and we saw this

a little bit in in the six or six series here like part of the playoffs is much as that there's

“analytics and I trust them and I I think there's a lot of smart people uh talking about that like”

sometimes you just need a guy who doesn't have big weaknesses who can get your bucket one on one and then to to trade Paul George who is not really that guy and any sort of volume now for Jalen Brown like I think the sixiers probably if they can get Joelle relatively upright to the playoffs I would pick them in a playoff series of the two right now but in the regular season I think Boston probably a lot more wins for us re bulletin rich Hoffman on the sixers thanks man

no problem man thanks for having me while we have Cerudie here uh we get to talk some world cup so what do we make of this decision with the US men's national team uh I saw the Trump video I doubt he had very much to do with it but it wasn't like a politician wasn't going to take credit for so you have that um but just just take us through what's happening here whether there's any

precedent whatsoever for this yeah the true I mean the Trump thing I don't even know what to believe he just says stuff so I don't know like he actually like yesterday came out that he made a call to Johnny and Pantino who's the the head of FIFA but didn't actually like put forward the appeal and but of course as soon as he gets a microphone in front of his face it's going to say that like this was my doing and that you know that thank you Trump oh my god everyone

bow down to him I mean I don't get worked up but I think it's kind of funny but that's where we're at it all stems from if you didn't see it you probably have um in the Bosnia match one of our best players our best striker who has been fallen this entire tournament fuller in balligan he kind of inadvertently was backing into a Bosnia defender they both kind of clashed into each other and the way that he kind of got caught off balance and he puts his foot down he steps directly on the

Bosnia and guys ankle and it looked bad like I'm not going to see your until you didn't look bad

especially when you slow it down you freeze frame and the guys ankles basically bent sideways

and so nothing was basically given on the field at first and then they go to var and var looks at it and it's you know it's violent potential dangerous conduct and he gives out a red card and he's gone so when you get a red card you're out with the that rest of that

to miss the next match that's the protocol so he would miss the Belgian game which we were taping us on a Monday it is tonight is this short face instead of short handed it would it should be but it's not yeah well I'll put that into the the FIFA submission chart um and essentially FIFA reverse this thing and has said that you know because the thing is everyone thought it was mostly

“unfair I think if you pulled like 10 different soccer fans even not Americans they would tell you”

this was pretty harsh like this this especially because it wasn't given in red at first and it

was given in red because red because of var that doesn't feel like the right use of what we're doing for var if he had gone in like at a tackle and a real deliberate attempt to like tackle the player and he did something like this and sure yeah of course give red card it's violent cop we saw it last night in the um the England match against Mexico with by the way was absolutely fucking insane and one of the best games I've ever seen uh England had a guy sent off because he had a tackle

studs up right to the guy's basically ankle calf area and that's a red it's just and it went to var and it's a red it's harsh but it's a red this was the cane red you think the cane red was a justified or not it wasn't it was the it wasn't it was it was it was a I'm sorry by the way yeah I meant to ask so again it wasn't a cane red um the penalty on queen that led to the penalty kick was that justified that's a horrible harsh I hated it uh but I mean he did in the it's a fall

he kicks the guy's leg it's a foul he certainly made the most of it I don't really

“know I think I think the letter the law like that I think if we use common sense that shouldn't”

be a penalty but by letter of the law technically he followed in the penalty or yeah it's a penalty um okay so back to the other point because I get it anyway it gets overturned and everyone freaks out and ball again and by the way there was no appeal process because we had asked multiple people I had talked to my guy Paul Carr we knew some people at US soccer it was okay is there any way

to basically appeal this situation because there can be another leaves and different situations

and there is no appeal process like it's basically cutting dry like if you get a red card it's written in their rules um it's you just have to automatically miss the next match but there is this certain like weird rule um I forget what number rule it is but like FIFA can basically go in and change something that they want to change they did it for Ronaldo and this very tournament Ronaldo was supposed to miss three games he served one suspension one game suspension before the tournament

he was supposed to miss the first two games of the the world cup and then I think FIFA was basically like we really want Ronaldo not playing in the world cup especially in U.S. his final one and they basically overturned it and nobody really heard about it because like they I don't think people really cared that much to be honest with you there's been a couple different instances a guy Kai Sato who plays for Chelsea who plays for Ecuador he had the same thing he had a one

max ban overturned what they call it is the suspension the one game suspension is quote being suspended for a year so you're assessing on probation so if you do something again the red card can be reinstituted but it's all bullshit right it's all dumb and at the end of the day is it the right call like should he like should he be playing in this match against Belgium I believe he should be I think it was way too hard to give him a red card do I feel a little bit dirty about

the process yes is that going to make my enjoyment of this game tonight in a potential wins tonight any less absolutely not I don't care and it feels like it's a lot of Europeans who are mad at Trump mad at the u.s. and we've been we kind of gone from this like hey we're a field good story like oh we're playing well look at the u.s. oh my gosh to look at how corrupt this is this is classic American bullshit and they're getting way with stuff which by the way we aren't the only

“ones to get away with this and if you want to talk about corruption there was just a freaking”

world cup and guitar dude like what what there's there's been more corrupt things at FIFA's done this is not like a stand up organization so do I feel a little dirty yes is it going to ruin my enjoyment now I would hate Americans if I watch that Trump video I would I would already be upset and then I would see that video and I would go okay but again it wasn't like anybody who lived in another country who liked Trump all of a sudden although I don't know the way soccer the

passion with that it'd be kind of interesting like Mexicans for Trump that you know like now this is now he's gone too far now he's gone too far with his record it's it's funny because he he was about to say ball again and he knew he didn't know how to pronounce it nope so you know you catches himself all right bigger picture because I don't care about that that much uh what about today's game I mean I had granted some people are gonna catch this pot a little bit later but Belgium we're

nuts we're favorites and so we started almost dead even I think I'm traveling so it was like minus 1-18 each I want to say right after the the U.S. game when we beat Bosnia and then since the balligan news has happened we've gone from money 1-18 to 1-30 so we've been slightly more of a favorite I think the implied odds were almost like 60 percent uh the way we're playing with balligan who's one of the best strikers in the tournament right now the U.S. is definitely a

worthy favorite in the game Belgium has like a bunch of old dudes it's kind of like their last dance

but the problem is like the broino you love and you should love he's an expert midfielder

I ever watched him I it just stood out I'm like this is so different and I'm not saying he's messy earning like that but it was like he controls the game in a complete you felt like Steve Nashish

“yep where I think I ran into the the production room I'm like what because it was like a man”

city game on it was prepping so I just had it on which is kind of rare for me and look I just lied text you about them all the time because I just love the way he plays even if I'm not quite sure why he plays the way he does and it seemed like nobody else plays like him because people don't see the field the way he sees the field like he's just he's a magician and that that skill of like breaking down defenses and especially because like you know he he placing as a lot of teams are going to just

sit back and hey we're going to put eight guys nine guys behind the ball break his down score goal like that's where he becomes one of the most value players ever um so but he's old rum a little cock of I'm sure you've heard of he's their striker he's old um and they've they had sort of this

goal in generation where two world cups ago they finished third and they've been good but they

haven't really had an influx of a lot of new talent and so it's a lot of just kind of like old guys and like dudes filming the gap so their name power is probably bigger than the u.s.s.r but we have been playing better um I think you could argue that we are just challenges they are and I would argue that our managers are significantly better than theirs so I you know it sucks because like of course if the u.s. wins tonight all of the all the talk around the world is going to be how

how much of it in justice this is how unfair the u.s. bubble bubble plah and that sucks because like I want to just enjoy it purely enjoy this and I probably won't be able to at my fullest but I don't know if you're if you're if you're a ball knower and you care about like the right process of things right let's just say the right process but like the outcome of what that like I don't think people believe that ball again did anything significantly wrong deserve to be

“suspended in this game and here's the thing too if I'm at an American fan if Lucaku did the exact same”

thing in the game before and he was supposed to miss this and it got overturned I can tell you because they all you're just saying that because your guy got up I would not care I think it's the right call I think it's just from a sporting decision is the right way to play this he should be playing and I think Belgium kind of bitching about it is also like kind of lame like their coaches complaining their federation is complaining it's like hey just play the game if you think you're better than us or

whatever like you just think you're going to complain your way to a victory and other talking about oh should they just sit out the tournament and should like the rest of the European teams do it stand behind them and not play and it's like that's what are we doing here like this is this is insanity so I'm gonna enjoy the game tonight when loser draw but this is the point where the US user loses we haven't made a pass the round 16 in a long time and you know this this

this is kind of the reason you hire Mauricio pochettino to be your manager to get you over the song

“what happened in Brazil other than hauling I think there is I think there's a lot of left”

to remember the 7-1 thumping they got at in Brazil when the world cup is in Brazil in 2014 they

got hammered by by by Germany and they've kind of never been the same since then they don't really

develop players in the same way their midfield was just not as good as a normal Brazil midfield to be was it was kind of old and aging I thought their defense was okay but the thing that they usually have the best things of are like wing players like wing backs and wingers and even strikers they had Vinnie Junior who's excellent but he had you know okay tournament one of their other best wingers were phoenix got hurt and then beyond that they didn't really have much in the attack like

they were like a weirdly dull Brazil team so I don't know if it's like a hey why is Brazil not producing the same amount of attacking town as they always have um if it's like a huge epidemic or it's just like hey this world cup cycle they just didn't have it but and then the other thing was name R was on the team and they left out one of their other kind of informed strikers and name R is kind of like the old head that all the guys like but he's any good anymore not really

so I did pick Brazil because I thought their defense was going to be really good and I like their manager a lot but I even I admitted I think on the show like that was probably a long shot early's approval rating right now is there is there anything comparable I mean is it like

breakout year Anthony Edwards where I always talked about this NBA players is like your peak approval

rating is probably like the second or third year in the league for this it's different even though he's been around longer it's like American first opportunity but like who's this tall Viking looking dude who looks like he should be in movies playing the bad guy and everything was he an extra in die hard and all this kind of stuff and then just the the sheer production from him here now it is kind of fun to see him have like the cleanest approval rating

you can possibly have sports which is just it's just impossible to sustain all though for him it's just disappearing again for a bunch of years and people won't pay attention to so the drop off globally won't be there for him the way it would be when you're living with a basketball player every night for six seven months well the thing I've heard from a lot of people is two things one there was like an ad before the world cup and he was a night the Nike ad where chanting

Tatum was playing like a knockoff version of him and like him being self-deprecating is fun like

thing I heard from people because he plays for Manchester City and Manchester City are probably

“other than PSG maybe the most controversial team in the world they're owned by a nation state they”

have a ton of money they're currently there's like 117 charges against them by the Premier League

or the F.A. for like basically in other words like money laundering like fake sponsorship to all

messed up cooking the book Yadiyada Yadiyada so they're not a well-liked team and I've heard from a lot of fans for like this is like the first time that I could actually root for Holland outside of Manchester City and it's awesome because like how do you you want to root for him he's in insane like you said Viking I saw somebody that was like a bit you know if early in Holland was born like a thousand years ago like you just seen him coming over on a ship like crack and dude skulls in with like a hammer

like this is what he would do like he was born just being animal in that way so like his likability is is that he's not tied to Manchester City anymore he's tied to Norway which is like a likable team and they're kind of an underdog and they're now they're gonna go up against England but if you've seen I don't know if you've seen like him but like the video of him scoring that

“first header goal like he does touch the ball lot I think he had like 20 touches in the game total”

and his game is like duty score or did you not score more often than not he does score I think his record is he's had like 60 plus goals in like under 60 games for Norway he scored like nine goals in one game alone in a qualifier was against some terrible team but still like he in the lead up to that header goal like he's just kind of walking around not really observing much and then as soon as he sees like a little opening it's like bang header bang and then one nothing and then

basically the game's over and then the second goal we had from the shop from outside the box was just

I mean again just in and there's like very few people in love like I could actually do that so I would say him being not being tied to Manchester City has been really cool because people are like okay I could fully enjoy the the holiday experience I can't wait for tonight man and we can catch you one of this new episode coming out of the pot we're going to be alive tonight after the game so me Sam I don't know we're going to try to get me on the pop he's actually going to be after games

we're going to try to do something from the stadium but a bunch of us will be alive it's just soccer YouTube Twitter all those different places you can find all right make sure you check it out you want details five I drive a Ferrari 355 Cabriole what's up I have a ridiculous house in the south fork I have every toy you can possibly imagine and best of all kids I am liquid so now you know what's possible let me tell you what's required

life advice life advice are [email protected] we have a Kyle we have serruti they really have a good fourth yeah man definitely wow big smile 250 yeah it was fun we had a bunch of people over the house big pool day a lot of beverages were had food was eating it saw picture your pool dude looks nice didn't know we got it we got many hoops in there as well so that's that's been a big hit awesome low kid tried to dunk on it though it does have a water basin that thing almost fell

on the pool on somebody's head it could have been dangerous but yeah we survived kind of rivalry talking all it's a metal rim it's real it's got a real net it's yeah yeah I wasn't gonna have asked that yeah I don't this is another great story when I was a kid we had like one of the hoops in my yard with you know you know you put the water in it obviously whatever sauce was tip over it was like the beginning of the season it had been outside all winter like it's the water to evaporate so

my first thing I did obviously was just jump up on it dunk thing came down on me hit my temple

got some nice stitches in the side of my head so I learned my lesson pretty early two things cars though that's cool yeah yeah can you at your age still be roped into a pool basketball game with your boys as a drop of the hat yeah absolutely yeah dude absolutely it

“didn't happen yesterday but I wanted to I mean I think every dude group is basically”

had the like full contact like pool basketball even if it doesn't start that way it comes then like immediately after somebody tried to drown some woman there's a lot of elbows to the nose is blood in the pool oh yeah all that stuff 100% the crazy what happens the right happens crazy I had a friend who had this like birthmark all over the side of his face and I remember he worked a door at a place that I was bartending at and one of the female bartenders who I

think was engaged she was just like your friend is so hot and all of us I don't know that we didn't think he was bad looking but it was a distracting spot all over us I mean it was like covered half of his face almost looked like CGI you know if he had been a character in some too fast yeah movie you know like oh my god great makeup and I was like what I was like you think he's you know it was I don't know that I was arguing with her pushing back I guess I was just surprised yeah

because she was like fired up she's like he is so hot and I went I was like oh oh you know wow okay I'll you know relay that to the dudes back at school and then she goes I just love guys with like stuff on their face I knew they were out there when I was young girl I was like I wonder if

got stuff on my legs and stuff nothing you know I don't have any of those weird patches where it's like you got hit in the head with something you're 10 and here doesn't grow I don't have any of that stuff so that's too bad look at seal right legendary run okay all right we have a few follow-ups

“I think but I think this is the only one I'm gonna read today remember Jack Hammer yeah yeah so”

hey fellas I appreciate your advice from earlier this year this was a 100% real email we ultimately

went with Jack it's a middle name remember our guy's last name was Hammer we just called Jack we figured going with the middle name he can have the choice down the road if he doesn't like it I don't know I don't know if you really have a choice early on but I get your point but then it's gonna be weird of all of a sudden you've known him as Jack Hammer through high school and then he comes back one summer he's like my name's Dave now have it hand up being the 97% out weight 47% out height

chode I was with my wife no this is him I'm not saying not that me yeah yeah yeah right because remember our guy wasn't huge he checked in at 5 9 145 soaking wet so we were kind of like you get a look out so 97% out weight 47% out height chode I whispered to my wife in the delivery room to Jack Hammer's actually it didn't love it Dave this guy sounds great you know just the first thing

Jack Hammer yeah baby yeah baby size awesome yeah this incredible moment whatever like the

first thing this guy's thinking of is making fun of his baby yeah through the wife so they must have a little bit of a strong little guy Jack Hammer also weirdly fits as well if you're like a strong stout kind of dude I think Jack Hammer also works yeah so when you're 97% out weight like what are we talking about here 220 in high school that doesn't seem to make a ton of sense well I don't know if it projects all the way out of the school whatever you are at that stage for life yeah yeah but I thought

“there was like some gene mapping or something you could do yeah I think you can you can I remember our”

pediatrician I'm what 5 10 my wife is 5 5 maybe and my doctor really short and our first daughter he's looking at the chart that matter oh no it does well you know it does because he goes oh she's gonna be tall and I was like what do you mean like no one in our like what are we talking and he's like oh I got on me like 5 6 I was like third okay like that's is that tall okay all right sure I guess that's I was pleasantly surprised I don't know hmm it's exciting

all right moving on um okay uh one other quick one here 6 11 17 33 years old player comp Sasha Vugia Chitch moving to Westart for this fall and my sin to be wife and we have no idea where to live my fiance's job will be near blue back square nice I'll be driving a grad school

“and fair field next summer I start clinicals full time should have a much shorter commute”

will be in the area for at least three years would like a walkable area for restaurants and things to do is you've been living in big city Chicago and Atlanta don't think this was a life advice

but you and Steve really seem to love the Connecticut talk the other day we sure do I've never

DM these guys I should say you're firing away I don't know the sale and serruti different Instagram Connecticut clips more DMs in two days than I have the rest of the time of us knowing each other fair yeah yeah maybe because I've never DMed either of you but I can't get enough of this harbour content anyway uh so yeah we did enjoy it so any information would help as we start this new chapter finally fairfield isn't far from Dan Berry so I'll have to check out the

mall we are your home for Connecticut talk there's my wife so it's asking me today is like are we going to Dan Berry this week and I'm like I don't know we just had a big weekend before maybe we'll just give it yeah let's give it a rest out if yeah the celebrations all right I look I've been there it's it's eight years for me now so I don't know server do you want to take the lead on this I mean it doesn't feel like what's Hartford's

what's this question it can Chicago he wants to know where he should live in West Hartford why this is such a niche email I let I lived right on South Main Street not something not in blue back but like close enough to basically walk there and back then rent was like pretty cheap

anywhere I think you're fine now like there's some nice new like sort of like luxury apartments I think

“better in there I don't know if those are I can't tell you if those are worth it or not only you”

can know know that but they are they do look decently nice and they're in a good spot but like I feel like if you're in West Hartford like you're with a trifle or anything like it doesn't matter it's really just that downtown everywhere it goes to it depends on how far like where I lived I couldn't walk anywhere I mean I could walk on that stretch you were in part towns yeah so the only reason I picked my place is because it was new or it was turned key and I was traveling

all the time so that's the original of the HOA battles if you wanted to do hey I want to walk into

the downtown part of West Hartford which is incredible like depending on what you want like if you're

a big city person then it's not going to be enough for you if you look clean old kind of historic feeling doing when thing slower pace but can get everything done in an afternoon you like going with your wife to go sit there and have an outdoor launch during the summer and everything all that stuff works maybe it's fair field of and then was that farming to nap wait it's farm to nap

“yeah he's the fuel so it's farming to nap I think like if you go through the city and then I don't”

know if it's north I'm just kind of thinking like pop so I could be totally wrong directionally on that but not I wouldn't make it great cop there's probably some places to rent there that are a little bit older builds and everything but you could like be out of the commotion of of the town but a very feasible walk the main thing I would tell anybody about moving me to that part of Connecticut is don't get tricked into doing anything north of that exit because once you get north of

that exit heading up 84 back towards Hartford like when I lived in Hartford and commuted from Bristol and I was getting off the air for so I would be driving through that stuff on days that I didn't stop depending on anybody cares about my work I routine but you would be stuck in this absurd 84 traffic just to get it would take me an hour to get back to Hartford it sucked and then when I

moved to West Hartford it was a complete game changer because then I was home in 25 minutes so

do not do anything that takes you north of that West Hartford exit if you're going to be commuting also depends on it sounds like your wife's not going to be commuting but that'd be my number one thing to anybody like hell again I don't know that Hartford is the dream destination for a bunch of

“younger people but if you have to live there and you're doing that commute it's going to be brutal”

and you get so frustrated because then all the traffic disperses because it's only based on the design of the highways not because there's so many people there all right I think we covered it let's see got there's so many damn very questions in here come you can get out boom and Torres thanks to Kyle I know this one's a little longer but I think it's important 29 years old six one

200 pounds he says omit parenthesis okay no problem I've been mostly a runner the last few years

completing two altres last fall all right used to be able to clean three 15 but couldn't touch that now and working on building my way training back up all right gonna guy who's locked in my girlfriend I'd end together for six months great timing with me leaving the country for a period of time okay so he has to leave the country for work after starting to date I love my girlfriend and we have moved things pretty fast to discuss what a potential future may look like with one another once I return home

all of our goals and dreams for what we want or extremely aligned here's a dilemma she's told me that she's been spending a lot of time with one of our other mutual friends from work what's called him George usually there together in a group doing some sort of outdoor activity until recently she told me her and George went camping together alone so you were dating her and she went camping with George while and she you found out after the camping trip and he doesn't align with my values I'll tell you that

yeah my vision is we go on trips with other people without telling each other until after I don't think I didn't think anything of it because I trust my girlfriend considered George a friend as well that wasn't till she told me that they had a conversation where they revealed they had feelings for each other during the camping trip she said they finished the conversation with them asking about me and coming to a resolution just just remain friends and said nothing else happened between them on the camping trip

naturally I did not react well to this and told her I wanted her stop hanging out with George and could not believe my girlfriend and friend had both betrayed my trust she said that it meant nothing and they were just friends I remained pretty beat up about it for the days following the next conversation we had I essentially laid out an ultimatum for me or him she initially fought me on this saying that she values George as a friend and would like to consider or continue their outdoor activities

together while I'm gone she also added the her and George have tickets to a concert for just the two of the hundred summer and we'll be seeing him a lot since they'll be working together

known forever that she didn't want to lose but she's known him for the same period of time as

me I told her there's nothing I can do to stop them from being together in a group setting but absolutely do not want them to hang out one on one which she seemed to understand and acknowledge they're going on a camping trip soon with a group of friends I know that is going to upset me that they are together I need advice from the triumvirate how to proceed and if I am being fair in my actions with the situation am I to believe that nothing else happened between my girlfriend

and George do did I go too far and giving an ultimatum and telling her I don't want to see him I don't want her to see me anymore I want to stay together with her and make sure she's able to enjoy her time and home while I'm away but how do I move forward with this as I won't be back in the country till next year that sucks man um then you want to go first I just that took me

“forever to read out really yeah I mean I think I'd go on a trip as a single band maybe I don't know”

not really sure it's just like it about George I know that move I'm going to be walking through you know verdoon the other guys I look at me solo on a lake running a boat okay what about George back home doesn't work well he's going for a reason right it's probably a work trip like you know I'm going to appreciate yourself with the folk there I don't know I mean the problem he's going

for work yes yeah yeah but the problem is they have this this own little thing that you're never

going to be a part of which is work and it's not like she just sees him at happy hours they're also going places and sleeping in the same place together without you there it's like like if you can't stop this thing from happening I don't think that maybe it's maybe she thought she was helping by like giving you all this information up front this is something maybe I don't almost prefer she didn't tell me about I'm in the situation like yeah we both decided we kind of like each other but

we figured it'd be better you know for you if we didn't do anything about it like I almost feel like it's a lie to me at that point I don't know so I don't think I'd rather be lied to

“but this yeah yeah well I think you I think you know if they want on a solo or duo camping trip”

without you that that conversation probably happened like you know so she could tell you outright or you could just pretend like it didn't happen but that conversation happened no matter what they told you like do you believe her that nothing happened do you believe her that they're just going to like go their separate ways and everything's going to be fine like I personally wouldn't and I think your thing until they end up in the same place they have this little special secret that's like oh I haven't seen

you out in a wild and a wild you know like it's going to be like you get it in bite to one of these trips like I like it kind of ever and you get invited and stuff um yeah I think I kind of feel like everything you're ultimately made them to me is totally fine like even if they are like the best people in the world and they're truly trying to look out for you like they know it screwed up at deep down like this isn't this isn't like normal okay behavior maybe she told you because she

feels bad about it and she feels like being up front with it's going to make her conscious feel

“better that's probably a scenario but I don't think it helps the situation at all I think the best”

news is you've only been doing it six months and it wouldn't be the end of the world if you

guys always well you're just asking a painting tear yeah now I know just because not like what

happened was so crazy it's the fact that she like doesn't get they're like all right speed bump we won't go down that road again it's like actually we've scheduled a couple more trips down that road already so we'll get through these cut the concert season and this one more camping trip and then maybe I'll think about you know it does feel like an IQ test of relationships like she failed like playing simple yeah ultimately fair do not feel about about that George is not going

away okay your friend is not respect you I don't know how much your girlfriend respects you if they sat there and all they did was say they both have feelings for each other and we're on a camping trip together and okay we both have feelings for each other now let's go our so I'm not to bump you out man but I don't I don't know that I mean if they admitted this part of it is was that a way of like feeling better about maybe something else happened so I would be thinking

something else happened because two people sit there like we're in the strip together we like each other okay let's not do anything though because of my boyfriend who your friends with like if this guy's your really your friend he's not gonna take your girlfriend to a country show and if she's your girlfriend and she wants a future with you she understands make I can't go to a concert with just the two of us so you may have to like pull a power move but then again it's like be careful

what you wish for here you might have to say like we are not going to be dating and now I'm leaving the country for work and then you come back and she's dating George so I you know I don't know what you're willing to be able to handle usually people lie to themselves about what they can handle

to be but this is this is nasty work from the both of them so you shouldn't feel any ounce of guilt

whatsoever telling her like this doesn't work this doesn't work for me and if I'm important to you

“you have to respect that I mean there are times where your date I remember one time I had an unfollowed”

somebody who I knew and I was so annoyed and yet now I just went whatever I'm like what's what's the harm in me like it doesn't matter because I had to I was like if this is bothering the other person that I care about this much and this person cares about me it's stupid as I think this is and I could put my foot down and say like hey you're overreacting and I'm not going to give in on this kind of thing especially being older I just kind of like whatever I'll just unfollow the

person ocean waves but yeah it's like all right problem solved unfollowed like don't care great you know so don't feel bad about the ultimate of whatsoever I really don't like this at all for you I don't like any there but I do think a couple months abroad is a pretty nice reset button right you know but Brooklyn that's which they can go a couple months abroad that's to be a much better reset than they're going through so if you have the teeth wow look at that was that I'm a lady

“I don't know that was a problem whatever was I below we were bleeding him I was assuming the”

monologues cause the most like what's what's he talking about right now I'm taking notes I'm the guys taking notes what's here in that shit you know what I appreciate that copious notes all right bartender dilemma what's up gentlemen long time listener going all the way back to his VPN or so it is stats 36 six foot and shoes 265 whoa former CrossFit bro who has since seen the light bench 225 squad 315 deadlift 425 NBA comp Brian's gallebreening the big guard who can occasionally

get hop from three but focus on rebounds and defense that is a big guard a 265 here's the dilemma one of the other bartenders or woman will come in on her nights off and have a few beers totally normal what I've started noticing though is that you'll consistently get some of the older single

regulars to buy her drinks the first time it happens you came in on her night off or a couple

beers for me then told me quote on broke right now so I can't tip you for the beers I'm having

“man that is like the all-time betrayal of the bartender code the whole point of being of”

our tenders that you get hooked up with all your drinks and any tip excessively so that actually ended up costing you more and all of you look at each other going this is a new thing yeah yeah for this we try to do a packed once a Vermont we're like we have to stop this because it's actually like it's getting weight I was totally in favor of a gift and we stopped doing this because it sucks we have to breathe a hundred bucks all the time all right a few minutes later

one of the regulars bought her drinks so wasn't an issue I didn't think too much of it because we've all had times where someone else picked up the taps since then I've seen the same thing happen another three or four times with different regulars it doesn't feel like a random nice gesture anymore it feels like she knows exactly which guys will fire drinks and leans into it yeah that's a I don't think it seems that's exactly what's happening for comparison yeah and that's the loons right I mean

that's okay yeah you're right house it's a little bit of bars and pretty much what's been going up hey look you know there's a pay gap and then there's also this so you know things can even out I mean if I had a nicer ass who knows what my Instagram follow would be all right so kicked up or so yeah the five boys seems my god they're short it's a follower count just hasn't really taken off the way I thought it was edited or what is that new bedford is

like a movie y'all for comparison I've had play all right we were at that line so here's my question is this just none of my business in the case of an oh it's just a case of older single guys willingly buying drinks for an attractive bartender or is this something I should mention to the owner because it could eventually create a problem for the bar if someone feels let on or things go sideways love the father hopefully I'll make it to the next live show if it's anywhere close

I would not it's like you got a Hartford one coming up yeah I don't know it's super like a full middle town Hartford like were you with a middle town show he went way longer life from the yard goes long let's go log yeah he really like it was like tray up there look is

over yet nope 2001 all right so I don't think here's here's what I would say these regulars

are thrilled to have the audience love it I know who these guys are I desperately do not want to be one of them and I'm so fearful I had dinner last night at a bar guy next to me pounded some white wines all he wanted to do was talk to the bartenders he even made a mix he was controlling the Spotify playlist in the bar and they were playing along and he looked like he was a regular and it was a bunch of female bartenders and he was trying to engage unliterally anything that

they were doing and they were playing along because I think he's there all the time and I'm seeing

me because I'm just going like is that gonna be you dude it's not gonna be you so that you know

your life lasts for your eyes for a bit there yeah yeah yeah I'm like oh man and he had some pretty good stories too and he was trying to talk to me and I was like all right and then he said something I was interested in I was like okay but if you do engage then you're not gonna be able to watch the rest of the game so I was like all right whatever because so anyway the point is these guys are

“paying an audience tax and that is their transaction and if I think it's lame that she'd be of our”

tender in her own bar telling you guys that like she's low on funds and she's not gonna tip you but this act in itself her sitting there getting a few beers some fun guys these guys are pumped to pay for her beers because she's going to pay attention to them and that I think is of them transaction yeah and there's also like they might they might not be coming in there just when she works too like they might just be in there all the time but maybe there's a little

couple drinks fall off the truck when she's serving them and now she knows that she can also you know there might be a little bit more than just like I'm gonna be a pretty girl sitting next to you for the next 20 minutes you know what are you gonna do for me like there could be there could be like they love when she's working and she you know she's like well I know I can count on these guys coming in today so there might be some of that there too so I don't know and maybe this is an

outlet for them so they're not leaving you know comments on girls Instagram photo saying like so beautiful you know what I mean like you know maybe that's maybe that's saving them from going out in the world and putting that energy elsewhere who does probably not the gorgeous hope you have a great day sunshine smiley face just all sorts of cake and it's like what's your favorite fast food your dad's like I like to check you know this must be a real fun yeah yeah yeah that

doesn't get a shit out of me like what at what point because that's like at some point you're gonna be the old man in life and my wife and I talk about it all the time and it's gonna there's gonna be like some AI stuff so we're just gonna be just gonna be all overhead so we're just like glad to say who knows man you know and it's gonna be like the loser and whatever like the future Facebook platform is and so you see Steve just fired on whatever fake things like that so it's

gonna happen so Steve Steve's looking at AI soccer girls like this is amazing it's fake you old idiot

um how are these aliens gonna affect housing yeah that was good right off the dove I thought about that so okay I just think if we have aliens here at any point they'll be like this big push to be like no how gonna alien like this is great and like the e-cats man like what what do we do

“have you guys gotten do but what's the I I think I got do by a couple AI videos recently like it's”

getting weird now it's so weird yeah it was I mean I'll just look at the comments and usually younger people you can tell help I wasn't getting fooled by AI but like whenever there was a war going on it was like like holy shit and then so we'd be like that was actually from you know 2019 and that was a Bosnia that was somewhere else I'm like yeah well how am I supposed to know so like there's just been a bunch of like war footage that they're attributing to the wrong

conflicts that I'll just I guess so I guess that just happened over there and it's like no actually I did get a text for my mom with a um a screen grab of the port noi I think it was Fox News hit running for is she she's like is this real it was like day port noi for prepping it I'm pretty sure he's selling books man I don't know I was like I didn't even respond I just call them me I just don't know my mother also sent me a port noi clip

oh one best really it's months ago yeah she's like have you heard about this stock

Dave port noi seems like he's always like all right I was like all I was like you know I work for

him now right she was like what she didn't know what's going on now um has yeah all right I think that'll do it for us today those are good one lot of stuff I want to find her own business right

“that's what we're saying to this guy just to put a bow on it mine your own business for those”

parts yeah after your work mind your own business part 10 definitely at George and we want a Kyle travel log when he goes to Dan Barry you know what can you do that could you do like a two part 10 minute like all the way down and then have it just be part of the pod and none of us talk and we just put it in the pod where you have to write out like a 10 minute model so pre and post yeah yeah okay yeah I think so don't even be intimidated by it at all just do it

it'll be safer it'll be you just Kyle being Kyle it'll crush all right might put me out okay

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