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analytics. On the jaylon brown front, a lot of talk because he's been out there now in the market place for a long time specific to the yonna steel that you can't bring him back after all sorts of hurt feelings. I don't know if they're going to trade him. I would say the Milwaukee deal was complicated based on what yonna's agent was telling other teams about his willingness to extend

“with these teams that were going to use all these resources to trade for him. I think boss and”

certainly was in the mix here and my name was far more desperate. And I think the agent probably scared off anybody else that led to an even worse market than you can imagine and having this whole thing dragged out this long. Just as an aside here, can we discuss how fucked it was after the trade deadline for yonna's to post the wolf wall street? I'm staying mean to a social media. You know, the emits, what? You want to be like, hey, you know, you're the one that wants

to leave and it's been going on since last May. So, do you want to take some sort of victory lap that you weren't traded when the only reason that you're potentially traded is because you want to be traded? No, the contents too good. This is like some Dwight Howard shit. I love like a lot of players that I talk about. I love like 90 plus percent of it. I will take yonna's. I love his personality. I love his competitiveness. I think it's a home run for Miami, even if they don't

have all the pieces in place, right? But to go, yeah, let's do the, do the, I'm not leaving thing with the caprio once I'm staying. You know, not to like double mean this whole thing, but it's a bit like the guy in the hot dog suit. I know his name is Tim. All right. So, let's move on from that. Now, we can also move on probably from the debate of like Jainland Brown and whether or not made

“more sense for him to be the centerpiece of a Milwaukee roster moving forward. I think if you look at”

the peak of like what Jainland Brown is, it's better. Jainland Brown, that actual player is better than anything else that Miami was able to grab, who knows, maybe one of these picks is going to be

that ends up being the best asset and it's a long-term thing with all that stuff because I don't know that anybody would take Tyler Hero over Jainland Brown. The other problem from Milwaukee is if you're doing this deal, you can't then do it and then tear the whole thing down because they don't have control of any other picks in 27, 28, 29 or 30. A lot of people are going to say that Boston can't bring Jainland Brown back because of the awkwardness and because it's going to be pissed off about

all this stuff. Jainland Brown has always made it a little awkward at times. Whether you want to talk

“about it and being competitive, whether you maybe want to use the word annoying, I think both”

those things would apply. His whole point about this past season being his favorite season, I know that people trashed him for that. I would not because I think I understood what he was trying to say and that everybody was counting this team out and then he got to be the number one option and they had a really great regular season and the players were just asked her form. I still think they would have lost the next. Even if they had a healthy Tatum, so I don't know how far they were going to

go. But this is somebody who has always had a problem with where he is perceived to be in this league. Like I think most of us who go, okay, he's not a one and then he would hear that. You're out of your mind. I've won finals MVP. I look what I just did this year. Like all of you guys talked us out of even maybe being in the playoffs and I carried us all season long. Until Tatum was able to come back and I'm not a one. I don't blame him for feeling that way.

“I think you have to feel that way, specifically in this sport to be as good as he is. But”

nobody's ever voting him like consistently first team all NBA and he's never kind of lived in that

neighborhood and maybe he's pissed that we don't accept that. But that's fine. That's fine. That can be that disconnect that we have. All right. I also understand why Jalen Brown would be super pissed off about the Bobby, Bobby Marx clip of an NBA team saying that Jalen Brown would be the seventh best player on a team. Now, Jalen Brown historically, his analytics have never been that great. They were actually pretty good this year. Usually because of the turnovers, it took less threes this

year, more mid range stuff. It all worked out. I think there's some free throw stuff in the past, but free throw you lived at the free throw line this year. I think there's some on-off stuff that happens with him defensively where I look at him and be like, okay, I can see the lapses and that kind of stuff. But I know like in the playoffs and his size and his athleticism. If you have to send him after a ball handler, like I know I like my chances. Probably a little bit better. Even if the

numbers don't bear it out of real regular season. So again, if I'm Jalen Brown and I see this clip where it's just Bobby Marx's quote that Jalen Brown is suggested to be the seventh best player in NBA team, I lose my shit if I were him too. Now granted, maybe I wouldn't waste my time with a couple hundred million in the bank with this, but fuck it, who cares, especially when the younger dudes who've only grown up with seeing themselves talked about and then deciding whether or not

they want to react to it. Now it's a little unfair to go Bobby Marx's work as Bobby was basically trying to relate like the market for Jalen Brown is complicated because of some of these advanced numbers that we keep referencing and his profile doesn't stand up as well against some of these other guys. And Bobby actually continues to say that he disagreed with the opinion and that he's a Jalen Brown guy. He said, quote, I would want Jalen Brown on my team. So Marx's getting dragged,

Brown gets mad at him for something Marx doesn't even believe in, but it was just him trying to relay that information to the rest of us of why it's a complicated market for somebody as talented and decorated as Jalen Brown. There's also a bit of this clip conclusion thing that we have

where we are not ever reading the article, we're never seeing the full interview. I mean, this is a

way bigger problem just sports. And if the Kennedy assassination happened today, you'd have somebody going, I don't know, top down, pretty lady on his arm, son is out. What's the issue? Anyway, so the advanced numbers, I like analytics. I just like being smarter about this stuff. We

“should all like being smarter about this stuff. Remember back in the day when a team because they”

were giving up the least amount of points per game in basketball and be like number one defense, I remember Zach Low getting mad at the net's Twitter account years ago when the nets were claiming they had the best defense in the NBA and then Zach Low just quote tweet, it was like, "Pace, adjustment, sigh, something like that. It made me laugh. We used to not adjust for pace. I don't even know that that's all that complicated. There's all sorts of stuff like LeBron and

Darko and Vork that I'm like, I kind of think I know, but I'm not 100% sure. I don't reference it all the time. Adjusted for pace, shouldn't seem to be that complicated. Net rating shouldn't seem to be that complicated. I'm just glad we're using it because we all used to be more ons about it. But hey, this team has an awesome defense because they don't have the other team scores of any

muddyest pace imaginable. So the opponent's points are a direct correlation to how bad they are

in offense on top of everything else. Josh Hart had some interesting commentary where he basically

said the analytics were just white geeks who couldn't play coming into the game. I would urge you

“if you want to take a look at some of the front office staffs and how they're built out. There's plenty”

of non-white guys that work in analytics all over the league. You could even if you wanted to stretch it a bit further and suggest that there's an argument to be made that what Hart said is actually not offensive to the white geeks that are in the NBA involved in some of these decisions. But like the eye test and concluding about a player that he's awesome because he's quote a bucket you know that kind of analysis is just as complicated is defaulting to whatever basketball

reference tells you about a guy seven years ago. You know, without analytics, Cam Thomas probably has a nice little contract 25 years ago. He doesn't have a job right now. You want to go through let's look at some numbers here because I was looking at it again because advanced stuff clearly has its problems too. The same number that had Yokech, SGA in women Yamma is the three best players

“in the NBA also has, so this is this year, right? So this number that I was looking at it goes”

Yokech won SGA 2, Wemby 3 and also has Jalen Dern is the sixth best player in the NBA. Even if you hate Palavancaro, there's another number that city was the hundred best player in the NBA this year. Want more Siocca was ranked 140th and granted if I'm looking at like one year of an advanced out of some of these guys, there's not 90 dying guys better than Palavancaro in the NBA. I don't even think there's 20, but I'm still high in the guy. Walker Kessler has

averaged 50 games a season in his four years in the NBA. Now granted, he would have played more this year if you told wasn't tanking, but that's the number. It's like 211 games, first career. The advanced numbers have him upset at Utah's five year 140 million dollar offer because advanced numbers, especially after his rookie year had him ranked the 13 best player in the NBA. Now again, just one sliver of these advanced numbers because I could come up with a number one,

but granted, like guys like Kessler, it's why Rudy Gobert, like one year with Rudy, it was Yokech number one, Jimmy Butler, who's like been smart enough to hack the advanced game to make him look like he's a way better player than he actually is. Jimmy Butler was number two

behind Yokech and then Rudy was number three behind those guys. So yeah, there's always numbers

in there that you can find. You're like, well, this is why all of this stuff is collectively stupid. You want one more? How about this? Charlotte's unit from last year. They're starting five. So it's con, it's lamello, it's bridges, it's Miller, and it's deo body, right? So if you look at all of the top minute lineups and then look at their net rating, Charlotte was number two in the NBA in net rating. That Charlotte five was number two in net rating in the NBA with that group

at plus 26.4 net monster number Detroit was number one of like I looked at it this morning, the top 60 minute lineup combinations in the NBA this regular season Detroit was number one at like plus 29 Charlotte again, number two at plus 26 monster monster numbers. Do you want to know where New York was? Plus two points with the five guys, the five guys we all know. And I don't even think those are like simple math things. They're not even like that complicated.

Again, it's net rating. It's one of those things when I looked at with New York where I went, why isn't that number better? Is that a problem for them in the playoffs? What's happening here is very predictable because you're plotted in a lot of circles when it's like get the nerds out of basketball, right? Look at some of these numbers and say, this guy's this and we all know that that's not true. And I would agree with the eye test on a lot of those examples. There's plenty of

numbers and all like that's stupid. That's just not what it is. But there's also a world where you're in the 90s and you're arguing with your roommates that Cam Thomas is an all-star.

“Do you want to be doing that? Is that what you want? What generally happens?”

And it's very predictable. It's a very simple pattern that we fall this habit of over and over and over again. Is it because we have more information that we're making more informed decisions that doesn't necessarily mean they all are the right decisions and we end up with conclusions that are

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From the starting lineup NBA radio with Brian Scalberney, it is Frank. I sold a friend of the show. It's good to see you. Good morning. All right. What's up? How are you? I thought we'd be talking you during the NBA finals. Because every time I go off the air with you and behind the sea, Frank, yeah, I know you guys tried to get Bacomie. I'll come on. We call you. I think there were what? Five games in the series. So we called you all five off days and you we couldn't track you down.

It's all right. Yeah, I told Warren I was traveling for the finals and it was, I mean, I guess I could have booked a later flight to come on and do a 10 minute phoneer. So my bad. What do you travel and be a stage coach? Come on, man. You could go five minutes is all we need. You can make fun of Brian. You give us like your little final stake and we move on. Do you want my final stake now? Yes, give it to me. That the air Fox isn't very good.

“Mitch Johnson did not have a good series. Hopefully that's your take. Yes, that's what you nailed it.”

You nailed it. Did you pick the next? Yeah, yeah. To be honest with you, when Tyre's Hallebert went down in game seven last year, I thought how are the next not getting to the finals? Now, if they played Oklahoma City, a healthy Oklahoma City team maybe would be different, but you know, the spurs obviously show their inexperience in all those games. What was the great stat? They held a lead for 72% of the series. They ended up losing all three home games.

And they blew the 29 point lead on the road in the second half. And they were up 20, kind of late in the fourth what maybe seven or eight minutes left in the fourth quarter. I mean, a lot of ways they gave it away. The next were the better team in the fourth, but to Aaron Fox, it was I couldn't believe it was quote after game four when he went up for the layup. And they asked them why you do this. So we'll be hadn't scored in a while. Actually, with 30 seconds left to find Castle hit two

free throws, which counts as scoring, which gave you the one point lead. So he did score it. That was not a good look. And now he's due to make $229 million over the next four years. Okay.

“As a lifelong kind of like association with the nicks here, at least professionally, right?”

Is there any part of you that, I think I know the answer to this already, that feels a sense of pride. In terms of winning? Yeah. Not really. I mean, I like a lot of people associated, you know, Patrick Killing, while Fraser, who, you know, when I first got on the beat, he's doing the radio TV and cannot be a nice regard to fans. Anyway, that comes up to him. Walt is terrific. I've

always, I was close with Larry Johnson when I covered the team. I know Rick Brunson really well.

I know Jaylin Brunson. So I was really happy for those guys, Brandon O'Connor, who was with the Clippers, Chris Jantt, who I've known for a long time. So I was happy for those guys. Because it's not easy to win. And you've got to catch a lot of breaks along the way, but to the nicks credit, like these opportunities don't come along very often. Like, this was going to be the next year. They, the, everything broke right for them. They didn't have to play the

self, the choice, still think they would've beaten. But they're better than Philly. They're better than Cleveland. They crushed those teams. They had more time to rest than they were into an inexperience spurs team. But the nicks were the better team in the fourth of all the games. Jaylin Brunson for the most part was the best player in the fourth quarter. So to their credit, you know, they have winning players on that team. And they got tough minded guys. So I was

to me, it just shows you. It's not always about having, you know, the highest paid players and

that are physical and tough minded players like O'Jan and O'Bee, like Josh Hart and of course,

“like Jan Brunson. Do you think it'll be November or December when Nick's fans start to”

continue playing ball all the picks from the Cal Bridges? 100% 100% I keep thinking like when is, you know, what is the other shoe going to drop now? The owner did a pretty good job going on radio before the parade. How about him? Like it didn't seem for 25 years. Now he's like racing to the front of the line to get credit for the team winning, releasing that speech that he gave to the team on April 3rd, then he comes out the day before the parade and says, yeah, we don't want to go into the

second apron. That's fine. That that's your philosophy. Why are you saying that publicly the day before the parade? Why don't we let it breathe a little bit? Let the people enjoy it and then one free agency starts. You want to say that publicly or just by your actions, you'll prove it. Now if they don't bring back Mitchell Robinson, everyone's going to say, see Jim Dolan's being cheap and we know how much money he's got, everyone understands the financial ramifications of the second

apron. But why say it and then the other argument could be, who knows, this might be your best chance to win another title by bringing the whole group back. I don't think they'll do that, but they have a pretty good chance. Yeah, he probably could have waited. I mean, Granny was asked. He was asked about the future of the roster and all these different things. But just don't say anything.

Those are things we're going to, you don't have to say it. Because they got a grind that I never

answered questions for 25 years. Now all of a sudden he's got to tell you, you know, all their business right before they're about to go, you know, the canyon of heroes, go to City Hall, that part of it made no sense but come on. He wants, for him, this is validation. He never really wanted to be associated with the team and it was losing. Oh, that's my basketball, my management team. I'm not involved. Now they win. Now he's telling you how involved

this is. That's part of it as well. Let's take a look at some of the offseason stuff, um, Charlotte, I have so much respect for them, just because they're like, this is an incredible year, probably the most fun any Charlotte fan has had here for 10 years. Yeah, probably even more than that, right? Because it's, it's not only new, it's young, it's exciting. And it feels like they knew they

always wanted to move off of the Melo. Um, the Bridges situation is complicated by, uh,

obviously the biggest factor being what you think of them as a person, but they brought them back and they'd pay them again. Um, they're able to move off of that and deal where I still don't understand quite why Phoenix would want to expose a 233 pick other than they seem to hate first round picks. Uh, what do you make of what Charlotte did in the face of of all the small

“momentum the franchise has? I think that they didn't want to overreact to what happened last year,”

especially the second half of the season. Let's all sort of remember, they didn't make the playoffs. They went down to Orlando and got absolutely smoke. And in the game that they won against my amy, if you look late in the game, La Melo made some decisions that were not great. And they had a lot of games where they were blowing teams out, but in close games, they were losing. So I think they like La Melo. They had no problem with them as a person. They liked them as a

player. They felt like he got better. That he was, you know, toning it down a little bit on some of those crazy three pointers that he takes. But they're trying to look at the big picture. And I think that they feel it's a way for Brandon Miller, conchanical to kind of take on more ownership, leadership role with the team. So I think in light of what happened last year, they're almost willing to take a step back because they think 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 years down the road, they're going to be a

much better team. And Ryan, the easiest thing to do is to try to get rid of a guy when he's at his low point. They traded La Melo at, you know, this was the best basketball that he had played, but he is injured a lot. He's got a huge contract. We have no idea whether or not he could be a big time winning player. You know, he did play well against Miami. I'll give him that in that

playing game, but they lost the next game. He's never been in the playoffs before. So I could see why

“Charlotte fans would be a little myth. But I think they actually have a plan. I think they got”

pretty smart people in ownership, the front office and the coaching staff as well. Yeah, it seems like a complete overhaul. And I just don't know that many teams would do that. They would agree. It's not a complete overhaul on the roster, obviously here. But when that Kobe White deal happened, it was thought of as, hey, this is great. Better than Sexton. He shot it really well. You can plug and play. You can play him off the ball. You can have him run the second

unit, all that stuff. And looking at it now, you're like, I wonder if they just went, hey, do you want to pay Kobe White 60% of what we're paying La Melo? And Kobe plays all the time for the most part. I just don't think many teams would have done that. So I think they deserve a lot of

I don't know if he's going to get traded or not. The market seems to be a little bit more complicated for him. I mentioned the Bobby Marx references were a clip of a greater point where Bobby completely had his back as a player and disagreed with the assessment that he'd be the seven best player and team based on one analytic staff members, you know, opinion of Jalen here.

“I'll start with this. I think it is overblown of the idea of they do this all off season”

and that they can't bring him back when he knows what it is. He knows who his teammates are. He knows the coach. It's Brad Stevens who's a calming presence, I think, in basketball.

And Jalen's always been a little high maintenance. So the idea that they have to now trade him

because they were so close on the Jonas thing. I think that's inaccurate. No, I'm not buying it either. And I also think, really, if you step back, he makes a ton of money. He's got a huge contract. He could be in line for another big contract. He's going to turn what 30 in October. And it was Jonas sent out a couple who you were linked to. It's not just a bunch of role players where they're trying to like fill in some pieces that who knows maybe could eventually be that. But you were being

traded for Jonas and they felt the deal for with Miami was better. Now on Saturday morning, I'm driving back from D.C. and I happen to hear that interview with Bobby Morris. And I was

“surprised by the fallout because Bobby was really supportive of Jalen. And I think what he was trying to”

bring up and Brian has talked about this a little bit as well. Not everyone in the league is in love with Jalen Brown. I think their net rating is actually better when he's off the floor. But Bobby said, I look at it. For me, he passes the eye test. And one of the results has been and he listed everything that he's accomplished in 10 years. What the Celtic record has been over the past four years, finals in the Eastern Conference finals. And VP, I get it. Jalen Brown's antenna is up now.

So anytime something like that comes out, he's going to react to it on social media. I totally get it. But Bobby was actually being complimentary of Jalen Brown. And he was defending him. And whatever this executive said to him, we all know that the guy wasn't belishing. And you know, being someone flip it, oh, he'd be the seventh best player. Because how many teams would even go down that road? Like Oklahoma City, San Antonio, the next, I don't know, maybe Orlando. There's no way that

executive on most of the teams on the league going to say that Jalen Brown would be their seventh best player. I just think they're the analytic guys are factoring the contract when it comes to what he does on the court. But as you know, Ryan in a salary cap league, the contract matters. And like I make a ton of my, I like him as a player. I voted him top five MVP. I voted him first team all in BA. Now, I'm not Jalen Brown. I'm not as follows. I'm not the one who has to get insulted by

hearing my name, link to trade talks. But he's had a lot of success in Boston. They have a really

good organization. And you've seen this a million times. You can say you want out nothing. He said that.

But maybe you're trying to maneuver to go to a different team. You land in that different team within a couple of months. You say, man, we do it a lot different up in Boston. We're a lot more locked in as an organization. Be careful sometimes with you wish for. I'm sure they have issues in Boston. But there's a lot of teams around the league that have major issues who don't run things the way they do up in Boston. The analytic war, depending on which side you're on here,

like I just thought Josh Hart's comments and I love Josh Hart. I want Josh Hart on my team. But I just thought they were so stupid because I don't know when it pivoted. Like I remember Jalen Rose bringing it up once on TV at ESPN where it became kind of like a race conversation. And then it was like a fight against like hoopers and numbers and all this kind of stuff. And you just go, I don't know that it's this movement. We are collectively trying to do things smarter

in every business. I mean basically it's like an internet age thing. If you look at anybody

“or talk to anybody who runs a company and be like, what kind of decisions are you making now?”

What kind of information do you have now at your disposal versus 25 years ago, depending on what business they're in? And so basketball and the players seem to take it so personally and I understand Jalen like because that's the way it works. All it does is see that he's a seven best player on a team based on one conversation that Bobby Marks is relaying to emphasize a point about the market that Bobby actually disagrees with exactly just the way it works. Like if I saw just one line

about me, I go, what is this? But this has been going on now for a few years and it kind of becomes cringe-worthy commentary. As far as I'm like, I'm sure plenty of people listening is completely disagree. But I don't think the nerds all got together and said, let's destroy ISO scores. Yeah. Yeah. And so go ahead. No, I was I think for a lot of the players,

Ivy League schools or they went to some of these top schools in the country. They're brilliant

“at math. Well, if you're going to, if that's what you're going to base it on, well,”

I'm probably not going to get one of these jobs. So I think there's a little bit of that where they felt that a natural progression for a lot of guys was coaching or maybe you move into a front office. But I think that's somewhat short side because I do think the smart places do have the analytic guys, but they have the guys that are pretty good at evaluating talent. I have no idea what Jerry West, what he believed in with analytics, but he was pretty good

at evaluating talent. I remember having this conversation with San Mitchell with Tom Tivotal.

They always say, like, we've been doing the coaches were doing analytics for a long time.

They would always say, what do you think Pat Riley was doing 20 and 30 years ago? They looked at certain analytics. It just became a bigger part of it because I think there's more guys in a front office to think about it, right? You hire more people now in the front office. There are more people trying to get ahead. So for media guys, it's a little bit easier to get to get a relationship with some of these guys because they're looking to promote themselves.

“So I think that all feeds into it. But I do think analytics has a place, but I also think there's”

something to be said for the guys that can evaluate talent like what Bobby was saying. But the eye test, after watching no offense, but after watching Philadelphia and Cleveland, and even San Antonio, to some extent. And then I watch with the next set, if I were at the owner of a team, a general manager, I'm putting a lot into who's competitive, who plays hard all the time, and who's available. I can't, I can't start, I can't be paying

these guys crazy money, just because I'm supposed to. And I want me to pick on Darren Fox,

who probably never have a bigger moment that he just had in the NBA finals, and did he come

through for them? No. And now I got to pay him $229 million. Why? Because again, analytics, maybe somebody in analytics thinks that that's a smart move. Maybe somebody evaluating him thought he was good. Again, I don't mean to pick on him, but he had the biggest moment in his career up to this point, and I thought he failed miserably. And the same thing would change hard. I would, I liked the trade for hard when Cleveland made it. I thought there

were too small with Darren's grown, and I watched the way he performed in the playoffs. I would, I know, maybe this would hurt me in the short term. I would say, listen, I know we had a handshake agreement. We're not doing it. I'm not bringing you back. We can't. I can't justify paying you what would it be $60, $70, $80 million over the next couple of years. How am I going to do that? We got smoked in the playoffs. Then I look at the nicks. Look at the guys that they have. Like

O. Jan and O will be hard. Brunson, just tough, hard playing guys. Those are the only guys you went with. I don't care how much they make. How much they don't make. That has a lot to do with it. So whoever you're analytics guys are, I need them to focus a little bit more on what's inside the guy, not just the numbers. It's actually a good pivot back to jail and brown because for years, you'd sort through all the numbers and you'd look at it and be like, "God, his advanced profiles,

not nearly as impressive." What you can, what Bobby's point is and why the teams that are, you know, I think most of this stuff, most teams, the smartest guys, the guys that you would think were all driven by a spreadsheet, they will tell you. Well, like, yeah, of course I use it and I want

to see what it says in comparison to everything else, but I would never just look at the spreadsheet

and decide, okay, this is what we're doing, even though I think there's probably more ownership. I think there's probably handful of owners that I can think of that are maybe more directed than that, more so than anyone that they're paying to be on their basketball staff. But you know, depending on what you think about Jaylin Brown or other players, like there's a scum not going to say his name, but like there's a score right now that's available on the

straight market. I think he's one of the biggest frauds going and I'm not talking about Jayms Hart because I've seen it in limited playoff experience where I go, I don't care how many points you've scored. I see what happens to you once the playoffs crank up and you are not ready for it. And then I think about Jaylin Brown and whether it was that Pacer series, the NBA finals granted the MVP trophy for the Eastern Conference finals and for the finals MVP, that's my own little

things. I actually think like Tatum is clearly the most important player, but I know I know that if Tatum is clogged up on a huge offensive possession, tight, late playoff game, it can be the NBA finals that I feel more comfortable with Jaylin Brown have the ball on his hands and a lot of the

“other guys are going to have better profiles on it because I've already and here's the thing,”

I'm not even guessing. I've already seen it. We've all seen it. So I can understand Jaylin Brown being upset. I can understand kind of the players kind of pushing back and it's kind of your next point on top of everything else. I think there are a lot of guys that once they're out there late, they still may even still end up with their points. Yeah, but there's just a comfort level that is really hard to understand until you see a player get the opportunity to show you who he is.

Yeah, I like listen. I'm vindictive and I could be a baby. So if I was in the same position as Jaylin Brown,

you listen. It's not what you think it is. And I go back to when they lost to Miami, they were up

3-0 in the series. I'm down 3-0, tied it up, lost game 7. Tatum got hurt. They ended up losing to Miami.

“And I knew what we were going to get the next morning on the radio show. Break up. You have to”

break up Tatum and Brown. And me and Brian Scalabrini and my radio partner, we were both, I think that's nuts. It's so hard to get great players. And if you trade, if you got rid of Jaylin Brown, this is before they won the title, obviously. You have to find someone that does what he does. Now, when he tries to dribble behind his back, that's a drive you nuts a little bit, does he sometimes take too many threes. And I'm pretty sure he had led the league and turned

over so it's not mistaken. But look at it from the Celtics point of view. He plays all the time. He plays both ends of the court. So I think they could kind of live with our out of Jaylin ones that go one-on-one certain times and dribble behind his back and dribble between his legs. He's going to lose the ball. They could live with it because they know in the long run, they could count on him. And I think to your point, he has delivered in huge moments. I mean,

“the guy is played. If I'm not mistaken, I think it's a hundred, it's definitely a hundred,”

40, might be a hundred, 44 playoff games. So when ten years in the league, the anniversary of him getting drafted just passed. So when ten years, you got a hundred, 40 playoff game. You got two trips to the finals. He's a finals MVP and you want to share with you. How many guys that went in the top ten this year? Would their team say, give us that over the next 10 years? We would 100% take that. The guys delivered. There's no question about it. I just think now

Boston looks at it as, everybody now seems there's so many the trends change all the time. Everybody's getting bigger. Look at what Oklahoma City did in the draft. Look at what the spurs did. Adding big men to play with when been young. It seems like now everyone needs to have more size. So maybe they're looking at it as, do we do we need the two great wing players or should we try to, do we use Jail and Brown to add more size? I think it's just a basketball.

They don't necessarily think it's like, well, this guy's run his course. I think they know that he's still a terrific player. But I also wonder, is there a part of him that wants, you know, his quote on Clayton, I hate this thing, his own team. But again, Ryan, you careful what you asked for. It does not, not every organization is Oklahoma City or the spurs or the Boston Celtics. It doesn't work like that. Or the nicks. Yeah, you're right. Or the heat. Or the heat.

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They're going to roll the dice. They'll, they'll develop players. They'll find a couple of guys somehow and get them cheap because again, he's shown conferences wide open. It's what, you know, they can make a couple of moves and be right back in the mix of it. Or Lando could do that. Detroit could do that. Obviously, the mix of good enough to repeat. Again, I like it. I think

he'll re-rejuvenate it. I didn't be a coach. Tell me, look at Kevin Garnett's first year in Boston.

Same age 31 years old. And now he, now Garnett had played much better. His last year I'm going to sort of then, you honestly did this past season with Milwaukee. And right away, I could, they thought they were getting Garnett for like two really good years. Maybe starting to decline by the fourth year, no good. Did he have like six good years there? So like they, they knocked it out of the park with that deal for Garnett, including two finals. And as you know,

and Scalibreenie says this year after they went to the finals, they think that was their best team. They got off to a great start. Then of course, Garnett got hurt. And that ruined their little run. Yeah, that was, I've shared this with the audience, but just to follow up with you, when I sat with TAB, she was like 2009. He said that was the best team. Yeah, he said just Scalibreenie back the same thing. He's like, oh, nine was the best team of the three.

Why? When I heard about the San Antonio Toronto thing, I laughed a little because it's like,

I don't know. I don't even know the answer. I think he's an awful partner, a terrible partner.

I would, and you sit there and you're like, what are you better prepared for? Like, if you're not going to extend him, which is going to want, are you better off because he's playing for the next contract? Oh, maybe you also might be way worse off because he's like, I'm going to make sure I'm healthy for the next contract. So pencil me in for about 38 games and yeah, and may we'll see. So I know how the team will sell it that it'll acquire them. They'll probably give them some sort

of one and one or something like that. Do you like it? Knowing all of the complications, do you like it for any team? Well, you know, for Toronto, it's not the craziest thing because it would be for brand and the environment, it sounds like. And, you know, if you look at their medical

staff up there, you know, led by Alex McKekney, who used to be with the Lakers back in the day,

you know, Kauai has a relationship with them. Now, remember, his one and only year in Toronto, he played 60 games this year with the clip received that he played 65, but it wasn't, you know, it wasn't like he was available for 75 games. What he was available for was the playoffs and he had the great playoff run, which, of course, the huge shot against Philly, then you catch a break against Golden State because you don't have to play Kevin Durant and then Clay Thompson ends up getting hurt.

“So, I think because he's familiar with what they have up there, I think they're willing to roll”

the dice. Me personally, I just, I don't know if I can do it. You know, the uncertainty of one he's going to play and I don't know, one is he healthy. I just think it's kind of running. It's course he is 34 years old. You know, and today is his birthday. And if you go back and look at the top of your birthday, Kauai, thanks for letting us know. What the clip was sent out on this was in 2023. It was for every retweet, Kauai will plant aspiration and Kauai will plant a tree. I think it was

around the end to a dome or something like that. So, this was all the way back in 2023. I figured you to appreciate that. He's still a terrific player. But to me, it's too much of a question more. If it's for Brandon and him, is it the craziest thing? Maybe not because England did not have a great playoff series against Cleveland. Wasn't hurt in a bunch of those games as well. So, he was, he also was terrible and he was terrible against OKC when he had to go against. There's

something wrong when England has to go against the physicality of the player. Yeah. That would be another guy that I would add and be like, "Oh, cool 20 points, guy." Do you think it sounds like it's going to happen? Doesn't it? I'm going to start. It does. Because I just think it's so easy. So, if you're the clippers who I don't know why you'd want to extend them and then all of us are still

“kind of like wondering, and this is the thing with investigations where I think the public gets”

very annoying, because it's like, "Hey, how long has it been going on?" It's like, "Okay, there's one thing between what everyone can generally assume, like something weird happened here, which is what you can prove." There's an aside here too, which I don't know that I've talked about on the air, and so I don't know how much you would want to talk about it, but I'm going to go for it anyway. Like, I remember when Duran went to the Warriors, it was applauded about all the business opportunities

off the court because of tech and things just go. There's been accepted for decades that if this player ends up in this market, then the shoe deal has this kind of language in it that tells you, like, it's going to be worth even more, because you're in the supermarket and all these different things. When you see certain ads that are partners with the NBA, big-time companies that are doing year-long sponsorships and the players that end up in those ads, and sometimes it's like a

player's association thing, sometimes it's like, "Hey, let's collectively get behind this person, they're in a bigger market." There's been a general understanding, and it's not circumventing the cap, but it's like, "Hey, there's, there's probably some wiggle room here depending on where you go, some of these other opportunities that you're going to have, and no one's ever had an issue with it,

“ever, because I think it's all sort of vague in whatever." And in this case, you have a company that's”

clearly fraudulent, the guy behind it sent it to the 14 years in jail, and you also got together with Kauai, who's not going to pretend to play the game. Like, I can't even believe the happy birthday tweet exists. The crazy thing is, is that if this company had actually just planted trees, yeah, then we wouldn't know about any of this, and his mad as other teams have been about it, who probably won't love the little soliloquy that I just threw out there, because I'm not like

I'm accepting it or saying, "Hey, lay off of the clippers." But I've always felt like there's

a bit of a gray area of these opportunities that exist for the highest profile players depending in which market they end up in, and I don't know if that's part of the complication, but if the clippers are able to move Kauai for a couple first later on from Toronto and Ingram who they're probably indifferent about, will still get you buckets during the regular season. I wonder what the reaction

get penalized still because they're able to prove something, just Kauai just get to walk away with all of it and knowing the money that he's accused for, this may end up having an unsatisfying ending for the people that have the clippers forks out whenever something like this happens. All right, since we're going on this road, do you think maybe the leaks, well, here's the deal. Maybe if you trade him, the penalty won't be as harsh. Maybe if you move on from him and trade him

someplace coincidentally enough, it would be Toronto and I know you heard him out of the country. I see where you go with this. Right there, you'll have to look up the, I was an extra

“guy to back into the, back into the state. Remember, in the summer of 2019, when Kauai was the”

free agent, you know, we're all hearing all this stuff that, you know, his uncle Dennis is asking for all this outrageous stuff that they're not allowed to do and time out real quick. Do you remember

the athletic piece that basically felt like it was sourced from Lakers people that were moved

at the clippers ended up with him and then, yeah, I don't know what you had heard and we had talked about it. I mean, there's a clip of Steven A talking about it that summer too, because everyone was hearing it. I remember one, I remember one piece that that we had heard was that the offer starts at the max. Yep. So go ahead. No, yeah, then I wasn't, it's things like maybe some like the ad revenue that he would get some of that and then there was talk about

private planes who was all this stuff where the Toronto Raptor said, yeah, we can't do it. And that's what raised a couple of eyebrows when he did end up on the clippers. Now part of that too is remember he is from that area. So there was the idea, well, he is going back home. I just thought

“it was interesting. Because back in 2019, that's also, is that also Durant and Kairi, right?”

So there was like, that was a big free agent summer. So it was weird. It was one of those stories that's out there. And a lot of people were talking about it, but it wasn't anything anybody was really investigating that much. Again, like you pointed out, the athletic did a story. And then years later, of course, public story did a whole podcast on. I can't wait to see what happens there. I mean, if you're the clippers, I don't even know

why you'd want to extend them. I know we just had an incredible year. I mean, you can even

make an argument located. You just come off of his best season. I wouldn't go that far with it. But it wasn't incredible. It was one of those things. I think I voted him in all star starter. And I went into the voting process, like putting together, okay, here are your automatics. Here's who you think is in the mix. Start whittling down the numbers. And then, you know, you put quies named down. And you start digging through it and be like, this is a no brainer.

Yeah. And go ahead. Remember how good he was in that one. Those little mini games. But he's got like radar. The way he shoots the ball. I mean, it's like, it's amazing. How talented of a player he is. I just, I mean, if you're Toronto, I guess you're thinking, we got Scotty Barnes at the age. And he's at him. We got a couple of guys. We really think we could make a run in these trim conference. Hey, if in defense of the Raptors, it did work once before.

It's one of the greatest trades. And it'd be a history. They rented a player for one year, which a lot of teams do run. They just sewn in up with a banner. They rented him for a year. And the guy delivered. So maybe they're thinking, why not try it again? We got the support staff. Still basically the same. I know massage area is down in Dallas. But the medical staff is here. We work once. Let's do it again. If I'm saying it, Tony, I'm good. I'm not doing it on this first.

No way. All the grief that he caused them. And now they're going to bring them back.

“Just go get a point card. That's what they need to do.”

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Where do you want LeBron to go? I mean, I do, you know, I always get sentimental about this stuff. I think it'd be cool if we went back to Cleveland. I don't think that's going to happen. I think I had heard in October the Warriors. This, you know, the longer it goes on and the more stuff that's going on now, Dramon is, is it going to be signed? Because there's a way that they're going to try to do a trade with Anthony Davis to convince LeBron to go there. They're going to have an old team.

They're going to be, you know, they're going to be taking on guys at the YMCA who will be young younger than their team. I don't know if you win with a bunch of old guys, but it sounds like I, if I'm betting right now, I would say the worst. I'd love to see him in Cleveland. I think that'd

What do you think? Do you think that would be based on LeBron perceiving the offers and insult

“from the legion? Yeah. And then I think, you know, he did strike up a good relationship with”

Steph Curry. I mean, their relationship probably goes back to when they were both born in the same hospital, back in, uh, Akron. But I think that has a little bit to do with it getting, you know, and then if he could still live in LA, I mean, big shots like you. It's a hopskip and a jump, you know, get to the easy side area of LA, right? Yeah, my, my Oakland condo, I'm there like exactly special in a week, but that's a fun town on the weekends. Steph, you know, would be the greatest

move ever is that Steph still mad about 2016 finals in the Halloween party where there was this corpse on the threshold of going into the party. And then I forgot about that LeBron and his crew said that it was the caterers that did it. Yeah. It's like, oh, really, they're the ones that came up with

the dead Steph Curry body theme. Okay. Um, I'll never get over that. I look, I'm still more upset

about it than Steph is. So I haven't gotten over at Steph would it would be just hilarious if it's like, okay, yeah, yeah, I know we want you. We're going to figure it all out and then revenge 10 years later. It's like, hey, remember we had my dead body at your Halloween party. All right. So you think that was the caterer or the players? And do you think that the Cavaliers, when they had their reunion over in Great Britain, they did or did not invite Kyrie to join them? They should be cheering to the invited

Kyrie knowing that he wouldn't go. He probably doesn't play golf. It was probably ever having a golf trip. Just so give you a warning. It's going to be a lot of golf. But hey, but you should come, but just so you know, it's going to be a lot of golf. We're going to play like 72 holes. And Dave, come, you know, I know you don't play golf, but you should come. It'll be fun. And then he probably took it as well. I guess they really don't want me there. I'm not going to go. It sounded like it seemed like

a golfing trip, right? More than anything. It did seem like a golfing trip. Those guys looked like we're having a great time. And I can't imagine what it's like to have that kind of accomplishment. And you know, there was a group of guys that were, it's a couple of years ago. They were celebrating something. What do you guys doing? And they're like, oh, we're celebrating 10 years of our champion.

“And I was just like, my God, that's what I believe, right? That's going to be fun. Yeah,”

I'm not even thinking about the 10 years. Just to be a part of something that matters that much. Yeah, that's true. That you're fighting for. It's just very few of us ever get that opportunity to yeah. And put, but right, you know, you invite JR Smith and JR loves playing golf and he's very good golfer. JR is going to be the life of the party. They're going to bust his balls. He's going to say funny things that they're all going to laugh at. I think Kyrie is a great dude. He's cool.

Kyrie, to me, doesn't come across as the guy you want sitting next to in the golf court. I just think his confidence. Like, Kyrie's not going to be saying, what club do you think I should use? I'm about 150 yards. Hey, Kyrie's going to want to talk about other things. I think everyone was like, you know what, we'll go on another trip with Kyrie. Maybe not golfing. I think Kyrie not playing and being in the card all day, especially if you're trying to get

36 in could be tough. Yeah, exactly. And it's not a knock on him. I mean, when I play, you play golf at all. I do. I'm good for nine holes. After nine golf should be nine or 12 holes. I can't do 18. I'm done if to 12. I did it. I enjoyed it. I want to do some, I don't want to turn this into a four hour day. Can't do it. 12 holes. That's me. Not when you're content. It's tough when you're content like you. So the Lakers can offer LeBron the number that, and I don't blame Rich Paul

at all for saying like, hey, why does our guy have to pay? Like, no agent is going to start the process being like, we can't wait to take a pay cut, okay? And he delivered in a way for the number, you know, you're looking at what this option was going to be and you're like, well, how much

can you pay him 50 plus million dollars at that kind of age? And he delivered. He was fantastic in

that Houston series. Everybody else is down around him. He's just, he keeps extending what you think is possible here. And even having said that, it's like, you can't come back at this astronomical one year number out of respect when we're trying to figure out the rest of the team because we know what's going to happen. It's going to be February. And if we don't have the right center, you're going to be mad at us. And it's like, well, you wanted to make sure you maximize everything.

So I would have thought there was some way they could go. We want to be respectful, but we want to

“pay you more than anybody else can with the mid-level. And if you want to go football route where”

you get cut for a number and then sign somewhere else that we actually would have kept you at, because that's what seems to happen in the NFL all the time. I, I, we don't know if it'll be a spite thing. I don't know if it'll be a ring thing. And, you know, to your warrior's point, how old did they're possibly going to be with his Anthony Davis rumor? I don't know what your supposed to do. They could. Yeah. We, we probably shifted in a way where we're criticizing teams,

built around an older superstar in a way that's completely unfair. It's like, what are you supposed to do? Reset the deck around stuff at 37 years. Yeah. Yeah. Sign up for risky guys. Sign up for name brand stuff that maybe is five years old. But at least it's better than having stuff run around

geostantosis energy, but when the ball ends up in geostantosis hands in a huge spot in the fourth

“quarter, you're like, all right, maybe you should hire the older name guys that are maybe heard”

all the time. Yeah. And you got, you got to think of LeBron. He's probably good for 55 to say, I'll even give him 70 games, but I'm thinking closer to, you know, 60 games, you'll probably get him for. And if I'm the Lakers, I'm a little concerned because I don't think he's going to give me a discount number one. And number two, when I look at my guys, Austin Reeves and Luca, Luca was even available for the playoffs. Austin Reeves dealt with injuries all season long, entered the

playoffs injured. LeBron, I wanted him to be my third best player. And on too many nights, he had to be our best player because our two guys were injured. So that's got, that's got to be a huge concern for the Lakers because he's obviously gone down a little bit. He's still a tremendous player. But it's important to the team grew last season because of Luca and his, you know, the injuries that he dealt with later in the season obviously, but also Austin Reeves.

So if I get it, LeBron at this age, I kind of understand, he's like, well, why don't I got to give you a discount for him? I'm like, on all these nights, I'm carrying the team. Well, I'm not giving you a discount. You guys figured out, like, don't take my salary, like, you put it on me that we can't get a center because I keep asking for crazy money. I'm the one guy that you could basically count on every game. So that's what I just think. I just think something's

going to happen there where he's going to say, you know what, I know Drainman really well. They got Anthony Davis back. He and I kissed him made up after I knew about the trade to Dallas, but I didn't tell him. And me and Steph became boys over in France. So let's, let me go join the Warriors. Are you ready to talk soccer? Let's go. When you want to talk about it, I heard you're out of game. I haven't even been to a game yet and you've been to a game. Look at

“that. That's why I didn't. I think three. And women was you invited to three. Was it for free?”

Would you have to pay for the ticket? Game one was free. There was a, we're never going to

do. All right. Like, I got it. I evolved into everything that happened, but it went from like two invites to then I watched at home. Just like one invite cancel out the other invite. So that was a complication. So I was like, OK, well, I'm just not going to go. That's not the big of a deal. I know it's right street. I'm not going to get emotional about the whole thing. And then and then Turkey is a building. Well done. So I get in there and it was, I look, I loved it. It was even better. The

atmosphere inside of you thought you, if you would said anybody hate where are you right now? You know, you could have told me I was at any place in the world. Like, all right, you're in London, you're in Tokyo, you're in Dubai right now. Like, this so-fi showed off in such a great way. And I

know it wasn't allowed to be called so-fi during that game. I would say I'll never look at this

team from Turkey at the same way ever again. Cheap shot. Just really nasty, a nasty group of guys.

“Yeah. And then, right as you're getting ready to be like, All right, how are we getting out of here?”

You lose in the last possible minute. And you supposed to celebrate if you're on the field, even though you're not getting out of the group with that win, how, what's the ruling on that? Because I mean, people should not have Beverly in the timber walls in the playing game. At least they advanced. Well number one, I mean, yeah, that was a disappointment for Turkey, not to advance. But it means that it just shows you how much it means to these countries that they get the late goal and

the way that they celebrated so they're able to get out of there with three points major disappointment. But it's interesting about the world cup with the added teams and Africa has had a great tournament with all the teams that advanced, even though South Africa lost history, it's so fine. Sofi looks great on television. You know, I know why they're having it in the New York area, just because it's the New York area, but the city there's terrible. What a, what a, what a disaster.

I haven't been to a game yet, but I got tickets. And I bought the tickets when the first came out in that silly lottery, which was expensive. I got round to 16, saturday in Philadelphia. If things go according to plan, that's France Germany. And then I got the next day right down the road here at MetLife. And that if things go right, I can get Brazil Norway, of course, featuring Earl and

Holland. So I'm, I'm looking forward to that. Now, the problem is we're going to run into the weather.

It's going to be the games are going to be in the 90s, because it's going to get to 100 degrees on the east coast in the middle of the week. So the weather on Friday and Saturday could be pretty brutal. The hydration breaks they take will finally be justified. I'll tell you something right down the street for me. There's a hotel in town in Germany stayed there. So I saw the German coaches walking around.

But there was a ton of people found out about it. Then, of course, the hotel was being

mob. But the tournament's been incredible. The added teams I actually think is made it a lot of fun.

You know, the NCAA tournament when it gets to the round of 32, that's when the tournament really starts. The first round is a lot of blowouts. So think about it. We're having around a 32, we get 16 round of 32 games, which after playing the one game yesterday. It's now three a day for the rest of the week. It's awesome. The third invite was, I was asked to pay. Just as if that makes you feel better. What are you insulting? Not at all. How is the parking situation over there?

No problem. Not at all. Well, look at the way you roll. Oh, man. It's only like 28 minutes from my house. Yeah, that's way, way, way, way, way. How many miles is it? Don't tell me minutes because L.A. The minutes. No, that you just got it backwards. Don't tell me the miles. Tell me the minutes. Because everything Beverly Hills, I could go six miles away. Okay. Have fun. Did you? You went over to Craven Cottage over in London last year. I mean, you're catching the

“fever a little bit. You enjoyed the sport. The time of the sport, you have to admit there is a lot”

of appeal to that. That the whole thing is two hours. I want you to admit that. That's, um, that's a 100% part of it. There is, and this is why the hydration breaks piss me off a little bit. Because the viewing experience of this sport is so superior to anything else that we have in American sport. Yeah. The NCAA tournament's been bastardized. I mean, there's times where you're watching an NFL game and you're going, what, what, what, what has happened here? I was watching

Red Soxaniki last night. NBC came back while the ball was on the ground in the third

basement. Okay. And then is jazz is getting tossed. And there's a five boons coming out. It's on because of a check swing where jazz clearly went. We're in commercial again. We're working. So every time like, and I've made this ramp before because we're coming back from place, there was a

“ram's play in the regular season that I remember specifically. Like, the we came out of commercial”

and the ball was in the air to the back pylon. And I did a rant. And then it was even weird because somebody who worked at Fox is like, you're really upset about this. I'm like, you're really defending your in favor. Like, you're rooting for the extortionist here. Like, why are you defending coming back midfucking action? Yeah. So you throw on the beautiful game, Frank. And you go, this is unbelievable. Like, even when they're resetting and kind of getting themselves gathered, the game is still going on.

I don't have a problem with extra time anymore. And the reason I brought up the hydration break

is that imagine another amazing viewing experience for F1. I don't have too much time for it.

As I've tried to, I still like it. If there's a race on doing something else, can look up what if you told the guys, like, hey, after 20 laps, we're all just going to pit for like five minutes. Make sure you guys are good. And yeah, we'll run some ads, but it's not a commercial break. And it's it's funny with the growth that these other sports, not that soccer hasn't already been positioned number one globally the entire time. Like, you just know all of the

human, like, is there any way we can get more commercials into this thing? And they're not ruin it, but, you know, they Americanized optimization here. Yeah. Like, all the British, by British buddies,

“they all keep saying, you guys want to have four quarters. That's why we're doing these hydration”

breaks because you got, you know, the first one, then you got to have to think at the third one. They said, we're trying to figure out how four quarters in a soccer match. But, you know, it's funny. If you look at the WNBA and the players all complaining about the officiating, so now what they do in the WNBA is to call everything. So their games, which are 40 minutes, are now going to 20 to 30 to 45. Think about that. That's not like, you can't, that's not the way to go. You got it,

baseball to their credit, did a good job with the, with the pitch clock, those games tend to move. I think that's, that has, to me, that has a lot of appeal. I like the, we all love the NFL, but there's so many darn breaks in the NFL. It drives you nuts after a while. How many times they're in commercial? I get it. It's a huge television sport. But, you know, I don't like the hydration breaks at the World Cup. I just think, especially the games are to be played indoors

where the temperatures control. They're going to need it on Saturday and Sunday here in Philadelphia and New Jersey because it's going to be brutally hot. It's going to be over 90 degrees. But the hydration breaks are all created by FIFA to make money, which is all they do over there. They print money, basically. I don't, I'm not sitting here like going over the hydration

It is, it's a bit like a CBA negotiation where you go, well, hey, making 57% and said it's 60% isn't that big of a deal. Hey, making 53% instead of 50%, 7% isn't that big of a deal. Well, you're at 48, 49 and a half percent, but that's like 50. It's not really that big of a deal. And it's like, no, no, this is the disease and you're rooting for this. And as much as I love the NFL, I have Sundays where I'm like so excited about one of the Sunday night game. And if this

has nothing to do with NBC because it's every single network that has any of these products on the television, you're like, there's an emotional like on-off that happens. We're with soccer,

you're always a little like, there's not that emotional disruption because there's no

“disruption to the game. And that's why it's a great product. And I hope that it's not messed with too much.”

Okay. And I think they've done a good job with the officiating because when guys are going down, the players are not kicking the ball out. So the player could be attended to the referees, especially in the first half, they don't seem to be calling a lot of fouls unless it's egregious. So a lot of times you just see the referee saying, get up and keep playing. And I think from that standpoint, it's been good. I like the idea of on the throw-ins, they're telling guys to speed up,

same thing with the goal kicks or the corner kicks, they're trying to eliminate a lot of the stall tactics, which are good. I think that part of the Americanization of the sport, I think is actually good because there's way too much of that nonsense. You know, it's a lot of

gamesmanship, but I think it hurts the sport. So from that standpoint, I think the way the game's been

officiated has been really good. I'm not educated enough on it to say, yeah, I totally agree, but I'm noticing less of the stuff that used to bother me. Yeah, about the game. And I even look back to, I figured which game it was, where's Riem's called for the yellow card and then they go back to, they look at it and it was a clear flop. There wasn't even any contact whatsoever. The reverse, they called, give the guy, yellow card and I'm going, hey, there's way less flopping.

And you're like, well, it's because of that kind of stuff that they're going to restart reviewing it,

“you're going to get a card. So I think I think the sport is heading in an awesome direction.”

Yeah, last thing here, just out of who do you like here and where does Team USA fit in? Yeah, it's, I mean, it's hard not to see France winning. They're just a dominant team. I still think Portugal kind of like what Italy's done, where they get through the group and everyone's like, ah, then I'm playing that well, but Portugal has enough talent where they could go on a crazy run here. Now, unfortunately for them, they would eventually have to run into Spain and just

to get to a final, I'm pretty sure of this. They'd have to be France. So that that part, I'm pretty sure I'm right about that. No, no, no, it'd be the US. They could eventually play. I think the US is going to go pretty far. I think they could, I think they'll, they could be Bosia, Herzegovania, could chance to play Belgium. And I know Belgium took care of them back in March, I believe they played in Atlanta, but Belgium hasn't been that impressive. The US is good.

They look sharp. I mean, they're athletic. They got a lot of strong players. I mean, Policic when he does play is so dangerous on that left side of the field. Man, he is, he's been terrific. And I think they're backline, which didn't play against Turkey.

“They rested their key guys. I think they'll be back. I'm a little worried. Sometimes about”

the goldkeeping. He's not great with the ball at his feet. And then I'm a youth burhalter guy, because his, his mom is from the same town as I'm from. And I think you could tell that he's the son of a coach. And you could tell that, put Chetino loves him. I don't think he's going to start,

but he's going to be a big part of it. I was happy for me. I had the assist on the first

gold and he scored the second. I just think they're primed. They're in a good situation. The draw is said, I keep reminding people when Serena was supposed to be in her last every tournament. The US opened. The draw was set up for her to get to the second week. The draw is set up for the US to at least get, I think, to a quarter finals. And we'll see what happens if they have to play Spain or Portugal won't be easy. Frank, I saw every morning and VA radio starting line up.

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what's required. Life advice, life advice, [email protected], Kyle in the mix. What up, son?

Have you got this Rudy? Whoa. What's it going? Good. How are you looking? Tandy. Bad, burned, burned. It's more like it. All right. So, yeah, let's bring it up. Not there every day. Yeah, we're coming down, you know, I, I overcorrect with the burn to the tan. You know, even when it's cloudy out, you still get UV. So, you can't just be golfing when it's cloudy, thinking you're all good. So, what do you wish? Scotch. Scotch Irish. Well, no, actually, I use the

black guy. I, I, I, I read up what Scotch Irish is. I'm like, all right, just because I'm Scotch,

“Irish does not make me Scotch Irish. It's like a very specific path of people. I think so not that.”

You're not selling that. Yeah. When it's a Scotch Irish English, yeah, kind of the whole area over there. Not a great world cup showing for the Scotch. A little French, too. Yeah. Well, it went wrong, so Rudy. Alignment. Oh, they can't score. Using for the internet. Yeah. That they can't score. All right, let's get to some emails here. This one's a little long, but I don't know if I want to start with a long one like this on Monday,

but we're doing it 38 years old, 6 to 180. Not a lifter, but I work out hitting the rolling machine can do 15 strict pull ups. Damn. I got a touchy situation in more ways than one and need the brain trusting analyze all angles here. My girlfriend early 30s and I've been together for two years. Love each other in a marriage, expecting relationship. How do you guys know, man? How do you know when you're like in it? I'm not resisting it, but like, when did it when it clicked for you Steve? I hate to be the cliche,

“I mean, you just kind of know like you just hate to feel. You know, I don't know if there was ever like a”

day where I was like, oh, this is, like, oh, I can marry this this girl. It just really adds over a couple of hands dropped and then I started thinking about it. That's you. I mean, the time I was pushed long, not by me. But yeah, by the 50s. I love this TV. By the 50s. It's like, all right, we might be at a shitter get off the pots scenario here. Yeah, you were like, hands huh? Yeah, who does it? How soon? Maybe like four years, three years. Yeah. That's about the same for me. A little less.

Wait, you were, you're two, you were two years in Steve and you never once, it wasn't talked about.

Not that it wasn't talked about, it was more of like, I, she was probably going to set the timeline more than I was. I was just happy to be like, hey, man, we're things are great right now. Like, what, you know, we could, because you just think my best way to get a woman to get married, we never do it, we never like, I'm like, okay, and you know, she wanted to do the ring shopping thing, which is fine, because I actually saw somebody going to rant about ring shopping, and I completely disagree with

“their premise that was saying, like, essentially that like, it's stupid that you should just buy”

the ring and she should just deal with it because you bought it. And I'm like, actually, I don't know, you want to buy or something that she's going to wear and like, you can be a part of this process. So anyway, that's quick aside, doesn't really matter. But yeah, like, she, she kind of pushed the, the ring process initiation. And then, you know, the kind of time where I, I would probably drag my feet for the like two years. This is, I mean, I didn't want to marry her, what didn't love her, like,

was wasn't ready. It just, I don't know. I think that's just dude sometimes. It is just dude sometimes. Okay. Back to the email. Uh, a number sticker. Yeah. We're out of wedding a couple, uh, for a couple of her friends, when one of her other friends, let's call him Chad, got a little handsy with her. For contacts is a large group of college friends, Tanner, so plus significant others, although it's mostly guys in the core group and they are a Bro E group. Most of them all have

steady partners, including Chad. It was recently married. We don't live near any of them, so we don't see them off often unless it's, uh, at a wedding or with just the girls in their certificate, others, on a one-time year subgroup trip outside of the girls. I've only met these guys now twice.

So this is the second time meeting the dudes. College group, too. Just, just let you know,

to our emailer. Like, there might have been some crossfire. All right. Over the course of the evening, Chad was repeatedly paying all caps. A lot of attention to my girlfriend. His wife was not there. She had a separate wedding. Oh, uh, I've been routinely come up to my girlfriend while she and I were dancing next to each other and dancing front of her to get their attention or make silly faces. And front of her literally put his arm around her and talked to her all while I was a few feet away.

We're completely ignored me. She was also happy crying during one of the speeches, and while I had my hand under back, he came up and put his arm around her shoulder to comfort her while you were touching your wife for her girlfriend. This is like a friend's episode or something. This happened no less than 10 times. And every time I said nothing, on the 11th time I stormed off to the bar,

put his finger on her chest and tenderly ran it up her chest to her neck, supposed a game where you try to get her to look down, et cetera, although this was more intimate. At this point, I immediately stormed off to the bathroom, so this guy's a real, I'm out of here guy. He's trying to make a couple of, like, so maybe think about the safety of others here. Maybe he's a real badass, and he's just, you know, 15 pull-ups. Really this guy doesn't think you're badass, right? Yeah. He's just no

match-up. Does he know about the 15 pull-ups? All right, so at this point, you finally realized I was upset. She apparently pushed his hand away, although I was already turned and leaving. I explained how furious I was and she understood, but she was a little defensive about it saying

that Chad didn't mean anything by it. They never do. After some heated back and forth, she finally

went and talked to him, said, what he did was unacceptable and asked him to stop touching her from now on. He then apparently apologized and said he'd be willing to apologize to me

“if and when the time was right. Here's the thing. I hate this guy now, then I probably always will.”

And the frustrating thing is my girlfriend thinks, although it was wrong of him, he didn't actually mean anything by it, a view also shared by the only other person my girlfriend told, let's call it Rachel. Well, of course, Rachel was going to take her side. Yeah, come on now. So they had no chat. That's just the way Chad is. Yeah. All right. I, of course, disagree. You know, as a guy when you recognize a guy hitting on your girl, that was a hundred percent this.

Nothing was going to happen or even has or would between them. All right, some good

cleanup on an early, or theory. Okay. But he was definitely flexing his dormant floor muscles shamelessly in front of me over and over again. I need your help with silver things here. Well, Rachel is getting married a couple of months and Chad will be at that wedding. How much room do I have to not go to the wedding? I go from a pretty upset, but my mind should be up. She should be upset at Chad for poisoning things with me. Number two, Chad and his wife might be moving to our

city in three or five years. Hey, how about we? Let's just see where we're at in three or five years. Yeah. Yeah. Let's take a picture. You problem. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Let's put that in for the media of area. Come on. Parents live here. They're supposedly planning to move here in that time frame. I told my girlfriend. I probably won't ever want to hang out with them or even see him. Unfortunately, she considers them a very good friend and envisioned us being, quote,

couple, friends, once they live here. You guys are doing a lot of planning here on that. I point two. Let's not worry about it too much. So if I can have one time to, you know, she can hang out with the two of them together. What if Chad has season tickets to like the nicks? He's really mature.

But this guy's just already saying I'll never hang out with him. She's extremely unhappy and says

that she's devastated and if I wouldn't be able to forgive him, how do I handle them potentially moving here? Dude, of all the problems we have every day, why are you scheduling three to five year potential scenario problems? It sounds like Chad might be like, "Fuck his whole life up at three to five years if this isn't what happens when he goes down. So well, with everyone who knows him." So who knows, you know, he might just, you might just have a fall crazy. I just want to emphasize

your email or hear, you're already coming out of this wedding with some confrontational heat.

“All right. And none of it's your fault. Maybe you should have just said something before”

time and said, "Hey, Chad, fuck off." You're six, two. You're doing 18 pull-ups. You know? But this number two thing, I don't know if this is a window into the rest of the way you process things, why are you arguing now with the woman that you want to marry about you doing a full Chad boycott in five fucking years from now? We're talking about 231, you're arguing about something today. That may not even happen in 231. I want this point to be clear to the emailer.

That is a waste of time. All right. Yeah. Point number three. I'm also annoyed that my girlfriend is insinuating that I should forgive him. She hasn't outright said it, but she's defensive of his intentions. Why should I be forced to do the emotional labor to forgive him? Why can't he be forced to live with the consequences of when I was actions, which is burning any possible future couples friendship? Number four, I told my girlfriend that I hope Chad's wife finds out

and she rather earnestly said, "Oh, I'm sure he'll tell her." But there's no way Chad would volunteer this to hurt. And if he did, he's not telling the full story. I don't really know her. But do I message her somehow? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Just get that right out of the way.

“I mean, here's the thing. You're clearly in the right here. So you, you feel like you're taking”

crazy pills. I mean, put all the three to five of your stuff aside. You have every right to be mad at Chad. Your girlfriend is being way too cavalier about this. And here's the number one test case situation. If his girlfriend saw this and found out about this, guess who wouldn't be cool about any of those actions. Her, so you're correct. But you can't like talk yourself and work yourself

boundaries with Chad to like, hey, I don't want to hang out with them. Like the guy sucks. He's he clearly

“there's something going on. I trust you, but I don't trust him kind of thing. But I think you can't really”

be too accused of of of of of your significant other. Like that's going to just bother. That's going to mess up up you in the immediate future. And if you really like this girl and she, you did, you trust her, you, you know, obviously think that this isn't going to be a thing. It's a problem. I think you kind of got to be a little easy on her. But the Chad hard line thing to me is totally fine. I think you've got to put your foot down. But don't worry about the three to five year thing that's insane. Yeah, the problem here is

like you, you kind of started a cold war, but you have no allies, right? I mean, I'm not that's the right

it's like you. You're like, I'm not going to fix this. Fuck that guy. You're basically saying like,

I'm actually going to go to any of these other things that that you guys are having. And maybe you get past the wedding age. And it's like, listen, it was a flurry of weddings over four years. You didn't go to the last bunch of them. And now, now it's just these trips that they're taking. Like you might not actually, if you hold this thing, if you hold the line and you decide I'm not going all this other shit, you know, maybe by the time everyone's 35 or 36 are all married and you're not even

going to have to worry about this stuff except for these girls trips that they take, whatever. But I think really what should happen is you probably, you probably the next time you see him, you just, you say the things that should be said, whatever. I mean, you got time to think about it. You're definitely a thinker, but like to just say like, you know, he should know that like he should

live with the consequences of pissing me off that he's never going to see me or my girlfriend again.

Like it's just know what everyone else is like, that's just him. They have the shared bond that you're didn't come into and you probably feel a little uncomfortable about it. But there let's go take a little bit more for them to drop him, especially even your wife, to drop him as a friend

“because you're uncomfortable. What you should do is just get to shut off your chest in a way that,”

you know, you feel good about because you, it sounds like you think he just isn't going to have any consequences and he doesn't think he has any consequences that he consequences anymore either because you're kind of withered away and you know, it probably work out better for him if you just didn't go to anything that which, you know, they're just guys like a win for you. Like, I didn't you just know the guy's with the college, but there's like, oh, you know, it's so and so he,

this is just the way he is. And it's like, well, that doesn't mean you can be an asshole and just for everyone's girlfriend be a huge tool, just because that's the way you are. That sounds like who chat is. And so we, like, and the sucks, this shitty thing about that is usually girls kind of like that guy is, I don't know, for whatever reason, it's just like, hey, I don't know, he's like,

he's fought with me or I maybe can heal good. I don't know what care is. That, yeah, yeah, the answer is

fucking dance. 100% a good dancer, 100% and we'll never ever turn down an opportunity to do some sort of dance. Um, yeah, the guy's watching guys perfect in her dorm room. The guys that are good dancers at weddings, red flag, immediately red flag for me. Oh, really, immediately red flag. Good dancers caught, like good at it. Yeah, hate him, graceful, grace floating out there. Yeah,

“hate him. Yeah, I just, I think the bottom line is everyone wants this thing to get better and”

you're the only one who doesn't want it to get better. And if you're, if you're staying in this weird, no man's land, I just think you're going to come off as the lose, not like people think you're a loser, but you are going to be the one who loses in this scenario. You're going to be the down friend. Yeah, I have it. You're the wet blanket wife, which, you know, that's a bummer. Yeah. Wait, what was the first thing though, heat, so he doesn't want to go to the next event?

What's not? He said he doesn't want to go. Yeah, he doesn't want to go to the next wedding. And now your wife is like great. So I'm going to have to go solo to every one of these things now because you got a weird sound. I don't think that's the move. Yeah, first of all, let's look rapid fire. Go to the wedding. It's one guy to wedding. It's one other guy to wedding. I can't tell if Chad is unthreatening, unthreateningly. Is that right, Lord? Yeah, I got two troll. Looks wise, or if Chad's hot.

Does it change your thought? What if Chad's hot? My first thought was he was the first one that he was neutral. He's harmless neutral hot or harmless neutral. Not ugly, but just like a normal guy. Don't ever dot it. The average bear. Yeah. Okay, I don't know. I think I think he might be right there. Go to the wedding.

The three or five year worrying about having to go to brunch because the biggest waste of fucking time maybe ever. I can't believe you're arguing about this now. You're annoyed that the other to Rachel banged him. Okay. Yeah, Rachel gets nothing. Rachel says. Don't message his wife. Yeah, that's probably the biggest no. Yeah. You're right to be upset, but I don't know if it's that you're overthinker. I don't know that if it's like this email is going to be like, yeah,

thanks guys. Thanks to the help. But like, are you emotional about these things? Do you have an emotional reaction? A lot of sometimes being emotional can be unbelievable, especially if you're either the theater. But there are times where you being too, and I'm not even talking about the email right now is like you can be just exhausting yourself being emotional about all these different

energy on not liking somebody where the reward be, don't even think about the person and you're far

better off and then whatever like thing you're thinking about, you know, just move the fuck on. This guy's not even in your day to day life. He doesn't live in the same city. You want to marry your girlfriend. You said that you're been with her two years. There's an expectation of marriage. Make sure when you're walking through that threshold every day that that is taking care of more so than any of these Chad rulings. Yeah. And here's an actionable item. Next time you go,

I know you feel like an outsider. They're all, you know, everyone's like probably a bunch of stories of like, I'll remember this. Remember when Chad stole that cat from the Chinese food counter, or whatever. Like, like, they've got all these stories. Maybe you just make an effort to turn it on a

“little bit be a little memorable with the non-chads of the group, the other people. I think if you,”

if you don't feel like such an outsider, this wouldn't stew so much. So like, maybe make it so you go to the wedding. And next time you leave people like, man, you know, it was great. John was great. Good man. He was fun. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe make an effort to like feel a little bit like Chad.

Well, you don't even have to let that know. Maybe the third wedding you're like,

you know, I got a little thing going with Chad. Maybe they talked to him. I don't know. You guys don't like the Chad? Yeah. Yeah. Don't don't alienate yourself. You might not even realize how how you're coming off. So not that you shouldn't have a reason to be upset. But that's a little action item for you at the next wedding. Be fucking awesome. Yeah. Because that's way cooler than yeah, than being the standoffers do that's like, oh, cool Steve's

not going to wedding again. Yeah. It's like, yeah. Wow. It's a super power. It's an unbelievable super power. It goes through the bad breakup. I'm going to sit in the corner. I'm going to talk to you.

“I'm going to have no look. I'm going to do all this for stuff. No, I'm going to be awesome.”

I'm going to be the opposite of those things. Everyone's got awesome. I'm going to be confident. I'm going to be unfazed. I may be crying in an Uber to 30 in the morning, leaving people not to see that though. But yeah, but that didn't happen. John's off for an IPO. He's so hot right now. This is the new IPO on John. He's kicking ass. And I want in. We have a zag on the driving ball driving ball, driving rain driving rain. Okay. Six foot 175 18 handy cap,

frequent driving or age visitor as I've decided this year. I'm going to get good at golf. We're talking at least one or two visits a week as a matter of fact. I even have a punch card, which I'm not bringing up to brag, but also definitely bringing it up. I like that you brought it up. It helps us paint a full picture. Check out. I'm going to zag on the group's defense of the Jack golf guy. Yes, he absolutely should have lied about taking the balls. Oh, shouldn't have.

Jeez. Where's the Zach changes? Everything. All right. So yes, he absolutely should not have lied about taking the balls. Once you're caught in hand, it's trying to run a cover story as a tough look at the bigger issues. This if someone leaves a pile of balls of the driving range stall and there are no clubs, no bag, no towel, no visible evidence of human life remaining at that station. Those balls have entered the public domain and are free

to claim it. My driving range routine includes a quick reconnaissance mission on the walk from the parking lot to the pro shop about half the time I find of animals. People buy the jumbo bucket, get tired, halfway through and decide they've seen enough for the day. I'm not a complete savage about it.

I make sure there are any clubs nearby. I always ask the people in the adjacent stall,

something like, hey, anybody using these just to confirm. I'm not accidentally committing a golf ball grand larceny. Only after receiving verbal clearance to I move in. I've done this countless times. I've never had a single issue. I see other people doing the exact same thing all the time. So while the Jack guy definitely loses points for the lie, I think we're overlooking the fact that unattended driving range balls with no owner and sight are generally considered fair game.

And a huge pod fan of what some are he's doing. He's built seruiting away that I've never I've never seen him. Asked with two hours, maybe what kind of a W in there? What? What was that? That's that's a zag. That's not a zag. No, that wasn't a zag. Yeah, it's like, do you lie when you're caught? No. Well, then we're not we're talking about two different things to be like, well, when I was at Wimbledon, well, my record ball club,

it doesn't these are the guy lied to our guy. Last week's email was a flat out lie.

“That's what the topic was. Not, can you pick a few extra range balls if no one's a row?”

Yeah, when I talk him like, your range balls are in the way. It's like all the stalls are following, like I didn't have a choice. Come on. Yeah, and there's I know without knowing and I would bet a lot of money. If there's no chance that this guy went through any of the protocols that you laid out. So, like he just saw the opportunity took them and they had a small battle with it. Yep, he was so come on. Yes, you are correct.

Generally, I don't think that applied to this to this specific guy. This guy seems like a tool. All right, final one here. Sun wants a neck tattoo. 49 years old. Five, 10,

I've watched a couple of hard for videos on Instagram. What's going on right now? What's going on?

What's going on? I've had so many people send these to me and I've never been more confused

about the internet my life. It's a joke, obviously, but I don't understand why this happened. So, people are just like, thinking they're like shooting videos in Miami being like, welcome to heart for, you know, living in heart for awesome. I don't understand what's happening. Wow, that's right up your alley, then that's crazy. You have time. Now you feel left out right now.

“I haven't seen any of it. Yeah. It's so different. And then you watch a few. I think it's even more so.”

It's like, hey, he just sent this to someone else. He loves this shit. So then now all I'm doing is getting inundated with Connecticut facts, Connecticut history, Connecticut sandwich places, and the most important is this weird trend online of people being other places, raving about how sick hard for Connecticut is. It's it's in so close to home. I hope it keeps going. I want to get involved somehow. I feel like it's not ground floor, but we're the cousin next door with a blender. That's like,

I'll pick up a few shifts. I've never been more confused with the internet than these videos.

I have, I have five of them safe. So I'm just fire them off of you. Like they are. Wow. I said, as a king of heart for Connecticut, Miami's little brother, I will proudly join Will Ferrell and doish in the Kromwells. The new Paris. What is happening? Okay. And it's just a guy walking around a city that's not heart for it. I don't know. Because I'm like heart for it's on fire right now, except that it's kind of a joke about heart for it again. But I got an article the other day sent

to me. It was said, heart for was the best real estate like investment. This is the next thing. It's hard for people. That's been on that's best. They've been on top of the like the like taught us real estate lists forever. I don't really know. I mean, my wife will probably know the answer this. But yeah, they that don't know what that even means. But here's another one. Come on and explain it to us. This is a POV. You moved into haven in parentheses. The new Scottsdale. And it's just a

guy driving BMW around in a helicopter. I don't know. I don't know. Is there another region that's maybe doing this? Is there a Western PA thing? And then the Hartford stole it from them? I hope not.

I hope this all originated with Hartford. Well, it it I at first I thought like was this a joke

from some of the other new England states because like Connecticut's kind of like the I would say the we're already doing on the day to last. It's like, oh, well, I would say if you pulled all the other states is last or it's probably the one that they say is least New England quote unquote,

“which I think is sort of fair because there's like a lot of New York people in New York's obviously”

not in New England state. But, you know, we don't have like a cool Quaint town like Portsmouth or Portwood, I'm headed to Danbury soon. Birdlington. We're headed to Danbury. Why? Why? Yeah, for the month for school. They got a lucky brand there. One of the last lucky brands I've ever seen. Jesus Christ Kyle. Okay. That's like a Derek and Tim Explosion. Also, we don't have a read as Italian ice here. And I think there's one in Danbury. So we're gonna we're gonna make it like a

little sum for her, little sum for me. How many white people are going besides you? My wife's halfway. I guess he counts. Oh, it's a wife trip. Yeah, as soon as you said Danbury, I just figured like the old Latin fraternity was gonna get together. Oh, that was like that was the move when I was in high school. And I was like, I don't think I have Danbury money. I think I got to stick at the pickups in Galleria. I was like, I know you guys are going to find your true religion genes at

Danbury. But, uh, so you are too far to Danbury and Darryan or two different places. I just want you

“to just want you to know that. I don't know what Danbury and Darryan, I think Kyle knows. Oh,”

I'm going to. Okay. Kyle knows what he's doing. And he's so just just so we know you are going to do like a day trip to Danbury to go to the Danbury mall because one of the only places that has a brick and mortar lucky brand. Uh, there's a couple other things that the, you know, the pickups in Galleria is great. But I mean, it's it's waned a little bit. And there's uh, there's a lot more like arcades and stuff in there that aren't really my style. You know, if I'm looking

for, I'm looking for a clothing refresh, uh, I think we're going to Danbury. I think we're going to sit. I think we're going to sit. We're excited. Yeah. Yeah. Well, let's not go. Sure. Yeah. And we'll keep the audience up to date on all this kind of content. Let's go with this next. When is this happening? Uh, probably soon, man. I mean, we're, we're ramping down a little bit too episodes a week. So I mean, I've got some time across the border. Fair. Well, all right. So, uh,

they are Steph Curry and Jack 53's a game. Love the pod. Listen, or since SVP for silo days, Ryan's ability to make Kyle snort on the air laugh is the most underrated part of the show. Here's my dilemma. I have a 21 year old son.

“I think she has life figured out, but has no clue on his third job in his last in the last year.”

Uh, has a new plan every couple months to never stick has potential, but can't seem to put it all together

for more than a little bit of the time. Love him just trying to write it out until he figures it out, which is going to take some time. He's definitely like a lot of other 21 year olds. Yeah. I mean, uh, I mean, the weird thing is you can make an argument. It's like it doesn't really kick and until 35. But let's just do that. You sick. If I should. I've ever been someone saying that to me when I was 27 and I was like, oh, man,

I'm going to take it easy on me, right? We're toasting for a flight almost a decade. So that's great. Came home. Yes, he's still living at home again. The other day to him saying he wants to get a neck tattoo. I don't have anything against tattoos. Told him something on the arm back leg,

set her as ideal. This is his first tattoo. Oh, this guy's like

losing his virginity and Amsterdam. I tried explaining to him the pitfalls of a neck tattoo and why maybe that would be the best idea for his professional future. Just go told that I'm old and no one thinks that way anymore. And he could be anything he wanted to be with a neck tattoo. I'm where the where on the neck it is. Right. I love that. I can't I want to be

“what's special. Yeah. Yeah, I think it would it would definitely matter where and then how much”

ground is it covering? I think I mean, without even finishing this, I think this guy should throw his body in front of it and just see if it sounds like he's going to move off it soon and you know, and maybe when he is 35, we're like, thanks so much for giving me so much grief that I didn't get that neck tattoo. I'm surprised he's still asking you if you can do shit at 21. Good for you. I mean, you're must be a good parent. We still live asking you. So I feel like, you know,

you don't have to, but you kind of, you live at home. You still feel like you're you're still feeling like you're a child. I don't think it's a big stretch for the 21-year-old brain to be like, what are they going to say? I don't think you're right. Yeah, I know you'd be right. But yeah,

to your point, Kyle, I mean, it's not a permanent thing, but I always think about like not

getting frosted tips when I was younger and my mom just because my mom wouldn't let me. Now, it's like, that was probably smart move. Thanks, mom. Appreciate it. I wouldn't let you get frosted tips now. I wouldn't let my buddy change it. Yeah, and I didn't I couldn't get it because my mom was like, no, it's stupid. What do we mean, younger, though? Like, I want the middle school, maybe. Oh, dude, honestly, she probably held you back. You probably wish that she did. All right, don't worry about

me. Dude, you know, I think we're middle school. What a love that. I don't think. And then you cut it off. So you have it in the pictures and you're like, that's stupid. You look like you want to be like, you know, who's supposed to look cool? Like, everybody wants to be Don Draper in their fucking school folks. And you just go, this isn't what's going to happen. It's not going to happen. Your hair is going to look different. It's going to be out of style later on. I'm glad things cycle in and out.

You know, yeah, but no one ever looks at old photos of people going like sick. That looks great. So your mom said no to frost the tips pretty much. Yeah. Are you the oldest? Yep. Kyle, do you get any nose? I feel like there's not a ton of nose on hair choices for you growing. Like, I we went over this. I don't think it was frosted tips that I had, but like this part right here was blonde at a point. You're just that part. Yeah. That part was blonde

at a point. Um, loved it. I loved it. It was, were you, were you like one piece of the time, Johnny Cash in it. Just a little spray, little spray the next thing you know. It's fast. I think my brother did the frosted tips. And I was like, all right, well, I don't want to jump on that train, but I'm definitely not going to be the only boy in this house without a little bit of peroxide. So I, so I just found my own way to do it. I think like that. So I did that whole, I wanted that.

Oh, thanks. I did that for, you know, one cycle and then I got rid of it. Um, I did a shaved thing on the side and just let it hang down. It was a very skate board thing. Even though I wasn't really skating at all, I was out of that phase, which was very short-lived.

“And I remember my dad let me have it pretty good. Did he want you to even it out?”

I like bring it all down. Now, I think he just was like, you know, being the oldest, you deal with all of your parents' fuckups in parenting. They're first run through. But I'd rather be the oldest, and maybe get a little bit tougher than be the youngest, and it's just like, "Hey, we're completely mailing it in with this guy." Um, yeah. So I don't regret it, but I can look back to like, so I remember I had like a huge pimple on my nose once my dad

Shocklet? What's going on? What's wrong with your face?

You know, because I was his first kid and I had some horrible pimple on my nose.

And you know, it's like, I already am aware of the pimple. I'm going to be super bummed out about it. Girls are going to life me for a week, and, you know, it's just the way it goes, man.

“And then the biggest presence in your life is just like you're really fucking this up, huh?”

Yeah, just if it wasn't school time, you're crossing the wall and you're like, "I'm not looking, but it's not working, right?" Hey, man. I got what you was coming in. It's a weird time. Leave me alone. Yeah. What do you want to do? I'm going to fucking have this conversation? So what's up with your face? That's a pretty aggressive. That's a data comment. But yeah, yeah, but he was a kid. When I had this shade, he was more about like, "Who are you hanging out with

those musicians, aren't you?" or something. And both of them didn't even like, "Trink." The bumble has to look out. Yeah, I was like, "I work at a CD place and it's all musicians." And whatever, I was like, "Do you think I've showed up one day and when I'm going to fit right in, and look like Cory Glover from Living Color?" Like, I'm just, you know, when you're going through this thing, especially when you're, you know, the lead blocker on life for all of your siblings,

you, you kind of see like your parents reacting for the first time in real time,

which is the whole lesson of all this is. I don't know if this is your oldest. I don't know where your son is along with this. I think there's absolutely an argument where 10, especially 15 years ago, we're like, "That's the dumbest thing ever." Your kids in 80, 10 years ago, maybe a little loosing on that, which means that it probably totally loose because I'm saying it's an older guy. Same age as the emailer here. Coward had a segment all timer. Don't get a necktap, too. It was a staple.

What? It might have been in the first book, all right? One of his tenants. It was a really good segment. But I think that segment was over a decade ago. So you're right. Like you'll roll into some places, like I'll notice people at high end things and they have neck tattoos. Now, is it high end to be a server forever? Do you want to work at the Louis Vuitton boutique and be that guy with an accent

with a bunch of neck tattoos? Does that mean you're using mustache, yelling it? Yeah, why don't you

“wax on your mustache? Yeah. What does he want to do? I mean, if you want to work at Goldman Sachs,”

my guess is he's not working at Goldman Sachs, but yeah, he might not work at Goldman Sachs officially. Now, if he's got some sort of tiny symbol underneath his ear. Do you make him over to you? Do you make him say, hey, like give me give me somebody in and in all these interesting industries that have neck tattoos that are specific. You can find them. Who are they? I think you could. If that's the one thing, that's like an easy hurdle. I think this guy, well, if you put this mind to that, he can find

it. I'll give me a better. He's going to fall in your favor to best with back or as a neck tattoo. I like the idea of redirecting him to a different kind of tattoo that you're like, as, you know, the cool dad, like I think you can rebrand yourself as the cool dad, you know, maybe you just start sending him options of like, you know, six forearms and biceps and like maybe just pepper his phone with. Well, if you get the one here, like the kind of like little subtle behind the ear

thing, which is a lot of soccer players have, I've seen dudes around. It looks kind of normal. It doesn't you don't really even notice it. You know, if you get the lip tattoo on the neck, all right, probably going to be a problem for future employment situations, you just do the front hole situation. That's also probably a problem. But if you do something subtle like around,

“I don't know, I've seen ones that look cool and classy. I think this from what I've heard about”

the scouting report of this son, I think his name, his mind could be changed if you just gently got it in another direction. I think that's probably the easiest way, but yeah, sure. Where do you go for a full college size? Where do you go reverse like halogen starts sending him all your favorite neck tattoos? Make this one would be awesome and it's like the most ridiculous thing ever and just kind of like make him think that you think it's cool and that he doesn't think

it's cool after a while. Should we get matching ones? Yeah. You want to just scare the shit out? Yeah, you know, I'm off the whole thing. I just want to go back to being dad and dad and son again. I think the family could have fun with this. I think you could just decide to do like presentations and he's sitting there with Ken Martin, James Johnson, the snowman, like all these guys have done great and you're sitting there with a picture like David Faber going, say goodbye to this path,

buddy. Yeah. There's no way he's not going to regret it later on. It's his neck. I do think that he's right that most people don't really care that much anymore, but there was a time to our emailers point. But you're right, you know this is going to be something he's going to regret. He is absolutely going to regret this. But there is not the same social recoil to a neck tattoo today that there was not that long ago. That's true. But that doesn't mean it's a great

idea. It's the one thing I'm going to be trying to hammer into my son's head. It's like if you have to get a neck tattoo, if you had to, right now, gun your head, which I know is a extreme example of how you've ever end up with a gun to your head if you didn't get it tattoo, but play it up, game it out. Midhuts in bridge right on the back of my neck. I will all pay for that. That's

easy. Get the trees in there. We're going color. It's it's a bridge in autumn, but

if we're just going regular tattoo color, summer. I would do the, I would do the like hairline behind

your ear situation with something. I don't know. Lightning bolt, something flashy. Not a lightning

“bolt. I don't know. I think you were, maybe think you would have, maybe would have done that to”

I said, I don't know. Yeah. What's lightning bolt mean? I don't know. Is there a meaning behind it?

I don't know. You can't be slow. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm sneaky slow now, so we've just got some.

“I go mark Twain House. Shout out to Connecticut. There you go. Located in, Hartford. What's up? Thanks a”

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