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game 7 for the Western Conference Finals, and a chance to play the New York Mixed for NBA title. Alright, first thing I was looking for, I talked about it for Game 5 when it doesn't get deep enough, sets up too far away, immediately. And I know you can say, "Hey, hit two, three, he's on the perimeter." But that's not what I saw. I saw somebody that it was like a clear thing of like, "Let's just not have him so far away from

everything." And I thought that that was very telling. It was something I was looking for, and I was rewarded. Hell, I even got like the, let's talk about bad lops, like whatever the good lops are, throwing a couple bad ones. I even got those last night. So I was, I was happy about it. There is a trend here in the first half. We've talked about it with field goal attempts. Let's look at usage rate for women yana in the first half of these six games. Game 1, a 30

usage rate in the first half, win. Game 2, 21.6, game 3, 23.3, both losses. Game 4, a win, usage rate, 41.3, game 5, a loss, 19.6, the least use, siege rate of any of the first half. And then last night, a 42.5, less brook is jealous of that usage rate. And he was terrific. He was all over the place. And what he is supposed to do despite being young, but what is at stake for him. And after a bad game five, here's the part that sucks. I understand that people think

always the media darling. Like this is a very natural timeline that happens all the time.

With any of these early, early, like, hey, this guy's going to be really special. It's happened with Ant, and the Ant shift will like turn on him if it isn't turning a little bit.

that series necessarily, but it's just what happens. I mean, I've seen it too many times. It's just

“if you don't win after a certain amount of time. It's like, hey, what's wrong with this guy?”

Women yana's a completely different level. Because in his third year, it's about whether or not he's the best player in the world. And so any time, it's not like, hey, you can have a bad game. Or like, hey, we just say it after game one, like, we go into 26, 27, where it's undisputed, even if, like, SGA, we're winning another title, which, you know, it's probably not boot happen, but I know at least that conversation's like on the table for him. It's just a completely

different level for how he's going to be graded. So the biggest thing I think from last night, which has been obviously a problem for the spurs when you think about the non-wimminyama minutes. And I think the current at number was pretty damning on what his plus minus was the first five games of the series, but it's also to be expected. But what would happen last night with one, you know, not on the floor. And he's playing a ton of minutes for him too, by the way. So

“it was a massive victory. Like, I think this is the story of the night, a massive victory”

for San Antonio. So when the yana comes out up 14, 13, you may have it a little bit differently. The way I'll do, like, plus minus on the in and out is like, if you come out and then the other team makes the free throw, like I still count that point against you. And conversely, if you come in at a score during a free throw, then the other team makes the second free throw. I don't count that point against you. So anyway, when he comes out five minutes ago in the first quarter,

SGA stays in, which was my biggest thing from game one. I'm like, look, if you are all about downhill attacks with SGA, and you have these sub patterns, you get to throw them out the window, and you've got to just keep SGA, SGA in there as much as possible when one of them is not playing. And the whole point of okay scene with all this depth, even though there's no AJ Mitchell, but I mean, we can give you credit here for your depth when you do what you do came five. And what they did

in game three, which I still was like, this is unbelievable that SGA is in there with four bench players, and they're pulling away in this game. But you've got to keep SGA in there,

and that's exactly what they've done since game one. But here's what happened last night, is

during that stretch, 14, 13, SGA stand in for basically four minutes without women yama, and women yama's back in at 32, so they were plus seven without women yama. They actually wanted to submen a little bit earlier, but he got stuck at the scores table, where there's a few more extra positions in there, so that's a plus seven. In the third quarter, women yama comes out up 10, 74, 64, by the time he comes back in, it's 85, 64. That's all with SGA in.

“Women yama comes back to the game. I think with 401 left, and they actually sub SGA out as”

women yama comes back in. So in that first and third quarter stretch, for women yama is subbed out, and SGA is on the floor for the entire time, you're looking at a plus 18. That's the game.

An incredible job of all of the guys just stepping up and making it hard for everybody in okay

see. I mean, offensively, that third quarter is the worst quarter scoring-wise, the okay sees had all season long hit 13 points. I mean, it was so bad that they scored their 64th point with 823 to go in the third quarter. They didn't score their next point for the next seven minutes and 28 seconds. Zero points for seven minutes and 28 seconds from the best team in the NBA. Some of them were good looks and misses, but it's not a shy thing when you're not making

any of them for seven 28. So credit defense credit that building and the fight of all these young players responding to this survival mode. So really showed, I think a lot of us are something. As far as the foul stuff, I do have some time for it. It feels like we have to do this every day after one of these games, but I do have some thoughts. SGA only drew three fouls last night. He drew nine in game five. I don't know if there's some sort of officiating correction,

you know, when I go through the SGA shot attempts, he was six to 18. I think eight of the 18 were good shots and for a good shot for him still kind of like that contested pull-up drum jumper, but as long as it's only like one defender, it's like, hey, that's a pretty good shot for him. There's even one of those eight that I don't even know that it should be called a good shot, but he's just so good that he made it against women. I'm on the right side where it's a step-back

jumper and they're like isolated against each other and goes in, but I'm like, I don't know, I'm classified as like the first thing you would want to do, but it went in and he made it. But he wasn't going to the free throw line and we've seen now in the wins SGA, his average 11.6 free throw attempts per games and in the losses, 6.3 free throw attempts per game. We'll keep it

singular this time. SGA shooting in the series has not been great 38-26 percent from the floor.

First categories, okay, C's great, so you're going to pitch about it. They've been great for

two years, which seems like forever in today's time. Ultimately, when you're really good in your the headline, you're just going to be a target. We've learned to hate stuff quicker, successful stuff quicker than ever before. There seems to be kind of a general even non-sports

“thing or success is just presented and I think it's just kind of the way it goes now. So I don't”

there's certain things about OKC that I'll get to here, but I think that's kind of what we would do. Maybe this is a stretch, but if Seattle were in the Super Bowl next year, would you be like, you know, it's a little tired here about these C-hawks. Maybe not that. Maybe not that. Unless we felt like the C-hawks were doing something specific that other teams were doing as much. Because the falling down thing is a real thing. I was thinking about an bead,

my guy, the other day, I was like, "Imagine if he made it to the NBA finals and the way like with everyone paying attention, you think you don't like falling down from a perimeter guy that might not weigh 200 pounds, how would the discourse be, if MB were somehow in the NBA finals falling down at like 270 all the time?" You think that would be okay, he might be better off not making the finals. The second category is I think they're content

pleasures. There's one that I don't really love. I don't know who most of the people are and it's not even a zag because it's so predictable. There are people that just no matter what happens,

they're always going to defend the athlete. You'll hear maybe like in a studio show or it's like,

"Hey, all the great players we've gotten calls." You know, like, "Yeah, but they don't, they don't seem to piss me off as much as these do." And then there's the broadcast, which I would say, a lot of the guys I know have been guests on the show, some I would even consider friends, but when you're partnered up with the league, they don't want people on the broadcast going,

“"This sucks." I think that makes sense. I think it's probably a pretty good rule with your business”

party to be like, "Hey, man, this really sucks. This quarter sucks. Can't believe this guy got this call." I'm telling you right now, and I've noticed this postseason. I think on some of the questionable calls that drive all of us crazy, they're not going to these replays as much. I have no information. I can only tell you as a professional watcher of things that I've noticed at, where I'm like, "I want to see the replay on that." And it's like, "Oh,

we're not getting that replay. We're not getting this replay." I think it's a real thing. I have no idea if I'm right or not. But then there's other times where you just have the old school, Mark Jackson, where there's a terrible whistle and he just goes, "There's a call to him." And you're like, "Man, and we're all on the couch going." Yeah, but that's not the right call. What do you have the comment from Candice Parker, which he has to wait and wait if he would

like playing with that kind of whistle, when Wade had 97 free throws in six games in the 2006 NBA Finals, including 46 free throws in games, five and six combined. It was disgusting. It wasn't fun to watch. And, you know, it's kind of back to my original thoughts on like a

“lot of things like, "What if everyone did this?" But it didn't happen last night. And I think the”

third category is just the OKC lunatics. It's not all of you, but it's some of you.

Whether it's the propaganda, whether it's small market, whether it's like new money in the NBA world of what new money would be, you've excused door plays, but you want federal charges brought up on Carter Bryant. You get mad if you don't say "J" dub. And maybe that's pissing people more pissing people off more than some of the calls are. But I still don't think that social media is a really good slice of like what real people are thinking. Game seven, I have, I look, I'm picking

OKC. And seven, I imagine they'll look a lot better at home. I have no idea how it's going to play out. We had the game one, Caruso thing was one, Benjama. Then we had Heart and Stines. They massive part of the story, which I raved about after game five. And then he kind of was not part of the game plan last night. And they prefer Jalen Williams. And you can say that like the game kind of gets messy on the box score because of what was going on and what happened the fourth quarter

after scoring drought and all this stuff. But like, I felt like when the minutes mattered, they wanted Jalen Williams, not J. The other one. So you also have OKC's history just last year in the Western Conference finals. They last by 42 points in game three against Minnesota. Maybe it was a little different because they knew that it was a gap. And they won the first two. They ended winning the series in five. And they're sitting around smiling, losing by 42.

And I think I've landed on this. Like I'm not going, when OKC loses and looks completely unfazed. And then you can almost turn into a negative thing. We're like they're acting a little goofy. Are they taking this seriously? I just think it's who they are. And long term for your recovery

But I just, who is getting their ass kicked going? Hey, they look great. I would hate a team that like, man, they seem to be, you know, enjoying themselves a little

“bit. But I, I think it's them. I just think it's them. And the fact that they know they did the exact”

same thing a year ago. And one of them made a championship. So I still think it's OKC in seven. But it feels like the result of whatever the previous thing was 48 hours ago is irrelevant to how the next game is going to play out.

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You never know with me. You are freshly into Oklahoma City where you could be

stationed for a while, right, depending on how this goes. You might be there for like eight days. Who's a media day Wednesday game one? Is it a Wednesday? I haven't even looked. What's a game two? Yeah. When is a Friday or Saturday? I just know that will be there if it's Oklahoma City, but if not, I'll be in San Antonio. Maybe you won't be in Oklahoma. Okay, see that long. All right. So I opened the pot up with a bunch of different thoughts. I don't need to repeat them all

to the audience here. So why don't you just take the lead? Your biggest takeaway of game sick is to be pivoting what we think could happen in game seven. Bill and Harp, probably. I mean, I just think that he was an awesome in game one. And clearly had some type of injury that looked like, "Hey, I mean, he might have been neat," because I was covered in Minnesota series. He had a weird fall where his knee was a problem, like heading into game five or something like that

of the Minnesota series. Then it was released as a doctor, which you don't usually what, is it a groin string? I didn't really think he was going to play, and then he was surprisingly a green light, right, in the middle of the series. But I mean, he didn't. He wasn't effective at all

for a while in the series. And then I thought he finally looked again like himself, or at least like

the somewhat of the game one version. And I thought that was a major factor. Along with look, they hit where they hit eight first quarter, threes. Windy was hot early. They were just running

“hot emotionally, which I think helped them. And then the 20L run in the third quarter. But you know,”

if you're asking my biggest takeaway, I think if you get that version of Bill and Harper in game seven, like the one you got in game one in the same building, then I think they have a lot better chance than they showed in game five, for example. Think about that statement. You know, think about that statement 11 months ago, you're doing draft prep, and you go, I wonder what Dylan Harper's going to do in game seven of the Western Conference Finals. And he's so spectacular

that you're like, "Yeah, you know, he may have to bring in home for this team is like the Robin to Wemby's Batman. I thought he sucked for the first few minutes of the game last night too. He took a three where it looked like they were going to have to level the rim again after he bricked it so hard. He didn't even hit the rim. He had a pretty nasty turn over. Then he got stripped on that wall of strife, where I just early, I know he had hit a three, but there was a series of plays there.

Oh, there was also a play where Wemby got stripped from behind by door and Harper didn't even react to it. And maybe he was doing the math of like I'm so late reacting that now I'm not going to chase down by anything that he didn't even move. And there was just a few things happening there at the beginning, or I'm like, "Oh, no." Because he checked out with this one because the other crazy thing is that deer fox is supposed to fill in these down Wemby game gaps. And you know, we can

talk about his ankle, which I understand is part of it, but he also has deer and fox where he has moves physically. Slater, where I'm like, "Well, that actually looks like deer and fox again." And nothing is going in and yet there's still in game seven. And maybe that speaks to why the trade market was so cool on somebody who's so talented. Yeah, you know, he's to me, he looks slower to me even during the regular season than the best version I ever saw deer and fox was

that King's Warrior series that covered. That would have been 23, who's super zippy in that series. He'd like the Warriors game way extremely impressed by, you know, covering him. And part of the

“reason they were able to finish off that series is because I don't know if you remember, but he broke”

like a finger in that series. He played through it, but it was taped up and he didn't shoot it as well.

You still see the burst at times. He still, you know, gets the spots. And again, you mentioned the high ankle probably has added to at times him. I'm seeing a little bit slower, but yeah, I mean, he's just low efficiency, really. Yeah. All right. On the other side of things, Jalen Williams his minutes. I love that he even tried to go out there. They're keeping him on three

minutes shifts. There's a stretch there in the third quarter where it was ugly. There's a kind of

“handoff where he brings it at the top of the key where I think he was supposed to keep the ball and he”

loses it and then just flips it to Coruso to keep some sort of possession of the ball. Then there's the other one on the left side where it just is completely out of bounds and he's kind of like defeated. You know, I know the guys in the broadcast, you know, hey, the handles, the first thing we go is which I I kind of understand, but at the same time, it's not like he's not doing any kind of work dribbling with any of the stuff. So from the announcement of a him being available in game six,

I'm like, I wonder if they just kind of do like an okay see thing here and close this out. Now I wonder, look, I love that he tried to get out there, but if that's what he's going to look like, those 12 minutes might be more valuable with, you know, again, I mean, we were talking Aaron Wagan's here if Mitchell's not available. Henry's William, you know, has kind of keeps getting a couple coffees in the series. Everybody's doing a position. Can Richard's like, I still

gunned in my hands and you'd be like, what position does he play? I'd be like, just shoot me. He's like a center, I guess for them. Kind of sort of. Yeah, he's good. He's a player. Yeah, he is. It reminds me a little there in the board and in game seven last year, remember he tried to play through. He was a great two hamstring strain that had just happened and get that was even.

“It was like he. Yeah. Yeah. But, you know, like that's, I think I'm not saying Williams is playing”

through that level of strain. I would say it's clearly not. He can move better. Gordon couldn't game seven. Gordon actually looked like the most hurt guy I've seen that tried to play her in a like, yeah, like, so go ahead. Sorry. Well, I would say one of the problems that I think there's this idea of like, look, you serve. I have to all season without Jayland Williams. You swept the lakeers without Jayland Williams. You don't necessarily need him, but it's like so much of that was

a Jay Mitchell, right? And AJ Mitchell has a capturing who, like, they're not even hiding. Like, he's not questionable for these games. He's just been out, out, out, out. So I think, you know, clearly Jayland Williams is healthier than that. And I, you know, when the spurs have been effective in the series, you've seen the Thunder's lack of ball handling and creation without Mitchell and Williams. And I just think, even if my guess is they're going to try Jayland Williams again in

game seven. Sure. Yeah. Yeah. Because their thinner, you know, at that spot, you know, and, like, S.J. Struggling, that's the other part of this is not like your lead guy is having this monster series like he needs help. He needs help in that category. And I think that's part of why maybe you could call it a desperate move by the Thunder to throw Jayland Williams out there for, I think it was 10 minutes, he was minus 18. But I think they believe they

probably need at least a spur of him to get past this series. I just depends on who wins, because like whatever the good stuff is, looks really good. I've been brave and about hardstein for multiple games. And then it seemed like that was a shift away from him last night. And it's not just a box court minutes nasty force quarter. As I had mentioned

it, the open a little bit was like, oh, the clear preferences is the backup, kind of their third

string center in Jayland Williams, which is, you know, they've tried a few different looks. And I don't wouldn't say it was about like necessarily mixing it up from a strategy standpoint against when you know, I mean, it's more of, I don't know, like, you know, certain things. Some things look like, oh, okay, this is the solution. It's game three or it's game four. And by the time you're

“a game seven, it's like, remember that thing you thought was going to work, like, they don't even”

want to try that stuff anymore. Uh, your impression of women y'all are knowing kind of what's on the line way ahead of schedule. And you know, what I close with is that for him, the criticism becomes like if he has a bad game seven, it's, well, oh, I guess this guy's not the best player of the world, which is slightly different grading scale. Yeah. Then by the way, nobody agree that. 80 guys. Yeah. Yeah. And it would be like, oh, he's still here two way. I would say that he's looked a little bit

fatigued as a series is going on. And I was very curious at, you know, how he would handle a series where it is 45 minutes, 40 minutes, 38 minutes, and it's every other day, and it's seven games, and it is the type of physicality and emotion that is being put into these games. And you know, what I saw some number where he had like, you know, 20 something paint touches and game one. memories, dump, bunch of dunks, he was just down there all game game one. I know part of the

reason he has it in the preceding games is scheme chains, heart and spine, you know, some of that stuff. But I just think he's, he's settled in for jumpers more than you'd like them to. Now he hit a bunch early last night, but you know, and I also think you're seeing some of that fatigue

and emotion and this first time on this type of stage, dealing with American media and the

American coverage of it, you know, frustrating him do degree. I, you know, people might roll their eyes at the idea of oh, you didn't talk to the media after game five, whatever, but kind of, you know,

quick walk off. I, you could tell he did not like to be in the press conference. I just, you know, I just wonder how much this series is or isn't getting to him at hit such a young age with the minute load with everything surrounding the series. But again, look, it closes out with like a 40 point or it's going to be like a legendary series from, however old he is right now 2122. Yeah, 22. Maybe he's doing a little 2009 mom of mentality, you know, have you cared as all about like

did you care about like that didn't talk to the media or like has it's short and, you know,

“frustrated he seemed with the media last night? Um, I think you should do it, not because I'm in”

the media. I mean, I never do any of this post game stuff. So I could selfishly say what the

fuck do I care? I never have to deal with it. But it's kind of the deal. Like when you're the guy, especially if you could be the face of the lead here, what does he says you always? By the way, yeah. So yeah, you better win if you're going to do it. And then there's other degrees of like Dylan Brooks in that Memphis Laker series where he was psyched to be the villain and put on the shades and poke the bear and fuck with the brawn and all that kind of stuff and then it get

embarrassing that he wouldn't talk to the media. It's like, okay, wait, so you're going to do all the shit and then when it's time to like, hey, what happened? Then you're not going to talk to anybody. So like to me, these are two completely different categories. So yes, there are times where you guys are not going to be available. And it's like, you talked to all this shit and now you're not going to have to like sit there at the locker after the result happened that, you know,

you didn't say what's going to happen. So I don't know, I can give a guy pass every now and then,

“but, you know, so what's the conference finals? And you should probably do it.”

Yeah, after the year worst game in the series, and I will go back to the Minnesota series I covered. He elbows, Nas Reed does not talk that night. Okay, fine. You got ejected. Your technically can get out of that. Doesn't talk at the next shoot around, even though he's requested. Does it are, and then, you know, wins game four places extremely well. Like it was a, it was a great encore response. Won't really even address it in the post game press conference that night. Again,

it's got 22. There's like the first time he's going through so much of this, but I thought even

the response to the Nas Reed stuff was a little immature publicly. But yeah, you know what? That's too. So if he has a sudden game seven, it doesn't talk to you guys. You know, you could say, all right, there's a pattern here, but no one's rooting for you guys. No, no. If there's anything that I've learned the last few years is that the media that is dated A with this, that covers it, I don't think anybody takes your side on anything. No, but I do wonder again, like game five,

it's like you were the leader of the team. To me, it's more about, you know, setting the tone in the message for the locker room. Like if we're actually talking about like team dynamics of it, but again, I agree with you. People are probably this deep into this conversation. Like, who is this guy whining because he didn't come up and give, you know, standard post game press conference. I just thought it showed a little bit of, to me, at times in this series, you've seen there

inexperience in their top core. But again, they might win games seven in Oklahoma City and take down a team we thought was a dynasty in the make. Do you have a, like, difference of opinion on the next chances based on who wins games seven? You know, they played the spurs well this year. It's a, you know, this, then be a cup, right? The spurs took down the thunder in the west finals of the NBA cup and, and we're crowned to a degree, but then the next beat them. And,

and what was a, you know, I thought a, you know, almost play off level atmosphere. You remember watching that that cup final game? I love these games, you know, they really are and they're

not my first thing when I heard about it, because I kind of fallen to the, all of us are doing

this far too often, where it's like, what's this new announcement? Who does wrong with these fucking morons? You know, and then you go, yeah, actually it's like one extra game and doesn't really disrupt anything. I mean, some of the courts are a little bright, but that's it's fun to have

“basketball that intense early in the season. So yes, I think it shows you something. I look, it was the”

first time we saw okay, see, look, rattled on offense and you're going, am I still going to think five months from now, like this matter and, you know, times with SGA, the way they defend them, that's not like they're just sending straight doubles at them all the time, like a lot of a shot of Tennessee wasn't even double-teamed all that much, and it's like, oh, you know, that kind of what we saw in that cup game? Yeah, and you know, I remember when the y'all was coming off an

injury, like I think he was coming off the bench in those cup games, so you can't take too much for it, but I do believe the next play, you know, the spurs well in that environment, which probably tells me a little bit, and also, you know, the thunder frustrated the next that times this year, right, Mike Brown had, I believe, two technicals all season, and they were both against the thunder, because he was, you know, upset about some of the SGA foul calls, so I don't know, you know,

we can get into the specifics. I would like to know what type of jailing Williams we are or are not going to see. You know, there's long breaks in those finals. I think it's more realistic to believe maybe jailing Williams can get back to to 25, 30 minutes of decent, you know, two-way wing play, and then I would really fit, you know, I'm going to favor either West team, but the next

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So we know basically the top three teams, meaning the three worst teams are going to have

“two lottery balls each and then teams four through 12, I believe are going to have three lottery”

balls each, but yet also we're going to expand it out from 14 to 16 teams of lottery with the eight seeds that lose that are going to be in the lottery and kind of back to my original cut point. Anything that's announced now, good luck getting half of the people to like it. Good luck having a third of the audience having an open mind about this. So maybe this is me just in my natural mode going. I'm so sick of hearing about how everybody's tanking fixes the perfect fix.

There's no perfect fix to this, as I've said the entire time, other than lucking out the draft, it's almost impossible to add one of these special players that changes the course of your franchise, but I think this has a real chance to be a much better version of what we've seen now for decades where it feels like kind of seven, six weeks to go, it's a free for all of terrible basketball racing to make sure you stay shy of 20 wins. I'd like the relegation zone the most,

“this idea of those not wanting to be in the bottom three, because I think some of the worst of the”

worst of the last couple months of this past season was, you know, Pacer's nets in mid March, and it's like these two teams are trying so hard to lose against each other. Whereas in under this new system, they would be trying really hard to win against each other, right? You know, you want to be the fifth worst team, much more than you want to be the third worst team, second worst team. So I thought, you know, it was agreed just by about nine teams, the last two months of this

regular season, but to me, the worst of the worst is always the bottom, and now you are de incentivizing

wanting to be at the bottom, and actually incentivizing, you know, avoiding it. So I think that helps, you know, to a large degree. I know there are people saying, hey, and we'll now you're just shifting who might want to tank head, you know, teams might want to just avoid the play in. It's like, you know, I covered the warriors this year under the current system, they should have wanted to tank out of the play, and they should have wanted to lose that last play in game to the sons,

so they could keep the 11 spot instead of going and getting swept by the sonner. They still tried to win. I think, you know, you're going to still see teams who have playoff life tried to win, and maybe there is some fudging, you know, in that upper level of this new lottery, but to me,

“I think you have taken away the worst of the worst, and I think that's what matters most.”

Again, the format with the three worst teams having two balls each, and then teams four through ten are going to have three balls each, but the three worst teams also have a floor picking 12 in the draft, which is a huge factor all this, because for it's like, or before I should say, if you were doing the lottery, now that I'm a drawing room vet, you know, you sit there and go, okay, well, if I have the best odds, the worst I can do is the fifth pick, if all four teams at the

top will replace, right? I just, this wizard's thing isn't going to bother me as much as the Memphis Utah thing. So you can no longer have the number one pick and back back years, which mean, say the wizards win the lottery next year, which you would hope that's not even close to a possibility. I'm sure ownership in the front office is like, if we brought in train AD, and we have the number one pick after having previous like top five picks, the hope would be that

we don't have the best odds. So, you know, you can sit there and say, well, look, it wasn't really going to happen. There's really no easing into any of this, and I just think that that jazz pick, which was traded in the Jared Jackson deal, it can't finish higher than six, because you can't have a top five pick for three consecutive seasons. And, you know, I, maybe Utah, I'm sure Memphis will probably still do the deal with the way they've reset this roster and how much money Jared

Jackson is owed and all that kind of stuff. But I totally understand Memphis fans going like, this is not a fan base going, hey, we're the victims here, and the rest of us going like, shut up. I don't know why they could have just said, hey, for that specific pick, it's still alive in this reform, but maybe I'm missing because I called somebody to leave,

feel like, you know, everything is 100% stoned. Obviously, they've agreed, you know, mostly on

the rules, and clearly Memphis didn't like what they were hearing, because they were the one vote in the 29 to 1. I would have lost my mind. Yeah, I mean, I mean, so that pick could, like, if it's top five because the previous Utah years, like we're starting this right now, yeah, I don't know why the whole thing is like, it only, you can't get it if you still own your pick. I mean, the fact that they've traded the pick, I agree with you, Memphis shouldn't be penalizing,

and we'll see if they are, and we'll see if it even matters, right? Because the idea in Utah is they're going to be playoff team next year, right? I mean, like, considering who they brought in, just the arc in of their rebuild, like they, you know, but again, you could be basically the what the AC in the West or fall out or whatever, and you could actually still get the first pick. So, yeah, I mean, it's kind of like the wizards thing. It's like, hey, who cares? They just got it.

They can't get it again. They added all these guys. They tanked. These guys are coming back healthy. You don't even have to worry about it. It's like that. That's not the goal here. The goal is to make sure it's button up because who knows, like who knows, can happen. You can't guarantee anything.

Even if you go, hey, Utah is not going to be in that. You guys are always in your time with it.

I'm entirely on Memphis side, unless there's some other part of it that I'm missing, because

“I think there should have been like pre-existing, you know, there should have been sort of like”

pre-existing exemptions for some of this, and maybe it was something that's, all the things are trying to get their arms around on this. Maybe it was something that was easy to to lose sight of. Golden State team discovered up close before the pivot to having to know everything. Do they feel like the key, though, to some really interesting off-season storylines here? And I was just kind of like bullet point for you, whether it's the dream on opt-out and extension,

meaning that then it's like that. I think to be a six-month, no trade clause. Then it's like, well, you know, does he want to do the team, the favor? Is there some sort of sign and trade and all that? But if there's this big ticket item to trade for, you know, it's who's the unless you think the Jimmy Butler thing could lead to something. You've got LeBron as a mid-level guy, and then you have like the 11th pick here.

So take, just go in any direction on all of these things here, but I just think there's a lot of really interesting stuff here for Golden State this off-season.

“Yeah, and I think it would have been multiplied if they jumped into the top four, right?”

They were sitting in that same spot that Dallas was, but can you imagine if they got like the

third fourth pick here, and it's like, you know, they can talk about a real trade chip.

But also this like pivot point of like, you know, considering where you are as a franchise, should you be trading that type of pick? And I would say the same thing at 11, like to me, that, you know, a marginal improvement to your rotation is like you might leap up into the six seventh type spot in the west, and I'm not sure at this point in here. To me, like the 11th people will likely only be on the table if it's the massive swing that you're talking about.

If they can get in the honest conversation, which from my understanding they're not optimistic that they're going to get into that conversation. I'm curious about Kowai, we've reported it that they really went after him at the deadline, and we're given the stiff arm mostly from Steve Balmer and the Clippers. Just the fact that the Clippers got the fifth pick, does that reopen the idea of them hitting fast forward on a rebuild or not? And then yeah, the little brown one.

To me, if it is a dream on taking his number from 27 down to a certain number and working with collection of warriors to do that, it could potentially be a signal if he opts in, which at this point, there's no signs that he's going to opt out to test for agency. If he opts in, then he becomes an

“expiring potential trade chip. So yes, that will signal a lot. But I think, you know, we're probably”

going to know on Janus, I believe, before the draft and before Dray Moss, you know, opt in, opt out deadline. So we'll see if they get it, you know, I've said this, you know, in the past couple weeks, but I sense a decreased level of thirst from them to make a monster move. And you could hear that in Steve Curse, press conference afterwards about, you know, discussing the future, the franchise with Joe Laco and Mike Dunlevy and coming to a more realistic understanding that they

are chasing championships and they're just kind of trying to guide out the Steph Curry era. Well, you know, protecting the future and I believe using the Olympic. Let's keep up with online trade scenarios. What if Golden State flips with Milwaukee, so they'll move up a spot, Milwaukee moves down a spot, but Golden State takes on all of Janus's money. But to, you know, and that, I mean, I think they would love that. They would love to get

everybody else is, it's like, so wait, one of the teams gets this makes no sense. I look at them. I was kidding. I was kidding. I was kidding. I was kidding. When you were, it's funny when you were like beginning to put that together. I thought you're going to say, like, takes on Miles Turner's contract,

“something like that. You know what I mean? Because I think there's other like smaller level”

bites that could make sense for the words. They got to be creative. But at this point, I just don't see them in the honest conversation. Breaking news. Viralando magic have a new head coach, and he will be coaching this weekend. That's a tease. So next, don't get up. Uh, Sean Sweeney spurs assistant. A lot of camera time. Everybody raves about him. My insight on this is the Billy Donovan wanted it. He could have had it. I think tips really

wanted it, and they went in a different direction, which you could say mirrors the previous direction with a highly regarded assistant. Um, again, I don't know. I'm sure there were other names that were involved here, but I don't know a lot about them other than other coaches, think he's terrific. So yeah, defensive minded, which mostly was also fresh voice, which I think this seems like was needed. Uh, but I don't mind the leading into the defensive, you know,

“staying with a defensive minded coach, because that's the strength of the team, right?”

Couple plays late would be nice, but I'm sure, uh, I look, that can be way more on the players, but I would say Orlando of any talented teams that I like. They would have longer stretches of being stuck offensively, under mostly, then like with you with deemed acceptable. Like, all right, it's been four minutes, guys. Like what we doing here. Uh, I just hope, you know, he's got to get through the Palo. I'm still a huge Palo fan. He had to keep your mind as that, and all the reasons

of those of us that love him as a player, a lot of moments in that Detroit series, but there's some stuff that needs to be cleaned up. And so hopefully it's the new voice, or maybe it's Palo units, you know, to intriguing. Yeah, I don't know. I'm a little like you. I don't know too much about like, you know, shots when he's offensive, mind, in general, or his staff, you know, we'll see. A lot of times you can get a lead assist in coaches, like, you know, runs the offense.

I do think it's kind of hilarious. I specialize. It is, like, you grow up in basketball,

then it's like, okay, what's this guy? He's like, oh, he's defensive first. And it's like,

this isn't football. Yeah. You probably have been around like, hey, we're going to run this is going to be our basic concept on offense. As if, like, Steve Kerr is not able to be like, I don't know what's happened. What's we're down at that end. Are we helping? We trapping? Like, I'm just over here. I shoot. Hey, man, enjoy. What's your pick for game seven? Thunder, you know, take the home team. I was here game five. You know, I think it'll be more of a fight,

but the they won two games sevens on their home floor last year. I'll just pick no one again. Yeah. That's fine. I was going to look. I thought it was thunder and seven for a series start up, so stay. Thunder seven, but I think anything is, anything is possible. It's all on the table. And it's, uh, you want to talk about this would be one of the most dramatic ahead of schedule wins by an organization with a special player in a really long time. Like, trying to think what else

would be at this level. Is it Orlando was shocked and penny? Oh, well, I've heard just talking

west finals now that the first iteration of the thunder, the hardened west broke Durant,

be, remember, they were down two out of the spurs, the Duncan spurs, and then one four straight, two then Facebook run in the finals, and we're the favorites and one game one. Yeah, 2012. Yeah, I'm talking about, to me, that was a really close series. Yeah, the finals. The finals are actually close. Like, those were really good games. That series, like, had me back in the lab, because like, when Stan is turning on the first two after like, those two teams getting rid of the

face off, I'm like, oh, come me break. And then when they played out the first two games, I'm like, this is exactly what was supposed to happen. And then all of a sudden, like, athleticism takes over. And you go, oh my god. So you think, that's a really good entry. Like, this might be a good topic for you. If you guys get a rainout from home. Yeah, sure. Sure. I'll take it. Um, yeah. No, I like that was that was the thunder, like, that's a really good one.

Getting up the process. And because we're just talking about the west finals, the first could win this game. And they could lose the next. Like, now, if the spurs they went in one, the title,

then it would feel like, you know, a little different than those soccer teams. Who never won the

type? No, I mean, you want to talk about, like, how could you felt if you were a thunder

“fan of 2012? I think that's why there's so busy now a decade later. I don't want to go there.”

Um, yeah. No, it's, you know, they, they were up one oh with, it's still a foul that gets talked

the, uh, the brawn, no call on Durant baseline when it's, you, it gets called the thunder

“right. Go to O up to O in that series. And then hey, if they, if they, if they do win those finals,”

the hard and stuff, which happens next October, who knows? I wonder if the NBA official account on Twitter apologized to the thunder, the way they apologized to the brawn and said they couldn't get sleep after the no call where he traveled and Boston. There's a lot of eye rolling and then be a circle. So I'm like, why is that account doing this? Um, they may not have been around. Maybe they were, maybe they were on a different platform back then early days. That's a

good one. I, I, no, I like this. This, I might steal it back from you. But no, if go ahead and take it, ranking the ahead of schedule teams, because you're thinking in 2012, even with that series loss, you're like, we're good. And I don't blame you for not wanting to say anything right now, because your boots in the ground, okay, see, we gotta worry about your safety. So we do want to, we don't want to be held responsible for anything that would happen to you there. So thanks, man.

Uh, how about the thunder, you know, winning last year? I mean, it's not quite as fully ahead of schedule is, you know, because you had the luck, the second round loss to the maves when they were the one seed. But this version of thunder had this, this, this schedule will be thought. Go, you guys, print, love rank and stuff. Here, when you came from the athletic, the home of we're rank and stuff. I came from, you want to. Yeah, I came from the Oklahoma. That's the real

background of, uh, of rank. We used to write tons of stuff back. Yeah. Thunder stuff too. So sorry. Go ahead. Rank counties by humidity. That's the Anthony Slater. You could see his work on the Espionage. See my TV. I'm sure all over the place enjoy a game seven. Thanks.

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red meat for dudes, but there's the I mean no one got hurt. So I guess that's great. But it was like one of those blue origin. Whatever space rockets that Jeff Bezos was doing and like they were doing

“a task malfunction and the explosion is unbelievable. You have to see it. I'll check that out later today.”

I thought you'd be on that Kyle man. I'm sorry. I guess I'll know your judgment or whether or not it was uh is like I remember one of the Tesla rockets blew up and then people just to the eight. Elon now it was like uh and then I heard like the scientists on a podcast talking about what they learned and granted like you could argue of course they were going to turn into a positive but they were rocket scientists. So I was I was impressed with what they had to say.

So I don't know. Maybe it's just a data collection thing. Maybe it's not that news and I have no idea. Actually came away more impressed. I don't really say no. I'm sorry. Yeah, it says it for you. Everyone says it for me and then everybody thinks it's the funniest thing ever and I haven't said it in like

I thought it was absolutely right. Wasn't it Caleb Williams interceptions? I forget now.

Yeah, that was a Caleb. No, that's you think in the in the four interception thing and the playoffs and I was like don't fall for this because of the time and game situation. I forget it was like promise you because I've seen it enough that I was like yeah, I don't think I say it anymore. That's all. It's a really good like if you do it on an Instagram comment people love it. Oh, yeah, it's big. Yeah, it's big. Yeah, people think they find a community. Yeah. Yeah, guys

like dude, what did you do this week? I feel like I did it. I was actually more impressed with the boats. You didn't see the facility. Yeah, it's fucking killed it. Yeah. No, I didn't see it. I mean, I look. I just said there was a thing about aliens and I go, this should be a bigger deal. We just don't it's like hey, man. That's GA took a million free throws last night. I don't have time for aliens. Look at that. There you go. Also, is it going to be another big foot alien sort of thing or is

or you know, we're going to get some clear JPEGs on the next one. I mean, I'd to the point where I just like, I can't get fired up anymore. That's like, got another story from 15 years ago about a,

“you know, a pilot who was going 500 miles an hour and he swears. He saw, I believe him. That's,”

I mean, I don't think you're crazy, but I mean, I just need a little bit more to, you know, get tidilated now when it comes to aliens. I think the alien thing that, I mean, I was already caught it in on the alien thing. Dude, I've played some bucket golf. Yeah, it smoked. What's up?

Come get some. They'd be so good at it. I've always kind of been it on the aliens thing.

I think it's like just it's kind of like, so numbers game come on. It's got to be tough. It's obviously seems more yes than no. Um, but the Obama thing kind of sent over the top, like he basically said they were aliens. And then like two days later, it was like, oh, actually, I was just joking, but he wasn't joking at all in this, in this interview, whatever interview he was doing. I don't know who it was with, but like clearly, but now you get the White House

tweet, not all these things. And again, we're not making this political, whatever, but like I don't even

“know what to believe anymore, dude. I don't think you should have to say that anymore. I don't know how”

you would listen to this. I know. I just, you know, I know. It's like reflex reflex. Totally is. I don't I don't blame you for it. But yeah, there was something I was really. I was like, this would be such a big deal in the 80s. Like people'd be freaking out. You know, like it was school early half day. Yeah, you think like the 80s, like there was, you know, video is less grainy. You know, we just had less access to technology that like, you know, things like conspiracy theories would just like

Pete then, but now I think dudes were still picking all the time on inquires at the Grand Union, like, dude, maybe they did get him this time. Maybe that is big foot. I mean, those guys are right. Even though there was a choir, guys, that's some good leads. In the early 2000s, I mean, those were at all the checkouts. I don't see anything now. Now, it's just like, you know, time or something like that. But that used to be like, like, mock, and we please get this one,

you know, it's like, no, they're lying to you. But they were certainly around. I don't know what happened. With our Instagram pages now. Yeah. Good call, Kyle. All right. Anyway, explosion school. I didn't see it, but I'm going to do it today. I promise you. I said it to you. I just text by guys. I feel bad that I missed it. I don't check my phone when we're doing this because I'm locked in, but I will, I'll definitely watch it. Okay. Whoa, it's a little spicy for this Friday.

That is quite an explosion. All right. I'll leave it at that. Nice. Possible three-some conundrum. Help. Oh. Five, seven, five, eight, and a good day. Go for it. Next email. Oh, we're not doing that one. No, I think we answered it. Ready to start smoking cigarettes, star all caps. Keep it as short as I can. Five, 11, 18, five, player comp. Don't whoop, but like to food ball.

So Tim, Tim Reem. Yeah. We just lost, just probably on the bench.

Well, a little plug. We just recorded our first bar stool. It's called soccer podcast.

Myself, Mike McGee, former MLS MVP, and Sam's Army, Samuel Army. And we were talking about our topics, who should be the captain. Tim Reem, technically, is the captain, but he's not how we know how much he's going to play. 30, whatever, he's 38 years old. Probably not going to play a

“ton of games, so he's able to. But Tim Reem's the man. By the way, you should be plugging that podcast.”

So, thanks, congrats. One after so downs. You're doing your back to content. I'm back in the soccer game. Just in time, World Cup is what two weeks away for a US game is two, two weeks from yeah, Friday. Hey, is it your way for championship tomorrow? Uh, yeah, Champions League Final,

Earlier. No, no, I'm going to start my day with that. It's great. Yeah. One of the things I'm bummed about of the World Cup is that the games are going to be at night. I'm used to watching

“soccer morning and afternoon. But, well, make the adjustment. Kyle, do you feel left out?”

So, Reese found a way to get into the Barstool content game? No, I'm actually just glad you reminded me it's in two weeks because I'm supposed to go hang out with my New York City Dominicans because we had such a good time in 16 watching the World Cup. And I was like, you know, we should really do that again. And, uh, yeah, I got to get down there soon. I might have to do some follow-ups. But, so thank you. Dominicans are not in the World Cup for the record. No, but they love watching soccer.

The Haitians are. I don't know if they were, uh, dude, I wouldn't say that to them. You're saying, so do you feel like there's a difference between Haitians you hung out with versus Dominicans? Uh, what's this guy in the email? Say.

Ziggurat, what if we'll get to smoking here in a second? We have time today. What if, um,

what would be a good fit for Kyle at Barstool? Like, saying a year, Porto just is like, you know,

“that guy in life advice. How many episodes of this show do you think Porto is listening to?”

Oh, zero. I don't, I'm zero. Maybe check out your first open? I don't know. No way. I don't think so. No. Zero. Uh, not insulted, but I would just say in the, let's say a theoretical world. He's like, you know, that Kyle guys gets something to them. Something to them. Who could we team him up with in the Barstool universe? Like, they did a once a week pod and what would, what would be the pitch? Man, I rack my brain all the time about like, is there anything else I could do? I hate to say,

I don't come up with much, and it scares me a little bit. I'm like, dude, you don't have any thoughts about what you can do. I'm like, this is perfect. But, but, you know, nothing gold can stay. So, I think about it often. I'm like, damn, another no good idea day. That's crazy. That's crazy. I hate to. I got, I mean, I don't know, I don't want to, I don't want to get a season to cis letter from outside of Mike, but like, we need, like, whatever, because everyone's doing the

short form video stuff. Now, podcasts, like whatever, nobody listens to the long form stuff. You say, go long. Go super long. See, yeah. Yeah, go two hours. No, yeah, you have a retention. A short form Kyle, smoke break, a couple questions with famous people like who's not, who's not

“watching that. Oh, yeah, that's a season to assist. That's why I don't my camp. I mean, he was doing,”

he just started taping people while we have a cigarette at ESPN. I don't even know that that was a documented thing. No, there was a very lawless nature to the podcast stuff. There, like, there was a new wave of these younger dudes who just rolled in. I mean, it's still my favorite story ever. I don't mean, I'm not even remotely like upset about it. What do I care? But when those guys basically just decided to start their own pod and none of them were on the air and then launched at the ESPN,

like distribution thing, that's unbelievable. I would agree. How about this? One cigarette,

you know, it's the rules. Well, here's the thing with that. I've learned that famous people

don't want to be on camera smoking cigarettes. I think a lot of them do it, not, not like, you know, daily, but, you know, no one wants to be photographed doing that. Seems like John Hamm doesn't give a shit, but everyone else it seems like does not want to be seen smoking cigarettes. Maybe at like a vanity fair party in the bathroom. It's cool to like be seen with one. But other than that, it seems like nobody wants to be on camera doing that. So I just think it wouldn't work just

the bones of it. It'd be cool. But I just don't think we get a lot of yeses. What about like a diner of dragons and dives type thing, but it's you going to dive bars. I love it. I mean, I love it, but I just don't think it would ever be greenless. That's the only idea I've had in the last six months. And I don't know. I feel like you look probably someone doing that already. Not to say, you can't do it. It's not new. You know, right. You can't get through your out. Yeah, like the

cigarette bar guy. I love that guy. What's your version of the cigarette bar thing that you can do? Right. I'll think about it more. I just, I hate how there's no light bulb going on. It's really bothers me. I think there's, I think there's some bounce or stories. That's a good one. I pitched stories, pods, you know, while go at, you know, at the ringer. And everyone had to like come up with something and they were like, right, great stories. Cool. I was like, damn it. That was my moment.

Yeah, I just got to pitch stuff better. I'm going to take like a master class or something. Everything's the same version of the same thing though, right? Like everyone's just doing some activity while talking to somebody else for three minutes. It's kind of it. Yeah, the subway one seems to work, but yeah, I'm trying to think what else does anybody ever like people go up to couples and they go up to girls after the bar is closed and all that kind of

stuff, which is just, I mean, it's, I guess it's good for the content creator, but you're putting

the person in the tough spot. So we got to hawk to it, isn't it? Yeah, basically somebody to put

a mic on our face. Here's one. I don't want to, I don't want to lose this one. There's a, the

session. You don't have to have like cameras that can handle that. But like we, you know, we don't want to get through cameras now. Two guys in a tube. Well, maybe it's an iPhone thing. I don't know. They're pretty rugged. Two guys in a tube. A third tube, a two tube. Right. Two tubes, a third tube, which is tied on by a rope, which is where you keep the cooler. And then you just, you know, lazy rivers one thing, but we're out in nature. Like, you know, that's,

you might get loose out there. That's a good license to try and fish. I don't hate it.

“I don't know. I think tubing is like no one ever has a bad time tubing. Never. I can never hear”

anybody talking about going tubing. Yeah. All right. That could be something. I might write a couple of bullet points now. We did a bit my tube. Yeah. I like a spin. Maybe we bring the

tubes for each other. And it's like, here's what I got for you today. What did you bring? Yeah.

I brought you a cinder block. That's part of it's like pranking. Yeah, just get pumped. Yeah. I was pumping him. All right. See, we can get this guy smoking. 5, 11, 11, 15, five, player comp. Don't who, I already did that. 28 years old working and marketing in Dallas. Maybe relevant. Maybe not. Rather than smoke or bellies, lean in my youth, I've actually never smoked a sick, but I'm ready to as I approach 30. I don't have an addictive personality. He would likely only do so in certain

scenarios. Example, my friends in a band. So I frequent. I frequent grimy dives in urban music venues. SIG time. My question is, what's a good entry level cigarette brand? Should I graduate from mild to stronger as I progress in my smoking journey? Would love to hear from you all. I expect Kyle has a lot of tips. Thanks love the pot. I just can't ever say, yeah, it's a good time to start. I just, I know we love to joke, but it just seems like one of the things I shouldn't

joke about. But if we were in a hypothetical, if you're like, tricking, open AI here, or to chat GPT to tell you what you'd do if it was for research purposes. Yeah, I'd say maybe you get a camel crush, because you could swap a twin. I mean, real smokers would be like, dude, you're smoking camel crush, but you're not a real smoker. That's a good one. You could crush the thing so bad about what? Yeah, why did you get made fun of? Well, because it's not actually

a menthol, you basically pop this little tube of something in the filter, and it makes it like

menthol flavor. But until you do that, it's regular. Obviously, regular menthol stuff is in the actual tobacco. So, I mean, it's sort of a best of both world situation, but marbro

“lights is an easy one. If you want to feel good about yourself, or if you want, maybe not good about”

yourself, but some people go the American spirit route. They think, you know, it says all natural, what, you know, if we know that doesn't mean anything anymore. So that's what it was to do. Right. But yeah, I definitely wouldn't start with marbro reds. Yeah, I'd go marbro lights. I don't even know which kind of American spirit you get. I think they're all awful, but yeah, again, I don't know start not at all. That's what you're saying. Parallelments are pretty cool. Pretty pricey, though.

I don't like that accessory menthol thing you described. Like, this guy's already feeling like he's going to be judged getting into the game so late. How do you hold it? What's a cool way to hold it? Um, pick if you're the later it gets in the night, you can go out outwardly, hold it like that, but I mean, just the just the resting right between the the middle and the pointer finger is the classic. This is all useful information. I, yeah, I don't know. Yeah, we can get one guy smoking.

“I think we've done our job. If you're first digger, it's going to be outside at a dive bar.”

Well, bunch about a bunch of other dudes, you're probably going to cough. You know, I hate to say maybe

take take a spin in the backyard first, but he should probably be sitting down. You're supposed to

get a crazy dude. You're probably going to get lightheaded. Like, dude, do you get high off cigarettes? Like, not after a while, but yeah, I would do the first one alone because you're definitely going to cough. Yeah, get, start smoking by yourself. You got a month or, you know, looking over there's skill. Yeah, a couple beers at home, you know, watch John Hammond back to do it. Yeah, I was a couple of handblades. He looks really cool. What he's doing it. Dude, rust, rust coal, too.

I mean, that was like a generational cigarette smoker or any of the Russians in Chernobyl. Yeah, they do it for the rest of the game. I mean, if you're smoking next to Chernobyl, you know, no, there wasn't one guy in any of those meetings being like, hey, you cut and down at all, you might be like a superhero at that point. Yeah, they're like, actually, these will help. Oh, yeah, this peak male had let us sit some right here. Yeah, keep us posted. Yeah, good luck.

All right, um, am I a glue guy or just getting left out? 30 year old male, 5.8196, just getting back in the lifting after some back issues so the numbers are bad, but the intent is elite.

A lot of us walking around with bad backs. No idea. It's just implement 10 to 15 minutes,

“stretching your chains every now and then. I'm not going to tell you it's perfect, but”

it's going to be better. All right, player comp Boris Dial, well, while you and warm up, but somehow ends up with a 1496, everyone's like, wait, when did that happen? My wife and I are in our early 30s, got married last year, a pretty big friend group. She's got a smaller circle. My friends are all over the map. Mary, kids and gays and a couple of guys still acting like it's a Thursday and 2014. Here's the issue. My wife thinks my friendships are one sided to be fair. I am

doing a lot. I tell us that a lot of the work here. And I'd say I'm responsible for 80 to 90 percent of the outreach. That's a high number, man. Group text, hey, let's get something on the calendar.

Checking schedules, the follow-up text window, what do you answer the first time? I'm basically

being an unpaid social coordinator at this point. When we do see people, it's usually a bigger group that I've organized, but I've also noticed that some of these same friends will hang out with each other in smaller settings, like double dates, dinners, and we're not exactly high in the

“call sheet for those. That's where it really bothers my wife. When we were in the group, she”

sometimes feels like the odd one out, especially seeing how naturally some of the other couples connect. She'll get pretty quiet on the way home, and it's turning into a few emotional conversations, where she basically says she feels like she's trying to break into a friend group that's early established without her. It's things more now because she recently had a falling out with both her mate of honor and the abrides made. So her own friend circle has taken a hit. Her take is,

if people actually value the friendship, they'll reach out sometimes, including some of the smaller

hangs and make an effort. She thinks I'm over valuing certain friendships and basically caring

relationships that maybe aren't as mutual as I think. My take is this is just your 30s. Everyone's busy. Everyone's tired. And the half the guys I know need a three week lead time to grab a beer. If I don't send the text, nothing happens. So yeah, I'm doing most of the work, but if I stop, I think a bunch of these friendships will just quietly die, which feels worse. So my question is, am I being naive here and acting like the glue guy for people who would be fine,

letting the friendship fade, or is this just part of adulthood where one guy inevitably becomes the commissioner of hanging out, love the pot? I don't think I need that same one of those guys. Go ahead. Let me just say this at the start. Because this is very true. Being married, I do things with couples and even my friends more because my wife reaches out to the other wife.

“And that's how we do something. Like if we're going to do something, it's collated. That's how it gets done.”

Like no one of the dudes are going, hey, you and the misses, you want to like, you know, whatever. No, no. It's pretty much just like the girls figure it out. We're coming over, going with pool, going this, doing that. Like that's all on them. So that's probably not a great sign for your wife. I would guess that they are, like it seems like a little bit of a red flag, like with the the bridesmaid and the made of honor. And then all these other, like her friends,

significant. There's also don't want to hang out with her. Does that seem awesome? I'm not going to be, I'm just going to just lay an out there and be honest. But that part is usually initiated by the women themselves. If we want to grab a beer or go golfing, like sure, my buddies in the group shall just figure that out. But like the bigger picture, couple stuff, that's the, at least in my opinion, the dudes aren't doing that. It's funny that like, middle of the road, Steve, usually

gives like the straightforward advice, like it's not looking good for your wife. You might have a, way to wrong, you might be married to a tough hang. I'm not trying to be a dick, but that's a little bit of a red flag. I feel like I'm going to say it. If you were, okay, yeah, that sentence just dirt digler, like that sentence just flashed in front of me. And I didn't want to bum our guy out here, but is there any chance that your wife could be the reason people don't hang out as much

and what's the story with the bridesmaid and the made of honor? You know, it could be they did something terrible and she's, she's somebody who like has a standard for her friendships and then she's a little harsher on the judging of it, but in reality, like nobody's, you know, maybe she's not the issue whatsoever, but at least it needed to be addressed. So, by the way, you know what I'll see you be addressed. The hang time on Steve's dad hat on that back straight. Okay, like this.

Three inches there, that's nuts. Yeah, it's pretty, it's rich. It's huge, so don't. Yeah, um, it's like a wide ladder. There is on a huge. Yeah, no, this is one of those hats that kind of fits better backwards and forwards and yeah, I don't know. I feel like if you tuck it in, you're kind of a dweeb.

So, I just keep it. Please keep it. I don't, I don't think it looks bad, but I just, I finally was like,

yeah, different angles. You're like, yeah, it's kind of staying level two. Yeah, not it's good. It's, I don't wear it a lot because it's not really like a, a core forward hat, but I don't know. Yeah, anyway. All right, Kyle. I want to, I've got to watch show Netflix, by the way. I don't think it's bad to have a guy like you, and I think a lot of times there's stuff

Yeah, it's an awesome point. Yeah. So, it's, um, if you're an unsung hero, maybe maybe one,

one added eight dudes will actually acknowledge it, and that just means so much. It's like hitting a good golf shot when you're having a, just bad at golf. You're like, all right, I'll play for another two years. That fell awesome. I just pipe that right down the middle. I suck at golf, but I'm not giving up because that brought me back. It's sometimes just one acknowledgement from one of those hangs that you, that you put together, you put together a great party. Maybe a

“couple of people travel for it. And that, and that's what makes it worthwhile for me. I, um,”

I've, I've sort of branded this summer, the best summer in a decade, because I've been gone for 10 years. And I think I got some dudes fired up. So, maybe you could try some branding for this

summer. So we bring in the best summer ever. He hasn't gone it, but what I don't know, find the

thing that it is. I don't know. Um, but yeah, I think I got some dudes fired up. We're, we're planning some meetups and maybe some parties. Again, that totally forgot about that world cup thing, but I was throwing that out there too. So, uh, I think I got some guys fired up and a lot of them are in New York City. So, you know, that's like a, you know, hour to half for me. So it's not as easy as just like, what are you guys doing tonight? So maybe there's a way you can re-brand this summer at

something fun. Um, see if that works. But yeah, there's nothing wrong with being the unsung here or your friends group. If you're actually put stuff together. And you got to have thick skin. If some, sometimes people are just a little bit more close to everyone has some sort of rankings,

you know, in their friend group. And maybe you're just maybe you're out of the top three. And, uh,

that's not bad to be for in some guys eyes. So, um, yeah. Yeah, look, we, we tore you down a bit,

“but I think Kyle's building you back up a little bit. I'm going to really tear you down,”

just pointing out something that that could be, you know, now this guy's going to listen to show and go, huh? Is my wife tough to hang with? You know, so that's not really what we wanted to do, but trying to address it all, leave out some stuff sometimes. But I know, man, like, I get it. He's like, not everybody gets to be the coolest guy in the group. And we're off of the night, you're not going to be the coolest guy in the group. But if you feel like no one's ever inviting you,

um, you know, I kind of hate to say this, but I can guarantee how you won't get invited to anything. Is be a dude in your 30s going to other dudes and be like, are, do you not want to be my friend anymore? Can't guarantee you not going to worry about scheduling anything. Because guys like do not want to talk about that. And honestly, most of the time, if you ever were to say, like, hey, what's going on? Like, the other person is so oblivious to it. You are generally overthinking it. Um, I would look at it this way. Like, hey, you're probably a little bit more

organized. You know, there's people I do want to hang out with sometimes that I'll just go like, I don't, I can't, what are you asking me about a dinner in 12 days? Like, dude, I don't, like, maybe, you know, and then I don't, I don't necessarily get to follow. Because like, what are you guys blocking in real things here? Is that a new graphic package that we have here with Netflix where we switch the box around? Yeah, all right. I didn't know you guys could see that. Yeah, so I love it for a loop.

I'm like, well, we know we're going to start wiping there. Did not know you guys could see that. But this is, how's that Netflix deal going? Awesome. We've got this new thing we can do. Uh, ever we want. We've got a paint page turn situation going on. That's great. Lesson light. I, like, the guy that's emailing in, I just don't think you want to, like, go into this as, like, a friendship summit. Like, all right, what's going on here, guys?

Doing a lot of the texting a lot of the schedule. We're drifting. If you guys notice. Yeah, by the way, if you're not the coolest guy in the group, too, it's not going to go over well. So you've been friends with these guys for a long time. Life changes a lot of the scheduling stuff.

“And there's usually always stuff that you don't even know that's going on. And I think you have to”

look at it as whatever the relationship is, how much lifting I'm doing, not doing. I still would rather be in the mix with these guys. And that's probably the thing that you need to focus on the most. And even if you're organizing it, there's still coming to meet you. There's still coming to do this stuff, too. So I think you look at it that way and try not to overthink it. And not saying you are sensitive, but maybe your wife is making a little bit more sensitive about this thing.

Because I just don't think guys are this calculated about it. Yeah, maybe you can throw the party of the summer. Doesn't have to be a super expensive one, but, you know, just remind everybody who the fuck you are, man. Like an 80s high school movie. She's just like just put together an all out vendor that they can't miss. Yeah, or whatever, whatever works with that group, like, you know, you have some commentary prepared. Sure. Get somebody to announce everyone as they walk in.

I don't know, do something fun. No, just topics. I see. I see what you said. I just, that was a different idea. Springboard. Yeah, sure. Yeah. Current events. It's all sources stuff you can do aliens.

set of fireworks. You're like, I bought a rocket for this thing. See how it goes.

“There are any like bigger bread flags and like you can invite you a party and guys, like I got”

these fireworks just set off in the back. You guys ready? Like, yeah. Uh, are you wired? Who else is

on the show? They can't be in mind. They're at your mind. Well, Kyle, I would guess I would trust,

“but I don't know. Now, I'll do it for the show today. Thanks to Kevin Tom's Rudy Kyle.”

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