Beantown Podcast - 2019 NBA Draft Analysis ft. John-Paul Pendowski (Beantown Podcast)

Episode Date: June 22, 2019

Quinn is joined by special guest and Friend of the Podcast John-Paul Pendowski to analyze the first 7 picks of the 2019 NBA Draft and share some life lessons along the way

Welcome to the Bean Town podcast for Saturday, June 22nd. What's going on? How are you? What's happening? This is Quinn David Furnace and this is my show on the host creator, producer and best boy of this show Bean Town podcast, one of the better podcasts in all of Chicago. Well, we're coming to you live, live when I record not when you listen to it, but live nonetheless from Riglyville, Chicago, an unofficial neighborhood, maybe a ward, W-A-R-D. I don't know. That could, award refers to like politics or something, but I don't know.

Maybe there's a Riglyville award. It might sound like I'm talking to someone, and that's because I'm not alone on this quest today. I'm joined by dear friend of the podcast and no stranger to the bean-town podcast, making his third appearance and a little out of the blue. We set this up like three hours ago. John Paul Pindowski, welcome back to the bean-town podcast.

How are you feeling? Good. How's it going? It's been like a year since we've had you. And it feels good, man. I'm excited. Are you excited? I'm ready.

Yeah, excellent. So we've got a topic for you. This Thursday was the NBA draft. And we're going to be getting into it in a little bit. But JP learned that we were going to be discussing the NBA draft approximately 20 to 30 minutes ago. I would say even less than that. And you know, I don't know much about the NBA, but you know, JP you played a little division two ball, I think, on PlayStation. So it's it's really exciting to have you here to analyze some draft picks.

Before we do that, I should mention that number one or listener discretion is advised when you're listening to the bean-town podcast. Excuse me. Number one, we'll occasionally use some school of music-esque language, which is mostly Eastern European curse words. But number two, this podcast is objectively terrible But it's made a little bit better when we're joined by a friend of the podcast and what do we drink? What kind of wine is this? It's a red for sure. It's a red and it's it's a little dry. It's good Yeah, you're the only one to have had that one oh really? I haven't tasted hang on I'll give you the flavor profile

It's a red so this is my second straight day of weekday drinking which is what I'm going to give you the flavor profile. It's a red. So this is my second straight day of weekday drinking, which is what I'm like trying not to do, but I went to the Cubs game yesterday. And you can't not drink at the Cubs game. Well, guess how much I paid for a bud light? How much? $12. Shit. Ridiculous. The best part about it was right before that there is a place called Beatrix Market, which is right next to my new workplace, and they have happy hour from, I think, it's 4 to 6

or 5 to 7 every day, but there's a bar downstairs you go down there, and you get tall boys at PBR for $3.00. So I went down there last night with my boys a PBR for $3 and so I went down there last night with my friend after work before we went to the the ball game and may or may not have pounded three PBRs in like half an hour before we went to the game but yeah it's a good deal if you ever find yourself in downtown Chicago you're looking for a good happy hour Beatrix market it's in the basement and it's really cheap $55 wine, $4 individual deep dish pizzas, and $3 tall boys of a couple different beverages, but I was

going with PBR. So JP, what are you drinking right now? I'm currently out. Oh, he's out. Oh, I need to fill up at some point in the near future. Yeah, once we get to the ads, there's your chance. Well, we'll maybe do a little bit early, but I'm playing the dangerous game here and resting my wine on my MacBook Pro. But it's okay, I've had it since 2013, so it's kind of served its time. It's pretty expensive, coaster.

That's true. Although I got, so when I showed up to to work for my first day, it was like an actual PC and then just a monitor. Today, literally like eight hours ago, they replaced or on Thursday. Disclaimer, we're recording on Thursday. It's coming on Saturday. On Thursday, which is today, but not when you're listening to it. They replaced my computer, but I got a laptop and a docking station, which is nice, because you know, now I actually have another laptop, I can take it with me.

So like, if I go on the road, I don't take my MacBook with me, because you know, it's like renting a car. Why would you drive your personal vehicle when you could just get the car, the rental car for free because it works paying for it. So I'm happy to have that now. My Mac is kind of like, I only use it in case of emergency. I break the glass and reach in and it's good stuff. But OK, five minutes in. Let's get to what we came here to do tonight

so that when you get to the ads and then JP and get some more wine. We're talking about the NBA draft and I mentioned JP is our resident NBA expert. You couldn't have drug them away from the TV during the finals this year. I think what you missed a piano final for six interviews and a final and your dad's birthday. So when was that? I don't know. It's your dad. I wouldn't either at this point. Apparently long story short, JP Pindowsky loves basketball and he loves NBA from the slam dunks to LeBron James to, uh, see, not a lot of people know this, but I collect the floorboards from every single stadium.

And the more I can get my hands on them, the better. If you know a guy, let me know first. It's like, uh, what are you, a carpenter in your spare time? You know, Jesus and I are, you I are very related in that sort of way. That's true. Or you could do what is that, the Telltale Heart with Poe where the, a spoiler alert, there's stuff going on underneath the floorboards.

I think that's the Telltale Heart, but I haven't, I haven't read Poe in a while. I'm pretty sure it's that. It's either that or premature burial. Hmm. I'm not a Jesus story, I'll be soon. I miss that one. JP, you want to talk about getting so many brothers real quick?

Oh, they get so many brothers. So for all of you who don't know, the so many brothers are just the sort of urban demon that shows up. I think it's only needed to Chicago, but you need to be very careful. They show up in the stilier girl straight from your dreams and you'll wake up and she'll be gone just like that. And what does she say to kind of give you an ultimatum? So what happened was, and this is before she left,

was in the dream she went, you can either dump me or deal with it. And that's just the calling card for the good so many brothers, which I'm pretty sure are Judas and Jesus. So be careful of those two. Yeah, watch they'll kiss you on the cheek, but not the cheek you're thinking. The yikes.

All right, as promised, we're digging in. I thought that was Michael Chickles on TV, but it's, it's just a lookalike. We're watching the draft, by the way. So that's pretty impressive, right? We're digesting this information in real time, chewing it up, spinning it back out to you, the listeners, the dedicated fan base. Before we get to this number one pick

because this is related, big trade news, what, like a week ago or something, Anthony Davis of the New Orleans Pelicans traded to the Los Angeles Lakers to play with Leigh Braun James, JPP, your thoughts on that. You know, I don't really know if that's a good idea. Anthony Davis, one of the best centers in the game, that eyebrow game really brought a lot of people to the New Orleans games.

And I'm really thinking that the Pelicans are losing a lot on their advertising front at this point. I don't know what they're thinking. I think bring that game to LA, only splits their base. You're going to have a lot of New Orleans Pelicans fans going all the way to LA to catch those unibrow games. So I don't know what to deal with that is, but that just might take Quinn. I thought I had a bad commute.

New Orleans to LA. That's a rough one. You ever been to New Orleans? You know, no. Me neither. I was going to ask you the best places for a jumble eye there, but I don't feel like either of us are really qualified to discuss it. I would say probably near the south side, but I couldn't really tell you why either.

I thought the south side in New Orleans was the ocean. I mean, if you go way south, you get really close to the Gulf, but maybe not the ocean. What about those bodies, right? They're buried above ground in Louisiana. Is that correct? Oh, the ones in the swamp. Those ones, I mean, you probably have a really nice way of pickling stuff in that. Pickling. Yeah. Pickled bodies are like the new thing. Pickled bodies. Instead of in cremation, you can do that instead.

I would say that's from the Dracula sequel pickled bodies That kind of sounds like a young adult like vampire book though pickled bodies Kind of edgy. Who do you think is that a Stephanie Meyer of Veronica Veronica Roth sort of thing? Oh, what did Veronica Roth write? She made the the divergent series. So we're looking at we're looking at vampire love or vampire love in a dystopian way Mm-hmm. I know it's all good to me, man Maybe we get JK rowing on that, too Well, she's always throwing in those you know 20 years later this character was by and Dumbledore was trans and hey a Dumbledore was gay and trans is that not enough for people? I can you be gay and trans? I mean I would assume so

Intersections or intersections I I would guess. Well, we'll get our social justice advocate on next week to talk about it. But let's, we're 10 minutes in here and we haven't even got to pick number one. So everyone knew this was going to happen, but it happened regardless. Number one, pick the New Orleans, on the topic of New Orleans, New Orleans,

Republicans take Zion Williamson. And JP, if you want you to break him down for us, you know, where he went to school, his height, his weight, his mother's maiden name, his sexual orientation, just give us the low down, whatever you think the listeners need to know. Oh, I mean, Zion Williamson, there's so many things you need to know about this player.

He's so charismatic. He's got so many things about him that make him just, you know, a real player that heads your entire, your entire team. Zion Williamson, he's about, you know, I would say seven foot four 500 pounds. And he's basically a fucking train, you know, he runs down. He's got those shoes that blow up. The thing about those shoes is that the explosion gives him extra hop. And I think if you're not ready for it, I'll jump straight over your head. Maybe sometimes he goes right through the hoop, you know, breaks the rim off. It's bad. But it looks really good for the polygons in most ways. And I think the polygons are

going to need that, especially as we talked about before with the departure of Anthony Davis, the departure of that brow, they're going to need something to draw a crowd in and take them back away from that LA commute. That's true. Would you say he's a physical specimen? I would say he's very physical, a specimen, maybe, and maybe not. Specimen. I think a special one man, but I don't want to assume what type of person he could or could be.

I think that's for him to decide on the pelicans next year when they go through more contractual things, they go through that. That little known fact about most NBA contracts is your second year. If you don't specify what type of sexuality or gender you align with, they cut you basically. A lot of guys in the D-league just don't know how to set preferences. Now, I should mention that the G-league is now the developmental league, but the D-league means something different, and you can Google it, but not at work, so just be careful there.

Speaking of the D-league, though, what would you say about his ball handling ability? Or ball-sandling ability? I think the handle's ball's pretty ability? I think he handles balls pretty well. I think he goes through it. He knows how to like put it in both hands, but also he's very, very fond of his right hand for ball fondling. I mean, handling and I you'll see it in game. People given the ball is going to always going to drive to his right.

Maybe you know, sit there for a second, feel it out. And then maybe you know, stroke a three every once in a while. But, you know, you can't be too sure about those things. Fondle and stroke. That's the new name of his game. I like your analysis. Let's keep it going to the number two pick Memphis Grizzlies. And I don't know how to say this.

It's it's J A is his first name, which I don't think is English. Yeah, really. It's most maybe J. A is his first name, which I don't think is English. Yeah, really. And most of the languages. Maybe Filipino or something, but Ja or J or Ja, let's call him J. Marant from Murray State. Give us give us a little college profile on Murray State. Well, I mean, first, Quinn, I think before we get to that on the on the topic of discussing his name, it really depends on where you're watching the draft from.

If you're watching it from Mexico, it's going to be hot or if it's going to be if you're from Germany, it's going to be hot, marrant. It's going to be totally different wherever you go. In the Philippines, we totally take the J out. It's an entirely different letter. We're going to say something like, look at that. You know, and it's I think just take my advice on that one because I want to be socially acceptable to everyone to listen to this podcast now Morris state is what you said right Murray state Murray state Morris state, you know Pretty much the same thing if you think about it. Yeah, two two ours in the middle two ours in the middle for both of those It's the same thing Murray state really well known for its photography division really really good on its journalism as well

Maybe a little bit less than its photography, but if you want to go develop some film, you got to go to Murray State. And that's what YAH, going from the German, really majored in was trying to get in his photography game. And if you check out his Instagram, I can assure you he's got some very, very fine photos. All right. You heard it here first.

Everyone go to YAH Morant's Instagram page to check out his photographic abilities. If you had to describe his three point shooting ability in seven words, what would you say? I mean, if I were to do that, it would have to be some sort of high coup. And I would think that maybe that's not seven words, but to me it works. I would have to say long shot, always the, and then the next line would be best shot for the three would be. And then it's another line, Yam Mourant the best. So I wasn't keeping track, but maybe you were home.

I think that was seven words. That was real good. I like to go for some sort of high coup form, you know, 575. If you were to give me a real seven, I would say probably Yammer Ants is your only three point is with the dash shooter. You're gonna want to subordinate cast though to spread the floor out wouldn't you? I don't think so. I think with his eye with photography he's gonna know exactly where to be on every court where to take those shots. He might take it from right right

before the half the half court shot part. Let him have that. Because he knows exactly where all the weak spots on the floor. And take it from me, somebody who's an expert on NBA flooring, he's going to figure that out as well. That's true. You do know the floors. Hey, what type of oil or product do you use to give that wood floor a nice sheen? So it's a similar cousin to what you'd put on a bowling ball

floor, TA 175 oil. You know, a lot of people think it's an animal oil, it's actually a synthetic oil that they place on top, gives a little bit of slide, but not too much. Imagine playing tennis on the clay just like that, but on a basketball court. Wow, I really like that. That's really good JP. Let's do one more pick and then we'll read some ads here. Number, oh, so the New York Knicks, number three pick, everyone's always you know talking about who's going to be the star in New York Madison Square Garden. If you ask me, it's always a little overblown, but last guy we had had a two letter first name. This guy has a two letter first name, RJ Barrett.

What do you think that RJ stands for? Definitely stands for Ronald Jones Barrett. Ronald Jones Barrett. I like that. Why don't they call him Ronnie? I mean, it's disrespectful, you know. What about Jones? Ronald is his first name.

Why not Ronald Jonesy? Barrett Jonesy. Yeah, that'd be a lot for a commentator to try to spit out. Yeah, but that's what we're here for RJ Barrett he went to Duke which that's our this is already our second player of the draft taken from Duke Isai and Williamson number one overall also from Duke JP. Who are your favorite dukes throughout history? My favorite dukes throughout history, it's gotta be, this is such a hard question. And, comment,

says somebody who's very familiar with the history of Duke and Duke basketball, I gotta say, coach Ashashkis, my favorite duke, how do you spell that? It's, SH, E, H know, SHE, H-E-V-S-K-E-Y. That's right.

Yeah. Shashsky is one of the best, I would say. You know, Zion Williamson comes at a close second, 500 pounds, 75. You're not gonna beat that. You know, big guy, explosive shoes, explosive hops, everything about that. And little none other Duke basketball player George W. Bush Coming in number three. It a really short career

But that's because he had torn his meniscus in his second year And I'm playing at that point. Yeah My favorite Duke is probably Sir Duke By Stevie Wonder Let's see here You can feel it all over. You can feel it all over people. You can feel it all over. I can feel it all over. All over now people. How does it make you feel? You know, a little longing for something more, a little nostalgic for times past. Like parties and the basement of a certain someone's house. You know, just even just sitting on a bench in a park watching a basketball game happen.

You can just feel it all over the atmosphere and sort of precipitation in the air or perspiration I might say. Oh man. That's real good. All right, we're going to get to some ads here. You need a JP a chance to catch his breath. Refresh some bullets. Whoa. Y'all right? All right. You know, those ceiling fans got some little due dads hangling down from the shim shammer and you never know what's going to happen, especially for tall boys like us. Let's get to the ads here for the week. Let's start with home pride organ. Are you tired of selling your house for less than a quarter of what it's worth all because you can't find a reliable home inspector in time. Well

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by Gimilo Harmony. Q. You kind of, I, it was a quarter tone. Yeah, a little bit. I really wanted to give it that sort of fokie intonation. It reminds me when we were in the part of the Voice Crack, when we were in concert choir, like, soffering your college, and I would get really bored.

And eventually, it was always the tenors were messing up. And... Let's say I'm tenors. I would start singing like tritones underneath. Not loud enough for anyone to notice hopefully. But like enough for us to just be like giggling in the back. Like, like, idiots. That was awesome. You spend enough time in concert choir rehearsing two times a week and.

Imagine imagine you know for one second you're in a choir a very serious collegiate choir and we're seeing something like you know a requiem like a death mass. It's Brahms Requiem and we're and everyone's feeling really serious and we have to sing this for some huge event and you have a cue over here Coming and singing and tritones below everyone It's edgy. You know who would elect that Michael Lewansky. Hey Ensemble down the ante What is that translate to

Ensemble out of nothing really apparently. Yeah, let's get back here We're we're gonna do a couple more picks. We're obviously not going through the entire draft because we don't have the improvisational prowess for that. But. And really, you have to pay more for that. Yeah, exactly.

You'd have to subscribe to Beentom Premium, which I didn't want to bring it up now, but look for that in the future. Well, that was kind of nice. Yeah. Welcome to the new intonation for the podcast. Q, what note is that? Hang on, I can figure it out. Said hang on, this is going to be the most boring part of the podcast ever. I can do this. This used to be automatic.

Shoot, I'm losing it. It's close to a C, but I don't know if it is. I'm like right around there as well. It's not exact. I think it's C actually. Hang on, we're gonna get a rules check. C tone. We're going to Google. Hang on we're gonna get a we're gonna get a rules check see Tone we're going to Google

Let's on the ref see Show me the money Yeah pretty close I think it's do we hit it hit it's... Wait, hit it. Hit it. Yeah, I'd say that's a C. Can we shout out to this video for doing a bunch of different Cs? It has 634 views if you're curious. And this sort of ominous narration that keeps saying C over and over again. sort of ominous narration that keeps saying C over and over again. Alright, wow. I'm proud of myself. Well, okay, so JP, maybe you can walk us through

your, but you're like method, but I'll talk you through mine real quick, because I don't have perfect pitch. But I, and it's really, it's not in good shape right now, but it's in good enough shape apparently for that. I always refer back to, this is really like super obscure, but the opening piano portion of Beethoven's third piano concerto, and C minor, did a Bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum. And that right there. Bum, bum, that's a C. What are you kind of using your...

Do you use something or are you good enough to where it's just like, hang on. Think about it, I can get this. I've got two little obscure things. My low note on when I sing is a C. And so if I think about how low my range goes and I think about the note in relation to that, I can kind of gauge where it would be. The other one, my reference

note is the beginning to Shakowski's fourth symphony. It's got a A flat in octaves. And it's just this sort of this trumpet call. It's really ominous as well. I'm always reminded of the rapture whenever I hear it. Do you know that symphony? I don't. Well, I've heard it before, but I can't bring it to... I mean, that's a pretty obscure chikofsky. Yeah, you know, it gets a little overshadowed by five and six. Hey wait, let me sing the opening for you. Go for it. Buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh- I don't think I've listened to one in a year at least, but you know what I think is underrated is his second piano concerto. It's not quite as grand or epic as the first one, but I don't know, especially that third movement. BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM,AM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM,AM, BAM, BAM,AM in musicianship, and we listened to like a, was it like a heightened symphony

to be like this is like horse riding music? Yes, that's right. Chikoski, piano, concert number two, third movement, that's good horse riding music. It's got a bit of a gallop to it. Gallop, it's a great word. Gallop pull, gallop on a horse, gallows pull. It's a lot of, we like words on the bean town podcast.

Let's get back, let's do a little bit more. Oh boy. Daytime boo. Can't go through that again. Let's do a couple more picks, then we'll wrap it up here. It's already half way, half an hour in. Number four, from UVA, what college is that? It's the University of Volvo Americana, I would say.

Volvo isn't that a female genitalia? You know, we go with the disambiguous. If you look up Volvo on Wikipedia and you took disambiguation, you get a different, more American colonial times reference to whatever that is. I think their team name is the fighting lesbians or the Likken lesbians. I think it was more of the flaming lesbians. Flaming lesbians, that's what I wanted. But that might have been before, you know, this last decade.

Before lesbians were invented. Deandre Hunter from Virginia. He's a P.F. What is that, what is that mean? Basketball P.F. I mean, it's the same thing with P.F. Changs. It's got to be, you know, just a pro foot baller. Pro foot baller. You ever go to P.F. Changs?

I've been there a few times. What's it, I don't think I've ever been there. It's a little depressing. Oh yeah. It's about as commercial as you can get with it It's like you're paying more money for Panda Express Mmm. That's tough. You ever you ever look at the nutrition facts and panic Express look at the sodium be like well I'm good for like three weeks now. I try not to could practically open up a sodium mine inside of my stomach Have you ever thought of it?

No, it sounds like an invasive procedure. But think about how much money you could make with that. I suppose. No, I'm giving you my glass to physically take for me. Thank you. I feel like you could use it. The wine is red, by the way. I'll have a little bit after, and then not much more,

because I still have to go to work tomorrow. Okay, that's about all I got from Deodre Hunter. Let's get through, let's get through three more so we can do the Bulls one. We'll finish with the hometown team. Darius Garland from Vanderbilt. How much do you know about Vanderbilt? Vanderbilt is an interesting one to me. I know I asked you just ask you a question, now I'm talking. But Vanderbilt, once you get in, so I worked in undergraduate

admissions for three years, and I realized once I got there, like, how big of a deal Vandy was, but I feel like growing up, I never knew anyone who, like, talked about or cared about Vandy, like, as an undergraduate institution. But it's like up there with the Northwesterns of the world, the dukes of the world, the Hopkins of the world in terms of like its academic prestige. So what was there any culture surrounding Vandy

growing up in the Western Burbs for you or what was that like? Vandy really referred to Vandercook for me. And I don't know if you're familiar with Vandercook. I'm not. It's like a small music institution in the Midwest. And so whenever I thought of vander built, I always just thought it was synonymous with a vander cook,

which I would assume is good for vander cook then. I suppose. If they're getting comparative, if they're getting synonymously referenced with vander built, that just like good for everyone then. Maybe not good for Vanderbilt. Well, Vandercook, what is that? Dutch.

I think maybe not Dutch, maybe like Swedish. Swedish? Yeah. Armenian, maybe. You watching the soccer game on Thursday between the US and Sweden? I only watched basketball. I have no idea what soccer is.

Fair enough. Darius, there was a King Darius in Persia. It wasn't there in the Bible. Oh, yes. It was with Daniel. Daniel. Yeah, the dreams. I bet they get so many brothers were there too. Oh, boy. That's like a New Testament Old Testament crossover. It's like Batman versus Superman. It's one of those things that the new covenant tried to fix but didn't get to. Jesus couldn't do it. I love a good covenant. Daniel and the lions then. Who threw them into the lions then? Was it Darius? It was, I think, Darius wrote the thing. You can't worship any God but me and that because his

His so he had Daniel right as some sort of guy to help him out and all the other guys who were like philosophers and these dream tellers were where jealous of Daniel and so they had the king put in He edict out It was like no praying to any other gods and then they set Daniel up and they're like you're fucked We're gonna throw you in the lion's den. Now, why did they have a lion's den? What do the lions do in there? Chill.

But like, do they always feed them human subjects? I mean, like, if you've got enough people, if you're making up laws on the fly to feed lions, it seems like you've got an administrative issue with trying to feed lions and not having like you've got an administrative issue with trying to feed lions and not having a good system for that. But I assume that that's how Babylon worked in that day was you've got a bunch of lions in a cave, you've got to feed them somehow. You just keep coming up with new edicts. People have to

break something if you have too many laws. How do you think they got the bones out of there? They just pile up. I, you don't think that Babylon was so efficient or so advanced, just have some sort of a grabber, you know, like what? Like, be a long grabber. Yeah, I suppose so. Maybe they got the one guy, they throw the guy in there, they have the guy toss all the bones out the other side. But that wouldn't that guy get the bones out when you can push those to the side

We have to have an engineer chime in maybe there was some sort of device grabber ask who who came first Darius or Xerxes That's a good question. I would say I think Xerxes came first. Well look. I don't I don't know I love Xerxes got two X's in it. How often do you see that unless you're Jamie Foxx? Do you know anyone with two X's in their names? Ooh, that isn't Jamie Foxx a couple porn stars, but otherwise no. Yeah fair enough. Yeah Xerxes the first A.K.A. Xerxes the great with the fifth king of Persia, like his predecessor, Darius

one. His dad was Darius. So when Darius was feeding Daniel Lienz, then little Zerksy is probably running on collecting bones. Okay. He was in their collecting bones. Well, he's trying to, you know, these, these royalty, you know, they always get like fake jobs, like how Prince William and Prince Harry are in the military, like they're actually in any danger. So they get these, you know, these jobs to project this image of like, I'm an everyday working man in Babylon, but no, you know, he's probably wearing like lion-proof chainmail or something. They have chainmail in Babylon, or is that more of a medieval thing? I think they are making some sort of, you know,

maybe not chains, but maybe some sort of leather bound mail. That's what's, these would have been as a leather bound mail, I think. Sounds like the D-league. Hashtag fear the D. We got two more picks here. Jarrett Culver from Texas Tech, JP what is your Culver's order?

I'm definitely getting a concrete. Ooh, gotta get one of the, what do you see? One of the doubles, burger for the butter burgers. Gotta get a double. And then you can't go wrong without, with getting some cheese curds. You always gotta get some cheese curds. I like to guess if it's the white

or the orange cheese curd, remember I have one? As a little whimsy to my life. Wimsy. Yeah. Keep it, keep it in it light, keep it in it whimsical. That's the only way to get through it. Drinking on a Thursday. Drinking on a Thursday.

You ever have any stomach issues after having cheese curds? I mean, plenty, really. Yeah, it's worth it though. Somebody who was previously lactose intolerant and isn't anymore, I used to get lots of issues with that sort of sacrifice. So how did you make the transition from lactose intolerant to, I'm good? It was a pretty arduous process, I would say. Something that I talked with my family about,

talked with my healthcare provider, see if we could do it. I had to really fix it at my finances. I had to go through a lot of loopholes, talk to a few lawyers about changing it. It's not for the weak stomach, if you don't mind my pun, but, you know, I think it was in general worth it.

I don't have to feel so much when I have those cheese curds, especially those orange ones. You know those commercials for Culver's, I had Craig Culver in it, who was like, yeah, yeah, basically a friend. Oh, really? You know, kinda. I see so many commercials.

I bet Ryan knows them. They're both from Wisconsin. You know, kinda. I see so many commercial. I bet Ryan knows them. They're both from Wisconsin. You know, I bet they probably both grew up in Lodi. Beyond the Cheddar curtain. Okay, we got one pick left here, and I'm not even gonna tell you his name. I'm just gonna show you a picture. And then I want you to just give me words,

you know, describing what you see. So this is number seven, and this is the last pick we're going through. Thank you for joining us on the bean tunnel. What's that? This is a bulls guy, isn't it? This is for the Chicago Bulls, our hometown team. And, you know, I actually got,

I went to my first ever Bulls game in like April and guess who they played. Who? NBA champion, Toronto Rampers. Really? Mm-hmm. I've NBA champion Toronto Rampers. Really? Probably got the Rases whoop. They did. Well, they were close until like,

they were like 10 minutes left in the first quarter and then the Rampers kind of started pull away. Sounds about right. But this guy's got his tie cut off. That's probably the last thing I noticed outside of his Jaden Smith-esque hair. His name is Jordan Poole and he played for Michigan. And he's got big hair.

But not as big as the man I'm about to show you drafted from North Carolina. Give me some words to tell me what you're looking at. Yeah. So dear listener, what I'm viewing right now, and if only you could be in the room to see this, is only a prime athlete of premium stature of the highest pedigree and of the highest caliber going to the Chicago Bulls, going to make a huge difference. He almost has a bit of a gold slining whenever you look at him in pictures.

Did you say sliming? It may be. We'll check the tape. But what we're looking at right now is just the prime candidate for all athleticism and all of humanity. The bulls are a very lucky, very lucky team to get this sort of candidate. And as you see, he's got a bit of a mane as well. I wouldn't be surprised to know that his first name is King something. King Darius. King Darius,

most likely, King Darius, Abserxes, coming from North Carolina, the head of the Carolinas, I'd like to say, coming from royalty. So the bulls with this sort of royal line up and this royal adage to their lineup, you know, I don't think there's anything. It will be a bit of a power struggle with this new king going up against King Lebron, King James, bit of an old English rivalry, I'd say. Probably a Spanish descent. We'd like to see what happens with this. Spanish descent.

His name, by the way, is relevant to cheese, but not cheese curdsds Colby cheese and that's the only time you'll ever hear that sentence is relevant to cheese. That's true. That's relevant to cheese. His name is Kobe White and he's your new point guard for all you Chicago listeners out there. The only point guard for a thousand years. How quickly we forget Derek Rose. Who? He was no king though. Not like this man. Not like this man carved from cheese. A honk of cheese I'd like to say.

Born from royalty. Oh boy. Well, there you have the first seven draft picks with some additional commentary of the 2019 NBA draft. Big shout out to our now official NBA draft correspondent, John Paul Pindowski, who researched this for days and weeks. And he's been following these guys ever since they, you know, came out of their middle school basketball teams. He's had his big board, you should see his apartment.

It looks like a serial killer. Lots of red tape. But JPP kind of wrapping up here. What do you think is in store for this next NBA season, 2019, 2020? What should we be on the lookout for? I think a lot of heartbreak. And I think a lot of broken casted down dreams.

I think this next year of basketball, and this next year of professional rendering of the basketball world will lead a lot of players to just shed many tears and have many broken dreams. It'll be a sad year for most, except for our king, king Colby. He'll be bequeathed with the sort of royalty and the sort of things that happen with kings, I would say.

But I would say in the next year, look out for the palacans. We're looking for them to make a huge comeback after losing Mr. Big Browse himself to King James in Los Angeles. Maybe they'll bring back some people with Zion, right? Zion. Priced up Zion Williamson, 500 pound brick wall,

human truck of a man coming in. You mentioned Colby, and I mentioned it in the first place but what kind of card do you think Colby collage drives? Do you think she has like a lot of money or just like a like a middle amount of money? I would say she's got about as much money as people guys from AHA making sure. Well I mean they probably make you know a lot every day just from radio play. I think they've made more over this you know over the 40 years day, just from radio play. That's true, that's true. I think they've made more over the, you know, over the 40 years, must have been on the radio. You know, I imagine Colby Collade must have some sort of,

what is that one English brand car? Mazda. Yeah. I think something like that. Mazda CX-70. That's a good model, I think. It's reliable. Just like, just like call me maybe.'s a good model I heard. I think that's reliable. Just like call me maybe.

You're having a bad day. You need a reliable song to go to. Call me maybe, I'll always pick you up. And that's not like cloppy collet, but it's similar. Yeah. I mean, it's about the same song, really. You remember that song? It starts in my nose and then it twinkles my toes wherever the feeling goes

I always know because you make me smile girl just for a while holding me tight wherever you go. I think it's called bubbly Yeah All right, well that was Being Tom podcast for Saturday June 22nd. Thanks everyone for tuning in really appreciate it Most of all, thank you so much to John Paul Pindowski, who literally on the fly agreed to do the podcast about three or four hours before we recorded and then learned about the subject matter about 15 to 20 minutes before we recorded and it's really lucky that you know I would have that you would have asked me to do this Having my expertise in mind It's a real treat agreed. I don't want to let this

Let this podcast and without giving you the opportunity to talk a little about a little project you've been working on A little podcast of your own. What's going on there? So I've got a podcast with one of my, one of my longtime friends, Aaron Portante called the actually nothing podcast. We, where we basically sit down, we take a few people who wanna, who give us a few suggestions

and we talk about whatever they have us talk about. And it's, we really try and make it a bit of a hang, like a hang cast. Like we want you to feel like you're a part of this hang while it's happening, you know, you're in the room with us experiencing all of these sort of weird things that are happening, these weird inside jokes. But that's just part of the whole process.

So imagine like we're all becoming friends over a long period of time, except you're actually not in the room with us and you're listening to us. But it's called the actually nothing podcast. Check it out. When you've got time, we're on Apple, we're on Spotify, we're on SoundCloud, wherever you listen to podcasts, you'll find us.

Maybe not on Stitcher Premium, but everywhere else. I like to say you can find the show wherever you can find it. And if you don't find it, then it's not there. And just don't bitch about it. Just look somewhere else. Amen. Amen to that. That's what we got for you for this week's installment.

Third time was a charm for John Balspandowski. Thanks for coming on. And to everyone out there, all the beeners out there. Thanks for sticking with us this summer. We're doing great, having a good time in the thick of year 2 here. And don't forget to check out your favorite teams NBA draft selections. And yeah, have a great week. Be kind to one another. And don't forget to check out the actually nothing podcast wherever you find your podcast.

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