Club Shay Shay - Club 520 - Jeff Teague REACTS to Bryce James to Arizona + CRAZY James Harden story, NBA predictions

Episode Date: January 2, 2025

We’re back with Season 3, Episode 21 of Club 520, where Jeff Teague and the guys react to LeBron James’ son Bryce James committing to the University of Arizona. Jeff tells a CRAZY story about James Harden stealing his MVP award from a college tournament years ago, and recalls Nate Robinson GOING OFF against his Atlanta Hawks on New Year’s Day. The guys also reveal their NBA regular season award predictions. #Volume #ClubSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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So if you want to be smart with your wallet, your career choices, and at dinner parties, listen to Big Technology Podcast on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. The Volume. All right, man, we back. Happy New Year. Another wonderful episode of Club 520 Podcast. I'm the host. My name is DJ Wells.

New Year same gang with me to my left. I got my dog, Bishop B. Hein out the pearlies. How you was, Nasty? Cool and nasty was happening. Happy New Year, God damn it. For sure, man. I was cracking up because everybody loved your Merry Christmas horse. And the real, that shit was funny as hell. Yeah, for sure.

Shout out to all the supporters, the real ones. For sure, to my right, I got my dog, young Nacho, young T, got you what? Yeah, we about to have fun today. I didn't have enough slender this week. I'm ready to fucking clown. I'm ready to turn this moth up. Oh Lord Jesus.

And I ain't gonna lie, listen, I don't do no handyman. Everybody know me, I don't do no handyman shit. I barely know how to wash clothes. So check this shit out. Damn. I got some bleach on my face before I get here, but I ain't feel like taking them off, so. Don't worry about it.

Tata T. That's a helping dick ass. Don't do that, cuz. Hold on, let me see. It ain't rainbow. Okay, Tata. Just. It can be.

That's a new flag? That's the OG. Oh, that was the hippie. Tie that up with hippies, right? That's the OG. You know how mushrooms all that with the red one. Yeah, that's the semi-socic, for sure. Yeah, that.

All right, you got the heaters on today, though. OG Fobbs. Ah, man, some Fobbs. Yeah, I don't know why I put these on. I swear they was bada-doh. I ain't make that up. They bada-doh, for sure. Y'all should see my closet I put these on. I swear they was bada-doh. I ain't make that up. They bada-doh for sure. Y'all should see my closet now.

It's a whole bunch of shit bada-doh. I'm about to have a nice little run for 2025. Okay. We gonna go crazy. I know Jordan bringing out that heat this year, so we gonna go crazy. All right, this year, listen, you are going to be able to get some of your favorite shoes

on sale, but it is at least four to five shoes every single month that come out this year at Denver. I mean, every month this year in Denver, all of them are heat. And I'm gonna get all of them. Yeah, like February, I'm gonna lock it. Like it's so much shit coming out in February. The Galaxy Phones coming back out, gotta have them.

I did not get to get them. I ain't gonna get them. You got them now. I already got them. I ain't gonna get them. Yeah, shout out to everybody who was risking their life for greenwood ball from them shoes for all 13 periods that they had.

There's only available for four people to get. Damn. Yeah, me and Freaky Michael, we was full locker employees at the time, man. But they was not fucking with us. I tried to get them flight ones. They said no, they wouldn't even know. Discount, Hojas, they, no.

Damn. That was before I met them. The Galates? Galates, bro, that whole pack, them, the flight ones, the Chugway, that was a crazy pack, bro. The KDs. The KDs was crazy. Kobe's was crazy. There was Big crazy pack, bro. The KDs. The KDs was crazy. Kobe's was crazy.

There was Big Bang Browns too, right? Yep. Yeah. Orange joints, right? Yeah, that was a, that's probably one of the best Nike basketball packs. Benin, is that it? Yeah.

Benin. That's good. For sure. For sure, man. New year, same us. I wanted to ask y'all, do y'all do any of the quarter culture traditions for New Year's?

I know like black people, we always had like the black eyed peas, the cabbage, the cornbread. Do y'all fuck with that? What black eyed peas mean? It's supposed to be quote unquote like a prosperity. You know what it mean? I mean, y'all niggas said black eyed peas. I'm saying like, what you supposed to do?

Yes, my wife is Spanish. We don't, we do something different. Yeah, no, we drink Karachi. Karachi? What's it called? What's it called? What's it called? Horchata? Horchata.

Horchata. They drink Karachi. I said damn, that's where everybody get gifted. A bunch of Horchata. A bunch of her chaps. Hey you shoes. They say the All Black Karachis is a damn inch of cluster to all black forces.

How you feel about that? The love? Yeah. The sleep. Sleep. The All Black Love Karachi is terrible. Horrible love, yeah. The sleep, the sleep. The all black low Harachis, terrible. Horrible shoe.

That's a horrible, horrible shoe. I hate low Harachis. Even the all white ones. Low Harachis are ass. Nah, some of them used to be cool. Nah, some of them, the colorways used to be cool. They got bastardized in the last couple years. Like the original colorways, it was cool,

but once they started doing the all red, the all blue, it's shit. I like mid Harachis and I mess with the high top original Harachis, but that's it. The low red, that was a thotty sneaker. The all red low. All girls had those. Yeah, shouts out to bitches.

That was good. That's a telltale sign when your shoes about to get slaughtered out. When they start doing the all solid colors and they drop that all red joint. Yeah, those are not the red octopuses. We get them. Air Max 90s.

Hate them. You do hate Air Max 90s. Infrared 90s is still going into me. I fuck with them. Hate them. That's a staple of a high school girl. For sure. The all white 90s.

In 2006, 2007. Them low key busts though. Nah, bro. Air Max 90s, it's some solid colors for sure. Yeah, back then them busts, bro. Respect. But the all black ones was crazy. Hey, y'all ever been in a pressure moment, Pulse?

Like where pressure is. When I can't pull out fast enough. All right, respect. We all had them occasions. So my nephew, shout out to my uncle, he part of the team now. He had his first photo shoot. A freaky Mike photo shoot.

So he had cupcakes on the butt. Oh, okay, he didn't know. So what? Not at all. So he was taking pictures and my man was in a full sweat talking about back, shirt, pits, everything in a full sweat and the air condition was on. My boy was nervous.

My boy was so nervous. He said, when the lady wanted to see the photos of herself, he had to stand from a distance. He was like, I know I ain't stink, but just in case. What was the issue, man? Now we gotta see the proofs of who it was. Why'd it been so personal on the internet, Lynn? Yeah, who was Shorty?

What's her name? Oh. That's a black one. Nah, we were shouting his first. He was a little bob. Oh, okay. What's the matter? I was a Michael, you know what I mean?

I just wanted to show the girl some love so she could post on her page, shop him out. Yeah. You put Michael on the Hittie X website now? One boy was so nervous. This is how I know he was nervous, he called me. I was so nervous. I said, damn.

He said Mike was in there laughing the whole time. I said, yeah, Mike used to that. He used to, he put the whipped cream on. Yeah. It was really bad though,, he put the whipped cream on. Yeah. It was really bad though, because he had on a black shirt. And like when he said, I was like, damn bro, you can like see that. I fucked him to the sweat.

He had a shot y'all love. My boy lost his virginity in the photo shoot game. You know what I mean? Shouts about, but he do lots of field games. It's crazy this year. Yeah, it was dope though. I was hyped for it, but it's still funny as hell. Yeah man. He's going crazy this year. Yeah, it's dope. I was hyped for it, but it's still funny as hell. Yeah, we gonna put his ad, you know what I mean,

in the YouTube video, so y'all can book with my boy all over the country. For sure, Tep in with Nephew going crazy this year. You popped up again, bro. And this day in 2010, New Year's Day, the Hawks played the Knicks, and man, one of the craziest off the bench performances ever, Nate Robinson.

Oh my God. They brought that up, they were just like, Jeff Teague is a part of everything. I don't know if you remember what happened with that game. Yeah, I do remember. That's the game, what'd he have? Had 41 off the bench. Yeah, he didn't play for like a month or something.

And I watched him work out before the game. He was running the stadium. You know, I was a rookie and they was like, it was my rookie year. And they was just like, you know, watch this guy train. He was training with Kenny Atkinson, which became our coach like a year later or whatever. But he was training with him and I was just watching him.

He put in all this work, he going hard and people just telling me to watch him. Like, man, that's how you gotta work out. That's how you got to prepare yourself when you don't play. Yeah He don't play the first quarter he ended up subbing in he goes crazy he come in the second quarter He missed like his first couple shots. Everybody cheered when he come in because he ain't played in a month There's a bunch of new york fans in the stands He come in he end up start going crazy I always sub in randomly

Woody sub me in like, come on, stop him, what? He got like 14 or some shit, he going crazy. He hit me with a snatch back, pull up jumper, hit, I come back out. The rest of the game, he having this magical moment. I just remember we get to the third quarter, might have been third or fourth quarter,

I can't remember, but we was going, they was going towards our basket. I mean, our bench, he hit Marvin Williams with an in and out, blowed her, and one, he threw it up like that, and one, and he ran in the crowd. It was the hardest shit I ever seen, because all the fans ran to him while he was in the stands,

and he was like, ah! And I stood up on the bench like, I was like, oh shit. Cause I was so, I was so horny. I was like, that's horny. Celebrating on the opposing team is crazy. Cause it was like, Rucker Park, bro. It was like, he was killing so bad. And he was, I ain't never seen him before.

He was five too. I was like, yeah, this nigga is cold. That was one of the best performance, probably the best performance I ever seen when I was in the NBA, bro. Damnas cold. That was one of the best performance, probably the best performance I ever seen when I was in NBA, bro. Damn. Yeah, for him to come off the bench, like you said, I played it first and get 40 was crazy. I just laugh at all the highlight clips. But Mike B, he was out there getting good. He

was getting he was trying but he was trying everybody. Whoever was on him. He was just on that. So then the next game, I just remember he had a terrible game, but he killed us. And then I was, you know how you like, damn, he about to be back in this shit and he ain't play that good the next game. But that night he was, he like, I was like, damn, Nate Robinson is cold. Like I ain't gonna lie.

He was one of the niggas I did not want to guard. Like any nigga that was under like five, 10, I ain't like guard now. Those are the Earl of Wincans in the league, which is- Yeah, I like Earl of Wincans up though. Yeah, because the Earl is a little bad. He probably didn'tins in the league with you? Yeah, I like Earl Winkins up though. Yeah, because Earl's a little bad. He probably ain't one to smoke, but you said, that's that football shit too,

because you know, they play football. That's a different type of energy, bro. He didn't get tired, but he was cold. He could make every shot. He just put on a show that night. And then every time I ever seen him after that, he put on shows. Every time we played him, it was a show.

I was like, Nate Robinson, we was at the Bulls, he put on a show. Killin' like, yeah this nigga's really good at basketball. Like. Yeah. And he always had that shit on too. Nate Robinson always hooped this shit.

He too, he made it crazy. He was fresh as fuck every time he hooped. Yeah, the Kryptonite joints, he had a dunk contest, like I remember them going crazy. Yeah, Nate Robinson, real bucket man. Yeah, he did. Showed my balance too.

Damn, I forgot about the dunk contest, Nate Rob. Come on, bro. Nah, I don't really do. That performance was crazy. Matter of fact, man, I forgot about them contests, Nate Rob. Come on, bro. I really did. That performance was crazy. Matter of fact, man, I need to go watch it on YouTube because that shit was a, that was a moment. Nah, for sure, man. Shout out to Nate Robinson, man.

You watching it on YouTube right now? I pulled it up. It just didn't look like you locked Earl Boykins up when you Googled it. Nigga, go look. When he shot that shot, nigga, I blocked it. Earl Boykins blew past it. No, mama, when he shot that shot, I blocked it to him, you know? When he shot that shot, nigga, I blocked it. Earl Boynka's blue pasties. No, my mama, when he shot that shot, I blocked it.

That's he behind him, Mike. It is. Respect. Watch, he gonna pull up for a jumper, I blocked it. You can go do this. This is dope, Hector. He said, now I get the footage. That's the real, that's the easy part.

When he shot a jumper, because everybody kept telling me before the game, you gonna, they was like, you gonna get a chance to play, you gonna play against Earl, he fast as hell. So I'm like kind of nervous. And I started going, I'm like, this nigga ain't fast to play, you gonna play against Earl, he fast as hell. So I'm like kinda nervous. And I started going, I'm like, this nigga ain't fast. I'm just as fast as this nigga. I'm bigger than him, I'm stronger than him.

And like he bench pressed 315, that little. I'm like, man, this nigga, and I'm not gonna say he was weak, but he wasn't good to me. Like, they like, he cold. I'm like, this nigga is not cold. Like he can't do nothing. Girl, boy, he used to get bucked up.

He did, but like. So he that little on the league, bro, he used to eat. He was, he's not cold. Like he can't do nothing. Girl, boy, he used to get bucked up. He did, but like. So, he got a little on that leg, bro, he used to eat. He was, he's cold. Like I'm not hating, but the way they was talking about it, and I'm like, I'm faster than him, I'm stronger than him. They just had you fucked up. Yeah, like nigga, y'all were just too slow. Like I'm faster than him.

Yeah. And y'all, yeah, and I'm young, I'm athletic. I could guard him, like, and granted, he was older at this time, but niggas was still scared of him. Like that little nigga fast, man, he be doing, I'm like this nigga ain't, nah, this ain't the same nigga. Y'all talking about this nigga sweet. For sure, that time period, that was the backup

OG point guard era, boy, you had him, Andre Miller, Speedy Claxton, Andre Miller cold. Andre Miller cold. That's a different subject. Cold. Bobby Jackson too. Bobby Jackson? I ain't play with Bobby Jackson. Yeah, you, we was too young,

but Bobby Jackson was another cold man. Yeah, but like Andre Miller, now he was cold. Now I ain't gonna never say I did kill Tim. I still love the story. They talk about Andre Miller would pull up in the summertime. He's like, he pull up with his five and he would play with his five.

And they'd run at him all day. He like six four. And he like two third, 225. That's why I made my size, I know he's tired. He post you up and shit. He bump you the whole time. The nigga tie his shoestrings around his ankles. He look dirt, like he look like an old school

dirty hoopin' nigga. Like not like he stink or something, but I'm just saying like he just didn't give a fuck. Like, OG, like, yeah, I come to the park. And you- I hear shit straightens around your ankle. It's crazy. I swear to God, bro.

Yeah, bro. He used to have a band on his shit. He was reminiscing. Yeah, no way. But now he real life, he a gangster though. Not gonna say that, he was about that life. Nah, he a real, I ain't trying to put him out there cause I think he coaching shit now.

Nah, shout out to A.M. we fuck one. Nah, he was real. I ain't trying to put him out there because I think he coaching shit now. But look. Nah, shout out to A.M. We fucked 100 years ago. Nah, he was real life. He real life from around. He was tying your shoestrings around your ankles. You was every type of nigga. Bros cutting your circulation off, bro.

Bro. So he was reminiscing. He had a band. No. Shout out to Andre. That's just your past. He went to Utah, right? My neighbor played with him in Utah

on the team that did really well in the tournament. They went to the championship. Yeah, they went to that championship and he was talking about how great he was then. Cause I remember the whole Derrick Ross situation, everybody's making fun of him. I'm like, no, Andre Miller been cold for a very long time. Don't let a highlight get it fucked up.

Andre Miller was cold. He was hard. He was nice. Also, he's probably one of the nicest guards I've ever seen play, bro, for real. And he can pass so good, he was cold. Bro, to play in a league that long, especially like you said,

it wasn't like he was a super phenomenal athlete. He just was way ahead of the game, IQ, he just knew how to play basketball. The first NBA game I ever went to, right, it was the Bobcats. I never went to Pacers games when I was little. I didn't watch the NBA when I was little. You know, we watched college. First NBA game I ever went to, it was the I was little. I didn't watch the NBA when I was little. We watched college.

First NBA game I went to, it was the Bobcats when I was in college. And it was when Lou Will was on Philly with Andre. DJ Augustine might've been a rookie. And we went and Andre Miller was killing. That's the first time I ever seen him. But he kept throwing these blind passes to people. He was just firing, people wasn't looking,

they were laying right in their hand. Some of the big big man, like Thad Young was on that team, I think he hit Thad almost in the head one time, like he just fired it to him. And like, I was just like, damn, this nigga, he was making the game look easy, he was like killing him, but he was like the first NBA game I went to, and that's when I remember. The fuckin' Charlotte Bobcats.

Yeah, that was the Bobcats. That was the first game you went to? Yup, Charlotte Bobcats. Bob first, spot on sugar, he damn much sweat to death, and then your first NBA game was the Bobcats. Yeah, that was the first game you went to. Yeah, Charlotte Bobcats versus Philly. Bob first, spot on shoot, he damn much sweat to death and then your first NBA game was the Bobcats. Bobcats versus Philly. That was a G League game for sure.

Well, you remember your first who game you went to? Probably AI and the playoffs versus Pacers. Damn, yeah, you went to, damn. Yeah, that was my first one. My middle school took us. Damn. So shout out to Short Ridge damn. Yeah, that was my first one. My middle school took us. Damn. To shout out to Short Ridge. You know, I come from the trenches.

We was able to take, go see AI Hoop, you feel me? Shout out to AI, he signed a nigga headband and shit. Not as hard. Damn, that's fire. Yeah. See, you got your first autograph from AI, me too. Boy, my first autograph was Bibi. No, actually my first autograph was Patrick Ewan.

Ha ha ha ha. How did that happen? This is the first stretch for me. I got that because I think John Starks was on the hoes back then, so he gotta- Show love. Gotta walk back. Tell them off. So Pat You and all, I don't think Pat You

had no bitches, so he has harm for me. That's crazy. In my team. You know, nevermind, I'm not gonna say that because I love the OGs. So that was John St crazy. I'm about to eat you, man. Nevermind, I'm not gonna say that because I love the OGs. Shout out to John Strucks, I'll fuck with you though. They was busy, bro.

John Strucks' number was lit, you know what I mean? Nah, the Knicks was lit. They always been lit. Nah, for sure, bro. And even now, it's dope to see. Oh, hey, Allen Huesa. Shout out to my nigga, Allen Huesa. You signed my shirt.

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Ali Husser would kill today. Yeah, he would have thrived. That's crazy. Man, that's crazy you remember that. I was like, damn, that was the first day of the year too. I was going to ask, like, Hooping on Holiday, he didn't say Christmas, but Hooping on New Year's Day, boy, I know boys was turnt. That night, bro, I was like, I'm going to ask him, like, what's the deal? I was like, I'm going to ask him, like, what's the deal? I was like, I'm going That's crazy. Man, that's crazy you remember that. I was like damn, that was the first day of the year too. I was gonna ask like, hooping on holiday, he didn't say Christmas, but hooping on New Year's Day,

boy I know boys was turnt that night before that New Year's Eve. I know you all got some bits. Yeah, we had one now. I had probably went to Lucky Lounge with Bibi and them doze and we probably had a good time. They probably was drinking good and having a good, you know. He was in Atlanta too?

I was in Atlanta. Yeah, it was a home game. Yeah, it was definitely a home game. I remember I had no insoles in that game. You didn't think he was gonna get in the game? I didn't think I was gonna Atlanta too. Oh, that was in Atlanta. Yeah, it was a home game. It was definitely a home game. I remember I ain't had no insoles in that game. You didn't think you was gonna get it again? I didn't think I was gonna get it, and he subbed me in, I ain't had no insoles. Why did you take them out?

Cause like, they give you orthotics, right? So, I grew up, in college I had a special orthotic, cause I got fucked up feet. And I took all the insoles out of my shoes, but I didn't think I was going to play, so I didn't put my orthotic in. I just hopped in some shoes, and they was like some fresh ass Jordans.

I think I had on some fives. And I just had them in. I was sitting there, he called my name, and he hit me with that move, scored on me. My feet was burning. So you know how you think, I go to the back, I put my insoles in, like I come back out, think I'm like, oh, if he called me again,

like I'ma lock that nigga up. I never got called again. So do you wear the orthos now? Oh yeah, yeah. Now I gotta have like a plate in the bottom of mine. So it was like a hard steel toe. You know when you got turf toe, you ever heard turf toe? Have anybody ever heard turf toe?

They give you this plate. It's like a steel plate. That bunion go, he gonna hold that bunion to get you forever. Yeah. Just like a steel plate. That bunion go, he gonna hold that bunion to get you forever. Yeah. Just break it. Yeah, it's like a steel plate. Like when my bounce started leaving,

is when I started wearing this steel plate cause I had a, I got a cyst on my foot. Damn. And I had to like protect my foot. Like, so that's why I stopped dunking. So I'm everybody like, why you stop jumping like that? Cause nigga, I'm hurt. Boy got different shoes.

Hopefully they don't gotta cut that motherfucker off. Nah, nigga ain't say I had diabetes motherfucker. See, y'all always trying to put nigga in'm hurt. Well you got different shoes. Hopefully they don't got to cut that motherfucker off. No, nigga ain't say that diabetes motherfucker. She's always trying to put a nigga in the army. That motherfucker got a candy cane for it. Candy cane is crazy. See? Candy cane is insane. Yeah Kool-Aid for that. Out of pocket.

Nah, but that's why I stopped dunking though. For sure, that makes sense. That's crazy, your highlights randomly just go viral like every couple days now. They was just like, I'm just gonna go with the flow. I'm just gonna go with the flow. I'm just gonna go with the flow. I'm just gonna go with the flow. I'm just gonna go with the flow.

I'm just gonna go with the flow. I'm just gonna go with the flow. I'm just gonna go with the flow. I'm just gonna go with the flow. I'm just gonna go with the flow. I'm just gonna go with the flow. I'm just gonna go with the flow. I'm just gonna go with the flow. I'm just gonna go with the flow. I'm just gonna go with the flow. Out of pocket. Nah, but that's why I stopped dunking though. For sure, that makes sense. It's crazy, your highlights randomly just go viral like every couple days now. They was just like, it's fucked up today. The highlight always start out with him crossing his brother.

I was just like, bro, it's just not happening sometimes. I put that nigga on his ass, pause. Yeah. And they can't go over me. And they can't go over me still. I hate you doing my nigga like that. I just want to say a shout out to my little brother. Welcome to the new morning show. I hope you've been nigga like that. I'm about to shout out to my little brother. Welcome to the new morning show. I hope you've been doing your college study.

Cause my fuck was on my, hey man, fuck y'all too. About a hundred people texted me or DM me like, Russell Westbrook started last night. You don't pay attention to the games, only be here and do. I said, bitch, okay. Respect. See, but you know what? I'm gonna keep it real. You know, I played my role in the show, how I said, bitch, okay. Respect. See, but you know what? I'm gonna keep it real.

I, you know, I play my role in this show, I'm supposed to, but I, you know, my shit get underrated a little bit. I let y'all do y'all thing, bro, but I be telling niggas like, I'm the real guru of this bitch. They like, Eric Gore was out with an injury and Russell Edwards was starring,

and you talking about Russell come off the bench with a triple kill. If it was a Rose verse, he'd embarrass me. See, you don't even fucking watch the game. Barbershop talking ass thing. I let my nigga cook. I ain't gonna lie, I didn't give a fuck. Cause I didn't watch the fucking Nuggets.

Who was the Nuggets playing that game? I can't remember. It was a shitty game. Yeah it was. We trying to get DJ and Jeff man on ESPN. How? Oh well. We're trying to 26.

I won't be in on there. But you know what bitches? I started watching the game. Let's get my nigga on CBS or something. We gotta start him off. I started watching all the games. I watched the football games today too. So I'm gonna talk shit tomorrow.

TNT somebody champion with my guys. Now we're going to Zeus. That ain't my line but. We taking sports to Zeus baby. champion with my guys. Nah, we going to Zeus. That ain't my line, but. We taking sports to Zeus, baby. Champion with my guys. Zeus, tap in, we will start a show on your shit. It's gonna be us and Jocelyn Hernandez. Yeah.

Stevie. I ain't gonna be on that show. Nah, no, yes you are. Nah, I'm too uncut for TV. Oh, have you seen Zeus? Stevie. Oh boy, Zeus is the boy. Hey, you ever seen Zeus in a,

hold on for real though. Oh, you would be platinum on Zeus. Did you see the nigga that got the dental thing on Zeus? Yes, bro. Bro, I ain't gonna lie, bro. He called the- The what? He like took a nigga that had no teeth, bro.

He got the nigga looking like shit straighter than a fucking ruler. Shit crazy. I ain't never seen him like this. Yeah, bro. He got some best show on Zeus. Zeus is a network. Oh, Zeus is a network, but it might-

Like 2B? No, no, no, no. This is different. 2B could never. This is just like if World Star Hip Hop had a channel. Oh, I got you. Okay, yeah, I never heard of that. Johnson and Davis Cabaret is on like season 10, bro.

Oh, I never heard of that before. Oh, please strap in. I ain't never watched the show. I just happened to see that and I was like, damn bro, really cold. He really gifted with the veneers or whatever you want to call them. Every time they posted, they posted,

oh boy, the fake doctor who had the mohawk, they was just like, my boy get a shot. My man get a shot too. Would y'all rather have veneers or a hair transplant? Like if a nigga gave you a full head of hair, would you have your teeth was fucked up? Would you rather have veneers? Veneers bro.

Veneers bro. Veneers bro. Yeah.ers bro. Veneers bro. Yeah. God niggas be caring about their hair so much, that's why I asked. Like I think a ball nigga really want some waves again, if he could. Nah, but it's only like ball heads though.

If you got a beard. But you're not. But I ain't gonna ask. Your facial hair stays. When I go bald, my shit gonna be crazy. I'm gonna be, I'm gonna be crazy. I'm gonna look crazy. I'm going to Turkey. I already talked to my boy.

But they say your head swell up. I can't go through that part where your head swell up. You ever see them niggas that be getting shit? They be having the wraps on their head like shit. You're not hurt. Damn, I didn't know that. So y'all niggas would rather have teeth than hair. Hell yes.

What? Damn. Hell yes. What? Hell yes. I'll raise this question. Would you rather go get the hair or would you get the fake beard? What's crazier? I'm getting my hair. I don't care about no beard.

No, I would never get the unit. Nah, nah. It'll last for like two or three months. I'm cool, I'll go get the surgery. But they- Some niggas surgery don't. I'm saying how big niggas pull, how big they head be. It look cray, look like, what's that shit come out.

You remember when, what's that movie we was talking about the Arnold Schwarzenegger play in that Christmas movie? Jingle All the Way. You ever seen that? Oh shit. You remember when Duke had his head bad? That's how they head be looking, bro. Damn, after the surgery?

Yeah, pinky in the brain. Yeah, motherfuckers be having that wrap on their head, boy. Cause in some niggas that get that salapitch, I mean, eczema, niggas still be having that patchy shit on their hairline, bro. That shit don't work all the time. A unit, they just, they cut this around, and then they just put that bitch on there.

What about your girl get freaky and she start grabbing your shit? I don't know. Motherfucker ain't pulling my hair. I ain't no bad bitch. I'm just saying. I used to have braids. Motherfuckers still roll their hands through my hair.

But you got a fro though. So it's different. Poppa might pull your hair. Motherfucker ain't pulling my hair. Yo, she try. I got my wave cap on. Why you always trying to bring my personal life into it? No, you just ass.

No, I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. No, I'm serious. You gotta, people at all. He wear hats. He trying to get a hat deal. He trying to get a hat deal.

I do. I do. He trying to get a hat deal. He's not hoping to get a hat deal. New Era, Mitchell and Ness. But he has an Afro under there, y'all. Anybody wanna rock with me? I don't coach with my hat on,

so if y'all ever wanna see what we do, we do post videos and coaching, but, you know, New Era, Mitchell and Ness, whoever got hats. Shanty Mitchell and Ness. Y'all want me to outall want me to, you know, I'll rock y'all hats. DJ, fuck with y'all fittings too. Yeah, I'll rock y'all hats if y'all let me. I've been doing it for-

I'll keep the Dewey at home. Oh. I don't ever leave, you hear me? There's something I gotta go add to something to Dewey with the headband. The fact that he scored 50 like that, he's a goat to me, man. Happy belated, bro.

Nah, that's for a guy. Yeah, happy birthday. Hooping in a headband in the Dewey. That's a goat to me, man. Happy belated, bro. That's 2011. That's our guy. That's our guy. Yeah, happy birthday. Hooping in a headband and a duet. That's N1 for sure, bro. Yeah, for sure. Bring it back to the classics. For sure, man. Listen, 2025, first of the year,

let's start off with these hot takes. I'm gonna ask you a couple of questions about the league, see who's right at the end of this situation. Who's the MVP in the NBA? Shay Gilder's Alexander. Yeah, sorry, I'm wrong. SGA, be here. You feeling that, too? Yeah, I know that's my guy. Shout out to my nigga, Heygood.. Yeah, sorry I'm wrong with SGA. Be here, you feeling that too?

Yeah, I know that's my guy. Shout out to my nigga, Heygood. Heygood deflocked in with Shay. Probably, if not Shay Joker. That's cause he like had a nigga dress. But he swaggy though too. He fresh. He fresh.

My nigga was out. It's on brand. He probably the freshest nigga in the league. Probably Joker. You want Joker? Yeah. That ain't mad at that. Defensive player of the year?

Wimby. I could't mad at that. Defensive player of the year? Wimby. Hmm. I could see that. You know what? While we on here, just the spurs are actually damn, they're cool. Yeah, they've been tagging us. They was like, hey, quit saying we sad nigga.

We in the playoffs. I was just like, we got y'all fucked up. Because nigga, when a nigga piss me off, telling me about that What's the Westbrook shit, I started really going to study some shit. So tomorrow we get on the show in the morning. He gonna be in his bag now. I'm gonna be in my bag

because you bitches had me fucked up. And I really should be. Saying I'm a better basketball head than him and that got him tight. Yeah, that pisses me off. Niggas like, you know, he niggas like, oh my mama, sometimes you don't really know what you talking about.

Bitch, I probably was sleepy. I probably was sleepy. And I probably ain't giving a fuck. I'll be letting niggas cut me a chair. It be early, it be early. I really don't be giving a fuck because they be sending this shit early and I don't even look. But you know what? I'm cut his hair. It be early, I really don't be giving a fuck cause they be sending this shit early and I don't even look.

But you know what? I'm on that now. It's happening. Shout out to all my college boys that's been tapped in. You know what I mean? Hit me on Twitter. You know, I show y'all love. I watch y'all games, bro.

What's up? I got y'all. Yeah, we definitely gonna go on more and about college in this 2000. Can't wait, man. Like you said, we incorporating MOOC. But this is the part of the year, I'm not mad at you for that, B-take, I fuck with that.

Yeah, I tried to even think of a counter for that, but I'm like the fact that he's blocking shots at this level, he has to get it for sure. He's playing at a different level on the defense end with those blocks. For sure. Most improved. No, you know it.

And Peasy? My dog. I'ma hop on the bandwagon man, I'm going J.L. Johnson, especially he get all star. I'm a go De'Andre Hunter. I know he's been in the league for me and he been playing well, but man, he's shooting 50% and 45 from the third.

And averaging the dub, that shit crazy. And he's probably not the third, maybe the third option of the team. He definitely the third option. But like that's one of the most efficient seasons. And he like having a KD type year from efficiency. Yeah, for you to be a third option still, getting 20 a game is special.

Yeah, on 13 shots though. Yeah. And like we said, a positive impact for him is he's winning games doing this too. He ain't just doing this in empty calorie stats. They're winning games because of him for sure. Out the gates. Championship.

Actually, let me and I go there. Rookie of the Year. This has been quiet for me. I don't even be like, I ain't really seen no rookies that like. Jeremy Kang get her fucked it up for me. Yeah, he was my rookie of the year. Yeah, that was ours.

And I hate that, I don't know what's going on in Minnesota. Rob ain't really get to show his shit. Nah, he ain't good to show his shit. Or what's our boy? Reed ain't got a chance to play much. Reed ain't got to show his shit. So it's probably Ricky out there dominating.

We fucking up on our shit, but. I know that was Zach Eady. Yeah, it's like he even had some big nights. Yeah. Wills had some good games. Shot the cuss out, J. Louis Wills hooping down there. Shit, it's some good games. Shout out to Cuzz O, J. Louis, who been down there? Shit, it's been a rough. I seen Ease Messy too, he's been playing

rarely really really good too. But Jerry McCain get hurt kinda fucked it up. I think that was rough. They done a rough rookie year for a lot of guys. Cause that was, you know how we speak about him on the morning show, that was my first show or a lot. When the Sixers wasn't doing so well, he was a bright spot.

Especially when Tyrese Maxey got hurt too, he stepped in to fulfill that shit. It's gonna be a tough. So whoever get that man shouts you, I'm sorry. It might be Zach Eady though. That'd be fire. I wouldn't be mad at Zach Eady. He just had a what, 28 and 10 game or something.

This is crazy though. This is one of the first years that a rookie has entered the league and I ain't really, really stepped on shit for a team. You know what I mean? No disrespect, but I'm saying, haven't been highlighted. Like even a guy from the Suns was named Ryan.

Yeah, Ryan Dunn. Who should be playing a lot more than he is. He should play a lot more, but like he had some highlights this year. But it ain't really been a rookie that you just like. Yeah, but you know when Jason Tatum and Zion was coming in the league, like niggas was actually, they was putting it out there. Like making you watch it.

We got a good topic by Zion speaking. Probably tomorrow we'll probably talk about him. They put him on the block, so. Yeah, I gotta get my boy out of there. Yeah, I can't wait till the morning show. We'll just have to probably talk about it. Double M, don't fuck it up for him. But yeah, the Pelicans on the fire show right now for sure.

And it's crazy, we talk about, we ain't even mission number one pick, because like you said, how good the hockey. He got a chance to be rookie of the year. I mean, he starts, he plays a lot. And it's crazy, we talk about, we ain't even mentioned number one pick, because like you said, how good the hockey. Got a chance to be rookie of the year. I mean, he starts, he plays a lot. I don't know, bro. I don't think he got the stats.

I mean, he averaged 10, but like who? Elvis was averaging 10. You know what I mean? Respect. Yes, sir. I'm glad, because we saw him in the summer league and I was a- He was fucking hoopin'.

Yeah, but I'm saying it's just like, you didn't know if he was gonna be able to showcase that with that team. Yeah, I mean, I like how Quinn did it, gave him a chance, even though Deandre Hunter had taken backseat, but it made Deandre Hunter a better player, obviously. For sure.

For sure. Championship, who y'all think getting the chip? I'm gonna go with, the safe pick is Boston right now, I would say. I'm gonna go to New York Knicks. Man, fuck, no. As much as I say fuck the Knicks, and it is still fuck the Knicks,

as y'all know what we did to y'all game seven. I don't know, bro. I feel like if it ever is going to happen, this is the year. They got the roster for it. God, bearing no injuries happened. I think they got a team that could get a championship this year.

I don't know if it'll happen, but. I don't see them beating Boston, but I would love to see a small marketing team like OKC win. If they get a chat back fully, I would love to see them. That's been my sleeper team for the past couple of years. So I would love to see them get one. I'd fuck with them. I ain't gonna hold you.

You made me be a believer of the OKC train. I believe they're coming out the West. You said that last year, but going into that season, they've only gotten better. And they young, so that might hinder them from a more like older season team, but if they won, I wouldn't be surprised. But Denver is scary though, bro,

because Jamal Murray and Yocas could get to clicking, and shit, they got a solid core around them, and then you got Russell Westbrook too. If he in his bag and they jailing that, that's a scary team too, so I don't know. Denver might be a bad matchup for Boston. I think Denver one piece away from being a bad matchup for Boston.

Like if they get one more wing or another backup guard, I think they, not even a guard score. Yeah. I mean, cause Westbrook, he good at point, but they get more one, one more like explosive wing that can do something. They got like one piece away. Like they got Kuzma, I ain't even mad. But Kuzma could, he could be a piece of, he could,

he could change. Oh hell yeah bro. It's trajectory for a lot of people. Especially if you don't give up MPJ in that situation. If you just got moved some second round picks and maybe a future first to get him, that's not bad at all to have a young front line, especially with AG.

Yeah, that ain't, he could switch it up. Yeah, Aaron Gordon too, damn. That's a nasty lineup, but you could put all them in the game time with, in the game time with my bird. And now that one through four switch is different. Wicked. Sure. It's all six, nine, six, five, six, six, like,

it's a little different, but. MPJ six, eight. MPJ six, ten. MPJ six, ten. MPJ six, ten. Is he? Yeah, bro. Damn. That's why they be criticizing him so much about it.

Like, all he do is shoot. I'm like, well, bro, he's six, ten. They can't have anybody block his shot. Yeah, shoot that shit. That's what he do for 11. Damn, six, ten is huge. Yeah. Yeah, for sure, man.

He cools like six, nine, six, ten. Who gonna be the number one pick? Cooper Flack gonna be the number one pick. What if the Brooklyn Nets end up getting the number one pick? Cooper Flagg gonna be the number one pick. What if the Brooklyn Dats end up getting the number one pick? Do they take Cooper Flagg? He still gonna take Cooper Flagg. You don't think about none of the boys in Rutgers, even if they're nice?

Damn, not even a thought? You can't take Dylan Harper in one. Can you take Aysen one if you're Brooklyn? Dylan Harper's the best player, the best prospect in college right now. That's 100% correct. But he's not the number one pick. Yeah, that's the number one pick. When I watch, my eyes tell me,

that's an NBA player when I look at him play. The pace he play with, I see a little bit of Darren Williams, I see a little bit of everybody, big guard, shifty, can shoot, get rebounds, I see a little bit of everything. He got a little bit of Lamello in him, not the same flair, but you know,

his ability to be that size and pass and shoot and make plays. But he got that little, Darren Williams, not that same bop, but the way he shift people. It's like, yeah, his groove is different. That's a perfect way. I believe in him just cause he got that, he got that real game from his dad.

His dad was like that in the league. And he got the pedigree, yeah. And what's crazy, a lot of people remember just Ron Harper from like the Lakers and Bulls, but there was a Ron Harper in the cast that was different. Nasty, athletic, cold. But you a dummy if you don't take Cooper Flatt. Yeah, you fucking up the church's money if you don't.

Yeah, like if you got the number one pick and you don't take this guy. Depends on who get it though, bro. If the Blazers get it, I don't think Dylan is a number one pick. But if the Blazers get it, like you said it, but I agree, I might have to bump Scoop. But if you don't take Hooper flag with the number one pick

and you take Dylan Harper, let's just say, and Dylan Harper, excuse me, he has a so-so year. And Cooper flag goes somewhere else and he has- And kill. And he kill. You're getting fired. You're getting cooked. You're getting fired.

Y'all didn't take him- From a business aspect, I see what you're saying. And everything is about business. That's the fucked up part about it. It ain't even from a basketball standpoint. And I was just strictly just thinking about fit. Cause I mean, I would want like if Charlotte, Charlotte's so bad, you gotta pick Cooper.

But like all those teams that's in that position are bad. Who's at the bottom? Who else is at the bottom? Six of them. The Blazers. The Wizards. Wizards. Charlotte.

Utah. Raptors. Damn, so at the Wizards, y'all taking Cooper flag over Dylan? We all have a choice. I just drafted the kid from Pittsburgh as a guard. He did, I know who you talking about. I can't remember who he's talking about.

I know who you talking about. What's his name, Bud? I don't care. I know Cooper, Cooper my guy. I love Cooper. You know what I mean? We just had 26 the other night. But phew, Dylan been, I don't know bro,

he ready right now. I think B-Head, and I agree with you to that point, I think the biggest issue is I like what he said, you drive Dylan, he better be a star your one. Because if not, your head gonna roll. As a GM, if you make that decision, that's a historic blunder for certain situations. You can't, you can't do that.

Travis and my boy Axe, to just have a good game too. You would rather be two, right? It's like the John Moran, Zion Williams thing. Like you know we gotta pick Zion. But even in that draft, I felt like John Moran, I was like, yo, he the better player. Like he gonna be a star, like the way he control the game. He had a smaller school and he making all these players

around him elevate. Like he had Murray State on the map to the point where we believed him, kind of like Steph Curry had Davidson, like CJ McCullum had Lehigh. It's like, I'm like, I believe in that, but Zion Williams was such a polarizing figure. He had Duke hot.

Like, you know what I mean? It's like, you cannot not take that. And then my thought process was right. Not saying that Zion's not nice when he plays, he's still cold, but Jai is who I thought Jai was gonna be. And so like Memphis is probably more than happy. Like yeah, I'm glad we got Jai instead of Zion for sure. Hell yeah.

100%. That's crazy man. Like you said, that's a lot of people. Still crazy, because it was A, you teammates. Yeah. Both playing in the back gym. That's right bro. That's crazy.

That's why these kids, these kids, I don't think they really be tapped in bro. They don't. Like damn bro, you never know who's watching bro. I just posted something about that. Everything's a fit like for real. I just posted that. What was it?

Colvin Sampson. Yeah, Colvin Sampson was talking about that. He was just fit, like, for real. I just posted that. It was, uh. Coach Samson. Yeah, Calvin Samson was talking about that. He was just like, yeah, I went to see one kid, but then I look up and I see two other kids in this game, and I'm like there with them. And it was another coach, I forgot who just talked about it. He said he went to go recruit somebody else.

Saw a kid that was elite, ended up watching his huddles, and he was like, oh, I think it was Matt Painter. How he recruited a kid. He was just like, yeah, he wasn't highly, he was out of it, but I saw him recruiting somebody else, checked out his huddle table, and I was just like, yeah he wasn't holly, he was holly, but I saw him recruiting somebody else, checked out his huddle table, and I was just like, that's the guy I want.

Yeah. Yeah, I always wondered how coaches recruited kids now. But that's, that was happening to me. Like, a lot of guys would come to see other people. Like, I always talk about the game that happened when we played Corey Lucius. It was going to, he had committed to Michigan State. He was a year younger than me,

and we played him in high school, and a lot of coaches came to see him. And I ended up having a really, really good game at Southport against him. And I started getting, I got off. Yeah, I got off. That was nice, I can't remember his name. That big was nice.

Yeah, I ended up getting offers after that game. That was my first time getting offers. Oh, after that game with Luchas? That winter tournament. Yeah, I played. I remember that. I ended up getting offers from a couple of schools after that and it was like, damn,

they weren't even here to see me, they didn't know who I was, but after we played, they made me like, shit. Hey, shout out to my fucking Corey Lucius, you used to do your thing though. My nigga might have busted your ass that day, but. Definitely, definitely. Nah, nah, nah, you know how you went crazy.

I remember that shit, that was a hell of a tournament, but Corey Lucius used to do his motherfucking- Nah, I'll tell you straight up. I appreciate him actually. Yeah. Cause shit, he had the name. Cause yeah, he had the name. He ain't know who I was, I was gunning for him.

But you remember your first offer? Your first D1 offer? Yeah, it was Selling of Noise. Damn. Yeah. Jack Owens, that's my dog. Well, Papa T, wasn't nothing on you on there, right? No, it was crazy, I was gonna go there.

So I was gonna, I told you. It was gonna be you and John Freeman. My bad, I had bad, not bad grades, but I didn't care for school like that. So when I got the offer, they was like, yo, we gonna help you, you know, we gonna get you in the right classes and all that shit. Everybody was talking to me, I'm like, cool.

I'm just fuck with them. I even think I can make it to the NBA or none of that. Like, you know what I mean? I'm from the west side of that. I run with my homies and the guy think about, these schools sound crazy. Kansas, that sound crazy. That sound crazy.

So I know you stay down down here alive, boy. Shout out to Wes Clements. Yeah, but that's what I'm seeing. Like Southern Illinois is about right. Western Kentucky, Courtney went there. She's legal in Western Kentucky, still crazy. But it wasn't legal in Western Kentucky. You gotta think that's us though.

We from around here, we wasn't getting that kind of love. So once that happened, I was like cool, selling the noise and then Coach Conley was like hell no. Coach Conley, yeah I thought I was probably Coach Conley. Coach Conley like hell no, you way better than that. Like you just need somebody to see you. Yeah. And I was like okay, he was like you can go,

where you wanna go? And I was like Wake Forest, he was like, you wanna go where you want to go. And I was like, Wake Forest. He was like, you want to go to Wake Forest? Oh, just wait. That's how I have. Yeah, Coach Conley is a goat. The blueprint. A lot of people don't know Coach Conley, bro. He saw a lot of people with good positions.

A lot of talent. Like his eye for talent was crazy, bro. Yeah, Coach Conley was real. I'm putting together the A.U. team that's probably the greatest of all time, nobody and shit, but even from down to the 10th man, that's probably, you know, the greatest of all time, no bias shit, but even from down to the 10th man, everybody was a D-1 nigga, bro.

100%. Hot D-1 too, it wasn't like nobody's crazy. And the B-Team was nice. He changed my life though. Yeah. Like Coach Conley changed my life, cause like you said, I had Settlin' Illinois on my own from that high school game.

Yeah. And like a lot of my high school coaches was like, you should go there, you should go there. Like, they like you, don't play with that offer. And for him to see something different in me, like my pops, you know, my pops knew the game, but he ain't no like, shit, you got what you got. It's who like you.

And Butler liked me too. Shout out to Brad. Coach Brad, he liked me too, but My grades weren't good enough. So you ain't getting into Butler. No, you know, my grades weren't good enough at that time. So when he offered me, my grades weren't good enough. So, so the noise was still willing to like fuck with me. Like would my grades being a little shaky.

I know it's a super hypothetical, but dog, if you would have went to Butler, first of all, that would have been crazy. Cause we already knew each other and I met that nigga on Butler campus. if you would have went to Butler, first of all, that would have been crazy, cause we already knew each other, and I met that nigga on Butler campus. If you would have went to Butler at that time, if you would have been to Butler at that time, bro, you and Gordon and Shelvin, oh my, I wouldn't have fit. I would have fucked the team up.

Jeff would have been first with Veesley and them first. You would have been with Matt Howard and them first. Then the next year. Gordon and him. We was all Indiana All-Stars. So me, Matt, and then all the Purdue boys, Garrett going to Indiana. And I was an oddball.

Bro, you would have been cool with Vees. Nah, I was too much. I was different. You was a James Johnson nigga though. And I love Ronald O'Rourke, but listen, Brad would have let you cook. What's going on everybody? This is Justin Penick from John Boy Media, the host of the Football Today podcast alongside Bobby Skinner and Chris Rose. We're rolling three times a week on Mondays, on Wednesdays, on Fridays, breaking down everything you

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It probably wouldn't have been, but I was too dear. I was an ACC nigga. I had ACC for sure. A thousand percent. Yeah, like any other league would not fit me. Like if I would have went to the Big 10, I would. Yeah, if I would have went to the Big 10, I wouldn't have made it.

Yeah, you definitely not Pac-12. I couldn't see what you were saying. I could have killed him to Pac-12, but I was not going to. You would have killed him to Horizon, though, bro. Brad Gass was different. That was premium. You would have had the show.

Yeah, we would have, but nigga, they moved the ball and shit. They did, but they off schedule was nice. They off, what do you call it? Conference schedule, whatever the fuck you call it. It was nice, bro. But what I'm saying, like the way they played wasn't how I played.

Understood, you went where you supposed to. Yeah, like I needed the ball. That shit matters, so kids need to pay attention to that. Don't go for the name, go where it fits you. Yeah, in fact, and the reason I went to Wake Forest is because they play how I would want to play. Yeah, understood. And like it was high ball screens, playing fast.

Watching you against Justin Serrace, so at least these niggas ain't really tapped in like that. That was another dog back in the day. And I'm sure that Brad would have just had an offense if he had a point guard like you. He had to make do what he had to, you know what I'm saying? But I would have hindered like Gordon. I would have took away from Shelvin.

Cause nigga, I was, in college I was shooting. You was shooting, you was throwing that hole in. 100%, 100%. You know what I mean? So it all played how it's supposed to play. Yeah, I'm gonna go. It's all great. Speaking of, you know what I'm saying,

commits and stuff like that, shout out to Mikel Brown, going to the Lou, we up baby, told y'all we locked in. Shout out to Coach Kelsey, man. Coach me at Wake Forest. Great coach, yeah Mikel, one of my favorite players in high school. I'm glad that happened for y'all. I'm gonna call Coach Kelsey tomorrow morning

and talk about it with him. For sure, man. I hope Mikel's spinning that back around, man. Getting Louisville back to where they supposed to be. We got a solid, solid class coming next year. His first year, he had to make some stuff happen. We had a lot of injuries, but next year. That's the best player y'all had in a solid, solid class coming next year. His is his first year, he had to make some stuff happen. We had a lot of injuries, but next year. That's the best player y'all had in a while, bro.

Demner since Terry Roger. I don't disagree at all. Michael Brown, for real. I think he'd be blessed if we had him two years. I think he could be a one and done talent for sure. Yeah, that's why if we get blessed to get him for two years, then so be it, but I think he should only be Grayson Louisville for one year.

Go kill him, man. Bryce James, you know what I'm saying, committed to Arizona? No shit. Yeah, committed to Arizona. Nigga, that's a big commit. Yeah, going to Arizona, bro. That ain't bad.

That bullshit. He committed to Arizona? Hey, shout out to you, Bryce. Yeah, man. Nah, they saw something in you. 100%. Nah, that damn, that's- That's not nonepocism offer. I mean, I know y'all can play the jokes about that damn, that's- That's not an nepotism offer.

I mean, I know y'all can play the jokes about them, but that's not a school to play them type of games. I know it's a little bit of leaning to that as well. It's Nike ties, but hey. You not going? That's full of Brian Cope. I don't think Brian making that call for Arizona. I'm just saying.

Y'all think he can go to Arizona? Well, he there. We're gonna see. I shouldn't say do you think he can go. Y'all think he gonna play Arizona? Fresh Me or probably not. Nah, he has to. Did not, you don't have to play.

Nah, you have to. No bro, this is Arizona. I think he gonna play. But, Ronnie didn't play because of the hard shit. Yeah, I think he gonna play at Arizona. Yes. But I think there's a difference between Ronnie and Bryce. I ain't gonna get into it.

I'm not going to Arizona to, come on. Y'all keep it real. Now, this nigga got every, if I'm going to Arizona, it's 10 other big schools that's fucking with me. I'm not committing to this school to ride a bitch for Arizona. Arizona ain't you, God. I think Bryce is more of a, he's a cool guy.

I think he's cool going to school. He might not play a lot, he might play a little bit. I think he reminds cool going to school. He might not play a lot. He might play a little bit. I think he reminds me of like Sharif O'Neal. You know how he can hoop, but it was like, yeah, I'm cool. I'm cool. Everybody gonna like me. My pops is a Hall of Famer.

It's a situation obviously dangerous. I'm sure you got hurt. I love, yeah, see that's the difference. Damn, these fucking basketball kids. I fuck with Sharif, but I think Bryce shoes in Arizona, bro. I'm telling you, I was 10 other schools had to be on his. I mean, you didn't come to understand it.

I'd rather go to, I would rather went to Ohio State for nepotism. No, I think he just went with the vibes. He probably caught like going to Arizona. I've been to Arizona State and Arizona. It's a vibe out there. Like USC was a vibe. Probably like, I've been to Arizona State and Arizona, it's a vibe out there. Like USC was a vibe, probably like, I wanna get to the, he different than like Bronny and like Bronny

was seem like a, no offense, but he seemed like he like was groomed to be an NBA player. Like Bryce is like, we're the vibe, I'm the vibe. Speaking about Arizona State, you remember playing against James Harden? We ain't playing. You ain't playing? No, we lost, we was supposed to play him.

Oh, okay, I got you, that's why you mentioned him. They lost to Baylor, I think. Oh, okay. But yeah, Arizona. But you know what I'm mad about? The first time I ever had a problem with James Harden, we won the championship by average 26. He went for 50 on St. Mary's,

but they was in the final for the, what you call it, third place game. He had like 50, they gave him MVP at a tournament. Yep. Damn. In Anaheim, bro, Thanksgiving tournament. You killed that tournament, that was when you had that dog too, wasn't it?

I averaged like 26. That's 40. James Horan, I think he averaged like 40. They was when you had that dog too, wasn't it? Yeah, I averaged like 26. That's 40. James Harden, I think he averaged like 40. They gave him MVP in the third place, but he got MVP in the tournament and he was in the third place game. What'd I say, DJ? Lanzo has to make the awesome.

What did I say? This nigga doing all this winning and all this killing. That's the first time I've seen him. I dropped 40 fucking times. That's when I knew it was politics. I'm like, there's no way this nigga about to be in a third place game and win MVP. I just knew they were about to call my name.

Wow, bro. Man was like, MVP of the tournament, so I started, yeah, nigga, I put no up for my city. James Harden from Arizona State. This nigga had to come out the crowd. Look at the players they had to play out the crowd. This nigga was playing. What the fuck? That's hard.

I'm gonna read this shit real quick. This nigga was like, James Harden. This nigga ain't even in the game. What the fuck? That's like a draft night when they go get the recruits from the crowd. And he sit on top and just walk down. I was like, hell nah, I was shitty.

I was real life mad. Like everybody like, you cute though, everybody know you good. Nah, fuck that. You still a little father just by K. Nah, fuck that. That nigga didn't make it to the championship bro. Like we just wanted to.

That is a wild ass story nigga. I swear to God. To lose the MVP and I'm dog as shit. Oh yeah. We beat Baylor in the championship. They had Licks Darius done. They was fire. CJ, Curtis Jarells.

They had Tweety Carter, Quincy Acie. Tweety Carter used to do shit. Tweety Carter used to dog shit. Yeah, they had Quincy Acie. Quincy Acie was a grown man at 17. Yeah, they had a bunch of dudes. They was solid. They beat, I think they beat Arizona State

because I don't know who we beat to get to the chip, I can't even remember. We beat UTEP. Yeah, we had beat, that's when, what's the nigga from Murder Inc, Irv Gotti, his cousin was playing on UTEP and he was talking shit to me the whole game. That's funny.

Whoever you're calling to these spots about, Murder Inc is fucking hilarious. Yeah, he was talking bad. UTEP, what, that's El Paso? Yeah, Texas El Paso. That fucking, that's my shit, Glory Road. See, that was U-Tek? What's a U-Tek?

No, that was, Texas, please look that up. I might be wrong, y'all. I'm just, it might be thinking about Glory Road. I'm trying to think, I thought it was Texas Corpus Christi or something like that, hold on. It might be U-Tek. I might have you fucking pissed. I could be wrong, y'all.

Let's go, I got you. Glory Road. What you looking up? Texas Westerner. Texas Westerner, okay. Yeah, I know one, U-TEP. No, it just made me tap it. That's one of my favorite movies. Shout out to the U-TEP Two Step, you know the vibes.

Huh? I won MVP? I ain't get the fucking award. He lost. 2008, 2009, and then I'm from the UDV. Huh? I won MVP? I didn't get the fucking award! They let us- $8,200, $8,200, and an arm classic MVP. Nah, I swear to God it was James Harden. That should make that shit even better. I swear to God.

Luis! They did not give me the award. I swear to God, my mama, they gave it to James Harden. I never asked you to work harder than making, finding the clip of James Harden receiving that award. I swear. And an arm classic MVP. Yeah. $8,200, $8,200. I swear to God, they gave it of James Hart receiving that award. I swear. And the Homme Classic MVP. Yeah.

2008, 2009. I swear to God they gave it to James Hart. I swear to God this is Gifty, bro. And they some hoes, because they ain't even my fucking award. Please. I swear to God. If you find this, I swear to God.

If they put that up there, they are some hoes, and I swear to God I was so hurt. I was hurt. I went home, I was trying to play it cool on the plane. They like, yeah, we won that motherfucker. I'm like, hey, that nigga the MVP, bro. That nigga ain't playing the game. I swear to God.

You don't forget shit. I know. I swear to God. You remember that you won that. That was my coming out party. Yeah. You know what I mean? Pause. Pause.

But like, that's when I like, niggas found out I could hoop shit. Nah, he said, nah, I would know if I came over that trophy. I know if I got the MVP, nigga, I'd be talking about that bitch. Yeah, I'd be James Harden for the MVP. That's what I'm saying. We heard that for sure. Yeah, yeah, I was trying to say James Harden.

So that's what make that shit even funnier that Mike looked that up. Made some hoes for frightening, but not giving me the award. Hey, now, while we're here, I want to ask y'all a question about this. Saquon Barkett's situation, he had a chance to break the record this weekend,

but the coach is sitting starters, basically, because for the playoffs. All right, yeah, I'm shitting. Is that, y' He had a chance to break the record this weekend, but the coaches sitting starters basically because for the playoffs. I'm shitting. Is that y'all playing that game to get that record? Yeah, I'm playing the game. For my sanity, yeah. Who's that like? You were like accolades of how you get rated

in pro sports, right? Yeah. What you do, what records you break. Remember like, what's my guy that just got the coaching job that was beefing with me? Receiver, Jackson. You remember he's like, nigga you ain't top 10 and none of your records in the league.

Yeah, like I need to be breaking records, you feel me? So like, if I'm safe when I'm like, shit, let me play. Like I want my legacy got to live on. Even though it don't mean shit. I mean, really, but. Yeah, my teammates, y'all just gonna have to understand. I'm not selfish. Obviously, I know what type of nigga I am.

I'm for the team. I'm breaking this record. This is my chance to be immortalized and it's worth it I play. And if you don't feel that, I don't give a fuck no way. Just let him go. Just let him go, bro. For like I said, for his sanity and his peace of mind,

and that's his legacy. That's something he can pass down to his kids. And something he can always talk about. You throw that in the crib. You know, niggas love putting pictures of their records in the crib and shit. Niggas love that. And that's why I'm shitty about this Anahom shit.

Because if I fucking won a award, y'all need to send me that shit. For real. We need to put that here. We gotta find that. That's fucked up. James got that in the crib in Houston. I know, he's fucking probably,

he probably threw it away, yeah. He got MVP awards, he probably was like, I'm just fucking this shit. That's crazy. I was nothing. I'm like, I get it. You don't want your players to get hurt in a meaningless game, especially if you don't feel you know how that goes.

But man, let that man break the record. Let him go kill first half and then send him rest of the game. Swear to God. How many he need? I think it was like a hundred. Yeah. And they play a team. They play New York.

They're going to give him a hundred. They only play New York? Yes. Yeah, like fuck that. Oh, break the record on my old squad then let me go. Come on, bro. They play New York. They're going to give him a hundred yards. They're going to play New York? Yes. Yeah, like, fuck that. Oh, break the record on my old squad, then let me go. Come on, bro. The nostalgia on that is crazy.

They robbing him of a moment. I know he probably just playing it cool because he's obviously a consummate professional. I don't know his emotions about it, obviously, but if I'm him, I can't wait. On New York too? He don't want to speak too much. He used to, not say he got in trouble,

but he was criticized a lot for his outspoken ways. So he probably chilling. Man, what the break the record on my old team? It was crazy. That's why, man, I hate that conference shit, because why did y'all let him go to the Eagles? Like y'all, the Giants, man, Jesus. Did y'all see the video, I think it's the GM

or whoever it is, maybe the GM? Oh, Giants. Yeah, when he was like, Saquon's our best player, he's a fan favorite. I just prayed he'd go to the Eagles. Yeah. Yeah. That's what the fuck y'all get.

Like y'all had a terrible year last year and this showing this year. That's why I'm like, damn boy. I know Shadour want to go up there. But you see they saying Sam Darnold that the Giants might offer Sam Darnold. If you're Sam Darnold, I was watching Get Up This Morning. Shout out to my dog Ryan.

But if you Sam I'm Donald, would you take 50 million from the Giants or would you stay with Minnesota? 50 million from Giants. Yeah, I'm gonna get paid. I'm always gonna get paid. But all the, you finally having a good year. Like you finally having a moment in the league

where you're killing. Do you fuck that up? I don't think you fuck it up because in that situation, I mean, they're not going to move on from JJ McCarthy. Like if it- They might though. I would be surprised if they do. Cause they can get a,

it's a lot of teams in the league that need quarterbacks. They can move on from him, get a top, another top pick. They can trade him for a pick. They can trade him for another pick. And now you got Donald as your quarterback for the next four or five years. And y'all gonna be solid. Cause he's playing great.

I mean, he's having a phenomenal year. Like this is what we thought Sam Dardol would be coming out. But I don't know. I think that's a tough situation. I don't think that they make a decision on him enough to like on JJ for him to make a decision. I think you can trade JJ right now. I think Sam Dardol is young enough, good enough

where he could still play for, I think he could play for seven more years. But I think that the team believes in him. They fucking with him right now. I think you could trade JJ. I mean, he never going to get the team back. True. You know what I'm saying? Like, you not getting the team back. I think it's also the money comparison too. If the Vikings offer him 40, yeah I'm saying. If they offer him like 35, no, go get your fucking bread. Because he done went through some shit. He was with the Jets and with the fucking Panthers. Bless you.

Thank you. You don't deserve that, bro. Yeah, if I get 50 million y'all offer me 30, I'm gonna get the 50. Who won the Super Bowl? Huh? Who won the Super Bowl? Man, shit, man.

I don't bet it gets Pat Mahomes, but if I'm- Eagles. Oh, if I was gonna say, if I'm picking the team to come out the NFC, bro, damn it, I gotta go Vikings. I was gonna say Vikings. You gotta say Vikings. If it wasn't the Lions for losing so many players on defense, I would go Vikings.

The Lions can score the ball. You never gotta worry about them. They gonna score the ball. They ain't gonna stop shit. I don't think. Respect. Respect. They gonna score that ball though. But I like be able to stop shit. I don't think. Respect. Respect Jericho. They don't score that ball though.

But I like the Vikings for some reason. And I want him to win, matter of fact. I'm rooting for him. He gotta be the comeback player of the year. If I had my choice, it would be Lamar Jackson. I can't wait til Lamar Jackson wins the Super Bowl so we can have some of these conversations. That conversation will be real.

I can't wait for that moment, bro. And I think he was MVP too. That whole Josh Allen deserves to get one because Lamar got two. Fuck that Lamar Jackson killing. Get that man MVP. Y'all always be on that weird shit when it's time to get people. What about what about people saying Joe Burrow deserves? Joe Burrow is definitely in the conversation.

I don't know if what he's done is shitty. They always start off trash, but that's the team. I would say I wouldn't want to see them niggas in the playoffs. You think they're gonna make it? It can happen. They got to put themselves in a position to be there. Some things that are falling away, but shit, they've been balling. And I don't want to play a team like that who can put up points

because they're not really a sad team. He's been hoping though. He he have an MVP season. They're like the equivalent of the 76ers to me in the NFL. That is not a team I want to see at any type of health. That's not a real eight or seven seed. They will fuck you up. Facts, facts, facts.

For sure man, football going crazy. Yeah, shout out to Arizona State. I know we gonna talk about it in the morning, but damn y'all gave that game away. Woo, sorry y'all put the smoke business. Shit, they gave that game away. Well they really fucking, Texas gave the game away. Texas got it.

Yeah. But we had talked about it in the morning. For sure. If we got out of here, I asked you a question, man. People are reacting to that. That Suns lost against the Grizzlies with a lot of people out. Are we getting to the point that we figure out that you might have to blow up the Suns, man?

Is it time to make a decision? No, just get your year over with. Then figure it out. Get the year over with, then figure it out in the summer. Get the year over with, damn, I don't think they got that kind of time, bro. They ain't gonna, you ain't getting rid of, you ain't making no moves before. No money made moves before February, you don't think?

Too much money. Too much money, I don't know if niggas wanna take on them contracts, just wait til summer. From a business standpoint. I think you can get off Bradley Bills' contract. But he still got two years, don't he? Yeah, but I think you can get. Yeah.

I mean, he got to wave it no trick, whatever it is. But I think he can get off his money, though. So I think that's. So out of them three, you get rid of him first. Yeah, he's injured. He's been injured a lot. So not to say you can't depend on him. I think Brad's a lot of them three. You get rid of him first. Yeah, he's Andrew. He's been injured a lot. Right. So not to say you can't depend on him. I think Brad is a dope player.

I think he good as shit, but he just doesn't fit what you got going on right now because he's injury prone. And then also you have to start two small guards. Right. True. You should have three because he's far and tires you on Brad Bill

and Devin Booker. Well, Devin Booker like 6'6". 6'4", 6'5 on a good day. I mean, you seen him in person. Brad Bill 6'4", 6'5 on a good day. KD 6'11", then you got a Nurt. Most people have a defending wing. So usually that's a 6'7", defending type of wing.

To be honest, the person that they really need, and I know I'm always saying that they need Cam Johnson back in Phoenix, but that's like the perfect person they need for that team. So you swap them, you send Brad to Brooklyn. In a heartbeat. So Brad. They were willing to take Bradley Bill contract.

D'Angelo Russell and Brad Bill can work. Nah, we don't care what Brooklyn doing. Brooklyn work. Nah, we don't care what Brooklyn doing. Brooklyn don't care what Brooklyn doing. Brooklyn trying to stack up as many picks as they can. Start over and. I thought they was gonna not wave. I thought they would even try to repackage G-Law. Yeah, I thought.

I was surprised about that. I thought they would too, but I don't know what they're doing. I don't really care. So you're rid of Brad Bill's contract. Somebody's willing to take that contract. So a few teams in NBA that try to stand as willing to take on $30 million.

We make more than that. Yeah, you can say you make more than that. I don't know if somebody will to. I mean, I don't think nobody will, but if you could get Bradley Bill, you can package Bradley Bill up to get Cam Johnson. That'll cut your money, because he only make 25 a year.

You'll cut money and you have a better fit. So I mean, they probably won't do it. I don't think the nets unless Jack back, no take backs. Yeah. I think Phoenix, if they want to add Bradley billings first round, first two first round picks or whatever it is to get off that money and then get off Brad bill contract. Shit, why not?

That's what I think. We'll talk about this at another time. We'll talk about that KD tray from Brooklyn to the sun's maybe morning show conversation for sure. But they can't trade the picks that they have because they already moved them situations. So that's why I think they're, they're strapped from a financial standpoint

and they don't have any like picks they can move. So they have to keep their picks. So who's a, is Zion a bigger? I'm sorry, I'm gonna have to say we get y'all two future first round picks in 2052. Me, yeah. I'm just saying. You're crapping a nigga that ain't born yet. That's how, that's dope.

They gave up so much stuff to get KD. That is hard for them to do anything. Yeah, I got a great conversation about that, but I'll say that. Is Zion a bigger target than Kim Johnson? Nah, Kim is, but. Because Kim fits so many teams and his contract is more friendly.

Like Zion has that crazy contract where he can be waved, all type of shit. So, motherfucker waves. Motherfucker waves on him. Yeah, they have a weight clause in his contract. I would love to see the breakdown of that contract. Oh, his contract is crazy. Having the BBO clause in your contract is insane.

So he could get waived at any time. So mufuckin' might take on Zion and be like, shit, he ain't giving me shit, he acting to hurt. We just gonna cut him. Okay. You know what I mean? Yeah, that's what I'm saying. That could be a friendly contract too,

but Cam Johnson is on a super friendly deal for what he bring to the table. Michelle, yeah man, we gotta talk about that KD trade but Cam Johnson is on a super friendly deal for what he brings to the table. For sure. Yeah man, we gotta talk about that KD trade one day man. We gotta break that down for sure, cause a lot of things happened off that. I know they recently did for Paul George and like the tree of trades and people

and all that moved around for that situation. I would love to do that with that Brooklyn Sun straight man. That's crazy as hell for sure. That was one of the worst trades in the history though. That Paul George trade. Yeah. That was trash. Yeah, that one from Clippers.

Just cause y'all did all that, y'all supposed to sign him back. Just cause y'all gave all that up, y'all supposed to sign him. Y'all moved to league MVP. Yeah, you gotta stand up in it sometimes. You just gotta keep him just cause, like the same face almost.

That's what we talk about that GM since we were earlier in the show, boy. Yeah, you could be a Brooklyn dead GM if you want to and not draft Cooper. let him out there average 18 You are getting fired cooked Well, we just like a black family can't never get rid of come looking at this Christmas shit outside like I Wonder if niggas took their Christmas tree down. Yeah

I'm still up I'm gonna get to it this week. You ain't took yours down yet? Yeah, I'll get to it this week, bro. You took yours down, Mike. I ain't had no Christmas tree. Oh, shit. You took yours down? No, they've been still lit.

Light bill going crazy. Yeah, I haven't unplugged this this day. I put it up, it's still just gleaming. It's in there right now. The fact that y'all put Christmas trees up is crazy. We got heat. Did y'all put them up or? No, I didn't put them up.

Yeah, I put it up. You put it up? Oh, okay, you put it up. I bought that bitch from Amazon. It was plug, plug, plug. I'm not about to do all that now. I ain't telling you how much. That's where you fake. DJ all around, boy.

Ain't got the lights in it. Y'all put it together. Y'all put it back in the box and then. Yeah. Yeah. Put it, throw that bitch in the basement. Straight up. I ain't gonna ride in the attic.

Right next to the, hot water heater. We bought real trees every year. I'm nothing. I'm lying. What the fuck? I look like bought a real tree. The bugs get in my house. I'm nothing. I'm lying. What the fuck? I look like by the real tree. The bugs get in my house. I say the real Santa.

What else going on man in the world? Listen man, what should we say college playoff for that? For the morning show? We can talk about that. Shout out to Ohio State. You was right. I told you about Ohio State.

Built the ass situation. This shit is light. Like they fucked the organ up. Light. Like I don't know. We ain't seen it yet. We can talk about it in the morning because I ain't for how it was. Yeah, that shit is light. They fucked the organ up. Light, nigga. I don't know, we ain't seen anything. We talked about it in the morning because I ain't for sure what happened. Well, the first half, it was a shutout

and they was up 30, so. Yeah, 41, 20. Then Mike came. It's what? 41, 21. Yeah, good, it was on. Yeah. But we had talked about it in the morning.

It'd be more after show. Also, prayers and thoughts to all the people who had to go through that tragedy in New Orleans. Yeah, that's crazy. Starting Starting off all some crazy shit. To everyone affected by that situation. They are raising the threat level in the city. There's some possible, we don't know the game got moved till tomorrow, today, we all see this.

But also, they're talking about possibilities of if they don't have it feeling secure, that the Super Bowl might get moved. So that might be another conversation for another time. They gonna make sure it's padded. They gonna make sure, they gonna pad that motherfucker up. And if they don't play them games, but also, yeah, that's a different city.

I don't know if y'all too familiar about how the world is, but that's whenever they own that type of time, yes. I love Bourbon Street, no smut for me. I hate that that shit happened for 100%. First time I ate Papa Dog's. But. Oh yeah, out there, that motherfucker was far too south of John Lucas, bro.

He took me to pop a dog out there. That motherfucker was hitting. There are a lot of places I wanna try out there. Hopefully there, you know what I mean? Best food city in the, I love New Orleans. You think it's the best food city in the world? Um, outside. I like their food though.

They Popeye's taste different than ours too. Oh, the one, oh nigga, it's not the same, bro. It's gourmet on there. Even that little right there. I don't know, I don't know. You Popeye's in the world. Shit, I shoulda tried it. That one right there, it's the CBS right there before you get to Birmingham. That shit hit different. That motherfucker. That's different. I don't know, he pop out in the world. Shit, that one right there,

it's the CBS right there before you get to the burn. That shit hit different. That's gourmet, my nigga. Even when they got the rats in there and everything, I don't care. That motherfucker pressure. Yeah, bro, three piece spices. I seen a rat fly, I said fuck it.

We here now. Yeah, turned up. I'm tapping into the real restaurants when I slide. Shots of mamas. Yeah, it's some heat. Anything on that strip, bro. Anything on that strip. Pop out on that strip. Yeah, we got some heat. Anything on that strip, bro. Anything on that strip. Pop pot on that strip.

Yeah, we got some. No, that's not what it's real, bro. Not pop pot, bro. I'm gonna get that one out. If everything goes close, bro, give me a three piece biscuit, dirty rice, gravy, macaroni. First of all, shout out to Louis.

I forgot so much happened with this pot last year, but the recap with you eating the 10 piece on here. That's him blowing it up. He always making shit. That's crazy, nigga. so much happened with this pod last year but the recap which you eating the 10 piece on here blowing it up it's crazy to slap the 10 piece on the show and you ate it so fast it was literally six pieces of chicken he going to exaggerate

I be letting him cook he was saying 30 what else happened man fuck y'all I'm gonna let him get this shit off. He was saying 30. What the hell was happening, man? Fuck y'all. I'm turnt, man. Throw me the bottle, man. Y'all give me one for Christmas every time. God damn it.

Every time we have one Christmas episode. At least it wasn't this one. Maybe I would've got to beat this for Christmas. I swear to God. Maybe we just pass that motherfucker like they do to Communion Tray in Churches Crang. Same difference, bro. Now, why niggas handed off like that like,

man here you go again. The nigga's like, here you go again. It definitely gonna be a trouble. Why did y'all pass it? There was a question. Cause it's funny. It was already, don't say that was the motion for sure. Cause we laugh at shit, would it happen out of organically

and we don't know. It'd be so funny cause like we really laugh at shit and make shit 10 times worse and people don't be knowing what's going on I'm just saying but Question let me ask you a question What's up when your kids first cuss the first time did you laugh and then pop them in the mouth? No because I

Asked my kid to go cuz okay, but the first time you ever heard a kid cuz a kid cuz well the first time I heard my nephew cuss, he was like, man, fuck. I was like, man, this little nigga bad. I don't say that shit no more. It ain't funny no more. That's child abuse. But nah. I'm just saying.

But ain't that how it goes? I'm thinking it's child abuse. You laugh. No, they shouldn't be cussing, bro. So when somebody say something unexpectedly. You laugh. He probably gonna laugh. And then correct it.

Then you correct it. I let mine get they shit off of it, it was just us. I'm all about letting kids be who they are. But I'm just, I'm making a point about something. He was making an analogy. I'm just giving an analogy. Oh, you can do whatever you want. I'm just saying,

I'm just like, like my take just on the strictly that conversation is. I'm gonna need a little juice for this motherfucker, spicy. One on one. I ain't gonna lie, I'm gonna lose. He's slidin' over here. I let you express yourself as a kid. Now if we in front of the family.

Don't wanna simply describe it. I'm gonna have to tap in a dad for real. But like when we in the car, and boy I wanna get this shit off, I'm gonna let him tell the story. What's worse, like your kids getting that shit off when they rapping in the car, or like you with your white guy he like

them niggas oh no that can't happen no i'm saying like they had a concert like we see a white guy at a concert it's so many y'all have to be there everybody in the yeah ain't never been the right wave concert no you said it's one of your guys i'm just saying i've seen a person a person like i mean you can't you go like you said you'll fight the whole crowd but if you with somebody like you got a white homeboy you can't he said oh niggas said, you'll fight the whole crowd. But if you went somebody, like, you got a white homeboy, you can't, he said, oh niggas. It's like, I gotta clear you, bro. You gotta wake up and enjoy the concert. Malibu most wanted.

Yeah. Like what's my bad, what's my bad? I don't think white people bleep out nigga when they in the car. No. Oh no. They rap the fuck out of that. What dude said it? Gary Owens.

He said, I don't say nigga, only in the car when I'm rapping. Like I don't see any comedians. See See that's the thing, people are comedians and they say jokes and sometimes people laugh. I hit me with a stomp out of Tiki Bop, it's crazy too. Yeah, oh God, shout out to Tiki Bop. Barpee. Yeah, you ain't that famous in my city.

Yeah, niggas get together out here, right? In my city. Napa's a city of a we don't give a fuck who you are type city. We love underground niggas, we don't care about high major celebs at all. I was telling somebody today, the other day, like Jay-Z could come here, I will go to Jay-Z concert,

but Lil Bootsy or Yoh Gotti is playing. They might outsell Jay-Z here. Oh yeah, Indianapolis here. And that says a lot about the city, but we have Ron Wilder. You are. Nah. Not outsell.-Z here. Oh yeah, Indianapolis here. And that says a lot about the city, but we have- Am I wildin'? You are. Nah. It's the venue, yeah.

I'm saying like more people will go, like our people. So when I say Indianapolis, I'm talking about- Like our people, there's a whole- Cause honestly, white people, they support any concert, especially outdoors in the- Yeah, yeah, facts, facts. But I'm. And they outnumber us. Cause I remember Cloud 9 and Gucci, that 55% of that crowd was white.

That shit fucked me up. I mean, we just had Jeezy here at the old national. Yeah, that motherfucker was, that was a time. But if Jeezy here the same day, it's kind of like, yeah. I'm saying, if Jeezy and Jeezy here the same, Jeezy, no, you gotta say Boosie. T-G is just talking about what we support more though. I'm saying you gotta say, yo, Gotti.

I can't say he's gonna sell more. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Boosie and Jay-Z here at the same day, in Indianapolis, the inner city. Our community. Yeah, the inner city, the black niggas, and heartbeat. They gonna see Boosie. And it's popular.

I'm gonna see Jay-Z, I'll see y'all niggas tomorrow. But mostly. Not even a question, but I gotta say those people probably seen Boosie for the 36th time and they were excited as fuck. They're gonna hang time, they get a fit. It's lit. Niggas is tapping in for that.

That's a fact. Yeah, cause it's both old music that you gonna listen to anyway. Yeah, they gonna go listen to him before they go listen to Jay. And that's a fact. Tell them what you want on that night. Yeah, and I've never been him before they go listen to Jay. And that's the fact. Tell them what you on that night. Yeah, and I've never been a supporter of that.

I would go see Jay. And I love Boosie to death. Like anybody else come and it's Boosie, I'm going. But Jay, Ye, I'm cool. But I seen niggas leave Ye concept. This one I knew, it's my right-handed guy. In Atlanta, I knew Future was different when future went on before Ye. And future killed that shit, right?

And then Ye came out and niggas left. Arena damn near empty. I'm like, that's Kanye West. Like we saying, my niggas like, man, let's get ready to go to compound. Trying to hear that shit. Cause you got that energy already. For sure.

That's why though. I really think that's why people live. I wasn't there, I don't know, but I'm saying like, I don't want to see Jay-Z after Future. I know Jay-Z is the last, I'm saying though. I feel you. Nah, when Jay came. I don't want to see Kendrick after Future. Nah, when Jay came.

If we're the Latinas. Cause Jay came after, pause. Jay came on the stage after Jeezy one year. They did a concert together at a Blueprint 3 tour. Yeah, I've seen that here too. And it was different. I'm just, I'm just, if you- I see that nigga, I see the grown man cry.

For the people on that vibe though, like we're going straight from- Shout out to my nigga Joe Smith, nigga. He cried and looked at me and said, nigga, you wasn't dead. You wasn't dead. Cause he's the same age. Nigga, I'm just telling you, he was crying.

Well, that's different, bro. He had some motion going age. Nigga, I'm just telling you, he was crying. Well that's different. That nigga had Jay-Z on the brim of his New York Yankees fitted. Oh, that's nasty. Joe Smith, the real Joe Smith? Nigga, my nigga, Joe Smith. The only, the only. The only Joe Smith, nigga. The only one I count, number one pick, nigga.

The real stretch four. The number one pick, Joe Smith. That nigga, listen, he had Jay-Z on the brim. That nigga said. Y'all used to write on y'all fittings. Hell nah, nigga said, can I live? And I'm looking at him, I'm like, yeah, that's my shit. He's like, nigga, you wasn't dead.

He wasn't, bro. I wasn't, I'm like, nigga, I was born, motherfucker. I've heard this song. He was, he was. I know the song, he like, he start rapping and nigga, nigga tears coming down. I don't think Joe Smith is a bigger fan of Jay-Z than Shaffer.

Oh my mommy is. Bro he had a nigga on the brim of his hat. Give me Brad Shaffer over Joe Smith. Wait did he have Jay-Z on there or did he have Jigga? Verse for verse. He had a picture. Oh he had a picture of Jay-Z. Not the words, Jigga, Jay-Z, no it was a picture.

That explains a lot about him. Don't do my nigga like that. Matter of fact, Joe, we need to sit down with you. Give me my nigga Brad Schaefer. That nigga, I ain't gonna lie, Joe Smith took care of me, dog, when I was a rookie. Shout out to my dog, man. Even though you made me bring Hennessy to every game.

That's my nigga. He played it in the 70s. A pint or a bottle? Fifth. Oh, God. Young fella, a bottle? Fifth. Okay. Young fella, make sure you got that fifth. You're gonna say, a nigga got a pint of hitties and he's liable to shoot the entire ring up.

Young fella, make sure you got that fifth after the game. I had that fifth for Henny for my dog. Shout out to my man Joe. I respect, bro. One second moment, we smiles, but hey, get Joe Smith for, remember the smile for T. That was my dog, man. Joe Smith, you gonna be able to get you one of these.

Tig was grabbing that OG. I was, my shit was $43. Probably got cirrhosis. I'm fucking with Tig. Man, what's wrong with that nigga, man? He in good health, man, I just seen him. For sure, man, get well soon, Joe Smith. Listen, man, we got a great year lined up for y'all.

We can't wait to share with y'all. Morning show gonna be going crazy as well. Got some great additions to it be announced soon. We appreciate y'all. We show gonna be going crazy as well. Got some great additions to be announced soon. We appreciate y'all. We got some new merch coming out. Got some dope collaborations. We don't wanna spoil nothing, man. We gonna let y'all know we here.

We got some fire guests on the way, man. Fire guests this year. Oh yeah, I've been waiting for us to have some guests. We've been in here, you know, chopping it with y'all. Just being family again. But we got some guests on the way for sure. For sure, man. We plan to have a big year.

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