Green Light with Chris Long - Adam Lefkoe! Hanging with Shaq & Charles, NBA/TNT Stories, Top Shot Collections. Carson Shrine & Reid Roulette.

Episode Date: March 5, 2021

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That was the first time I realized the magnetism of Charles Barkley at a bar where I was sitting there and it started off. It was like me, him, and then like Ernie and Stanford, Steve. Because I was facing Chuck, I didn't realize that like 60 people had coming behind me. And he just has this energy. And he can like, you know, a waiter will come over and be like, hey, sorry to bother you. And he's like, then why are you bothering me there? And everyone's like, Oh, oh. Happy Friday. You serious, Clark?

Why? That's sort of my thing. The whole copying thing again. Yeah, are you really? Okay. Huh. All right. That's going to take an adjustment on my part.

Happy Friday, everybody. Hello, Kingston, West Virginia. Oh, you're really taking the whole thing. You're taking my thing. What thing? I would say a city I would say hello No like last week I said hello to Fort Wayne

Indiana and then some guy was like Hey that's awesome because I listen to the pod I'm in Fort Wayne Khan that's what I did in the person Shout out to Corey You've been on a real copying tear lately You really think I copy everything you do Did you not just hear yourself say hello

Reed will you pull the sound from last week Oh this is a long play by you I have a dog that might be joining the family soon. Say more. Yeah. You get a dog? Dog.

Oh, that's awesome, man. Congratulations. Yeah, yeah, you know. Kind of like right after I got a dog. What, uh, what kind of dog? A chocolate lab. Oh, you're getting a lab. Yeah, but not one of the...

Right after I got a lab. Not one of those like... You son of a bitch. I can't have anything, can I? That's just mine. Well, you kind of did it with, having a baby. Copied you, huh?

Yeah. You're unbelievable. All right. So. Getting the lab. Oh. So this was a bit. No, it wasn't a bit.

It just came really natural saying, hello. Hey, dude. Listen, I just, I wanted to say this since last week. I did kind of copy the lab thing. Maybe I didn't do it intentionally. It kind of happened through osmosis. But lab looked kind of nice. But I want to be on record and say,

you've been copying me your whole life. because you're older than I am. Well, firstly getting born. You decided to get born copying. I lost my virginity. Then you go and lose your virginity eventually after. I don't even know when. Well, good while, I would have imagined.

Committed to Virginia, my junior year. I waited until my senior year. And you went to Virginia? Okay. Moved into my neighborhood, dude. had a kid now the neighborhood piece is fair fair as fuck okay that's something I say

fair as fuck but thank you for copping to the the fuck god thank you for copying to the dog thing you even ridiculed my choice of dog saying that I made a mistake by getting a quote unquote ball dog well you know it is what you make it and you've made your dog into a ball dog we won't be doing that up the hill

oh you're not throwing a ball for your dog Well, there's everything in moderation. That lab's going to be happy. Also, you got a hot tub. I've had a hot tub for years. I took a break. I don't have a hot tub right now at my domicile. I had a hot tub all through my 20s.

You just all of a sudden hot tub. High school, I dyed my hair like M&M and then you died your hair like M&M right after. Your mom, no disrespect, died our hair. I know, but I was first. Are you sure? Yeah, what did she die? two people's hair at the same time.

No, but maybe I was first. I don't recall. You think. I'm pretty sure. Probably so. Also, Eminem's getting canceled as we speak, so we might want to burn those photos. Oh, shoot.

Smells like frankincense and mer in here. Fort Smith, Arkansas. Hello! So now that we can fish. You know why I said Kingston? When I was a kid, we played baseball there, travel baseball.

Almost got caught dipping there. Oh. Coach banging on the door, four dudes in there. and it was like a meth lab for Codiac Wintergreen. Now do you find a receptacle? Do you swallow it? Swallow it's a bad. Mike Cochran had to swallow his dip.

That's probably a rough couple hours. Big bad Rodney Knight at the door. He was not a, he was a. But still three. Yeah, three knocks. Hey, it's hard to see you through your water jug. There you, there we go. If you haven't noticed, I'm pretty hydrated today.

It does smell like frankincense and murn in here, doesn't it? It does. It's, uh, it is a, original herbal essence. It is a, what do we call these things? Incense. We're burning incense. This is a centering,

uplifting, meditative scent. And it is part of a shrine. That's right. We made a shrine. It's many things. It's good looking. It's good smelling.

And it's for one heck of a good cause. It's for Carson Wentz. Carson Wentz to the Colts. and all the Philly takes wince into the rearview mirror. We are not, this is a funeral of sorts for any Philly Carson takes, and we are on to Indianapolis, yeah? Yeah. Yeah, we are big time on to Indianapolis.

I'm going to try to go as far as not talking about the Eagles a lot until the draft. That would be terrific. I know you'd like that, so. Not only for me, but for the listeners. Talk about the candles here. I feel like maybe some people might extract. that there's more candles here than when I lit one for Nick Foles. Uh-oh.

Are you saying you're a bigger Carson fan than you are a Nick fan? Well, some of the locker room banter and practical joke experts out there who have spent many moons in an NFL locker room could probably extrapolate. I count upwards of 15 candles here. Pull up the old shrine picture. I'm pretty sure Nick only had nine. That's kind of the magic number with Nick. Nine, ten.

His jersey was a nine. His jersey was a nine. Carson, we figure we load them up with more candles. And here's the point. You don't light shrines for people when things are rosy. You light shrines for people when they're not the franchise quarterback coming off in MVP season. We lit that shrine and we were close. That shrine almost catapulted us back in the Super Bowl.

It was what had to be done. And this is what has to be done now for Carson Wentz. We're closing the door. We're turning the page. I love it. I love everything about this. first and foremost the moratorium on eagles talk but uh carson carson go out there recapture 2017 33 tuddies seven picks fire them up 11 and 2 as a starter you kidding me

keep it going let let's let's make the playoffs let's make a deep run deep run go cars and a deep healthy run because covid in some capacity is going to be around this fall so we busted out the Dr. Fauci bobblehead to bless Carson and his biography. Tony's here, Gritty's here to say safe travels. Another thing you might notice is that Carson's biography is not actually in a biography. It is a printed out

picture of the covers of his multiple books. Birds of prey? And? Soaring with the Eagles. The Eagles. So we've got two Carson's biographies here represented. They're not the real biographies because he didn't send me one. Uh-oh. WIP

is going to be running this one in the ground. Carson didn't send me a fucking autobiography. Nick gave me a real autobiography. Signed? No, he still hasn't signed it. Asshole. Yeah, bad guy. So just try to imagine as you listen to this podcast, we're going to have Adam Lefcoe on, we're going to talk about the NBA. We're going to have a read roulette where we talk about unretiring numbers. We're going to talk about what else is in there? Oh, the Cowboy Carousel. We're going to talk about the new space hotel. There's a space hotel opening up in 27. Dan Campbell. and knowing when to concede.

We're talking about the, yeah. We're talking about alphas. We know all about that, but we're going to be talking about all this stuff. And for the entire podcast, we're going to light this shrine, okay? We're not going to speak of it unless Adam Lefco is like, why do you have 46 prayer candles from the gas station?

Cowboy Reed, where did you get these prayer candles? Ele Montessaire. They had plenty of prayer candles. Damn, dude, have you been to Spain? You sound, it just rolls off the tongue. So he's going to be wondering where we got all these candles and we're going to have to maybe explain it briefly. But just know that as you're listening, smell the frankincense, smell the mer. Also, dude from Savannah, Georgia, a long time listener said to shout you out for shouting out Savannah, Georgia.

Are serious? Yeah. So it's two for two on the two mentioned last week. How about that? We got dudes everywhere. And girls and gals. Does yours count? Because you did a funny bit about the copying thing, but does your West Virginia count?

Yeah, sure. Okay, so we have, what was that? Jamaica, Kingston. Kingston, West Virginia. We had a Kingston, West Virginia, and a Fort Smith, Arkansas. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Holler back, folk. Haller back. Karen Abdul-Jabbar, you seen her at work? I have. Yeah, my lovely wife is, she's gone and got a little full of herself. She went viral, um, dunking a basketball on a five-foot hoop over a 10-year-old. A 10-15 at 9.5. night. We had some kids over. As people do at 10.15 at night. They were for a sleepover. It was the Higgins. Oh, okay.

It was our lovely friends of Hagan's. Biscuit was over. We were sitting on the couch and a ball game broke out in the family room about 10, 15. An hour and a half after bedtime. And Meg just flushes my namesake and Christopher Higgins. Yeah, real talk. Disrespectful. Well, for sure.

Sure. It was a poster because she took it strong to the hole. Maybe what we could get done is we could get one of these crypto trading cards done of my lovely wife, Karen Abdul-Jabbar, and sell it online. She also took it hard to the rack on a trampoline. She did. We went to Whalen had a birthday this week, as you know. I know now you know, but you missed it. It's no big deal. But I'm not a big birthday guy, so I'm not judging you. I didn't miss it, but what am I, I'm supposed to contact you to wish the kid to a happy birthday? Yeah, that's what I did when your daughter was born. Yeah, opposite of that, I, I facetimed you on the day she was born.

Yeah, but I was getting like later that night when things settled down, I was going to be like, happy birthday redacted. So anyways, oh for five on wishing Waylon a happy birthday. Oh, for five, my ass. I was the first. Oh, so you just decided to miss this one? I was the first. I didn't miss it.

I didn't miss it. In fact, I'll get to that one. one second. I was the first non-long to hold the young man when he came into the world. You sure were. You sure were. That was a that I said happy birthday. Very steady hands. Very steady hands. Thank you. I also liked a couple of IG posts. Yeah. Speaking of IG when we were celebrating the young man last week. And I noticed something, Chris, as I was going through in liking and viewing Karen Abdul-Jabbar. Yeah. I've posted three times in the last year. Yeah, yeah. Got married? got a dog had a kid

Chris Long, zero likes on those three posts. Maybe the algorithms buried your posts like Jimmy Hoffa. Megan Long, one like on those three posts. You know, Megan Long, you know,

she might be in your algorithm. Long family, one out of six potential likes on three momentous IG posts in the last year. We'll get back to you. I'm liking Whalen posts left and right. I'm liking Karen

Abdul-Jabbar. By the way, Karen Abdul-Jabbar, as good as the athletic prowess displayed in the video, that's a 10 out of 10 caption. Sure, sure, sure, sure. Did she take any offense to being a Karen? I know that's a... No, not at all, but I could imagine if she was a Karen, life is complicated right now. That stinks for Karen. I mean, it really does. I feel bad for most Cairns. I really do. I'm just going to say that. I think the Karen thing, it's a very necessary thing to call out, but there are some real Karen's out there who might be nice ladies. I think we just need to cycle through the name every couple of years. That's why I'm trying to

bring Karen back. Positive Karen. Yes. Let's just reimagine what Karen can be. And in my wife's case, she can be an Uber competitive short person who likes dunking on kids and getting famous on the

internet. Her fucking post went on overtime, women's basketball. Yeah, dude, 410,000 followers. Wow. Yeah, dude. Big week for her she's walking around uh you know kind of kind of talking shit around the house and and that sort of thing any talk of an extra step there on the first video there is a lot of talk of an extra step okay we'll get back to that but she also at jump she between the legs and she did she traveled for sure on that one for sure travel yeah she did go between the legs and it's a trampoline

so but still Vince Carter yeah for sure she did a Vince Carter with a trampoline I don't want to make this about me, I never would. But I couldn't do that because of the torn labrum. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No. So all, all respect, do and given to shout out to Karen Abdul Jabbar. She wouldn't come on the show today. Why not? Something to the effect of you guys just want me to fill your B block because your show fucking sucks. Well, you got moved to the less popular A block. We would have definitely had you in the C block, Karen. You got to work your way into the B block, okay? Um, shit, wife alert. I don't know if she even listens to this podcast.

Housekeeping items. First things first, I have a pet peeve. And it has been boiling on the surface for years, but I got to come out and say it. Microwaves are doing too much. They're doing too much. Microwave should have one button, add 30 seconds. What do you need to microwave for less than 30 seconds? Butter.

I think butter takes longer than 30 seconds. This is your corner. I want it to remain your corner, but I will say something potentially earth shattering in that I have never used a microwave. Stop. Yeah. And I know I've eaten things out of a microwave, restaurants, certainly when I was a young child. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Maybe even my lovely wife has prepared foods using a microwave.

I don't like how food tastes out of a microwave, so I don't use the microwave. I mostly just think about the head cancer. Yeah. But I'm not thinking about the taste is just fine to me. Well, but the texture changes. I got no issue. And yeah, it does. But that's kind of the cost of keeping food next day.

And I also learned a couple weeks ago, you don't do leftovers. Yeah. Never really have. We had to talk at home about that. Really? Yeah. Wife alert. Because now it's going to be a lot of leftovers, man.

Well, that lasagna train was pretty long. grateful for it as well. But I chose to eat that cold. I just think there's too many buttons on a microwave. It's all I'm saying. You know, how many times are you putting chicken in and you hit the chicken button? Is that even a button, Cowboy Reed? No, I don't think so. You know, there's various buttons. It's not just popcorn. They're trying to get too fancy. Microwave, add 30 seconds. That's it. I'm not trying to be weird. I really don't even know the buttons. That's unbelievable. Yeah. I didn't have a microwave at previous joint. And at this joint, I mean, I know where it is, but...

Maybe we'll dive in this a little bit later. When I use that Holy Schmidt sourdough, I mean, that's always in the oven. I say broil. Oh, you put it in the oven? In the oven. I put it in the toaster. Right, I don't have one of those either. Ooh, we got to talk about appliances, man.

Okay. Okay. Are you worried about the set at all, catching fire? No, I'm not worried about the set catching fire. The angel of... Let's see who this guy is. Oh, that looks like the Virgin Mary. Virgin Mary's got us.

I don't think the Virgin Mary is going to let our set catch on fire. TG30 is a little close to, appears to be Jesus. You know what I like about this set? Sorry, Jesus. You know what I like about this set is Fauci Blessing Carson. No doubt about it. Yeah, he's right over the autobiography. If you can't see it at home, which you probably can't because it's a podcast.

He is front row center in the flavor station. I tried to put the incense in his hand earlier. Oh, you're going to tell the people? Yeah, broke his thumb off, dude. I don't know if that's bad, bad juju, isn't it? Of course it is. That's bad juju-Smiths-Schuster. Like, I don't want to, well, I think you know it's coming.

Just be, take precautions, please. Okay, I sure will. Let's get to Adam Lefcoe, shall we? We shall. As we teased earlier, we got Adam Lefko on. We rarely do the NBA here. I haven't watched, admittedly, I mean, over under on five minutes of the NBA this year, make. For me, way over, for you, slightly over.

Slightly under, dude. Yeah, I poked my head out to see if the Knicks were really playing that good. And then I was afraid that I was watching Knicks and I ducked. Who's in first place in the West? No idea. Lakers probably. Utah Jazz. Oh, I'll be damn.

Well, Lefko is going to be able to answer all these questions for us and more. How you doing, Adam? I feel like football players really start paying attention after the All-Star break. Our guy, Sims, used to tell me that the only reason that NFL players care about the final four is the national championship game is the last time you can smoke because it's usually one month later is training camp. Yeah. Well, you know what? And the way that goes is they do have the testing. that period starts 420, which is, yeah, you're absolutely right.

But you do get like a month before camp. Now they've changed the whole thing. Sidebar. I hate to go down that road. But you do work a lot with Chris Sims. And I love his work. And he nails this quarterback stuff, done me. And he were tied at the hip.

We were tied at the hip. So like me and him, early stages of Bleacher report, we would do 30 videos a day. And it would be like, here are the three X factors for the Tampa Bay bucks. And then we would like stop down. And be like, here's the three X factors for the New Orleans Saints. And so we ended up doing a podcast and stuff. And for about two years there, it felt like we were yelling into the void. And we were like, no one is listening to us.

But Sims has told everybody that Blake Bordels was not as good as Derek Carr. And he was completely right about like all these other guys. And then he went on Levitard to do like his quarterback rankings list. And that's when people started really paying attention. and now he's all big time on NBC. But there are a lot of positions that I don't trust him on. But when he is talking about who has a chance to be special at the quarterback position, I have not seen him miss.

And I can't say that about a lot of guys. Because I saw his little highlight tape that he put up. I don't know if I sent this to you make, but he was right about Lamar. He was right about Darnold, at least in this circumstance, which what I took away was, guys, good. He's not going to be good enough to transcend a poor organization.

that's not doing a great job and surrounding him with talent and such. And that's still kind of the jury's still out on him, but we know that he's not that good. Some others that he hit on. What do you remember? Well, he had Josh Allen over all of those guys. I have a Facebook video from 2016 where he's showing me Patrick Mahomes. And I'm doing what all the media was doing, which was, yeah, but he went to Texas Tech, Chris.

Like, none of these numbers are real. And he goes, he's, he's Brett Farf. This kid is Brett Fav. And he was the only one. That's part of the reason why me and Sims have a good relationship with Mahomes is we saw him at the Super Bowl that next year. So we had played one game because he was behind Alex Smith. And Pat was like, hey, you guys were like really talking positive about me. And I was like, yeah, man, like we see it.

And so I wish I could have bought stock in Mahomes that early. But Sims is really good. The media loves to look at analytics. and I get it. Yeah. But Sims is very good at going, hey, this guy is bigger and stronger. And in the NFL, that does matter.

And I think we have a tendency to like, yeah, but what about his short area accuracy? And Sims is like, Josh Allen is a freak. Like, he's going to be special. And I think sometimes you have to have some people that are often deemed Neanderthals, but really it's simple facts.

I do think it's the counterbalance, man. Exactly what you're talking about. Like they have to marry up. and and and and uh go hand in hand like i analytics are valuable but you can't just look at the sheet of paper and i mean it sounds obvious but you need dk mackoff's three cone what about a short like get out of i'm good on the three cone i've seen him play football has there ever been anybody that you know like you guys got the hey out of boy from pat mohomes have you patrick mahomes excuse me again i know i'm playing with fucking fire wow um has there any been anybody who like

a shitty take you had on them and called you out in person. Okay. Well, we were very aggressive towards Blake Bordles. He came up twice already. Yeah. It was like our thing because the thing with Simmons was like he's the 70th best quarterback in the NFL. And I became the height man where I was like, yeah, he stinks.

And then I heard somebody like texted me at a party and they were like, hey just so you know like somebody brought your name up and Bordles was there and he was like fuck that guy if I ever see him and I was like oh no because like I'm usually like hey it's great to see everybody um and I got a little scary to what because at some point you've said something that somebody wouldn't like and I know it's going to happen to me at some point with a player especially because players get extra mad if it's a former player and I try to be as fair as I can but there will always be something I would have perceived any bit as a slight what make You got in your feelings once.

Kurt Warner. Kurt Warner was gratuitous. You've never heard me say anything this gratuitous. And me and Kurt are fine. This doesn't even register on his radar screen. He's a Hall of Famer. But the year I was top 100, when I was in St. Louis, it was like, in making it's like another sob story.

Accolades are hard to come by when you're on a shitty team. So I made Top 100, and that was like, oh, cool. Kurt Warner, former St. Louis Ram up there on NFL Network. Anybody have anything else before we go to break? yeah I got something Chris Long isn't even a top 15 defensive end let alone a top 100 player I got 13 sacks

I'm four in the league first off I just want to make myself crystal clear because you know me like I don't spend much time on that thing like we haven't talked about it in you know seven years or whatever was like Kurt and I have seen each other many functions including like man of the year

stuff big hug good to see Kurt I thought that one thing was some gratuitous bullshit and I tell him if you ask about it. We were talking about your tequila drinking escapades with Emmett Smith, which your job's pretty cool. We had a night where we all met up in a bar after the NCAA championship, and Chuck was there. Keyword after, because nothing was open. I think we were able to imbibe in large part because of Chuck. Because of Charles Berkeley. Charles Berkeley had that. He was like, Minnesota. Minnesota. One more round. The Hyatt. The Hyatt. Jay Billis was there. Lefco was there. It was such

a hazy night we were like i think we were at that bar i think you were at that bar but uh the whole gang was there and by the way dany amandola was there who lefko mentioned owes us a tattoo we bet on the game we didn't bet money um he was supposed to have a v saber tattooed somewhere on his ass you put that devil and west welker were so excited for texas tech exactly that was the that was the first time i realize the the magnetism of Charles Barkley at a bar where I I was sitting there and it started off it was like me him and then like Ernie and Stanford Steve and my fiance looked at me and she's like I'm going to go to bed this seems like a dude conversation and I was like I appreciate you and because I was facing because I was facing Chuck I didn't realize that like 60 people had come in

behind me and he just has this energy where he and he can like you know a waiter will come over and be like hey sorry to bother you and he's like then why are you bothering me there and everyone's like oh oh and he's just he he just attracts humans i've like never seen it and everybody does laugh like that if you're charles barkley and granted everything he says is fucking funny to me pretty much but like you're going to get a reaction no matter what and it must be coolest shit to be Charles Barkley. All these little people just laughing. He must have a skewed sense of how funny he is. It's got to be tough because he is funny. Emmett Smith, you had him on and you were drinking tequila and you asked him what? Okay, well, let me give you my full provenance history with Emmett

Smith because it does involve you slightly. Three years ago, you guys are in the Super Bowl and he comes up and the Super Bowl radio row is in Mall of America and it was full of Eagles fans. And he was getting booed everywhere he went. And think he's working for like K jewelers or something. And he's going like spot to spot to spot. And he's doing that whole thing. And he's getting booed. And so he comes over and I'm like, I'm Eagles fans. So I'm so in his face too. And I'm like, do you know how annoying we're going to be when we win the Super Bowl and we rub it in your face and you haven't been to playoffs in like 20 years? He went on a six minute rant just attacking me. was like, that's my dad over there. He's like, your dad's a loser too. Like, and I, and like,

it got real, I was sweating. It got intense. It was like Bill Burr talking about all the bridges and Harold Carmichael. He's like, you're racist city. Just hitting everybody in the city over the head. And so then the next year, or like two years later, he's on Radio Rogan. I'm like, oh, no, is he going to remember me? Like, I'm nervous. And so in Miami last year, he came up and he was sponsored by Aredora Tequila and luckily he forgot everything. And I made him take a shot before every question. I was like, I'll do it with you. And because it's radio roll.

Like, who cares? And people are drunk from the night before if not. Exactly. Everyone's wearing sunglasses. And he said that DAC should take less money. And the next day it was on like all the ESPN tickers and it's all over there. And I'm like, none of them know that we were drinking tequila before every answer. Like, I don't know if you're allowed to run with.

that. And so this year, I knew that he had tequila again. And so they sent me a bottle and we're doing it again. And I'm like, he forgets me again. Like, I'm just going to keep doing this gag. Three years, run it. Yeah, it's amazing. And I told him, I said, Emmett, you need to make this. Instead of comedians and cars getting coffee, it should be Emmett Smith drinking tequila and just talking. And he looks at the producer. He goes, that's genius. And he's like, we need to do this. And so I said, you know, if you could have anybody at a table, who would you have? And he's like, Maya Angelou. And he's like Martin Luther King.

And then he goes, John F. Kennedy. And I'm like, what the heck would you ask him? And he goes, who shot you? And I'm like, oh, yeah. He's totally going to know that answer. What number question was this? I mean, at that point, as an interviewer, I'm just going, how weird can I get with Emmett?

Like at that point, I'm like, he's lost his filter. He thinks, like, he's doing all these little interviews. So he thinks he's the man. and everyone's had to talk to him. I was like, let's see how weird we'll get with him right now. Oh, you got him. Yeah, that was probably. You got him because JFK has an awkward fucking answer,

uh, considering the follow-up question. All right, Adam, what the hell is going on in the NBA and keep in mind, I'm a Knicks fan. Should I feel comfortable poking my head out and watching the Knicks? Uh, before last game,

it was the best start through 35 games since 2012. I think the fact that Tibadoe is doing exactly what everyone thought he was, which is they're going to actually play hard. And it's not this, what it's been the last few years was like a combination of power forwards that you're like, this doesn't even make sense. As a Knicks fan, you should be excited about Emmanuel quickly. He's just, he looks like a really future possibility there at Guard out of Kentucky. Julius Randall is having easily the best season of his career and rightfully so, an all-star. the East is such a jumbled mess that when they fired,

that when the Hawks fired their coach and they were an 11th, they were three and a half games back of fourth. So that's, and don't forget, because I know you're not that in the basketball, there's a play in tournament this year. So you don't even have to be eighth. You can be 11th.

Oh, so they're doing the playing thing again. Yes. I love the playing thing. You like the playing thing or no? Yeah, it gives, it gives, what I'm curious about is how it's going to impact free agency.

Right. Because, you know, there's a lot more teams that think they have a chance. And so will there be a lot of sellers when there's a lot of teams that think they can make it? If I was going to sum up the NBA to you in a few sentences, it would be, we started the year ago and it's the Lakers championship or bust. Anthony Davis got hurt and everybody went, oh, this is open. The two biggest MVP candidates are Nicola Yolkic and Joelle Mb in a year in an era where it's all about three-point shooting. Utah has the best record in the West and the NBA, but nobody really trusts them.

And the nets are the scariest team because you have James Hard and Kyrie Irving and Kevin Durant, and in the playoffs, any of them can drop 50 on your face. So a lot of questions still, but it feels more open because the Lakers suddenly look vulnerable. Are the jazz like the Steelers last year where you knew it was going to come crashing down or just they're going to be pretty good competitive,

they'll probably lose in the second round. The jazz are like a supercharged version of what the Bengals were, were those years where you're like, nobody cares what you do in the regular season. You keep losing in the first round of the playoffs. And until you prove us otherwise, I'm not taking you seriously. There are a lot like what the Raptors were.

The Red Rocket era. Yeah, and I'm looking here, and the suns are really good. I'm sure Devin Booker has something to do with that. Yeah, he's probably playing real well. The Clippers. The Clippers. has been huge the lakers the blazers my man uh damian lillard he needs to get out of there at some

point don't he i don't think so i well and i and what i mean by i don't think so is he is so loyal i know and he has made so many comments about he doesn't believe in like ring chasing and he really wants to bring one to portland that i i look do he might have one of those like Gary Payton, Carl Malone, end of his career type of stints. Yeah. But to me it seems like he never wants to leave. Yeah, I saw

the thing about ring chasing and I you know a thing or two about it. I do. I do. I love that. Nothing wrong with it. God bless you. There's especially nothing wrong with it in the NFL where I feel like it's just a crap shoot anyways. All that happened was I was this

tremendous handicap or two years in a row. But in basketball, I totally see the point. Some guys are going to be like, man, if I go join the Lakers next year, you know, I'm not going to be able to be thought of as the guy or people will look at that championship and say, and we don't know because like this is totally uncharted territory. In 10, 15 years, we don't know what history is going to say about like a conglomeration of. Well, I say this. Imagine playing your entire career, Chris, with the Rams. Right. And never, knowing what it's like to win it all. I thought about that. And the rest of your life having to

answer that question. Right. And for me, our generation, we grew up with Jordan and where you're measured by your success in the championships. And I see no problem. You know, like I've always equated it to if there's a five on five game going on pick up and one team is destroying people. And one guy goes, I got to go pick up my daughter. And they look at me. on the sideline and they're like, you want to join in? What am I going to say? Nah, I'd rather win it the real way with my team. No, like, I want to play good basketball. I want to play good football. Like, it's weird that all we do is talk about. And like we said, the guys that win a Super Bowl have a better chance of getting media jobs after their career is. That's true. Look at us.

And so we got our own podcast. Yeah. Like most white males. I don't know why we, we reward And then we also badmouth it. Aren't all players ring chasing? I mean, definitely. It's, of course, you want to win. And of course, if you're a free agent, you should put yourself in the best. People badmouthed J.J. Watt because he chose the money. Well, the other way you're ring chasing.

And I think that, I think really the dichotomy in the NBA and the NFL is just the size of the rosters. One move can be a seismic shift in the NBA, where it's going to be really hard outside a quarterback to make a move in the NFL that could change everything. In fact, there's so few, I mean, you look at like Brady, we just looked at this happening with Brady, the last guy, and I think I forgot somebody from the last 10 or 12 years, but there was Peyton Manning

who was kind of like a late career free agency shift because he jacked his neck up in Indy, but he didn't really win that Super Bowl. The defense was the leading role. The Bucks also had a top five defense as well as Tom Brady played. So it's just really rare that you're just going to pull a guy from another team and change the trajectory of your franchise.

And in the NBA. The only thing that I noticed, and I'm curious what you think about this, is it seems like what Peyton and Tom did beyond their contributions. Because I think Tom has a lot more left in the tank than Peyton did. Even though those first few years in Denver, I mean, he was like, what, 50, 5,000 yards, 50 touchdowns, all that with Wes Welker and Demarius Thomas. But when the quarter, you know, quarterback is a Hall of Famer. The pressure it puts on everybody else and also their level of

discipline. Right. That, you know, I always thought with James, even when he didn't do something wrong, like even if Mike Evans did run the wrong route, everybody, it was, it was like a get out of jail free guard. It was probably James's fault. Yeah. And so like the level of responsibility and everybody else was so low. And then Tom gets there and you're like, I can't waste his time. You know, Peyton Manning, I can't waste his time. The way Von Miller talks about Peyton Manning, it's like it's his godfather. Like he's obsessed with the guy.

You're right. It's totally one of those things. And you could see what we talked about in this show a lot was through the year, how dudes seemed to at first not get it, what it took. And then by the end of the season, it was they were like appreciative of that guy's presence. Even though he wasn't even the best player on the team,

just having that glue kind of guy that's been there, done that. that makes a big difference. Like the movie Whiplash. Like the movie Whiplash. We were our boy Miles Teller, friend of the program. That dude gets down. He does get down.

He's an Eagles fan. Big Eagles fan. I saw him at the Lake Tahoe celebrity tournament. And I was with Kelsey at the time, Travis. And we were on the lake and we look over and there's this dude just grooving, like dancing on this boat and the boat's going fast. I'm like, that guy's nuts. And we get closer and it's like Miles Teller.

guys in finance or something. And I'm like, Philly's! No, he's a big Eagles fan, bro. I love Miles Teller. The dunk contest is one of the things that everybody looks forward to or increasingly less. When I was a kid, people look forward to. We've gotten to Alex Caruso turning it down so he can play golf, is what I read.

That's not a good thing when you got white guys turning down the dunk contest because they want to go play golf. Alex Caruso, a ton of respect for that. A ton of respect for that cat, but we've come to that. Can you fix it? Well, I think that like you were saying, I think this is a special circumstance. I think that, you know, these people haven't had any time off. And they also only had like six weeks in between seasons.

Right. And I think that you're going, hey, not only that, it's at halftime. And a lot of these guys, it's not as much fanfare. Like normally like they practice for months and they get their repertoire for months. And a lot of a lot of the events this weekend seem more to be like, hey, can you do this? Right. So I don't think the Dunn contest has a problem. I think last year alone it was, you know, Zach Levine and or not Zach Levine, Aaron Gordon was back in it.

Derek Jones Jr. That's where Dee Wade gave the nine and it was like a big deal. Yeah. Are people like legit mad at him about that? Yeah. They're fans. Yeah. Because, oh, you gave it over to, to your teammate, your former Miami Heat guy. And, oh, I, he, me, him and Candace were all in a group chat.

And Candace gave a nine also. And they were just, I was like, how bad is it? And they were just sending me like death threat, like tweets and all that. And it's over, over a dunk. I'm just telling you, if you'd have fucking tweeted, I don't think, I think D. Wade had a point you to thought you to yelled fire in a theater or tweeted about something political. that you weren't supposed to say. You know who else gave a nine? Who? Black Panther. Chadwick. He was on that he was on that dunk contest. Really? Everyone always focuses on Dwayne Wade and I'm like yeah well listen nobody was going to get upset at Black Panther. Oh Dway did

wait if he'd have thrown him under the bus Chadwick Bose and God rest of his soul would have been like you fucking asshole I thought I snuck like he's looking at all the D Wade memes like I'm not going to tell this backstory ever. Yeah exactly. Uh, But this is why I love Shaq. Shaq's the kind of guy that, let's say I'm doing a segment. I did that this happened. I'm announcing the All-Star Reserves. And I go, Zion Williamson leads the NFL and points in the paint.

And I didn't even realize I said NFL instead of NBA. And so like the New Orleans Pelicans tweeted out like, wow, Zion's so great. He does it all. And you can even do this in the NFL. And I was like, oh, great. My mess up. And like Shaq will look at me like a dad. And he'll go, don't ever listen.

to those people. They're normal people. You're special. And I'm like, thanks. Like, I appreciate it. When Wade and Candace came back and the producers and everybody's like, it's going to be okay. Shaq was like, screw them. You made it more entertaining. You should be proud of yourselves. And like that's Shaq. Shaq's like never, don't listen to any of the haters ever. Do you know, do you know that I went and saw it? Well, you don't know this. We've never really spoken at length. I saw Shaq in 1998 in Monty. Montana at the state fair in concert. Yeah, I got the tickets.

I found him. I kept getting weird. Every little sentence there was. Yeah, well, Montana is not really the logical end for I went to a Shaq concert. He was DJing? No, he was fucking rapping. He was emceeing. This was Shaq, what was his name back then?

Shaq Diesel, Shaq Fu. I'm also reading Perlman's book is very entertaining as well. I don't know if you've ever talked to him about Perlman's book. the one thing that I appreciate about Shaq is everything is about the opportunity. So when he did a rap album, it wasn't, I want to be a rapper. It was, how can I put myself on a rap song with all of my favorite rappers? And so he's on a song with Biggie. He's on a song with like Wu Tang.

And it was mainly like, let me use my fame and this idea because I did like one song to like for the rest of time be able to say I shared a song with Biggie. Oh, fuck yeah. And like, and that's how Shaq thinks. He's like, oh, I really like using this ring product as a, as a video on my door. How do I own part of that company? And he just, he's always thinking at 30,000. So one day his back was jacked up. He had spasms. And he was like to ching. And, you know, some of the greatest commercials of all the time. Explain us this top shot thing before we let you go. Because we have no idea what we're talking about in the, you know, that area of the world cryptocurrency and such make you nothing so we're going through a boom right now with these things called non fungible tokens also known as nfts you have musicians kings of

leon is actually going to release an album solely as an nfti we see logan paul released some nfts of him and they sold wildly um what what a lot of people are seeing if i'm going to like try and zoom out just explain the whole thing is this digital world is being created right now. Some refer to it as the metaverse. And so really the only thing that's living there right now is art. And if you're into collectibles or investing with anything in general, whatever is made first, usually is the one that maintains its value in the long run because it's the first copy.

It's the rookie card. It's like, oh, this is the first Van Gogh or the first Picasso. It always holds more weight. And so you have a lot of people dashing in to go first. Top shot is a digital moment. It is an NFT. And the key is NFT stands for non-fungible token. Fungible means it can be changed.

If you have a dollar bill and I have a dollar bill, we can exchange them and it doesn't matter. It's the same thing. Right. But in a non-fundable token, you have an item and I have an item and they are distinctly different items. these top shots, if you want to use as the sports card analogy,

they come in packs, you can collect them, you don't know what you're going to get when you open them, you can trade them, you can invest in them, all that stuff, and they come with like serial numbers. So the very rare ones are out of 49,

the much like common cards, some of the other ones are out of like 15,000. And a lot like cards, the ones that are LeBron or Steph Curry are going to be a lot more valuable than the other ones. I would say this. As someone that got really deep into cards right when quarantine hit, and I have done very well for myself in that. I think a lot of people are afraid of the stock market, especially after what happened with GameStop, where they're going,

this doesn't seem like a system that's going to reward me, and I feel like I'm always up against it. And because, whether it's stimulus money or people aren't spending as much money because they're not going on vacations or they're not buying sneakers, all that. A lot of people have disposable incomes and they're looking for alternative investments. Tickets have gone up. Cards have gone up. Memorabilia has gone up. Paintings, things like Rally Road where you get a piece of an investment. This is hitting the digital world where people are going, we're going to a digital world as it is. Why not get a piece in it? Do you play 2K or FIFA at all? we we played both quite a bit we've been off because we had a bunch of sex and had kids i get it hey listen

i haven't my fiance will not let me have video games because she that's not and i get it i'm i would be too distracted you need us to represent you in this in this household dispute uh well no my life got inherently better when i stopped playing video games really i was a i was a one-man band news reporter in hastings nebraska and i would come home after every newscast and i'd be like i'm just going to play madden I was I was I was a top 100 worldwide Madden no long yes and you walked away you're Barry Sanders because I realized if I just keep coming home and playing Madden until 4 a.m. You get rich. I'm going to be living here the rest of my damn life you couldn't there was no it wasn't like now

this was back when my my the best I could do was get on that ESPN show where they put you on a bus driving around the country playing Madden on like listen man they you like the people that sold their house in Brooklyn like 20 years ago or something. You totally missed the boat because you're right. You just didn't realize how close you were. That's a top 100 Madden player. That's pretty damn impressive.

So I'm on the site right now, NBA Topshot.com. You mean to tell me I can get an Enis Cantor for, let's see. Enos. $699. He's just playing defense here. Chris, this is my, this is the,

I think it's important with all this stuff. Everyone loves to come on and be like, every time you buy something, it goes up. That's not how this world works. And so it really scares me is, I have a friend Chris Vernon works over at the Ringer, and I got him on a top shot like a month and a half ago. He got a few moments for 20 bucks that are now going for thousands of dollars.

At the same point, he had some random ones. And one was like an Alec Burks. And he listed it for like 60 bucks. And it sold within two seconds. And in my opinion, opinion, that really scares me. It scares me because I'm sitting there going, who actually wants to collect Alec Burke's moments? LeBron, I get. Luca, I get. But like, Enis Cantor, you get.

Enis Cantor, you definitely get. I don't get. I don't get. Actually, go ahead. I've always really liked Enis Cantor. Really? Oh, yeah. And you got his name right, too. Let me guess we got it wrong. It's not Enos. No, I think it's Enis. I think it's. Enis. No, you think it's Ennis because you think that it's more respectful, but you don't know if that's real or not. Yeah, it might just be exactly how you think it is. Because you just think Enis is one letter away from embarrassing, and that might just be the name of his original name. Enis. Enis. It is Enis, isn't it? So tell me this. I'm looking at this Jimmy Butler, okay, and these are going to be expensive. I saw Cam Redish's name. Not the layup series. Okay, so what are the two numbers? Lowest, price 164 highest price quarter mill what does that mean so the one thing i learned when i got in a sports card is just because you're listing something for a lot does not mean that it's actually worth

that much so what you really want to do is scroll to the bottom where you can see what they've been selling for because that's the true mark of value is now what people are asking for when i first got in the sports cards i went on the ebay and i typed in nfl cards and the most expensive one was a Sean Mannion card listed for a million dollars. And I went, timeout. And I realized this guy is putting it up there as a joke. And so the true market value is what they're selling for. That's amazing. Sean Mannion was, was a big baller in the trading card circle. Okay, so I'm looking at top sale, 3200. And then there's like a big cliff from 2,500 down to like 160. So there's a bunch of 160. Now what, what serial number is the 3200 one?

serial number six okay i had to scroll over the lower serial numbers will always go for more again it goes back to it's better to be one of the first minted than one of the last minted now the value that's always going to go for the most is if it's the jersey number of the player oenus canter what number is he great question we're going to find out hey super fan making this is where you're supposed to show your fandom what's his number i was going to say saw Cam Reddish here and I as I look closer there are a bunch of assists and steals

because I don't think Cam Reddish has made a not a lot of scoring bucket yet Not a lot of scored Not a lot of scored So how many you've said this But how many how many exist Of one of these NFTs? So it should say it on the moment

So that's the thing is I was a part of Two bigger purchases That's where I did before we let you go You got to tell us about your big purchase Yeah so I think it's important in all the space to disclose what you have so we're not all

just up here pumping and dumping I own two really small moments that are like nothing it's like Malik B I just got in a pack and I just haven't done anything with it right I was in a group chat with a bunch of like DFS and really smart

venture capitalists and they were like hey we're going in on one of these which is a John Morant dunk over Aaron Baines which I loved because I was like that's a true moment It was like Jomaran's coming out party. And in terms of serial number, it was number one. So we talked about it.

Like in my mind, if this thing continues, I wanted to happen. And I think that was a $35,000 purchase and I had a small percentage in that. When I say small, like, these guys are really carrying me. I'm just in there to talk about it. Yeah, but you know what? It's good for business because like that's the way I heard about this stuff through you. And of course, I'm a week late. I know all the fucking shows did this last week.

but maybe our listeners didn't know. Yeah. And then the other one I was a part of was that really big LeBron for 208. It's a beautiful one. And again, I had a very small percentage in that. But the reason that the group and myself, top shot traders, the reason we went for it was this is LeBron's first, his first real big limited moment. There's only 49 of them. And I think it's important.

if you really believe in this, and I think that the NBA believes in this, and that's the reason I'm really interested. Like Mark Cuban said last week, he expects NFTs in which Top Shot as a leader to be the third largest stream of revenue for the NBA in 10 years. And so if I think that in a pandemic, there's a league that's having an all-star game in Atlanta because they need to get this broadcasting rights money and they're up against it, that in the middle of thin air, here comes a revenue stream. that they don't have to do any extra work for.

And if anything, it promotes their sport. And they're the first sport with their own cryptocurrency. Like, I think the NBA will market this. So are we going holograms next? What do you mean? Oh, well, I think that would call, I would be sick. Like, you're, your house, you're throwing a house party. Oh, come into my theater room.

I have a hologram of LeBron dunking over some European guy. and it's actual size, actual speed. I talked to the founder of Top Shot today for my podcast, The Lefko Show, it's going to come out next week. And one of the things I asked him was, it's really hard to display these things. He said, well, we've already built into the code of each moment, the ability for VR and AR.

And so whether it's Oculus, I know Google Glass is coming out soon, and they're going to be retooling that, there is going to be a way where you hold your phone and all of a sudden it's displayed like that. He also took it to a whole other perspective where he goes, why don't we give out NFTs instead of tickets to games? And what happens if your Top Shot collection when you walk in and they scan it and they go,

Chris Long is one of the greatest collectors of New York Knicks top shot moments, you can actually come into our VIP section. Wow. And so how can digital assets impact our actual physical world and and find a way to almost act as like an MBA currency. And that's, then you start getting into conversations that are much more than I got a video clip. Damn, that's cool. You know what I mean? That's cool.

Adam Lefcoe, man, appreciate you. I really want to get you back on another time. We do a home and home. You hollered me anytime, dude. Deal. NBA, want to make some, you want to print something. some money, player strains. Weed.

Just think about that. Like if Carl Malone still played, Mailman OG. You can only buy it at team shops. Printing money, dude. Scotty Burrell. Bitch please. Bitch please, bitch please, OG.

Chris Mullin. Flat top OG. Yeah, dude. I could go for days. That left shrimp. What was his name? What was his, uh,

I don't know that he had one. He was kind of just debt left shrimp. How about band of horses had a, which is a band, has a song called Debt Left Shrimp. Yeah, and Pearl Jam was originally supposed to be Mookie Blaylock. Hmm. Yeah. Wow.

It didn't stick like Pearl Jam. Yeah, and like the tall you are, it's good because you're higher. Short guys are going to have trouble selling drugs. Mugsy. Sorry, dude. Sell T-shirts or something. Leave this to the minute bowls of the world. Bobo.

Gotta have your head in the clouds. This can be our corner unlike, not unlike, Groundhog Day. Yeah, oh yeah, give me a fact. You're gonna try to get- Oh, you want a fact? Yeah, I love a Groundhog fact. The Groundhog is also known as a Woodchuck, whistle pig, and a land beaver. Groundhog is a better name for the animal than Woodchuck, as despite the children's rhyme, they're not very adept at moving wood. Yeah, that would be confusing.

Because of their preference for open areas, the groundhog population probably benefited from the forest clearing that occurred after European settlers arrived in North America and spread across the continent. There are likely more groundhogs in America now, Chris, than before Columbus landed. They're like the anti-buffalo's. Used to be heard of buffalo miles wide. You could see them from a space shuttle. I'm pretty sure somebody said. Where are they now? Well, their grandkids are much, much fewer. That stinks. Yeah. I ask where where I can find them. Oh, Montana.

Places like that. You see them when you go out there? I've seen a few. That's awesome. Legit cool animal to see. We're coming up on 2-22. Nice thing about that. Yeah, 2-2-20. Oh, my God. Groundhog Day. I like how you've done drugs now, so you're surprised with that, even though we've talked about it at other times when you've also been doing drugs. Well, maybe I was producing a show. I don't know.

You got this new segment you want to do. Best and worse. Best and worst of the week. I think we should Jordan it to best and worst. I like that. It's fucking money. All we got to do is think of the best part of our week, the worst part of our week. Probably hasn't been done. Best and worse.

You want to go? I want to go. I think you want to go. I directed traffic on a major highway for, let's call it, a broken down tractor trailer. And I got what amounts to a commendation from the Albemarle County Police Department. Really? They roll up and they were like, yo, well done by you. you because there were high speeds there were curves i was having to stop traffic have other people

go around i'm basically a hero lifesaver i i likely saved lives and the cop was like hey big ups and that was the best part of my week life life saving but you up there with all the other heroes huh yeah yeah worst part these phones are too damn big new phone heavy and big i can't i can't maneuver it. You feel me? No, I kind of feel you. iPhone 12 Pro, no big deal. And look, I've got it all

widgeted it up. Is that what widget means? Yeah, so I've got like four big guys and then I've got four folders full of apps. Damn, dog, you can widget your shit like that? Yeah, and I got weather widget, pod widget, Natch, and then a big

old calendar widget. But the worst part of my week is that this thing is going to give me arthritis because it's too big. It's two hands at all times. I look like a grade schooler with my with my phone worst part of my week despite it being new and fun and holding all my old photos and voicemails and contacts which I always get scared about. You want to hear what was great about my week? Yeah, best of your week. Candles, bro.

Candles, fucking candles. I brought one in for you. This is called an Ernesto candle from a sire Trifden. Sire Trifden. Siree Trivden, the Ernesto candle. I'm gonna light this. You have any concerns that I won't be able to really smell it, given that we have 14 other candles lit.

Well, let's, we can put the shrine out. Let's put the shrine out. Okay. I think Carson's good. I think his spirit has moved on to Indianapolis. Syri Trudeon. No more takes. Ernesto, I'm going to tell you what you're smelling right now.

It's an expensive candle. I'll admit. But, you know, people waste $110 on all types of shit. I was going to say $120. It's $110 candle. But this is the busiest thing I do. I'm into candles, man. And I replaced this thing's about to be out.

You can see that right here. Look, the wax down to the bottom. I put it in my backpack today. The wax actually fell out. Like wax was in my backpack. So it's down to the nub, so to speak. I ordered like six new Ernesto. Well, not all.

Oh, I can do the math on that. Yeah, I ordered a lot of candles. Because Lord knows, you can buy a fucking trading. card for $300,000 and they'll write an article about you. I want to spend $500 on candles. I got to go fuck myself. Some class warfare thing. Some of us like to pay

rent and utilities. Well, it's not a secret that I rush the passer for a living for a while. So every once in while, I'm going to spend money on good weed and good candles. Hey, as you should. You earned that. Exactly. Some people are out here buying fucking LeBron James Dunks.

Just watching him teabagged a European guy in perpetuity. Got a mortgage on that thing. Now, I'm not knocking that, but I like my fucking candles, dude. This smells like the fierce and partisan overtones of leather and tobacco. Metal with the panelings waxen silence. It is a pretty quiet candle, too. In the cool, in the cool dimness, fawn grimaces shimmer,

along with the smoke of cigars and the barrels of guns. How long would you say it takes you to get down to that there, Nubb? this motherfucker took me a couple years but I wasn't burning it enough so it smells good yeah doesn't it smell good yeah confirmation yeah hell yeah it smells good I got some snacks for us for from the these are jumbo donettes these are glazed strawberry flavor do you want some no thanks you sure yeah let's get to read roulette shall we oh love cowboy carous can I tell you something about these donets here though I got another flavor as well these are the crunch kind you know these no the crunch kind are one of the most underrated like pastry snacks

in human history read you know these nope you really don't know these like they're the you have the chocolate donets you know those uh I'm a healthy eater making I eat have you ever walked through an aisle in a convenience store I actually no I don't I don't know I don't you don't know what a white frosty donut looks like white frosty do not mean powder sugar? Powder. Okay, so you do evidently. Here you are correcting me.

You never heard of the fucking thing. All of a sudden, you fucking wrote the Declaration of Independence on donuts. Remember that white bag with the orange lettering? That was the best brand of powdered sugar donut. I'm sure it was, but I'm telling you about these right here. This is America's number one donut. These are the crunch brand. They're more like the cake donut with the, would you like one?

Just have one. Fuck no. Why, dude? I don't, seriously, that would ruin my night. I don't want... One donut's going to ruin your night. Yes, I will not be eating that. Couldn't even hear the crunch.

That's the best part about it. It's a silent crunch. Okay. Are we gonna start this re-d roulette or what, man? In the A block, you guys talked about microwaves and needing to put a pump on the microwave. What other appliances could you do without? Are we putting a penis pump on a microwave?

We got to put a pump on it somewhere. Did I? Did I say pump? I meant put the brakes on. We got to put a pump on. You meant put the brakes on it. But that's easily confused because you typically pump brakes. Yeah, you do.

Put the pump on it. What could we live without? I don't know. Vacuum. I don't, I've never used a vacuum, but I have noticed maybe sometime. time somebody's vacuuming around the house but I've never used a vacuum I've used a vacuum but not lately vacuums are pretty critical for my life I can I can go without the microwave that's for damn sure

yeah if you got a ball dog vacuums are really critical because the dog's always rolling around the mulch scratching its back incessantly like trying to eat a fly you ever done any yard work rolling around in mulch yeah dude I used to yard work I used to work masonry I built the fucking yards okay you're talking about yard work like sweeping the porch i built the porch they should do an e-60 on me i took a fucking summer job with crutoff masonry great company hope it's still operational 20 years later i bought a house in the neighborhood we did a pool you should do an e-60 on me real feel-good story damn what kind of yard work you're going to impress me with what are we even talking about dog's never really rolled around in mulch.

Well, it's a bald dog. She stays out of the mulch beds. Yeah, well, wherever that thing's rolling around. That thing? The dog. Her name is Zoe Rabbit. She's lovely, dude. Thank you.

Red Lab. Such a cool, exotic color. I get a hint of sarcasm, but thank you. It actually is. Thank you. We felt weird that we couldn't get a red one. Chocolate, honestly. Oh.

Tree of trust. Yeah. I went out in search of a little. of a chocolate lab. Couldn't find one. Well, couldn't find one at that very moment. They said, hey, we got some red and I'm like, sign us

the fuck up for a red lab. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Dog looks good. Read roulette? Yeah, we're on. Appliances, what can you live without? He's done drugs, folks. We apologize. The iron.

I don't need the iron because what I do is I wash the clothes. Oh, good. And then I hang them up. I don't need an iron either. No wrinkles. Yeah, crossing that off my list. And you're good with wrinkles.

So yeah, we're good there. Washing machine I'm going to keep. I'm going to need a washing machine. Dryer. Don't the fuck need. God, I really wish I could cut down on these Fs. Yeah, it's intoxicating. Don't need it.

Let's go back to a clothes line. How charming and quaint and smell good. A clothes line. We would get used to it in. Your clothes always smell like in no time. Bounty has to put grass on the packaging. Your clothes smell like the grass. They smell like mulch beds, man.

Dishwasher. I could go without. it. But you're saying you can do without a dishwasher. Hell yeah, it's totally unnecessary. Just you don't need nice China and shit. You don't need like real plates. What about the paper that people just throw away? That's wasteful.

Yeah, we'll get rid of that. Bump that too. But why aren't we doing the recyclables? Is it because there's a, there's a big price? Read, why aren't we doing that? Reed, why are we not doing that? I'll put it a call onto the president. He's got the president on the line. Vacuum.

Vacuum is a yes for me. Trash disposal. Yeah, you need that. I don't need that. Well, I don't need that, but I mean, I don't think it's an unreasonable deal. You know, John put such great regions on this. I should have been reading them. Oven.

I don't use it a ton, but it's a necessity. Yeah, stove top. Obviously. Obviously. Eat up your soups. Light a joint. Toaster. Um.

One of the, toaster to me is you might like not need it truly at all, but it should be grandfathered in for eternity. It's one of the greatest appliances ever made. Coffee maker. I don't do poison. I'm not a drug addict. Refrigerator. Definitely need that.

Freezer. Yeah, you need that. Ice machine. Total waste. Yeah, nah. They're always broken too. Blender. Europe, they don't do ice.

Blender? I don't get a fuck about wonder. I used to have to do it for my breakfast every morning. Then you started eating dinettes for your breakfast every morning. Nah, nah, nah, nah, nanners and such. You guys heard about the Space Hotel. Reportedly it will be live in 2027. It looks like a giant floating Ferris wheel.

What would you name the sports bar in the Space Hotel? Man. Let me tell you something. I read about this motherfucker this week. Okay, it starts off like this, the article. Global travelers can soon add a new destination to their bucket list with the world's first luxury space hotel expected to open before the end of this decade. I just want to say it's a stupid way to open the article because they're not global travelers.

Okay? First thing's first. Non-global. Non-global. You got to leave the globe. Looking at the globe, not on the globe. That's the key distinction. That's why it's going to cost people five minutes.

million dollars to stay there for four days. Anyways, the bar is obviously going to be called moon shots. That's good. No, we're not on the moon, but baseballs that are hit really high don't hit the moon either.

So just make it work, yeah? Yeah, that's good. Yeah. I just had an American-themed one pop into my head. Stars and bars were among the stars and it's a bar. God.

I mean, just American flags wrapped in an American flag, this bar. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. They don't play the NFL there, though. My prep dancer was Bobbs. Because we're already in space. Let's tone down. Shout out Pantana Bob's Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Don't know it. Did a little damage there. Behind enemy lines, huh? Yeah, well, we go down there. We win Balgams. Yeah. We party at your bars. Mm-hmm.

We drink your beers. We come home with the W. That's what we do. Yeah. I just want to say this, though, while we're on the topic of this fucking space hotel, this Ferris wheel, it is wild looking. 2007 is when they say it's going to be, this seems like some sort of a JAR rule pitch. Like, I just don't buy it.

I don't believe that there's going to be a hotel in space in 20207. They say it's going to be ready in two years of construction. My house took two years. Okay? You're going to build a fucking giant space shuttle. It's renovated your house. With astronauts. Yeah, with astronauts.

They're going to be like people floating around trying to drill stuff in. Two by fours and shit. I'm with you. You know how we turned a century? Yeah. What if the 2007 Yankees are just dope a. F? In a couple of years down the road, somebody says 27 Yankees,

we're going to have to say, well, which one because Oh, that's really interesting. We're old enough to know about the 1927 Yankees. Now we know the 2027 Yankees. That's a real hot leave comment from you. Yeah. Are you little...

No, I'm a little tripping balls off that take, man. Is that what you expect what you think like? Well, yeah. I'll also say this. You idiots want to pay $5 million to go sit in moonshots and get a hangover in space.

okay there's a reason i sat out the first year of ford bronco uh this generation assembly like trying to secure a bronco because make and model first year shit goes wrong lug nut loose you know like maybe this computer chip isn't working correctly we need a year to work the kinks out you don't get that kind of time up there in space damn it what because i think you're right and i got one of those new computers with the M1 chip for the first I went to Apple computers. In your own words, you're an idiot. It was time, damn, it was time for a new machine. I should have waited.

You always wait a year. And it's the same thing with space hotels. You wait a fucking year, dude. Hey, somebody out there, tell me the M1 chip is dope and that the computer is dope and that I'm good. I heard it gets a lot of viruses. Put a mask on it. I was just a little bit behind you there. Oh, that's weird.

I should be thinking slower than you. No, you found something. I've got you in a fucking a tizzy. Also, there's a gym on that space thing. You can jump five times as high. The escalator.

In that gym, evidently, they can, like, doctor the gravity. It's wild, dude. I mean, like, listen, if you can get, like, a win of contest to get up there, great. Just go the second year. A true alpha knows when it's time to concede for the betterment.

of the team. Dan Campbell there with some wise wisdom, but Macon and Chris as two true alphas yourselves, what things in your lives do you concede? Hey, listen, Dan Campbell, I mean, his voice would make

Trace Atkins blush, dude. My man could be a country singer. Good call. Right? Trace Atkins. Right? Trace has got that thunderous voice. I wonder if he has a fucking podcast. He should just have a podcast

and just read things. Read his own lyrics. No, just read like children's books and shit, stuff that's just not befitting of his godlike voice. Dan Campbell, he is an alpha. He understands that being an alpha in a building, whatever, like he's got a good point. I don't know where he's going with it.

I don't know who's making decisions there. I think he means to say that Brad Holmes or the owner is probably making a decision on a quarterback. They're breaking the tie. Yeah, they're breaking the tie. And that's fine. he's right what do we concede I'm sort of in a permanent state of concession

except when it comes to advocating for my clients of course bingo does that make me a beta or just the most alpha that makes you a surgical alpha after you yeah I'm the biggest like uh no no after you guy I actually have that in my notes huge after you guy I can see it all the time.

Planning dinner, you got it. People giving directions, you got it. Surfing. Surfing. Yeah, you got that too. I'm good. Sharks, cervical spine injuries, chafing. Are you just saying things you don't like?

No, I'm saying I let people have surfing. I don't feel like I need to prove that I'm a great surfer. I don't need to like take up surfing. even though it looks cool as fuck y'all got that you know like there's some things like m m m a y'all got that and a fake alpha is just running into the he's just oh yeah let me i got to learn how to you know okay i don't have time for that shit i'm actual an alpha i'm doing alpha things i don't have time to fight with other humans that's right you're planning things i'm planning stuff i'm strategizing you're co-ordinating things yeah yeah the arizona cardinals had previously retired

the number 99. Marshall Goldberg's number, he played on the 1947 Arizona Cardinal Championship team. J.J. Watt unretired that number and is now going to wear that during his stint in Arizona. How do we feel? Don't ever retire a number. Retire a jersey.

What's my man's name, Goldberg? Yeah. All right. So in the stadium, you got the number 99 in Goldberg, whether it's a ring of fame honor, whether you have a hall in your building, what have you. You have retired jerseys and it's a great big honor and your name's displayed with your number, but anybody can play for your organization and use any number they like. Same goes for college.

I'm surprised the story hasn't come out and on occasion the star will ask if he can wear the number like Deshawn Watson at Clemson. comes to mind. But if you're a kid who wants to come to Virginia to play hoop rock and you're wed to the number 50, I got bad news, fella. That's Ralph's number and you can't wear it. I think that's silly. Retire the jersey, not the number. I'm with you because like David Baker says every time he comes to somebody's door, he's like, it's going to be, people are going to know who you are long after we're gone and we're talking about like Jetsons. I'm imagining flying cars and shit like that, Black Mirror episodes. Everything's different, but we'll still have football. We're going to run out of numbers, dude. Some of these places, like the Seahawks, okay, Seahawks established

1976. They've got five numbers already that they've retired, not including guys like Bobby Wagner, Russell Wilson, like these are all guys before they won a Super Bowl. So do the math, the next hundred years, what are we going to do another 10, 12 players? So we're going to be at 17 numbers that dudes cannot wear in Seattle. Not going to work. Not going to work, dude. And honest to goodness, when I see a 91 at Virginia, for instance, I think about you. I'm excited for that person, though. If there weren't a 91 available, you would, you would be remembered less. You feel me? Yeah. Like, every time I see some kicker with my number, I think That's funny as fuck, he gets to like do that joke.

Right. At the moment, we happen to have the very talented Mandy Alonzo in the 91. Now, Mandy Alonzo making that play against Tech, that gave me chills. Because that was a play I never got to make. And shout out to Mandy Alonzo. Amen. Yeah, we had a kicker for a while. And then the other 91 when I was there was Andrew Dewey, or I was the other 91.

So shout out to DoDrop. You know, I will say, like look at the Steelers have done it only. twice the Niners have done it 12 times. So there's a lot of variation in the way like Cowboys and Raiders have not done any. And I would agree with you. Get rid of it. It's just dumb. Eventually we're going to run out of numbers.

Oh, should we call the Cardinals real quick? I'm friends with Steve Kahn. We can call them. We haven't called a team in a while. People probably think you've gotten soft. I don't know. I think. Is this John Ficcinda? Is this John Ficcinda?

Kind of sounds like You don't know the guy I'm going to be a new season ticket guy I'm going to be a new season ticket guy but a priority You really don't want fans Cardinals Maybe they put our number

Or your number on an NFL like watch list after the last time Yeah they're not picking up They're probably on the phone with Goladay Goliday wants number 11 They're probably just going to give them number 11.

The Washington football team replaced its traditional cheerleading squad with a dance team that was big news yesterday. What are other NFL traditions that you guys would do away with? You think you've hit this out of the park? Well, not out of the park. You think you've hit a double. I've hit a fucking double dude. Like a no doubt or double. Like into the gap.

That might slide into second face first like kind of for fun. Oh, that might be violating an unwritten rule. Oh, the Arizona Cardinals are calling back. Oh, yes, good, good, good. Get your shit straight. Hello? I received a call. Is this the Arizona Cardinals?

Yeah, were you need help with season tickets? I do. One concern, are you familiar with Marshall Goldberg? Yes, yes, number 99. Number 99, right. I was always a big fan. In fact, my grandfather, Goldberg was his favorite player. He had this great story.

They once stayed in the same hotel and found each other at the bar late night. You wouldn't believe it. They stayed up 5 a.m. swapping stories. Turns out they went to the same high school. I won't worry you with details. But I see this. Oh, no, I like it. It's funny.

Yeah, yeah. I actually read the stuff he did in his life. He became a millionaire too. Yes. This man. Unbelievable. Great man. So I would love to, I would love to, do you have some sort of

priority seating list? Yeah, so it's a $200 deposit per ticket, so you put it down, and then we give you a call in like May or June, and then that's when you select your seats, and then your money will go toward whatever package you end up on the tickets. You want $1,000. That's awesome, and I have a family of seven, five children, and I would actually like to get the whole crew on that list, only condition being could we get the number 99 back in its rightful place with the Goldberg family and have Mr. What take a new number.

I think it's JJ. J.J. what? I did hear that. So there's no chance we can get Mr. What another number. I don't think so. One thing I did think it was interesting, though, wasn't Trell Suggs? I was supposed to be number 99 and he didn't wear it. I think that's right out of respect for the Goldberg family, yeah, which touched our family.

I can tell you that. could we put the Goldberg name on the what jersey oh that would be something if he could to dealt with some he's doing a few things like that but that's a good one I haven't heard that was okay do you know if Mr. Goldberg himself gave his blessing no it's his daughter

gosh this is a shock do you mind if I call you back about the tickets I have broken up sure it's it's at yahoo.com okay and what is your name that's a great name thank you

hey thank you so much take care so we'll see god that guy knew more than you about our guy yeah he just like hats off that dude he's a raise I'm calling fucking Steve Kime right now I'm gonna text him

that's uh that was great I wish I had prepped for the bit I would have brought well prep to the bit if you know what I'm saying Well, no, I mean, it came to me. It was just an idea that just came to me driving here. So I just knew you were the perfect guy to execute it.

And man, we should call more teams in the future. We should. We're two for two on calling teams. Yeah, yeah. NFL's a content factory. Yeah. Big ups. Let's get in the front office. No more ticket office.

Front office. I just said, deserves a raise season ticket office. So we'll see. Okay. So we'll see. We will see about both things. All right, here's a deal.

I was telling you that I was hitting a double and you were talking baseball with me. Unlike you, I remember. Yeah, no, no, I got it, but there's also a lot going on here. Since you remember so well, give me the most memorable Thanksgiving game the last decade.

I don't remember things. Oh, yeah, that's interesting. Now you don't remember anything. That's because Thanksgiving football needs a remodel. Oh, very good. Yeah, it does. Less Dallas in Detroit. They have been grandfathered in since 1978

and since 06 when the NFL added that third game, you know, the evening game. Detroit is 4 and 11. And Dallas is 4 and 7 since 2010. I just doctored those numbers. Even without doctoring the numbers, the numbers fucking suck. And at one point, Detroit lost seven straight.

So to me, these two teams are trust fund kids. get them out of it. They got to earn it. You need a mercy rule on Detroit and Dallas. Dallas is about to lose their third straight, I presume. Detroit, they're at risk of losing their fifth straight. If you lose your fifth straight game on Thanksgiving as the home team, you should give up the game. We can put our toes in the water in terms of relegation with Thanksgiving Day games.

When you stay on the sticks. Next year, boom. That's a cool little deal. You know what though? I think there's something to what you're saying, but I also think it'd be really cool if we had Miami in the second game. And I'm for losing the third game actually as well.

I think we had enough football. I was scared to say that. Yeah, no, no, no, yeah, get that shit out of here. Maybe I don't love football enough, but like I really do believe like super wild card weekend that we know when too much is too much and it just feels like too much and everybody in sports media has to act like,

it's this like bit that we're doing far too well, we like every second of football. I did not need to see Chicago, New Orleans. Actually, when I have the I-edis after I've finished, you know, all the sides and the turkey and, you know, I'm just plastered to the couch, I would like to drift off into sleep without feeling like I have to stay up for the end of Tennessee, San Francisco. You know what I mean?

Two-score ball game. I just have to watch it. Fuck that. You get a 12-30, you get a 4-30. you get a 4.30. Just like it is, 430 needs to be Miami. Miami is a good football team now. Give me some sunshine. Second act. Thanksgiving. Really warms you up on an otherwise gloomy day, maybe. Yeah, you're right. On that Thursday night, we're on to love actually Christmas vacation. Exactly. Et cetera. I, yeah, I would only amend it. Let's pick four teams. Let's do it. And you, um, you

when you stick on Thanksgiving. I'm just, I'm trying to wedge my idea into yours. Also, I don't like looking at a artificially lit football field all day for like nine hours. Gives me a headache. So we could fix that. John had a good idea. Take the nets down after PATs. Oh, hell yeah.

Yeah. Souveneer. Yeah. All the fucking money the league's got. Yes. A couple pig skins a game. Yes. Think about it.

Those tickets would go for, but then there's liability. Football hit me in the head. Now my leg. All right. Well, then print it on the back of a ticket and you're safe. Yeah, I think so. There's a lot of fine print on the back of that ticket. Baker Mayfield saw a UFO on Twitter last night.

That begs the question, which NFL QB is now most likely to be abducted by aliens? For sure, James Winston before LASIC, before LASIC. before LASIC. James was my answer. Really? Yes. He would just be staring into that fucking tractor being.

Yeah. Yep. Squinting. And they'd be staring back. Like, let's learn more about this cat. This cat is interesting. Yes. Come take a ride with us.

Right. We'll go to the space hotel. Right. Charlie Whitehurst. Mm-hmm. Total alien guy vibe. Mm-hmm. You know?

But more so, like, willingly wants to go with the aliens. whereas James he just needed LASIC. The aliens see Daniel Jones and they say, ah, we're good. You think? We're all full in here.

Do you believe in aliens, by the way? No. Really? That's right. Are you serious? Serious. You don't think there's anything else out there. Well,

I guess when you say alien, I picture ET. Doesn't need to be like a bipedal alien. Could be a blob. Could look like Jabba the Hut. Yeah, I guess I'm going to go with no. No. Right.

No. That's crazy. But show me and I'll say yes. All right, y'all take care. Bye.