Green Light with Chris Long - Ryen Russillo! NBA Playoffs, 'I'm Him' Moments Draft & Chris' Revelation on the River

Episode Date: May 16, 2023

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As you saw on the title, Ryan Rosillo is today's guest. It's NBA playoff time, so you know Ryan at a stop by. He's going to talk about the conference semi-final matchups that happened. Storylines out of those games, those series,

and the conference final previews. We've got Denver, L.A., we've got Miami, Boston. In the back half of Ryan, it is the I'm Him draft. We did I'm Not Him a couple weeks ago. We bookend it with the I'm Him draft, a couple wild picks there.

And then at the end of the show, Chris brings on Kyle and talks him about a revelation he had on the river this weekend. Chris might have found Jesus. He thinks he did. And he gives Kyle a detailed rundown of how it went down. And then making comes back for the Jesus' conversation as well. Chris gives him the lowdown. And we get into a little softball talk and recap our talent search event last Friday. So y'all please enjoy. Catch you Thursday. Thanks for braving the internet of the hotels of America. And I just wanted to kick it off with this.

Somebody asked me offline about a controversial opinion. And I said, I think I do have one that's pretty fitting. I don't like the movie Leon. I think the movie Leon's overrated, the professional. And when I did that bit, it's not a bit. It's how I feel. One of the first text messages I got was from Ryan Rosillo. Like, really?

Yeah, I'm real disappointed, but I know you. I know you well enough. You're a hard marker. When it comes to the arts and people, you're very judgmental. Not anymore, Ryan. I don't judge. The professional was just a weird story for me personally because I, when I was in college when it came out and it was billed as this like action-packed thriller,

the trailers are crazy. Like, I think I've talked to you about this before, but it said twice as fast as speed. So a bunch of us were back on break and I used to not want to go back to the vineyard. So I would stay in like the South Shore, a couple of nights. I'd sneak in a couple extra nights and then, you know, I'd hang out like a normal kid with like movie theaters and malls and stuff. And we all buddyed up and like rolled to go see the professional. And I don't know, 20 minutes in, we're like, this is the worst movie ever.

And then at the end we're going, man, what an absolute 180. an artsy film noir deal. Gary Oldman's awesome, and I love that movie, so yeah, I'm sorry. Gary Oldman was so over the top. I mean, and, no, I just, I think a lot of it was the young girl part for me. And also, you know, some of the plot holes, you know, she's just walking through the apartment complex. There's 100 DEA agents out there, you know, FBI people.

And they're like, oh, little girl. Like, there was no follow up. There were four people in that. the house three of them got murdered where's the little girl oh she lives down the hall with a petter ass yeah i don't know i mean they didn't actually date in real life so i know that part bothered you a lot um yeah but the fucking director of the movie i did a little reading he met he met he met his wife when she was like 12 and and the supposedly was inspired no he was like 23 It was inspired by Luke Besson.

It was admittedly, I think, inspired by his relationship with his wife. Not that they were assassins. No, they go there with it. I think that's kind of the part. It's like this guy's this complete recluse socially, nothing against reclusees. But I don't know. I know what they were trying to do, and I can understand how it would be like a little creepy.

I'm not like pro the relationship. I just thought that they tiptoed along like this guy never having anyone to ever care about. And that was the whole point. And they did it in a non-traditional way. You have anything to say about the professional? No, I've never seen the movie. But our guy Luke is on marriage number five at the moment. Yeah.

So I don't know if it worked out with a little girl. When did she graduate? Okay. What I really wanted to bring you on for, Did you see Martha Stewart? She's going to be on the SI swimsuit cover. She's 81. Am I ages for being like, I've caught in a weird spot here

because I want to say she shouldn't get to cut to the front of the line, right? This is about working your way up to the cover. But she's also 81. Where do you stand on this, Ryan? I just think it's what content is doing now. It's so competitive. And then all of a sudden it's like, no, no, you have to be down with this. You know, it's like when somebody will try to say, like, Helen Mirren is the sexiest woman alive.

You're like, yeah, she's doing pretty good. But I think that's a high ranking. Rusillo, Mirren, not the hottest woman alive. Yeah, not the hottest woman alive. Breakout video. Very attractive, fun, dynamic actor, a lot of range. Yeah. But no.

So I think this is kind of what content is becoming now where, you know, the swimsuit issue back in the day, like, that was a real thing. stolen issue from like every library around the country. You know, when it showed up at the house, it was like, ooh, you know, and then it would like get a little bit more risk. That stuff can't compete with anything anymore. No, we were also horny kids, so I think that we're also speaking from a different place. What's the cover that comes to your mind? Was there a gal named Petra? Petra Nemcova? She had an orange bikini on. Yeah, nothing in particular, but maybe that one.

Pirate Banks. Really? Yeah. Okay, Reed, real quick, before we get into the NBA, who else do you want to see on the cover? I know this is your demo. I know you're like a dead actress guy, but this is like a borderline.

Let's get Jane Fonda. Yeah, Fonda needs to be on the front of every magazine ever. Okay. Wonderful actress, wonderful woman, I'm sure. About Jerry from succession? We had a guy at the talent show the other day say that that was his, hear me out. So maybe we get Jerry on the

SI cover. No spoilers Ryan. I'm two episodes behind. Jerry Seinfeld? No, from fucking succession. Jerry. Jerry's gotten hotter every season. Yeah, agreed. Okay. All right. All right, Rye, rank the NBA coaching openings and I don't want to like bury Doc Rivers here. But if you were a, you know, an up-and-coming, if you were JJ Reddick, and you're looking at Phoenix, Milwaukee, or Philadelphia, where do you want to work? And why?

Okay, if you're going those three, Milwaukee's the top of the list because I still like their star better than anyone else's star. You've already proven that you can do it. You know, this Miami run is incredible. It's not what I expected. But, I mean, there's going to be a footnote to this where no one's ever going to remember that Janus played basically half. half the minutes that they should have played.

It doesn't mean they're supposed to blow game four in game five, but I think Milwaukee still finds a way to get through that. If Yannis is playing every game, I think that's a ridiculous statement. And with Durant, as much as I love the game, he doesn't play enough. He doesn't play enough. It happened again this year.

And the distant third, it's not even third. Like if I had enough juice for interviews with the other two, I wouldn't even interview with Philadelphia because it's hard. So Milwaukee won, Phoenix two, Philly three. Yeah, the Hardin thing. and surprising you didn't say Phoenix but Chris Paul is a free agent or are they going to trade it?

No. You think they could trade? No, he still has, yeah, yeah, I mean, he could get traded. There's a lot of stuff that's out there. You know, look, he wasn't good this year and he got hurt again. So he's $30 million on the books for them. The weird thing is they have such little depth and so little flexibility that, you know, he could still, well, he still has some value in what,

you know, diminished role from what he was the previous two years. you know, Phoenix is closer to Milwaukee, but the Philly one with Hardin. And, you know, Embed's now going to enter the doubt stretch, right? Like, welcome, welcome to the club where now it is on. You know, now you were going to be doubted. Now none of your regular season numbers matter at all. Because in the past, I always felt like, all right, I don't think it's, I think, I just think there's certain players where it's like, are you not getting out of the first

or second round because of you? Or are you just kind of not getting out of the first or second round? And I do think that both categories have plenty of players in them. Probably more, more players in the category of like, oh, he just never really got out. It's not like a complete, you know, negative knock on, like, who I am as a player. I think that list is actually a little bit shorter.

But Embed now it's going to be in that group, you know? And look, he was terrible in Game 7. And when it was time to fight those guys quit, man. And it's like, oh, here we go. So, yeah, I think there's some real questions about that being your core group, as opposed to Milwaukee. hockey and Phoenix. Yeah. Is it fair to say, like, you know, I'm watching that series and I'm thinking like, yeah, Embed's the MVP, you know, it's a regular season award, but I'm watching

the playoffs and I'm thinking there's a few more guys that seem more valuable when you just watch the series play out. Like Jason Tatum to me, I know how deep they are, but like that guy was the best player on the court. Yeah, look, you know, we always have to kind of, I have moments where I'm watching, look, I voted, just my second year of the vote, I voted for Embeded, I really struggle with it. It was Yokic for much of the year. And then I had kind of this Yonis phase. And then I just felt like Mbid finished strong to the point where it was still really tough for me. So if somebody else had voted for either Yokach or Yonis, it wasn't one of those differences where I'd be like, I can't believe you're doing that with some of the other votes

you see. And there was even part of me was like, do you have this right? The problem for Embed, and this isn't even his fault. But it was the people that like, look, man, most people just don't watch the other games. I think NBA fans are, are cooling away because there's some real hardcore league pass people, but I don't think that's a huge number of people. It's not the same as the NFL where it's just on on Sunday and you've got a fantasy team. You've got a little parlay going. And it's just a little bit easier a product to consume. So I think what's happened with this Yokic run is that there's a lot of people who are like, oh, wow, he is kind of nasty, isn't he? You know, and it was weird too because Yokic had had, he's been kind of in this group of players

where is it really on him that he hasn't gotten deeper in the playoffs? Not really. I didn't, I didn't feel that way about him. Maybe it was the defense. I don't think he's really been asked to defend or been exposed the way that I've seen him in other playouts series. We could see that because I think LeBron smart enough to try to at least give it a shot here. But the point for Embed is that a lot of the negativity that's coming his way is by his own doing and being awful in game seven. But there was a real, and you know, people can always come at me for this being like, oh, whatever. Like, hey, man, I swam in these waters for like seven months now, okay, especially as a voter and seeing all the stuff that was out there.

And the problem was is that anyone that thought Yokic was on in B's level, there was a large portion of people, specifically from Philadelphia that thought you were the dumbest fucking basketball person in the world for even suggesting Yokish was at that dude's level. And one guy's home and the other guy looks like the best player in the world. Yeah. So, you know, it was always a more reasonable conversation. It's just that some people turned it into something that was completely unreasonable,

which was also inaccurate. With the Warriors, man, I heard Steve Kerr say this after the game. This was not a championship team. And yeah, it sounds obvious, but it also sounds like kind of like going back on coach speak. Because I'm sure he's not saying that in the huddle, you know, and this is kind of the same team, right? Like, you can't, you can't. Have you ever had that happen where like, we 12?

Somebody goes, hey, we're not good. No, but football, football coaches aren't allowed to do that, you know, like, they have to act like they're detached from reality the whole way through. And, you know, like maybe that that could be, well, be the case with them, but they just won a championship. The team didn't change that much. Maybe you could tell me how it did. But deconstruct the Warriors now. Is this going to be a deconstruction or is it, you know, a bump in the road for them?

Is that dynasty kind of breaking up? The safe money, the smart money would be on that it's over. I don't think we truly know the answer to that until it's actually happened and been a couple years removed. I just don't. The tax situation for them is absurd. So if they keep everybody, and they'll make some tweaks, but if they were to go back in and roll it back with all these guys, re-signed Draymond to whatever his player option number is, like $27 million, if they did that, their tax bill would be more than any other team's payroll.

So not just their payroll being more than everybody, their tax bill because there's basically repeater penalties. Like, if you keep paying the tax, if you pay it the next year, the tax could be the same, but it's even worse because of the repeater penalty, pretty self-explanatory. So their tax bill, I think, is like $250 million. So as much as Joe Lakeup has been a really aggressive owner and he's been true to his word, but like, I'm not going to lose talent just because of money, it's really, I don't know one owner that's ever gone in that league and said, hey, what are we like a 45-win team? Yeah, I'll pay a $250 million tax bill. So it, you feels like it's over. They tried to rebuild while they were competing for championships,

which is just even harder than rebuilding. And they weren't able to do it. You know, there's three lottery picks. You don't even have a real rotation guy out of that group. Wiseman's gone. Commingga does get off the bench. Moody gets spot minutes in certain matchups. So that plan, which is really hard to execute, which you thought, because they're one of the better front offices, get at least one guy to bridge it. It's not going to happen. So, you know, I think they could still tweak it maybe in two years. years where maybe they have to take the medicine a little bit to try to figure out a way to financially on a season. But Curry is still good enough that we're talking about a team that

shouldn't still make the playoffs. So they're in a really weird spot. It feels like it's over, but I wouldn't say like over in the sense that Curry now, it is impossible for him to ever win another ring because I think we were saying the same stuff about LeBron around Cleveland time. Yeah. Part two. Yeah. And Clay, right. Clay wants money. Dremont probably opts out. I mean, the pool deal hasn't been good, right? So there's a lot. Well, the extension kicks in. Yeah.

I mean, they're going to be paying 70 to 80 million in Clay and Jordan pool. Oh, my God. Combined. Yeah. How about the remaining coaches? How would you rank those guys? One through four. I suppose in his own group.

He's at his own level. I don't really know that I could separate the rest of the guys. I mean, everybody's in love with Darvinham a month ago that nobody thought he was any good. And that was unfair. I think Mike Malone's okay, you know? Yeah. And, you know, Missoula, this team is really talented. Like, they're the most talented team, I think, in Boston.

They're the deepest team. I think they have the most options they can throw at you. But it was such a bad stretch at the end of the season. And so many, you know, and the other thing I always kind of point out with coaching is that for the most part, I would say 99% of us have no idea what's actually really happening. Like what, that might be an overstatement, right? But very few of us are watching going, oh, that's what the play was or that's what the help rule was or this is what they're trying to do or whatever.

I think it's a very small number of people that can do that. And I'm not even saying I can do it all the time. All right. So this is not like some sort of self-promotional thing here. So what happens is when a coach doesn't call a timeout and then they don't score, then it's like, oh, this coach sucks. because it's easy for you to be like, well, I would have called the timeout. Like, you know, you can be like, here's the thing.

Because most of us can't be like, how come they're not helping off the center line there? Or how come they're doubling here? How come they're like, like we're so results driven with it where when Missoula doesn't call timeouts, even though I like them not calling timeouts because it doesn't give you a chance to set your defense against an inbound. It doesn't have everybody go over everything again. You know, I like it in the moment. I like it in the moment.

The problem is they weren't scoring in a bunch of them. So then Missoula is an idiot because of it. But he made a really big time adjustment going with the double bigs again, which I could understand why he didn't want to do it because he didn't want to clog up the paint. He wanted to get Embed out of there and have to have them only be able to defend Horford. But what it actually did is clogged it up for Philly and kind of changed that series. And, you know, you've got the shooting performance that you got from the main two guys in game seven.

So it wasn't just the adjustment there. So I like what Missoula's done. I like coaches that can relate to their players and get into it with them. And that's, I think, what Darwin is really good at. You know, Malone, you know, has had this thing. thing steady. It feels like it's peaking in the right time. But nobody is spolstra. No one is that guy. He is, like anybody that tells you,

their favorite coach is better than that guy's lying, lying to themselves. That series went seven last year, four-point game in Miami that Boston wins. Boston's better. Miami's not better. How does that, how is Miami competitive? How can Miami win that series?

Can Miami win that series? I really, you know, look, I didn't get it last year. I've got a couple of heat fans and friends who are like, you're going to, you're on like, year whatever with this. We're like, I don't see it. And then Jimmy Butler, if he hits that three, they're playing for an NBA championship against Golden State last year, which would have been so fitting for that series because I'm watching it going, how is this seven games?

How is this seven games? Because I am a bit of a talent knob. Like, all right, who are your two best guys when it comes down to it? Is the second best guy good enough to carry the number one guy when the number one guy doesn't have it. And that's what you thought you were going to get with Phoenix. That's what we've seen with some of these other teams. But I also need to kind of remind myself that, you know, for 10 years we had, all the best teams had like a third awesome guy. Yeah. And it's just not really the case anymore. You know, everybody was always searching. Like even when the Lakers won the bubble

championship, it was, well, you know, who can they flip for, you know, the third guy? Because that's what you need. It's like, we don't really need one if nobody else has one. And now we don't really have that as much. So I like bosses, too, guys better than, you know, Miami's two guys. Jimmy Butler, if you look at the numbers, I think he was in the 40% from three. He was 11% from three against the Knicks. So I don't know if he burn himself out.

I don't know if it's the ankle injury. I mean, they humiliated the Knicks. Who I think is one of the smartest basketball people I've ever talked to. They looked like they weren't prepared for some of that stuff. So there's going to be moments where I think Spolstra, I don't know if it's catching them off guard. Like they're going to put a ton of pressure on Jalen Brown because they learned last year that he has a hard time dribbling.

you know, freestyle dribbling. They're going to double tate them. Then they're not going to double tape them. You know, they're going to ignore somebody from time to time. But their rotation is really short. You know, Kevin loves playing real minutes for him. Duncan Robinson was like basically looked like he was missing. And now they need him to play real minutes.

And I like Caleb Martin. But the hornets moved on from him, which is a mistake, because Caleb Martin's really good and I'm so impressed him all the time. So I know there's like a heat culture and they found a way and, hey, you've down him for two years. and they're back in the finals again. I just do not see it from it. Like you'd only be picking them because you just feel something in your gut.

Because there's nothing that I would walk from the screen based on how deep Boston is in comparison to them and what Boston was able to do getting through that Philly series. I just, I do not see it. But again, I didn't see Philly or excuse me. I didn't see the heat here anyway. So, you know, maybe you shouldn't listen to me. What's the best chance that we have for the Celtics to not win the chance? championship. Is it Denver?

Denver or LA, yeah. Anthony Davis, yeah. Look, Anthony Davis being really good Anthony Davis again is really the secret to this. As much as we can talk about the trade deadline, none of those guys have even really solidified themselves as like major core guys. D'Angelo Russell can go off one night and then another night you'd be like, what's even doing out there? Vanderbilt's kind of hit or miss depending on the matchup.

Rui, who was huge in some of the Memphis games, is. an afterthought against Golden State. This has all been about Anthony Davis, not only dominating the paint defensively, but being somebody you can feel like can carry you a bit offensively as well. And LeBron, I don't know how he does it, man. It's so impressive. The force that he played with,

I think Golden State was a lot easier as that series went along because it was just not much they could do to hold up against them. So, yeah, I think the Lakers are still in this one to win the whole thing. And it just feels shocking, but then I always have to remind myself of the Anthony Davis factor. Like, hey, this is why everyone. he loved this guy so much because when he actually does play he makes this big of an impact as we already saw it two years ago well this team yeah I'm not I'm not the expert here but this team

feels like it's better than the team that won in the bubble is it deeper is it like like comparing the Lakers team from yeah added Austin Reeves I mean yeah they got they all the sudden got a his bystander was so bruised yeah yeah they had cooes I remember rondo turned into a fucking ray Allen yeah he did yeah he did like it was the craziest thing thing you're like wait rondo's gonna just make every three now yeah and i mean he was huge for them in that and you know look you also go i know this sounds familiar that miami team it was in the finals that wasn't some great team yeah right so when they went up against them i was like all right well they should they should be able to take care of this one and they did that might have been

what kind of has that screwed up in my head if it is is it was that they beat miami like you know it was like I did fall into the trap of, hey, the bubble championship, and then, yeah, they beat Miami, who, as you put it, not a great team. Who could the Knicks add, you know, because this was the first time in a while that I got real excited

and, you know, just because Jaylen feels like a real guy. I mean, like when Julius Randall was there, as much I like him and he was like the number one option for them over the last couple years, I was like, uh, Brunson's exciting. Who could they add to, to get over the hump, realistically. Well, honestly, it feels like for the first time and forever,

they're really positioned for the next mad guy to want to go there. Because they've got a couple young guys that you could flip. They have all their picks. They have like four other picks in the next seven or nine years, but I don't know how likely it is that they get all four. Because like the weird thing about some of these future firsts, like if you don't get it after a certain number of years, if it's protected, protected, protected, then it conveys because the pick has to come

do at some point and it turns into like a second rounder. So the Knicks have at least the rights to a lot of picks, including their own. And Jalen has surpassed any expectation. Like, I always liked him. I didn't like him this much. I mean, this is nuts. Who could have predicted this? I don't know who would have predicted him to be at this level.

So the Randall part, though, is really frustrating because watching him closely, like, I got kind of bored with the series. Like one Saturday afternoon, it oddly ended up just put me in a bad mood. I don't know why that was. And it wasn't because the heat won. Like, I'm not, I'm not emotional. distraught on heat outcomes, despite my doubt in them. But I was like, you know what I'm going to do?

I'm just going to watch Randall. I want to watch. I really want to dig into Randall for a quarter. And it was so bad guys after a quarter, I couldn't stop watching it. And then I was tracking like the entire game. And I was always respectful of like, hey, the big guy who can shoot a little, can put it on the deck, can drive, we played every game. I think I even voted him 13, All-NBA, because he played a million games this year.

I ended up really not liking him after that he game because I was like, this dude, like if he doesn't, and he's not involved, he is checked out. And then I was like, is he hurt? And then I was like, nope, there's a loose ball and a chance for two points to turn to the Usain Bolt. And then he was like, nah, I'm out. And then he wouldn't get back on D. I mean, there was, how about that pass that he had at the end of, well,

maybe it was in the second half of the elimination game where he just like threw it on top of Brunson's head. Like there's just a bunch of little plays in there with Randall, where I wouldn't have noticed if I was watching the game. Like I was losing track of the score, only watching Randall, and I was bummed out. And I'm not even related to him. Pretty sure of that. But, yeah.

No, I, you know, again, Brunson just changes the whole deal for me. And you mentioned the young guys. So, yeah, they have options. Look, I'd love to give you a name. I think Minnesota is going to hang. Like, the theory was always that they go after Mitchell or Towns or Booker, you know, this Kentucky slash Louisville thing. There's a guy in the Knicks staff who was heavily involved with all of them.

It was going to bring in Leon Rhodes because it's DA ties. You're going to, you know, the number of times where teams have brought in somebody who was an agent who's going to have all these players that are going to want to pick them in free agency or there's going to be this coach. Like the hit rate on that has to be like less than 5%. Yeah. And so, you know, the Booker situation got a lot better quicker when Chris Paul showed up. I think Minnesota would want or just give it a full year with the healthy towns, even though

town's name gets floated out all the time. I still think they should have made the Mitchell deal and they could have done it even with the RJ Barrett contract that they wanted to, but I don't think they really thought that Cleveland was in the mix enough to threaten them. So they were going to wait it out and then Cleveland rolled in. And I know Nick fans probably look at.

Yeah, I think Nick's fans look at Mitchell now going like, whatever. I'm like, dude, he's like the first team all. That guy's a beast. I would love it if he was in New York. Well, it's not going to happen anytime soon now that they just made those. No. But I can't, I can't give you. the name because that's the funny

part about this league is there is somebody who are not even thinking about who's going to be so mad in the beginning of July. He's going to hear a rumor. He may not like somebody who's, I don't know, it's going to happen because it always happens and the Knicks are actually a real attractive spot. It's a team that

get the shit together and they have a special player in Brunson. So I don't know that was always the case before. Okay. Well, you're in Chicago for the lottery. The Combine. Yeah, with that first. Is it the Both. Both, yeah.

Both are there. It's kind of nice how they do that. So Ryan doesn't miss anything. What are you most excited about, dude? Like when you touch down in Chicago with all this going on, is it just a different kind of year? Because the Women Yama thing, like, is the buzz different? What do you love doing when you're there?

It's funny because there's so many teams I don't think deserve them, which is really easy to say because you go, well, yeah, they're all bad teams. Like, what did you want? Yeah, but even San Antonio, which is probably the best basketball place for him to go. I'm like, I don't know that they deserve to get Duncan. And then this guy, like, 24 years later. Yeah.

Like, that seems unfair. Yeah, it might be. Where would you place them if you could? What's your favorite location? I kind of would like to see him with Detroit's back court. Because I still have a lot of Kate Cunningham stock. I think I was going to be good. Even though my dude Wiseman is there now and they have like six centers.

I just want somewhere, I want him to go somewhere where he's already so special offensively. And I do have a, hey, are guys too big for their own bodies? Apparently, dude, he measured 7.5 flat footed. You know, so all those NBA measurements over the years, that was always in speakers. So like every guy that was like 6, 7 was really like 6.5 and a half. 6.7. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So that, I don't know why they did it.

That's what they did for years and years and years, maybe just looked cooler. But when Mianama is the first dude I've ever heard people trying to, like, say shorter. Yeah. Yeah. Because the in shoes measurement with him, like, it's going to be nuts. And you have to take them because he is that special already. But I do think younger guys, especially that are, their movement is almost too big, or their movement is like two perimeter oriented.

It's like creating a guy in a video game where it's like no body, like, and I mean the physical body is not meant to be this big and then be crossing guys over and step back threes and all these different things. And I think we've seen some injuries that would back up this theory. No one's, no one I've shared it with has gone, hey, that's a really good point. Because the point is, is everybody starts taking him one. And it's not even debatable because he is the best prospect since LeBron,

but he's not a better prospect than LeBron because LeBron from a, body standpoint was NBA ready day one and you weren't going oh my god is he actually too tall long term so yeah i think that's the excitement part of it you know houston who knows that would be a massive wake-up call to all the young guys that they've been drafted i bet you the rockets players are probably rooting against them getting the number one pick that's wild uh yeah um you could make a play for like the lamello charlotte thing where i'd be like man look at all these lobs and it's gonna be awesome orlando i want to get crazy nine i'm I love to get crazy.

9%. Shout out Kevin Clark. Sir Rudy. Yeah. Mr. Magic. Yeah. Magic. Magic Steve.

Okay. Where does the NBA not want him to go? What's the last place? New Orleans, Serrano, O KC, okay, C might be the place. Chicago, Dallas. Dallas would be kind of cheating, too. Because then you compare him with Luca,

Utah, Washington, Indiana, Orlando, Portland, Charlotte, and the teams we've already mentioned. I don't know. Portland isn't giving up real NBA destination vibes lately. No, no, no, no, no. No. I don't think there's a lot of NBA guys

that roll in through there on the road and be like, dude, I could see chilling in this city for a decade. Yeah, you're right. But the NBA from like a market standpoint, there's a couple on here that are real duds. There are. There's some real duds. It's fucking, I almost one.

to see it. I want to see when Yama, I want to see like... Think how exciting though it is to be one of the fan bases that really has a shot at this and you're like, dude, you are 24 hours away from like your next 10 years being

completely different or next six if you still stink and he demands a trade. Yeah. No, I mean, like kids in those cities, you have no idea what rides on tonight's lottery thing. Lottery thing. And anyone that's had access to him loves them too.

Yeah. Loves them. Yeah. Like, and, you know, Bill and I were talking about it. He's like, when is somebody going to pull an Eli again? Mm-hmm. It's like, when is somebody going to go, oh, yeah, sorry. What, Stevie Franchise was like, I'm not going to Asia.

They were like, no, no, it's Vancouver. And then, no, he didn't go to. It was Marbury who went to Asia and put Vasily all over himself. I make, right. I'm making a Stevie Francis joke, but he was just like, no. And there was a generation years ago, I guess they'd never spent any time at Toronto, but they were like, I'm not, I do not want to play in Canada. I mean, that's why Vancouver ended up becoming the Grizzlies.

Steve Francis did indeed play in China. So he eventually. Yeah, later on, he had less options. I like Steve Francis for a turp. Okay. Oh, as a turp, he was, that was filthy. That was like the nastiest playground guy ever. Yeah.

Who, you know, none of those guys ever worked like. And then he's put on a Maryland jersey and it's on. Yeah. And you're like, oh my God, it actually worked. It worked here. And he was, God, he was a fun player to watch in college. I really did like, I like Juan Dixon. I like Lonnie Baxter.

I even look like. Joe Smith. I like the angry coach. Gary Williams. The angriest coach. I mean, he looked pretty unhappy. Hey, Rye. long as we're talking college hoops, how about, shoot, Brogden, Hauser, Trey Murphy, D'Andre Hunter.

I mean, we're the new breeding ground for tomorrow's NBA stars. It's a factory. It's an absolute factory. What's going on with DeAndre Hunter? Do you think it's Trey Young, making? Yeah. Maybe a little better. Yeah.

No, it is Trey Young. It's Trey Young. Okay. Your kid's favorite player. Whelan's favorite player, dude. Actually, it might be Brunson now, dude, which is great development because he wore number 11 with the Knicks this winter for Vaba, which is some acronym for kids basketball. And he was wearing it.

The whole series was wearing his jersey. I told him Jalen Brunson follows me on IG, so there's a good chance maybe he'll come on the show. And now I feel like I'm married to it. And Whelan has, like, questions he wants to ask him and come into work that day. so that's cool that is really cool yeah the trey young phase but when he got into trouble during the tray young phase would he say i just want to keep it in house staff yeah pretty much pretty much by the way rye life advise uh segment we have here we're not going to do this segment but i would like some advice um i did yesterday run my kids in the driveway for the first time uh seven and four you know

uh is it too early to run your kids to condition your kids No, because the funniest thing about, you know, I'd still like to go to a lot of youth sports in the area if it's around. I'll just, I'll just check it out. Yeah, I mean, they only come. No, it's actually really fun, dude. Like, high school sports is so imperfect. It's great. College is too.

Oh, I'm talking about the youngest guys. The youngest guys. And then you'll just see a kid and be like, this kid's never run in his life. Yeah. Dying going to first base. Yeah. Little league baseball is fun, though. And yeah, no, I want my kid to be able to run, Marai.

but I don't want my kid to be a pushover. You know, I wanted to be in good shape, hard worker, you know, that sort of thing. Wayland did good. Get him laying bricks. Yeah. Get him laying bricks this summer, a little masonry. Okay. So we've got the I'm him draft.

It is here. I hope you guys are prepared. How many deep do we go? I think we go five. Sounds good. I'm ready then. Yeah. And I got, I'll probably sign some free agents as well.

Ryan, you drew the first pick and it's going to be Snake style Ryan first then Macon, then Chris. That's great because I was afraid my first pick was going to be gone. Is this it? This is it. So the first pick in the

he's him or I'm him. Is it matter? I'm him. I'm him. I'm him. I will take Ebaldo Jimenez. Oh, that's good. He's got it in his name. Okay.

Unbelievable. A couple of seasons. seasons there with the with the Rockies. Okay, good, good pick. That's a good pick. He was unhittable. That's not many Rockies guys off the old. Especially with the Airbnb thin there.

That's what I'm saying, right. But it was weird. Like, I have a Eubaldo, Jimenez rule, you know, because it's one point of the first half of the season. Like, he's the best pitcher in baseball. Like, we've got to do this more than three months before you get that belt. You know, to me it's like a full season, maybe a little playoff success, and then a second season, baseball is a little different with the playoff thing.

But you're going to do like two full seasons end to end for me to say, okay, you've got the belt. And you balled them as they all freaked out second half. It wasn't good. Again, decent splits in the hits innings pitch. So he went to Baltimore pitch for like a decade and couldn't get any, like a 70RAs last year. But he was him in Colorado. This is the best bit ever.

With the second overall pick. Baseball caring. Ryan Rosillo. In the I'm him draft. I'm going to take Waldo from where's Waldo? Let me explain. All right. Everybody's always

looking for the guy, right? And you can't find him. Then eventually you find him. And he's like, yeah, that's right. I'm him. You found me. Turn the page. You're in for something new. You know how Steve Jobs, he always wore the same outfit every day. Waldo doesn't have to think about that sort of shit.

and there's several books. And, you know, he is him. All lies on you. Always delivers consistent. And, um, hmm. I think that that concludes. Good.

He's good. All right, Chris, you got two picks. Yeah. Um, I'll take Jesus. Fuck. And, uh, and, uh, and, uh, DeAndre Hopkins tearing DeAngelo Hall's Achilles. Now, with respect to DeAngelo Hall,

who's a great guy and was a great player, he is a hokey. This was first day in pads. You guys have seen this thing. With a mic'd up and DeAndre Hopkins out there doing one-on-one. So the pent-up energy, in all seriousness, if I had seen this happen to a teammate, I might need to give him a few weeks.

Like, it was D-Hop and I think he was against Culliver, the D-back for the now commanders. And he dropped the ball. Guys are talking shit. He's walking back to the line. And DeAngelo Hall puts his hands on him. He's like, you do that shit to me inaudible. And DeAndre Havkin said, well, I fear God, man.

Which was like a, I was like, yeah, that's cool. That's cool. Yeah. And then the next rep, it's D. Hall and it's D. Hop. And he shakes him down, ends up on his back, tore his Achilles D. Hopp, I'm him. He was a rookie. Did you pick Jesus or DeAndre Hopkins?

I had both because of a snake draft. Oh, okay. Yeah. You thought you were... That's an interesting depth chart. You know what, though? I kind of like both picks. You got a respect. We can get Jesus and D'Andre Hopkins. Yeah.

Go ahead. Well, Jesus is definitely not a reach, but maybe D. You understand the Waldo thing all lies on him? Yeah, sure. everybody's searching for him yeah yeah okay over here all right okay with my second that's Marco Polo

so look there was a there was a there was a there was a for ears there was a there was a court date in time the time was 11 a.m. guy didn't show up so they went they went looking for him right sounds like a joke is okay it's not a joke and um so

so he he gets into his buddy's car his buddy's driving and he's like hiding in the back, you know. And then they're on like a 60 mile low speed car chase. It takes a few hours. And and so the guy you're looking for, I'm him. Without any shadow of a doubt, I don't show up for the court appearance. I hide in the back of my buddy's car. Bronco? It's a white Bronco. It's O.J. Simpson. It's the juice. I am him. Yeah. I am admitting to the crime. Oh, got it, got it. Except that when he got court he said the glove don't fit you must acquit oh yeah then i got out of control but you there is no

how can a guy who pleaded innocent be him i'm him that act that hey ac can you let's go let's get out of here and then i want to go home and call mom before they they take me away for the rest of my life that's i am him it does wreak of guilt yes o j simpson all right ryan you got two picks here i didn't have him on my board. Okay. I'm going to go with Moses. Malone. Fof,

that's good. Yeah, I mean, just one of my all-time favorites, probably number two behind Barclay, all-time. Actually got a Mitchell and Ness jersey, delivered,

was going to maybe wear it to a festival with one Chris Long is the only guy that I probably ever were a jersey with at this point. But it showed up. It was like some special diamond edition. And I'm like, I can't, I can't be rocking this. And the thing is, despite my, you know, the Celtic Sixers' emotions of the last couple weeks, after seeing the Ben Simmons post,

I almost wanted the Sixers to win. Like, if I had known that was going to be the Ben Simmons Post, that guy who can't even get into a game trying to talk shit and guys losing. He just posted a picture of the Sixers watching that game and losing. And he posted a picture of it at his nice house. Like, imagine the. the brain activity for that guy to go, hey, here's a good idea. I didn't even fucking play.

Like, I haven't played in like three years. Yeah. But I'm going to talk shit to these guys who just lost the game seven. Granted, they were bad. But after I saw that post, I was like, actually, if the Sixers had won, I don't even know if I would have felt bad. I couldn't read the room. If it was in the room.

Again, we're not knocking guys to hang out by themselves at nice houses. All right. Oh, that's a humble brag. Yeah. All right. all right what do you got here okay i didn't expect might be a reach umbaldo went one yeah i'm gonna go with chris rab himself who making got it um i like those videos they're fun my younger brothers really like him

rab himself yeah why he's just using the draft As a fucking toilet. Wait a minute, wait a minute. Chris Rab. I liked O.J. Simpson better. The O.J.'s one's the worst pick. There's nothing I could do. You haven't been in some other draft.

I'm him. I did it. I get it. I'm him. Anything you have to explain that much, so it might be tough. Imagine it on a graphic, the breakout. Ryan's not even attempting to explain Chris Rab. No, I don't know who Chris Raff is.

That's his name. Reed, you want to help out here? Yeah, those of us who would have seen, you know, Viva LaBam, circa 2006, you know, might know this gentleman. Bam, Margera put him up to a lot of antics. Who's up next? I am, but you understand he, like, he evaded the police for several hours. Chris Rav. No, OJ Simpson.

Yeah, I get it, dude. We're fast. Like, you can't say on him any louder. Yeah, I got it. I got it. All right. I'm going to go. Yeah, but you're picking a guy everyone hates.

Yeah, so it's going to be hard sell. Okay. All right. Okay. Although, you know, I can see your draft war of what you prioritize. You always want guys that others are looking for. Right. Right.

I've been zinn and out of control today. You got it. Okay. Yvado Zinn Menez. Hey. He's him. That's next week. Jackie Robinson.

Yvado Mettes was good. Jackie Robinson. In Colorado. Okay? Here's a guy who said, enough with your racism. Yeah. You got a color barrier. I'm going to break through it.

I am him. Did you prep for this draft? Yeah. It's all right here. Just wait. A lot of value in the later round. Okay. You don't like Jackie Robinson?

We should go to six then. We should go to six since we're having so much fun. Go to seven. Like the NFL. Jackie Robinson. The number 42 is retired by every club. I feel like I'm going to get made fun of because these are serious picks. Mo Von can keep wearing it because it was a grandfather situation.

Like if you're still wearing it now, you can keep wearing it. Yeah. Okay. Another Mo. Mo Rivera. Interstand man. Okay. I'll go Forrest Gump,

the whole movie. Wow. Whole movie. He had so many on him. You don't like the professional? No, but what did he do? Did he run across the country? Did he fucking win the national championship of Alabama?

Did he go to a Black Panther party? No. Save the life. Did he save Lieutenant Dan? Yeah, well, no, but he saved that little girl. And then kind of dated her. Okay. Didn't make that hooker feel good about herself.

Okay. Forrest Gump. and LeBron in the 2008 playoffs against the Detroit Pistons. Nice. Okay, he scored 25 straight points. In all seriousness, Ryan, I was... 2007.

Oh, 07. Yeah, I was going off my school year, I guess. Sorry. Oh, yeah, I fucked it up. That was my school year. 07. I was living in the Meat Mansion, had a giant 80-pound TV,

had to wheel it around. I'm watching LeBron, and I'm thinking to myself, like, holy shit. Watching before my eyes, like grown men, that play in one of the most competitive leagues in the world, like he took their respect. And they were the toughest guys to Detroit.

And I just felt like that was the moment. Yeah, you could say the Chase Down Block, where you could say the game six against Celtics. But I think this was the moment you were like, okay, we've been waiting for somebody to compare Jordan to. Like, this is going to be the guy. That's a great pick. Seriously, I was at my 10-year reunion.

and I left because I wanted to see it. Remember Rashid kept guaranteeing they were going to win the next game and then they didn't and he just went right through him. I count him as a half a ring for even getting to the finals with that Cleveland seriously, dude. It's almost, yeah, that's a half a ring. Mix. They didn't have Big Z.

How many Cavaliers from that team can you name? Big Z, the guy from East St. Louis, Larry Hughes. Hughes. use. There was Eric, Eric Snow was not on that team, was he? There's a damon. Long hair Brazilian guy, Anderson Verrajao. You can name a lot, dude. Danielle Marshall's the one you want to name. Okay. Yeah, no, that's kind of where I finish. But anyways, your pick. Remember the pass? Right. LeBron was criticized for passing a Danielle who missed the game winner.

Yep. That was the book on him. Too selfish or selfless, actually. too selfless right and then somebody shit on them from passing out of a big game when he shot the all-star game once like they did that on Monday they came back on Monday it was like what does it say about his clutch jeans Jesus Christ oh it's funny because like LeBron's been around so long and I know that the resume for him like there's so much about it but I absolutely loved that I almost feel guilty criticizing any of it 20 years later, but yeah, there's been some moments where you're like, all right, we don't need to visit those now because I think it's a good pick. It's a good pick.

And I like this specificity of it as well. Make says one pick here first, Ryan. Yeah, yeah, no, no. I'm just prepping myself. Thank you for the alert. Okay, I'm going to take you back to Atlanta, Georgia, the 96 Olympics, okay? So there's the magnificent seven and then, oh, no, Russia's going to actually win. This is an I'm her moment, Carrie Strug. She under rotates on her first attempt. Yeah.

And then Bella Carole comes out and he's like, Hey, Carrie, if you don't jump again, the Russians are going to win. Well, she runs out there. She jumps. She lands it and then famously, you know, hops back onto her good leg. Rest is history. The U.S. wins the gold over the Russians. Carrie Strug, I'm her.

Okay. That was cool. I could never forget that. Was that a good pick, Ryan? Yeah, I had on my board, but I thought I could. maybe signed as a street free agent. Yeah. All right, I got two picks here.

Give me Bill Russell, 10 and 0 in game sevens. Board man. Show on that one for a while. And then we're going to go one of my favorite books, Jack Johnson. You want to talk about being a black heavyweight champ in this country at the time that he did it. They started creating laws to ruin his fucking life. He basically left the country.

And then the second half of his career was essentially destroyed. and he was the most in-your-face athlete at a time where for someone like him, it would have been the worst to be in your face about it. And he backed it all up. So he's an incredible story. And I think good value there late in the rounds. And he did bubble toes, bubbly toes? Saw him last week at the Hollywood Bowl.

That's funny. All right. Jesse Owens. So Hitler, we're going to go to the 36 games now. Hitler, who was Dan's, was a Dan's pick last? And then I'm not him. First overall, yeah. Yeah, it's pretty good pick.

He's choreographed these whole games to be like, hey, Aryan nation sort of thing. Well. Imagine how much she would hate the NBA. Oh, I mean, well, Phil Jackson basically. Anyways. So Jesse Owens wins four gold medals. Okay. 100 meter.

Yeah. The 200 meter. Yeah. The long jump. Yeah. The four by 100 relay. And then he's running around the track with the German guy who came in second one of these races. Yeah.

Hitler had to have been pissed. Yeah. Jesse Owens. He's like I came to your event and I won all of the things. Pretty easy to piss Hitler off, though. He's mad at every. everybody and everything. Okay.

Is it my turn? Until that. We're going six rounds? Yeah. Just keep going. Yeah. Okay. John Snow.

Everybody was like, is he dead for like eight months? Is he dead? Is he really him? Because there was a buildup of like, I think he's him. And then he dies and was like, did the, did Missandra help him? Is he going to be okay? And then it, you know, season opens. He's a lot.

But Bran ultimately is the winner, yeah? Right, but it was like, you know, John Snow was... Boring. Yeah, no one was, you know, Brann. But the other one would be a fight club. The gun's not in your hand. It's in my hand. Is that the quote?

It was quite, he was quite literally him. Tyler Darden, the whole thing. Blew my mind. That's a really good pick. Thank you. I appreciate it. Uh We're still going here

Yep, you got one more One more Oh shit Snake draft Yeah dude Okay Kevin Spacey As

Kaiser Soz Fuck you took Ah I forgot to pick it From the limp To the walk Yes I am him He was him

That's fucking Thank you Thanks everybody Thanks for I Is that it? Mr. Irrelevant from Ryan. He's got one. He's trying to see who else was on that Rocky's staff to bookend.

I'm going to take the you're not that guy, pal. Trust me, you're not that guy. Yeah, that was a grocery store. Oh, that is good. That's a great guy. Love that guy. That is good. I think I can plug and play in a lot of different ways.

On my board was the sword and the stone guy. Truman walking out of the dome. Chung Lee getting beat up by Van Dam. Iverson crossing up Jordan. I should have picked that. Odell Beckham's catch. And then Chas Bono. Yeah, okay.

I had, say what you will, George W. Bush firing that strike, October-ish, 2001. We just had the September 11th. Who's going to fuck up the rest of your young adult life? Sure, sure, sure. Say what you will. But he was on the rubber.

You know, he wasn't in front of the mound. Yeah. Put it right in there. Boisey running back. Did like the Statue of Liberty thing that went proposed to his girlfriend. That was fun. You don't want to get married at a sporting event.

I don't care if you just won the damn championship. You don't want to do that. Buster Douglas. Michael Jordan, generally. Mm-hmm. Ernest Shackleton Kirk Gibson Ernest Shackleton

Home run All right that's my board Ryan Ryan good draft man Yeah Ernest Shackleton Okay Who is Ernest Shackleton No one knows

You guys What was his he already Never read about Shackleton Oh no Is he gonna do a thing I could hear that You guys never Shackleton's adventure

The Antarctica No no no no I don't No he went to an article Shipwrecked Fucking guy was unbelievable I was reading about his interview process the other day To to kind of like you know

hire out the rest of the crew for the boat He would just be like I like the way you look You're the meteorologist Boom. You would have been crab fishermen. Look, 1700s, 1800s, early 1900s, there was not a lot out there for men who had an image of themselves to be one of these people that were actually talking about now. So like, you know, you guys from France is jumping ship and being like, maybe I can win a war,

you know? And then the rest of my life will be amazing. Shackleton was like, I've got to be famous somehow. I've got to figure out a way he'd married into money. So he was like, I need to do something to be famous. bought a boat and it crashed. That was like the 1860s YouTube. You know?

It was. Yeah. Way to get on the map. Hey, Rob, before I let you go, I want to ask you one question. Were you criticizing the way we field our softball team on Twitter when you

saw that we have Lagart Blunt or were you excited that Lagaret Blunt was on the field? No, that was, that was me being the worst guy who I'm actually not on Twitter. Of, like, just trying to figure out what is the worst way to comment on, you guys mashing in a local softball team, which I think is great. I love that you guys are doing.

I love guys having any kind of camaraderie later on in life. I respect it. I don't participate. But he hopes to have some someday. I hope, I hope to have some someday. So I loved it, but then I thought, I know, but I was just trying to,

every now and then when you post something because we're buds, I'll just go like, what would be the, what would the worst person say? What would the worst person say to you guys matching home runs in a softball game. So I just went with like, oh, I'm sure the rest of the fucking community loves these pro athletes showing up and ruined their softball. Well, somebody, somebody, um, we're only four and four or whatever we are. They're 500. They're going to miss the playoff. Somebody, hey, we could beat Ceramic Otile tomorrow.

I don't think so. Uh, so actually that is funny because somebody was like asking what their record is. Yeah, well, here was the best comment. And I actually answered the guy, but the guy was like, well, that, you know, the really good softball hitters don't hit home runs. They hit off the fence and so I'm not impressed. You know, and I was like, well, what the fuck do you want me to do? Okay? I hit it off the fence too. All right.

Hey, Ryan. I remember the first men's league I played in in Vermont. So I was like mid-20s. And I think I actually wasn't even supposed to play in it. I think it was supposed to be 30 and over. So there was already a little edge, but the bar that I bartended at sponsored the team. And so they were like, do you want to be on the team? I was like, yeah, I want to be on the team.

and I want to take them really seriously. And they were like, all right, you have to take them. So I think there was some sort of thing that had happened. And so I remember the first game, I went like opposite field. And I could hear a guy from my own bench go, I hope that doesn't go out. I was mad about it for like two hours. And I trotting around the basis. I'm going, these guys are that mad because I'm a little bit younger.

Oh, it was age. And I'm like, fuck these guys. And like, I was, I was pissed. I was stewing over it the whole time. I wasn't really talking to anybody. And then I realized they were like, okay, you guys are out of home runs. They were saying they hoped it didn't go out because it was going to be a solo shot. And there was a home run limit because of the fence.

So I was like, oh, all right, these guys are my butts down. It's all triples from here on out. I don't know the rules yet. Yeah, right. But I'm listening to one of my own teammates on the first at bat of my first game. No, I don't think it must have been later because I don't think I didn't hit a home run on first at bat. I hit a triple. Yeah, that would have been fucking cool.

Now, I had a triple because I remember they were like, okay, wait, we have a fast guy. Like, what's going on? And it was like, no, he's just not 30. But I remember the first game then, yeah, later on, I was, I was like trotting because I knew it was gone. And again, it wasn't like, it was fucking softball in the fences and weren't deep at all. And I remember hearing a guy going, I hope that doesn't go out. And I was like, what the fuck? Yeah, well.

These guys. And I didn't know the rules. You can trot around the bases in your league because in our league they don't let you. Oh yeah, that was big. Trots were awesome. Oh, yeah. Well, we don't trot. Did you know the most popular airport in India is called Mbigh?

And then secondly, do you think my face looks any rounder? Like when you picture my face in your head and then you see me right now, do you think it looks rounder right now? I do. I wasn't going to say anything. Check out his sideburns. I was a little slower to start because I was like, who's the, oh, who's the round guy? Because the round guy with burn sides.

I'm going to work on this. I'm going to work on all of it. All right, Rye. Well, appreciate your time. Enjoy the combine. Please text us as soon as you know how tall Wembe is. All right. Sounds good.

Hey, start tweeting like Reese Beekman, step slow, like really no lift, can't shoot, et cetera. Be good. Maybe like love the way Grady Dick Shades is outside foot. Yeah, yeah. Poor ankle. I love those. I love those.

Beekman could use one more year in college. To do it with some really good shoulder lean on the way he comes off those pin downs. I don't think he's picking it up. We don't want to re-speak and go to the NBA. I, yeah, yeah. How about Reese Beakin bag of cocaine? Yeah. Okay.

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So what you're going to hear next is pretty interesting. Kyle stopped by with Chris. They were on C.C. Sabathia's podcast before we recorded the whole show. we turned the mics on and Chris gave Kyle the lowdown of his weekend. Chris ended up on the river on Saturday. He found a little weather window that worked for him. And he thinks he might have found Jesus. He might have had his aha moment.

He tells Kyle about it. Kyle reacts to the story and all its glory. It's overpowering and nearly unbelievable glory. And then we go back to Macon. And then Macon jumps back in, Chris and Macon continue the Jesus talk. We also do a little softball talk because of the tough match that we have tonight. Just saying green light, your best vibes for their softball,

and enjoy this good bit of fun. So what I did is I took some boomers. Like, you know, like had a, you know, I was out solo, okay, which dad took issue with. Dad's like, you can't be all kayaking alone. What if you hit your head? So to that, I said, well, I said, why don't you go with me? And then to that, he was like, I'm not going with you.

of like, okay, so you're not that worried about it. He's a city boy. He's a city boy. So I, so this Saturday morning I had intermittently fasted. Do you guys ever intermittently fast? Where I don't eat sometimes, yeah. Well, no, it's not like, it's not like. You take like 14 hours off and you eat what you want for 10 hours.

So basically you eat dinner kind of early, then you don't eat anything until noon the next day. So I had done this that day. I wasn't at all at noon thinking about, you know, taking mushroom. That might amplify your day. And you never got your lunch. lunch at the dairy market. I just never got my lunch at dairy market. I was working. I was working in a caloric deficit. My body's just

attacking the fat. I was in ketosis. So I'm on, I get to the river. I'm like, I got to make haste. I pull a big cap out. I weigh it on my little scale, which is I'm weighing it on the side of my truck. And I'm like, you know, it's probably one seven, something like that. Like, it's going to be a good day. I don't do it. But also it's the cap. So like I think the cap has

more potent for sure. Caps more potent than the So if you weigh a stem, like in the cap and the stem weigh the same amount, the cap's probably going to get you a little bit more closer. Got it. For comparison's sake, I took a gram of stem and was out of my mind a few weeks ago. So, yeah, your boy, caloric deficit at all, hops on the river. I'm floating along, get down to these big rapids. It's been 45 minutes.

I'm feeling good. I blow a big joint down. I'm sitting there in the rapids. The water's high now because it's been raining. And Kyle, when I tell you, like usually, Reed's been with. with me. I can have fun and still function on the river. I can get through the rapids. I know where to go. I'm sitting there for 45 minutes and I'm thinking I got to make it to dinner here in two and a half hours. Like I cannot the trees when I tell you like the final episode of beef where they were out in the desert like just trying to figure out how to get back to civilization. Kyle I've never seen beef but I would imagine watch where they all tripping balls. Oh they were in the middle of the rapids. They ate the wrong cactus or something.

So I ate the wrong cactus, but I'm sitting there and Kyle, the trees, the way to describe it, some of you at home knows what it looks like, but slinky, like a jack in the box that like moves like a snake, like all the trees are like jack in the boxes. They're all bright green and they have little faces. I'm not lying to you, Kyle. They have little faces. They have like, like, you know, like a little green dot where the eyes are and a green line where the mouth is and they're all just waving at me.

and I'm in my head. I swear to you, I have a voice in my head. Kyle, swear to you. They would have burned you at the stake. I had a couple hundred years ago. A voice in my head that said, this is what you wanted. Isn't it?

You wanted to be alone? Here you are. Yeah. When I tell you, I'm like, who the fuck is that? And I'm just like having a con, are you,

you know, sometimes if you trip and you're under a little bit of stress, which I have been, you can really have some hard conversations with yourself and these convos just start and I'm like spinning and my music's on shuffle I can still hear it over the fucking and some gospel comes on Kyle oh man and I swear to you I swear to you Kyle the clouds broke and I looked up in the sky and I'm like okay maybe God's coming let me look for God and all I'm seeing is like geometric and I'm like fuck this right okay I'm like

If the, good try, try again later. Yeah. You know, like, I need to worry about how to get down the river now. So I was so, I was tripping so bad that I took the easy way to the left. Like, I never take the easy way. There was big water over here. I took the easy way. So I'm floating down the river now.

And I'm still just like, you know, I'm like, how am I going to get dinner? I need to stop again. I'm starting to feel. So I get up to these other rapids, you know, in the middle where the railroad ties are and it looks like big dinosaur land. Yeah, yeah. There's this majestic rock, like probably 10 feet wide, 15 feet deep. And the water, the undertoes strong.

I can't pull my kayak up to it. And I'm like, man, if I miss this, I'm not going to have a place to stop for a while. So I really got, I'm like inching around the side of it. And I'm trying to find a good handle for it. And I get around the side and there's a dead pool of water. It's just the water stops. And I'm just, all of a sudden, it's still. And I reach out for the rock and my shuffle.

comes on and it's plastic Jesus by the flaming lips. Kyle, what about a dashboard Jesus? And I promise you that rock was the most majestic thing I'd ever seen. It was like a sanctuary for me. It was like a port and a storm. And as I put my hand on that rock and dashboard Jesus came on, the sun came out again. And he came.

Swear to you. No, no, God didn't show up. She came. Kyle. I just started laughing. So you need to visit this rock with me. You want to see the rock? Yeah.

Okay. Show me a picture on your earthly device. The rock of Gibraltar, I believe. I have to read a little bit. But here it is, Kyle. Oh, wow. The hand of a center. Watching a rock.

Beautiful rock. It's a gorgeous rock, dude. This thing was like, Kyle. Chris, there's a golf course. Kyle, look at this rock. There's a golf. Yeah, it's fabulous. And, like, first of all, like, you're getting therapy on the river.

Your mood's lifted. Like, that's awesome that you're able to do that. and that little voice in your head that started talking to you, I feel like that's there all the time. We just constantly push it away. Because you're on Instagram. Yeah, exactly. And there's like real therapeutic elements of psilocybin that are documented.

And I think you've experienced those. I think that psilocybin is like a, it's like a, it's like a, it's like the phone on the sideline. And, you know, if you want to talk to the press box, you got to get on the phone. The red phone. Yeah, yeah. And I'm just telling you, like in my experience, when I've had an unintentionally, whoa, that I'm tripping. Like, that was what it was.

I didn't set out to have this experience. You just picked up the phone. I just was like, they were like somebody wants to talk to you on the red phone. And I picked up the red phone. Go out of the river. I swear to you, Kyle. I actually texted somebody and was like, hey, I think I had my moment, dude. I'm telling you, man, dashboard, Jesus.

I'm getting one. I went on Amazon. Do you have any pamphlets? on prime. No, I'm not a pamphlet guy. I'm not a guy with a sign that's yelling at people outside of a strip club or outside of a casino. They're at all kind of places. That's not my problem.

That's not in my, that's not how my situation is set up. The way my situation is set up is I just let a lot of things go because there's somebody else. But it's not my, it's thy. Whatever you want to say, Kyle. That's what it's all about. Thy will be done. Not my will be done.

The clouds broke. It wasn't sunny all day. It was sunny twice. That's what they say. It was sunny. when the truth that's and the flaming lips played. That was it. On earth is it is in heaven. So no more Jesus admins. What?

Well, I don't know. We're walking a thin, a fine line there, you know? Are you guys creating idols, false idols? I'm just, my mind is open,

okay? So don't be DM and me be like, come to my church. Fellowship's important. I'm not into fellowship. Where do you stand on Calvinism in the Protestant Revolution? Uh, the Protestant Revolution and Calvinism.

Fuck that John Calvin. Not everything's predetermined. Didn't he write, wasn't he the guy that was like the 99 Theses? That's Martin Luther. So Martin Luther, he fucking nailed rules to somebody's door. Yeah. It was like, these are the fucking rules. He was the first neighborhood like H-O-A guy.

Yeah. He was the first H-O-A guy. He was like, and I picture one of those nails. This is how it's getting done here. With like a square back to it. For sure. It's like square back nail. That's the Cliff's notes on the Protestant Reformation.

Yeah. So I'm not a sign guy. I'm not a pamphlet guy. I'm not a judgment guy. I'm pretty much like, hey, he's got it. Hey, can you pull up the Ten Commandments? I want to see if I'm doing a good job of them. Yeah, I actually have notes from my float.

God was a little geometric for my liking, but I think I could do it. These are notes I take sitting on. sitting on my phone you should have no other gods before me well not a lot of competition for your boy here so check number two you you shall not make idols do I make idols out of other not of other no okay these I don't do you shall not take the name of the Lord okay number three you should not take the name of the Lord your God in vain I got to cut that out my gosh remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy so what do I have to do there can't work on

Sunday anymore. And you have to... Oh, shoot. We can find a loop on, right? What about Dan Orlovsky, dude? We got to call Dan. Why don't you call Dan and tell him this is what... This is, you know, you found Jesus.

How do you make it work? You guys. I might, I might, honestly, but also... You guys are conning the Lord now. Dan, how about the... No, I'm not. I'm trying to work through this. Okay.

The Fourth Commandment, Dan. What do I do about that? Happens to be that we... Honor your father and your mother. Is the fifth command. Okay, I do that. I honor my mom and my dad. I don't murder.

Adultery, you're good. Boy, the Ramirez twins fucked up five and six. You shall not commit adultery. I'm pretty good at that. Not committing adultery. Shall not steal. Watch out for that eighth commandment from when you were kidding.

You stole all my money and buried it in the backyard. But the good thing about Jesus is he forgives. Number nine, you shall not bear false. witness against your neighbor so don't lie about people right yeah hmm you shall not covet that's tough what like you just can't want that's going to be the hard part would he want anything that's my interpretation like want what other people have listen i think i'm going to be okay here i'm just telling you indeed is the hiring platform where you can attract interview and hire all in one place don't spend hours on multiple job sites looking for candidates with the right skills when you can do it all

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and in Michigan, 1,800, 270, 7117. Tennessee, y'all too, 1,800-8-9-9-9. So no God. You don't believe in God? I don't think so. I was like you last week. What changed? Something.

Changed. So I went to the river Saturday. Uh-huh. And I'll keep it brief. All right, well, can you find God if you have silo-cyclobillian in your system? So my theory is that it's like the red phone on the sidelines. Like God's in the press box. Here's how you talk to him.

It's psilocybin. Got it. And yeah, I think it's, I think it can help. Yeah, I think I, dude, I think I'm with the Jesus, man. Now Jesus, that's where it gets complicated. He's the son of God, yeah? Yeah, but like maybe he's like, hey, just so you know, like you don't have to, you don't have to get on, you know, on the God.

on the God thing right now, but just know that there is one. Hey, what's my dad? What's, uh, I had a good Bible joke the other day. Oh, I don't do that anymore. I lost it. Okay, well, good for you. I mean, I think, um, make, it was crazy. It was like, it was like, it was like divine intervention.

Like you saw God? No, I didn't see God. Like an energy? Did you feel God's energy? Yeah, dude. Yeah. Did you see, did you see anything? Yeah, geometric patterns in the sky. But that was God's first pass.

No, that was the boomers. No, God made two passes. Okay. Okay. How do you explain all the things that I talked about earlier that you didn't hear? How do you explain those things? The Big Bang. Nope, not the Big Bang.

Just talking about my shuffle. Spotify shuffle. Twice. How do I explain your Spotify shuffle? Yeah, twice being like, hey, let me give you a God song right this minute. when you need it most and the sun comes out. It's been cloudy all day, 90% chance of rain all day. Had you uttered the word God on the river?

No, but was kind of having a conversation with myself about like just everything. Yeah. Okay, well maybe Spotify heard you say that because our devices are listening. So you think that it's AI, it's not God. Master's call by Marty Robbins is queued up to me in my brain talking to myself in my brain. If having a mental dialogue. If Johnny Cash, God's going to cut you down, had popped on,

and then you drowned in the river, I'd listen to you. That's good. This I'm not so sure about it. But I'm happy for you. Maybe I believe, well, do I believe in God? Like, I don't understand the question. I don't believe in the question. Well, I'm not really like, you know,

I was just getting a baseline for where you were before I told you. Okay. It's a tough one, man. It's a mighty tough one. Yeah. God. So like God, God is the one who's like looking down and he has a nice list and a naughty list. See, I don't believe in all that.

You know, I have a setup, just like everybody else has their own setup. Here's the thing about, yeah, you're thinking about Santa Claus. That's right. Yeah. Okay. But he's in the North Pole, not the sky. Yeah. Except on Christmas.

Perpetually the whole time. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Okay. So that's not your God thing. No. My God thing is more just like.

Hey, don't worry about anybody else because we're not judging anybody, okay? Oh. And then, you know, it's like, hey, buddy, you having a hard time here. Let me put my arm around you. Oh, I can get down with that. And I'm working on everybody else too, but just don't worry about those people. Worry about you and just trust in me. We asked Kyle and Howie earlier, would they go in the river?

Are you a riverman? Do you have a kayaking trip in your future? When I was a wee boy, I actually went to, a camp where we did a bunch of kayaking. It was called Passages. It was in Richmond, Virginia, you know, down there by Hollywood Cemetery, where they're real rapids, you know, that sort of thing. Games. So I kind of like kayaking. Here's the thing. I've got some body image issues. So I would love to be able to, you know, take the shirt off, suns out, guns out sort of thing. But I was in my office today. Two colleagues were talking about how white my outfit.

it was, specifically like a khaki pant into a dark sock into a spary. And, you know, I kind of said, what are you guys talking about? And they said, well, we're talking about how white your outfit is. I was like, well, actually, these pants are made by Nike, all right? And then they began to remark on how tight the pants are, are. And then so I was like, I was doing a little bendy thing to kind of show my cake, you know, in the back, you know? and they're like yeah yeah yeah but then a third colleague from across the hallway

says something that makes everybody else laugh so I'm like hey would you say and they're like oh I can't tell you I'm like nah what would you say like would you see would you say what you say come on I'm really trying to get it out of her well it turns out that she remarked that I have an overhang to which I said oh what's an overhang and Apparently she was talking about a love handle. Like I've let my weight get a little out of control. The lack of fitness is making it self-evident. And I copped to it.

Yeah. I saw a little overhanging my shirt the other day. I had a heather gray shirt on and I saw an outline of an overhang. So I was doing, I was talking on my cell phone, you know, most of the day, just doing laps around the office just the whole time trying to drop some of this weight. So to answer your question, read, I'm not going. going on the river until I can get back into some sort of shape. Hey dude, listen. I wear a t-shirt every day on the river.

I'm like on the river shirtless, that's like your 20s. We're well into our 30s. And it's all about those lightweight hoodies with fish on them. You just look like you know how to fish and you wear it and it keeps the sun off you. Put up over the hat, protect the neck. Yep. Okay, that doesn't sound so bad. Dude, I catch no sun.

I catch no rays, bro. Okay. All right. Well, then, yeah, I'm in. Really? Yeah. You want to go this weekend? This weekend's looking pretty good, actually.

Yeah. Like Sunday? This Sunday's looking pretty good. That's the 21st of May. Yeah. It's looking pretty good. Look at the weather. I'll look at the weather.

Okay, you look at the weather. You're going to have a wonderful Sabbath. Oh. Point remains. Hold on. Hold on a minute, player. Point remains, I got to do some exercise. 81 and partly sunny.

Wow. Kayaks, great exercise. Move your arms. Where do I get one of these lightweight? I got one for you. Wow. Fit you perfect. Is it yours?

It's mine. But I fit me perfect? Yeah. I'm kind of like a... You're tall. Smaller cat. I know. I'm a little wide for it.

Yeah. Yeah. It's blue. I love blue. I was talking about favorite colors with my daughter and I said mine are blue and shockingly now green a little bit. Really? Yeah.

Welcome to the, yeah. Green's beautiful. Whelan's an orange guy. Oh. Yeah. She had to pick out a bike went orange. Yeah, that's cool. It's a cool color now that they mention it.

Yeah. Yeah, Sunday. We'll be on the river. Okay. Yeah. All right. Who will all be there? Well, probably Tom.

Yeah. Probably. Kevin. Yeah. Probably. Probably reading Matt, maybe. Yeah. Okay.

Especially if you go. I bet you these guys. Yeah. I'm not trying to manipulate the situation. Would y'all not want to miss that? Yeah. Reed had some great plans Sunday. Do you have a paddle?

Do you have a paddle? We can get you a paddle. Actually, I was going to run over. Great Outdoor Provisions is having a kayak sale. I'll be down. I was planning on picking up a kayak. But if it's for your, you know, return to the river, you can have the maiden voyage in the kayak I pick out.

Oh, I wouldn't dream of it. Oh, boy. I wouldn't dream of it. Thank you, though. It's a very nice offer. Do you have a kayak? Do I have a kayak? You might have one by Sunday.

Do you have a kayak? If after we get out of the river, consider it like an official visit. If you commit to this university, I will give you my blue kayak. Wow. That's right. Okay.

Yeah. Now, if I could, if I had a kayak, I'd be like a kayak guy. Yeah, dude. Kayak's a palindrome. Like, go hang a salami. I'm a lasagna hog is also a Pallendrome. Okay. Great one. Yeah, thanks. But hey, you know, maybe the whole river thing, because I burn

really easily anyway, maybe that was just a way for me to ease into the, hey, I'm, I'm overweight thing. Yeah. And I just wanted to tell you guys. Well, no, I knew what you were doing with it. And I'm glad you brought it up. Okay. And we have a panacea for that. Okay. It's called kayaking. You burn calories? Oh, you burn them. You don't even know you're burning them. Okay. Hello. Oven's on. Now this coworker who said I had an overhang, she has not only been forgiven, she has been thanked. Yeah,

because I haven't stopped thinking about the word overhang all day. I did 10 push-ups in my office. I told you about the walk and I've eaten clean today. Well, but I am wearing a tight pant. So maybe in a different pant, a higher-waisted pant maybe. They're just like,

looking normal. Yeah. And the thing is I'm not putting on a lot of weight. So I'm just like other parts of my body are atrophying while I'm adding to the waistline. Are we still doing a chocolate cake? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I eat chocolate cake every night.

Hey, you know, I'm starting to feel old, man. How so? I don't know. Sometimes I'm just looking at myself. Like, goddamn, you're getting old. Like my hands are like old guy hands. Oh, wow. You know?

Yeah. I still have. Also. Little baby boy fingers here. Yeah, you got hands that are like, yeah. Like you've been wearing a white glove, your whole life.

Thank you. Fucking a candle at church. Yeah. Ringing the bell. Damn it. Yeah. Ringing handbells. The handbell.

I'm in the handbell choir. Handbell ringing hand ass, boy. But I'm fucking, my hands are getting old. Yeah, that's why you're seeing God. No, that's not it. I think I saw God because he was like, Hey, man.

Hi, man. You just check this shit out, okay? Uh-huh. All right. Okay, so anyways, back to the main thing. You're feeling old. Well, I'm feeling old, man. My fucking energy is lower, you know?

I might, you know, this nicotine's keeping me standing all day. You know, last night I was in the back of my pickup truck. Couldn't really jump down. You know, you're just like, I don't want to, like, you know, jump, just jump off it and land on two feet. Yeah, I don't risk those things anymore. You're like, what, I'm like, what am I? Yeah. I worry about a kill.

these days. Achilles. Yeah. Oh, yeah, that would be a big bummer. Nine months because you want to play pickup basketball. That won't happen in a kayak. Yeah. How's that Kyle tattoo coming?

Hmm. I think Kyle's trying to push it out of our suspiciously quiet. You know, going to Italy. He was, it was interesting. He was very enthusiastic about it, you know, for the week after that it was determined he had to, that was his, you know, losing, that was his punishment. and then he hasn't mentioned his sense.

Yeah, so we're going to, yeah, we're going to need to mention that, okay? And we need to do it in a real professional form with like email trails. Okay, so I need like one of y'all to email and text him and then I'll kind of shuffle around and have a conversation on the side

and just see if the Holy Trinity can't get it done. Has he talked about y'all are the Holy Trinity? No, just it was a like callback. Okay, but are y'all the Holy Trinity? Well, we are the three closest to the ball. Are you the father or the son or the Holy Ghost? I'm neither, okay, because these jokes are faux pa now for me. But...

You know, I like to think of the Holy Trinity as the mother, the daughter, and the Holy Ghost. So what is the Holy Ghost in relation to what's... Matt? The Jesus that rises from the ground. Got it, okay. And Jesus is also the son. Yeah. So Jesus is playing two roles here. We're playing three roles.

Well, but he's not the father and the son. You're not as up on your theology as you think. No kidding. He is an embodiment of God on earth. He is, okay. I don't want to make it a theology pot. I don't want people to start thinking we're just going to be talking about theology out here because I got on the red phone.

Okay. Okay. We were just discussing something. You know what I want to discuss? us. We were talking about Kyle getting a tattoo. As he said, what it would be, Yukon-related? Would it just be a picture of a dog? I don't know. Would you let him get away with a German Shepherd? No. Okay.

It's not a husky. I know. I was just wondering. So anyways, Kyle's going to Italy. I wanted to do like kind of a scavenger hunt for him, but like, you know, with points. So kind of more like bingo maybe. I don't know what is this. might come up and my I'm him, so I can't really discuss further, unfortunately. Marco Polo. I can't. That's good.

So, uh, Marco Polio. Polo is Italian. Marco Polio. Yikes. That'd be, if he was running for office and, like, he was anti-Polio vaccine,

his name is Marco Polio. That'd be a great Twitter handle. Marco Polio. It's not funny. Some people are still getting it. Yeah. Yeah. Are they?

I thought we had the vaccine. We do. Okay. But we also, you know, you know, one day I was going to talk about like, um, uh, dysentery,

you know, and, you know, and kind of, make an Oregon trail joke, but a lot of people are still getting dysentery. Bitting by snakes, too.

Colora? Yeah. It's real. I got to get my cholera backs every time I go to Africa. Okay. So Kyle's going to Italy. And so I want to do this game.

Okay. what should we put on here Reid made a little list Oh cowboy I want to open it up with go to the White Lotus Hotel That's a big if you go to the White Lotus Hotel You get like I don't know 20 points or something or

Let's say 50 points We should give him like a point Like you should you have to get He has to get like a thousand points Yes whatever And if he doesn't We put a bar of soap in a sock And beat the shit out of him

When he gets home We should do that anyways Because he's abandoning his softball team He really is How long is he going? You want to code Red Kyle? He's going to Cancun early Yeah

Huh? Like three weeks The remainder of the season We have ceramic-o tile Tomorrow. It's the biggest game of the season So making if you need any Tile work done

If you have any clients To need tile work done Schedule it for Will you call Ceramico Tile? Will you call Ceramico Tile? Will you call Ceramic Yeah, happily. Well, they're probably closed.

It's 506. It might stay open later. Also, Megan, if you were in the softball group chat still, you would see that Chris Podkett sent the number there. Just call them and see if you can do a job. Our game's at 9 p.m. tomorrow. See if a job that the whole team would have to be at but pays very well. It's for a, it's for, um...

I'm sorry, what time's your game? 9 p.m. 9 p.m. Guy from Beijing. Ceramicot. He only, he only, like, he only, He likes contractors there at night, pays cash, wants you to tile his whole. This could be bullet and board material, so we really can't walk in a line.

We mentioned it on the last show, but actually doing it is interesting. Beijing, dude. I didn't hear the Beijing part. He's only here for Tuesday. Hi. Oh, Ceramico. Hey, goodness. I have an emergency situation tomorrow night, Tuesday.

16th at 9 p.m. This is this this house has 9,000 square feet. There's tile everywhere and you wouldn't believe it. All of the mortar joints have failed and there's water pouring out of every single room in the house. So if I could get you ceramic-o tile to this place Tuesday the 16th at 9 p.m. The whole company. The whole company. I really need all hands on deck on this one. That would be terrific. That's, uh, this client is in Beijing, China. And, uh, the, the place is located here in Charlottesville. The clients from Beijing, he wants to FaceTime in to see that everything's being repaired correctly. And I said, fella, I got the, I got, I got top people on this. They're at ceramico tile, you know, this guy's a big, uh, a big Google reviewer, too. He's on the Yelp and

Google and, uh, he'll do right by you. He'll do right by. There's one thing I know this guy will do right by you. I said, I said, you want, you want a mortar joint fixed? You call Ceramico Tile Company. And that's Tuesday the 16th, but really we need everybody there, you know? And this is his accountant. We'll pay cash. And they're going to pay cash on the spot.

And, you know, this one time, I did a little favor for this guy. I told you he's in Beijing and did a little favor. he whips out of an envelope full of money. I said, by God. And he said, no, I want you to have it. You know, that's just the sort of guy he is. Always looking out for people who are looking out for him. So this is, you wouldn't believe the mess we have on our hands,

but I appreciate y'all coming out. Again, that's Ceramico Tile Company. at 9 p.m. on Tuesday the 16th. This job will probably last about an hour and a half. Two hours. Maybe two hours. Probably a two hour job. Okay.

Thanks. I think, yeah. Yeah. I think so. Okay. That's good. So we're biggest game of the season tomorrow night. Yeah.

We're playing ceramic O'Tile, maybe. I mean, would you get a, if nobody shows, would you get a forfeit win? That'd be a win. I think so, yeah. I got a game for you. Okay. All right, so I'll give you a quote from something, and then whoever can guess the quote first, I'll give you the question based on the quote.

Okay. All right, makes, if you ain't first, you're last. Is that Talladega Knights? Yes, sir. Chris, what was your most heartbreaking loss? Oh, man. Probably playoffs last year. just because I knew it was over.

You know, I sat in the locker and cried like a baby. Not like a baby, not like a baby, not like, what, you know, but like a toddler, like a older toddler that's being quiet about it, but crying, there's water coming out of my eyes. Sounds like you were crying like a grown man might cry. A grown man crying. Yeah, that's what it was. And yeah, it was over, man.

And we shouldn't have lost that game. Makes you got one? Oh yeah, 2016, the lead date to Syracuse. We're up 15 with 10 minutes to go and I too cried. I cried my way out of the United Center, walked the streets of Chicago that night. Crying? Yes. The whole time?

No, not the whole time, but after the game I was- Intermentally crying. Yeah. Would you get, like, did you cry the next day? And somebody's like, what's wrong? And you're like, oh, it just comes in waves. I don't remember. I did drug myself to sleep.

because I just didn't want to feel any pain anymore. I thought you might say that again. Oh, yeah. No, I'll, yeah, that's way worse than UMBC. Way worse.