Pardon My Take - Chris Bosh, Lebron Is Done, Coach K Retires And Fyre Fest Of The Week

Episode Date: June 4, 2021

Lebron and the Lakers are DEAD. We talk about Lebron's first first round playoff exit and maybe becoming a Suns podcast (2:37 - 19:22).. Alternate start to the show because Coach K retired (19:22 - 41:59). Hank recaps his favorite Duke memories and Big Cat responds in kind. Brad Stevens is promoted and Danny Ainge is out (41:59 - 48:12). We talk NBA and NHL playoffs (48:12 - 67:17). Chris Bosh joins the show to talk about his new book, being Lebron's teammate, and fan/player interactions (67:17 - 99:23). We finish with Fyre Fest of the week.You can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/PardonMyTake

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Today is Friday, June 4th. Can you hear? Can you hear my smile? Is LeBron James Dunn or is he finished? Let me just read a quote for you, PFT. It starts with my accountability and trickles down to everybody else. These shoulders were built for a reason and if it takes for me to put more on top of it then so be it.

That was LeBron James before game five. The game that he left with five minutes and 45 seconds left and then game six. When the Phoenix Suns have eliminated the Lakers and LeBron James, is that it? So I think all this talk about retiring this week. All the discussion that's been going on, retiring is kind of hot in the streets right now. My prediction for this off-season is that LeBron James, he's going to pull like an Aaron Rodgers. He's going to publicly flirt with retiring but privately he's going to be like, I'm

going to come back but he wants people to talk about whether or not this is the end of the road for him and then he'll come back and the Lakers will be dominant because Anthony Davis is going to be healthy. And by the way, Charles Barkley with the Anthony Streetclothes Davis. First of all, what are street clothes? Street clothes are clothes you wear on the street. On the street. Because whenever I see somebody wearing street clothes it's always stuff that's way nicer

than anything I would wear on any public road. But then he came out, gave it a go and then Charles Barkley made fun of the Lakers and Anthony Davis for trying to play on a shattered groin tonight. So I don't know. I feel like the Joker right now chasing cars and once you catch up to him, you don't know what to do because I got to admit I've been looking forward to this night for a very long time because it feels like, you know, LeBron has never lost in the first round. It happens tonight.

He's old. He's 36. He's not as dominant as he used to be. He's never going to be 100% again. He said it himself. Anthony Davis is not a free agent. Not a free agent. The false news, fake news media tried to get it.

Strike it from the rocket. Strike it. Strike it. I am kind of sad. I don't know. So I'm conflicted. I'm torn because I think almost every single postseason for the last five years, I've said this is the year that LeBron James loses in the first round.

So I want to take a victory lap because this time I was right when I predicted it and I like the sun. You needed an Anthony Davis injury, which I... The suns are fun. Yeah. The suns are awesome. We'll talk about them in a second. I'm torn between wanting to take that victory lap and also being like...

You're also a LeBron stand. It's fun to make fun of LeBron James. Right. Right. All I'll say is this is... It might be karma for giving Lola Bunny a small ass. Yeah. The basketball gods caught up with him.

I'm torn. I do think... I'll say one nice thing about the Lakers. I do think that if Anthony Davis stays healthy in this series, it's totally different. They were up 2-1, tie ball game, game four, and he gets hurt. So... And he's their best player. I'm gonna knock on LeBron.

Anthony Davis is... It kind of is. No, but it's still true. At this point in their career, LeBron James at his peak was far, far better of a player than Anthony Davis will ever be, but as of right now, Anthony Davis, like if you want either one of them... If either one of them is 100%, you want it to be Anthony Davis. I just...

I feel torn. Hank, do you not feel torn? No. You're just happy? Yeah. I mean, I'm happy. There is an element of it's like fun rooting against him, but it's one of those things as the series, you know, progressed and it goes Eastern Conference or Western Conference

finals and championship, it's like there's only so many games you can root against him for, and once he wins, it's the worst thing ever. So I'm happy with him losing. So game five, he quit on his team. I mean, I don't know how you could see it otherwise. He left the game with five minutes and 40 feet, left the bench. Tonight, I'll give him credit. They fought.

There was like many times in this third and fourth quarter where we were like, oh, shit. He might be... They cut it to like 11. They cut it to 10. Oh, no, they're going to be, you know, getting close here. LeBron's going to do his thing. Credit to Chris Paul, by the way. Chris Paul, that's why Chris Paul is so important to like the Suns.

He just... Whoa. His ability to just like control tempo and be like, hey, everyone chill out. I'm going to dribble around. I'll see, you know, someone sent me a pick. I'll hit him. I'll fucking nail a 12 footer. Like we'll be good.

He did that a few times tonight where it was crucial because it felt like the Lakers could creep back in it. And yeah, the Suns are fun. Well, Devin Booker was incredible. It always felt like if the game got to single digits, then the Lakers were going to win it. That was like... That was the one barrier they had to break.

They never got to that point because once you get to single digits, especially when being downed by so much, then Staples Center starts to get loud as hell. And then LeBron James is just like, I'm going to take you to the basket every time. He was going to get all the calls if it got close. Except for that one that he didn't and he almost murdered the ref. Like he basically didn't come back on defense for two possessions straight just to yell at the ref. Yeah, which I mean, this is the stuff that I'm going to miss.

I'm going to miss talking about that in the playoffs. And the fact, you're right, Anthony Davis is their best player and it is kind of a knock on LeBron only because we choose to say that Anthony Davis is their best player a lot because it's fun to remind everybody that LeBron James isn't their best player. But yeah, Anthony Davis being out, that's the difference. I think they probably would have won the series if he was still in. Yeah, but this... All right.

So the Suns. I didn't realize this. Devin Booker scored 47 tonight. Devin Booker was 15 for 22. It's the perfect combo of Devin Booker was the Suns tonight. And then you have Chris Paul to like the closer who can basically say, Hey, I got this. Don't worry guys, like let's not panic. And Jay Crowder was hitting every single shot, which was awesome.

I just, it was fun. It's fun. The Suns are fun. We're still a Nuggets podcast. Yeah. Definitely. But wait, are they playing against each other? We love the Nuggets.

I house divided. I don't know who to root for. I think we got to be a Suns podcast. I like... You know what I like about the Suns? I like their fans. I like Suns fans a lot. They're like a more mellow version of Lakers fans.

Right. They're like, yeah, like the Laker bros, if instead of like doing Jager bombs and smoking mids, they were just on peyote. They seem like relaxed. They day party. They know how to have a good time. Yeah. They day party.

Remember that time we went to ASU and they, and they watched Notre Dame versus, it was pretty much the biggest game ASU played in football wise in like the last 10 years. And we were, we just went and watched the game and it was a full on club at noon. Yeah. You couldn't hear the game. It was just the loudest music ever. And then every time they scored, there was a cannon that went off of confetti. That's what Suns fans, and I like it.

Suns fans, they seem like they're, they're always like kind of sunburned too. Oh yeah. Like a little bit too red, but that doesn't stop them from going to the games. I think they actually lead the league in fans in the stands wearing no undershirts beneath their jersey. Yes. Yes. But that's, that plays in Phoenix because it's so hot.

You know, it's not the humidity. It's the heat. It's dry heat. No, it's the heat. It's the humidity, not the heat. It's the, it's dry heat. It's dry heat. You know what they say about the weather there?

Oh, time check. It's 1.22 in the morning. Oh, there you go. Yeah. What do they say? If you don't like it, just wait five minutes. Oh, it gets me. Oh, it gets me.

Should we, so the Suns are playing the nuggets? Should we, I think we need to put it up to a vote. I think we need to make the AWL's vote. Sun's nuggets. Like I think we need to put out a poll. We should, you know what we should do, we should put out a poll at noon tomorrow and set it to end at tip of the first game. And that's who we're rooting for.

I think the poll, can the poll be like multiple days? Yeah. I think it'd be, it'd be like seven days if we wanted to be Sun's nuggets. Which team are we rooting for officially as a podcast? We're Nets podcast. We're Blake Griffin podcast. First and foremost. I would like to root for the Suns.

Same. If that can influence people, I would like, you guys just got mad at me for saying that Chris Paul. Oh, because he wants to get his dick sucked. I do not want to get my dick, well, I, I don't, I want to root for the Suns is what I'm saying. That's what I was trying to say. How long do I want the poll to be?

I can set it right now. Well, no, don't put, don't tweet it right now. No, I'm going to schedule it. Yeah. So when, when's game one? You guys got mad at me when I said Chris Paul was awesome the other week. And now we're Sun's podcast. I've always liked the Suns for the last two weeks.

Right. But what are we going to do? You guys realize what you're doing right now. I said Chris Paul's awesome and you both were like, how could you, how could you say that as LeBron Stan? I feel like I don't remember that the LeBron stand them has to transfer to Chris Paul because he's a little bro and LeBron James is going to be like, this is, this is a little bro's championship.

I got it. Even though I think they're the exact same age. I got it. I got it. The best way for Blake to get a ring would be to beat Chris Paul in the finals. Yes. There it is. Yes.

I like that. That would be incredible. Do you think that LeBron James is going to play in the Olympics this summer? He really doesn't have an excuse now, right? I did them. So I looked it up. He's played in 264 postseason games and this is, this is like rule number one stuff about being LeBron Stan is you have to factor in his postseason career.

So he's played an extra three seasons on this. So he's really almost 40 years old. Right. It's incredible. Right. I'm going to throw out a stat that I like that I just came up with off top my head that people could throw out there if they want, if they want to tweet it at all LeBron James in his career has defended his title once, once Michael Jordan did it four times.

So four times a team went into the season as the defending champions and then still won the championship. LeBron has done it once hardest thing to do in sports is repeat. Right. Mm hmm. Just saying just throwing it out there. Does this cheap in the bubbled ring? I think we can all agree that just doesn't happen.

It doesn't. Yeah. The bubble never. That's not basketball. Yeah. No fans around. I still what we're going to say, Jake. Game one is Monday at 10 p.m. Eastern.

Okay. So schedule it for noon tomorrow and it ends it ends at 9 59 Monday night and that will be our decision. Please vote for the sons, but also vote for the nuggets. Yeah. I think you know, it's fair. It's just has to be fair. It will just vote.

I want to actually, actually genuinely see like who people want us to root for. And also if we have a bigger fan base than one or the other, I would think that we probably have a bigger fan base in Arizona than we do in Colorado. What about Menver? Well, Menver. Yeah, that's a good point. A lot of dudes. But also there, if you live in Denver, your podcast consumption rate, especially during

the summertime, probably not as high as when you're down in the dry heat. Yeah. But think about this. In Arizona, your iPhone's probably overheating all the time in the sun. JJ Watt, big sunspan. Yeah. JJ Watt, AWL. So interesting.

JJ, you could probably influence this poll a little bit. You could absolutely influence this if you tweet it, but that does sound like a great reason to watch the NBA finals because it's going to be probably Nets versus a team that is not going to have a big draw in terms of the market. It'd be awesome to see him jazz, try to get his, his revenge against Chris Paul. Yeah. So by the way, we, so we did some major time traveling. You're going to hear everything.

So we have a double intro with coach K coming up and then we also like broke our own brains trying to figure out how this is all going to come together, which we left in. But we forgot to mention Dame, Dame Lillard's 55 on Wednesday night, Tuesday night, Tuesday night, Wednesday night. I think he had Tuesday night. Didn't he like set the record for threes made? It was incredible in a playoffs and he lost and then they lost tonight. They totally blew it.

The Nuggets fucking were resilient, came back. So yeah, shout out to him. I just wanted to throw that out there. That's kind of going to be the story of Dame Lillard's career. I know until, well, until he comes to the Mecca. Yeah. That's what people are saying. So the Lakers this off season, are they going to try to add another piece?

I was looking at free agents. Do you know what they should do? What? They should fire LeBron James, the GM. Okay. Because this roster was flawed. Bring back. And that's his.

To build around. Bring back Rob Lowe. Yeah. He's not a free agent. Just want to throw that out there again. What is it? It's, which ball is going to be a free agent this off season? Lamello.

No shot. I mean, Lonzo. I meant Lonzo. It's 128. I meant Lonzo. Bring back Lonzo. I want Lonzo on the bulls. Bring back Lonzo.

You want him up back on the Lakers? It'd be fun. Ron is going to be, you know what the worst part is is 128 in the morning. I'm going to have to stay up till his press conference. Yeah. Or at least he's going to have to watch. He's going to get so much treatment. He might outlast me, but I want to watch his press conference.

At least the IG post that's going to come out. So do you think he's got one scheduled? Yeah. So we were, we were debating this. If Chris Paul wins a title, how much of LeBron will make, how much will he make it about himself? There'll definitely be a few pictures of like their backs with their arms around each other. Like between us, we got five.

Okay. Let's see. He has not posted yet. Let me check the stories. Oh man. Bad night to be a bottle of wine, Los Angeles. Sheesh. Sheesh.

Sheesh. It's going to be, I know exactly what he's going to say. It's like we played so much basketball. We left it all out there even though I quit on my team on game five and didn't come back on the court. Like, like argued with Raphson and come back on defense like multiple times in game six, but we left it all out there. And you know what?

To everyone that's saying right now LeBron lives rent free in our heads. You're absolutely right. Oh yeah. Absolutely. He is one of my favorite topics to talk about in all of sports. He is my favorite tenant. Yes. I love it.

It's, it's, it's not like a diss when you're like, Hey dude, you're obsessed with LeBron. No shit. No LeBron's on rent control. I'm not, I'm never going to charge LeBron for living in my head. Yes. I love it. He's, he is my favorite tenant by far. Yeah.

He's fucking, he, he, no bed bugs. He goes to sleep at 11 o'clock, doesn't play loud music. It's the best. It is the best. So actually going to the Lakers, he does stay up late and it does bother me. Yeah. So that's kind of nice. We're, we're not, probably not going to stay up until 130 anymore this post season.

And if we do, we will let you know. Absolutely. Yeah. We will absolutely let you know. That's not true. What? Oh. If we're a son's podcast.

That's true. But also Denver, right? And also Denver. Wait. We're next. We're Blake Griffin podcast. We can't forget that. Is it the fucked up time of year where Arizona is on Denver time?

Who is Arizona on Los Angeles? Someone gives us some facts on Denver. Arizona is on like 19, 23 time. All right. I'm going to do an ad right now. And when, when the ad is done, you will hear the other intro to this show because coach K had to start a show. And so we talked coach K, we talked Danny Ainge, Brad Stevens, Firefest, great interview

with Chris Bosch. I'm going to say right now, one of the best shows we've had in a very long time because there was so much good stuff to talk about. Should we release two podcasts tomorrow? One the LeBron James podcast and then the other part one and part two, you know, increase the downloads. No big deal. All right.

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Welcome to part of my take presented by new Amsterdam vodka today is Friday, June 4th and coach K is retiring, but not before he does an entire retirement tour and he makes everyone give him gifts and everyone say how he's the greatest of all time because it's not about the kids. It's about coach K. Coach K is going to make the kiss retirement tours look like child's play. It is going to be the wettest of sucks. You're going to have to suck him so hard.

You're going to have to suck the black off his hair. Oh hell yeah. PFT. I just want to say something real quick. A lot of people were saying that maybe it was because recruiting recruiting. Maybe it was because you athletic director athletic director maybe because the likeness the players actually get paid so paying them under the table isn't going to have the same effect.

No, no, no coach K made it clear in his press conference that he's doing it because of family. He's doing it because of family not due to changes in the sport. So let's just all respect coach K and he's finally going to spend some time with his family at the young age of 74. So what better time he doesn't want to miss any of his kids soccer games. He doesn't want to be at his kids high school graduate. Wait, wait. No, his kids are 52.

You can't get that stuff back. You know, you got to celebrate it while it's around. I have their driver's license. Yeah. It's very funny because it's like he also tossed into the press conference that he does keep getting older but the kids stay the same age like like Wooderson from dazed and confused and like but not that it has anything to do with it whatsoever. So imagine being a 17 year old right now and going to Duke and this is coach K's last

year. Like if you don't win him a title, you're an asshole. You're never getting where to where the the lady who wrote that. Remember the lady who wrote the op-ed about Elton Brand being like you're never welcome back in the Duke family. He's like good. Yeah. Thank you.

Yeah. I like that proved my point that I should go to the NBA and make money. I can't wait to see what the presents are going to be for coach K. What is UNC going to get him and we're I was talking to Hank about this earlier because he was like I think I've always been like pro retirement tour and I was like what about Derek Cheeter. He's like no fuck that. Yeah.

And then we talked about David Ortiz for a while and Hank conveniently forgot that David Ortiz had a season long retirement tour. So I think Hank is pro. Are you pro retirement? Wait. Wait a minute. Hank. Hank.

Hank. Hold on. Before we get your thoughts. Thank you. I hope they play this before every single press conference this year. Well they play before every single game if you guys do anything about you know great teams. I want to say I want to know one thing one thing Hank before you do it I tweeted a clip

of coach K walking in and clapping and I use the part where he like pumped his fist and I said the face when you was presidential what are you doing. You survive a 40 year NCAA career and no one finds your bag men. People did say big cat we know who Jeff Cable is so point taken I'm sorry you're right we know Jeff Cable coached a Duke now I didn't think so. He was the assistant coach for like ever he's not there now people are trying to that's the classic just blame the guy who just left wait wait wait wait does this mean that coach K is a one and done this year.

Yep. You either die here or live long enough to become a villain. So Hank we would like to hear your thoughts you are a diehard Duke fan. You went there. Second Gen alum. Second Gen alum I want to hear your favorite coach K memories and also what you think about his retirement. I just have a question for you guys.

You guys are a quote unquote sports podcast you know you're all you do your part of it. All you do is joke around to make jokes everything's a big joke haha we stay here all the time late for sports sports sports correct. This is the greatest coach in the sport and all you guys do is make jokes and mock him it's like what's the point of doing your job. He's how do you how do you like explain your existence of all you're going to do is joke. He's the second best coach. Have some respect.

It's also very funny. It's all 12 final fours 15 ACT tournament titles 97 to NTA play a list 126 weeks ranked number one. No that's off the top of my head. Hank's reading. Have some respect. Okay. So and I get it haha but it's like you guys are just three gold medals three gold medals.

So he saw Roy Williams retire and it was major like Thomas Jefferson John Adams vibe it's like we're going to die on the same day essentially but coach Williams did the right way. He said you know what I'm not going to stick around I'm not going to make my final season all about me and coach K was like you know what I'm going to stick around and it's honestly tough look for Duke. You should never have a new head coach whose last name rhymes with fire. It makes it too easy for the chance to come out the second he starts screwing it up. Are you are you happy with the replacement.

Yes I have to be because John Chiron knows exactly who to pay and how to get paid and all these things. You have to have the key. You can't bring in like some hired gun and he's like you know they say hey you got to go do this private dinner with some of these boosters like no I might do that. Boom now your five star recruit doesn't show up to campus. Maybe Grant Hill. Yeah.

Exactly. Can I do my favorite coach gave memories. Can I say one other thing. Okay. All right. You do that and then I'll say my kidding on farewell tours. It's just because those people are mediocre they're not that good at their job when they retire from their job no one's going to care.

So it's like if you're the greatest of all time you're the best of what you do. You deserve to have that you know that light shine on you. You deserve to have that victory lap like if you got it you should win. You guys are at the top of your profession for now if you stayed at the top of your profession for the next 35 years and then retired you should deserve to have a few shows where people are celebrating you. It takes a long time to get to where he's got and if you're that good you deserve to get you know respected for it.

Okay. So all you guys are going to do is joke. No no I'm not going to joke. I'm going to talk about it. I think coach K says something to the players. Coach K is the best probably the best college basketball coach of all time. I'll give you that. Yeah.

Okay. There you go. That's nice. I said that. It is fact. He won five NCAA titles. I know everyone would be like oh you're salty about 2015. You're fucking right.

I am. Of course I am. I'll never get that back. A small part of me died in Lucas Oil Stadium that night and it will never return. So yes there is saltiness but I also just don't like coach K because I think he plays by his own rules and shifts the rules when it changes everything and when the things are going well it's coach K's the goat and when things are going bad coach K's got my favorite.

You know what my favorite coach K memories is. He's teaching the kids about the kids that one video where he's just staring straight ahead screaming at the air like to nobody just cussing his players out not even looking them in the eye. That's my favorite coach. All right. So can I do some memories. Sure.

Okay. I'll just read a few things. I talked about you can read. I talked about his consistency. So everyone knows 1995 during an atypically lackluster season coach K takes a leave of absence citing back pain and exhaustion long time assistant Pete Godette takes over in coach K's stead stead stead stead guiding the blue devils to a two and fourteen ACC record contrary to the practice at other schools these wins and losses stay on God debts permanent

record not coach K's and I actually will defend coach K in this part because an administrator probably doesn't even know the A.D. so he probably couldn't even get that on his law you know well he definitely didn't have anything to do with the fact that those don't go on his credit to coach K as well for two thousand seven he said I think I should have been credited with all those losses now he didn't actually take all those letters he didn't say it didn't actually change but he took credit and he said I think I should be credited with those losses but don't actually put those losses on my record that's like the exact same thing as being like I would have donated that money to charity had I want right exactly exactly

and you might say oh okay that's one time big cat that's crazy well you're right but you're also wrong because remember in two thousand nineteen he lost to Stephen F. Austin and coach K after the game made a surprising admission saying that he was suffering from some type of health problem on Tuesday that may have negatively impacted the team although he didn't go into any detail in the nature of the problem that's what you call accountability when you're a coach you want to put the blame on all these young college kids you want to put it on yourself that's a good thing that all the journalists at Duke were clapping for him when he came in the room because he was just afraid he was going to chew him out

if they said something bad to him in the post game interview oh PFT I'm so happy you brought that up because everyone saw that happen this year yeah and you say well guess what he's getting old it's not a big deal like he's you know senile he's he's angry it's like your old grandfather yelling at people well except for the fact that he also did that in nineteen ninety after Duke's student newspaper gives the Duke Blue Devils a B plus at the halfway point of the season coach K invites the papers sports staff in for a get together with the team and his assistant coaches and he said I'm not looking for puff pieces or anything like that but you're whacked out and you don't appreciate what the fuck is

going on and it pisses me off coach K later apologized but only for using profanity not for belittling and scaring a bunch of student journalists I remember correctly though that team went to the final four and then they went to back to back national champs so but they were B plus is not a bad grade yeah but when you're the coach you want to you want all A's that's just that's just greatness that's that's what I'm saying just mediocrity that's all you know you guys don't care it's just all big joke to you you see a B plus like oh it's great you got a B plus coach Casey's a B plus he's like I want to a I actually think it's a smart move on coach K's part to do this right now because like there's no

chance whatsoever that he's getting left out of the tournament next year no matter what if they're if they're anywhere close to a bubble if they're bubble adjacent you were putting Duke Blue Devils in that fucking tournament after leaving Duke former star Corey McGeady admits to accepting thousands of dollars from summer league coach Myron Piggy though such main payments would presumably have made McGeady ineligible the NCAA declines to strip Duke of its final four appearances the Blue Devils in fact aren't punished at all so we're going to start roasting every college program that's giving people money no no I actually have no problem I think you should pay the players I think we have you should pay the players

but you should also pretend that you don't pay the players and then be like an investigation by everyone I'm sure was contented that too for fucking Frank Kaminski you think we paid Frank Kaminski yes and Sam Decker he got he he was no one recruited him that doesn't matter an investigation by the New Orleans Times kind of doesn't matter you know that point guard Chris Dewan I heard what I heard landed a job working for a Duke booster co-workers say the job opening was never posted in that Harper was overpaid and lack qualifications again Duke gets absolutely no heat from the NCAA I'm just surprised well you know like all this can be uncovered in the capital and simple freedom of information excerpt oh PFT

you can't do a FOIA on Duke why private in yeah private university interesting hmm how about when coach K teaches the kids after games like that time Dylan Brooks he stopped him in the handshake line and told him you're too good of a player to be showing off at the end that was a that was a loss though so that was a loss when he did that but he was teaching him he was teaching him a life lesson yes which he'll remember more than beating Duke yes exactly yeah but now when it's not like you know coach K said something after the fact and then the cameras who got the moment actually figured out he was saying something else exactly what I'm I'm trying to follow I'm really trying to be on your

side I'm obviously coach K but if I remember that story correctly coach K was like oh I just gave him a few nice words after the game yes that was a good one we're like actually you were like chewing them out yes but I'm not gonna say that right I like how coach K pulled the you know our conversation is gonna stay between us like a lot of people do after a game when they're like hey what what did you say to your father when he greeted you on the sidelines after your last game he's like I'm gonna keep that between but in this situation he was just dog cussing yes like fuck you my favorite coach K was when he said don't criticize the players criticize me and then in that same interview said when you

question my coach and come into Cameron and look up at the ceiling and see if you should do that hmm yeah kiss the rings it's like a three-card Monty trick I listen I'm actually very upset that coach K is retiring because he is fodder I love hating him I've said this before I'm sure Duke fans will be upset at everything I've said so far but sports are fun when you hate something the the like hating Duke and hating coach K is a pastime for the majority of America and Duke fans defending coach K and defending Duke is a pastime for you and you love doing it and it makes everything more fun because guess what you won five national titles so you can shove that in everyone's face do you think I'm gonna miss it do you

think that Duke would be as prestigious university as it they love to pull the Harvard or the South thing if they weren't good at basketball it wasn't Bruins just one there you go there you go Hank everything's coming up Hank huge that just happened live I just think that you thinking about Duke is being like an elite institution for academics if they weren't also good at basketball because I actually think that whatever coach K did if as long as he hasn't murdered anybody which is still in confirmed I think that anything that he's done has been worth it for the college yes yeah you're probably right you're absolutely right and guess what he is the best coach of all time I'm not saying that he's not I wouldn't

say I wouldn't be an I'd be an idiot if I was like he's a terrible coach I think he's the best coach of all time there said it again I just think that people don't criticize him ever and he gets to he does these these hijinks all the time I remember when he said that Zion was too athletic to be officiated correctly yeah that was my favorite he's too fast they don't know how to be officiated you think that that Calpari got a call what do you mean you think somebody made a courtesy call to him be like hey I know that like you coach Cal has a clock anywhere that he gets before before what he does catches up with him and again we're not judging Cal we love the Calpari family but I feel like it would

be a respect thing to give him a call just to just to see if he's interested in going to Duke it's like you know all that stuff that you've gotten caught for in the past you will get away with a hundred percent of the stuff that you do and more if you come to do that bringing up Cal is perfect because that's actually probably like the like if you had to really boil it down I really have no problem with coach K cheating and and changing the rules because that's every college coach in America it's the fact that no one actually says he does those things and is like he did it the right way Cal everyone calls him kind of shady right yeah and I kind of like that car kind of owns yeah he kind of owns he's

like yeah I care about NBA draft picks but you know we know that like there are coaches out there that play on the fringes and everyone kind of figures it out and everyone's Roy Williams the the whole like class thing you know where where kids weren't going to class and people mentioned that with his legacy I just don't know why we never say anything about coach K I think I think Cal would be a perfect fit at Duke yeah but you're right they got to keep it in house no John Schier will do great I actually think he will do great and he and it is kind of like a weird book and that coach K started his career at 33 at Duke John Schier is 33 he's learned from coach K he is a coach K guy like he's

a floor slapper he won a title they're going to probably still be awesome and guess what I'm actually rooting for them to be awesome that will be the plot twist because if you can't hate Duke what's the point well no it'd be great if he became if he wins let's just say that Schier wins like two titles in his first five years we can get the conversation started I would love that conversation was coach K was he a system coach yeah is it just the churn of Duke University yeah it's the D yeah it is the D the coach K's the D is bigger than coach K you think LeBron and Dwayne Wade and them show up for his last game at Cameron because they like because LeBron technically went to Duke yeah and and Dwayne

Wade gold medals didn't go to Duke you know he coached them there will be a lot Tony Roma will be there you should be there Hank I really should be there I've never been to a game there even at all the time I'm spent there I never got the one you should go to a press conference and do the class we should go there though we should go to a game this year we should be with the Cameron crazies and if we're lucky enough coach K will yell at us like the time that he yelled at all the Cameron crazies and basically said they were fair weather fans and weren't supporting Duke he also made the Cameron crazy imagine if coach K is at these NBA games coach K is at these NBA games no one to be fucking spitting in the crowd no me throwing water bottles

he keeps the crowd in check he abuses the crowd there Hank no he keeps you check look what's happening makes you can't happen we don't have a coach that cares people are throwing popcorn to players and spitting on them the beginning of the end Duke Kentucky November 9th oh five blocks down the street oh champions class I one of the funniest text messages we got this week was uh our booker Peggy who does an unbelievable job just texts us like she texts names that we would say yes or no do and she's texted us Mike Shashevsky and we're like oh yeah I don't think he would do it but yeah I would love to have him on it's also funny coach K refuses to schedule games against Maryland yeah because he just he hates him so much

because of the time that they left the ACC they briefly stole his shine back in the early 2000s he was like this this this school is not respected he does not respect Duke because they beat us yeah I'm I'm gonna miss him I'm gonna miss him a lot and I'm really sad that uh you know a bunch of college players getting paid is why he had to retire it was very noble though that he he decided to change his mind he had very hard and fast rules about whether or not players should go to the NBA whether they should take a year off from college skip their last season or two until it was like luol dang and luol dang was like an extreme case like he needed to go to the NBA to provide a better life for probably like two dozen people back home for him and coach K like reluctantly it that that's

where it took to like push more he's like god damn it I they forced his hand yeah and then and then yeah to his credit he was forced to adapt and change he did change when he changed yeah when he got to the end of his career and he was like I gotta figure out a way to keep winning well in order to do that I gotta pay these guys and that I gotta do the one and done stuff yeah so he did change he evolved a little bit but the name and likeness it's it's not a coincidence that he's retiring Duke fans were so fucking awful to Elton brand when he went to the NBA like that was that happened and it was disgusting passion coach K hated him hated him not welcome the Duke family fatherhood the brotherhood yeah also shout out to our friend Tate Frazier yeah he called this

he predicted the shit out of this he he not only called it he said it's going he's going to announce his retirement through a full retirement tour called it exactly how it went and here we are and I'm excited to bid coach K and adieu I just think you hating on someone that's unequivocally the best of all time just because there's something they did to your team is lame that's being a fan for that too it's it's a hundred percent respect greatness big college basketball the greatest of all time you should respect them no I totally disagree college basketball is a binary system either you hate Duke or you love Duke there is no in the middle no one says I'm kind of ambivalent about Duke it's just two categories and that's what makes it great

there's no other team I'll give you another compliment Hank there's no other team that elicits this type of emotion out of college basketball fans there's no other guy that gets people this riled up so yeah I'll give coach K credit for that as well here's a question uh on on his last game this season like his last home game at Cameron uh he's definitely going to bring back the alumni you might have sex with the court which is named coach K so have sex with himself yeah so do you think he's going to uh spend more time with his former players or with his current players that mmm because I don't think that his current players will be they won't weep for him yeah on his way out yeah so he's going to have to have like Christian Laitner can we get can we get

Grayson Allen of one year of eligibility back just to have him coach him one more time that would actually be great if like we had one NCAA rule where coach K could just trot out his best most annoying players I also think that coach K is going to show up around the program years after he's not there yeah so he's going to be just like hey he might try to become athletic director yes people do that all the time you guys are whatever yeah Barry Alvarez did that he said he said nice things he he he would come up and coach every time they went to Rose Bowl all the things it's like yeah a lead programs pay players when coaches retire they hang around the program I uh he's gonna with the lead programs paying players I'm not cool with anyone being like Duke doesn't pay

their players but that's not coach K that's not but people think that and they and the media will will say coach K did it the right way he did okay one last thought from our friend Dick Vitale which if you forgot he is in Hawaii which he reminded us with this tweet just learned on vacation in Maui where we are six hours earlier versus eastern standard time the coach K is stepping down as coach I am not shocked as we saw Roy Williams leave and now coach K the instability and wackness in college hoops doesn't make for a fun time because that's what it's about the coach is having fun having fun making millions of dollars and having fun the coach when the coach when you lose the coach is having fun uh-huh man the sport sucks I I'm very interested to see what

happens after he leaves the program though because I do think I think it's going to be great I swear to god coach K hanging around yeah it's going to be something Shire I mean how how why do you think that he's going to be great because like right now it's just like he seems like he fits the part yeah he because he's been with coach K I think coach K has had enough guys underneath him that like could have been the heir apparent and John Shire maybe it's just timing because you know other guys gone to head coaching jobs but I think something about coach K picking him he was like you know what's weird about John Shire he was like uh should have been a very hateable duke I but he wasn't that hateable well because it was really easy to dunk on him right so like

he won a national title I don't think he was he wasn't like great enough to be that hateable but I think he I think he will with the right boosters and connections and bag men I think he will be very successful at Duke so and I think just having a guy who won a national title for coach K be the guy who's now coaching I think it's a fairly easy transition we gotta figure out what the team should get for coach K as his as his presence yeah I say just as many live animals as possible yeah just give him oh bees give him bees you should give him some doge coin give him no I will not I will not pay coach K that does stays with me until July when it becomes a year old then I can sell it for less capital gains taxes so so Hank uh that's it we're done picking on you um the

next story wait I'm reading it here Brad Stevens he's done coaching no we got Brad Stevens really is the Henry Lockwood episode of pardon my take it's tough it's tough what were you going through that entire day was it Wednesday no third Wednesday yeah what that must have been a roller coaster coach K one was insane and then Brad Stevens no it was Brad Stevens first yeah and then on top of that it was like Ellen coach coach K's retiring do you think that Kyrie broke the Celtics like Tom Wilson broke the Rangers and PFT that's the thing where PFT in my head I was like it's going to be John Chire people just like he was asking did they give coach Kyle call like whoa whoa I was like no it's going to be John Chire and he was he got my head spinning I was spinning because of Jason

K like all day yesterday just get his Celtics there was a moment where I was just like I don't know who's going to be coaching any of these teams and all the all but the prospective people sound terrible Jason kid you might as well just give away two years of your life if Jason kid becomes a coach like your time would be better current guest by the way it would yeah that's true you you would have a more useful two years of your life if you learned how to speak Latin than you would if you if you watched Celtics games for two years of Jason kid as you go learn the harp for two years because that's going to be a bit a more productive time it's such a punt it's basically saying we're going to just tread water until the nets are done ruining basketball and

then we'll try to win after the fact oh man I think it's a good move though I you know what I actually agree they clearly needed to take another step they needed to take in the next step to get you know to the championship level no they got a re-step they step back if there's anyone that knows exactly what the Celtics roster needs to be and beat these teams that are on the next level it is Brad Stevens obviously Danny ain't said that he was like there's been moves that me and Brad didn't like agree on and now Brad has full control to do whatever he wants so it's like it is a risk you don't know if he's going to be good at the job but you have to think if there's anyone that knows the team and like knows what they need to get to the next level probably is Brad Stevens

needs to smart guy Danny ain't just smart guy cares about the Celtics he's not just kind of like fuck them over and leave so I think it's going to be I mean I'm excited about yeah no I I don't disagree I think everyone thought Danny ain't was gone like it felt like it was the end for him it is weird that I think sports fans because we have such uh short memories like some people and I don't think it's a lot of people are I think most of the media is saying Danny ain't was really good at his job but I think some people like forgot that he built the the championship team like the Kevin Garnett Paul Pierce Ray Allen he invented super teams right like they forget that that was because they just think of like Trader Danny and all that and then Brad Stevens

the shocking part to me is I if you would ask me yet on Tuesday how many years has Brad Stevens been the coach of the Boston Celtics I would say four yeah and it's been seven seven that's a long time yeah like it is it's a long time and especially if you don't get that like over that next hump it's probably hard I'm gonna miss Danny ain't like leaking to the press right after big trade happens or big free agent signing happens about how close the Celtics were to getting that guy yeah he was really really good at that he's like we were we were a second choice right there to the very end I yeah I mean Brad Stevens it is the weird part is like that he just really didn't want to coach Indiana that part is weird to me I don't know I don't but that's where it's like I think

that this job is a better job agree life wise all my god I would so much rather be a front office than a coach especially if it's like a stress thing and it's like he's probably like it's probably easier to live like be less stressed if you're the GM versus the coach right so if you're the coach for Indiana that's just gonna be more stress plus recruiting yeah I agree with you there that like the cook there's certain jobs in college where it's kind of like what Michigan is right now like you go in and the expectation is you have to win a national title and if you don't you failed and it's like but that's very hard to do what do you think happens if that if that half court shot in the national championship game butler versus dude goes in the butterfly effect from that point on

coach k retires coach k retires then Brad Stevens goes to do Wisconsin wins Wisconsin championship and then the Celtic signed Jason Kidd six years earlier and Gordon Hayward uh yeah who knows Gordon Hayward goes higher in the draft probably not to bring it back to Duke real quick I was having that I had this thought this morning Duke fans that don't like when I bash Duke you should just remember that you have 2015 and if that game had gone differently I would be probably a million times more insufferable about Duke because I would have that in my back pocket I'd be a different person I'd be a terrible terrible terrible person hey seriously I can't have success Kyrie Irving you could you could point to him and just be like he literally destroyed our franchise

that's that onion I don't know who wrote it it was like a fake thing that the article that actual journalists tweeted yeah well that's I saw him I saw him a blue check mark and I literally lost it lost it for a second yeah some guy from Bleacher I was on I was on tilt for like 10 minutes please be the onion and then someone's like it is thank god the dude from Bleacher report did the classic hold on I'm gonna find it because it was so funny he did the classic uh he tweeted it and when everyone's like dude that's fake he's like yeah I know I tweeted because it's funny satire it's like yeah you know you did not you did not it was formatted in the same way that like an ESPN.com article would be the same font same like gray background to it so everyone thought it was real

but I do think that there's like some truth to it that the way that things happened with Kyrie like Danny Ainge just he kind of lost it at the end there yeah so this is uh so ESPN so they put it on like ESPN plus like on the background so it looked like it was just screen-shotted it's very funny very well done Ainge is scheduled to speak to the media later Wednesday a day after Boston's disappointing season came to an end in a loss to the Brooklyn that's in game five of their first round playoff series in Brooklyn for Ainge league sources told ESPN the last draw came Sunday night after Brooklyn Nets guard Kyrie Irving disrespected the Celtics logo Ainge was incensed by the incident entering the Celtics locker room in an attempt to gather players to head to the Nets locker room

to confront the bastard when Boston players largely responded with non-plus shrugs a league source said Ainge felt he could no longer reach players in this generation you have to understand Lucky is like a son to Danny a source close to Ainge told ESPN during his playing days Danny would kiss Lucky on the lips for good luck so when Kyrie stomped on him Danny felt he needed to take action a real journalist tweeted that and was like I was just kidding guys it was satire I don't want to say his name Tyler Conway he from Bleach Report he's the end then he was like yeah just kidding dude uh but yeah yeah just a prank but a very well done um so what a day Hank also we can start FireFest because all both of those things are my fire we're gonna do FireFest

after the interview yeah after the interview let's talk a little more basketball okay Joann Beat is hurt disaster what's wrong with him is his back it's his ass oh I thought it was his back no it's his ass you've got it he broke his ass you got a rough track record well noticing in whoa yes uh excuse me yeah Drew Brees his shoulder was very hurt his he broke 50 ribs yeah and then his shoulder was also hurt because there was no rib to support right exactly the rest of his muscles structure yeah no he would it was he have a tear in his meniscus yeah he's got well it's a it's a partial tear which is not good I it's always a bad sign when people are like trying to downplay a torn anything on yeah it's probably something that would knock him out for the next

I don't know month or so if it wasn't the playoffs but he's not going to be Joann Beat and what would we keep saying about Joann Beat like if healthy the Sixers are a team to beat in the east yes turns out to not healthy yeah no you're you're right though a partial tear it's like when uh someone goes in for minor surgery and yeah he's cleaning up his knee real I remember when Derek Rose first tore his ACL and a caller called into to sports radio and was like I tore my ACL I was playing golf six months later there you go I was like well that's a little different than dunking a basketball and running up and down for 40 minutes Adrian Peterson really ruined it for every single athlete that's ever going to have a knee injury yes because now it's

like you can probably be back in with today's medicine be back in four months right right um all right so that's bad for the Sixers that's I mean that's that's catastrophically bad yeah yeah it is it is yeah I think that like obviously the Nets I think we're going to roll them anyways but now they're gonna roll four well they have they have the Hawks first I think the Hawks might be Hawks gonna bow raise them Hawks might win in four dude Hawks might win in four Sixers are trash I love what Trey Young did to the Mecca he's about to do it to the whatever you call the fucking city of brotherly love sounds like a little hatred for this no yeah the angst is salty little something you like Philly you said to yourself what that the Hawks the Hawks is awesome

this goes back to Nick Foles no can I not give my opinion no go ahead they don't have Joel and B because you can't say fucking healthy ever and they're gonna get boat raced by the Hawks in the second round and not make the Easter to Conference finals again that's my opinion that's not hate it will never stop being absolutely hilarious to me when the Nicks wear their jerseys at home with Michael Jordan's logo on yes it's like how can you look yourself in the mirror as a franchise if the biggest enemy you've ever had is now currently on your uniforms but it is and I don't want to pick on Nicks fans because they did have like a fantastic season that came out of nowhere but it was so

cute the Trey Young like being crowned the king in New York is the most Nicks thing possible like the best performances happen in New York against the Nicks yeah and then Spike Lee was leaving early Reggie was Reggie Miller's caught like how terrible is that it was perfect actually like it did make me feel like it was the mid 90s again yeah and Marv Albert credit to him he hasn't sexually assaulted anybody recently exactly Jake any words on him leaving not going to comment did you cry a million years didn't shut it here at his last call Jake you're no commenting sexual assault no no no commenting no I got in a lot of trouble you did yeah for what I'm happy with me about what Marv Albert yeah that I was a fan of his broadcasting obviously right separate the

Peter King you think Darren Sharper should be in the I disavow that stuff okay what are you out yeah there you go right like his movies they end up him as a broadcaster is what I was referring to a few weeks ago Hitler was decent with watercolors okay as a broadcaster sorry Marv Albert as a broadcaster as a broadcaster fantastic legend yes are you gonna miss him yes I actually will as a broadcaster big game voice of all this is voice yeah that's kind of cool that he got to do the next game yeah it was cool it was like a throwback although I was watching the Mike Breen broadcast which is crazy that Nicks fans get that they're so spoiled like Mike Breen is that's a vine eagle right spoiled when it comes to broadcast yes yes what city do you think is the

least spoiled hmm are you trying probably the diamond bass with Bob Brinley yeah oh it's just as a trap it is for me to tell I'm trying to get you to think talk shit about somebody the Bob Brinley thing was very funny though when he was like isn't that the same do rag that Tom Siever used to wear and people were like hey that's a racially charged comment when he said it I understand why some people could see it that way when he said it I I just thought it was funny picturing Tom Siever wanting to do rag right I'm a simple brain like that's funny funny is funny Bob Brinley is also like he's an he's a he's a baseball man he's just been a brown baseball for so goddamn long but who knows he's Bob Brinley there should be an alternate broadcast like they do with you know

a lot of the BCS games and the college football playoffs where you have the coach's room but it's just like the old baseball man room yeah they get to watch like goose gossage and Bob Brinley just cuss players out left and right I mean I listen I'll do I'll do a Jake I'm not going to speak for Bob Brinley what he says but I I do think he's got a good baseball voice he obviously used to announce the Cubs I think he's he's got a good baseball voice I mean R Kelly has a good voice too Jake you don't see me no commenting him oh man we've got it we're in the quicksand now all right Luca Luca is like Luca is one of those athletes that you watch and you just sit at least for me I sit there and I just like I want that I'm just like I want him on my team I want a route for him

he's so fucking awesome I watch him and I'm like he's 29 obviously my I saw him again last night I'm like that guy that guy's old yeah he's old man him and that we're watching Devin Booker now it's like they hit shots with ease yes I want him that is just like how how can I acquire that and he does the one of my favorite things that Luca does besides the teardrop shot that I talked about last week is when he gets in front of you and he does the slowdown dribble and basically makes you either foul him or get off of him and he makes a shot it's I don't know it's like the pace that Luca does he controls the pace it mixes and matches it constantly and I fucking love it he's also kind of a mystery to me because he's awesome but at the same time he looks like he's playing underwater

yeah he like he moved maybe just because his body is like so big that it takes limbs a long time destination got a big ass but it's it's weird because he doesn't look like he's ever going to just be too with quickness but before you know what he's like my dad would say about a guy like Nick Kane or medley he doesn't waste any motion yeah he's a very efficient player yeah he's like or Paul Pierce when Paul here's a compliment Hank when Paul Pierce like was at the height of his powers like he would always get to his spots elbow not fast but always get in spots uh two Luca stats for you he scored or assisted in 31 of the 37 Dallas field goals on Wednesday night that's insane and then the second is highest points per game of all time in the playoffs

minimum of 10 games Michael Jordan number one 33.4 Luca number two 32.8 wow that's insane have we got an update on how things stand between him and prosingus we figure out who got his girl from pregnant i don't know no i don't know but i think prosingus is like he's just kind of wallpaper uh yeah he plays but he's not he's not a factor yeah he's not he's not the unicorn it's like you know winning will cure everything yeah we're not going to find out about any of that stuff until they start losing and then our good friend mark titus which we should have been on top of this but he's done a really good job uh just retweeting and liking uh people who just keep using the same cliche but the NBA is in good hands that's what everyone keeps saying he's been on all over it

his twitter feed just lets you know how many uh people every single night are tweeting or saying man the NBA with all these young players it's in good hands which like okay great the future is bright for the future is is here and it's now and it's great uh anything else from those from the playoff series what else we oh the jazz good job yeah good job jazz should we talk a little bit about actually yeah that's plenty of jazz talk yeah what i was gonna say about our nuggets well we can talk about a nugget good job nuggets our nuggets beat our blazers yep um are we gonna talk about what happened with lebron previously be into that game oh let's talk about that at the beginning of the show okay because i do have some news that i can break we'll do that at the beginning of the

show which you already listened to now everyone's confused i like me i like this time traveling so if you don't if you're listening to us right now we recorded the entire show and then we watched the entirety of the lakers game which should we give instant reactions right now because then we could either be wrong or right the lakers are about to quit lebron left at halftime it's three minutes into the game they're about to leave lebron left enough time to get treatment like this so he can be ready no way sooner for the start of next season yes yes um all right a little hockey hank your broons they scored we just said that out loud um i don't know have the avalanche played games oh yeah they they won game two right yeah the southward will rise again the south is just

crushing the golden knights uh the avalanche like i honestly have not watched a single avalanche game this year until the playoffs how did they lose at all i don't know i don't know they're really good yeah they're and i i do feel um like this is appropriate timing for the avalanche because it feels like three years ago people were talking about wait till the like the avalanche are going to be loaded i remember hearing that and now it's like oh like someone tells you about a band and then they make it big and like oh they're playing in you know the arena right next door okay yeah cool i'm gonna check them out we've had a couple uh slow motion hockey replay debates somebody so there was a bad there's a bad hit last night and i saw once again the takes of like this person should

actually be arrested before they leave the ice and they should be prosecuted to stop this type of behavior and granted yeah it was bad it was really bad it really bad and so he's suspended for four games i think which is a lot for the playoffs yep but then you get into the worst part i would say that um one of the top three worst parts of the internet is hockey replay analysis twitter where people are just like stopping frames yes you they you can watch the exact same play you'll have two people that saw the same slow motion replay the same screenshots one person be like he elbowed him in the neck and the other person be like he didn't leave his feet and it was shoulder to shoulder there's never you can't ever get any consensus on it but i i guess the

general consensus on this one was like i don't know 90 percent of what i saw saying that he'll be suspended and then 10 percent of people shocked that he was actually suspended yes and uh credit to any shell i think they should do this more often but he got suspended it was i think three games so he'll be back for game five if there is a game five which then makes game five must watch yeah like the NHL needs to start doing that more often where it's like this is a terrible hit it should probably be 10 games but let's suspend him for enough games where he can come back and then everyone can tune in to watch him get you know have fights all night i think that the rules should be if you get suspended for a dirty hit in the playoffs you should be forced to start

the next game yes skate one shift and then after that point your suspension begins and the players actually said that afterwards i think i saw someone from the canadiens be like listen if the league doesn't handle it we will i was like fuck yeah i love it yeah um oh oh one other weird whoa stat for hockey so they had the um lottery on wednesday night the team that started with taylor hall who's now on the broons but started the season with taylor hall has won the lottery six times since 2011 whoa yeah that's incredible that's like dan gilbert's son incredible incredible luck yes yes so it was the uh edmonton 2011 edmonton 2012 edmonton 2015 new jersey 2017 and 2019 and then this year buffalo 2021 wow so that means Hank you better win the cup this year

because you're going to be in the lottery next year if he starts with the broons next year also i don't really like the seattle kraken's logo what i don't like it it looks like the seagram's logo i like it a lot i don't know i thought they could have done a little bit more it's just a cool s you just said it yourself it's a cool s right but that was my favorite thing to draw in your books in middle school okay if they made the superman s that would have been cool s is our it's not the superman if you can draw a cool s you are the coolest person you're talking about the superman s and i agree with you no superman s is fucking cool i'm talking about the stoosie s the dut dut dut dut dut that's a superman s no that's stoosie that's superman is

you're thinking of the same thing yeah we're thinking of the same thing six lines yeah six this this yeah yeah it's a great s great s but theirs isn't that i i still like s's if you can draw a cool s no matter what it is s's are trains one's gotta go fuck off trains wow give me cool s all day you go double s i am taking a train tomorrow i'm very excited about that nice nice um oh anthony davis heard his groin i know a doctor uh son's doctor could fix that oh speaking of that big cat yeah should we save this for the start of the show i have an exclusive should we start this for the same i just want it fits in nicely right here um i i put a picture up last night uh of the nice young lady from the sons that you might remember yes sucked off the entire franchise yes and uh

she slid into my dms and she was like how about you tag me next time and then called me babe and i was like here i'll just pull it up right now so i'm you can't bonk me for this bonk her you you're not going to call me horny when i'm conversing with the person that gave 12 blowjobs that wanted to come up oh you posted her picture yeah well because i said danny or i said by the way i said brad steven should give her four years two hundred twenty three million dollars i'm gonna give credit to anthony davis i'll probably give credit again you probably heard me give credit but he clearly shouldn't have played tonight and he was like i'll come out i'll play for five minutes everyone be like i'm tough as fuck and then i'm out okay so aj today's

slides in the dms she says wtf tag me babe and then sad face oh i say sorry my fault i do have one question though she replies no that's funny that's funny she thought i was gonna ask her for nudes i didn't i said what order did they go in and then she replies with a voice message oh baby what the fuck is it talking about i just wanna suck dick i don't know all this extra shit i just i actually mean what order is the sun seem going because baby that was fucking three years ago i don't know all i know is devin was first and i don't care about the rest all right i don't know the order but here's the order star power devin went first wow that is an exclusive stars get all the calls in this damn do you think the phoenix gorilla got sucked off he's probably hang out long

enough gotta figure that one out oh now chris paul is hurt all right let's get to let's get to our interview with chris boss you already heard us talk about the game uh this is when time traveling doesn't work for us because we get caught in our own time portal like think about yeah this is weird i don't know what you heard us talking about the lakers game but now you're hearing us talk about the lakers game live literally live i just i just crushed everyone's brain in here what are you what Hank what all right we did the ad read and then you can't start the show talking about coach cat right when are we putting in the beginning after this game but we're in like we're doing electric avenue we're starting it again we're doing electric avenue twice what the fuck are you

talking about wait we're we're doing two and i'm gonna say we're gonna do the full bronze thing and you're gonna be like an electric avenue again no i'm gonna be like i'm gonna do the ad we're doing the full lebron thing then i'm gonna do the ad and here's how the i'm gonna say welcome part of my take today is fray a lebron james is dead and what do we do with the welcome part of my take coach i'm gonna say at the end of the lakers thing and here is the beginning that we already taped okay double beginning because coach k deserves his own beginning he does he can't have coach k just come in in the middle of a show i'm still very i'm also it will all make sense now it's all gonna make i'm happy to listen it's got to take that this is actually good yeah this is good that

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it is chris bosh he has a new book out called letters to a young athlete ford by pat riley no big deal uh so chris thank you for joining us we appreciate it i i uh i was perusing your book i started it i'm not really a book finisher but i started it and uh i wanted to to start the interview with the chapter on the gift of hunger so i i love the idea of athletes being uh like the hunger that drives athletes and being able to repeat which you guys did in the uh 2012 2013 season and then you lost to a hungrier team the next year in the spurs so how much is that like the the drive to be truly great in the hunger to uh like when you're at the top to still find that hunger and still find that ability to keep climbing you know when when if you're lucky to

get to that point um you know you understand that it's incredibly hard it's always easy to have the hunger before you get it and always tell people that when you have that goal that you haven't attained i mean it's so awesome going after it you've got the energy you you know what you're doing you've got the vigor you've got the intensity like hey guys we got to go in there and you know we got to do what we do tonight it's always a little easier to have the hunger but then when you are successful um in our case when an nba championship you know you understand what it takes to be able to stay at that level and it's not easy and a lot of people would think like a common misconception is that and it happens to actual champions that you know they get crowned

in the next year everybody's ringing their necks you know they're getting beat you know i think we even um we saw with the heat this year a little bit you know not that they even even though they weren't successful you still go to the finals people are going to be ready for you now you you're not the hunted anymore you're not the hunter anymore you're the hunted so now everybody's watching your film everybody's looking at how to stop you and your team you know it's the basis of conversation and and you work your way to a level of when you're getting everybody's best every night so in preparation for that you have to know you have that hunger to get better every day regardless of the situation you know and that was one of the things that helped me you know i wanted to be my

best i wanted to do the best it didn't money fame all that stuff did not matter i wanted to maximize my talent i wanted to be the best basketball player uh and the best teammate i could be and make that the best team it could be and are you guy that that like thrives off of uh criticism you use that as motivation because i would i would think that uh getting the first one you could almost look at that bulletin board material and it would be a little bit more impactful like people doubt that you can do it but then after you get that first one then you know people that are starting to doubt you kind of in the back of your mind you might be like well these guys are idiots because i've already won and you know you you're able to kind of dismiss some of that criticism a little bit

but at the same time does that kind of uh extinguish a little bit of that that desire to prove them wrong i mean you know what to be on as i be lying if i told you like oh yeah i don't i don't if i if i feel that someone thinks i'm not going to be successful it doesn't drive me of course it does i worked my way to a balance of not really worrying about the actual words you know and the actual criticism it was just the criticism overall and saying oh yeah you can't win now then it kind of gets into details and you know it's cruel out there man they'll talk about your family they'll talk about everything just to try to get in your head but after a while i didn't allow that stuff to happen i didn't pay attention to it it didn't mean anything to me um you know it's uh it's worth

you know how much it costs to read it it's free you know what i mean and and and if you want to pay attention to that you're just debilitating um um yourself because you could be putting that energy into your game that's what i found out like okay all right i can't shoot we're not gonna win this year because there's no outside shooting watch watch this because i'm working i'm in the lab i'm doing my thing so those things anytime i got wind of it or felt it i would go in the gym and work out and and that's how i will work out my frustration that's supposed to you know using my thumbs on the screen yeah um so a lot of your book is about being like you know a good teammate and putting the team first and i'm happy we have young because i i got into a discussion online the

other day uh we're taping this before game six of uh lakers son so we don't know what happens there but game five lebron leaves the court uh and heads into the locker room with about five 45 left in the game i thought i understand he needs treatment he's older in his career he's got to start recuperating for game six but on the face value there it seems like a little bit of a fuck you to your teammates you were lebron's teammate you know how hard that can be sometimes do you see that moment you're like lebron probably should have stayed on the on the uh you know bench for the extra five minutes because his guys are still fighting out there even though they played poorly um yeah look you know i say this in the book as well you know you want to make sure you're

on your p's and q's from the moment you step out of your house and into that locker room you're being watched so you want to make the right decisions one of our uh goals um was to not give any wiggle room for any misinterpretation um you know if it were up to me yeah sure i would be like yeah you know stay let's just take this ass whooping man i know i don't want to watch the rest of it either but we have to because if you know and i'm sure you know lebron you know i'm sure the coaching staff knew i'm sure he had approval but just now that gets kind of lost in the shuffle just in the moment like you know if it were me yeah i would just just stay there just just take it because now right we're talking about it now it's it's a possible thing and now it adds

on to the frustration and everything that is going to be promised if you're in the pursuit of any goal you know so i mean you know they could handle it differently but at the end of the day i'm sure it's an internal team decision i'm sure that all the checks and balances were made before he did that because you know of course he does not want to be disrespectful it's just the misinterpretation of everything can happen and so you know that's why i would you know i just like okay let me stay put i'll i'll put in extra time i don't want to i would rather go in and get treatment right now but let me just stay right here right now right but you know all in all we'll we'll see what happens i mean if they win this series we won't even be talking about it you know it'll be it'll be passed

on and they'll have other challenges it's good point yeah so like in the interest of like leaving a little bit early to get treatment on an injury does that would that actually make a difference in your opinion i know like i don't know if you've had the same injury that he has he says he's never going to be a hundred percent from his ankle he's got one eye his shoulders pretty much dislocated and there's something else too right i feel like there's something he's seeing three rooms yeah triple the blood the wine the wine the wine issues have you ever had an injury where you can actually tell like yeah i got an extra 15 minutes of treatment on this and it feels actually better um i think when you're no when you're at that point it just hurts and you're just

trying to get as much treatment on it as possible because it's necessary this is like it's just like the routine um it's a part of the after the game um you know i don't want to speak for him but being a vet you know former vet knowing the thing they wanted to get the treatment because he put in his head okay it's usually it takes a long time it takes 30 40 minutes 45 minutes and this is after a game if not an hour and so he's got a shower he's got a change he's got media obligations and he's got to get his treatment and they still have to get on the plane and go back to LA you know so just trying to trim down those minutes i could see them doing that so they could get out of the arena faster because yeah you after after a butt whooping you want to get the hell out of

there right yeah yeah so so yeah i could see that yeah so i mean it's it's fascinating watching these playoffs because you see obviously the the bubble happened and then eight weeks later the season starts and on the east side the two teams that played in the eastern conference final last year already out the Celtics and the heat on the west side you you have you know one of the teams the Lakers on the ropes and the nuggets are also in a competitive series how much have you talked to guys like how much was that turnaround affecting uh their ability to to play a full season 72 games and then get back in the playoffs is it really like because we're sitting here like oh your athletes go out and do it but it it probably is brutal to go from season to season that quickly

right i couldn't imagine i know how i felt like you win a championship you really get like two months and three weeks off off and this is just work out when i say off this this just means you can work from home right you know this is not counting the hours in in you know working on your game your craft your body in the summer you know so two to be roughly two and a half months two month turnaround after psychologically dealing with the pandemic and then psychologically dealing with that bubble and then you finally get home now all right let's go and you can't go anywhere because you're used to going somewhere in the summer at least i can go somewhere in the summer because you know i finally have a little bit of free time that didn't happen and then we're right

back in and yeah i haven't talked to any of the guys how grueling the season was and you know people have to remember they had we're just now getting to a moment of loosening up the restrictions yeah guys were getting two tests a day before they could even play you that's every day you know every game day and then at least one to get in the arena to practice you know so dealing with that dealing with going on the road and not being able to go anywhere that that sucks and then you know really just seeing how many injuries there are you know Murray's out and B's out um Mitchell was out brown was out yeah Anthony Davis i mean it's just you you can see um the grind really really uh getting the guys but i could only imagine i mean that definitely plays a role it's extremely

difficult and it's hard it's hard to compete at that and especially those those teams that went deep in the playoffs yeah we see an effect of we're seeing the effect of it on every team and you know hopefully the league will get back on track after this year you know hopefully you know um we finish out the year crowned champion all that stuff but getting back to the the regular way i think that'll be a better clock for everybody it is kind of like the regular way in these playoffs because you you have fans back again it's not the bubble anymore um you've had a couple of high-profile instances of fans crossing a line whether it be throwing stuff out of player uh are just kind of acting up we like first of all we disavow any fan that would do something like that

disavow disavow secondly uh i i feel like we need to do a better job talking about the 19,000 people at every game that aren't throwing water bottles so by by and large everyone's everyone's doing okay there are a few bad apples out there but i'm curious like was there any environment uh that you would go into as a player uh like whether let's just take like uh the raptors and the heat out of it but was there an environment you go into and you'd be like i either i really respect how passionate this one fan base is it's very tough to play here or was there one where you're like these fans are a little bit out of control when it comes to a particular team yes yes to both um i will give props to the fans at okc um tremendous fans they root for their team polite uh but it's not vulgar

they were never vulgar very very loud one of the loudest places in the world to play when it's rocking in there and especially during that time a few years back whoo tough place to play i won't name the cities but i will say that i can guarantee you that if if the things that we heard during the big three era playing on the road i've never heard you know anything worse than that i mean you probably have to go back in history to kind of really get a good sense but you know yeah i mean you you hear those things and you hear the unsavory fans and kind of like you were saying i was i said the same thing earlier i don't want you know one or few people because of their disgusting behavior to to ruin the the the rest the thousands of people there that are there

to cheer their team and watch a great performance you know and you know i'm a god look i'm i'm pretty i'm pretty liberal with that stuff right man cheer for your team tell me i suck you know tell me i can't do anything man do even do your research and be clever and just try to get in my head but don't you know we know the lines that are being crossed like come on like spitting throwing things these are these are things that we tell our preschool children right not to do and and so you know the people come on we got to be upping up because we want to enjoy this stuff we just got back to it and then we don't want to see those things because somebody had a bad day or doesn't know it doesn't like themselves or they're just so unhappy with their situation they start

doing crazy stuff we want to all enjoy the game we just got it back in this instance right so you know it has no place in our game or in any sport and you know i just encourage people man come on you know come on be be be an adult let's let's cheer for our team man have a couple beers hang with the fellas take a date out but you know how to act yeah we're gonna get back to chris boss in a second but before we do want to talk to you about core seltzer core seltzer is our favorite seltzer drink there is summers here and cores is going to make our summers even better with a new limited edition flavor orange cream pop orange cream pop is delicious i had one the other day i spotted a case of it put it in the fridge here at barstel hq popped one open while we're

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gallons through 2021 details at core seltzer dot com you said something there it was really interesting because i think i just read a similar thing in the new york times they did a profile on kevin durant and uh he mentioned that uh kind of the the same thing that you did which is if somebody's out of line towards you it's a reflection on themselves and how they feel about themselves but that's something that he kind of had to learn over the course of his career where not you know the vulgar stuff the bad stuff people were saying to him 99 percent of the time it was because they had a problem with their life and they were just taking it out on this guy who appears on their tv that they're allowed to yell at in their minds when they seem in public is that something that

that took you a while to learn or did you always have that mindset coming into it that if somebody's being a jerk that's them that's not me i kind of had to learn that the only problem with that you know philosophy the challenge right i want to say problem the challenge is that when you hear it you're still going to have your reaction you know what i mean you're still going to get mad you're still going to feel the way you feel and you're still going to question yourself like why for what you know what i mean like one of the things that would anger me the most is just you know hearing stuff oh yeah boss whatever whatever i won't repeat um the the the bs but you know it's like man i don't even i don't even notice dude i'm sitting here playing and then the thing isn't

true that's even makes it even worse right it's things that can be spun things that people believe or things that are just just not true and then it's so passionate i remember looking at some fans like man this person is is really angry like really angry but just you know you know you have to you have to remember that you know my goal i always remember that my goal and so i you know one of the points i make in the book my goal was was winning a championship so unless these things happen it you know unless they're helping me it cannot affect me you know i'm going to make sure i stay in the zone these people talking i hear you talking she about to go home with his l you know and the funny thing i've had confrontations with fans the funny thing i had won in portland

right and this is just one fan and you know he said something to me and i didn't care for it and it was you know bs okay i take over the game in the fourth quarter hit a crazy shot we win i look for the guy so i could talk to him again seats empty he was getting treatment he left early that's a good one but you know that's when i kind of realized like okay all right whatever man you know i'm let me not even pay attention to this stuff but you know the fans do have to respect the game just remember like you know these are people that you're talking to yeah i mean the um it's obviously over the line when anyone throws something or drops something or spits but i do like when you can feel in a series that fans don't like the other team and the teams don't like the other teams like

even even uh the hawks beating the nicks they beat him pretty soundly but tre young was really like you know giving it to the fans and it felt different was there a specific series where you like the trash talk was at a different level or you could feel like hey this isn't a regular series like this is we hate this other team they hate us and we're going to just give it to each other the entire time come on guys you watched it you guys watched it the paces yeah the bulls the Celtics i mean i was telling people like man we played in the toughest places man we played and this is playoff basketball i'm talking about we played in philly chicago indiana new york you know boston brooklyn we we we man we played we played in front of the toughest fans to play

in front of and there is an element to that right there is this this thing to it you know it's a reason why you see the trash talkers in the showman doing things because it gets them in the mood and it does you know create kind of a fervor around the situation my thing is hey it can that thing can still be there and you can still despise the other team like us in the Celtics and the bulls and all we got we in the paces we did not it was known they said it we said it the coaches said it the family said it we did not like each other while we're on this court but you know after the game is over the game is over and you know you you have sportsmanship you play hard and then afterwards you move on yeah so i'm scarred by uh lebron and and your heat teams and even when he was on the

calves too because uh i root for the bulls and and they always would win the first game of the series and lebron it's kind of weird looking back like he they lebron teams do give up the first game of a series then come back what is that like anything specific can you remember going into game once and like lebron maybe being like hey this doesn't really matter as much or was there just a different vibe because it is more often than not that that a lebron team loses the first game of a series and then comes back and just you know wipes the floor with the team well game ones are hard and usually lebron let teams wrap up you know a series pretty fairly quickly so you know when you have that time off um you know you lose a little bit of rhythm one one of the things i found difficult

about game ones is coming into a new situation to where you've played a team so many times that you know their ins and outs and then you have another game against another team and so you have to kind of work into a rhythm of the playoffs and you know in lebron's case the whole the whole game plan is going to be centered around him you know so there's always a mode to figuring things out right and and we were kind of the same way you always go with the intent to win right but you never get too rattled if you lose that you know any game really but you lose that game when it's like okay what can we do to get better because it's usually trying to see what's going on see the timing you know the defense how they're guarding it what they've changed in their schemes

what they've you know crafted for this series how they're playing us and really what we're doing to them you know that's working and and not working you know it takes it takes time to kind of decipher that and game two usually you have a better rhythm yeah you talked about some of the hardest places to play you you didn't mention san antonio on that list that was just east coast yeah i just just thinking east coast man uh-huh well i'm just curious about about the time they turn the air conditioning off at their place so did it how hot was it in that stadium so it was excruciatingly hot okay and this is how i remembered it we were playing you know and i was warming up you know it's game one and i'm pouring sweating and i'm just like man i must be ready you know wow man i'm in

the zone today we play the first half and you know it's a lot going on the finals is super intense we go in and halftime i'm really i'm not even aware of it spo during the speech he said you know he were going over everything in halftime he said hey don't worry about how hot it is let's just go out there and play ball i was like what does he mean by that i went back into the gym and was like oh oh my god we start playing and it was miserable it was miserable like i mean i we were in the time out i wanted to sit down and that hurt i sat like this that hurt i mean everything hurt we're looking down at the spurs bench they've got ice packs and fans and you know people massage in their legs and stuff like that you know we don't have any of that stuff and we're just like i just remember

you've never been so hot to wear wherever you move it just moves with you yeah yeah yeah oh oh and add a headache on that and add it was terrible yeah it was terrible an iconic mba finals moment um all right so other thing that happened in this play officer that has been happening in this play officer people talk about ben Simmons from the free throw line luka from the free throw line who luka's been incredible but he's also struggled from the free throw line have you ever been around a guy or is it happened to you where you're making him in practice then you get to the game and for some reason it's just falling apart and like what what is that is that mental physical i'm always fascinated by a guy like luka who can drop 40 and shoot you know three pointers and and fadeaways

and all that and then he gets a free throw and he's shooting 40 percent yeah it's interesting i think sometimes it is mental but at least in my experience sometimes yeah you can and people don't realize this sometimes about about mba basketball usually when you're practicing free throws nobody's around you're on a different goal you're not on that particular goal the lights are different the the air is different everything is different you can knock those shots down in practice but then let's say you shot you made 100 in a row okay great you're coming into the game confident you missed the first one it goes back rim those were the ones i hate it you shoot it it feels good it's the same routine everything you do right boom what naturally happens next oh that's gonna be

short boom it's like this it's this mental thing and you know it is kind of getting a rhythm for that game that day hey you know you have to get used to the ball used to the air the crowd the referees and then you have to have this crazy concentration you know it's like playing another game on top of it because i've shot free throws i'm working on it of course i'm good i know i can do this and i'm missing every time oh my god what am i doing i'm not doing anything wrong i don't think ben is doing anything wrong he just has to make him yeah you know you just got to make him in the game that's pretty much what it comes down to did you ever have a game where you missed a bunch of free throws hey oh yeah and then that's the you know people start groaning oh like hey guys simmer

down i know you know and and then like i got this next one blue blue blue blue oh my god you know it's just sometimes you can get into a mold where it's like man you try everything and it's just not working but he he just both of them they just have to find that rhythm in the game that works for them and then and just knock them down does it ever get awkward after somebody's having you know maybe in the course of a game they're not shooting well from the free throw line and then you have to walk over to him and give him that little tap up after every single shot like do you start walking a little bit slower after they drop below like 20 for the game or do you at that point you have to be like he needs me more now than ever so i'm just gonna hightail it over the more you miss i'm like that's all right

come on we're good all right hey it's good to stop you know you you you you you move on quick you know you can't really let it settle too much you know so for instance in band situation if you miss another hey that's all right hey this is what we're running next guys make sure and get your match up all right big fella don't knock it down that's really all you can do you want to give that consistent uh reinforcement that positive reinforcement you know yeah free throws are fascinating to me because i know and i'm not going to bring up bad things but i do remember you had one night against the bulls that was like atrocious not free throws but field goals and so that's different to me because like guys miss shots but free throws they're free what did you shoot that

night i forget i was uh with the heat yeah brun and d or brun and d didn't play yeah i think you were like one i was two for 20 i was no we all played i was one for 18 one for 17 sorry one for seven no it's fine i'm hey i'm gonna shoot the next one yeah only one i'm i was a scorer i say you i'm one shot away from being hot that game you know that game that game you know the shots kept coming i'm like hey i'm confident and i say godly it just happens you know it's nothing you can do about that that's not like i didn't shoot it right that's the right attitude i mean the guys you who start second guessing that's what it might have bro it might have been one for 18 that number is in my head i remember looking at it like we're pulling up one for 18 yeah i remember yeah one

wait you went five for six from the free throw line there it is make them when they count baby nine rebounds that counts nine rebounds you were putting up some stats i like a mentality though next one's going in yeah oh yeah next one's going in that's why i shot 18 that's why i went one for 18 that takes a special person to do that yeah for 18 like god i remember that special yes i uh i want to ask you real quick about um a coach that you played for who's in the news today coach k walking away from the game uh you played for my team usa uh first of all did you get him anything for his retirement tour man i just found out uh yesterday i'm yeah i'm gonna have to i'm you know think of something but yeah coach k man that's crazy i i was actually doing interviews

and someone told me as it happened yeah or do you think that other acc teams will get him things like you remember when derrick jeter retired or david or tz had like little gifts for him you think georgia tech should have like a little token of their appreciation yeah they should give him like a little calculator or something like that georgia tech calculator the good ones though the big thick ones that you use in calculus class yeah play drug wars on yes yeah you know play snake and stuff like that yes um all right i know you got to go i had one last question so uh go check out chris bosh's new book it's called letters to a young athlete in the book does it have any letters saying hey uh when you're celebrating a championship maybe don't spray the

champagne with your mouth wide open because everyone's going to put the brazzers logo on it go the whistle on it the brazzers logo you know what that is it's a porn site oh um nah you know what i would say uh be yourself man there it is yes i'm a champion you know what i'm saying like it wasn't like you know what i mean i'm in the locker room champagne and it's the reason why it happened like you know what i mean like yeah yeah how you like this makes make fun of this bro yeah that is true it is never know what it feels like celebrating a championship i just thought maybe it'd be great if it was like the the after you know the ps in the end of the book be like hey just drink out of a cup nah bro uninhibited i love it

not thinking about nothing being in my element doing the same things i saw jordan and coby do yeah be in yourself iconic stuff man be yourself yeah i love it well chris it's always fun to have you on the show man we really really appreciate it everyone go check out the book it's a great book i'm going to read the rest of it i'm going to say that right now next time you're on the time yeah next time man next time you're on you know what that's the hunger to read this book man had a hunger man let me see if you have to hunger i do i do all right well next time you're on you're going to hold me to it and uh we really appreciate it man absolutely i appreciate you guys man all right see you man thanks man firefest of the week is sponsored by three chi i'm not a

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impossible impossible 30k and today uh awl won a thousand dollars thanks to big cat and cornhole wow and i want to thank everyone in this room for thinking that i would win yep absolutely i love my god never doubted you uh but yeah i had a tough week tough day yesterday uh in particular and i was getting roasted left and right and i you know i was watching the sixers game and i just asked a simple question on twitter back in the day i remember them i couldn't remember exactly what happened but i remember them like first round series they blew off confetti when they won or they thought that they won uh so it was kind of like the tradition so all i asked when the sixers were clearly going to win the game and i just asked hey hey philly are we doing confetti tonight

uh-huh just that's they that's what they do they they they have confetti in the building for first round playoff series and i just got i was got told to kill myself i was getting roasted dm really really mean things online and i had to deal with that it's like mental health yeah like i'm on twitter honestly that's trying to get off some sports takes yeah and i'm getting like hey hank love the show go kill yourself so it's like they're like baiting me like hey hank you're listening to a quick question when you go kill yourself and it's like wow man i just want to talk sports did they answer your question what why why aren't they doing confetti that's i don't know no one they got so offended and they wouldn't even answer my question i want to do is have you kill

yourself yeah you can't do confetti once i agree with that all right have you guys got maybe it's a copa thing i don't know have you guys gotten caught up by the new uh twitter sensor where they're like hey you sure you want to tweet this yeah a lot happens to me a lot i get it every day where they're like hey you sure you want to tell this airline to you're gonna skull fuck them uh it's actually happened to me a couple times and saved me from tweeting at he shall not be named darren revelle ah when i've been applying being like fuck yourself yeah or suck my dick asshole and they're like are you sure you want to eat this i'm like actually no thank you twitter i actually kind of here i'm on twitter good job trying to make the site healthier happier all these things

but i do i'm gonna i feel bad for the little guys out there like especially duke fans who listen to this show today they are gonna be there's gonna be a speed bump when they tell me to kill myself and there shouldn't be they should be able to say that to me i mean that's burner life for you right like i have no problem with the duke fans who are mad at me to to spout off and be like i hope you get hit by a bus that's fine that's a little bit different though i'm saying like i hope you get hit because that's not saying like are they saying i hope you intentionally get hit by a bus yeah and kills you i hope you provoke a bus into running you over yes yes there should honestly just be like are you sure that you want to tweet that are you sure you want to log on to twitter

every time right that should be the welcome yeah like hey don't you have like a family and a life to live yeah i think one of my best tweets ever was was probably before i even worked anywhere was just like if if everyone had to tweet when they went on twitter twitter would be a lot more real what every time you go on twitter uh huh yeah you have to tweet something before like lets you log off yes okay so it's like i like you want to go on twitter and scroll you gotta tweet you have to participate if you don't want to tweet something stay offline i like that i do like that hang although wouldn't that just mean like people tweet even more mean things at us no i i think would honestly make twitter like a way more boring yeah no but like some no no but

think about a troll right like they log on twitter and they're like you know i have nothing really to say so before i log off i'm just gonna stop by hanks page and tell him to kill himself well that's happening anyway so i don't even i don't even think that would matter i'm sorry though hey are you okay like do you need some time off yeah i mean i i hey it is what it is it's okay to not be okay you know i saw that i was trying to take a deep breath and you did like a mean you did like a meme earlier today that was it was a bell that said like ring this bell if you want to go on vacation and hanks smash the like button well that's like uh if you don't send this to 10 people you have bad luck for life that's right i have to like those tweets do you do do people tag you in that

and then you like those or i just do you just follow a bunch of like vacation meme accounts people send them to me okay because it's always funny it happens probably three times a week where someone tries to snitch on Hank and it's such a fucking funny thing it's like like this tweet if your boss doesn't let you take vacations oh my god the lakers are dead this is great is that you already heard us say that is that a hang yeah that's it okay uh my firefest of the week is i i sprained my ankle it's 33 to 12 yes my back is turned to the tv i just looked up holy shit oh my god well now i gotta think of another firefest um hmm i do have a Philadelphia fans also told you to kill yourself no they would never do

that to me uh because i would have cb i would not insult them online yeah it's a mutual respect god forbid you ask a question yeah but i did sprain my ankle yesterday which means i'll never be back to a hundred percent that's true so i i was walking home stepped in a little pothole and rolled my ankle pretty bad now it cracks every time i like moved my ankle to the side and it was like a really sharp pain that i woke up in this morning so i think that there's something structurally wrong there but i didn't gotta be tough came to work i'm gonna get the scooter back came to work i i lost both of my scooters how do you lose the scooter i don't know hang on i don't know and i said one last summer remember yeah but i lost i bought two how you bought shout out the one

guy there was one awl you're gonna crack it yeah just crack a little bit there was one awl who sold me his uh scooter for like 400 bucks and i went and showed up to his apartment he's like yeah my dad just died so this is a scooter and i was like oh sorry okay but hey it ran yeah but i was it was heavy it was a heavy moment you're telling me it's it's free like i can no one's gonna he's not gonna be needing it no i gave him 400 bucks but yeah i lost both my scooters yeah it's tough because spraying ankle it's like yeah there was a big part of me big cat that thought like maybe you should take the day off maybe you just you know just rest it up but yeah podcast doesn't stop had to come in had to talk about coach k and that's run and big day yeah danie angel the whole thing

brad stevens so i had to sack up at this point but it is yeah my ankle will never be the same from this point forward and it's a little bit swollen it's a little bit stiff and then to compound my firefest i have to spend all day on saturday moving a friend oh and they did not get movers oh no no no no no no no no no no no all the movers were booked uh uh um uh uh how old is this friend pretty old and then how old pretty old 36 and older bonk what yeah older bonk dude i i want this person's email i want to email this person it's an older person but the bottom line is what not only what am i missing not only is it bad uh but then i just got my elevator fixed great timing right great timing got a spraying ankle elevator finally fixed after two months

then i got an email about 30 minutes ago saying bad news the elevator is going to be out tomorrow you're dead so now i gotta take the stairs again you over the age of 25 you shouldn't you should hire a mover i agree i am that mover in this case yeah well are you hired uh no okay you need to get hired um all right my firefest is i've officially uh i mean i'm obviously already a dad but the the final straw has happened i uh no this yeah the second kid has forced this you get a vasectomy no no i might go for three might go for who the fuck knows uh the i fall asleep like if i am laying down on something for more than five minutes i'm i'm i'm asleep so i had naps yeah i passed out during the early games the end of the early games yesterday

but the cycle was i woke up after they were already over and then i couldn't get back to sleep so if you just fall asleep for an hour in the evening you get a second wind yeah i was up until like 2 a.m last night the but i'm saying like you took a nap like i'm yeah i was like watching elmo with my son and i my my head like happened to graze a pillow and then next thing i know i had slept for 10 minutes yeah it's tough it's just you know how dads can do that where like your dad if he's sitting in a chair and you're like hey are you still up it's like the first quarter of the game and he's like yeah i'm still up it's like no you aren't have your eyes are closed have you started to do the thing where your head tilts back and yeah it's bad yourself

yeah so i don't know yeah it's just bad it's it's it's demoralizing to know that like i can never if i lay down for even a second i'm going to fall asleep um jake last week i went in the elevator you went viral ripped out a fart by myself and then this old lady just walked in and there was no one else there it was me were was she wearing a mask at least yes okay jake i felt bad did you apologize no i didn't say anything how you ripped a fart in an elevator i was by myself at the time jake that's not like you to not take credit for something that's going around that people think is you yeah jake you can't do that you've done it oh i do it on purpose i don't i mean i did it on purpose too wait no you didn't was this on the you don't was this on the clock yeah i do no you

don't no was this was this on the clock did you say anything to her when you got out like have a nice day like sorry or like did you just smelly later no you should have just said to her like hey did you fart no that would have been great this is bad timing hey did you queef wait was it this elevator right here no it was not here oh is that your apartment building okay uh well you're moving you were you were just a little too early yeah oh what if she died say you're not gonna move let's see if we can get a deal jake what if you died on that elevator what what if she died on that elevator like after you got off i would have felt really really bad yeah have you checked on her with billy ooh i don't know about that i when you do move i have a strong young 27 year old who

can move you great with a slightly broken ankle i will not do it i'm back that's the main reason i didn't move out of my place even though i've got water damage and the elevator never works you're gonna die in that apartment i will i don't want to move anymore i'm said this is my place you'll carry me out of there in a pine box all right great show great show love you guys great show 52 yeah i mean the start was great i think i talked too much but so you did 99 nobody tell hank that he talked too much and i was like if you see if you can't talk too much if you want to say hank talk too much just go with can't kill yourself it's much easier that way because you you can't talk if you're dead this is worse than when you told me thirty first time i'm dicks when

when you see that someone else in public well the problem is if you actually do you should actually be cheering this on like my mom's gonna go on my twitter you know i'll listen to this but probably but you're gonna go on my god forbid someone my mom goes on my twitter account tomorrow and it's a good thing because twitter will twitter will ban them for saying yeah i just imagine beyond them i just imagine though the next time hanks on a family vacation and people just pass him in the street like hey why don't you go kill yourself that's so mean don't do not jake what's meaner like telling hank to kill himself or to strongly imply that he should kill himself by stepping over his body both are really mad i mean people can't joke about that it's so mean yeah we you

started the downfall of hank lockman then yeah all these things that have happened i'm gonna ups or fall no hank and i are on the same side of the coach k thing he deserves respect hanks back he just gave away thirty thousand dollars tonight thirty one thirty one thirty one go to play bar school i have facts if you guys want to work and save him yeah do it sure which one animal save him when kangaroos are threatened by a predator they lead their attacker into the water and attempt to drown them i don't know you're not even you wouldn't even be considered a predator to a kangaroo uh jake paul would beg to differ i would fuck a kangaroo yeah you got clouded by jake paul yeah but he just had me you fell right you fell right into his clout trap what he cloutrapped you cloutrapped

you okay who'd he say that he beat up uh tyron woodley yeah who he's fine does tyron woodley have a windpipe no well i i billy is forever mine no but does tyron woodley have i would assume so then you could beat him up snap it well no because i have boxing gloves on you can still snap it would tough to be but billy would do the fight billy does all my fights except for animals i'll fight any animal love you guys stay up early Y這樣的成功! IFV is here!

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