Pardon My Take - NBA Champ Matt Barnes, Fyre Fest Of The Week, GoT Predictions

Episode Date: May 17, 2019

The Warriors are back to 2015 Warriors and it's Draymond's team. Giannis and the Bucks and Nick Nurse's dumb faces. (2:30-15:15) Brooks Koepka skull fucked Bethpage Black and Brandis Chamblers has to eat crow. (15:16-17:01) Fyre Fest of the week and Hockey playoffs. (17:02-31:21) NBA Champ and 14 year veteran Matt Barnes joins the show to talk about his career, the Kobe flinch and how they became close friends, his all time teammate list, and playing NBA games high. (35:35-1:08:02) Segments include Locker Room Talk Lamar Odom, (1:10:58-1:13:01) Respect the Biz for the massage rooms at the PGA Championships, (1:13:02-1:14:53) Thoughts and Prayers Colin Cowherd, (1:14:54-1:18:11) This League, (1:19:48) FAQ's and Game of Thrones series finale predictions. (1:19:49-1:30:38) WARNING SPOILERS AS WELL AS SOPRANOS SPOILERS 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

Hey, pardon my take listeners, you can find every episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. On today's part of my take, we have NBA champion 14 year veteran. Oh yeah, he doesn't wanna be an NBA champion, right? Matt Barnes.

NBA veteran. Well, he is a champion as well. Matt Barnes, very interesting discussion with him. We talked about his career. We talked about his relationship with Kobe, the flinch, KD versus Draymond. Very, very, oh, getting high before games. All of that and more with Matt Barnes.

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Do you know what today actually is? No, I don't. 99 days until college football. I love it. 99 days. Don't give me that face paint. We've reached the double digits. 99 days until college football.

Put that in your little brain and just think about it. Big time Bruins fan Hank over there just wants to talk nothing but hockey today. Dude, when you get past 100 days away when you breach the 100 till real meaningful football comes back, a little chill goes down my spine. I would even say that once training camp starts,

that's not a football. I'm talking about records. That's kind of football. Once hard knock starts, it's full mast. Okay, so people probably like what the fuck we just watched an awesome Warriors Blazers game, which we're going to talk about. It was awesome.

The curries went off against each other except Seth didn't really. He just hit a big three at the end. Can I just say the narrative I'm gonna get going is Seth Curry is the better pure shooter than Steph Curry. Not true. The better pure guy.

Okay. Steph has to create his own shot. Yeah. Seth is much better off the picks. Seth is better. Away from the ball. Two feet in from the three point line. Yes, correct.

Exactly. So it was an unbelievable game. The Warriors, dare I say, are even more fun than they were when Kevin Durant was going bazooka on everyone. And I still, Kevin Durant, we have done a podcast switch on him just because he seems to be someone

who will be a future guest and also talk shit and kind of seems cool. But the preemptive switch, the Warriors are a lot of fun to watch right now. And I'm gonna say it, it's Draymond's team. There you go. It's Draymond. I don't mind that.

I don't mind Draymond getting a little bit of credit, a little bit of shine on the show. He had 16, 10 and seven was everywhere. He is the heartbeat of the Warriors. He unlocks Steph Curry to score 37 points. He's looking skinny too. Yeah. Draymond is nice and he's toned it down.

He's trimmed off all the fat. He's like a big thing, a brisket. He does the shack. He's low and slow. He does the shack where he just gets in shape in season. Yeah. So he's like, I'll get in shape on your dime. I like that.

No wasted energy, has fun, relaxes in the off season. I don't mind Draymond being the new de facto captain of this team. Yeah, he always has been. But this is, it was an unbelievable game from him. Unbelievable game from Steph and I'll hand up. They do play a lot more wide open without Kevin Durant and it's fun to watch.

I'm gonna say the word that we're using for the Warriors is sudden. Sudden. They're very sudden. They make things happen suddenly. So the Blazers were up by what, 15, 17? Something like that. They're up double digits in the third quarter

and then I looked down at my computer, read exactly one blog, looked up. One single blog. One's a blog and looked up and the score was in three points, I think. Yes. So the score was 69 to 53 with 916 left in the third quarter. When you looked up with 711 left in the third quarter,

it was 69, 66. Yep. They did that fast. It was like play three, Steph three, clay three, clay three, boom, they're back in this game and it's incredible how quickly they jump on you like that. And the Warriors, I mean, what are you gonna say? I think the Bucks Warriors would be a good final,

but this series is O-V-E-R over. We don't know. I need a mom cam on Sonya all the time. Her reactions are pretty funny. I love that. A little horny there. You know what they need to, no, watching her reactions are so funny,

they need to have like the win probability chart, except it monitors who she loves more, Steph or Steph as the game goes on. Little extra for Steph, wouldn't you say? Little extra cheering for Steph? No, for Seth. Oh, you thought so? I thought she tried a little too hard.

She's like, I love you too, honey. Yeah, so, yeah, I mean, that sucks because it was like the best game that the Blazers could have played for a few quarters there. And then it just all goes to not because the second half Warriors are back and the Warriors have defeated the Warriors. And we got that shot of Kevin Durant

standing in the hallway, going over the stat sheet, in his hoodie, being like, fuck. Hoodie KD. Fuck. You know what he was just like, he was looking at it like it was a magic eye calendar, just like staring at it, hoping that his name would pop out and be like,

oh, I played tonight. I had 44. Yeah, I had 44, I gave him 44, 12 and 11. Yeah, so the other note I had wrote down from this game, Zach Collins, who is like weirdly, I feel like NBA Twitter's like favorite little pet project, who, you know, could be good eventually. And he's a young guy.

He was very close to a trillion. So he played eight minutes. He had no points, no rebounds, no assists, two turnovers and five fouls. What was his plus minus? His plus minus was. I hope it was zero. It was zero.

Yeah, that's really hard to do. Yes. It was unbelievable. Two, five fouls and eight minutes is impressive. He almost had an 80 trillion. Yes. That, holy shit. I don't know if that's been done in the playoffs before.

Did I ever tell you about the time I fouled out? I said a league record when I was in high school for the quickest foul out? Yeah. Two and a half minutes. There you go. Yeah, but I knew my role on that team and my role was to not foul out as fast as you could.

Now I get myself out of the game. Fulfill the minimum minutes requirements on my lead coach. Yeah. So he could say, yeah, I got the shitty kid in for a little bit and then get the hell out of the gym. And Dane Lillard tried to shoot his way into this game, but like they just can't do anything. The players just can't do anything.

It's just they're too good. They are too good. People are going to say, oh, listen, I know that people hate the Warriors and I get the point that people will make and it's a fair one because you're watching these Warriors and you're like, why did Kevin Durant have to go and join these Warriors?

It could have been a better league if he was somewhere else and a little bit more even around. But if you watch the Warriors play basketball and you're not like, this is fucking awesome, I don't know what to say. Yeah, it's very interesting. I mean, I'm sick of them,

but I'm also like, this is fucking awesome. I want to see what they do against the box. Subnation shot. I want to see what they do against the box. Yeah. Because that's it. So we're advancing both. Yeah, if you were moving them both to the finals,

it's a team that they haven't played against a team that's built like the box yet. And so I would like to very much see that. Yeah, I mean, it will be the Yanis is a special kind of guy and like a totally different than everything else. And the let's move on to that game. So the Raptors did basically what the Blazers did tonight. They played perfect.

They had Kyle Lowry had 30 points. He was unconscious and you wasted your Kyle Lowry game. Like you don't get a lot of those. Yeah, but we got a Brooks Lopez game. Yeah, but you don't get a lot of Kyle Lowry games. Yes, the Brooks Lopez game was awesome. He was he he was actually doing like heat checks where he was 35 feet from the back.

He was like, get it to me, get it to me. But Yanis didn't play well. The Bucks didn't play well. Like for the first three quarters, Kyle Lowry was unconscious and you still somehow lose by eight points. You know what though, if I'm the Raptors, I'm okay with getting beat by Lopez. Like because that's not something that you get.

I don't think at this state though, like you you're probably like I don't want to lose at all, especially with the Kyle Lowry game. But if Lopez beats you, it's like, okay, you know, we did. We did our job on Giannis. We did our job shutting down some of the shooters. We didn't plan for, we didn't have a contingency plan for one of the Lopez twins to step off the bench

and give us 29. Well, it's just, it's, I mean, the Raptors are kind of screwed in a lot of ways, but like also watching Mira Titch, who is one of the softest big men I've ever watched play when he was on the bulls, like get dirty and get offensive rebounds. That's a problem. When you get out rebounded like that, that's a problem.

So the Raptors, Kawai's going to have to just be insane like he was in the last series for them to survive this one. And that's not an overreaction. Even though it might be. Did you see that, that Canada is, has been asked by Enos Cantor to guarantee his security from Turkish assassins. If they make the finals and the Raptors make the finals.

Little get ahead of yourself a little bit. So basically the Raptors just hit up the Warriors and they were like, Hey, just, just play basketball really well. And that way we don't have to worry about, you know, spending all this money. Or they're just like, hit up the Warriors, like, don't worry about, or hit up the Blazers,

this, are you serious? Are we going to do like a second play? Are we going to do a bronze medal game? You know what? If I was Canada, I would just put a shitload of money. Nations can gamble, right? Yeah. Like your treasury department. Put all your loonies on the Blazers to make the finals.

And that way the payout that you get from that, you can just use to provide extra security for everybody. Yes. Yeah. Nations gamble. It was called two years ago, when every male from 22 to 35 years old bought Bitcoin at the same time. Yep. That was Nations gambling. That was pretty sweet.

The real important news. Yeah. Bruxkipka. Yeah. Oh, wait, wait. I have one more thing. Bruxkipka. I have one more thing about basketball real quick. The winner of the playoffs, I'm saying it right now,

without a doubt, before we even get to like the finals, the finals MVP, Nick Nurse's goofy faces. That guy makes faces. Like, I think he had that one gift that happened a couple of weeks ago, went viral, and he's like, I'm the face guy now. He's demonstrative. Yes.

I wish he sweat a little bit more. He's not sweaty enough for my liking. Yeah. But we can work on that. That's something that can come with age. Yes. And I think playing in the great white North kind of takes away some of the sweatiness.

Just, but listen, if you do faces, you'll stick around longer. You have to have something that people are like, oh, that's, oh, Nick Nurse, the face guy? OK. Yeah. He could be a good coach. Pat Riley would have gotten fired seven times over if he didn't have the slick back hair.

Right. Is it, you have to have a look. Yep. You have to have a look. Phil Jackson just handing out books and smoking weed. That's a look in its own way. PJ Carlissimo getting choked. That's a look.

Yeah. Having a big red neck all the time. Who got hit with the ball in the face? Was Scott Brooks maybe got hit with the ball? No. Someone else got hit with the ball in the face. Doc Rivers has the voice. Doc Rivers has the voice.

If you have something that people can be like, oh, yeah. Pop has the I'm arrogant to every sideline reporter ever. You need something that people can just, the casual thing, be like, oh, yeah, Nick Nurse, the look guy. Can I suggest this? Joe Prunty has ties. Joe Prunty has the ultimate van hoos in collection. Yes.

He just, he goes dummy at coals. I don't know that phrase, going dummy. He goes, he goes mad dummy. Mad dummy. Yeah. So wait, yeah, Nick Nurse, my suggestion for his look, with scrubs on the sidelines. Yeah, that would work too.

Or a stethoscope. Yes. I just feel like I just came. I'm the nurse. I just came from a 24 hour shift. I am the nurse. Second time we brought up nurses this week. Shout out to nurses.

Love them. OK, Brooks Capron. Brooks Capron, Coast Rick and Sissy Fury. He's on rural. A course record of Beth Page Black. He blacked out. He was fucking bored out there. He's like, this is, this is stupid.

I'd rather be sitting on my couch watching basketball. And he was like, I got to get out of here. So he showed us 63. Wasted very little energy out there. And maybe more impressive, he did that in the same grouping as Tiger. Yeah. Actually, the announcer says.

Bad defense by Tiger today. The announcer said it's Brooks Kepka's group. Whose man? Shit. They were like, here comes Brooks Kepka's group with Tiger Woods in it. And on top of all of that, shout out to Brooks. Because I'm pretty sure after we basically were like,

hey, there's nothing we can make fun of you for. And you're perfect. And blah, blah, blah, blah. He wore the ugliest fucking shirt I've ever seen. So good job by you, Brooks. Thank you for wearing such an ugly shirt. I feel like that was just a personal shout out to us. Like, hey, guys, you thought I was perfect.

No, I dressed like a blind person. He had a weird hat on, too. Yes. And credit to him. He told us he was going to cut those bangs off. He did. He cut the Bama bangs right off. No swoop.

Spiked it up a little bit in the front. Yes. God damn it, Brooks. He was so good. A course record. And Brandon Randall Chambliss. Brandis Chambliss. Saxes.

Suck our dicks. Sorry, we don't say. No, don't bleep that. Suck our dicks, dude. There was a headline today that said, I think it was Wall Street Journal. Thanks for crediting our interview, by the way, Wall Street Journal.

But the headline said, Brooks Kepka gave Brandon Chambliss. Brandon Chambliss, the finger for four and a half hours, which, I mean, hey, a lot of people wouldn't mind getting the finger from Brooks for about four and a half hours. That's a long time. Brandon is going to be mighty sore tomorrow. He's got the rice buckets, and he does it.

Yeah, he's got that grip. I don't even know who Brandon Chambliss is, so. Chips and Brambley. Chambliss, Baristus. What a shitty name. I mean, it's just the worst. Get a better name, dude. Your name sucks, and you just got

sunned at Beth Page Black. Have some. The only thing I know about how to rank golf courses, besides the fact that the US Open will always fuck with you, and the British Open is filled with a bunch of guys that are just pounding scotch in the sun all day. And they played on just a beach with a little bit of moss? Exactly.

I ranked them in order of how hard they were on Tiger Woods Golf back in 2003. And Beth Page Black was a really hard one. So I'm told this is an impressive score by our friend Brooks Kepka. And they also have that sign that says, the black course is very, very difficult. Intimidates it, right?

Yeah, they act like it's a ski slope that you're going to crack your head open if you go down. You're going to get so mad by the fourth hole that you're going to commit sapuku with your driver. Brooks just blew up your fucking mountain. So that was our Brooks, that was our talking golf. That was as aggressive a golf talk as you'll get on any podcast anywhere.

Also, John Dailey was late for his tee time. And was drinking Diet Coke from McDonald's in his cart. Drove a cart all day. Jesus Christ, that guy, man. They should have given him a specialty horn on there that played like the Auga, like the old timey car horn. Or something like the Oh, no, who does the? You think about the General Lee?

Yeah, yeah. You think it should have played Dixie? Probably not. Interesting. I wasn't thinking about that. I was thinking about the Sopranos when I think Paulie has the Godfather song as his horn button. I could have wished, or I wish that Dailey would have done

the thing where he just drove over his playing partner with a golf cart, just as a classic gag. Just two years ago, viral. Almost killed you. No, re-viral. And then everybody would be like, that's classic, John Dailey. Man. It would have been funny.

You don't get it. You don't live on Instagram. You don't understand how funny this video used to be. All right, hockey, Hank, go. That was actually going to be my firefuss of the week. The Blues getting hand-passed to death? That sucked for the Blues fans. Not that I'm happy with the Blues' loss,

but that sucked for the Blues. Yeah, it was tough. That was, I mean, obviously, I'm a casual hockey fan. I was watching that game. I had bet on the shark, so I was happy. But I was stunned, and I felt like if I was a Blues fan, I would still be bitching. Mad forever.

Tough to give that one up. Yeah. It was blatant, too. Blatant? It wasn't even. He didn't even try to conceal it. It looked like he was swatting a fly. And they can't, like, the fact they couldn't review that.

What's going on there, Hank? You watching something? Is there a segment? Yes. OK, that's nice. That's Polly Walnut's horn. It's fucking awesome. Yeah, is there a saying in Hockey, Puck, Don't Lie?

I don't think there is. They should start that. All right, here's the only thing that I'll say, though. People were comparing it to the Rams and the Saints. First of all, the Blues, you gave up a goal with a minute left, OK? You had the game won. You gave up a goal with a minute left.

Second of all, if that goal doesn't happen, who's to say the Blues are still going to win the game? You know what I mean? You still have to win over time. So it sucked. They got screwed. It was a travesty. They have every right to throw a bunch of trash on the ice

or St. Louis pizza, same thing. But it, like, what? St. Louis people are so weird with this shit that, like, some of them are learning. Like, if you call it Panera, Panera, they're like, no, it's St. Louis Bread Company. It's like, no, it's called Panera. No, it's St. Louis Bread, and they slice their bagels,

like, lengthwise. But they did get screwed. So they did. I mean, I don't know what else to say. You got screwed. Big time. And this whole, like, the NHL wants the Sharks in the final because of Joe Thornton?

That's a stretch. Listen, I love conspiracy theories as much as the next guy. But when you're saying that the NFL needs San Jose in the finals to get higher ratings, I think you're on a sinking ship. A little bit. A little bit. So Hank, you're Bruins.

You want to do Firefest? Oh, we're going to Firefest the Week. You're Bees. Oh, OK. I'll start. Hockey, Hank. My Firefest of the Week is that the Celtics lost, so they ruined the Boston store.

Oh, that sucks. That sucks, Hank. I'm sorry. What happened to the Hurricanes? That was a PFT. Hamilton the Pig. That was a fucking thrash. The Catholics beat him up too bad.

That's exactly what happened. Hamilton the Pig, RIP. Yep, you got to die now, bro. Pigs get fed. Hugs get slaughtered. Yep. If they don't kill that. You got too fat and happy.

If they don't kill that pig, they'll never win anything. That's a fact. You know what? I'm going to go on a pig murdering spree until you actually put that pig down. I'm going to eat bacon every day. Yep. Until that pig's dead.

Yes. But the only thing to really worry about is the rest versus rest situation. They got a lot of time off now. Oh, you're still doing this? What? Oh, I thought we had moved on, because we started making funny jokes.

We were making funny jokes. We were making funny jokes. We're doing our podcast. A different Firefest. Now you think that. Well, it was in the middle of my. It's tough, that. Firefest.

So we transitioned to funny stuff. And I wasn't finished. You know what we should do? We should do an ongoing power ranking of what Boston sports fans' biggest struggles currently are. Right now, the Boston sports fans' biggest struggle is that they won their conference final too quickly. Yes.

That's number one on your list. Firefest of the week. Jesus Christ. Do you have any others? What was my other one? Oh, I mean, this is another one. The you fucker. No, I mean, this is tough.

Very, very relatable. Commuting during rush hour. So we had an A-Rod Corp shoot early this week. I was on the train at 8 AM. I had a bunch of equipment with me. I had to wait. Like, it was so busy at my train station. I had to wait for four trains to show up

before I could even get on. Oh, my god. Because it was like, it was so packed. They just looked at you and you. The train would not today. The train would pull up. And it was already. What do we say to the trains?

The train of death. Not today. What do we say to the train of death? Yeah, not today. But yeah, it was brutal. That is one thing that is, like you said, it's very, it's not relatable whatsoever. But we never try.

Well, it is relatable for people that commute during rush hour. Right. Right. Your life sucks, dude. Yeah. Ours, we don't. We're very lucky.

We never commute. We commute at the most off hours. We commute at 10 AM and midnight. Yeah. When we go home, there's like two people on the train. Yeah, they're either drunk and throwing up or they've shot themselves already. Yes.

But there's only two people. So you got some leg room. That's nice. Yeah. I got a similar firefest tank. I'll go and then you go PFT. OK. So well, first of all, my first firefest

is Anna Kendrick unfollowed me. Oh, no. Whatever. OK. Whatever. It sucked. OK. I even went to the gym yesterday.

So if you think I'm really feeling it, it's because I got to work out high 24 hours later. Now, do you think that it's because she accidentally followed you? No, I think it was a Kevin White mix tape after like 17 straight bull's tweets, probably. That might have done it. Or it was the fact that you brought attention to it

and then she was like, why are all these people blowing me up? And also, our friend KB Noswag pointed out something that she follows like 300 people. And they're all like the Hollywood type that don't tweet a lot. So it was not only the 17 bull's tweets, but I'm pretty sure that was her entire timeline. Just like 17 tweets within two hours in general

is a big red flag. She's like, whoops, that was a mistake. She jumped right in the deep end. Yeah. My other firefest of the week was Hank, I got sneezed on on a train. Yeah. So if I die soon, that's why.

That's brutal. On the back of my neck. So thankfully it wasn't mouth to mouth. Well, spin zone, they made you stronger because they got their germs on you. And now you have more immunity. It was so fucking disgusting. I didn't even look.

I didn't even turn around because if I knew I turned around and I saw the person and they were like, you know, they probably had like leprosy or something. And I was going to just be like, all right, I'll just die right now. So I didn't look, but that person's probably very, very sick. And they sneezed. You don't sneeze on a train.

Did you say God bless you? No. I just went like this. So they're going to hell. So you had your revenge ultimately. Yes. I have my revenge on that person. Whoever you are out there, don't

sneeze on fucking trains. That's bullshit, don't you think? Sometimes you can't control it. Sneezing is tough. It's not like I'm curious. I want to know if there's any like statisticians out there. Yeah. How many people die per year driving while sneezing?

Oh, that's a good question. I've got to have my pants while sneezing while driving. That's almost dying. Yeah. There's like hundreds of millions of people in America. There's got to be at least 30. If there's hundreds of people in America, let me do the calculator.

There are more than hundreds of people in America. 30 million? No. 300 million. I said hundreds of millions. Yeah, you said hundreds of millions. I said hundreds of people. How many people?

Do I think? Yeah. Like at least 30? 30 million? No, 30 people die from sneezing. Oh, yes. Yes. I said hundreds of millions.

We're terrible with our math right now. From SWI? Yes, I'd agree. Or sneezing while crossing the street or something like, or doing something just really stupid while sneezing, sneezing on a ladder. How many people die? At least one person this year has

sneezed while standing on a ladder. I'll bet you somebody's died from sneezing while using a Q-tip. Ooh, that's a good one. Okay. Goes right in. Yeah. Sneezing while standing next to a ledge.

Yeah, sneezing while thinking about jumping over the ledge. Right, and then you sneeze. And then it makes up your mind for you. Right. So that's that. Yeah. How many people do you think have died at Fortnite while sneezing?

A lot. Like, died in the Fortnite game? Yeah, a lot. Yeah, tons, tons. Hundreds of millions. Very dangerous. Yeah, for sure. Practicing sneezing.

Yeah. My fire, are you done with yours? Yeah, I got sneezed on. I don't think you really, like you get brushed over. I've been sneezed on before. Like, you're going to die too, because you're close enough to be. Also, if PFT got sneezed on, his hair would block it. That's true.

That's why I grow it. I got sneezed on, dude. I know. I would like you to at least show a little bit of like. Here's the thing, at least you got sneezed on the back of you. And so you didn't have to smell the other person's sneeze. Smelling another person's sneeze is the worst sensation known to man.

I got sneezed on. Oh, it's tough. OK. It's tough. Do you need some vitamin? It's not even fucking flu season. I got vitamin. That's when you know when you see like a raccoon out during the day

and you're like, that raccoon's fucked up. They got rabies. They're out in the day. When someone sneezes in like May, June, July, August, you're like, what's wrong with your immune system? I might just become. It's not the flu season. I might just become like a lot of Asian countries.

It's common courtesy to wear masks in public so you don't get other people sick. I might lead by example and start that here. Unrelated, but kind of related. Except wear it over my butt so they don't smell my farts. Do you think it'd be a weird move if I started using an oxygen tank? Yeah, it's a little early. I'd say a little early in life.

But like that high you get when you go into a Vegas casino. It is nice. And I also probably would get preferential treatment. If you just wheeled around an oxygen tank. Correct. That's true. Yeah, people get out of your way. And I'd be thinking at a way faster speed than everyone else.

It'd be like limitless. Yeah. No, it'd be like plugging into the wall of the internet instead of getting the Wi-Fi. You know what you should do? You should you should just straight up to the oxygen tank and an IV. So your body's super hydrated all the time. Like one of the IVs on wheels that you carry around with.

And a catheter. Yeah, and a catheter. So you're super hydrated at all times. Just put me in a coma. You've got oxygen just coursing through your veins and your brain. Your body is operating at optimum speed. Right. I can't speak.

I can't do anything. No one's going to want to talk to you. But my brain is working so fast and scary. But if they did talk to you, you would just run them in circles with your argument and superior logic. At least try this for a couple days. And a diaper. Just sit down.

Not a catheter. How fast my brain can work. Just shut everything else down, except my brain. I like it. All right, Fire Fest. My Fire Fest of the week is Chernobyl. Oh, wait. No spoilers on season on episode two I haven't watched.

OK. I watched episode two. I assumed that the plant blowing up was bad. It was not good. So Chernobyl happened in 1986. It was actually literally a Fire Fest, because all the officials were staying intense. All the meals were poisoned.

The dogs, there were no swimming pigs, but there were dogs that carried radiation poisoning on them. Don't do that with the dogs. I'm just saying, you're going to see it. So it was literally a Fire Fest. And I love watching it because everybody talks with a British accent. They're Ukrainian.

Which makes no sense. Oh, no. The blotty cooling tower broke out. It shot Pete the Coal. It shot. It just possibly shot. Can they not teach him how to do a Russian accent? Well, I think it all goes back to Hunt for Red October

when they had Sean Connery playing the Russian guy. And he was like, I'm Sean fucking Connery. And I'm going to call me bastard. It's so stupid. I don't know why they did that. Because we're dumb. And I don't understand that people are upset if they're cussing in a different language.

Yeah, but it's just like when you see Russia, you feel Russia. I want to hear the Russian accent. Well, the entire landscape has a Russian accent. Because every time a movie is supposed to be set in Russia, they just find the greatest place possible. Right. They just go northeast Ohio. Yeah, that's exactly what they do.

They either go there or Toledo or someplace like that. And they're like, it's bleak. So it's Russia. We don't have to actually speak Russian or have Russian accents. So yeah, I've been watching Chernobyl. It's pretty good. Wait, where's your fire fest? Just Chernobyl.

The city of Chernobyl was an actual fire fest. Hey, listen, I'm telling people. Everyone knows that I am like obsessed with abandoned stadiums, theaters, whatever. Go look up right now, Google Chernobyl present day. It's awesome. You can take a tour of Chernobyl. Awesome.

I don't know why you would. Like everyone just left. So there's like there's like Ferris wheels and shit still up. There's classrooms, abandoned Chernobyl pictures are awesome. Do you think that it's the most white people problem ever to like take a tour over to Chernobyl? What do you mean? Like that's something that only white people would do.

Yeah, there was some woman did it. She drove like a bike. She took all these pictures. I'm pretty sure she died. Yeah, they have tours that will get you close to where things happen. Why risk it? Because you're white. Yeah, I guess so.

That's the whiteest thing. It's like poverty tourism. Jack should go over there. Yeah, that's probably going to go over there next to like gain the powers of a small. He's going to try to turn himself into like Spider-Man. He's going to find a spider in Chernobyl and let it bite him until he gets powers to shoot webs out of his fingers.

If you were serious about dunking, you would go over there with your shoes. Dude, these shoes are basically radioactive anyways. You see these? Yeah. My other fire fest of the week is Mike Greenberg committed. He snitched on his dad. What?

Mike Greenberg snitched on his dad this morning. Like too many grapes? No, he was talking about the Jets back in the day and where he first learned about being a true Jets fan after all the stuff that's gone down this week. And his dad got so mad watching the Jets one time, watching them collapse. Do you know what his dad did?

He said, gosh darn it. He snitched on him. No, worse. He threw a pillow out of a 20th story window. Oh, no. He threw a pillow out of a window. I mean, hey. That's when he learned what true friends.

Isn't that the most Mike Greenberg thing of all time? He's like, my dad used to get so mad when he's watching the Jets, he would just rip shots of whole milk. So has he been holding on to this story for like 25 years? Yeah, I think he said something like, the statute of limitations has passed now. Oh my god, what a weenie. Can you imagine walking down the street

and getting hit with a pillow? You'd be like, thank you. Yeah, let go. I'd probably just take a nap on the sidewalk. Good idea. Although, if you drop it from high enough, it's like a penny from the Empire State Building. The pillow will run directly through your head?

Yeah. That's terrifying. That's the most comfortable way to die. Yes, absolutely. Maybe his dad was just sneezing, holding the pillow next to the window, and he killed a man. Screaming into the pillow and throwing it out. Yeah.

What a ridiculous story. That's your hero. Yeah, it is. It is. But it's a firefest because Greeny implicated his father in attempted murder, I would say. Unreal. Yeah, someone definitely got hit with a couple down feathers

that day. That'd be tough. They've never thought. I hope someone comes forward and like, hey, I remember that. Back in 1972, I was walking down 6th Avenue, got hit with a pillow. A pillow hit me.

I had a big embroidered G that left an imprint on my forehead. Yes. Hank, what do you think weighs more? A pound of rocks or a pound of feathers? Hmm. OK, that was a quick, nice quiz. You nailed it, Hank. Yeah.

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Does it feel good to still have people say that, introduce you like that? To me, to be honest with you, I don't really don't count that championship. I think, obviously, through the process of my career and everything I accomplished, I earned it. But I got hurt going into the playoffs. And I'm always someone that I've never been given anything.

So to me, I always wanted to earn it. And I felt like, because I wasn't out there on the court with my guys sweating and fighting, that it was kind of really just a, it was given to me. So I mean, appreciate the opportunity, the rings. And I think the best part about it was my twin boys got to experience it. But I don't really ever refer to myself as a champion

or wear my ring. But come on, it's better to be introduced as NBA champion than like 14, 14 year NBA vet, right? I mean, it has a nice ring to it, but to me, like as far as just my mentality and the way I've always gone about things, I kind of felt like that was given to me. So I don't really.

OK, I kind of like it. If I were in your position, I definitely would not have that same attitude. I would be rocking the ring everywhere I go. Yeah, no, it's crazy, because everywhere I go, like, where's the ring? I'm just at the house. Yeah, so what is your biggest accomplishment to you

personally? I think basketball-wise, I think just lasting as long as I lasted, being a second round pick, having to go to the D-League and then really grind my way through, it was an amazing journey. I mean, I would have played that long, played with that many Hall of Famers and had the fun and traveled the world.

That was probably the best part about it all. So yeah, so let's start there. Your second round pick was a 42nd overall. Yeah. 46th. 46th overall. Yeah, who's counting? Yeah.

So you weren't supposed to make it. No. The people that get drafted in that position generally don't. Right. You went to what, the D-League, then, to the. A little stint with, like, the ABL. I don't even know who we were taking bus trips to Juarez, Mexico, messing with the cartel.

And then I got called up to the Clippers. Actually, I got a chance to play with Dennis Robin for a second on that ABL team, which was really cool. Wait, Dennis was in Juarez? He didn't go to Mexico with us. He played a couple of games in LA with us. I was going to say, he would be pulled over at that time. So at what point did you realize I can do this?

I can make it in the NBA. It probably wasn't. I always had the belief in myself, but I never really got the opportunity. I got called up to the Clippers, played well, and was supposed to actually sign a two-year deal, which was kind of my fault. But growing up in Sacramento, I was a huge Laker fan,

but then kind of became a Kings fan. And that's when the Kings were relevant. And Chris Webber is one of my favorite players. And I always got a chance to go back and work out with him in the summertime, because he'd be in Sacramento. So played well, and I was doing the same thing, working out with him in the summertime. And he's just like, you need to come play here.

And this is why they were still trying to dethrone the Lakers. And I did that. And then, unfortunately, I think right before the trade deadline ended, he and I got traded to Philly. And that was a disaster. I'm glad I took a bunch of weed with me, because all I did was smoke weed the whole time and just chillin' my condom.

So you said that. You said that your best games in the NBA were high. Yeah, I was. I got caught twice. In the NBA, you get three strikes. So I had like 2.75 strikes, probably, because you're allowed to turn yourself in one time. So they let me turn myself in twice, actually,

because I was going through some stuff. But I was just able to kind of maneuver my way through the years and understand smoking, and then being able to detox fast enough, eating clean, and drinking a lot of water, staying in the steam room. And I was able just to manage it. So would you smoke right before the game, and then just feel like in the zone?

It wouldn't be right before the game. So what it was, it was like, on a game day, we'll have an 11 or 12 o'clock shoot around. So we'll walk through stuff for about an hour. And then after that, I would go home. I'd smoke a joint. Then I would take a nap. And then I'd wake up, shower, eat, and bounce.

So it wasn't like right before. It was probably within like four or five hours of the game, possibly. Did you ever get any pushback from your coaches or your teammates that didn't like you doing that? No one really knew. It wasn't something that I was really, because it's illegal, basically.

You know what I mean? So I had a couple of teammates on different teams that knew I smoked or would smoke with me. And it was, like I said, it's not to really talk about anybody else talking about myself. But it was something that happened in the NBA. You can say Steven Jackson. You can just say it.

Yeah, oh, yeah. Steven, oh, yeah. Jack and I would blow it down. That might be too, like when he and I used to smoke, it might be two joints. It's interesting. I like the way that the NBA handles it better than the way the NFL does, because it's really,

it's a no win situation for the league if they're suspending players for testing positive for pot. Because it's not a performance enhancing drug. No. And all it does is just bring up your league in connection with somebody doing something illegal. So like from the league side, I don't know why the NFL tests for it, besides the fact that it's just a bargaining chip.

Yeah, well, I think the reason why the NFL is so impactful when they come down on someone who fails the test is because they only get one test. So they know going into training camp, they're going to get that one test. That's how it used to be when I first came in the league, where we'd get that one presence and test. And it wasn't like they were promoting smoke,

but they just wouldn't test for it the rest of the year. In the NBA, we get four random tests. So like I could hypothetically still be in the, because we can get tested up until the finals. So I could be in the playoffs right now, smoke today and possibly be tested tomorrow. So it's really kind of like a random thing. But like I said, first time is you just go into the program

for 90 days, no one's supposed to know. I think that's a lot of, they probably tell your team. Second time is a $25,000 fine. And they're supposed to, now they act like you have like a real life problem, like you're in right, just something. And then the third time is supposed to be a five game suspension.

So luckily I retired before I got to the five game to the toe. So you were fine a lot though in your career. Yeah, I got fine for that and you know, for, for, for really, I lost a lot of money sticking up for my teammates to be honest with you. And I think the only person to ever pay for one of my fines was Kobe. You know, yeah, I protected a lot of dudes on my team

because I grew up, you know, that, you know, family is everything. So my dad used to teach me, you know, if your brother and sister are gonna fight, you fight. Even if they win, you fight, it's your family. So I always took my teammates as my family. So no one was ever directly, maybe early on, I think people would try me to see what I was about.

But once I kind of knew that trying me was, you're going to be in a four war. Okay, so I have, I have two follow up questions to that because it's interesting that you say it's like family. You also were on a ton of teams. So what was it like when you're maybe have bad blood with a guy or shit talk a guy, and then the next year you're his teammate.

You know what's, what's, what's weird about that is I think, I think early on you kind of get, you kind of judge people before you know them. And, you know, when you play against them and then getting the chance to know, like, Joe Georetic, like I didn't, I didn't thought Joe Georetic was a dickhead. You know what I mean?

Just straight up until I got a chance to play with them. And one of the coolest dudes I've ever met and then still friends to this day. So I think, you know, I have other stories where guys I just thought were a certain way, probably like people kind of think I'm a certain way. And then they meet me like, oh, this dude's kind of chill, he's cool, you know what I mean?

So, you know, whether we had bad, bad blood in the past or we weren't teammates, well, which were teammates, we were family. And then the other question off of that is, do you think that like that enforcer, bad boy, whatever you want to call it role has kind of gone away in the NBA? Because it feels like it has.

Like there's not a lot of guys you can point to, like, don't go with that guy. Yeah, I think it has. I think the physicality as a whole is, you know, kind of like on a powder puff, like football level right now, which is unfortunate. But I understand where the NBA is going. They want to see more scoring.

So they kind of take the defense and the physicality out of the game and call a bunch of fouls. So, you know, the people who really just enjoy playing defense and enjoy physical play, like that game is kind of long gone. Right. Who was your favorite player to shit talk? You know, you know, the one thing about me is I never really was a shit, like,

I'm just going to shit talk you. Like if you start talking shit to me, I'll talk back. Right. But I was never like, I always just, because I was a group of football players. So my mentality was just to always play hard, no matter what, no matter who I was, you know, because I was always guarding the best player.

So it was never really like a back and forth, like shit talking situation. You know, Kobe and I got in a couple scuffles and that's how we kind of end up becoming teammates. Cause he's just like, you know, anyone crazy enough to fuck with me is crazy enough to be my teammate. You know, so that's how we became teammates.

I'm glad you brought up Kobe because I need to get to the bottom of something. So for years and years, we all thought that you put that ball in Kobe's face and he didn't flinch a bit. And then about a year ago, we got some alternate angles, some new information came to light. Digging up that kind of, that kind of stuff is weird, right?

I don't know, service journalism. And it looks from the other angle, like he, it's not like the ball was right in his face. You kind of pumped faked it to the side and he didn't move his head. What is your recollection of the ball's right in his face? Yeah, you put that in his face on purpose. Yeah.

So you got punked. I guess if he didn't, you know what I mean? Like my, the thing that happened was like, if you, we were just going back and forth and that was later in the season going into the playoffs and Orlando and the Lakers had just played in the finals the year before. So it was kind of like, okay, we're, we're, you know

we're strapping up to see these guys in the finals and playing against Kobe since I was at UCLA, he's just, he tries to mentally take over. I mean, he's already physically more gifted than anyone else but he tries to mentally kind of like mind fuck you type stuff. And so he'll do little elbow, you grab you cheap shots. And I just, and I kept for some reason getting called for it. I'm just like, man, we're about to fight, you know

for the game for whatever, like we're about to go at it. And it was just something that happened. Like it wasn't like, all right, I'm going to fake the ball in his face type situation. Like I just did it, you know what I mean? So the fact that he didn't flinch, he's probably the only person in the world that probably wouldn't flinch

about probably him and Mike Tyson. And he just didn't flinch. Was that his best experience for you? Like I said, it wasn't something that I planned or even thought about. So I didn't even think about it at the time that he flinched. Right. You know what I mean?

It's like that didn't even cross my mind, you know after the game and it's been talked about for the last 10 years, you know realizing that, you know, the, if you fake a, you know, if I faked something at your guy over here, he might flinch. Hank will definitely flinch, yeah. It's because you come a gift and it lives on forever.

Right, you know what I mean? But the fact that I put a ball right in his face and he didn't flinch is just like I said, he's one of the rare ones. So on Kobe, you mentioned earlier that he was the only teammate of yours to pay one of your fines. That's really interesting because Kobe doesn't feel

like that type of teammate. Every story about Kobe is he's maybe surly, he's very competitive, he's, you know, it's Kobe's way and he's kind of isolated, similar to Michael Jordan, but it sounds like you guys had a deeper relationship. Yeah, Kobe and I were cool, man. I think once we became teammates and got to see him

on a day to day basis and just chat him up, he's real cool and real down to earth and very personable. But I just think he gives off this persona as just a straight killer, which he is, you know what I mean? But if you're able to kind of peel the layers back, very cool. I mean, for an example, he's, you know, I took my, my twins turned 10 last November

and, you know, he worked them out for their birthday. You know what I mean? So I took them out to Orange County and surprised them and little stuff like that. Then after that, he sent their whole team shoes and warmups and all that kind of stuff. So Kobe is a real cool dude. I just think the persona he puts off was always just,

you know, it's game time type situation, but when he's chilling, he's chill. What is Kobe like as a personal trainer for 10 year olds? I gotta expect that he's just intense. Incredible, incredible. You know what I mean? Like the little skill work they were doing and then he made them run at the end

and one of the twins didn't want to when he made them and I loved it. You know what I mean? So it was just his attention to detail. It doesn't waver no matter how old you are. And I think that's great. So have you ever looked back at all the fines that you had and like counted them up?

Yeah, I think, well, someone else did it for me. I think it was like 600, like around 600,000. Damn. Crazy. That sucks. Ridiculous, yeah. Where does that money go? That's what I want to know.

Like I feel like if you're taking my money, you're going to take it. I should be able to stay worthy. You know, I should be able to pick the charitable cause or send it to my charitable cause. You know, who knows where that that money went? Part of David Stern's pockets. Was there a specific ref that like you knew was going to be like,

oh, this guy is not like Matt Barnes. It's going to be on tonight because there's a lot of stuff about, you know, the Rockets had their home with the refs. Scott Foster, yeah, he's a dick. He's always been, he's just really arrogant. But I just think overall, you know, I think, you know, you earn a reputation whether good or bad and I earned that reputation.

So my fuse with the refs wasn't very good. I think the further along I got my career, it improved because I got to know him on a first name basis and really talk to him. But I wouldn't change anything. It's just I'm that competitive while I'm playing. So if I get a T here and there, I'm not tripping. Right.

So you said you played football. What position were you? I was a receiver. So I was, football was actually my first sport. I was recruited by everyone to play football. I led the nation touchdowns. I was all-American my senior year. I just looked at longevity and figured, OK,

if I got a chance to go pro, probably it would last longer basketball and it worked. I guess you made the right choice. Yeah. So it's interesting because I would definitely describe your style of play as if you're in a college gym and you see the basketball team come in and play pickup. For the football team?

Yeah. Yeah. The football team comes in to play like a little shoot around against the basketball team. Like very physical. Not like you're not shooting the lights out, even though I think you're a pretty good shooter, right? But they just get in there and they just go to work.

Play hard. Yeah. They go to work. You know what I mean? Like I grew, I played tackle football on the streets when I was little. My dad made it all the way up to the ranks and was caught by the 49ers.

So football came first. Basketball didn't really come around until I played here and there. But I started taking the serious like in junior high, going into high school. But football was from the jump. And I just think that mentality, that toughness, that mindset is what I just played my whole career.

And I think it helped me throughout my career, obviously, being able to last as long as I did. Yeah. Were you responsible for Kevin Durant going to Golden State? How'd you guys? So I was talking. Yeah. There was, him and I were talking.

I remember because I was with the Clippers and he was with OKC and we'd always battle. And I used to always just tell him, the only person in the world could stop you is Russell Westbrook. Yup. You know what I mean? Your teammates. In 2014, you said that to him.

You played in the city. Yeah. I used to tell him that all the time. And then we started talking and he's just like, you know, where are you going to go? And I'm just like, let's go to the Warriors. You know what I mean? And then obviously.

That thing you told me in 2014. I've been thinking about it for three years. I think Draymond and Steph got involved. And I think you can play, set it two or three words. But at the end of the day, they just ran out of money. Right. You know what I mean? So it was crazy because then I had ended up signing

the three-year deal with Sacramento. They trade boogie and prove that they're not trying to win no more. And I told Lottie, I don't have too much time to help rebuild. So they basically bought me out. And Katie gets hurt like after the day after I get bought out. And I end up in Golden State. Did you ever bring that up that you said that to him?

No. Like I said, I mean, we're cool. So we talk about a lot of stuff. But I think whether I was the one that turned on the light bulb or he already added in his head, I just thought that he would be dope with Golden State. Yeah. Were you surprised with how quickly he fit in at Golden State?

I think because he's a special. He's a selfless superstar. I mean, I think you could tell that with Russell Westbrook. Obviously, he should have been the one taking most of the shots all the time. But it wasn't really that was the case. And I think with Golden State too, I think people don't understand like Steph and Claire

playing so amazing now that Katie went down. But with the team that's at Lottie, everyone has to kind of take a step back. Obviously, Katie is the best part in the world. So he doesn't take as much of a step back. But you know, other guys do, but he's selfless. And also he can kind of fit in and blend in anywhere and be just as effective as you need to be.

You also keep in touch with all those guys because I saw that you, when Katie and Draymond got into some, you know, that fight that they had that I think Draymond ended up getting suspended by the team, you texted both of them, right? And what did you think like what went wrong there in that part of their relationship? It's hard to say not being there.

But I just think, you know, knowing Draymond, he, we're very similar from a standpoint, you know, we play with our heart on our sleeve and we're emotional and we lead by example, but also, you know, we have the ability to tell anybody anything because I think we play so hard that people respect that. You know, I was never the most talented or highest paid player on my team.

But when I spoke guys listened because I just played so hard. I think it's similar to Draymond, you know what I mean? So, you know, his gift is his curse sometime, being too passionate over the top. And obviously the things he said is, you know, not things you should probably say to another grown man, especially a teammate,

you know, which would probably rub Katie the wrong way. But I think at the end of the day, Katie knew Draymond well enough to understand that what he said was messed up. He shouldn't have said it. Obviously he apologized or whatever, but you know, it's not something that's gonna hold up this championship train.

Right. Since you know that whole crew, who do you, well, do you think that Katie's gonna want to come back or you think he's out? I don't know, man. You hear a lot, you hear, you hear speculations that him and Kyrie coming out here. You hear him and Kawhi going to the Clippers.

And then to me, why not just win as many championships as possible with, you know, with that team? You know, so I think the only thing that can possibly detour him in, and we don't, this is something we don't really talk about, but I'm saying no matter what he does with Golden State, it's gonna be Steph's team, Steph's legacy. And could you feel that being on the, yeah.

You know, he was the one drafted there, and Steph is kind of like the golden child of the NBA. You know what I mean? With all due, he should be. But I just think if there was anything that kind of maybe, maybe not, I wouldn't even say bother him, but just kind of I want to do it on my own type situation, I think that would be the only thing,

because like I said, they went three in a row, they went four, they went five. This is Steph Curry's team, and you know, they were fortunate enough to get KD. Right. And you mentioned Clay earlier, they throw in a few words. I'm fascinated by Clay, because every time he gets hot, it's like, I actually think it's the more,

yeah, more fun to watch than KD or anyone, because it's almost like an unconscious level where he's not even thinking. He's not dribbling, he's not doing, all he's doing is shooting the ball from anywhere that's going in. And he has those shots where the rim, I mean, the net doesn't even move.

It's incredible. What type of guy is Clay's? Clay's super cool, down to earth, chill. You know, once you get him to open up funny in his own way without kind of trying to be funny, just a funny dude, and just really go with the flow. And I don't think people, most people do, but some people don't know how important he is

to that team, because you got to think every single game, he's the one taking the other players, you know, the best guard, which is, you know, saving Steph's legs to have these 40 and 50 point games and 33 points and a half, because Steph is, you know, Steph is guarding maybe a third or fourth option, because Clay is guarding, you know, the killer. Right, that's interesting.

Yeah, out of all the places that you played over your career, what is the best sports town? Good question. Thank you. That is a good question. I know. You know, it's hard. I mean, I loved playing in LA,

but there's so much to do in LA. The Bay was amazing, even the first time around when I was in the Bay, when we, you know, we only made the first, we won the first round that we believed team, but the support there was insane. So I would probably say the Bay. Yeah. I'd probably say the Bay.

Okay. Yeah. I want to do something with you here, because you played for so many teams for so many years that you have maybe the best resume of teammates. So I'm going to list them by position, and if you can tell me who's the best in that position, and if you have a story about any of these guys

throw it out there. So point guard, you played with Steph Curry, Steve Nash, Chris Paul, and Baron Davis. And Allen Iverson. And Allen Iverson. Well, I put him under shooting guard, but yeah. Okay. Yeah.

Pfft. Best peer score, Steph. Okay. Best all around point guard I ever played with Baron Davis. Really? When he's healthy, no question. When, if Baron Davis would have had a healthy career, he'd be talked about as one of the greats.

There's no question about that. Interesting. Okay. Allen Iverson was a killer. You know, someone so small being able to do what he did and go against giants, you know, Steve was just the ultimate get my guys going first and pick and choose my spots.

And then Chris Paul is probably one of the most competitive people next to Kobe that I've ever played with. Okay. So shooting guard, we'll skip over because you already talked about Clay and Kobe. Small forward, Kevin Durant and Paja. Paja, 6'10", would just, just shoots that thing. But you know, Kevin Durant to me is,

is the best player in the world right now. And we'll probably go down as one of the most efficient, effective offensive players we've ever seen. Do you think he's online too much? No, I don't mind it. You know what I mean? I think it's hard to judge situations like that because we hear and see everything,

even though people think we're super busy and then you shouldn't pay attention, block it out. But then until you have everyone talking shit to you or everyone trying to pull, you never really know how you're going to react. And I'm someone that obviously not on Katie's level, but when, you know, people come at me about like family or my kids or something like, I'll shoot right back at them.

You know what I mean? To me, I didn't agree with the burner account. To me, if you're going to say it, just say it from your account. Like, you know, people think they can say anything to us because we were on a certain level, which is not, because at the end of the day, we're all men, you know, we're all humans. So I don't mind him being online.

I agree with you. I think most players, they have to look at some of that criticism. It's impossible to escape it. And his only crime was kind of getting caught responding to it when a lot of people, they just pretend like they don't see it and they're like, oh, I can't respond. But then that bubbles up inside you

and it creates like different problems. Why I used to like go online and look for people talking trash before games to kind of get motivated. I like that. Because, you know, I was the one, you know, on the other team that I always got. It was funny because I'd get booed everywhere we went. And my kids started traveling with me at the end.

They're like, daddy, why do you always get booed? I'm just because it's like, you know, daddy and my kids liked wrestling at the time. I was like, daddy's like the undertaker going against Hulk Hogan every time. Like they booed me because I do a good job, you know, because they don't like me because I'm going to do, I'm going to try to go beat up their best player.

So to speak or lock their best player down like, oh, okay. So they, they boo you because you're good. I'm like, yeah, they boo me because I do a good job. Yeah. That's a good way to spend it. You know, so it just, it just kind of is what it is. All right. Power forwards loaded.

Powell, Amari Stottemire, Chris Weber, Blake Griffin and Draymond. Now let me just tell you right now we're personal friends with Blake Griffin. So you better see something nice about him. No, no, no, BG is my big cat's my guy. All of them. He's called Big Cat?

Big Cat. This is nickname. Wow. I might have words with him about that. Yeah. Chris Weber should be a Hall of Famer, 20, 20, 10 guy, very skilled. Blake, probably one of the most incredible athletes

I've ever been around and probably has the fullest package at all those guys, which can do kind of sounded weird, but be able to do everything. You know what I mean? Tows off? No, from, you know, from being a point forward to be on a shoot to be able to pass, to be able to post up, play defense.

Blake probably had it all. Who else did you say, Chris? Amari and Draymond and Powell. Amari was a monster. Did you ever get in a wine bath with him? Never, never got in a bath with no other man. Amari was a monster. When he first came in the league, he was taken over.

How smell? Powell looks like a guy smells. I didn't sniff Powell. Some, I mean, some heroes I play with, man, they would get in the shower and be out the fucking shower before the water hit him. Like, yeah, you make too much money if you smell like a bum's nut sack.

Pajah, Pajah seems like that guy. Powell is very talented, very skilled, very skilled. And then Draymond, Draymond is the ultimate glue guy. I don't think people realize how important he is to that franchise. You know, you can lose certain pieces and still be okay, but he holds everyone accountable. You know, just a real blue collar worker

that has mastered that point forward position. Yeah, all right, last, last up center, Dwight Howard, Mark Grisall, and DeMarcus Cousins. It's crazy how many good players you play with. And Shaq. And Shaq. Boogie's the most skilled big man I ever played with. Temperamental?

Yes, but I love that about him. Okay. You know, and I think going to go in the state for many reasons was the best thing in his career because he's never been on a winning team in the professional ranks. I think to see how you act day to day as a winner and a professional,

I think that'll help him mature. Shaq, I'm poor, I got to battling in Shaq when he was Shaq, but when I played with him, he was Shaq in Phoenix and he was, you know, kind of on the backside, great guy. Yeah, great guy. The biggest seven foot child I ever met, like a practical joker to the utmost.

Did you ever see his feet? Horrible feet. Oh, shit, horrible feet. Brom's got bad feet too. Horrible feet. Bobby Jackson probably has the worst feet I've ever seen. Like his toenails are the same color as his black table right here and they're like three inches thick.

You need like a chainsaw to cut them things. Oh, fuck. So you said, so it was Shaq, Marcosol, very skilled, big, very intelligent. It throws ass in you when he's boxing you out. Big too, like you don't realize how big he is, yeah. I mean, just going through that list of people, it's impressive.

How many teams did you play for? Eight teams and I played for a couple teams twice. Eight teams, at what point, when you get to a new town, do you think it's okay for me to lay down some roots here? To me, I never really got a chance to really show my full potential, I think, until I played with the Clippers, where I was consistently playing all the time

and I was playing at the end of the games and I was kind of known for a three and D kind of guy. I laid down roots where I liked, you know what I mean? So no matter what, I always had somewhere, a place in LA and I always had a place up north, whether that was Sacramento or the Bay, so it's still the same now. I have a house in LA and a house in the Bay,

so those are the only places I really felt, because I'm a straight California dude, so if I ever had to play at a stadium, it was always temporary. Right, I was reviewing some film on you earlier today and the scuffle that you got into, the fight you got into was Rayford Austin. When you were on the Suns, he was on the Rockets.

That fight included you, Steve Nash, Rayford Austin, Tracy McGrady, and Shaq coming in, pushing people around, but I was mostly impressed with Steve Nash being like five foot 11. He pulled like the Van Gundy and the Larry Johnston in the longs of morning. He just held on to his foot, so can you walk us through what happened in that fight

and then like the aftermath? You know, like we said earlier, how long did it take you to bury the hatchet if you ever did after that? It was, he hit me with the cheap shot. He hit me in the balls the time before down, so the next time he tried to set a screen, I tried to just run him over like a football player

and I didn't get to run him all the way over. I kind of just was able to kind of throw an elbow at him. And then just the unfortunate thing in the NBA with me is if you throw the first punch, you're gonna get fined heavy. So I was always, I was ready to fight, but I wouldn't want to throw the first punch, especially with me.

The first one they probably tried to put me in jail, but I know that's like a six-figure fine for me. Right. So I figure if I get someone, if I'm gonna fight someone and they swing first and retaliation is I gotta protect myself. But that was crazy because it was just a lot of chest bumping and pushing,

but like when Shaq pushed the whole pile of like 10 people, it was created like Shaq pushed one person, like the whole momentum of the pile went towards the stands. Like Shaq is just so big and powerful. It was crazy, but I've been known right for a long time because my AU team was based out of Fresno when he was out that way. So it was never like, if I see you again type shit,

it just never went that far, you know what I mean? So nothing's been spoke of since. Okay, so my last question, Seeky question, put it from a code take, you get $10 off for Seeky purchase. Speaking of beefs, are you still, where are you at with Derek Fisher? They're on site? No, no.

Like I said, the fight had to go down. To me, people don't really understand the situation. Like I divorced my ex-wife and then she was hurt, mad. I think she was kind of at the similar place in our relationship with me. Just kind of, I think we both realized like the ship's at sail. So I just took the first step and divorced her.

And then whether it was spite, vengefulness, whatever the situation was, she ends up messing with him, but I don't hear about it. And to me, I know that once we're done, she's gonna find someone else. But I think from a standpoint of, if we're teammates, just at least have the respect to come say something to me, you know what I mean?

So. I think that's fair. I didn't agree so much with him dating my ex-wife, but what really pissed me off was he was living, staying in my house with my kids. You know what I mean? So to me, everyone knows how important my kids are. So, and he has twins that are a year or two older

than my kids. So like, just if the roles were reversed, which I would never do, but you know, imagine me just kind of going playing dad with your kids. You know what I mean? Like that shit's not right to anyone. So that's what prompted me to put a couple of hands on him. Driving 95.

Right. So, and that's another lie. So Kanye rapped about that shit, but I didn't. I mean it blew up. Yeah, I drove 90, no I drove from Reena Del Rey to Redondo Beach, it was like 15 minutes. Oh, okay. So it wasn't, yeah.

Short ass kicking. Yeah, but I don't, somehow it was, I drove 90 miles and it's urban legend. It's a lot funnier to think about it. Right, to think that I'm gonna drive an hour and a half, an hour and 45 minutes, that mad, right. You grabbed like a mountain dew on the way. A lot of energy.

I really thought about it. Injected into my veins. Got a couple like bags of combos. All the road changing, the radio station, staying mad. So what actually what kind of squashed it for me was, he's still with my ex and they're planning to get married and I have no problem with some of the best, but after that happened, my kids liked him.

Cause Derek was cool outside of the snake movie pooled on me. He was a cool teammate, someone responsible. And to me, that's someone I would want my kids around. If you're gonna go out there, like I want someone that I know will take care and keep my kids priority first. But my kids are like, you know, Dad, we really like Derek and we think you guys should become friends.

So it was a to a standpoint where we wouldn't say nothing because I would come home in the off season. He was with my ex. So he would be at their football games and their basketball games. And it was just awkward like I would come in, he would leave or I'd come in, he'd have his head down the whole time,

like never just come say nothing to me. So after one of their football games, like all the parents are walking back to the car and it's my turn to take the twins from my ex. So we have to go get a bag from her car. And Derek is kind of like. Please don't kick my ass. 15 feet behind us, just kind of walking slow.

And I'm just like, yeah, come here for a second. And everyone kind of like, Let's fight him again. And I just kind of pulled him to the side and kind of basically explained what I said. You know, to me, messing with my wife, it's whatever. You know what I mean? But you know, you being around my kids

and not telling me was the reason why we got into this altercation. And you know, he said his little piece and we shook hands and we've been cool ever since. That's awesome. Yeah, I wish them nothing but the best. Yeah, I wish them nothing but the best. My last question since you played in the NBA

we're contractually obligated to ask you a LeBron question. Okay. Do you think people don't want to play with LeBron James? Because you're an alcoholic? No, no, no. Sorry, we don't say that. I don't know, you know what I mean?

Like you, every time you hear it, it's from a source or someone close to, you know what I mean? If you don't want to like, I find it hard to believe. I think the only thing, superstars are different. I've never been a superstar. So I can't think like a superstar, but I know some superstars are kind of ego driven.

So you know playing with LeBron no matter how good you are, it's going to be his team. So I think that would be the only knock with some guys holding the back like talent wise because he's on the backside of his career, still one of the better players. He's not the best to me. He's not the best player anymore.

So you play with someone like KD or you have a Kauai play with him, guys that are better than him, but it's still LeBron's team. I don't know if that bothers guys or not, but like I said, I can't really, to me, he's a, you know, one of the, obviously the one of the greatest players of all time. Top three, him, Kobe and MJ are all in that mix to me.

Past, you know, past first guy who's top 10 on the scoring list in the assists list. I would have loved to play with someone like LeBron, but like I said, I was a role player so I can kind of fit in anywhere. But as far as other stars trying to play with them, I mean, that would be the only thing I can think of. But most of the time, I think people just try to create stuff

to talk about to kind of write on the parade. Yeah, we do, hand up. I mean, that's why I asked you the question. That's why you asked me the question. LeBron gives us like 25% of our content. Yeah, I mean, he's a, a lot comes with being one of the greatest. That's true.

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some awesome videos. You're gonna wanna watch Monday's episode on video and you can do it at BarstoolGold.com slash PMT. Okay, first up, locker room talk, Lamar Odom. He had sex with 2,000 women. Not that much when you think about Wilt but he got addicted to porn so much that he got to the end of the internet.

He watched every porn video on the internet. So he kissed the wall and came back. At the time, yes. That's super impressive to do. So he is like the Wilt Chamberlain of his own hand. Right. He got off his own penis 20,000 times. I kinda feel bad for Lamar Odom.

Yeah, yeah, I guess. I don't know. I guess, all right, let me rephrase that. I feel as bad for Lamar Odom as bad as you could feel for a man who's had sex 2,000 times and watched every porn video on the internet. And made millions and millions of dollars. Yes, probably squandered it.

Yep, yep, probably, probably. I was just thinking about it. I was like, those go hand in hand kind of thing. When you almost die at the bunny ranch, when you do die at the bunny ranch and come back, that would lead me to believe that you're not making the most financial decisions. Yeah, and the encore is watching every porn video.

Yeah, but he's okay and he's telling the tale about it, just wrote a book. Okay, so maybe he's got the money again. Yeah, he'll have to get a nice little advance out of that. Yeah. Enough to go visit that bunny ranch. This is a wild thing to just throw out there. 2,000 times, 2,000 different women is a lot.

I'm doing the math right now, how many times I've had sex. I would have to live to be, how old was Moses? 450 years old. Yeah, about his age. I don't even think that would do it. Yeah, probably. Because you'd be old. Oh, yeah.

Well, but at some point you get so old that it's a novelty, you get famous for being old. True. And then you can find girls that have any sort of fetish if you're famous enough. Like a circus act, come fuck the old guy. Exactly. Yeah, that actually, that worked for Hugh Hefner

for the last like 20 years of his life. Yep, and at some point in your life, you would get rich if you lived to be 400 years old, I would assume. Yeah, I would say so. You just play the lottery every day. You just buy a shit little penny stocks, play the lottery every day, you're going to strike it rich. Buy Bitcoin.

You're going to have a solid five to six months and they're somewhere. And then you, at that point, you make up all the lost ground. Hit hot. Yeah, you're going to hit gambling hot for a couple months. All right, we have a respect the biz at Beth Page Black. On, oh, on Long Island, in Long Island. On.

In. In Long Island. Inside Long Island. A lot of people mad about that. Don't care. I tried to tell PFT in real time. That's something I don't care about. In Long Island?

Wait, you're in line and you're, so you're in Long Island. I can't do this. I can't do these things. I say, we were in Long Island. We're standing in Long Island interviewing Brooks Kepka. We were inside the island. Yes. I don't care.

Okay. Either way. What were we even talking about? We're talking about the setup that the PGA championship has for journalists. Let's say you're swimming in the ocean and you swim and you get onto the shore. Right.

Would you say you're in the shore? No, you're down the shore. Yeah. No, I'm on the shore. I'm standing on the shore. You're on the island. No, you're down the shore. So that's when I...

You're in the ocean and you're swimming to Long Island. If I had gone... You get onto the water. You are now... Wait, wait, no, you're in the water. You're in the water and you get onto the shore. Yeah. Onto the beach.

No, you're in the water. Onto the island. You get down the shore. Then you are on Long Island. No, because when you get on, when you get in the shore. But we took a train there. If I had swam there, then you're right. I would have been on the island.

Bridges? No. Bridges? Yeah, but we took a train there. Yeah, we know about bridges. I was always on there. You're acting like... I was in there.

You can't take a bridge to an island. When... Yes, you can. Exactly. I went into Long Island. All right. We didn't land in Long Island. Long Island landed in us.

This sucks. I know that people like this is a... I bet you this is like a whole BuzzFeed quiz. Which... Which... Are you in or on Long Island? 27 times you've been in Long Island, but been wrong. Which verb are you?

Take our quiz. All right, so they had media 10th massages. Fuck that, whatever. I'm off of Long Island. That's it. Yeah, I'm off it. All right. You're out of Long Island.

All right, this one's big though. Thoughts and prayers to Colin Coward. Colin Coward is constantly going after Baker Mayfield. Now he's going after Baker Mayfield's wide receiver in Odell Beckham. He did a top 10 plays of Odell Beckham's career. And it was just... Top 10 moments.

Moments. And it was nine things of Odell Beckham just freaking out and then the catch. Yeah, the boat, I think, was number two. Okay. The hotel room was something like number four. So he's trolling. He's trolling.

He's trolling. He was making the argument like, I don't know if we can consider him a generational talent. Right. If my dumb ass brain only remembers nine weird things. Right. So, only problem with Colin Coward doing that is Odell Beckham's got receipts.

And Colin Coward texted Odell Beckham when he was traded to the Browns and said, congrats, emoji prayer, which did not think Coward was an emoji guy. And Odell Beckham said, crazy. And then Coward said, kick ass, I'm rooting for you. That's a funny way to root for somebody. To just trash them?

To just show. It was like the prices right, not the price of the right board, the family feud board. Yes. So he turned into a game show. Yes. Of how many things he can name about Odell Beckham

that don't include him rooting for him. Right, exactly. Yeah, I liked seeing that. And then Baker jumped in too. Went off on him. He said, once again, you're a clown. Now I know you're just trying to get me fired up. Most memorable moments.

He's 26 and his greatest moments are ahead of him. You forget the kids and people he inspires. That goes much further than football. He did a Rico Bosco. There's some things bigger than sports. I like that by Baker. Some things are bigger than football, buddy. That's powerful.

I'm just gonna do some of my top 10 Colin Coward moments off the top of my head. Okay. When he said that Sean Taylor deserved to get murdered. Okay, after he got shot. But when he said Puerto Rican people are stupid and can't manage, Dominicans are stupid and can't manage baseball teams.

Yeah, that was another good one. How about when he got his shit pushed in by LaVar Ball? Ooh, that was good. How about when he dyed his hair after he moved to Hollywood and tried to pretend that he didn't? That's a good one too. So those are three great memories of Colin Coward that we have just off the top of our head.

Oh, and I have one more actually, PFT, because this one is just, I'm gonna roast Colin Coward by reading Colin Coward's words back to him. Nike is so upset with Zion, staying with Pelicans, they're changing their slogan to just don't do it. That's fucking good. So Colin Coward, I just use your words against you loser.

Yeah. Suck it. We're firing up, we're firing today. I'm fired up about Colin Coward. I don't like your... I feel like I have an oxygen mask. I don't like the little, how your nose turns up at the end.

What? A Colin Coward? Yeah, I was like, what is... No, Colin Coward, you could jump as a ski person off that thing. I could catch 40 meters off Colin Coward's nose. Cow turd. We'll be in LA if you wanna talk to us man to man.

Yeah, little rat nose. We should show up to his... Come on the podcast. Yeah, come on the podcast. Hey, everyone tweet Colin Coward. Come on the podcast if you're a man. Why don't we just show up at the Fox Sports Studios with a desk that says,

Colin Coward sucks, change my mind. Come on the podcast, Colin Coward. Change our mind, we will do a different top 10 for you when you come on the podcast. It'll be the same things in different order though. Yeah, right. We'll just say him with a British accent. All right, last up before we get to FAQs

and Game of Thrones, we just had a quick this league because Jay Butt posted an Instagram that said it was a heart emoji, or said to Philly and my teammates, thank you, heart, heart. Say he's gone. You think that's what that means? Well no, everyone freaked out like, oh my God, Jimmy Butt was already gone.

Yeah. He's just saying thanks for a good season. He just said thanks Philly. Thanks. He just said like, wait, was there a plane emoji? Check his bio, is there a plane emoji in his bio? No, it's heart. Because if so, that means that he's,

well he does travel a lot. He says to Philly and my teammates, thank you, but it was all caps, thank you. Okay, no plane emoji in the bio. No plane emoji. So he has not taken off yet. He seems like a guy that would update that thing a lot. Has he deleted any pictures of him

with his Sixers teammates? No, because he has none. Okay, none, oh, interesting. Here's a fun fact about Jay Butt. He's got more pictures with Mark Wahlberg's daughter than he does with Joel and B. Interesting. Very interesting.

So yeah, everyone freaked out. I don't know. I kind of want the pulse to resign Jimmy Baller so they can just be like mediocrely shitty again. Yeah. It'd be kind of funny. And we'd just debate how good he is. Get out of the lottery for the next like 10 years.

Why not? Just go back in time. Just good enough to not get in there. Sometimes you have to go back to move to exactly where you were, which is second round losing in a five game series. And bring Derek Rose back too. Yeah, why not?

Get the band back together. All right, FAQs, Game of Thrones, spoilers, spoiler alert, we're gonna do Game of Thrones preview. Yeah, I like that. We're calling it spoilers and the fact that we're predicting what's gonna, because we're gonna be so right. Right, so we don't actually know anything,

but we do, we're gonna be right probably. Well, no, Hank, we'll be wrong, but I'll be right. FAQ, what are your work schedules for days when you record the show versus when you don't? Do you do more prep for football season or non football season? Special shout out to future dad cat. Love you guys.

I think we do more television watching during football season, obviously, because we're watching football all day. So a lot of times we'll be in the office doing that. That's prep, that's major eye prep for us. On NBA and NHL playoff nights, we record around midnight, typically. Right now it's 12, 20 a.m.

So yeah, I would say most days that we record we come in a little later, stay a lot later, and then Monday, Wednesday, Friday. I usually pick like two days Monday, Wednesday, or Friday, I'll leave it like four, which is always like, whoa, this is normal? Yeah, so we typically get in the office about anywhere between 10 and 11, right?

Is that about right? 10 and 11, and then till midnight on days that we record. What was the prep? Oh yeah, we prep the same amount all year. That's maximum prep, because we love you. No days off. No days off. We even prep on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.

We do simulated shows. Yes, we put the tape on the rug. We run plays. Hypothetical question for Big Cat. Uh-oh. If there were to be beef between A-Rod and J-Lo versus Jay Cutler and Kristen Cavallari, whose side would you choose?

A-Rod and J-Lo. You don't have a financial relationship with the Cutlers. A Cutler, Jay Cutler has not responded to any of my texts in eight months. If he responded to my texts, it would get it a little bit more difficult. I'll admit that. What if it was one of Kristen Cavallari's children

that sneezed on you on the train? That would be a problem. That would be an issue. That would be an issue. Vaccinate your kids. Yes. FAQ, is it just me? If Jay Cutler texts me back, then I'd probably be like,

I love you, dude. What if Jay Cutler said, I'd fall right back into that trap? What if he said, hey, I'm a big fan of yours. I'm sorry. We're best friends again if you don't vaccinate your kids? I'd probably say no. OK. I'd definitely say no.

Strong old man. Ties into this question. As huge sports fans, do you guys ever sit back and think, how surreal it is that your platform has allowed you to meet so many professional athletes and even have close relationships with some? Yes. I think it's surreal for them to be able to meet me.

No, it is fucking weird. It's very, very weird. And it's very rare. Like, it's just all very weird because. It's one of those things where if you think about it too much, it's going to really freak you out. It's like thinking about the universe sometimes. Just don't think about how vast that universe is.

And I'm starting to freak myself out already and how infinitesimally small we are. But yeah, if you just don't think about it too much, then you're not going to psych yourself out. Yeah. The one good thing is I feel like if we partied with the athletes, I think it would get like bad. Do you know what I mean?

Like if we were partying with our athletes that are friends, it'd be like, whoa, dude, do you think you're an athlete now? We just have them on the pod and hang out with them when they're in town. But you don't like. You know what I mean? If we were at the club with Blake Griffin, don't you think it'd be like you think you're too cool?

I would just I don't belong here right now. And I'm not like I love Blake. I'm just saying like that's just a random example. But like it would be like, hey, you've overstepped where you should be here. Yes, that's very fair. I think you is it just me or is the auto audio quality of Electric Avenue on Fridays a lot better than Mondays and Wednesdays. That's called Friday.

Am I just crazy or is this an elaborate ploy to make Friday mornings better? No, that's just your brain. Putting on a sweet filter because, you know, it's the weekend. Yes, that's right. Everything sounds better on the weekend. It's actually there. It actually is. It's better.

I usually edit Monday and Wednesday. So I have like the the Electric Avenue that I've always used. And then Liam will edit on Friday because of school scenes. So he has a different like whenever whenever he downloaded the Electric Avenue, I guess it's just higher quality. I have that's insane. The one that I've used is the one that I've used since like the day we upgraded. No, I don't know.

I like having the Friday version a little bit different. Yeah, a little treat. Here, verbal meme. This guy's got a good year. Verbal meme Monday and Wednesdays, Electric Avenue, Drake. Friday is Electric Avenue. There you go, Drake again. That's crazy.

That's crazy. The back, I figured it out. I thought for a second when Hank said that it was a different version. I thought that Hank wrote in the question to himself just so he could get that out there. No, I think that person figured it out. So Mondays and Wednesdays, we use the Spotify version. And then Fridays, we use the title version. No, Spotify for audio files.

So flip that. I mean, in theory, that's what you're saying. Yeah, Spotify is the one that's great. OK, got it. And then everything else is just I don't think so. Yeah, no, it is. It is. That is great. For no free ads, but it's actually great. OK, great rap interviews, good podcast.

Well, they have all their this is an advertisement right now. But all they're they use their masters. So it's like the it's like the highest quality. That's a few seconds like higher quality sounding music for audio files. Yeah. Yeah. And then you want to fuck music. So this is just a bunch of Game of Thrones predictions now. All the smoke at King's Landing brand comes down from Winterfell,

stands up out of his wheelchair and raises his arms and shows he's the true knight King, all the dead rise and kill everybody in the screen cuts to black. Is this someone else wrote it? Yeah, no. Oh, that'd be great. That was me. I've been saying that I think I think brands play in possum in that wheelchair. I think he's been able to walk this whole time. OK, so Hank, I'm going to give you my real. So let's start first.

Do you hate this season? Everyone hates this season. Yeah. I don't really care because I think because I watched it so quickly that I have to wait. So I'm like, whatever, it's fine. I was such a big John Snow guy like the episode when he they do the like reveal that he's Rhaegar's son and that like shows him as a baby and then shows him getting

King of the North like that was like the best, maybe the best scene of all time. Like when they it shows his eyes and then it's like he does the King of the North speech. Well, you didn't see one when Tony stuff. No, yeah, I didn't see that. So I was all in on John's John Snow. So the fact that they basically just like made him probably going to die anyways, because they got in a bad car accident. We did say spoilers before all.

Yeah, I mean, he was on he was probably going to die, but maybe the ambulance would have gotten there in time and saved him. But the worst part is like Chris knew that Tony was doing it to him as he died. So it was like betrayal at the last moment. Yeah, that's fucked up. But yeah, I was a huge John Snow guy. So the fact that he's been like a side character this whole season

has kind of been disappointing. What if it ends just by cutting to black as Ari is about to like slit Brand's throat and then journey starts playing. I don't understand. You think it's possible. The brand thing makes no sense to me. The only reason that it makes sense to me is because all the betting sites have him has the favorite to do it.

OK, so here's how it makes sense. I'll tell you, I'll tell you. Hey, I'll give you one theory that I read. No, this is my prediction. OK, I've I've said that John Snow is going to kill Danny. Do we agree with that? Yeah. I think John Snow is going to kill Danny and kill the dragon. Team Targ, because he's going to be like, we can't have.

Yeah, because no, yes. He's a targ. But dude, yeah, because the dragon trusts him. He's like, we can't have dragons in this world. Look what they did to King's land. I mean, he did. I mean, he just got ready to go. So he was so scared of what happened to King's land. So he kills Danny, he kills the dragon,

but he he brings in the dragon and the dragon trusts him. And everyone's like, yo, dude, what's up with that? Are you a targ? And then everyone's like, oh, shit, he's the rightful king. And he does as John Snow. I don't want to be king. All that bullshit. And then they're like, well, we need a king and they elect brand.

How does brand? Because he knows all of history. He's literally a walking. Well, not walking. Sorry. He is a rolling history book. But the way John Snow is like, I don't want it. I don't want to be king. When they say like Brandon Stark doesn't even identify as a Stark.

Right. Exactly. He's the perfect one for the realm. He's no family. Who's above everyone? Who's John Snow's like, ride or die? Who's who's the person that he trusts the most? Ghost Sam. Sam. Who's Sam?

Which one's Sam? He's the nerdy fatty. Yeah. Finally fucked. He is a nerdy fat dude. So you think John Snow would just give the throne to that fat guy at the end? Maybe. Maybe. But I think it's the brand. Just because all the betting side is like I think Ari is going to die, too.

Yeah, there's my prediction. Yeah, she seems like she's a likable enough character. She's got a little bit of that. That's going to bunk in her where she can get herself into some trouble. And that's going to be the big moment in the like. Well, she's on that white horse. Yeah, her. She's going to die. I heard that the white horse was brand.

Oh, because brand can turn into different things. I think the writers have kind of fucked up this whole season. The probably is nothing. It's just a white. That'd be pretty sweet if you were a wheelchair and you could just turn into like one of the fastest animals. The best theory I read that I don't think the writers could pull this off. Wow. You can't pull any of this off. They already wrote it.

Brand warged into the dragon and was burning down King's Landing. Danny had no control and brand is secretly trying to get rid of Danny. That's why he was the one that came forward with the truth about John's parentage. He was one that put that seed into the world. That's been zoned on why why his queen isn't actually bad. Nice. It was a good fall. The dragon became self aware. No, brand worked into the dragon and fucking burned down King's Landing.

I'm telling you, this is exactly what's going to happen. That snow is going to kill Danny. Areas going to die. I don't know how he's going to kill the dragon. He's going to be like, I don't want to be King. I'm John Snow. And then brand is going to be the king. OK, that's my prediction. What if at the very end of it, just pilgrims land just from England

and then they get off and then everybody gets all these diseases they didn't have. Yeah, they're like, wait, hold on. This is our show now. Yeah. And then it's just a show about the Revolutionary War. Yeah, just it gradually transformed. Eventually, Paul Giamatti comes out as John Adams. Yeah, I like that a lot. I like that a lot. OK, that's good. Yeah.

Isn't there enough wisteros to go around for everyone? Yeah, there's never enough. Everyone wants a piece. Why can't they just everyone wants to piece that shit? Why can't they just lay down their arms? Well, this is the war to end all wars. They kill the dragon that before. Oh, or Davos. Dragons dying, bro.

What if Wolf kills? No, no. OK. What if Wolf bites the dragon in the dragons? I think we've covered this. Do they have dicks? No, cloaca. What if Wolf bites the dragon in its its part that kills it? Can Wolf become?

I don't know where we are. Dragon's not dying. Jackson, no. Danny's dying. Dragons dying. I don't know how the dragons dying. I think John Snow will put dragons dying. Danny's dying.

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