Pardon My Take - Ryen Russillo, Andre Drummond And Suns In 4

Episode Date: July 9, 2021

Suns in 4 is still on. Giannis had an incredible Game 2 but got no help from his teammates. The Suns are playing insane basketball(00:02:40-00:15:55). Tampa Bay Lightning take home the Stanley Cup (00:15:55-00:24:04). Euro Finals and bonus fantasy fucklads (00:24:04-00:30:32). Ryen Russillo joins the show to talk NBA Finals, his writing career, and being a guy (00:30:32-01:24:05). Andre Drummond joins the show to talk about his NFT's launching, free throws, what team he will play for next year, and more (01:24:05-01:50:35). We finish with Fyre Fest of the Week (01:50:35-02:05:55).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 a Friday two fur for the people. We have our good friend Ryan Recillo, hilarious interview is always, always great to catch up with him. We gotta do it more. We gotta do, I went away from it being like, hey, we should do this more often.

So it was that good. We don't do it enough. Yeah, we don't do it enough. We don't see each other enough. Well, one of those interviews that I think he loves us because he did not expect us to ask questions that we asked, but a great interview. We're going to talk NBA Finals, the Stanley Cup stays in Tampa, Euros and Firefest of the week.

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ever. Today is Friday, July 9th and PFT, are we really going to do this thing? Are we really going to do the thing where we start every podcast with Sons and Four? Sons and Four. Because we just started the podcast with Sons and Four. Sons and Four. Hey, big cat, do you know anything different about me? Your hair's lighter.

I use Son and Four. Yeah, Son and Four. I do follow you on all social media down, so I did cheat on this test. Yeah, Son and Four. That's why I'm doing it. There we go. To support the bros in Phoenix. Oh my God, the bros.

We'll get to the bros. I mean, let's just say it right now. There are moments in Phoenix where it just feels like it's Coachella or Burning Man, but it's an NBA final scheme. We both clipped certain fans that like, and then they showed the pregame, the guy, what was his name? Oh, it was, um, Dallin. Dallin.

Dallin Huso. Yeah. Dallin Huso. You don't, you make that up like, I don't know. That is the name of the Burning Man. If we did that as a fake name, people would be like, dude, that's too far. No, Dallin Huso is the ultimate, he's the, he's the Sun's bro. And you know what, I've noticed also that the Sun's fans, they have such an eclectic

look amongst them, but they all come together to create like the perfect energy inside that stadium. Yes. You'll have one guy wearing like a Sun's shirt and a Brown's hat. Another guy like wearing a Yankees jacket over his Sun's jersey with no undershirt. They root for all different teams outside of basketball, but they're here for the Sun's and when they're in 8K, it's, it hits different, it hits a little bit different in 8K. It's way different than when they're showing like the British fans in 8K and the Cameraman

has like a guy that got stabbed earlier that morning and then a girl that looks like a guy that looks like me and then like six guys with braces to choose from. Yes. Yes. But yeah, the Sun's fans in 8K, it made, it made the viewing experience that much better. It was incredible. So let's talk about the game. So the Sun's, well, let's start with the bucks.

This was incredible. Giannis deserves more help. Giannis, well, he deserves more help. He actually just deserves his, his max players, Chris Middleton to play like a max player. He had 42, he was doing it all, like everything that he wanted to do and maybe that was the Sun's strategy. Like, hey, Giannis will get his, no one else will get theirs, but Giannis was like exceptional. It was reminiscent, maybe not to the level, but that, that finals game, the classic JR

Smith game when LeBron had like 50, he had like a 50 point triple double and a loss to the Warriors in that game one. Like this was a Giannis display. He was the best player on the court and he had no help because Chris Middleton and Drew Holiday were combined 12 for 37 and we had this discussion the other day that Paul George gets paid a lot and he deserves a criticism because he gets paid a lot. Chris Middleton gets paid $33 million a year. Like Chris Middleton has had moments in these playoffs, but you need him to play better than

what he played in the, in the game tonight, five for 16 and one for six from three. Like you just, you can't win with that. You cannot win with that when that's your second best guy and a max guy. And Giannis at the line to his credit, he was shooting the ball a lot faster tonight. I think he was averaging like eight and a half seconds, nine seconds per free throw. And I think he shot what, 13 to 20? Yeah. He was actually not bad.

It was a good night by his standards. A very good night by his standards. 11 for 18. 11 for 18. So that's pretty good. That's, that's really good. Yeah. For him.

So he can't do it all on his own. His left knee. Every time he hits the ground, I just get, I get a bad feeling about it because like his body is so freakish that he was able to come back this fast, but you can tell it's not a hundred percent. And that's kind of, that's kind of crazy. It's kind of terrifying to think that the stuff that he's doing out there is when he's not a hundred percent.

He was doing that thing that we always say that LeBron should do every time he gets the ball, which is just put your head down and drive to the basket. And he was just running people over left and right. It was such like violent encounters at the rim that there were like three times that somebody just got knocked on their ass as he was going up for a layup or a dunk. And the refs didn't even do the thing where they blow the whistle and make it call one way or the other. They're just like, that's a fair play.

That's good, clean defense. Yannis is just that much stronger. He's that much stronger. And then the suns, so everything I just said about the bucks, the opposite for the suns because the suns, that was a complete team game, all five starters in double digits. It felt like they all had their moments like Mikhail Bridget, well, Jay Crowder comes out. He's hot. The first, he hits his first, like few shots, Mikhail Bridget carried them in the first half.

Then Devin Booker goes absolutely insane. Like everyone chipped in, everyone played well, Devin, every single time the bucks felt like they were making a run. Every time they got it to five or six, and it was a game, pretty much the entire game because they would come back, the suns would just hit a huge shot in their face. And obviously everyone will show that one possession, which was phenomenal, where everyone on the team touched the ball and it was like kind of a scramble drill. And it was just like, that's a team that is playing cohesive basketball and everyone knows

their role and they all fit perfectly. And you can't beat that with one guy. And I feel bad for Yannis. He was trying to get us free tacos, free tacos if the bucks won tonight. You can't just tease us with free tacos, bringing back the Doritos Locos, the Fire Taco, right? Yep. You can't just tease us with that and then not give it to us.

Come on Taco Bell. Yeah. Like we watched the game. We tried to support you. I did love that possession though. The possession. It was incredible. It was don't shoot until everybody touches the ball.

It was, that's a possession that like your dad will email to you in a week when he sees the video online. Okay. Remember when I used to coach your team back when you were eight years old? This is what I preach. Fundamentals. Devin Booker following a shot. He followed a shot all night long.

Yep. I would like to see the statistical breakdown of Jay Crowder's performance as it relates to how likely the Suns are to win. Like if he shoots over 50% from three, because he's not afraid to shoot. If he shoots over 50% from three, how often do they win the game? Because I would imagine that's the tipping point. See Malcolm Gladwell. Fuck you.

I can be smart too. That's the tipping point for the Sun's offense because you have a chance of beating them if the role players don't contribute like that. But if they do, you have no chance. Yeah. And like I said, Mikhail Burgess is like he, in the first half, he carried him, he ended up with 27. Also, shout out our guy, Frank Kaminski.

He had a trillion again, but let's just point out, not only did he have, he had a trillion so he had one minute, no stats, but he was a plus two and the plus minus. Oh wow. Huge. So how about that? Yeah. And you know what? No turnovers.

No turnover. So a clean game from Kaminski again. Yeah. And he's, he logged minutes. I also. Wait, is he, is he playing a perfect final so far? Yeah, he is. Keep your eyes peeled on that.

He's a plus two overall. Yeah. But he's playing, he's got a perfect stat line going zero turnovers. He could be one of the first people to ever do that. Let's get it done. Um, the, I think you ought to score like 20 points in the third quarter. That was insane. I do feel bad for Pat Conaton.

I said that out loud while we were watching because the Bucks bench is short and they just don't, they don't have enough guys, especially when their guys aren't playing and he's out there. He's trying his fucking best and there's still moments where it's like, Oh, yeah, he probably shouldn't be in an NBA. He probably shouldn't be playing 34 minutes in an NBA finals, but he's out there trying. I keep thinking that he's Dante Defengindo. Yeah.

Who's out for the season? Out for the season. Yeah. That hurts. I think that this could be a different story if Dante was in there. Yeah. Is he actually still on the Bucks? He is.

Yeah. He just, what is his ankle? I don't know. Broken ankle. Something, something. I love that guy though. Devin Chenzo. I'm going to look at right now.

I will say something good about Buds. You looking it up because. Oh yeah. He's still on the Bucks. We like to, we like to have some fun with Buds on this show. I don't think he got out coached as badly as he did in game one tonight. No. He, um, he, um, I'm not going to pick on the halftime show, but J Williams did have happened

to say that the Bucks weren't making any adjustments. They made like a million adjustments in the first half. They were trying everything defensively to stop them. And so I, I agree with you. Like he, they were, it just simply comes down to the fact that you can't have your second and third best player, no show, a final scheme. Like Yannis did more than enough that if Chris Middleton and Drew Holiday just make like three or four more shots each, it's a different game and it sucks because you

waste a performance like that from Yannis. But man, like you just, you can't have those guys, no show like that. Well, I just saw, I just updated the, uh, the box score here. They took an assist away from Chris Paul. So he was at nine at the end of the game. They brought him down to eight. Can you imagine if the PMT sons and four bed had hit at 10 and then they took one away after the fact?

No, I couldn't. So it's a blessing. So it's a blessing that he didn't get to 10. Also, I just love this series because it's two and all on the over and it was a life too short to bet the under day because, uh, that second quarter was terrible. And then they just, that's the NBA baby. Uh, what, I think the sons ended up taking, I think they went like 20, 20 for 40 from three.

That's pretty nice. Yeah. 20 for 40 from three. That, that's actually, look, we're a son's podcast. We think it's sons and four, but I actually think that that stat 20 for 40 from three is even more on the side of Yannis is so incredible that the, the, the, the team went 20 for 40 from three and only one by 10 points. Yannis kept them that much in the game when they were shooting that well.

They shot 48.9% from two. Yeah. They were on fire. 50% for three really fucking good team. Like the sons are just a really, really good team and they're a team back to that possession. They just play like everyone knows their role and all the pieces fit so well together where like you just see it. You see it.

Like they have every single thing they need and Chris, Paul at the helm, I don't know, sons and four. Although I do think the bucks, I think the bucks will win. I, I want it to be sons and four because as we've said, sons and four is just a lot of fun to say. Uh-huh. It's a fun, you know what? It's not really a saying.

It's more of just a mentality. Yeah. It's more of light. The sons could win this series in a gentleman's sweep and that's still sons and four. They still won four games. Yeah. It's just all about, sometimes it's about the journey, not the destination man, but I'm looking at campaign stats here.

Do you remember tonight when Mark Jackson was like, the offense should run through campaign right now? Well, he, it was when he, I think it was the moment when campaign, there was like, it was a one on four campaign, the one, and he shot a three pointer. Yeah. That's just the respect a campaign gets and his three point shot is it's ugly, but it works sometimes. Champagne campaign.

Is that what they said? It has moments where he really does like for stretches of a game, it was probably a three or four minute stretch tonight where he does think that he's Kobe Bryant. Like he thinks that, like, listen, everyone get out of my way. I'm not passing the ball. It's my game. Mamba mentality. You got to have it.

It's Mamba mentality with not the Mamba skills. Is there anything worse than having maybe the worst player? I'm not saying this about campaign, but I'm saying about another team that has like the last guy off their bench with the Mamba mentality. First, you have to have to have the Mamba physicality to get to the Mamba mentality. I like the like if you're first, if you're a role player, if you're a bench guy, having the Mamba mentality is not always a bad thing because you want a guy coming off the bench who's like, hey, he could catch fire.

He could like he could do some things like pushing it a little bit. So I like what campaign does. I'll put it this way. What if what if Billy football had Mamba mentality? That would be a show. That would be a problem. That would be a big because Jake, the guy sitting next to actually is Mamba mentality. Yes. Yes.

Absolutely. He's more Jake's more like Tim Duncan. That's just silently like incredible, silently the goat. All right. So Sons, I do think the Bucks are going to win on Sunday night. It is now the Sons are going to win this series. I'll just say it. I think you agree. Yes. Sons are going to win. I'm actually going to revise. I think it's going to be a gentleman's sweep.

I'm rooting for Sons in actual four, but I think it's going to be four to one. I do think, though, that Yanis is going to have a legacy resurgence in a loss. In this series, because in the Brooklyn series, everyone's like Yanis, like limited player. Well, no, he was going up against Kevin Durant, who, you know, however you want to argue it, one or two best players in the NBA, he's not as good as him, but he still is really, really fucking good and a superstar in every facet of the game.

So I've always heard that roleplayers play better at home. Yeah, I don't know how true that is. It sounds like it's a really good thing to say and a smart thing to say. So that's what I'm believing is going to happen in games three and four. So they'll get some contributions from like Middleton. Obviously, he's not a role player, but and Lopez and Dana Beers and Dana Beers. I was asked, is Dana going to be up there?

I think so, I assume. So he's got to invite from back to Ari. Yeah, he's got to go. So he is he is the definition of a role player who will play better at home. He is a Sons fan in a Milwaukee body. Yeah, that's that's the perfect description. Yes, that is. All right, let's talk some other sports.

The Stanley Cup is staying in Tampa Bay. Tom Brady, the town that Tom Brady lives in, those stats are just continue to be ridiculous. I think we went over it like every Bay Area team when he was growing up. One, when he went to Michigan, like the Red Wings and then Michigan football, then the Red Sox, the South, everyone won in Boston. Now in Tampa, you have three titles in. Is it? Yeah, three titles in less than 12 months.

And you've got World Series that was barely lost by the Rays. Yep. So Tampa was just incredible. I have the one thing that's that's that's nuts to think about. You know, obviously, everyone goes to the UVA, losing to UMBC, coming back and winning it all the next year. Right. That is the ultimate redemption tour. I think the Tampa Bay Lightning's might be right behind that because the tweet, the famous tweet, I'll read it for everyone.

This was after they got swept by the Blue Jackets in round one. The Tampa Bay Lightning main account tweeted, we don't have any words and we know you don't want to hear them. We understand your anger, your frustration, your sadness, everything you're feeling. We get it. This isn't the ending we imagine and certainly not the one we wanted. Thank you for being there the entire way. And then they went and won back to back Stanley Cups.

That's pretty much perfect, right? With the help of the no cap lifestyle. Yeah, which I'm I will not. We're not capologists. I'm not going to argue it because I know that other teams, you know, Cox might have done it. Yeah. So it may be a little different because Patrick King got hurt in the middle, right?

In this one, Kucharov got hurt last year. Correct. During that season. Correct. And then they use that. They used like a special exemption this year. And but you know what? If you're playing by the rules, I give you can't really complain about that. And you know what? It's absolutely a hundred percent something that Belichick would do.

And also Andre Vasilevsky, I probably butchered his name. He was incredible. He the stat that I saw last night, he is now in five straight series. Closeout games had a shutout. But that's incredible. Wait, what about what about game four? Because they didn't win game?

No, no, in five straight closeout games. Yeah. So no, in five straight series, the closeout game, the game that they ended up winning. Not the one that the last game of the series. He has had a shutout five straight. I was a little bit confused about that because I was I was thinking back and I was like, wait, in clear. I thought they were talking about clinching.

No, so he won. He pitched a shutout in the in the Stanley Cup final last year against Dallas. Then every game that they won the series this year was a shutout. Yeah, he's a maniac. Incredible. Me and me and fights were talking about as we watch the game together that if his name was just like a little bit shorter, he would be a household name. Yeah. But Vasilevsky, it's just like what if it was Vilevsky.

Yeah, everybody would be like, yo, that's Valley. We're just ski or just Vsky Vsky. Yeah, Vsky. He needs it. He needs a sweet nickname like Van Beesbroek. That's a long last name, but the Beezer. Yeah, the skier, the skier Vsky. Yeah, I kind of like actually works Vsky Vsky. And I'm going to do something I never thought that I do.

I want to take my hat off to the Tampa Bay Lightning fans. Not third leg, Greg, not third leg, Greg, but the rest of them and not the people that sat around me and hit Nate in the face. No, Nate deserved it. Nate deserved it. And Nate would admit that he deserved it. They deserved it. But they seem like a decent group of fans.

Yeah. And I think they have. Do they have the longest sellout streak? They show that seemed to me like that's just us thinking, oh, they're a Florida team. They can't be that good of hockey fans, but apparently Tampa Bay Lightning fans are actually like very dedicated. No, the I mean, my time in Tampa Bay has only been during the Stanley Cup playoffs.

So I don't I don't know what a regular season game. I'm sure it's just just as good. But it is an electric like environment. Everyone is locked in. I also would like to add the fan that followed me into the bathroom in 2015 and said he was going to beat my ass while I was wearing full pads, pissing at the urinal. And I could not defend myself

because he could have just grabbed me by the back of the jersey. Sweatered you while you're pissing. I would have been fucked. Sweatered with your dick out. Yeah, he he he does not get included in the great fans. There was one guy that was sitting right in front of me and he threatened to have me kicked out because I was a Caps fan. And then he was like, you probably didn't even pay for these tickets.

You probably can't even afford them. What is it that you do? And I was like, I own a professional basketball team in New Zealand. And then he just looked at me and I was like, do you own a professional basketball team? And his wife was staring at him now and he goes, yes. This is like completely lying about it. But absolutely not.

You can't get big dick by the guy behind you that looks like Kid Rock with AIDS. So it was it was that besides that guy. I'm taking that guy out to I don't think we own the water dogs at that point, but it's smart to not mention the water. No, that someone says something because then they would have the one up. You would have been like, OK, yeah, at least I don't own that. Yeah, like that's the worst.

That's not something to brag about. No shout out to Water Dogs. We had two guys on the reserve All-Star Reserves. I don't know how that works. To go to the Superstars don't like to play in the All-Star game because yeah, that's a lot of management. Yeah, who's are to Grom? Yeah, Drew Snyder.

Drew Snyder is our. Yeah, he's our Grom. We he needs an enforcer. You know, like the guys don't want to do the skills competition either. It's become like, OK, two risk of injury at this point. So it's almost better that you get on the reserve. Remember, Andy Dalton was like a Pro Bowl reserve for like three years in a row.

Mitch was on the in the Pro Bowl. That's true. Yeah, everyone did the whole meme because it was the Sean Mitch in my homes on the Pro Bowl. How long into this seat? Let's just say hypothetically, Justin Fields lights it up and he comes out of the gate like first month. Why does that have to be hypothetically? I'm just saying the first month he throws like, I don't know,

15, 20 touchdowns. Yeah. And then runs for another 10. Great. So if he does that, do all the memes about here's what Patrick Mahomes has done compared to the Bears quarterbacks in the time frame leading up to this year. Do those go away? Do people just stop making fun of Bears quarterbacks? No, it's going to take more time.

Yeah, I don't I don't want to give it up that. No, I mean, Young Sound Bob, you're probably you love it because it has shifted like the emergence of Baker and then Mitch, like the bad quarterbacks has shifted to the Bears. Yeah, I didn't watch the draft this year. Yeah, right. Yeah. Fuck you. The guy who runs the CBS sports account, like I he hates out of the job at that point. Yeah, he every single like he basically does.

It's it's Dana Beard doing beers, doing the beer tweet. He's like, oh, I need engagement. Do the Bears tweet, do the Bears quarterback. And then half of the engagement is just people tagging you. Hey, remember that your quarterbacks all suck? Yeah, I do. I remember. I remember. All right. Sneaky, awesome sports weekend. McGregor on on Saturday night.

Wimbledon final Federer. Where's Jake? Oh, Jake's not here. Jake Marsh decide not to show up because his goat Federer choked. Is Djokovic still in it? Yeah, I think he was as early as yesterday. He was still in it. Yeah, I don't. So I haven't followed up on that. I really news travels slowly across the pond.

I'm going to watch at least 10 minutes of the Wimbledon final. I'm going to have strawberries and cream. I actually don't know if I'll watch it in minutes. He is. Who's in it? Still memes. Baratini vs. Hurkets. I'm going to go. That's made up. Wait, who's playing against Djokovic?

OK, I got chapel. I got you share a pova. No, Shabalavi. I got Joker in four sets, four sets. I do too. I have Joker to win the whole thing. Is anyone going to be watching Wimbledon in England? Is the crowd going to be completely empty there? It is a lot of there. Yeah, I mean, it's like 8 a.m.

So no, that's actually a great day. Just go to Wimbledon, get fucked up there on some champagne, then go drink some warm beer and watch it come home. I feel like the crowd is just going to be just pounding beers, probably starting at about 10 p.m. the night before. Yep. Absolutely. All right, so should we do? We got a little fantasy lads. Well, yeah, so I mean, the finals, it's it's at Wimbledon Field.

We've been saying it's coming home for the last seven weeks. So we thought we thought that we'd bring back one of our favorite segments from football season. Yes. The fantasy lad boys. Fancy lad boys. Are you ready? Yeah. OK. Oi, oi, it's more. It's me, Nigel Garrison, very.

They said we're not coming home. It's coming home, right? It's coming home, isn't it? It's a but what's his name? But Combo, bitch, what's his name? Bennett Bennett, it come. Benedict Combo, bitch, me and the lads. We're going to head out. We're going to pull a couple of Richards and tune some things only though.

We're going to head some beer. I'm just reading KB's tweets with all the slang. Hey, wait, bloody blood clot. They said the British would have their heads hung like a chicken. I say some chicken. My boys got a free yard. So go rock up to us with a few fat tinnies, then roll fat Zimmer and be licked off.

Right in it. Wait, wait, what? What for what for bloody H.C. Double cricket passes that? Who are these boys? What's up, fuck? It's just me, Giancarlo. Morta Pocciano. It's audio.

My mama is going to make fucking Sunday sauce out of your rotten teeth, England. Your pieces of shit. You think that you can fuck with Italy? My friend, my friend, you're going to meet the pizons. Real fellas this weekend. What's up? It's Tony Rabioli. We're going to be watching the game down on the Jersey Shore.

DJ's in my car. That's all I got. Hey, I didn't prepare anything. It's coming, Rome. It's coming, Rome, bitches. We never even been to Italy. We just fucking love Italy. All right. I just fucking love my great-great-grandfathers from Sicily.

So go fuck off. I love Soprano's memes. Chef Boyardee. Hell yeah. Yes, I took a 23 in meat test. Point zero one percent Sicilian. Oh, fuck yeah. But you better see my fucking license plate.

I got the Italian flag on it. Hell yeah. Hey, I'm fucking parking over here. All right. That's your euros. Preview. That's how fancy fuck boys. So we've said it's coming home. Yeah. I'm switching. I'm record scratch.

I'm on Italy. Well, so we had this discussion beforehand. When when you're watching sports that you don't really have a true rooting interest because like I'm I have no English. I have no Italian. Like I don't have a rooting interest, right? I'm rooting then for ultimate tragedy in the in the most epic way. And there's nothing more tragic than Wembley and the crowd shots that will occur

if England finds a way to lose. And after our discussion on Tuesday about how likeable the English fans are, I have to say kind of left a bad taste in my mouth with that Harry Kane penalty. Like one, that was not a penalty on Raheem Sterling. Two, I don't think you should be able to rebound a penalty in soccer. Why not? I don't know. I just feel like you should get it.

If you miss it, you miss it. All right. I think that what the law should be, they should be more relaxed on the goalkeepers being allowed to take a step or two off the line or not allow the person to score on their own rebound. You can't make it that tough on the goal. Because it was a great save that he made. Right. It was. And that's what I'm saying. And you can't be expected to hold those types of saves.

Exactly. So I think they need to change the world. If you miss it, you miss it. It's a fucking free throw. I would hit nine out of ten. Yeah. PK. Bajio never went after his own rebound. That's just the fact. So, yeah, I'm excited for that game.

I'm very excited. I mean, you know, I think I realize it's a combination of I like the sopranos memes more than I like that it's coming home memes, right? Because it's coming home memes and it's fun to say until it actually comes home. And then you're like, wait, what do I do with it now? Yeah. Now that it's here, I don't have space for it in my house. Right. Right. So I've decided that the Italian memes are way better.

Plus when you have a take on a sport that you don't know that much about and you're being proven correct on it, like my take on Chiesa being an awesome player, I I'm rooting more for my own selfish brain as a narcissist. Right. That I am a good soccer analyst than I am for British people to be happy. That was like that Italy Spain game. The when it went to PKs, like Italy was laughing it up, yucking it up. Spain looked like they were so scared for their life. And I was like, Italy's won this just from just from body language alone.

When you play tiki-taka soccer, like the Spaniards do, you look like a coward if you're losing. If you get your asses kicked and you just try to do that triangle stuff all the way down the field and you can't get past midfield, you look like a coward. It is funny that Spain just like they just pass. They they forget that you have to shoot. They they're shooting buttons broken on FIFA. They're like, you can always get a little bit closer.

Yeah, there's always a better shot. Yeah. Keep passing the ball. Keep passing the ball. We'll get there. Their offense is like the Sun's half court offense, except they don't have Deandre to pass. Yeah, they need a Harry Kane to tap it in merchant. Harry Kane.

He's going to look like what's what's the other Harry Styles. Harry Styles. He's going to make him look like Harry Styles this week. I just love the tap it in merchant. It gets everyone so upset. Also, people are starting to call them Penguin because they scored too many PKs. It's true. It is true. All right. Let's get to our interviews.

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which I think you might have, but you're back in it. It's Ryan Racillo. Who's ahead of me? I actually think I think Titus might have leapfrogged. I think Titus might have leapfrogged you. That's fair. Dan Herron, maybe. Mr. Portnoy. Yeah.

Mr. Portnoy, Ryan Whitney. That's OK. Lenny Dystra. You're number one in my heart. Pro athletes. It's tough. Look, I'm competing with pro athletes all the time. That's fine. Yeah. Number nine in our program, number one in our heart. So Ryan Racillo, the Ryan Racillo show, great podcast.

Go listen to it right now, but listen to this first. So let's start here. NBA Finals. So, you, as you know, we're a huge sons podcast. We're the number one sons podcast in the world. Is there a do you are you rooting for anyone in these finals? Like you don't actually care about these finals, right? Right. So obviously you guys are making fun of how much I love Chris Paul.

I did a weird video where I said at the end of it, I was like, he's everything you want to play or maybe even a son. And then the people that didn't get it were like, hey, you should have edited that out because I say like, leave it in there. It was kind of the way to close the whole thing. I would put these finals, like we were talking about it the other day. Like if you think of all the finals were a team, like for me, it'd be the Celtics, right? And then you go, OK, how many finals did I care as much about who won?

And a lot of times it's you rooting against somebody. Barkley, Sons 93 is I probably care about that one more than the 08 Celtics Lakers. I would put this one probably behind one of the Steph ones, the first step one of 2015. But yeah, Chris Paul getting this, if he gets it, this this will mean a lot to both Chris's family and mine. So let me ask you this, if you were to select one player from each team that you would want your hypothetical, non-existent daughter to date? Would I'm guessing Chris Paul would be the one from the Sons and then who on the box?

Chris Paul, though, I don't know if I'd want him dating my daughter because I feel like if he brought her home late, then it'd just be a huge argument. He'd be like, no, that's not true. It was traffic and you don't understand. And I'd be like, which way did you go? And then he'd be like, that's not the way to go. You're wrong. You don't even know the area. And I'd be like, what are we talking about?

Like I've lived here forever. So I think he's very combative and he'd want to win every game and he'd want to win every argument. So that one might be a little tougher to deal with. I'll throw a name out there. I got one, too. Yeah. Oh, oh, maybe Shaq. OK, I was going to say.

Wedding in the Bahamas. Yeah. Max Deal coming up. He does look older, though, than like you. Like Aten has the old face going. So that always got serious. Yeah. It's it's weird. I don't know. He really does look like he could be 40 and he's 22 or whatever it is.

He also got paid in college, which is that's a big red flag for his character. That's true. That's true. Huge red flag. But it's legal now. Yeah, but it wasn't that. Yeah, he was a disruptor. No, see, you guys are so behind the times. Now, if you do something wrong when it was wrong,

everybody's like 15, 20 years later. She's like, what are you talking about? Now you're like, wait a minute, none of the rules apply. Like if we ever legalize murder, can you imagine OJ's tweets? He's like, I was a political prisoner. I was people forget when you were on the life episode,

you said you got to kill at least once just to see if you like it. Did I say that? Yeah, it was a great line. It was a very well delivered line. It feels like it's a little out of context now. But yeah, I think I remember something like that and just try to deliver it deadpan.

And it's like, wait a minute, do you ever want a job again? Maybe you shouldn't do this with people who don't know you. All right. So Chris Paul. So if you're your hypothetical son, so let's say you you have a son. Let's let's go 20 years from now. He's playing high school basketball and every 20.

No, I mean, the pregnancy takes at least 10 months. Are you going to get, let's say, in a year, you find. OK, all right, right. You know, the whole thing happens. Not right this second. That was smart. OK. Now I understand that I'm like some. Yeah, I'm like my kids that dumb.

Yeah, well, he could be. But anyway, so you're like, you're like, all right, this is my son. He's got everything that Chris Paul has. I love this kid because he's so competitive. And then every other play he flops. Do you say like, hey, son, I love you so much. No, my dad used to do this with me after my games.

Like if I had a bad game, you know, we we get in the truck because you were construction and it had the signs on the side of it. F-150 Cherry Red and we'd park. We'd go and park somewhere after I had a bad game. And he'd say, hey, I just want to let you know you decided you were going to have a bad game on the ride over here tonight. Wow, was he right here?

Yeah, was he right? It was unbelievable. I mean, he was he was he was a big time motivator for me. And he knew he always had to kind of piss me off to really get the best out of me. Like he's like, you don't play well until you're really mad. And that's when you're at your best. And he's like, if you're not going to be like that,

then we're not going to we're not going to show up to these games anymore, which was ridiculous because we were definitely still showing up to the games. But I would do something like that with Chris Paul or a version of my son that was just like Chris Paul. And I would be like, look, you know, I'm here for you. Your mother loves you too. You know, we're trying to do the best with a custody arrangement. I'm sorry about the mistakes I've made.

But you got to stop flopping. Yeah, we'd have a park. You know, we maybe grab a sub, split a sub in the front cabin of the truck, because that's what my dad and I would do. And yeah, I couldn't that'd be tough. That'd be really tough. But I don't think he flops the way that other guys flop. And I know everybody's going to push back.

Yeah, no, no, no, he's right. He's better at it. Yeah, he does it more. He doesn't he does it so much that he almost he almost hurts himself. Did you did you notice and I know you love Chris Paul? I mean, we are the number one sons podcast, but you you came to the Chris Paul thing like last week. I saw it. We've been on the train for like at least three weeks.

Yeah, I just started to like him when he got pushed by Pat Beverly. He did kind of flop at the end. He grabbed his face and then he realized, wait, we're winning this game by 20. I'm good. And he stood up and he like celebrated. I saw that differently. I'm going to be honest with you. This is Frank Kaminsky. I saw Frank Kaminsky beat the fuck out of Pat Beverly

and everyone else saw something different. Have you ever been pushed in the back like that, though, when you're not ready? Like we're lucky. That's that's like getting re-arrended. It's the worst thing that they throw people out of like pickup games for if you're driving to the hole and somebody pushes you in your back when you're jumping up in the air. It's actually the most vicious version of assault.

But it hasn't. I I've never had it because I'm not a dickhead like Chris Paul. Here's what I would say about his flopping. I don't I don't like any of it. And the fact that anyone continues to call when the guard is bringing the ball up and he just stops and gets run over by a big guy and they give the guard the foul. Like with all these changes, everybody's talking about. All you'd have to do is get the rest together and say, hey, we're just going to stop calling it.

And after a few weeks, after you turn the ball over, you take a terrible shot and it goes over the backboard and Trey Yong or James Harden looking around or Chris Fogg getting run over. These guys will stop doing it once you stop calling it. So I hate that play, too. But I think Paul does those, especially because it's in front of everyone. You know, that stop in transition, get run over and get the call. It's so egregious and horrible that it's probably thought of

like, in a worse sense in the basketball, the basketball community, then guys just flopped to the lane every time. I mean, Harden actually will pull your arm into his body. He takes the shot and the other guy's arms are pinned. And then the ref calls it all. I can't believe that has ever been called more than once for any player in his career because we see it all the time. So I actually think there's more floppers on shots and also on drives

than Chris Paul, but when Paul does the deal where he lets the guy run up his back, it just looks so much worse because it's the only thing we're looking at. I also think that Chris Paul, we need to give him some credit because on a lot of these flops, if he hadn't have flopped, he was about to get hit like a half second afterwards. You can see like he has pre-crime in his head and he knows like, hey, here comes an elbow, I might as well flop before it hits me. And then, you know, as he's down the ground, the elbow does swing through his airspace.

So it's almost like, you know, he sees he's a good point guard. He sees the play before it happens. Yeah, a lot of it I think comes out of just being incredibly competitive, but that's where Harden fans or other fans of other guys. I mean, look, we all know what we're doing. We're all sticking up for the guy that we like, but I still think with Paul, it doesn't happen as frequently as it does with the other guys. And so that's why I feel a little differently about it

than just extending out the legs every time. I mean, look, Steph, who I love, started doing it more this year than he's ever done it before because he's like, look, if you guys are going to keep calling this stuff, I guess I'll start doing it. So I don't really blame the players for doing it. I blame the refs for allowing it to evolve to this point where guys are now mad. Trey Young gets mad while the guy's about to whistle. Like the ref is about to give him the whistle and Trey's already mad at him

and then stays mad because it's like you weren't quick enough with the whistle of the bullshit call that I just earned. So I think you're I think you're in the right. Kyle Lowry, douchebag, everything he does is terrible. Chris Paul, hero, want you wanted to be your son. That's how we can kind of sum it up. Yeah. Yeah. Perfect. All right. So the Suns are going to win this series, right? I think we make mistakes all the time at playoffs, man.

We really do. And, you know, say the Suns get game two and they're up to oh, the desperation level for Milwaukee at home for game three. I say this every single year because I just think it's on point is you can't fake desperation. You can't be as desperate as Phoenix will be, or excuse me, as Milwaukee would be. Like you can say the right things. You can do the cool chance, win on three Suns, come running out of the tunnel,

but you're up to oh and human nature. It's kind of like when there's a lead. Like Phoenix was totally in control of that game. I thought they knew they could do whatever they wanted. Milwaukee changed their defense three or four different times. Phoenix was actually surprised sometimes. I think when they get switches, like you could see Devin Booker be like, Oh my God, I can't believe how much time I have to make a decision on

what I want to do next. And I'm like, OK, and then you're up 20. You feel like you're in control. Milwaukee goes small and you're a little you're mailing in a little bit like the seven, eight minute mark of the game. And then Milwaukee got it to seven and you're like, wait, this is a game. Like how is this a game? Because it hasn't felt like this.

So I think I think the same thing applies in series. And, you know, they'll figure out something with Lopez, you know, they didn't bring them back to close this game at all. The same thing happened in game one against Atlanta. They didn't bring them back basically for the last 15 minutes of game one because they felt like it's coverage. It just wasn't going to work. So I don't know if Milwaukee will go small again.

I don't know if they got back into the game because they went small or Phoenix was up 20. So I am very anti. We see one game. It looks like one team has no chance, especially how they match up defensively and then think like that's the series. We've all done this for so many years now. We've watched so many series.

I mean, how did you feel about the Clippers against Dallas? How did you feel about the Clippers against Utah? And then Utah, the Utah Clippers series looked like two completely different years. Yeah. No, that was crazy. It was a matter of days. So even though I like Phoenix going in and the guard part of this is just overwhelming and eight and his turn to do a star here in a very short amount of time.

I still think there's a version of Yanis being a little bit better. I thought they were a little slow in the first half collectively. I could see a game where their size and drew holiday stepping up and we're going, oh, wait a minute, maybe Milwaukee's figured some things out. So I don't think there's this massive, massive gap. Although, yes, I picked Phoenix going in. OK, so follow up question. Well, let me just a side note.

That's lame of you to actually be like, hey, I'm going to think about this instead of just saying something and then like what we do. We're just like sons and four. Yeah, sons and four, sons and four. Yeah, that's great for your career. Yeah, that's correct. Do not don't do what I do. Yeah, OK.

Don't be thoughtful. That's actually the worst possible thing that you can do. Measured media. Yes, TV producers would be like in the hallway after I do that. Should be able to be like, yeah, OK. Yeah. All right. Yeah, we're going to we'll hit you up after game three. Yeah, could you just send something for if the suns lose?

The whole thing. A whole thing. How mad are you going to be when people like me and people like PFT and the rest of us say that Chris Paul is a choker and will never win the big one? Um, publicly, you won't see much. But privately, I'll see you for about 48 hours. Do you think that if if Chris Paul loses the finals, that should count as a loss for LeBron's finals records as well? Wow. I hadn't really thought of that.

That way I think it's only a win. It's only a win. I mean, didn't you say PFT? He's been so supportive of him this entire time. Yeah, I think that I've kind of turned the corner on LeBron this postseason. He's doing his best shining the lights, trying to spotlight on his good buddy, Chris Ball. So if they win a championship, I think that LeBron definitely needs a ring.

Yeah, I don't think it counts as a loss for him, but it definitely counts as a win. Although I did love when Chris kind of went back at him a little. Yeah, I mean LeBron, it was kind of funny how like almost, you know, LeBron is a very like at this point, it's almost political with him. If you like him, you're like, hey, great point. And if you've already decided you don't like him, then it doesn't matter what he says. But when he said, hey, I told everybody like these injuries while he's at home and people just crushed him.

And then Chris Paul is like, hey, dude, we all knew the deal. We're like the two most powerful people in the league. And we all voted to come back. So like you say what you want, but I'm trying to win a ring here, which is exactly what everybody else would be doing. Like LeBron, we're still alive. And it or anybody be saying like you think he would be like, yeah, these these playoffs have actually been a lot easier to get through.

Of course not. So we all we all do what it's in our own self interest, especially when you're that big of a deal. Yeah, I mean, it was I know that there's been a lot of injuries, but there's also been like guys sit out a lot during the season. And also a lot of the injuries have been a little bit freakish, you know? I mean, Kyrie over what he say. So silver like pushed back on the whole thing because it's like good.

Finally standing up to his boss LeBron. Would you agree? And I always felt like this way at ESPN. And like, I would say, hey, if you're going to present me with science that's very conclusive about what rasterly means and load management and all these things, then you've got me. But you can't be dismissive of the television partnership. You know, business is about partnerships.

And if you keep telling one of your business partners, the one that's paying the biggest tab every single season, like, hey, sorry, you guys got another big Saturday game, but our science says this. Because I've asked GM's like GM's that you would think would be all about rest. Being like, you know what, I've looked at everything and it's honestly still a little inconclusive. But I feel like the media side of it is just been in in this rest mode for years.

I mean, I've talked about this before, but I feel like most media members that cover the NBA are very much pro rest. It's like, hey, you can't have these guys sit enough. And so we have the quick turnaround, which is a lot to ask, both emotionally and physically, which I think all of us understand. But then you had when you were doing the all NBA voting and you were looking at like the 20 guys for 15 spots. If you were to say, oh, that guy missed 20 games.

Good luck finding anybody that didn't like Jokic and Chris Paul. Like there were very few guys that played out the entire season. So the best players missed almost a third of this abbreviated season. And then we still had all these injuries. So Silver's basically saying, hey, look, the science is still inconclusive, which is another thing that I think we've all learned. It's like, hey, listen to the medical experts. Those guys disagree with each other all the time.

We're just too dumb to understand what their arguments are. So I am not sold on really any argument. I'm not saying it's had nothing to do with the, you know, the injuries have had nothing to do with the quick turnaround. Because as you said, a lot of the guys, they're either freakish injuries or guys with long injury histories already. It's just overwhelming. And I think it ends up being turned into that talking point

where everybody's on the same page when I'm like, why are you so convinced that you're right? Because I'm not convinced of either. Yeah. If you have, if you land on somebody else's foot, there's no way that you can blame that on like the short turnaround. Correct. Just happens in basketball. If it's like James Harden, you got a hamstring injury,

then yeah, you could say like, OK, that could be an overuse injury. Just, you know, like given his injury history might be, it might not be, but you don't really know. I don't know what to do about that either. I just feel like what the players really want is they just want to be like, hey, I'd like a day off. Like it's work sucks sometimes. I'd rather not play every single day if I don't have to.

I think most people would understand that, but they're kind of couching it in this like pseudo science of, OK, if I, if I miss one out of every seven games, I'll be less likely to tear my ACL. And I think that's total bullshit. But at the end of the day, too, LeBron's made all his money. Like he's made money. So I think that the problem I always had with it is like,

if you're a guy who's working for that next contract and you play way less games and the salary cap goes down and now you're kind of screwed out of that, you're like, hey, wait, you don't speak for me. I want to play like I want the league. I want the cap to go back up. I want all these things to happen. I'm not the end of my career.

I'm at the beginning of my career. So that's where it, to me and Chris Paul kind of said it perfectly because he is the most powerful guy outside of LeBron. And he does speak for the players, right? Yeah, I mean, he's head of the players. So I mean, if you're talking about, you know, when the first, I mean, it was such a wild time trying to figure out any of this stuff because of the information when we had the first shutdown for four months.

So then it's like, OK, when's this going to happen? And then you're getting a bunch of people to hear from trainers are like, these guys are going to need like 60 days just to ramp up to get back to regular season, you know, levels. And you're thinking, OK, well, you could also just not shut it down for four straight months and then have to ramp it back up. Like there's some responsibility on the athlete himself to try to maintain some level of conditioning,

although nothing's going to match the intensity of a real NBA game. And the NBA still found a way to give them like, hey, guess what, guys? You got 60 days. And I was I was shocked. And so then they bring everybody back. And I thought it was an unbelievable success for the league to even pull off what they did with the bubble. I know we argued about ratings all the time and all these different things.

But it's like, look, we're talking about real extenuating circumstances here. So I think the players and everybody deserve some credit. But when there was talk about like not coming back and, you know, Michelle Roberts, her position is to just whatever the owners and the league says, she's going to oppose it by definition of what her role is. Like we've seen that in baseball and football. I mean, that's what the job is. But I kind of sit there going, all right.

So if all the players are cool with losing like 300 or 400 million, then fine, don't do anything. Like if you're cool with that, then OK. But my gut would tell me when you put it to a vote, right? It's going to be a lot more because like that's how social media can be so weird because you're going to wait to these guys actually not want to come back and play. And then the vote comes out and it wasn't even close. No, it was overwhelming.

Like we don't want to lose all that cash. So I feel like the league has done an incredible job. The players have done a great job. It sucks just like any other fan that all these guys have got hurt. I'm going to see anybody get hurt, but I'm just not sure based on everything I've read that we have some conclusive evidence that these injuries have happened just because of what we had in the past year. Maybe it's true, but Silver definitely pushed back on it, which I was just at least.

I guess I was even surprised because he's been so pro player as a commissioner. Yeah, he's been pro LeBron as a commissioner. Yeah, I think there's a big difference. So now he's like he's finally you can imagine life after LeBron in the NBA right now. Like you just said it, if LeBron were still alive for a moment. I was like, what LeBron's dead? Like you can you can picture a moment when the NBA does not have him as, you know, the mouthpiece for everything that they're doing.

And at that point, like Adam Silver is going to have to find a backbone and be his own guy. You're really hammering Silver here at PFT. What's what's the story? Well, he's just a puppet. He's just I think everybody knows that Silver he's a puppet of either LeBron ESPN or like the NBA red China China China and China China. What about China, Ryan? Do you disavow China, the entire nation?

I'd like you to speak on China as a whole. What about it, Ryan? You know what I've learned? I'm not educated enough on the politics from now. Whose property is the South China Sea? Who has fishing rights? Good question, P.S. It's something we we debate all the time.

All the time. It's actually how we start every show. Who has the fishing rights? Yeah, you catch a flounder in the South China Sea. Who gets to eat it? That's a really good question. Yeah. Yeah, I don't I don't know. I imagine it's it's it's a little different than we thought. I mean, I have are the Russians involved somehow?

Yeah, you can always say Putin. Yeah, that's always an acceptable answer. OK, let me let me ask an easier question. Do you believe in Taiwanese independence? I believe in everybody having the best day they possibly can. Yeah, OK. Live, laugh, love, I think, is what what will free Taiwan. Just say that. Yeah.

Live, live hoodies, hoodies, couple, couple memes. It's like, hey, I did my part. I did an Instagram post the other day. Yeah. Oh, yeah. We've seen you unload some Instagram pictures. I love that. I love that excuse, by the way. Hank is woke, by the way, about he's not here right now, but we'll speak for him.

You that that angle of you and your jump shot, like that jump shot, you don't does that go in because you're you're all you're doing is focusing on jumping high. You're way too high in the air. Yeah, people thought it was Photoshopped in that one. I dunked at the first the first time ever of age 45. So I mean, people have said specimen. I don't like calling myself that

because it's kind of like a third person thing. It's weird. Yeah. But I got up so high on that one. I was deep and I was just trying to get like I was you know where I was. I was on the border of Canada. I was up like upstate New York. I went through a big drive. I was out in the lakes of Vermont.

So I did this whole thing. You know what I'm going to do? I'm going to try to find different places, play pick up hoops. And then I found the oldest log cabin in the history of the country. GFT. I mean, this cabin is removed. Oh, I love log cabin. Yep. Huge log cabin guy. I'll tell you, easy to heat, right?

I mean, those guys had it right. You're heating bill on those. No problem. Couple cords of wood gets you through the winter, one room, center pipe. I love a good wood burning stove as opposed to a fireplace. It gets hotter. Yes. Yeah. And then you can use it to cook. Yeah. Right on cracking egg right on top. I noticed you didn't answer the question.

You totally deflected. Was there actually a basketball in your hand when you were starting to shoot that jump shot? Or were you just you were just jumping up into the air out on a court? I actually I took a jumper. If you told me that you parachuted and that was the end of the parachute, I would have made more sense. No, I definitely I was taking a jumper.

I mean, like there's a level of loser them to my Instagram page that only a few appreciate. And then some people are like, maybe you're just really that big of a loser and you use that as an excuse to go ahead and post this dumb shit. But yeah, I had a photo dump. It was going to be like a photo dump of me just taking jumpers at eight different places that I played pick up hoops. But my left foot doesn't really even work right now anyway.

So I'm not even that good to pick up hoops anymore. But yeah, I was way out. I was deep. I was I was try young range when they're trying to get back in a playoffs. Yeah, I love that explanation, though. It's just a photo dump, just a bunch of pictures I had on my camera. I had I had to put them on Instagram or else my phone was going to be too full on memory. So good thing I was able to upload this picture. Me looking awesome on a basketball court, by the way, though,

that's of all the people that I would expect to appreciate the joke. That was the joke. It was two pictures. It was me taking a jump. Oh, yeah, no, I just love it. So right. Yeah. No, that is usually photo dump is like, here's my insane body. Yeah. Ten shots in a row. And I was in Tulum again. Yeah. Yeah. All right.

Let's talk about something different. Who I'll give you an either or who finishes first? George R. Martin finishes Winds of Winter or you finish your first script? Oh, wow. Good question. I've finished. It's me because I finished scripts. But it was it was a lot like ESPN. It's like you walk through the doors. You're like, I've made it.

You're like, no, no, no, there's a whole another boss level that's in that other building and you like you got to get past that. And you're like, well, how do you do it? And you're like, no one most no one does. So you're like, oh, OK. In writing, you're like, all right, I finished it. And then you send it to your agent and then you go now what? They're like, good job.

Entourage gets made. Well, yeah, better. No, but I am. There is something I'm working on now. It's called Wicked Fast Wicked Furious. And it's a lot of people don't understand the car racing scene in Boston as well as I do. And I would say it doesn't.

One of the critiques of my writing is that it can the storyline can move a little slower and faster, the furious moves fast. I mean, you know, you're in it immediately. And so this takes place in Boston, a bunch of guys, street racers. In the first 20 minutes or so, they don't race because they argue about the best way to get from one side of town to the other. Oh, this has lights because now you can do maybe the second one can be whether you take a race.

No, whether you take the four or five or not during rush hour. Yeah, but they've already done a bunch of LA ones. But honestly, they were like, it's not super diverse. And I go, what do you what are you talking about? The the casting for it. And they were like, well, there's three Murphs. And I don't think any of them are related. And I was like, yeah, Murph one, Murph two and Murph three.

And that's what leads to confusion in the sequel. And they're like, worry about the sequel. Well, look, you got to get one made. Right. So I don't know. They told me it was a bad idea to just jump on. They're like, they've already made nine of them. And I was like, exactly. That's my point.

Like I have a way better chance of writing one of these wicked, fast, wicked, furious, and it tracks well was the other feedback about this. What about this? You do an F one movie. I know that you're really into Formula One and it's like a fish out of water. Not as much as you guys. No, no, no, what do you root for? I mean, who do you?

Our guy, which car, which car do you enjoy? No, we had an ask out to Ricardo. I think a month or so before you guys did and we were told maybe August. And then when you guys got him, like in a day, I now I'm open. I'm open. Yeah, I'm just going to tell you straight up. I didn't listen to the episode either. Yeah. Yeah. But you know what we did?

We just started calling him out on our show. We bullied him. We said he won't come on and then everyone started tagging him in everything. And then he came on. It's kind of an American thing to do, though. I don't really see the sport that way. OK. You see. As you get a PN does.

Yeah. Just I don't know. I just have more respect for these guys. OK. Well, what you should do is you should do it like an F1 movie, fast and furious, wicked, fast, wicked, furious and like fish out of water. Have it be essentially Ben Affleck and Matt Damon somehow. Like they're the fastest street racers in Boston and they find themselves on the F1 circuit going like Monaco, Budapest, you know.

Oh, maybe. Hey, you know what the opening scene is? I just thought of this. When Damon listen to a little Elliott Smith, don't put that on if you're in a bad mood and then drive in cross country and then Affleck pulls in next to 89 may probably mass play because it'd be going west. And then that's the opening scene of the next one. So you transition Goodwill hunting fast.

Yeah. And then they're racing each other to get to California because you didn't realize the whole time Affleck was with mini driver on the low. Yeah. And then instead of having Ludacris in the side seat, you've got King Casey from Dropkick Murphy's in the side seat and they're just blasting Irish folk music. You you also could have Matt Damon be in maybe the third.

He becomes a like this. How do you say that a principle of the construct principle of the team? I don't know. You're an F1 guy. We're not a principle. Yeah, yeah. You could GM. Yeah.

I mean, Matt Damon with all his smarts figures out the best aerodynamic car of all time and beats Total Wolf, who's actually secretly a Nazi, not actually Total Wolf. That's just the you know, it's based on fiction. So I didn't want to call him that. Yeah. And then. Yeah.

No, that's a good problem. But the problem is the fourth installment of Wicked Fast, Wicked Furious, they realized that Damon was cheating is also a Nazi. And then Tom Cruise shows up in the fifth one, takes them all out. Yeah. And yeah, they're in Monaco. There's a big disaster on the course. There's like construct.

Because movies out for the. Yes, yes. And you know that not selling movies. Like everyone watches those movies always. They do well. They always do well. There's traffic and Affleck's like, I've seen this before. And he flashes back to the big dig.

He's like, I know how to get through this. That's it. They start like they like start looking at old plans of the big game. They're like, no, dude. They're like, it's exit 23 waterfront. The water. I wish we had written more of this down. I guess we're recording this.

It's not really. Yeah, these are probably our worst ideas. We're going to another thing you should do is just write yourself into it. That way you get a double check. Mm hmm. I'm surprised we're talking this much about Affleck right now. No one how big cap feels about. Well, do you think he's not talking?

Do you think it was tacky to wear the same outfit as JLo? That's amazing. I don't think it was nearly as much of the same outfit as it was. The shade room logo being over it, making it look like they were wearing sweaters that said T and R. Yeah. And also that's why everybody got on their case. The second picture looked like they were looking at like a car crash.

It was weird. Have you talked to A-Rod about it? Have you addressed this at all? I said, I said I'm a tax after they broke up saying, sorry about the break up boss, and he just hearted it. That was it. No way. That was it.

You didn't even tell me this. No, yeah, that was it. That was it. Is this the last time you've texted with him? Yeah, this last time we've texted. I've given him space, you know? I love it. Big cap became someone that could get to the point of like it was six years ago.

You were like, hey, can you guys be our first guest ever on the podcast? I was like, done. No problem. Two hours later, hey, nope, I can't do it. They're not going to let me. And I used to love it. They were like, you're too important to our brand at ESPN. I was like, am I?

I'm like, well, let me just go on with these guys. They're like, no, we're not going to do that. I was like, no one's going to listen. Don't worry about it. And then it's like now six years later, you can text A-Rod after breaking up with JLo and he responds. A joke text. Well, he's not going to get it.

I mean, let's not. I don't want this to get back to him. I don't want it to be uncomfortable. If it does, I can handle it. I know how to. I know how to. You definitely can. I know how to.

No one. You have developed into somebody who can be kind of mean and get away with it. Yes, yes, that's true. But yeah, I mean, this podcast is kind of mean. Sometimes it gets away with it. I think the trick is as long as you're just funnier than you are mean, it always plays. Yeah.

And you also have to be mean to yourself. I think Paul Rable came on the show last week and he was like, you guys have just built a brand where you can just make fun of everybody. He's like, he's like, that sucks for me being a guest on your show right now. But it's like I said to him after, like, it's a perfect example. Like I've been very mean about the water dogs, our team that we own. But it's also I'm actually I'm getting uncomfortable about this. But it's also natural because I actually fucking hate the water dogs.

They suck. They make us look bad. So which one's better? Like, do you want me to throw out a tweet that's clearly an ad? Or do you want me to talk about it naturally? I happen to think that the natural conversation, the water dogs and you're a writer, Ryan, well, sort of. He's a writer.

You're a writer. He does write. Yeah, you do write the story arc here. Expensive hobby. Yeah, it's set up. This this movie has a conclusion where the water dogs lift the trophy. And I'm like, I always believed in you guys. There hasn't been one guy on that lacrosse team to tell you to go fuck yourself yet.

No, not publicly. I think lacrosse is the one sport to where it's like they're just happy to have people talking about them. I don't know. I saw the last tweet where there was no all stars from the water dogs and you were like, good. Well, it's got two endings possible. Either the happy ending where they win or have you seen Marley and me?

Yeah, no, that's kind of like the ultimate ending. We're also considering what happens. What is that, Bob Marley? Yeah, no, every all the dogs die, but they probably go to heaven. Well, now I'm not going to see it. Yeah, speaking of which, why haven't you gotten a dog and been like, I'm taking a step up in my life. I'm starting to get more responsible.

It's a great question. It's been asked a few times. I always say this, I don't want to do that to the dog. The dog, the dog might not like the NBA. He might be a hockey guy and then you're fine. Yeah, he's going to just look at me like I'm up the stairs. But oh, right. And again, what kind of dog would you get?

You know, what's funny is I never was I've told the story before and it isn't something that does my Q rating any good. But you know, because my dad was a humble carpenter at the beginning. Layon Brick, actually the first few years I was I was on the job sites with him. He would bring me to every estimate because he felt like if he had this little toe hair kid coming along, he'd have a better chance of closing the deal instead of being like a six five guy with long hair and this pickup truck. So he would show up and I'd hope that I'd hold the tape measure at the other end.

You know, and all the homeowner always think it was the cutest thing ever. And he knew what he was doing. But like estimate whenever I heard the word estimate after I get picked up at practice or school or anything, I just was like, oh, this sucks. Like I just want to go outside and play wiffle ball. And he'd be like, no, we got to go do an estimate. And that also meant that I got attacked by like everybody's dog when I first showed up at the house.

So for a very long stretch, dogs to me, I was like, ah, another fucking dog's going to jump all over me all the time. And then when I got to college, we had a horribly trained dog in our house that used to eat your food as soon as you left. Take your spot. I think I remember one night I was like, rifling through the fridge, probably super late. So I wasn't 100% with it.

And then the dog like hit me and the freezer door was open because I was getting ice too. And I hit my head on the freezer door and like knocked myself out in the kitchen. So I've had this horrible, horrible history with dogs. So when people at ESPN would be like, how come you don't get a dog? You're by yourself all the time. And I was just like, you know what, we haven't had a great run. And I see people that, especially when I was traveling all the time, like they

get a dog selfishly for those down moments because they're alone. But then it's like, oh, by the way, I'm going to go to LSU for five days. So you'll be in a kennel. Right. I just don't, I don't think unless you have the yard, which I don't have out here, the beaches, they don't let you bring the dogs on the beach. That's a big no-no out here. I just, I understand dogs now I'm open to the idea, but I wouldn't do it

unless I were 100% into the dog. And it's probably why I'm not married either. Like, I'm just like, hey, I got to be 100% on this. You know, you put your wife in a kennel is what you're saying? When you go to LSU, like, hey, I'm going to be gone a lot. May not talk to you for a couple of days. And she'd be like, it's longer me. I left the toilet bowl open.

So if you get thirsty, don't worry. Yeah, look, I've got a door. You've got my door dash, right? I'm sorry. Postmates. I don't know who sponsors. So go ahead. You know, you could have just said lab when I asked you that question. Yeah, that would have been fine.

That's why everybody should hate me. Yeah. Yeah, but that's why, you know, I'm not going to do the panda tweets. Like, you know, we're always joking about it. Like, you'll look and see like, well, this person definitely doesn't believe that. But they're going to go with this move today. And I just like, there's certain things I feel the same way as a lot of people do. But I don't, I don't feel like I need to be checked off the box.

Like, hey, is we're still like, you know, healthy infants? I haven't seen him tweet about it yet. Right. Like, let's, let's, all right. Well, let's not check him off yet until we see him acknowledged that healthy infants are awesome. So whatever, we're going to get back to Ryan Bercilio in a second before we do core seltzer.

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Here's more Ryan Rosillo. So all right. So my question. So I told you beforehand I was going to spring it on you. So you don't know what I'm going to say, but you had a line I think it was probably three months ago that made me laugh so much that I put it down on my notes. And it might not even be funny because I don't even remember the context. But you said you're giving life advice.

You're like, listen, I've been a guy for a really long time now. And I was like, what the fuck does that even mean? And it got me thinking like Ryan is sitting here being like, I look, I got my guy resume. Like you could see it. I graduated guy school in like 1999. But my question to you is because I was thinking about it more. I actually think that's like a weird thing. Like when do you become a guy?

Because like kids aren't guys. Like even a 19 year old I don't think is a guy because it's a little bit of maturity. It's a little bit of like life wisdom. It's a little bit of kind of like, hey, you're not a guy until you stop like maybe trying to hook up with your best friend's girlfriend, like kind of thing. Like that's that's not a guy move. So when do you become a guy and how long have you been a guy? I feel like, you know, the thing I'm most happy about however,

circuitous the path was is that I wouldn't be as good as a talk show host. And like, I'd like to think that I've done it an okay run here over the last 20 years doing this. But I had to be kind of a, you know, like not have it figured out for a really long time. I had a bartend. I had to have those moments from like, this isn't going to work out and then studying for a general contractor's license and then having other moments where like nothing is working out and then being so single minded, it's like literally the only thing you care about while still, you know, trying to keep up with your friends and, and have like a normal life when

you can't really have a normal life when you were doing what I was doing in the beginning at ESPN, like I was driving back and forth and living in a hotel room. I think I stayed in a hotel like 200 nights the third year I worked at ESPN because I just was like, I don't care, this is the only thing the only thing I care about. So instead of just going to Syracuse and immediately like having enough networking that you can get your foot in the door and this industry that is so hard and I think it's harder all the time, I think those experiences of just being an idiot and getting stuff wrong allows me to be in a better position to give people advice.

Cause there's other people who've been like, how can you give anyone advice when you don't have any kids, you've never been married. And it's like, yeah, but everybody's, most people have done that. And if you did it earlier, there, there's not as many life experiences for me to like see a guy emailing and he's like, Hey, so this is, you know, some guy was 25. It goes, Hey, so, you know, there's a girl at the gym and she's super flirty with me, but she doesn't respond to my texts. And then when she sees me, she's like, Oh, I'm so sorry.

I didn't respond to your text, but, you know, blah, blah, blah, blah. And it's like, dude, she's, it's really simple. Like people have been on both ends or if you have, you know, zero game, I guess you've never been on the other end of it. But like you don't, you don't ignore somebody that you're interested in. Right. And at 25, you'll, you'll still have these moments of like, wait, what's, what kind of game is being played?

You're like, actually, it's a very simple one. Like she's probably seeing somebody else. She likes the attention from you at the gym. And if she's dating somebody, he's not there. So that feels some sort of void for her, those interactions that you have with her. And like, you just have to be around long enough and people could listen to this and say, yeah, obviously idiot, like thanks for the doctorate in something really simple, but it still feels like so many people miss these signs.

And then there's certain things that will miss too. So I guess, again, it's a long-winded answer of it, but I'd had to have all those ups and downs and different experiences and dating is obviously part of it too. Where you're like, okay, well, I've already had this happen to me or I did this to somebody. So I know exactly. So that's my answer being a guy. And I'd say it probably unfortunately has gone a little bit longer, but probably kicked in in the mid 20s.

Well, mid 20s. How does it work out now if you do something that's decidedly un-guy? Do you have to, are you guy enough to look yourself in the mirror and check your guide them? Or do you need another guy like buddy system to be like, hey, Ryan, that's not a guy move. Pull you over. Slap you in the face.

Be like, hey, dude, what are you doing? You're a guy. The only person checking on me is me. So the isolation, people, my friends were joking that you're the most built for this, of anyone we know going through it all. But I'm harder on myself than anybody else could possibly be. So I try to keep myself in check, but whatever. It's weird because I mean, we're getting a little deeper here,

but I can think about my career and all the stuff I've accomplished and having a nice house and all this stuff, which seemed impossible and everyone would have bet against 20 years ago. But then sometimes I'll think like, was I just really successful? But like, I still haven't even come close to figuring it out. Like, do I think I have it completely figured out and everything's going to be nice and easy now the rest of the way? Or do I constantly try to make things really hard on myself

where I can only operate with massive challenges? Like trying to become a screenwriter, like as much as we bullshit and joke about it, this isn't easy. It's really, really hard. And here I have something that's really successful. And yet I have this other thing that is really the thing that I'm trying to figure out how I can do it. And most of my friends are like, why can't you just chill the fuck out

and have a really successful podcast and a really nice life as you go into your fifties? I'm like, well, I also don't know if I want to be giving out dating advice to college kids when I'm 55 years old on a podcast. Okay. I mean, what that just signaled to me is when you figure out the writing part, we are going to see Ryan Racille try to make an NBA team with that sick jumper.

You're like, I need another challenge. Here we go. I want to see you compete for an EGOT, but not necessarily like the actual awards. I just want you to have gotten paid for something in all of those categories. That's your personal EGOT. Grammy is going to be tough.

Spoken word. Narrate your own book. I've actually been working on some of my spoken word. Really? Give me a sample. Seasons. There's four. Why only four?

Who is in charge of the seasons? Not you. Fall. Ahead of spring or behind. In which order are the four? Summer. I'm here for it. That's that was beautiful.

That was fucking beautiful. All right. Now we're going to get that spoken word, Grammy, because it was recorded on our show. Yeah. Thank you. I'm thinking about what I just said, though. Don't let the moment.

Don't let the moment just pass by. No, no, I am definitely thinking about it. I do. I do agree with you, though. Your life. It's kind of crazy. We've only had four, though, with all the innovation. Yeah.

Yeah. Well, I mean, LA doesn't what does it have one? It gets a little chilly here in the winter in Manhattan Beach. Like 60. There was a 50 degree night. Oh my God. Jesus Christ. You OK?

Oh man. You leave the water dripping in case the pipes froze. Your car on. You left the car on, didn't you? There is nothing. Well, it's not always funny because a bunch of bad shit happens. But when you have those security camera community message boards, that's the most unforgiving interaction in the human race.

And again, granted, too, it's 4th of July. And then somebody would be like, is anyone hearing gunshots? I'm over in Hawthorne. And you're like, it's the 4th of July. But somebody would just be like, hey, here's a video of a person breaking into my car at 3 AM. And it's like, why'd you leave your fucking doors open moron? You're like, OK, my kids' toys were stolen in my baby seat.

And it's like, shouldn't have left the doors unlocked. The reason I bring any of that up is that if it gets down to 50, people are like, hey, does anyone have firewood? Yep. This is a problem, yes. We're going to Mexico. Shellbacks is doing a hoodie donation fundraiser right now. So just go outside and donate whatever hoodies.

It's going to get down to 49 next week. I love that part. It's a great part. Can I ask, can I ask PFT a question while we're on the arts? Yeah. Yeah. Do we have, do we have? We have like three, four more minutes.

We have an interview with Toto Wolf next, so. Must be nice. Yeah, ask away. Do you want us to give you Daniel Ricardo's number? He's out here in LA. I did think we would hit it off. Oh, that makes it worse. Yeah.

I know, I know, I know. But I think I may have the inside track, no pun intended, to F1 in Texas. But now when I say it to you, you guys have like set up a merch tent there. You know, we're racing. We're actually both driving. You guys are actually. Yeah, the Haas cars.

I'm driving the Haas. Haas is like, look. It sucks so bad. And they're like, couldn't get worse. I wish more people understood because I don't even like making fun of Haas after watching the TV show because I feel bad for the owner being like, it sucks. But like they had a 17, 18 position. I was like, not a bad weekend for them.

I wish more people could understand Haas jokes. All right. Let me, if you guys have to run, then let me just ask you this and then you can ask me whatever because I'll be, why do you hate Yellowstone so much PFT? I don't hate Yellowstone. I actually don't hate it that much at all. I love season one. I thought season two was pretty good.

But then season three, it just, I was watching for the scenery because every episode was like, Rip, I need you to beat the hell out of this guy. And then Rip would go beat up somebody. And then Cole Hauser would have sex with his wife, but they'd start crying before they had sex. Then they'd have sex and then Cole would leave. And that was every show. But the background, the scenery was incredible.

Then Kevin Kosh would be like grandson, go get a cookie. And that's like the entire, that's every episode from start to finish. Oh, and then somebody dies. Someone always dies. And it was just like that repeated, you know, one right after the other. But I still liked it. I still watched it because I was like, this show can become good again at some point. But just, it just got, it got a little repetitive.

All right. That's fair. Cause Sheridan the writer for it. I mean, he's all time or, you know, Wind River, Heller Highwater and then Sicario. Right. We had, we had the producer, Sicario that had to like bring him in and say, Hey, we need to change the end of this. And Taylor was like, nah, I didn't want to do that.

But I would love a challenge of trying to speak in full, like full Yellowstone an entire podcast and see how long we could go. Cause you just be like, Hey, Rip want to head into town and kill some people. And then Rip just turns and goes like, people been killing this town for decades. You know, like everything like has a, has like a meaning to it. There's another layer and it's about saving. It's about saving that area of the country.

The true nature of a man can be told from how clean his horse is. Men are a lot like fence posts. You got to dig him out of the shit and set him straight every now and then. If you see a buffalo head in the east, you best head west. I'm just Michael Scott right now. Like, I wish I understood any of this. All right, what else did you have? What else did you have?

That was it. No, that was it. I got to watch it. Finish it strong. Two kids has killed my TV watching ability. So I apologize. I'll catch up. It's, it's a good watch.

It is. Oh yeah. I said, I, I literally don't have hours left in the day. So I will try though. If for nothing else, just the scenery, like the backgrounds in every scene, even like in those later episodes, I would still watch every one because it's like there are mountains there. Yeah.

I'm going to watch you. You know what's really good? What? The wire. Yeah. Oh, fuck. I'm going to catch up to that too. Who did it?

Sopranos. Gonna, I'm going to watch that soon as well. It's on my list. You're kidding, right? Yes. You've seen it. Yes. I have.

We spoiled the whole fucking thing because Hank was on episode two or no, season two. And we just started. He told us he was on season two and we just spent the next like actually it's still ongoing. It's like two years ongoing. We just like to remind him like every three months, say Tony kills Christopher. Yeah. Holds his nose after the car accident.

Yeah. I don't know. I mean, obviously you guys are going to do that to him, but if you're that far behind it. Right. It's like, it's been 15 years or whatever. Like I remember watching it live in college the last, the last episode. So with 2007, I think, yeah. And I thought my cable went out like everyone else in America.

Yeah. I was in a hotel room. Oh, surprise. Your own hotel room. One of 200 in a year. Layup joke. Tease you right up for that one. Yep.

All right. Well, Ryan, thank you. Sons and four was your prediction? No, Sons and six. Sons and six. Okay. And don't worry if the suns blow it, we will be nice to Chris Paul. No, you won't.

No, we won't. We won't. That's the game. So, you know. And guess what? If the, if the suns do win, we're the biggest Chris Paul fans in the world. So you really can't win in any way with us. And winning life, just being friends with you guys.

There it is. I love it. There it is. Get a dog. He could have just said like Chihuahua too. Yeah. He got to be funny like big man, little dog. Anything instead.

He would have been really funny. He was like, here's a story about my father. Yeah. Here's a story about how my father used me. Sorry, I love my dad, guys. Yeah. He sounded like you love him when you were in the truck getting fucking braided. Iron sharpens iron.

Yeah. If you want a real truck, go to Chevy. Chevy will get you a truck that will give you good memories with your father. Yeah. We never had a four wheel. So, you know, that was a big thing when I got old enough to buy my own car. I was like, I'm going to get four wheel. All right.

So this pot's obviously peaking. So, I think there's no coincidence that you were traumatized in a Ford. Yeah. Exactly. You know, a lot of miles there though. Yeah. A lot of miles, a lot of good, a lot of good memories, except for the bad games. Was that the car that Kennedy got shot in?

Was that? That was a Cadillac. That was a Cadillac. That was a convertible. I forget because Revell, it's been a while since Revell tweeted out an 8K. Wait, you thought that, you thought JFK got shot? He was riding in the back of a pickup truck? No, no, no, Ford, no, Ford convertible.

I don't know, Mustang. Fuck it. No, I knew he wasn't in a pickup truck. We should just implant that memory into people's brains though. You know, he was riding an F-150. If he was riding a Chevy, it would have been fine. It's not safe. Yeah, it would have been fine.

No, no president has ever been assassinated in a Chevy. I actually might tell my son that, like, don't ride in the back of a truck. It's not safe. That's how JFK got caught. Growing up, man, JFK stuff. Like, that was crazy. I was thinking about that the other day, like, all the way. How old are you?

No, but it was prior to the JFK movie coming out. Yeah, yeah. But no, this is, there are always little reminders, whether it's you, me, Long talking, you know, PFT usually, and I, we only talk history. I sent him something recently that I thought he was really going to enjoy. I've read this general Custer book. Yep. And there was a guy in his army, he used to dry.

Or he would, he would send love letters to his wife and he would draw pictures of his erect penis in the letters. He would trace it. So these guys, right. So these guys researching his story as one of the guys in this army in the seventh cavalry, like, found correspondence between this guy in the army and his wife. And they were like, yeah, he was pretty into his wife. I just don't, I don't understand how you verify that it was erect.

That's making a pretty big assumption. Yeah. He could. That's my scholar. Hey, look, history goes to the winners. Grower versus showers. All right. We do have to go though.

Thank you, Ryan. Appreciate it. We covered a lot there in the end. We did. We did. A lot of rapid fire stuff. All right. Thank you.

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Are you former superstar, going to be a superstar? Where are you at in your superstar? No, superstar. All right, Andre Drummond. He is joining us. He's got an NFT collection launching on Friday, July 9th on Rarible. Four NFTs, a mix of auction items, and first come, first serve. So go check it out.

It will be awesome. And also you get an opportunity to play 2K with you. Are you good at video games? I'm pretty good. I'm pretty good. I don't know about that. Do you remember like a couple years ago when Cardale Jones was playing against a kid? I think it was a kid in the hospital and he beat him like 95 to 10 in Madden.

Yeah, but that's not cool at all. So you would take it easy? No, and I'm definitely going to play it. But when it's time to win, I'm going to win. Okay. All right, so it's great to have you on. Obviously your season didn't end the way you wanted to end. How are you doing right now?

Are you like, what does that look like right after the season ends? Do you get a couple of weeks to just hang out and party? Are you back already in the gym shooting and getting ready? I'm already back in the gym now. I took maybe like two, three weeks off just to chill. But, you know, I didn't really have that. I really, I didn't play that much this year. You know, I set off for about two months when I was in Cleveland.

So I want to keep my body going. So I'm still working on my body and, you know, continuing my work. What are you working on right now? Is there something like, I've always learned that about NBA players who play at a superstar level, like yourself, if you're already really good at your job, how do you decide what you're going to do different in the off season? It's more so just polishing things, not even adding anything.

Like I feel like some guys, you know, add different elements to the game. But I think for me, I'm pretty consistent with what my job is. And I know what it's asked of me. So I have a specific regiment that I just do to just continue to keep my body going and, you know, try to get as strong as I can as fast. I can as big as I can, you know, throughout the year. How much are we working on free throw shooting? Well, if you have noticed, I'm shooting at least 70 right now.

So I think, I think that's something I've conquered already. Yeah, you have gotten a lot better. And we've talked to guys and it's, I mean, what was it earlier in your career? Was it just mental? Like how, what was, what would you be able to do to get over that hump and be like, Hey, here I am feeling consistent because obviously we see Yanis in the finals right now. He's struggling. Like what would you give a tip for Yanis if you could?

I know for me personally, I know for me personally, I just, it was a mental thing for me. You know, I had so many people telling me different ways to shoot it. And, you know, I listened to so many people mentally. It throws you off when you get to the line. Because you're like, damn, this guy told me this, somebody else told me this. And, you know, I got to a point where I was like, you know, I got to do what's best for me. So I found a routine and shot it the same way for the entire summer. And it's been my routine ever since.

I noticed that you picked up on what we're trying to do, which is like an old school media tip, like get you to say something so that the headline is then under drumming has free throw tips for Yanis. And then it looks bad on you. So let me rephrase that real quick. If there's a hypothetical league MVP plays a big man position, very strong, takes 1112 seconds to shoot each free throw, but they're struggling at the line. How would you specifically tell that person to improve?

Again, not Yanis. Good question. Great question. Not Yanis. Not Yanis. Sons in four. Sons in four. There it is.

Okay. I love it. Perfect. I love your ability to rebound. I always think that people who are really sick at rebounding don't get as much shine as they should sometimes. When you have a 20 rebound game, are you, is that like in the zone? Same as like when a shooter gets hot, would you consider yourself to be in the zone?

Yeah. When I have 20 rebound game, it's an active night for me. I mean, I'm going after every rebound and, you know, it's just, it's one of those feel good nights when you see that number up there, because not too many people are able to do that. Can you tell, like if you're having one of those nights, can you tell where the miss is going to go before the shot even remotely comes close to the basket? I mean, I could do that normally, but, you know, just like when you're in that zone, it's just like everything goes right.

You remember like when Dennis Rodman was explaining how he was picking up rebounds, like over here, over there, over there from, uh, was that the Michael Jordan documentary? Can you tell, tell me one thing as like somebody who's really good at rebounding that the average person who might play pickup basketball might not know about where to expect the ball to go? Well, it depends on where the shot is taken. Like if somebody shoots a shot in the left corner, you know, more times you're not going to either overshoot or bounce, bounce off the rim towards you. So be on the right side of the rim or if you're shooting in the middle, standing in the middle of the rim, you have either way

to go. So it's really just knowing where the ball is coming from. I am a big fan of Jim Calhoun. You played for him at Yukon his last year. Do you have any good Jim Calhoun stories? I just like his press conferences because Jim Calhoun never gave a fuck and he always just told people exactly what was on his mind. So, uh, was he like that, you know, in practice games, like in private settings, was he just like that? Like Jim Calhoun, I'm going to tell you exactly what I'm thinking. Yeah, he, he never held his tongue. I mean, funny story by him. I remember we're playing Rutgers. I feel probably killing me telling this story, but I think I dribbled the ball

close to close and turned it over and he calls the time out. So I'm running to the time out. He grabs me by my jersey and throws an uppercut to my stomach, slaps me in the face, so sit down. It worked, right? You put me in two possessions later, so you ready to play now? So wait, so, so let's, let's, let's like expand on this because we see it all the time with Izzo. Izzo will grab a player and you'll see guys like Draymond Green be like, hey, listen, that's how Izzo coaches like that's all love. Yeah. So from like the Twitter, like media perspective, what do people get wrong when they see something like that? Like that, that it's totally, we, we see it and people overreact when it's like the players who play for the guy are

like, no, that's not how it goes. So I think, I think for me, it's just the, the relationship you have with that coach. I mean, I don't think he just does it to anybody, but if you have that type of relationship with your coach, where he knows how to get the best audience and what to do to wake you up, I don't think it's anything, anything wrong with that. Yeah. Yeah. No, I mean, I agree. I always kind of like when those things happen because you do see a bunch of like media dorks be like, how could he, and then you see all of the former players be like, I know how he could because we fucking love him and we'll die for him. Exactly. Yeah. I'm just going to read you a tweet. You can put it through the Andre Drummond translator and tell me what this hypothetical

player might have meant by this. Law, remember kids, control what you can control and let the rest take care of itself. Prayer hands that was sent before. Oh, it was actually these playoffs before game six of Lakers sons. So what would that person have meant by that tweet? I think it's self-explanatory. I mean, show what you control. I mean, it depends on whatever you're going through, whatever aspect it can be, whatever, be too high or be too low. Yeah. So maybe when you're in the game, be ready to go, but you can also be mad that maybe you're not in the game enough. Well, I feel like for anybody, it depends on what they're going through. Yeah. They're not going to be basketball. Do you feel soft because an avocado took you down?

Yeah, a little bit. I was kind of, it's kind of depressing. Explain that story about avocado legitimately like kept you out of a game. Yeah. For like four games. We were in Mexico City. I went out to dinner with some of my friends and one of my friends happens to be Spanish. I told him take him to a restaurant so he can go eat. So we get there and I said, whatever you do, just make sure there's no avocado on my food. I said, can you translate that to them? He's like, yeah, I got you. So he tells her, I order my food. That's it. Before she leaves, I pull her by her shirt. So hold on, Marty, tell her again, no avocados. Cool. Thumbs up. Food comes out. My bowl is green. So I got ceviche. So my bowl is

green. So I'm looking at it. I said, what's this in my bowl? She said, oh, no, you're good. No avocado, no avocado. I said, are you sure? I said, Marty, ask her please. Is there avocado in there? So she says no. So, all right, whatever. So I'm eating, eating, eating. I think maybe like 10, 15 minutes go by and I'm almost done. And I'm just having a conversation. My throat starts to itch. You know, my body is like starting to itch a little bit. So I looked down on my plate. I'm always a big ass stripper avocado at the bottom of the ceviche bowl. So I didn't know how bad my house is. This is my first time having a bad like reaction to it. So I don't know how bad it was going to get. So I'm like, all right, my throat's itching. I was

like, I'm getting stuffy, whatever. So like I took like a vintage or whatever. So I go back to the hotel. My eyes like itching really bad, like to the point where I can't even keep it open. So I was like, all right, I'm going to sleep. So I go to bed, I get up the next morning, only one eye opened. Oh, shit. So you can imagine like, yo, like what the what the hell's going on? Right. I'm like, trying to open my like trying to pry my open, it's like glued shut. So I got, I went to the bathroom, I got a warm top put on my eye. So when I finally get to see it, it's just bloodshot red. There's a bunch of yellow mucus coming out of it, like just disgusting. So I tell, I tell my team, I said, Hey, I don't know what's going on with me, but my eyes are in

opening. So I go see a doctor that gave me some eye drops. And I played, but like I only played with one eye. Like I rarely could see out of my left eye. Like it was like almost shut. If you watched that game, Mexico City. And yeah, after that game, I couldn't play again. Come on, I started running. It kept getting crusty. So fuck an avocado injury is a hell of an injury. Yeah, how many ribs, how many rims could you see when you just had one eye working? Oh, that is a good one. You are good. When you when when you saw that that press conference, it was funny, right? You we can all admit that it was it was a very funny thing to happen because the end of the game was so I mean, it was spectacular. He played a hell of a game, but then

he gives that comment and it's just that's one of the funniest things I've ever seen. You know, I'm not in the interview with that man. That's what he thought was appropriate to say. So he said it. All right. So I have to bring up the night. I know you've fixed your free throw shooting, but you did have a night that you missed 23. What happened after that? Like, what did you say? Do you go into the locker room after like, Hey guys, don't worry, I got this. Like, I'm going to shoot some shots after the game. Like it was just that was totally random. Like what did you did? Anyone look at you like I would imagine it's it's got to be a bad feeling, right? I think we won that game. Actually, I don't think there was much that was said,

but everybody knew in the locker room what each other was thinking. Like you got to figure this shit out. I said, boy, we can't play like this. You got to eventually you're going to have to forget because I do remember too. I think it happened against the bulls. I was watching the game. You went double air ball in a two free throws. So yeah, but you figured out so we can laugh about this now, right? We can laugh about it now. It's not a, it's not a sensitive subject anymore. Yes. At one point it was sensitive. Now you're good. It would be funny if you did an NFT of the double air ball, though. You know what? I might have to do that. You should actually, because I know you I said at the beginning you're doing what is you got four NFTs, maybe add two

more air ball, one air ball, two on the on the rare double air ball free throw trip. That one might actually be more expensive. Yeah, I would buy that one. Yeah, there's definitely a market for it. I might have to do that. What was it like? We're so we're like best friends with Blake Griffin. No big deal. Yeah. What was it like playing with him? Like we're, I mean, we legitimately like he's our best friend. I love Blake. How much you love him though? Like we love him more. I think we're on the same scale. Really? Do you have his phone number? Not to you? Yeah. Yeah. So you think you pick up a FaceTime? If I call them? Yeah. Maybe. Let me see. I'll try and then I'll try. Tell them it's his favorite podcasters or second favorite

podcast. Who starts first? You go first. All right. Let's see. Uh-oh. Let's see Blake. Is it ringing? You guys probably want to show too. Uh-oh. All right. He goes to answer for you, right? If he answers for me and not you, that's going to be bad. He's not hitting the ignore button. He's letting it ring out. Come on, Blake. Come on, man. Oh, no. Imagine being Blake and then getting that FaceTime and then getting that. He's got to know something's up. All right. Go at your turn. It's pretty quick. Man, if he answers this, this is going to be bad for you. He's going to answer for me. Fuck. I think he's probably doing something cool because he's a cool guy. He's probably on a boat

somewhere with his fucking shirt off looking awesome. All right. Tell us your best Blake Griffin story though. Best Blake Griffin story. I think going to his, his comedy, his comedy show or stand up. Did he, did he make every all his teammates go and was like, Hey, you guys legally have to come and laugh? No, I come here and make and laugh at my jokes. No, he was actually really good. I think it's one of my favorite memories of playing with him is going to that and seeing him in that light because everybody knows Blake is, you know, an aggressive player. So to go see him in like a funny setting, comedy setting was amazing for me. He is, he is more like, we always say like, there's athlete funny and like, there's real funny. Blake Griffin's real funny. Very funny.

He's funny. Like he's hilarious. Right. Yeah. Were you ever like, Hey, it's hilarious how you never dunk anymore? No. He's now for the first time this year in like three years. Yeah. But then he just, he couldn't stop dunking. Yeah. You know, all of a sudden he's dunking again in the playoffs. Yeah. Interesting. Suspect. Interesting. I got a question for you about a very specific skill that you have. You're really good at shooting full court shots. You might be, you might be the Steph Curry of the full court heave. Is that something that you practice or does that just come naturally? No, I think that's just natural. Me just, it's just strength. I don't really have to try. So I just put it up there. Do you, do you aim for a bank shot or do you just aim at

the basket itself? I made the back of the rim. If we were to give you, let's say 100 shots in a gym and you have to take it from the, from the other free throw line, do you think your free throw percentage would be higher on that or your free throw percentage higher in like your second year from the actual free throw line? Good question. Thank you. Really good question. He's doing the math right now. Yeah. He is. He's crunching the math and he's trying to figure it out. I think it'll be even. Yeah, it'll be even. What? Hey, why do you wear only one leg sleeve? That bothers me. Does it? Yeah. Big time. It's a stupid look. I'm serious. Like it is. Like if you're going to do

a, if you're going to do the leggings, do both. I don't want to. Why? I want one leg coated one. Does it matter which one? Does it always have to be the same? It could be either one. Does it matter? Really? So you do alternate? Sometimes. I want one on the right one time and another one on the left side. Really? So it just makes no sense. You're just doing it to do it? Yeah. It's a look. It's a bad look. I'm just from one guy to another. I'm just telling you, change that look. What about the shooting sleeve? You ever, you ever wear a shooting sleeve? Only if my upwards. Yeah. Does that actually help? I've always

wanted that about compression sleeves. Not really. Only if you fall a minute. Well, in that case, yeah, it does work. To like protect you against floor burn or whatever. Say it again. To like protect against floor burn or whatever on your elbow, right? Nah. It just looks sick. It's like you guys have never. I think sometimes working is cool. I mean, some guys work for the compression and some people wear it with the pads and you know, they got bad elbows. Gotcha. Are you still on a beer day diet? Uh, no, but I just had one a minute ago, though. Okay. So wait, what was the beer day diet? You know, something I wanted to try out. I want to cut out carbs for a little bit and

that's what I came up with. So you just did one beer every day, no matter what? Yep. But that's a carb. So you wanted to cut out carbs, but then bad carbs. Got it. That's actually a good point. Okay. Beer is good carbs. Yes. Okay. That actually, are you, you should, you should be a science. You should be a nutritionist. Thank you, man. Imagine just sitting down and being like, all right, so here's what we're going to do. No more pizza, but you're going to just drink beer every day. Yeah. What was the, uh, what was the earliest beer you ever had during the beer day diet? That's a good question. Do you have a breakfast beer? Do burial, pour it right into the cornflakes? 9am. Yeah. If you have a beer for breakfast,

the rest of your day, it just flies right by. Um, why don't you tell me about this? I tell us what you go, what's going through your mind right now. Are you like, wow, these guys are wildly disrespectful? No, not at all. It's just a different interview. Yeah. A lot. Very different. I wasn't not expecting this. I came in here blind. So, okay. Now that's your guy, Mike's fault. He should have known. Yeah. He didn't do a good job of telling me what was going on, but I'm going to myself. He literally watched us go to Mori Povich and like spit water everywhere and do like suck it. Triple H suck it. Like when he was a producer there. So that is his fault. Well, I'm enjoying myself. Okay. All right. Good. That's

all we, that's all we care about. So like guys talking, one guy talking to another, like, okay, we're done with all the weird, hard questions and stuff. So where are you going to play next year? Name five of your favorite cities in the NBA. Shanghai, China. Oh, okay. Your career is going that bad. What would you say if you went to Shanghai, China to play for the Sharks and then Frank Vogel got hired there and he's like, you're back to 15 minutes again. I'm going to jump in. It's left the interview. He's left the screen. That would actually be very funny. Just to pray. He's like, Hey, didn't, you didn't think I'd be here, huh? Like, guess what? We're not going to be using you. How about we just, let's just say the names of just random

cities in the United States and you just give us your reaction. Yeah. Okay. Charlotte. Okay. That was a nod. Utah. Oh, okay. New York City. It's a big Apple. Oh, that was an emphatic. That was a, Dallas. Oh, oh, yeah. Luca. You like, you like, Luke. Oh, two thumbs up, two thumbs up on Luca, Los Angeles Clippers. Oh, yeah. Okay. Oh, interesting. No disavow. Yeah. He's weighing it out with his hands. Portland. Hmm. Dame's not there though. No. Cleveland. Oh, you're going to say yes to everything if you just said yes to Detroit. That was good. Detroit's your favorite coming home. Your agent must love you. Your agent must be like, this, this guy gets it. Unlike the hockey players who'll

be like, yeah, I've already told my agent, I'm going to resign here. I don't care about money. So just get the deal done. You're like, anywhere is fine. Except a dame, except a dame-less Portland. You're, you're in for everything. Yeah. That's it. That's it. So we're going to actually twist that around and make that the quote. Andre Drummond says he will not be going to Portland if Damian Lillard gets traded. And so does St. Paul's too. Yeah. That will be a big time headline. You know, it would be huge actually for us if you could just tweet out, just tweet out the eyeball emoji tomorrow. You don't have to tweet anything else. Just the eyeball emoji. Yeah. Is that funny how you can tweet like literally anything and there will be six different articles that will come out

analyzing what your tweet can mean? It's crazy. We did that. We did that with Blake when I, I don't know, like probably like three or four years ago, he just tweeted out the eyeball emoji. Then the next day the show came out and he, we were like at the moment where it's like, Hey, just tweet out the eyeball emoji and everyone freaked out because NBA Twitter is weird. What do you think about like, uh, NBA Twitter and the obsession with, with all the story lines? Do you think it's, do you think it's weird? Do you think it's like lame? I think it's funny. You know, like the other day, uh, like the viral thing that's going on now about, uh, how I said, tell y'all coach to play me if you want to see me play better. Yeah. I mean,

it's funny. When I did it, when I did that comment, I'm like, this is going to stir up some of the shrub I called Mike. I said, look what I just did. He's like, all right, well, this is good. Yeah. Yeah. I know how people's attention now. So now it's capitalized on this. I kept going. So I went to Twitter and started to rain there. So then I was like, all right, well, just while I got your attention, I'm dropping the NFT on Friday. I'll go check that out. And you know, the whole narrative changed. I love it. That's the way to do it. And you also did, uh, when, uh, Skip Baylis said, Karim Abdul Drummond, you retweeted that. Yeah. Merch. Merch coming soon. Really? I might buy one of those. Do you like, you like that nickname better or do you like being

called the big penguin? What? You know that the big penguin is your nickname? Yeah. I've heard that. Why? I, I, I guess people found out my favorite animals are penguin and put big in front of it. Wait, that's you, you pretended like what? Why would that ever happen? Your favorite animals penguin? It is. So that's, it should be, it should also be the highest compliment, right? If you love penguins. I don't think you love penguins as much as you think that you. It sounds like you're kind of a fraud penguin. Yeah. Did you, did you cry when the gay penguins got married in New York? I don't think I should answer that question. Yeah. No, I mean, it was a beautiful moment. It was wonderful. That also might have been in Pawnee, Indiana on Parks and

Rec. Now that I think about it, but you, you actually love, what's your favorite thing about a penguin? I just like them. I have kids that wants happy feet. So. Okay. Okay. I still don't think you're a big penguin fan. That's a personal choice. Yeah. No, I, I, but I'm, I'm looking at you right now and I'm like, this guy, you wouldn't even, what is it? What's the difference penguins is? King penguin? Emperor penguin? Emperor penguin? Pittsburgh penguin? Yep. That's about it. Those are the two kinds. That's all we got. Oh, Youngstown State penguins. That's right. Pete, right? Pete the penguin. Youngstown State. Uh-huh. I'm looking at a picture. It looks like at one time you were a giant penguin fan. I'm seeing a picture here of you with your arms around about a dozen penguins.

You've got penguin socks on, but it sounds like you've kind of had a falling out. A thawing out. Yeah, it does. Yeah. That's a good one. Thawing out. Yeah. You like that? If you love penguins so much, you wouldn't take a private jet, right? Because that's bad for global warming. No, I'm taking that plane. Oh, okay. So you don't like penguins. Got it. Got it. Got it. Got it. Got it. All right. Well, Andre, the NFTs, like I said, coming out July 9th, four NFTs, a mix of auction items and first come, first serve. So go check it out. And any questions for us? I mean, it's been great. We appreciate you coming on. Let's do this again. Yeah. You like this that much? Let's fuck you. Maybe do it in person when you come out here to talk with Nets.

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Jay Lasofsky25. Good luck spelling it. There we go. All right. So I'll just tweet your Twitter out again. And then Youngstown Bob, you all know him. He's fucking just eats pussy from Sea to Shining Sea. The mustache looks great by the way. All right. So PMT memes, you want to start? I'm going first. Oh, this might be your fire fest. Then you have to go first. Jake, why don't you start? All right. I'll go first. As I mentioned last show, I moved last week. So today I did my first official commute from my new city. And for everyone living in the Northeast, it's tropical storming here. Yep. Took a step outside. I just moved. I live on the water, not the brag. And that is a sick brag.

I had to walk along this like boardwalk thing and just the wind plus the storm. My sock, I came in seven hours ago. My socks are still absolutely soaked. Dude, I have extra socks. You want some? Yeah. In the pile. Yeah. I have extra socks. I'll grab some. All right. I got all, I got like 40 pairs of socks. I'm in. Okay. Can I give you a little piece of advice moving into a new place? Don't take an Uber when you could take public transportation for at least the first month because if you do it, you're not going to want to go back. You'll just like find any excuse to be like, oh, I guess it's too late for me to take the train might as well hop into a cab.

And then you just waste all your money on that. You know, that, that was a great firefest though, because you're basically like, it sucks that I now I'm like a seafaring, you know, I live on the beach. I mean, I honestly was better off just swimming across the Hudson. Yeah. That's how wet I got. Oh man. All right. All right. Youngster Bob, were you, were you had too much pussy this week? Is that what your neck hurt? Drowning. We got sex addiction. You can take it to sex. All right. So last week, the New York City Twitter account, like just threw a shot at Cleveland. They said a gloomy day in New York City is still better than a sunny day in Cleveland. And just now there's a tropical storm

here. And I've got all my friends just like sending me tweets of like the flooded subways and what's the weather in Cleveland like? It was beautiful last week. I was literally, I read the tweet when I was at an outside bar on the lake with a bucket of beer in front of me, live music. And I was torn about it. But I love New York City. But yeah, I was gonna say, but let's try to watch college football on a Saturday in Cleveland. It's tough. It's not the same. You can't go to a bar that has every single. Oh, I have the tweet actually. New York, this from Youngstown Bob, New York City bars are such a fun place to watch college football fans from every school. Yeah, I was probably wasted at Bar Coastal. 100% one half. Yeah. And everyone on the

production side just retweets it every Saturday. Yeah, Liam is the first one that does it. It's a great tweet. You know that other cities have that, right? Oh, yeah, I know. Okay. New York City. It can be annoying as fuck to be in a bar. I would build with all sorts of college football. And I also would argue that New York City like has not the best college football Saturday scene. Like there aren't a lot, like there are, but they're not. We got, we got best bourbon, best barbecue and best college football in America, New York City. All right. Memes, you ready? I'm up. Yeah. Go for it. Yeah. Is that okay? Or you want to pass again? Go for it, memes. Here we go, memes. My fire, firefest is Vin Diesel memes. Oh, I can't stop saying family. And I was late

on the trend. Oh, no. Has it passed? Because I'm still not entirely sure what the family I've seen you tweet out a few of them. But once I start using them, that's when you know. So wait, this is like a huge deal for you because you are the memes guy. We call you memes. And, uh, which by the way, I don't, I don't Connor. Yes. Oh, I got it. Okay. All right. Whew. I was like, do I know your, because, you know, once you get a nickname, it just is that nickname. So your memes. Yeah. I stopped telling people my actual name. Yeah. Just go with memes. Memes is way better. But this is a big deal because this is like, you got to be at the start of every meme. So how are you, I think what you do at that

point is you just power through it and tweet so many of them people were like, Hey, memes is the Vin Diesel guy. Yeah. I tweeted out like three and then people were, you could tell they were like, stop. Oh, it's too much. How can you tell if a meme is hot enough for you to start using? You got to see it starting to trend, but if it's too trendy, if there's like five tweets that have a hundred thousand likes, you probably miss a boat. Certain people from ESPN have tweeted it and you're like, yeah. And then they're like, then I was called and game. Yeah. Bleach report treats it with the fucking skull emoji. Like it's over. You're like, it's done. Okay. Wait, is it now? That's usually when me and PFT pick it up. Yes. I was saying,

like when we do it, then it's absolutely over. That's actually when it's the resurgence. You get the resurgence of it. I was going to say, like, is it is it cool now to make a meme of like a player turning into Patrick star after they do a cool dunk? Or is that has enough time past since Bleach report tweeted that out? No, you can bring it back. You can bring that. We should. Could you, could you work on that for us? I could try. I've also got, I've got another do you do memes on request? Yeah. Yeah. I've actually asked him to beef up my coffee memes. Okay. So for Sunday for England, Italy, I would like to have the queen, what's her name? Elizabeth second, getting out of the limousine at the toll booth and Godfather and then just getting shot

up by some Italians. Oh, that's pretty good. All right. Also, maybe can you put a little cannoli on the top of the mini car that brings out the ball? Done. All right. Beautiful. Okay. That car is so cool. I fucking love that car. Yeah, they do. They do that with rugby too. All the team gets on the field and then they drive the ball out right to the guy that's about to kick it off. So cool. Fucking love it. So cute. Good job memes. Your your debut on pardon my take. Who would have thought you'd be here, right? Is a little mind blowing? Look at us. Yeah. He's doing a meme right now. He's been two years tweeting at us. Yeah. And doing a great job. It was one year. One year. There you go. I just love it. I love it. You think in memes. You have

a beautiful mind. Yeah. Yeah. All right. PFT. My firefest of the week is that Kurt Warner has a movie coming out and I'm going to have to watch it and it looks terrible, but I'm going to have to watch it because we have to all watch it. It uses it uses officially licensed NFL products in it and logos. They have the rights much like in draft day, which would have been maybe the worst movie ever made if it didn't have official team logos in it. But since it did, it's awesome. I'm going to have to watch the Kurt Warner story and it looks like the corniest movie ever. It looks like if well, if it's got the corniest life ever, if airbud was a person, that's what this movie would be. Yes. The other thing that's that I love about football movies and you saw it in some of

the still pictures that they posted out there is like the actors they hire that are big, but they're not like football players. They're just big dudes. Like I saw a guy behind him and you're like that guy doesn't look like he lifts weight. He's just he's just fat. So they just throw big dudes on the sideline like this is a football team. I honestly think that we could get into movies like that as extras just on the sideline. Yeah. You've got the frame for like being a linebacker. Yeah. I've got the frame for like a shitty kicker. Yeah. It could. Why haven't we gotten that back? Scat back. Yeah. Like a Danny Woodhead type. Yes. Yeah. I just I'm confused why we haven't gotten that call yet, but I'm going to have to watch it because it's a movie. It's about football

and Randy Quaid's brother as Dick Vermeel is fucking so good. So good. It's hilarious. Like the trailer, everyone that I know that's seen it has looked around and been like, is this real or are they doing like a sketch comedy? It's going to be great. It's going to be amazing. I'm ready to watch it. All right. My fire fast. I'll wrap up. So I went on vacation. I realized something this week that my life has completely peaked. It's over, but the small victories are basically all I have left. And it happened when I was I went on vacation. I took my family to Eastern Long Island and what in Eastern in the Eastern Long Island. That's actually just a way to say the Hamptons, but not be a fucking douchebag about it. I took them to the Eastern point of Long

Island and packing a car with two little kids and like doing the Tetris move to get the whole car full. I've never felt, I earned my dad pinstripes. Like that was the official moment. I was like, yeah, I'm a dad because it was the hardest thing I've ever done. And it was like, I wasted not a single inch and it felt great. That was, I'm still like glowing off of that. There's no better form of birth control than going through the airport as somebody without children and then watching people with kids trying to get their kids to just do the most basic of things to ensure that they don't lose the flight. I see that. I'm like, I don't, I don't think I ever want a child. I also, I also didn't use PEDs because I went online. I found the racks that you put on top of

your car where you can just load it up. I bought one and I started to load it up. And I was like, nah, you know what? Fuck this. I can get everything in this fucking car. Yeah. I thought you were going to say like go buy a bunch of Benadryl and then the kids are quiet. No, that, no. That maybe for the next one. That absolutely will happen for the next one. But good for you. That's, that's a big feather. I'm glowing from it. It's, it's sad. It's pathetic. But let me have my moment. I think other dads who listen to this show will know exactly what I'm talking about that when you, you really feel like a provider. Yeah. The man of the house when you're like, all right, I got this car packed. Everyone's in here. Let's hope we don't crash. But if we do crash, let's just hope I die.

So I have to deal with like picking up all my shit on the highway. Right. So back in the day was like a caveman that could go out and kill a Brontosaurus and have dinner for the next three years for his family. That's the mark of a man you put two car seats in. Two car seats and a shitload of stuff. So much fucking. You wouldn't believe how much shit comes with kids. What do you listen to on road trips with kids? I was actually just listening to the Grateful Dead. I just, I put on a whole show and I didn't care. Okay. Yeah, I wasn't, that's not, we're not, we're never going to change that. Are you doing a troll soundtrack? No, we're, no, listen. The, the playing kids music in the car is not going to happen. The, the troll soundtrack is not.

I'm not, no. And it can not. It's not going to happen. Singing get back up again. Is that, it's a song of the summer. The cup song is on that. No, that's the old, that's like what pitch perfect. Yeah. That's when I'm gone. This is, that I might play. I might play pitch. You will listen to the troll song and you'll fall in love with it. No, no, no. Guarantee. Don't knock it till you've heard it. No. All right. Let's do numbers, send everyone off. I think the regular crew's back. You guys have been great. Thank you again. Give me an eight because the office is closed this week. Did we mention that? Office closed. What time is it? They were well within their rights. It's 12, 16 a.m. right now. 16 a.m. The office is closed, but we're here. Pick a number,

memes. 32. 32 for memes. Jake. 42. Bob. I was going to do 42. Oh, wow. Well, you could double up, Jackie Robinson, guys. I'll do 52. Oh, why do you hate Jackie? 52. Mariano. Mariano, okay. Wasn't he a murderer? No. No. Rico told me that. Really? A murderer? Rico said that. I don't know. I'll get all my information from Rico. Are you thinking about Ugeththerbina? No, no, no. Rico definitely has told me that Mariano is a murderer. I mean, he said a lot of things. He said a lot of alleged, alleged, not the part that Rico told me, but the part that he's a murderer. Okay. That's alleged. What's your number? 8. 8. 52. 42. 32. Memes. If you get this, I will, so right now, you're on an internship. If you get 32 on your first try, I will do everything I can to get you

hired like tomorrow, full-time. So that's just on there. I seriously will. I will walk into Erica's office on Monday and be like, we got to hire this guy. He got 32. Walk in tomorrow to her office. Not saying you won't get a job anyway, because you've been doing a great job, but I'm saying we'll make it happen right away. Are you ready for this? It's a destiny move. 99. Yeah. Now I'm rooting for you, Memes. Come on, 32. Oh, 69. 69. Get it? I mean, we'll still try to get you a job. Memes, do you have a fun fact? A fun fact. Yeah, this is usually when Billy gives a fun fact. Just do it in Memes form. Alligators are ornery because of their medulla goddess. Okay. Yeah, that's from

Waterboy. Yeah. Good meme. Good reference. Love you guys. Felt a pair of tits while I watch Waterboy in the theaters. Love you guys. Bonk. Okay. Say Hey, it's part of my tape presented by Barstool Sports. Hey,