Ten Thousand Losses - Look on my Taint, ye Mighty, and despair!

Episode Date: July 19, 2023

I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said, "what would you do with Josh Harris' penis?"   The boys talk cats, sports, cats, Harden, the abuser who got shanked in jail, and Tom continues to run Liam ragged with accents.    Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/tenklossespod  Leave us a voicemail (leave your name and pronouns): 267-371-7218 Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tenthousandlosses   

He is actually going to eject a fan. Because bad things happen in Philadelphia, bad things. The fan jumped into the penalty box area. Joy it is to come to Philadelphia and stand here and dodge an ice ball. We, the Dallas Cowboys, had had a sense of John Cooney. And we're live. Nice. Thank you very much.

Someone just turned it off. Yeah. Oh, well. Welcome to the podcast. Fuck you. Misophonia, baby. I know we're pro player, get the bag, that sort of shit. And I don't resent James Harden, but it's kind of like shit or get off the pot, man. Yeah, I don't know what's going on.

I don't know what's going on either. Apparently he wants to be traded to the clippers now and it's like i the the thing like with dame basically being like i'm only gonna go to miami and if i don't go i'll just sit yeah it's like you're gonna get i like the the blazers do have a right to like you have a right to to to make the demand but like the blazers have a right to, like, you have a right to make the demand, but, like, the Blazers have a right as an organization to, like, no, we want to get the best return possible for you, and, you know, we'll work with you to a point.

And I don't think that's crazy. I think that's in sort of mutually beneficial agreement. But I'm just, I'm so tired. Dude, I'm so tired. This is exactly what I felt about the Ben Simmons saga. I'm just so tired. Just trade him, please. I'm sick of hearing about him. Where it's like you're just, you're

hopping from team to team, but the teams that are capable of winning a ring are already capable of winning a ring. You're not going to get them over the edge. Especially with how you did in the playoffs this year, where you were fucking terrible. You authored two good games and stunk for five of them yeah and i mean it he's the bit just based on how the free

agent you know who was available this this off't know why he's... I really would like to know what went on between the organization and him that has him not wanting to play here. Right. I've seen stuff that a lot of it was that he didn't get along with Doc Rivers, but they fired Doc

Rivers. The other thing that I keep thinking is this team has had two head coaching changes in, like, five years? Yeah. And they have Embiid, but, like, the rest of the guys around him stink. I mean, besides Maxie and maybe Tobias Harris. Well, Embiid. Well, I said Embiid.

I meant the guys around Embiid stink. Gotcha, gotcha. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's frustrating. It's frustrating for me to watch harden do this where like i got you know i don't want to be in houston for a rebuild uh and i got like okay new

york like this just clearly isn't working but like you were here for what a year and a half like yeah give it a give it a chance and like honestly i i hate to do like i hate to be this way but like the reason they lost at least partially was because you just gave up you were terrible for five of seven games it was like ben simmons being like i want the fuck out of here and i don't blame you but like at the same time take some responsibility like when gannon was like oh philadelphia is such a tough market and like they blamed me for everything and it's like yeah because your defense didn't show up in the super bowl the game where it matters right and if you're the guard the starting point guard on the sixers you're gonna get

chewed out you're gonna face that and so it's gonna happen but some of it's gonna be legit and i don't think i don't think there is i should say there is a legitimate complaint about performance yeah and it's not a it's not a coming from anything other than yeah dude we we saw what you how you played and i don't know why you played that way. And it was butt. But when you showed up, because there was that game, he showed up. Two games. Yeah, and it was amazing. Weren't they like 40-point games or some

shit like that? It was insane. And I like The rest of the time you went back to shitty James Harden ISO like begging for fouls. And I like. The rest of the time you went back to shitty James Harden ISO like begging for fouls. Yeah. And it was it was disappointing.

And that that I think I think the Sixers are sort of on this. Maybe at the end of this season, we'll be at this. Are we blowing it up or are we going to try? NBA is pretty strict with how much salary you got and all that kind of stuff. And Tobias Harris, he'll be gone after this year. So that was just an overpay. He's a he's a, you know, whatever. Not a hundred.

Not one hundred eighty million dollars. I go for a good for him personally. And he's like, by all accounts, like a nice guy. And he's like the captain. But yeah. I don't know. Let Maxie run, man. Maxie maxie maxie's a great i like the cat realizing you weren't gonna feed him and just slinking back out yeah yeah the cat does that and then

the cat also when i'm talking he wants to talk too so he might start having conversation with us okay third third third mike yeah third mike the the the newly the newly muslim cat yes i did like that picture um yeah that was i was telling my wife i was like send it i was like he's definitely embraced islam now because he was doing like he was doing like a bow then got down yeah um well yeah yeah uh how do you say alhamdulillah you know the cat has the cat has heard the adhan has embraced embraced the struggle of islam um well there's a great there's an adorable i you know we have different takes on... I don't know. I used to be a very hardcore anti-theist when I was younger.

Definitely not that. Organized religion, I don't think we like too much. No, we're very skeptical of it. We're skeptical of, I think, institutions. Power structures. Power seeks to propagate power, right. Unless it's a workers-led communist party. I'll let you have that.

But I do love the affinity for cats in Islam and how it is. Muhammad basically said a woman was going to hell because she killed a cat. Yeah, I'll back that up. And there are so many cute videos of cats in mosques, and there's people praying, and the cats just jump on them. There's one video of a guy, he's doing the reading, and the cat's jumping on his shoulder and climbing around, sitting on him. It just wants attention.

Just try to get through this reading. But he's smiling. It's considered like – it's not considered like an offense like it's considered like a sweet thing and it's like oh well the cat the cats know so you know you know i i always thought that was a uh that was a sweet thing about that religion was that what's the what's the declaration of faith in islam what's the name of it uh i should know this um it's the um what the shahada there is a god but muhammad and but god there is a god but god muhammad is his prophet right right right yeah

um yeah is that is that um what my cat was saying to you yeah the cat the cat meowing the shahada yeah also feed me feed me too hey this isn't ramadan fucker give me food he's never been fed in his life no they never have been this is all new to him yeah and this is a black and white cat so he's got two brain cells instead of one. Toby, my sweet boy. I had an orange... This is cat talk now, but I had an orange cat growing up. He had an Egyptian name, too. Ironic. But he got lost.

We couldn't find him for three months in the winter. And we were looking for him everywhere. And we did posters and stuff. Right. And one day, my mom goes out into the backyard. And she hears a meow that sounds familiar from the yard behind us. Right. And it was him.

He was under a wheelbarrow. The dude was literally lost, couldn't find his way back to their house from the yard behind us. I love orange cats. Yes, yeah. He had half a brain cell after that. He had loose skin like a guy who lost a ton of weight. I have learned that Toby, my cat,

who lives at my parents' house, he likes to strut, uh, in the neighborhood. Uh, and by strut the neighborhood, I mean, my parents let him walk the floor sometimes,

like the floor of their apartment building. And he'll go up and like saunter around like he's king in the castle. Hell yeah. But this being him, him being a big fat ass, he's just like, all right, 10 minutes.

Where's my foot? Where's my dish? Yeah, I'm hungry. Uh, the one time I was talking to my mom and my parents had gone on a trip or somewhere and my my my mom comes back and you know toby runs to the door and it's like sits and meows and like looking for pets and scratches and my mom's like oh i'm so happy to see you and then toby like starts walking towards his food bowl yeah like looking back at her i like walking towards the bowl and then looking back and it's like oh okay like you you you big piece of shit like

oh yeah this this one um i'm holding them right now i don't know if he'll meow for us but uh he uh the door behind me, well, there, has the food in it. He will walk over to the door. That's enough affection for you. He's doing it right now. He's walking over to the door. Then I'll open it and he'll walk inside

and he'll smooth the bag. He's like that. When he's hungry and. And yeah, he, when he's hungry and we're downstairs, he looks at, he goes like halfway up the stairs, turns around, make sure we're following like, it's like,

it's like, nah, when it comes to food, man, we're real smart. My, my dad, uh,

my parents had a cat named socks who lived to about 21. My parents have a, have a knack for keeping cats alive a long time. And Socks was sitting pitifully at the bottom of the stairs of the house I grew up in, looking at the stairs and meowing. And was like moving really slow. My dad's like, oh, he's just getting up. I'll pick him up. Well, Socks learned that he could just get a ride and one time he and another cat were like fighting

and socks runs up the stairs and my dad like whips around and it's like what the fuck like i've been lied to i have been gamed by a cat he's just like and socks would go back to like meowing pitifully at the bottom of the stairs. And I was like, you're fine. Like, you're fine. Walk it off. I've seen you run up these stairs not two days ago. Yeah. No, there is cats will learn that pretending like to have a limp or something.

Yeah. Like, yeah. Anything that gets them attention. And in a cat behaviorally, even just looking at them is like it makes them happy yeah because cats are cats are interesting creatures does he do a roll he's laying on the floor waiting for you to feed him yeah looking pitifully at you um he he's looking at me even though i'm looking at the webcam uh he knows i i had read something that dogs sort of know the difference between humans and dogs yeah i.e they they know that humans are not dogs but apparently cats think

humans cats think humans are just really incompetent cats yeah i've heard that too i cat cat yeah i mean they're they're just because dogs are very social and not not the cats aren't right but but dogs are pack-based animals and and they mesh very well with like the social social order of humans whereas cats are i mean i've always had cat good cats that that mesh well but um they are truly uh they they they want to like whereas a dog is like i want to like whereas a dog is like I want to guard you and stuff like that a cat's not like that but

a cat wants to be near you the cat wants your attention the cat wants to do what you do and that's how they show like affection that's why they want to sit on your laptop you ever see those videos of people who make their cats little laptops yes yes yes it's adorable yeah

so this is cat this is the official podcast of cat fancy yeah please sponsor us uh we're doing we're doing this for our health uh so why don't we why don't we uh do the intro do the intro all hello, welcome to the episode of 10,000 Losses The only Philadelphia cat podcast that exists I'm your host, Tom Payne My pronouns are he, him With me is my co-host, Ye Liam, hi, I'm Liam Anderson

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We got Bring Your Money Guys. We got a bunch of people. Let's go listen to that. Alright. Only $1 if you're a coward so we if you couldn't tell by us talking about cats for 14 minutes we're in the sport

we're horrible people it's the sports doldrums and we don't even have a fucking baseball game to have during the day it's the all-star break I've been watching tennis man like i'm i'm i'm for real in the trenches oh i saw that at the gym i guess the russian guy is competing he's got a black flag so i guess he's like a pirate like he's which is cool i go to admiralty court sob sob tennis player. I am man of no nation.

Yeah, yes. I abjure all citizenship of Russia. Bad Russian accent. Terrible. I can get into it if I know what to say. I've had a Russian person tell me it was okay, but they also might have just been humoring me. They were probably just humoring you.

I mean, not to be an asshole, but your accents are terrible and I hate them. One of the listener DMs is related to my accent. I see it. Yeah, you see it. Highlight it for you.

Yes, we miss football. That makes us bad people, but we miss football. We miss CTE. that makes us bad people. We miss football. We miss CTE. Yeah, we miss... We're bad. We know. We know we're bad people.

It's that time of year where football starts up. We just have baseball. We don't even have baseball right now. We got to wait until tomorrow. Get the Padres. Get the Padres. I'm going to be there Sunday. We got to wait until tomorrow. The Padres. I'm going to be there Sunday. That's a good one.

Speaking of this, this is something I didn't write about. Did you hear that the Phillies asked Juan Soto to come to Philly? Yes. On the plane, yes. I did see that. This team. Imagine getting Soto next year. Oh! I have a personal announcement.

Yes. Nick Castellanos' wife liked my tweet about her husband being stupid. All right. So hold on. I have it. It's better than his. It's not his wife. It's his mom.

Is it his mom? Michelle Castellanos is his mom. Yeah, I forgot to tell you that. That's amazing. So his mom liked your tweet, which is even better. That is objectively funnier. Yeah, because she's known him since he came out of her. Right?

You know what I mean? Right. Knows everything about him. Yeah. And I think Castellanos,os honestly we joke about them all being a bunch of dumb himbos and he is a dumb himbo but he he i think he's a little more insightful than we give him credit for um he he didn't go to college or anything like that but i don't think he's actually a dumb guy um i just think he chooses his words carefully And doesn't tolerate like bullshit I like the guy a lot

I think he's a great He has a perfect Philly attitude Oh yeah But no Yeah alright so You got a guy in left field Who should be a designated hitter You got a designated hitter who's

A right fielder You got a right fielder in right field fielder. You got a right fielder in right field. Let's get Juan Soto, another right fielder. How many more right fielders can we collect? Can we get an entire team of right fielders? Can we stack them? Right. I'm on board with it.

Yeah. Remember my joke about the 12th, you lose a fielder. What about the fielders just getting an extra fielder? Yeah. Just four guys mingling around and right. Yeah. extra fielder. Just four guys mingling around and right. We're just going to collect guys who just declined to run their 40 time when they got scouted.

Or their 90 foot sprint. Nah, I don't need to do that. Swing ball hard. Swing bat hard. Swing bat hard. Hit ball hard. Which, you know, think of the Juan Soto. Someone's accusing them of tampering. That's not tampering.

Don't the baseball has tampering? But he's got one and a half years left. Yeah, so maybe we get Soto as well. I mean, we're just going to have every former Washington National on the team. Right. That's fine. I love Nick Castellanos. I love that his mother liked the tweet.

In case you're wondering about the context, we should link it in the video. Nick Castellanos is asked who his favorite superhero is. He responds, Scooby-Doo. Because according to Nick Castellanos scooby-doo is a superhero because he's a talking dog who can solve mysteries i am not exaggerating i am not making that up that is basically his response yeah and he says in a very like matter of fact tone yeah the fuck are you like like you don't get it? Like, are you an idiot? Like, come on, man. What's wrong with you? Come on, Scooby-Doo. Get on board.

Yeah. Beautiful. Beautiful man. Literally and figuratively. Watching his kid, who's named, he's also Ye Liam. Yes. His interactions with his kid are really nice. You could tell that he's a good dad. You could tell that his kid really loves his pop.

He seems like a good dude. This team, again, it's the team of orange cats. Like you said, that was the tweet they got. They got liked by Castellanos' mom, which I can understand why you thought it was his wife. What's up, Michelle Castellanos? You're married.

You're married. I know. That said, Yeah. What's up, Michelle Castellanos? You're married. You're married. I know. That said, please let us give your boy the business. No, I'm married. I'm allowed to fuck your son. Listen, I'm an eighth Italian. I'm allowed to flirt with.

Oh, wow. Oh, wow. Oh, wow. You can't see it, but I have my glasses on top of my head and i'm rubbing my eyes and i'm not speaking into the mic because my hands are covering my whole face that's staying in wasn't it wasn't that cuomo who said that he's like i'm just italian like yes the italians are like i will say say actual Italians are a flirty people. And if you are not someone who's comfortable with people touching you,

Italians can break that. That's why I sit with a folding chair on my deck with a 30-30 in my lap. Come and take it. Like the cat just staring out into the abyss he he stopped he touched he did a smooth around me and now he's sitting right next to the to the puzzle bowl and he eats a puzzle bowl because he eats too fast because then he'll throw up right this is the cats are fucking insane yes but he can control he he's he can control this one can control himself right he'll eat too quick but he'll once he's full he'll stop eating right the other one Yes. But he can control... This one can control himself.

He'll eat too quick, but once he's full, he'll stop eating. The other one is fat. And there's nothing wrong with that. We don't body shame. But... You can't eat all the food. Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son. Yeah. He tends to steal this one's food.

We have to actually close the door. Yeah, because I would leave the – we used to free feed them at first. And then the guy – and these are big cats. He's like 17 pounds, and the vet's like, nah, it's good. Like, he's huge. The other one's like 21 pounds, and he needs to be down to like 15. Gotcha. We could put him on a diet.

He's still something to eat. I don't know what it is yeah anyway uh let's admit you're just a cat interlude we went seven minutes without talking about cats um so i guess a little more baseball stuff uh so uh big boy vladdy jr uh won the home run derby that's good yeah Yeah, he's fun to watch. I'm going to just a little bit of rant here. Stop fucking talking to the players. Shut up.

Shut up. Shut up. I don't need to fucking hear it. They're not interested. We don't need this. There's no benefit to it. And the first inning when it was Valdi pitching, he just was like, oh, I can't hear you. And then just ignored them the rest to it. And the first inning when it was Valdi pitching,

he just is like, oh, I can't hear you, and then just ignored them the rest of it. So you just hear him go, ugh, ugh, every time he throws a pitch. So, I mean, that's all it is. There are some guys who like doing it, but it's...

I just want to watch the home run derby, man. Like, oh, what's it like being here at the game? Ask him afterwards. Ask him afterwards. That's all you do. That's all they ask him. It's the same thing. Same question every fucking time. So what's it like being able to field with all these guys? It's great.

It's a hell of a time. A bunch of good guys over here. It's an honor. They all say the same thing. Yeah, exactly. It's so unnecessary. They're baseball players. They have nine brain cells. Yeah.

They need all of them to catch ball good. This is not, you don't have the fucking School of Athens down the field. It's not Plato and Socrates hanging out. Come on, man. Unnecessary. and talking to a pitcher there's fucking psychos, they don't like talking to people no, pitchers and goalies are very strange people

during the game, don't talk to them they don't like being talked to it's like 101 yeah, and you'll hear stories about Max Scherzer being a psycho and that he's normal during, during the days he's not pitching,

but when he's pitching, he's a fucking psycho. And that's how they get into their fucking heads. Right. Do the shit they do. Yeah. I don't need to hear it. I just don't care.

Right. And Smoltz is a, is a dipshit. He also has horrible, horrible politics. He's terrible. Yeah. And the other guys are all right.

The play-by-play guys, okay. Yeah. But... I can't stand Smoltz, dude. Yeah, Smoltz... Smoltz... Yeah. And we all got weird commercials.

Oh, yeah. That the diabetes musical. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, that's the one that can give you the taint infection. I'd love to get a taint infection from my diabetes medication. Or is that farcee? I don't know.

There's one drug that gives you a taint infection. What's the medical term? Is that like taint-itis? No, it's your perineum. Perineitis? I don't know what it's called. I just know that I call it a taint infection. Yeah.

You imagine you're in the hospital for that. Dude, I know. I've always thought. Your ass is just up. It has to air out. What a way to go. Yeah, exactly. The nurse has to come by and just like check your taint.

Yeah. Ah, how are you doing? Oh, this is a medical. It's a medical hospital. They're doing the rounds with all like the. Interns and shit. Interns. Yeah.

All right. Well, this is a perinatal uh infection um commonly known as uh the the taintitis runny taint uh you know back once you give it a slap there yeah yeah you'll notice that the skin doesn't rebound as much um and it's not in the medieval times, they called this the weeping taint. Yeah. You're just in a gurney for some reason the entire time. Look upon my taint, ye mighty, and despair. For nothing besides remain, except a lonely expanse of, I don't know, shifting hairs.

Nothing besides remains besides a flapping expanse of sack skin. Thank you. Percy Bysshe. Actually, I think he would like that. Who doesn't like taint jokes? They would have liked that. All right. Speaking of taints,

the taint of America. Florida. America Anyways, speaking of taints The taint of America Florida America America picked a Phillies Wow You're doing great I'm medicated, fine, caffeine up So the Phillies picked some kid from Florida

What a shock I don't know Anything else in baseball? There's something really else to talk about besides that. We play the Padres. Maybe with the trade deadline coming up, Soto could just stay in Philly. I don't know who we trade.

Oh, the last thing. I did remember this. Painter got shut down again. He started throwing and his UCL. Started acting up. Dude. Dude, he's like 18, 19. He's going to need Tommy John, I think. Oh, my God.

Yeah. So, yeah, that kind of sucks. He's 20 years old, dude. Yeah. Apparently, the latest news is that the test revealed that his UCL is healing and does not – oh, that means there was a UCL injury. All right. So, okay.

He's not pitching this year. No. Great. Yeah. So, I mean, yeah, baseball's back. I'm going to put this one out today. So, baseball will be back on Thursday. Baseball's back and it ruined our lives. Yeah. It's I mean, baseball's back. I'm going to put this one out today. So, baseball will be back on Thursday.

Baseball's back and it ruined our lives. Yeah. It's going to ruin our lives. The Phillies are good. They're positive. I miss Gene Segura. Me too. Did you see them hugging?

Yeah. It was so sweet. He's such a sweet guy. All right. And if you know a bit, seeing Segura kind ofura being the team dad, knowing he had lost a kid when he was playing

on the Mariners, it's kind of sweet to see how he with that. All right. Going from a nice guy to an asshole. Yeah. All right. So going from a nice guy to an asshole. Yeah.

Let's talk. Oh, we're talking about Larry Nassar getting rocked in prison. Yeah. He gets stabbed in jail. Yeah. Who gives a shit? I'm not really upset about it. Yeah.

I. You can look up what he did on his own on your own time. Yeah. Yeah. It was the whole gymnast scandal. He was a doctor. And yeah. time yeah yeah it was the whole gymnast uh scandal he was a doctor um and yeah um i don't have much empathy for um sexual uh assaulters sexual predators yeah sexual predators yeah i don't

really especially you know especially what being in the position of authority. Right, exactly. Makes it even worse. And these are kids, dude, like the fuck. Right, exactly. Literal children. Yeah. So, you know. Tell us what you would do with a prison shift in Larry Nash's body. Tell me what you would do with Larry Nash's penis.

You shouldn't have it anymore, honestly. I think he's given up the right to have one. Piss out of this hole, Larry. What movie is it? Was it Rocky IV? If he dies, he dies. Yeah. Yeah.

I'm not... I don't think either of us are death penalty people Especially not In the way it works in our country But if a serial Rapist Gets shot Hard to have sympathy for a guy

Who sexually assaulted 265 people Nah I mean it would be nicer If his victims got to do it But you know Yeah let them stab Larry Nassar. Yeah. Why not? They're probably better people than we are, and we don't want to actually kill them.

Maybe. I don't know. Maybe. Yeah, so nothing of value was lost about that. Or maybe lost. Uh, he's only five, six. It just makes me angrier. Make it, uh, you know, he's an embarrassment to the short community.

Yeah. Not that we're members of them, but, uh, not a short King. Absolutely. The opposite. The opposite. Um, yeah. Uh, whatever happens to him happens to him. Yeah.

All right. You want to go back to Sixers? We talked about this a little bit at the beginning. Yeah, let's do it. So, all right. The situation as it stands, and the last episode that happened while we were breaking was that Harden would take his option in hopes of getting a trade. And so far the trade hasn't happened. And I'm sure the Sixers would trade him if they got something decent in return, but so far the trade hasn't shaken up.

And it may not. Yeah, it may not happen. And so I don't know. Is he going to sit out? I don't know. I don't know. And we joked about the strip club. Maybe they do need to make that a reality.

Jimmy's. We did make some moves. I think people were expecting a lot of moves um but there's a lot of money bound up but you know i i actually and i want to say this because the sixers reddit is a particular we've talked about that when we did the process bonus oh yeah i think i it was a half hour me make doing the reddit voice you did um and the 300 of votes saying, oh, well, I actually think that it's really bad that the players have so much power in this league. Uh, it balances like, shut the fuck up.

You just cause like you're, you just, you don't get anything out of this. You're just a fan of the team. You don't have any fucking say the players are, have skin in the game because they put their bodies and their health on the line hell the owners have fucking skin in the game because they are putting their money towards it whatever like that the coaches the people who work for them you're just some fucking dipshit on reddit you have no say in it and you have no say in the late you have no right to cast aspersions on labor relations in the nba the fucking nba has the strongest union uh for a reason look up the fucking history of race relations and labor um uh in the nba um and

it's fucking amazing that they are where they are and that's a good thing and if harden doesn't want to be on the fucking sixers well guess what that actually is his right you know you shouldn't force be forced to work somewhere you're not happy but the the Sixers do have the right to be like, okay, we're going to trade you then. And there was expectation like, hey, dude, this is your contract. You said you were going to play. And that is true.

And there is a dynamic there. And it's not the same as maybe if this was something happening in a local business or something like that. But at the end of the day, he still has a salary guy. He still has a worker, you know, he might be a very wealthy worker, but he still has a worker.

He's not writing the checks. Right. Um, and the idea that you're going to want to throw away workers rights over, I just want my team to do good. You know, that's, that's a very, you're telling on yourself

shit yeah yeah it's like fuck you fuck that shit you care you care more about your entertainment which you probably watch six games in the year than you watch in the postseason like you're on fucking sixers reddit dude you're a trust the process idiot um go go on there and say the process failed see how many downvotes you'll get. It did. It did. It did. Sorry. My favorite was when I used my old account that I don't use much anymore, but I have like

180 karma, like K karma. And I feel like your downvotes mean nothing to me. And then they would just downvote me more. It's like, this does nothing.

I have more to spare. But, yeah, it sucks. It and we and we start off the episode talking about no harden did he stunk it up like he stuck it he stuck it up that's exactly right i don't know what it is i don't know if the guy's like not resting or whatever like that um we joke about the strip clubs and stuff like that. He is known to party. Like, whatever. That's fine. Which is fine. If I was hungover... Like, I can't be hungover for my job.

Right, exactly. Right. And that... You're like, we're pro-worker, but we're not... At this age, you should know better. We're pro-worker, but we're also pro, like, hey, you know... You got other people. It's not, like, just you, right?

Right. Like, it's other people. It's not like just you, right? Right. It's other people. Asking you to keep your partying to non-game days is not asking too much. Yeah. Just, yeah, it's, it's,

it's fine. Like, and then you retire and you can party until you die. Right. You know, and you could party the off season. It doesn't matter. Like,

find a way to make it work. Whatever. I don't, I don't know i'm not his life coach right and he's a grown-ass man to do whatever the fuck he wants right but you know i hope this fucking works out i hope we don't have a guy sitting on the bench and there's like he's like mad yeah honestly i'm gonna say that that reflects on the ownership. It does. If you're going to have another guy sitting out, that's it. It does.

It's sort of the question, okay, so what are we doing wrong here? Right. You get a VC guy as your owner. Guy fucking sucks. I fucking hate Josh Harris. Fuck that dude. What would you do with Josh Harris' penis? Oh, God.

But we did sign Patrick Beverly. And Mo Bamba. And Mo Bamba. So that's cool. So this team is going to die in the second round yet again. And B-Ball Paul came back. He got offered a lot of money, and we... Matched it. Thank God. Matched it. Thank God.

Yeah, that would have been ridiculous. Honestly. What a cool story, though, for him. Oh, yeah. He's paid now. From where he started, being a two-way guy. He likes the Jersey Shore. Yeah.

It's fun. I like him. And he went to DePaul, which always makes me laugh. DePaul read. The Blue Demons, right? Yeah. All right.

So that's cool. And we might talk more about this because we want to do a deep dive burkhan korkmaz is still on this team oh shit oh yeah dude there was like three point highlight reels going around yeah i love in the summer where the guys are doing their workouts and they post their highlight reels and they're just like playing in a high school high school team right like and then they're just playing in a high school team. And then they're just scoring and dunking over guys. I love that. It's so fucking funny.

It's hilarious. I think every basketball... If I was good at basketball, I would 100% cross over local guys who think they're tough. Oh, yeah, me too. That would be so much fun. I saw a video of Brian Scalabrine just absolutely wrecking some dude's shit. think they're tough oh yeah me too i saw a video of so much fun uh brian scalabrine uh just absolutely wrecking some dude's shit uh it was very funny and they were just like the worst nba

player like this like for all of you like you know couch generals the worst nba player could light you up at in their 40s any given day of the week oh 100 my my uh this is my experience being that was uh playing madden i let my students have a madden tournament like the last two days and i had kids like now you suck your old head you don't know how to play i'm like i know like i i can pick up tendencies and stuff like like i'm not like a football expert but dude i can tell when you're doing like cover three versus cover two i could i can pick up if you're doing like cover three versus cover two i could i can pick up if you're right if like you love the run outside and i will figure out if you're blitzing all the time and the torn every kid to play me they just they're like you're

blitzing me all right cool screen screen and then they start you know uh playing you know like like more like past defense and i just start throwing little dinks. It's like, nah, dude, you can't. This is the old Matt Wise master. Oh, yeah. So in 2013, in response to criticism over him being an event troll throughout his career, and the claims that many would beat him one-on-one, Scalabrine stated, I'm closer to LeBron than you are to me. Suggesting there's a huge difference between any active or retired NBA player and those outside the league.

In an event organized by the Toucher and Rich, those selected volunteers had the chance to play one-on-one against Scalabrine until 11 points to the margin of two. The forum was called The Scallenge, and Scalabrine played four games, one each against each of the voluntary contenders. Scalabrine won every game with a combined score of 44-6. Oh, it's beautiful. Well, there's a staff member at my school

who played college ball. Yeah. And the kids who are really good at basketball love to be like, yo, alright, yeah, let's see how good you are. And he just smokes them every time. Relentlessly. And he could dunk too, so he dunks a little bit. And it's so much fun to see. It's like, every time. Relentlessly. And he could dunk too, so he dunks all that stuff.

It's so much fun to see. It's like, yeah, dude, you're not even on the basketball team, kid. Why do you think that you're as good? Also, Brian Scalabrine, very good nickname. The White Mamba. Yeah. The most Celtics player ever played on the Celtics.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. He looks like the Irish guy. The little logo guy. Does he have a name, the logo guy? The Celtics Irish. I don't think so. Irish guy name.

I don't know. I'm just getting Celtic boys names. All right. Fresh guy name. Oh, no. I'm just getting Celtic boys names. All right. So, NBA 2, they're going to have an NBA cup. How do you feel about that? Do we need this? Should we explain it? Should we explain it?

Yeah, go for it. So, the NBA has decided that they're going to do something kind of like how soccer has like the FA Cup in England, where it's a tournament that all the teams can participate in for another trophy and for money. And the players get extra money for it, too. Midway through the season, right? Yeah. In Vegas. In Vegas. NBA Cup. through the season right yeah um in vegas in vegas nba cup um i don't know how i feel about this i don't think we need it i think it's unnecessary i think with all the conversations around rest

and load management we just don't need it this feels like kind of a uh the league trying to claw some of that back in a way that I think is a little heavy-handed. You know what I think they should do is – because it's going to basically be the summer league squad. Right, exactly. If you're not a contending team – and I know that they're trying to do incentives to have guys play. And it also counts towards your regular season.

Does it? Yeah. Yeah. So the performance in it does count towards your final record. And I think if you win, you get a guaranteed playoff berth. Oh, okay. Well, I guess that's nice, but... I...

I think that you could just expand the play-in tournament. Exactly. To be this. that's what i was thinking all the teams that don't qualify right just let every team play into for the final every team plays in and then the top team east and west gets a final spot right i'll buy that yeah it's yeah they get the last season yeah i that and that would allow you to have that cinderella story um kind of thing exactly if you want to have a cup, because the thing is, is like all these other cups is like every other league gets a play. So like in the soccer pyramid in England, like your local tier eight.

Yeah, I like that one because you have giant killers and shit. Yeah. So if you're going to have the NBA Cup, well, the G League should be in there. Oh, yeah. Fuck it. Let college teams play exactly i want to see dude i want to see dude take on the magic that would be fucking sick hey you want to keep your if that was like if that you want to fucking transform the sports, yeah. That would be so fucking cool.

Yeah, dude, your rec league gets the 128th seed. You know what I mean? That would be fucking rad. That would be cool. Obviously, the odds of a good team, of a bad team going up would be very minimal. Incompetential minimal but still uh nba is a sport where personal talent is degrading is insanely it's so top heavy um you know um yeah so we already came up with better ideas for the nba cup like i i do i do want to say that that I like the idea of them trying something interesting.

Different. Shaking up a little bit. I'm okay with that. Maybe I'm trying to sell myself on it. Give me a reason to watch. I think it's going to be in October. When is it going to be?

In-season tournament. November through Saturday. So give me a reason to watch basketball. I guess. And it looks like they're timing it to be right after baseball is done. Which is smart on their end. That is. And, yeah, because you're watching the World Series.

And then, like, fuck it. I'll watch the NBA Cup. You know, I'll try to see. Who was the worst team in the league last year? Theons probably pistons yeah see the pistons get a spot in the playoffs yeah that is funny yeah um that'd be cool um i don't know that that i i there are a lot of people who are very negative automatically like i said i don't i'm not 100 sold on it i i like i like the idea of innovation i think um and i don't want to speak for you but i think we're both for mixing some things up yeah especially expanding where the

interface between professional and semi-pro and amateur sports, um, where there is more of that. I mean, I mean, damn, wouldn't,

wouldn't you love that? There's a stuff like this used to happen back in the day. Wouldn't you love to see like a real world series where it wasn't like the top team. It wasn't like team USA, but it was like the, the, the team that wins the MLB, the team that wins MP mlb the team that wins mpb the team that wins a korean baseball and then i don't know we gotta

find a third um uh maybe like honk ball the mexican league honk which is a decent league honk ball hoof to class uh there's like a play-in for the last spot between the other teams and you get to see like the nippon ham fighters ever play the that would be fun yeah for the real world series i would i would like that that would be so that would be cool as hell yeah you're absolutely right you know they'll never do that yeah um but even just international friendly even that kind of stuff it was the pistons by the way who went 17 and 65 still not as bad as process sixers nope um all right um i don't know i thought it'd be cool if you guys have any sort of interesting idea because we've talked about this a couple times do you have any any ideas or where you would like

increase the interface between professional sports and and and semi-pro, I think that's what sports need. I think baseball needs that. I think just more engagement and, and with, with other leagues. And I know they have some partnerships and stuff now, but through the tournament where, like I said, the Cape, we said the last week or I think in the bonus, I can't remember the bonus, where the Cape Cod league winner gets to play shit like that would be cool as hell it don't hurt anybody, they're just exhibition games

or just like a minor tournament it gives a shit, fuck it and give them a prize, whatever a million dollars for MLB to put together a tournament is nothing, especially half these guys will do it for free I'm not saying they should do it for free

I gotcha. I don't know. What would you do with it? Let us know. All right. Well. Eagles trading campus soon. Yeah. Next 25th, I think. So, that's good.

Can't wait I'm excited It's going to be good Jalen Hurts Is everyone's father That's true He's your dad, he's my dad, he's our dad I love my dad

I don't know how your real dad feels about it But he's his dad, too. He's everyone's dad. Sorry. Are you ready for a union correspondent? Yeah, I am. Charlie called in. I did not keep up with

MLS last week, so this will be news to me. Hey, guys. Hey, Liam. Hey, Liam. Hey, Tom. It's Charlie from Roxborough. Union lose back-to-back games to Atlanta 2-0. And then tonight at L.A., Galaxy 3-1.

Really looking like they are missing Damian Lowe and Andre Blake through the Gold Cup action, but also the injury to Kai Wagner. Really holding them back as they are playing three straight road games. They have Nashville and New York City FC to end the run into the All-Star break and then League's Cup. It's backup keeper and sick boy Joe Bendik is conceding a ton out there. 13 and a 6

starts this season. He's got likeing a ton out there, 13 in his six starts this season. He's got like two wins in his last 34 games in MLS action. It's rough. You just have to try to get ahead of the game, and Jimbo's really scrambling the lineup to try to make something work, but people out of position, conceding early, it's hard to get into games when you're behind, especially on the road, given how hard it is to win games on the road or at least get results out of it, especially if every team ahead of them in the drop-in points

tonight. It's a tough one, but at Nashville with Hani Mouktar, the MVP candidate winner from last year, it's going to be tough to stop it. They still be back at the Super Bowl on Saturday. Later, guys.

Thanks, Charlie. They did beat Nashville 2-0. Oh, good. Philly, the Union are they they did uh thanks charlie they did beat nashville uh two nothing um oh good yes philly the union are um fourth in the east at this point um they are uh 11 four and seven and their point differential they're 11 points behind which i think is how they do that. Yeah. So that sucks. Um, hopefully they could pull it out. I know that,

that their coach, Jim Curtin, um, who looks like a British guy, but is actually from here. Um, he, he, he's the most angle looking motherfucker I've seen,

um, in this country. Um, he's, he's more British looking than Gareth. Oh, wow. Yeah, I know. British looking than Gareth. Oh, wow. Yeah, I know.

Yeah. They renewed his contract, I know. Gotcha. Yeah. We'll see. Hopefully they'll be able to pick it up and maybe no Supporter Cup this year, but maybe they can go far in the playoffs once they get a berth.

We'll see. Thanks, Charlie. And they did win against Nashville, which is good. Oh, shit. I accidentally deleted a message. So we got two DMs. One of them was from Raka, who had called in about something, and we were confused about it. So Raka

DMed us and said,, hey Tom, yay Liam, apologize for the unintelligible voicemail. It was completely intelligible. It was just the one word we didn't understand. You thought it was Weinstephan. I thought it was the Guatemalan rum.

Postobon Manzana, a Colombian domestic soda. Postobon Manzana, a Colombian domestic soda. Postobon Manzana. Postobon Manzana. Manzana. Manzana, yeah. Gracias.

No, that's you're welcome. De nada. You're doing great, dude. De nada. Stop it. I'm going to go get some tortillas. I will hang up on you. The last 10 minutes is just me doing different voices. Different voices.

Yeah. So, yeah, Rocco was talking about this Colombian domestic soda. It's apple soda. If you dig around some Colombian restaurants um if you dig around some colombian restaurants as a food bazaar you'll find some and then we also talked about how tsa are the gestapo and um how they wouldn't even i didn't i don't think i told you they wouldn't even let me go near the like like touch the cuban stuff in the rubin airport they're like no no no you can't buy that like don't oh Oh. Yeah. Please.

But now I realize the trick is that you buy it from a liquor store and just throw it in your checked luggage. There you go. So next time I'll do Havana Club. Have you ever had it? Yeah. The real Cuban one? In Canada? Yeah.

Was any good? Yeah. I liked it. Because I know it was the original Bacardi, and I hate Bacardi. Right. Alright, and then the last voicemail,

or not voicemail, DM, is from Nikki, and this is some accent advice from you. One thing to run by, too, so if you can sound more authentically Australian, Tom's honestly pretty close. And I don't recall if Liam's ever done an Aussie accent. But here's a few tips.

Australians project from the back of the vocal palate. Almost from the tonsils. I hate this. Australians also open their mouths too well when they speak. So we tend to skip consonants sometimes I'm sorry I'm turning into Texas here a problem with an ambulance is

when an American pronounced the T almost serves as punctuation right because it's a stop so they tend to say cunned alright so yeah they're weakening there they're they're devoicing the word final consonant. All right, also, we don't call them shrimp.

We call them prawns. That is true. I knew that, and I just... Drapel the Bobby is just sort of a stock phrase in the United States for an Australian. Prawns on a barbie doesn't flow as well. Fair enough. Fuck Paul Hogan.

Jeez, cunts. I do love Australians, though. Do you want to do an Australian accent? I do not. Less than anything, in fact. Why not? You know why. Are you scared?

No, actually, I don't know why. Are you scared? I hate accents. You know this. I know you do. I know you do. You have an accent. I do not have an I know you do. You have an accent. I do not have an accent.

You absolutely... Everyone has an accent. Nope. There's no such thing as neutral language. Everyone's got... And people have an idiolect, too. So everyone's got, like, a natural way they say things. Like, that's unique to them.

You've got the York County accent. Sorry. Yeah. Which is kind of basically philly but a little different you get a little bit more of the central uh pennsylvania peeking in um all right so with that said shouts out north catholic to your patrons cal c patrick m sean p mike s made to be steven d uh no new 700 level patrons. Don't be cowards. Fuck you. Yeah, fuck you. Do it. Plugs. Voicemail 267-371-7218.

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If you want to follow us over there, the thing is it's really hard to get me to switch a platform. Should we do something on threads? No, I'm just not. You're just refusing? Yeah. Patrick was trying to get me to go on threads. I'm like, dude, first off, I have no audience on my Instagram account.

I have people who follow me, but they don't know anything about this shit. Right. I'm not having those two spheres combined. All right. Patreon.com says 10,000 losses. You can see about this shit. Right. I'm not having those two spheres combined. All right. Patreon.com says 10,000 losses. You can see our penis there. No, you can listen to our bonus episodes there. Other podcasts, there's WTYP,

which just did a wonderful, well, not a wonderfully horrible, but well done episode on the George McNair death. Yeah, it was excellent. Appreciate that. Yeah, it is. If you are a listener of this podcast, you probably have heard it already excellent. Appreciate that. Yeah, it is. If you are a listener of this podcast,

you probably have heard it already. But if you're not, if you don't know WTYP, it's one of those other podcasts. It has 65 times listeners. And... And... But...

But... That episode is... It's the same, like, kind of stuff we talk about here. So it was a good one. Thank you very much. Yeah, it was a good one. And yeah, you definitely can tell there was a lot of emotion in that episode. Yeah. Yeah, it's sad.

But go listen to that. Go listen to Trash Future. Hey, Gareth is on that. Past guest Gareth. Nice. What was that? I said nice. Yeah, nice. I thought you said Nennis. I don't think that's his last name.

I don't think it's Nennis. Gareth Nennis. Gareth Nemesis. Nemesis. Gareth is a sweetheart. That was a great episode about the trains in England. So what else?

What else are we plugging? Nothing. Nothing? I'm hungry. All right. I'll hurt rabbit. Oh, yeah, I'm getting hungry too. All right, yeah, listen to those podcasts.

All right, folks. Hell of a way if I didn't say it. All right, man. It was good talking to you I didn't say it. All right, man. It was good talking to you. I'll see you while we record next week, and then we'll be drinking down the shore. Sounds good, dude. On disclosed location.

On disclosed location. Talk later. All right, man. See you. Peace. We're from Philly, fucking Philly. No one likes us. We don't care.

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