The Josh Innes Show - JIS: Flair, Politicians and Chris Paul

Episode Date: May 16, 2022

Josh Innes and Jilly open the show with the news that Ric Flair is going to wrestle again. Josh finds it to be sad. He's going to be wrestling at some dinky show in Nashville. This is the anniversary of Andy Kaufman's death. Josh misses screwing with people in the style of Andy Kaufman. Josh goes on a diatribe about why he's no longer as edgy on the radio. Josh is annoyed by politicians and political pundits in regards to the shooting in Buffalo. The gang also ponders how this whole shooting took place on Twitch without any interruption. Pat Beverly, someone Josh really hates, took aim at Chris Paul on ESPN this morning. Josh has no issue with Beverly talking shit, but wants to know what he's accomplished that puts him in the position to talk. Mattress Mack could have the single largest betting win in history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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How are you Jilly? I'm good. Good. Good, good, good. I mean, it is about 5 o'clock central when we're recording this and we spent two and a half hours on a walk that I was fairly certain was going to take 30 minutes. You were wrong. I mean, this thing was four miles up like a

mountain and all sorts of like the worst kind of walk because it was one where there's all like the roots coming out of the ground and rocks coming out of the ground and it's just a goddamn nightmare. But you know what? I survived. I liked it. But I survived.

Because I'm a fighter. Is what I am. Nice weekend of drinking. Because that's what we do. Yep, that's us. That's what we do on Friday and Saturday and Sunday. Talked to my dad last night. Dad's going to be by himself in Louisiana at his house for the next month because the Zeppelins went to London.

So dad is all convinced, like, yeah, I'll be fine, I'll be fine. He'll probably end up going crazy at some point. He's going to be so bored so fast. No one's going to change the cat's litter. The house is going to smell like just awful cat shit. Well, your sister will come over and do it. Well, the way dad does it, he's very manipulative in this way. He acts like he wants to see you.

Like, hey, come on over and use my pool. Daddy wants to see you. And then when you're over there, it's, hey, can you change the cat's litter here's 20 bucks so but anyway I mean that's what it's gonna be yeah that's what he's gonna do that's about right um I mean he's gonna he I do think he's gonna lose his mind if for no other reason because it's his responsibility to take care of the dogs and the cat and everything and he's's going to have somebody over there every day. He can't be alone. That's just how dad is. He can't just hang out by himself and do nothing. It's got to be, Hey, come meet me for lunch. Hey, come meet me for dinner. He ain't going to cook anything. So every night he's going to be going to pick up food somewhere. He's going

to be meeting. Oh God. Yeah. He's going to be meeting people for dinner and who knows we'll check in with him here over this month and see how things go but uh anyway glad that you guys are with us now you were telling me that rick flair is gonna wrestle again i guess according to sources this is on espn uh legendary wwe wrestler rick the nature boy flair to step in ring one final time first First of all, who the fuck refers to him as Rick the Nature Boy Flair? Like, what website is this from? ESPN. ESPN?

What the fuck are you doing? No one says, oh, yes, it's Rick the Nature Boy Flair. If anything, it's the Nature Boy Rick Flair or Nache or just Rick Flair. The good news is this is going to be right here in Nashville if these sources are correct. How old is Ric Flair? 73. Why is this happening, Ric? Just let it go.

He will step into the ring at the Nashville Fairgrounds on an independent card that will stream live on Fight TV. Doesn't Battle do stuff with them? I think Fight TV is too big for Battle. Battle does some shit where these dudes wrestle in like a in a in a high school gymnasium actually it's smaller than that i want to say one of the events he did was in a workout gym they just set up a ring in a workout gym like a big warehouse and had like 40 people maybe at the event so no you're giving battle way too much credit well it's supposed to be July 31st, so that's the day after SummerSlam. The card on which Flair will perform July 31st should begin at 6.05.

An homage to weekend start times of Jim Crockett promotions and WCW from the 70s and the 90s. He may die. And that might be how he wants to go. Maybe he just wants to die in the ring. Tickets and the pay-per-view stream will go on sale May 27th at noon. The thing about Flair is his in-ring career ended perfectly with the fight with

heartbreak kid yep and you know he took the kick and he says i'm sorry i love you and then bam just kicks him in the face and it's perfect but these wrestlers can't let it go man like i think that some of the more current guys can because a lot of them have become mega stars and other stuff make movies yeah that's what I'm saying so like John Cena like wrestling is is what made John Cena famous but I don't think that John Cena really gives a shit about wrestling same with the rock back for like three four months last year yeah I'm not saying he doesn't enjoy it doesn't get paid you know to do it what I'm saying is his main line of work now is making movies same same with The Rock. So these guys who are big stars, I don't think they live and breathe it like a nature boy whose

whole life is this. None of these guys, well, I shouldn't say none, but these guys didn't have to go through the rigors that these guys had to go through like a Ric Flair. Ric Flair and these guys were making no money for a long time in wrestling, wrestling in high school gyms, on the road 330 days a year type of thing. And I get that some of these guys that are in there now have, you know, started at the bottom, you know, whatever the equivalent of the bottom is in this generation. But they didn't live the lives of, like, Flair or, you know, any of these old school guys who basically it was everything wrestling was everything it was life they took it serious a lot of these guys are doing it because it's

their profession and they may love it but like it's not life or death with a lot of these people now and i think that's in every sport like i think that at some point when the business became big and the money became huge in anything you you start to see people kind of, like the love and passion isn't what it used to be. Flair is one of these old school jabrons that's like, this is all I got. I'm a wrestler. That's who I am. Like, yeah. And that's what he lives. So he's going to go wrestle some asshole at a state fairgrounds. Yep. Like, like that's got to feel like a step. I mean,

obviously it is a step down, but like you're Ric Flair, right? Summer slam is happening in Nashville. There will be 80,000 people at summer slam with all the biggest stars in the world there. That used to be you. Yeah.

It wasn't that long ago that WrestleMania was a hundred thousand people. And Ric Flair has taken the kick from heartbreak kid. Like it wasn't that long ago that Wrestlemania was 100,000 people and Ric Flair has taken the kick from Heartbreak Kid. It wasn't that long ago. And now here you are wrestling at some dinky fight TV event at the state fairgrounds in the same city that Wrestlemania

is happening. And you're on this card with probably some slapdick no one's ever heard of. They don't know if it's going to be a singles match or a tag match or what. I guess it's easy for me to say because I'm not 75 years old and on the back nine and really not even the back nine. I mean, Ric Flair with all the shit that he's avoided, all the near-death experiences he's had,

I feel like Ric Flair is not on the back nine. He's finished up his back nine, and he's sitting there at the 19th hole, just, you know, waiting to die. He's having a beer in the 19th hole after his round of 18. And we just see where it goes from there. So, but like it's, so it's easy for a young guy like me to say, but sometimes you just got to let this shit go. And I think a lot of these younger guys are going to be able to do that. The older guys obviously can't. It's like when, uh, that when Hogan and those guys, flair was one of them doing like these TNAs and these lesser fucking things, like, and I'm not going to rip like a

sting. Cause they, they, they made a, this, uh, AEW and they're doing relatively well, but like sometimes you gotta know when to say wins. Hey, you know, what's kind of over, you know, I'm not, I know i'm not i mean i get that it's hard because your job is a wrestler how about you just enjoy being famous for being rick flair do some commercials be mentioned in rap songs every sports team in the universe quote you and does the woo and brings you to do a first pitch and also if you were better with your money which he obviously wasn't he probably pays a shitload of you know alimony to people uh you know he legitimately had the planes and the limos and the Rolex as he was living the gimmick.

So he pissed away a lot of money, but like, I don't know, man, like speaking of wrestling today is, is the anniversary of Andy Kaufman's death. And of course he had the thing with, uh, with Jerry Lawler, which was one of the greatest wrestling angles of all time, a great storyline. But, you know, Kaufman is interesting because Kaufman never was actually funny. Like, Taxi's not funny. He wasn't a funny stand-up, really. Like, his thing was fucking with people, and I admire that. Basically, he's like an impractical joker type of guy,

and the humor came from the awkwardness, and I fucking love that. Like, that's some of the things that I would do that people didn't get. Like, I'm not saying I'm Andy Kaufman. You don't really get that from many people at all now. No, but fucking with people is great. It's the greatest form of comedy. You know, when I was in Philadelphia, that's what we did. Cause they were easy to fuck with. Like the Philadelphia people are the easiest people to fuck with. Houston people weren't as easy to fuck with. They'd be kind of hip to the jive or they just wouldn't give a shit. Part of fucking with people is people have to care. And if you fuck with them on something they care about,

they are very easy to manipulate and fuck with. And that's what I enjoyed. That's what Andy Kaufman was. Like Andy Kaufman and a guy named Bob Zamuda, who was like his best friend and like his running mate and the guy that did all of his shit with him. Bob Zamuda and Andy, they did shit just to amuse themselves.

That's like me and Jim on a much lower level. Me and Jim would do that. We did shit just to amuse ourselves. And obviously it isn't the greatest form of shit because Andy Kaufman never went full on mainstream with anything. I mean, I guess he was on taxi, so that's mainstream,

but like he never was, you know, one of those elite level guys that was mainstream rich and famous per se, but like, that's how me and Jim were. I like, we just love fucking with people, man. Like that's like, you don't get enough fucking with people anymore unless it's the Babylon B or something like that, but it's just fun. And people are more hip to it because of social media and stuff i imagine back in 80 81 82 when there were still only a handful of television channels and people still kind of believe the you know that like the the the kayfabe of wrestling and and you didn't get to see everything every day in terms of celebrities so when someone fucked with you you thought it was real like i wish we can get back to that that sounds like fun just fuck I love but now like somehow like fucking with people

has become bullying you know like it's just you can't do it anymore yeah I mean come on though I mean it's the best fucking with people like the best was like if you go back to Philly and I go back to Philly because that's where we're fucking with people is the easiest and when we

would do like the you know would you take Brian Dawkins or a Garuda and people are calling like this is dumb shit bro but i mean i would take dog like i just i loved it man yep the filling was very easy to do as you said houston was a little more difficult but yeah because they just don't care or when someone fell for it they would fall for it yeah yeah you just can't do that anymore but man that that kicks ass i miss that and like now I think part of the thing that bothers me is like there's a desire in me to do it but there's also a desire in me to just stay the fuck out of trouble you know like I've been you've been slapped on the wrist one too many times and by slapped on the wrist I mean you know fired let me tell you what Josh Ennis is trying to do Josh Ennis trying to keep these ratings up long enough

to get him a big deal and get rich that's what Josh Ennis is trying to do you Josh Ennis trying to keep these ratings up long enough to get him a big deal and get rich. That's what Josh Ennis is trying to do. You want to call me a sellout, whatever. I mean, we still have fun on the podcast and I say a lot more on the podcast than I do on the radio, but it's so weird to be this way. Like my old, like forever I've been programmed to just say, let's go push the boundaries, test limits, fuck with people, whatever. I'm to the point now where my boss is like, you know, you could fuck around a little bit and kind of make waves. I'm like, I'm not going to do that. I'm not going to do that. I'm going to just pump the, I'm just going to sit back. I'm going to stay out of trouble. I'm going to make it seem like I'm pushing boundaries. I'm not, I'm going to do, you know, keep everything as you're down the middle as I can here. Try to

not piss anybody off and see what happens. Now I have a natural ability to piss people off that's one of my skills your existence tends to piss people off like Detroit it certainly does those people like I get so many messages from people mostly from the same four people that just hate me because of my existence and that's fine but like I was you know I was talking with my agent about this because you know like I mean everybody knows this when we moved here this was the place that had the job. Like there was no other job out there for me. And by the way, 97 five sure as fuck, wasn't going to, uh, I don't talk about Houston, 97 five, you know, they, I mean, I know for pretty much a fact that they were never going to give me any of these jobs that were open anyway. So like, this was the job I had

to take it. It was the job that was open. And for a guy that was making no money, hey, it's a good salary. But obviously in my world now, for the success we've had, I would like more money. That's just natural, right? You want to get paid more. And again, my boss tells me, go out there and you'll make some waves. I don't care if people get pissed off. Everybody says that, Jonathan, until you piss off the wrong person. And then suddenly...

And then all of a sudden, you're a troublemaker. All of a sudden, you're a piece of shit. All of a sudden, like, you don't get along with people or you're a malcontent or you're a wild card. Why did you do that? And all of a sudden, it's, you ain't getting a raise. You ain't getting that money. And your boy, like, the reason I could do this podcast

is because we make money doing the radio show. And you know what? I would like to make more money doing the radio show so we can continue to do the podcast and I can sit around here and fuck around and have fun and everything else. Like, this is the place for it. This is where I go to say what I actually think about shit instead of, you know, couching some of my opinions. Am I a fraud? Maybe.

But I don't get on the air, you know, anymore and tell people, hey, I'm giving you the, like, this is where you're going to get honesty. Like, no, I'm doing a fucking classic rock radio show. We're talking up Jay Giles records and I'm listening to battle do the news and I'm responding to some shit. And then I'm talking up a journey record. Like that's what it is. I don't think you're a fraud. I think you're just, you've gotten smarter. Well, at least listen until I get rich. Once I get rich and powerful enough, I can be a dumbass again. But at this point, like I was talking with my agent about that today she says yeah you know the you know I talk to people about you and they they want to know if you stay out of trouble if you you know you're still a problem I'm like Heather I ain't a problem at all in fact they

want me to be more of a problem they ask me to be a problem and I say Heather I ain't gonna be a problem I'm gonna sit back and I'm gonna to be a problem. I'm going to sit back and I'm going to collect my check and then I'm going to get fucking paid is what I'm going to do. Then I'll fuck around. Once I got that, that long-term deal and I got that, that chingling in my pocket, maybe I'll test the boundaries a little bit more until that time. I'm talking up that fucking Stevie Nicks record and trying to do the stay the fuck out of trouble is what I'm talking up that fucking uh Stevie Nicks record and trying to do the stay the fuck out of trouble is what I'm trying to do uh but uh anyway so um uh so what is going on in the world you know what that shooting in Buffalo yeah it amazes me when I look at our chat on Twitch and

I see the shit that gets censored right like? Like you'll see like somebody calls someone a dork and it's like, nope, nope, nope. We got to, we got to block that. We can't call people a dork. Somehow this motherfucker was on Twitch. The whole buildup to this guy going to shoot up all these black folks at the grocery store was all on Twitch. And no one censored that. And no one censored a fucking thing on that now i don't know how many

people were watching it live my guess is it wasn't a time um i think the screenshot i saw which was when someone was already shot there was still 22 people watching think about that 22 people sat there and watched a live snuff film they just watched this guy shoot these people. Now, I don't know what they could have done. Maybe they did call 911. There's only so much you can do. I would hope so. You can't yell at your screen and go, hey, don't do it, bro. That being said, too, the whole build-up to this, him driving

there, and he drove from a while away. You would think someone would have called the cops and been like, hey, this guy's on his way to... I don't know if he said where he was going. I assume he did. Seems like he likes the attention. Yeah.

But, yeah, that's fucked up. The whole thing is, but there's so many levels of all of these kind of stories that are fucked up. Most notably, it's fucked up that a guy goes out and shoots 10 people, whether they're black, white, Asian. Like, it's fucked up, the story itself. It's also fucked up the way it gets covered by media people on both sides, by the way, because like you can predict how these things are going to go. So the first thing we do when we hear about a mass shooting is we have to know the race of the shooter. If the shooter is white, we dig deeper. If the shooter is any other race, Mexican,

black, whatever, the story almost instantly goes away. Like, that's just reality. That's not me being MAGA dude or whatever. That's just the reality of how they handle these situations. We have to see if the shooter is white or other. If he is other, we move on. If he is white, we say, all right, let's dig a little deeper. Then we want to find out what the motive of the white guy is. And basically, if he's white, his motive is already that he's a white supremacist in the

minds of people. In this case, he was. I mean, he is. Correct, correct. But no matter what the shooting is, we assume if he's white, he's an angry white man who's angry because white people are being shunned in this country. So he's got white issues and white anger. And that's why he's doing it.

So that's how that lines up. Then we continue to dig deeper into it. We look for his whole backstory and find out why he did it, why he didn't like black people, why, whatever. And media people will really hammer this, and then they'll big picture it and turn it into white people are an issue. Like, that's where I get mad. Not that it's like, Hey, white supremacy is bad.

Well, no shit. White supremacy is bad. I don't believe white supremacy is some widespread issue that the media makes it out to be. I think that there are select people in this world that are fucking lunatics that are legit white supremacists. Just like, I believe there are legit lunatics who hate white people or hate Mexican people or hate Korean people. I think they're a legit crazy people. I hate women. Like I think there's a bunch of crazy fucking people out there and that's what you deal with. The problem is it becomes a big societal issue. And I truly believe that these politicians and these media people, they love this shit. They love it because it continues to hammer home their narrative that whitey is terrible, that white

people are the worst, that white people are dreadful. And this is an issue that must be remedied. And like, we've got to stop white supremacy. Like it's the biggest fucking plague or scourge on society is that there are some hillbilly white people that might be racist. That's their whole angle. That's the big white boogeyman on the other side of it, what it becomes. And this is what the conservative folks will do. And this is what the Twitter verse and every, every one of these conservative media pundit guys on Twitter will do is it becomes, Oh, it's an issue that this guy shot a bunch of black people, but none of these politicians care when 30 people are shot in Chicago. Like it's so predictable, the order of

events that you're going to get here, that it just gets to the point where nothing's ever going to get fixed or nothing's going to be attempted to be remedied because nobody actually wants to remedy it because people will just sit there and fall into their same dopey groups and they will have their same dopey opinions that are super predictable. The white Republican people will bitch about Chicago. They always love to go back to Chicago. Chicago's the one thing, like, Republicans love fucking Chicago. They always love to go back to Chicago. Chicago's the one thing.

Like, Republicans love fucking Chicago. They love it. What about all the shootings in Chicago this weekend? One doesn't have to do with the fucking other. They were bringing up the Waukesha thing a lot. That was their angle this time, was the guy that mowed down all the dancing grannies at the parade. Yes. That was there. But that goes into the initial category of the

media people are frauds and they will not cover a story once they find out that a black man did it. Hell, if the suspect is black in a lot of instances, they won't even mention the race of the suspect. Like if they say, well, reportedly the suspect is a black man, they will just say it is a man. Yes. Like it's fucked up. Like that part is not wrong. That is fucked up. And everything is so driven by race. But then the other side doesn't make themselves look any better when it's, hey, you know, there was this white supremacist and he shot up a bunch of black folks and like he was

a legit white supremacist. He didn't like black people. He was a racist. It wasn't a perception like, oh, he's a MAGA guy that they called white supremacist. He was a legit white supremacist. Said he didn't like black folks. Battle was telling me, and I didn't watch the video. Apparently Battle did because he's a fucking Neanderthal. But Battle watched the video. Was he one of the 22 watching it live? What if he was watching it live at that moment? No, but I think he actually, he watched some of it. And he said that there was at one

point where the guy shoots a white dude and he goes, man, I'm sorry. That wasn't meant for you. Like, holy shit. Like it was a fucked up situation. The problem is you get these two sides, these political, the politicians and the political analysts and the dopes on social media. And what it becomes is another fucking back and forth and both sides sound like fucking imbeciles, but that's what they want because that's what the world is. It is a fight for power and prestige and money. And there is no, we talk about this all the time. There is no value in being down the middle. We talk about this all the time. I consider you and I to be down the middle. I can look at both sides of a situation, find the good, find the bad. And we have people that reach out to us on our podcast and call us fucking assholes because of our opinions on abortion just you having this conversation now i think makes you a racist you think so probably you think so because you're not immediately saying

like boy there's all there's like i've seen people like politicians tweet about how like domestic terrorism and white supremacy is the bigger issue in the world like because that's the boogeyman they can hang on you know like it's bizarre to me that is the boogeyman it is an issue but i i think there might be bigger there are like again this is the the white boogeyman that they will go back to that is their thing if you are looking at it strictly from hey what gets the clicks what gets the viewers because we always talk about the and then it also goes down the road of like well all these unarmed black folks were plugged by the cops but this guy shot 10 people and he just, you know, gets taken into custody. Just nice and gentle.

Because it's all, everything is driven by race. It's all bullshit. And that's what keeps people afraid of the white boogeyman. That's what keeps people, like it keeps the cycle going. The cycle will never be broken. It's sick because then you lose track of the fact that like 10 people are dead. Yes. No one actually.

Which is horrific. Here's the dirty little secret. Most of these politicians and media people on both sides do not give a fuck about any of those 10 people. They know that those 10 people are, are pawns or characters in their movie. They are part of their narrative that they are spinning. They couldn't care less that these people are dead. What they care about is that now, oh, I'm a democratic politician and I can drive some more fear into the hearts of black voters by saying that white supremacy is this great thing. And that could have been your kids. They like the politicians love doing that. That could have been your children that were shot there. That could have been you. And it drives the fear mongering. And then on the other side, it's, you know, the typical fear mongering and then on the other side it's you know the typical fear mongering as we mentioned earlier of well what about chicago what about chicago i know both sides are just terrible

or i've seen other people tweeting like this manifesto reads like a tucker carlson monologue i'm pretty sure it doesn't i'm sure it's not nearly as smarmy as tucker carlson i'm pretty sure there's a difference between you know legit horrific white supremacist and tucker carlson i would agree with that or like people think this could have been kyle ruttenhaus again totally different situation correct but nobody wants to nobody wants the truth nobody wants reality on and again you guys forget 10 people are dead correct Correct. Big picture here. None of them care. None of them care. Republicans, Democrats, they don't give a fuck. Do not give a fuck. At least the most extreme.

And this is about the most extreme. Because, again, I think most people that listen to this podcast or most people in the world are not extremists. They are down the middle and they look at everything kind of for its own individual case. Do you believe most people are good? And most mamas ought to qualify for sainthood. No, I believe that most people are pieces of shit, but, but I do think they're down the middle on most things. Most people are not the lunatics that you see on social media. As we've discussed, social media is not real. It is bullshit, right? Social media and politics. Correct. It's all horrible, but it's all bullshit. It leads you to believe that's how the world is. And that's why people

hate each other. If you sit down and have a beer or a coffee or a lunch or something with someone, you're going to find shit you agree on and disagree on, but no one's going to sit there for the most part, unless you're a maniac, who's just going to tow like a line for a party and say everything about that party is right. Nobody's going to do that. Most people will not. Like, if you listen to this, like I never get accused of being a liberal, right? I mean, it certainly hadn't been since I was on 610 in Houston. Have I ever been accused of being a liberal? But like, if you listen to this and you hear our opinions, when we were talking about abortion last week, there are some people who would listen and say that I'm some wacky lunatic liberal on the, but I get mostly accused of being a MAGA right winger, whatever guy, right? That's what I'm

accused of most frequently in all this. Well, again, what are a wacko right wing extremists say, Hey, you know what? I'm pro choice in this shit. And I'm pro whatever, like, like there's so many things. It's just bullshit. Essentially what it comes down to is it's all bullshit and it's all for power. It's all for money. It's all for the clout as it were. It is all bullshit. But what it ultimately boils down to is power and everybody's fucking nuts and it's gross how nuts people are, man.

Like they're just out of fucking bounds. And, and the people who get caught up in at the worst are the people who are like me and you and the vast majority of people who just want to live their fucking lives and don't care to go out and scream to the mountaintops about every fucking political thing in an us versus them fucking war. And that is someone that I'm never going to be like, I think about that a lot. And I say, Josh, do you need the podcast to be like, hey, I'm right wing guy. And like, and I'm sure if you, if you market yourself that way or left wing guy and you market yourself that way, I guarantee you get more downloads. Why? Because extreme, the people that are extreme on either side want to consume it, right? They want someone to come in and echo their

sentiments and believe what they believe, right? That's what to come in and echo their sentiments and believe what they believe, right? That's what they want. That's what they covet. That's what they desire. So what is the affirmation? They're looking for affirmation, but ultimately that's not who I'm going to be for either side of this shit. Now you might view me as affirmation for one particular topic. Like if you're someone who thinks James Harden's a piece of shit, then you'll come in and go, I listen to Josh Ennis because he also thinks that James Harden is a piece of shit, and I agree with him, right? Like, you'll get that. But by and large, you're not going to get affirmation from me on most shit.

Maybe that's starting to bother some people. I don't know. But I don't need to sit here and kowtow to anybody or kiss somebody's ass based on who you fucking voted for or what your political fucking beliefs are. If you like it, you like it. If you don't, you don't. I don't have time. I actually have a ton of time in my life. I have nothing but time, but I don't have time to fuck around with that kind of stuff. I just don't give a fuck. What else is going on in the world? Well, this is a very odd seg, but yep, everyone is kind of up against Chris Paul today. Yeah.

Led by Patrick Beverly. Patrick Beverly's a fucking stooge. Like, Patrick Beverly is a marginal basketball player who plays a little bit of defense, plays dirty, he's a pest, and apparently he was talking a lot of shit about Chris Paul. He was like live tweeting last night, yeah. And then he's on ESPN today, and he's just unloading on Chris Paul and how bad Chris Call them a traffic cone like come on dude go fuck yourself like I respect the fact that you're speaking your mind I think more people

need to speak their mind but I will also say that if you say something that I think is stupid when you're speaking your mind I will tell you that you're fucking stupid also I feel like Chris Paul has clearly accomplished a lot more than Patrick Beverly probably ever will. Patrick Beverly is a role-player pest. That's all he is. And Chris Paul is very respected by most, I think. Correct. Now, I think Chris Paul is, in his own way, dirty. He knows how to get his fouls.

And this is one thing I'll agree with. I think that guys like Chris Paul get a pass from a lot of people because he's in the commercials and he looks like he tries hard. Go back to the thing with him and Harden. When they had the conversation about how Chris Paul is up until all hours of the night watching film and James Harden is not. And one guy works hard, one guy doesn't, right? Like it's kind of the same thing with Harden and Westbrook. Westbrook was perceived to be the try hard guy that was always going a hundred miles an hour. And Harden is perceived to be the guy that doesn't give a fuck and gets by on his talent,

and people will tend to gravitate towards the guy that's the try-hard. Pat Beverly is a try-hard. Chris Paul is a likable guy that people think just all he wants to do is fucking win. He obviously isn't the same player he used to be, but Pat Beverly going on fucking TV and unloading on the guy. Like, you're Pat Beverly, dude. If Michael Jordan rolled out and was talking shit about Chris Paul, that's one thing.

You're fucking Pat Beverly. Who are you? Everybody knows that. Everyone knows that. It's just y'all don't want to accept it. I don't accept that. I don't. No, no, no.

Again, if you're taller than them, you can shoot over them. Obviously, that's an issue. But give him the Ben Simmons slander. Give him the PG-13 slander. Hold on, hold on, hold on. First of all, watch yourself now. Don't compare CP3 to Ben Simmons.

No, no, I didn't compare. I said the slander. I said the slander. I said the slander. Well, what's the slander? If you show up, listen. Listen. You, I consider a guy that's an elite defender. You know how I feel about you.

The best in the world. Well, I wouldn't say the best in the world, but I get you. I got, I know that you're an elite defender. I'm giving you props for that, my brother. The best in the world. Okay. Well, you should feel that way about yourself. I don't feel that way about you, but you should feel that way about yourself.

ESPN gave me the numbers. That you're the best in the world? It's Giannis at 41.3% and it's Patrick Belli at 41.9, which means if you have the ball and Patrick Belli is guarding, it feels like Giannis is guarding. I'm only six feet. The fuck does that even mean?

Like, what is this random number? He's like, hey, ESPN gave me the numbers, dog. 41%. 41% of what? What does that even fucking mean? Best in the world fucking dope i hate him so much like bro you play for the timberwolves yeah you play for the timberwolves you celebrated winning the play-in game like you just won the the damn championship you got taken out by the youngest team in the league the uh the the grizzly he's like come on dude

like the the shit talking this dude did like hey I respect you for going out and putting your name on it and speaking your shit. Like, I respect that. But I will also tell you if you sound like a dipshit because of who you are. And he sounds like a dipshit because, again, you are Pat Beverly. What do you say to that? The basketball player, you could see it in their eyes. They were scared.

It ain't about Luka taking his soul. They knew starting the game what was going to happen. He's done it before. They watch Trust Me. They have iPhones. They have Instagram. They see the numbers of Luka Donc it slow. They knew starting the game what was going to happen. He's done it before. They watch. Trust me. They have iPhones. They have Instagram. They see the numbers of Luka Doncic averaging 39.

They hear me saying, man, he did it to me. He did it to me. Kawhi, Paul, George. I'm damn sure you're going to do it to them. They know that. Boy, sked of Luka. Ain't nobody afraid of anybody over there in Phoenix, man. Everybody in the league knows that, bro.

Like, it's just that y'all don't know that because y'all not in the locker room. No one's afraid of Phoenix. We wanted them. We locker room. No one's afraid of Phoenix. We wanted them. We wanted them. No one's afraid of Phoenix. I think Phoenix would have beat the Timberwolves. I no doubt think they would have. Yeah. Bro, you didn't beat Memphis. Both, well, Dame

now has come out and kind of like shit on Pat Beverly. Like, what the hell are you talking about? And then Matt Barnes is on TV today also kind of like putting Pat Bev in check. Because you're fucking patrick beverly like matt barnes chris paul's going to the hall of fame you're just a pest if you look up just search matt barnes you'll see his video and i think he makes the best point in all of this which is basically what you're trying to say which is like who are you like who the fuck like i like again speak your truth say what's on your fucking mind. Go down one more.

But, like, chill the fuck out, dude. Like, you're Patrick Beverly. Now let's see what Matt Barnes had to say. That crazy, man. Let's see. What I want to touch on real quick, RJ, is the disrespect I saw from Pat Beverly earlier today. You know, as reporters, you know, part of the media,

we have a job to be critical, but I think there's a thin line between being critical and disrespecting. And I feel like what Pat Beverly did today to Chris Paul was completely disrespectful and out of the line. And Pat Beverly's talking like he's that guy. You're not that guy, plain and simple. Chris Paul played terrible this year, and his numbers are still better than your career numbers have ever been. So I just think you have to understand, Chris is a 12-time All-Star. He played terrible all defense nine times, seven times first team all defense.

He'll be a Hall of Famer. Pat Bev and I were similar type role players. They don't talk about us when we go. They're going to talk about CP3 when he's done. And I just think the disrespect we saw earlier today on the ESPN show needed to be checked because he was way out of pocket. I enjoy the humbleness. You're like me.

No one cares about us. No one gives a fuck about me or you, Pat Beverly. I'll give Beverly credit. He's making a name for himself by talking his shit. Like, sometimes that's what you got to do. You got to talk some shit and make a name for yourself. You know, that's kind of what Tony Allen did. Nobody gave a fuck about Tony Allen.

But Tony, he was a lesser role player than Pat Bev. He couldn't shoot or anything. Couldn't lay the ball up. He could just play defense. But you build a reputation and you help get that reputation by talking shit. So Mattress Mac is going to, if the Astros win the World Series, which now seems very possible, if the Astros win the World Series, Mattress Mac is going to be the single biggest winner of a legal sports bet ever. Yep, he placed a $3 million bet on the Astros,

plus $1,000 to win the World Series with Caesars Sportsbook. So if he wins, that would be the largest win at a legal sports book ever with 30 mil. And then he also put another million on, I forget what other sports, on the win at plus $1,200. This dude. And the thing is, he sets this money on fire. Okay, first of all, we all know that he's protected in some way. Like he's making his money. This is not like he's just going out

and setting money on fire. However, that's $4 million. If man, if he ever actually hits one of these, like again, 30 mil dude's going going to bankrupt Vegas one of these days. He's going to bankrupt the sportsbooks. If that hits, like, I don't know where you just make up $30 million if you're a sportsbook. You know, like, oh, by the way, here's your $30 million, Mac. Yeah. Like, here you go.

Just take it in cash. Yeah. But he does, I mean, he's never hit any of these big pets, though. No. Like, he makes it up, though, because, like, obviously he's doing his Astros win it all, you get it all promotion. But I wonder if they generate $5 million in sales. I guess so from that promotion. I would assume they do.

Otherwise, he wouldn't do it if he didn't see the value in it, I guess. Yeah, he's not stupid. Oh, God, no, he's not stupid. He's brilliant. And again, we talk about the advertisement he gets, the national exposure he gets is worth millions of dollars. Although, you know, these people are now trying to come for Mac, though. You see a lot of the whole, like, whoa, think of what $400 or $300 million

could have done for, you know, people in need. Yes, because Mac never helps people in need. Never once has, like, I don't see the guy over at fucking, you know, Ochsner or whatever furniture, whatever furniture it is, random, I don't see the guy over at fucking, you know, Ochsner or whatever furniture, whatever furniture it is, random, the dump. I don't see the guys at the dump going, hey, I'm going to open up my store so people can stay in here because they've been displaced by a storm. Or I bought thousands upon thousands of tickets to the World Series and playoff games for

people. Like, if anybody ever comes at that dude for any of that shit, I will find them and I will fight them my fucking self. That's the internet for you, man. If you don't know Mac, you're not in Houston. You're like, well, this old rich white man. Well, fuck them. But yeah, mattress Mac slander will not be tolerated.

There are certain slanders that we will not accept. We can find out that Mac is like the seediest motherfucker on the planet. We can find out it's all fake and I would still not accept your slander because the guy has done so much shit for so many people. Fuck your slander. Who do I need to tell them about, Julie? Craftology by Christy. Yep. So we're working on that new shirt with Christy. I got to give her the ideas, but of course we're aiming for the live your life, love your dog, drink beer. That's going to be the special shirt that people are going to be able to buy. So that's what we're shooting for.

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