The Mismatch - Which Superstar Has Played in Their Last Finals? Plus, MPJ’s Erraticness, Labubus, and a Joker Brother Sighting.

Episode Date: August 19, 2025

Verno and Jacoby briefly go through some of the meaningless news around the league before Verno reads a message from a listener about a special sighting on one of the islands of Hawaii. Next, the guys come up with 10 different scenarios for the upcoming season and debate which would be the more likely outcome. (00:00) Welcome to The Mismatch!(01:04) Meaningless news(07:28) Strahinja Jokic sighting in Hawaii(14:57) Which is more likely: LeBron has played in his last NBA Finals, that Steph has, or that KD has?(20:12) Which is more likely: Wemby or Jalen Brunson is top five in MVP voting?(26:39) Which is more likely: Zion plays 65-plus games, or MPJ leads the league in scoring?(30:32) Which is more likely: Grizzlies or Mavs hit the over on 40.5 wins?(35:00) Which is more likely: Celtics, Bucks, or Pacers make the playoffs?(40:45) Which is more likely: Joel Embiid misses the season, or the Labubus that Verno bought Jacoby’s kids are fake?(51:40) Which is more likely: Malik Beasley or Michael Malone is on an NBA bench by the All-Star break?(57:19) Which is more likely: Deandre Ayton enters the All-Star conversation, or LeBron gets traded?(59:52) Which is more likely: Jacoby scores 25-plus in a men’s league game, or an NBA player scores 80 in a game?(01:01:44) Which is more likely: Taylor and Travis get married by the end of the NFL season, or Klay and Megan get married by the end of the NBA season? Leave us a message on our Mismatch Voicemail line! [phone] Hosts: Chris Vernon and David JacobyProducers: Jessie LopezSocial: Keith Fujimoto Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to the mismatch. I'm Chris Vernon. And joining me to see us every week from the ringer.com is Dave Jacoby. Jacoby. Do you know what I love about this job? What? August. August. This is when you really have to flex your creative muscles.

This is where you really have to make the lemonade from the lemons. We got the schedule last week. So that was kind of a layup. That was, I mean. You really tried. We did our best. I'm proud of us. Can they release something else?

She's kind of got some downtime until we get to training camps, which is only a month and a half away. So we're going to make the most of it talking about the upcoming NBA season and things that are on our mind throughout this summer. We were not without big news this week, though, Jacoby. So luckily, some things have broken since we last spot. You are going to get to watch Haywood Highsmith in person when you head down to Brooklyn to go check out the Nets so that you can go and watch the opposing team come to play against the Brooklyn Nets.

And now you are going to get to root on Haywood Highsmith in the process. I was like, so what's in this deal? a 2032 second round pick a 2032 second round pick I mean just a real shot to the ego for Haywood I how do I say this there is a shine that you get when you're with the heat I feel like they get the best out of sort of like undrafted young players they make them look real good

and when they go somewhere else, they don't look so good. And something tells me that Mr. Hismuth might be in that group. Well, I don't know. Or maybe he will flourish, but he did just get traded for a seventh grader. I think the heat sent the 20,

32 second round pick. Oh, oh, okay. He got traded along with a seventh grader. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And so they're getting back a conditional second round pick to Miami. So they traded him and a seventh grader for a conditional second round pick. Can we talk about something else?

Luca got hurt. Did he? I mean, everybody freaked out. Like when you saw him the timeline, I freaked out. Oh, that's because they had like the zoom in of his face. And it's like, you know, now there's all these accounts on like Instagram. And so it was like hurt. And then it's just like.

Because he got hurt. I know, but then it's like this disheveled, like, down-looking face of Luca Dajic. Straight to the locker room. He's playing tonight, Ferno. He's playing tonight. Against two. Great Britain. Great Britain.

Great Britain has a team? Yeah. I don't know who's on it. Shout out to Great Britain. He had no idea. Was he from Great Britain? Maybe. I think so.

I'm not going to fact check back because I don't care. Yeah, who cares? Who cares? But Luca, Luca getting hurt. I was like, it was honestly like, you know when you stub your toe against like the bedposts? Yep. And for the first 30 seconds, it hurts like, like you, like, like everything. I feel like that was this injury for Luca.

Like, yes, it hurt. He got hurt. But he's fine. He practiced today and he's going to play. You know what? We are huge in Australia. So I need to apologize right off the bat. Aaron Bates is Australian?

Yeah, he's Australia. I was in Australian last year for food news. I want to. apologize to my great friends. I feel like I'm half Australian at this point because I was there for a week. So I do want to apologize to all of my Australian friends and the entire ABL and the basketball culture that exists in that English-speaking country, which is why we are huge there. I feel like I should, I've been watching Shogun. I should probably just kill myself with the sword right now. Yeah, we feel here. We feel terrible about that. I've dishonored. I've

dishonored myself and my family and the entire continent of Australia, which is its own continent. I apologize. All right. So, yeah. So, yeah. So Great Britain has got nobody. And our listeners in Great Britain will be sure to inform me how I need to keep track of so-and-so. Liyana smacked a guy in the back of the head? That was the news. So because there's no news, I actually researched this, they've been playing together for a decade. So that's like, yeah.

Their family. Yeah, exactly. It's family. You can't smack a guy in the back of the head. Let's that. So, come on. I mean, it didn't. It was, when I read that,

I'm like, oh, that's more of a like, come on, get your head in the game. He's like, looking up in the crowd at a girl smack. Then like, I'm trying to hurt you. You've disrespected me smacked. He smacked it pretty hard, though. He did smacked him pretty hard. He's got reach. Well, then can we, can we please do it?

Can we, can we please do this story justice then? Jacoby. Yeah. Does Yonis have anger issues? Have the bucks driven Yonis to wear his frustration? is boiling over and he is hitting long-term friends? Has it all just become too much in Milwaukee? That was basically a trade request.

That was a trade request. He is no longer going to be in the books. I'd be shocked if he was in the bucks on opening day. I mean, by the trade deadline, by Halloween, he'll be wearing a costume as a maverick on Halloween. That's what's going to happen if they don't trade him immediately. That was a trade request.

he's got anger issues he's angry at the bucks the buck situation has driven him to smack his teammates you're absolutely right verno I forgot that I was a sports media member and then I have to speak like this okay I apologize to the fans before we get to our unbelievable bit that's going to win several awards

what is it called the is it you think we'll get like a peabody or a potty a potty a potty yeah we just name potty potty potty potty potty potty potty I have to I have to give you an update on the most important message that I got this week from a mismatch listener. Oh, what's that?

Came from one of our listeners. We have listeners. Rick. Yeah, I couldn't believe it either. I thought we were just chatting. The message begins. Aloha from Hawaii. Oh.

Yeah. Oh, I know what this is. No, you don't. I do. How? Because I have three children in Hawaii right now. nothing to do with them. Okay, good.

Okay, continue. Shit. My wife and I live on Oahu. Oh. Yeah. Where's Oahu? And decided to treat ourselves to a fancy dinner at a really cool resort. We're sitting at our table, overlooking the water.

And my wife says, look at that guy working out in the water. and guess who it is. Ambien player. Oh, no! No! Doing in a pool or in the ocean? Hold on. It's got to be the pool.

Doing some aquatic workout. The guy is incredible. You think he was intimidating in Vegas? You should see him with his shirt off, all tatted up. Later that night, we're watching the sunset from a different spot at the resort. I turned around and there he is sitting by himself alone at the pool, watching the sun go down. Strahanya Yokic, he's everywhere. Oh, my God.

First of all, why do you go Hayward Highsmith on the mess? But you've got Stranya updates, Farno. Do you know how to stack a rundown for the show? Unbelievable. But I mean, our listeners are now seeing him in these different scenarios. What is his summer? Oh, wow. No, so here's what it is.

Here's what it is. Because we figured out that he wasn't just there for the Nuggets when he was in Summer League. He was working. He went to every game, took detailed notes, and figured out which prospects could potentially get cut by their NBA teams and could join his team, Serbia. Do you know what that was? That was work. After work, what do you do? Vacation.

But when you're on vacation, you have to keep the body right. But I like the idea of this man, this gigantic mountain of a man sitting cross-legged, watching the Hawaiian sunset by himself. Okay, Jacoby. And imagine this. Imagine my guy, one of our listeners. Rick.

Rick, looking up his white, points out this guy and now he has to explain that this stupid podcast he listens to he has to the whole hour on this forget our business he has to he has to message the host because this is unbelievable

this stupid podcast I listen to talks about this guy and here I am on in Oahu out to dinner with my lovely wife I've looked down at the pool. No way. No. I think it was like breakfast. I think they

at what meal? Did he specify the meal? Dinner. Oh, so is it dinner? Yeah, sunset. He's like, he's watching the sunset. No, no, no, but there's two instances. If I'm not wrong, there's two Stranya sightings. There was earlier in the day when they saw him working out in the pool. The aquatic workout. The aquatic workout, which is insane because I've done an aquatic workout before in Palm Springs in a pool. It was just me and a bunch of 80 year olds.

I was like, oh, this is not for me. This is like not a workout. This is just like moving in a pool. Okay. But that was earlier the day. That is at the point when he was like, okay. I know you don't care, wife. Because my wife doesn't care at all.

She's never listened to a second of the Ms. Betcher and her whole entire life. No. The person that she loves. The most. Like fifth most is on the show. Right. He's like, okay.

That's not just some. crazy gigantic tattooed guy. He's actually not an NBA player, but a brother of an NBA player. At this point, she's already gone back to her food, and she's just like cutting up like an egg and putting it on top of a piece of toast. She's not listening anymore.

He's like, and not only that, there's a podcast about the NBA that this is very important to, and now she's full on asleep across the table from him. And I'm going to tell them, and now she's left the table and left He's not going to see him for an hour.

But then, later in the evening, Straanya, Rick, and his wife reconvene at a different location in the hotel. I would love to see that man shirtless at the magic hour with the Hawaiian sunset lighting up his face and body and hair. And just the contours that those shadows would give him. I mean, just someone paint that for me. Does anyone know how to use AI? I'm old. Anyone who can use AI, I want Straanya cross-legged on a sunset, send it to me on social. I'll give you credit.

I'll get it printed out. It'll be there. I'll get it, I don't know, six by eight feet and I'll put it up in my wall. This is going to be unbelievable because I know this is not the last time that someone is going to message me like this. I mean, you can only imagine a guy who is a fan of this show in Hawaii, no less. On vacation. No, he's not on vacation. He lives there.

Oh, he lives there. Oh, my God. And goes, wants to take. That's probably the most work that he's done in the last three months. So he goes out to a nice resort to take his wife to dinner. And Rick looks up and he's going, no way. He's not even on vacation. It's just date night?

He lives in a Wahoo. Oh, my God. And listens to the mismatch. And imagine. his surprise when he's like, no way. How? I just listened to these guys talk about how insane it was that

Verno kept running into him in Las Vegas. Now, here I am at dinner in a walk home. This guy, he's everywhere. Okay, okay. He's everywhere. Conspiracy theory. Stranya listens to the mismatch and is doing this to us.

No way. No way. I think that's probably not true. No way. God, can we talk about this some more, though? Rick, I want to be friends with you. Please reach out to me on social. We're now friends.

Let's get to our more liklies. You want to start or you want me to start? You start. You start. All right, which is more likely? LeBron James has played in it. Set up the bit. Set up the bit.

You set it up. More likely. We say two things that we ask our friend, which is more likely. Okay, continue. I mean, you didn't think people were going to catch on? It doesn't need a lot of explanation. You're nervous that people weren't going to catch on to what the bit was? I'm thrown.

I'm thrown by the Stranya news. We try to prep for the bond, but you have to let me know if you've got something like that. We're starting with the Haywood High Smith trade. You've got Stranya updates. All right. Look, I just want to update our listeners. Guys, what we're going to do is we're going to take basketball topics, and then we're going to, like, banter them back and forth. All right.

I just want everybody to follow along. And we'll probably do that until we're dead until one of us dies. Just so everybody knows what's going on here. That's the format of the show. We'll do that until one of us is six feet under the ground. That's what we're going to do. All right. Which is more likely.

LeBron James has played in his last finals. Stepan Curry has played. has played in his last finals Kevin Durant has played in his last finals. This was easy for me. Oh. Easy. Oh.

Steph Curry. What? Well, let me explain. All right. I will. I'm a bit lower on the Warriors, the current state of the Warriors than most. I think it's like, oh, Al Horford's coming. Like, Al Horford's coming to save the day?

Okay. Time out. were awesome with Jimmy Butler. They were awesome, not like good. They were awesome with Jimmy Butler. And then Steph went down. And they lost Kavanaughan Loonie. It's like a Quentin Post Al Horford front court.

Draymond Green can make a lot of things look good on defense. But I am concerned about this team. And I also feel I've taken this into, you say last finals. It's not just this year. This is like their careers. And I think that Step is going to right or wrong. And I believe I love the guys that stay at one place their entire career. And I feel like Step is going to be one of those guys.

And I think that he will sacrifice that. He will sacrifice his ability to win another championship or go to the finals to stay in a Warriors jersey for his career. You know who's not going to do that? Kevin Durant, who just joined a two-seat. And they clearly got better on paper because they're a young team and everyone's going to take a leap next year. Like they are better. The rockets are better than they were last year.

And they went toe to toe with the Warriors in the game seven. And I also feel like LeBron James. He has Luca Donchich. I'm not going to sit here and be like the Lakers are going to make the finals. I'm not going to make that prediction. But there's more than 1% chance that they will. So and LeBron, it looks like, will be an unrestricted free agent at the end of this year.

And he's not going to join. The Wizards. Right. And Kevin Durant has proven, whether he gets an extension or not, which I think he will, that he will also move to another team. So I think it's,

it's Steph's commitment to his franchise, which I respect and I love as a fan, is why he's the answer to this question. I think the interesting thing is you do have to take it in consideration. He may play the longest of the three. So you've got more years to make it happen. You have, you have more years to let it happen with him.

I don't see the Warriors building a team that Steph Curry is a champion, or at least a finalist. I don't see it. Where would you have them if you had to rank the Western Conference? I'm sure we'll do over the next six weeks because we have to do something. But they're not top four. No, but I could see a scenario where they are a much better, a much better playoff team than they are regular season.

I don't see it. I don't see it. Of those three, who would you rather have for this year? I don't want to step on our late August or early September content, but I would say that I would have the Warriors. I'm down on the Warriors. No, no, the three players. If you could have any of those three players for this upcoming season.

Yes, you could have Kevin Durant, LeBron James, or Steph Curry. Okay, my next. My first. You answer the question? I don't know the answer to that question. Honestly, that's a very difficult question to answer. That's a very difficult question to answer. I didn't know.

I thought I had introduced from the ringer.com, James Jacoby, not Mr. Chicken. Fuck, fuck, fuck. But I'd rather have LeBron James, Steph Courier, Kevin Durant for the upcoming season. Here's your question. LeBron James. For the basketball IQ.

Just for the basketball IQ. Like he knows the other team's plays. Like he just elevates her. I think the floor gets really high when you have LeBron James on your team. Also probably more durable than the other two. Yeah. It's just a very difficult question to answer, though, because all three of them are obviously. Of course, it's a difficult question.

That's why I asked it. All right. All right. Next one. I'm mad at you. All right. Mad at me. Which is more likely.

One of these players end up in the top five MVP voting. just top five step kelly or keff and what if we just did the whole show and we just

just made it out just to make people mad at us and argue it's a very difficult question to answer you put me on the spot I'm like I'm looking to all three of

I'm like I don't know they're all kind of perfect basketball humans like what do you want for me too yeah LeBron James sorry I'll take the second

best guy ever even there's like you know 105 one of these two will end up in top five of MVP voting. Okay. And, you know, again, I'm going to preface this by saying,

I don't like talking about the MVP too early, but I think it's fair game before the season starts. All right. First one, Victor Wambaynama. Okay. Second one, Jalen Brunson. Just to finish in the top five. Not winning the award.

Brunson has much longer odds based on what I looked at on Fandle. That's interesting because I would say, I would say Brunson is more likely to be in the top five of MVP. So here's what I would say. Typically, what takes place is you start from a point of who's got the best records, right? Who are the top like two teams? Yeah. Who are the top two teams in the conferences?

Okay. If we accept that we think the Knicks are going to be one of the top two at worst three teams in the conference. Possibly one. sitting at one. I think very likely one. Yeah. Especially with the reinforcements that they got this upcoming year. This is why I asked this question so we could talk about the Knicks.

Yeah, with the reinforcements. And so I would say that Brunson could very, he is much more likely to get the best player on the best team vote. There's no chance. Best team in the conference. Not best team in the conference. No, no, no, right. Or best record.

Like, you know what I mean? They could eat up the Eastern Conference in a weird world. Because that's, look, I vote in Bontemps thing, and the exercise is always who's the best, who's the second best, and then you're getting into, okay, who are the best players on the best teams. And so Donovan Mitchell is up there and Jason Tatum is up there. And these are, Yon. And you get statistical anomalies like Russell Westbrook where you just like can't deny. Correct. But I would say because of the team success, that gives.

I am much more confident that the Knicks are. going to be awesome, then the spurs are going to be awesome. Therefore, it makes it easier because you, Wembeiyama is going to have to have a wild statistical season because they're not going to be in the top five in their conflict. But just let me make the other case. I agree that my answer would have been Jaila Brunson as well. And I did like sort of like, you know, program this so we could talk good about the

NICs. But I will say counterpoint, defensive player of the year odds are just. like it's wimby, huge cliff, and then everybody else, right? Understood. So he's the best defensive player. If he takes an offensive leap, and I'm talking about like 25,

12 and 12, where it's just kind of like, it's like undeniable stats. We're just looking at it. You're just like, he's seven foot poor. He's hitting threes. He's dunking on people.

He's blocking shots. Which is some sort of like freakish season. I could see him in the top five. I can see it happening. I think they're both, they're both very plausible, more likely I would say Brunson. But I just want to make the case. Okay, here's what I would say. It is insanely hard to be in the mix if you're not a top six team in the conference.

Fair. But I also say that I get that just, no matter how amazing you are, if you're not in the top six. And so that's why I'm saying, I think it's much more likely that the spurs are in the top six in their conference. Wemby could have an unbelievable on the chart season. Let me make the Wemby case. Let me make the Wemby case is this. 50% of the time you're on the basketball

floor, you are playing defense. Jaylon Brunswick gets sought out. Understood. Like they run their offense to get Jalen and Brunson in front of the ball. They run their offense to get Victor Wembe and Yama as far away from the ball as possible. So if you take that

into account, 50% of the time you're on the floor, if you're thinking most valuable player, and if they're comparable offensively, which is doubtful, I could see Wemagnama being the top five in front of the D. I would also say that it is likely the Victor Wembe Nama is not this year and then is for the next decade. Plus. Yes.

Maybe 20 years. I mean, depending on how many times he goes and hangs out with the monks. Who knows? Oh. And the KG thing. Yeah. If he's doing the monk and KG. thing. I mean, you've

gone to heaven and hell. All right. In one off season, he has experienced heaven and hell. Do you what I would have liked more? I'm a cynic. I'm going to be an asshole for a second. Let me be an asshole.

I've got a dark heart. I would have loved if I found out that he was with the Shaolin monks via him telling a reporter rather than like, it felt a little for the gram. You know what I mean?

I would have, I would have loved it was like, oh, Victor spent two weeks in China. We weren't really sure what he was doing. And then like in November, he's like, oh, I went to a Shalyn Temple and I was with the monks. Okay. So I understand. No, I do understand. It's like when people do philiphylphalphic, I'm bad at this word.

Philanthropic. Philanthropic. When people do philanthropic things, it's like, do it in silent, do it quietly. I give to things, not much, but I give to things, but I don't post it on the gram. Like, I would have loved it if it was just like, we found out later. that he was in China with the Shaolin monks. You would contend the Victor Wimbaniamo was with the Shaolin monks

and did not look up and go, oh my God, a professional photographer. How did you get here? Yeah, yeah, yeah. You think that was... I'm not saying, look, I'm a cynical person, I've got a dark heart. Like, I'm sure he bettered himself while he was there.

I'm not trying to be like a total dickhead. But like, I would have preferred if we found out later about, And there were no pictures. You think, okay. You do not believe that he looked up in the middle of his blessings and looked up and looked up and go, what are the chances? A professional photographer is here at the Shalun Monk Temple.

And we just have to be playing basketball. To take pictures of me shirtless and balls. Yes, yes. All right. I apologize to the Wimbun Yama family and the Shalind Monks. I wish those are involved. Which is more likely. David Jacoby.

Zion Williamson plays 65 plus games, therefore making himself eligible for postseason awards. Or Michael Porter, Jr., who will not keep his mouth shut, leads the league in scoring. I've tried to break your brain with this one. This is the easy. I mean, these first two have been so easy.

What do you mean easy? I want to give a huge shout to the Denver Nuggets communication staff. Their PR staff. These people that are behind the camera at all times that manage the communications and what people say and what people have access to on the Denver Nuggets team. Because I had no idea that Michael Borgia was this nuts. I had no idea. He gets traded to Brooklyn.

He's kind of in this like purgatory, I guess, where like the Brooklyn PR people don't have their clamps on them yet. And he's going off his own podcast or other people's podcasts. He's like, oh, my brother's addicted to gambling. He hasn't even been sentenced yet. And he's out here. And he's like, oh, he said, you know what he said? He said the nuggets don't work that hard. My first Nets workout was the hardest I've ever been working in the NBA.

What are you saying, Michael Porter, Jr.? And he wouldn't date anyone who's dated someone else in the league. and cherry on top. He says, and he says this, you know, it's like when someone says, like, no disrespect, but he's like, I'm not a misogynist, but I play girls I'm dating,

Andrew Tate clips to see how they react. And I will be the first of admit, I don't know much about Andrew Tate. I've not consumed a lot of that content, but I've heard. I don't think he's your thing. Not my back. But I'll say that,

God bless that. God bless the Nuggets communication staff for keeping all this from us for this long because he got unleashed from that communication staff. And it's like a, he was just running wild. And then the Nuggets are finally going to, you're going to have to sort of like rein that in because, wow,

he's been on a tour this summer. I do not believe that he's going to lead the league in scoring. Also, he might if Cam Thomas gets injured. Because there's, because all the five. I said, hold on. It's a witch is more like.

Yeah, Zion playing 65 plus games. Zion played 30, 70, so he's done it. 29, 61, close, 24. Like, it's within the realm of possibility. They've happened once. And he's come close. 61 is close to 64. Who is scoring for Brooklyn?

Michael Porter, Jr. and Can Thomas. Camp Thomas isn't on the team. I guess he is on the team theoretically. Oh, yeah, you think someone's going to offer Kansomis 40 million dollars a year? I promise you this. If he doesn't sign whatever contract, they put in front of him, they're going to mess with his minute something horrible. Ooh, I like that.

Yeah. I'll say it's more likely that Zion plays. It's not impossible. Neither are impossible. But Michael Porter Jr. has not elevated my opinion of him. in the last two weeks. Is that fair to say? Yes, it is fair.

Yeah. Next. On Fandul, these two teams have the exact same over and under. Oh, 40.5 games. So Fandle says these teams have the exact same chance of winning 41 games or winning 40 games. They are 500 basketball teams. That's what we expect from them.

Okay. Which is more likely to have more regular. season wins head to head. Head to head. You mean against each other? Against each other. I'm not saying the Obron. I'm not saying like Fandul says they're equal.

So which one do you think will end up with more regular season wins? Okay. All right. All right. The Dallas Mavericks. Okay. Or your hometown Memphis Christmas. Oh, no.

Is it really the same exact? Exact same win total. I didn't do a ton of research, but I clicked on both of them. They said 40, 40 and a half. I would say, if if Kyrie Irving were playing this season but he's not. So that's factored in.

That's factored in. Yeah, then that's an easy answer. That's factored in. But without him. What's also factored in is that the availability or potential availability of star players, Anthony Davis and John Moran. Yeah, well, the answer.

The answer is Memphis. Come on. These two teams met each other in the play in last year, by the way. Yeah, so. Yeah, and Memphis is in the playoffs. you recall. They got run out by Oklahoma City, but they were there. Let's not forget how competitive game three was until Jaa went down. How competitive game four was without jaw. Hang a banner.

Hang a banner. Two of the four games in the sweep were very competitive. Yeah, I just don't think, I mean, like, I mean, again, that's, it's not a demerit on Dallas. I'm just saying, like, in the absence of Kyrie Irving, that is a huge portion of their team. And a lot of money on their salary. You can't have that many great players. You can't have as many good players when you've got a lot sunk into one guy that is totally unavailable.

And so if Kyrie Irving was there, then the answer is the Dallas Fabrics. I know, like you're saying Davis and Morant. Like, I know Irving's not there. Like, I know that. And so in the absence of him, the answer is Memphis. If you tell me that Jared Jackson Jr. is going to miss 30 games or John Morant's going to miss 30 games. Yeah. He always does.

Okay. Jerry Jackson Jr. does not always miss 30 games. But John Moran has not played enough games, right? But if you told me that on the front end, then even then Memphis has been able to win without John Morant. And they added, you know, Scotty Pippin Jr. started to play better last year. Tidger Rome's another guard they have from last year. They added some depth to their team in the off season.

Chairman Wells will be available. Listen, I think the answer is also Memphis because I've also seen the last three years, and you've seen it, you know better than I do, they play well without John. Yeah, and they have also won over 60% of their games with Morant in the lineup. So it's really, they have never been bad when John Morant plays, ever. But John Moran doesn't always play. But when he doesn't, they play pretty well. I would say a safer bet, which is more likely to me,

what's more likely are the Memphis Grizzlies are a 500 basketball team. If I just told you conservatively that Davis misses 20 games. That'd be a, that they would sign up for that right now. right now. I mean, which 20 matters, but yeah, they would sign up for that right now. Okay, but how many games are you winning without him? And the in the back court. The front court looks great.

And I, Cooper, you can say Cooper it? Yeah, yeah, I love Lively. I'm a big, lively guy, big, lively guy. Went down a little bit. Big Lively. I think, uh, all I know was I was- I mean, perhaps, Luca Jopjeelter's production, perhaps, I don't know. Perhaps?

Yeah, maybe Kyrie Irby. Maybe he is a big that needs someone to feed him. Sure. I think he's out here creating his own buckets. But I like Derek loudly as a piece. I like him as sort of the second timeline piece with Flag. And I think that I'm excited about Flag. I love Flag.

Everybody loves Flag. I mean, who doesn't love Flag? But like, rookies are not going to give you 10 wins above last year. Memphis is a safer bed. Yes. Memphis is a safer. To be a 500 team. All right.

Well, I am surprised that they are exactly the same win total. Honestly. Me too. I had to look at it once. Didn't even look at that way. Let's go to the Achilles injuries, which is more likely. So I'm maybe going to throw in Milwaukee in here because obviously Lillard is now a port of the trailblazer, but was another guy that went down with Achilles last year.

He's still on the books. And had their season derailed. More likely that Boston or Indiana or Milwaukee is in the playoffs. I think the easy answer is Milwaukee. Of course it. Right. So we'll, I'll break this down into two. Because Milwaukee is, let's say,

Milwaukee's their easy answer. Yeah, yeah, because you have Janice Tentacupo, who is one of the top, whatever, I don't want to argue about it. They didn't lose their best player. Yeah, exactly. The other two days. We'll say, we'll say Milwaukee, easy answer, but who's number two?

And that gets tricky. Let's look at their first option next season without Halliburton and Tatum. And I think that Jalen Brown is going to be a better player than see Ackham or Nemhart or Matherin or whoever you have there. I just feel like the Celtics can absorb a loss like Tatum better than the Pacers can absorb a loss like Halliburton because the Celtics offense is built on shooting threes, getting them up, pucks on the net, just get them up, you know, and I feel like the Pacers offense is built on ball movement,

passing, beautiful game, and it's all sort of like orchestrated by Hallibur. And we've seen how beautiful and effective it can be. It beat the Knicks, beat the Cavs. It almost beat the Thunder. The Celtics are projected to have more wins than the Pacers this upcoming season by the numbers.

Do you think the Celtics are going to try to, like, you know what I'm saying? Like, fuck yeah. Fuck yes. It's going to be it. Absolutely yes. I don't, like, the idea that the soldiers are going to take a gap year and tank, like, no, no, they're going to win games. I don't think they're good enough to win a ton of games.

I don't think tank. Of course. What are you trying to say? They're not good enough to win a ton of games. Come on. Are you serious? Do you, they will not be in the play. They are going to stink, Jacoby.

Listen, I don't love their roster. Look at their team. Look at their story. they're going to start Peyton Pritchard. Over Anthony Simons, who's also a bucket? They have front court problems, but I think they're going to be, they're not going to be in the plan,

they're going to be a playoff team, and they're a tricky out. And maybe, you know, I'm not going to be positive about the Celtics on the ringer because I'm tired of Bill talking about it possibly. But like, dude, like, don't count this team out in an Eastern conference where most teams

are one injury away from just going completely in the tank. I like the Celtics this year more than most. Wow. They've got good guys. Do you think it is more likely here? I'm going to throw in a bonus one. That Peyton Pritchard pulls a Tyler Hero and proves he's actually a high level starter in the NBA.

Or is it more likely that he proves this guy should be a bench heater, which is what he was and won six man of the year. Do you think he's the kind of guy that could prove, right? We saw it with Hero. Hero made the All-Star team, bro. I think it's a, first of all, I wouldn't compare those two because I feel like Hero is a much more diverse offensive player.

But they were both six men of the year that then became starters. I do not see that happening for Pritchard. But I think a more interesting question is who should start Anfrey or Pritcher? They're trying to get rid of Anthony Simons, bro. They can't find a landing spot.

Then start him. Then start him. They're featuring. I think they probably hope that it's not there the beginning of the season. You think he'll be off the team against you? I mean, if they can find a spot, if they can find a spot,

they ain't trying to spend money, Jacoby. This is a gap year. This is a gap year. I think it's a gap year. You may have noticed all their good players besides Jalen Brown are gone. I don't know if you notice that. But a lot of that is just like Bobby Mark's salary, second apron, first apron,

dirty apron, clean apron, tax line salary. We're not competing for a championship anyway. But we're going to be the five seed and we're going to give it all. The what? Come on, bro. Are you serious? What? The five seed?

Are you crazy? Hawks, Magic, Cavs, Knicks. And then you're to Celtics? Sixers. Bucks, bucks are probably in there, yeah. Bucks, six, the Sixers have way better players. Do they? They don't, bro, they don't have any players left.

They have Jaylen Brown left. Look at the roster. They're all gone, Jacoby. They play for different teams. They love Luke Cornet in Al Gorenton. They don't even have Luke Cornyn. anymore. I'm saying it.

Oh, no. I'm saying we're down to the studs. I don't know. I don't know. Yeah. 60. Maybe 17. Next.

My turn. Okay. Which is more likely. Joel M.B. misses the entire regular season. Does not set foot on an NBA basketball court this entire

season or the libibos you sent me for my twins are fake. Oh, that's this is the easiest answer ever. But their fake laboos are so good now.

All right. They're everywhere now. And you are such a good friend. You stayed in my house. And, you know, I said, it's all free. You don't owe me anything. We're not keeping score. That's how good friends work. There's no scoreboard. There's no send me this, send me that.

And you just, out of the good as of your heart, you left us all gifts. It's very sweet. And you said, on the pod, I believe, or maybe it was after the pod, that you were at the collector's convention. It was after the point of conventions. Yeah.

People don't know this story. Yeah, so you said you were at the collection's convention. I was. And you got a box of real Lububoos, and you sent two to my home. And they look outside of the box, the exact same as every Labubu, the foo that I've ever bought.

If you don't know what a Labibu is, like, I don't know what to tell you, have some daughters, Google it. Okay, so number one, I bought a case. Is that six? The loboos. Yeah, it was six. It was six loboos.

Two of them were in my home, and that to me is like, bro, these, I mean, that's, that's the easiest thing you've ever done for anyone ever. Okay, so number one. So Joel and Beds off the hook. Those loboos, here's what I will tell you, Chikobi. You cannot give. If anyone in the world would spot, quote, fake la boo-boos.

They're called the fooos. It is my daughter. If you don't think that she checked against this in every way possible. Chat, GBT, GBT, Claude, she sent pictures to AI. You name it.

These things are as real as the street. There was no way I was getting away with those me buying real ones. And in fact, when I bought them, I said, look, how do I know? Because you don't know. We're not a little boo-boo specialists. We're not.

But I will say this, the place I bought it from, which is a, in the sports collecting hobby, credibility off the roof for this place. I think you can't kind of be on that floor with fake products. No, no, no. But the credibility is off the, off the chart for a place like this, right? That's fair. Their whole business is based upon their credibility. They are the kind of place, and I'll leave their name out of it.

They are the kind of place that you would go and buy. Like, if you were to watch Logan Paul and Michael Rubin crack a case of 86 Fleer to try to get the Michael Jordan rookie, like, if they were going to crack a box of it, this is the place they would have attained. said box. The whole brand is based upon them having credibility or else the whole thing goes to hell. And so that's why, A, I trust it. B, it was wrapped in pot mart tape, which is, as you know, the only place you can get Labubis. The third thing is when you open up those boxes, there is a, trust me, I've had to learn too much. open up the bag. The card is in those boxes. There's no card when you get the Lafufus like I bought in Union Square when we stayed at your place, right?

Because we couldn't find real ones. My twins have three pairs of, they have three Lafoufus each for $25. There is also a thing on the foot. There is also nine teeth on the real ones. Well, the thing on the foot, they're on the Lafufus. They have the face, the face imprint imprinted on the foot. I've seen that, dog. No, no, no.

There is a thing. that shows up under like black light or whatever. Oh, God. Yeah. Yeah. Let me say that. I will say this, though. To, you know.

They are real. And so, John LeBeed, you're off the hook. Yeah. Um, so I was like, we've got these real looboos from Chris Vernon.

And she's like, you can't just give them to him. I'm like, what are you talking about? This is your one. Because they're on vacation right now. My wife's like, you can't just give them to him.

I was like, what are you talking about? She said, This is why she's so brilliant. She's so smart. I don't know what she's doing with me. She's like, we need to use these. They need to earn these.

They can't just come home from vacation in Hawaii with Auntie Judy and get to have Laboobo's waiting for them there. She's like, we have to use these and make them do things. Yeah. And I was just like, oh, God, you're so much better at this than I am. Yeah, that's why when I was walking through your house, I was like, oh my God. God, Jacoby won an Emmy, and then I looked at the nameplate.

It's a Jacoby. It's a Jacobi. She did. She's got two. They look cool in person. I had never seen one. It's a racket. The Emmy?

I don't even want to get into it. It's a racket. You got to buy them. What? You don't like win it. You got to pay them money and send them to your house. How much is it? You can't just buy it.

one like you can't like you can buy a Gucci shirt but like you have to win an Emmy but then you have to buy the trophy. Wait, they don't give that to you. No, now. How much are they? I don't know. I mean, you buy it regardless. Take a guess. Uh, $285 or something like that.

Oh, I thought you were going to say like two grand or something. Oh, no, no, no, no. Is that real or is that a fake? I know, she got two, she got two Emmys. I'm saying is it? Did you get it at Union Square? Canal Street is where you get all the fake stuff. Oh my God.

And just like Haley, like, if you showed me a Canal Street, Birkin, I would not be able to tell if it was a real Berkin or not. But everyone who's ever had a Birkin would be able to tell. You know what was hot when you were walking around New York City? Everybody's got them damn AirPod Maxes. And I want it on the street. They're trying to tell you that the Air Force. pod maxes like the oh don't buy them on the street yeah don't i don't even takes your phone yeah don't i

wondered what i wonder if they do work at all no they work for like four days they'll work okay like you walk away they'll be they'll sound great the second you walk away but no no no no and then they're done yeah apple's a big company with billions of dollars they do a really good job of uh i always felt like they um one time i had AirPods it didn't work same air i usually lose my AirPods i had once for like three years. I went to the Apple store and I was like, these don't work anymore. They're like, yeah, that's, uh,

that's what happens. I was like, oh. Oh, I thought you were going to say they gave you a new pair. Yeah. No, no, no, they're like,

yeah, like buying a Honda, going back to the Honda dealership after three years and be like, yeah, it's like, the engine doesn't start. They're like, oh, yeah, that's what happens.

Yeah, you need to buy a new one. I was like, oh, okay, Apple. I had a guy from the cable company come to my house today for the Wi-Fi. And I have those like little home pods, you know, that like make the the home pods that make the uh yes oh i've had so much problem with those things you set them up yourself the extenders have you done this no no how about this you've been in my apartment it's not even big i need two extenders i can't even connect them hey the guy that came to my house

from the cable company he was like yeah he was like yeah get rid of those those things suck and i was like wait what bro i'm about to tell you a story that i do not intend to say into a microphone but i have to share it i might have told it before during COVID, I'm doing jail and Jacoby upstairs in my house. And like, you know, there's Wi-Fi problems that's going in and out. And I've got Spectrum at the time. And I've got guys coming over from Spectrum every four days. And when they're in there, they do like the upload test because people want download

generally to like download content. But I need upload because I'm doing Jaylon and Jacoby like TV show from the house. They need to upload stuff. So every time they do the test in the house, they say it works. They walk out of the house. Six hours later doesn't work anymore, right? Of course. I had this one guy come.

over. African guy named Saturday. His name was Saturday. Name was Saturday. I mean, so much confusion with that. It's named Saturday. And so I've got this at the time I live in a duplex with two floors. But I mean, every time you tell somebody your name, you're like, no, it's Monday. Don't worry. The name is nothing to do with the story. Gotcha. The bedrooms are upstairs. Downstairs, open floor plan. Kitchen, dining room table, big living room. Upstairs, same thing, but all bedrooms.

I'm downstairs with this guy because the, whatever it's called, the server's downstairs. He goes, can I use the bathroom? I'm sitting on the couch. The bathroom's in between the dining room and the living room. I go,

yeah, go ahead. Saturday. He goes to my bathroom. There's only one bathroom downstairs. Pisses with the door open. I thought you were going to start. I thought you were going to say he started like snorting cocaine off the.

No, but he's, so now that. this guy's pissing with the door opening my bathroom. I can hear every single drop going to the toilet. And I'm like, am I, like, getting sunned right now? Saturday, I was like, I was like, what? What are you doing that scenario?

Do you ask him to close the door? Do you say, do you mention it? I just got completely sunned. I'm a soft person. Saturday's sunned to me in my own house. In my own house, I got sunned by Saturday. That is African Spectrum guy. His guy, the alpha move.

He did. I'm not closing the door. If I come to your house, I'm not closing the door. I'm not closing the door. How beta did you feel? Oh, my God. I did. I didn't know what to do.

I was like, do I say something? That's fucking weird. Do I walk over there, close it for him? The look on my face? That's fucking weird. There's no right way to play it. He got me cornered me. It was checkmate.

He got me. He did Saturday. Did he fix your internet? No. He did for 12 hours. You know he's telling that story on his podcast. No, he's not. That's a regular Tuesday for Saturday.

That's a regular Tuesday for Saturday. He did it in the next house that same day and the next house that same day. It's what he does. He's like, you know that guy that was on Jalen and Jacoby? He's right in front of his face. Didn't even close a door? Didn't even put the seat up all over the seat too. He could go to hell.

All right. Next one. Is it more likely Malik Beasley or Michael Malone is on the sideline by the All Star Break? I was proud of this one. Really?

Yeah, I was proud of this one. All right. So I knew the answer was Malik Beasley because my guy, my guy, Palletory did an amazing podcast and I would never promote another podcast on this podcast. You just did. Unless it was a ringer podcast, but he did a good podcast breaking down

the Malik Beasie stuff. And there's a lot of connective tissue between him and some gambling folks. But I also Googled Malik Beasley's name. And this is just from two days ago from the New York Times. Quote, the NBA and its players union supports some further limitations on the kind of prop bets that Sportsbook can accept from NBA games. I continue. representatives for the league and the NBPA said that they would be behind looking at more restrictions on prop betting,

the kind of wager that allows one to bet money on the points totals and other personal statistics for a player in a game. Guess what? You won't be able to bet on tiny little bench players over and under 1.5 rebounds. But Mille-Biesel, he's not a bench player, bro. Well, he was. He was second in six-man of the year for him. I'm not saying that Malik Beasley is bad at basketball. This is also just the strength of Mike Malone as a head coach candidate.

You know what I mean? Like, I would have loved to him as the next coach. He's a championship coach like three years ago. Like, I, there are. I do wonder if the gruff my way or the highway guys are extinct. If we're just like, if we're going to go back to hiring them or not. I think it's also like, I had a buddy that dated like a party girl. You know what I mean?

She like had lists at nightclubs and would like stay out until five or whatever. And you'll never believe this, but that fizzled out. And the next thing he did is like dating the library. You know what I mean? Like now it's the now it's the studious girl. And I feel like NBA teams are subject to that sometimes. So they're going to have like the substitute teacher thing going. Yeah.

So now they need the hard ass. We had the friendly players coach, former player, everyone's best friend guy. But now we're bringing in Mike Malone to change the culture. And he's like Joe Clark from Lean on Me to dated reference. I don't think I've ever even seen Lean on me. You never seen Lean on me with Morgan Freeman? No. He carries a bat in the high school?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Fair East Side. Come on. I'll say, but I think of the rarely is there in NBA season where coaches don't get fired and of the coaches that could get fired, there's obviously assistant coaches that could step in like they did Memphis with Tuamus. But I think that Mike Malone would be high on the list of people that you could bring it.

So which is your answer? Malik Beasley, Michael Malone. I think Malone is deep. You think Michael Malone is on a team, he's coaching a team before Malik Beasley's playing for what? Oh, also in that Google search of Malik Beasley, court records revealed Beasley was evicted on August 6th after owing $21,000 in back rent. Yeah.

Oh, come on. There was like a story about him owing his barber like. It's bad. Yeah. Yeah. Also, he just needs like a someone in his life to take care of those things.

He probably has that money. It's just like doesn't do it. You ever been reached out by like a creditor? They're like, you owe the hospital $400 from three years ago. I'm like, bro, if they were just let me know in the last three years, I would have paid it.

Okay. I would say, how do I do this without getting an? trouble. I would say you're giving him the benefit of the doubt. That there are many that would opine. The reason you're not paying anybody is because, bro, you are

under. Oh, no. I don't think he's broke. I think he's just sloppy. I think he's sloppy. I think he's sloppy financially. I think he probably owes a lot of people. Bro, a lot of people, a lot of money. Yeah, I'm going to be quiet on that one.

Maybe perhaps that might be why he is where he is, but I don't know. I'm not going to, that's You are giving him the benefit of the doubt by saying he is just irresponsible. Sloppy, yes. I think the former might be more likely. Is that more likely? You only get five. Like I said, the bit's working out.

It's working out. I mean, I thought it kind of went off the rails on Saturday's dong, but other than that, you stayed pretty true to form. I didn't know what to do. What are you doing that? It's a weird spot. You know what? You know, one of these, there's some kid that's listening to us in Brooklyn right now.

And he's like, my dad is named Saturday. No, no, no, he's saying that's the band name. Saturday's song. That's our name. There's also a kid, Brooklyn listens right now. It's like, my dad is named Saturday. He works for Spectrum. Dad, he's on Jacoby.

There's only one Saturday that works for Spectrum. Yeah. All right. You're next. Go. God. Wrap this up. This is more likely.

DeAndre Aiton will be in the All-Star conversation, just in the conversation, not an All-Star, but potentially his name will be brought up as a potential All-Star. Some injuries happen. He's just like in the mix. Or LeBron James gets traded. Which is more. Okay. which is more like, that's a good one. You ever said a word for 10 seconds.

That's a good one. All right. So here's what I'd say. I have to go with the Aiton thing. I have to go with Aitin even though I don't want to. As I've chronicled many times, I think he played. When I watched him last year, he plays like he has AirPods in the aforementioned. Maybe the Canal Street AirPods, no less.

But he, I'm on record of saying I think the Lakers are going to be. I think they're going to be good enough that the drama that people want to exist is not going to exist. And I think that it's probably just played this year out. And then, yes, he is no longer a Laker in the off season. But that if you've got LeBron and Luca, you're going to be good. He's got a no trade clause. They're not going to be so bad that he's going to waive a no trade clause. I think LeBron plays this out as a Laker.

I think we don't even talk about it that much. I think we talk about it more now than we will during the season. I don't think LeBron James would be Laker, but I also think DeAndre Aiton is not like the center savior that's going to lift this team to the one seed. Like, you got to be kidding. He's got waved. I think, I think what happens is he's on a good team this year and they play this thing out. And, you know, look, if they have a really good record, then Aiton has, is averaging, you know, whatever, 19 and 12.

God. 12 rebounds? I'm saying Luca does for him. what he did for Lively and Gafford. Yeah, yeah, sure. And he's just finishing stuff. And they get him to play at a high level. He's a talented guy.

Nobody has denied the town. But they get it out of him. Then he's got a chance, right? Like, but the LeBron thing, I think it probably just plays itself out. And then he ends up on the Mavericks next year. The question is what's more likely, but I think the answer is they're both pretty unlikely. I think they're probably on. They're both pretty unlikely.

Let's be honest. I think they're both pretty unlikely. All right. Last one for me. More likely. Jacoby scores 25 plus in a men's league game or an NBA player scores 80 in a game this upcoming season. Well, it's been about the same amount of time since that happened.

What do we have? I think we had like a, what, 73? What did a little? 73. Oh, right. Oh, yeah. They're taking the NBA player 80. Yeah, I'm taking the NBA player.

My high for the last annual year was 25 points. I mean, sorry, 11 points. That's a big difference. It's a big difference. I'm an efficient score. I don't, you know, I shoot over 50% from the field. It's don't take shots because I'm terrible at basketball now. We had a three and three tournament over the weekend at Rees Beach.

That was great. How'd that go? It's fantastic. Our team, which is all dudes in their mid-40s, two ER doctors. and me and Mike, and we are underdogs, and we've been disrespected year after year. We went three and one in group play, ended up in the playoffs.

Ended up in the playoffs. And just asked me how many points I scored? In the playoffs? No, in the entire tournament. Four games? Yeah, no, five, five games. Five games? I'll say you average,

I say it'll be an average. What are the games to? I scored zero points for a note. What? alert. I scored zero points in the entire tournament. Zero? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm not good at basketball anymore. I used to be good at basketball. I'm not good anymore. Why? It's not good anymore. I'm not good at basketball anymore.

Yeah, I did stuff. I contributed to wins, but I just didn't score. Listen, double rims, you're windy outside of the beach. You don't even know. Oh, it's different out here. This is how PJ Tucker felt. Here's my last one. I'm not going to sit here and act like I listen to the entire New Heights podcast with Taylor Swift for two hours. because I don't even, I can't name four, four Taylor Swift songs. I did.

I could probably name four. I listened to it? Yeah, I did. With Haley? No. Just on your own, just driving around, just taking a Sunday drive. I actually listened to it.

Yeah, I listened to it. Yeah, I listened to it. You did? Yeah, I mean, obviously, I had seen the clips online as well. I like Taylor Swift. My daughter's obviously into Taylor Swift. Like, I'm not a Taylor Swift. I'm just like, I've never, like,

I've never opened up Spotify and searched Taylor Swift and been like, let me listen to these chants. I was interested in it. It was a huge pop culture moment, and I thought it was actually good. I did. Shot to them. I thought it was good. I like the Kelsey's, too.

They're very likable humans. They're very likable people. Like, I wouldn't vote for them for president. Like, I don't want them to be like running the country, but I think they're great guys. I want to have a beer with. When Jason Kelsey went to the Buffalo Bills game, I was like, all right, now we have to be friends. I have to be friend Jason Kelsey somehow. Yeah, I like them.

Is it more likely that Taylor and Travis get buried by the end of the NFL season? or Megan and Clay get married by the end of the NBA. Oh, this is a bloodbath. Okay, so now this is where I get to be informed on this. I walked away from that podcast going they actually are like truly in love. And they treat each other like a couple treats each other. Yeah. Oh, I was totally convinced they are going to, yes, they will absolutely get married.

And as I've told you, I don't think that Clay Thompson and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, Meg Nostalian. This is... So, no, no, wait. Hold on, hold on. Hold on. Everyone stopped listening after the Saturday story.

This is puppy love to. I think you can report this now. You're reporting that Travis and Taylor are engaged. No. I'm not reporting that. You're a journalist. No. Reporting.

I'm not reporting that. You're reporting it. I'm saying I believe they... You're saying to a microphone. You reported it. I'm... They're getting married. You reported it.

I believe they will get married. On Spotify. I also believe that this Clay Meg thing has a about a couple more weeks. That's sad. I love them both. It's puppy love. I do it's puppy love love.

I love love. You watch all the stuff and it's puppy love. Of course. We've all been there. I'm saying Travis and Taylor have broken through the puppy love. And it's also, I'll say, I didn't listen to the two hours,

obviously, but it's easy to be cute and together in a 90-second edited Instagram piece about a workout. But when you're two hours live with no edits, you kind of get an idea of how they interact. So I will say that your informed opinion is probably correct. But I also want to say that Chris Vernon reports on the mismatch.

No, I'm not reporting anything for Spotify, that they're now engaged. You just report it. This is going to get us more of clicks and views and anything we've ever done. And just say it out loud. The only thing I have sources. I have three sources that I've corroborated. I don't have any sources. They're now engaged.

Chris Vernon reports at the Chris Vernon show on social. They are not. They're engaged. They're not. You don't love the mismatch then. I do love the mismatch. I do love the mismatch. But you know what I love more than the mismatch?

Responsibility. And I and my credibility cannot take any more hits. It's going to do it for the show. We're out of here. It's so stunk. What are you talking about?

And if you've made it in a good five minutes in there, You just need a 90-second clip for social. Come on, Verno. Here's what we need. We need you to text us the next time you see Yokic's brother, everybody. So we're... On your watch. Even if you get news about them, hit us on social.

Strang your watch. We don't even know if that's how you say he says name. Sure. Thank you, our executive producer, Jesse Lopez, as always. In Jacoby, I'll talk to you next week. The sunset in Hawaii, just a cross-legged.