The Right Time with Bomani Jones - Nervous Knicks vs. Corny Celtics, Anthony Edwards' Future, Diddy on Trial | 5.16

Episode Date: May 16, 2025

Bomani Jones is joined by The Kid Mero of 7 PM in Brooklyn to discuss the New York Knicks vs Boston Celtics playoff series. Bo and Mero start off the show joking about their bodies failing them once they reached the age of 40 (0:50) and how they can't recover from injuries like they used to (2:13). Bo praises Mero for wearing a Knicks Dominican Republic version of a Karl-Anthony Towns jersey (6:30) and Mero says why KAT and Mitchell Robinson could turn into a version of Tim Duncan & David Robinson (10:26). Bo shares his doubts about the Knicks winning this series (18:14) and Mero explains why the Celtics are the corniest NBA team (23:40). They move onto the other NBA topics where they compare Anthony Edwards to an IMAX movie (33:24), why the bad commercials weren't Shai Gilgeous-Alexander's fault (37:59) and that Nikola Jokic's brothers look like henchmen from a movie (46:26). They round out the show imagining Cooper Flagg's life on Duke's campus (52:01) and the ongoing Diddy trial. (59:28) . . . Subscribe to The Right Time with Bomani Jones on Spotify, Apple or wherever you get your podcasts and follow the show on Instagram, Twitter, and Tik Tok for all the best moments from the show. Download Full Podcast Here: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6N7fDvgNz2EPDIOm49aj7M?si=FCb5EzTyTYuIy9-fWs4rQA&nd=1&utm_source=hoobe&utm_medium=social Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-right-time-with-bomani-jones/id982639043?utm_source=hoobe&utm_medium=social Follow The Right Time with Bomani Jones on Social Media: http://lnk.to/therighttime Subscribe to Supercast for Ad-Free Episodes: https://righttime.supercast.com/ Support the Show: Discover faster, more reliable search with Perplexity today. Download the app or ask Perplexity anything at perplexity.com! https://pplx.ai/bomani-jones When any player scores 50 or more points in a game, DashPass members save 50% on an order, up to $10 off. Use promo code NBA50 to redeem. See further terms and conditions at https://drd.sh/8ONpZP/ Download the DraftKings Pick Six app NOW and use code BOMANI. Better payouts. Bigger wins. Only with Pick6 from DraftKings. The Crown is yours. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the right time. A Wave Original presented by Perplexity. My name is Beaumani Jones. Thanks for listening wherever you get your podcast. Thanks for watching us on YouTube. Subscribe, like, rate us, review us, give us five stars. You only give us four stars. I'm inclined to believe you are a hater.

It is Kid, Mero Friday. Mero was going on. I'm feeling good, you know what I'm saying? Despite the outcome of yesterday's basketball contest, you know, I feel good because it's my birthday. You know what I'm saying? Oh, snap. I am, yeah, you know what I mean?

I'm on the wrong side of 40 today. Oh, you got you. You've arrived. You've come here. I've arrived, Beau. I've arrived. Doug, this is. Oh, man, that's mad at things.

That's to say, how's your knee? You know what I'm saying? How's your back? How's your hips? Got arthritis in my right knee, you know? So we're going off the left, you know? But we haven't feeling good, you know? Pools open.

Some is here. Okay. Okay. I got the, I have the back seat. situation that is turned up. And I actually had to go get it checked out because it had got bad enough at one point that I couldn't sleep. And so I had to go to the doctor. And the thing is like I, my back hurts. Your insurance don't really cover that. It covers like some of the things that come off of that, but that bill they sent me about, you know, what that was. Like, you know, look, I ain't never really

had to do a whole lot to go to the doctor. First time I went to the doctor and realized you actually had to pay for stuff on top of insurance was shocking. I was like, what are these bills? You guys What is this? Who is, why is there an anesthesiologist here? Yo! I just had my knee. Yo, I'm just saying, you the one that said I need is surgery. You know what I'm saying?

I didn't ask for this. You said we was doing this. Doug, listen, I know, you know what time it is when you are a certain age. You go to the doctor. You know you had a certain age, a certain stage in your life. When you go to the doctor and it used to be that I would go to the doctor boat and be like, yo, my eyes hurt, my knee hurts, whatever. And he'd be like, oh, you got blah, blah, blah.

Here, do this, take this. You'll be better in three weeks. I went and I was like, yo, my knee hurt, Doc. And he's just like, well, you got arthritis. I said, okay, so what do I do? He's like, stop fucking with your knee, motherfucker. I was like, bro, that's it? It's over?

Like, until I get it replaced, which is crazy. Doctor told me on my back that it probably wasn't anything I actually did. I just probably had some imbalance. And from doing this over and over again for so long, it finally turned into a problem, which translates directly into you getting old. You know what I'm saying? Like that is exactly what that means.

Like, oh, it wasn't a thing. It just took a lot of repetition for this to be, oh, okay, I'm afraid I should have gone in. I fell off a snowmobile when I was in Iceland and my shoulder was banged up. But I'm like, it'll be fine. And, you know, it's been a year and a half. It's not fine.

And you can't do this? I can do stuff, right? Like, there are things I can do, but like in yoga, where you got the thing where you put the one arm up and the one arm behind, I can do it. My right arm's the bad one. I can do it this way. But when I got to come around the other way,

I got a skirch, you know? Yeah, uh-huh. Or else I feel like you got hit by a sniper, like, ah! Yes, yes, yes. There are things, bro. There are things, and this is only the beginning. right like when i tell people about aging it's something i realize that chris rock had that joke and it's real it applies to more than women but he made the point where he was like women can't

dial back lifestyle right like once you start dating a woman and y'all start going to a certain class of restaurant you always got to go to that class of restaurant this isn't just about women but men are typically paying for stuff for women in those sorts of ways so it becomes something that you need to understand but it's the truth dialing back lifestyle is hard no matter who it is Whatever car it is that you drive, your next car will be that car or better. If you can't afford that car or better, you're going to ride that car you have till the shocks is done, right? Because you can't dial back.

Every day after a certain age that you get older, you are dialing back in lifestyle just a little bit. Nothing is like it was before. You don't notice it until you look up and you notice it. bruh, I had to go do a eye test a couple years ago because I got that real ID. They said to get it. I got it. Y'all thought they was playing. I was on board long before, right?

And so I remember I was doing the eye test. I've never had glasses. I've never needed corrective lenses. Like, I've been that guy, 44 years old at this point. But I remember when I was doing that eye test, it was some parts that felt like the 10th rep. You know what I'm saying? It was like, ooh, my shit was shaking. My shit was wobbling.

I needed a spotter. And I do that thing up there. This one right here. Yeah. You got it. You got it. Don't stop. Breathe.

You got to. Come on. Come on. Come. Come. Come. Push. Push.

Go. Dog. That was. But I realized right then and there, I will never pass another eye test. I'm just going to be dodging hoping I never have to do it again. I'll never. I'm dialing back in lifestyle a little bit every day. Let me tell you something.

I went from playing two on two with the boys outside to to play in 21 with the boys outside to. with the boys outside to now we're playing around the world, bro, because Daddy's knees the next day be looking like softballs when I try to hit you with the back you down in the paint maneuvers. I said, yo, let's play horse. Yeah, that is the one thing at this point in my life. Like, it's possible I have kids at some point, but the likelihood of me playing ball with them is a little bit out the window.

Like, my dad was 43 when I was born. He kept it going until I was about 12. I didn't realize the sacrifice that he was making, and I appreciate that. That's love. Shout out to him. Yeah. That man, he, you talk about athletes putting their body on the line? Yeah.

He put his body on the line. I didn't get it, but his game had absolutely just become force and a bad attitude, right? Force and meanness. That's me. And you're going to beat you and you're going to deal with this. And it's right. He did beat me. Yep.

I'm like an out of shape Rick Brunson, bro, out here. Just like, do it again. Yes. can't do it but saw you with that jersey when we logged on I want you to sit up tall to make sure that the framing

doesn't mess it up all I saw all I saw was the Dominican flag on it and I said to myself that's not what I think it is that's not what I think it is and you didn't have to get it made special did you they sold those

the Carl Anthony Tiles Dominican edition they know what they doing oh my God and y'all would have got it, huh? In flavors. I got the Grinch. I got the kryptonite junk. I got the alternates. The thing that I love about New York is, and I hadn't really thought about this and noticed this until I got here is, yes, it's people from all these different countries and they love nothing more than a reason to put on. I went to a triple G fight one night, right? And shout out to the Enterprise and brothers that was out there selling them Kazakh flags.

I had no idea. I learned a lot about Kazakhstan that night, by the way. But I didn't know they color flag, nothing. And them brothers was out there selling them flags. And you can tell these people didn't even, they didn't think to bring their flags. Because the flags that I saw in Master Square Garden, they all had the folds in them.

They had just got them flags, but it was their chance to put off a Kazakhstan. Now, you know, we got our Dominican brothers. Mero, you're not on this kick, but you know, y'all have an interested in relationship with your obvious blackness, basketball, the Dominicans. Y'all had Al Horford. Y'all had his daddy Tito.

What was his name? Filippe A. Lopez. That was y'all's too, right? Yes, sir. But y'all they had that many. And then they went out and got a big old seven-foot tall one. Y'all's man's. That could shoot. And you got to be a little frustrated with him right now. A little bit. A little bit because, a little bit because I feel like there's an aspect to his game that he could add that would make him unstoppable, bro. And that is just pure brute force in the pain, bro.

Like, I don't know if it's, we're talking about getting spotted in 10th reps. You know what I'm saying? Like, bro, maybe getting in the gym a little bit. You know, this is not, this is, this is genuine, like, concern. You know what I mean? From a, from a member of your own community, can't. You know what I'm saying?

Like, if you get in the gym a little bit, when you do the, when you do this, you won't bounce off the dude. You know what I'm saying? You will meet him with force, push him further into the paint, and get you your little easy two, your little layup. You know, that's what he needs to do.

Like, he's got this, like walk up, step into the three from the logo. He got that. He got, you know what I'm saying? Size 21 feet, bro, let's work on the footwork a little bit. You know what I'm saying? Maybe getting Jalen Brunson is your teammate, probably the best feet in the league. You know what I'm saying? Like, work with him a little bit.

You know what I'm saying? I think once he gets that down, bro, and he gets that, that, that what Shack likes to call dominance, you know, domination in the paint. If he does that, forget it. You know what I'm saying? But. But he has not at this point. But it's so wild to me watching.

And I can't figure out who is being more disrespectful to him. These teams that are guarding him with guys who are 6'4 or the people who won't give him the ball when he's being guarded by these guys who are 6'4, except I saw them give him to ball with you Holiday guarding him. And then I was like, that's why y'all don't give him the ball when he's being guarded by somebody six foot four. for. And it's crazy because I think he's been good for the Knicks this year. You know I am not a fan,

but I have given him all the credit in the world this year. And I can't, I can't figure out what I'm watching this time. I mean, listen, it's, like you said, he's been good for the team for the year. Playoffs, you know, also he's been in this situation. He's been in like a pressure playoff situation against a very good team, you know. So I think it's just like, you know, maybe it's reps. Or maybe he's not that. of dude, you know what I'm saying? Because we got Mitch, who is that type of dude, like, rent protector, like real five, you know what I'm saying? Like, he does that. So maybe you don't need him to do that. Maybe you do a little David Robinson, Tim Duncan kind of situation.

You know, you got Twin Towers, you know, and that's when they were really cooking, you know. They were cooking with that. You know, if you're a ball watcher, you know, a yo, you know, that when they started Mitch and Kat and they had them both on the, floor at the same time, it's hard to deal with, you know, because Mitch is out there getting offensive rebounds and you can't just catch it and run and shoot the little, like, transition three that Boston loves to shoot. You know what I'm saying? I do think something interesting has happened in the league just for a quick moment of somewhat basketball nerdiness, which is we saw this, I thought, in the Houston Golden State Series in particular, that these teams who are

deciding to go double big are having some success. Like at some point, the game flips, right? Like, everything changes. Like you go see that in football. Everybody's going super light. You're down to two linebackers, right? You're just worried about whether those dudes are fast. And you're going to be susceptible, susceptible to these big teams with these running backs, pounding you because you've

adjusted to the game, which is fine, but that means there's going to be new open. It's like, this is how this winds up being compelling as a thing. And so maybe the Knicks have something, except for the fact, Carl is like for his position, like a 10 shooter and Mitchell Robinson is a zero. And at all the big man things,

Roger Robinson is a zero and Carl is a 10. They need, everybody's got to give you a little bit more of the other thing. Everybody's got to give you a little more. They do, you know what I'm saying? But I was very, I mean, game, game, I think it was game three where Jason Tatum, they did not call the timeout. Jason Tatum brings a ball up, you know, by the way, get well soon, Jay. You know what I'm saying? I did not want to beat the Celtics, a Jason Tatum list of Celtics.

It feels cheap. you know what I'm saying? But here we are. But when he was bringing the ball up and it didn't call that timeout, Mitch was defending him, bro, seven feet tall, sliding his feet, staying in front of Jason Tatum, one of the premier,

I'm gonna go get it guys in the league. You know what I'm saying? So I got to give him his props there, you know, and, you know, I think the Knicks are known as a defensive team. You know what I mean? Tibbs is always a defensive first guy, you know? and but I don't know. Like you're saying,

like I think we need a little bit more from Mitch of like the offensively and a little bit more from cat defensively. Well, let me ask you this, though. You said that you didn't want to beat adjacent Tatumless Celtics. What would you rather do? Beat adjacent Tatumless Celtics team

or lose to a Jason Tatumless Celtics team? That's not happening. That's not happening. That's not. Okay, okay. C, C. This is where I'm curious, because I want to throw this out there.

I'm curious what you think about this, right? I've been living in the city now for eight years. Crazy to think, but I've been here eight years, right? Like, this is where I'm at. There are, one thing I have learned is that New York, y'all don't send the right messengers of who you are to the rest of the country. The ones that y'all give us are not nearly as cool as the ones who stay. I don't know how to say this to you, but you get somewhere,

you get to college or whatever, and I'm casting in New York. Can't stop talking about New York, die, da, die, and everything else. But the ones in New York are cool. They stray. And Knicks fans are the embodiment of this. How I felt about Knicks fans has completely changed. I have come to love you guys. I have not come to love the Knicks, but like I want there to be a win because you guys will be so happy.

I feel like you guys have really been through a lot for like the last 15 years. You haven't seen a lot of good things happen. And you guys have been genuinely happy. Like people talk about how delusional Knicks fans. are. I'm like, no, here it hasn't been that case. They were just hoping to be good, right? I go to Pop Belly and lunch to get a salad. And they're like, hey, man, you know, can you, can you just give us a little hope? You know what I'm saying? Like, y'all were just trying to see something good happen. But see, there you go. I heard you know right there. It's not going

going to happen. It's not going to happen. See, see, I feel like it don't take much for y'all to get out here over your skis. And you never know, you better start taking this one game at a time. And that's what we're about to do. So this was the thing. I knew this is, Listen, anybody that's ever played organized sports, there's always the guy on your team, you know what I'm saying, from any level, bro, junior high school, high school, college pros. There's always somebody that's like, yo, this is our dude. This is our leader. You know what I mean? And Tatum is that guy for the Celtics.

But that being said, I had a feeling, like, I'm not going to say I knew the Knicks were going to lose. I had a feeling that they would lose because Jason Tatum going down, bad injury, it's an Achilles. he's going to be out for a long time. That's like one of the worst injuries of basketball play because of sustain. You know what I'm saying? So I knew that the Celtics was going to come out hot on fire, ready to, you know, put on for their guy and put on for the city. It's like, bro, scripted.

A Disney writer wrote this, a Disney AI bot could write this. You know what I mean? Like, yo, oh, we're down. But hey, Jason Taylor went down. But you know what? We're not going to give up. Like, I hear the speech. You know what I'm saying?

I hear Joe Missoula with a thousand-yard stand in the locker room and being like, hey, guys, what we're going to do is we're not going to give up. No. We're going to go out there and we're going to play Celtic basketball. You know what I mean? And then like the super zoom into his face, you see him sweating. And then they smash cut to them on the court, like up by 20 or whatever. You know, but I had a feeling it was going to go down like this.

But we're not losing a series, man. We're not losing this area. Merrill, Merrill. K.P got pneumonia. Jalen Brown still can't go left. There's a lot of things going on. Drew Holliday is old now. We were just talking about being old.

Drew Holliday and Al Horford and Al Horford and Al Horsford and Al Al Mirofano also repping the flag. It's still old. You know what I'm saying? I have been curious about because, as you said, right, Al Horford, El Tiena la Bandera, see, right? Like he's down on the squad. I told you, told you, told you.

You know what? I'm I'm learning my Spanish is better than the last time I saw you.

But anyway, right? Like we're getting there. But I feel like y'all don't I feel like y'all don't really put on for Al the way that y'all inexplicably put on for cat.

You know what I mean? Well, it's the Boston thing, man. It's the Boston thing. New Yorkers have a, that's the weird thing about being a Dominican from New York. You know what I'm saying?

If you're Dominican and you live in Lynn or Lawrence, you know what I'm saying? It makes perfect sense for you to root foul over it. But if you're New Yorker, you know, I don't know what the mortal enemy of Atlanta is, but the mortal enemy of New York is Boston. You know what I'm saying? So do somebody like Pedro Martinez ever break through?

That guy, so him, yes, because of his humbleness. He's a humble dude. He's one of the best to ever do it. But he's on record saying the Yankees, what can I say? The Yankees are my daddy. You know what I'm saying? And when you humble yourself like that, then we accept you.

You know what I'm saying? That's what it is. And he's just a little dude, too. He's not like this big, you know what I mean? It's not like it's Randy Johnson. You know what I'm saying? Right. That is fair.

That is fair. But I tell you, you're like my own. You're not humbling yourself. Then boys might lose, man. But, man, listen, we're not going to put that in the air because it's not going to happen. All right? Like I said, we take it at one game at a time. Now we're serious because everybody knew, we knew, like, you know, of course.

New Yorkers like to be brash and, like, you know, have a little bit of bravado to them, you know. But we're also very realistic and pragmatic, you know. We knew this is the Boston Celtics. We know this is the defending champions. They're not just going to lay down and get gentlemen sweat. You know what I'm saying? This thing might go sound. But at the end of the day, the Knicks have something we have had not, we have not had since Carmelo Anthony.

And that is a guy that you just give the ball to when it's 10 seconds off on the clock and say, yo, go do your thing, champ. And, yeah, yo, Brunson, I mean, Kea said it. He's the clutch player of the year. You know what I'm saying? So every time, so this is a thing. Let me walk it back a little bit. Not walking back. Let me just zoom out for a second.

As a lifelong Knicks fan, I used to. to get like a, like a pit in my stomach, right? When it was like, Knicks a down one with the ball, 10 seconds left on the clock. I'm like, we're about to lose this game. I would see, I would look over on the sideline and see Mike Dan Tony or whoever drawing up a game losing play and I would say, you know what, man,

let me just stand up off my couch, watch them break this shot or not even get the shot off in time and then go to bed. Now my attitude is gave Jalen Brunson the ball, clear the fuck out, and let's get this bucket and this win. You know what I mean? Because, bro, I have not seen a finisher like that since Kyrie Irvin, bro. Yes, I said it. No, he is. And it's different with Brunson because Kyrie's finishing is predicated on just being amazing, right? Like that sick handle, what are you going to do? There's something to be said, though, for a dude that's just muslin people. Right? like Jaila Brunson is like, I'm going to get to this spot because I'm going to muscle you.

Like honestly with the type of game he got, it's a wonder that he's not a little bit chubbier with the full T-shirt and the shoulder-limbed dreadlocks. You know how they all play the exact same way? Jailor Brunson, Loekey, has that game, but in a more athletic physique and a different aesthetic. He's the dude at the white is punishing you, bro. He's catching the ball at the left block and he's just dogging you, bro. like, you know, he's that guy. And like the footwork is impeccable.

The touch on the shot is incredible. Using a backboard, just, just hoping. You know what I mean? Like, again, not extremely jumping at the gym like Kyrie, ball on a string type of wizardry. But like you said, getting in there, using his muscle and getting to the back, getting to the rack, bro. Like that's his game.

And he does it every time. You know, I now really want the Knicks to win, though. I want the Knicks to win just because, again, I live here and I really think this will be a much happier place. Like, I know what it's like to walk past the garden on a weekend when the Rangers are playing. You know what I'm saying? Like, we need to get that, we need to get that energy for the city for the Knicks. I'm here for that. But after what I saw Jalen Brown do yesterday on Wednesday, do you see that?

Yeah. Where he did one of them second order TSA search. purchase. Oh, Josh Hart. You know what I'm saying? Like, he, uh, he, he, he, he stopped and frisked. He stopped his frisk. Shit wasn't cool, man. It wasn't cool at all. Like, I, I wish Josh Hart would have stole all of them if I'm going to keep it honest, because we got to do something to keep these cats honest. That, listen, bro, this, that's what's missing in the game. I'll be, I'll keep it real with you, bro. That's what's missing in the game is, and I thought, I felt like I talked about this on 7 p.m.

Mello, enforcers, you know what I'm saying? The Oakleys, the Isaiah Stewart's. You know what I'm saying? We need more Isaiah stewards in the game. You know what I mean? To come in and be like, yo, hold on, hold on, because they got them in hockey still, to this day. There's a dude that's like, yo, this is just,

if this is your phone, this is the guy that scores the goals and you smashing them on the boards, you know what I mean? They're a big-ass Canadian dude with three teeth is going to slide on you and fuck you up. The NBA needs a little bit of that. Let me tell you something right now. If he had done that to Isaiah Stewart, we would be leading all the television shows with,

should Isaiah Stewart have gone to jail? Not because we were just curious, but because Isaiah Stewart would be in jail right now. He's already been cited for something that happened at the arena. If somebody went in there, Like I've been reading about how Trump and them is like getting all the food inspectors out of here. No, no, no. Jaylon Brown is like, I'd be checking out me for free.

Right? He was shit. He was, he was, he, he, he, he, he, he was giving that boy one of them, one of them exam. After you turn 40, don't wait. You know what I'm saying? Check your own shit out. That's what he did to that man. Dog, Isaiah Stewart, would have thrown that dude out the motherfucking window.

Dog, so this is what I'm saying. He came with that energy because Taita went down. That's going to dissipate. You know what I'm saying? Yo, because I say this much, bro, and you got to back me up here because you've been watching this series. You've been watching the Celtics team. These motherfuckers are corny.

They are corny. They are corny as fuck. It's crazy, bro. It is so crazy to me that grown black men can be as corny as the Celtics entire roster is corny. They all talk like Chad GPT. I know you see that miced up Jalen Brown magic shit where he was like, they call him so the magic,

but we're the ones that got the real magic, no Harry Potter, right? Ha ha ha ha. I'm like, wow, this is, you know when you like the sexy dude, when you like the Shamar Moore, you don't really got to do nothing else except be a good looking dude. That's all them. They got the dark-skinned version with Jay, with Jay,

They got the light skin version with the fluffy curl with JT. And all they do is be handsome, hooping corn balls. It's crazy. Crazy. It is so corny. It is so goofy. That's why I want them to lose. I need Joe Mazzula to sit down somewhere and, like, sit down with Kat Williams or something, bro.

Understand comedy. You know what I'm saying? Like, I don't know, bro. Like, I'll do sit down with me. I've been doing this 15 years. I'll tell you how to not be a goofy. in an interview, bro, and when you miced up the correct things to say, because that wasn't it, you know what I mean?

And it continued on this path of corniness, bro. God damn. Yo, I hadn't really thought about it until you said it in such stark terms, and you are not incorrect. I have come to love Joe Missoula just because they only made one of those. His willingness to be that person in public is amazing. Congratulations on Coach of the Buff. Nobody cares.

Okay. I'm kind of with this, right? What do you think about your legacy? We're all going to die and be dust. Oh, okay. I got to see that. But you write about these other dudes that Celtics don't have. This is an era of NBA with less cool dudes than there has ever been.

Ever been. I mean, come on, man. You out here wearing a Carl Tows jersey. I wouldn't care if he was from your house in the Dominican. 15 years ago, you wouldn't have settled for that. Bro, we need more Aunt Edwards and less, you know what I'm saying, Jalen Brown. You know what?

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picks that expire in 14 days. Women at time offer terms at pick6.draftings.com slash promos. All right, we are back with the kid, Mero. And Mero, I'm trying to explain to you. Like, for me as somebody with the Atlanta experience that I have, Anthony Edwards, is the most Atlanta dude in the history of Atlanta dudes. The league. has never had an Atlanta dude who was this Atlanta. I'm trying to think, right? I think he might be pulling in a dungeon family, Bob. Oh my God.

Like, see, it's a different way. It's not quite dungeon family. He's like a oom camp. Like some, like, it's this new, well, the oom camp is old, but it's like this new breed of Atlanta dude. Walk in your trap, take over your trap. Right?

What's the boy's name? Boss man, Dilo? Yeah. You know, like he's in that space. I love him. He's my favorite player ever. The self-awareness, all of it, right? And he has this magnetism that makes everybody want to be cool with him,

all of this. But I'm really trying to think about this because when we were younger and it's a little bit more like our slight age different kicks in a little more because there's some cast that I'll be able to remember on this in a way that you not. But like Rod Strickland, for example, was a very New York basketball player. Kenny Anderson was a very New York basketball player. Boys don't play on concrete no more. So you don't see like, like they're just straight ahead. Oh, this is a dude from New York. Rayford Austin is another example of this obviously, right? Like, oh, Jamal Tensley, that's another one. They didn't have

to be great, but they were very, very New York dude. There's never been anybody as Atlanta as Anthony Edwards, who has decided, I'm just going to ride this out until you make me stop. And none of us are going to, because we like you, bro. Yeah, that's what it is.

He's charismatic. Like, he could be as Atlanta as he wants. Because at the end of the day, he's charismatic. In the post games, he's like, yo, shout at the Jane and McDaniels. Shout at the Nause Reid. He's the best player on the floor. Do-do-do-do-do.

Bro, we know you the best player on the floor. Like, cut it out. But he always defers to his teammates. He always gives them props. He's a responsible dude trying to play all the child support all at once. You know what I'm saying? Get that out the way. You know?

Yo. That's very. That's how much we love him, by the way. This man said, He got more baby mom's in future. Yo, he said, let me pay it. Hold on. What if I have a point that I have not seen made, but if we are to play the advocate of the devil, though the devil needs no advocate, he was like, let me know what the payment is

every month for 18 years, and I'll write you a check off top. When in reality, the check off top should have been smaller, right, because of future value and interest in the likes. He actually was talked about paying a little bit more than he had to. To adjusting for inflation. You see what I'm saying? So shout out to him. You know what I mean? People looked at that and it was like, oh, that's crazy.

He's crazy. But not, to your point, he calculated, he adjusted for inflation. And he said, look, I noticed money. It's not going to be worth the same. It is now in 18 years. So let me give you a little extra on top to cover for that. So, come on. That's a benevolent name right there.

We know what happened to him. It happens to a bunch of these cats out here, some of them in the lane, some league, some of them out of the league, whatever. But the same thing happens to a lot of people, and it's very simple. And I just, I think people need to understand this because I think most people have been in this place before, and they kind of need to understand why, right? Unprotected sex is a drug. Some people can take a hit and go on about their business. Some people can't ever go back. Once it has been introduced into their lives, that's the only way that they could go ahead and do it.

And clearly, Ant Man is one of those guys. Clearly, bro. Clearly. I mean, as one of those guys. He can't take that lifestyle back. No. As one of those guys,

I can recognize one of those guys and I understand him. Because, you know, like, you know, I've been known to say this and it might sound irresponsible, you know, but it is what it is. Like, choose your partners wisely is all I'll say. But I will say this.

having sex with a condom on is like watching the IMAX movie with sunglasses on. You're doing it. You're watching it. But are you really? You're not getting a full experience. You know what I mean? There's a barrier that's preventing you from getting a full experience, you know what I mean? And having every nerve ending stimulated.

Yeah, yeah, no, no, no. And he's that guy, right? Like, he's there. And look, man, when you got as much money as they are, hardly anybody. I mean, some people are saying, hey, potting and not here. the rest of them are like, why not? I mean,

it's the power ball. The power ball is hitting for a billy. Hey, you know what? I made a mistake earlier in the show, but when I said that Jaylen Brunson and Kyrie were the best finishes in the league. Edwled is the best finish in the league.

Don't do that. Don't do that. You are correct, you are correct, though, that apparently once he gets into paint, he's going to finish. He's getting to the live. Right.

No, it's where it's, it's an and one. It's an and one. Good night, ladies and gentlemen. Yeah, that is, that is what happens. And I am going to count three, two, one, and we're just going to talk about something else. Three, two, one. Hey, Merro, just to keep it funny,

can you do me a favor? What's up? Can you hit the people with the Yokic? My friend, listen to me. today we play basket and I like would prefer when we play I would not play on this day please I would like play in my country with my horse by my side can we please accelerate can we please accelerate the process

of the playoff so it can be finished please Like, I have never seen a dude that just want to get out of here as much as Nicola Yokic, bro. You know what I'm saying? There's like those flashes of, yeah, we did it. We won. You know what I mean? When they jumped in the pool and the whatever was a hot tub after the thing, I've seen flashes. But man, that man just want to do his job and go home, bro.

He played basketball like a plumber fits pipes. What I think happened with him, though, on that. Like, I've been watching it, and I think you and I have lived similar lives, but I think you'll get what has happened here, which is that man is afraid of becoming somebody new. You know what I'm saying? Like, he is clinging. I feel like he is clinging to the person who was in Sambor, Serbia. And when all this new stuff comes around or whatever, he doesn't want, you know,

it's actually really kind of touching when you think about it. Like he doesn't want to leave a grip. It's no matter how much loot I get, I'm staying into projects, right? Like, it's that sort of mentality. And I think you grew up in a different zone on this that I did, but I think we both, as you get something, you try to hold on to what home is, right? But then after a point after they won that title, that shit was so cracking,

he was like, I do not want to get off parade. He was like, yo, I'm trying to stay here. They went to Vegas. He was like, my bad, I'm just trying to be me. But shit, I'm trying to do. This is kind of lit. You know what I'm saying? He went from being like, oh, I want to go to horse

to like, hey, turn my shit off. You know, like. I tell you this, though, speaking of that series. Play little tunechie. You talk about the Celtics. He and the club holding up the phone to the DJ, like, play bad buddy. I don't know how to say. Yes, I do not know how to say name of song.

But if you could play, it would be very nice, my friend. Play this. But look, what do you think about OKC if you think the Celtics accordi? Oh, man. Listen, man, Shea, I don't want to say that Shea's corny. I just want to say he's Canadian. You know what I'm saying? So it's a different type of, like, you know, like a cool Canadian dude is different

than a cool American dude. I feel like, you know, Canadians are all about being polite and all this stuff. And, you know, he, how do I explain Shane, man? Like, he's just like a, he's like if ASAP Rocky was an NBA player. you know what I'm saying? Like, and not in the court, like, because not saying that Rocky's corny, but he's more because, like, his thing is like, what's my tunnel fit going to be as opposed to what am I going to say to this dude on the court?

You know what I'm saying? Yes. Like. So I'll make two points off of that one. One, I think I'm being unfair to the thunder and what is making these gentlemen appear to be corny is these terrible commercials for ATT. Right? Like the what a pro wants, what a pro needs.

I can't believe that nobody. everybody's representation, especially Chet. Chet is dedicated to his cool. You know what I'm saying? We ain't had one quite like him in a while. I wish that Cooper Flag was a little bit more like Chet. We ain't had like one of those, that personality type, even if he looked like Abraham Lincoln. We ain't had that yet.

So to be fair to them, maybe they cooler than I thought they just got them commercials that are going and taking it like in the opposite direction. So what I say about that is the commercials, you know what I'm saying? I feel like that might be an unfair representation because like you said, they hired a company to go and make this commercial. It wasn't like Chet and Shay and all them do sat down and was like, I bet what we're going to do? What's the creative? You know what I mean?

They got a script and the agent was like, yo, go do this. That's what I find with a lot of athletes, bro. Like it's different for like, you know, for people like you and I was like media. I do comedy, you know what I'm saying? You're doing the journalism thing? Like our reps or the people that are, you know, handling us, it's a different type of handling. You know what I'm saying? It's just like, hey, man, look, you're, you're, what you, what you bring to the table is your voice, you know, your, your, your, your, what you have to say is what you bring to the table.

Yes. So that, we have to protect that. So when we go into like a situation, like a commercial or some branded spot, we got to be very careful how we deliver those lines. athletes, day agents is just like, man, here, bro, take this script, go read about some chicken nuggets. I don't get, I don't know, I don't give a fuck, bro. The check is 2.5M, like, man, go ahead, take it. Because I'm taking that point five, you can take the two. And just go read this shit about crispy strips, the motherfucker.

I don't know. I didn't read the shit myself. You know what I mean? That's when you end up with shit like that. That is fair. That is very fair. You also hit all the Canadian part because, like, you know, I'd be feeling bad for the Canadians at times. I went to the Kendrick show last weekend.

And it was during euphoria where he says, we ain't going to let no Canadian disrespect Pock. And I'm like, damn, that's all you had to say was he was Canadian, man. You ain't have to use no slur. You ain't have to come up with no patronizing nickname. You ain't even have to say A in a facetious way. None of it. All you said was Canadian.

And we was like, yeah, dog, we ain't going for that. Hell no. Yeah, no. Fuck out of here. Yeah. It's crazy. Canadian has, I don't know. And I don't, listen, listen, you are more well-versed in the world of sports.

There's got to be some guys that came out of Canada. You know what I'm saying? That are nice. Like this guy, y'all Canada, stand up. Stay up. What everybody loses sight of is all them cats fighting in hockey are from Canada. Like, everybody who thinks that the Canadians are just all nice and sweet and everything like that, they're the ones out here knocking people's teeth out.

You feel me? Standing on boots with knives on the bottom of them. You know what I'm saying? So what are you talking about? Like, these dudes are national. I don't know what made people say that. And as Donald Trump learned, they are ornery. They are a grudge holders.

They take things very personally. Brut. Not a super hockey guy, you know what I'm saying? I recently got it to hockey because I got access to the Prudential Center and the Devils, you know what I mean? And live hockey is very entertaining. It is very entertaining. It is one of my favorite things to get drunk at.

You know what I'm saying? And I'm not a super big drinker like that. But man, like the four nations situation with the USA versus Canada and then Trump getting involved and being like, we're going to smoke your boots, we're going to clap your cheeks. And then Canada coming through, them fighting in the beginning of this shit. And that shit was so dramatic, bro. It made me feel like there was like a cold war going on between the U.S. and Canada type of situation. Yeah, no, no. It was, when it goes, it goes. Like, what you call it? International hockey. So, like, that's what they replicated with the four nations thing.

But, like, you know, Olympic hockey, right? World Championship hockey. It goes. Like, I think that is something that we both absolutely agree on. But I still contend, they ain't really serious about that hockey up there, boy, because it would be Scarborough stand up. It ain't that many black people in Canada, but it's enough of them to really help their program. Like what I always say about the United States, man, that's how you know we ain't serious about hockey, right? You know, America ain't for real about no sport until they go and get black people to do it.

That's when you know, that's when you know they really try to win is when they decide to come and holl at us to come do something. Like, damn, nothing else is going to work, huh? Okay, let's go get them. I'm just saying, all them boys in Chicago, y'all claim to worry about, give them some sticks and some skates. Oh, my God. dog you get a bunch of six five

quando rondo mothuckers from Chicago bro and teach him out of skate and shoot it is over it's over bro the Chicago Blackhawks will go on a 10-year dynasty run clearly they need something to do right like you telling me that they can't get out here a good friend of my Ross Greenberg used to be the head of HBO sports he works with I forget the exact name of the organization but it is a figure skating organization in Harlem right

that's they kind of give back so they got young kids in Harlem that go out there and do the figure skating. It's very, very nice. But, you know, it's some other boys out here that y'all need to get out here and give them them other skates and just see what happens. Just see what happens. They just, they just fixed it up on the north part of Central Park. You know what I'm saying?

They're going to get the ice rink cracking over there now. Let's see what's up. Like, yo, you know, listen, I might, listen, I'm going to do some work with the NHL, but we might, we might have to get something going over there. at like an NHL version of RBI. You know what I mean? I love this. Miro's like,

I'll go talk to him. Don't worry. I'm going to talk to him. I'm going to have to. Miro about to revolutionize Harlem. He about to go out there and he about to give back. Okay, I see it. Let's go.

Right, Vance. Speaking of potentially corny, where are you on the Pacers and Tyrese Halliburton? Oh, man. Oh, man. I mean, you know, he got voted most overrated by his peers. You know what peers, you know, because it's anonymous. So that's the thing that kind of bothers me.

It's just like, it should be say it with your chest. You're scared? You know what I'm saying? To call them overrated. You know what I'm saying? I'll say it with my chest, Tray Young, overrated is hell. You know what I'm saying? Yes.

Just say to shit. You know what I mean? So, but what I will say is that they find ways to get shit done, man. Yes. Like, I don't know, but I do not want. for the NBA and for NBA fans to have Tyrese Halliburton looking like my second cousin, I just got here from DR,

holding up a Larry O'Brien trophy when this is all said and done. It's bad for the game of basketball. You know what I'm saying? And I'm not just saying that as a hater. I'm just saying that as a hater. Yo, here's my thing about Tyrese Halliburton. I've come to really dislike his old man

after that thing he did with Yonnas. I don't really know his pop. But I've really come to dislike. Like if he looked like he's Gilly the man, you know what I'm saying? Like he looked like he was giving the kid's daddy. That's just it. I was watching. You hear it.

You see it, man. But I was watching, I was on McAfee on Wednesday. Halliburton went on there. And I don't think I'd really paid much attention to his voice before then. And I would be honest with you. I've never heard his father talk, but I've seen his father. I look at his father and I hear Tyrese and I am shocked that they are in. each other's lives. You know what I'm saying? Like it doesn't appear. It doesn't appear that way.

I don't want his father to have any happiness. Or at the very least, I don't want this to go long enough that people start putting together a movement to let his pops come back to the arena. I want him to keep his ass on from here on out. Or I want him to jump up in my man, Yokish's face if they were to ever get that far so that the Yokish brothers could come out there and. Oh, man. I think you should see that. That motherfucker's, yo, they look, they look cartoonish, They step out. They look like the fucking bushwhackers, bro. Like, they got the crazy little Mohawks dog.

They might as well walk through the arena like this. Yes. You know what I'm saying? Well, the thing is, they are much older than Niccolo is. Like, they have like the age range, age gap like I have with my brother and my sister. It's like 18 years type of stuff. So that's what's even crazier about this is that big Nikola Yokic is somebody's baby brother. That's crazy.

And my thing is also. why are neither of these dudes playing on a line somewhere in the NFL? Like, they, I don't know how big they really are, but they look to be around 6, 9, 7 feet, 480 pounds. You know what I'm saying? Like, you're not moving that dude off a line. They're not there.

Just saying, he's going to block a lot of passes. Right, right, and you want no problems with them. You want zero, zero. problems with them. They look like henchmen, Bo. They do. They look like henchmen in every action movie that you catch on a like a Saturday afternoon on Channel 11. You know what I'm saying?

Yes. That's got two lines in the whole movie. Yes. Yes. I would kill him. Yeah, you know what? Matter of fact, we'll have Ryan asked perplexing this for the end of the show about Yolkich's brothers. Like, so what else have they done? I think that's a fair question. As we can get a rundown of the history of the Yokage brothers. What have they done

other than ruin one of them Morris's lives, whichever one he was. Well, no, Yokos did that himself. The brothers didn't even do that. And then the brother said, hey, to the other one, like, yo, it's two of us. It's one of you. Yeah, relax. I know they call you MOOC and everything like that, but take it easy because I got a little mohawk on a big head.

Yes, they got HGHs, bro. Easy. Easy. I always say this shit, bro. All these Serbia dudes, all these Serbia dudes, all these, like, Eastern Bloc guys. Like, I say this shit all the time, bro, with the UFC guys, too. If they got a beard and no mustache, that motherfuckers grow up fighting bears. That's how they train.

Like, they fighting bears. They eating reindeer hooves for breakfast, bro. They going crazy out there. Like, it's a different upbrand. So when they get in the ring, when they get in the arena, bro, they see them. They have the kill Bill Siren goes off in their head. Yo, I want to ask you one last thing

before we go, it ties back to the Knicks. This time two years ago, you guys are really sad about not getting Donald and Mitchell, right? Where are you on that now? Because I don't think that it would have worked out better if you had had him.

No, I don't think it would have, but that's not to say that spider's not that guy. You know what I'm saying? Right. Like, if we added spider, to what we have now, who,

I mean, there's for sure less minutes for Deuce McBride, you know what I'm saying? But that's a guy that's the guy, that's the second unit guy.

You know what I mean? Like, if he was on the Knicks right now, he'd be six men of the year for the next 10 years. You know what I mean? You're trying to make Donald Mitchell a six man?

Bro, I ain't going to hold you. Like, you know what I mean? Because he's shorter if I'm correct. If my measurements are correct. No,

you're right. He's shorter his statute than Josh Hart Mekale, OG, them dudes. So we got those wings to defend guys like J.B., Tatum, you know, Luca, all them dudes. So I think he would be a liability in that sense, just size-wise, you know what I'm saying?

But in terms of like getting a bucket, bro, call him off the bench. He's ready to cook. You know what I mean? Like. I love you. This is why we love Nick's fans. Y'all went from one of Donald Mitchell to take you to the promise land. And now you're like, yeah, we can get a good 20 minutes from him off the bench.

He could probably help take us over the top. Hey, hindsight is 2020, bro. How was this happening? 2K mess with my mind. When I put him on a Nixon, 2K and mess them with my mind, Bo. I was dropping 70 every night with Spider at the garden, and I thought that that was a reality.

This is virtual reality. AI is taking over. 2K has made so many people think so many ridiculous things about how a basketball team is supposed to be put together. Come on now. Thinking like, oh, this trade is feasible. this trade makes sense. We'll trade Mitchell Robinson to the Mavericks for,

you know what I'm saying, for Cooper Flag and Anthony Davis and some pricks, and it'll go. It's like, nah, nah, come on now. The ESPN trade machine started that shit and 2K carried the torch into the future. Hey, man, speaking of Cooper Flag in New York, Brooklyn would have been the perfect place for him. That is exactly what the Brooklyn Nets fan base wanted, a big old white boy and a white t-shirt.

It is them. It is them. 100%. Every dude that works at a cool denim store wanted Cooper Flag to have a Nets jersey on. You know what I'm saying? Everybody that's drinking matcha

right now as we record this wanted Cooper Flag on that team in Brooklyn at the Barclay Center. But, you know what I'm saying? Revenge is sweet for Nico. Hey, Doc, Nico, that worked out so well. Tell me this. I saw something that said that Cooper Flag

In fact, this might be the question for perplexity. How much money did Cooper Flag make at Duke? Because I saw something that said the Cooper Flag made $28 million while he was at Duke. If this is the price is right, I'd be like, go higher. I'll be screaming at you from the behind you at the state and you at the little booth. You know what I mean? Putting in your guess. I'm like, nah, it's $35 million, beau.

$35 million. Come on, man. A blind blue-eyed kid that could jump out of the gym. gym, playing for Duke. Come on now. We live in America, Bob. Imagine having $28 million and you're 18 and you're on a college campus. Now look. Doug. And I say this from experience and being around the area. If I'm 28, if I got $28 million and I go to Duke, I'm at UNC all the time. Like we are going to exhaust the possibilities of Duke very, very quickly. Chapel Hill, it'll take me a lot longer. You know what I'm saying? But if I got that kind of paper, it would be a bad idea.

Doug, I'm flog, yo, I'm asking for them to build a helicopter pad for me to fly in a class because I'm spending the day in Miami and I got economics at six. So I got to fly in for that. You know what I'm saying? Like that's the type of moves I'll be making. You give a young Merrow, 18-year-old Merrill, $28 million. I might not be here right now. Or I might be here and I'd be at asking to pay all the child support up front. Mero, if they give a 40-year-old, Mero, $28 million, I'm not exactly... That's true. You're right. You're right.

Bonoes. I've been near you for every step of the way. I don't know if 28 is the number that it needed to get to. Just throwing it out there. I can't promise you that 28 is the number that I would have needed to get to. I got news for you. Have you given me that first 28, I can't promise you that I'm ever going to do this shit again.

never after that first 28 i'm gonna be on the first 48 yeah yes like yo 28 i think i'm gonna be honest if you drop 28 million dollars in my hand right now all i'm ever doing from the rest of my life is taking classes and i don't mean like going to school i mean like i take these spanish classes next i'll take piano um after that i'll take cooking right i'm just going to find ways to keep my mind occupied i will my mama once took a class in cake decorate I'm there with a little squeezy bag, bro. That's right. A little floral around the edge of the cake.

I'm going to be good at everything, right? I am going to be the eligible as bachelor you've ever had. He cooks, he played a sonata for me, all of it. Did you know that he knows how to give an actual massage? Yeah, he took that class too. Yeah, he's not just massaging until he gets to the booty and then slapping it on your back. You know what I'm saying? He's giving me a real massage. That's right. Think about this, right? The S&P 500 on average going to give you a return of 10%. Right. So if I put $28 million in the S&P 500, you can expect on

average to get back $2.8 million a year. I couldn't spend $2.8 million in a year. I couldn't, right? I wouldn't even want to try. I could not do it. But I would live a wonderful life. Yes. What I would love, though, is if I did. did have that kind of money in New York, I would only want it, I would have a house where I actually want to live and then a house in a place that nobody wants me. That's the Merrill plan. Yeah, like I went to Bob Costas. I just don't have the house where I want to be right now.

I got the house where nobody wants me. Yeah, yeah. I went to Bob Costa's house one time. Good God, man. I would love for him. Keep complaining about the smell. Please keep telling him. you got a problem with it. I don't blame you. I would have a problem with it too,

but I ain't going nowhere. Okay. I almost sang that out as the hook of a song that I don't feel as appropriate for me to sing right now, given what's going on on court TV. I see what you? Yo, have you seen any of those details? Yo, my, listen, not only did I see the details, Bo, but I was driving to my studio the other day, and I'm driving down Worth Street. And I'm, like, like, what is going on here? There's so many cameras everywhere. There's the scrum is crazy.

There's reporters. There's photographers. There's mics. There's cameras. Eye witness news. I said, what is going on? I'm just trying to get to work. What's going on? One of the guys in the photo pit area just looks at me and he goes, Did he? And just starts cracking up laughing. I was like, oh, shit.

Part of me, one of me, one of them. to stick around and catch the perp walk. I don't know if they was going to perk walk him in, bring him in through the back. I just want to see what he's doing. But I did see one diabolical image, Beau. And it was the image. You know them court paintings,

like the court drawings, whatever. I know what you're talking about. Insane. Insane. Oh, wow. We got the, we got the effects on the ask you. It actually did it. I wasn't thinking about that.

But yeah, Cassie is on the stand giving harrowing testimony. And it's a picture. doing the heart. I was just like, oh, you're, you're the guiltiest. The other thing that I think, if there is anything somewhat lighthearted about this, I had an uncle, wow, this is not going to sound lighthearted, but you'll get me. And an uncle passed away a couple years ago. One of my favorite uncles, Andy had cancer. And we didn't find out really until it was too late. But I had seen some pictures that people had taken of him in like the last year of his life. And his hair was all the way gray. And my uncle lived on that shoe pouch, right? Like I would come. I would joke

with him and be like, man, I need to know what I need to do to get my hair that black. Right. And it was funny because we called him black, right? Like, I would joke at him about it. And he would joke back. And I saw the picture of him all the way gray. And I was like, hey, there's the red flag. Like, you know how people say the thing about like, if you, if they, if you did this, that's how they would know you were taking hostage, right? Like if somebody saw you wear the Red Sox hat, they would know something is wrong. I saw that all gray hair. And I was like, oh, no, if you have not seen this, did he out here looking like Frederick

Douglas dog? He out here looking like Morgan Freeman. He had been putting all the shoe polish in his hair. And now he in the joint. And I bet that first day he looked up and he saw how it looked, he couldn't believe it. That was the day it got real to him. A hundred percent, dog, because as a man, when you're a hair, starts to undergo changes that you can't maintain,

you know what I'm saying? Like the, the boozer, you know what I'm saying? The boozer Beijing, you know what I mean? That is a, that's a shot to the heart, me. You know what I'm saying? Especially for something like Diddy, who's like, yo, I'm the coolest motherfucker. I'm the opposite of the Celtics roster.

I'm cool as hell. Yo, look at me. I'm producing. I'm, eh, eh, eh. To then come out looking like Marcus Garvey, bro, is, you, Yo, and now he just sitting there in that courtroom and I say that testimony, I just, that was just like, I can't, this, I don't know if he's going to jail, but he can never, whether he goes to holy walnuts. Bro, I turn into holy walnuts. He can never come back. He can never come back. Like, we know, we know you now. Like, we know you in a way, you can, we can't never let none of this slide, right? That's why he going to jail. No matter what the evidence is, what of my partners is like, I think he might, he might get acquitted. And I look at that test.

testimony. No, no, no, no, no. They ain't letting that boy back outside. No, sir. Bro, nah. He, listen, he would have to be like a Hollywood executive to get that kind of grace. You know what I'm saying? It's not happening for a hip-hop mogul. Please, guess who else? Guess who else they ain't let out of jail, that Hollywood executive? He is, this ain't. This ain't going down. And even if he did get out, he'd wind up like O.J, right? Where O.J got out and thought, okay, cool, I'm going to go back to being OJ. And they was like, no. You're right. Your money's no good here.

You forgot the part where he forgot the part where half of this country is white people and they don't fuck with you at all. Yes. Yes. Like Diddy, look, man, you are, no, and he ain't really got no money no more? No, no, no, no, no. Jail is where he's going to be forever. It's not going to be long before he's, uh,

Puffstaffa Rahim Abdul. Oh, yeah. He about to be all up on what they call it his dean. He about to be all up on his dean. Cool feet up with a gray beard, nice long, manicured gray beard. He might start working on the law library. Now, I'd say, as we speak, you know what he's doing?

Copy it down the dictionary. Come on. That's it. He's just getting ready for the parole board, man, in 2048. Right. It's going to be so long before he get to the parole board that they're going to be like, so what job did you used to do?

I was exactly. Oh, really? So, like, were any of those songs, big hits? They're public domain now. Yeah. They're going to be, like, have you ever heard of Biggie Smalls? And they're going to hear that,

like somebody talking about Cab Calloway. You know what I mean? Like, it's just like, it's going to be that long before he see a parole board. He ain't never, he, the light of day is over for him. Over. And those days, man, listen, a lot of my partner's been locked up,

you know what I mean? and somehow got phones, was on Facebook live, doing all kind of stuff like that, he's too high profile to even do that. Like, you remember the Goodfellic scene where they're in their cell and they're chopping garlic and they live in like a good life behind bars? Those days are over.

Not him. You know what I'm saying? Not him. Not him. That ain't got shit to do with him. No, sir. No, sir. He's just like calisthenics.

Might want to get on some of those. Like maybe that is. Maybe that's your program. Gips, chaffraises, burpees. Yeah. Like that crypto, that crypto man going to get out of jail way before you do, partner. Yo, talk about it.

And he did things that they actually think are way worse than you do. He was playing games with the economy. What's it called? Currency manipulation? That's like the worst shit you can possibly do, dog. And this guy is still going to get out of jail before you. That says something. Look, Dave Chappelle said,

it best. I have never seen anybody get caught up on RICO charges by himself. When they said RICO charges, I was like, oh, his man, Rico was involved in this? Because who else? You are going to be a deal. It's him. Is him, Johnson and Johnson, bro,

on that RICO charges? Yeah, that's the one thing. You notice this. They didn't put a brand name on that baby on yet. Johnson and Johnson is Johnson got clout. They were like there would be no pictures of our product. Keep that low. Come on. Involved.

No, no. He was out here buying it. He was out here buying generic store brand. Yeah. His way was getting it from Costco. Yeah. That's right. But don't, don't.

This ain't got nothing to do with us. In fact, as I recall, Costco put out a statement and being like, hey, man, we don't even sell that shit. We don't even sell that. Yeah. We ain't even, no. We ain't doing that. But hey, check out, my man. Kid Mero.

Check out the Victory Light Pod. Check him out on 7 p.m. in Brooklyn. I'm wishing you the best, brother. I really am. with this weekend, with the Knicks and everything that comes with it. I'm doing, I'm putting, I'm wishing for you. I'm wishing for the city.

You know what I'm saying? Maybe it may be, uh, to Hermano will, we'll do what you need them to do, you know? Hopefully, you know what I'm saying? And yo, listen, both, man, it's a, I'd have a pleasure every time, my man. You are my favorite person from out of Atlanta. And that's saying so. Because y'all got Andre 3,000. Y'all got big boy.

Y'all got a future. You know what I'm saying? But you're right there. Number one in the power rigors, Beau. Let's go. I appreciate your brother. we'll talk to you soon. Nix make the finals. We definitely talking to you. We might have to do it in person. Oh, yeah.

For sure. Let's get it. Hey, man. I appreciate you. All right. Ryan. All right. We took a look at perplexity. What else have Yolkij's brothers done? I'm not going to try and pronounce these names because, you know, Eastern Europe. I think you'll appreciate the summary, however.

Overall, Nicola Yokhuj's brothers have carved out their own paths in sports, including college basketball and MMA. So one of them played three years in college basketball. The other was an MMA fighter. I think it was a guy with the Mohawk that was MMA fight. If I had to guess.

You no, you know, no, problemas. Not out. Not out. No, no, no,

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