NBA Preview With Ryen Russillo, Hank Is Back From San Francisco And Super Bowl Clean Up + Guys On Chicks

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The Crown is yours today is Wednesday, February 11th. And Hank is back. Back Mr. Guys. Hank, how are you feeling? Just a little bummed out. Superb all hangover sucks. Zack did ask you on Sunday if this loss would be like a one day thing. Was it a one day thing? No. It's not it's not been one day yesterday. It was bad today. It's not been much better. Okay. Don't be mad already. I haven't even said anything. Also, I'd like an apology for the other show where you accused me of feeding Zack questions. And Zack just came at you because you came at him. You told him he sounded like shit before he spoke. And so Zack's like, fuck it. I'm just going to I'm going to hit you with my hard question first. I will not apologize for that. What are you going to say? I was just wondering if you consumed any media. I don't know how Patriots fans are handling this. I don't know that that ball Paul was not listening to part of my take on Monday. Because you know, it's too fresh. The loss is too fresh. Have you been reading articles? Listen to podcast. I listen to spinchicklets. That's about it. Interesting. Yeah. They came to your defense. Yeah. Hands in Whitney. For people who missed it. They were so mean. And the biz did point out nice fart. And that was that was it. So you think we're brutal to you? I never said that. I'm asking that. I was like basically asking, asking me to answer for Biz and Whit's comments which I had no control over. I did not talk to him beforehand. I felt, yeah, I felt encouraged by what they were saying. Sometimes, you know, you feel like you're the only one thinking something. other people will repeat that. You like, all right. Well, what point did I troll you every, what at one point every day since I've met you for a 10 year fair counterpoint? I when business and winter are coming to hang are not so much business when business and the landlord come to Hank's defense. I just I just one more time. I just try again. When we're in the and a little coming to Hank's defense. I just I tune out. They're just like, there's so unfair to Hank to a to a darling little Henry. I can't believe they do the Hank has a fucking troll shirt that he wears whenever Max loses and sits next to him on the couch. Hank deserves all the troll he deserves more. That was not a troll shirt. That was a coincidence. Absolutely. Just happened to wear a shirt and Max loses a lot and it happened to wear it on two subcats. That was not intentional. I did I did text with in Yandall and I said, you guys are pathetic for being like boo who poor Hank. Hank has a I actually would estimate 0.00001% life. I think there are I would say the major the vast vast majority of Americans would trade lives with Hank. He has a great life. So he got trolled a little a little bit a little tiny trolling. The guy lives the perfect life. It's okay. You took a loss. Yeah. Listen, I don't want to get too sentimental, but but I obviously was, you know, I spent all day a lot of it was, you know, a normal day of travel delays. Like it wasn't anything like egregious. It was just it took, you know, 12 hours for what was supposed to take seven hours. But obviously we were in San Francisco and we're in the middle of writing the book or it's almost done, but everyone go pre-order it now. So we've been, I've been reading that and I've been going through pictures and working with the editor on sending them pictures. I've been going through all my photos going through the last 10 years. San Francisco Super Bowl was 10 years ago right before this podcast started. So when the Super Bowl ended, it was, you know, now this time, time of year, February, the podcast started in March, but we're obviously ramping up to start the podcast. And just thinking about how different that Super Bowl was 10 years ago versus how awesome the Super Bowl week was this week. Like it was one of the most fun and surreal weeks of all time. It was literally too good to be true. And everything. It was too good to be true for us to actually win the game because everything outside of the game was beyond perfect. Yeah, you just had to be followed around by a little troll all week. Yeah, which was, which was fine. It was fun. It was fun. It was, it was fun, you know, being with PFT and bringing him, you know, to the, to the rally and everything. I, I have to like admit to feet like I'm exiled. I can't do it anymore. Like I feel like I've been just fighting, fighting, fighting, defense, defense, defense for the last, feels like the better part of a month plus, like hardcore. And there's just nothing I can really say or do now. I don't, I don't have anything else less left to give. PFT and the haters, they won this round. Like there's, there's, there's, there's, it's over. Like the battle is over. PFT has won. Well, he lost. He lost. No, that's my $1,000. Not really. I lost $40,000. And listen, I, I got to say like $40,000 is a lot of money. It is no matter how you slice it. It's worth it for the Patriots to lose. If you do, if you would tell me that I would have to pay $40,000 for every Patriot Super Bowl loss, I'd say that's a hell of a deal. I'd shake your hand. That is, that is a fair price to pay to see the Patriots lose in the Super Bowl. You think this guy wasn't actually rooting for you? Oh, I know what you want. I know he wasn't. I know he wasn't. So, I mean, yeah, go ahead. I'm glad I'm glad that Hank is in, you know, he's seeing things clearly right now. He seems to be in a better mood with smiley mood. He's getting ready to go on vacation. I'm happy for him that way too. I, it did bump me out to see you on Sunday night. Like I didn't take that much pleasure in having you like sad on the show because you did make me sad too. So, well, glad that you're really smiling and that now I can be happy that you said. I think that was also because the Zoom came in a little blurry so we couldn't really see you. Yeah, I also like I think the people that were like max, max was saying like, oh, I would be so much. If I, the fact that I was not in person and I knew all we were recording, like I just needed, like I was just kind of like tuning out what you guys are saying. You're, you're just moving the chain. And I was just like once this point to the conversation ends, I can hang up this laptop and I'm away from them. Yeah, that was a huge part of it. Yeah, you did a good job. You answered all the questions. Do you have any other remaining thoughts from the Superboy? I underplayed Mac. I mean, I underplayed the arm, Drag Maze arm. Oh, I like, obviously it was, it was bad. It was a lot worse than I thought and hoped. So that sucked to read those reports where it was like his he had to get his arm shot up. It clearly was not. It didn't look good. And he was, he was feeling it. Was arm messed up for the whole playoffs or just a Superboy? It was a, he said it was a play that happened in the Denver game. Oh, okay. I thought it would be better if it was just for the Superboy. It doesn't matter. How do you feel going forward? Because like that part of it is, you know, there was a whole storyline of the schedule and and how you got there was like, Hey, this is not repeatable. I'm, I'm excited going forward. Like I, I've never been, you know, I'm bought into this Patriots team. I'm excited for the future. I loved being, you know, in San Francisco and seeing all the Patriots fans and being reminded that there are all these outside trolls and haters and like they hate on the Patriots unjustly. Like it's just pure hate and anger and but knowing that there is the community of Patriots fans where it's like an obviously it's, it's a little corny now like the we all, we got we all we need. But it's like, it's nice to know that there is this huge, you know, group of fans and going forward. We're, we're ready to fight. We're ready to keep fighting. Do you think why would I think it's unjust? Yeah. Why do you use that word? Because I just think people are hate the fact that they won for so long and then we're back. Like there was a lot of just like unbiased negative feelings towards the Patriots. We're generally there just like, I don't like the Patriots. I hope they lose. Do you think? Okay. So the problem with this one was that because it had been so long that like they couldn't be open about their secret reasons why they hate the Patriots. It's better before it was brainwashing. There was a deflaking. There was like things where they're like, oh, well, this, this and that. This is why I don't like the Patriots. Mike Vraybo and Drake May are extremely likeable. And this team was extremely likeable. But people were still like, fuck the Patriots. Yeah. No, I actually think Hank is right on the money. And I haven't heard anybody say when you said unjustly, I thought that you were saying that like there's no reason why anybody would ever hate on the Patriots as a franchise. And I was going to disagree with that. But I think Hank is right. There were a lot of people that were rooting against the Patriots that were not admitting that they were rooting against the Patriots. Right. A lot. That's tough. That's a tougher. That's a tougher enemy to fight. It's hard to beat an enemy like that. Yeah. Right. It's a good point. Where are they? It's a good point. Are they in the room with you right now? No, they're not. They're homesick. Ah, Hank, do you think Mike Vraydonald is a good coach? Yep. Never said you like it. Do you think he outcoached? Josh with Daniels? Yeah. I mean, how could you say otherwise? Yeah. I think healthy, trigmaids and who knows? But you can't really, you can't play that game. No, you can't. Hank, do you think maybe the Patriots what Max Vraydonald on Max's shiggas? No, you can't play that game. So you should even mention it. Yeah, don't play that game. Yeah. We shouldn't mention it. If you want to play that game, you should mention it. We should play that game. We should not play that game. It was, it was, he was a warrior for all of the difference. I'm not saying that. I'm not saying that. With Jared Stitto. Yeah, I'm not saying that. Or she just shrub being asked, we're not playing that game. No, I said you can't. Right. It was, it was a play in the anti-chapy chip game, but like, can't play the other ones. Yeah. Bob Jenison. Yeah. No, Bonaix didn't play a trigmaid actually, like, fought through. Yeah. Yeah. The chargers and Texans game, that was probably also their shoulder too. And one of those games, you threw three touchdowns in the, like, what are we talking about? Well, you didn't have a great playoff run. No, I didn't turn the ball over at all. I got blind resume. Can we deal with blind resume? Yeah. Listen, you're like 45 minutes from vacation. Just keep saying it to yourself. Quarterback one. This is three playoff games. Okay. 822 pass yard 65.8% completion percentage, six total touchdowns, one turnover, 84.2, QBR. Well, it was a while there in those games. Okay. Because they're quarterback two quarterback two. I'm not, you don't believe in weather luck. You left, you scoffed at me when I brought up weather luck. True. Quarterback two. It happened to tough playoff for anti-weather Hank. Yeah. That's for overs. Can I get to the shitty quarterback? Okay. Quarterback two. Well, not by it's a, it's a bias poll. You've already written 185 yards. 57% completion percent. 818 pass yards. 57% completion percentage, six total touchdowns, eight turnovers, 50.7 QBR. I'd, I, QB one, I would want. Yeah, I would want QB one. Who's QB one? QB one, Jaden Daniels. Also to take, take Hank side, like Hank would never make fun of a quarterback they can't hurt. So I think we should kind of back off Drake may a little bit. And the fact of the matter is they just ran out of time because Drake may set a Super Bowl record for most passing yards in a quarter of the Super Bowl in the fourth quarter. Mm hmm. It's pretty good. That that goes to can. That's a record that stays pretty good. Yeah. Yeah. Do you have any apologies for same Donald? Sam Donald, I'm happy for you. Listen to the show on on Sunday. Yeah, I know, but you've had time to think about it. I said, I said it on Sunday. Okay. Okay. I was just asking again. And I feel like I'm taking crazy pills. I literally started the thing on Sunday. I mean, like all dudes back to Sam Donald. Yeah, I thought he was going to turn to a pumpkin. He did not. He played well. He was avoiding pressure. Like, it's good to say it again to Sam Donald. I'll say exactly what I said on Sunday again. Did you see? Hey, we're 45 minutes from vacation, dude. We're good. Or two. I am sure you guys play in this vacation. I just hop on the bandwagon. We do take a vacation after Superweight. Right. So you're 45 minutes from vacation. I know. I am as well. I'm excited. PFT left early. Yeah. PFT left. I will never. PFT is minus 24 hours from vacation. I'm home sick right now. I left last night at seven, not 24 hours. What was the original flight? It doesn't matter. I left at seven. I left at seven p.m. last night. Fact or fiction, I was at work all day. Yes. Fact. Fact. Fact. Ah, thank you. Did you see Todd Bowles was prophetic with so there was a story out that after Sam Donald was drafted, his first game is a quarterback when he won. They asked him do they have a guy? And he said, I don't know if we have a guy asking again in like a hundred games. The Super Bowl was a hundred in first game. So we do confirm to have a guy. Todd Bowles saw it. That's awesome. So good for Todd. Good for Todd. He knew. I love that. He knew it. I also, I have a take. I don't know if you guys agree with this. The Disney World thing that they have to do is just punishment. Sam Donald and Kenneth Walker being in the teacups right after the game when it's like all you want to do is party with your boys. That sucks. Yeah. They probably get paid a lot of money for it though. Yeah. I was thinking about that too. And they said Disney Land and said Disney World. Yeah. California. That didn't hit the same. I don't think that Disney World or Disney Land is a great place for an adult to go as like a Super Bowl champion by themselves. If they got family, they might actually know that that would kind of suck too. Like wake up in the morning and take the kids to Disney World. Yep. Day after winning Super Bowl. That's not that great. But I think they probably get paid a bunch of money just to say that and then to spend like one day there. But the more they get paid, the more they have to pay in taxes. Did you see Boomer's size? And I don't know what it is with him. I feel like every time I see a clip of Boomer's size in these days, he's just complaining about taxes. He was just like, yeah. Sam Donald actually had he played the suit. He lost money on the Super Bowl. Yeah. Big T was hot on that yesterday. Big T has been thinking about the tag. That's why he will never want to Super Bowl. He doesn't want to. Also, he didn't lose money on the Super Bowl because didn't he have like, I'm pretty sure he had a bunch of things in his contract that he got more money if he won the Super Bowl. So he definitely didn't lose money on the Super Bowl. I think Sam Donald is okay. Yeah. He'll be okay. It is a very funny take though to be like, you know what I'm thinking about the real Super Bowl is the fact that the California government got more money off of Sam Donald than he made playing in the Super Bowl. If you get back in time, Newsom should have gone down onto the field and then took cash out of Sam Donald's pocket before he got to touch the Lombardi trophy. Yeah. I saw people actually being a little bit nicer to Will Campbell today. He did play with the pretty severe injury. He can't he talked to the media was like, I was in a bad place after the game. That's why I didn't talk. I think that's a totally fair answer. Like I have no problem with that. The fact that like he got abused on Super Bowl Sunday and has to have a microphone in his face. He didn't want to talk. We've come a long way in the last 10 years where in San Francisco, Cam Newton after the game did not talk to the media and it felt like they just they all the writers out there sent them directly to hell after that. They just wouldn't stop talking about how Cam Newton didn't talk about talk to them about the game and in turn actually gave them lots of stories after the game by not talking. This year it was just kind of like Will Campbell didn't talk to the press and then we just kind of moved on and then the next day was like, yeah, he's very injured. He didn't have a good he had a bad game and the clips coming out of him are not good, but knowing that he had an MCL and then I also liked that Vrable had his back said that we're not changing the guard. He's going to be a tackle. And the other the other thing that's playing in Will Campbell's favor is that we are now in a media media ecosystem where there are a lot of former offensive linemen who have good following online. I saw tons of dudes being like, he's going to be fine. It's like a technique thing. It has nothing to his short arms. Like Mitchell shorts did an entire break break down Jeff Schwartz did an entire breakdown. That's got to feel nice that there's a bunch of guys who can actually speak up for the linemen now. Yeah, the Schwartz brothers. Yeah, they'll get you. You better come back online. Yeah, we do need loud voices from the O'Line community though because for a long time, we've just been watching guys that we think get beat for one reason be like, oh, this guy sucks. And we really didn't know what we're talking about until smarter people have to educate us. But yeah, I mean, Will Campbell definitely did not have a good super. He had a bad, bad game. Yeah, probably pretty embarrassed. There were a lot of bad moments for him. But I'm not like, I'm not selling my Will Campbell stock. No, the which I own a lot. By the way, Sam Donald made a million dollars as an incentive in his contract for winning the Super Bowl. But I think he ended up okay. The other story that came out of the Super Bowl is I'm obsessed in Mike McDonald now. And I really want to get him on the show. He is an absolute psycho. I saw two things that were like, holy fuck, this guy's a psycho one after he won the Super Bowl. He was lamenting that the season was over. He's like, I really, I'm sad that we don't have practice tomorrow. He just wants to keep playing. And then two, they were, I think it was a radio interview. Someone asked what went through his head when even War, he got his ankle, you know, sprained his ankle on Wednesday in the walkthrough. And he was like, good, good, like adversity, good. He's quoted like Jaco. He's like, this is a good thing. We're going to use this. I want my guy to get picked up. Yeah. I spat guy. Yeah. He's probably, yeah, I get comfortable being uncomfortable. Yeah. Finally, we have some actual bulletin bober, bored material because it felt like they, everybody was thinking the sea hocks were going to win going into it. So he wanted, he wanted something to overcome. Good for you. Yeah. Yeah. So it was, I would really like to get him on the show because I think he'd be a good interview. You agree? Yeah. Well, do you think there's a chance? What was your last thing that you said to Dave on the way out? Anything? This isn't a loaded question. I'm just asking, not really. We, I was walking to the hotel with with Grinnell because we were going to record and they, we just kind of got separate. And I don't think we really had like a final goodbye. The word on the bus from Fisoli was that Dave might have said that everyone was a jinx. So I don't know if the sweet's going to happen again if they go back. You'll be okay. I don't, yeah. I mean, like I, I, the fact that I was, you know, prepared to get my own ticket in the first place. The, the sweet part was, was like I said on Sunday, truly, truly surreal. But yeah, I, that I have had the feeling of like we, you know, who knows if we get back and if we do get back, there's no way it goes the way it did. Yeah. If you lose that one where everyone and Dave was so gracious to bring, like he brought like 20 people, it's tough to, to be like, yeah, we're going to run it back exactly the same when it was like the worst game of all time. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And Dave, I mean, Dave, talk about going through it online right now. I think, I think it's very unfair how people are treating it. All he tried to do is spread joy. I agree. People are going to ask him to them online. He was teaching a lesson. You know what? That's going to teach Dave a lesson. And the lesson is going to be maybe don't be so nice in the future. We might have seen like Dave might turn into a jerk. Yeah. Yeah. This might be a villain origin story for Dave, where it's like I was trying to be nice by wearing the six rings all around San Francisco, telling bills, fans, telling Eddie, telling KFC like, hey, I wish you were here. I'm doing this for you. Yeah. That everyone's shitting on him. He's going to, yeah, he's going to turn into the Joker. Hey, I'm a little bit worried too, because I feel like he spends a lot of time around co-workers. And he might start to lash out at them first instead of lashing out at the people that are being mean to them. He might just take it out on the people that he's closest with. And that I just feel bad for the guy. Yeah. I hope he's okay. Yeah. I had one other question for you, Hank. And then we can go on with the show before I do that. Draft Kings, the NBA's biggest stars deliver the biggest moments with draft King sports. We're going to visual sports betting partner. The NBA you can cash in when they take over player props, lie betting every possession, every shot, every steal is your shot to win with draft King sports book and draft Kings has your back with early exit. If your player goes down anytime in the first half, you still get paid in cash. New customers bet just $5. And if you bet wins, you'll get $300 in bonus bets instantly. Some of the draft King sports book have used code take that's code take to turn $5 into $300 in bonus bets. If your bet wins in partnership with draft Kings, the crown is yours. Gambling problem called 1-800-GAMBLER. New York called 877-8 hope and wire. Text hope and why. Connecticut called 888-7897777 or visit ccpg.org. On behalf of boot hill casino in Kansas, wait your tax pass through may apply in Illinois 21 and over in most dates. Void and Ontario. Restrictions apply. Bet must win to receive bonus bets which expire in seven days. Minimum odds required for additional terms and responsible gaming resources cdkng.co slash audio limited time offer. Hank, I want to give you a redo if you would like one. What do you think about the bad bunny half time show? I don't need a redo. I think and again, like memes hates me. He had a chance for like a knockout blow and he took it. Like when I was doing the show, I was talking obviously. I'm a fucking wagon blinfer. You saved this. We have had a running joke about international games and your guys whole thing is like who is this four, why are we doing this? And I'm like pro international international games and all that stuff. So obviously when I said that I was talking to you guys like tongue and cheek kind of playing into correct the stuff that you guys said. And the half time performance was bad. I don't obviously really care about the half time performance. I was trying to just not do so. So I was talking a lot about the half time show just to delay things. And it wasn't in English. I don't care about that. Like that. The performance like it again, who cares. It's a half time show. I don't even remember who's done some of the half time. I know I remember Gaga. That's again, why I like I love the Gaga show and Houston. Don't even remember who did it in Minnesota or Atlanta. So it's like who it's a half time show. But yeah, then obviously like when you take that quote and put it out being like that that performance was so bad and made me never I hope they never do international games without the context of like the season that we've had on the show talking about international games. That was tough to see. It was tough to see it for me. It was but obviously it's like he hates me. He had this chance and he took it. So it's like I have there's nothing I can say about that. He took the shot. You posted on your Instagram like it was it was well, it was so me too. It was what it was. It like it. It that's just part of losing. You have to you know eat some shit. It hurts when it's from your own guys, but it's it's meme. So I I have to respect this is true memes. I guess I'll just I'll just take the fall from everyone. Well, when you were making the clip, like it was the first clip you post it. No, no, it wasn't. It was posted from the list of people is still clipped it. And I was like, oh, it's it's out it's out of the bottle. Might as well get some views off it. So then I post from the apartment take to order. And I just did the same. Yeah. Again, that's what it is. What it is. I don't I don't can I say the honest truth? I I was laughing so hard because that is such a clear people who listen to our show, understand exactly what you're saying. And you're making a very funny joke about the international games. It's a long storyline. And then people who have never listened to our show, who won't like our show anyway, being like, this is fucked up. How could he say it? And that makes me laugh because they're just wrong. They don't know the inside jokes. You were clear. You're the least political guy I know. And you were making a joke about us getting on you for the international games. The other thing that was funny is that it obviously showed that you were just partying into Super Bowl all weekend and had no idea how big of a discourse that was online. Right. And like you thought that you were like, you had no idea how divisive. Yeah. The bad bunny thing was online before you said that you were like, oh, I just didn't like. Andrew Teib just lost. Well, that was also it. It couldn't have been. It could have been anyone performing. It could have been Billy Strings in the halftime show. I've been like, yeah, I maybe not. But I like that. We had nothing to do with bad bunny or the performance. I was just not do soggy sorrows and spending as much time as I could. But yeah, seeing it, I think I opened my phone. I did the I did the Simpsons gift. I opened my phone in the morning, felt like death. My room looked like a bomb. And I had to pack up and get to the airport, open my phone, like did one scroll and was like, nope. Yeah. Yeah. Cause I did I read some of the replies. There was one very funny one that that Photoshopped your face onto the the meme of all the guys sitting in their cars with the sunglasses. That one made me laugh. Like there are people be like, oh, Hank, Hank is a big. We got Maga Lockwood back. I don't think Hank's lefty lock was dead. Yeah, yeah. Big week for lefty lockwood. Yeah. The mega people then I got people being like, fuck yeah, Hank. I'm like, no, I don't like. Yeah. He was making a joke in his teeth. If the Patriots were up 21 to nothing at halftime, he probably been like, that was an off-per-vorational. Yeah. Yeah. But that's why it's so funny. Cause people removed from context are like, oh, this guy just spouting off about bad bunny. But in context, it was such a funny clip. The you saying that I'm done with all international games. Maybe laughs so hard. Cause that was the thing that turned you. Maybe we sprinkle in like Latin week for you at some point this year. I like bad, but I listen to part more bad money than I own the show. Maybe Zach has a couple songs on his playlist. Zach, are you bad bunny? Bad Bunny? Bad Bunny. Yeah. And then that was like that. What you guys are like, who are these games for? And that's why I was like, who is this for? And then it's like people are like, you fucking racist. It's like, oh my god. Patriots got beat so bad it made Hank racist. Yeah. That was the takeaway for a lot of people. But yeah, Hank, I love you. Hank, we understood what you're trying to say. And yeah, Zach, can you give us a little bad bunny? A little taste of bad bunny? Bad Bunny? There's a good bad bunny song. How does it go? No, that's the cito. You got this. I don't remember it. I'm blanking. No, this is good. This is even it out. What's the clip out? Look, we're we got a guy who knows bad bunny. I don't even I don't I don't know any of the words. You can just like kind of hum along when he's singing it. Cause they're very catchy. So like I he can I don't know what he's saying in the song. But when they come on, you can kind of like you can float with the song. That makes sense. Yeah. Yeah. Really just oh, they got the one where it's like it's romanda. S me. Yeah. Me. Yeah. That's a good one. Yeah. Yeah. That was good. Hank, what'd you think? It's great. What what do you think is going through Russell Wilson's head these days? Oh, I walked past him on the way out. He was the game. And I was like, this would have been so much better for you. One and I was walking past him. He uh, I didn't say anything to him. Cause I mean, the trade that when he when John Schneider traded him, the picks that ended up coming back in that were just all of the best players on the sea hawks basically. They reloaded with Russell Wilson. So I guess think sea ox fans should thank him for demanding a trade. Yeah. I think Russell Wilson won you guys another Super Bowl. Yeah. The other one is he was very happy for the sea hawks. Or at least like publicly he was happy for the sea hawks. It is kind of weird though because you know that like deep down and a guy like Russell Wilson, he's like this kind of sucks. It couldn't have gone worse for him post sea hawks and it could have gone better for the sea hawks. The other one was I didn't realize this, but Tyler Lockett was drafted in 2015. And he got traded to the Raiders last year. That's brutal. That is tough. He's he's a sea hawk and he was not there for any of the the Super Bowls for the two Super Bowls. But you rather be Lockett or Logan Mankins who played on the Patriots forever. Never won a Super Bowl. Lockett just because he went down enough that his body probably feels good. He feels great. Yeah. Yeah. He's got to feel awesome right now. He probably feels better than me. His body is just like pain free all the time. He feels great. It's like he's on a drug. Yeah. I don't really have much else from the Super Bowl than Sam. I'm I continue to be very happy for Sam Darnold. It's an awesome story. And just afterwards like he seems like the most humble guy. I know we've had him on before. But he seems like the most humble guy and just like very appreciative for the fact that he got a second chance because a lot of guys don't get a second chance after having a tough start to his career. I have seen some discourse around who's next year's sea hawks. Yeah. And that was on ESPN this morning and Steve Nase Smith said the bears. And as far as I can tell who's next year's sea hawks just means who do you think is going to win the Super Bowl? Yeah. That's not there's not really much else that you can like say oh that looks like the sea hawks. Like get a new quarterback and win the Super Bowl. Yeah. Jets. Jets. Kyler Murray. Jets might be next year's sea hawks. Did you see the report that Kyler Murray when asked what the Cardinals are going to do with Kyler Murray? There was a report that he really um he feels really comfortable in Arizona and loves his routine. And it's like yeah that's probably why you got to trade him because he's just comfortable. He's like great. No you're you're downplaying the routine big cat. The routine that he has is pretty sweet. It's like he doesn't play that much football. Yeah. And he gets paid a lot of money and he lives in a warm city and he plays a lot of video games and he appreciates the routine. So why would he want to change that? Yeah. Yeah. He loves life. Sam Donald has to be in the top 10 quarterbacks right now. We have to do that by law. I also saw even one take one further. I you know we'll we'll do our QB rankings over this summer. But you have to whoever wins the Super Bowl. You have to put it in top 10 right away. Right? Just half I go top five top five. The other one was if you win a Super Bowl you have to go into next season being elite. Yeah. The reasons I love the recency bias right after Super. The other one that was even more galaxy brain Matthew Stafford top 10 quarterback of all time. I saw that debate. Okay. Because one in MVP. Well, all right. Picket, how about this? Matt Stafford. He almost got more credit this this year. Yeah. By scoring all those points against one of the best defenses of the rest of all time. He almost got more credit for that than he did for winning the Super Bowl. Correct. The Seahawks had a dominant playoff run and the only team that gave them any type of game pressure was the Rams and Matthew Stafford. I think that should be that should go on page one of our Matt Stafford for the Hall of Fame pamphlet that we distribute. Yep. It's not the Super Bowl. It's he dominated the Seahawks defense and then bullet point number two. Also, he won a Super Bowl. Yeah. Also, I don't know if you guys talked about it on Sunday after I was off, but the uh the start of the championship DVD has to be that that two point conversion. Yes. Yeah. I'll pull pick up big time. Sliding doors moment. It's that or the loss. The last time the Seahawks lost was to the Rams. The four interception game from Sam Donald in Los Angeles where they still had a 60 yard feel gold to try to win the game. That might have been the start of it too. Yeah, but if that that two point conversion was having a miracle. Although I think they might have won the Super Bowl still. Two home games versus three games. Okay. The road is wild. They only trailed for a minute and I think it was a minute and 43 seconds. And it also is perfect that the entire. Sam Donald's entire career was, you know, he's going to turn back into a pumpkin to turn over to turnovers. The Seahawks we said on Sunday did not turn the ball over a single time in the playoff run. Yeah. No. He was more mobile. There was like a probably three or four pressures by the Patriots where just moved well, got out of the way and got rid of the ball. Well, the other thing that was kind of mean to you is that it felt like the Seahawks came out of the game to start the game. Being like, we're going to have to, we don't know how this game's going to go. So we're going to have to take some risks to try to win this game. And then as soon as their defense started playing, they immediately were like, oh, we actually don't have to take any risks. We could probably just win this on defense. You saw them like settling for field goals being fine with that, running the ball more, not, not having essentially Mike McDonald realized somewhere in the first quarter that as long as we don't have two pick sixes, we should win this game. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, compared to the other Super Bowl losses where we were in them and it was exciting. Like that was such a, I can't, I'm sure the casual fans like that was the worst Super Bowl of all time. Yeah, but you have to, there is, I mean, you got, you were way too early on the rebuild to be in that spot. And the Seahawks were significantly better. So in a weird way, it's probably not that a Super Bowl loss is good, but it's got to feel a little less singing where it's like you were a playaway. And oh my God, they could have won. Yeah. No, I guess I don't know being there. It's like the, the, it was just, you're there. You're there. It was a quarter away. Yeah. Yeah. Who do you, who do you think had a worst weekend? 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Slim Jim is the smoked meat stick that helps you reclaim the moment and snap back at the world. Snap into a Slim Jim grab one today everywhere. Snacks are sold. There's a different one. Oh, there's two. What do you got, Max? Give us a breaking move. Shoms. What do you say? Jason Tatum, Jason Tatum participated in a 5105 practice today. Look at that. Yeah, that was yesterday, but no, but no, yesterday they said that he was going to do it today. Yeah, he actually did it. Wow. Huge. That's even bigger. Yeah, that is you're right, Max. That's bigger. I was actually, you know, that is not, that is not, that is not, that is not, it me. Yeah, I was just giving you a layup for you to get back on the track of like, all right, we're on to the next thing. I have one, but he was trying to be nice to you, but that wasn't breaking moves. That was news. That was breaking. I didn't know about that. I just did a, did a report on I got it. I got a notification from Shoms that I was talking about how, how his 5 on 5 practice went. Max has been, that was a good, excellent nice to you. No, no, no, now you don't care. No, you don't care. You don't care. Yeah, Chated Tatum is back. Max is been nice to you. Yeah, this bullshit. As he maybe not, I could be mean. Max is just when I walked in this morning was disgusting. Happy to see where memes. I've been nice to him too. I said, how are you? I feel like we're also in a game where Max memes and I are trolling you and being means you, but we can just point to PFT and we're like, we're not that guy. That's what we've been able to do for the last week. Yeah, at least PFT keeps it inside the podcast walls. What are you two or just blasting? You guys are just putting me on blast. What are you talking about? The Jason Tate and Ben's funny. If I posted the Tate, the Tate was twisting, got posted, yeah, got posted everywhere. But you would be mad if I posted it on my personal thing being like, I posted it myself. Got it. I didn't post shit. I also don't think the bad buddy thing was bad. I thought it was funny. It's so clearly you're not being like, anyone who's mad at that is a fucking loser. Yeah, it's just when it's the clip and I don't really, it doesn't. Also, I don't control my own Instagram. I know. I asked that and then he was like, I got approval. No, he didn't. Okay, we'll find out about that. I've also only calculated canceling Hank one time. Yes, tell me about the calculation. It was a Seahawks schedule. Does the ox don't play anybody good on their schedule? That one. Yeah, that one. You put that one out on purpose. Oh, yeah. Can I post Hank half time talk? Yeah. You know what? You ain't. That's my bad. That's my bad. I honestly did not think twice about it because I thought it was just you again, you saying I'm done with all international games made me so hard. It's funny. People don't fucking watch the show. I thought buzz off. What? I was thinking about it. You were? I know. I knew when he was posting it. What the like he and T was he was like, I'm this is great. Post it first. This conspiracy shit is all on it. I did not post it first. I had Shane to make one quote, quote, and Max had done post it. What was the quote? It was just like, this is America. What are we doing? And I said, I said, do not post that. So you still want to get me that. That's the only thing I took over. I was like, we should not be posting those those out of context. No, I appreciate that. That's a solid friendship move for not doing that. Sometimes, sometimes a little behind the scenes thing, this happened like maybe three times since we've had Shane on board. We'll ask. We'll ask to make quotes of the worst things out of context that we say on the show just so we can look at him and just imagine to ourselves how bad it would be if we actually posted just like for our own mental stimulation. That's my best good friend by not posting that. My bad Hank. I want to apologize. I posted it after memes posted it. And he posted it first. That's all good. That's true. No one in this room posted it first. Are we sure? 100% okay. All right. Good. So none of us posted it first. We followed we followed orders. What was breaking news? Uh, and this is a big PR 101. This seems like PR 101 from the Tigers who have signed Justin Verlander. Oh, the school. Yeah. Signed to a one year deal. But I feel like after it's like, Hey, we didn't like the what was it? The school they went to court arbitration arbitration. I tried to explain our arbitration fans hate us. Let's bring back for a lander. Yeah, they got framer too though. True. I tried to explain arbitration one time on the show and then I had like seven people telling me I was nowhere close to really understanding what arbitration was. So if somebody that's smarter than us can explain what happens during arbitration, I would love to see that. They just show up and argue about how much you should get paid. I'll do some research. Yeah. Yeah. It's yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. School. He didn't actually because I think he won the arbitration almost instantly. Like he says the number they say a number they go in front of someone and then they decide whether like what the number is he won. But Boris had him bring both his say young trophies to arbitration in case they like got to arguing. He was going to pull him out. I think Tim Linsichum did that back in the day too. Yeah. Awesome. Awesome. Awesome. So for a lander's back for a lander's back. I feel bad about the clip now. I didn't know it was it fucked you up the pattern. It happens. Listen, that's it. It's just one of those, you know, I thought it's not you're okay. You're not going to feel better after a loss. But yeah. You know, there's nothing there's nothing that was going to bring me up. So you might as well just bring me down as far as you can. Okay. Should we do hot seat cool throne? And then we have Ryan Rissello on the show hot seat cool throne, hot seat cool throne is brought to you by pizza Hut. Have you heard about pizza Hut's big New Yorker? It's pizza Hut's biggest pizza massive 16 inch slices slice so big you have to fold them for just $10. $10 doesn't go as far as it used to, but the big New Yorker. It's an XL pizza with fluffy New York style crust and Parmesan oregano seasoning. That's a lot for $10. What more could you want? The $10 big New Yorker here is a big deal. You can't argue with the math for a limited time only. Order a $10 big New Yorker and solve dinner with six XL slices on New York style crust. By the way, just a reminder Friday, Tim Woods, Dungeon and Dragons, and we're back Monday in studio. So we're taking a vacation. All of us. My hot seat is love. Yeah. Yeah. Um, Stefan Diggs and Cardi B. Oh, do they break up? They were engaged. They broke up via being unfollowed. They unfollowed each other. Oh, yeah. The rumors are that Stefan Diggs brought his baby mama and there's kid to the game and had him front row scene. Cardi B was upset at that and they broke up. I don't know. This is all alleged. I'm not saying this is fact, but they did unfollow each other on Instagram, which might as well just be science-eal delivered breakup. Yeah. It's tough. I thought they were going to make it. I did too. They seem like a happy, well-adjusted couple and credit to Cardi though, like for not being a distraction. Except for the robot, right? What was the robot thing? She said she was going to sue. She was dancing with a robot. She didn't get in a fight, too. She got to fight with like a four-year-old, but that's just Instagram-life stuff. No, I thought you got in another fight. It's super weak. I don't. I didn't see that. Either way, if there was clearly, there was probably, this wasn't an, you know, I'm guessing this didn't come out of nowhere, but she waited till after the game to kind of end things, which respect. Yeah. And then Stefan Diggs has court on the 13th. So tough week for Stefan Diggs. Cardi B reportedly clashing with fellow Patriot WAGs. They had a super role. That don't feel good. Yeah. What's he love? Cardi B's first. Okay. Okay. Cardi B. So it spends on Cardi B's single. Yeah. Zach. Cardi? Oh, yeah. This is the Cardi B falls to ground while jokingly giving robot a lap dance ahead of the super party. That's good vibes. Yeah, that is good vibes. Okay. My cool throwing is cubes. Yeah. Crazy story, honestly. The team that bought the Mavericks from Cuban bought it because they thought Camelun was going to get legalized in Dallas. They were going to build a casino. They had a whole big plan. Turns out they were dead wrong about the gambling, getting legalized in Texas. There will be no casino being built. So that plan is no longer like happening. So there and investment was pointless. They now want to sell. And there is a Dallas group of investors that is trying to work with Mark Cuban to buy the Mavericks back. So Cuban dollars. So I don't know how this works. It sounds like Dave and Penn just like getting paid a shitload of money for your company and then just having it given back to you. Yeah. Well, I would assume that the price went up since Cuban sold it. I could be wrong. Maybe he went down. Maybe they maybe the previous owners paid a premium for it. I'm going to wait to hear what publicory has to say because he's probably I would imagine this as a big time him story where he like knows all the ins and outs of it. But it does seem like people bought a basketball team to get into the business not necessarily for basketball. Right. So over should think about weeding those people out next time. Yes. I would agree. I would agree. Okay. Good job. Hot seat cool. Terrible. Good job, Hank. Thanks. PFT. But thanks for Anthony Davis to the new Mavericks ownership. My hot seat is actually Hank kind of took one of my hot. I'm going to pivot. My hot seat is the Arizona Wildcats. Because they're no longer undefeated. They lost to Kansas last night at the fog, which was an incredible game. If you watch it, we have to go to the fog at some point. Agreed. We got to go to fog out. That has in the last like two years, that has skyrocketed up my bucket list of places that I want to go watch sporting event and watching it last night was the atmosphere was unreal. And that guy, Florian Badunga, just the human eraser in the paint, which is bouncing all over the place. The crowd was going nuts. Pillself said he's like, the fog won us this game. You could feel the fog's one of those sets. Why I love college basketball so much, especially this time of year, where every game feels so important. And I know there's always the NBA college basketball discourse. NBA will have its time in the playoffs, but there's nothing like these college basketball games, a midweek game, where the crowd and you get true home court advantage. And it feels like there's big, big time stakes. And it was, it was going into the game Peterson, you know, was out again. So it was like, oh, shit, Kansas rallied and it was awesome. There's some weird stuff going on Peterson. Oh, it seemed like Bill self was not happy. And yeah, he's just missed so many games. And then to have this sprung on the last second, it things are weird in Kansas, but the good news is they played an awesome game without there in Peterson last night. So they don't necessarily need him. He'd be great to have, but they're a really fucking good team without him. And what was it said, the bill self has never lost on Monday at home. He's on big Mondays, 39 and 0. Yeah, pretty incredible. And then my cool thrown Hank is actually love. You put it on the hot seat. I'm going to put it back on the cool throne. Did you guys see the Norwegian skier guy after he won the bronze medal? I did not. Oh, big cat. You have to watch this. So this dude won a bronze medal. And then in his post ski or whatever press conference, he starts talking about his girlfriend that he recently broke up with. And he says that he met her six months ago, the love of his life. And then three months ago, he made the biggest mistake of his life and cheated on her. And now he's had the worst week of his life. Because last week, he admitted to her that he cheated on her. They broke up. He's been miserable. And then he goes out wins a bronze medal. Does this interview? And he says, I hope that committing social suicide might show how much I love her. I'm taking the consequences for what I've done. I regret it with all my heart. And that that was his acceptance speech for winning the bronze medal. It was a bronze. If there's one thing I know about women, is that chicks love it when you use the biggest moment of your life to admit to cheating on them in front of the world. The biggest one. I think this could work. The biggest moment of your life being a bronze medal. Yeah. They didn't even win the gold. Didn't win the gold. I can't get into the winter Olympics. I'm sorry. Not even the guy that cheated on his girlfriend and trying to win her back by admitting to cheating on her to the world. I'm going to be very in on the hockey. About curling. If it's on a mixed doubles curling. Also, not that impressed the Mike Trico flying from the Super Bowl to Italy. Everyone going crazy for that. He probably was sleeping on a bed on his private plane. I'd love to do that. Yeah. Sounds awesome. Like the noise of a plane. This is you got to watch this interview. Big cap. Okay. The guy the guy is hilarious. I love it. How he's like if you're a chick watching this at home and your ex-boyfriend is just telling the entire world that he fucked another chick when you were dating. What's your reaction to that? Yeah. That's kind of crazy. All right. I'll I definitely have to watch that. All right. My hot seat is John Shire and the Duke Blue Devils because we are now three full days after John Shire claimed that a Duke staffer got punched in the face and we still haven't found any video evidence of that happening. So it's out there. It was multiple. Wasn't there a streamer that said it? I'm actually I have no I have zero research done on this topic. So I'm not going to. Yeah. I think he was I think he's someone who makes a lot of like jokes and and fucks around and there was no actual of his video evidence which it seems hard to believe kind of like when Phil Palsky said that he got you know pushed and tripped and then was doing 360 dunks like two days later. My understanding is that every every assistant coach and team manager on Duke was physically assaulted and beaten to within an inch of their life. Mm hmm. And if true that's bad. It's just so Duke to have this happen where where there's a court storming and then like yeah one of our guys got punched in the face. But I don't want to talk about that. It has nothing to do with the fact we lost. He some guy you would see was was demanding that if anybody has any video evidence please bring it forward so that I can immediately review it. I want to say the guy might have been like an assistant athletic director like very clearly there's not any video evidence. Everybody had their phones out that the time. Yeah. The game was broadcast on live TV. I think it was probably just we lost. I'm pissed. So now I'm just going to get mad at my opponents for you know. The update from John Shire was talking about the staffer. He's fine. He's fine. But after the game what happened was I came back in the locker room and I see he's got a bloody lipid. He's the shovel and I didn't know what happened. He got trampled on the floor. So the guy fell. So Duke staffer fell and then it quickly became he got punched in the face. Yeah. It became the scene from the Lion King where we stop and falls off the cliff. This is just so Duke. Every time they lose they do something like this. You have to admit it's pretty crazy. It sounds like victim blaming sounds like the guy could have got seriously hurt and I'm just happy that he's all right. Also the great guard quote was fake PFT. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's okay. Yeah. We got got that's okay. Hey listen. It happens. It happens to us. And then my cool throw. Yeah. I hate it. It was a good quote. It was a great quote. It get got. I just thought that it was a college basketball coach. When have you knocked? When do you knock at God? I don't get got a lot. You get got often. I got got with the with the Stefan Diggs proposal thing. I got got on that one. We go. And then the great guard thing. Yeah. I got got. Yeah. Listen. Everybody gets got on the internet. It happens. Yeah. Yeah. You've never been got. You guys relationship at right. Yeah. Where are you guys? Hey, you got a defender by a picture of a guy driving a forklift over a whale. Hosing it down. I did not get God. I just reposted it because there's a cool video. And I like it. Yeah. And the advancements of AI. Are you guys in a good spot? I mean, this is going to be a good vacation. Yeah. Very good vacation. Yeah. I am excited to be, you know, separate from you guys and warm weather. We be partaking in any group text conversations during the vacation. If I'm addressed, if I'm depending on how the address is made, if it's trolling no, if it's like a question about work possibly. Okay. No. What about some a lot of times just vibes. Yeah. Just guys. Yeah. I'm down for five. You know what? Let's just do a daily fit check in the group chat. I'm down for fit check. Yeah. Shout out to roll back, by the way. I didn't order. They sent me a package and I came back and then today I just took the box of clothes and just put it in my suitcase. Love that. Didn't have to pack. That's great. Didn't trust. Yeah. Just I don't know. I don't even really know what's in there. Love that. You just trust. Yeah. I actually think Hank and I are on where as good as we can be right now. There's a video that is good as you can be. Yeah. We're feeling great. We're so happy you do not agree that you guys are as good as you can be. I don't like that PFT has defeated me and I was looking forward to taking $80,000 cash room and all that and that obviously sucks. So yeah, like PFT is good. I don't have issue with him, but I'm not like I'm down. I'm down. Yeah. I think I think people are going to like the video that we did though. We shot a video and we're solving that feels like I'm on Saturday. A little years ago. Those vibes are great vibes are great. Hank and I were like actually rooting for each other in that video and I think it was maybe the most cooperative golf video that we've ever had. We'll see if the views do go on it. If it's good, we might have to do more friendly golf videos. We're working as a team. If the views aren't as good, then I don't know. We might just have to go back to hitting each other, but I feel like when Hank gets back from this vacation, he's going to have battery recharge. He's going to be ready to turn the page. It's going to be Celtic season. I thought Max brought up a great breaking moves with Jason Tatum has practiced five on five. That was a nice thing that he's now. We're not supposed to talk about that. No. It was breaking moves. You lost out on a lot of money because you had a future on the pictures as well. I think we should all... I kept saying myself during the game because people were talking about the bet. I was like, I really don't even care about that. I'm just excited for the game. And then yesterday, I was like, damn. I probably should have hedged a little bit. There was a lot of money on the line. A hundred grand if I won. I could have hedged for ten. I think we should all, right now, agree that you should get the merch bonus for the Hank Dog toys. Okay. How many were you sold? The great good deal. Yeah. Hell yeah. Okay. Thank you. Thank you, man. Yeah. Yeah. Meams made the call to put them up. Thanks, memes. So that was memes call. What memes? All right. Yeah. Can you go ahead, Hank? Shit. That was nice. I appreciate that. Yeah. Yeah. You deserve it. Thank you. I like you. You deserve it. I like my NIL. Yeah, it is. It's true. My cool throne is the chiefs, the bears, and the saints because since this is a really dumb staff, but we love dumb stats on this show. So since 2020, the only Super Bowl winners have been the chiefs or NFC teams getting their second Super Bowl in franchise history. So that leaves us the chiefs, the bears are the saints for next year. So I like to highlight my chances there. Pretty cool stat. Yeah. Yeah. The box one, they're second, the Eagles one, they're second, Cox one, they're second, and then the chiefs. And the rest have the Rams. The Rams won their second as well. 2020. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Let's keep it rolling. Yeah. So there's the other some good data there, right? Shucks. There is going to be a problem. Shucks. There is going to be I saw the stat and I was like, oh, fuck yes. It's like, oh, God. I was already. We were looking at futures on draft kings. The Shucks. I think it's a hundred to one. The one MVP next year. That's basically stealing. Yeah. Yeah. What they get to my love. That offense is going to be dangerous. Yeah. Yeah. All right, Zach. Max. Yeah. Max is Lynn Dickerson and Lane Johnson. They were tiring. We're they're they're taking some time for themselves right now. I didn't know that was a thing. Post-football season. Is that a thing? Floreo. Floreo had a big thing on it. Floreo. Let me tell you something about that. Comment on Floreo's big thing. No, they'll be back. They'll be back. I think they're in the moment they were I think they're upset that, you know, their guy is not going to be back anymore. They played they both played through injuries this year. But you know, a couple months away from the game and you know, your body starts to heal up a little bit. You start to get that edge. They'll be back. Okay. Good comment. Zach. How's he cool, Throne? My my hot seat this week is going to be the rest of the world's figure skating representation because the United States figure skating team has been on a recent absolute tear. Have you guys caught any of it? Are we kicking ass? We are. The thing these some of these men and women are able to do on skates. Maybe some of the most impressive like athletic feats I've ever seen. Are you talking about the flip? The you know, we're doing flips dips, triple spins, like what they're able to do on skates, man, is unbelievable. Did you hear about the comeback story? No, again, I can't stress it. Can't get into it. I don't know what it is about the winter Olympics. There's a couple of events like again, hockey. I'll be all in. If I happen to walk by a TV and they're doing ski jumping, sure. Would you be open to maybe just like taking a glimpse at some of the figure skating clips later and just give me an honest opinion. If you give it like a fair shot. Yeah, yeah. I can't believe. It's unbelievable, man. They got this like one of the skaters. I guess it's like unprecedented in the sport. Her name is Alyssa. Alyssa Leeu. She competed in the games in 2022 at 16 retired steps away from the sport. Comes back in the same year when's a world title and then gets gold on the team just now. Is she US? US. Yeah. Fuck yes. All right. I'm in for that. I think I need like 16 gold medals to win that bet that I made. So let's get those gold medals. Yeah, the better. Let's get those gold. Yeah, I mean, I don't know. Outside of even like the sport are the events are competing in like the feeling of what it must feel like to like represent your the country's sake at like the biggest stage has to be unreal. Yeah. Oh, speed skating. I'm into. I like speed skating. The speed skating is impressive as well. I love the winter. The summer Olympics. Do you get into winter Olympics at all? No. Yeah. Anyone in the booths in the winter Olympics? I love it. Really? Yeah. I like the little ski jump. The high ski jump. I mean, now you can start paying attention. I think it's also the time. It's a starting football. Yeah, but the time, you know, I don't know what time it's on. That's what I was saying to Max. But every Olympics is like that. I know they need to make every Olympics in America. I agree. I agree. Clip that. Put it out. Every Olympics should take place in America so that we understand the time zones and no bad bunny. And all post game interviews in English. I'm going to be pro bad bunny. I'm going to be on the pro bad bunny side. A body. A body. A body. All right. You're cool, strong. How am I cool throwing this week is just going to be that we should probably just skip to the end of the NBA season because the Oklahoma City Thunder. They're asking the current king of the sport. What do you think's paired up against them? And he's saying it's pretty much over. So I think the. The brawn. The brawn is the current king of the sports. I would say king. Like as long as a bronze in the league, LeBron is not only the face of the league, but definitely has a weighted opinion on basketball and what he could say as far as like outside of playing. He's the king of the bronze, the king of the sport right now. So as active players go, his nickname is the king. Self appointed. That is true. There might be like a marketing team in the bra on behind that. So he is just the king. So I guess definitely a king of basketball. Do we do we think that that's what people said about the Celtics is hard. It's hard. It's hard to get back once the playoffs start. Even if we don't think he's the. Well, is the face of the league until he is no longer. He has to be right. What he's done for the NBA. He's a hundred percent. Ship Luke there to get a star in LA. Facts. 100%. There's no staff. LeBron. LeBron is the face of the league until he is no longer in Scottie Barnes. He's future future. Fist league. Did you see the Pelicans Kings game last night? PFT. He keeps dropping out. Do you see the Pelicans Kings game last night? The fight. I know that's Hornets. Yeah. That was awesome. But Pelicans Kings, did you guys not see this? I'm not going to be the fight was in. Sinc Sturr just coming out of nowhere. There was a lot. I mean, there was a lot to dissect in that fight. Yeah. No, it means those are what I'm talking about. I'm going to be hip real quick. I'm not 41 anymore. For a second, I guess the Kings and Pelicans both stink really bad and were playing last night. And it just became a trend on TikTok for people to make hype videos for that game. Like it was game seven. It was very funny. They were making hilarious hype videos. Like it was the most important game of all time. And it was just a shitty, shitty February two tanking teams NBA game. He's gaming the year. And the Kings are taking they just suck. Yes. They're taking they don't realize it. Okay. Good job, Zach. Same user. Wait. So he said, oh, okay. See? His quote was, you want me to compare us to them? That's a championship team right there. We're not. We can't sustain energy in effort for 48 minutes in vacay. That's why they won the championship. That's loser talk. But if it's loser talk from one of the greatest guys in a sport right now, if he observes them as like being far and away the best, maybe there's something to it. Okay. Well, we're going to talk about it with Ryan Roussel. So let's do that. Ryan Roussel is brought to you by our friends at Chevy football season might be over, but you know how it goes. The minute the big game ends, we're already talking about what's next free agency. The draft who's getting paid? Who's grinding? Because for football guys, there is no off season. 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Check out the current offers and build your own Chevy Silverado at Chevy.com. Okay, we're also brought to you by our friends at Body Armor, Body Armor Flash IV. This episode is brought to you by Body Armor Flash IV. Flash IV is packed to the electrolytes delivering faster, longer lasting hydration. Without any artificial dyes, flavors or sweeteners, whether you're training, traveling or just feeling the heat, work hard and hydrate hard with Body Armor Flash IV. Grab it at 7-11 today. I'm going to take a sip real quick. Watermelon punch. Mmm. That's delicious. Go get a Body Armor Flash IV today. Okay, here he is. Ryan Rissello. Okay, we now welcome on our guy, Ryan Rissello, the Ryan Rissello podcast. Very, very, very, very, very special guest. And we're going to do our MBA preview because it's time. Football is over. Time to look to the MBA. Ryan, it was great hanging with you all week in San Fran. Any thoughts from the week? Really good content. Really good guests. Feel great about everything I put out. Terrific interviews. And it was good to bond with staff and everything and feel, you know, it's funny because I think people can really get caught up with stuff that's simple, whereas like when I left ESPN and I started podcasting and they're like, you're so different now. And then when I left Spotify and I came to Barstool, it's like, oh, your content is now you're just doing a barstool thing. And I was like, honestly, it's just the same. And to be honest with you now, I think a lot of those people have a point. So I have to just defer to them and go, yeah, I guess you have me now. I think you made two really strong points. Yeah, that's what people are saying. We were able to do like the Steve Young stuff was kind of a retrospective. And then Julian Edelman was like a bit more of a game breakdown thing. So you always have to kind of balance it out. Yeah, you're right about jewels. That was piercing. Yeah, I mean, I already know what everyone of these is going to be, which teams need to take it to the rack more. Should double-breasted suits be in for draft night. I just I would like to just rip off the bed and see it was a fucking awesome rack. Yeah, well, you know, I would say like the best summary of the reaction of just being out and about is like there is a combination of people think I'm the worst and then a bunch of dudes who think I'm the best. Yeah. And I'm like both are wrong. Yeah, it's a good place to live though. You're making people feel, you know, love love or hate them. Well, if you don't love that rack, you're whatever. I do love the idea of a guy that hated Rissello until that. Yeah, he's actually the best now. Yeah, like we get it all the time when when people will choose and be like, fuck Dave Portnoy, fuck bar stool, fuck PMT, but I love Mikey Betts or like something like that. Like, you know, these guys are cool, but everyone else sucks at bar so it would be great if we got like a fuck PMT, fuck one bite pizza, but Rissello's tits are fucking awesome. The only real one they got. Yeah, I mean, Big Cat was helping me like the next day because I was like, well, something happened right like when when I woke up to a thousand notifications of like text and calls, I was kind of like a wee at war and I was totally like, oh, okay, everybody's screen grabbing this thing and I was like, all right, well, I'm hacked and I'm fine and whatever and then I was able to get in and I'm like, what the hell is going on here? And so I was really like, it was like a weird combination of like, all right, well, this is super explainable. Like this doesn't make any sense. I would never do this. And then even like this morning, I'm getting ready, you know, because I get a pretty early to tape on Monday's show after that super bowl. It wasn't like anybody was out celebrating after that. Well, no, Seahawks fans, but look, it was a slow super bowl as we all understand. And at 5 a.m., I get a notification. It's like Instagram is updating your location 11 times. And I was like, what is happening? Like what is going on? So like it was all this stuff all over again. And I'm like, God damn, but I think, look, I think most people like understand it. It's not something I would ever do. You know, I wouldn't ever like, you know, the number of years I've had a phone and social media and be like, hey, this will be funny. Right. I would I would never ever have done that. I don't plan on doing it now, even with the change and and management. Yeah. So, um, yeah, I know we talked about on the part a little bit today, but it was it was a rough stack of life advice emails. I'll take that. Yeah. Well, I did consider when I saw it, I thought about making that my story on Instagram too, just in solidarity. I posted my own breath just to try to muddy the waters a little bit. Yeah. Yeah. I got it too. Mm hmm. Yeah. 7,000 people followed me this weekend. Oh, well, then you got on core, but you know why they're here. So I'm like, you guys are about to be really bummed out. You seven thousand dudes. So well, it wasn't very fun. We came with you. Came out with us on Monday with the whole barstall staff. And I will say that I consider you a very close friend. And that is why I had no choice but to jerk off to your Instagram story on Friday morning. So I appreciate that. Yeah. Look, um, if anything, I care about my coworkers. All right. That was our NBA preview. Thanks Ryan. We'll talk to you later. I mean, I'm going to awful day to be a schedule from this like, Sirty was like, it might be just the best day to be scheduled. Well, we actually should take some blame because we were going to have you on 8 a.m. Friday morning, Super week. And after a long week, Thursday afternoon, we were like, you know what? Let's just fucking can. It will just do zoom next week. If we, if we kept that, we probably would have, you probably would have gone home with me at midnight. And I would have just shown you my tits. Yeah. Look, I don't even think what time I went home had anything to do with it. It was more of, I think there's a, there's a tech issue. Yeah, there's a tech issue. We got to get the bottom of the tech man. No one's look, you know, hand up. Whatever, whatever. Yeah, or so when life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. That's not a bad Friday recurring segment. Yes, Friday boobs. Friday boobs. Yeah, it's like, hey, what do they have? What, what lane is open over there? Yeah. Oh, man. I actually don't want to be that guy. Yeah. Now it's now it's too late. It'll never go away. You know, I'll say something about the hornets and then it's just going to be so. It's never going to happen. Having, having that be your thing like, hey, dude, like, tits, something up. I'm in there. Or just like the guy whose Instagram had tits on it. People will forget. We're very, we should do like the Rudy locker room where we just all put our best tits that we can find on the on the coaches on Dave's desk, being like, hey, we stand with for so long. I'm telling you, we got a couple guys here. I'm sure it would line up for the idea to be the the gatekeeper of the Friday tits account. They can have it, man. They can have it. Okay. All right. Let's talk to Mb. A for real. Uh, who won the trade deadline? Let's start there and then we want to talk about what's going on in the season. But who won the trade deadline and why? Well, that's actually a little tougher answer. You know, because if you look at the Pacers, they're like, you add a top five center in zoo and it's such a crazy year because you get this massive reset. You get a team that makes the NBA finals, but it's still was kind of breaking the mode of NBA teams that are super successful where generally it's like, okay, who use your top 10 guy. It used to be like, who are your two top 10 guys, but there is a little bit more parody now. And then maybe even if you were willing at the peak of the halibut and run to say like, maybe he's 10. But for me, it's like, okay, is he always been 10 or are we just doing this now the last couple of weeks? So say he's even 10, 11, 12, whatever. You clean up some of your cap stuff. You bring in a top center who's going to make you a little different based on his strengths and miles turn of strengths, but no one in the world would want miles turn over zoo. And then you have a chance at the top four pick here. And depending on what's going on with Darren Peterson's legs, like if you end up with a number one pick and Darren Peterson can't this year, like, okay, so we were a finals team and then we get to add somebody like this or one of the other top four. I'm surprised they even have this 26 in play, this 26 pick and play because it could technically go to the Clippers here five through nine and then it's protected again 10 through 30. This has happened a few other times. And then be a history, you get a little creative with the protection language on this kind of stuff. So I like what they did because they were doing something long term while also making sure that they're tanking. And you know, as an aside, we can do more of the trade stuff here. But there's going to be like 10 or 11 teams that are going to be in an absolute tank off that's disgusting. And even Utah the other night, like a really nice game and they sat everybody in the fourth quarter and people can get mad about it. Other teams get mad at each other. But it's like, you know, when you're doing this, I'm not looking for like I'm not going to apologize for it. My pick is top eight protected if I'm Utah. I'm losing these fucking games. Yeah. And Washington's not going to play their guys, you know, clearly Indiana wants nothing to do with anything that lands from five to nine. I'm moving and go through a bunch of these different teams. I don't even think Milwaukee would want Yannis to come back and play. And even though Yannis was sort of threatening, but then of course, he was celebrating even sticking around, which is his own story. They should want to do whatever they came with this pick because they don't have many of them. And Yannis probably shouldn't even want to play and risk health and risk this contract extension that he can get before next fall. So the taking is going to get egregious. Look, I kind of like what the Clippers did despite being stuck because I don't think Derrius Garland is this bad. He's a two time all star. He's 26 years old. He has the other toe of the turt this year. There's some net rating numbers with him that he's one of the most disastrous like high minute guys. But when he was right, he was terrific and hardened after the terrible start, they're one of the hottest teams in the NBA. It's like, oh, I'm not going to get an extension. I'm out of here. You're like, okay, cool. Fourth trade requests in six years. So the Clippers very quickly on the fly from, well, I guess we just hope that hardened and choir healthy and was zoo. Like it shows that we've had these stretches the last few years. We can be a really good basketball team. It's not a safe bet. It's a bet that hasn't worked out. They had a pivot within hours, not even days. So I think there's going to be a time where you'll look at the Garland thing and go, man, they were able to land a player like that for hardened on top of what could be a really lucky landing spot for the pick in 26. And then another first, because again, their pick is unprotected and going to OKC this year. And then of course, OKC's just like, hey, they have contract situations coming up. What could they do? Well, let's trade for maybe last year's rookie the year. If you qualify to have enough games, they give up a first that they don't even need. It's going to be a late first. And now they have financial control over him the next couple years. So, you know, OKC, just winning in the margins all the time. Yeah. Yeah. So with that trade, Max's initial reaction was that he, so he's obviously an Eagles fan, Sixers fan. But when how he trades with somebody, yeah, when how he trades with somebody for the Eagles, he's just like, you don't want to, you don't want to pick up the phone when how he calls you because how he's going to get you. And then he got pressed. He because he looks at pressed the same way other guys look at at how he is at a fair analysis to say that like, if Sam Prestee's on the phone, he's going to get the better into that deal. Yeah. You know, I think most times, but look, Daryl's good at this. OK. I have a lot of respect for Daryl and what he is able to do on the fly. And how many times he's like some people blame the terrible pricing of trades solely on Daryl. Because Daryl's had a couple that have gone, I mean, the whole hard and trade for him was ridiculous. And he turns it into this guy that's, you know, one of the best offensive players the game has ever seen. And anchors a team that was like the only team that was competing with the warrior. So if it were, I would never put Daryl in the, you know, Daryl's thinking about every single angle, it makes me wonder if like the medicals were something where Daryl's like, I'm actually OK with this. So I understand Max's point. Prestee's in that. Do I want to be on the other side of the Prestee deal? But I, it's not like any of these GM's ever have any like, look, Prestee drafted Poku. Bob Myers drafted James Weisman. The Seahawks drafted Jalen Milro. All right. So there are the great ones always have one thing. They're like, what the hell was he thinking there? So you could point to a couple of Daryl miscues. But I have too much respect for Daryl to like, have gotten worked on a deal. Because I think they were in a bit of their own roster crunch. And it does make me wonder like, how are they able to give up on him this quickly unless they just think like his medicals aren't good. I think the McCain thing too has a lot to do with lay. Let's take a flyer on what we saw from last year because they're going to have so many financial decisions to make an OKC because they have too many good players. Poor Jalen Milro. Yeah. That's a complete result. I was asked to do. Do you mean Super Bowl champion Jalen Milro? All right. Scout team stuff. You know what you're right. Damn. He was an excellent Drake May for the Scout team. Yeah. Like perfect Drake May. I know you guys already did like your whole pod. But what was your, I haven't listened to it yet because I was taking my stuff this morning. My take was, uh, or the Seahawks, the best team that we've ever seen. Keep you good on TV. And is Sam Darnold elite now? Is he in that top group? I think you got put him there. He just won a Super Bowl best QB in the game last two seasons, 14 wins. Yeah. I mean, my take was that the what we kind of had an inkling, but you want to hope for a good game that the NFC championship game was a Super Bowl. Those are the two best teams in football this year. And they played two awesome games down the stretch. And yeah, the Seahawks were just better in every facet. And it wasn't even, I know you hate saying it. It wasn't even close. I think if they play that game a hundred times, it goes like that a lot of times because even the way the Seahawks went about that game, it felt like part of the boringness of it was Mike McDonald saying, hey, the only way we can lose this is a catastrophic fuck up of like two picks, sixes. So when we get into the red zone, we're fine taking fjogles knowing the Patriots will never score on us in any consistent basis. I don't mind the use of and it's not particularly close right there because that was a good use of it because, you know, leading up to it, you're going, all right, well, it's more talented roster Seattle, but then it gets boring, like just constantly go because you can be wrong doing that all the time too. It's like one game and the whole thing, but it felt a lot like, you know, it's something I brought up for the week when the Colts and Pats had that AFC title game where the Colts came back at home. And it's like, hey, we could no offense, but we get to play the Bears. Yeah. Like this is the we just lost or whoever lost this game lost a chance at a ring. And it was, and it was the Sam Donald part where people still couldn't believe in Sam Donald. So they were like, oh, we'll talk ourselves into Sam Donald being Sam Donald. We saw what the jets. It's like if you watch them in the energy championship game, he is, and he didn't have, he didn't light it on fire in the Super Bowl. But that team was just a complete team. They were so good. They had so many dudes. I even think the coin toss was very funny when they, when I know it's the captain, so it's not the full team, but the Seahawks look twice as big when they came out for the coin toss. They're the most big. Yeah. It was like holy shit. These two teams are not. There are less than to be learned there. Like that's it. I'll special teams guys. Yeah. Just signed like Derek Henry could have a career till he's 50 just by being the coin toss guy. Right. Just go out there and look jacked up. Yeah. Ted Washington. Yeah. Dude, like we just signed him to the practice squad. Yeah. I think you're right. By the way, they're not even close ones that bother me is when somebody goes like, hey, we think Conkin Ipples work of the year and it's not even close. And you're like, actually, it's close. Is it close? It's close. Who's who? I think Cooper Flag has been ridiculous. Oh, so it's close that way. Yeah. Although I don't know how this happened like to shift towards winning being the difference to everything. Yeah. All star if it's a tie and you're like, this team seated here and this guy's here. Okay. Fine. MVP voting like if it's close on everything else and then you want to go standings. Okay. But rookie the year, you know, maybe the, I don't know how to look. Every voter is different. Whatever the fifth tie breaker is for all this stuff. But yeah, I don't know. Cooper Flag is very good. Yeah. Like what he is doing right now. This is really like you want to talk about being ahead of schedule, like watching him and his disasters. Like think about how special he is considering the one year that they've just had. They trade 80 to one team. Don't tell anyone else, which again is the biggest flaw. Like whatever you think about, if you're the most anti-Luca guy ever, you're like, okay, fine, but it should be an open market. It should be everybody trying to outbid each other for this. And instead, you're like, let me do this closed non-listing deal here with a relative. You're like, what? What is this? And then a year later, you're like, hey, let's get off at AD for a collection of kind of nothing significant. And because Cooper is so special this soon, you know, like I look, when he came out, there wasn't any part of us that was like, oh, no one was saying, well, I don't think he's going to be that good. But it was kind of like offensively. Is he going to be at how soon can he get to that level of like, hey, get out of my way. I'm going to take over this possession. And it took a couple months. Yeah. And now he's putting together these performances that not only are terrific on the court, but it's helping a fan base get over, which is what, like took 365 plus days to get through the worst transaction of the history of the sport. I'm kind of hoping that they they turn into two of the best players of this entire generation. Like like, this generation's bird and bird. Luca and Max Christie. Yeah. No, a Knipple and flag. Because it sounds a little racist. Yeah. It'd be very funny to look back and be like, how does team lose in college in February? You're saying this? Yeah. How does team lose in February? I'm saying it. Yeah. Listen, I watched I watched the Kid Rock half-time show. I'm allowed to say Cooper flag my way. I told the story last night. I've never felt so stupid in my life. But I was I bet him for points rebounds to assist the other night. And he had like 22 in the first half. And he just was stuck at 22 for another half for another quarter. And I went and I went on Twitter and I searched Cooper flag. And the first result was your degenerate and your searching Cooper flags name because you have a bet on him. Go find something else to do. And I was like, God damn it. The guy had just written that tweet and just got me perfectly. Yeah, that stinks. Yes, things hard hard. I just got to kind of look at it. It was like, all right, that's enough for tonight. I'm going to go to bed. Right. I have a question with your permission. I'd like to talk about the wizards for the first time in the history of you being on this podcast just for about 30 seconds. We can do. I love the wizards. Let's go. I do too. I'm a new I'm a new found fan. I'm I'm born again. So Anthony Davis, there was some some chatter out there that he wasn't super happy about going to Washington. Is that all buried now? He's he's going to attempt to play for the Washington wizards at some point. Yeah, I mean, it's pretty clear with these two transactions. They were like, Hey, do you want to join the team and then also never play so we can we can do this and Anthony Davis is like, Hey, say no more. Yeah. Or I guess the kids would say say less. I got the sense that the tray thing was it was understood like, Hey, whatever, whatever's going to happen here, you can opt out. We'll pay you less. We'll give you guaranteed money. It's going to be your team. And there's something to be said too about like young guys coming in and just losing all of the time. And then you start taking on some bad habits and not that like, you know, the tray winning thing can be a little overstated where I think there's certain players that have conference finals runs that it's like, is that who you're going to be? Or is that going to be a little fluke? Yeah, talk about it all the times with teams. Like is that the neighborhood you expect to be in? Or was it like sort of odd that you were there? And there's cases for both sides of it. So when tray has that epic Nick series where, you know, he looks like the most comfortable or I would say the least scared player on the floor like there's something to that. I just don't know that long term there's enough evidence to say, Hey, this is winning basketball. So I think tray would have to kind of take a bit of a step back and find a way to incorporate guys a little bit more. And I know people always look at assists, but it's like, yeah, but there's more to getting your offense involved than just you deciding shot or assist opportunity here. And that's where a lot of players can put together huge assist numbers. It's like, yeah, but I don't know that that guy is like really running an offense and having everybody feel like they're involved. So tray, I would hope and the wizards have to hope that there's a bit of a reset of like, Hey, the market was this tail on you that you went for Siege and McCollum and Cory Kisper. My guess would be trays not going to look at it that way. So that's its own thing. The AD part of it, if there's no extension, which is why you would heard that his side of things were a little upset because there was other places that maybe were willing to give him an extension. I think the wizards can look at it and say, Hey, you need to get healthy. And we'll give you all the time to recover the entire off season. I still don't really mean it. Know what that means as far as long term health. But he's under contract next year for 58 and a half million. And then there's a player option in 2728 for 63 million. So if you're Mike Winger and in a group that I have a ton of respect for with the wizards, if you're looking at it going, all right, we bought on him low two and he can want whatever extension he wants. But you're probably one you're under our control and you're probably not going to want to opt out of the 63 million on player option a couple years now. Even if you could say, Hey, I'll opt out and I'd like to do an extension at a lower number, but more guaranteed money. There's probably not a number there at least as a today that makes sense to them. So they may look at it as just you can you can say or feel however you want to feel. But the most important thing for you to get one more contract is to come back and play in Will bet that you opt in. So we're getting you for two years and we didn't really give up anything. And we have two players that again, I'm painting the best case scenario picture here. Two players that immediately raise our floor. And then we figure out the young players that we like around them. And SARS been so much better this year. I love Kishan George. Trey Johnson, you know, there's it's been a nice rookie year and a stacked rookie class. We're probably talking about him a little bit more, you know, sure, there's there's more that he needs to his game. But as far as the shooting and some of the just athleticism from him, it's been really good. And then you've got Bob and Belaal and figuring out how the rest of these guys are. So when they made the tray thing, I was kind of like, why would you want tray taking possessions and shots away from all these guys that you're trying to figure out who the two or three guys actually are. But I would also allow and I'm open to the argument of, well, what were we supposed to do? Just come back and get our asses kicked all over again on top of the pick that we're taking this year. Which again, there are another team that needs to take. Look, there's one and I'll finish here. There's one thing you can never forget when transactions are happening, especially with NBA general managers. It's so hard to get any player that's really special. That you will look at like the asset management part and go, okay, if this is what the price is, it's not perfect. There could be a downside, but I can't ignore this price. It's like buying a jacket in the summer that you don't need. And you're like, I forgot I even bought it, but you just couldn't believe that it was priced that way. Maybe not perfect, but that's kind of the way that it always, there's always a deal where I'm like, why would they do that? And it's like, oh, it's because it was the price. And if you can stay healthy, it could be a good team. Yeah. If you can stay healthy. Well, you know, I've heard some people say like top four in the East, if everything bounces right, that feels a little aggressive with whatever version of Detroit, New York, Boston, if Cleveland could ever figure their shit out. I still can't believe Orlando is this disappointing. Maybe sniffing it. You know, for a team that's been this bad being in the play and yeah, is an improvement. And there may have been a push from ownership a little bit here too. Going, all right, guys, you're like, we've had a few drafts and we're still not sure like who that real difference maker is. We've got all this cap space. Let's just do this and then figure out who survives around it. I think that's a really good point, which is that if you've stocked up on some young guys and they're coming up into the league, they should at some point start to play good basketball on a good team or else their ceiling is going to diminish greatly. The rebuilding fascination that every player has to be like between 18 and 20. And if you have like a 25 year old that's good, you're like, oh my god, he doesn't fit our timeline. Like, that shit drives me crazy. Yeah. Like if it's 32 and in three lottery picks, okay, I'll agree with you now. But in a world that is all about competing and learning the right habits, I'm guilty of it sometimes too. I try to like assess each situation differently, but we can get really caught up and like everybody's going to be a year or two. How everybody's going to be a new first rounder and you're stockpiling cap space, which is pointless now. And you know, the lottery is just luck and it's mostly one excited team and nine disappointed teams. And that you can't, you can't ever have anybody that's that's like older on the team. And it's just it's hard to push back against the position when it's kind of pitched to you like we need to start playing important games at some point. So these guys feel like something matters every night as opposed to deep down or really trying to lose all these. And they'll keep losing this year. But at least it'll feel different going into camp for the first time for a bunch of young players that are going experienced something that they haven't since they've entered the league. Yep. Now the flip side is the bulls and what they did was you know, they basically did that in 2021-22 season being like, hey, let's put some decent players together and compete and and we'll be first in the east for two months. And we'll talk about that for the next five years. And now we're seeing the other side of it where they just traded everyone for a second round pick. Should I be mad? I should be happy here's my my real take. You tell me if this is right or wrong. I'm happy that they finally said, hey, enough with this play in bull shit. But I'm also mad that it took them so long and they mistime to basically every asset they had and when they traded them at they didn't trade any of them at peak value. Yeah, that's the biggest thing with the bulls is like you're making it even harder on yourself. You're trading for Vouch who you know, I had a team explain it to me. That's like a really simple rule. Like if we're bringing this player in like, okay, who are we right now? Can we win a first round playoff series? Can we win a second round playoff series? Okay, well, no and no. So if we add Vouch, does this mean we're winning a first round or a second round series? It was somebody in the front office and it's honestly like so good. It's such a good rule when you're sitting there on the cusp of like, hey, we make this trade. Like whoever we are, do we bring in Vouch for a couple firsts? Right. Who could be really nice and like, are we a different team? Doesn't mean it has to happen. Doesn't mean we have to be in these conference finals. But does this mean we're an entirely new tier of team? And the answer was no. And they did it anyway. And then it comes back and it looks even worse. And from that time, it's almost like they're, I don't know what kind of market they're looking at with players. Like when anybody's popping in good for them. Yeah, then it's like, well, we can't get rid of anyone. Patrick Williams, like do you see that dunk two months ago? He's the only one who survived. Yeah, no, it's crazy. You go down the line. Levine, Vouch, Caruso, Kobe White, Io, like every single guy, they basically waited till they peaked in value. And they're like, you know what? Let's sit on this for the other six months so we can make it sure it's a second round or not a first rounder. Yeah, the Kobe White's a disaster. Because people can go, well, you know, he wasn't everybody's favorite this year. And you're like, look, some of these guys are too young to be as bad as their prices on the market. And that's like a collective, like understanding of this market in general is that it was slow, slow. And then guys are going, what? This is all it's going to cost me. Like if you're the hornets going, we can have some version of Kobe White closing with all of our other offensive weapons. One of the best offenses in the NBA. And it's like, let's just double down and be going more hardcore in the offense because we know these minutes are better than the sexton minutes. And then you know, the bulls are like, who we got a couple of second rounders. All right, fine. The Io stuff, there's some numbers you could argue. Well, you know, he was better at the counting stuff and some of the other stuff wasn't better. But if you're a Minnesota, you're like, now we don't have to do the Conley Rob Dillinghand minutes. Right. Like, can we replace them with Io minutes? Like, I don't care what his net rating is. Like, let's go. This is at least somebody we know if we stick them with the ball with the second unit or in some other version of this, he's playing off the ball or we're letting it get off the ball because Io has it. Maybe that's asking Io a little too much. But it'd be hard to, you know, I don't know what kind of runs you guys have had with the stock market. I've had day trading runs. I'm so glad I don't do it anymore. But you feel absolutely cursed when you're like the second I sell it takes off in the second I buy it to be like, you can't go any lower. I'll just, who somebody's going to buy the dips. The dips aren't going to buy themselves. And then you're just in this, but like, which guy is in the fucking machine right now that is just haunting me going. He just bought again. He just sold that's what it feels like with the bulls. The worst day trading experience. They really are. They really are. All right, let's talk about teams that actually matter in the east. Give me your one, two, three. How you see, you know, who could get to the NBA finals? Well, Cleveland is a 64-win team that I thought was going to be good again. And maybe they, you know, sometimes it's like my age shows a little bit where you go, well, it's not like they've been through that many playoff failures. And it's like in today's world getting bounced three times. The nicks, the injuries, the Celtics last year, the Pacers. But it's like, hey, we had injuries. We had injuries. I was like, all right, well, you know, you're the only unhealthy team. I really thought that Cleveland would get over the hump considering the Tatum injury, right? The nicks is much fun as they are. And I think they're a really fun team on the right nights, the imperfections with them. We can get into some of the cat stuff here as well. And then I thought our landowner had like a really good chance. And they're even more disappointing than Cleveland is because that team is so frustrating, depending on the week that you watch them. So to choice clearly better than everybody else, sure, they could shoot it better. And that's why they're being in Kav Kevin Herder. But I don't know how they're going to balance those minutes because it's like, can you have Duncan Robinson and Kevin Herder out there at the same time? Are they going to want to close the defense? They're a defensive identity team. They're absolute dogs. If you watch them off the ball, I can't believe what they get away with. It's not just the OKC Thunder, but like, and good for them. Like go for it. Go up and watch other teams try to rebound against Detroit. And it's just chaos. And there seems to be something in the league right now, where it's like the on the ball stuff, literally everything is called. And then off the ball, they're making up for it by like going, you can do literally whatever you want. And Detroit knows that in these matchups. And I love their default decayed with his size, like even with more defensive intensity. So I don't love their offense, but they're only a game behind OKC right now. Yeah, you think about OKC start and where Detroit has been and how good they are defensively. I know they had the weird wizards lost this whole thing. Maybe there won't be enough shooting, but I can't really think of who in the east with their flaws I would go with. Because the cat things become a real issue. He's now six than minutes in the fourth quarter for the next since January first. So you're seeing his minutes decline. You know, the other thing with cat is he's always been a 52, like 40 split guy shooting in this year. He's like 42 36. So when cat isn't like hitting it from a historic rate, from the floor or from three. And on top of his defense and the fact that you're one through five, not one through five, but at one at five is Brunson and cat. Like you see that get exposed. Defensively, Mitchell Robbins, Mitchell Robbins is so good. Like he's even better than I thought I finally started coming around on him last year because we all had TV was that good in these games. How it backfully was with the offensive rebounds. I wonder what that team looks like fully formed and what kind of decisions Mike Brown makes with them where he could disease like bail on cat in specific matchups because he's already starting to do it in the regular season. A little bit here. Yeah. I can't believe Boston is this good, but go ahead. Yeah, no, you're third team. So it sounds like pistons, nicks, but it's a problem. But and would you say Celtics? Is Taden Taden going to come back? No, I don't have any answer to that. I wonder if all of these great athletes, part of their rehab is lying to themselves about what their timeline is. So instead of hitting rehab being like whatever, I'll see you guys in 26, 27. That it's just better to plant the seed when there's photo availability at a practice. You go out there and you start taking shots and everybody freaks out. Talks about him. Ben Simmons has done it for like five years. So he was he was like a pioneer. Yeah. With the hey, is the media out there? Let me dunk and then not play in the playoff game. I really do like having Fred Warner on every week and we were kind of well not every week, but like staggered the post his injury and then it was like is he going to come back in the playoffs? Is he going to be able to if they had one more week with they've been played and then when it was kind of like all said and done, it's like, yeah, he wasn't going to play this year. And we talked about it. So I don't know if Brad Stevens, like would he go if he wasn't a hundred percent certain and everybody was like if they felt like we've got a massage him back and he's on a minutes restriction and you're and you're not like just coming back and playing a regular season game, you're going to do a minutes restriction in the playoffs with that kind of intensity and that's the first thing you're jumping into. Right. Where it's like almost like a picture where you can go, hey, I could throw 80 pitches in a regular season game, but 80 pitches in a playoff game may be a completely different level of stress. Even if the number is the same, I don't know, but I feel like it was more accepted that hey, be ready for him to come back where I would think Brad Stevens would never ever want to risk anything with his guys just for the sake of having more firepower for playoff front. I can't believe they're this good, by the way. I cannot believe they're this good and the three seed in the East. I would agree with that. I think that Brad Stevens is too smart of a guy to risk it on that. I also think that he that Tatum probably wants Missoula to think that he wants to come back. So the Missoula will be like, that's my guy. He's a dog. He's going to come back even against the best wishes of Brad Stevens, but then Brad Stevens will say, no, we're shutting this down. We're not going to do it. I think Tatum's kind of caught in between. He's not going to play, but he wants his coach to think that he's trying to play. Well, that's some jujitsu shit right there that you just explained. Yeah. Yeah. Which would which would align with a guy. Mental gymnastics. Yeah. Yeah. Like Missoula. Do the six. Sorry. Go ahead. No, I don't really have anything more to that other than yeah, if it's super confusing, like you just made it and it's Missoula. I agree. Yeah. Yeah. How about that? Do the sixers have any chance? I want to get Max's juices flowing again. Yeah. To sit here and sit like Detroit is in its own tier. Okay. And depending on the week, like we've got teams separated two through six by three and a half games. Toronto can put together some nice stretches. I still don't know the Toronto will have the best player at any playoff series depending on who the matchup is. I mean, Cleveland despite this disastrous year in comparison to a 64 win team and then trading out multiple pieces, including what was supposed to do back quarter of the future for James Harden who all right, he's going to put up regular season stats. You're going to play really slow. It's going to be sort of annoying. Once he doesn't have the ball on his hands, he's done with the possession. He just taps out and then his playoff resume is dog shit. So good luck. I don't know that any of these teams like Philadelphia, I still haven't given up on Orlando just because when I watch them certain nights, I'm like, how can these five guys not be the second or third best team in the East here? But Philly has every reason to think that they're in this as well because of how great Max he is, how special VJ already seems to be. See him in person last week was a treat in a game that other guys are missing. And Bede's going to put up the counting stats. He's shown signs of just being healthier, which is terrific. I think people get a little too carried away with his counting stats because if you get it to him open in rhythm from the free throw line, it's a layup form. And all he has to do is make a few of those. He's going to get his free throws. He's going to get some putbacks. It's an easy path for somebody that talented with the way he's fouled. They get to his 30 points. But it's going to be about some of the other little things. And I still see some of the little things with him that always are going to be concerning. So they'd have to be better. And I don't know that's going to happen to the right. Like I think I still think that those concerns are going to be there a little bit his movement or his lack of movement on defense. You know, he's just a different cap with that stuff versus his peak athleticism. He just doesn't he doesn't move that way anymore. I don't know if that gets exposed or people put him in pick and rolls to close some of those playoff games. So if that looked a little bit better beyond just the counting stats and him being like a big part of the rotation now and feeling like you can count on a little bit more even if it's not every night. And even the Paul George thing like he just wasn't really a huge it was a nice piece to have as a fourth option. But that's all he's been. And when he comes back from the suspension like it's nice that that's your fourth best player in theory. But he's not necessarily anybody that I've counted on because of just how many times Maxi or VJ have felt like the brutal matchups to close some of these games. Yeah. Okay, quick break from Ryan Rassille. Talk to you about better help this episode is sponsored by a better help. Sometimes it can feel like everyone else has it all together in their love lives where they're married dating or single. The truth is most of us are still figuring it out and finding our way. And no matter where you are in your romantic journey therapy can help you find your way, help you determine what you want, what feels heavy and how you can take some pressure off yourself. Shout out Stella. She's looking her food bowl right now. 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I mean they've been doing this for a long time at like baseball because I remember like going oh that's stupid we're undifferential like the thagorean theorem and then it would just go like here's how many winds you should have based on this differential or losses if you're negative on the season and then you can kind of like there used to be some advanced guys to be like well our Pythag said that we be like a 92 wind season and we had 81 so we were incredibly unlucky but our front office is fucking awesome. Yeah so I don't know are you looking at our RPI for like one of the MBA rating indexes because the Pythag thing is simply just projecting how many winds you should have based on the differential of your points versus how many you actually have and it's a pretty good indicator of like were you unlucky or lucky this season. Right right so I was looking at that I was doing in college basketball too and it would just throw in the word RPI for that I think is different but yeah I think that's a different thing altogether. Throw in Pythag out there just it makes it seem like it's some super complicated thing that you need it is read math. Yeah I don't like I thought the same thing but I remember I think there was a guy from the A's who used to come on the local radio show I did 20 plus years ago when I was like what's this and then I remember like fighting it a little bit like any new thing. Yeah. Like so what happens if you have like a 20 to two baseball game and the run differential is like thrown off by 18 plus runs or minus runs in one game I'm like doesn't that make the whole thing stupid and he was just like yeah except for part where everybody's playing 162 and that's all kind of factor in. Yeah when I think some of go ahead go ahead you look at like certain teams and you're like well what about strength of schedule oh yeah they thought about that too I'm not the only one to think that some teams play a harder schedule than others. Yeah I think the other thing with the RPIs didn't they stop using it in the tournament too but that used to be like a default RPI and then everybody would just have RPI printed out yeah they'd be like oh this team got host yeah yeah it would just give good ammunition for people that were pissed off that their team didn't make it in the West if you're looking at the West it feels like we've been talking about this since last year that last year's Oklahoma City Thunder team was the worst team that they're going to have and they're dying to steam moving forward so you might as well try to beat them last year because they're only going to get better they seem to be dominant they got McCain if there was one team to take him out in the West who would it be Denver has a chance and San Antonio's matched up really well with them in the regular season they did get him well the last match up Oklahoma City I think had 10 players that were listed that weren't going to play so it felt like an old pop of it's like hey you guys want Thursday night basketball TNT guess what we're going to do not do that yeah and that's where you're kind of like hey can you be a little bit better on some of the prime time games of your partners I'm not saying that's what Oklahoma City did but you can't look at that game in fact but some of the other earlier matchups like God this is like the first time a team has made it look hard for OKC and we probably haven't had like enough of a full run from San Antonio even though they have the third best record in the NBA where the cells miss time when bees miss time and also been on minutes restrictions but they're they're so good already it's really impressive to see what castle is that gives good as when B is and how much you can change the game by not even scoring all that much and it depends on how you want to defend him like a lot of teams now just put that dog right it was ribs and hips and go this way at least we can cut off your drives and try to keep you further away on your catches because the beginning of the year centers were trying to guard him and when he's like going between his legs and going right past these guys like that game he played against Dallas I still think it's like one of the best regular season games I've ever seen from basketball player but castle's improvement man like he's the guy and TNT Aaron Fox plays off of castle and it's the right thing and so whether it's KELOLAND Johnson spacing it the cell spacing it I mean almost every team it's kind of like baseball for the trade deadline you're like if we could just have one more bullpen arm you can see teams just be like is there any way like there's never enough shooting is there anyway we can add more shooting to this and if the shooters can also play defense that's something else and look I picked Denver to win the whole thing I was trying to be a little different than picking OKC in back-to-back years but Denver and OKC are like in a mistime off right now and Denver is a disaster like I was looking at the numbers this morning Yoke it's miss 26 games he's back but it was a pretty tough part of the schedule Gordon's miss 30 games now Christian Brown's miss 36 games Kim Johnson's miss 24 games but OKC and it's something you always look at is like do you get to 40 wins before you get to 20 losses because I think every champion of the last is it the last five years maybe every champion of the last five years got to 40 wins before 20 losses OKC's done that again but they also go off to this ridiculous start you can make an argument that you know for a little while here they've they've been kind of an oddly above average team but I don't I don't know that I really believe that because Jaylen Williams has missed a ton of time heart and Stein's miss time Caruso's missed a lot of time Jaylen Williams gets back tonight against the Lakers with this hamstring thing which is cost him it feels like half the season so even with OKC start him missing time you're like God they're going to get that guy back who you're thinking off the last years run like I see a top 15 is a top 17 player in the league some people saying hey top 10 with the way that he can play both ways so even if you want to beat up on OKC a little bit here during this stretch like they haven't had all they haven't had their second best player for half the year sorry what are you supposed to do with that so I picked Denver only to try to do something different after I just don't want to pick OKC every single year and you know even with some of their their challenges they it's not like they've had some people again again again on their case a little bit here but they're always going to be great defensively like when you look at them and go OK they haven't played as well after historic start but are they still the best defense in the NBA and you're like yeah they are so they can always default to we're going to lock you up with all the different combinations we can throw at you right now are they better this year than they were last year probably not because it's just I think they will be just with the seasoning that playoff seasoning like it's great as they were last year they still didn't shoot very well in the playoffs which speaks to just how special they were defensively that they can turn on this defensive switch that really I don't think Detroit can match them with they can also go hey we can play two bigs we can play no bigs we can put chat here where your defensive five now has to go out and chase him on the round the three point lines so we'll close with him to have more openings for everybody else or we'll go back to the two bigs to cut off all your drives I mean the way they locked up Ant in that series Ant didn't have a good series he had that one game where it looked like he was incredibly frustrated and he wanted to shoot but there also wasn't a lot there for him so it was a bit of one of those deals it's like OK you want to get on his case and see he's not up to the moment he's also staring at three guys standing right in front of him so you want him to just drive into three guys and take horrible shots and say hey at least I took my 20 shots they're all dog shit just to force the issue so nobody gets mad at you on TV but they went to game seven with Denver and they went to game seven against a Pacer's team that for one game prior to Halibur and tearing that Achilles you're going how are we at game seven with OKC against this Indiana roster so winning a title special defensively optionality younger players and all that seasoning I'd expect fully formed there better basketball team this year than last year what at what point in the season are we going to do the thing where it's like hey watch out for the Lakers the Lakers are going to make some noise and hey watch out watch out like you know who could win the West the Lakers then they and then they lose in five to someone and everyone says well they almost won like four of those games so that was the team the people should watch out for yeah I can't wait because it definitely happened last year I mean it was it was outrageous and then that Minnesota series yeah I'll give myself a little credit here because I get plenty wrong but you're like looking and it's just all like you go to anywhere it was like every single person the Lakers had all that momentum they beat Denver in that regular season game where it's like hey they don't love we may not love the defensive personnel but they're just really good and I do think they're really good at game planning I think it is a really good staff and then you watch that Minnesota series you go hey you know it'd be awesome is somebody big yeah like they're just going hey Rua you're gonna play center and then we're gonna play flat like we're not even gonna play anyone off the bench that's that and like overnight you're just going why did everybody pick this team here again um so I don't know if that'll happen they're not good defensively getting Reeves back is huge because you know some of these teams just double down on who they are and they go what we need to be is horrifying offensively just like scare the shit out everybody and then can we be a good enough offensively that can make up for some of our defensive deficiencies here because they're 23rd and defense right now and it's kind of where they've been living for a long time and Lucas you know good prime Lucas good enough to do something scary here but if you look at the standings like let's just do the exercise like who would you pick them against in the first round in the west based on 50 plus games even you know having said hey there's no Reeves but if you want to do the injury game there's four the five top seeds in the west you're like hey it hasn't actually you know been a picnic for them health wise either uh the suns um yeah I mean if it ends up what of four four five they'd have to be a three six that have to be like a two seven so they're not getting there I just don't know that the sun's are even going to line up with them what about the rocks and it's rockets is a good one so I'm going to tell you right now there fourth and offense or fifth this morning and when you watch them close games that are tight it's awful they're 21st and clutch offense and if you want to talk about like some of these numbers can be misleading or whatever that is the most like truthful number of a team when I watch them play because they get stuck they don't know who they want to be the amen thing is talented as he is he doesn't provide you a ton of separation and then you're playing with shingoon tariyes and shooting numbers have been terrific I don't know the people are defending him in a respectful enough way that's going to open up other stuff and it ends up with the rant in some impossible spots where he's left to solve the possession all by himself and as great as he is that is asking a lot of any player and it feels like whatever identity they have for those first 30 plus minutes of a game when they get in a crunch time it is a fucking grind for them and I don't know that they know what it's supposed to be right now like defensively I'm not going to worry about it but that is you you watch it and then you go well what does the numbers say and you're like well the number says exactly what I'm seeing and if you think about playoff possessions there were derands like going why aren't you here what's going on over there like you can see it with the rant and I'm not even like getting on his case with it but you can see times where he's like really frustrated in the possession where like puts his arms up being like that wasn't what we were supposed to do you didn't cut here you weren't going to do that because they like were this far into it and they're a good team but it feels like a fatal flaw for them you mentioned your top 15 top 17 players that you have in the NBA right now who are your who are your top five top 15 players in the NFL or in the NBA like who are the top here were the top five guys that could be the 15th best player in the NBA all right well that sounds super complicated so I appreciate that I fall it's just simple stuff Ryan yeah so I think the clear four are Yoke a chest G A Yanis Luca you know the wendy part of it is impact alone and clearly it reflects in the standing that it's beyond just you know how many e-scores every night because I still think there's some nights where it's absolutely beautiful and then I think there's other nights where and get clogged a little bit here I'd have aunt in this conversation I think aunt right now is the best handle in the game that's with Kyrie watching bring extended period of time which I am a little curious like is on the side of the trade deadline which hasn't really been covered a ton but like Kyrie comes back to be like hey this is awesome yeah let's do this uh Steph for me is still in this group Kauai has actually played like this group this season I mean especially if you're gonna say top 15 no question um Jaylen Brunson is no worse than top 10 uh Jaylen Brown has played this way this year I voted him as a starter Jaylen Brown every single time I put a ceiling on who he can or can't be I'm like all right well he can't be any better than this and then he's that good again I mean his season finals that'd be possible yeah I think Cades in this conversation I'm a huge booker fan if we're saying top 15 I mean I get shit on for some of my booker stuff where I was like do you think the thunder wind the title last year with Booker instead of SGA and it's like you heathen hmm hmm hmm it's interesting it's not it it's not it's not like I'm not disnest J here but maybe a little bit but yeah a little bit why can't it just be a compliment why can't it just be positive why does everything have to be negative Canadian thing the Canadian thing bothers you uh no no I think um I think Chris Paul if he goes to Toronto which I mean where is Chris Paul right now I think he's like 10 minutes down the street from me getting shots I'm gonna go talk to him I've been so tempted to be like do you need a rebounder but does that mean he's like that guy was cool until he was like do you need a rebounder like I have professional coaches and nutritionists and then this asshole is gonna be like do you want to just run it to seven yeah what happens is Chris Paul is it he's deciding whether he wants to go to Toronto or is Toronto deciding whether they want them they are pretty deep you know Toronto fans are gonna say like hey you completely glossed over us I really have been impressed with the way they played they're transitioned stuff and all that stuff but again it gets back to like if Brandon Ingram's your best player like how many players oh look I like Scotty Barnes I think all of us say Scotty Barnes is this league yeah yeah point um I don't want Chris Paul to go out this way so I think he probably has enough stature to probably have it on his own terms here a little bit so yeah but it feels like he doesn't you don't want him to go out as a Canadian is where you're saying yeah well I don't think it's a citizenship thing where where where why isn't LeBron just be like hey man come on the Lakers they always want to play together it would be convenient right he is here right might as well yeah he's just down the street it's LeBron we're gonna get back at the Clippers yeah is LeBron retiring this year I feel like he is I don't think he is really he's gonna have a really really hard time being away from the attention of basketball so he's never gonna retire never would be a long time it would but it sounds like he's still incredibly productive offensively you know you're gonna make up for his defense defensive stuff which is you know this isn't exactly new and it's to be expected so I still think there's far more positive about him the player um but it just depends like what are you looking for next year you looking for a massive contract like I don't think do you want to go play on a bad team I don't think he necessarily wants to do that I think there's a lot of people that still wonder if you would just go to Cleveland for the one year deal have some kind of storybook ending and you could say like well maybe he doesn't want to go out that way if he's gonna have all this business in LA like why would you want to do that and jeopardize those relationships dude walking around this place it's it's it's just fascinating the number of guys are just Kobe guys and are like yeah thanks for the title but whatever yeah the general indifference to LeBron in this city yeah is is alarming to the point where I end up being like hey he came here you guys missed the playoffs for five straight years okay he comes here that means you also get AD and like you're gonna you're gonna sit there and kind of do like a whatever thanks dude you know like just ready to move on to the rest of it you know like I just fine you want to move on I get at the stage of screw the whole thing but there's there's an indifference with him day to day whenever he seems to come up not like it's every single day of my life that LeBron comes up a conversation but I I end up feeling like I turn into like this massive LeBron defender to like the hardcore again I don't even call these Lakers fans I call them Kobe fans and they're just insanely protective about like to a point where they don't want to give LeBron any credit so if he were to go to Cleveland for a year and then it's like oh well his whole dynamic LA is different I don't know that I don't know that I would ever change anything right there's just a lot of people that I think took it for granted do you think that he feels that I would see it's it'd be impossible for him to not notice it I would just think that he would have he's so insulated that he's got people around him that are like yeah LeBron you're the man well yeah and that's the other like the human nature part of it is that I doubt anybody's going up to him being like you know I also don't think he's going to like Erwin by himself to see what's on the buffet schedule but do you go to Erwin I do what's that like to life changing is it really you get the almonds are so expensive it's amazing to get the like $30 strawberries or whatever I did the Haley Bieber smoothie a few times and it was so tasty but then I like looked at the ingredients and I'm like you what are you doing like you can't you can't do this it was like soft serve ice cream on top of like strawberry syrup and some sort of coconut cream and I'm like this is like no wonder this thing tastes so good and it was really expensive they make an incredible meat sauce that you can grab jars of that is a winner you get maybe two three uses out of it it's nice because it's right next to the gym so I can just shoot over there and hit up the buffet and say you know long term if I'm just getting this for myself but loading up like every week on produce you get a little pricey yeah things are good over here but you never know I can imagine do you is there what's the athletes are seen like at Erwin I would imagine it's pretty significant yeah I don't even think they let you in there unless you're coming from the gym yeah good yeah and the hoodies like they've got their whole line of clothing right now and I've been so tempted to grab this orange cropped deal yeah but I was like can I wear a cropped yeah because I think that's that's like I don't have I have four abs on the right day you could do it you can pull that off the lower abs the lower abs never show up and if you're going to be doing the crop thing maybe you crop with a fanny pack that's a good look yeah mm-hmm maybe I'll do this maybe just an appreciation for super weak I'll send you guys a couple air one oh oh we wear them I would rock I would crop it myself what's going on they're dope yeah what's going on with the boat she's great filled her up the other day right before super weak had to finish up some work so nothing forces you to do work more than just being anchored away from everything because you're like all right I'm on the boat and I don't smoke weed and I don't drink on them on the boat or anything I know that sounds crazy but like I have enough anxiety docking the thing at 46 feet by myself 47 feet 47 make sure you get that right not depending on what kind of clearance you're talking about yeah yeah yeah yeah but there was this Dutch vessel I think 170 feet that was in Marina Del Rey for months and they took up the entire outside slip of the fueling station so you kind of get to a point where you're really comfortable with certain moves to your boat by yourself but there's probably other moves where you go I don't know that I've ever tried that you know like I won't try a 360 dunk anymore right anymore like anymore yeah yeah what if I overroute it say I just land the wrong way so I had like 6% of fuel left or no I had 9% of fuel left that's right because it's 6% I don't think I would have done it but even at 9% like I knew where I was going I knew where is anchoring I knew the distance I'm like I'm fine but it's not like a car where you go like oh whatever like that whatever zero is I wish we were more like Europeans where it's like I want to know to the leader and then I'm bone dry right you know I'd like to have that kind of precision but apparently we don't want that here and so this massive massive yachts there and I'm like god damn it like it's outside of the fuel pumps and the only way is I have to like go in and kind of battle with traffic a little bit maybe on a busy day and then I have to go in and like spin the whole boat around to like an opposite side and then get the boat parallel and bring it across like almost like fish tailing a tank all the way around and I was like I'm not doing that today so I was like fuck it came back in at like five or six percent fuel dock so then I went out the other day and the boat was still there I'm like dude you have to fill this up like you have to fill this thing up and you're gonna have to you're gonna have to just be you have to do it what are you doing yeah the number one rule just go slow and if you freaked out go slower was there an audience watching you yeah yeah the guys of the pump too you don't want to let those guys down no no guys you hell especially with your air one shirt on yeah because they're like look at this loser do you have the captain's hat oh yeah I do I don't wear it though unless I'm like it spells and like swell size like if the swells pick up I put it on yeah if you're somebody on board feel safer yeah that's when it's about yeah I went out one time I even checked the charts and I was like what and then I was like leave in the marina I go there's not another boat out not one nothing like usually there's even big sailboats if it's windy because they didn't cut right through it I was like there's not one other boat out and I had somebody with me and I'm like this is this might be a little hairy and then I open out into the marina and I see this while I was like oh my god like this is bad and so then I had it like make sure I just never get sideways and I'm like I got to go into it I get to do like I get it out and then come back in and make sure I'm not near the rock wall on the way in because it doesn't really matter what side those waves are so powerful that if they catch the hole the boat like you're riding the wave you're not driving it um every alarm goes off every single piece of cutlery any glass wear like it just sounds like it's all shattering like movie scene alarms like losing it lose it because the levels of everything was like what's going on and I was like as long as I'd never get parallel with these breaks I'll be fine so right into them charge out hard turn in between sets then ride it back in away from the rock wall then cut it back once the swells die down and that was about a 15 minute trip and you had the captain say do you put the captain's hat on that's the whole point as I was hold on yep I go turn off the almond brothers where's the captain's cap yep put some sea shanties on there yeah dress for the job you want not the job you have have you be honest right have you thought about getting a bigger boat yes I've been you fucking talked about would you know anything about boat ownership no not really yeah well that's the first thing you do is you buy the boat and then you go oh I could handle a 60 footer on my own as long as they get one of those slips to the outside but then I have to also be honest it's like you don't have the easiest schedule yeah people can talk about the amount of hours that we put in like actually on the air you're like okay yeah like if you count those up it doesn't seem like I'm doing much but there is a lot of other stuff that goes into it no one's crying for us not asking to cry for you but there's probably a level of boat that you should or shouldn't have depending on your access to it and I kind of want to do stuff that I was like I don't want to wait until like I'm retired I want to be a younger boat guy and then when I look at like other guys living rooms in their bigger boats I'm like that's the kind of boat you get behind but then I realize I was like there's a lot of guys looking at your boat yeah that'd be it that'd be enough boat for me yeah I think not to make this about life but it's it's just something to remember there's probably somebody looking at your boat going that's that's good enough for me that's just stop looking at the other boats that's great advice and appreciate your own boat don't don't you come to boat envy yeah yeah I don't think it's hard yeah it's hard not to I can't see you retiring you don't seem like a guy that that's retired I won't do this forever oh is there are we doing a farewell tour is it like LeBron or you wear the patch a Chris Paul retirement tour and you just get cut I don't know if that would happen yeah my numbers are a little bit better than Chris's towards the end go your better team player Chris Paul wouldn't have gone to the or Chris Paul would not have sat across from Rico Bosco at dinner that was fun huh you were unbelievable like it was the whole thing having that dinner it was playing out exactly exactly how I expected because all that's happening is Rico saying something and he's trying to see if I'm going to read something wrong and I'm trying to like read him and then there's not really it's like this isn't that complicated it's exactly what you would expect it would be and then every five minutes big cat would be like yeah but Rico didn't you think that like something like this it's like whenever that fire start to dim out a little yeah just turn it back up it would just go up play you know here's just a flush of oxygen into this this fire pit like we're not done yet we did it again the next night we're just matches there for that one we did we just did a pick we did a pick him episode it was David and like six other people in Rico we just we did a two-hour pick him episode while eating prime rib it was good time yeah I did the primed house a prime rib with with PFT it's good time I got the full day of experience and we had the Grootix it was actually Groot it was it is the number one guy if you want to go to a dinner and you're like hey we're going to dinner with clients and I don't really know how I'm going to carry a conversation you bring John Grootin and you're set because his when he gets story going he has every guy at a dinner in the palm of his hand big time PFT did you tell him the driving story what said no so so this is oh this is pretty incredible so we're driving over to dinner and and the traffic in the city is just terrible because everyone's there for the for the game it's like the first Friday night Friday night everybody's in town so the traffic is just not moving or security guy makes an amazing move and it's not a move I would ever do if I was ever driving a car but I guess he's he's a really good driver so he does he cuts into like the oncoming traffic lane because there's a bunch of red lights swarves around a bunch of cars ends up making a left turn pretty much saves us like a half hour in about 10 seconds with this move that he does and and we all start just like rubbing his shoulders be like hey that was awesome great job I don't want to say his name but great job Jose you did you did you did credit Jose all Thursday night he's the best and quinoa awesome he's awesome and it was like a culmination of all these moves that night and I can't I still can't believe he pulled that move and if I were the car in the front line at that red light stuck and then saw this SUV pull up and go what the fuck are you doing but I guess it was just you know if you're in law enforcement yeah I am on the job yeah I wanted it like I was building up to this point of like this guy needs to be appreciated out loud yeah yeah so so so Ryan's like dude this is incredible thank you so much everyone's like great job Jose this is this is awesome thank you and he's like yeah yeah yeah yeah I got you and then about 10 seconds later he hits the gas in the right lane and almost runs into the back of the car that's in front of us slams the brakes Ryan H. Shit like into the back of the seat in front of him every turnel organs moved around a little bit like everyone jerks forward and then immediately grudin goes some guys can't handle success and he told us a story about some right tackle he had in Tampa that was a horrible practice player but super talented and then he told him he had like this great practice and then he goes he came back the next day and he sucked again and then one of the other assistants went to grudin's like don't ever feed him sugar only feed him shit that was that was the story that he told because like the story came back up again at dinner and then he's like reminds me you know the players name and you're like where's this going and it was perfect and then he he does it he then he lays out he lays out for like 10 minutes and observes and then he jumps back in yeah yeah it's it's very tactical and it's smart because it's you know you could ego out if you wanted to and everybody would just shut up he has incredible what it didn't he's got the ability to talk about any like I don't know like second third string player from 2011 that you've never even heard of before and make it the most entertaining story you've ever heard in your life just like eating out the palm of his hand he's the best yeah he's the best all right Ryan last question rowback question are you okay ck calm promo code take 20% off your first purchase Q zips polo's hoodies jogger shorts rowback calm promo code take who's going to win the all-star game I know you're pumped man this time it feels personal doesn't it yeah team world first team USA we can't let them win this game who do you think Hank's written for team world wow now there's been canceled yeah I don't know I don't know what Hank would do I had a friend who was a communist in college and I think he still is a communist but he was always the guy rooting for like the Olympics of roll around he'd be like you're rooting for Germany like what the fuck going on he's rooting for East Germany no no actually he would never root for Germany to be honest with you but I'm just using the example of like what is this you know in a course to go you like you like Indy Rock too like I got it yeah this bands too commercial I'm in a room for England I hate the all-star game a lot I haven't watched it I don't even know the last time I watched it I have never in over 10 years been like all-star games on tonight I've got to make sure I am home in front of the couch I have missed every single minute of it certain nights it's just I don't get mad at it though like it's for kids it's kind of fun yeah to celebrate these guys have the accolades the whole week and the whole thing and like look shout out to the players union shout out to LeBron shout out to Chris Paul getting everybody a week off from the games like I take the week off now yeah yeah you're you're that's the correct uh way to to look at it it's not for you so who cares yeah right yeah right it's like when people get mad at all the bowl games so like oh hey don't watch it yeah they still do really well ratings wise they mean a ton to those fan bases and yeah like everything's chaotic right now at this point but like there's other things you can get mad about why would you get mad about I wish the all-star game were competitive I wish it reminded me of the stuff that was cool when you watch like the close of a game and you're like hey how's this guy gonna look against this guy in the greatest pickup game in the world I mean that's been so long that I don't even you know I actually think getting mad at the all-star game is is boring as the game itself yeah okay Ryan you're the best enjoy vacation Portugal yeah we're headed out to those big waves love that go catch one Ryan it's gonna be so sick all right Ryan you're the best everyone listen to Ryan or so show and we'll we'll talk to you as soon as you know we you get back we get a basketball just love love the NBA Chicago yeah being Chicago so I'll get together so thanks as always guys yeah you got to you got to we did we did our bet on your show college football and I think the payment we agreed is we're still is gonna stay at Minty's house one night oh I love that you guys will get along so well yeah I can't wait looking forward to it and even though we didn't agree to what that seems like a totally fair and reasonable bet you won't mind it was either that or go try to pick up chicks Nikki smokes one night so you get to decide I don't know it might be better he's gonna he's gonna he's gonna like get that quote and put it on his wall yeah just whatever you do don't don't play the episodes a part of my take around him it's like a Bob's dog situation where things will start to happen with his body he'll start cranking it hard all right noted yeah no nor should you all right see man see run okay Ryan Rassille was brought to you by our friends at twisted T twisted T's are refreshing hard iced tea made with real 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21 and keeps downloading gambling apps on my phone buys me in my three roommates drinks and then tells me he's signing me up for promies promo promo promo promise promise promise promise I have upwards of 15 gambling apps that's longer than promos promise promies is a longer version of a promo yeah but it's fun it's a fun way to say like yeah I'm actually giving your credit card information to a massive company okay just a promy babe it's like a silly way of yeah silly promo yeah he's signing me up for these promies I have upwards of 15 gambling apps organized in a folder on my phone he calls promies my one roommate caught wind of this and told me he's ripping me off I did some googling and sees that he's clearly getting the better end of the deal here yeah but he's depositing all of his own money and doing a hundred percent of the work I brought it up last night during a super bowl and he got really defensive tell me he doesn't want to give me involved in gambling but he's a very calm guy and got really aggressive about this last night should I bring it up again or is it not a big deal if it makes you uncomfortable I'd say it's a it's a big deal to bring it up but it it also sounds like he's at least signing you up for the promies so he can get his promies yeah he's very organized with his promies so sounds like bad men yeah he's he's betting for free because you're giving him all the promies which is nice also probably shouldn't have brought it up during the super bowl yeah a game where everyone's bets lost I would say like right after the masters would be a good time to bring it up like hey do we need we need all these promies also it sounds like you're very trusting individual for just letting your boyfriend hold on to your phone for extended periods of time yeah that's actually a really healthy relationship yeah so sounds like he's got a good one yeah you guys really trust each other that does unhealthy if you trust your significant other with the promies you you're in for the long haul yeah bring me together stay together yeah yeah it's exactly right don't pro me if you don't know me that's why I always say you go another one here it's uh next year in the first seven games the Patriots play chiefs bills two times chargers it bears you don't know that you don't know that this is yeah we try to do actual journalism on the show but okay sorry go ahead that's where we could disavow this entire comment mm-hmm well no let's just say that this is the schedule early predict chiefs bills two times chargers bears lions they also play the Seahawks Jaguar's Broncos and Packers what's their record and by how much will they miss the playoffs oh the Seahawks are the we're talking about the Patriots we're talking about the Patriots there's a Patriot schedule okay they play the NFC North next year they play a first police schedule yeah do you think do you think the Patriots going into next year are like a top tier because the way I look at the AFC is like if you're going to sneak in and make it count this was the year to do it mm-hmm no Patrick Mahomes no boogie man out turns out everyone who's like hey this is the year that Josh Allen has to get to Super Bowl kind of right yeah kind of right no Lamar no Mahomes bonix will be back the AFC actually has a lot of good teams I don't know if they have any great teams it's all sickle it's all year to year you never know I mean we do it every year where we predict the schedule and predict your team's record and then you look back and you're like well that was backup quarterback that was backup quarterback you never know yeah first seven games though if I had to guess for the Patriots next year I think the bears are gonna I think the bears are gonna kick off the season with the sea ox I think they're gonna make that Thursday night they could do the bearers thing they could do the chiefs thing too does the ox have the cheese yeah they do yeah but I think that's the toss up with Mahomes if he yeah assuming Mahomes can be back right you go week one that's a good point I just think that I'm I'm fully preparing myself for the bears to get is the maximum amount of prime time it sucks yeah no I'm not like but actually I kind of hope it happened I hope the week one that Thursday night because that is check off one of the prime time games it's not a because multiple Thursday night games does suck yeah at least that one would be you get a little extra rest after to answer the question I think the Patriots will be oh Zach Zach's bubbling again bubble he just continues to bubble I'm used to bug your rifle with that neck do Zach I'm gonna go um four and three patch first seven games next year so Mahomes uh Torres ACL on December 14th oh yeah I he he'll be ready I think you'll play week one I don't think he'll be good I think he'll he won't be good for you know a month listen Lindsey Von Skied on a torn ACL and she was fine crash she crash she's fine though before that she was fine if she but if she had both ACLs crack the Lindsey Vaughn she has no fear because like she she gets up there and there's like a 50% chance just anecdotally speaking from what I've followed skiing there's a 50% chance she crashes every time I'm surprised her and Tiger didn't work it out yeah seems like they have a lot in common I've got another one for you guys if you're ready okay how do I convince my boyfriend to take me out on Valentine's Day dinner next year instead of watching the Super Bowl oh yeah yeah I really did it to us I do love the guys being like the the tweet's been like you have one year to prepare here's your warning yeah Valentine's Day and Super Bowl they coincide Valentine's Day is a fake holiday anyway it's not like for the season of love you know what I mean well I think there's a more like consumer holiday like go by these gifts and chocolates I I think the Valentine's Day is one of those holidays and when I say fake holiday I mean there are certain holidays that you can shift like St. Patrick's Day I love St. Patrick's Day St. Patrick's Day has a little bit of a fake holiday feel where you can if it's St. Patrick's Day is on a Wednesday we can just party on Saturday Halloween Halloween is a big one yeah right so it's like got the shifting nature I think Valentine's Day is a hundred percent in that category it's not like Christmas or Fourth of July where you have to celebrate on that day you could just do Valentine's Day on the Saturday before the Super Bowl you know what we're gonna see we're gonna see a lot of Valentine's Day brunch yeah and it's just gonna be like the drunkest Sunday that you could ever have that actually sounds like not a bad Sunday you do you do a heavy brunch at like 1130 noon you get through like four or five mimosas yeah and then you just roll that into the pre-party for the Super Bowl puts it's it's gonna be Saturday Saturday night's gonna be Valentine's Day the way 13th is gonna be for Valentine's Day there are certain holidays that you have you should have no problem no qualms with shifting you just have to hit the week you have to get in the general vicinity of it Halloween yes perfect sample Halloween on a on a on a Wednesday in college guess what Friday we're doing Halloween doesn't matter and guess what if it's on a Wednesday at that Monday night football before Halloween that's when people are gonna wear the costumes yeah colleges bad example you colleges to 10 Halloween yeah of course but I but same but same page day is a good example of like same page day when it's on a Tuesday no one people aren't getting like blackout drug on Tuesday they're doing it on the previous Saturday the Saturday after so you could just shift so quick shift you get you get a full Valentine's Day and a full Super Bowl yeah everybody kind of wait I do think that the brunch move is gonna a lot of people are gonna do the brunch move brunch move sounds fun this is one of those situations where people will talk about it for engagement I just can't imagine anyone going out to Valentine's Day dinner during the Super Bowl also it's not gonna happen it's not a real thing nobody really goes out for dinner on Sunday nights right also true yeah it was gonna be Saturday anyway I'm doing brunch I think I think the brunch move is the more I think about it that's just a great Sunday I know a lot of people will do Valentine's Day early to try to get like a reservation somewhere else because the day of is pretty hard but now if everyone's trying to make a move a day back might be dinner at home yeah do Friday or Saturday if you hit it anywhere in that facility you're good no one more for you guys okay wait is next year the one where the Monday is President's Day yeah which is also a fake holiday I respect the office I respect President's Day to I'm just saying it's if you guys are like yes but when they're like oh it's a bank holiday okay well what if you don't work in a bank everyone will work no one works on President's Day is that true yeah nobody works yeah it's a federal holiday yes we just we just work on President's Day it's a fake holiday for us yeah for sure hey PMT boys my fiance and I are getting married this summer and our first Valentine's Day as a married couple is going to be on Super Bowl now there's highly it's highly unlikely that the chance that my Saints will be playing that day no maybe shock however there's a better chance that my soon to be husband's team Detroit Lions could play how do I navigate this potential outcome and where where he won't want to do anything romantic with me on Valentine's Day if his team does in fact win the NFC okay if the lines are in the Super Bowl you can pretty much write off that entire month did you read did you read ahead that same thing we just said for this both apply yeah yeah just take it I would say though if if the lines are really the Saints too but if they're playing in the Super Bowl like just don't make plans the week before the week after either because it'll be partying still or because it'll be very depressed the Super Bowl what do we even talk about the Super Bowl just crushes the Valentine's Day it's not those aren't those aren't the same football transcends love good for the people who don't have any interest in watching the Super Bowl and are in a relationship with no one who watches the Super Bowl you will get an awesome reservation somewhere everyone else in America which is literally everyone else in America will be watching the Super Bowl and we're going to be enjoying the fuck out of it speak more romantic than you know some some Super Bowl squares some promies before checking to a couch eating way too much by the way coming to the office because we're taking this on Monday coming to the office today and realizing that I apparently people just take home leftovers now we don't leave them here for everyone I was I was so pumped for Jumbaya oh yeah I didn't have any of that yesterday I was so pumped and I came in and there was just no Jumbaya and I it ruined my day I'll say it right now it ruined my day Jumbaya list day yeah that's gonna it's gonna be a hell of a week for Saints fans next year you got Marty Grah on Tuesday the 9th and then if you're in the Super Bowl with Shuck Super Bowl and Valentine's Day and president's day Zach while we're on guys on chicks what's going on with the chicks chicks uh I haven't been talking to a lot of chicks yeah if we're being transparent can some can some of the chicks maybe reach out yeah I'm open to starting in a personal relationship conversations okay I'm not against that put that on a graphic open Zach to interpersonal open to interpersonal relationship conversations I'm not so you're can we open the transfer portal for you uh we I'm just not the best at conversation so they don't sometimes they don't uh so we need a strong alpha type female who's ready to take control of the relationship and just tell Zach what to do you you saying I got to get submissive you got to get submissive you're gonna get pegged you're gonna get stepped on I think this is I think it listen it's fine what if we start somewhere else yeah what if we start with like how do you feel about hot wax once you're safe for it I don't have a safe for it yeah let's get a safe for it well we how many syllables you think a safe we're needs two three whatever you want I think one I think one yeah one feels risky because what if you just shout it and like a moment of excitement you know yeah what if you're like one syllable safe words could get misconstrued it's like you said something else but it sounds like the one syllable yeah let's get you a safe word let's start with a safe word and then let's start and then we'll talk to some women we'll go from there okay but we need it obviously I don't want you to get pegged unless you want to get pegged I'm not gonna kink shame what I'm saying though is you do need we need a girl to reach out to Zach that is like hey Zach we're going on a date tonight hey Zach I made a reservation we're doing this because my boy's not gonna do any of that I'm really good at talking myself out of right occasion so like the least notice the better probably right so we need someone who's like hey Zach you just sit back I'm gonna ride you you also said you would go on more dates after football season yeah yeah yeah it was a big season it was a big work season I thought you know lock in with the guys we need a girl on top but you need a girl to get on top and stay on top respectfully though of course of course nothing but the most up up most respect for these Queen take your octazinner then ride the fuck out of you I don't think it is over football that was your excuse all football we're about to get into preseason like yeah mock traps are coming like combines coming free agency what a time yeah how lucky are we there just Zach just stays single for life because he's like put football season I don't hate that move yeah you got this exact we exactly have a type a type not on discriminate fat ass let's just I would like I will women I'm down with that okay I'm done with that I'm done with that I'm done with a nice I come with you say fat ass Latina's assortities can I get gluttonous there and just be like both yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah because like both would be I mean both yeah yeah so say here that's what was intimidating it's like oh whoa what about hair color I mean whatever they feel you know what I feel most comfortable you know express yourself I love that whenever you whenever you whenever makes you feel beautiful yeah I'm into that but if you had to have preference never thought too much into the you got preference come on I don't know I don't think I have one on the hair color yeah because like I think hair color change with seasons you know like what age range age range we're gonna we're gonna whittle this down to some maybe like type A's reach out I don't know how old am I age range prime my age like answer that okay we'll do age range I'm 28 yeah I'm 28 yeah I thought for a second there you didn't know how yeah no no I definitely know you're self that question I definitely know my age definitely know my age all right so 20 your 28 I feel like 25 to 35 that feels like a super yeah yeah because I'm all dude if you know as much you want a milphoo maybe has a kid but you don't have to deal with the kids she's like don't worry I got it and I'll ride and I've got a lot to learn yeah she could provide free game are you are you open to being no I don't want to say stepdad but like you know hang out with kid from time to time you I feel you'd be a you'd be a good guy for that stepdad who stepped in not not I don't want to say stepdad yet but like you know the kids over you go over to pick her up go inside play with the kid for a little bit say what's up this is also though this is this is another we're just adding another pitfall for Zach having to wake up in full training imagine if he doesn't wait like hey no don't give him that excuse don't give him that excuse that excuse in full transparency use that excuse I think you might need to have like a narcoleptic type a fat ass fat titties indeterminate hair 40 year old that sounds like it come it could come with a lot of pain in the long game but could be a great learning experience in the short game but as far as a stepdad situation there's a woman out there for you there's a way there's no one who's really wanted to just take control piercings and tats cool that yeah yeah I'm cool with the body art do you paint that canvas girl do you think okay nice nice just you have to like video she has to understand video games just tolerate video games that's I like I like to tolerate you playing video game she doesn't have to necessarily be into the game or be okay with the game tolerate probably she has to understand that when you date Zach Zach is married to the game you can't leave the game I can't leave the I can't put the game down right I can't put down the game so like it's like the sometimes the texture response might be indifferent just because your game is live it's online right I can't I can't pause right which is it gonna be a down that's a downfall of my dating life but you know people are who we are something's just are what they are mm-hmm that's also work you play video games you're just like a market now would you be open to like if you find a perfect woman and she's everything for you and she's like yeah you can video game all you want but maybe also she's find a little dick on the side like an open relationship well she opened one way for her I don't I don't know how I feel about you love video games she loves dick on the side so I so so it's open one way I'm just I get access to games yeah she gets access yeah so like you're like I want to play video games for seven hours tonight she's like no problem I got a date yeah we're just in like a super fun friendship I think I think I'm gonna have like some silly friendships yeah but that would be perfect but you should put in a route like you're allowed to have a little side piece but you have to be married to him so she's married oh yeah but you're also dating her but occasionally she's allowed to sleep with her husband yeah if they're probably playing video games yeah who might step in the way of vows you know they're fully committed I mean you get to be with her intimately too but she's allowed to cheat on you with her husband if you're playing video games does he play the game too I yeah I mean if you guys want to have a lot of friends yeah I know is that the best way to go about that I wouldn't know how to go about that I never write a relationship yeah you can't be vajmogging him a little bit but that's fine we'll start somewhere I'll know if we should start there but we'll start maybe baby steps okay all right we got it so reach out if you're if you're a girl out there who's who's looking for everything check all those boxes but if you don't also it's completely understandable all right let's do numbers PMT bachelor party PMT bachelor party PMT bachelor party at gmail.com you have fat yep yep that's that's where that's where we're gonna look at all some this you sounds like you even even a little yep reach out I will be looking at PMT bachelor party at gmail.com you should do dating show for Zach yeah all right numbers three 23 80 56 77 machine starting there we go 28 it called you get it then 11 64 64 I don't think anyone's getting on this machine I love you guys I think so they get so now take a space so happy birthday to front of the program Diana Rossini oh great reporter that was me on her birthday well it's her birthday I think is the 11th which is close to today when this comes out I love you guys that We looked at city cars and quietly disagreed with the formula. 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