Ryen Russillo In Studio, NFL Schedule Release, Zoo Trades, Playoffs And Fyre Fest

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We have the NFL schedule release, which we hate this whole slow, slow roll process, but we do have some prime time games. Some games we're going to talk about. Football is almost back. Football is almost back. I've got my own schedule release, big cat. Okay. Anyone, anytime, anywhere. There you go. Nice. Alley, back valley. No, doesn't matter. Yeah. Valley, Cali, Alley. It could be Pat Hill. It could be anywhere. It could be Odessa, Texas. It could be TC Williams High School. I'm going to show up and kick some. China. China. Oh, yeah. Yeah. No, we take to we're going to talk some playoffs and then we have a fire fest, contentious one. And then we're off to grit week. So before we do all that, Chevy, our AWOs know that Chevy Silverado is the official truck. A part of my take that's because Silverado is the truck with grit that shows up every time, built a hall toe and to take a beating but smart when it counts with modern tech that makes life easier. 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Yeah, if you're a real diehard like we are, the real schedule release is the schedule release for the schedule release. Last week when they said, hey, the schedule release is going to be next Thursday. That's when real football guys get excited. Have you heard the new Slur that's going around? No. The S Slur, the Shieldy. Okay. It's a lot of college football fans. If you only pay attention to the NFL, they start to call you a Shieldy. Oh, I like that. But this is a big time Shieldy holiday. It is. It's a Thursday. But this, yeah, I don't really, I can't get it up for the schedule release because it's if you explained what the schedule release was to Vince Lombardi, he'd call you a pussy and spit in your face. Are we, I would, do you think we're in the majority when we're talking like this? Because I like looking at the bear schedule, but I'm not going to get so excited about schedule release day that I'm like, oh man, like I have to, like when I see it, I'm going to look at it and then I'm going to do like a quick win loss in my head. And then I'm going to probably look at it again in August. Yeah. I mean, the only thing that you really look at is where the buy is going to be. And if you have any international games that Hank is going to watch. And prime time. And how many prime time games do you have? Yeah. NFL just tries to make everything prime time. That doesn't like, if this got it, if it was one o'clock, it's a better just during the day thing. Yeah. Actually, they should do it during the day to let everyone have a little thing time to fuck off from work. Because it's not a prime time. Who cares waiting all day for the release of a schedule. Yeah. So we are taping this in the afternoon, but we have the majority of the schedule. Hank, congratulations. You're opening the season. Yep. That's Wednesday night. Right. I thought that was going to be the Bears. I was wrong. I think Kirk actually had it first. He reported it before anyone else. This is this is a schedule release reporting season two. Are you nervous about that game against Seahawks? No, excited revenge, instant revenge. Yeah. Actually, I like the momentum that you guys have going into the game too, because Drake may had the most passing yards ever in the fourth quarter of a Super Bowl. Exactly. That just ran out of time. Don't off that. So now you're built. Now that momentum is carrying into the first quarter of week one. And then we have the Australia game, which we knew about the Rams and the, you're such a piece of shit. There's so many international games this year. It's crazy. The Rams and the Niners playing in Australia. The Australia game is crazy. I just want to say one last time. Yeah. And I'll probably say it again. It's crazy that we're asking the 49ers and the Rams to fly all the way to Australia. I agree. Play a football game and then fly back. Yeah. That's insane. It's nuts. And then Hank, what are you saying? You're scoffing again. Why are you scoffing? They're sitting in first class planes. 18 hours. Yeah. Maybe less than that from the West Coast, but it's a long flight. All right, Hank. So all right. So the rest of the rest of week one. Sitting for a long time, traveling. The rest of week one is the Dallas, New York, New York Giants game on Sunday Night Football. Then the Monday projected game is the Chiefs in the Broncos. Should be great. Will Patrick Roome's be playing? Will it be Justin Fields? I think Patrick will. I do too. Hank, since you love the international schedule so goddamn much, what was your favorite international game that's been released without looking at your phone? Patriots Alliance. Okay. Where are you guys playing? Germany. Where? Come on, Hank. You got this. I don't fuck. Hamburg? How do you not know? Munich? Yeah. Yeah. There we go. Great. Second best. Probably the one in Rio de Janeiro. Which is? Broncos. No, it's actually Brazil. Brazil. Yeah. No, it's not. It's Ravens Cowboys. Hank, what was your favorite international game last year? Oh, good question. You love all of them. So. Probably that Colts Daniel Jones game. The Colts Daniel Jones game. The one where Daniel Jones played for the Colts. Yep. And who would he play against? He just, he played so well. I don't remember who he beat the team. Did the Colts, did the Colts have an overseas game last year? Yeah, they did. They played the Dolphins maybe? They played the Falcons. Falcons. That's Daniel Jones bloody mouth game. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Are you excited for the Madrid game, week nine? Yes, of course. Who's playing that game? I don't know. I thought you would have memorized the international schedule. Why would I do that? I listen. I listen. I was going to bite my tongue, not breaking news. You, the fans of the show, you guys, football is back. You love to say that. It's May 14th. I don't give, like I don't, I'm excited for, I'm excited to look at it. Like you said, I'm not going to think about the schedule for another two months. Yeah, at least. It's a look at it for three minutes and then forget about it. I do like it the way the college football does it though, where they say, hey, just so you guys know, in 2042, we're going to have the University of Washington doing a home and home with Wisconsin. Yeah. Or not Wisconsin. That wouldn't work right now because it was, but with like Miami. And then now you have like 15 years to buy the hotel rooms with the NFL. They should do, they should draw it out even longer. It should be one game that that Roger Goddell releases per day for the entire off season. Yep. And then at the end of it, he's like, okay, let's play some ball. Yeah. Roll the ball out there. You do have to go through it though. And then you look at your own team schedule and you say, we got screwed. It's always like you're going, every team's going 10 and seven or 11 and six. Yep. But you have to look through, see where you get screwed. So do you want to go around the room and say where we think our grievances are going to be? Yeah. I mean, I don't like that the bears have to play Thanksgiving and Christmas Day. Yeah. Just one or the other would have been fine. Although I'm going to say something nice about Roger Goddell and the NFL. The Thanksgiving Day schedule is fucking awesome. Oh my God. So we have that. It's the best day of football, I think maybe ever. It's Wednesday night is the Packers versus the Rams. Then Thursday Thanksgiving Day is Bears Lions, Eagles Cowboys, Chiefs Bills. And then Friday is Broncos Steelers. That will be great. That will be great. Good job. Like the day of Thanksgiving, that's the best day ever. That will rock. But yeah, I would have preferred the Bears not to play on both of the holidays. One or the other would have been fine. I actually like the Thanksgiving. I like Thanksgiving early game. That's actually a fun game to participate in. Except for the Iberfluse flashbacks. We're probably going to be deep front of Turkey at that point. Yeah. Yeah. Iberfluse two years ago when I sat in my garage for like an hour and a half because I was just like I was so fucking mad. What are your grievances? My grievances are starting the season off, going back to back on the road, divisional games. I don't like that. Going to the Eagles, then going to the Cowboys and then following that. I think actually the commanders have a pretty tough opening four weeks where they go to the Eagles, to the Cowboys, then they have the Seahawks at home and then they got to go over to London and play the Colts. And we all know how Daniel Jones plays in the overseas game. This would be really funny if we got any of this wrong. But we are going off with this guy Ozzie who seems like I'm rooting for him to have it all right. Are you talking about the NFL nerd guy? Yeah, this is his spreadsheet right here. Yeah, yeah, yeah. This guy's awesome. I want him. It looks great. Yeah. I want to go back. I do want to cross reference his prediction when he did the mock schedule. And I want to see how many of these he got right. Yeah. Grievances, Hank, any? Give him a look. No, I've looked. Okay. There's nothing that popped out as like a grievance though. I mean, the Germany game is awesome. You got to play good teams. We have a buy. Yeah, we got to play good teams. We get the Jets, which is a nice like layup week 16 leading into the Broncos and the Dolphins. So we got like kind of two easy wins and then a tough challenge week 17. The one nice thing that we have is the Eagles Monday night in Chicago and the Patriots Thursday night in Chicago. We can go to those games. Yeah, that's exciting too. So we're going to go to those games. We'll be attending both those games. Are we going to the Thursday night one? That's awesome. That's because we can get back. We can get back in 20 minutes. Yeah. That was my biggest takeaway from the Eagle schedule is that I was excited that not only can we go to that game, but it's Monday nights. So we don't have to record. So we can actually enjoy it. Enjoy it. Yeah. We can have fun. Talk about Bruce Kees with the boys. Yeah. Yeah. And I think I'm going to foreshadowing for later in this show. I love Bruce Kees with the boys. I'm going to try to make that road trip to San Francisco in October if it doesn't conflict with NBA opening week and go see a Monday night football. And that's going to be fun because. In the big bell bottom? In the big bell bottom because I feel like that's when San Francisco is the nicest, right? October. Well, it's not San Francisco. Yeah. Yeah. Santa Clara. Yeah. But that's when it's the nicest out there, right? I don't know. I think it's always kind of nice. Wizards could have a huge game. That's what I'm saying. If that's opening week at the NBA, I might not be able. I might not even watch that game. You can't miss a Wizards game. Oh, what do you guys got in the booth? Any issues? Any grievances? Eagles have seven prime times? Seven prime times. Bears have six. Yeah. It's way more prime time than not prime time games for the Eagles. Open to a lot of scrutiny, but we're going to have a good year. What? How does your schedule open, Matt? That Matt doesn't check out. I want to see how your schedule opens. What are the first like? How many games are in a season? 17, Hank. I should have said way more prime time than one o'clock starts. Got it. Got it. Okay. That's fair. What are the first like six games that you guys have? Your first. We are. I am actually rooting for us to get this all wrong. Home against commanders, at Titans, at Bears, home against the Rams. I think people listen to this and not know until the season starts. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's a pretty tough start. I mean, at Titans, I want to think that that's okay. What week of the season do you think you'll be like, fuck Siriani? Never. That's what I was trying to get at. It's like, what's the toughest three game stretch that you're looking at? Toughest three game stretch. Probably that middle. Schedule's not too bad. Bears have a tough schedule, actually. And I'm looking at it right now. It's going to be a tough schedule. Maybe at the end of the season, we go at Seahawks, or home against Seahawks, home against Texans, at Niners. Yeah. Yeah. Or at Bears, home against Rams, London against Jags. That's what it could be right there. Like Siriani might get left on the tarmac. Yeah, he's not coming home. Yeah. Just leave. Your Philly fans are going to be like, leave this guy in England. What about you, memes? Jet schedule. It's only bits and pieces have been released, but it's like one through four is out. You start with Titans, and then you go to Packers. Home against Packers. Home against Packers. That's what I said. Packers, Lions, Bears. So it's a mini gauntlet to start the season. Yeah. And Zach, we have a Sunday Night game, Zach. We do have a prime time action going. Yeah. Before that Sunday Night game, we have double divisional games. So my headspace going into that Sunday Night game will be very dependent on how the two divisional games go beforehand. Yeah. That's an important little stretch there. Yeah. Accuracy versus Atlanta. And then wait, is that? Oh, that's Sunday Night. So we have to record. We can't go to that game. Sure. Okay. That's enough. Schedules talk, right? We're good. I think we're good. Yeah. I think we're good. We're good. I got nothing else to say. Okay. It's the schedule. It's schedule. Schedule happened. You already knew who you were playing and where you were playing. I like what Max says that. It feels good when he has had that take and it's a strong take. Anyone, anytime, anywhere. Yeah. Except not overseas. You're basically just checking to see when you got prime time games. Yeah. So you're checking to see if you're going, if you are someone who is planning travel, you're planning your travel today. That's like, oh, okay, we can go to this one. That was what I said. That's the only thing I was excited about is I can go to the Bears game. Yeah. And we already knew this, but there's games every day of the week except for Tuesdays. And if you look at the Thanksgiving schedule, I don't know if you, so we looked at, that Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, it's Kadele's master stroke, not just with how good the games are, but every single game is on a different network or provider. Every single one is. And he checked all, checked all the boxes. Yeah. I am going to have to, PFT, I am going to have to like perfectly time my turkey at your house. You want to start at halftime? I don't know if it started halftime or start in like the end of the first quarter and then leave at halftime. So you take it home, but then you're going to have to like carve it up and eat it right when you get And then that's going to. Oh yeah, so start at halftime. I'll come over at halftime. Yeah. That works. Damn. That's it. I mean, these are the problems we have. Thanksgiving games, you know, it's hard to predict when it goes that far into the season. I'm excited for those Thanksgiving games. Oh, this would be great. That didn't happen with Christmas though this year. What? I was like, oh my God, yeah. Greatest fucking Christmas schedule ever. Yeah, my home's got a great time. That's what I just said. That's what I just said. Is that it? No, I know. Yeah. Yeah. The only thing you can really like predict of the schedule is like the international games are going to rock. Yes. Yeah, I want detailed notes on maybe we'll do that this year. Maybe you remember a single game from us. Maybe when we do, maybe when we do the read. What are you talking about? The bloody mouth Daniel Jones game. You just didn't leave. You just said Daniel Jones Colts. And did they play a game internationally? Yes. So was I correct by entering that? Yes. It was the bloody fucking mouth game. Daniel Jones. Yeah. PFT. I think we got to pick one game this year. What if I just go to all of them for the whole season? Do they have good golf in Spain? I find out. Okay. We should pick one game PFT where we agree to not watch the international game and have Hank give us the full recap. Okay. Detailed recap. I think maybe Bengals, Falcons. What's the slate? Oh no. What's the slate? There's a couple. I mean, you play in London. The Cowboys and Ravens. I want to watch that. The Eagles, Jags, the Texans, Jags, maybe Texans, Jags. Texans, Jags sounds pretty good. Texans, Jags. What if I just go on an 11 week international game trip? It's a lot of time to spend away from your kids. I can bring them with me. No, I think you'd have to mimic how they do it though. You'd have to fly back immediately after the game. So you can see the rigors that the NFL athletes have to handle. No, because they don't, they stay like the Jaguars stay there. You picked one team that stays there. Everyone else flies back. They're only playing one game. Everyone else flies back. I would love to give a detailed presentation on pros and cons of each city. Something about. Okay. Here, here. I'll think about it. Every city? We'll think about it. 11. I'm willing to show how much I care about these international games and I feel like the only way to do real journalism is to go and feel it and take it in yourselves. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe I come back after 11 weeks and I'm like, you know what? Okay. How about Viking? Yeah. Vikings Niners Mexico City. Done. See ya. Have fun. Okay. Australia. That sounds awesome. I'll go into that. But it's a Sunday night. So I have to come back like right after. Yeah, right after. Yeah, that's a lot of hours. Okay. You, the PGA championship has started. Shout out to our guy, Big Dom. Incredible voiceover. What? Incredible. Yeah. Before we squashed the beef, I probably would have said other things, but now that we squashed the beef, it's like, I kind of like, damn. Good thing we squashed the beef. What a fucking legend. Right. He crushed it. 10 out of 10 performance. Would you like to see him do more? Yes. He should. Yeah, he's a star. PGA partner. He's like, his contract negotiations are leaked. Like he's, he probably has paparazzi like following him. I'm sensing some sarcasm here, Max. Good day from the course. Yeah. Oh, you're totally. Really good day from the course. I mean, these greens are tough. The greens are tough. Bryson had that one hilarious putt that he just like touched, but that's bright. He's just so strong. He just works out so much. Can I say one last thing about Big Dom? Because I did text him congratulating him. It was like, that was a great voiceover. And he said, thanks. Crazy. They kept asking me. I never played golf. Never will. Love that. I love that. That's awesome. That is good. I like that a lot. Never will. We have a new star though. We have a new star that we need to talk about on the podcast. That's football guy. Yeah. That's a football guy. That's a football guy. Hank wouldn't understand that. No. Yeah. You don't get it. You don't get it. Never golf. Never will. New star, Garak Higo. Garak Higo from South Africa. Kise. Yeah. He slept in. Well, not really slept in, but he missed his tea time by like a minute. And so he's penalized two strokes. He actually shot, I think, a 69 today, right? Yeah. Someone on there. So pretty good, all things considered. But then he gave the most hilarious press conference of all time afterwards. And it reminded me a lot of this guy, Zach, that we have here. Like a mix between Zach and Leuquan, the way that he was talking about sleep or missing his tea time. Try to follow these quotes because he really makes a lot of sense when you think about it. I was there on time, but the rule is if you're one second late, you're late. So if you think about it, I was there on time, if you know what I mean. What do we mean by that? He was there on time. If you think about it, if you know what I mean. I'm thinking about it. Sounds like he was there on time. Well, he said the rule is if you're one second late, you're late. I was obviously on time, but late. One second is tough to define. I think when he, like, I think people are like, oh, how do you miss your tea time? Like, like a normal person where they just like are driving up to the course and park and aren't there in time. He was on the grounds. He was there and prepared and ready to golf. He just wasn't in the exact zone you need to be at the exact time. But that's crazy. I know. But that's what I, that's how I interpret what he's saying. Yeah. That is crazy. I was there. That he was there, but he wasn't. Well, he was obviously on time. He'd be tied for the lead right now if this didn't happen. Zach thoughts. These things do happen. It sounds like he was actually just there. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. He was in the zone. Yeah. He said one second is tough to define. Is it like chalk lines? Or is it just like the physical hole you have to be at? We should make a zone for Zach. I'm curious about the zone. A zone by his desk? He has to check in. Two feet in the zone? Punch the clock. But there may be checkpoints throughout the way. Like, hey, I'm this guy. Keep going a little more in the cart. I'm this guy. Is he tagged? When he is at Geofence, he like enters the area and they get a notification. Like, next golfer has entered the tee box. Do you think when he hits a checkpoint, he gets like, he's established that checkpoint. So like, he can't go back to the start. But he can go back there to like safe save. Right. Tiger struggles with checkpoints. Mm-hmm. Tiger's back. Yeah, he's very back. In America. Can you define one second, Zach? Partial, makes up a minute. So it's like, you know, building blocks of a minute. Yeah. Yeah, the building blocks of a minute. The building blocks of a minute. Yeah. I mean, can you define time, PFT? No. Yeah. What like, who's to say what's on time and what's not? Time is life. It's relative. Like literally. Like, ask Einstein. He'd be like, well, one second on Earth is somebody could be in a spaceship. It's like 500 light years away and they blink their eyes. They come back to Earth. Everybody's dead. Yeah. So think about it that way. Every second on one planet is a year on another planet. I think every second. Now there's something interstellar. I think every second here's a gift when you're around, Hank. Agreed. Facts. Being with you, time doesn't exist. Yeah. There you go. First of all, I love this guy's name, Garrick Higo. It sounds completely made up. And then just him refusing to take any accountability afterwards was awesome. So shout out, Garrick Higo. We're rooting for him. Yeah. Rory was bad. Blister. Blister. Blisters got him. Mr. Blister. And then Brooks, good start. So Brooks, he, yes, partially good start. No, great start. Great start. Yeah, minus one. Yeah, great start. But minus one after the first days is not, he's like not dead or anything. No, no. Best tea to green in the field. That's what I'm saying. Like his putting, his putting was terrible. Okay. And so he said, I feel good. Every round just seems to be the worst I can shoot. The putter is absolutely horrendous. Ball striking is absolutely phenomenal. That's been the story of the year. He's his new putter. He's just got to figure out the putter. Once he figures out the putter, then I feel like unstoppable. He was 170 second. If he could just be 70 second rolling. Winning. Mm-hmm. Do you have any tips for him? Just, you know, put the ball in the hole. Confidence. Keep the ball in the hole. You see blocky. Stutty. Block legend. Yeah, blocky stud. You see that putt that he made that he pretended to have a heart attack? Yeah. That's his classic blocky. He should do the hamstring, Justin Jefferson. Oh yeah. That would be good. When you, when you get a ticket for a blocky round, it's not just golf. You also get an improv performance. Oh man. Blocky. I mean, he, he knows how to get the people going. Whose drive is it anyway? Blocky. Fuck yeah. Blocky. Okay. Let's talk some playoffs before we do that twisted tea summers right around the corner and twisty is coming in clutch to turn our day drinking up a notch. Their new summer party pack has brand new twisted lemonade made with real lemons and five percent alcohol. 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I am bad at writing narratives. Okay, rewriting though. You're bad at writing them, but are you better at rewriting them? I'm bad at all of them. I am dumb, so probably if I say yes, that means no. If I say no, that means yes. I'll root for James. I have no problem rooting for James Harden. I'll say no. I'll say no. He stinks and he's not big game James. What if James Harden just like, what if he just does it? What if he does it all? It's perfect. I think that right now where we're at with James Harden is the exact spot that we need to be in for him to have another all-time big game James game. I would say so. And so he played pretty well last night. We'll get into a little bit with Rassillo. Down the stretch, I actually don't think he was as good as the box scorer will tell you that he was, if that's all that you saw. The end of that game was absolutely insane. Awesome. The Pistons kind of giving it away, and then the Pistons at the very end. You could have made the argument that there was a foul at the very, very end of the game, which could have had the Pistons win in regulation if they went to the foul line. Yep. Um, but then he had Mr. Brothers getting on the mic, getting a lot of screen time. That was good for America, I think. And uh... Max Truse dog. Max Truse. Also, Charles Barkley wants to fuck Max Truse. I don't know if you saw the post game with Sir Charles, but he was just like, Max Truse, that's a good looking man. That's a very, very good looking man. And he's right. He scored, he was six or eight from three. He was rebounding that play sequence when he just stole the ball from Cade Cunningham after the inbounds. Like the Cavs, the Pistons did have that game, and the Cavs just wanted it more like they just fought harder at the end. And then over time, it just felt like they had the wave of momentum and it took them there. And the Pistons, again, like especially with Duncan Robinson out, they just don't have any score. Yeah, that was tough. That was tough. So he had, is it back issues? Yeah. Not good. They just don't have anyone scoring. Jenkins was like a good change of pace going to the rack and stuff. But still, it's just like Cade Cunningham has to do it all. They just feel like a very flawed team. The Cavs, I don't really know what to make of them, other than they have enough guys that are, they have guys that can actually, like if they need a big bucket, James Harden, Donovan Mitchell, Max Truse, Evan Mobley, like they have guys who can do it. So I said that I like the Cavs. Memes told me that it was impossible for them to win on the road. But this is, it is their first win of the posties on the road. But I was told that it was strictly impossible for them to do that, Memes. Every reverse, Jenks, I'm using has worked. Oh, that's it. There's a bargain. Oh, yeah. You're welcome, Cleveland. I did that. Why? I just want the Cavaliers to win. Oh, you want to play the Cavs? Yeah. Okay. But wouldn't you have rather the Pistons won last night and then the Cavs win at home and then it goes seven. So you get even more time off. Yeah. No. I want you to explain. No. Cavs can still win at seven. Yeah. No, I know, but it's more like they do win at home. They haven't lost at home, right? They haven't. They haven't. Do you want to, do you want to say? I don't know how to reverse, Jenks. So the series finally started because the road team won a game. The playoffs finally started for the Cavs. Yeah. Playoffs officially in. So now from this point on, now we start judging James Harden. Yep. Based on his playoff. That's fair. His appearances. Memes, I love and Zach too. I love how confident Knicks fans are. To be fair, you guys have every right to be confident because you've looked awesome. And these two teams don't look like they can beat you. But it doesn't scare you how confident you are and how certain you are that the Knicks are going to win in the Eastern Conference Finals. It does. I mean, these teams are both talented. I'd rather play the Cavaliers because we get to it with Racillo. The Pissons have like a plus 89 point differential against the Knicks this season. So that's why I would rather play the Cavs. But also the minutes played between the two teams. That's why I'm not really that scared. Zach, how confident are you? I feel good about it. But it is one game at a time. You won't get too far ahead of yourself. Anything can happen. But from what I'm seeing, the guys feel good. So if they feel good, I feel good. All right, you feel good? I think I would like to play Cavs as well though. To piggyback on that, I would like to play the Cavs. Friday night, we're going to find out if we're going on to the Conference Finals because we've got both games. Friday night, weird off night tonight. By the way, the Avs wild game was incredible. I mean, tough, tough for Minnesota fans. Minnesota. Really, Minnesota fans. In a couple decades of tough playoff losses for Minnesota sports fans, that is right up there with any one of them. And Biz is literally dancing on their grays. He's so happy. Yeah, his head is spinning. He hates Minnesota. McKinnon was incredible. I mean, he was incredible all series. He's been incredible all playoffs. He scored in six straight games. And that goal he scored at the end of the game was unbelievable. It was basically like the wild had it. And they let go of the rope. Pretty much the same shot that he had in the Olympics, except there was a goalie that was in the way this time. And he made this one. And then after the game, he was also mad at Biz too. Yeah. Because Biz put on the snorkel. Yeah. And he was like, hey, that's not very funny. I'm not answering any of your questions, Mr. Biz. Yeah, I'm a mermaid. Let me leave you alone. I was playing, yeah, I was playing snorkels. I'll contend. I think that might be the best way to win a game both in a series and the way that the abs did it by coming back and winning an overtime. But to win a game in a series in five and not have to go back on the road has to be the greatest feeling ever. Oh, it feels especially on a weekend. Yeah. Like game seven, winning a game seven, obviously awesome, but it's probably an emotional exhaustion. The calves or the abs basically canceled plants. Do we want to get to cancel all their plans this week? Do you want to say congratulations to the Colorado Avalanche on winning the Stanley Cup? Listen, Nathan McKinnon right now is plus 200 to win the conspite. I'd like to say congratulations to the abs. It's a pretty good bet if you're a betting man, which I am. Yeah, congrats. You did it. Choose your own adventure. Who do you who won the Sabres game? Saves. Saves? Yeah. I think the Ducks one. I think the Sabres one too. I think the Golden Knights one. Oh, so that series is over. Yeah. Good recap. And the sabs. The sabs one. Yeah. Okay. Maxi Pucks. I wonder how I did on my predictions in the first round. Probably great. Probably awesome. Yeah, you know Puck. You do know Puck. You know Puck big time. Fly it up. I have watched less hockey recently. Because the Flyers are no longer in it. You're no longer fly it up. Yeah. And I also want to like once it once it looked like they had no shot of beating the Hurricanes, I got less it. Chess. It is true that when you don't have a team that's in the Stanley Cup playoffs, you watch all the games and then when you do have a team in and they lose, you just you say fuck hockey for a few days. It's like I can't even look at ice. I don't I don't want to feel cold. I'm not even gonna say it. I'm not really saying that. I think I just kind of the NBA started to heat up a little bit. So I kind of remembered. Basketball exists. Yeah. I had a stupid idea. This is about horse racing, but I feel like it's a stupid idea that's worth saying out loud so other people can tell me how dumb it is. We by the way, we will have for any moss on back for the Belmont when Golden Tempo races. Again, I talked to him. He's like, yeah, he'll be he'll be back. He was where our schedules were kind of fucked up this week. So we missed him, but he'll be back for Belmont. And so this isn't you know how we used to do drunk ideas on the show. Yeah. Not a drunk idea. This is a sleepy idea. So like I woke up in the middle of the night and I had to pee. And then when I went back to bed, I thought about this idea. So just sleepy idea. Why doesn't the preakness because they're getting fucked and they've been fucked in the years in the years past when the derby winner does not race in their race. Correct. Why doesn't the preakness just say screw it to the Kentucky Derby and scheduled their main race for like three weeks before the Kentucky Derby? You want to play hardball? And then the Kentucky Derby goes three weeks before that. Until it gets too cold. Until they come all the way back around the schedule. Yeah. But I'm just saying like you want to play hardball? Yeah. You could play hardball. Yeah. Let's play some hardball. It sucks. I hate it. Yeah. It's just it's so shitty. The triple crown I like rooting for the triple crown. It's like a it's a fun thing. Yeah. And it's just ruined. I feel like if you if your horse wins the preakness, if it was scheduled for before the Derby, you're not skipping the Derby. No. You got to run in the Derby. Got to do the Derby. Hank, do you have anything to say about the big trade? Oh, you don't know about the big trade? Oh, breaking moves. Oh my God. Hank, how do you not know about the big trade? This guy pretends that he's he's he's paying attention to. Yeah. Mr. Boston. Why don't you why don't you guess what the big trade is? Breaking moves. Guess what the big trade is? That was a clean move. I that shouldn't have gone unnoticed. To get guess it. I don't know. Fucking New England Revolution. No, bigger. Yeah. Bigger. Boston Common Golf. No, bigger. The. It's got to be live. Boston. No, bigger. Yeah, way bigger. With a big trade we're talking about here is. Oh, the guerrillas. Yeah, we've got a guerrilla trade. Have you guys all seen the guerrilla trade? The Boston Zoo, the Franklin Park Zoo and the Pittsburgh Zoo have swapped guerrillas. So the guerrillas. The guerrillas. Frankie Pittsburgh, seven year old male western lowland guerrilla. We'll be heading to Boston and in exchange, Boston will send 33 year old little Joe the silverback to Pittsburgh. I think little Joe escaped one time. Did he? Yeah. I gotta look that up. This actually. It might be a tall tale. I think this might be a good. I was reading more about this, which is probably pathetic. But. I think it's I think I think Boston off lease. No, he didn't. No, no, no. He did. No, Boston. Boston fleece Pittsburgh. Easy. Boston got younger. No, no PFT. So I was reading about it. Frankie got traded. Seven year old Frankie got traded to the Boston Zoo. He's going to just be chilling with a bunch of other dudes. Little Joe got traded to Pittsburgh because he's going to be mating and making new guerrillas. So that's great for little Joe. Like. And Pittsburgh. Because if I'm little Joe, I want to get out of that locker room. I want to get to a place where my talents will be used. But Pittsburgh is thinking about the future of the franchise. Yeah. That's what I'm saying. So like I see from little Joe's perspective, he probably forced this trade. Like little Joe probably demanded a trade so he could go somewhere and start to fuck again. And now he's in he's in Pittsburgh and that suits his skill set. But Boston got fleece. Boston should have traded for a female gorilla to make more guerrillas. Instead, Pittsburgh's the ones could be making more guerrillas. But are we sure that Frankie is a boy? Frankie's a boy and Frankie's just he literally said they're like he's going to go hang with some other dudes. OK. Well, so Franky's seven years old. So Frankie is an upside pick. They're getting younger. I don't know if Frankie can fuck. He's a nice piece. I don't think I don't think they said that Frankie's just going literally like he's going on a bachelor party. That's what I read. I think they're they're taking a 33 year old getting him out of town, hoping that Frankie will step up. For what though? He's hanging. All he's doing is on a boy's trip. Sometimes. Try with that. Yeah. But because you're going to try to make new guerrillas. Little Joe's going. He's going to make some new ones. Sometimes in the NBA, if you have. So you don't have to build from within the farm system. You're in a win now mode. Pittsburgh's in a long term. They're building for a decade of dominance. What are you talking about? He's old. But he's going to make new guerrillas. But maybe those guerrillas won't be any good. What is a guerrilla's life expectancy? Long. No, seriously, long. Unless you're Cincinnati guerrilla and then you get shot. Yeah. This is a credit to Boston. Great sports sound. In 2003, Little Joe escaped and attacked a girl and its babysitter. Yeah. So you're getting rid of a locker room. And they didn't kill it. Didn't kill it. They just subdued it as you should. Life sends often extends into their 50s. So Little Joe's got another like 10 years of fucking. I just I like this move for Boston. I think that the GM. Who's the GM of your zoo? Danny H. Danny H. Did it again. Like when when the Boston Zoo calls, don't pick up the phone because we're about to get fleeced. See, I see it the other way. I think Pittsburgh has gotten nice. They're really setting themselves up for the future because because Little Joe's going to be making some new baby guerrillas. I think that a seven year old Western lowland guerrilla, if all goes according to play, if you have a good structure and a good good training process around them, that guerrilla is going to become the silverback. And then that guerrilla. I don't charge for repopulating. I don't charge for repopulating. Can. Nobody can until they do. Frankie, who gets high praise from his keepers for good vibes, joined a recently formed bachelor group with two other male guerrillas. Pissers. Pittsburgh Zoo explains that as young male guerrillas matured, they reach a point where they're too old to be juveniles, but too young to be silverbacks. Usually they band together with other blackbacks. These bachelor groups allow non breeding males to live social lives. These guys. You guys just live in together. Guy's trip. Yeah. Yeah. This is ultimate guy's trip. It's boy's trip. Yeah. They're basically haven't found themselves yet. Little Joe. It's like when we brought, this is like us bringing Jerry O'Connell into the fold. Like Frankie's going to show up and be like, I never want to leave you guys. You guys just get to hang out all the time. Yeah. So Little Joe is showing up to Pittsburgh. There's two females he's about to bang. And there's two young baby guerrillas. The move comes after Ivan died. So the father died and Harry died. So two dads died. Now Little Joe's going, he's doing a gang bang. So Little Joe is, but he's also going to be the stepdad. No, the dad stepped up. Dad that stepped up. Twice. Ideally. Twice. Ideally. And we don't know because Little Joe sounds like he's got some, you know, wild hairs in him. He's, he's had some issues and some character concerns and distraction issues. They say that he's actually kind of chilled out though. Well, I hope so because I don't know if they've got a locker room like they do in Boston. He's intelligent and gentle. I don't know. Little Joe's got it. He's, I mean, he's going to get to do two chicks at the same time. Or is Frankie just going to play beard eye? But is, is, I do beard eye in Franklin Park sounds fantastic. Is little Joe like does he, is he a five tool player like that? He's going to show up be the stepdad and also fuck. I think so. I think he's got it all. He's walking into a ready made family. Baby mama drama. It is a lot of pressure. It's like, yeah. If you don't, you don't win now. It sounds like Pittsburgh's in win now mode. You know what never has drama when you drink beer. No, Pittsburgh's not win now mode. They're going to make new ones during the long, long haul. They're going to make this guy. This guy's got to be a stepdad. He's got to be a father. He's got to be as you see. You're wrong. They're, they're making a gorilla factory in Pittsburgh. I'm all I'm saying is if you, if you got a great veteran presence in your locker room, you don't get rid of them. And if you didn't, they both died. If you have two. You don't have one. No, I'm saying that Boston got rid of little Joe. Like if, if, if he was a great gorilla, they would hang onto him. You don't let a gorilla like that walk in free agency or in a trade situation. I don't know. Upside for, for Frankie, I guess, but I don't know. This tells, I'd rather have more gorillas. It tells me that, that Pittsburgh's farm sister. Should we get one for the father's? Depleted. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, we should. Memes, can you take care of a gorilla? Did you guys see that there's a baby? There's a baby rhino at uh, Lincoln Park Zoo. So cute. Saw him in person on Sunday. So fucking cute. He's like two months old. Go check him out. What's his name? I actually don't know his name. It's like a hundred pounds. What's his name? He was, it was, I wanted to just pick him up and smooch him. Hazina. He is pretty cute. Yeah. Isn't that? That's a cute little baby rhino. Right there. Tell me that's not, tell me you wouldn't want to take that baby rhino home, Hank. Tell me, tell me. Oh yeah. Like tell me. You're not going to tell me, are you? Look at that. Yeah, it's adorable. It's not that adorable. Oh my god. He doesn't even have his nose horn yet. Hank, that's a cute baby rhino. That's adorable. Fuck yeah. Who's the Adam Schefter for zoos? Yeah, there's, I want more zoo trades. Megan Swift is the one who broke this. Dude, it's so funny. I want like future draft picks, like everything. How does it even work? We should probably get a zoo guy on. Yeah. We should get, we should do it, we should do a PMT trip to the zoo. I'm down, I'm down. Yeah, underneath, I want Megan Swift's replies to be like, no, yeah, fleece or like announce the draft to the San Diego zoo. Yeah. Fire the GM for the Pittsburgh zoo. Yeah, Philadelphia does it. Howie. Yeah. How's it going to fit in the offense? Yeah. Philadelphia's got a good zoo. Do they? I don't know, it's a zoo. All right. I feel like it's like the San Diego zoo and then everyone else. San Diego is pretty good. I've been to the San Diego zoo. Awesome time. It's a really fun time. Kansas City, surprisingly good zoo. I've been getting, I've been on a hot streak. I like the Lincoln parks. Yeah, I've been on a hot streak. I've been, I think my kids, I take my kids to the Lincoln park zoo a bunch and I've been on a hot streak. I've been seeing all the animals. They've all been out. Yes. Saw polar bears the other day. That time of year. Saw the drafts, the muskrats, everything. I like the, there's a snapping turtle up there. Yep. That snapping turtle rocks. Yep. Some awesome animals. Okay. Anything else? Any other news? Any other sports? Oh, I had a quote that I wanted to read you guys. It's actually the first time that I have lost confidence in this team. The quote goes, I'm not thinking about how I could have eight more. I'm thinking about how I could win eight more. Do you know who said that quote? I know. Joey Chestnut. No. Nice guess. So that was SG. Can I? Yeah. Yeah. SGA. SGA said that? Yeah. I'm not thinking about how I could have eight more. I'm thinking about how I could win eight more. That's fucking hard. Come on. Yeah. That's a great quote. That's a, I don't know about that. It made me nervous. It made me nervous. If he's got that much time to like think of quotes like that. Yeah. Like he's up to something. Yeah. Okay. Anything else? The new Congrats PFT, the Jaden Dey knows on the quarterback three season. Yeah. That's cool. Yeah. I'm excited kind of for that to see what gets put in. I'm pretty sure with that series, it's like everybody involved has to sign off on everything. So I guess it'll be interesting. Actually, no, I'm not interested in it because. You're reliving a bad season. It's a bad season. It's a really bad year and it's just going to be him rehabbing from like a million different injuries. It's actually, it's Cam Ward, Baker Mayfield who got injured for half the season. Joe Flacco and Jaden Dey knows. Joe Flacco is the only one that's going to be somewhat happy. Yeah. Yeah. Joe Flacco, I think Baker will be okay because they started off really good. Yeah. But he got hurt. So like the first few episodes will be great for the box. There's really nothing about last season. You know what? I watched the one that has the Chargers game. That game was awesome. Yeah. Okay. Let's get to our good friend Ryan Rassillo. Before we get to Rassillo, he's brought to you by Nutraful. You know how in sports, everyone's got a can't miss training hack and most of them don't actually move the needle. That's how I used to feel about hair growth products. A lot of hype, not a lot of results. What changed for me was learning that Nutraful isn't just another supplement. It's physician formulated. It's clinically tested and it's recommended by dermatologists. It's a real game plan for thinning hair. 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Spelled in U-T-R-A-F-O-L.com promo code PMT. That's Nutraful.com promo code PMT. Ron Rosilla is also brought to you by our great friends over at Jose Cuervo. Keep it Cuervo. When Cuervo enters, every moment just gets better. You find yourself in the center of the dance floor. You can't help but stand up and high five those around you at the game. The room reacts like it just got the same text at the same time. You stop checking the time and suddenly small talk escalates to laughing so hard that you can barely catch your breath. That's the Cuervo effect, a signal everybody understands, a moment that anyone can join and a good time that just grows. All you have to do is keep it Cuervo. Keep it Cuervo. And now here is Ron Rosilla. Okay, we now welcome on a very, very, very, very, very, very special guest. There's our good friend, Ron Rosilla in studio. Perfect timing for you, Ron, to be here. He's here for the NBA Combine. Everyone go listen to the Ron Rosilla podcast. He's got a bunch of people, players, executives from the Combine, but perfect timing for you to be here because we're taping this on Thursday morning. There are no games Thursday night, which is the first break we've had in NBA playoffs and I think since the start. And is Big Game James back? Yeah, I kind of wasn't like ready to start with this. Yeah, no, but we have to because James Harden, here's what I'd say in defensive view. Isn't James Shields Big Game James? Yeah, no, he was, we were joking the other day that like everyone who's gotten Big Game James has never been big in a big game. Yeah, look, he's been really good since that fourth quarter of Game Three. You know, he put together like a really good stretch of like nine straight points in that one, which they desperately needed. His entire Game Four was really good. Last night, I don't know that I thought the entire game was great. Like his entry passes in the first half, like that's my issue with him. It's like, hey, man, there's like a playoff intensity and pace, which I think is always like the biggest disconnect beyond all the other things that we want to talk about with this significant playoff drop off. But last night with Mitchell not playing well, all the points off of turnovers, which again, he was he was guilty of. But look, I just have a super hard time with the way he's officiated. And I thought Detroit, Detroit's a mess offensively as we saw. But yeah, I don't care. Like I'm not doing it. I'm not I'm not giving it to you today after five. You should be happy, actually, that he won that he's been playing like this because it just sets up for him to be in a game six or seven that he's going to fail. I mean, look, it gets so bad with him that I'm like, well, I expect there's going to be some kind of 30 point game. I mean, he's got the ball in his hands the entire time. He's a terrific shooter. He's a great passer. I mean, he had some dimes in Game Four, but you know, even I couldn't help it. Like at the end when he needed the free throws, it's like he missed two of the last four because it's like that tells me there's just something about him that's got his own rebound though. He did because it's cutting him didn't box him out. Because you know what he was thinking? He's like, there's no way James is going to try for an offensive rebound. And honestly, he just bounced right back to him. And then he misses another free throw. But he look, he was really big for them because the Mitchell part of it just wasn't happening until Mitchell hits that three in the right corner. But I thought the officiating last night was terrible. I normally don't say that after a game. I mean, at one point, I think it was like 17 fouls on Detroit and nine on Cleveland. But Cleveland deserves to lose on top of everything else. Like they can't figure out anything once Kate gets double and Duren is killing them. Like think about this. Reed is their third string center. I don't think he'd played any minutes. Beep ball, Paul. Yeah, sorry. And then he plays all the fourth quarter and then all of overtime. So you're going into your 61 team who's a one seed. And you're going into overtime playing your third string center because you're all NBA center, which I don't know if I'll make third team all NBA. I voted for him. Can't do anything in this series. Yeah, I actually thought that James Harden, if you look at the stat line 30 points, it was an impressive stat line. They needed it. Look, he deserves credit. I'm just not going to sit here and be like, hey, he's I mean, some of this stuff gets ridiculous. At the end of the game, he tried to give it away. Not to say anything about the free throws, the missed layup. And then he did the foul baiting thing, bringing the ball up the court, slammed on the brakes trying to draw foul, ended up just falling on his ass and then doing like a soccer throw in over the half court line, turned the ball over. Like he made his chair of really stupid plays. But I agree with Big Cat that this is actually it's a perfect setup because now we've reached the point where we're like, I think James Harden has finally figured it out in the playoffs. And we forget that we've said that probably nine times before. You're getting you're getting the best set. Like James Harden playing in a game seven is exactly what you want. Yeah, this is it. This is it. And you know what, even if he's sometimes somehow comes through, I'm sure he'll figure out a way to get to game seven against the Knicks. Yeah. And then and then we'll get to judge him. Yeah, whatever is going to like, even when it's going bad, as bad as it was, like I think in the first two games, if he's not James Harden, you bench him for Dennis Schroeder. Yeah. We would just go, hey, we need somebody with a little bit more energy and more intensity, who's like a little bit more alive here, because it's just, I mean, there were stretches in game one and two where I'm like, I cannot believe this is like, it's not the makes or the misses. It's not when he doesn't want to shoot, you know, because there's that when it happens. There's just the floating of like, where are you going? It kind of rocks. So it's like, it's actually great and pick up. It's actually when you kind of fall. I think what happens to him is when you, you know, when you go on a long drive and you and you just forget that you were driving, you know, you get there and you're like, oh, shit, I've been driving for three hours. I think that happens to him when he starts dribbling sometimes, where he's just dribbling and he forgets, he forgets that he's dribbling and he forgets that he's in a playoff game. And then he just keeps dribbling until he turns it over and he's like, oh, shit, I forgot I'm playing a game right now. I get so mad at the officials just because of not like even the specific team last night, because, you know, this deep into the playoffs, these are the best officials. And whenever I'm prepping for the draft and I'm watching all these college games, I'm reminded of like, thank God for NBA officials. And I think to be fair to them, think of the times when you're at home and you're like, I can't believe they called that. And then you see the replay, like how often they're actually right. Yeah. With the call where you're like, oh, that guy reached in like that was stupid. But the two hardened, well, there's probably like more than four, but I'm not going to take the full hour doing that. You still owe me a cut up, a highlight reel of all the James Starr and Mesquite. You said that that would be on my desk, Ryan, and it wasn't there. I was going to break it down. Yeah. But you caught me like, you asked for it, I think on like a three game day. And then I had to go back and like look at my timestamp notes. You offered it. I didn't, I didn't. Yeah. I was passionate that night. We're in the car and we were leaving the live show that we did. And it's not like I was like, hey, Ryan, can you make me a mash up of James Starr and his worst plays? Ryan, you said, I'm going to send you a highlight reel of everything that James Harden has done for the last two games and it's going to blow your mind. And I was like, I can't wait to see that. And you're like, it'll be on your desk. And then our listeners, they expect me to dive deep into the tape. I've had people come after me for it. I was walking around town and I was like, oh, here we go again. They want fame. You'd be paying a fame tax and it wasn't that at all. It was like, where's PFT's hardened clip? I need my breakdown. I do think that the way that's shaping up, if you've talked to a Nix fan, they're dangerously confident. Like they should be. Because if you go back to the regular season games and you try to figure out what really matters and then you look at the lineup stuff, it's going to come up with San Antonio and OKC and you're like, OK, it's four of the five went San Antonio's way. But OKC completely punted. I think they were like, took out their top 10 guys in that fifth game, which I'm just so tired of like that gamesmanship stuff. Like Detroit did it to OKC. And it's like, this is a number one seed versus number one seed regular season game. Like this game is supposed to be the headliner. Like NBC had a stretch where I think like three straight big time headliner games. One of the coaches was like, hey, no, be great. Let's just fuck with the other team and not play anybody tonight. So having said all that, it was hard to watch Detroit, New York and not feel like, hey, Detroit's physicality and their defense messes up New York in a way that feels very real. And so if you're a Nix fan and then watching last night going like, I hope Cleveland wins this based on what you saw in the regular season. And that just kind of speaks to like how weird this Eastern Conference is in general. But such a weird conference. I know. And it does feel like it's also the conference of teams that were like the Pizzans are a try hard team. And I don't say that in a bad way. You're totally right. But they're the try hard team of the regular season. Celtics were kind of the same way where their bench was deep and like, I don't care about benches in the playoffs. And so the Nix have the most talent, so it shouldn't be a shock, right? Like they have the best starting five. They do. But then you can dig into like some of the net rating stuff that was crazy because Minnesota's five guys, when they were healthy, those five guys played more minutes than anybody else. All right. It was like 200 more minutes than the Nix lineup of the five guys. So you think of like, OK, that's the most played lineup. New York's five guys, the second most played lineup of any team in the league this year. And Minnesota had an incredible net rating, you know, even at Atlanta, once they got the McCollum in there, like that was a crazy net rating. And then you're looking at the Nix, you're like, why is it only plus two on the season? Right. Like that's like there's all sorts of lineups that have these incredible like plus 13, plus 17, five guys that teams will tell you like, hey, if we get those five guys in there in a series, like we're a different team, like don't worry about our depth. And with New York, I'm like, man, why isn't that number better? Like, what does that tell us about this group? And then the way OG was playing before the hamstring injury, I was like, you know, I liked him and I was just falling in love with him because he was making every single shot. Right. And he's so versatile defensively. So then you start going like, all right, you know, am I actually like collectively unimpressed with everyone in the East? But to the point where you go, every one of these fan bases should think they have a chance. You know, obviously Philly being eliminated now, but maybe that spoke to them going like, hey, Boston was that messed up that you guys look that good. Then New York reminded you that you actually still aren't that good. So I don't blame any Nix fan for having confidence through the roof and then feeling even better that Cleveland's up three, two because Detroit's offense to get these next two. Like just let me just throw this at you. A number one seed with 60 wins that if Franz doesn't get hurt, loses in the first round. Okay. And they still don't know who their closing five is, whether it's they want to go a SAR and give up the offense or if they want to give up the defense and go with Danis. Duncan was hurt last night with the injury. But Duran is your guy and then you're like, we're going to play B-ball Paul. Yeah, he can't play. Like that speaks to them going like looking down the bench going, is there any combo we can have right now? And as much as we all love Reed, like he's driving into DeVyus Harris and then Jared Allen's there to help or he's driving into Allen. And if the SAR is playing, then Mobley now is on a SAR almost all the time. It was hard in the beginning of the season or the series. And now Mobley's like, this is awesome. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You don't have to do anything. And even if you're boxing out Allen, if you're Duran and you're boxing out Allen and you guys are fighting, then Mobley just to walk over and grab the rebound. So Cleveland's talents better. Like this series, I really think Cleveland should have won pretty convincingly because of this offensive flaw that Detroit has had all season long. Also Max Struz. Max Struz is a dog. Struz was awesome last night. Oh, so I would have been ripping Cade on that huge, huge rebound. Like it's an awful, I love Cade. I think we all like Cade better. But the turnovers with Cade, he's got to clean it up. Yeah. The one thing I'll say about the pistol because it has been tough to watch the entire playoffs is that I do think Cade is a, you know, generational guy. He's going to be a, yeah, he has the makings of a superstar. You just got to build like you've, you've, you've stepped that part. The hard part is done in that Cade is the guy you just have to build around him. You have to, you have to find the combination and that's really just, you have to find guys who can score. Yeah. Look, I give Saruti credit because we were talking about game five. We were just hanging out during the tapings yesterday and he's like, you know, this is what Jaden Ivy was supposed to be, this off ball, on ball guy. Like when you think about him in college and especially like NBA front offices before the draft, you're like, man, if you watched his international stuff and like when he's playing with those guys, like he's just so dynamic and you can in theory have him play off the ball. Like if you're doubling Cade and you had this really good version of Jaden Ivy, that's exactly what they need. They need somebody who's off the ball that can create and Danis is an incredible story, but he's probably a backup. He's going to play a long time, which surprises people, but it's like, hey, you have to bail us out or a SAR who's not really going to take it off the dribble. He's certainly not going to shoot it. Harris had like two good looks where if he had hit one of them in the during regulation off a double team when they went one for like maybe they win the game and then you still are sitting here, but like there are, you need multiple guys in these playoff possessions that can make something out of nothing and they have four guys standing around. I'm glad that we have you on the show right now because it looks like we might be dealing with maybe a double header of all time rest versus rust discussions, the way that these series are going. So we're going to have two teams that are going to have swept and be sitting on their hands for a while and then a team that goes either six or seven games. You know more than anybody, you're a gym guy, you know that there's a fine line, your muscles, they need rest, right? A good night's sleep is also a form of its own workout. If you want to maximize your gains. That's what they say. But then you go too long and it's atrophy. So when it comes to the NBA, how does that relate to your experience, Ryan? Well, I worked out this morning at like seven something and I was not ready. So it wasn't a good night's sleep. I would have liked to have slept better. I would have liked to have gone a little bit later. I would have, but I got invited on this big podcast. I'm sorry about that. Yeah. No, I appreciate it because it was immediately, I was like something's wrong. And I was like, what hurts? You don't relate, but yeah. Yeah. And I was late too. I feel like San Antonio needed to be challenged more than OKC did. You know, OKC, this is embarrassing. Like their second best player, unless you want to say it's chat, let's just say an all NBA caliber, like a guy that was flirting with being considered a top 10, top 15 player because of Jay Williams defense. He's played two of these eight games. They haven't needed him. They are throwing in guys in the second half that you're like, is he even going to play in a close game and then they'll come in and just make it? Like, I don't even know if McCain actually plays in the Spurs series. Yeah. I mean, probably does at some point, but because they've already been through it, you know, the Dallas loss, which maybe is their playoff seasoning for a young group in 24, running through everybody last year, but not in a dominant way. Like they still had the game seven series against Denver. Who knows what happens if Halliburton doesn't get hurt and get like, we kind of look at OKC is that, oh, my God. It's like, man, they had like a couple series where you're going, I didn't expect this. Certainly against the Pacers. So now that they've been through it, I don't know that they needed as much, even though the two teams they played clearly had no chance. And this version of Minnesota, even though a lesser version of Ant, no Divincenzo, they're trying to figure it out. They've kind of shortened up the rotation. I think the fight that this series is that these guys are really physical. And to see the way you've got two rookies, right? You've got Carter, you've got Harper, you've got a second year player in Castle. These guys are just up for the physical challenge of what Minnesota is in a way that's really impressed me. Even the game fourth thing is really cool because they ended up just going to your sleep point. They went back to the hotel in Minneapolis, we're like, let's just sleep here tonight and then we'll wake up late and then we'll go back instead of just immediately leaving and landing in San Antonio like 4am. So I think they needed it. So it's not a clear, hey, OKC is going to win because they had all this rest. I think San Antonio needed to learn some stuff about themselves that they weren't going to learn in the Portland series for their first time ever going through it. So even though it's going to go longer than maybe you'd expect because of the game four situation, I think there's a benefit to it for them because all of this is just like still new. Are you a little nervous if you're OKC? I'll read you a tweet though from one of the best NBA brains on Twitter. This is from NoTechBen. He said, only two guys to beat OKC in a championship round the past two years are Wemby and Yanis. There's a specific archetype that is their kryptonite. Wait, say that again? Only two guys to beat OKC in a championship round the past two years are Wemby and Yanis. Are they talking about the cup? Yes, that would be the NBA cup. Yeah, I don't. That's their kryptonite. I mean, that's facts are facts. They lost in the championship last year to Milwaukee in the NBA cup final. They lost in the semifinals to the Spurs. Like the Buffalo Bills of the NBA Cup. Yeah, like people are starting to ask questions about it. The blueprints out. Yeah. When the stakes get highest in the single elimination. Yes. Yeah, single elimination. There could be some issues there. Yeah, I didn't really thought of that at all. You don't respect the NBA cup. No, actually, we had that on Wake Up Barstool. Stephen Che kind of brought up a similar point being like, because I believe that the Spurs, I mean, yes, of course, I could win it all, but you got to go through it to then win it all. And Stephen Che was like, what about the NBA cup? Do you not respect the NBA cup? And Ryan was just like, no, I do not like point blank. Do not. It's going to be a four one, you know, in the regular season and, you know, kind of that Nick's Pistons thing where I don't want to watch those games if they're playing each other and say like, and again, Pistons got some work to do for the next fans even have to worry about it. But like, I saw real things in that that worried me about New York. So I've got to remember that, you know, I don't be these games in a regular season. Like, don't forget what this felt like and what this looked like. And there were times like, OKC had a game against Houston, I remember, where I was just laughing, going, they can't start their offense. Like OKC, whatever they did out of the break, they're like, hey, let's let's take their soul right now defensively. And OKC can do that. They didn't even shoot it well in the playoffs last year. That was the difference where they would just have this kind of 12-0 run where you're just like, we can't do anything against these guys. This sucks. And OKC normally does that to other teams. And San Antonio in that game, I felt like was it was the one time I'm like, man, they're making OKC look like an OKC opponent here. Like this looks really, really hard. And even if you want to get into some of the lineup stuff, like Wemby's most minutes played against OKC in any regular season game this year was 28 minutes. It's like 21, 21, 24, 26, 28 or something like that. So they weren't even using like a full 35 minute version of him. And I've had times this year when I've watched them going like, I kind of want to be the guy that goes, you know, in February, you know what, I've seen enough. I think Wemby's that special that they're going to still be able to be OKC because it's not like OKC went through everybody last year like Golden State did when those five guys were on. Right. Yeah. I mean, Wemby's been he's been so impressive this year. It's been unreal. The best. He's the best watch in the NBA. I'm telling you after that first quarter of the other night, I'm like, what's more fun than this? Yeah, there's nothing that's more like you see something with Wemby that you have never seen. Like watching him play is it feels like how you know, like when you were a kid and you were playing coosh like with like a coosh basketball set or basketball set above I thought you were going to talk about weed. No, I know. Well, I know you don't like weed, but I'm not a drug. But you're with us at the bachelor party confirmed. Not drug guys. No. Well, I was so confused multiple times that I was like, I don't know what's going on right now. Why is it just leaving the room to the other room? Well, I had to use the bathroom. Yeah, I got a small ladder. Is there a suite on top of the suite? I've got a small little bladder. It's shrinking. Don't worry about Risillo. He's taking notes. Also allergies. The desert. Lots of lots of allergies. Yeah. I was like, why is this guy napping? That doesn't make any sense. You remember like, yeah, being a kid, though, and playing like Nerf basketball with a hoop above the rim and how low everything felt. That is how that's how we play basketball in NBA quarter, where it's like, oh, yeah, he's just going to step around people, not really leave his feet, throw the ball down into the basket. So like he gets credit for a lot of dunks, but he's just like throwing the ball down on half of his shots. He's not dunking. And then his defense is just absolutely incredible to a point that we've never seen anything like it before. And just the steps he's taken this year, he is the most fun to watch. I want him, I want the spurs to keep advancing because I want to keep watching Wimby and like maximizing my years where I'm rooting for Wimby because there will be a tipping point where I say, this sucks. This is bad for basketball. He's too tall. It's not fair. Like Yukon women's hoops. Exactly. So Wimby, I want to maximize the time that I have like actually rooting for Wimby and actually feeling good about watching Wimby on TV because I'm I'm right in the thick of it right now. And you think they have a real chance to beat the Thunder? I do, but I'm not going to pick them. Okay. Yeah. I've basically and I wish I had something cooler to say other than, hey, okay, see, he's been through it a little bit more. And this is just the way this whole thing works. But I'm just like, don't fall for it. Don't fall for the regular season. Part of this, even if it feels like, you know, Wimby is kind of this unsolvable thing. And you're right. Because I was thinking about it last night, like the timeline of a star and what we do to these guys, right? Like where it's, it's so much fun and everybody loves them in the beginning, you know, like even aunt, although aunts probably even though he was hurt here. And I don't think anybody should feel bad about Anthony Edwards and be like, hey, we have to reassess this. But basically what happens is like, if you're really special, and I'm not talking about like that second tier of star who gets to kind of hide and doesn't take all the shit of like the top six or seven guys like Mahomes and in the NFL. Yeah, can kind of under the radar. The Mahomes family, I'm saying the other way, like Mahomes, we all loved them until we didn't, until it was like, okay, he's done this too. But at least he backed it all up. So that's, that's the difference in the NBA. There's a lot of times where it's like, Hey, I think this guy's really, really special, but now it's year seven. And now we just have to shit on you. And if Wimby, say, goes like the first six years without one, which seems unlikely, but it's still a lot, you know, whenever you're sitting there. And I remember like being on some of the debate shows and somebody across from you would be like, Well, I don't think this guy's ever going to win a championship. And you're like, Okay, that's a really powerful statement. And the odds are in your favor to do it. But you're, you don't, you don't know that, but I can't argue with you and say, Yes, I guarantee this guy wins one. Wimby feels like it's a guarantee at some point, but say they don't get through okay, see this year, say he's hurt again, because I still feel like he falls down so much that it scares the shit out of me. Say people figure out he's French. Yeah, that'll, there'll be some, but it happens, people are going to turn, but it also depends where our relations are. Yeah. Remember like early 2000s, when it was like, let's call them freedom fries and stop over in gray goose, gray goose at the club. Yep. You guys know what I'm talking about. Yeah, exactly. I was freedom kissing in high school. I wasn't making out. I wasn't. Yeah, it was fun. Seven minutes and had freedom. Did you freedom her? Freedom. Yeah, we freed him last night. I do think that with with the Spurs, tell me if I'm crazy to think this, it might be prisoner of the moment, but throughout these playoffs, I think Dylan Harper might be the best guard that they have. I even wondered like, if there were some castle possessions where they could give a few more to Harper and then Castle once the game got tied, you know, San Antonio blows that lead and Minnesota is coming back because they're a tough fucking team, man. They have the mentality that teams terrific. Champani hits a three and then Castle just goes in his own little six-oh run where he just dropped the entire toolbox and was like, I gotta do all these different things because I'm with you like Harper is so good and he's working some really good defensive players where I think even they're a little surprised because it's so smooth. You know, Castle is not smooth. He is like rough course sandpaper and then it works and Harper's just like, oh, shit. And then he finished on the other side on all these different stuff. I thought like, is it too much to ask for him to be the guy to close out some of these games? I mean, what he did in Portland in that one game, it's like, all right, yeah, I'm a rookie and I'm going to close out a playoff game and just be completely unstoppable. I mean, it's stupid how good and comfortable some of these young players are. But I'd imagine Harper like the progression of this team is that Harper has more of these possessions that Castle has now. But I don't mean that as like a knock on Castle. It's just that I just think Castle is such a good defender that that's the underrated part that like they're both he's awesome. I voted them all defense. I think second team defense. Yeah, I don't think he's going to make all defense. But I think Castle's on ball stuff because he's going to use all of his fouls. Yeah. And he fouls so much that they're kind of like, we're not going to call these watch Castle off the ball. It's crazy on like a really good offensive player. They had him playing against Yoke at your one of those last regular season games that would be awesome. Spurs Nuggets one. It was taken down Randall too. Yeah, I mean, like it's you can put them anywhere. And we saw him live when we went to the tournament. Yeah, that's right. And you were like, that guy in two years is going to be this on the Spurs. It's crazy. They've they've nailed it. I mean, they have three guys under 21 with those three guys Harper, Castle and Wemby. Yeah. And then Carter Bryant, who probably could have the ball a little bit more comes in and he's like, oh, yeah, I'll just be a three and D guy. Like obviously until I get my rookie extension, I'd like to get some more shots and some more stats and all that kind of stuff. And then he's totally bought in like Shannon went at him and he was like laughing at Shannon. And then he had a play where like he and Randall slammed into each other. Like whatever the scores are and who's hitting shots and all that stuff, the the hey, your first time through in Minnesota has now made it pretty deep the last couple of years. And these guys have been around for a while, like as a young team going to respond, are they going to keep looking back to the bench or are they going to keep looking at the refs? And instead, they're just kind of looking at the opponent going, you're not we're not intimidated by any of this stuff. Yeah. All right. I got a quick let's play a game of are they screwed? Sure. Lakers. No, because Luca is there and I, you know, you're thinking about that trade going like imagine if this were Davis Lebron Reeves eliminated in the second round and you're going like, what do you do now? What do you do now? So the keys to Canard? Probably. But he's a free agent. Oh, shit. Yeah. We're going to have to max them. Who knows. What's red? Reddix like if I sign you for a huge number, people are just going to say that you remind me of me and I don't need that kind of controversy. Yeah. They're not screwed because they have Luca, but I mean, they have a ton of work to do. Smart's a free agent. I mean, Aten has a player option for eight million. He stinks. I wouldn't think they'd want him to pick it up. You'd think he'd still be able to do eight million somewhere else. And then it's like, hey, can I just go to a bad team where I can maybe play like 40, 50 games and get to wear someone like my fancy shit? Yeah. Play some video games. Right. Right. Like, can we just do like 50 games? Yeah. Get 14 and 10. Yeah. Right. In a 30 point loss. I can't. I couldn't believe like Lakers fans and it also speaks to like how much like you're just not watching a ton of Portland if you're a Lakers fan last year. And then I just go, look, he's not a Foxhole guy. Then he I think he's like making 79% of his shots and off of Luca, like his job should be super easy. He should be able to give 15 points. Just stay engaged and catch all these lobs. And he's got great touch. I mean, there's a reason he went one. He's an incredibly talented guy, but he's just not a Foxhole guy at all. And then Lakers fans finally were like, oh, maybe there were some points that were made here that were fair about him. I don't know what they're going to do with the LeBron thing. I can't imagine that he was just going to retire in secret. Yeah. Doesn't seem like that'd be him. He doesn't want to be on the Lakers anymore. You see that whole the story about them giving the ball to JJ Redick for his 100th win when LeBron had the most wins in the same game. I did. I just don't know why he cares about a lot of this pointless shit, right? Because somebody had to care enough to make that point to the reporter and then be like use it. He likes to say, I think he likes hearing himself say, you know, I'm a bit of a basketball historian. I think he thinks that that adds like a little bit of panache. I always more behind LeBron James. Part of it I get because they're chasing this one guy. So it's almost like every single thing is like trying to stack an extra little chip to get somebody. By the way, I don't know that I've ever met anyone that's neutral on the MJ LeBron thing. Have you ever met anyone that's ever changed their mind? No, no, no, minds will never get changed. That's the beauty behind it is like you say you're open to changing your mind when new facts come out. But no, I mean, the longer LeBron plays, the more he gives you the stats that you can then use against him. Like he's the first guy to get swept in four different decades. Yeah, but I don't even, I don't care about that kind of stuff. It's almost become like what's your favorite flavor of ice cream? It's like, are we going to argue what you like versus what I like? Yeah, and we're kind of doing it right now. But I think it drives him crazy. I think that's kind of like even after the last dance, like I think there was a lot of, I don't want to call it propaganda, but like floating out, like there was one time when he had said, Hey, I won the two toughest championships and it'd be a history. We talked about this and wake up our stool and 16 I would give that comeback. Like I think it's the toughest one I've ever seen. But I don't think the bubble one was tough, even though I acknowledge it and think it's a championship. You guys are you guys are dicks about it. Yeah. No, for some people, it does count. Yeah, for you, it's fine. It does count. We went down the roster on Wednesday show. Who gets it? Yeah, there was some halves given out. There were some half shares. There were some full shares. I think this year was actually pretty drama free considering, but there's like I said, I just think there's a lot of like public messaging, a lot of PR with him. That's kind of a waste of time. Like he wasn't one of, well, I thought he was actually really good in the playoffs, right? But he knocked over something. It was like he is no one's ever been a better third option. No one's ever accepted their role better. And you were like, Well, of course, like it still should go through Luca. Yeah. Like when Luca's right, this is this is one of the five best players in the world. You know what? You're right. People don't change their minds about it. But I think some people should. Like if you compare it to political discourse in this country, you have there's actually a market out there for somebody to be like, I've been a Jordan guy my entire life, and they left me behind. And now I'm a LeBron guy, and I'm reformed. I've changed my mind. They went to woke on me with Reagan did it. Saw that clip after the after the the car race win. Yeah, yeah, exactly. I saw that. And you know what? At this point, you drive a man so the Overton window is shifted so far on Jordan that now I find myself without a party and I have to be a LeBron guy. Yeah, there's a market out there for a guy like that. Yeah, what do Ralph? Who's Ralph Nader NBA? Oh, the Green Party. That probably JR Smith. Yeah. Yeah. JR seems like he would be Kobe. Yeah. Getting votes. Yeah, but I think that's too many. Shaq too many votes. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know who that would be. Oh, maybe you're right. What is Katie going to do? What are his options going to look like this off season? Look, their whole thing is I have I have their GM on in like a couple hours. So I can't wait for that. But it their big thing is like if we had Fred Van Ville, we would have been fine. Now, not fine like, hey, we're going to beat OK. It was pretty clear. And that's just where like the playoffs exposed your stuff and like doesn't you can't lie anymore in the playoffs. And you're like, OK, the MN Thompson point guard thing like isn't a thing. Reed Shepard, who I still really like, it's a lot to ask when you didn't really even want to play him because he may can't stand his defense even though I think there's some things that he holds up better. But again, if you're going to pick on somebody, you're not going to pick a man over Reed. You know, to ask him to be like, hey, run our offense in these playoff games like that's not going to look great either. And when they play Shangoon and a men together and then Durant's just fucking miserable because he's like a men's guy doesn't play him if he's outside. And then if Shangoon's outside, nobody plays against him. And then Durant, you know, I think part of his frustration, I would understand. But I also think there are other times like why are you bringing the ball up and walking right into a double team 30 feet away from the basket and then like nobody's respecting anybody outside of you because they just don't feel like you have real shooting. Even somebody like Tara Easton, his first half of the season, he just was on fire and then it fell off a cliff. So I understand him looking around and going like, hey, I can't be asked to bail us out of every single one of these possessions, despite how great my resume is as an offensive player and like what a matchup. I mean, remember when he's bitching about the Lakers double teaming him? Yeah. It's like, no shit, man. Like you're going to get double like look at the matchups here. Of course, like the playoffs, you start selling out a little bit more with your rules going like, let's really try this, you know, it's back to that mobily, a SAR thing where you just go, what if we just have mobily on him and he never plays him? Yeah. Yeah. If he hits a shot or two, fine. But now we get to play against four guys with five and the extra five is a former defensive player of the year. So I imagine because he's already gotten the extension and everything that the whole thing is it'll be so much better when Fred is back. And don't worry about it, because I don't I don't think he's going to want to say like, hey, I need to go somewhere else again. I'll be so funny. You guys are rooting for that. I mean, yes, I am. Absolutely. Ron Rosillo was brought to you by Microsoft. And we'll get back to him in just one second. We got to tell you first about something that helps people focus on what's most important. Microsoft 365 Copilot. What if you could add an AI assistant to your work without leaving your workflow? Well, Microsoft Copilot is built into Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook. It works where you work. It helps you do more in the apps that you already use. And Word Copilot helps turn scattered notes into a first draft. And Excel it generates insights from your data. And in Outlook, it cuts through the noise to get you up to speed faster. The apps that you know, go further with You can learn more at M365copilot.com slash work M365copilot.com slash work. And now more Ron Rosillo. What about the nuggets of the nuggets screwed? No, I don't think they're screwed. But the Aaron Gordon not being healthy thing back to back playoff runs here. It's not great. Yeah. I mean, he was he was really hurt last year. And I mean, we want to talk about somebody who's playing hurt because sometimes you get pissed. Yeah, like the team gets eliminated is like, you know, that guy's ankles actually was when you're like, I couldn't even tell, man. Aaron Gordon, you're like, Oh, what, he's running around with his hamstring last year? What are you doing? Even this year, when it was like, he can't even jump up to contest that. Like if anybody's going to jump up and try anything, it's that guy. So I think Cam Johnson's year was generally a disappointment. And then Christian Brown in the playoffs, but he's under contract. Wasn't great. They had they had real depth this year, man, they had depth that you felt like, Okay, this is going to be able to help them stay competitive in those few non-Yokage minutes in the playoffs, because, you know, the regular season numbers, whatever, like he's going to take off his normal sub pattern, but he's going to play more minutes in the playoffs. And that was something during the regular season that was like a big improvement for them, even if a couple of the other guys I thought were like a little down. But you know, they're not a team that's known for paying the tax, which is incredibly unfortunate. Like if you're going to pay the tax, it should be when you have one of the greatest players in the history of the game. Yeah. Yeah. And then what's your official prediction of what LeBron does this offseason? Where would you know what? I'm not even going to say prediction. I want Ryan to use his imagination. Where would you like to see LeBron next? Where would I like to see him? I don't know that I care enough to say like, I'd really like to see this. I mean, if he cares about money, it'd be funny just to be like, All right, go to Chicago, then. They've got all this caps. Finally do it from that summer. Right. Is that the way to surpass Jordan? Yeah. That would be very good. Did Jordan play for any other teams? I wonder where else would he go to try to match Jordan? This will be the question here by PFT. What other teams have you played for? Yeah, I can figure. I love the Jordan Wizards here. I got to see it live. They're great. I have a hard time believing that he wouldn't work something out with LA. Yeah, but think about JJ Reddick got that ball, that game ball. So that was pretty bad. That was bad. You think Reddick would just go, Hey, man, here's the ball. Yeah, here, you know what? You have the ball. Yeah, I can't imagine Reddick carrying scribbles over it. Yeah, that'd be all. It was just duct tape. Yeah. To LeBron. It makes me wonder how many balls LeBron has at his house. Like, how many, how many meaning hundreds does he have if he's that fired up about this one? I know because I used to get annoyed about the Emmett Smith thing. Yeah. I was like, you're going to keep all of them? And I don't know why it bothered me. Maybe it's because like, if you either love the Cowboys, you hate the Cowboys. And granted, I was a kid, so I was far more irrational about stuff. I was like, Oh, you're going to keep that one? I'd be like watching a game and there's some trainer writing it down. It was like number three, 1117. Speaking of, do you want a gift? Sure. I got your gift. It's going to be hard to compete with this Sarah Walsh 50th birthday. Yeah. I mean, your purse that you've been walking around with has been pretty nice. And now I got dressed pretty gay this week. Wait, put on the coat and the glasses. I think people need to see this. Yeah, sure. I thought that Ryan was zero hesitation. I thought Ryan was pit bull when he walked into the office this morning. Well, and you can also say it's not like you're single and lifelong single and live by yourself. So it's not people aren't asking questions. He came in with a like when Ryan when Ryan came in today, he came in with a presence. It was like, it was almost, it was almost like a wind came with you. Oh, all right. Sit down and do the rest of the interview with that. Can you do the model pose like you did when you rocking that recilla hoodie? You just looked awesome. You look awesome. I told you this was on the live show. So we people didn't hear this, but I said like when we were at the Cabana, your your body looked awesome. Thanks, man. You had your shirt off and I was like, damn, what kind of glasses are those? These are Louis Vuitton's. That's nice. Yeah. Ever heard of them? Yeah. I would like your gift. Yeah, I mean, obviously this isn't going to go well. No, I actually think it's going to go pretty well. You can see you guys. So my expectations are somewhat muted. Well, listen, hey, hey, I don't know if you know this, but you know, the show you do Ryan Russell podcast, it is recorded and people can listen to it. So when you said, I think the exact quote was big cat, what a waste of a great frame. That one hurt a little. You know what though? Nothing is nothing has worked. I nothing has worked so far. So sometimes you need tough coaching. You know, I remember probably fat would have been better. Your disappointment when you said the exact quote, what a waste of a great frame. I also think that might be I've said it a few times. It might be a plagiarized Billy football take two. I think he said the exact same thing. Kyle and Surya both gave like a like not like there's yeah, you know that that's bad. Yeah. There's like no one says anything and they just go but I also you think I'm saying it to be insulting or you think I'm saying yeah. And I appreciate that. Also, I was a little upset too because the life advice, you guys had a life advice where it was very funny. It was a 41 year old dude who that was why this came up the frame thing because the guy said he had a comp of my body. But the 41 year old dude married a 29 year old girl and the 29 year old girl's youngest brother 23. Yeah. Kept calling him a pedophile in the group chat and you guys took it way too seriously. That kid rocks. You think he's awesome. Yeah. His brother in law pedophile would be like serious about it. It's funny as fuck. Yeah. I didn't think of it that way at all. Oh, I want to hang with that, dude. Yeah. Because I all I could think of him was was that he grew up thinking everything was terrible and like you could put some label on everything like he was raised by Twitter. So that he was like, I can't believe my brother in law is a pedophile. Yeah, dude, you got to relax like, you know, when people are funny. Yeah. But just there's certain things where it's like some of these the power of some of these categories have been ruined because you're saying it about like anybody. Yeah. No, but that guy he might be right. You don't know. He's married to basically a 30 year old. Yeah. But then that it's kind of funny that his wife was 30 and 11 years older. They are 12. Yeah. But think about what about when the guy who wrote in when he was 22, his wife was what 11? That wasn't the email. I'm telling you the 20 year old either way. When I heard him say that when you're like, it keeps calling me a pedophile. I laugh so hard. That guy is fucking funny. Did you ask when they met? That doesn't make a difference. No, they had met three years prior. So he was 38 and she was I think it was 3826 and then 4129. But to like think think of like a married everyone's like on a group chat with their family to think about a 23 year old male like being on a group chat with his family and being like, yeah, your husband's a pedophile is very funny. It's really funny until it's actually real though. Like imagine being the guy who emails in and his brother in law is calling him a pedophile like to everyone. Yeah, you should go with it. But okay, but how would you like if you actually were the guy who emailed and you I probably talk shit back to the 23 year old. I'd be like, I'm picking your sister up from school, hang on, I'll get back to you. Yeah. And I'd be like, Hey, dude, you're pretty obsessed with me being a pedophile. You got something you want to tell us? Yeah, virgin. Yeah, you're well, no, just like, maybe you're thinking about pedophilia. How often do you think about pedophilia? Yeah, reverse it on him. Maybe do an intervention. That would be an awful great prank though, interventions with people that don't need them. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I golf trip. To life I'm addicted to calling strangers pedophiles. Yeah. Just keep doing it. Either way, I thought that kid rocked. So all right, maybe a little off on that one. But life advice, obviously everyone listen to the ride. We're still podcast. You ready for your gift? I am. You I'll I'll preface this gift with saying if you look's already looks damaged. Well, I opened it to confirm it was it. If you don't want to bring it home with you, I will find a place for it here that we can celebrate it. Okay, okay. All right. There you go. Oh, wow. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. This looks like it might be awesome. Yeah, it is awesome. All right. Because I know you've been on this memorabilia. Yeah, I have. Crazy. Is this a flag of Sri Lanka? No, no, it's way better. Is this a sale? I don't have a sailboat. It's way better. You can bring maybe you get this for your boat. Oh, no way. Yeah. Say say it in the it's a banner. It's pretty damn cool, right? For Lincoln Biner. It says it says the NBA finals. The NBA finals is 14 foot long banner. This is an awesome gift. Yeah. But which finals is it? Good question. Bubble. No, you know which finals it is. That NBA finals banner hung in the concourse in Phoenix, Arizona for Chris Paul's only NBA finals, which he lost by the way. Up to oh, Yonah said every free throw. You're pretty excited about that. Yeah, I mean, I know it's the purple. So I was a little now. Wait, so why do you have it? I bought it for you. Well, I appreciate it. I'm going to send a picture to Chris Paul right now. Yeah. Well, be careful because it might he might relapse because when he got that he was like I'm kind of addicted to going to the finals. So he's he finally called Turkey got rid of that. If you send that back, he might backslide. Would you want me to hang it here? Do you want to take it home with you? Man, I don't know. I'm trying to think which room it works What if I hung it outside? And that would be cool when people drive by Manhattan Beach because different people have flags in their house and stuff. And then I was like, I can't tell if that's that might actually be hilarious. Like he's just a finals guy. I might have to put like a sea anchor in behind it with the wind we get down there. You can decide it's it is a gift for you. But if you don't because it is kind of an annoying gift, this is a great gift. This is a great gift. Yeah, it's Chris Paul's only final. You want to talk about like I have this little briefcase from Sarah Walsh that I've said is the nicest gift anyone's ever gotten me now I feel like number one and number two are right next to each other. I'm not even sure what number one is. Ryan, what I think you should do at least for the podcast that you put out during the NBA finals, the NBA says they're going to put the Larry O'Brien trophy on the court to give it like a little extra flare. You should just have that in the background of every podcast during the finals. Yeah, only during the finals. Yeah, that way people know. Yeah, I'm going to take it. Okay. I love I love the gift. We can have Dom ship it to you. So you don't have to put it in your bag. Yeah, because I don't I don't know how I would fit it. They'd be like, Hey, you can't have any of your clothes. Yeah, what have I wrapped myself in this? That'd be pretty cool. I think you can make a suit out of this little photo shoot for the NBA finals. Can't wait a minute though. Why did Phoenix get rid of it? So why was it available? I found it on eBay. To me, that's that out of all the things that we've gotten at this office. I think this is the most impressive one that big cats gotten because I don't see a lot of teams getting rid of like NBA finals participant banners. Do you think it should be a no, no, no, no, this wasn't it. This wasn't like a banner that was this was a banner in the like concourse. Okay, gotcha. Like you could this is like probably outside of like 104104104. Okay. It's still sons in 104. Yeah, there you go. But yeah, it's it's a cool banner. It's an awesome gift because I was never going to play in one likely. So never say never. Yeah, never say never. Let me see. That's an awesome. See if he put any other details. This banner was hanging at the Phoenix Suns Arena for the NBA finals. Phoenix Suns for Milwaukee backs bucks. Yeah, it's beautiful. Used in game. Love it. I'm really appreciative. Yeah, seriously. I'm going to hang it in the backdrop of the pod for NBA finals. Chris Paul to sign it. That would be cool. I don't think I'm going to do that. I got Andrew Luck to sign the semifinal banner. The FC finals. Yeah. He was like, yeah, I'll sign it. We want to get we want to get as many people in that game to sign that banner. Yeah, I actually feel like that that banner went from being probably worthless to a very very piece of NFL merchandise. Oh, yeah, that'd be pretty crazy if your whole long play was to buy these things that you can't believe exist. And then you guys kind of raise awareness and then you're just flipping these. Oh, no, I mean, well, Hank's sitting there. He doesn't see the vision, but I have no intention of selling any of these things. But like a Buffalo Bill Stadium trough that also was in Barstool HQ would go for more money. It would. I'm not going to sell any of these. But yes, I think that would be if things went bad. You know, yeah, they're like, those guys are getting a little old for some of those jokes. Yeah, then we just start just ripping off. Yeah. Yeah. Selling everything. Just doing all memorabilia flips. Yeah, they're getting a little old to say the 23 year old was cool to call his brother in law a pedophile. Well, I didn't think of it that way. He thought that he could reach out to Ryan because he's like, this is right. Yeah. He's like, Ryan, this is a an NBA draft preview. You're doing a lot of scouting on 19 year olds yourself. So maybe I can I've got a similar problem that you can help me with. I know I'm getting too nice though, as I get older. Yeah, no, I saw it as this guy, this kid is just like he's a ball buster to the to the extreme level. I guess maybe I took it personally because if I do get married, it's probably going to happen to me. Being a pedophile. No. Younger. That wasn't what I was. Younger. Likely, you'll be a little bit young. I don't want to say like, no, but maybe May, September relationship. May, September. Yeah, you know, May, November, that would you would describe some some older couples like the guys 60, the ladies in her like late 20s, that would be a May, November relationship. But you are looking maybe for like a May, September. I see what you're saying. Yeah. Yeah. I remember I just I was in veil once and I saw some old guy just ripping darts in a ski outfit and it was clearly his second wife. He was a little bit messier than than maybe I'd want to be, but it was a little early. Still in a ski outfit. And he just I was like, is that guy got it all figured out? You know, because you were great for him. Yeah. You know, but I don't know. Yeah, maybe that's why maybe that's why I didn't go there because I was like, I'll likely be 10 years older if I ever get married. Yeah. You know what I would like to do at some point with your permission? You know how like some people have they've got packs where it's like, hey, if we're both single and we're 50, we're getting married. That sort of thing. I'm not making a pack with you. Not with me. But at some point, like, is there a date where we can do the Ryan Rassillo dating show? Yeah. No. I think you'd be a catch, Ryan. I don't know about the Ryan Rassillo bachelor party. We were thinking about doing that with my college buddies or they were like, can we just have a bachelor party even though you're not engaged? And I was like, yeah, probably. I mean, so basically, you'd have an excuse for, you know, like, are you going to tell your wives that I'm not that there's no wedding invite, save the date or anything coming? And they're like, we'll just say that it got called off and everyone will believe it. That's fucked up. That part's messed up. Because one guy like was like, we're just going to say it was called off. And I was like, well, you think it's going to be challenged? Red flag comes out. Yeah, I was like, oh, yeah, that's, I was like, that'll be an easy sell. And then guys are like, come on, let's do it. Like, let's, it's been forever. And then they were kind of like, if you would have gotten married in your 20s, that bachelor party would have sucked because we would have all had to pay for everything, including you. But now like, I was like, it also starting to sound like I'm going to pay for all of it now, which is not what's supposed to happen. No. So I'll tell you what, you guys are invited to my bachelor party for a wedding that's likely not going to happen. Okay. Yeah. Yeah, it might never know. Yeah, never say never. I did the drop a pin pod and I admitted like, sometimes I wonder if I do the travel logs because it's an excuse to be by yourself. Or if I just did the solo trips without any documentation, then you'd be like, hey, dude, this is getting old. Yeah, it's a bummer. Yeah. Do you not want to share some of these experiences somebody you care about? And then it's like, well, I've got to take notes. I got to figure out what the spice trade was from the 1400s. So I don't, I can't, I couldn't have anyone here. She's like, are you outlining day four again? I'm working. Yeah. And it'd be like, hey, we have to make it, make sure we see these waves. It's going to take us six hours to drive there. And she'd go, like, can we just stay an extra day here and get brunch maybe and sleep in? I'm like, no, the tides are perfect today. We're on a schedule. Yeah. So like I, I'm just admitting it right now. That's exactly why I do the travel log. Yeah, but there's nothing wrong. You don't, you don't have to have it. Like there's nothing wrong with wanting to travel by yourself. Wasn't, they were like, this is fucking, I was like, I'm just telling you guys, because we're my friends, St. Bart's solo. I was like, this is fucking stupid, man. Yeah, that's a very like, you should be here with sexy place to go. Yeah. That's a good, yeah, romantic place. Yeah. I'm admitting there's nothing wrong with traveling alone. Some people like how about for 15 years to numerous exiles? If you like it, it sounds like you enjoy it. I do. I kind of telling us something right here that maybe that's a, I'll admit, I've gotten, I've walked around a couple of villages in the last couple of years going, Hey, man. What are we doing? Yeah. So I'm just sharing that with you. Okay. Well, hey, listen, PMT bachelor party at gmail.com. If you're interested, hit us up. That email address is still being monitored. Ryan, listen, there's, there's a big question out there that's on everybody's mind. We've talked for long enough without discussing the Washington wizards on this podcast. I love how in you are. Do you have any excels from that gear? They sent me all mediums. It's crazy. Shout out to wizards. Have they not seen your thighs? Yeah, good point, Ryan. Right after Hank and I made our bet, a giant box got put in my lap of I think every piece of merch that the wizards have ever put out, which is incredible. So shout out to them. I made a bet with Hank the other day, because he's stuck in an old mindset of like, you know, the mid 90s, mid 2000s wizards, where he doesn't think they'll ever do anything good. And he doesn't understand the new regime. We made a bet that the wizards are going to finish, I think in the top eight next year. And now this is assuming that AD sticks around, which I think he is. And it's assuming that they keep the number one pick and they don't trade it to the jazz and they have to ban so, which is the assumption right now. But with that, I think that they're going to be a top eight pick. Hank does not think so. Top eight seed or top eight seed. Sorry, top eight seed in the east next year. Does that mean they have to like make the could they be a 10 seed win the planet? No, but they could be an eight seed and lose in the plan. Right. Look, if those two guys are healthy, they should be in the top eight. Thank you. Thank you. And the thing is, I actually like some of the other guys. Like I think SAR had a really good second year. I really like Kishan George. I think Trey Johnson was one of my favorite players in that draft class. Blow and bub are kind of like a weird like which version of it do you want? And it's like if they were just a hybrid person, then it'd be like, well, that's impossible, at least with science now. Who knows? There's a lot of things that I like from like a competitive standpoint. And when you look at the east this year, like how crazy it was, which kind of gets us back to where we started with this whole thing is Detroit makes this monstrous leap. But then you're like, okay, but were you a full kind of your try hard part of it, which I think Charlotte also was is like, you're playing kind of your peak all regular season. And then it gets exposed a little bit when there's like another level. And I think for Detroit, it's not so much that they tried too hard. It's just the offensive thing, right? So the Celtics thing is kind of weird. The Sixers thing is always weird. The team that made it to the finals is missing their best player. So they end up tanking a year after being in the NBA finals. So that's crazy. Cleveland pivots midseason into something that never works during the playoffs historically, but they might be in the Eastern Conference finals. I already mentioned Orlando, who I think should have been a top four team, but they're a fucking mess and they can never stay healthy. And they bring in Bane and they're actually a worst shooting team, which doesn't make any sense because I think Bane's been great for him. So when you run through all of it and I'm still leaving out like who knows what the heat's going to look like. Yeah, heat, heat are always good for whatever. Like I didn't mention Toronto. Like I don't necessarily love the construction of the roster, how much they've spent on some of these guys. But if they're to your Cade point, like when we're done with this, let's not not Cade if they don't get through this because I think we're all realizing like, Hey, Cade could end up becoming the best point guard in the NBA. Some of the stuff that I worried about with Scotty Barnes of like, what is the future face of the league? How many guys are eligible for that? I think it's just got a few to face of the league. That's just the we just say that quote a lot here because of the coach. Yeah, I know future faces like future Max, you said Max, you said put that phone on real quick. I knocked him over. You have a I didn't know Max had a dark. Oh, he loves it. I'm Max says. Future face of this leg. That's really good. That was so good. I love Scotty Barnes even more after this whole thing. So Toronto is probably good for, you know, a couple. I don't know. I mean, maybe there's a tweak here there. The point at the point of this whole thing is there's stuff in the way. But if the 26 season told us anything is like you can't really eliminate any of these teams other than the Nets, the Bulls. You know, yeah, you know, Atlanta, the Atlanta's five is good. They'll be, you know, you can't just sit there and say, Hey, everybody's better. No, yeah, there's pelicans. Unless they move conferences with AD and Trey, even though look, Trey's not exactly my favorite. And you get something like, you know, you get kind of like a Dylan Harper season out of who the number one pick ends up being. I don't think eight's crazy. Yeah. Okay. I don't think it's crazy. I mean, that might not happen, but I don't think it's crazy. Yeah. It's not like you're saying they're going to be a top four seed. The one argument you can make is 80 gets hurt. 80 gets hurt. I'm just being betrayed. But I always say like, if he's healthy, I've said if he's healthy, probably 500 times. Yeah, but that's half the league. Yeah. I don't know. I think that they're going to be fun at the very least. And I was telling the guys about this about how historically they've been over the course of the last like 50 years. So they haven't won 50 games since 1979. I can't believe that the wizards have never been to a conference finals or won 50 games in a season since the invention of the three point shot. Think about that. We won the we won the championship. The next year we won 50 games. I think we lost in the in the finals the next year. And then the year after that, they put in the three point shot and the wizards, the bullets at the time, bullets were just not prepared for the three point shot. And we never got back. So are you saying they've not embraced the analytics? We hit not yet. Not but now, now we are. Winger Steve first thing get rid of the three point line. Winger, who I like a lot. We had him on the pod. He's an awesome basketball guy. Tons of respect. It doesn't mean that you just get to fix everything immediately. I also wonder why the debonza thing has become like consensus the way that it has this week. Like I feel like it's I just wouldn't I don't know anything. But I'm just telling you, like I don't. Peterson is so much better than debonza when they played against each other. And if you don't believe me, which is fine, because I kind of like prepped late for the draft, but Gavoni, who's really good on this stuff, like he had a clip that came out this week with Zach Low where he just goes, Hey, I've watched him play like eight to 10 times in person. I've never once thought debonza was better than him. And I know the Peterson season is crazy in regard to everything that happened. I don't believe the creatine thing at all, because it'd be like, Hey, what's wrong with you? Oh, I started taking this supplement a month ago. Okay, well, Hey, you could be the number one fucking pick in the NBA draft. So how about we stop taking the supplement or find a different creatine? Like that doesn't make any sense that it would happen all season long and like, Hey, we figured it out. Now everything's fine. It's not going to take. I'm not going to take this stuff, micronized. We're out on it. I just think that Peterson, like to just turn the page on this the way the consensus kind of has that it's like, Oh, yeah, it's just AJ and they're going to take him. Now you may take him because I wouldn't blame any GM for being like a little scared. Yeah, you know, of going like, it's kind of scares the shit out of me a little bit. Yeah. If I'm going to be wrong, like I want to be wrong because AJ ends up not being a great player. I don't want to be wrong in three years where Peterson isn't playing. It's like, Hey, dickhead, you know, like Mark Health, I mean, yeah, that that was that came out of nowhere, kind of. But yeah, where you were, yeah, but Mark was hurt. Yeah, right. There was that shoulder thing that some people tell you if you had seen him play before he had that shoulder injury, that they were like, Hey, there's a reason why like teams still believe in him as the number one overall guy. So I'm only saying that is like, I'm surprised that as soon as the lottery was drawn, it was the Wizards and it's like people are ready to make a jersey for AJ and they still may end up picking them. I just would think it's a I would feel like it's a challenge for a front office to turn the page on Peterson that quickly. Yeah, I would agree. I don't have it set in stone as being AJ. I think that also people looking at the roster of the Wizards and saying AJ makes more sense right now. But I don't think that that should actually impact if you really believe in a guy going number one, that's where I think you make the biggest mistakes in the draft is drafting for fit. Yeah, it's like Mario Williams, you know, he's just like, Hey, pick the best guy, you'll figure it out later. If he's the best guy, right? Who do you think is going to have the better career? A cuff or Waggler? Wow. Because a cuff does something like right now that immediately translates where you just go, Okay, he's going to get by everybody all the time. And yeah, I know he sucks on defense, but some of the stuff I think is I think it's really fixable, especially like with big time scoring kids are like they've never really had to play defense their whole life. But there's other teams that just think like it's so bad. You know, Waggler's thing was that he was like in control of every possession. And I don't want to compare him to SGA, but there's some SGA type stuff where it's like, he keeps the possession alive beyond his own shot decision with him, where there's a composure to him. But it doesn't look it's not physically as impressive as other guys, which is kind of SGA's downfall is that it doesn't ever look as cool as aunt doing something. It's just way more efficient, historically efficient for a two guard. So people get into like the aura thing being like a knock on SGA, which I kind of get. But it's like, I'd rather have that though. And I think Waggler has some of that stuff in where once they just gave him the keys to that team, like that guy was unbelievable. So I'm going to go Waggler. Okay. All right, you got to go, Ryan. Last question. Roback question. RHOBACK.com promo code take 20% off your first purchase, QZips, Polo's, Hooties, Joggers, Shorts, roback.com promo code take, put on the headphone, Zach. Oh yeah. Sorry. Zach. I went headphones free on this one. Yeah, you did. You raw docked it. What's going on, Ryan? How are we doing today? I'm great, Zach. It's so good to see you. Great to see you as well, man. I did have a quick question with you being a well traveled man. This may be some life advice. Was there a particular country where you found was like, this made sense to find a life partner there? Or is that something you think should be done domestically? It's a great question. It's a great question. Because I thought about it, like when I went to, when I landed in Recuvik, I was kind of like, I was like, man, it's three hours to Minneapolis. And I was like, and they just go straight up to Recuvik. I was like, this is like less than five hours. I was like, if I meet somebody here, this isn't even that bad of a commute. I mean, granted, you'd be saying like, Oh, I'm going to go see my girlfriend in Iceland. Right. And you'd be like, you couldn't, you live in, you live in Los Angeles, man. Like, Recuvik. Yeah. Outside of Recuvik, the Western Fjords. I don't think we're going to find a lot there. But I really think it should be done domestically. Because then I feel like, Zach, I just don't want you to be used for your citizenship. I'm not entirely opposed to that, but you're right. I probably shouldn't be like a green card target. But you're not opposed. Not 100% opposed, you know? I haven't been to South America, though. So I'm sure like my mind that's where you were kind of going with that. Like, I don't hate the idea like Columbia, maybe. Yeah. This is what Jersey Jerry warned us about. Italians aren't going to exist anymore because they're all attracted to Colombians. And now you're next in line, Ryan. Yeah. I feel like the Columbia thing is, is over because everyone talks about it. I could see that like oversaturation in the market. Yeah. Exactly. These thoughts. I miss my Colombian girls. The strip club. We're not really. He said that a couple of times, like, I miss my Colombian girls. It's just a big weekend. It's just a big Colombian weekend all around for us. Yeah. Max especially. The problem is, is like, if you're going to these hot Instagram spots, like they're just as unapproachable as like going out in Manhattan and fighting over nines with financial guys. Yeah. But Zach is a, he's a, he's an attractive guy. No, he's a demon. I get that. But I just, like, there's, there's a language barrier thing. So I don't know, you know, it's just tough. Like I remember walking around this one town in the south of France and I was like laughing out loud about how hot everybody was. And I was like, you're not going to do anything about it. I was like, of course I'm not going to do anything about it. I'm just going to go home. Hey, how's it going? I'm solo and I'm a little bit older than I look. Good question. Do you like film? If we're going domestically, Ron, to branch off a little bit, if we're going domestically, not online where we, where's like, where the, here, right here, you are in it. I'm telling you right now, Chicago is the most attractive slash approachable farisex of any major city in the United States. And I'm telling you right now, like you don't have to deal with the northeast thing. You don't have to deal with the southern. Why aren't you marrying me in six months thing? You don't have to deal with the Southern California thing where it's like, Hey, you're nice, but a linebacker in the NFL is also DMing me. You know, you are, you are in Chicago. And if there's one thing that is consistent about this place, Midwest values, Midwest sensibilities and girls that are cute that you can actually talk to. Yeah. And you're, I mean, he knows, he plays a little quite, he needs to get in his DMs. I guarantee you they're lit up right now. I appreciate the advice. Ryan, more than you know. Thank you. His eyes are incredible. I get lost in them every day. Soft eyes. Yeah. Caribbean approachable eyes. It sounds like Zach's thought about that very question before. Like what, what nationality would you be most attracted to Zach? Yeah. I feel like romance could be like a global thing. So I just wouldn't, I figured I asked a world travel mate. Yeah. Germany though. Germany. Yeah. Little village. That might be like a guy like, yeah, there's, I'm telling you when you're attracted, you're just attracted and you get through those barriers. Love transcends languages. Are we telling me? Yeah. Basically. German, little German villages, guy like you roll in with those shoulders. Whoo. All right, Ryan, you're the best. Everyone listen to Ryan Rousseau podcast. And you want this. I want it. Fuck you. I did six shows. I wasn't able to do mostly sports. Oh, that's tough. I know. It's tough. I didn't hear from those guys. Yeah. They didn't even try to book you. No. Who's in charge over there? I have no idea. This podcast is sponsored by Better Help. Life's a journey. Some days feel good. Others feel overwhelming. 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But it feels like even more earlier than usual. I agree. Like I've been waking up at like 540 and been like, what, did I sleep in? What the fuck? We got like one more month, right? Of it getting lighter earlier and staying light later. Yeah. It did. And June. So we're not even done yet. Summs up with the sun. Something's going on with the sun. What do you think? I'm just telling you, I don't know. I, the sun, I'm on to you, bro. Well, this is, it's the second sun. You guys know that, right? They replaced the sun back in the 1970s. By the way, no fallout for my alien talk the other day. They didn't do shit. Yeah, they're waiting. Maybe you're an alien. Yeah, this is actually making more sense now. Clone. Groot week next week, super exciting for Groot week. And yeah, there's, I got nothing. I really racked my brain, but I got nothing. I was, you know, it was a long week last week. I was happy to be back. Feel good. Feel healthy. You're finally over because you having to go from Max's Bachelor Party, LA live show to then a wedding. Like I don't know how you did that. No, it was a lot. I pushed my body to the absolute limit, but then I came back Sunday, potted, and then Monday I just went to, you know, just there's a Russian bath house in Chicago. Just went there, sweated for three hours. Feel like I got all the toxins out of my system. And then And now you get to see your kids today. On Friday. Yeah. Yeah. I got, yeah. I got, I got, I got visitation today. I don't know if you know how we do this show. No, I know, but yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Daddy's home. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Do you think they remember you? I hope so. Long weekend with you. You're going to see your kids. They're probably going to be upset with me. It might not go well, but if we got that. You're not going to recognize them. You're going to be like, I've been gone for so long. I know. I feel, do you feel guilty? Yeah. I feel terrible whenever I go this long without seeing my kids. Like I can't sleep at night. But when you see them, like the second they see you, it's all worth it. And yeah, you just never want to say goodbye. Is it like a, uh... I might just be there for, I mean, spend 10 hours with my kids. It's like a military homecoming. Yeah. Should have Hank hide in a box, roll him out to the first T-box. His caddy season when he steps out of his car and goes up to him just jumps in his arms. Missed you. Okay. So you just, your life is awesome. Yeah. Listen, we do, we do like, it can't force a firefest. I have them a lot. I got nothing this week. Okay. Good week. We won softball. Yeah. Yeah. I had fun. Yeah. It's a great week. Yeah. I also love that that's like your number one priority, like your priority, like everything went good this week. Well, my softball game. Well, usually like things that, things that happen outside of work that become firefests. Like I didn't really do anything. Like I was relaxing outside of work this week. And the one thing we did, we won. Yeah. Cool. Handily. Had a dog. Yeah, he did. Nice. I saw that on the recap inside the park. Who had a recap? The, uh, Quiggs, Quiggs little robot. Are they all inside the park? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. This one almost left, but. But would this have been a home run on most ball fields that have a fence? Probably except for Fenway. Just because it was so good. The monster would have gotten it. Yeah. All right. Cool. Sick. Yeah. My firefest of the week, I don't really, I'm kind of with Hank on this, but there is something. There is something because I've had a pretty good week. And again, like we coming up next week, I'm so excited. I'm actually just, I'm so excited to drop the first interview. I'm also so excited for Vanny Woodhead too. Yeah. That's going to be, we haven't been in a Vanny Woodhead in a long time. It also feels like doing group week this time of year feels correct. Yes. Yeah. And what, one of my firefests. And it makes it more exciting. I don't know if you guys feel the same way. No, because when we do it in August, it definitely has a feeling of like, okay, we've had a long, you know, we packed some things into the summer, especially last summer is like, we did this, this, this. This is like a kickoff in two. Yeah. I'm excited. One of our group firefests could be that Max is being a big pussy about Vanny Woodhead. Yeah. He's terrified to ride in his van. He's being a baby. He's being a big baby about it. It's not true. Yeah, you are. No, you're being a big baby. You're being a bigger baby than Buddha Ben was. He doesn't understand how many hours are in a day. You called me into a conference room freaking out that we were not going to have enough time to drive. I still don't think. Yeah, see? You guys just love scheduling things and don't think about time. Okay. Well, dude, it's great week, buddy. You got to fucking, if we don't sleep, we don't sleep. You got 24 hours in the day. Should we do an all nighter? Yeah. We probably will. Okay, good. You guys are going to be fucking cranky. No, we're not excited about it. Hell no. Hank, Hank, what happened to Hank didn't get breakfast one night? Oh, well, guess what, bitch? There's a lot of waffle houses, so we can hit those. Love it. Yeah, that might be a group firefist that PFT announced he's going to eat every meal at Waffle House, which means we have to eat every meal at Waffle House. Oh, no. Oh, no, it's a great idea. Well, I would like to get some. I mean, we're going to New Orleans. I'd like to get some. Oh, you should do gumbo. Yeah, gumbo. Last time I came back with a kidney filled with gravel. That's grit. Yeah, or I could just eat grits every meal. Yeah. I probably shouldn't have said that out loud. That's a mistake to say it out loud, but I do love Waffle House. But yeah, a group firefist max has been a big baby about Grit Week. I'm just I'm just being a producer and trying to actually plan. And you guys just be like, oh, let's do this. Let's do this. Let's do this. I'm like, we don't have enough time the day for all this. The answer is always yes. Yeah, yeah. The answer is going down to five big times. I'm not. Grit Week is one week. We just got to fucking do it, dude. Sack up. Sure. Sack up. I'm going to do it. I just wanted to make sure that everyone was aware of how. Oh, I'm aware of how big of a baby you're being. Yes. You've done a very excellent job. We all know how cranky you've been. You've raised a lot of good awareness to that. The actual firefist that I was going to go with, I realized that I have a lot. Like I was smarter when it came to most things when I was in eighth grade than I am today. And I was thinking about like, obviously math, like eighth grade me would run circles around my brain today when it came to like any sort of math problem. But science too, and understanding how to do like, how to set up any sort of a science experiment to figure something out. Because I've been trying to sort this out. I actually dove into it with like a pen and a paper this week. I want to do an experiment. And maybe you guys can help me with this. It could be, I think, a good experiment we could do together as a group. Or we could do it in like a barstle after dark setting. But the bottom line is I went out, I bought, I bought breathalyzers, like key chain breathalyzers. And I brought that along with us to Vegas so we could like, I had Max blow into it a few times. Good numbers by Max, by the way, on that breathalyzer. But it's been my quest to figure out what that golden ratio is for how good you get at a sport determined by how slightly buzzed you are. So like when you're playing beer pong, or you're playing darts, or you're playing a game like that, maybe even golf. My hypothesis is that you have to be between like a .04 and a .06. And that's when you achieve like the best results. Yeah. I mean, this isn't new. Yeah. When you play beer pong, like you suck when you're sober. Exactly. And then you get, and then you get good and then you get bad again. Exactly. So it's been, it's been discussed before. But now that I've got the breathalyzers, I want to do like a scientific experiment. You got to get real breathalyzers though. Where we, well, yeah, I can upgrade. I can always upgrade the breathalyzers. But I want to do like an actual experiment. And I've been trying to figure out how to set up the experiment. And it's escaping me. And I can't, I can't nail it down. My idea was like, you shoot 100 shots sober, then you shoot 100 shots after you've had like two beers, then 100 after you've had four beers. But then you might also get better because you've practiced shooting 200 times. No, I don't think it's 100 shots. Yeah. It's like, it's, it's playing a game. It's like, yeah, like 10 shots and then have a couple beers, then 10 shots. Yeah. You can't, you can't do, if you shoot 100 shots, you're going to be better on the second 100. Right. And then I think we need like a big sample size of people that would be engaging in this. You actually know, you know what you can easily do is you could just do 100 shots sober, another 100 shots sober, another 100 shots sober. So it establishes like where, where you get better just baseline sober. Yeah. And then add the drinking. Then you add the drinking. Because then, then you'll have a good sense. Yeah. I feel like this would be a good barstle after dark stream though. Yeah. I feel like this is, I want to do some scientific work on this and see exactly like where the human body peaks physically. Mm-hmm. I like this. The, uh, yeah, the, the, the idea of getting like an eighth grade U being smarter. I'm like, I'm like a year or two away from my oldest son being smarter than me. And I, I'm terrified of it. When they're, they're teaching math in a totally different way too. Shit, I don't even understand. Like imagine, imagine trying to help with algebra two homework. No. No. No. Or like trigonometry. I took algebra two in college. No. Yeah. Yeah. No. Okay. My firefest is sitting right here in the studio because if you listen to the Ryan Racillo interview, I gifted him the NBA finals flag that hung in the concourse of Chris Paul's only NBA finals. I was really hoping he wasn't going to accept the gift so I could hang it in the office and he has accepted the gift. This is just, I guess this is what, what being a good friend means. Mm-hmm. Because I was, I was really hoping he'd be like, no, I don't want it, but he wants it. So I got to find another one. It's really nice. Do you think he knows that you wanted that? And so he's just, I made it pretty clear. Yeah. But do you think it's like, Maybe, no, I think he likes it. I think he wants it because it's a cool last thing. Like that's a cool thing to have in your house. NBA finals banner. You think Ryan Racillo is putting this up in his house? I think he's going to put it up behind him for the NBA finals. I do think he will do that. Then maybe he'll send it back. It's not going to fit. Yeah, dude, he's got it. You don't think he's like, oh yeah, yeah, yeah. He's not having a hat in his house. And then, and then, and then keep it in the box. You know, he might send it back. That's, I guess, my only hope. Yeah. But he also might, it might be like next to his Christmas tree, where every year when the NBA finals comes around, he goes to the garage, takes out his NBA final banner. We'll get another one. Yeah, we need another one. We definitely need another one. And then my other firefesses Max and Mademade, because we are undefeated in softball, but he yelled at me on the sidelines. Well, he'd be mad at you. I thought you guys were joking. No, he's mad. He gets mad. He's mad. I understand why he's mad, but also, yeah. Why is he mad? I don't understand. I told him he swung too hard and he gets mad whenever I say he was swung. Well, Big Cat's like the nine-year-old baseball coach that knows nothing about baseball or swinging it or swinging a bat. So he just does like the squash, the bug when he's never played a day of baseball in his life. Okay, that's not true. I definitely, I played all the way through when I was 12 years old. Yeah. Two, hold on. We're not playing baseball. And that's been my whole entire point. No, it's not. The whole point is, is a 16-inch softball, if you swing as hard as you can against a 16-inch softball, it will always end up bad for you. I have been the best hitter for, I had one bad game and now Big Cat's like the- No, I just said, I just mentioned that you were swinging too hard. But you say that to everyone and it drives everyone on our team because everyone on our team- Everyone on our team is insane. Because everyone on our team- We haven't lost. Yeah, but then we have innings where everyone fucking tries to hit a home run and they hit a pop-up. But you, like you saying that, you think, like no one is trying to get out. You know what this is. You know what this is. You see- No one is trying, like you know nothing. You know nothing. Do you think this is too late? Who's, have you, have I played more 16-inch softball than you in your life? It's swinging a bat. No, it's not. Who has swung a bat more in their life? It doesn't matter. Me times a trillion. 16-inch softball is not baseball. Did you swing too hard last night? No. Yes. No. What did you go? That is, like you know one for five. Any home runs? Yikes. Yeah, and he popped out to the first baseman twice. Okay, you know what this is. But here's the thing. I am so much better than you. I never said you weren't. So I know what I'm doing. You do not. Well, last night you didn't. Yeah, I'm not going to have a good game every single game. I also made every single play. You were great in defense. You could hit a line drive like laser every time. I was, I was, the problem was I, I was getting over antsy and I was not letting pitches. I was not looking at pitches. I was swinging at pitches that were, that were going to drop before the plate. That was the problem. I was not swinging too hard. There's anyone, here's, here's a lesson for all the kids out there. Yeah, youngsters. Anyone who tells you that you swing too hard is a fucking loser. Swing the fucking bat. Swing the fucking bat. Except when it comes to 16-inch softball because the ball moves differently. Hit the fucking ball. Swing it. Hank, you know what this is? This is, this is AJ Brown. And this is Nick Sirianni. That's exactly what. No, because Nick Sirianni has played a lot of football in his life. But again, it's not baseball, you idiot. It's fucking 16-inch softball. It's the same fucking thing. It's not. Yes it is. Nick Sirianni was never in the NFL. It's not. He played all through college. It's not. But your big cats didn't play through. He played through 12. You're being a little bit of it. Well, I know a lot of 16-inch softball. You're forgetting that part. It's a fucking bat. I made 16-inch softball for you. For 20 years. A little bit of a diva designated header. No, no. He's not the coach. Big Cat is not the coach. He's another player on the team. Now you can't accept any coaching points. Yeah, he's not a coach. But he's still giving you coaching tips. Yes, he's not the coach. It wasn't even a tip. It was just, it was actually just a statement. He swung to our point of view. But everything, like Big Cat is, the vibes that Big Cat brings when we have a bad inning is the fucking worst. Because. No one else can say it, say it to him. Oh, yeah. First of all, I haven't said to swing too hard. Last season I said it because the entire roster had never played 16-inch softball before. In the first game, every guy got up and tried to hit as hard as they could, and they all popped out. And I was like, guys, 16-inch softball is not about swinging hard. That's what I said. And I was right. And we're playing better now. It's not even a fucking bat. This is, it's the Eagles because like your team's winning. And you're just making it a terrible experience. Sorry. Sorry, I'm competitive. I want, I want my, my, my, my, We went out. We hit her to fucking rock it. Yeah. You know how I do that is I swing the fucking bat hard. Okay. Okay. I'm not, I'm not going to go up there like a pussy. It may as well go up there right handed. There's something to think about. Memes and Hank, you guys were there. Do you think he swung to our best? He definitely swung to our best. I'm the best hitter on the fucking field. He did make awesome plays in the field. He made awesome plays in the field. He actually made a play. I could do whatever you want. He made a play. Thank you, me. He made a play going back and catching like a willy maze catch. And then through the ball back and the guy didn't move off the third base. And he goes, I respect his arm. And I was like, fuck yeah, do you do? Fuck yeah, you do. So yeah, it's, uh, We got to get you a book to read in the dark. 4-0 though. Yeah. 4-0. 4-0. He did Italian hands at me. That's how mad he was. Well, I mean, it's so annoying when he does it. Oh, I like it when he does the, the, the wizard of Oz argument hands where he started shaking his hands like this. Yeah. Also for the record last night, I know that it annoys max. So I was going to say it no matter what, like that one I was going to. It annoys everyone. I'm just, I don't say it to anyone else anymore. I don't say it to anyone else. I said, I, the only thing I say is hit the ball on the ground. And that's a fact. Hey, you play 60 softball now. If you hit the ball on the ground, usually good things happen. If you're right handed. Yes. Left handed makes that more difficult. It's a lot easier to make the play. Unless you're fast. When we have our worst innings, it's because we just all try to hit you're right here. No. You have a great game and then you just like to make content out of it and get everyone content out It's only you you see saying everyone I only said it to you Because I because I told you to stop saying it to everyone because everyone else was getting pissed off that when you that you were saying I only said it to you and I only said it. Hey, is this true? I don't know. Yeah, I Don't talk to the guys like I do Oh Shit, but I only said it one time last year the first game Hank that's a lie one time maybe a couple times because we fucking hit it Hank He's like a couple times a couple times a game a couple times a game. No, no a couple times a game So everyone hates me on the team is what you're so no you're pretty much you're saying no they hate when you I don't know Memes you talked to the guys everyone's complaining about Max no, they like you okay, they but they don't like when you're like who Stop swinging name names everyone who you tanks everyone memes is everyone I'm no you're the one who's trying to bring this team down. No, I'm saying you said everyone And I have two guys sitting right here who have yeah, I'm not I'm Shane almost quit last year cuz you kept saying it He did yeah, okay He was really that pissed yeah Shane also wears two batting gloves not anymore. We shamed him out of it I think you get the most mad by far and then you were sure yeah Yeah, I mean you you were you were yelling at me last time because I'm the only one who's gonna say anything We don't understand because he's taking on all the complaints I mean all the guys on the team got it or I also haven't said it this year I literally said it the first time last night cuz Max did swing too hard I've not said it this year memes does max swing too hard Not max you do it every once you so good Sounds like everyone's intimidated max. Yeah, that is true. Everyone's afraid to say anything to Max No, we have two games is here where nobody had except max. Yes, and he won us the game So he did he could do it everyone's Can't wait to eat grits next week the cat and Hank did scoff at the lineup before the game started All right, maybe if we're just doing complaints I mean whoever made the lineup put our best hitters at the bottom of the lineup and I know We run they I think I'm I was hitting five I'm not one of our best hitters the person who we should have put them put them That was Brian's the one who made the lineup and he put himself at the bottom of the line Sometimes it's good to have like a second leadoff batter at the end No, he said that he just wasn't hitting well, so we wanted to punish himself. I also just like to scoff Yeah, true you are a scoffer scoff law and we are for no Yeah, you would you would think that we haven't won a game. Yeah, we that's not true. I said we were for no It's the Eagles who thinks can be true. Yeah, that's what I know You guys are the worst for no softball team of all time the vibes couldn't be screaming at me. He was like, yeah, never play baseball You're so you're being a baby now you're a fucking baby We were up eight runs and you're like, hey man, you really got to stop I actually that's not true I said after because I knew it would piss you off and I said you swank too hard We got a baby. Well, like how does how was that? How was that good for the team? Oh, it was just for you. I didn't say to anyone else. Yeah, how was that good? Don't you want to funny don't driving this conversation max don't you want to be funny? I Was I was laughing Everyone ever I talked to everyone on the team they laughed Now you don't talk to the people on the team like Max does big big guys got beers with the guys one How many times you got beers every single game, okay, and I fucking I have three kids and I Sorry, I've only played three games my thanks god 18 so I've missed beers three times my bad Thanks got 18 kids. I mean, why would I get beers anyway? Hey, why would I get beers max told me that everyone doesn't like me. Yeah Why would I get beers I said people I wonder if there's probably a group text Definitely, definitely you can't be like, you know, you should you should chug slower. Yeah Chugging your life, dude. You'd enjoy that beer more if you drank no big cats much better chugger than me I wouldn't tell him how to chug I wouldn't get upset if you did Yeah, you would I would say I would just be like, okay, I'll chug faster. That's why also 60 something That's productive I'm I think it's actually bad. No, yeah bad spot now. Yeah, no now D-productive no now now you what you just did is you just wrote you just ruined our best dinner because now I'm gonna be up there. I'm just gonna be thinking about you. No, I like he's Ricky Henderson now. He's talking third person. Oh Man, I never said I never said my name I know but you refer to yourself like you know what you just said you just ruined our best hitter Yeah, yeah, he just did because now it's gonna be a thing and I'm gonna like pop out in the first inning of the next game And I'm just gonna look on this on the bench and he's gonna have this stupid I might not play I might I might be done because he's gonna have this stupid fucking grin on his face And I and I know it he has the same fucking grin every single time He doesn't even say anything and if that's what now I can't exist Thank I understand what you're saying now. I can't even exist. I can't even I can't enjoy being out there With the boys. I may as well. I'll just be designated fielder next game That's a lie. I well, I mean both of us are out because I everyone hates me on the team So I'm out. I said everyone hates when you tell them how to swing. That's a different year. I know this year I actually agree you haven't you haven't done it this year because I told you not to do it And he said yeah, listen bitch. So you're the coach. Yeah, so sounds like I can take coaching But you can't because you told me not to say it anymore. I stopped saying it. That's true I told you stop swinging so hard and you're gonna keep swinging those that's one of them is not coaching You can't I'm coaching you on FD. Yeah, I mean a big cap makes a good point I'm coach which is that he heard criticism and and he adapted with it. Correct. You hear criticism You cover up both ears and you're like nobody's better than me I'm the strongest boy It's me max I'm so strong big cat is Home run with poopy pants once Max I think you're really good at softball now. I'm done with you You are your fucking next fire monster My field purpose is weeks in me quick one I'm uh, I'm just you know, I'm third three days into a lifestyle change and I just can't stop thinking about kinesh It's kind of consume me There's a deli down the street from my house. Oh, man. I was open up to the world of kinesh probably about three weeks ago It became a mainstay Honestly, I was talking about converting because it's my it may be my favorite food of all time. It's so good It's what what is what is it? Because I don't even know I don't really know what's in the middle I do like the savory. It's like a meat situation and the potato on the outside Sometimes like a sailor Joe. It's like potato with dough around it's like a almost like a fried pierogi or like a Like it's it's a bread and then potatoes in the middle or meat It's good They're like maybe baseball sized you can get a tray really quick from this place down the street And I just I keep thinking about it like late night And I don't know if it's an issue or how I'm gonna overcome this and I kind of wish I never ran into them It's like a it's like the cousin of a pierogi and the cousin of a Empanada you said convert what is the convert to Yeah, I was gonna say just the dishes. Yeah, you might I mean it'll solve itself on Saturday, right? They won't be open Yeah, they do have weird hours, which is which is not my favorite part about it Like sometimes in the middle of the week They'll be like all we close at three which I didn't really see coming because there was a couple days were like Towards the end of the day ever look forward to something when you get home. Yeah, I was looking forward to like oh We I'll get a five pack when I get home. This can be fantastic and they were closed So I didn't really know where to pivot from there. I Probably can get over this hurdle before right now I'm absolutely in the condition and that's my firefest so I do love that that every culture has figured out like their version of this dish Like the Colacci or the hot pocket They got the condition that looks so good. So are they potato conditions? Do they all have potatoes in them and then something else from my experience all potatoes on the outside and then inside like meat? I don't think I've ever had a meat can ish. I've only ever had just the potato one. It's like The ones I had are like mashed potatoes on the inside and then like a fried Some sort of dough on the outside to dip them There's sauce on the side but I have yet to dip You see that's I would I would start to explore the sauces that seems like an entire new lane too I feel like the sauce could take away from the integrity though This raw dog in the canisious. Yeah when they're warm And honestly when they're cold they do look pretty good You've never had a can ish pft. I don't think I have There's big long big long island thing. There's a lot of good canisious in Long Island Yeah, my mom will make them and stuff them with cheese really good. It does look good. I've been a big pierogi guy I'm a big class you guys Nothing better maybe maybe can issues but all the filled foods are bad for you All some of the filled foods are the best foods and they're bad for you gushers. We got to pivot We got to find a way. Yeah, and it starts here. How many can issues are you putting down a day? uh Initially we just two with the sandwich, but then I just start the sandwich is okay So I just started ditching the sandwich and just going a seven pack a seven packet can issues Yeah, but they look pretty big one meal a day. Just you know me. Yeah, so when you're yeah Big cat has texted the spring pugs and Said it's one of apologize max that everyone on the team secretly hates my guts for saying don't swing too hard last year When a lot of you guys are playing 16 inch for the first time really sorry won't ever do it again That's that's coachable max. Oh that has replied. I hate this guy I think that was that was supposed to be in your separate group text that with the one with the guys you actually talked to Oh, this separate group text is firing off right now. Oh, yeah That's I'm was it hey, I mean like oh, yeah, I apologize. Yeah, like my bet oh Hank loved it. Lerlo our thumbs up. Thank you. Appreciate that. I feel seen Wait, I'm about to I'm about to lob a grenade in here He's just in the group. Yeah You know he was on the roster. He's yeah, it was on the aisle I retired I did a Aaron Rogers retired before the season started Jack wants to know if you can chew nab with him after Absolutely not. Yeah, yeah one time. I told me so I'm too hard. I just asked Quiggs his bot that he has in there if there's a second group chat without big cat Let's see what AI says about this. Oh, there we go. He responded No comment on the second chat question yet big cat if we know comment I know buying the beer so we tolerate it. Is that true? I Don't know I paid for the tea. I think I paid for the league. So yeah, he can over coach. I Don't over coach. I just but give me just said he did. Yeah, because last night All right, good show boys Wait, oh give you reply big you already said that this this chats this bot sucks big cat Don't sweat it max needs to hear this more than anyone stop over swing. You're right last year and you're right now He went to for it to for infield flies yesterday trying to kill the ball. That's the problem give him the same advice That's a hi Also keep trying to get the AI chat to call 9-1-1 I keep trying to command it and Quiggs gets freaks out every time Okay, good show Numbers 11 Shane's on the team Shane Everyone hate me 15 on the team. I see this is where you just you just what you say what I say Does everyone hate that I told last year I told him that they're swung too hard Haven't heard anything about it till Yeah Maybe a couple times yeah a couple times last year I did not say it I did a couple times Hank if you listen to what Hank said he said you said it a couple times a game No, I don't say a couple times a game. I only played spring last year, but it's also like what I'm just saying it out loud Don't swing too hard. Who cares you just not listen Except max does listen and gets mad Yep I'm happy that you just ruined our team. We're probably not Yeah, and then we won after that no we didn't yes we did oh big cat wasn't at the game where Tom took a tumble Thank you. That was me. Yes. Thank you So warranted thank you. Thank you looks like max is in Un Trustworthy narrator here looks like Hank ruined the team. Yeah, so take it back Max The the comic fall was not me I did not bring that out This is the one thing that we do without content and then and then we just have to make it content every single This is barely content. It's a bar between the last 20 minutes It's all right between the two of us 18 to 6 I made every single plan in the field I went 18 to 5 and it's like I Went I did this I did that yes because he is the one criticizing me. I'm not criticizing you What do you mean? You're not criticizing me? What the fuck is that then how was that not fucking criticism? I Quit what finals is 21 finals that was that I'm gonna coach that I'm serious. I'll quit yeah He's not the fucking coach BFD. We got the fucking coach 56 I Do you Mean she's a 3 That's what you know Let's do one more threes I To 52 No Not happy birthday to Ray Lewis Emmett Smith Ryan leaf John Smoltz and Then Saturday happy birthday Gardner Minchu happy birthday to Janet Jackson and Megan Fox also on Saturday Shout out Megan Fox memes I Got nothing yeah, that's right. 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