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Speaker 1: Merry Christmas from the Jungle Baby.

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Speaker 2: Good morning SWIMMLD and welcome to the No Dunks podcast

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Speaker 2: on the Athletic Network. This is the Drop. It's just

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Speaker 2: like I other podcasts, but better. It's Friday, December twenty third,

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty two. Happy Festivusts to those who celebrate.

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Speaker 3: I'm jay E.

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Speaker 2: Skis here in the yard and alongside me thanks to

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Speaker 3: Tas Mellie podcast listeners.

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Speaker 2: That's just for you, filling in for JD all week

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Speaker 2: long doing an admirable job. There he is. It's Drue. Hello, Hey,

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Speaker 2: what's up. How's it going?

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Speaker 4: Ah, it's going great. We made it in the week

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Speaker 2: Yes, Friday finally here and we have an excellent drop podcast.

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Speaker 3: Limited edition I wish I was wearing that right now

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Speaker 3: under my Christmas sweater. Yeah, because today, Yeah, I'm in

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Speaker 3: the spirit. I'm in the spirit to wear a Christmas sweater,

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Speaker 3: but it almost feels less Christmas e because I don't

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Speaker 3: have a Christmas Eve shirt underneath it, even Steve, right now, No,

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Speaker 3: I'm just wearing a regular No, I wouldn't do that.

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Speaker 3: I need a T shirt underneath my sweaters. I'm not

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Speaker 3: that much of a scumback, but it's a non Christmas

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Speaker 3: ey T shirt, so it doesn't feel as festive.

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Speaker 2: Okay, Well, go to no dunks dot com. Okay, get

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Speaker 2: you one of those shirts, all right. On today's Drop podcast,

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Speaker 2: we got a lot, like I said, tasks. All right,

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Speaker 2: all right, Jerome, get rid of the shirt. We've seen

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Speaker 2: it long ago. What are you doing over there, Jerome?

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Speaker 2: What's going on? I know at your parents' house. So

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Speaker 2: you got breakfast being served? Did you just get up

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Speaker 2: and leave the computer? I'm just kidding.

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Speaker 4: There is the meat low Oh. I like that.

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Speaker 2: You really want to sell those shirts, so I appreciate that.

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Speaker 2: On today's Drop podcast, Task has kicked the Grinch to

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Speaker 2: the curb and is going to replace worst of the

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Speaker 2: Week with Best of the Week nominees. Yes, really getting

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Speaker 2: into the holiday spirit. Later on, Kat Jamie is going

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Speaker 2: to join us to discuss her new sports documentary about

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Speaker 2: why the Grizzlies actually left Vancouver. It's called The Grizzly Truth.

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Speaker 2: Tas and I, because we're big timers, got a screener,

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Speaker 2: got a chance to watch it this week and it's fantastic.

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Speaker 2: So we've got lots of cues about that doc with Kat,

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Speaker 2: and then later on we'll have some rapid fire fun,

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Speaker 2: but we start with some you know, Christmas inspired questions tasks.

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Speaker 2: We usually do this here on our Final Drop podcast

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Speaker 2: before the big day there on the twenty fifth, first fifth,

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Speaker 2: and my first question for you and everybody here in

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Speaker 2: the stream team is who's on your NBA Naughty or

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Speaker 2: Nice list? Who's been good, who's been bad?

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Speaker 3: an incredible rivalry between the Pelicans and the Suns, a

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Speaker 3: I wish we could flex the Christmas Day schedule. But

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Speaker 3: the way they've been going through this season, where Zion

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Speaker 3: Williamson threw that three sixty wind mill down that man,

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Speaker 2: go with a naughty and it's topical. A naughty to

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Speaker 2: the unnamed rival executives stirring up some shit here. Right

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Speaker 2: before Christmas, Chris Haynes of Bleacher Report yesterday had an

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Speaker 2: and that gets everybody going nuts. Oh my god, Tray Young,

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Speaker 2: he's upset, he wants out. Now, what are the trades

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Speaker 2: I think Tray could be next. And maybe there's some

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Speaker 3: because I had to reread that multiple times. I probably

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Speaker 3: I just ain't buying it. As much as they've been

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Speaker 3: there was even another part of that report where DeMar

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Speaker 3: it just felt like, here's a roundup from the g

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Speaker 2: They're like saying, keep an eye on that situation there

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Speaker 2: and you know, maybe maybe if they struggle, they like,

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Speaker 2: One of the top teams in the East. That's all possible,

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Speaker 2: way they played this year sort of up and down

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Speaker 2: sort of spitballing and saying that. But I just love

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Speaker 2: what it does when something like this comes out from

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Speaker 2: a crazy one like that, Like that's what happens, right.

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Speaker 2: It takes like literally it's like ten minutes later, those

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and he's going to be there next season. I

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Speaker 3: know it's easy to forget all the stuff that's happened

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Speaker 3: it now you can, you can jump on that rumor.

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Speaker 2: Anyone else on your not your nice list here.

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Speaker 3: Well, I got another combo. I got an other combo,

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Speaker 3: naughty and nice. Patrick Beverly had an incredible twenty twenty

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Speaker 3: this year, this calendar year, because he was with the Timberwolves.

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Speaker 3: and still it was the Patrick Beverley Show. In the postseason.

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Speaker 3: is Patrick Beverly. So he was a good quote. So

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Speaker 3: he gets traded. He goes to the Los Angeles and

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Speaker 3: this is the naughty part. He hasn't had a good

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Speaker 3: he was also naughty when he was suspended for three

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Speaker 2: nice list, Okay, nice and shout out to Michael de

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Speaker 3: Just quick one. It's nice that the Sacramento Kings are

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Speaker 3: It feels like, you know, a five hundred team at worst,

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Speaker 2: All right, which Christmas Day game are you most excited for?

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Speaker 3: Well, I'll start with the first one because that can

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Speaker 3: The Knicks are always bad when it comes to uh yeah,

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Speaker 3: Game two. Buck Celtics should be a good game. In

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Speaker 2: It's a table setter for tasks. I think most people

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Speaker 2: right sure. I think it's their first game since last

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Speaker 2: like an awesome just straight up Lebron versus Lucas show

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Speaker 3: And I hope, I hope it's not like the postseason

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Speaker 3: But maybe it's a game a team on the other

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Speaker 3: that's definitely the two best teams in the Eastern Conference,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's gonna be the second time I showed

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Speaker 2: the Nuggets game. He basically said, is this a real

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Speaker 2: Could it be announced on Christmas Day? I mean, you'll

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Speaker 3: I'm buying it. And and they would be the number

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Speaker 2: So that's partly final one here. What's on your NBA

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Speaker 3: Well, we've already mentioned it, but I wish the people

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Speaker 3: the schedule. Well, it's just come on. I'm not buying

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Speaker 3: I just I hope it's not, obviously, and Lebron is

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Speaker 3: next week, next week we'll take But listen Teal and

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Speaker 3: look at it. If Lebron shows up, then we should

427
00:22:12,800 --> 00:22:13,280
Speaker 3: have a good game.

428
00:22:13,320 --> 00:22:15,439
Speaker 2: If the Lakers show up around Christmas, that's what.

429
00:22:15,680 --> 00:22:17,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that's fair. Nick.

430
00:22:18,240 --> 00:22:21,600
Speaker 2: I went and checked out last year's answers to this

431
00:22:22,440 --> 00:22:24,120
Speaker 2: just I was like, what did we wish for last

432
00:22:24,200 --> 00:22:26,280
Speaker 2: year twenty twenty one when we did this drop podcast

433
00:22:26,320 --> 00:22:29,040
Speaker 2: right before Christmas. We were doing it with Leeley, our guy.

434
00:22:29,080 --> 00:22:31,399
Speaker 2: Of course we had some interesting answers. You wanted a

435
00:22:31,400 --> 00:22:34,760
Speaker 2: healthy Zion. Yeah, it was like the number one thing

436
00:22:34,800 --> 00:22:36,480
Speaker 2: you really wanted on your Christmas wish list.

437
00:22:36,600 --> 00:22:36,800
Speaker 3: Fair.

438
00:22:37,119 --> 00:22:40,639
Speaker 2: Lee wanted a Wolves playoff run, So I mean he

439
00:22:40,800 --> 00:22:43,080
Speaker 2: got that in the end. He was a good boy.

440
00:22:43,200 --> 00:22:45,639
Speaker 2: Santa gave him that, and I guess I was naughty

441
00:22:45,680 --> 00:22:51,080
Speaker 2: because last season I wanted Sga for ASG. I wanted

442
00:22:51,119 --> 00:22:53,520
Speaker 2: Shay in the All Star Game and came up short

443
00:22:53,560 --> 00:22:57,880
Speaker 2: there in Cleveland, but a lock here in Salt Lake City.

444
00:22:58,000 --> 00:23:03,000
Speaker 2: So right, yeah, so those were what we had last year.

445
00:23:03,200 --> 00:23:06,800
Speaker 2: As for my wishes this year, my NBA Christmas wish list,

446
00:23:06,840 --> 00:23:09,920
Speaker 2: I got four things. I'll go pretty quickly here. This one.

447
00:23:09,960 --> 00:23:11,919
Speaker 2: I'm asking for the moon tasks. But this is me

448
00:23:12,040 --> 00:23:14,840
Speaker 2: asking basically for like a motorcycle, right, Like, why not,

449
00:23:15,440 --> 00:23:19,320
Speaker 2: let's find out how real Santa is. I want Zion

450
00:23:20,320 --> 00:23:22,920
Speaker 2: and or John Morant. I guess I'm not that greedy

451
00:23:23,080 --> 00:23:27,959
Speaker 2: to enter the NBA Dunk contests. Let's go, please, please,

452
00:23:28,160 --> 00:23:31,280
Speaker 2: I mean, save it, bring it back. One of you.

453
00:23:31,359 --> 00:23:32,159
Speaker 2: We only need one of you.

454
00:23:32,240 --> 00:23:32,600
Speaker 4: Two of you.

455
00:23:32,760 --> 00:23:36,720
Speaker 2: Oh my god, rating through the roof. So unlikely. It

456
00:23:36,760 --> 00:23:40,040
Speaker 2: will probably be Shaden Sharp just winning it. And that's fine,

457
00:23:40,119 --> 00:23:43,080
Speaker 2: good old Canadian boy high flyer. He'll probably win it

458
00:23:43,080 --> 00:23:45,880
Speaker 2: for the Blazers here in the Dunk Contest in twenty three.

459
00:23:45,880 --> 00:23:47,560
Speaker 2: But let's get Zion and John Morant.

460
00:23:47,880 --> 00:23:48,240
Speaker 5: Yeah.

461
00:23:48,400 --> 00:23:52,159
Speaker 3: I think if they both agreed simultaneously to do it,

462
00:23:52,240 --> 00:23:55,920
Speaker 3: like maybe there's a handshake deal, they wouldn't just I

463
00:23:55,920 --> 00:23:56,280
Speaker 3: don't know.

464
00:23:56,600 --> 00:23:58,359
Speaker 2: I feel like, well Jaws said he's only going in

465
00:23:58,400 --> 00:23:59,000
Speaker 2: and if he gets.

466
00:23:58,840 --> 00:24:04,359
Speaker 3: A million dollars, wow, he honest, we can't. We can't

467
00:24:04,400 --> 00:24:07,760
Speaker 3: pull together enough money to buy a team, but a million.

468
00:24:07,520 --> 00:24:09,000
Speaker 2: Dollars go fundme for that.

469
00:24:09,160 --> 00:24:11,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's possible we could get. I think NBA fans

470
00:24:11,880 --> 00:24:13,119
Speaker 3: would would poney up for that.

471
00:24:14,720 --> 00:24:16,600
Speaker 2: I want the Sacramento Kings to make the playoffs. You

472
00:24:16,640 --> 00:24:20,640
Speaker 2: already talked about it a little bit. Playing unbelievable right now.

473
00:24:20,720 --> 00:24:24,240
Speaker 2: Mike Brown deserves some Coach of the Year love. I

474
00:24:24,240 --> 00:24:26,239
Speaker 2: don't think he'll win it ultimately because there's a lot

475
00:24:26,240 --> 00:24:28,240
Speaker 2: of great candidates, but he's got them play in some

476
00:24:28,320 --> 00:24:32,240
Speaker 2: defense with a really elite offense. The Beam team is

477
00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:34,600
Speaker 2: hopefully going to make the playoffs for the first time

478
00:24:34,680 --> 00:24:41,120
Speaker 2: since two thousand and six. It's like when we started

479
00:24:41,160 --> 00:24:46,960
Speaker 2: this podcast, that is crazy to think about the thousands

480
00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:50,160
Speaker 2: of podcasts we've done, we've never talked about the Kings

481
00:24:50,160 --> 00:24:52,240
Speaker 2: in the playoffs, which is which is wild. It's going

482
00:24:52,320 --> 00:24:55,520
Speaker 2: to end, hopefully this season when they make it. I

483
00:24:55,560 --> 00:24:57,399
Speaker 2: would love this is a really weird one. I would

484
00:24:57,440 --> 00:25:02,639
Speaker 2: like a competitive Eastern Conference play game because they've been

485
00:25:02,720 --> 00:25:07,480
Speaker 2: generally duds. I know the Hawks Calves, I guess last

486
00:25:07,560 --> 00:25:10,720
Speaker 2: year was a close game, but for the most part

487
00:25:10,840 --> 00:25:13,639
Speaker 2: the last two seasons, the West have given us some

488
00:25:13,720 --> 00:25:17,119
Speaker 2: decent games in these playing tournament games, but the East

489
00:25:17,119 --> 00:25:19,479
Speaker 2: have not. In twenty one, the Celtics beat the Wizards

490
00:25:19,480 --> 00:25:22,280
Speaker 2: by eighteen, the Pacers crushed the Hornets by twenty seven,

491
00:25:22,480 --> 00:25:24,879
Speaker 2: and then the Wizards crushed the Pacers by twenty seven.

492
00:25:25,400 --> 00:25:26,720
Speaker 2: And last year, like I said, I got a little

493
00:25:26,720 --> 00:25:28,320
Speaker 2: bit better. We had the Nets and Hawks getting in,

494
00:25:28,520 --> 00:25:30,840
Speaker 2: had some closer games but not all that close, and

495
00:25:30,880 --> 00:25:32,800
Speaker 2: Atlanta beat the Hornets by thirty two. So I guess

496
00:25:32,840 --> 00:25:34,480
Speaker 2: the point is keep the Hornets out of this damn

497
00:25:34,480 --> 00:25:37,920
Speaker 2: thing because they just lose by thirty every time. Also,

498
00:25:38,440 --> 00:25:40,639
Speaker 2: this comyoy surprise. I don't know, we haven't done it

499
00:25:40,720 --> 00:25:43,480
Speaker 2: very long, but the seventh seed has never lost the

500
00:25:43,520 --> 00:25:47,760
Speaker 2: game yet in the plan, and the ninth seed has

501
00:25:47,800 --> 00:25:52,359
Speaker 2: never lost their game to the tenth seed. So we

502
00:25:52,440 --> 00:25:54,399
Speaker 2: never had like the eight beat the seven in that

503
00:25:54,440 --> 00:25:55,960
Speaker 2: first game, and we never had the ten beat the

504
00:25:56,040 --> 00:25:58,720
Speaker 2: ninth in that first game. That's counting both conferences. Just

505
00:25:58,760 --> 00:26:02,679
Speaker 2: a little weird stat for you. My final one, this

506
00:26:02,760 --> 00:26:04,840
Speaker 2: is the air where finally some of these names that

507
00:26:04,880 --> 00:26:08,480
Speaker 2: we always have on the potential guy to be traded list,

508
00:26:09,040 --> 00:26:11,720
Speaker 2: we can cross them out. Come on, John Collins, let's

509
00:26:11,760 --> 00:26:15,480
Speaker 2: just be traded here before the February deadline. Eric Gordon,

510
00:26:15,600 --> 00:26:19,760
Speaker 2: let's just trade him before the deadline. I mean, even

511
00:26:19,760 --> 00:26:23,240
Speaker 2: Miles Turner at this point. Let's let's make that decision

512
00:26:23,240 --> 00:26:25,720
Speaker 2: and let's get him somewhere else. Let's just this is

513
00:26:25,800 --> 00:26:27,560
Speaker 2: let's just do it. Some of these guys that are

514
00:26:27,680 --> 00:26:31,560
Speaker 2: always on this list where we just talk about them

515
00:26:31,560 --> 00:26:34,359
Speaker 2: ad nauseum and come up with every trade to every

516
00:26:34,359 --> 00:26:37,520
Speaker 2: team imaginable. Just pick a team and do it, all right,

517
00:26:37,600 --> 00:26:39,440
Speaker 2: especially those three guys. You could throw in a Terrence

518
00:26:39,520 --> 00:26:41,720
Speaker 2: Ross if you want, you could throw in a I

519
00:26:41,760 --> 00:26:44,040
Speaker 2: don't know, Evan Fournier makes this list a lot of

520
00:26:44,040 --> 00:26:46,520
Speaker 2: the time. These these names, you know what I mean.

521
00:26:47,720 --> 00:26:51,439
Speaker 3: I'm totally with you. I'm down, even though you know

522
00:26:51,480 --> 00:26:54,840
Speaker 3: we won't have shows after our December twenty sixth show

523
00:26:55,280 --> 00:26:58,359
Speaker 3: next week, to do an emergency podcast for one of

524
00:26:58,359 --> 00:27:01,159
Speaker 3: those names, yea, if it happens on seven twenty nine

525
00:27:01,320 --> 00:27:04,920
Speaker 3: thirty John Collins Terrence Ross? Do you do an emergency

526
00:27:04,960 --> 00:27:08,480
Speaker 3: podcast for Terrence Ross, the man who scored fifty points

527
00:27:08,480 --> 00:27:11,000
Speaker 3: in an NBA game for your Toronto app rests? Yeah,

528
00:27:11,040 --> 00:27:12,400
Speaker 3: me too. Absolutely.

529
00:27:12,480 --> 00:27:15,639
Speaker 2: That's our promise to you, NBA GMS. If you do

530
00:27:15,720 --> 00:27:19,040
Speaker 2: a trade next week when we're like basically off tas

531
00:27:19,119 --> 00:27:22,360
Speaker 2: and I will fire up the YouTube stream, will fire

532
00:27:22,440 --> 00:27:24,959
Speaker 2: up the pod and do an emergency podcast for whoever

533
00:27:25,040 --> 00:27:28,399
Speaker 2: is traded. All right, that's a deal we can make you.

534
00:27:29,080 --> 00:27:31,680
Speaker 2: So get to work. And you know you don't want

535
00:27:31,680 --> 00:27:34,000
Speaker 2: to trade these guys at Christmas time though, right, that's

536
00:27:34,760 --> 00:27:35,320
Speaker 2: that's mean.

537
00:27:36,359 --> 00:27:39,880
Speaker 3: Yeah, it'll happen though. Okay, you know pink slips happen,

538
00:27:39,960 --> 00:27:42,400
Speaker 3: Scott Skoyles, pink slips and all that that happens around

539
00:27:42,480 --> 00:27:45,879
Speaker 3: Christmas Day. We'll give these Juliague or the executives at

540
00:27:45,880 --> 00:27:48,440
Speaker 3: the G League showcase something to talk about. Yeah, we'll

541
00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:49,960
Speaker 3: do We'll do a little pot Okay.

542
00:27:50,480 --> 00:27:52,720
Speaker 2: So that's my NBA Christmas wish list. Let's hear from

543
00:27:52,720 --> 00:27:54,920
Speaker 2: you guys in the stream team right now, everybody listening later,

544
00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:57,960
Speaker 2: watching later, What what would you like to see happen

545
00:27:58,040 --> 00:28:02,040
Speaker 2: here for the rest of this regular season? Of course,

546
00:28:02,040 --> 00:28:05,159
Speaker 2: playoffs when we get to that come April, May and June. Okay, Tess,

547
00:28:05,280 --> 00:28:07,840
Speaker 2: let's get to Best of the Week.

548
00:28:08,080 --> 00:28:15,960
Speaker 3: Ladies and gentlemen. The best of the week. Oh you

549
00:28:16,080 --> 00:28:20,960
Speaker 3: do on here? JD's haha very often comes out of nowhere.

550
00:28:21,480 --> 00:28:24,199
Speaker 3: But I couldn't do worst of the Week. It just

551
00:28:24,240 --> 00:28:27,960
Speaker 3: didn't feel right in the Christmas spirit. Nah. So we've

552
00:28:27,960 --> 00:28:30,439
Speaker 3: got some good nominees though, We've got four nominees. You

553
00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:33,280
Speaker 3: guys in the stream team, skeets Jerome as well. You

554
00:28:33,400 --> 00:28:37,119
Speaker 3: let me know which one's the best of the best.

555
00:28:37,240 --> 00:28:39,440
Speaker 3: And we're gonna start with the best of the best.

556
00:28:39,560 --> 00:28:42,880
Speaker 3: Lebron James I think should be a nominee for Best

557
00:28:42,920 --> 00:28:46,120
Speaker 3: of the Week. Here Lakers visited Sacramento this week. Lebron

558
00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:48,520
Speaker 3: got his work on or his work in on the

559
00:28:48,600 --> 00:28:52,040
Speaker 3: King's Court, all right, normal stuff. You know, he's on

560
00:28:52,080 --> 00:28:55,600
Speaker 3: the floor. He put it up on Instagram. Now, why

561
00:28:55,680 --> 00:28:59,080
Speaker 3: he's Best of the week was because he put up

562
00:28:59,160 --> 00:29:03,040
Speaker 3: a regular photo on the King's floor. But he stayed

563
00:29:03,080 --> 00:29:06,920
Speaker 3: true to the brand because on the ribbon banner on

564
00:29:07,120 --> 00:29:11,240
Speaker 3: the ribbon screens going around the Sacramento King's Arena while

565
00:29:11,240 --> 00:29:15,960
Speaker 3: he was practicing, it said Kings. But on his Instagram page,

566
00:29:16,680 --> 00:29:21,920
Speaker 3: either he or one of his assistants went and edited

567
00:29:21,960 --> 00:29:25,680
Speaker 3: out the S. They literally took the old pen icon

568
00:29:25,760 --> 00:29:27,880
Speaker 3: or the pen option and just scratched out the S,

569
00:29:28,120 --> 00:29:31,560
Speaker 3: so it says king behind him, way behind him. This

570
00:29:31,680 --> 00:29:35,960
Speaker 3: is like up in the arena. And I like the pettiness.

571
00:29:36,240 --> 00:29:40,040
Speaker 2: I like it a lot. Yeah, I know this is

572
00:29:40,080 --> 00:29:41,800
Speaker 2: a hell of a stretch because.

573
00:29:41,560 --> 00:29:42,360
Speaker 3: I know I like it.

574
00:29:42,440 --> 00:29:45,200
Speaker 2: Why and then two he did it poorly. He's not

575
00:29:45,240 --> 00:29:47,160
Speaker 2: even a photoshop boy, Jerome Like that's I.

576
00:29:47,920 --> 00:29:51,240
Speaker 5: Said, That's where I'm really torn between pettiness. I think

577
00:29:51,240 --> 00:29:53,080
Speaker 5: we can give it a best or even just like

578
00:29:53,120 --> 00:29:59,440
Speaker 5: sticking to brand, editing I don't know, it's if anything

579
00:29:59,520 --> 00:30:00,640
Speaker 5: that like balances out.

580
00:30:00,680 --> 00:30:02,440
Speaker 4: This is middle of the week, mid of the week.

581
00:30:04,200 --> 00:30:06,320
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I kind of like how it looks like

582
00:30:06,520 --> 00:30:09,000
Speaker 3: a child did it.

583
00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:10,520
Speaker 2: It makes it seem like he did it.

584
00:30:10,960 --> 00:30:12,400
Speaker 4: That's that I'll give him credit for.

585
00:30:12,560 --> 00:30:16,160
Speaker 5: It's very obvious, like scratched out and just like no,

586
00:30:16,240 --> 00:30:17,240
Speaker 5: there's no s there.

587
00:30:17,680 --> 00:30:21,120
Speaker 3: Yeah he did. He did that on his Samsung. And

588
00:30:21,400 --> 00:30:25,200
Speaker 3: you know he cares, but he doesn't care that much. Yeah,

589
00:30:25,240 --> 00:30:25,840
Speaker 3: that's what I like.

590
00:30:25,920 --> 00:30:28,160
Speaker 2: But what is he caring about? I don't This is

591
00:30:28,200 --> 00:30:28,920
Speaker 2: the part I don't get.

592
00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:32,720
Speaker 3: That's just he can't have can we know he's called

593
00:30:32,760 --> 00:30:33,120
Speaker 3: the king.

594
00:30:33,200 --> 00:30:34,800
Speaker 2: He doesn't need to remind us of that.

595
00:30:35,160 --> 00:30:37,840
Speaker 3: It's like, oh yeah he does. That's patty. It's petty.

596
00:30:37,880 --> 00:30:40,120
Speaker 3: It's petty. There's no doubt. All right, Moving out to

597
00:30:40,160 --> 00:30:43,040
Speaker 3: the next one, A real Best of the Week nominee,

598
00:30:43,080 --> 00:30:45,440
Speaker 3: whready go back because he receives a lot of criticism,

599
00:30:45,720 --> 00:30:49,160
Speaker 3: so I wanted to highlight him here. We're extremely fair

600
00:30:49,240 --> 00:30:52,840
Speaker 3: journalists here on no dunks, of course. So John Krasinski,

601
00:30:53,920 --> 00:30:57,360
Speaker 3: great Wolves writer for The Athletic, reported that more than

602
00:30:57,680 --> 00:31:02,120
Speaker 3: four hundred and fifty Target center and employees ushers concession

603
00:31:02,160 --> 00:31:04,680
Speaker 3: workers change over. It's at a showed up to a

604
00:31:04,760 --> 00:31:08,200
Speaker 3: nice little gift tonight, a signed card and fifty dollars

605
00:31:08,200 --> 00:31:11,960
Speaker 3: from Rudy Gobert, thanking them for all they do for

606
00:31:12,080 --> 00:31:15,240
Speaker 3: the Wolves. So employees got the Timberwolves arena and they're

607
00:31:15,320 --> 00:31:18,320
Speaker 3: pleasantly surprised by something that Rudy Gobert did. And he

608
00:31:18,320 --> 00:31:20,720
Speaker 3: did a lot of that in Utah as well. And

609
00:31:20,880 --> 00:31:24,520
Speaker 3: it might might seem like a tiny gesture. I know

610
00:31:24,600 --> 00:31:30,880
Speaker 3: even in the comments the haters shut up it was

611
00:31:31,720 --> 00:31:33,200
Speaker 3: that was a nice gesture, right, I mean that would

612
00:31:33,240 --> 00:31:34,480
Speaker 3: be a nice It's a great gesture.

613
00:31:34,560 --> 00:31:37,920
Speaker 2: I think, like it's not just Rudy that does stuff

614
00:31:37,960 --> 00:31:41,600
Speaker 2: like this. No players, both that we know about and

615
00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:44,840
Speaker 2: a lot of cases we probably don't know about, do

616
00:31:44,920 --> 00:31:46,600
Speaker 2: a lot of this stuff, especially around the holidays, and

617
00:31:46,600 --> 00:31:48,440
Speaker 2: give back to their communities and stuff like that. I

618
00:31:48,440 --> 00:31:51,360
Speaker 2: think he maybe gave Gobert did to the ball boys

619
00:31:51,400 --> 00:31:55,360
Speaker 2: like Nintendo switches I saw. Is that a possibility. I've

620
00:31:55,360 --> 00:31:57,000
Speaker 2: read that somewhere maybe on Twitter. Maybe he did that.

621
00:31:57,720 --> 00:31:58,880
Speaker 2: I don't know. Yeah.

622
00:31:59,080 --> 00:31:59,360
Speaker 3: Yeah.

623
00:31:59,400 --> 00:32:02,440
Speaker 5: Also like team staff in concession workers, some of these

624
00:32:02,440 --> 00:32:06,520
Speaker 5: people have been there for like beyond players coming in

625
00:32:06,520 --> 00:32:09,440
Speaker 5: and oh yeah, and so any chance that you get

626
00:32:09,480 --> 00:32:12,200
Speaker 5: to you know, acknowledge him or an honor them, like

627
00:32:12,760 --> 00:32:15,480
Speaker 5: reward them whatever, Like, no, it's great, that's a best for.

628
00:32:15,520 --> 00:32:19,360
Speaker 3: Sure, And you're right in the stream team. It seems

629
00:32:19,360 --> 00:32:22,080
Speaker 3: to be confirmed here he gave Nintendo switches and a

630
00:32:22,160 --> 00:32:24,600
Speaker 3: game to the ball Boys Slash ball Girls as well.

631
00:32:24,600 --> 00:32:26,280
Speaker 3: From Michael trying in the stream team.

632
00:32:27,240 --> 00:32:28,360
Speaker 4: Now I want to know what the game is.

633
00:32:28,880 --> 00:32:32,360
Speaker 3: Aah, that's a very good call. And Samuel and no,

634
00:32:32,360 --> 00:32:33,920
Speaker 3: no did the math for us because I was too

635
00:32:33,960 --> 00:32:38,040
Speaker 3: lazy to do it. Twenty TWI hundred bucks actually four

636
00:32:38,120 --> 00:32:39,920
Speaker 3: hundred and fifty times fifty.

637
00:32:39,840 --> 00:32:42,560
Speaker 2: Got it all up. Sure, Look he's got a lot,

638
00:32:42,600 --> 00:32:44,960
Speaker 2: he's got the money. Yeah, I just wonder do you

639
00:32:45,040 --> 00:32:49,920
Speaker 2: think any of his Wolves teammates are pissed off by

640
00:32:49,920 --> 00:32:53,960
Speaker 2: something like this? Here's what I mean, Like, hey, Rudy,

641
00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:55,400
Speaker 2: like why didn't you come to us? Like I would

642
00:32:55,440 --> 00:32:57,280
Speaker 2: have chipped in fifty bucks for each person too, Like

643
00:32:57,320 --> 00:32:59,200
Speaker 2: we could have done like we could have given five

644
00:32:59,240 --> 00:33:01,160
Speaker 2: hundred dollars each person if we got everybody to pull

645
00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:01,920
Speaker 2: our money together.

646
00:33:02,760 --> 00:33:04,160
Speaker 3: But now you just con be good in credit.

647
00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:07,200
Speaker 5: Oh, I just wonder it also would be just wenty

648
00:33:07,240 --> 00:33:08,960
Speaker 5: of like just players just like this.

649
00:33:08,960 --> 00:33:11,360
Speaker 4: This is from us, by the way, Well.

650
00:33:11,280 --> 00:33:14,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, exactly exactly did you sign the card or

651
00:33:14,600 --> 00:33:15,360
Speaker 2: make it away? Ready?

652
00:33:15,480 --> 00:33:19,600
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's actually, uh, that's an easier way to go

653
00:33:19,640 --> 00:33:21,240
Speaker 3: about it. You give him fifty dollars and get it

654
00:33:21,240 --> 00:33:25,280
Speaker 3: over with. Because I did see PJ. Tucker with Philadelphia

655
00:33:25,320 --> 00:33:28,280
Speaker 3: seventy six ers. He took a bunch of high school

656
00:33:28,320 --> 00:33:30,600
Speaker 3: students to a mall and he gave them five hundred

657
00:33:30,600 --> 00:33:32,719
Speaker 3: dollars each to pick out anything in the store that

658
00:33:32,760 --> 00:33:36,040
Speaker 3: they wanted. How does that work? Like, let's say somebody

659
00:33:36,120 --> 00:33:37,960
Speaker 3: goes and buys three pairs of shoes and it comes

660
00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:40,400
Speaker 3: to like five hundred and forty dollars. Do they gotta go,

661
00:33:40,880 --> 00:33:42,880
Speaker 3: Oh no, I gotta take that back. I mean I

662
00:33:42,880 --> 00:33:44,680
Speaker 3: got to exchange for one pair.

663
00:33:44,840 --> 00:33:45,040
Speaker 4: You know.

664
00:33:46,280 --> 00:33:50,400
Speaker 2: My gut says. It's sort of like ballpark it ballpark

665
00:33:50,440 --> 00:33:52,960
Speaker 2: it to whatever the price, take care of person, and

666
00:33:53,040 --> 00:33:53,880
Speaker 2: he just pays the bill.

667
00:33:53,960 --> 00:33:57,920
Speaker 3: Yeah that's smart. Yeah, he is making a lot of money. Okay,

668
00:33:58,160 --> 00:34:01,880
Speaker 3: two more quick nominees spurs rookie Jeremy so Hen because

669
00:34:01,920 --> 00:34:05,280
Speaker 3: he is struggling at the line, shooting only forty two percent.

670
00:34:05,800 --> 00:34:07,800
Speaker 3: So he's changed his approach. I think we have the

671
00:34:07,800 --> 00:34:10,839
Speaker 3: clip here Jerome, so Hank goes to the line and

672
00:34:10,880 --> 00:34:14,520
Speaker 3: his guide hand is totally off the ball. Now he's

673
00:34:14,520 --> 00:34:18,480
Speaker 3: shooting literally with one hand. Has it helped him? No?

674
00:34:18,560 --> 00:34:21,399
Speaker 3: Not what? But I call him best of the week

675
00:34:21,440 --> 00:34:25,800
Speaker 3: because this is his rookie season and he's comfortable changing

676
00:34:25,840 --> 00:34:29,319
Speaker 3: his shot in front of the damn world. I think

677
00:34:29,360 --> 00:34:33,359
Speaker 3: that's should be commended. That that's I wouldn't do that.

678
00:34:33,480 --> 00:34:35,520
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know how many NBA players would

679
00:34:35,520 --> 00:34:39,120
Speaker 3: do that. You know, we've seen guys be reluctant to

680
00:34:39,239 --> 00:34:42,440
Speaker 3: change their shot form completely. I think that's that's commendable

681
00:34:42,760 --> 00:34:44,480
Speaker 3: for a rook to be doing. I think he's a

682
00:34:44,480 --> 00:34:48,520
Speaker 3: confident guy and he'll bounce out. He'll get out of it.

683
00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:51,120
Speaker 5: Taking the season as opposed to the off season, I

684
00:34:51,160 --> 00:34:52,040
Speaker 5: think it's pretty big.

685
00:34:52,239 --> 00:34:52,439
Speaker 3: Yeah.

686
00:34:52,560 --> 00:34:56,239
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that's how bad he was shooting. It's like,

687
00:34:56,280 --> 00:34:57,759
Speaker 2: all right, I'm just gonna try to shoot this with

688
00:34:57,800 --> 00:34:59,319
Speaker 2: one hand now. It's like sort of like how we

689
00:34:59,360 --> 00:35:01,160
Speaker 2: play like on a any hoop. That's what I always

690
00:35:01,160 --> 00:35:03,239
Speaker 2: think when I look at that clip. So that's a

691
00:35:03,239 --> 00:35:05,000
Speaker 2: week because you know you're playing with a tiny, little ball.

692
00:35:05,040 --> 00:35:06,600
Speaker 2: It's like, you know, you're not putting your guide hand

693
00:35:06,640 --> 00:35:08,759
Speaker 2: on it. There's no reason, right, he's trying.

694
00:35:09,040 --> 00:35:10,799
Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess the guide hand was getting in the way.

695
00:35:10,800 --> 00:35:13,120
Speaker 3: And maybe he was inspired by Mason Plumbley, as our

696
00:35:13,120 --> 00:35:16,440
Speaker 3: man Trey, who's watching from Illinois right now is chiming

697
00:35:16,480 --> 00:35:18,880
Speaker 3: in with yeah, Mason Plumley doing the same thing. I

698
00:35:18,920 --> 00:35:21,160
Speaker 3: also I want to mention that too, because we poke

699
00:35:21,239 --> 00:35:25,560
Speaker 3: fun at Mason Plumbley because he's Mason Plumbley. But for

700
00:35:25,600 --> 00:35:27,640
Speaker 3: a rook to do it, I think it's pretty cool.

701
00:35:27,719 --> 00:35:31,399
Speaker 3: And last last one here, we also ridiculed this man

702
00:35:31,440 --> 00:35:34,880
Speaker 3: a lot. But Chris Paul deserves a Best of the

703
00:35:34,880 --> 00:35:38,839
Speaker 3: Week nominee. He graduated nice at thirty seven years old.

704
00:35:38,840 --> 00:35:42,240
Speaker 3: CP graduated from Winston Salem State University, and he decided

705
00:35:42,239 --> 00:35:46,160
Speaker 3: to gift each person in his graduating class twenty five

706
00:35:46,280 --> 00:35:51,440
Speaker 3: hundred dollars. And since I am a faux journalist, I'll

707
00:35:51,480 --> 00:35:53,799
Speaker 3: give you the details on the twenty five hundred dollars.

708
00:35:53,800 --> 00:35:56,120
Speaker 3: He put one hundred dollars into a Greenwood account, which

709
00:35:56,120 --> 00:35:57,840
Speaker 3: I guess is a bank account, and then an additional

710
00:35:57,880 --> 00:36:00,440
Speaker 3: two hundred dollars a month over the next year. So

711
00:36:00,520 --> 00:36:04,160
Speaker 3: that's how they get to twenty five hundred dollars each. Yeah,

712
00:36:04,200 --> 00:36:06,360
Speaker 3: so you got to stay committed. You can't just you

713
00:36:06,400 --> 00:36:09,600
Speaker 3: can't just well, I guess they're all graduated, So you

714
00:36:09,640 --> 00:36:11,720
Speaker 3: got to stay committed to having a Greenwood Bank account.

715
00:36:11,760 --> 00:36:15,760
Speaker 2: I guess we better check to find out what type

716
00:36:15,760 --> 00:36:17,680
Speaker 2: of deal he's got with this bank.

717
00:36:17,840 --> 00:36:21,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, exactly. People are saying, well, well, he must

718
00:36:21,280 --> 00:36:24,200
Speaker 3: have a special deal. Yeah, maybe he gets fifty percent

719
00:36:24,239 --> 00:36:26,640
Speaker 3: off rates. Who cares? They get twenty five hundred dollars

720
00:36:26,640 --> 00:36:28,759
Speaker 3: each after graduating.

721
00:36:28,280 --> 00:36:29,560
Speaker 2: And CP so cynical.

722
00:36:29,880 --> 00:36:32,799
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, it's ep let's be positive. The fact that

723
00:36:32,840 --> 00:36:34,920
Speaker 3: he graduated good for him. I don't know what his

724
00:36:34,920 --> 00:36:37,840
Speaker 3: degree is in, but what do you think it is?

725
00:36:37,880 --> 00:36:39,799
Speaker 3: What do you think Chris Paul's degree is in?

726
00:36:40,120 --> 00:36:40,520
Speaker 2: Flopping?

727
00:36:42,040 --> 00:36:43,879
Speaker 4: I was gonna say, yeah, like film studies theater?

728
00:36:44,840 --> 00:36:49,839
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, well doing all right?

729
00:36:49,920 --> 00:36:51,919
Speaker 2: So yeah, who's the winner? Jerome Best of the Week.

730
00:36:51,960 --> 00:36:53,960
Speaker 2: Of those four nominees, Broad go.

731
00:36:54,040 --> 00:36:57,879
Speaker 3: Bear so hand, Chris Paul, I like, go beart.

732
00:36:58,360 --> 00:37:02,200
Speaker 5: Maybe maybe it's like the softim like having worked like previously,

733
00:37:02,239 --> 00:37:04,319
Speaker 5: like with the Raptors and other teams like I just

734
00:37:04,360 --> 00:37:07,440
Speaker 5: like any time that a team staff like gets a

735
00:37:07,480 --> 00:37:10,799
Speaker 5: gift or anything throughout just because they work so hard

736
00:37:10,840 --> 00:37:12,080
Speaker 5: and they really do deserve it.

737
00:37:12,200 --> 00:37:14,200
Speaker 4: So shout out Rudy Gobert for doing that.

738
00:37:14,960 --> 00:37:17,880
Speaker 2: Did you ever get anything Jerome in working with a franchise?

739
00:37:19,280 --> 00:37:23,440
Speaker 5: What if I when I when I left, when I

740
00:37:23,520 --> 00:37:27,120
Speaker 5: left actually to come to the Athletic, I need to

741
00:37:27,160 --> 00:37:30,319
Speaker 5: put it up. That's actually like on me but toronto. See,

742
00:37:30,360 --> 00:37:33,000
Speaker 5: the entire team all signed a jersey for me, which

743
00:37:33,040 --> 00:37:36,319
Speaker 5: was really cool. And it was great too because I

744
00:37:36,320 --> 00:37:38,000
Speaker 5: think just because of all the years of getting to

745
00:37:38,040 --> 00:37:40,880
Speaker 5: work with them, it wasn't just like signature signature signature.

746
00:37:40,920 --> 00:37:42,920
Speaker 5: It was like a lot of personal messages, which is

747
00:37:42,960 --> 00:37:45,000
Speaker 5: like sup, I like.

748
00:37:45,200 --> 00:37:47,439
Speaker 2: The cynical skeets was like, yeah, I was a jersey

749
00:37:47,480 --> 00:37:48,279
Speaker 2: they already had signed.

750
00:37:49,080 --> 00:37:50,719
Speaker 3: I fully expected that.

751
00:37:50,880 --> 00:37:53,000
Speaker 5: And then and then also because keep in mind that

752
00:37:53,040 --> 00:37:55,239
Speaker 5: was like during the pandemic, so like I think that

753
00:37:55,360 --> 00:37:58,040
Speaker 5: jersey like it was like the sisterhood of traveling Jersey

754
00:37:58,320 --> 00:38:01,399
Speaker 5: traveling kid and just like went from place to place

755
00:38:01,400 --> 00:38:05,640
Speaker 5: and finally got like to me afterward, like during the pandemic,

756
00:38:06,239 --> 00:38:07,960
Speaker 5: one of my friends still working there just like come

757
00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:10,040
Speaker 5: outside and he presented me this kid.

758
00:38:10,640 --> 00:38:12,040
Speaker 2: So what are you gonna do frame that or are

759
00:38:12,040 --> 00:38:13,200
Speaker 2: you wear it to frame it?

760
00:38:13,680 --> 00:38:14,239
Speaker 4: You can't wear it?

761
00:38:14,320 --> 00:38:15,480
Speaker 2: Can't a frame out?

762
00:38:15,600 --> 00:38:16,880
Speaker 4: No, Yeah, it's gonna be framing.

763
00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:19,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, be careful. It's a very expensive frame things, as

764
00:38:19,239 --> 00:38:20,120
Speaker 2: I talked about recently.

765
00:38:20,520 --> 00:38:21,359
Speaker 4: That's that's the thing.

766
00:38:21,360 --> 00:38:21,560
Speaker 3: I think.

767
00:38:21,560 --> 00:38:23,640
Speaker 4: It's always discouraging whence they start researching it.

768
00:38:24,239 --> 00:38:26,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're gonna have to give you a gift certificate

769
00:38:26,960 --> 00:38:28,759
Speaker 2: to some framing place so you can go get it

770
00:38:28,760 --> 00:38:30,920
Speaker 2: done because it's not cheap, all right.

771
00:38:31,040 --> 00:38:33,240
Speaker 4: You need more than fifty dollars if that's the case.

772
00:38:33,200 --> 00:38:35,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, way more, man, it's like five hundred bucks. Well,

773
00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:38,200
Speaker 2: let's hear from everybody in the stream. Team everybody listening.

774
00:38:38,600 --> 00:38:40,680
Speaker 2: Tasked with those four nominees for Best of the Week,

775
00:38:41,040 --> 00:38:43,280
Speaker 2: who gets your vote? We're gonna take our first break.

776
00:38:43,719 --> 00:38:45,759
Speaker 2: But when we come back, very excited to talk to

777
00:38:46,120 --> 00:38:49,480
Speaker 2: Kat Jamie, the director of a brand new sports documentary

778
00:38:49,520 --> 00:38:52,960
Speaker 2: about the Vancouver Grizzlies. Yes, that's why Jerome is wearing

779
00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:55,160
Speaker 2: that jersey. We'll talk about that more with Kat after

780
00:38:55,200 --> 00:39:00,160
Speaker 2: the break. Two die hard fans of the Vancous for

781
00:39:00,200 --> 00:39:03,320
Speaker 2: Grizzlies the team's abrupt move to Memphis in two thousand

782
00:39:03,360 --> 00:39:05,600
Speaker 2: and one is much more than a sore spot. It's

783
00:39:05,600 --> 00:39:09,120
Speaker 2: an unsolved mystery and one of those diehard fans decided

784
00:39:09,160 --> 00:39:11,359
Speaker 2: to make a sports documentary about it. And we are

785
00:39:11,400 --> 00:39:13,200
Speaker 2: pumped to have her join us live right now here

786
00:39:13,239 --> 00:39:17,480
Speaker 2: on Nodugs, director of The Grizzly Truth. It's Kat Jamie.

787
00:39:17,520 --> 00:39:18,080
Speaker 2: What's up, Kat?

788
00:39:18,520 --> 00:39:20,719
Speaker 6: Hey, how's it going you guys? Thanks for having me.

789
00:39:20,800 --> 00:39:23,839
Speaker 2: Wow, I appreciate you getting up super early there on

790
00:39:23,880 --> 00:39:28,480
Speaker 2: the West coast here, totally worth it. Well, look, we

791
00:39:28,560 --> 00:39:30,720
Speaker 2: got a chance to watch this. We got a screener

792
00:39:30,800 --> 00:39:33,600
Speaker 2: The Grizzly Truth. I know it's going to be available

793
00:39:33,640 --> 00:39:35,960
Speaker 2: in Canada or it is like pre order right now

794
00:39:36,120 --> 00:39:40,400
Speaker 2: on Apple TV, iTunes, Cineplex. And then is it coming

795
00:39:40,400 --> 00:39:42,680
Speaker 2: to the States and internationally in the new year.

796
00:39:43,160 --> 00:39:44,120
Speaker 6: It is, we are.

797
00:39:44,400 --> 00:39:46,520
Speaker 7: We'll be having some news in the new year, so

798
00:39:46,600 --> 00:39:50,480
Speaker 7: stay tuned. But yeah, we're excited to finally, you know,

799
00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:52,719
Speaker 7: be able to show it in the States as well.

800
00:39:53,040 --> 00:39:56,560
Speaker 2: Well. How long did you work on this documentary because

801
00:39:56,560 --> 00:40:00,399
Speaker 2: you had the successful twenty eighteen's Finding Big Cun which

802
00:40:00,440 --> 00:40:03,800
Speaker 2: was about you know, tracking down the enigma of Bryan

803
00:40:03,880 --> 00:40:07,279
Speaker 2: Reeves Big Country himself. Were you like when you were

804
00:40:07,280 --> 00:40:11,000
Speaker 2: making that thinking of The Grizzly Truth, or after the

805
00:40:11,040 --> 00:40:12,439
Speaker 2: success and that one, you were like, oh, I should

806
00:40:12,480 --> 00:40:13,720
Speaker 2: do another one. How'd that come about?

807
00:40:14,080 --> 00:40:17,160
Speaker 7: No, that was always like the future film was always

808
00:40:17,280 --> 00:40:20,080
Speaker 7: kind of what I wanted to make. And so even

809
00:40:20,120 --> 00:40:22,799
Speaker 7: when I was making Finding a Country, I had like

810
00:40:23,040 --> 00:40:26,680
Speaker 7: a set of interview questions that just never made Finding

811
00:40:26,719 --> 00:40:28,640
Speaker 7: Me Country. But I asked them because even you know,

812
00:40:28,680 --> 00:40:30,560
Speaker 7: this is back in twenty seventeen, I was like, Okay,

813
00:40:30,600 --> 00:40:32,279
Speaker 7: I still want to make the feature length film. So

814
00:40:32,320 --> 00:40:35,320
Speaker 7: I got to cover these topics with Bryan Reeves.

815
00:40:35,560 --> 00:40:38,160
Speaker 2: Oh smart thinking, good planning on your part there.

816
00:40:38,320 --> 00:40:39,520
Speaker 6: Yeah, well we didn't have enough.

817
00:40:39,640 --> 00:40:42,360
Speaker 7: You know, we're still an indie film, and so I

818
00:40:42,400 --> 00:40:43,880
Speaker 7: had to make the most out of every trip, and

819
00:40:43,920 --> 00:40:45,640
Speaker 7: I didn't know whether or not we'd have enough money

820
00:40:45,760 --> 00:40:47,640
Speaker 7: or whether or not Bryant would you know, I don't

821
00:40:47,640 --> 00:40:49,799
Speaker 7: want to ask him again. Hey can I come back

822
00:40:49,840 --> 00:40:50,840
Speaker 7: to your farm?

823
00:40:51,560 --> 00:40:52,160
Speaker 3: Yeah?

824
00:40:52,200 --> 00:40:55,120
Speaker 2: Well, I mean I recommend everybody check out obviously The

825
00:40:55,160 --> 00:40:57,360
Speaker 2: Grizzly Truth here, which I loved, and if you haven't,

826
00:40:57,400 --> 00:40:59,960
Speaker 2: the Big Finding Big Country, which is also phenomenal.

827
00:41:00,600 --> 00:41:00,840
Speaker 3: I know.

828
00:41:00,920 --> 00:41:04,840
Speaker 2: This doc aired at the Vancouver International Film Festival and

829
00:41:04,880 --> 00:41:07,719
Speaker 2: then Hot dogs in Toronto. How was it received in

830
00:41:07,760 --> 00:41:08,880
Speaker 2: both spots there in Canada?

831
00:41:09,560 --> 00:41:13,719
Speaker 7: Uh, the Vancouver premiere was so cool. We flew out

832
00:41:14,160 --> 00:41:16,959
Speaker 7: a few grously players, Tony Massenberg, George Lynch and Tony

833
00:41:17,000 --> 00:41:22,000
Speaker 7: Harvey and Steve Francis. That was that was really what

834
00:41:22,760 --> 00:41:26,360
Speaker 7: a surreal moment. I was kind of nervous, to be

835
00:41:26,400 --> 00:41:30,320
Speaker 7: honest with you, but by then the film Steve Francis

836
00:41:30,360 --> 00:41:32,680
Speaker 7: got a standing ovation. You know, there might have been

837
00:41:32,680 --> 00:41:34,719
Speaker 7: a few booze but if there were, if there were,

838
00:41:34,880 --> 00:41:38,200
Speaker 7: if there was booing, the crowd just got louder to

839
00:41:38,280 --> 00:41:40,160
Speaker 7: drown out the booze. So I thought that was really

840
00:41:40,320 --> 00:41:43,240
Speaker 7: really special. And then yeah, we we came out to Toronto.

841
00:41:43,280 --> 00:41:45,640
Speaker 7: I wasn't sure what to expect since we were in

842
00:41:45,719 --> 00:41:48,520
Speaker 7: Raptorland and we're in a city that.

843
00:41:48,840 --> 00:41:50,000
Speaker 6: Didn't lose their team.

844
00:41:51,120 --> 00:41:53,840
Speaker 7: But no, I definitely felt the love from the Toronto

845
00:41:53,880 --> 00:41:57,360
Speaker 7: basketball community and just you know basketball there. I'm just

846
00:41:57,400 --> 00:42:00,640
Speaker 7: so blown away by how big it is, and you know,

847
00:42:00,760 --> 00:42:04,080
Speaker 7: so many people came out to show support, including Jerome.

848
00:42:04,520 --> 00:42:07,560
Speaker 6: So it's really cool. Uh yeah to premiere in Toronto.

849
00:42:07,800 --> 00:42:11,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, so our own Jerome a small cameo, I believe.

850
00:42:10,760 --> 00:42:13,440
Speaker 6: Here yeah, a very important cameo.

851
00:42:13,719 --> 00:42:17,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, jumper looked good. You how many takes?

852
00:42:18,000 --> 00:42:20,280
Speaker 4: Was that funny enough?

853
00:42:20,719 --> 00:42:23,799
Speaker 5: We were just filming and I didn't know anyone was

854
00:42:23,920 --> 00:42:26,279
Speaker 5: filming yet, like we were waiting for an interview. And

855
00:42:26,880 --> 00:42:29,239
Speaker 5: I think you guys, like any basketball sicco if there's

856
00:42:29,239 --> 00:42:30,919
Speaker 5: a ball around and you're at a court and you're

857
00:42:30,960 --> 00:42:31,840
Speaker 5: just killing time.

858
00:42:31,719 --> 00:42:32,480
Speaker 2: Yeah you're shooting.

859
00:42:32,600 --> 00:42:34,160
Speaker 4: Yeah, you're shooting around always.

860
00:42:34,480 --> 00:42:38,320
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it's great. Well, the level like of access

861
00:42:38,440 --> 00:42:42,880
Speaker 2: is astonishing. Cat there are so many like gets. I

862
00:42:42,880 --> 00:42:44,680
Speaker 2: almost don't want to reveal them, like I don't want

863
00:42:44,719 --> 00:42:46,440
Speaker 2: to ruin them for people that are hopefully going to

864
00:42:46,480 --> 00:42:50,280
Speaker 2: seek out this documentary. But was there a favorite interview

865
00:42:50,440 --> 00:42:52,680
Speaker 2: or or get that you that you got that you

866
00:42:52,680 --> 00:42:54,480
Speaker 2: were like you couldn't believe it, or it just went

867
00:42:54,560 --> 00:42:55,880
Speaker 2: like better than you and you've imagined.

868
00:42:56,480 --> 00:42:59,800
Speaker 7: I mean to tell the story, there were five interviews

869
00:42:59,800 --> 00:43:01,799
Speaker 7: that I I knew I had to absolutely get and

870
00:43:01,840 --> 00:43:06,120
Speaker 7: that was Big Country Shariff Biby, Stu Jackson and Steve

871
00:43:06,160 --> 00:43:09,480
Speaker 7: Francis and of course you know we got Big Country

872
00:43:09,480 --> 00:43:13,040
Speaker 7: for finding the Country Mike Bibby. We shot that interview

873
00:43:13,120 --> 00:43:16,400
Speaker 7: in twenty nineteen. It was right after Finding Big Country

874
00:43:16,480 --> 00:43:19,200
Speaker 7: premiered and we kind of wanted to get We wanted

875
00:43:19,200 --> 00:43:23,040
Speaker 7: to keep the momentum going. Sharif was actually he was

876
00:43:23,120 --> 00:43:26,719
Speaker 7: quite like it was quite hard to pinpoint him. He's

877
00:43:26,760 --> 00:43:29,759
Speaker 7: a busy guy, you know, the G League. But we

878
00:43:29,760 --> 00:43:32,719
Speaker 7: were able to get that final interview. Actually Sharif's to

879
00:43:33,040 --> 00:43:35,400
Speaker 7: the people don't know this, Sharif, Stu Jackson, Steve Francis.

880
00:43:35,640 --> 00:43:40,400
Speaker 7: We got them the very last block of shooting. So

881
00:43:40,760 --> 00:43:43,200
Speaker 7: there was many months where I was freaking out, going,

882
00:43:43,440 --> 00:43:46,440
Speaker 7: am I like I don't have like three of the

883
00:43:46,560 --> 00:43:49,720
Speaker 7: five people I absolutely need? And then the two people

884
00:43:49,760 --> 00:43:52,600
Speaker 7: like you mean Stu Jackson, Like you have to have

885
00:43:52,640 --> 00:43:55,279
Speaker 7: Stu and Steve Francis. I knew that was going to

886
00:43:55,320 --> 00:43:57,719
Speaker 7: be like a really big critique of the film if

887
00:43:57,719 --> 00:43:59,360
Speaker 7: I didn't get him, and.

888
00:43:59,719 --> 00:44:01,280
Speaker 6: Uh, you know that scene.

889
00:44:01,520 --> 00:44:04,040
Speaker 7: That week, I got a text from my resorry I know,

890
00:44:04,360 --> 00:44:08,879
Speaker 7: spoiler alert, Yeah it was today. I was like trying

891
00:44:08,920 --> 00:44:11,000
Speaker 7: to still trying to figure like how am I you know,

892
00:44:11,200 --> 00:44:13,800
Speaker 7: I have no really no connection to the NBA, the

893
00:44:14,000 --> 00:44:16,560
Speaker 7: NBA players, how do I get in touch with Steve Francis?

894
00:44:16,600 --> 00:44:18,319
Speaker 7: And I was like, I know, if I get to

895
00:44:18,360 --> 00:44:20,719
Speaker 7: talk to him, I have five minutes. I feel like

896
00:44:20,760 --> 00:44:23,400
Speaker 7: I can convince him. I'm able to share like what

897
00:44:23,440 --> 00:44:26,400
Speaker 7: I want to do. So my researcher Journal Narciso, on

898
00:44:26,400 --> 00:44:30,920
Speaker 7: a Monday text like screencap Steve Francis's story about the signing,

899
00:44:31,400 --> 00:44:34,399
Speaker 7: called my producer. I was like Michael, like, I don't

900
00:44:34,400 --> 00:44:36,440
Speaker 7: hear what you do, but I have, like you have

901
00:44:36,520 --> 00:44:37,480
Speaker 7: to send me to Houston.

902
00:44:37,560 --> 00:44:39,840
Speaker 6: And so on Friday, I was in a plane. Saturday,

903
00:44:40,080 --> 00:44:40,839
Speaker 6: I was you know.

904
00:44:41,160 --> 00:44:42,240
Speaker 4: It's one of the best scenes.

905
00:44:42,360 --> 00:44:45,759
Speaker 2: Oh, it's amazing. So for those that obviously don't know,

906
00:44:45,760 --> 00:44:47,920
Speaker 2: I haven't seen this yet, Yeah, you fly to Houston

907
00:44:47,920 --> 00:44:49,600
Speaker 2: because you find out Steve Francis is going to be

908
00:44:49,600 --> 00:44:53,439
Speaker 2: like at an autograph signing like a cards like show, right, Yeah,

909
00:44:53,480 --> 00:44:56,439
Speaker 2: it stim and then yeah, you get up there and

910
00:44:56,680 --> 00:45:01,400
Speaker 2: obviously you worked your magic. He even he says like

911
00:45:01,480 --> 00:45:04,879
Speaker 2: he says he makes a joke about like, wow, you're

912
00:45:04,880 --> 00:45:07,360
Speaker 2: better than Stuve Jackson, basically like the idea of like

913
00:45:07,360 --> 00:45:10,480
Speaker 2: your convincing ability to then I guess then you were

914
00:45:10,480 --> 00:45:12,839
Speaker 2: flying to Maryland to actually talk to him.

915
00:45:13,120 --> 00:45:15,680
Speaker 7: Yeah, And that wasn't like my pitch to him. There

916
00:45:15,800 --> 00:45:18,080
Speaker 7: was like whatever you have, I'll take if it's five

917
00:45:18,120 --> 00:45:21,000
Speaker 7: minutes literally right now, if it's ten minutes after the signing,

918
00:45:21,520 --> 00:45:23,840
Speaker 7: we say we were going to say another day in

919
00:45:23,920 --> 00:45:25,520
Speaker 7: Houston because I was like, if you have a day

920
00:45:25,880 --> 00:45:28,719
Speaker 7: to do an interview, And then he invited me and

921
00:45:28,760 --> 00:45:31,960
Speaker 7: my crew to DC and that was his idea to

922
00:45:31,960 --> 00:45:34,319
Speaker 7: bring me to all those places, so like it wasn't

923
00:45:34,360 --> 00:45:36,319
Speaker 7: me asking like hey, can you show me this place

924
00:45:36,400 --> 00:45:39,960
Speaker 7: or that place? He set the itinerary for me and

925
00:45:39,960 --> 00:45:42,000
Speaker 7: my crew, And it was so cool you know that

926
00:45:42,120 --> 00:45:44,000
Speaker 7: he wanted to share these places with us.

927
00:45:44,360 --> 00:45:47,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, kat, I just want to say, first congratulations.

928
00:45:48,080 --> 00:45:51,960
Speaker 3: It was phenomenal. It was really great watching it yesterday. Also,

929
00:45:52,000 --> 00:45:54,839
Speaker 3: my first question, did you know before agreeing to come

930
00:45:54,880 --> 00:45:58,280
Speaker 3: on No Dunks that Skeets absolutely hates Mike Biby.

931
00:45:59,360 --> 00:46:02,880
Speaker 2: No, I cringed even when you said you had to

932
00:46:02,920 --> 00:46:05,600
Speaker 2: have Vivian. I I was actually happy there wasn't a

933
00:46:05,600 --> 00:46:06,240
Speaker 2: lot of Vivian.

934
00:46:07,560 --> 00:46:09,440
Speaker 3: That's hilarious.

935
00:46:09,239 --> 00:46:12,080
Speaker 2: He's a weird running bit that I that he's my

936
00:46:12,239 --> 00:46:13,400
Speaker 2: arch enemy, Mike Bivious.

937
00:46:13,480 --> 00:46:14,560
Speaker 6: That's hilarious.

938
00:46:14,600 --> 00:46:15,920
Speaker 2: It's fascinating at this point that.

939
00:46:17,920 --> 00:46:20,800
Speaker 3: It was great seeing Mike baby flex do his flexing

940
00:46:20,840 --> 00:46:23,480
Speaker 3: on camera. That was fun. He's obviously looking huge, but

941
00:46:23,520 --> 00:46:25,399
Speaker 3: you got Baby to open up, You got so many

942
00:46:25,480 --> 00:46:29,720
Speaker 3: people to open up. I think that's your your incredible interviewer,

943
00:46:29,760 --> 00:46:33,080
Speaker 3: I did did you are you just an incredibly interviewed

944
00:46:33,120 --> 00:46:36,319
Speaker 3: That's my first question. Second, did the activities that you

945
00:46:36,360 --> 00:46:38,239
Speaker 3: did with all these guys, like with Baby, you played

946
00:46:38,320 --> 00:46:42,000
Speaker 3: video games, you did some tandem bike riding, did that

947
00:46:42,040 --> 00:46:45,359
Speaker 3: help a lot? Or was it just just you and

948
00:46:45,400 --> 00:46:46,640
Speaker 3: your skills that got them doping?

949
00:46:46,680 --> 00:46:49,279
Speaker 7: I mean, you know, no, I think it's I think

950
00:46:49,320 --> 00:46:52,239
Speaker 7: I mean, I think it's definitely both. And you know,

951
00:46:52,320 --> 00:46:55,959
Speaker 7: depending on our schedule, sometimes we would do the interview first.

952
00:46:56,000 --> 00:46:59,720
Speaker 7: Sometimes we would do the the you know, the hanging

953
00:46:59,760 --> 00:47:00,840
Speaker 7: out bit first.

954
00:47:01,800 --> 00:47:04,160
Speaker 6: I'm trying to think what would be our strategy.

955
00:47:05,280 --> 00:47:08,040
Speaker 7: Sometimes we would do you know, honestly, sometimes we do

956
00:47:08,120 --> 00:47:09,960
Speaker 7: the interview first so that I would I would know

957
00:47:10,080 --> 00:47:14,200
Speaker 7: what things to talk about during our like veritay moments

958
00:47:14,239 --> 00:47:16,600
Speaker 7: with them when we were, you know, biking up with

959
00:47:16,960 --> 00:47:19,960
Speaker 7: George Lynch, playing basketball with Chris King. So that's kind

960
00:47:20,000 --> 00:47:21,680
Speaker 7: of how we would set it up. There might be

961
00:47:21,719 --> 00:47:23,919
Speaker 7: times where we would do the interview, sorry, we would

962
00:47:23,960 --> 00:47:26,320
Speaker 7: hang out first, just to get them more comfortable. I

963
00:47:26,320 --> 00:47:28,239
Speaker 7: think I would kind of gauge that and say, Okay,

964
00:47:28,320 --> 00:47:30,359
Speaker 7: I feel like this person maybe might need to come

965
00:47:30,360 --> 00:47:32,799
Speaker 7: out of his shell a bit more, so let's do

966
00:47:32,920 --> 00:47:34,520
Speaker 7: the hangout session first.

967
00:47:35,760 --> 00:47:39,520
Speaker 6: But you know, I it's very rare that you get

968
00:47:39,520 --> 00:47:41,279
Speaker 6: to like chat.

969
00:47:41,040 --> 00:47:43,960
Speaker 7: With so many of your childhood heroes. So for me,

970
00:47:44,239 --> 00:47:46,520
Speaker 7: this was just such a you know, once in a

971
00:47:46,560 --> 00:47:49,399
Speaker 7: lifetime opportunity to tell, you know, what I love about

972
00:47:49,440 --> 00:47:52,000
Speaker 7: this project is like I got to tell all these

973
00:47:52,200 --> 00:47:56,840
Speaker 7: human beings how special they made so many, you know,

974
00:47:57,360 --> 00:48:00,480
Speaker 7: so many of our lives here in Vancouver, and you know,

975
00:48:00,520 --> 00:48:02,239
Speaker 7: I got to thank so many people who worked for

976
00:48:02,280 --> 00:48:05,479
Speaker 7: the organization who And so I feel maybe that's why

977
00:48:05,480 --> 00:48:07,759
Speaker 7: people opened up, because like I was really coming from

978
00:48:07,760 --> 00:48:10,960
Speaker 7: a place of gratitude and just wanting to share, like

979
00:48:11,120 --> 00:48:14,759
Speaker 7: did you know that Vancouver Grizzly fans are still heartbroken?

980
00:48:14,800 --> 00:48:16,480
Speaker 7: Like did you know how much the team was loved?

981
00:48:16,520 --> 00:48:18,440
Speaker 7: Did you know how much of an impact that you

982
00:48:18,560 --> 00:48:20,839
Speaker 7: had on my life? And you know, so many other

983
00:48:21,400 --> 00:48:25,440
Speaker 7: young fans like myself. So I think that probably, you know,

984
00:48:25,880 --> 00:48:28,000
Speaker 7: probably helped. And there are a lot of you know,

985
00:48:28,040 --> 00:48:29,560
Speaker 7: there are some people who come up to me who

986
00:48:29,560 --> 00:48:31,480
Speaker 7: are like, you know, you're too easy on this person

987
00:48:31,560 --> 00:48:33,200
Speaker 7: or that person. But it's sort of also like, you know,

988
00:48:33,239 --> 00:48:36,360
Speaker 7: I'm not I'm not a hard hitting like media journalist,

989
00:48:36,520 --> 00:48:39,000
Speaker 7: like I'm a documentary filmmaker, and I feel like there's

990
00:48:39,040 --> 00:48:40,200
Speaker 7: a difference between the two.

991
00:48:40,360 --> 00:48:43,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like in the doc I mean you sort of

992
00:48:43,000 --> 00:48:45,000
Speaker 2: paint the picture of like I want to call them

993
00:48:45,000 --> 00:48:47,920
Speaker 2: the three villains, right or who is most at fult

994
00:48:48,000 --> 00:48:50,960
Speaker 2: for the Vancouver Grizzlies leaving and they seem to be

995
00:48:51,360 --> 00:48:54,279
Speaker 2: the GM Stu Jackson, like the architect of the team,

996
00:48:54,640 --> 00:48:56,640
Speaker 2: the Grizzlies number two pick in the ninety nine draft,

997
00:48:56,640 --> 00:48:59,160
Speaker 2: Steve Francis, you know, the malcontent if you want to

998
00:48:59,160 --> 00:49:00,600
Speaker 2: call him, that didn't want want to come play in

999
00:49:00,680 --> 00:49:03,120
Speaker 2: Vancouver and that was maybe like the beginning of the end.

1000
00:49:03,320 --> 00:49:07,400
Speaker 2: And then the last owner of the Vancouver Grizzlies, you know,

1001
00:49:07,440 --> 00:49:10,880
Speaker 2: the self made billionaire Michael Heisley moving the team to Memphis.

1002
00:49:10,880 --> 00:49:12,600
Speaker 2: And I love how you set that up. It's like

1003
00:49:12,880 --> 00:49:16,360
Speaker 2: we start is it Stu is it? Steve Francis? Is it? Heisley?

1004
00:49:16,440 --> 00:49:18,160
Speaker 2: Is like the dollars and cents? Right? You know you

1005
00:49:18,200 --> 00:49:21,560
Speaker 2: talk about that even like the Canadian dollar tanked and

1006
00:49:21,600 --> 00:49:24,400
Speaker 2: who's to blame? Like if you were making a pie chart,

1007
00:49:24,760 --> 00:49:28,600
Speaker 2: where would Kat put the most blame too, or even

1008
00:49:28,680 --> 00:49:29,720
Speaker 2: something I didn't even.

1009
00:49:29,520 --> 00:49:31,399
Speaker 6: Mention I would put.

1010
00:49:31,480 --> 00:49:33,800
Speaker 7: I mean, it's just like I would say, it's an

1011
00:49:33,840 --> 00:49:37,440
Speaker 7: external force that just followed the Grizzlies for six years

1012
00:49:37,920 --> 00:49:40,320
Speaker 7: that made everything that could go wrong go wrong in

1013
00:49:40,480 --> 00:49:44,480
Speaker 7: the team. And you know, we only had an hour

1014
00:49:44,480 --> 00:49:46,680
Speaker 7: and a half. There's so much more that I wanted

1015
00:49:46,719 --> 00:49:49,120
Speaker 7: to talk about. I think one of the things, one

1016
00:49:49,160 --> 00:49:51,160
Speaker 7: of the threads that I wasn't able to really fully

1017
00:49:51,200 --> 00:49:55,400
Speaker 7: delve into is talking about the NBA lockouts and the

1018
00:49:55,520 --> 00:49:56,600
Speaker 7: NHL lockouts.

1019
00:49:57,000 --> 00:49:58,480
Speaker 6: There was an NHL lockout and.

1020
00:49:58,480 --> 00:50:01,480
Speaker 7: An NBA lockout right beginning of I think it was

1021
00:50:01,560 --> 00:50:04,440
Speaker 7: ninety four to ninety five, and that really hurt, you know,

1022
00:50:04,560 --> 00:50:08,640
Speaker 7: Arthur Griffiths, who was the original owner, And once we

1023
00:50:08,719 --> 00:50:11,120
Speaker 7: lost that like local connection to the team, I think

1024
00:50:11,120 --> 00:50:14,560
Speaker 7: that's when things really kind of started to slip away

1025
00:50:14,600 --> 00:50:17,960
Speaker 7: from us. And the lockouts are like very crucial to

1026
00:50:18,000 --> 00:50:19,840
Speaker 7: the story, but we just didn't have enough time. And

1027
00:50:19,880 --> 00:50:23,080
Speaker 7: also the lot talking about lockouts isn't as like fun

1028
00:50:23,160 --> 00:50:27,000
Speaker 7: as the three main villains, So maybe that's for another story,

1029
00:50:27,840 --> 00:50:30,600
Speaker 7: but no, I mean, I think one of my goals

1030
00:50:30,600 --> 00:50:33,600
Speaker 7: with this film is to really exonerate Stu Jackson. I

1031
00:50:33,640 --> 00:50:36,719
Speaker 7: think he out of you know, in the you know,

1032
00:50:36,760 --> 00:50:39,000
Speaker 7: in the in the story, amongst amongst fans, you know,

1033
00:50:39,160 --> 00:50:45,440
Speaker 7: really you know, takes gets the the gets unfairly blamed.

1034
00:50:46,200 --> 00:50:47,839
Speaker 7: So I really want to make sure that he had

1035
00:50:47,880 --> 00:50:51,440
Speaker 7: a voice and he was able to share how how

1036
00:50:51,600 --> 00:50:55,359
Speaker 7: things went. And especially you know, everyone I interviewed within

1037
00:50:55,400 --> 00:50:59,759
Speaker 7: the organization spoke so highly of Stu and how much

1038
00:50:59,800 --> 00:51:02,560
Speaker 7: of great leader he was, how much of a you know,

1039
00:51:02,800 --> 00:51:05,920
Speaker 7: he just made everyone the Grizzlies was just like a family.

1040
00:51:06,480 --> 00:51:09,279
Speaker 7: It felt like family, And so I really wanted to

1041
00:51:09,280 --> 00:51:12,160
Speaker 7: make sure that, yeah, that he that he had a

1042
00:51:12,320 --> 00:51:15,440
Speaker 7: say and was able to share his side of the story.

1043
00:51:15,600 --> 00:51:17,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, he seems like just the nicest guy, even in

1044
00:51:17,880 --> 00:51:19,800
Speaker 2: the documentary, Like when you're talking to him and his

1045
00:51:19,880 --> 00:51:22,120
Speaker 2: sit down, you're like, Oh, this guy feels like it's

1046
00:51:22,160 --> 00:51:24,600
Speaker 2: like a lovable grandpa. You're like, I love this guy,

1047
00:51:24,719 --> 00:51:28,000
Speaker 2: even though he made some questionable choices and that promotional

1048
00:51:28,080 --> 00:51:31,640
Speaker 2: video that you uncovered in this doc where losing his

1049
00:51:31,760 --> 00:51:34,479
Speaker 2: learning and the like. Oh but there was a part

1050
00:51:34,520 --> 00:51:36,200
Speaker 2: And Tass and I were talking about this the other

1051
00:51:36,280 --> 00:51:39,000
Speaker 2: night after we had watched it, like he asks you

1052
00:51:39,880 --> 00:51:42,399
Speaker 2: why you're making this documentary? And we were like did

1053
00:51:42,440 --> 00:51:44,359
Speaker 2: she tell him to say that? Like did she? Did

1054
00:51:44,400 --> 00:51:47,640
Speaker 2: you plan that? Or like him naturally just being like,

1055
00:51:48,360 --> 00:51:51,239
Speaker 2: you know, intrigued why someone so many years later would

1056
00:51:51,280 --> 00:51:53,440
Speaker 2: be making a doc about the Vancouver Grizzlies.

1057
00:51:53,800 --> 00:51:56,000
Speaker 7: I think a lot of people, a lot of people

1058
00:51:56,040 --> 00:51:58,920
Speaker 7: had that question. So, yeah, that was that was just no,

1059
00:51:59,120 --> 00:52:03,279
Speaker 7: that was that was an actual question. And he uh yeah.

1060
00:52:03,320 --> 00:52:07,080
Speaker 7: He Like many people were just like why are you

1061
00:52:07,239 --> 00:52:10,680
Speaker 7: doing this so so and and I get you know,

1062
00:52:10,680 --> 00:52:15,359
Speaker 7: I got those questions after finding the country. I got

1063
00:52:15,440 --> 00:52:19,920
Speaker 7: so many people being like why why would you make

1064
00:52:19,960 --> 00:52:22,400
Speaker 7: a film about a team that sucks so much? And

1065
00:52:22,600 --> 00:52:24,680
Speaker 7: what I have to remind people is because I was

1066
00:52:24,760 --> 00:52:28,680
Speaker 7: only six, I didn't know we were that bad. I

1067
00:52:28,719 --> 00:52:32,200
Speaker 7: think when you're a kid, it's just the magic of everything, right,

1068
00:52:32,280 --> 00:52:34,319
Speaker 7: and I think, you know, I was looking, you know,

1069
00:52:35,480 --> 00:52:38,799
Speaker 7: watching the Grizzlies through you know, a child's eyes, and

1070
00:52:38,840 --> 00:52:41,879
Speaker 7: that's it's so magical. And so it was only when

1071
00:52:41,920 --> 00:52:45,520
Speaker 7: I was starting to do my research that I realized

1072
00:52:45,520 --> 00:52:47,400
Speaker 7: we were so bad and I was like, WHOA, I

1073
00:52:47,400 --> 00:52:48,200
Speaker 7: didn't actually know we.

1074
00:52:48,239 --> 00:52:50,600
Speaker 6: Were We were the worst team and never felt like

1075
00:52:50,640 --> 00:52:51,000
Speaker 6: that too.

1076
00:52:51,520 --> 00:52:53,880
Speaker 7: And maybe had I been a bit older, I mean,

1077
00:52:54,040 --> 00:52:55,600
Speaker 7: I might have been a bit more jaded. So I

1078
00:52:55,600 --> 00:52:58,560
Speaker 7: feel like I was like at the perfect age to

1079
00:52:58,960 --> 00:53:01,319
Speaker 7: love the Grizzlies and can additionally and to like, you know,

1080
00:53:01,440 --> 00:53:04,440
Speaker 7: I I mean, you know, I've been working on this

1081
00:53:04,520 --> 00:53:06,680
Speaker 7: film for over a decade, been dreaming about it since

1082
00:53:06,680 --> 00:53:08,520
Speaker 7: I was in film school back in like you know,

1083
00:53:08,600 --> 00:53:12,560
Speaker 7: twenty ten or whatnot. So I've dedicated my entire adult

1084
00:53:12,640 --> 00:53:13,160
Speaker 7: life to the.

1085
00:53:15,680 --> 00:53:19,440
Speaker 3: Well, there's so much in this Cat. The access is incredible.

1086
00:53:19,440 --> 00:53:21,320
Speaker 3: I don't I don't want to give away the ending

1087
00:53:21,440 --> 00:53:25,399
Speaker 3: and where you go to to sort of wrap it up,

1088
00:53:25,800 --> 00:53:28,799
Speaker 3: but it we went on a journey. I mean it

1089
00:53:28,840 --> 00:53:31,000
Speaker 3: was fun. It took me back to Toronto. And maybe

1090
00:53:31,000 --> 00:53:33,680
Speaker 3: it's my Toronto arrogance and my Toronto bias, but watching

1091
00:53:33,719 --> 00:53:38,160
Speaker 3: all those Vancouver Grizzly super fans in one room to start,

1092
00:53:38,880 --> 00:53:42,200
Speaker 3: I was thinking, where did where the Cat find these

1093
00:53:42,719 --> 00:53:43,920
Speaker 3: super fans.

1094
00:53:43,880 --> 00:53:48,600
Speaker 7: And again them it was after finding the country I got.

1095
00:53:48,800 --> 00:53:51,680
Speaker 7: I was approached by so many fans who was like,

1096
00:53:52,040 --> 00:53:54,440
Speaker 7: you know, after screenings or people would dm me to

1097
00:53:54,520 --> 00:53:56,920
Speaker 7: be like I thought, I was the only one who's

1098
00:53:56,920 --> 00:53:59,800
Speaker 7: still heartbroken, and then I would start I started to

1099
00:53:59,800 --> 00:54:02,240
Speaker 7: get texts from fans like hey, Kat. I'd be like hey,

1100
00:54:02,280 --> 00:54:03,879
Speaker 7: and they'd be like, I'm like hey, hell, Like how's

1101
00:54:03,880 --> 00:54:06,640
Speaker 7: it going and they'd be like like, not too bad,

1102
00:54:06,960 --> 00:54:09,480
Speaker 7: just mister Grizzlies and like that was it. And I

1103
00:54:09,480 --> 00:54:10,960
Speaker 7: was like, I feel like and that's so that's when

1104
00:54:11,000 --> 00:54:13,279
Speaker 7: the idea of like the group therapy scene. I was like,

1105
00:54:13,480 --> 00:54:17,440
Speaker 7: what if we got everyone together to talk about our memories,

1106
00:54:17,600 --> 00:54:19,759
Speaker 7: our grievances, our theories.

1107
00:54:20,680 --> 00:54:23,640
Speaker 6: So that's that's how that idea, you know, came about.

1108
00:54:23,800 --> 00:54:26,200
Speaker 7: Was just because I was inundated with like all these

1109
00:54:26,239 --> 00:54:29,040
Speaker 7: super fans who I just kind of became like the

1110
00:54:29,040 --> 00:54:33,480
Speaker 7: therapist almost so. So yeah, so that's that's how I

1111
00:54:33,520 --> 00:54:35,440
Speaker 7: met all these super fans.

1112
00:54:36,640 --> 00:54:38,480
Speaker 3: I loved it. I loved all of that. And yeah,

1113
00:54:38,520 --> 00:54:41,120
Speaker 3: I don't am I, I'm not alone in that, right,

1114
00:54:41,200 --> 00:54:43,200
Speaker 3: is it? Because I wonder that you did a lot

1115
00:54:43,200 --> 00:54:45,520
Speaker 3: of the interviews that were about you know, the the

1116
00:54:45,800 --> 00:54:49,120
Speaker 3: Toronto arrogance, there's that came out. Am I alone in

1117
00:54:49,160 --> 00:54:52,520
Speaker 3: that skeets Jerome where I wondered, where are where did

1118
00:54:52,520 --> 00:54:55,359
Speaker 3: these people come from? Where? Where did these Grizzlies fans come.

1119
00:54:55,400 --> 00:54:56,960
Speaker 2: It's amazing that there was a lot more than I

1120
00:54:57,000 --> 00:55:00,520
Speaker 2: would have thought there'd be. Yeah, there was a part.

1121
00:55:01,000 --> 00:55:02,880
Speaker 2: And this was definitely me growing up in Toronto and

1122
00:55:02,920 --> 00:55:05,799
Speaker 2: my Toronto arrogance where it's like we always hear like

1123
00:55:05,880 --> 00:55:09,200
Speaker 2: the Raptors or Canada's team, and there's someone from I

1124
00:55:09,239 --> 00:55:11,840
Speaker 2: believe one of the Grizzly super fans that says like,

1125
00:55:12,520 --> 00:55:14,920
Speaker 2: they're not really though, you know, like we had our

1126
00:55:14,960 --> 00:55:16,880
Speaker 2: own team, and it's like, oh, yeah, you know, we

1127
00:55:17,000 --> 00:55:19,120
Speaker 2: just say that. Now it's like, oh, a Canada's team.

1128
00:55:19,200 --> 00:55:21,000
Speaker 2: They got a whole country behind them, and it's like

1129
00:55:21,120 --> 00:55:23,760
Speaker 2: not really the case, especially if you were in Vancouver

1130
00:55:23,840 --> 00:55:25,759
Speaker 2: and you had a team that you loved and that left.

1131
00:55:26,680 --> 00:55:29,960
Speaker 4: Yeah, and for me like Toronto arrogance. For me, it

1132
00:55:30,000 --> 00:55:30,520
Speaker 4: wasn't just that.

1133
00:55:30,600 --> 00:55:34,080
Speaker 5: It was also a little bit of pettiness because and

1134
00:55:34,480 --> 00:55:38,120
Speaker 5: again no one's fault, but I remember when the team started,

1135
00:55:38,680 --> 00:55:42,760
Speaker 5: I was what ten years old something that I visited

1136
00:55:42,760 --> 00:55:46,520
Speaker 5: my cousins in Vancouver and we I just remember, I

1137
00:55:46,520 --> 00:55:49,560
Speaker 5: don't know why I have this memory, but playing on

1138
00:55:49,640 --> 00:55:53,120
Speaker 5: the street, like on a on the front and some

1139
00:55:53,400 --> 00:55:56,640
Speaker 5: like one of the kids from Vancouver just trash talking

1140
00:55:56,719 --> 00:55:59,920
Speaker 5: me and being like the Grizzlies are better than the Raptors.

1141
00:56:00,320 --> 00:56:03,520
Speaker 5: The Raptors are never gonna survive. Grizzlies are here forever,

1142
00:56:03,680 --> 00:56:05,839
Speaker 5: all this and me not understand anything that's going on,

1143
00:56:06,360 --> 00:56:08,680
Speaker 5: and for some reason, for the longest time up until

1144
00:56:08,680 --> 00:56:11,920
Speaker 5: basically finding Big Country, I remember just always thinking like, ha,

1145
00:56:12,719 --> 00:56:16,960
Speaker 5: the Raptors thing. And but then like now, I mean,

1146
00:56:17,600 --> 00:56:20,640
Speaker 5: I think between finding Big Country and it's almost like

1147
00:56:20,920 --> 00:56:25,560
Speaker 5: you talk about how Kat's able to uh get all

1148
00:56:25,560 --> 00:56:29,240
Speaker 5: these players to really open up. I think the existence

1149
00:56:29,239 --> 00:56:31,440
Speaker 5: of finding Big Country makes such a difference in enable

1150
00:56:31,640 --> 00:56:34,280
Speaker 5: like people people being able to see like how sincere

1151
00:56:34,400 --> 00:56:37,759
Speaker 5: Cat is in terms of like how much he like

1152
00:56:38,400 --> 00:56:40,600
Speaker 5: cares about the team, how much the team means to her,

1153
00:56:40,920 --> 00:56:46,000
Speaker 5: like her like rabid devotion, Like this jersey here is

1154
00:56:46,040 --> 00:56:47,680
Speaker 5: actually designed by Cat?

1155
00:56:48,080 --> 00:56:51,959
Speaker 6: Is my tell the drawing that jeromees repping.

1156
00:56:52,040 --> 00:56:55,880
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's it's this right here. It's so good.

1157
00:56:55,960 --> 00:57:00,000
Speaker 3: But and that's what Steve Francis says, right, he's completely

1158
00:57:00,400 --> 00:57:04,399
Speaker 3: it's where he saw finding a Big Country and it's like, oh,

1159
00:57:04,400 --> 00:57:05,799
Speaker 3: that's you. Let's do this.

1160
00:57:06,200 --> 00:57:08,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then likely I want to tell my story

1161
00:57:08,600 --> 00:57:09,120
Speaker 2: and stuff like that.

1162
00:57:09,200 --> 00:57:12,160
Speaker 7: Yeah, and finding because that's a good point. Drum, like

1163
00:57:12,160 --> 00:57:15,680
Speaker 7: finding the country was actually it was. It was like

1164
00:57:15,719 --> 00:57:17,560
Speaker 7: kind of like a calling card almost because I could

1165
00:57:17,600 --> 00:57:19,720
Speaker 7: send it to players like, Hey, my name is kat Jamie.

1166
00:57:19,720 --> 00:57:21,880
Speaker 6: I'm doing this documentary. I did this documentary about finding

1167
00:57:21,920 --> 00:57:23,040
Speaker 6: a country. Here's a link.

1168
00:57:23,440 --> 00:57:26,960
Speaker 7: And I feel like that's probably what also kind of disarted,

1169
00:57:27,000 --> 00:57:30,400
Speaker 7: Like that was a great way to connect because they

1170
00:57:30,440 --> 00:57:32,880
Speaker 7: could see my backstory, they could see how I treated

1171
00:57:32,960 --> 00:57:37,400
Speaker 7: Bryant's story and then yeah, and also to further that drum, Yeah,

1172
00:57:37,440 --> 00:57:41,320
Speaker 7: like the Grizzlies in Toronto, rivalry was real. It still exists,

1173
00:57:41,400 --> 00:57:44,680
Speaker 7: like for for diehard Grizzly fans, it still exists.

1174
00:57:44,680 --> 00:57:45,800
Speaker 6: Like everyone in that room.

1175
00:57:46,040 --> 00:57:48,479
Speaker 7: I mean i'd say majority would be like would feel

1176
00:57:48,480 --> 00:57:54,560
Speaker 7: the same way as uh, you know that that Grizzly

1177
00:57:54,560 --> 00:57:57,280
Speaker 7: player who was like that, you know, we had our

1178
00:57:57,320 --> 00:57:59,600
Speaker 7: team and it doesn't feel like the Rats don't feel

1179
00:57:59,600 --> 00:57:59,919
Speaker 7: like our.

1180
00:58:00,600 --> 00:58:02,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, but he but he was he was the guy

1181
00:58:02,200 --> 00:58:06,520
Speaker 3: wearing a Jah Morant jersey as well. Yeah, the one

1182
00:58:06,560 --> 00:58:08,440
Speaker 3: guy who was comfortable rep in Memphis.

1183
00:58:08,560 --> 00:58:12,960
Speaker 2: He made a baby cry up in that and that

1184
00:58:13,080 --> 00:58:14,480
Speaker 2: you know what, that's funny you brought that up test

1185
00:58:14,560 --> 00:58:17,160
Speaker 2: because like one of the first notes I wrote down,

1186
00:58:17,200 --> 00:58:19,760
Speaker 2: and watching the doc was like, is kind of Memphis

1187
00:58:19,800 --> 00:58:22,920
Speaker 2: Grizzlies fan like, and you know, I'm not going to

1188
00:58:22,960 --> 00:58:24,840
Speaker 2: spoil anything, but we sort of go on this journey

1189
00:58:24,880 --> 00:58:27,600
Speaker 2: and and it takes us uh to a destination in

1190
00:58:27,640 --> 00:58:29,240
Speaker 2: the end. But it was like that was the first

1191
00:58:29,240 --> 00:58:32,439
Speaker 2: thing I wrote down, which is like, that's like sort

1192
00:58:32,440 --> 00:58:34,520
Speaker 2: of like why you know, I don't know. It's like

1193
00:58:34,560 --> 00:58:36,160
Speaker 2: in my head, it's like you should be. I mean,

1194
00:58:36,160 --> 00:58:39,320
Speaker 2: you obviously like basketball. You love basketball. I mean, but

1195
00:58:39,520 --> 00:58:42,000
Speaker 2: are you a Raptors fan or are you not in

1196
00:58:42,360 --> 00:58:44,040
Speaker 2: you don't have a team, you just love the game?

1197
00:58:44,080 --> 00:58:45,400
Speaker 2: Like where where do you stand on that?

1198
00:58:45,640 --> 00:58:47,840
Speaker 7: Well, when the Grizzlies left, I became a huge Steve

1199
00:58:47,960 --> 00:58:50,880
Speaker 7: Nash fan. Okay, so like in high school, like my

1200
00:58:51,040 --> 00:58:53,720
Speaker 7: room was like decked out in Dallas Maverick posters like

1201
00:58:53,800 --> 00:58:56,000
Speaker 7: Finley and Drink No Whisky. And then when you went

1202
00:58:56,080 --> 00:59:00,480
Speaker 7: to Phoenix, it was just like, you know, Steve Nash

1203
00:59:00,520 --> 00:59:03,560
Speaker 7: in the Phoenix jerseyal over my room. But and then

1204
00:59:03,600 --> 00:59:05,720
Speaker 7: when he retired after you know, when he went to

1205
00:59:05,840 --> 00:59:08,520
Speaker 7: LA and I kind of I don't necessarily feel like

1206
00:59:08,560 --> 00:59:13,440
Speaker 7: I have loyalties to the team anymore. I'm starting, I

1207
00:59:13,440 --> 00:59:16,480
Speaker 7: mean with the rap when the Raptors in twenty nineteen

1208
00:59:16,520 --> 00:59:18,320
Speaker 7: one that were in the finals, I was like, I

1209
00:59:18,360 --> 00:59:21,120
Speaker 7: definitely got on board cheering for the Rape because it

1210
00:59:21,160 --> 00:59:24,439
Speaker 7: was still you know, still a huge thing for Canada, right,

1211
00:59:24,520 --> 00:59:27,160
Speaker 7: and the Raptors as well. Like but I was I

1212
00:59:27,160 --> 00:59:29,840
Speaker 7: always tell people I was wearing my with the North shirt,

1213
00:59:30,600 --> 00:59:33,800
Speaker 7: but I had my Grizzlies like Cape like you know

1214
00:59:34,280 --> 00:59:38,880
Speaker 7: around me. But no, definitely cheering for the Raptors and

1215
00:59:38,960 --> 00:59:42,440
Speaker 7: now obviously Memphis, I definitely have like, you know, a

1216
00:59:42,480 --> 00:59:44,120
Speaker 7: sauce spot for that team.

1217
00:59:43,800 --> 00:59:45,480
Speaker 6: Just because you know, the city.

1218
00:59:45,600 --> 00:59:48,960
Speaker 7: The city really welcomed me with open arms, and the

1219
00:59:49,040 --> 00:59:52,000
Speaker 7: organization did too, and the I've met so many super

1220
00:59:52,000 --> 00:59:54,800
Speaker 7: fans and it's cool, you know in the film that

1221
00:59:54,920 --> 00:59:58,240
Speaker 7: you know they they obviously all know and recognize like

1222
00:59:58,320 --> 00:59:59,960
Speaker 7: kind of the roots of the team.

1223
01:00:00,080 --> 01:00:01,080
Speaker 6: Yeah, that was really important.

1224
01:00:01,120 --> 01:00:03,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, you almost seemed shocked by that in the field,

1225
01:00:04,080 --> 01:00:05,880
Speaker 2: like yeah, you know, you go to Memphis and you're

1226
01:00:05,880 --> 01:00:08,120
Speaker 2: like asking people, you know, where the team comes from originally,

1227
01:00:08,120 --> 01:00:10,480
Speaker 2: and everyone's like, yeah, Vancouver, and you're like, wow.

1228
01:00:11,840 --> 01:00:13,120
Speaker 6: Yeah, well it's so funny.

1229
01:00:13,160 --> 01:00:15,680
Speaker 7: I guess my friends actually, like my best friends kind

1230
01:00:15,680 --> 01:00:17,400
Speaker 7: of laughed and I didn't realize this. But when I

1231
01:00:17,400 --> 01:00:20,480
Speaker 7: say like, kind of go grizzlies here Vancouver, people look

1232
01:00:20,520 --> 01:00:24,160
Speaker 7: at me like I'm like who you know, who are you?

1233
01:00:24,240 --> 01:00:25,320
Speaker 6: And like what are you talking about?

1234
01:00:25,680 --> 01:00:27,840
Speaker 7: But when I was there, like I was one surprised

1235
01:00:27,880 --> 01:00:32,240
Speaker 7: because everyone was like yeah, yeah, yeah, like and I

1236
01:00:31,920 --> 01:00:34,760
Speaker 7: know that's not the usual reaction. I look, I hear

1237
01:00:34,800 --> 01:00:37,000
Speaker 7: when I say that, I look like a weird right right,

1238
01:00:37,640 --> 01:00:37,880
Speaker 7: Like we.

1239
01:00:37,840 --> 01:00:39,400
Speaker 2: Haven't had a team in a long time. Why are

1240
01:00:39,440 --> 01:00:42,400
Speaker 2: you still that's out here? Did you ever think about

1241
01:00:42,800 --> 01:00:44,160
Speaker 2: you said you like there was a lot more you

1242
01:00:44,160 --> 01:00:45,800
Speaker 2: wanted to put in the doc. Did you ever think

1243
01:00:45,800 --> 01:00:49,680
Speaker 2: about like tying in more of like the Sonics losing

1244
01:00:49,760 --> 01:00:52,360
Speaker 2: their team and it being obviously so close to Vancouver

1245
01:00:52,520 --> 01:00:54,600
Speaker 2: and and that sort of angle to it.

1246
01:00:55,320 --> 01:00:58,960
Speaker 7: We definitely, yeah, there's you know, unfortunately, uh a lot

1247
01:00:59,000 --> 01:01:01,400
Speaker 7: of stuff that had the floor, and I think that

1248
01:01:01,680 --> 01:01:04,760
Speaker 7: those interviews was one of them. We went to Seattle.

1249
01:01:04,800 --> 01:01:08,160
Speaker 7: We filmed with a few more people. We actually this

1250
01:01:08,680 --> 01:01:12,240
Speaker 7: because of weather and my schedule, we just weren't able

1251
01:01:12,240 --> 01:01:14,240
Speaker 7: to do it, but we we We were supposed to

1252
01:01:14,280 --> 01:01:18,320
Speaker 7: film with Super Sonic super fans as well, just to

1253
01:01:18,360 --> 01:01:21,880
Speaker 7: get like, you know, to get their story and to

1254
01:01:21,880 --> 01:01:25,080
Speaker 7: see the similarities. But of course that just we we

1255
01:01:25,760 --> 01:01:27,840
Speaker 7: didn't end up actually filming it in the end, but

1256
01:01:27,880 --> 01:01:29,880
Speaker 7: it just we just didn't have any time.

1257
01:01:30,920 --> 01:01:33,520
Speaker 2: Any other questions guys, for Kat might have to let

1258
01:01:33,560 --> 01:01:34,160
Speaker 2: her go back to bed.

1259
01:01:34,200 --> 01:01:38,720
Speaker 3: It's really well, I just want to know, you know,

1260
01:01:38,800 --> 01:01:41,560
Speaker 3: you present this film as the mystery of the Grizzlies

1261
01:01:41,560 --> 01:01:46,280
Speaker 3: and why the hell they disappeared. To me, one of

1262
01:01:46,320 --> 01:01:48,800
Speaker 3: the great mysteries is Michael Heisley buying the team in

1263
01:01:48,800 --> 01:01:51,360
Speaker 3: two thousand and putting all sorts of money into a building,

1264
01:01:51,640 --> 01:01:54,760
Speaker 3: a practice facility across the street, and then one year

1265
01:01:54,880 --> 01:01:56,080
Speaker 3: later selling the thing.

1266
01:01:56,480 --> 01:01:59,400
Speaker 7: I still not even like a yeah, yeah, like very

1267
01:01:59,520 --> 01:02:01,040
Speaker 7: season in the season.

1268
01:02:00,840 --> 01:02:04,240
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, you're right. I mean, it's totally I totally

1269
01:02:04,240 --> 01:02:06,640
Speaker 3: forget that even as a basketball sicco the games were

1270
01:02:06,640 --> 01:02:08,320
Speaker 3: still happening in that two thousand and two thousand and

1271
01:02:08,360 --> 01:02:11,240
Speaker 3: one season and the players are starting to be asked,

1272
01:02:11,280 --> 01:02:15,720
Speaker 3: oh this is you guys are moving. I totally totally

1273
01:02:15,720 --> 01:02:18,400
Speaker 3: forgotten about that. I mean, I still don't understand the

1274
01:02:18,440 --> 01:02:21,680
Speaker 3: financial part of it. I love how you you mirror

1275
01:02:21,720 --> 01:02:25,680
Speaker 3: it with with John Bittov. The original Raptors owner And

1276
01:02:25,880 --> 01:02:29,680
Speaker 3: at first he's like, oh, that that dollar thing, the

1277
01:02:30,040 --> 01:02:33,720
Speaker 3: whole the excuse that the Canadian dollar went down, that's

1278
01:02:33,800 --> 01:02:37,400
Speaker 3: bowl crap. But then he's asked, well, if Vince Carter

1279
01:02:37,520 --> 01:02:40,200
Speaker 3: wasn't drafted by the Toronto Raptors, would the Raptors still

1280
01:02:40,200 --> 01:02:45,440
Speaker 3: be here? He says, probably not. I mean essentially, essentially, essentially,

1281
01:02:45,480 --> 01:02:49,480
Speaker 3: it's like nobody knows anything. But is there something you

1282
01:02:49,600 --> 01:02:52,200
Speaker 3: still don't understand, something that's still perplexing after all this

1283
01:02:52,280 --> 01:02:53,120
Speaker 3: research you've done.

1284
01:02:53,840 --> 01:02:57,800
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, you know, I unfortunately Michael Heise has passed,

1285
01:02:58,280 --> 01:02:59,760
Speaker 7: and I you know, I tried to get in touch

1286
01:02:59,800 --> 01:03:04,200
Speaker 7: with someone from his family and he just wasn't able

1287
01:03:04,240 --> 01:03:07,040
Speaker 7: to get in touch with anyone. But you know, I

1288
01:03:07,080 --> 01:03:12,320
Speaker 7: think that truly understanding that that's side of the story

1289
01:03:12,320 --> 01:03:13,880
Speaker 7: of why he decided to leave.

1290
01:03:13,920 --> 01:03:17,080
Speaker 6: I think, you know, talking to Tom Penn, they they

1291
01:03:17,120 --> 01:03:18,200
Speaker 6: had they always had a plan.

1292
01:03:18,280 --> 01:03:20,280
Speaker 7: And he says he's in the film, He's like, we

1293
01:03:20,320 --> 01:03:23,280
Speaker 7: always had a plan B, like make make the mistake cat.

1294
01:03:23,360 --> 01:03:24,960
Speaker 6: We had a plan B. He says that that's the

1295
01:03:24,960 --> 01:03:25,680
Speaker 6: first thing he says.

1296
01:03:25,680 --> 01:03:28,600
Speaker 7: The second thing I'll point out is that you know,

1297
01:03:28,680 --> 01:03:30,240
Speaker 7: I don't know if this actually makes a cut. But

1298
01:03:30,280 --> 01:03:33,360
Speaker 7: Tom is like, what does he say to me?

1299
01:03:35,040 --> 01:03:36,640
Speaker 6: Was my point? I'm totally blank.

1300
01:03:36,800 --> 01:03:38,280
Speaker 3: Well, I guess I guess he said he was in

1301
01:03:38,320 --> 01:03:41,360
Speaker 3: the conversation. Was in the conversation he.

1302
01:03:41,400 --> 01:03:42,520
Speaker 6: Was, Yeah, he goes.

1303
01:03:42,600 --> 01:03:46,680
Speaker 7: He's like he you can argue, you can argue that

1304
01:03:46,720 --> 01:03:49,160
Speaker 7: he pulled the plug too soon, Like that's not an

1305
01:03:49,240 --> 01:03:53,280
Speaker 7: argument he like, because he he did. But that's his

1306
01:03:53,440 --> 01:03:56,080
Speaker 7: choice to make because he's the owner of the team. Sure,

1307
01:03:56,280 --> 01:03:59,720
Speaker 7: and so like and so like that's you know, did

1308
01:03:59,720 --> 01:04:03,120
Speaker 7: he the plug student? Yeah, but he has like that

1309
01:04:03,200 --> 01:04:05,280
Speaker 7: you know that he and that That's what I'm talking

1310
01:04:05,320 --> 01:04:07,360
Speaker 7: about with like local connection to the team. He has

1311
01:04:07,360 --> 01:04:09,400
Speaker 7: no ties to the city. Like he can do what

1312
01:04:09,440 --> 01:04:12,120
Speaker 7: he wants to do. And the other thing that was

1313
01:04:12,160 --> 01:04:16,200
Speaker 7: interesting about the interview with John is, you know, there's

1314
01:04:16,240 --> 01:04:19,320
Speaker 7: two factors that were different between the Grizzlies and the Raptors,

1315
01:04:19,400 --> 01:04:22,760
Speaker 7: and those are you know, Vince Carter, but the teacher's

1316
01:04:22,800 --> 01:04:26,720
Speaker 7: pension for which he glosses over, but like that's huge,

1317
01:04:26,760 --> 01:04:29,680
Speaker 7: and that's why the Raptors were able to to ride

1318
01:04:29,760 --> 01:04:32,200
Speaker 7: those like the you know, the low Canadian dollar longer

1319
01:04:32,240 --> 01:04:33,960
Speaker 7: than we did because we didn't have that big of

1320
01:04:34,000 --> 01:04:36,080
Speaker 7: a safety net the Raptors did.

1321
01:04:36,360 --> 01:04:40,840
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, Well, as a businessman, it's odd that Michael

1322
01:04:40,880 --> 01:04:42,680
Speaker 3: Isisley comes in and spends all that money on a

1323
01:04:42,720 --> 01:04:46,800
Speaker 3: practice facility and then months later I.

1324
01:04:48,160 --> 01:04:50,800
Speaker 7: Tried to do my research, like to try to figure out, okay,

1325
01:04:50,920 --> 01:04:53,360
Speaker 7: like you know, was he getting like a deal from

1326
01:04:53,400 --> 01:04:56,360
Speaker 7: this or like you know, and so I did, like

1327
01:04:56,600 --> 01:04:58,000
Speaker 7: try to figure.

1328
01:04:57,680 --> 01:04:58,760
Speaker 6: Out more about that.

1329
01:05:00,360 --> 01:05:02,720
Speaker 7: But you know, at the end of the day, you know,

1330
01:05:02,840 --> 01:05:05,480
Speaker 7: people who were in his trusted corner were like, we're

1331
01:05:05,520 --> 01:05:10,160
Speaker 7: telling me, like, why would he invest all this money

1332
01:05:10,280 --> 01:05:13,280
Speaker 7: if his intention was to move it. I think the

1333
01:05:13,360 --> 01:05:15,920
Speaker 7: counter argument would be, but he was going to make

1334
01:05:15,960 --> 01:05:20,600
Speaker 7: bank in Memphis, right, But but then but still he's

1335
01:05:20,600 --> 01:05:24,479
Speaker 7: still a businessman, like why would you spend needlessly? Which

1336
01:05:24,480 --> 01:05:26,520
Speaker 7: is what Debbie Bud says in the film. So I,

1337
01:05:26,640 --> 01:05:28,520
Speaker 7: you know, I do, I do believe that, like I

1338
01:05:28,640 --> 01:05:31,920
Speaker 7: So anyways, it's still there's still you know, things that

1339
01:05:31,960 --> 01:05:34,960
Speaker 7: you can argue, But you know, I think the main

1340
01:05:35,000 --> 01:05:36,800
Speaker 7: thing is, like, you know, did he pull the plugst

1341
01:05:36,880 --> 01:05:40,160
Speaker 7: And yeah he did. He he had every right to

1342
01:05:40,240 --> 01:05:40,640
Speaker 7: in a way.

1343
01:05:40,920 --> 01:05:41,840
Speaker 6: It's his team.

1344
01:05:41,920 --> 01:05:44,920
Speaker 3: And one other thing you can debate is Michael Hisley

1345
01:05:45,000 --> 01:05:48,760
Speaker 3: or was Michael Hisley a good singer? Because I had

1346
01:05:48,800 --> 01:05:51,600
Speaker 3: totally forgotten Michael Hisley, the owner of a basketball team,

1347
01:05:51,760 --> 01:05:54,640
Speaker 3: came out opening night the first season, the first and

1348
01:05:54,760 --> 01:05:57,600
Speaker 3: only season he had the team in Vancouver, and he

1349
01:05:57,720 --> 01:06:02,120
Speaker 3: sung the Canadian national anthem American Businessman. A lot of

1350
01:06:02,120 --> 01:06:04,720
Speaker 3: people were giving him credit. Kat, do you think he

1351
01:06:04,760 --> 01:06:05,440
Speaker 3: was a good singer?

1352
01:06:07,120 --> 01:06:07,760
Speaker 6: He's not bad?

1353
01:06:09,200 --> 01:06:15,640
Speaker 7: He was, Yeah, but no like props to him for

1354
01:06:15,760 --> 01:06:17,439
Speaker 7: doing Yeah, yeah, he wasn't too.

1355
01:06:17,360 --> 01:06:19,320
Speaker 2: Bad at all. I love that. You reminded me of

1356
01:06:19,320 --> 01:06:22,120
Speaker 2: the Grizzlies actually started their franchise two and oh they

1357
01:06:22,120 --> 01:06:25,200
Speaker 2: won their first. It was like Chris King I actually

1358
01:06:25,200 --> 01:06:28,200
Speaker 2: had completely forgotten was an NBA player and had that

1359
01:06:28,280 --> 01:06:30,120
Speaker 2: tip in buzzer Beater, and you talked to him in

1360
01:06:30,200 --> 01:06:32,520
Speaker 2: the in the documentary too, that there was. It was

1361
01:06:32,520 --> 01:06:35,320
Speaker 2: a trip down memory lane. Uh, for sure. We loved it.

1362
01:06:35,400 --> 01:06:39,360
Speaker 2: We really suggest everybody seek this out, especially you Canadian uh,

1363
01:06:39,400 --> 01:06:44,600
Speaker 2: podcast listeners and YouTube viewers here. Like I said, Apple TV, iTunes,

1364
01:06:44,880 --> 01:06:48,680
Speaker 2: Cineplex pre order The Grizzly Truth, seek it out. You're

1365
01:06:48,720 --> 01:06:50,800
Speaker 2: gonna love it. Go watch Finding Big Country. Do you

1366
01:06:50,800 --> 01:06:52,800
Speaker 2: get your hands on that? And then Kat set it

1367
01:06:52,840 --> 01:06:57,040
Speaker 2: off the top big news coming for American people and

1368
01:06:57,160 --> 01:06:59,200
Speaker 2: international people that it's hopefully going to get on a

1369
01:06:59,240 --> 01:07:01,280
Speaker 2: couple I assume dreaming platforms or something.

1370
01:07:01,040 --> 01:07:05,560
Speaker 7: Like that for sure. Yeah, Thankskeets, Taz and Jerome for

1371
01:07:05,920 --> 01:07:08,400
Speaker 7: having me. Michael, my producer, Michael Grint and I are

1372
01:07:08,480 --> 01:07:10,360
Speaker 7: huge fan so it's really cool to be here today.

1373
01:07:10,520 --> 01:07:12,960
Speaker 2: Well, we appreciate you jumping on again, so so early.

1374
01:07:13,240 --> 01:07:16,000
Speaker 2: Happy holidays, everybody, go check out The Grizzly Truth. Kat.

1375
01:07:16,040 --> 01:07:17,680
Speaker 2: Thank you so much. We're gonna take a final break

1376
01:07:17,720 --> 01:07:19,880
Speaker 2: when we come back. Pick them results and rapid Fire

1377
01:07:19,880 --> 01:07:24,200
Speaker 2: Fund don't go anywhere all right back here in the yard,

1378
01:07:24,440 --> 01:07:26,840
Speaker 2: I don't know if you can hear them, but I'll apologize.

1379
01:07:26,960 --> 01:07:34,080
Speaker 2: The leaf blowers have shown up. Sorry, guys. They're about

1380
01:07:34,120 --> 01:07:36,440
Speaker 2: ten feet away from me right now, just blowing.

1381
01:07:36,200 --> 01:07:40,880
Speaker 3: Leaves around in December, sub zero temperatures. What the hell

1382
01:07:40,920 --> 01:07:41,680
Speaker 3: are they blowing?

1383
01:07:42,240 --> 01:07:46,120
Speaker 2: I'm very confused because they don't usually come until Saturday.

1384
01:07:46,160 --> 01:07:48,040
Speaker 2: I mean, I get it, it's the Christmas weekend, so

1385
01:07:48,160 --> 01:07:51,480
Speaker 2: maybe that's why they're a day early here, but like, yeah,

1386
01:07:51,840 --> 01:07:55,280
Speaker 2: just take the week off, guys. I mean, we don't

1387
01:07:55,320 --> 01:07:57,440
Speaker 2: need to be pushing around the eight leaves on the

1388
01:07:57,480 --> 01:08:02,160
Speaker 2: ground while it's freezing cold here Atlanta. Wait, pick them results.

1389
01:08:02,240 --> 01:08:05,520
Speaker 2: Last night, I had the Wizards. I swerved an L

1390
01:08:05,560 --> 01:08:08,440
Speaker 2: for me, win for Task, win for Tray slash Jerome,

1391
01:08:08,720 --> 01:08:11,160
Speaker 2: Task ten and six, Trey nine and seven. I'm six

1392
01:08:11,200 --> 01:08:13,400
Speaker 2: and ten, So I'm well, I guess there's a week

1393
01:08:13,480 --> 01:08:17,120
Speaker 2: left here in December. But we're not gonna be making

1394
01:08:17,320 --> 01:08:19,519
Speaker 2: picks every night because we're gonna show every night. I'm

1395
01:08:19,520 --> 01:08:22,040
Speaker 2: in trouble anyway. What's what's our game here? Task? I

1396
01:08:22,080 --> 01:08:24,400
Speaker 2: know we had it wrong yesterday or were we were

1397
01:08:24,400 --> 01:08:26,280
Speaker 2: looking ahead? So where are we going?

1398
01:08:26,840 --> 01:08:29,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're going to Christmas Day. The last game of

1399
01:08:30,080 --> 01:08:33,519
Speaker 3: Christmas Day is Denver hosting the Phoenix Suns, and Denver

1400
01:08:33,600 --> 01:08:35,880
Speaker 3: a two and a half point favorite in that last game,

1401
01:08:35,920 --> 01:08:39,960
Speaker 3: and I'm surprised. The most experts just say Denver is

1402
01:08:39,960 --> 01:08:43,240
Speaker 3: gonna rop. If you're looking out there and checking the picks,

1403
01:08:43,760 --> 01:08:46,360
Speaker 3: it's surprising because the Phoenix Suns are a good basketball team,

1404
01:08:46,560 --> 01:08:50,080
Speaker 3: and I am interested to see how they bounce back,

1405
01:08:50,320 --> 01:08:52,759
Speaker 3: recover whatever word you want to use from that. DeAndre

1406
01:08:52,760 --> 01:08:57,760
Speaker 3: ad and Monty Williams incident. Tray Slash Jerome believes that

1407
01:08:57,800 --> 01:08:59,559
Speaker 3: they're going to come out with a victory, while myself

1408
01:08:59,560 --> 01:09:02,680
Speaker 3: and Skeets think that Denver will rop and cover that

1409
01:09:02,720 --> 01:09:03,400
Speaker 3: two and a half.

1410
01:09:03,680 --> 01:09:06,360
Speaker 5: Why do you think Christmas Christmas Day gives them good

1411
01:09:06,479 --> 01:09:07,760
Speaker 5: enough vibes to hang over?

1412
01:09:07,960 --> 01:09:11,000
Speaker 3: Yeahs back, Yeah that's true. They're going to be on

1413
01:09:11,040 --> 01:09:14,839
Speaker 3: the road, got to come together. We'll see what happens.

1414
01:09:14,840 --> 01:09:18,160
Speaker 3: But yeah, they're five days SKED, five games SKED. I

1415
01:09:18,240 --> 01:09:21,280
Speaker 3: was surprised to see a lot of people taking Denver

1416
01:09:21,520 --> 01:09:24,120
Speaker 3: because I feel like that should be a competitive game.

1417
01:09:24,160 --> 01:09:26,639
Speaker 3: But that'll be the wrap up for five great, great

1418
01:09:26,720 --> 01:09:27,400
Speaker 3: games hopefully.

1419
01:09:27,800 --> 01:09:32,040
Speaker 2: Okay, so our pickum is for the Christmas Day game,

1420
01:09:33,000 --> 01:09:34,880
Speaker 2: not any game tonight, even though there's obviously a turn

1421
01:09:34,920 --> 01:09:36,519
Speaker 2: on in the NBA. Okay, just want to clarify that.

1422
01:09:36,720 --> 01:09:40,080
Speaker 2: So when we come back on Monday's podcast or YouTube

1423
01:09:40,080 --> 01:09:43,360
Speaker 2: stream will be addressing who wins that Denver Phoenix game.

1424
01:09:43,360 --> 01:09:45,880
Speaker 2: There the last game of the Christmas Day SU.

1425
01:09:45,960 --> 01:09:48,240
Speaker 3: And we'll be talking about obviously the Christmas Day SKED

1426
01:09:48,520 --> 01:09:50,400
Speaker 3: on Monday. Well, we'll talk about all them.

1427
01:09:51,439 --> 01:09:54,720
Speaker 2: Okay, let's wrap up this fun drop podcast with some

1428
01:09:54,920 --> 01:09:59,479
Speaker 2: rapid fire fun. I'll ask the questions. I'll also answer

1429
01:09:59,479 --> 01:10:01,599
Speaker 2: them with you eyes, because why not our first one.

1430
01:10:02,560 --> 01:10:06,960
Speaker 2: We debated this on the Latest Is This Good podcast

1431
01:10:07,040 --> 01:10:10,200
Speaker 2: Mattie Oh's Great Podcast with jd TK and I were

1432
01:10:10,240 --> 01:10:13,639
Speaker 2: on and the main topic. The first question was Santa

1433
01:10:13,640 --> 01:10:17,920
Speaker 2: Claus is he good? Uh so it was, I mean,

1434
01:10:18,000 --> 01:10:21,320
Speaker 2: go seek it out. We talked about twenty minutes about that.

1435
01:10:21,960 --> 01:10:25,040
Speaker 2: Oh my god, now the leaf blower guy is in

1436
01:10:25,080 --> 01:10:29,840
Speaker 2: my house. But the question off of this, guys, is

1437
01:10:31,320 --> 01:10:35,400
Speaker 2: what's the most questionable or mysterious thing you believe in?

1438
01:10:35,439 --> 01:10:37,640
Speaker 2: And you can't say Santa I guess, so I get

1439
01:10:37,720 --> 01:10:38,720
Speaker 2: a start a test.

1440
01:10:39,520 --> 01:10:46,200
Speaker 3: I believe in witches. They're real. There's there's some way, shape,

1441
01:10:46,280 --> 01:10:48,400
Speaker 3: or form they're out there. Maybe it's because I just

1442
01:10:48,439 --> 01:10:52,519
Speaker 3: watched Wednesday, Tim Burton's Wednesday, which is kick ass. It

1443
01:10:52,560 --> 01:10:57,040
Speaker 3: was pretty fun. But yeah, I'm not a ghost guy.

1444
01:10:57,240 --> 01:11:00,280
Speaker 3: I mean I could be convinced, but uh, witches, Yeah,

1445
01:11:00,400 --> 01:11:01,000
Speaker 3: simple as that.

1446
01:11:04,240 --> 01:11:08,040
Speaker 5: I'm this most tough because I really couldn't think of

1447
01:11:08,200 --> 01:11:10,679
Speaker 5: mysterious and questionable things. I mean one in the theme

1448
01:11:10,720 --> 01:11:12,920
Speaker 5: of this show and from the thing that we just

1449
01:11:12,920 --> 01:11:15,920
Speaker 5: came out of, I will believe that Vancouver will get

1450
01:11:15,920 --> 01:11:19,080
Speaker 5: another NBA basketball team.

1451
01:11:19,240 --> 01:11:19,880
Speaker 3: I like it. Wow.

1452
01:11:20,520 --> 01:11:23,360
Speaker 5: Wow, that's a pretty unbelievable one. So but I mean,

1453
01:11:23,400 --> 01:11:25,320
Speaker 5: you know, manifestation and positivity.

1454
01:11:25,320 --> 01:11:26,880
Speaker 3: Why not? Sure?

1455
01:11:26,960 --> 01:11:33,160
Speaker 2: I think I heard your answers. Jesus good answers. I

1456
01:11:33,200 --> 01:11:36,440
Speaker 2: believe in this mysterious thing, and that is that aliens

1457
01:11:37,520 --> 01:11:40,599
Speaker 2: are real. I believe that, and they live in cats.

1458
01:11:41,600 --> 01:11:45,599
Speaker 2: I've said this before. It's their surveillance system. Like aliens

1459
01:11:45,600 --> 01:11:50,320
Speaker 2: are in cats watching, you know, taking data and sending

1460
01:11:50,320 --> 01:11:50,879
Speaker 2: it back.

1461
01:11:50,720 --> 01:11:51,960
Speaker 3: To wherever planet their front.

1462
01:11:52,360 --> 01:11:56,720
Speaker 2: There's always watching us. So that's what I believe. All right.

1463
01:11:56,760 --> 01:11:59,839
Speaker 2: Next one here, very simple, best Christmas gift you've ever received?

1464
01:12:00,600 --> 01:12:00,840
Speaker 6: Task?

1465
01:12:00,880 --> 01:12:01,360
Speaker 2: What is it?

1466
01:12:03,040 --> 01:12:06,080
Speaker 3: So? We were just speaking with Kat. We're going out west.

1467
01:12:06,120 --> 01:12:09,960
Speaker 3: I'm going out west with mine a Calgary Flame's garbage can.

1468
01:12:10,439 --> 01:12:13,200
Speaker 3: I've got a photo of it here me receiving it before.

1469
01:12:13,240 --> 01:12:16,880
Speaker 3: Every before everyone was saying, oh, that's trash, that's trash,

1470
01:12:16,960 --> 01:12:20,000
Speaker 3: I was saying, that's trash. I was throwing stuff into

1471
01:12:20,040 --> 01:12:23,839
Speaker 3: my Calgary Flames garbage can. I don't know if anybody

1472
01:12:23,880 --> 01:12:26,760
Speaker 3: had these sports themed trash cans growing up, but they're

1473
01:12:27,840 --> 01:12:31,320
Speaker 3: exactly like that. Oh really yeah, So they're like, you know,

1474
01:12:31,400 --> 01:12:35,280
Speaker 3: three feet high or whatever, tall things for.

1475
01:12:35,240 --> 01:12:36,120
Speaker 2: A small window.

1476
01:12:36,520 --> 01:12:38,640
Speaker 3: They're awesome. Yeah, when you hated your sports team, you

1477
01:12:38,640 --> 01:12:41,920
Speaker 3: could just throw stuff in it trash, so it was

1478
01:12:41,960 --> 01:12:43,240
Speaker 3: pretty fun. Those are awesome.

1479
01:12:43,960 --> 01:12:46,160
Speaker 2: Young mellis there with his Calgary Flames trash.

1480
01:12:46,200 --> 01:12:47,000
Speaker 3: Can I love that photo?

1481
01:12:47,040 --> 01:12:49,240
Speaker 2: Okay, Jerome, best Christmas do if you've ever got so.

1482
01:12:49,280 --> 01:12:52,800
Speaker 5: My immediate reaction coming like when I read this, was

1483
01:12:52,880 --> 01:12:56,880
Speaker 5: thinking about that time in high school where you already

1484
01:12:57,000 --> 01:12:59,240
Speaker 5: know what your present is, but you can't open it

1485
01:12:59,320 --> 01:13:02,040
Speaker 5: until at least like finals are done. And the one

1486
01:13:02,080 --> 01:13:05,960
Speaker 5: that I know I anticipated the most was my copy

1487
01:13:06,000 --> 01:13:08,719
Speaker 5: of WrestleMania two thousand for Nintendo sixty four.

1488
01:13:09,320 --> 01:13:11,519
Speaker 4: Oh good game, good game.

1489
01:13:11,760 --> 01:13:17,040
Speaker 5: I remember never getting to try WCWNWO Revenge, so.

1490
01:13:17,080 --> 01:13:19,920
Speaker 4: My first entry even better.

1491
01:13:20,200 --> 01:13:22,360
Speaker 5: So my first entry into this was going to be

1492
01:13:22,360 --> 01:13:25,000
Speaker 5: a WrestleMania two thousand and I just remember every night

1493
01:13:25,320 --> 01:13:28,479
Speaker 5: studying looking at the box, reading the back of the box,

1494
01:13:28,560 --> 01:13:30,400
Speaker 5: reading the front of the box, back and forth, back

1495
01:13:30,439 --> 01:13:33,320
Speaker 5: and forth, staying to my word. I did not touch

1496
01:13:33,360 --> 01:13:34,120
Speaker 5: it until I.

1497
01:13:34,200 --> 01:13:35,000
Speaker 4: Was done exams.

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Speaker 5: But yeh yeah, but that was a good holiday. It

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01:13:38,240 --> 01:13:40,040
Speaker 5: was a good holiday honestly in the rest of my life.

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Speaker 5: I mean, like, like I said, I'm back in my

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01:13:42,320 --> 01:13:44,720
Speaker 5: parents right now. I can dust off the nintend sixty four.

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01:13:44,720 --> 01:13:46,200
Speaker 5: I think I know what I'm gonna do through the

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01:13:46,280 --> 01:13:46,880
Speaker 5: winter storm.

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Speaker 2: Just oh, somebody's going to be a twitch in sixty

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01:13:52,040 --> 01:13:54,639
Speaker 2: four games. My answer is similar to that. It's also

1506
01:13:54,640 --> 01:13:57,280
Speaker 2: a video game. I'm older than you, so this is

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01:13:57,280 --> 01:14:01,719
Speaker 2: going to date myself. But Blades of Steal I got

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01:14:01,880 --> 01:14:06,000
Speaker 2: on for for Christmas, the Nintendo game, and oh my god,

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01:14:06,360 --> 01:14:10,040
Speaker 2: that's when Nintendo games cost like like ninety five dollars,

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01:14:10,080 --> 01:14:13,080
Speaker 2: like the brand new games. It was like right, and

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01:14:13,120 --> 01:14:14,720
Speaker 2: I couldn't believe I got it. That was all that

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01:14:14,760 --> 01:14:16,760
Speaker 2: was a lot of money for I think it may

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01:14:16,800 --> 01:14:18,400
Speaker 2: have been the only gift I got, And I didn't

1514
01:14:18,439 --> 01:14:19,679
Speaker 2: care that game was bad.

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01:14:20,240 --> 01:14:22,240
Speaker 5: You have to pull everything when it costs that much,

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01:14:22,280 --> 01:14:23,559
Speaker 5: like you're getting one gift.

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01:14:23,720 --> 01:14:25,479
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then it's great because like that's all I

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01:14:25,560 --> 01:14:27,920
Speaker 2: did for the rest of the Christmas break was play

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01:14:28,160 --> 01:14:31,200
Speaker 2: Blades of Steel and oh, such a such a fun game,

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01:14:31,400 --> 01:14:35,599
Speaker 2: all right, final one. Here, the tradition of Festivus begins

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01:14:35,640 --> 01:14:39,120
Speaker 2: with the airing of grievances. It is Festivus today. I

1522
01:14:39,200 --> 01:14:41,959
Speaker 2: got a lot of problems with you people, especially leaf blowers,

1523
01:14:42,840 --> 01:14:47,800
Speaker 2: who or what has disappointed you the most? This year's task.

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01:14:48,439 --> 01:14:51,759
Speaker 3: Oh it's gotta be Elon Musk. I used to love Twitter.

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01:14:52,200 --> 01:14:55,519
Speaker 3: I used to Twitter used to be my being. Elon.

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01:14:55,680 --> 01:14:59,400
Speaker 3: What have you done with it? Views? Ugh? No, yeah,

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01:14:59,400 --> 01:14:59,880
Speaker 3: thank you?

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01:15:00,040 --> 01:15:02,800
Speaker 2: What's up with that?

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01:15:02,800 --> 01:15:06,280
Speaker 3: It'll be gone in a week. And uh yeah, it's

1530
01:15:06,320 --> 01:15:09,599
Speaker 3: just so many changes, so many what a roller coaster

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01:15:09,680 --> 01:15:12,120
Speaker 3: it's been. Just not the same. It's not the same.

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01:15:12,680 --> 01:15:17,680
Speaker 2: Okay, Musk for ruining Twitter. Who would you like to

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01:15:17,720 --> 01:15:18,640
Speaker 2: air some grievances?

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01:15:19,520 --> 01:15:23,240
Speaker 5: I really did this week the croissant lady this week,

1535
01:15:23,240 --> 01:15:29,000
Speaker 5: all the croissants my thing. So we all know, taking

1536
01:15:29,000 --> 01:15:33,000
Speaker 5: an L on a sneaker drop that sucks. One particular

1537
01:15:33,000 --> 01:15:35,479
Speaker 5: shoe that got released this year, like was supposed to

1538
01:15:35,479 --> 01:15:38,720
Speaker 5: be for everyone, the Tom Sacks General Purpose Shore. I

1539
01:15:38,760 --> 01:15:42,599
Speaker 5: have taken so many l's every release that it comes out.

1540
01:15:42,640 --> 01:15:44,599
Speaker 5: I don't know if it's because I'm Canadian. I don't

1541
01:15:44,640 --> 01:15:46,920
Speaker 5: know if it's because I just need to get.

1542
01:15:46,720 --> 01:15:48,439
Speaker 4: The right bot. I need to like log in at

1543
01:15:48,479 --> 01:15:49,000
Speaker 4: the right time.

1544
01:15:49,439 --> 01:15:51,719
Speaker 5: But that's the only shoe I want now, just because

1545
01:15:51,760 --> 01:15:53,800
Speaker 5: I can't get it, and it's a real grievance at

1546
01:15:53,800 --> 01:15:54,200
Speaker 5: this point.

1547
01:15:54,760 --> 01:15:56,800
Speaker 2: Okay, we'll get that, we'll get you.

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01:15:57,320 --> 01:15:57,560
Speaker 3: Thank you.

1549
01:15:58,360 --> 01:16:00,320
Speaker 2: Well, I was gonna say Scottie Barnes, but I have

1550
01:16:00,360 --> 01:16:02,439
Speaker 2: to pivot and change it to leaf flowers. I really

1551
01:16:02,520 --> 01:16:06,280
Speaker 2: know it because I'm now I'm confused what's going on

1552
01:16:06,360 --> 01:16:09,120
Speaker 2: out there? Like it's really loud and it's continuing to

1553
01:16:09,120 --> 01:16:11,519
Speaker 2: be loud, and I think they've just messing with me.

1554
01:16:11,560 --> 01:16:13,080
Speaker 2: Now at this point, it probably saw me through the

1555
01:16:13,120 --> 01:16:17,400
Speaker 2: window podcasting. But leaf blowers, man, let's just go back

1556
01:16:17,400 --> 01:16:20,679
Speaker 2: to the trusty old rake and nothing wrong with it.

1557
01:16:20,840 --> 01:16:23,920
Speaker 2: It make them real big now too. It's a nice workout.

1558
01:16:25,360 --> 01:16:28,559
Speaker 2: Let's go to the rake, back to it because these

1559
01:16:28,640 --> 01:16:31,680
Speaker 2: leaf flowers are insane. Oh my goodness. Well that's our

1560
01:16:31,760 --> 01:16:34,559
Speaker 2: rapid fire questions, good answers, guys. Let's hear from everybody

1561
01:16:34,560 --> 01:16:37,599
Speaker 2: out there and stream team everybody listening later, especially your

1562
01:16:37,640 --> 01:16:38,599
Speaker 2: best Christmas gift.

1563
01:16:38,880 --> 01:16:39,519
Speaker 3: I like that one.

1564
01:16:39,840 --> 01:16:42,479
Speaker 2: So that was the one that you continually go back

1565
01:16:42,479 --> 01:16:45,160
Speaker 2: to and think about fond memories of. Thanks again to

1566
01:16:45,320 --> 01:16:47,320
Speaker 2: kat Jamie for jumping on the pod with us today.

1567
01:16:47,320 --> 01:16:50,320
Speaker 2: That was a blast. Again. Keep an eye out and

1568
01:16:50,360 --> 01:16:53,719
Speaker 2: we'll try and keep you informed too on The Grizzly Truth,

1569
01:16:54,120 --> 01:16:57,400
Speaker 2: the documentary that is available in Canada for pre order

1570
01:16:57,520 --> 01:17:00,000
Speaker 2: and coming hopefully here to the States and probably international

1571
01:17:00,040 --> 01:17:02,479
Speaker 2: all streaming services and stuff like that. And Rome you

1572
01:17:02,560 --> 01:17:04,240
Speaker 2: were a consultant, were you.

1573
01:17:04,240 --> 01:17:05,240
Speaker 3: Not on that? I was.

1574
01:17:05,439 --> 01:17:08,880
Speaker 5: Yeah, I helped produce a couple of the parts that

1575
01:17:08,960 --> 01:17:11,400
Speaker 5: were in Toronto, So if you see some of the

1576
01:17:11,439 --> 01:17:13,519
Speaker 5: fan shots there, I mean, that's also why in Eavily

1577
01:17:13,640 --> 01:17:16,200
Speaker 5: I ended up getting that cameos because that was during

1578
01:17:16,200 --> 01:17:20,600
Speaker 5: one of our shirts. Sure, but no, I think I

1579
01:17:20,640 --> 01:17:23,240
Speaker 5: was very fortunate to get connected with Kat through when

1580
01:17:23,280 --> 01:17:25,280
Speaker 5: I used to work for NBA TV Canada when we

1581
01:17:25,280 --> 01:17:28,759
Speaker 5: were broadcasting Finding Big Country, and then from that point

1582
01:17:28,800 --> 01:17:33,240
Speaker 5: there we've always just like stayed connected. When the pandemic

1583
01:17:33,360 --> 01:17:35,599
Speaker 5: happened and there was a couple of things that they

1584
01:17:35,640 --> 01:17:37,360
Speaker 5: need to shoot out here, but it was very hard

1585
01:17:37,360 --> 01:17:40,599
Speaker 5: to travel. It was just good, like I think for Kat,

1586
01:17:40,640 --> 01:17:43,559
Speaker 5: it was just good to know someone out in Toronto

1587
01:17:43,640 --> 01:17:46,160
Speaker 5: who knew some people in the Raptors media community as

1588
01:17:46,200 --> 01:17:49,000
Speaker 5: well as Raptors Twitter community and kind of like help

1589
01:17:49,080 --> 01:17:51,280
Speaker 5: with some of the production.

1590
01:17:51,000 --> 01:17:53,720
Speaker 4: On that front. So yeah, it's pretty cool to have

1591
01:17:53,840 --> 01:17:56,639
Speaker 4: your name in the credit. I know it really it's really.

1592
01:17:56,439 --> 01:17:57,799
Speaker 2: Well done sports documentary.

1593
01:17:57,840 --> 01:17:59,439
Speaker 4: It's real Yeah, that's.

1594
01:17:59,320 --> 01:18:02,080
Speaker 2: Awesome, all right, Well, we'll keep everybody up to speed

1595
01:18:02,080 --> 01:18:05,040
Speaker 2: on the Grizzly Truth. It's a really, really fun doc.

1596
01:18:05,360 --> 01:18:08,599
Speaker 2: We hope everyone has a safe and happy Holidays, including

1597
01:18:08,640 --> 01:18:10,680
Speaker 2: you guys here of course here on the stream. We

1598
01:18:10,800 --> 01:18:14,360
Speaker 2: plan on podcasting Monday. That is the plan to recap

1599
01:18:14,880 --> 01:18:19,160
Speaker 2: the Christmas Day slate of games. Task you're gonna be

1600
01:18:19,200 --> 01:18:21,880
Speaker 2: You're gonna be okay for that. Plans can change, but

1601
01:18:22,320 --> 01:18:24,479
Speaker 2: you're not going anywhere, right, You're gonna be here in Atlanta,

1602
01:18:24,520 --> 01:18:25,400
Speaker 2: So why not.

1603
01:18:25,400 --> 01:18:29,639
Speaker 3: Jump on exactly exactly. I'll be watching the games. I'll

1604
01:18:29,680 --> 01:18:34,920
Speaker 3: be uh, I'll be using Zach Carper's Drinking Day guide

1605
01:18:34,960 --> 01:18:35,920
Speaker 3: on Christmas.

1606
01:18:35,600 --> 01:18:37,559
Speaker 2: Day that there was a lot of rules.

1607
01:18:38,080 --> 01:18:41,760
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's no way you can follow all that. It's

1608
01:18:41,760 --> 01:18:43,679
Speaker 3: a lot. It's a lot of rules, especially if you're

1609
01:18:44,080 --> 01:18:47,519
Speaker 3: playing by the rules the first game. I mean, I can't.

1610
01:18:47,600 --> 01:18:50,559
Speaker 3: I'm not a lush. I can't. I can't go yeah,

1611
01:18:50,840 --> 01:18:51,439
Speaker 3: fifteen out.

1612
01:18:51,479 --> 01:18:54,439
Speaker 2: I mean what we should do is we should play

1613
01:18:54,479 --> 01:18:57,600
Speaker 2: the Zach Carper Christmas Day Drinking Game and then podcast

1614
01:18:57,840 --> 01:18:58,800
Speaker 2: after the last game.

1615
01:18:59,320 --> 01:19:02,720
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, that would that would be dedication to the crap.

1616
01:19:02,840 --> 01:19:03,439
Speaker 3: Yeah for sure.

1617
01:19:03,720 --> 01:19:06,320
Speaker 2: Yeah. But we'll be back on Monday to recap those

1618
01:19:06,360 --> 01:19:08,280
Speaker 2: games and hang out with everybody here that wants to

1619
01:19:08,320 --> 01:19:10,120
Speaker 2: join us on YouTube. Want to get away from your

1620
01:19:10,120 --> 01:19:13,040
Speaker 2: family for an hour or two, We'll be here, probably

1621
01:19:13,080 --> 01:19:15,680
Speaker 2: going live at ten am Eastern. All right, guys, have

1622
01:19:15,760 --> 01:19:19,439
Speaker 2: a fantastic Christmas. We'll see you guys soon enough. Till then,

1623
01:19:19,600 --> 01:19:20,240
Speaker 2: Clipper Bro.

1624
01:19:22,439 --> 01:19:25,200
Speaker 3: You heard it here first. Have a great time, turn up,

1625
01:19:25,439 --> 01:19:26,160
Speaker 3: love you guys.

1626
01:19:26,320 --> 01:19:31,720
Speaker 2: Awesome. God, that's a Christmas treat right there. JD as

1627
01:19:31,720 --> 01:19:32,639
Speaker 2: the clipper Man.

1628
01:19:35,160 --> 01:19:35,720
Speaker 3: Amazing.

1629
01:19:36,160 --> 01:19:37,280
Speaker 2: All right, what's the cool?

1630
01:19:37,360 --> 01:19:40,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, thanks for joining us. And remember we do a

1631
01:19:40,040 --> 01:19:42,120
Speaker 3: live YouTube show every day. So if you want to

1632
01:19:42,160 --> 01:19:46,080
Speaker 3: see JD as Clipper Bro, come on over. Click to

1633
01:19:46,160 --> 01:19:49,160
Speaker 3: the end and see JD in front of Buckingham Palace.

1634
01:19:49,240 --> 01:19:53,120
Speaker 3: I guess that is there. It's doing his thing. Amazing, amazing.

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01:19:53,800 --> 01:20:05,200
Speaker 2: Embrace the holidays people, the