Speaker 1: Welcome to the Greatest, a production of I Heart Radio.
Speaker 1: Welcome to another episode of the Greatest. I'm Megan Gaily
Speaker 1: and I'm joined by c J. Toladano. Um. Who I
Speaker 1: want to talk? Yeah, I was gonna say hi, I
Speaker 1: just you sounded so somber there. Oh no, I'm not
Speaker 1: somber all. I was getting ready to apologize to you. Um,
Speaker 1: it's come to my attention that I give you notes
Speaker 1: on how you talking to the mike and you actually
Speaker 1: know more about the mic than I do. And UM,
Speaker 1: that's on me. That's embarrassing. Try and Mike to try
Speaker 1: and micromanage your podcast abilities. I'm not happy to be here,
Speaker 1: but that's where I'm at, and happy to be here
Speaker 1: on this planet or doing the pod. Yeah, but not
Speaker 1: happy to be dragging my husband. Thank you. I appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Apology accepting. I'm sure I've done some messed up ship. Well,
Speaker 1: the fact that you can't even think of one of it,
Speaker 1: it's like kind of shows that you don't think you've
Speaker 1: done sucked up show. Okay, listen, let's move on. I
Speaker 1: am happy that the NBA is back. That's all I
Speaker 1: want to talk about. I don't care like things are
Speaker 1: bad in in certain places, in certain ways. But I'm
Speaker 1: just like, do the Lakers play today? Like who's playing today?
Speaker 1: That's really what is saving me and you and your companionship.
Speaker 1: But I don't want to delay any further our guests
Speaker 1: that we have on the show, returning legend. He did
Speaker 1: our pilot which has never air. We gotta air that
Speaker 1: at some point. He was also on Greatest March Maddis Moments,
Speaker 1: creator of Lenessa Chamberlain Heights. You may have seen him
Speaker 1: on Dunk Bait, Yahoo writer on the upcoming Kaepernick Show
Speaker 1: from Netflix. Ladies and Gentlemen, please welcome Josiah Johnson. Who, man,
Speaker 1: you're gonna clown me to come on. Honestly, I say
Speaker 1: like that to somehow I like to wear it flows
Speaker 1: better this exclamation set up ship. I need to get
Speaker 1: the I need to get the quality mics. I could
Speaker 1: like record albums like well comedy album. Whenever I'm doing
Speaker 1: a different podcast, people were like, do you have like, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, I'll just be talking into my computer. They're like,
Speaker 1: do you have an external mike? And I'm like no,
Speaker 1: I just splat out and like I don't know how
Speaker 1: to set it up and I know c J is
Speaker 1: done being my tech support. This, this looks awesome. I'm
Speaker 1: glad you guys are doing well. Good to see that
Speaker 1: you're ringing free? Yeah you too? How How are how
Speaker 1: are How's everything over there? I think the world is fun.
Speaker 1: But I'm just trying to, you know, stay active, developing
Speaker 1: some shows, trying to keep grinding, doing the Yahoo thing.
Speaker 1: But yeah, just waiting to see what's gonna happen in
Speaker 1: November to determine if I'm gonna stay in this country
Speaker 1: or I'm gonna have to start looking elsewhere for citizenship.
Speaker 1: But yeah, we're we're so, We're all three of us
Speaker 1: are so extremely active on Twitter, and I can't decide
Speaker 1: how much joy it brings me and how much, like
Speaker 1: does it does the joy outweigh the anger and the
Speaker 1: depression that it brings me. But I have yet to
Speaker 1: figure out or do anything about it exactly. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: don't even know if we could like differentiate at this point,
Speaker 1: because like my instinct is to be like, oh, it
Speaker 1: brings me way more joy, but I think that's just
Speaker 1: a defense mechanism for me to get to stay on there,
Speaker 1: you know. Um. But on Friday's we're recording this on Friday.
Speaker 1: On Friday's I fight with people. Um, it's the one
Speaker 1: day a week that I allowed myself to fight on Twitter, Instagram,
Speaker 1: and I've been having a fun day. I've been fighting
Speaker 1: with someone on CJ's behalf who's not even on Twitter.
Speaker 1: I'm just fighting with no one. But you know, I
Speaker 1: canceled some work to be able to lay on the
Speaker 1: couch and watch Selling Sunset while I tweet at B
Speaker 1: list celebrities. Yes, I mean it's a good times, a
Speaker 1: good time to use the platform to express your opinions
Speaker 1: first amment right, and to point out things that are
Speaker 1: going on the universe. Sometimes the university is a fair
Speaker 1: sometimes the University of Jakie ship that can easily be fixed,
Speaker 1: but sometimes the universe refuses to do it. I don't
Speaker 1: know if it's pride you go or whatever it may be.
Speaker 1: Just so, are you happy that the NBA is bad
Speaker 1: for like your personal enjoyment and for content purposes? How
Speaker 1: are you feeling about that? I mean, look, you know,
Speaker 1: like when when the NBA is going, obviously that's the
Speaker 1: you know, we're borth working in the same industry, so
Speaker 1: that's that's when the most heat is being done and
Speaker 1: the most numbers are. But it's for me, it's just
Speaker 1: been like super depressing because I'm thinking about those guys,
Speaker 1: like if I had to poop in a gym, and
Speaker 1: for us, for the viewer at home, like the experience
Speaker 1: is great, right, Oh, the digital screen music, you know,
Speaker 1: it feels like a real game for those dudes and Madgine.
Speaker 1: You're being there and like you've got like five people
Speaker 1: sitting to your right that are off camera. It's kind
Speaker 1: of like what we do these things with the zoom calls,
Speaker 1: Like you guys still know going on anyway there you
Speaker 1: could just be a pile trash, like right behind the
Speaker 1: computer whatever it maybe. But for the experience of this
Speaker 1: feels great. So I'm just I'm worried about those guys,
Speaker 1: and I know it's gonna get to the poor. They're
Speaker 1: gonna start losing their minds because it's like now you're
Speaker 1: doing the same ship over and over again. I've been
Speaker 1: seeing rooms and rooms look smaller ship. I think Rhonda
Speaker 1: was somebody early on, like compared to the most how six,
Speaker 1: I think I was fairly accurate, like those rooms were,
Speaker 1: Like I was looking at JaVale McGee. He did Danny
Speaker 1: Reens podcast. That room was sucking, Like, how's this dude?
Speaker 1: This is like, you know, this just like solid terry
Speaker 1: confinement for that dude. But I'm glad to see basketball back.
Speaker 1: Hopefully the Lakers get it together and then you know,
Speaker 1: we'll go from there. Yeah. I mean, I don't, like,
Speaker 1: can you tell me? Because you you've been through I mean,
Speaker 1: obviously you haven't been like in a bubble type thing,
Speaker 1: but you've had to stay in hotels, you've done travel
Speaker 1: as part of a college basketball team and a you
Speaker 1: and all that. How does this experience for those guys
Speaker 1: compared to like back in the day, I mean for
Speaker 1: us back in the day, like if you like started
Speaker 1: from like a you would go to Vegas like they
Speaker 1: have the big tournament. For us, it was the thrill
Speaker 1: of getting out of the hotel, hitting the streets and
Speaker 1: going to circus circus, walking around in circles and the
Speaker 1: circus circus arcade literally for hours, looking at all the
Speaker 1: other teams, like basically knew everybody who couldn't get it cracking,
Speaker 1: who was like, you know, sixteen or younger. That's what
Speaker 1: they were gonna do. That That was their head for
Speaker 1: these guys is like literally like a bunch of grown
Speaker 1: men and multimillion that literally don't you know they like
Speaker 1: to do their own ship. You got like quirky, eclective
Speaker 1: dudes who are now like they're there, they find their
Speaker 1: comfort like fishing on like the Jinkie like lake, the
Speaker 1: Disney building. It's just like it's literally like watching biodome.
Speaker 1: I know, you guys are all enough to remember that.
Speaker 1: I'm just like, you know, and then you see people
Speaker 1: sneaking out of the the biodomes. I was waiting for that moment,
Speaker 1: so I know, if I get into all that, But
Speaker 1: when that type of ship started happening, it's like, wait,
Speaker 1: is this really a dumb And then I'm like watching
Speaker 1: games and they're showing like high angle like the blimp
Speaker 1: shot and there's really like soccer game going on the field.
Speaker 1: I'm like it, like this is a bubble or well,
Speaker 1: I don't. I have friends and people, you know, I
Speaker 1: won't say any names, but like they're like media members
Speaker 1: and they're not in the bubble, but they're able to
Speaker 1: go to the games. And I didn't get really like
Speaker 1: into how that works. But yeah, there's some holes in it. Luckily,
Speaker 1: you know, the last two tests people were negative, but
Speaker 1: like as time goes on, I don't know if it
Speaker 1: gets better or these holes just starting to get bigger
Speaker 1: where people where the players can be in danger and
Speaker 1: just also yeah, mentally for these players, can they stay
Speaker 1: in there, because it's like the more you win, the
Speaker 1: more you are almost punished to stay inside the bubble exactly.
Speaker 1: So it's not it's not like we need a championship
Speaker 1: really and everybody's like I was gonna be an asterisk
Speaker 1: like fun that, like you gotta stay Disney World for
Speaker 1: three months, like go to Vegas or any of these
Speaker 1: places for three much the planned for the weekend like
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a ship face and come back home Monday,
Speaker 1: Like wait, I gotta stay here, like it's gonna be
Speaker 1: interesting and I'm sure tough when it opens up and
Speaker 1: they get to the point where families are allowed to come,
Speaker 1: because there's gonna be some family dynamics that it's just
Speaker 1: like it's not gonna be you know, maybe don't bring
Speaker 1: our toddlers here, like maybe maybe we have five kids together,
Speaker 1: and that's actually not going to be conducive to us
Speaker 1: being in Orlando in this bubble. So there's gonna be
Speaker 1: some family members that come and some don't and all
Speaker 1: that that that feels like that could be messy. I
Speaker 1: think anytime you take wholesome families and and insert i
Speaker 1: G Models with kids, oh yeahs, and activities and things
Speaker 1: to do, like what are these families doing during the
Speaker 1: Like what's like the Browns family doing when like, you know,
Speaker 1: somebody else's IG models are like at the same pool.
Speaker 1: I mean, they're just gonna be a lot of and
Speaker 1: then you know, there's a lot of cross pollinations in
Speaker 1: the NBA, so a lot of people that have dated
Speaker 1: each other whatever, Like what's gonna be going on? Like
Speaker 1: I G Models jump ship, you know, midway through a
Speaker 1: series and go to the yea because they're already in
Speaker 1: the bubble. You know, you're an asset at that point.
Speaker 1: You gotta think there's there's been like you know, pass
Speaker 1: crossed and beefs and all types of stuff. So maybe
Speaker 1: they get resolved and maybe becomes like this harmonious thing
Speaker 1: they just go for to become an example for what
Speaker 1: the world can be. But you're gonna start hearing about
Speaker 1: some fist fights and some other things going on, Like
Speaker 1: what happens if Westbrook like passes by Dame at like
Speaker 1: the snow cone machine? Are they just and their son
Speaker 1: actually housewives? Their sons would become friends and then it's
Speaker 1: like oh hi, and it's like, well the kids like
Speaker 1: each other. I'm wondering if there's gonna be a Basketball
Speaker 1: Wives like bubble edition, like I saying, I think Basketball
Speaker 1: Wives says like run its course a little bit, but
Speaker 1: they could really v h one whoever is hard up
Speaker 1: for great reality shows. E let's get into like the
Speaker 1: our Girlfriends Invited. I don't do you have to be
Speaker 1: a fiance. That's like the hierarchy in that show, and
Speaker 1: I would love to see that play out in terms
Speaker 1: of like who gets to come what hotel? All the
Speaker 1: levels that are within the bubble with those women, like
Speaker 1: they were talking about the the Aaron Gordon and Kyle
Speaker 1: Law but like come to my room, but it's like no,
Speaker 1: the raptors are staying at the night So I say,
Speaker 1: your key doesn't work in this Yeah, But I'm curious,
Speaker 1: like because you know, like guys like Lebron and Game
Speaker 1: got the presidential suits, right, but what about the other
Speaker 1: guys with these like Jankie, like regular hotel rooms now
Speaker 1: family boo, there's gonna be an interesting dynamic mentally, like
Speaker 1: how these guys adjust from that point. I know they're
Speaker 1: gonna be happy to see their family, but after a while,
Speaker 1: it's like, wait, Like when I'm on the road, this
Speaker 1: is the best part. Like you know you hear all
Speaker 1: the time. Like I think about t J. Warren in
Speaker 1: his regular hotel room every day. I'm like, you deserve
Speaker 1: an upgrade. They should be putting you like you should
Speaker 1: say at the top of Splash Mountain, anywhere t J.
Speaker 1: Warren wants to say, whoever scored the most points that week?
Speaker 1: There should just be a rotating room that they get
Speaker 1: to stay in. That would be kind of cool. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like a personal like, yeah, whoever drops thirty when you
Speaker 1: get the game ball, Yeah you get the key. I
Speaker 1: dropped three. Somebody got to come out the good good room. Yeah,
Speaker 1: got to come out the night were swapping. You're playing
Speaker 1: every other day. I'm carrying the team. Give me the suite.
Speaker 1: Well yeah, I mean like so like Lebron and that.
Speaker 1: We haven't seen their rooms yet, but they got you know,
Speaker 1: obvious star treatment in that way. Are they are they
Speaker 1: are they getting exceptions in some ways? Is there a
Speaker 1: way for them to able to leave the bubble or
Speaker 1: getting you know, different kind of food, like you have
Speaker 1: a little bit experience of seeing like how NBA players
Speaker 1: get treatment, Like are they getting special treatment the stars
Speaker 1: of the league? I mean you, like you said, you
Speaker 1: haven't seen Lebron. I mean to my novel one video
Speaker 1: that's emerged from from the normally active Lebron who loves
Speaker 1: showing you and surrounding and what he has going on.
Speaker 1: And I'm what I'm listening to. So yeah, of course,
Speaker 1: I mean I think it's stuff too, because how do
Speaker 1: you determine that. I'm sure there's even got the max
Speaker 1: contracts like a BG or Kauai who gets better room,
Speaker 1: you know, because they're all in the Grandestino right there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like you said earlier, it's everyone at the top of
Speaker 1: the standings are all in the same hotel, which is crazy.
Speaker 1: I'm surprisedly we haven't heard about more fights and more
Speaker 1: just what you know, like what's really going on because
Speaker 1: like you know, in those AU tournaments, like there's all
Speaker 1: types of pranks, all types of stuff. I think it's
Speaker 1: gonna be evolved at that point where it's gonna be
Speaker 1: you know whatever. Yeah, like they're gonna lose their mind
Speaker 1: to start doing pranks and going crazy on each other.
Speaker 1: Can you give us a crazy AU hotel story? I
Speaker 1: know you got a bunch of them. Um let me
Speaker 1: think I can tell you a great I mean a
Speaker 1: great story that I have was literally like, so I
Speaker 1: was playing in the same AU program as Paul Pierce.
Speaker 1: So we go to Vegas. I think it's going into
Speaker 1: a senior year. They fly KG and and this is
Speaker 1: like KG is kind of got at that point in
Speaker 1: term this is before social media and all that, but
Speaker 1: everybody knows Kevin Garnett is like at that point. But
Speaker 1: those two dudes hanging out together. But I guess a
Speaker 1: funny story is Baron Davis is also in that same program,
Speaker 1: but he's on like the younger team, like a year
Speaker 1: or two. So we're he's like three or four years
Speaker 1: older than me. But I'm with my crew, my buddy
Speaker 1: d Jay Harris and Tommy Johnson. We both went on
Speaker 1: to play college ball and super successful. But we literally
Speaker 1: like are like eleven and twelve Phield Bolls and we're
Speaker 1: gonna hang out with like Bear in his room and
Speaker 1: every guy like some stuff going on, And then it's
Speaker 1: got that is like the head of the program, right,
Speaker 1: he runs everything. But that bangs on Barn's door and
Speaker 1: there's going on. I'm not gonna say what, but so
Speaker 1: we're all like twelve years over. We go try and
Speaker 1: hid in the bathroom to rush in the hotel shower,
Speaker 1: just like trying not to get caught saying fucking walks in,
Speaker 1: like get the funk out of here, what are you?
Speaker 1: So we would always just like you know, you don't
Speaker 1: never went too crazy. Oh, actually I can't tell you
Speaker 1: my bad I have a I have a good one.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. Actually, yeah, maybe that same actual trip. So
Speaker 1: we're working around in the hotel room. I think we're
Speaker 1: staying at like the It was like the Hilton, the
Speaker 1: next like the west Gate. Now it's like a super
Speaker 1: jankie hotel. Nobody has some brew cologne spray. We're just
Speaker 1: taking a lighter. We're taking a lighter and doing flamethrower
Speaker 1: root alone, like flamethrower. Somebody flamethrowers gets like the fucking curtain.
Speaker 1: So we're like it's like four to a room. We
Speaker 1: just like scrambled through water on the ship just inundate
Speaker 1: the room with brutes bright fucking security knocks on the door, like, yo, like,
Speaker 1: do you smell like bruting? Here? Somehow we didn't get
Speaker 1: booted from the hotel. The curt was really all fired.
Speaker 1: You're like, we had to beat the ship down and
Speaker 1: knock it out. But yeah, damn, that's literally that's like
Speaker 1: the burying in the back of my mind. I thought
Speaker 1: about that ship forever, but same crew ado, So probably
Speaker 1: that was like the crazy ship I've ever done. And
Speaker 1: then obviously when I was in high school we kind
Speaker 1: of get some crazy ship too. But I'm like, twelve
Speaker 1: year old boys staying in a hotel room alone is
Speaker 1: I mean, that's like a comedy a horror film. It's
Speaker 1: everything wrapped into It's terrifying to me. Hopefully you don't
Speaker 1: tweet that to anybody. Yeah, let's keep that and we'll
Speaker 1: make a movie out of Yeah, okay, great, right now
Speaker 1: I sounded like Crystaliah and I was like, no, I'm not.
Speaker 1: I don't like it. I'm horrid. From a point we
Speaker 1: should we just expected at this point, Josiah. Yeah, when
Speaker 1: you have flips, you just shoot like I don't like
Speaker 1: sometimes like, oh wait, I made that up. Should we
Speaker 1: take a break? Yeah, say a break and we'll get
Speaker 1: right into our greatest bubble moments so far and we're back.
Speaker 1: You tease the topic, we can do I mean full
Speaker 1: bubble episode. It was like we've just been talking about
Speaker 1: so many topics from the past, which is so fun.
Speaker 1: But this has obviously brought new life into us. I
Speaker 1: think new life into our relationship. I think if the
Speaker 1: NBA hadn't come back, we'd be in trouble um. But
Speaker 1: we foundation and that listeners, Jesus Christ, We've got the
Speaker 1: NBA bubble. We've got what, We've got all we need
Speaker 1: Right now? Are people saying, what is that? Okay? Yeah?
Speaker 1: When I heard what trending and I saw like the
Speaker 1: me and this ship I'm alto taking sometime to catch
Speaker 1: up and were watually going on, and then I figure
Speaker 1: out what man, and I'm just like, yeah, this is
Speaker 1: like this is this is where we're come in the pandemic,
Speaker 1: Like this is like you got a song called Wold
Speaker 1: like Kylie just popped up for no other reason open
Speaker 1: the door, you know. But sweet asked c J. We're
Speaker 1: watching it. I mean we're truly tucked in bed like
Speaker 1: an old, old married couple just watching Wet s Pussy
Speaker 1: together just watching the World premiere together and then Kylie
Speaker 1: pops up and CJ goes, yeah, but isn't her like
Speaker 1: whole body fake? And it's like what a good person?
Speaker 1: I mean, I was just like, yeah, I think that's
Speaker 1: for Like, yeah, you were like, oh wow, watching watch it,
Speaker 1: But that's how we watch all movies in production. I'm like,
Speaker 1: how how did they do that? You know? So I
Speaker 1: want to know about the production. I want to know,
Speaker 1: you know, when I watch horror movies, I'm like, man,
Speaker 1: how did they turn that guy like clear to a ghost?
Speaker 1: And kyliebviously looks good but it's not real. And I
Speaker 1: felt like you were trying to be nice to me,
Speaker 1: like yeah, but you I see you eat taco bell
Speaker 1: all right? You see me? You see me get the
Speaker 1: parts all right? Uh? Josiah, greatest Bubble moments so far?
Speaker 1: Why on one or what? You're absolutely so, I'm lucky
Speaker 1: we have a friend as a guest because I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: I'm enjoying. I'm focusing. I'm focusing up. I didn't mean to, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm focused up the greatest the third time? Right? Did
Speaker 1: we do Mark? We did Mark? Madness? We did The
Speaker 1: pilot was something I'm not gonna say what it was,
Speaker 1: but the comebacks. No, we're going to release it at
Speaker 1: some point because that's what got us the show. Credit
Speaker 1: to you, so but greatest Bubble moments so far, we're
Speaker 1: gonna rank them. Josiah, what's your number three pick for
Speaker 1: exciting moment in the bubble that you've enjoyed so far?
Speaker 1: For me, I want to give a shout out to
Speaker 1: the NBA Bubble Life crew and uh then using social
Speaker 1: media and showing the power of social to get J. J.
Speaker 1: Reddick to shotgun a beer I think was I mean
Speaker 1: it was literally we know you work in social and
Speaker 1: you wonder like if you were there paying attention, if
Speaker 1: they know what's going on. And to see the way
Speaker 1: that that whole crew Black Trade drew being Nick Nepaula,
Speaker 1: the way that that crew just blew up and as
Speaker 1: funny as soon as it hit honestly, like within like
Speaker 1: a day I hit a Trade, Like, yeah, it's just
Speaker 1: too professional. There's a pros working. I know, like I
Speaker 1: know there Saint just some random account they popped up.
Speaker 1: He cracked up and did you know, didn't say anything.
Speaker 1: We didn't find out it was those dudes man, So
Speaker 1: them being able to use the power of social to
Speaker 1: kind of aggregate and bring everything into one spot and
Speaker 1: to get j J to chuck up here, I would say,
Speaker 1: we've been number three. To me, Yeah, no, that was great.
Speaker 1: I mean when when we first saw that account and
Speaker 1: it wasn't it had maybe like five thousand followers, and
Speaker 1: we're like, we have to know whoever is running this,
Speaker 1: like we didn't know at first and then but like
Speaker 1: and I'm really happy for those guys. And it's just
Speaker 1: another kind of case of like, man, just individuals who
Speaker 1: do it for the love and passion truly can do
Speaker 1: it better than a company. Like no, not not to
Speaker 1: shoot on like the big sports media, that's obviously no,
Speaker 1: but it's just like when a bunch of dudes are like, man,
Speaker 1: there's gonna be some great moments and we're gonna we're
Speaker 1: gonna showcase it in a clean, easily fun way to
Speaker 1: consume and interact with the players. That was huge. Well,
Speaker 1: there's also when you're not a company, when you're a
Speaker 1: free standing person, there's a freedom of like my tweets
Speaker 1: are my own. Of course, you're just one person. You
Speaker 1: are not representing, so you're able to do and say
Speaker 1: whatever you want, which I live in both worlds, which
Speaker 1: is pretty awesome. I'm surprobably I haven't got fired for
Speaker 1: more jobs every day I went up. It's like, why
Speaker 1: would anybody fire me? It's like I wake up with
Speaker 1: the death every fucking day, Like I'm gonna say some
Speaker 1: crazy shit and literally I'll say a crazy shot about
Speaker 1: companies that I'm working at. Harry fired me because I'm
Speaker 1: telling the truth. Like, yeah, I also think if if
Speaker 1: you were to be fired, I feel like people would
Speaker 1: take to the streets, you know, like people would be upset.
Speaker 1: They would come to back for you, which gives you,
Speaker 1: I hope, an amount of security. And then see that
Speaker 1: at your point to I see a lot of people
Speaker 1: that social they try and act like R and B
Speaker 1: singers always love to respect you. It's like just hit
Speaker 1: the concrete, bro, No, it don't ever be too good
Speaker 1: to do anything like you suing you want to go
Speaker 1: put on the fucking Wolverine suit or what I mean.
Speaker 1: I'm just thought, if it's gonna it's gonna perform, it's
Speaker 1: gonna do well, do whatever the funk it takes. The
Speaker 1: Jordans fucking uh, the jeans one that you did that
Speaker 1: like Mike, I mean, thank you for that. It is
Speaker 1: really like I'm like ordering costumes from Amazon and Megan's
Speaker 1: like sees me, you know, pull out like a Mickey
Speaker 1: head and she's just like what what's going on? But
Speaker 1: she like trusts that I'm doing it for a purpose.
Speaker 1: So I'm thankful. I trust the process videos. But I
Speaker 1: do want to ask that question of you said you
Speaker 1: lived in both worlds of like professional working for a
Speaker 1: company and an individual. How have you ever gotten close
Speaker 1: to like you know, looking at the corner, looking at
Speaker 1: your profile picture and being like am I tweeting this
Speaker 1: from my account or from the company account? Um? So
Speaker 1: this is the thing, like a lot of companies are
Speaker 1: smart enough not to let me fucking like they go
Speaker 1: through a process. I got to send it the slag
Speaker 1: and they got to prove it and it's like no,
Speaker 1: we can't do this, and like to, uh, yeah, I
Speaker 1: was great. I've worked with actualts a lot of there.
Speaker 1: Who's a co host on dunk too, but you run
Speaker 1: the dunkbet account, I'll hear him up sometimes, Like I
Speaker 1: had a crazy one last week that was like I
Speaker 1: was just start a total recall and I thought, look
Speaker 1: a lot like red r Bock just like photoshop Cigar.
Speaker 1: For some reason, I'm like, can we get this off?
Speaker 1: Like Bro's just too much, So anything that's on my mind,
Speaker 1: Like obviously I know I have my bread and butter
Speaker 1: and let me talked. I I can do a lot
Speaker 1: of ship that I know that a Bleach reporters somebody
Speaker 1: else that there's no way at the top two dolls
Speaker 1: would let that go go to air go Live. So
Speaker 1: I changed to focus on that type of ship. But
Speaker 1: like I said, I'm always curious, like how come nobody
Speaker 1: like wants to fire me, Like it's weird. But um, now, CJ,
Speaker 1: you have posted something on the Checkdown No, yes, and
Speaker 1: before you tell the story, I am. I feel like
Speaker 1: I'm very good at my job. But yeah, one time,
Speaker 1: we were at Super Bowl weekend and we're out with
Speaker 1: a co worker and his wife and we took a
Speaker 1: funny picture in front of a Mercedes Benz. It was
Speaker 1: like a pretty regular It was like one of those
Speaker 1: inside ones at the mall, like it was at the
Speaker 1: entrance to the party. We did like and then I
Speaker 1: posted it to the Checkdown account, which is an official
Speaker 1: NFL account, and it was up for like three minutes
Speaker 1: and that's enough when you have like at that time,
Speaker 1: I think it was like two followers. They were like, okay,
Speaker 1: like a lot. We didn't get roasted that much, but
Speaker 1: I took it down immediately. But for those people, they
Speaker 1: got to see whoever ran the account, and it was yeah,
Speaker 1: it was for for who ran the account. It was
Speaker 1: a tough demo of representation for sure, I and I
Speaker 1: was more mad that I didn't get the amount of
Speaker 1: likes that I thought deserved. So really, okay, you want
Speaker 1: to go, you want me to go, I'll go, I'll go.
Speaker 1: My number three pick is the Virtual Fanboard has been
Speaker 1: funny to watch for me, funny and heartwarming. I love
Speaker 1: seeing low Wayne, I love seeing Shack. I love seeing
Speaker 1: um Jayson Tatum's son Deuce appear on there and the
Speaker 1: whole story of how like he's saying it past his
Speaker 1: bedtime to see his dad like I do. Like it's
Speaker 1: both fun and sad that that's how they're havn't experienced things,
Speaker 1: but we're all adjusting the pandemic right now. But it
Speaker 1: is nice they've tried to figure out a way to
Speaker 1: have the fan representation there and then also kind of
Speaker 1: just like single out those those relationships and like, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's cool to see how good of a dad Jaysentatum
Speaker 1: is and how his son like looks up to and
Speaker 1: watches every game. And I'm glad that the Virtual Board
Speaker 1: has been able to do that. I liked Paul Pierce too,
Speaker 1: like when they were doing the time lapse of like
Speaker 1: him at the beginning and then fully piste off laying
Speaker 1: at the end. Yeah, it's been a fun way to
Speaker 1: like view a little Chris, you know you tried to
Speaker 1: get on the Virtual Fan Board, right, you know, I
Speaker 1: don't want to talk about this, okay, because I they
Speaker 1: messaged me it was set up, but then they didn't
Speaker 1: send me a confirmation. They just sent me an email
Speaker 1: that was like, how was your experience? And I'm like,
Speaker 1: I didn't have an experience. I wasn't in there. You
Speaker 1: were that you're an empty seat at the Pacers game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but also my t J Warren Jersey hasn't arrived yet.
Speaker 1: I'll let you know when I'm ready to be a
Speaker 1: fan Pacers. Just have you tried to be a virtual
Speaker 1: fan or do you have any ideas of how we
Speaker 1: can continue to show fan representation or like what what's
Speaker 1: the environment, like there for you is an ideal or
Speaker 1: I think everything the NBA had done from a viewer
Speaker 1: perspective has been beautiful. Like the fanboard is great when
Speaker 1: you're watching at home. I think, uh, they showed who
Speaker 1: was it the Pacers fan from the MJ Doctor. Yeah,
Speaker 1: when I see stuff like that, and that's the one place.
Speaker 1: Obviously the NBA starting on the MLB with the Rona
Speaker 1: and all that good ship, but the MLB has really
Speaker 1: been bringing it with the fan cutouts we have like
Speaker 1: Bernie the other day. Yeah, I wish fans to have
Speaker 1: more fun with that. It's cool to see Wayne and
Speaker 1: all those people, but like, yeah, you use that slap
Speaker 1: to put some funny up in that spot. Have a
Speaker 1: good time with it. But I've enjoyed it. We watched
Speaker 1: the first round of games with my mom. I had
Speaker 1: friends over in the backyard socially distance, and there was
Speaker 1: and like they thought those were real people. My mom
Speaker 1: was like, why are there so many people there? And
Speaker 1: we're like that's a screen. She goes, no, no, because
Speaker 1: shocked by that. No fans they they're tuning in now
Speaker 1: because there's nothing else to do, and they're like, wait,
Speaker 1: that's best gotball been like this the whole time. It's like, no,
Speaker 1: we're we can't make contact with people anymore. I don't
Speaker 1: know why the Pacers love that woman. I don't think
Speaker 1: she's a great representation of the times, you know, like
Speaker 1: just a white woman screaming like the Pacers would be
Speaker 1: the type of franchise be like we have the original
Speaker 1: Karen and it's like, no, that's not good, that's actually bad.
Speaker 1: Um okay. So my number three pick is Doris Burke
Speaker 1: mentioning people said it was like clowning her ex husband.
Speaker 1: I feel like it was more of a clown on her.
Speaker 1: She was saying, I'm like stubborn, but her like having
Speaker 1: that ex husband comment, and then how tickled she was
Speaker 1: with it afterwards, Like I love when someone laughs at
Speaker 1: their own joke. I do it all the time. Listen
Speaker 1: to me. I tickled with this, and she she was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: ask my husband, and then she laughed for like a
Speaker 1: minute straight. Yeah. Was it brain or somebody just didn't
Speaker 1: know how to react to it was just it was
Speaker 1: like funny and cute, and it kind of felt like
Speaker 1: best in show Cam and Taters, like for a second,
Speaker 1: they felt like characters in a movie broadcasters, and yeah,
Speaker 1: it just really made me laugh all the meat, like
Speaker 1: everybody talking about her ex husband. Who knows who this
Speaker 1: man is? But I love Doris doing a little um comedy.
Speaker 1: I'm sure we'll find out. So when he filed the
Speaker 1: defamation laws, yeah, if he did that, the internet would
Speaker 1: be like, you bitch, you're a little bit why don't
Speaker 1: you go coach golf and Rhode Island more that's what
Speaker 1: he does. Yeah, I just hope you don't get inspired
Speaker 1: to do that about me if you ever in that
Speaker 1: you're my current husband, current husband that you know what
Speaker 1: on television they tried to make fun of the size
Speaker 1: of your penis because you're Asian, and I did not
Speaker 1: let them. I appreciate that. I appreciate. So there you go.
Speaker 1: All right, let's take a break on that and we'll
Speaker 1: be back with our number two picks. All right, and
Speaker 1: we're back. And it's really only a few seconds after
Speaker 1: I cut to that break, I'm just from Megan talking
Speaker 1: about my Peter, but number two picks? What else is
Speaker 1: it exciting you? Josiah in the bubble? For me, I
Speaker 1: think the biggest thing that popped out of the bubble
Speaker 1: was initially was when King Center Rashan Holmes dip and
Speaker 1: left and we heard all this ship about it's a bubble.
Speaker 1: It's like when he wants to take up and I
Speaker 1: don't blame them for that one. That's something like he
Speaker 1: genuinely was like, I didn't know you couldn't do that.
Speaker 1: That's literally the first thing I do when I go
Speaker 1: to and he say, and then to hear the whole
Speaker 1: batstor with Kelly Aubrey telling everybody you know tweeting it
Speaker 1: out like Noach, He's like, yo, they can, they can
Speaker 1: come to the hotel lobby, But yeah, no, that's I
Speaker 1: do the same thing I told Megan like two months
Speaker 1: in the pandemic. I was like, I missed going to
Speaker 1: hotel and finding what chain restaurant is nearby so I
Speaker 1: can order it or even go to it. But so
Speaker 1: I totally get Rashawn Holmes's excitement. And then to break
Speaker 1: that is really funny. I'm enough of a weirdo that
Speaker 1: I remember back in the days when we would go
Speaker 1: on road trips, I'd pull off the Yellow Pages and
Speaker 1: literally just scant through, like what what restaurants are some
Speaker 1: of your shitty cities? Like everything shut down? In Tans
Speaker 1: some other spots that were more lively, like you get
Speaker 1: one two am, but it'll always be like, yeah, where
Speaker 1: can we grub on Indian episode will say one of
Speaker 1: the greatest things I've ever been to. Wow, what are
Speaker 1: your favorite road chains? Oh? Road chains? I'm a big
Speaker 1: like outback steakhouse, like like random loser stuff. But when
Speaker 1: Indy like, obviously, uh where do we go? Ocean Air,
Speaker 1: White Cat, I love Ruby Tuesday. That's like, but they
Speaker 1: have they have a salad bar, and that will be
Speaker 1: no more after COVID. I love salad bars. It's Maria
Speaker 1: Kalling's have a really good one. Yeah, No, it's yeah
Speaker 1: those places that just have like a giant menu and
Speaker 1: then I always, i mean usually with that stuff, it's
Speaker 1: like again corporate card. So you know, I'm getting dessert,
Speaker 1: I'm getting up like if I haven't just want to
Speaker 1: try one of something, I'm getting it to like I know,
Speaker 1: I'm getting my staple, my burger, but I'm also getting
Speaker 1: like four appetizers. And that's just what I miss. That's
Speaker 1: kind of what I miss outside of the pandemic that
Speaker 1: I mean, don't get like the because when I travel,
Speaker 1: we get like the but you can always spend like
Speaker 1: fifty or whatever whatever. I'm not permitting myself. There's way
Speaker 1: or yeah. They never really let me get a corporate
Speaker 1: part and I respect all my employers you're doing that.
Speaker 1: I would definite alright, my number two I would have
Speaker 1: to go with. I don't want to. I know what
Speaker 1: I feel like. I know our number one is gonna be,
Speaker 1: so I'm not gonna say yeah, But I think it's
Speaker 1: the addition of j R. Smith And just like the
Speaker 1: Meme team got crazier in the bubble the signing of
Speaker 1: j R. Smith, but then also like Dion having legitimate
Speaker 1: plays in the in the bubble so far and like
Speaker 1: taking over. I'm excited for the Lakers, even though they
Speaker 1: lost some really bad games, but I've got like all
Speaker 1: I wanted was them for beat to beat the Clippers
Speaker 1: to show that it can be done, and it was
Speaker 1: and j R. And Dion got some play and so
Speaker 1: I think just to see that preview before we actually
Speaker 1: get into playoffs of like that crazy Meme team, Like
Speaker 1: people don't know if Lebron pulls us off with those guys,
Speaker 1: this is this is gonna be crazy, Like Dion Waiters,
Speaker 1: Dwight Howard j R. Smith are on your team and
Speaker 1: you want a championship in a bubble, He's the goat.
Speaker 1: There's no other there's no argument. There's no argument. In
Speaker 1: the last day, there was four Rodman's That's what it is.
Speaker 1: I don't think God loves me enough to make that happen,
Speaker 1: but if it does. But if it does, there's like
Speaker 1: when um, when Trump got elected, after you know, losing
Speaker 1: the popular vote by two million, people would be like, oh,
Speaker 1: comedy like that was the troupe, Like, oh, comedy will
Speaker 1: be easier now, and we're all like no, it's like terrible.
Speaker 1: We're really sad and it's not fun. But like with
Speaker 1: Dion and j R. It's like, actually, comedy did get
Speaker 1: more fun, Like they actually do make it better and happier.
Speaker 1: And I didn't realize how old Dion Waiters was. I
Speaker 1: thought he was like twenty two, oh d ing on edibles,
Speaker 1: and then you see him and he's just a full
Speaker 1: grown man and you're like, wow, you still didn't know
Speaker 1: the dosage that was good for you before, so I
Speaker 1: can definitely understand where he's coming from. Yes, that wasn't college,
Speaker 1: so yeah, you were a young man. This is grown up. No,
Speaker 1: and you know how those flights like if they're they're
Speaker 1: flying across country, like you take one extra, one or
Speaker 1: two extra? You took an extra, Like the instructions aren't
Speaker 1: clear on edible wrapper instructions. I don't even think that
Speaker 1: you're usually you're just asking the person who sells it
Speaker 1: to you how many should I taken? Like, oh, your
Speaker 1: friend is like I'm going through the dispense. We're like,
Speaker 1: oh great, can you grab me some of this or whatever?
Speaker 1: Like I have to ask. I have to look the
Speaker 1: person in the eye when I'm getting those, because I
Speaker 1: just came back to edibles recently and during the pandemic.
Speaker 1: I'm like, there's no way I'm gonna leave my house,
Speaker 1: so I'm gonna try him again. And I found a
Speaker 1: good We found a good uh like dosage ones. But
Speaker 1: I had to ask them like what is this do?
Speaker 1: How long does it last? Like you need all those instructions?
Speaker 1: Do you think Dion just needed more information? I don't
Speaker 1: blame him whatsoever. I smoke wax whatever the funk they
Speaker 1: call that, like probably like three years ago, and it
Speaker 1: was like the worst experience in my life. Smoke crack.
Speaker 1: If you want to Yeah, this is like, what are
Speaker 1: you guys doing? Like this is a funk up your
Speaker 1: whole world that we're mupposed to do befo I do
Speaker 1: this year, We're mupposed to talk to you who hanging
Speaker 1: out with the mess? I don't. I think he's like
Speaker 1: a man of the people those first few i G. Stories.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm sad that he got kind of reprimanded early
Speaker 1: because right out the gate that was like the start
Speaker 1: of the bubble was we got four JR videos of
Speaker 1: him like knocking on teammates doors and be like, hey
Speaker 1: do you see the menu, were like you know, popping
Speaker 1: in and out, playing games with the hotel, like he
Speaker 1: looked like a kid again. And then he's he's like Instagram,
Speaker 1: I got in trouble. It's perfect. I want to know
Speaker 1: who had to make that call, like JR King, Look,
Speaker 1: you just can't be it had to be Lebron, right,
Speaker 1: because Lebron he's like the guy who can talk to
Speaker 1: j R. It was not Frank Vogel. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: you're right that it was a player perhaps, But now yeah,
Speaker 1: they like they nipped in the bud too early. Yeah alright, Megan, Okay,
Speaker 1: my number two is t J Warren scoring fifty three
Speaker 1: in the Pacers first game back listen? It just really
Speaker 1: who I was so happy that that the Pacers came back.
Speaker 1: I was so happy that Vic was playing, and then
Speaker 1: it just all sort of like shifted to this unknown
Speaker 1: man in my heart. But it was like my heart
Speaker 1: had known him all along. I just hadn't been introduced
Speaker 1: to him yet. And just watching him shine my bubble king,
Speaker 1: I'm so proud and yeah, it was just a fifty
Speaker 1: three was crazy? Yeah what I mean? I also kind
Speaker 1: of want to lump in the Suns with it, like
Speaker 1: no players, Yeah, no t J Warren. But I'm saying,
Speaker 1: like why why are why is t J Warren going off?
Speaker 1: Why are the Sun's four? No? Like, is it truly
Speaker 1: that much of a different environment that he's scrubs? Not scrubs,
Speaker 1: but like unknown players are dropping fifty three? Scrub I
Speaker 1: like wid joking mate, though, Like I think it's like Jr.
Speaker 1: The High j R. Smith looking like wait what do Yeah?
Speaker 1: But t J is a killer. It's good for me
Speaker 1: to see guys like that. And I think the thing
Speaker 1: is that people don't really understand about what's going on
Speaker 1: in the bubble it's a lot closer to like summer
Speaker 1: league summer ball, so that's why you're seeing these crazy
Speaker 1: high scores. Like it's just a different style of all.
Speaker 1: These guys are a lot more care free. Obviously still
Speaker 1: got res kind of keeping everything contained, but you don't
Speaker 1: really have to crowd the home court advantage anymore. So
Speaker 1: they're just like going to the gym in the summer
Speaker 1: and who've been putting in the work. You get to
Speaker 1: really see that. But guys like t J. I was
Speaker 1: a little worried when they had twenty two teams, is
Speaker 1: going like that's how the level of play would be.
Speaker 1: But I also thought these younger teams would have a
Speaker 1: lot more advantage because they're used to playing this a
Speaker 1: you style, hundred games in the summer all over you
Speaker 1: know whatever, like you know, so it wasn't a big
Speaker 1: difference to be in hotels and kind of doing all
Speaker 1: this stuff. But you know, I mean, I was a
Speaker 1: little disappointed to with the Pelicans, but I think that's
Speaker 1: off topics. So it's not off to I mean, do
Speaker 1: you really think I think you know what, when you
Speaker 1: discussed one small market, you discussed them all they like
Speaker 1: it's like it's kind of them, and then and the
Speaker 1: Pacers and the Pelicans are sort of in the everybody
Speaker 1: else And that's why I think it made me so happy.
Speaker 1: Like when the Pacers, when people are texting me that
Speaker 1: are not Pacers fans, I'm like, oh great, we like
Speaker 1: made the mainstream for a day and it's exciting. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, I just don't know how. That's just like
Speaker 1: a peek into what it's like to be married. You
Speaker 1: talk about the Pacers, I'm like, I have no idea
Speaker 1: what to say back. I think that's a that's what
Speaker 1: you mean to say, is that's a peek into what
Speaker 1: it's like to be a fan for a team your
Speaker 1: whole life. Okay, Okay, I love Lebron. I don't know
Speaker 1: what to tell you, no, but I just people are like, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's easier to shoot and it's like shooters Paradise. But
Speaker 1: it's like the Lakers went one for thirty five on
Speaker 1: threes last night. So it's affecting people in different ways
Speaker 1: that Yeah, it's it's gonna be interesting the playoffs, Like
Speaker 1: everyone's like, oh, Lakers going up against the Blazers in
Speaker 1: the first round. Who knows, And maybe maybe you don't
Speaker 1: think I guess we just have to see it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not really excited about any of that.
Speaker 1: The Lakers will look kind of kind of old and
Speaker 1: musty and thirty five. I think all the bron fans, no,
Speaker 1: we know we're playing with house money. The amount of
Speaker 1: minutes he's played, and you know, there's no way to
Speaker 1: doing anything that you're doing right now. So they have
Speaker 1: the Lakers in the first place. I feel like we
Speaker 1: all know like the clock is taking, so we just
Speaker 1: gotta talk to my shoot as we can before it
Speaker 1: just all goes downhill. But if God is good enough
Speaker 1: to bless us with the Lakers championship, honestly, there's gonna
Speaker 1: a lot of people that are gonna want to kill me.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna tell you, right, we got your back.
Speaker 1: I'm going hard. All right, Let's talk our number one picks. Megan,
Speaker 1: you go first. Let's get is out the way. I've
Speaker 1: been leaving that because yeah, I've been picking. So these
Speaker 1: are my honorable mentions. The photo of the Westbrook kids
Speaker 1: in their Gene jackets watching their dad. I love that,
Speaker 1: Zion asking if he should be looking at something during
Speaker 1: his interview. Listen, I've been there you want to me.
Speaker 1: That made me be like Zion is a natural performer.
Speaker 1: He's looking for his light, he's looking for his camera.
Speaker 1: God bless him. And then in the w n b
Speaker 1: A bubble, Sabrina scoring thirty three points obviously then getting hurt,
Speaker 1: but like speedy, speedy recovery. So much of the w
Speaker 1: n b A has been really really fun, them trolling
Speaker 1: their own owner. I love that. It's yeah, they've been great,
Speaker 1: and I love every like the NBA support that's come out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: those hoodies are like sold out everywhere. So my number
Speaker 1: one is gonna you know, is like maybe sentimental or
Speaker 1: it just induced tears out of me. And it was
Speaker 1: the Clippers Lakers game that first day back when they
Speaker 1: all kneeled and the national anthem and and I just
Speaker 1: saw so many people talking about it, non sports fans.
Speaker 1: It really felt like sports are back, and it's back
Speaker 1: in a way that's kind of saying fuck you to
Speaker 1: our president and to other you know, his racists, And
Speaker 1: it just felt really in solidarity and beautiful in him
Speaker 1: saying I hope he made CAP proud, and just seeing
Speaker 1: all the white players, Neil, thank you great. And then
Speaker 1: for that game, no I'm saying kers slippers. We had
Speaker 1: all the white players, Neil, and we had Tan Frank
Speaker 1: Vogel kneeling, and that's all you can ask for. That's great,
Speaker 1: Actually not all you can ask for. You can also like,
Speaker 1: you know, stop killing black people. Yeah right, actually, like
Speaker 1: what we're what we're asking for that? Uh uh Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just for a second. I always look and just
Speaker 1: kind of not laugh, but just laugh with like in
Speaker 1: the black community, we kind of like paying humor of
Speaker 1: the coping mechanism. But it's like it's like it's it's
Speaker 1: literally like now like present day, and we're still talking
Speaker 1: about the same ship, and it's still like do you
Speaker 1: really need Like that's like the response, like what do
Speaker 1: you mean? Everything's fair? Right? Like I used to I
Speaker 1: like I laughed at the idea of me. I used
Speaker 1: to tell people like or having a timeline like no,
Speaker 1: by December, we'll be doing this or doing that, and like, man,
Speaker 1: I've blown by. I remember I looked at a tweet
Speaker 1: last night that said how awesome is it gonna be
Speaker 1: when we're watching the Lakers Clippers Game seven finals on
Speaker 1: July four and at a barbecue, and I was like, man,
Speaker 1: we blew by that, and we're we haven't have been
Speaker 1: started the playoffs yet, just to see the way that
Speaker 1: this response has been handled. And really, we all make money,
Speaker 1: we all do ship, we're all our industries are all
Speaker 1: getting attacked by it. But just just see the buffoonery
Speaker 1: and then like the level of idiots scenes, people that
Speaker 1: like think that they're doctors and telling you. It's like,
Speaker 1: if I'm asking you to wear a fucking mask, do
Speaker 1: you think anybody wants to do that? Ship? You think
Speaker 1: I woke up this morning like funk, I can't wait
Speaker 1: to go outside and wear a mask off dead, Like
Speaker 1: there's a point, you know, I mean, you have some
Speaker 1: funing respect. It is to see the level of like
Speaker 1: disrespect and just people not giving a ship as the
Speaker 1: numbers keep piling up, and at this point, like the
Speaker 1: response has been like, well fuck it, it's just gonna
Speaker 1: it's gonna do whatever it does. And whenever we get
Speaker 1: a vaccine, we'll start to get you back together. But yeah,
Speaker 1: and then it's like if people take the vaccine and
Speaker 1: you you on like a global or like larger scale,
Speaker 1: you're like, I hate this type of person that does it,
Speaker 1: and then you have to have like immediate people in
Speaker 1: your own life that disappoint you to so you're like
Speaker 1: constantly being bombarded with like they did what I liked them?
Speaker 1: Why are they doing that? Yeah, more than a few
Speaker 1: times I've had to see that happen, and it's like
Speaker 1: you just didn't have to say anything. Yeah, I just
Speaker 1: don't say it. You're like, don't stadiums, you know, to
Speaker 1: put anybody You're smart, It's okay, we get it. Like
Speaker 1: that's why it's like some of the players or staff
Speaker 1: that have stood for the anthem, I'm like, just do
Speaker 1: it so we don't have to ask you why or
Speaker 1: have stories about it, you know, like your your teammates
Speaker 1: can know your beliefs and respect to you. But it's
Speaker 1: just just also, yeah that my my parents are in
Speaker 1: the military, that everybody's parents are, Like that doesn't it's
Speaker 1: not even about the military. Like their response is to
Speaker 1: why they're not kneeling? Are what are bad? And then
Speaker 1: people like why do they have to justify it? They
Speaker 1: actually don't. They're the ones justifying it with bullshit answers
Speaker 1: that do take away from it. So where are we
Speaker 1: are going to get mad about that? Yeah? I mean
Speaker 1: I think you know, I don't want to point anybody
Speaker 1: in particular, because obviously, you know, kids are young, they've
Speaker 1: got a lot of learning and growing to do. But
Speaker 1: you just wish that they've had people in their circles
Speaker 1: could be like, yeah, it doesn't make any sense. Just
Speaker 1: shut the funk up, Like, don't even answer the question.
Speaker 1: Just be quiet. You don't need to answer the question
Speaker 1: because if you answer it, you're gonna make yourself look
Speaker 1: worse and shout out the Terylor Rooks. You've done a
Speaker 1: great job in the bubble. Actually question I need to
Speaker 1: be asked the ways that it's like, here's a separate
Speaker 1: way to just explain yourself, and it's like, well they
Speaker 1: don't make any but there are I think the vlogs
Speaker 1: have been very good to show, like the okay, I
Speaker 1: don't want to talk now. I I fake got mad
Speaker 1: at her because the vlogs are is my number one pick,
Speaker 1: which I feel like at first you're annoyed, but now
Speaker 1: you're intrigued by me watching the vlogs. But I just love,
Speaker 1: I love, and I don't know because I was drunk
Speaker 1: at your mom's house and I just wanted someone to
Speaker 1: talk to me, and I was just watching all I
Speaker 1: was like binging all the vlogs. But yeah, my favorite
Speaker 1: moment of the NBA coming back is now players documenting
Speaker 1: their experiences in the bubble. And I don't know if
Speaker 1: it's a little bit of inspiration from the Last Dance
Speaker 1: and you know, just how YouTube has have been evolved
Speaker 1: that players are now taking the content into their own hands,
Speaker 1: and they have their own operations and channels, and they're
Speaker 1: just like releasing these almost like unfiltered, unedited, raw documentations
Speaker 1: of of what life as an NBA player in in
Speaker 1: these crazy circumstances. Are like, so, yeah, shout out to
Speaker 1: Javail and Matisse and Troy Annuals and I think a
Speaker 1: couple of other players just launched them. But like, you know,
Speaker 1: those guys are It's been fun seeing their experience. It's
Speaker 1: also fun to see like the star players pop up
Speaker 1: in the background. And even if it's like for five
Speaker 1: like Lebron doing Taco Tuesday after a Lakers practice is
Speaker 1: just like it brings me such joy. So those vlogs,
Speaker 1: I'm here for them. I want them to continue and evolve.
Speaker 1: I'm rocking with them, Like I think, you know, these
Speaker 1: guys in the production value they're putting in Now they've
Speaker 1: got dudes putting them together. For him, it's just a
Speaker 1: p you know, we all work in production. It's nice
Speaker 1: and refreshing me to see guys like get the proper
Speaker 1: framing and the shot and hold it for the right
Speaker 1: amount of time and be able to do kind of
Speaker 1: cool stuff. But I love these guys, like you said,
Speaker 1: like they're all they all have their own brands now
Speaker 1: they all get it. But I think that's all. That's great,
Speaker 1: but then it's also bad for people like us, and
Speaker 1: now we want to do ship with them and become
Speaker 1: the whole. Everybody thinks they're Scorsese and you know, I
Speaker 1: know I know how to do all this, Like I mean,
Speaker 1: this is like entry level stuff. Bro we got we
Speaker 1: got a lot more love from But but for me
Speaker 1: to see these dudes maximizing, I'm a big fan of,
Speaker 1: like you know what. I interviewed crow So a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks ago, and he was just happy to have
Speaker 1: like human interaction. He was just literally broth for fun,
Speaker 1: like I go golf for fish and other than that,
Speaker 1: I don't really do anything. So to see these dudes
Speaker 1: kind of learning new skills and learning new crafts. I
Speaker 1: think something's really really cool. Yeah, all right, what's your
Speaker 1: number one? Pick um? I think I'm glad you guys
Speaker 1: didn't saying that, and I really appreciate you because we
Speaker 1: didn't even really discuss like what the rankings we're gonna
Speaker 1: be coming in, you know, I know, I think last
Speaker 1: time we had like a kind of pre prediscussion. Knew,
Speaker 1: of course, let Pepper like and obviously the reasons behind it.
Speaker 1: I think his grandfather passed away, and that's like we
Speaker 1: all do with tragic stuff. But you know, to be
Speaker 1: at the strip club getting Limon Pepper chicken wings, which
Speaker 1: literally numerous human beings in the sporting community were like, no,
Speaker 1: that's like really really good. I'm wanting I really want
Speaker 1: to have them because I want to see with a
Speaker 1: fifteen dollar for It's like but the fact that he
Speaker 1: was literally like, yeah, I'm out the bubble and I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go to the strip club to get chicken wings.
Speaker 1: And then we heard like stripper saying that he got dances.
Speaker 1: He didn't, he did whatever, But I just thought and
Speaker 1: it was great for me personally for social because I
Speaker 1: got to get some jokes off, which I don't really
Speaker 1: care about like who's right or wrong. It's like when
Speaker 1: the news breaks, I'm gonna give you an angle on it.
Speaker 1: Animals fans, and that was like, you know, a hundred
Speaker 1: times better. And to your point, I was worried, like Dan,
Speaker 1: they don't got Matres or Lou when they played him
Speaker 1: in that first game, like they can't get smacked. We
Speaker 1: beat we beat him, so we're good. Everything out and
Speaker 1: beyond that, what's the Lakers place. I didn't give a
Speaker 1: funk about anything, Like I'm looking at Lakers fans now like, oh,
Speaker 1: we gotta do this and there it's like, bro, like
Speaker 1: do you think they give a funk right now? They
Speaker 1: just clinched the number one seed. The play over the
Speaker 1: next four games, everyone checking each other's joke of like,
Speaker 1: oh no, we lost and we dropped to the one seed.
Speaker 1: I know everyone keeps doing that joke. I'm like, I
Speaker 1: still love it. It's really funny. Yeah, And I mean
Speaker 1: I've been I've been tempted to get that joke out,
Speaker 1: but as you know, sometimes it's just like, yeah, that's
Speaker 1: that's too much. So I know, I know, I know
Speaker 1: that's when everybody's gonna hapen to go to But it's
Speaker 1: like you said, whenever I see it is like, yeah,
Speaker 1: we are still in first so yeah, exactly. When that's
Speaker 1: when I first heard about that story, you were the
Speaker 1: first person that popped in my head, Like I was like,
Speaker 1: I can't this is just like I just can't wait
Speaker 1: to hear what Josiah has to say about this, almost
Speaker 1: on the way that I would do with like Joan Rivers.
Speaker 1: That's the only other comedian I can ever remember thinking
Speaker 1: to myself, like, I can't wait to hear their take.
Speaker 1: But it just felt so it's so funny. It's like,
Speaker 1: really didn't bother me. I was always justice for Low.
Speaker 1: I'm totally on his side. I love chicken Wings. I
Speaker 1: saw the photos. They looked great. Photos are so like
Speaker 1: I've known so many people that have gone to a
Speaker 1: funeral and then gone to a strip club. That's actually
Speaker 1: like a pretty normal thing. That's why I think some
Speaker 1: of the fund the comedy from it was were the
Speaker 1: excuses like one like the reason the story broke was
Speaker 1: because Jack Harlow, who is I don't know what to
Speaker 1: think of his side. That's like I guess a catchy song,
Speaker 1: but like an I G story where it's him and
Speaker 1: they're like, uh yeah at the strip club, and then
Speaker 1: they tried to say, oh, that was an old photo.
Speaker 1: We were just reminiscing and Louis wearing the mask from
Speaker 1: the bubble. It's like, man, you guys got to think
Speaker 1: about these excuses for one second, and it's Jack Harlow,
Speaker 1: just like a twenty three year old new rapper on
Speaker 1: the scene. But then yeah, I saw the wings, and
Speaker 1: then that's when I started leaning towards you know, like
Speaker 1: I'm kind of on his side, even though I'm all Lakers,
Speaker 1: but yeah, but there's lot will limit pepper wings. I mean,
Speaker 1: and honestly, for for the for Magic City, have enough
Speaker 1: respect for him to name the wings after him, I
Speaker 1: understand why you have to go there. Like if he's
Speaker 1: in Atlanta and he didn't go get wings that are
Speaker 1: named after him, what kind of human being is? But
Speaker 1: just to see the obviously, like the quarantine wasn't that bad.
Speaker 1: I only think they made him do like four days.
Speaker 1: But like, come on, Doug for some wings, but also
Speaker 1: for Sean Hull did the same thing. So wings are
Speaker 1: just what funny is right after the story, like I
Speaker 1: think I'm a guarantee wing cells went up like I
Speaker 1: was the wings like two or three times a week
Speaker 1: was devouring and like real quarantine. Yeah, I saw you
Speaker 1: tweet about, like what's the best wing spot in l A.
Speaker 1: Did you end up finding one? I've got people like
Speaker 1: they've shipped me towards the Korean spots, which I feel
Speaker 1: like they're in their own lane, because look, the Korean
Speaker 1: Korean like food in l A is like the bomber
Speaker 1: ship you know of all times, but it's really in
Speaker 1: its own world because you literally got to go to
Speaker 1: different parts of that. Lady even get it. But I
Speaker 1: usually go to a spot, uh it's called Hot Wings Cafe.
Speaker 1: They're going in Melroad. That's like my favorite. But I'd
Speaker 1: be going there since high school. Back in the day,
Speaker 1: like those wings used to be juicy, and now it
Speaker 1: feels like they just kind of you know, I've been
Speaker 1: really you know, they need to put some weight on them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you open up a chain and everyone's like, hey, we
Speaker 1: could go a little bit less on the ingredients, like
Speaker 1: the grizzling wings sometimes, but it's still it's still my
Speaker 1: go to. And I go to like Buffalo Wild Wing,
Speaker 1: you know, my local fat burger and get him. You know,
Speaker 1: if I'm just desperate, but I respect you and I
Speaker 1: need a perfect wing though. Somebody would telling me by
Speaker 1: on your guys spot like rested in or some ship.
Speaker 1: Yeah that's yeah, it's pretty solid. I think people also
Speaker 1: just like the the environment. It's just like a dive bar.
Speaker 1: But they got great burgers and one next to Fat
Speaker 1: Burger that just opened Buffalos, which it looks kind of
Speaker 1: like a wingstop situation, which is yeah, it's just there's
Speaker 1: something about it. I love wings up. It's reliable, but
Speaker 1: to me, it's like the Dominoes of wings It's like
Speaker 1: really really good at first, but then man, I feel
Speaker 1: sick for like a day. I went to the BW
Speaker 1: three's in Burbank once. It was like a Tuesday night.
Speaker 1: There was not a sporting event, there was nothing of
Speaker 1: significance going on, and we put our name in and
Speaker 1: they were like your fifty three on the wait list.
Speaker 1: It's like that is I was like, can you can,
Speaker 1: let's let's ballpark like a time and they were like
Speaker 1: five plus hours we'll be closed by vent. Like it
Speaker 1: was so insane. I hope lou Will is looking into
Speaker 1: opening up his own wing spot. Yeah, absolutely in l
Speaker 1: a by the New Stadium Hooters Naked wings used to
Speaker 1: be the ship too back in the day, like don't
Speaker 1: get with all breaded, like it was way too much
Speaker 1: bread on them. But then Hooter started nickel and diamond
Speaker 1: for ranches and ship and it's like how some Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm I gonna get a chicken wing and not
Speaker 1: you try to be a dollar each side to four ranch,
Speaker 1: Like I gotta bring my own fucking ranch to Hooters.
Speaker 1: And I've been it before. It'll get me wrong. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm saying I the ranch up, but I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: get dollar ranches. That's not enough. That is, Isn't that?
Speaker 1: Like True Life? I love my body. The woman had
Speaker 1: a giant hidden valley in her person at all times.
Speaker 1: Oh and this was a hero of mine in like
Speaker 1: just pulling a giant hidden valley out fast food restaurants
Speaker 1: and the whole True Life was like I'm fat and
Speaker 1: I love being fat. I was just gonna say, like
Speaker 1: that's a great argument to pay and like college players,
Speaker 1: if you having to bring your own bottle of ranch around,
Speaker 1: like I gotta pack my bags, make sure to grab
Speaker 1: the ranch throw to the ranch that you can't really
Speaker 1: leave that up to chance. When you go to a
Speaker 1: lot of places because they try to give you the
Speaker 1: capetillo or straight to basket, and it's like, have some
Speaker 1: respect right in a respect back culture. Give me some
Speaker 1: red rooster, give me some option, some crystal, you know,
Speaker 1: give me some freaks, red hot, give me some options.
Speaker 1: All right, Just so thank you so much. Why not
Speaker 1: on on your way out here, give us a little
Speaker 1: preview of what you're excited for coming up in the bubble.
Speaker 1: I'm excited to see Lebron Raymond James Sr. Overcome the
Speaker 1: haters and the dow oters in the year of Our
Speaker 1: Lord that they released the last dance out of MJ's
Speaker 1: pettiness and Lebron winning in to now shove it right
Speaker 1: back in MJ's face in one of the hardest conditions ever.
Speaker 1: Now on watered down NBA, I might add for all
Speaker 1: you Chicago Bulls fans out there, and uh leave the
Speaker 1: Lakers to glory in honor of Kobe being broken. Yes, sir,
Speaker 1: I co signed again. What are you excited for? Sign
Speaker 1: that too? But I'm just excited to see who wins.
Speaker 1: I really am. I I hope it's the Lakers. I genuinely,
Speaker 1: in my heart, deep deep deep down in my soul
Speaker 1: want that for everybody. But I'm excited to see how
Speaker 1: that happens, because even if it is the Lakers, I
Speaker 1: think it's going to be a wild ride. Uh. And
Speaker 1: I yeah, I hope players remains safe and healthy and
Speaker 1: that the message doesn't get distracted. Uh. And they're able
Speaker 1: to do that. Some of it we and that we
Speaker 1: could talk about another podcast. Some of it is a
Speaker 1: little bit watered down. And I like what you know,
Speaker 1: guys like Lebron and them are trying to do where
Speaker 1: they're not just gonna like pick from a list of
Speaker 1: names put on the back of their jersey, and they
Speaker 1: continue to use their sort of media availability to talk
Speaker 1: about just for Brianna Taylor. Um, and you know key
Speaker 1: forward in the message, we're happy basketball is back and
Speaker 1: that we're safe, healthy, that you're safe, healthy. Josiah and
Speaker 1: your little cutie's Yeah, I'm sure. I'm sure they're less
Speaker 1: cute right now, but they're loving life. Mom and dad
Speaker 1: at home all day every day. They don't know I
Speaker 1: was going on in the world, Like dads here finessing
Speaker 1: the bag. What where can people find you? King Josiah
Speaker 1: fifty four or just lurking in the shadows of Twitter.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you'll see it. People, everyone's retweeting it. So all right, Megan,
Speaker 1: where beautifind you? Okay, she's chugging her sangria. No, it's
Speaker 1: just a little the you know, when the ice melts
Speaker 1: with the sangrea, just that part um. You can find
Speaker 1: me at Megan Gaily and I'm at c J Toldonald
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