WEBVTT - What's Wright - LeBron & Nick meet up courtside, Lakers-Warriors preview + Final Four predictions 0:00:02.279 --> 0:00:05.000 Welcome in. We'll driving Nick Great Episode three point fifteen. 0:00:05.280 --> 0:00:12.280 After a eventful and somewhat exhausting weekend from New York 0:00:12.400 --> 0:00:17.599 to Memphis to Vegas, landed back here yesterday morning. That's 0:00:17.680 --> 0:00:21.040 why we were not able to be on the air Tuesday. 0:00:21.360 --> 0:00:25.120 Little programming note, however, a couple programming notes. Actually, let 0:00:25.160 --> 0:00:26.800 me see if I can straighten this out a bit 0:00:26.840 --> 0:00:28.440 for you guys. There we go. That should be better. 0:00:28.480 --> 0:00:34.120 My apologies. Tomorrow morning. A bonus show to make up 0:00:34.120 --> 0:00:39.080 for Tuesday, talk Lakers, Warriors, Instant Reaction, anything that should 0:00:39.120 --> 0:00:42.440 be up and live first thing in the morning, and 0:00:42.440 --> 0:00:44.839 if you're on the West Coast, probably while you're still sleeping, 0:00:45.159 --> 0:00:49.960 so that'll come tomorrow Tuesday, our annual way too early 0:00:50.240 --> 0:00:53.760 NFL over Under show. Normally we would have done that 0:00:53.840 --> 0:00:56.880 this past Tuesday, however, we weren't on the air, and 0:00:56.920 --> 0:01:00.800 so our friends at DraftKings have released the full slate 0:01:00.920 --> 0:01:04.160 of NFL team win totals, so we will take our 0:01:04.400 --> 0:01:09.080 first bite at that on Tuesday. However, we got to 0:01:09.120 --> 0:01:12.560 get right into it. I thought I knew where we'd 0:01:12.560 --> 0:01:16.920 be starting the show, given you know, the Internet over 0:01:16.959 --> 0:01:21.399 the weekend, But then the Internet over the last forty 0:01:21.400 --> 0:01:24.440 eight hours, I was involved in a different piece of 0:01:24.480 --> 0:01:28.240 the internet. So that's in what missed the cut, But 0:01:28.360 --> 0:01:30.720 it didn't actually miss the cut. So here's what missed 0:01:30.720 --> 0:01:33.840 the cut. Demons. Great to see you, Tyreek Hills Stokes 0:01:33.880 --> 0:01:37.240 trade rumors again, whatever he wants the attention. I love Tyreek, 0:01:37.280 --> 0:01:40.520 but we know what's going on. Greatest player in Syracuse 0:01:40.560 --> 0:01:43.600 basketball history, one of the greatest Olympians ever, one of 0:01:43.680 --> 0:01:46.960 the best pure scores of his era, a no doubt 0:01:47.000 --> 0:01:51.200 first ballot Hall of Famer, Carmelo Anthony. And then there's 0:01:51.320 --> 0:02:00.800 this the headline from People magazine. Dude trap Vis Kelsey 0:02:00.960 --> 0:02:06.680 and his quote sports friend have beef. So I was 0:02:06.960 --> 0:02:10.160 playing Demonse in a poker game in Vegas when this 0:02:10.240 --> 0:02:16.200 got sent to me, and now it's everywhere on the internet, 0:02:16.280 --> 0:02:20.919 and I cannot believe I need to address this. I mean, 0:02:20.960 --> 0:02:24.280 it's on People, it's on I think, that's Al Jazeera, 0:02:24.440 --> 0:02:30.960 it's on US Weekly. It's so I am so incredibly 0:02:31.280 --> 0:02:36.360 oddly frustrated by this because I think it is so 0:02:37.760 --> 0:02:44.440 recklessly unfair to Travis Kelcey. So let me reset exactly 0:02:44.480 --> 0:02:49.040 what happened, not restate, not clarified, because everything that I said, 0:02:49.080 --> 0:02:54.640 Demanse was totally one hundred percent clear the recreation of 0:02:54.680 --> 0:02:58.359 this in the headlines. I didn't misspeak, I didn't misrepresent 0:02:58.880 --> 0:03:01.720 has but the headlines to me are so this is 0:03:01.720 --> 0:03:05.240 what happened. So New Heights with Travis and Jason Kelsey 0:03:06.320 --> 0:03:09.720 shouted me out after I invited myself on their show 0:03:09.760 --> 0:03:14.360 to be their salary cap expert. Right, that's that's what happened. 0:03:14.600 --> 0:03:19.239 And Travis said, I offten love Nick Wright, and I said, 0:03:19.600 --> 0:03:22.840 as an aside, I was like, you know, I actually 0:03:22.919 --> 0:03:28.200 haven't spoken a lot to Travis since he and Taylor 0:03:28.280 --> 0:03:33.959 got together. With the timeline being I said, we don't 0:03:34.000 --> 0:03:37.920 really talk during the seasons. We always, you know, we 0:03:38.000 --> 0:03:40.640 have a kind of annual event of being able to 0:03:40.640 --> 0:03:45.560 get together at the Chief's Super Bowl Parade, But two 0:03:45.600 --> 0:03:49.360 years ago at the parade was cut short by a 0:03:49.440 --> 0:03:53.480 tragic shooting, and this year the parade was canceled by 0:03:53.480 --> 0:03:57.720 the Philadelphia Eagles. So those two times we didn't talk. 0:03:58.200 --> 0:04:02.360 And then the one off seat where that you know, 0:04:03.000 --> 0:04:06.600 where normally there might be and again I Travis, I 0:04:06.640 --> 0:04:11.520 am dear friends with Adam Lefko, who is an actual 0:04:11.720 --> 0:04:14.920 dear friend of Travis's. They I think one was at 0:04:14.960 --> 0:04:18.640 the other's. Yeah, I think left I think Travis was 0:04:18.640 --> 0:04:23.040 at left Goo's wedding. When the when Travis and Taylor 0:04:23.120 --> 0:04:26.400 were in New York City for a Yankee game and 0:04:26.440 --> 0:04:28.839 they did a live shot at Travis and Taylor, I'm like, Hey, 0:04:29.160 --> 0:04:32.560 that's Lefto and his wife sitting with them. They're dear friends. 0:04:33.560 --> 0:04:36.559 Trav and I have a great relationship, but we don't 0:04:36.839 --> 0:04:39.720 hang out. We you know, I don't. We've never talked 0:04:39.760 --> 0:04:43.839 on the phone, might text or DM occasionally, but I 0:04:43.920 --> 0:04:46.880 leave him alone during the season and then the last 0:04:46.920 --> 0:04:49.760 offseason he was the busiest man in the world. So 0:04:49.920 --> 0:04:53.960 that's what I said. So I said, yea, So this 0:04:54.160 --> 0:05:00.760 being like represented so unfairly up to an including in 0:05:00.800 --> 0:05:07.039 the Times of India that as if Travis has cut 0:05:07.080 --> 0:05:10.560 off people in his life or gott in Hollywood. It's 0:05:10.760 --> 0:05:12.080 just total horseshit. 0:05:12.440 --> 0:05:14.320 I feel, like you said, I've been passing as well, 0:05:14.360 --> 0:05:16.279 Like I remember when you said it, like I remember 0:05:16.320 --> 0:05:17.320 the tone and everything. 0:05:17.680 --> 0:05:18.919 It's definitely a reach. 0:05:19.760 --> 0:05:23.560 You know, Listen, anyone, if I felt like I had 0:05:23.600 --> 0:05:28.000 screwed up, I would apologize. But anyone that watched the 0:05:28.080 --> 0:05:32.200 show or saw it got the exact right read of it. 0:05:32.720 --> 0:05:41.440 Where I feel badly is I don't expect, certainly Taylor 0:05:41.800 --> 0:05:44.839 or Tailor's people to watch the show. They're welcome to, 0:05:45.680 --> 0:05:48.839 and I don't expect Travis to watch this show. And 0:05:48.920 --> 0:05:52.840 if it's represented as if someone is trying to you'd 0:05:52.839 --> 0:05:56.960 be like like, oh, we used to be super close. 0:05:57.000 --> 0:05:58.760 And then this guy like, that's not what it was 0:05:58.800 --> 0:06:02.120 at all, And so I got I know that this 0:06:02.320 --> 0:06:06.039 was I think the producers when they first like brought 0:06:06.040 --> 0:06:08.400 it to my attention and pitched me on it. I 0:06:08.600 --> 0:06:11.120 probably the tone of this was supposed to be this 0:06:11.320 --> 0:06:16.040 is hilarious, and it would be if I knew all 0:06:16.080 --> 0:06:21.000 the parties involved. Also we're on the exact same page. 0:06:21.320 --> 0:06:23.720 But I just I do feel that it is a 0:06:23.839 --> 0:06:29.279 level of fame. When I texted Wild's the People headline 0:06:29.520 --> 0:06:35.080 after Daniel texts it to me, and I said, I 0:06:35.160 --> 0:06:38.279 really think Taylor Swift might be the most famous person 0:06:38.279 --> 0:06:44.080 in the world. Like, I truly think she might be 0:06:44.279 --> 0:06:52.120 the most famous person in the world if just someone 0:06:52.400 --> 0:06:56.880 at my level whatever that is of notoriety having an 0:06:56.960 --> 0:07:03.760 aside about her boyfriend friend and the last time we talked, 0:07:04.120 --> 0:07:10.040 if that touch is enough if her fame gravity is 0:07:10.160 --> 0:07:14.560 so great that People magazine and the Times of India 0:07:14.600 --> 0:07:17.640 are like, this will get us some foot traffic on 0:07:17.680 --> 0:07:23.480 the website. It's incomprehensible that level of fame. And so 0:07:24.160 --> 0:07:27.120 maybe maybe there maybe when you're that level of famous, 0:07:27.160 --> 0:07:31.000 you're just used to things being so kind of out 0:07:31.080 --> 0:07:34.280 you know, misrepresented her out of whack, but it is 0:07:35.000 --> 0:07:45.520 that was an insane and an insane realization of the 0:07:45.560 --> 0:07:52.480 reach that a true global icon has, of which Taylor 0:07:52.520 --> 0:07:56.000 Swift is. So there's the not even clarification, but the 0:07:56.040 --> 0:07:59.080 true story. And then you got a question for me. 0:08:00.320 --> 0:08:03.400 Yeah, do you think you're gonna start a rebranding now 0:08:03.480 --> 0:08:04.760 in light of these events? 0:08:05.280 --> 0:08:09.080 Because I was called not my name but his sports friend. 0:08:09.080 --> 0:08:12.320 What's right with sports friend? Okay? I mean yeah, I 0:08:12.320 --> 0:08:14.360 mean that's the other thing. It's also a kind of 0:08:14.480 --> 0:08:18.480 confusing headline because it would it would appear like if 0:08:18.480 --> 0:08:21.200 you just read the headline, it sounds like they're talking 0:08:21.200 --> 0:08:26.280 about another professional athlete rather than me, because sports friend, 0:08:26.320 --> 0:08:29.040 I would think that you're talking another professional athlete. So 0:08:29.120 --> 0:08:36.040 that was, you know, one kind of brush with the 0:08:36.160 --> 0:08:41.080 media machine associated with the world's most famous people. Odd 0:08:41.400 --> 0:08:44.880 forty eight hours because it was my second brush with 0:08:45.000 --> 0:08:47.040 that of the week and demons go ahead. 0:08:47.520 --> 0:08:50.559 Yeah, so over the weekend you saw Memphis and Lakers 0:08:50.600 --> 0:08:54.000 face off. You happen to be court side. Bakers showed out, 0:08:54.080 --> 0:08:56.440 they got the dub. But the bigger piece of this 0:08:56.520 --> 0:08:58.680 story was like what happened after the game. 0:08:58.760 --> 0:09:02.400 So you're okay, yeah, we can play it if you're 0:09:02.440 --> 0:09:05.160 just listening on YouTube, or if you're just listening to 0:09:05.200 --> 0:09:08.640 the podcast and not watching on YouTube. What you're seeing 0:09:08.720 --> 0:09:12.840 right now is the like NBA cameras close up of 0:09:12.920 --> 0:09:15.199 Lebron and I dapping up after the game. And then 0:09:15.240 --> 0:09:17.920 my favorite part is your mom just standing there like 0:09:18.000 --> 0:09:21.920 fixing her hair like that cut out the full video 0:09:21.960 --> 0:09:26.520 which somebody got from the crowd, which includes the Lebron 0:09:26.679 --> 0:09:28.640 hug to your mom, which is just one of the 0:09:28.640 --> 0:09:33.840 coolest things you know ever. And also you know who 0:09:33.880 --> 0:09:37.160 I thought about when I saw that this video because 0:09:37.280 --> 0:09:41.640 this happened Saturday night and it all these videos came 0:09:41.679 --> 0:09:44.000 out Sunday, you know what I mean. I didn't publish 0:09:44.040 --> 0:09:47.480 any of these, I didn't amplify, but it somebody somebody 0:09:47.559 --> 0:09:51.559 put out this far form video Sunday morning. And then 0:09:51.600 --> 0:09:54.960 the other videos came out and caught fire. I gotta 0:09:55.000 --> 0:09:58.040 tell you, and I know this is not what probably 0:09:58.120 --> 0:10:00.880 is smart podcasting. They're like, you're bearing the lead, but 0:10:00.920 --> 0:10:06.880 I don't care. I what I thought about when Lebron 0:10:06.960 --> 0:10:10.600 went in for the hug to your mom right after 0:10:11.200 --> 0:10:16.240 a hard fought basketball game and she reciprocated and gave 0:10:16.280 --> 0:10:18.600 him the hug. I only thought about. 0:10:18.280 --> 0:10:24.679 You, thank you, thank you. Oh my god. Yes, yes, 0:10:25.720 --> 0:10:26.679 I was litering. 0:10:26.440 --> 0:10:28.440 To Somebody brought this up at work and I was like, 0:10:28.440 --> 0:10:30.840 my mom would never hug me if I was in 0:10:30.880 --> 0:10:31.400 that state. 0:10:31.679 --> 0:10:33.480 Ever, go ahead, what do you know? 0:10:33.559 --> 0:10:37.240 I agree with you. This isn't a hypothetical. We saw 0:10:37.280 --> 0:10:43.959 it happen a hundred times. A hundred times Demonse had 0:10:44.000 --> 0:10:48.480 an awesome either AU or high school basketball game, or 0:10:48.559 --> 0:10:50.480 when we came out to San Diego and watched you 0:10:50.559 --> 0:10:54.680 play in college and you had your career high twenty 0:10:54.760 --> 0:10:55.439 nine or whatever. 0:10:55.480 --> 0:10:57.920 It was not a full like that. 0:10:58.760 --> 0:11:01.520 Maybe a side one maybe. 0:11:02.320 --> 0:11:05.520 Maybe That's all I could think about was you. I 0:11:05.559 --> 0:11:11.560 was like, oh man, this is unbelievable, and it's so 0:11:11.760 --> 0:11:15.760 funny that you said the same thing. Okay, So I 0:11:15.760 --> 0:11:18.920 don't even know what or how people and then I 0:11:18.960 --> 0:11:21.800 want to talk about the actual game, even though no, 0:11:21.840 --> 0:11:24.400 I don't think anybody cares about it right now? What 0:11:24.480 --> 0:11:27.400 are how people want me to say about this? Like 0:11:27.520 --> 0:11:32.040 I what did I say the other week? One of 0:11:32.040 --> 0:11:35.880 the benefits and this is not my quote, obviously one 0:11:35.880 --> 0:11:37.880 of the benefits, and never lying is never having to 0:11:37.880 --> 0:11:48.560 remember anything. I have never once ever misrepresented in over 0:11:48.880 --> 0:11:57.240 or under exaggerating my relationship with Lebron. It's always been 0:11:57.480 --> 0:12:00.880 well I should, I mean relationships of all, but it's 0:12:01.120 --> 0:12:04.480 the audience has kind of been on the journey. I 0:12:04.679 --> 0:12:10.240 consider Maverick Lebron's right hand man and one of the 0:12:10.280 --> 0:12:15.800 smartest business people I've ever met, a good good friend 0:12:16.800 --> 0:12:23.160 because of my really and I have a something of 0:12:23.360 --> 0:12:27.320 a business and something of a personal relationship with Rich. 0:12:27.960 --> 0:12:35.920 Because of those relationships, I have a secondary relationship with 0:12:36.080 --> 0:12:45.319 Lebron where you know, the occasionally were in the same circle, 0:12:45.559 --> 0:12:51.560 very occasionally. It's happened a couple times, and so it was. 0:12:53.040 --> 0:12:58.079 I said on this show repeatedly when I knew we 0:12:58.080 --> 0:13:01.720 were going to Memphis, and when I knew that I 0:13:01.760 --> 0:13:04.319 had gotten, and when I knew I had gotten when 0:13:04.320 --> 0:13:09.440 I purchased the courtside seats that that interaction was certainly 0:13:09.480 --> 0:13:12.320 on the board. Now it was going to be one 0:13:12.440 --> 0:13:18.600 hundred percent conditional on the Lakers winning, because anybody that's 0:13:18.600 --> 0:13:22.840 watched Lebron throughout his career knows if they win, he'll 0:13:22.880 --> 0:13:25.800 he usually has a postgame interview, he'll linger a bit 0:13:25.840 --> 0:13:29.600 on the court, and if he has friends or colleagues 0:13:29.679 --> 0:13:33.400 or whomever courtside other pro athletes, he'll stop by dap 0:13:33.440 --> 0:13:38.360 them up. If they lose, it's straight to the locker room. Now, 0:13:38.400 --> 0:13:42.560 what didn't get caught was the pregame interaction when I 0:13:42.720 --> 0:13:47.160 was standing with John Morant's dad, T and Lebron came 0:13:47.200 --> 0:13:49.600 over and said hello to both of us, and then 0:13:49.640 --> 0:13:51.920 he and Tea had a brief conversation. I don't know 0:13:51.920 --> 0:13:54.559 what it was about. It was private, but I don't. 0:13:55.280 --> 0:14:00.680 I don't. I was not as shocked by that as 0:14:01.520 --> 0:14:05.280 I think the audience was. The Internet, I should say, 0:14:06.000 --> 0:14:09.120 and this is where maybe my ego can get the 0:14:09.120 --> 0:14:15.680 best of me. I was a little offended is too 0:14:15.760 --> 0:14:20.080 strong of a word. I'll go nonplussed by the number 0:14:20.120 --> 0:14:24.640 of people who were asserting what a life changing event 0:14:24.840 --> 0:14:29.840 this this was for me or the oh Man finally, 0:14:30.480 --> 0:14:34.080 you know, after all those years of good pr finally 0:14:34.160 --> 0:14:38.120 gets his acknowledgement. That's not what it is either, However, 0:14:38.280 --> 0:14:42.560 I do. I am a die hard sports fan. It 0:14:42.680 --> 0:14:46.480 is why I do what I do for my entire life. 0:14:47.280 --> 0:14:52.000 The NBA, up until really Mahomes got drafted, it was 0:14:52.120 --> 0:14:55.480 the NBA was a clear number one in my personal 0:14:55.480 --> 0:14:58.760 sports fandom, with the NFL a all by itself but 0:14:58.840 --> 0:15:01.840 a clear number two. The last half decade of the 0:15:01.960 --> 0:15:04.720 NFL has kind of changed it to where now if 0:15:04.760 --> 0:15:09.680 I'm asked, I say, the NFL regular season is my favorite. 0:15:09.960 --> 0:15:14.200 The NBA playoffs are my favorite. Like my favorite sport 0:15:14.240 --> 0:15:16.200 to watch over the course of the year is the NFL. 0:15:16.520 --> 0:15:18.960 My favorite two months of the year of the NBA playoffs. 0:15:19.000 --> 0:15:22.280 But with all that said, I for the majority of 0:15:22.320 --> 0:15:26.000 my life my favorite sport in the world was the NBA. 0:15:26.520 --> 0:15:34.080 My favorite athlete ever is Lebron and so yeah, it's 0:15:34.120 --> 0:15:38.160 super dope that he and I have even that level 0:15:38.200 --> 0:15:39.800 of I don't know if you want to call it 0:15:39.880 --> 0:15:44.200 relationship whatever it is, mutual acknowledgment respect. I'd call it 0:15:44.280 --> 0:15:48.000 mutual respect, Yeah, is how I would is the way 0:15:48.040 --> 0:15:53.560 I would put it. And I also think for him. 0:15:55.000 --> 0:15:55.640 It was. 0:15:57.120 --> 0:16:04.280 Bent. It was good timing in that because of everything 0:16:04.320 --> 0:16:07.280 that he has been involved in in the last month, 0:16:07.920 --> 0:16:12.360 it was a reminder to the audience. I don't I'm 0:16:12.400 --> 0:16:17.920 not anti all an everyone in the media. Yeah, I'm 0:16:18.120 --> 0:16:20.400 you know what I mean, I'm not. I don't think 0:16:20.440 --> 0:16:24.120 that everybody. It's there's certain there's one person in particular, 0:16:24.240 --> 0:16:27.440 and then maybe a handful of unnamed but we know 0:16:27.480 --> 0:16:30.600 who they are retired athletes in the media that I 0:16:30.640 --> 0:16:34.480 have a problem with. But otherwise, you know what I mean, 0:16:34.560 --> 0:16:37.000 Like there can be a level of and the other 0:16:37.040 --> 0:16:40.360 thing about Lebron's relationship with the media is if you 0:16:40.560 --> 0:16:45.520 ever see any of his pregame interviews, which are almost 0:16:45.560 --> 0:16:49.800 always done with the local media that covers the Lakers 0:16:49.800 --> 0:16:55.440 and then whatever team they're playing, he has seemingly real, 0:16:57.440 --> 0:17:01.680 not just cordial, but incredibly friendly relationships with a lot 0:17:01.720 --> 0:17:04.600 of those guys. Mike Trudell, who covers the Lakers. There 0:17:04.680 --> 0:17:06.760 was the video of him giving Trudell a hard time 0:17:06.800 --> 0:17:10.280 because he was wearing I think a man you sweatshirt, 0:17:10.320 --> 0:17:12.840 and Lebron owned is a Liverpool guy because he either 0:17:12.880 --> 0:17:15.920 owns or owned a piece of it. He had when 0:17:15.920 --> 0:17:19.240 he was with the Calves. Maybe still a really good 0:17:19.240 --> 0:17:22.479 relationship with Ali Clifton will host road tripping with Channing 0:17:22.520 --> 0:17:25.119 Frye and Richard Jefferson. So I think that's all there. 0:17:26.359 --> 0:17:31.680 But yeah, so I knew once that clip, once the 0:17:31.720 --> 0:17:35.240 first like far away clip came out, I knew this 0:17:35.400 --> 0:17:38.159 was going to be something that in some capacity was 0:17:38.200 --> 0:17:40.200 going to be addressed. But I was probably not as 0:17:40.600 --> 0:17:44.280 shocked by as everyone else. What I really was thrilled, though, Demons, 0:17:46.600 --> 0:17:49.240 even though I knew you probably would take it personally 0:17:49.240 --> 0:17:54.240 as you should have that Lebron who has met your 0:17:54.280 --> 0:18:01.239 mother once before, recognized her the and you know, acknowledged her. 0:18:01.280 --> 0:18:03.560 So that part, that part was pretty cool. And then 0:18:03.600 --> 0:18:04.480 we can get to the game. 0:18:04.520 --> 0:18:08.720 Go ahead to though, wait so wait or do you 0:18:08.760 --> 0:18:10.080 want to get to the game or do we There's 0:18:10.080 --> 0:18:12.639 actually one more piece of video that we have not shown. 0:18:12.840 --> 0:18:15.200 It actually has audio. We're gonna show you guys. 0:18:15.280 --> 0:18:18.000 Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, no, no, no, 0:18:18.320 --> 0:18:21.600 is this the one? Is this the one your mom 0:18:21.760 --> 0:18:24.520 sent to the group, to our family group chat. 0:18:25.960 --> 0:18:28.200 It's a little yeah, one hundred percent, it's a little 0:18:28.240 --> 0:18:29.040 bit more up close. 0:18:30.000 --> 0:18:32.439 Okay, So let me give all right, before we play this, 0:18:34.200 --> 0:18:39.359 all right, this is this is borderline is the wrong word, 0:18:39.440 --> 0:18:41.760 but it's fine. But I also, if we're going to 0:18:41.800 --> 0:18:45.359 play this, I want to I want to give the 0:18:45.400 --> 0:18:50.520 full background here. So there were two guys and you 0:18:50.640 --> 0:18:54.520 see it in the In fact, I don't know before 0:18:54.560 --> 0:18:56.639 we do it, producers tell me, can we play the 0:18:56.720 --> 0:19:02.160 vo close shot again? Because I want to give these 0:19:02.200 --> 0:19:06.280 guys credit. So it was a father and son that 0:19:06.400 --> 0:19:09.800 were sitting next to us courtside, and you see the 0:19:09.920 --> 0:19:13.040 father has his phone out and he's trying to grab 0:19:13.080 --> 0:19:15.800 a picture with his son and Lebron. Uh, and it 0:19:15.840 --> 0:19:20.399 doesn't happen. The child, no, not the small child. Black 0:19:20.440 --> 0:19:23.960 guy with the blue hat and his son right next 0:19:24.000 --> 0:19:26.800 to you see that there, not the little little kid, 0:19:27.160 --> 0:19:31.000 not the redhead. It's black father and son right next 0:19:31.000 --> 0:19:34.639 to your mom. So that guy had his camera out 0:19:35.240 --> 0:19:37.200 recording in case, you know what I mean, he was 0:19:37.240 --> 0:19:38.959 able to get a picture with his son and Lebron. 0:19:40.960 --> 0:19:45.920 He did didn't end up happening. I then asked him 0:19:46.560 --> 0:19:51.040 because of the hug with your mom and Lebron, I 0:19:51.080 --> 0:19:54.120 was like, hey, can you send me that video later? 0:19:54.680 --> 0:19:56.560 You know what I mean? I think it'd be super 0:19:56.880 --> 0:20:00.119 dope to have and so he said yes, And is 0:20:00.160 --> 0:20:02.119 that actually a pain for him? I think he had 0:20:02.119 --> 0:20:03.800 to send it me a drop boxer for so long. 0:20:04.080 --> 0:20:07.320 So I want to shout him out because his name 0:20:07.480 --> 0:20:13.080 is shown Hornbuckle and his son is Tristan Hornbuckle. Uh 0:20:13.160 --> 0:20:17.440 and there on Instagram at shown Hornbuckle and at Tristant 0:20:17.440 --> 0:20:24.480 Hornbuckle too. But so this one is dope because there 0:20:24.600 --> 0:20:28.679 is audio and because you hear what Lebron says to 0:20:28.680 --> 0:20:30.480 your mom, So go ahead and play that, then we'll 0:20:30.480 --> 0:20:49.480 talk about the game. So I don't know how well 0:20:49.480 --> 0:20:53.639 that played on the podcast, but it is such pairing 0:20:53.760 --> 0:20:56.360 if you're listening on the podcast, it's worth going back 0:20:56.400 --> 0:21:00.879 to YouTube. Bron and I dapt I thing kind of 0:21:01.000 --> 0:21:05.720 motion like, hey, there's there's my wife who again they've 0:21:05.760 --> 0:21:12.440 met once before, and his total like disposition changes from 0:21:12.560 --> 0:21:17.240 like you know, the the what's the word kind of 0:21:17.280 --> 0:21:21.080 like affirmative DAP to just like, oh, great to see you, 0:21:21.359 --> 0:21:25.600 and then drops a hey their sweetheart as are a hug, 0:21:25.760 --> 0:21:29.280 which maybe led to you know what we were discussing earlier. 0:21:29.320 --> 0:21:32.200 So that was dope. That was what le see. 0:21:32.000 --> 0:21:32.760 The look on ye. 0:21:34.880 --> 0:21:39.080 That that was that was dope, and you're and now, 0:21:39.800 --> 0:21:43.240 I mean, your mom can send that to her grandmother, 0:21:43.480 --> 0:21:46.840 who's ninety one years old and the biggest Lebron fan 0:21:46.960 --> 0:21:48.280 in the world was. 0:21:48.240 --> 0:21:49.320 Probably a little annoyed too. 0:21:50.000 --> 0:21:54.439 The oh yeah, yeah, absolutely, oh yeah, because well it 0:21:54.440 --> 0:21:59.639 doesn't matter the there was Lakers thunder. Maybe this is 0:21:59.760 --> 0:22:03.919 john because of what happened between Lebron and stephen A. 0:22:04.800 --> 0:22:08.240 That there's I assume there's cameras on Lebron at all 0:22:08.359 --> 0:22:13.800 times every game, but maybe it's like, you know, pre 0:22:13.920 --> 0:22:18.359 and postgame more now posts that because Lakers thunder in 0:22:18.600 --> 0:22:26.320 LA the day after Thanksgiving, the exact same interaction that 0:22:28.440 --> 0:22:33.440 happened this week between Lebron and I happened there at Staples, 0:22:33.960 --> 0:22:37.560 except it was longer, with a longer conversation, and there's 0:22:37.560 --> 0:22:41.280 no video of it anywhere. And so but the reason 0:22:41.280 --> 0:22:44.680 I the reason I bring that up is that happened 0:22:44.720 --> 0:22:51.119 about sixty feet from where your grandmother was sitting. She 0:22:51.280 --> 0:22:56.960 was in like row three, a section over, and then 0:22:57.160 --> 0:23:04.160 I walked back to the seats and she was not joking, adamant, 0:23:04.440 --> 0:23:06.120 why didn't you bring him over here? 0:23:06.600 --> 0:23:06.840 Yeah? 0:23:07.160 --> 0:23:14.199 Well so yeah, so, but so that was that was 0:23:14.240 --> 0:23:19.280 that busy weekend, fun weekend, I. 0:23:19.560 --> 0:23:20.800 Do you want to talk about? Vegas? 0:23:21.680 --> 0:23:24.600 Went to Vegas to do some commentary for the World 0:23:24.680 --> 0:23:27.720 Poker Tours squid Hunt, which is coming out here in 0:23:27.760 --> 0:23:33.959 a few months, and while I was there lived a 0:23:34.000 --> 0:23:39.240 poker player's dream, which is got invited into the big, 0:23:39.640 --> 0:23:44.919 big mixed game in Bobby's Room and Bobby's Room which 0:23:44.960 --> 0:23:48.440 is the world's most famous poker room inside the Belagio, 0:23:49.200 --> 0:23:53.760 and then ended up wrapping the World Poker Tour stuff 0:23:53.840 --> 0:23:58.239 in time on Tuesday to where the same guys who 0:23:58.280 --> 0:24:01.879 were playing in that mixed game, we're playing the exact 0:24:01.880 --> 0:24:06.439 same format on stream at the pokerhost studio at Aria 0:24:06.520 --> 0:24:09.639 and I played in it. And this is again I 0:24:09.680 --> 0:24:13.680 know some of my poker stuff. You know, the audience 0:24:13.720 --> 0:24:17.160 doesn't understand this. They really, if you're not a poker player, 0:24:17.160 --> 0:24:20.760 won't understand because the mixed games that we played were 0:24:21.880 --> 0:24:24.520 just stick with me here for a second, but doogie 0:24:24.760 --> 0:24:29.240 but doucey drama, ha, deuce to seven, single draw, duce 0:24:29.320 --> 0:24:34.600 to seven, triple draw, uh big oh, and one other 0:24:34.720 --> 0:24:38.280 one I can't even remember what it was. Ras. So 0:24:38.440 --> 0:24:41.040 here's what was so cool for me about that demanse, 0:24:41.800 --> 0:24:44.000 and it was the limits were two hundred four hundred. 0:24:44.320 --> 0:24:47.160 But again it's a limit game. So like if you're 0:24:47.160 --> 0:24:50.920 playing a two hundred four hundred no limit game, you're 0:24:50.960 --> 0:24:54.960 gonna not feel comfortable if you're not sitting with In 0:24:55.359 --> 0:24:58.280 the two hundred four hundred no limit holding cash games, 0:24:58.840 --> 0:25:02.600 you probably need at least two hundred thousand dollars in 0:25:02.600 --> 0:25:06.199 front of you to feel comfortable, and probably more. The 0:25:06.280 --> 0:25:10.040 two hundred four hundred limit games, you could sit with 0:25:11.080 --> 0:25:15.520 ten grand and feel comfortable, and twenty is plenty. So 0:25:15.560 --> 0:25:18.200 they just play very differently. Because no limit you can 0:25:18.200 --> 0:25:21.439 bet any amount at any time. Limit games, if it's 0:25:21.440 --> 0:25:23.440 two hundred four hundred, the most you can ever bet 0:25:23.480 --> 0:25:26.560 on a single one bet is four hundred dollars. Again, 0:25:26.600 --> 0:25:29.600 that part doesn't matter, But here's I'm just giving you 0:25:29.600 --> 0:25:32.080 guys the full context of it. Here's why it was 0:25:32.119 --> 0:25:37.040 so cool. Those games that I just described to you, 0:25:38.200 --> 0:25:43.800 six of the seven as of Sunday night, I had 0:25:43.840 --> 0:25:51.520 played in my poker career zero hands of never played 0:25:51.560 --> 0:25:55.760 any of them. However, because I'm such a poker nerd 0:25:56.280 --> 0:26:01.479 and because I really care about learning the games, I 0:26:01.520 --> 0:26:05.760 have watched the best in the world play them on 0:26:05.960 --> 0:26:10.800 stream hundreds of hours. So it was a real test 0:26:10.880 --> 0:26:18.640 case of how much can like studying learning prepare you 0:26:18.760 --> 0:26:22.959 to actually do. Because normally someone first time they'd been 0:26:22.920 --> 0:26:25.359 playing wouldn't be playing two hundred four hundredy'd be playing 0:26:25.400 --> 0:26:28.359 three dollars, six dollars whatever. But I felt like, no, 0:26:29.000 --> 0:26:31.439 I know how to play all these games. And I 0:26:31.480 --> 0:26:35.320 gotta tell you, I think I played great. We'll see 0:26:35.359 --> 0:26:39.720 it when the stream comes out. I won money. I 0:26:39.760 --> 0:26:43.600 like for the one percent listening Diard poker nerds that'll 0:26:43.600 --> 0:26:48.919 get this. I got Pad's poker Patrick Lennard, who is 0:26:49.280 --> 0:26:51.960 one of the best poker players in the world, to 0:26:52.280 --> 0:26:56.760 break an eight induced to seven triple draw with a 0:26:56.880 --> 0:26:59.960 check Ray's bluff. That was the single best move anyone 0:27:00.080 --> 0:27:05.879 at the table made all night. And it was and 0:27:05.960 --> 0:27:10.200 I made, you know, a few thousand dollars profit and 0:27:10.640 --> 0:27:14.240 more than held my own. And so again, I think 0:27:14.240 --> 0:27:17.639 I made a ton of mistakes throughout the course of 0:27:17.680 --> 0:27:19.920 the night, but that was fine. It was my first 0:27:19.920 --> 0:27:22.800 time doing it, but it was not a it was 0:27:24.040 --> 0:27:27.480