Speaker 1: Well, well, well, guess what. We've officially reached the weekend.
Speaker 2: The weekend of yes WENBA Con exactly, and we're on
Speaker 2: location at NBA Con. If you can't hear that already
Speaker 2: in the background, we are not in our usual studio
Speaker 2: and it's you know, we're here for the first weekend
Speaker 2: of the Las Vegas NBA Summer League, and we're going
Speaker 2: to discuss the incredible atmosphere here.
Speaker 1: As well as you know, some excitement for all the
Speaker 1: rookies of the Summer League.
Speaker 2: Maybe talk a little bit about webbe with stand up
Speaker 2: comedian writer podcaster Ian Carmel on today's episode. Ti'm Miles
Speaker 2: Great and I'm Jack O'Brien and this is let's tack.
Speaker 1: All right, Okay, shout out to be young man right there.
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Speaker 1: Thank you so much and Carmel for joining us.
Speaker 3: It's it's a pleasure to be here. I'm here to
Speaker 3: try to force Brooklyn into putting up as many of
Speaker 3: their drafticks as possible. I was happy to stop by
Speaker 3: the podcast.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, you're in deep negotiation.
Speaker 3: I'm a deep negotiations. Right after this, Joe Cron and
Speaker 3: I go on to NOBU and just opening a table
Speaker 3: on the tap, table on the tap, anyone wants to
Speaker 3: swing by, even like hockey franchises, football, will take.
Speaker 1: Any of anything. Yeah, it's good enough. Open, We're open,
Speaker 1: We're open. What do you think so far?
Speaker 3: Have you?
Speaker 2: I haven't been able to walk around the convention, but
Speaker 2: NBA con look is gigantic, and I've probably seen a
Speaker 2: fraction of it and I saw one DMX poster, so
Speaker 2: I'm already very excited.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, it's dark in hell is hot.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I can tell you that much about NBA Connor.
Speaker 4: That is what the NBA asked us to say right
Speaker 4: off the bat. Uh, the most legendary dmxpece.
Speaker 3: It will mostly be a DMX center to events DMX No.
Speaker 3: I walked around. It's fantastic. There's a lot of shirts
Speaker 3: that I know I couldn't pull off that people.
Speaker 1: Are saying yeah, yeah, yeah, a lot of.
Speaker 3: Stuff that I'd buy, and then a lot of the
Speaker 3: closet and be like you're thirty.
Speaker 2: I think I see atliens On Wax right there across
Speaker 2: the way, if my eyesight does not fail me.
Speaker 1: But yeah, anyway, so for everybody listening at.
Speaker 2: Home, we are in Las Vegas at NBA con uh
Speaker 2: and there's a twenty foot hoop here, Miles, I don't
Speaker 2: want to leave out the twenty.
Speaker 1: Foot hoop we got. You think you can make a
Speaker 1: shot on the twenty foot hoop?
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's been like the Sword in the stone, like
Speaker 4: no nobody has made it yet in my version of events.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I walk up cockly swish it. Yeah, just
Speaker 1: like just very casually, one handed.
Speaker 3: I'm waiting for Dan Cortes to walk in, Yeah, exactly,
Speaker 3: walk out.
Speaker 2: But he's got like a T shirt wrapped on his
Speaker 2: head like full Rock and Jocks, Full.
Speaker 3: Rock and Jock twenty point they win. He leaves.
Speaker 1: So you are You're You're a You're a Portland man.
Speaker 2: I'm a Portland man, a man fan left long.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, tell us about what is it? Was
Speaker 1: it by choice? Is it?
Speaker 3: You have no other choice? Because I mean there's no
Speaker 3: other choice if you're a man of taste. If you're
Speaker 3: a person of taste, do you become a Portland trail
Speaker 3: Blazer fan. I grew up in Beaverton, Oregon, right outside
Speaker 3: of Portland. I went to preschool at the Middleman Jewish
Speaker 3: Community Center where the Blazers used to practice. Oh wow,
Speaker 3: Kevin Dunkworth, give me a piggyback ride. You'd see you
Speaker 3: would see Clyde Rexler leaving as you were eating steak
Speaker 3: fries in the cafeteria, and I was I was hooked, man,
Speaker 3: it was I've been a fan ever since.
Speaker 2: I can't that's so wid that they were using like
Speaker 2: a middle school, a not even a the Middleman Jewish
Speaker 2: Community Center.
Speaker 3: Oh, just a community So they had like a basketball
Speaker 3: they had like two basketball courts, and on one court
Speaker 3: the Portland Trail Blazers would be practicing. On the next
Speaker 3: court over a bunch of middle aged Jewish men would
Speaker 3: be playing pick up basketball.
Speaker 4: In the one nineties early two thousands, the Celtics practiced
Speaker 4: at Brandeis University, right legit Like they're just.
Speaker 1: Like yeah, I don't know, man, they got a court,
Speaker 1: like it.
Speaker 4: Wasn't as bit like now everybody's got their own like
Speaker 4: fitness center.
Speaker 2: Right, it's used to be like do they keep the
Speaker 2: lights on it? Like yeah, yeah, well practice there we're
Speaker 2: an NBA. Ya.
Speaker 3: He just actually picked up a JD. He was there too,
Speaker 3: right messages.
Speaker 1: So, how you been feeling, how was the how has
Speaker 1: this season been feeling for you?
Speaker 2: And you know we'll get to the off season, but
Speaker 2: how do you feel so far about this season as
Speaker 2: a Trailblazer?
Speaker 3: I have a I have a mixed bag of emotion. Yes,
Speaker 3: I I'm very I'm trying not to lose sight of
Speaker 3: a scoot and sharp, you know what I mean. I'm
Speaker 3: very excited about that. I'm very excited we locked up
Speaker 3: a tease title, you know, for three more years. Uh,
Speaker 3: Damian Lillard is is on his way out of town.
Speaker 3: And that's sad. That's a sad feeling.
Speaker 1: I was gonna ask you know that I thought he
Speaker 1: was going to be a lifer.
Speaker 3: I thought I thought of I thought he was going
Speaker 3: to be a life or two. But then certain things
Speaker 3: started breaking certain ways where it was like, I think
Speaker 3: what happened to him is what happens to everyone. You
Speaker 3: You you know, you get a little deeper in your thirties,
Speaker 3: you start looking around.
Speaker 1: You don't have a ring on that finger, you don't
Speaker 1: have a ring.
Speaker 2: On that.
Speaker 3: And then you're like maybe I should expand my age
Speaker 3: range on him, you know, right exactly, because.
Speaker 2: You're interviewing Ian like you're trying to make him cry,
Speaker 2: like you're Roy Firestone.
Speaker 1: What else? Remember I beat a simonus.
Speaker 3: If you would have come over a little bit sooner,
Speaker 3: we would.
Speaker 1: Want probably for sure, for sure.
Speaker 3: So yeah, it's a Blazer fan. It's I mean, it's
Speaker 3: a melancholy time. You're sad to see Dame go. You're
Speaker 3: sad to see it happening the way it's happening, with
Speaker 3: like everything like playing out in the media, all the
Speaker 3: mud slinging and everything. But you know what I mean,
Speaker 3: a passionate love affair of messy divorce.
Speaker 1: What are you going to do to see that?
Speaker 4: I've seen a lot of people trying to put the
Speaker 4: Dame's career as a Blazer in perspective, you know, as
Speaker 4: it seems to be coming to an end, and the
Speaker 4: conversation around like is Dame the greatest Blazer of all time?
Speaker 4: And I've seen it debated along lines of like, you know, well,
Speaker 4: well Walton got you a title, and his high was
Speaker 4: like the highest and he was like a one of
Speaker 4: a kind center and Clyde might have put up, like,
Speaker 4: you know, had more success in the postseason, but I
Speaker 4: just feel like there's like something so singular about Dame.
Speaker 4: And again, I don't want to like fully go down
Speaker 4: a road where I'm trying to make you cry, but.
Speaker 1: It would be good for the numbers. Yeah yeah, yeah, but.
Speaker 4: Like just just greatest blazer, Like I feel like it
Speaker 4: has to be dam Like he is the coolest.
Speaker 1: Person in the league. I feel like he's.
Speaker 2: Even the coolest person. I think in like a sleeveless
Speaker 2: T shirt. Like in my mind, I think about like
Speaker 2: how I would want my like, how I would want
Speaker 2: to look in the sleeveless teashirt I pictured Damian Lillard
Speaker 2: in practice, right exactly.
Speaker 3: Yeah, wearing that kind that nobody else looks good in
Speaker 3: this one body type that he hasn't. I think it's generational. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I think Bill, I mean Bill won't won a title
Speaker 3: with the team. Of course, they were amazing, and then
Speaker 3: the next year they got off to an amazing start,
Speaker 3: but then he got hurt and then he left, and
Speaker 3: it was bad circumstances on the part of the team.
Speaker 3: You know, they mistreated his broken foot and made him
Speaker 3: play and everything. But he was there for like a
Speaker 3: minute and then he left and that was the seventies. Cline,
Speaker 3: I think has a little bit more of an argument,
Speaker 3: but he didn't win a championship. And to me, when
Speaker 3: you're a Blazer fan and we haven't won a championship
Speaker 3: since seventy seven, what you have to latch onto are moments,
Speaker 3: like moments of pure euphoria as a.
Speaker 2: Fan, right, because it's not always going to come in
Speaker 2: the form of lifting the trophy.
Speaker 3: Yes, not right. We haven't had that experience. So with Millard,
Speaker 3: you get the shot against Houston. I was there for
Speaker 3: that shot, and it was like louder in the tunnels
Speaker 3: after the game than I'd ever heard it in any
Speaker 3: arena during any other game. It was insane, the explosion.
Speaker 4: It was like euphoric and quieter before he hit it,
Speaker 4: Like wait, I still remember, Like the most iconic sound
Speaker 4: of the game winning shot is like when he clapped
Speaker 4: for the ball, and like you heard it echo like
Speaker 4: the whole crowd.
Speaker 1: Like it also sums up how good Blazers.
Speaker 3: Everyone's heart was like suspended until he shot it.
Speaker 2: You were clinically dead for about like a point three seconds, yeah,
Speaker 2: point nine, And then.
Speaker 3: He did We did that and that was amazing, and
Speaker 3: they did it again against Uh Oklahoma. He did it
Speaker 3: impossible shot like impossible. I went to the Motor Center
Speaker 3: to try to recreate that shot. Afterwards they had me
Speaker 3: do it and it was the fattest moment of my
Speaker 3: entire life. It was so embarrassing, like I hurt myself
Speaker 3: trying to lunch it and I still came up like
Speaker 3: four feet short. But uh, for that reason, the moments
Speaker 3: he's given us, I think he has an argument for
Speaker 3: being the greatest placer of all time. And that is
Speaker 3: just it's up to what you call it. You know,
Speaker 3: it's Tim or drex Laft or Rashid Wallace if you're
Speaker 3: just kind, you know, kind of a jerk.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Rashid Wallas is one of my favorites.
Speaker 2: I say, even though you know I've had my run
Speaker 2: ins with him with my teams, but I'm just such
Speaker 2: a big Sheet fan.
Speaker 3: It's like a cult of Rasheid Wallace in Portland.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I mean that was like I had, like
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie. I had the Air Force once
Speaker 1: the Sheet.
Speaker 2: With him shooting on that, which is wow too because
Speaker 2: who else got like that kind of a logo quote
Speaker 2: unquote there's not many people like after Michael Jordan, who
Speaker 2: were there like, okay, we'll give you a little a
Speaker 2: form of you as your logo just Hid Wallace.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, I also dyed my hair a little bit
Speaker 1: for cool. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I have a little bulldog tattoo on my own. I
Speaker 3: have the second most technical thousand NBA yesterday.
Speaker 4: Dame as a like, as a commercial entity, like his
Speaker 4: appearances in commercials is always so like he can pull
Speaker 4: off things that nobody else can. Like the first of all,
Speaker 4: I think he's the only NBA player to have a
Speaker 4: Madello ad, right, I think so could be at least
Speaker 4: the one that's even memorable enough to say, yeah, I'm
Speaker 4: sure they might be someone else. And then he has
Speaker 4: that one Gatorade ad where he the premise is that
Speaker 4: he trains with Ryan Garcia for a day and then
Speaker 4: is as good at boxing as Ryan Garcia is by
Speaker 4: the end, which like I feel like if Lebron tried that,
Speaker 4: nobody would be having it.
Speaker 1: But Dame, we're just like, yeah.
Speaker 3: About Ryan Garcia. Before he he started boxing, he said, hey,
Speaker 3: get you boxing. We should surely got Ryan Garcia into boxing.
Speaker 3: He also helped him Ben Gatord, so it would have
Speaker 3: been in that commercial in a very different way. Damn,
Speaker 3: that's tremendous, ranging commercials on the court and the commercials
Speaker 3: because he also plays a baby and then.
Speaker 2: All stayed at that's true. And the Medello ad though
Speaker 2: he does not do much acting. No, it's just more
Speaker 2: like he was like serving food or like doing you know,
Speaker 2: and working out in the gym.
Speaker 4: But again it's not about his acting ability necessarily as
Speaker 4: much as his like cultural gravity and like what he
Speaker 4: can pull off just like in our in our eyes
Speaker 4: more so than like what he can pull off. Yeah,
Speaker 4: his his dialogue with Ryan Garcia and that gate right ad,
Speaker 4: which I made everybody watch before we start recording.
Speaker 1: Is not convincing. It's not a it's not cracker Jack.
Speaker 1: I wasn't buying it. And just a note to the
Speaker 1: listeners what you're hearing right now is I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: look out.
Speaker 2: I'm not really good at estimating this is about two
Speaker 2: to three hundred people.
Speaker 1: I think in front of us it was two hundred unseating.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's another two.
Speaker 2: Three yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely so, you know, apologies to
Speaker 2: all the Boostie's listeners staring at.
Speaker 1: Us in a stunned silent.
Speaker 3: I actually saw on Twitter that like the Thomas and
Speaker 3: Mac Center is like half full because of this.
Speaker 1: They have it on a remote feat.
Speaker 3: Spur representatives actually pretty upset.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, and yeah, shout out to the Allegiance Center
Speaker 2: of who I know tomorrow they're going to be doing
Speaker 2: a whole live stream of our second performance here.
Speaker 1: So anyway, all good things to our.
Speaker 4: Home arenas are full because yeah, because the Hope bands
Speaker 4: obviously didn't travel, but it's going to experience it together.
Speaker 3: Everyone watching this on the big screens of Shabu Across.
Speaker 2: And to know that or Yoko Salt, you know, we
Speaker 2: got to keep it international? Should we move on? Yeah,
Speaker 2: let's move it along, I think because we're here at
Speaker 2: NBA con obviously, the big thing that everyone is talking about,
Speaker 2: even us as we try to figure out how we're
Speaker 2: going to grift our way into seeing Victor women Yama
Speaker 2: play for the first time is Wemby.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're recording this the he's about to debut. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: Other than that brickfast yeah, because he was wearing a
Speaker 1: Spurs jersey at that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and we'll get a little bit more Jack your
Speaker 2: little sugar comp on this guy.
Speaker 1: The guys steaks. This guy steaks. They couldn't get one
Speaker 1: to drop series around up, make at least one. There's
Speaker 1: a hoop right there. I'll go make three in a row.
Speaker 3: In summer league. If you play well, it doesn't really
Speaker 3: mean much. But if you can't perform, you know, that's
Speaker 3: a really bad. Yeah. So I think we got to
Speaker 3: get out on Wemby.
Speaker 2: Now, you know, we were talking about Wemby for somebody
Speaker 2: who is potentially like part of the dawn of the
Speaker 2: new age of what basketball looks like. We felt Wemby
Speaker 2: isn't quite it doesn't quite capture like the essence or
Speaker 2: maybe the it doesn't quite the gravity. He needs a nickname,
Speaker 2: just Victor Webbing yam too many syllables, he needs one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, where he is terrible? Yeah, we terrible.
Speaker 3: We need to put effort in on nicknames because we
Speaker 3: had that entire era where it was like, you know,
Speaker 3: you have like PG. Thirteen where it's like initials a number,
Speaker 3: initials a number.
Speaker 1: That's terriff b W one. No, come, we can't do
Speaker 1: no concept car W one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I need to be WI gives you Volkswagen, which,
Speaker 2: like he it's a notably small car.
Speaker 1: Nightmare is what they tell you.
Speaker 3: Great, And then we got like and then like just
Speaker 3: the name based nicknames are terrible too. Now we're stuck
Speaker 3: with Joker forever, with Jokic. When Big Honey was right there.
Speaker 1: Big Honey, Big Honey. Yes, the man is.
Speaker 3: Big Honey Joker. And look at all these brackets and.
Speaker 2: Uncle, I don't know that. Yeah, that's how he plays basketball.
Speaker 2: It's like you're playing with ball. He plays the driveway George,
Speaker 2: the goat of George, because he could play just as well.
Speaker 2: Looks like he would show up to the y and
Speaker 2: George dominate. Did you see the video of him buying
Speaker 2: beer in Serbia recently? There's CCTV camera of him going
Speaker 2: into a liquor store in Servia to like just buy
Speaker 2: like a six pack because he's like hanging out with people, and.
Speaker 1: He's dressed like.
Speaker 2: Uniform, no, just like like loose cotton tank top, shorter shorts,
Speaker 2: like slides like backwards hat, and he walks in very casually,
Speaker 2: and like the person at the register's like, wow, you're tall,
Speaker 2: and like doesn't even like doesn't know his pocket and
Speaker 2: he's just being like yeah, yeah, She's like you should
Speaker 2: have played basketball, took off there he is.
Speaker 1: He's like undercover as Pacoli, Like that makes sense.
Speaker 4: He seems like one of the people who would do
Speaker 4: what like Bono got caught that one time dressed as
Speaker 4: like a Hasidic Jewish guy, because like, yeah, to just
Speaker 4: like try and fly under the radar. He's just like
Speaker 4: like I am American surfer as a Jew.
Speaker 3: I just want to say, we would welcome you, Kitch.
Speaker 1: Or Bonom.
Speaker 2: Make the leaf, so Jack, you have any I mean,
Speaker 2: look all right, So yeah, Wemby just sounds like I
Speaker 2: don't know, like when.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I hear it's Wenby said in.
Speaker 2: A British accent, Like for some reason, it just sounds
Speaker 2: like it should be said with a British corky, like
Speaker 2: one of the Queens Corgies was named Wenby Wemby. When
Speaker 2: I wrote it in the Google doc, it auto suggested Wembley.
Speaker 2: So there's just Enlish energy coming from this nickname.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So we're gonna live workshops and nicknames for him. So
Speaker 4: Nails is one that I wanted to put out there
Speaker 4: because it sounds tough but is actually a reference to
Speaker 4: his beautiful.
Speaker 2: Nails and nail beds. Yeah, yeah, likeceutical health is peak,
Speaker 2: like some of the most beautiful nails I've ever seen.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you look at that guy. You know he's taken
Speaker 1: by it.
Speaker 2: You know, there's no question he's cheap, like Dead Sea
Speaker 2: Secret brand, you know what I mean. But again, beautiful hand.
Speaker 2: I mean that could that's potential if I'm thinking on
Speaker 2: the business side, Okay, maybe we can a little nail
Speaker 2: polished deal or something there. But you know, maybe maybe
Speaker 2: something you have something a little more intimidating.
Speaker 4: Slender Man was thrown out by super producer Brian gets
Speaker 4: that kind of the otherworldly nature of his presence, the
Speaker 4: fear he puts, the fear he strikes in other team's hearts,
Speaker 4: the fact that he looks like three large gazelle's in
Speaker 4: a trench coat. Like all those things kind of work together, right,
Speaker 4: what else?
Speaker 1: Wembang ya mama?
Speaker 3: That's good.
Speaker 2: That's I feel like that's like very fifth grade like
Speaker 2: playground and energy back.
Speaker 3: Like these sort of and one T shirts, you know
Speaker 3: what I mean, where like he becomes the new and
Speaker 3: One guy.
Speaker 1: Who's also kind of like Sunderman, like a faceless.
Speaker 3: Grave form victorya mama, and then like whatever joke it is,
Speaker 3: you just fell that right in.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I like Vic, Vicky Stilts, Vicky Stilts,
Speaker 2: you know, just the classic Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think
Speaker 2: Vic has to come into it on some point, Like
Speaker 2: Vic is a workable part of the Yeah, like something
Speaker 2: about Vic Vic Skywalker, you know, like sci fi and
Speaker 2: stuff like that, So I think that could work too, maybe.
Speaker 1: And he I think he said he likes Game of
Speaker 1: Thrones also, so look.
Speaker 3: You know MATD.
Speaker 2: Boosey's listeners, please give us some Tolkien or George R. R.
Speaker 2: Martin or George Lucas based nicknames for him that we
Speaker 2: will personally delivered him well when we surprised him on.
Speaker 1: And he seems really busy, so we're gonna have to
Speaker 1: run up. We got some notes for you.
Speaker 4: But yeah, I mean he's the person he's mainly going
Speaker 4: to be compared to, other than I guess Chet probably
Speaker 4: a little bit, but also Scoot, and Scoot has like
Speaker 4: just a timeless, like a plus perfect nickname.
Speaker 2: Yeah, out of the box, Scoot is fantastic and it's
Speaker 2: I think I think what's great about it is that
Speaker 2: it feels like it could be diminutive to school, but
Speaker 2: there's also just something about it where it's like that, Scoop.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Also, can you imagine how it would feel to
Speaker 3: get dunked on by guy named Scoot, like the guy
Speaker 3: maybe you lose to it like tennis at the country place,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean, like maybe shuffle board, he
Speaker 3: beats you up and you just got dunk.
Speaker 1: Scoop Scooting his wife cricket tennis club. Yeah, yeah, we're.
Speaker 3: Having We're having Scooting cricket Own for clubs.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Oh have you had her time? She makes her own
Speaker 2: Tom Collins. She's amazing stick Actually I love Cricket, love her.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I and Scoop. By the way, his real
Speaker 2: name is Sterling.
Speaker 4: Yeah, which is also good, so like he just naturally
Speaker 4: is just oozing nickname charisma.
Speaker 3: You know, if he turns twenty nine, then he wants
Speaker 3: to get out of the school business and turn into Sterling.
Speaker 1: Sterling rules.
Speaker 2: It's definitely like one of the most high volume car
Speaker 2: dealerships in terms of sales in the Pacific Northwest.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Sterling Henderson is like a in like a John
Speaker 3: Grisham book, where like the hot shot crops and works
Speaker 3: before things like turn out to be not what they
Speaker 3: seem exactly right.
Speaker 1: It's the pelican digging into the all is not what
Speaker 1: it seems. Hey, you know what happened to the last
Speaker 1: guy who had your position. It's Sterlie Henderson. He went
Speaker 1: missing neither do we scuba diving accident and he and
Speaker 1: he was licensed.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: A lot of people have kicked around something with aliens UFOs.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I don't feel like UFO really captures, like the link
Speaker 4: calling him an alien is a little weird.
Speaker 1: I think maybe we just have to wait to see
Speaker 1: him play and it'll be very clear.
Speaker 3: I think that's what it should be. I think there
Speaker 3: needs to be a league wide agreement that we wait
Speaker 3: and don't stick him with like wemby d nickname. We
Speaker 3: wait for him to do something right, right right, and
Speaker 3: then it's bestowed like that talent should happen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, how many games do you think we give somebody
Speaker 2: before we give them a stick stock until the right
Speaker 2: name arrives. Well, I mean we'll tell them, like the process,
Speaker 2: this is my son right now, we haven't given him
Speaker 2: and can't figure it out. Just trying to vibe it out.
Speaker 2: Oh man, five months deep, it's getting kind of hard.
Speaker 2: The nurses still stopping. Buy your place, be like, hey, Hey,
Speaker 2: come on, you gotta fill this thing out. I'm like,
Speaker 2: just leave it blank for as long as you can.
Speaker 2: I don't I'm not getting a vibe from this kid yet,
Speaker 2: just like.
Speaker 3: Straight up commune vibes and let the kid name himself whatever.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just lay out three basketball cards in front of
Speaker 2: him and whenever when he pulls out fo.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're lafondol.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, do we also want to talk about
Speaker 2: chet because I think that's another thing I feel is
Speaker 2: missed a lot, and we're so focused on Wemby that
Speaker 2: we're also forgetting that we're also going to have another
Speaker 2: very interesting physical creature.
Speaker 4: The enormously tall, thin people out like in the heartland
Speaker 4: of America devouring NBA teams.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I this is the most excited I've been purely based
Speaker 4: on in the Summer League. Like, I mean, he's had
Speaker 4: too like two games this year and a number of
Speaker 4: games last year.
Speaker 1: This is like also there there's a.
Speaker 4: Huge leap it's taken because of like how little I
Speaker 4: feel like he was able to show what he could
Speaker 4: do in college. It's it's so strange, like have you
Speaker 4: ever had like a group of friends who you're just
Speaker 4: like for like people that like you couldn't like really
Speaker 4: like vibe with and like you like I wonder if
Speaker 4: that's what was Yeah, I know, but I wonder if
Speaker 4: that's what it was like like he just like couldn't
Speaker 4: like do like he didn't look that impressive a Gonzaga
Speaker 4: and like, oh my god, he looks amazing in the
Speaker 4: Summer League.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that wasn't a system where he could shine.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's I don't know if it's the like they
Speaker 1: clown it.
Speaker 3: Up aready there going on? You know what I mean?
Speaker 4: Like that loved Tom, don't they We loved Timmy, don't
Speaker 4: we look him? But yeah, I don't know he Have
Speaker 4: you ever.
Speaker 3: Seen the video of Girafts fighting yea at the zoo?
Speaker 3: They like they say they faced each other and then
Speaker 3: they just whipped their next to each other as hard
Speaker 3: as they can. And I think that's what it's gonna
Speaker 3: look like if Victor webban Now and Chet end up
Speaker 3: in the paint together.
Speaker 2: It's there for fun in the Yeah, wow, that's gonna
Speaker 2: be a just it's gonna look so weird. That's that's again,
Speaker 2: like to your point, Jack, what's so interesting I think
Speaker 2: about this new season coming up is that I feel
Speaker 2: like we're just on another sort of generational shift and
Speaker 2: how the games played, you know, like we're starting to
Speaker 2: see like these like really interesting, very unique types of
Speaker 2: players come into the league and now just seeing how
Speaker 2: that's gonna work now because a lot of people that
Speaker 2: we'll look see what happens if you know, can winby
Speaker 2: throw was weight around or this, that and the other.
Speaker 2: And I'm sure we're gonna see how he's you know,
Speaker 2: is able to use his size and skill. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: watch every game that Wemby plays in for like I
Speaker 2: don't know how long it's gonna ast, Like.
Speaker 1: I'm so sorry your we got got it. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: watch every game that the Nails Nail Nails.
Speaker 4: I watch everyone in Nails this game, and I'm gonna
Speaker 4: watch everyone at Chess kids because like they're yeah, they're
Speaker 4: both so super exciting.
Speaker 3: And like Lenny Dysker was the last Nails and that
Speaker 3: was like ages ago, right, we're ready for it, And.
Speaker 1: That was more persona based the cuticle. You don't have
Speaker 1: a successful car wash, absolutely.
Speaker 4: One successful business man all and then Scoot, I mean,
Speaker 4: so how are you feeling about the season.
Speaker 3: I feel phenomenal. I feel I pray we get the
Speaker 3: Dame thing wrapped up before the season actually starts for
Speaker 3: him and for us. But like, I'm ready, I'm ready
Speaker 3: to watch Scoot throw like an alley oop too sharp,
Speaker 3: throw it down so hard that they have to like
Speaker 3: adjust the rim afterwards, had to happen three times a game,
Speaker 3: and for us to lose by fifteen brislies.
Speaker 1: I'm ready.
Speaker 3: I'm ready for all of them. I'm ready to go
Speaker 3: twelve and seventy this season. Man, let's do it. I
Speaker 3: know it's not even a good half class. Give it's
Speaker 3: that big kid from Maine. What's his name, who's like
Speaker 3: in the twenty twenty six draft class.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I forget his name. That Lebron was just
Speaker 1: talking to you. Yeah, he also has one of those
Speaker 1: new I know exactly who you're talking about.
Speaker 3: That guy is from Maine. I don't think he's gonna
Speaker 3: have a problem with playing in Portland, Oregon. You know
Speaker 3: what I mean.
Speaker 1: It's just the Portland and Portland and Portland.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll introduce him to places that make high end
Speaker 3: biscuits in the woods.
Speaker 1: Like a good flannel.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we got a triple x al triplexel double tall.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 3: I know that for a fact, because that's what I
Speaker 3: was wearing. We will hook it all up. I'm ready.
Speaker 3: I'm ready for the Blazers to be bad. One of
Speaker 3: the I mean, like, as an NBA fan, what's the
Speaker 3: worst thing that can happen is your team does not
Speaker 3: have a definitive direction where you're like hanging out in limbo.
Speaker 3: And that's kind of where we were. Damian Lillard was
Speaker 3: too good for us to ever really be bad. The
Speaker 3: rest of the Ross was too bad for us to
Speaker 3: really be good. Now we've got Scoot, We've got Sharp,
Speaker 3: We've got like other good young players, and I'm ready.
Speaker 3: I'm just ready to go. Man, let's go be bad
Speaker 3: for fun.
Speaker 1: I think you guys are gonna be I think it'll
Speaker 1: be interesting.
Speaker 2: We might be all right, yeah, yeah, I wouldn't get Yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean, I know, like we all have to taper our.
Speaker 3: Well, we've been at one hundred and sixty million dollar
Speaker 3: player in uh Jeremy Grandfast Yeah, so yeah, you know
Speaker 3: for real and and of course Anthony Simon's yeah, we
Speaker 3: might actually like I think we're going to be better
Speaker 3: than last year.
Speaker 1: I think that's a safe bet. If you want to
Speaker 1: go to the sports book right now. Yeah, but what
Speaker 1: do you think?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Western Conference Finals?
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, I like that.
Speaker 4: I can definitely see okay, see like actually, you know,
Speaker 4: it seems like Shay Gill just Alexander like gets better
Speaker 4: every year and they are now going to have somebody
Speaker 4: like Chad actually looks like he can like make stops
Speaker 4: in the paint, which I don't think a lot of
Speaker 4: people had coming in.
Speaker 3: Well, we's got big hips in the NBA anymore. There's
Speaker 3: no one to literally get him off the block wide
Speaker 3: the same way. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: I feel like Embeide would turn and accidentally like send
Speaker 2: him into the room.
Speaker 3: Might accidentally.
Speaker 1: Moving his arm like is hazardous.
Speaker 3: To making always like goofy? What you real quick?
Speaker 1: In terms of contenders, uh, sons building out their depth? Uh?
Speaker 1: Are we are they now?
Speaker 4: I mean people heading into the playoffs last year were
Speaker 4: like the sons of the team to be Obviously it
Speaker 4: turned out to be the Nuggets. I feel like it's
Speaker 4: still the Nuggets, but it does feel like we're getting
Speaker 4: towards a big three of teams with the Nuggets, Sons
Speaker 4: and Lakers looking really good.
Speaker 1: I'd say too.
Speaker 2: Now, is anybody that you see with impressed with anybody's
Speaker 2: off season moves.
Speaker 3: I was really frustrated with how well the Lakers did.
Speaker 3: That really upset fans.
Speaker 2: I couldn't believe it. I was like, I was going
Speaker 2: to get a little bit more money than that deal
Speaker 2: of this century. Do we have like a promo code
Speaker 2: or something?
Speaker 3: Rock. I think there was like a group on for
Speaker 3: white rim, like rip runners and then yeah pulled that out.
Speaker 3: Uh yeah. I thought they had like a really good
Speaker 3: offseason and again like the Suns, I mean adding, uh oh,
Speaker 3: who's that guy who was on the nets?
Speaker 1: Oh, come on you?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I thought that, like that was a fantastic ad,
Speaker 3: especially with how open He's gonna end up.
Speaker 2: Being like on that team and they better be good
Speaker 2: because yeah, even a shooting I mean, what are he
Speaker 2: in the season at like just around forty maybe?
Speaker 1: Yeah he was, because I remember at one point was
Speaker 1: she was like way out.
Speaker 3: She was like shooting mid forties.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it was only forty seven or something at
Speaker 2: one point, and we were like, Okay, he.
Speaker 4: Didn't end up hitting the number of threes because he
Speaker 4: got hurt, right, so like he didn't so like the
Speaker 4: season ending stats, he didn't make it. But like at
Speaker 4: a at a certain point he was like ten points
Speaker 4: ten points above.
Speaker 3: Everybody's not going to be any less open on the suns.
Speaker 1: I mean, like that's serious.
Speaker 3: That's like a really good get And.
Speaker 2: I mean yeah, even as like a Lakers fan, I'm
Speaker 2: you know, I gotta have a bit of a soft
Speaker 2: spot in my heart for Frank Vogel.
Speaker 1: So I am, I am.
Speaker 2: I'm definitely excited to kind of see what happened. Yeah,
Speaker 2: just not in the context of when we're playing this.
Speaker 3: I also, here's an incredibly unpopular opinion. I like Dylan
Speaker 3: Brooks still, you know what's.
Speaker 2: More because you think, is it because it's like he
Speaker 2: didn't I'm like, that's rough, all right, Maybe I like
Speaker 2: him a little bit, or you think the whole time,
Speaker 2: You're like the.
Speaker 3: Whole time I liked a little bit. Like I like
Speaker 3: a completely irrationally confident person. Yeah, just committed to the bill,
Speaker 3: even to their own detriment, just like never let up.
Speaker 3: There were so many opportunities for him to like recant,
Speaker 3: and he never did. And there's something really charming about that.
Speaker 3: And I think you could have been in the right situation.
Speaker 2: He's got that like the confidence of like ten thousand
Speaker 2: SoundCloud wrappers.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, it's like, how this could be bad
Speaker 1: for you?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 1: And cut to it wasn't great?
Speaker 3: Cut it immediately? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't know what
Speaker 3: they're doing in general. I mean, good for Fred van Vleet.
Speaker 1: That is a whole mon Yeah, a whole lot of money.
Speaker 1: When the response to your signing is everyone feeling.
Speaker 3: Good for.
Speaker 1: Him? Actually really yeah that's great.
Speaker 3: Maybe I feel for the team, but didn't want to
Speaker 3: hear that good for we were one of those codes
Speaker 3: we used for us.
Speaker 1: You got any more?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 4: And then the East is confusing because there's obviously the
Speaker 4: Miami Dame questions, right, so we don't we don't know
Speaker 4: what's going to happen there.
Speaker 3: If they don't get Dame, that's the worst them than
Speaker 3: last year. That's that's like, for sure, a worse theme
Speaker 3: than last year. So they like, I don't know what
Speaker 3: the plan is. It's if it's a James Harden backup
Speaker 3: plan or something like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah right now, Oh he's with the Sixers.
Speaker 4: They don't see like things are boy, but like kind
Speaker 4: of falling towards the Sixers, just running it back basically
Speaker 4: the same.
Speaker 3: Nobody else significantly better in the East. I mean, like,
Speaker 3: unless Dame like does end up in Miami, Boston could
Speaker 3: be interesting. Bostom's gonna see it. Yet it's different. I mean,
Speaker 3: that's the thing is like, did they Some people are like,
Speaker 3: did they have to burn it all down? Or at
Speaker 3: least a fraction of it down? I think, Jack, what
Speaker 3: you want to you you would.
Speaker 1: Have would have it up?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I would have gone ground floor rebuilt. Well for
Speaker 4: those guys this.
Speaker 3: Recording, Jaylen Brown is not signed sign a signed member
Speaker 3: of the Celtics, so we could I mean, Damny Lilla
Speaker 3: could end up in Boston.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but that is it. It's a grim reality.
Speaker 3: It's a real I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean, but hey, good good for good for all
Speaker 1: the folks in being town.
Speaker 3: If that does happen, I think he would have a
Speaker 3: great time there. He'd be used to it sing, a
Speaker 3: lot of angry white people in the crowd. It's an
Speaker 3: environment he's comfortable playing basketball out.
Speaker 2: That's the real pressure picker, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2: All Right, I think it's time maybe before.
Speaker 1: We hit him with the ultimate Blazers fan trivia. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: so let me start.
Speaker 2: Let me turn this on this sway so you don't
Speaker 2: see anything, so Ian Carmel, Look, we'd like to play
Speaker 2: a few games here. This is actually it's kind of
Speaker 2: a bit of a first for us, where we're gonna're
Speaker 2: gonna walk you through you, put you through your paces,
Speaker 2: and see what you know about your favorite Portland trail
Speaker 2: Blazer right the pack?
Speaker 1: Wow? Yeah, that is actually the only question that week. Huh.
Speaker 3: Okay, I'll off the lobby, Marnie Lucas, Jeff p three,
Speaker 3: Bob with it.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's we didn't even ask you another single one. Right?
Speaker 2: Were you looking at the laptop the whole time in
Speaker 2: the episode? Okay, all right, well here let me google
Speaker 2: some stuff. Then I'll just come up with something. Now
Speaker 2: here's question one. What year were the trail Blazers founded?
Speaker 3: Nineteen seventy one, nineteen seventy, seventy one.
Speaker 1: Seventy nineteen seventy Yeah, wow, I was going to give
Speaker 1: you options. Yeah, man, this guy's good. Oh yeah, we're
Speaker 1: in trouble all right.
Speaker 2: The Blazers have gotten the number one pick in NBA
Speaker 2: history four times. Can you name the four bonus points?
Speaker 2: If you also named the years, I'll start you off.
Speaker 3: Gregory Odin, Gregory Gregory, who was the right pick at
Speaker 3: the time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we didn't know.
Speaker 4: Ahead, No, everybody agreed who could Uh.
Speaker 3: We also got uh was Michael Thompson, our.
Speaker 1: First Michael Thomas was the number one pick in nineteen
Speaker 1: seventy eight.
Speaker 3: Seventy eight, Yeah, the year after we won the championship,
Speaker 3: we had the number one pick, and then we couldn't
Speaker 3: run a back.
Speaker 1: We started like fifty wins with us.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I don't recall that happened good man. Yeah, and then
Speaker 3: it so went one just to the south greg Portland,
Speaker 3: Oregon native, Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. Did he go? How's we go?
Speaker 3: I don't know if we went to school.
Speaker 1: There isn't that where Vin Love went?
Speaker 3: Kevin Love went to Lake us We Yeah, yeah, some
Speaker 3: of those guys working Gratuadson big that's what's called.
Speaker 1: Uh. I don't know if I know the other two,
Speaker 1: you would know one of them. One of them is
Speaker 1: Bill Walton. Yeah, yeah, yeah, thank you Bill Walton.
Speaker 3: And then the third one.
Speaker 1: I thought when you were saying he would know the
Speaker 1: other one, it would be this one.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, because this is one that's on the tip
Speaker 4: of everyone's mark.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, I can't I can't keep track Beau.
Speaker 2: There's so many people in the crowd, I don't know who.
Speaker 3: Look came back to me. The problem with knowing all
Speaker 3: of the Blazer's number one picks. I mean Bill Walton
Speaker 3: worked out right?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah?
Speaker 3: Uh is like anytime, like LaRue Martin and Greg Odner mentioned,
Speaker 3: it's like in a really like sad Sports Center music package, right.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Michael Thompson also was the year that Bird was drafted
Speaker 4: to producer Jabari in a little deep dive, So in
Speaker 4: case there's not enough shade thrown at the Blazers draft history, Uh,
Speaker 4: they went with Thompson obviously. I mean he was great,
Speaker 4: and Bird had decided to play his senior season in
Speaker 4: Indiana State, and they didn't want to like wait, wait
Speaker 4: for the Celtic straft him that year, even though he
Speaker 4: was going to stick around for for another year.
Speaker 1: So you didn't just passed on Jordan. You pasted on Bird.
Speaker 2: Fast for me to think about on the flight home.
Speaker 2: All right, here we go, all timers. Do you know
Speaker 2: the all time leader in games played in a Blazer?
Speaker 3: Games played?
Speaker 1: You want some options?
Speaker 3: Let me, uh, is it's not Is it it's not Dame?
Speaker 3: If it's not Dame it's not is it Jerome Curzy,
Speaker 3: it's not true. Cliff Robbins, No, it's not Cliff Robins, No, No,
Speaker 3: who the well, Okay, let me it wouldn't be Clyde,
Speaker 3: is it Clyde?
Speaker 1: What kept you from thinking that I don't I don't bad.
Speaker 3: Terrible, I'm a stupid guys only been pretending to the
Speaker 3: advisor fan form online cloud.
Speaker 2: This has been completely nerve racked by the way Clyde.
Speaker 2: The answer has been Scottie Pippen shout out, Scotty. He's
Speaker 2: going real hard guy. Yeah, you know, hey, our heart's
Speaker 2: out there with you.
Speaker 1: Hearts with Jack. Which one you want to ask this
Speaker 1: next one?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: We could all time leader in three point field.
Speaker 3: Goals Damian Lillard.
Speaker 1: Okay, fine, all time leader in points scored.
Speaker 3: Dammian Lillard?
Speaker 2: All right, all time? Scotti's all right, folks, he figured
Speaker 2: it out.
Speaker 3: Second freeze is c J already right, that's.
Speaker 1: The s second and threes is c J. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: like by half yeah yeah, and then Wes Matthews after him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you can see the idea has changed.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, reporter, I feel like it was one of the
Speaker 4: best shooters on NBA jam and he made seven hundred
Speaker 4: and seventy three total.
Speaker 2: Dame made two seven different times, man different times. All right,
Speaker 2: should we get into it?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's time. It's time eatan carmel. I
Speaker 1: want to let you know.
Speaker 2: You know, although we are friendly and friends, off the microphone,
Speaker 2: you have wandered into one of the more violent and
Speaker 2: dynamic segments at sports podcasting.
Speaker 1: It is called the fourth quarter round of rapid fire questions. Yeah,
Speaker 1: temperature drop, I felt really cold. WHOA did you see that?
Speaker 1: This woman just left with her baby because she knew
Speaker 1: it was gonna get dangerous.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the baby's fighting out of her arms. Yeah, it's
Speaker 3: drawn to it.
Speaker 2: Hey, the kids, No, the kids, the energy because this
Speaker 2: shows like vap pens you know what I mean, really
Speaker 2: doing it for you.
Speaker 3: That's for you.
Speaker 2: Okay, but we're here in the fourth quarter a round
Speaker 2: of rapid fire questions.
Speaker 1: We're going to ask you a question.
Speaker 2: Don't think too quick quickly, just chest pass us the
Speaker 2: ball right back with your answer. Don't expand upon it,
Speaker 2: because we like to get through as many questions as
Speaker 2: quickly as possible, and we want to keep our record attact.
Speaker 2: So if we start blow viating or expanding we need
Speaker 2: you to come in interrupt and say, hey, get this thing.
Speaker 2: And look, you've been on you know, been on TV,
Speaker 2: You've been in the hot seat before. Yeah, a network broadcast.
Speaker 2: Yeah okay, uh.
Speaker 1: So I guess we will get into it. Are you ready?
Speaker 1: I'm ready to Can I start with the first one
Speaker 1: because I have it? Well, hold on?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, you do it?
Speaker 1: Oh wow? Yeah. See, they gotta I gotta get people's
Speaker 1: attention out there. Literally a lot of people stopped what
Speaker 1: they were doing and looked over here. You guys, there's
Speaker 1: a podcast happening over here. Check it out, try and
Speaker 1: make your way through there.
Speaker 4: We should have opened with Brian start the clock, all right.
Speaker 4: I have a derivation on the what teams we want
Speaker 4: to cover? So yeah, we're talking teams we want to
Speaker 4: cover in the off season. Obviously we have like the Spurs, okay,
Speaker 4: see Magic Sons, the Rockets, Portland, and the Mavericks so far.
Speaker 4: You have the opportunity to either add a new team
Speaker 4: that we should be covering and like paying attention to
Speaker 4: in the off season, or take one of those teams.
Speaker 3: Off because I have on that list in the list
Speaker 3: one more time.
Speaker 4: Spurs Wemby Okay, see check, those aren't going anywhere.
Speaker 1: I don't care if you tell us to get rid
Speaker 1: of them.
Speaker 4: The Magic Suns, Rockets a lot of young pieces Portland
Speaker 4: Scoot Mavericks.
Speaker 3: I'm ready to get the Rockets out of that.
Speaker 1: I am too. Yeah, did my dirty Yeah? No way? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Why because I think what they did was add kind
Speaker 3: of not boring but less intriguing players at positions where
Speaker 3: they had more intriguing players. And Dylan Brooks are going
Speaker 3: to be less touches for your Jalen Greens, you know, Yeah,
Speaker 3: I think.
Speaker 1: That's the right answer.
Speaker 2: Let's see you can place any Formers Blazers great on
Speaker 2: next year's roster, any of them? Which former person he's
Speaker 2: taking out the time machine and putting in that jersey?
Speaker 1: Bill Walton seventy seven Walton seventy seven? Okay, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: was he good?
Speaker 3: It was really good? He was really good good. I
Speaker 3: think he would like expand the mind Walton? Did I say,
Speaker 3: Bill Walt? And then.
Speaker 1: When he was just born in seventy.
Speaker 3: Seven, what Luke Walton's arm tattoo personified playing on our tune?
Speaker 3: I think you got a seventy seven Bill Walton out
Speaker 3: there just moving the ball around the offense.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, with the mind expanding, I don't think there's
Speaker 2: ever been like somebody who was openly like gettingto psychedelics
Speaker 2: in the league.
Speaker 3: Is criminalized in Portland right now. He would have a
Speaker 3: different times coming back around.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, he has like his best games and
Speaker 2: areas are like Psilocipin's legalized, like Golden State.
Speaker 1: He's just going off.
Speaker 3: Sean Mayer would be hanging out in Portland all the time.
Speaker 3: What are you gonna.
Speaker 1: All right? What's your all time Blazer's NBA jam squad?
Speaker 3: Oh my god? Actual people are like who what I
Speaker 3: put on there? Okay, recency bias? Put Scoot and Chad
Speaker 3: and Sharp on there right now, just dunk it time.
Speaker 3: If I have to take recency bias out of it,
Speaker 3: it's Damian Lillard and Richid Wallaces for.
Speaker 2: I think to add that in NBA Jam to kind
Speaker 2: of make like NFL Blitz where there's also like unhinged
Speaker 2: like final defense to But it was like that was
Speaker 2: one of the best skills you could have. It's just like,
Speaker 2: you know, check them across, yeah, burn right through somebody. Okay,
Speaker 2: how about this best NBA city to catch a game
Speaker 2: in and when you're in that city, what's the best
Speaker 2: meal you can have?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 3: I mean, I have to evangelize for Portland, Oregon here,
Speaker 3: and let me lay out. I'll give you another option
Speaker 3: after that, but let me lay out the argument Portland, Oregon.
Speaker 3: Other than I was talking teams. It's a one town.
Speaker 3: It's a one team town, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: Blazer's fans are passionate even when they're bad. You're going
Speaker 3: to see people who really care about the game, but
Speaker 3: who for the most part, aren't jerks. And then after
Speaker 3: the game, you can take yourself to a little restaurant
Speaker 3: called Canard, which is my favorite restaurant in the world,
Speaker 3: and get yourself some high end steamburger sliders white Castle,
Speaker 3: but like high end amazing dessert. The food is fantastic.
Speaker 1: Remember this to us when I was there recently and
Speaker 1: I did not go, oh yeah, made a.
Speaker 3: Mistake in a Blazers game. You got a whole season
Speaker 3: in front of you to do.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, And if you didn't have to evangelize for
Speaker 1: your town, if.
Speaker 3: I didn't have to evangelize for my town, I'm going
Speaker 3: to say something a little bit sacrilegious right now, go ahead,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna say, go see a
Speaker 3: Laker games. Because because of Twitter, I think Laker fans
Speaker 3: get like a bad rap sometimes because Laker fans just terrible.
Speaker 1: Any group on Twitter is getting a bad rap.
Speaker 3: But if you as a Blazer fan, this again, this
Speaker 3: hurts for me to say that is say, fantastic fan base.
Speaker 3: They're great. They like understand the game, they're passionate, they
Speaker 3: get like they have like in depth smack talk, you
Speaker 3: know what I mean, Like if you make fun of
Speaker 3: Sam Perkins or whatever, they're going to understand what that means.
Speaker 3: Like what Like, they're up for anything. They're smart, they're passionate.
Speaker 3: And then after that, Oh, what's my favorite restaurant in LA?
Speaker 3: Right now, you come over to my house and I'll
Speaker 3: cook you up something on the backyard.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll put We'll make sure we have Ian's address
Speaker 2: in the show description. Guys, so you guys can pull
Speaker 2: up anytime.
Speaker 1: Okay, literally all.
Speaker 2: Right, if you could add one skill set from a
Speaker 2: player for a day, what player would it be?
Speaker 1: In? What skill set?
Speaker 3: Any player skill set?
Speaker 1: Like it's like a like mic type situation.
Speaker 3: Will be Aaron Gordon slam doctor.
Speaker 1: Modern day Aaron Gordon, I mean maybe.
Speaker 3: Even like four years ago, like the peak of the
Speaker 3: slam dunk contest.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just three point shooting.
Speaker 3: Friend setting now really, but like especially if it was
Speaker 3: me and my current body, Yeah yeah, right, all of
Speaker 3: a sudden, I like walked into a twenty four hour
Speaker 3: fitness like walked into a game, and cause do that
Speaker 3: say it like that because.
Speaker 1: Hold on, man, we're about to finish this game up.
Speaker 3: Okay, ok one second though, and then just like go
Speaker 3: do something like insane though, I think that would right here.
Speaker 3: Or it's pier Onladipo second voice, and those are.
Speaker 2: The wow beautiful wow, like honey, if you could, okay,
Speaker 2: how about this, if you if like, of all the
Speaker 2: highlights that.
Speaker 1: Have occurred in NBA history and basketball history, if you could.
Speaker 2: Embody a player within a highlight and be like, I
Speaker 2: physically can experience what happened in that moment.
Speaker 1: Is it the same thing now? Is there so biased?
Speaker 3: But it's the bad it's the bad shot. It's not
Speaker 3: even the Houston one. It's the one over Oklahoma City,
Speaker 3: just because of everything that happened after that, the arena
Speaker 3: going crazy, his family being courtside, the team, dog piling
Speaker 3: on him. Yeah. The meme happening immediately to me. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: two different memes, three different memes, actually, like three different
Speaker 3: memes from like one shot. Uh. And that maybe I
Speaker 3: might actually start crying.
Speaker 1: Yeah, please, I think that.
Speaker 3: Will be it.
Speaker 1: Uh. And finally, and Jack or Miles.
Speaker 3: Oh, I got to pick them to it Jack or Miles.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, oh god, See this is tough. This is
Speaker 3: tough because Miles, we have a we have a relationship
Speaker 3: going back. We're friends, friends with your wife. Jack.
Speaker 6: Jack is related to doctor Jack Ramsey namesake. Yeah, I
Speaker 6: gotta take the ore. Wow, did the diplomatic decisions. But
Speaker 6: the difference, I mean the listeners, the listeners will respect
Speaker 6: that Jack.
Speaker 1: And Ill so much. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, we think that's
Speaker 1: a that's just a bunch of bold, but a good deal.
Speaker 3: Nobody's happen.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess it is what it is.
Speaker 2: Well, Ian Carmel, thank you so much for joining us
Speaker 2: for this very rowdy special edition of Miles and jack
Speaker 2: Man Boost is here.
Speaker 1: I'm an NBA card in Las Vegas. Uh, you got
Speaker 1: some shows coming up?
Speaker 3: I got When does this come out?
Speaker 1: Next week? Next Thursday?
Speaker 3: If you're in Toronto next week I'm at the Comedy
Speaker 3: Bar Dan fourth on the fourteen fifty whatever the next week, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: whatever that is. I'll be at High Planes Comedy Festival
Speaker 3: in Denver, Colorado. I'll be at Vancouver, BC later this year.
Speaker 1: I'll be all I'm all over the plow right and
Speaker 1: where do people find you? And and get more info bus.
Speaker 3: At Ian Carmel on Twitter, TikTok, Instagram, everything but your
Speaker 3: chicktok going up. Oh my god, I got four thousand followers.
Speaker 3: I lost an NBA like conspiracy theories take in front
Speaker 3: of my old box.
Speaker 2: We never told an the Dame conspiracy theory about this
Speaker 2: st Yeah, we gotta do it real quick now, we
Speaker 2: got to get it in. Yeah, Okay, we were talking
Speaker 2: before this was I saw this on Reddit that a
Speaker 2: lot of people were talking. This is obviously a joke,
Speaker 2: but they're saying the real reason why he wants to
Speaker 2: leave Portland and go to Miami is that he's afraid
Speaker 2: of statue. He has a documented fear of statues, and
Speaker 2: that the theory goes that if he stays in Portland
Speaker 2: too long, that man is getting a statue. Yeah, so
Speaker 2: he to avoid becoming the thing he most fears. The
Speaker 2: most efficient way to solve this is to be tried to.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, buy it.
Speaker 3: This makes a lot of sense to me.
Speaker 1: Rather rather do that. This makes a lot of sense
Speaker 1: to me. It's kind of the only thing that makes
Speaker 1: sense if you look at the history important.
Speaker 3: Recently too, they've been going around tearing down statues, you
Speaker 3: know what I mean, knowing Damian Lillard's afraid of that.
Speaker 5: So yeah, yeah, yeah, Well, you can follow us on Twitter.
Speaker 5: Check out the hashtag man boost E's b double O
Speaker 5: S t I E S. You can find me on
Speaker 5: Twitter at Miles of Gray.
Speaker 1: I'm on Twitter at Jack Underscore O'Brien. Yeah, and that's
Speaker 1: been this very wonderful Rockets edition. Smile Jack Off.
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