Speaker 1: This podcast is part of the seventy Sixers Podcast Network
Speaker 1: search seventy sixers Podcast Wherever you get your pods. Hey,
Speaker 1: this is Alex Bernstein aka Stees from seventy six Ers GC,
Speaker 1: and we're excited about the launch of our pod, the
Speaker 1: seventy Sixers Gaming Club Podcast, as we continue to prepare
Speaker 1: for our upcoming season. For limited time, check out the
Speaker 1: new podcast every Tuesday on the seventy Sixers Podcast network feed,
Speaker 1: or you can subscribe to our feed by searching seventy
Speaker 1: six ers GC wherever you get your pods? Hey, what's
Speaker 1: going on everybody? This is Jeff, this is Steas, and
Speaker 1: this is the seventy Sixers Gaming Club Podcast. Today we
Speaker 1: got Radiant on here, which is a definitely something we've
Speaker 1: been looking forward to. First off, we definitely want to
Speaker 1: shout out rain or Gaming. I think you guys see
Speaker 1: the chairs we're in. It's been tough with not being
Speaker 1: in our facility, so we got special permission got the
Speaker 1: chairs delivered to us, so we've been able to practice
Speaker 1: with the rain or Gaming chairs. Um, they're definitely like
Speaker 1: to me, I feel like they're game changing, Like they're
Speaker 1: just unbelievable. Um, and you can find those at rain
Speaker 1: or gaming dot Com a letter guys say anything about
Speaker 1: them if they want to as well. Yeah, I have
Speaker 1: one of these at my house in California as well,
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, with streaming and on my setup
Speaker 1: and all that, I always have this chair there and uh,
Speaker 1: definitely game changing. Yeah, you know, my first this is
Speaker 1: my first game of chair and I've been you know,
Speaker 1: I played the game a lot, so on the offseason
Speaker 1: I got to break this thing in and you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's the best chair you can possibly have any
Speaker 1: It looks cool, it feels good, and yeah, there's not
Speaker 1: much wanted to say. Definitely, Uh, today we're gonna have
Speaker 1: a couple of topics that we're gonna cover just off
Speaker 1: rip and then like any questions that you guys might
Speaker 1: have or or comments or anything you want us to
Speaker 1: talk about, we'll definitely good to it. Uh. Starting out,
Speaker 1: we want you guys to get to know our point guard, Radiant,
Speaker 1: so we'll have a Stee's open it up here, God
Speaker 1: Radiant and Ethan White. What's the first question I want
Speaker 1: to ask you? Okay, let everybody know what you were
Speaker 1: doing right before the league. Right before the league, I
Speaker 1: was actually working in a factory and pretty much just
Speaker 1: just trying to just trying to do it for as
Speaker 1: long as I could before the league, just trying to
Speaker 1: have some type of money coming because I knew obviously
Speaker 1: I knew I was going to get into the league,
Speaker 1: but you know, I need I still needed money, so
Speaker 1: I was, you know, doing what I had to do
Speaker 1: just to make ends meet. At what point did you
Speaker 1: know or like what age did you know that like
Speaker 1: video games like esports or something that you wanted to
Speaker 1: take very seriously. Um, Well, it started. I would always
Speaker 1: play against my friends and I started to realize like
Speaker 1: I was way better than them. And then at that
Speaker 1: like I just kept playing. Then I got in the
Speaker 1: war and then I remember the exact day they announced
Speaker 1: the league and I was like, I was like, I
Speaker 1: was talking to my girl. I was like, yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna do this and I'm gonna get into this, and
Speaker 1: I told my dad and everything right when it was
Speaker 1: an I'm gonna do this, and you know, surprisingly he
Speaker 1: was all for it. And then I knew this is
Speaker 1: where I was was gonna be if I just do
Speaker 1: what I had to do. And then did you ever
Speaker 1: think that out of all the teams that had been Philly. Uh.
Speaker 1: I remember draft day and honestly, I didn't know who
Speaker 1: was gonna pick me because I never got any like
Speaker 1: no one ever came to me or like, oh, we're
Speaker 1: gonna take you. So like I was going to the
Speaker 1: draft not knowing. I feel like I had good interviews
Speaker 1: with you know, said teams. Yeah, yeah, I had an
Speaker 1: interview like I had Pistons. I was from I was
Speaker 1: from Michigan, so I thought when the Pistons might take me,
Speaker 1: but they had a higher up. They had like five
Speaker 1: and they were Raymond. I'm like, okay, Well on in
Speaker 1: the next one. I had a good interview with the
Speaker 1: Bucks and I'm like okay, I'm the Bucks might be good.
Speaker 1: And then they took someone else. Then the Pacers. I
Speaker 1: had a good interview, thought they might take me, maybe
Speaker 1: the Wizards. And then by that point I was like
Speaker 1: I was I didn't know who was gonna take me.
Speaker 1: And I remember I gotta actually didn't see the text
Speaker 1: from our from my gmcay and he's gonna take me
Speaker 1: because I had my phone looked up to the TV.
Speaker 1: And then when they when Philly took me, I was
Speaker 1: kind of shocked because I remember Philly. I actually had
Speaker 1: my worst interview because I was because I was I
Speaker 1: was sleep I remember Michael. Michael called me and I
Speaker 1: would literally sleep and I wake up to my phone
Speaker 1: and I'm like, well he was. He was like did
Speaker 1: you just wake up? And I was like yeah, and
Speaker 1: we had our interview, and I just thought I was
Speaker 1: always seppy. I think part of that's because of Jeff
Speaker 1: right from like hearing that side of the story and
Speaker 1: then your side. You said that like you kind of
Speaker 1: pushed them to be like if Radiance there, like we
Speaker 1: gotta take him. Yeah. I think they were under the
Speaker 1: understanding how good Radiant was. Um. And at that point
Speaker 1: I was already talking to the sixers and they were
Speaker 1: asking me like who who would you who? Who do
Speaker 1: you think? And I was like, well, I mean I
Speaker 1: think it's crazy that Radiant still even on the board. Um.
Speaker 1: I've played against Radiant for a while, got watch him play,
Speaker 1: and uh, he was the best player I've I've seen. So,
Speaker 1: I mean it was kind of crazy just him being there.
Speaker 1: And I definitely threw it out there, but I think
Speaker 1: they were under this same understanding, like it was crazy
Speaker 1: he was still there. Yeah, I remember I was in
Speaker 1: group tests talking to people people, Oh year at top
Speaker 1: five pick. I was like, I'm telling you, I'm gonna fall.
Speaker 1: I just feel it like no one's giving me. Everyone
Speaker 1: else I've talked to they're getting like okay some people,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, no one's giving me an okay. So
Speaker 1: I just had this feeling I was gonna fall, and
Speaker 1: I did, and I'm happy that I did, because I mean,
Speaker 1: we got the best team in the league and for
Speaker 1: the past two seasons most winning his team. Um okay,
Speaker 1: So since season one, what's something that's changed, like dramatically
Speaker 1: about yourself or what's something that you feel that you've
Speaker 1: improved on since season one I've been in the league. Uh, definitely.
Speaker 1: The easiest thing I can say is just just being
Speaker 1: around the team more because I remember season one. You know,
Speaker 1: it was the first year, so I wasn't really as
Speaker 1: comfortable being around like five new dudes. So I was
Speaker 1: just like always in my room just on the game.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm still on the game, but like now
Speaker 1: I feel like we're all around each other. When we're
Speaker 1: on the game, we're all talking, we all played the
Speaker 1: game with each other. So I feel like that is
Speaker 1: the biggest one and also just I remember Kaye used
Speaker 1: to tell me, I gotta learn how to talk to
Speaker 1: people because you can't say that Like I could say
Speaker 1: something to Stee's, he might not he might not think
Speaker 1: nothing of it. But then I'll say something to like
Speaker 1: to like when we when we had Deanie, I'd say
Speaker 1: something to Deny. He might take it the wrong way.
Speaker 1: So I had to pretty much learn how to how
Speaker 1: to talk to different people. And you know what kind
Speaker 1: of ticked some people off. Yeah, I remember, Brad and
Speaker 1: I just talked about it last night. Actually, when draft
Speaker 1: day went down, I had changed my name. For those
Speaker 1: of you that don't know, my name was little Burn
Speaker 1: on PlayStation, and I changed it to Steas in the leagues,
Speaker 1: that's what I always wanted to be. And once I
Speaker 1: got drafted, I got drafted fourth round, I messaged Radiant
Speaker 1: because people were coming up to me at the afterparty.
Speaker 1: There was an after party at the draft and we
Speaker 1: were there and people were come up to me and
Speaker 1: they're like, listen, like you got Radiant, who's a dog,
Speaker 1: But like there are no leaders out of that whole
Speaker 1: team that just got drafted, Like like nobody's gonna say
Speaker 1: a word, everybody just really quiet on that team. And
Speaker 1: so I message Radiant, I was like, listen, like this
Speaker 1: is on us, man, Like it's it's you and me.
Speaker 1: Like it's weird that it's like worked out that way
Speaker 1: like for the past three seasons now, but I'll never
Speaker 1: forget that. That That was my very first message to him.
Speaker 1: And then now we are we are where we are,
Speaker 1: you know, one of the best teams in the league
Speaker 1: and been very successful the past two seasons. So it's
Speaker 1: it's it's kind of weird that it all worked out
Speaker 1: like that so far. Yeah, I got a question today
Speaker 1: for Radiant. Somebody asked, You've been a lot of people
Speaker 1: look at you as the best point guard in the league,
Speaker 1: and how do you ever think about that? Like do
Speaker 1: you ever think about like yourself as being the best
Speaker 1: point guard? How do you go about that and stuff
Speaker 1: like that. Um, I think about it like I want
Speaker 1: to be the best. I want to be just the
Speaker 1: best player in the league, not just the point guard.
Speaker 1: And I think that, like I think I've done enough
Speaker 1: off and on the court to like prove myself because
Speaker 1: like even even this year, like in Scrimson, I'm struggling shooting,
Speaker 1: I'm down there shooting. I'm doing that shooting more than anybody,
Speaker 1: more than anybody I think in the league. And it's
Speaker 1: not it's not even I don't do that to to
Speaker 1: like try to be the best. Necessarily, I do that
Speaker 1: because I want to win, like I want to like
Speaker 1: obviously I'm gonna have the ball most of the time,
Speaker 1: so I want to be the best for all of us.
Speaker 1: I want to put our team the best position to win.
Speaker 1: And if that's me going down there getting a thousand
Speaker 1: extra shots to night, if that's gonna help us, you know,
Speaker 1: win a championship, then I mean, that's just what I
Speaker 1: gotta do. And that's how I always looked at it, Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: being the best, it's cool. But like being the best
Speaker 1: and not winning, I mean, what does that mean? Like
Speaker 1: like Mama Mama won MVP last year and we talked
Speaker 1: to him, like we talked to him all the time,
Speaker 1: and he didn't like they didn't win anything, Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you gotta VP, that's cool. But in the day, they're
Speaker 1: gonna remember that season and what happened at the end
Speaker 1: of it, just like you can say, how was the
Speaker 1: best last year we lost? That's what they're not gonna
Speaker 1: remember how good I was there, Gonna remember us losing.
Speaker 1: That's what That's what a lot of people don't they miss.
Speaker 1: I feel like like all the awards and stuff is cool,
Speaker 1: but like at the end of the day, especially our team,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure a lot of teams are like this,
Speaker 1: like getting Coach of the Year last year, getting All
Speaker 1: Defensive Team or All two K team, Like all the
Speaker 1: awards we got meant nothing. I think maybe like down
Speaker 1: the line, like looking back and telling your kids, like
Speaker 1: that's something you can tell them, but like to us,
Speaker 1: like all we'll think about losing Game five in the finals,
Speaker 1: not being champions, like we didn't complete our goal. And
Speaker 1: I think that's how we'll be every year. Like every
Speaker 1: year for us, like it's championship or bus. We don't
Speaker 1: go into it and say, hey, like if we win
Speaker 1: the tip off or go to three out of four championships,
Speaker 1: like that's a good season and theoretically yet is a
Speaker 1: good season, like a lot of teams would want to
Speaker 1: be there, But for us, like winning a championship is
Speaker 1: what makes it a good season. For us, we always
Speaker 1: feel like we didn't accomplish what our goal is. Um,
Speaker 1: so that's just something like we're fortunate to have guys
Speaker 1: and like, um, how radiant. And she said, like Steeves
Speaker 1: came to me the first day I met him, and
Speaker 1: we've talked about on the podcast before, Like he's like, man,
Speaker 1: I'll be I'll be the leader. I'll i'll I'll talk
Speaker 1: to the guys if you need anything, all this stuff,
Speaker 1: and he's held he's held up to that radiant. I
Speaker 1: got on to him season one and two, like and
Speaker 1: he's progressively like moved into a leadership role and like
Speaker 1: this year, like it's night and day from last year.
Speaker 1: And I told him just the other day, like I
Speaker 1: thought he was at this like my ceiling for him
Speaker 1: and like my view of like what his highest expectation was,
Speaker 1: like he's reached that already, and there's more that he
Speaker 1: can already he can there's more he can reach now,
Speaker 1: Like there's not a standard for him, Like he can
Speaker 1: become even better of a leader, even better of a player,
Speaker 1: even better of a point guard, and like that's for everybody.
Speaker 1: And um, that's something that's really cool with these two.
Speaker 1: Uh in general, I feel like is they just they
Speaker 1: continue to progress, Like they don't they don't take being
Speaker 1: like average or or if they need to work on something,
Speaker 1: they're down there work, you know, like they deserve everything
Speaker 1: they they've accomplished so far. I think the coolest thing
Speaker 1: is that, like, like you said, we don't really care
Speaker 1: about the stats and like accolade and stuff like that,
Speaker 1: but like the thing that honestly, obviously I want to
Speaker 1: win the whole thing, but something that I like that
Speaker 1: is affiliated like with us, like with with GC and
Speaker 1: and Philly, and like when we get brought up, everybody
Speaker 1: wants to be here. Every time a draft is getting
Speaker 1: ready to happen, everybody wants to be in Philly. Um.
Speaker 1: Any time I'm in a party or anything like that,
Speaker 1: everybody's coming up to me and saying like, hey, like
Speaker 1: you know, get me to Philly, Like I want to
Speaker 1: be in Philly. And I think like even though it's
Speaker 1: not that's not an accolade, that's not stat like, that's nothing, like,
Speaker 1: that's cool because I get shown like what we've created
Speaker 1: over here. You know, there's some teams are not going
Speaker 1: to name any of them, but there's something that no
Speaker 1: player wants part of. UM. But then the second like
Speaker 1: Philly comes into their their their mindset, like they're like
Speaker 1: I want to be there because like I know what
Speaker 1: they do, whether that's them putting in the work to
Speaker 1: win or just the culture that they bring and like
Speaker 1: the family oriented, like aspect of it, Like they want
Speaker 1: to be here, and I think that's always been something
Speaker 1: really cool about us. Um so radiant. Uh. I guess
Speaker 1: we'll go a little bit more personal here because a
Speaker 1: lot of the community this is probably one of the
Speaker 1: first times they've seen you in interviews. But you're very
Speaker 1: well reserved and very quiet. But a lot of people
Speaker 1: probably don't know too much about your personal life with
Speaker 1: you know, girlfriend, kid, Um, you guys, you want to
Speaker 1: you want to touch on that a little bit, Like
Speaker 1: I know you have your your little daughter. Um, yeah,
Speaker 1: my daughter's turning three and at the end of this
Speaker 1: well probably not, it'll probably be during the season, but
Speaker 1: in August she turns three and my girls, actually she's
Speaker 1: pregnant right now. So we got two on the way,
Speaker 1: got two And I'm calling it. You hide that from
Speaker 1: us for some reason all the time, just even the
Speaker 1: very first one with Asia. Don't I don't hide it.
Speaker 1: I just don't say nothing. Yeah like that, Like if
Speaker 1: you asked me, I'll say, yeah, don't bring it up. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I remember season one though, like you know, we'd been
Speaker 1: together for a while now, like you know, playing and stuff,
Speaker 1: and then once it came out that you had a kid,
Speaker 1: I was like youah, a kid and You're like yeah,
Speaker 1: And I was like, do you never want to mention
Speaker 1: a thing? Like we always talk about our failies and stuff.
Speaker 1: You're like, no, don't know. I just never came up.
Speaker 1: And I was like, okay, but I've obviously met Asia
Speaker 1: a couple of times now. And it's what's weird about
Speaker 1: Radiant for those of you that don't know about him,
Speaker 1: is how do I put this? Okay? With like how
Speaker 1: he practices and stuff. Radiance of perfectionists, that's the best
Speaker 1: way to put it. He may not label his a,
Speaker 1: but that's what he is. If he's not doing good
Speaker 1: or if he's having a rough couple of weeks of practice,
Speaker 1: he's in the lab trying to work, trying to get better.
Speaker 1: Season one, he was not very He wasn't around us
Speaker 1: that much. So when we would be hanging out, eating,
Speaker 1: going to get food, whatever it was, you know, he
Speaker 1: wasn't really with us. He would always be in his
Speaker 1: room and we always thought that was him not really
Speaker 1: like Karen for us that much didn't really like us,
Speaker 1: and we were really worried about that. And then once
Speaker 1: we figured out that that wasn't what he was doing
Speaker 1: was going into his room and literally just practicing, like
Speaker 1: practicing dribbling by himself, practicing shooting by himself, and so
Speaker 1: like what he was actually doing was when we thought
Speaker 1: he didn't really like us, he was actually putting the
Speaker 1: team like before everybody else or before himself, trying to
Speaker 1: get better because he knows that we go like as
Speaker 1: far as he goes, and he and that's just how
Speaker 1: he is. So but with that being said, even though
Speaker 1: like I obviously really respect that about Radiant, there's been
Speaker 1: times where Rating is it love him to death, but
Speaker 1: that's just how Radiant is. That's how he's been brought up.
Speaker 1: He's from Michigan, he did the Harvest, and so once
Speaker 1: I found out you had a kid, I was like,
Speaker 1: this kid go two ways. Either Rating is gonna be
Speaker 1: just just the most hard headed like like father like
Speaker 1: in the world, or is going to be complete softy.
Speaker 1: And now every time I've ever seen him with Asia,
Speaker 1: he's the biggest softie in the world. Like she's literally
Speaker 1: got him wrapped around her finger. And it's funny to
Speaker 1: see that because like when Radiance with his kid, or
Speaker 1: like you know, when Asia's around and he's holding her
Speaker 1: something like that, He's has the biggest grin on his face,
Speaker 1: like he's so happy. Um, And then it's funny because
Speaker 1: like then we once we're playing like two k together,
Speaker 1: he's like the most serious, like like I don't want
Speaker 1: to mess with him at all. Yeah, just two completely
Speaker 1: different people. But I mean, this is what it is.
Speaker 1: How long have you and Lily been together? Uh about
Speaker 1: to be five years? Yeah, I'm going on that too.
Speaker 1: How long have you even bailor been together? Six years? So? Wait,
Speaker 1: do we know what this? This? The new kid is
Speaker 1: the new child? The girl? Oh man, there are too
Speaker 1: many girls in the seventies six or g see it
Speaker 1: like every like way too many. Bread's got three, he's
Speaker 1: got two, got one, you got one? Now, there's too many.
Speaker 1: We need to trug getting the boys to carry on
Speaker 1: some traditions as well. The funniest thing about it all
Speaker 1: is like when I found that out, like radiant Squirrel
Speaker 1: likes something and I went to her, I went to
Speaker 1: her Twitter and I was read and I was like
Speaker 1: what I wouldn't ask. I wouldn't ask Radiant and he
Speaker 1: was like yeah, And I was like, well, what did
Speaker 1: she do? He was like in May. I was like,
Speaker 1: don't like that's next, that's what That's what my sons do.
Speaker 1: So like we're both having a kid the same month.
Speaker 1: Like no, I found out for him. I won't go
Speaker 1: into like our full conversation, but like we Radiant and
Speaker 1: I will like go and you know, grab somebody eat
Speaker 1: sometimes and and that was like pre like all this coronavirus.
Speaker 1: But we were in the car and I don't know
Speaker 1: how like the exact conversation came up, but I brought
Speaker 1: it up and and he's that was the same thing.
Speaker 1: I was like, so you're just not you weren't gonna
Speaker 1: tell me or like and it's just like I just
Speaker 1: never got brought up. I guess um. But it was
Speaker 1: funny because just like his his reasoning for like you
Speaker 1: know how it's all going down. It was pretty interesting.
Speaker 1: But uh yeah, we have a another one to welcome
Speaker 1: into the seventy six or GC family. Do we have
Speaker 1: a name picked out? Yet? Uh? Yeah, but I say, okay,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a big reveal yeah on Twitter, uh,
Speaker 1: any Instagram. I think he might go on Instagram with
Speaker 1: this one. Facebook. I hope this one looks like Lily,
Speaker 1: because Asia looks just like you. They're all gonna looks
Speaker 1: like Asia is like a spitting image of Radiant. Remember
Speaker 1: the first time meeting her and at the Franklin and
Speaker 1: she was just crying. She screamed, that's because he didn't
Speaker 1: like anybody. Yeah, he didn't like me at all at first.
Speaker 1: But when last year she was like, she's fine, She'll
Speaker 1: just run around and do whatever, you know matter. I'm
Speaker 1: excited to see, like when when Cadence like gets around
Speaker 1: like that age and stuff and it's just running around
Speaker 1: like she's already around now, but like shit, and Cadence
Speaker 1: looks just like you. I feel like that, which is
Speaker 1: not a good which is not a bad thing. I
Speaker 1: was gonna I almost said it's it's not a good thing.
Speaker 1: I almost messed up. Who do you think? Pason looks
Speaker 1: like maybe a little bit of both. He's got Bailey's height,
Speaker 1: He's definitely got you don't help that. I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: a good five eleven five eleven would shoose but okay,
Speaker 1: So so the personal stuff aside, um the league, what
Speaker 1: do you think now, like this gonna be third season?
Speaker 1: Uh SEVENTI six or g see Philly? Um, is it
Speaker 1: anything that you would have expected? Or do you want
Speaker 1: to you expect anything different or you know the past
Speaker 1: couple of teams anything like that. Is there anything like
Speaker 1: like before the league started, or say, right when you
Speaker 1: got drafted by Philly, right, would this have been what
Speaker 1: you expected, like you'd be here three seasons or us
Speaker 1: to be you know, obviously as successful as we've been,
Speaker 1: anything like that still surreal. Like it when we first
Speaker 1: got drafted, everyone saying we were gonna suck, and I
Speaker 1: remember thinking, like, I've never been on the team that sucked,
Speaker 1: so We're not gonna suck. We're gonna win games, Like
Speaker 1: we're not gonna suck, but like I think we were
Speaker 1: gonna win this much. Maybe not, but I knew we
Speaker 1: were gonna win, and I remember I just remember, like
Speaker 1: I remember thinking to myself, like we're not bad. But
Speaker 1: like going into the tip off, I never said anything
Speaker 1: because like the way our mindset was, it worked in
Speaker 1: our favor, like we thought we were underdogs and that
Speaker 1: worked for everybody. So I'm like, yeah, yeah, we're underdogs,
Speaker 1: but in my head, I'm like, like looking at other teams,
Speaker 1: I'm like, I mean they're not that much like on paper,
Speaker 1: they're not that much better than that's what makes them
Speaker 1: better than us. So like we would go in for
Speaker 1: like the first season as like saying we were underdogs
Speaker 1: and you know, beating everybody, winning the tip off a
Speaker 1: all that, but like in my head, I mean I
Speaker 1: knew we were gonna be fine, Like we had a
Speaker 1: couple of questionable picks, but like like me, you fee Scretty,
Speaker 1: like we're gonna be right, We're gonna figure it out.
Speaker 1: We go back. We didn't know about Screttie. Yeah, SCRETTI
Speaker 1: was six man claiming to take your spot. When first
Speaker 1: of all, when they told me Scretty taking my spot,
Speaker 1: literally just start dying, Screttie. If you've seen Scretty play
Speaker 1: point guard, you wouldn't know why. But I remember the
Speaker 1: first day. I'm like, when I met Screttie, and I'm
Speaker 1: pretty sure you guys are already talked before I even
Speaker 1: talked to Scretti. I'm like, Scretty, you're starting opening day,
Speaker 1: there's one hundred percent into you're starting, And he was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: we already talked about it him a right, good as
Speaker 1: long as you know, so we don't know what you're
Speaker 1: gonna do. I was like, can you shoot? He's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, good now that he's obviously you know, Scretti
Speaker 1: has done his part with seventy six years, do you see?
Speaker 1: But UM, it is wild to think back because I
Speaker 1: still like, you know, I'll wake up and I still think, like, damn,
Speaker 1: like we have a really good team. We always have
Speaker 1: a really good team. But it's like to think where
Speaker 1: what where we've came from? And like I love when
Speaker 1: Bread puts together his all time like seventy six ye
Speaker 1: GC list and stuff like because you know, season one
Speaker 1: we had Feast here, um, season two we had Deani here,
Speaker 1: and like how how it evolves? But you know, the
Speaker 1: core still like stays around the culture still stays around it,
Speaker 1: and I don't think that's something that will ever change. UM,
Speaker 1: And I think that's what kind of makes us special. Yeah,
Speaker 1: most definitely. UM. As far as like radiant stuff, Let's
Speaker 1: let's move on to the next topic and talk a
Speaker 1: little bit about UM the Spring sixteen. UM, it was
Speaker 1: a fun tournament. Uh, it was good to get some
Speaker 1: content out, get to see some games prepared for the season. Um, personally,
Speaker 1: I feel like we played, Uh, we played well, Like
Speaker 1: I'm not We're We're right where I thought we would be. UM,
Speaker 1: and I'm excited about like getting the season here and
Speaker 1: and once that gets um announced, Um, we'll definitely prepare
Speaker 1: in a different way. It should be coming up here soon.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm hoping for sure. But the spring sixteen there
Speaker 1: was a lot of good games. Obviously, um, the Wizards
Speaker 1: won that they played well, but uh, for us as
Speaker 1: a team, Like, how did you guys feel like as
Speaker 1: a team, Like we we played? And then like what
Speaker 1: were your expectations of it? Obviously, Like our expectations are
Speaker 1: always to win it, but like I feel like for that,
Speaker 1: like our biggest thing was just going out there and
Speaker 1: having fun and like working on defense and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: We weren't. We weren't out there doing what other teams
Speaker 1: were out there, running like plays or doing stuff that
Speaker 1: you would do in the season. Like what do you
Speaker 1: guys think? There's too many things? Okay, so yes, all
Speaker 1: those things are true. There are things that for the
Speaker 1: viewers watching it's hard to go into detail about, especially
Speaker 1: the game that we were playing. So with that being said,
Speaker 1: yes we went out there to have fun, Yes we
Speaker 1: went out there to compete. Yes we try to work
Speaker 1: on our defense. You know, was did their thing. All
Speaker 1: the teams, the t Wols who knocked out, they did
Speaker 1: their thing. But like I said, there are aspects that
Speaker 1: go into this league build that we play on that
Speaker 1: sometimes you feel like you have no control. Sometimes you do.
Speaker 1: It's kind of a hit or miss sort of thing, right,
Speaker 1: And was saying the other day that this game sometimes
Speaker 1: it feels like, uh, it's it's very momentum based. That
Speaker 1: that's what it seems like, more than more than usual.
Speaker 1: So like when you are playing on retail version, some
Speaker 1: things start going your way, you know it's pretty good.
Speaker 1: But the league build, it feels like when that momentum swings,
Speaker 1: it swings and it swings bad or it could swing
Speaker 1: really good for you. Like the way I the way
Speaker 1: to put this build that we're playing on into like
Speaker 1: a couple words, is that no lead is safe in
Speaker 1: this Like I used to think in nineteen or eighteen,
Speaker 1: we were playing on the league builds, like we got
Speaker 1: to like ten to twelve. I was like, okay, we're
Speaker 1: we're doing good. Like we're definitely gonna win this. This
Speaker 1: scares me, um, and that that's kind of what I'll
Speaker 1: say about that. But yeah, we you know, we went
Speaker 1: out there and had fun. Obviously we wanted to win it.
Speaker 1: If we want it, great, we didn't win it. Um.
Speaker 1: I don't want to say it didn't mean much, because
Speaker 1: you know, everybody's got a little bragging rights. Everybody loves
Speaker 1: playing for a little bit of pride. But yeah, no
Speaker 1: money earned, no money lost, So it's okay. Uh, and
Speaker 1: now we get to get ready for the season. And
Speaker 1: I love reading kind of said what he has to
Speaker 1: say about it. Yeah, I mean, going in obviously we
Speaker 1: wanted to win. So when we went in we went in.
Speaker 1: One of our first two series lost the Tea Wolves. Obviously,
Speaker 1: like the way we lost sucked. But like after like
Speaker 1: ten minutes, ten minutes after losing, you're just like, okay,
Speaker 1: well we'll just give practice back tomorrow. We try to
Speaker 1: fix what we did wrong and fix what week of control.
Speaker 1: And like, yeah, like Steve said, it would have been
Speaker 1: cool to win, but like I mean, it's not that deep.
Speaker 1: Like it's not like it's not like the tip off
Speaker 1: attorney or like I mean even the even the park attorney,
Speaker 1: like even though like, yeah, we tried for the park
Speaker 1: attorney and it was fun at least the parkttorney, like
Speaker 1: you could win something, and that attorney was just like
Speaker 1: it was pretty much just like for a cham just
Speaker 1: for people to watch us and watch all the others,
Speaker 1: well all other teams in the tournament, watch them play,
Speaker 1: you know, just watch the league pretty much. And I
Speaker 1: mean it was a great tournament. You know, Congress of
Speaker 1: the Wizards. You know, they're a great team. They've been
Speaker 1: good in SCRAMs, They've played good in the tournament. TuS too,
Speaker 1: they played good in the tournament, played good in SCRAMs. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's kind of like the Park Timer where
Speaker 1: it's like, you know, I'm happy for the Wizards because
Speaker 1: Dave Fris, one of my guy Dania's over there too
Speaker 1: and they won it so good, Like I'm happy for him.
Speaker 1: But it's one of those things, just like the Park Timer,
Speaker 1: where I hope when it's all said and done and
Speaker 1: it's time to retire, that nobody's looking at me like, oh,
Speaker 1: you never won that Sweet sixteen preseason tournament. And so
Speaker 1: it's just like same as the Park Tournament. We won
Speaker 1: the most amount of money that we could have won
Speaker 1: out of that and we didn't win the whole finals.
Speaker 1: But it's like if somebody came up to me and
Speaker 1: was like, ah, well, you know you maybe a you know,
Speaker 1: two time tip Off champion, two k League finalists, but hey,
Speaker 1: you never won that park tournament, Like ooh, I don't care.
Speaker 1: Like if I'm defined by that at the end of
Speaker 1: my career, then I did something wrong. Yeah, I'm okay. Um,
Speaker 1: next topic, and again, if you guys have anything you
Speaker 1: want us to talk about, definitely just ride in the chat.
Speaker 1: But the next topic is, uh, the Michael Jordan's stuff
Speaker 1: tonight are what are you guys excited about that? I
Speaker 1: think we can start off by saying, rating you go first,
Speaker 1: who's your goat? Jordan? Okay, mine is also Jordan Kaite
Speaker 1: and mine's one Michael Jordan. No, it's not. He's a
Speaker 1: complete liar. He loves Lebron James. All Right, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be honest. My goat is Lebron James. But we're not
Speaker 1: talking about that. That's not what this is about. No,
Speaker 1: But we have to start it off like that because
Speaker 1: you said you're not going to watch a documentary. You said,
Speaker 1: since it's not Lebron. You're going to your room and
Speaker 1: just like, hang, I'm gonna watch it. I'm a fan
Speaker 1: of basketball. I think Jordan's the there's nothing wrong with
Speaker 1: being second best Lebron. So I'm not like, I'm not
Speaker 1: mad at him. This is okay, Okay. So now that
Speaker 1: we talked about that, this is one of those things
Speaker 1: where it's cool because it's the nine ten ninety six season,
Speaker 1: right ninety eight okay, and they let cameras in for
Speaker 1: the whole year. That's something where it's like, when this
Speaker 1: is all said and done, and however many years down
Speaker 1: the road, like when when whenever we're over, like done
Speaker 1: playing two kids do be esports professionals, Like I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be like, damn, I wish there was like a million
Speaker 1: cameras around us to just see some of the stuff
Speaker 1: that we would like do, whether we're like we're downstairs
Speaker 1: playing or during our games and stuff like that, because
Speaker 1: when we get like the two minute like clips of us,
Speaker 1: like my favorite clip of all time of seventy six
Speaker 1: ers GC so far, I have it in my phone still,
Speaker 1: and it's not even of me, it's it's a radiant
Speaker 1: when we're playing the Celtics in the Semis last year
Speaker 1: and Radiant got badge and Radiant was with Fried and
Speaker 1: and he threw out a little bit of cuss words
Speaker 1: and all that kind of stuff, but it was It's
Speaker 1: the most like epic clip I've ever seen out of
Speaker 1: seventy six ers GC because the rest of us are
Speaker 1: sitting there, like, he told me to go low block,
Speaker 1: and that's when you know something's up because I'm I
Speaker 1: go low block and I'm standing there watching the show
Speaker 1: and this man cooks up and gets a three, and
Speaker 1: like I'm sitting there just like, oh my god, we're
Speaker 1: about to go to the finals, Like this is nuts
Speaker 1: and like and then like that's why I'm saying, like
Speaker 1: it would be so cool to like be in that
Speaker 1: kind of like element to where you just have cameras
Speaker 1: on you at all times. Then you go back ten
Speaker 1: years down the road or fifteen years on the road
Speaker 1: and be like damn, like that was something we had
Speaker 1: something really cool. One of my favorite moments is when
Speaker 1: he got the team takeover and hit him with the
Speaker 1: head nod. The head nod was hilarious. Screamed like what
Speaker 1: if any if anybody wants to see what that the
Speaker 1: clip that I'm talking about, I'll send it to you
Speaker 1: guys on DMS. I'll never post that clip. Maybe not
Speaker 1: too marketable, but it is a really good clip and
Speaker 1: it was a good time in the SEMIS process that
Speaker 1: we need a mix tape of seventy six ers GC
Speaker 1: clips posted on Twitter. Now we'll see what we can. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and it's and it's that's the thing is like that's
Speaker 1: my favorite clip. But that's and that was like end game.
Speaker 1: But we have so many like funny things that we'll
Speaker 1: just be talking about that like don't have to do
Speaker 1: with two K, like us just sitting downstairs and just
Speaker 1: hanging out and talking. Like right after this, we're probably
Speaker 1: gonna go downstairs and like it'll be all of us
Speaker 1: around the facility watching like the MJ documentary so or
Speaker 1: the Bulls documentary, and like, um, that's what's gonna be interesting,
Speaker 1: is I know, once this is all said and done,
Speaker 1: we're gonna be able to see we can go back
Speaker 1: and watch us play all the time, which would be
Speaker 1: cool still, but like it's gonna be weird, like not
Speaker 1: having like a massive amounts of footage of us just
Speaker 1: like hanging out together and stuff like that. We spent
Speaker 1: so much time together. Yeah, like so much time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And like I think yesterday, like Radiant Tucker, Bread and
Speaker 1: me we're having like a long conversation, like a couple
Speaker 1: hours about everything, whether it was like personal, live kids.
Speaker 1: We're talking about credit for a while, like stuff like that.
Speaker 1: But they're funny, Like it's funny because you have so
Speaker 1: many different personality You have Radiant Tucker, Bread and me,
Speaker 1: who like we all have our own way of thinking
Speaker 1: and bring our own element to it. And and obviously
Speaker 1: when Tucker's in there, anything can happen, and so he's
Speaker 1: just funny in itself. But yeah, So with everything being quarantine,
Speaker 1: what's your best movie or TV show suggestion? Wh Uh?
Speaker 1: You know? I don't know, Actually I don't. I don't
Speaker 1: really I don't even really watch. I'm not really up
Speaker 1: on my TV shows. But I will tell you a
Speaker 1: movie I've watched most this Quarantine. Steve, you want to
Speaker 1: guess Bad Boys Too? Bad Boys Too? That's a good one.
Speaker 1: Bad Boys Too is his his movie to where he
Speaker 1: could still play and not have to fully focus on
Speaker 1: the movie. But like we'll put on movies that like
Speaker 1: you have to focus on, so you put the controller
Speaker 1: down and that can actually watch. That was like the
Speaker 1: Showshank Redemption, Like we watched and like that's a classic,
Speaker 1: so you so you have to like put everything down.
Speaker 1: That was that was funny because like I remember, we
Speaker 1: put that on and then we turn a light off
Speaker 1: and it was literally like a movie night. Everyone was
Speaker 1: just watching everyone, everyone in the game. Everyone turned their
Speaker 1: game off and we were on this watch. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: that's a that's a great movie. What's a movie to
Speaker 1: get people through this quarantine process? Uh? Man, there there's
Speaker 1: a lot. I mean, if you like classic movies, my
Speaker 1: favorite all time is the one that Flew the Cuckoo's
Speaker 1: Nest with Jack Nicholson. Um, that's one that I told
Speaker 1: Rading we still got to watch. I'll love that one.
Speaker 1: Uh let's go action. What's your this action movie? Action movie?
Speaker 1: I'd probably be like Endgame or like or like, oh,
Speaker 1: infinite any any of the movie Definite Plus we've cracked
Speaker 1: a bunch of those. What about if you're having a
Speaker 1: Netflix and chill? Oh god, like a romantic movie? Which
Speaker 1: one would you call romance? I get you watched the
Speaker 1: other day was pretty good. I mean it wasn't it
Speaker 1: was what was I was just gonna say, like the Notebook,
Speaker 1: but what do we never seen that? We never seen
Speaker 1: romantic movie. So now I'm wondering, what the hell are
Speaker 1: we that one? What the do She's out of your league? Oh,
Speaker 1: she's out of your league? Yeah? Okay, so that's not
Speaker 1: fully comedy. Yeah, that's commanding comedy. She's out of your league?
Speaker 1: Or she's there's that one. There's that one with Ashton
Speaker 1: Kutcher when he's white and he goes the black girl.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, with Bernie mac I can't remember that's on
Speaker 1: net place? About this one? Bank it's a good one.
Speaker 1: I can't remember that one. I've been watching sweeth Home Alabama.
Speaker 1: Have you all watched that One's a good one. Yeah?
Speaker 1: What is that movie called Sleepless? Okay, Mama Scratch said, Taken,
Speaker 1: Enemy of the State, Sleepless, Sence Seattle? Okay, was Taken?
Speaker 1: Taken a good movie? Yeah? I thought we were on
Speaker 1: the romantics. Okay, we watched Taking a good one. I think, yeah,
Speaker 1: a lot of you you can't go wrong with any
Speaker 1: of like the adventure, like the the villain superhero, kind
Speaker 1: of like themes, but take Him with Liam Nelson. I
Speaker 1: thought that was good it's it's a good movie. There's
Speaker 1: just two many now there's like three or no, no,
Speaker 1: not you don't think the stopping which one's not good?
Speaker 1: Pretty much everything after the first wait taken? Oh, that's
Speaker 1: not the movie. I'm I'm thinking about the one with
Speaker 1: Ti t Oh you're talking about wait at l No, No,
Speaker 1: Chris Brown, that's Brown? Oh are you talking about? That's
Speaker 1: what I thought y'all were talking about. Y'all are talking
Speaker 1: about you wach Um. Yeah, but since you know, we
Speaker 1: we scream all day and then uh usually we still
Speaker 1: play like some sort of game after at night. Usually
Speaker 1: we'll throw on a couple of movies. UM. And usually
Speaker 1: based on what the movie is, we're either paying attention
Speaker 1: or if it's like a classic or if it's not
Speaker 1: a classic, then we'll still play and just like look
Speaker 1: over every once we're off the TV. UM. Now a
Speaker 1: TV show though I'm always I saw people talking about
Speaker 1: this on Twitter the other day. UM, I still like
Speaker 1: The Office. I've always liked The Office. UM. Another show
Speaker 1: that if you if if you are watching with a
Speaker 1: significant other, UM, that is funny is it's called New Girl.
Speaker 1: That's a good one with Zoe Deschanel. Did you watch that?
Speaker 1: They're pretty funny? Your line if you don't think you're funny,
Speaker 1: they're really funny. Um. I used to die on the
Speaker 1: Ondus watching that kind of stuff. But those are like
Speaker 1: two shows that that are like go toos for me. Um.
Speaker 1: I have both of you watched Tiger King already? Yes?
Speaker 1: Did you watch a new episode? There's a new episode. Oh,
Speaker 1: there's a new episode of I can't remember the guy's name,
Speaker 1: but the Jeff guy, right that, the guy that took
Speaker 1: over this. No, no, no, there's a there's a comedian
Speaker 1: actor who contacted Netflix and said he wants to do
Speaker 1: a live interview with the remaining cast members. So that
Speaker 1: if you want Netflix right now and go to Tiger King,
Speaker 1: there's a new episode and it's him interviewing the remaining characters.
Speaker 1: So he's interviewing them and just for closure on something,
Speaker 1: you haven't watched any of them? Oh, you have to
Speaker 1: watch them. They're good. I mean, everybody's probably got to
Speaker 1: see that before this whole quarantine process is over. Um,
Speaker 1: it's obviously pretty good. But I mean there's there's a
Speaker 1: bunch of things you guys could watch. Hot Shot said, Radiant,
Speaker 1: leave this, let's play Madden. We have the Doctor the documentary.
Speaker 1: He's coming out a little bit, uh speaking on that.
Speaker 1: We didn't touch on that, but uh, that's something that
Speaker 1: wanted to talk about. How did it feel making as
Speaker 1: far as you did in Madden in the in the
Speaker 1: off season, Like that was a huge accomplishm No, I
Speaker 1: feel like like not many people can just go, um,
Speaker 1: it felt good because I remember in the last Madden
Speaker 1: I tried to do it, but I didn't put as
Speaker 1: much time and I did this year into it, and
Speaker 1: like I just remember when I was playing, when I
Speaker 1: was playing people online and even last year, like when
Speaker 1: I played like good people like pros and I wasn't
Speaker 1: losing by much. That's when I was like, Okay, it's
Speaker 1: I understood Madden. I just needed to do a couple
Speaker 1: of things. And that's when I started talking to Skimbo
Speaker 1: and Dubbie and they started helping me. And then once
Speaker 1: they started helping me, I felt like, Okay, now I
Speaker 1: understand what I gotta do against certain things and that
Speaker 1: I can like beat it, damn or anybody. So like
Speaker 1: once I had that feeling towards Madden, like I don't
Speaker 1: even think like if I think it felt better than
Speaker 1: winning in two K because like just being able to
Speaker 1: do like I knew I could play two K, but
Speaker 1: being able to do something else at a high level. No,
Speaker 1: it felt good, and you know it probably you know,
Speaker 1: suck for other people losing me, because like people people
Speaker 1: did this as like their only thing. They wanted to
Speaker 1: do it so bad that I'm doing it, it's just
Speaker 1: like my second thing. But you know, looking back now
Speaker 1: that like obviously my man runs over. But looking back
Speaker 1: and like, I think, I think I accomplished a lot,
Speaker 1: especially you know, just expanding, getting like getting my name
Speaker 1: out to new people. And you know, even next year,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna play Man and again, you know, try to
Speaker 1: do it, Try to do it, try to do it
Speaker 1: two times. Obviously, like I watched, and a lot of
Speaker 1: the two KY community watched, but I knew that guy.
Speaker 1: I thought you were a lick. Like I think he
Speaker 1: thought he was just gonna like just just run through
Speaker 1: you real fast. I don't remember their names, but the
Speaker 1: very first one you played but I lost. No, when
Speaker 1: that you won, he looks so confident going in that,
Speaker 1: which is obviously you have to be confident. But yeah,
Speaker 1: he was like kind of short, yes, yeah, yeah, but
Speaker 1: he seems yeah, but I knew right away, like right
Speaker 1: when you took out because you started off hot and
Speaker 1: then just destroyed him. But I was like, yeah, that's
Speaker 1: kind of like how Radiant is. He's a game ahead.
Speaker 1: And Toxic said what a group of three? And Hotshed said,
Speaker 1: I really jumped radiance Madden career. So do you give
Speaker 1: like a big shout out to hot Shot for right
Speaker 1: now when we won against will hot I will flood
Speaker 1: And he knows that too. He might not say it
Speaker 1: in chat, but bro stop, I remember we played. This
Speaker 1: is before I got all the help from anybody. This
Speaker 1: is just me playing man, getting it out the mud.
Speaker 1: Hot Shot came to my hotel room, ran his pockets,
Speaker 1: and he left sad. That's all I gotta say. That
Speaker 1: was season one, wasn't it? That was season one? Because
Speaker 1: I remember I used to bring my game everywhere, every time,
Speaker 1: every time, every single game crushed. Really group of loyal men,
Speaker 1: hot Shot said, But ask him who helped him, Ask
Speaker 1: him who helped him, who got him going? Ask him
Speaker 1: when I when I first started playing Madden, I was
Speaker 1: playing hot Shot. He did eat like and I think
Speaker 1: it was I want to say man and eighteen he
Speaker 1: really likes showed me the ropes, like, because I was
Speaker 1: just not didn't you say that just got all of
Speaker 1: his stuff off YouTube? Though, yes, listen, this is how
Speaker 1: we're hot gets on YouTube, he gets in the party.
Speaker 1: We will play squads. He was just beating up on
Speaker 1: these bombs and how's how'd you do that? And he
Speaker 1: would tell me like, oh, I'm like okay, I mean
Speaker 1: he didn't on YouTube and see a video kind of
Speaker 1: the same. You're like, whoa, that's kind of like what
Speaker 1: Hota told me to do. And you're like, how do
Speaker 1: you modest some YouTube videos? He said, tell him, I
Speaker 1: get it from Gabe. I hear radiant and hot yelling
Speaker 1: a Gabe all day when oh man, Um, does anybody
Speaker 1: in the chat have any questions before? Once again, we're
Speaker 1: gonna probably get out of here before the Jordan documentary tonight.
Speaker 1: We're get all set up for that. We're definitely excited
Speaker 1: for that. But it's gonna be good. I mean, we're
Speaker 1: gonna probably close it out here in a little bit.
Speaker 1: We'll take some last questions. Um, keep getting through the days. Uh,
Speaker 1: I don't know, it's tough. We're still I feel like
Speaker 1: every week. It's hard to give them like new advice
Speaker 1: and stuff because we're still right here and I'm still
Speaker 1: trying to give you guys like as much content as
Speaker 1: possible and let you guys in on our lives a
Speaker 1: little bit. Um. If you guys are wondering what we've
Speaker 1: kind of been doing, we've you know, we scream every
Speaker 1: day and then we'll get on like call duty or
Speaker 1: whatever after rating gets on mad and we'll watch our
Speaker 1: movies and then go to sleep and wake up and
Speaker 1: kind of do the same thing all over again. Yeah,
Speaker 1: pretty much the same thing every day, every day. And
Speaker 1: we thought it wasn't gonna be that, like, like we
Speaker 1: obviously thought at the beginning of this, like it wasn't
Speaker 1: gonna be like that for too long, And now it
Speaker 1: just seems like this is this is life. It's just
Speaker 1: gonna be like its gonna like you're probably not gonna
Speaker 1: be a go anyway without a mask for like a year,
Speaker 1: Like that's not like it's gonna be like this for
Speaker 1: for a while a while. It's just gonna be life.
Speaker 1: You're not even gonna think of nothing after a while.
Speaker 1: It's just gonna be normal. Yeah, is there any questions uh,
Speaker 1: do we see anything. I don't see any other questions.
Speaker 1: I think we're gonna wrap it up for today. We
Speaker 1: appreciate everybody tuning in, asking questions, being active in the chat,
Speaker 1: and yeah, we'll talk to you all later. Thanks, have
Speaker 1: we going, guys, M