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Speaker 3: All right, guys, on today's Drop, we're gonna briefly touch
Speaker 3: on last night's games, a whole lot of defense being
Speaker 3: played in the NBA. Last night Task has our Worst
Speaker 3: of the Week nominees and our winner.
Speaker 4: You can't wait, we.
Speaker 3: Got the nickname game, It's back, baby, Tweet of the Night,
Speaker 3: and so much more. But first, the All Star starters
Speaker 3: have been announced. Here they are guys. In the East,
Speaker 3: your captain once again, Yannis, your other forwards Joel Embiid,
Speaker 3: Pascal Siakam, and your guards Trey Young and Kemba Walker.
Speaker 3: In the West Lebron again the Captain, his bigs a
Speaker 3: d Anthony Davis and Kawhi Leonard, and in the backcourt
Speaker 3: Luca and Hardin. I think, overall pretty well done. But
Speaker 3: do you have a snub Is there somebody that you
Speaker 3: were at least shock maybe made it into the starting
Speaker 3: ten or it should have been someone else. Can you
Speaker 3: make the case. Can you get worked up about it
Speaker 3: or is it fine?
Speaker 4: No matter if you get worked up or not. I
Speaker 4: think everybody in the universe, everybody in the universe will
Speaker 4: look at those ten stars and say, hey, they should
Speaker 4: all be in the All Star Game. So it's not
Speaker 4: a big deal that they got in. But I would
Speaker 4: say the guy who's got snubbed is Kyrie Irving because
Speaker 4: I think the coaches, not me, I don't think he
Speaker 4: should be in the All Star Game. At all, but
Speaker 4: the coaches are likely not to make him a reserve.
Speaker 4: I think if he was going to get in, he
Speaker 4: would have gotten in as a starter and a starter
Speaker 4: only he's played in sixteen of his team's forty three games.
Speaker 4: It's not a lot, and that's thirty seven percent according
Speaker 4: to my calculator on my Apple Mac computer. And if
Speaker 4: you look at the player ranking and the media ranking
Speaker 4: for Kyrie Irving, he's six the Monk Guards, so I
Speaker 4: think the coaches will be in the same boat. So
Speaker 4: I think he got snubbed. Although he said I was
Speaker 4: voting for an Ostar game, I'd want to see me
Speaker 4: in there, you know what. I would want to see
Speaker 4: carry everything else the game. So maybe I'm wrong. Maybe
Speaker 4: I do want to see him. But the best ability
Speaker 4: is availability, is what I've heard, and he hasn't been
Speaker 4: able to do that.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: And also I think as well he might rub up
Speaker 5: the coaches a few of them the wrong way too,
Speaker 5: shrub them up. Yeah, So I don't think that helps
Speaker 5: his case. But personally, I think the biggest snub for
Speaker 5: this game, or for this starting position, was actually Kyle Lowry.
Speaker 5: In the end, I swerved back on Kyle Lowry look
Speaker 5: and honestly, I read Zachlow's All Star article there, yeah,
Speaker 5: and he had him in there. He made a strong case.
Speaker 5: You know, Kyle is just a great play He missed
Speaker 5: a lot of games with injuries, but he really has
Speaker 5: been brilliant this season when he's played for the Raptors.
Speaker 5: And I think the respect factor comes in there as well.
Speaker 5: And not to disrespect Tray Young for what he's doing
Speaker 5: on a bad team here in Atlanta, but I think
Speaker 5: Kyle Lowry has kept his team. You know, siachm has
Speaker 5: been great. They had a lot of great contributors. But
Speaker 5: I love the heart and the hustle that he plays with,
Speaker 5: and the energy and the determination, and sometimes that can
Speaker 5: be enough to sort of when you are trying to,
Speaker 5: you know, find a reason to pick one guy or
Speaker 5: over another. That's that's what I would like to see.
Speaker 5: So I think Lowry will get in any way. I
Speaker 5: think he's gonna make it. The coach is gonna put
Speaker 5: him in there. But I think the respect vote, the
Speaker 5: sort of legacy vote, whatever you want to call it,
Speaker 5: I think I would have liked to see Lowry get
Speaker 5: it this season because of everything he has achieved.
Speaker 3: Something that sort of tasks was talking, But do you
Speaker 3: think Trey Young is a deserving All Star? Maybe not
Speaker 3: a starter, but an All Star this year?
Speaker 5: Yes? I do, Okay, I'll come around them.
Speaker 3: Then it comes down, do you really truly care who
Speaker 3: starts the All Star Game? Like does that matter to
Speaker 3: you at all? Whether you know you're an All Star selection?
Speaker 3: But do we ever go, oh, he was a ten
Speaker 3: time All Star, but he started three times. I don't
Speaker 3: know about that, Like, we don't.
Speaker 6: You care about it in the moment. You care about
Speaker 6: it while it's happening up until this week, and we
Speaker 6: care about it this week, and then we'll care about
Speaker 6: it at the draft, and then we'll just look at
Speaker 6: the Basketball Reference page and it says all Star, Right,
Speaker 6: It's all that really matters, And yeah, Trey Young is
Speaker 6: a deserving All Star because the East guards are really.
Speaker 3: Tough to pick.
Speaker 6: Honestly, I think it that you see Bradley Beal finishing
Speaker 6: second in the player rank, that to me just says
Speaker 6: there are no great candidates. Because Bradley Beal's candidacy for
Speaker 6: an All Star birth is the same as Trey Young's.
Speaker 6: It's the same as Zach Lavin's. You're playing on a
Speaker 6: bad team, you're taking all the shots, you're the main
Speaker 6: offensive guy. But Bradley bial has been there doing it
Speaker 6: for the longest, so he finishes second among players, right.
Speaker 5: I will say though, with this starting spot, I think
Speaker 5: it means something to the players because it's kind of
Speaker 5: like All NBA First Team. It's even though you're still
Speaker 5: an All NBA player for second or third, first team
Speaker 5: just gives you that little bit more. And I think
Speaker 5: being a starter as well, the players would like that
Speaker 5: a little bit more. And you're right, when we go
Speaker 5: back and evaluate, you only see eleven time All Star whatever.
Speaker 5: But I think if you're Kyle Lowry, he's probably looking
Speaker 5: at Trey Young saying, come on, man, he's in his
Speaker 5: second season. Like I've I've been around this league a
Speaker 5: long time. I've achieved a lot more. I'm more deer.
Speaker 4: That's just my Yeah, players care, Yeah, I mean Bradley
Speaker 4: Beal told Chris Hanes this week, after seeing that, you know,
Speaker 4: the voting come down, he told him on his posted
Speaker 4: up podcast that fan shun well because he cares. He
Speaker 4: cares that he's not voting. Yeah, and as you said,
Speaker 4: he finished second in in Uh what is that the
Speaker 4: player player. So that's gonna be an indicator of where
Speaker 4: the coaches vote him, too, right, I think I think
Speaker 4: they probably put him in because he's been there before,
Speaker 4: because he's a two time All Star. They always like
Speaker 4: to vote the old dudes. Definitely, No, you're right.
Speaker 3: I just back to the Trey Young thing. My point
Speaker 3: is I can't get myself too worked up about him
Speaker 3: being voted as a starter if I also then believe
Speaker 3: he's just gonna be there anyway, Like yeah, if you
Speaker 3: don't think that, then sure, then you're upset. You're like,
Speaker 3: how can a guy be Yeah, he's got awesome stats,
Speaker 3: but he's maybe one of the worst defenders in the
Speaker 3: league and his team has won eleven games at the
Speaker 3: bottom of the barrel. Like, Okay, if you don't want
Speaker 3: him starting, well, then then to me, you sort of
Speaker 3: got to leave him completely off your team. But there's
Speaker 3: a lot of like this, like he doesn't deserve to start,
Speaker 3: but yeah, he's probably still an All Star. Like I mean,
Speaker 3: like I just heard Simmons and Rissillo and the house
Speaker 3: do all that. They're like, god, all upset about what
Speaker 3: I got. Like Trey Young winning means something, and in
Speaker 3: the end when they were making their final picks, They're like, yeah, Trey,
Speaker 3: I'm still an All Star. So it's like, who cares that?
Speaker 2: Really?
Speaker 4: Honestly, the thing good thing for him is that he
Speaker 4: is an Eastern Conference backcourt player, and it's such a
Speaker 4: wishy washy spot. It's the weakest of all four positions here. Yeah, right,
Speaker 4: if he was a let's say he was a Western
Speaker 4: Conference front court player with the likes of Lebron, Anthony Davis,
Speaker 4: Kawhi Jokich, Paul George, then maybe he doesn't get an ingram.
Speaker 4: There's tons of dud Rudy Gobert. But but then, yeah,
Speaker 4: I understand where the arguments come in because now he's
Speaker 4: battling Lowry Levine Simmons, like he'll bel Yeah, if he
Speaker 4: wasn't a starter on your team, then he's he's sort
Speaker 4: of a borderline guy. But I think, also, I guess
Speaker 4: a loser in all this is, you know, the players
Speaker 4: in media voted Zach Levine pretty low. I think we're
Speaker 4: a loser because he's not going to be an All Star.
Speaker 4: Doesn't look like if that's an indicator, And I think
Speaker 4: he's not going to be in the dunk contest it's
Speaker 4: just a guess, but I think he's going to be angry.
Speaker 4: He sees a guy like Trey Young get in his
Speaker 4: first All Star game. Zach Lavine has not been an
Speaker 4: All Star. He's balling. It's in his hometown. He said
Speaker 4: he'd rather be in the don contest if he is
Speaker 4: an All Star as well. It doesn't vote well for
Speaker 4: us if we want to see old Zach on Saturday Night.
Speaker 4: But yeah, who knows.
Speaker 6: Oh, you're gonna see him. He's going to do the
Speaker 6: three point contest. That's gonna be the thing that's gonna way.
Speaker 6: Oh boy, Well hopefully he wins that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we were talking about here. The two biggest discrepancies
Speaker 3: in the NBA All Star voting from fans to players
Speaker 3: to media were that Kyrie because he was voted second
Speaker 3: by the fans but only sixth by the players and
Speaker 3: the media. And then Beale voted ninth by the fans
Speaker 3: but second by the players and fifth by the media.
Speaker 3: I'm also like, look, I'll throw a little love to
Speaker 3: Jimmy Butler. I know when we were making our All
Speaker 3: Star starter selections, you know it was, well, who do
Speaker 3: you have? As we know Giannis is there, But then
Speaker 3: who are the other two guys? Is of Embiid Siakam
Speaker 3: and Butler, because Butler, I mean the whole thing here
Speaker 3: too is Butler. If he was a guard, then this
Speaker 3: is all perfect. Then we're all happy. We're like, oh,
Speaker 3: Jimmy Butler's the second guard with Kemba, We're good to go.
Speaker 3: But he's not. He was a forward on the ballot,
Speaker 3: and he finished fourth in the fan vote for front court,
Speaker 3: third in the media vote, so they actually had him
Speaker 3: above Siakam, but he was not in the top five
Speaker 3: of the player vote. So then in the end he
Speaker 3: sort of film and.
Speaker 6: Teammate. That's a surprise to me.
Speaker 3: That really was too to me. But you know, look,
Speaker 3: I again, he's going to be there, so I can't
Speaker 3: get so so upset about it. Like there's if he
Speaker 3: is not selected by the coaches, then wow, then all right,
Speaker 3: well you know, like Charles I won't be going to Chicago,
Speaker 3: I'll say it, but he will be. So it's it's
Speaker 3: it doesn't really matter.
Speaker 4: Players voted Bam Jimmy Butler. Either they're watching Miami Heat
Speaker 4: games or they don't like Jimmy Butler.
Speaker 3: It could be the latter. There quite a bit I
Speaker 3: think it's fair to think these reserves by the way
Speaker 3: the coaches pick them. They're going to be announced next
Speaker 3: Thursday on TNT. We'll have a bonus podcast on Tuesday
Speaker 3: this coming Tuesday where we make and debate our reserve picks.
Speaker 3: I like that we now know the starters and now
Speaker 3: we're forced to pick, you know, seven from each conference,
Speaker 3: so that'll be fun. But let's play you know, a
Speaker 3: little hypothetical here. We know the captains have to pick
Speaker 3: first when they do the draft from the starters, right,
Speaker 3: So Lebron he's gonna have the first pick. He's on
Speaker 3: the clock. Who will he take from these you know,
Speaker 3: eight other starters obviously can't take you, honest, being the other.
Speaker 4: Captain for sure.
Speaker 3: Anthony Davis, even though he was joking with Christal last
Speaker 3: night after the.
Speaker 5: Game, Yeah, I can't of imagine he's gonna pick someone
Speaker 5: who's not his teammate, who's a free agent this summer
Speaker 5: as well, and he took exactly I mean, let an
Speaker 5: interview there with Kristin. Maybe maybe he's trying to build
Speaker 5: it up a little bit. Yeah, there's no way he's
Speaker 5: not gonna take his own teammate.
Speaker 6: Which is too bad. It's too bad he can't draft
Speaker 6: be honest and start tampering. It's too bad that he
Speaker 6: is gonna take Anthony Davis first, which means he's not
Speaker 6: gonna take Luca another tampering opportunity. There are a couple
Speaker 6: of big swings that Lebron could be taking during the
Speaker 6: draft that he's not going to be able to because
Speaker 6: his teammate is there. He's got to keep that bond strong.
Speaker 6: And there's nothing that's a bigger diss than being picked
Speaker 6: less or lower than first than an altar. Yeah, you
Speaker 6: don't want to.
Speaker 4: I mean, he could really set the internet on fire
Speaker 4: if you took even Kawhi.
Speaker 5: Well, he might want to pick because heights going up
Speaker 5: against exactly.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Lebron ain't afraid. He's uh, he's perfect right now
Speaker 3: as Team Lebron as captain of the All Star Game,
Speaker 3: he's two and oh that speaks well who is drafting
Speaker 3: skills and his play on the court and leading those
Speaker 3: guys to victory. So Jannis is the one that really
Speaker 3: needs this because Lebron beat Curry the first year and
Speaker 3: Giannis last year, and it'll have those two going head
Speaker 3: to head. I wonder who Giannie will take first. Like,
Speaker 3: I'm with you, guys, I think eighty is the number
Speaker 3: one pick. Then Giannis goes where does he go? Here?
Speaker 3: Does he go Luca?
Speaker 5: Oh? Yeah, right? Does he go?
Speaker 3: Does he go? Kawhi? I think he got to say
Speaker 3: this thing's maybe he sticks with I think he took
Speaker 3: him beat very high last year when he was drafting again,
Speaker 3: so maybe he goes there. But it's beat even playing.
Speaker 3: Who knows?
Speaker 5: So yeah, I think you guys, Luca actually Luca has
Speaker 5: been the star this season and he wants to have
Speaker 5: him money his team. They'll they'll work well together.
Speaker 4: So I think he goes east. He keeps it easy
Speaker 4: and keeps it and keeps it Team Africa, possibly drafting
Speaker 4: Joel Embiid in pastal.
Speaker 3: I think that hossible. So I saw this question from ESPN.
Speaker 3: I think it's a fun one because we have three
Speaker 3: first time All Stars that are starters, right. I think
Speaker 3: I have that right in Luca and Tree Young. Who
Speaker 3: is going to be the next player to be a
Speaker 3: first time All Star starter? If you're like, is it Zion?
Speaker 3: Is it someone All Stars?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Like if who would be the next person down the line?
Speaker 3: I thought that was a fun question, like Zion Williamson,
Speaker 3: Ja moranswers Ion. I guess it's.
Speaker 6: They're in the next stuff. I would say a being
Speaker 6: town Boy could definitely be in the mix. They do
Speaker 6: obviously quite well in voting. Maybe ad Jason Tatum next
Speaker 6: he actually takes over and is the number one guy.
Speaker 6: I suppose he can sneak in there, though I guess
Speaker 6: the front court in the East is kind of unsettled, Like,
Speaker 6: I mean, you're not guaranteed to be voting in Siakam
Speaker 6: and then beat every single year.
Speaker 5: Yeah it maybe a Donovan Mitchell could sneak in next
Speaker 5: season if he has a great season, because but he
Speaker 5: could make it.
Speaker 3: As a reserve this ikay, Yeah, wipe them from the board.
Speaker 3: Same with like a Bam or something like that too.
Speaker 3: But sabonus even you know, that's the tough part of that.
Speaker 3: But like it's really looking at next year. Who doesn't
Speaker 3: make it this year could be starting like a Luca
Speaker 3: or Trey I think Zion or Jaw yeah Josh, probably
Speaker 3: your two favorites there.
Speaker 4: You Yeah, ultimately he would have to take James Harden
Speaker 4: spot right because Luca ain't going nowhere from those Western guards.
Speaker 4: But yeah, maybe there'll be a little bit of a
Speaker 4: backlash against James Harden. You got to score forty or
Speaker 4: unless you're if you want to start in this game. Son,
Speaker 4: I did like that.
Speaker 3: I guess it was the media. They only voted when
Speaker 3: they were looking at their Western Conference backcourt. They only
Speaker 3: picked from three guys. It was Luca, Harden and a
Speaker 3: little got all the votes. But then it looked funny
Speaker 3: because there was like they had on the graphic last
Speaker 3: night with their aound, Westbrook is fourth, and everyone's like,
Speaker 3: what Westbrook's forth? What was the media doing? But it
Speaker 3: was just because Westbrook was tied with everyone else because
Speaker 3: no one else got to vote. Yeah, in fourth place
Speaker 3: from the media. When it came to the West backward,
Speaker 3: I thought it was pretty.
Speaker 4: Fall It was weird. It is weird when you look
Speaker 4: down the spreadsheet. Yeah, and the players vote for everybody,
Speaker 4: because I guess that's what they do. They just they
Speaker 4: literally gave a vote to everybody, like twenty one guys.
Speaker 4: I think it seemed like they voted for twenty one
Speaker 4: guys in most cases. I don't know, maybe I'm looking
Speaker 4: at the wrong spreadsheet, but they did more voting than
Speaker 4: the media. I thought if you're a voter, you vote,
Speaker 4: you vote all the way down the ballot. But I
Speaker 4: guess you just voted for the starters and you said.
Speaker 3: Yeah, No, that's why you said yeah, yeah. You just
Speaker 3: picked your guys and lock them in. And no one
Speaker 3: was taking Westbrook or Mitchell or Booker Morant or Chris
Speaker 3: Paul or Russell or Cray. Like when it came to
Speaker 3: the media making their picks, yeah, which is a no brainer.
Speaker 3: It should be from one of those three guys in
Speaker 3: your Luca, your hearts, your little Yeah.
Speaker 4: But the Eastern Conference guards is the spot where everybody
Speaker 4: got votes from the media. Jaalen Brown got a starting
Speaker 4: vote right right, bunch of people.
Speaker 3: And that goes to speak again to like just how
Speaker 3: sort of open ended it was, and in the weird
Speaker 3: way sort of Tray just sort of fell into it
Speaker 3: because he had such a fan vote. Yeah, I think
Speaker 3: that was a big part of it. But he should
Speaker 3: be pretty fun in the All Star Game.
Speaker 6: So goes to show you fans like three pointers. Ben
Speaker 6: Simmons is fourth in player voting, third in media voting,
Speaker 6: but eighth in fan voting, because you know, people want
Speaker 6: to see those threes. So if people tell you that
Speaker 6: too many threes is the reason ratings are down. Too
Speaker 6: many threes is the reason the guys are at the
Speaker 6: top of the voting here. People actually like three pointers.
Speaker 6: Trey Young is the first All Star voting here.
Speaker 3: What did you guys think of the All Star weekend uniforms.
Speaker 3: We saw a whole bunch of them. We got the
Speaker 3: red and blue All Star Game ones, the purple and
Speaker 3: orange Rising Stars ones, the green and pink Celebrity Game ones,
Speaker 3: and then the yellow and the brown Nike NBA Cares
Speaker 3: Special Olympics Unified.
Speaker 6: Game one, DHL versus UPS, Yellow versus Brown. I mean,
Speaker 6: I love them.
Speaker 4: They look awesome.
Speaker 6: I'm gonna try and pull some strings and get some
Speaker 6: orange Chicago shorts, no doubt about that. I thought the
Speaker 6: All Star Game ones were kind of my least favorite
Speaker 6: of the crew. But uh, I can't get I can't
Speaker 6: get mad at a nod to Chicago. Even if the
Speaker 6: six pointed star looks a little weird out there.
Speaker 3: Yeah with the NBA, yeah it does look a little strange.
Speaker 3: They are pretty basic. I gotta be honest. The red
Speaker 3: and blue just All Star Game.
Speaker 6: They got pin stripes. I guess you know they're fine.
Speaker 6: They got pin stripes, but they're better than the black
Speaker 6: and white ones.
Speaker 3: You like them more?
Speaker 6: Yeah, definitely, Yeah, they should be something funky.
Speaker 3: I do love the purple World Rising Stars ones and
Speaker 3: the orange USA ones. I think awesome. You can't buy
Speaker 3: those though, the team really Yeah, the World in USA jers.
Speaker 3: I've never seen being able to purchase them online anywhere.
Speaker 3: I'm sure someone like he could have hook you up,
Speaker 3: but yeah, I don't think you can. I don't think
Speaker 3: you can. But god, I would love a World one
Speaker 3: Little she Gildes Alexander World one there beautiful color.
Speaker 4: Is Brown making a comeback? I mean, was Brown ever
Speaker 4: at the top of anyone's list? I guess comeback's not
Speaker 4: the right word. Maybe Brown's on the rise.
Speaker 3: Is Brown having a moment yet?
Speaker 4: Not yet, but soon?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I think so.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I just imagine and somebody walking down to the pool
Speaker 6: full NBA brown uniform just kicking back. I was thinking about, like,
Speaker 6: this is cool man brown uniforms. I'd love to have
Speaker 6: a pair of brown shorts. But then I'm like, I
Speaker 6: have khaki shorts. What's the difference.
Speaker 3: Really? Oh, I just thought of it. You know, it's unfortunate,
Speaker 3: I said Celebrity game were the green and pink jerseys,
Speaker 3: and then that the special Olympics game is the yellow
Speaker 3: brown man. We could have had a green versus brown
Speaker 3: like celebrity game or even the special games like that
Speaker 3: would have been awesome. The Compost Bowl, yeah, compost cop
Speaker 3: Oh my god.
Speaker 4: Just promoting composting all around the world. That's what it's about.
Speaker 4: That's right.
Speaker 3: It's Green Week. Everyone in there, all right, So that's
Speaker 3: enough for the All Star starters. Again. On Tuesday, we'll
Speaker 3: have a special podcast where we make our picks. We
Speaker 3: will officially be the last people in the media to
Speaker 3: make our All Star figs after the draft. You want
Speaker 3: to do it after Yeah, here's what it should have been. Okay,
Speaker 3: we can do that too, all right, Just quickly, last
Speaker 3: night's games, again, I was joking, not a lot of
Speaker 3: defense because they're they're sure wasn't. Lakers won twenty eight
Speaker 3: nets one thirteen. Lakers hit nineteen threes in this one.
Speaker 3: Looked like a cool game, though, I mean, just to
Speaker 3: stick with the aesthetic. Look, we've talked about it before.
Speaker 3: That court. Then you get that other team in there
Speaker 3: with a popa color that yellow, the Lakers gold, whatever,
Speaker 3: looks so cool. But what everybody think of this one?
Speaker 3: Lakers nets close and then the Lakers just went on
Speaker 3: a massive, massive run at the end of the third
Speaker 3: and then into the early fourth.
Speaker 5: The Lakers shot exactly fifty percent from the field, exactly
Speaker 5: fifty percent from three, and exactly seventy five percent from
Speaker 5: the free throw line.
Speaker 3: Last night like that.
Speaker 5: It's pretty amazing, isn't to have it so precise like that?
Speaker 5: It just felt like a three point shootout. Actually, yeah,
Speaker 5: last night, I felt that Wilson Chandler was on fire.
Speaker 5: He knocks I mean early, but yeah, the Lake is
Speaker 5: just it just felt that anytime they needed a basket,
Speaker 5: they someone hit a three, and uh, you know that
Speaker 5: was That's the Lake is one of the strengths that
Speaker 5: they have. They have that, guys, you can knock me out.
Speaker 5: Jared Dudley hit that one at the end of the Yeah, yeah, when.
Speaker 3: He celebrated, Yeah, I mean it was very funny. He
Speaker 3: was looking like bumper cars out there bumping into everybody,
Speaker 3: but he went nuts. It was a cool pass from
Speaker 3: Rondo actually to set that up too, lend an awesome
Speaker 3: pass too.
Speaker 4: It's terrible watching Jared Dudley celebrate though, right, what do
Speaker 4: you mean he's literally not jumping. He's like you when
Speaker 4: you so you call it bumper cars. It's you know,
Speaker 4: jumping up, hitting bodies, you know, banging into your teammates.
Speaker 4: He jumped, jumped, and I throw the jump in air
Speaker 4: quotes because he jumped six times. He hit six guys.
Speaker 4: But it's literally he doesn't get off the floor. But
Speaker 4: that even that Rondo pass was was a beauty pass
Speaker 4: to him for that left handed Rondo lob just over
Speaker 4: over a guy. Rondo was great with the passes.
Speaker 3: Yeah, some beauty last night. Him and Lebron were throwing.
Speaker 4: Unbullie, especially when the nets aren't on a string. Defensively
Speaker 4: makes the passes look better. The impressive part was the
Speaker 4: Lakers turning on the defense when they needed to from
Speaker 4: the third into the fourth and doubling Kyrie or Spencer Dinwiddie.
Speaker 4: And maybe Kyrie is right they need another guy to
Speaker 4: be able to create a bigger guy. Hey, maybe they
Speaker 4: need Kevin Durant. If he's out there, I think they
Speaker 4: probably they're probably pretty good against this Lakers, but it's
Speaker 4: good for the Lakers. That bodes well. They could just
Speaker 4: shut down guys when they need to.
Speaker 6: Yeah, they can really just shrink the court by putting
Speaker 6: a whole bunch of size out there. Dwight got the
Speaker 6: start last night. So it's Dwight, A d and Lebron,
Speaker 6: which is a pretty formidable front court because Avery Bradley
Speaker 6: and Danny Green are then able to kind of hound
Speaker 6: the ball handlers, and then you got to deal with
Speaker 6: Lebron being sort of a free safety to help there.
Speaker 6: And then of course Anthony Davis and Dwight are going
Speaker 6: to be at the rim. That's tough, especially when you're
Speaker 6: getting so many three pointers off the bench as well.
Speaker 6: So a really great team effort for the Lakers last night.
Speaker 6: In the nets, they're not looking good. They could use
Speaker 6: the All Star.
Speaker 3: Break, yeah they could. And all the Lakers started playing
Speaker 3: defense for a stretch there to take control of the game.
Speaker 3: It did feel like an All Star game because of
Speaker 3: just the no defense being played, and you know, the
Speaker 3: three pointers fly and left and right, and just like
Speaker 3: all these little hook passes and stuff like. It was
Speaker 3: it was pretty chill on the defensive end until again, Yeah,
Speaker 3: the Lakers really locked in for a little bit there
Speaker 3: and that was enough. Eighties block on Kyrie though, oh
Speaker 3: oh oh, yeah, God, the highlight looks awesome. He looks
Speaker 3: so high. I know it's the angle a little bit,
Speaker 3: but he is super high as well because the guy's
Speaker 3: at giant too. That Yeah, Like his hand looks like
Speaker 3: it's at the top of the backboard. I know it's not,
Speaker 3: but my god, it's unbelievable. I like their little exchange
Speaker 3: they had there too. Yeah, yeah, that's pretty funny. Lebron
Speaker 3: closed within seventeen points of Kobe for number three on
Speaker 3: the NBA's career scoring list with that little flurry he
Speaker 3: had in the fourth so he can pass Kobe on
Speaker 3: Saturday in Philadelphia. Yeah, that's a lock. Grew up. Yeah,
Speaker 3: And I think Lebron has like mapped this out too.
Speaker 3: He's like, I'm doing this achievement on the road, so
Speaker 3: we don't have to like put the Lakers fans back
Speaker 3: at home in any weird spot.
Speaker 6: You know, they're playing the Clippers on Tuesday in LA.
Speaker 6: Maybe he just chills on Saturday, you know, exactly sixteen.
Speaker 3: He wants to do it on the road, is my point. Yeah,
Speaker 3: he doesn't want There might be some moves from those
Speaker 3: Kobe stands for all he knows he's like, let me
Speaker 3: do it on the road. It'll be fine.
Speaker 4: I agree, but it would be way better if you
Speaker 4: did it at home. It was nice to see a
Speaker 4: little Lebron stretch there in the fourth quarter of just
Speaker 4: old Lebron, not old Lebron like last year Lebron or
Speaker 4: the year before Lebron, where it's just it's unstoppable, even
Speaker 4: the jumper, and that's that's always fun.
Speaker 3: Where he was when he's got the fade away going yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: and then yeah. Then also like dinwitd he matched up
Speaker 3: on him once. He's like, I'm gonna put you into
Speaker 3: the rim here. Yeah, he just took over you, right,
Speaker 3: And it's funny just how playful the Lakers are, you know,
Speaker 3: maybe off of that Dudley thing and the way Rono's
Speaker 3: playing and stuff like the hot me right now between
Speaker 3: the Lakers and the Clippers. With that article coming out
Speaker 3: on The Athletic about the friction, whether you believe it
Speaker 3: or not, because Patrick Beverley says fake, fake news, but
Speaker 3: it is a it's quite drastic, right, and it's probably
Speaker 3: the opposite of what people would have assumed coming in
Speaker 3: the NBCs. You would have think it would be the
Speaker 3: Lakers that would have the drama and stuff like that
Speaker 3: possibly and not the Clippers. And it's it's flipped here,
Speaker 3: which is which is strange? I mean, did you guys
Speaker 3: get a chance to read the other We don't need
Speaker 3: to go along on it, but it's good, interesting.
Speaker 5: Pretty thorough. A lot of sites, a lot of sources.
Speaker 4: I mean, you know, listen, it's a it's a it's
Speaker 4: there's a lot of infro from Sam Amic and Jovann Boucha.
Speaker 4: But I just don't know, is there a lot of substance,
Speaker 4: like what what? So they you know the recount that
Speaker 4: Montres Harrold got mad after a game when they got
Speaker 4: pounded at home, right, and Doc Rivers tried to put
Speaker 4: him in his place and say, hey, keep that in indoors,
Speaker 4: And so, I mean that's really it. A guy verbally
Speaker 4: got mad. Is there anything else that makes you say
Speaker 4: hey that. I guess the guys get a little bit
Speaker 4: of a a longer leash because they're stars, which happens
Speaker 4: preferential treatment.
Speaker 6: I guess, Wow, shocking, right, yeah, but you should anticipate
Speaker 6: that if they're coming in. And I think the other
Speaker 6: thing that comes out is that Harald, they make it
Speaker 6: seem like he's going only for his stats because he's
Speaker 6: in a contract year game.
Speaker 4: That's the other big takeaway.
Speaker 5: And I think a few other guys are just feeling
Speaker 5: that they have to, you know, accommodate Kawhi and Paul
Speaker 5: George and whatever those guys want, which again, that's what
Speaker 5: the Clippers basically got these guys for, Hey, we'll do
Speaker 5: whatever you want. And that does rub a few other
Speaker 5: guys up the wrong way because people are like, hey,
Speaker 5: last year, man, we didn't have to do any of this,
Speaker 5: and we were very successful as far as winning games,
Speaker 5: and then we played well in the playoffs. So if
Speaker 5: it all it's it's kind of like the Raptors they
Speaker 5: last season. If it all works, then at the end
Speaker 5: of the season, you're like, see, it was worth it,
Speaker 5: of course. But if if something goes wrong and they
Speaker 5: do you know, let's say they get knocked out in
Speaker 5: the second round, then I think these sorts of things.
Speaker 5: Then people start saying, wow, see you did this and
Speaker 5: you did that, and and more people will want to talk.
Speaker 5: Then I think so, but yeah, it's good.
Speaker 3: I liked it. I liked it.
Speaker 4: Everybody likes Everybody likes drama and That's why it was
Speaker 4: a highly read article. But in the end, I didn't
Speaker 4: find a lot of anything that really swayed my opinion
Speaker 4: on the Clippers locker room being anything but a pretty
Speaker 4: good locker room. And like you said, preferential treatment, it
Speaker 4: happens in the NBA. I would like to see it
Speaker 4: happen less in general, not that I see it on
Speaker 4: a day to day basis, but you know, I don't
Speaker 4: think guys should get a lot of preferential treatment. They're
Speaker 4: part of the team, and I like that sort of
Speaker 4: everybody's on the same level type idea. But like Kyrie
Speaker 4: Irving didn't talk to his teammates for two months, they
Speaker 4: won a championship, Like guys, it just happens in the NBA,
Speaker 4: and that's the way it is right now. And I
Speaker 4: don't think this doesn't doesn't deter me from thinking they're
Speaker 4: winning the championship at all.
Speaker 3: Interesting. My favorite part from the whole article was finding
Speaker 3: out that Kawhi hangs out with all the guys playing
Speaker 3: cards but never plays. Yeah, I don't know why. It
Speaker 3: reminds me of like guys in high school that were
Speaker 3: always doing that too, And I loved it, Like do
Speaker 3: you want to play. No, No, I'm good. Just always
Speaker 3: sitting there watching you play hard s watching play with you.
Speaker 5: At some point you're either like I can't stand being
Speaker 5: around these guys if I'm not playing, or you're just
Speaker 5: all right, I'm in.
Speaker 3: I mean, just deal with your guys. Let's get into it.
Speaker 3: Because yeah, no, he's fine. I'll just sit here. Just
Speaker 3: final thing with the Lakers victory, I wanted to point
Speaker 3: this out. Frank Vocal and his staff will coach Team
Speaker 3: Lebron after the Lakers clinched at least a tie for
Speaker 3: the best record in the West through games played on
Speaker 3: February second.
Speaker 5: So it's pretty amazing for Frank Vogel. After he was
Speaker 5: fired from Orlando, you wondered if he was going to
Speaker 5: coach in the NBA again, And now he's back coaching
Speaker 5: maybe you know, certainly one or two of the best
Speaker 5: teams in the league, and there was an All Star
Speaker 5: coach again because he was once you'll start coach there
Speaker 5: with the Paces back in the day. So it just
Speaker 5: shows you know, things can turn around.
Speaker 3: Never give up, never give up.
Speaker 4: Do you think Frank wants to coach the All Star Game?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I think so.
Speaker 5: No, I think I think Frank likes those things, you know.
Speaker 5: To be honest, Frank, Frank wouldn't even Frank wouldn't even
Speaker 5: have this job if TYLERU accepted it.
Speaker 3: Remember, yeah, he was like the second or third.
Speaker 5: Well, I think Monty and Tyler were their first. Monty
Speaker 5: signed with Phoenix and Tyler was like, give me more money,
Speaker 5: and the Laker said no. Frank was like, all right,
Speaker 5: I'll do it. And now he was coaching the All
Speaker 5: Star Game. I mean, yeah, hey, good.
Speaker 4: Like I think he likes beaches better, but I don't know.
Speaker 5: He's in LA. They're always on the beach.
Speaker 3: To tie these sort of two things together, we're talking
Speaker 3: about the All Star starters. We have a rule in
Speaker 3: place with the coaches. Correct me if I'm wrong. You
Speaker 3: can't coach the All Star Game in consecutive years. That's
Speaker 3: like if you had the best record by whatever, the
Speaker 3: cutoff date is, right, like, you only if you do
Speaker 3: it back to back years, Like if you're you know,
Speaker 3: Steve Kerr obviously comes to mind. You only get the
Speaker 3: one right and it has to go to somebody else.
Speaker 3: Do you think we should do that with the captains
Speaker 3: of the All Star Game as well? Right, Like because
Speaker 3: now we got Lebron and Giannis. Again, they're the leading
Speaker 3: vote getters in their conference. But should it should it
Speaker 3: be like the coaches rule to.
Speaker 5: Give somebody give it to the then the second guy,
Speaker 5: like absolutely, yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Lebron and the honest they would still have the
Speaker 3: overall votes. But because of the rule, if you put
Speaker 3: it in place like the coaching thing, and it goes
Speaker 3: to the next guy, Luca, you're up in the West,
Speaker 3: and I have no idea who it would have been in
Speaker 3: the East, maybe being maybe Yeah, anyway, no stupid idea.
Speaker 4: Well, you know, I like what you're saying.
Speaker 3: Okay, I don't hate it either.
Speaker 6: Actually, I'd like give some other guys a chance on
Speaker 6: the one, right, because Luca was funny last night. They're like, ah,
Speaker 6: you know, you play at your own pace. He's like,
Speaker 6: if I could play fast, I would play fast.
Speaker 4: Good one.
Speaker 3: Well, speaking of Luca, he helped his team get the
Speaker 3: victory last night. Mavericks. They hit twenty two to three
Speaker 3: pointers better than the Lakers nineteen to beat the Blazers
Speaker 3: one thirty three, one five forty three combined threes. Hey,
Speaker 3: you like threes. There was a lot of threes.
Speaker 6: It's Actually that's crazy now looking at this the Lakers
Speaker 6: had the fewest threes in the TNT games last night.
Speaker 6: They had nineteen threes, twenty two for Dallas and twenty
Speaker 6: one for Portland, another twenty one for uh the NETS's.
Speaker 3: That's a lot of threes. Wild. Dallas and Portland tied
Speaker 3: a record for forty three combit threes.
Speaker 4: By the way, that ties the NBA record. Yeah, weird.
Speaker 3: I mean, it feels like it would be.
Speaker 4: More than that. It feels like, yeah, but that is
Speaker 4: a lot.
Speaker 3: I mean, but I'm with you guys. It feels like,
Speaker 3: how have we not hit like fifty to fifty five
Speaker 3: or something like that with a Rockets game and somebody
Speaker 3: the mass played Porzingis at center a lot more in
Speaker 3: this one, obviously losing Dwight Powell and figuring things out
Speaker 3: Maxi Kleeber had a nice roll to the rim. I
Speaker 3: was dunk their trade.
Speaker 6: And a couple of threes, that's right, and a nasty
Speaker 6: fall at one point. Yeah, doing it all out there.
Speaker 3: But kp with twenty points five boards and he shot
Speaker 3: three for four. One of those was deep. Lillard did
Speaker 3: his best. Poor guy got the will boy, but you
Speaker 3: know he tried to keep him close and did for them.
Speaker 3: You know, they got back into this game, but in
Speaker 3: the end, they're just two short on guys. Even I mean,
Speaker 3: Trevor Reesa was starting and playing well for crying out loud.
Speaker 6: Gary Trent Junior hit six threes, like, I mean, the
Speaker 6: guys that they had were doing the most that they could.
Speaker 6: It's just they do not have enough, especially when CJ
Speaker 6: McCollums and they can't really stop anybody.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean the fact that a Reason played thirty
Speaker 5: six minutes and was maybe the second best player is
Speaker 5: not good for Portland.
Speaker 3: No, no, it's not obviously. Yeah, with all the injuries
Speaker 3: of course. Yeah, you know Nerck hopefully coming back somewhat soon.
Speaker 3: Okay calling this out call him with the ankle. Yeah,
Speaker 3: there's just not enough bodies right now to keep the
Speaker 3: Blazers there. But they're still holding on for dear life.
Speaker 3: If Nerck comes back and obviously CJ comes back from
Speaker 3: the ankle, and they can just string together some stops
Speaker 3: and maybe win some games, and there's a chance. But
Speaker 3: they're a fascinating to watch here of course, at the
Speaker 3: deadline and whether they just like sort of pack it
Speaker 3: in and say well, not our year. Well, we'll run
Speaker 3: it back next year for the most part and see
Speaker 3: where we go, but or make some moves. Who knows.
Speaker 4: Well, Damian Lillard is just fun to watch sixty one
Speaker 4: before this night and then forty seven, So he had
Speaker 4: one hundred points. Over one hundred points in a two
Speaker 4: game stretch. That's pretty cool.
Speaker 3: First time in franchise history. That's pretty Lazers. Not a
Speaker 3: surprise there.
Speaker 6: What do you guys think of the Twitter moment fans
Speaker 6: are calling for more help for Damian Lillard after another
Speaker 6: big game.
Speaker 3: I saw that this morning.
Speaker 6: I mean, you're definitely seeing we got to get Lillard
Speaker 6: some help. It's not we got to get Lillard out
Speaker 6: of there. I think people recognize Lillard's bond with Portland,
Speaker 6: but it does feel a little bit like we're coming
Speaker 6: to the end of this era of the Blazers. You know,
Speaker 6: they went through They had their team last year, which
Speaker 6: had been around for basically four seasons, and they kept
Speaker 6: getting close, getting close, getting better in the playoffs. Switched
Speaker 6: them things.
Speaker 3: Up this year and it has not gone well.
Speaker 6: So you wonder how soon they're going to move on
Speaker 6: to some sort of a different look here where Lillard
Speaker 6: is paired with some other star. I mean, I don't
Speaker 6: know if CJ. Mccollins trade value is super high right now,
Speaker 6: but they gotta be thinking. They gotta be thinking of
Speaker 6: a new pathway here.
Speaker 3: It's very possible. The final game from last night was
Speaker 3: Wizard's Calves. I'm sure not a lot of you out
Speaker 3: there were watching it, but Bradley Beal he's timing this well,
Speaker 3: killing it right now, at least in you know, trying
Speaker 3: to get maybe picked as a reserve from the coaches,
Speaker 3: which is very possible. They won one twenty four to
Speaker 3: one to twelve. He shot fifteen to twenty two from
Speaker 3: the floor, thirty six already eight against Miami the night before,
Speaker 3: they got it super super late, got on like four
Speaker 3: in the morning or something like that. They started sluggish
Speaker 3: in this one and got it going though. So he's
Speaker 3: on a tear here over his last two games. And
Speaker 3: Davas Breton's I hope you see him in the three
Speaker 3: point contest. I think we will.
Speaker 4: I think we will too.
Speaker 3: And he's got a cool three point release too. He's
Speaker 3: like sort of a bigger guy as well.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, he'll sit in the problems getting through his racks.
Speaker 5: Oh no, he's quite quick.
Speaker 4: They'll fire.
Speaker 5: That was up in about thirty five seconds.
Speaker 4: I think.
Speaker 3: All right, So those are the only three games on
Speaker 3: last night. Let's get two Worst of the Week.
Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 4: The Worst of the Week. It's an all media edition
Speaker 4: of Worse of the Week. You know you love your
Speaker 4: media members as Worse of the Week nominees. The nominees are,
Speaker 4: in alphabetical order, Jason Doyle, Lee Elis, Trey Kirby, and
Speaker 4: Jay Skeets. Ah. I joke about all being included, Hi joke,
Speaker 4: but there is one no Dunks member who is nominated.
Speaker 4: Stay tuned four.
Speaker 1: Oh, oh my god.
Speaker 4: The second runner up? Who is it going to be?
Speaker 4: Who do you guys think it's gonna be?
Speaker 3: I don't know. We had I know we were throwing
Speaker 3: out a couple possibilities to you. You ultimately make the decision,
Speaker 3: like maybe the oh the Hornets? Was it the hornets
Speaker 3: tweeting about the Pacers or was the PACER's tweeting for
Speaker 3: the hornet? I can't remember very close something there.
Speaker 4: Second runner up is the PACER's Twitter account. Indiana forward TJ.
Speaker 4: Warren spent his first five seasons with the Suns and
Speaker 4: was traded this offseason to the Pacers in exchange for
Speaker 4: cash considerations. No players, just cash. And when Indiana crushed
Speaker 4: Phoenix on Wednesday, the PACER's Twitter account, they tweeted TJ
Speaker 4: was just money tonight with TJ Warren stats twenty five,
Speaker 4: three and three. Beside those stats were cash considerations, the
Speaker 4: little cash emoji flying away with the cash consideration stats
Speaker 4: zero points, zero rebounds and zero sists. Bratty Brady good.
Speaker 4: But they deleted it quickly. They didn't want it out there.
Speaker 4: Why do you want to start a battle about I
Speaker 4: guess I just start a battle about transactional history on Twitter.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 3: It's that's funny, man, Yeah, you funny.
Speaker 4: That's why I've included him. That's why I included them
Speaker 4: because I think that you either go with it or
Speaker 4: you don't. That's that's the thing. But yeah, it's a
Speaker 4: pretty good tweet, you know, it is very funny. I
Speaker 4: love the cash emoji.
Speaker 3: Great, you're right, it was a great graphic. It's a
Speaker 3: funny line that TJ Warreton was money.
Speaker 1: That's great.
Speaker 3: Nice camble there. So what happened somebody posts it and
Speaker 3: then somebody higher up and the pacers go, hey, you can't.
Speaker 3: You got to get that down right.
Speaker 4: Somebody, somebody had to give him the X name. I
Speaker 4: also wanted to mention this TJ. Warren tweet from this
Speaker 4: week quote, not in my thirties yet, but surely it
Speaker 4: live like it. Not in my thirties yet, but surely
Speaker 4: live like it. He's wise beyond his ears.
Speaker 3: He looks like.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's also a two name guy. I can't say TJ,
Speaker 4: can't say Warren. He was both, all right? First runner up,
Speaker 4: the aforementioned Jason Doyle, Oh boy, yeah. When we did
Speaker 4: our mid season poll episode, I compared the Piston situation
Speaker 4: to the Titanic and made the connection between Rose on
Speaker 4: the ship and Derek Rose on the team just trying
Speaker 4: to survive. Skeet's pointed out as I wasn't trying to
Speaker 4: make it too obvious. It worked out well in that regard.
Speaker 4: Then this week I made the same analogy, and JD asked,
Speaker 4: do you realize Rose was a person on the Titanic?
Speaker 4: So JD first run up because one, he wasn't listening
Speaker 4: to our mid season episode at all, but more importantly,
Speaker 4: yeah you two.
Speaker 1: Know sometimes sure, But.
Speaker 4: More importantly he should know that I like to repeat
Speaker 4: my points and really belabor them in it in a
Speaker 4: Maddio fashion. Shout out to Naddio.
Speaker 1: He likes to belabor a joke or too. So you
Speaker 1: should know me by now. Jd well Tess, you should
Speaker 1: know me by now. And obviously you don't listen to
Speaker 1: our show because I cut that out of the show.
Speaker 4: Oh what you cut out the fact that I called
Speaker 4: you or you were asking me about Rose's.
Speaker 1: Wow, that's the power I wheel?
Speaker 4: Why did you cut it out?
Speaker 1: What was because I was embarrassed?
Speaker 3: He has the final say, I.
Speaker 4: Get it, but are we not real? Wow? You know what?
Speaker 1: Put me right at the top, but make me the
Speaker 1: winner of Warst of the week. How dare you answered myself?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 4: I want us to be open to the public.
Speaker 1: Okay, in from now, I do listen.
Speaker 3: I do listen to our show. Try to listen to
Speaker 3: everyone when I can. I didn't. I didn't. I didn't
Speaker 3: realize that you would cut it out.
Speaker 1: I gotta be honest now, I'm a good editor.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Also you listen at Double Speeder No.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I put it on one and a half.
Speaker 4: You know what?
Speaker 1: You probably tuned out during that.
Speaker 4: D percent I did amazing.
Speaker 3: I'm just trying to I only listen to our podcast
Speaker 3: just to try and catch a Lee dropping his kombucha
Speaker 3: bottle lid. That's the only reason.
Speaker 6: Yeah, there's an Easter egg in every episode.
Speaker 4: But the worst of the week winner is the social
Speaker 4: media platform we all use Twitter, specifically basketball fans who
Speaker 4: were treating Zion Williamson like crap during his debut on Wednesday.
Speaker 4: There was a lot of fat shaming happening, a lot
Speaker 4: of criticism of the Pelicans organization for how they handled
Speaker 4: Zion's injury. It was just kind of cruel and it
Speaker 4: was kind of miserable just to be watching Twitter for
Speaker 4: three quarters. Basketball Twitter used to be a more positive experience.
Speaker 4: On the one hand, our expectations of a basketball player
Speaker 4: playing in his first NBA game after having been on
Speaker 4: the sideline should be pretty low. But on the other hand,
Speaker 4: he had a lot of hype coming in and Basketball Twitter,
Speaker 4: like Twitter overall, is now a place where many try
Speaker 4: to make their tweet polarizing in hopes of some artis
Speaker 4: and some likes, And in a situation like Zion's, people
Speaker 4: jumped on the fact he wasn't thriving and tried to
Speaker 4: go viral by being straight up mean. I guess it's
Speaker 4: just a representation of humans and you can follow whoever
Speaker 4: you want on the platform, only the good folks, but
Speaker 4: the heartlessness it ekes out onto everyone's timeline. It comes
Speaker 4: through no matter where you are on Twitter. I guess
Speaker 4: the point of this little rant is, go do some yoga. People,
Speaker 4: chill out, just chill out. Stop railing on a guy
Speaker 4: who quote unquote looks fat to you. It wasn't nice.
Speaker 4: It wasn't nice out there.
Speaker 3: I would like to put Zion Williamson line him up
Speaker 3: with all of these people calling him fat. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 3: let's let's really find out about that. It's ridiculous here.
Speaker 3: I'm with you on that.
Speaker 4: So that's it. He's two eighty five six percent body fat.
Speaker 4: Apparently that's pretty good body five percentage if that's true. Yeah,
Speaker 4: that's really good.
Speaker 3: Yeah that's that's that's good.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah. I actually just happened to be in the
Speaker 4: kitchenette with someone. It was a nice lady and I
Speaker 4: we were talking about the body mass index and I said.
Speaker 3: Sure, nine am BM I talk.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 4: It was lunch. It was lunch yesterday. It was a Thursday,
Speaker 4: Thursday session. It was a noon session. I was put
Speaker 4: a salad, putting a salad in a bowl. She commented, oh,
Speaker 4: being healthy. Yeah, sometimes you know the holiday eating. It's
Speaker 4: it's just rolled over into January. And I started commenting
Speaker 4: about the body mass index and I said, I'm on
Speaker 4: the I'm on the threshold of being overweight. And she
Speaker 4: said you you and then she said I'm actually obese
Speaker 4: on the body mass index. And I said, that is nuts,
Speaker 4: that is absolutely nuts, because it's it's incredible. The body
Speaker 4: mass index just not fair. Don't look at that, my thing.
Speaker 4: But it is stupid. Dion Williamson would be obese times
Speaker 4: four of that thing. Sure, it's so stupid.
Speaker 3: Can I add like a last second addition to Worse
Speaker 3: of the week. I told you yesterday, I'm headed to
Speaker 3: New York a little bit later today to see my
Speaker 3: buddy Gresh to go to the next game tonight. Homer,
Speaker 3: he just sent me, so we don't have tickets. I said, right, well,
Speaker 3: you know we're looking at the game time app and
Speaker 3: checking the other one, keeping our eye on those prices.
Speaker 3: He just sent me, Uh, the possibility goes uh feet
Speaker 3: on the floor. Question Mark, what do you think seats
Speaker 3: cost to sit tonight first row, you know, the VIP
Speaker 3: seats basically to see tonight's game.
Speaker 5: Wraps Nicks in MSGAN one ticket, eleven hundred.
Speaker 3: Eleven, we would be buying those for eleven hundred.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, two, I guess two grand.
Speaker 6: Nope, forty eight hundred.
Speaker 3: You're very close. Four thousand, six and thirty six dollars
Speaker 3: one ticket.
Speaker 5: I wonder why James Dollar White style.
Speaker 4: Isn't he two of those? You could buy your own, Homer,
Speaker 4: you can buy a house ten grand.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, is that crazy? Oh my god?
Speaker 4: Why is that the game time app?
Speaker 2: Or?
Speaker 3: I don't know which one he used. It's either Sea
Speaker 3: Geek game Time or ticket Master. It looks like it
Speaker 3: might be SEKK. Yeah he's not seriously, Oh he just
Speaker 3: bought you one too? Are you coming? All right?
Speaker 4: Sure?
Speaker 5: But I forbid anyone to spend that much money on
Speaker 5: a regular season game.
Speaker 4: I forbid it.
Speaker 5: If you're going to spend ten thousand dollars for a
Speaker 5: ticket at any sporting event this regular season, give me
Speaker 5: the money. I forbid anyone to spend that much money.
Speaker 3: Wait wait, wait, wait, wait, wait getting.
Speaker 5: You well, they're giving the money away for a two
Speaker 5: hour experience, So just what do what do they get
Speaker 5: when they'll buy them a ticket, I'll buy them a
Speaker 5: ticket to sit up in the nosebleeds, so they still
Speaker 5: get to see their game.
Speaker 3: But they still get what a deal?
Speaker 4: A deal?
Speaker 5: I just can't believe anyone would spend that much money
Speaker 5: for a meaningless regular season game for the experience.
Speaker 3: No, if you would like five percent off your next
Speaker 3: deal at League Geek, just end of the promo code.
Speaker 3: No dunk, it's at League ink. Oh humble.
Speaker 5: I've sat courtside Front Road like that. It's a great experience. Well,
Speaker 5: how the hell did you get those for a turner?
Speaker 5: I didn't pay for them, That's what I'm saying. I
Speaker 5: wouldn't never ever pay you that for that experience for them. Yeah,
Speaker 5: that's fine, someone else can.
Speaker 3: Play for all right, all right, let's uh, let's get
Speaker 3: to the nickname game. JD really the number one draft
Speaker 3: pick Grammar, that's your problem, Jumbo.
Speaker 7: Chumps going for seems a lockey?
Speaker 3: Alright, that's a friend.
Speaker 1: All right, it's the nickname game. We do this every
Speaker 1: once in a while in lieu of the pun gun
Speaker 1: because there's just not a lot of puns out there
Speaker 1: on a lot of topics. The Grammys are this weekend,
Speaker 1: but we do music all the time. So let's play
Speaker 1: the name the nickname game. Shout out to Jack who
Speaker 1: gave us this idea. Uh, Basically, there's a lot of
Speaker 1: guys in the league that have nicknames, but there's a
Speaker 1: lot that don't. So I jumped on Basketball Reference. I
Speaker 1: found some players that don't have nicknames, and everyone deserves
Speaker 1: a nickname. So we're gonna hand some out. If you
Speaker 1: missed it last time that here's how it works. I'm
Speaker 1: going to say a player's name. We're gonna go around
Speaker 1: the table saying the first thing that comes into our heads.
Speaker 1: It's simple word association. Whatever the fifth word or phrase
Speaker 1: ends up being, that will be assigned to the lucky player.
Speaker 3: Any questions you will, you will point at who will
Speaker 3: start the game?
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're going to go around the table. Boom boom,
Speaker 1: boom boom. So Trey is starting this. This guy's brother,
Speaker 1: Steph Curry has many nicknames, Steph Babyface, Assassin, Chef Curry,
Speaker 1: the human Torch, but his brother doesn't have any. So
Speaker 1: here we go. Trey, Seth Curry.
Speaker 3: Slippery, Seth Skiing.
Speaker 4: We okay, water.
Speaker 1: Swimmer, Seth the swimmer, Seth the swimmer. Curry you don't.
Speaker 8: Like it's not our best work, it's not our best words.
Speaker 1: Okay, I don't know much much about this guy. It's
Speaker 1: his first year in the league. He's on the San
Speaker 1: Antonio Spurs.
Speaker 4: It's Drew U Banks, skeets, game show host, microphone.
Speaker 1: Stick, mic stick, Drew popping ps.
Speaker 4: You Banks, Drew popping piece.
Speaker 6: That's a lot of pressure to the fifth this is
Speaker 6: this is gonna be dumb or it's going to be
Speaker 6: good and.
Speaker 4: Dumb popp Okay, here we go.
Speaker 3: Why did I say a game show, by the ways.
Speaker 1: Because you Bank sounds like a game show host. Okay,
Speaker 1: is there a U Bank Kevin Banks?
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, maybe a bandleader though.
Speaker 4: Oh that's oh that's Kevin from Oh you're right.
Speaker 3: I was thinking Kevin you Banks, who I thought, was,
Speaker 3: for whatever reason, a game show guy. But you're right.
Speaker 3: It's the it's the Tonight Show guy, the guitar artist,
Speaker 3: and he's a composer to us.
Speaker 4: He's on Felon.
Speaker 3: Okay, Wow, I got us off to a weird start there.
Speaker 1: No, it was actually it would have been. That's a
Speaker 1: great nickname right there. Game show. Yeah, show for you banks. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: another rookie. This one's on the Sacramento Kings Kyle Guy.
Speaker 5: Lee Fun.
Speaker 4: Guess sorry okay, mushroom Yeah yeah.
Speaker 6: Mushroom larb.
Speaker 3: I don't even know what a larb is.
Speaker 6: All right, it's a dish.
Speaker 3: But uh, we'll rewind.
Speaker 6: We'll say psychedelic.
Speaker 3: Rainbow Road.
Speaker 4: Cool.
Speaker 1: That's your new nickname? Okay, last one in honor of
Speaker 1: our ninety ninth show. He wears number ninety nine on
Speaker 1: the Boston Celtics. Taco Fall, Oh tast Tuesday Wednesday.
Speaker 7: Fester uh wound, Plasta lost.
Speaker 1: Your new nickname is.
Speaker 5: We're just gonna go Wednesday by Friday, Friday.
Speaker 1: Fall, plaster fall.
Speaker 4: That's it? Alright, game, I love it?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Was what was the best one of the bunch?
Speaker 4: What is?
Speaker 3: What were our nicknames in the end? Do you remember?
Speaker 6: Rainbow Road is not bad? That's a good nickname. I
Speaker 6: don't know. For Kyle Guy, that's a good It's.
Speaker 4: Hard to go with guys that haven't been around too long.
Speaker 3: Rainbow Oh, Mario, Kurt love it. Okay, time for a
Speaker 3: tweet of the night.
Speaker 4: M tweet o the night?
Speaker 1: Wow?
Speaker 3: Oh all right, I mean I could make tweet of
Speaker 3: the night myself, definitely shit because yesterday I'm not going to,
Speaker 3: but I'll slip it in here anyway. Yesterday there was
Speaker 3: a New York Post article going around with the headline
Speaker 3: that said, doctors beg men, not too masturbate with banana peels.
Speaker 3: We've talked a lot on the show before about how
Speaker 3: Lee loves a good banana, so I was joking, Oh, that's.
Speaker 8: Why Lee eats so many bananas, and then I remembered,
Speaker 8: oh my god, we have a hilarious photo of Lee
Speaker 8: dressed as a giant banana, standing in front of about
Speaker 8: ten or eleven banana peels, looking very exhausted like he
Speaker 8: may have.
Speaker 3: Just jerked off in all of them. So of course
Speaker 3: I posted that with ladies and gentlemen. We got them
Speaker 3: with the two side by side, and I couldn't stop laughing,
Speaker 3: honestly for about twenty minutes. But that does not get
Speaker 3: that does not get tweeted the night No bananas this morning.
Speaker 5: Thoughts at time ironically, all.
Speaker 3: Right, No, the tweet of the night I actually tweeted
Speaker 3: from the No Dunk's Twitter account at No Dunk's Ink yesterday.
Speaker 3: We're just a few episodes Away from one hundred podcasts
Speaker 3: with the Athletic, what's been your favorite hashtag no dunks
Speaker 3: moment so far? And we got some great responses, so
Speaker 3: I wanted to share a couple. Okay, shout out to
Speaker 3: everybody that tweeted in. We saw them all. I'm obviously
Speaker 3: not going to get to all of them here. And
Speaker 3: there was a bunch of you know, duplicating or doubling
Speaker 3: up on things, but I love some of these At
Speaker 3: Kick Puncher, the NBA Twitter episode of Squad where I'd
Speaker 3: learned about at NBA. Leave Yes at System Lord's Tech.
Speaker 3: The throwback intros by JD were awesome. Gave me flashbacks
Speaker 3: of where I was in life during those iterations of
Speaker 3: the show. Also the Hallmark isshlam a catalog at Range
Speaker 3: from Deep Lebron versus the Horse I thought You'd jumped
Speaker 3: the show worked for a moment there, but that visual
Speaker 3: of a horse wearing boxing gloves and a helmet nailed
Speaker 3: it at Dan Underscore, Kipperman temp at Alex Underscore, Horton Underscore.
Speaker 3: When Trey started listing off and giving the unknown Warriors'
Speaker 3: nicknames Kai Bowman, He's a showman, Eric Paskal, He's a rascal.
Speaker 3: I actually really really liked that moment too. At Josh
Speaker 3: Moore j L the Rudolph rap my girlfriend. My girlfriend
Speaker 3: was not as impressed though, he said, there was a
Speaker 3: lot of you know, love to the any four bar
Speaker 3: Friday that we've that we've done here on the show.
Speaker 3: At Philip Doolay JD talking about the beauty of Bowmanville, Ontario,
Speaker 3: very dead. Remember that was the thing that happened.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you lived in crazy.
Speaker 3: Bowmanville very couple of weeks. You and I were both
Speaker 3: in Canada for a month plus. At James Carson the
Speaker 3: third Halloween etiquette is an all time top ten Lee moment.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I forgot about your Halloween rant At River
Speaker 3: four two six nine one simply hashtag fart gate. Yes, yes,
Speaker 3: indeed we had a fart sound on the podcast that
Speaker 3: we had to get to the bottom of it. What
Speaker 3: was it? Was it a chair? Was it a fart?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 3: My goodness. At Connery the j d's comment at the
Speaker 3: end of a pot about looking for his reading glasses
Speaker 3: to masturbate almost made my almost made me crash my car.
Speaker 3: He was looking for a banana peel.
Speaker 1: I had that it was like gras and then.
Speaker 3: And then there were there were a lot of There
Speaker 3: were a lot of ones like this is from AJ
Speaker 3: a breakdown of the difference between your greens and your browns.
Speaker 3: Also everything come butcha. Yeah, a lot of votes for
Speaker 3: Butch and boost talk that we've had recently. So I
Speaker 3: thought that was fine as we uh near one hundred episodes.
Speaker 3: Today is show ninety nine. On Monday will be episode
Speaker 3: one hundred. Can you believe it already one hundred episodes?
Speaker 5: Crazy man?
Speaker 3: That is crazy.
Speaker 6: But thanks to everybody, no doubt for download reviewing, Tell
Speaker 6: everybody you know to download the show.
Speaker 3: I will say, we had a monster monster week this week.
Speaker 3: So I don't know what's going on. You guys look
Speaker 3: like you're telling your friends about the show or you're
Speaker 3: just downloading like crazy on every app you got.
Speaker 6: It's that big men's health bump. Yeah, maybe we will
Speaker 6: try to stay healthy out there.
Speaker 3: We love it though, so thank you so much. All right,
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Speaker 3: Last night's game, Lakers nets in Brooklyn on that crazy
Speaker 3: court task swerved last night, took the nets to try
Speaker 3: and cover. I mean, you looked great there for three
Speaker 3: basically three quarters, and then it got out of control.
Speaker 3: So yeah, Task picks up, the picks up the l
Speaker 3: everybody else had the Lakers to cover and they did.
Speaker 3: So it's close still Lee ten and six month of January,
Speaker 3: nice record, train Ion second at nine and seven apiece
Speaker 3: and Task now two games back at seven and nine.
Speaker 3: So tonight's game very important for Tasks though there is
Speaker 3: still basically a week left.
Speaker 4: Yeah we got six nights left.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so you know, no need to panic. But what's
Speaker 3: tonight's game.
Speaker 4: I'm going with a different one today. I'm involving the
Speaker 4: Golden State Warriors. They're at home against the Pacers and
Speaker 4: they're getting six and a half points. They're underdogs, of course,
Speaker 4: to the Indiana Pacers, who are visiting ending a road
Speaker 4: trip in Golden State. Golden State coming off a bad
Speaker 4: loss on Wednesday night, although you know they have been
Speaker 4: playing better, but that one was bad loss against the Phoenix,
Speaker 4: I do believe. Yeah, here come the Pacers six and
Speaker 4: a half.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, go ahead, leleh if you know, I.
Speaker 5: Don't yet, I'm just looking at the paces what's the
Speaker 5: broogie dog status here?
Speaker 4: He's questionable. I believe from what I've been seeing, he's
Speaker 4: going to be your.
Speaker 6: Looks like he's OUs, looks like he's out with a laceration.
Speaker 3: So the Pacers are on a long road trip right now.
Speaker 4: I think this is game five of their friend This.
Speaker 3: Is actually the game four. They have the Blazers still
Speaker 3: on Sunday, so this is They're two and one. They
Speaker 3: beat the Nuggets, then they got pummeled by the Jazz.
Speaker 3: That was a back to back situation. And then yeah,
Speaker 3: they beat the Suns pretty handily. So now they get
Speaker 3: the Warriors. Give me the Pacers, I too will be
Speaker 3: I too will be a Pacer.
Speaker 6: I think they want to get this win, get this win,
Speaker 6: finish up the road trips strong, win on Friday and
Speaker 6: Sunday and come home.
Speaker 5: Brukdn's out percussion.
Speaker 3: M hush, interesting laceration but cool.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but according to I wrote a why he's uh,
Speaker 5: he will not play ja Michaelbion, Indianapolis Star reports, Okay, man,
Speaker 5: make your pick, all right, I think, yeah, right, I'll
Speaker 5: stay with the Paces. Seven points is a lot those.
Speaker 4: It's not crazy. They're playing the Warriors playing pretty well.
Speaker 4: Uh yeah, the Warriors lose a lot. It looks like
Speaker 4: they've lost a billion, and they lost ten or row.
Speaker 4: Then they won one and they lost two in a row.
Speaker 4: So I did it yesterday. I take him the nets
Speaker 4: because I'm dumb and I'm panicking. You said, don't packs heats.
Speaker 4: I panicking. Six nights left down too. You gonna do it,
Speaker 4: Gotta do it, gotta do it. Warriors lose by six? Please?
Speaker 3: Okay? Well, I mean this is a funny part task.
Speaker 3: He usually picks the game we're gonna pick from. So
Speaker 3: I was wondering when you were saying you got a
Speaker 3: different one here. I was thinking, maybe Tass is like
Speaker 3: he's trying to get back into this he sees when
Speaker 3: he likes. Okay, so Tass is the only one taking
Speaker 3: the Warriors to cover.
Speaker 4: I usually just take the latest game possible so that
Speaker 4: most people will have something interesting to listen to, because
Speaker 4: some people are listening tomorrow on Saturday. Do they want
Speaker 4: to hear about the Grizzlies and Pistons who played at seven. No,
Speaker 4: they want to hear about the Warriors who played at
Speaker 4: ten thirty. Like that makes a difference.
Speaker 3: Let's end this Drop podcast with a little rapid fire
Speaker 3: fun dude. Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah Okay.
Speaker 1: Earlier this week, Lee told us all about how Louis
Speaker 1: Vuitton is creating the league's first travel case for the
Speaker 1: Larry O'Brian Trophy. It's beautiful, and I'll tell you this,
Speaker 1: there's no way that gorgeous Louis Vauton case won't be
Speaker 1: traveling in a case of its own when the Lario
Speaker 1: b hits the road. What prize possession do you have
Speaker 1: that you'd want a custom made Louis Vauton case for Trey.
Speaker 6: I was doing my photo hunting my mom's basement over
Speaker 6: the summer, and I found a pukahell necklace and I
Speaker 6: couldn't stop wearing it. Couldn't stop wearing it. We were
Speaker 6: finally getting ready to come home from summer vacation, went
Speaker 6: to put it on.
Speaker 3: It shattered everywhere.
Speaker 6: Tragic, Devastated to lose my pukashell necklace that it had
Speaker 6: been lost for twenty years finally came back in my life.
Speaker 6: Didn't have one for a while, but then Tom Poro's
Speaker 6: girlfriend Jess hooked me up with a pukashell necklace for
Speaker 6: Christmas and That's why I need this Louis Baton case,
Speaker 6: because I'm not gonna be devastated like that again. I
Speaker 6: can't see those shells on the floor.
Speaker 3: That's a nice one you got on there.
Speaker 6: It's chunky, right, nice.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it does look heavy, You're right, because they usually
Speaker 3: look pretty low.
Speaker 1: Your beard almost covers it up, though you need to
Speaker 1: extend it, yeah, extended baggy poopy skates.
Speaker 3: I struggled with this question the more I thought about it.
Speaker 3: I do not have a lot of prize possessions. I really,
Speaker 3: and I think that, you know, that's I just don't
Speaker 3: like to have a lot of stuff. The truth is,
Speaker 3: and I don't put a lot of weight into things.
Speaker 3: I don't really care about objects that much. I am
Speaker 3: sort of like that. But if I had to pick
Speaker 3: my a thing in my house and my apartment that
Speaker 3: i'd be sort of upset if I lost or got
Speaker 3: broken or something, it would probably be my travel magnet collection.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because it's impressive.
Speaker 3: You know, It's what Nora and I do. It's the
Speaker 3: only thing we buy when we really go on trips,
Speaker 3: and we've obviously been able to go to a you know,
Speaker 3: fair chunk of the world. I would say, for being
Speaker 3: not in my forties yet. So yeah, I guess something
Speaker 3: for those magnets. And some of them are quite fragile too,
Speaker 3: so maybe a little nice little case there to put
Speaker 3: them all in so I don't lose them.
Speaker 1: It's a great idea. Wait.
Speaker 5: Back in nineteen ninety five, I went on a trip
Speaker 5: to England and cricket bat, beautiful cricket bat. I bought
Speaker 5: it back to Australia and started using it. And it's
Speaker 5: split like a crack because you have to wear it in.
Speaker 5: You have to break it in. I don't know if
Speaker 5: you do that with baseball bats or not. Where you
Speaker 5: kind of you knock it in. It's called where you
Speaker 5: sort of soften up the wood a little bit. Anyway,
Speaker 5: so I did that and it's still cracked. And so
Speaker 5: I sent it to It was a Slazenger cricket bat.
Speaker 5: So I sent it to Slazenger Australia. I said, hey, man,
Speaker 5: you go sold me a lemon. I didn't have any
Speaker 5: idea if they were going to respond or whatever. Anyway,
Speaker 5: they sent me back a cricket bat with the autograph
Speaker 5: of my favorite player of all time on this bat.
Speaker 5: They sent it back to him.
Speaker 4: It was perfect.
Speaker 5: I couldn't believe it. So I've got that bat at home.
Speaker 5: I've used it. It's got its own little bat bag.
Speaker 5: But if I could get a Louis for done case
Speaker 5: for that now, ah man? I love that.
Speaker 3: No one has ever been sent more things in the
Speaker 3: meal from companies or organizations than you to believe. I'm serious.
Speaker 5: I'm so shocked that they sent me back the cricket
Speaker 5: bat of my favorite player with his autograph on it.
Speaker 4: It's incredible, incredible.
Speaker 6: That's good customer service.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it has nice one's from Julio. Hey, no duggers.
Speaker 1: With all the Costco talk on your recent episodes, I'm
Speaker 1: appalled that there has been absolutely no mention of their
Speaker 1: legendary rotisserie chicken. As a self proclaimed costco savant, I
Speaker 1: firmly believe that if you walk out of a Costco
Speaker 1: without a chicken, you're doing it wrong. Julio, I couldn't
Speaker 1: agree more. What's something that you're adamant that there's only
Speaker 1: one correct way to do? Trey.
Speaker 6: I've been watching a lot of Bonappetite test kitchen videos
Speaker 6: and Andy Barragani makes a mushroom larb Why mushroom larv
Speaker 6: is in my head, and he has a new way
Speaker 6: to cook mushrooms that get some nice and crispy, nice
Speaker 6: and earthy mushrooms are easy to make poorly, and these
Speaker 6: turn out all right. So if you're making mushrooms at home,
Speaker 6: look up Andy's recipe. Get them nice and nutty.
Speaker 3: I'm also sticking with food. There's only one way to
Speaker 3: make the perfect grilled cheese, and it's keep it simple, Okay,
Speaker 3: white bread, processed cheese, slices, butter, and then you have
Speaker 3: ketchup that you're dipping it in it man, that's it.
Speaker 3: Medium heat, don't crank it slow slow, but you don't
Speaker 3: need the fancy girl Jesus at all. Okay, you don't
Speaker 3: need the have already in there. You don't need French
Speaker 3: bread or anything. Keep it simple. It's the beauty of
Speaker 3: a girl cheese and that's why it tastes so damn
Speaker 3: good because it's still quick. That's it perfect.
Speaker 1: Nanny O is yelling at his iPhone right now, Lely.
Speaker 5: I stumbled on this method late at night, and now
Speaker 5: I cannot be convinced there is any better way to
Speaker 5: do it.
Speaker 4: So when you wake up.
Speaker 5: In the middle of the night and you need a pee,
Speaker 5: walk into the toilet, don't turn around, keep going straight and.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, oh my god. I don't know why
Speaker 1: I let you do. Also, you told me that it
Speaker 1: was going to be the third question. That's the second question.
Speaker 3: You you screwed that up?
Speaker 5: There?
Speaker 3: Are you gonna edit that out? Yeah? Yeah, that's on you.
Speaker 1: Right, Well, that's staying in, staying in, all right. This
Speaker 1: last one's from Blake h No dunked dogs. I recently
Speaker 1: tried to explain the origins of Beach Step into my
Speaker 1: fiance and why it's so funny that song has stuck
Speaker 1: around for so long, but understandably she didn't think it
Speaker 1: was all that funny. Good news though the wedding is
Speaker 1: still on. What's something you think is funny? But when
Speaker 1: I have trouble explaining to someone Trey.
Speaker 6: I follow an Instagram account called ordinary People Memes, and
Speaker 6: it's just like a headshot of like any old person
Speaker 6: working at a bank or something like the most boring
Speaker 6: captions on it. No, we have milk, honey, we already
Speaker 6: have milk. Oh boy, that's a stinky one. Sorry about that.
Speaker 6: I didn't agree to raise five kids. I have three kids.
Speaker 6: Time to tell your friends to go home. They've been
Speaker 6: here every night this week. So yeah, if you're into weird,
Speaker 6: very weird, very plain memes ordinary people, means it's.
Speaker 1: For you, that's great following it now.
Speaker 3: Skits probably garbage reality television, honestly, like I watch a
Speaker 3: lot of it. It's garbage, but it's funny as hell
Speaker 3: to me, like Vander Pump Rules or Below Deck or
Speaker 3: ninety Day Fiance is just a banger. So but you know,
Speaker 3: trying to explain why it's funny to someone that doesn't
Speaker 3: watch it, or it's like, no way, I'm watching it.
Speaker 1: Good luck with that lat I.
Speaker 5: Grew up in a house that had a lot of
Speaker 5: classic British sitcoms on TV, like Faulty Towers, Are You
Speaker 5: Being Served? George and Mildred, Only Fools and Horses. Great,
Speaker 5: great comedies, but really not a lot of people outside
Speaker 5: of North America know them. I certainly don't know them
Speaker 5: all that well. So I've got a few like references
Speaker 5: in my mind, but if I say them, people have
Speaker 5: no idea what I'm talking about. So I just want
Speaker 5: people who are listening right now to go out and
Speaker 5: check out two episodes one Faulty Towers Communication problems absolutely hilarious.
Speaker 5: And then just a little bite size clip from Only
Speaker 5: Fools and Pulses with just google Uncle Albert speaking German
Speaker 5: and watch that clip. It's like a minute twelve or
Speaker 5: something like that. Hilarious. If you don't get it, I'd
Speaker 5: love to stand Oh right.
Speaker 3: Any suggestions are all right? That is rapid fire. That
Speaker 3: is another hopefully classic edition of the drop. Thanks for
Speaker 3: joining us today and all week long. Really appreciate it.
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Speaker 3: All right, take us home on Clipper broad you.
Speaker 6: Heard it here first, have a great time, turn up,
Speaker 6: love you guys awesome.
Speaker 4: Thanks for joining us, folks, and remember it's the WWE
Speaker 4: Royal Rumble this weekend. In since Lee was just suggesting clips,
Speaker 4: I suggest you go watch Bushwhacker look, the greatest elimination
Speaker 4: in Royal Rumble history. It's so good.
Speaker 5: I met both the Bushwhackers once. They were awesome.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, we'll talk about that on Monday. Embrace the weekend. People,
Speaker 3: you could stay.
Speaker 1: Every day and dad be happy every minute.
Speaker 8: It's been so long that your the ONNA.
Speaker 3: Way for It's happened already.
Speaker 7: It's gonna be goody