Speaker 1: Whoa. Well, if it isn't my Chris stops persingis he's
Speaker 1: reportedly back in the lineup. The MAVs and Celtics are
Speaker 1: kicking things off on Thursday for this installment of the
Speaker 1: NBA Finals, and we're discussing the upcoming series and a
Speaker 1: lot more with comedian and our favorite cousin, Blake Wexler
Speaker 1: on today's episode.
Speaker 2: Oh no, no, no, no, no, Blake.
Speaker 1: We yeah yeah finals. Yeah wait now you say your name?
Speaker 2: Oh, I'm Jack O'Brien.
Speaker 3: And this is my three got it? Luca, don chic
Speaker 3: hitch t k.
Speaker 2: There you go and be driving, spinning.
Speaker 1: Lebron's got it with five? Is gonna try another three?
Speaker 3: Mister?
Speaker 2: Look Bron James to be honest with the time. Okay,
Speaker 2: no shots.
Speaker 4: What you got Mike Wexler, you're a fantastic comedian. You're
Speaker 4: doing some live shows in Austin June fourteen to fifteenth,
Speaker 4: Phil Wexler, Yeah, today, Bosti's welcome.
Speaker 1: How are you swimming?
Speaker 2: Lessons on?
Speaker 5: I'm doing good. I'm doing really good. Thank you for
Speaker 5: having me, and yeah, I'm psych for the finals. I'm
Speaker 5: stuck to break down all the latest gossip.
Speaker 2: Just texted me.
Speaker 6: We had to get Philly to the finals one way
Speaker 6: or another. I don't appreciate that. To bar, I don't
Speaker 6: appreciate it. That's poor taste. And I think it a finals.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, ezamber three ring a bell, there's two thousand
Speaker 1: and one ring a bell.
Speaker 6: I think it doest thing about the wa That was crazy.
Speaker 1: That was great. Let's live in that moment. We stepped
Speaker 1: over you.
Speaker 6: That was one small step for Ai, one giant leap
Speaker 6: for mankind in Philadelphia.
Speaker 2: One giant conversation piece all we have for.
Speaker 1: We put the pressure on, though, didn't we We put
Speaker 1: the pressure on. We did.
Speaker 6: It's that time of year, one of my favorite times
Speaker 6: of the year when I get to root for a
Speaker 6: great player who I never would otherwise get to root for.
Speaker 6: In this case, Luka donca, Oh, this is gonna be.
Speaker 2: I can't wait, man, this.
Speaker 1: Is gonna be.
Speaker 6: It's gonna be like going to a horror movie and
Speaker 6: getting to cheer for Michael Myers.
Speaker 2: You know, Oh, okay, I get I get to cheer
Speaker 2: for the bad guy.
Speaker 6: This is yeah, because I can't, like, I never know
Speaker 6: what it's like to root for these people until they
Speaker 6: play the Celtics in like a very high stakes situation
Speaker 6: and uh.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're a backcourt with no muscle definition
Speaker 5: on their arms whatsoever. Are the team for you? And
Speaker 5: that's why I've been pulling for them all year. My
Speaker 5: mad exactly facing off again, I want to see myself
Speaker 5: on the court. Yeah, and that's what I see, exact
Speaker 5: same exactly.
Speaker 1: I want to two barns straight from I want the
Speaker 1: Deltoy definition of a lego. Man, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2: And that's what we get. It's this is going to
Speaker 2: be gri I mean, look, Luca, he's leading pretty much
Speaker 2: everything except blocks. It feels like going into this finals
Speaker 2: and you might.
Speaker 1: Be leading that most points, most rebounds, most assists, most steels,
Speaker 1: mostly pointers, yeah, most lucers.
Speaker 2: I mean he's got one ever. Yeah, No, that's that's
Speaker 2: pretty good.
Speaker 1: Steele.
Speaker 2: I didn't see Steel's coming.
Speaker 6: He's like a good He's a smart player on offense,
Speaker 6: obviously demonstrably so on defense. He's always in the right position,
Speaker 6: and it feels like so, I don't know, I think
Speaker 6: he's pretty good at basketball. Oh what do you guys say? Yeah,
Speaker 6: I'm a little crazy like that.
Speaker 2: I don't want to go that far. Yeah, jury's out
Speaker 2: on this guy.
Speaker 6: All that being said, if they were to win the
Speaker 6: series the Mavericks, they would tie the twenty sixteen Cleveland
Speaker 6: Cavaliers as the third biggest underdogs to win the NBA
Speaker 6: Finals behind not not like heading into the playoffs, like
Speaker 6: heading into right now. They would be the third biggest
Speaker 6: underdogs to ever win, behind the two thousand and four Pistons.
Speaker 2: That one came out of nowhere. We don't even know
Speaker 2: who they beat wins championships.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've never heard of Ben Wallace. I don't know
Speaker 1: what Detroit is as a concept. I don't even know
Speaker 1: if anyone was in the finals that year, But I
Speaker 1: guess I'll take your word for it.
Speaker 6: The Raptors who beat the Warriors, and then the Cavs
Speaker 6: who beat the Warriors. Yeah, the Raptors one was pretty
Speaker 6: much like that. There were two major injuries, so like
Speaker 6: that that kind of a split that one. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 6: but yeah, this would be so this would be just
Speaker 6: a wild upset. The Celtics, as we've been talking about
Speaker 6: all year, are a historically great team, and yeah, it
Speaker 6: feels like one of those things where we get the
Speaker 6: media narrative, like we get a bunch of momentum built
Speaker 6: up in the media narrative, and then we see a
Speaker 6: couple of games, then it's like, oh.
Speaker 2: Right, the Celtics are really good.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but everybody is the Celtics are so uh you know,
Speaker 6: the Celtics are such the Celtics that I feel like
Speaker 6: this is the first time the Mavericks have been like
Speaker 6: the public.
Speaker 2: Team, the team that everyone's like, yeah, right, yeah, Jack,
Speaker 2: I am oh good? No no, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 2: I don't want to know a jack of I don't
Speaker 2: want to anymore.
Speaker 5: The moment passed of those teams that you mentioned who
Speaker 5: had like the biggest upsets ever, I think the MAVs
Speaker 5: other than that those Calves teams, but even the Calves
Speaker 5: really only had I wouldn't even count Lebron or I'm sorry,
Speaker 5: like a Kevin Love in that situation as a second star,
Speaker 5: where the MAVs have two massive stars and like I think,
Speaker 5: unassailably so, whereas those other teams, like the Pistons, were
Speaker 5: kind of like a sum of its parts, you know,
Speaker 5: like better than the whole or if that's even a phrase.
Speaker 5: But I do think this is an interesting one where
Speaker 5: they do have a good supporting cast and two bonafide superstars,
Speaker 5: where those other upset teams kind of didn't.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's interesting because the Celtics are kind of a
Speaker 6: super team that is like that a little bit, like
Speaker 6: they're a super team that isn't like dominated by like
Speaker 6: one great player.
Speaker 2: And they're home grown too, like those guys were drafted. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I wish I didn't dislike them so much. The story
Speaker 2: so harsh and beat.
Speaker 1: They're gonna be so hard to be Like you think
Speaker 1: about that, the eight Man of how they can all
Speaker 1: shoot threes. Yeah, it's it's just gonna be I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean, I I again as we you know, last
Speaker 1: week we're I think we were with Warren Shaw and
Speaker 1: he was being very kind to us as a Celtics fan.
Speaker 1: Is I was having an existential.
Speaker 6: Come on, he's it all Celtics fans come on condescending, Yeah,
Speaker 6: just condid Like the fact that he was being so
Speaker 6: nice that it was condescend was a shot.
Speaker 1: He was taking shots by being like, well, I'm not
Speaker 1: as confident as you are, and like, oh, you're not
Speaker 1: as confident as I am.
Speaker 6: Yeah, listening to the Bill Simmons podcast this week, because
Speaker 6: he like believes in jinxes and like magic and he
Speaker 6: so he was like talk talking about how the Celtics
Speaker 6: are like a super team and like under rated and
Speaker 6: all all the things like this would be one of
Speaker 6: the biggest upsets. And then he's like, but yeah, I
Speaker 6: think like the Madsen probably like I wants you know,
Speaker 6: He's like, I think the MAVs probably like the.
Speaker 1: Thing is a reverse jinx. Doesn't work just because you
Speaker 1: articulate the thing you have to the universe. No, when
Speaker 1: you wanergetically, Yeah, and I think you like seven. But
Speaker 1: he was like it's really good, Luke is gonna like
Speaker 1: do great.
Speaker 6: And I was like, you don't actually believe this, bro,
Speaker 6: I sus fans are just they're trying to make themselves
Speaker 6: the underdog while also being just so confident.
Speaker 1: To a to a degree that is it's hard to
Speaker 1: occupy both because I get it. It's it's such a trap, right,
Speaker 1: It's either we're gonna win, don't worry about it, or
Speaker 1: you have to contend with like what if you lose?
Speaker 1: But what if you lose? And that that makes you
Speaker 1: have to be like, well, you know, you never know
Speaker 1: what because you don't want to be the person taking
Speaker 1: the l on the chin by being like, what happened? Man?
Speaker 1: I thought I thought it was a cake walk because
Speaker 1: you were you were old this for all the years
Speaker 1: of dominance kind of thing.
Speaker 2: I would just go with what Bill Simmons says.
Speaker 6: I actually so I agree whatever Bill Simmons says, but
Speaker 6: only on movies, because I think he has the best
Speaker 6: taste in movies, best analysis of movies. I because I
Speaker 6: like to watch a movie and be thinking the whole time. Yeah,
Speaker 6: but who's winning this scene?
Speaker 2: Who's winning this winning this scene?
Speaker 6: It's every movie is a competition between different people, and
Speaker 6: I want to know who's who won that scene, and were.
Speaker 2: They on Apex mountain, Apex whatever they say.
Speaker 5: Pack a mountain. It's a Lama based reference that no
Speaker 5: one understands.
Speaker 1: Luca's knee was something that came up in the press
Speaker 1: conference and he was asked like, hey, man, you've got
Speaker 1: about four days off so far, how's the knee? And
Speaker 1: he said it didn't get any better. Some people are
Speaker 1: taking that as to be like, oh, no, well it
Speaker 1: to me, I think he's gotten this far and he's
Speaker 1: doing a said job. If this feels like a bit
Speaker 1: of mind games, a little bit like you probably want
Speaker 1: to put your opponent to like enter this this series,
Speaker 1: like with every bit of confidence or overconfidence you can
Speaker 1: get out of them to hopefully sucker punch. I don't know,
Speaker 1: but I don't know if that's much of an issue, but.
Speaker 6: Does remind me of the fact that for every series
Speaker 6: up to the Minnesota series, people were like, yeah, but
Speaker 6: Luca must be hurt, like the way he's playing, like
Speaker 6: he still was doing enough to win. Yeah, if he
Speaker 6: looks like ninety percent against the Celtics, like I think
Speaker 6: they're going to lose, So I don't I'm hoping that
Speaker 6: that's just gamesmanship, that he's gonna come out.
Speaker 1: Could you imagine he's like, man, I'm cooked, y'all, I'm sorry, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: Denny is scrambled eggs. What can I say?
Speaker 2: Good luck to everybody, you know, I'm just hoping helping
Speaker 2: I walk out of here.
Speaker 1: I'm my two feet.
Speaker 2: Wheels himself out of the room. He plays two and
Speaker 2: it's a night and it's like, oh, he wasn't kidding,
Speaker 2: Oh no, yeah, two points close up of his knee
Speaker 2: when he was walking.
Speaker 1: It looked like someone's playing with a lie.
Speaker 2: Those stress toys to believe the amount of flex that
Speaker 2: was in there.
Speaker 6: The Celtics are the first team in the twenty eight
Speaker 6: years for which we have play by play data to
Speaker 6: statistically be the best team in the regular season plus
Speaker 6: eleven point seven points per one hundred possessions and in
Speaker 6: each of the first three rounds of the playoffs.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's the math there.
Speaker 6: So I think the thing that, like, you know, there,
Speaker 6: there's the history them being the Celtics, them being Boston.
Speaker 6: People generally don't like Boston teams. But I also think
Speaker 6: there's just something that's like kind of unremarkable about Tatum
Speaker 6: that makes people just like not, you know, not want
Speaker 6: to root for him for whatever reason. And I think
Speaker 6: that is what is blinding people to what a big
Speaker 6: mismatch this series could be.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 6: Granted I am reverse jinxing them, and I could see
Speaker 6: a world where the Mavericks win, but Boston is is incredible.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're they're great, They're great, and yeah, yeah, where
Speaker 1: it's as much as I want to, I have a
Speaker 1: I just don't. Well we'll see, well, well we'll get
Speaker 1: our predictions later. Maybe I'll maybe I'll have a change
Speaker 1: of heart.
Speaker 2: Let me just put my head in the books and
Speaker 2: figure out how they can pull this off. You'll figure
Speaker 2: it out. I think you are right to where there.
Speaker 5: It just hasn't been exciting with the Celtics at all,
Speaker 5: you know, the entire and you have these two absolute
Speaker 5: super so they're just not like weird, but they're so
Speaker 5: good where you know they're they're just great players who
Speaker 5: are normal guys, seemingly normal guys, and it's it makes
Speaker 5: you forget. You don't watch them in the same way
Speaker 5: that you like you watch I think people who are
Speaker 5: you know, maniacs.
Speaker 1: So yeah, but I agree with you about like ruthless
Speaker 1: winning teams. It's not it's not always about the excitement.
Speaker 1: It's just about I'm your deadly efficiency of being like, yeah,
Speaker 1: what do we need to win? Okay, we'll get it done.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, And then you're like again, but we well,
Speaker 1: we'll see, we'll see, we'll see. Should take a break, Yeah,
Speaker 1: let's take a quick Break's take a break, all right,
Speaker 1: let's take a quick break.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let me get my head right now.
Speaker 1: We'll come back for some.
Speaker 5: Predictions, and we're back, and we're I love the idea
Speaker 5: of a host who needs to take a break to
Speaker 5: get their head, right, it's not it's not for advertising.
Speaker 2: There's no advertising.
Speaker 1: Guys. I need to take a break.
Speaker 5: Guys, I am I'm losing it right now. I feel
Speaker 5: physically I'll be I'll be back when I can come back. Okay,
Speaker 5: I gotta take.
Speaker 2: That back, all right?
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 2: That was three days. We're back after day break.
Speaker 1: Yeah, for a three day crisis. Yeah. My voice sounds
Speaker 1: a little bit different because I have trying to wrap
Speaker 1: my head around it. I mean, this was something we
Speaker 1: were talking about on the discord, asking everybody Finals, winner, Finals,
Speaker 1: m VP, unsung hero predictions. See a lot of stuff
Speaker 1: out here, See a lot of stuff, See people saying
Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of Celtics fans. Then I
Speaker 1: get it because so because the statistics say they're gonna
Speaker 1: put the smack down. Okay, that's one way to look
Speaker 1: at it. What about those of us.
Speaker 2: That live in a world of pure imagination?
Speaker 1: Can I just give you my Can I give you
Speaker 1: my prediction?
Speaker 2: Let's hear it. Yes, MAVs in four maps and four.
Speaker 1: I needed a break. I needed a break to get
Speaker 1: my head and I did MAVs in four okay or
Speaker 1: MAVs in seven okay? Okay, can I tell you why though,
Speaker 1: We'll still want this is what the MAVs gott to do. Basically,
Speaker 1: Boston can't play as good as they normally do and
Speaker 1: the MAVs have a chance.
Speaker 2: Do they have to ask them to do that? Or
Speaker 2: you think it's just it's gonna see what happens.
Speaker 6: How So, rude if Boston came in and like played
Speaker 6: the way that they normally do, like because we're like
Speaker 6: America wants to see the Lucas story exactly.
Speaker 1: Exactly and their class act. So I can see them
Speaker 1: doing that just for the good of the game. And
Speaker 1: then yeah, actually no, I'm switching it to I'm switching
Speaker 1: itt to Celtics and for okay, no, you know what
Speaker 1: MAVs is seven go back. That'll feel better. That's gonna
Speaker 1: feel the best for me as a Laker fan is
Speaker 1: for it to go seven games and just for the
Speaker 1: MAVs to win, and that would be in the garden, right,
Speaker 1: that would.
Speaker 6: Not that would be it MAVs at home and that
Speaker 6: one game seven would be in the garden. Seven we're
Speaker 6: going into the cathedral. To quote what the Celtics coach's
Speaker 6: favorite movie, Welledral tame Way Park is the cathedral.
Speaker 2: That's those of us who live in Boston.
Speaker 1: That's all we know.
Speaker 2: It is, as is the cathedral.
Speaker 1: Nobody.
Speaker 2: Gway Park is the also the cathedral, I should say that.
Speaker 2: And Foxboro Stadium up there is the Vatican. That's the Vatican,
Speaker 2: its own municipality where it has its own police force,
Speaker 2: its own rules, just like the Vatican does. That's perfect,
Speaker 2: that is perfect. They wear ridiculous hats, silly hats, helmet.
Speaker 6: I'm gonna go MAVs and five, moving along, all right? Yeah,
Speaker 6: now it's uh, yeah, yeah, it's I don't know, brain
Speaker 6: says Celtics and six, But like they're old NBA, a
Speaker 6: heart that has like witnessed lots of series where the
Speaker 6: team with the best player wins. Feels like it might
Speaker 6: be MAVs and seven, But I do think it's probably
Speaker 6: gonna be Celtics.
Speaker 2: In uh, Celtics and six.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm gonna change mine. Actually, what's what's years is
Speaker 1: going to be my most I agree Celtics and six.
Speaker 1: Just whatever is the prevailing sentiment is out there.
Speaker 2: That seems to be the prevailing sentiment in the discord.
Speaker 2: Now we got Garaventag, MAVs and seven.
Speaker 1: Uh, and then Charlie Xavier like this, So I don't care.
Speaker 1: It's delusional. Boston toxicity has me manifesting total domination. I
Speaker 1: get it. I get it. Look, I think I'm just
Speaker 1: jealous that I don't get to be in the toxic
Speaker 1: driver's seat. Yeah this year, that's my favorite part about
Speaker 1: being a Laker fan. And they get to now.
Speaker 6: But once the Celtics win and we have to like
Speaker 6: listen to people talk about how Jason Tatum's like one
Speaker 6: of the best players in the league and the implication
Speaker 6: of all time, the implication that you know, the Sixers
Speaker 6: could have had them had him No, no.
Speaker 1: No, we could.
Speaker 2: Might have No that would have never had it possible
Speaker 2: that we couldn't. Yeah, Blake, what about you? What's your
Speaker 2: Where do your predictions land?
Speaker 1: Here? Give me one from your heart and one from
Speaker 1: your head.
Speaker 5: One from my heart Celtics in five okay because my
Speaker 5: heart's failing, and then from my head Celtics in four oh.
Speaker 2: No, because my head.
Speaker 1: I like how we're pretty resigned to Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: like again, I would love to see a match up.
Speaker 1: I think the Maps definitely have a shot if they can,
Speaker 1: you know, just on them on the offensive glass like
Speaker 1: they did with the timber. Like you know, there's the
Speaker 1: pieces are there, but it's whether or not it all
Speaker 1: comes together. And I think that's the hard part to
Speaker 1: see because again, I just think that Celtics have like
Speaker 1: mechanical efficiency at this point, which is hard to overcome.
Speaker 2: But right, yeah, guys, it doesn't feel right. I think
Speaker 2: I think I might switch it to like MAVs and seven. Yeah.
Speaker 6: The athleticism inside for the MAVs is uh turning me
Speaker 6: around here. They just they look hard to beat right now,
Speaker 6: and Boston feels I don't know, even though they're a
Speaker 6: super team, they get too many of their points from
Speaker 6: the three point line.
Speaker 2: The playoffs is all about getting points in yeah.
Speaker 1: I believe. And if it turns the hero ball, you
Speaker 1: like the Mavericks better.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, so I like their ability to get a bucket.
Speaker 2: I'm back, baby.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: This is the weirdest time of the sports show I've
Speaker 2: ever had. It's very old, very weird. Word you're working
Speaker 2: for it looking, Yeah, you're hearing three grown men cope
Speaker 2: on my sad It is coping. This is hoping.
Speaker 1: This is Miles and Jack have terrible coping skills. There's
Speaker 1: a coping scandal. Yeah, they're hopped up on that cope.
Speaker 1: They're hopped up on cope. Yeah, all right.
Speaker 6: Luca has averaged twenty eight point eight points nine point
Speaker 6: six boards, eight point eight assists. If he maintains those numbers,
Speaker 6: he'd be just the third player to average at least
Speaker 6: twenty eight, eight and nine in the last fifteen playoff games,
Speaker 6: joining Lebron and Nicola Jokic. You guys see the video
Speaker 6: of Yo Kic whitewater rafting with his friends.
Speaker 1: No, is he back home already rafting?
Speaker 2: I couldn't tell if he was back home or not.
Speaker 6: But everybody in the raft, like, you couldn't tell which
Speaker 6: one was Jokic that like, everybody looked identical.
Speaker 2: It was weird. It's like, oh, he hangs out with
Speaker 2: just a bunch of people who look like him and
Speaker 2: are the same size as him.
Speaker 5: Somehow the water was blue until him and his friends
Speaker 5: got in it and then became whitewater. Thank you so much,
Speaker 5: Go ahead, all right, and back to you, Blake, back
Speaker 5: to me and back to me. Celtics and four, yeah,
Speaker 5: Mads and six.
Speaker 1: And then.
Speaker 6: I think we've predicted every possible outcome at this point,
Speaker 6: so I better get credit you guys if I picked
Speaker 6: this one.
Speaker 1: Wait, which what did you pick?
Speaker 2: I forget now too. I think MAVs and seven is
Speaker 2: what I picked.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, or or Celtics before that's that's.
Speaker 1: Kind of where I'm stuck between. It's Celtics are four Mas.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's close. It's close. It's hard to figure which
Speaker 2: to pick.
Speaker 1: It's close.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, No, he was apparently the Tara Valley or
Speaker 2: something is where he went.
Speaker 6: All right, Uh, did you guys see the video of
Speaker 6: ant Man. There's a commercial of ant Man shooting hoops
Speaker 6: being like hearing the voice, hearing people.
Speaker 1: Doubt people's like mean tweets kind of thing.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, mean tweets of him shooting hoops and then
Speaker 6: getting getting mean tweets at him while shooting hoops. It
Speaker 6: was just like a a surprisingly quick turnaround from like
Speaker 6: bad performance in the conference finals and then immediately like
Speaker 6: a statement issued in commercial form, right, and maybe me
Speaker 6: saying it was a bad performance in the conference finals
Speaker 6: will be in the next version of this commercial.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, But his friend reads off the receipt. All right,
Speaker 1: some guy said he's let's record another one.
Speaker 5: I think that the Minnesota Timberwolves should trade ant and
Speaker 5: build around Cat and go bear.
Speaker 2: We're taking carbagger animals and Ant this NBA.
Speaker 1: Oh my god.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a big man's league.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that there was a like I think
Speaker 1: that they got a little contentious when Cameron was one
Speaker 1: of the receipts that was read and then Cameron replied
Speaker 1: in a freestyle back to him, it's everything has become
Speaker 1: so beef oriented recently, you know what I mean. Like,
Speaker 1: I'm like, Cam, you didn't have to record a whole
Speaker 1: freestyle like bigging up all these but I get it.
Speaker 2: You make a day of it, the whole afternoon, bringing
Speaker 2: a crew union crew.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I don't know is that show union but anyway, but
Speaker 2: it is what it is. But yeah, it's a I think.
Speaker 1: It is what it is.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Again, I think it's just this is we're kind of
Speaker 1: in that taking shots era for sure, Like we're seeing
Speaker 1: it even more and more like just even outside of music,
Speaker 1: inside of music, like Billie Eilish, but like everybody's kind
Speaker 1: of everyone's in there beef era right now.
Speaker 2: So I got into a yeah with Taylor Swift, everything.
Speaker 1: Is about taking shots at each other now, Yeah, like, oh,
Speaker 1: Taylor want to put this album out to so to
Speaker 1: stifle Billy's album sales and Billy Twigger album.
Speaker 2: It's like all it's just all this back and forth,
Speaker 2: which is great.
Speaker 6: We got to figure out which We've been trying to
Speaker 6: start a beef with Bill Simmons, but unfortunately he doesn't
Speaker 6: know we exist.
Speaker 1: Yeah again, I tell you, we're gonna have to go
Speaker 1: to We're gonna have to pose his girl scouts selling
Speaker 1: cookies door to door and just pop out on him,
Speaker 1: you know, knock, knock, guess who, Why don't jack a
Speaker 1: bat Poostie's boom.
Speaker 2: You guys are gonna have to stop going to the gym.
Speaker 5: And then you're gonna have to just graduate from Northwestern
Speaker 5: and apply for a job to work with him.
Speaker 2: And then, yeah, I think you might be able to
Speaker 2: do it. I think you might be able to do it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yep, yep, yep, yep. Gosh, I'm just just still
Speaker 1: thinking of just still still thinking of maps, and yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I'm back of maps. I think maps and
Speaker 1: for Celtics and seven so.
Speaker 5: Tics and seven yeah, seven, I'm going man, are you
Speaker 5: Atlas MAVs and Celtics and four.
Speaker 2: In the sense that they will definitely play for they
Speaker 2: will Celtics and we will go for this one's going for.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Is it just that we don't want to be
Speaker 1: unequivocal because I mean, look, if we really said it
Speaker 1: out loud what we believed, then we have the shot at.
Speaker 2: The reverse jicks. Hmm, okay, let's do it on three.
Speaker 1: Do you okay? We're doing one two three? Man? Oh man,
Speaker 1: Well we've crowned our winner for sure back in Definity.
Speaker 1: How right we are we will?
Speaker 6: I mean, I wait, MAVs last last round against Minnesota.
Speaker 2: I think I'm doing it again. I'm picking the MAVs
Speaker 2: under wow, under Okay, uh, at least four, at least four.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't see that. It's a close series. I
Speaker 6: think it's going at least four.
Speaker 2: Yeah. All right, let's uh, let's take a break.
Speaker 6: I gotta get my I gotta get my head right,
Speaker 6: get me to do some breathing exercises, and we'll want
Speaker 6: to be right back.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and we're back. I still need a second, we
Speaker 2: still need to be on a break.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: Your head's wrong, your head's my head's all right. Sorry,
Speaker 2: I didn't see that. Well, quick break all right, sorry.
Speaker 1: Let's take another break. We'll be right back.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: I just don't know if I can get my head right. No,
Speaker 1: just real heavy thinking about that eighteenth banner going up
Speaker 1: in the garden. It's just a lot, you know, and
Speaker 1: I just don't want to be honest with the people.
Speaker 6: How you guys are seventeen seventeen? Yeah, yeah, that must
Speaker 6: want tough. As a Sixers fan, I got to say,
Speaker 6: that must be tough.
Speaker 1: Oh, you guys get it, thank you.
Speaker 2: You know that's all we get.
Speaker 1: That's all we get, is it?
Speaker 2: We get? We get it?
Speaker 1: Rings man, Yeah, I get it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I get I get it.
Speaker 1: I'm ready to come back.
Speaker 6: It looks a little bit better, right, Blake. I would
Speaker 6: say when we first came back, I looked grotesque, but
Speaker 6: I would I would say it made me sick to
Speaker 6: my stomach.
Speaker 2: But his head looks right.
Speaker 1: I need another break, just to deal with these comments. Man.
Speaker 5: Let's sorry, Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry sorry.
Speaker 1: Maps in five bas I think guys, just don't try
Speaker 1: to take shots at my head, you know.
Speaker 6: Okay, just like one of the sides keeps bulging out.
Speaker 6: I don't know if with everything I just.
Speaker 2: Started sleeping and stuff. Yeah, your head and a cast
Speaker 2: for two for two years for.
Speaker 5: Your favorite pillow company, got in some trouble over the
Speaker 5: past couple of years, and you haven't.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, exactly.
Speaker 1: I think I'm ready to come back.
Speaker 2: I think your head looks very Yeah.
Speaker 6: He keeps asking, how am I supposed to know whose
Speaker 6: pillow it is? If the same of my pillow is
Speaker 6: not my pillow it.
Speaker 1: Is the it's like what it's like Odysseus esque riddles
Speaker 1: like the Cyclops.
Speaker 5: You're just writing your name, Miles on all the pillows
Speaker 5: in your house. They're mine, They're mine? Wait, no, are
Speaker 5: they mine?
Speaker 2: Or Miles to say, and we're back. We're back. My
Speaker 2: head's right. So Celtics and six.
Speaker 6: As you Meltics have heard that the thing that Miles
Speaker 6: really dealing with is the possibility of an eighteenth title
Speaker 6: that would put the Celtics ahead of the Lakers.
Speaker 1: Is that not just the just that is the subjects
Speaker 1: that is, that's that is the that's the sort of
Speaker 1: ammocles that hangs above me. Yeah, you know what I mean.
Speaker 6: I don't think it's the only thing that our listeners
Speaker 6: are thinking about at all times, all hours of their wet.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know put all wait, y'all not thinking about
Speaker 2: the redemption?
Speaker 1: How beautiful that was? Oh man?
Speaker 6: But as super producer Jabari Davis said, one since eighty six, so.
Speaker 2: Oh talking about the Celtics, Yeah, titles it is one.
Speaker 2: Yeah it was u KG, Paul Pierce.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, any I can do anything, Anything is possible, Anything,
Speaker 1: It's possible.
Speaker 6: A better catchphrase than the thing he was supposed to say,
Speaker 6: impossible is nothing was the Adidas catchphrase. Yes, and he
Speaker 6: was supposed to say impossible is nothing after he won
Speaker 6: the title, and instead he said anything is possible and
Speaker 6: he actually improved there. They should have just changed their catchphrase,
Speaker 6: but instead they were like, ah, by the way, do
Speaker 6: you see the story about him?
Speaker 2: U plan? Yeah, you sent it to me?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah about him? What uh? Context?
Speaker 2: Whatsoever? Good God? What can show the story that miles
Speaker 2: out next to me about the one about him? Blake
Speaker 2: Celtics and four.
Speaker 6: KG Yeah, KG just basically said that the whole the
Speaker 6: Charlie Murphy true Hollywood tailed out like hooping with Prince
Speaker 6: is real and in fact k who KG hooped with
Speaker 6: them and was like he's really good.
Speaker 1: He said he'll beat any nor he'll beat any civilian. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he said, his handle is nasty.
Speaker 6: And then there's like these images cut in of Prince
Speaker 6: hooping that I had never seen before.
Speaker 2: He's like at the rim, like incredible, Hey, the purple one.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean, what it is? It is
Speaker 1: what it is. And I'm so tired, and now that
Speaker 1: we have our heads back on correct, I think it
Speaker 1: is time to just dive head first, headlong into the
Speaker 1: fourth QUARTERPIFI roundom question. This is the Q second podcasting history,
Speaker 1: Blake Wexler. We asked you a question. You just respond
Speaker 1: reply quickly, don't think too long, or else we'll be
Speaker 1: to you because we have to keep it m O
Speaker 1: v I n G moving maps and five.
Speaker 6: I hear you.
Speaker 1: It.
Speaker 6: Usually Miles doesn't actually say the word after he spells it,
Speaker 6: but with you, he felt the need to. I wouldn't
Speaker 6: take that any certain sort of way.
Speaker 2: I just want to make sure he knows how to
Speaker 2: spell yeah, to make sure I understood what you were saying.
Speaker 1: All right, here we go, Blake, Are you ready?
Speaker 2: Yes, let's keep it moving. Celtics in four Celtics and
Speaker 2: four let's keep.
Speaker 1: Start the clock the c O m O O V
Speaker 1: I n c K. You spoke for zingists right now.
Speaker 1: I don't know how to spell Wexler. Who goes first?
Speaker 1: Jack Zinger?
Speaker 2: Who goes first? Be straight with us? Yeah, be honest first,
Speaker 2: Blake goes first. I'll go first. Yeah, Blake, you cover,
Speaker 2: you go first?
Speaker 5: Okay, Big Country Bryant Reeves, your Shelvin Mack will go
Speaker 5: around the horn. Who would you rather have in the
Speaker 5: fourth quarter game on the line?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 2: Right now?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 1: Yeah, right now? Like we take him?
Speaker 6: Would he was like a top five pick. I think
Speaker 6: they were just like, well, he was really famous and
Speaker 6: well known six overall in the nineteen ninety five NBA draft. Uh,
Speaker 6: Oklahoma State? Is that where he went?
Speaker 2: I believe bliek so or no ar there's some keep
Speaker 2: it moving answer my question? Keep it moving?
Speaker 1: Okay, my bad. Brian Reeves.
Speaker 2: Went to Butler re.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: Jabari usually doesn't have to come on and tell us
Speaker 2: to keep it moving, but he just did there.
Speaker 1: Or he said, wait, guys, you have the forum completely wrong.
Speaker 1: You're supposed to ask the guest question. Yeah, exactly, Blake.
Speaker 6: You can go back in time to Oh no, it's
Speaker 6: a Blake all right, Yeah, go back, Blake.
Speaker 2: You can go back in time.
Speaker 6: To personally witness ani finals match up from history. However,
Speaker 6: many games the series went. You get courtside tickets to
Speaker 6: each game, which you choose them, Blake, which you choosen?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I would go back to It was the Lakers that, sorry, Miles,
Speaker 5: that and Jabari and then probably all of our listeners
Speaker 5: that the Detroit Pistons beat right that.
Speaker 2: The biggest.
Speaker 5: I would want to watch that, and I'm not I'm
Speaker 5: not gonna and I'm a little a little sneaky pete
Speaker 5: here I do.
Speaker 2: I would.
Speaker 5: I would legitimately want to watch that because I think
Speaker 5: those Pistons teams are some of the most interesting teams
Speaker 5: and also scored forty points per game.
Speaker 2: And I would want to see it. I remember that
Speaker 2: Game three, we scored sixty eight points and he was
Speaker 2: on that team. Miles, do you have any scorers on
Speaker 2: that team? Anyone who can put the ball in the basket.
Speaker 2: It was me with my lego arms, and I told Bill, Hey, bro,
Speaker 2: don't put me in man.
Speaker 1: I'm nineteen, I'm not ready for this, and I'm also
Speaker 1: never played.
Speaker 6: That's a got of basketball the Blake likes. He's a
Speaker 6: He's at his favorite basketball coach all time. Eight off Rup.
Speaker 6: It's nineteen fifties University of Kentucky.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a.
Speaker 5: Shame what Calipari did to that whole program, the way
Speaker 5: he ruined it with his scoring. But yeah, I think
Speaker 5: it was a problematic guy. Yeah, yeah, Blake, Yes.
Speaker 2: Can I just ask you again? What's your prediction for
Speaker 2: the finals?
Speaker 5: I'm going to go And I said this once and
Speaker 5: I've said it in seventeen different times, I'm going Celtics
Speaker 5: and six.
Speaker 1: Now next question, Finals MVP.
Speaker 2: I'm going to go. I mean I'm going to go.
Speaker 2: Jayalen Brown, Wow, that's where I'm going to go with.
Speaker 5: You could have said Lebron. Dude could have said Lebron,
Speaker 5: but you could have should have. I'm not going to
Speaker 5: say that because he's not going to win, because it's
Speaker 5: going to be the MAVs in five?
Speaker 1: Jayleen Brown?
Speaker 2: Is that with Jayalen Brown?
Speaker 1: I love that.
Speaker 2: I love that worst prediction.
Speaker 1: I love that. I love that if somehow that was
Speaker 1: a bet you could take. What would the odds be
Speaker 1: that that part one in a million? Just like you
Speaker 1: guys and our friendship, they would say an impossibility. Sir,
Speaker 1: Please leave right now.
Speaker 2: That's right, sir? What are you saying, so you're bleeding.
Speaker 2: Why are you? You're bleeding too much to be in
Speaker 2: this sports. But every time I up to the OTB window,
Speaker 2: my nose starts bleeding. What am I supposed to do
Speaker 2: about it? Bleed at home? Ye?
Speaker 3: That?
Speaker 1: Oh my god, that is true, though, Jabbari, don't bring
Speaker 1: up the Jerry West is the first NBA Finals MVP
Speaker 1: on the losing team.
Speaker 2: Like faces of the NBA for the next five years,
Speaker 2: go Anthony Edwards.
Speaker 5: Trey Young is probably the funniest pick pick because it's
Speaker 5: like you could justify it.
Speaker 2: But you're wrong.
Speaker 5: No, it'll be Brownie James and Anthony Edwards, Stephen Gobert.
Speaker 1: No, I would.
Speaker 5: Is a little brother, a little brother, Baby Gobert and
Speaker 5: you know the baby that ruined the Western Conference final,
Speaker 5: thank you? And no, I would say Tyres, Maxie, Anthony Edwards.
Speaker 5: You wanted five, correct?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I think it's still the five years but yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: but I have go ahead, We'll let you do five.
Speaker 2: I don't want to do five at all. I don't
Speaker 2: want to do five like in the least.
Speaker 1: I don't most five AE and MAXI mm hmm, okay, okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what you're saying.
Speaker 6: And you think who's the holdover? You're gonna say, and
Speaker 6: you think it's still going to be Lebron. I think
Speaker 6: Lebron's still going to be playing at the age of
Speaker 6: forty four.
Speaker 1: Yeah, easily, I think.
Speaker 2: And you'll be putting up like twenty one, nine and eight.
Speaker 6: Then it was conspicuous that you left Joe Mizula out.
Speaker 6: Do you you don't think he's gonna.
Speaker 2: Come back and play again?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, coach.
Speaker 1: Next prediction true? Our next question? Sorry, take away there?
Speaker 2: What's your prediction for the NBA Finals? I that's that's interesting.
Speaker 1: You asked that.
Speaker 5: I I don't like to give predictions, Okay, but I'll
Speaker 5: do it on this show for the first time.
Speaker 2: I will go celt in five.
Speaker 5: Actually wow, Yeah, I'm gonna go out on a lamb
Speaker 5: and say Celtics in five and Mad's in six.
Speaker 1: Okay. Follow up, if I'm watching a seventy six ers
Speaker 1: game in Philadelphia, do that?
Speaker 2: Don't do it? Go ahead?
Speaker 1: Next question?
Speaker 2: No, we gotta keep going. And I'm hungry. What do
Speaker 2: I eat in the arena? You gotta have a cheese
Speaker 2: steak lad and catch yeah mine onions? Bring your own pencils. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I would go. So they have these.
Speaker 5: Insanely large slices of pizza that like seems like, oh
Speaker 5: oh well, how big by slice of pizza is, and
Speaker 5: then you have to still eat it. It's legitimately like
Speaker 5: an elephant's ear. I don't know, really, it's yes, it's insane.
Speaker 5: It's and it's not even like presented as look at
Speaker 5: how funny this.
Speaker 2: Slice of pizza is. It's just presented as this is
Speaker 2: how big a slice of pizza should be. Because we
Speaker 2: Bargo Center the Flyers play there too, right correct?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, because I'm seeing a picture of a Flyers
Speaker 1: fan eating a pizza the size of.
Speaker 2: An elephant ear? Is how big it is? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Sure?
Speaker 2: Or or an airbag that went off, or it looks
Speaker 2: like a one dimensional wizard's hat. Wizards that very It's
Speaker 2: just this triangle.
Speaker 1: Is the pizza good though?
Speaker 2: Uh? It's it's like it's for ballpark or steadium pizza.
Speaker 2: It's it's good. How do you feel about ketchup on
Speaker 2: your on my pizza pizza?
Speaker 1: I love it.
Speaker 5: I substitute marinara sauce with ketchup and I find it delightful.
Speaker 2: I put I put ketchup on hot dogs for sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, okay, I.
Speaker 2: Love ketchup is bad? Is that a bad thing in
Speaker 2: Philly too? I was saying the quality of the pizza.
Speaker 2: How do you feel about ketchup as the red sauce
Speaker 2: on pizza?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: I'm sorry. You were making a funny joke and I
Speaker 2: cut you off with.
Speaker 1: We both missed pure confusion.
Speaker 6: All right, Blake, We've seen teams like Memphis few years back. Okay,
Speaker 6: see this year, Orlando this year, take that next step
Speaker 6: over the last few years. Can you give us a
Speaker 6: team or two you expect to do the same next season?
Speaker 1: Blake?
Speaker 2: Like, I don't know the Sixers forgot? They take a
Speaker 2: step forward.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 6: Plummet in the standing next year, and from our expectations,
Speaker 6: who replaces them near the top of the standard?
Speaker 2: Near the top there? Instead?
Speaker 1: Did I tell you?
Speaker 5: I came up with an idea for the Sixers and
Speaker 5: I might need your help with it. So you're familiar
Speaker 5: with in college football s mu got quote unquote the
Speaker 5: death penalty was what it was called b they weren't
Speaker 5: allowed to play football. I think that not death, but
Speaker 5: I think like a coma penalty where the Sixers shouldn't
Speaker 5: be allowed to play basketball.
Speaker 2: For two years.
Speaker 5: I'm dead secrets and they don't lose the team, I'm
Speaker 5: dead spurious. So just pause, press pause, because the thing
Speaker 5: it has to stop. We need to stop bleeding. You know,
Speaker 5: this is this is a tourniqu hit. This is not surgery.
Speaker 5: So stop the bleeding and then take two. So we're
Speaker 5: gonna have two expansion teams a right, because I want
Speaker 5: expansion teams in the league.
Speaker 2: Seattle needs a team. Seattle really needs a team.
Speaker 5: And I swear to guy, if they give Vegas a
Speaker 5: team before Seattle, I'm going to scream at the top
Speaker 5: of my lungs outside of the Wells Fargo Center before
Speaker 5: I'm picked out of the parking lot.
Speaker 1: In your eyes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know where all the Sonics fans hang out,
Speaker 2: the parking lot. Yeah. So the Sixers are divided across
Speaker 2: two expansion teams. There's two players on the team currently.
Speaker 5: Well, so there's going to be a an expansion draft.
Speaker 5: So the first year Sixers are out, we try it
Speaker 5: out in one city. So then the like Seattle gets
Speaker 5: an expansion draft, okay, and then maybe we only do
Speaker 5: one year. Then the next year okay, and these players,
Speaker 5: by the way, their contracts are still the same contracts.
Speaker 5: So if you know, Max has four years left on
Speaker 5: his deal. At the end of the two years, he's
Speaker 5: still yeah, still has two years, but they get an
Speaker 5: option to come back. They won't want to, but they
Speaker 5: get an option to come back to Philadelphia if they want.
Speaker 5: And then we bring in another team I think to
Speaker 5: even out because we need to have an even number
Speaker 5: of teams. So then we bring in another expansion team
Speaker 5: for the second year and they get the Sixers players,
Speaker 5: and then we do a fantasy draft at the expansion
Speaker 5: draft the third year.
Speaker 2: All right, that was very easy, and the NBA is
Speaker 2: listening very It was very easy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that much.
Speaker 6: After the two years, the players have the option to
Speaker 6: come back, but none of them will. And then a
Speaker 6: team of is yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the team the team of clowns, Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 5: And the clowns they also have to be drafted, so
Speaker 5: it's not like the Sixers get first choice of clown Yeah.
Speaker 2: They have yeah, the way Wire just like everyone else.
Speaker 1: And finally, Blake Wexler, this is the most important question
Speaker 1: that we ask in this segment. Give me your finals
Speaker 1: prediction for the two twenty four finals. Okay, the finals prediction,
Speaker 1: m hm.
Speaker 2: This is tough. This yeah, this is one. Didn't mean
Speaker 2: to ask you this at right at the end of
Speaker 2: the whole.
Speaker 1: Episode, but got no no no.
Speaker 2: I thought we're gonna get through the episode without having
Speaker 2: to do this.
Speaker 5: I would go, uh mav Celtics in mat Maverick, I
Speaker 5: would go Mavericks.
Speaker 2: I would go Celtics in six. Okay, yeah, a good.
Speaker 1: Night there, folks. You can take to the bank. Take
Speaker 1: it to the bank, Wexler Bank. So much joining us
Speaker 1: on Miles of Jack got mad Boosti's clake. Where do
Speaker 1: the people find you? Follow you? Check you out all that.
Speaker 5: You can find me at Capsidy Comedy Club in Austin, Texas,
Speaker 5: June fourteenth to fifteenth, Backyard Comedy in Nashville, Tennessee, June
Speaker 5: twenty seven. And then I'm hosting a show for the
Speaker 5: Philadelphia Eagles actually called lis l I E S and
Speaker 5: uh we have players on. It's a funny like little
Speaker 5: game show that I do with the players which has
Speaker 5: been unreal. So check that out on the Philadelphia Peoples
Speaker 5: YouTube Dream Controul.
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Speaker 2: I'm at Jack Underscore O'Brien and that was another landmark
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Speaker 1: We'll be back finals where we will be absolutely vindicated
Speaker 1: in all of our predictions.
Speaker 2: You're on seven Mads and seven at Ray Mads in four,
Speaker 2: Celtics in three, got in two, see you in one.
Speaker 1: Bye bye.
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