Speaker 1: Welcome to No Dounks for Thursday, July twenty third. I'm
Speaker 1: Testnalls alongside me in this zoom window. It's the bearded
Speaker 1: one Tray Kirby Hey Hey, And of course it's the
Speaker 1: International Man, a mystery Lelis friend and the man making
Speaker 1: the magic happen. It's JD.
Speaker 2: Hello.
Speaker 1: There he is here. We are no j E. Skeets.
Speaker 1: He is in a cabin for a couple of days,
Speaker 1: just hanging.
Speaker 3: Yeah, very fancy looking cabin. Some some exclusive views.
Speaker 4: It looks like up there.
Speaker 5: He did tell us he was going glamping, so yeah,
Speaker 5: it's it's it's lived up to the hype.
Speaker 4: So I far emphasis on the glam. It looks like, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: He's in glamping, like nice camping. He's not a tent.
Speaker 5: Well, so I thought that as well. So yeah, I thought,
Speaker 5: you know, he's in a cabin. I mean, that's not
Speaker 5: even glamping. That's like staying in a hotel.
Speaker 1: That's pretty nice. But he will be back on Monday.
Speaker 1: We do believe if he decides to come back from
Speaker 1: that beautiful scenery he's at. We actually had some basketball guys.
Speaker 1: We've got a ton to get into the Hawk's new
Speaker 1: Jersey's wedgies already day one of scrimmages. Again, it's wild.
Speaker 1: We thought there would be uptick. We'll get into that.
Speaker 1: We'll get into some fishing, of course, got to trade.
Speaker 1: Just did some serious fishing this past week. Alex Caruso
Speaker 1: missing his sister's wedding to stay in the bubble because
Speaker 1: he wants to win a title. But first, I don't know,
Speaker 1: we might start with the actual basketball and to do that,
Speaker 1: it's time for the up down report. It was crazy
Speaker 1: to see ten grown men on a basket ball floor
Speaker 1: running up and down for the first time in four months.
Speaker 1: Is just a scrimmage, but it had Twitter going all crazy.
Speaker 1: It was the look in the field that we were
Speaker 1: all sort of worried about, concerned about, thinking about. And
Speaker 1: the actual game start on July thirtieth, but I imagine
Speaker 1: the look in the field will be quite similar. So
Speaker 1: just to quickly set the scene before we go up
Speaker 1: and down on the field. If you're looking at it
Speaker 1: from the main camera where we always watch basketball from.
Speaker 1: Huge NBA logo at logo at mid court, black Lives
Speaker 1: Matter written above it across center court, huge plexiglass in
Speaker 1: front of the scorer's table where the PA announcer is
Speaker 1: and all the employees are, and they're socially distanced in there.
Speaker 3: Watch out for Alf Samuelson. He'll throw you into the boards,
Speaker 3: no doubt about it.
Speaker 1: Yes, wild looking. Lots of space on the sideline. It's
Speaker 1: blank right now, no team names or anything. The team
Speaker 1: names are all along video boards along the side. Lots
Speaker 1: of space on the baseline. There was some music. There
Speaker 1: are some sounds being thrown in there. So let's to
Speaker 1: it up or down on the NBA bubble Viewing Experience tray.
Speaker 1: What'd you think of it?
Speaker 4: Oh, I'm up. The NBA is back.
Speaker 3: It was great just being able to watch basketball. It's different.
Speaker 3: All the things you described, tasks, you know, things I
Speaker 3: think kind of trended towards the generic side.
Speaker 4: Look wise.
Speaker 3: You know, there's no paint basically on the court anywhere.
Speaker 3: You know, they could have painted the lane black, they
Speaker 3: could have painted it red, they could have given it
Speaker 3: some sort of color. But I thought that watching the game,
Speaker 3: it felt like the NBA. It looked like the NBA.
Speaker 3: The sounds are definitely different, and I think, you know,
Speaker 3: I think everybody's kind of willing to give the NBA
Speaker 3: a pass on the sounds because we know these games
Speaker 3: don't count, so we've got still another week to figure
Speaker 3: out exactly how it's gonna sound when we're watching games
Speaker 3: that matter, but watching it seeing robotic cameramen, seeing just
Speaker 3: a few actual human cameramen, it looked the same to me.
Speaker 3: I got used to the plexiglass on the side, you know,
Speaker 3: the big video boards as well. I think can be
Speaker 3: pretty cool. Who knows what they're actually going to do
Speaker 3: with those during the season, during the restart. Are they
Speaker 3: going to put you know, fans going crazy on them?
Speaker 3: Maybe at some point. But I thought it looked like
Speaker 3: the NBA, and I thought it felt like the NBA,
Speaker 3: so I was happy.
Speaker 5: Yeah, same here. I mean, I sort of you know,
Speaker 5: at the start, we knew it was going to be different,
Speaker 5: and the first few possessions it was different. You can
Speaker 5: certainly hear a few more squeaks on the court and
Speaker 5: a little bit more, you know, the whistles seem a
Speaker 5: little bit louder, But once the games start, you sort
Speaker 5: of forget about that and you're just enjoying watching basketball
Speaker 5: again and again, as you mentioned that trade, these are
Speaker 5: only scrimmages. They don't count. But This is pretty much
Speaker 5: how it's going to look when the games do count,
Speaker 5: So I don't think it's going to be a whole
Speaker 5: lot different from what we're seeing now. But yeah, those
Speaker 5: things in the background with the digital boards, like those
Speaker 5: are the sort of things that give you a little
Speaker 5: bit more you know, that aren't usually there during the
Speaker 5: regular season. So there's something else that's a bit different.
Speaker 5: But I mean, it's like it's kind of like an
Speaker 5: upgrade on Summer League, even though there's fans at summer League,
Speaker 5: but it's better than the sort of summer league we've
Speaker 5: seen in Orlando anyway, you know where that's just like
Speaker 5: in a tiny gym. I thought it was fine, And again,
Speaker 5: this is better than no basketball at all. So it's
Speaker 5: a little bit of an adjustment for us. But really,
Speaker 5: at the end of the day, you're saying good basketball,
Speaker 5: you're saying proper basketball, and it's fine. I'm more than
Speaker 5: happy with it, and I think it will get used
Speaker 5: to it pretty quickly and it'll be great.
Speaker 1: You have my biggest worry from from the viewers experience
Speaker 1: from sitting here, just in terms of watching it was
Speaker 1: empty stands, and they basically got rid of that because
Speaker 1: of all those monstrous video boards, right they're they're covering
Speaker 1: all the seats, and so, yeah, they sometimes they throw
Speaker 1: logos in there, and I thought it might be distracting
Speaker 1: for players, but it's not really at eye level. And
Speaker 1: then you know, I actually went back and looked at
Speaker 1: old basketball games because I forgot what basketball games are,
Speaker 1: you know, when they when they played normally, and there's
Speaker 1: you know, there's tons of different colors and players site
Speaker 1: lines anyway, so it really I don't think it really matters.
Speaker 1: And you said, Trey, maybe they throw up virtual fans.
Speaker 1: You know, the first couple of games, they just had
Speaker 1: logos in there. And then I'm guilty. I didn't watch
Speaker 1: every quarter of every scrimmage yesterday, but I did see
Speaker 1: Bleacher Report put up a clip of the Miami Heat.
Speaker 1: They were on offense and they and I'm watching it
Speaker 1: right now here they put up fans. They looped Heat fans,
Speaker 1: so they're in red cheering and it sort of feels like, yeah,
Speaker 1: the fans are there, and they didn't pipe in that.
Speaker 1: They are experimenting with how much sound they put in there,
Speaker 1: and they didn't pipe it in like crazy. They did
Speaker 1: have music sort of you know, just just standard music
Speaker 1: that you would hear in an arena. Did that bother?
Speaker 1: It all trade just just the sort of the sights
Speaker 1: and sounds part of it.
Speaker 4: The sounds.
Speaker 3: My main concern with the sounds is all the broadcasts
Speaker 3: are different, right if you are watching, Like if you
Speaker 3: were watching the Nuggets broadcast, they basically had a zoom
Speaker 3: call on top of it, and that to me was
Speaker 3: a no go. The Clippers were doing a simulcast between
Speaker 3: their television broadcast and their radio broadcasts, so at times
Speaker 3: it felt like you were listening to a radio broadcast,
Speaker 3: no doubt about it. My main concern though, with the
Speaker 3: music would be that you cannot have songs from the
Speaker 3: nineties like I heard even Gwen Stefani's let Me Blow
Speaker 3: Your Mind. We can't have that. We cannot have that
Speaker 3: playing during twenty twenty during this restart. If we're only
Speaker 3: gonna be hearing music that's going on in the arena,
Speaker 3: it's got to be current music or confirmed bangers.
Speaker 1: Well, that's that's like watching a Spurs game. I mean,
Speaker 1: it feels like the Spurs just played a good point. Ok. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but you know it was. And that was the other
Speaker 1: concern was that, like you could just hear squeakers or squeakers,
Speaker 1: sneaker squeakers. You could just that's all you would be
Speaker 1: able to hear. Is is nothing, and it would just
Speaker 1: sound like Summer League. But I think they did a
Speaker 1: good job of keeping sort of a there's like a hum.
Speaker 1: You know, there were there even though there was no
Speaker 1: fans in there, and you could see photos from reporters
Speaker 1: where there was just like just thirty reporters sitting there
Speaker 1: watching a basketball game socially distanced, which was weird. They
Speaker 1: did a good job of keeping just a certain volume
Speaker 1: where it didn't make it sound like this wasn't an
Speaker 1: NBA game. And I did see Ryan Hollands tweet something
Speaker 1: he said, you know, a lot of us play pro
Speaker 1: am in the summer, a lot of guys play without fans,
Speaker 1: so we're sort of used to that kind of feel
Speaker 1: like we do play like that. But it isn't an
Speaker 1: NBA Finals game. I mean that that makes it different.
Speaker 1: But I think the NBA, you know, watching it, it's
Speaker 1: only day one and lots of testings. Sure has to happen,
Speaker 1: the coronavirus might enter the bubble, but day one, I
Speaker 1: think it it was great, and I think, like we
Speaker 1: talked about, the sidelines were crazy blank and even extended
Speaker 1: past the the baselines as well. It looked made it
Speaker 1: made it look like the court was kind of smaller
Speaker 1: and especially small in the corners just because of the
Speaker 1: different space. Do you think they changed that lee or
Speaker 1: is that by design just to keep the Black Lives
Speaker 1: Matter font even more prominent. I think that might be
Speaker 1: the idea. But yeah, but also is really blank.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it was, and and sort of try to mention
Speaker 5: that there. I think I would have probably painted the
Speaker 5: lanes they're the key, you know, the free throw line
Speaker 5: area there, just to just.
Speaker 4: To give it a little in the Penson area, mate.
Speaker 5: Yeah, exactly, So I would just put a little something
Speaker 5: in there. But but again, I don't know if the
Speaker 5: NBA is going to, you know, but potentially, you know,
Speaker 5: tweak these things as they go along, you know, based
Speaker 5: on on the feedback they see from what people are
Speaker 5: watching and saying about it. But yeah, I mean, it's
Speaker 5: it's It definitely is weird to see just an NBA
Speaker 5: logo and not a home team's logo and the home
Speaker 5: team's colors or anything like that that that had the
Speaker 5: summer league feel to it. But I think, you know,
Speaker 5: it's this has never been done before, so it's a
Speaker 5: it's an experimental thing for the NBA, and I think honestly,
Speaker 5: after day one, though, everyone's got to be pretty happy
Speaker 5: with the results because no one's saying it was just
Speaker 5: a you know, torturous experience to watch. You know that
Speaker 5: what you mentioned there with the Nuggets, you know, that
Speaker 5: was an unusual thing. We've never seen that before. Will
Speaker 5: that continue? You know, maybe I'm not sure. But if
Speaker 5: you if you if you don't want to hear the
Speaker 5: Nuggets broadcast you was there wasn't well, I guess you
Speaker 5: could hear the other one, but that was something that
Speaker 5: was sort of imposing on the on the experience, but
Speaker 5: it wasn't It wasn't bad. It was just if you
Speaker 5: didn't want to hear the Nuggets commentators, you sort of
Speaker 5: have to. So I think I think those are the
Speaker 5: sorts of things that people are just going to figure
Speaker 5: out right now in this scrimmage week and probably adjust
Speaker 5: them when the game's really start, and certainly for the playoffs.
Speaker 1: I love me some Nuggets broadcast crew. You know, we
Speaker 1: we we feature them all the time on say what
Speaker 1: we talked about Katie Wenji and Chris Marlow and Dempsey
Speaker 1: there but can it wasn't great. Yeah, but let's let's
Speaker 1: Scott Hastings. Well, let's get them some cameras or some
Speaker 1: lighting or some some proper mic. I think we got
Speaker 1: better mics than they do. But so that was that
Speaker 1: was a little weird. But anyways, that's that's not going
Speaker 1: to happen. We will get into the actual broadcasters who
Speaker 1: will be broadcasting the games when they actually start. These
Speaker 1: are just scrimmages and we are just extremely pumped to
Speaker 1: watch it. I'd say one little thing I'd like is
Speaker 1: that the camera And I'm not sure if it's fixed
Speaker 1: like the main camera, if it can't be moved in,
Speaker 1: but it was. It was a little bit more zoomed out,
Speaker 1: and it was like, you know, I was like, am
Speaker 1: I getting old him? In the last three months? Have
Speaker 1: my eyes gotten bad? Because I couldn't see make out
Speaker 1: the players like I used to like it. I don't
Speaker 1: know if that's something where the camera has to be fixed.
Speaker 1: But anyways, let's get to the freaking basketball. You mentioned
Speaker 1: the Nuggets. They started a monstrous lineup, But the guy
Speaker 1: who stole the show was Bull Bull the Nuggets seven
Speaker 1: to two player. Not even gonna call him a center
Speaker 1: because he's playing point guard. He's a player, second round
Speaker 1: pick this past draft, hadn't played in a game handling, shooting,
Speaker 1: do it at all sixteen ten with six blocks. So Lee,
Speaker 1: he had you clipping scrimmages and posting in the so
Speaker 1: up or down on ball ball being Rookie of the
Speaker 1: Year next season.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, so this is an interesting one. I saw
Speaker 5: John Schuman tweet something about it that these games when
Speaker 5: they actually start won't count towards anything as far as
Speaker 5: voting for this season's awards. So in that sense ball Ball,
Speaker 5: even if he plays, he won't necessarily be counted as
Speaker 5: a rookie this season. He can play next season. I
Speaker 5: think that's what Johnathan looks.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, And honestly, if he plays the Wizards eighty two
Speaker 5: games next season, then he is a luck for Rookie
Speaker 5: of the Year. But I mean, obviously, like, look, the
Speaker 5: Wizards are shorthanded as they are not a good defensive team.
Speaker 5: But what I saw from Bob Bowl yesterday was so
Speaker 5: much fun and so enjoyable because he's more than just
Speaker 5: you know, like a token guy going out there just
Speaker 5: to give him some minutes because his dad played in
Speaker 5: the NBA. He played really well. He handled the ball
Speaker 5: incredibly well. I thought a couple of times past it
Speaker 5: hit a pull up three, splashed another one there from
Speaker 5: the corner, was blocking shots, was running the lane, had
Speaker 5: a nice soft touch around the rim. So he's a
Speaker 5: very talented big man. Things are obviously going to be
Speaker 5: different when he goes up against a harder competition, you know,
Speaker 5: because again the Wizards are one of the worst defensive
Speaker 5: teams and they didn't really have anyone out there to
Speaker 5: contend with him. But I just was very, very impressed
Speaker 5: with what I saw. He said after the game. I
Speaker 5: wasn't shocked by my performance because I've been working hard. Obviously,
Speaker 5: he missed most of this season because of a foot injury.
Speaker 5: He's recovered from that, and he's really been working on
Speaker 5: all facets of his game. So who knows. Who knows
Speaker 5: if he can keep that up during a season. I
Speaker 5: think it's probably unlikely, But the Mike Malone said, we
Speaker 5: wanted to put him in positions where he could be effective,
Speaker 5: and you know, when you've got those long arms, you
Speaker 5: know he can contest and block shots. And then if
Speaker 5: he can do that stuff. At the other other end
Speaker 5: of the floor, he's going to be an impactful player.
Speaker 5: So I would love to see him have a rookie
Speaker 5: season where he could win the award and you know,
Speaker 5: show that yesterday's game wasn't just sort of a fluke
Speaker 5: or a summer league type performance.
Speaker 3: Definitely feels like a September call up in baseball, you know,
Speaker 3: Shane Spencer mashing teeters for the New York Yankees. Then
Speaker 3: he's able to come back and try and win the
Speaker 3: Rookie of the Year the next year.
Speaker 4: It didn't happen.
Speaker 3: Hopefully it does happen for ball ball because watching him,
Speaker 3: that's how you knew the NBA was back.
Speaker 4: Because I don't know a half.
Speaker 3: Of a twenty you know, twenty minute half of a
Speaker 3: scrimmage people are saying, oh man, if the Nuggets are
Speaker 3: getting this from ball ball, they are a serious title contender.
Speaker 3: We saw the guy play twenty minutes in a scrimmage
Speaker 3: game after three and a half months off. But the
Speaker 3: NBA is back because the NBA is ready for Bull Bull,
Speaker 3: the ultimate two name guy. You're never gonna hear him
Speaker 3: called Bull ever ever, He's gonna be Bull Bull one
Speaker 3: percent of the time, but Stretch five is the most
Speaker 3: enticing unicorn that is out there as a basketball player.
Speaker 3: You know, Bull Bull was a top ten recruit in
Speaker 3: high school, so the talent is there. But when you
Speaker 3: see somebody, uh that's seven foot two that can handle
Speaker 3: the ball, can block shots and stroke threes, You're like, no,
Speaker 3: wonder people love this kind of player. It's a player
Speaker 3: you would make in a video game. If they're ever
Speaker 3: able to actually translate that to a consistent success.
Speaker 4: In the NBA.
Speaker 3: You know, it's like white people get so excited about
Speaker 3: Kristaps porzingis a seven foot four guy who can shoot threes.
Speaker 4: It's the same sort of thing.
Speaker 3: So yeah, if if you've got that kind of length
Speaker 3: and you actually have ball skills, people get jacked.
Speaker 5: He's he's the real one name, two name guy.
Speaker 1: There.
Speaker 5: Is it actually a two name, one name guy. I'm
Speaker 5: not sure, but uh yeah, it's no. One just says ball,
Speaker 5: It's bull ball every time, every time he touches the bolt.
Speaker 1: And yeah, it's enticing just to watch him play with
Speaker 1: Nikoli Jokic too, who's another giant and can pass, and
Speaker 1: so Jokic is just fun to watch period. And you know,
Speaker 1: I was pumped last week when there was a highlight
Speaker 1: of them in practice and Jokic drives the lane and
Speaker 1: finds Bull Bull and Bull Bull is like a foot
Speaker 1: and a half above the rim and does a thrunk
Speaker 1: because he's he's enormous. But yeah, we're obviously getting a
Speaker 1: little ahead of ourselves and getting a little pumped for
Speaker 1: Bull Bull's future. And when you see a guy bring
Speaker 1: it up and standard Washington Wizards defense just lay off him,
Speaker 1: and yeah, he strokes a three, and yeah, we're getting
Speaker 1: excited for two threes. He was also two for eight
Speaker 1: run from three point land.
Speaker 5: But that pull out, that pull up a little heavy.
Speaker 5: That was beautiful to watch it. And there was a
Speaker 5: couple of times where he picked up the defensive reband
Speaker 5: and he ran very comfortably with the bull in his
Speaker 5: hands there, you know, just like make a moves and
Speaker 5: that that one sort of almost like a football pass.
Speaker 5: I think it was too Yeah, who was that too?
Speaker 5: I can't remember who what the player was to, but
Speaker 5: he got it over his shoulder and threw it. I
Speaker 5: mean it was like he's he's a skillful guy. You know,
Speaker 5: he's got uh, you know, he's got some talent.
Speaker 1: And that's why they could start three near seven footers
Speaker 1: yesterday it was yeah, it was Jeremy Grant and Paul
Speaker 1: Millsap were the small guys at six eight sixty nine
Speaker 1: or whatever they are, and then three near seven footers
Speaker 1: and Bull Bull. After the game, apparently, according to Brendan
Speaker 1: Vote of the Denver dot Com, he was selected for
Speaker 1: a random drunk drug test by the NBA. I'm sure
Speaker 1: Nuggets Twitter will have fun with that, because yeah, and
Speaker 1: one thing about I guess about the Nuggets is that
Speaker 1: they sort of brought Michael Porter Junior along slowly. Bull
Speaker 1: Bull had an injury this year, but it seems like
Speaker 1: they kind of keep guys in the just the development
Speaker 1: wheel until they're needed. And they traded it, you know,
Speaker 1: a couple other guys in Michael Beasley, hurt Leak Beasley,
Speaker 1: I should say not Michael Beasley, that's another guy, and
Speaker 1: Jancho Hernan Gomez. They got some guys deep on the bench.
Speaker 1: And so I don't know if Paul Millsap is gonna
Speaker 1: be there next year as a free agent, but anyway,
Speaker 1: that's that's something for next year when Bull Bull could
Speaker 1: be rookie of the year. I guess Courtney John Schuman.
Speaker 1: We're gonna blame John Shuman if he's not eligible next year. Okay,
Speaker 1: next topic, and it's bull bull related. He's stuck a weggie.
Speaker 1: Leelis clipped it and put it up on the internet.
Speaker 1: So up or down on counting scrimmage weggie? He's toward
Speaker 1: our regular season total, which is at thirty six right now, JD,
Speaker 1: what do you think should we count him?
Speaker 2: Well, first of all, I'm way up on this weggie,
Speaker 2: although maybe it's because I'm so starved. I'm looking at
Speaker 2: Lee's Twitter his tweet right now. I mean, it's a
Speaker 2: beautiful weggie. They couldn't let it breathe a little longer?
Speaker 1: Did we did?
Speaker 2: Cut to the camera that was getting the close up
Speaker 2: of it, and then it gets knocked out by one
Speaker 2: of the Wizards player. I really see who it is.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I mean it's it's a beautiful wedgie. But
Speaker 2: counting them during scrimmage. As I've said before on the show,
Speaker 2: I am a serial rules follower. We have to we
Speaker 2: can't count it. I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: Come on, JD.
Speaker 3: These are unprecedented times and calls for unusual counting.
Speaker 2: Listen yeah, for sure, there's already gonna be an asterix
Speaker 2: on everything. We can't we we can't go crazy here,
Speaker 2: So scrimmage weggies are not acceptable.
Speaker 5: Well because yesterday again ball ball was the big story.
Speaker 5: But Nikola Jokic gave us a classic dwinker to Wish Smith,
Speaker 5: who went and scored a layup at the other end.
Speaker 5: I saw two very solid plays. I counted them. Now.
Speaker 2: I mean, you can't count on man, you can't count scrimmage.
Speaker 1: Come on now, somebody, somebody even tweeted me a highlight
Speaker 1: that wasn't That's how people, That's how the stars people
Speaker 1: were for basketball. So JD says, no tray. It sounds like,
Speaker 1: come on, you want we need to count them.
Speaker 3: I would like to count it, but honestly, JD has
Speaker 3: talked me into it. We need to have some integrity here.
Speaker 3: JD is one hundred percent right. There's gonna be an
Speaker 3: asterisk on the season. We can't have an asterisk on
Speaker 3: our weggy count.
Speaker 4: Especially.
Speaker 3: I mean we saw one in the first you know
Speaker 3: hour of the restart. Does that mean many more are
Speaker 3: gonna be coming? We don't want to jump the gun
Speaker 3: here counting these scrimmage wedgies if they're just gonna keep
Speaker 3: coming during the seeding games anyways.
Speaker 5: Oh man, if we end up on forty nine at
Speaker 5: this season at the end, I'm coming back.
Speaker 4: That'll be a retroactive countant exactly.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna appeal that one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we generally we don't count preseason weggies, so this
Speaker 1: feels like a preseason game. Doc Rivers said, we should
Speaker 1: call these preseason games. But yeah, we have one in
Speaker 1: just four games yesterday. Yeah, the pace is hot, so yeah,
Speaker 1: sitting at thirty six right now, we shall see where
Speaker 1: we get to with another. You know, if if the
Speaker 1: NBA plays it out, it's another one hundred and sixty
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy games that we're going to see through
Speaker 1: through the season, So we could have seventy for all
Speaker 1: we know. All right, Next one, TNT has announced their
Speaker 1: broadcast teams. We know their crews for the regular season
Speaker 1: games aka the seating games. There will be two pairs,
Speaker 1: Kevin Harlan and Reggie Miller, Iron Eagle and the great
Speaker 1: stand Van Gun. These are really great duos. Don't know
Speaker 1: how you can go down. I can't wait to hear
Speaker 1: your answer early. So these are the TNT guys. Rotating
Speaker 1: sideline reporters for these games will be Stephanie Ready, Jared Greenberg,
Speaker 1: and Chris Haynes. This doesn't include the NBA, TV, ESPN
Speaker 1: or ABC games, which will also be broadcasting these regular
Speaker 1: season seating games. So upper down Lee on the tn
Speaker 1: T teams in Orlando, of.
Speaker 5: Course, I'm up there. I mean, certainly, those play by
Speaker 5: play guys are two of the best in the business.
Speaker 5: Kevin Harland is fantastic. I mean he's got such great energy.
Speaker 5: And Iron Eagle as well, and Iron Eagle talking about weggies.
Speaker 5: You know, Iron Eagle is gonna highlight the weggie. He's
Speaker 5: not gonna let that one slide. And then the color
Speaker 5: commentators there, Reggie and stand a Gun. I mean, Reggie
Speaker 5: gets a bad rap. But I think Reggie's fine. And
Speaker 5: you know, I think he's been doing this for so
Speaker 5: long now. That's one of those things. It's like once
Speaker 5: you've been around for a long time, people just start
Speaker 5: to turn on you. But you know, he's great. I
Speaker 5: think he's fine. And of course stan Van Gundy, I
Speaker 5: mean he is just on Twitter right now, on fire,
Speaker 5: so I hope he brings the same sort of energy
Speaker 5: to his broadcast here because he's not holding back, and
Speaker 5: that's great. Stan's always been funny, he's always been clever,
Speaker 5: and now we get to see him in this environ
Speaker 5: I know he's done a little bit of it there
Speaker 5: for ESPN in the past, but I'm looking forward to
Speaker 5: hearing Stan and Iron, so a couple of good combinations there. Obviously,
Speaker 5: Marv Albert was considered high risk for the bubble given
Speaker 5: his age, and that's why he's not out there. But yeah,
Speaker 5: anytime you can listen to Kevin Harland, it's exciting because
Speaker 5: he brings a real good element to the game. And
Speaker 5: you know, we've seen it in the past when it
Speaker 5: was at the Squirrel on the football field that night
Speaker 5: was it that he started calling it? So you know,
Speaker 5: if there's some sort of extra curricular activity, it's not
Speaker 5: going to go Kevin Holland, He's going to try to
Speaker 5: include it in the broadcast. So I'm big up on this.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm up as well. You touched on it Lee
Speaker 3: with the play by play guys. The enthusiasm that Harlan
Speaker 3: and Eagle have, I think that's true of Reggie and
Speaker 3: Stan Van Gundy as well. All four of these guys
Speaker 3: are huge NBA fans, and you can tell it when
Speaker 3: they are broadcasting, when they're talking, they just they just
Speaker 3: have a passion for the game and talking about it.
Speaker 3: And I think in a pretty quiet arena in you know,
Speaker 3: a time of the year when we're not used to basketball,
Speaker 3: having people who are really excited to be there talking
Speaker 3: about it is going to be big.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I understand you. Just just when you said that,
Speaker 1: the excitement of the broadcaster made me think of Noah Eagle,
Speaker 1: who is Iron Eagle's son, who's the radio play by
Speaker 1: play guy of the Clippers, and people were sort of
Speaker 1: criticizing him yesterday because he was calling the TV game
Speaker 1: like he was calling the game on radio, and he
Speaker 1: may if that may have been broadcast on radio, I'm
Speaker 1: not sure, but people are saying it could have been.
Speaker 1: But but he the way you broadcast on radio is
Speaker 1: that you you don't allow now basically a second of
Speaker 1: airtime of just dead air. And so he was, you know,
Speaker 1: he was fired. He would not stop chatting, and people
Speaker 1: were criticizing that the guy was excited. And I think
Speaker 1: I think, like you said, Trey, that's the number one
Speaker 1: job of Kevin Harlan and Iron Eagle, especially as the
Speaker 1: play by play guys, and they'll kill it. They'll they'll
Speaker 1: be great down there. I just I saw this note
Speaker 1: on Reddit, and I'm confused. I'm just not sure. Has
Speaker 1: Kevin Harlan never done a conference finals game? Because that's
Speaker 1: Marv's Wow?
Speaker 5: Because yeah, that's probably right, because Marv has been the
Speaker 5: sort of number one guy for for a long time.
Speaker 5: So yeah, and and and they split the East and
Speaker 5: the West between ESPN and T and T. So yeah,
Speaker 5: very possible that Kevin's never done one before.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I'd assume that this would be his first
Speaker 1: because it doesn't seem like Marv is going to be
Speaker 1: there at all. No, Yeah, I'm not sure if they
Speaker 1: change in the in the postseason, but yeah, those guys,
Speaker 1: those guys would be calling games. And has stan Van
Speaker 1: said he he's got to make his trip from his
Speaker 1: home forty five minutes away from the bubble into the
Speaker 1: bubble and he'll be staying there. So, like you said,
Speaker 1: Lee on Fire on Twitter, Stam Van Gundy, and I'm
Speaker 1: sure he'll be bringing in there. I'm sure we'll see
Speaker 1: lots of photos of his food. Can't wait, all right?
Speaker 1: A lots more to get to, including the Hawks jerseys,
Speaker 1: Alex Caruso missing his sister's wedding, and fishing, of course,
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Speaker 4: What's happening with the Blue Jays?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, oh, I guess they have the Phillies too, so
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Speaker 1: Speaking of Bush's trade, I saw you mentioned Fox's hair.
Speaker 1: He's Bush per se. But Rick Fox, who we know
Speaker 1: is a very well kept man, just letting it fly
Speaker 1: with that haird It was wild to see him. Then
Speaker 1: you called him basically you two point zero.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's got the perfect Trey Kirby two point oh.
Speaker 3: Going on, Rick Fox looks great, literally a silver fox
Speaker 3: at this point.
Speaker 5: Yeah. You do you think he's that badly groomed down
Speaker 5: below as well? Do you think he's let it all go?
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Speaker 1: There we go, Here we go. You probably don't think
Speaker 1: of that trade, but I'm sure you think of this.
Speaker 1: Back to the show Hawks jerseys. As a resident jersey expert,
Speaker 1: I'm sure you love these new home road and alternate
Speaker 1: jerseys that they've released for next year. Didn't see this coming.
Speaker 1: In July, they're telling us about their beauty jerseys. Got
Speaker 1: a little bit of throwback vibe. So let us know
Speaker 1: Trey up or down Hawks jerseys for next season.
Speaker 3: Oh, it's an easy up. You guessed that, Tassi. They
Speaker 3: came back with the classic Hawks colors. You know, they
Speaker 3: have names for him now, but it's red, yellow, and black,
Speaker 3: a little white thrown in there as well. And I
Speaker 3: think they look incredible. You know, they kind of hit
Speaker 3: the sweet spot of what a jersey should look like
Speaker 3: right now, where it's a little bit retro, but it's also.
Speaker 4: Updated for twenty twenty. You know.
Speaker 3: The Bucks kind of similar, the Jazz kind of similar,
Speaker 3: where you're drawing on heritage from your team from the past,
Speaker 3: but you're making it look like something that a team
Speaker 3: would be wearing today.
Speaker 4: I really liked them.
Speaker 3: I really like the black ones in particular, and I
Speaker 3: liked seeing a little Michael Jordan's sign on every single
Speaker 3: statement uniform that we're gonna get during the NBA this year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was interesting, Lee, What do you think of
Speaker 1: got some beauty home whites, some standard red away jerseys,
Speaker 1: and the black one, the statement one that trade just
Speaker 1: mentioned what do you think.
Speaker 5: Yeah, No, they're all great. They're all great. Great job
Speaker 5: dad boy the hooks, because their last couple of uniforms
Speaker 5: have certainly been interesting, to say the least. You know,
Speaker 5: that sort of sort of soccer one they had they
Speaker 5: rocked a couple of years ago wasn't the greatest. But
Speaker 5: I think this time they've actually got it right, keeping
Speaker 5: it simpler, you know, a bit of a as you mentioned,
Speaker 5: they're trade sort of you know, a nod to the past,
Speaker 5: but keeping sort of things modern as well. They just
Speaker 5: look cool. It was just, yeah, it was an interesting
Speaker 5: sort of time to release them, I thought, with other
Speaker 5: things sort of on the mind of basketball fans yesterday,
Speaker 5: but they still got some good traction, got some good traffic,
Speaker 5: so it was great. Yeah, looking forward to seeing them
Speaker 5: out on the court.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they are badass. I like them a lot. Like
Speaker 1: you said, the sort of a balance of what a
Speaker 1: jersey should look like, a little bit of old school vibes,
Speaker 1: but also you know, simple and enough colors to keep
Speaker 1: it sort of new age. I guess if that makes
Speaker 1: sense in the Jersey world, I don't know. I don't
Speaker 1: know jerseys speak, but all I know is they look
Speaker 1: like Calgary Flames jerseys. Yeah, it reminds me those those
Speaker 1: tho the reds and yellows. But they are they're gorgeous. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think they're awesome. And to see that. Yeah, the
Speaker 1: Jumpman logo on all thirty teams statement jerseys, so they're
Speaker 1: alternate jerseys on both the jersey and the shorts. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's it makes you know, the Jumpman logo just makes
Speaker 1: everything look a touch cool, like thirty percent cooler. But
Speaker 1: it's not all over everything. It's just sort of it's there,
Speaker 1: but it's not like crazy prominent or overtaking the jersey
Speaker 1: or anything like that.
Speaker 3: Around the names were incredible to see it Michael Jordan
Speaker 3: dunking on the Pistons yea thirty something years later.
Speaker 4: It was really exciting.
Speaker 3: But uh yeah, the only thing that I'm down on
Speaker 3: is that I've been saving a tray young Peachtree jersey
Speaker 3: for Ila for I don't know, about four months now,
Speaker 3: and it's already obsolete. You know, it's already to be retired.
Speaker 3: So I guess I'll just have to slip it into
Speaker 3: the drawer somehow.
Speaker 1: Are they changing the statement jerseys every year? I thought
Speaker 1: that was the case, but I'm not sure, Like, are
Speaker 1: they coming out with a new statements again the alternate
Speaker 1: jersey every season?
Speaker 3: I thought that was the case, but maybe I think
Speaker 3: I think you're right that was the case. I think
Speaker 3: at most they can wear them like two straight seasons,
Speaker 3: like the Jazz with their their Grady and jerseys. I
Speaker 3: think they asked for a second year to be able
Speaker 3: to wear them, so I think it's two tops. So
Speaker 3: I don't know, get that, get that black Hawks one
Speaker 3: now before it's off the shelves.
Speaker 1: And JD, did you see these? Can we get an
Speaker 1: opinion from you? Statement? I am.
Speaker 2: I think I'm actually gonna get a statement jersey or
Speaker 2: at least a suersey. I think they're badass, they look great.
Speaker 1: Agreed, Agreed, I have we know our man Larry Luke
Speaker 1: is getting them, no doubt. I got a text from
Speaker 1: your boy Brian, our good friend in Toronto and incredible
Speaker 1: DJ in Toronto telling me he wants one. He's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you're getting one for me and sending it to me.
Speaker 1: I'll send you the money, no problem. I think it
Speaker 1: was the black one he wanted. But I'm more partial
Speaker 1: to the Home in the ways. I mean, they're all great.
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know which one I like more.
Speaker 1: Al Right, this one interesting story of the Lakers. Alex
Speaker 1: Caruso fan favorite. He skipped his sister's wedding to stay
Speaker 1: in the bubble. This story from Zach Lowe on ESPN.
Speaker 1: Caruso's sister got married on July eighteenth outside of Austin, Texas,
Speaker 1: a wedding of about one hundred people, and Caruso was
Speaker 1: already in the in the bubble for the Lakers and
Speaker 1: said his concern about bringing the virus back to the
Speaker 1: bubble and an extended quarantine period which you may have
Speaker 1: led into the regular season games. Also, he just wants
Speaker 1: to focus on the title led him to staying in
Speaker 1: the bubble. So Caruso skipping his sister's wedding up or down?
Speaker 1: JD Way up.
Speaker 2: You made the right decision, Alex. I remember we spoke
Speaker 2: to Yeshua back in March. He had a Star Wars
Speaker 2: themed wedding right when the coronavirus was was hitting Georgia.
Speaker 2: The infection numbers were relative low, They had a sparse affair,
Speaker 2: they were social distancing, people were wearing masks. But I
Speaker 2: think Yeshaa mentioned that his grandma or his mom couldn't resist.
Speaker 2: She went in for a hug and a kiss. You know,
Speaker 2: it's a wedding. You know, you can't you can't blame him.
Speaker 2: But you know, Texas right now, the numbers are exploding Austin.
Speaker 2: To be fair, it seems to have flattened out and
Speaker 2: maybe going down. But still Alex was saying that he
Speaker 2: was he watched the thing after the fact and he
Speaker 2: said about twenty five percent of people weren't wearing masks.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know when he saw it.
Speaker 2: You know, you never know what exactly exactly the ceremony
Speaker 2: was outside, but the reception was inside. Megan, what are
Speaker 2: we doing here? And Caruso would have definitely been quarantined
Speaker 2: for ten, probably fourteen days when he got back and
Speaker 2: uh yeah he and as he says, he didn't want
Speaker 2: to be the one to bring coronavirus back in. It
Speaker 2: could have it could have if he had had a
Speaker 2: four day say they let him to have a four
Speaker 2: day quarantine, he could have infected his entire team, which
Speaker 2: would have been a disaster. So and I love the
Speaker 2: part where he, uh, where he talked about he was
Speaker 2: looking for a safe house to crash in uh, before
Speaker 2: heading back to the Florida. To Florida, he would have
Speaker 2: he would have gone to the wedding, skipped the reception,
Speaker 2: found a safe house, he called it. If you're planning
Speaker 2: to find a safe house, that scheme has now become
Speaker 2: a kakamami one, you know what I mean, Like, it's
Speaker 2: just it's.
Speaker 4: Too crazy when things are going sideways.
Speaker 2: That's exactly right. So he made the right decision. And
Speaker 2: also after speaking to Bengalery yesterday, the best place you
Speaker 2: could possibly be in the United States is inside the
Speaker 2: NBA bubble right now. It seems to be the safest place.
Speaker 2: It's the most fun place on earth. People are playing
Speaker 2: what is it, slam ball or spikeball. Sorry, we got swimming,
Speaker 2: we got fishing, we got settlers of Catan, We've got
Speaker 2: unlimited beers to shotgun, we got pick a ball. And
Speaker 2: you are going to be able to go to every
Speaker 2: single game of the NBA Playoffs, including the finals. Has
Speaker 2: that ever happening this? I'm sure this has come up before,
Speaker 2: but it just occurred to me this morning. It's like
Speaker 2: Ben Gulliver is going to be able to see literally
Speaker 2: every single playoff game that has never happened right, amazing.
Speaker 1: It's insane.
Speaker 2: So even I'd be into it, ninety four days would
Speaker 2: be nothing for me at this point.
Speaker 5: Well, that's the thing, especially because it's not like you're
Speaker 5: flying around from city to city, coast to coast or
Speaker 5: anything like that. It's like you just wake up and
Speaker 5: you're going to the office and it's happens to be
Speaker 5: just NBA playoffs. So yeah, it's going to be an
Speaker 5: incredible experience for it, because you know, that's That's the
Speaker 5: thing like a lot of people complain about after the
Speaker 5: playoffs is like, oh man, because you're just traveling around
Speaker 5: so much different how hortails and airports and time zones.
Speaker 5: That's not going to be a problem this time now.
Speaker 2: And you got your permanent Legos setup that you can
Speaker 2: come home to every night. That's that's there for you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Jimmy Goldstein must be begging to get in there.
Speaker 1: I don't have to travel. I can see every freaking
Speaker 1: playoff game. It's a good point, Jady Trey, what do
Speaker 1: you think.
Speaker 3: I mean this was an easy choice safety wise. I'm
Speaker 3: sure it was a hard choice for Alex Cruso to
Speaker 3: actually miss his sister's wedding. Surely it was planned months
Speaker 3: and months in advance, you know, but he doesn't want
Speaker 3: to be the one to bring it back to the bubble.
Speaker 4: And that's understandable.
Speaker 3: You know, Rudy Gobert is known as the first guy
Speaker 3: to get coronavirus in the NBA, despite the fact that
Speaker 3: he might not have been the first guy to have
Speaker 3: coronavirus in the NBA. If you're the player that leaves
Speaker 3: you come back, somebody gets sick, you're going to get
Speaker 3: blamed for it. It did seem like possibility, possibility to
Speaker 3: find out a way to get the vaccine, because if
Speaker 3: Alex Caruso is able to go to Florida and Texas
Speaker 3: and somehow not get infected, just take his blood and
Speaker 3: give it to everybody, because maybe he's got the antibodies
Speaker 3: that we need. I don't know what it is, but
Speaker 3: he made the right decision. It's a bummer, but you know,
Speaker 3: I guess you can FaceTime into a wedding.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's I love the line that he used about
Speaker 1: Florida and Texas for I mean, it seemed like out
Speaker 1: of nowhere, like nothing really motivated. But he's like, you know,
Speaker 1: they're having a wedding, it's in Texas. People in like
Speaker 1: Texas and Florida. It's like it's like they're in their
Speaker 1: own country doing whatever the heck they want. And so, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what happened, but it's true, like it's July. We
Speaker 1: talked to one of our fans, as JD said, who
Speaker 1: had a wedding in March, which was basically a week
Speaker 1: after everything sort of happened in the US where everything
Speaker 1: started to be shut down and they went from like
Speaker 1: one hundred and sixty people at their wedding to forty
Speaker 1: to fifty people at their wedding. My man Ryan Setton
Speaker 1: was supposed to have his wedding in September. He's putting
Speaker 1: it off until next year. It would just seem to
Speaker 1: make sense to just put it off because wouldn't it
Speaker 1: be a lot more fun next year when Grandma can
Speaker 1: come up to you and give you a huge smooch
Speaker 1: and not think twice about it? Lee, What do you think?
Speaker 5: Well, that's if things do get back up and running
Speaker 5: that quickly. I mean you postponed for a year, you
Speaker 5: might have to postpone at another year's time as well.
Speaker 5: I mean, who knows how things are going to go.
Speaker 5: But Yeah, unfortunately, during this situation, those are the sorts
Speaker 5: of things that people just have to kind of miss
Speaker 5: out on. You know, you're hearing because it big gatherings,
Speaker 5: especially when it's such an affectionate, emotional moment. There's lots
Speaker 5: of hugging, there's lots of kissing, there's lots of dancing,
Speaker 5: and you know, people are so close to each other,
Speaker 5: very intimate. So those are the things that are a
Speaker 5: big no no right now, and unfortunately, you know, you
Speaker 5: have to just avoid them. It's tough when it's you know,
Speaker 5: your sibling. I'm sure I missed one of my brother's
Speaker 5: weddings because I was living on the other side of
Speaker 5: the world and had an eight month old at the time.
Speaker 5: So it was a little tough and it sucks, you
Speaker 5: know when you know they're getting married and everyone's having
Speaker 5: a good time. But yeah, unfortunately, that's just the sacrifice
Speaker 5: that Alex has to make right now because you know,
Speaker 5: especially the Lakers are short handed in anyway. So if
Speaker 5: he left and he would fed the quarantine on return again,
Speaker 5: maybe it maybe would have set them back even further.
Speaker 5: So not the end of the world, though, I mean,
Speaker 5: it's a it's a it's an inconvenience, but uh, you know, you'll, you'll, you'll,
Speaker 5: you'll be okay with it.
Speaker 1: Okay, last topic, and it has to do with sort
Speaker 1: of something going on in the bubble, but mostly about
Speaker 1: Trey Kirby's trip this past week. Fishing. Up or down
Speaker 1: on what players are doing. I don't know if you
Speaker 1: can call it fishing, but that's what they're doing in
Speaker 1: the bubble. Trey did this in Illinois last week. So
Speaker 1: we'll start with you up or down on fishing.
Speaker 3: Way up on fishing. I am hooked, oh on fishing.
Speaker 3: It's a great socially distanced activity. You're basically not going
Speaker 3: to be seeing anybody, and if they get within six
Speaker 3: feet of you, you got a hook on the end
Speaker 3: of a pole.
Speaker 4: You can stab them and get them away. It's pretty easy.
Speaker 3: But uh yeah, I went back back to Illinois and
Speaker 3: I grew up fishing. You know, there's a big state
Speaker 3: park in my hometown. Laura grew up on a lake.
Speaker 3: We weren't seeing friends, we weren't really doing much, so
Speaker 3: I had a lot of spare time. So I was
Speaker 3: able to get up at five in the morning, go
Speaker 3: down to the lakes, start getting my line wet and
Speaker 3: then come back, you know, hang out with the family,
Speaker 3: hang out with the kids, and then once they go
Speaker 3: to bed, I'm going back to the lake.
Speaker 4: I've seen Lee Ellis's popping packs all summer.
Speaker 3: I'm ready to start my own ig live series ripping lips.
Speaker 1: So when you're catching those fish, because you saw you
Speaker 1: catch some good size fish, you're throwing those back, or
Speaker 1: you're just ripping those lips and you're cooking them up,
Speaker 1: or what's the deal.
Speaker 3: Oh no, it's a little too gross for me, knowing
Speaker 3: these ponds and seeing these ponds to actually want to
Speaker 3: put that food inside my mouth.
Speaker 4: So yeah, I take them up.
Speaker 3: I put them next to my head so you can
Speaker 3: see how big it is, and I throw it right back.
Speaker 3: Hopefully I can catch it again in a couple of
Speaker 3: years a little bit bigger.
Speaker 5: What was it?
Speaker 4: What was it?
Speaker 5: You know what?
Speaker 3: I caught a couple of bass, a couple of bluegill,
Speaker 3: and a river catfish.
Speaker 5: Notice, okay, yeah, yeah, Because well I'm going fishing this
Speaker 5: weekend myself, sort of Sunday Monday, where I went a
Speaker 5: couple of weeks ago to Alabama where it was like
Speaker 5: it's sort of like the NBA bubble there. The pond
Speaker 5: is just loaded with fish, even though we couldn't pull
Speaker 5: one in. So I'm up now because I'm positive and hopeful.
Speaker 5: I'll tell you what, after two or three days of fishing,
Speaker 5: if I don't catch anything this time, I'm going to
Speaker 5: be down, and maybe down for good. I might just
Speaker 5: throw the rods in the water too, because if you
Speaker 5: can't catch fish in a barrel, then not exactly the
Speaker 5: greatest fisherman. But I'll definitely be throwing them back for
Speaker 5: two reasons, because it's the right thing to do. For one,
Speaker 5: and two, apparently there's a lot of carp in this pond,
Speaker 5: so you don't want to be eating carp They're pretty gross.
Speaker 5: They eat all the gross stuff in the lake. So yeah,
Speaker 5: we'll see. But I'm taking my boys out, and you know,
Speaker 5: like I say, with kids, if they don't get a
Speaker 5: bite or some sort of action within the first thirty
Speaker 5: seconds to a minute, hard to keep them interested and
Speaker 5: hard to keep their attention because they're just like, what
Speaker 5: am I doing. I'm just holding a stick here and
Speaker 5: it's not really working. So we'll see. I'm hopeful and
Speaker 5: positive right now, though, but yeah, if we don't get
Speaker 5: any boughts, I might be done with the fishing. Oh yeah.
Speaker 3: Ila is an early riser, and like I said, I
Speaker 3: was getting up early to go fishing. So Laura is like,
Speaker 3: why don't you just take Ilo with you? Sometimes she
Speaker 3: likes fishing, and she does. She likes to go out there,
Speaker 3: but it's a little bit different. You know, when it's
Speaker 3: five o'clock and it's the last thing of the day
Speaker 3: and you're just getting to spend a couple hours out there.
Speaker 3: When you wake up first thing in the morning, when
Speaker 3: you're a kid, I don't think you want to go
Speaker 3: stand at the edge of the water and just be
Speaker 3: as quiet as you possibly can and move as slowly
Speaker 3: as you can. It lasted ten minutes before she's like,
Speaker 3: can we do something else? Can we go swimming?
Speaker 4: I'm like, you can. You can definitely do that. I'll
Speaker 4: walk you right back home.
Speaker 1: JD Are you are you a fishing enthusiast? No.
Speaker 2: I hate fishing boring as hell, which is weird for
Speaker 2: me because there's nothing I like more than to just
Speaker 2: sit and do nothing and you know, have a beer.
Speaker 2: But if you add the fishing pole, I'm just not
Speaker 2: into it. It's just it turns into a boring activity
Speaker 2: for me. Also, I feel sorry for the worms. I
Speaker 2: feel sorry for the fish even throwing them back. I just, uh,
Speaker 2: it's just boring. One time, when I was a kid,
Speaker 2: we uh, we went to get frogs. We went hunting
Speaker 2: for frogs to use as fishing bait. And it was
Speaker 2: a traumatic experience for me because I was We we
Speaker 2: caught the frogs, put them in a bucket, took them
Speaker 2: down to the dock, hooked the frogs because my uncle said, hey,
Speaker 2: you're gonna you want big fish, get frogs as as
Speaker 2: as bait. So basically we drowned these frogs hook hooking
Speaker 2: them through their through their like through their lips. I mean,
Speaker 2: it was horrible. I had more fun catching the frogs.
Speaker 4: That was fun.
Speaker 2: So I'm down on fishing.
Speaker 1: What what are they using this bait nowadays? Is it just?
Speaker 1: I mean, you can use like non worms, right, there's gotta.
Speaker 2: Be Yeah, you can use you can use lure is
Speaker 2: like reflective little things, I guess, But.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm I'm fishing with lures.
Speaker 4: I just ordered a frog last night, JD. Not a
Speaker 4: real one, a plastic one.
Speaker 3: Supposedly, the bass are hitting the frogs hard during the summertime.
Speaker 3: Throw it in the grass maybe slow and twitchy.
Speaker 1: Good stuff. You said, Lee that you don't like the
Speaker 1: car number one because they gross number one because they're
Speaker 1: eating the gross stuff off off the bottom of the lake,
Speaker 1: like the bottom of like like like what like shrimp
Speaker 1: and nay.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they clean up all the all the sort of
Speaker 5: junk that just sinks to the bottom. It's dirt and
Speaker 5: it's the it's just all the dead grass and stuff
Speaker 5: like that. Like they just they're the they're the vacuum
Speaker 5: cleaners of the of the lake or the pond. They
Speaker 5: just get all the rubbish and obviously goes into the stomach.
Speaker 5: And yeah, they're just gross. So I have eaten one
Speaker 5: once and it was disgusting. So you know, they do
Speaker 5: a job. They do a job for the environment, but
Speaker 5: uh not for the dinner plate.
Speaker 1: All right, good stuff, Any last thoughts on fishing. It's important.
Speaker 1: We got to get them all out right now.
Speaker 3: I'm actually heading out as soon as we're done recording this.
Speaker 3: Hopefully i'll have something to post a little bit later.
Speaker 4: If not, I forget. I said anything.
Speaker 1: Going fishing now? You're not going fishing now?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, definitely. I am the girl.
Speaker 3: The girls are out hiking, so I got a little
Speaker 3: time to walk over to a lake and throw a
Speaker 3: couple of lures in there, frank them around.
Speaker 1: All right, that's a pitch man. All right, good stuff.
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