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Speaker 2: I saw a clip on who's the guy that's always
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Speaker 2: oh l Mandel. I saw the clip of Dana walking
Speaker 2: off the side.
Speaker 1: You see that clip? You asked about it. No, I
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Speaker 2: I'm not I'm gonna stay out of why. I don't
Speaker 2: know because it seemed it seems so odd. I was
Speaker 2: like one of those say I help my boys, all right,
Speaker 2: and kind of just move on internally with my own
Speaker 2: head because you hope Dana.
Speaker 1: I'm hoping Howie Mandel's all right.
Speaker 2: I mean there's something must have happened before, like the
Speaker 2: show started something, because he goes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's why you have That's why it'd be
Speaker 1: you should help your boy and letting know because if
Speaker 1: you take it at face value, kind of a dick
Speaker 1: move by Dana. And just like I'm done with podcasts,
Speaker 1: like yeah, I'm under the I'm under the assumption that
Speaker 1: something had to have happened. But if you just take
Speaker 1: that at face value and I'll read into it at all,
Speaker 1: don't read into it all. And how he does the
Speaker 1: intro like because he you know, he hyped him up
Speaker 1: and everything else, and then Dana's just like I'm sick
Speaker 1: of doing podcast. Get something, walks off like that's that's tough.
Speaker 2: That's crazy, right. Who is the guy sitting next to
Speaker 2: him to like this like redneck cat? Like he had
Speaker 2: like a ginger, big muscular dude ginger. He does like
Speaker 2: these TikTok dances where he's like torquing on gene shorts
Speaker 2: and his voice was kind of like mine. Like you
Speaker 2: look at him and you're like, oh, that's not going
Speaker 2: to come out of his mouth, and then all of
Speaker 2: a sudden like okay, all right, so they like but
Speaker 2: they did a great job pivoting.
Speaker 1: I watched that.
Speaker 2: But the reason why I brought it up was you
Speaker 2: putting on the headphones. Is who's that fighter well spoken
Speaker 2: cat white dude? Uh talked about him and John Jones
Speaker 2: both be on steroids back in the day.
Speaker 1: Oh you know what I'm talking about talks a lot
Speaker 1: of shit. It's who talks like Michaelsbee, Michael Bisbee laws
Speaker 1: soon because we did we set out with Bisbee. I
Speaker 1: forget his name as well. Maybe we can look that
Speaker 1: episode on Jail Chail's sony Jail.
Speaker 2: So I watched like a recap video of him essentially
Speaker 2: breaking down the whole thing, and he was talking about
Speaker 2: how shitty the studio is and he was basically going
Speaker 2: at Mendel pretty hard. And then but he brought up
Speaker 2: the fact like he's you put headphones on. He's like,
Speaker 2: why the fuck in this day and age would you
Speaker 2: put headphones on during a podcast.
Speaker 1: Especially if you're in person.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if you're in person, that's the only literally, the
Speaker 2: only reason. The first two minutes of this episode, I
Speaker 2: thought to myself, I should bring up that story because
Speaker 2: you were going to put those on.
Speaker 1: And I was like, oh yo, uh, Chail, he's he's
Speaker 1: funny dude. I enjoy listening to him because he's a
Speaker 1: good ship talker, he's a good storyteller. He's a great troll,
Speaker 1: a great storyteller.
Speaker 2: He does uh you know the sad the press conferences
Speaker 2: where you see like guys walk up in McGregor and
Speaker 2: they talked like, oh McGregor, the one of one, this,
Speaker 2: that and the other.
Speaker 1: Like he had a guy that do that for.
Speaker 2: Him and it was very much Rick Flair exciting WW style.
Speaker 2: That's the kind of ship that gets me fired up because.
Speaker 1: He wanted j and I believe this is what he's
Speaker 1: talked about, like he's one he wanted to like bring
Speaker 1: that into like that style into the uf you see,
Speaker 1: like it doesn't happen, but yeah, like take inspiration probably
Speaker 1: from Michael Rick Flair and all these guys who work
Speaker 1: the mic and everything else.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if you think about it, UFC is really just
Speaker 2: like a real WWE. Yeah, like it's legit fighting. But
Speaker 2: like the storylines is what we buy into. The poyer,
Speaker 2: the McGregor's. Now we're seeing Chandler and McGregor and all
Speaker 2: these different guys like finding they hate each other. They
Speaker 2: don't why hate each other. But then you look back
Speaker 2: behind the curtain and all of a sudden, like, oh,
Speaker 2: I can see why that dude hates him. Maybe I'm
Speaker 2: moving for this guy now. Yeah, it's a whole different game.
Speaker 1: And speaking of the Rocks, have you been seeing his
Speaker 1: uh have you been seeing his mic work out there?
Speaker 1: He's been he's been killing he's back in the ww
Speaker 1: He's came back into the wwely coocked. From what my
Speaker 1: understanding is, he cocked the Cody Roads. I think it's
Speaker 1: Cody Roads, right. I saw the Rock coming in. He
Speaker 1: came in, he came in Roman reigns, there's a there's
Speaker 1: a big thing going on, and he's basically just jumped
Speaker 1: to the front of the line something about the Royal
Speaker 1: Rumble and then wrestlemanny and I apologize. Saw the ww
Speaker 1: fans out there there correcting me right now. But as
Speaker 1: a cat who was in the generation of the Rock,
Speaker 1: Stone Cold and all of them, and I haven't been
Speaker 1: I haven't kept up at all with the new age
Speaker 1: generation of the WWE. But seeing the Rock come back
Speaker 1: into the fold, it's like, oh shit, I might want
Speaker 1: to start getting back in the storyline. Because he comes
Speaker 1: out there, he basically like jumps ahead and skips the line.
Speaker 1: That's why he's gone heel like Rock is in full
Speaker 1: He's reminding people why he's the Rock, like he's back
Speaker 1: on day one type shit, like outside of the political realm,
Speaker 1: the good vibes realm, the motivation realm, everything else, Like
Speaker 1: he's back being a heel talking shit in the ring
Speaker 1: like the ship that you fell in love with the
Speaker 1: Rock in the first place for and there there was
Speaker 1: a part of me.
Speaker 2: There was a point in time where he was like,
Speaker 2: I don't I don't know longer to go by the Rock.
Speaker 2: I'm Dwayne Johnson. Now, wasn't there like a probably like
Speaker 2: the early tens is when he was kind of getting
Speaker 2: away from that and kind of steppingway from the WW,
Speaker 2: re redefining himself doing the tooth Fairy.
Speaker 1: Right right where he wanted to kind of yeah.
Speaker 2: A STARp and now he's a full circle getting it back.
Speaker 1: Yeah, bro, And I'm pretty sure he's he's he's in
Speaker 1: the in WrestleMania like it's going down, and he's been
Speaker 1: in the ring. I feel like each week went down,
Speaker 1: I'm just talking shit in it. It just juices me
Speaker 1: up that he's back in the ring. Can guy find
Speaker 1: the time? I don't know, it's insane. I don't know.
Speaker 1: He might. He must have a lot of shit, Like
Speaker 1: you know, the Rock feels like a big brain thinker,
Speaker 1: Like the minute he came back into the WW. And
Speaker 1: by the way, we talk about the ratio world, the
Speaker 1: troll world and everything else. The WW as far as
Speaker 1: on show, social hated the fact that The Rock came
Speaker 1: in and jumped ahead of like Cody Rhodes. I believe
Speaker 1: like ultimately everyan's everything that would get posted. Somebody would
Speaker 1: be like, you know, Ratio Cody Roads or something like that,
Speaker 1: and it would like outdo it like people wanted. Cody
Speaker 1: Rose is like it's bullshit that the Rock just gets
Speaker 1: to come in. And then within days of the Rock
Speaker 1: entering back into the ring, you see on his Instagram, Uh,
Speaker 1: he's got another line dropping with the under armour. So
Speaker 1: there's a lot of calculated there's a lot of calculated
Speaker 1: moves from the boy, which again seeing him back in
Speaker 1: the ring and doing the wrestling stuff and I'll, hey,
Speaker 1: shut up best so I'll slept the herpe's out of
Speaker 1: your mouth, like that's the Rock, and if that's the Rock,
Speaker 1: that's what you want.
Speaker 2: Yes, dude, this this Cody guy. I don't want to
Speaker 2: put you on blast because I know you even followed
Speaker 2: it so much, but I see this guy like one
Speaker 2: of the good guys, one of the bad guys. He's
Speaker 2: obviously a fan favorite.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I believe he's just like a big fan favorite,
Speaker 1: like from what again, like me just seeing it on
Speaker 1: the surface level and be like, oh shit, the rocks
Speaker 1: back saying you get like goosebumps and shit like oh damn.
Speaker 1: And then you see the wrestling rule actually hates it.
Speaker 1: But then it's also such a good thing because that's
Speaker 1: when you get to be a heel. That's when you
Speaker 1: get to be the villain and lean into it and
Speaker 1: piss everybody off. And I just feel like he's bringing
Speaker 1: in all the older generations back into the fold to
Speaker 1: kind of see what's kind of see what's happening. But
Speaker 1: it seemed like Cody Roase has been such a fan favorite,
Speaker 1: a guy that's it's you know, I don't want to
Speaker 1: talk out of turn, but it seems like loyal to
Speaker 1: the soil, with the with the brain of w put
Speaker 1: in a shitload of work and put in his time
Speaker 1: to get kind of the moment he was gonna have
Speaker 1: it either Royal Rumble or WrestleMania, and then the Rock
Speaker 1: comes in and just slaps the taste out of him
Speaker 1: and ends up tucking him, like you said, ends up
Speaker 1: cooking him. God damn, but it gets It's awesome.
Speaker 2: It is cool as you get older and you don't
Speaker 2: just like follow because a lot of us just follow
Speaker 2: the storyline of what we want to see, like we
Speaker 2: want to watch wd If you're a WDE fan, you're
Speaker 2: watching that storyline and you us, we've zoomed out kind
Speaker 2: of bump rub elbows with certain individuals that are of
Speaker 2: high power, that have a lot of money that kind
Speaker 2: of from a business standpoint, handle themselves. And for you
Speaker 2: to go and notice the Rock is now in there.
Speaker 2: Now he's dropping a line and what's gonna happen here?
Speaker 2: And it's an interesting thing because Rock talking about slapping
Speaker 2: the herbie out of people's mouth, like becoming the bad guy,
Speaker 2: the heel as you say, it's such a it's such
Speaker 2: a cool parallel to his like movie stardom, because he's
Speaker 2: never really the villain in his movies. In his roles,
Speaker 2: he's always like.
Speaker 1: The superhero on Instagram.
Speaker 2: Yeah, great guy, the mana is always super high. And
Speaker 2: now he gets to go in and truly play play
Speaker 2: a character, which.
Speaker 1: Is what he grew up in that business doing. In
Speaker 1: the first his whole family was in the business, right yeah,
Speaker 1: Rocky my Villa, that was his dad, that was his
Speaker 1: old man.
Speaker 2: You're getting to that generation, like you need to be
Speaker 2: ten years older right now, because I feel like you
Speaker 2: need to be the dude that like followed for a
Speaker 2: long time, Like these fucking these guys aren't as tough
Speaker 2: as they used to be. They're a bunch of pussies.
Speaker 2: And the rock comes back and like bring bring you
Speaker 2: back in the fold big time. I can see Bill
Speaker 2: getting a text from you being like, hey, the Rock's
Speaker 2: on Royal Robo right now. He's look like, I can't
Speaker 2: find this remote. You know, he's fucking looking for it,
Speaker 2: and he's like starts bipping it over there. Yeah, that's
Speaker 2: the kind of shit I love.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's magical in his style too. He's got
Speaker 1: that I don't know what the hell it is, but
Speaker 1: he's got on the diamond necklace. He's like, it's just hell, yeah,
Speaker 1: the rock being the rock I know.
Speaker 2: And he'll go back to my whow twelve am?
Speaker 1: Workout? What are we doing?
Speaker 2: I'm up before everybody. I've worked out twice before everybody.
Speaker 1: Else has woke up. It's like, okay, dude, and all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, he's having a fucking day. He's got
Speaker 1: like thirty pancakes sitting.
Speaker 2: Brother, there ain't no way you're eating all them damn pancakes,
Speaker 2: no way, and those cookies look fire every single time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there was one he had, dude.
Speaker 2: It was like a sushi platter, and he showed that
Speaker 2: as one of his fucking days, and it looked I
Speaker 2: would have fucked up all that sushi. It was really like,
Speaker 2: it really looked like that.
Speaker 1: He's got some French toast too. He calls it like
Speaker 1: the Rock toast. They're like this stick, dude, They're like
Speaker 1: this stick. I wonder you're trying to get for the
Speaker 1: carb king over here, Mitch.
Speaker 4: Dude.
Speaker 2: We literally go to breakfast at the Red Rock. I
Speaker 2: don't know, you guys have probably broke down a whole
Speaker 2: bunch of what happened in the last nine ten days
Speaker 2: or whatever. But breakfast, man, the first day you got
Speaker 2: there on Wednesday, my boy had waffles. It looked like
Speaker 2: he had pancakes as well. I know there was biscuits
Speaker 2: and gravy just hanging out by you. He's got a
Speaker 2: mouthful going.
Speaker 1: Like he was trying to feed. He doesn't eat when
Speaker 1: he's at home. He's like he like skips eating. He
Speaker 1: gets too lazy to go to the pantry, go to
Speaker 1: the fridge, like man the grocery store like I do.
Speaker 1: He just doesn't. Yeah, he just doesn't eat. He eats
Speaker 1: what is it, rich crackers with peanut butter and jelly.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there's been multiple occasions, probably at least once a
Speaker 5: week or once every other week.
Speaker 1: I'll have for dinner.
Speaker 5: It'll just be ritz crackers and I'll put little peanut butter,
Speaker 5: little jelly, make little peanut butter jey sand which is
Speaker 5: on him.
Speaker 2: Hey, that is some like elementary school.
Speaker 1: Both my parents are at workshit.
Speaker 5: I actually learned it from my dad. I learned it
Speaker 5: from my dad and he's the one that that put
Speaker 5: me onto it. And it's very very good.
Speaker 1: Shout out your dad, dude, Shout out Dan. Shout out Dan.
Speaker 2: Didn't teach you how to look up questions? But do
Speaker 2: you cracker peanut butter and jellies?
Speaker 1: Hey, you're the grocery shopping I texted Jack Solo and
Speaker 1: I said, I'm gonna I said, I'm not. I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna lie. I don't know what's real and what's a bit,
Speaker 1: because every time you post on it seem like it's
Speaker 1: truly something you sniped on the internet.
Speaker 2: I know, hopefully this is a reference being thrown up
Speaker 2: on the YouTube if you're watched right now. Every time
Speaker 2: I post about going at the grocery store, which every
Speaker 2: time you've seen me post with the glay store all
Speaker 2: the times about the grocery store, like so three times
Speaker 2: in the last two and a half months or whatever years. Yeah, whatever,
Speaker 2: And uh every time I knew, literally, Jack, this this
Speaker 2: is my thought process walking and I was like, okay, pictures.
Speaker 2: He always gets me with the Google. This time I
Speaker 2: make a video. Now he can't do nothing about it.
Speaker 2: And you threw the TikTok up with this screen recording everything.
Speaker 6: It was just this is the first search.
Speaker 7: You gotta you gotta go deeper if you're gonna use
Speaker 7: this grocery up.
Speaker 2: Don't do that, bro, Indeed, I get it.
Speaker 6: You don't do that with your audience. A bunch of
Speaker 6: blue collar guys.
Speaker 2: We are We are a bunch of blue collar guys,
Speaker 2: but a bunch of blue collar guys that do lucy.
Speaker 2: That's what we do because we fight. I listen, man,
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I don't go to the grocery store a
Speaker 2: whole lot. But Taylor, ever since her grandmother passed away
Speaker 2: in October, every Sunday she does meatballs, pasta.
Speaker 1: She makes me a nice little steak. Kid.
Speaker 2: We have a good little time.
Speaker 1: And last night we had a cruise over there.
Speaker 2: The whole food.
Speaker 1: Dude, I don't think that. Uh. I saw the what
Speaker 1: is it? What was it? Mozrella, parmesan in there and
Speaker 1: then some seasonings, some some of the plants make some
Speaker 1: Basil said the Tai Poly posted it. No, I was
Speaker 1: trying to make I was trying to make out what
Speaker 1: was in the video.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it was just cheese.
Speaker 1: And he tried getting you and he was kind of wrong.
Speaker 1: He just said, like the movie. He said that move
Speaker 1: you would have got a cart instead of a full
Speaker 1: size grocery cart, which that is not that's a little happen.
Speaker 2: That's a little boy.
Speaker 1: That's the I still want to push. I don't want
Speaker 1: to hold something in my hand the whole time.
Speaker 2: That's exactly what that is.
Speaker 7: Like we got some arugula, tomatoes and umarella.
Speaker 6: A bunch of rich people. Ship. Really it's not kombucha.
Speaker 1: That's so Maddy's a broker fu so like bottles of water.
Speaker 1: It's like, look at this rich people's the.
Speaker 2: Thing, dude, the thing that the grocery store pisses me off.
Speaker 2: Is when you walk into the Whole Foods in that
Speaker 2: Green Hills is there's always so many bouquets of flowers.
Speaker 2: And I can't stand because every time I walk in there,
Speaker 2: my kids want some, Tailing wants some, and the I'm
Speaker 2: walking away with six six boqets of flowers. Such a
Speaker 2: waste of money, Such a waste of money. And I
Speaker 2: can't say no, yea.
Speaker 1: But for the moment, for the smile, Fuck the smile.
Speaker 2: I don't want that, dude, I don't want it.
Speaker 1: One worthy.
Speaker 2: No, No, they're not, dude. Hopefully I can get him
Speaker 2: to laugh once for five.
Speaker 1: Should we you brought it up blue collar guys, Lucy?
Speaker 1: Should we talk about Lucy like we've hit a nice little,
Speaker 1: nice little partnership with Lucy. Yeah, I think it's big news.
Speaker 1: And shout out to you for your uh, your nicotine habit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, shout out to addictions if.
Speaker 1: You're a shout out to your nicotine addiction. Dude. Is
Speaker 1: landing as a partnership of loosey.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And everybody knows what I used to used to
Speaker 2: put on my upper lip and I I truly loved
Speaker 2: that brand I was I was about I think the
Speaker 2: flavor was fantastic. I love the pouch everything like that,
Speaker 2: and so I do have to give it flowers. I'm
Speaker 2: not gonna say it's name because I'm being respectful to
Speaker 2: my new girl now. But it was a great relationship.
Speaker 2: And once I'm starting to find out that the Nicotines,
Speaker 2: you know, they they own like eighty percent of the
Speaker 2: sales of all nicotine brands, It's starting not to sit
Speaker 2: well with me being on a bus, being a blue
Speaker 2: collar cat, a grinder, sitting with that being like, why
Speaker 2: would I want to be with the top dog when
Speaker 2: I can go find something just as good that maybe
Speaker 2: people don't know about so much American math. I don't
Speaker 2: think they're I can't look that out. I think they're
Speaker 2: in Sweden as well. But Sweden may, dude, where probaly
Speaker 2: your offshore bank account is. So there's something there, there's
Speaker 2: something aligning you there, And yeah, dude, I just I
Speaker 2: went down the hunt. I tried on, I tried rogue,
Speaker 2: I tried a whole bunch of different ones. And the
Speaker 2: thing that set me off with Lucy was the pouch
Speaker 2: is bigger than my last girl. And at first I
Speaker 2: didn't know how I feel about that. But you put
Speaker 2: it in there and you feel like a real man
Speaker 2: with it, like a dip, like you have a real dip.
Speaker 2: You put it in the lower lip, it feels real good.
Speaker 2: So for me, it was like, okay, I can I
Speaker 2: I'll coast on on that. It's different, but I'm a
Speaker 2: little scared because it's different, but i'mnna keep moving with it.
Speaker 2: The next thing was like the pouch, Like how dense?
Speaker 2: How like how much? How rough and tumble can I
Speaker 2: be on this pouch? Can I move it around my
Speaker 2: lip and not have it burst and then have like
Speaker 2: little flakes of nicotine just flying around? Good in the
Speaker 2: moment if you can handle it. Hell of a buzz
Speaker 2: if you can handle it, But not what you want
Speaker 2: on a day to day basis if you're getting your
Speaker 2: lip raw on a nicotine pouch. So as I started
Speaker 2: working through these things, man, I found loose and I've
Speaker 2: really enjoyed the breakers. I've really enjoyed how you could
Speaker 2: take one, you crack one, and it's just a flood
Speaker 2: of flavor. Because for me, a guy like me who
Speaker 2: has nicotine in his mouth, whether he unless he's sleeping
Speaker 2: or eating, it's literally in there I like to have.
Speaker 2: I hate that five ten minutes where you put one
Speaker 2: in and it's like, yeah, come on, flavor, let's go.
Speaker 1: What are we doing here? What are we doing? Come on?
Speaker 2: Get back to me? And with the with the Breakers,
Speaker 2: it's like being right there.
Speaker 1: Maybe we should just.
Speaker 2: Have one right now?
Speaker 1: You want one? Brother?
Speaker 2: Oh, he's on it. My dreams are fucking coming true.
Speaker 1: Espresso, So no, I'm with you, like uh. I started
Speaker 1: doing it when we were on the road. It was
Speaker 1: always like, hey, travel, like if it was Thursdays in
Speaker 1: Chicago or whenever we do a fall tour, like throw
Speaker 1: the we won't say the names we want to the
Speaker 1: name no for a shout out, but get moving into
Speaker 1: h Lucy's. And then hearing about the Breakers, Like I
Speaker 1: thought the Breakers thing was like just like a hard
Speaker 1: candy or something like that. I didn't know it was
Speaker 1: like inside of a pouch. So they shift us a
Speaker 1: bunch and I see espresso, and your boy, you know
Speaker 1: how love lattes. You know I love coffee. You know
Speaker 1: I'm addicted to I was telling Mitch about it last week, like, bro,
Speaker 1: these espresso pouches, these are the four milligram because they
Speaker 1: got a lot of different levels of military.
Speaker 2: Feel and even numbers two, four, six, eight, ten, twelve,
Speaker 2: they all twelve. That's for the men.
Speaker 1: That's the men. That's not the same.
Speaker 2: Ye, the fours are a perfect number.
Speaker 1: And you were getting you were getting me on him.
Speaker 1: And then that viral clip of Huberman was going around
Speaker 1: on the benefits of nicotine, and I basically do anything
Speaker 1: that Huberman says, like follow blindly. It's the only way
Speaker 1: to live. Yeah, yeah, Like, oh, who put you on
Speaker 1: that Huberman? Like, look, I grew up in the Huberman world,
Speaker 1: Like I will just listen to him whatever he says.
Speaker 1: I'm taking it as faceback. And it's great too.
Speaker 2: When you're trying to get people information and they're like,
Speaker 2: would you get that, and you say Huberman, they just
Speaker 2: go okay, yeah, right, absolutely right, automatically agree with you.
Speaker 2: There's no argument to me.
Speaker 1: Yeh. There is a culture with Huberman right now. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I wrote down the benefits of nicotine coming from
Speaker 1: Huberman's mouth, that got me more and more. On top
Speaker 1: of this stuff neuroprotecting, suppress his appetite, don't need it,
Speaker 1: increase his metabolism. Let's go improve focus, attention, and mood.
Speaker 1: It relaxes your skeletal muscle, which, again, go listen to
Speaker 1: human Man. I won't go too much farther beyond that.
Speaker 1: I just got it. I just jotted that note down
Speaker 1: that it relaxes your skeletal muscle and then it increases
Speaker 1: motivation and decreases negative emotions.
Speaker 2: So is this the answer for depression? Not for us
Speaker 2: to say, probably not.
Speaker 1: There there are studies of like an anti of using
Speaker 1: it as like an antidepressant. But yeah, listen to this
Speaker 1: podcast where we are brain dead people on this. Yeah
Speaker 1: we are not smart. Go listen to We're not Doctors. Yeah,
Speaker 1: go listen to the Hubreman podcast. But these are espresso ones.
Speaker 1: I shit, you not here it is. You can see
Speaker 1: the little breaker inside. You can zoom in on that
Speaker 1: minch our little breaker inside. And truly it is like
Speaker 1: putting it is like putting a latte in your mouth,
Speaker 1: like a little victory lot in your mouth. So waking
Speaker 1: up this morning and coming over to do the intro,
Speaker 1: I'm so excited to go to go to my spot
Speaker 1: eighth and Rose get give me an almond milk ice.
Speaker 1: They splashed vanilla to pair it with the espresso pouch
Speaker 1: and broke my mouth water and coffee.
Speaker 2: Yeah you're salivating.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, cheers.
Speaker 2: So I'm gonna I'll bite down on this breaker so
Speaker 2: you can hear it. So you just use little things
Speaker 2: your teeth and.
Speaker 1: And then it's just like a it's an orgasm in
Speaker 1: your mouth.
Speaker 2: Think of a gusher, but with more juice.
Speaker 1: And this espresso mixed with an ice latte.
Speaker 2: See, I'm a tropical cat. Did I like my exs?
Speaker 2: Like my fruits and so?
Speaker 1: Which I was into? You had me into the fruit
Speaker 1: loop taste of one again. Won't say any names. I
Speaker 1: love that one. But then right here, yeah, it is
Speaker 1: the baby. Literally.
Speaker 2: When I was talking to whoever after we decided we're
Speaker 2: gonna go with Lucy, and Lucy came to us after
Speaker 2: and said, hey, it was a great choice. We'd love
Speaker 2: to sponsor you. They they said, hey, what kind of
Speaker 2: flavors do you want? I had them with They have
Speaker 2: apple berry or apple frost.
Speaker 1: They got apple ice.
Speaker 2: Would you just put it? Would you just put in?
Speaker 1: Jack?
Speaker 7: Oh, Lucy, Okay, let's see.
Speaker 1: Then throw you off the phones.
Speaker 2: Let me see the can Jack.
Speaker 1: Who'll get you replaced?
Speaker 6: What's these flavors?
Speaker 2: Is the one that I have in by lip right
Speaker 2: now because I enjoyed, uh the citrus flavor of the
Speaker 2: other ones. But they breakers they coming on and they
Speaker 2: asked me, oh, what flavors do you want? I said,
Speaker 2: four milligrams, don't send us eight, don't send us ten.
Speaker 2: It's too much of their like, hey, they're coming, They're coming.
Speaker 2: I'm not safe feeling, at least for me, a lot
Speaker 2: of people saying hard yeah, like you love, yeah, you love,
Speaker 2: like talking to God.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I want the Rower Coast like I want to feel.
Speaker 1: So I want to be shaking a little bit and
Speaker 1: be like, right, you say something to me, and I'm
Speaker 1: kind of like, I don't know what's going on.
Speaker 2: Will Compton, although you've already heard, is a big caffeine guy,
Speaker 2: one cold brew coffee and pitts, shaky, jittery, and it's
Speaker 2: not like he learns his less than ever. He just
Speaker 2: keeps coming back from more and more. So we got
Speaker 2: the fourst We're big four guys. I'm a mango guy.
Speaker 2: I do love the espresso. I do love the espresso.
Speaker 2: Issue for me though, with the espresso is mentally I
Speaker 2: think to myself, coffee coffee stains your teeth. If I
Speaker 2: just have an espresso flavored things in here might just
Speaker 2: staining my teeth the whole time.
Speaker 1: That's my one little that's a real good you know
Speaker 1: I heard that just start fucking puky and ship. So yeah,
Speaker 1: might as well just go ahead and throw Do we
Speaker 1: have a Lucy ad read we don't have. That's fucking crazy.
Speaker 1: Go check out the boys, Lucy, Yeah, go check them
Speaker 1: out the online.
Speaker 2: Everything's going online now, like you really can't find them
Speaker 2: in stores. I don't think I go to a gas
Speaker 2: station that All the other brands we won't talk about,
Speaker 2: but Lucy let him online, get him in bulk, fantastic dude,
Speaker 2: should we? Obviously, the football season's over and we had
Speaker 2: a great time. I know you guys talked about a
Speaker 2: little bit. Probably that's done. The good, the bad, the ugly,
Speaker 2: those fun segments will probably put those on the shelf
Speaker 2: for just a minute. Let's bring them back a shout
Speaker 2: enough shoutout, even though we've done it, even though we
Speaker 2: haven't given it the official but.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're you're right, we need it. It needs to officially
Speaker 1: have its moment back in our hearts. We just gave
Speaker 1: a really good shout out, no free shout out, even
Speaker 1: though we don't have an average Lucy. But yeah, I
Speaker 1: would love to bring the shoutout no free shoutout back Mitch,
Speaker 1: go ahead, go ahead, match takeing notes of what he's
Speaker 1: producing the fuck out of it.
Speaker 2: But yeah, that's a good idea, all right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's bag my shadow no forree shot out goes.
Speaker 5: This week, I had one of my buddies from from
Speaker 5: home coming to town and like when you first see
Speaker 5: like one of your boys you haven't seen in a
Speaker 5: long time, and you just dap them up and you
Speaker 5: just give them a good, just a good old hug.
Speaker 5: That my shadow no for your shadow goes to giving
Speaker 5: your boys hugs. There's something about like, yeah, you can
Speaker 5: dap them up, you can just like little handshake whatever,
Speaker 5: but like when you when you lock it in for
Speaker 5: a hug and just like it's real quick, like rather
Speaker 5: it's a longer one shorter one. Just give your boys
Speaker 5: some more hugs because it sometimes you just need it.
Speaker 5: Maybe that other person will need it as well, but
Speaker 5: it's just a little feel good moment with you and
Speaker 5: your boy, So shut out hugs.
Speaker 1: That's wholesome. Yeah, I saw something too, like I'm sure
Speaker 1: you get it as well. Like my algorithm has a
Speaker 1: lot of these you know, gooey stuff things now that
Speaker 1: pop up in front of my face. And one was
Speaker 1: about hugs, like big hug guy, Twelve hugs a day
Speaker 1: leads to growth. Eight hugs is what you need for maintenance.
Speaker 1: And if you have anything less, like you're deterring yourself
Speaker 1: from happiness. But twelve is the number. And also not
Speaker 1: only that, but your technique. You want to go left
Speaker 1: arm up, right arm below. What the hell is that? Yeah,
Speaker 1: left arm up right on below because your heart to
Speaker 1: heart with the person you're hugging. Oh, hubreman, that's not human,
Speaker 1: that's that's just Instagram algorithm. Instagram algorithm is good. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And also another one I saw. If you hold a
Speaker 1: hug for eight seconds, that's where you release like the dopamine,
Speaker 1: the good hormones, the good things going on where you
Speaker 1: get the side of the hug. So hug, hug often,
Speaker 1: hug hard, hug long.
Speaker 2: It sounds like we're getting ourselves an anti depression protocol
Speaker 2: going on here with the lucy and the hugs. Yeah,
Speaker 2: can't wait to see what else happens on the show. Yeah, Jackie,
Speaker 2: what do you have baby?
Speaker 7: I don't know if this is going to translate for
Speaker 7: you all, and I hope it does. But I was
Speaker 7: just in Tahoes past weekend up snowboarding.
Speaker 6: We went there.
Speaker 7: The weather is supposed to be completely clear all week,
Speaker 7: so that kind of like bums you out. When you
Speaker 7: go on a ski trip, You're like, you want to
Speaker 7: get like a good snow And then the day we
Speaker 7: get there, all of a sudden, we get a weather
Speaker 7: alert advisory and there's a winter storm that just out
Speaker 7: of nowhere popped up first day.
Speaker 6: And so the first day we get there, we don't ski.
Speaker 7: We get settled in, wake up the next morning and
Speaker 7: there was like fourteen inches of fresh snow on the
Speaker 7: top of the mountain. So my shadow goes to I
Speaker 7: guess Mother Nature and providing beautiful snow. But getting snow
Speaker 7: on that first day of ski trip is something special.
Speaker 7: It provides a little bit more of a cushion. You
Speaker 7: can kind of go a little bit harder out there.
Speaker 7: It does make it more like taxing on your legs
Speaker 7: because you're having so much more resis since but you're
Speaker 7: able to go a little bit further, You're able to
Speaker 7: send that jump a little bit harder. So shout out
Speaker 7: to fresh no on the beginning with snow trip or
Speaker 7: ski trip.
Speaker 1: Yeah, shout out mother nature.
Speaker 2: You jump, Yeah, you go hard like that.
Speaker 7: Yeah, we like to go hard, you know, Like I said,
Speaker 7: when when there's fresh no, you have a little bit
Speaker 7: more in your bag, You're like, you're a little bit
Speaker 7: less worried about breaking something or tearing something because you're
Speaker 7: just falling in powder. So yeah, we like to get
Speaker 7: out there, have a good time. You have a couple
Speaker 7: of beers and you're like, all right, I'm gonna I'll
Speaker 7: hit that trick then.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: I had a buddy in high school. His name is
Speaker 2: Zach Barer. Shout out Zack Barer. Saw him this weekend
Speaker 2: in Arizona. He would always go to like Big Bear
Speaker 2: or Durango or Flagstaff and go skiing every winter, and
Speaker 2: every time he came back he would have a separated shoulder,
Speaker 2: broken wrist.
Speaker 1: He literally guy had paper boats.
Speaker 2: He's a surgeon now, but like all his injuries like
Speaker 2: got him into the idea of becoming a surgeon. When
Speaker 2: I saw you skiing, that's what I I was like, Oh,
Speaker 2: people go skiing, We're gonna get You're just paying me
Speaker 2: to get hurt, and I'm happy to see you back
Speaker 2: here on your two feet.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that we were talking about yesterday. Coming back. We're
Speaker 6: just like, no injuries.
Speaker 7: That's just the biggest win you can because when I'm
Speaker 7: twenty nine, it's like if you separate your shoulder or
Speaker 7: like hurt your knee, it's like at what costs, like
Speaker 7: just to like you know, impress one of your friends
Speaker 7: on like a ski slope and no one ever.
Speaker 1: Saw black diamonds, Yeah exactly.
Speaker 6: But it's always fun.
Speaker 7: And with those flag staff places, they don't typically get
Speaker 7: like a lot of snow, so it's usually like groomers,
Speaker 7: which means just like really packed down hard snow, so
Speaker 7: it's a lot easier to get hurt.
Speaker 6: So when you do get.
Speaker 7: Those like twelve to fifteen inches of fresh snow, it
Speaker 7: really prevents any kind of like heard sustaining injury. Like
Speaker 7: you can still get hurt obviously anytime, but it definitely
Speaker 7: helps out the cause of feeling a little bit more
Speaker 7: confident out there.
Speaker 6: So definitely shot up mother nature.
Speaker 1: I didn't even know you could get twelve to fifteen
Speaker 1: inches anywhere.
Speaker 6: Thirty three inches in one night in uh, Colorado.
Speaker 1: You never got just twelve inches when you're in Michigan.
Speaker 1: I don't think so.
Speaker 2: I think the only place I ever think that would
Speaker 2: happen is Buffalo, New York because every year, in like December,
Speaker 2: the bills have like a hell of a deal going on.
Speaker 2: But I literally I think myself, like a whole foot
Speaker 2: of snow foot plus sounds horrible to me, it's awesome. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you know me and snow brother, Yeah, get along. Vans
Speaker 2: do not do well in snow. I'll tell you that
Speaker 2: what you got will for your shout.
Speaker 1: Every Imause I forgot mine.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'll go.
Speaker 1: I had one over the weekend. I was like, I
Speaker 1: need to write this down, and you to write this down.
Speaker 1: That's always the thing, Like this one's so solid that
Speaker 1: I will not forget here. I am later. That's ill try.
Speaker 1: I try to think. That's tough.
Speaker 2: You need to be prepared for the show that we
Speaker 2: have every week. But I'll go and this I've said
Speaker 2: this one before, but I happened to meet this weekend,
Speaker 2: and uh, I just want to bring it back up again.
Speaker 1: So this weekend I had to go to Arizona.
Speaker 2: One of my buddies, his father passed away very suddenly.
Speaker 1: We had to go to a funeral. It was very
Speaker 1: it was weird. It was a weird weekend.
Speaker 2: It was tough, but pausive on the way. Let's talk
Speaker 2: about positives here. We're keeping the vibes high. Taylan puts
Speaker 2: on a song for me that immediately hits the cerebellum
Speaker 2: and I go, oh, fuck, yes, I'm going to run
Speaker 2: this song into the dirt and I'm gonna know every
Speaker 2: single lyric in a week's time. Not a week yet,
Speaker 2: but we know about half of them now. That song
Speaker 2: is by Benson Boone and the end of the song
Speaker 2: is called Beautiful Things.
Speaker 1: Have you heard it? Yeah? Please stay dude.
Speaker 2: That shit came on and I'm thinking in my head
Speaker 2: because we were actually had this conversation when we were
Speaker 2: doing a drop off right before Super Bowl about like,
Speaker 2: when you listen to a song, you listen to beats,
Speaker 2: a beat or a lyric first, and I'm always listening to.
Speaker 1: The lyrics first.
Speaker 2: The guy talking about how his life was tough, then
Speaker 2: his life is good, and now all he's worried about
Speaker 2: is when the good things are going to end. You
Speaker 2: can feel the anxiety in the song as it leads
Speaker 2: to this beautiful like scream not screaming, but like a yelling,
Speaker 2: singing type of like passion that gets you.
Speaker 1: To go, I got goosebumpster.
Speaker 2: Now let me roll through the windows down and get
Speaker 2: these goosebumps off my body like that type of feeling. Yeah,
Speaker 2: So my shout out, no free shout is gonna go
Speaker 2: to uh finding a new song. And I've done it.
Speaker 2: That's probably the third time I've done that in the show,
Speaker 2: but it was.
Speaker 1: We've been We've been around for some for some time.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna repeat. I'm pretty sure bro bro Huggs has
Speaker 1: been in there.
Speaker 6: Like also never gets old.
Speaker 2: It doesn't get old. Yeah that's true. Yeah, just like
Speaker 2: your shopping carttrol. It literally never gets old.
Speaker 1: To me.
Speaker 2: I laugh every time I honestly tweet it to get that.
Speaker 2: Now that's the only response I ever want.
Speaker 1: I remembered. Let's go. I remembered, and people, those of
Speaker 1: you that.
Speaker 2: Think about, oh, Will's got cts a big dumb idiot boom,
Speaker 2: perfect example right now.
Speaker 1: You fucking face boys. Shit, it's the Lucy's Yeah, the memory.
Speaker 1: So my shoutout, no free shoutout goes to the air tag.
Speaker 1: I've started to use them, and I needed it over
Speaker 1: the weekend, I couldn't find my keys. I didn't realize
Speaker 1: where I placed them, and I threw up to find
Speaker 1: my app and have the keys, and then it plays
Speaker 1: a little sound for you to find it and shout
Speaker 1: out the air tag because we need it. We need it.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure it's like this is like a universal
Speaker 1: like maybe not in universe. I'm not shitting on all
Speaker 1: the men out there, but it seems like a very
Speaker 1: male thing to do, where you just we forget the
Speaker 1: dumbest shit and our other tells us like, hey, here's
Speaker 1: a little here's a little like what am I trying
Speaker 1: to say. Here's a little.
Speaker 2: Reminder I don't know. Here's the device it helps you remember.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Like the plate. Here's a plate. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like if you just if you just got them again.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if you just walk in the house and put
Speaker 1: your money, clip, your keys and everything in this plate
Speaker 1: in the mudroom right when you walk in, you'll know
Speaker 1: it's there every time. Yeah. Fortunately, your boy's been very
Speaker 1: solid at doing that. For whatever reason, I had misplaced
Speaker 1: my keys, didn't where they didn't know where they were,
Speaker 1: and I thought to myself, I'm so fired up that
Speaker 1: I have an air tag on this thing now because
Speaker 1: I almost never put it on. I like several of
Speaker 1: them sitting there from Christmas and just again lazy, don't
Speaker 1: get around to doing it. Fortunately they were on my keys,
Speaker 1: knew where to find them out out the air tag.
Speaker 1: That is something I still need to do.
Speaker 2: Luckily, my significant other loses her phone fifteen times a day,
Speaker 2: to the point where I'm the one going, honey, come on, like,
Speaker 2: you've got to be better. You've got to figure it out.
Speaker 1: They see it as a badge of honor losing their phone, like, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm not on my phone at home.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've been on it for so long. I guess
Speaker 2: I just missed on the Uh that's what.
Speaker 1: That's a big one.
Speaker 2: I was up and down the damn stairs yesterday trying
Speaker 2: to find my phone. I went upstairs upstairs, we have
Speaker 2: like a little attic playroom set up with like a
Speaker 2: little jungle gym. We have like a rock climbing thing
Speaker 2: for the kid. They love it, dude, a big swinging
Speaker 2: there and they're ripping and I get in. There's this
Speaker 2: big love sack.
Speaker 1: You've been in there. Lay down. I'm on my phone.
Speaker 2: I'm surfing the bird and I go downstairs. I have
Speaker 2: for grass there. I think it's a water. I go downstairs,
Speaker 2: come back up, can't find my phone, Like, did I
Speaker 2: bring it downstairs with me? I hunt for fifteen to
Speaker 2: twenty minutes, probably ten, but you get what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Finally I go upstairs on my hey win.
Speaker 2: You you grab my phone, and this shitting grin covers
Speaker 2: her face. Now it's like, where is it?
Speaker 1: Dude? Where is it?
Speaker 2: I had to fight her. I had to fight my daughter.
Speaker 1: You hit her?
Speaker 2: No I didn't.
Speaker 1: I pushed her heart.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, yes, but anyway, she end up giving up
Speaker 2: the phone. Dude, I thought to myself in that ten
Speaker 2: minute span of trying to find my phone, like, I
Speaker 2: should just put those damn air tags that are literally
Speaker 2: sitting in the man.
Speaker 1: Cave right now. I know exactly where they are. I
Speaker 1: know exactly where they are. The garment. Now the garment
Speaker 1: hooks you up. Well, I'll lose my you know, I'll
Speaker 1: misplaced my phone every now and then, I think, hang on, dude, no, no,
Speaker 1: it does. I just I think I turned my bluetooth
Speaker 1: off for a minute. Yeah, yeah, you were getting some
Speaker 1: weird jingles in there. You had a weird vibrate on
Speaker 1: your phone. Yeah you can. We'll come back to it.
Speaker 1: I just gotta I gotta hit the reconnect. Yeah.
Speaker 2: And also Garment is not a sponsor at the show,
Speaker 2: so yeah, no shout out, noe, shout out to the Garment.
Speaker 2: I do love it, well, we will and I we
Speaker 2: work at the same gym, and literally I'll peek over
Speaker 2: at the boy. Make sure you stand on top of
Speaker 2: the stuff, you know, kind of bill buddy ship, and
Speaker 2: I'll look over. He'll just be popping some buttons looking and.
Speaker 1: Go do his thing.
Speaker 2: Immediately gets inble the set does hit it again.
Speaker 1: Like, no, you're not even doing anything. You gotta hit
Speaker 1: the sets over, hit the stop reading now and my
Speaker 1: rest is count You're not doing all the rest anything,
Speaker 1: don't He's probably off right now. We sit there and
Speaker 1: talk and the minute you walk away, I look up. Fuck,
Speaker 1: I've been wrestling.
Speaker 2: Because I haven't seen you in a while, so I
Speaker 2: want to talk. But at the same time, it's like
Speaker 2: I got to get and get out.
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Speaker 1: If I'm rocking with it, you want to know the truth,
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Speaker 1: Because I saw that. I saw that bet, I'm just
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Speaker 2: Just Vulk like that, I know, and I literally he
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Speaker 1: Did you watch? I fell asleep. We'll get the wake up.
Speaker 2: Woke up with the President. It's tough man being out
Speaker 2: in the East coast of the UFC. It's not done
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Speaker 7: The West coast is nice, nice that thing like seven
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Speaker 1: The best, man, it is the best.
Speaker 2: Speaking of West Coast, speaking of Vegas, I know you
Speaker 2: guys have talked about it, but when you guys left,
Speaker 2: your boy had another opportunity.
Speaker 1: Of the m GK.
Speaker 2: And it went very well.
Speaker 6: Really, it went very well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, talk about that because you had mentioned it kind
Speaker 1: of right, right, right.
Speaker 2: So the the first night was at Power Stop, which,
Speaker 2: by the way, Jack, I know we've been in every
Speaker 2: single power slop. How epic was this last power stop
Speaker 2: at Durango.
Speaker 6: It felt different, felt different, a lot of big people there.
Speaker 2: It was fun, it was a cool Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: You know how Jack talk though, it's like that is
Speaker 2: enthusiasm for him. So yeah, we go to that and
Speaker 2: then obviously this guy named Steve and I believe his
Speaker 2: name is he's mgk's manager. Also he's partners with Rob
Speaker 2: Muchie for those of you who are wondering in the
Speaker 2: same agency. He's like, I AMGK is gonna be hearing
Speaker 2: a little bit. I was like, hey, man, I love MGK,
Speaker 2: I love his music. I think he brought back a
Speaker 2: whole entire genre. Blah blah blah. Give my little elevator
Speaker 2: pitch on why I'm a fan of MGK. He comes
Speaker 2: up to me as I'm actually getting we're getting the
Speaker 2: other boys in you guys in and uh, he's walking
Speaker 2: up obviously I see him obviously, you and I are
Speaker 2: talking and he was.
Speaker 1: Talking about Gamba and he's like, I got this thousand, Hey,
Speaker 1: we're doing it. We're doing it. Meeting.
Speaker 2: But I met MGK and I met people call Himkelse.
Speaker 2: I'll call him Kelse for right now. He like threw
Speaker 2: his shoulder. He dapped me up and like threw his
Speaker 2: shoulder into me. And then when we were talking, he's
Speaker 2: kind of looking me up and down. I don't know
Speaker 2: if you noticed that. He was kind of like looking
Speaker 2: at me, sizing me up a little bit. I'm thinking,
Speaker 2: come on then, like we don't want to do this
Speaker 2: or was trying to be boys right now. And it
Speaker 2: was very quick, very much. It was easy enough for
Speaker 2: me to be like, I didn't.
Speaker 1: Like that experience. It wasn't a great experience for me
Speaker 1: very much. Your yeah, Yah, it was kind of like
Speaker 1: one of those guys.
Speaker 2: It also to me was like great in us in
Speaker 2: one way because tormented artist, that's what he comes off
Speaker 2: to be, and to see him like that, I was like, good,
Speaker 2: Like his art is going to be so beautiful this
Speaker 2: next album. Obviously, I hope he gets help, help, he
Speaker 2: figures it all out. So the next day I'm at
Speaker 2: UFC after a Saturday with Jelly, and it was great
Speaker 2: because it was like, not a whole lot of people
Speaker 2: there is at the Apex. It was just me and
Speaker 2: Jelly just catching.
Speaker 1: Up, hanging out for a couple hours.
Speaker 2: And I let him know the same story. I just
Speaker 2: told you guys like listen like Jelly and Kell start
Speaker 2: like boys. And so he's like telling me he was
Speaker 2: probably just wearing something. I know the Sean Strickland video
Speaker 2: came out about Sean Strickland calling him a freak and
Speaker 2: and and all that.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure that hat on the bird app on
Speaker 1: the bird app.
Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure that happened after It's not a big deal.
Speaker 2: But I told him. I was like, yeah, man, it
Speaker 2: was kind of a disappointing first impression. It just seemed
Speaker 2: like the dude was wearing a whole lot and it was.
Speaker 2: It was just a tough come by. And so that
Speaker 2: night I'm at Red Rocks. Data hits me up and
Speaker 2: he's like, hey, what are.
Speaker 1: You doing, blah blah blah. I was like, oh, I'm here.
Speaker 1: He goes come to Caesar's.
Speaker 2: I believe it is. Come to Caesars, to this place
Speaker 2: called Pinky Ring. Your knight's gonna change. I'm thinking sick
Speaker 2: because we know Caesar is what he he bets there
Speaker 2: seventy five thousand dollars a hen.
Speaker 1: I'm thinking away game. The new stresses are there. I'm
Speaker 1: in the car. I'm driving over. I'm very nervous.
Speaker 2: I get a text from this lady named Evelyn, who
Speaker 2: is going to bring me into the Pinky Ring. Turns
Speaker 2: out Pinky Ring is this very that's right in the
Speaker 2: middle of the casino of Caesar's or Blaggio. They both
Speaker 2: look very similar. It's like this little arena type of
Speaker 2: looking thing, but it's just like a bar, like a
Speaker 2: speakeasy kind of bar. And I walk in there and
Speaker 2: I see you hear this fucking golden voice. It's like
Speaker 2: like literally piercing my ears. And I'm like, oh, my god,
Speaker 2: whoever's singing right now is incredible. Turns out that individual
Speaker 2: is Bruno Mars. Hit a right, hit a right hand,
Speaker 2: start walking. I see Dana, his boy skips there. Hunter's there.
Speaker 2: Hunter Now that boy moved them hips he he got.
Speaker 1: He was out the dance. My god with Bruno maar
Speaker 1: moving those hips like crazy.
Speaker 2: So we sit there, we're hanging out, and he's like,
Speaker 2: I know he got somebody in the in the audience tonight.
Speaker 2: I think it was a baby something, baby face or
Speaker 2: baby something.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't know he I mean, that's.
Speaker 1: Bb King, you're thinking of bb King.
Speaker 2: But yeah, he's like, I got somebody in the audience,
Speaker 2: blah blah blah. And and then Hunter and Dane are
Speaker 2: getting hyped up.
Speaker 1: I don't know who this guy is.
Speaker 2: He starts singing, hen's the mic to buddy, and the
Speaker 2: buddy starts going fucking off, and I'm like, oh my,
Speaker 2: And you guys know I'm a big concert guy, but
Speaker 2: for me, I'm like enjoying the fuck out at this moment.
Speaker 2: And uh, he's saying, some leady comes up. She starts
Speaker 2: ripping there like he turns, he says, he turns the
Speaker 2: place to a ship club. All of a sudden, he's
Speaker 2: playing crazy music and he's like.
Speaker 1: Doing his thing.
Speaker 2: It was an unbelievable experience. I say that all just
Speaker 2: a flex on how cool.
Speaker 1: My night was. I was ready for MG to he's
Speaker 1: He's coming later, I.
Speaker 2: Promise, but I just wanted to pick here in my
Speaker 2: face and fucking hey, yeah, my life's awesome. Also, Danny
Speaker 2: gets on the phone while we're there and he's like, okay, cool,
Speaker 2: and he the phone he goes, hey, uh, jay Z
Speaker 2: and Beyonce are gonna come. They're gonna sitt our table
Speaker 2: with us. I was like, oh for real. He's like yeah,
Speaker 2: so you know, He's like, we'll be here in about
Speaker 2: five minutes. They didn't come. But I wanted to tell
Speaker 2: you guys that because I wanted you to feel the
Speaker 2: piece of excitement. I just felt, right, you guys, get
Speaker 2: that that was nice. Hold that in tight, because we're
Speaker 2: gonna go to Caesar's now. We finished the concert, we
Speaker 2: end up ripping over, getting in the car going over
Speaker 2: like a two lane road over to Caesars. We pop
Speaker 2: in there. We go to Caesar's into the high Roller room.
Speaker 2: They got a similar situation to uh to Red Rock
Speaker 2: with the there's a room behind the room, but this
Speaker 2: room like double doors open up. Security sitting there with
Speaker 2: their earpieces on, like you know, you're the president or
Speaker 2: something opens. The door walks down this long hallway with
Speaker 2: a bathroom in an emergency exit, and then it opens
Speaker 2: up into a room where it's like Baccarat, craps, roulette
Speaker 2: and one black jarge table and there's just like five
Speaker 2: people just sitting in there like ready to deal you
Speaker 2: with whatever game you want, and it's like no one
Speaker 2: is allowed in there.
Speaker 1: We get in with Dana.
Speaker 2: Dana ends up playing bing bang boom, three hands, three dubs,
Speaker 2: two hundred thousand dollars for him. Did you I did
Speaker 2: not enter the seventy five. They asked if the guy,
Speaker 2: his boy Nick was like, are you playing? And Dana,
Speaker 2: like a father, goes, He's not gonna play here.
Speaker 1: He's good. Right now, I'm like, thank you because I was.
Speaker 2: I would have, but I was. That's terrifying, right, Like,
Speaker 2: the implications are so much more so. Then Jelly's coming,
Speaker 2: So we wait for an hour or so. Jelly ends
Speaker 2: up coming.
Speaker 1: He's playing.
Speaker 2: Then Jude's like, Kelse is gonna come. So now I'm
Speaker 2: thinking redemption. Go in the bathroom, take a piss or
Speaker 2: waiting for like thirty forty minutes. Now he comes. He's
Speaker 2: gambling with everybody. Now we have a big crowd, about fifteen.
Speaker 1: PEOPLEGK Kelse's MGK, so Bunny his Jolly Roll's wife, she's
Speaker 1: over there.
Speaker 2: With a group of girls and I go over, Hey, guys.
Speaker 1: Nice to meet you. Taylor Taylor, Taylor Taylor, and.
Speaker 2: I see Bunny give her a big hug, and then
Speaker 2: I cruised back over the table. Well, one girl looked
Speaker 2: very familiar, looked unique and beautiful, and it was Making
Speaker 2: Fox his wife. Obviously that was there too, but I
Speaker 2: couldn't recognize her at all because it's like I think
Speaker 2: of making Fox, I'm thinking Transformers right next to it. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: the whole thing, the hood up. Yeah, but you know
Speaker 2: exactly what I'm talking about. She looked completely different. Still
Speaker 2: a fantastic anyway, Megan Fox is there, but I saw Kelse.
Speaker 1: He's like, hey, do good to see you again.
Speaker 2: DAPs me up like we've been boys for a minute.
Speaker 2: He starts talking to me. He's like blah blah blah,
Speaker 2: and I give him the whole Hey man takes to
Speaker 2: my downfall, best album in the last twenty years since
Speaker 2: blakelin A two's self titled album, and we start talking
Speaker 2: about Blake online a two and he's loving it. But
Speaker 2: he so, I'm ninety five percent sure. Jelly Roll hit
Speaker 2: kel Us up and was like my boy Taylor. The
Speaker 2: first impression wasn't great. Just know he's gonna be there tonight.
Speaker 2: I'm literally felt like that into that. I say thank
Speaker 2: you Jelly Roll because it was even if it was fake,
Speaker 2: I still think of MGK as the fucking man now.
Speaker 2: So that was a very cool experience. They hed I'm
Speaker 2: putting a bunch of money.
Speaker 1: It was.
Speaker 2: It was a killer time. We're leaving and we're still
Speaker 2: talking about music. He's like, hey, if you got any uh,
Speaker 2: like advice or you want to go over songs or
Speaker 2: something like that, like let me know what I'm thinking.
Speaker 2: I bro, I'm not I'm not creative enough to do that.
Speaker 1: Like I appreciate you.
Speaker 2: That's what it really hit me, Like, okay, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: jelly definitely said something, but I was like, I appreciate it,
Speaker 2: but you know, your boy's never written a song in
Speaker 2: this life.
Speaker 1: And he's like, oh, it's all good. You know, maybe
Speaker 1: we can we can get something going. You know, you
Speaker 1: could have said like, but you know you ever want
Speaker 1: to throw some on my way and you want you
Speaker 1: want my feedback, let me have your number. Yeah, give
Speaker 1: it to me right now, right in there with some digits. Yeah.
Speaker 2: So anyway, that was a very cool experience. Next day
Speaker 2: headed home exhausted, tired boy. Yeah yeah, but overall an
Speaker 2: incredible trip, so much fun.
Speaker 1: Yeah that we the boys did very well with the
Speaker 1: super Bowl week. It was. It was everything we'd hoped
Speaker 1: it would be, maybe more. Yeah, it was awesome. A movie.
Speaker 2: Some would say, I hate that you said that, but
Speaker 2: it's true. It's so true, and big cat I was
Speaker 2: whispering them after we all gambled together. For those who
Speaker 2: haven't seen the Tunnel of Chaos flog.
Speaker 1: By the way, go take the Tunnel of Chaos blog.
Speaker 2: We were sitting there after I go, it's a movie.
Speaker 2: He goes, it's kind of a movie. I was like,
Speaker 2: I fucking told you, dude, of a movie.
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Speaker 1: You have a docu series just dropped, The Dynasty New
Speaker 1: England Patriots. Really get on that on what Apple Plus.
Speaker 1: I'll be on that tonight. Yeah, Apple Plus. There's the
Speaker 1: first two episodes of released. I think they're gonna release
Speaker 1: one episode a week. There's gonna be ten in the season.
Speaker 1: It's awesome. The first episode talks about basically it's called
Speaker 1: the backup Plan, so it is Tom getting drafted six round.
Speaker 1: He's like fourth on the depth chart with four quarterbacks there.
Speaker 1: What's really cool about it is his buddy And I
Speaker 1: hate that I'm fucking butcher. I hate that I can't
Speaker 1: remember his name, but a teammate of his on on
Speaker 1: the Patriots that he played at Purdue. Tom played at
Speaker 1: Michigan and there are boys and roommates. He's got his uh,
Speaker 1: he's got a recorder out a lot because they lived together.
Speaker 1: There were roommates. So there's a lot of old footage
Speaker 1: of Tom, like of the boys, like back in the
Speaker 1: rookie year and everything else, which is super fucking cool.
Speaker 1: And I didn't realize. I didn't realize because this was
Speaker 1: back in what uh one, two thousand and one. Yeah, uh,
Speaker 1: but I didn't realize the tension and the politics and
Speaker 1: the moment that was going on when Drew Bletsoe had
Speaker 1: gotten hurt. Like I knew he got hurt. Tom came in.
Speaker 1: It's like the rest is history, right, But I didn't
Speaker 1: know Drew Bletsoe was like a hundred million that he
Speaker 1: just got paid as one hundred million dollar quarterback, right. Yeah.
Speaker 1: His injury was so bad that the doc was like
Speaker 1: if you don't have the uh you know, the response
Speaker 1: by the team in the NFL and everything like that,
Speaker 1: like if he doesn't get the doctor and say he
Speaker 1: lays there for an extent period of time, like he
Speaker 1: dies because he was basically bleeding out internally. What was
Speaker 1: his injury? He just got fucked up?
Speaker 2: Have you guys watched its oldest time?
Speaker 1: The way he was all he was taking off on
Speaker 1: a scramble and got lit the fuck up and literally
Speaker 1: just laid there, bro And they talk about how he
Speaker 1: was Ultimately he could have died had he just laid
Speaker 1: there for an extended period of time, but like lacerated
Speaker 1: some artery, like a lot of different shit. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: but he's thinking like he's the golden boy of New England,
Speaker 1: like everybody's at the one hundred million dollars, like he's
Speaker 1: good in the community, He's all the things you want
Speaker 1: as a quarterback. Everybody loved him. And Tom has one
Speaker 1: game where they win, then the second game like they lose,
Speaker 1: and it's just all the drama that circulates around Bill
Speaker 1: Belichick saying no, we're gonna stick with Tom and Robert Kraft.
Speaker 1: He didn't like it. He thought Bledsoe was treated unfairly.
Speaker 1: Bledsoe's losing his career too, or losing his job to
Speaker 1: an injury like that when he's a one hundred million
Speaker 1: dollar quarterback, they trust me in real time, or when
Speaker 1: they made it seem like he got fucking killed because
Speaker 1: he was like the fact you look that bad, but
Speaker 1: he lost rated a spleen got all messed up. Set
Speaker 1: up the boy bled so too because he's like, you know,
Speaker 1: I feel like in chaos is where I start to
Speaker 1: throw and they show this play like right after he
Speaker 1: says it and just gets fucked up and like you know,
Speaker 1: Drew Bledsoe again being very intertwined with the New England
Speaker 1: Patriots organization, like mind you one hundred million dollar quarterback.
Speaker 1: He was the golden boy in the NFL, cittying who
Speaker 1: do you want to draft? He was in backyard football,
Speaker 1: he was in all the different stuff like probably weedies, yeah,
Speaker 1: all those things. And he's just like, you know, he's
Speaker 1: thinking and saying like their lockers are next to each other,
Speaker 1: and you can tell he's holding back on saying like
Speaker 1: this should be my job when I come back, or
Speaker 1: I'm thinking this is gonna be my job when I
Speaker 1: come back. And I called Bill, I'm like, hey, I
Speaker 1: just got cleared medically, and Bill kind of does the
Speaker 1: Bill thing, like, didn't seem too excited. I thought he'd
Speaker 1: be a little more enthused that I was coming back.
Speaker 1: And they stuck with Tom Brady bro And they go
Speaker 1: back into when Bill was the head coach of the
Speaker 1: Browns back in ninety four, and I think his name
Speaker 1: was like Bernie Cosar, Bernie Kozar, how he was doing well,
Speaker 1: and then there's a downfall with the Browns to whether
Speaker 1: they showing him hanging Bill Belichick and the owner Art
Speaker 1: or whoever it is, and how he was such a
Speaker 1: bad breakup with the Browns because he's stuck with some
Speaker 1: quarterback and you know, him and the VP of player
Speaker 1: scouting and everything else that's internally going on with Bill.
Speaker 1: Around Bill, they're saying like, hey, if we don't get
Speaker 1: this right, we have all this PTSD from what happened
Speaker 1: with the Browns. We're choosing to go Brady, who's a
Speaker 1: six round pick who doesn't have the pedigree, instead of
Speaker 1: the one hundred million dollars, Like we could easily just
Speaker 1: go back to this right, and they choose not to do. Like,
Speaker 1: it's an incredible it's gonna be an incredible docum series.
Speaker 1: How long is the U of the episodes? Probably forty minutes?
Speaker 2: Oh, I love that?
Speaker 1: Yeah, not not almost, not like fifty seven sixty minutes.
Speaker 1: We're talking a good digestible, like you're in it a
Speaker 1: good forty minutes, and how they basically bring back and
Speaker 1: build this dynasty. But it gets into like the nitty gritty.
Speaker 2: God damn that fire that fires me up.
Speaker 1: And just how competitive Tom was. It's cool, bro, it's
Speaker 1: really cool. Similarly to the Last Dances.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I love that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it'll be better than sitting there. I
Speaker 1: think it'll be Brady talking about it. Yeah, I love that.
Speaker 1: Fires coaches this down. You get to see an old
Speaker 1: cameo of Rabes where he's like, shut the fuck up,
Speaker 1: spikes the ball because McGinnis like they talked about how
Speaker 1: it was like their team. It wasn't Tom's, it wasn't Bill's,
Speaker 1: it wasn't Bill Belichick's team, Like it felt like a collective.
Speaker 1: We need to do the right things, run the football,
Speaker 1: play good defense, all that other stuff. And they would
Speaker 1: talk like how the defense would just talk so much
Speaker 1: shit to Tom and the offense when they fuck up.
Speaker 1: And Willie McGinnis like he's a shit talker. He's like
Speaker 1: a badass cat and he's like, you know, I'm Vrabes
Speaker 1: like he he's one of those guys who has zero line.
Speaker 1: And it just shows his clip of Raby shut the
Speaker 1: fuck up Tom just out of nowhere, and then he's like, hey, Rabes,
Speaker 1: like you you know, you might need to relax. He's like, oh,
Speaker 1: Tom's gonna be fine. Then you see Rabes sit down
Speaker 1: and Rabe has a little cameo like no, the filming
Speaker 1: and sitting down and like pouring into the the dynasty
Speaker 1: that was built in New England. It is fucking cool. Bro.
Speaker 1: It fires me up.
Speaker 2: There's got especially when you know somebody that's in it, right,
Speaker 2: do you feel that?
Speaker 1: Yeah? See being a young thundercat.
Speaker 2: Tom Brady was at a power slab on Friday, Yeah,
Speaker 2: at the at the super Bowl week, and he just
Speaker 2: had a glow about him. Now he was over there
Speaker 2: sitting with Day and he was kind of up and
Speaker 2: at him immediately. So Pat went and sat down after that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, Pat saw Pat and the whole crew.
Speaker 1: That's right. Yeah, yeah, as you're as you were walking
Speaker 1: out or walking in.
Speaker 2: But yeah, that's cool. I gotta check that out, dude,
Speaker 2: I really want to, because that's everything you just said.
Speaker 2: The way you just painted it for me fires me up.
Speaker 1: Yeah. It's one of those things like you pour into
Speaker 1: being a fan of that moment in time and like
Speaker 1: appreciating it all. And then I'm sitting there thinking, like
Speaker 1: this story for on tom Brady, like being the goat,
Speaker 1: like being somebody who was like just at the bottom politically,
Speaker 1: not politically, but has to awkwardly like when the day
Speaker 1: does come and we have him on busting with the boys,
Speaker 1: but talking through that awkward stage of cameras being there,
Speaker 1: people just you know, they're showing all the old clips
Speaker 1: of like a pardon the interruption, all the talking shows
Speaker 1: collins Worth, you got Scott van Pelt, He's a young
Speaker 1: Scott van Pelt with hair. They're all talking like this
Speaker 1: is such a dumb decision, like you gotta go. This
Speaker 1: is definitely Blutzsoe's job. When he comes back, everybody's talking
Speaker 1: like no, there's no Tom Brady, like he's just there
Speaker 1: until Blodsoe comes back. And then Tom gets the nod
Speaker 1: and they're all cruise like trying to crucify Bill. What's
Speaker 1: gonna happen Tom's first game when they're both on the sideline,
Speaker 1: Tom's stone too picks a young London Fletcher Backer Greatest
Speaker 1: show on turf Boom picks them off. They lose that game.
Speaker 1: They're questioning him even more. It's like you're in it,
Speaker 1: like I want to you just want to pick Tom's
Speaker 1: brain of like awkwardly being in those moments, knowing that
Speaker 1: Blodsoe's staying there, not hoping for your downfall, but hoping
Speaker 1: that it gets shoved up his ass. Because Kraft is
Speaker 1: talking to Blotzo like, hey, you know, maybe Tom doesn't
Speaker 1: play well and then I can easily He's like I
Speaker 1: could go in and tell Bill I don't want to
Speaker 1: tell you everything I'm telling everyone. Yeah, I was mesmerized.
Speaker 1: I'm glad you stopped. I'm blowing it all. But yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's cool man.
Speaker 2: I love your passion behind it. I'm gonna put that
Speaker 2: on tonight and if I don't, I'm a bad person.
Speaker 2: I need to go watch that showed up y.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, you do. You have to watch it
Speaker 1: so that way. I think every week we have to
Speaker 1: watch it, so that way we have something to talk about,
Speaker 1: because we will talk about the show. Everybody saying spoilers
Speaker 1: everything else. Listen, this is the dynasty. You can go back.
Speaker 1: If you're a Patriots fan, you already knew this year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but he's cool man. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Did you guys have been a fan since like, you know,
Speaker 2: Brady's first year of the Patriots and well being a fan.
Speaker 1: That decade before, like and you just hadn't you know
Speaker 1: their second playoff game ever, I don't think they ever
Speaker 1: hosted a playoff game, and so they won the division
Speaker 1: the very last game in the in the stadium before
Speaker 1: Gillette uh was hosting a playoff game, so like bringing
Speaker 1: that to the city. Robert Kraft was a longtime Patriot fan.
Speaker 1: They go through him buying that. It's really cool.
Speaker 6: Damn will you say, Jack, Well, I got a fan question.
Speaker 1: It was good.
Speaker 6: Since off season, you know, things are getting a little slower.
Speaker 7: But as of today Monday, there's one hundred and ninety
Speaker 7: nine days until football starts again. We have a fan
Speaker 7: question from under or Idaho Underscore Rambler top three Sunday
Speaker 7: activities between now and kickoff? So for this offseason, what's
Speaker 7: your top three Sunday activities.
Speaker 1: Between now and kickoff?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 7: Well, during the off season, doesn't be like as players,
Speaker 7: just like as fans. Like when there's nothing to do
Speaker 7: on Sundays anymore, when you just watching football for.
Speaker 6: Eight hours a day, could be a tear talk. Yeah,
Speaker 6: that that's where the Okay, take some time to do
Speaker 6: that and think about it. You can.
Speaker 2: I like this one off the cuff. Who just want
Speaker 2: to you want to create one together? You want to
Speaker 2: create one by ourselves?
Speaker 1: Well, I think we just talk about them out loud,
Speaker 1: will kind of come up with our lists, all right.
Speaker 2: First one that comes to my head as a nice
Speaker 2: barbecue with the boys, like when the summer, when the
Speaker 2: summertime hits, summertime hit tank tops, on. Somebody's out there
Speaker 2: growing somebody. You know, Hey, well, you gotta have will
Speaker 2: Compton's ribs. You gotta have this guy so and so.
Speaker 2: Oh this dude the mac and cheese he makes Unreally,
Speaker 2: you kind of create like a pot luck bean thing.
Speaker 2: Simple to the point. Sun's out Sunday afternoon. Pool's right there,
Speaker 2: everyone's catching a tan. You're doing the ten minutes before
Speaker 2: you put the sunscreen on because you want to get
Speaker 2: a nice starter pack going. That is I feel like
Speaker 2: a god tier and a.
Speaker 1: Tier one to me. Yeah, Barber five, Tier one, Ultimate
Speaker 1: Tier one, Barbecue Tier one.
Speaker 2: Another one that popped into my head. And I don't
Speaker 2: know if it's a Sunday, but it is an activity
Speaker 2: that happens mostly in the in the off season, only
Speaker 2: in the off season, and that is it's specific to
Speaker 2: you and me, and it's risk and having a late
Speaker 2: night that bleeds into Sunday, having a risk night.
Speaker 1: Didn't like that one as much. That's okay, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: I like it. I just feel like there's a lot
Speaker 1: of options.
Speaker 2: I know I was just but I'm brainstorm or brainstorming
Speaker 2: right now. I think you sit there and it's two
Speaker 2: thirty in the morning, and you're still contempting the boys.
Speaker 2: Do we play one more? That's a moment at a time.
Speaker 1: Well, so we can change it. Let's switch it up
Speaker 1: to weekend activities. Thanks. Iwa Iowa Rambler. Yeah, I like that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I would like to throw in farmers Market. I do
Speaker 1: like that going to the local farmers market with the
Speaker 1: fam and morning on a Saturday. Maybe it's a Sunday,
Speaker 1: but the farmers Market advise when the sun is at
Speaker 1: its highest, it's tough to beat.
Speaker 2: I know, even the complaints it's hot out here today.
Speaker 1: Yeah, get them a water. Yeah, the line might be tough.
Speaker 2: Yeah, get him an asa E bowl. Hello, head over
Speaker 2: to California. Get the breakfast burritos nor tortilla. Throw that
Speaker 2: thing in a bowl for me to make them two
Speaker 2: put them on there. My god, you're living the dream.
Speaker 1: I do like the video game or video game session
Speaker 1: with the boys. Yeah, what else you guys got? What's
Speaker 1: going through your As said, this.
Speaker 5: Is probably a very niche one and it's not for everybody.
Speaker 5: But now now the football is ever, Nascar is back,
Speaker 5: and there's just something about on a Sunday throwing on
Speaker 5: the cup race. You're gonna take a nap during it.
Speaker 5: You're gonna wake up with fifty laps left and that's
Speaker 5: all you need to that's all you need to watch.
Speaker 5: You watched last fifty eight, last fifty laps, You've seen
Speaker 5: the whole race. So just NASCAR being back and being
Speaker 5: able to being able to watch that and might really
Speaker 5: like dial in on one of your boys just out
Speaker 5: there trying to win.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, all right, okay, dude, I'm with that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was very it is.
Speaker 6: Some guys are fired fired up about that man.
Speaker 1: One, by the way, naps nap, incredible activity, that mid
Speaker 1: day nap between the hours of one and three on
Speaker 1: the love sack. So I'm going upstairs. You're gonna take
Speaker 1: a nap.
Speaker 2: You already know you already know one that a lot
Speaker 2: of people will be like, yes, I will say no
Speaker 2: to this, but I'll say it as a vessel golfing
Speaker 2: with the boys, I'm sure Sunday activity in the springtime
Speaker 2: when the weather's finally broke. Oh yeah, golf got for
Speaker 2: a lot of people.
Speaker 1: Very nice.
Speaker 6: Bike rides too. I like I like to hop on
Speaker 6: the old cycler.
Speaker 7: Just get out there, just take it all in, some
Speaker 7: deep breathing, Okay, to be ground yourself out in them
Speaker 7: hof going.
Speaker 1: Yeah fires now sitting now by a fire with the
Speaker 1: boys lying some stogies, the Crackle the Stars. Yeah.
Speaker 6: Also coming up soon, the March Madness. We're nearing it.
Speaker 7: I know we're not the biggest basketball pod, but I
Speaker 7: do think we dive into some brackets this year.
Speaker 6: Get a little competition going.
Speaker 1: I'm down with that.
Speaker 7: And when there's no football, you turn to the next
Speaker 7: best thing, and for me, that's basketball, and March Madness
Speaker 7: is one of the greatest times ever in sports.
Speaker 6: So I'm excited for that here in the next month.
Speaker 1: I want I want to chase that because everybody talks
Speaker 1: about jumping on old DraftKings and just immersing yourself in
Speaker 1: the in the sports part. Yeah, hashtag DK partner immersing
Speaker 1: yourself in the March Madness because they say that it's
Speaker 1: like the best betting time of the year. I do
Speaker 1: want to get involved with that. And Mark Titus shout
Speaker 1: out the Mark Titus Show. He said he did a
Speaker 1: podcast to catch everybody up. If you're somebody who hasn't
Speaker 1: been in and you want to kind of dip your
Speaker 1: toe into it. Basically one that I'm going to digest
Speaker 1: and listen to is on the Mark Titus Show. The
Speaker 1: Boy Mark. He did a podcast for everybody who's not
Speaker 1: necessarily a fan of college basketball.
Speaker 2: So you have to send me a link for that,
Speaker 2: because I don't know a whole lot. I know that
Speaker 2: Michigan's bad, Nebraska's got a shot.
Speaker 1: I know that nebrasketball.
Speaker 2: Dude, you need to win it all.
Speaker 1: Once you get into the dance, you never know anybody's game.
Speaker 1: You getting into the tournament. It's anybody anybody's game. Anybody's
Speaker 1: fun that I need to hear from you.
Speaker 2: Just now.
Speaker 7: We might have to hit I know a bunch of
Speaker 7: people with Barstool do it, but might have to do
Speaker 7: a live stream on the first round of sixty four.
Speaker 1: I think there's talks of the boys going up, yeah,
Speaker 1: going out, Yeah, going out to getting in the mix,
Speaker 1: the mix. They might have something as well at Barstool
Speaker 1: Nashville at the bar.
Speaker 6: Oh, that's one of the best gambling days of the
Speaker 6: whole year.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Might have to just get a vibe going partner.
Speaker 2: I got another one, I got I got one, I
Speaker 2: got one. Binge watching a show something you've put off
Speaker 2: in the football season and you're like, I gotta everybody's
Speaker 2: talking about everybody's talking about it, like I gotta make
Speaker 2: sure to watch that once a season ends, and once
Speaker 2: the season ends, it is like on the top of
Speaker 2: your list, like putting in. Hey, it's three seasons already,
Speaker 2: You're just not being put on for whatever reason. You
Speaker 2: watch literally twelve hours.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I'll be dipping my tone of that
Speaker 1: with the show Rome I saw. Yeah, yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: know what happened. I started thinking about the Roman Empire again,
Speaker 1: and I was like, I wonder if there are any
Speaker 1: other shows out there, because I want some more Game
Speaker 1: of Thrones, Last Kingdom and back.
Speaker 2: Of my seeing them Last Kingdom, Yeah, sorry, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: Last Kingdom was fire so good.
Speaker 1: I want to get into Vikings. I've heard that's a
Speaker 1: really good one. But when I searched the web out there,
Speaker 1: I saw that there was a show called Rome from
Speaker 1: two thousand and five to two thousand and seven, two seasons,
Speaker 1: ten episodes in each season, and it's rated very well
Speaker 1: on IMDb. I'm I'm a thorough Yeah, I am a
Speaker 1: big believer in IMDb. If a TV show is eight
Speaker 1: point seven, Especially back in the mid two thousands and then,
Speaker 1: people were responding to that saying like, Oh, I'm so
Speaker 1: jealous of you. I envy you get to watch that,
Speaker 1: you get to enjoy it for the first time. I'm
Speaker 1: excited to dive in the room.
Speaker 2: You need to wash on fourage.
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Speaker 2: He needs to watch that show. It's so incredible. And
Speaker 2: when he says he's jumping on Rome or Roman or whatever,
Speaker 2: that fires me up for him because I know it's
Speaker 2: gonna be a fun journey for him. I love the
Speaker 2: way he dives into shows. But Entourage is a show
Speaker 2: that he needs to see. It's got that cult following
Speaker 2: that he's going to love, especially when we have mister
Speaker 2: Jerry Ferraro on here. Eventually, Turtle, we have him on
Speaker 2: this show. That is going to be awesome. There was
Speaker 2: something else Up was going to say, have you seen
Speaker 2: the new Napoleon movie?
Speaker 6: I need?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you needed Apple TV and you're rid of cable
Speaker 2: like that stuff is. That's for the birds is my
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Speaker 1: I was just looking for my phone. Hey, that scared
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Speaker 2: There was a child missing three blocks away. That was crazy.
Speaker 1: We're just.
Speaker 2: You think Garment's gonna come on?
Speaker 1: Oh, I have no clue. You need to be sick
Speaker 1: chasing a few of them.
Speaker 2: We were talking about you diving into shows and how
Speaker 2: it's special when you do. Anytime you dive into a
Speaker 2: new show, especially for anybody, but Entourage, you need to
Speaker 2: get on that.
Speaker 1: I know everybody. Everybody says that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you've you've drawn a line in the sand
Speaker 2: with Rome.
Speaker 1: I get it.
Speaker 2: You need to watch that first.
Speaker 1: I hope you enjoy it. I help you up a
Speaker 1: good time.
Speaker 2: But the next one, let me bookmark that for you.
Speaker 2: Authourage will be your next show.
Speaker 1: All right. I just, dude, I just I love like
Speaker 1: war type, no questions, no question, A couple more. I
Speaker 1: think on that politics behind the scenes that bring it
Speaker 1: all together. I love it, the strategy behind it all.
Speaker 1: Just yeah, all the politic and that happens the storylines.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, dude, No, I saw that one. Then I
Speaker 1: who I want to put on. Their Banded Brothers is
Speaker 1: one of the top shows of all time.
Speaker 2: You haven't seen band of Brothers?
Speaker 1: No, And then there's another one called like, uh that
Speaker 1: band of Brothers. The creator of that one is doing
Speaker 1: one that's out on Apple Plus now Masters of the Air. Yea, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's another one I want to check out.
Speaker 2: I don't know about that one. I need to watch
Speaker 2: that one.
Speaker 1: That one's that one's new on Apple Plus. Movie Napoleon.
Speaker 1: Have you seen it? I haven't. I haven't. It's like
Speaker 1: what two and a half hours, two and a half,
Speaker 1: three hours something like that.
Speaker 2: I had it on for about thirty minutes. I ended
Speaker 2: up going to bed because I was like, I was
Speaker 2: too tired. But it was really jump around me, like
Speaker 2: he gets married, boom, he's getting cheated on, and you're like, whoa,
Speaker 2: there's no development of the marriage for me to see
Speaker 2: how much that's gonna affect him. So there was a
Speaker 2: lot of jump around stuff for me that I was like,
Speaker 2: I don't know, I don't know how this is going
Speaker 2: to turn out, but I need to give it a
Speaker 2: full watch. I need to give it a fair watch. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's what you got to do.
Speaker 1: With your shows. That one's rated in the sixes on IMDb?
Speaker 1: Is it? Yeah?
Speaker 2: You know Walking Phoenix?
Speaker 1: Is that?
Speaker 4: Why?
Speaker 1: No? Walking Phoenix is Yeah. I know.
Speaker 2: He's the guy I'm just to see because he's such
Speaker 2: a good actor.
Speaker 1: So I would have thought that'd be like something in
Speaker 1: the eights, maybe seven to nine. Yeah, yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know. They're ratings like you do, but you
Speaker 1: are about I'm usually like, okay, I'll watch that.
Speaker 2: What rattles me is how much you think about the
Speaker 2: Roman Empire. I can't I get it.
Speaker 1: It's beautiful. How often do you think about it?
Speaker 2: I mean five times a year?
Speaker 1: How often do you think about it? Jack?
Speaker 7: This is a this is a whole trend that went
Speaker 7: on a few months. I know, I know, but yeah,
Speaker 7: I mean a few months ago.
Speaker 1: It was August.
Speaker 7: We're in talk about rods, literal roads, all like, it's
Speaker 7: it's the Roman Empire.
Speaker 1: I don't want to bore everybody. I don't want to
Speaker 1: bore everybody. I went to Rome last year. It really
Speaker 1: immersed myself in the culture, so I think about it
Speaker 1: quite a bit. GPT is great for all that history.
Speaker 1: Ship dude.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I utilized chet gupt all the time, and it's
Speaker 2: mostly for my kids when going to bed, like, hey,
Speaker 2: you can ask the robot one question, and it's always
Speaker 2: how long do foxes live? How long do bears live?
Speaker 1: How long?
Speaker 2: You know, it's always like, how long do these animals live?
Speaker 2: I love that I learn a few things, which is good.
Speaker 2: Should we do our hypothetical question that usually is presented
Speaker 2: by twisted tea, Yeah, let's do one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right?
Speaker 5: Would you rather go to jail for one year?
Speaker 1: Straight? Shout out Twitter for this one? Yeah, I need to. Actually,
Speaker 1: it needs to be five years or six at least
Speaker 1: to equate to the amount of time in that one year.
Speaker 1: I saw that one.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so do you know what?
Speaker 1: We'll do that for the for a year every day
Speaker 1: or prison for the next three years, but only on weekends.
Speaker 1: But if you just do the next three years, there's
Speaker 1: fifty two weekends in the year.
Speaker 5: That's one hundred and fifty.
Speaker 1: Days, right, So you need to do like four or
Speaker 1: five years. Yeah, and you have to go on the weekends,
Speaker 1: like there's no any weekend plan anywhere. I probably just
Speaker 1: do the year. I think so too. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Immerse yourself in the culture. See what crew you're gonna
Speaker 2: end up rolling with Yeah, become boys.
Speaker 1: Try not to get stabbed.
Speaker 2: Figure out the total pull of you know, who's in charge,
Speaker 2: who's not. Do you want to overthrow? Do you not
Speaker 2: want to overthrow them?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Have that talk. If I go every.
Speaker 2: Weekend, they're gonna get jealous, Like it's Sunday. Oh you
Speaker 2: know Taylor's leaving eventually going to come back one Friday,
Speaker 2: and they're like, you're not leaving anymore. They're gonna stab my ass.
Speaker 1: Or I think you like you have to do for say, yeah,
Speaker 1: three years, like and you have to stay dis one today,
Speaker 1: Like it's just gonna sell all your weekends are in prison.
Speaker 1: Yeah you could, Yeah, it would be that.
Speaker 5: This is JP brought up this point, like you could
Speaker 5: be that dude that comes on the weekends, like just
Speaker 5: bring some stuff for the boys, like you just kind
Speaker 5: of you're like the plug for.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a fun idea. When it starts, Hey, I
Speaker 2: brought some one crustables for the boys, pack of Marble cigarettes.
Speaker 2: Everyone's having a good time. Now all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: you're a meal shoving Heroin up your ass, trying to
Speaker 2: get to the boys, and you're in a whole lot
Speaker 2: more trouble. No, now it's no longer weekends or Hey.
Speaker 1: Did you take their care of that guy? I told
Speaker 1: you to take care of it. Right.
Speaker 2: If you don't do this, you're you're out of the brotherhood.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I got thirty pairs of eyes on your family
Speaker 1: right now.
Speaker 2: Right, What are you gonna do if I'm just in
Speaker 2: prison for a year? Hey, what'd you do?
Speaker 1: Murder?
Speaker 2: Double homicide?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: Really, don't fuck with that guy.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Now I'm not getting out, Yeah, but I'm getting
Speaker 1: out any year. Yeah a lawyer, he's really You don't
Speaker 1: say that. You just kind of let it ride. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I want I want that to know. Is some
Speaker 1: bargaining power for whatever cruise trying to rate me? Like, hey,
Speaker 1: what do you need me to do?
Speaker 2: I forgot the right Yeah yeah, yeah, that's a smart thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah. What do you want me to do whenever I
Speaker 1: get out of here? Like, I get it, I get it,
Speaker 1: I get to leave. It's bullshit. I I think so too.
Speaker 1: But what I can do for you on the outside,
Speaker 1: I'll make sure to get done.
Speaker 2: That's a slippery slope.
Speaker 1: Slippery slope.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you gotta do one bad thing when you get out.
Speaker 2: You guys, get one.
Speaker 1: That's it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you're probably a couple of others never never
Speaker 2: fulfill it.
Speaker 1: You know how it works. Who who's sending that question?
Speaker 1: A little shout out? Come on, Mitch, you just gonna
Speaker 1: ask a question, but not give them take all the credit.
Speaker 1: How much he.
Speaker 4: Wanted to.
Speaker 1: We would have never heard about that. You literally the
Speaker 1: what hour the one year?
Speaker 2: You knew the question immediately?
Speaker 5: Yeah, the way I saw it was on Instagram is
Speaker 5: from Jacob Lawrence.
Speaker 1: Jacob Lawrence, I appreciate you, man.
Speaker 2: Is there anything else we're missing? Boys, anything else we need?
Speaker 1: Here's a good question last week that we were passing
Speaker 1: around the shop, Jack, but this would be good because
Speaker 1: you want a part of it. What are you most
Speaker 1: afraid to pass down to your children? Mh well, I
Speaker 1: have to go. You gotta take a minute. What was
Speaker 1: your mine was? It was like, yeah, it's like being
Speaker 1: afraid to pass down the expectation that they have to
Speaker 1: like earn my love, like earn my me, being proud
Speaker 1: of them because there's a lot of times going up.
Speaker 1: And I know my old man, he wants he watches
Speaker 1: all for he's a tier one. I love my dad,
Speaker 1: but he was obviously hard on us, and he was
Speaker 1: always somebody I felt like in sports I would have
Speaker 1: to perform or do well to have something to kind
Speaker 1: of like, you know, talk about or him be proud of,
Speaker 1: or like have that kind of awesome pat on the back.
Speaker 1: He was always great at doing that, but I just
Speaker 1: always felt I felt like that as like a young athlete,
Speaker 1: like with my own man, and so like with Rue
Speaker 1: or any any of my kids, I would probably be
Speaker 1: afraid of like doing that.
Speaker 2: We shared that same childhood of being like the sports
Speaker 2: with the thing like make or break the week, make
Speaker 2: or break the month.
Speaker 1: Yeah for the dinner table. Yeah, yeah, my dad. My
Speaker 1: dad loved me a lot.
Speaker 2: I gotta think about that. That's a good that's a good one.
Speaker 2: I don't I don't have that fear having two girls.
Speaker 2: If I have a boy, I could see that fear coming.
Speaker 2: But with my girls, like when played soccer and I
Speaker 2: was like kind of just wanted her to try. All
Speaker 2: I cared about was like, hey, listen, I don't care
Speaker 2: if you're good. I just want you to try hard.
Speaker 2: That's all that matters to me.
Speaker 1: And she wasn't very good.
Speaker 2: No disrespect when as you're when you get older and
Speaker 2: you look at the archives. Maybe that's gone.
Speaker 1: Now yeah, or maybe she's great. Maybe she's great now.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, But to me, I wasn't like disappointed.
Speaker 1: I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't think they'll ever feel that, which is which
Speaker 2: is nice genetically.
Speaker 1: I just say, like my horniness. That's what I was
Speaker 1: telling the boys. You are horny, but it's good to
Speaker 1: be that horny, I think, Yeah, I mean motivate. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the motivator.
Speaker 2: Being horny is like as primitive as it can possibly be.
Speaker 2: Like you just a hunter gatherer, Like if I get
Speaker 2: this mammoth, I'm gonna get laid.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, because Minch had one too. He's like
Speaker 1: it was a hypothetical. In one side of it was
Speaker 1: like you get you get a stiffy every time you
Speaker 1: see an attractive woman, or yeah, or you every hor
Speaker 1: of everything insane. And I was like, bro, I mean,
Speaker 1: how many boners do we get a day? Like it
Speaker 1: is like scientific that we get like double digit boners
Speaker 1: throughout the course of twenty four hours. Yeah, so it's
Speaker 1: like that already happens. I don't I don't know if
Speaker 1: that's true.
Speaker 2: You should look at your tea then.
Speaker 1: You probably check out your testosterone.
Speaker 5: No, I'm saying obviously, obviously you wake up with morning wood. Yes,
Speaker 5: but when else are you getting hard at work?
Speaker 1: I am right now?
Speaker 2: Wait, this bottles right here in from my pants.
Speaker 1: The average man. There we go, Thank you Jack. The
Speaker 1: average man has eleven erections a day, as well as
Speaker 1: many more when they are asleep. On average, a healthy
Speaker 1: man has three to five erections during a full night's sleep. Six.
Speaker 1: I like, I don't know, I don't Am I wrong?
Speaker 5: Am I by myself on this one?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah you are?
Speaker 2: I mean, do you look into your team?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: See, I think the horniness. You don't want the horniness?
Speaker 1: Yeah? What's a gene? What's a gene you would hate
Speaker 1: to pass down to your daughters? Ah?
Speaker 2: I don't know the gene because like, is the want
Speaker 2: for your father's approval a gene thing?
Speaker 1: No? No, they're they're I'm saying. I basically just changed
Speaker 1: it to like for me, I.
Speaker 2: Feel bad for my kids that they had, like how
Speaker 2: flat my feet are?
Speaker 1: Yeah, like hereditary or I'm diabetic.
Speaker 6: I would hate if my kids.
Speaker 2: That's that's a good one. It's a low hanging fruit
Speaker 2: good one.
Speaker 6: But you know, statistically, if I have four kids.
Speaker 7: One of them is probably gonna have it, which will suck,
Speaker 7: But that is that's what I thought of immediately.
Speaker 2: I would say, it's so hard because there's like one
Speaker 2: in my head that I'm like trying to piece together.
Speaker 2: But it's like, if if I say it incorrectly, it
Speaker 2: will come off like too deep, and that's not necessarily
Speaker 2: my I'll say, it's like, uh, the I would I
Speaker 2: would not want for my kids to have a constant
Speaker 2: like earning to feel fulfillment through like success, like having
Speaker 2: success in certain areas. Like I'd want them to be
Speaker 2: fine fulfillment. They're enough just being them and being the
Speaker 2: best person they can be, as opposed to all I
Speaker 2: got to do all these things and I want to
Speaker 2: be the best at this at all, Like constantly trying
Speaker 2: to be the best at whatever category this everyone's the
Speaker 2: subject they're talking about it.
Speaker 1: Like not allowing the external world to dictate how they're down.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that that would probably be mine because I did.
Speaker 2: That happens a lot with me, not as much as
Speaker 2: you used to, but still happens quite frequently, but especially
Speaker 2: with football. It was always like, if I'm not the
Speaker 2: absolute best, I'm a complete failure. I could be second best,
Speaker 2: and I'd be like I'm the.
Speaker 1: Worst in the fear of like projecting that down like
Speaker 1: yeah times yea, to me, to me, for my kids.
Speaker 2: It's all about just like if you're gonna do something,
Speaker 2: do it the best, like to the best you do
Speaker 2: as hard as you can, like the best you possibly
Speaker 2: can outcome is not what you what you care about.
Speaker 1: Success is the journey, not the destination. That's right. Should
Speaker 1: we talk about Steven A this podcast.
Speaker 2: It and there's things in this podcast that Steve and
Speaker 2: A started talking about that he knows that other people
Speaker 2: didn't know. But that's how he got into the world
Speaker 2: of Like he talks about being a beat writer and
Speaker 2: getting into it Alan Iverson and how like he he
Speaker 2: dodged him for like three days because of whatever thing.
Speaker 2: He ends up showing up to a club and just
Speaker 2: a great storyteller, a passionate man. Now there is a
Speaker 2: clip that should be in here, Mitch that is black
Speaker 2: and white with the music over it, that whole type
Speaker 2: of thing that's about him being number one. Yeah, it
Speaker 2: could be in the episode I want to clip I
Speaker 2: want to clip diversity, Yes, exactly. This dude, the way
Speaker 2: he operates. We asked him about, like, you know, you
Speaker 2: see his competitive nature. We talked to him about McAfee
Speaker 2: and a guy like him, young gun who's just his
Speaker 2: numbers are going crazy.
Speaker 1: How does that make you feel? From like a teammates
Speaker 1: standpoint and then also.
Speaker 2: A competitive standpoint, he gets into all that gets into
Speaker 2: how you know where he came from, how he came
Speaker 2: from it, his process, his drive for success, his new
Speaker 2: podcast that he has truly a great a great interview.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you can tell he's very calculated. Like he talks
Speaker 1: about lunin to trying to always be ten steps ahead.
Speaker 1: I feel like there's something to that where he has
Speaker 1: his own platform with the Steven A Show. I mean
Speaker 1: he's obviously on TV. He's been on TV every day
Speaker 1: for how long did he say? Twenty thirty years?
Speaker 6: Two years?
Speaker 1: Yeah, something like that, which is insane. He knows his
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Speaker 2: You, right, I mean he knew exactly to the day,
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Speaker 1: Pretty fantastic. Yeah, it was great.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to another episode of Busting
Speaker 2: with the Boys. Very special guest today the legend. If
Speaker 2: you've bit Heurren on ESPN every probably in your entire life,
Speaker 2: you've seen this man sitting in front of you giving takes,
Speaker 2: going at people, having absolute receipts for everything.
Speaker 1: Mister stephen A.
Speaker 4: Smith, what's going on, fellas?
Speaker 2: Hi?
Speaker 4: Y'all to going? How y'all doing? Man?
Speaker 2: Good to be here, Yeah, living to dream and we're
Speaker 2: happy you came on. We actually just saw you an
Speaker 2: hour ago doing a little hit on ESPN. I will
Speaker 2: tell you this, it is a very unique thing doing
Speaker 2: real TV because it's so fast paced.
Speaker 4: It is it is.
Speaker 3: It's fast paced and in our case is live. So
Speaker 3: you mess up, you mess up, you know what I mean?
Speaker 3: And ain't like somebody's gonna say we don't even have
Speaker 3: to say a seven second delay, so you know, an
Speaker 3: any kind of hiccup that takes place, you could say
Speaker 3: the wrong word, the wrong thing or whatever. You can
Speaker 3: gind yourself in trouble. So that's the pressure that comes
Speaker 3: along with doing live television. But I like it, so
Speaker 3: it is what it is.
Speaker 1: How do you manage to keep your level of enthusiasm
Speaker 1: work ethic with everything you're doing. You're also now in
Speaker 1: the podcast space, which is a massive one, by the way,
Speaker 1: and shout out, shout out your boy Bailey's here. I've
Speaker 1: followed him a while. I know he kind of does
Speaker 1: a lot of your stuff, but he does. How do
Speaker 1: you manage all of that stuff?
Speaker 3: Well, you gotta do what you love. That's number one.
Speaker 3: I don't have a job. I have a career.
Speaker 4: I've often said when I.
Speaker 3: Give speeches and lectures, I say a job is doing
Speaker 3: what you have to do to sustain elevation quality of life.
Speaker 3: A career is doing what you want to do, and
Speaker 3: it just so happens to do those things. But I
Speaker 3: also think the pressure of covering sports contributes to that
Speaker 3: kind of mentality. You know, you guys played in the NFL.
Speaker 3: You've got guys I'm covering to play in the NBA,
Speaker 3: Major League Baseball, professional boxes, UFC, fighters, et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 3: These are the best in the world. And when you
Speaker 3: consider the fact that you not only didn't do what
Speaker 3: they did on.
Speaker 4: That level, but it was because you couldn't.
Speaker 3: Yet you get to sit in judgment of how they performed,
Speaker 3: how receptive folks should be to how they perform, how
Speaker 3: receptive people should be to your commentary about it, Then
Speaker 3: you owe it to everybody to make sure that you
Speaker 3: put forth a full fledged effort with passion and enthusiasm
Speaker 3: to let everybody know not only are you not playing around,
Speaker 3: but you care that much. And so that's the very
Speaker 3: least that you can do. And that's what I try
Speaker 3: to bring to the table.
Speaker 2: When you're fighting through that process of knowing that these
Speaker 2: guys are playing at the highest level, doing their thing
Speaker 2: at the highest level, and you are saying there in judgment,
Speaker 2: how was the process for you as far as I
Speaker 2: feeling comfortable with putting out of judgment knowing you essentially
Speaker 2: haven't done what they did.
Speaker 3: You know, it was easy for me in this regard.
Speaker 3: I remember when I started out in the business and
Speaker 3: I had a clerical position at the Winston Salem Journal
Speaker 3: newspaper in Winstersalem, North Carolina, because I went to Winston
Speaker 3: Salem State University, which is a historically black college and university.
Speaker 3: And I went there and the sports editor of my
Speaker 3: first week on a job sent me to wake Forest
Speaker 3: University right down the road. Wake Forest was the number
Speaker 3: three ranked team in the nation in soccer. The only
Speaker 3: soccer match I had ever watched was Pele in the
Speaker 3: nineteen eighty Olympics for the you know of I guess right,
Speaker 3: And so what happened is that I knew nothing about soccer,
Speaker 3: and I went to the coach who's now.
Speaker 4: Deceased, God rest his soul.
Speaker 3: His name was Walke Chisowich, and I walked up to
Speaker 3: him and I say, I know absolutely no thing about soccer.
Speaker 4: I've never covered it on anything, sir, But the boss.
Speaker 3: Sent me over here to do a feature on you guys,
Speaker 3: and I don't know what I'm doing, but I really
Speaker 3: want to be a sports writer.
Speaker 4: Could you help me?
Speaker 3: And he summoned the entire team over and he said,
Speaker 3: for the next three days, because my piece was doing
Speaker 3: a week. He said, for the next three days, you
Speaker 3: guys are to give complete unadulterated access to Stephen. To Stephen,
Speaker 3: any question he asked you answer and he said you Steven. Meanwhile,
Speaker 3: every single practice of every day this week, you will
Speaker 3: be standing right next to me. And he taught me
Speaker 3: the game of soccer. And then when I finished the piece,
Speaker 3: which ultimately had the sports that are to called me
Speaker 3: into this office the next day and say, congratulations, you're
Speaker 3: the new beat writer.
Speaker 4: Away for soccer.
Speaker 3: When I went to the coach after that and let
Speaker 3: him know, he said to me, what do you think
Speaker 3: you've learned? What do you think you should have learned?
Speaker 3: I said, listen and learn. He said, you didn't play soccer,
Speaker 3: but you learn from those who do. And as long
Speaker 3: as you do that, then you're in a position to
Speaker 3: critique any of us because the knowledge that you're getting
Speaker 3: is not of your own. It's one that was provided
Speaker 3: to you. And as long as you make sure.
Speaker 4: You articulate that, you will be respected because.
Speaker 3: They know the lens that you're looking through is not
Speaker 3: that of your own, it's of ours. And I carry
Speaker 3: that with me for the rest of my career.
Speaker 1: How was it when you started to get those close
Speaker 1: personal relationships with athletes, like you're obviously covering and now
Speaker 1: you are. Yeah, I mean you're obviously superstarting out and
Speaker 1: everybody knows you. But as you're growing and then getting
Speaker 1: those closer relationships with guys and then having to go
Speaker 1: on TV and talk about, you know, stuff that as
Speaker 1: an athlete, you know is like personal to you. How
Speaker 1: did you start to balance that as your part.
Speaker 3: The parts about your performance never phazed me, because you
Speaker 3: perform in a public platform. So the games that themselves
Speaker 3: speak for themselves. You shoot two for twenty, that's on you.
Speaker 3: You throw three interceptions, that's on you. You fumbled three
Speaker 3: times or whatever. You get burned and you a cornerback
Speaker 3: and somebody catches to over two hundred yards on you. Okay,
Speaker 3: that's on you. I mean, there's nothing I can do
Speaker 3: for you, and that is what it is. And I
Speaker 3: don't give a damn about how you feel because that
Speaker 3: was in a public setting and you put yourself on
Speaker 3: front street, and that's what you have to deal with.
Speaker 4: It's the behind the scene.
Speaker 3: Stuff subject to interpretation and perspective, or the personal stuff
Speaker 3: that I'm very very guarded about because what happens is
Speaker 3: is that if I have a relationship with you, the
Speaker 3: assumption is that there's a trust.
Speaker 4: How do you become friends with people?
Speaker 1: You do?
Speaker 3: You become friends with people you have no trust for,
Speaker 3: you don't believe in at all. You think every word
Speaker 3: out of their mouth is a damn line. No, that's
Speaker 3: not what you do. Usually, you cultivate these relationships and
Speaker 3: there's there's an affinity for one another and a level
Speaker 3: of trust that's built. So when somebody comes with a
Speaker 3: different perspective than the person you have a relationship with,
Speaker 3: and it's an opposition to what they're saying to you,
Speaker 3: it can get tricky, and at that particular moment in time,
Speaker 3: you have to remind that friend, that person who's become
Speaker 3: a friend that you've cultivated.
Speaker 4: A close relationship with.
Speaker 3: Look, I've got an obligation to be fair, even if
Speaker 3: I know or I believe you and I think they
Speaker 3: may not be telling the truth. They're saying this for
Speaker 3: the record, now off the record. I ain't gonna do
Speaker 3: that to you. But if they say to you on
Speaker 3: the record, you know what, he ain't shit, he's a liar.
Speaker 3: This is what he did, and blah blah blah. It's
Speaker 3: not like I can make up a quote.
Speaker 4: I gotta quote him.
Speaker 1: That's what he said.
Speaker 3: I gotta give it to them, okay, and give you
Speaker 3: an opportunity to respond. So it can get challenging in
Speaker 3: that regard, but that really calls for you to remind
Speaker 3: somebody of your professionalism, your ethics, the responsibility that comes
Speaker 3: along with the job title that you have. And it
Speaker 3: also serves as a reminder to that person that trusts you,
Speaker 3: why did you trust me?
Speaker 4: To begin with, because I exercise those same.
Speaker 3: Principles and cultivating the relationship I did with you, I
Speaker 3: can't go against it just because you're a man.
Speaker 4: I can't do that.
Speaker 3: Had those situations of my career before, confronted by those
Speaker 3: kind of things, whether it be Alan Iverson, Kobe Bryant,
Speaker 3: Shaquille or Neil Michael Jordan himself.
Speaker 4: The list goes on and on.
Speaker 3: You certainly have had those things where people have given
Speaker 3: their different perspectives aside that would be different from something
Speaker 3: that they said to me or whatever.
Speaker 4: And that's the challenge that you have to deal with.
Speaker 3: But when you're known as being straight up and up
Speaker 3: and up, what you learn to find from professional athletes
Speaker 3: that they appreciate most.
Speaker 4: Is not being blindsided.
Speaker 3: They see you coming, you know, they ain't open the
Speaker 3: paper or turn on the TV the next day and
Speaker 3: utterly shocked by what you're doing. And I think the
Speaker 3: greatest example of that was Isaiah Thomas when he was
Speaker 3: the head coach of the New York Knicks. They looked
Speaker 3: horrible and there was a game in which they lost
Speaker 3: bout forty five to Boston and Boston and it was
Speaker 3: the most emotional that I had ever been in my career,
Speaker 3: because I actually called them up and I almost started
Speaker 3: crying because he's the person that granted me my first
Speaker 3: ever interview as a reporter, and I had to call
Speaker 3: him to let him know tomorrow, I'm calling for you.
Speaker 4: To be fired.
Speaker 1: Oh damn, because it was that bad.
Speaker 3: It was that bad, and I knew that he had
Speaker 3: a lot going on on a personal level. His mom
Speaker 3: was dying, and you know, he wasn't all there with
Speaker 3: the New York Knicks at that particular, so much stuff
Speaker 3: that was going on in his personal life that he
Speaker 3: had to deal with that it really didn't give the
Speaker 3: ideal example of what he was capable of doing as
Speaker 3: a coach. But the situation had regressed to such a
Speaker 3: point nobody worth their salt could support him staying on board.
Speaker 4: And I had to call him to let him know,
Speaker 4: this is what I'm doing tomorrow. And he said to me,
Speaker 4: do what you gotta do. Bro, I understand.
Speaker 2: And is that a common thing for you when do
Speaker 2: you have a relationship with somebody and that it goes
Speaker 2: downhill in a certain way where you give them a
Speaker 2: call and you let them know this is how I'm
Speaker 2: about to go about business.
Speaker 3: I'm the kind of person even if I don't have
Speaker 3: a relationship with you. If I know you and I
Speaker 3: know I can get in touch. If I know you
Speaker 3: well enough that I can get in touch with you
Speaker 3: and I have something say about you, I'm gonna call you.
Speaker 3: I'm that guy. I'm not that guy that's on TV.
Speaker 3: But never lie when you don't see me in the
Speaker 3: locker room and stuff anymore. Blame ESPN. You got me
Speaker 3: doing every damn show, so you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: I'm on the AFI hours. You know I gotta travel
Speaker 3: to this city that city. I can only do but
Speaker 3: so much. But everybody that knows me knows I've always
Speaker 3: had that reputation. I will show up to the games.
Speaker 3: I will show up to the locker rooms. There are
Speaker 3: times when people would see me lurking on the basketball
Speaker 3: court and they'd be like, who does he think he is?
Speaker 3: Like he's walking around the court before the games when
Speaker 3: guys are on the layup line. They didn't realize the
Speaker 3: reason I did that is because I knew I had
Speaker 3: a national television platform, and I knew that I didn't
Speaker 3: have to be that beat writer with a bunch of
Speaker 3: reporters surrounding your locker after a game or something like that,
Speaker 3: but you might want to holler at me. So I
Speaker 3: wanted to be in their vicinity so if they wanted
Speaker 3: to speak to me, they can either come over and
Speaker 3: speak to me, or come over and say, look, call
Speaker 3: me later, or plan on meet me at this spot
Speaker 3: later or whatever so we can talk. It was my
Speaker 3: way of giving them that kind of access to me
Speaker 3: in case they will to reach me.
Speaker 1: In those in those like uh, in those situations like
Speaker 1: when you're closer guys have there has there been a
Speaker 1: relationship of years that has been burned because of uh.
Speaker 3: Alan Iverson or not didn't talked for eight months. And
Speaker 3: this is when I was the beat writer. Like for
Speaker 3: those that don't understand, when you're the beat writer, wherever
Speaker 3: the team goes, you go every single day, every single practice.
Speaker 3: You got to cover the team. I was covering the
Speaker 3: Philadelphia seventy six ers and Alan Iverson and I went
Speaker 3: eight months without talking. And the only time we talked
Speaker 3: well a couple of times where he was like fuck
Speaker 3: you and I like fuck you too, Like literally it
Speaker 3: was like that you said it back to him, right,
Speaker 3: Ye're right?
Speaker 4: I did you know? Because That's how I felt at
Speaker 4: the time, because I felt he was wrong, you know.
Speaker 3: But ultimately a friend of his that ultimately was killed
Speaker 3: the years later, believe it or not, literally got us together.
Speaker 3: And how do we get together? He had me meet
Speaker 3: him at the club at two o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 3: And I met him at the nightclub, and Alon I
Speaker 3: was looking at me like I was crazy because I
Speaker 3: showed up by myself. I said, I'm here. I said,
Speaker 3: I'm here by myself. I said, because I can be.
Speaker 3: But more importantly, I'm right. I did not do anything wrong.
Speaker 3: You did, you know? And we had a discussion and
Speaker 3: we were fine.
Speaker 1: Bulls claiming that you did wrong.
Speaker 3: Well, he was writing some articles, some article that I
Speaker 3: had written. He felt that I should not have written
Speaker 3: it because I didn't have all the facts. That I
Speaker 3: didn't get his side, and I was like, you mean
Speaker 3: after trying to reach you for three days? You mean
Speaker 3: after trying to talk to you, You mean coming to Fridays,
Speaker 3: coming to the club, you know, hollering at your friends
Speaker 3: and all that.
Speaker 4: I'm like, you knew I was looking for you.
Speaker 3: I said, your inaccessibility doesn't get to determine my productivity.
Speaker 3: I'm going to do my job. I reached out, I
Speaker 3: tried to find you. You weren't available. If you were available,
Speaker 3: I would have told you everything. You would have given
Speaker 3: me your perspective, and it might have altered my content.
Speaker 3: You weren't available, and you thought being inaccessible was going
Speaker 3: to prevent me from doing my job.
Speaker 4: Well it did it. Lesson learned.
Speaker 3: Make sure when I'm trying to reach you, I reach
Speaker 3: you because I'm not.
Speaker 4: How can I put this.
Speaker 1: Fellas?
Speaker 4: I mean, I got a good life. Now.
Speaker 3: You know, you make a little paper and you know
Speaker 3: life is cool. You know it's a.
Speaker 4: Right, you know.
Speaker 3: But I was never one of those nerdives dudes that
Speaker 3: needed my career to have a life. I always had
Speaker 3: a life, excuse my language. I always have shit to do,
Speaker 3: okay for my own individual pleasures, okay. And I got
Speaker 3: better things to do with my time to chase your
Speaker 3: ass around for a story. So if I'm looking for you,
Speaker 3: and I'm looking for you, and I'm looking for you
Speaker 3: at some point in time, you better hope I'll find you.
Speaker 3: If you want to have some influence over the kind
Speaker 3: of things that I'm going to say, and if you
Speaker 3: avoid me for too long, that's at your own peril.
Speaker 3: Now it's now because now I'm on national television and
Speaker 3: so and we live in the age of streaming in
Speaker 3: the digital stratosphere. So you know, if you're in the
Speaker 3: morning and you're getting two hundred and fifty three hundred
Speaker 3: thousand viewers, that's considered good. Well, I'm doubling up on that.
Speaker 3: We've been number one for twelve years with a flagship
Speaker 3: show for the.
Speaker 4: Network, the worldwide leader.
Speaker 3: We're number one every day and so I don't have
Speaker 3: to worry about people watching us now. And then, on
Speaker 3: top of it all, in the digital stratosphere, me myself
Speaker 3: and I by myself generate over two billion views annually.
Speaker 3: You're going to see me, You're going to hear me.
Speaker 3: Do you want to have some influence over what I
Speaker 3: say or not? If you talk to me, I have
Speaker 3: no problem. I have an obligation ethically to listen to
Speaker 3: what you have to see and to make sure, even
Speaker 3: if I disagree with you, that the context that you
Speaker 3: are providing is accurately displayed. If you don't talk to me,
Speaker 3: that's your damn problem. Oh enough, I follow you absolutely positively.
Speaker 4: Nothing.
Speaker 3: All I have to say is whatever I want to say.
Speaker 3: I tried to reach it for comment, he was unavailable.
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Speaker 1: when you're.
Speaker 2: When you're establishing yourself doing all this, how how did
Speaker 2: you establish relationships with these athletes and also stay as
Speaker 2: unbiased as possible and become.
Speaker 1: A straight shooter.
Speaker 2: When did you start to realize, Okay, I'm finally getting
Speaker 2: the reputation of who I actually am, and I feel
Speaker 2: I can be more free to be myself.
Speaker 3: Well from day one, I always let them know, don't
Speaker 3: look for any pity from me when it comes to
Speaker 3: your game, because everyone's watching. If I'm sitting in I'm
Speaker 3: talking to y'all right now, and we're having a private
Speaker 3: conversation that's between us, and I can interpret it and
Speaker 3: I can we can discuss it, and I can shut
Speaker 3: up about it, go on my merry way, and it's
Speaker 3: between us. But with these cameras rolling with the world,
Speaker 3: watch and I can help you. What you say is
Speaker 3: what you say, What you own is what you own,
Speaker 3: And it's the same principle when you're watching these guys perform.
Speaker 3: And so the first order of business is for me
Speaker 3: to let them know that I'm going to be incredibly
Speaker 3: objective in calling out what I see on the basketball court.
Speaker 3: But there are other things that I do. And this
Speaker 3: is where the relationship really elevated. I'm from the streets
Speaker 3: of New York City. No, I didn't smoke weed, but
Speaker 3: I know about getting high because I was surrounded by
Speaker 3: it all my life.
Speaker 4: I was surrounded by drugs all my life. I was
Speaker 4: surrounded by violence all my life.
Speaker 3: I was surrounded by folks party and all my life
Speaker 3: all of this other stuff. So all of the things, devices,
Speaker 3: the temptations and everything like that. I'm a street wise brother.
Speaker 3: I kind of know. So if you show up to
Speaker 3: a game, I don't need a test to know if
Speaker 3: you hide. I'm looking right at you. I know if
Speaker 3: you hide, I know if you drunk. And then when
Speaker 3: you dig the way that I dig, Because remember I'm
Speaker 3: a beat right at the time, you get to know everybody.
Speaker 3: And this is what people don't realize about people that
Speaker 3: are beat writers. With a beat writer's nature, you don't
Speaker 3: only just know the athletes, the coaches, the player personnel,
Speaker 3: directors of scouts I value. You know their families, you
Speaker 3: know their friends, you know their hanger on, you know
Speaker 3: their associates, you know all of that stuff. So just
Speaker 3: imagine that you're covering sports and you're dealing with twenty
Speaker 3: year olds and late twenties and early thirties, and imagine
Speaker 3: the stuff that you're making, all of this money, and
Speaker 3: the stuff that you might find yourself getting into because
Speaker 3: you know, you living a life that most people don't
Speaker 3: get to live. Think about the trouble that brings. You
Speaker 3: think I didn't know. You think I didn't know that
Speaker 3: you got traded because you were fucking the same girl
Speaker 3: as the coach, and the coach one that you're gone.
Speaker 3: You think I didn't know that the coach couldn't stand
Speaker 3: you because you tried to came on.
Speaker 4: You tried to come on to his wife and his
Speaker 4: wife was interested.
Speaker 3: Do you think that I don't know that you really
Speaker 3: really can't stand this dude, because guess what, you wouldn't
Speaker 3: trade with this team because that former executive used to
Speaker 3: screw around with your wife and you didn't want anybody
Speaker 3: to know.
Speaker 4: That's why when.
Speaker 3: You remember, if you recall when we were doing the
Speaker 3: whole Boston Celtics thing where email you Doka got pushed
Speaker 3: out because of a consensual relationship with somebody, you saw
Speaker 3: me going ballistic because I was like, oh, that's the
Speaker 3: first time that happened. I've been in this business for
Speaker 3: thirty years. Ain't a year that went by that I
Speaker 3: don't know about people screwing around in the office. It's
Speaker 3: always happening, like always, But this guy is the one
Speaker 3: y'all gonna bost Now. That pissed me off because I'm like,
Speaker 3: there's a code and what I didn't want to say,
Speaker 3: but I will say any damn way because I'm still
Speaker 3: getting pissed off about it just thinking about it. It
Speaker 3: was almost like it's like, wait a minute here, you know,
Speaker 3: did I bring up the black element? Sure, because there's
Speaker 3: a whole bunch of white dudes the last time I
Speaker 3: checked y'all like sex too. You don't saying nobody was
Speaker 3: telling you on y'all of it. Nobody was doing that
Speaker 3: to damn right, Ain't nothing wrong with it? So the
Speaker 3: point is, So the point is I get it.
Speaker 1: I get it.
Speaker 4: But what really ticked me off as well as that.
Speaker 3: There's certain codes like if you without getting into details
Speaker 3: because I don't want to get sued.
Speaker 4: You kind of.
Speaker 3: Know that the person that he was with had connections
Speaker 3: to somebody else within organization? Can I say that? So
Speaker 3: I'm going like this now is that not the epitome
Speaker 3: of weakness. As men, your woman, there is nothing around
Speaker 3: with somebody allegedly right and you victimized in him, Well
Speaker 3: he want in a relationship with you? She was, but
Speaker 3: he victimized. But but you're still probably with that person.
Speaker 3: Really now, I'm saying that as men, we would call
Speaker 3: a dude out for that. We'd be like, yo, b
Speaker 3: that's pretty damn weak. I mean, if you couldn't head
Speaker 3: of your business, you could handle your business. But as
Speaker 3: wrong as he might have been, unless he was your
Speaker 3: friend or brother, whatever, he ain't owe.
Speaker 1: It to you.
Speaker 4: You understand saying she did. But they called him out.
Speaker 3: And I didn't want to go nuclear at that moment
Speaker 3: and say that, but that's what I was thinking, like,
Speaker 3: you know, you got to be pretty damn weak to
Speaker 3: be instigating this kind of shrapnel against that guy because
Speaker 3: you didn't handle your business.
Speaker 4: You know, I'm not fault.
Speaker 3: I'm not saying she wasn't wrong and he wasn't wrong
Speaker 3: or whatever.
Speaker 4: But there was another element to it that came.
Speaker 3: With it that you saw there was a level of
Speaker 3: victim of vindictimness and hostility aimed solely at him.
Speaker 4: Who was not married.
Speaker 3: And he wasn't involved with you, so why is he
Speaker 3: the one suffering more than anybody else? That's where I
Speaker 3: was coming from, And those kind of perspectives you get
Speaker 3: from seeing a lot and being around a lot and
Speaker 3: covering and seeing a whole bunch of things that go on.
Speaker 3: That was the stuff that that noise away at me
Speaker 3: because I look for consistency. I want fairness. It doesn't
Speaker 3: matter whether it's right wrong, whatever I understand. We could debate,
Speaker 3: we can debate it or whatever, but consistency needs to
Speaker 3: be the order of the day when we're doing this.
Speaker 3: And that's what I try to bring.
Speaker 1: When you talk about you, you brought the code it.
Speaker 2: Obviously it's easy sitting as Steven A Smith right now
Speaker 2: to go. But when you're a beat writer just trying
Speaker 2: to scratch and claw for that interview and you know
Speaker 2: things are going on and you could it'd be very
Speaker 2: easy for you to get way more clicks or way
Speaker 2: more whatever by saying, Hey, so and so is cheating
Speaker 2: with so and so or whatever philandering is going on
Speaker 2: in this facility. How did you figure out the code? Like,
Speaker 2: how quickly do you learn that this code exists?
Speaker 3: Well, for me, it's it's a personal decision. My personal
Speaker 3: morals and ethics are different than other people. Fellas, there's
Speaker 3: certain lines I'm just not crossing. I don't know y'all
Speaker 3: from a canapigin. I'm just meet y'all, happy to get
Speaker 3: to know y'allther show all the time, watch a couple
Speaker 3: of times.
Speaker 4: Y'all do a great job.
Speaker 3: Man, I could see you doing something that I might
Speaker 3: deem to be unethical as it pertains to your personal
Speaker 3: relationship with somebody. Man, it ain't none of my damn business.
Speaker 3: I might not like it, I might hold it in,
Speaker 3: but I'm not diming you out.
Speaker 4: I'm just not doing it. It's none of my business.
Speaker 4: Now you're on a football field, you play like garbage.
Speaker 4: That's different.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna say that you unders and by the way
Speaker 3: and by the way, and by the way and by
Speaker 3: the way if you do that, because we've seen people.
Speaker 3: I've seen people show up the games and you look sluggish.
Speaker 3: The audience didn't know you was screwing somebody two hours ago,
Speaker 3: but I did because I knew her.
Speaker 4: See what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: So I'm not gonna tell on you, but I'm gonna
Speaker 3: go like this. I don't know what was wrong with them.
Speaker 3: He seemed a bit slow, you know, legs seem to
Speaker 3: be there, you know, way of letting him know, Man,
Speaker 3: I know what you did.
Speaker 1: It's the matter with you.
Speaker 4: You couldn't wait till after the game.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 3: That's how I've done or a guy that you know what,
Speaker 3: you're on a source a little bit. You're drinking a
Speaker 3: little bit too much alcohol. You know, he's supposed to
Speaker 3: be doing that. You're supposed to do that the night before,
Speaker 3: not an hour, but not the hour before the game,
Speaker 3: you know, And I'm like, I'm looking at you like
Speaker 3: you know, you didn't seem like yourself.
Speaker 4: You seemed a little bit off kilter.
Speaker 3: And you know they raised the eyebrow because they know
Speaker 3: what I'm alluding to the audience. Doesn't you see what
Speaker 3: I'm saying. But I'll do stuff that's to let him know.
Speaker 3: Yeah I could, but I'm not. But don't think I
Speaker 3: don't know. Come on, man, do your.
Speaker 4: Job, do your job, and then afterward live your life.
Speaker 3: And so you know I've been doing stuff like that,
Speaker 3: you know throughout my career. The difference between me now
Speaker 3: and then you got some of these athletes can't stand
Speaker 3: my ass, hate my ass, whatever case may, because they
Speaker 3: see me on TV. They don't have a relationship with me.
Speaker 3: For the reason why is because I'm stuck in studio
Speaker 3: and I can't get to the games the way that
Speaker 3: I used to as many gigs. I used to go
Speaker 3: to like two hundred, like one hundred and one hundred
Speaker 3: and twenty five games a year. Now I have to
Speaker 3: cut that in half because of my schedule. But the
Speaker 3: reason why they could feel that way now compared to
Speaker 3: the way they were before is because before this was me,
Speaker 3: I'd roll right up into the locker room.
Speaker 4: You seem like you got a problem. What's up?
Speaker 3: You can't possibly have a problem, How could you possibly
Speaker 3: have a problem?
Speaker 4: You know, what the hell you did?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 4: And I would roll up on them like that.
Speaker 3: I remember years ago, mad love and respect for John Wall,
Speaker 3: but John Wall I was doing first take. John Wall
Speaker 3: walked up and he was like, you know, I just
Speaker 3: wish Cassa, you know, Stephen Ay, you know, you know,
Speaker 3: say something on TV, be man enough to you know,
Speaker 3: come to the locker room knowing good and damn well.
Speaker 4: I couldn't get to Washington that day.
Speaker 3: Man brother said that stuff. Man, I took off my
Speaker 3: microphone a good commercial break.
Speaker 4: I flew to DC.
Speaker 3: I was in front of his locker that night, Like
Speaker 3: what like, I'm scared to do my job. It's not
Speaker 3: not talking about no fighting or anything like you're acting
Speaker 3: like I'm scared to do my job.
Speaker 4: This is my job.
Speaker 3: I am not scared to do my job ever. Ever,
Speaker 3: this is my job. Personal stuff is beyond the scope
Speaker 3: of the job. That's off, that's wrong. You know, somebody
Speaker 3: disrespecting your family member, your girls are no. No, you
Speaker 3: want you want to bust the ass. Can't have that
Speaker 3: because you violating codes. But me just doing my job.
Speaker 4: If you can't play, you can't play. You play like garbage.
Speaker 4: You play like garbage. You messing up. You're messing up
Speaker 4: me scared to do that.
Speaker 3: Anybody that implies that they're gonna see me in front
Speaker 3: of that locker room, They're gonna see me in front
Speaker 3: of that I'd walk in the middle of the Dallas
Speaker 3: cowboyd locker room after a game if they said something
Speaker 3: like that about me, you got to be crazy, because
Speaker 3: that's the job. And I'm never gonna be scared to
Speaker 3: do my job.
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Speaker 1: national television? Can you talk about that and then also
Speaker 1: seeing it transcend into what it's become and obviously the
Speaker 1: the the the spotlight of stephn A. Smith. But when
Speaker 1: was your first big break on when you do hit
Speaker 1: that national television scene.
Speaker 3: I think when people would say when it was CNNSI,
Speaker 3: which was a big deal because I was on the
Speaker 3: NBA show on Sunday mornings. But I would say the
Speaker 3: real big break was when I went to Fox Sports
Speaker 3: Television because it was before the formation of the best
Speaker 3: damn Sports show period and I on their National Sports
Speaker 3: They had their National Sports Desk. Kevin Frazier, who's now
Speaker 3: at Entertainment Tonight, was one of the hosts, along with
Speaker 3: various others. He's a dear friend of mine, and I
Speaker 3: went there. Jim Rome had Rome is the last word
Speaker 3: I believe was the name of the show when he
Speaker 3: came to ESPN. It was Rome as Burning, which is
Speaker 3: always a great name. I always loved that name. But
Speaker 3: I was there, and Jim Rome would bring me into
Speaker 3: his office after shows and talk to me and give
Speaker 3: me guidance, you know, about some of the minefields to
Speaker 3: maneuver through and kind of things to watch out for,
Speaker 3: which I was always greatly appreciative for. And so I
Speaker 3: would call that my first big break because being in
Speaker 3: television and making that kind of noise when ESPN was
Speaker 3: so prolific, that was one thing, But then the creation
Speaker 3: of the best damn sports show period. They offered me
Speaker 3: the job full time. I turned it down, which is
Speaker 3: how John Sally got offered the job. The reason I
Speaker 3: turned it down is because I knew that my aspirations
Speaker 3: would end up at ESPN one day. I knew in
Speaker 3: order to achieve that, I had to be taken seriously
Speaker 3: and I would never be able to be taken seriously
Speaker 3: if I was sitting next to a comedian that was
Speaker 3: Tom Arnold every day. I'm not talking about him specifically,
Speaker 3: I'm talking about any comedian. It was a comedic show,
Speaker 3: or at least they aspired for it to be that way,
Speaker 3: and for me to go there and sit next to
Speaker 3: him every day. I knew esthetically, optics wise, that would
Speaker 3: not be a good look if I wanted to be
Speaker 3: taken seriously. So I declined to play that role on
Speaker 3: that show and instead elected simply to be an NBA
Speaker 3: insider for that network, and lo and behold. A year later,
Speaker 3: ESPN came calling, and two thousand and three I landed
Speaker 3: at ESPN and everything is taken off since then?
Speaker 2: How do you get to that conclusion with best day
Speaker 2: of sports show period, where they're offering you a job,
Speaker 2: they're offering you probably more money than you've been making before,
Speaker 2: and to have the wherewithal to sit there and be like, tactically,
Speaker 2: strategically in this video game of life I'm playing, this
Speaker 2: is not the move to make, all though it's better
Speaker 2: right now than it is.
Speaker 3: Same thing you're doing now. You're playing a long game,
Speaker 3: you know, clicks would be nice. Views per episode would
Speaker 3: be nice. A subscriber base that builds is something that
Speaker 3: you want. We all know what the business entails. But
Speaker 3: if you want to do something and just be a
Speaker 3: one off, that's entirely different than building a career that's sustainable.
Speaker 3: And for me, I always played the long game. I
Speaker 3: still do. I think ahead.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 3: Somebody asked me the other day, they say, yo, man,
Speaker 3: what did you do when you got your contract in
Speaker 3: twenty eighteen?
Speaker 4: I said, I went home.
Speaker 3: I was a little sad for a little while because
Speaker 3: I had lost my mom a year earlier. God rest
Speaker 3: her soul after long battle with cancer. And I said,
Speaker 3: so I licked my wounds there because I was sad
Speaker 3: because I knew the kind of money that I was earning,
Speaker 3: what I was going to be able to do for
Speaker 3: her if she had been alive, and I had never
Speaker 3: had a chance to do that, you know, for what
Speaker 3: I would have been able to do for half.
Speaker 4: I signed that contract.
Speaker 3: But then ultimately I spent some time with my sisters
Speaker 3: and you know, and my family, my daughters and everything
Speaker 3: like that for the weekend.
Speaker 4: That Monday morning, I woke up.
Speaker 3: And they said, what were you thinking about I said
Speaker 3: my next contract, and I wasn't playing. I knew that
Speaker 3: I had five and a half years to go, and
Speaker 3: I was thinking about five and a half years down
Speaker 3: the road. What am I going to do and where
Speaker 3: am I going to be in five and a half years.
Speaker 3: And that is my mentality always to try to maintain three, five,
Speaker 3: ten steps ahead, to see the forest from the trees,
Speaker 3: to anticipate the kind of things that are going to happen.
Speaker 3: So I'm not lost in the shuffle and we're not
Speaker 3: rewinding the clock back to two thousand and nine where
Speaker 3: I'm asked out, unemployed, wondering what my prospects are, wondering
Speaker 3: whether or not I have any living off my savings,
Speaker 3: and knowing that I had about six to eight months
Speaker 3: to survive on that. My goal is to never be
Speaker 3: in that position again. And so I think like that.
Speaker 1: What is your vision? What are your vision for yourself
Speaker 1: down the road? Like you know, obviously you signed the
Speaker 1: massive deal with ESPN, You're Steven A. Smith, You've come
Speaker 1: out with the podcast. Everybody knows this media landscape on
Speaker 1: the leveraging and building your own platform. Okay, I'm on
Speaker 1: this massive network. You might think you're building me up,
Speaker 1: Let me go show you how I can do it
Speaker 1: on my own as well. What is the north star
Speaker 1: look like for you five ten years done there?
Speaker 3: Well, the north star for me is to have that
Speaker 3: level of independence, to establish it in such a way
Speaker 3: where I'm there because I want to be there, not
Speaker 3: because I need to be there. I love working for
Speaker 3: Disney and ESPN. I love being associated with the world
Speaker 3: of sports. I think that's one of the five pillars
Speaker 3: in this nation that you want to attach yourself to
Speaker 3: if you can pull it off. And I'm certainly not
Speaker 3: interested in giving that up. But I'm neither going to
Speaker 3: lie nor be apologetic about what I want for myself.
Speaker 3: I've done a lot at ESPN. My contract's up in
Speaker 3: seventeen months. I'm interested in staying if I have the
Speaker 3: opportunity to do an abundance of other things that I
Speaker 3: want to do. If that opportunity doesn't present itself, then
Speaker 3: I'll have decisions to make, and so will they. I
Speaker 3: own my own production company. I'm producing a docu series. Actually,
Speaker 3: it comes out later this month as a three part
Speaker 3: series on the history of sports commentators. I've got another
Speaker 3: series that has been green lit a drama series that
Speaker 3: I've created that I'm not at liberty to talk about,
Speaker 3: but it has nothing to do with Disney or ESPN.
Speaker 3: I've created a drama series that's coming out. I've got
Speaker 3: my podcast, which is not really a podcast, it's a show.
Speaker 3: Why Because I spent my own money and seven figures
Speaker 3: to build my own television studio. I want people to
Speaker 3: look at it and think hybrid. It not linear, it's
Speaker 3: not digital. It could be both. You want a linear
Speaker 3: sports show, got you? You want a sports digital show?
Speaker 3: Got you? You want a podcast? Got you? You want
Speaker 3: a late night show done? You want an afternoon talk show? Fine.
Speaker 3: You want me to be another version of PTI or
Speaker 3: something like that, good. You want another creation of First
Speaker 3: Take Fine? You want me to create a weekly format
Speaker 3: show that would rival Real Time with Bill Maher or
Speaker 3: The John Oliver Show or The Daily Show. Fine, whatever
Speaker 3: it is, I can do it, because I've shown I
Speaker 3: can do it. And so that's where my mentality is
Speaker 3: having the doors open, the opportunities available to me, and
Speaker 3: being in the position to explore things that I may
Speaker 3: have never imagined because I never knew it was available
Speaker 3: to me, because all anybody thought about when they saw
Speaker 3: me with sports. Now they don't think like that anymore.
Speaker 3: They see my range. So who's to say whether it's
Speaker 3: me or somebody else that wants to work with me
Speaker 3: comes forth with a level of creativity and ingenuity necessary
Speaker 3: to say, stephen A, is what we think we could
Speaker 3: do with you and for you, is the kind of
Speaker 3: money that you can make. Because the one thing I
Speaker 3: will never apologize for I am about my money. I
Speaker 3: want to get paid. I ain't apologizing for that shit
Speaker 3: to anybody. I'm not talking about Disney, I'm not talking
Speaker 3: about ESPN. I'm talking about colleagues, contemporaries, people who have
Speaker 3: been in this business, who knows what it takes to succeed.
Speaker 3: Look at my resume, look at what I've accomplished. Oh,
Speaker 3: make no mistake. I intend to get paid.
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Speaker 1: Nuts. I know you, I know you gotta leave.
Speaker 2: But obviously the competitive drive the why ever you have
Speaker 2: literally everything, and in sports, when you're on a team,
Speaker 2: your goal is to win the.
Speaker 1: Super Bowl or the NBA Championship, all these different things.
Speaker 2: You're competing against other teams, but also internally in the
Speaker 2: on the team you're at, you're competing with the guys
Speaker 2: around you.
Speaker 1: And so ESPN comes in.
Speaker 2: You talked about two billion views, you talked about being
Speaker 2: the man number one for twelve years, and you see
Speaker 2: ESPN making a pivot to McAfee, obviously great for the network.
Speaker 2: How do you, in your mindset view a guy like McAfee,
Speaker 2: who is extremely good at his job in a lot
Speaker 2: of ways, is changing the course of mainstream media and
Speaker 2: all those things from a competitive standpoint.
Speaker 3: Also as a partner, I am an aberration in this regard.
Speaker 3: I love Pat McAfee, love the death, love the death.
Speaker 3: I love his swag. I love the fact that he's
Speaker 3: an honest brother. He don't give a shit. Lets you
Speaker 3: know exactly where he's staying. That's my kind of dude.
Speaker 3: That works for me now as he as polished politically
Speaker 3: as me. Nope, because he has no desire to be
Speaker 3: number one and number two.
Speaker 4: If we're being honest. He's white and I'm black. He
Speaker 4: didn't have to be.
Speaker 1: I had to be.
Speaker 3: So I get all of that, and I'm not knocking
Speaker 3: him for it. I get it. Pat McAfee is a
Speaker 3: sensational talent, and it would be stupid for me not
Speaker 3: to root for him because he's one of the pioneers
Speaker 3: in this business, just like Bill Simmons is just like
Speaker 3: Joe Rogan is in others what they have done for
Speaker 3: themselves in the digital stratospy, it speaks for itself.
Speaker 4: I'm new to this baby I got.
Speaker 3: I'm approaching five hundred and fifty thousand subscribers in ten
Speaker 3: ten and a half months. People see me, Oh my god,
Speaker 3: you're averaging over two thousand subscribers a day.
Speaker 4: And look at the views forever. So it's just climbing
Speaker 4: and climbing.
Speaker 3: And look at the consistency to growth, especially by God Bailey,
Speaker 3: the social media gurule. I mean these strategies. He's painting
Speaker 3: this beautiful picture every day. I'm looking at the fact
Speaker 3: that my numbers pale in comparison to those folks who
Speaker 3: have been there and have like a four or five,
Speaker 3: seven eight year head start on me. Why because I'm
Speaker 3: looking at who's number one?
Speaker 4: And why? Okay?
Speaker 3: But in the same breath, don't get it twisted. I
Speaker 3: love Pat pet knows that I'm rooting for him. I
Speaker 3: help him anyway. I can't help him. But we know
Speaker 3: who number one in linear television is.
Speaker 1: You know, way.
Speaker 4: Backseat, You've been number one for twelve years.
Speaker 3: People come, people go, people come, people stay.
Speaker 1: But there's a top perch.
Speaker 4: Now you could take it away knock on wood.
Speaker 3: It could be next year, be next week, it could
Speaker 3: be two years, five years from now, whatever. But since
Speaker 3: twenty twelve, it's been me with Skip Payler's, with Adam,
Speaker 3: with Max Kellerman, with Adam, with a potpourrie of contributes.
Speaker 4: It don't matter.
Speaker 3: I come to win, and when it comes to linear television,
Speaker 3: that's exactly what the fuck I have done. And so
Speaker 3: my attitude is, as long as I'm doing it, I'm
Speaker 3: gonna continue to win. McAfee or no McAfee, get up
Speaker 3: or no get up, It don't matter who it is,
Speaker 3: FS One, Comcast, whatever you come for me, I'm coming
Speaker 3: for you. I'm here to win. Digital is different because
Speaker 3: I'm a baby, I'm crawling. I'm an infant. You understand
Speaker 3: I'm saying I ain't even learn how to walk yet.
Speaker 3: You understand them saying let alone run and sprint. But
Speaker 3: once I get to that point, I'm a comfort folks
Speaker 3: then too. But in the process of doing so, it
Speaker 3: will never be to root for them to fail. And
Speaker 3: that's why I'm very guarded when people sit up there
Speaker 3: and they try to remember Dan Levata said one time,
Speaker 3: you know he wants to ruin Skip's career, and he
Speaker 3: had to retract that statement because that's totally false. I
Speaker 3: never want Skip to fail. I just don't want him
Speaker 3: to be number one over me. Same thing with Keith Shawn,
Speaker 3: Michael IRV and Richard Shermanham. These are my boys. I
Speaker 3: don't want them to fail, but they know who's trying
Speaker 3: to be number one. And look, these are Hall of famers,
Speaker 3: these A super Bowl champions. When they roll up over there, yeah, man,
Speaker 3: we know you, I said. You know I'm coming for you, right,
Speaker 3: You know you know you don't expect to beat me.
Speaker 3: You understand now. Of course, one day somebody can. Hell,
Speaker 3: it could be them with somebody else, But all in fun,
Speaker 3: I'm letting them know I don't ever root against you.
Speaker 3: I don't ever want you to fail. But in the
Speaker 3: same breath, it is perfectly within my right to want
Speaker 3: to be number one. And I want to be that
Speaker 3: guy that's at the top of the perch that reaches
Speaker 3: back white and black, finding young talent folks on a
Speaker 3: come up, inspiring and motivating and assisting others in being
Speaker 3: their best selves. But do I want you to be
Speaker 3: better than me? No? No, And I'm gonna do everything
Speaker 3: that I can to make sure you're not better than me.
Speaker 4: I've done it in linear television.
Speaker 3: I'm going to continue to do it in linear television
Speaker 3: at least as long as I have a contract to
Speaker 3: do so, and hopefully I'll be able to do it
Speaker 3: in the digital stratospy as well, and then after that.
Speaker 2: It's kind of production we're doing around here that we're
Speaker 2: trying to throw in this talking about being the one
Speaker 2: Steve A.
Speaker 1: This has been an honor man, Thank you so much.
Speaker 2: I wish we had a longer time. I don't know
Speaker 2: if you saw on the internet all black verus all White.
Speaker 4: Team, Okay, I did not see.
Speaker 1: You didn't see that.
Speaker 4: I did not see.
Speaker 1: Have been something you be covering, you know that one.
Speaker 2: And if you look at the old White team except
Speaker 2: for that backing on defense, not.
Speaker 1: A bad squad.
Speaker 4: I'll check it out. I'll check it out.
Speaker 2: I think I think the Buns squads minus twenty four
Speaker 2: and a half when we go well over it. But
Speaker 2: it'll be all right, okay, hey.
Speaker 3: We'll get your many much all im siate y'all man,
Speaker 3: all the best of both of y'all man, keep doing
Speaker 3: the great job been doing.
Speaker 1: We'll be seeing you soon, all right, Yes, sir, take
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