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You don't have to 0:01:06.920 --> 0:01:09.640 be a lifelong soccer fan to understand both the thrill 0:01:09.720 --> 0:01:13.360 and disappointment of a major tournament ending in penalty kicks 0:01:13.640 --> 0:01:17.319 and congrats to Italy topping England yesterday in the twenty 0:01:17.360 --> 0:01:21.520 twenty euro Final and a gut wrenching shootout. And as 0:01:21.560 --> 0:01:24.119 exciting as they are, penalty kicks are kind of tough. 0:01:24.160 --> 0:01:27.640 They feel a little bit random, especially for England losing 0:01:27.640 --> 0:01:30.080 in Wembley Stadium in front of your home crowd and 0:01:30.200 --> 0:01:33.039 wanting to win so badly. And maybe you can blame 0:01:33.120 --> 0:01:36.280 the English manager. He subbed in two players at the 0:01:36.440 --> 0:01:40.040 end and had them take kicks. They didn't make him, 0:01:40.160 --> 0:01:44.360 they weren't really warmed up and that cost England the match. Still, 0:01:44.360 --> 0:01:46.560 you got the sense that the better team won here. 0:01:46.840 --> 0:01:51.040 I think England became the story. I think that I 0:01:51.080 --> 0:01:53.560 think the media wanted England to be the story and 0:01:53.760 --> 0:01:56.680 maybe we missed out on Italy being the story all along. 0:01:56.760 --> 0:02:00.360 But English fans left to drown their sorrow in the 0:02:00.400 --> 0:02:04.320 pubs around London again, but in Italy the party is 0:02:04.640 --> 0:02:07.960 just starting. I'm not a big soccer fan, I've said 0:02:08.000 --> 0:02:12.680 that before, but I do appreciate, you know, the enthusiasm 0:02:13.360 --> 0:02:16.480 when something really means that much to you. And this 0:02:16.520 --> 0:02:18.920 is something that I forfeited when I started to do 0:02:18.919 --> 0:02:22.280 this on a national basis. When I joined ESPN, I 0:02:22.360 --> 0:02:25.519 kind of gave up my subscription to being a Cincinnati 0:02:25.560 --> 0:02:28.920 Reds fan or a Bengals fan, because I wanted to 0:02:28.960 --> 0:02:31.480 be fair to every team that I covered, or at 0:02:31.560 --> 0:02:34.639 least give that perception that I'm being fair and not 0:02:34.760 --> 0:02:38.760 just biased to my teams. But watching the passion yesterday 0:02:38.840 --> 0:02:42.200 and what's its stake and what it means, you know, 0:02:42.400 --> 0:02:45.560 that's when I'm attracted to because I didn't think you had, 0:02:45.880 --> 0:02:50.000 you know, greatly skilled players yesterday, except of course for 0:02:50.200 --> 0:02:54.720 Harry Kane. But other than that, you know, I loved it. 0:02:55.360 --> 0:02:57.360 I love the passion, I love the energy, and I 0:02:57.400 --> 0:02:59.959 watched a lot of I watched most of it, probably 0:03:00.400 --> 0:03:03.400 from start to finish. I mean it just the tension 0:03:03.480 --> 0:03:07.600 that was there and what's attached to that, and that 0:03:07.840 --> 0:03:12.680 England somehow finds the banana peal and they did once again. 0:03:12.960 --> 0:03:15.120 And the worst thing that probably happened is they scored 0:03:15.160 --> 0:03:18.120 early and they played defensive. But I thought Italy was 0:03:18.160 --> 0:03:21.679 the better team. Coming from you know, an amateur I 0:03:22.120 --> 0:03:25.880 looking at this, but it was good. It was fun, entertaining, 0:03:26.040 --> 0:03:29.120 and you could ask ten people what you watch this 0:03:29.160 --> 0:03:32.639 weekend and probably get ten different things. I was watching 0:03:32.639 --> 0:03:36.680 the Scottish Open that went into a playoff, then watched 0:03:37.200 --> 0:03:41.880 Wimbledon back and forth with Djokovic, and then you had 0:03:41.920 --> 0:03:45.080 the Euros, then you had the NBA. That's pretty good day, 0:03:45.600 --> 0:03:48.600 Pretty good day. All right, we'll come up with the 0:03:48.600 --> 0:03:52.360 poll question here. We'll recap our vacations. And I of 0:03:52.360 --> 0:03:55.720 course went to Big Sky Country, went to Montana and 0:03:56.440 --> 0:03:59.520 did what manly men do. I went fly fishing there 0:04:00.120 --> 0:04:03.800 and it was great, a lot of fun, beautiful, beautiful. 0:04:04.000 --> 0:04:07.440 Uh we're big in Butte Montana. Yeah, yeah, I can't 0:04:07.440 --> 0:04:11.280 walk down the street and mute Montana. In fact, I 0:04:11.360 --> 0:04:13.720 was fishing with one of my brothers, my older brother, 0:04:14.160 --> 0:04:18.000 and I have a fish. I've caught a fish, and 0:04:18.839 --> 0:04:22.080 we're going down kind of rough waters and he's on 0:04:22.120 --> 0:04:27.039 the back of a raft and he somehow falls off 0:04:27.800 --> 0:04:31.400 and he hits his head on a rock. So I've 0:04:31.400 --> 0:04:33.719 still got a fish on and my brother is in 0:04:33.760 --> 0:04:37.720 the water. He's just hit his head and he's bleeding, 0:04:38.560 --> 0:04:42.080 to which I say to my guide, the fishing guide, 0:04:42.200 --> 0:04:44.880 well can I land this fish before you bring my 0:04:44.960 --> 0:04:48.719 brother into the boat, which my brother was fine with that. 0:04:48.839 --> 0:04:52.200 He respected that. So I brought in my whitefish and 0:04:52.560 --> 0:04:54.360 reeled it in and I looked at it, and then 0:04:54.360 --> 0:04:57.800 we decided to bring in my brother into the boat. Well, 0:04:58.080 --> 0:05:03.080 he needed seven staple in his head. So we go, 0:05:03.279 --> 0:05:05.760 we have to leave where we are to drive to 0:05:05.920 --> 0:05:10.040 downtown Butte Montana, and my brother has got blood, you know, 0:05:10.120 --> 0:05:12.680 coming out of the back of his head. I don't 0:05:12.720 --> 0:05:15.479 know if he's got a concussion. And we go in 0:05:15.520 --> 0:05:18.120 there and get him stitched up, and uh, you know, 0:05:18.160 --> 0:05:20.880 his one request was could I get a pack of cigarettes? 0:05:21.560 --> 0:05:23.240 And I said, all right, yeah, we'll get you a 0:05:23.279 --> 0:05:25.840 pack of cigarettes. So he's smoking a heater outside of 0:05:25.920 --> 0:05:29.280 convenience store with you know, staples in his head. And 0:05:29.440 --> 0:05:31.160 now just part of the trip. I mean, this is 0:05:31.200 --> 0:05:34.000 what men do. You know, We put our lives on 0:05:34.040 --> 0:05:38.160 the line. Yeah. See how far into the trip was 0:05:38.240 --> 0:05:41.200 the accident, I don't know. It was all blending together. 0:05:41.440 --> 0:05:47.240 It was just one big sunrise, one big sun Yeah. Yeah, 0:05:47.279 --> 0:05:51.960 the days are forever out there, big sky country, rainbow trout, 0:05:52.240 --> 0:05:58.039 brown trout, graylings, whitefish, cutthroat, that's what we were fishing for. 0:05:58.279 --> 0:06:01.200 Got them all. Yeah, why didn't get the throat? They 0:06:01.279 --> 0:06:03.760 call it the grand slam, but there's five fish and 0:06:03.800 --> 0:06:06.479 I didn't get the cut throat, but I got everything else. Yes, Pa, 0:06:06.640 --> 0:06:09.040 the staple story sounds and the pictures you sent sound 0:06:09.080 --> 0:06:11.520 like the script for a river runs through it too. 0:06:11.560 --> 0:06:13.960 I mean, this is fantastic, and you're all set. Yeah, 0:06:14.000 --> 0:06:16.240 they come back. One of the brothers goes in the water. 0:06:16.480 --> 0:06:18.080 Do you stay with the fish or go help your 0:06:18.080 --> 0:06:21.600 brother's perfect. It was a mess from the standpoint of 0:06:21.960 --> 0:06:24.800 my brother and I fly fishing and where it opposite 0:06:25.000 --> 0:06:28.320 ends up a raft and our lines are getting tangled, 0:06:28.360 --> 0:06:32.080 like it's just it's it's a mess. It's a metaphor. Yeah, 0:06:32.120 --> 0:06:34.839 it's a metaphor. And then the guide is there and 0:06:34.920 --> 0:06:38.359 he's working so hard. Max did a great job. And 0:06:38.400 --> 0:06:41.320 then my other brother was meanwhile with a guide and 0:06:41.400 --> 0:06:44.600 their relationship was along the lines of Leonardo DiCaprio and 0:06:44.680 --> 0:06:48.440 Kate Winslet and Titanic. Like this guide. You got the 0:06:48.480 --> 0:06:50.719 feeling he was holding my brother while he was fly 0:06:50.800 --> 0:06:54.279 fishing to help him along the way, and of course 0:06:54.279 --> 0:06:58.200 he caught all the fish and he was the teacher's pet. Meanwhile, 0:06:58.240 --> 0:07:00.680 my brother and I are, you know, fighting for our 0:07:00.680 --> 0:07:04.320 lives on the Big Hole River. Yeah, mclan, I'm just 0:07:04.360 --> 0:07:08.760 some internet research. Are you sure it's not pronounced but Montana? Okay, 0:07:08.960 --> 0:07:10.880 that joke had to be said. We're all think you're 0:07:10.920 --> 0:07:13.960 better than that. Not really, No, you're not. Yes, Todd, 0:07:14.160 --> 0:07:16.400 these rafts that they have basic first aid kits as 0:07:16.400 --> 0:07:18.800 far as the bleeding, what was done for him before, 0:07:18.920 --> 0:07:21.320 because obviously getting the fish was more important to you 0:07:21.360 --> 0:07:23.840 than the brother. Do you really care? I do. Actually 0:07:23.920 --> 0:07:26.680 I'm surprised, but you're never gonna be on a raft. No, 0:07:26.760 --> 0:07:29.400 but medical attention with delayed so you can get that fishing. 0:07:29.400 --> 0:07:32.040 And they're surprised me. No, they had they had some 0:07:32.120 --> 0:07:35.320 kind of first aid there. But you know, my guide said, hey, 0:07:35.600 --> 0:07:38.320 you get you need stitches, to which my brother said, no, 0:07:38.480 --> 0:07:40.960 I don't. And you've got blood coming down the back 0:07:41.880 --> 0:07:45.560 of his neck. Yeah, I said, no, you you probably 0:07:45.720 --> 0:07:48.400 you probably need to go. But I was fishing. I 0:07:48.440 --> 0:07:51.400 mean it was great, like I finally started reeling in fishing. 0:07:51.480 --> 0:07:54.320 Our brother has to fall out of the damn raft? Ye? 0:07:54.640 --> 0:07:56.440 Your brother does he have a history of doing this? 0:07:56.520 --> 0:07:58.440 You know how like there's always like one family member 0:07:58.440 --> 0:08:00.800 that it's like, oh great, of course, yeah, you know, 0:08:00.920 --> 0:08:03.480 so and so's got to go to the hospital. Go okay, 0:08:03.600 --> 0:08:06.440 let's go. Yeah, yeah, I'm a club. So were you 0:08:06.480 --> 0:08:09.240 aware that Montana was in the news last Yes, I was. 0:08:09.960 --> 0:08:13.600 When did you become there? Was you want to share 0:08:13.640 --> 0:08:17.360 the news? Well, there was a tragedy where, you know, 0:08:17.400 --> 0:08:20.560 a bear went into a campground and and killed somebody. 0:08:20.800 --> 0:08:22.320 Was that on your mind when you're out there on 0:08:22.360 --> 0:08:25.440 the river? No, but we did talk to people who 0:08:25.680 --> 0:08:29.920 they know the area up there, and that's I just curious. 0:08:29.920 --> 0:08:34.720 We didn't see any bears where we were. But the 0:08:34.760 --> 0:08:38.560 other part was Yellowstone was shooting about an hour away 0:08:38.600 --> 0:08:41.679 from us, and I mean I didn't want to go 0:08:41.720 --> 0:08:44.560 in there and see Kevin Costa and say hello, I'm here. 0:08:45.160 --> 0:08:47.520 I mean you want to you? I mean I thought 0:08:47.520 --> 0:08:50.280 about it, but I thought, you know what, I'm here, 0:08:50.320 --> 0:08:54.640 it's vacation. I'm fishing, fly fishing and doing manly things, 0:08:54.720 --> 0:08:58.800 and that I didn't want to disrupt from our camp there. Yes, see, 0:08:58.880 --> 0:09:02.200 at any point that you saw your brother's head leaking 0:09:02.559 --> 0:09:04.760 blood all over the place, did you think of this 0:09:04.880 --> 0:09:07.480 might attract some bears? Then? Not? Good? Well, I thought 0:09:07.520 --> 0:09:10.040 if he kept bleeding into the water, you might attract 0:09:10.080 --> 0:09:12.880 more fish. So I thought, if we left him in 0:09:12.920 --> 0:09:15.800 there for a little while, you know, maybe we get hey, 0:09:15.800 --> 0:09:19.360 what's the rush? So you did he know? Okay, what 0:09:19.360 --> 0:09:21.160 what are you using there? Flying fishing? Now? What type 0:09:21.160 --> 0:09:24.040 of negative? Yeah? Yeah, it's my brother's blood. I mean, 0:09:24.080 --> 0:09:27.719 he's really committed. He's committed to the fishing here. Yes, 0:09:27.880 --> 0:09:31.640 the club. You know, I'm freaked out by bears and 0:09:31.760 --> 0:09:34.120 fishing and hooks and all this. Yeah, but this is 0:09:34.160 --> 0:09:37.280 like real, this is manly. Yes, it is okay, But 0:09:37.440 --> 0:09:42.600 here's the worst part. Now you thought my brother falling 0:09:42.600 --> 0:09:44.439 over and banging his head and we have take him 0:09:44.440 --> 0:09:48.040 to the emergency room. I actually hooked myself in the face. 0:09:48.760 --> 0:09:53.960 So when you're fly fishing and there's wind in Montana, 0:09:54.000 --> 0:09:58.440 and all of a sudden, I'm casting and in the wind, 0:09:58.880 --> 0:10:01.360 you're thinking, Brad Pitt, you're thinking the river run through, 0:10:01.520 --> 0:10:04.880 and the wind blows this fly and it goes right 0:10:04.920 --> 0:10:10.440 into my cheek. Now, I did the manly thing. I 0:10:10.559 --> 0:10:14.880 just I just pulled it out, yeah, and started bleeding. 0:10:15.320 --> 0:10:19.959 It was the barb. Well they didn't have barbs. They 0:10:20.000 --> 0:10:23.640 didn't have Yeah, because in in the in Montana. I mean, 0:10:23.640 --> 0:10:26.319 you're trying to protect the fish show. Everything was catching release. 0:10:26.720 --> 0:10:29.880 So it wasn't like your normal hook, as my guide said, 0:10:30.280 --> 0:10:32.880 if that was a normal hook, we'd have a big problem. 0:10:33.280 --> 0:10:36.000 But it's still it's enough to catch a fish on. 0:10:36.120 --> 0:10:39.520 So it went right into my cheek and I wanted 0:10:39.559 --> 0:10:43.040 to play it up a little bit more. But you know, 0:10:43.080 --> 0:10:44.959 I was hoping that it could have been like a 0:10:45.000 --> 0:10:48.240 little bloodier, you know, just something that shows that you know, 0:10:48.320 --> 0:10:52.040 this is this a contact sport. It was almost a 0:10:52.080 --> 0:10:54.959 tragedy for him. And then the guys and the guide 0:10:55.000 --> 0:10:57.800 said you better put on your polaroids because you don't 0:10:57.800 --> 0:11:00.679 want to lose an eye. And then so I had 0:11:00.679 --> 0:11:04.800 to put on my sunglasses there. So yep, I had 0:11:04.840 --> 0:11:09.400 to be reminded of your safety equipment. Yes I did. 0:11:09.880 --> 0:11:12.040 Oh but I fell down in the river. You know, 0:11:12.080 --> 0:11:15.440 you go waiting. They make it look nice. You know, 0:11:15.480 --> 0:11:19.440 there's professionals. The guy, the guy John Barrett, he's one 0:11:19.480 --> 0:11:21.720 of the great fishermen that you'll find in the world 0:11:21.760 --> 0:11:24.880 fly fishermen. And I'm out there and I you know, 0:11:24.920 --> 0:11:29.400 the these rocks were like, uh, if you put snot 0:11:29.440 --> 0:11:31.840 on a bowling ball and you tried to walk on it. 0:11:31.920 --> 0:11:35.600 That's what it felt like. And I've went down twice 0:11:36.240 --> 0:11:40.240 into the water. But you know, that's just that's part 0:11:40.240 --> 0:11:44.600 of the risk and the reward of fly fishing in Montana. 0:11:44.880 --> 0:11:48.160 You guys are lucky. I'm still alive because it was touching. 0:11:48.280 --> 0:11:52.680 Go you gotta pull question for me, like it's gonna 0:11:52.720 --> 0:11:56.240 be hard the top of that. Um, okay, we're discussing 0:11:56.280 --> 0:11:58.200 the biggest event of the weekend. Is there one that 0:11:58.240 --> 0:12:01.520 stands out? We have Italy beating England, Argentina beating Brazil 0:12:01.600 --> 0:12:05.360 in the Copa, Djokovic winning Wimbledon for his twentieth major 0:12:05.400 --> 0:12:10.079 to tie the all time record, Poyer beating McGregor, box 0:12:10.240 --> 0:12:13.560 narrowing the finals to two one, and there was on 0:12:13.600 --> 0:12:16.959 Twitter some suggestion of al Twove's walk off against the Yankees. 0:12:17.120 --> 0:12:19.079 That's a regular season game, so it's not the same, 0:12:19.080 --> 0:12:21.400 but it's ar a one a story or isn't they 0:12:21.400 --> 0:12:27.319 all about? I would say Italy beating England because just 0:12:27.400 --> 0:12:30.199 the number of you know, Italians who are here in 0:12:30.200 --> 0:12:33.120 the United States. If I'm just looking for the United States, 0:12:34.160 --> 0:12:37.320 I think watching something that had that much tension and 0:12:37.760 --> 0:12:41.360 you came down to penalty kicks, Argentina beating Brazil. All right, 0:12:41.480 --> 0:12:45.360 MESSI won a trophy. Big deal. Djokovic is a big 0:12:45.400 --> 0:12:48.559 deal from the standpoint of where he stands all time. 0:12:48.640 --> 0:12:51.560 But I don't know if Americans really care since there's 0:12:51.559 --> 0:12:55.280 no American that we've really followed in tennis for a while. 0:12:55.520 --> 0:12:59.200 McGregor breaking his leg. He did it to himself. It's 0:12:59.240 --> 0:13:04.319 not like or he did it to him Um the Bucks. 0:13:05.200 --> 0:13:09.000 Uh yeah, you know, because it's the NBA in Janis 0:13:09.120 --> 0:13:12.920 was wonderful. Al Tuve hitting a walk off home run. 0:13:13.200 --> 0:13:15.640 Plus I don't get this, and I'm gonna ask Harold 0:13:15.640 --> 0:13:20.160 Reynolds this. It feels like the Astros think they're victims here. 0:13:20.679 --> 0:13:23.359 You know. They got to stop this, like you created 0:13:23.400 --> 0:13:25.679 this now all of a sudden, Altuve, Hey, you can 0:13:25.760 --> 0:13:27.800 rip my jersey off to show that I don't have 0:13:27.840 --> 0:13:32.920 a wire on. Remember you were shy? What what was it? 0:13:33.480 --> 0:13:35.720 Remember you didn't want to know? Don't don't tear this off. 0:13:35.760 --> 0:13:42.679 I'm shy. You're not shy now. But I mean, gang congrats. 0:13:43.160 --> 0:13:46.440 And for every time the Astros do something, well like 0:13:46.640 --> 0:13:49.480 why didn't you do this a couple of years ago? 0:13:50.720 --> 0:13:54.040 Like why did you you know, have to cheat, So 0:13:54.160 --> 0:13:56.120 don't play the victim. Now, nobody wants to go to 0:13:56.120 --> 0:13:58.520 the All Star Game. None of the Astros wanted to go, 0:13:58.679 --> 0:14:03.160 and you got, hey, my wife's pregnant. Okay, I got 0:14:03.160 --> 0:14:06.880 a nerve, a nagging injury, okay. Feels like the Astros 0:14:06.880 --> 0:14:10.520 are saying the Major League Baseball somehow, some way, they're 0:14:10.600 --> 0:14:15.120 victims here and they just don't want to get booed. Okay, 0:14:15.360 --> 0:14:18.920 And maybe Major League Baseball doesn't want that either, But yeah, 0:14:18.960 --> 0:14:21.960 that kind of bothered me. I'm two Bays, a wonderful player. 0:14:22.040 --> 0:14:24.240 You know, maybe he put his Hall of Fame career 0:14:24.240 --> 0:14:28.120 in jeopardy, you know, by what happened. Maybe, I mean 0:14:28.160 --> 0:14:32.280 it's only him in Correa, but I mean they got 0:14:32.320 --> 0:14:34.040 a couple of guys that were still left over from 0:14:34.040 --> 0:14:36.880 the World Series team. But stop playing the victim here. 0:14:37.840 --> 0:14:39.880 We'll come up with a poll question. Michael Wilbon will 0:14:39.960 --> 0:14:42.200 join us. 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Hey, hall of famer, how are you today? 0:16:10.240 --> 0:16:13.840 First of all, he does not insist, so you don't 0:16:13.160 --> 0:16:17.720 fancy you, said, Wilbon, that's what That's what I thought. 0:16:17.760 --> 0:16:21.120 But he's not like that, So that's what under the bus. 0:16:21.160 --> 0:16:26.240 Just now, Oh my goodness. No, don't insist upon that. 0:16:26.920 --> 0:16:30.840 I'm close to Milwaukee, Dan, I'm eighty eight miles away 0:16:30.840 --> 0:16:35.800 from Milwaukee in Chicago. Fritzie, I gave me two sons time. 0:16:35.840 --> 0:16:37.840 He said, how does Wilbon want to be introduced? And 0:16:37.920 --> 0:16:42.880 where's he joining us from? I was just talking about 0:16:42.920 --> 0:16:46.440 my vacation where I went to Montana fly fishing. You 0:16:46.480 --> 0:16:51.640 gotta you gotta like an adventure vacation you've ever taken? No, 0:16:52.880 --> 0:16:55.720 Fritzie just asked me, Dad, He said, what dangerous thing 0:16:55.720 --> 0:16:59.280 have you done? Like? Nothing ever? I mean, no, no, no, no, 0:16:59.320 --> 0:17:02.720 I've been. I've been in Montana, but i've not I've not. 0:17:03.400 --> 0:17:05.359 And if I went there today, Dan, I would go 0:17:05.359 --> 0:17:08.720 with golf clubs trying to find that same course that 0:17:08.800 --> 0:17:11.680 those guys played, you know last week. But no, there's 0:17:11.720 --> 0:17:15.720 no danger. I've never been fly fishing. I went fishing 0:17:15.800 --> 0:17:17.720 once when I was eleven years old with my uncle 0:17:17.720 --> 0:17:21.639 Bill in Chicago and vowed never to go fishing again. 0:17:21.720 --> 0:17:26.439 And I've kept that. Well, you're not an outdoorsman like me. 0:17:26.560 --> 0:17:34.560 You're not a man. Okay, I'll take your word for that. Um. 0:17:34.760 --> 0:17:38.840 What golf is somehow less less, you know, less than fishing? Yes? 0:17:39.119 --> 0:17:41.639 How many times are you? Okay, I've known you a 0:17:41.640 --> 0:17:43.879 long time, we've known you a long time. I have 0:17:44.040 --> 0:17:48.520 never heard you tell fly fishing stories We've never had. 0:17:48.560 --> 0:17:53.880 We've never done that once every twenty years, like oh yeah, yeah. 0:17:54.680 --> 0:17:57.680 The last time I went fly fishing was in British 0:17:57.680 --> 0:18:02.840 Columbia in nineteen eighty nine. What made you do it 0:18:02.920 --> 0:18:06.560 this time? Uh? I had to man up a little bit. 0:18:06.600 --> 0:18:09.240 I was getting a little soft. You know. You know, 0:18:09.440 --> 0:18:11.840 you know how you you writers used to call us, 0:18:11.920 --> 0:18:16.000 you know, talking hair dues. We still do. Yeah, even 0:18:16.040 --> 0:18:18.320 though I would love to call you a talking hair dude, 0:18:18.400 --> 0:18:21.000 you just you don't have any hair, that's right. Yes, 0:18:21.240 --> 0:18:25.200 Actually I fall outside that categorization. Um, Before I get 0:18:25.240 --> 0:18:28.520 to the bucks and the suns, the United States lost 0:18:28.520 --> 0:18:32.880 in Nigeria. Yeah, okay, should we care about this as 0:18:32.960 --> 0:18:35.399 we head into the Olympics with this team and now 0:18:35.440 --> 0:18:37.440 I know there's some guys still playing in the finals, 0:18:37.480 --> 0:18:41.040 but and it's and it's a friendly, but the United 0:18:41.080 --> 0:18:45.159 States lost to Nigeria in basketball. I was sitting I 0:18:45.200 --> 0:18:47.560 was here in Chicago two nights ago when that game 0:18:47.680 --> 0:18:50.560 was going on, and I was at the w NBA game, 0:18:50.920 --> 0:18:54.159 um mystics and the sky. I wanted to go and 0:18:54.200 --> 0:18:57.240 see my friend Canvas Parker play. And I'm with a 0:18:57.359 --> 0:18:59.639 bunch of guys who have been sports writers, I think, 0:18:59.680 --> 0:19:03.159 all in TV now, all of whom you know, you know, 0:19:03.520 --> 0:19:07.000 Jaya Dondey, David Aldrich, Mark Spears, if any goodwill, you know, 0:19:07.040 --> 0:19:09.479 the whole the Crue, Sean Powell. And we're sitting there 0:19:09.520 --> 0:19:14.200 and we're monitoring this score, right, we're monitoring that game. 0:19:14.520 --> 0:19:17.040 We're at a game, and we're going Each guy turns 0:19:17.080 --> 0:19:20.359 to the other and goes, oh my god, we're losing 0:19:20.400 --> 0:19:23.040 the Nigeria with you know, seven minutes left, with four 0:19:23.080 --> 0:19:25.880 minutes left, with thirty seconds left. And then they came 0:19:25.960 --> 0:19:27.920 the question from each one of us to the other, 0:19:28.080 --> 0:19:30.879 was how big a deal is this, like, should we 0:19:30.920 --> 0:19:33.639 care about this? Is it a friendly? Is that an exhibition? 0:19:33.720 --> 0:19:35.680 Is it a warm up? Is a practice? Is Kevin 0:19:35.800 --> 0:19:39.480 Durant really playing? And so, even as you ticked off 0:19:39.520 --> 0:19:43.920 the answers, kind of yes, yes, yes, I think it's 0:19:43.960 --> 0:19:48.000 important because we never even remember remember how crazy the 0:19:48.080 --> 0:19:51.320 reporting of the scrimmage loss. The Dream Team lost, like 0:19:51.400 --> 0:19:54.679 Chris Webber and Grant Hill and Bobby Hurley and as 0:19:54.760 --> 0:19:56.240 I don't even know who I was on that team, 0:19:56.240 --> 0:19:59.800 but those guys were the headliners, and we cared about it. 0:20:00.080 --> 0:20:05.520 And those guys Jordan Barkley, Magic Birt, they wanted us 0:20:05.560 --> 0:20:09.000 to care because they cared. They cared enough to threaten 0:20:09.080 --> 0:20:13.800 the lives of those college players right and said you 0:20:13.840 --> 0:20:17.800 will be shut out summarily tomorrow, and which they essentially did. 0:20:18.040 --> 0:20:20.760 They cared and they wanted us to care. So using 0:20:20.840 --> 0:20:24.560 that criteria, Dan, we got what's the what's the care scale? 0:20:24.880 --> 0:20:27.400 Like is it a seven? Is it's not a nine? 0:20:27.800 --> 0:20:30.359 I'm gonna go better than five, though, what about you? Yeah, 0:20:30.440 --> 0:20:32.640 I'm up there with it. But I think it's really 0:20:32.680 --> 0:20:36.080 a testament to the rest of the world that how 0:20:36.119 --> 0:20:38.480 important basketball is. And you can go back to the 0:20:38.560 --> 0:20:43.040 Dream Team and what the Dream Team birthed around the world. 0:20:43.640 --> 0:20:46.520 And I think we've seen that. I think you've seen 0:20:46.560 --> 0:20:49.200 that with the you know, players from Europe who come over, 0:20:49.359 --> 0:20:51.640 you know, the Greek Freak, I don't I don't know 0:20:52.119 --> 0:20:56.400 what that impact had on him, or Luca don Chickum, 0:20:56.960 --> 0:20:59.760 you know, the Joker, like these guys who you know, 0:21:00.000 --> 0:21:03.760 probably were young if they were even born, and watching 0:21:03.800 --> 0:21:07.120 that Dream Team and what that Dream Team meant, getting videos, 0:21:07.280 --> 0:21:10.760 getting VHS tapes in you know, these other countries. I 0:21:10.800 --> 0:21:13.679 mean that the importance of that is not lost on me. 0:21:13.760 --> 0:21:15.359 So as much as I'd like to say the United 0:21:15.359 --> 0:21:18.800 States went through the motions, give credit to Nigeria that 0:21:18.880 --> 0:21:22.600 this really meant something to them. And Dan, I've been 0:21:22.600 --> 0:21:25.439 on this crusade that the All Star Game, which has 0:21:25.480 --> 0:21:28.320 become a complete and utter waste of time, the NBA 0:21:28.359 --> 0:21:31.320 All Star Game, waste of time. I don't want to 0:21:31.359 --> 0:21:33.960 see people choosing upsides and go with shirts and skins. 0:21:34.040 --> 0:21:36.520 I don't give a damn about that. The NBA, for 0:21:36.560 --> 0:21:41.240 some reason, is studiously avoiding having Us versus the World. 0:21:41.680 --> 0:21:44.440 If we had that game even the last five years, okay, 0:21:44.480 --> 0:21:47.040 just thinking we had the game this coming All Star Game. Right, 0:21:47.680 --> 0:21:49.800 look a look at the Look at the bigs. You've 0:21:49.840 --> 0:21:52.240 got just the front line you mentioned Janni's of course, 0:21:52.800 --> 0:21:56.719 Mbi Joker, the MVP of the league. If you just 0:21:56.760 --> 0:21:58.440 had the three of them, and you've got don Jet 0:21:58.520 --> 0:22:00.960 you you've already mentioned, and you've got Jamal Murray. Okay? 0:22:01.040 --> 0:22:03.000 Is that a starting five you'd like to see play 0:22:03.080 --> 0:22:06.239 against an All Star team of US pedal courses? And 0:22:06.320 --> 0:22:08.560 I don't know if the league is embarrassed that it 0:22:08.680 --> 0:22:12.600 might that the US team even though the NBA all 0:22:12.640 --> 0:22:15.800 those guys belong to that fraternity. Why won't they do it? 0:22:16.240 --> 0:22:18.359 Why won't they do something that you could actually sink 0:22:18.400 --> 0:22:20.920 your teeth into All Star week as opposed to the 0:22:21.040 --> 0:22:24.360 junk that it is junk. It's just it's an exhibition 0:22:24.400 --> 0:22:27.439 of dunking. Were already got a dunk contest. Let's see 0:22:27.480 --> 0:22:29.879 the best in the world, because you know there's pride, 0:22:29.920 --> 0:22:31.680 they'd want to do it. If they you put those 0:22:31.800 --> 0:22:34.240