The guys are joined by Claire De Lune to react to the quarter finals of the NBA Cup, and the Shams vs Jimmy Butler's agent Twitter beef #volume
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Welcome to jayis the Jones on the Volume podcast network. It is Thursday, December twelfth, and we are joined by one of our.
Best buddies, Claire Dalone.
Claire, thank you so much for hopping on.
Thanks for having me back. I miss you, guys.
We miss you too.
You're over there with the with the with the cool kids, with the skaters, now with the.
Posters, break down and do it.
Eventually. You're too cool now, but you'll be crawling back to where the engagement is eventually.
We did talk about this on the show, and I think my stance was this. I think people think Tyler needs to post, and he does not. And I think when Twitter dies, Tyler will leave. And I think when Tyler leaves, I'm just gonna, you know, follow my good captain into the sunset and be done with.
This particular form a phone addiction. I do truly believe that's what happened.
But Tyler and I do both have our accounts like reserved over there just in case. And then John actually, like you put a photo our ears and stuff, didn't you, like actually set.
It up, didn't you? Yeah?
But I was saying across the Rainbow Bridge and onto Blue Sky. I'll be there.
I know you and Mina both to say your follower accounts is actually higher there stuff. Now, I did get like five hundred followers without even having it like that. Count is just a zombie cat. It's not even on there or whatever.
You know.
Salute to the Blue skyers. I know we do have people in our chat every episode trying to get us over there, but I don't. I don't think it's I truly don't think it's gonna happen.
Keep pressuring them chat wow, immediate mutiny.
From the chat.
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My mom wanted to relay that she she approves of the Beard. Her words were, I like your face too much for you to keep it forever, but looks good.
That's such a beaud yeah mom thing to say, like yeah, yeah, yeah, it looks good.
My mom doesn't know what my face looks like without a beard, because I've only in my adult life not had a beard for about forty five seconds.
So this is my face that she loves. You know what I mean.
A beard for not have a beard for forty five Like, what kind of hair growths I had A I had.
A I had a goatee as a junior in high school, and then I grew it out to a full beard like this thickness when I was like eighteen, and when I was I think when my wife and I were in our like mid twenties, I shaved it all of this. Yeah, completely babyface, what char said.
And then I grew up. Yeah, and then and then I and then I grew it back.
And I think I've told this story on the pod, but at one point I brought up the idea of shaving it again, and she said, and she'd been real. She didn't really actually say anything negative about it when it was shaved, but when I brought up doing it again, she said, why don't you keep the beard? And then that way, when people see us out together, they won't assume.
That you're rich.
I wash, my god, I gotcha. That's an actual face.
She's talking about that.
But yeah, she's only seen me for three days of the However, many hundred years we've been together without face your hair, So this is my actual face.
You know, the makeup's been on so long.
It's just whatever the face that she chose, you know what I mean.
Like, that's right.
I told you about the story about the dude who shaved his beard and like his wife didn't want to fuck with anymore.
Yeah, like she she wrote.
In to like this, or she called into this like hotline on on this radio hotline, like my husband shaved his beard and and it was like for work, like he had to shave his beard.
And she's like, I.
Don't like looking at him anymore, like she didn't want to be with him.
Like that's how crazy that shit is.
That's how man man makeup bro as I conditional.
Yeah, yeah, it doesn't. You can't. You can't wash the iOS crazy. That's crazy.
All right, let's talk about the National Basketball Association Cup, shall we.
Oh?
Yeah, what is the group's reaction to the foul call at the end of the Warriors Rockets game, three seconds left, eighty feet from the basket. As Steve Kerr pointed out about seventeen times in his postgame press conference, loose ball on the ground, they call a foul on the Warriors. Warriors are up by one, Rockets make their two free throws and win the game. What did you guys think of that foul call?
I thought it was a wild call.
I think that, and I understand why the refs made it, I think, but we've seen calls like that before where they usually just give the team the time out instead of saying, we're not jump all in this right like we're given we're going to reward the first guy who was on the ground for the ball, We're gonna reward possession of them, give them a time out if they call it.
And I get that.
I think that there's some logical beyond that, But to call a foul there, it's like, yo, you're locked. Yeah, yeah, you're locking the game up for Houston, you know with that call.
Playing a simple.
But at the same time, I am not gonna feel sorry for Golden State and shafted on the off the end of of questionable foul calls. They that damn near every screen they said was a me moving screen, you know during their championship run, right, like that was a legit, Like Draymond was out there and being a left guard, Bro, you know what I mean, Like like he was out there on the on the inside zone on a lot of you know, pick and rolls. So I'm not there's no part of me that could do anything but find the humor if Steve Kerr complaining about foul complaining about foul calls in a post game, you know. But but I do enjoy how this is kind of, you know, lending some legitimacy to the to the nd season Tournament Cup because we've got the figurehead of the Warriors crying about a foul foul beef.
Yeah for sure.
And this was and Bro, but the Rockets broke a fifteen game losing streak against the Warriors with this. It was just before COVID dog like Bro and rock fans were out there pulling out pulling out egregious missed foul calls from like twenty eighteen last night. Like I was like, let the Rockets fans have this moment. We are taking this shit back to twenty eight.
It was a super touch of the files they missed. They had a super cut. I saw the files they missed. It was crazy, bro. They're like, look, you cannot talk about this. We've been on the other side of too many of these.
Yeah.
Crazy, So look, I'll agree with you Warriors fans. It was an egregious foul call. Am I gonna cry and pick it with you? Absolutely not. I'm going to enjoy the crying coming from that. Going around is coming around, you feel the game.
My thing is like sports cops have the worst main character syndrome, Like they they just want it to be about them and they want that When they can feel the spotlight shifting away from them, they immediately just try and like summon it back. And it drives me crazy, like let the players decide the game. Like, And the thing is, they weren't calling fouls that whole game. They were letting shit go. It was like fouls for fouls, foul and they were letting them play, which I'm with it's a high stakes environment. Let them play, But then you're gonna call a foul, not only in that moment, but when Gary Payton just got fouled, right, before that exact same foul that they called happened to Gary Payton when he originally had possession of the ball. So to me, that was just like I understand why Warriors fans are pissed, not because the game ended on a foul call, but just because it's like, either call the shit or don't you know what I'm saying, but don't like, don't switch it up when there's three point five seconds left to play, but you do make vowel points. They have been the beneficiaries of calls in the past. I just like I'm anti sports cops in general. I feel like they need to they need to calm down.
I will add this with Claire being a veteran reporter.
It's a great stance to take, and it is part of the reason that I'm sure Claire gets the access she does. Great stance to take to be default against the reps in all situations.
Hard job. I will say, they have a very hard job because when they do their job really well, you don't know us it at all. That's like best case scenario for a ref. You forget that they're even there. So it's not like they're getting like, wow, that ref called the ship out of that game. They did such a good job, and like they did so amazing, Like that never happens, but that's what you sign up for when you put on those zebra stripes. You know what I'm saying, So like it is what it is.
D agrees with Tyler. I put a poll, do you guys feel bad for the Warriors? And eighty three percent right now.
Say, Bro, we've been on an ass end of a lot of this.
Should they of course, we never feel bad for the Warriors.
That's amazing. I feel like leading the witness a little bit me.
That was the way Tyler phrased it.
Well, if Tyler was not the witness, he was delivering a closing argument. So you see that the whole overtin window to Tyler's argument.
Tyler, we always want to be fair to Tyler.
I think the one thing I would say that that occurred to me and and uh Claire talked about never appreciating the refs and they do a good job.
We also never.
Appreciate the moments when, like Twitter, conspiracy theories are proven to not be true. We only look for confirmation. I don't ever want to hear shit about the NBA rigging stuff again. Yeah, because I promise you no one in New York was sitting there going please, we need the rockets to get through to Las Vegas. Don't let Steph Curry get to Las Vegas. We need the rockets and the thunder like. There's no way that that is what the NBA wanted, And I did see people. The one criticism leveled against Steve Kerr was why not challenge that? And basically, you know, give the refs thirty seconds to review it where maybe they get that double buzz in that back pocket, you know what I mean from the head office of like motherfucker.
You phrase it however you want to phrase it, but you are to.
See I mean, I think read you know, scruff or whatever you want to call it on the floor for a loose ball can be a foul. There's all types of reaching over the body and all that that you can call those a foul every time, if you can call everyone.
A foul or a travel Yeah, and that's what he said. He wasn't it wasn't going to be overturned. That he knew it wasn't gonna be overturned because there probably was content saved, and he wanted to and there was a miss. The TNT guys sort of like got unfortunately that when the audio cut out of the Steve Chris presser, they they thought he was saying he was trying to save his challenge. But I think he's trying to say he's trying to save his time out. Then you needed to advance the ball if they were down by one with three seconds to go. So he's in a tough spot.
What would it take for you to call that foul? Or you think that I think you have to punch somebody in the face.
I think Draymond in a headlock, you might have to grab a WY would not call a foul in that situation, even with a headlock, unless I saw someone stomping a foot downward.
On the bonus Draymond moment.
A scale, if you spin around and hit someone with the back of your fist, maybe legal in that situation.
In my playbook, right, I love that.
Actually, as like the arbitrary foul scale, just using only Draymond Green examples.
I do think that that does have something to do with what Tyler is saying about not having any sympathy for the Warriors.
That's fair, that's fair. I would never call. I mean, that's just like, especially when you haven't been calling it all game, but even if you have, it's just you just can't decide the game on free throws. It's so anti climactic, Like I hate game deciding free throws.
Yeah, it did make for an incredible Steve Crowe is about as angry as I've ever seen a coach in a Yeah. I mean, I mean it was using language he like when you start hearing.
He said, an elementary.
School, Yeah, would make them that call.
You know, that's like you're really over the top. And I love the melodrama of Did you see his quote on the critiquing what the court looked like that he said if I felt like I was descending into Hell.
Rocket fans were like, good, welcome to Hell. Tormented the funk out of you without court.
The other Cup game last night was Trey Young continuing to haunt the Knicks dreams. I do see that our producer Josh Rodriguez, Knicks fan, conveniently absent from this episode, but Trey with the dice roll at center court as time was running out.
How much did you enjoy that game?
Crew?
And uh, and how much did you enjoy the way Trey is relishing. Whatever else is happening in his career, he's going to torture Knicks fans as much as possible.
I love it.
It's one of my favorite line, you know, storylines in the NBA right now, is how Trey Young and just just just was to torment the Knicks every turn. And you know, someone who's a Knicks fan in a previous life and still has you know, a particular affinity for them in this halfway room for them, even as as you know that type of guy. I love it, and I'm sure a lot of Nick fans love it too, even if begrudgingly so. Because the fact that Trey Young respects your franchise enough that he wants you to hate them. You know, that's a good sign. We haven't had someone embrace being a Knicks villain since fucking Reggie Miller in ninety four.
It's been thirty years, bro, You know what I mean? Y'all are back.
Y'all are legitimately on the scene as a contender now that you have a dude who is relishing and being you know, hated.
By your fan base.
And I think another reason that that deep down Knicks fans probably begrudgingly love this. You know, this rivalry with Trey is because Bro, Trey is he is New York basketball.
Yeah.
When you think New York basketball, you think flashy point guards. No one goes to the rucker to see the post play, bro, you know what I mean. You go to see dudes who can dribble their ass could pass their ass off, and that's Tray, you know what I mean. And and the whole rolling of the dice on the on the half court thing.
Bro.
He did that in the dice rolling capital of the World.
That's why the buildings have cinder blocks on the bottom so that the dice could pop off at the right right.
Yeah.
Yeah, so yeah, so I know that even if if Knicks fans hate him, there's some respect, even if it's be grudging.
Yeah, the game was kind of a dumb I mean, that was like not a great game, though, can we agree.
It was the reason I'm only bringing up the celebration at the end of the game for sure.
Yeah, it was like very nobody could hit the broad side of a barn for a lot of it, and you could, you know that say that was great defense. But I feel like it was just mostly bad offense.
No, I think I could say that there was great defense in the in the Thunder game, and I think you could say that there was really good defense for long stretches of the Warriors Rockets game. I think if the Warriors had won, we'd be talking about that being as good a game as Draymond has played defensively in quite a while.
But the Knicks, I will not accept that the Knicks Hawks game was good defense.
That was.
I may have been bomani, but someone said on Twitter, it's not a good sign with what this where the style of the game is that when either team makes a three, you can't help but feel happy for them, like, oh good that, Like they got one to go down, like it was a brutal it is. That game, to me, was the argument against like the direction that the game has kind of gone in, you know what I mean, because.
When people are missing it is disgusting.
Yeah. I think Kat was incredible. I mean he I think he filed out. It's like death and Taxes. Of course he filed out. But I do think he was. He's been showing why New York won that trade, you know. I mean, he's been first of all the like story arc for his character, like the character arc of like you know, the Big Bodega like whatever. Like New York Cat, he really seems like he's like more comfortable in his own skin there, and he's like I would have thought before he went to New York that if he was trying to be like a badass, I would have been like, it's not it's not landing, it's it doesn't resonate, but it kind of works like New York Cat is kind of a vibe, like he's just like like I don't know if you saw the previous game to that one, he hit the game winner, yeah, and he was like pulling out the jersey and showing the New York and he was like New York like into the camera. And if you had told me a year ago that he was doing that, I would have been like, I'm gonna roll my eyes at that. But it was kind of lit like I was like, okay, Cat, Like I love New York Cat. Like he's he's hooping. He had fifteen first half rebounds last night. Like he's been awesome for New York. He's been way better than Mikhail Bridges, who they gave up, you know, like eighty thousand first round picks for so good for Cat.
Yeah, I think that, you know, concern that a lot of folks have was I don't know if Cat's going to be built for the New York City media whatever early in the season, but he's shown he looks like he was born to be a Nick. Yeah, he is a perfect fit. And like you said, he's bawling. You know, the Knicks are fifteen and ten. There's the and I think a lot of us came into the season knowing that they were going to have to figure things out. It's a whole new roster just about you know, on the top end. But but yeah, I mean he Cat's for sure not one of their concerns. But you know, Mikal Bridges.
Yeah, it is crazy in retrospect that we thought a fake tough guy wouldn't fly in New York.
You know what I mean?
That's the Cat, that's the fake tough.
Guy capitalist watch it.
No, they do, that's it.
That's that's that's the so called shot right there.
But I do think like saying of Cat like, oh, he might be too theatrical for New York, It's like, what the fuck are we talking about? Like you know, like a guy who you know, Like, Yeah, I think in hindsight, it makes a lot of sense that he's playing well there because that big personality.
It was kind of big in Minnesota.
And I use this example with like imagine being his height and size anywhere in Minnesota.
Yeah, I've lived in both places, New York City and Minnesota, which.
It's easier to picture him walking down the street or hanging out at the park.
In New York.
I would assume with you having lived in both places.
Yeah.
Well, And also the thing about Minnesota that like nobody wants to admit is people are way judgier and meaner in Minnesota than they are in New York. Like the thing about New York, n Yeah that Minnesota nice bake as hell. And the thing about New York is like New Yorkers are brash and they don't give give a shit, and if you're walking by them on the street, they're like, get out of my way. But if you need them, like if you're in a crisis, everybody on the subway is going to drop what they're doing to help you. Like that's like the true New York whereas Minnesota everyone's be like, oh, my gosh, Hi, how's your day? Oh my god? Did you see that guy? He's so tall, it's so weird. Blah blah blah. So I feel like for somebody from Jersey, he probably just feels way more like at home and at peace in New York, and I'm happy for him. Also, his Jersey's gonna go triple platinum at the Dominican Day Parade. Oh my god, od, it'll be the likes of which we've never seen.
So I just I think I'm sort of with Cat on the like that Upper Midwest.
Uh do you are you? Do you refer to that region as Upper Midwest? Are you comfortable with that?
Now?
I mean it's Midwest. I mean it's technically the upper part of the Midwest, But there.
Is like a there is a difference to like Ohio, Indiana culture.
Versus Minnesota is very like Norwegian like quiet, cold, yeah, right, But I.
Would be with Cat in their brand of niceness up there. When I've been in Minnesota in Wisconsin, it gives me anxiety, like it is it's just very like, first of all, why are you talking to me? And then second of all, like the facade is like uncomfortable, you know, it's nice.
It's not kind.
Yeah, that's exactly, That's exactly.
I also think that Cat, I think it's fair to say, is like kind of an odd guy personality, is just like pretty weird, and sometimes that just kind of like gets old after a while. He's been he was Minnesota for a long time. Yeah, now he has just sometimes people like that just need a fresh start. And I think that like really works his favorite a lot of ways.
Yeah, I think Kat is a reactionary weird, not a legitimately weird. And what I mean by that is he's someone He's someone who pays attention to the things that are said about him and tries to counter that, like like when he tried putting on that deep voice in the post game when we were clowning his voice right, Like.
Like he's not we's not legitimately deep in his core weird.
He tries to combat the weird allegations and then he makes himself look even weirder in doing so.
But I think he might be turned in.
I don't give a fuck leaf in New York because New York's the perfect place to do that, So we'll see.
Yeah, and he loves he seems to like really thrive in and love to your point, like the drama and the theater of being a Nick and playing an MSG and and that sort of the theatrics of it all, which is as much as like the brinyas like and you know, movement in Minnesota is trying to make that a thing, like it's that's such a nick New York thing. So he seems like he's really thriving. He's basically a basketball theeder kid, so he's just thriving in that New York environment, and good for him.
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Looking ahead a little bit, and we'll talk about the thunder in a second, But I just want to set up Saturday's games. The early game Saturday on TNT will be Hawks Bucks. This podcast was certainly one of many national podcasts that very much enjoyed the Doc Rivers demise of the Bucks storylines early in the season. They have certainly turned it around and are on quite a run right now. We're all Yannis fans, and so I assume you guys are as happy as I am that at the idea of the Bucks competing as funny as the Doc Rivers jokes are, and I feel I do feel like the Bucks are a great example of the value of the inns of the Cup, which is here's a team with a star player, a couple star players that struggled. That was sort of the early narrative that was out and now you get a chance to kind of see what they look like in these meaningful games. And obviously Giannis is going to have to carry the burden of being the star player playing on Saturday. But what do you think of Hawk's Bucks And where do you guys feel like the Bucks are.
In their sort of journey of the season.
I honestly do not know what to make up the Bucks right now.
You know, they had that troubling concerning start where we all thought that they were about to blow it up, and then you know, Jannis was like, hey, let me remind everyone that I'm the second best player in the world at absolute worst. It seems like every night he's putting up like forty one and eighteen or something ridiculous. As as far as as the matchup, you know, but I'm not sure how sustainable that is for Milwaukee. I know, I don't know if you can just depend on Giannis to be otherworldly if you want to, you know, be a fifty one team, you know, so, but as far as the matchup, I love it.
I love it.
You know, we we're gonna have you know, Trey who's on fire versus you know, Giannis was on fire.
This is another matchup that for sure.
We didn't get any calls from Adam Silver about you gonna have the Bucks in the Hawk who represents the East and the Cup.
But yeah, I'm very much looking forward to that game.
My thing, so my only bone to pick with the Bucks right now is that Torrian Prince is currently the best three point shooter in the NBA. He's shooting fifty four percent from three. And it's like watching your Dusty X, who could not get it together for you, start stating a new girl. All of a sudden, he has a new car, he has a new job. He's like, you know, popping on social whatever. And it's just like, I gave you everything you asked for, everything you needed. You started fifty something games last year, Like where was this three point shooting on the Lakers?
To extend your analogy, don't you feel like if you have that experience with like fifteen x's in a row, don't you at some point have to look in the mirror and go, is it me?
It's definitely there's a car or would.
Why do all of these people seem so happy after they leave me?
The lights expected or whatever that means?
Like, I think I think we need to give credit to current Bucks assistant coach Darvin Hamm.
You know, Bringatorian along, you know.
And we're seeing JJ, you know, having the same struggles that Darwin was having, and Torrian is ball and it's it's low.
Key a little vindication to it for Darwin. Right about now, dot.
Well lebron brought his son to the Lakers and Darvin brought his son to the Bucks. Story for everyone.
We're less than two months into the season, and this podcast is.
Giving Darwin am more credit than absolutely absolutely what we get.
We gave JJ credit when the Lakers were fucking four and one and we thought, they're if the if the Bucks win and Darvin ham is undefeated in the history of the Cup, do they have to name it after him?
Is it gonna be the memorial darwinham NBA Ham Cup?
The Ham Cup.
Hamcuf sounds like something that your mom packs in your lunch that you really you have to trade immediately, You're like, I don't want this. Does anybody have fruit? By the foot?
You're not getting by the foot for a ham cuff yellow fruit snack.
You get the fruit snacks people don't want, like picked out of the bag for your hamdup.
Yeah, I felt like this might be the Virginia in me battling here. But I've never had bad ham.
Have you like a ham cut hand.
Cut a cup of like some dice ham or some ship that the ham you're getting picture in.
Picturing it in like the the thing that the mandarin oranges come in. I'm picturing it coming in a thing with some brine in it or something brom picturing.
I love it so much.
What I'm picturing.
You don't have to brine ham because ham is already salt.
You say, a cup, it's going to come in that with a wooden spoon or some ship.
It's not just going to be raw in the cup.
Make Yeah, I ever had bad ham, like like even even you know, cold cube hammel on the salad or.
We never had a We never had a ham cup.
This is something brand new the way they're going to have to preserve the hamserve ice cream.
But I would I don't like the ice cream that's like pure ice that comes with the wooden spoon that you have to fucking.
Like hammer it in to break off this ship, you know.
Yeah, Italian ice is great.
That's what you're describing.
I'm talking about.
I'm talking about the oops.
Might be brother, I'm talking about.
Talking about the vanilla cup with the half a squirt of fudge on the side of it that was like with the wooden spoon that would cut your tongue up y'out.
I do know what you're talking about talking about.
Also, Mikey and the chats, Virginia ham is delicious, so absolutely yeah, sure, world Smithfield.
You're Virginia privilege, showing that you we had a hand. The rest of us were slumming it with the nasty Lunchible ship.
I will say, Tyler, the Lunchible's ham is bad ham. Bro, I have had bad ham.
You would probably correctly say it does not qualify as ham.
But like I genuinely that is the ham that would come on a handcut, hurt.
Me off a hand and that would be the handcuff.
That's the hamcut ham Bro.
I'm laughing at the funniest Chat comment we have today so far, which is Mike's grandma definitely had a hand cut for Thanksgiving.
Bro, somebody hit me in my mentions the amount of somebody hit me about Mike's grandma.
My dad was texting me about Mike's grandma.
Somebody d m me about jellybits grandma. To give you some context, clear, Can we can't? Can we talk about it? You could talk?
The sweetest woman in the history of the species my grandma.
At one point in our her and are two other siblings, they each got a jelly bean for Christmas.
It was a it was for their birthday.
They didn't get anything for Christmas.
Okay, sorry, come on, only spare one jelly bean at a time, so they got her for their birthday instead.
Okay, here's what I.
Was saying, Andy, And I'm it would make my grandma happy that everyone was getting jokes off her expense, genuinely, but this is what I would say about the level of poverty my grandma grew up in. We also thought it was funny until she found one Christmas. We were going through like her family stuff, and she found a picture of the shack that she grew up in. And I remember, at like thirteen, being like, oh.
That's not.
I was like, oh, she grew up in hell. Like we better stop making jokes about growd Okay.
So stop hitting me my my dams about the jelly beans.
Okay, jelly bean jokes, jelly beans. As an adult, she was just you know.
She went on to have a one, a full life. She and my grandpa. All they wanted was a fig tree in the backyard. They had a fig tree and they could make their own. Whatever the you make had a fix.
Hey, that's that depression generation. Fig Newton was like a you.
Know, Newton for a ham Cup.
Big news are good.
I keep my fig Newton.
I'm telling you that, brother, No Brian ham for my fig Newton got to find another summer like that.
He said, brother, and was vaguely directed towards me. I'm like, wow, I've really arrived on this podcast.
I'm honorary brother is definitely cross gender on this. Yeah. I call my wife bro as well. Yeah, you know, that's part of the way we move.
Dame's been playing good, though, I wanted to say that we haven't been talking about Dame Damon playing good and and and and last game he basically cared them at the end.
Of it, you know what I mean.
So I think the Boks look good.
I just want to say it seems like the refs. It's like when Dame's playing good, no one talks about it.
And when playing.
That's being the number two guy. To be honest like that is that's one hundred percent. That's not an easy role to accept.
The other game.
Uh, you know the ratings watchers, the NBA ratings watchers thrilled for this one Rockets Thunder. I did get a chance to watch the entire start to finish without having work to do or kids bothering me or anything else. I got to watch the entire Rockets Thunder MAVs game. I'm very attracted to the Thunders defense. They are a good basketball team.
Everything there's no hole like and Chet was sitting on the bench.
Like a suit.
Yeah, looking.
Looking like a look at like a fucking nightmare, just looking like the ghost of Christmas.
Ask that.
The gre there's an actual nightmare. I might have had that ship before.
Bro, that's crazy.
That's imagining Chet home Green coming down your chimney to get to drop Christmas presence off.
That's the that's your man. I'll tell you one thing. Me and my friend killed him with hammers.
Can you say that.
You know that you've heard you've heard that you want alive.
That can't be cut. Bro, you killed him with hammer if he broke into my.
House for the chimney, he said, crime, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, you have hold on, hold on, you have babies.
If it's if it's Christmas Eve. You hear a rustling at the front of.
The house, you could in front of that, you say, with hammers suit you're and there's a hammer in your hand. You're to put the hammer down. There's a noise in your house. What do you walk out to the front with.
Let's talk about s g A broer bro never.
Really taking a hammerhag.
Really knocking him down.
Right.
They're really, really good and if they don't come out of the West, it's going to be because something went so so far left, Like I will be absolutely bowled over shocked if they're not the team coming out at the Western Conference. They have everything, their top five defense, offense. I think they're number one maybe even in defense. And Shay is a superstar. He's arrived mart and Sidin and Carusoe. I mean, we were talking about this, Tyler and I were talking about this on Twitter yesterday. But like the fact that Sam Presty got Alex Caruso for Josh Giddy with nothing else, no picks, not even second round picks, just nothing. Just here's Josh Giddy. You give me Alex Cruso the end, Like that is the craziest I still can't believe that happened in real time. It was crazy. It's only gotten crazier as it's aged. And they had this perfect offseason additions for them. They were already the number one team in the West last year, and then they added exactly what they needed. Like they're awesome and they're for sure coming out of the West. Like I feel so confident saying that.
Yeah, I mean they were already a really good defense before adding Yeah Russo and adding Hartenstein, and yeah, it's just like, you know, we went into the season saying, you know, okay, see had the best offseason and it was just because they picked up Cruso in Hartenstein, right, we knew that those were perfect pieces to get them to where they want to be. They didn't need any more firepower. They got a incredible perimeter defendant, Cruso, got a great post defending Hartenstein, and now they're the best defense in the league. Bro, Like, yeah, they're for sure, you know, and and and even at at the top of the season, I was like, you know, okay see, they'd get my pick on who I think is coming off the West. But they've even exceeded my expectations on how good they would be and how great you know, Cruise on Harnstein would be a fit there.
Yeah, watch it.
Watching okay see makes me like I thought about the Lakers.
Just blow it up.
Bro, Remember people, it's over with. You have no fucking shot.
They're not capable of trying to play defense.
These this that's a.
Whole last But and they're so good and they're so young, Bro, it's over with, start over. It's nothing. Nothing you have now is gonna compete with these.
Guys fast, crazy, they're young, they're athletic, and the most important thing. And this is like the Boston Celtics formula. Shout out to Jackson, is that every single player on that team that I can catch.
Credit for the Boston Celtics formula, he had nothing.
I mean, I was acknowledging his presence. I'm not giving him credit. But the Oklahoma City Thunder, like every player that is actually gonna get time, which is like basically like what like a nine or ten man rotation or something probably is a two way player, like everybody can shoot, everybody can defend, and they're all young enough to like not run out of steam, so.
Cheap enough to fit the current apron structure.
And what blew me away I started like kicking it off on my hands watching it was the number of plays consecutively where they would blitz Luca. You double Luca to start the possession as he crosses half.
And then get and then they want, yes, lou Dort, did you see that that shot? Someone posted like lou Dort was doubling Luca and they all the way from one like the top of the key on the other side, all the way to the corner to block a three point shot and successfully blocked it.
Like what do you do with that? Bro?
Like I meant to change.
You got to change the order that your offense has you pass the ball, like you have to change everything because it's like they knew, we know where your first pass and your second pass out of a double is going.
But the problem is because they're so fast and athletic even if they over commit, so where they can recover so quickly and get back to where they.
Need to be.
So like it's it's Celtic's thunder at the end, and it's what we all thought at the beginning of the season is going to happen.
Like, come on, I saw a status that we've never seen a team average more steals and deflections than this team, which is just you know, because steels can be a bit of a misleading stat at times, Like there are ways you can cherry pick steels. You can play passing lanes like Alan Iverson my personal most favor player ever left the league, and steals multiple times. It was not a good lockdown defender by any measure, right, But yeah, that deflection stat, Bro, that is a team that is pasking.
That is a team that is not taking any possessions off.
That is a team that thinks they can get the ball back from you every single time you have it, Bro, And I can't imagine.
It has to be hell playing those dudes.
I cannot imagine, Bro, And I just like can't overstate top five in both offense and defense missing one of their maybe their second best player, like one of their five starters. You don't think chests are second, but I mean, I guess Jalen so third third best player at worst, Like that's.
Number two for me. Mike is just an a check guy.
I don't think they look really good without him.
I mean they're just they look really good.
He said.
That he looks bigger and stronger.
I think he's a I think he's quite a significantly better defender because of how much stronger he is. You want to put Chet up against Nikola, Well, that's why they don't put anybody.
I think.
I think Hartenstein is a better defender.
I think he's a better rebounder, and I think he's a dramatically better passer. He's like not he's not Draymond Green level, but if you throw it to him at the elbow, he is making plate.
Okay, we're talking about player, not just the fer, better player as a whole. Because he can guard, you can throw it. He has a bigger body to put in front of the Cola. Jokic is doing the exact same thing to both of him, Nickers Bro Isaiah Fan.
But I can't stand for this, Like Chet is a way better player than his The one thing I will give Hartenstein credit for that I think is underrated. And I noticed this a lot in the playoffs last year with the Knicks. His touch at the basket is remarkable in this.
Way, his floater is insane. Let me rephrase it slightly.
If you were building a team from scratch, I think Chet Holmern is a better player to start a team with and Isaiah Hartenstein, but as as not your best player, as anyone I think anything other than your number one player. I think Hartenstein is better than cheddle.
Hardstein is really good at hard and Stein is what he's supposed to do, you know what I mean.
He's like, he's really good in his role. Perfect it is role.
So if you're thinking of look at it from that perspective, I understand. But Chet's a better basketball player. Just you go to the chat generally agrees with you, guys.
Just a case to close off our check conversation. Just in case anyone didn't know what I was referencing one of my favorite sweets of all time from Hello Colin. Me and my friends would have killed et with hammers. I can tell you that much. That's I did. It was just like we were laughing, I think because we were laughing so.
Hard because you were talking about a human.
That's where it just got real.
I did cry off my eye makeup laughing.
So there is that. That's good.
Okay. We talked a lot about the defense. I want to say, like the flow of the ball in their offense is incredible to It's an.
Amazing basketball team, like the only the flaws don't exist that I can see. I mean, you know, I haven't really been there before. That's my only My only concern with them in the playoffs is the limited amount of playoff experience. They just haven't had a ton of especially deep playoff experience. But I think they're fine. They're so confident, like Shay is super nova and he's been an m VP candidate for two years running. Like, I think they're going to be fine.
And I think the things that make you good into playoffs, like like the that's a sign of a competitive team, Like they're competing and you know what I'm saying, on both instid of the court, in every position, you know what I mean. And so I think I think it'll translate really well. And I think they've grown up since last year. They'll be They're gonna, they're gonna. I think they'll be just fine.
And Cruso's not gonna let them act like teenagers in the place. I mean, like Alex Cruso' is there, like that is like a hard hat wearing like NBA, like go to work, do your job professional, you know. And I think, especially yeah, a publican.
Thing about me.
I love Alex Caruso so much. It's like he's so much higher on my favorite basketball player rankings than he should be. But every time I watch him, I just like, I'm like looking at Vinnie the whole game, like is she the way he.
You see the video of him hip checking someone after he got knocked to the ground. There's like a video floating around of like he gets knocked down in like a kind of aggressive possession. He waits down on the ground for a second, see if he's gonna get the fouel doesn't get the foul, pops up as everyone's coming back in transition. He just hip checks the guy who knocked him over as hard as he can. It's awesome.
His best.
We have our first moment when we think Woes is truly truly happy to be retired from the world of news breaking, which is that Shams is engaged in a really public agent beef, which I know has been delighting the absolute hell.
Lot of Tyler.
How the tables, how the turn tables?
Jackson?
Are there any have there been any further development since we've been recording? Okay, then Tyler, do you want to give the context and and what you're hoping to see from Shams here?
Okay?
So basically, you know, a couple of days back where got out that Jimmy wants out, and we got a list of his preferred destinations, and yesterday Shams tweeted out that I think that the destinations were what Dallas, Houston, Golden State, right, those are the three yes. And then Shams yesterday tweeted that he has added Phoenix to his list of you know, preferred destinations. And I'm gonna read the tweets from the agent because I do not want to short change this.
If you didn't wait dog.
Okay, So the agent's name is Bernard Lee, and he tweeted all right, listen. When I saw that, I was like, holy ship, Like that first sentence, I was like, okay, you.
Could be in the background.
I gave you a pass yesterday because I was busy, But if you don't stop putting my name when you're complete and utter, made up bullshit because you know nor you normally aren't worth my time to acknowledge. Then he put parthes He's continued, goes on to another tweet. I don't know what I'm going to do because I'm a middle aged dad, but.
I love it.
I love that awareness awareness.
I don't know what I'm gonna do because I'm a middle aged dad. But no, it would indicate severe dislike world dot dot dot all, this is fabricated. I have never and honestly, it wouldn't help me or the position I represent to do anything that's been reported by said journalists.
Journalists and quotation quotes.
That's that's the kicker. You put journalists in quotes.
Yeah, and he says, Chams, this is your opportunity, this is your opportunity to say my bad. I let chat GPT write my tweets and then went old school Peter VESSI. Then he puts in parentheses, Chams, Peter was a writer in the nineties. Another jab at his journalism there, Yeah, and his age dude be a trend center in fit the new I was hat carry on, thank you listen, bro, when this shit came down my timeline yesterday, I legitimately thought it was a troll I had it wasn't Sentel.
I thought it was sentil bro.
I thought.
I thought, Okay, this is someone who changed their profile to the to to Jimmy's agent, and it's getting these tweets off.
And then I saw Mickey Yerrison retweet the ship and I was like, oh.
Wait a minute, and I went and I had to go check Mickey's for that Twitter, and I went and checked his media and there was Mickey doing all types of rich guy ship. So I was like, Okay, this is legit right right there. Used to be a way we used to tell who was real on Twitter before Elon came along.
You know.
Yeah, but bro, that is just so wild to me, especially in this in this fledgling era, that that that shins is in its kind of the new figurehead of yes in this arena and in the basketball scoop arena. It's like, Bro, he told you not only is your scoop wrong, he told you he doesn't like you, and he told you do not speak on him.
I was like, yeah, I was like, Broke, I've watched that.
And I was like, for one wold would not have gotten this scoop wrong, And two, woldrian not to let that man talk to him like that. Like, and this isn't a shot at at at Bernard Lee at the agent's me's trying to say he's someone who knows who to pick with.
It's just we've seen what WOJ will and will not tolerate.
We saw him tell that Republican congressman to go fuck himself with the emailed right, yeah, like like like I know that WOG would have set that dude straight if he came at him like that. But Wold would have been in that situation because I'm sure he would enough came out here with some false information like that. But I'm just confused at how Sham's got this one so long, because we all know Shams is the agent guy, right and and Wolj is the front office guy. So I'm just very confused that where he got this information from. And I hope he get some clarity on Sham's part, but it looks like Shams is just ignoring this shit bro.
So he's a rot, the Chat has said.
The Chat has informed us that he went on like Sports Center this morning stood by and said that he backed his reporting, but has not explicitly said whether he's spoken.
To Ernie Leer.
That feels like something that you would mention if you had right to like clear your name. Like, no, this reporting came directly from his mouth, I have receipts like blah blah blah, you know what I mean. And if it didn't come directly from his agent, then dropping his agent's name and the reporting is wild. That is flagrant, Like if that's not where you got the information from, like using that as he basically named him as a source. Yeah, Like just from a reporting perspective, that's a crazy one.
Thing Claire and I could both confirm for everyone is that as a reporter, when you start referring to the reporting as a like separate entity, it is usually not a sign that things are going well, you know what I mean, The reporting was vetted and I I mean luckily, you.
Know, knock on wood, I've never had I've never had anyone like come back and question anything that I've said. But I definitely, you know, there is a real phenomenon that like sometimes things come out that people didn't think we're going to come out, and then they'll go back and say that they're false when they're true. But in Sham's position, like, if you're going to use Jimmy Butler's agent's name in the original reporting and say like per this person, you know you you either need to have communicated to him that you're going to go public with this or at least have talked to him. So that's that's the thing that's like not quite the dots aren't connecting for me. Is like I would imagine that if you were going to use someone's name like that, that they had to at least communicate. Maybe it was a miscommunication, I guess as possible. But that's for him to just make it up and use his name, Like, I don't know, I don't see that happening. I'm not trying to give Chams too much credit, but like you're working at ESPN and you're you're using your naming names and your story like you talk to somebody.
Yeah, but Bernie Lee didn't even know how to thread. He didn't even know how to thread the tweet. That's why I believe him. He was that mad when he waited and found the tweet again three times to write how he felt that Nigga was hot.
You feel what I'm saying, So bro.
I feel like he had been lied on and he was sick, like, I don't know, you're not a thread.
I'm gonna let him know.
Fiel all the metough I got more to say, fuck.
It, you know what I mean.
So I did have one person I interviewed tried to like call my boss and said that I didn't say that, and he which he did say it, and I had to record it, and he ended up getting fired over it, which is why he was calling my boss trying to get me in trouble or whatever.
But that's why we record that. What he said was crazy also, and it was on the record. It was a high school.
Girls soccer coach and he said that he felt the R word by the officials of the high school of soccer game. Uh, and I the hard R word, no, like he felt the word for sexual assault, which I won't even use because of how crazy it was for him to say it. And I quoted him in the story and he said I didn't say that. He said I felt wrecked, and I was like, that's not what you said, homie.
You had to report that he needed to get the need away from you, which you said.
Away. Sure.
Yeah, it's crazy.
So where do y'all think we're at with this Jimmy drama. The more I think about it, the more I don't think Jimmy is going anywhere.
Bro.
I think this is just an argument that Jimmy has had with management and with Raleigh that has gotten a bit too out of hand, and there was probably some emotions there and because you know, we've we've seen before that that they've had these types of dust stups, right, Like, and I honestly think pat Riley is a dude who enjoys a good stuff, right And I honestly think he's a dude who low key will not respect a star player who does who isn't willing to do, but heads back with him, you know what I mean?
So, Bro, pat Riley and Jimmy Butler are both Italians, you know what I mean, Like in the way that they communicate with people and deal with interpersonal relationships like this is like part of that. Yeah, So I agree with you one hundred This is just part of the process of like them working together is just gonna be some some conflict like this.
And Jimmy just opened his flagship Big Fing coffee shop in Miami. So in the design district, I believe. So, I mean, that's like quite an investment to make in in Miami if you're not planning on staying there. But the only thing I will say, as far as like Devil's Advocate, he has a player option next year, I believe, and if Miami's gonna get something for him, like he could opt out and become a free agent. Like so, I think Miami is incentivized to move him just because they're either gonna move him now or potentially lose him for nothing. So I would say that that that would be the only reason I would think I'm leaning. I would say, like sixty percent he's not going anywhere. Forty he gets moved at the deadline just because of the asset retention or whatever the like. Fancy.
I think Jimmy's at the stage in his career where you're not going to get a star back in return for him. You're gonna get, Yeah, you might get a kid, you know, a player to come up in some picks.
Right, that's what you can do. And I feel like we just haven't seen.
Miami go and blow it up rebuilding mode and damn near our whole lifetime, right, I don't think pat Raley's that guy. Pat Raley's like seventy five years old. He doesn't have time for that shit. I think he's constantly in win now mode. And yeah, you know, like I said, I think it's just it's just a little you know, uh, you know, Jimmy and and management and ownership button heads and they got a little too public, and I don't think anything's gonna come up.
You remember when Nip hopped out there on Twitter and said that him and Lauren Lennon had broke up, and then Lauren Lundon was like, let's go to lunch. Like you know what I'm saying, That's how this is gonna end. Like, bro, boys, stop, come on, you know what I'm saying. I'm about to pull up. Let's go get some mining now, you know what I mean. That's what it feels like, like like you've ever seen that Facebook, folks, We're to do something. I'm tired of my girl always trying to run me, get on my nerves. And she responded to her said, boy, come downstairs so we can go to eat. It's very that's very life interaction, very real life.
Very should have quietly been kind of good lately, like it's not like they're bottom dwellers in the East like they're They're right in the mix like they always are, you know, like they had a kind of a rough start. But I think, what are they like fifth six in the East right now?
I think it's something like that.
Sorry, I should have looked that up myself before.
They're twelve and ten and their fifth Can we make fun of the state of Ohio?
Now?
Is it time to do that? Oh?
God? What is it a state?
Or is it this weirdo?
A law maker in the state of Ohio has proposed a new law called the Ohio Sportsmanship oh h Io o h Io Sportsmanship Act that would make it a felony to plant a flag. I want to be clear about this, not at any stadium's midfield, only at midfield of an Ohio State game, because they especially need this extra protection.
He says he's doing it in the name of play safety and sportsmanship. Tyler, what are your.
Thoughts on I want to I want to first, I want to I want to say that I have to say that this isn't on Ohio and this isn't on Ohio State fans, because if you check the mentions on that there were so many Ohioans and so many Ohio State fans saying, no.
This is not what we do right.
This motherfucker win rogue. He is not tapped in to the people that he represents. He is not tapped into his constituents. He just made that lost so much worse for Ohio State and Ohio State fans. This is something we're gonna remember forever when we were, when we remember you know, this rivalry. And it's just like, Bro Michigan made your local legislators try to pass legislation against against them because of the asshole they took. It's just I feel like I feel like Drake might of open Pandora's box here, dog.
I feel like like the.
The filing legislation because you get your feelings hurt. Like I feel like that might be the new wave. Now you might have been a trend center there. But it's just it's just, Bro, like I said, you can't put this on Ohio. You can't put this on Ohio State fans because they are not with this ship at all, as they shouldn't be.
John, it is indeed a Republican lawmaker and I'll show you of course.
Yeah, I looked at his face. I'm like, that's a Republican Nia face.
But anyway, uh, but what's what's interesting to me was that he came out like it was like, this is what I'm doing for us, and everybody's like, who's us?
You know what I mean?
Like, what doesn't even know this?
I don't even know this man? You ain't you know what I'm saying?
Have you seen him?
What's his name? You know what I mean?
Like that was he was just so like standing on it like this is exciting for everybody, Like, come on, bro, I saw I saw a an avvy with a golden Retriever in an Ohio state scar saying, what the fuck are you you do?
Cust that man out that your face?
That is his face.
That's the death knell right.
There in the In the chat, we had someone Miles say when when Mike showed that picture, he just said in all caps with a question mark and an extamation point black.
But yeah, I was. I was absolutely taking it back by that too.
Then I was like Republican, I just love like with all the problems our society has, like there's so much wrong. There's like a laundry list a mile long of things we need like people are hungry, and inflation and all these different things. He's like, you know what's wrong flags in the field, We really need to tackle that. That's my That's that's where I'm going to prioritize my time.
You knew he was a Republican as well because he had a red tie, white shirt and a blue jacket. And here's my question, why don't they ever mix up the combo?
Bro?
Why not a white jacket with a red shirt and a blue tie? You know what I mean?
Why does it always have to be the red tie and a blue jacket? You know what I mean?
Why not a red jacket, a blue shirt and a white tie?
You know?
That seems like.
The funnier moment coming to us is when this dude gets like primaried, you know, by a probably an Ohio state player or something, and he has to answer the question of like why did you get voted out of office? And he's like, oh, well, you know, the people of Ohio wanted to preserve Michigan's right to embarrass.
The ship out of them.
It's their right to humiliate us on our home field.
Goddamn it. You can't take away their right as college football players.
Funny people are so so like about their college sports traditions, like you really can't mess with it, just gotta leave it, yeah, smile and nod yep at whatever the weird traditions are.
Here's a weird new college sports tradition. Bill Belichick has officially taken the job at the University of North Carolina. At first, I thought this was very weird and potentially somewhat creepy, given that his girlfriend, I believe is college aged.
What Sliley older? She's like twenty four.
Okay, he's seventy two, seventy seven, absolutely be her grandpa. Oh yeah, easily.
Uh he's born in nineteen fifty two. Save you.
My mom was going on in fifty two.
Actually, hold on, let me think it same he or my mom was born. Bro, can't really like see United's twenties year olds are not for you, Bill Belichick.
I don't even want to date a twenty four year old.
They're so young, Like, Bro, I remember when I turned twenty eight, I had a rule that you couldn't be more than four years younger than me.
Yeah, because at that point it got like I mean, and then you get older, twenty four young years you can.
Say, yeah, like rather, rather's five years younger than me. But I was thirty five when I met her, thirty six when I met her, you know what I mean? So different Yeah, yeah, yeah, but like in the twenties, like when you get under twenty five, Like, bro, like that's a and I'm and I'm and I'm closer to thirty Like.
Bro, no, we you can't rent a car.
You have no business dating and actual it should be illegal.
That's the that's the How are you going to take him to the hospital?
You know what I mean? You can't even run a car, like you gotta have to have your car on you.
Jill Belichick have in common with a twenty four year old woman zero. You know, she's making him make tiktoks with her and ship He's like, what's on the tiki talk?
Like what even is that?
Like I would redeem it in my eyes if he's forced to become a TikTok contact.
Filthy, filthy work.
I will say this.
I did start to have a little bit more interest in Bill Belichick as the coach at the University of North Carolina when I heard that his father was a coach at North Carolina and his first words were, Duke sucks. According to Bill Belichick, that that that that explains it. I don't know that we have the footage.
I'm going to I'm gonna go Bernie Lee, and I'm going to call.
I don't know the people respond like there was like was there a good response when he said that? Okay, cool, Okay, Well, I mean, yeah, it ain't got to be the truth. As long as he got you know, he got the right people, he said, they.
Said when he interviewed for the job.
I think the thought was that he was trying to drive the cost up for NFL teams or whatever else. He Bill Belichick is a football history nut, and his dad did start his career at North Carolina. And part of the agreement is apparently that when Bill retires, his son gets to become the next head coach at North Carolina.
So like there was that Lenney thing. I think in his mind, Okay, okay, what what just happened?
Part of what in the succession, yeah, is that when he retires, put nepotism in the contract contract.
I don't know that it's in the contracts for.
His new job. Yeah, that's that's so wild.
Hey man, we're pro neputeism on this podcast. Your son yeah.
Yeah, saw me or or so the baby, oh yeah, opportunity up like that.
It's like an eighteen year old and your coach is Bill Belichick, Like that's that's so much. That's so intense. You're trying to do like beer bongs and ship he's like running the army.
I wonder how that's going to affect like recruiting. I wonder, like, do people want to play? I mean he's he's yes, you know, his great flows.
His pitches follows people want to play for anything.
His pitch is.
I'm going to turn this into an NFL factory. He's not going to be recruiting off of we're trying to win the fucking to the duke, but we're trying to get you to the league.
Bro.
The pitch is and I would assume that with him coming in, there will be a lot of money behind it. And I would assume that the recruiting they're doing is not seventeen year olds, but they're recruiting twenty two year olds out of the portal that they're saying, you come here, I'm gonna give you everything you need to know about how you're getting ready for the combine. How you're getting what teams actually want to see? Like, I think that's the pitch, and I do think that could be effective. There was also a report that he gave them a four hundred page bible of what his plan for every layer of the North Carolina football program would be and how to.
Operate in the I knew he didn't want to be in broadcasting. He's at home writing a four hundred page bible about how to like reinvigorate UNC.
So here's my question, that manifesto, question, job manifesto.
Why can we call a two hundred and sixty three word post manifesto. It's a mini a minifesto, and a four hundred page manifesto by Bill Belichick is a bible.
And you can't say that North Carolina. That's for damn.
They're gonna be on that head.
The Bible belt, you know, is heavy over there, you feel me?
But yeah, yeah, it's right back to Connecticut or wherever you're explaining some diabolical ship.
It's a manifesto, Bro's not you're explaining, you know.
How how paragraph I know he has nothing in common with his girlfriend. No twenty four year old in their right mind wants to sit there while their boyfriend rides a four hundred page breakdown of how to reinvigorate a college football program, Like come on, now, she's taking Maybe that's.
Why it works, you know, to see outside and he inside. They don't, you know what I mean, They just got an agreement, you know what I mean, crazy in his study writing a timing away. Leave me alone, Do not interrupt me. I'm one and seventy six. I'm almost done.
People, all the way down his nose.
This is my greatest look right right right, you feel me?
I have him in like the cliche like sleep cap with.
Like for sure, class out of him, hand behind him, you know what I mean. The firepace is crackling, you know, me a bear hide over.
His shoulders, you know what I mean, Like I see all of it though.
Speaking of college though, Like, at what point did he start realizing he could get to four hundred pages? Like maybe it could have been a three hundred and sixty five page plan, and he was like I could throw.
Another thirty When inspiration hits you, brother, you listen, yeah, you know what I mean. He just he just followed his heart all the way to four hundred pages.
Think about every aspect of this though, like cause so many college football college athletes, but college football players or like talk about their their head coach is like another second father figure or maybe a first part whatever, and how he helped them through so so much that I had this struggle I got coach helped me through.
I had trouble in school whatever.
Can you imagine a twenty one year old going to Bill Belichick and being like, coach, my mom is sick and I got this thing this class. I gotta juggle, like what do I how do I handle it? My girlfriend is upset about whatever, and he just like show up at practice on time. I do not care like what like you know what I mean?
Sometimes between your dreams and your family, I had do your job.
I had a high school.
My freshman coach would make us tell he was a Bob Knight, like he thought he was God right, had us take notes, pin and paper after practice. I'm talking about sweat dripping off my face onto the paper. We had a booklet right writing writing notes after practice? Bro, you feel me like if you didn't Bro, if you didn't play like on a straight triple threat like binge, your knees shoulder like it, like he wanted us to be robots out there. Bro.
I went up to jav and Drop twenty, I said, fuck what they got going on? Weeds?
I like, bro, fuck, oh it was horrible, bro crazy. So he kind of seems like that to a degree. How he'll treat these shorties that you know, can't speak to him, how like NFL players could.
And I wonder how long it's gonna last when a motherfucker you can be walking there.
And yes, I'm an NFL factory, but you gotta read this four hundred page bible.
You know what I'm saying.
The only thing I've ever reading the college football is that it does not resemble anymore for better, for better and worse.
The This is the second father figure.
This is like, you have the ability with the NIL and portal era to have the exact program you want to have. And so for people who want to be the second father figure, Davo, you don't have to take one dude out of the portal. But Bill Belichick, he's gonna get all grad transfers. They're all gonna be twenty three, you know, Like I just I think that's what he's gonna put together looking like it's I like him.
I've heard it pronounced all different ways.
But if you if the accent is hard enough, you could get it back to Davo.
Yeah.
Yeah, by the way, how about that? You know?
All right?
You guys got anything else? I think that's that's all the time we got. My wife just said that sweet. It says, please don't invite me over. If you have a leather couch that's peeling, I will peel it some more when you're not looking. That's true, she will do that. Oh yes, oh yes, how do you not? Yea, how do you not?
It's begging you.
Anyway?
Maybe you should get a new couch.
Maybe they should. But what does that say on the wall behind you? I just see the word yearning?
Oh I can move my mic.
Oh we're pro yarners here we are?
We are?
Yeah? Yeah, that's crazy.
On the board, that's actually a two sided poster. And the other side, which is why I originally bought it, was a little sealacious and it was in the background of every like podcast appearance and une I was in and so I flipped the other side.
This is the pod.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that I purchased says prayers, whatever you say on your knees, which I just thought was like an incredible poster and loved it. And I have a lot of like, like I just like, like, you know, kind of slightly controversial art or whatever. So I have a lot of like naked lady art and stuff in my house, so it kind of went with the theme. And then people started commenting, like in the YouTube comment sections of podcasts I was on and stuff, it is like does that say?
And I'm like, oh, you know what, the internet sure does and everything for everyone.
And I actually do like the sentiment of this one as well. It's not the reason I purchased it, but I'm happy with this one too.
It's like you're recording in your home, you know what I mean.
Like, you know, I wish I could go somewhere else, but just a little upstart, you know, girls with a dream and this nbing media world.
So my host it is, yeah, we're all at our home.
Yeah you know, it's not like I can control the dervice at here. All right, that's all the time we got for today. We'll be back on Sunday night as far as I know, and we will see yelling
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