NBA Insider Shams Charania, Actor Danny Trejo And Big Cat Bought A Lottery Machine

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On today's part of my take, we got a lot to talk about. Sports obviously stopped on Wednesday.
We will discuss the boycotts in the protests in the NBA, MLB, MLS. Didn't forget about you, MLS.
WNBA, esports, esports. We've all across the sports world.
Do not forget about esports. We have Shams Tarania from The Athletic, friend of the program.
He's been on the show before. NBA reporter.
He's in the bubble. He tells us exactly what's going on, what's going to happen going forward with the NBA playoffs.
We have actor Danny Trejo. You probably recognize him as the badass guy in every single movie ever.
We have a fire fest of the week. We have documentary review of big Ben's bigger than Ben episode one.
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Today is Friday, August 28th. I have a quote for you guys.
You ready? Yeah. Guess what, guys? Everything is going to shit.
The world is fucking crumbling, but we have sports back, so just say fuck it and listen to part of my take. That was me last Friday.
Good quote. Jinx cat.
Sports are back. Sports are no longer back.
It is sports week. Sports are coming back maybe Friday.
Maybe Saturday. But yeah, yesterday was a big day in terms of no sports.
It caught us all by surprise. Everybody was expecting the Bucs and the Magic to play.
The Magic had their buses lined up to leave. They were going to Turks and Caicos.
They were excited to get the hell out of the bubble and go and get their asses kicked by the Bucs. And then't show up on the court and then everything kind of dominoed from there yes and the nba went on strike it was a crazy day it was it felt like a historic day um i i did say that on twitter obviously there were uh the cynics that were like nothing's going to change and i i get that we can talk about that in a minute um but i've i don't remember a day when all the sports just stopped in protest.
The last time this happened was a preseason game. The Celtics.
Bill Russell decided to boycott a game back, I think it was like the 70s. But it was a preseason game.
Right. So, yes, it's a bubble game, which feels a little bit different.
But it's definitely the first time that this has ever happened. Also, Andrew Luck last year.
True. For the whole 2019 season.

Yes, the Magic.

We're very surprised when that happened.

What were you going to say?

1961. 1961.
All right. So obviously this show, everyone knows this show is lighthearted in nature.
We don't usually get into serious topics. But this is a topic that is very, very heavy in the sports world.
I guess simply put, I'll always support the right to protest in this country. Like being able to use your leverage and power to protest to try to enact change is kind of the most American thing you can do in my mind, personally.
It's why this country is so great is that you have the ability to say, I don't agree with something, I want to change something,

and you can wake up tomorrow morning and it's not, you know,

Putin's put you in jail.

Right.

Well, that's what happens every single day.

When the games are being played,

it's the result of like a collective bargaining agreement between the owners

and the players.

And the owners are like,

we want to make money through the rules that are set up right now.

Here's what your collective bargaining stake is going to be.

And the players agree to that.

But then if the players want to protest, is that right? And people, like, they don't have anything at stake. They're millionaires.
They actually do have a lot at stake, which we get into a little bit with Shams. Like, yes, they have a great job.
I think they all probably love their jobs. But they are putting it on the line, not only in terms of their reputation, but also future earnings if the salary cap does go down because of the actions that they take.
So, like have some skin in the game too and i i said this online yesterday maybe i can clarify it a little bit but there are a lot of people who um just want to watch sports and i totally understand that sports is an outlet it's an escape for a lot of people i get that it's an escape for me all the time yes i fucking love sports okay we have that approach for the most part on this show yeah we treat sports as an escape. Yes, it's an escape, and it's a wonderful escape, and it kicks ass, and it's awesome.
But there are a lot of people that say they're the kind of shut-up-and-dribble crowd. Like, I want to be entertained.
Don't mix politics with sports, that sort of thing. That's fine.
You can think that way, but I also think that what we've seen over the last couple months, and especially the the last few years i don't think it's ever going to go back to players not using their leverage in terms of getting into political arguments or political discussions or activism or that sort of thing so at this point it's like you can either stop watching sports entirely or you can just kind of accept that this is going to be the new normal. You're not always going to agree with what the players are protesting for or all their views on everything.
But I think that you're putting your head in the sand if you think that it's ever going to go back to more of the way it was when these two things didn't interact as much. Yep, I agree with that.
It really comes down to this for me uh i'm not going to tell uh a black person how to feel about this right i don't think anyone sitting in my shoes should or like you know like that's that's kind of where it comes down like it boils down to i know there are a lot of people who are hurting in this country for various different reasons from all walks of life uh we're not doing well like everything's kind of feels like the world's falling apart 2020 has not been a banner year uh to put it lightly and i know that you know people have lost their jobs and people are saying well athletes are getting to play a kids game and all that i i get that people have uh grievances and they feel uh hurt in different ways but at the end of the day, I'm not going to tell black people how to feel about this. And I don't think you should either.
Yeah. But I also am not going to tell other people how to feel about it, too, because that's that's kind of thing.
Like, if you disagree with me, that's fine. You know, I'm not going to change my opinion on this matter.
But if you think differently and you want to tell me that, that's fine. I also said yesterday that I'm not going to waste my energy on Twitter.
Twitter is a broken platform for any type of real discussion or discourse. No one goes to Twitter to hear anyone else's frame of mind, anyone else.
They don't go to Twitter and say, I'm going to read a tweet and now change my opinion. They go to Twitter to see the tweet that either makes them mad and makes them want to reply in anger, or they go and see in their own echo chamber and bubble and retweet it, and then they pat each other on the back, and it's all kind of bullshit, and everyone's kind of full of shit.
So I'm not going to do it on Twitter. I'll say what I think here on radio, whatever videos we do, and that's kind of it.
Yeah, I agree with you. I think that it's very tough to have these conversations because there is a lot of nuance, and having these types of conversations online is impossible because no matter what you say, somebody can extrapolate your point and then be like, well, this fact in this case goes against what you're saying right now.
But I think the bigger picture is the NBA players and even the ownership and players in other sports too want to see some progress made they want to see some tangible progress made whether that's uh reforming how uh like district attorneys interact with police uh in terms of like officer involved shootings that sort of thing i think that's a noble cause and i applaud them for standing up for what they believe uh but again like this is you're right the the best place to have this discourse is probably not on Twitter.com. One last thing in a semi-serious way, but I get the cynic view of this thing.
I totally do because I find myself being more cynical every single passing day. So I get the response of, oh, they sat out a game.
What the fuck's going to change? I get like people would have that cynical view because it's hard to change things. Like it's very, very hard.
All I'm going to say is give it a chance and let's see. It's better than saying nothing can ever change ever.
I'm never going to be that person because that person, what's the point? If nothing in your life can ever change for the better you should just stop living oh shit so it's like this is the whole the whole thing is like try to to to use whatever you can to make change maybe change doesn't happen today maybe it doesn't happen tomorrow maybe it doesn't happen 10 years maybe it doesn't have 100 years but at least trying is better than saying nothing will ever change just like give up yeah i think that the what the players want to accomplish is a noble goal right they want they want fewer black people to be killed by police officers right i think everybody can agree that if that were to happen that would be a good thing not a bad thing now it's just a matter of trying to figure out how that can happen logistically, what steps can be taken to address it in the right way. I think good for the players for using the power that they have.
Again, don't know how it's going to pan out. I do know that Stephen A.
Smith right now is wearing his transition glasses on TV, and that is a very, very serious looking Stephen A. Smith.
Look at that. The rosé, the blue shade.
That is a man that will sit you down and tell you some facts. That looks good.
All right, so we kind of talked about the more serious side. Can we talk about the funner side? Well, the positive side is for about 12 hours, Blazers and five became a possibility again for me.
True. When LeBron James said that the Lakers weren't going to play anymore, at that point it was like this is this is actually literally blazers and five yes i am right and i felt good about being right but then it looks like they're going to play which listen if it takes me admitting i was wrong about blazers and five to bring the nba back and have them play a full postseason that'll be my cross to bear and i'm so happy yes okay that's that's huge by you um so lebron was definitely pissed that he he that the box did it went rogue right yes very pissed yes lebron he knew that he had to make a stand during the meeting because he was like how am i not the face of what's going right and i get that like he's i mean he is the biggest player he is the league but it's the all the inner workings are very...
Listen, it's obviously a bigger-than-sports cause, but then it's also funny to be like the this league aspect of it. They're still human beings.
There's still a pecking order in the NBA. Yeah.
So it's funny to think about like, oh, my God, like, yeah, I guess LeBron probably was mad. LeBron got a text saying, like, George Hill is starting this movie is starting this movie he's like who the fuck is george right right uh even though he was a teammate of us yeah but especially because he's like i thought i sent that guy to canada what happened i also uh i i did appreciate the referee walk i was just waiting for joe west to pop out of a bush with his with his white armband and be like hey guys i've been trying to get respect for get respect for refs.
And then they'd be like, wait, Joe, this isn't about respect for refs. He's like, oh, shit, never mind.
His refs' life matters shirt. He's like, finally, someone's standing up for the referees of the world.
They're like, Joe, that's not what we're talking about here. Referees have been leading the charge on all this.
They went from having the segregated black and white stripes on their shirts to blending them into a nice shade of gray. Gray, yes.
So they've really been taking the start on it i love these steven a smith glasses they're amazing i hope he keeps these on holy shit fantastic he looks he's on mute so i don't know what he's saying but i'll tell you i agree with every great word that he's making great points steven a smith for president he said that he would run and that he would dominate any debate against anyone but he just doesn't feel like interjecting himself into politics like that making great fucking points Jake points jake's trying to get it i don't think get close captioning that's all right it's okay it's actually better that we don't hear what he's saying right now that way we can imagine yes points any other thoughts i actually i actually think that a lot of it has to do like this all coming to a head yesterday it's like training camp right these guys have been locked in a bubble for forever they're just all pissed off all the time by now. They have to be.
They have to be sick and tired. They have to be bored.
They've been kept in kind of isolation. I think the families show up soon.
The families do show up soon. But right now, it's just like at the end of training camp, you just want to fight everyone.
It was cool to see some sports teams follow suit. There was a baseball protest, obviously, WNBA.
And shout out the MLS. MLS hopped in.
I didn't even know they were back, but now I do. That was a good yawn.
Hank's hitting you with a treat. How are you so tired? It's 9 o'clock.
Big Cat just mentioning MLS, and Hank instinctively, boom. You slept in the car for an hour on the way back from where we were interviewing.
We have Kevin Love coming on Monday. It's a fucking awesome interview.
It was like a three-hour drive, and I'm like a child when I'm in a moving vehicle for more than an hour. I fall asleep.
And as you guys know, once I get woken up, I'm just pissed off and want to go back to sleep. So are you tired right now? I just need a Red Bull or something.
You know what? Whenever Hank gets grumpy, let's just put him in the back of your car, Big Ken, and just drive him around the block until he falls asleep. Were you going to?

No, no, it's okay.

You don't have to. Oh, good job.

Billy almost got up.

He did the, like, when someone's doing the dishes, like, oh, can I help?

Right as they were finished.

Also, shout out to the Cubs yesterday.

Jason Hayward was like, I'm not going to play, but you guys go ahead and play.

Yes.

And his teammates were like, okay, cool.

Yeah, well, Dexter Fowler, too, with the Cardinals.

Dexter Fowler with the Cardinals.

Throw the Cardinals in there.

I said earlier, it's like if your girlfriend or wife is like, no, I'm just feeling tired. You go out, though.
Have fun with the boys. And you're like, hell yeah.
All right, see you later. Let's see you at 4 a.m., babe.
I'm coming back drunk as fuck. Yeah, so crazy day.
I do think it's going to be a day that we'll remember because it's never happened, like we said, not for a very long... Hank.
You asked me to... I'm trying to fucking talk about social justice, dude.
And you're just yawning in my back swing. You guys asked me to.
Forget it. Hank thinks that the NBA should kick the Bucs, the Raptors, the Heat.
Who else out? That's fine. Kick the Sixers out too, anyways, right? Just for the hell of it.

Next year.

So, yeah.

And kick the Lakers out, right?

And the Clippers.

I would imagine.

Wait, the Clippers?

Probably the Rockets, too.

The Lakers don't want to be there anyway.

Who are the Clippers said?

I would imagine playoff P was like, yo, I just got good in the playoffs.

Yeah.

Like, we can't stop this now.

Please.

Right?

Oh, Hank?

Hank's about to.

He's fighting.

He fought that off with his eyes.

Nice.

Hank just closed his eyes and wished to be on it. All right all right so we're going to talk to shams a little bit more

about it in a minute um but let's do some fire fest we still have the big ben episode uh

documentary review coming up that's going to be great but let's do let's do a fire fest before

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Breaking moves. Breaking moves.
This is a big one, folks. Report.
All Big Ten athletic directors are finally in agreement and asking Commissioner Kevin Warren to revisit fall football season, including Michigan and Michigan State per source. This is per Ari Abraham's report.
Sir Yacht's back, baby. Sir Yacht is gone.
Let's go. Fuck off.
Sir Yacht. Wait, do you have a set up for Sir Yacht tweets? No, I just got tagged in one being like, look who's back.

And I read it and I was like, no, not again.

It's making a lot of sense.

This is all he has to do is like once a week pop up with this report.

Just keep himself relevant.

I'm ready to get hurt again.

I'm ready to get hurt again.

I want football so bad.

I know there's people that are listening to this that think like, oh shit. Like they probably live and then they thought you were being serious for it.
Well, I'll explain it. You know it.
Suryat is a choose-your-own-adventure source. He's wrong all the time, 100% of the time.
He pretty much makes it up. But if you want to live in a fantasy land like I do, listen to Suryat.
Ignorance is bliss in this respect respect I do love the fact that like twice a week the Big Ten comes back from yes yes it's Schrodinger's conference it's like there are some parents that are showing up outside Big Ten hours so funny maybe it's back I just heard that two Nebraska players were suing the Big Ten do it and now the Big Ten is like shitting their pants because all their documents will be open for discovery, which I would love to see how athletic directors reach a consensus about anything. Kevin Warren, resign, sir.
Resign. I'm going to start tweeting him that every day.
Resign. Not resign.
Isn't it spelled the same way? That's always very confusing to me. Resign, resign.
Resign with no dash. Resign with a Z.
Resign, sir. Alright, Hank.
My fire fest is your fucking yaon i can't stop yonning that's one of my fire fest uh my second one is so we all got hooked up with these pcs and zxt pcs uh they're like state-of-the-art nice really nice pieces of equipment but in my apartment like where i play video games or whatever you obviously need to run internet into the PC,

but where my Wi-Fi router is on the exact opposite side of where my desk is.

This is nerd talk.

So I would have to run.

Well, it's more like girlfriend talk.

I need to figure out a way to run a 100-foot wire across my apartment

over through some walls without it being like, absolutely not. Easy.
here's what you do. Just wrap Christmas lights around the wire.
Christmas lights will make the inside of any apartment look elegant. Not the green and red ones.
Do the white ones. Yeah, the white ones are classic.
Yeah, those are real classic. She'll think she's in 500 days of summer every single night.
You can hang a giant fish above your bed as long as you stuff it filled with Christmas lights and girls will be like, that thing is so sexy. Billy? I would just run it between where the wall meets the floor boards.
Yeah, you could also do that. And just get extra.
I think Christmas lights is no, but that goes through, that crosses doorways and shit. Will you just sneak it under the door? No, you can buy a strip, like the little bump thing that you put in the doorway.
Billy, great idea. I'm pretty good at DIY.
Yeah, you are. DIY.
DIY. DIY.
Do yourself it. Driving you insane.
Do yourself it. Do you it.
Do you it, Hank. You're good at doing yourself.
Yeah, you do yourself. Hank, just get a bunch of carpets.
Just run carpets along the floor. You're so close, Billy.
I can't explain it enough. It's literally the worst place possible.
Okay, then do the Christmas lights idea. Yeah.
You're going to get so laid. She won't even know that there's internet in the house.
Yeah, you got this, dude. It's going to be sick.
Is that it? Is that your onlyawning and yeah yeah again i've reached the point where i've heard hanky on so many times that's soothing to me it's comforting that's how i know he's okay all right what's your fire fest my fire fest of the week is i bought a new pair of shoes and they're sick shoes and they're awesome and i love them and they make me look like i'm five foot ten and a half because they have a big air bubble in the heel. You might say to yourself, PFT, that's a sick thing.
That's not a fire fest because check these out. Look at the heels on these suckers.
Yeah, you're wearing lifts. They're my new favorite pair of shoes.
You're wearing lifts. The problem now is.
Remember moon shoes? Way back in the day. The problem now is.
You're wearing lifts. No, dude, these are Nike Zoom 720s.
They're fly. All the kids are wearing them.
But my problem is now I can't wear any other pair of shoes because I'm going to feel short

as fuck in a normal pair of shoes.

So I'm basically stuck in these until I die.

Yes.

That does happen when you start wearing lips.

Yeah, it's going to be like, you know how people at their funerals that have wigs, they

like snatch their wig off and everyone's like, oh, holy shit, this guy was bald the whole

time.

Dude.

Like people are going to pry these shoes off my feet when I'm 85 years old or however in my casket, and they'll be like, damn, this was a short king. Yeah.
Yeah. You know what? I'll make sure that they stay on your feet in your casket.
Thank you. I appreciate it.
Yeah, I'll stand guard. You're in charge.
Yeah. Don't touch the feet, sir.
I want somebody, yeah. Nobody touch the feet.
That means you, Billy's OnlyFans subscribers. Yes.
I want somebody to guard my grave like the Unknown Soldier. Yes.
Where you shift spots. I like that.
I'm in. By the way, for some reason, the Twitch chat has decided to tell me that I have a receding hairline.
I do not think I have a receding hairline. But if, here's what the Twitch chat doesn't realize.
I want to be bald. Because if I were bald...
You won't shave it?

No, I want to be naturally bald.

If I were naturally bald, I would go and get the worst toupee ever and just dare people to talk about it.

Yeah.

Just be like, go ahead and fucking talk to me about my skunk on the top of my head.

You won't.

Or just embrace the horseshoe pattern.

There aren't that many guys outside of Todd Reardon, the coach of the Capitals, who embraces the like wreath hairstyle there's a niche out there for guys they have a toupee that admit they have a toupee and just tell people like go ahead you won't fucking make jokes about it yeah you can show up like different days of the week with slightly different hair yes like oh i'm bleached today yes it's uh i really do kind of want to go bald but i naturally i have beautiful hair so there's there's nothing I can do about it. All right, my FireFest.
I have two. The first is Brian Urlacher was trending all day.
Speaking of bald guys. We were out in the Hamptons.
I think his hair plugs actually went into his brain. But we were out in the Hamptons interviewing Kevin Love.
So I saw it, and I was like, well, we've got, gotta do an interview. Gonna just ignore this for a second.

Came back. Still trending.

I actually, the Fyre Fest really is

like, I don't understand

people who still at this point in

time are

shocked when their favorite athlete

has a bad take. A bad opinion.

Yeah, a bad opinion. Like, oh wow,

you still think like

your favorite athlete because

he was good at sports has good opinions?

Well, it's not just that. I think it's everyone

I'm going to go. Yeah, a bad opinion.
Like, oh, wow, you still think like your favorite athlete, because he was good at sports, has good opinions? Well, it's not just that. I think it's everyone who likes a certain athlete thinks and wishes and hopes that all their opinions are exactly their own opinions.
And they never aren't. Never aren't.
And they match up perfectly. Yes.
And in this case, I think Brian Urlacher's opinion matched up with like no one's opinion. No, no.
Yeah. I mean, I wonder what Lance Briggs thinks when he sees that.

But yeah.

He did steal a car.

Yeah. That's what he thinks.

No, he did not steal a car.

He crashed his Lambo and then reported it as stolen.

Okay.

Big fucking difference.

But yeah, that was quite a day for Brian Urlacher.

My other fire fest is I have finally got my lottery machine. So when the NHL had their ping pong snafu, I said, I need a lottery machine.
$1,500 later, Alibaba via China, I have purchased my lottery machine. So we're going to plug it in and we're going to let it go.
Just select a good... I was going to say, you should put one ping pong ball in there that's like the Knicks, but have it weighted

and so it never gets sucked up.

So here's what we're going to do.

So turn it on, Billy.

Here's what we're going to do.

We're just going to do a number.

We'll probably do it at the end of the show going forward,

but we're just going to pick a random number

and AWLs can start betting with their friends

what number's going to be picked.

What?

How many balls?

One.

Just one.

Just one ball.

One ball.

So we got it. It's on.
Oh, boy. Listen to this thing.
Listen to this thing. There might be too many balls in there.
It's so exciting, though. It's so exciting.
Oh, it almost got 23. Number 40.
No, no. Let it go.
Let it go all the way down. Let it go all the way down.
Look at that. Number 40.
Number 40. Mike Allstott.
Number 40. So if you had number 40, which on a game that we didn't announce until right now, you win.
There you go. But yeah, we'll do maybe while Billy does his speech at the end with Take On Me, I'll pick a random number.
So start betting with your friends. I don't know how you would bet it.
If you're listening to the show together, then start betting now for the first time. Also, do one more.
Do one more. Do three, Billy.
Keynote numbers.. All right, all right.
Yeah, do three. Do three.
It's fucking exhilarating, dude. This is like the greatest day of my life.
Go ahead. Smash it, Bill.
Yeah, yeah, hit three. Hit three.
Smash it. Hit three.
Here we go. Welcome to the part of my take lottery number.
Lottery number. Check your tickets.
Check your tickets, folks. We have three drawings tonight.
Number 90. I can't read the bottom.
Is that 60? 96. 96.
If you have number 96, check your card. Number 96.
We have the second number about to be picked. The second number, Lucky Lotto, 83.
96, 83. What will we have last? Will we have the Powerball number? Powerball numbers are single digit.
That means you're double winner. Double winner with the Powerball number.
Will we have a Powerball here on Pardon My Takes Lottery? The last number, 84. 84.
So 96, 83, and 84. Wow, that's kind of crazy.
That's nice. Yeah, so if your birthday is...
I guess there's no birthday that matches that. So you'll have to keep listening to see if your birthday is drawn in part of my take.
If we draw your birthday in part of my take, let us know. We'll send you something.
Do one more. Do one more.
Do one more. This is fucking awesome.
Ask a question, PFT. Odds and evens.
Odds yes. Evens no.
Pick a number between 1 and 100. Let's see what this lotter machine can do.
I did it. It did it.
No. It said no.
No, it said no. It said no.
The answer is no. It will not.
It did pick a number between 1 and 100. No, that was the last one I ever picked.
No. What was the last? No, it said no.
94. You said pick a number between 1 and 100, and the lottery machine was even, so it said no.

But it also picked a number between 1 and 100.

No, that was the number to say no.

It was saying no.

It was saying I will not pick a number.

And it hasn't picked another number since.

I wonder if it'll ever pick a number between 1 and 100.

Try to pick another number.

Pick a number between 1 and 100, lottery machine.

See, it's off.

Wait.

It's off.

We got to come up with a name.

You literally broke it.

We got to come up with a name for it.

You literally broke it.

Wait, actually.

I unplugged it, Billy. All right, Billy, go name.
You literally broke it. We got to come up with a name for it.
You literally broke it. Wait, actually.
I unplugged it, Billy. Billy, go ahead.
You're Firefest. My Firefest of the week is that I'm out of the feet game.
I'm out. What? You just? No, because it got ruined.
Is this in? No, it got too real for me. Is this in solidarity with the NBA? Yes.
Okay. You're going on a foot strike? My feet are staying in the shoes.
Wait, what happened? Did guys say they were going to jerk off to it? No, it got too weird. Other feet influencers started reaching out to me, wanting to do collabs.
Dude, that's big collabs. No, no, no.
Okay, time out, time out. When Little Fairy Feet Princess reaches out to you, like, Phil, you're getting ready to buy the biggest money.
I don't want to be in time out. You don't want to be able to die for that time out, Billy.
To reach out to them? Unfortunately, you have now become at the whims of the lottery machine, so we're going to decide if Billy has to do this or not. This is why we bought the machine.
Billy, this is final. This is final.
No, I'm not joking. If you disobey the lottery machine, you're fired.
Pick a number and if that number doesn't come out, you have to keep doing it. It's odds and evens.
So odds will be that you have to keep doing your Billy feetball evens as you can end it forever. Alright, here we go.
I like how Billy's thought process was like, I didn't mind doing the feet thing when there were only like 30 guys jacked off. Yeah, yeah.
Now the chick showed up. Now that little Miss Feet princess wants to collapse.
My guy club is done. Alright, so odds, what did we say? Odds that you have to do it? Yeah, odds.
Odds you have to do it evens you can stop. Alright, hit it.
One. Here we go.
odds you have to do it yeah odds you have to do it evens you can stop okay all right hit it one here we go odds you have to do it and you cannot disobey this this is the lottery machine's decision odds you have to do it odds you have to do it odds you have to do it 56 god damn it double or nothing, that's 95. Big Cat, that's 95.
That's 95. Look at it.
95. Billy's at 95.
Billy has to keep his own feet. All right.
No, you know what? I'm going to respect the lottery machine. This is why we got it.
You're done. You're done with Billy Feetball.
Good job. Billy Feetball is retired.
Okay, that's fair. That's fair.
I will respect the lottery machine. You're going to miss it.
Yeah, you are. You're going to miss the attention.
It's just so easy just to make 20 bucks right before bed. Yep.
Dude, actually. There are other ways.
Yeah. I give you permission if there's anyone who's got a fucking ping pong ball fetish, you can use this.
Perfect. Yeah.
So start doing that on... Oh,'s definitely like some uh asmr ping pong well and also the the ping pong shooting the ping pong out of the vagina those videos not that i've seen them but i have uh all right let's get jake do you have a fire fest yeah i actually have to what oh whoa what was gonna happen if i didn't ask i just you just eat it yeah.
You just go home and go to bed? I always have them prepared just in case I'm cold on. It's better to be over-prepared than under-prepared.
That's the most Jake Marsh thing ever. Big time journalist answer right there.
Okay, go ahead. Wait, Jake, how many Fyre Fest have you just swallowed? Yeah.
You got home with? Do you have a list of them? Yeah. Are you going to bed with just Fyre Fest in your brain? No.
Well, here's the thing. thing the last time you guys asked me i talked about the dry cleaning thing yeah i was a few weeks old so yeah it was in my back pocket okay yeah okay um so first we were in here until like 1 30 in the morning doing sporkles the other day and i couldn't yeah i couldn't figure out the kansas city royals were an mlb team so that's just my fault for not the pressure got to me yeah that was that was bad, Jake.
To be fair, they're somewhat forgettable. Yeah, but I gave you the hint that they had one empty spot on AL Central.
I said they've won a World Series in the last 10 years, and you still couldn't get it. It's my fault.
Second, I had a dream the other day that the college basketball season continued and Vermont beat Hartford 119 to 82.

We clinched our ticket to the dance.

Then I woke up and I got sad.

Cause that's not,

it's not a dream.

That's a premonition.

There's a big difference between the two.

So when they play against each other,

bet your entire mortgage on Vermont.

Right.

But I won't be there.

So are they going to play against each other?

Do they schedule each other?

I mean,

they're Vermont and Hartford.

It's the conference. Oh,

the conference final conference title game. So the first time they play against each other? Do they schedule each other? Vermont and Hartford? Oh, the conference finals.
So the first time they play against each other... Next year? Odds are going to be Vermont.
Evens are going to be Hartford. Go ahead, Billy.
Odds are Vermont. Evens are Hartford.
Hartford hasn't beat them in three years. Just shut up and trust the lottery machine, will you? Odds are...
What did I say? Odds are Vermont? Odds are Vermont. Evens are Hartford.
Alright, we'll take vermont all right vermont take vermont it's 35 35 there you go vermont all right yeah i got you bro i can do a million more right uh even even lebron odd mj okay for 23 and 6 yeah no i don't think we can do that yeah i think we have oh billy you're gonna lose Alright, hit it, Billy. Hit it.
No, I don't think we can do that. Yeah, I think we have to.

Whoa, Billy, you're going to lose him.

All right, hit it, Billy.

Hit it.

No, no, if the number 23 comes up, it's MJ.

Yes, odds are MJ.

Yeah, yeah, no, just number 23.

And then whatever LeBron's number is.

What is it, six now?

Yeah, does LeBron wear 23?

Oh, that's a coincidence.

Weird.

Odds, MJ?

Odds are MJ, even to LeBron. I don't like this.
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Okay, here he is, Shams Charania. Okay, we now welcome on our friend recurring guest uh nba insider and writer for the athletic and stadium it is shams charania and uh shams thank you for joining us we know you're very very busy you uh have been doing a bunch of different things you are joining us live from the bubble so we wanted to have you on because we want to better understand what's going on in the NBA, what took place the last 24 hours.
So why don't we just start there from the beginning of how everything unfolded on Wednesday, and then we'll get up to present day and where we're going. Yeah.
So, you know, throughout the day yesterday on Wednesday, you know, the sense wasn't that, you know, any players were really going to seriously boycott. I think there was obviously talk about it.
There was definitely players that were considering it, but the actualization of going through it was something that no one saw coming. Other players across the league, executives across the league, the owners, no one saw this coming.
And so, you know, as I reported, you know, it really sparked pregame in the Milwaukee Bucks locker room. George Hill was the first player to say, guys, I'm not comfortable.
I don't think we should be out there playing. We need to, you know, we need to sit.
And Sterling Brown, his teammate, agreed with him. Giannis Atutokounmpo was the third player, from what I'm told, that stepped in and said, we're not playing.
If you're not playing, we're all going to sit. And once that happened, the Orlando Magic players were warming up.
And so it was a shock to them. They intended to play.
They wanted to play. But once they saw that Milwaukee sat, they ended up going back to the locker room.
And that was your first boycott. And it became a domino effect throughout the league.
Once you saw one team do it, even though it blindsided everyone. And that was something that was later raised and and there was frustration toward the Bucs for blindsiding um you know different players around the league but these actions don't happen if you involve everyone because there's so many different opinions that that go on and the Bucs I mean obviously they they took a stand yeah so when George Hill decided that you know he wasn't going to play was was like, we're done, I don't, because I know he had felt uncomfortable being in the bubble to begin with, was his thought, like, I don't feel comfortable finishing this out, let's go? Or was his thought just like, we need to not play for today? From what I'm told, the Bucs only intended to sit that one game, forfeit the game.
They offered the Orlando Magic a forfeit, sit the game, get 3-2 in the series, and move on the next day. But once the Orlando Magic also went back into the locker room, did not accept the forfeit, and it became a boycott.
It became both teams, or a strike, however you want to phrase it, both teams decided to sit. And it became a unifying point for everyone around the league.
You had Russell Westbrook, Chris Paul. They entered their arena fully prepared to play.
Russell Westbrook was going to give his quad a chance to play. I was told there was strong optimism he was going to return for that game five.
But then him and Chris Paul huddled up, and the decision was was made if one set of teams decide that they're gonna sit we have to sit as well we have to stay unified so after that so so we have uh all three games get canceled yesterday in protest and then last night it seemed like uh basically all the players in orlando got together was that maybe can walk us through what happened there uh the some of the players all the players whatever you got from your reporting got got together and had a uh heated discussion on what they were going to do going forward is that right yeah so chris paul i'm told is the one that that's that called this 8 p.m meeting last night in orlando got most all players i mean I haven't heard of a single player that you know marquee players especially but you had rank and file players uh ended the bench players everyone showed out to this meeting and you know the environment was you know basically it was an open forum for discussion uh one of the first things that came up was yo Milwaukee what why did you guys you, in a way go rogue and blindside the rest of us? Like you should have given us a heads up. We could have planned.
We could have prepared. We could have done a joint thing.
And from what I'm told, Kyle Korver was one of the guys that had the answer first. And he said, listen, guys, I apologize.
We should have been more communicative and we should have told you guys. And from there, it sparked a lot of tense moments.
And you had players calling out the bucks. You had different guys, you know, coming out and giving their thoughts and their feelings.
You know, players, you know, LeBron James and a couple other guys challenging ownership and feeling that the owners across the league aren't doing enough, are not being proactive enough, and are just being reactive. They want owners to take a stand and take steps and really create change, not just talk verbally or throw financial commitments around.
So when LeBron James, I guess through the reporting, I've read that he was one of the ones that was not in favor of continuing this postseason as it's going right now.

When him and I guess the Clippers were the others, when it became apparent that there might be an issue going forward for those two teams, did all the other teams say, well, I guess we might just not play? Or was there talk amongst the other teams of like, maybe we will move forward without the L.A. teams? It was like this weird reversal situation where I think the Clippers and Lakers expected that everyone around the league was, sorry, I think everyone around the Lakers and the Clippers expected that all the other teams would also sit and would vote to sit and they would all be unified.
But once the votes came in, the Lakers and Clippers were the only two teams that had voted to boycott the rest of the season.

And so then the argument came to what are we doing here if we're not unified? We have two powerhouse teams that are electing not to play or are making their poll or their vote not to play. And Udonis Haslam of the Heat was one of the key figures, I'm told, that that led a moment in a segment of that meeting after the vote.
And basically it was like, we need to come together. What are we doing here? What are we really going to do to create change? And if the Lakers and Clippers aren't playing, why are we all here? How will the season go on? And at that point or shortly thereafter, LeBron James exited the meeting and the Lakers and Clippers weren't far behind.
The rest of the players stayed in the room for a little bit before departing into the night. I'm told meetings went from 4 to 5 in the morning before the 11 a.m.
meeting on Thursday. Okay, so this might be a question you don't even know the answer to, but I think a lot of people are wondering the protest.

Like, from my perspective, I support the protest. Obviously, I think that's the most American thing you can do is protest peacefully in any manner and try to get – use your leverage to enact change.
What exactly are the changes they are looking for? Like, what's the actual action? and has that been formulated because obviously it was was a crazy day a day that probably will end up being historical because we've never seen anything like this in sports but what will be the the follow-up I think that's a lot of people are saying what's the follow-up if they're going to start playing again in a couple days what is going to change that's a great question um I think in a perfect world the what the players would want is what they feel would be justice for the Breonna Taylors and Jacob Blake's world. That's in a perfect world, but that doesn't happen overnight.
That's what they were told by the attorney general of Wisconsin, Josh Call, when they got a hold of him on Wednesday night,

that there's a process that needs to play out.

That's what they were told.

And so I think these players would love. when they got a hold of them on Wednesday night that there's a process that needs to play out.

That's what they were told. And so I think these players would love to enact just quick changes.

But, you know, as you guys know, it doesn't necessarily happen like that based on city and state governments and the federal government.

It just doesn't happen like that. So if you can't do it overnight and you can't, you know,

if the players can't fully control the uncontrollables, how else are they going to enact change?

And I think that is their way of sparking the dialogue, trying to spark them and the owners. This call, you know, in a lot of ways, this call should have happened the first week of the bubble, guys.
Like they should have gotten on a call with all the owners right as they entered the bubble and hashed things out and gotten everything on the table. But it took all these different events occurring, the Jacob Blake shooting and just the emotions running high.

And that's what led to this owners meeting that took place today as well.

Yeah, I think when you see the video of a man getting shot seven times in the back and then the following night, you know, three shot and you can't look away from it the video is right there for everybody to see that's what makes people you know really feel like they need to take action and i'm with big cat i i agree i think that peaceful protest is the best thing the best way that you can go about doing these and i get the sense that from the owner's side they in theory agree with their players they. They want to support their players, at least a lot of them do.
But it also is going to take a big, deep gulp from all those guys that are in ownership positions to be like, okay, I'm going to have to sacrifice some of my money and some of my equity in the teams that I own in order to support my players. have you gotten the sense that the owners are on board with this 100 or behind the scenes are they frustrated even if a couple are frustrated at the end of the day you know I think Adam Silver and the majority of owners do want to work hand in hand with the players and you know that's what the players challenged the owners about uh from my understanding on Thursday which was we need you guys guys to be proactive.
Like you guys can't just take a backseat at every single stop. Like, you know, the owners at different points have wanted the players to kind of take lead on this.
Right. But it should be a joint initiative according to the players.
And that's what they expressed to the owners, to the league office today, that the owners created a $300 million fund to help empower black communities. And that is something that the league has never done.
I can't remember any pro sports league that has created a fund of that amount of money from the owners of that organization. But I think the players want change.
They want to see action, and you have all these different owners. Michael Jordan, I'm told, has been very instrumental behind the scenes.
Steve Ballmer, I'm told, of the Clippers, he was a guy that was very vocal on this owner's call, just trying to find ways to help. And I think at the end of the day, the owners understand where the players are coming from for the most part and want to help.
Where's Adam Silver in all this? Like he is he he obviously was blindsided, but is he just like, you know, we got to figure out how to get your grievances heard? Or is it we got to figure out a way to get everyone playing again? I mean, listen, from a business standpoint, you know, I think both sides, players and the league office, everyone understands how important it is to play games. So that's for sure.
But I think, you know, Adam Silver has always been pretty, you know, informative, pretty vocal with the players, pretty accessible to the players. He had a hour plus phone call with the players on early in May.

And he really was very, very inclusive to the players on the process. And you don't hear a commissioner get on a call for over an hour and really break everything down the way Adam Silver did.
So I think overall he's trying to be as inclusive to the players as possible. But again, these are, these are players who day to day, their feelings of their different moods, you know, it's, it's changing every day.
Are the players under advisement from anybody that's kind of looking forward in the future? Because right now as emotions are high and, you know, there are certain goals that they want to accomplish goals that I think are important and necessary for them to take a look at. But there are things, there are impacts that could happen, unforeseen consequences that kind of domino from a decision like stopping these playoffs entirely, whether that be the salary cap in the future or something like that that could economically affect, you know, maybe not the biggest superstars in the league as much, but some of the other guys who might not be paid as much money moving forward.
Do they have somebody that is communicating with them, kind of advising them on what those consequences might be and how they're going to play out should they choose to do things like go on strike? Yeah, no question. I mean, you've had guys like CJ McCollum.
He's been very vocal for the last really couple months trying to explain to players the financial losses that they could occur if they sit the entire season. You're looking at 10% plus pay cut losses.
And Michelle

Roberts was also on the call on Wednesday night, also on Thursday. And what she's explained to the

players is all of you guys are going to incur a loss for this season. But these are losses we

anticipate. If you guys don't play, the losses

are going to be far greater. And the negotiations for the collective bargaining agreement, which are

solely but surely, you know, trying to progress here, those are going to be a lot more difficult.

And either way, you know, no one is really fully, you know, how do I say this? I think for the first

Thank you. either way you know no one is really fully um you know how do i how do i say this i i think i think for the first time michelle roberts uh vocalized the the possibility of a lockout to the players and and and really expressing to them that i can't rule that out if you guys play or don't play but here are the ramifications for if you don't play it just becomes it's just a practical matter it becomes harder to negotiate right ba right um all right so shams i you have been i've seen you everywhere in the last like 24 hours you've been crushing it i know you're on very very little sleep and we appreciate your time my last question is um when do you like we're sitting here right now we're taping this Thursday night.
When do you think that games will resume, if they will resume, I should put it that way, and if they do resume, do you think that we're going to see the finality of the playoffs? Is it going to play out? Where's kind of everyone's head at right now with that? Yeah, my sense is the games begin friday or saturday um it's seeming more and more like saturday because you know you want to give maybe these guys one more day of self-care and really practice for some of these teams some of these teams haven't even gone back into practice like uh you know orlando milwaukee they haven't practiced they didn't practice today they had this meeting. And so I think that could become important as well for these guys, for these teams.
I think now that they've gotten past this major hurdle that the playoffs finish up, but guys, you guys know how fluid this is. So I don't know if I'm betting anything.
One last thing for me, was there any sense from some of the Magic players that, know they were ready bags packed ready to go they were anticipating losing in in five against the bucks and then they got blindsided by this and they were like jesus we just wanted to leave the bubble pft man i think that's i don't know i don't know how obvious that is or isn't i don't know i mean listen don't know. I mean, listen, let's just put it like this.
I think that they fully wanted to play that game and get that game out of the way. And, you know, not only just them, but there was talk last, like emotions were so high, guys, that there was talk throughout the bubble that, you know, what if I leave? What if I leave? What if I, you know, what can I do to get out of here? Like so many emotions, so much being said in the spur of the moment that I think, you know, having a night to sleep on it probably did everyone a bit of good.
Cool. All right.
Thank you so much for your time. We did also see there was maybe a Twitter, I think it was a screen grab of LeBron playing Madden last night.
Can you say that that was not true? I do not have knowledge of that situation, but I can check and get on that. No, that's okay.
That's okay. Twitter gets crazy in these moments.
And the new Madden came out, so people were trying to claim he was on Madden. I don't think he was.
I think I reported that he had exited the meeting, walked out, and then not like 15, 20 minutes later, someone sent me a text of that tweet saying, LeBron left the meeting to go play Madden. I mean, to each their own.
I mean, in the bubble, that's probably a very fun activity. Yes, that's true.
That's true. Athletes are just like us.
We'll say it's not confirmed. We don't think he did.
But when you have Madden going on, the new Madden coming out, and then everyone being trapped at home right now, you'll probably get those rumors um shams thank you so much man we really appreciate it uh and good luck the rest of the way in the bubble guys appreciate you as always thank you take care man all protein bars generally taste the same but not one bars one made protein bars are actually delicious with reese's and hershey's only one re's peanut butter lover's protein bar is made with Reese's peanut butter. And only one Hershey's cookies and cream protein bars is made with Hershey's cookie bits while delivering 18 grams of protein and three grams of sugar.
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Okay, we now welcome on a very special guest. He's in a million movies he has a new documentary out and he also has uh a taco uh uh let's say this a taco he's going to be a taco titan very soon because you have taco restaurants and you're going to keep building them it is danny trejo uh great to have you on thank.
You have your Rams hat on, so let's start there. We are a sports podcast.
What do you think about the Rams this year? Move over. They got it.
They're going to do it. They got that new stadium.
My cousin that did 38 years in prison, and while he was there he learned electrician elect electrical and uh right now scott butnik got him out of prison and we're he's working on that so i got to see the inside of that and it is you know what it's going to be like the 10th wonder of the world yeah. I mean, it's unbelievable.
A little birdie told me that back in the day used to sneak into the Coliseum and to dodge your games. So how are you going to sneak into this stadium? I don't have to.
I don't have to anymore. But you know what's so funny? Because they didn't have the kind of security, you know, that they got now.
You could just stand by a bathroom

and wait till a

family walked by and just

walk in with that family

and they would kind of like, oh good,

they adopted a little Mexican kid and you just

go ahead and walk in with them.

Now it's kind of like

you know,

you get cavity searched and stuff.

Yeah, unless you have that one security guard from that meme that just, like, taps everybody on the side and lets them in. Yes.
But, yeah, you're right. Now it's like they brought electronics into the whole situation.
You have to scan your ticket, all that stuff. So you're excited for the Rams season, obviously.
You think that Sean McVay is going to get back on the right track. I love it.
You think that last year was just a little hiccup for him? Hey, we got the only coach that looks like he just got out of high school, okay? I mean, and if you watch him on the sidelines, he's almost – it looks like he's playing sandlot football. So I love him.
I met him. I met most of the team.
They're all just unbelievable. Yeah, I think it's going to be an interesting year in L.A.
So it never even occurred to you to root for the Chargers. Well, you know what? It's like I'm an L.A.
fan. So I like the Lakers and I like the Clippers.
I like the Rams. I like the Chargers.
I'm an L.A. fan.
I'm born and raised in Los Angeles. So wherever my teams go, that's where I go.
It's going to be fun if the Chargers and the Rams play in the Super Bowl. I'm going to watch one and half, one half, and then I am going to streak naked across the field to the other side.
I like it. Everybody will see all the tattoos I got.
There you go. What's your favorite tattoo that you have? You know what? The one on my chest was done by a guy named Harry Super Jew Ross.
And he did it. We did it in prison, right? She was that big Mexican ladyican lady you know and uh and you know it was funny because you get prison tattoos but you think you're getting out well i didn't think i was getting out so i put this monster on my chest if i would have thought i was getting out i'd put a little you know like tweety bird right right you know so uh it made me famous made made uh made harry famous too i love it so you um i went when i introduced you here i said you've been in a million movies and i wasn't really uh joking there's a stretch there in your career where you were in like 10 movies a year how how do you keep that straight how do you keep it straight what you're promoting what you're in lines all that stuff i mean that is that's very very impressive how many movies you've been in most of my lines my the first five years of my career i played inmate number one literally right you know i never had a name inmate number one and and and the directors all knew that i had this big tattoo so every time i on set, I'll tell you, take your shirt off and say something prison-y.
Okay. And then I get paid.
So it was like I was inmate number one or bad guy or cholo dude. But I was making a living.
In fact, the first time I ever got interviewed, because I was getting a little famous, this girl fresh out of interview school, she said, Danny, don't you feel you're being typecast? And I didn't know. I said, what do you mean? She said, well, you're being, she said, little Mexican.
You're being stereotyped.

And I said, what?

And she said, well, you're always playing the mean Chicano dude with tattoos.

And I thought about it.

I lifted up my shirt.

I said, hey, lady, I am the mean Chicano dude with tattoos.

You know, they got it right. They don't got Marky Wahlberg playing a Mexican.

That's true. That's true.
I'm looking through your career here and especially from like 1995 until 2001 you went on a run of action movies that I don't think will ever be replicated I don't think that anybody will be able to put together this resume you were in Desperado Heat from Dusk till Dawn Anaconda Con air uh and then inferno then reindeer games and then hard right turn spy kids so spy kids was a little change of pace for you i would imagine was that like a challenge spy kids let me be in any airport in the world and hear mommy look the man from spy kids in 45 different languages yeah they watched that all over the world yes from it's from the time i did from dusk to dawn i've been i've been sleeping with selma hayek oh there you go nice pillow there i like it so when you when you're in prison and and like we said, there's a new documentary out about Danny Trejo's life. When you were in prison, you were in San Quentin, and you were a champion boxer in prison.
Was there a moment where you're like, I am the baddest dude in the world? Because I would imagine winning a boxing championship in prison just makes you the baddest guy in the world. Let me tell you something.
It was funny because I was walking around with this friend of mine. We're walking the yard, right? And we're talking about our goals in life.
And my goal was to be, well, just lightweight champion. And I said, you know, my goal, yeah, to be lightweight champion at San Quentin.
And this guy, stupid little shit, I'd like to stab him. He said, you got a very high goal.
What are you talking about? You know what I mean? That was as high as my mind could think. You know, you get to a place to where that's your world.
I couldn't think of boxing on the streets. I just thought about my whole life ambition was to be lightweight champion of San Quentin.
And I ended up lightweight and Walter Wade champion. There you go.
So you surpassed that goal. Hold on.
Shout out. JJ and Jocelyn just got married in Deadwood, South Dakota, the Adams House.
And they were all wearing masks. Wait, what was that? Where did you get that shout out from? What did you just read that from? JJ, they just sent it to me from on the phone.
They just sent it to me from South Dakota. And JJ, that's my mechanic's son.
Got it. I thought you just randomly do shout outs all day.
You just get it and you shout it out? Hey, let me tell you something. I watched this kid raise up from like a year old, and right now he's an unbelievable mechanic.
If you are ever in Sylmar, Los Angeles, California, hey, that's your mechanic. Love it.
Yeah, we've been through a couple times driving an old van. I actually wish that we had that name a couple years ago.
Like last year in Grit Week would have been nice. Let me tell you something.
I have a 65 Buick Riviera. I have a 56 Chevy Bel Air.
They keep them things running beautifully, man. All right.
So let's back up to your prison life. You end up becoming a champion boxer.
You get out. You become a boxing instructor to somebody on a movie.
And then was it the director that noticed you and was like, hey, I want to put you in the background here? You know what happened? What happened? You know, like I was a drug counselor and i'm making you know 180 a week before taxes and uh and and uh uh i'm trying to do this this uh extra stuff you know and they give you extra 50 bucks cash all right they pay you and any cash in the in the, you know? So I got 80 bucks, 50 bucks cash. We go up, I get a call from one of the guys I was working with, working as a drug counselor, you know, one of my kids, and he says, Danny, you know, check out the agency.
The agency that we were working with sent us to this movie called Runaway Train. And I go on this movie and I run into a friend of mine named Eddie Bunker, but I didn't really recognize him.
He looked when the producer said, take off your shirt, not the producer, the first AD. Take off your shirt, and he sees the tattoo.
So I'm standing there without a shirt, and now I'm going to be like the Cholo guy again with no shirt. And this guy comes up and says, hey, you're Danny Trejo.
And I go, yeah. And I go, you're Eddie Bunker.
And he says, Danny, I saw you win the lightweight and the welterweight title up in San Quentin. I go, yeah, Bunker.
And this guy was, was, was unbelievably famous in prison because he knew how to write writs. You know, a writ will get you out of jail.
And he knew it has got, it has to be grammatically correct. And, and, and in the language of the court.
And so he would make money. The guy would come out of a millionaire, out of the joint from writing Ritz.
And he said, what are you doing here? And I said, making 50 bucks. What do you think? And he goes, are you still boxing? I said, no, no.
I don't want to get in the face no more. And he said, we need somebody to train one of the actors how to box.
He adapted the screenplay. You know, he's a writer.
And I said, what's his pay? And he said, $3.20 a day. And I said, how bad do you want this guy beat up, Holmes? No, I thought, no, no, I thought he'd come on.
I wasn't making $3.20 a week. Right.
And he said, $3.20 a day. I said, I couldn't understand.
I said, how bad do you want him beat up? And days you want me to beat him up? And he goes, no, no, you got to be careful. This actor's really high, strong, Danny.
He might sock you. I said, Eddie, for $320 bucks, give him a stick.
Are you crazy? I've been beat up for free. Beat me up for $320.
And they already had somebody cast to box Eric in this movie. And I started training him.
And then when the two guys, Eric and the – like, Eric's as pretty as his sister, okay? And the other guy, I called him the Antonio Bandera Spanishera spanish you know he was real good looking kid

slender and and uh kind of guy you would want for your cell partner if you were doing a lot of time in prison and uh so is eric you know and so so it looked it didn't look good and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and like it so they picked me to to fight eric because it was a contrast right right so and then and then

that was your first acting gig. Now, all the acting gigs, and you talked about it being somewhat typecast.
Is there ever a time where someone's like, oh, there's Danny Trejo. Do something badass.
Be a badass. You know how comedians are like, hey, go say something funny.
Do people expect you to, like, be this mean, badass guy when they meet you in real life? No, people are pretty respectful in real life, you know. I wouldn't run up to a guy with that on his chest and ask him to do something silly.
Yeah, that's true.

That's a very good point.

It's a natural deterrent.

Yes.

But people are like, I'll mug for the camera anytime.

I love taking pictures and signing autographs because it's such a beautiful way to make

somebody's day.

People have said, God, you made our vacation.

And so, you know, I'll just like mug for the camera or them look act like they're choking me or something yeah okay so you can like flip that switch because you're you're a really nice guy and you look really happy like a really positive person do you have a switch that you can flip to just immediately get back to that a director said that a director said i was doing a movie with mickey rourke and I killed about nine people in the first 20 minutes of this movie. I'm running up the steps and they told me this girl was a stunt girl.
So, you know, slap her or something. So I'm running up the step.
I got a rifle. Bam! It looked like I hit her with a rifle and she fell down.
And so but uh but then the director said cut and i went over i started playing with my kids immediately you know and so yeah i can go back to being that guy in prison that that has a look that says look i'll kill you and then i'm gonna go kill the guy that dry cleans your clothes. So, so I, I can, I can do that,

you know,

but I got to get out of there really quick.

Cause it's a sickening feeling.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Do you have a,

a number of people that you've killed in movies?

Is there like a tally?

I know,

but I've died more than anybody in the film industry.

I got the record.

Okay.

So everybody says,

Hey,

how come you always die?

I said,

cause I love going to the bank. That's why.
Yeah yeah do you know how many times you've died uh no but i think that's wait wait i think they said 63 deaths that's a lot god that's crazy who's the best actor you've worked with oh god i love robert de niro i you know what i swear to god, man, he is unbelievable to watch. Because when we first did Heat, come on.
Heat actually pushed me into another category of actors. You know, because you got Robert De Niro, Val Kilmer, Al Pacino, John Boyd.
That's not top of the list, you know, and I'm working with them. And it was like that pushed my stock up a little, you know what I mean? And to watch De Niro, to watch De Niro go, hey, you, you, Shit.
That's a god, man. Yeah.
He is one of America's greatest actors. Yeah.
Yeah. What about Con Air? What about Nick Cage? How was he on set? Nick is cool.
Nick is cool. Con Air was a weird movie.
They got all the wannabe tough guys in Hollywood and put them on the same plane. Yeah.
So it was funny because somebody would spit. And somebody would spit further.
It would turn into a beat. Everything turned into a competition.
Yeah. Alpha energy.
Yeah. And there was, people don't know it, but – God, I always forget his name.

Cusack.

People don't realize it.

Cusack is a bad mother.

People don't realize it.

His sensei is Benny the Jet.

Benny the Jet was five-time world kickboxing champion, right?

And him and Chuck Norris are like the real – if you ever want to shut up, if you ever want to shut up, John Claude Van Damme, who's the other tall guy? Steven Seagal. Steven, if you ever want to shut them up, just mention Chuck Norris.
Yeah. Yeah.
Wait, so do you think that John Cusack could beat up Steven Seagal? No. Oh, God, God.
You don't realize it. Chuck, Benny the Jet is John Cusack's sensei.
And I watched John Cusack bend a heavy bag. You know the heavy bags that are the bags that are all the way down? Yep.
You know the tall ones? I watched him kick one and bend it. I go, wow.
So that means broken ribs, broken legs, broken arms. He will break anything he kicks.
And, and, cause he's being taught by Benny and, and it was funny cause every time, every lunch break, Benny would come get me and take me away. You know what I mean? And I go, what's up? What's up with you, Benny? He said, look, I grew up with Benny's older brother, Mondo.
That's who taught Benny. And he said, come on.
I said, what is it, man? Why would I sit by ourselves? We'd always sit in this dojo on the set of cards. Because, Danny, you grew up with my brother.
I know you don't play well

with others, and you're not a good sport.

And these guys all want to

find out who got the biggest bit.

And it was funny because we were all sitting around

one day, and they were all

talking about this, and mine's this big.

And Nicholas Case

out of the clear blue sky said,

you know what? Only one of you suckers, I'd be scared to meet in the dark alleys, Trey Ho. And I'm off by myself.
I look at him like, why me? Nicholas Cage definitely has alpha energy. I just looked it up.
You do have the record. You've died 65 times.
That's as of February 2020. I'm sure you've probably done like well i guess with the pandemic you probably haven't done that many movies but i'm sure you got like 10 new movies coming out i died a couple of times in february yeah right you just keep dying yeah 65 times that is the record what is the secret to dying let me tell you something my death scene in heat was one of the best scenes of that that it was unbelievable they marked it as one of the best scenes and i remember asking me and robert de niro were sitting there and he goes danny how how are you gonna play this and i said i don't know bob what do you think and he says i think you're almost dead i think you're i think you're dead, but you just have enough to ask me to beg you to kill me.

You kill. I think you're almost dead.
I think you're dead, but you just have enough to ask me,

to beg you to kill me, to kill you.

And for a split second, when he said, what do you think?

I want to say, nah, Bob, I don't see it that way.

But Bob didn't.

You know what, buddy?

That's what I was thinking.

I did it that way.

And I followed his advice.

And man, I swear to God, we had Michael Mann crying on that death scene.

Yeah, it's a great scene.

It's a great movie.

Absolutely.

Do you have dogs?

Lots of them.

Well, I got eight dogs.

Yeah.

Do you ever do the thing where you pretend to die in front of your dogs

and see if they'll come over and try to wake you up?

You know what?

Let me tell you something.

I got one dog that if you have an empty leg, he's going to try to hump you. I got three other dogs that lick the hell out of you.
You know what I mean? So it's like, yeah. I love dogs.
So last year you saved a baby from an overturned car, and you made some some headlines and I love the quote you had.

You said, everything good that has happened to me has happened as a result of helping

someone else.

And that's kind of a cool way to look at, you know, life because what you're basically,

I mean, you could, you could speak to it, but like every circumstance you've been into

and we talked about your start as an actor is helping someone else out.

And that then leads to something

bigger so are you just walking around being like how can i help how can get my karma points absolutely every one of my friends has has uh thermal underwear and socks anybody that i call a friend has thermal underwear and socks in the trunk of their car because they pass them out to homeless here here Here, here, here. That's awesome.
We buy 25 hamburgers every other day and just give it to people. You know what I mean? Yeah.
Because you know what it's like? And I don't, we've been passing out food to the hospitals and stuff from my restaurants, you know, every other week, every week on this pandemic stuff. And it's funny because every time we pass out Pampers, the ladies, they'll say, do you have Pampers? Do you have Pampers? So I bought 150 boxes of Pampers.
I didn't know Pampers were that expensive. Shit, it broke us.
But we would pass out Pampers. And Mario, my assistanty you know what's gonna you know what happens right now if we go to the joint i go who was this we'd get a nickname like hey huggies come here brother loves come here i mean literally they give you a nickname it would be like you know pampers or loves Yeah, I mean, that's a great philosophy to have.
It's just saying what you put out in this world is going to come right back at you. And I think I've heard about that a lot in Hollywood, that if you are a nice person, you're a hard worker, and you're willing to do what you're asked at the beginning, that snowballs.
And looking at the list of movies you've been in and shit how how many films overall have you

acted in do you know i think i think they got me at 300 jesus something yeah like that starting from absolutely nothing like starting from no acting career whatsoever and building your way up you have to be a good first time at like 33 or whatever it was yeah it was 38 i think 38 jesus Let me tell you something.

On my resume, it says,

Quentin Drama Arts.

And me and Eddie... No, 38, I think.
38, Jesus. Let me tell you.

On my resume, it says San Quentin Drama Arts.

Me and Eddie Bunker made that up because standing on the yard,

especially if you know there's going to be a riot, you know it's coming.

Everybody knows.

And you're standing there.

You've got four inches of steel in your belt,

and you're trying to act like you're not scared. You're to act like if you close to me i'll kill you and and when you hear all inmates return to your cell recall uh you know mandatory recall you feel oh thank god you you know how to you know how to act relieved yeah um so daddy this has been awesome i have one last question it's the me undies uh soft question of the day go to meundies.com slash pmt to get 15 off your first purchase so you have trejos tacos and you have trejos uh donuts and coffee and trejos cantina and trejos cantina now give me your favorite taco oh and a book trejo's tacos that's awesome cookbook of all our recipes favorite taco and favorite donut by the way that's like the best combo if you had to own a type of restaurant and be like i'm gonna own a taco shop and a donut shop that's pretty damn good you what? I told you everything good that's happened to me has happened as a direct result of helping someone else.
Yeah. I literally got trail beer too.
Oh, wow. You're like Mike Ditka.
Just put your face on anything. I don't drink.
Everybody tells me that beer is really good. But let me tell you something.
My agent, listen to your agents. Do what your agents say.
My agent wanted me to do this movie. It was called Badass.
No money. They didn't have no money, right? It's a no-budget movie.
That means they give you a lunch. I got a chance to do a movie over here for about 60 grand.
And I said, let's do this little, no, Danny, you know what? Listen, this is a good, this is good. This is be really, really good.
She said, no damn money. And I hate smart women.
Anyway, so she says, so we do this movie, Badass. Damn thing turns into a trilogy, right? I mean, three times I found lot of money and then but i met on this movie i met a producer named ash shaw and he saw that i eat good food i don't eat bad food i won't eat processed food i eat your good food and uh and he asked me daddy why don't start a restaurant.
Jokingly, I said, Trejo's Tacos. We did Badass, Badasses Badass 2, and then Badass on the Bayou, Danny Glover.
When we did Badass on the Bayou, he brought me a business plan, but it was thick. I don't read anything that doesn't have four killings in the first page.

And so it's not a good action or nothing.

So I gave it to that smart lady, you know, agent.

And I gave it to my secretary and they both said, women, smart women.

They both said, hey, this isn't a bad idea, danny they're not asking for a hundred grand up front they're not asking for any kind of just like okay so let's do so i wouldn't be in the i wouldn't be in the restaurant business if it wasn't smart ladies and anyway so i got like uh seven restaurants right now in a donut shop we even even got a restaurant at the airport like the puck guy. You know what I'm saying? Oh, hell yeah.
That's when you know you made it. Hell yeah.
When you got the little restaurant and your tacos are like $25 in a restaurant or in an airport. Yeah.
Yeah. Fuck you for making me pay so much money for your tacos in the airport.
But yeah, that's when you've made it. So it it's like that's when you made it.
And it's like I go there because I check on them all the time. I just go there just like, hey, Paco.
We got one, too. Are you doing an ice cream place, too? We have ice cream in our restaurant.
Okay, nice. In the donut shop, we have donut ice cream, and it's delicious.
Oh, hell yeah. Everything.
That sounds so good. But let me tell you something.
If you go to the donut shop and you order the pineapple fritter, just eat one. If you eat two, you'll need rehab.
Okay. Got it.
Good heads up. Good heads up.
Well, Danny, this has been awesome, man. We really appreciate it.
You're welcome back anytime. You want to talk about the Rams this fall, we'll have you on anytime.
Oh, Rams, you got it anytime, man. Yeah.
God bless you guys. All right.
Thanks so much, man. Thank you, Holmes.
Hockey is on. And no matter the city, no matter the team, no matter the game,

whether it's face-off or penalty shots, regular season or playoffs,

win or lose, no matter what happens, no matter where it happens new amsterdam vodka is there by the way i uh in my fire restaurant i was talking about how i disagreed with urlacher and and i don't know how people can still think that their favorite players think like them matt forte just released a statement like basically calling him out and now i'm like oh matt forte i i knew i always loved him and then i'm just doing it again and then he's gonna be like yeah he'll just treat something like the cubs fucking suck like this fucking guy yeah exactly five five years from now he's gonna be like going on a rant like in favor of wayfair yes yes yes so uh wild day on twitter look out everywhere look how tall I am. Yeah, you are pretty tall.
That's actually very weight. That's like you're not – everyone knows you're not your normal height.
Billy, come stand next to me. Everyone knows you're not your normal height.
Look at this. I'm almost as tall as Billy now.
What's up, short stack? All right, you can get a stack. Yeah, those are lifts.
You're wearing lifts. No, they're not lifts.
These are Nike Zoom 720s. They're lifts.
Let me see them.

Look at this. Let me see that.

Those are not lifts.

Let me see that.

Let me see one more.

My friend, these are...

Do we have that box cutter?

These are standard...

I'm going to fucking pop this bubble right now.

Listen, every basketball player in the world wears these.

All right, let's do...

We got Billy's list.

Billy, you got a list?

Yeah, I got a list.

Where's your list?

It's right in front of you.

We're down to one sheet.

It's double-sided.

It's front and back.

Okay. Billy's number one topic of the

day is Barbie with Hulk muscles.

There's an attractive Russian

woman who can lift more than 200

kilograms. That is the biggest story in the

news according to Billy. Yeah.

I love it. That's good.

Then the Bills cut

Stephen Hauschka. Roy Jones

might drop out. That sucks.
I was really excited for that fight. I like this as Billy's number three here.
He said that Roy Jones is thinking about withdrawing from his highly anticipated bout, but then he said that Billy never said why he was thinking about dropping out. It's right underneath.
What does it say? They change the date of the fight. He doesn't like to change a date? Yeah.
Oh, he's just astrology yeah I almost said astronomy that would have been wrong I think he has plans for November alright let's finish up the show let's get everyone going I actually like this topic on the back here NYC to London air bridge reportedly being discussed by US and UK. I like that.
Like you can drive from the United States to England. Over a bridge.
Like a giant bridge? A giant bridge? Or are you talking about an airplane? That's also an air bridge. I'm not exactly sure, but it just sounded cool.
So I put it in. No, that's definitely an airplane.
I'm in favor of an airplane. Dude, that's like the Concorde.
Why did they stop doing the Concorde? It just blew up once or twice.

Yeah.

I mean, you got there so much faster.

Yeah.

Air bridge.

If there was an air...

You know what could happen?

John Madden could drive over there to announce all the London Jaguars games because he doesn't

fly.

But it was an air bridge.

You know what, scientists?

Just remake the Titanic.

Just build another Titanic.

Put God himself could not seek this ship on the bottom of it. Run the exact same route and be like, fuck you, God.
All right. I got it.
All right. Here we go.
What did you say? No, I'm just saying build another Titanic. Yes.
Yeah, they did. They are.
Are they? Yes. Good.
I think they're building a Titanic too. And build a Jurassic Park too.
And we're just waiting for so an air bridge between london and new york uh to enable travelers to sidestep quarantine is being discussed in top level uk u.s government talks the telegraph understands and then i have to pay for the article wait so they're they're gonna build a bridge to help us get past covid i would imagine that this bridge would probably take longer than a month i'm gonna find a free article i had. I had no idea what it was.
An air bridge. While Big Cat's looking up for us.
Oh, it's just okay. Dad, come on, Billy.
It's officially starting a plan for regional air bridges that would allow visitors from low-risk areas such as New York City to cross the pond to Britain. It's essentially just people want to go get their fucking meat pies in England.land we'll check out the last story that one's good uh r kelly in solitary confinement following jailhouse beatdown i'm fine with that shit rocked he did sweet pretty cool yeah that is actually cool i am incarcerated got my face lesser rated there we go yeah pretty fly he should get beat up um all right took a beating like it got masturbated let's finish let's finish the show with uh bigger than ben bigger than ben yes episode one big ben's documentary now before we get to it uh jake i had tasked you i thought it would have been hilarious because we pulled this up and it turns out it is true he is making a documentary i just love the fact that like someone in big big ben's camp was like hey man like last dance like brady's making documentaries i think lebron's got something out like the hot thing to do right now is to make documentaries and then big ben was like i'm in and he made a fucking 14 minute youtube video and it was basically just a love letter to his wife.
Right. I can summarize it for you.
He was basically saying like, you know, last year was really tough for me. I missed being around my teammates.
But fortunately, I gained the best teammate of all, my wife. Yeah, it was all coach speech at the beginning.
All right, but I thought it would have been funnier if when we had pulled it up, it was just like a children's cartoon that just showed things that were literally bigger than Ben Roethlisberger. Yes.
So I had Jake. I tasked Jake with finding things that are bigger than Ben Roethlisberger and telling us how much bigger.
So what do you have? We've got three. I want someone to cartoonize this.
I think there are people who still do that. Give us the bigger than Ben cartoon.

The Taiwanese animators, right?

Three height comparisons and three weight comparisons.

Okay.

We'll start with the height.

He's 6'5", listed.

That's the equivalent to 46.75 football fields.

Okay.

Bigger than Ben.

46.5 times bigger than Ben.

1.16 Jose Altuve's.

Okay. They go into Ben.

They go inside of Ben.

And then 226.6 Ben's would reach the peak of the Empire State Building. That's it? That's not that many.
226? I think I did the math correctly. That's crazy.
That would be them standing on each other's heads, not shoulders, right? Yeah. Right.
But that's just crazy. That's very interesting.
Empire State Building was around 1,400 feet. 226 times bigger than Ben.
226 times six? Yeah, 226 times is bigger than Ben. You know what? I've always struggled to figure out a way to describe Big Ben's posture, but I think I haven't.
The way that he walks around with his head perfectly upright, he looks like he's balancing another Ben Roethlisberger on the top of his head. Yes, he's like Katie Ledecky.
Yeah. Doing the fucking swimmer with the milkshake.
All right, and then what about weight? So obviously they play at Heinz Field. 240 pounds, his listed height.
The same as 92 bottles of 20-ounce bottles of Heinz ketchup. So he's 92 times bigger than Heinz ketchup.
He's the equivalent to 92 bottles. Yeah, but that's not bigger than Ben.
Right. I've confused myself.
I screwed up the whole task. That's okay.
That's okay. The same size as Ben.
Yeah, yeah. These are all same size as Ben.
Got it. To be as big as Ben, you would need that.
Yeah, correct. 70.59 Aircast FP walking boots.
Okay. And then 480 dishes of dynamite shrimp at P.F.
Chang's. So you screwed up the whole weight thing.
I mean, I think I screwed up the entirety of the task. No, no, no, no.
Empire State Building is 260 times bigger than Ben. Yeah, yeah.
You got that. Uh-oh, here comes Billy.
It's okay to make mistakes, Jake. Sometimes everyone makes mistakes.
No, seriously, don't let these guys get too hard on me. That's okay, Jake.
That's okay. Maybe I wasn't clear.
I also think that... Billy's so mad that we handle Jake maxing up so differently than him.
I'm like, hey, Jake, that's on me, dude. And then Billy does one thing wrong.
I'm like, Billy, you fucking idiot. I just said, it's okay.
This is Billy's way of reminding Jake that he messed up. Listen, hey, Jake, me and you, you're just like me.
Yeah, we're both in the doghouse. Same thing.
Same Zs. All right.
I apologize. No, that's okay.
That's okay. Maybe a tweet to make up for it tomorrow.
Things that are bigger than Ben. Yeah.
I did think it was funny that the way that they were describing his injury when he met with the trainer. And the trainer was like, well, told me that i have one of two options you can either not have surgery and not play football again or you can have surgery and play football again it's like you just described literally every injury in the history it was it got so somber i thought they were going to diagnose ben with a brain tumor and he had the trainer it was great the trainer and the doctor both uh giving a quote that was essentially like the hey we need to remind everyone that Ben's the toughest and the quote was like yeah he told me I couldn't go back in he never tells me I could I can't go back in and then it cuts the trainer he's like yeah I never tell him he can't go back in and the doctor's like he basically he played in Cincinnati where he lift his arm over his head it was the portion of the bigger than ben where it's just like here's how tough ben is and uh just listing everything but it was it was a love story to his wife to his own uh pain tolerance i would say um and then also i didn't understand the beginning when he was talking about all the haters and it's like who is really hating uh ben i mean us but out of love no we don't but we don't think he's bad we never say that big ben's bad who says he's bad i don't they were battling back from missing the playoffs by a game you're not even two super by half a game right they they were a tie away from making the playoffs in big ben's last excuse me full season before he got hurt and so yeah it was a season full of doubters and haters well that was the the summer of like ab and levion right right like when they both left yeah so maybe those maybe we did maybe this was a story with a target audience of four me you levion bell and ab yes and his wife and his wife his wife so the ending oh my god ready to run through a brick wall when his wife was like i talked to ben and i said are you secure with your feet like everything you've done are you happy with everything you've done in your career which was like insert oh yeah ben won super bowls and ben did this uh and then he Ben me, thank you, which is how cold are you to your wife that you say that like when she's like, hey, are you happy with your career? And he says, thank you.
I've processed what you've told me. I'm not done yet.
And then Imagine Dragons kicks in. Next week on Bigger Than Ben, he works out for the first time in 12 years.
he doesn't shave and he gets surgery and we're gonna find out this will probably second episode bigger but then ben will probably be the we've never seen an injury like this episode oh for sure it's like three out of five ligaments are gone holy shit this is how most players would have asked me to just either cut it off or kill them on the spot yeah not ben i i also think that there's a big part of this where Ben was like, I'm in the best shape that I've been in my entire adult life. Wearing an Apple Watch.
I lost a lot of weight. Yep.
So can we make a documentary of me in a t-shirt right now? Yeah. So I can memorialize this period of my life before I put on 40 more pounds in October.
Yes. Yes.
And he will be, like you said earlier, bigger than Ben now. Yes.
Jake, yeah, we need to find out how much bigger than Ben will be in eight weeks. As soon as he gets a little chill in the air for the Stillers.
Yeah. Alright.
They should call this Lardnox. That would be too mean.
Well, no, because you lost a lot of weight. I'm saying it's good.
No, that's too mean. Lardnox.
That's too mean. Ben Roethlisberger um all right that is our show awesome interview with kevin love coming on monday awesome awesome interview we were just out there we spent like an hour and a half with him talked everything very open uh about everything also we might be breaking up with blake griffin but so you have to listen on monday to find out why it made me miss doing interviews in person so much um should we do one more yeah let's do one more all right hit it billy hank do you have a question to ask the machine ask the machine real quick as we go oh does pft love the awls odd is no bullshit even is yes oh my god this is yes even as i love you oh what, there's two.
34! I love you guys. I love you guys.
The machine doesn't lie, confirmed. Billy, do you have any final thoughts taking us into this weekend? Yes, I do.
All right, cut the recording. No, no, no, no.
I actually have something planned this time. No, no, no.
I actually have something planned. I'm going to start this new thing.
I'm going to leave you the fun fact before every end of the episode. I'm going to leave you guys with the fun fact they used to do this the largest dromedary camel population is actually in australia nowhere in the middle east of course the fun fact is about a stupid animal no one gives a fuck about it's a fucking camel bro you there's no people don't think camels in australia wait billy no one cares about animals like you do.
What does drama Dory mean? One hump.

Wait, what's the double hump?

By Dory?

No.

All right, we stopped recording.

No.

Well, yes.

Are we?

Yeah.

All right, let me do one more.

One more, Hank.

One more.

Everyone pick a number.

17. Hit it.
Hit it, Billy. Hit it.
Everyone pick a number 17 Hit it Hit it Billy Hit it Everyone pick a number Quick Pick a number 52 52 45 I mean 32 73 32 52 Did he say someone else's number? Billy picked two numbers 32 73 Why'd you change it? Oh 98 Wow 98 98. Wow.
98. Brian Arakko.
Billy Loves, 45. Now, usually I don't do this, but go ahead and break them off with a little previews of the remix.
Remix, remix, remix, remix, remix. The remix to ignition.
Hot and fresh out the kitchen. And that body got every minute intuition.
It's been a walking ball. I'm like the water drawn.
It's the freaking weekend. Baby, I'm about to have people fun.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. Now, I'm not trying to be rude.
But hey, pretty girl, I'm feeling you. The way you do the thing you do reminds me of my life is cool.
That's why I'm all the thing you create. Oh, trying to get you to a whole table.
You must be a football coach. The way you got me playing the field.
So, baby, give me that doo-doo and let me give you that. Running hot into my We'll be right back.
We're going to get to your room and Can I get a Can I get a But then I'm just to pull you down. I'm about to pull you down.
Can you take it to your room and Can I get a Can I get a But I'm just in my bro When I can open the door I'm a little bit of vision I can crush out the kitchen I'm a rolling That body's got every hand in the kitchen This is broken wrong Unlike the one who's wrong What's the freaking easy But I'm about to have you I'm a little bit of vision I can crush out the kitchen I'm a rolling That body's got every hand in the kitchen They've been a poker roll We'll be right back. I'm a rolling that mountain, got everything that is We're just in a coconut, I'm not so what it's wrong It's a freaking weekend, I'm about to have you some fun