Football Is Back (sort of), 3 Pt Champ Joe Harris, And Mt Rushmore Of Press Conference Moments

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Speaker 1 football is back.

Speaker 1 We have three-point champion Joe Harris in studio. Really awesome time with him.
I think we're best friends with him.

Speaker 1 I think he's even going to give us some free tickets to the Nets next year, which we will not take and not go to. But

Speaker 1 The thought counts and the thought is there.

Speaker 2 The next year.

Speaker 1 The net. The next year.
The next, next year. Next year.
Yeah, yeah. So Joe Harris in studio.

Speaker 1 Mount Rushmore of press conference moments, Fire Fest of the Week, and maybe a couple Madden codes somewhere in here.

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Speaker 1 Friday, August 2nd,

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Speaker 1 football is

Speaker 1 football is back.

Speaker 1 We wanted to play this song to get you a little juiced up. And now football's not back because we watched the Hall of Fame game.
We turned it on. We got excited.

Speaker 1 It turned us on. We saw the uniforms.
We saw Matt Schaub. Yes, he is still in the NFL.
We saw Drew Locke just out there looking like every other quarterback that's ever played in the NFL.

Speaker 1 Kevin Hogan ready to throw a three-yard out Stanford offense.

Speaker 1 And then five minutes in, we're like, this kind of sucks. Yeah.
There are a couple reasons to watch this game. One, gambling on it.
Yeah, fuck you, frick you, Trey Wingo.

Speaker 1 Rich, I might add, it's preseason for the gamblers too. Yeah.
So we should get our money back on this one.

Speaker 1 I bet the Falcons plus a half in the first half. Looks like that's a dud.
Dude, we both bet the over because we're fucking idiots. Loser.

Speaker 1 I mean, what a bunch of morons we were. We bet the over and then we looked at each other and we're like, we're so dumb for betting the over.
No, it's still alive.

Speaker 1 Trey Wingo, yeah, Trey Wingo tweeted, you need help if you bet on this game when you have no idea who's playing on the field. Hey, Trey, just a heads up, man.

Speaker 1 I've been doing this for a very long time. I've been gambling all my life.
I lose even if I fucking read a thousand articles about each team and I know exactly who's playing. So what is that?

Speaker 1 What is the difference of me betting and losing on a game when I don't know who's playing? Yeah, Trey, I bet on March Madness every year. You think I know half the players on even the best teams?

Speaker 1 So frick off, bro. I bet based on the pedigree of the school and the color and in the Hall of Fame game, I'm always, always going to bet on Matt Schaub.
Hey, Trey, lock it up. Lock it up.

Speaker 1 No, you lock it up. You lock it up.
No, you lock it up, Trey. You lock it up.
Trey? You lock it up. Did we just become best friends? No.

Speaker 1 Because you're being lame about betting on preseason football. Yeah, you got to bet on preseason football.
Listen, it's the only way you can do it. You got to live.
But yeah, the game started.

Speaker 1 We had our first pass interference penalty, which was cool. That was really cool.
He went under the hood. Challenge.
Sorry. Challenge.
Challenge. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 The ref got under the hood, looked at the Microsoft surface, and it was upheld. It was thrilling.
Yeah, I can't wait for an entire year of pass interference challenge penalty reviews.

Speaker 1 Can't wait for the game to get even slower. But no, watching just football helmets and a ball on a field

Speaker 1 gets it going. It really does.
It gets it going.

Speaker 1 It's not good. No.
It's not enjoyable once it starts, but Al Michael's voice comes through the TV and you see that graphic and you see Denver versus Atlanta and you're like, we are so fucking close.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it doesn't really count as a full game unless it lasts long enough for the fans to get drunk while there's good football being played. Yeah.
But you know what?

Speaker 1 We still had, we'll always have that first opening drive. We got Kevin Kevin Hogan.
We got fluff. Kevin Hogan, no offense.
Looks like bust. I'm putting the bust tag right now on

Speaker 1 bad attitude. More like no effect on this game.
Yep. Got him.
Trash. Bust.
Burn. Put it on the board.

Speaker 1 Yeah, so football's back.

Speaker 1 That's pretty much all we got. I mean, I'm excited.
Matt Schob. I am so excited that Matt Schob's still in the league because if you don't remember, if you're too young, I hope you're not that young.

Speaker 1 But if you don't remember Matt Schob's pick six streak, it was one of the most thrilling moments as a sports fan that I've ever encountered. Yeah, it was like a Nathan Peterman half extended to like.

Speaker 1 You might be okay here, buddy. The first and goal for the Falcons.
Okay, this is going to be hard. If you're going to be thrilling, if you miss the game, if you miss the game.

Speaker 1 The first win of the season is nine. I hope they go for two.
Put in Matt Schaub.

Speaker 1 I hope they go for two. Put in Matt Schaub.
Yeah, Dan Quinn probably. No, Dan Quinn's not going to go for two.
No, he's going to kick the field goal. You might kick it right now.

Speaker 1 I might actually lose the spec by a lot. I'm going to tweet that right now.
Dan Quinn, kick the field goal from here. Yeah, keep that streak going.

Speaker 1 But yeah, it is good to watch the NFL being back. We've got the Hall of Fame speeches.
I mean, you guys just got excited. Saturday.

Speaker 1 So, yeah, I dare say that's what I'm saying. You guys just kicked yourself out of it and then back in.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Hey, this is gambling season.

Speaker 1 That was a lot of bipolar. In action of us being like, yeah, this game kind of sucks.
Oh, shit. We can get some Dan Quinn jokes off and we can see a first and goal.

Speaker 1 I mean, we did really bury the lead of this entire game, which was the Broncos' new head coach, Vic Fangio, coached this game dealing with a kidney stone that he was hospitalized for, that he didn't pass.

Speaker 1 So he's walking out there with like a big calcified chunk of rock swinging in his urethra, and he's still out there calling plays. He's fucking incredible.

Speaker 1 Listen, as someone who's peed blood in the last couple weeks, I don't think that's a big deal. Yeah, I mean, it's been burning when Cliff Kingsbury pees for the last.
There you go, PFT.

Speaker 1 Touchdown Falcons. Touchdown Falcons.
There we go. It's 7-6.
You need this extra point.

Speaker 1 Now, I'm not rooting against against your bet, but for content reasons, it would be funny if this was. No, locked it up.
He's going to make it. Not even worried about it.

Speaker 1 I'm just telling you right now, it would be very funny. I'm not worried about this extra point.
Who's playing quarterback right now?

Speaker 1 I don't know, but he's got triceps tattoos. Yeah, that's true.
So I'm kind of in on that. Yeah, so, all right, we'll do the extra point.
Colin Coward is on.

Speaker 1 He's looking good. He gives a little.
Who is it? I can't. Who? Kurt Benkert.
Kurt Binkert with the first

Speaker 1 Falcon Setcha. Virginia.
Virginia.

Speaker 1 Yep,

Speaker 1 there's a flag. There's a flag.
It doesn't matter. Damn.
Wave it off. Decline the penalty.
That's the first win of the season for your boy, PFT. Undefeated on the year.
There you go.

Speaker 1 And then I'm going to get the over in the second half. For sure going to happen.
Definitely three more touchdowns in this game that we're going to watch the whole game of.

Speaker 1 I would also like to tease this a little bit. Oh.
Uh-oh. On the defense.
On the defense. There we go.
You nailed it. I'm Gucci.
I'm Gucci, unless they return this kickoff for a touchdown.

Speaker 1 That would also be very funny. Yeah.
I'm also going to tease this because so we like to talk.

Speaker 1 You know, you guys like to have some fun, make your jokes about Leroy saying he deletes tweets, things like that. Well, that's not a joke.
It's a fact. Well,

Speaker 1 he hasn't deleted a tweet in probably like six months, seven months. I don't know about that.
So he stands by all his reporting. He's a reformed tweeter.
He is very reformed. Thank you, Hank.

Speaker 1 He reported earlier this offseason that LaShawn McCoy is going to be Dunzo. from the Bills.
Adam Schefter said, no, you're a bad dog, Leroy. This one is incorrect.
He's staying with the Bills.

Speaker 1 I've been hearing many, many rumblings. Wait, you released it? Yeah, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Hold on. You didn't let me finish.
What was ability do you have? You didn't let me finish my sentence.

Speaker 1 I've been hearing many rumblings from Leroy. Got it.
That LaShawn McCoy's release is imminent. Oh, wow.
So just pointing that out.

Speaker 1 I'm sure you delete this part of the podcast.

Speaker 1 Yeah, no. Yeah, Scotch Honor, please piss on it.
Lift your leg on it and pee on the tape and make sure no one hears it again. Just saying, could be done within the next two weeks.
Big time news.

Speaker 1 I'm just saying. Big time news.

Speaker 1 All right, so football's back. We talk a little baseball before we get to Firefest.
The Houston Astros, sheesh, sheesh, Zach Grenke. That is, I love when a team's just like, you know what? Fuck it.

Speaker 1 We're just going to have all the good pitchers. Hot stove.
So that happened. Also, the Yankees, I love that the Yankees

Speaker 1 just are saying, fuck it. We're going to try to win softball games for like the fourth year in a row.

Speaker 1 And didn't do anything, didn't get a pitcher. And while the Mets, somehow, the Mets are going in now.
I don't, they've won like six in a row.

Speaker 2 You said it perfectly with the Mets, though, like, they don't know what they're doing, right?

Speaker 1 But now they also have a great pitching staff.

Speaker 2 I feel like they're winning, though, in spite of their management.

Speaker 1 Well, even a blind pig finds an acorn every now and again, as the old saying goes. Yeah, that's exactly the old saying.
Uh-oh, that's a pass interference. We might have a field goal attempt.

Speaker 1 That is the saying. Yeah, I know.
We might have a field goal attempt. Yeah, the way that you said exactly,

Speaker 1 yeah, it's a saying.

Speaker 1 So,

Speaker 1 yeah, the baseball hot stove, as you just said,

Speaker 1 also known as the trade deadline. Yeah, hot stove league.
Now, they call it the hot stove because that was the old water cooler, right?

Speaker 1 No, it was the hot stove was, yeah, was in the winter. They would all get together and stand around and

Speaker 1 play his guitar. Imagine being the guy at the hot stove tomorrow morning that didn't know it was called the hot stove.
Correct. Correct.
But you got any other baseball thoughts?

Speaker 1 That's all my baseball thoughts for right there. It's just hot stove.
I will will say. It's just hot stove.
No, okay. You want to know my real baseball thoughts? Yeah, give them to me.

Speaker 1 I thought that the inner Ohio trade was hilarious. Oh, and Trevor Bauer showed up to the Indians.

Speaker 1 And Trevor Bauer showed back up to the game after he had been traded away from his teammates to watch Chris Humphries showing up to

Speaker 1 a watch party for keeping up with the Kardashians.

Speaker 1 It was kind of awkward to see, but it also told me that he just doesn't have friends. And if he does not have friends, and

Speaker 1 that trade now goes down in history as the two guys who got traded most iconic last moment with their respective teams.

Speaker 1 Trevor Bower launching the ball over center field and Yassi Opui getting in the brawl. Agreed.
That's beautiful. Agreed.
And I mean, Yassio Puy, I mean, this makes the Indians

Speaker 1 pretty good. I think it's probably a better trade for them.
No, their lineup is lethal.

Speaker 1 And then I think that's...

Speaker 2 I think them versus the Astros would be like the perfect

Speaker 1 playoff matchup. Yeah, except no Marlins man, though.
That's true. That's true.
That we'd be missing.

Speaker 1 Or just for Cleveland, home But it's tough in Houston because their color is kind of like the Marlins orange. It's a nightmare, actually, a nightmare scenario for Marlins Man.

Speaker 1 You can get confused with other fans, and we won't be able to see him.

Speaker 1 Also, a lot of dogs in Houston don't drive for his cats. The Cubs did the classic thing where they just got a guy who I actually like it, but they got a guy just to

Speaker 1 let everyone else know, hey, we're not totally giving up on this thing. Oh, you have to.
You have to do that.

Speaker 1 Because if your fan base is sitting around waiting for that news to drop, you have to throw them a little crumb being like,

Speaker 1 we're working the phones. And they basically said the bottom of their lineup is absolute trash, so anyone would do better, which Castellanos will do better.

Speaker 1 Any other hot stove, the Red Sox did nothing.

Speaker 2 Yeah, and Dombrovsky was kind of like a douchebag.

Speaker 2 He's like, there is no press conference. There's no press to announce.
Like, there's no news to announce. When everyone was waiting, like, oh, like, what do you got?

Speaker 1 What do you got? Wait, did he do a press conference to announce there's no press conference? He did, like, Mike Piano.

Speaker 2 No, I think someone asked him. I got to find the quote.
I might be butchering this, but I think someone asked him for what the update was, and he's like, there is no update.

Speaker 1 We made no moves. It was kind of like our guys.
Yeah, it was kind of underwhelming overall because it was just weird moves.

Speaker 1 It was the Mets getting Strowman, the Astros having the best, you know, one, two, three there with Cole, Verlander, and Grankie, and then the Dodgers, Yankees doing nothing, Cubs kind of doing a little bit, and then it's just, okay.

Speaker 1 And then the inner Ohio trade. It was all very weird.
I do like that spin zone, though. It's like, we like the guys we have in-house, and we trust them to turn around.
Has that ever worked?

Speaker 1 Well, no, the thought process that I always take with with like the adding a like castellanos is not a star he's a guy he's a professional hitter as they say so it's like let's add a guy means that he sucks well no it means that he's better than like six seven eight that have been him have been batting so let's add a guy to tell everyone else in the clubhouse that we're not giving up on you because if you don't do anything then the gm is basically saying You guys are kind of sucky, and I don't want to give up future assets for anyone this year.

Speaker 1 You got in this mess. Now get out of it.
Yeah, I was talking mostly about the Red Sox. That's kind of what they're doing right now.

Speaker 1 Yeah, they're basically saying, yeah, like, you guys are too far back right now for us to help you with something on the trade deadline.

Speaker 1 But the way that you spin it to the outside is like the old Les Miles, like, we got a damn strong football team. We just got to come together here.

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Hank, start us off, Fire Fest of the Week.

Speaker 2 Fire Fest of the Week. This is kind of a continuation of mine from a few weeks ago, but I moved yesterday.

Speaker 2 Today I had move unwell. Well, as well as it could go.
It was a regular move.

Speaker 1 There's always an issue.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I got lost lost a few times mattress like didn't fit in the u-haul it was a it was a shit show but i do know that like that that you i told you before i when we when i was saying goodbye to hank before his move on tuesday i was like hey man just so you know there will be one big fight or one big fuck-up and there's nothing you can do to get away from it just embrace it because everybody's always upset when they're moving you just you can't be in a good mood and go through like a three-day move and plus you're like packing all your shit up there's gonna be little minor fights you get into with yourself a lot of speed bumps along the way great feeling just getting rid of like 70% of my stuff.

Speaker 2 Oh, yeah. Like I was packing and I was like, you know what? Like I don't need any of this.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Moving is like flying.
You just have to put on your most comfortable pair of basketball shorts, a shitty t-shirt, and say the next 24 hours are going to suck beyond belief.

Speaker 1 And one of the nice silver linings in moving, though, you get into your new place and you don't have, oh, I can't unpack all my kitchen stuff. You just have to eat pizza for like the next week.

Speaker 2 Right. So the 24 hours I was prepared for, got through it.
And then today I had my cable scheduled from 9 to 12 to show up. And I was like, all right, finally, like, I'll be set up.

Speaker 2 Didn't come.

Speaker 2 Classic. Called me at like 10.45.
The guy was like, I'm looking for parking. Like, there's nowhere to park.
Showed up at like 11.55. And we had a meeting at 1 o'clock.

Speaker 2 And I was like, how long is this going to take? He was like, 2 to 3 hours. And I was like, well, fuck.
Like, I have to reschedule. So I have no internet or cable for like a week.

Speaker 1 How did you schedule that when it happened? Did you move overnight? Did you like...

Speaker 1 Because I know that you're running some issues earlier with like you had to move out by a certain date and then you couldn't move in until a certain day.

Speaker 2 No, I got that figured out. Like, I was able to move in the day before.

Speaker 1 I was going to suggest doing the old Baltimore Colts Mayflower truck truck. Yeah.
Just living a champ scray out of there. All right, so you're in.

Speaker 2 But I'm in. No cable, no, no cable, no internet.
So that's my fire fest of the week. Yeah.

Speaker 2 And the worst part is it was 9 to 12, so I was just kind of like sitting in my bed doing nothing.

Speaker 2 And then at 12 o'clock, I was like, fuck, I probably should have moved some of my stuff in because I just wasted three hours doing nothing.

Speaker 1 That's going to hit you like a ton of bricks on Sunday night. Yeah.
And you're like, oh. Okay.
So good job.

Speaker 1 Book. Good job.
Read a book. Yeah, read a book.
Good job moving outside of football season. Yes.
That would have been tough. Real tough.
That would be real tough.

Speaker 1 Also, like, what are you going to jerk off to? No TV, no internet? Your imagination? True. Old Spank Bank PSC.
That would be tough.

Speaker 1 My Fire Fest of the Week is the fact that we've all been dead for seven years. Oh, yeah.
Did you guys hear about this? No. So this was a thread that went viral earlier.
I'm all bought in on it.

Speaker 1 Back in 2012, the Large Hadron Collider was invented, which is that big circle thing out in Europe that smashes atoms into each other.

Speaker 1 And Stephen Hawking said that it was going to destroy the whole planet. Well, it turns out that a lot of people think that it did, and that currently we're living in a computer simulation.

Speaker 1 We're like God is doing like a Madden Sims season, and

Speaker 1 we're going into number eight right now. So that we can't be held accountable for anything that happens.
No, we can't be accountable for a single thing that happens.

Speaker 1 So we're all in free play right now. We're all computers being controlled by some artificial intelligence.

Speaker 1 That's why, remember we talked about the Berenstein-Beres theory? Yeah. About how a lot of people think that Berenstein-Beres is spelled S-T-E-I-N at the end, but it's actually now spelled S-T-A-I-N?

Speaker 1 That all changed in 2012. There are these little tiny glitches that the computer didn't get right.
For example, Skecher's shoes. I always thought Skecher's shoes was S-K-E-T-C-H-E-R-S.

Speaker 1 Turns out it's not. There's no T in there.
Oh. It's low T now.
It's a low T shoe. That changed in 2012, too.
Nobody remembers it changing.

Speaker 1 When did Avril Levine die? When was that? 2012. Was it? That theory? Probably.
That theory that she's dead and it's like an imposter for the last seven years.

Speaker 1 That's just confirmed fact.

Speaker 1 It would also explain the Giants were Super Bowl champions in 2012 when this happened. That would make sense.

Speaker 1 That's why Eli Manning is just timeless and he'll never lose his job because he's just a robot that's being programmed. So his durability is on 99.
God's controlling us? Or Archie Manning. Okay.

Speaker 1 I was going to say God, that's a terrible controller.

Speaker 2 Go off, take off. Yep.

Speaker 1 That's true. Also,

Speaker 1 before 2012, everybody only knew Kevin Space. He has a great actor.
Now he's a pedophile.

Speaker 1 A lot of shit's changed. Things change.
I didn't even exist. PFT Commenter didn't exist before 2012.
That's true. So God is running my account and my voice.

Speaker 1 So if you got a problem with PFT, you got a problem with God. Take it up with Jesus.
All right, my.

Speaker 2 That thread, by the way,

Speaker 2 I was like, I'm usually all in on that stuff. I was

Speaker 1 way too confused.

Speaker 2 Conspiracy theories. Like, I was like, the top of the thread was like, we've been living in a simulation.
Here's why. And I was like, let's go.

Speaker 1 and by the end of it I was like I'm out this is way too confusing there's another theory I'm not going to get into it right now that I read up on last weekend that basically says that if you are not currently there's a theory out there of where we are as a as a human species in relation to advanced artificial intelligence where if you understand the theory then you will go insane and die

Speaker 1 Hank I'm not stop reading well I I don't think any of us are smart enough to really hank could read

Speaker 1 it if Hank got high enough he might be able to understand it stop reading Hank That's an order. Don't read that book.

Speaker 1 All right. My firefest of the week is: I have a new addiction.
I'm addicted to Madden codes and giving them out and playing God. I'm like the simulator God.

Speaker 1 It started as a joke. On Wednesday, I gave out some fake Madden codes.
Then on Thursday, I said,

Speaker 1 I have a bunch of Madden codes to give out. Who wants one? Also fake.
I had a thousand replies in three minutes. Realized at that point that I was kind of a little too

Speaker 1 deep because my mentions are just people being like my little brother's birthday is coming up can I get a Madden code or like I can't pay the rent can I get a Madden code it's a mess so

Speaker 1 Madden actually gave me some codes now I have real codes and fake codes so no one knows what's going on I've been giving out real codes but also still giving out fake codes and I like to hold it over people because people are just begging why else would you have them bend your knee and maybe I'll give you a code and maybe it will be real and maybe it will be fake I like how you're the opposite of the boy who cried wolf The first two times you did it,

Speaker 1 it was a total lie. Oh, wait, wait, no, it is the real.
You are the boy who cried, Wolf now, except that parable doesn't mean shit because everybody kept believing you, right?

Speaker 1 And the problem is that I've come into now is that I've gotten a bunch of real codes, but I haven't kept track of which ones I've given out.

Speaker 1 So the end of this joke will be me earnestly giving a real code to someone that's fake. Okay.
Yeah. They'll put it in and be like, wait, this doesn't work.
Gotcha.

Speaker 1 Even though, but listen, you guys got to try it.

Speaker 1 Giving someone a fake code and then having them be like, thank you, it takes about 20 minutes for them to get to their, you know, Xbox or PS4 workstation. Put it in.
I'm already gone.

Speaker 1 It's a perfect crime.

Speaker 1 I'm long gone. You're dust in the wind.

Speaker 1 But that thank you, I still have it. That's true.
Well, as somebody who's playing God, you should know the only code for eternal life is John 3.16.

Speaker 1 Okay, so that's actually not one of the codes I got, but I'll write that. I'm giving that code out.
So I'm going to actually give out a real code. I'm going to give out a real Xbox Xbox code.

Speaker 1 Liam's going to give out a PS4 code. I'm going to give out the first

Speaker 1 16 digits of the Xbox code. I'll give out the other eight later on in the show.
When are we going?

Speaker 1 Maybe at the end. Maybe at the end of the show.
I think Liam has a bet to settle with us. He's going to give out a punishment.
Liam's going to give out a PS4 code.

Speaker 1 Okay, so here's a real, a very real Xbox code.

Speaker 1 This is the first 12 numbers letters. XH.

Speaker 1 Oh, it's actually more than that.

Speaker 1 Fuck, these are long. All right, here we go.
X. Wait, wait, wait.
When you're giving out these letters,

Speaker 1 use words from the alphabet. Okay.
Describe each one. Okay, so here we go.
This is the first

Speaker 1 15 digits from the code, and I'll give out the other 10 later. X is in xylophone, H is in Hank, R is in

Speaker 1 Redskins. Be careful.
X is in Xylophone. W is in Win.

Speaker 1 T is in low T.

Speaker 1 3, 2.

Speaker 1 R is in, was it, Redskins? Uh-huh. H is in Hank.
H is in Hank. Seven, two,

Speaker 1 nine.

Speaker 1 D is in Dan. That's it.
Here we go. So I'll give out the other 10 on the other side.
Yeah. So yeah, I'm addicted, guys.
It's actually a problem.

Speaker 1 And I already know that essentially for the rest of the year, I'm going to have people just asking me for codes. Oh, it's never going away.

Speaker 1 And then next year, when it comes back, they're going to be like, oh, did you get codes again? So I'm just a code guy now. I'm personally going to ask you for codes as late as November.

Speaker 1 This is what I am. I'm just the code guy.
You did a good job with the letters, by the way. Thank you.

Speaker 1 I used to work in a call center, and people would always say like the name of our appliance to me, and they all started with a P.

Speaker 1 And hearing people try so hard not to say penis when they're like, Yeah, P is in P air

Speaker 1 was always a real thrill for me.

Speaker 1 Like if you have, if you have a potty mouth,

Speaker 1 the first word that comes up in your head is always a bad one. Yep.
Yeah. All right.
So let's do our Mount Rushmore. Want to do the Mount Rushmore? Mount Rushmore of press conference moments.

Speaker 1 This is going to be good. There's a lot of good ones.
We'll put in some good ones too. We'll put them into the show so you can hear them, refresh your memory.
Now we're not.

Speaker 1 Who the fuck is going for this? We're limiting this to just sports because there are some others from the political world we could go with, like Bud Dwyer would be a great one, or Bill Clinton.

Speaker 1 I did not have sexual relations with that woman. So there has to be sports involved.
Yes. I'm going first.
Okay.

Speaker 1 That's a lot of pressure on me.

Speaker 1 All right. Fine.
I'll go first. I'll just do Alan Iverson practice.
Practice.

Speaker 1 I actually just did the other one that I have on the list. That was a good one.
That was, you'll hear that one later. Practice.
All right, so who's not talking about a game? Practice. Are you up?

Speaker 1 I think I'm up. Put it in.
Put it in.

Speaker 9 I'm supposed to be the franchise player, and we're in here talking about practice.

Speaker 9 I mean, listen, we're talking about practice.

Speaker 1 Not a game, not a a game, not a game.

Speaker 9 We're talking about practice.

Speaker 1 Okay, I'm up. I'm going to go with I'm a man, I'm 40.
Good one. Mike Gundy flipping his shit.
This is pre-mullet, Mike Gundy, too.

Speaker 1 I actually think that this is the incident that spurned Mike Gundy to grow a mullet. That's why I don't read the newspaper.

Speaker 1 Because it's garbage. And the editor that let it come out is garbage.
Where are we at in society today?

Speaker 1 Come after me.

Speaker 1 I'm a man i'm 40 i'm not i'm not a kid write something about me i know what hank's about to do

Speaker 1 that's fine you know what i have a backup plan i have a backup plan you're not i'm not doing anything you like that's fine i have a backup plan i have a backup plan jim calhoun i took a mecca oak for karon butler i fucked up i up i didn't take ryan gold

Speaker 1 jesus christ almighty it's been written about it's been talked about don't shake your fucking head you ask a question, I'm telling you how I feel about it.

Speaker 1 I took a Mecca Obafor and Koran Butler. They're not bad.
I can't take every player. We have 13 scholarships.
When I saw him, he was 6'5 ⁇ , 265, 70 pounds. When he graduated, we took Quran.

Speaker 1 He then waited to get his SAT score in the spring. It took Wayne Simone 18 months to convince, and I believe that's, is that a quote, I believe,

Speaker 1 by

Speaker 1 Tim Welch to convince him to take the kid. Same thing Tim Welch saw, except we had to get a Mecca, and they didn't.
And we had to get Koran and they didn't.

Speaker 1 But I'm tired

Speaker 1 of talking about Ryan. I've just said it's one of the best players sitting in our league and starting to look like one of the best players in the country.
I don't know what else I can say.

Speaker 1 And if you want me to say I fucked up, I fucked up.

Speaker 1 Write it.

Speaker 2 I'm sure. I I mean,

Speaker 2 I didn't even write that on the list.

Speaker 1 They're not bad.

Speaker 2 I assumed you were going to take that.

Speaker 1 Ryan Gomes was 265 pounds coming out of high school.

Speaker 1 Fucked up. Which is the funniest part.
You want me to take everyone? I took Ameka Okelefour and Karon Butler, and then he does those like thick bossing. They're not bad.

Speaker 2 It's just crazy that it's funny because Ryan Gomes wasn't that great.

Speaker 1 I mean, like, all things considered, Ameka Okefort and Karon Butler, he actually had a great position. I got a backup.

Speaker 2 And then I will go with Ronda Cincinnati Bill Belichick. Okay.

Speaker 1 You think having a 37-year-old on a Cincinnati? That's yeah. And you know what? I was thinking about that.
Is that the GOAT Belichick moment?

Speaker 1 Or I think it was the same season when he just did Seattle. Seattle.

Speaker 1 That was a good run that he had.

Speaker 1 A lot of time spent saying nothing that season. My second pick is going to be the Bears are who we thought they were.
And we let them off the hook. That's good.
Crown their asses.

Speaker 1 The Bears are who we thought they were.

Speaker 1 That's why we took the damn field. Now, if you want to crown them, then crown their ass.

Speaker 1 But they are who we thought they were. And we let them off the hook.
That's good. Denny Green, R.I.P.
Yep, a real one. R.I.P., Denny Green.
All right. I will go with

Speaker 1 Herm Edwards. Play to win the game.
You play to win the game.

Speaker 1 Hello? Hello? You play to win the game. We ought to put these in because we're doing a terrible job of repeating these.

Speaker 1 The one that I like that pick because herm edwards has basically lived the last like 25 years just repeating sayings from that person way to win the game um all right my next one so this is what i kind of alluded to with my first when i screwed up the practice tone jim mora playoffs

Speaker 1 playoffs can't you kidding me you kidding me playoffs

Speaker 1 playoffs don't talk about playoffs you kidding me like the whole time the mouse voice yeah timothy R.I.P. R.I.P.
Tim. Scouty got him.
Scouty got that ass.

Speaker 1 Alright, my next one, I'm going to go with...

Speaker 1 I'm going to go with Lou Gehrig.

Speaker 1 Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth when he was retiring. Okay.

Speaker 1 Today,

Speaker 1 I consider myself

Speaker 1 the luckiest man

Speaker 3 on the face of the earth.

Speaker 1 Which is a classy statement from a class act. Okay.

Speaker 1 That's a good one. Yeah.
Thanks, Hank.

Speaker 2 My last two, I will go with Marshawn Lynch. I'm just here so I don't get fined.
Great one.

Speaker 1 Hey, I'm just here so I don't get fine.

Speaker 2 And John Calapari, John Cheney. Yes.

Speaker 1 Shut up, guys.

Speaker 1 I'm killing you.

Speaker 1 Hey, go ahead.

Speaker 1 You remember that. When I see you, I'm going to kick your ass.

Speaker 1 I'm going to kill you. I'm going to kill you.
When I find you, I'm going to kick your ass.

Speaker 2 Need more of that in sports.

Speaker 1 Yes, absolutely. Great one.
Great one. All right, my last one.
I'm going to go with Jim Tom Sula farting.

Speaker 1 A lot of examples of football history of good quarterbacks losing their confidence.

Speaker 1 Okay, that's a good one. Do we know if it was a fart? It was definitely a fart.
It was definitely a fart. He lifted up the cheek.
That is a fart move. He's a fart guy.

Speaker 1 Like, if you think of fart guys, Jim Tom Sula comes up in the dictionary. And he doesn't give a shit that he farted in the press conference.

Speaker 1 People asked him about it afterwards, and he was like, so what? Yeah. Yeah.
I'm a guy. We talk about it all the time, like football guys, there's video game guys, there's porn guys.

Speaker 1 Jim Tom Sula, fart guy. All the above.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 All right, my backup, which actually some, we can embrace debate. Some may say is the more iconic, because I love the I fucked up, but maybe the more iconic Jim Calhoun, not a dime back.

Speaker 1 Considering that you're the highest-paid state employee and there's a $2 billion budget deficit. Yep.
Do you think that's a good idea? Not a dime back.

Speaker 1 Not a dime back. Not a dime back.
I'd like to be able to retire someday. Not a dime back when they started accusing him of having too big of a salary.

Speaker 1 And you got to watch it because it has many classic Jim Calhoun moments. But the reporter is like, you make $1.6 million.
And he goes, I make a hell of a lot more than that. And

Speaker 1 then he ended it with my best advice to you, shut up. He said that to a reporter.
So not a dime back. That's not a dime back, Jim Calhoun.
A lot of honorable mentions I got here.

Speaker 1 Yeah, so an honorable mention that happened well before we were born is Cubs manager Lee Ilya, who had the classic bashing of all the Wrigley, the bleacher bleacher bums.

Speaker 1 And I'll read a couple of quotes for you from that. It's an all-time one, but he called, he called the fans, the Cubs fans.
He said, the motherfuckers don't even work.

Speaker 1 That's why they're out at the fucking game. They ought to go out and get a fucking job and find out what it's like to go out and earn a fucking living.
85% of the world is working.

Speaker 1 The other 15% come out here, a fucking playground for the cocksuckers.

Speaker 1 And he just went off. That's really good.
Yeah. Shout out Grobber, Chicago legend, who's one of an all-time

Speaker 1 poop pants guy.

Speaker 1 So he happened to record it. It's 1983.
So there wasn't like video and everything. He happened to record it.

Speaker 1 There's only three people standing in there, and he ran it, and it was like an all-time just bashing the fans.

Speaker 1 What else we got? That's pretty strong.

Speaker 1 I would just say the entire press conference where Bobby Petrino showed up in the neck brace with the road rash all over his face after driving off the road with his mistress at Arkansas.

Speaker 1 That was just

Speaker 1 seeing a guy give an actual press conference looking like that was incredible.

Speaker 1 how about Jim Mora? Also, Jim Mora, uh, we couldn't do diddly poop. Yep, yeah, on offense, we couldn't do diddly poop.
That's a good one.

Speaker 1 How about uh, the time that Big Ben just wore a fedora for that one day, he looked like a booger, he looked like no, he looked like a oh, that was slick back, Big Ben.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's when he looks like yeah, when he was wearing the fedora, that's when he looked like the Dalmatia.

Speaker 2 Yeah, the guy, the lawyer for Cruilla Deville, yes, Larry Bird ain't walking through that door.

Speaker 1 That's good, Rick Pettino. Uh, we coming, Dikka, who you crapping? When he's calling out some hypocrisy, who you you crapping? Also, Dikka for the Saints.
Mike Singletary. Mike Singletary.

Speaker 1 I want winners.

Speaker 1 Can't win with them. Can't do it.
Can't have them. Can't do it.
All people that want to win. And that's right after he wiped his ass in the locker room.
Yes, yes, for Brian Davis.

Speaker 1 What about obviously T.O. doing sit-ups in his driveway while answering questions? That was iconic.

Speaker 1 I've also. At the same time, he cried.
No, that was different. Oh, T.O.
crying. He cried.
That's my quarterback. That was when he was in Dallas.

Speaker 1 I considered putting this one on the list, but not really sports. George Bush on the golf course talking about invading Afghanistan when he said, Now watch this drive.
That's a good one.

Speaker 1 Dwight Howard, Stan Van Gundy, when Stan Van Gundy's like, Yeah, Dwight wants me traded. Uh-huh.
And then he walked right up, all chummy. And I was like, Who said that?

Speaker 1 Like, Stan just said that a second ago. That's an all-time awkward press conference.

Speaker 1 What else? Anything else? I mean, those are. I mean, Mike Tomlin has a bunch of them, but I don't know which one of the nonsense.

Speaker 1 Ryan Curry. Good to go.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Good call.
She was a one and done kind of flash of the pan.

Speaker 1 LeBron, when he stood up and walked out in his Angus Young

Speaker 1 in the short

Speaker 1 shorts.

Speaker 1 He looks like a bad one.

Speaker 2 Oh, I mean, LeBron with the fucking sling, like when he pretty much broken-handed.

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 1 I mean, you could say LeBron. It's possibly broken.
Take my talents to South Beach. Iconic

Speaker 1 press moment. That's true.
When you made all those kids from Ohio cry.

Speaker 1 Are we going to get dragged online for bringing up all these bad LeBron stands? No. All you got to do is remind everyone that Taco Tuesday, is it racist? We're wondering.

Speaker 1 That's just what you got to say, just to protect yourself from the LeBron stance. Just reverse it.
It's basically playing Uno, and we just reversed it on that. Gotcha.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 The problem is, though, that's been co-opted by some really dumb people. Like, we're joking about LeBron.
Is he racist? Yes. But then it's been co-opted by actual idiots online.

Speaker 1 Yeah, you're right. We have blue check marks and shows in Tennessee.
Cracks have lace. Yeah, kids have lace, allegedly.
Yeah, so

Speaker 1 you can probably get LeBron to stand next to him next time before he has a family reunion, just throw all that chalk up in the air. Hopefully someone will kill the fight.
He ruined the funny slice.

Speaker 1 There's nothing worse than having fun with something that we all know is not true, but it's like, hey, this is a fun thing to throw out there, and then have someone actually say it dead serious and just ruin it forever.

Speaker 1 Well, some people... besides that person are actually saying that about me.
Okay.

Speaker 1 Well, what they're saying is like Taco Tuesday is great. Maybe just don't do

Speaker 1 the accent. Yeah, that one.
That part is. Yeah.
I was showing, that was in quotations, Marks, by the way. Yeah.

Speaker 1 No, that was fair use. We were providing commentary on the III.

Speaker 1 Quote,

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Speaker 1 2 Z.

Speaker 1 There you go. Okay.
Hopefully they figured out what that could be. Who's going to get it? All right.
Should we go to the... This is a great Mount Rush board.

Speaker 1 This is all like positive, good vibes in the room, good energy from all three of us. Yeah, it was.
I mean, the Lou Gehrig thing kind of bummed me out, but yeah, everything else was good. I was iconic.

Speaker 1 I didn't say it was was a bad pick. I think it bummed me out.
Listen, sometimes you got to tug the heartstrings a little bit. Bummed me out a little.

Speaker 1 All right, let's get to our interview with Joe Harris. How great would it be if a coach just won a Super Bowl and then died with a smile on his face after the game at the podium?

Speaker 1 Dick Vermeal definitely would have been the guy to do that. I guarantee you Mike Vrabel would absolutely take that.
We should just put in Dick Vermeal crying. Yeah.
The one time. No, the other time.

Speaker 1 The other, other time.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah, the other other. Or was that time? Yeah, the other, other, other time.

Speaker 1 Okay, let's get to our interview with Joe Harris.

Speaker 1 Very good time with him. I think we're actually like best friends with him now.

Speaker 1 We're in his crew.

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Speaker 1 Okay, we now welcome on a very special guest. It is Joe Harris, three-point champion, Brooklyn Net.
Your Brooklyn Nets. Let's actually start there.
Are the Nets, do the Nets own New York?

Speaker 1 I wouldn't go that far. Make a headline.
Let's go, Joe.

Speaker 3 No, no headlines to start.

Speaker 1 We might work our way into it. Do you guys own Brooklyn? We definitely own Brooklyn.
Okay.

Speaker 3 Hopefully. You know, I don't don't want to impose on the old brooklyn dodgers or brooklyn college or there's

Speaker 1 liu yeah well now you got the islanders too islanders yeah we share you know share the barclays with the islanders you half own brooklyn yeah really get out on a limb there okay yeah i could say that we half own brooklyn so so you guys did make a big splash this offseason a couple weeks ago how big of uh part of the recruitment were you joe harris oh joe harris is all about the recruitment yes yeah yeah no i didn't take any part in either recruitment i let i let the other guys kind of handle the the bulk of that stuff but you know Kyrie.

Speaker 3 I do know Kyrie.

Speaker 1 So did you text him at all?

Speaker 3 You talked, you know, over the course of the year. Yeah.

Speaker 1 There you go. Yeah, yeah.
So there it is. Yeah, small part.
You recruited. Hell yeah.

Speaker 1 You were supportive of the Nets' efforts to land Kyrie,

Speaker 1 excuse me, DeAndre, Kyrie, and Kevin Durant. We're saying DeAndre's name first now.
Yes.

Speaker 1 When that all happened, though, I mean, did you know before

Speaker 1 all the news broke, or did you find out like we did?

Speaker 3 The stuff with KD was pretty last-minute, to be honest. But Kyrie, we kind of all had an idea that he was going to be coming to Brooklyn.

Speaker 1 Yeah, and I mean, you must be very, very excited to have. I mean, you guys were good last year.

Speaker 1 You know, he went to the playoffs, played really hard. And credit to you, because I feel like part of the reason why those guys were all in on Brooklyn was how good you played last year.

Speaker 1 It's kind of like the Clippers in Kawhi.

Speaker 1 A scrappy young team with some

Speaker 1 pieces in place.

Speaker 3 Yeah, you look at sort of

Speaker 3 the foundation of the organization. We have a lot of good young core pieces.
You know, Karis is

Speaker 3 arguably up and coming, maybe all-star at some point. He's young, really good developing player.
Spencer, like Jared Allen. I mean, you can kind of go down the list.

Speaker 3 There's a lot of really quality players that

Speaker 3 I think attracted those guys to want to come and play with.

Speaker 1 Okay, so yeah, you did recruit. I think that I'm going to say it.
Through your play.

Speaker 1 Through the play. Through the play.
Through the Nets play and also your past relationship with Kyrie, who you kept in touch with this year. Yes.

Speaker 1 We're just trying to, we're giving we're connecting some dots right now. We're giving blogs.

Speaker 1 We're helping Lions right right now we're helping you but you you have had it like uh kind of an amazing last few years in that it's very rare for a second round guy to then have you know you started 76 games last year you signed this big new deal have you had a moment where you're like holy shit i actually made it because a lot of the second round guys they they'll play like a half a season being in europe no it's so true i mean i look back at like my draft class and i mean i don't know exactly how many guys are still around but i mean from 60 guys that are drafted i would guess it's probably like in the 20s yeah And this is sort of the turnover of the NBA, so especially as a second-round pick.

Speaker 3 In my case, too, I mean, I thought I was going to be out of the league

Speaker 3 in my time in Cleveland. You know, I was traded and had surgery, released, and then I was basically one foot out of the NBA, got a chance with Brooklyn.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 So tell me exactly how, what was the break? I'm always fascinated with a guy like Joe Harris first.

Speaker 1 Name a million other guys who get drafted in the second round who have maybe the same talent but don't get that break. They get in the wrong team, whatever it may be.

Speaker 1 So what was the the break or the defining point that kind of kept you around? Because a lot of guys, they get hurt and then they're gone.

Speaker 3 Yeah, no, I mean 100%. Yeah, I think with me,

Speaker 3 you know, I was lucky where Brooklyn was in this weird sort of situation where they didn't have any draft picks.

Speaker 3 So they weren't, they had to figure out creative ways to sort of stockpile young talent. And at that time, I was still, you know, 23 years old, like relatively young.

Speaker 3 You know, I hadn't really solidified anything in the NBA, but I did have whatever specific niche in terms of shooting.

Speaker 3 Kenny Atkinson had come from Atlanta, one of the kind of plug-in guys that he thought would sort of be similar to what they had with the good teams in Atlanta. And my comparison was

Speaker 1 Corver.

Speaker 3 So it was like he kind of saw a little bit of me within Kyle and just sort of played that kind of card. And that was my break right there.

Speaker 1 I mean, that's fascinating, Mason.

Speaker 1 Yeah. So at what point, whether it was on the Cavs, maybe you had this moment, or maybe it wasn't until a little bit later.

Speaker 1 But at what point did you realize, like, I can fit in, I can actually play in this league, I can compete with these guys?

Speaker 3 You know, I think

Speaker 3 early on, I did have some opportunities in Cleveland,

Speaker 3 but it's one of those things where the adjustment, you know, for some guys, it takes a little bit longer than others.

Speaker 3 And for me, I was kind of just thrown into the fire right away. I didn't really have an opportunity to sort of learn through any of the mistakes.

Speaker 3 You know, I get drafted by Cleveland. It's a young team.
Pre-LeBron. Pre-LeBron.
Yeah. It looks like it's a brand new coach.
It's a young developing team.

Speaker 3 And then overnight, it just changes into a championship contender. When LeBron comes back, a lot of trades are made.

Speaker 3 And so it's basically I'm in the situation where, you know, if I'm not helping them play at a championship level, then I'm not going to play. Right.

Speaker 3 And the opposite was what happened in Brooklyn when I got a chance, got an opportunity, but I also was able to learn through my mistakes. Right.

Speaker 3 You know, we were a young developing team, and they wanted guys to kind of take their loot or their wounds right away and develop in that direction.

Speaker 1 So that's fascinating to me because I feel like you can talk to a bunch of people who are like, yeah, I was there. I got drafted and just things didn't break my way.

Speaker 1 Essentially, the Nets' previous regime being terrible with draft capital made Joe Harris

Speaker 3 Joe Harris. And they missed out on some restricted free agents.
And then you're just

Speaker 1 a break. Yeah.
Exactly. That's it.

Speaker 1 When the Cavs got LeBron, did you ever get in one of his dinner pictures? Did you make it to La Familia?

Speaker 3 I didn't make it to La Familia. Yeah, I didn't think so.

Speaker 1 I mean, Kevin Love didn't even make it to La Familia.

Speaker 3 That's a tough,

Speaker 3 it's tough to crack into that.

Speaker 1 Did you was there ever a moment where you opened up Instagram and saw literally all your teammates except you out to dinner in La Familia?

Speaker 3 Yeah, and then Deli and I kind of formed our own little La Familia. That might suck.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. That sucks.

Speaker 1 That sucks. So you were buddies with Deli on that team, huh?

Speaker 3 Yeah, Deli's one of my best friends.

Speaker 1 Is he really? To this day? Yep. Would he say the same?

Speaker 3 He would say the same. Okay.
All right. I hope so.
I mean, I was in his channel.

Speaker 1 I got to check. Got a check.
Yeah. So, so you you and him, you guys were thick as thieves.

Speaker 1 When you were getting into the league, did he, like, did he take you under his wing? He's like, I might, here's what you have to do.

Speaker 1 You need to kind of fly into the radar, Mike Francisco, LeBron, Mike Peace. Or, like, did he give you any advice coming to the league?

Speaker 3 Yeah, I mean, honestly,

Speaker 3 I have Deli to thank for sort of why I was able to stick in in the NBA.

Speaker 3 Deli is like one of the most professional guys I've ever been around in terms of like taking care of his body,

Speaker 3 you know, punctuality, being early,

Speaker 3 just overall professionalism. He's the type of guy that sort of embodies what it means for an under-the-radar, you know, chip on your shoulder guy to make it in the NBA.

Speaker 3 So I learned a lot just being around him and seeing how he conducted himself with the Cavs.

Speaker 1 Did he teach you how to hit people in the nuts

Speaker 1 secretively? Yeah. He's good to kill snakes.

Speaker 3 Hey, he's just playing hard, man.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah, right.
That's all it is. Okay, you are best friends with him.

Speaker 1 Only his best friend would say that.

Speaker 1 Can we talk about the series against the Sixers?

Speaker 3 Yeah, we can talk about that. Okay.

Speaker 1 Can we talk about the MB Dudley dust-up? Yeah, we can definitely talk about that. Okay, can we talk about how you I've never seen a person walk slower to a scrum than Joe Harris?

Speaker 1 You even picked up the ball. I mean, I was just seeing everybody tribble a little.
You were so scared, you got behind J.J. Reddick as your human shield.

Speaker 3 I got behind some fans, I think.

Speaker 1 When you were coming in here and we were doing research, I was like, I wonder where he was. I bet you he didn't really get in this.

Speaker 1 And your performance even shocked my expectations of you not getting in that scrum. You were so far away from the action.

Speaker 1 I mean, I wasn't that far. Oh, Mike.

Speaker 1 Watch it. Yeah, we'll watch it.
We'll pull up the clip.

Speaker 1 You are very smart. You don't want to hurt.
You're a team. Yes.

Speaker 1 If you go out there and you knock Joel and beat out with a clean I mean, I had the ball in my hand.

Speaker 3 I thought about throwing it.

Speaker 1 It's a business decision. I get it, but was there ever a point where you're like, maybe I need to just show, put a little good tape out there that I have my team's back? Yeah.
Yeah,

Speaker 3 I probably should have looking back on it. Actually, I haven't even seen the footage of it.

Speaker 1 Oh my god, there's an underneath.

Speaker 1 I've got it right here. There's an under underneath the, or like behind the hoop.
I'm waiting for the video ad to end. Behind the hoop shot that is

Speaker 1 so, so bad. Hold on, let's see it.
Here we go.

Speaker 1 All right.

Speaker 3 I kind of waited for it to develop a little bit. You know, I wasn't sure what was going on.

Speaker 1 All right, here we go. Here we go.
Ready? Watch this. Watch.
Okay, wait, wait, wait. Let me back up so I can show you.
Because you don't even know that Joe's on the court.

Speaker 1 That's how how slow he goes to the thing.

Speaker 1 Okay. All right.
So here it is. He's all the way over here.
He's in the background. All right.
And he's like, hey, the hands up. The arms up.

Speaker 1 Okay, he picks up the ball.

Speaker 1 Everyone is there now. And look at him.
He's barely in the screen. He's like, hey, JJ,

Speaker 1 he's pushing JJ in the back. I'm like, hey, you go handle it.
You go handle it. It looked like you were going to the stands to help the fan that peace.

Speaker 1 You saw a fan get their popcorn knocked over. You're like, let me get it.
Dude, you almost got out of the screen because you weren't there.

Speaker 1 Let's see. Other angle, maybe?

Speaker 1 Maybe you have maybe some tape out there. No, you're not even in the screen here.

Speaker 1 Here you come. Oh, there he is.

Speaker 1 Slowly, slowly walking in. Hey, JJ, you got this, JJ.
And then you sort of like pat someone on the back.

Speaker 1 So, yeah, talk us through that. I mean, are you...
I think you need to hit someone next year. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 I'm going to have to redeem myself for that, I think.

Speaker 1 I'm going to have to punch somebody. Yeah, I'm going to have to punch somebody.

Speaker 1 Maybe we play against Dallas.

Speaker 3 I'll just go at Bobon.

Speaker 1 Something like that. Oh, yeah.
That would be good. You don't want that smoke.
That would be good.

Speaker 1 No, I actually appreciate that because that's probably exactly what I would do in that situation and it was very relatable that when I pulled it up and it's like where's Joe Harris it kind of

Speaker 1 really slows well you don't expect

Speaker 1 that I mean like that's what happens in the playoffs hard playoff fouls lead to hard playoff confrontations I love it and Dudley too of all people I mean he went a little crazy

Speaker 1 a little crazy there that was uh was it when you get in that kind of playoff series and guys start to sort of kind of hate each other. Yeah.
Do you feel

Speaker 3 with that series? It was pretty chippy the right time.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Do you feel a difference in the play? And was anyone going at Joe Harris and talking shit to you?

Speaker 3 No, nobody was going at me. But I mean, like the series, it got chippy.
You know, there were some hard fouls, especially with Embiid and JA.

Speaker 3 And I think that's kind of where Dudley was like, all right, it sort of crossed the line. Because Jarret is this, I mean, he's 21 years old.

Speaker 3 Like, he's not going to, you know, he's sort of introverted. He's not going to go out of his way to confront Embiid.

Speaker 3 But he's like one of our, you know, premier players at Young, sort of like cornerstones for the organization. And JD was just, you know, I think it kind of got to a boiling point.

Speaker 1 Right, right. What's the conversation in the locker room like after a game like that where there's like a lot of emotions running high?

Speaker 1 I can tell you, Joe was like, Did you see what I did to that guy? I fucking killed him.

Speaker 1 I would have fucked him up, but I had the ball in my hand. Dude, you should have it.
I know you've seen it.

Speaker 1 I know there would have been a technical if I had thrown the ball into the stage, so I had to hang on to that. Otherwise, I would have swung on it.
Good thing J.J.

Speaker 1 Reddick was slowly walking in front of me. Otherwise, it would have been on.

Speaker 1 That's about right, actually. Sometimes that brings the team together.

Speaker 3 Sometimes sometimes it just drives them to the point where they're too emotional and they kind of it they go over the edge and they can't come back and they lose a series like what was that like in the locker room afterwards where did it go um to be honest i mean nobody was talking a lot about that incident in particular it was more just like how we had finished the game and you know sort of losing i forgot how much we were up by but sort of blew the lead sort of at the end uh and then i think at that point we were down 3-1 so it's sort of hard like you're coming back it's like nobody's really getting caught up in what happened with Empi'd and JD.

Speaker 1 Right. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I think you guys didn't cover the spread and you were up by a shitload. Now that I'm actually replaying it,

Speaker 1 you guys screwed me. There was a Saturday.
I remember I bet on you guys

Speaker 1 against the Sixers and you did cover the spread. So whatever Saturday that was, thank you.
No, yeah, you guys gave me a couple hundred dollars. You guys blew this game.
Blew it.

Speaker 1 It was like an eight-point spread, and you ended up, you were up going into the fourth quarter.

Speaker 1 There was one game in this series where I was very mad about. So you figured that out.
Are you ever cognizant of what the spread is? Oh, yeah.

Speaker 3 Yeah. I mean, you just know part of sports now.

Speaker 3 It's actually kind of funny, though, that you say that because before the playoff series with the Sixers, they brought up sort of like the gambling odds, like where we were projected to finish or yeah, to finish the season from the start.

Speaker 3 And they talked, like, went through like the Vegas odd books and all that stuff. Like the coaches were using it as a pregame speech.

Speaker 3 And afterwards, Ed Davis and I were like, where the hell is the NBA going? Like, we literally are just talking about the odds, like, it's nothing.

Speaker 1 Right. Yeah.
Right. Adam Silver's smart.
He's kind of open, you know, open arms.

Speaker 1 It's so crazy that the other commissioners don't realize what Adam Silver's realizes that gambling is going to be legalized everywhere. So you might as well get in front of it and let it all in.

Speaker 3 He's trying to get a piece of that pie.

Speaker 1 Why wouldn't you? I know, exactly. What do you think about his idea to do like mid-season tournaments?

Speaker 3 That's interesting. We were actually talking about that the other day, too.
I don't know. I mean,

Speaker 3 it seems like it would be, it's a good idea maybe on paper, but like to be the first one to do it, like the guinea pigs for it, you know, everybody's going to throw a fit.

Speaker 3 Like if you have a tournament like game 50 in the season, I mean,

Speaker 3 I don't know, like, what are like the top, the premier teams thinking about like, you know, playing in this, like, have this tournament that's like sort of meaningless when you have the playoffs on the horizon.

Speaker 1 So what would the outcome of that be? Like, if you won that mid-season tournament, what is he saying that that would mean for the season?

Speaker 3 I mean,

Speaker 1 I don't think it affects the postseason necessarily at all it's just like a trophy yeah exactly yeah then there would be like a lot of if somebody gets injured in that then it's a whole thing that becomes a big yeah yeah um when you guys i'm really interested about like the dynamic that's going to affect you guys because you have a nice young core on the nets you're adding a superstar in kyrie katie is going to be there in a couple years like how soon after you sign these guys do you start to implement like any changes to what you've got going like like in terms of the offensive scheme and all that um you know that's an interesting question.

Speaker 3 I don't know, like, how much they're planning on changing up. Um, to be honest, Kenny, the way that he coaches, too, he's very good based off of the personnel that he has.

Speaker 3 And so he sort of implements and he's pretty transparent with it, too.

Speaker 3 Like, he's going to have like a lot of communication with Kyrie, the new guys, in terms of like, you know, what they're comfortable playing with in terms of like offensive philosophy.

Speaker 3 Um, but he does a really good job just letting guys play sort of freely. Like, there isn't like a whole lot of like schematics like involved with it.

Speaker 3 It's more based off of just just like feel and read and react. Like, that's what a lot of our offense was in the past.

Speaker 3 And I don't see that necessarily changing a ton unless like, I don't know, one of these guys has got a problem with it.

Speaker 1 Right. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Have you talked to KD yet? Yeah. Has he mentioned us?

Speaker 3 You know, he didn't. Now that I think about it, I'm not sure that he did, but I could have just slides.

Speaker 1 He might have.

Speaker 3 Did you ask DeAndre? I mean,

Speaker 1 he said yes. He said maybe.
He said maybe. Yeah.
Did he elude? He said, Ask Joe. Yes, Joe.
He was like, Ask Joe. I don't know.
Has he talked about the Blog Boys? Yeah.

Speaker 3 The Blog Boys. Yeah, I mean, you guys are taking up a little space in that hit, I think.

Speaker 1 No, we like KD guys. We are KD guys.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah, yeah. We've totally flipped.
I mean,

Speaker 1 we are Team Snake. Although, isn't it? Yeah, is that a bad thing? Because you just mentioned earlier, like, you know, your coach's hat up on the wall,

Speaker 1 like, these were your odds to make the playoffs. These are your odds to win this series.
A lot of teams play better when they've got that chip on their shoulder.

Speaker 1 KD might be that guy that's out there to prove all the blog boys wrong. True.
Now you might like him.

Speaker 3 Now that I think about it, he might have some stuff in his locker.

Speaker 1 So he is. So you give us front row seats and we'll

Speaker 1 trash the information. We'll trash the nets.
Actually, yeah, that's what works. KD gets motivated.

Speaker 1 You get a championship. I like that.
You have a ring. Do you have a ring? No, I don't.
Oh, fuck. Yeah, I got traded in January.
I didn't mean to bring that up.

Speaker 1 Water in the bridge. What is your nickname?

Speaker 3 My nickname?

Speaker 1 Because I've read it. I found it.
And there's seven of them.

Speaker 3 Yeah. I don't know how that even started, to be honest.

Speaker 1 So what is it?

Speaker 3 I mean, pretty much all the guys on the team just call me Buckets.

Speaker 1 Buckets. That's pretty good.
That's pretty good.

Speaker 1 So I've seen Joey Hoops,

Speaker 1 Beef Jerky Joe,

Speaker 1 Joey Moses, Sasquatch. So are you Joey Buckets?

Speaker 3 I would say just Buckets.

Speaker 1 Okay. Mr.
Buckets? You can call it.

Speaker 3 Yeah, if you want to keep it formal.

Speaker 1 Dr. Buckets?

Speaker 1 Okay. I'm working on that.
Okay. I like the well, Jimmy Butler used to, Stacey King, the Bulls color announcer, used to do Jimmy G Buckets, and the G stands for gets.
Maybe you do that. I don't know.

Speaker 1 Because he's in Miami now and no one even, like, no one's going to care about him anymore. So Joey G.
Buckets, the G stands for gets. Yeah, we can work that out.

Speaker 3 I'll shoot I and Eagle a text after this just to get some clarification.

Speaker 1 Ian does the Nets games? Oh, yeah. A lot of people are going to find that out this year.
No, he's been doing it for, what, like 20 years? Yeah, yeah. A lot of people are going to find that out.

Speaker 1 Yeah, there's that story about Kyrie Irving. I think Ian was telling this on some other podcasts, which I won't name.

Speaker 1 But Kyrie went up to the dude in front of Ion Eagle on a train and goes, Hey, man, I just want to say, like, I've been listening to you for 20 years.

Speaker 1 I'm so glad that you're going to be calling my games now. And Ian was behind the guy, like, Hey, uh, I think you're supposed to be talking to me about that.
That's awesome.

Speaker 1 It's just like some random dude, and that's awesome. But he's one of those guys where, like, you know his voice when you hear it.
Oh, probably. Oh, yeah, he's football.
Big game voice. Yes, football.

Speaker 1 You know, he does NFL games. His name should be Ian.
Have you ever asked him that?

Speaker 1 Never asked him that. Okay, we'll do that.
Write that down. Write that down.

Speaker 1 When are you going to get the classic white guy glow-up glow-up haircut?

Speaker 1 You mentioned Kyle Corver. You look at Kyle Corver throughout his career.
You know, basically every white guy does the same thing. They come in with their floppy, gross hair.

Speaker 1 And then after

Speaker 1 Gordon Hayward, that's actually a good point. Yeah, Gordon.
Even JJ. Yeah, JJ.

Speaker 1 You had Kyle Corver, Kirk Heinrich. You can go down the list.
So you have not realized that you need to.

Speaker 3 I'm in that stage right now. It's like, you know, I mean year, I'm going into year six now.

Speaker 1 So I think

Speaker 1 that's a little late.

Speaker 3 No, no, no, no, no. It's the slow progression.

Speaker 1 Okay, you're okay? All right. You need to lay on timing.
You gain like 10 pounds of muscle, like get a little bit of

Speaker 1 a business. Yeah, get a little bit of a bicep and a sick Euro kind of haircut.
Yeah. So when's that happening?

Speaker 3 I mean,

Speaker 3 it's sort of inevitable, right?

Speaker 1 It has to happen at some point. People will respect you so much more.
They'll be like, oh, you know who's been doing well? Joe Harris. I swear to God,

Speaker 1 that will be the conversation. Erica and Tats.

Speaker 1 one or the other? You gotta get

Speaker 1 a left-sleeve. Or I could just go the opposite.

Speaker 3 I could just let it go.

Speaker 1 Or get the business.

Speaker 1 Yeah. I mean, Gordon Hayward, you can actually track his career progression from his regular guy to

Speaker 1 big-time contract guy with his haircut and his muscles.

Speaker 1 I wouldn't do the long hair. The long hair, it screams just like awkwardness, even if you're not doing anything awkward on the court.
Trust me, I know.

Speaker 1 Nothing that you do on the court looks smooth. Like, look at Kelly Oubre.
Look at at all these guys. Like, if they fall down, if they get crossed up, it looks so much worse.

Speaker 1 Basically,

Speaker 3 point, the hair would just be going one way.

Speaker 1 Yeah, like, if you get faked out of your head, you go this way, and then there's a big win thing coming back.

Speaker 1 I want to talk real quick about a three-point contest. Yeah.

Speaker 2 So, you were really good in that.

Speaker 1 You lost me some money. Thank you for

Speaker 1 the hit shit. I mean, no, I didn't bet on you.
I didn't know it. No, I didn't.
I had a hot tip. Steph Curry was.
I had a hot tip going into it. Steph Curry.

Speaker 1 Steph Curry was... It was Charlotte.
Right.

Speaker 1 Dell was there, the whole fucking thing. Yeah, that's true.
Yeah. So it was

Speaker 1 a tough night for me, but I've always wondered, like, people like you that are just absolutely wet from three points, when you practice in the gym, if you just got like racks and racks of balls, if you shoot 100 balls from three, how many do you make?

Speaker 1 Nobody watching.

Speaker 3 Nobody watching? Yeah.

Speaker 3 I don't know. I mean,

Speaker 3 I guess we do this shooting drill with the Nets. They call the Nets 105, and the highest I've ever got is 91.

Speaker 1 What? So you shoot 105?

Speaker 3 105 threes. Why? It's just like

Speaker 1 that would piss me off. Yeah.
To just go after

Speaker 1 you have to get shots of? No, no, no. Just do 100.
105. Yeah, it would piss me off.
Yeah. I don't know.

Speaker 3 So what was, yeah, I just do what I'm told, man. Yeah.

Speaker 1 91. I mean, 91, that's 90.

Speaker 1 89%.

Speaker 3 I'm going to get the calculator out.

Speaker 1 It's like 89%. Because I always see, you know, you go to the gym, you see old guys at the YMCA that are like 65 years old, wearing like sweat-stained Russell athletic shorts.

Speaker 1 And it seems like they hit 50% of their threes when they're just practicing.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I've always wondered, like, you know, a professional at the peak of their career, like, you can just go in the gym and basically not miss from three.

Speaker 3 Yeah, some guys, but I would say it's probably not as high of a clip as you would guess.

Speaker 3 Shooting is one of those things where, like, some of those guys that are shooting at the YMCA, I mean, they might shoot better than half of the pros, to be honest.

Speaker 3 If they're just stationary and you're just shooting around, right?

Speaker 1 No one's running, yeah, exactly.

Speaker 3 And you're just shooting shots. I mean,

Speaker 1 yeah.

Speaker 1 So, why haven't you put these shots on Instagram? That's kind of a a big deal.

Speaker 3 I got a lot in my phone. I'm kind of waiting for the right moment.

Speaker 1 I feel like this interview happened at the perfect time because you are just a little

Speaker 1 clay.

Speaker 1 And we need to fix you and mold you into something that can make max, max money. Joey Clouts.
Joey Clouts. Joey Clout.
We need to get an Instagram up there of you going like 50 for 50. Right.

Speaker 1 That would get the world buzzing. You would get so many more minutes.
Carmel.

Speaker 1 You'd get a comeback just from hitting like 15 threes. You'd play for Team USA.
You'd be in Space Jam.

Speaker 3 These are important. I mean, these are important things.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 You got to get an Instagram person. Yeah, we'll get you.
We'll help you out. We'll be part of your.

Speaker 1 How big is your crew?

Speaker 2 My crew? Yeah.

Speaker 1 What do you mean, my crew? When you came with a few guys, how many of these

Speaker 3 deep do you roll? I mean, those are the Nets PR definers. They're big Stoolies.
Oh, okay, nice.

Speaker 3 Nice. And then this Joker, this is one of my best friends.

Speaker 1 So, is he part of the crew? Does he part of the crew? No, no, no. No, okay.

Speaker 3 So, technically, not part of the crew. He's outside.
He's a remote, remote crew.

Speaker 1 So, what you're saying, and correct me if I'm wrong, you have no crew that lives in New York. That's true.
And then there's two guys who live in New York. That would be in a crew.
In the crew.

Speaker 1 We'd be crew ready. We'd have to do it.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah. I mean, I'll talk to you.

Speaker 3 I got to talk to Chris about it. Yeah.

Speaker 1 First. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 Back on chat. Yeah, we can talk about Chris Long.

Speaker 1 So you do the Water Boys with Chris Long, which is a great charity. I would imagine Chris is a little bit of a mentor in that.
Yes.

Speaker 1 So what was your reaction when he found out he was addicted to marijuana?

Speaker 1 That had to be tough, right? Really tough.

Speaker 3 It was a heartbreaker.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah, it just ruins your image of a guy.
Will not stop smoking weed. You think you know somebody.

Speaker 3 I mean, his body's been through a lot. That's true.

Speaker 1 That's true.

Speaker 3 We're not going to, you know. Push opioids on him, right?

Speaker 1 Right, that's true. Yeah, Danny Connell.

Speaker 1 Danny Connell has the

Speaker 1 science is still out there whether opioids are as bad as marijuana, but we'll find out. Do you feel bad having this big guaranteed NBA contract and not donating your entire salary to charities?

Speaker 1 Yeah. Chris really puts you up there.

Speaker 3 Let's put you on the spot a little bit.

Speaker 1 Yeah. We're friends with Chris.
He was actually the first guest on the show like three and a half years ago. First ever guest.

Speaker 3 I listened to it.

Speaker 1 Yeah, just be honest with us though. Like Chris Long kind of fucked it up for everyone else.
Like it's a try-hard move.

Speaker 3 I wouldn't say that.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 Joe's winking. Yeah, he's winking.
It's crazy. What was it that Brent McHenry said he only did it to get the tax write-off? Yeah, it's like, but everybody.

Speaker 1 But technically, he made money by giving away. The more money you give away.
We got to look into this. You actually get paid for doing that.
Dude, can you imagine going to UVA? And, like,

Speaker 1 well, at Virginia,

Speaker 1 we give away all of our money. Right? Yeah, that's what Thomas Jefferson did.
I think it's bullshit. You ruined it forever.

Speaker 3 Thomas Jefferson did that.

Speaker 1 Was that cool going from UVA to Cleveland and not having to change your wallpaper or anything? So it's a cavalry.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it was easy. Think about that.

Speaker 3 Same number, Cavaliers, just a little different shades.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's easy for the folks at home to remember.

Speaker 1 I would like to just pretend that you guys didn't win the national championship last year this past year, so let's talk about the 1 versus 16.

Speaker 1 Have you been doing more interviews since you won the national championship, knowing that people can't bring that up anymore?

Speaker 3 Yeah, I thought that put that to rest, but you know.

Speaker 1 No, absolutely not.

Speaker 1 It will always be.

Speaker 3 It's the greatest story of redemption in the history of sports.

Speaker 1 Let me go.

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 1 it's up there.

Speaker 3 I don't know. Arguable.

Speaker 1 OJ has still not been suspended by the NFL. That's true.
Well, yeah, we'll see what happens with OJ. I'm going to wait to see how his fantasy picks do this year.

Speaker 3 Okay, we'll wait for that one.

Speaker 1 Was it tough going to Virginia and having Tony Bennett like recruit you knowing that he's eventually going to go back to Wisconsin?

Speaker 3 Yeah, that was actually a big worry for a lot of UVA fans.

Speaker 1 So let's get the rumor going again.

Speaker 3 Yeah, we can start moving in to Wisconsin. I think his contract is like...

Speaker 1 12 years from now. Yeah, true.
Yeah, it's way too much money.

Speaker 1 But 12 years from now, I mean... Right, when he lost to the UNBC, I was like, this guy's trash.
I'd never want him. And now I'm like, please, please.

Speaker 1 It was tough. It was going to be tough to get the stink of that loss off him.
Now I think maybe he's back. Would you say he's the best coach in the ACC?

Speaker 3 Oh, yes.

Speaker 1 He's the best coach. That's been going all in basketball.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Better than Coach K?

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Do you think the pack-line defense is cheating? No. It's bullshit, though.

Speaker 3 You're not a fan? No. You don't enjoy watching UVA games?

Speaker 1 Do you enjoy just standing there and stopping everything that gets through?

Speaker 1 Honestly, you have to watch UVA games and sometimes be like, can I just turn this off? Yeah.

Speaker 1 Right? You probably did that while you were playing.

Speaker 3 I have an appreciation for the defense. Okay.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah. That's most Virginia defense.

Speaker 1 That's my favorite. Well, actually, they're the most efficient offense.
Yeah. You don't realize.
You guys don't read Kim Williams? Yeah. Oh, I know Kim Williams.
I know Ken Fox.

Speaker 1 Oh, they score 52 points a game, but they do it very efficiently. Yeah.
The most efficient.

Speaker 1 I'd imagine those practices were very tough, though, instilling that defense, right? Yeah, dude.

Speaker 3 When I got to the NBA, I was like, I was like, I can't believe what I went through for like four years.

Speaker 1 Did you ever get thrown off in college if you were playing on the road and they did that fake countdown on the shot clock where they counted down like three seconds to a good question, PFT?

Speaker 3 That is a good question.

Speaker 3 No, I don't think that ever happened to me. I don't really handle the ball a lot, so it's like shot clock is winding down.
I'm probably getting rid of it.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Make sure that someone else

Speaker 1 is like an idiot. Yeah, exactly.
That's actually smart. Yeah.
That's Joha's smart. The hot potato game.
Yeah, we should probably ask you this question. You're a good test case for this.

Speaker 1 What is better, being really wet from three or dunking on a fool?

Speaker 1 Um,

Speaker 3 I'm probably dunking, yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah, I don't know, man. I kind of wish that I had a little more of that, especially because you can be you're so wet from three, yeah.
But and also,

Speaker 1 think about the modern NBA, yeah, you gotta be

Speaker 1 because I can shoot threes, exactly, but it's not because you can dunk, yeah, but it's cooler to dunk on a fool. You know what's cool, it's a higher percentage million dollars guaranteed.

Speaker 1 That's not that that's my man Joe Harris. We're part of his crew.

Speaker 3 So, how much rods we're forming right now? We'll work on numbers.

Speaker 1 What's the most expensive steak dinner you've paid for

Speaker 1 since you got the contract?

Speaker 1 Steak dinner? Yeah. Or like dinner or something.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 What's the biggest purchase you've made?

Speaker 3 Biggest purchase? Yeah.

Speaker 1 Do you still rent?

Speaker 3 Yeah, I still rent.

Speaker 1 You can't buy in this city. No, you can't.

Speaker 1 That's when you know New York is the worst. The biggest industry.
Every fucking NBA player just signed a $60 million contract. It's like, renting? Come on.
Yeah, there's a reason why.

Speaker 1 We know KD, Kyrie, and DeAndre came at the same time. They're splitting a place.
Yeah, right. They're hanging out in Prospect Park together.
They're at Murray Hill.

Speaker 1 Whose turn is it to clean the bathroom? We got a three-bedroom, one-bath in Murray Hill. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Very chill. Ooh.
I like that, Joe Harris. No, I have not, but I like that.
I'm a little too old for that. All right, my last question.
It's a SeekGeek question.

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Go see Joe Harris wet from three.

Speaker 1 I guess I didn't. Actually, I had got through all of our questions.
I got a question for us.

Speaker 3 Yeah, so what does like the crew entail? What are you guys going to do for me?

Speaker 1 We just mostly hang out and make money off your name. Videotape your shooting.

Speaker 3 You guys can film some of my workouts, maybe?

Speaker 1 Yeah, we'll film your workouts.

Speaker 1 We'll take your credit card and go get you lunch, but then buy some stuff for ourselves while we're at the bodega.

Speaker 3 Yeah, that's kind of what happens, though, with the crew, right?

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's right. The crew does.
We'll take care of you guys.

Speaker 1 Let's see.

Speaker 1 We'll motivate KD. Anytime you need.

Speaker 1 We'll respond to your DMs. So here's one thing KD has done really a good job of: he responds to every DM that he gets on Instagram, talking to you.

Speaker 1 But then, what happens is

Speaker 1 people take the screenshots and they tweet him out, keeps his name in the news. We'll respond to your haters on IG from your Instagram account.

Speaker 1 Then they'll screenshot that, keep your name in the news. Just anything to keep your name

Speaker 1 bubbling around Rachel Nichols' parameters so she has something to report on. Right.
We actually have a direct line to Rachel, so we'll just tell her to gasp. That and Chris Brissard.

Speaker 1 That's connected, yeah.

Speaker 1 Uh-huh. And Ryan Rossillo.
Although that doesn't.

Speaker 1 Joe was just like, who the fuck is that guy?

Speaker 1 We also, I would say. He's a society builder or

Speaker 1 inspiring.

Speaker 1 That would be his career highlight to hear you say that.

Speaker 1 I would say that we are the perfect level of intelligence slash stupidity to have a very deep but surface level conversation with Kyrie Irving.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 I mean, I saw the documentary about flat earthing. I could talk to him for at least a half hour about it.

Speaker 3 Yeah, you could get going on some deep conspiracy theories.

Speaker 1 Yeah, we're kind of in the same zone where he is at 51.

Speaker 3 I'm sure he probably want to dive into that a lot.

Speaker 1 Oh, for sure.

Speaker 1 We're not smart, but we are smart enough to talk about random things. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 I mean, it is a fact that there aren't any flights that leave from Australia and go anywhere in the southern hemisphere. I look at your flight patterns.
That's a fact. You can't argue with the data.

Speaker 1 I do have one last question. This is according to your Wikipedia.
It said that you had an extra bone in your foot. Is that true? You had surgery to remove an extra bone in your foot?

Speaker 3 No, I don't think that's true.

Speaker 1 Wikipedia fails me again. Damn.
That would have been pretty cool, though, if you did have an extra bone. But then I would be like, why are you taking my secret power away? Yeah, fuck.

Speaker 1 Maybe that's what got me there. So why did you have the surgery?

Speaker 3 I had like an avulsion fracture. So basically, just a bone had broken off and was floating in the side of my foot.

Speaker 1 So maybe that's the confusion. Kind of like an extra bone.

Speaker 3 Yeah, it's kind of like an extra bone.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 3 Damn, Wikipedia failed us.

Speaker 1 It did. Yeah, that's too bad.

Speaker 1 All right, Joe. She's saying, like, Marshawn Lattimore has an extra ligament floating around in his head.
Yeah, somewhere in the

Speaker 1 removed. Yeah, no shit.
Joe, thank you. This isn't goodbye, because this is the start of the crew.
The crew, right, right. So

Speaker 1 we'll be at... I'm not going to go to more than like four or five games.

Speaker 3 Oh, that's fine.

Speaker 1 That is a big promise, right? Even saying that. Yeah, even saying that was really a lot.
We'll go to

Speaker 1 four or five.

Speaker 1 Those will be all the playoffs. Playoff games.
Yeah, yeah. Playoff games.
I'm not going to any regular season game. We'll go to four game seven home playoff games.
Yes. That's for you.
Okay. Okay.

Speaker 1 I mean, that's part of the crew, though, right? Yeah.

Speaker 3 That's what I'm going to need you the most.

Speaker 1 Yeah, actually, we actually are perfect because even if you offer us free tickets, we're going to say no. Like, I don't think so.
Yeah, I mean, that is a big bonus. You guys aren't demanding.

Speaker 1 I can already tell. No, a lot of times.
It's a very low-maintenance relationship. You've got family and entourage.
They're hitting you up all the time for all this shit. Tickets, tickets.

Speaker 1 Yeah, we're you couldn't sell. Like, you couldn't give me money to go to a next game.

Speaker 1 So we're good. Yeah, that's perfect.

Speaker 1 Those PR guys are going going to love that. I'll watch it in the other room.
Jeez, they're shaking over there. All right.
Thanks, Joe. Thanks.
Appreciate it, guys.

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Speaker 1 Okay, let's get to some segments. First up, we have Embrace Debate.
This is for Carmelo Anthony because Damian Lillard said hashtag vote for mellow farewell season. Hashtag stop playing mellow.

Speaker 1 So the question is, does Carmelo Anthony deserve a farewell tour? Yeah, and Stephen A.

Speaker 1 Smith took the bull by the horns in this debate because I didn't even know this debate existed until he got on the air to say he's very sorry to have to say it, but he doesn't.

Speaker 1 This is a classic Stephen A.

Speaker 1 Smith thing, too, where he takes an opinion that he probably didn't have to say out loud, but he brings it out there and he said, just to show you what a journalist he is, he's like, listen, Carmelo is one of my favorite people on the planet, and it pains me to say this and to make a big news story out of it and to make a lot of headlines out of this, but he does not deserve a farewell tour.

Speaker 1 Oh, man. Poor Mello.
And his farewell tour should have been the USA basketball. He should have played in the FIBA, whatever the hell is going on this summer, and that would have been great.

Speaker 1 He should just do a farewell tour of Lifetime Fitnesses wearing the hoodie. Okay, hoodie Mello on a farewell tour to gyms.

Speaker 1 I was going to say he should do a farewell tour where he just goes to each arena wearing a Darko jersey just to remind people that Darko was in that draft. That's true.

Speaker 1 Because I feel like, you know, it went LeBron, Darko, Mello. Mello,

Speaker 1 I think it was Bosch then Wade. But either way, Dwayne Wade and LeBron and Mello, they're all like good friends.
Same draft, rings for the other guys, including Bosch. Nothing for Mello.

Speaker 1 Got to remember people, remind people that Darko was that guy. Yeah.
Have to just get that back into the media language. Maybe just have Carmelo go up to Detroit while they retire Darko's jersey.

Speaker 1 Right. And just have him be the one that lowers it from the rafters.

Speaker 1 It's just an important note that he needs to just hammer home like, hey guys, don't feel bad for me. Remember Darko? He's stunk.

Speaker 1 Or they could take him like city to city once a year, have Lala go out on the court and then reveal Carmelo coming out behind him like he's a troop being brought home and have her run up and give him a big kiss.

Speaker 1 The answer though, what are you going to say? I think they broke up. Oh, did they? No,

Speaker 1 I think they're broke. It would be even better if they broke up and they're getting back together.
Yeah, that would make it even more emotional.

Speaker 1 I think the farewell tour, you need to have a ring.

Speaker 1 I think that's what I'm talking about him being married still? No, no, no, no, no. The NBA championship.
I think you need to have a ring to get a farewell tour. I think that's with the threshold.

Speaker 1 Okay, so Steve Blake, farewell tour. Yes.
Okay. Sold.
Adam Morrison. Two farewell tours.
Yes. Okay.
Done. Done.
Don't you think, though?

Speaker 1 Because he also, it hurts that Mello, he, you know, Peak Mellow was actually, you know, on the Nuggets when he was, when they went to the Western Conference finals and almost beat the Lakers.

Speaker 1 But then he went to New York, was awesome there for a while, but it's like he's split between two fan bases.

Speaker 2 He was never that awesome in New York either.

Speaker 1 No, but he was pretty good for a couple years. That year when he like dragged them to like, I can't remember what seed they got, but

Speaker 1 he was scoring at an insane clip.

Speaker 1 But Knicks fans feel very,

Speaker 1 I don't, they don't love Mellow because Mello signed that big deal, which wasn't his fault.

Speaker 1 But winning 45 games for the Knicks, that's like winning three championships for the Warriors. Getting to the playoffs for the the Knicks, the Mecca, it's a lot.
It's the exact same thing.

Speaker 1 You could just see the Moral Tour in the Big Three. Yeah, you've seen the Mecca.
He'd be the best Big Three player of all time. Probably not.

Speaker 1 He would probably be perfectly mellow everywhere he goes and just be like the fourth best.

Speaker 1 He would come back and just be a little bit worse. Where do we stand on

Speaker 1 Stephen Jackson? On the odds of him coming off the bench in L.A.

Speaker 1 I hope

Speaker 1 that you're hoping that. Oh, man.
I want it so bad. They really need to.
Listen, oh, Adam Silver, because you listen to the fans and you do everything we say.

Speaker 1 How about the Lakers get an extra roster spot this year just for Carmelo? I like it. They can't use it on anyone else.

Speaker 1 Just Carmelo, so that we can have the fun of watching Carmelo try to play with the Lakers.

Speaker 1 Or, since Carmelo is so good at competitions that don't really result in NBA titles, bring him in for that mid-winter tournament that you want.

Speaker 1 He might be the best mid-winter basketball player of all time. We don't know yet.
Or honorary spot every single year in the three-point competition. Yeah, I'll take that.
That'd be good.

Speaker 1 Just something that Mello should get. He shouldn't get a farewell tour, but he should get something that keeps his legacy alive for a little bit longer.

Speaker 1 Just or like one farewell thing, like just put him on a boat and then crack a champagne bottle and push him out to sea. Dude, could you imagine? You light on fire like a Viking funeral.

Speaker 1 Could you imagine my idea that the idea I would love to see happen where every college has one player that they can always bring back? Yep.

Speaker 1 And it doesn't matter how much they played in the pros, what part of their career, every college has one spot, football and basketball, where they have a guy who went to that school gets to play.

Speaker 1 Syracuse

Speaker 1 doing Jerry McNamara. Dude, Mello playing on Syracuse this year?

Speaker 1 Talk about ratings. Come on.
Figure it out, NCAA. That's the solution.
I just want to see all these guys come back.

Speaker 1 I want to see, dude, Thebow being all-time quarterback in Florida, who would be against it? It'd be incredible.

Speaker 1 My darling Jake, would you say that Carmelo Anthony is the best athlete in the history of Syracuse? As it's Syracuse Grad.

Speaker 1 No, who is it? Donovan McNabb. Who is it, my darling Jake, Greg Paul? Paulis.
Jim Brown, Floyd Lillow. Oh, Jim Brown.
Jim Brown. I hate how everyone does that for their answers.

Speaker 1 They're like, who's the best football player? Who's the best lacrosse player? Who's Jim Brown? Dude, it's been like 80 years, okay?

Speaker 1 No offense, Jim Brown. No problem.
He's not a good guy.

Speaker 2 Yeah, but I will say to that defense, there is an interview that is coming up next week that kind of helps that out.

Speaker 2 When a certified football guy says something along the same lines.

Speaker 1 Oh, that's true. Yeah.

Speaker 1 That's true. Oh, you don't even remember.
What?

Speaker 2 You already forgot. You asked one of the interviews next week who they like to watch on films.
And they're like, Jim Brown.

Speaker 1 Jim Brown. I feel like that was a fake answer, though.
That's what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 I think that the person that we were interviewed, and you'll hear this later, I think this person was so against giving us any sort of answer that might allow his opponents to know what goes on inside of his brain that he just made up Jim Brown on the spot.

Speaker 1 It's the go-to answer to be like, you can't debate me. We're like, oh, yeah, who's your favorite player of all time? Jim Brown.
Like, well, 90% of football fans never saw him play, so

Speaker 1 we can't debate you. He also played Russell Grace

Speaker 1 like it's a bill russell babe ruth no no i believe the bill russell won greatest of all time yeah goat yeah

Speaker 1 could you imagine bill russell in today's like peak bill russell in today's nba although he would i do believe that the elite of the elite no matter what era would figure it out just because they're that special but it still is funny to think about like babe ruth facing uh like a hundred mile an hour fastball what about a sports debater from way way back in the day like do you i think i could mop the floor with howard crosell Ooh.

Speaker 1 I think he taught, he was named Dr. Z.
Dr. Z? Yeah, yeah.
Well, he was a writer. Yeah, yeah, sports illustrator.
Yeah, yeah, so. I don't think he's known for a debate guy.
Dick Schapp? Dick Schapp.

Speaker 1 Marv Albert, in any era, he's just still alive. Yeah, I know.
I'm just saying. Well, yeah, his body is.

Speaker 1 Okay, let's go to this league. We actually have some news from the esports league.
Hank, explain this.

Speaker 2 Ninja is ditching Twitch to stream exclusively on Mixer.

Speaker 1 This league. This motherfucking league.
What's Mixer?

Speaker 2 I just learned about it today. It sounds like it's just Twitch, but it's a different version.
Put Mixer.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Put Mixer.
It's the Microsoft version, I think. Okay.
So Steve Ballmer.

Speaker 2 Like, until today, I didn't know Twitch had any competition, but now that they just signed, I mean, Ninja's, from what I know, the biggest streamer.

Speaker 2 So it's like, if another website can sign the biggest streamer, Twitch is only as big as the streamers that they have. So this is pretty big company.

Speaker 1 How is this the start of a trend?

Speaker 2 I mean, he's the biggest guy. Like, and clearly, the fact that the guy that won the Fortnite championship won $3 million, like, and he's the star of the whole game/slash Twitch community.

Speaker 2 I was thinking upwards of 100 mil.

Speaker 1 And or equity. Probably equity.
Is there a salary cap in online gaming?

Speaker 1 No. I'm getting no.
Microsoft's going to have to pay the luxury taxes. No.
Don't know. It is like Hulk Hogan going to WCW.
Yeah. Bash of the beach.
The attitude era is over.

Speaker 1 Okay, sorry, not sorry. Le'Veon Bell wants to apologize to all the fantasy owners that he fucked over last year.

Speaker 1 Why is this not sorry? Did he not sorry it? Well, no, he apologized twice, but then the second time that he apologized, he said, but you should still draft me number one again this year.

Speaker 1 I don't like the fact that he apologized in the first place, and I'll tell you why.

Speaker 1 Because as somebody who was smart enough as a fantasy governor to not draft him last year, he made me feel like my decision wasn't me being intelligent enough. He put it on him.

Speaker 1 He took credit for my good decision to not draft him.

Speaker 1 I didn't draft him either, but

Speaker 1 I am officially not accepting his apology on behalf of all L'Avion Bell fantasy owners. Yeah.
So I speak for you. Class action lawsuit.

Speaker 1 We should make one of those videos. Have you been defrauded? Yep.
By Le'Veon. Yeah, absolutely.
Call 866-555-5555.

Speaker 1 That's a mad code. I'm also

Speaker 1 blackballing Le'Veon Bell.

Speaker 1 Okay. I'm just putting the blackball out there.

Speaker 1 No one's drafting him this year. I love when people

Speaker 1 all fantasy governors unite behind this. None of us are drafting Le'Veon Bell.
Tyreek Hill, not on my team. Nope, won't have it.
Unless I get him in the second.

Speaker 1 And when I had Todd Gurley, I benched his ass. Yeah.
I made him sit down. Fuck yeah.

Speaker 1 Think about what you did.

Speaker 1 Nobody is above my team. Get out of here.
Kareem Hunt, don't even think about it unless he's on waivers. Definitely.

Speaker 1 I mean, pick him up. It would be

Speaker 1 right away, dude. Yeah,

Speaker 1 to not have to even consider the fact.

Speaker 1 All right, last up before we get to FAQs, Hank hot in the streets. Hank, I've been asking you about this, or do you have something for us, or is this the one I'm thinking about?

Speaker 1 This is the one you're thinking about. I've been asking about this all week.
What is Hot Boy Summer? And two, three questions. What is Hot Boy Summer? Two, is it still going on?

Speaker 1 Three, are PFT and I participating in it without us knowing?

Speaker 2 Essentially, you are. Basically,

Speaker 1 that's all you need to know. Hot Boy Summer.
Hot Boy Summer. Hot Boy Summer, Living the Dream.

Speaker 1 Yeah. It actually started as us as hot boy summer.

Speaker 2 It's actually hot girl summer and city boy summer, but hot girl summer.

Speaker 2 The whole hot boy or girl phenomenon started from Megan Thee Stallion, who's a rapper. Okay.
And she did a quote where someone asked her about it.

Speaker 2 She said, It's about women and men being unapologetically them, just having a good ass time,

Speaker 2 typing up their friends, doing you.

Speaker 1 PFA, you look hot right now. You look hot.
Thanks. We've been so us this summer.
Yeah, Hank, you look good. Thank you.
Yeah, real good.

Speaker 1 You name me, find me three guys that haven't been more hot than us. Yeah.
Bubba. He's the hottest.
He looks like a snack. You can just eat him.
As long as he's awake.

Speaker 2 So the hot girl summer was invented, and then boys, obviously, they couldn't just handle everyone being like hot girl summer summer.

Speaker 1 No, that's not a hot girl summer for men. Male persecution.

Speaker 2 We have to do city boy summer.

Speaker 1 And then hot. What is that? Would the city have to live in a city? No, I think

Speaker 2 they didn't want to be like, oh, hot girl, hot boy. We'll make up our own thing, like City Boys.

Speaker 1 City Boys. City Boys.
I don't like City Boys. I think I'm going to stick with Hot Boy Summer.
Well, Hot Boys goes back. Lil Wayne, like his original raptor was a little bit more.

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 1 are we City Boying it or hotboying it? We're hotboying. Which would you say we are? It is hot.
We are high boys. We are hot city boys.

Speaker 2 When I was growing up, we called Hot Boys.

Speaker 2 Like, if you were like, let's say we're underage, we're going to a party and you have beers in the back seat and it's like sketchy, like you're being a hot boy.

Speaker 1 Okay, why don't we just go like the block is hot? Yeah. You've got heat on you.
You're riding dirty. You're a hot boy, yeah.
If you're riding dirty, you're hot boys. Dirty boys.

Speaker 1 Okay, why don't we do this, though? Why don't we combine combine them? Why don't we do we're hot city boys? Because every time we go out on the street in New York, my ass is a pool.

Speaker 1 Hot city boys summer. Hot city boy summer.
And it's just pictures of our fucking swamp ass.

Speaker 2 Yeah, like if you're a finance bro, just send pictures of like your hot city boy summer.

Speaker 1 Yeah, hot city boy summer.

Speaker 1 It doesn't have packed subway. The time of the year.

Speaker 1 You're stuck in someone's fucking armpit.

Speaker 2 Like if someone in your office has back sweat, like

Speaker 1 time of year that you bring two shirts to work, one to change into when you get there, then you're commute shirts all the way back. Yeah, hot city boys summer.

Speaker 1 Shower in the morning and shower after work.

Speaker 1 That's a Tim Ryan special. Hot City Boys.

Speaker 1 Okay, Hank, FAQs. Okay.

Speaker 2 Hey, how's it going, men of PMT? Especially Jake the Snake.

Speaker 2 I was wondering if, after going to the Democratic debate and seeing the men and women on stage, would PFT consider running for president? Ooh.

Speaker 2 He would for sure win as there is no way the AWS will let him lose. Would love to see PMT live from the Oval Office.

Speaker 1 That would be such a disaster for everybody involved. Everyone.
But yes, I would.

Speaker 1 I'm not ruling anything out, and I have considered it, even though I'm not currently qualified to run for president as somebody who's 34 years old. Yeah, that's true.

Speaker 1 No, you'll be 35. I'll be 35 in 20.
Oh, in 2020, you're right. There you go.
All right, I'm hereby declaring. I've forgot how time works.
I'm hereby declaring myself

Speaker 1 to be 34 forever. I'm opening my candidacy for president of the United States of America.
All I need is 125,000 individual donors.

Speaker 1 If 125,000 of you gave me $1, then I would qualify for the next debates. So I don't see why not.
That's easy, dude. I have more than enough Madden codes to go get money from the people.

Speaker 1 Here's what I'm promising. You ready? Yeah.
A Madden code for everyone. A Madden code in every pot.

Speaker 1 Legalized marijuana. Yep.
Legalize sports gambling. Day after the Super Bowl, national holiday.
Done. Two 4th of July.
Did you see that bro who went to city council? The 8th of July. He was like,

Speaker 1 this is like guy.

Speaker 1 Chad goes deep. Chad goes deep.

Speaker 2 Friend of the program.

Speaker 1 He went to a city council. He's like, 4th of of july is so dope why don't we do two of them i love it yeah why not let's

Speaker 1 celebrate twice also bolt man will be my uh secretary of defense okay i was gonna say vice president fuck it bolt man yeah okay bolt man vice president yep and then i'm elevating tomsula secretary of defense perfect perfect uh

Speaker 1 kim jong-un

Speaker 2 what do you miss most if anything about the earlier days recording part of my take that you probably could not get away with anymore hank falling asleep during episodes

Speaker 2 well i mean we just kind of just passed the torch.

Speaker 1 Having youthful energy. Yeah, that's true.
You did just pass all your bad habits to Liam. I miss Stella a little bit.
Yeah. I miss her chiming in and barks a lot.
Nice little accent.

Speaker 1 Just so you know, she's still barking. Just the random bark at nothing.
I miss back when I thought maybe there was a chance that Bic and I both didn't have sex, but now that's been debunked. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Now we're not just exclusively for virgins.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I don't know what I think everything's gotten pretty much better.

Speaker 1 Skype sucked I know there's sometimes people like oh Skype is better I don't think for this show they say that but they say it for other things that we put out there Skype is a such a pain in the ass and you just can't get the same flow even when we do it when one of us is on the road like it's just not the same show I do miss being able to punch up at more people like now we can't go after Jay Marriott anymore that's true but we still do but no I think we can still I think we've gotten a nice spot where we can just make fun of people to their face now yeah that's almost even more fun it's almost more liberating you're right Sitting down next to somebody.

Speaker 1 Here's the shit I said about you. Yes.
And see some of that next. Next week, yes.
Same guy who likes Jim Brown.

Speaker 2 Another related to that question, how often do you guys get asked if someone can come be interviewed on your show instead of when you guys first started where it was probably more you had to ask them?

Speaker 1 It's like, I'd say 50-50 right now. Like a lot of the guests that, and when we're saying we ask Joe Harrison, to come on our show? Yeah, like we get some people where we want

Speaker 1 friends of ours or people that have been on the show are like Grail guests. If we we have a Grail out there, we'll ask to get them on.

Speaker 1 But then a lot of times we'll have our talent booker that brings them in for us. Do you know who asked me to come on the show?

Speaker 1 Old friend of yours, Hank. TJ Lavin? Nope.
LaDuca? Nope. Surfer.

Speaker 1 Oh, the one. Anastasia? Yeah, Anastasia Ashley asked to come on the show.
I heard some interesting stories about you and her, Hank.

Speaker 1 Get her on you. Yeah, we'll do it.
We can talk about it.

Speaker 2 Old Snapchat, buddy.

Speaker 1 What is.

Speaker 1 That's going to piss people off, not knowing what we're talking about. This is hot City Boy Summer.

Speaker 1 I'm sweating

Speaker 1 through my sweatshirt right now. Oh, you're wearing a sweatshirt.
That's true. It's hand up.
It's on you. Hand up.
I'm like a basketball coach.

Speaker 2 What would be the overall results of a PMT decathlon? Like, who would come first through sixth with PFT, Big Cat, Hank, Liam, Jake, and Jilly all competing?

Speaker 1 What event? I don't know what the event is. Decathlon.
I don't know what event. Okay, let's look at it.
It's fake sports. Running.
Hang on, no. Swim.
It's not just running. There's kayaks.

Speaker 1 They just swim in a decathlon. Decathlon.
They just run and jump and shoot and throw, and they.

Speaker 2 I think they do the shooting.

Speaker 1 No, they don't shoot. You're thinking of.
I'm the only gun owner, so I'd probably win that one.

Speaker 1 Next question. We don't even know what a decathlon is.

Speaker 1 That's a fucking terrible real answer. We'd all quit before it was over because we'd be too tired.
The minute I got out to the track, you know that heat that's just on a track? Fuck that.

Speaker 1 I'm going home.

Speaker 1 10 events? Well, yeah, I got that part, but here's a little quiz. Don't look it up.
Who can name 10 events in the decathlon? And if you can, you're a nerd. Okay.

Speaker 2 Hey, PMT, FAQ for you. Of the bad interviews that PMT has had over the years, parentheses, Dan Marino, Dak Prescott, Kareem, etc., what interview would you like to do

Speaker 2 over the most and why?

Speaker 1 Hmm. That's a good question.

Speaker 1 Oh, I know the answer.

Speaker 1 You go first. Kristen Thompson, which we'll have her back on again.
But we did that two Skypes.

Speaker 2 That was right when I moved.

Speaker 2 Fun fact about that one, that was like the day I moved into my first apartment in New York, and I didn't, I moved in with people I didn't know.

Speaker 2 And I was like, this is before the office was open, and they're like, don't work from home. I was like, don't worry, I'll be at the office whenever I'm working.

Speaker 2 And for that one, I had to record it at the house, and they were having like a party. And it was like, it was a shit, it was an absolute shit show.

Speaker 1 I was in San Francisco. PFT was in Texas.
Carissa was in California. I was in New York.
You guys I had my washer and dryer behind me in my kitchen.

Speaker 1 Four different Skypes, and we also just did a terrible job researching it. Said she went to Washington State.
She was like, nope. Oh, I told her.

Speaker 1 Next time she comes on the show, she just has to run with the fact that she is. Yes.

Speaker 1 So, and we know Carissa, so we'll definitely have her back on. We actually saw her at the Super Bowl.
So that will definitely happen again. But I wish we had that one back.
That's a very good answer.

Speaker 1 I would say, I would like to do Dan Marino again.

Speaker 1 You think

Speaker 1 you want to know why? Because if we did him over again, I think we would get more hostile to him earlier in the interview instead of trying to make him come along. He'd just leave.

Speaker 1 For sure, would leave.

Speaker 1 I hope we get to a point. I think there will be a point in the next year or so that Dak Prescott will come back on not remembering that he's been on before.
And that would be a great moment.

Speaker 1 And by the way, we're not going to tell him anything.

Speaker 1 We'll ask the same exact questions.

Speaker 2 All right. We'll end it with this.
Actually, one more question for Big Cat. Will we see high-five men shirts on barstool? Graham Mertz is the goat, and I need this shirt.

Speaker 1 Yes. What's that?

Speaker 1 So I

Speaker 1 obviously Wednesday University of Wisconsin. It's a Heisman, but

Speaker 1 it's a five. Yeah, I make a Heisman shirt for every Wisconsin quarterback, knowing they'll never win a Heisman.
Bart Heisman. What was my other one? Oh, Horny for Heisman.

Speaker 1 Like 10 people buy him. Shout out to all those 10 people.
But Graham Mertz is the first four-star recruit quarterback that Wisconsin's ever had, and his number is five.

Speaker 1 Well, it's him and then the guy that's that's from Long Island, Jack Cohen.

Speaker 1 Jack Cohen, probably the starter. So, yeah, you will have a Graham.
You probably get a Jack Cohen Heisman shirt before you get a Graham Mertz, but both will be on the way.

Speaker 2 All right. What is the most awkward or uncomfortable thing that has happened off air with someone you've interviewed that the AWLs don't know about? I'm thinking,

Speaker 2 can we tell the DeAndre Jordan thing?

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 This was all time one of the funniest moments I've had doing this podcast. DeAndre Jordan was walking in the door.
They're like, DeAndre Jordan's here. And he he was probably two feet behind the

Speaker 2 talent booker girl that works here. And she walked in.
And as she walked in, she said, hey, you guys can't talk about the Nets.

Speaker 2 And before anyone had any time to process that, DeAndre Jordan just walked out.

Speaker 1 I think I said, what the fuck? Out loud in front of DeAndre Jordan.

Speaker 1 We did talk about the Nets, but it was the weirdest thing that I think has ever been requested to us because we don't usually do any of those requests.

Speaker 2 And I don't think that was coming from him either.

Speaker 1 No, it wasn't. He was totally fine with it.
What happened was he walked in the door and the person said, yeah, if he could not talk about the the Nets with him, that would be great.

Speaker 1 And Big Kat, I think, goes, what the fuck? And I go, wait, like, what do you mean, not about the Nets?

Speaker 1 And the person goes, if you could just, like, stick to mainly talking about Dunkin' Donuts, that'd be great. Yeah.
And it's like, oh, well, okay.

Speaker 1 It's a weird thing that happens in the interview world where it's almost 100% of the time not the athlete that's asking.

Speaker 1 It's the PR people that rep the athlete who are weirdly nervous about like stuff that you don't even think that they should be. So DeAndre was totally fine, but his person just walks around.

Speaker 1 I think that's actually, now that I'm replaying it, that's actually just a chess game that PR people are playing. By just,

Speaker 1 they don't even care

Speaker 1 if you bring up the nets, but they throw you off your game right before you walk in by being like, hey, don't bring up the thing that everyone wants to talk about. Hey, don't talk about basketball.

Speaker 1 Yes. Yes.
All right. That's our show.
We'll see everyone Monday. Training camp week.
Huge guest every single day next week.

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