NBA Champ Matt Barnes, Fyre Fest Of The Week, GoT Predictions

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USAA. On today's part of my take, we have NBA champion, 14-year veteran.
Oh, yeah, he doesn't want to be an NBA champion, right? Matt Barnes. NBA veteran.
Well, he is a champion as well. Matt Barnes, very interesting discussion with him.
We talked about his career. We talked about his relationship with Kobe, the flinch, KD versus Draymond.
Very, very, oh, getting high before games. All of that and more with Matt Barnes.
We have a little NBA playoffs, Fire Fest of the week, some segments and FAQs to end the week and get us ready for Grit Week.

We're going to get right back to the show.

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Welcome to Part of My Take presented by the Cash App put in code Barstool and you get $5 and $5 to the ASPCA. Today is Friday, May 17th and PFT, do you know what today actually is? No, I don't.
99 days until college football. I love it.
99 days. Don't give me that face.
We've reached the double digits. 99 days until college football.
Put that in your little brain and just think about it. Big time Bruins fan Hank over there just wants us to talk nothing but hockey today.
Dude, when you get past 100 days away from, when you breach the 100 until real meaningful football comes back, a little chill goes down my spine. I would even say that once training camp starts, that's kind of football.
I'm talking about records. That's kind of football.
Yeah. Once hard knock starts, it's full mast.
Okay, so people are probably like, what the fuck, we just watched an awesome Warriors-Blazers game, which we're going to talk about.

It was awesome.

The Currys went off against each other, except Seth didn't really.

He just hit a big three at the end.

Can I just say the narrative I'm going to get going is Seth Curry is the better pure shooter than Steph Curry.

The better pure guy.

Steph has to create his own shot.

Seth is much better off the pick. Seth is better two feet in from the three-point line.
Yes, correct. Exactly.
So it was an unbelievable game. The Warriors, dare I say, are even more fun than they were when Kevin Durant was going bazooka on everyone.
And I still, Kevin Durant, we have done a podcast switch on him just because he uh seems to be someone who will be a future guest and also talk shit and kind of seems cool but the preemptive switch the warriors are a lot of fun to watch right now and i'm gonna say it it's draymond's team there you go it's draymond i don't mind that i don't mind drayaymond getting a little bit of credit, a little bit of shine on this show. He had 16, 10, and 7 was everywhere.
He is the heartbeat of the Warriors. He unlocks Steph Curry to score 37 points.
He's looking skinny, too. Yeah.
Draymond is nice, and he's toned it down. He's trimmed off all the fat.
He's like a big thing of brisket. He does the shack.
He He's low and slow. He does the Shaq where he just gets in shape in season.
Yeah. So he's like, I'll get in shape on your dime.
I like that. No wasted energy.
Has fun. Relaxes in the offseason.
I don't mind Draymond being the new de facto captain of this team. Yeah.
Well, he always has been. But it was an unbelievable game from him.
Unbelievable game from Steph. And they, I'll hand up, they do play a lot more wide open without Kevin Durant, and it's fun to watch.
I'm going to say the word that we're using for the Warriors is sudden. Sudden.
They're very sudden. They make things happen suddenly.
So the Blazers were up by, what, 15, 17? Something like that. They were up double digits in the third quarter.
And then I looked down at my computer, read exactly one blog, looked up exactly one blog looked up one single blog a blog and looked up and the score was in three points i think yes so the score was 69 to 53 with 9 16 left in the in the third quarter when you looked up with 7 11 left in the third quarter it was 69 66 yep they did that fast it was like clay three step three clay three clay three boom they're back in this game and it's incredible how quickly they jump on you like that and the warriors i mean what are you gonna say like i think the bucks warriors would be a good final but i think so we don't know o-v-e-r over we don't know. I need a mom cam.
Sorry, Blazers. I need a mom cam on Sonya all the time.
Her reactions are pretty funny. I love that.
A little horny there. You know what they need to know? Watching her reactions are so funny.
They need to have the win probability chart, except it monitors who she loves more, Seth or Steph, as the game goes on. A little extra for Steph, wouldn't you say? A little extra cheering for Steph? No, for Seth.
Oh, you thought so?

I thought she tried a little too hard.

She just wants him to hit a couple shots. Exactly.
She's like, I love you too, honey.

Yeah, so

I mean, that sucks because it was like the best

game that the Blazers could have

played for a few quarters there, and

then it just all goes to naught because

the second half Warriors are

back, and the Warriors have defeated

the Warriors, and we got that shot of Kevin Durant standing in the hallway, going over the stat sheet, in his hoodie, being like, fuck. Hoodie KD.
Fuck. You know what, he was just like, he was looking at it like it was a magic eye calendar.
Just like staring at it, hoping that his name would pop out and be like, oh, I played tonight. I had 44.
Yeah, I gave him 44, 12, and 11. Yeah, so the other note I had wrote down from this game, Zach Collins, who is weirdly, I feel like, NBA Twitter's favorite little pet project, who could be good eventually, and he's a young guy.
He was very close to a trillion, so he played eight minutes. He had no points, no rebounds, no assists, two turnovers and five fouls.
What was his plus minus? His plus minus was... I hope it was zero.
It was zero. Yeah, that's really hard to do.
Yes. It was unbelievable.
Five fouls in eight minutes is impressive. He almost had an 80 trillion.
Yes. Holy shit.
I don't know if that's been done in the playoffs before. Did I ever tell you about the time I fouled out? I set a league record when I was in high school for the quickest foul out.
Yeah. Two and a half minutes.
There you go. Yeah.
But I knew my role on that team, and my role was to not to foul out as fast as you could. Not get myself out of the game.
Fulfill the minimum minutes requirements on my league coach. Yeah.
So that he could say, yeah, I got the shitty kid in for a little bit, and then get the hell out of the gym. And Dane Lillard tried to shoot his way into this game.
But they just can't do anything. The Blazers can't do anything.
It's just they're too good. They are too good.
People are going to say, oh, listen, I know that people hate the Warriors. And I get the point that people will make.
And it's a fair one because you're watching these Warriors and you're like, why did Kevin Durant have to go and join these Warriors? It could have been a better league if he was somewhere else and a little bit more even around. But if you watch the Warriors play basketball and you're not like, this is fucking awesome, I don't know what to say.
Yeah, it's very interesting. I mean, I'm sick of them, but I'm also like, this is fucking awesome.
I want to see what they do against the Bucs. I want to see what they do against the Bucs.
Yeah. Because that's...
So we're advancing both. Yeah, we're moving them both to the finals.
It's a team that they haven't played against a team that's built like the Bucs. I want to see what they do against the Bucs.
Yeah. Because that's...
So we're advancing both. Yeah, we're moving them both to the finals.
It's a team that they have... They haven't played against a team that's built like the Bucs yet.
And so I would like to very much see that. Yeah, I mean, it will be...
Giannis is a special kind of guy and like a totally different than everything else. And let's move on to that game.
So the Raptors did basically what the Blazers did tonight. They played perfect.
They had – Kyle Lowry had 30 points. He was unconscious.
And you wasted your Kyle Lowry game. Like you don't get a lot of those.
Yeah, but we got a Brooks Lopez game. Yeah, but you don't get a lot of Kyle Lowry games.
Yes, the Brooks Lopez game was awesome. He was actually doing like heat checks where he was 35 feet from the back.
He was like, get it to me, get it to me. But Giannis didn't play well.
The Bucs didn't play well, like, for the first three quarters. Kyle Lowry was unconscious, and you still somehow lose by eight points.
You know what, though? If I'm the Raptors, I'm okay with getting beat by Lopez. Like, because that's not something that you gain.
I don't think at this state, though, like, you're probably like, I don't want to lose at all, especially with the Kyle Lowry game. But if Lopez beats you, it's like, okay, we did our job on Giannis.
We did our job shutting down some of the shooters. We didn't plan for – we didn't have a contingency plan for one of the Lopez twins to step off the bench and give us 29.
Well, it's just – I mean, the Raptors are kind of screwed in a lot of ways, but also watching Miritich, who is one of the softest big men I've ever watched play when he was on the Bulls, get dirty and get offensive rebounds, that's a problem. When you get out-rebounded like that, that's a problem.
So the Raptors, Kawhi's going to have to just be insane like he was in the last series for them to survive this one. And that's not an overreaction, even though it might be.
Did you see that Canada has been asked by Enos Kanter to guarantee his security from Turkish assassins if they make the finals and the Raptors make the finals? A little getting ahead of yourself. Like getting ahead of yourself a little bit.
So basically the Raptors just hit up the Warriors and they were like, hey, just play basketball really well. Yeah.
And that way we don't have to worry about spending all this money.

Or they're just like hit up the words like don't worry about – or hit up the Blazers like are you serious?

Are we going to do like a second play?

Are we going to do a bronze medal game?

You know what?

If I was Canada, I would just put a shitload of money.

Nations can gamble, right?

Yeah.

Like your treasury department.

Put all your loonies on the Blazers to make the finals.

And that way the payout that you get from that you can just use to provide extra security for everybody. Yes.
Yeah, Nations Gamble. It was called two years ago when every male from 22 to 35 years old bought Bitcoin at the same time.
Yep. That was Nations Gamble.
That was pretty sweet. The real important news.
Yeah. Bruks Kipka.
Yeah. Wait, wait.
I have one more thing. I have one more thing about basketball real quick uh the winner of the playoffs i'm saying it right now without a doubt before we even get to like the finals the finals mvp nick nurse's goofy faces that guy makes faces like i think he had that one gif that happened a couple weeks ago went viral and he's like i'm the face guy now he's demonstrative yes i i wish he sweat a little bit more he's not sweaty enough for my liking yeah um but we can work on that that's something that can come with age yes and i think playing in the great white north kind of takes away some of the sweatiness just but listen if you do faces you'll stick around longer you have to have something that people are like oh that's oh nick nurse the face guy okay yeah he could be a good coach.
Pat Riley would have gotten fired seven times over if he didn't have the slick back hair. Right.
You have to have a look. Yep.
You have to have a look. Phil Jackson just handing out books and smoking weed, that's a look in its own way.
P.J. Carlissimo getting choked, that's a look.
Yeah, having a big red neck all the time. Who got hit with the ball in the face? Was it Scott Brooks maybe got hit with the ball? No uh time who got hit with the ball in the face was scott brooks maybe got hit the ball no someone else got hit with the ball in their face doc rivers has the voice doc rivers got has the voice you if you have something that people can be like oh yeah pop has the i'm arrogant to every sideline reporter ever you need something that people can just the casual thing be like oh yeah nick nurse the look can i suggest this joe prunty has ties joe prunty has the ultimate Van Hussing collection.
Yes. He just, the casual thing, be like, oh, yeah, Nick Nurse, the look guy.
Can I suggest this? Joe Pronte has ties.

Joe Pronte has the ultimate Van Hoosen collection.

Yes.

He goes dummy at Kohl's.

I learned that phrase, going dummy at some place.

This is pretty cool.

He goes mad dummy.

Mad dummy.

Yeah.

Mad dummy.

So, wait, yeah, Nick Nurse, my suggestion for his look, wear scrubs on the sidelines.

Yeah, that would work, too.

Or a stethoscope.

Yes.

I'd just be like, I just came.

I'm the nurse. I just came from a 24-hour shift.
I am the second time we brought up nurses this week shout out nurses love them uh okay brooks kept brooks keep getting such a course record 63 he's on rural he a course record at beth page black he blacked out he was fucking bored out there he's like this is this is stupid i'd rather be sitting on my couch watching basketball and he was like i got

to get out of here so we shot a 63 wasted very little energy out there and maybe more impressive he did that in the same grouping as tiger yeah actually the announcer said bad defense by tiger the announcers said it's brooks kepka's group whose man shit they were like here comes brooks Koepka's group with Tiger Woods in it. And on top of all of that, shout out to Brooks, because I'm pretty sure after we basically were like, hey, there's nothing we can make fun of you for and you're perfect and blah, blah, blah, blah.
He wore the ugliest fucking shirt I've ever seen. So good job by you, Brooks.
Thank you. Thank you for wearing such an ugly shirt.
I feel like that was just a personal shout out to us. Like, hey, guys, you thought I was perfect? No, I dress like a blind person.
He had a weird hat on, too. Yes.
And credit to him. He told us he was going to cut those bangs off.
He did. He cut the Bama bangs right off.
No swoop. He did.
Spiked it up a little bit in the front. Yes.
God damn it, Brooks. He was so good.
A course record. And Brandon Brandel Chambliss.
Chambliss. Brandis Chambliss.
Sexist. Suck our dicks.
Yeah. Sorry, we don't say.
No, don't bleep that. Suck our dicks, dude.
There was a headline today that said, I think it was Wall Street Journal. Thanks for crediting our interview, by the way, Wall Street Journal.
But the headline said, Brooks Koepka gave Brandon Chambliss. Brandis Chambliss.
Brandis Chambly the finger for four and a half hours, which, I mean, hey, a lot of people wouldn't mind getting the finger from Brooks for about four and a half hours. That's a long time.
Brandis is going to be mighty sore tomorrow. Yes, he's got the rice buckets, and he does it.
Yeah, he's got that grip. Yeah, I don't even know who Brandis Chambliss is.
Chipson Brambley. Chambly Baristis.
What a shitty name. I mean, it's just the worst.
Get a better name, dude. Dude, your name sucks.
You just got sunned at Bethpage Black. Have some.
The only thing I know about how to rank golf courses, besides the fact that the U.S. Open will always fuck with you, and the British Open is filled with a bunch of guys that are just pounding scotch in the sun all day.
And they played on just a beach with a little bit of moss. Exactly.
I ranked them in order of how hard they were on Tiger Woods golf back in 2003. And Bethpage Black was a really hard one.
Yes. So I'm told this is an impressive score by our friend Brooks Kepke.
And they also have that sign that says the black course is very, very difficult. Yeah, it says – Intimidates everyone.
Yeah, they's a ski slope. Yeah.
That you're going to crack your head open if you go down.

Right.

You're going to get so mad by the fourth hole that you're going to commit seppuku with your driver.

Brooks just blew up your fucking mountain.

Yeah.

So that was our Brooks.

That was our talking golf.

That was as aggressive a golf talk as you'll get on any podcast anywhere.

Brooks.

Also, John Daly was late for his tea time and was and drove a cart diet cokes from

mcdonald's in his cart drove a cart all day jesus christ that guy man they should have given him a

specialty horn on there that played like the auga like the old-timey car horn or something like the

oh no who does the uh you think about the general lee yeah yeah you think it should it should have

played dixie probably not interesting i wasn't thinking about that i was thinking about um

Thank you. Go re-viral.
And then everybody would be like, that's classic John Daly. Man.
It would have been funny. You don't get it.
You don't live on Instagram. You don't understand how funny this video used to be.
All right. Hockey, Hank, go.
That was actually going to be my Fyre Fest of the week. The Blues getting hand-passed to death? No.
That sucked for the Blues fans. Not that I'm happy the Blues lost lost but that sucked for the blues yeah it was tough that was i mean obviously i'm a casual hockey fan i was watching that game i had bet on the shark so i was like happy but i was i was stunned and i felt like if i was a blues fan i would i would still be i would still be bitching mad forever tough to give that one up yeah it was blatant too blatant it wasn't even he didn't even try to conceal it.
It looked like he was swatting a fly. And the fact they couldn't review that? What's going on there, Hank? You watching something? Is there a segment? Yes.
Okay, that's nice. That's Pauly Walnut's horn.
It's fucking awesome. Yeah, is there a saying in hockey, puck don't lie? I don't think there is.
They should start that. All right, here's the only thing that I'll say, though.
People were comparing it to the Rams and the Saints. First of all, the Blues, you gave up a goal with a minute left.
Okay, you had the game won. You gave up a goal with a minute left.
Second of all, if that goal doesn't happen, who's to say the Blues are still going to win the game? You know what I mean? You still have to win overtime. So it sucked.

They got screwed.

It was a travesty.

They have every right to throw a bunch of trash on the ice or St. Louis pizza.

Same thing.

But it like what?

St. Louis people are so weird with this shit that like

some of them are learning.

Like if you call Panera Panera, they're like, no,

it's St. Louis bread company.

No, it's it's called Panera.

No, it's St. Louis bread.

And they slice their bagels like lengthwise.

But they did get screwed.

So they did, I mean, I don't know what else to say. You got screwed.
Big time. Big time.
Big time. And this whole, like, the NHL wants the Sharks in the final because of Joe Thornton.
That's a stretch. Listen, I love conspiracy theories as much as the next guy.
But when you're saying that the NFL needs San Jose in the finals to get higher ratings, I think you're on a sink and ship.

A little bit.

So, Hank, you're Bruins.

You want to do Fyre Fest?

We're going to Fyre Fest.

Let's go.

Oh, okay.

I'll start.

Hockey, Hank.

My Fyre Fest of the week is that the Celtics lost,

so they ruined the Boston Sun.

Oh, that sucks.

That sucks, Hank.

I'm sorry.

What happened to the Hurricanes?

That was a PFT.

Hamilton the pig.

That was a fucking—

I'm sorry. What happened to the Hurricanes?

That was a PFT.

Hamilton the pig. That was a fucking trash.
The Capitals beat them up too bad. That's

exactly what happened. Hamilton the pig

RIP. Yep, you gotta die now, bro.

Pigs get fed. Hogs get slaughtered.

Yep. You got too fat and happy.

If they don't kill that pig, they'll never win

anything. That's a fact.
You know what?

I'm gonna go on a pig murdering spree until you actually put that pig down. I'm going to eat bacon every day.
Yep. Until that pig's dead.
Yes. But the only thing to really worry about is the Russ vs.
Russ situation. They got a lot of time off now.
Oh, you're still doing this? What? Oh, I thought we had moved on because we started making funny jokes. We were making funny jokes.
We're doing a podcast. A different Fyre Fest.

Now you think that...

Well, it was in the middle of my Fyre Fest.

So wait, I wasn't finished.

You know what we should do?

We should do an ongoing power ranking

of what Boston sports fans' biggest struggles currently are.

Right now, the Boston sports fans' biggest struggle

is that they won their conference final too quickly. Yes.
That's number one on your list. Firefest of the week.
Jesus Christ. Do you have any others? What was my other one? Oh, I mean, this is another one.
It's tough. You fucker.
No, I mean, this is tough. Very relatable.
Commuting during rush hour. Oh, yeah.
So we had an A-Rod Corp shoot early this week. I was on the train at like 8 a.m.
I had a bunch of equipment with me. I had to wait.
It was so busy at my train station. I had to wait for four trains to show up before I could even get on.
Oh, my God. Because it was so packed.
They just looked at you and looked, not today. The train would pull up, and it was already.
What do we say to the train of death? The train of death. Not today.
What do we say to the train of death? Yeah today um but yeah that was it was it was brutal that is one thing that is like you said it's very it's not relatable whatsoever but we never travel it is relatable for people that commute during rush hour right fucking sucks right your life sucks dude yeah ours we don't we're very lucky we never very lucky we commuted the most commute at 10 a.m. and midnight.
Yeah. When we go home, there's like two people on the train.
Yeah, they're either drunk and throwing up or they've shat themselves already. Yes.
But there's only two people, so you've got some leg room. That's nice.
Yeah. I got a similar Fyre Fest, Hank.
I'll go and then you go PFT. Okay.
So, well, first of all, my first Fyre Fest is Anna Kendrick unfollowed me. Oh, no.
Whatever. Okay.
Whatever. It sucked.
Okay. I even went to the gym yesterday.
So if you think I'm really feeling it, it's because I got to work out high 24 hours later. Now, do you think that it's because she accidentally followed you? No, I think it was a Kevin White mixtape after like 17 straight Bulls tweets.
Probably. That might have done it.
Or it was the fact that you brought attention to it and then she was like, why are these people blowing me up? And also our friend KB No Swag pointed out something that she follows like 300 people and they're all like the Hollywood type that don't tweet a lot. So it was not only the 17 Bulls tweets, but I'm pretty sure that was her entire timeline.
Just like 17 tweets within two hours in general is a big red flag. Right.
She's like, whoops, that was a mistake. She jumped right in the deep end.
Yeah. My other fire fest of the week was, Hank, I got sneezed on on a train.
Yeah. So if I die soon, that's why.
That's brutal. On the back of my neck.
So thankfully it wasn't mouth to mouth. Well, spin zone, they made you stronger because they got their germs on you.
And now you have more immunity. It was so fucking disgusting.
I didn't even look. I didn't even turn around because if I knew I turned around and I saw the person and they were like, you know, they probably like had, they probably had like leprosy or something.
And I was going to just be like, all right, I'll just, I'll just die right now. So I didn't look, but that person is probably very very sick and they sneeze you don't sneeze on a train did you say god bless you no I just went like this so they're going to hell so you had your revenge ultimately yes I have my revenge on that person whoever you are out there don't sneeze on fucking trains that's bullshit don't you think sometimes you can't control it sneezing is tough it's not like I'm curious I want to know if there's bullshit, don't you think? Sometimes you can't control it.
Sneezing is tough.

It's not like...

I'm curious.

I want to know

if there's any statisticians out there.

Yeah.

How many people die per year

driving while sneezing?

Oh, that's a good question.

I shit my pants while sneezing while driving.

That's almost dying.

Yeah, that's almost.

There's like hundreds of millions of people in America.

There's got to be at least 30.

If there's hundreds of people in America, let me do the calculator. There are more than hundreds of people in America.
30 million? No, 30 million. I said hundreds of millions.
Yeah, you said hundreds of millions. Oh, I thought you said hundreds of people.
How many people? Do I think? Yeah. Like at least 30? 30 million? No, 30 people die from sneezing.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yes. I said hundreds of millions.

We're terrible with our math right now.

From SWI?

Yes, I'd agree.

Or sneezing while crossing the street or something like, or doing something just really stupid

while sneezing.

Sneezing on a ladder.

How many people die?

At least one person this year has sneezed while standing on a ladder.

I'll bet you somebody's died from sneezing while using a Q-tip.

Ooh, that's a good one.

Okay. Goes right in.
Yeah. Sneezing while standing next to a ledge? Yeah, sneezing while thinking about jumping over the ledge.
Right, and then you sneeze. And then it makes up your mind for you.
Right. That's that.
Well, how many people do you think have died at Fortnite while sneezing? A lot. Like, died in the Fortnite.
Yeah, a lot. Yeah, tons.
Tons. Hundreds of millions.
Very dangerous. Yeah, for sure.
Practice safe sneezing. Yeah.
My fire, are you done with yours? Yeah. Okay.
I got sneezed on. I don't think you really, like you brushed over.
I've been sneezed on before. Like you're going to die too because you're close enough to me.
Also, if PFT got sneezed on, his hair would block it. That's true.
That's why I grow it. I got sneezed on, dude.
I know. I would like you to at least show a little bit of like.
Here's the thing. At least you got sneezed on the back of you.
And so you didn't have to smell the other person's sneeze. Smelling another person's sneeze is the worst sensation known to man.
I got sneezed on. I don't know.
It's tough. Okay.
It's tough. Do you need some vitamins? And it's not even fucking flu season.
I got vitamins. I got vitamins.
You know when you see like a raccoon out during the day and you're like, that raccoon's fucked up.

They got rabies.

They're out in the day.

When someone sneezes in like May, June, July, August, you're like, what's wrong with your immune system? I might just become like a lot of Asian countries.

It's common courtesy to wear masks in public so you don't get other people sick.

I might lead by example and start that here.

Unrelated but kind of related.

Except wear it over my butt so they don't smell my farts.

Do you think it'd be a weird move if I started using an oxygen tank? Yeah, it's a little early. I'd say a little early in life.
But that high you get when you go into a Vegas casino. It is nice.
And I also probably would get preferential treatment. If you just wheeled around an oxygen tank with you? Correct.
That's true. Yeah, people would get out of your way.
And I'd be thinking at a way faster speed than everyone else. It'd be like – Limitless.
Yeah. No.
It'd be like plugging into the wall of the internet instead of getting the Wi-Fi. You know what you should do? You should just straight up do the oxygen tank and an IV.
So your body is super hydrated all the time, like one of the IVs on wheels that you carry around with. And a catheter.
Yeah, and a catheter hydrated at all times put me in a coma you've got oxygen just coursing through your veins and your brain your body is it's operating at optimum speed right i can't speak i can't do anything no one's going to want to talk to you my brain is working so fast if they did talk to you yeah you would just run them in circles with your argument i think superior logic at least try this for a And a diaper. Not a catheter.
How fast my brain can work. Just shut everything else down except my brain.
I like it. All right.
Fire Fest. My Fire Fest of the week is Chernobyl.
Oh, wait. No spoilers on episode two.
I haven't watched. Okay.
I watched episode two. I assumed that the plant blowing up was bad.
It was not good. Okay.
So Chernobyl happened in 1986 um it was actually literally a fire fest because all the officials were staying in tents all the meals were poisoned the dogs there were no there were no swimming pigs but there were dogs that carried radiation poisoning on them don't do that with the dogs i'm just saying if you're gonna see it so it was literally a fire fest and i I love watching it because everybody talks with a British accent. They're Ukrainian.
Which makes no sense. They're like, oh, no.
The cooling tower broke out. It could.
It shouldn't be the call. It just possibly shot.
Could they not teach him how to do a Russian accent? Well, I think it all goes back to Hunt for Red October when they had Sean Connery playing the Russian guy. And he was like, I'm Sean fucking Connery.
And I'm going to call me bastard. It's so stupid.
I don't know why they did that. Because we're dumb, and I don't understand that people are upset if they're cussing in a different language.
Yeah, but it's just like when you see Russia, you feel Russia. I want to hear the Russian accent.
Well, the entire landscape has a Russian accent because every time a movie is supposed to be set in Russia, they just find the greatest place possible. Right.
They just go like northeast Ohio. Yeah, that's exactly what they do.
They either go there or like Toledo or someplace like that and they're like, it's bleak so it's Russia. We don't have to actually speak Russian or have Russian accents.
So yeah, I've been watching Chernobyl. It's pretty good.
Wait, where's your fire fest? Just Chernobyl. The city of Chernobyl was an actual fire fest.
Listen, I'm telling people, everyone knows that I am obsessed with abandoned stadiums, theaters, whatever. Go look up right now.
Google Chernobyl present day. It's awesome.
You can take a tour of Chernobyl. It's awesome.
I don't know why you would. Everyone just left.
So there's like Ferris wheels and shit still up. There's classrooms.
Abandoned Chernobyl pictures are awesome. Do you think that it's the most white people problem ever to take a tour over to Chernobyl? What do you mean? That's something that only white people would do.
Yeah, some woman did it. She drove a bike.
She took all these pictures. I'm pretty sure she died.
Yeah, they have tours that will get you close to where things happen.

Why risk it?

Because you're white.

Yeah, I guess so.

And that's the whitest, it's like poverty tourism.

Jack should go over there.

Yeah, that's probably, he's probably going to go over there next to like gain the powers

of a small, he's going to try to turn himself into like Spider-Man.

He's going to find a spider in Chernobyl and let it bite him until he gets powers to shoot webs out of his fingers. If you were serious about dunking, you would go over there with your shoes.
Dude, these shoes are basically radioactive anyways. You see these? Yeah.
My other fire fest of the week is Mike Greenberg committed. He snitched on his dad.
What? Mike Greenberg snitched on his dad this morning. What, he ate like too many grapes? No, he was talking about the Jets Oh Back in the day And where he first learned about being a true Jets fan After all the stuff that's gone down this week Uh-huh And his dad got so mad Watching the Jets one time Watching them collapse Do you know what his dad did? He said, gosh darn it He snitched on them No, worse He threw a pillow out of a 20th story, worse.
He threw a pillow out of a 20th story window.

Oh, no.

He threw a pillow out of a window.

I mean, hey.

That's when he learned what true for us.

Isn't that the most Mike Greenberg thing of all time?

He's like, my dad used to get so mad when he's watching the Jets.

He would just rip shots of whole milk.

So has he been holding on to this story for like 25 years?

Yeah, I think he said something like the Statue of Limitations has passed now. Oh, my God.
What a weenie. Can you imagine walking down the street and getting hit with a pillow? You'd be like, thank you.
Yeah. Like, oh.
I'd probably just take a nap on the sidewalk. Although, if you drop it from high enough, it's like a penny from the Empire State Building.
The pillow will run directly through your head? Yeah. That's terrifying.
That's the most comfortable way to die. Yes, absolutely.
Maybe his dad was just sneezing, holding the sneezing holding the pillow next to the window and he killed a man screaming into the pillow and throwing it out yeah what a ridiculous story that's your that's your hero yeah it is it is but but it's a fire fest because greeny implicated his father in attempted murder i would say unreal yeah someone definitely got hit with a couple like uh down feathers that day that'd be tough and they've never thought i hope someone comes forward and I'm like. Unreal.
Yeah, someone definitely got hit with a couple down feathers that day. That'd be tough.
I hope someone comes forward and like, hey, I remember that. Back in 1972, I was walking down 6th Avenue and got hit with a pillow.
A pillow hit me. I had a big embroidered G that left an imprint on my forehead.
Hank, what do you think weighs more? a pound of rocks or a pound of feathers? Hmm. Same.
I know. It was the same, man.
I know. That's what it is.
I get it. Okay.
That's good. All right.
Okay. That was a nice quiz.
You nailed it, eh? Yeah. Thank you.
Proud of me. Okay.
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We now welcome on NBA champion, Matt Barnes. Does it feel good to still have people say that, introduce you like that? To me, to be honest with you, I really don't count that championship.
I think, you know, obviously through the process of my career and everything I accomplished, I earned it. But I got hurt going into the playoffs, and I'm always someone that, like, I've never been given anything.
So to me, I always wanted to earn it and I felt like because I wasn't out there you know on the court with my guys sweating and fighting that I it was kind of really just a it was given to me right now so I mean appreciate the opportunity you know the rings and I think the best part about was my twin boys got to experience it but I don't really ever refer to myself as a champion or wear my ring but come on it's better to be introduced as nba champion than uh like 14 14 year nba vet right i mean it has a nice ring to it you know but to me like as far as just my mentality and the way i've always gone about things like i kind of felt like that was given to me so i don't really okay i kind of like it if i were in your position i definitely would not have that same attitude i would be rocking the ring everywhere I go I go. Yeah, it's crazy because everywhere I go, like, where's the ring? I'm just like, it's at the house.
Yeah. It's at the house.
So what is your biggest accomplishment to you personally? I think basketball-wise? Yeah. I think just lasting as long as I lasted.
You know, being a second-round pick, getting cut, having to go to the D League, and then really grind my way through um it was an

amazing journey and being able to play that long play with that many hall of famers and have the fun and travel the world that that was probably the best part about it all so yeah so let's start there you were second round pick was it 42nd overall 46th 46 overall yeah who's counting yeah so you weren't supposed to make it no the people that get drafted in that position generally don't Right.

You went to, what, the D League then to the ABA.

A little stint with, like, the ABL. I don't even know who we were taking bus trips to Juarez, Mexico, messing with the cartel.
And, you know, and then I got called up to the Clippers. Actually, I got a chance to play with Dennis Rodman for a second on that ABL team, which was really cool.
Wait, Dennis was in Juarez? No, he didn't go to mexico with us he played a couple games in la with us i was gonna say he would be pulled over at that time yeah so so at what point did you realize i can do this i can make it in the nba um it probably wasn't i always had the belief in myself but i never really got the opportunity um you know my first i got called up the Clippers, played well, and was supposed to actually sign a two-year deal, which was kind of my fault. But growing up in Sacramento, I was a huge Laker fan, but then kind of became a Kings fan, and that's when the Kings were relevant.
And Chris Webber is one of my favorite players, and I always got a chance to go back and work out with him in the summertime because he would be in Sacramento. So I played well, and I was doing the same thing, working out with him in the summertime.
And he's just like, you know, you need to come play here. And this is why they were still trying to dethrone the Lakers.
And I did that. And then unfortunately, I think right before the trade deadline ended, he and I got traded to Philly.
And that was a disaster. I'm glad I took a bunch of weed with me because all I did was smoke weed the whole time and just chilling my condo.
So you've said that. You've said that your best games in the NBA were high.
Yeah, I smoked. I was, I got caught twice.
In the NBA, you get three strikes. So I had like 2.75 strikes probably because you're allowed to turn yourself in one time.
So they let me turn myself in twice actually because I was going through some stuff. But I was just able to kind of maneuver my way through the years and understanding you know smoking and then being able to detox fast enough yeah you know eating clean and drinking a lot of water staying in a steam room and i was able just to manage it so would you smoke right before the game and then just be like it wouldn't be right before the game so what it was is like we'll have like on a game day we'll have a 11 or 12 o'clock shoot around so we'll walk through stuff for about an hour and then um after that i would go home i smoke a joint then i would take a nap and then i'd wake up shower eat and bounce so it wasn't like right before yeah probably within like four or five hours of the game possibly yeah did you ever get any pushback from your coaches or your teammates that didn't like you doing that no one really knew it wasn It wasn't something that I was really – because, you know, it's illegal, basically.

You know what I mean?

So I had a couple teammates that, you know, on different teams that knew I smoked

or would smoke with me.

And it was, like I said, it's not to really talk about anybody else

or talking about myself, but it was something that happened in the NBA.

You can say Steven Jackson.

You can just say it.

Yeah, oh, yeah.

Steven, oh, yeah.

Jack and I would – because he did – Jack and I would blow it down.

That might be two – like when he and I used to smoke, it might be two joints. Yeah.
It's interesting. I like the way that the NBA handles it better than the way the NFL does because it's really a no-win situation for the league if they're suspending players for testing positive for pot.
Right. Because it's not a performance-enhancing drug.
No. And all it does is just bring up your league in connection with somebody doing something illegal.
Right. So, like, from the league side, I don't know why the NFL tests for it besides the fact that it's just a bargaining chip.
Yeah. Well, I think the reason why the NFL is so impactful when they come down on someone who fails a test is because they only get one test.
So they know going into training camp they're going to get that one test. That's how it used to be when I first came in the league where we'd get that one pre-sense test, and it wasn't like they were promoting smoke, but they just wouldn't test for it the rest of the year.
In the NBA, we get four random tests. So, like, I could hypothetically still be in the – because we can get tested up until the finals, so I could be in the playoffs right now, smoke today, and possibly be tested tomorrow.
So it's really kind of like a random thing. But like I said, first time is you just going to the program um for 90 days no one's supposed to know i think that's a lot they probably tell your team second time is a 25 000 fine and they're supposed to now they act like you have like a real life problem like you're an act or something right and then the third time is supposed to be a five game suspension so luckily i retired before i got to the five games so you were fined a lot though, though, in your career.
Yeah, I got fined for that. A lot of things.
Really, I lost a lot of money sticking up from my teammates, to be honest with you. And I think the only person to ever pay for one of my fines was Kobe.
Really? Yeah, I protected a lot of dudes on my team because I grew up, you know, that family is everything. So my dad used to teach me, you know, if your brother and sister are going to fight, you fight.
Even if they win, you fight. It's your family.
So I always took my teammates as my family. Right.
So no one was ever directly – maybe early on, I think people would try me to see what I was about. But once I kind of knew that trying me was you were going to be in a war, they stopped.
Okay, so I have two follow-up questions to that because it's interesting that you say it's like family. You also on a ton of teams so what was it like when you're maybe have bad blood with a guy or shit talk a guy and then the next year you're his teammate you know what's what's what's weird about that is i think i think early on you kind of get you kind of judge people before you know them and you know when you play against them and then getting the chance to know like jj reddick i didn't i didn't thought jj reddick was a dickhead you know i mean just straight up until i got a chance to play with them and one of the coolest dudes i've ever met and still friends to this day so i think you know i have other stories where guys i just thought were a certain way probably like people kind of think i'm a certain way and then they meet me like oh this dude's kind of chill he's cool you know what i mean so you know whether we had bad bud the past, but we weren't teammates once we were teammates, we were family.
And then the other question off of that is, do you think that, like, that enforcer, bad boy, whatever you want to call it, role, has kind of gone away in the NBA? Because it feels like it has. There's not a lot of guys you can point to like, don't go with that guy.
Yeah, I think it has. I think the physicality as a whole is kind of like on a powder puff flag football level right now, which is unfortunate.
But I understand where the NBA is going. They want to see more scoring, so they kind of take the defense and the physicality out of the game and call a bunch of fouls.
So, you know, the people who really just enjoy playing defense and enjoy physical play, like that game is kind of long gone. Right.
Who is your favorite player to to shit talk you know you know the one thing about me is I never really was a shit like I'm just gonna shit talk you like if you start talking shit to me I'll talk back right I was never like I always just because I have I was I grew up a football player so my mentality was just to always play hard no matter what no matter who I was you know because I was always guarding the best player so it was never really like like a back and forth like shit talking situation. You know, Kobe and I got in a couple scuffles and that's how we kind of ended up becoming teammates because he's just like, you know, anyone crazy enough to fuck with me is crazy enough to be my teammate.
You know, so that's how we became teammates. I'm glad you brought up Kobe because I need to get to the bottom of something.
So for years and years, we all thought that you put that ball in Kobe's face and he didn't flinch a bit. And then about a year ago we got some alternate angles some new information came to light.
Who is digging up that kind of stuff? I don't know. Service journalism.
And it looks from the other angle like he, it's not like the ball was right in his face. You kind of pump faked it to the side and he he didn't move his head.
What is your recollection? The ball was right in his face. Yeah? You put that in his face on purpose.
Yeah. So you got punked.
I guess if he didn't, you know what I mean? The thing that happened was, like, we were just going back and forth, and that was later in the season going into the playoffs. And Orlando and the Lakers had just played in the finals the year before.
So it kind of like okay we're you know we're strapping up to see these guys in the finals and playing against kobe since i was at ucla he's just he tries to mentally take over i mean he's already physically more gifted than anyone else but he tries to mentally kind of like mind fuck you type stuff and so he'll do little elbow you grab you cheap shots and i just and i kept for some reason getting called for I'm just like, man, we're about to fight. Fuck the game, whatever.
We're about to go at it. And it was just something that happened.
It wasn't like, all right, I'm going to fake the ball in his face type situation. I just did it.
You know what I mean? So the fact that he didn't flinch, he's probably the only person in the world that probably wouldn't flinch, probably him and Mike Tyson. And he just didn't flinch.
Was that embarrassing for you? Like I said, it wasn't something that I planned or even thought about, so I didn't even think about it at the time that he flinched. Right.
You know what I mean? It didn't even cross my mind. You know, after the game, and it's been talked about for the last 10 years, you know, realizing that, you know, if I fake something at your guy over here, he might flinch.
Hank will definitely flinch. Well, it's because it's become a gift, and it lives on forever.
Right, you know what I mean? But the fact that I put a ball right in his face and he didn't flinch is just, like I said, he's one of the rare ones. So on Kobe, you mentioned earlier that he was the only teammate of yours to pay one of your fines.
That's really interesting because Kobe doesn't feel like that type of teammate. every story about kobe is he's maybe surly he's very competitive he's you know it's kobe's way and he's kind of isolated similar to michael jordan but it sounds like you guys had a deeper

relationship yeah kobe and i were cool man i think once we became teammates and got to see

him on a day-to-day basis and just chat him up he's real cool and real down to earth and very

personable but i just think he gives off this persona as just a straight killer which he is

I'm going to go to the next one. got to see him on a day-to-day basis and just chat him up he he's real cool and real down to earth and very personable but i just think he gives off this persona as just a straight killer which he is you know i mean but if you're able to kind of peel the layers back very cool i mean for an example he's you know i took my my twins turned 10 last november and uh you know he he worked them out for for their birthday you know i mean so i took him out to orange county and surprised them and little stuff like that then after that he sent their whole team shoes and warm-ups and all that kind of stuff so kobe is a real cool dude i just think the persona he puts off uh was always just you know it's game time type situation but when he's chilling he's chill what is kobe like as a personal trainer for 10 year olds i gotta expect that he's incredible incredible you know i mean like the little skill work they were doing and then he made him run at the end and one of the twins didn't want to when he made him and i loved it you know what i mean? Like the little skill work they were doing, and then he made them run at the end, and one of the twins didn't want to, and he made them, and I loved it.
You know what I mean? So it was just his attention to detail. It doesn't waver no matter how old you are, and I think that's great.
So have you ever looked back at all the fines that you had and like counted them up? Yeah, I think. Well, someone else did it for me.
I think it was like around $600,000. Damn.
Crazy. That sucks.
Ridiculous. That sucks.
Where does that money go?

That's what I want to know.

I feel like if you're taking my money, you're going to take it,

I should be able to say where I should be able to pick the charitable cause or send it to my charitable cause.

Who knows where that money went?

David Stern's pockets.

Was there a specific ref that you knew was going to be like,

oh, this guy does not like Matt Barnes. It's going to be on tonight.
Because there's a lot of stuff about, you know, the Rockets had their whole thing with the refs. Yeah, Scott Foster, yeah, he's a dick.
He's always been, he's just really arrogant. But I just think overall, you know, I think, you know, you earn a reputation, whether good or bad, and I earned that reputation.
So my fuse with the refs wasn't very good. I think the further along I got in my career it improved because I got to know him on a first name basis and really talk to him but um I wouldn't change anything it's just I'm that competitive while I'm playing so if I get a tee here and there I'm not tripping right so you said you played football what position were you I was a receiver so I was football is actually my first sport I was recruited by everyone to play football I led the nation touchdowns I was all American my senior year um i just looked at longevity and figured okay if i got a chance to go pro probably it would last longer basketball and then i guess you made the right choice right yeah yeah so it's interesting because i would definitely describe your style of play as if you're in a college gym and you see the basketball team come in and play pickup again yeah yeah i guess yeah the football team comes in to play like a little shoot around against the basketball team yeah like very physical not like you're you're not uh shooting the lights out even though I think you're a pretty good shooter right but they just get in there and they just go to play hard yeah they go to work you know I mean like I grew I played tackle football on the streets when I was little you know my dad you know made it all the way up the ranks and was cut by the 49ers so football came first basketball didn't really come around until I played tackle football on the streets when I was little.
You know, my dad, you know, made it all the way up the ranks and was cut by the 49ers. So football came first.
Basketball didn't really come around until I played here and there. But I started taking it serious like in junior high, going into high school.
But football was from the jump. And I just think that that mentality, that toughness, that mindset is what I just played my whole career.
And I think it helped me throughout my career, obviously, you know, being able to last as long as I did. Yeah.
Were for kevin durant going to golden state how'd you guys so i was talking yeah there was yeah him and i were talking i remember i remember because i was with uh you know the clippers and he was with okc and we'd always battle and i used to always just tell him you know the only person in the world could stop you is russell westbrook yep you know i mean your team 2014 you said that i used to tell him yeah i used to tell him that all the time Yeah. Yes.
And then we started talking, and he's just like, you know, where are you going to go? And I'm just like, let's go to the Warriors. You know what I mean? And then obviously.
He's like, that thing he told me in 2014. I've been thinking about it for three years.
So obviously, you know, I think Draymond and Steph got involved, and I think you can play, said two or three words. But at the end of the day, they just ran out of money.
Right. You know what I mean? So it was crazy because then I'd end up signing the three-year deal with Sacramento.
They trade Boogie and prove that they're not trying to win no more. And, you know, I told Vlade, like, you know, I don't have too much time to help rebuild.
So they basically bought me out. And KD gets hurt, like, the day after I get bought out.
And I end up in Golden State. Did you ever bring that up, that you said that to them? No.
Like I said, I mean, we're cool, so we talk about a lot of stuff. But I think, you know, whether I was the one that turned on the light bulb or he already had a hit in his head, I just thought that he would be dope with Golden State.
Yeah. Were you surprised with how quickly he fit in at Golden State? I think because he's a special – he's a selfless superstar.
You know what I mean? I think you could tell that with Russell Westbrook.ok obviously he should have been the one taking most of the shots all the time but it wasn't really that was the case and i think with golden state too i think people don't understand like you know stephan clear playing so amazing now that kd went down but with the team that's that loaded everyone has to kind of take a step back and obviously kd is is the best player in the world so he doesn't take as much of a step back but you know other guys do but he's selfless you, so he can kind of fit in and blend in anywhere and be just as effective as you need to be. You also keep in touch with all those guys because I saw that you, when KD and Draymond got into that fight that they had that I think Draymond ended up getting suspended by the team, you texted both of them, right? And what did you think, like, what went wrong there in that part of their relationship it's hard to say not being there but i just think you know knowing draymond he he we're very similar from a standpoint you know we play with our heart on our sleeve and we're we're emotional and we lead by example but also you know we have the ability to tell anybody anything because i think we play so hard that people respect that.
You know, I was never the most talented or highest-paid player on my team, but when I spoke, guys listened because I just played so hard. I think it's similar to Draymond, you know what I mean? So, you know, his gift is his curse sometimes of being too passionate and over-the-top, and obviously the things he said is, you know, not things you should probably say to another grown man, especially a teammate.
Right. You know, which would probably rub KD the wrong way.
But I think at the end of the day, KD knew Dre well enough to understand that what he said was messed up. He shouldn't have said it.
Obviously he apologized or whatever. But, you know, it's not something that's going to hold up this championship train.
Right. Since you know that whole crew, do you think that KD is going to want to come back or do you think he's out? I don't know, man.
You hear a lot. You hear speculations of him and Kyrie coming out here.
You hear him and Kawhi going to the Clippers. And then, to me, why not just win as many championships as possible with that team? So I think the only thing that can possibly detour him, and this is something we don't really talk about, but I'm saying no matter what he does with Golden State, it's going to be Steph's team, Steph's legacy.
Could you feel that? You know, he was the one drafted there, and Steph is kind of like the golden child of the NBA. You know what I mean? He should be.
But I just think if there was anything that kind of maybe, maybe not wanting to wouldn't even say bother him, but just kind of I want to do it on my own type situation, I think that would be the only thing because, like I said, they win three in a row, they win four, they win five. This is Steph Curry's team, and, you know, they were fortunate enough to get KD.
Right. And you mentioned Klay earlier.
They'd throw in a few words. I'm fascinated by Klay because every time he gets hot, it's like – Incredible.
I actually think it's more fun to watch than Stafford or KD or anything. Than anybody.
Because it's almost like an unconscious level where he's not even thinking. He's not dribbling.
He's not going to – all he's doing is shooting the ball from anywhere and it's going in. And he has those shots where the rim – I mean the net doesn't even move.
It's incredible. What type of guy is Clay? Clay is super cool.
Down to earth, chill.

You know, once you get him to open up funny in his own way

without kind of trying to be funny, just a funny dude.

And just really go with the flow.

And I don't think people, most people do,

but some people don't know how important he is to that team

because you got to think every single game,

he's the one taking the other players, you know, the best guard,

which is, you know, saving Steph's legs to have these 40 and 50 point games

and 33 points and a half because Steph is, you know,

Thank you. That is a good question.
I know. You know, it's hard.
I mean's hard i mean i loved playing in la but there's so much to do in la um the bay was amazing even the first time around when i was in the bay when we you know we only made the first we won the first round that we believe team but the support there was insane so i would probably say the bay yeah i'd probably I say probably say the Bay. Okay.
I want to do something with you here because you played for so many teams for so many years that you have maybe the best resume of teammates. So I'm going to list them by position, and if you can tell me who's the best in that position, and if you have a story about any of these guys, throw it out there.
So point guard, youh curry steve nash chris paul and baron davis and alan iverson and alan iverson well i put him under shooting guard but yeah okay yeah best pure score steph okay um best all-around point guard i ever played with baron davis really when he's healthy question. If Baron Davis would have had a healthy career, he'd be talked about as one of the greats.
There's no question about that. Okay.
Allen Iverson was a killer. You know, someone so small being able to do what he did and go against Giants.
You know, Steve was just the ultimate get my guys going first and pick and choose my spots. And then Chris Paul is probably one of the most competitive people next to Kobe that I've ever played with.
Okay, so shooting guard we'll skip over because you already talked about Clay and Kobe. Small forward Kevin Durant and Paja.
Paja, 6'10", which just shoots that thing. But, you know, Kevin Durant to me is the best player in the world right now and will probably go down as one of the most efficient effective offensive players we've ever seen do you think he's online too much no i don't mind it you know i mean i think it's hard to judge situations like that because we hear and see everything even though people think we're super busy and then you shouldn't pay attention block it out but until you have everyone talking shit to you or everyone trying to pull, you never really know how you're going to react.
And I'm someone that obviously not on Katie's level, but when people come at me about family or my kids or something, I'll shoot right back at them. You know what I mean? To me, I didn't agree with the burner account.
To me, if you're going to say it, just say it from your account. People think they can say anything to us because we're on a certain level, which is not because at the end of the day we're all men.
We're all human. So I don't mind him being online.
I agree with you. I think most players, they have to look at some of that criticism.
It's impossible to escape it. And his only crime was kind of getting caught responding to it when a lot of people, they just pretend like they don't see it and they're like, oh, I can't respond.
But then that bubbles up inside you and creates like different problems right well i used to like go online and look for people talking trash before games to kind of get motivated i like that because you know i was the one you know on the other team that i always got it was funny because i'd get booed everywhere we went and my kids started traveling with me at the end they're like daddy why do you always get booed i'm just because it's like you know daddy and my kids liked the time. I was like, Daddy's like the Undertaker going against Hulk Hogan every time.
Like, they boo me because I do a good job, you know, because they don't like me because I'm going to do. I'm going to try to go beat up their best player, so to speak, or lock their best player down.
Like, oh, OK, so they boo you because you're good. I'm like, yeah, they boo me because I do a good job.
That's a good way to spin it. You know, so it just kind of is what it is.
All right. Power forwards loaded.
Pow, Amari Stoudemire, Chris Webber, Blake Griffin, and Draymond. Now, let me just tell you right now, we're personal friends with Blake Griffin, so you better say something nice about him.
No, VG is my big cat. It's my guy.
Did you just call him big cat? Big cat. That's his nickname.
Oh, fuck. Wow.
Yeah. I'm going to have to have words with him about that.
Chris Weber should be a Hall of Famer, 2010 guy, very skilled. Blake, probably one of the most incredible athletes I've ever been around and probably has the fullest package out of all those guys, which can do.
What are you talking about, package? It kind of sounded But being able to do everything. You know what I mean? Towels off? Nah.
Okay. Good for you, Blake.
Being a point forward to be on a shoot, to be able to pass, to be able to post up, play defense. Blake probably had it all.
Who else did you say, Chris? Yeah, Amari and Draymond and Powell. Amari was a monster.
Did you ever get in a wine bath with him? Never. Never got in a bath with no other man.
Amari was a monster. When he first came in the league, he was taking over.
Did Pow smell? Pow looks like a guy who smells. I didn't sniff Pow.
I mean, some Euros I play with, man, they would get in the shower and be out the fucking shower before the water hit them. Like, you make too much money to be smelling like a bum's nutsack.
Paja. Paja seems like that.
Pau is very talented, very skilled, very skilled. And then Draymond.
Draymond is the ultimate glue guy. I don't think people realize how important he is to that franchise.
You know, you can lose certain pieces and still be okay, but he holds everyone accountable. Just a real blue-collar worker that has mastered that point-forward position.
Yeah. All right, last up, center Dwight Howard, Marc Gasol, and DeMarcus Cousins.
It's crazy how many good players you play with. And Shaq.
Boogie's the most skilled big man I ever played with. Temperamental? Yes, but I love that about him.
Okay. And I think going to Golden State for many reasons was the best thing in his career because he's never been on a winning team in the professional ranks.
So I think to see how you act day to day as a winner and a professional, I think that will help him mature. Shaq, I got to battle against Shaq when he was Shaq, but when I played with him, he was Shaq and Phoenix, and he was kind of on the backside.
Great guy. Yeah, great guy.
The biggest seven-foot child I ever met, like a practical joker to the utmost. Did you ever see his feet? Horrible feet.
Oh, shit. Horrible feet.
LeBron's got bad feet, too. Horrible feet.
Bobby Jackson probably has the worst feet I've ever seen. His toenails are the same color as his black table right here, and they're three inches thick.
You need a chainsaw to cut them things. Oh, fuck.
So you said so. And Marc Gasol.
Marc Gasol, very skilled, big, very intelligent. He throws his ass into you when he's boxing you out.

Big, too. You don't realize how big he is.
Yeah. I mean, just going through that list of people, it's impressive.
How many teams did you play for? Eight teams, and I played for a couple teams twice. Eight teams.
At what point when you get to a new town do you think it's okay for me to lay down some roots here? um to me i i never really got a chance to really show my full potential i think until i played with the clippers where i was consistently playing all the time and i was playing at the end of the games and i was you know kind of known for a three and d kind of guy um i laid down roots where i liked you know i mean so i no matter what i always had somewhere a place in la and i always had a place up north whether that was Sacramento the bay so it's still the same now I have a house in LA and a house in the bay so those are the only places I really felt because I'm a straight California dude so if I ever had to play at a state it was always temporary right I was I was reviewing some film on you earlier today and the scuffle that you got into the fight you got into with Ray for Alston uh-huh when you were on the. He was on the Rockets.
That fight included you, Steve Nash, Rafer Alston, Tracy McGrady, and Shaq coming in, pushing people around. But I was mostly impressed with Steve Nash being like five foot eleven.
He pulled like the Van Gundy and the Larry Johnston and Alonzo Mourning. He just held on to his foot.
So can you walk us through what happened in that fight and then like the aftermath? You know, like we said earlier, how long did it take you to bury the hatchet if you ever did after that? It was just he hit me with the cheap shot. He hit me in the balls the time before down.
So the next time he tried to set a screen, I tried to just run him over like a football player and I didn't get to run him all the way over i kind of just was able to kind of throw an elbow at him and then just the unfortunate thing in the nba and with me is if you throw the first punch you're going to get

fined heavy so i was always i was ready to fight but i wouldn't want to throw the first punch

especially with me the first of all they probably tried to put me in jail but i know that's like a

six-figure fine for me right so i figure if i get someone if i'm going to fight someone and they

swing first and retaliation is i got to protect myself but that was crazy because uh you know it was just a lot of chest bumping and pushing but like when shack pushed the whole pile of like 10 people it was crazy like shack pushed one person like the whole momentum of the pile like it went towards the stands like shack is just so big and powerful it was crazy but i've been knowing Rayford for a long time because my AU team was based out of Fresno when he was out that way. So it was never like a if I see you again type shit.
It just never went that far. You know what I mean? So nothing's been spoke of since.
Okay. So my last question, SeatGeek question, put in promo code TAKE.
You get $10 off your SeatGeek purchase. Speaking of beefs, are you still – where are you at with Derek Fisher? Fate on site? No, no.
Like I said, the fight had to go down. To me, people don't really understand the situation.
Like I divorced my ex-wife, and then she was hurt, mad. I think she was kind of at the similar place in our relationship with me.
Just kind of, I think we both realized like the ships had sailed. So I just took the first step and divorced her.
And then whether it was spite, vengefulness, whatever the situation was, she ends up messing with him. But I don't hear about it.
And to me, I know that once we're done, she done she's gonna find someone else but i think from a standpoint of you know if we're teammates right at least have the respect to come say something to me you know what i mean so i think that's fair i didn't agree so i mean i didn't agree so much with him dating my ex-wife but what really pissed me off was he was living staying in my house with my kids you know what i mean so to me everyone knows how important my kids are so and he has twins that are a year or two older than my kids so like just if this role is reversed which i would never do but you know imagine me just kind of going playing dad with your kids you know what i mean like that shit's not right to anyone so that's what uh prompted me to um you know put a couple hands on him um driving 95 right so and that's another lie. So Kanye rapped about that shit, but I didn't.
I mean, it blew up. Yeah, I drove 90 miles.
No, I drove from Marina del Rey to Redondo Beach. It was like 15 minutes.
Oh, okay. So it wasn't, yeah.
Short ass kicking. It wasn't, yeah, but somehow I drove 90 miles, and it's urban legend.
It's a lot funnier to think about it. Right, to think that I'm going and a half hour and 45 minutes you got to fill up gas right you grabbed like a mountain dew on the way a lot of energy like really thought about it injected into my veins got a couple like bags of combos on the road changing radio station staying mad so what well actually what what kind of squashed it for me it was you know he's still with my ex and they're planning to get married.
And I have no problem with them the best. But after that happened, my kids liked him.
Derek was cool outside of the snake move he pulled on. To me, he was a cool teammate, someone responsible.
And to me, that's someone I would want my kids around. If you're going to go out there, I want someone that I know will take care and keep my kids' priority first.
But my kids are like, Dad, we really like Derek Derek and we think you guys should become friends. So it was to a standpoint where we wouldn't say nothing because I would come home in the offseason.
He was with my ex. So he would be at their football games and their basketball games.
And it was just awkward. Like I would come in, he would leave or I'd come in.
He'd have his head down the whole time, like never just come say nothing to me. So after one of their football games, like all the parents are walking back to the car and it's my turn to take the twins from my ex so we have to go get a bag from her car and Derek is kind of like please don't kick my ass 15 feet behind us just kind of walking slow and I'm just like yo come here for a second and everyone kind of like right fight him again and I just kind of pull them to the side and kind of basically explain what I you know to me messing with my wife, it's whatever.
You know what I mean? But you being around my kids and not telling me was the reason why we got into this altercation. And he said his little piece, and we shook hands, and we've been cool ever since.
That's awesome. Yeah, I wish them nothing but the best.
Yeah, I wish them nothing but the best. Yeah.
All right, my last question. Since you played in the NBA, we're contractually obligated to ask you a LeBron question.
Okay. Do you think people don't want to play with LeBron James? Because he's an alcoholic? No, no, no.
Sorry, we don't say that. I don't know.
You know what I mean? Like, every time you hear it, it's from a source or someone close to. You know what I mean? If you don't want to, like, I find it hard to believe.
I think the only thing, superstars are different. I've never been a superstar, so I can't think like a superstar.
But I know some superstars are kind of ego-driven you know playing with lebron no matter how good you are it's going to be his team so i think that would be the only knock with some guys holding the back like talent wise because he's on the back side of his career still one of the better players he's not the best to me he's not the best player anymore so you play with someone like kd or you have a kawaii play with him guys that are better than him but it's still lebron's team. I don't know if that bothers guys or not.
But like I said, I can't really – to me, he's obviously one of the greatest players of all time, top three. Him, Kobe, and MJ are all in that mix to me.
Past first guy who's top ten on the scoring list and the assist list. I would have loved to play with someone like LeBron.
But like I said, I was a role player, so I can kind of fit in anywhere. But as far as other stars trying to play with them, I mean, that would be the only thing I can think of.
But most of the time, I think people just try to create stuff to talk about to kind of rain on the parade. Hand up.
I mean, that's literally our job. That's part of the game.
LeBron gives us like 25% of our confidence. Yeah, no, I mean, a lot comes with being one of the greatest.
Yes, it's true. All right, Matt Barnes, thank you so much.
This is a ton of fun. No problem, man.
Thanks for having me, fellas. We're going to get right back to the show.
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You're going to want to watch Monday's episode on video, and you can do it at BarstoolGold.com slash PMT. Okay, first up locker room talk lamar odom he had sex with 2 000 women not that much when you think about wilt but he got addicted to porn so much that he got he got to the end of the internet he watched every porn video on the internet so he kissed the wall and came back at the time yes that's super impressive to do so he he is like the wilt chamber own hand.
Right. He jerked off his own penis 20,000 times.
I kind of feel bad for Lamar Odom. Yeah.
Yeah, I guess. I don't know.
I guess as... All right, let me rephrase that.
I feel as bad for Lamar Odom as bad as you could feel for a man who's had sex 2,000 times and watched every porn video on the internet. And made millions and millions of dollars.
Yes. Probably squ yeah yeah probably probably i was just thinking about it i was like those go hand in hand kind of thing when you almost die at the bunny ranch when you do die at the bunny ranch and come back uh that would lead me to believe that you're not making the most financial in the on decision yeah and the encore is watching every porn video yeah but he's but he's okay and he's telling the tale about it.
Just wrote a book. Okay, so maybe he's got the money again.
Yeah, have to get a nice little advance out of that. Enough to go visit that bunny ranch.
This is a wild thing to just throw out there. 2,000 times, 2,000 different women is a lot.
I'm doing the math right now of how many times I've had. I would have to live to be, how old was Moses? 450 years old.
Yeah, about his age. I don't even think that would do it.
Yeah, probably. Because you'd be old.
Yeah. Well, but at some point you get so old that it's a novelty.
You get famous for being old. True.
And then you can find girls that have any sort of fetish if you're famous enough. Like a circus act.
Come fuck the old guy. Exactly.
Yeah, that actually worked for Hugh Hefner

for the last 20 years of his life.

Yep, and at some point in your life,

you would get rich

if you lived to be 400 years old,

I would assume.

Yeah, I would say so.

You just play the lottery every day.

Just buy a shitload of penny stocks,

play the lottery every day.

You're going to strike it rich.

Buy Bitcoin.

You're going to have a solid

five to six months in there somewhere.

Right.

And then at that point,

you make up all the lost money. Get hot.
Yeah, you're going to be gambling hot for a couple months. All right, we have a respect the biz at Bethpage Black.
Oh, on Long Island, in Long Island? On. In.
Inside Long Island. A lot of people mad about that.
Don't care. I tried to tell PFT in real time.
That's something I don't care about. In Long Island? Wait, you're in line and you're...
So you're in Long Island too. I can't do this.
I can't do these things. I say, we were in Long Island.
We're standing in Long Island interviewing Brooks Koepka. We're inside the island.
Yes. I don't care.
Either way. What were we even talking about? We're talking about the setup that the PGA Championship has for journalists.

Let's say you're swimming in the ocean, and you swim, and you get onto the shore.

Right.

Would you say you're in the shore?

No, you're down the shore.

Yeah.

No, I'm on the shore.

I'm standing on the shore.

You're on the island.

No, you're down the shore, Hank.

You're in the ocean, and you're swimming too long on the island, and you get onto the water.

You are now on.

Wait, wait.

No, you're in the water.

You're in the water, and you get onto the shore. Yep.
Onto the beach. No, you're in the water.
Onto the island. You get down the shore.
You're on Long Island. No, because when you get in the shore...
To an island. But we took a train there.
If I had swam there, then you're right. I would have been on the island.
Bridges? No. Do you know about bridges? Yeah, but we took a train there, so I was...
Yeah, we know about bridges. I was always on there.
You're acting like. I was in there.
You can't take a bridge to an island. Yes, you can.
Exactly. I went into Long Island.
All right. We didn't land in Long Island.
Long Island landed in us. This sucks.
I know that people like this. I bet you this is like a whole BuzzFeed quiz.
Are you in or on Long Island? 27 times you've been in Long Island but been wrong. Which verb are you? Take our quiz.
All right. So they had media tent massages.
Fuck that. Whatever.
I'm off of Long Island. That's it.
Yeah, I'm off of it. You're out.
You're out of Long Island. All right.
This one's big, though. Thoughts and prayers to Colin Coward.
Colin Coward is constantly going after Baker baker mayfield now he's going after baker mayfield's wide receiver and odell beckham he did top 10 plays uh of odell beckham's career and it was just top 10 moments moments and it was nine things of odell beckham just freaking out and then the catch yeah the boat i think was number two okay the hotel room was something like number four so

he's trolling he's he's trolling he was making the argument like i don't know if we can consider him a generational talent right if my dumb ass brain only remembers nine weird things right so only problem with colin coward doing that is odo beckham's got receipts and colin coward texted Odell Beckham when he was traded to the Browns and said, Congrats, emoji prayer, which did not think Coward was an emoji guy. And Odell Beckham said, Crazy, and then Coward said, Kick ass, I'm rooting for you.
That's a funny way to root for somebody. To just trash them? It was like the Price is Right, not the Price is Right board, the Family Feud board.
So he turned it into a game show of how many things he can name about Odell Beckham that don't include him rooting for him. I like seeing that, and then Baker jumped in too.
Went off on him. He said, once again you're a clown, now I know you're just trying to get me fired up.
Most memorable moments, he's 26 and his greatest moments are ahead of him you forget the

kids and people he inspires that goes much further than football he did a rico bosco there's bigger there's some things bigger than sports yeah i like that by baker some things are bigger than football buddy that's powerful um i'm just going to do some of my top 10 colin coward moments off the top of my head okay uh when he said that sean taylor deserved to get murdered okay after he got How about when he said Puerto Rican people are stupid and can't manage baseball teams? Yeah, that was another good one. How about when he got his shit pushed in by LeVar Ball? Ooh, that was good.
How about when he dyed his hair after he moved to Hollywood and tried to pretend that he didn't? That's a good one, too. So those are three great memories of Colin Cowher that we have just off the top of our head.
Oh, and I have one more, actually, PFT, because this one is just I'm going to roast Colin Coward by reading Colin Coward's words back to him. Okay.
Nike is so upset with Zion staying with Pelicans. They're changing their slogan to just don't do it.
That's fucking good. So, Colin Coward, I just use your words against you, you loser.
Yeah. We're firing up.
We're firing today. I'm fired up about Colin Coward.
I feel like I have an oxygen mask. I don't like the little, how your nose turns up at the end.
What? Oh, Colin Coward? Yeah. I was like, what is...
No, Colin Coward, you could jump a ski person off that thing. I could catch 40 meters off Colin Coward's nose.

Cow turd.

We'll be in LA if you want to talk to us man to man.

Yeah, a little rat nose.

We should show up to us.

Come on the podcast.

Yeah, come on the podcast.

Hey, everyone tweet Colin Coward.

Come on the podcast if you're a man.

Why don't we just show up at the Fox Sports Studios with a desk that says,

Colin Coward sucks.

Change my mind.

Come on the podcast, Colin Coward.

Change our mind.

We will do a different top ten for you when you come on the podcast.

It'll be the same things in different order, though.

Yeah, right.

Your nose is going to be number one.

We're just saying with a British accent.

All right, last up before we get to FAQs and Game of Thrones,

we just had a quick This League because J-Butt posted an Instagram

that said it was a heart emoji. It said, to philly and my teammates thank you heart heart so he's gone you think that's what that means well no everyone freaked out like oh my god jimmy but was already gone yeah i think he's just saying thanks for a good season he just said thanks philly they didn't say like the wait was there a plane emoji check his bio is there a plane emoji in his bio that means that he's, well, he does travel a lot.
It says, to Philly and my teammates, thank you. But it was all caps, thank you.
Okay, no plane emoji in the bio. No plane emoji.
So he has not taken off yet. He seems like a guy that would update that thing a lot.
Has he deleted any pictures of him with his Sixers teammates? No, because he has none. Okay, none.
Oh, interesting. Here's a fun fact about jay butt he's got more pictures with mark walberg's daughter than he does with joelle and beat interesting very interesting so yeah everyone freaked out i don't know who i kind of want the bulls to resign jimmy baule so they can just be like mediocrely shitty again yeah it'd be kind of funny yeah and we can just debate get this how good he is get out of the lottery for the next next 10 years.
Why not? Just go back in time. Just good enough to not get in there.
Sometimes you have to go back to move to exactly where you were, which is second round losing in a five-game series. And bring Derrick Rose back, too.
Yeah, why not? Get the band back together. Alright.
FAQs, Game of Thrones spoilers. Spoiler alert.
We're going to do Game of Thrones preview. Yeah, I like that we're calling it spoilers and the fact that we're predicting what's going to, because we're going to be so right.
Right. So we don't actually know anything, but we do, we're going to be right probably.
Well, no, Hank will be wrong, but I'll be right. FAQ, what are your work schedules for days when you record the show versus when you don't? Do you do more prep for football season or non-football season? Special shout out to future dad cat.
Love you guys. I think we do more television watching during football season, obviously, because we're watching football all day.
So a lot of times we'll be in the office doing that. That's prep.
That's major eye prep for us. On NBA and NHL playoff nights, we record like around midnight.
Right now now it's 12, 20 a.m. So, yeah, I would say most days that we record, we come in a little later, stay a lot later.
And then Monday, Wednesday, Friday, I usually pick like two days, Monday, Wednesday. Out of Monday, Wednesday, or Friday, I'll leave at like four, which is always like, whoa, this is normal.
Yeah. So we typically get in the office about anywhere between 10 and 11 yeah is that about right 10 and 11 yeah and then till midnight on days that we record what was the oh yeah we prep the same amount all year that's maximum prep because we love you no days off no days off we even prep on mondays wednesdays and fridays we do simulated shows yes put the tape on the rug.
Yeah. We run plays.
Hypothetical question for Big Cat. Uh-oh.
If there were to be beef between A-Rod and J-Lo versus Jay Cutler and Kristen Cavallari, whose side would you choose? A-Rod and J-Lo. You don't have a financial relationship with the Cutlers.
Jay Cutler has not responded to my texts in eight months. If he responded to my texts, it would get a little bit more difficult.
I'll admit that. What if it was one of Chris and Calvallari's children that sneezed on you on the train? That would be a problem.
That would be an issue. That would be an issue.
Vaccinate your kids. Yes.
FAQ. If Jay Cutler texted me back, then I'd probably be like, I like i love you dude what if jay cutler said i'd be right back i'd fall right back into that trap what if he said hey i'm a big fan of yours i'm sorry we're best friends again if you don't vaccinate your kids uh i'd probably say no okay i definitely say strong old man ties into this question as huge sports fans do you guys ever sit back and think how surreal it is that your platform has allowed you to meet so many professional athletes and even have close relationships with some? Yes.
I think it's surreal for them to be able to meet me. No, it is fucking weird.
It's very, very weird. And it's very rare.
Like, it's just all very weird. Yeah.
Because it's one of those things where if you think about it too much, it's going to really freak you out. Right.
It's like thinking about the universe sometimes. Right.
Just don't think about how vast that universe is. And I'm starting to freak myself out already and how infinitesimally small we are.
But, yeah, if you just don't think about it too much, then you're not going to psych yourself out. Yeah.
The one good thing is I feel like if we partied with the athletes, I think think it would get like bad do you know what i mean like if we were partying with our athletes that are friends it'd be like whoa dude do you think you're an athlete now we just have them on the pod and you know hang out with them when they're in town but don't like you know what i mean if we were at the club with blake griffin don't you think it'd be like, you think you're too cool?

I don't belong here right now.

I love Blake.

I'm just saying that's just a random example,

but it would be like, hey, you've overstepped where you should be here.

Yes, that's very fair.

FAQ, is it just me or is the audio quality of Electric Avenue on Fridays

a lot better than Mondays and Wednesdays?

That's called Friday.

Am I just crazy or is this an elaborate ploy to make Friday mornings better?

No, that's just your brain just putting on a sweet filter because you know it's the weekend. Yes, that's Friday.
Everything sounds better on the weekend. It actually is.
It's better? I edit Monday and Wednesday, so I have the Electric Avenue that I've always used. And then Liam will edit on Friday because of school scenes.
So he has a different... Whenever he downloaded the Electric Avenue, whenever he did it, I guess it's just higher quality.
Holy shit. That's insane.
The one that I've used is the one that I've used since the beginning. Can we upgrade it? No, I don't know.
I like having the Friday version a little bit different. Like a little treat.
Here, verbal meme. This guy's got a good ear.
Verbal meme, Monday and Wednesdays, Electric Avenue. Drake, Friday is Electric Avenue.
There you go. Drake, again.
That's crazy. That's crazy that that guy figured it out, too.
I thought for a second when Hank said that it was a different version, I thought that Hank wrote in the question to himself just so he could get that out there. No.
I think that person figured it out. So Mondays and Wednesdays, we use the Spotify version, and then Fridays, we use the title version.
No, Spotify is a good sponsor, so flip that. I mean, in theory, that's what you're saying.
Spotify is the one that's great. Okay, got it.
And then everything else is just. Is Tidal still around? I don't think so.
Yeah, no, it is. It is? Tidal's great.
For who? No free ads, but it's actually great. Okay.
Great rap interviews, good podcast. Whoa.
They have all their. This is an advertisement right now, but all their.
They use their masters. So it's like the, it's like the highest quality.
That's what PFT was saying.

It's like higher quality sounding music.

For audiophiles.

Yeah. Yeah.

And then you want to fuck music.

So this is just a bunch of Game of Thrones predictions now.

All the smoke clears at King's Landing.

Bran comes down from Winterfell, stands up out of his wheelchair and raises his arms

and shows he's the true Night King.

All of the dead rise and kill everybody and the screen cuts to black.

Is this someone else wrote it in?

Yeah, no.

Oh.

So, that's... stands up out of his wheelchair and raises his arms and shows he's the true Night King.
All of the dead rise and kill everybody, and the screen cuts to black. Is this someone else wrote it in? Yeah, no.
Oh. That'd be great.
That was me. I've been saying that I think Bran's playing possum in that wheelchair.
I think he's been able to walk this whole time. Okay, so Hank, I'm going to give you my real.
So let's start first. Do you hate this season? Everyone hates this season.
Yeah. I don't really care because I watched it so quickly that i didn't have to wait so i'm like whatever it's fine i was such a big john snow guy like the the episode when he they do the like reveal that he's uh rhaegar's son and that like shows him as a baby and then shows him getting king of the north like that was like the best maybe the best scene of all time like when they it his eyes, and then it's like he does the King of the North speech.

Well, you didn't see when Tony suffered Christopher. No, yeah, I didn't see that.

So I was all in on Jon Snow.

So the fact that they basically just made him.

He was probably going to die anyways because they got in a bad car accident.

We did say spoilers before all this.

Yeah, I mean, he was probably going to die,

but maybe the ambulance would have gotten there in time and saved him.

Chris was back on the H. But the worst part is Chris knew that Tony was doing it to him as he died, so it was like betrayal at the last moment.
That's fucked up. But yeah, I was a huge Jon Snow guy, so the fact that he's been a side character this whole season has kind of been disappointing.
What if it ends just by cutting to black as Ari is about to slit Bran's throat and then Journey starts playing? I don't understand the Bran thing. The Bran thing makes no sense to me.
The only reason that it makes sense to me is because all the betting sites have him as the favorite to do it. It makes no fucking sense.
I'll tell you, Hank. This is my prediction.
I've said that Jon Snow is going to kill Dany. Do we agree with that? I think Jon Snow is going to Dany and kill the dragon Team Targ Because he's gonna be like We can't have He's a Targ Yeah, because the dragon trusts him He's like, we can't have dragons in this world Look what they did to King's Landing He just got rid of ghosts He was so scared of what happened to King's Landing So So he kills Danny.
He kills the dragon. But he brings in the dragon, and the dragon trusts him.
And everyone's like, yo, dude, what's up with that? Are you a Targ? And then everyone's like, oh, shit, he's the rightful king. And he does his Jon Snow.
I don't want to be king and all that bullshit. And then they're like, well, we need a king.
And they elect Bran. How does Bran fucking get there? Because he knows all of history.
How does he get there? He's literally a walking – well, not walking, sorry. He is a rolling history book.
But the way Jon Snow is like, I don't want it. I don't want to be king.
When they say – like, Brandon Stark doesn't even identify as a Stark. Right.
Exactly. He's the perfect one for the realm.
He's no family. He's above everyone.
Who's Jon Snow's, like, ride or die? Who's the person that he trusts the most? Ghost. Sam.
Sam? Who's Sam? Which one's Sam? He's the nerdy fat guy. The fatty, yeah.
Who finally fucked. He is a nerdy fat dude.
So you think Jon Snow would just give the throne to that fat guy at the end? Maybe. Maybe.
But I think it's the brain. All the betting sites.
I think Arya's going to die, too. Yeah.
There's my prediction. Yeah, she seems like she's a likable enough character.
She's got a little bit of that spunk in her where she can get herself into some trouble. And that's going to be the big moment.
Well, she's on that white horse. Yeah, she's going to die.
I heard that the white horse was Bran. Ooh.
Because Bran can turn into different things. I think the writers have kind of fucked up this whole season that it probably is nothing.
It's just a white horse. That'd be pretty sweet if you were in a wheelchair and you could just turn into one of the fastest animals.
The best theory I read that, I don't think the writers could pull this off. Wow.
They can't pull any of this off. They already wrote it.
Bran warged into the dragon and was burning down King's Landing. Danny had no control, and Bran is secretly trying to get rid of Dany That's why he was the one that came forward With the truth about Jon's parentage He was the one that put that seed into the world That's Hank's spin zone on why His queen isn't actually bad It wasn't her fault The dragon became self aware No Bran warged into the dragon and fucking burned down King's Landing.
I'm telling you, this is exactly what's going to happen.

Jon Snow's going to kill Dany.

Arya's going to die.

I don't know how.

He's going to kill the dragon.

He's going to be like,

I don't want to be king.

I'm going to do Jon Snow.

And then Bran is going to be the king.

Okay.

That's my prediction.

What if at the very end of it,

just Pilgrim's Land,

just from England,

and then they get off

and then everybody gets all these diseases

because they didn't have...

Yeah, they're like, wait, hold on. This is our show now.
Yeah. And then it's off and then everybody gets all these diseases.
And they're like, they didn't have. Yeah, they're like, wait, hold on.

This is our show now. Yeah.
And then it's just a show about the Revolutionary War. Yeah, just it gradually transformed.
Eventually, Paul Giamatti comes out as John Adams. Yeah, I like that a lot.
I like that a lot. Okay, that's good.
Yeah. Isn't there enough Westeros to go around? For everyone? Yeah.
There's never enough. Everyone wants a piece.
Why can't they just lay down their arms?

Well, this is the war to end all wars.

They killed a dragon.

They said that before.

It would be tough.

Or Davos.

Dragon's dying, bro.

What if Wolf kills a dragon?

No.

Okay.

What if Wolf bites the dragon in...

Do dragons...

I think we've covered this.

Do they have dicks?

No.

Cloaca.

What if Wolf bites the dragon and it's part that kills it?

Can Wolf become king?

Dragon's not dying.

I don't know where we are right now.

Dragon's not dying.

Dragon's dying.

No.

Danny's dying.

Dragon's dying.

I don't know how the dragon's dying.

I think Jon Snow will.

But dragon's dying.

Danny's dying.

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