3X NBA Champ Rick Fox, Game 7's, And S8E5 “The Bells.” GoT Recap.

Hey, Pardon My Take listeners, you can find every episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube.

Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music.

On today's Pardon My Take, we have two Game 7s.

We have Steph Curry going Dracarious.

Dracarious.

You don't like it when I try to pronounce stuff.

I don't give a fuck.

We have Steph Curry going Dracarious against the Houston Rockets in front of your girl Dani. We'll do Game of Thrones recap at the end.
We have Rick Fox in studio. Very interesting interview with Rick Fox.
Who's back of the week and a Monday reading. A packed part of my take for you.
Before we get to all that though, it's time to talk about the Cash Card from the Cash App, the number one finance app in the App Store for a reason. The Cash Card is the most powerful debit card in the world and the only debit card with boosts, a money-saving feature you can't get anywhere else because the Cash App invented it.
Just select a boost in your Cash App, swipe the Cash Card, and save 10% or more at Whole Foods, Shake Shack, Chipotle, Chick-fil-Afil-a dominoes and coffee shops if you want to go organic without paying for it save 10 on every bag of groceries with the whole foods boost it's not hard to spend 50 at whole foods but it's easy to save five dollars if you do the coffee shop boost takes a dollar off at any coffee shop including duncan and starbucks you buy 200 cups a year you save 200 it's that simple become a part of the greatest rewards program ever and get boosted today and the cash app is bringing back a great initiative for our awls if you download the cash app and enter the referral code barstool you'll receive five dollars and they will donate and send five dollars to one of your favorite charities the aspca do it for the animals and be a lover download the cash app today and

enter code barstool get some money and save some animals okay let's go

Boy!

Boy!

Now in the street there is violence And then I love to start with work to be done

No place to hang out or wash in

And then I love stuff, work to be done No place to hang out, no washing

And then I can't leave all on the sun

Oh no

We're gonna rock down to Electric Avenue

And then we'll take it higher

Oh we're gonna rock down to Electric Avenue And then we'll take it higher Welcome to Part of My Take, presented by the Cash App, use code BARSKUL You get $5 and $5 to the ASPCA Today is Monday, May 13th, and Kawhi Leonard is a motherfucking killer.

He is.

He's a killer.

And he showed emotion after the game, too, which was crazy.

He hit that shot.

The quadruple doink.

The bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce.

We're going to go on the remix to ignition of baskets.

Listen, I'm not going to – yeah, a little problematic.

I'm not going to twist the knife here, but not so funny when you lose on a doink, huh, Philly? No. Nope, not so funny.
Payback. Yeah, Kawhi Leonard is that dude.
Unreal game. Game seven.
We have two game sevens to get to. We're going to get to Game of Thrones at the end.
We have Rick Fox, a packed show, but we're going to start with the one that ended the last, and that was the Toronto Raptors finally beating the curse of LeBron because LeBron's in the West and taking down the Sixers. And Kawhi Leonard is unbelievable.
It was great. It was an awesome ending to, I think, the least entertaining overall series because it just went back and forth, back and forth, back and forth.
This is the first really, really close game. And the end was just incredible because he hit that front rim and he hit the outside of the front rim.
Shooter's bounce. And it somehow carried the momentum.
Like, the ball curved in midair. I'm going to go back and do a Zapruder analysis of this because there had to be a second shooter.
The way that this ball just managed to defy the laws of physics to eventually land. That's the shot that your dad hits in horse, and he's like, shooter's bounce.
You're like, yeah, that's fucking bullshit. You know what? That's not a real thing.
You just have old, weak muscles. No, but the ball spins weird.
You just got to get high, the high arc. You just got to get the high arc and hope that the rims are nice to you.
So Kawhi Leonard, unreal game. The big question though, well, there's a bunch of questions coming from this game because that was actually the coolest moment is the balls in the air and like maybe four or five people's destiny is just hanging in the balance because Jimmy Butler James Butler well no Jimmy showed up tonight well he had that big layup at the end to tie the game so that Kawhi could rip their hearts out Tobias Harris free agent Brett Brown maybe uh the worst possessions I've ever seen a team run down the stretch Philly I think he they had three shot clock violations not in the last two and a half minutes.
That's tough when you're the coach. That is really tough to do, and it's really tough to not be able to draw up one single play.
Kawhi, will he be like, ooh, that was awesome. I want to stay in Toronto longer? Well, how does that work with Canadian dollars? Are they worth more? I know on the back of books I used to buy in elementary school, it always looked like the books were worth more in Canada.
Right. Because the loony? The loony? The loony is strong.
But all these questions now arise because of one ridiculous bounce off of a rim, and the Raptors now go to the Eastern Conference Final and feel like, hey, this is a good season. The Kawhi trade was worth it regardless because we've gotten a little bit further,

and guess what?

For the first time ever,

all those Canadians standing in that plaza

didn't cry on a live stream.

Yeah, it was good to see that.

Like, the lawn chairs were out,

the posters were out.

How big of an asshole do you have to be

to carry a poster to an event

where you're all standing outside

looking at a giant screen

and just be holding it up?

Like, so you're blocking the entire view

of the person behind you?

It's a very weird move.

But I'm happy for Canada.

It's this time of year

that they usually are just heartbreaking

Thank you. It's a very weird move.
But I'm happy for Canada. It's this time of year that they usually are just heartbreaking, like drowning in their tears in maple syrup because the Leafs are out, the Flames are always out.
The Leafs are usually out way before. All their hockey teams are out, and the Raptors have usually just lost at this point.
Yeah, it's a LeBron. Yeah, it's a foreign territory for them to have things to look forward to, and I'm very glad that they do.
Okay, so another big question we have. So we have the destiny of those people, the free agents, the coach for the Sixers, the process, Kawhi staying in Toronto.
The other big question coming out of that game, Embiid sobbing, sobbing, fair foul. I loved it because Embiid is that guy.
It would be weird if Ben Simmons sobbedbed it'd be weird if jimmy butler sobbed but imbeed feels like the guy who wears his heart on his sleeve he talks shit he when they lose it's heartbreaking like i actually appreciate when someone talks a lot of shit and is a very emotional guy and then when they lose he feels that emotion not like oh whatever i'm just gonna go back to tweeting funny things he was heartbroken he was a little bit so the crying on the court i was all in for the cameras catching him in the hallway i don't know if you saw this his girlfriend wiping tears off his eyes that felt like a little intrusive how tall him have his moment how tall is his girlfriend uh she's got to be yeah very very tall to reach his eyes yes it was well he was kind of laying down they've got his crying ladder that they bring out whenever he needs to be uh taken care of yeah i felt a little intrusive by the cameraman it is a little bit but i mean every other part of joel has been hurt this series so now his feelings are too yes but it's good to say like i do like athletes showing emotion in in games like totally it's good to know that they care you know as much as some of the fans do sometimes that's that's. It makes them so much easier to root for if you're a Philly guy to see the fact that he too experiences real pain at this.
And it was already his team. And he's just a likable guy in general.
Right. It was already his team.
Did he ever fuck Rihanna? No, I don't think so. Something to work on the offseason.
It was always his team, but now it's even more so because of what you just said. The emotion that he shows Philly is one of those ride-or-die cities where they want their players to care as much as they do, and Joel Embiid cares probably more because he probably cried more than most fans after that game.
So I'm all in on Joel Embiid showing emotion specifically because he is that type of guy. I have a question for you.
I am always a little bit hesitant to really go full in on the city of Philadelphia. I love Philly.
I think that they have some of the best, most passionate sports fans. They have some fun teams, too, and some fun personalities.
I'm just kind of glad that this is like a reality check for Philly where it's like when they got Jimmy Butler, they're like, we're going to fucking win every championship. And they got Bryce, and they're like, we're going to win every championship in every single sport possible.
And it's like, okay, maybe next year. But my question for you is, with this Sixers team, they're very, very good.
They're young. Do you make solid moves in the offseason? Or is this a case where you just let the core of the team get older? No, well, if you're the Sixers, you have to basically say we have to do everything to build around Joel Embiid, and that includes not playing him during the regular season.
He needs to go on LeBron minutes. He needs to go on big-time load management, maybe take a couple weeks off in the middle of December.
He needs to do all that stuff because it's clear that he is their team, and as he goes, they go. But it is true like the sixes are kind of in a spot where it's like i think you can probably re-sign jimmy butler and tobias harrison be like let's just run this back i think you don't think brett brett brown is the guy because i like i said three shot clock violation i think one of them might have been a a block on jimmy butler but it also just looks like an old alcoholic cop like at the end of his, he's also one of the guys from the wire that accidentally fires his gun inside.
There's also like a long history of, of sports coaches who have to coach the young team and then pass it off to an old head to bring them to the promised land. So I feel like that's kind of what the situation here is.
He did a good job with a young team, bringing them along. But when you lose like they did last year and then lose this year I feel like you have to change at least something otherwise you're just running it back again and it feels like it might just be the exact same thing just maybe you know maybe one round more but the goal is to win a championship that's the process I think it's just like it's a house plant that you're taking very good care of.
And you're like, one day this will bloom and this will get better.

I think they've got clearly enough talent to make it out of the East.

It just doesn't really fit.

All of it doesn't fit.

I could see the Sixers giving the Bucs a run for their money if they had won this.

But now it's going to be really interesting to see how Toronto shows up against my Bucs. They also have one of those classic situations where you get all this talent.
this talent but then you look at the if you look at the game seven guys played they had no bench they had no bench same with actually the Raptors seven guys played I love when whenever we overhype a bench during the regular season it's like when it gets to the crunch time you're probably just gonna play seven guys and maybe there's a couple teams that have eight guys maybe a ninth guy who can throw in. But for the most part, you're shortening it to seven guys,

and you just better hope those seven guys can all fit and everything works together.

And the Sixers feel like a ton of talent, and everything's just a little tiny bit off.

But either way, I want to just share one of Magic's tweets.

He showed a lot of emotion, guys, a lot of emotion.

You ready for this?

Kawhi Leonard, wow, wow, wow.

Holy shit. Four bounces, and it goes in.
what a shot to win the game for the Raptors that's and then but then he went back he tweeted that and then went right back to old magic so it was like a moment where he blacked out he went right back to Kawhi Leonard played like a superstar scoring 41 points in a game 7 victory over the Sixers yep exactly he goes back It goes back to just reporting the box. That was close.
That was close. He's like if Kawhi Leonard was retired.
Yes. Oh, that was really close.
All right, so the other Game 7. Blazers, Nugs, our guy, C.J.
McCollum, with the hezy hay, shoving it down. That's actually too graphic.
Shoving it in Jennifer's face.

I'm trying Jennifer tweet from last year when she said,

just win a playoff series.

He had, how many points did he end up having?

37.

All the nerds went on blast,

even though it didn't really make sense because he was shooting like

high quality shots,

but he did it with like basically a mid range game.

Yeah.

And it was.

Oh, now we have people battling the nerds being like,

see the mid range jump shot is still alive.

Right.

And then the nerds are like, wait,

Thank you. mid-range game yeah and it was oh no now we have people battling the nerds being like see the mid-range jump shot is still alive right and then ever and then the nerds are like wait but actually that's not what analytics say they say uh if you're a good mid-range jumper jump shot uh shooter and it's the end of the game when everyone gets shitty you should keep taking those and also the best shot in the game is always an open shot no matter where it is yes and it seems like seems like nerd maybe a little triggered.
Are nerds becoming the new jocks? They're getting triggered. You know what? The nerds are trying to stuff jocks into lockers these days.
They're doing a little well, actually. Turns out Manalytics going one-on-one with a guy and hitting a step-back 14-footer still has a place in this game.
Yeah. The old Michael Jordan.
Yeah. Did I push off? No, that wasn't a push off.
Did they call it? The nerds, though, have been put on their heels a little bit. They're updating their stat sheets, their spreadsheets, saying, well, actually, that was actually a great shot.
I don't care. CJ McCollum was awesome.
He basically carried their team because it was very weird. Damian Lillard, he caught the James Harden flow.
He looked like he was out of gas and basically like, I can't do it in this moment. Yeah, I'll say this about Damian Lillard.
He's got a winner's chin. Have you ever seen that thing? If I'm doing the old school just like facial recognition, like this guy's a winner, this guy's not, Damian Lillard's got a winner's face.
You know what he's got? He's got a video game face. Like you pick face number six all-time video game face ben gordon number one video game face in the world like he his his face looked like it was from a video game because the very angles were very no the angles were kind of sharp are you trying to fuck him no his high cheekbones yeah his strong jaw you just be like masculine eyebrows rolling over like oh okay i'll take face number 11 just happens to be Gordon's face.
But this was a huge come up for podcasters, having CJ do that. We're now very cool because one of our brethren has shown that he has the clutch gene.
And he dropped – Enos Cantor went right to Twitter, and then CJ McCollum went right to Twitter. He gave the old defense my ass to the defense at the end of the game.
This is the new millennials ruin everything.

Back in my day, they would just go to the locker room

and fuck some chicks in the sauna like magic.

Wait, no, CJ said defense my ass.

Yeah, I know.

I'm saying nowadays the kids, they win a game

and they go right to Twitter to shit talk.

Yeah, like Baker Mayfield.

Text your family.

You should be actually texting reporters. I love that stuff.
You get to hear from them right away. Yeah.
It's way better. Shout out to Enos Cantor, though, for winning this.
He played, I think, the entire series while he was fasting for Ramadan. Yep.
Hank learned a lesson today. He was like, wait, wait, Enos Cantor doesn't drink water during games? He only did it today.
Yeah. Because all the other games were at night.
No, some of them were... No.
Well, but he was still fasting. But at night, you don't have to.
But he was still fasting the day of the games, which presents its own unique set of challenges. This one, he couldn't drink while he was playing in the game.
But yeah, he wasn't drinking at all. He got in touch with Hakeem Olajuwon.
I saw that earlier this week to ask him for tips. My ignorance was that I didn't realize that fasting, like you couldn't drink water as well., it's not your fault because if you're PFT, if you're our age, you remember Hakeem Olajuwon doing it in the 90s, and it was always so crazy because that was the big story.
You'd be playing in the playoffs and just not eating, not drinking. Yeah.
No, because one thing, they said he woke up early at 3 o'clock, made sure he got all the proteins and nutrients. That made sense.
But when it's like, he doesn't drink water throughout the course of a game. He said his mind was sharper.
Yeah. Ooh, I'm going to stop drinking water.
Odell Beckham doesn't drink water either. Yeah, that's true.
He hates it. He hates water so much he gets on a boat to avoid being in it.
Yeah, exactly. So we have Seth Curry versus Steph Curry.
Yes. The Western Conference Finals.
Who are they rooting for? Who are the parents going to cheer on? They're going to do the split jersey? I don't think one of them should root for one child.

One should root for the other.

You got to root for Seth because, one, he's not going to win.

So you could be like, oh, we're rooting for you.

And, two, he's not going to throw his mouthpiece at you if you cheer against him.

Yeah, and everyone talks about Steph and no one talks about Seth.

Also sucks that his name's Seth.

It would be cooler if his name was something that didn't. Doing the S-S and you're the lesser of the S's.
Careful with the S-S. Oh, yeah, that's true.
But here it is. You're back.
You're back. That's always tough.
So we have Seth Curry versus Steph Curry, and the Rockets are officially dogs. D-E-D, dead for the Rockets.
Dead dogs. How about that ultimate Vince Young game from Steph Curry where he just chilled out in the first half and went the fuck off in the second? How many points did he have in the fourth? 24? Yeah, 23 in the fourth, 33 for the game, zero at halftime.
Unreal. And Klay was also unreal.
But it was fun watching the Warriors be underdogs like that and have everyone doubt them. And it felt like 2015 all over again.
Remember when people actually rooted for the Warriors in 2015? I'm old enough to remember that. Literally everyone was rooting for the Warriors in 2015.
And this felt like a throwback to the Warriors in 2015. And the Rockets are yet again stuck.
They are now in that, like, Buffalo Bills, Utah Jazz, like name a team that the Patriots have stopped, like the San Diego Chargers. All these teams that basically get laid waste to dynasties, and you'll just never think of them the same way, even though they lost to unbelievable teams.
So the thing is, after the first two or three times that it happens you can be like oh they're unlucky you know like they're good enough to get there right they were in until the last second and then the takes the narrative starts which is they're losers and they can't close it out which is fact and then it's well listen at some point once the narrative gets going it starts to seep into your head if you're a player on that team and you're like yeah we really are really are losers and you can't get it done when it counts. And then it gets worse and worse and worse.
Right now, they're caught in a take spiral and you can't escape a take spiral. No, you're sucked in.
Yeah. You're basically just circling the drain right now into a vortex.
Yeah. A vortex that goes directly into Skip Bayless' butthole.
And that's where you're at right now. And it comes right out of his mouth every morning, 7 to 9, first take.
What is it? First things first. I cannot wait to get in the studio on Undisputed with Shannon Sharp.
I can't wait to tell Shannon Sharp what's coming through my butthole and my mouth tomorrow. I told him the saddest thing I saw on Twitter.
Daryl Morey, consummate professional, take this hockey, congratulates the Warriors after every time they lose to them which is very sad when you actually go back so uh may 28th 2015 congratulations warriors great great team thank you to rockets fans you carried us all year back at it pursuit 2016 then it started to get a lot uh shorter because it just kept on happening uh May or Sorry, April 28, 2016. Congratulations to the Warriors.
Great team. May 28, 2018.
Congratulations, Warriors. And then yesterday or today, you come at the king, you best not miss.
Congratulations, Warriors. He should just make that into a thread.
It's so sad to look at. Just every year like clockwork.
Time for Daryl Morey to send out his congratulations Warriors tweet. I love it.
It's like one of those guys. Who's the guy that broke down the Mueller report in a 500 tweet thread? Then he just fucked it up.
That's what it's going to be like for this guy. Seth Abramson.
Daryl Morey is going to be like the Seth Abramson of NBA Twitter where it's just eventually 20 tweets thanking the Golden State Warriors for beating them in the playoffs again. You're the best.
Let me ask you a question. Yes.
Do you think that Kevin Durant is a little bit upset about how good Steph Curry played in the second half of that game? I don't think so. You don't think there's a small part of him? Oh, there's probably a small part of him.
So I'll put it this way. If he's out for the rest of the playoffs and the Warriors win without him, he would be pissed off about that.
Oh, yes, that for sure. The fact that they won this game by putting the entire team on Steph Curry's back, there's got to be a small part of him that's like, when I come back, is this still my home or have I been cooked out of my own bed? Well, it's the same part of Steph Curry that was kind of feeling that way when Kevin Durant was owning every single game and won back-to-back NBA Finals MVPs.
So I think it's like this is the classic Warriors vs. Warriors.
Steph reclaims his team after a run that was a historic run from Kevin Durant in terms of numbers-wise, and now we have this weird thing where is he going to come back? I think he'll probably miss the first couple games because they're probably like, we're going to beat the Blazers no matter what. Which, I don't know.
I know. I don't know.
I know. Podcasters versus people that go on people's fucking podcasts.
It's probably going to be an epic showdown. I'm going to say the Warriors in five.
Warriors in five. I'm going to get the Blazers, too.
We're a big Portland podcast. We love the city.
I do have one question. Unless Durant comes back in the Warriors

vs. Warriors.

By the way, did you see Draymond?

Chris Paul, all-time petty

league, backfire.

He blocked Steph Curry from

using the court on Thursday

night for a shoot-around.

So essentially the story goes, Steph Curry

reserved the court from 7-8.

You can do that? Yeah, you can do that.

You have to do that.

You, like, schedule it online?

Yeah, you have to schedule it.

Chris Paul caught wind and was like, fuck that.

I'm working out.

Steph Curry was like, hey, how about we just go halfsies here?

You just need one basket.

And he said, fuck no.

I'm taking the whole thing.

And then as they beat the Rockets, they're coming off the court.

And Draymond's like, what did he even say? He's like, Steph said to Draymond, he's like, kick me off the court. Kick me off the court.
Yeah, yeah, kick me off the court again. Kick me off the court again.
So petty war has gone wrong. Verbal meme, Kevin Durant watching the fourth quarter of that game.
Arthur Fist. Ooh, shaking.
Yeah. Just going crazy.
Yeah. I do like that they posted a picture of him celebrating at the end of the game.
That, to me, is like you're trying a little too hard. Verbal mean Kevin Durant watching the fourth quarter of the game, and it's the mask in front of him.
The troll mask. And then he's crying underneath it.
I like that verbal meme. Guy walking down the street looking over the shoulder at another girl while his girlfriend's really mad at him and it's uh the guy is warriors fans yeah and then the girl is steph curry and then the other girl is kevin durant and soggy sorrows like oh you kidding and that guy the kevin durant has the arthur fist photoshopped over one of the girl's fists in the face and he's crying

underneath it yeah there you go that's someone draw that for that exact thing has a quality

fucking me that's we killed it we take memes yes we killed that meme uh so wait I mean I had a

question for you okay yeah you ready for this yeah but then I have a very important point okay

mellow curse oh okay mellow curse who lost on sunday the the denver the knicks the denver nuggets they they traded away carmelo anthony the knicks have never won a championship ever since they traded away carmelo anthony fact the thunder haven't gotten out of the first round fact since they got rid of carmelo anthony yeah the rockets they lose they got rid of carm USA Basketball doesn't win a gold... USA Basketball hasn't won a gold medal in two years.
Yes. If USA Basketball doesn't win the next gold, I'm officially saying Melo is the best cursor of all time.
Could you imagine if this was the hoodie curse? Think about it. Yes, I like that.
Syracuse hasn't won a championship since Melo got traded. Boom.
Done. Wait, when does the Melo curse begin? Whenever.
Okay. Whenever he leaves your team.
It's floating. It's very floating.
Whenever he leaves your team. Right.
Or whenever, yeah, or the history, yeah, whenever he leaves your team, you don't do anything. It's really just wing after.
It really just is when Big Cat says it starts. Correct.
That individual team. Because the Knicks, it's been going on for a long time.
He precursed them. They had eyes on Melo for a long time, and he cursed them.
Yeah, which is more potent than a normal curse. Yes.
So the Melo curse is a real thing. Yes.
Tell everyone. All right, can I get back to my very important point? Yeah.
The Blazers logo looks kind of like a butthole. Okay, I'm looking at it.
Hold on. All right, yeah, look it up.
Like kind of an infected, like bleeding pussy butthole. That's gross, dude.
I'm just saying. Yeah, I mean, it's gross.
But I'm right. Yeah.
Why is the Trailblazers logo a hurricane? I don't know what for hurricane. Well, let's see.
Trailblazers logo. Let's learn.
By the way, while we look Trailblazers logo, PFT, you want to tell everyone about the gold that we have coming out? Yeah, I do. So we've had some some awesome gold episodes This last week we put out one where me and Big Cat interviewed a dominatrix, a goddess Aviva.
So you can go subscribe and get that. It's barstoolgold.com slash PMT.
And then who do we have next month? We do one bonus episode a month. And next month, is it a groundskeeper? Yes.
Yeah, we're going to have a baseball groundskeeper

and get to the bottom of what the fuck goes on under that tarp.

Okay, so here's what it is.

What does the Portland Trailblazers logo mean?

Harry Glickman.

What the fuck?

It means Harry Glickman?

Yeah.

That sounds like a nickname for a butthole right there.

Designed the original logo.

Hey, check out my Harry Glickman.

Pinwheel with black on the top and red on the bottom.

It's meaning as simple.

A modern graphic interpretation of the game of basketball.

Five players from one side playing.

Oh, playing against five players from another.

So you can see it up there.

There's five little pinwheels versus five little pinwheels.

That's kind of cool.

That is cool.

It does look like a hurricane symbol.

Yeah.

So take one side from lowercase typography to a bold uppercase, adding a dimension. Okay, yeah.
45 degrees to the motion of the game. Wow.
Yeah, that's pretty impressive. Way to go, Portland.
Shout out Portland. Yeah.
It sounds like something Bill Walton came up with. We should have Rasheed Wallace standing, maybe lights a blunt, like at the center court before game three.
The logo should just be Rasheed Wallace and Damon Stoudemire hitting a gravity ball. And Reuben Patterson.
Shout out to Reuben Patterson. Kobe Stopper, the original Kobe Stopper.
Okay, let's get to who's back of the week. Hank, why don't you start? Go ahead.
Sure, I got a few. My first one is Snapchat.
Yeah? Okay. So Snapchat released a new filter which can like turn guys into girls and girls into guys.
It's got people going crazy. Like the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park.
Yeah. Have you guys tried it? No.
Can you do it to me real quick? Sure. I can pull it up.
What about the baby Snapchat? If it takes a picture of me, it's going to probably just make me look like a guy because it's going to think I'm a chick. Yeah.
That would be wild. Like that waitress in Las Vegas.
What would PFT look like if he was a dude? For all the new listeners out there, there was a time we went to a Brazilian steakhouse in Las Vegas, and the waitress came up to us and tapped PFT on the shoulder and said, Ma'am, would you like any more bread? And we just fucking lost it. From behind.
I do look like a chick from behind. BFD was not happy.
I'm pretty good looking. You know who I look like? Let me see.
I look like a brunette version of Ellie Schnit. This is a terrible radio from folks at home.
There we go. Ooh.
I look kind of hot. Yeah.
I look like a cat lady, though. My hair's all over the place.
I got a lot of split ends. Lady cat.
Yeah. All right.
There you go. So Snapchat's back? Just back, yeah.
Okay. Why? Just because of that? People are talking about it.
That's all it takes? What's so funny is for Snapchat, whenever they come back, they're back for about- Back and forth. Yeah.
They're back for like two days until Instagram just copies their exact popular filter. Yes.
Beats the shit out of them. So I'll just wait until it gets to the gram.

But for this weekend, they're back.

Mother Who's Back is the Drake curse.

Yeah.

It was confirmed.

Wait, hang on.

So Snapchat was invented basically

to send pictures of your dick to people, right?

So what happens when you point that filter at your dick?

Does it turn into a clam?

I mean, the catfishing,

people are going to get cash for so hard.

It's like I almost feel bad.

Yeah, that's true. I've seen pictures of girls that have fake boobs.
Oh, really? Where? Online? It's just a dude's ass? It just looks exactly like a dude. Oh.
You could be careful. I already have the tits.
Be careful. My other who's back of the week is the Drake curse, as I said.
Why? He wore 76ers shorts watching Game 7. That's such an awesome move.
So on his Instagram story after they won, he panned down for a second. Was he not at the game? No, I don't know why.
But he did an Instagram story of his TV. I don't even know if he did it on purpose, but he panned down.
And you could see the 76ers. Is he becoming self-aware now? You know what? No, it's genius.
It's an emotional hedge. Drake dodged.
If they lose, then the Drake curse is fake. True.
And if they win, then the Raptors win, which is I'm sure what he wanted no matter what. He dodged a bullet because Kawhi hit that shot right by his seats.
And I was looking for Drake because you know that he would have just made the moment about himself and been like the first person to hug Kawhi. And everyone would have been so annoyed about it.
So, Drake, you actually were lucky because I would have been pissed. Is that just the two? Yeah.
Okay. Two of them for who's backs of the week.
Just those two? My who's back is recurring part of my take guest, Dennis Rodman. So Dennis Rodman got arrested for stealing a gigantic 400-pound crystal from a yoga studio.
I mean, I don't actually blame him for that. Probably tried to smoke it.
Right. And also, it could be a healing crystal.
Also, there's a certain, like, 400 pounds. If you're going to attempt it, I think that's okay.
Well, so he attempted it. It's almost like, hey, get rid of this junk for me.
He attempted it, and he walked it, like, two steps because he had a buddy helping him carry it, and then it dropped and shattered into a million pieces like the Night King. But then he probably got to steal some of that crystal.
Probably. He could probably fill his pockets.
Right, right, exactly. Okay.
Anyone else? Or anything else? Yes, I do have another Who's Back of the Week. It's U.S.
Women's Soccer is back. So they just pounded the shit out of South Africa on the road to France.
Nice. We're 26 days away from the World Cup.
And we have a guest coming. This is the World Cup that we can win.
Yeah, we have a guest coming. From the team.
The one thing that the team needs is a description for their play, like how Arkansas basketball had 40 minutes of hell. Yeah, or Spain plays Tiki Taki.
Tiki Taka. Tiki Taki.
I say it's 90 minutes of fuck you for Ooh. For the U.S.
Women's National Team. 90 minutes of skull fucking.
90 minutes of skull fucking. From the U.S.
From the U.S. Women.
From the U.S. Women.
But they're actually fun to watch. Yeah, it's a good interview that we've got coming up.
But I actually like watching women's soccer better than men's soccer because we actually win in women's soccer. Did you see, since we're talking about soccer right now, did you see the end of the EPL season was on Sunday, and Manchester City won back-to-back titles.
And the best part about the team that wins the title in the EPL, they basically just stand on the field for like an hour and sing every Beatles Oasis song ever. That's pretty great.
They were just standing there singing. I heard Hey Jude.
They were singing Wonderwall. Oh, they did Queen.

They were doing We Are the Champions.

They basically just sing every great British rock band and stand there for the whole time.

And it was awesome.

No, there's no playoffs.

Do they sing?

That's a fucked up system of crowning a champion.

It's weird.

And I'm a rugby fan.

Yeah.

I mean, yeah.

I think playoffs are...

Problem is, the argument is the best team always wins. Because it's season-long.
But you don't know who's clutch. No, I know.
I agree. It's impossible to know who the clutch is doing.
I agree. I mean, I love playoffs.
I think playoffs should be in every sport. Speaking of clutch, good segue to my who's back, the clutch gene is back, or lack thereof, because statistically speaking, James Harden was ranked last out of 32 players this playoffs for net rating in clutch time.

Doesn't sound good.

And so that's average of at least three minutes clutch time and playing in at least three playoff games.

That's how they decided it.

He was dead last.

He also, every single one of his numbers from the regular season goes down in the playoffs, basically for the last five playoffs.

Does it negatively affect your score if you just don't shoot in the fourth quarter? Probably because of how good he is in the regular. I don't know how they actually base it, but because he's so good in the regular season.
That might explain what he was doing during the Kevin Durant injury game. He just didn't shoot.
He was trying to not hurt his clutch rating. But here's the good news, PFT.
We finally have someone back to talk about the clutch gene because it feels like it's been a little bit of an absence. We had obviously Peyton Manning, A-Rod.
LeBron was huge before he won his titles. Now we finally have a guy who we can say lacks the clutch gene.
Definitively, he and Chris Paul. No clutch gene between the two of them.
Who would you say in the NFL right now is the big clutch gene guy? Would it be Phillip Rivers? I was going to say Phillip Rivers, Matt Ryan. Aaron Rodgers, if you want to count the fact that he hasn't won a title.
He's supposedly the best quarterback. Many people are saying Aaron Rodgers.
I'm saying that. You think MJ would have let somebody buy his girlfriend a beer in front of him? Probably not.
By the way, that's the correct way to interact with Big Cat and I if we're out at a sporting event. Just buy me a beer and then have Big Cat look over and just be like, why are you doing this? Yeah.
Be like, we have to record a podcast. Yeah, and I'll be like, well, I'll drink yours then too.
By the way, I forgot to do it, but I'll do it for my other who's back. Big mad, big sad.
We did a big mad, big sad for Rockets fans.

I have a couple for the Rockets fans out there after James Harden,

who lacks the clutch gene, did it again.

So this one's from Steve McGee.

I feel like Steph Curry is the type to wear his towel over his nips when he gets out of the shower, yet he just buried our team.

That's actually a great call.

That is good.

He definitely wears it.

Do people do that?

Steph Curry does.

Okay.

Yeah.

Mace wrote, the series is still 2-2 with KD out. Run it back when he's healthy and we'll try again.
Good point. That's a good point.
Fair. Actually, if you want to get technical with it, the Warriors won two games, the Rockets won three, and then the Warriors won two games.
Yes, the other Warriors. So you guys beat them 3-2-2.
Actually, no, it was tied. 2-2-2.
Yeah, this is actually really sad when Rockets fans are now looking to Bills fans. So this one guy said, I don't know what to do at this point.
Every year, same story, and the last two hurt so, so bad. I need counseling from Bills fans.
And a Bills fan jumped in. He said, here's what you do.
One, try alcohol. Two, break a table with your body.
Three, draft Josh Allen and accept him as your Lord and Savior. Yeah.
That's pretty good. Very good advice.
Here's another suggestion. Just start commenting on other teams' message boards that are still in it by introducing yourself and saying, hey, Rockets fan here coming in peace.
As a Rockets fan, this one's just really sad. In the fall of 2005, I chose to go to Wake Forest because the SportsCenter special about CP3 scoring 61 for his grandfather moved me.
It was awesome. Where he missed the last shot on purpose.
Yeah. He left, and we never made a Final Four.
Year after year, I bet on the Clippers. Last year, I bet 4K on the Rockets to win the Golden State Series.
I'm done with them. He should have been done with them a while ago.
And then this last one is really sad. Imagine your dog running away except it returns home a year later only to get hit by your car

as you're backing out.

That's the Rockets.

Big sad.

Rockets fans.

I don't want to imagine that at all.

No, it's tough,

but that's kind of

what the Rockets are dealing with.

It's actually more like

having a shitty dog

that you can't make run away.

Like you keep giving it

every incentive.

Right.

Like throwing hot dogs

across the street.

Go somewhere else.

And just like,

no, I love you

and I'm going to continue

to bite you

and pee on your baby.

Yeah, and shit on the floor.

Yeah.

Or your baby.

Yeah.

What would... Like throwing hot dogs across the street.
Go somewhere else. And just like, no, I love you, and I'm going to continue to bite you and pee on your baby.
Yeah, and shit on the floor. Yeah.
Sorry. Or your baby.
Yeah. What's the dog biting the baby? No, it was just peeing on your baby.
Oh. Like that's what a really bad dog would do.
Listen, I wouldn't kick a dog out just because it had a couple accidents indoors. Seems really specific.
Well, I wanted to step it up from peeing on the carpet. Got it.
I figured next one up was just urinating on your daughter. All right.
So let's get to it. Yeah, that was a weird brain thing.
You just got to kick it up a notch sometimes. Yeah.
You want people to understand that it's a bad dog. You can't just be like, oh, my dog sometimes eats its water too much or drinks its water too fast and spits up on the floor.
No, that's a fine dog. Usually you just say shit on the carpet.
Shit on the carpet is fine. Now you've got golden showers on babies.
Yeah. That's a weird thing to go to.
You'd throw that fucking dog out of your house, wouldn't you? That's a weird thing to go to. I would throw that fucking dog out of my house so far.
No, I'd have a lot more questions than that just from like, oh, this dog is bad. It'd be like, what? First of all, how'd the baby get in a spot where the dog could pee on it? Yeah, wait a second.
I don't have a baby. Yeah.
Why is there a dog peeing on it?

You just laid your baby on the ground, and also your dog pees in the house, so that's

the first problem.

It might be a small dog, so it can climb up onto interesting angles and different parts

of your furniture and establish the high ground on the baby.

Too small of a dog, and they could do that.

Basically, I just invented Tube City inside somebody's house.

Bad brain.

You got a rotted brain. Bad brain.
You got a rotted brain. Bad brain, stop.
That's a bad brain. Stop, brain.
I actually think you should be kicked out of the house for that. Brain.
For that terrible brain. All right, let's go to our interview with Rick Fox.
Before we get to Rick Fox, a couple words from our sponsors. DXL, when you're a man of my wholesome stature and physique,

what some would consider to be an absolute unit,

others would call the perfect specimen of man,

it's hard to find clothes that fit because big and tall is all they do.

DXL is the perfect place to buy clothes.

DXL is the only one-stop shop for big and tall men like me to buy clothes.

DXL has thousands of styles just for built guys like me.

It's the only place to look good all year round. DXL has thousands of styles just for built guys like me.
It's the only place to look

good all year round. DXL has over a hundred brands like Columbia Brooks Brothers and Levi's and more in sizes that fit and big guy in any budget.
Just head to DXL.com slash barstool and check out a store near you. They'll get you looking great and feeling comfortable in no time.
Use the promo code unit that's a hell a hell of a promo code for 20% off online. Promo code UNIT at dxl.com slash barstool, dxl.com slash barstool.
Use that promo code UNIT. We're also brought to you by our friends at Raycon.
It's 2019. Everyone needs a great pair of wireless earbuds.
But before you go dropping hundreds of dollars on a pair, you need to check out out the wireless earbuds from raycon raycon earbuds start about half the price of any other premium wireless earbuds on the market and they sound just as amazing the company was actually co-founded by ray j and celebrities like snoop dog are already obsessed raycon's e50 wireless earbuds are have totally changed the game for me they're so comfortable and so easy

to take anywhere unlike some of the other wireless options raycon earbuds are both stylish discreet and with no dangling wires or stems and of course they don't just look great they sound great too raycon offers their wireless earbuds for everyone in a range of fun colors and an unbeatable price Go to buyraycon.com slash take to get 20% off your order.

That's buyraycon.com slash take to get 20 off your order

that's buyraycon.com slash take for 20 off raycon wireless earbuds if you've been eyeing a pair now

is the time to get an amazing deal one more time buyraycon.com slash take buyraycon.com slash take

you get 20 off your wireless earbuds okay here he is rick fox okay we now welcome on

Thank you. racon.com slash taking a 20% off your wireless earbuds.
Okay, here he is, Rick Fox. Okay, we now welcome on a very accomplished guest.
I was reading your Wikipedia before this, and you are a three-time NBA champion. You went to a Final Four.
You're an actor. You own an eSports team.
What do you not do, Rick Fox? I didn't know Wikipedia was actually real. Oh yeah, it's very real.
Things they say on Wikipedia are true? Everything's true. I have to believe everything I read on Wikipedia? Yes.
Oh my gosh. Okay, some of that stuff is true.
Okay. Definitely won some championships.
What else did they say? Final Four? Went to the Final Four. Lost.
Who'd you guys lose to in that? Duke? No. We lost to Kansas.
1991. 1991.
Hoosier Dome. Damn.
That was the year Duke beat UNLV. UNLV, yes.
Kansas. Okay.
So that was the beginning of their back-to-back. Yes.
How much did you hate Christian Laettner? That's the first question. Because you were around that same time.
Yeah. No, no.
We had him on the show two weeks ago i i i can think of running into christian leitner in an airport years later and we were able to have a conversation i don't know if we would have been able to get to that conversation you know a few years earlier than that but yeah but we had a lot of carolina duke uh you know hatred towards each other i don't think we i don't know if we really knew why we hated each other but but the rivalry was strong. Yeah, the colors on your jersey.
Yeah, we're fighting over blue. Yes, exactly.
Which blue is right. He's a pretty easy guy to hate.
Like, everybody hates Christian Leitner. They made that movie about him.
I thought he leaned into his villain role. Absolutely.
He leaned into it. Can I just say you are a very handsome man?.
Like that reputation obviously precedes you, but you're too tall.

Yeah, I'm a little bit too tall. I think you're just the right height.
You're kind of like showing off right now. Especially in my

second career, I'm a little bit too tall. It's a good cop, bad cop.
I think

you're not that handsome, but you're just the right

height. Okay.
Okay. Alright, so

just combine it, and you're good.

Alright, so you are here

promoting your new show. It's coming out.
It's

called Seven Days Out?

Seven Days Out is on Netflix at the moment. Okay.
I don't know if that's already out. Do things ever go away? No, they don't.
Once they're out there, hopefully it's good because it's going to be there forever. So I would say rush to see it, but I guess it's no need to rush.
It's out there. You have something else coming out though.
Morning Show Mysteries on Hallmark. I don't know if you've ever gotten into the Hallmark holiday season movies or have family members that have.
They now have a movies and mystery channel. So I play a detective and similar to the Columbo-esque stuff.
Do you carry a gun? I do carry it now. Hell yeah.
What do they do for fake guns in Hollywood? They plug them. Yeah? Yeah, they plug them.
Oh, so it's a real gun? Yeah, you still check the clip and make sure there's no bullets lying around. Did you not know that? That's what happened with the Crow, right? Yeah.
They accidentally had one in there. Bruce Lee.
Let me ask you something about movie guns and TV guns. Whenever they move them around, it always seems like on TV it makes those noises.
But guns don't just make noises on their own, right? No, that's the Fo that's the foley they go in after that and they put the adr in and they make sure the sounds heighten the senses of viewing viewing the whatever you're watching at that moment but they will go through every time we are about to use a gun in on us in a scene or while the cameras are rolling they literally the prop master holds the gun every second that you're not on camera So they come in, they get it. They get it from you.
Smart. They hold it, make sure it's protected.
They do a whole safety talk before the day when you have guns on set. And then they show you every time.
The guy must do it 50 times in the course of the day. Shows you the clip is empty, loads it in, clears it, clicks it, you know, so you know nothing's

going off, and then he hands it to you properly.

Okay, so while we're on dumb

questions about Hollywood, what about fake cigarettes?

I've

seen them. I've had actors,

I've never had to smoke a character.

I've never given a character that.

That's a dumb question.

They're out there. They usually, now

they have nicotine-free stuff

that they do. Yeah, I don't know why they don't just sell those,

because it's like whenever you see someone smoking on a show or a movie, you're like, that looks so cool, but it's not a real cigarette. Sell those.
Right. We're in the era of all the vape stuff now, right? Yeah.
So everyone's vaping. That's actually going to be like the next big thing, like a mafioso vaping.
Oh, that's pretty sweet. Well, let me tell you something.
That would be when we made it. I don't know.
I saw The Rock on social media the other day outside of his house in Hawaii, and he was just talking to his fans, and he looked like he had a vape in his hand. He did.
He did, didn't he? There we go. He blows the sickest clouds.
Oh, does he? He's got that diaphragm. Mama, we've made it.
Yeah. All right, so going back to, we want to talk a little about, we're going to actually do your whole career because, like I said at the top, fascinating career.
Okay. I wanted to start with the fact that you went from, so you were born in Canada, moved to the Bahamas.
Yes. Played basketball in the Bahamas, then moved to Indiana.
How similar are the Bahamas in Indiana? Oh, my gosh. Completely different.
Okay. I don't know if you've ever been to the Bahamas.
Nope. I've been to Indiana.
Yeah, I've been to both places. Okay, Nassau.
They got chilies in both states. Yeah, yeah.
There you go. You get the little dot on the map below Florida there on one of those islands.
Somewhere down there. About 200,000 people growing up for me.
I left there and I went to the cornfields of Indiana in Warsaw. So when you moved to Indiana, did you move with your family or did you move by yourself? No.
My parents signed over guardianship to a family that was the math teacher, head of the math department. That's crazy.
Yeah. And I stayed with that family during my high school years in Indiana and picked up, you said I played basketball in the Bahamas.
My basketball career in the Bahamas looked like Grace College basketball team. NAI school came down, did a clinic.
They showed me, they could see I could jump up and dunk the basketball. That was pretty much all I knew how to do.
But they were like, hold on. We can work with this guy.
We can work with this kid three years from now. Yeah, literally.
A little bit like your air butt, only thing. I wasn't a dog.
But it was like the air up there. I mean, I was kind of discovered in that capacity.
And my mom was very keen on me getting a college education. And so she asked the coach, you know, is there a chance that my son might be able to come to Warsaw and play for you someday and go to college at Grace College? And the coach took an interest and really actually was the bridge between me making it to Indiana.
That's crazy. So you get to Indiana.
I have to assume there's some homesickness involved there, right? Yeah. Making that transition? Yeah.
I had a blueprint of Michael Thompson. You guys know who that is? Yeah.
Voice of the Lakers. Yes.
Father to Clay Thompson. He grew up.
He was from the bottom. Spelled with a Y.
Spelled with a Y. Yep.
Yeah, you're on top of it. It's pretty cool.
I idolized Michael Thompson. He lived a block away from me.
I used to drive my bike by his house. He was the first Bahamian to get drafted into the NBA, but he went to high school in Miami, and he went to college in Minnesota for the Gophers, and he got drafted the number one pick in the NBA in 1976, I think it was, to the Portland Trail Blazers.
So here it was, this iconic figure in my country. This is what he did to make his way, and I knew he was making a living, and he was in the United States playing basketball, because I saw him on TV, and then I got a chance to meet him.
I was like, I want to be Michael Thompson. And so I did the same thing.
I knew I had to get to high school in the States, which I ended up in Indiana.

Then I got, in a short period of time, I got a scholarship to North Carolina.

Yeah, so how'd that work?

Did Dean Smith just show up to a practice one day?

It was like, this guy is unbelievable.

Yeah, no.

When I first got to Warsaw, the team had just won the state championship in Indiana basketball.

It was a big deal.

Big deal back then.

Everyone was in one pool. There was no class system.
It was like Hoosiers. Yep.
You've seen the movie. For me, the kid in the Hoosiers movie that punches out, he was my point guard.
He was the point guard on the high school team that won the championship. Wait, the actual kid in the Hoosiers? Yeah, Steve Holler.
Okay, this is wild. Was he the enforcer on your team too? No, he was a great guy, but I think that was just a character he played in the movie.
He played with a chip on his shoulder. He's a little bit like the guy in the movie.
But when I got there, I just sat down. Now, this is defending state championship champions in Indiana, and I'd never played basketball.
I went into the high school coach, and he says, well, what do you want to do? I said, I want to play basketball here for you and then I want to get a scholarship to North Carolina

and then I want to go to the pros.

Now, that was the Michael Thompson blueprint.

How old are you? I'm 15 at the time.

Jesus, that's awesome. But you know, this was my

first basketball experience. I never played

basketball before in a team setting.

So, I said that to him

and if you think about it now, he knows that.

He'd seen me that summer come to

the basketball camp for the college.

The college coach had me come in, go to three weeks of a basketball camp.

The first week, I went through all the drills,

and he had every high school coach from every area in the conference in the area there

come to see if I would be someone they'd want on their team.

All of them left and was like, yeah, this kid can't play.

Can't play. He's tall.
We get it. He can jump up and dunk it, but he can't play.
Also was black in northern Indiana in 1984. Yeah, right, right, right.
You know, so between the three weeks I was there and that summer before I came to high school, I stayed with that little family in the cornfields the week in between the two weeks of camp.

The high school basketball coach there at the Warsaw High School that won the state championship

was also a math teacher in the math department.

The head of the math department was the family I ended up living with.

He used to be the videographer for the head coach, the head basketball coach.

So they decided to take me down to Indianapolis, Indiana during that week to see the world's largest basketball game. 73,000 people in this new dome called the Hoosier Dome.
Ended up being the RCA Dome at some point. 73,000 people.
We sat in the top row of the dome at that time. Who was playing? The 1984 Olympic basketball team against some NBA pros.
So that was Michael Jordan, Steve Alford, Coach Bobby Knight, and on the other side was Sam Perkins. So I didn't know any of these players.
I just know that the coach, the high school coach, was telling me about all these different guys and how three or four of them went to the University of North Carolina. Right.
You know, Sam Perkins, James Worthy. I'm thinking to myself, they have the most pros.
Right. So that's where I need to go to school.
So when I left, before they sent me back home to the Bahamas, they basically left me with a blueprint to say, hey, if you come back here, you tell your parents you can come back here to go to high school. You'd live with this family that you spent the week with, and you can try out for the basketball team.
I told my parents that. They're like, what are you talking about? You're not going to Indiana.
You're not going to school there, right? I cried as a kid. I cried, and finally they went and visited the family that I was going to live with, and they signed over guardianship.
So I tell this high school coach the first week I want to play for him, the defending state champions in Indiana. They got the Mr.
Basketball candidate that's going to win Mr. Basketball that year, And I want to go to the University of North Carolina and I want to go to the pros.
And he could have literally laughed me out the room. Right.
He didn't. He just took me out on the basketball court and walked me out and he said, look, I can give you the tools.
What you do with them is up to you. And he sat me on the block with my back to the basket.
First thing he did was he took me to the hash line on the basketball court. Usually past the three-point line.
Yeah, we're like the coach's box. Coaches aren't supposed to pass that line.
He goes, can you dribble from here and make a layup? And I took one dribble, picked it up, step, step, and laid it in. They don't call it in the NBA, so you're already there.
At that point, he is going to be a pro. This guy's an NBA player.
I caught the coach by surprise, and he said, can you do that again? Can you dunk it this time? And he was a huge fan of James Worthy. So I took the dribble, one dribble big, picked up step, step, and took off, and I dunked it.
And he's like, I'm a great coach. I just taught him how to do that.
He threw it out. And he goes, he took me over.
He goes, okay. Put me on the box, the back to the basket, and he showed me a drop step.
A simple post-move drop step. He told me, just keep doing this.
You do this until I tell you to stop. And I just started doing it, and I did it and did it.
And he just left the gym. I just kept doing it.
And I came to school early before classes, and and I go in the gym and I do it and do it. And finally afterwards, he could see that I was coachable and willing to actually put in the work.
I tried out for the JV team. First game, I make the JV squad.
First game I go in, I score 16 points in the first quarter. Pretty good.
I was just very athletic. Right.
I'm just jumping over everybody. And the head coach comes running down and says, take him out, take him out.

You're only allowed like

four quarters in a

varsity game, and I got

promoted up to the varsity squad really quickly.

Yeah, unbelievable. So, sure enough,

by the second game, I'm on the roster.

The starting center

for the defending state champions blows his knee out.

And I get thrown

into the starting position. Well,

because we had the Mr. Basketball candidate,

all these head coaches were coming to

Thank you. for the defending state champions blows his knee out.
And I get thrown into the starting position. Well, because we had the Mr.
Basketball candidate, all these head coaches were coming to scout this top recruit in Indiana. He hadn't decided yet where he wanted to go to school.
Every time they came, they'd see this really athletic kid grabbing all these rebounds and jumping and running really fast. And so I got on the radar.
So your initial question was, how did I get to Dean Smith? Yeah. That summer, after we lost in semi-state or whatever, the coach, high school coach, puts us all in the van and drives us to five-star basketball camp.
You ever heard of that camp? Yes. Five-star Howard Garfinkel.
It was like with today's AAU, Nike, Adidas camps and stuff like that. Yeah.
This was like you had to be the top 100 kid in the country to be at this camp. Literally by the time I got home back to Indiana, a couple weeks later, I got a letter from Dean Smith and started the whole process of being recruited by him.
So when's the movie about you? Because that was fantastic. Oh, yeah, right? That's your own Hoosiers.
The fact that you said, I want to go to Indiana, I want to go to North Carolina, I want to go to NBA.

And then it worked out exactly like that. Well, it gets a little better because I'm not better, a little worse.

But the next year when I made it back from that top 100 camp and all of a sudden I'm kind of on the radar now,

I'm getting all these letters in my mailbox, all of the coaches in the conference thought I was an exchange student.

They thought I was only there for one year.

And so they raised hell when they heard I was coming back to play another year.

So they called the Indiana High School Athletic Association and said, hey, like this kid can't play.

He's an exchange student.

And they went, no, no, no, no.

His parents signed over guardianship. So he's literally, those are his parents.
In America, those coaches must have been pissed off. They were pissed.
I got to play another year. I dominated.
I played really well. And after that second year, I went back to that camp again.
This time, I'm on a scholarship for two weeks. And I was one of the top 100 kids legitimately at that point.
And I win the MVP of the first week of the camp. So all of a sudden now, in a year and a half or two years, I'm the best player in the United States for one week.
Right? And I sprained my ankle at the end of the camp week and after winning the award. And the next week in comes a guy named Alonzo Mourning.

Alonzo Mourning shows up.

I didn't play the first two days

of camp that week. And by the third

week, everyone's like, we want to see

Rick Fox and this kid Alonzo pair

off. And they move the game into the

big gym, which they never played. We always

played outside, but they made this big

spectacle of us playing.

And had a great game,

but he had a better game. And he

ended up winning. And when I went

Thank you. played outside, but they made this big, you know, spectacle of us playing and had a great game.
But he had a better game and he ended up winning. And when I went back to, you know, Warsaw after that, I was met with obviously a number of recruiting trips I had to take, but I was met with a letter by the Indiana High School Athletic Association saying that I was ineligible to play my senior year.
And because I'd gone to high school in the Bahamas for two years, and when I came to the United States, I went back into the sophomore year because I was only 15 years old. And my parents didn't want me to go to high school, I mean, go to college at 17.
So they figured we'd play three years in the States. And they said, well, you played two years in the Bahamas and two years in Indiana.
You're only allowed four years. And so the family that I lived with decided to fight it in court.
So we went down and they put the money up. I didn't know this until years later.
I just thought I was fighting a court case to try and get my eligibility. The same time I went on all my college visits, I went to Indiana, I went to Purdue, I went to Georgia Tech, I went to North Carolina.
In the process, Indiana, Bobby Knight, they really heavily wanted me to play for the Hoosiers. Gene Cady really heavily wanted me to play Purdue.
And it would have been a lot of noise if I escaped the state, being an Indiana top player. And so Bobby Knight actually testified for me in my court case.

He came in, and I was shocked.

The judge was there, and in comes Bobby Knight, and he gets on the stand.

And he's God right now in Indiana. He's God in Indiana.

This is the height of Bobby Knight.

Yeah, height of Bobby Knight.

In that era, that's like Jim Harbaugh sleeping over at a kid's house to recruit him.

This is even one step further. If Jim Harbaugh had three national titles or four national titles or whatever.
There you go. So Bobby Knight is on the stand, and the judge literally says to Bobby Knight, he says, So, Coach Knight, if this kid does not play another game of high school basketball, would you give him a scholarship? He goes, Most definitely.
Right now. And that like sealed my high school fate because the judge ruled for all the other coaches saying that he doesn't need to play.
And sure enough, I had to sit out my senior year. So I sat out my entire senior year, still practice with the team, still practice with the guys.
The coach would put me on the practice squad opposite the best players, but we kept beating them. So that just destroyed their confidence, right? Did you ever think about just switching jerseys with one of the short white kids that was on the team and just going in the game with his name on the back? That would have been good.
Long story short, I didn't play my senior year, but I was still named to the Kentucky-Indiana All-Star team. Without playing, yeah.
Without playing. Went on to play those two games after the season and won the MVP of – won both games and won the MVP of the All-Star game.
So, you know, that was my high school. That's a hell of a ride.
Yeah, it was an incredible ride. Yeah.
So you get to North Carolina, and I don't think that Dean Smith gets as much credit these days as I think he probably should because he was a hell of a coach, but I feel like he gets overlapped by a lot of the coaches that were his contemporaries that are still coaching, that coached a little bit longer than him. But what was he like as a leader? He was great.
Real father figure. I'm sure you've heard that from any Carolina guy you've spoken to that's played for him.
Huge proponent of us being student athletes, getting a degree. I got my degree.
So many of us graduated. This was previous to Carolina Scandals with all the academic stuff.
So you actually had to take tests. No, yes, we actually went to school.
I was looking for that line. I was going, okay, when are they saying people didn't go to school and didn't take classes? Because I know I did my shit.
So I'm saying the line kind of fell shortly there after my time there. But it was interesting because Coach Smith left pretty much a year or two after I graduated.
But he was, man, he laid the foundation for me. I think I play well with others, meaning other great players.
I think it made my transition into the pros where I was able to play with legends like Larry Bird and Kevin McHale and Robert Parrish my rookie year and feel comfortable and feel like I belonged. And also, I think it taught me how to, you know, to not have to be, have it all be about me, how to blend in with other great players, which when you get to the pros, you pretty much everyone's great.
You know, it's just how can you, how can you fit in and do a role, play a role and still be effective if you're not getting the ball all the time? So I learned how to do that. And I learned how to think the game.
I learned how to actually be a man in the community and be responsible for myself professionally. And that, I think, all four years under him, a lot of kids don't get that today.
Yeah. But four years under Coach Smith.
And to your point, you're right. I mean, he was the greatest college, I think, the greatest college coach in that era.
And then at that point, Mike Krzyzewski's been chasing him and obviously has gone on to coach as long as he has, if not longer, and surpassed a lot of his records and is pretty much definitely on par with Coach Smith in North Carolina, but maybe even has surpassed him in his lore when it comes to the state. But Smith didn't pay his players.
You never got paid. Coach K pays all those guys.
That's the difference. I say we go with that rumor.
Did you play with Eric Montross? I did. I recruited Eric and played with him.
Double zero. He looked like a lot of fun to dunk on.
Yes, I actually have dunked on Eric. He's the most dunkable college player of all the way.
He's got the flat top. He was a pretty good player, but every time he got dunked on, he looked like a baby deer learning how to roller skate, where he kind of fell down two steps after the fact.
Great guy. Played.
Look, he won a championship. That's okay.
Yeah, don't worry about it. We're moving off.
We'll have an interim. For those of you that can't see him, well, maybe you can't see him.
I'm sp in water all over the place. That's all right.
I tried to dunk on Eric Montraux again. Yeah, no, he won a championship and went on to have – I played with him in Boston again too.
I played with him at the Celtics. They drafted him pretty high and didn't go as well.
He wasn't as – when you get to the pros, you kind of – there is a certain level of athleticism that you have to have, even though we've seen people obviously dominate without superior athleticism. They just have skills and they understand how to take advantage of a defense or a defender.
But Eric was someone that relied a lot on his height and strength and size in college and got away with it there, but couldn't get away it in the press yeah different game so you get drafted by the celtics and you are at the tail end of all the celtics legends from the 80s so larry bird kevin mckale what's it like playing with guys who are i mean i would imagine when you show up you're probably better than these guys because they're at the end of their career well i i sure the heck tried them i tried larry bird Bird after practice. I tried Kevin McHale after practice, even Robert Parrish.
What was it like your fourth or fifth year when you win 16 games? 15 games. My sixth year.
Six year, 15 games. I was the captain of that ship.
So what, I mean, that's got to wear on you mentally. Yeah, nine guys had surgery that year.
So you were the captain of the first team ever to take. I was the captain of the Titanic.
There you go. There you go.
That's perfect. And it was going down.
That was perfect. Yeah, and so when that season ended, I opted out of my contract, and literally they fired everyone in the front office, and they hired Rick Pitino.
And that's when Rick Pitino came in. And I'm thinking to myself, well, this guy's from Kentucky.
He's a pretty dang good coach.

And he went and met with him, and we talked about the future of the Celtics,

and he wanted me to be the captain in the future.

Did Rick take you to an Italian restaurant?

He didn't.

He took me to his office.

You're lucky.

That's probably good, yeah.

Yeah.

Oh, really?

You don't want to go to an Italian restaurant.

Okay.

No, I didn't know.

No.

Okay.

So then I said, okay, well, we leave after a good meeting. I like the guys.
And my agent calls me. He's like, what do you think? I go, well, what's the offer? And they said, okay, they have an $18 million offer for four years.
Sure enough, Tuesday morning rolls around, and he calls me. He's like, okay, they went up a little bit.
They went up to the—and I go, I'm going to L.A. for a million dollars.
He goes, are you serious? I go, yeah. Call him and tell him thank you, but I'm going to L.A.
Got back on the plane, flew to L.A., and they were just stunned. They're like, who turns down $20 million for $1 million? Right.
And I did. And for one year, I just felt like it was the place for me to be.
So I got there, and in getting there, they asked me what jersey number I wanted. And I said, I'm going to wear number 17.
Because when I used to lay on the floor before all of my games in Boston, I used to look up at the rafters, and they had 16 championships. I used to always think before every game, okay, I'm going to win number 17.
I'm going to win number 17. And I chose number 17 because I said, I'm going to get my first championship here before they get their 17th line.
I loved that. Petty Wars.
Yeah, Petty Wars. Yeah, this league, baby.
Petty. This league.
Petty, real petty. And we ended up winning three of them.
So I imagine while you were in Boston, you got indoctrinated into the Lakers' hate, though, right? A little bit. We weren't good enough.
Well, you got to remember, I was a Michael Thompson fan. Yeah.
So as grateful as I was to be drafted by Red Arbac and to get my shot in the NBA, I was a Michael Thompson fan. James Worthy was my coach's favorite player.
Right. So I was a James Worthy fan.
Right. So everything about me was you know, more Laker tied than Celtic tied.
And you got the Laker look. And I picked up the Hollywood and all that stuff.
Yeah, Hollywood. But I did not.
You got the Laker name. Rick Fox is a Hollywood name.
So I just loved my time in Boston. I loved the city.

I loved playing. We just sucked.

We didn't win. We didn't win.

When you don't win in Boston, it's not a good place to be.

In LA, you got Kobe,

you got Shaq. The start of

their three-peat, the dynasty.

Phil Jackson shows up. First question, did you read

Phil's book that he gave every year?

We've pulled a lot of people.

Some people didn't.

Some guys don't. Adam Morrison did dennis robin said fuck no um and i i was reading a story i was reading something when researching that you were coming in um that you were kind of the go-between on the team for kobe and shack yeah you were like the guy for phil to basically like phil's like hey go make sure that they like each other Phil, I think, saw me as having coaching potential and someone that he would, you know, shape as to maybe be one of his assistants at some point.
And there's stories behind, you know, that when it came to his time here in New York and almost became a coach. But the, you know, I think that's, he saw me as a veteran that could be, you know, he knew I was close with Shaq.
and I think he knew that Kobe connected with me because Kobe played in Italy, and I took him under my wing earlier on in his career. And so I became the third captain for years, and I did.
I had to be the go-between at times. Yeah.
And it wasn't always pretty. But Phil, the thing that Phil knew most about me was he knew that he could stir me up and that I would actually call bullshit on anything that was going on in the team.
Right. And he always he would always tell in his books he'd talk about every year at some point I would stand up in a team meeting and just go off on everybody and just call it what call what needed to be said out.
and when I look back I go oh yeah I remember Phil used to kind of poke me a lot and he would kind of wind me up

he kind of poke me a lot. And he would kind of wind me up.
He'd kind of wind me up. And then at a certain point in time when he needed me to explode, he'd just say something and I'd get in the meeting and I'd just lose it.
What was it like to be on a team that was just dominating? Like you guys, the West was obviously a lot better, but the East, whenever you get to the NBA Finals, you play the Pacers, the Sixers, I think the Pacers twice, right? Yeah. No, once.
Once. Pacers once, then we played the Sixers and the Nets.
The Nets, right. Oh, yeah, Jason Kidd.
Yeah, Kerry Kittle. Keith Van Horn.
Keith Van Horn, yeah. But you guys dominated them.
Like, it was never really a doubt. I remember watching the Finals those years and being like, there's no doubt.
Indiana was probably the best out of the three, the closest thing. But even then, we knew.
We knew once we got past Portland, we knew we were going to be fine. Once we knew we got through San Antonio, we knew we were going to be fine.
And then once we got through Sacramento, those three. Was that game rigged? Yeah.
Which one? 2002, game seven? No, not game seven. I mean game six.
No. The refs game six.
I don't. I've heard that.
I've heard that, but I don't. Oh, you've heard that? I've heard it from Tim Donahue.
Why are you sweating? For everyone who's just listening, Rick Fox just started to sweat. Oh, Rick just knocked over another bottle of water himself to cover up the sweat.
Are you okay? You need something? You need a minute? What do you know that we don't know? We had Tim Donahue on the show, and he said that you were his best. You were the first guy that was off.
Just always making sure that game was set up. Kings fans still think that that was very rigged.
Oh, they are still hot about that series. I always say to them, there was still a Game 7.
Yeah, there was. And you still had a chance to win.
True. And it still went into overtime, and a lot of shots were still missed yeah it's also

amazing to me how many just superstar famous people were involved with that team yes like when you think back about the 90s you think about lakers but the late 90s yeah you think about lakers basketball so you were on a team probably with i think two of the most clutch performers of all time who would you rather have taking that last shot in a playoff i was going to say kobe or Robert.

Robert, yeah.

Big shot Bob.

Big shot Bob.

Big shot Bob.

There was never any doubt at the end of the game.

Yeah. Who would you rather have taking that last shot in a playoff game? Robert Ory.
I was going to say Kobe or Ory.

Robert.

Robert, yeah. Big shot Bob.

Big shot Bob.

Big shot Bob.

There was never any doubt at the end of the game.

He could have three points that game.

It didn't matter.

He had the ball.

He was going to make it.

The strange thing about it with Rob was the ball would find him.

Didn't matter if you drew up the play for someone else.

It didn't matter if you drew up the play for him.

It wouldn't go the way you think it was going to go.

Get tipped out to him, something like that. Somehow he would be standing in the one spot that the ball came to.
Yeah. And I saw it at least 12 times.
I mean, it was the most remarkable thing. It was like what he was put on earth to do.
Yes. Nothing else.
Hit clutch shots. Hit clutch shots.
Yeah. All right, you want to do the game? Yeah.
The last thing? So this is the SeatGeek question. This will be our last question.
Promo code Tiki. I got to change seats? No, you don't.
You put in promo code Tiki at $10 off your SeatGeek purchase using SeatGeek. Got it.
We have a little game for you that PFT has here. Yeah, so you were on Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader, right? Yes, I was.
How'd you do? I wasn't smarter than a fifth grader. Okay, we're going to give you a shot at redemption.
That's tough.? All right. Three questions for a fifth grader for Rick Fox.

What is the capital of California?

Sacramento.

Got it.

That hurts me to say it.

Yes.

Because Shaquille O'Neal used to say, you know, it's a queen's.

Yes.

Yes.

You can't say that anymore.

Yes, you did.

The queen's city.

All right.

What is the largest ocean in the world?

Something tells me this is a trick question.

Nope, it's not a trick question. It's not a trick question.
It's not a trick question. Don't overthink it.
Don't overthink it. Atlantic.
No. No.
You know this. Pacific.
Yes, Pacific. We'll cut the part where you say Atlantic.
Thank you. I got you.
Third question. Who is a better teammate, Kobe or Shaq? These are all questions teammate yeah gosh that's a tough one only what only reason I'm gonna pick one um can you give me in what in what capacity uh yeah better player to be a teammate with wow hmm I love them both.

Pick it.

Oh, man.

Just put in Jeff Fox while he talks.

Yeah, I'm not smart in the fifth grader.

Just do it.

Just do it.

Just pick a name.

You got to pick a name.

All right, new game.

Gun to your head.

This is where we ask a question.

Yeah, yeah.

If there's a gun to your head.

Gun to your head.

Okay, gun to your head.

Who's a better teammate?

Kobe or Shaq? Yeah. Gun to your head.
Did Le where we ask a question if there's a gun to your head. Okay, gun to your head.
Who's a better teammate? Kobe or Shaq?

Gun to your head. Did LeBron kill Magic?

Ooh. Yeah.

Gun to your head.

I don't think LeBron did.

But, I'll throw the butt in there.

He probably did. Magic got

a gun butt to the head.

Yeah, right. Exactly.
From who?

We do not know. Yeah, I don't think LeBron himself.
Maybe it was one of those weird, like, Ray guns from Space Jam 2. I think there's definitely a difference of direction in what they should be doing there.
That's a very diplomatic answer. No, yeah.
And I think that... You were a great blue guy.
I can see why you're a good teammate. He's able to talk to everybody.

You see how I did the between the Shaq and Kobe?

Yeah, yeah.

He just kind of...

Shaq would come to me and be like,

you don't like Kobe, do you?

Who do you talk to?

Do you still talk to them?

Yeah, I see Shaq a lot.

I don't see Kobe as much.

Okay, you're Shaq guy.

You're Shaq guy.

You're Shaq guy.

I do have one final question.

I ask a lot of actors if they would be willing

to play the next James Bond.

I'm not going to ask you that, though. Instead, would you be willing to star in Space Jam 2? With LeBron.
Who you're better than. You went three in one.
I live in L.A. Okay.
So we got one guy. I'm sure if they're casting...
Is he having trouble casting? He's having's having a big time. He cannot find a single.
John has just said. He's going to cast his own family.
That's it. Well, I can only coach.
I can't play. That's fine.
Rick Fox will be the head coach in Space Jam 2. I've called.
Rick Fox, thank you so much. Really appreciate you stopping by.
Awesome stories, man. You're welcome anytime.
I appreciate that. Be sure to stop back in.
to stop back here thanks so much that interview with rick fox was brought to you guys by bird dogs bird dogs is one of my favorite companies that's a sponsor of ours i wear bird dogs nearly every day in the summertime they're shorts they're perfect for the gym you can go swimming in them they air out really really fast they've got a built-in liner that doubles as underwear so like i said it solves a lot of problems you don't have to worry about mixing and matching if you want to work out before you go to work just boom pack two pairs of bird dogs in your gym bag you are good to go uh big cat you wear them too right i do i love them what's the longest stretch of time that you've spent wearing bird dogs over the summer for me it's probably a month and a half yeah i was gonna say a month easily month and a half they are seriously like the most comfortable shorts that i've ever put on you're gonna love them i love them we all love them go to birddogs.com enter promo code take and they're gonna throw in a pair of nunchucks yeah you heard that right nunchucks shout out arizona just legalized nunchucks finally oh hell yes it's gonna be huge for the bird dogs market they'll give you an actual murder weapon along with your pair of bird dogs that's birddogs.com promo code take and boom a free pair of nunchucks with your pair of bird dogs you will not take these things off I promise you the interview is also brought to you by Francis Ellis's comedy special taping this Friday May 17th at the Wilbur Theater in Boston. He's doing two shows there.
Get tickets at thewilbur.com or francisellis.com. That's francisellis.com.
This is Francis' first stand-up special, and it's all the best stuff that he's come up with over the last seven years. He'll be playing songs, telling stories.
Go out and support our guy Francis at thewilbur.com or francis ellis.com this friday may 17th okay let's get to some segments first up we have no one wants to coach the lakers well someone does want to coach the lakers his name is frank vogel and he's already gotten cucked cucked in the way like on the way to the job he got cucked. In the announcement that they hired Frank Vogel,

they also said, and we'll be bringing Jason Kidd on the staff

as his top assistant.

And then they said that we're going to have all the assistants

won't really have a hierarchy so that it's like the Phil Jackson style.

But that's clearly not true because they basically,

I don't understand what the Lakers are doing.

Their obsession with Jason Kidd is very bizarre.

Jason Kidd is a bad coach.

He's got some pictures.

He's a bad coach.

And they tried to force Jason Kidd on Ty Lue.

Thank you. understand what the Lakers are doing.
Their obsession with Jason Kidd is very bizarre. Jason Kidd is a bad coach.
He's got some pictures. He's a bad coach and they tried to force Jason Kidd on Ty Lue.
Ty Lue was like, no. And then they tried to force him on Frank Vogel.
He's like, yes. So Frank Vogel, you got cucked before.
You set the tone in the relationship. You got no hand.
If you're planning a wedding and your wife's like, hey, I need your best man to be Lane Kiffin. Yeah.
Sure. Right.
That'll work out. No way will this go poorly.
Yeah. So Frank Vogel's new coach.
Did they just name Jason Kidd head coach in waiting already? Pretty much. Head coach when LeBron decides that he hates Frank Vogel, which could be at any moment.
They also had one of the saddest protests I've ever seen outside of Staples Center. Shout out to all the Lakers fans.
There were literally dozens of them who showed up trying to get. I think they're trying to get Kurt Rambis fired slash Rob Palenka and Jeannie Buss out.
I don't know. It was all very bizarre.
I just love that Lakers fans are already fed up with LeBron. Maybe not directly.
You can become a Clippers fan. Yeah.
It's pretty easy. And LeBron might get traded.
To the Clippers. To somewhere else.
Yeah. He doesn't have a no trade clause.
LeBron for Kawhi straight up. Even though Kawhi's...
Well, they signed him to the Supermax. That's an interesting question in itself because I don't think that Kawhi Leonard's going to be that much more attracted by an extra $50 million that the Raptors are going to be able to sign him to as a supermax.
For Kawhi, it's like he doesn't care about money. No, he cares about being at a place where his personality can shine.
He cares about having the latest software installed in his body. Yes.
It's going to be interesting, though, to see what happens with – well, no, actually it won't be interesting to see what happens with Frank Vogel. Frank Vogel is like he got hired to get fired.
Yeah. Essentially.
When you say it's going to be interesting to see what Frank Vogel does, you don't have to finish that sentence. You're already a liar.
No, I was going to say it's going to be interesting to see how Jason Kidd coaches Kyrie Irving. Yes.
That will be interesting. That will be very interesting.
That's an interesting dynamic. How long until Jason Kidd is the one that's drawing up plays on the sidelines? Yes.
And Frank Vogel is just more of a CEO.

Yeah.

How long until Jason Kidd has Frank Vogel bump into someone with a drink to try to get an extra timeout and then be like, that was not very classy of you.

That was a good move, though. That was basically Jason Kidd's best coaching decision ever.

That's why they want him on the team.

It's because Jason Kidd, you're really good at knocking over drinks.

Can you just hang out with LeBron all the time so he doesn't slug so much wine? Yeah, if you're just slapping the wine out of LeBron's hand. Hank, question for you.
How much respect would you lose for Kyrie if he goes to the Lakers? I'm very torn on this because part of me wants me to go there. Wants him to go there just so I can put all my hate into one team, but then the other part of me is scared that they'll

actually win. Yeah, that would actually

be the worst. If Kyrie Irving...

Imagine if Kyrie Irving goes to

the Lakers and the Celtics don't do

anything with their roster, but all those

guys become good again, and they

meet in the finals. That'd be

amazing. I would love to see.
Kyrie and LeBron

beat him. That would end your life.
Did you see

what Kyrie said after... We'd have to drown you in in zombie sorrows.
Kyrie had one of those interesting quotes. He was like, yeah, you know, I'll take some time to think about this loss in this season.
But first, I got to get home, hopefully safely, to my family and spend time with them. And so he just kind of threw that out there.
When you think about it, traveling is dangerous. Always.
Air travel. Every time you leave your house.
The drive back from the airport, you never know. These crazies on the road.
There's a measles outbreak in like six different parts of America. Yeah, so I haven't heard an update from Kyrie.
Hopefully, he got home safely from that loss. That's very ominous.
He's like. Be a real shame.
His post-game quotes have reached like strange philosophical. Cole he's like his It would be a real shame.
His postgame quotes have reached like strange philosophical –

He's like – his quotes are like Mike Tomlin,

if Mike Tomlin took a freshman year philosophy class from Bill Walton.

He just – everything he thinks is genius.

He actually is kind of like brand level of annoying everything he says.

He's just like, dude, shut up.

You're just trying to be cool every time you open your mouth. Shut up.
Stand up out of your wheelchair. You're fine.
You're useless at the end of the season. Oh, yes.
There we go. Let's go.
Okay. Let's do – we have two more things before we get to Game of Thrones recap.
We have a drunk idea. PFT, you had a drunk idea? Yeah, it's just an app that tells you how tall someone is.
You point your camera at them. That doesn't seem idea for you not for me oh well actually girls love guys that are under six feet tall because we live longer got better genes but this seems like i'm saying this is for blind people yeah the problem was i was at a bar on friday and there was a guy that had to be at least seven five and he was like an older guy and i've never seen like a tall old guy before and I was just looking at him and I was like, what is he, like, 7'3"? And he was like an older guy, and I've never seen a tall old guy before.

And I was just looking at him, and I was like, what is he, like 7'3"? And then the person

I was with was like, no, he's got to be like at least 7'5". And it's impossible to tell.

Once somebody gets over 7 feet tall...

Well, you can ask them.

Yeah, but that's the only question they ever get.

Yeah, I know.

Well, no, they'd probably get, do you play basketball?

Did you play basketball on this guy's...

Yeah.

Or volleyball, if it was in Europe? Are you George Mikan? yeah so i i just thought that'd be a handy app to have i don't i think it would that would be bad for you though because people would they'd say i was 5'7 and be like what he keeps saying he's 5'10 no they wouldn't know that at all you'd have to wear heels everywhere no i'm not 5'7 i've been very clear this app this is a very strange app to i feel like you can tell too it's only for basically over seven foot people yeah exactly so you just want to be able to tell how it locks if it's under seven feet so you just want an app for like the maybe like five times a year you see someone who's over seven feet yeah how tall they are yeah instead of and you don't want to be rude and go up and be like how tall are you you'd much rather do the classy thing just point your camera at them and take a picture of them okay um i can't see a lot of use for this app but that's why it's a drunk that's why it was a drunk idea why it's a drunk idea so also an app that you can just point at a crowd and tell how many people are there okay in like a small area in like a you're just trying to win you're just trying to trying to win the uh you know the thing they do in like the six innings seeing how many people are at the stadium exactly yeah you can take a picture of a stadium and immediately like boom counts it i'm sure the military has something like that i was gonna say all of china has this yeah you walk by something and they just recognize your face yeah facial recognition you actually want like more robots to figure out everyone like who everyone I do. That's not good.
I trust robots more than I trust people. Okay, that's bad.
That's really bad. Kawhi hit that shot.
It's true. After four bounces.
The quadruple doink. Should we do a Monday reading? Let's do a Monday reading.
So we have this from Ricardo Jaramillo. I think this was an essay.
It was a Modern Love College essay contest. That seems like a very specific thing to write about.
So it's titled, Why Can't Men Say I Love You to Each Other? It Doesn't Count If You Add Bro or Man to the End. That's crazy.
Yeah, right now you've lost me. Yeah, yeah.
All right, so we'll hop around here. He starts with, I'm having L-word troubles, but my troubles don't involve a lover.

There's no romance or sex in this, no flowers, candles, or dancing.

Why can't you send candles to your buddy?

That's true.

Or have sex with them.

Yeah.

My L-word troubles are with my boy, my best friend, Keechie.

I've told him I love him probably five or six times now, but he never says it back.

Is Keechie his dog? Nope. It's his bro.
Okay. It's his friend.
When people say I love you, especially for the first time, there are a number of things they may be saying. Maybe it's do you love me? Or more urgently, please love me.
This guy already seems a little too much. Okay.
The first time it's always, do you love me also?

Yeah, do you love me back?

Can you just say it back?

With Kichi, it's not like that.

I know he loves me.

I feel it all the time.

I don't need to ask for his love.

I don't need to wonder.

I tell him I love him for a simple reason.

Nothing could be more true.

But he doesn't say it back.

Mostly I've said it when we're leaving each other a couple of times over the phone.

Once when I was drunk,

that one seems... That was a weird one probably.
That one was a weird one for sure another time when he was hurt and i was trying to be supportive there's always silence for a moment and then he says something like yeah bro i'll catch you soon yeah that's what that's what guys do yeah listen let me just what your feelings let me interject real quick if i could give one piece of advice to the author it's a lot less weird and more accepted if you just Jimmy tap the guy. Yeah.
Just give him a little sack tap. That means the same thing.
That's how guys say I love you. Love you too, bro.
I don't need him to say those exact words to me. It kind of sounds like you do if you're writing an essay about it.
Right? Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. This seems like kind of an overreaction the other way.
Yes. I wonder, though, about what keeps him from saying them.
What keeps nearly all young men from being able to tell their male friends that they love them? Good question. I say it to millions of people every day.
Every single day. They hardly ever say it back, but that's not why I say it.
Read my column in the New York Times. He goes on to tell a story about his childhood friend who he used to hold hands with, and then someone was like, dude, you guys hold hands? And they stopped holding hands.
But anyway, he goes on. I met Keechee in the middle of my freshman year when I was once again a nervous new kid.
You know what just occurred to me? What? Sorry to interrupt, but it occurred to me that guys, we invented the handshake so that we could hold hands with another guy, but it's got a definitive end point on it. Well, unless you're drunk.
Yeah, then it's just you pull on it. But it's like shake a guy's hand.
The bro hug. Yeah, you shake a guy's hand.
That's the cool way of being like we're holding hands, but we're not holding hands anymore. When I love someone, I pound them, and then I blow it up.
Yeah, that's pretty cool. Yeah, that is really cool.
Do you ever do this one? The up, down, bump, and then... Or do you lock it?

That's almost holding hands.

Yeah, lock it.

Okay, so back to the article.

That was a quick show and tell of what you can do instead of saying I love you.

So he says, I've gone through life with a rotating set of anxious tics.

That year I had become fond of swinging my university lanyard with my key in circles,

wrapping and unwrapping around my finger.

When people started flowing into my dorm room, I began my nervous swing,

not noticing what I was doing, until I heard a crack and a saw

that my key had struck a stranger's iPhone screen, leaving a minor scratch.

That stranger?

Keechee.

No, it was a guy named Fred. Oh.
No, it was Keechee. Oh, yeah.
It was Keechee. It was Keechee.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, I'll say this.
If a stranger cracks your iPhone and you still elect to be best friends with that person, that's an emotion more powerful than love. Yeah, way more powerful than love.
The fact that you got over that massive hurdle on your very first friend date. Yeah.
And you powered through it. That's like getting herpes from a girl on your first date.
You go on and you end up marrying her. He keeps going on talking about his friendship with Kichi.
It's pretty deep. Listen, we all have friends, deep friends, longtime friends.
I admire how quietly deliberate Kichi is and the balance he brings to his life. When I go to him with girlfriend problems, writing problems, or any other kind of problems, some little things he says or notices always stay with me for days.
That's better than love, dude. You have so many things that are better than love, and yet you just need it.
You're a little bit, a little extra. You're needy.
A little extra. The codes men follow in love are tricky.
For example, while saying straight, I love you, is frowned upon, something saying to another man, much love, who says much love, or I got love for you, is okay.

It's like, I like you, but I'm not in like with you.

These things are not okay, by the way.

Saying, if I walked in, I was like, PFT, I got love for you, man.

Hey, much love, big cat.

Much love.

Hey, one.

One.

Remember one?

That way you just get rid of the word love all together.

But we are talking about one love.

But I just want to say, fellas, we're telling each other that we love each other now.

Thank you. I don't know.
He probably doesn't love you. Hank, I love you.
Don't be a Keechee, Hank. I love you guys.
All right. Whoa.
Don't be a Keechee. He keeps going on and on, and I don't even know where it ends up.
Basically, Keechee, just fucking say love you to this guy so he stops writing essays about you. Yeah, that's a good point.
Because that's a really specific name. You read this, and you're like, oh, I fucking...
Oh, Keechee? I know that guy. He's got a friend who needs to say I love you.
How would you feel if you were Keechee and your best friend wrote an article for the New York Times about how you won't tell him that you love him? Do you think that Keechee's move is he reads this and first thing he does is text or call and say I love you? Because if it's not, I think that relationship's over. I think he's got to, or maybe he has a little fun with it and just text and says, much love.
That's good. Or just heart emoji and then, yeah.
All right. So here's the end of it.
There's a part of this story I haven't admitted yet. Each time I say I love you, Takichi, it feels uncomfortable.
I feel the weirdness of it in myself. That's because he doesn't say it back, dude.
That's why it's weird. The lesson is burrowed in that deep I hesitate, flinch, but in my conscious mind, I know it's what I want to say, so I try to say it loves him.
Yeah, we're good. It sounds like he's comfortable with that.
Oh, we're fucking good. Just don't worry about the guy saying that.
So you don't have to do anything. How about this, fellas? Instead of saying I love you to your friends, if that makes you uncomfortable, the new code phrase that we're swapping out now is, what's up, bitch? Yeah, or say, I don't want to be Seebs.
Yes. Yeah.
There we go. I don't want to be Seebs.
I don't want to be Seebs. Seebs, bro.
I don't want to be Seebs. I want to be with you.
I want to be with you. That's what you say to your bros.
I want to be with you. I want to be around you.
I want to be inside you. I want to smell you.
Try that out with your buddies. I want to be inside you, dude.
With my feelings. Hey, Hank.
I want to be inside you. With love.
Do you have anything to say? love dude i'm talking love hank do you want to say it back please say it i don't want to be deceived no i don't want to say yeah yeah what's up bitch all right so it's 2019 guys you can say i love you to each other but if your best friend writes an entire article in the new york times saying how wants you to say I love you, you might need a new best friend.

Yeah.

Or just say it back.

Yeah.

Say it back so that he stops writing it.

Yeah.

You don't have to mean it. He's going to write a fucking book about you, Keechee.

You don't have to mean it.

Just say I love you one time.

Keechee, you're about to be in a fucking rom-com movie about two bros that don't love each other.

It's bad.

Judd Apatow is licking his chops right now.

You already did that.

I love you, man.

I love you, man.

Yeah, you did.

No, we're not allowed to say man afterwards. Yeah, yeah, right? I love you, man.
I love you, man. Yeah, you did.
No, we're not allowed to say man afterwards.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I love you, bitch.

Parentheses, man.

Yeah.

The sequel.

All right, Hank, hit the music.

We're going to do Game of Thrones recap,

Game of Thrones spoilers.

If you haven't watched, don't listen.

If you have, we got something special planned for you.

We start at the fiery tundra as Queen

Dany McBride Targaryen

took her army

eastbound and down

to King's Landing.

Cersei Biscuit Lannister

had a heart comparatively

three times the size

of Khaleesi's

as the blonde bombshell

imagined her dragon bringing thunder, thunder, lightning, and the thunder through a crowd of innocent women and children, burning the city to a ground in a touching tribute to Henry Kissinger. We now go live to Drago with a...
Tyrion Lannister up. Little, little darling steered it up.
Setting his brother Jamie free so he could go pork his sister one last time. Until Euron Greyjoy got up in his guts on the beach.
Cersei's army tried to throw in the towel, but Greyworm didn't hear no bell. Leading the charge through the city like Vontaze Perfect in a room full of defenseless recyclers.
What? What? He could go. Fumble! Back down to the streets where John Edward Snowden was disillusioned with his government's overreach as his army advanced on surrendering soldiers, running up the score to get a more favorable Ken Palm ranking for quality wins.
What? a lot of bodies. Some dragging.
Meanwhile, back up in the castle, Qyburn did his best impression of a Netflix documentary and got thrown down a staircase. The hound took on the mountain like a St.
Bernard as the two brothers dueled to the death in a scene surely ghostwritten by Cersei's main overrated archer, Aaron Rodgers. And folks, put out an APB for Arya Stark, because stop me if you've heard this before, but a famous killer is on the run riding a slow-moving white Bronco.
Whoop! Whoop! All right. A little fastest two minutes for you Game of Thrones recap.
That's probably the only fastest two minutes that we've done in two minutes. My voice is not ready for it.
I, like, just broke down there. It's the off-season for us, too.
It's the off-season for us, too. Let's start from the beginning.
Hank, you're a fucking monster. Me? Yes.
Why? So, Daenerys. Well, first of all, we should start with Varys, who gets killed right out the gun.

Lord of Whisper is the guy that has the most shit to talk about, and you just don't let him give his last words.

That was kind of annoying.

Yeah.

Well, guess what's really extra is killing people with your dragon.

Like, death by dragon seems a little excessive. It's faster.

A sword works, but doesn't it feel like it's, I don't know.

It feels a little cruel.

It's fast, and he's hairless, so he doesn't burn up.

There's no, like, elongated death.

It's like when they used to do the electric chair, and it didn't always work.

Yeah, I did notice they didn't put a sponge on his head before they did that, so he probably did suffer.

He didn't get a last meal.

He just got killed, that dickless dude who ended up being right.

It's the first meal he's missing his life, though.

Yeah, it's true, because Daenerys.

Daenerys?

How do you say her name?

Daenerys.

Daenerys is on one. She is mad.
She is triggered. She is very mad online.
She is like, you know, when you get older and you get that moment where you start copying what your parents do, but you don't realize it. You're like, one day you're young and the next day you're like, man, these games have too many timeouts.
Or, oh, man, these guys, they're dunking too much. Why don't they lay it up? That is what Dani did, except instead of complaining about too many commercials, she just blew up the whole fucking city because that's what her dad wanted to do.
She did. Pretty much.
But, Big Cat, I'm kind of on Team Hank here because Cersei did that to her own people. She could have given it up.
Not fully. She's too much pride.
Not fully. Even until the very end, she's like, you know what she was doing? It was a 2019 version of that Hitler movie where he's in the bunker.
He's like, no, no, that's fine. I've got my army around the city.
It'll be fine. And then she was slowly coming to the realization that she fucked up big time.
Wait, but what are you talking about? They basically gave up. They dropped all their swords.
Yeah, but she did. They fucking surrendered, man.
She did not give the surrender call. But they still surrendered.
Literally, all the guys dropped their swords. The fight was over.
They're like, we're done. We're outmatched.
You can't show up to a football game. That whole scene happened.
If a team against Alabama is getting blown out, they're not just going to quit halfway through the game. You don't take a knee in the third quarter.
I agree. You show up for battle, you've got to fucking battle.
This is exactly why the Mad King was the Mad King. He wanted to blow up the entire King's Landing.
That's exactly what he wanted to do. But that's because he was lost.
That's why. He did that in a losing effort.
Dude, she did what her dad was trying to do. Kill all the innocent people.
She murdered everyone. Here's my question to you, big cat.
Would Cersei have shown that kind of mercy to Dany and her people? If Cersei were invading wherever Dany lives, I don't know, like her fucking weird castle with a room for a dragon. If Cersei's invading that town, do you think that Cersei would have mercy on Dany's soldiers? She already did because she showed up in episode four.
She showed up with her dragon and her whole army, and Cersei could have killed him right there. I know she could have.
Yeah, she could have. She was sitting there with all those fucking boys and girls.
I don't think that Cersei would have shown the mercy that you're expecting from Dany. But hold on.
Agreed. Thank you, Hank.
Wait, hold on. I agree with Hank, too.
Okay. Hold on.
You're just mad that your queen went out crying like a little bitch. No, I'm not mad.
I'm mad because you think that she's like this just ruler, and she just showed that she's exactly like her dad. I never said she's a just ruler.
I'm Team Targ. Targaryens are fucking psychos, dude.
Exactly, but that's why you're Team Targ. One's crazy, one's good.
And then she's not good. She's crazy.
She proved that she was crazy. One is crazy, Dany.
One is good. Jon.
Oh, dude. Exactly, but that's why you're team Targaryen.
One's crazy, one's good. And then she bids out.
She's not good. She's crazy.
She proved that she was crazy. One is crazy, Danny.
One is good, Jon. Oh, so you're okay with the crazy, but you want also the good? So wait, you're rooting for who? I'm team Targ.
No, they're not the same. Aegon Targaryen and Jon Snow.
No, they're not the same. Yes.
What are you bullshit? No, he is a Targ. I'm team Targ.
Yeah, okay. She's his aunt.
So you want her to just just kill everyone I want the Targaryens to be ruling at the end Got it So she did bitch out though like big time She pulled a Saddam Hussein Was like hiding out in a little spider hole at the end Underground Although she didn't want to at the beginning I don't even know if she's dead Everyone's saying she's dead She's had a castle that fell on her face Wait but aren't you the king of If they don't die in front of your face, they're not dead? I make an exception when a castle falls on your head. What about Euron Greyjoy? Is he dead? I forget what happened.
Yeah, he's dead. He didn't die in front of our face either.
But he got stabbed center mass. The same as Theon.
No, Theon got stabbed. Theon got stabbed in his appendix.
Keep going. Possibly still alive.
Euron coming back when Jaime was walking up, that was probably, I feel like everyone in the world collectively groaned when he just showed up and was like, oh, Jaime, let me stab you ten times and you're just going to walk away. He's just swimming out of the ocean like, hey, here I am, guys, even though he got blown up by a dragon.
By the way, Tyrion's the biggest snitch of all time. Tyrion deserves to die.
How far was that swim? I reckon it was probably a few miles. And he was wearing body armor.
How about Dany just finally now realizing you can just blow shit up with dragons? Like, where was this? This is kind of a problem I have with, like, how the last season has gone. Like, she just all of a sudden is like, I'm just going to blow everything up.
And, Hank, she's supposed to be the, like, just ruler. She's the freer of people.
She just murdered everyone. No, but she said it in it in the episode She was like aren't you worried about all the innocent people She said it's not about these people It's about all the people of the future that we're going to save You know it's kind of crazy if you just think of like You gotta think of the long game You think of dragons as being like an allegory for the atomic bomb Yeah It's like hey whoever has one of them They can rule the entire world If nobody else has one Yes and then all of all of a sudden, someone else is going to get one.
Yeah. Now we're all fucked.
All right. What else you got, Hank? I wrote.
Arya is going to kill Dany, by the way. I wrote Tyrion equals dumb fuck.
Oh, seriously, it's a degenerate because when she's dying, that's a classic degenerate move. Like, oh, no, no, we're good.
Like, the walls are coming. It's like, no, those are breached.
It's like, no, no, no. We got the golden company.
She couldn't believe it. golden company she was in shock but she was like she was she had that degenerate gambling like yeah oh if i keep if i keep going it's still gonna work out what was up with the mountain like being able to survive all that stuff he's basically uh the monster from frankenstein he was like paul pierce he took like nine swords he he could he that's so fucked up uh that kyber But Kyber.
No, but then he came back and then he put one in his eyes. Hilarious.
Hilarious. He just got tossed down the stairs.
That guy sucks, too. I'm happy he died.
The Klegaine Bowl, were you pleased, Hank? Yeah, I didn't really care about that that much. Really? That was like a fan thing that I was never like.
What's that? The Hound versus the Mountain. They're brothers.
It was beautifully shot the way it was like the dragon came flying by during it and they both went out like into a fiery that like yeah because the episode was visually and musically once again delivered very good how is Danny gonna be able to rule like she's gonna have she's gonna have some problems like Jon Snow is not happy with her she's gonna she's gonna need like Tony Dungy to rehab her image our Ari is advise her yeah Ari is. Arya seems like she's on a mission.
Or Arya's going to try to kill her, get killed, and then Jon's going to kill her. If Arya gets killed, the internet riots.
I mean, she's going to. Arya's not going to survive.
No. I mean, she's the one everyone's kind of rooting for now.
As long as Davos lives, I'll be good. I also, it felt like one of those episodes that they could have, like it could have been like 45 minutes.
They kind of stretched it out. Well, I kind of like that.
A lot of the season has felt like they've just been stretching it out as far as they can possibly go. How about, by the way, Arya being like, hey, you can't stay here, and then she just runs those poor people into the Dothraki.
She's like, you can't stay here, you're going to die. And she walked that lady out in the beginning.
That was the lady she walked out in's bad tour guide just she's killing everyone uh let's see i did feel like they stretched out like aria running around how many different hallways can she get lost in over the course of the last like 15 minutes she was just covered in soot just running around uh that horse scene took a while too do you think that uh so so you guys both think cersei and Jaime died? I mean, I agree, but it is like the classic, we didn't see them die? No, they died. There's one episode left.
There's one episode left. I know, that's kind of a shitty way for Cersei to die.
Danny killed her. That's your queen, dude.
She's a central part of the whole thing, and she dies from a couple of rocks falling on her head. Like a little bitch.
Oh, wow. Okay.
That's your queen, right? Yeah, because she's been the same person from day one. She doesn't fucking go mad like Danny did.
Danny has been like that the whole entire show. You're so wrong.
You're so wrong. She was the freer of the people, dude.
The mother of dragons. She literally went from city to city trying to free the slaves and now she's like, I don't give a fuck about the poor people.
She literally just blew up all the poor people. You cannot say.
You can root for her all you want, but don't tell me she hasn't done a heel. I never saw a run for her.
I'm Team Tark. Oh, my God.
Team Tark. So who do you want to win? A Targaryen.
No, you have to say which one. I mean, Jon, obviously.
That's such a boring ending, though. Like Jon Snow snow the good guy that kind of sucks and uh is not good at expressing his emotions ends up sitting in the eye he doesn't even want it doesn't even want it doesn't even want i think it's either i think it's gotta be bran it's crazy there's one more episode yeah it is crazy it feels like they rushed it no matter what happens people are gonna be very upset at the last oh yeah oh there's no way to end it to make everybody happy.
We also had, I'm trying to think of what else. Oh, yeah, the Hound.
Aaron Rodgers let down. Aaron Rodgers died.
He was on the losing team. That made me happy.
Didn't show up. Barely showed up.
Who else? Who else, Hank? I'm trying to think what else happened. Grey Worm went hammer time.
Like, once they got, I mean, you said it in the recap.

It was funny when John was trying to, like, stop people when they were just killing each other.

He was like, oh, no, guys, stop.

He was like, no, bro, this is my life.

That was a classic John Snow.

I didn't get my dick cut off.

Yeah, Grey Worm was like, I didn't get my dick cut off for nothing.

John Snow was, like, slow motion, half paying attention, and, like, guys were just walking up to him,

and he wasn't even paying attention, and just sliced him in half.

Yeah, dude, he's the best.

That was John Snow in a nutshell for me. He didn't even want to kill people.
He saw war crimes happening and he was like, ah, we shouldn't be doing this war crimes. And then he was like, ah, everybody else is doing war crimes, so I guess I got to do it.
No, he saved that one girl. Saved one girl.
Yeah, that counts. I guess.
But then she got blew up by a dragon. Well, yeah, that's everyone.
Literally everyone got blown up by a dragon. Yeah.
By Hank's queen. The one issue I have with the dragon stuff.
So sad. Some of them.
She also blew up her own soldiers. Yeah, because she's fucking mad.
She doesn't trust John anymore. She's psycho.
What don't you understand, Hank? I kind of like that, though. She's insane.
Dude, she's been left for dead. mean like pft the whole entire show is built off of how the mad king her dad was like the worst ruler and wanted to blow up all his own people in king's landing and then we get to this point and she does exactly what her dad the mad king did and it's like we're history repeats itself targaryens are assholes and they blow everyone To be fair to me, I did not know that because that wasn't included in the 16-minute recap.
I know, yes. So that's what Hank's rooting for.
Basically, the whole setup is just like, this guy is the worst guy. He tried to blow up all his people, then they had a revolution against him.
Now we're back to square one. I just like that she's got those eyebrows and the blonde hair.
It's just cool to see her watching her riding on a dragon. What's her name's dead? She didn't have her braids.
Her hair was a mess. Let's say you had two of your children got murdered.
J.P.F. Two of your children got murdered.
Your closest advisor slash friend zone, king of the friend zone, Jorah, died fighting for you. That doesn't count.
Melisandre murdered. The person who you're in love with actually has the most rightful claim to the throne, and people like him more than you.
So you have no allies. You have no friends.
They're all dead. Your lover is your cousin or your nephew.
Tell me you wouldn't go crazy. By the way, Jon Snow should get some of this blame because if he just had sex with her, she probably wouldn't have gone crazy.
Exactly. Yeah.
Actually, that's a very good point. Just sack up and fuck your aunt and save millions of lives.
And she would not have gone crazy. It's like put your money where your mouth is you know you can flip out while you watch a city burn and be like we shouldn't be doing this or you could just squeeze off a nut the night before just fuck your aunt with auntie danny yeah just 69 with your aunt and you could save literally millions of lives instead of just standing there being like no guys this is too far and he's not horny enough that's the problem i.
I'm only rooting for the Starks. I have one dumb question about Game of Thrones.
I'm good for one of these every single episode. Jon Snow's a Stark, too.
I mean, he's part Stark. So, wait.
You just got yourself in a little pickle, my friend. You talk too much.
How? I root for the Targaryens and the Starks. Team Targ.
He's hedging his bets. He's found a way to root

for everyone. It's ridiculous.
I just root for the

storylines. It's insane.
My question is

does anybody in Game of Thrones ever go

on vacation anywhere? What do you mean?

It just seems like everybody's always working. Melisandre

and Grey Worm had that one planned.

Her name's not Melisandre so please stop

saying that. Missande? Yeah.

Melisandre's the red woman. True.
Wow.

Wow. I just dunked on

you Hank. Okay.
I don't know what that means.

I mean he, Kingers is the red woman. True.
Wow. Wow.
I just dunked on

you, Hank. Okay.
I don't know what that means.

I mean, Hank is the

king of saying that I mispronounce everything

and he just mispronounced

a person's character for a totally different person's

name. So wait, they planned a vacation? Yeah.

Just never got around to it? That's pretty

relatable. She got her head cut off.

Extremely relatable.

It puts everything into perspective. Next time you complain about travel travel delays like your your plane doesn't go off in time.
Just remember that Grey Worm and Missandei were about to go off to a vacation that she got her head cut off. That was my other note.
Golden Company worst investment of all time. Yeah.
Well, you can't you can't hire swords like that. They're not going to fight the same way.
So half those guys that were fighting were hired swords.

Oh, okay.

Yeah, they were mercenaries.

Why do you call them swords?

They call them hired swords.

Sell swords.

Also, where the fuck was Braun now that we're talking?

Oh, yeah, that guy.

I guess he just disappeared.

Yeah.

Where was Bran this whole episode?

He was probably just sitting in his fucking wheelchair trying to talk to people riddles

and shit.

Still underneath the tree?

Like, hey, Bran, what do you want for dinner?

He's telling riddles to an owl.

Well, the three-eyed raven sees it all.

Sees everything for dinner.

It's like, bro, I just wanted to know if you wanted tater tots or not. Why didn't Arya try to change into somebody that was like right next to Cersei? I think they just forgot about that she can do that.
Yeah, and she also has to kill someone first for that to happen. And there were only like two people next to Cersei at this point.
Oh, she has to have killed them already and then she can take the face. She could go take Qyburn's little smashed skull.
That was so funny. God damn it.
That little bitch. He just got tossed.
Also, I mean, people have been shitting on the writers this year for, you know, not having source material and not being original. The fact that they had to go back to the well for the eye thing, that was a little, you know.
Which one? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like him smashing his eyes out.
It was like it worked one time, but, you know. Either way, last one coming up next week.
I don't know. I don't even know what to make of it anymore.
I mean, Danny just went mad. She went crazy.
Team Tart. Whatever happens.
You cut off one of her friend's head, and then all of a sudden she blows everyone up. Well, I.
Seems a little excessive. No, she's just like us.
If your best best friend's head got cut off you would be pretty irrational if your nephew wouldn't fuck kill everyone yeah yeah they get on your dragon kill everyone by the way one one little shout out to uh is it drogon that's still left yeah that guy he's meant to do a lot of shit that's the mvp performance yeah but it's kind of fucked up like the whole team on his dragon dude it's like being the robot pft is a robot guy it's like being the drone it is you didn't want to kill everyone right you're just told what to do anybody liberating a country we're being greeted as liberators this is now you're all the way in here yeah hanks hank is now literally hank you would love our tactics in vietnam it's actually called operation king's lane landing. We'll just blow everyone up, and then they'll become our subjects.
They'll love democracy once we kill all their people. Team TARC.
Okay. All right, see you guys on Wednesday.
Love you guys, bro. Much love.
This is Jon Snow. So I assume, my lord, you're here to bend the knee.
I am not. Our two houses were allies for centuries.
You've traveled all this way to break faith with House Targaryen. Honor the pledge your ancestor made to mine.

Bend the knee and I will name you

Warden of the North. By declaring

yourself king of the northernmost

kingdom, you are an open

rebellion. I mean

no offense, your grace,

but I don't know you.

Am I your prisoner? Not yet. I put my trust in you.
A stranger. I'm asking you.
To trust in a stranger.

What do you think of it?

Who?

I believe you know of whom I speak.

You are

a good heart.

I'm no Mr. St I'll be given you permission to leave.
I don't need your permission. If I don't return, at least you won't have to deal with the king in the north anymore.

Never used to him.

He told me to do nothing before and I listened to you.

I'm not doing nothing again.