Postgame Show: Top 5 Athletes Who Need To Come Home (feat. JuJu Gotti & Amin Elhassan)
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Speaker 1 jeremy any slurs you want to get off yeah yeah that was crazy any other slurs you want to just rattle up i did not know what i had done there yeah clankers cow yeah we were just yeah clankers that's that's another one
Speaker 1 i said it it over the.
Speaker 1 I don't want AI to have that history.
Speaker 1
Nah, bleep that. Bleep that.
Yeah, I don't want
Speaker 1
to worse than what's not. Someone do the 3-2-1.
You're going to lose all your jobs. Jeremy said the N-word for those.
Speaker 1
That's why I said not to bleep it. It sounds worse if you bleep it.
It's pretty bad. I don't.
All right, here we go. Thank you.
Bleep all that in. No.
Three, two, all of it in. Three, two,
Speaker 1 one.
Speaker 1 I mean, Cinephobe does such a great job of covering these poor movies, but right now, I have a bone to pick with you.
Speaker 1 I don't know if you guys have ever done emergency episodes, if you've ever struck while the iron is hot. Right now, this War of the Worlds with Ice Cube is having its moment.
Speaker 1 And for you guys to not jump in on the action and put out an episode yesterday feels like you're letting your audience down.
Speaker 1 Has there ever been an emergency episode for a really, really bad movie that has taken over the pop culture?
Speaker 4 Man, I don't think so. I think the closest thing we got was the Mortal Kombat.
Speaker 5 Oh, yeah, the Homeboard Kombat episodes.
Speaker 4 Yeah, but that was just to preview the actual new Mortal Kombat movie that was coming out, which, by the way, Mike, I don't know if you saw Mortal Kombat 2. Yeah.
Speaker 1
Oh, I saw the trailer. Thank God we're getting away from that guy that wasn't in the games.
I hated that guy. Yeah.
Speaker 4 I don't know why they do this.
Speaker 1 I genuinely hope he dies in the first few minutes.
Speaker 4 We don't need more, right? We don't need more.
Speaker 4 Really quick, by the way, before I get out of here, Mike, I do want to say, because you are an aficionado of international international soccer, I don't know if you saw Sudan beat Nigeria 4-0,
Speaker 4 and this is like a massive thing. This is an AFCON play.
Speaker 1 Nigeria is the gold standard in Afcon.
Speaker 4
Look, I'm going to tell you a quick story. 25 years ago, I was in Sudan for a World Cup qualifier that was played in Sudan.
And if Sudan won that game, they were going to go to the 2002 World Cup.
Speaker 4
And they had to beat Nigeria. Nigeria, if they lost the game, they were out.
They knew it. So they had to win.
They brought back all their top-tier talents, akosha kanu all those guys uh
Speaker 4 and i was like man we can do this so you know why not us all the stuff we're playing at home and akosha is getting on the bus and people outside ask him yo what's what what's going to happen today and he holds up a hand and he goes five we're going to beat him by five they beat us by four and it was it was crushing for me in the stadium just to see everyone turn on the team after one goal because Akosha scored this amazing goal and they started dancing.
Speaker 4
Everyone started dancing too. And I was like, this is awful.
One day we'll we'll be good enough to beat them and we'll return the favor. And 25 years later, we finally did it.
We gave them four.
Speaker 1 Wow.
Speaker 4 Suck it.
Speaker 1
It's a great story. Took a while.
It's a great story, the Sudan and soccer team.
Speaker 1 What up, Juju?
Speaker 5 What up, y'all? How y'all doing?
Speaker 1 We're doing great outside of Jeremy. Greg, make yourself at home, by the way.
Speaker 5 Right. Jesus, Jeremy.
Speaker 5 Kiss your mother with those lips.
Speaker 1 Man.
Speaker 1 This is going to be haunting me all day. And probably for the rest of my life.
Speaker 5
Yeah, I liked y'all conversation on the hard knots, though. As a Buffalo Bills fan, let's go, Buffalo.
I'm so happy that this is the product because usually we're getting spicy stories.
Speaker 5
We getting people getting their egos big and struck. Man, y'all see it firsthand, but we ain't got nothing but a whole bunch of square bears on our team.
We lame as hell, and that's how I like it.
Speaker 5 Stay lame. I was watching it through the lens of like, like, watching it, like, me and my girl, just trying to imagine a mean watching this with just a random person who don't love the bills.
Speaker 5 And I was like, boy, when KJ Hamlin pulled that scooter out of the box, I was like, oh, they hate this shit right here. That is true.
Speaker 1
It's like kind of like your own brand. Like, I was riveted by Joe Philbin on this thing, but the like the nation couldn't be like.
I thought you were talking about your farts.
Speaker 3 It's like an own brand thing.
Speaker 1
It is kind of like hard knocks. This is almost like farts.
Like, everyone likes their team. Spelling your own farts.
Yeah. Never heard it put quite so eloquently.
Thank you.
Speaker 1 Juju, are you glad that Mac Collins isn't there? Because I feel like if Mac was there, this would be the Mac show this season.
Speaker 5
No, he's fun. This would be the Mac show.
Yeah,
Speaker 5 but I don't, I'm not mad. I'm mad he's gone, though, because I think he was a good talent.
Speaker 1
Yeah, Mac Collins, former Greg Cody show guest, by the way. Is that so? Oh, yeah, that's right.
Where'd he rank on your list of all-time guests? He's on there. I think he was in the top 50.
Speaker 1
He's in the middle somewhere. Yeah.
Top 50. But Juju, Juju, I think you just
Speaker 1 coined a great phrase for the Bills, like their season theme, stay lame.
Speaker 3 Yeah, I like that.
Speaker 5
Stay lame as hell. Stay lame.
And
Speaker 5 Zach said it earlier, McDermott on the hot seat. Boy, McDermott been on the hot seat with me personally, specifically for about three years now, because we keep coming up to this certain point.
Speaker 5 We ran the same play a lot of times last year in that game, like to the same side. It's like, hey, man, bud salute to my brother.
Speaker 5 He told us he was just getting through a bout with skin cancer last night. So you got to know much love to Mitt Dermitz and all the other
Speaker 5 MCs.
Speaker 1
Is this a post-game vibe, Dad? Like, what are you going for here? What do you mean? Just this vibe you're getting visually. It's casual.
It's a post-game thing.
Speaker 3 Right. Nice.
Speaker 5
I love it. I'm loving it.
I saw something online yesterday. Now, I don't know if I'm getting catfished or what, ball set,
Speaker 5 but I saw that a picture of Brock Bowers had finally came home. Saw that is this real? Did y'all see it? I saw it once.
Speaker 1 It's big if true. Not sure if it's true, but I saw it.
Speaker 5
Right. I think it's super, super good news if true.
So it made me make a top five people in sports that need to come home ASAP list.
Speaker 3 It's not good. Sorry.
Speaker 1 Not sportsman.
Speaker 1 I have my own game. Regular sports, right? Not sportsmen.
Speaker 1 The Derek White Memorial. Hey,
Speaker 1 don't give away the game.
Speaker 3 It already happened. I know.
Speaker 5 Right. OLI, Chris Paul.
Speaker 5
This way, brother. This way.
Really?
Speaker 1 I thought he had the Kobe like super low boy, like zero all across.
Speaker 5
Yeah, it looks like that from that angle. But whenever he's playing with the team and he gets a foul on him, over with, sir.
Juju. Salute, though.
Speaker 4
You know what the problem is? He's got the same thing. I don't want to, there's another guy that might be on your list, but he's got a really strong hairline.
Yeah.
Speaker 4 But then behind it, it's like a Hollywood facade.
Speaker 3 You know, like, oh, it's like New York City.
Speaker 1 I know who I mean, talking about.
Speaker 5 Yes. Number five, this is a deep cut, but if you real hoopers know, Devin Carter from the Sacramento Kings,
Speaker 5 son of Anthony Carter with the nuggets, brother.
Speaker 5
Come home soon. He got a drippy curl that's spotty.
You know them drippy curls. Once they go up here, it is a wrap.
So please come home, brother.
Speaker 4 And it's hereditary because his pops was early, too. He came in the football, not by choice.
Speaker 5
Exactly. You should take heed from your father.
That's what they're there for, to lead us and guide us. Number four, Kevin Durant.
Speaker 5 Come home and stay home.
Speaker 4 This is what I'm going to say.
Speaker 4 If he brushed his hair.
Speaker 4 I feel he might get some coverage. He might get some coverage if he brushed it.
Speaker 5 I saw a video circulating online yesterday about a fan in the crowd says uh kd is my mvp is my goat and mj i wasn't alive or something and he looked that way and boy
Speaker 5 come home asap brother
Speaker 3 uh number three derrick henry
Speaker 5 i like this one sneaky right people some people saw it some people didn't forgot it he cut his hair last year and i think he cut it for the right reason like you know it was it was was time.
Speaker 5
But now he growing it back. He got braids.
He gets put in.
Speaker 5
It's a lot going on, man. Brother, come home and stay home.
Ace out, Derrick Henry. Number two, LeBron James.
Speaker 1 All of favor.
Speaker 1 We all know who number one is. Oh, man.
Speaker 3 We got it.
Speaker 4 Number one. Put that much money and technology and science into your head, Juju, just to cut it all off.
Speaker 4 Also, remember he tried to soft-launch the bald head look when he was in Miami that one summer, and he looked crazy. And so that's when he knew, I can't go down this route.
Speaker 5
But I feel like we'll get used to it sooner than later, man. He got too much money to still be doing that, bro.
Come on, LeBron. Come on, ASAP.
Speaker 5
And Brock Bowers, if he has, if it's CGI, Brock Bowers, you're on this list. So just throwing that out there.
But the number one person that needs to come home, sirs. Jalen Suggs from your LMW Magic.
Speaker 1 Yeah,
Speaker 1 that's a tough one. All right.
Speaker 5 Man, it is getting tricky, Jalen.
Speaker 5 Congratulations on your relationship.
Speaker 5 Who you got, Mike? Trey Young.
Speaker 5 Oh, yeah.
Speaker 5 Wispy.
Speaker 4 He's got wispy hair.
Speaker 1 Yeah, Jalen Suggs, deservedly so.
Speaker 1
That is an all-timer. Absolutely.
But I can't believe that Trey Young didn't crack this list, given all the memes of that
Speaker 1 lollipop that gets stuck in the rug.
Speaker 5 Yeah, I got to live in Atlanta, and Trey be outside more than y'all would think he'd be outside. So
Speaker 5 I ain't got time for that. Trey, come on, watch out.
Speaker 4 Doc Rivers is another one. Strong hairline, nothing.
Speaker 5 Yeah, in the front. Yeah, I think some of those brothers got the tattoo hairline, the real fine tattoo.
Speaker 5 You know what I mean?
Speaker 4 I know two NBA players who have or XC3.
Speaker 4 I'm not gonna snitch on them.
Speaker 4 We can tell.
Speaker 5 We can all tell.
Speaker 1 PJ Tucker. Right.
Speaker 3 Damn.
Speaker 3
Direct hit. Oh, must have been it.
Must have been gone right. Combo breaker.
Jerkman.
Speaker 5
Well, yeah. Y'all mentioned TV shows earlier.
The alien definitely coming out.
Speaker 5
I'm locked in for that. Also, a great show right now on Apple TV is Smoke.
That Smoke is a good show. Yeah, get on.
So if you haven't checked it out.
Speaker 5 Hell yeah. Also,
Speaker 5 MTV's the challenge is back on your stations right now. Billy, how you feel about this season? You checking it out?
Speaker 1
I have been. I've been catching up.
This D from Miami's a man-eater, huh? She has that big name going crazy because she was banana. Spoiler alert.
Speaker 5
Right, bro. What? I'm locked in.
Yeah. This guy in the house, he liked this girl.
Speaker 5 Allegedly, they were hooking up. And then as soon as she got to the challenge, she started holding hands with my dog, Johnny Bananas, and cuddled up.
Speaker 5 And instead of going down there like a man and just say, hey, man, it's bothering me. He up there telling everybody in the room, he shaking mad, he punched the wall exactly, messed up his hand.
Speaker 5 I'm like, brothers, maybe you need to stay away from this lady.
Speaker 5 Maybe they should give you a break from the show because he was going crazy. So, yes, tune in if you're not.
Speaker 5 Also, you guys mentioned sci-fi movies earlier today. So, off the top of the dome, some five sci-fi movies that I was thinking of: Butterfly Effect, Terminator 2.
Speaker 5
Okay. Sorry, my bad.
Go ahead.
Speaker 3 Go ahead.
Speaker 5 Ready Player 1.
Speaker 1
Ready Player 1 was fun. I liked Ready Player 1.
Sneaky Banger.
Speaker 5 Hell yeah. Inception, of course.
Speaker 1 Yeah. I guess it doesn't feel sci-fi, but it absolutely is.
Speaker 5 Right. The Edge of Tomorrow.
Speaker 1 I want to talk about a sneaky banger.
Speaker 3 This is the most underrated Tom Cruise film ever.
Speaker 4 For sure. Hell yeah.
Speaker 5 Live Die Repeat.
Speaker 3 And
Speaker 5
yeah, oh, yeah, yeah. And Lived I Repeat.
That's what we call it.
Speaker 4
To hell with that. It's always Edge of Tomorrow.
Edge of Tomorrow is one of the coolest titles for a movie I've ever heard of.
Speaker 1 Edging Tomorrow.
Speaker 3
Hell yeah. Oh, Jerkmate.
Jerkmate.
Speaker 3 Thanks, Juju.
Speaker 5
Appreciate you. Thank you, guys.
All right.