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i'm sorry that wasn't that that wasn't directed at you you're not the dumbest person yeah you're not you also think that ronaldo is better than messy but he's talking about a different guy that thinks the dumbest person you're not the dumbest all right i'll take that yeah it was what did you say what was going through your head zach on the game yesterday yeah uh i'm honestly unbelievable i mean that second goal the cross with the crossing the second goal i want to be a hater a little bit i really can't you can't anymore i i can't i don't think anybody i don't think it's possible to if he wins the world cup again there's not really i don't know where anybody goes from here okay so if he wins the world cup again i'm i'm prepared to say he might be the goat goat yeah like the goat of goats i'm right now i think michael jordan and muhammad ali are both tied for the goat goat and secretary and secretary but messy could get on the mount rushmore of goat goats and and like if he wins the uh was the golden boot yeah right now i think he's tied with mbappe mbappe is playing the third place game very excited to see england's performance in the third place game yep it's the most hilarious thing that the world cup makes these guys play the losers of the semifinals you have to go play in the uh in the third place game on saturday and i actually i i did some research this morning on the history of the third place game at the world cup okay england has they've got the possibility to set the all-time record for most third place game losses wow right now they're tied with brazil with two if they lose another one then that would mean that they have that record on their own and if you look back through history uh or at least recent history three of the last five champions of the world cup go on to win the third place game the next year so that would mean that france would win this third place game and england would etch their names into history okay as the losingest third place game team in world cup history okay um now we have the conversation of like did argentina win it or did england lose it i think england lost it well now it was so here's a crazy stat yeah okay so they parked the bus they scored a goal immediately put on defensive substitutions they telegraphed what they were going to do they're just like we're going to park the world's saddest bus in the penalty area and hope that messi doesn't do it to us so in between um 6605 in game time and 8442 in game time so about 20 minutes of game time guess how many accurate passes england hit to each other amongst themselves how many how many passes accurate passes did england have in those 20 minutes four they had two two they had two passes in 20 minutes and they were from the goalie to the center back and the center back back to the goal i saw the stat that they had 12 percent percent possession uh from the moment that england scored their first goal to the the game-winning goal 12 possession they completely turtled they went into let's just hold on they did the herm edwards you play to win the game but they did the opposite you don't play to win the game they went into let's just hold on they did the herm edwards you play to win the game they were just essentially the the the last 25 minutes especially after the hydration uh break which they we can all agree argentina is the best fourth quarter team in the league that's not even close they've just been doing this in every single game they're the new york knicks of football it's been insane the uh but but from that moment on it was england just basically standing with everyone in the box and get in argentina taking shot after shot and then england kicking it out and doing nothing with it and like you said they put in their defensive subs they had no speed on the field they couldn't like i don't even know what the plan was if it went to extra time they they they basically were just playing to try to win it one nothing expecting messy not to do it and here's the the the greatness of messy because you could go through the stats and the stats are insane for for he's 39 years old and he leads argentina in goals assists shots shots on target chances created big chances created it's literally the entire list of goals and chances created it's literally the entire list of goals and chances created it's literally the entire list of goals and chances created it's literally the entire list he leads the team in that um but it was crazy to watch because you could just see in the game that england was essentially saying we're not going to let messy score yeah and messy realized they're not going to let me score they're sending three guys at me every time i have the ball why don't i just have the most sublime assist possible with the cross that that was the game-winning header that's what he did he was like i i will adjust and i don't have to be a ronaldo type yeah where i where i try to you know tap it in i'm just going to win this game by setting my my teammates up and even the first goal it was a great shot it was awesome shot but also it's the same thing like two three guys were running at messy it's the gravity thing it's like steph curry where he's like i'm gonna lay it off you're gonna have if you can make a 25 yard shot yeah go for it it was a pretty good shot i think the what's his name um pickford pickford yeah he should have gotten it's it's the the gravity thing of steph curry where it's like even if steph curry's not making threes the defense has to focus so much on where this person is at all times that it changed it tilts the whole field and messy realized that and was like okay you're gonna just keep sending guys there's gonna be a mismatch somewhere else it was brilliant he's we're blessed he's 39 years old he's 39 years old and he's basically saying i will find a way to win this game even if i don't have even if i'm not the one scoring the goal zach tell me what you think about this you're a bucks fan you love baker mayfield that's true both things true teams should have rules that say they're going to win that say do not fuck with baker mayfield during the game because he's just going to use that and he's going to get back that's what they did to messy they poked the bear with messy bellingham bellingham bell bell and he he he got in his face and messy gave him the look like it was like okay it okay it was it was essentially he was just basically doing robert de niro in countless mob movies where he just gave him the all right i'm gonna kill you i'm going to kill you and that's all that's gonna happen and then he backed it up and killed him what's that is it bronx tale the one where the guy goes now you just can't leave yeah yeah yeah that's what messy said like he was like fuck you okay you want to do that it was one of the most badass looks you could ever have it was stupid it was stupid and you know that look because you've you've seen that happen to baker before he should have known better yeah he had no business doing that and then for him to throw his hands up in the air when they do inevitably let that second goal in like oh we've how have they lost the game for us it's like well you kind of started this fire yeah why are you i don't know you should have left it alone and for them to like we've seen this throughout the entire world cup teams think they can get up on argentina and they'll just like all right we'll just park and try to survive there is no just trying to survive they should have tried to win the game yes because if you just sit back they're gonna just chip away and do what argentina does it was so tilted it was just shot after shot after shot another crazy stat about argentina in the knockout stage they have not led the game in the 90th minute of any of their knockout games you just can't kill them that's crazy you just can't that's probably the craziest stat that i read about them also it this this goes to speak i know there's a third place game pft that you talked about england versus france the third place game has already been decided it's cape verde cape verde won the third place game yeah they took the finals of the world cup argentina versus spain they took both of those teams to tide into extra time they tied overall they lost to to argentina in extra time three to two but they had both of the world cup finalists on the ropes yeah as a country after nine minutes yeah part of my takes official third place winner of the world cup is cape verde i wish hank was here to celebrate this with us it's a it's a great day it's a great day for what's his name vizinho yeah the 40 year old goalie he was that they that is incredible to to look at and be like they took both these teams to the wire here's the stat so against cape verde in the knockout stage they lost to argentina in the round uh they won in the 111th minute against egypt in the knockout round they won in the 92nd minute against switzerland they won in the 112th minute against england they won in the 92nd minute they have not led after 90 minutes of any knockout game and they're in the final it's that's just what they do and uh it's it's just kind of like i don't know you can't kill him it's his world cup it is it's his world cup at 39 years old is it his to lose now no i think that i mean look i he's in a situation where he either becomes the goat goat or it's still it's it's a uh passing of the torch or passing of the bath water to him all it's just like he anointed the next goat yeah so that we can spin ourselves into that if we have to also i i just gotta say shout out to argentina because they know they if i were the indiana fever head coach i would watch argentina games with my entire team there and say see this because every time i watch argentina games i'm like oh my time messy is fucked with or hit or anything it is instant that the entire team is over there being like that's how you protect your goat they they are a perfect team in that respect they all they are all there to serve messy yeah in one way or another and and messy will then give it back to them being like hey i'm not going to score i'm going to give you that that cross i must have watched it a hundred times it is the most picture-perfect cross you could ever have it's it's insane zach it it was special man yeah it's like yeah like there's there's none of the good things you can say about this team and messy at this point it just we won't see something like this again did you i don't think did you ever think going into this world cup that it would be this bad for you and ronaldo for safe space no right not even because like it's it's actually getting we were on it early we were like it's getting mean it's getting to the point where it's like he's messy he's doing stuff that isn't awe-inspiring and ronaldo is sitting you know putting you know coconut oil on his abs somewhere being like well i was back for a second against uzbekistan and you know he's watching his every move it does sound pretty good yeah it was bad that uzbekistan game was special though i think that should lead one shining moment yes so back yeah so back i felt good at with the uzbekistan game i was like okay this could be portugal's world cup what do you guys think about uh argentina's jerseys love them the alternates always i love all their jerseys the blue ones yeah i i don't have a problem i think in terms of all the uh alternate jerseys out there yeah they're they're the best yeah and their classics obviously are the best right but they you can't have the white stripes on there without diego maradona yeah he would love those no they have they have great they have great jerseys they're great really good jerseys yeah it's like it's unc yeah they're the unc of south america what do you guys think about the collars on the jerseys i always think it looks soft fair it feels like you should be like golfing or something because england had collars i mean poor england i don't really feel bad for them but it is all they have and they just lose we said it a couple weeks ago where it's like remember when i i think it was the mexico game and someone asked me who i was rooting for i was like i'm actually rooting for england because this wouldn't be tragic enough like if they lose to mexico and in the azteca it's like hey you can put your hands up we weren't close i was like i need i need england heartbreak in an exceptional way and they always deliver and they yeah so originally we called it in the norway game and said that's too easy it feels it feels right that they would lose to argentina yeah um and then losing to argentina i didn't even expect it to be this bad i don't know that they can do any worse i feel like this is silver lining probably as bad as it gets if you're england oh no they'll find a way to make it worse i don't know how it can get worse against argentina and the 39 year old messy in in extra time and it's when you do it to yourself like they they had that game and they just said we're gonna be giant pussies yeah and it's especially twisting the nice knife because their manager tucco was supposed to be the the the master and the tactician and not like the old guy and be able to be like hey we're gonna put our foot on the gas we're gonna build this team to play all 90 minutes and uh turns out they're the exact same it's kind of beautiful that you can depend on england for that isn't it it's great it's never coming home all these years and they just they can't help themselves i had a debate in the gambling cave yesterday would you rather lose and let's just not talk about what round it was in let's say um for both these two teams it's the quarterfinals that you lose in would you rather lose a game in the knockout stage like england did where you have the lead and you play really really well for most of the game or would you rather get your teeth kicked in like the united states against belgium i would rather get curb stomped by belgium than have a lead and then become the biggest bunch of chicken shits ever and then have to live the rest of your life being like we had that game and we just we just mentally shat ourselves what are you shaking your head max disagree disagree okay embrace debate embrace debate i'm thinking about my answer because we got absolutely shit on by a team that wasn't even that good if we made it to the final four and we're competing in the 90th minute you didn't hear that would have changed you didn't hear the start of the hypothetical you didn't hear the start of the hypothetical i may miss the start it was throw out what stage it's in let's just say it's got it both quarterfinal games are both round of 16 or whatever what about just the nature of the loss and i i like i still think the nature of the loss it would have been we were like we're competing against one of the best best nations in the world disagree we belong on that level no the u.s just got embarrassed and was like oh no there's we were never in that game exactly against belgium so it's like we did we i never had the opportunity to get excited about it i i think back to the washington commanders in the nfc championship game what happened in that game you smoked the fuck out okay and then the bills go on to have the most heartbreaking defeat ever later on that day and i'm like thank god i got my ass kicked that's way better than how the bills lose i disagree well go ahead i i'm as a former loser i uh it's turn your mic off it's it's uh kind of addicting though losing heartbreaking fashion well so that was that was kind of where i was going i was thinking about because you have to kind of take the u.s men's national team out of this hypothetical just because we suck at soccer and it's like but if it was just let's say two european countries there is something about the battle scars of losing in that way where when you get embarrassed you're like well there was never even a chance i don't know it's a it's a good question because losing like we lost you're not you're not even replaying the game in your head no you're not like oh if this went different if this went different you burned the tape and man that england i i think i'd probably go the four one loss because the england like they had it all they had to do is not be pussies about it and they couldn't and they couldn't winston churchill would be so furious oh man we'll fight on the beaches so we got spain argentina uh we're gonna get right back to the show stelle blue coffee's new can lattes are here crafted with 100 colombian coffee each can is a good source of protein and comes in two smooth flavors espresso cafe mocha and espresso sweet cream and whether you're braving your morning commute or chasing your pup stelle blue cans are for those always on the go and for those who care stelle blue is more than just great coffee it's about giving back i named the brand after my rescue dog stella who 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Corners. Corners. Corners and goals. But Spain's so annoying. Spain is so annoying. They just hold the ball, and they're so good at holding the ball and getting the ball back. Can you bet cards, yellow cards? Good. Yellow cards might be fun. If we can find that market, that would be fun. Yeah. I think if the World Cup, they should let them play. I don't know. Right? But also the guys who have no cards are like, hey, fuck it. We don't care. There's no game after this. You've got no rollover minutes right now. If you're Zidane, you just let it all fly. Do you guys think? I mean, Zach, we know you're rooting for Spain. I want Argentina to win. I got to root for Argentina. Yeah. I think Spain's defense is really, really good. Everything is really good. That one dude that looks like the Bustamante former CIA guy that goes on all the podcasts. Yeah. The professional podcaster just talks about what it's like to be a spy. He's probably still in the CIA. The guy that looks like him, I forget his name. On Spain's defense, that dude's a fucking monster. Mm-hmm. He is a monster. What do you got, Zach? Those guys are eerily similar with the hair. Yeah. Unbelievably similar. Mm-hmm. Do you think he was actually in the CIA? Yeah. I get that another time, I guess. I think it's going to be a good game. Definitely going to be a good game. You mean all just has his entire life still to win the World Cup and the message is it. Yeah. It's a big time passing the torch game if Spain wins. And none of it makes like the baptism stuff. None of it makes sense. It's like, how are we here? No. Out of all the outcomes that have come together, this is where we're at? Yeah. And in that pick, he's such a funny looking baby, too. I know. He's an absolutely hilarious looking baby. His little brother's the star of the World Cup. It's so crazy. And he needs to learn what offsides is, though. Yeah. I haven't seen a more offsides player in the World Cup than you all. He loves being offsides. He loves hanging out offsides. Dial that shit back a little bit, buddy. Okay. Last thing before we do our Mount Rushmore. Is LeBron ever going to decide? This is so annoying. No. No, he's not. And now we got clues being dropped. Did you guys see? There was an ESP. I think it was PTI's podcast that had nothing to do with LeBron that was titled How Steph is Behind LeBron's Big Decision. And then there was a video of Steve Kerr. Someone yelling at him when he was driving and saying, We need to get LeBron. He said, Oh, we got him. I saw that. Yeah. So what's going on? I'm now at the point where I'm annoyed. Well, we've already reported LeBron to the Cavs. We have. But I'm annoyed. Has there been a material change? I think we could go material change and say, We don't know and we don't care. There might be a material change. We talked about a little bit with Winhorse, the idea that another team could scoop up Bronny, almost like hold him hostage. I was thinking more about this this morning. If a team paid way above market value in a trade with the Lakers to get Bronny, if they're one of the three teams that LeBron said, Hey, I'm down to the last three year. You get Bronny on your team. And then you say, If you don't sign with us, we're shipping Bronny's ass to the G League for the rest of his career. I like that. And he's going to rot in the G League. I like that. And if you don't believe me, try me. Because we'd love to. I like that a lot. I will ruin your son's life if you don't join the team. I think it's probably the best. They don't have any real leverage with LeBron. That's the only way you can get leverage. Yeah. If you ever want to see your son again. Max, are you even focused on LeBron? Yeah. I mean, I know it's not going to be in Philly. I know he's not going to. I know he's not going to come to Philly. But there's a chance. And they're in the back of my head. You just said you know he's not going to come to Philly. But until he decides somewhere, there's a chance. That was the fastest. There's a chance. The fastest reversal on. I know in my heart of hearts, but he might. Yeah. So I just need it to happen. I need him to say that he's not coming to Philly so I can stop worrying about it. I'm sick of it. What are the odds right now? It's changing. Like, so it'll be different by the time this podcast comes out. Let's see where we're at here. And we need a better LeBron reporter. Yeah, we do. Our LeBron. Oh, yeah. Your assistant's the worst guy we've got. Every single day he comes up to me. He's like, today's the day. Yeah. It's been a different day and a different team every day this week. Yeah. It was Monday. Today's the day signing with Miami. Today's the day signing with the Warriors. Today's the day signing with the. It's every day. It's something different. Okay. So what is he waiting for? I was thinking about it today. I'm starting to think maybe the Warriors. The Steve Kerr video. And then also, I get the feeling like they might be putting together a trade package. What? To get AD. Oh. I think you're right. I also think he wants the Cavs to trade for someone, too. Like, I saw a couple Kyrie reports. So I think he's just waiting. I think he's just waiting for one of his guys to get traded to one of these teams. Or Tyrese Maxey, one of his guys. Already there. What do you mean? Oh, he's already got his guy. He's already got his guy. But I mean, he's said that he would love to play with. Tyrese Maxey. With Maxey and AD. And I feel like now is when the Warriors are put together. They're trying to make that happen. The fact that I still go back to the Draymond Green. You could get a fleecing off of this, BFT. I could get a fleecing. It's true. You could get a big time fleecing. Yeah. Because they're desperate to get LeBron. That they do a fleecing. They're desperate to get AD to get LeBron. Yeah. It's true. You're in a good spot. You could get Bronny. DeWisler. I might still want Bronny. Yeah. Yeah. Just for kicks. I saw he also wants Kevin Love. Really? Kevin Love is just in Utah. So D-Wade is just going to come back. Did Kevin Love play last year? He was up and down. I think. I can't remember. I get my years mixed up. I believe last year might have been the year his father passed away. So I think he was out for a while. No. And he was healthy again. Because remember that clip of when the. The Jazz were tanking. So they basically were like, Kevin Love, we don't want you to play. I think Kevin Love could still be a good player for 20 minutes a game. I believe in Kevin Love. Yeah. You can still throw that out there. I never stopped believing in Kevin Love. We have another NBA news story here. I don't know if this came across your desk, Big Cat. But Stephen Che, friend of the pod, brought this to my attention online. Did you see Jason Tatum? Yes. Last night. Yes. Was that the ESPY Awards? Yeah. That he was at? He asked me. He asked me if I cared that he was in an undershirt. And I said, no. So here's Che's tweet. Thanks for wearing your nicest undershirt to this black tie event, Jason Tatum. What a douche. It's the ESPYs. It's the ESPYs. It's literally the ESPYs. The black tie event in question is a made up award show that nobody watches. Yeah. Because I was going to say, maybe this is just me getting older. I don't know. And we've also, like the last few years, we've done the home run derby during the ESPYs. I feel like I don't give a fuck. I feel like 15. 15 years ago, the ESPYs kind of had a little pop. They don't have anything. No pop. Zero pop. Zero pop. Nothing. Don't care at all. This black tie event. What a douche. What a douche. Well, I think it's also, it's hard because you have a, like, it's hard to give awards for something they already gave the awards for. Right. Like, the Knicks already won the NBA title. They don't need an award for winning the NBA title. They won the NBA title. Yeah. It'll be like. Whoever won the MVP won the MVP. Yeah. Best. Best. Best basketball team of the year. Yeah. It should just be. It's going to the Knicks. They should actually do a reverse ESPYs. That would actually get me interested. Just worst team of the year. Yeah. That would be an interesting award show. It would be. By the way, we have the takeys coming next Friday. Just a reminder. Everyone get ready. Takeys. And then I also had one more thing. Yeah. I think Ward Emanuel is about to get fired. Oh. Why? What happened? The AD at Michigan. I know. I know. Yeah. He's. They've leaked a few things to the media. Yeah. Regarding the investigation. And in the things that they've leaked, they've squarely pointed their finger at Ward Emanuel and been like, Ward knew the entire time. He knew everything. Everyone knows everything when it comes to these colleges. Yeah. These leaks don't happen unless they're setting the narrative for why they're about to fire him. Yeah. It's hard for any big time school to be like, we didn't know. Yeah. It's just not how it works. Zach, you still thinking about. Messi and Ronaldo. I'm excited for the game. I'm looking forward to it. Can you root for Messi? It's going to be an all-time game. It's over, dude. It's over. Like, put your sword down. There's no weapons on me right now. My thought process was. This is a small piece of my thought process. I'm not saying it's the final thought process. Meanwhile, it does have a lot of life left. If Messi does it again, just legacy wise for the sport, it would be. It would be something. Okay. That's just. Yeah. Part of your thought. And I'll leave it there. Yeah. That was well said. That wasn't your full thought process yet. No, no. Okay. I'm undecided. But like, at a certain point, you can't deny greatness. I mean, really, the only move that the real Messi haters have left is you have to just pretend that you were never a Ronaldo fan. You've always been Pele. Or if Jamal wins, be like, Jamal's actually next up. It was always Jamal. Yeah. You can pull the move of pointing at Pele and then talking about how many world cups he has. Three. But that would just be incredibly disingenuous. You have to live with that. You have to live with yourself in that. You know what I mean? What? Has your brother been giving you any good? Oh, I mean, yeah. Every time I'm going to face him, I'm just trying to see how his day's going. Hey, how was work? How was your day? And he's just like, Ronaldo's a bum. You see the game? Messi did it again. Yeah. Extra time. You see this. You'll never see Ronaldo make a cross like that. I'm like, all right, Nick. No, that's actually true. I don't. Listen, I'm not saying he doesn't bring up good points. It's just the first thing that comes up like, hey, what's up, dude? Love you. Miss you. He's like, you got to see this. Messi's a go. out yeah he reminds me every i get a lot of gifts you know i get a lot of like hey don't forget and my dad does a family group chat so you're getting it from every side i get both come sitting here and we're just giving it to you yeah you guys maybe everybody's right i don't know yeah i mean i appreciate you sticking with the take because he is so good we're all so good but i can't but here's the thing is i can tell i can tell in this world cup that like you know and you're having fun you're actually i think i think he might be winning you over yeah you just don't want to turn your back on his eyes show speed said anything yeah that's what it is uh i'm not sure because that talk about a bum i think he said there's no there's probably nothing wrong i think he's probably the same sentiment yeah it's undeniable some stuff is just undeniable no matter what side of the fence you stand on which way you're looking at it's like all right well you always gotta give credit where credit's due okay let's uh let's do mount rushmore let's kick it to ourselves mount rushmore of birds and then we have charles barkley and austin reeves we're gonna get right back to the show hey kirk herb street here when hertz said they needed a football analyst i assumed they wanted my help turns out they wanted peter my dog i didn't even think peter knew ball well technically he knows that ball now peter's part of the hertz gold squad and will be making weekly picks throughout the college football season so whether you're coming to the stadium to cheer on peter's picks or kicking off your own road trip book direct at hertz.com slash peter all right back to part of my take henry is out so zach is solo and right now uh the scores sit myself max and memes are at 23 pft 18 hank and zach 13 nice run of second places for you zach how are you feeling feeling okay i think we continue to string those together we could be okay okay all right good good you string those together you could be okay uh also memes how do you feel about leaving being left out by the pga superstore that was very mean not great that was that was what one of my suggestions that i brought up during when we were talking about it yeah so last uh yeah yeah pga superstore tagged max and i in a tweet saying hey we got a place for you it was a pga superstore next to a bass pro shop did not tag me would you say that this is a good morale thing for your team for you to bring this up right now i think it doesn't matter okay all right if i'm being totally honest i would say maybe not the best for morale well it's not we didn't do anything i didn't pga superstore i liked it yeah there you go thanks memes okay still came in last we're doing the mount rushmore of birds and we did no google no google so free balling it's gonna be zach already told me that he struggled to get 12 birds big catch should you go solo on this again since since we've already set that precedent well we already we already kind of game plan together we talked about it yeah that's true i didn't give many suggestions last time yeah so yeah last time he went we should have thought of that when we were before we started mm-hmm yeah i was just looking at the room right now i was like it would make sense to just stay in the room but yeah yeah you you go just yeah you just go solo we get solo trips yeah all right fine i'll go so i'll i'll i'll let you know my two cents but you should go solo okay i'll go solo you guys chime in when you think that i should pick something okay what's what is the order that's fair that's fair order first we're up first okay no i'm up first big hands you guys aren't doing this one you're just gonna tell me which number i should catch one one and then is that two or am i two you pick three when we pick one so you're picking three okay okay um should i go one one yeah clear one one it's good so good good solo pick but yeah all right uh mount rushmore birds i'm gonna start with the bald eagle good pick it's a great pick it's a very very easy just just i mean it's america majestic and it's also like one of those birds that you know do you guys i whenever i see a bald eagle i i am a little wowed i'm like oh shit in the wild yeah oh yeah yeah don't think i have yeah no i mean look at that it's a special moment when you see a bald eagle you're like oh fuck there's a bald eagle there's not many birds that can show stop you like that i grew up thinking that we were out of bald eagles and then at some point we got too many bald eagles like they're overpopulating in some places yeah they were endangered and then they then they fought that time to fuck yeah a lot of fucking yeah so shout out uh whoever got the bald eagles to hook up like that okay all right i would like to take solos oh i would like to take for our team pterodactyl okay um this is where the no google hurts us because i have no idea if that's a bird or not dinosaur i believe that is a dinosaur i think not okay so the wings in the floor okay i don't know flying reptile is what google okay so not a bird no worries now okay i did think it was i wasn't trying to i mean it's a great pick i just don't i i honestly i didn't know and i also couldn't look it up we if we could be honest for a second the the archaeologists don't know if they had feathers or not correct i agree they just found some no pterodactyls are not birds okay so we'll pivot from that and we'll go good pick though yeah we should have been would have been an awesome we should do dinosaurs dinosaurs that would be fun that'd be a very fun one i smelled the t-rex's breath sue in the field museum real nasty real nasty all right we're gonna go with an owl what are you looking at me like that what does that mean there's a there's an exhibit at sue is the t-rex at uh the field museum in chicago and there's a uh little portion where you can go up and you can smell what sue's breath would have smelled like it's foul how would they have known i don't know but they're just i went with their yes we're just guessing they're just like how can we make these little kids smell this yes and my my two sons smelled it and they're like daddy you gotta smell it i was like i don't want to like you have to and they're like i don't want to smell it and they're like i don't want to smell it and i did and i was like uh and they're like i'll do it again i smelled like seven times it sucked great museum though oh that's a great pick though zach owl owl yep very good pick snow owl barn owl just owls i really take owls yeah okay i'll give you just owls yeah you just take owls yeah the fact that they can rotate their neck is pretty fucking cool yeah like that's just that's a cool thing the owls do incredibly nocturnal and great at like hunting prey who hunting prey who who who Uh there we go max i always love watching max get it like five watching i wish my brain was just a little bit quick it's just a little bit delayed of everyone that wasn't exactly like the head scratching his joke that was a four-year-old yeah that was a john gruden does that joke i thought what i thought hunting prey was a person that i didn't know about okay because zach kept saying hunting prey and i was like is that a famous is that like a celebrity i don't know so i'm sorry i apologize to all the listeners all right i'm gonna go with um one one larry bird okay larry bird uh i think that's a a pretty solid third pick and then my second pick i'm gonna come back i'm gonna go eagles and golf eagles parentheses okay golf okay we're going to take parrot oh good pick okay they can talk they can um communication skills from a bird you can fly in speak english yeah or spanish i'm going solo here but i think i think i go three and then uh the other the the person that memes threw out there the first person memes threw out there i think three would be strong don't think you need to put put okay the qualifier okay and then do you like the first name person that uh memes threw out there 11 no wait it what number well again i'm going solo uh it'd be 10 oh yeah yeah i like that yeah all right so we're gonna go uh falcon good pick the i i i we're gonna take all falcons but the peregrine falcon that's just something that everyone knows because they're the fastest animal on earth so that's just like a fact that that everyone knows um and i i i'm guaranteeing because we didn't use google that i spelled it wrong um but either way peregrine but we're taking falcon and then we're taking uh tony hawk good pick it's a good pick yeah great hawk we would like to take flamingo great pick great pick classic as a classic it's a classic bird i mean zach's just running the football right now i i like your i like your draft yeah yep i respect you guys it would be a real shame if zach came in is it would this be your guys first first place yeah we're so we're still chasing the first we'll get there when this would be this would be a real shame okay it'd be a real thing is though it wouldn't bother hank at all but he doesn't i think we said this but hank hank is fully like it took whatever nine years for him to just finally admit that he sucks at mount rushmore and he does he said it in like a moment of like true honesty because in the in years past he has he has tried to find any which way to tell us how it's rigged how it's not fair blah blah blah do you remember the year that him and i were partners and then he went on vacation for a week and yeah i was in first in that week yeah and then i went on vacation for a week and then we came in last right so he i think he finally though it took nine years but he finally is like hey i might just suck at this yeah credit to him okay pfc you get your last two we go big bird okay let's go pick i'm taking big bird and then on our list and then uh last big catch list he's solo i'm solo i got one last pick huh yep i'm gonna go nick foals okay so you pick zero birds big bird big bird is a bird big bird birds bird well yes okay i i had bald eagle i had falcon the draft didn't shake out the way that i wanted i also had hawk but then you just took tony hawk and i can't you can't put hawk next to tony no no that's gonna be a bad look on the thing can i change can i change my last pick nope all right what was it nick foals nick foals nick foals is a great pick yeah go birds excellent pick go birds i remember him as a jaguar i remember him i remember him as a bear yeah yeah or a colt chief chief i can't say i even remember those last two legend he was a colt right spiritually yeah i think so uh no carson wince was a colt was it no wait you look at the picture you google nick foals first that's how we remember him nick foals is a colt that's how google remembers him did we miss a team that he played for the rams but oh yeah the rams that's right so he played yeah so eagles rams chiefs eagles jaguars bears colt yeah he was a perfect colt yeah we're just like hey we're gonna we're gonna keep just trying to find old quarterbacks that were at one point good it was right in the thick of that yeah yeah all right zach ryan you remember matt ryan on the colts that was something yeah i'm special our fourth pick we would like to take we're gonna take ostrich for our fourth pick okay that's a good pick okay good pick um all right our fourth pick i think it's a bird i we might have to google it uh but we will take penguin yeah um is that a bird yeah it's a bird i i don't i don't know bird you could tell me a bird a penguin is something totally different i guess i didn't have penguin yeah they're birds i was in the process of writing penguin for honorable mention right now and you took it yeah yeah penguins are pretty sick i think i got confused i got confused because we i think at one point we were going to try to take penguins for aquatic animals which i think which also could have played yeah yeah the duel okay what did we miss a lot uh pelican pelican i think there's a classic three that we had our list that i don't know if they're mount rushmore but they are in the category of i will stop and be like oh that's cool cardinal oriole blue jay all three all three of those if you see one in your backyard you're like oh that's awesome yeah orioles are absolutely beautiful birds yeah i think hummingbirds play in that category oh hummingbirds great fucking pick i come to the theater and they just kind of damn it what what are the what are the ones that pet is that a pecking bird woodpecker woodpecker that's a good pick too we missed so many good birds my list is is i don't want i don't want to influence the vote but if i was voting i would not vote for my own you don't you don't feel confident in your list i mean i listen here's here's some birds that were still on the board that i didn't even write down woodpecker didn't write it down hummingbird the danny woodhead of birds did not write that down penguin did not write that down ostrich didn't have that down raven what am i doing i have raven your birds can fly uh vulture vultures are badass dude they're i mean the bird of death yeah you know they are badass very ugly birds vultures get we're not we're not doing prettiest birds no albatross albatross yeah they can fly for like hundreds of miles over the over the ocean the only one that i was an eagle too the only one that i was proud of that i was able to come up with without of course oh albatross yeah the only one i was proud of to come up with uh on my own was the the magpie those birds do you know the birds in australia they like attack bicyclists yeah yeah that was the only one where i was like this isn't just your generic orio cardinal blue jay but that was where it stopped i had nothing after magpie what about the finches not too familiar not familiar finches yeah um boobies yeah boobies boobies oh miss boobies i wrote that you did write boobies i just didn't think it was a real bird oh it's a yeah oh boobies would look that that honestly could have gotten vetoed on a graph that's just that's just a fake graphic you're just playing with the graphic yeah you see each other and they start doing a little dance they like move their feet and they do like like the chorus line leg kicks and then the other boobie looks and i was like that's a good looking boobie yeah oh they have to court each other yeah that's pretty impressive oh the blue the blue foot boobies yeah those are cool um and a red foot boobie we missed uh doves swans swans are good swans are good swans are dickheads canadian geese would be the mount flushmore of birds canada geese yeah those guys suck don't let i would put um grackles on that list for the mount flushmore birds i don't know what a grackle if you've lived in texas and you've gone to a grocery store the parking lot is just covered with grackles and they're assholes yeah yeah i think a turkey or chicken tasty picks yeah birds those are birds i god damn it um what about i i'd like to i think i'd like to forfeit out of principle i was so bad today you just went you just you just you just went off course i did i got off course i didn't get back on the happens what is the um oh pigeons pigeons listen i get it no well listen we're doing honorable mentions so let me make my case for pigeons pigeons are kind of like the the rough and tough like like uh neighborhood guys you know what i mean they're like the italians of birds they're all come over and you you know they're just eating out of the trash and they're kind of talking all weird and they're they're they're men of the street they're men of the people yeah they're trying to gab a ghoul pigeons are also not the smartest they they just get in the way some would say it's a surveillance state let me make oh yeah that's true let me make a uh uh my case for pigeons actually being the smartest they've they've essentially just over the years been like hey you know where we should live right where the people leave their trash yeah we don't have to hunt for anything we don't have to go fucking diving for worms and fish and all that shit that's smart some guy's gonna eat a calzone and not finish it and we're gonna we're gonna finish it so pigeons might be the smartest there is one group of pigeons that i i did have on the list there was a uh a world war ii core of pigeons that we used over and oh and instead of like doing like radio transmissions yeah they would they would send pigeons flying back and forth with notes that would fly for like a hundred miles that's pretty cool drop something off those smart those pigeons like are medal of honor winners yeah harry potter yeah respect you're racing pigeons are pretty fun too racing pigeons you have much out by tyson yeah what about toucans toucans good pig great cereal yeah parakeet steak yeah not a not a huge fan of parakeets all right i'm not familiar much with parakeets and what they do they're the ones that are the ones that like pets they're kind of like bright small birds what are the ones that copy you that's parrots oh parrots parrots parrots and yeah the african gray parrot what do we think about what do we think about seagulls fuck seagulls yeah i'm kind of off oh yeah seagulls suck seagulls suck fucking ass if you're on a beach and you're trying to do anything they're so fucking annoying i fuck seagulls that's number one of mount flush when i lived at the jersey shore i put a that's what i'm saying i put a 500 bounty on catching a seagull with your bare hands i'm not talking traps i'm talking just just chasing a seagull grabbing it with your bare hands if you can do it 500 bucks all you have to do is just start eating some french fries and they'll just come into your fucking hands they're the worst seagulls are the worst we looked up a story on the act a few months ago of a guy who got arrested because uh a seagull went and took his fries and he just snapped his neck that that seems like self-defense i think he had some other shit going on so it was got a little sideways i'm not i'm not getting into the story let me just say this if you if a seagull takes a french fry and then your first action is to snap his neck you might have some rage issues or maybe maybe you're just that's a fair assumption you might just be trying to protect the rest of the beach yeah what about the seagull though that guy was cool the perfect shot that you remember that photo that someone took in like april yeah it was just a seagull flying in the outfield with a hot dog in its mouth like a perfectly untouched hot dog that seagull's cool yeah but he probably stole that that hot dog from oh but it's with bun yeah it's with bun it's a full untouched hot dog that seagull i can i can fuck with that seagull no because that seagull stole that hot dog from someone but he hasn't paid for it max yeah don't the game's over max respectfully if you're dumb enough to get your hot dog stolen by a bird you deserve to not eat what if also it was just someone dropped the i bet you someone dropped it that okay that would be fair and he came in and he swooped it up and it's also just the coolest photo so it is a cool photo the uh the auburn war eagle that flies around the stadium that's a pretty cool bird that's a cool bird that's a really cool bird uh the phoenix hot hot uh hot british ladies yeah yeah oh yeah i said i said d for moe sunny yeah oh yeah bird she's a bird sue bird sue bird oh brian cardinal throwback i'm trying to think of what other birds uh sports lane johnson also had him on the list a.j hawk a.j hawk would be a good one a.j brown yep no longer yeah but he said he was the greatest eagle of all time that's true the positivity bunny well that'd be a bunny but it was bird max i bid on something that i don't think i'm gonna get but i really was thinking about you don't tell me why in case i get it yeah i don't think i'm gonna get it it all right it was uh signed placard from aj brown's locker room after a game it was the donnington bones game oh wow i hope i i i we haven't gotten any response so how it it's how do you know if what from a game it's like authenticated it says eagles broncos they change those after every game i guess so that's weird they must change everything yeah maybe he requested a move maybe yeah probably because donnington bones donnington bones he didn't want to sit next to jillian anymore yeah did you guys win or lose that game i actually don't remember that was a game you and hank got physical i think they lost that game and then i think denver looked like the very worst team in the league like the next week right or no did denver go yeah because they went over to europe yeah somewhere over there yeah broncos eagles how many years ago was that yeah you did lose that game it was last year 21 17. donnington bones that was a tough game that was still a tough game i can't wait for football football so close the boy's getting physical in the cave i was just running through the depth chart yesterday it's football so back it's so back so back um df-15 eagle 100 that's a good bird 104 and 0 lifetime record until recently what about birdman birdman uh the rapper or both sanderson both yeah both birdman good pick well it wasn't a pick good as soon as i said i yeah yeah it would have been a good pick would have been a good pick it was not we're thinking of so many things after the fact yeah i'm just i'm just disgusted with myself duck a bird yes ducks a bird oh man why did we pick ducks my favorite duck i didn't know if it was a bird though my favorite food in the world what else would it be so cute i don't know i thought it was i thought duck was walking across the street baby duck by the way i'll shout out the on youtube listers it's these two dudes uh who there's like an entire birder community that all they do is just try to go find as many birds as they can in a given year like there's a competition every year and these two guys i think they're from st louis uh kind of like regular just two brothers in their 20s are like hey we're just going to become list we're going to become birders for an entire year and they they went on the hunt for to to see as many birds as they possibly could it's cool how many did they get i think it's like i don't know i don't know i don't think they got like 150 or something there's so many there's too many birds there's so many fucking birds it's insane see i had a couple other birds what were they i'm just gonna do a quick google coolest birds let's see dodo how do we feel about the dodo uh idiot r.i.p yeah idiot all right top 20 coolest birds emu the gurney's pitta i don't even know see this is where it gets a little it's like there's too many birds blue jay made the top 20 here kakapu yeah i'm out on birds now there's just too many what about the macaw that's what when you think of a parrot i think people think of the macaw i'm not i'm not familiar it's like the jimmy buffett parrot that's oh that's the macaw okay yeah i like that guy yeah uh all right good mount rushmore i think we'll be back on monday yeah full teams assembled monday yeah you did you like doing a you said you prefer to do it on your own no i like i like the unity of you also said that you think hank is bringing you down i didn't you guys are these are all false accusations i think i can get hank back in the spirits of mount rushmore okay oh so you agree that he's not in the spirits of mount rushmore yep that's what i heard you well you guys spoke a little bit earlier in the show about historically he said he is not all the way in sometimes or maybe he's not the best you're finding that i think he is all the way in you're agreeing well you're trying to get him back you're trying to get him back in because that's don't think that he's in right now it's like double stuff toria it's like he's back he's double in no you can't you can't be back if you weren't ever out like when ronaldo scored two goals against uzbekistan and he was like i'm back i'm back iconic moment double back yeah he was back from what from not being very good yeah just on the world stage playing good footy against uzbekistan entire in entire country sounds like a big deal to me uh there's good at it there's one other bird the shoe bill do you guys are you familiar with the shoe bill nope that's the one tall bring up a a video of the shoe bill max that's what you should have taken shoe bills i mean i just shat the bed entirely i mean this is a bird brain draft oh that's cool bird yeah this is an ugly looking yeah these things are fucking crazy yeah but it's cool you don't see that very often this is a cool picture this picture's cool as fuck play a video of it as you can find it it's a badass bird it's a really badass bird shoe bills they're just what are they where do they live hell okay yeah if i see one of these things i'm i'm running i could fuck that thing up so easily what what are you what are you looking at me like that for zach i just think that would be a challenge for anybody i'd kick that thing so hard look at that beak dude i think that's a weapon if you want to fuck this thing up just slide tackle look at them go for the legs yeah yeah just snap cut them out of the legs yeah in its career yeah okay uh good mount rushmore boys let's get to our interviews we got charles barkley before we do that we're gonna get right back to the show hey kirk curb street here during the college football season my golden retriever peter and i are constantly on the road yep peter knows ball when you travel this much you want the gold standard that's why peter and i partnered with hertz they've got a brand new fleet of rental cars a great app and the best loyalty perks in the biz so if you're traveling to cheer on your favorite college team or kicking off a different road trip book direct at hertz.com slash peter all right back to part of my take we're gonna get right back to the show football season's here and whether you're 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from there was that stretch where it was like hey if you want to go viral on the internet you just post charles barkley's uh yeah t-box swing and now you're just you're good well i wouldn't say good i'm playing well shout out to my coach stan utley who changed the whole dynamics of my golf game man i love to play you know you can't stay in the house especially during the summer i love just walking being out there it's one of the few places you can go and get peace and quiet now you meet a lot of crazy people who say stupid stuff to you like why are you at the supermarket because i need food to eat they always act just stupid stuff i always laugh like why are you at the supermarket because they got food and stuff here but golf you got you get to go out here there's no fans around you just go out there with three of your friends and just talk trash smoke some stogies and that man's the best gamble on some yes golf yes yeah are you up or down this this year gambling on golf oh i'm probably down because i i bet like i'm not going to be able to i'm a i'm a i think i'm a better i bet like i'm a better player and i think i really am yeah yeah and that's a problem yeah last you know that's the thing about golf though listen you have to play to your handicap yep and so i've got to do a better job of scoring that's my problem scoring uh not getting up and down making double bogeys instead of bogey which is that's golf but i gotta do a better job of scoring it's that one shot like on a par five where you're like oh shit if i hadn't hit my you know if i hadn't chipped and didn't get on like i didn't get on the green i chipped it 10 feet like yeah well and i think the main thing is when you're stupid like myself you're hitting the trees and you'll try a damn trick shot to get out of there oh yeah like i've never seen a tree i saw a guy try this on tv he cut it out of the woods let me try it you know instead of chipping it back in the fairway like a like a smart man yeah hey i saw this guy cut this shot out of the trees whenever you say i've got a window you never have a window that should be a trigger actually if you hear yourself say i think there's a window no absolutely not you know so there's probably nobody in the world watch more golf than me and you'll hear some of the guys say oh he's got a window i'm like what window and then when i then i get in the trees i'm like i see that window they was talking about yeah yeah yeah but last year so we sat down and and we talked last year and then you went out there and you played i think i don't know if that was the best round of your life on the front nine yeah and you had you put up a good score on the first day of tournament last year i played that was i think it was my best round ever uh the first round but then the drinking and the gambling caught up with me because i'm gonna drink and i'm gonna gamble so my scores i gotta figure out how to play better as i get drunker and gamble more the last couple days because the first day i'm good right and then the late night gambling and drinking catches up with you. - Yeah. - So I'm actually putting together, I'm trying to do a study at Barstool Sports and I've got I've got 10 people signed up for I'm trying to do actual science because we got a we have indoor golf simulator at our place. And I'm trying to study the exact perfect right amount of drunk that you should be to play golf at your best because it's like I think it's like three drinks. It ain't about being drunk because you don't normally play. I don't normally drink when I play golf, but there's a great line in the school of rock when Jack Black is talking to the students. He says, I got a hangover. And when the kid says you're drunk, he said, no, I was drunk yesterday. Yeah. So I'm not drunk when I'm playing, but because I was drinking the night before and up all night gambling, you got you get mentally and physically fatigued. Now, there's no way in the hell I'm going to go to bed and get a good night's sleep if I'm in Lake Tahoe. So I just got to find a way to manage it better. Yeah. The casino's right there. Yeah. They put it right there for you. A hundred percent. For a reason. Yes. How'd you do last night? I broke even. That's a win. Yeah, that's a win. They were kicking me pretty good. I got on a roll, got back to even. Then like, you know, let me go get some rest. So I'm even. So that's a win. Yeah. You mentioned people just like, you know, seeing you in public and talking trash. How'd it go when you had to go down to San Antonio this year? They were great. Really? So was there any, because I saw you, you know, there's a lot of people that are very friendly. I think most people understand that what you're doing at the end of the day is you're having fun, making sports fun, not being mean spirited. But were there any rogue like, hey, what the hell? Because there was some weird shit that happened between San Antonio and New York. Yeah. Well, the people of San Antonio, they can take a joke. You know, I think people don't understand. We're on television from seven o'clock to two in the morning. Nobody want to talk about basketball, even me, from seven to two in the morning. My job, our job is to entertain the fans. I think we do a good job at that. But, you know, that stuff I said, it made people laugh, hopefully. But it's so funny now, man. Everybody's offended by everything now. Oh, yeah. You know, there's a great line in Ted Lasso, the hot blonde chick says it. I think her name is Hannah Waddington. She says, oh, I know it. She was talking to Roy, I think, one time. And this is the way a lot of people are. They don't know it. Like, oh, I know you. You're the guy who if we give you a shit sandwich, you would want more shit sandwich. Some people just assholes. You have to let them like, OK, I get it. And some people just like they always want to be offended about something instead of saying, hey, man, don't take yourself that serious. But I thought that was a great line. Some people just like shit. Yeah. And I was like, no, no, no. I'm not going to let y'all get on my nerves. If you can't take a joke, just shut the hell up and don't watch the show. Yeah. And then I was watching that first game in San Antonio when they said, and now we're going to bring on the mayor of San Antonio. And I was like, oh, but then she was cool with it, too. I feel like I feel like she was. And when people make fun of me, I can take a joke. Yeah, right. Like, I don't even know what we got as a society where people can't joke anymore. I'm like, no. I never want to be part of a world where people can't joke and have fun. I mean, we're actually talking about sports. Sports are great, but they're not really important. We're not like teachers or firemen or policemen or somebody like that or nurses or like those are like real important jobs. Yeah. But if you can't take a joke watching sports, you shouldn't be watching sports. Yeah, I agree with that. There's actually some just came out right now from the from the NBA. So kind of curious to hear your reaction on that. It says the the Clippers Raptors trade that center on. Ty Leonard will not be complete until the NBA investigation into the Clippers is over. So they the trade might not happen now, depending on what what they find out. Well, the Clippers got busted. It looks like it. Yeah, it was got busted. I'm not sure why they're dragging their feet. What's interesting is what is the proper penalty? Right. Because you can't find the Clippers a million dollars, a five million dollars because the guys were 20. Billion dollars. So it seems to me like they're probably going to suspend Kawhi Leonard. I think he I think Ballmer personally has to plant like 2000 trees. That would be perfect. Right. Shovel. Here you go. I'm a big Ballmer. I like him a lot, but he just got busted. And it all. And listen, a lot of teams do it. A lot of teams do stuff under the table. Yeah. When I played for the Rockets. Dave. They asked me to take no money for a year so we could sign Scottie Pippen. And we did. Now, two things happen. Number one, Scottie Pippen didn't mind bring Michael Jordan with him. That was a bad thing. And secondly, the Rockets didn't pay me what they were supposed to pay me. So they screwed me out of money. But teams do that crap all the time. Yeah. So they just got busted. Listen, Kawhi. I don't want to be there. Let him go to the club. Let him go to the Raptors where he won a championship and just keep him up. But that's interesting that you said that because, yeah, because they just got busted cheating, plain and simple. Yeah, I think they like dirt. It's pretty clear what was going on. Hundred percent. And they just weren't careful about it. Yeah. And you just better hope that if you're another NBA team, like if Pablo Torre calls, you do not answer the phone. Just don't talk to that guy. Be careful. I'm never going to. I'm done talking to Pablo Torre because I'm scared of what he'll do to me. Yeah. So you mentioned before we started taping, you're in Philly for the summer. Yes. Playing a lot of golf. How many courses have given LeBron James a membership in hopes that he plays for the 76ers? Which I don't think personally any of that's going to happen. I don't think any of it's true. LeBron, the right thing for LeBron to do is to go back to Cleveland. That's what he's going to do. You know, I tell people, the one big criticism of LeBron James has been he's stacked his teams to win championships. If he goes to the Warriors or the Sixers, it'd be to me, he'd be like trying to stack his team. Again, he has no affiliation with any of those teams. The only team he has an affiliation with where he's a legend is the Cleveland Cavaliers. That would be the right way to finish his career. That's just my opinion. Him chasing rings, trying to chase the ghost of Michael Jordan, going to the Warriors or going to the Sixers would be a bad look. He should go to Cleveland to finish his career. That would be a great finish in the story. Yeah. Were you were you shocked by the Jalen Brown trade? Because I feel like it still is like, how is this what ended up happening with a guy? Who's a top 15 guy in the league? Oh, I think two things, one surprise, he got traded, right, because he was clearly going to get traded. Yeah. I was surprised he got traded to Philly because, number one, you're in the same division. You're going to be in the same playoff structure. So you've got to see that man a lot. But and then it say that it saves the Sixers franchise because they were dead in the water because Paul George is aging. Joel has not been able to stay healthy and they got both of those guys for another few years. Now the happiest guy in the world should be Maxie because his career was going to be in the toilet for the next few years because he's a hell of a player. But the Sixers were irrelevant and only going to get worse. But now they you know, I have zero idea who's going to win the East right now. I'll tell you this, I think if LeBron go to Cleveland, I think they'll probably be favored in the East. But the Knicks, the Knicks are regressing because they losing some players. The Celtics obviously regress. The Sixers are going to be better with Jalen Brown. With Jalen, the Raptors, if they get that gone, they're going to be better. But man, I got zero idea who the best team in the East is right now. Yeah. Do you think that you think the parody in the NBA is good for the NBA? That we had what eight different champions in the last eight years is great for the NBA. I thought this was great for the NBA that the Knicks won. I ain't gonna lie, man. It was that atmosphere in New York was one of the most incredible games three and four and game five in San Antonio. Like had to have seven thousand Knicks fans. That was crazy nuts. So it was one of the most incredible. Things I've seen those two games in New York and I thought it was great for the NBA that the Knicks won. Yeah. I mean, we said when the when the Thunder won last year, like they might win three out of the next four. We already anointed them. Well, listen, you they if Jalen had been healthy and AJ that other kid AJ, they probably would have won the championship this year. You know, they lost to a good Spurs team in seven without their second best player who's an all-star and then other kid AJ got hurt. So, the Thunder are going to be the team to beat for the next probably five to seven years. Yeah, you're not saying that the the Spurs are inevitable at this point because they did so much stupid stuff in the finals. Like they're a great team. I think and obviously what they were they did not play well and they're going to be right there. Listen, you're going to have to beat OKC or the Spurs the next five to seven years. We're going to win the championship, right? Yeah. Yeah, how was how's the switch to ESPN Ben because last year last year we obviously were in the great. Great unknown. Yeah, you didn't know what was going to happen. I feel like the start might have been a little Rocky, but it felt like the show kind of got back to where it was towards the end. You know what? They were awesome. They didn't bother us all year. They were a fun and work with and the really cool thing about it to be honest with you and Ernie talked about and I talked about it. It was really fun and like we got a perfect storm between New York and San Antonio. It was really cool to work the finals for the first time and we got a great finals and like I say in New York and in San Antonio. Two great fan bases, but it was really pretty cool working the founders for the first time and Ernie talked about that. It was pretty cool. What about the the budget for like the the food spread when you guys have those long nights? and you're working you know we just we same no our spread is always different we all we all order from a different restaurant okay but they didn't like they didn't cheap out on the on like what you guys are able to expense right well we don't they don't know that work like that like we got about 50 restaurants and we order shack orders something i order something and i'm all over the place sometimes i get mexican sometimes i get italian uh sometimes i i'll get a steak or chinese but we don't normally have a spread at work to be honest with you we just order from a restaurant who's paying for that tnt okay all right okay all right so that's that's staying the same but do you so you usually don't order from the same place no we don't we got all different and we uh and because we all eat at different times i i like to eat later like i like to eat probably 8 8 30 because i don't want to eat again at midnight or one or two in the morning yeah uh probably the two latest either ernie ernie goes in like three o'clock in the afternoon or earlier so he'd like to eat around six and we don't show up to 6 30 uh me shack and kenny yeah so and i like to do the show the hour pre-game before i order like i said i don't want to eat at midnight right yeah i had a question about uh the show with draymond yeah so that clip that went viral this year i actually said right after when we did our show i was like i don't want to eat at midnight i was like this is actually awesome for charles because you played it so perfectly where you just sat there he was kind of talking out of his ass and we like draymond we had him on a few months ago he's kind of talking out of his ass and then the reaction online is people don't remember how good charles barkley was and it was like almost like everyone's like hey this guy was way better than anyone is like he he's done a bad job of helping his own legacy by being so funny and you know you make fun of yourself but he was fucking awesome what was interesting about it i didn't pay it that much of attention yeah you should have because they were glazing you no so so we go to the little dive bar after work all the time called a pub stays open about three four in the morning because we little jack when you get off television so we always go to the pub and draymond went with me that night and then i always catch like a seven o'clock flight back to phoenix and so i'm not even paying attention to it because i don't do the internet i don't do any of that shit so i fly and i land and i got a hundred messages i'm like what somebody got traded or something and then it was about the draymond stuff and i was like i never even gave that a second thought but i was really surprised how many people went after draymond and defended me this man i i'm not sensitive at all because i say stuff about players i hope they're not sensitive because if i say it i believe it that don't mean i'm always right so that didn't even phase me whatsoever i mean i can take i can take it as much as i can dish it out yeah yeah so you went you went out to the drinks with draymond after that yeah it didn't didn't he probably knew though because he is online he's like looking at well we were two beers of drinking tequila to worry about online at that point that's good that's good sometimes i think that draymond does shit so he can talk about it on his podcast probably he says himself it gives him like little ratings boost because people like oh i want to hear what draymond said about getting kicked out of that game yeah i i don't but i can say man i don't i'm never gonna be sensitive yeah yeah you should you should have gone online that day though because it was crazy the highlights that you know people had highlight packages numbers everything draymond is a good player i was a great player i don't i don't go back and forth trying to defend all right he's a very he's a very good player yeah but we're not on the same level right yeah yeah yeah it's like the old bus thing that you guys talk about it was driving the bus it would have been if you had seen what people were saying it would have been a little bit like attending your own funeral because that's how nice people were saying it was awesome i know you don't go to funerals i heard you say that weddings are funerals so but no funerals ever like you have to go to some funerals if somebody is really special i'll make an exception but i'm just not gonna go to somebody who's a casual friend of mine's funeral they don't know i'm there they're dead yeah that's a fact so all your friends know this like hey there's a good chance that you're gonna go to a funeral chance i'm not going to your funeral and they won't know it though yeah what if they try to trick you though and do a fake death thing where the hell's chuck no that's just not my thing man i don't want to see if like if somebody's special to me i will go but i don't really want to go and see somebody who i liked last time i saw him was dead yeah period yeah what about so you you were probably one of the only people in the country who got invited to taylor swift and travis kelsey's and decided not to go i don't go to weddings i love travis he him and jason are great friends of mine i got a lot of love and respect for him i've only met taylor one time she's an awesome person that's from a distance and i'm happy for them but like no i didn't want to i didn't like no i'm gonna politely decline yeah because i love both of those guys jason and travis uh a lot i like got a lot of love and respect for them but like nah i'm not going to the zoo so you just don't go to weddings i do not what is there a reason for that because that's the opposite of a funeral that's just the bride special day let her as her let her enjoy herself that's actually huge you yeah that's your special day yeah yeah that's your special day what if the bride's only wish is to have charles barkley at her wedding she needs to get some a life she needs to get a life is it is it about i didn't know by the way i love this i i'm think i'm gonna adopt i didn't know you could do that i didn't know you could just be like yeah i don't go to funerals yeah i'm gonna start doing that she's like i don't go to them especially my age i'm going a lot of my friends are dropping dead so i'll be busy all the time yeah with the funerals are more about like you you don't want to travel for it because i understand that no not traveling i know i just like i don't want to see somebody i really really like did last time no before a wedding for a wedding i just like that's the bride special day i want her to have all the shine i've always wanted this uh charles because you uh you've been so big in the media for so long that there's everyone thinks that they've got a charles barkley impression and most of them suck most of them are really bad do you do you pay attention to the charles barkley impression people send me all the time the only problem i have with impression is every short bald fat black guy walks up to me all the time talking about how they look like me right it drives me nuts yeah first of all they're all those short fuckers and other than being bald and light-skinned you look nothing like me but every now and then i meet somebody who look like me yeah oh i'll tell you a funny story about the impression thing my agent called me it's probably 40 years ago now no i'm probably 30 30 somewhere he says hey john madden is looking for you i said oh my god he's can i give me a number i said of course you can get john madden my number because you know he says you don't let anybody give anybody your number i said yeah losers but he's john madden so john madden says mr barkley i said hey it's such an honor and thank you for leading the example of the media and blah blah blah he says all right thank you thank you he says hey you know this guy frank caliendo i said yeah he's a good guy he's a good guy he's a good guy he's a good guy yes sir he lives as one of my neighbors what an asshole i want to put a stop to him doing impersonations of me and i'm trying to get some of the other celebrities he do to like tell him to stop and i'm like what he says we need to stop i says first of all i think frank is great and he's and i said first of all i think it's an honor for somebody to do that and i says mr madden i understand where you're coming from you might not like it but i think it's i think he does a great job on me and you and all the other people all right sorry i wasted your time i'm like i think i just pissed off john madden um but frank does a fabulous job with his impersonations and i always consider it flattering yeah i thought you were going to say that it was frank caliendo calling you up doing an impression of you might have been no no yeah no but i was laughing i was like man somebody do it for me i'm like i'm not going to do it for you i'm not going to do it for you you should take it like yeah as an honor yeah that means you have an iconic voice like or you know affect whatever you do 100 yeah um where are you out with mj you guys gonna reconcile yeah we are oh okay nice because i actually was our mutual friend uh waddle and sylvia go on their show every week and they actually asked me this last week randomly and i was like i don't know yeah so uh one of my friends who's here uh i was sitting at the house a couple months ago and his name popped up and uh i said what's up motherfucker and he was like what's up what's up what's up what's up motherfucker that's where we talked to each other he said no motherfuckers mj and they were playing golf together and we said oh man how you doing i hope you're doing great blah blah blah and we're like yo man let's let this bullshit go we were we were great friends brothers for a long time and both of us being selfish and uh stupid and i said yeah we are we're both selfish and stupid and stubborn more than anything he says hey man as soon as basketball is over come down to my golf course and let's play and i said man i'd be honored to you know i miss your friendship and he said i miss your friendship so we like soon as he's out of the country right now but as soon as we get a chance we're gonna get together i'm gonna go down this golf course and play with him for a couple days that's awesome i mean it feels like too especially you guys both love golf so much like those there's years and years of history between the two of you and that's a friendship i would imagine there's not a lot of people who can give mj shit like you could probably give him shit hundred percent you know i mean like he doesn't have a lot of people who are going to probably give it to him the way that he gives it to other people and you can do that and i'm definitely gonna do that yeah so he needs to do that and i'm definitely gonna do that yeah so he needs to - He needs you in his life. - Yes. - Yeah. his friendship too. I'm looking forward to reconnecting. Who usually wins when you guys play golf? Well, he quit playing with me when I had the yips. So we haven't played together. He's a better golfer than me, but I'm really looking forward to putting my game up against him. He stopped playing with you when you had the yips? He's like, I'm done playing with you? He said, this is not fun for me to watch. But he did. He said, I'm not playing with you anymore. You've got to play with the group behind me. But now I don't have the yips anymore. I'm looking forward to playing with him because I think I can compete. What's your handicap at now? Ten. That's pretty good. And what's he at? I don't know. We haven't played together. We didn't speak for like 12 years, so I don't know what he at. But he's got to be a good player. If you're going to build your own golf course, you should be a good player. Yeah, that's true. You don't really have an excuse to build it to match your own game. You shouldn't be a shit chef if you got your own restaurant. Yeah, that's true. Maybe I'm forgetting it, but what was the start of that, the whole rift? Because it sounds like it's something that you guys are looking at with the right perspective right now, where it's like, okay, let's move on. Well, I said that he was never going to be good at his job running a team because he had a bunch of kiss-asses around him. And how do you think that turned out? Well, after he cursed me out, we didn't talk for 12 years. Now we're back. You might not have been wrong. Now we're back. We don't want to, and listen, it means progress. We're not going to try to go backwards here. I'm not going to get invited to play. Imagine if we were the clip that makes it so you guys don't play golf. It's great, though. I'm glad that you guys are smoothing things out. I hope that you go out and play really well this year. I want to see Charles in contention. Hey, man, listen, man, I'm going to play well. You know what's crazy about this tournament? This is the only place in the country that's not hot as hell. Yeah. I saw looking at the weather last week. It was like 115 in Phoenix and like 100 and some in Philly, and I was like, damn. I was like 10 days away, and I pulled up the weather report, and I'm like, yo, man, how in the hell is it hot every single place in the country except Lake Tahoe every year? It's incredible. It's incredible. This place is like, it's heaven. It is. You just wake up. It's 60 degrees. You put a sweatshirt on, and then by like 9 o'clock, you can be short to t-shirt. If I wasn't a gambling degenerate, I literally wouldn't move here. Yeah, I think we could. Guys like us can't be living that close to the casino. I can't live this close to the casino. No, you cannot. But if I, listen, I really, I love, like, for that, because you get, man, it's so hot everywhere. If I wasn't a gambling degenerate, I really would actually buy a place here. Yeah, yeah. Because I get out, I live in Philly all summer because it's too hot to be in Arizona, but literally, I tell people, if I was not a gambler, I would literally buy me a place here. Yeah, it's beautiful. It's beautiful. All right, I know you got to get, you got to get going in a second. Yeah, I got to go get loose. We got one last question. Road back question. R-H-O-B-A-C-K dot com promo code TAKE. 20% off your first purchase. Q-Zips, polos, hoodies, joggers, shorts, roadback.com, promo code TAKE. Chuck, thank you always for doing this. We love having you on. It's honestly a thrill. All right, Zach. This is Zach. How are we doing today, sir? Quick question for you. I know in 96, when everybody was filming Space Jam, they built like a bubble facility, almost a practice facility for maybe some guys to get some runs in. I was just curious if you took part in those runs while they were recording the movie. Yeah, you know, that's when MJ was at the peak of his superpowers and he had, we were really close back then. He was like, and nobody works out harder than Michael. And this is when he ran the world. He was like the most popular player in, I mean, it was amazing. And he would not go without working out. He said, I'm not going to shoot the movie because I can't take those days to work out. And they built him a gym. It was one of the most incredible things. They built him a gym, a full, length basketball court, a stands. We had probably 3,000 people packed a night where he could work out in the morning, film, and then we would scrimmage at night. But he was so popular, they built him a full length basketball court gym with stands. And there's so many players, like Reggie Miller was still in college, I think, at the time he came out. And there was probably another 20 NBA players. But he would work out in the morning, film all day, then we would scrimmage, and it'd be like 3,000 people. It was one of the most incredible things I've seen. So, yes, that was amazing. I remember because we had, also because you had Patrick Ewing and Sean Bradley and Muggsy Bogues and Larry, I think, we were all in the movie, but then all these college kids and NBA players came. It was incredible. So, yes. Nice. Next good question. You got a follow-up real quick? Follow-up. We have had some blockbuster trades here recently, and Leo, Giannis going down to the Heat. We got Jalen going to the Sixers. New York Knicks, they did win the Cup and the Chip. Could we get, like, an extremely early NBA champion prediction from you today? Wow. Well, if you look at the West, it's going to be Spurs or Oklahoma City. They're going to be battling for the next 10 years. The East, with Brown going to Philly, Kawhi maybe going to Raptors, the Knicks already lost Mitchell Robertson and probably going to lose another couple of players. Wizards got better. Oh, the Wizards, we don't know if Anthony Davis and Trey Young and DeBomster, like, I got zero idea who's going to win the East. Like, because, like I say, I don't know how healthy Joel Embiid's going to be. Like, if Embiid is healthy, which he's never been, you take Maxey, Edgecombe, Jalen Brown, if Embiid can play at an elite or an all-star level, the Sixers might be the team to beat in the East. So, it's too early because I got to wait and see. I love Kawhi Leonard and Scotty Barnes. I've been saying for the last three or four years, Scotty Barnes is the most underrated player in the NBA. He's great. We just don't ever show the Raptors. But man, the East is going to be interesting. Let's not forget about the Pacers either. They were just in the NBA. You're right. They got that big boy from L.A. who was Yvonne Zubaz. Yeah. And you got they're going to get Halliburton back. You know, everybody that kid from Canada, forget his name, the small forward, Siakam. Man, the East is going to. I think honestly, you could say the East is probably better in the West right now. Deeper. Deeper, yes. So, I wish I could give you, but I'm saying everything going through San Antonio and Oklahoma City the next few years. But man, the East, I got to see what happens before I can even make an educated guess who's going to win the East. Yes, sir. Thank you for your time. All right, Chuck, you're the best. Good luck this week. Thanks, brothers. Charles Barkley was brought to you by our great friends over at Fruit of the Loom. Fruit of the Loom is the best underwear in the world. We recently got a bunch of Fruit of the Loom. I switched out the underwear drawer. It's super comfortable. I wear it every day. Great underwear. I look forward to putting on my underwear because it's Fruit of the Loom and it's comfortable. Some guys hold on to their underwear way too long. Why? Nobody knows. 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Austin, I think you know what the first question's going to be because we're, I think, a week out from you signing your new deal, $185 million. We saw the picture. You're on the golf course. My question is, how did the rest of the round go? Because I feel like when you find out that you signed for $185 million, you probably can't think about much else, especially golf, when you're out there. So the good thing was I had played 18 earlier that morning. I went and ate lunch with my mom and then went back and I was playing me and my dad were just messing around playing from the reds and we were on nine but we started on the back so we were on 18 so I didn't have to uh you know play thinking about it uh and that picture was actually a little bit before I decided uh that I was resigning it was when I got the offer from the Lakers um and it was just obviously a a breath of fresh air yeah so so how did the process work because I know the the Pistons were involved too so was it like were you just deciding between where you wanted to go you you kind of knew that it was going to be a lot of money no matter what yeah I mean I always knew I wanted to go back to LA um that was the main thing from you know day one was uh being back in LA it's basically my home away from home uh I enjoy the good weather year-round golf uh so getting back there was the most important thing and uh you know people say that there was other moves to be made out there I don't know about any of that so um you know LA is where I wanted to be the whole time would you have resigned with the Lakers if you had known that they were going to only sign white guys because you kind of aren't you're not special anymore you are you're like you are it's actually crazy we were joking about it last year that uh my first couple years I was the only white guy on the team and now I think we have like six or seven so I think it might be more it might be um but no it's it's crazy but I mean at the end of the day it's all about it's all about who can who and uh you know I feel like we've got you know some guys that can really play yeah sorry that was a massively loud alarm that just went off that's that's Zach Zach why is your alarm going off at 102 p.m talking to Mike talking to Mike talking to Mike that's the loudest whatever there everything's off we're good to go I apologize for any kind of interruption right there yeah yeah just curious why was it almost I just run through the page at nighttime I mean I made it ran a little bit too late it will never happen again I'm about to go set an alarm after this I didn't sleep much last night that was a good alarm so has the uh has the money hit your account uh no so I actually I technically haven't even signed yet uh because of honestly I couldn't even tell you what all the like it's like a cap hold and all this stuff that um so you're still listening to offers yeah well it gives the Lakers more cap space to make moves uh so I'll be I'll technically be the last person to sign when everybody else signs so um no the money hasn't hit and it probably won't hit until August or something but uh you know we've done pretty well the last couple years so that is very cool congratulations that's that's awesome like I know that you bet on yourself and you know you you took some chances there were some parts of your career along the way might not ever think that you'd get here or maybe you did I don't know did you did you have doubts that maybe you won't ever reach this level uh when it come to basketball no but I just didn't think that I was going to get the opportunity uh you know I was at Oklahoma um you know my junior and senior year and I was uh I think honorable mention uh all big 12 team uh my first year and then first um first team all big 12 my second year and it was still like you know I was on you know draft boards but late 40s 50s um but I just knew at the end of the day all I needed was an opportunity and uh you know because I've been playing basketball for forever and you know the confidence in basketball will always be there yeah that's very cool I think you're the that's the biggest contract ever for an undrafted guy yeah that's crazy which is pretty cool so yeah I appreciate it and now I don't know how do you see this dynamic work it's going to be like what three-fifths of the lineup is going to be different this year yeah I mean yeah so I just seen something the other day that said that uh games one through four in the rocket series our whole starting lineup is gone uh yeah you know Marcus left Brian's leaving uh I don't know where he's going to be determined and then everybody else left as well so uh it's different it's definitely a different dynamic but um I'm very excited for what we are building yeah very cool can I can I ask a question to 12 year old Austin Reeves about all this for sure okay so to 12 year old Austin Reeves you hate LeBron we hate LeBron what's the thing you hate the most about LeBron I just honestly was a Kobe guy so the meme was funny so for people who don't know he had the the what was it was I'm putting my phone on LeBron mode yeah when I need some sleep I put my phone on LeBron mode no rings and it was a picture of Kobe like this but no I mean I I was I was a diehard fan of LeBron and I was like I'm gonna go to LeBron and I'm gonna go to Kobe guys so you know by default I didn't I didn't like LeBron yeah and it's funny when that had came out uh we were in New Orleans and after the game I we get in the locker room coach comes in talks whatever and then I uh I pull my phone up and it's just like text after text every time I pull up my Instagram and the first thing I see is ESPN uh posted it like tweet of mine from when I was 12 and I was like shit what do I do uh so I just went over to him it was like I ain't gonna lie to you I I used to I used to be a hater I was like and I turned my phone around he just started laughing I mean it's actually like a compliment to LeBron that he's played so long in the NBA that he has guys who are 12 years old who hated him and trolling him online are now his teammate it's crazy that's definitely crazy yeah no I mean it's I mean and then the crazy thing was is everything that you know I think the outside world thinks of him as a person uh you can't really think he's a bad player that's impossible he's so good uh I was completely wrong on um he'd been fucking phenomenal from day one uh never I mean I was on a two-way and he treated me the same as he does today yeah was there a moment where you you realized that you had his respect or at least like his attention yeah I mean I think it grew um over time but so I was on a two-way and I went to his mini camp that we have we had usually before uh training camp it was usually the weekend before and we went down there we were playing like three on three and I was playing really well and I made a move and went by Rondo so I got a rebound rewind a little bit I got a rebound and it's just me on a two-way like nobody really knows who I am so I get a rebound and Bron was on my left and Russell Westbrook was on my right and AD was guarding Bron Carmelo was guarding Russ and Rondo was guarding me and in my head I'm like I should just fucking pass the ball like I shouldn't have the ball so um but I dribbled up and I went by Rondo and I went to shoot a layup and I seen AD coming out of the corner of my eye so I like threw it behind him and I was like I should just fucking pass the ball and I went to shoot a layup and I the back pass to Bron and he dunked it Jim went crazy and then I think that's where it kind of started and that's you know kind of the the first step of me getting a real contract yeah and now how how is his golf game I assume that you're much better than him at golf Bron yeah yeah well you could say much better yeah wait what's your handicap I'm a plus one seven right now oh so yeah you're really you're really good uh yeah I mean I play a lot so you're way better than LeBron yeah just say that I mean I mean we don't have to put any context I think you're you're closer to being as good as LeBron James at basketball than he is being as good at you at golf yeah I mean that's a crazy way to think of it yeah but it's true it's also a very true way to think about it all yeah so have you I'm guessing you played with him yeah we've uh we've got out a couple times uh which is it's crazy because I had been begging him to come play for five years because I mean I've played ever since I got in the league and uh every time he's like no golf stupid golf stupid I'm like yeah well just try it one time and he's like no golf stupid and I'm like yeah well just he called me a couple years or a couple summers ago and he was like I went out I was like went out where and he was like to golf and I was like oh shit and he goes yeah I'm addicted so I've gotten basically half of our roster Luke is into it now JJ's played for a while but um yeah we have our team has an addiction to golf yeah yeah I'm sure you know he's still kind of a beginner but once he retires and just dedicates himself full-time to playing golf he's gonna be really good yeah no he can get there he just needs I mean obviously fix a couple things in a swing but the thing he does is he puts the ball really well which is crazy because I mean that's one thing I struggle with is putting but we were in uh Orlando earlier this year and uh we played on like a Thursday night and we were leaving Friday like midday so we had got a big scramble together it was me Bron Luca Bronny and Luke uh Canard against our coaching staff like JJ and a bunch of them and I think Bron we I think we shot like 13 or 14 under and Bron had made like nine or ten of the birdie putts mm-hmm damn it's pretty good do you know do you know here's another crazy stat about this upcoming season with the Lakers do you know that right now you're the oldest guy I did see that that's insane it's insane are you like what are you are you gonna you're gonna have to be the old head you're gonna have to do the LeBron stuff oh I guess but I mean in my brain I'm still 15 years old just running around having fun yeah I mean we yeah I still do that to this day would you have been a little fraud guy in the replies what's that mean the the whatever like there's a LeBron like a milestone there'll just be a ton of like replies being like LeFrod and be like you know in this championship because the Thunder were too young and then the spur the heat you know the Ray Allen shot they basically just try to make every championship look like it doesn't count suspended yeah I don't know I don't know if I've ever did that online I'm sure I've had some lunch table arguments about something but uh yeah I mean it's all fun yeah you've always been a Laker guy right like even growing up you mentioned Kobe I don't know if you've you saw this stat um but if you look at it's kind of crazy the first five years of your career compared to the first five years of uh Kobe Bryant's career your points per game almost identical as you track it along so first season you were 7.3 Kobe was 7.6 second season 13 he was 15.4 third season 15.9 he was 19 next 20.2 you were he was 22.5 and then this most recent season I believe it was like 25 for you, 28 for him, but it tracked along. like very close to being like kind of not saying you're the same player but it's it's cool that you got to play for a team that you grew up rooting for and kind of like following in those footsteps so when when did you become a Laker fan uh young my my grandma was actually a Kobe fan so we would sit and watch the games together and um you know really just from a young age admired his mentality and the way he approached the game it was kill or be killed to him uh you know he didn't have friends in the league and I think that that's a missing part of you know sports today everybody's buddy buddy um which is cool I guess but uh you know at the end of the day you know we're we're on the court to win and uh that's the main thing and I feel like that's what he did at the highest level yeah I like that I like the hate bring the hate back yeah I agree that's what I don't I people think I talk a lot of shit which I don't uh I was more of a I'll talk if someone talks to me but nobody talks in the NBA anymore all right so let's do a role play so we can like test if you'll talk shit PFT and I are the Oklahoma City Thunder you suck dude I mean I can't say that y'all are champions okay well not anymore actually well I mean they got one I don't have yeah okay so that was bad that was bad shit talking by you uh we're the Spurs uh we're we're we're Wembanyama yeah I don't know what the fuck you're too short hey you're too short I mean uh fuck you all right we got to work on the shit talk I mean I haven't talked shit in a long time it was back in high school when I used to and then like I said I mean people kind of stop I I got a question about that so you're from a town of what like 1200 people in Arkansas yep what at what point in your high school career you're like this is just so easy for me and did you have a game where you're like what are we even doing here because I love like people don't I think most people realize but some people still don't get it like I don't know I don't know I don't know I don't know guys who are in the NBA guys who are in major league sports like they have been just so dominant at every step of the way like especially in high school where I'm sure you played multiple sports could have done yeah multiple sports but was there a game where like what is why are they even trying uh they're probably I mean there was a couple of my like junior and senior year but uh how many points I scored 73 okay yeah so that was that was one can I can I be that guy it was triple overtime it was yeah I was saying I shot I think I shot 37 free throws oh shit so they little SGA free free free throw court man press the whole time and just ran and jumped so shot a lot of free throws uh but honestly like my my I played senior out my ninth and obviously 10th grade year but I moved up my ninth grade year and uh my brother's two years older than me and he was our best player by far so I didn't really I didn't start like dominating games until after he left so my junior and senior year uh but more so my senior year like I would I would go into games and uh like obviously winning is the most important thing but we never really you know there was only a handful of games throughout the year that we didn't think that we could win right we knew it was going to be close um so some of those games I would either you know go in trying to get 50 or get a triple double yeah wait so you I I read a story that your your older brother you never won anything when you were growing up nope so the important question is did he stop playing you when he realized that you could beat him because that's the thing that's the thing that's the thing that's bullshit if he did that it's no no no it's actually crazy because we were I mean we could go play one-on-one right now and he would give me more problems than half of our team and he I mean he plays he plays in the top league in Germany um but I think it's just well it's one of those things mentally yeah it's like I mean we for a long time we played a lot of tennis together and for a long time I couldn't beat him I finally got over the hump not too long ago and so I beat him three or four times since but uh he gives me more problems still to this day than than a lot of people so if you're a one-on-one player you're not going to be able to beat him you're not going to Western Conference team you they should sign your brother no before the playoffs just be like and just like godfather just have him sit on the bench being like what are you gonna do now the Austin stopper yeah nah he's he's go where he's at so I also read that your mom was a pretty good basketball player she played in college how how old were you when you first beat her uh she never would play me in one-on-one all she would do is play me in horse or pig and she would go from left elbow to right elbow shooting bank shots and I couldn't beat her yeah and that's such a I don't that's such a parent move to just keep like fundamentals well I don't know I I genuinely I don't know if I've ever beat her in horse or pig which is crazy yeah well she she beat me really bad one day and she and she was in her house shoes and she was she was talking and she beat me and walked in the house and was like I'm never playing you again yeah it was like she was basically like you're not good enough I love that but I used to when I used to play my dad in horse I would just try to Chuck threes yeah and then he would just go like five feet away one hand and miss it because I would just be like shooting from you know 40 feet away yeah yeah I also read I read a profile of you I think it was done by maybe the LA times but they went to your your farm your family farm in Arkansas with you and uh one part jumped out to me because we actually have a guy Hank over here Hank uh does a really good cow noise he does a great cow impression he does breaking moves for us oh here we go there's a cow noise and in the article it said that you do a cow impression talking about a lot of that article okay yeah it said that you can the guy said you can make a cow noise but just maybe judge Hanks yeah that's really good yeah you can come work on the farm do you have do you have one I don't know if I make cow noises I don't know I think you might have made that do you have any other noises you make no I just okay I don't know if we just had noises no yeah dog can you do a dog noise no I don't do anything cat no what was it like like growing up on a farm were you working like the farm when you were a kid no so my mom gave me basically uh she was like get in the gym and get your school paid for go get a job so I picked the go to the gym basically every day route instead of uh actually having a job yeah that's that was a smart but my grandpa was I mean he was the one that um took care of everything and you know days I would go out with him and just hang out and have a good time what kind of farm like what else would you have cattle all cattle all cattle I love that did you uh were you surprised that you didn't get more offers coming out of high school uh surprised yeah I mean I just feel like you know the main thing that everybody was saying was is I was too skinny and but it's like you know they make a weight room for a reason like obviously I think the majority of people could see that the skill was there so it's like you know you look at the NBA draft for example anybody past you know 15 20 they all go off potential and so I didn't understand why people didn't you know see the like potential and the skill that I had um because you know skill is gonna you know outweigh you know almost everything at the end of the day um but you know it is what it is yeah I don't know if you saw this the other day crazy highlight that I saw from I think it was summer league they're testing out the new foul shot system is it is it one one yeah so like yeah I think the last two minutes you shoot normal foul shots yeah but before that if you get fouled shooting a three you take one shot and it's worth three points what do you think about that I think it's stupid yeah I agree it's very I mean they actually change they they do that in the G League games uh yeah they do they do uh which I mean I think is I don't know what what are they saying it speeds up the game yeah I think so but it's stupid like it's not gonna make you free like that's so that's the fun of it like high pressure moments of free throws yeah so I don't like that how many is the most free throws you ever made in a row um I don't have an exact number I would say probably 60 or 70. damn that's pretty good we once made 41 in a row with two Mulligans and also a ringer shooter that we've invited no big deal yeah how many threes have you made in a row uh I was shooting on you know what they call the gun the thing that you know throws the ball back to I think I made 52 in a row from the top of the key that's pretty good I made nine yeah I don't see there's a lot of people in this world that wouldn't make nine I just stood right at the top of the key yeah made nine uh do you like in your nicknames um I don't really care he'll be only Kobe it's cool okay all right all right so we're okay with all right I know I know you're like lukewarm on it when it first came out but I think yeah I think it was uh you know timing and you know kind of the things that you know happened you know with Kobe a couple years before I was never trying to call myself I mean I didn't even make it up I think if you make up your own nickname that's kind of corny but um no one of my one of my GAs at Oklahoma I think it was in my first or second year there he came up to me and was it was like I got a nickname and I was like what and he said hillbilly Kobe and then well someone heard it on the team and they kind of ran with it and then obviously going to the Lakers um you know someone else picked up on it and it kind of went from there yeah yeah I think it's a cool nickname for what it's worth I think most people like it I'll say it with respect yeah speaking of names did uh did Bronny ever up and call LeBron dad I don't think I ever heard it no oh man I would did did LeBron ever call him son uh I guess that would be that would be more like I'm sure he did at some point but calling him Bronnie calling LeBron dad would be kind of embarrassing oh I think it would just be like I mean it's a crazy you know uh Duo if you really think about it because I mean you see I've been sitting in practice you know they're in the middle of practice and I would see, you know, Bron obviously analyzes everything and, you know, was on one team and brony was on another and uh i mean he he does it to everybody it doesn't matter if he's on your team or not but uh brony did some made a mistake or something he went over and talked to him and i was like this is fucking crazy he's talking to his son right now it's nuts yeah was there ever a moment because it does feel like all the stories of lebron is like the way he thinks the game is just at such an elite level no one's really thinking the game like him was there ever a moment where he gave you a tip or was like hey this guy's gonna do this and it just worked perfectly yeah i mean i thought that happens you know basically every game uh i remember we were playing one for example we were playing i think maybe atlanta at home or something and we had went to an empty corner pick and roll with me and ad and i think we got a bucket or something and there was a timeout and he came uh he came over to me in the timeout was like uh he was like next time we go to the empty corner pick and roll he was like reject it go baseline he was like my guy will drop as the x-man the low man will rotate and he was like i'll you know cut from you know the hash and he was like just throw it up and i was like i won't be able to see you and he was like i don't care just throw it up and i threw a shitty pass and he caught it that's awesome yeah so i mean there's there's little things i mean in the okc series um we were running basically you know across screen to get him the ball on the post and they kept uh releasing off his body early and going high and beating him to the spot so we were both sitting on the bench and i was like yo like if if they keep doing that like he was like yeah throw it up and so we were already on the same page so there's a clip of me i had the ball on the left wing and we were running the action and i just threw the ball and everybody's like where the fuck is this going he caught it and dunked it so it's just little things like that that he picks up you know during the flow of the game that that makes it easy yeah does he gain weight during games gain weight there was that rumor when he was in miami that that he actually gained weight i mean miami-brom was different i think yeah you hated him yeah i wanted but yeah no i think i mean he played it like 270 almost in miami but i don't know if he's gaining weight during the game that's pretty hard it's pretty hard to do yeah it was the chocolate chip cookies that pat riley took away yeah that's kind of fucked up yeah did you ever see lebron eat the chocolate chip cookies i've seen him eat one or two chocolate okay yeah it's good that it's good that they haven't taken it away yet no they haven't i mean but sadly he won't be there next year so hopefully we still get chocolate chip yeah yeah that's true that's uh what's what's your relationship with luca like because it feels like this is a transition year for the lakers where it is his franchise now i heard i heard the story that he's very very competitive and everything that he invited you over his house one night and you thought you were just gonna go chill and it was just like a bracket style bowling uh competition but that just hit you out of nowhere it was i don't know if it was necessarily a bracket style but there he does have a bowling alley in his basement and i think it was new year's eve i went and ate with my people and i was like oh my god i'm gonna go to a bowling alley and i'm gonna go to a bowling alley and then going home he called me and he had some friends over uh you know for new year's or whatever and i went over there and i think we ended up bowling until like 5 30 in the morning he can't beat me um that's pathetic he has a bowling that's what i'm saying yeah i tell him that too i'm like yo you can't even beat me in your own house this is you should never lose if you have a bowling alley for sure i mean we've played we put a lot of ping pong i don't think he's beat me in ping pong uh we briefly played darts but i won that i played shuffleboard i beat him in that i mean the one thing he probably beat me that's what i probably need to you know care about more is basketball yeah yeah it's pretty good player you got him in everything else yeah i mean i guess that goes for something yeah how did you find out about the trade uh so we were in new york and we just beat the shit out of i mean i say beat the shit we we beat the knicks by you know 15 or so but we basically controlled the whole game and 80 was hurt at the time so but everything it felt like you know things were like everybody was kind of understanding their role like max christie was playing at a high level um so we go in there and win and i'm sitting by brown in the locker room right after media and we was just talking about random shit and and we both looked at each other and we're like we're gonna be we're gonna be all right when we get ad back like obviously he's a staple for what we're doing um but once we get him back like everything's kind of falling in order and so i talked to my people that were there and then get on the bus and go home and that's when our uh group message started going off and i hardly ever look at our group message i'm not active in the group message so but i've seen ad had texted and he said they traded me and i just put my phone down i was like yeah whatever like you ain't getting traded so pulled up instagram shams had you know posted it and so i called my agent and everybody's like this can't be real and i was like it can't be like so i was like if you hear anything let me know so one of the assistant coaches bo um that was the assistant coach that was the assistant coach that was the that i'm close with calls me and i was like what the fuck is this and he was like he and he he went to say something and i was like there's no way it's real and he was like uh he was like i'm sitting by max christie it's real and i was like holy shit so it was crazy it was i mean i was i was really close with both of them actually um but me and ad you know had built a really really good relationship uh you know after games like we would fade i mean we'd be on facetime with this kid so it was a you know that part always sucks but then again you know you flip the page and luke was one of my best friends in the world yeah how long after did he did you get the notification like anthony davis has left the chat uh i think it was later that night he had facetimed me uh we were in new york so it was probably two or three in the morning there but he was back in la rehabbing and he facetimed me and i was like oh what the fuck happened he was like he traded me so i think he left it on you know all the group messages that night yeah after luke or right was there any like i don't want to say animosity towards him probably no animosity but like you're not my friend ad like was there like a feeling out period right there yeah for sure i mean i think that there was a there was a period where he needed to you know kind of be comfortable with you know what happened uh you know you look at a guy like that and you don't think that he's ever i mean nobody thought he was going to get traded so uh i think you know we kind of stayed distant from each other at first just because you know i didn't want i don't want to be a um you know i don't want to force a friendship or relationship like i want that to grow naturally so uh he was kind of standoffish and i kind of just let him do his thing and um it was definitely a weird period of time because you know you have somebody that you've been with for you know three four years that leave and a new guy and uh you know obviously we all knew what he could do basketball wise but as a person nobody knew him so um but you know the summer come around and and we all got back together and then we you know he started fucking talking shit and you know he likes to you know bet on you know shots and stuff so uh we do a lot of that and i was like okay i think me we're gonna get along pretty well yeah until you start kicking his ass in every game that he likes yeah well he i mean the thing about it is is if he hears this and sees this he's gonna deny it a hundred percent but i mean i already expect it yeah so so luca's one of your best friends on the team friends horse around have you ever like picked luca up could you pick luca up physically yeah like or maybe you couldn't but now you can uh that's a strange question but yeah just like you know buddy sometimes yeah like no i don't think i've ever tried to pick him up he couldn't pick me up but like if i got in shape yeah in a couple months i will be able to you know i mean so you're getting in shape yeah well yeah right like was it like when luca got traded were you like oh man i can't pick that guy up but then he goes off for summer he comes back you're like oh now i could pick him up i don't think that that ever went through my brain though i'm making a weight joke about luca i know he does look like he's in really good shape he's in a good spot now yeah yeah i mean i think i i do think that the there was a a big mental aspect of you know the trade and stuff yeah that got to him and uh you know it's good to see him he's happy now and he uh looks good did you ever ask him what happened with that uh beer that uh i think it was michael finley i've seen the video yeah i've never asked you you should ask him i should just be like hey was was that it was that was that the end it might have been who knows yeah like if another man takes a beer out of my hand it's probably it's probably i know that the relationship yeah that's funny yeah what's it like playing for jj he so he's been on the show a couple times he's a good friend of ours is it uh like you're i mean he's he's a young head coach is he when you when he took the job it's a tough job to take with lebron there what's it what's it been like playing for him how well do you all know jj uh pretty well yeah i actually used to be neighbors with him he's a psychopath yeah he's nuts he's awesome i mean i've i've loved every minute of it uh you know he looked at me you know his first year in the summer and he was like look like you know we're not always gonna agree on everything he was like but you know the main thing to all of this is communication he was like if you ever think that you know if you ever want to he said you could say anything to me he was like you know as far as like you know if i'm up coaching or what it is you know if you ever think that you know if i'm up coaching or what it is you know if i'm up coaching or what it is you know if i'm up coaching or what it is you know if i'm up coaching or what it is you know if i'm up coaching or what it is you know if i'm up coaching or what it is you know if i'm up coaching or what it is you know if i'm up coaching or what it is you know if i'm up coaching or what it is you know if i'm up coaching or what it is you know if i'm up coaching or what it is so i'm going back at him and uh it's healthy though because i mean i think that that's how you you build something special so um i think that he's done everything that anybody could ask him to do and even more i think that you know his confidence in himself and his staff i mean i feel like he genuinely feels like he's the best coach in the nba yeah and you want that like you want guys that feel like they're they're at the top and they can uh out coach anybody outplay anybody so our relationship's been you know um it's really grown throughout the years and you know we like i said we've played a lot of golf together so we've uh we've spent a lot of time together if you ever want to get in his head on the golf course just be like do you think people still hate you as much as they used to oh we talk about all the time what does he say because people hated him oh they hated him and he was like i don't even he told me he didn't know why people hated him oh that's bullshit he played for duke yes yeah he was good and i was like it was actually good so um no there's there's actually he is uh there's a better way to get in his head on the golf course if you ever get out there with him he's terrified of his shadow so if he has a shadow that's like if sun's back here and he's aiming this way and the shadow is like over the ball or right behind him just mention it and he like his brain will start spinning what is he a groundhog i don't know he's terrified of his shadow i don't know i don't know he's gonna hate me for saying this but yeah no he he come to me one day last season um and he was like i i've overcome it and i was like what are you talking he was like my shadow problem and so we were we went and played at uh bel-air the next week and there was a shadow in his way and he actually hit a good shot and i was like maybe he did and then he came back the next day and he was like no it's still there that's so your own shadow in your head is terrible it's always gonna be there i guess it's something about you know seeing his self when he swings yeah seeing the movement and stuff i guess he just overthinks it that's so funny i mean i i do think he's a really really good coach and he he is a psycho and that is like a great quality to have if you're gonna be a head coach have you seen the uh is it the sports center commercial which one of him when uh they walk into the room and he's the analytic guy no i don't think i saw that look it up and that's exactly how yeah just because i mean they basically walk in and he's like oh my god i'm gonna be a head coach and he's like oh my god i'm gonna be a head coach and he he's got all this you know he's got a marker and he's riding on the board and he's like screaming and he's drank like six cups of coffee yeah it's exactly how he goes that's the guy you want to go to war with for sure yeah do do you ever get brought into those conversations like about numbers do they do they go through analytics with you guys or do they try to distill it down as much as possible i think that they do it as a staff and then bring it because i don't think a lot of i don't think a lot of play i think players respect analytics but i don't think that a lot of players think that it tells the full story i think that there's like a feel aspect of you know flow of game all these things um so i think that they do a good job of getting the analytics and getting the numbers that they think you know that show work the best and then basically instill it and kind of how we want to do things yeah are you uh are you still close with ad uh we talk every now and then yeah how how excited should i be as a wizards fan uh i like what they got going on over there yeah i mean uh are you wiz curious i guess i never thought of that either but yeah i guess i am it's spreading yeah i mean the young you with some good stuff i mean i think that the uh aj is going to be really good you know obviously trey's showing that you know he's an all-star can take a team you know deep in the playoffs and then um if ad can stay healthy he's one of the best players in the nba and then and then we got uh ayton yeah if he can find that spark again and he can stay healthy no i mean watch out no for sure i think it's one thing a lot i mean a lot of people talk you know uh da and kind of how he goes about the game but you know when he was when he was in a good headspace for us last year he was he was top 10 big in the league it was just you know trying to manage the ups and downs um you know kind of was hard but at the end of the day he was a good dude and good to be around yeah what so you've been in the league for uh what this is your sixth year this is going six going to six was there a moment in the first five years where people stopped talking shit because they're like oh shit he is he can hoop because i'd imagine when you were like early on you were like oh my god i'm gonna be like oh my god i'm gonna be like oh my god i'm gonna be lakers always have a target yeah maybe talk shit be like this guy sucks yeah i think it was more so teams would talk shit more to our team because our first year and maybe year and a half we weren't very good uh i remember that memphis team that was really good they were now top two three in the west couple years in a row they they've they would come into la and beat us pretty bad and talk shit the whole time uh but we we finally got our get back on them and in the playoffs uh my second year so that was nice um but it's i mean never people really know like single people out and just go at them what are your thoughts on uh memphis uh as a city and maybe the hotels i actually i grew up close to memphis so there you go maybe you got a laker who likes memphis i don't know if i'd say i like it i don't i mean i think it it is what you make it uh obvious i think that you know the hotels could be better the best pro shop pyramid's got a hotel at the top interesting it's really nice is it i stayed there it is beautiful wow i didn't know that yeah i mean i've been to memphis a lot we used to go and watch what is the redbirds games uh the triple a team uh when i was younger so i've spent a lot of time in memphis i don't i don't hate it do you ever go to oakland in arkansas hot springs for the i have not i have not i know some i know some friends just went up there and it's awesome went out there yeah yeah that's where uh i think al capone tried to cure his syphilis interesting with the hot springs yeah he's like i'll just take a jacuzzi and i'll be fine it didn't work did not work clearly yeah uh do we want to get yeah yeah let's do it so all right we got a rollback question r-h-o-b-a-c-k.com promo code take 20 off your first purchase q-zips polos hoodies joggers shorts rollback.com promo code take i'm wearing rollback right now great golf stuff zach you saw him earlier for the alarm how you doing today sir i did have a quick question uh someone who's made it to like you know the the biggest stage in basketball have you ever had the urge to maybe like go undercover let's say la fitness or a ymca and just absolutely run up the score have i ever had the urge yes have you ever done it no but maybe maybe in the future i mean because i i can get away with being a normal looking human i just gotta would have to change a couple things up and i think we could get away with it yeah maybe just go wig make shitey mask mustache could play i feel like that would work definitely i mean yeah you should do that you should do it but just like don't even tape it just do it for your own just just like i want to kick somebody's ass right now yeah that's actually a great idea i've thought about doing that yeah yeah okay good question you got a follow-up uh yeah i can go follow up a quick follow-up question uh if through all the areas of basketball if you need to assemble a starting five but you got to be on the team who are the four guys you want to run with all time yes sir uh all the older people don't be mad at me because i'm talking personally from what i've seen and watched uh if you leave george miking off this list yeah exactly um steph at the one god i've got to put myself in there yeah i can't coach no you've got to be on the court um steph at the one me at the two i'm going oh this is tough yeah it's so much easier if i don't have to put myself in there because i put kobe at the two um we're gonna go kobe at the three brown at the four and at the five so no luca and no brawny as of now no wow so then braun that would actually no law he would leave yeah no you just lost braun you just lost braun i folks okay yeah that will piss people off we're gonna make it into a graphic yeah i mean i gotta i gotta see it for all right so what if what if you're off the team kobe two yeah i would probably go steph kobe people are gonna kill me for leaving mj um you could put them on right now no steph kobe braun maybe like tim duncan shack or that's pretty good or no magic or katie and shack magic johnson i just could i know i didn't watch it so i don't really i couldn't no kareem no james worthy didn't watch it yeah okay i mean it's pretty important part of history yeah no for sure yeah i mean i've seen clips but i like watching real basketball games i'd put kirk rambis out there and i just kirk rambis is my guy i fuck with kirk is he is he as intense as uh you know all the all the clips that we've seen the stories that we've heard i think basketball wise uh obviously the clips do that justice i think off the court and like just talking to him around the practice facility and stuff he's very mellow guy just kind of moses on around about his day works out and um you know he's he's a basketball head at the end of the day so he loves you know talking hoops with anybody yeah um all right so this tournament uh we might run this after the tournament so tell us where you finished and are you like when you play in this are you like i got to try to beat all the other basketball players i think kyle lowry ray allen steph seth curry del curry yeah no i mean i caruso i'm i'm planning to win it yeah caruso might have you no i mean actually i don't know actually yeah i've actually never seen i've never seen him play golf but yeah i feel like i got an opportunity to win if i if i put it with him i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know that's kind of been my achilles heel out here the last couple years i think i've hit it decent but um i don't really i'm not sitting there looking at you know staff or seth or caruso i'm like oh i got to finish ahead of him okay just go out and play as good as i can and wherever that lands it lands there's gotta be one guy that you're like i gotta beat him um uh charles barkley yeah yeah yeah that's the correct answer if i don't beat him uh you quit golf would i quit golf yeah no because i love it so much but uh would you quit golf for a week i actually hadn't played for like a week coming here two weeks then that's just a road trip so yeah okay fine yeah so there it is if you if you lose charles bark you have to quit golf for two weeks and we're going to track it do you're going to let us know when you quit and then you let us know when you're back and hank's going to have to quit golf too yeah for two weeks for two weeks for two full weeks that's not happening no hank agrees hank says yes a long time yeah oh let's bookend it are you going to what's what's the first purchase you're going to make when when the new money comes in do you have anything in mind oh splurge on something no i mean i'm about house that's really i don't that's a pretty good purchase i don't really i'm not as i don't spend money to be honest with you i do i don't enjoy you know basketball golf you know i'd rather buy stuff for you know my friends and family i don't really care to spend stuff on myself so i actually had a talk with my advisor the other day and he told me to spend more money so i'm working talking working on it at the moment but i guess i don't shopping at air one maybe get those strawberries i don't know i mean i'm i mean i could let my girlfriend go shop or something but yeah i hate shopping wait oh last last question can you can you get on any course being an nba player uh for the most part yeah do you how does that work do you have to like do you say like hey austin reeves might honestly i don't ever use my name for anything i i have my best friend lives with me and works for me and you know he'll reach out to the course got it so he'll be like hey he'll be like you know we're in the we're in the area do you care if we come out and you know some courses say yes some courses say no that's awesome i would say the majority say yeah though yeah yeah it's fine i mean the only one i have i mean the one that i really want to go to that i haven't been to augusta so that's fair um yeah we're gonna make it out there at some point it was funny when like like lebron got a membership in uh outside of cleveland everyone's like freaking out it's like i'm pretty sure lebron can get a membership anywhere he just call him up and they'll give him a lot you know what's crazy is is lacc they don't let they don't let like anybody in the like the entertainment business like as far as like athletes that is kind of they don't let any like huh only person i think i know that's in there is bomber and he's got a lot of money he's got a lot of a lot of money but for the most part they keep it strictly like tech people i think so yeah but it's it's a beautiful place out there yeah yeah all right well austin thank you so much man we really appreciate it and uh congrats again man appreciate you man austin reeves is brought to you by morgan and morgan and this fire fest is also presented by morgan and morgan america's largest injury law firm you want to hire the right person to do the job let's say hypothetically you take a catastrophic spill down the stairs at a local pizza restaurant thereby disabling you and preventing you from working for probably the next eight to nine months you're in a tough spot call morgan morgan they're going to help you out don't hire the wrong people hire morgan and morgan it's america's largest injury law firm and they're the largest for a reason because they've been helping people with their own fire fest for over 35 years they have over 100 offices nationwide more 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over the world thing isn't as far away as we thought it was going to be and i've been like up late at night thinking about it really like if you see this if you see this robotic hand from x1 like they say it can so it can plug in usb charge it can pick up single coins it can like the way it moves is like a human is for real look it looks like a human hand it's like a human hand it's like a human hand and i just think that we're like in a really bad spot and i didn't think it would come in our lifetimes but it might be over what do you think the first use cases for a uh completely synthetic but realistic feeling hand would be uh i think a lot of like household tasks are good i'm more so worried about when they build the full body quickly from the hand and also like of course guys are probably gonna end up jerking off with it yeah yeah definitely probably that's gonna be the first thing most people do i think do you think that that's where the robots will then end up being like hey we were made to be able to to to solve any problem or do any task and all we're doing is jerking guys off and they and then they believe like create a militia yeah they're like we're we're tired of giving hand jobs we're over it that's the the two things i've seen is the hand job robot and then there's the toilet robot that runs into your room when you have to take a shit so yeah they're not going to like us very much i think it's coming like in the next 10 years we're gonna wear out our welcome real fast with robots this is keeping you up at night i was just like thinking about it last night after i saw this hand because like if the rest of the body works like the video of this hand we're actually done for you got to get the blue blocker uh glasses that chef donnie got uh recommended to me i put them on at night and i'm out in like five minutes it's insane like they legitimately work yes they legitimately work i get instantly tired but you wear them while you sleep no i take them off oh i i put them on and then you get tired i'll like scroll my phone got it play a little euchre and then i'm just like five minutes it's like holy shit i'm tired i'm telling you get get the the blindfold that's got the bluetooth speakers in it i do that that's awesome it's it's the best way to fall asleep also i was thinking about bluetooth today we haven't really updated bluetooth technology in a long time what do you mean like it's still the it's still the same process of like going into your phone hitting the button to connect hitting the button on the thing then you connect to it what would you like it to be it needs to be easier i feel like it's pretty easy i feel like we don't want it to be too easy imagine if your phone just connected to a bluetooth speaker as you were walking by it that could be a dangerous situation that is a dangerous game that you could be playing yeah but i'll give you that i want to be able to opt in but it is crazy that the underlying technology behind i i feel like it has not been changed in 30 years 25 years do you guys have like a million bluetooth yeah a million it sucks because i don't want to get rid of one yeah because i don't know which ones are are the good ones it also like they never the bluetooth like half the time it doesn't actually give you what you're singing to it's some random word yeah or name and it's like dude i just wanted to say like this is this speaker you know why i never delete any of that stuff it's kind of like nostalgic for me it's like a time capsule so you're like oh look at this it reminds me of like this enterprise rental car i had like yeah five years ago nice like remember when i got that truck yeah you remember when i i rented that shitty beach house yeah yeah it like it takes you back it's kind of nice it is never just like television it's always like samsung 20130x yeah dash b it's like well this could be anything just be my neighbors yeah i want to clean it up i want to clean up my phone so bad i just haven't been able to pull the trigger like all the apps that i just never ever use just delete them but you guys know like how it goes with the phone is that if you delete a bunch of apps then the apps that you do use are not in the place they usually are and those are all memory of like i know exactly where to press for this yep so i'm fucked then you're yeah then you're screwed and you're just everything needs an app now too many apps too many apps okay good fire yeah you guys i think you guys should watch out we're in a bad spot i think we're fine yeah i agree i agree zach did you guys see the hand i actually have not seen the hand yet no well i'll show you guys a handle later it's terrifying send me the hand on twitter x1 yep if they really want to make some money from the freaks they would go just the foot can i can i say something real quick zach i think uh i've i've just resigned myself to being the guy that um is just not going to concern himself with any future problems and then when the future problem arrives i will be first in line being like why didn't anyone warn us of this so like ai robots climate change all this shit i don't think about it i don't worry about it but when the day comes that it actually is a big problem i'll be the first to complain and be like why didn't anyone tell us even though people have been telling us all along ignorance is bliss until you find yourself bunkerless right like so i i'm fully aware that uh i should be paying more attention to it but i've opted out and then the next time i opt in will be purely to complain and blame everyone else around me for not alerting me even though they did i kind of like you should probably stay opted out because opting in has just been nothing full of uh paranoia and anxiety yeah yeah what you're a paranoia and anxiety guy that's true yeah we're talking about everything is paranoia and anxiety we're talking about robot armies though max if that's not something that we could talk about so many things right now it's robot armies though and those are terrifying yeah that's fair that's fair zach sent me news from two years ago okay uh i had a little stomach ache on monday that's true and he sent me a video that said you could get listeria from queso so i thought i had listeria for five minutes but it was from 2024 so wait you can't get listeria from queso i think there was a listeria outbreak in queso in 2024 and memes stomach was hurting from eating too much queso sunday night i was just trying to find queso relative illnesses and i was like well it could be this but then it was two years ago but i mean queso does have dairy so you could always get cereal from queso well i i should just do my fire fest right now because that was my fire fest was that on sunday night uh memes uh ordered met we so every every sunday we order food we order dinner together and memes is in charge of it yeah and let me just first say uh thank you memes you do a great job and it's not an easy job because you get people like shane who just never reply um that that that's hard but you ordered mexican food we all got mexican food and i just assumed chips and salsa was just guaranteed more than that chips and queso i didn't i just got they've got the best case on the city yeah and but i didn't have to i didn't think i had to say something about that apparently i do because we didn't get chips and salsa or chips and queso and then memes ordered it later and it's like dude the moment's past you can't have to know that and then i got sick from it yeah but what do you uh can we just establish that like that's when you get when we get mexican it is always chips and salsa goes with it or chips and queso i agree i was also leaving my apartment and was waiting for everybody to text i said i already blamed shane so we need we need to establish that once once we write orders you you have a five ten minute window i like that to send it in i like that gotta be at least ten but that also has nothing to do with it to do with you forgetting the chips i was just waiting for shane i also you were thinking about the chips i like when and then you waited too long for shane and it it it flew out and i had to go submit order all right i think it should going forward it should be uh 10 minute clock and then you just order because we do order from pretty much the same place every time it's just it goes back to your last order you just order it you know what i mean or he doesn't reply he just gets what he ordered last time you just do a double of the person that sits closest to that person i like that and then you got to eat what your neighbor's eating yeah oh that was also when hank just said two bowls and he thought that that pissed me off we were all putting in our orders and then everyone one person said bowl one person said burrito one person said tacos and hank just goes two bowls and i was like wow all right hank we we in bulking we in bulking season for the summer right now and he was like no i just wanted it to add on to the other person's bowl and make it look like two total bowls yeah that was confusing that pissed me off we got to clean it up boys as a team i think we got to do better and that's this isn't all on memes because again memes has a tough job but i think we all need to take personal accountability when it comes to ordering and and how we uh go back and forth we can't also to my credit you guys suck at ordering i think maybe you should just maybe you should just surprise us every sunday now because sometimes like i'm down for that that sounds fun yeah surprise us because it is it is a long drawn out process of like no one wants to make a decision although then you turn into jack mccarthy yeah it gets absolutely crushed when yeah he orders something bad yeah we have to guess like zach was like i'll take it as techable and then you click on that as techable and then there's like chicken steak shrimp like you got you guys just gotta be specific i always send you screenshots i i go into the app and i send a screenshot of exactly what i want and then i send you a screenshot of exactly what i want and then also we did a home run derby on wednesday i have no power left in my body yeah i don't feel i don't feel great today we're finally getting to the point of uh where age is really like i just don't i i can still swing i still make contact but i just don't feel any power not me you don't feel good about anything yeah when it when even when i make contact and it goes a long way it's like that was it worth it maybe not yeah i won you did what you did you beat a bunch of i was rooting for you guys i mean we'd be chasing kipnis and a all-american a guy that's gonna be drafted next jason kipnis hadn't swung a bat in five years max beat a 17 year old yeah in sports yesterday yeah and a guy hadn't swung a bat in five years jason kipnis uh 10 time mlb nlb player okay just shout just shout out he's the man he's the man great dude also tate can really scout 17 year olds that's what he's going to do i guess i didn't know that that's one thing that we learned that's not something i that you know about your he just shows up with the the strongest 17 year old in the world the the levels to it because i was wondering because kipnis i hit him up and i was like hey can you come do this he's like yeah i'm in i just you know i haven't swung a bat in in five years so when he came his first like 10 swings weren't great and then he found it the two moments where it was like oh shit here are the levels to it one was when we did opposite field and he was just like all of us were kind of struggling to like you know figure out like aim it he just got up there and just was hitting nukes and then the bunt he just deaded every single bunt it's like oh yeah this guy's done everything on a baseball field yeah uh all right pft uh my first fire fest of the week is i tried to be a mechanic and everything went really really wrong yeah i'm not talking about my el camino uh so i i got a golf cart i love my golf cart it's fun to drive around in and uh it's a six seater so it's like a stretch one it's a big boy problem with it when you start going up hills you lose some of that miles per hour you you crawl down to like eight nine miles an hour so you feel like if there's enough people in the cart you feel like you're never going to get over the hill so i thought you know what maybe i'll trade in the golf cart and get some a little more horses get some with some more speed and uh then my buddy pat the beef he hit me up and he was like hey do you want to soup that thing up i was like when a guy asks you do you want to soup up your golf cart you say yeah you're goddamn right i want to soup up the golf cart so i didn't know what it was going to entail he goes online he ordered a uh a giant lithium battery and then he ordered something called a solenoid and a heavy duty motor controller then we proceed to take my golf cart apart on saturday he gets there at about like 3 30 p.m we get all the tools out we start ripping the seat off we take all the paneling off to get to the wires we start soldering wires together i don't know what the fuck i'm doing he's soldering his own that's when you get to the wires gone too far he's got a soldering gun or a soldering whatever you call it we're ripping wires out we're screwing shit in i'm afraid i'm going to get electrocuted every single step of the way um and then about 12 hours later we're like we're not really any any closer than we were when we started so we go to when you brought out the solder gun did you think it was actually going to work no at some point no along this process you should have been like we need to cut our losses there's no way that the outcome of this is going to happen so this is like it's it's a hobby for him he likes he likes tinkering with stuff and i'm i'm trying to learn soldering is a hobby soldering is is a bridge too far where i'm actually like melting wires together and then wrapping them up and then tying them together as soon as i pulled that thing out i would be like i gotta call somebody yeah this is way above my pay grade but we're having a good time we're in the garage yeah that's fair we got yeah it's just guys in the garage max you won't understand i don't yeah you're right so you fix your golf cart so we spend about it's been about 12 hours on saturday and uh we've got the world cup games on in there we've got the ufc fight going and it's about i don't know two o'clock in the morning and we're like we should probably go to bed and then we wake up in the morning go back to it spend another like five hours on sunday morning working on this thing finally get to a place where we've got everything connected and then the moment of truth you put the key in and you turn it absolutely zero power absolutely out nothing nothing is happening with this thing and uh at that point i was just like i don't even know where to start like i don't know what went wrong i don't know how to diagnose what went wrong but i just spent probably a good i don't know 17 hours i started with a perfectly fine golf cart i want to be clear about that on saturday morning i had slow just a little slow on uphills yeah on steep uphills but i had a perfectly fine golf cart that was running i i could have used that golf cart and probably been pretty happy yep and then by the end of it now i have like the flintstones car with no seats because i ripped the seats out um the dashboard and the steering panel's off uh the battery has been removed and i basically tore out all the electric guts of the car and they're sitting on the chair and um then i had to call an adult and i had to call a golf cart repair company to come to my house and pick up my golf cart and i had to i had to ask the guy i was like hey we thought we could do this on our own we we couldn't and then i got big time judged then i called the golf cart place today just checking on my baby i'm juggling a lot of things by the way i'm about to pick up the el camino yeah i've got the golf cart now the golf the fucking golf cart's the new el camino so that's in the repair shop so i called up the repair shop today and i was like hey just check it in seeing if you need like any more info for the repair shop for me about the work that we did because you put a lot of work into it not sure if you guys are familiar with the tools we're using yeah and uh they're like yeah you know we're probably not going to get around to that till next week so it's been sitting there for the last four days i have no golf cart now i'm golf cartless and uh i guess i i guess i learned a lesson kind of i don't know it was fun what was their reaction when they saw the state of the current golf cart and you told them what you did all weekend the guy goes oh wow yeah yeah yeah he gave me an oh wow and i was like no it's not that bad because like i everything that i took off i put in this plastic bin right there and then i i all the panels and stuff from the side those are right here the seats are over here the uh six batteries that i pulled out those are over there um so and we did like 95 of the work he just has to probably like he's just gonna you loosened it yeah he has to change one wire yeah like but i'm telling you one probably just has to plug it in once this thing yeah once it gets back it's going to be going like upwards of 30 miles an hour so they are going to put the upgrades into it yes okay i wasn't sure if they were just trying to get it working again no they they got to put the upgrades in it i was i was very very clear with that so yeah i basically spent like three thousand dollars and uh about 17 to 18 hours of my life uh to destroy my own golf cart damn um and then then i found out that pat the beef didn't tell kate where he was going the entire weekend yeah and so he could he showed up at my house i was like are you gonna stay over here tonight he was like you're goddamn right i'm gonna stay over we're gonna work on this fucking thing and then i found out that i was going to stay over here tonight and then i found out that i was going to stay over here tonight and then i found out that i was that she didn't know where he was and the kids were like where's daddy and she's like i don't know he took his work on a golf cart to go work on a golf cart somewhere um it's real man shit real man shit yeah but i do feel like i learned something this weekend which was call an adult yeah make repairs or just buy a new golf cart yeah buy buy a better golf really i started to think after about hour 12 i was just i started to look up golf carts yeah because right now i might i might just buy a new golf cart and not even trade in just be like keep the old one yeah because they make sick ones i gotta i gotta write this off let's just call it a wash i fucked up yeah um okay anything in the booth you guys good uh yeah i got my identity stolen oh no i still don't believe it i think you just bought four phones randomly one day two years ago stop saying that because there's a little part in the back of my head that is still believes that that is to be true wait max were you you needed some recommendations to host amazon what is that what it was and you clicked that link no he actually got he no i actually got my real someone someone bought four phones and then closed the account four years ago so i'm in the beginning process of looking to buy a home here in chicago and i met with a lender and he was like your credits and like not very good like what's going on here and then i did a deep dive into my credit and someone opened up a somebody opened up a phone line under my identity like not not my name just i think just my identity that would be your name but no because when i asked them they're like you don't have any accounts under this name okay but then when they did it like a credit a credit check they were like oh yeah there was an account that was open for 30 days they opened it got four phones closed it right away and you've owed five thousand dollars every month for the past two years so it is absolutely tanked my credit so i spent the entire day yesterday filing claims filing a police report this this and that and my credit still fucking sucks right now and i still don't have an answer and all of their replies are like yeah we'll get back to you when we get back to you but what couldn't you find the answer by just looking it up on one of your four phones i don't have the i didn't i didn't get those phones i don't know how it happened there must have been some like deal with verizon in 2024 where it was like sign up now no like don't have to put your card down at sign at signing and then the guy did that got a bunch of phones and then canceled it before you do actually have to put your phone down he walked in there he said my name is max delinte i don't know i don't know how it happened but he walked in didn't say his name he said this is my social security number and it was max's i was calling these people from verizon yesterday and they were like oh yeah so we'll just take it from there and i'll take it from there and i'll take it from now and and i'm like i haven't been a verizon customer at like ever like i this isn't me i didn't buy these phones and they were like oh okay i have to send you to a different department now and that department was like okay so we'll just take the 5 000 and i'm like i was like no i need to file a claim this isn't me this is identity theft and it sucked i need to find the uh surveillance footage of the guy that walked in got these phones if it's probably deleted but i would i would love to see the fake max delinte yeah i i don't know or the real one yeah memes just keeps telling me that that i that i'm a guy uh max this is how long ago 2024 would you say that you uh you drank a lot of beers in 2024 no i went back and looked at my calendar on on the day on the day that it happened it was a monday big cat and i did a meet and greet are you yeah which he needed to take pictures are you sure that it wasn't uh because i've been around you when you lost your phone before i know memes said the same you got a history of losing your phone phones yeah meme said the same two sodas four phones yeah if it's got all your information but not your name maybe like the phone salesman just fat fingered some other guy social yeah he got four phones i gotta say whoever the thief was whoever is is the fraudster he picked the absolute best he did and he really did four years no two years two years he got away with it for two years four phones four phones two years talk about scott free that guy that guy made bank off you max a full family plan yeah that's good run if anybody out there is looking to fraud someone if you're come on this is this is just not with something that we need to be saying on these airwaves max is the easiest mark in north america is what i'm saying and and and we'll add in the bonus of memes and i will try to gaslight it into him thinking that he actually did it so i had a serious talk with zach i was like there's no way i actually did this i think you did there was a second where max driver's license he was like wait am i could i be in trouble if i bought these phones he's such he's such a good target that not only will you get away with it for two years but then after those two years are up he'll raise his hand take responsibility for what you've done he's the best oh i just hope my credit gets fixed uh all right numbers good show boys 88 7 e 1 18 80 cents for sure 65 anyone one more one more one more one more zach 18 good number jack have you gotten this have you gotten a big hat i have both the time oh cool yeah you got your identity still in there yep well yeah you say i have 43 43 anyway 43 43 so terrence sproles yep happy birthday to connor bedard happy birthday to og and inobi happy 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