NHL FINALS ARE SET + PEOPLE ARE MAD ABOUT CAITLIN CLARK

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and uh God damn it this is going to be good I'm excited about this and and the Conor McDavid goal uh to start the scoring tonight against the Stars was absolutely unreal I mean that was that was the goal where you're just like not that he needs it uh again he he still hasn't won the big ones so we're going to wait on that but that goal was so silly and it was ridiculous and it looked like a goal that you would see like come across your timeline uh in the middle of December being like oh he's just trying some new [ __ ] out against you know the coyotes that was game six of a Western Conference Final to clinch going to the cup he is so goddamn good and the Oilers are so hot and they have a celebrity fan now ready to take them to the cup against Brooks Kea yeah if you need a reason to root for the Edmonton Oilers I will give you two reasons to root for the Edmonton Oilers this fan Oh I thought you say dry Sidle and no no no this fan yeah just as fan the two best reasons yeah what fan oh it was the fan that uh flashed her titties and they were really nice you saw her you you'll probably date her it's a great video she's passionate she's very I love the passion she's very passionate yeah her we need to introduce her to uh to our boy uh Kodak yeah down in Florida get the PE get a little peas reunion going down there isn't it so funny that like uh this edited Oilers fan that was just flashing uh her whole section her upper section like the internet is a crazy place we we you know we've made some crazy technological advancements and you can find uh porn nudity whatever you want at any time but if you get a pair in the wild it gets the boys going unlike anything else it is it is different it's it's a it's all the talk I think I've seen that video a thousand times just put on my timeline and uh it will probably be a thousand more by the time we we we drop the puck on Saturday night and I'll watch it every time yeah and it's not like I'm getting horny when I'm watching I'm just like that's awesome yeah and maybe a little bit horny boobs Rock what do you think those are a cups spelled eh mhm yeah there you go um but yeah we have the we're gonna have Whitney on I think Thursday for the Stanley Cup Final preview but we had the Oilers I'm happy for Edmonton Oilers I'm happy for their fan base Conor McDavid could be uh the the next up in terms of Best Player he's got to win the big one I did right now he still sucks I did play myself a little when I said we need to figure out who the uh next one is that we can say can't win the big one uh in case McDavid wins it and then everyone was just like Bard so I was like [ __ ] uh B's got yeah he's only been in the league for one year he's got a couple Seasons before that's he has to get to the playoffs so correct then he has to lose a playoff series then the narrative can correct correct but yeah the the there's other friends of ours that you could put in that group too which that also would play ourselves not going to do that though yeah right AR so we just we'll just say that we hope Conor McDavid wins it and we can be like he won the big one uh-huh and if he doesn't then he can't win he can't win the big one in a way I'm kind of hoping that he loses so we can really focus this take on him like losing in the Stanley Cup finals would be the ultimate point on that crown of cannot win the big next step to not winning the big one yeah yeah but I I am I think I'm rooting for Canada sorry Jake sorry about your pe's sorry Brooks me versus the world I am as well yeah I just Canada you're you care so deeply also so far up there you ever seen a evon's all the way up there and the ice is the ice is different in Canada too yeah it's shinier real shiny Ice Fast ice good ice the crowd going nuts tonight was awesome how many shots on goal did Edmonton have tonight nine nine they had nine shots on all they needed was mcdavid's insane shot and he had a great assist too to himman yeah he was uh that that was that was awesome the other side memes you have to be so happy I went immediately to memes just getting first of all memes tweeted did you tweet from the Parton my take account just a Rangers jersey that said ass yeah yeah um people were upset about that but I I love it because this is what memes does uh memes congratulations you've won your Stanley Cup as someone who also hates a lot in sports uh I'm happy for you in this moment yeah I'm I'm I'm super pumped I I took a couple Victory laps last night uh yeah I'm just very excited uh summer could officially start yeah you you do like watching the Rangers lose more than you like watching the Islanders win yeah probably at this point yeah the uh Frankie did his tweet that he does every single year for the 83rd time in 84 Seasons the New York Rangers have been eliminated from the playoffs and that that got people very upset they it is crazy that a franchise been around that long and gets talked about like that and it's only one one yeah yeah there was just that one season during the OJ year and besides that all theirs come from like World War II yeah do you think they could ever win it uh this year was probably their best year oh man there's also the stat uh from Josh dual with the Rangers eliminated there have now been 100 combined Seasons By The Rangers Islanders Knicks Nets Yankees Mets Jets Giants without a championship that's wild so what's the last one it's the Giants Yankees in 09 no GI right yeah yeah Giants that's crazy 100 combined bad Sports toown man they do have Aaron judge who can't stop hitting home runs and Juan stto who's just absolutely ridiculous yeah well it's more Wan zotto and and Aaron judge combined Cole hopefully for the second half oh once a Yankee always a yany yep yeah the uh yeah New York Sports down bad 100 combined that's a lot of ser seasons in a row isn't it Hank they have a lot of teams twice as many teams holy [ __ ] I don't think Hank's ever gone that that long as an alive person without a team winning a champ not even close yeah not even close to CL this is probably the longest stretch yeah you're in you're in the midst of the your worst stretch and you won a Super Bowl what like six years ago yeah and the Red Sox one in 2018 oh oh you're such a piece of [ __ ] I'm excited though the uh speaking of it Hank the the I know we we talked about it last week but the NBA schedule like they my body was ready for the NBA Finals to start tonight it's brutal I mean I just I'm just walking around the house being like what what do I do when to start the game just start can't I just can't keep thinking about it just start and you still have three more days I know three more full days to get through yeah are you weaponizing time no I'm not great with time management I'm just waiting I'm just sitting and waiting yeah you're getting hungry though I'm I'm so I'm so ready my body is so ready as hungry as you've ever been longest rout of your life yeah I'm sticking with my Celtics and seven but I do I did find some stats I told you I was going to search and they're not they they make me think think that I'm just nervous for you it's it's it's going to be tight I mean it's not it's not going to be an easy easy series The Mavericks with these starting five guys that they've had are on a would be a 67 win team which is I know that they weren't a 67 win team but they've been playing like a 67 win team they're a good team yeah okay did you guys see the the stat I still I'm taking Celtics and seven I think yeah I feel good I feel strong about Celtics did you guys see the sad over the weekend that going back to 2017 every NBA champion has had a former wizard on the team all the role players they're all wizards so it's javil McGee sea Livingston jod Meeks javil McGee again Dwight Howard marke Morris Bobby poris Gary pton UT Porter Chris kosa kcp Jeff Green ishh Smith Thomas Bryant that's just the list of former Wizards since 2017 so that means like everyone's a former wizard though everyone goes to the Wizards for one year yes correct correct correct but you're don't downplay the stat Hank it's a true stat uh this year porzingis I didn't know any of those guys were on the Wizards porzingis porzingis Hank also Gafford on the Mavericks so so the stats going to continue for at least one more season yeah I guess it's important though it's very important those are the important stats yep uh okay what we had um we could talk some soccer I I I'm waiting just to you know what [ __ ] it let's just do it the WNBA I said this last last week the discourse [ __ ] sucks what happened this it got worse it got way worse it's so much worse than it was last week kitlin Clark got assaulted she almost died yeah and we all have to sit here and and debate it and talk about things that are not basketball yeah so Caitlyn Clark it was a good game you watched the game between the sky and the fever on Saturday uh these two teams don't like each other very much little Raven Steelers that's going to be the Raven Steelers of the next 10 years in the WNBA uh the fever beat Chicago on Saturday by one point no one's talking about the Miss free throughout the and Coster team the game uh it was it was a good game but there was a lot of uh a lot of horse play a lot of antics a lot of antics a lot of extracurriculars on the court involving hip check hip checking Caitlyn Clark uh Angel ree celebrating her teammates celebrating and then none of them wanting to talk about it after the game yes which that part I actually think is a lame move yes they hate Caitlyn Clark that could be good for the WNBA that's been my point but you have to acknowledge you have to not give a [ __ ] and be like yeah we don't like correct and you have to you have to say it with your chest the lady from Edmonton would do that and the discourse has now become it it's so bizarre to me because one so it was a cheap shot it's not like that wasn't like a regular foul it also wasn't in like terms of cheap shots a very dangerous one it was just like a side check and what you would think is that Caitlyn Clark was maimed assaulted like beaten close to death uh by this one play uh that wasn't the case it also it's so bizarre that every time one of these things happens it just becomes something so much bigger than just talking about the basketball game and yes I do think there are women in the WNBA that are very jealous of Caitlyn Clark uh that is lame but what I would say to that is the people who are jealous of Caitlyn Clark and when they take cheap shots at her like Caitlyn Clark if she keeps being really really good at basketball and if she has a career that she's expected to have all those people will be a footnote to Caitlyn Clark it won't matter she'll get the last laugh like they'll just be the jealous haters that her rookie year tried to toughen her you know tried to try to be tough to her I it just doesn't matter but but it becomes this thing where it's like we have to protect Caitlyn Clark I also don't understand pftd for the life of me I get it like Caitlyn Clark is going to add viewership but like asking all the women to basically be like we have to bow down to her also makes no sense yeah they shouldn't they should and and honestly if this was the NBA and you see this happen in other sports leagues somebody comes to the league as a rookie with all these expectations if they're the main storyline that year the players in that League are going to be pissed off about that and they're going to take it out and they'll they'll say it though they'll be like yeah we're sick of people talking about her we've been playing basketball too here and so we want to show her on the court like yeah we're going to beat you up a little bit can you find the clip I if we could play this clip I remember it so well when LeBron got uh was going to Cleveland and they interviewed it was like Boozer smush Parker like complete no like Boozer obviously had a good career but smos Parker no name uh I think Darius miles they basically were like yeah maybe he'll be able to like help us a little bit and and and [ __ ] on their teammate also Caitlyn Clark's teammates someone someone step up yeah like I stop it's not it's not the internet's job to defend kayin Clark it's your teammate's job that's who you should be mad at it should be like hey where are the teammates yeah wa have they gotten any quotes from her teammates being like do you like kit L clar because it seems like they don't they don't like her either either way it's just it becomes this this enormous uh like culture war that it's like dude I just wanted to watch some basketball and I and if you think that um I'm being very consistent because I said this last week when Angel Reese got clotheslined which was probably a more dangerous foul and people were making it bigger than basketball I like this is going to ruin this like WNBA the amount of people have who have started watching WNBA who are not actual sports fans are going to ruin the WN ba yeah because guess what like cheap shots happen hard fouls happen like rivalries happen that helps the sport Bad Blood helps Sports I would like Angel ree to just stand on it and say yeah [ __ ] her I don't like her and and what she said publicly this whole time has been I have no problem with her I like I like Caitlyn Clark all right and every single action that she's had since since they had that uh that championship game two years ago has been like I hate her remember the the little crown that she left yes or like she she does not like her and just say that you don't like her and then and then guess what's going to happen after that people are going to be like yes I love angel Reese I don't like Caitlyn Clark other people are going to be like yes that's awesome I love Caitlyn Clark I don't like Angel Ree and then when they play each other right it becomes a big [ __ ] moment and everybody does right and it's a good point because I for the people who are freaking out like we must protect Caitlyn Clark she can't be like this is the worst foul ever they're lame the people on the other side who are saying essentially there's no jealousy and there's nothing invol like this is just no there's jealousy they're jealous of Caitlyn Clark they 100% are it's okay to admit it they're going again they're going to be footnotes in Caitlyn Clark's his uh career uh when it's all said and done they're going to be the Lance Stevenson blowing in LeBron's ear you know what I mean like that's what that's what happens when you're when you can't beat him straight up you end up looking Petty and probably stupid and if Caitlyn Clark goes on has an incredible career she should invite uh what's her name cha what's her name chennedy to her Hall of Fame induction and single her out like hey thanks for thanks for [ __ ] being like mean to me you made me work harder that's how Sports work and uh there was another shot that was called a cheap shot that it did look like Caitlyn Clark might have flopped a little bit on one of them to try to sell it so she flops and that's going to make people hate her more but again this is all I would already be saying this is good for the sport it might already be good for the sport I think it is I just get exhausted seeing people with with the like you said the culture War takes online like go all in on one side of it without like taking the time to acknowledge that this could be good and feeling this way about sports can lead to some awesome stuff and sports are tough and physical and these things happen in sports and we can't just be like you you cannot touch Caitlyn Clark because she is good for the game she's great for the game she's gonna get face guarded she's gonna probably obviously if there's cheap shots like at the knees and stuff but in terms of again cheap shots like a side check is nothing yeah I also think that for a long time women's sports has been talked about like in the sense of at least by the major media places like rooting for everyone right like let's celebrate everyone right and the way that we talk about Men Sport is much different than that where it's like [ __ ] this guy I hate this guy right I want to like memes hatred towards the Rangers right like having hatred towards a different city when your teams are playing sports against each other that's that's how we feel about sports usually and now the WNBA is coming to this place where it's more of a reckoning of not always talking about every team like oh she's a star oh she's so good and rooting for every single player at the same time but actually forming an identity around your team and around players that you care about love yes and even casuals forming that same love hatred about players that they don't normally get or teams that they don't normally care about yes but they're now they're they're finding themselves invested into it having this type of hatred and love I think is ultimately going to be very very good for the WNBA let Sports be Sports let them be fun to let just let Just Sports happen if and it all evens out because at the end of the day the best part about sports is if you're better than the other team or the other player who is doing this kind of [ __ ] you will end up winning out Caitlyn Clark will end up having a long career that makes millions of dollars because she's better than line name chennedy chennedy okay so chennedy will look like a fool at the end and that's what that's the beauty of sports we we don't need to protect Caitlyn Clark by making this some big uh you know discourse about society and everything just let it [ __ ] play out when caylin Clark wins it's gonna be awesome for her yeah so it's it's kind of like Larry Bird to me where are some players in the WNBA resentful of Caitlyn Clark because she's getting a lot of attention as a white woman whereas the WNBA is predominantly black and there have been a lot of great black players over the years that haven't gotten the same ATT that Caitlin's gotten yes they probably find some resentment in that and they're upset about that just like a lot of NBA players were upset at the media attenion around Larry Bird back isah Thomas said it before NBA finals and Larry Bird went won the NBA Finals won three MVPs and everyone can no one can say [ __ ] about him and what Caitlin's done up to this point has been it's not because she's white that she's getting she's really [ __ ] good yeah she set the all-time record for points scor in college she's pretty good on her own regardless of of her race but once she gets the WNBA she gets legs under and she becomes the star that people think that she's going to become guess what a lot of that hatred is going to fade away from being like Oh I mad that this white woman is taking attention from the predominantly black WNBA and it's going to be just competition against each other and I don't like her because we're competing against each other but godamn it do I respect her because she wins any anyone who's jealous like this it's almost a compliment because you're basically like you're you're essentially saying I know that she's a problem I know that she's going to be really really good it's like when we when in the final four when the Yukon all Yukon broadcast and like Diana terasi and all them were like oh she's going to find out when they get to WNBA they're threatened because she's young and better and so it's like this is how Sports work and then when she beats them she's gonna get the last lap all right play this clip but I mean you want to talk about I can't win the big one conversation Kaylin Clark kayl Clark can't cannot win the big one all right this is from LeBron's rookie year this is Carlos Boozer and his other teammates we have better players than him in his position already on our team bro and he will come in and make a immediate impact like a Kuran Butler I don't think you can really just bring a high school player in and really just think your team going to really turn around like that if he come you know what I'm saying he can just hop on our bandw yeah this is like it's I mean this is what happens when someone gets hyped and they show up up there's going to be resentment because she's better than them he's he was LeBron was better than them also if you're playing in the NBA you probably you're used to playing against grown men every single night you probably would look down on a high school or two and be like this this league is very very tough I don't know that a high schooler can come in and do it you're G yes you're going to hate on youngsters that guess what that's what old people do and if you're a youngster out there listen to this one day you're going to become old and you're going to hate on youngsters too yep you're going to say right now no that's I'm never going to be a hater guess what time makes haters of us all all of us all of us I'm just I I just want Sports to be Sports I'm just sick of of when kitlin Clark has a game we just have to have everyone argue about culture yeah there's there's you're going to ruin the game you're going to ruin the sport we got three more think pieces coming today on slate about Caitlyn Clark and what she means we must protect her the problem with Caitlyn Clark I it is very funny when people are like well she she got them that plane why would they not like her it's like cuz she's [ __ ] better than them and they're competing yeah why would they it's nice playing yeah they're competing against each other but guess what Caitlyn Clark gets to the league now the rest of the W WNBA doesn't get to use their frequent flyer miles anymore and collect those sweet benefits on the back end so [ __ ] Caitlyn Clark yeah it's uh it's quite something all right what what else we got the uh we did have the Champions League Real Madrid talking soccer you want to talk soccer real quick sure 15th Champions League yep and uh Barcelona was the first to congratulate them really you don't have to do that if you're if you're an off if you're an official account of a team on Twitter you don't have to congratulate your rival on winning a championship no that's total cuck move it is they just did for the Impressions Ah that's lame why would they do that I don't know but that was talking soccer so is Real Madrid the goat Real Madrid uh they're the they're the best franchise man united would always just say that they were 15 is a lot feels like a lot is that the most I I know okay let me look it up I'm a super league guy myself Champions League never forget that those two weeks that we had a couple summers ago yeah most titles in champions league history here we go I got it all right we've got Real Madrid with 15 Milan in second place with seven I'm going to say it Real Madrid the best ever yes they're still that's not even close still the best ever bar Barcelona has five Liverpool has six Byron has six come on is it are they bad for soccer yeah for sure they're for sure bad for socc sure bad for soccer yeah yeah I I missed the first half of this game uh and then I I saw the second half thrilling I saw the end I saw the celebrations yeah with someone who missed the first half I was able to bet over one and a half goals in the second half that was fun did cash yeah oh nice good work that was like I I said some for anyone out there who might have forgotten that this game kicked off again soccer should just make goals worth three points yeah and then everybody be way happier they' be like wow what a high-scoring game did you guys see uh probably the biggest story of the champions league is Jo beid was there yeah got free time yeah that was cool and he's tall who is he rooting for uh Real Madrid Real Madrid fan he is did you see that there was a clip of him wow Max what happened uh I was singing on Friday you sang One song but I was it was one song loudly yeah was was very loud it was L he did crush it [Applause] let's [ __ ] go right [Applause] [Music] now Max got on stage and there was a guy that was waiting for Max in the front row and he had two sodas in his hand ready to go and Max saw him and just scowled at him and then paced around the stage like a tiger circling his prey for a second was like [ __ ] it I'm going to chug those sodas and then just ripped the sodas right off the bat you look like Jason Kelce I know it was the greatest that was the greatest compliment that's ever been given yeah Hank got booed oh did I you got booed well it was a it was a clap it was a round of applause and then you did like a little jump to show your vert and then people booed your vert oh no I thought there I just remember the cheers okay you remember the cheers what were you going say Max about Joe embiid being at the Champions League cuz he's got time what no I didn't say that I just said that he was tall there was a clip of like oh yeah two of the pregame guys on each other's shoulders to see if they were taller than embiid when do you think he uh he bought those tickets I don't he probably didn't pay pay for the tickets probably what about his airf flight like his air his air Fair he probably bought his flight a couple months ago he's a rich man probably a couple months ago he's a rich man he's a rich man yeah but he definitely had it planned yeah they probably like hey do you like before the season started they're like hey can you come do the desk the Champions League he's like when mhm oh yeah no problem early June I won't even we could make it you you want to move it up a week we do late may I I think I'm going I'm going to be in Paris when us play us plays and it's going to be in be vers Joker Joker the one the one day that I'm there that us plays what yeah are you going to wait I forgot be plays for us yes that's kind of weird he plays for us I love it well I I I'll be fight I'll be fighting that fight from the front lines and in France you'll be the big U big USA guy for but not really because who you think there's going to be a lot of like it'd be better if it was us vers France it's what it'd be better if it was USA vers France but it's us but it's embiid vers Joker you're just oh okay so embiid probably won't be playing no hope play a game in is a game in altitude no zero altitude I don't know the altitud in Paris France let's see I it can't be zero altitude is it in Paris let's see Paris no I don't think it's actually in I think it's oh you better hope it's not in the AL 115 ft above sea level where is the game are you GNA go to the game yes oh okay if I can get T I gotta figure out how to get tickets game time game time Shout Out game time time out where is the game Max because if if it's more than 300 400t altitude there's no chance embiid shows up if that game's in burgundy you're [ __ ] okay he's getting it he's getting the I forgot we had this this summer that's gonna rock the schedule might not be out yet oh no cuz they have to do like pools stff no it is it is cuz I looked at it you remember we learned about the Olympics cuz they did the sex bed thing the no sex bed yes that's exactly that's how we found out about it right you're right yeah June 20 wait fck why am I in Arizona basketball all right so wait Max is this is this pool play that we're talking about here this is going to be this should just be a segment of Max tries to Google is this pool play it's a pool game bad this is bad it's a pool game of uh USA versus Slovenia or whatever Serbia Serbia if it's pool I hope that the US has already won and locked up our our spot in the pool and that Lily and B get I found it found it I just said it lay lay Lily Lily you better you better figure that out l i l l e that's maybe the worst city for a Philadelphia to try to pronounce uh it is uh 82 to 147 M that's pretty pretty big okay so 100 so that's like 300 feet yeah that's almost um almost a tenth of a mile high almost so he'll probably not play yeah that would be funny if he just if he was if he was like um load management for the Olympics yeah especially if you got tickets to it all right do we have anything else before we do who's back of the week Hank any thoughts on WNBA no I thought I thought the uh the cheering for the hit was was was the craziest part of the whole thing agree they're jealous they're very jealous anyone who pretends they're not jealous is crazy but that's part of sports is being jealousy I think I'm more likely to watch the next time they play correct and I do think that they should I I I I absolutely believe they should have to answer to it and and and be like hey we're jealous yeah they should say all the reasons they're pissed off they should be real about it but but acting like uh Caitlyn Clark is uh was got like maed is is pretty insane to me yeah it was it was a hip check not not super super hard they retroactively upped it to a flagrant one after the fact got it and then I think they find Angel ree a th000 bucks just a lot of 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Man move just like yeah I'll I'll take the bag why don't we have emergency caddies like we do with uh the ebug in hockey because they never this never happened yeah but it just happened it's not about it never happening it's like every round they should they should pick out the spectators before the game happens and just assign however many like 70 different Spectators like if this guy goes down you're stepping in so that person has to just be at the tournament all day thinking I might get in well this guy he was perfect he was perfect you could just see that guy like he could he could carry a b no problem hos but I'm saying like before a tournament starts let's just put let's just put like three dudes with cankles into like a horse barn and just have them standing there with their Polo on ready to go like this guy was just Central Casting he is built like a man who can carry a golf bag around for a long time but yeah put him in a horse barn do a live shot to him every now and then the these caddies are ready to go trying to give him reads yeah do you think they asked him like have you played this before I love the hand do we know how it happened like how he picked this guy out think fit he's trying to get it to fit he just grabbed a guy from the crowd yeah they said you sir you look like you can carry it back and they did they picked a perfect guy yeah if I were him I I keep my mouth shut on like the first two holes and then if he got a couple birdies I would start tossing his remember Jerry did this on the corn fairy tour with Quaid CS Paul Emerson is the guy's name he HS from Ontario was traversing the par 4 third hole at Hamilton Golf and Country Club when he realized that CT pans caddy Mike fluff Cowen had been injured was unable to continue caddying pans playing partner Shane Lowry was carrying his own bag and Lowry's caddy Darren Reynolds was carrying pan pans bag wow that's a good move by Lowry wow awesome move as pan was walking cow over to a medic on the side of the the Fairway Emerson asked pan if he could lend a hand oh so he just asked he just picked him out he identified yeah he said I helped fluff get the bib off threw it on and started walking up the hole Pam was grateful for the support and Emerson took the bag he looped through the fifth Fairy before a member of the caddy Services team Michael Campbell stepped in Campbell was replaced by Al riddle what the [ __ ] he had four caddies so it was it was like the head caddy that took over for this guy yeah he's like I'll get another guy in your bag soon that's awesome how hard is it to be a replace mcaddy I feel like a replace MCAT is the easiest job in sports uh we saw Scotty sheffer's best friend do it on Saturday of the PJ championship and he shot his one round CU he got arrested the day before he shot a 66 with his caddy on Friday after he got arrested yeah but he said it was a lot of adrenaline there's no way that having his his best friend caddy didn't [ __ ] him up on that did a little I think no but I do think that on Saturday you wake up you realize what happened yet you probably didn't sleep that well that night but but shot like 66 every round except the one that he didn't have as caddy I think I would almost take just a a no name just a random guy like this guy I would take this guy over a friend because a friend you're probably chopping it up you're telling inside jokes there's too much history there you need a guy that's just going to do the job and this guy this man right here that's a man that can do the job yeah but no he definitely wasn't giving him reads he wasn't helping no chance I would I would have just tossed one out there yeah okay PFT all right good who's back hey thanks great Who's Back appreciate it uh this also in golf news um Kevin James is back because he's playing John Daly in a miniseries about John Daly oh hell yes I think Kevin James is just like just living out the dream just like I just want to do Sports movies and I want to play guys that I like to watch on TV yeah so he did Shawn Payton now he's doing John dy I actually think that playing John Dy in the movie is more physically draining than being John Daly in real life yeah like trying to get in that lifestyle we tapped into that lifestyle for a little bit wasn't it wasn't nice last week that video is coming out Thursday right Max you already have it ready to go right you just have to press the button what the John challeng John daily challenge yeah yeah we what you were're working on it yeah but that's that wasn't an answer to me that's a cursed role playing John Daly it doesn't not every actor can do that I don't care if they're prop cigarettes I don't care if they're prop ice cold beers yeah you're going to put your body through a little bit of hell it's like yeah it's like Jared Leto I would like to see Jared Leto play John Daly and Go full method on it is Jared Leto the person you use for method acting well yeah cuz he's the real he's the real psycho that everybody hates on scene so he's been replaced by Daniel de Lewis cuz Daniel de Lewis was the guy he was he's the guy but Jared Leto is like a real weirdo he's a weirdo when he does and then the guy before that was um Tom Hagen what was his name Bert Reynolds no no what was the actor's name Tom Hanks no Tom Hagen Robert Robert Duval I'm pretty sure Robert Duval he's method I think he was method because he was he the was he the coaching the program I think so yeah I'm pretty sure he was there's uh yeah Daniel de Lewis big method guy Jared Leto he's just like an [ __ ] method guy uh and then the guy that plays kindall Roy Robert Deval is not a method actor okay no it's the other guy Sunny give me sunny no wait what was your last thing you said there Jeremy Strong the guy from uh from session he's a psycho method actor but I think that if either one of those two guys tried to go method on the John daily try to getting character as him I think they die before filming yes James KH James Khan I believe can you look up if he was method acting cuz he was he was the coach in the program he's also the dad and elf yeah that was method acting as far as I can tell method act con sign up learn the method we learned the method and stayed for five years I don't know if that means it I don't think he's a the new uh the new Google searches are terrible yeah the oh the AI they're so bad dude they're really bad do you see that one where someone was like can cockroaches live inside your penis and it's like yes it's very healthy to have a couple cockroaches living in your penis we won't eat the bugs that's [ __ ] well if it's inside your penis Hank they're trying to get us to eat the bugs Hank would be into that yeah that's true method acting in The Godfather Marlin BR yeah see James con that was a stupid tangent uh so it's just oh did you see the picture of Tiger I did not see the picture he's looking old Tiger is old yeah but it's like one of those pictures that I think he probably will see and be like [ __ ] I got to do something about this hair so yeah you got to he was playing uh poker with Phil iy you got to you got to cut it Tiger's been past that stage for a long time now I know long time um still looks diesel we we in the truster here yeah we won't even include this in the Pod uh it might be time for me to come home why what shave your head or yeah cut you're you're so far away from shaving your head no I don't know man I saw a bad angle the other day of the back I saw a bad angle the other day yeah you wear a hat all the time maybe you should just get a hat with the the funny hair in it the spiky hair uh yeah maybe I'll have to go see Brian or Locker yeah we'll see something something has to change something's changing before football season keep the Hat on yeah but then it's bad then it's worse when you take the hat off I think that's I also so I was in an airport a couple weeks ago and there was a guy that was in front of me he was about my height he had about my length hair he was maybe 5 years older than me okay real bald with long hair and I was standing behind him the entire time just thinking to myself I'm I'm never going to but he looks sweet maybe to himself okay but I don't think I think everybody else was like that guy needs to do something about that I'm not going to get oh yeah tiger does yeah I mean he looks jacked up though he looks super strong I have a question and this is not I want on the record we love Charlie Woods tiger if you ever want to come on the podcast we'd love to have you on the podcast T did tiger ever just do steroids uh you think I why doesn't get talked about though everybody was like man this guy is just I know but no one says it he def just out of respect for him is it is it difference he definitely used it to come back from stuff for sure yeah I know oh there you go you did you had I mean he he definitely he definitely did it and also his whole body type change yeah we I forgot we did like an entire Mac on that yep yep it has been talked about okay all right there you go he's definitely he's maybe used steroids he I think he without a doubt 100% used HGH to come back from injuries and I like this maybe this is a summer of getting all of our goats you know Secretariat Tiger Woods yeah they all use steroids that's fine because did they even have testing Tiger Woods people told us to shut up about a steroid use xpj star claims oh well that sounds like it's very reputable yeah not even Tiger Woods his people I mean you've never seen a golfer as strong as tiger before no Bryson and his body just complet his body completely changed and then his body completely betrayed him yeah and I know the whole uh Navy Seals thing I know that whole story yeah do you think Bryson used gear yeah like tiger is is just as as crazy of a like before after as Barry Bonds yeah Pirates Barry Bonds and and 49ers Barry Bonds uh okay you have any other who's backs no that's my who's back of the week okay why would yeah there's no way they test for yeah I feel like they might have recently brought it in when it became an Olympic sport I feel like that always happens which is the dumbest thing ever if I was the PGA I would never test for any drug no why although it'd be so funny if a golfer got suspended for smoking weed you remember they used to do that at the Olympics yeah there was a snowboarder a snowboarder that got his silver medal taken away because he uh he tested positive for weed and they asked him about it the smart move on this guy's part would just been like yeah dude I'm a [ __ ] snowboarder yeah smoke weed yeah but he was like no I was at a party uh two months ago and I think I got some secondhand inhalation and I I apologize I would never smoke weed yeah dude you you barded on snow you're high all the time that's okay you're still really good yeah that's that's the one sport you can do that um all right my who's back of the week is Tommy fam Tommy fam got into it uh with with uh the Brewers and then did a post game press conference where he said that he trains for this and he will go after anyone who wants to go after him do you want to do you want to pull it up Max I have it right here I could play it um Tommy fam is about that [ __ ] he you don't want to [ __ ] with him Tommy fam was the one who who slapped slapped the the fantasy football SLA all right listen to this this is Tommy fam after the game one run ball game uh close play at the plate and actually it wasn't even [ __ ] close there a shallow Fly ball to left field you you would expect the left fielder to throw the base runner out on that play but the situation of the game uh you know I third base coach send you you got to go um I'm I'm nailed out at at home by a mile um I'm I'm going to The Dugout then you know I hear the tough guy with all the Hur ra [ __ ] you know so I I'll never start anything but I'll be prepared to finish it there's a reason why you know I do all kinds of fighting in the offseason cuz I'm prepared to [ __ ] somebody up take it as what it is yeah it just kept on escalating you're like oh this is routine like I'm prepared to [ __ ] somebody up dude I want to know what kind of hurah [ __ ] this guy was on we also had uh in this game so I would understand that most of our listeners not National audience would would know uh who I'm about to talk about but it's been a big story in Chicago uh John shrien the uh announcer for the white socks might be the worst announcer ever and uh he took over for uh benetti right who went to the Tigers went to the Tigers uh wa did John triin go to Syracuse no okay uh this guy like he's trying really hard but it's just everything is awkward so this clip is just so awkward if you can play it Max of him screaming about Tommy fam and he's had moments where he he like said something like suck on that losers uh even though the white sock are one of the worst teams so no one's paying attention to him but it keeps popping up every now and then so this is it he needs to drop a as God as my witness he's broken him in half no we ain't taking that we ain't taking that uh yeah he he and the Oakland A's woman they are onew for the worst announcers in Major League Baseball Jake what are your thoughts on the White Sox announcer uh what was that face Max the the JMU baseball game yesterday oh that was so bad as well that was horrible that was very bad as well what happened there the green he likes greens there's in the tree it was bad it was bad ready for this oh man one how about that what a wild that's wild put that on the Wild and Jake is is uncomfortable right now where the direction of this of this podcas In This Moment talking broadcast yeah yeah he ain't taking that he ain't taking that also the Brewers are like way better than the yeah I like how he just threw in there I don't care how many L's we got this year yeah no cuz he knows yeah he knows that they're they're very very bad also how about Tommy fam just completely throwing his third base coach under the bus oh Big Time entirely but then he kind of you you forget about it by by the end when he's just like I'll [ __ ] him up I'll [ __ ] somebody up [ __ ] somebody yeah if my third base coach tells me something I'll [ __ ] him up too um all right uh Jake uh my who's back is Joey Chestnut yes obviously the main event is the 4th of July and we always see the Press from the hot dog eating contests but we had Joey Chestnut taking down some PS of ice cream at a minor league baseball game we don't really see him do other competitions so this wasn't even a competition I don't think I think it was just him doing it for fun yeah he was just pounding four in a minute pints of ice cream you could tell too it kind of was giving him some brain freeze yeah I mean you have to get Brain Freeze from that much ice cream for sure I think he was also eating fried fish too oh the classic fried fish and ice cream combo is that real yeah that was the combo yeah he was I think it was fried walleye oh man so this is like the preseason for him I guess yeah he's got to warm up all right so what happened was he ate four pints of ice cream in 60 seconds and then he ate 36 nuggets of fried walleye in 60 seconds oh that's not good on the the stomach oh I hope he was diped up feel like that's just going to cut right through you he is that's insane set say it again uh he ate 36 fried walleye nuggets in one minute oh and that's I believe right after he ate the four pints of ice cream oh man yeah you want to do it reverse I think yeah you eat the fried first and yeah get the ice cream to cool you down exactly try to trick your body a little bit yeah also did you guys see the story about this D3 school yeah the baseball team yeah we talked about it on Friday but they they made it to the college world ser3 and they lost oh they did lose they W on a walk-off the other night yeah to stay alive they weren't really a school right they had no longer been a school yeah a few days ago but they still had the baseball season yeah I don't understand how they couldn't have just added whoever they wanted yeah really you're not at school anymore right like Barry Bond should have been should have been Homer at the bat yeah absolutely recruit anybody that you can anyone they got kicked off the team yeah that would kind of rock to be just like we are the school now yeah like this is our school did you guys also see this is just a random story but I saw someone uh noted that Jim M which you know we know Jim M Central Michigan uh not a shark [ __ ] apparently he's got a lifetime sponsorship with Kors light lifetime yeah we need to get on that pretty pretty sick they provide him with a Kors light vending machine inside his house filth monthly that's awesome that's great we should get on that what a badass time sponsorship yeah we need that vending machine let's do it yes uh okay let's get to our interview with CJ McCollum and then we 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20 bucks off your first purchase download the game time app today last minut last minute tickets lowest price guaranteed and now here's CJ McCollum okay we now welcome on a very special guest recurring guest a guest who we should have had on a lot sooner uh since the last time we had him on because I think it was like a a highly acclaimed this guy rocks interview that we did it is CJ McCollum from the CJ McCollum show from the NBA he plays for the Pelicans now last time we had him on he was on the Blazers but CJ I want to start by apologizing um bad job by us because the first time you were on everyone's like we love CJ McCollum I get I still get the hesy hey tweets so this was a bad job but I'm happy that you're back on we could talk about the finals and talk about some ball no I'm happy to be back on man that was a good time uh that was a really good time in my life too we were in we were in the city I was young I was on the Blazers and now it's a good time in my life I'm a little older I'm in New Orleans and uh I get stopped in the Stream when I when I'm in the city people are Euro staing me hit with he we got to go back oh you got to go back on the Pod I'm like eventually I'm going to get back on man for sure yeah yeah the the step back to Freedom step Freedom that was another good one yeah the people love CJ mcum and and you're a wine Mogul too yeah I try man I I Tred my best you see me sipping some Char right now for those that don't know this is free promo baby there we go.com I'm s some chardet right now we got Ros Shard Pino blond blond maybe maybe you can educate me because I'm not much of of a chardonay guy I'm more of like a a Mad Dog 20 20 guy myself but I'll drink any kind of wine but I always say don't give me the chardet cuz it's I don't like the the oakiness to it what's a good like Fisher Price my first chardonay I can just send you on to keep it a buck with you but I think the the cool thing about chardonay is it's an acquir taste and I didn't like chardet for a long time and we were in the bubble and Melo had some white burgundy and Melo was like yo you got to try this white burgundy I'm like Mel I like penos I like cabs I like bubbles I like Ros but I'm not messing with SH he's like you got tried his white burgundy I tried the white burgundy and it was so fire I was like I gotta I got to continue to figure out ways to to try chardes that are similar to this and then I ended up making a charday in partnership with Adin that is more reminiscent of white burgundy so not as oy as smooth you can like living in New Orleans is is is mad hot so figuring out the balance between when to drink Peno and when to drink like more refreshing drinks like Shard and Ros but it's not for everybody but if you drink the right Shard it'll change your life all right I might have to try yeah all right so um that's awesome that I you're you're a father now too so congrats on that yeah a lot lot has changed um and a wine Mogul uh we wanted to have you on talk a little ball talk a little finals let's start with your do you have an official prediction and then we can kind of unpack from there and figure out uh how you got there and and how both these teams got there yeah yeah I was I was talking to a good friend of mine coach white who coached me at Lehi yesterday while I was pushing the stroll are crazy I got two kids and I'm married and life is good and I thought to myself this is going to be a great finals I got to get to a game I got to get to a game in in Boston I gotta try to get to a game in Dallas I think it's it's Boston series to lose I think it's their series to lose Chris should be back they've had the best record all year they got the the the Jays right uh Jason and Jaylen they got great role players you know they got great Supporting Cast they got a coach who's fiery I love Payton Pritchard I think they're it's their series to lose now I will say this though I think I think Boston wins in six but if it's a one possession game give me Dallas yeah yeah yeah got win by two three possessions they got to have a lead you know late in that fourth quarter they got to have a comfortable lead by comfortable I mean multiple possessions or they're in trouble because Luca and Kyrie are not to be played with yeah yeah yeah so what is it about Luca we we actually I think everyone in this room has I think I have Boston and seven PFT has five Hank has six but what what is it about Luca that makes him so impossible to guard because you've obviously played against him like what what specifically does he do that is so Elite compared to anyone else on the court I think it's a combination of things man like he's heavy right uh you know with respect to the heavy people out there's he's got good Sid that's a nice way of saying fat he's heavy but respect all we do have heavy listeners you know that no but heavy heav like Drew holidays a great defender Drew holiday cannot I don't think can guard LCA for the entire series because he's Luca's heavy lca's Luka is heavy man and he's a good healthy heavy like strong sturdy he's still quick he he he has a great change of speed great balance great patience um amazing step back and he's not afraid of the moment I think what a lot of people don't realize is Luka turned pro at like 13 Luca's been playing pro since he was you know a middle schooler basically he skipped a lot of steps compared to what we do in the states and he began hitting big shots at 14 15 16 years old LED his team to a Euro League Championship as a as a youngster right like he's he's not afraid of the moment he's not afraid of the bright lights he loves it they play better on the road because I think he likes tormenting the crowd and I just think from a versatility standpoint he's like 68 I don't know his weight I mean he's got to be at least 245 maybe heavier um healthy body fat and he's he's in great shape and I think that's the thing that a lot of people didn't realize is Luca is having hard to guard he can lean on you he can post you up he can get you on his back and and make different types of moves around the paint area loves the step back he's going to hunt matchups but he's in great shape he's hitting big shots down the stretch of fourth quarters High usage first quarters are basically his Kai takes over second and third and then it's take turns into the fourth but I mean he's just he's a wizard with the ball he's going to have high valuee and there's a reason why he averaged 35 points a game nine rebounds nine assists basically 35 10 and N he he can control the entire game um for four quarters yeah yeah yeah he's he's also very good at drawing fouls too he draws contact in a very very smart way that I don't I don't think a lot of players are on his same level in terms of knowing when he's about to get fouled getting them off balance and then using that will still like maintaining his own shot form as best as he can to try to get a three-point play out of it like he's not sometimes you see guys that like set up the foul but he sets it up in a way where he makes sure that he has a good look at the basket after he gets fouled too is that something that that you know going into it like he's going to try to get you off balance yeah it's like it's like a running joke like him and be a lot of those guys they start the game with eight to 10 points right you know they're going to have eight to 10 free throws they basically establish Rhythm early you can't touch them they manipulate uh the defense the entire game they can get you on their hip they got pump fakes they got pivots they got pump fakes they got pivots over and over again as the game progresses and then it's about game playing discipline when you're going against those types of guys and you can get frustrated on tough makes you know it's a make or league and there's going to be a lot of tough mates throughout the game there's going to be a lot of questionable situations in which he's you know maybe foul baiting or whatever they like to call it quote unquote but he's a smart player he knows how to he knows how to get what he wants out there and once he gets you off balance it's it's all she wrote yeah and obviously they've got two great players uh their two guards are going to be impossible to stop both of them you just can't do it you like you said you have to build a lead not let them get to a late game situation where they can they can put the the ball in one or two guys hands and Win It but in terms of the role players on Dallas who do you think is the most important outside of Kyrie and Luca I mean I like Dereck Lightman I mean obviously they got other guys you know PJ Washington has been great uh Gaffney has been great I think this may be a temp Hardway Junior series uh but if you really look at the last series in terms of what changed the game is their ability to defend you know basically switching one through four sometimes one through five Kyrie was was great defensively but Lively really was amazing right he I think he didn't miss a shot in the Conference Finals he altered tons of shots he he continues to put Rim pressure on the defense by his ability to roll and get behind the defense and pick and rolls when Luka and Kai come off he always finds himself behind the defense if they switch he makes him pay with lives and and offensive rebounds but I think he's a huge huge piece because not only is he great at finishing around the basket but he makes great decisions in the pick and roll when they hit him in the pocket he's one of the best on their team at figuring out when to drive when to go weak side and and kind of connect and he made a killing throughout this playoffs on just playing smart basketball and being athletic yeah all right so and then the Celtics it does feel like um they're the favorite but they they've it's kind of Twisted into like they can say they're the underdog just because uh people are like hey look they they had no one to play in the East they ran through it they haven't been tested so to speak I still think they're the better team but is there anything to say for the fact that they haven't had like that tough playoff series where they've been pushed to make some changes and counteract and and like all right you threw this at us now we got to throw this at you is there any is there any reality to that or is that just completely overstated and it doesn't matter they they handled their business I think it's completely overstated for them mainly because of the fact that they've all been there before outside of guys in rotation this team has been to the Conference Finals five out of the last seven years they were in the finals two years ago they had a lead on the Champion Warriors and they're experience like they know what it takes to win a series they know what it takes to lose a series it's not like shell shock like oh my goodness we're in the finals like oh I've never seen this before they've been here before and the second time around is when you really earn your stripes right like the first time around it's all new it's fresh you're trying to figure out the balance between tickets for family like going through all that stuff not that I've played in it but I've been to the finals and I see how much media is credentialed I see how many interviews they got to do it's open practices it's it's it's like the Super Bowl it's just it's a big show up into the game and I think if you're not used to it it can be mentally and physically draining I think they've all trained for it they all have a better understanding of how they had to kind of prepare for this they got a champion on their team in Drew holiday um Derek white played for the Spurs he's been he's been across the league like he's mature um the Jay's obviously Chris porzingis has played all across Europe he's been in the NBA he hasn't played in like a a real big playoff moment like this but I think playing with all those guys it's helpful and I really don't think it matters if anything they're just going to be more fresh more ready to go homecourt Advantage the jeters will be gone by the first time out like Draymond said yeah yeah is there any sort of advantage that they're going to get because Chris STS hasn't played in a long time so Dallas doesn't have any like fresh tape on him is that going to make any difference whatsoever like they haven't seen that look in the last couple weeks that's a good I mean that's a good point I think good point thank you I think I think it's a coin flip right like because Boston has played well with guys all year they've been without porzingis they've been without Drew holiday at times they figured out a way to kind of just keep moving Al Horford is a vet he's a pro he's going to figure it out he's going to hit big shots he's going to defend I'm really just worried about christs because he hasn't played in so long like he's just jumping into the finals like if you really think about that that's the the part that's going to be interesting and I'm not talking about offensively I'm talking about defensively conditioning wise having to guard Kyrie and Luca in switches constantly you know everybody talks about Kyrie's R return to Boston which is great and it's going to be fun to see like the response that he gets and how he kind of plays through that but Luca and porzingis played together and it didn't go well yeah I think if you know anything about Luca he takes things very personally and this is a chance for him to to really beat a guy he played with and wasn't able to necessarily get over the hump with yeah so all right so the the injury thing is uh an interesting one because we're sitting on our couch we're idiots I'm always like oh why why do they need you know like they've been practicing all chrisop has been practicing for the last two weeks he should be fine but what is the difference in between if you're coming back from injury practicing and then getting into actual game minutes and like how how quickly you get tired when you make that transition yeah it's tough and I I've been fortunate or or not so fortunate to have some injuries but been able to come back from them and transition into return to play and it's difficult for everybody and it's one thing to return to play in a regular season game it's another thing to return to play in the playoffs and it's a whole another level up to return to play in the finals where no matter what type of conditioning you're getting no matter what type of live contact you're getting those Stakes aren't the same right like you're not you can't simulate a switch with Luca going against you know the back UPS in Boston are going against the coaching staff or the Player Development staff in a in a conditioning League game where it's basically a lot of guys that are in the rotation and then you're going mixing in some coaches you're getting switched on to Kyrie on the main stage for all the marbles for the 18th Banner in Boston like this is completely like there's no there's no comparison and I think he'll be fine because he's a Pro and he's had a lot of time to kind of adjust and the way he plays he shoots jumpers he posts up a little bit he dunks they got lot of help it's not like they're just going to say christs go win us the game like he's going to be playing on a good team and kind of playing a role so that'll make things easier but it's just difficult to translate and I think it's going to take some time from a rhythm standpoint but also for Boston's rotation they just went through two series or three Series without him right the rotation was set you know guys are playing heavy minutes starters are playing basically 40 Al Horford was great he hit seven threes in one of those games like they're gonna have to change the rotation and I'm just curious to see how the players respond to that from a rhythm standpoint as they were used to something and now going to be a little change yeah yeah so if if you're if you're coming back from injury and your conditioning isn't to the point where it it should be if you had played like an entire season without this time off what does that look like in a game and I'm not talking about like putting your hand up being like coach take me out for a little bit I'm tired because I assume that guys if they're in the NBA Finals a lot of times they want to stay in the game no matter what but what does that look like for a player when they're getting tired like what's the first thing thing that goes like for me if I'm playing pickup I just kind of stopped guarding I just kind of stopped playing defense entir and I hope that my guy doesn't run around too much or like be like hey I got to tie my shoe that sort of thing but like how does what does that look like in a game it's actually Larry just stalling I think it's I mean similar in the NBA right like you just more turnovers bad passes bad misses instead of like a close Miss they're just bad air balls wide left wide right super long um longer timeouts dumb fouls like you'll just start to see like oh like that was a stupid play like oh he must be tired like the fatigue is kind of kicking in but I think historically especially when you get to this stage when you're coming off an injury you're either on a minute restriction or they change the substitution patterns where when I come when I came back from an injury I had a collapse long I've had broken broken foot broken back thoring pop lus you usually know like all right I got a four minute streak stretch right here where they're going to play me four minutes and then I'm coming out I'm first coming I'm coming out first foul first timeout whatever I'm coming out when you come back from an injury you have to govern yourself to where you look at them me like a couple times this year I came back against the Sixers and I was on a minute restriction I was like I'm good like let me go and it was like no it's 26 minutes and I'm like no I'm good and I played like a six and a half or seven minute stretch and it was supposed to be five and at the six minute Mark I was like oh yeah or I was like yo foul right foul like we we we need a I need to come out of this game before I mess this up for everybody yeah I my move is I just yell someone stop ball and then I pick up whoever uh switches and I just hold their shirt and I'm just like let's just hang out and not walk all the way back it's like don't be hero man yeah yeah yeah let's let's just hang out here for a second and then we'll get back when we get back who is who's the one guy in the NBA who has uh like a motor that you can't believe that like doesn't come out of games but also just never gets fatigued uh I would say Steph's got really good he just always running around chewing his mouthpiece and yeah how annoying is that when you just have when he just keep won't stop running chewing his mouth laughing dancing shimmy like it's really frustrating but you can just tell like he Prides himself on conditioning hard work reps i' say the the most JJ Reit when JJ played like the first quarter was was insane just plays for him illegal screens from DeAndre legal screens from Blake would just give him the ball for like five straight minutes then he would touch the ball for three quarters the one that like was super impressive Russell Westbrook so Prime R like Prime Russ when he played like 37 to 42 minutes a game and you know when he was in triple double mode he played so hard for so long it was impressive because he's just rebound pushing yelling screaming and people don't understand like it takes energy to yell and scream like a couple times I over celebrated I was like damn I'm tired I should have did that you know I mean yeah takes away your energy but like this guy his motor is unbelievable for 82 games like playing in the middle of nowhere he could be playing pickup game in the backyard like his energy is is is always at a level that's super impressive yeah I I feel like Luca gets stronger the angrier he gets like he he's expending energy right he's he's using calories to yell at people but he like he feeds off that it amps him off yeah he said he feeds off that hooka Luka no I think um if you really look at how his career's kind of progressed he came in like baby face you know a little thin they start eating good in the neighborhood that American food start treating him well and then he came back a couple years where you seen him training running stairs overseas in Slovenia uh running running the stairs and you see his game kind of go to another level in terms of the range on his jumper the step backs even in that last series against the timber wols he started the game hitting like 30 Footers he was send message like I really been working on my craft like I'm really about to just take over this league and this is an impressive run and people don't remember Jay kid said he was already better than Dirk you know he's 25 years old and Dirk Dirk has the logo they got a picture of Dirk shooting the fade away right on and they're already talking about he's better than Dirk he a want to and Dirk Dirk beat the king yeah powers like so this is this is telling you how special this kid is like this this man is a real problem and he's he's still not really in his prime he only 25 yeah that is true he's it is crazy he's only 25 I mean Jason Tatum also what 26 or 25 as well do you think Jason Tatum's disrespected uh or is it that he's right where he kind of needs to be and if he can because this could be the summer of Tatum if he wins this championship and then he's going to go play in the Olympics and then I think he's up for the supermax right after like this could be a hell of a four month stretch for Jason Tatum this is huge for him in his legacy and I think he's he's a Hall of Famer or whatever you know you can more 50o games than Larry Bird more career playoff points than Larry Bird five straight trips to the Conference Finals two finals appearances this is the one they probably win I think he's where he needs to be right now because he he doesn't have the ring yet and people kind of like really value the ring those that are like real hoopers no Tatum is good I think the Casual fan is anti- Boston like a lot of people just hate that he plays in Boston and that they have so much respect and everything that comes with that but I think if you're like a normal fan like who really understands the game or if you hoop against him you know Tatum is cold blooded you respect him you respect Jaylen Brown and you understand that they have a good team and when you're on a good team you're held to a higher standard they expect you like he said before like they expect you to basically win every game and it's almost as if he's supposed to win this Championship as opposed to him like going taking it it's like he's supposed to win and if he doesn't he got beat by Luca and it's like the The Narrative is going to shift as opposed to saying like he had a great year they won 64 games Jaylen Brown is the highest paid player in NBA history and he's about to become the highest paid player in NBA history and you're gonna have two of the highest paid players in NBA history on same team Banner 18 in Boston two black guys like it's you think about it like it's it's a really cool situation for the Celtics in their fan base to be able to say like we have a great young core who we weren't sure was going to work now it's working and we're this close to winning a championship and if the the worst thing you can say about them is that you know Jason doesn't get enough love but he just averaged 30 and he was first team all NBA right like more do you like what more do you want yeah and I I think I mean it is the dumbest thing we do as sports fans I I am definitely guilty of it I think we all are where if like you play on a better team you then get taken something away from you where it's like well wouldn't you want wouldn't you want your the best players to like play on the best teams like it it I'd rather see that than have like an incredible player struggle with just no one on their team and you have to sit there and be like well I think they're really good but they just got bums around them so it's a weird thing we do where it's like oh he has too much help it's like who cares yeah I mean I would I would equate it to like football like Dion Deion Sanders Barry Sanders and in Detroit and then you look at the flip side Christian mcaffrey right like how he was viewed before he got to the Niners it's like oh he's great but they lose all the time and it's like well yeah his team's not very good yeah then go to the ners and it's like oh it's not fair he has all these weapons and I'm like no he's still a monster he's just in a better situation it's not his fault that they got great lineman a great defense great threats at the receiver spot like he's still a monster it doesn't change that yeah it's it's actually the Barry Sanders versus EMT Smith it happened at the same time yeah where it's like you know there were EMT Smith people it's like how could you be an EMT Smith person if you have your eyes and a brain in your head like yeah he has the Rings and he has the records but like Barry Sanders is incredible he that's what he does yes we're gonna get back to CJ McCollum in a second before we do he's being brought to you by Chevy as everyone knows this is a Chevy truck podcast the greatest trucks ever built and our good friends at Chevrolet have have been a big part of the part of my take story from the Silverado that helped us dig the biggest hole ever dug in Ohio during grit week to the Silverado partnering with with us to give College fullbacks all the rightful recognition that they deserve with the low Man Award the sweetest trophy in college football they also powered our non-stop cross country trip to the Super Bowl in La it was behind the 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that's to me like the teams that have the most success consistently that's usually how they do it who is uh who's the best at setting illegal picks uh shout out to my boy nerk in Phoenix nerk is illegal Draymond one of the best illegal screeners of all time um take it back a little bit uh Omar aik he he was a good screen Setter what's the Big Fella's name in Minnesota who had the huge head um he played with Kevin Love he was a great screen Setter um looking at like today it's funny because there's not a lot of actual fives shout out to my guy JV JV is a great legal screen Setter he's had some some really really good screens there's not a lot of true fives what about Bam Bam gets real wide on his screens D gets Wi on the screens but he likes to get out he likes to slip out so he can get dunks he will make contact um when it's there I'm trying to think it's not a lot of like when Zebo played when Markus saw played um those were like when I first got into the league that's when you had real fives we had seven foot4 four men who posted up I played with Robin Lopez Grace screen Setter Lamar was a really good screen Setter especially when he could you know roll roll to that mid and knock it down boogie boogie was a good screen Setter too boogie boogie was a good screen Setter um are there ever times when you're playing in a game that someone forgets to yell out a screen yeah all the time really all right yeah because I mean that I I didn't know if like that was like so you guys are obviously you're so [ __ ] good but like it will happen not to relate it to pickup but it will happen in pickup and you be like where the [ __ ] why didn't you just say there's a screen just get absolutely crushed so what happens when someone forgets to yell out that there's a screen coming it depends on who didn't yell it out right like if it's if it's one of the ogs or vet like somebody that you know historically yells it out and you either didn't hear them or they forgot then you kind of give them a pass but it it's like a you know depending on the type of player you gonna be like yo like you can't you can't be leaving me out here like that like that's right like you going to get me hurt or you know something worse could happen you know what I mean like especially if you picking up and you tur and turning and they got that blind screen in the back court to try to knock you out like that's the type of screen back in like somebody like Patrick Beverly right Patrick is picking up full court you want to get a blind screen on him just to get him off the guard to kind of free you up and those are the times where you know if you got the ball you just trying to set them up and run them right into the screen and if you're guarding the ball you want somebody to yell out like scen to come and get back or something but it's happened I've been hit a few like it's happened and you're just looking like who was closest like bro why why didn't you call it out bro yeah when you're on offense have you ever called out fake screens like throwing them off their game be like pick right pick right switch switch Yeah C put me on game to that he used to do that all the time or he would Point like set set it right there set it right there and then just take off and I was like mother like nobody's there yeah a few times and I played against guys where a lot of teams will say black or red like there's a call for switch and the other team would run up and be like black yeah you'll think you're Garden like you'll think that you're supposed to switch and it's the other team calling it um I've seen that happen a lot of times which is funny and then you break down the coverage and you're like yo I I heard the call but it wasn't it wasn't your team and calling was the other team so stuff like that just trying to manipulate the game and get an advantage is an important part of the game for sure yeah speaking of that uh you play with Jose Alvarado does he do his Grand Theft Alvarado thing in practice and how how much does that piss everyone off he does he tries to do it in practice all the time he picks up good dude though works hard man oh it's awesome when he pulls it off but I would imagine if he does it in practice he would piss you off yeah I mean he's never gotten me with that in practice before but he he does he does pick a full in practice he's talking trash he's getting after it he's gotten a couple back tips but the grand theato I think my favorite one is the one he got on Braun he got Braun and Braun was pissed uh I se he was pissed like looking around his team Mage life yeah you gota yeah that's you got to call it out someone's got to call it out but they don't see it what I I I I can't remember if when you first came on I asked you this question and maybe I did and it's just a repeat but I don't care uh when you were playing with Dame in all these Big Time moments uh could you did you know when it was Dame time could you like was there something that like flipped in his head or his eyes or like would he say hey CJ just so you know it's Dame time or like look at your watch sometimes you can see the look in his eyes or just timeing score like filling the game out feeling the momentum or depend on what play he calls sometimes like we' be he'd be calling the game we'll be calling plays back and forth and then he call diagonal fist or he call a play which Diagon fist for us was basically uh a wing goes and sets a screen for the fiveman the fiveman runs up into a midp pick and row he kind of gets downhill where he shoots a three when he start calling his own plays or his own number or no play and he just pulls up from 40 I'm like yeah he he he about to turn up or if it was a momentum swinging play right like they hit a shot he gets a layup and one and he starts celebrating or he yells because he never really celebrates until the game's over if he yells or [ __ ] like he starts doing that I'm like oh yeah he about to get him his bag like he about to really turn up um and then he might start start tapping his wrist get serious and there's nothing you can do in it's Dame time nothing you can do at all what's what's the furthest you ever saw him pull up from in practice half court he shot he shot the ball from half court in practice a lot of times or a step a step in front of half court just coming off natural natural shot not even throwing the ball impressive man he got he gets like really good like flexion on the on the on the wrist Good Dip strong ball just kind of flows off it's an effortless shot yes fun to watch it's crazy to watch yeah I got I got some New Orleans questions for you first question uh how awesome is it to be the man in New Orleans what does that mean just like you're the man like you are you you a star you're on the Pelicans you you live in New Orleans which is probably the coolest city in the United States just how awesome is it I live a good life man I'm I'm thankful I'm blessed to to be in a position where I get to play a sport I get to be in a a place like New Orleans that's that's hungry for Success um great culture great Community uh great food great drinks depending on what you like uh heavy under French influence and um to be able to go for from you know where we were at before I got here to to two out of three years making the playoffs to really just kind of improving I think we had the second most wins in franchise history obviously this is like Saints country right but um it's it's a blessing to be able to play here in my family and I love it and like you said before man I'm just trying to take advantage of the blessings work hard and just trying to get us to in a position to go on a real run man we need we need health we need a lot of things to kind of go our way but I think we right there man we close to to making a real run um eventually yeah you said you said the food if I lived in New Orleans and I was on your salary I would be fat as [ __ ] I would get I would eat so much not fat heavy not very sturdy I would be a sturdy man yeah sturdy heavy heavy on heavy and strong man I think it's it's balanced man like nothing is perfect you got to figure out I always say 8020 rule man like 80% 20 I'm more like 9010 I love french fries I like gumbo I eat out once or twice a week but chef chef Joy be holding me down and just making sure I'm doing what I'm suppos to do but it's easy to it's easy to to venture out eat some things you're not supposed to eat especially out here yeah I I read an article that you after the season you do 21 days no basketball now does that like if you were walking like you were saying you were walking you know with the stroller if you're walking by a park in the 21 days and a kid's playing and they're like CJ take a shot you won't do it that's that's a tough dilemma so like I normally don't I don't work out so like shooting I don't count shooting so like if a kid was like shoot the ball whatever I'd shoot it or like them old school commercials I might try to go dunk it if the court was low or whatever yeah but like two weeks into my break I took my son to the gym and uh it was just way too hot outside and he was like too hot too hot Dad D so I took him to the gym and he's like B that that ball so I started shooting I was in my slides but like I don't count that because I'm not actually working out I'm just messing around like just playing with my son having fun yeah I don't count it okay that's that's like the that's the height of my workout so that's good you're like I don't count shooting it's like if I shoot we have our basketball court here I shoot a 100 jumpers I'm like man that was a hell of a workout yeah that was that was my whole day got my cardio yeah I really did it I really did it 100 is crazy that's it I'll do I'll do more it just depends on the time I have we get the we get the we get the uh the machine so we we'll we'll fire it up yeah what do you you got a gun yeah we got the gun yeah we got the gun what do you consider a workout how many shots 100 would not be a workout like uh [ __ ] um I mean my warm-up is like 100 makes just to get loose so [ __ ] you how many do you make when you sh I'll make like 50 of them that's pretty that's pretty good say like three 300 plus Depending on time like if I'm doing uh if I'm doing a 45 minute workout unless unless it's 10 or 15 minutes of ball handling I'm getting 400 to 500 easy okay easy and that's like movement that's off the bounce that's catch and shoot I might finish with 100 150 makes this might be a dumb question but have you ever have you ever gone shooting and just one day you suck at basketball you're just not good you have days where you don't shoot the ball well like I've had days and it's funny because like the the Casual won't understand like get in the gym with a pro and it's completely different like a bad shooting day for me I'm probably making 65% of my shots and that's like a it's like a bad like I'm bricking nobody in the gym empty gym 65% of M like it's a bad day I'm hitting eight nine out of 10 those are like normal days if we go do we do 100 threes a bad day I'm making 75 out 100 that's like a terrible day that was a bad like I my my second workout I hit 75 100 was a terrible day yeah that was after like 21 days like normal day 80 plus out of 100 and I'm talking threes when I'm shooting how I normally shoot 90 92 93 out of 100 and the like a normal NBA player empty gym jumper is wet like jumper is wet you put him in like fans whatever like that's going to change the game a little bit but even like guys that Miss free throws down the stret of games like big men that can't make free throws like historically pick a big man put them in empty gym cash yeah that's I when we had the whole NBA NFL argument and it's a dumb argument that we should save for the middle of summer but that was the one thing I kept going back to I was like if you've ever had the luck of watching an NBA player shoot in an empty gym they literally do not miss it's not like a oh this is the what like they will shoot and they'll take 100 threes and they'll they'll make 95 of them no problem like that's the level that they're shoot that's the Baseline of like their shooting ability and that's like everyone on the entire team even the last guy on the bench is still an incredible shooter right yeah I think it's that's a tough argument because like every NFL player can't can't hoop in the league and every Hooper can't play in the NFL but there are some NFL guys that could come over and there's some NBA guys that could slide over to NFL it's not it's not to say one sport is hard than the other or whatever the case may be there's just some incredible athletes in this world like there's some DBS there's some receivers that like I didn't seen open I'm like oh he got game like he's nice and there's some guys that I've seen that are just freak athletes like Braun and some of those guys where you're like like you telling me Zion can't go play football like can go play football if he really wanted to like Braun could go play Russ there's some guys that could go play football and there's some some NFL guys that could slide over and be a shooting guard or a small forward I've seen some of those guys shoot the ball I've seen some of those guys that are athletes the quarterback the quarterback from Florida like I seen some of those guys move and dunk and jump and they'll be all right the hard part is you know the contact figuring out like for the for the NBA guy that goes to NFL like which is he a DB is he a is he a wide receiver because everybody want everybody ain't trying to go across that middle a different different ball game so talk about the difference in shooting when there's a an arena filled with fans there was a very funny video that went viral last week and it was like a a a guy pretended to be an NBA player and he's like oh I don't shoot well on the road the fans are mean and they're they're saying I'm bad when I'm trying to shoot what is it about shooting in front of a hostile crowd that makes you worse at shooting like what ultimately is it just not being comfortable with the gym or is it people you know saying you suck is it people booing you why are players worse on the road than they are at home I think it's a combination of things I think it's it's not familiar territory like your routine is different you're sleeping in a hotel pregame meal is different if you got a chef travel you on a bus everything is a little different um and it's not a gym you shoot in every day and then I think the factor of it's something psychologically when someone cheers for you versus when someone boots for you especially when you shoot but the funny part is most of our team this year in the Orleans shot better on the road than they did at home and we had had the best Roy record in the NBA I think we went 28 and 14 or something like that and my numbers side by side I shot better from three better from two on the road so it's just a matter of like routine what you do how much time you have I think at home for me personally like I shoot more at home to try to get ready for home games than I do on the road and I shoot better on the road I get less reps probably get more sleep um but I think I get less Reps for sure on game days at home I stay out there I shoot I go do like a shooting drill on the road you got like 15 minutes on the clock before you getting kicked out of the gym because they got to set up for something else or the other teams so I think it's a combination of things um that factor in but it's something about being booed like as opposed to like imagine when you shoot a three and you're like three and then when you shoot three they like you suck you at the free throw line they bullying you they talking about your mama talking about your daddy like whatever the case may be and at the crib they cheering for you until like something something doesn't go right and then they might flip the flip the switch on you depending on what Market you in yeah yeah yeah um I was just going to say in Philly they start to boo you but then they start to be nice to you to get you out of a slump true and then you turn into a really good player true great sport down uh what's what's the status of your beef with KD that I I think it's long since squash but we actually had a part in the original beef because you coming on our show started that a little bit that is l k my guy we in a group chat together and I actually need to check on him see how you doing but text him right now and tell him you're doing PMT and said that we we'd love to have him on he'll probably leave the group chat I'm doing PMT he's gonna leave the group chat said they would love to have you yeah squash the beef he still watches my Instagram stories I send him and he just yeah he well no he'll just like or like if I like do an Instagram story like playing pickup he'll just respond and be like get this trash off the court and then I'll send him being like hey you want to come on and he'll just read it and not respond that's him yeah it hurts my feelings every time but I also kind of laugh that's funny I gotta ask him I seen this this Tinder profile that looked like it was his yeah I saw that too oh he might be out there um all right I had I had one last question let us know if he responds real quick but uh I had one last question this has been awesome CJ we definitely have to get you in person too in Chicago when you're when you're here next um rowack question RH o bac.com promo code take 20% off your first purchase qzip polos hoodies joggers shorts roback.com they also have uh swimsuits summertime roback.com promo code take all right so what is what are we adding to our game this summer that's one of my favorite things that every NBA player it's kind of a cool Flex being like my game is so good I'm gonna add this little this little niche thing this little this little one move that no one's expecting what's the one move that you're adding this year I wouldn't necessarily say move I'm working on see if he respond he respond yet I'm working say I sent it to the group I ain't send it to him directly he ain't respond yet okay uh it said six swing swing to the corner with the first comment uh I'm working on paint finishing uh that's that's like a real a real big point of emphasis for me obviously spacing and a lot of those things play a factor but I got to have better Court awareness and understanding of like just making sure people in the right spots um keep my assist CH over ratio right but paint finishing is huge I was only like 58.3% at The Rim so I got to get better I got to get to least League average which is like 65 somewhere around there my paint shots uh non-restricted area were like less than 50 like 47 so I got to get better there and then just a a lot more of you know what I've been doing like shooting the ball really well shooting threes at a high clip being good in picking rolls over one point per possession and then defensively being better and pick and rolling like I'm never going to be like a lock down Defender but I got to be average to above average um statistically in terms of you know what the defense is like when I'm on the floor so I think that's the that's the thing that I'm working on really just paint paint finishing you know that's going to be huge uh spacing wise floaters touch shots being smart with the Nash dribbles and then just trying to impact winning okay and what what's the move that you're I mean we you gave us the hesi hay step back to Freedom is there a move in the last few years that you've been doing that like you're like man this is so much fun whenever I can pull this off the heesy hay is just like a flastic to step back to Freedom I've been a lot of transition trads lately um I just from a lingo standpoint what can I leave you with on the transition transition take that probably shouldn't say take that now because of uh where we're at in society but I would say a lot of transition threes um we could say transition take that yeah take that take that yeah take that yeah transition take transition take that yeah I love good Flo float me float me one of my homie sh prins he used to say you got to get up early in the morning for that like got to get up early in the morning to get to that floater because it's just like above your head especially with wimy now like you got to shoot the floater you got to have a floater you got to shoot it high because guys is coming to get all of those so I say the float me in the in the in the the pullup tray is is a game changer it's a it's a shot I love it's a shot i' I've matched and I a high percentage at it so but that that hesy ha was was was a legendary yes it was golden I feel like Kyrie does a lot of the float me too he's a big float me guy he float is crazy yeah his floats the world has ever seen left hand right hand glass cash he got everything how do you stop Kyrie is it possible uh I think it's you hope to contain him man he has every skill set in the book three level score fast quick in great shape um I mean he was I mean he was getting 40 during during Ramadan he was fasting and scoring 40 on people like hungry no water no food like that's a different that's a different type of that's a different type of killer man yeah yeah trap you gotta trap him I think OKC did a good job of taking the ball out of his hands um and just trapping him showing them different looks just making somebody else beat you because you show one body even if you show too late like he's he's too good yeah yeah no Oki did a a better job than Minnesota that's for sure um all right well CJ we gotta I promise you it will be uh sooner the next time you're on than this Gap and we do have to get you in person but it's great to to see you congrats on all the success two kids wine Mogul also I just looked up um since we last seen you I think you've made like $150 million that's pretty cool that's good yeah that's nice do you ever just look at that do you ever look at it like oh [ __ ] because it is that is that what happened since we last seen each other it's it's literally I think you last were on in 20178 you were around 60 million for your career now you're around 2115 that's pretty nice that's pretty nice praise the Lord man this is a great great world we live in man where you know if you can Master something and become really good at something do things the right way try to lead a good life things can turn out well for you man so I'm just I'm living a dream man I'm I'm really thankful I'm really happy and blessed and I got two beautiful babies married I can't complain man I got a hey I got to step back to freedom I got to float me I got to transition take that I'm sipping sh a talking to you guys what can I complain about yes some to inspire for yeah congrats CJ and also we left out the part that you're also the the manager of our high stakes fantasy football league that we're in and Jerry oconnell screwed up our lineup entirely last year so that's all on him is he is he a pain in the ass to manage does he like send you messages behind the scenes that we don't know about no no no he's been cool man no no real issues um this is the year where I I really need to win this man I've I put too much money into this fantasy football league to just continue to lose like this and this is taken away from money for my my Brown Sweet games yeah yeah oh yeah should have you had to love that Joe Flaco run probably felt a little dirty but still it was legendary man and you know it was it was a situation where I thought the season was over and then it just kept getting better and then it was like a too good to be true and then we ran into a young Ohio State killer and that was all she wrote but it was it was a hell of a run man and hopefully you know this year we can be good I mean we're going to need chub I don't know if chub will be ready but chub was chub was huge for us and for him to be hurt and and get injured the way he did was was devastating but I love my Browns we open up against the Dallas Cowboys it'll be Tom Brady's first game on Fox September 8th it's we rocking baby yeah that's big I like that you got it circle is that that's the sign of a a true uh you know football fan when you start just ripping off like your schedule sometime in July or June you're like yeah we open here then the next week's tough that's it's perfect um all right well CJ thanks so much man we really appreciate it thank you guys man yall have a good one and when I get to the shy I'll hit y'all for sure CJ McCollin was brought to you by the nwsl things have escalated from last week's show we told you Nike hooked us up with that nwsl gear and how we wanted to go to that red stars game next Saturday June 8th at Wrigley Field since then that game is on track to potentially break the League's attendance record so it's official the bar stool Chicago crew is going you all need to show up soccer at Wrigley let's break that record we're going to report back after the game but if you don't live in Chicago you got to get to a game all we keep hearing so much fun get to an nwsl game this year check out the schedules buy some tickets it's going to be a blast get involved with the nwsl okay that is our show unless we have anything else oh did you guys see Lenny cra said that he hasn't had sex in 9 years yeah he hasn't [ __ ] in N9 years that must be really difficult for Lenny Kravitz to do that that's insane I would actually believe it if he has not come in nine years but he was [ __ ] but he's so good at like holding it Lenny kravit is so hot that there's no one on Earth that can make him come right and he's just like I can control it so well like yeah I'll [ __ ] you for an hour but then I'm just going to go home maybe he's just un anal that could Lenny strictly butt stuff he does he there's just no no way I mean he has se he has cooler sex than everyone else he keeps the scarf on yeah look at him he's doing is that actually Lenny Kravitz is that just Lenny Kravitz might lead the league and like look alikes if you just got some tattoos yeah it's either Lenny Kravitz are like a uh anemic Larry Fitzgerald oh yeah is he retired no he never actually retired L he just kind of stopped playing football yeah we got to figure out something to talk about on Wednesday because we have just no Sports going on uh let's see what do we got what do we got in the news let us know what you want us to talk about we could do we you know we can make a list it's not my Rushmore season yet but we could make a list for everyone we could do that headline thing oh yeah we could do the headline thing headline we could do NFL NBA no no I like the idea of making a list yeah let's make a list top we'll do a top let us know what list you want us to make how about uh Hank's top 10 Patriots of all time oo no let's get yeah tell tell tell us the awls let us know what list you want sports related and we'll come up with a list we're going to rank something yeah we'll rank something and get everyone upset about it P PMT makes a list and gets the internet mad at them yeah and mount Rush season will start after the NBA finals which actually the are the NH are the Stanley Cup finals going to go later this year no I don't think so because they go every there's less time in yeah they go every two nights cuz they're not [ __ ] yeah that's a lot of travel for them wait is there eight hour flight are there any there's not any D nights where there's both that would actually game seven of Stanley Cup would be Monday the 24th which would be the day after game seven wow so if they both go seven damn kind of tough by them Han you you got to get game one here you just got to get game one here I mean get game one here you got to get game one it's actually two days off to arrive three of the games I know like I'm saying you physically can't handle just this weight you got to get game one here is there any way to speed up time can you figure out a way to get game one here sleep golf no you just golf every second between here and game one it will get here fast if you black out that's kind of like time think Josh Allen just did like a charity 110 holes in one day thing last week I don't know if you guys saw that Hank could never do charity he accidentally did that uh get get game one here I'll see what I can do figure it out I will uh okay numbers 20 56 18 you're so pressed Max so press that was that was pressed all right I'm going to do eight three 99 21 oh damn 59 that make you a little nervous mat I knew it was 59 I knew it was 59 that make you a little nervous have you ever gotten this nope that make you a little nervous nope love you guys

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