The papamp pod with Roan. Another edition where Roan ski, but I'm never over my skis, you know. He's a beast.

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And the boys at Tel Aviv. What's up, Pat? Bev.

Hey, you got on that camo today. You on some shit today, Patch? Exactly on some shit today, Pat.

I'm crawling through the mud, you're zipper, fine.

You ain't got to crawl, you ain't.

Got to cover it up, zipper. Washington exposed, but I would, I would have told you back in Israel, reporting poolside, cool vibes, got the, got the wine going down. Everything looks fantastic over there. Roses really smell like doo doo doo. And that's shout out to all my outcasts out there. What's going on, bro?

How are you, brother? Had a little all day today. We getting ready for our first little Euro cup game. Other than that fucking catching the vibe.

The season begins for you. It's right around the corner and I'm sure you couldn't be more excited for the Euro cup. And basically, I think, I don't know if people know exactly how the Euro cup works. If you guys, it's almost like british soccer, right? Like if you guys get to the top of the Euro cup, then you get elevated into euroleague.

Yes. Yep. Next season. Yep.

So it's like elevation relegation type of thing where it's like your bottom of the league, you get bumped down, top of the league, you get bumped up. And from all reports, it seems like the team in hopeful Tel Aviv is expected to do big things this year.

Yeah, that's the goal, right. We want to be in contention with every championship and I. And take control of it when we.

Get there, you know, 100% and you're.

You know, it's a lot of work. It's a lot of work with that shit. You know, you gotta get lineups and you gotta. Each game is different. We got a ton of guys that can hoop, four or five NBA guys. We got a young israeli guard know who should be entering draft this year. He had crazy scholarships. Kansas. Kansas, where else? He said, he said Villanova. So he a young talent. He gonna be good. So we gotta be like eleven. We got a Bruno, he just got here. He played in the league for a little bit. We got Jonathan Motley, he played in the lead for a little bit, played with me, with the Clippers. We got ish Wayne Wright, he played with Fenning sons. So yeah, we got a, we got a, we got, we got some NBA talent. We got some, you know, Joe Ragland, he's a big talent over here in Europe for some years. Marcus Foster, who's a bucket big, bent low. He spent some time in Boston. So we. We got it. We got a nice. Got to put it all together now.

Yeah, it's time to put it all together, and it's time to.

Our Israelis are pretty good, so we got bar and some more. And like I said, the young.

Fresh talk.

Yeah, yeah, fresh. Oh, fresh talk. Subscribe, shout out, fresh talk. Pot. Subscribe to the pie. My homie bar. He's a intelligent man. So, yeah, we got a nice little piece. And we got. And we got coaching, so. And we got an owner who got money. Got a lot of motherfucking money, too. So, yeah, those are all good things.

What are the dates that you have circled on your calendar, on your schedule this year, as far as teams that are going to be tough? And what are the dates that you have circled on your calendar, as far as places that you are excited to travel to in Europe? Because I know that that was an appealing part of this offer.

So we go to Barcelona right this on the 23rd. We're in Barcelona for about three nights. That's gonna be fun. I'm trying to find a way, if I can. Don't tell anybody. If I can get out to fashion week in Milan some way. Somehow that's going on currently. It kind of ends in pairs, so I'll probably touch it up a little bit there. But, yeah, we got the Canary Islands coming up. That's later on. We got Lithuania the week after. I'm, you know me, I'm excited. Just a who period. You know, whatever league I know, you know, it's a lot of tension with our team, and with attention comes, you know, expectations. Expectations and crowd and, you know, you move around and, you know, we're the show and people want to see us and, you know, it's gonna be funny. I can't wait.

Can't wait. It's been interesting seeing the vlogs. What was the takeaway from your trip to Greece? Thessaloniki.

The Saloniki shout out to greek. Shot the Greek. Yeah. He heard what you said wrong. He said he agreed with me 1000%.

Of course, NBA players going to call himself position less.

No, but that's the truth. He is, though.

I mean, I can't wait to see our list of positionless players. By your metrics, it's going to be 25 players long.

No, no, no, no. Matter of fact, we should just jump right to it. Yeah. Let's get right to a new Amsterdam starting five. That's the one positionless.

Oh, we're doing positionless this week.

This week. Let's do it right now.

Okay. The top five position list players in the NBA, because I think this time, we've. What we've been doing is we've been going through. We did our list of top five centers. We did our list of top five power forwards this week. Traditionally would be small forwards, but at the same time, we're not going to do small forwards. We'll jump to small forwards next week. So, uh, I want to go through the top five most positionless, best positionless players in the league right now, because this has been a lot of fanfare. From your perspective, who's positionless, who's not positionless? Is it just guys who would traditionally fall into the four five category or three four category? Can it be across the board? Give me your top five positionless players.

All right, I'm going top five position as players, and I'm ranking them.

You're ranking?

Yeah, I'm ranking them. I'm going. Yeah, I'm going. LeBron at one, Katie spot two. Greek spot three, Wendy spot four. Now, this last one, I've been thinking a lot about it.

Okay. I love that.

I'm going, Luca five. Wow.

Luca positionless because a lot of people could say he's a one, brings the ball up, initiates the offense. People could say he's a two because he has that shooting touch. He could finish. People might say he's a three because of his traditional size profile, and people might say he's a four because he has a bad body. But I think that there's a lot of different things that play into a positionless player. But why those guys? And why not, like, what is Jason Tatum position? This.

I think he has a chance to be.

When you say chance to be, that makes it seem like positionless is almost the final frontier of basketball. Players. Like, you strive to be positionless because it means that you have the ultimate blend of versatility, switchability, the threats you can have on offense, the way you can initiate on offense. So how would you define positionless? And is it the final frontier for a player?

First. So, first off, position, this has to deal with height. That's first off, like, you can't be a position as basketball player. You know, six.

So Russ can't be positionless.

You can't. Not in my book. Not, you know, I don't. You know, I don't think Russ is positionless. I think he's a guard. You know, like, I don't put him one guard, I don't put him two guard. He's just a guard who fucking know how to hoop, you know, like, I don't put James Harden, you know, even though he's one of the best players to play the pick and roll ever, you know, like top three, like best players to play the pick and roll ever. I don't put him as strictly as point guard, you know, so positionless, comes with height. Obviously you say LeBron James. Cause before LeBron James, you haven't seen anything like LeBron James besides, you know, the Magic Johnson. But we said, who's currently in the NBA. And then when you think of LeBron, you instantly think of KD. And I mean KD of like pushing the ball up the court like crazy handle to be, to be that size. Crazy handle to get past defender. Crazy handle to create your own offense and the ability to post up and ability to shot block and rebound at that. At that seven footer size, you know.

And then you look at a guy like Greek, you know, like Greek. You feel me? He's great with the ball. A lot of euro steps downhill. Obviously he's still putting together the shot right now, but it's all coming between the 2020 has he pool type vibe. He can play the post. He can dime the shit out that motherfucker. And then you see Wemby, who's like a, who has a little bit of all of them in them, you know, and just taller, you know, you see a little flashes of LeBron when it comes to play making. And you see a little bit of, you know, he's in his own lane defensively, though. But you see a little KD, you see a little, you know, a little Greek in it. And then finally when you go, Luca, which makes him a hard, a hard cover, is because of his size, you too small. He go take you to the post because he is 6768. Like he ain't no six five six. He's 6768 with, with that. That ain't even muscle. He got. He got that motherfucker. He lean that shit up on you. You know what I'm saying?

So like, he's 6768. You can't put a classic point guard on him because he's going to post it. You can't put a classic two guard on him because he's still small. You can't put a three on him because if you put a three on them, you got to switch three, five, pick and roll. And now you got your five man guarding them. So just guys that can affect the game without being in any type of position as positionless basketball to me.

So Luca, he's a legit six eight.

Yeah. 6768. He's, you know, you put. Can't put the classic point guard on him because he's too small. Can't put the classic two guard on him because he's too small. Can't put three on him because if you do, you have to switch three, five, pick and roll. And now he's just attacking your five all day. So those are my top five. New Amsterdam. Refreshing. Starting five positionless basketball players in order.

So everybody can't cover Luca.

No, no.

It seems like with this.

With this list, he's gonna break a lot of records. He's gonna be the one to break a lot of records. I've obviously given health, given longevity of career. If he at the pace he's going, he gonna break a lot of records. Wrong ski, Ron. Ski. He go break a lot of them.

What would be the ideal player that you would pair him with? What type of player? Because I think when we got to the finals, we saw that his supporting cast was not enough to win him a championship. So as nice as breaking records would be for him, it'd probably be way better if he was winning championships from his perspective. So what kind of player compliments him the best as far as a guy that can get the most out of Luca and that can get the Dallas Mavericks to win in championships?

I think with any championship team, you always need another ball handler, slash creator, slash score. With size.

With size.

Yeah, I don't like. I think the success with Dallas had previously, when they did have success with, was when Spencer Dinwiddie was there with Jalen Bronson, Luca, Dodgers and Spencer Danwitty. The more guards you have that can break down the defense and you don't have to rely on one guy. And if you lie on one guy, then you have to. You can scout for one guy, but if you got a scout three, four guys that can put the ball on the floor, you know, it's tough, then. You know what I'm saying? So let me see a guy like, shit. Brunson compliments him. Namhart from Indiana compliments him. You know, you need a guy that can, you feel me? Spot up and shoot the three with him too, because he go had a ball in his hand a lot. Who out there can fucking just burn it? Seth Curry. Seth Curry played with him, has success. You know, like, you know, just guys that can. That can put the ball on the floor, I can. That can burn it with Luca, you know?

So it also seems like their, their roster composition this last year, the guys that are starting in the finals, Hardaway, Derek Jones, it seemed like they want guys who also can defend multiple positions because they don't want Luca to have to do a lot of the heavy lifting on defense. He, like, he's a better defender than people give him credit for, but I think that they want someone that can really expend a lot of energy on the defensive side, where Seth Curry might not be the answer for that kind of thing.

Yeah, but that only, as you see, and, you know, when you get down to that final team, that. That only goes so far. You gotta have people that can create also, like, the game is changing slowly. We used to be back in the day, defense wins championship, right. And I wouldn't say that's the case now. You know, I wouldn't. I wouldn't say that's the case now. I think teams are so talented offensively. These, especially these superstars, like, you know, you got, you play a team like, like Dallas, who can break you down off the dribble, and, you know, you got the defensive player of the year who, you know, who can't guard all those positions. So defense takes you so far. The more playmaking you have, the more offensive ability you have, the more size you have the ability to shoot the three. Now, what Boston do, they just shot more threes than everybody else. Right? They. They shot threes, they missed threes, they kicked them out and shot more threes. You know, obviously, you have to give their defense a lot of credit because, you know, they can switch. They can switch the size.

They got Derek White, they got drew, they got Jason Tatum. You know, you can switch one through four brazilians, you can switch five. Without Horford, you can switch five. So that leads to one on one, and which also leads to creativity. And if you can't, you know, if you don't have a lot of guys that can do it off the bounce, it's going to be tough for you to beat those teams that can guard and do it off the bounce and shoot three. So that's why I really got Boston. You feel me? I know it might be tough for him this year, but everybody coming back, but with the same, you know, same pedigree they have. I wouldn't say that. You know, they. It's early to tell they win championship right now, but they definitely go be there still.

Well, I think that they're falling into both of the categories that you're saying, because there are two guard spots, are guys in Derek White and Drew Holiday, who can play lockdown defense, but also who can create, who can initiate the offense, who can be dynamic playmakers both ways. And I mean, you saw, that's why those guys were getting a lot of minutes on the Olympic team. Keep on going through your list. It's interesting that you put them in this tier that you did in the order that you did, because you're on record saying that you think Wemby is going to be the best player in the league this upcoming year. And so then it seems like you're giving LeBron, KD, even Greek, the nod because of what they've done over the history of their career. Whereas if you're prognosticating forward, you think that Wemby is going to be the top dog in the league.

Yeah, I think he gonna be the top dog just because he does it defensively. Also, he alters shots, he rebounds, he push it right. A lot of people don't wanna do this. And this is where, you know, you have a lot of takes of who's right, who's wrong. Longevity should count, right? You taking care of your body, playing a ton of years, that should, that should count regardless of where your team is placed, how y'all finish the season, like, longevity counts. To be able to still do it at a certain age is even more incredible. Cause we don't know the future for everybody, you know what I'm saying? So that's why I get that from the LeBron's, the Katie's longevity counts, you know, and obviously, you know, LeBron, he's been doing it. We literally been doing it since the sophomore year in high school. He's been playing the same high level basketball since his sophomore year in high school. Like, you gotta give that some credit. You gotta give Katie credit. You know, him being seven foot, shooting hezzy pools is something you've never heard. Terra Keeley's come back and have better numbers at that size still, you know, like, so longevity counts and you have to, you know, you have to put that in order, too.

What, what kind of guys are right on the outside? Who would you put in your honorable mention category? Are there other positionless players that you think are right there? Maybe a Paolo. Is he positionless? Jalen Brown, maybe. Is he, is he at a level of positionlessness? Who else is right on the outside?

I think my next person, I'm going, I'm thinking my next. I think the next person I'm going with unconsciously and it's the first name to jump out to me is Draymond Greenhouse.

You put him at your power to.

Be able to guard fives. I know, but when you talk about people who own that, the cusp of honorable mentions, like, he's a positionist basketball player, too. He's the point guard of the Golden State warriors. People just figured that out maybe a year or two ago. No, he. You know, he brings up the ball, like, the offense is so much better when he brings up the ball that people don't even understand. The numbers are not even comparable. When he brings up the ball versus any other guard on the team. When he brings up the ball, they score, like, one point. What? Points per possession? I think they score, like 1.2, almost 1.3 points. Possession, that's like 120 points over a course of a game if he was to only just bring up the ball.

So, yeah, he's the real point guard. I mean, yeah, he.

So I put him up there. When it comes to positionless, he can guard fives, he can guard point guards. You can guard fours, twos, threes, you know, like. So that was the next person I was to think of if it was to be a extended list.

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And folks, remember, find your wins today with New Amsterdam vodka. Oh, yeah. But it has me thinking about a new. A new segment that I want to do with you. And basically, what I want to do with this segment is I want to talk about some specific players who are maybe unsung and their potential impact on this upcoming season. And we're going to call it the X Factors. Okay.

I love this.

I want to talk about four different x factors and I want to talk about the ways that they can change the season for their team. And I think that these are guys who aren't going to be all stars or maybe they may be borderline for some of them, not going to be Olympians, but they are guys who are going to be the fulcrum around which winning or losing bends for their team. So the four guys I want to talk about are these four players. Contavious Caldwell Pope, Tyler hero, Christian Braun or and actually Roy Hachimura. So let's start with containers, guys.

I'm picking.

I'm not talking about picking. I want to talk about their impact. What do you mean pick?

If there was four guys I was to pick, it wouldn't be those four guys.

Well, I want to talk about these four guys.

Okay. We could talk about your four. That's cool.

I want to talk about these four guys. And then if you have four, we could talk about four different x factors.

Okay. Say less.

So let's talk about these four guys and the impact that they could have or might have. So let's start with contavious Caldwell Pope. Contavious Caldwell Pope. This guy is a career winner. This guy has made a ton of money throughout his career on different teams. He has won a championship with the Lakers. He's won a championship with the Denver Nuggets because what he offers is incredible defense. He's not a needy offensive player. You can put him in a corner. He's a guy who can burn it. And he's a guy who is always impacted winning for the teams that he's been on this year, he's on the Orlando Magic. The Orlando Magic had a bunch of money in the offseason that they could have spent somewhere. They had a chance to maybe get one of these really high profile guys, but wound up with contavious Caldwell Pope. He is a ultimate piece who's not going to be the star player on your team, but he's going to be a starter and they're hoping he'll be a valuable one. What does contavious call? Well, Pope potentially offer to the Orlando Magic and what's the best case scenario for him this year?

Obviously, his pedigree of winning. Right. Winning a lot of games, winning championships. That's the first thing that jump off the page. Second thing that jump off the page for me is toughness, right? Not when I. And people have to get the two toughness, because it's two different type of toughness. It's a mental toughness. Come on, guys. I'm a gather the troops, you know, or physical toughness. No, I ain't gonna let nobody punk us. Right. I think he gives off a little bit of both of them, not leaning in either way, but he gives off a little both of them like he's on a team. They're not a, you know, they're not a. A pussy team. None of the teams he's been on. And he's able to get, you know, he's able to galvanize the troops, if you might say. He's able to. Okay, things ain't going well. Hey, man, look, this is. He can give the young team a lot of insight. So those two jump right off the page basketball wise. He's a guy that can, you know, score without needing a ton of dribbles, right? You can. You can put him in that, that, that.

That left corner. If the rim is facing me this way, you can put him in the left corner and go dho. He come off going to his right hand, get you a bucket. He plays off the catch well. He shoots to three. Well, you know, he can give you from any night, 15 to 20 points. So with all that together, I think that helps any team, not only just Orlando magic, and it's no surprise why he's been so successful in NBA.

What does he offer to their young star players as far as an upside? Because that's a team that, if you're looking to manual.

Just a how to manual. Right? Just a how to manual. How to consistently get the best out of your game. You've seen LeBron do it. He's seen Jokic do it. You know, how to bounce back off their loss, how to bounce back off their playoff loss, how to bounce back off their. A back to back where your body's not feeling well, how to bounce back from not shooting well that night, how to bounce back from a tough loss, how to bounce back from a big win. The how to manual, I think he provides for. For that young team.

And do you think that he could take their offense from being a bottom third offense to maybe a middle of the pack offense? What can he offer to their offense?

Shooting? They didn't shoot the ball at all. Well, everyone in the league knew that if they shot the ball a little bit better, they'd be one of the better teams in NBA, you know, because all their points in the paint now, he gives them shooting, which is, you know, mixed with the, you know, Frank Wagner and Franz Wagner and Ben Caro and snugs, you know, mixed with those guys. You know, he has a. He has a chance to, you know, upgrade their outside score, which is, which is needed.

You think that the magic can wind up being a top four seed in the east this year?

Listen, I said they want to get in the playoffs. My tone has changed. I top five.

I'll give them right outside of the Bucks, Sixers, knicks and Celtics.

Yeah.

Interesting. So you see them being a notch better than this, the Cavs this year.

I think they're right there with the Cavs. I think what Kyle will pour. They played the Cavs again, you know. You know, Cavs defense, the cast were hurting, all that stuff. So health is. Health is important. Hold on. Don't get mad at me. I'm shooting a pod. I'll call you right back. Bye bye. So, you know, we don't know how, you know, health is always important for the Cleveland Cavaliers. So we don't know what that. But they're right there on that tier. Them and Cleveland Cavaliers for sure. I'll say that.

Okay, let's take it to our next player, who also, whose team probably is also right in that tier. And let's talk about Tyler hero. I think Tyler hero has a ton of upside as a player. He's a guy who will get you 20 points a night. I think that people think he's the.

X factor on that team, though.

Talk to me.

Yeah, I don't think he's an x factor on that team.

Well, let me, let me put my, let me give you my case for why he is an x factor on that team.

Okay.

My case for why he is enough x factor on that team is because Jimmy Butler's health has not matched up to his pedigree over the last season. And I think that we saw Pat Riley even talking about this, saying that, hey, if Jimmy Butler wants his next massive contract, we need a guy who is going to be healthy and who we can rely on at all times. So for me, Tyler Hero becomes an X Factor because he's looked to as that next player who will be able, who should be able to be healthy all the time, who can be your number one scoring option. And I think the question mark is, can he give you more outside of that? Can he be a consistent playmaking threat? Can he be a guy who gives you, um, above replacement level defense. Can he be a strong enough player to elevate the Miami Heat when Jimmy Butler's not there? And to be a big enough compliment where he's a one and a one a. When Jimmy Butler is there as far.

As wing scoring, when anytime Tyler heroes healthy, he plays. He plays well. Anytime. It's a big game. Tyler Hero plays well anytime it. They say Tyler hero going through a shoot slump, he comes out on tv and he plays well. Tyler Hero isn't the problem. The point guard play is a problem. The point guard play for the Miami Heat is the x factor. Right. They had calorie. You trying to get the correct guard that fits with Jimmy Butler. Cause, you know, Jimmy Butler go have the ball all the time. So you trying to get that, taylor? Roger, you know, he just got there last year. Obviously, anyone getting to the Miami Heat culture is. It's a. It's a adjustment period, you know? So, uh, Max shroosh left. Um, Gabe Vincent left. These are all point guards, you know, so I look at the Miami Heat, I don't look at it as a Tyler hero x factor. I look at it as a. The point guy, the point guard play. You need another guard ball handle that can get you from anywhere to ten, nine to 14 points a game, you know? And out of that, 14 has to come free throws in threes, you know, tally heroes always play well.

That's really literally why they paid him. He played well, hurt. He came back, tried to play through injury. Like Tyler hero. Isn't that, you know, the issue? I think the point guard play is the x factor for me.

Can Tyler hero be an all star in the east? Borderline.

Yeah, borderline. If they come out hot, you know, he. You know, he shoots the. You know, he always shoots a will, but he shoots it well. He gets into the three point contest. Yeah. Yeah. I think he can be all starved if done correctly. Yeah.

And so the. I mean, the rest of their starting lineup, bam. Jaime, Hawkes, it seems like these are. Those are four really strong guys. But where does the. And traditionally, the Miami Heat have been able to find point guards in non traditional ways? Like, they'll, like, the guys you mentioned are guys who kind of emerged. Do you think that there's anyone else in the pipeline, or do you think it's something that should be addressed by trade?

I don't know. We don't know. You know, with the heat, you never know. And never know a guy, and all of a sudden, a guy gets hot from the heat, and next thing you know, he's the next Gabe Benson. He's the next max. Truce. You know, so, like, you never know. They got. They got all they gyms hitting up, you know, so. But, you know, at the same time, they always in. You know, it's coaching, also coaching. You know, they're always in the running of being competitive every year, regardless of who's heard and who's playing. And that's a credit to, obviously, rousing the head coach, coach Bo. So I don't think it's an x factor with photo hero. I think it's the point guard play is the x factor for the Miami.

What could go wrong for the Heat this year to make it a worst case scenario?

I don't think it even gets the worst case scenario long as you have Coach Bo and bam, right? I don't even think it gets the worst case scenario. I think coach Bo is that talented, that regardless of what's going on, his team go be it. You know, I ain't saying knocking at the front door, but they go be outside waiting for a motherfucker to slip up for show. They gonna be waiting for motherfuckers to slip up so they can catch them, you know, and that's given. That's that that's, you know, injury, fully healthy fucking tank. When a championship every year, you know, that's just the pedigree to Miami Heat, so you never know what that.

I think the next one I want to go to is kind of the counterpart to contavious Caldwell Pope. We've Christian Braun. We've seen the Denver Nuggets be extremely successful, and we've seen them win a championship. But with that comes a lot of mouths to feed, both as far as getting the ball, as far as usage, but also as far as getting paid. And when guys get paid, that means there's less money for other people. And so two years ago, when they won a championship, we saw them getting a lot of production from contavious Caldwell Pope. We saw them getting production from Bruce Brown. These guys who are the glue players, who can play some defense, who can kind of slow you down a little bit. But now we're at a point where Jamal Murray is getting paid, Jokic is getting paid. We. We know what Aaron Gordon is. We know what Michael Porter junior is, but who is their fifth starter? How much can he give you? And what are you looking for from that guy Braun?

Yeah, I think a little bit of everything, right? I think what made them really good when they had Bruce Brown was his ability to guard, his. To be his ability to be creative off the bounce and getting his shot right. I'm not saying that Bruce Brown is in there dropping downs, but he put so much pressure on the defense when he gets in a paint with a float or a quick decision that, you know, you have to respect him. So I think that Ron has to do some of that type, but I think Russe. Russ is a big factor in this, too. You know, we haven't seen Russ play with a shooting five. You know, people don't understand, like, some of Russ bets years he, you know, played with stretch fours and guys that can space the court and he can, you know, blow past a guy getting the paint. He's actually playing with a stretch five who can respectfully burn it, you know, so, like, I like that also. But Braun has to guys, to be a little. With a cardinal, he has to be a little bit of Bruce Brown. I actually wanted to see him take the leap this past year.

I wouldn't say he did not take the leap. I'd just say he stayed steady. But I'm excited to see him, like, have the ball hit some big threes, get a big stop, you know? Cause I like his swag. I like. I like his toughness. So this is a big year for him. Like, he, you know, their coach is great, too. Yokos is great. But, you know, they do need that one. One. One person off the bench that can take that team to the next level, and I think that he has a chance to be that player.

Yeah, that's, I think, why contavious Caldwell Pope was so effective for them. Because he's kind of quiet in a loud lineup. Like, he can kind of just be there and be sufficient with his style of play and affect the game on both ends. But at the same time, like, do they have enough? Because the championship window for some teams opens and it closes quickly. So do they have enough to get back to that point? And you know, what? What shows you, if they have enough, you got.

You got Yokoj on the team and you got Jamal Murray and you got enough, right? They might not be the loudest team, but when it the playoffs come, they have a system that they run, that they run so well, and they know each other so well. You know, they're. They're there. They're a matchup problem from any. For any team in the playoffs. Minnesota built their team just to beat the Denver Nuggets. They literally built the team just to beat Denver Nuggets, you know? So I think different. Denver's going to be there. I think Denver's definitely going to be there. I think if. If. If this was. If Denver was on the other side and didn't meet Minnesota until the championship, I think Denver will be the champions right now. You know what I'm saying? It's just the. The luck of the draw and who you play. But, you know, Minnesota did beat them. They had their number the year before also, so. But, you know, I think that's really the only team that can beat them in a seven game series is the Minnesota Timberwolves.

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She's been absolutely destroying it. What a season for her. What a season in the WNBA. The W has gotten more press than ever, and it's really exciting to watch.

I know. And it's a time when she so dominant, right? She's so dominant, but she go be like. It's a time where the contracts are low, and, you know, our dominance is high right now. So it's, you know, and a lot of times, in a situation that although she's carrying, you know, she's the forefront of the WNBA. Most of the times. The people that's in the forefront don't get everything that they deserve as a forefront person. You know, I'm saying, I. LeBron James, I don't know. He probably bought, brought in, I don't know, close to a trillion dollars to the NBA since he's been NBA. At least. At least. And he's got, I don't know, $500 million in contracts, maybe $600 million in basketball contracts. You know what I'm saying? So the for the head face of the league doesn't usually get all the justice that he or she deserves. So. So I just hope it's not that. In her case, I hope they open up that bank. She break, you know, a crazy deal. But even the deal she break is gonna be not compared to the deal from 1020 years now from the average center, you know, all because of the work she's put in.

So MVP, for sure, 100%.

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Amazing. I love this. Love talking ball with you, brother. Last player I'm going to talk about is Rui Hachimura. I think that.

No, no, no.

All right. We can talk about Vando then, right, right.

That's the X Factor right there. That's the X Factor. Rui, he a good basketball player, but I don't. He's not the X factor to me.

Tell me why.

Actually, you know what? He should be the X Factor. Because he gets paid as the. As the X Factor should be. So, yeah, fuck it. We go put him X Factor. We go put him X Factor. That's what I'm expecting. He needs to do more. He needs to do more. His attitude needs to be way tougher. He has to come in like I'm the second option. Like that's has his mindset has to be. Yeah, it's ad. Here's the. Brian here is Austin Reeves. Here's Dlo here. But no ad getting it. I'm the second option. That has to be his mindset, you know. Cause they do need that. What made him successful that. That bubbly or Cal Kuzma, a wing with size that can put the ball on the floor. And people used to clowndez Cal cools because. Used to take some tough shots. But you need some balls like that. Because the same shots you take in a regular season. That look tough as the same shots you go take at the end of the game. You know, not just when you hot. Well cools the suit cools would be one for one for motherfucker.

Seven come down. Shoot. Has he three go in. Okay, two for eight. Don't sing back. Get an one. Okay. Three for 933 percent. That don't feel bad. Okay, cool. Hit another three. Four for ten. Next thing you know, you hit two more shots. Yeah, I'm a. I'm seven for twelve. That ain't too bad. I don't think Rui, you know, this past year and playing with him, I don't think he has attitude of. I missed seven the next one going in. So I think once he changes that, I think he changes. You know, him as a basketball player.

I think that a rational confidence is sometimes a very valuable thing in, or.

Delusional, however one you want to have it. Yeah, I agree.

And I think that. And that's kind of who you are as a person sometimes. Like, you see confidence.

I think that's got me going so far. Delusional confidence. Like, literally delusional. Like delusional. Yeah, I got LeBron Pat, who you want? Yeah, give me KD coach. Back to back garden dame. Yeah, give me steph, coach, who you want? Pat? Fuck it, coach. Just switch one through five. I can guard Yokich like this. Delusional confidence, like, it gets you. It gets you places where you didn't even know you would get there. So. Yeah, for sure. 100%.

Sometimes it's better to draft a guy who's, like, walking into the tunnel or sign a guy who's, like, wearing the pink sweater with the long sleeves or some shit, who's just like, I'm out here, I'm just fucking being myself, as opposed to somebody who might, you know, be in the khakis a little bit more workman type, Kelly Oobre types. Yeah. So somebody who has a loud personality, who knows who they are. Maybe they've been told they're great for a long time, and they. It's become who they are and they believe it. And I think that. I don't know how you instill that in a guy like Rui Hachimura.

I think. Yeah, yeah. I think that's a since birth type of thing. Or I. You challenge somebody, you know, somebody like bronze somebody with that type of pedigree, challenge them like, hey, man, we need more from you. You hear that from a motherfucker, especially from LeBron James. All you. You tighten up them jordans little tighter. Yeah, that motherfucker bounce will be that. The fast break won't be a motherfucker. Regular dunk. That muff would be a tomahawk slam. You understand? It's a difference.

We need the Tomahawk slams from Rui this year if the Lakers are going to get back to the playoffs, to get what they need to be deep into the playoffs. So, obviously, Vando is, you know, a guy who's, who can affect winning a lot, who, the contract is a big thing, and the, the injuries have been part of his story for sure. But, I mean, rui Hachimura needs to elevate there.

You gotta elevate and. And go to sleep every night with. Okay, cool, I missed it. All right, that's my shot, or, yeah, I made it. Oh, I'm not super hype. I'm not, whatever. That's my shot. Well, we play next. You know, he had, you need to have that. That type of attitude. But I think d logo. I think d logo make a jump this year, you know, I mean, he starts off slow. He drives up, you know. You know, middle of the season, he go through a shooting slump, and people want to put the worst out on, but my foe was shooting over 50% from. From three damn near the whole season. He shot the shit out the ball. He played his ass off this season. You know what I'm saying? It's probably one of his, you know, top three years, you know, playing basketball. So I think he go take the next jump. I think Austin Reeves go. Obviously, he always gets better, you know, so we have to see. We have to see what the. With the development, too, because Phil Handy ain't there no more.

Hmm.

You know, and I, you know, that's not discrediting anybody, you know? JJ Reddy go had him boys ready. But far as a developmental standpoint, Phil Hand. He was hands on, hands on. I've seen that shit every day with each player and that, you know, he's not with the Lakers, so I don't know what effect that has on any player, you know? But, you know, he won the top developmental guys in the NBA, probably in NBA history. Like, he has other guys who develop other players. Like, you know, see Hines from, you know, see Hines is under him. Who's the head developmental guy in Minnesota now who. Who's with Anthony Edwards. So, you know, that's, you know, see, uh, you know, feel handy. Feel handy. To see Hines is, see, you know, see Hines is a mentor, you know? So, like, you know, having. Not having Phil Handy matters a lot, too, so we'll see. We'll see. I'm excited. NBA gonna be lit as fuck this year.

Do you think Lebron is the type of guy to be. To go to a Rui Hachimura and be like, hey, get it the fuck together? We need more. We need this. We need Xyz? Or is his leadership style a little bit more passive?

I think it. I think that. I think he flirts with both of them. I think he does a hell of a job in getting the best that he can get out of the players. I've noticed with playing with LeBron that you just have to play. You can't worry about LeBron. Lebron, go get his. Just play. The more you just play, like, cool. You feel like you can take him off, take him. Shit. That take up the burden off the 39 year old. You know what I'm saying? He wants a motherfucker out there to go score 20. You know, if that's not happening and shit is drying up, he go try to turn into Superman and who he is, you know, organically and try to take over games. And, you know, most of the time he does. But, you know, why, why wouldn't the 30, the 39 year old player want a ton of help? You know, that makes his job easy, you know? So, I mean, you've seen him with USA, too. You know, he played some of his best basketball.

I also think that's what makes JJ Reddick such an appealing option for LeBron to add.

JJ Reddick, the last on the list type, hoops type. I don't know who put him on there. I've seen a coaching list. He was last on that muffin. Goddamn.

Well, watch. I mean, I bet. I bet that he'll be the type of dude to be like, you've seen. You've seen the way that he carries himself since he was at Duke, that he's not afraid to give somebody a hard opinion that he knows what the fuck he's talking about.

Be a great coach.

If Rui is having a problem, if Rui is, like, half assing it.

Lower speaker three. A great coach, he'll instill confidence and he's a. He's a. He's a respectable asshole. Like, he's just that. JJ Reddick. Yeah, I went to Duke. Yeah, I know what I'm talking about. Yeah. I know basketball. I know how to do things the right way. I know what hard work is. I've been the top person. I know what stardom is. I know what fame is. I've also been a role player. I know how the role is. I know how to bench is. I've also been hurt. I done been through injury. I know how guys feel. He is the perfect person to be a coach. Like, the perfect person and still had success in any role. He was given any role. He played with it. He played on a team for the white dudes and Europeans. He played on a team for the black niggas. You feel me? He didn't play with Dwight Howard. He didn't play with Joel Embiid. He knows how to work with biggs. He doesn't have Van Gundy as a coach. The hardest motherfucker. He done had coach K as a coach, another hard person. He done had Doc Rivers as a coach, another hard person.

So he also never changed in all of those circumstances never changed.

He had the same attitude. He spoke his same truth. He kept clean cut, shoulders back. Nice motherfucking collar. Boy was sharp every fucking way, too.

He got some tats, though. He got some tattoos, though.

He was thorough. I mean, I look at that as Lil Payne. Never hurt nobody, especially coming from a caucasian male. Respect the white boy with tattoos. Boy look like he done been through some shit. So, yeah, I like JJ Reddick. I like JJ Reddick. And he's not talking a lot. He's not in front of a lot of cameras. He is over there working, and I respect that. Shout out to JJ Reddick and the Lakers.

Could be a big X factor for the Lakers.

That's the X Factor.

JJ, Rui, we need. I like this series. I think that we should keep on going with the X Factor. I mean, not, not necessarily this episode, but, you know, continuing forward, bringing up X factors. I think it's interesting for people to see your insights as far as what teams need. For example, the Miami, Miami Heat need in a point guard. I think that that's.

Kevin Herder was my, was my first choice as X Factor. If it was the X Factor for Sacramento Kings, you know what you go get from the Fox? You know what you go get from Sabonas, you know what you go get from DeMar DeRozan, even if he ain't even put on a Sacramento jersey yet. Kevin Herder, that's the x factor for them. That's it. Because he's the, he's the one person who can put the ball on the four that can create, and I can shoot a three. You feel me? But he got a letter. He got, let his ba, double ls. You gotta let him hang a little bit. You gotta shoot some shots that, you know, and training camp. Some, some, some of them, some of them four point shots and miss and run back. Like, you know, I don't give a fuck. That's my shot. Like, he's the X Factor for that Sacramento team.

I also think he has that in there personality wise. Like, we were just talking about that with Rui. I think that there are, you know, shreds of that that we seen. Even when he was on Atlanta, where it's like, oh, okay. He, he doesn't give a fuck. Like, he'll give someone work and like, you need. You want to, you want to foster that side of it.

And really was hurt, too. He was hurt this past year because, you know. Cause we saw that in Atlanta. Like, we saw a glimpse of that in Atlanta, but he was hurt this year, too. So hopefully he comes back. He comes back healthy. But, yeah, he need to let them things hang a little longer for real. He got to, in order for them to be successful, has to.

How about our boy Woj?

Shout out to Woj, man. I mean, so I did podcast. Woj. Woj. Woj. And Chicago's been following me, man, since high school, college. I think he was the first person to drop my news coming from overseas. You feel me? Like, I did. One of my first podcasts I ever been on was with WOJ, right, to see the longevity, right, of his work, to still end up in basketball, right, to still be around a game he loved. He stopped. Dropped Mike to go to coach for the Lakers, or he. And dropped Mike to go Gm in the NBA. You know, he dropped Mike to go. Was that to a college team he.

Went to same bonaventure, is it something like that?

Yeah, you know, so that shows you, like, the love and a passion for the game, you know. And obviously he's seen a lot, been, you know, been around a lot. A great mind. Like, great mind. I mean, if it wasn't for Walsheen, it wouldn't be a lot of people doing podcasts, period, in sports. You know, he's the godfather. So you got to tip your hats off to Walch. May his career and, you know, in basketball be long as fuck as it will. He's a very intelligent man, but, yeah, he's the one who paved the way when it comes to podcasts and sports. So we wish him all the way up from the Pablo Pasa with Rome.

He left 20 million on the table. I saw.

Yeah, he looks like the guy that's not, you know, Faze. He's only, you know, when I sing Woj, I. Woj, man, you gotta get your ass on the pod, man. You want to. Want me to come on a pie, Pat? And you want me to talk about that other guy. I'm not gonna talk about the other guy. I know. Fuck that, man. Woji, we ain't got to talk about him, man. I just want you on the pod, man. Cause I just. I fuck with you. He all. Well, if that's that case, God damn it, Pat. Yeah, I get on your podcast, no problem. So, like, he's the type of guy that, you know, he won a billion dollar. He still go put on the same khakis, white and, you know, white t shirt with a collar shirt. He's that type of guy to me.

Go to Wendy's or something.

I wouldn't say Wendy's you know, I'm not gonna put disrespect or stains on my man jacket because Woj is the goat, but, you know, he's the type of person that, you know, and find the finer things in life, you know, not the, you know, walks on a park and, you know, how much is that ice cream instead of giving me the whole ice cream truck type five.

Very nice, very smart guy. So he's not a dick. People. People might accuse him of being a dick. Is he a dick?

No. Never. I never got those lives from ever, ever. Not one time.

Got it. It has to be a stressful lifestyle to be the guy that's always trying to break news. Stay one step ahead.

Yeah, for sure. Hey, look, check it out. So I have to ask the owner of our team, mister Ophir. I asked some. Hey, Mandy, talk to one of my teammates. I say, one. The captains of the team, Tamir. I say, man, I'm trying to see if owner man, we triple crying. I'm trying to see if owner give us a street in Vegas and throw us a parade. He pat, we went triple crown. He'll do it. He'll do it. Trust me, he'll do it. So, yeah, we trying to. Trying to get some championships and throw parade back in states in Vegas. Ro, I told him, you don't have to shut down the whole strip or give us a little side street. Shut down that motherfucker. Give us a couple busses. Yeah, catch a five. You know, they say he'll be down to do it, so I'm excited about that.

That's great incentive. You got to get the parade float right.

The parade flow in the States is fire.

That's a strip you want to be rolling down.

Yeah, a chill, chill, chill. Not too much, not too much, not too much, not too much, not too much.

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This weekend that I threw the nicest rap, right?

Yeah, the nicest. All compliment rap battles. And, man, everybody was coming up being like. Like, they're just loving it. They just know every clip. They're like, oh, he knows how LeBron feels. Like, he's like, everybody's just locked in. Like, all the rappers, the fans, everybody.

Is so potters worldwide wrong.

They're so congratulatory about the success of the pod.

I mean, it's. And it's getting bigger and bigger. Every city I go to, every kid I meet, every country I go to now, everyone knows about the pod. I mean, obviously, the vlogs, the, you know, they love you. They love your. Your. They love the way you come in and spit when we have guests and all that. Your insight from, you know, from. From being a fan. You know, I wouldn't put you as a casual fan either. I put you as a fan.

Thank you so from.

For being a fan, you know, knowing bald. No, I operates. They. They appreciate your literature. Yeah, the pod is a movement, bro. We just gotta keep going with a shot. The bar stool. We wouldn't be here without barstool. So shout out to Barstool. Fuck you mean?

Fuck you mean? Yeah, I'm in the coffee shop, people. Multiple people just waiting in line for the bathroom. Multiple people. I went to the Eagles game stop in the parking lot. People are like, get Pepe back in the city. Sixers need it.

Shout out to Philly. Shout, let's get my homie to hold you. Run. Do we have some more of that devil's juice back there? Mike, you stuck right there. I'm about to pull up some more of this devil's juice wrong. You got any, uh uh, uh, uh uh. High noons in there.

I got that. I got the body armor. I'll tell you that much. You don't want draided.

You don't want to pour up, uh. You don't want to pour up. No high noons with the kid, bro.

I do, but I'm trying to. I'm trying to enjoy a. Not a full sobriety journey, but a partial sobriety journey.

Okay, say less. How can I help?

Just be yourself.

Oh, you want me to drink some water?

No, I don't need anything from you. I think that being around people who are drinking and then making my own decisions on drinking and not drinking is the best way that you can exercise strength as far as sobriety. Like, you know, not just drinking because someone else is drinking and, like, being fine with somebody else drinking, but I'm not. I mean, it's not like I'm sober, but I can't pour up right now. Also, dude, surviving barstool starts next week.

Oh, yeah, I heard.

Yeah. Surviving bar stool is going to be incredible.

Who you got winning?

You know, but, I mean, if it wasn't me, who would you have winning?

Who's in it? Is a big cat in it?

Big cat's in it.

Big cat.

You think big cat has a. I think that he's a big threat. He was the first one voted out last season.

Yeah, but that's why, you know, you. You. You finish first or last, you come back with Avengers. And he's a. He's a guy. He's a very intelligent man, and he's a guy who puts it. He'll put his life on the line for this shit.

So, yeah, so you think big hack win it? How about an X Factor? Anybody that's less spider in it? Spider's not in it, but he won't. Francis is in it. Francis, X Factor Francis.

Yeah, he's. He's a silent killer.

Intelligent, athletic. He's a sneaky.

A great sneaky, athletic, sneaky athleticism.

I think he could Dunkin.

There we go. Who was the guy that say that? That was the guy that. Who played college basketball. Yeah, we have such. Yeah, this one for Titus, man.

Titus was the one who said Walsh was a dick. That's why I had to ask.

Yeah, yeah. No, we don't. We don't fuck with Titus then. Yeah, but don't disrespect my boy Walsh. Have some. See, you got to respect longevity, man. That's what's wrong with the kids these days. They don't respect their elders.

I think that his. I think part of his bone to pick was that he breaks news just two minutes before it was already going to be out.

So what, no one else does it? Well, Shams says no, he's merely second most of the time.

I think that it's going to open up an interesting spot for somebody else to kind of emerge as the second news breaking guy.

Ah, could that be us?

Interesting. I need to get your ass.

We got, we got, we gotta, we gotta get some contact. We gotta get you some contacts with some agents. That's where that comes from.

Is it? Agents? Gm's?

Yeah, I think it's the GM's. The agents, you know, those type of people, those type of vibes that can kind of get you that access through those doors that might seem closed, locked or abandoned.

Yeah. Like Zach Lowe and like Ryan Rosillo. They're always like, yeah, I just was getting some coffee with an NBA front office executive. Like, having these unnamed executives be on the Rolodex and just kinda of picking their brain and kind of having information to regurgitate and, you know, that's. That's the next step. I need to. I need to be having these high level conversations over coffee with guys who trust me, but I don't know if they trust me. You know what I mean?

No, I don't know if they trust you. Wrong. So, yeah, maybe we gotta just keep putting you in the media room to ask questions.

Yeah, get me in the media room.

You know what I mean? We had you in there today.

Let me stretch my legs in the media room. I want to get out there. I want to. I want to see, uh, you know, I want to see what the upside is. Um.

Did he.

Did he.

Let's just stay away from that.

You brought it up.

I know I brought it up because we have to talk about it. Like, we talked about everything because we are part of the culture also, so we have to talk about everything. No bail.

Yeah, he's locked up. He's doing hard time, man.

No bail is a real thing. I don't know if people are who don't know about the justice system, but you feel me? You know, unfortunately, I had some cousins and some homies locked up, you know, and some cousins and some homies still locked up. They give you no bail. They know some shit.

Yeah, I saw him getting dinner with his family in New York and stuff like that, gathering everybody. That. That was an ominous sign.

Tough.

Yeah, everybody. A lot of people are taking glee in his downfall. I take no glee in his downfall. I mean, teams like guys like Kanye and 50 cent are celebrating it. Thousand bottles of lube is too much lube, though.

Mean. And I'm a baby oil type of guy. Like, I'm not a lotion type of guy. I'm the type of guy who gets out and baby or, you know, mom, you know, I'm still wet out the shower, but I put the baby on while I'm still. Still wet. So when I wipe it off, I'm still shimmering. And you feel me? One bottle. Get me. See? Five, six months.

Maybe he was doing a thousand slip and slide. Maybe he was having a ky wrestling event.

And it's like, cool. It's like you want to, like, you don't want to hear about it, but then you want to hear about it, because you want to hear the small stories inside the big grand scheme of things. You know, the who's who and the oh, who was there and oh, man. Like.

Yeah, I hope that there's. I don't. I mean, I'm sure.

Possibility of someone tails or talks in this situation. How does this role. How does this work? I'm not familiar with the justice system, although I might be colored.

I don't know. A lot of insights about the story. I'm not sure exactly what parts are still going to be released, but I don't necessarily know the victims. Hopefully there's justice for the victims. That's how. I don't know who the victims necessarily are outside of the one heinous video that we saw.

Yeah, and that was heinous. Oh, Mandy. No bail, passports gone.

Act right, fellas. You know, everybody. That's a. That's a message for everybody to act right.

For real.

And that justice. Justice waits for. For no man.

No man. And what goes up, unfortunately. No, I know. Unfortunately, that should come right back down. And usually it come back down in pieces, too. It'll never come back down.

The way you threw it right on your head.

Yeah, yeah. And on your shoulder. And my little piece hits you under your chin, and a little piece hits you in your chest. And little piece skin. You need a little bit. Yeah, that motherfucker come down in pieces. Now, we can.

We could get to some NBA stores if you want to know.

I have a. I have a black and white question.

It doesn't matter if you're black or white, if that's the question. That's what Michael Jackson said.

Okay. I don't know if you can answer this.

I mean, that means I probably can't but go ahead.

Cause you're a married man, so I don't think you can answer this one.

I'm a married man. Like Robin Hood's boys.

My white versus black question is this approaching a white female and approaching a black female to go on a date, is your approach different?

I think black female, you gotta grab them by the arm, right?

No, no, no, we ain't doing that. We ain't doing that.

What?

We ain't doing that wrong. We ain't doing no groping, no grabbing out, no arms. We ain't doing none of that grabbing by arm. Now, I don't know what you pulling, hitting, fighting.

I think it's. Excuse me, miss, what's your name? I think that's the only way to do it.

No, no, no, no. I don't think. No grabbing arm, no physical touch, and they don't know you. I don't think that's the way to go. I don't think that's the way to start it off. That is some white shit. So, yeah, you might be right. You might be right. How do you know this answer?

I don't know, but if a black.

If a black guy just grabbed a white girl's arm.

Oh, yeah, lawsuit.

I'm. No, no, no. I'm talking about cancel and then lawsuit. Yeah, in the doe. So I'm trying to figure out, like, you know, how does it go for a white guy that approaches black female?

A white guy that approaches black female? I can have to defer to my white brothers.

Mike.

What did Chris Brown say?

We say Mike say he uses the what Mike say when he applies to jobs, he uses the same resume. Sure you do, buddy. Sure you do. Sure you do. Okay. Yeah, that was my white black. That's all I had. I see you can't come up with no answers for me.

I mean, I don't know. It's hard to. I feel like we almost need a woman's perspective on this because it depends on, I guess, what works.

Who. That black girl in the front office of Barstool when you walk in.

Ebony is on maternity leave right now.

I won't get her baby.

She had a baby.

Oh, that's what's up. Oh, boy, girl.

I think it was a boy.

Shout out to Ebony. First person I came at work, she greet, she slid me Henny. I say, oh, okay. Yeah, I like barstool already. Security. First, I seen white guy, black girl, I seen. Second, what's up, papier? Welcome to Barstool. You want a shot of Hennessy? Ah, damn. Okay, say less. She kept it harder.

She has it in the holster at all times.

Cheers. Congrats, lahaim ly man.

We were supposed to have Nardo Wick on today, but, yeah, we lost him at the last second. Because I want to ask him about one of his lyrics. I didn't know if it was a positive lyric. He said, I get money like I'm jewish. In one of his songs, which, you know, shout out to. Shout out to the jewish brothers and sisters out in Israel.

Yeah, shout out to the jewish community. Shout out to all the communities, though. You know, it's always love everywhere.

He also said something about putting it in her liver, and so I was going to.

I've been getting so many. I'm going to change that conversation. I'm beginning. So many. So much love from the jewish community, too, man. So much love. Like a bunch of people reaching out.

Mazel.

Yeah, you know, it's been. It's been tough, tough, tough. I learned how to count to ten.

Hit me with it.

Ephesus is zero. So I'm gonna go, actually, I know eleven numbers. Ephesus is zero. Ahad is one, Stein is two. Shalosh. Stein. Stein is two. Shalosh is three. Alba is four. Hamesh is five. Chase is six. Shalosh. No, shishdeh.

Chase is six.

Shisha. Six. Shava or shavar. Shiva is seven. Shimani is eight. Thy is not. That's why I said the shmoney dance. That's how I remembered it. Shimani is.

When did you learn this? About a week ago.

No, about a couple days ago. Thayasha is nine. I remember thayasha because I had a cousin. Her name was Ty'esha. So, okay, yeah, I know how to fuck that sound. And s of was ten.

Wow. Eleven numbers.

Eleven. Man, I only. And only took me one day.

I know that. That those numbers have too many syllables. I know that they can't hit that. 12345 678-234-5678 yes.

I'm learning a little hebrew over here.

Oh, yes, bro. Well, I'm gonna try to learn something just so I could keep up and communicate with you.

I love that. Dove. Dove, Dolph.

Tough. Talk to you, my bro.

Talk to you, my. My bro.

And, uh, we'll be back.

Hey, um, before we go.

Yeah.

I know they get tired of me hearing it, so can you tell someone to tell someone to tell someone else to subscribe to the motherfucking pod. And if you're a little kid, subscribe to the mother freaking pod. Kids, listen to your parents. Listen to your parents. Hey, look, speaking of parenting, I get a call from Spank's mom. Yeah, Pat, I got a. Got a call from Elijah. Teachers from school. They called actually, three times, like, they were. They were trying to get in touch with me. Usually it's a one call. They leave a message, call us back. I guess. They call three times. So it was, I guess, urgent. He's a class clown and gets great grades, though. He loud. He likes to make jokes. This, this, this. On the way to school this morning, I go, um, son, I know how you feeling, because in a lot of ways, I was the same way. But I've learned, son, that over the years, that. That's cool until you're being a distraction, until you're being. Until you start to get in trouble, it's cool until then, right? So understand, son, you can be all that. You can be the loud guy.

But, you know, no one told me when I was the loud guy that that was also the weakest guy. Also, you know, I don't. I don't think you're a weak man, so I don't think you should behave as one valuable lesson this morning. Valuable lesson.

That's one for the kids.

Yeah. Valuable lesson this morning. So hopefully he's not standing on tables as we speak and behaving himself like a young adult.

I'd love to see that. That's amazing that his name's Elijah, because at the Seder meal, don't they leave a seat for Elijah? That's very nice to have for your brothers and sisters in Israel. Hell, yes. Well, leave a seat for me while you're over there and shout to young spank behind.