episode 1

The conversation covers various topics, including recording a video, a trip to the Pennsylvania Grand Canyon, NBA news and rumors, and the in-season tournament. The speakers also discuss the behavior of NBA players and the possibility of expansion teams in Vegas and Seattle. All right, I guess I'm good. All right, I'm going to start my recording over. All right, so is yours recording now? Yes. All right, so I'm going to hit record on the control button. And once this gets going... All right, we'll just do a 3-2-1 clap. It's probably going to be off by like a second. Are you clapping on 3? You should be closer. I'm clapping on 3. Okay. All right, so 3-2-1 clap. Actually, I did it backwards. Yeah, I was like, hold on. Yeah. All right, I'll go 1-2-3, ready? 1-2-3 clap? Yes, 1-2-3 clap. 1-2-3 clap. All right, so you're a second off of me. No, I was right on that. All right, we're going to figure it out. We're going to figure it out. I was right on top. Boss. Okay, let's just... Let's just warm up. I've noticed that, like, in all the videos I've been trying to make, my first, like, two, three takes, I'm just like so wooden. Yeah. And it's always the last one that's the best one. Mm-hmm. So tell me about the Pennsylvania Grand Canyon, because I had no idea it actually existed. Yes, well... We didn't go to the, like, the Grand Canyon. It's just, like, a river in between two mountains and a bunch of trees and stuff like that. It's not, like, anything crazy looking. It's just mountains, a river going around the bottom of it. How far did we drive? To Cherry Springs was, like, five and a half hours. I think the Grand Canyon was an hour, like, towards coming back home. Mm-hmm. It was in the middle of absolutely nowhere. Who found it? She found it? No, one of her friends did. It was a while ago. We were talking about camping trips or whatever, and they said, oh, the darkest place in the United States is in Cherry Springs of PA. And they looked it up. It was, like, five hours or whatever. So, you know, let's do a weekend trip. I was like, sure. Got a little Airbnb cabin thing. It's pretty cool. Just you guys? No, it was us and three other couples, our friends. And your group? Yeah, but we drove, we carpooled with two, and then, like, everyone else came the next day. They came, like, Saturday. But when I first got there, we got there at night, obviously, and we went outside to look up at the stars. I was like, this shit's kind of whack. I don't see that many stars. But then your eyes eventually got adjusted, and then I just saw, like, the most stars I've ever seen in my life. I was like, God damn. But then my neck was hurting from looking up the whole time. I'm like, God damn, my neck's on fire. I mean, didn't you get something to lay down on? No, we didn't plan very well. I'm not going to lie. You should have just gotten some blankets. Well, we, well, we, there was, like, the, our Airbnb was next to this, like, park place where, like, everyone goes to, like, look at the stars. So there was, like, a visiting park or whatever that everyone went to. So we just drove up there at night because everyone was tired. We're like, no, we came here. We're going to go to this fucking park because that's why we came here. And then we just went up there for, like, we planned just to go up there for, like, a little bit. But then we stayed there for, like, I don't know, probably an hour or so. And we didn't bring any chairs or anything like that because we didn't think we were going to stay that long. But we did. And I was like, my neck's on fire. Like, I don't want to look up anymore. But it was pretty cool. Definitely. I haven't even, like, seen any NBA stuff this week, have you? Like, I don't know, I feel like- No. I've seen Valparaiso, and everything's just been quiet. Like, I haven't seen- Yeah, I feel like all the, like, the shows are, like, on break type thing. Like, First Things First, they haven't been on all week. I feel like NBA Today is using their, like, B-team type stuff, you know? Yeah. Who always suck. Yeah. Like, B-team always suck at, like, reaching for, like, something, like, controversial just to get a clip. Yeah, they're doing, like- Like, no one actually cares. They're trying to make the hottest of hot takes. I'm like, you just sound like an idiot right now. Like, stop. Yeah. I did see- You see the- Go ahead. I did see James Harden says he doesn't want to be an affiliate anymore. And I just saw he took off all, like, Sixer stuff from his social media. Wait, you straight up said that, like, in a tweet or in an interview? Uh, I think he's, like- I don't know where he- I don't know if he officially said it, but he took all his Sixers affiliation off his social medias, and he said he still wants to be traded. As of, like, last week, I think, he said. So, I guess he won't be here no more. I just- I don't know what we're going to get back from him. That'd be good luck. This is- James Harden was your favorite player for so long. This is, like, one of those things of, like, never meet your heroes. It's, like, never have your favorite player come to your team. Yeah, it breaks my heart. It breaks my heart. I had this man's back for a decade, and this is how he's doing me. For so long. You defended him for so long. For a decade. He wasn't my guy. Bought the shoes. Well, yeah. That was the only basketball shoes I got. Every single time he hit 40, it's like, Oh, that's not me. Did you ever hit 40 again? Uh, what a- You know, the strip clubs catch up to you. After sooner or later, you know? It is what it is. The strip clubs always win. They always win. They make your knees weak, you know? Lighten the pockets as well. Yeah. It's crazy, because him and Jimmy Butler are the same age, and Jimmy's still balling, and Harden is, like, just on a decline. It's so obvious, too. He's just not dedicated. I mean, how are you going to bring up the BS word? I mean, that's exactly what I'm talking about. It's got to be- That's even worse than, like, the bad luck we had of drafting Fultz and then Simmons, where we could have gotten, like, a brand-new Negro Marquette team or whatever it was. Just the fact that the organization picked that scrub over Jimmy. I mean, when Harden first showed up, it was like, All right, maybe something interesting could happen. Because it looked like Embiid was going to get a true, like, point guard that could also score points. And then, for whatever reason, this guy just decided, I'm just not about that no more. It just makes no sense to me. Because he can't do it anymore. That's why. He got old. His legs aren't what they used to be. You can't finish. That one, like, game in the playoffs against Boston, he's like, Oh, yeah, I can do this all over again. That's a lie. So that was a lie. Like, he's got no lift on his lamps. The man barely jumps off the floor. I'm like, Come on, bro. Do something. I told you, I remember seeing him when he came to play the Clippers when I was living in L.A. And, like, when he was Houston Harden and he was just doing his little dribble back and forth, like, you had absolutely no idea if he was going to step back or drive. Like, watching him live, you could not tell. Yeah. When he was really in the zone, it was impossible. He lost a step to now. He ain't getting those foul calls no more either. Can't jump like he used to. He's just on the down. He's just a passer now. I wonder what he's going to do because he's not going to get the big contract he wants. No. I don't see him ever pulling a Russell Westbrook, like, taking practically no money to stay on a good team. Like, I just don't see that in him. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know anyone who's going to give him a bag. Like, there's no way I'm giving him max money ever. Every year, he's just going down. Like, no. Be interesting. I mean, now with, like, all the rumors of what I heard, the possibility of us getting David Willard, like, the last thing I want is another aging superstar on a max deal. That's just, like, why can't we ever catch these guys on the way up? They will get him for, like, one year, and then he'll start getting worse. And his contract is massive. Massive. I think he has, like, what, $60 million in his last year? You know how terrible a contract that's going to be then? I don't even understand why the NBA does that. I mean, it's hard because you don't want to fill up your salary cap and then you want to be able to, like, find people to build around certain guys. But, like, the fact that you're at the tail end of your career and you're getting paid the most money, like, just doesn't make sense for anyone but that guy. Yeah. Yeah, the NBA contracts are strange. It doesn't make sense to me. They get paid way too much of this. It's crazy. I mean, they're generating so much money. So, like, it makes sense. Like, if the players don't get that money, then it just, like, goes to the owner. Like, what are they actually going to do with more money? Yeah, I guess. But it's still too much. It's way too much. I feel like also, like, if you're a star player, right, say, like, you're Luka, right, and you're getting paid $250 million, you know how, like, limited that makes your team. Like, I don't understand why some of these best players, like, you know you're going to make your money on endorsements and all that junk anyway. So, like, take, like, three quarters of that and help your franchise get more money. They get more guys, so you can win. Like, it doesn't make sense. Like, you're handcuffing your team to win, no, not win, you know? 100%. But then you, like, you're going to ask yourself, in your job, would you take less money for your boss to say, I can hire more people and you'll have to do a little bit less work, but you'll also make less money? Would you take that deal? Well, if I'm making $40 million and they say take $35, I'm like, sure. But I'm just getting, like, by your standards, right? We're in different places. Me and that NBA star are in different places. It's not the same. Apples and oranges. And also, I'm not getting money on the side. No. If you want to win, take less money. Help your teammates out. Yeah. Yeah. Like, I'm going to, like, have to work my ass off to score 50 points a game every playoff game. Exactly. Like, and I get to have an extra Lamborghini, or I don't get the extra Lamborghini, the extra house, and I get help. Like, don't complain that you have no help when you took half the team's cap room, you know? Yeah. Half the team's cap room, their firstborn and their wife's home. If you're getting half the money, you've got to score half the points. It is what it is. Yeah. Seriously. Let's just start holding them to that regard, right? Okay, whatever percent of the salary cap you want, that's how much a point counts. Oh, you make 30% of the salary cap, you need 30% of the points. I agree. I think that works. That's what I'm saying. We need to do, like, a PSA for all the players that just keep putting up these workout videos. Like, if you're someone like Tyler Hero, that's all the information. If that's all the important games last year, and you're posting on social media, like, year four or whatever it is, loading, like, we don't care. No. Like, we don't care about those posts anymore. Like, just get out there and actually play. If I'm not seeing it in a real game, I don't care. I've went through this road too many times with Ben Simmons, watching all this off-season nonsense to get hyped about anymore. We should just call it the Ben Simmons rule. Yep. The rule is, if you've been injured and you haven't played, or you haven't been showing out recently, don't post off-season workout videos. We do not care. Workout in silence, and then ball out when the fucking season comes around. Ball out in front of everybody, absolutely. Yeah. I agree. And also, Ben Simmons hasn't been doing that. He's just been posting videos of him lifting weights. The man don't care about basketball at all. No, he doesn't. He cares about dancing. No, he just wants to be famous. And then they'll dump him, and it's going to mess up his head even more. He's going to forget how to gerbil soon. That's true. My man's out there taking care of his horses. He ain't got time for that. With a dad bod. It gets me upset. Am I going to lie? I don't think this man's ever lifted a weight in his life, and he's just cooking everyone. Like, how? I don't understand. Uh, the Zion stuff's still going. We saw about the Zion stuff. You mean about the porn star? Is that real? I remember she was saying all that stuff about how he beats her and stuff, too. Like, this lady's going for it. She's going for all the attention she gets. I bet her videos have skyrocketed. No, no, no. That's not what we want. That's trouble. If I'm any other superstar and you're not seeing that, I'm, like, telling everybody to lose my number. Like, you know what? They were right. It's time for me to get wiped out. I can't be having that noise, messing with the money, the endorsements. Like, forget it. It's not worth it. You just got to be smart. Don't be messing around with porn stars. I mean, I think Stephen A did this thing a couple weeks back where he was talking about, like, why is it that you always see the ballplayers messing around with these kinds of people? And he was, like, when you think about it, if it's, like, a Wednesday, the middle of the day, which is, like, the only time maybe you have off from practice or you're not traveling for a game or something that day, the only women who are not at work doing a day job are these types of people. That's true. That is true. Like, when you think about a girl with a day job, like, she's at work. She can't come over and hang out. That's true. Unless they pay them. I'll pay your salary. I'll pay your salary for the week if you come over. Unless you pay them. Say less. That's another thing I could never do if I was one of these guys. Like, I could never just, here's $100,000. Come hang out with me. That's crazy. That's desperate. It's one thing if I was, like, okay, I'm going to a convo, like, do you want to help out the gym? That's one thing. But, like, she was complaining about how Zyme was supposed to send her $62,000, but it never did. First off, that's a very weird number to choose. 62, exact. It should have been 69. Nice. I mean, that's the very least. It was, like, charged by the minute. Yeah. We're up to $62,000 now. Well, $62,030. Well, that's my cutoff. $62,000. We're done. That's why they make too much money against Summit. See? They're just spending it willy-nilly. I mean, there's definitely got to be a point at some point in the future, the amount of money that these guys make, like, you could essentially own your own team. Like, LeBron probably will. Yeah. But if, like, the 10th best player in the league is making the kind of money where he's getting paid a quarter million plus per deal, like, what can you tell these guys, like, John? Yeah. I can do whatever I want. These guys could literally buy up, like, half the state. Like, you know what? This is now John country, and we're changing the laws here. I'm running for mayor and senator and everything. Like, this is my town now. Like, at a certain point, the amount of money you give them is just giving them way too much leverage. And, of course, they're not going to win. They've got so much power. It's absurd. And the whole city is behind them. Like, if you're the star player of your city, you own your city. Yeah, like, if I'm an owner of the team, you know how they always complain, like, oh, owners can just trade them whenever, so why can't players just ask for demand trades? It's like, because you work for the team. You signed a contract so they can do what they want with you. Like, if they don't want you anywhere, they'll trade you. Like, it is what it is. That's the boss and pulley relationship. Like, you and I could get fired whenever. It's just how it is. But because these guys make so much money, they feel they have so much more power, and they do because everyone's watching them, you know. There has to be, like, I empathize in certain ways with players. Like, you are traveling all the way around the country. You've got to perform every single night. You know you're on TV. Everything you do gets, like, viewed through a microscope. So, like, yeah, like, that pressure's got to be a lot. But at the same time, there's, like, certain things that should be hanging in your mind of, like, I'm going too far with this. Like, I've got a game tomorrow. I can't go to the club tonight. I have, like, this endorsement. I can't be messing around with these people. That could be potentially unstable. Like, at a certain point, like, I don't know, I feel like I knew that at 22, to be like, all right, like, I'm pushing a little far. I've got a final tomorrow. Like, you know, like anything. Just hold yourself accountable, you know. That's the other thing. Really, NBA players, that's one of their biggest issues is they have no accountability. Don't get up there on that press conference, and they'll blame every single person. The refs, the coaches, oh, my teammates didn't show up. Just like Embiid. What did you do, bro? Just like Embiid in game six. Oh, they didn't give me the ball. You're the star. Go get the ball, bro. Don't blame anyone else. No one's above it. Yeah. It's crazy. Honestly, though, it's weird. Like, I don't see guys like John and Neil Kitsch do that. I don't feel like I've ever seen them. Maybe they have, but, like, I feel like they don't complain as much. But some of these other players, man, it's crazy. Yeah. They'd much rather sit up there and just complain than actually put in the work. You guys talk about, like, all the new things. You talk about, like, everything I have is, like, outdated. Let's talk about the in-season tournament. That's, I don't, that's so stupid. No one cares about that. The in-season tournament might be the dumbest thing I've ever seen. Like, it doesn't make sense. It's so stupid. No. No one's gonna care. You think LeBron's gonna be, LeBron's not gonna be trying. It's all about the finals. Like, no one's gonna care about the little in-season tournament. If LeBron wins the in-season tournament and then loses in the finals, no one's ever gonna bring that up. They'll be like, oh, he lost in the finals again. All of a sudden, he's gonna make the biggest thing ever. The in-season tournament, you know what I mean? It's just, right? You just win championships. It's all about the hardware. They'll stop saying ranked and start saying hardware. Right? That's all we need. We just need them to buy in and for one person to feel like they're the man because they won it, and then everybody else is gonna watch. Maybe. Maybe. And, like, European soccer's the coolest thing. Even the teams that are not even in the Premier League, like the lower-level teams, want to face off against the big guys. That's why it works in soccer. If you mix the G League in, which I would love to see, imagine if they went to do the in-season tournament, but they did it with, like, a team that went beyond France. Right? Like, you take the best teams from Europe, the best teams from the G League, and you let them play up against NBA teams and winner take all at the end of that. That would be interesting. Yeah, if they do that, I'm for it. But an in-season tournament where everyone always plays each other anyway, like, I don't know, it's just redundant, you know? Yeah. Like, in soccer, don't they, like, play against people they don't play against normally? So that's the huge, like, that's the drawing point to it, you know? Like, oh, you're not gonna see this matchup ever, so, except for this in-season tournament. NBA. I'll see the Bulls and the Nuggets two, three times a year. Like, I don't, it's not that important. I was just gonna say something, I had something good on that. What else just happened? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. There's a ton of rumors going around about expansion teams. So, the two that I've heard is one in Vegas and one in Seattle. For sure. Yeah, I can see both of those happening. Which, I mean, both of those are, like, West Coast teams, so, like, I don't know, they'd have to add another one to these so I don't know how they would do both. The real issue for me, though, is, like, there's already so many teams at the bottom that I don't care about. Like, why would we just add two more teams that are going to be at the bottom of the league that no one cares about? That's true. And those teams can be bad for a while. The only incentive here is for the league to make more money. I'm like, oh, well, you know, here's two more opponents, two more drafts, two more drafts. I'm like, oh, well, you know, here's two more opponents, two more jersey sales, two more re-entries to allow, etc., etc. But, like, I think it's cool for, like, maybe those cities that, like, want more sports in their town. But at the end of the day, like, the same way I'm not watching any Hornets games or Magic games, like, whatever, like, it's just the same. It's just more like cannon fodder, you know? Filler. Filler. But I could see them definitely wanting a team in Vegas because they do a lot in Vegas already with the summer league and all that. So, yeah, I could... That would be pretty big for the league, though. A Vegas team. It would be pretty big. And, like, that's probably one of my top places that I would want to play. Oh, for sure. Harden's... He's going there immediately. He's raising his hand. Can you take me, please? Take me, please? Yeah. He's like, you know, we're not going to sign any new contracts. I'm going to be a free agent. I'm going to test the waters. The moment Vegas is official... Vegas needs a... Yep. Vegas, they need a big name to start selling. Harden's the guy. Strip clubs for days. You don't have to win. Just ball out. That's his spot. That's where he's going. I wonder how the Raiders players are doing. I wonder if any of them have gotten into trouble because I haven't heard anything. I'm not sure. I haven't... I haven't heard too much besides the Henry Rhodes thing years ago. Yeah, that's dangerous. Yeah. Especially young kids. It's like every team is going to fly into Vegas before that multiple times a year. Yeah, there could be a lot going on there. If you had your pick on any team around the league that wasn't the Sixers, who would you pick? Hmm, I mean... It's got to be the Lakers, right? They're the biggest name. God. I mean... I didn't think you would say the Lakers. I thought you hated them. I'm trying to make money. They're going to give me money. You're trying to make money. If you're trying to not only make money, but like... I mean... to clap. Yeah. They're the most known team worldwide. You know? Easily the biggest name worldwide basketball team. Purple and gold's iconic. Yeah. I mean... There's really no other. I feel like the Knicks is like a close one for me. Yeah. And all the team that plays in Madison Square Garden. That's pretty dope too. Yeah. That would probably be the one too. Even though the Knicks have been irrelevant for years and years and years, people still talk about them for some reason. Yeah. But it's kind of exciting too. It's like, to build up the Knicks to actually be what you want them to be. That's also interesting. Yeah. Right? That would be a great donor. We'd win every year. I've been practicing for years on 2K Summit. I got this. I pretend to be a donor every year. Rebuild multiple teams. That time of year, where we're just getting inundated with ads for next year's game while we're playing. The current year's game. The current year's game. Every time you fire up the game 2K24, you want to buy it? I don't know anything about it. Why would I? Nobody else does. No. It's just these guys. Yeah. And it's crazy. You can boot up any other game and immediately get fed an ad for like, hey, you want to pre-order next year's game already? You know what you do when you first fire up a game? You push X to continue, and these guys put that button up or the screen, and you push X to go straight to the pre-order. I'm like, you're just trying to be sly. I don't want this. If you're in a hurry and you press X twice by accident, you're confirming. You're right in there. I just want to get into the neighborhood or the city. You're spamming X. You're like, ah, I just bought 2K24. And not the normal edition. You bought the deluxe edition because that's what they're putting on there. It was a default to the champion edition. They're very presumptuous of you, 2K, that I'm going to spend for the most expensive version. Here's $100. $120. Take it. I don't need it. I can't wait. 2K is like that old superstar that's like, yeah, but I've earned that money, right? Everything I've done for you guys, pay me the big bucks. They're really living off past years. But this year wasn't too bad. We'll see what happens with 24. That's not the neighborhood. You can believe that what you want, but that's not the neighborhood. Ronnie, you mother... What a lie. Straight lie. We've seen it in the trailer. How are you going to tell me that's not it? Oh, my God. I can't stand that guy. There's got to be some kind of lawsuit out here somewhere. You've just lied to millions of people that that was not the neighborhood, and in fact, it was. The exact same as last year. What are you saying? Also, what's so funny about this guy? He's in meetings with the development team who probably showed him, hey, here's a version of the park that we're working on. It's not ready. And so he sees the trailer for that year's game, and he's like, that's not the park. That's not what you want. Like, bro, you're releasing the fact that we're going to get something new. You just leaked it a year early. That's you. He's like, that's not what I saw, but... That's not what I saw. And you know, they're always trying to get people. We just had Kobe on this cover, what, two years ago? And now we're putting him back on again. Whenever they can, they get that money. Which really bothers me. I hope Vanessa and his estate signed off on that. I hope they didn't just, like, yeah, yeah, 2K24, Kobe here. I'm sure they had to, like, they're getting a percentage or something. You can't just not... They can't use your rights without your permission, right? It depends on how they structured that deal. Sometimes you can, like... When you're a player, you have to sign away your right to be in the game. That's why Charles Barkley is in the game. Because he knows that games like 2K24 will only go to the top players, like the legends that people care about. And so those guys get paid every time that they're featured in the game. And so he refuses to sign over his likeness because he knows so many guys that are, like, quote-unquote, like, no-name that never got that opportunity. And so they just have, like, the generic face campaign or whatever. So it depends. Kobe's estate, or even Kobe when he was alive, 10-year deal, yeah. They're trying to play that sensitivity card. Get everyone in there. I mean, I'm gonna buy it. I'm a sucker. I'm part of the problem. Could be heroin. 2K. That's why we need NBA Live to come back. One day. That would be the best. It's been a long time. And, like... I kind of wish, like, you were totally a free-to-play player. So, like, really... Like, I would happily give EA $70 for all kinds of, like, different things, like customizations, like whatever, like Fortnite style, if they were like, you know, this is gonna be a free-to-play for forever. Like, here's my money. Anything to not give my money to 2K, I will do. In fact, if EA was like, we haven't released an NBA Live game in decades, it's gonna be $120 day one. Be like, cool. If it's not going to 2K, you have it. There you go. It's like, we just need competition. We need something. We do. We do. This conversation is not going great for when 2K hopefully starts with this one. Yeah. We're keeping it real. That's what they like over there, you know? Keeping it real. Keeping it real. Maybe they'll just forget, you know? Maybe. They won't know. That's not the point. That's not... That wasn't me saying that. You can believe what you want, but that wasn't me. Um... We gotta do the Jabari Parker one. Jabari Parker? Yeah. So I'm just gonna tee it up saying like, Jabari Parker has had a really great summer league, and I'm just gonna let you do your thing. Okay. You're like, cutting out a little bit. How's your internet? Uh, it's good, I think. Okay. Jabari Parker. Wait. Is that his name? Is that his name? Jabari... Oh, Jabari Smith. Jabari Smith, yeah. Like, Jabari Parker was on the book. Jabari Parker was the guy that was a dud. Yeah, yeah. I mean, he was decent. But then he toured... He played field twice. Yeah, Jabari Smith Jr. There we go. How good do people actually get if you don't say Jr.? I wouldn't. I don't know. Jabari Smith Jr., yeah, you're right. Okay. Wow, I wouldn't straight up say Jabari Parker. He would've been a fuckin'... Idiot. ...fuckin'... Idiot. I was like, Jabari Parker, I'm pretty sure he was, uh... In the NBA draft. The man toured two ACLs. Yeah, he was on a bunch of different teams and just never ended up being anything. He toured his ACL twice and that was it. He was supposed to be the next Melo. Crazy. Yeah. He had the body for it. Um, Jabari Smith Jr. has been having a great summer, Lee. That's what happens when you buy some VCs on the... You know? What do you mean? You get your skill points up so you can score 30 a game in summer, Lee. And then the second thing you do is you get some tattoos to make yourself look cool. And my man did both of them. He went straight to his mom's... He went straight to his mom's wallet, took that credit card, bought some VC, upgraded his game. Now he's a star. Just like that. Overnight. He went from a brown shirt last year to now a baller this year. That's what you gotta do. You gotta pay to get good. He got rid of that brown shirt? No one wants to play with a brown shirt. But you get some tattoos, some sleeves. You're like, oh, this guy's gotta be good. And you put some skill points in there and you're good to go. No one's hopping off the got neck spot when he pulls up. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That makes sense. Oh, we can talk about the Britney Spears slap. Yeah, your boy Wemby. Did you hear about that Britney Spears slap by Wemby's security? Yeah, Wemby's a big shot now. He's turning down the queen of pop. Like, what are we doing? I didn't know if it was Wemby. I think it's more like the security guys should know what's going on. Nah. Wemby's gotta recognize that's Britney. What's going on? He's got, you know, he's doing things. He's in the summertime. He's the star of the show. Like, for all he knew, that was like some random mob from the Midwest. Like, oh my god, let me get a picture. No, you're recognizing Britney. It's Britney, bitch. Are you kidding me? Yeah, that's fair. That's fair. Did we attempt to join the Wemanyama nickname? I don't know. Also, hold on real quick. Did you see your boy Wemby? It was a video a while ago of him clanking midis. Yeah, yeah. The jumper broke. It was a photo op. You weren't actually going for it. He was throwing bricks up like he's Ben Simmons. That's not a good look. Whoa, whoa. Okay, that's too far. That's too far. Okay? Just saying. He's already made more threes in summer league than Ben Simmons has in his life. That's true. That is true. He'll be fine. You know, first day jitters. Everybody's a little nervous their first day putting on the uniform. You know what I mean? You're out there with all the season ticket holders. Everybody's screaming and hollering. San Antonio. There's a bunch of American people yelling at him. I'd be nervous. Bunch of hillbillies. Yeah. That southern brawl. I saw, I forget. I'm not going to win any fans in San Antonio. Dang. It works for Charles Barkley. It'll work for us. There's some big ladies down there eating some churros. You know what I'm saying? Ah, delicious. I can't blame them. I'd be 300 pounds too if I had those churros. I saw someone. I forget who said it. It was one of the sports people. I forget who. I wish I remembered. But they said Bol Bol is more ready for the NBA than Victor Wambayama. I'm like, what are we doing? What are we doing here? That guy's not, he's terrible. He's terrible. You cannot say he's going to be better than Victor. I think he got picked up by the Suns. I'm pretty sure. They're like, oh, he's going to be, he's more NBA ready than Victor. I'm like, no. He's ass. Let's be real. I can't wait to see Chet and Victor go at it this year. That'll be it. Chet's going to be, I was first. This is supposed to be my hype. You're stealing it from me. This is like that Soulja Boy meme. He's stealing my entire flow. That was me. I was the tall guy. I was very skilled and everything. The tall, lanky guy. But at least Victor's better looking than Chet. Because he is one ugly guy. He's never going to be a star. Chet's never going to be a star because he's too ugly. I don't make the rules. It is what it is. You can't be that ugly and be a star. I'm just the voice of the people. And they're telling me, you're too ugly to be a star. No one's going to be buying a poster of Chet. I don't want that hanging in my room. It gives me nightmares every night. I have a heart attack. A skeleton. The Slender Man coming after me. What are we doing? That should be that dude's Halloween costume. It just shows up as Slender Man. It would be terrifying to all the kids. They have to wear a chest mask. I hope the parents are better looking. But they're probably not. Let's be real. If they made that. Every now and then, you pop out at Dad's by accident. I'm sure his mom and dad are fine. Not everyone's batting a thousand, I guess. No, definitely not. I can't think of the last big superstar that was just hideous to look at. Try again. Yeah, okay. Looks like a drowned rat. Yeah, wow. You actually nailed it. You should do something with that hair. I think he takes pride in it. I think he likes that everybody hates his hair. It's terrible. And he's got that little stringy, goatee thingy. What are we doing, bro? It's not working for you. It's not working. You need a whole makeover. You know how much I watch F1 with my family. There's this young driver that I like. His name is Lando Norris. You know how I love the name Lando, too. He's been stuck in this, like, little soul patch situation. He's a real, like, baby face type dude. My soul patch condition is not helping him. It's not great. Just gotta, you know, lean into what you're good at. And just be clean shaven, you know? Just be clean shaven, you know? Not everyone can pull off a beard, you know? Not everyone can do it. Sometimes you just gotta let it, you know, let it go. If you don't got it, don't try to force it. You gotta wake up and shave every day. It's a terrible life. I don't envy them. But you'll just look even dumber if you try to grow it. It's bad. It is bad. And I have some younger cousins that are trying to grow some beards right now, and it's awkward, and I give them shit for it all the time, and it feels great, you know? You know, you just gotta be honest. Sometimes the truth hurts. Yeah. You know, that's the problem with the youth these days. No one's told them the truth. They're all just, like, lying through each other's teeth, just like, oh, you look fine, don't even worry about it. Nope. It's like, nah, bro, you cannot grow a beard. And whatever that is, that's good to go. You're just saving them a lot of misery in the long run, you know? A little pain now saves a lot in the long run. Somebody should have been a lot more painful to Benson. Yeah, he was coddled growing up. He was told he was the prince. He never did anything wrong. The thing is, like, I love that nickname. It's a good nickname. It was wasted on him. It was so wasted on him. Absolutely wasted. I think we should start calling him Maxi the Fresh Prince. I feel like we should start that. That's not bad. That's not bad. He deserves it. He's got that joy, you know, that presence about him. That ain't bad. He just needs to be, like, if he takes another leap, for sure, the Fresh Prince. And he plays in Philly, so it's perfect. Yeah. He deserves it. Um. All right. Let's try to get that Victor Wiminyama one time. Try to think of how to, like, tee it up to keep it natural. I think I'm going to suggest that Victor Wiminyama needs a better nickname. That Wimby is Lazy. That's a solid nickname. It's solid. But, like, I think we can do better. And so I'm going to say that we have three alternatives that we want to present to the NBA community. And the three that I'll say will be the one Ambassador, because we had Tim Dunk. Not Tim Dunk. Dave Robb, who's going to be the Admiral. Mm-hmm. And then I have a couple others, which is, like, one being Demigod. Right? Yep. But I think you have good pushback where you're like, let's see the guy who actually plays as a Rick Hall Demigod. That's true. Right? But at the very least, Demigod fits in with, like, the 2K crowd. Like, don't let your guard down. Mm-hmm. I also thought of the Mythasaur, which I pulled from Mandalorian. The Mythasaur. The Mythasaur. How does that sound? Does that sound weird? Sounds, uh, the Mythasaur. Sounds like a little, uh, tongue twister type thing. You know? Sounds like I've got marbles in my mouth. The Mythasaur? The Mythasaur. I think I've got marbles in my mouth. The other one was going to be Stretch God. Stretch God? Hmm. That's okay. Half Giant? Half Giant? No, I'm out on that. One Mythasaur. That's a clever one. If he played for the Raptors, oh my God, that would be something. I'm going to say, instead of saying that we have three, I will say a couple of them. Mm-hmm. And then you react just like you did. And then I'll say, now here's the best one. I'll say, I have a couple, and I'm going to say the best for last. And then you immediately go, no. Do not say your best. I know your best. And then I'll try a couple of you, and then I'll do the best one. And then when I say, Randy, I'm your mom, I want you to either just, like, be really pissed and leave, or just, like, go like this. Whatever it is, it's like, you've got to be embarrassed about us doing this, if you're embarrassed for me that I said this. I think that's the funniest one. Because in that moment, like, when you react, and you're going like this, and you don't say anything, and I'm just smiling at the camera, that's, like, the last three. And we'll just cut to clip at the end of that. You know what I mean? So we'll try a couple things. Maybe we'll try it again a different day, too. Mm-hmm. Because I feel like this one's going to do really well. All right. So... All right. So, obviously, the whole NBA world is talking about Wendy Allen. Mm-hmm. We already have people on ESPN calling him Wendy. I feel like we can come up with a better nickname than Wendy. It works, but it's just, like, I don't know, it's just a little bit lazy to me. It's solid. And also, well, you know how Winhurst's nickname is Wendy? It's a little similar to that. That's true. Yeah. Wendy and Wendy. It's close. Probably. No. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I don't know if they want to hear it. That's not for me. The Wembassador. Right? We had David Robinson as the admiral as the Wembassador. You could just say Ambassador as well, just like, you know? Ambassador, yeah, I could feel that one more than the Wembassador. Yeah, yeah, yeah. For all the 2K guys out there, I mean, we just call him Demi-God. Yeah, but we got to wait to see if he's actually a Demi-God. You know, he might just be a string bean. Yeah, no, that's fair. He's got the body type to be the Demi-God, but we have to see if he has the skill, you know? I'm not feeling that one. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, I did a little early. That's on me. That's on me. I want to see how well this video footage actually comes up. Before? When I go to edit this one before we finalize that one. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That was a practice run, trial run right there. That was a trial run, you know? Yeah, yeah, for sure. We'll call it there. I'll check the tape, see how it looks. And then I'll also, you send me this voice clip. I'll line it up and see how easy that works. This software we're using right now is supposed to make it easy for us to cut clips really easily for TED Talk and everything, so we'll see how that goes. Next time we film, let's try to do definitely more NBA stuff. Yeah. We'll do some stuff in the news. Hopefully there's news. We're going to do some more name stuff as well. Yeah. We can also drop the nickname thing. We can just do the nickname thing for fun and change the name entirely. I feel like it'll all come down to the first, let's say, ten clips we put out there. We've been going for 15 minutes. I feel like we could easily pop out six clips of what we just did. Probably get a couple. Yeah, for sure. But we'll see what kinds of things are hitting with people. Do they like it when we're talking shit? Do they like it when we're just cracking jokes? Are we just the guys that talk shit and roast every NBA team and NBA player? That might be us. I'm good at that. Do we talk about other random things, too? Do we talk about fucking dating? Do we talk about random stuff like that? So we can get rid of the whole Mark Keenan thing as well. It's such a good name, though. What did you say? I said it's such a good name, though. Yeah, it is a good name. Yeah. I mean, we can keep it. I feel like we don't have to lean into the name thing as much because I feel like it's more fun to just talk about the stuff that we're into. Freestyle. But certain stuff, like the Margot Robbie one I still have on my list. Oh. Margot Robbie, which I wish, had we started this a month ago, and we were in the rhythm, this week or last week, people were talking about Margot Robbie as mid. What would we be doing? We could have very easily have done a Margot Robbie video, and it would have popped up on everyone's algorithm, maybe. Yeah, I did see that. So, like, that's the other thing. Yeah, I was listening to the sports radio or whatever, and they were talking about how people were saying Margot Robbie isn't that attractive. I'm like, what are we doing here? People are crazy. Yeah, what are we doing? Like, come on. I don't know if it's just, like, a bunch of, like, deprived men that are, like, trying to talk themselves out of it. It's like when you're on that diet, you're like, I don't even like pizza that much. Yeah. You miss the shit out of it. It doesn't even taste good. Don't want it. Yeah. We'll, uh, we'll work on it. Can you think of just, like, funny shit for us to talk about? Let's try to, what is it, Thursday? Mm-hmm. Let's try again, like, Monday or Tuesday night. Okay. Should be fine. Sound good. Um... You're working this weekend, right? Uh, Saturday, yeah. Unfortunately. Um... You're not going to be on tomorrow, right? You guys are going to be on tomorrow? I think I should be on tomorrow, actually. You're going to be on tomorrow? I should be. You haven't gotten in the wreck for a while. Yeah. I think I'll be free tomorrow, because I think she has, like, a friend thing to do. All right. Okay. I'll probably be around. Get in that wreck and get angry. What did you say? Say, get in the wreck and get angry. Yeah, just, you know, behave our lives. As is tradition. All right, so go ahead and, uh, I'm going to hit stop record on that. On, uh... On the video thing, which is probably going to cut us out. So, just end recording on your voice.