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All right, so, guys, we live in an amazing city, and it's true. It's the best city on the face of the planet. And we have a lot of weird things about our city that make it beautiful. Jess is like a new resident to the city. There's a lot of things that we've showed you. There's a lot of things that you've learned on your own about Miami.

Rockin'rib rolls, my girl.

So what I did is I teamed up with some of the people around here and made something that I'm very proud of. It's called Tony tonight. And we're going to go to different places around Miami and just kind of give you what the feel is for these places, because there's a lot of places that you've heard of, a lot of places that you haven't heard of that are off the beaten path that you would never know. If you're not from here, you wouldn't know about. There's even people in these studios that don't know what I'm about to show them. So I'm really excited. This is the debut episode of Tony tonight. Let's go see the real Miami, my Miami.

Let's go.

Kalito.

Amo. You know, we're in Miami because it was just sunny, and now there's gale force winds and it's absolutely pouring. We're in the entrance of Hayalia, one of the most important cuban cities in all the world, the highest population of Cubans outside of Cuba. And if you're from Miami, you know, you want good drivers, you're not going to find them here. You want affordable housing, you're not going to find it here. You want people that speak English, you're not going to find it here. This is the entrance to it, by the way.

All right.

We're still here in Hayalia, but we're at a very special place. It's called Nyoque varato, which in Spanish literally translates to, damn, that's cheap. And if you look around, you find everything here. We've got a pharmacy back here. You can find socks. You can find clothes. There's batacasas. We'll get to that soon. There's statues back here. There's things for parties. Where else can you find a place that can give you a shirt for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, if that's what they're still called. And the Texas Rangers. One fan, two teams. I love that you can find everything here. And by the way, I brought a friend, Billy gill. Look at this guy. You like the Giants? I do. I'll take that. They're all the same color, though. Do you like the rockies? I do.

Okay.

Do you like the Iowa Hawkeye? How did something from Iowa make its way to Hialeah? Can anybody explain that to me? This place is awesome. What cuban thought. You know what we'll do to sell? We'll sell an Iowa Hawkeye's jersey in the heart of Hayaleah. Jayhawks, rock chalks. This is incredible. Let's go find some more stuff. Here's the plan. Me and you, we're gonna go our separate ways. We're gonna find the most cuban thing we can in Mioke Barrato. Go our separate ways, come back, find it, and then show it to each other and race. You want to race?

No.

Okay, then let's take our time.

Go.

Los fado galito. Bamo. Let's start off here. Ola catal badagasa is like a house dress for ladies, for older women. So anytime you go to anybody's grandma's house, you'll see them wearing this. This is going to get paid for.

By the company, so we can get anything we want.

A pair of big ass heidi whiteies. Okay. Shark fishing shirt, right? This I just like.

Do you like white, or do you.

Think we should get yellow?

Let's get yellow.

Yo, what are you doing here?

Miami Heat?

You need a 360 brim, brother.

This is a seashell toilet seat.

Look at that. This guy's working on the farm. Dude, I love that. But not cuban enough. Your kids wants to be a chef, we got it. A little businessman, a little leader.

Hoses.

He's got it. Garfield travel tissue. We even have the medieval sweatsuit. Not cuban. When you have the cuban link chain with the Salazaro piece on it with a huge buckle, that's how you know it's fire. Oh, hey, atwe indian chief of the taino people of Cuba. An atwe ring.

That's super fire.

I feel pressure.

Now.

This is an authentic domino table. You can find.

There's one of these in the front.

That has an 18 wheeler on it. This thing is heavy, dude. That's how you know it's good. But it's kind of heavy, so I'm not going to take that. $139 neo Kevarado. I like these. I miss 2019. This is a Cuba baseball jersey. This is double. This is double points. Me and Lewis are going to go over and find what Billy has.

Bro, I really like. Yeah, those are good.

These are worn with shorts? Yes. These are not worn with pants with no socks. Somebody's wearing that to a family barbecue. You got two linen shirts.

This is like the Jerry Seinfeld.

Like the blouse, but, like, the cuban version of it. That is. Billy, what'd you get?

Wow.

Cuba baseball jersey. Is this official? Is that an official, authentic jersey? Yeah. The letters come off of it. Can't wash it.

Cool.

I got a shark shirt.

This is one of the things that I got, too. Somebody would be wearing this on the boat. 100% boat day.

Big chill.

Somewhere in the keys. Your uncle's wearing this and not wearing any sunscreen because he's wearing this. It would be cliche for me to say that. The cigar table, even though that's an.

Amazing one, there was one with an.

18 wheeler on it, which is great. You want me to go get it? I can get the. Go get it. So strong. Thank you. All right, boys. This is the 18 wheeler one.

Yeah.

And the beautiful thing about this is that this is such cuban culture.

Cubans love ratra, and they love, like.

18 wheelers and taking hauling. Do you love 18 wheelers?

Yeah.

Thank you. That's three out of three.

I love 18 wheelers.

Thank you for watching Tony tonight. Carito, cut the block.

Tony, we got to get you into every weird nook and cranny of Miami. Jessica, were you jealous that you were not allowed to go along and get some knickknacks for $3 that you'd never usually want?

It's my fault, though.

So you're not jealous? You're not jealous that you weren't invited on the excursion?

She's to blame.

I would have liked for you guys to see Nyoque varato together. It's an iconic american institution.

Good thing is it's still standing, Dano. And will be to the end of time. Nothing could stop it from existing. So we'll take just there one day.

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So the reason I brought Amin here to New York City, to this table was not to talk about what I think we have to talk about. In the course of talking about the thing I wanted to talk to him about. That's a lot of, I mean, everything that's been happening to you this week, you're a viral Internet celebrity, which we'll get to. I want to bury that lead because actually, what I wanted to talk to you about is Ramadan, because I feel like I don't appreciate what it is that you and lots of athletes, let alone gas bags, are doing right now. So can you give us, like, a Ramadan for dummies? Is that a thing you can help with?

I've done this every year since the pandemic. I had a video that I did during the pandemic, and I always post it at the beginning of Ramadan. But I'll give you guys a spiel. 30 days, sun up to sundown, every single day. You can't eat, you can't drink, you can't smoke, you can't ingest anything. You can't engage in any sexual acts, which is this. That's just the physical part, but the mental part is you have to be kind of a nicer, better version of yourself.

That's your challenge.

That is a huge, honest to God, that is the hardest part for me is just to keep my mind pure and not to be kind of reactive, especially as that's when you're hungry, your nerves get on more on edge, a.

Lot easier, which I've learned from marriage and Snickers commercials.

There you go. Exactly. That's right. But, yeah. So the idea is you do this for 30 days, and it is meant to do a lot of things. One thing, it forces you to focus and be a better version of yourself. Another thing is it puts yourself in the shoes of the less fortunate. People who can't get something to eat whenever they want or can't get something to drink whenever they want, but are.

Allowed to be if they want.

Yeah. I mean, yes, but that's because that's their 365. The way I was talking to Byron was one of the guys who works, and I was telling them, my philosophy is for 335 days a year, I'm a piece of shit. So for these 30 days, I try to be like what I should be every day, but I'm not. So it is what it is. But it is an interesting thing because as you go through it, you meet different people and you're like, oh, you're fasting, you're muslim, or whatever. And that is a cool feeling when you discover, oh, someone else is going through this same shared experience.

Right.

I realized as I was sipping my I don't brew and oat milk.

So this is a great segue to one of the number one things, like, oh, my God, I'm so sorry.

Are we cartoon steaks to you Amin on the desert island of Ramadan. Is it all you see? A literal tall glass of water when.

The sun goes down?

You can eat. Yes. And drink and sex.

Can you?

Sex. Which is the best time? Probably.

I'd argue sex. This is the funny part. So sex. Yes. If you're married. Right? Because that's the rule in general 365, right. You're not supposed to have premarital sex. You're not supposed to have extramarital sex.

Sure.

So for some people, they just go, letter of the law. Like, can't have sex during day. During night, I can have sex. I'm of the belief that I'm trying to do everything right. So I don't do anything sexual in nature for 30 days. Not even a solo act? Not even solo acts.

Well, yeah. And then you have to wake up and be nice.

And then I got to wake up.

For 29 more days. That's wild.

Yeah.

How far into it are we now? Currently?

This is day nine.

Oh, my goodness.

So we just finished week one. Yesterday was eight day. The first Monday after the first Monday we started, and I have dropped six.

Pounds, just like my invisalign.

We're on the same, you and I. We're not so different when it comes to, again, the thing that I go to, which is, like, what are you craving the most? Does that change over the course of these weeks?

So it's weird, because for the most part, I don't get hungry. I really don't get hungry. I do get thirsty, especially when it's in the summer months. And given what I do for a living, I talk all day. So thirst does become an issue at some point. But for the most part, I don't get those cravings. But the weirdest thing, like, I'll be watching TV, and then a red robin commercial will come on. I'm like, oh, my God. I don't never wanted to go to Red Robin. I've never demanded to go to Red Robin. But a red robin commercial will come on, and I'll go crazy. There's this new thing that little Caesars has. I don't know if you guys have seen them. They're like these mini pizza puffs or whatever. They're supposed to be the new, like, the Popeyes chicken sandwich craze of 2024. And I'm looking at them.

Yeah, I'm looking these up, and I'm.

Like, oh, my God. I just want, like, a full tray of them and just open my mouth like a pelican and just take it into my gullet.

Of course we're going to somehow Photoshop pelican Amin guzzling little Caesar's crazy puffs.

Crazy puffs.

Oh, man, what a name.

What a name.

So one thing that I have come to understand also is Ramadan is not the same month every year.

Yeah.

And so where does, I guess, April rank in your power rankings of months for Ramadan to happen?

Now, we are steadily heading towards the better part of the calendar. So it moves back ten days every year because it's on the lunar calendar. So every year it's ten days earlier than it was the year before.

Oh, wait, it's March.

Yeah, we're march. It'll end in April, but then next year it'll be mostly in March, and then the year after that'll be February. So, like, the number one seed is December, January time, because it's just like short days, cold weather.

I guess you don't celebrate Christmas, by the way.

One of the most.

Holiday, idiot.

One of the most.

Eat some more crazy puffs, you Christian.

No, but it is weird because I look at Christmas as the biggest inconvenience in the world for you guys, I don't care. It's like a day off. I just have fun and whatever and just hang out. But for people who celebrate it, what kind of Christmas gift? Oh, I got to get rabbit. Oh, the milk and the cookies for Santa, man.

That is what we got to get for Christmas.

Oh, boy, I wonder what this is. Socks and a tie again. I don't have to go through any of that. And it's so freeing.

That's nice. Can I ask you, if somebody has that urge to say happy Ramadan, what is the way to say that?

Well, happy Ramadan works.

It does?

Yes. Believe it or not, Ramadan Kareem is like, if you want to get real, like, oh, I'm sophisticated.

Yeah. Ramadan Kareem.

Yeah. Ramadan Kareem. That's an easy one. Ramadan Mubarak is another one.

Those are the three main ones. Aid Mubarak. What's that?

Is the festival at the end of it.

Got it.

When it's done, let's talk about the end of it.

Yeah.

Is there, like, a traditional food that.

Is eaten at the meal the way turkeys at Thanksgiving?

How do you celebrate finally getting to do the stuff you couldn't do?

So the day after Ramadan, the day after last day of Ramadan is aid. And you start up, first of all, it's very important. Like, religiously, they're like, you have to eat when you wake up. Because you have to signify, I'm not fasting anymore. So you can't be like, I've got a busy day. I'll eat at 01:00. No, you got to wake up and start eating just to say, hey, it's done. Then there's a big prayer. I'm pretty sure whatever major american city you live in, you're going to be driving by a convention center, or maybe it's a park, because the weather is nice in April, and you're just going to see hundreds of cars and a bunch of people, and it's like, what's going on? It's the aid prayer that all the mosques will get together and they'll put it on, like, the convention center or Central park or whatever city you're in, and then you do this for, like, three days. You're supposed to go visit family, and everyone rejoices, and all that. For me, I probably get through, like, day one, and then I'm like, all right, we're back to normal. Yeah.

You're basically just masturbating continuously while eating a pizza. It sounds impossible to me. I've been, like, sipping pathetically now, just like, little bit.

Two different beverages.

By the way, you are brunching.

At the same time. I'm watching someone like Kyrie Irving do this.

Looking in for Irving.

Irving for the wine. Irving. Just absurd.

Just like one of the greatest game winners of all time. Lefty, if you haven't seen it, you're missing out on just a remarkable thing to do while not having eaten or drank anything.

So bears noting that game was a matinee game. So he played the entirety of that game without drinking or power bar or anything like that. He was just going off of whatever he had the night before.

This all helps inform in a real way what I had been imagining. It was like to be you while Kyrie Irving was doing that. Katie, are you familiar? You're familiar with.

Are you on the my. I didn't dig because I figured I'd be getting the firsthand account.

But for people who maybe missed it, this happened.

And the thing about this jump shot is it's confusing, because the setup and the beginning of it looks like the jump shot going to be normal.

Okay.

Frame by frame, the dribble looks normal. The knee bend looks normal. The form right through here is normal. The elbows out a little wide, but that's fine. And then the follow through, it all goes to hell. Everything goes to hell. Amin is my guy. Adapted month in Vegas. Cool guy. I don't care not today. He missed this shot so badly. I don't want you to miss your shot to see me live. Kevin, stage on Friday, the live stream comedy show.

Really good.

Really good.

Damn it.

Kev Amin was such a meme that people were advertising their comedy shows on the back of videos of Amin doing. I don't even know where that was. What should we know about the context of what visually is hard to describe any better than Kev on stage? That comedian apparently just did.

So shout out to Kev. That's my guy. But I told him, I've always wanted to collaborate with you. It was an honor to do so. This was in Dallas on Saturday. That's the irony. It's not just that. It's like me and Kyrie the same weekend, like back to back days. I was on Saturday, he was on Sunday.

He was like, I got to improve the perception of Islam in America right now.

I like to think of it as, huh? I like that. I think I could take something from that and do something with it. No. So Saturday I was in Dallas for athletes unlimited. That's the women's professional league. They actually do it in multiple sports. But obviously this was a basketball one. It's a really cool concept, to be honest with you, because they've kind of nascarized basketball. In other words, you're in teams, but the teams don't really matter. It's all about the individuals. And you get points for your team wins, you get points for winning quarters, but you also get points for your individual stats. And at the end, you have a leaderboard. And that's how you figure out who won the league.

And you can only make left turns. Thanks.

All right, don't miss your chance to see me live. So I was invited to do participate in their celebrity game, which was cool because it was a very cool event. The game went off without a hit. That's from before the game, while I'm warming up. And I was shooting from that spot. And I had made a couple in a row sitting behind me, Miles Elrich, who I had met, but like a kind of friend of a friend. He was with a couple of friends of mine, Christine Williams and Tariqa Foster Brasby, who used to work with us.

At both of them.

Shout out to both of them. They do a great job covering women's hoops. So they're all sitting together courtside, and they're behind me, and I'm making each. I don't know of anything. I'm just doing my thing. And so Tyler tells me, Miles tells me you had made a couple. I said, oh, this is cool. Let me get my phone out and start recording. And so the first one he records is that shot. And he's like, oh, this is even better. And he posts it right then and there. But I don't know this. So I go, I play in this game, and it's fun.

You played an entire game without knowing?

No clue. I didn't look at my phone the whole time. So after the know, we take pictures and everything. And so I go up to Christine and Tariq. I'm like, hey, what are you guys doing after this? I think we're gonna get something to eat. Whatever. And Miles looks at me, he's like, you haven't looked at your phone, have you? I'm like, no, what's up? And he says, oh, man, I posted something. I'm like, oh, so watch this. During the game, like in the fourth quarter, there's a moment where we're making this comeback. We're like a couple buckets down. We get a stop. My man Merricks passes me the ball up court, and I know I have one person to beat. So I'm like, let me just check where they are. I don't catch the ball, it goes out of bounds. Turnover. I was crushed. I was like, I felt like I let the team down or whatever. I thought that was what they posted. Like, oh, look at me. Not even be able to catch a ball. And he was like, no, I wasn't that. I'm like, what was it? So I pull up the video.

Well, first of all, I open my phone. My budy wells. Wells p. Shout out wells. Peace, says my brother in Christ. What is going on here? And I'm like, oh, okay. What's happening? Hold on. So then I look at my Twitter mentions, and I see the video, and the first thing I actually pay attention to is the back of my head and how the hair is filled in very nicely and like, oh, man, the medication is working. And I was like, oh, this is awesome.

This is going well so far. Let's see what people are saying.

Then the video repeats. And then I see, like, oh, my God, it's the worst one, right?

And it is, for the record, bad. To the point where comedians, I just have to quote our friend Sue Bird.

Oh, no, Sue Bird saw it, dude.

Everybody saw it.

It went to the point where sue texted me, I have to know. Included the video of a mean shot. And her question was this real question.

Mark, like, it's AI. She thought it was AI because the.

Hands.

Or so deliberately terrible that this was a bit, which, to be fair.

I thought when I saw american ninja warrior, I was like, it's a bit.

Right, check this out. All right. You got to be an athlete. You know what I mean? And wasn't that he tried to get the rope and went down, I got to say, that looked like a Shaquille O'Neill free throw. That was just ugly.

This is the thing with Amin, you never know, is that Amin has a skill. And I'm going to say skill, actually, he's a skill at being somehow wildly, globally viral for doing something that seems so athletically inept that it feels like it was on purpose.

Yeah.

It's funny because I think my skill is letting the joke be the joke. And if I'm the joke, then I'm going to laugh. And so I think a lot of people.

I haven't seen you laugh yet. I don't think.

No, I mean, my Twitter timeline is me retweeting all the funniest things that people have said because it's legitimately funny.

But to that point, right. Part of me was like, when I saw this, Katie, I was like, Amin gave in too soon. If Amin was not somebody who already had the previous experience of, like, I know how to deal with this. I'm going to race car metaphor. I'm going to turn into the skit, right? I'm going to, instead of that, form a war room of advisors. Okay? Like, this thing has just happened. I'm seeing for the first time Pablo. Katie, what should I do here? What would you have advised him?

Retire.

I am, Katie, I haven't played go into hiding. I did retire. What are you doing?

What?

Oh, I thought you were taking off a ring again.

Oh, no. God, no, I didn't. I don't have a ring. I'm very single. No, I think you did the right thing. I would have done that. I think I would have been upset. I know you would have done differently. What would you have done, Pablo?

I think I would have concocted some story. I would have said, amin, you are now going to lean in. What you're going to do, you're going to tape another video, and it's going to be you with a newspaper from the day before. Just got to find a newspaper. You're going to say, I'm going to troll America into thinking this is what my jump shot looks like.

That's actually a pretty good you.

Are you saying you do have a good jump shot? That just was one bad shot, and it was the only shot they got on camera. Is that the story?

That's not the story. That's what happened. It's not a story.

And do you have video of you doing any of the good ones from that game?

No.

No.

Yeah. I mean, look, here's the thing. This is other, the thing I did not realize about these celebrity games.

How did you. Have a seat.

Everyone's showing up with a team of dedicated shooters who are documenting their every move. And I was just like, I just showed up to play basketball. So now I'm seeing everyone post stuff, and they've got all these highlights and stuff like that. And I'm like, yeah, I don't have any of that because I didn't have anyone who was following me. There was just one video that one person took at that moment.

And what are the ODs that. The one video that one person took at that one moment is the one that you look like you don't know how to play basketball?

No. As Kev on stage said, it looks like he does until the end.

He's not wrong.

Looks exactly normal.

But this is why I didn't feel like I had to defend myself.

I think what we want, though, what Katie is trying to frost Nixon you into telling us, is we understand the context now of your fasting and your psychology and your physiology. What is responsible for the way that your hand looked?

The simple answer is, the ball slipped. It's very light. Because it's a women's ball. I'm not used to.

It's our fault.

It's the ball's fault. But the reality is, man, ball did lie. It slipped, man, it slipped. And I tried to get it back and didn't work, and that was it. The reality is, and this is when Katie says, oh, like, oh, what are the. Like, this is why I don't feel the need to really defend my shooting form, because, yes, I haven't played in, like, six or seven years, but prior to that, I used to play pickup ball all the time.

And media games.

Media games. And prior to that, when I worked for the Suns, I played pickup games with staff, with coaches, with players sometimes. So I have no shortage of people, including, by the way, we saw him early on this thing. Andrew Schultz, one of the biggest roast comedians there is. You think I hoop with Andrew Schultz? And he knew that about my jump shot and has kept it a secret all these years because he wouldn't go that it just.

I can vouch for the fact that no one. It's not a running joke that Amin shoots a basketball, like what you saw in the video. That is not a thing. I've been around many people who played in these games with Amin. What I am here to say, though, is that the way that you must have processed that, having now learned about how Ramadan is a season in which you are trying to be open minded and kind, full of goodwill and cheer, it feels like truly a test that I would have made up in a screenplay about how a means Ramadan might be going right now.

No, you know what it is? It is definitely like the comeuppance of the bad guy, right? For sure. Because the funniest thing to me, Katie, isn't the jokes. The jokes are hilarious. But the funniest thing are, like, the people who are legitimately angry. You got me to tell me this guy, and there's this one guy, and bless his heart, I don't think he meant poorly. But I think he's connected in some way to Zion Williamson because he has New Orleans in his thing and whatever. And his first thing is like, this guy made fun of Zion Williamson's weight for how long? And I say, hey, buddy, first of all. Yeah. Actually, my first response is like, yeah, you're right. Let's go get that. Right. Because what am I supposed to say? Yeah, I did something that's ridiculous. Ridicule me for sure. Just like Zion being out of shape was ridiculous, so I ridiculed him.

We're going to cook up at the end of this segment now a whole amin highlight reel with, like, dramatic, soaring music, all about what we found, footage wise, that makes the case.

Oh, still weird finger stuff. That's a lab.

It's a layup. I have to put English on it. I have mangled hands.

Your hands are funny.

Because my left hand.

Be real about embed's hands. For those not watching on YouTube.

My left hand. I've been told I could be a hand model and a football.

Excuse me? You could book hand jobs. Not this month.

Thank you.

Don Lebotard. You getting started on the breakfast lawn?

Oh, man, I've been singing a song to myself all morning long. Breakfast flan stugats. Have you never heard the breakfast flan? No.

Hit me with it.

Okay. I wish I had some breakfast flaunt. Breakfast flunt. Where can I find a breakfast like that? Da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da this is.

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Welcome to Odball. I'm Amino Hassan in New York City with the one and only Charlote Wilder first. Charlote. Oh, my God. Minnesota. The land of a thousand lakes, or 10,000 lakes and 10,000 news stories this week.

This is a gift that keeps on giving.

Oh, man. I hope it never ends. I hope we get something else tomorrow. So we did a whole thing about how their financing for Mark, Lori, and Alex Rodriguez to buy the team had fallen through because the league had rejected them because of some stuff that was in conflict with their institutional yada, yada, yada. Nobody cares, right? We did fun.

Well, we do care a little bit. We're a little nosy. We want to know what that Carlisle group was up to. That meant that they couldn't buy an NBA team. So if anybody has any intel, hit us up.

Somehow.

I don't think we have an email for the show, but.

1800 Odball. Yeah, but so here's what happened, though, right? So, Mark, Lori, Alex Rodriguez, they have until the end of the month to secure the financing or else the deal falls through. Well, guess what, Charlote?

What?

They already found more financing. That's how rich people do. Rich people do things when they want to understand.

They just have, like, so many other rich people. I'm trying to buy something, and I'm like, oh, darn. My 300 million dollar deal fell through. And then in 24 hours, I'm like, oh, that's okay. I found another $300 million.

Some other banker was like, no, it's cool. I got it.

Yeah.

After we did a deep expose on the leadership team of the Carlisle group who were rejecting out of here, they found a new company to get with dial group. Like the soap?

Well, no, actually, because Carlisle is spelled in this case, like with Carlyle.

Right? I don't know how Lisle.

Oh, absolutely not.

Oh, no.

C A R l Y l E. That's preposterous. Yeah, a lot of Y's and L's going on. Which you'd say, why does that matter? It matters because Dial capital has now bought them D y a l. So Arod is really good at getting hundreds of millions of dollars from groups that have Y's and L's in close proximity in their name. So I was like, what is the deal with Dial capital? I mean, dial capital, from a little bit of googling, is one of those companies where you're like, is this even real? I know it's real. It is real. This is a legitimate deal. I'm not questioning that.

I am.

Amin is. But it's one of those things where it's like, you click to find out about dial, and it takes you to a group called Blue Owl. And then you try to find out about blue Owl, and you end up on, like, number. So here's the Wikipedia for Blue Owl Capital.

Okay.

In December 2020, it was announced that there would be a merger between owl rock Capital group and Dial Capital Partners.

That's my favorite genre of music, by the way. Owl rock. Owl rock has famous bands like the who.

Stop it.

There it is. And it's gone.

Ladies and gentlemen, I'm both angry that you said that and mad that I didn't think of it. Okay. Anyway, then they merged with Altima acquisition Group to form Blue Owl, and then it was completed as Blue Owl, but then Blue Owl acquired Oak street. And what I have taken away is that a lot of investment firms, private equity, whatever this is, I don't know. I'm not a doctor. They use, like, nature language, like Blue Owl, Oak Road, Oak street. Like, sea foam partners.

Oh, yeah. I like that. You want to start a private equity firm with me?

Yeah, I do. What should we call it?

We got to have more L's and y's, though, because that, apparently, is what attracts Alex Rodriguez, at least. Do we have any word on their leadership team anymore?

I haven't been able to find it because they've switched names so much that their website is all buried. Because they're on to us. They know what we're trying to do.

It's not real. That's what's happening.

Okay. I mean, this is one of my favorite things in the NBA to talk about, which is how freaking weird Joe Missoula is.

He's a weird individual.

He is a strange guy. And I say that with. No, I mean, look.

Like our show is called Oddball. Yeah.

We're not, like, normal.

You should be a guest on this show.

He really should. Well, he sort of has been. No, he should really come.

When we do the show in Boston. Boston coming soon, we'll try and grab coach Missoula for a sit down.

I think he would enjoy it.

I think he would, too.

We're not a hostile environment. No. He did the weirdest thing I think I've ever seen a coach do physically recently. And he does this often, which is.

I don't know if he does this often. This is the first time I've seen.

Him do it, but he says he does it often. That's the.

Again.

So, anyways, let's explain what he did. Basically, he contested a three that suns forward Royce O'Neill had shot after a timeout so there was no way that this shot was going to count.

So typically, this is what happens, right? In the NBA, there's a dead ball or a timeout. And as everyone's walking to the bench, whatever player has the ball sometimes will take a little practice shot. Now, famously, Kevin Garnett would, like, goaltend those practice shots, right? Including one time where he goaltended it. It went back to the guy shot who shot again, and Kevin Garnett goaltended it. Is not. This is not new from a player perspective, that some guys don't let guys take practice shots.

Right?

What's new is as the Celtics are going to their bench, which is right in front of where the basket, where the Suns are shooting, Joe Missoula sprints from the bench. And full on contests.

Royce O'Neill, honestly, like, impressive hops.

He got like, well, jujitsu.

Oh, right, sorry, right, come on now. Jesus and jujitsu. He's incredible. Joe Mazula is my favorite character in the NBA. So here's what he said about this. People were like, hey, you're the coach, not a coach. You are the head coach of the Boston Celtics. Why did you contest another player's shot that wasn't going to count for anything? Also, if he had contested a shot that was going to count for something, that's a whole other story. And Mazula said, I saw a guy.

Going in to try to get a shot and he hadn't made one, and.

I didn't want him to feel good.

About himself going to the bench. Gary asked me about that a month ago, and that's the bench rule. Guys don't shoot shots in front of our bench. To go back to their bench, to feel good about themselves. If I'm going to ask the guys that can test, staff's got to do the same. It's funny because in his mind, Jalen Brown sits down on the bench and sits down and sees Royce shoot the shot and said, coach, you were right there. Get a hand up. What are you doing? Like, in his mind, that's what the. But so I can't have Jalen Brown or Jason Tatum or Peyton Pritchard think of me, like, to, I gotta walk the walk. I'm gonna talk the talk.

On some level, I do respect this is to an extent that I'm like, this is not how things usually work. But I do think that there's something to be said for Mazula sitting there with the mindset that he has to do what he is asking of other people to the point where his players probably are never going to feel like, hey, this guy is asking a lot of us, and he's not delivered. One thing you cannot say about Joe Mazula is that he's not intense. There is an intensity, yes.

And yet in my mind, I think it is endearing to his players, but I think it's endearing in the way that it's like, yes, he's a delightful little weirdo, but he's our delightful little weirdo. Right. I think it's endearing in that way. I talked about this on Lebatard show last week. Like, the idea that you can be the delightful little weirdo as long as you're successful. The moment you're not successful, what was delightfully weird just turned into just weird.

And a little annoying.

And a little annoying. Right.

So for right now, great.

On top of the world.

I can't get the image out of my head. I fall asleep thinking about Joe Missoula contesting a shot.

Yeah. So my favorite part is he went on local radio recently, and he said someone told him to cease and desist doing that. We don't know if it's Celtics organization. We don't know if it's the league front office. We don't know if it's another player said, if you do this, I will kill you. Right. We just know that someone told him to stop, and he said, quote, I don't think it's a rule, but I'm sure it will be in the next 24 to 48 hours, making it seem like he's done this again or he was planning on. I don't know. It sounds like the riddler, right?

Yes.

Or the Joker. Like, in the next 24 hours, I.

Predict that there will be some new laws on the books. How long does it take to put a new rule? Well, I feel like 24 to 48 hours is a pretty quick turnaround.

I think this is one of those things that next year there will be a rule, but for now, there'll be a member.

I hope they call it the.

Well, of course, you couldn't name it anything else. Charlote. He's the only guy in the history of the game to ever do weird. Let me ask you, you want to elevate this conversation? What's weirder?

Okay.

Joe Mazula doing that to Royce O'Neill in a dead ball situation after a timeout or James Harden in the middle of a live game passing the ball to Kawhi Leonard and then closing out and contesting on it.

What happened? Couldn't I didn't believe my eyes. Do you think he just, like. It was like a brain fart?

No way. James Harden has a brain fart that forces him play defense. That's not what's happening.

What happened?

I'll tell you exactly what's happening. Look at the time. Look at the score. They're beating the Blazers ass. This is James Harden's way of saying, this game is so easy, I need to make it harder on ourselves. This is absolutely. If I was a ref, I would have teed him up for taunting.

For sure.

That's taunting.

I think that's more unhinged than what Missoula did.

I don't think it's unhinged. I think it's, like, high level.

That's galaxy brain.

The only thing I can compare it.

To as far as, like, it's so obnoxious.

Oh, yeah, absolutely. Team up. The only thing I can remember that is as obnoxiously confident in absolute victory was LeBron James in a playoff game against the Raptors. One time. It was raptors ball. Terrence Ross is about to inbound, and LeBron said, whoa, don't do that. Don't do that. You guys have six men on the floor. And he waited for the 6th Raptor. This is a playoff game. Waited for the 6th Raptor to get off the floor. And then he says to Terrence Ross, okay, now you can inbound it. He knew, and he could have just not said anything, and they would have got a technical foul, and they would have shot a free throw. One extra point for the cast. LeBron was literally so confident, like, we're going to kill them. It's nothing you can do. There's no advantage I need to gain here.

So my question to you is, which is more obnoxious, being so polite that it's rude? LeBron James being like, oh, no, hold on. Hold on one sec. Let me help you out. Or being so preening and cocky about it, which would you prefer if you had to be on the receiving end of this?

As the losing know, Eddie Murphy used to have a bit about Mike Tyson, and he said, mike Tyson beat the guy up, and then at the end of the fight, he'll kiss you on the forehead, and it's like, I don't want you to try to be nice, right? Just kick my. Like, the. Being nice at the end makes it so much worse. I think I'd rather have hardened. No. Yes. I think I'd have harden do that, because if I were one of the blazers, I would say, okay, now we got to take him out.

Right.

But you can't do that to a guy who's just looking out for you. Even though looking out for.

Which is why it's kill him with kindness.

It's kill him with the absolute kind. You know what? Out of those three things, I don't know. They're all kind of weird in their own.

But that's the brilliance of people. The thing about people who are willing to be this weird publicly is that they are so committed to the bit. Yes. The best way I can describe it is a commitment to the bit, to the point where if this were improv, they are, yes, ending after the show is over.

Yeah, we're still going.

We're in the audience leaving, and they're still up there saying, oh, but the alien said it was fine. 1000% commitment to the bit. I think that's why I sort of respect all of it.

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