The Pat-Bad Pod with Ron. Christmas time is here.

Christmas time. Ron, Ron, Ron. A Ron. I think they need to know. So my boy Ron having some back issues, you all. So first all, pray for him. You know what I'm saying? He pray for him. He got a lot on his back. He's been having a lot on his shoulders, lady. So it's no surprise why his back hurt. But you all look out for my boy, pray for my boy. Ron, what's up? Happy holidays. I love your fucking This is a great sweater.

Dude, it's a great sweater. It says Billy Murphy's Saloon on it. Billy Murphy's Irish Saloon. It's a place in East Falls. If you're in the Philadelphia area, check out the bar. It's a great bar. They looked out for us, gave us these great sweaters. And what better way to wear it with some festivities? I mean, what do you sipping on there? Some Christmas cheer wine, some Christmas water?

I got yours in favor. Yeah, I see you stood up for this. You got that Arnold Palmer. Shout out to Arnie, shout out to Palmer. One of the best golf... Shout out to both of them. Shout out to both of them. One of the best golf... Yeah.

Shout out to both of those bros. The NBA is in full swing, and the Bucks are the midseason champions. How do you feel about that, my bro?

You know how I feel about that. I'm a big fan of it. I'm happy for Doc. I'm happy for Yannis. I'm happy for Dane. I'm happy for the organization. They were dominant, and they've been dominant over a while. People try to write them off for me, and you both know this. They tried to write them off.

Hold up. I got to stand up for a second. Fuck. God damn. So tell me about the freaking Bucks.

I mean, you all look out for wrong. So the Bucks been fucking killing it. They've been killing it. They came out slow. Everybody was on Doc's ass. They were saying how he should be fired, and there was this, and there was that, and he can't win. And then everybody all of a sudden just got quiet, wrong. Motherfuckers just stopped talking, literally hit the mute button.

Well, because they have the secret weapon, Darvin Ham.

Yeah. My thing is this, right? You can criticize a coach. You could talk about a coach. You could talk about a player. You can criticize a player, right? When they're doing wrong or when they're not living up to their expectations, right? But when they're doing right, give them their flowers. The same people that was bashing Doc and the Bucks and the Bucks organization, give them their flowers now. Admit like, Yeah, I was the one that was wrong, and That's what I want to see more on the media. People owning up to, You know what? I was wrong. I made an early judgment early without really looking at the big picture, and I was wrong. So my bad. I want to see more people do that. So shout out to Doc River, shout out to the Bucks, shout out to Yannis. They brought that They ain't home, man. Lost me a ton of money, but brought it home.

Yeah, I mean, that's Bobby Portis. We forgive him, though.

We love BP. Shout out to BP.

You'll get it back without any problem. But I'm trying to give out flowers to Robin Ham, 7-0 in back-to-back years in the NBA Cup.

Yeah, and they were talking about him, too. Why would you guys hire him? Look what he's done. Look what he's done. He took a team to the Western Conference Finals, his first year of coaching. Really impressive. One the Cup the following year. So, yeah, give him his five hours, too.

I think that last year we saw the Indiana Pacers put their flag in the ground during the NBA Cup last year. They were like, Okay, we're forced to be wrecking with. They didn't wind up winning the entire thing, but they proved that they're a team that is legitimate, that's going to be here for a playoff run, that they're not fading out anytime soon. Do you think that the Houston Rockets also did that by making it to the final four? Obviously, they're a top three team in the West right now as far as record, but do they have it in them to be in it for the long haul? Will they be a top four seed? Are they threatened the playoffs?

I think that the biggest thing that the Cup games and the Cup final fours and the Cup final two teams and a champion. I think the only thing that does is one, put fear in other teams, two, give you confidence as a team. Okay, cool. We went to the Cup, we went to the We came up short. Okay, this is motivation. You know what I'm saying? The series we were supposed to lose in the second round, we don't lose because now we felt how I felt to lose the Cup. It gives you extra motivation. I wasn't a fan of the Cup game, but how it's been played out and how competitive it's been, especially for guys who've made that final four run for the Cup game, it's been brilliant for the league. Brilliant.

And I think that we saw the same type of thing when we look at Championship pedigree, when we look at the Bucks, the fact that the Bucks were able to win, it's because they had been there before. You could tell that they had a little bit of that experience. Obviously, it's a whole different squad. But the way that Giannis took over the game, it was like, oh, he's dialed the fuck in, and he knows what it takes to win in a big circumstance.

Yeah, and for sure, piggyback off what you're saying, experience is It was key yesterday. You seen it. You seen it instantly. Yann is attacking from the get-go. You've seen him tackling in the semifinal. You're right on about that. Experience was the key. They went in there. They knew they had a chance to do something nice in the middle of the season. And shit, he went out and did it. That's what some of the best players do.

You were saying yesterday, but in truth, today is Christmas Day when this is coming out for the good people.

Will we go cut that shit there?

No, it's not even a cut because I want to know what you think about these Christmas Day games.

Before we get to the Christmas Day games, I had a chance to sleep on a conversation we had, and I was emotional by my answer, so I didn't think of the answer I wanted to give. But when I went in more in-depth of the format of the All-Star game this year, my mind has changed.

You don't think it's ass anymore? Because we gave In our famous game, Ass or pass. Ask or pass.

Yeah, no, it's passed. It's super passed because not only is it good for the young people, it's fucking competitive now. You do not want to be the team that lose to them rookies. I don't give a fuck who you are. So it brings out that. You do not want to be the old heads. Man, the young kids just keep beating them up. Now, you see one motherfucker out the league, another motherfucker out the league. Oh, he is old. Oh, he can't It makes it competitive. It makes it super competitive. And it makes the young guy thirsty to be in that final eight or whatever. And it puts a little bit of, okay, cool. Let me sue my boots up, man. This ain't going to be no breeze. Let me go out here and hoop. I like it.

And the shorter game gives a better shot to underdogs because you just got to score- I like it.but 40 points. And a streaky team, we've seen how streaky the NBA is, and it's coming under fire because people are missing record numbers of three-pointers in the game. But at the same token, the percentage I understand it's the same. It's not like people are shooting worse. So you're going to have streakiness to balance out the bad streaks, and that could result in a team of rookies and sophomores, especially if McCain was on the team.

Look, it hurts. Shout out to McCain again, bro.

Streaky McCain, they could beat anybody.

And then what it also does, that for casual fans, you also have to look at this. If the format is rookies and sophomores, then that means you have to have a young coach, too. Now, a young coach who who might coach for a team who doesn't have a lot of players. Now you can see how good he is against other coaches, the best coaches in the West, the best coaches in the East, because usually the young teams aren't that good because of the talent they have. Now this young coach is going to have a whole bunch of talent around them. Now he's going against all these vets. It's good for the coaching also. I like it. I like it, Ron. I was wrong. I like it now, though.

I want to ask. That's such an interesting point that you bring up with coaching. So it leads me to a conversation that I want to have with you that I think is very interesting when we parallel it with what's What's been going on with the NFL and former NFL players becoming college coaches. So of course, we saw Coach Prime, and he made it cool to be a college coach. We saw Eddie George follow directly in his footsteps. Just this week, we saw Michael Vick taking a job at Norfolk State. And it's like, that's not a marquee program, but he's like, I can turn this program around. I'm Michael Vick. I'm one of the coolest players ever. I'm going to have people dying to be part of my program. And then we've I've seen Coach Prime go from being a Jackson State coach, then to being a Colorado coach. And now he has offers like, Ohio State could be on the table for him. People are saying he should be the coach of the Giants and coach his son at even the next level like he's done his entire life. And I think that even Tyreek Hill this week said something like, It's time for me to go be a coach or something like that.

I'm sure he wasn't serious, but it's almost a cool thing to do to become a coach, a young coach, to take over a program, to make it cool. Teddy Bridgewater became a high school coach. They won a state championship right away. Now he says he wants to get back to the NFL. When does this start happening with NBA players?

I think for the most part, man, that's a great question. I think for the most part, it's one of two coaches on every NBA team. I think it's one or two guys who really understands the the game. And you'll be surprised, Ron, it's not a lot of NBA players that know the game. They might know how to play the game, but they might not know the game. Value and possession, two for ones, how important ATOs are, how important sidelines out of bounds are, what to do when the guy's rolling in the low man, what exit strategy do you want to get out to protect not having corner threes? Can you be disciplined and take low man and communicate at the same time while telling your man to X out. It's a lot of people that don't really understand basketball. You'll be very shocked. You'll be very shocked. You'll leave a time out. A motherfucker say, Hey, man, hey, PAC, man, what was the play? Type shit. Can't hold energy, but A lot of information. But it's one or two coaches on every NBA team that just knows the game just like the coach does.

Who have been some of those people in your history?

So instantly, one person that jumped off the page for me was James Harden. I'm talking about... He was so special. He would get on me for like, We'll go through a drill in practice. I don't know a drill where it's just, I don't know, you come off a pick and roll and you throw the pocket pass. You feel me? And he would get on me for like, No, every rep make a game. And I saw him, Okay, he come off pocket pass, hit left. And I mean, that might be the tedious thing, but a lot of people don't do that. A lot of people come off, they throw passes that they don't throw in the game, and they wonder why they come off pick and roll and turn it over. Another person that jumps out to me, obviously, is LeBron James. He knows it from a personnel standpoint, a rotational standpoint. He's a past first guard, a guard also, so he's ahead of his time when it comes to a person that knows the spacing of it. The spacing of it, the mathematics of the game is Kawhi. My Kawhi tell me some shit like, Yo, Pat, you know I got to work on my pullback from the right wing and the left wing because over the last seven years, that's where all the game winners have been, type shit like that.

So he's dialed into all the statistics of it all. So what does the world look like that would allow James Harden to be a head coach at some level? I know that James Harden obviously has an awesome lifestyle He doesn't need the extra work. He doesn't need extra money. But I think you could say the same thing about Deion Sanders at some point. He didn't necessarily need all of that, but there was something about him that he would have been a great coach, and he wound up being a very successful coach. We're saying that James Harden has the basketball acumen to be a great coach, but what would it take for NBA players at that level of superstardum to start being coaches? Or at what point is it just frustrating where you're like, Hey, I could do this shit in my sleep. Like, LeBron being a coach, he'd probably be frustrated when his team can't execute his vision because they're not all LeBron James.

Yeah. I mean, LeBron can coach if he want. I think he'd be a really good coach, right? And I think Beard will be a really fucking good coach, too, right? I think Ron, though, would be a really strategical coach. You feel me? Sometimes that's good, but in this modern day, it'll be great for him. So Ron, though, could be a phenomenal coach. So it's guys out there that just know the game. They just know the game. They're actually, it's to a point where they're having fun dissecting the game. They're playing the game within the game. The game that's, Okay, no one else sees that I'm playing. Okay, cool. Let me try to be perfect for the next, I don't know, 15 possessions. Let me not miss a defensive time, and let me not, but at the same time be aggressive, but at the same time make the right play every single time. Let me be that person. Let me see how long I can do that. That's where the success of, Oh, I had a good game, feels Like, so yeah, I think those guys can become good coaches. And it's just the game is changing, too, Ron.

The game is changing. Athletes are getting smarter. They're asking questions. The skill level is getting higher. So that just enhances the brain capability. So it's the same with basketball. It's the same thing with basketball.

Yeah, it seems like it would be so fun, but it's also hard to maintain your cool the way that Coach Prime is still cool as shit.

I think that's I wouldn't say one in a million, but it's very few people that can do the same thing Coach Prime doing. He's in his own lane. Yeah, he in a world of his own.

Other guys were just limp in with some khaki pants and wind up with unk status. You know what I mean? It'll be hard to be as cool. Coach Prime still has such a cool factor that the 20-year-old wants to reference him or be cool to him It's crazy.

And he's respected. He's done it, and he's done a different sport, too. I don't want to hear it. I'm an athlete. I'm an athlete. Coach Prime, I'm an athlete. And listen, people are so motherfucking crazy. You think about Coach Prime, you think about He only played defense wrong. They show highlights of Prime, it's a shutdown. You would think he was a running back or wide receiver. He only played defense wrong.

Well, he did play wide receiver, too, on some crazy He was a primarily defense and kick returner. I think he scored all six ways or something. I think that he might have scored off a shutdown run, shutdown pass, interception return for a countdown, fumbler return for a countdown, punt return for a countdown, and kick return for a countdown. I'm pretty sure he's done it all and played baseball. And I started defensively.

I was so good defensively, getting interceptions and loose fumbles that they made me a right receiver. They made me everything. So, yeah, shout out to Coach Brown.

And it's crazy that some legends get forgotten. I was looking at the list of all-time NFL shutdown scores, and I was like, Oh, yeah, Marcus Allen existed. Marcus Allen has more touch downs than every great running back since Adrian Peterson. Nobody today is close to Marcus Allen's output as far as like, touch downs. It's just like, oh, no one even fucking talks about.

Ron, I got to do my homework. I don't know what the fuck that is. That's what I mean, bro.

No one even talks about Marcus Allen. This is one of the all-time greats.

What time did he play for? Put me on.

The Riders. Educate me.

Educate me. What year was he on?

The Riders.

Okay. Give me some years.

I got to hit you with some years.

Yeah, please. Inform me. Let this be an informative podcast.

Yeah, bro. Let's get Marcus Allen. Why are we not putting more love on Marcus Allen? I'm pretty sure. Where did he go? Usa or something like that? 64 years old. 1981, he won the Heisman Trophy and just killed it. Facetime Pro Bowler AP, all pros. You know what I mean? This guy's a legend. He's one of the all-time leading rushers, and we just never talk about him. We're never singing Marcus Allen's praises. I'm here to sing it, okay? He played until '97.

We are here to sing it.

Yes, we're here to sing it. It should be... I mean, there's just legends that we forget, and hopefully there's a path to coaching or continued second-phase success for some of these guys over their career. Did you see what the Hornets did this nasty move that the Hornets did, giving a kid a PS5 and then taking it away?

No. Inform me again.

They did a half-court promotion where they gave a kid a PS5, and then they stopped filming and they took it away from him. They had to apologize for it.

No, let's get that kid information, man. Let's give him PS5.

I think that they must have gave him a PS5. But if we could get him his information, we want to PS5?

No, fuck that. Get us information. If they gave them a PS5, we will give him another game or a laptop game and laptop or a gaming chair.

Like Abacus or you know what that means.

Whoever knows that kid, help us. Get his parents' number, get his number. Pad, bear, pod, we're in a given spirit.

Yeah, they literally grinched out. That's such a grinch move to give a kid a gift and then take it away.

Yeah, that's wild. That's not good karma either, the grinch.

Yeah. Have you ever grinched out over the holidays? Do the Christmas holidays ever leave you in a grinch-like mood?

No, never.

Really?

What's your favorite Christmas song?

I mean, this year it's, I'll be home for Christmas.

Okay.

That's a classic. Or ba da ba da. I'm dreaming of a white Christmas. Just like the ones I... But that's this year. I mean, last year, it was a little drummer boy. You know I keep it on... You have to be malleable, though. You have to be able to switch. It used to be the in sync one until I saw that up close of Justin Timberlake. I can't be locked in on Merry Christmas and Happy That was a classic, but I can't be locked in anymore after seeing Justin Timberlake's Bird.

Slow down, not too much.

What's yours, bro? Where are you at this year? Same vibe with Christmas songs?

Yeah, I mean, same vibe, but I went to a I went to Mandy's Son Christmas holiday performance.

Singing?

Fourth and fifth grade. His name is Aria, fourth and fifth grade. They had a whole Christmas. They played instruments, the violin, people was on the drums. Had a section of fourth-graders who were in the choir.

And What were they singing? Christmas songs?

Every Christmas song there is.

Anything? Any stand-up?

Hanica songs also.

They hit it with the baroukata, I don't know.

I'm talking about... It was the cuteest thing I've seen in a very, very long time.

That sounds amazing. Any acting?

No, no acting. It was wild because it was like, They were solid. They were solid, but you could tell the teacher, he has his hands full, if you know what I mean.

Yeah, it's tough to corral because everybody might not be a singer at that point in their life.

You know what I'm saying? So the shout out to the music team. They have a lot of patience.

Okay, I want to ask a dad-to-dad question. Dad-to-dad, just asking for some future dad advice for me. Is it a kosher move to go- Interesting word. Is it kosher to go and pregame the kids' Christmas concert with some of the dads? You know what I mean? Get together in the parking lot. If you're not slamming beers on the ground, four peers or something, maybe just a little flask of whiskey, take a little shot and just feel rosy in the cheeks for a little bit and just enjoy the Christmas concert, or is that an alcoholic behavior?

No, I think that's modern day dad behavior. I think that's a vibe. And I think you show the kids, especially the boys, that this is cool. It's okay meeting up with people around the neighborhood and other dads and getting together for your son or your daughter's Christmas concert. Nothing's wrong with that. That's actually a vibe. It is nice. But you don't want to get too clicky. Then you get, Yeah, fuck that. We don't like them dads over there. You don't want to get too clicky. You feel But the joyfulness of it, for sure, 100%.

But if the other dads don't put five on the bottle, you know what I mean? They're not getting any hits of it.

Right. Type shit. But in a funny way, because we all should be surrounded about a good a good older crew of people who are financially successful, if you know what I mean.

Totally. I have a friend who brings a cooler of beers everywhere that he goes. He has a backpack cooler of beers. I love him. I think that's such a nice... He's always packing up his beers for occasions when you don't even think you're probably going to maybe need beers, but he always has the beers stacked up. Then there's been times when you actually do need it and you're like, Wow, I'm so thankful to have a friend who's always prepared, that always has this shit stacked up.

What's his name? Give him a shout out.

Mike. I'm sure this Mike does it as well.

I know, but I said give me a shout out. You give me a motherfucker, your friend's name, who I actually I know your other friend's name. What's his last name? This is Mike Frane.

Mike Frane. This is Mike Frane. After his wedding, we were in the lobby and the bar shuts down, and it's like, he already is the cooler guy. So he has his backpack cooler and his drag-along cooler, so we could drink until four in the morning in the lobby. We drank past when he was. He always stocks. And this is his wedding. He's going above and beyond to make sure that we got rolling rocks in the lobby. Corona is in the lobby.

And his good karma is going to be the older that he gets, the more good alcohol people are going to bring him for him always showing love.

Right, exactly. He's sewing himself into good tidings.

He is. Good for him.

Yeah, that's genius. A genius move on his part. It's a little bit of singing at the Christmas concert. We used to go down to South Philly.

Go ahead. No, you go here. You used to go down to South Philly. Tell me. I like this story.

We would dress up in Christmas sweaters like this and sing Christmas carols. We'd take a bus down. We were the youngest dudes to do it. It was all like a 70-year-old man It goes down 50, 40, 70, that age of men. That cross-section.

Was you all doing it to be funny? Of course, you all was doing it to be funny. But it's a little bit of both. Were you all actually singing? I'm saying, Were you all actually not fucking around?

There's probably 15 stops. They hand out papers with all of them on it, and the fellows go around to sing, and by the end of it, you are the drunkest human being ever. You're drinking plum brandy and shit like That's what it was like, that Blackberry Brandy. You're just going around singing, spreading Christmas cheer in the Italian market in South Philly, showing love.

Showing love.

It's so nice. Then by the end, some people have to go home because they've stumbled face-planted into a brick wall while trying to use the bathroom in the alley behind a building or something like that.

But by that time, family should be not outside anymore. It should be just only you guys.

It's part of it. If you don't see that stuff early, you're going to be surprised when you see it later on in life. What were you about to say, though? I cut you off while I was spinning this arm. No, you didn't cut me off.

I cut you off.

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I went through a whole thing of, man, we went through the thing, how Santa Claus was when I grew up and me telling my children, I'm Santa. I go through airport. I'm eating a nice salad, but I added Doritos, so the salad is really good now. You understand what I'm saying? I'm really having my way. I'm giving you the description of my day before I give you the ending. Of course.

I want to know everything.

I'm getting salad. Salad is chicken salad. It's phenomenal. I got the nacho cheese Doritos. It's nowhere to sit. I go to the bar, the guy My guy says, You could sit here, but you have to buy a drink. Even better. Give me a beer. Give me a beer. I'm going to sip the beer just one time, not drink anymore. Enjoy my motherfucking Dorito chicken salad. I mean, phenomenal. That sounds amazing. I'm turning shit up. And I'm in a whole vibe. It's like a whole little area in the airport. I'm by myself. I got on headphones. I'm able to watch what the fuck is on TV. And then I look up. I see a motherfucking red suit. I see a motherfucker got white beard down here. Literally looks me in my eye, like looks me in my soul. And I'm wondering, like, damn, did he watch the pod? Did he know that I said it's a possibility that this man that's looking at me is not real? So I go, What's up, Santa? ' He goes, Hi, but gracefully as fuck. ' Like, he's an angel brought down to the airport to be exactly where I'm at.

So now I'm intrigued. I want to I'm going to pop them and get a photo, but I'm like, No, I'm fucking. I finish plate, boom. I pay guy, leave tip. I'm coming out, I got my bags. I'm a fly as fuck already. I got on some Js. So anytime you got on Js in airport, you know you feel fly. You feel me? My AirPods are charged. So I'm really in a zone. I'm in airport flow. I feel great. Music or podcast? Music, but light. But enough I can hear it if someone says, Hey, yo, Pat B, can I get pick, and I can be like, Yeah, I can hear my music. But also enough to see if motherfucking, it's a bomb in a building at the airport. So just enough to- Just some theme music. Right. Okay, cool. I walk out, look left on B-19. Oh, that's A, that's C. I look right I'm B-19. I see Christmas tree. I see people taking pictures with Santa. I go, I have to get this photo. I wait in line, Ron. Actually, not only do I wait in line, Ron. I asked two couples in front of me, Would you like for me take the pick?

You were in the Christmas spirit like that?

I'm talking about Ron. I get a photo. I got a photo with Santa, man. I was lost for words. I wanted to hug him, but I gave him one arm, and he was just so cool. So, yeah, shout out to Santa, man. I felt like he was real that day. That day, I felt like that Santa was real as fuck.

Some Santas can't be real as shit. That's a real-ass dude.

Yeah, I'm talking about boots were great. The fucking reinders. I mean, it wasn't real reinders, but the The fake... It was great. It was big Christmas tree in the middle. Yeah, shout out to JFK Airport, man.

You think that real Santas get paid a little bit more than the fake Santas? Like the real beard?

I think, yes, they get paid more. Or they should get paid more.

A higher demand because you have to maintain that beard year round.

Year round, yeah.

But some of the fakes, if it's a good fake, you know what I mean? If it's a bad fake, it's a slap of the face.

Yeah, but as When you get older, you know the good fakes and bad fakes. You feel me?

Yeah. You could tell it's a fake.

Yeah. You could tell a guy who he was put on this planet to be a Santa Claus, to help little kids. But yeah, I felt like I was... You feel me? I found out he wasn't really 11, so I felt like I was nine again.

Yeah, that's amazing. That's a great feeling. It's a shame you robbed your children with that feeling.

Dad to dad.

Yeah.

When you go let them know.

Whenever they find out. I'm not I don't want to be the one to tell them.

Okay, that's respect. Why?

Just so they can find out on their own. I don't want to be like, the world will take the magic from them. I don't want to be the one to take the magic.

When you go tell them, don't drink and drive.

I'm taking that magic right away.

Okay. I'm just trying to make sure the consistency all... I'm just trying to look for a consistency as parenting because that's important.

Do as I say, not as I do.

Okay.

If you know what I I mean?

Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Just kidding. Just kidding. Yeah. Okay. Parenting, parenting, 101, wrong. I love it.

But it's just fun. I mean, if you're at the Christmas concert with the other dads passing around, everybody takes a single shot of whiskey out of the flask and you drive after that, your blood alcohol is at a point, too. You know what I mean? I guess zero dollars maybe should be some people's policy, but it's nice to have- Or you just have a wifey drive back.

She know the vibe. Say, Baby, I'm coming this bitch get fucked up. I need you to be the DD. That's right.

Exactly. Then there's some years It's her year to get fucked up at the Christmas concert. You know what I mean? She's got the moms around.

I know, but women take it too far. Here we be a fight break out that bitch.

She'll be in the front row with the video camera two-step.

Ma'am, can you sit down, please? Excuse me, this is my son. That's my son.

Those are my sons. Hit the harmony, boys.

Right. Stand up, sing. Fix your shirt.

Fix your shirt. Was there any stage moms at At the Christmas concert you went to?

No, it was cool and collective. It was calm, cool and collective. It was smooth. It was smooth.

That is nice.

But this is a rich-ass school. I ain't going to say this school because I don't want to put no pressure on them. But this is a rich-ass school. I see motherfuckers. I see on TV as parents at the motherfucking school this morning, I said, Oh, okay, these are one of this schools. I went to the motherfucking parking lot, Ron. It was like a car show. Lamborghini trucks, Black Lime Green, Ford, 850. 950s, motherfucking 950s. It was motherfucking Ferrari. It was, Hey, you parked your Rolls-Royce in front of this Porsche. It was wild. It was a thousand Teslas. It was insane.

The school was insane. That's why you wanted the Lambo truck. That's keeping up with the Jones. You went I went to the- No.

The Ferrari truck.

The Ferrari truck. Excuse me.

I don't want a damn Lambo. I want the Ferrari one.

I'm sorry, bro.

No need to apologize.

No, that's just tax bracket differences. I didn't know that one was trash. One is small.

One is small.

Got it. And you want the big one.

Yeah, I got the road truck, so that's the biggest one, the biggest SUV on Earth.

Yeah, seeing all that at the Christmas concert. I wonder if it's crazy because as famous as some of those parents are, you know some of those kids are just disrespecting their parents anyway.

No, it's absolutely insane. I could just imagine. I can only imagine.

Because it's not like they see their mom as this famous person that has a reality show about them or this famous person who's in the NFL. They see their mom as their mom who's telling them to do shit, and they're like, You're fucking corny, mom. Shut up, mom. Shut up. Shut up, Kendall.

Just don't talk. Just don't talk. You know me, I'm still parent. Officer, I can't punch, but I can open hand still. Yes, but not open Just making sure I'm passing all the necessary tests as a parent throughout the laws that I should.

You get the call right now.

If you're bad. You feel me? No close. It's parents' That's the information also. Don't close, Fish. Hit your children. Open hand is not against the law. So yeah, more open hands.

Yes. It's an open hand state, California. My question is, though, is it hard to even celebrate Christmas in California, bro? It's not even cold out. If you're just driving through LA, you wouldn't really know that it was Christmas or Christmas time.

I know, but that's if you're not from LA, though. A bunch of these people, you feel me? The only thing they know Only thing they see is LA. To them, that's the absolute norm. Now, if you're coming from somewhere else to LA, then it's actually a vibe. Oh, my goodness. Santa got on shorts. It's also like, Oh, my God, I've never seen that. I only see this movies. And when you go from LA to New York, it's the same thing. So it's just where you're from.

Yeah, it does. Are they putting up Christmas decorations?

Everything everywhere. If I'm a New York kid, I'm a Chicago kid. So Me going to Miami and seeing Santa with shorts on was the coolest thing. Me coming to Cali and seeing all the Christmas decorations, but I can literally walk outside and feel like it's Halloween with Christmas decoration was a vibe. Everyone's just different.

I'd rather see a Santa with a fake beard than shorts on. I'd run up to him and be like, You're not the real Santa with your shorts on? It would be dramatic as a kid.

With fake snow or you like the dirty New York snow, you want the whole thing, huh?

But I'm saying in New York, there might be an old English-style light that's lit up by gas with a garland wrapped around it and a red bow on it. It looks like it makes sense because there's brick buildings around and it feels like Christmas. It's cold, there's wreaths on doors. It's all packed in. You can see a bunch of different Christmas decorations in all different directions. The lights, the trees with lights, the ice skating. There's a different level of the picture that you're painting. I'm sure Chicago is the same way.

Yeah, same way, but I ain't really outside that long to look at that shit wrong because it's cold. Then the motherfucker, I ain't going to lie to you. My motherfucking ear is cold. You know my mama let me out the house without no motherfucking ear muscle, no hat. So now my ears are really cold. My hands are cold. I really want to get back in the car and just look from this point.

Yeah, but you drive around through some of the... You ever go through a neighborhood with nice lights? That shit is nice.

It's phenomenal, but it's even better when you can stand outside the car and walk around and actually see Rudolf and be like, Oh, man, it's nice, and go to a house when a lady comes out with a Christmas sweater and they give you candy canes. So it's like Halloween for Christmas in LA. It's very different.

Yeah, it's very interesting. I've never been out there for a Christmas, but you said it seems like you like it.

You love it. You get your little Santa hat, you You got your little Christmas hat with the white little ball at the top, you open it up and you go to houses, then they give you candy canes, and it's different candy canes. And there might be the Starbucks candy canes, the candy canes that you're like, man, I don't even know how you get these candy canes. So that Christmas is very different. Because I know in New York, I ain't getting no motherfucking walking up to no people's houses and getting candy canes. I know that.

We're not going door to door. Hell, no.

It's different. Different vibes. You would enjoy it. Your kids, your twin boys would enjoy it.

That would be interesting. It's funny because LA likes to act like they experience the cold in that for the last 20 years, dudes have been wearing beanies. Ladies have been wearing beanies, winter hats in the summertime, hanging off the back of their hat, hoodies and shit. They barely need hoodies out there.

From 11:00 to 3:00 is when it's really nice. But early in the morning, it's motherfucking 30 degrees. Late at night, it's fucking 45 degrees. It's 40 degrees. It's cold as fuck.

You guys need the hoodies and the beanies?

Well, hey, oh, yeah, you need hoodie beanie. You go come back with a sniffle, sniffle.

In LA?

Yeah, you go come back with a... Yeah, you see, my shit ain't even as clear.

Damn. The last thing I want is to catch a cold. Maybe I wasn't familiar with your game out there that you guys do experience the cold. Some snow though. I know you hate this place a lot, so you just-I'm trying to convince myself of reasons to hate it. Other reasons to hate it. It's probably because I'm jealous of the sunshine.

Yeah, I don't know why.

It's Because I'm jealous.

It's trying to commit a crime into getting into my house right now. And I'm like, Wait, wait, wait. I'm shooting a pod. Wait, son.

Yeah. We have an attack dog. Keep the sunshine out. We have an alarm system. Don't fuck with us. Can I hit you with the Christmasy New Amsterdam starting five?

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Okay. As like guard center?

Yeah. I need them basketball positions.

Okay. I'm going, You know I got to go GB. Got to go him.

Gb.

Not my buddings, not my gum drop buddings. Yeah, I got it. I got to go gingerbread. I got to go gingerbread. I got to go gingerbread. That's my motherfucker. Now, he at my two. He the man. He's Ginger, so I'm looking at him as a white shooter. You feel me? My gum dropped buttons. What are you doing? You feel me? So I'm definitely going Ginger at the two. You can't catch me on the gingerbread man. Right. So, yeah, you feel it. You feel it? For sure, I'm going Santa. I'm going Santa. I'm going to go Santa at my four. I'm going to go small. I'm going to go a little pick-a-pop game. Oh, shit. Because Santa is the playmaker. You can throw it back to Santa, and Santa can get in the paint, go down chimney, throw dime. He like giving away. You know what I'm saying? He likes giving.

But 13 rebounds, too, though.

You feel me? He's stocky enough where he can post it a little bit, right hook, I can rebound, and I'm a really good play.

Horace Dio type of-Oh, D. Al. Santa Claus has D. Al game. But he'll catch you on a back door to your cutting baseline. Santa won't even... Eyes in the back of his head, sees you when you're sleeping, sees when you're awake.

You hear what I'm saying.

So you hear what Yes, 100 %.

Now, my three man is exclusive. No one's like him. Had a very shiny nose. He is my man.

He'll make it rain, dear.

Listen, fuck making it rain. If any motherfucker that can go from the motherfucking North Pole to the rest of your motherfucking United States and give Eric motherfucking gives, I'm riding him like a horse wrong. He could do everything. He is the Wind B, LeBron, all that shit. He can literally do everything. I'm getting you to where you need to go. Yes. And I'm getting you, me and my homies, are getting you to where you need to go.

Are you worried that he might be a clubhouse cancer? Because I heard all the other Rudolfs or all the the Reindier, they'd laugh, call him names, stuff like that. Is he too concerned with fitting out instead of fitting in?

I think with that team, once I put the stretch for and I put GB with him, I think he's the man, but he has a lot of help around him.

I think SC is helping them out as much as GB. They have that chemistry. Sc and Rudolf, that's a nice chemistry.

I'm talking about one, two punch.

They went to college together.

Now you hear what I'm saying. They know each other like the back of in his hands. Okay? Okay. Now, we got the point guard and we got the center position.

Yes.

Do these have to be characters?

It has to be Christmas associated.

Okay. Well, the Candy Candy Can is my motherfucking five wrong.

Candy Can is the end of it. The Candy Can is not deeing anybody up. It's literally a cane.

I just need them to stand tall, Ron. That's all I need them to do. That's all I need them to do is stand That's it. Just stand tall and put your hands up, Candy. That's all I need to do, Ron. And think about the biggest Candy Can. You might have sent a huge Candy Can. Like, man, that Candy Can. Big as fuck, bro. Like, what the fuck? And some Candy Can are wiry, athletic. You feel me? They might break a little bit, but they taste good, though, Ron. Candy Can is my five. These are my five.

That's really good. And we need a center from you. And then I'm going to hit you with mine. Nothing, no overlaps.

That's my five. I got to give you a PG.

Wait, Candy Can is your five?

Yeah.

Oh, I thought it was your point card.

No, Candy is my five. I'm thinking about the big Candy Can. I'm thinking about the New York things, as you put it earlier.

Yeah, they're going to have an incredible hook shot.

Okay, now you see where I'm going, bro.

Of course, brother.

You see where I'm going. You see where I'm going. Good hook. Good right hook or left hook, however you twist them in terms.

It can guard both Both sides of the rim.

Now you hear what I'm saying. So he's my five. Santa's my four. Rudolf is my three. Gengie, we call him Gengie. You all might call him Gingerbread Man. Gengie, we call him. He's my two. My point guard My point guard Ron, I might need a little help for this one.

Oh, bro, I can't give you one of mine.

Okay, cool.

You got this, bro. You know who the answer is to this.

I think I do, but I'm going to jump out the box for this one.

You should. That's what the answer is. It's outside the box.

My point is Mrs. Claus. I'm going Mrs. Claus. My point is Mr. Claus. She going to She's going to contain Santa. She going to make a shit, every motherfucker making the right decisions. Remember, every time you saw Mrs. Claus, she was putting Santa on game. She was the one orchestrating shit, writing shit down, and, okay, yeah, you got to go here, motherfucker. Yeah. Okay, cool. Candy Can. You go left, he'll come here. Give Jen G the ball. Rudolf, take us home. You feel me? She was the mastermind behind everything. That's my five, Ron. I win.

I mean, you have to hear mine. Well, I'll start off- Okay, here we go.

I don't care about it. I win with that one.

I'll start off with the MI4. Okay. Frosty the Snowman. Come on, bro. Put respect on Frosty the Snowman.

I ain't going to lie. That's a good one. That's a great one. He's a bucket. Frosty's a bucket.

Yeah, and he could D up Santa. Same body type. You know what I mean?

I'm trying to say same, but no. With Frosty, you could put a motherfucker tree branch on this motherfucker side of his waist. His motherfucking arms could be down the street with the correct snow.

But at the same time, you could better hope the Christmas Day game isn't in Miami because Frosty the snowman is a puddle at the end of the bench.

That's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying. He can't play everywhere. That's what I'm saying. He can't play everywhere, Ron. Frosty can't play everywhere. That's all I'm saying. You might be for a player. No, back to back for Frosty. No, I'm talking about load, actually management.

Yeah, we really have to load. But at his best, he's cold.

He's cold, though. You feel me? He goes to any hot places. Half of the NBA, he's literally not available. Actually, he's small. He turns frisky, the snowman, if you know what I'm saying. He gets tiny as hell. Say less, though. Okay.

You like that pick. So three men. He's going to ruin your day. Defensive stopper. The great Rich.

That's a good person to put on Rudolf, too. Because that's a good- Psychological. Yeah. You put the Grinch on a motherfucker, your best player, it's a long day.

He's a mean one.

And the green one.

Yeah, he really is.

He's mean and green. The real deal. I like that one.

No, Draymunt, bro. He really is locked in.

He's the real deal. He's locked in, literally. And he want all the smoke, and he going to smile in your face, too. Big smile up to his eyebrows. He different.

And you would have touched him with a 39 and a half foot pole. That's also been part of his story. At my center, I'm going with the train from the Midnight Express.

You're going, okay. You're going power. I'm going power. You're going power. The Train from the Midnight Express.

It's Candy Cane Shatterer. It will fuck up a Candy Cane.

Yeah, I like that one. The Night in the last two positions because you sound like you have a defensive team and no one to get buckets. It sounds like you got some loose areas somewhere, especially at that four position. So your guards are critical right now.

I'm going to underdog story with my two guard. Underdog story. Talk to me. The sad tree from Charlie Brown.

Yeah, that ain't going to cut it.

No, but it starts off as a sad tree, but it turns out being the tree that they needed. At the end of the day, that sad tree, it turns into the pivotal part of Christmas for the Charlie Brown family.

Okay, but if you have that tree and Frisky the Snowman or Frosty the Snowman, one of those ain't going to be available because that tree had a whole bunch of leaves on it. So if we're in the wintertime, that tree ain't available. And if we go to the summertime, Frosty ain't available. So you still got holes on your team, bro. You got holes on your team, bro. That tree was tall. It It was full of leaves. It was just sad. It was so many leaves that we didn't even see anything else but the leaves.

Yeah, it's going to peak around the wrong time of the year is what I'm worried about.

That's what I'm worried about. It's a tree. So now when it gets cold and Frosty's, he's healthy as he can be, you have no one to stop G. B. No one to stop G. G.

Well, I think I have one guy. And he's sad.

And he's sad.

But that's my point card is that one guy that's going to be able to change all this because he's going to be able to lift people up, and he has that glow. And I'm talking about freshly born, newborn baby Jesus Christ. Freshly born, swaddled in a manger, come to save all mankind.

You're not losing with that thing. With that one player, with that one player, you can't lose with that one player. You can't. Let's Ms. Claus, get them and get them putting them to sleep. Unless Ms. Ms. Claus.

She rocks the baby on- That's Ms..

Claus rocking the baby, putting them in her sleep.

That's her best bet at defense to smother him in the Ms. Claus bosom. You know what I mean?

I'm talking about Ms. Claus going to put that baby right to sleep. We know her. She going to put him right to sleep, bro.

Cookies and milk.

I'm talking about waiting on him like warm fireplace. She's literally doing this to him right now. He's sleep, eyes closed. You got a motherfucker who's sleep. You got a motherfucker who ain't got no motherfucking leaves inside, and you got a skinny snowman. No, bro, I'm not rolling. I'm not rolling. I win that game.

Over Jesus?

He sleep.

He sleep.

He's putting them to sleep right now.

But that comes with the He's gifted, bro. What are you talking about?

Okay, it's only day games for Jesus. Because he can't play at night. He's going to be sleep.

Yeah, but who's more gifted, bro? Tnt, bro. He's not getting the silver medal. He's getting the gold medal with the frankincense and the bird.

I totally agree with you. But at my point guard, his defender is Mrs. Claus, bro.

That is match-up problems.

That is literally, if it was one person that was a match-up problem, it's only her. Only her.

Damn, bro. You might have this. I should have put Jesus at the two.

Yeah, he killed Gengi. He killed Gengie. Eats him alive. Yeah, kill him. But you're going against Mrs. Claus, that's a tough one.

Brutal. Hard ache for my squad, but I'm proud of them. No.

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But they go cut the beta off and put Generation B, so that don't sound really soft.

B definitely doesn't sound soft. Then after that- G-B, Gingerbread.

There you go again. He said he pop it up.

G-b, Generation B. But then what if they go Generation B and then Generation C after that? You know what I mean? I guess B is fighting against the Cs.

Chill. Not too much of a Christmas time. Not too much. And I'm in LA, too, so relax.

Okay. Say no more.

Hey, Ron, I'm gone.

Hey, Merry Christmas.

Happy New Year. I'll talk to you before, though.

All right. Blessings. Love, love, love, love, love.