Yeah. Before you leave before you leave, Pat, I just wanna hit you with with some news, bro, some personal news, but this is for next, we'll talk about this maybe in the next couple of pods down the line, but, my my wife's pregnant. Yeah, bro. I'm fired up. Yeah.

I'm fired up too brother with, with twins, bro. With twin boys with twin boys.

Hey. Wait. Wait. Wait. Wait.

Wait. Wait. What the fuck? Congrats, my boy.

Thank you, bro. How crazy is that? How fucking nuts is that?

That motherfucker work work,

work, work, work, work, work. But yeah, bro. Yeah, bro. You're uncle. You're a wonkle or a bluncle.

I don't know which way it works. Yeah, bro. I'm excited, bro.

What the fuck is going on right now, dawg?

I just wanted to let you know before I say anything publicly or anything like that. Sick. Right?

Hey, Ron. Hey,

Ron. God, I wish I was there. Thank you, bro.

I wish I was there, bro. I'll give you the biggest hug in the world, bro. Welcome to fucking fatherhood. Ron.

Thank you. It's going to be exciting. It'll be a new journey.

But that has some little bad ass kids running around this bit.

Yeah. I'm definitely going to have some bad ass kids. So bad kids. It'll be fucking nuts. Yeah, bro.

I'm excited.

What'd your dad say?

He was pretty fucking taken aback. I don't think he's I've ever seen him, shed a tear since, his mom died in like 1998, but, Yeah, he, he shed tear, so it was pretty it was pretty special. He's pretty fired up. He's so, because he's the, his dad was the only male of his family. He's the only male of his family.

I'm the only male of my family. So the name has been holding on by a thread and I was positive it was gonna be girl. And now I got 2 of them out in the world re repopulating 1 furone at a time or 2 furones at a time. I'm fired up, bro. Deborah, I've been asking you the parenting questions on the pod, bro.

I've been sneaking them by I've been sneaking them past you.

I need to be there right now, bro. I need to be right next to you right now, dawg.

Thank you, bro. That's so nice of you.

We're we're having twins?

Yes, bro. Patrick and Patrick.

No. Not too much. Not too much. But

Yeah. But how much is that? Exciting.

Oh, hey, dog. Congrats, man. Shout out to wifey, miss Allison, bro. Shout out to fucking lady a.

That's very nice of you. Some more for runs to go around. She's a trooper.

No. I'm talking about my my heart is, is beating real fast of excitement, bro.

Thank you, bro. It's a whole new journey.

To be able to experience this with you, bro. Congrats, my boy. Congrats, my dog.

Dude, it's gonna be fun. Yeah. At some point, we'll put this out, I guess, since we're still fine.

I don't even wanna let you go. I feel like I wanna I wanna hold them out, bro.

Like, you mean Same, bro. It's all I think about. It's gonna be sick. You know, they're 18 weeks in, in, the womb. So, they're on their way, all healthy, just sitting on top of each other, just chilling like an equal sign, just stacked up top bunk, bottom bunk chilling.

You play it too much. Like there you go plan again, bro. They

each have their own apartment. Thank you, bro.

Appreciate it.

Thank you. Rightfully. So, so do I, Yeah. It should be dope, but I appreciate your reaction and, happy I could tell you.

What? I'm just waiting for you. I'm waiting for you to be like,

no. Fuck that. I don't have any fucking kids. What the fuck? No.

This is real, fortunately.

Will you hey. I got a question. I'm a let you go. Hit me. Hit me.

You say you sold NY like PlayStation. You having them in New York or Philly?

New York to start, for sure.

So you go they're gonna be birthed in New York?

For sure. Probably Cornell Hospital.

And that's that's, like, 8 months what's that? 7 months from now?

No. That's April. The end of April started May. 4 or 5, so we're halfway. Because 20 tomorrow

When I when I come home, they gonna be like

Oh, they'll be fucking, big time.

Little big, juicy, fat ass white kids.

Oh, yeah. They're gonna they better be reading, honestly. I'm gonna be having them on, the baby Mozart from the rip. You know? Just try to be teach them how to how to surf or play piano or something.

I'm gonna be a tiger dad.

That you're you listen. You're a phenomenal person. This is it's gonna be a breeze for you. Literally, a breeze.

That's what I keep saying. Nobody keeps seem to agree with me. They're all like, this is gonna this not suck, but this is gonna be a heavy lift having 2 kids at the same time, going from 0 to 2. But it'll be I mean, I won't know any different.

What the fuck is going on, Mike? What's going on, Mike? Tyler, what's going on? What is going on right now?

Some young pod children.

What the heck? Kids doing a pod. It's so fire, bro. That is so fire to me.

Yeah. They're just gonna be I don't know. I've been asking you advice. I mean, I'm just trying to catch up to you. I'm I'm I ain't

no advice. You do. You parent your way, bro. I'll stop shit. You parent your way, bro.

Fair enough. Yeah. Yeah. That's fair. Man, good shit, my bro.

Next time you have a glass, raise 1 up twice, and, yeah, it should be fun.

Love you, brother.

Likewise, my friend. I'm gonna hit these ads, but, we'll talk

to you soon. On nobody.

Yeah. Don't well, let it slip, please.

Love you, brother.

PAPF EP pod with Roan. We are internationally connecting. We are literally living in the future right now. Well, actually, it's the past because we recorded this, and now you're listening to it. But it's we're in the future because we're on 2 different sides of the world talking with 1 another.

If freaking Thomas Edison could see us now, dude, if if whoever invented

They said it was a black guy.

That invented the telephone?

I don't know. Alexander Graham Bell.

Alexander Graham Bell seems like a nice possession receiver. Alexander Graham Bell, unlike the Cleveland Browns, fucking catching 12 yards to pass 62, £230. I I could see him coming up with the phone. How are you, my friend? Good to see you.

I've had better days. I have better days. How about you? How are you?

I've had good days, and I've had I've had bad days.

Man, I think just the pod of sorrow.

Yeah. You're you're you're injured, bro. What what's goin' on?

Craziest game of the year. Ron, I'm talking about I go to, we play Maccabi. Right? And, obviously, in Israel, this is, this is Super Bowl vibes. You know?

And you can you can feel the the anticipation building up from, like, 2 days before the game. Everybody's just a little extra focused. Everybody's just a little extra just doing a little extra you know, just a little bit more work. If you was in a gym for 10 minutes, fuck it. You're in a gym for 25 minutes.

Right? And I'm saying it, how important it is throughout the week, based on everyone's reactions, everyone's energy, everyone's

The demeanor.

Right. And I said, okay. Cool. Alright. I you know, I'm I'm always locked there for any, you know, any and every game anyway.

So but I'm just looking around, and I'm noticing, like, okay. Cool. Like, it's a really big deal. You know? So, we've run out.

Jam packed, wrong. I'm talking about that bitch was lit. That bitch was lit. I'm talking about it was classic euro euro vibes. The the crowd was out.

Our crowd was out. The environment was phenomenal. Floyd Mayweather was at the game. I mean, like, the the vibe was the vibe was crazy running out to it. We got a section up top.

All are hot oil fans. Y'all are hot oil. Then we got all yellow surrounding us. This shit was crazy. It was it was a movie.

Right? So I'm coming out, and I so I'm I'm out. I'm running out last, and I hit a boos. Fuck you, Beverly, and this shit, that day. And I'm like, oh, yeah.

Okay. Cool.

I'm home.

But before we but before we start the game, I you know, we go through a little pregame shoot around. And I've been in a real, like, a real nice groove lately. Like, I've been I've been fucking hooping. I've been in in a really nice groove since I came back off the break. But this particular shootaround wrong, I think I missed 2 shots the whole shootaround.

Like, I I everything I threw, I was trying to miss it. Not trying to miss, but I was just trying to make it hard with just flicking the wrist and just staying the way shit was going in. So I'm like, okay. That's the type of day it is today. I'm about to get a ass dirty.

I'm talking about when I come out that motherfucker. I was talking about I think I get lay up, bang. I get fade away, bang. 2020, tween, cross step, fake step back, bang. I'm on fire, bro.

I think I got 7 points in 3 minutes. Oh. I I think I got 7 points. MacKabi got, like, 11 or 10 points. Like, I'm I'm damn just going more than they scoring.

I think I check back in, man. I make move, blow past the motherfucker. I feel pop. Now I'm I'm I'm scared because I really haven't felt popped ever in my career.

Shout out to San Antonio.

You know what I'm saying? So I'm I'm hoping, like, okay. I don't feel not knee. I'm able to walk. I don't feel anything Achilles.

I'm able to walk. Like, you feel me? So I'm like, alright. Cool. That's cool.

But I just feel, like, this bad ass cramp in my upper, like, left thigh. And I'm thinking like, okay. Maybe you know what I'm saying? I don't know. Maybe I cramped up or something and whatever.

We go to the locker room and, you know, we move it around and loaded a little bit and tried to go back out there 3rd quarter. So it finds out that I I tore, like, a little little small tear in my in my, my quad. It lasted in, like, 2 to 6 weeks, but I came back 3rd quarter wrong. I didn't even know the motherfucker tore wrong. I came back 3rd quarter, dog.

I get the ball. I'm limping on 1 leg, come off, pick a rope, throw no look to a dump. Like, I really couldn't move because my shit was achy. But we left the game, went to the hospital. We we end up losing the game.

Left the game, went to the hospital. They die so the doctor comes out. I got CTILL. Person number, like, yo. 6 months.

So I come out like, yo. What'd they say? They said 6 months. I'm 6 months. What the fuck?

Months? But but, no, it was, you know, the language barrier. So it was 6 weeks. So that's where I'm at right now. My team is on the road.

We just we've lost a big game. I started off hot. I mean, the team started off hot. We was 19, and we was beating they ass. Like, it was crazy in there.

It was a vibe. But, we came up short, and team was on the road, and I'm and I'm and I'm home trying to heal up, bro.

Damn, bro. That's fucking so so when you feel the pop, where is the pop in your in the along the thigh? Like, where

Right there. Go up. Go up. Go up.

Towards the top of the muscle.

Yeah. Right there. So it's in a good place where

low or the like, on top of the hip, like like about 6 inches down from the hip type of deal.

Yeah. Yeah. But you go down a little bit more, though. You go down a little bit more. Like in the meaty part of the quad.

Yeah. Like right there. Like in the meaty part of the yeah. So it's not in a it's actually in a good spot because, you know, it's, you know, it's a huge muscle, and there's so many muscles, like, around that area, and a lot of blood goes to that area. So the hiller process will be cool, but it's just I was in a good groove this year.

I was you know what I'm saying? Like, I've been healthy all year. I don't like missing practices. I don't like missing games. Now I gotta miss, you know, 4 or 5 weeks, you know, with this shit.

But

What what's the main motion that it kind of restricts?

For reasons. Nothing really. Like, I'm I'm cool here extending here. I'm cool. It's just like a bad cramp.

It's just like a cramp that just doesn't go to what just hasn't went away.

Oh, that's fucking brutal.

Yeah. It don't hurt. It's just nagging. You know what I'm saying? Like

It just sucks to have it happen in that game too because

it's such

high stakes.

Expect oh, especially when I was cooking wrong. I'm tell them, I my first 3 shots all met. I'm through for 37 points in 3 minutes. Like, I just had 10 points in the Q1 last game. I'm like, oh, man.

I'm about to get a 30 minutes over with.

The closest thing to a game like that in the United States is the Yankees against the Mets. 2 teams in the same city where it's like they hate each other, but we don't even really have that. It exists more in European soccer where it's like Man City against Man United, where they all live in the same city. One's a fan base of 1, one's a fan base with the of the other, and they can literally, like, fight each other because they see each other around. It's almost you're you're, like, wearing colors of a certain side, and there's an undertone of violence.

It would be nice if if it would be nice if the US had more rivalries like that. Like, you get, like, Packers, Bears.

Yeah. Yeah. Right.

Right. Right. In state, multiple teams

in the same city. Like, don't put them in different divisions. Like, the Yankees and the Mets, like, don't even see each other that much because they're in AL and NL. Like, the Dodgers and, I mean, I guess, the Clippers and the Lakers could be like that or, like, the Nets and the and the Knicks could be like that, but it's not even really like that. It would be nicer.

Like that. Yeah. Yeah. It's not even like they're not even not even close.

Jets and Giants aren't even like that. Like, I guess maybe Yankees, Red Sox is kinda like that, but having a derby like Chelsea against who else plays in fucking London? Fulham?

That's all you. You said I'm just nodding my head with you.

Yeah. I'm fucking reaching the extent of my knowledge. I've overexposed myself.

That's my that's my bad news. What what's up with your bad news? Talk to me.

Well, I I mean, I I don't know if they put it at the beginning.

Good news.

Yeah. If they put it at the beginning of the podcast, I don't know if

it's Instagram.

If not, just yeah. Yeah. We could put it here.

Right. Your Instagram. Fuck that. I gotta say it. You told me, you you know, after the last episode, I wanted to go on Instagram and tell everybody, but I didn't.

I told

you I won't go

yeah. I told you I won't go tell people, but I did, though, Ron. I told my side of the family, but they everybody was cool.

They said uncle Pat's gonna be in motion. We we gotta

Everybody was mom.

A wife.

Everybody was hype. Cuzo was hype. Everybody died.

Pair of weffues. We got white nephews. We got Wefues.

I like wefues. I like wefues.

We got some wefues in the family. But, yeah, I'm having, my wife is pregnant. It was twins, and it's twin boys. So thank you so much, dude. Super happy to be pregnant.

These are my first children. And,

I can't wait to see my web fuse.

The web fuse. It's it's about time we got some web

fucking the

few stuff, dude. Because it's 2 w's.

But then that was, celebrated. And then after that, I I think some awful news.

So on Wednesday, we, announced that to the world. And then on Thursday morning, we were waking up with a call that, my wife's dad suddenly passed away, and it's been brutal. She talked to him the day before. She talked to him the day before that. They had a great relationship.

Did she tell him about the, about the twin?

He knew about the twins. I got to be there. I got to be there when he, when we told him this summer or at the end of the summer. Maybe it was the fall. And he was just so excited.

Like, his face lit up. Her sister just had a baby, so she he just met his first grandkid about 4 months ago. But, you know, life is just beginning to happen, and then you just get met with the other side of it that life, is a cycle. And, and, unfortunately, it's been a sad time for my family finding him at the end of that cycle, but we've also got

got it wrong.

Thank you, bro. I appreciate that. We got to go through a lot of his stuff, and we're, like, just kind of figuring out really the depths of who he was as a person. And, he really was a a great guy and just a great dad. He loved his 2 daughters so much, and that's, like, the most important thing at the end of the day, and it's a good example of, what kind of dad I could try to be when the when the time comes.

Well, prayers up, Dallas, and our family bro stayed up. Prayers up.

Thank you, bro. That's very nice of you. It's been a tough couple days, but that's, always attached to loss. And, you know, loss makes, I think, the things that we have and the people that we have way more precious, and you feel tighter bonds to everybody that reached out and people that care and just people in your life, you realize that this is a finite thing that we get to enjoy being alive on earth, and, it's truly precious. So, I appreciate you, saying that, and I appreciate you reaching out this week.

No. No. You put I'm a so, obviously, news of the twins led me the fuck up. Right? And I'm telling everybody telling everybody not to tell everybody type shit.

Like, I'm I'm lit the fuck up.

Right.

And then, you know, I get the text the next morning. It was, like, a complete halt, like and it was so much so many questions going through my head. Like, damn, did they did they tell him? Did he know? Did he know about the twins?

Oh, how is she feeling? I'm a dad. I got a daughter, like, girl dad. Like, how's the fam? You know what I'm saying?

It's about a bunch of shit. Just, you know, just fam. Just prayers up, dog. Prayers up to wifey dog and her, and her and her and her and her and her family, bro. Prayers up to you guys, bro.

Thank you so much. Yeah. It suck it just sucks. But, you know, I I appreciate it. He was 72.

So he had a full life, but at the same time, that's less than the average life expectancy for an American male. And, you still feel like it's cut short because he just is, like, around the corner from Yeah. Meeting these 2 2 more grandkids. Like, it's right there. And the news comes so close with 1 another where there where people are, like, congratulating us when they haven't found out that he passed away.

So it's just this, like, kinda whirlwind of, like,

weird violence. Think about that 1. Yeah. Yeah.

You know what I mean? But, I'm not trying to bring the mood down, and I appreciate you and, everybody who's, like, fans of what of what we do for reaching out.

Hold on. Fuck that. Fuck that. We gotta do it right. Because I'll be going in these NBA games and these arenas, and they be they be doing moments of silence for people that I that I I ain't even met.

So we gonna do a we gonna do we gonna take some time out. Allison's dad, your dad, you know, we just go take a couple seconds out.

Yeah. Fathers in general, for sure.

Very good, baby. Yep.

It's funny coming back to, work, but it is also nice, I mean, for me, just having other stuff to focus on and, being able to come in and broadcast, talk basketball, and everything like that, and just hearing about what's going on. Always welcome to have a distraction, and there's probably a lot of people where the Pat Bev Pod is a distraction for them. So we are happy to be here every week for them, giving them some action, giving them some love, giving them something to talk about. So let you know a little bit of basketball. Let's get into some basketball.

I feel like that's appropriate. Let's go

basketball. Basketball.

Want NBA?

Should we go NBA or should we go Euro? You wanna hit me with the Euro? Hit me with the Euro.

Euroleague. Let's go Euroleague. You gotta shout out to the team Paris, man. I think they won 10 games consecutively within the Euroleague. The kid TJ Shorts is is putting on a fucking show.

I think Thiago splitter is a coach. He's a player I used to play against overseas and in the NBA. So shout out to Perez, man. They holding shit down in the Euroleague.

When Thiago splitter got, where he was on the Spurs, and I think he got drafted from Spain. So he was, originally a European bro, but I thought that that was about to be a fucking game changer. And, honestly, it was because he had that do you remember that block he had in the finals?

Yeah. I remember he got his shit blocked too by LeBron.

Yeah. He got his shit. He they, like, went it it might have was it all consecutive plays? Or, like, did he dunk on somebody?

Memory to me.

There was, like, a back and forth that Thiago splitter had with Braun where he did some sick shit, and then LeBron was like, oh, no. No. No. No. No.

And fuck him.

Right. Right.

Yeah. But it was

He's a good player, though. He's a really he was a he was a really good player. He's a really good coach too.

He's like a almost modern stretch 4 type guy.

Type shit. Yeah. Yeah. But it's crazy because, a lot of the fans don't know this. Like, we were, obviously I told you guys and I told a lot of people close to me.

You know, the decision of me standing in Tel Aviv with the team, you know, it was, you know, we there was some teams that offered you know, some EuroLeague teams. We really can't I'm not gonna really say their names because I don't wanna get any team or anybody in trouble, but it was some it was some teams from EuroLeague that, you know, that reached out that was willing to, you know, that that that needed a guard like me to was excited to come, you know, for me to join their team and the like, you know, we had to make a decision by Thursday. And, I text, right, I text our team captain, Barr. I text him like, yo, the hardest decision, you know, choosing basketball and, you know, following your heart. You know, what do you what do you actually do?

You know? And, I told him the team and he understood it. You know, he understood where I was coming from. So everyone, like, they know, like, oh, Pat. You know, he he got more you know, same amount of money.

It's your league team. This is a great city. Like, this is a no brainer. He's about to leave. Like, you you you have to leave.

Basically, everyone around me. You know? Family members, you have to leave. That's the best decision. So I got, like, to Thursday to make decision wrong.

I'm fine. We play I think we play Wednesday in, Bulgaria. I think me and you record pod Tuesday.

Right.

I tell you I tell you the team Tuesday. We play Wednesday. Beat ass Wednesday. Leave Thursday. Nah.

On the LAN, by 9 o'clock that evening, I gotta make a decision if I'm leaving, you know, my current team hop well and and and moving on. Everything's lined up. I, I talked to coach Deadass. I talked to I talked to our new coach. And I go, No, I ain't leavin'.

Everybody around me was shocked. Like, What? I'm like, No, I'm not leavin'. I can't leave. I can't leave.

I came down here and I promised the Triple Crown down here. I gotta see this through. I got family members calling me. You're not taking this is what you this is the EuroLeague. This is what you you know what I'm saying?

This is what you're tryna your team to. Like, what if you guys don't make it? I fuck that. We gonna make it. I got faith in us.

I got

faith in the coach.

I got faith in my team. Now I'm staying. To stay and get stay and get hurt is wild.

Absolutely wild to me. Damn. You said you pulled the wolf of raw Wall Street. You said we ain't fucking leaving. I'm not fucking leaving.

Not everybody was like, wow. Like,

what are you gonna do

for, like and then I get hurt.

Oh my god. No good deed goes unpunished, they say.

I'm calling to come back. So but that that that that doesn't that doesn't even hit, but that's your role. I know we had to talk some euro stuff, so that's,

gotta talk some bureau stuff then. That's a hell of a saga. I think people will be interested to hear that saga.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm talking about like team ready, ready. They waiting on me like, yeah, we ready. We pay for buyout, we give you everything you need, you this, you that, Blah blah blah, this, that, that. And I'm like, no.

My agent like, what? I'm like, nah, I can't do that, man. Like this owner love me to death. This this fucking country loves me to death. Like I just I just left Shabbat with a great with the Tobin family.

Like, shout out to the Tobin family. Man, they invited me to Shabbat. Shabbat was fucking phenomenal, this past Friday. So yeah, man. That's, that was it for the Euroleague.

Can you walk?

Can can you walk? Euroleague. I'm staying Eurocup.

Damn. Eurocup. I'm not fucking leaving. Damn. Good for you, man.

Well, I mean, whatever I don't think you can make a bad decision in that circumstance, but I think that that was a bold decision for sure. And I think that you'll be, you know, it it the recovery will be speedy. You always come back a little bit faster and a little bit stronger than people expect. And I, I I know that about you. I know that you'll be able to come back and conquer all this.

I know it'll be fucking life for you, some Wolverine type shit. And it's the Manischewitz wine, the matzo balls, and the unleavened bread is gonna get you through, bro. The fucking

I know. Turn me up, bro. You talking that shit into me. You got me on mold right now. I like I like when you talk that shit.

You talking that shit.

Bro. Water to wine, bro. You'll come out with fucking 2 fishes for rehab, and you'll fucking leave with fucking bundles of loaves and bundles of fishes because you're gonna be living in abundance. No doubt. Some of the Dover soul, bro.

Go into that Mediterranean Sea, bro. Become a fisher of men out there. You know what I mean? In the, most biblical way possible.

Bro. Turn

around. This is gonna be light. This is gonna be light. Hit the the good good comes to good. What is what what explain to all my gentile brothers and sisters what goes on during Shabbat.

So okay. So I've been to 3 Shabbats. I've been to my team, make Shabbat. I've been to like, my my team, my owner, he had a Shabbat. And I've been to the the Tobin family.

They, they had a Shabbat. At the Tobin family, I met through a mutual friend, Omry Kasby.

Interesting. Yeah. He's a good, a good hooper.

Phenomenal family. I mean, if you guys see see see the picture I posted Saturday are for boys, that was in the basement of their their home in Israel.

Really?

I took that picture there.

That wasn't oh my god. I don't even think I put 2 and 2 together. Wait.

Let me look at this picture here. Yeah. So so

the fuck?

Yeah. So I went to the tote, miss miss Jennifer, my duke. Shout out to miss Jennifer. I called her my duke. She was on the ones and twos on the grill.

Food was great. Food was great. Wait. They knew I they knew I was coming, but so it was a lot of chicken. I'm a say that wrong.

It was a lot of chicken.

Because they heard you fucking talking about. We got legs, thighs, white meat, dark meat. Everything.

Everything. Chicken was fucking great. I took and they asked me doing Shabbat like, yo, Pat, when you record the pod, you gonna talk about us on the pod? I'm like, I'll see if it comes out, but I gotta talk about it now. He has 5 boys.

3 boys are in the army. Oh, wow. Yeah. I'm talking about, like, like, 1 lee 1 1 was supposed to leave the next day. You know, 1 came home early.

Like, real shit going on. You know what I'm saying? So, so I get there and, I'm greeted outside by some kids. Hey, yo, Patrick Gravi. Yo, what's up, man?

They got yamaka's on. It's it's it was a vibe. You going to the Togems house? Yeah. I'm going to the Togems house for Shabbat, man.

Okay, man. What's up? You know, me, I bring wine. I told my I I, you know, I, you know, I'm I'm heavy on the Google. What should I bring?

So I'm like, I see olives, but I ain't a big olive guy. So I'm like, should I bring olives? Fuck it, I'll just bring like 4 bottles of nice wine. So I bring the wine and I'm there. The family is fucking phenomenal, Right?

How big is it? I don't know. Let's say 1, 2, 4, 6, 8. Let's say 12, 13.

So 4 bottles of wine. That should do it.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And, they start off singing.

Right? They start off singing and praising, you know, and they give me the book. Like, what they're singing is 1 side is Hebrew, 1 side is English. You know what I mean? I'm reading it.

And, that's for the family prayer and I guess the husband's at the table. Do an individual prayer for just their wives. So they I flip page, see what they saying, you know, wife is my wisdom and they're saying all this in Hebrew and it's it's it's actually like dope. And you can see why marriage is last. Obviously, you know, you know, it's issues in any relationship.

But you see in the, you know, in in the Jewish community why family is so important. You're telling your wife how much you love her. You should be telling her every day, but to literally put a day aside, you know, before you eat dinner and just sing to her has to be, you know, I don't care what you're going on through that week. If you wanna take out that trash and you sing that song on Friday, things things gonna be a little bit better organically. You feel me?

That's amazing.

Right. So so I I wonder if

there's, like, the no. Go ahead. Go ahead. Go ahead.

So so I'm in there, and I'm and I'm chilling. You know me, and I'm and I'm, you know, I'm I'm I'm I'm getting settled. And you know me, I'm I'm I'm great with crowds. Right? So, like, I'm not really worried about that.

I I just didn't know what the fuck they were saying. And it's so I had the book. You know? I had the book and I'm reading along. Okay, that's nice, that's nice, that's nice.

And this Shabbat, no 1 had any phones. So I'm like, okay, cool. I would turn my shit off too. Like, you know, I'm promotional airplane mode, you know? I mean, they asked a bunch of barstool questions.

I'm talking about huge Boston guys. They had me rank my top 3 people at barstool.

What'd you say? What'd you say?

Babe was 1.

That's so cool.

Was 2.

That's so cool.

And I and I put Marty Mush as 3. I love Marty Mush's voice. I I I really do. I just love his voice, bro.

It's a great voice.

That's an

incredible voice, great accent.

Yeah. They had some friends over, and there was another small family there. And now we were just kicking the shit. They asked a bunch of NBA questions. They asked a bunch of barstool questions.

They asked a bunch of, you know, Ryan, Ron was the best. He could do everything. I'm like, nah, he's the best. What's the biggest thing? What's the biggest deal?

I mean, what's the biggest keys to having a pod? I told him, Your co hosts, me and Ron, we're really good because I'm black, he's white. So it's this thing I can touch on and some stuff he can touch on that really a lot of people can't. We both big fans of basketball. Ron is great.

So the Shabbat was good. So with Shabbat, the the most important thing is the dinner roll. Right? That's the most important. You know, and for me, you know, I'm the the lady in my kitchen is the lady like this seasoning.

Yeah. Could you, take out that trash and go give me that phone in there and tell your brother to come here and you know, right. You you but the season is still, you know, like, she got that motherfucker under her arm. You know what I'm saying? That's an extra.

Right. Right. Right. You feel me? So sometimes I go into people's households and I don't know how to food it taste.

Man, that shit was fired. I'm talking about fire. Fire. Everything was fire. Everything was fire.

I had some rice. I had a little bit of I had a little bit of chicken here. I had more chicken here. I asked rib eye steak here. It was phenomenal.

The the wine was phenomenal. Only thing that wasn't phenomenal, they had me drink this licorice drink, this, Israeli drink. What is it called? Alk. Alk Arak.

Arak. That shit is awful. That shit, it tastes like black licorice. And as a kid from the hood like me, you never saw black licorice. You only saw the red 1.

So when the black can you you're right. You're right. To it. Right. When the black liquor just came, I almost did shit.

Oh, that shit was god awful. And they told me it had a good taste at the end. I'm still waiting on the taste wrong. That shit was so bad.

You were taking shots of it or just, like, sipping it?

No. I took a shot. We took a shot of it.

Was it worse than, like, Mallort? You know that Chicago worst alcohol I've had. There ever?

No. Yeah. That that don't that ain't that ain't my cup of tea. I that didn't that didn't, that didn't that didn't do my taste buds any any good. No.

That's that's amazing, though. It seems like they were really giving you the red carpet as far as hospitality.

The, father, Popsy, owns a piece of the Memphis Grizzlies. I mean, we talking about a big stepper here. We're not talking about little fish. You know, the Toberman family, they they hold shit down. What we like to say in the hood, they names is straight.

I believe it. Tight shit. You feel me? So, I mean, they were giving me stories on how they had to, you know, take 28 courses to get their driver's license. They had to take their driver's like their their driving test with them and 2 people in the back with instructor.

Instructor is always a 6 year old man who wants everything to be done correctly. And, oh, man. Yeah. The stories were great. I'm talking about the the north in Gaza, and they're this and this.

And, yeah, I mean, yeah. It's, it was it was great. It was good to connect. It was good to connect.

It's I can't get over the fact that they sing to their wives how nice they are before every meal.

That's that I like that. I like that.

That we could make that pop off in the United States, but it would just have to be, like, modern songs. You know? It would have to be in the language that we speak. But it could be like some Motown or something like that. You know?

It could be something I wonder if the songs that they played were just the most popular songs at the time, the most popular style of song. Like, if it was pop music to them at the time or if it was always, like, old and biblical. Because if we're singing pop music ballads to our queens before we crack into our chicken and rice, the divorce rates in the in the country would plummet. I feel like people would love

That's what I'm saying.

Fellas get to sing

a little

bit. The ladies get a

little bit of praise. Migos. You came home late? Fuck it. I got this song on Friday.

Every Friday. Every Friday, I got a song coming from your late ass. You feel me? Logic and a lot like about Yeah. I got a song coming.

I got a song coming no matter what. Every Friday, I got a song on the way telling you how much you adore me. Hi. I am the wisdom of your life. And you know wrong, they singing it.

They singing a song, and I'm reading the words for where English sound like. Damn. They speaking that shit. Like, I love it.

I love it. No. American women would be like American women would be like, we heard this 1 already.

0 0 0 0 0 0. Is that it? Is that all you have to say?

That's it. You said the same thing last week. Last Friday.

Yeah. American women wouldn't know how to appreciate it. Give me give me another song. Why I gotta keep playing the same song?

That's amazing. Yeah. Oh, man. I gotta get to a Shabbat, bro. Is there is it, dude, everything I assume is kosher, but is it, is is it, like, are there meats or foods that you can't have?

I mean, it's it's it's no. No. No. But it's some stuff that I know I can look at and be like, nah. Cool.

Oh 0, I was I meant, like, are there food that they're forbidden from eating or something? But there's some

I I don't even know. I don't even know. I didn't you know, I'm I'm going in not asking questions. I'm going in not, having lunch, a little bit of breakfast so I can come in hungry, if you know what I mean.

Yeah. That's the best. So what was it? Like, olive leaves wrapped around grapes or some shit like that that you're just like, ah, I'll see. I'll try something else.

No. It was just like a hard crusted maroon colored dish. And I'm like, I'll I'll I'll stay with the chicken double chicken b rice meat. Yeah. This this has been solid.

Yeah. Heavy on the wine, though. Heavy on the wine.

I'm sure they appreciated that. And the Saturdays for the boys in the basement is fucking crazy. They truly are locked in with the barstool shit.

They locked in. They lay locked in. So shout out to the Tobin family. Shabbat was great. It was fucking phenomenal.

Thank you, guys.

Shout out to them. Damn. I gotta get to Shabbat.

This is all well, this is all, like, pod Tuesday. Am I gonna be in Israel still Wednesday? Game Wednesday. Destroy them. Fly back Thursday.

Gotta make a decision Thursday. Shabbat Friday. Maccabi Sunday. Like, this week has been, it's been it's been a lit ass week.

Yeah. Everything is happening consecutively. Yeah. Can I go back? What what did the family have to say about your, the the the decision that to to stick around out there?

I know that they were playing and you were thinking a lot.

My family?

Yeah. And the people close to you.

They wanted me to go to your elite, and then the owner got on got on got on the phone with Mandy too. So

Got it. So it was a, it was a universally made decision.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

It was cool.

Amazing. Yeah. I mean, well, I'm I'm glad, you've come to a decision, and I wish you a good decision making and fast recovery over these holidays.

For sure.

Let's rip some hot takes. Let's rip some hot takes about the NBA. Because we're going through all of our depressive episodes, I heard that Joel Embiid is impressed or or depressed. I'm impressed. He's depressed.

Did you hear this? That he's, like, super bummed out about his knee. He's saying it's just inflammation. The Sixers did just beat the Bulls the other day. It was the first time that Paul George, Embiid, and Maxi played more than 6 minutes with each other.

And, shockingly, when you have 3 all stars playing together, they they actually won. And Embiid had a nice little stat line, 31 points, etcetera. But he,

Maxi had triple double.

Maxi had a triple double playing with his hair on fire beast. But, MB basically said it's not a new injury. It's just inflammation that kind of happens, and it's he doesn't know when it's gonna happen, and it's super frustrating. Do you empathize with Joel Embiid with what he's going through? Or are you of the ilk that he played in the Olympics?

Maybe we need more from him.

I've had a knee injuries, right? And I I woke up. See, this the thing this the thing people don't understand with with any type of injuries. Like, it's always the waking up part. Right?

And it's never how the day goes. It's always the waking up part. Right? You wake up, you put your feet to the ground, and you just stand up and say, man, do I feel anything today? Right?

Or twisting and turning in bed because you don't wanna sleep the wrong way just just you know, you know, you I don't want my knee to be in this situation. Waking up me is perfectly fine. You waking up, your knee's swelling. You don't know where the swelling is coming from. And you've been working your ass off.

Right? And and you done got procedures done, and you done went under the knife. You done went under the knife again, and you done crossed every t and dotted every I. And you done played, and you done felt good, and you rubbing your knee everywhere you go. Unconsciously just it's it's something there.

I mean, this is a normal athlete's body. Now this happens to every athlete. Right? And that's what people don't understand. And that shit takes a toll.

I'm talking about you can be right to it can be like, you know what, man? The beach is right up the street. Man, I'm a just stay in because I don't want anything, you know, I don't want my knees swelling up a little bit. I'm I'm a just stay off my legs today. I'm a I'm a I'm a give myself a shortness of life so so I can give myself my body for the team.

And and that's what any athlete has to go through dealing with injuries. And to the point when you like, you know what? I'm I'm cool. Fuck it. I'm done.

And then when you say you done, people like, oh, injuries took him. What could've, should've, play, or he could've been? But, like, that everyday motion of of of of being hurt in your mind of hoping you're not hurt. In your mind, I I I feel great, but I hope I'm not hurt. Or in your mind, like, man, I feel great, but I am hurt.

Like, why is my knee keep swelling? I can't get to swelling out. And you gotta think to get the swelling out, it's not a fucking massage up here, Ron. They gotta put a needle and drain it out. And you're hoping that the the fluid that they take is a clear fluid and it's not a blood fluid.

Because if it's a blood fluid, that mean your body's bleeding from somewhere that you don't know about. Yeah. I mean, it's a lot of shit that goes on, bro, that people have no clue about. Walking in a hospital with your hood on them. People seeing you.

Hey. Hey, man. What's up, Joel Embiid? Take this picture. Oh, pat me up.

Take this picture. Like

I'm not talking about

taking the picture today. Alright. Right.

Can't you still in

the hospital? Right. And you gotta, you know, type shit. You know, you gotta go there 5 AM. So you you don't see anybody there.

And you, you know, you gotta leave and you get rehab and you get rehab and you feel strong. You know, you play and you practice and you make a tweak and you look down and knees swollen again, what the fuck you would do?

Yeah. Luckily, the east is ass, so it's like they're kinda

You know what I'm saying? No cap, but that's how the injuries deal. That's how it is, though.

Yeah. I mean, luckily I mean, they are, like, 10th in the east. Like, they're tied for 10th in the east right now. Like, they would be in the playing game. With as bad as they've played, the east is so fucking buns that they could just sneak around and fucking ascend.

And, I mean, everybody kinda knows it. Like, the media will dance around and be like, oh, the East is attainable or, like, soft. It's like, no. The East is his ass. You can, like but you could be okay if like, the Sixers will be fine.

As long as they

stay. Playoffs.

As so as long as everybody stays healthy, they'll make the playoffs. And it's just like, can they learn how to play together?

Heard any Doc Rivers slander lately.

The Milwaukee Bucks have been playing

I haven't heard any Doc Rivers slander at all lately.

And the the media again, if we're talking media, they gotta be bored because they love to slander Doc.

I hear 0 talk about the Milwaukee Bucks and how they're not good while they've been missing Khris Middleton for damn near the whole season.

Yeah. It's, it's been a a nice turnaround for them. Giannis is just playing his ass off. He's just hustling his ass off.

And they're not even giving them credit for it.

Because it's boring. They they don't wanna they don't wanna give him credit for it. They wanna talk shit on

love Ford. They literally are picking other people talking about they're the player of the month. How? How?

It's it's so the

mud, Greek. We don't want it the easy way. Go get it out the mud. Go get it out the mud, Greek.

Yeah. I I mean, if you look at the top of the east right now, the fact that they're not as heralded as the Cavs, I think, is weird. But I guess it's the record. The real you are, you're record right now.

What place the Bucks in right now?

You keep cutting out, bro. I'm sorry.

What what place are the Bucks in right now? My bad.

Oh, you're good. They're in 6th place right now.

Okay.

I mean or so Cleveland is at is in that conversation, and I'm gonna I wanna I wanna get to the Celtics in just a second. I think Orlando is in that conversation, but, I mean, with Franz Wagner getting hurt, that completely throws off their season. And that's so fucked for Franz Wagner because he was having an awesome year. I don't know if he's gonna make if he could have made all NBA, if he could have made some kind of team like that, he's not going to be able to now because of this oblique injury. But, like, him being able to get a max contract based on that and, like, that elevating him to a supermax if he was in that situation.

Oh, he go yeah. You're right. I forgot about that. You're right, bro.

The supermax was so much more money. Like, that coulda unlocked everything for him, and so he's not gonna be able

to right.

And that's gonna hurt them in the long run, but they're scrappy and have a a lot of upside. Knicks are

putting it too. Good coaching.

Respectable coaching down there. Great success story. Knicks are turning it around, And

The big cat, Bodega.

Bodega has been, he's been not only playmaking, but hitting big shots. I think that those are the things that you look for when you trade it for him. That trade looks like it's going in the right direction right now. But then that you look at the like, Miami is, like, trying to offload players. Miami is like, oh, we'll trade Jimmy Butler right now.

Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

You can get

your ass out of here. You and your nice hairstyles. Get your ass out of here, man. Go and give us some some some other shit.

I I mean, I think that it

would be I I don't I

don't know if they're gonna they think they're gonna get better this season if they get rid of Jimmy Butler, but you could kinda stick a fork in them. Brooklyn overperforming. Brooklyn overperforming. The the Pacers underperforming in a big way, and it's like then the Sixers are are right there. And I think that the East is kinda just this muddy, like, kinda mess right now.

And it's almost impossible for teams to get better because of all the new trade bullshit with the apron with, the first apron, the second apron, what teams can trade for, who can be traded, what level of player you can trade for as far as making salaries match, and since everybody spent so much. And that's why I've come to the conclusion that the fucking Celtics are winning again and it's fucking obvious.

Yeah, someone asked me that, someone on our team asked me, they say, Pat, who you got winning NBA championship? I looked around and I say, Man, I ain't gonna lie, Boston Celtics.

I think we're reentering an era of dynasties in the NBA. And I think it's because players can't be traded as easily when you hit these first, second aprons. So I think teams are gonna stay in homeostasis for longer periods of time. We're not gonna see a couple players here making a super team and then drifting over here. I think once you have a team in a nucleus, I wouldn't be surprised if the Celtics rip a bunch off right now.

I feel like it's it's they have a really nice nucleus with good reserves and a good system and good coaching. Like, why aren't the Celtics gonna win again? Who's gonna beat them? And great fan the great fan base.

Great fan base.

Who's beating the Celtics right now? Tyler. Who's beating them? Nobody. No 1.

And I

know Tyler over there with his legs crossed like this. I think

he is. I think he is, bro. He knows. See. Right.

Uncrossed. Uncrossed. Confirmed. Uncrossed. Okay.

Confirmed. Uncrossed. Because

because, well, do you do you think of the Grizzlies as actual contenders?

Fuck no.

They're not real contend or, I mean, they're great they're great young story.

They're not they're no. They're not contenders, and they've never been contender contenders. They'll start now.

And so even though they're right at the top of the west, like, the only team that I feel like would even give them that that's built to give them a run for their money is the the Thunder.

Right. I think they're built. I think the Thunder is built, but, Thunder gotta get past Dallas in the playoffs. Thunder gotta get past Minnesota in the playoffs. Thunder gotta get past

I mean, if Golden State make some additions. Lakers

are ass. Like, straight up. It ain't JJ Reddick. It ain't nothing. It's it's been coaches.

It's been players. It's players been in and out. Coaches been in and out. Lakers aren't good.

There's not.

And I got homies on the team and I I know and and but they need a 5, bro. I'm so I'm a say it. A lot of people scared to say it, bro. You can't put AD at the you can't put AD at the 5, bro. You they had success and them winning the year they won it in the bubble because they had a 5.

Javelle McGee, Dwight or Dwight Howard. They need a 5, man, bro. They do. They need to protect AD. They do.

Because the minute the minute they got AD and this is, alright, this is required out of greatness. But you look at any bigs in NBA, like, Jokic is offensively great, but he has his days where he struggles defensively a little bit. You know what I'm saying? Like, AD, they need 28 and 12 and they need 3, 4 blocks every night at the 5 position. Like, that that that that's that's a lot on AD, bro.

That's a lot on AD. And that's a lot on Braun.

Explain why it's a lot on AD. Because they require him to be a room protector, and that's like a energy expenditure that he wouldn't have if he was, like, just playing a 4.

And you got AR and D'Angelo Russell at your guards. So it ain't like you got defensive stoppers. So right when we say, like, how do you protect the paint? And a lot of people think like, okay, I'm a get a 5 man to protect the paint. But also guards can protect the paint.

If you can contain a ball, the ball doesn't get to the paint to be protected. So that's protecting the paint. They got guys on their tent. Exactly. They got guys on their tent and you hit them with a In N Out Burger, motherfuckers is on the corner.

In N Out Burger, oh, bye bye. Now you watch TV flying everywhere. You know what I'm saying? In N Out Burger. In N Out Burger.

There you go. Go see,

Jack Nicholson.

This motherfucker sit inside out In N Out Burger. Kevin Hart over there. Oh, here go Bronnie In N Out Burger. You know what I'm saying? Like, so now you got AD challenging everything at the realm.

You got them trying to box out as big. You got them on the other end trying to create everything. That's a lot. And you got a 40 year old man at your 4.

That's asking a lot.

Asking a lot, man. They need a 5. They need a 5 or defensive guard. That's what they need. The Lakers know exactly what they need.

They need a a 5 man that you go that you can put LeBron and and AD and you need and you need or or defensive guard straight up. That's exactly what you need. It it has nothing to do with offense because if you protected AD, offense will come with that 5 because Ron makes the right play all the time. You need you need to rim protect the 5 where you need a defensive guard. That's what they need.

They tried it with Cam Reddish, but I guess it didn't work. That's what they need. They were looking for it in Jerry Vanderbilt, but he's been he's been, you know, he's been hurt. So you you haven't been able to get that.

He would be ideal to fill that role as, like, a perimeter defensive guy.

It'd be perfect. But Yeah.

But that changes everything.

Yeah. That changes everything. So but they asked.

But listen. I I also think that the Lakers in some ways also fall victim to the more vocal members of their fan base. And here's what I mean by that. Like, the Lakers are, like, almost America's team when it comes to basketball. Brand wise, they have to have 1 of the biggest brands internationally.

People who don't know anything about basketball see a Lakers pair of shorts at the boardwalk, and they're like, fuck. Yeah. Lakers, Kobe Bryant, Shaq, like, LeBron, the the biggest players, the biggest superstars ever. And so there's a lot of people in the fan base, and they're very loud. And I think that those players those fans love flashy players.

Those fans love a 3 point shooter. They love a big name star. And I don't know if those fans are as appreciative of a guard who might give you, like, 9 or 10 points a game, but will shut it down defensively because they'll be like No. Well, he's not shooting in the way that I want, or, like, he doesn't have this type of highlight dunk or something like that. And I think that they could fall victim to a overly loud fan base kind of West bricking the situation where they're like, oh, well, let's let's pick on 1 minor part of the game.

And and Rush is not the player that I'm talking about in this scenario because it's completely different skill sets that are required, but the vocal part of their fan base kind of him hurt what the team actually needs in the long run because you try to appease, like, the this very loud, passionate, and big fan base.

Yeah. But the same thing goes about with the, the Boston South fan base. Boston fan base are fucking brutal too. So

I think they'll boo you, but I think that I'm not saying Lakers fans are unintelligent, but I don't think that I I think that Boston fans, like, loved Marcus Smart as a defensive stopper. I mean, he would give you his scoring games, but he was primarily a defensive guy, defensive player of the year. And then he comes back and he gets a standing ovation because he's just that kind of player. Like, he's just a gritty player.

And then you see? But, yeah, your defense, and then they come back and trade with your holiday. So you're absolutely right.

Thank you, brother. I I just wanted to get that off my chest. Maybe it's just a a nasty bias against Lakers fans.

I'm trying to I'm trying to see who I I we're gonna give this this is the segment where you'll give the NBA segment. We're gonna either give the tip the team a pass or they ask. That's the same. Pass or ask. Okay?

You name a team, I give pass or ass. That's how we gonna go. We gonna start we gonna and we're not gonna do top teams. We're gonna start from, like, the 5th to, like, the 11th seed of each each conference. I'll let you kick it off.

Okay. You wanna go okay. Here's 1 that I'm gonna start off with where before the season, it's easy to stamp them with ass, bro. It would have been easy to give them based on their history, but then you look at just if you're just standings watching, the Houston Rockets are 16 and 8. Pass.

They have they get to pass?

They get to pass. Why? Great coaching, toughness, inside presence. If if if everything I shoot is feeling great, ah, but it's in and out. I can throw the ball to Sangoon.

He can give me a bucket. I got good guard play. I got athleticism. I got coaching. I got a little vet mixed with a little young so I can teach on a go, and it's quicker.

Pass.

Who does their toughness come from?

I think their toughness comes from their coach first. It trickles down to Dillon Brooks second, and I think that trick out and Fred Fred Van Fleet, he's a tough guard too, so I you know, like so, yeah, pass.

Okay. Let's jump over to the east. The team has been kind of shockingly good in some places, but they're also coming back down to earth. They have some good wins, but, the Detroit Pistons are 10 and 15. Same record as the Sixers and the Pacers.

Pass or ass? You could give a heavy hearted ass where you don't wanna you don't wanna say ass, but it just you could be like, hey, I give a heavy hearted ass.

They're a play in team. They're a play in team.

Okay. That's that doesn't go in the pass or ass. I'm just trying to think of another word that runs through.

That's a great 1. That's a that's a great 1. I don't know what the middle 1 is. It's pass, ass, or okay. Okay.

Okay. Detroit Pistons? Okay.

Okay. The Brooklyn Nets looking to offload some of their players already this year. Cam Thomas purportedly on the trading block, same with Dennis Schroeder. Why why are the nuts get Nets give ass? You start talking ass, I start talking nuts.

They're surprisingly good, but in the playoffs, they ain't gonna win you a lot of games.

Ass. Ass. And that's a shame for them because, you love Cam Thomas to be able to be a good player, but he's he looks like he's a

guy that could be traded. Schroeder.

Dennis Schroeder is bro. Dennis Broeder is what I call him. Weirdly, the the the Denver Nuggets would be in the plane if the season ended right now.

Are we giving them Yes.

They they they're gonna get the pass. They're gonna get everything They

get the pass.

Sorted out.

Yeah. I'm not worried about them at all.

Fair enough. And then we look at the Atlanta Hawks, another team that's teetering.

Pass.

Okay. Why what do we like about them?

Trae Young is

unguardable. Trae Young is having an elite run right now.

He's been having an elite run for the last 4 years. Nobody opened their fucking eyes. Pass.

Pass for Trae Young. Okay. Let's go, over to Toronto.

The the Bend over. Show me that ass. What you talking about? Ass, motherfucker. AZZ.

We're talking dick and ass in Toronto. You don't coach you don't play the game.

I love the coaching. Oh my god. That coach, he could he can fuck. He got some shit. I love their coach, but not enough dog's ass.

That's a shame. What what do they need to just kind of revamp?

It's it's not a shame. It's an ass.

There is. The, the Sacramento Kings were in the news this week because people were there was, I think, an unnamed executive. I think it was some bullshit like that, but they were saying, well, you can't win with DeMar DeRozan. They said that he's a good player. He's gonna score a lot of career points.

But this this executive allegedly was saying ass to the Sacramento Kings who would be out of the playoffs if the season ended today, but they're also I mean, if they're in the East, they'd probably be, like, the fucking 8 seed.

Yeah. Okay. I give them a okay. I trust the coaching. I play with DeMartha Rose and I trust him.

I like De'Aaron Fox. I like Sabonis. Playing team, if they play anyone besides Golden State that play any year, they will win. I give them a okay.

And that's been pass ass or okay with Pap Vev. I think that that's a that's a good sign.

Done yet, though. We're not done. We're not done. It's it's 1 team in the west that you have a name.

The the Los Angeles Lakers.

No. No. No. No. We we named them.

We talked about them.

What did we say about them?

They asked. Right. There's another team that you didn't say.

The Golden State Warriors?

No. No. They're definitely a pass.

The Clippers.

Pass. They're definitely a pass.

Is there another 1 I'm not thinking of? Oh, the Timberwolves. Ass.

Complete ass. Trading cat was the worst thing they coulda done.

That's official now?

Yes. That's the worst thing they coulda done.

So why are they why are they ass right now? How are they falling victim to the sweaty stink of big ass?

What do they rank what do they rank right now in the NBA standings?

I think that they're around, the they're like the 9th seed, I think, or maybe the 10th seed. Yeah. They're the 9th seed right in front of the Phoenix Suns.

Are we talking about the we talking about a team that just, we talk about a team that just beat the champs and and should've beat the champs the year before. If if if if, matter of fact, wouldn't be in that position if Jaden McDaniels don't break hand and can't play in a play in. Listen to me, Ron.

Do you think that they should try and find a way to trade for, like, Brandon Ingram? Would that unask them if they traded for Brandon Ingram? Are they less ass if they're if they if they get Brandon Ingram on the squad for Julius Randle and whatever else they have to put, but basically that being the the swap, maybe you have to add draft picks and somebody else.

At this time during the season, I don't remember the Minnesota when I was with the t wolves, we won 9th place.

Unprecedented levels of ass have been hit in Minnesota. Damn. I'm I'm sorry that I had to come to that. But, also, the designation of being ass, I just want all these teams to know we reserve the right to revoke that at any time. That's it's week to week.

And week to week. It's week to week. Pass or okay is week to week.

You could be I mean, this is just reporting the news of how it is right now. Next week, you could be okay and you could fall to ass, and you could go from ass right up to pass.

Right. But it's it's it's it's some teams that just always gonna stay and pass. Boston's gonna always stay and pass.

Oh, yeah.

The Bucks are gonna stay and pass. The Clippers are gonna stay and pass. Golden State, no matter what their record is, they're gonna stay and pass. You know? It's it's a lot of teams that's gonna stand past.

But it's it's some teams that's been surprising me lately that that that's that I would've gave pass in the beginning of the year that's that's cheese.

I think that there's only 2 teams right now that are are as proof for me right now, and that could change. But I think only the Boston Celtics and the Oklahoma City Thunder are as proof right now.

For sure. Yeah.

Those are my only 2 as proof teams, and I and anybody else's top

with it. It was a time where the Bucks were cheeks too. I'm talking about 2 good cheeks.

Perfectly formed, well rounded cheeks, just like 2 pool balls lined up next to each other.

Yeah. But they, they got it out that they got out they got, they moved up from that ranking. So, yeah, we gotta give them a pass.

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Hey. Tell me tell me this, though, Ron. And you know me, I'm I'm so I'm so, like, I don't know, 3 days behind the latest news that happens in the state. Yeah. It was a guy that just got arrested.

I'm glad you brought this up. This news is this is the most bizarre story that,

that Tell me because I know

nothing's going on in in the United States.

First, inform me, and then let's talk about it. Because I know nothing listen. I know nothing about what what happened. That's why I'm asking you.

A big health care CEO was gunned down in cold blood in the early mornings of in Manhattan with 3 bullets that had specific inscriptions that suggested that this person was upset about the malpractice of the insurance company. Almost like a Batman type of story.

Okay. Cool. So let me pause it there. A healthcare CEO Got it. Was was shot to death.

Shot to death. A planned hit. They didn't catch the guy right away. He went into Central Park where there's no cameras. He had, a silencer on his gun, but he fumbled with his gun a little bit.

So they said maybe he wasn't a professional. Maybe he was a vigilante, a man with an ax to grind. He disappeared into Central Park, and then they searched the city, found a backpack of his, but the man was nowhere to be found. And they assumed that he was somewhere down in Mexico or Canada by now. But then yesterday, he used an ID at a McDonald's, and they fingered the perp.

A man named Luigi Mangione, an Italian man, was caught, and, apparently, this man is more wealthy than the CEO who he killed. His family is more wealthy, So it's not even this class warfare thing where somebody was denied credit and they went bankrupt because of this CEO, but this guy went out of his way to kill this CEO probably because of something that he's done as a CEO or evil that he considers. But this is a guy who's pretty online, and it's, it's a juicy situation.

Okay. That's what happened. Thoughts. Okay. Oh, shit.

Did I hit most

of the

points of that, Tyler? Yeah. I hit most of the points.

You know, a wise man always told me there's always 3 sides to the story. 1 side, the other side, and the truth. Right? So but you can't be out here killing motherfuckers.

Right. You can't be out killing people.

You can't can't kill people. Yes. Thou shall not kill, thou shall not steal, thou shall not commit adultery. Yeah. I I I know that that's in that's in that's in the, the That's

in the Bible.

That's in the Bible. Yeah. That's in the Bible. That's in a good book. So, I know you shouldn't do that.

Yes. That's key. That's a good way to even break it down.

Yeah. For whatever reason, you shouldn't do that. So okay. So they called him. Did they was the backpack his?

Do they know it's absolutely him, or is there is there, like can he beat the case, or what is it?

I don't know if he'll be able to I don't know what, evidence that they have, but I'm sure that we'll find out tons about this in as movies come out about this in the future, people will be obsessed

with this. John q type of vibe?

I think this guy was I mean, John q is protecting his son. I don't know if this guy was protecting a family member. I don't think he was protecting a family member, but I think that he thought that the system wasn't just because, I mean, these guys are making 1,000,000,000 of dollars a quarter, and, medical bills and the insurance that people can't cover, I think, is maybe the number 1 cause of bankruptcy for families in the United States. So there is a an imbalance there. And if it didn't ruin these people's lives, I think that the inequities in the system have ruined other people's lives.

But at the same time, I agree that killing people isn't the way. But, I mean, I'm sure there's revolutionaries out there who think that that's the only way that you start a conversation. I don't know. I I that's not my thought process. But, yeah, interesting story.

I think it has the United States captured.

Captured. I'm locked in. I'm I'm looking at a a prison pickup of a young man that I've never seen before, and I

don't know the story. He had he had a a great bod. I don't know if you could say that, but this guy had tons of shirtless pics on the Internet. He must have known that he was going away because he was shirtless shirtless a bunch. And, yeah, I mean, just got a great set of abs on this guy.

So, hopefully, he's not the 1 that did it because I'm sure he'll make OnlyFans after this, get nice and famous. Well But, yeah, great. Okay.

So that's what happened.

Crazy times. That's what happened. Any any good, gossip out in Israel?

It's it's a ceasefire.

Oh, really?

It's been a motherfucking ceasefire.

That's nice.

Motherfucker say, Papaya, man, you done stopped the war. I say, hey. Hey. Hey. Don't give me that much credit.

Don't give me that much credit. Please. Please. Please. Says the ceasefire.

Wrong ain't shit happen. Everything's cool.

That's good to hear.

Y'all put y'all guns down, man. We put our guns down. But our guns ain't guns. They fucking missiles. And y'all missiles and y'all guns ain't guns.

Y'all got missiles and interceptors. Put y'all shit down. We put our shit down. If it look like y'all wanna do some shit, we go do some shit type of vibe.

Yeah. The last couple weeks I've had the luxury of being out of the news cycle, but, I I saw that there were some ceasefires going on across the world.

We like cease and we like no fire.

Yeah. Cease. Caesar salads, bro. Anything that we can get. Cease and well, well, cease and desist, whatever kinda cease they want.

That that's great news. Well done out there, Pat.

Oh, there I mean, I I can't take credit for it, but they knew I was out here. Let's just say that. Let's just let's just say that. Let's just say that. Let's just say that.

Bro, if you tie an Israeli and a Palestinian flag together in, like, in the in the town square, you would be a legend like that. Well, yeah, that'd be sick, bro. Just just do a hidden little dance underneath it, bringing it, bringing peace to the Middle East. I would really respect you if you did that. No pressure on that situation.

Did you see that? LeBron James and Anthony Edward

or no.

Anthony Davis, they were both giving Bronny a hard time for being a rookie. Would you would you say something to Bronny as a rookie?

Would you give him 1 more time at

the end of the bench?

He's the 1 I would cuff all because of your father made me. All the shit Bron had me doing was wild, man. Him and Dewd Wade had me doing wild shit, man. I'm talking about Pat, go give me a Gatorade. Cool, I'll come with a red.

Everyone likes red. No, I want blue. No, no, no. He said, No, I don't like that color. I come back.

Okay, cool. 2nd option is blue. Everybody likes blue. No, I don't like blue, Pat. And I don't like it cold.

Me as a rookie, I like to think I have a lot of sense. I go to the the the Gatorade thing. I get every Gatorade out, cold and warm, every color. Get every water out, cold and warm, Every water. Big bucket.

Bring it to him, motherfucker. You pick now. We ain't gonna keep doing this. I got

shit to do.

So you'd have Bronnie Ronnie running?

Oh, yeah. Running oh, yeah. I I I ran with his dad. I definitely had I cuff him like this. You my young you my young boy.

I got you. Get your ass off my seat, son. Yeah. Go ahead. Make sure you go to Rufus when we land in Denver down the street and go get my, my my, my my my stuffed chicken breast.

Yeah. That's fine. That Bronny would have a personal assistant and be like, Maybelle, you heard him. Go and get the go and get the chicken from me. Maybelle, they want different types of Gatorade.

See that it's done. See that it's done, chop chop. Who the fuck is Maybelle? Is that a black woman?

No. It's a white woman.

No. My my grandma name was grandma Maybelle. She was black. She was white. You ain't gonna lie to me wrong.

I see.

The 1 thing you ain't gonna do is lie to me wrong.

Maybelle. And that was the the least offensive name that I could think of.

I know, but you were wrong. That's a black woman's name.

With white.

And she was from and she was from, McGee, Arkansas. She was

from a

black place.

Oh, no. I picked the wrong name.

Yeah. Yeah.

Maybe I'll see that it's done. Make make sure mister Beverly's steak is medium rare, man.

I Ron, you you you fooled me again.

Foiled again. I've picked the wrong name. Blast. Drat.

So yeah. Did say they like Francis too. 1 of 1 of, mister Tobin shooting, he's like, man, I love Francis. I'm like, oh, yeah. The guy who went to Harvard.

I said, yeah. Yeah.

I like him. I like him. I like him. I like him. And your background turned off.

It's not the pap f pod. It's, pride.

Get Joey and Pat must have been in here.

Oh, sure.

Our pride podcast must have been going in here. I thought the seats were sticking.

Pride

p. Pride p. Pride p.

Everybody for the pride, man, for we all love everywhere. We love everything.

Do you think that you could get Francis' stand up comedy date out in Israel?

You think

they have enough people? Like, enough people fuck with them out there?

Hey, listen, Ron. I ain't gonna lie. I got big shit popping out here in Israel. I know I know a lot people that know a lot of people that know a lot of important people. So let

me know. Hit my phone. I'm a put you in touch with somebody. He go talk to somebody. We gonna make it happen.

Let's get to, let's get to Tel Aviv's biggest comedy club, and let's get Francis in there, and let's book the shit out.

Let's Tel Aviv have a comedy club?

Of course they do.

Of course they do. Yeah. I got a comedy club. We gonna make it happen.

You should

open it up. Get it packed out. Tell me. I'll open it up with it. Yeah.

What would your stand up sound like?

Back in the day, the Italian, they hit the drum. Yeah. I'm that guy. Yeah. I'm that guy.

Hey. I got a lot of problems up here. I'm in the, like, Rodney Rodney Dangerfield. I got a bunch of problems out here in the Middle East.

Right. Right. No no no problem. Seize fire. Seize fire.

Seize fire.

My wife keeps on feeding me grapes. Whatever the fuck

he talks about.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The problem would be domestic. You know what I mean?

Not, international. Yeah. The cam camo camo comedy club. We've got to get Francis out there.

The camel comedy club?

Camel comedy club. And there it's like it looks like a medieval times.

They said a camel comedy club is not good. What's the 1 that's good?

Stand up factory? Oh, that's a Stand

up factory? Mhmm. Maybe.

Stand up factory looks nice. Nice room, low ceilings, little brick background so you could trick people into thinking you're in a metropolitan area. I think this is our spot. Alright, guys. Let's take a second to talk about game time.

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Hey. So my daughter, she played in a basketball game, a big tournament game, and they got 2nd place wrong. And my, my, my mom, her grandmother hit me up, Oh, did you talk to Aliyah? They played in the tournament and they got 2nd place. And a part of me was like, Why the fuck are you telling me my daughter lost and got 2nd place?

Like, how the fuck am I supposed to be happy about it? So as a future parent, as a future parent talking to you, because it's a ton of you're gonna see growing raising these kids, Ron, it's a ton of shit. Motherfucker I seen a motherfucker kid get a war 8th place.

8th?

8th was orange, 7th was pink, 6th was purple. I didn't even know they gave out 8th 1 fucking place medals. But in this new world of we don't wanna hurt the kids' faith, feelings, why

do you feel about the, anything but first medals? Hey. If my kids wind up being as athletic as I am, I'm gonna need all the 8th place medals that we can get just so we can get the trophy case popping. You know what I mean? I don't wanna have the empty trophy case, so I'll just kinda blur the glass a little bit, have the 8th place medals in there, and just like, oh, yeah.

No. There's just a bunch of medals in there. You won't necessarily know that it's 8th place trophies, but I want my trophies, dude. I'm I'm not gonna say no to a trophy. What's what's

I don't know what you want me to say, man. Oh, you want me to okay that? I can't okay that. Alright.

What's your video?

8th place? Come on, Ron. No motherfucker celebrate no motherfucker 8th place, man. I'm not celebrating no 8th place. Spank, your ass come home, you bring me 8th place, son.

That's not good enough. You have to be better. Who's your coach? Let me talk to him.

Yeah. Maybe that's part of it as well. But you can't celebrate you can't celebrate a win?

That's not a win at all. Actually, that's that's 7 losses behind, my fucking that ain't even silver medal or bronze.

I think that just having trophies is nice, though. Having some trophies, having a couple trophies

in the trophy basket. Gonna do that. Come on, Ron. Come on, man. You

can't count the small victories?

No. That ain't no victory if you're in 8th place. That's not a victory. You know?

Big is the field?

I don't give a fuck if it was 50 people there. If you what what what Taco Bell might say? If you if you if you ain't a winner, you'll lose. Who said that? Taco Beller Nights.

That's true. That's true, but they both wound up winning in that movie. I think there was, like, 3 different winners.

That's what I'm saying, Ron. It won no 8th place, though.

There there definitely is a 8th NASCAR definitely has a 8th place payout.

I understand that, but, Ron, if we if I'm if I'm at if I'm at 1 of my nephews games and they place 8th and you celebrate, we all go to a motherfucking pizza place after, and we're celebrating. Ron, I'm not celebrating when my refuse with you. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not.

Well, bro, don't take it out on the refuse just yet, but I think that it's I am.

It's 8th place.

Okay. Well, tell me why in major golf tournaments, everybody gets a payout. Tell me why that

man's sport. That's a single man's sport.

What? Okay. So tell me why the, why basketball players don't just get paid if they win the entire thing.

I don't know why that's not that's not it's a team sport. Everything's different. You're you're you're you're you're you're you're putting together the best team.

I I mean, I I agree with that, but it it's just a it's it's a tough position to be in because there is some level of participation trophy handing out at every No.

It ain't.

Then why there there's 3rd 3rd team All NBA. 3rd team all in NBA. Why isn't there just 1 all in NBA team then?

No. It ain't.

Why so why

ain't wrong.

So why do they they celebrate 3rd team all in NBA?

Because they're they're giving you it's only 5 people on each team.

Well, you didn't win it. Basically. You're not 1st team on NBA. Why are they why are they even fucking celebrated?

But that but that's not a a a a a a victory. You're you're giving the best 15 players in the NBA a a trophy, but you're not giving the the best 15 teams a trophy. Like, come on, bro.

I mean, I I I think that that

You're connecting you're connecting this with individual with team. Separate them.

So you're just saying for a basketball team. You're saying if you come in 8th in a race, then you could get a trophy. But if you're saying you come in 8th

on the basketball team At the Olympics, not at, your local school, track where it's only other 4 schools involved. No. I'm talking about at the Olympics.

Everybody needs to have a line, and so I think my line is as long as you don't come in last. And so that's where you draw the line. So if there's 8 people in a race, you come in 8th, and then you still get the trophy, and then the last place person doesn't get shit. So the last place person doesn't have anything. And there's almost like what and then we them a separate thing for being in last place, like a last place

Like a certificate.

Yeah. Last certificate. Like I mean, that's another thing you you you accrue.

So I'm I'm talking to my Spankster mom, and I'm like, yeah. I might be, on my when I went back home from my break I'm I'm on break. I might need the kids to get out of school early. Her response was, you know, they got the award at the end of the year. We don't wanna mess up, you know, their award.

And I'm like, what fucking award?

Perfect attendance?

It's not a fucking award. What are you talking about? You mostly go to school every day. That's not an award. We're not awarding that.

It does suck that a kid would always at even at the end of high school, they'd be like, perfect attendance all 4 years, and you just would get, like, a piece of paper and go sit down. You know what's better than that piece of paper? Having a day off in your 4 years of high school or getting a sick day or going somewhere or fucking having 12 times when you did that throughout your course of high school or fucking 40 times when you did that over high school. A piece of paper?

I can't wait till you have your boys. So my 2 younger kids, they, my daughter does a thing because my daughter gets better grades than my son does. So my daughter do some shit like, hey, dad. Did you know we got our report, our our progress reports today in in front of her brother? Snitch.

And right. And I'm like, oh, y'all what you get? Oh, you know me dad. I got all a's and 1 b. Oh, okay.

Elijah, what did you get? Type of shit. Right? Trishaloon doors

just like fuck fuck fuck

fuck fuck. Or smoke from from his feet, like he's the fucking

The road runner?

Yeah. Yeah. I'm telling you, man. Once you once you get them to it's different having children, you know, but when you have them together all the time and and they're, like, competing all the time, oh my goodness. The best.

It's absolutely the best.

Yeah. The way that your, parents or the the way you are as a parent about, like, unless you're winning, like, I don't even wanna hear about it. My parents were, like, not not cool with me getting a grade that wasn't a. And I didn't even get that many a's, but they're and they were just not cool with me for a lot of the time. But they were just like, you have to get a.

We have a graded matrix. Like, a is good. B is okay. C is dummy, d is fail, f is you don't give a fuck. Like, you you don't need to even be in school.

C c is dummy?

See, that's what that's what my cousin told me. That's what my cousin told me. I'm like, yeah, Spank got he Spank got a couple a's, got a couple b's, got a c's, got a c's. C's are done. It's man, that's that's that's a different grading matrix, but I love it.

Fuck it.

Yeah. If you're getting c's, I guess, in in grade school, I don't know how liberally they give out the c's, but if they're just handing out if they probably aren't giving a ton of c's out. And that's I was

a kid. I was I ain't gonna lie. My grades were like, I come in first I'm telling you, I come in all a's. GPA, I don't know, 32. I look at GPA, get 32.

Alright. Cool. I'm cool. I ain't doing shit else the rest of the year. By the end of the year, GPA, I don't know, 2.5.

Barely making it.

Just coasted?

I'm talking about I'll start off hot and I'm just coasting, man. That's cool shit. I'm a do homework sometimes. I'm a play cards in this bitch. You feel me?

Like, yeah, I'm cool.

When I was at, when I was at Penn State, they had a mandatory public speaking class, and I was a senior at the time, so I'd already started battle rapping. I would drive up to New York and battle rap, and I had this public speaking class where I'd have to get up in front of, like, 10 to 12 people. And I did not give a fuck about it because I was literally on the weekends public speaking in front of 400 people.

Yeah. Like, a a

past group.

Person motherfuckers out. Right. Right. Right.

And this is, like, 20 2009 battle rap. And so some of the things I'm going to, it's like it's I'm like, there's not it's not as diverse. Like, it the I was 1 of the only couple white dudes in the room on some of some of the very early ones. Like, there was a couple specific events.

So you're telling me you you like, when it comes to you and freestyle, can you say you're up there with the elites?

I mean, yes. That's as far as a rap battle goes, I think that I'm I'm up there with the elites.

I think that Cool. We gonna play a game then. Every word that I say, you have to give me a freestyle with the with the word, and I'm

a keep switching the word. What you said. I said something different. You said freestyle, and I said rap battle. I can freestyle.

Okay.

I'm good. Can. I'm a keep switching up the word. I ain't gonna give you a lot of words, but I'm a throw 1 that you like. Bone.

Go.

Bone. That rhymes, of course, with Rhone. Of course, with phone and home. Do you want me to do it with, like, a beat on it? Do you want me to put a twang to it?

No. No. No. I want you to do your thing. I'm a change it up, like, as you go.

So I'm

a go next, and I'm a go

You're not KRS oneing me right now. No.

I'm a

go cup. The next 1 is cup.

Cup. I had to pee in a cup. I peed, and 1 of my nuts fell out. Pop popped right into the nut, exploded right there, and it was fucking there was a it was a gaseous explosion, and I I sprinted out the back door like a bank robber. Give me another 1.

Give me another

1. Tit.

Bro, give me another 1. Tit, bro. Give me another 1. Give me another 1.

I said tit. Tit.

Oh god. Hey, bro. This is a p this is a PG podcast. You're gonna get us demonetized on YouTube.

Okay. Okay. Give me boo boo.

Bro, this damn dude wants to hear about man boobs.

But me and his damn lube. I have a new car.

The 2 of them can't. Car. This is this has to be bottom tier podcasting. But at at some time, me and you gotta get on the stream, and we'll really get into the flow of freestyling. So I think that here's a a distinction I'll make.

Freestyling and, battle rapping, 2 different things completely.

Obviously.

So freestyling is, like, there's a guy named Harry

Mack dom. That goes dom. You gotta know.

Battle rapping used to be off the dome, and I that's something that I can and would do a lot, but it's kinda like to really lock into a freestyle rhyme. You know what I think that there's, like, I think that there's a little bit of a just like when you're playing a video game a

better freestyler than you.

You're you're not. But I just wouldn't put it in any effort. That I wasn't putting in any effort if you want.

So this is what I mean right here. You don't put in effort, you get an 8th place, and you're okay with that.

I don't want it. I don't want a trophy for for my performance right now. So I agree with you on your original point.

So now that was your performance. Now the roles reversed. Now I'll go. I freestyle now off the words you give me.

Okay. Omari Omari Caspi.

Caspi. I got a homie named Omri Caspi. Don't laugh at me because it's to be a catastrophe. Laughing at p. A t.

Okay. What? You got another word? Okay. Come on.

I'm on fire right now.

Assassination. Assassination. It'd be obliteration if you

ah, that's a good 1. That's a good 1. Why are you why are you giving me the hard 1?

So I Assassination. I bro, masturbation was right there. And it

was all You give me the hormones. And you give me all harbors. That's why I give you car. You come talk about assassination. Hey.

It's the papa of power, Raul. Shout out to my man, Raul. My man, Raul, took a l this week, man. Yep.

What a

what a 2 for the year.

Yeah. Yeah. But, with a l, it's a it's a circle of life. It's always wins comes with it.

Well, it's I I look at life alphabetical, and sometimes you make l's, but that means next, you're about to make m's, if if you know what I mean, bro.

I'll talk your shit to him. Talk your shit.

You know what I mean? So, hopefully, setbacks are set up

for Did you put hey. Hey. Shout out to DraftKings. Did you put that bet in? I put that bet in today for 25100.

If I went, it'd give me 25,000.

That's what the odds are?

I put I put I put Taryn Prince plus 8 points. I put Milwaukee Bucks. I put Dallas math. The odds are OD. I bet 25100.

If I win, it gives me 25,000.

You're fucking living right now.

I'm living, and I'm chilling. Couldn't be chilling and living in a better feeling.

What the hell? The bet's not up on DraftKings yet. They need to get this shit out.

They own our ass about getting bets up, but now our bets are up.

Should we hit this new Amsterdam starting 5?

I'm ready.

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May we all show up to our funerals late, bro.

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I'm saying as far as their bat playing playing basketball, by the way. This isn't just to see on the safari. So, like, if you're saying it's an elephant, maybe that makes a lot of sense, but, you need to back it up with a basketball reason. I'm

confused.

Just basketball players of animals in the jungle. Who's your point guard? Who's your center?

Okay. Point guard would be

the cheetah. We could we could do another 1 if you want to.

Point point guard would be the cheetah.

Because they are fast. The way the cheetah runs, they really uncork it from top to bottom.

My 2 goal would be, ostrich.

I'll tell you what. Ostrich is gonna give you the same problems on the wing that the Lakers give you. No defense from an ostrich. You might be able to drive the lane, but I think that that's a 1 trick wonder out there, especially just

I think the ostrich gives you only defense. I don't look at the ostrich as a they can't fly. Right? So they're running everywhere. You know, they really can't they can only beat you to death, so I'm going ostrich at my 2.

If that is like a Vando type of play, you know, just, length at the 2. So you want a defensive threat right there. So cheetah then ostrich and, I'm a go at my, You need shooting.

At at my 4, I'm a skip 3 because I have to come back to that. At my 4, I'm going lion.

Okay. That sounds like the truth. What, what about what about the lion? Do you, gravitate toward towards the 4? What kind of 4 are we talking?

Modern 4?

I'm talking about just the just the 34. I said good screens. I'm I'm I'm I'm I do a little bit of everything. I can pass it. I can shoot it.

Kevin Love type.

I really think that the the lion has a underrated, cutting to the hoop ability as well. I think that a lion gets downhill. I think, like, a lion being able to slip, but I think you might run into motivation issues with the lion. I think they sleep, like, 24 hours a day or something like that.

I'm a go zebra at my 3.

Oh, okay. Black eye white guy thing.

I'm a go zebra at my 3. You see them a lot. They always running from the lion. They might get caught. They might not.

They're around other zebras. They're team players. I'm going zebra at my 3.

See, I'm worried that the zebra is gonna get victimized at your 3. I'm worried that the zebra doesn't bring enough to the table other than just being literally a horse of a different color. And I think you're just looking at a horse out there. Beautiful animal, but that's a little bit of window dressing out there. I I wonder if we'll see what we we really hope out of the zebra.

What do you have at your 5?

My 5 is a giraffe.

Oh, shit.

Complete rim protector.

Okay. Fair enough.

A lob target offensively. Yay high.

I like that. I'm gonna counter you immediately because the the giraffe is is nice, but it has it's no match for my 5 men, which is the elephant. The elephant not only will body you left to right and will be thick on the block, but even when the elephant uses full trunk, it's right there with the giraffe level. It's like a 611 to a giraffe, 7 2, and I think that that's good enough defense with the body. You get inside the body.

On my 4, I'm gonna take it to a different type of safari. Some of our safaris we might see in Sri Lanka, Indonesia, or India, and I'm gonna talk about the tiger. I think that the tiger is gonna give the lion some problems. I think that the tiger is gonna be tough. They're twice as big.

They're more ferocious. You cannot say that the tiger is ass. The tiger is the true predator of the entire animal kingdom. At my 3

those ass?

My 3, you're not gonna wanna you're you don't know how bad my fucking 3 is, bro. You don't know how fucking vicious the hippopotamus is. Hippopotamus will bite a zebra in half.

That's a grade 3.

They'll pop a fucking zebra, and that's bully ball, bro.

Grade 3.

Having a that those as my as my frontline, but my my concern is I'm I'm slow. Okay? That side.

Grade 3.

I'm worried that I'm slow.

Who's your 2?

My 2 is the leopard. The leopard. The leopard. It's not quite the cheetah, but I think that we're gonna be able to give some teams problems. And, I think that the leopard is a game player.

And then at my number 1, I'm taking a a hill of termites. Okay? So not a single termite, but a bunch of termites working together in succession. Oh, no. Yeah.

Like

You're losing that. At the point guard play, you lost.

To a an entire hive of of of termites?

You lost yeah. You lost to yeah. You lost to the cheetah.

Bro, the cheetah I I mean, okay. You might have me on the cheetah. The cheetah is tough.

And I got you at the 5. And I got you at the 2.

The the 5 is insane to think that you have me. Who's your 2 again? Ostrich. Ostrich is getting their neck wrung by a leopard.

They run 80 miles per hour.

A leopard will stalk them for days. New Amsterdam starting 5. Debated in the comments, who wins the lion team lion or team tiger? What team are you on? I'd never even thought it was a bait debate.

I always thought it was Tiger. But the pat, bev pod, rock with us. We'll be here every week, and, Pat, we wish you a very speedy recovery, my friend.

And prayers up to your family, my my guy.

Appreciate you, my friend. Enjoy that wine, and we will talk soon.

Love, guy.