Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh - Earning Your Stripes

Episode Date: April 16, 2019

This week Andrew, Akaash, and Kaz discuss Tiger Woods, Andrew eating bananas, women needing kids, 76ers texting, Stylebender winning the title, and much more. INDULGE!!!

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exceptional exceptional content content weekend. We've had, let's see, we've had the playoffs. The NBA playoffs have started. Sports has officially started. My interest has now peaked with basketball. I have to be honest with you. My interest in watching games towards the end of the season waned seriously. Maybe it's because the Knicks were trash.

Maybe it's because the Lakers were trash. Maybe it's because the Lakers were trash. I usually like the Knicks and then I follow LeBron and I just didn't have any horses in the race. Even the good teams kind of turn it off a little bit too. There's no interesting storylines. No, nothing to sink your teeth into during the regular season except

the Lakers caving, which I don't think anybody thought they were going to be good anyway. I thought they were going to be good. I thought we all thought they were going to be good. I thought they were going to be good first half of the season. I thought they'd make the playoffs. You thought they would make the playoffs. Yeah, yeah, that. Yeah. But since I didn't expect them to really contend, I was like, all right.

So they went from being a 4-5 seed to not making the playoffs. All right, whatever. Losing in the playoffs is the same as making the playoffs. Them being terrible is one thing, but the spectacular implosion of the Lakers is what's been the only end of the season storyline for them. I'm going to put this out here right now. LeBron is on the trading block next year. I don't think you're wrong.

I don't think you're wrong. Who called this? You said this? Yes. When did you say this? Yes, during the Anthony Davis thing. I was like, yo, I like the Lakers. Oh, we talked about this.

You should trade LeBron. I was like, yo, why wouldn the Lakers Oh, we talked about this You should trade LeBron I was like, yo, why wouldn't you just trade LeBron for Anthony Davis straight up? Like, who says no? On a Patreon, we talked about this Okay, okay, well look If you said it first, you said it first I would not be shocked And I'll give you credit for it, Ken

I would not be shocked The guy's 34 34 years old 34 years old He's got two more guaranteed years left And then an option Great contract. Phenomenal contract.

He has to play those two years. He's coming back from injury, so you know he's healthy. He's had the whole summer to rest. You get healthy peak LeBron for at least one year, and then you have slightly declined LeBron for another year after that. This is, you literally can get anybody you want in the league. This is a conversation that I've had with people

and there's been mixed reviews on this. I think you can trade LeBron straight up for any player in the league. Absolutely. And Giannis. I don't think you get Giannis. I think you get Giannis. Giannis is better right now. Why would the Bucks make that trade? No, I don't think he's better. Right now? I think Giannis is better right now. Why would the Bucs make that trade? No, I don't think he's better. Right now?

I think Giannis is better this year. I think that he has physical advantages over LeBron, which are minimal, but he has them. I'm about to say, how many people could say that, though? No, no, not a lot. I don't deny that. But LeBron's IQ and experience is unmatched by any player in the league. So it's like, if I'm Milwaukee and I think I got the team to do it this year. Put it this way.

If you take LeBron and you put him in Milwaukee right now. Oh, interesting. Do they contend? I don't know. Healthy LeBron last year? Yes. But this year. No, no.

Healthy LeBron. Healthy LeBron this year. Oh, yeah. They contend. In the East? Absolutely. I think they make it out of the East easy. I think the East absolutely.

And I think that. They give Golden State problems. They're issues. They have guys that can hoop. It's a better team than Cleveland. It's a better team than Cleveland. Even the better question is, what does Giannis do for the Lakers? Like, does he take what LeBron and them couldn't make work?

Yes. And make that work? You think yes. Yes. Go. Why? I think LeBron wasn't as fun to play with as people thought he would be. I think LeBron brought a lot of drama with him.

I don't think Kevin Durant is wrong in that he doesn't necessarily mean for it to be toxic. But it's toxic around LeBron. No, you're right. Can I ask you this question? 25% of the way through his contract. Is this the... What? Go on. Go on. LeBron LeBron. No, you're right. Can I ask you this question? 25% of the way through his contract. Is this the... Go on.

Go on. Wait, y'all don't need a banana like that? You just kiss it up and down before you start eating it? I don't know. I never... What do you think Tory Lanez is going to bite this on his Instagram? Wait, he bit something you did too? He did a banana thing.

He edited a banana thing on Flavor and then that Tory Lanez did that week on his Instagram. Bro, Tory Lanez was running around squirting Hennessy with the Super Soakers. Really? You probably the one that got him to Flagrant 2, and now he's stealing everybody's shit. Probably. If you're out here hating Pakistanis, I don't have a problem with this man. That's my shit. Our guys came in tight this morning, bro.

I saw Hotel Mumbai. That shit, man, got me emotional, bro. Really? Bro, I saw Hotel Mumbai. You guys seen that, got me emotional, bro. I saw Hotel Mumbai. You guys see that movie? You guys even know that's a movie? I'm looking through all these notes that I want to talk about for the show, for the videos, and he's like, man, I'm like, ah, here we go,

bro. I'm going to have a whole fucking... This is going to be thousands of years of oppression I'm going to have to hear about. I just want to look at this manscaped ad and see if I can get the words right. See the smoke coming out of his ears. But you in a real, you know, there was smoke coming out of his ears.

Not as much smoke coming out of his hotel move. Oh, there it is. All right. This is going to be a good one today. It feels good. It was set on fire. He's not inaccurate. He's not wrong.

So I got you heated. And I empathize you know why why because after my mom saw um braveheart yeah my mom was fucking tight for like three days straight really yeah really upset so like that probably you're having that kind of visceral emotional reaction yeah that shit was rough i forget i was in dog i was supposed to be in Bombay then. Like the train station they shot up, I was supposed to take a train that stopped right there. Yeah. God damn.

Do you think that like they call the terrorists like Bombay? Like... Oh, God. That's a flagrant dad joke. Like B-O-M-B-A-E. That's a flagrant dad joke. That's a flagrant dad joke. B-O-M-B-B-A-E. Like Pompeii. You know what I mean?

Okay, so you saw the movie, and you went with your girl, or what? Yeah. Now, what happens after that? What do you mean? Do y'all bone? I don't think that's a movie you necessarily bone to after. So the mood is ruined. We bonded over some Indian love, though.

You did? We bonded over pride and country, yeah. Really? Yeah, yeah. Oh, that was beautiful. So what happened? Y'all discussed? Y'all had a nice little discussion?

She read about it. She was real wrapped up in it. I tend to just leave shit alone. See, that's the problem. You're the girl that reads. I would never do that. See, that's why y'all fighting all the time, because your girl's too educated. You know what I mean?

Don't do that shit. Get a girl who likes meme pages. Nah, man. You know, Indian girls, fighting is the fun. That's it. I was the only one here who dates a woman of color. Right. I'll just let you guys know.

I got this. Turn into girl of color, bro. My girl's very brown, yo. Very black, man I got this. I got this. I got this. I got this. I got this. I got this. I got this. I got this. I got this. I got this. I got this. I got this. I got this. I got this. I got this. I got this. I got this. I got this. I got this. I got this. I got this. I got this. I got this. I got this. I got this. I got this. I got this. I got this. I got this. I got this. I got this. I got this. I got this. I got this. I got this. I got this. I got this. I got this. I got this. I got this. I got this. I got this. I got this. I got this. I got this. I got this. I got this.

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Oh, God. Oh, man. Andrew, you'll learn about it this year at Essence Fest. What's that? You know my sister. Hey, sister. Hey. Hey, sister.

Hey, sister. I'm coming. I'm coming. Yo, real talk. I'm pulling up to Essence Fest. I look at tickets. Yo, it's a good time. It's a good time.

You should go. Son, let's go. I go every year. I think we're going to be there. We're done. I go every year. I started it. You're time. It's a good time. You should go. Son, let's go. I go every year. I think we're going to be there. We're talking about it. I go every year. I started it. You're right.

You're right. I'm the essence. I started it. I started it. You know how they spell it? It's just S-sense. Dad joke. That was so bad.

That was terrible. Like 50 cents. But it's essence. Oh, I see. Sense was terrible. Like 50 cents. But it's S cents. Oh, I see. S cents. Okay, okay, okay. Is the S a dollar sign? Yo!

That's fucking... You see how we keep tagging these dad jokes? Yo, we on a wash. Let's go. Let's go, bro. I feel it, bro. Speaking of wash, your boy Tiger Woods. We getting into it?

I think we got to get into it right away. Let's get into it, bro. Wait, real quick question about LeBron. Yes. Is this, so far, the worst decision he's made in his NBA career? Yeah. Going to the Lakers? Going to the Lakers.

Yes. Yes. What the fuck? What the hell? Hell. What's wrong with you Bro what I'm looking at this camera I'm like what the fuck is going on

Y'all don't eat bananas like that Y'all don't eat the whole Did you have bread this morning Say what Did you have bread this morning Yo this kid He's like a child I know

He has bread He starts acting weird as fuck I was acting up Son What happened We were driving in the car Oh I was acting up Yo, this kid, he's like a child. I know. He has bread. He starts acting weird as fuck. His blood sugar's too high, bro. Son, when we were driving in the car. Oh, I was acting up. You son of a. I was acting up. I was acting up.

I was acting up, bro. Remember when I used to drink caffeine? I was acting up. Was it like that? It was like that. I was acting up, bro. I kept talking. Shout out to the guy who, what was the guy's name?

Max? Sam. Sam. That's it. That was the guy showing us around Cleveland. He was the guy who manages the club. And I just kept saying jokes, and he wouldn't get it. And I'd be like, that's more for coastal elites.

We're in working class Cleveland. Yeah, that's more of a coastal elite joke. You know what I mean? I can see how that went over your head. You know what I mean? Just like those planes that fly over your state. I just kept leaning into it. He had a good sense of humor about it, though.

It was good. Oh, man. All right, all right. But what happened? Where were we at? Okay, so let's finish the LeBron talk, and then let's get into. Is this the worst decision he's ever made? Yeah, NBA decision.

Without a doubt. Maybe decision, period. Without a doubt. Yeah. Without a doubt, the worst basketball choice he's ever made. Because it's not a basketball choice. Like him going to the Lakers was never about like, we looked at it, we were like,

oh, Kenny got some nice young pieces, but I don't think anybody who watches any basketball thought, oh, they'll beat the Warriors. Oh, they'll win the World Cup. Like, it wasn't a basketball decision. It was a great career decision. It was a great, you know, for his after basketball career. He couldn't wait two years, three years?

What's his media empire that needs to be built now? If I may say, I was just in Cleveland. I was about to say you were just in Cleveland. I could see. I could see how he might want to get out of there after a couple years. Do I have boogers? Yeah, you're good now. What is it?

You got something on your... Banana cum or whatever the fuck. Actually, I'm not going to lie. I'm not going to lie. Cleveland, where we were in it, we didn't see the whole thing, but it was pretty cool. I've heard that. Dude, I didn't notice. You know that's where Rockefeller started?

Yeah. You knew that? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yo, I didn't put this together, right? So Rockefeller has oil. I never figured runs oil. I never figured where the oil came from. I didn't put that together.

All the oil in America started in Western PA. I did not know that. Right? So it's like, okay, that's why he's in- As a Texan, I thought we had the monopoly on that. So did I. The whole time I'm like, it must be in Texas or Alaska or whatever it was. So it was Western PA and that's why all those regions were stocked.

They were like Western PA is actually close to West Virginia. Now you have all those coal miners who were balling back in the day. You had those billionaires or millionaires at the time. The hotel we stayed in, Alex said it looked like Hogwarts. It did. It looked like a blimp. It looked like a giant floating blimp. It was unfucked.

Was it not unreal? It was dope, though. It was so cool. I've never seen anything. Yeah, the Heidelberg or whatever. Hindenburg. Hindenburg. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

It's the Heisenberg. My bad. That's. Hindenburg. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's the Heisenberg. My bad. That's my boy, Walter. That's my boy, Walter. So, but it was just cool to be in a place like you could imagine that back in the fucking day, like the Rockefeller times. That was just an office. You know, that was just an office, Alex.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So we were in a massive hotel that was also like a mall now. That was just an office. That's dope. That's the kind of wealth we're talking yeah like real time billionaire shit so cleveland was dope cleveland was dope i'm not gonna trash that being said you have the opportunity to go to la yeah yeah you also have the opportunity to be the greatest basketball player ever still has the opportunity i wonder if he had that opportunity in Cleveland.

I wonder if he recognized, listen, there's no fucking way we're going to beat these Warriors. There's just no way. They're too good. What are we going to... Is Seti Osman going to turn into... I don't think going to the Lakers was the move.

Ah, I see, I see, I see. I don't remember who I thought he should have gone to. Philly. Philly, yeah. Can you imagine him on Philly right now? It's over. It's fucking over. Did he stand a chance of beating the Warriors without KD?

Yeah. Yes. So there was already talks of KD wanting to leave. That's true, too. Before LeBron left. That's probably why. I think he should have stuck it out. He's saying if KD had left, the Cavs could have beaten the Warriors.

Absolutely. If KD never got there, I think they get two out of those three. Yeah, so his point is he could have stayed in Cleveland because there was already rumors KD was going to leave. So he could have just stayed in Cleveland. He could basically wait one more year out. Yeah. Yeah, look, I think in retrospect we all know it wasn't the best basketball decision.

LeBron is clearly someone who's thinking past basketball. And it's hard for us to fathom because his value to us is basketball right yeah his value to us is not i mean we're not so impressed with the fucking boardroom or the barbershop whatever the name like anything he does outside of basketball i could really give a fuck about right so i'm like why don't you care about the thing that i care most about even some of like you know like his show like the quarter the million dollar mile or something like it got moved to like saturday nights or friday nights like that's not good yeah like that's a big sign they buried it yeah yeah they put them on like the fucking graveyard i tend to think if

you have an otherworldly talent you pursue that otherworldly talent if there's a window on it. Like that window is closing. He's not an otherworldly TV producer. He's pretty good. He's impressive considering he's an otherworldly basketball player. Could be. Right, right. I mean, you got to think about it like this.

But you can do that at any time. So I guess you're saying why not lean into. Yeah, lean into the basketball while that window is closing. And then in two, three years when the skills are declining, then go to LA. But this is what we do with famous people, right? Is like we want them to live the lives that we see for them. And I think it's quite normal. I think it's reasonable.

This is our relationship with them. Our relationship with them is based on one thing. So it's like I want you to continue doing that one thing. And then when you divert off of that, it's disappointing. More specifically, my admiration of you is based off one thing. Right. I'm not going to admire LeBron really as an other world, anything like I am basketball. He's a good businessman, not as good as he is at basketball.

Okay. This whole idea, it's very easy to do business when you're LeBron. That's another thing. It's like, we're giving paul too much good people acting like rich paul's this fucking genius it's like you walk in the room and then they go we'd like to work with lebron and he goes okay well they built they built themselves to that point though because at first rich paul looked at as just like oh you're just his fucking his flunky you know what he's got the course talking his flunky you know what he's got the corvette engine talking uninterrupted one thing i say i think he was they were the one of the first people to recognize how much leverage they had i think a lot of athletes underestimated their leverage

a lot did and then lebron was like no i can dictate wherever the fuck i want to go like i honestly think that's his biggest contribution to like the game just like player freedom and being able to be like- Sure, player leverage. He tipped the scales. Yeah, tipping the scales, taking a little bit of the power out of the owners, and the owners still absolutely run shit. Right.

LeBron's the first person that really shook up the fucking status quo as far as player and owner relationships and being able to dictate where you want to go and all that type of shit. Yeah, he broke this old moral code, which was there's something valuable about staying with the same team. Yeah. And there is absolutely nothing valuable about it. I mean, we just rewarded Dirk for doing it for his whole career,

but it's a meaningless thing. You play this game to win, you go where you can to win, and we're going to knock the fuck out of you for doing it because we're hater-ass fans. But at the end of the day, the history books will remember your rings. Yes. Okay? That is all they'll remember.

Remember all your accolades. That's it. They would never remember. What is the guy's name? Bernard King. Bernard King played for the Knicks? Yeah. So they would never remember Bernard King's tenure with the Washington Bullets, I believe it was.

Bullets, yeah. Right? I think. As one of the flashiest and most exciting players in the history of the NBA. They will remember him because he has two rings with the New York Knicks. Simple as that. So say what you want about KD. Forgotten without those rings.

To me, it's like a relationship a little bit. Like you got your wife, your whatever, your girl. If they do right by you, if the organization does right by you. No, Walt and King were on the same team. Were they? Yeah. I didn't think King had a ring. I'm thinking about the same question y'all on this shit.

I'm pretty sure it was Walt. I didn't think King had a ring. Yeah. Bernard King was like late 80s. So maybe it's not King I'm thinking about. Who was the- It was Clyde. No, no, Clyde and.

There was somebody that came over. And, oh, fucking Black Jesus. What was his name? Earl Monroe? Earl Monroe. There you go. That's who you're talking about. Was that Earl Monroe?

Mm-hmm. Was that the one that was on the bullets, though? Wait. Does Bernard King have a ring? Earl the Pro. Earl. Okay, so maybe it was that. There was somebody who decided I wanted to win.

Yeah. Maybe it was Earl Monroe. And it was like, I'm going to take this ego check because it's Clyde's team yeah black Jesus Baltimore Bullets not Washington Baltimore Bullets which is a hilarious name for a team with tons of bullet fire or a city with tons of bullet fire yeah uh okay but what were you saying Akash I think if the organization does right by you for the most part and you leave then I feel like you are an asshole organization does right by you for the most part and you leave, then I feel like you are an asshole or whatever.

Like LeBron, the first time he left Cleveland, I didn't like him going to play with Dwayne Wade, but you've got to leave Cleveland. They're fucking idiots. Yeah. I think even KD to a degree, actually I think they did a pretty good job building the team, but Trayden Harden, that's enough for me to be like,

all right, you know what? Maybe I need to step away from this organization. Again, hated where he went. But leaving if your organization is stupid, why the fuck would I be loyal to you? And most organizations are pretty stupid. So I'm agreeing with your point. For Dirk's part, for the most,

the Mavericks have been a pretty well-run organization. They fucked up after they won the championship for about five years, but up until the championship, they did a great job. They were always in the mix. They always did right by it. Yeah, they always drafted well. They were always in the mix. They were always in the playoffs here and there. After they won the title, it felt like they did a great job. They were always in the mix. They always did right by it. Yeah, they always drafted well. They were always in the mix.

They were always in the playoffs here and there. After they won the title, it felt like they got a little fat. I was like, oh, okay, we can just let these people go. Passing on Giannis, he got us moving. It's so hard to run an organization because so much of this is pure luck. Yeah. Right?

You are investing in a player. True. And you are predicting their work ethic, their physical capability, and their health. Three things that you cannot control at all, right? So when you don't pick Giannis, you can simply look at him and go, I think he's too raw. I don't think he'll make it. I've seen tons of athletic guys. He's not the first athletic guy in the NBA who didn't work out.

There's been tons. For every Giannis, there's been a million. Stro-Miles Swift. Stro-Miles, Darius Miles, right? There's been a million. He's got good arm length and all that type of shit. Oh, this guy. I thought Darius Miles was going to be like the fucking next T-Mac.

Absolutely. And all of us did. So it's like I empathize with organizations, and I'm hesitant to call them dumb unless they're truly – like the New York Knicks are dumb, right? But some people are making the best moves that they think they can, and these guys do not. Like the Lakers drafted pretty well.

I don't think that – like Brandon Ingram is supposed to be better. Oh, no. They've been smoking the summer league for the past couple years because they draft very well. What's the guy's name who they traded to New Orleans? Fucking D'Lo. Julius Randle.

Julius Randle. Decent player. D'Lo. Killing it. They drafted well. They did what they had to do to get the best player in the league. He got injured, so you don't make it into the playoffs. And then your other guys just can't step the fuck up.

Yeah. Simple as that. You know what I mean? Isn't that what it is, though? If the move works out in anything, you're brilliant, and if it doesn't, you're an idiot? That's what I'm saying. So it's so hard to call a,

to give credit to either one for an organization because it's pure luck. You're rolling the dice no matter what, and you're basically trying to get a die that's only going to land on two or three things instead of six i think draft wise they were well i think it was just the front office moves like as far as like people they signed who wouldn't go after lebron like not even just lebron but like fucking signing like mozgov and like lawal dang if you make miscalculations i think we agree on the general

thing but i think if yeah sure this is luck but that's how it is. If it works out, I'll call you a genius. If it doesn't, I'll call you an idiot. And that's how I, and you're like, it's all luck, so I'm not going to judge you either way. I'm like, look. No, I'm going to judge you, but I understand that that judgment that I'm giving to you is unfair. It's miscalculations. They just made some miscalculations. That's it.

But the miscalculation of not trading for Paul George. It wasn't even miscalculation. It's pure luck. So it's like, I know when I call you a genius organization, it's like, this is pure luck, buddy. Or not pure luck.

It's like 80% luck. And I know when I call you an idiot organization, I'm like, this is also luck. You just got very unlucky. You think there's a few exceptions, though, right?

I would say the Spurs. Knicks are pure exception, bad. Spurs, pure exception, good. Because the Spurs have such an amazing culture and structure, and they sign character guys before they sign. And they're in the right city, too. I think that's a big thing.

Sure, sure. They're in the right city. But they're also signing personality. Like, they would rather a shittier player that will do exactly what the team needs than a really good player who's going to be Kyrie and be insubordinate and break up that chemistry. Like, Kyrie could never play. Yeah.

Pop would probably never want a Kyrie. No. He has, like, a system. He'd lie about it. Yeah. But he would never want it. That's why a guy like DeMar DeRozan fits so well over there. He's the perfect dude for them because it's, like, you don't need to ask him to be a superstar

because, I mean, he's a star but like a superstar like 1a type of dude you never need to be because like popovich and like the culture and like the players all the supplementary parts around them makes up that gap between like star and superstar and they made the playoffs and they won they won their first they beat beat the nuggets right yeah yeah to beat the nuggets first game like they stole home so drafting i get can be luck. What do you say to other things, like the Mavs wanting to say, well, I guess Giannis is a draft pick.

They wanted to save money. That's why they passed. But I would say to the Lakers, not trading for Paul George, because he's just going to want to come here. Yeah. Not trading for Kawhi, because he's just going to want to come here. Arrogance. And now you're fucked.

I would call those stupid decisions. Yeah. But let's say Paul does want to come. Then it's genius. Right? So it's like it's so fucking vulnerable being in that position. You need some luck. You're mitigating like a fraction of circumstance.

I guess that's what it is. When you're a team owner or like a president or GM, it's like your ability to control the game is tiny. So you have to get every bit of that right. Right. And the elite teams do it. Yeah. The Spurs do it. Yeah.

And even with that, they can't even guarantee wins. To your point, I really respect the moves the Raptors have made the last few years, and they can't get it done. They can't get it done. I think great moves all the time, and they can't get it done. Can't get it done. That's how fucking vulnerable this shit is. You know if you're a team and you manage to get Steph Curry and a couple pieces, you're

in the finals. You know that if you manage to get LeBron and at least a couple pieces, you're in the finals. Right. Everybody else, you just gotta fucking hope for an injury. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway. All right. All right. everybody else you just gotta fucking hope for an injury yeah yeah anyway all right it's a let's

get into let's get into the big deal of what happened here uh there's a bunch of things that we want to discuss today part part of me is like let's akash before was like should we hold off on tiger and then like close strong on tiger should we should we get right into it um i think i think there's something else that i want to hold off to um okay but let's let's let's let's go on tiger today we're reflecting this is monday this episode will come out tuesday um yesterday we witnessed two colossal events this was so cool so rarely now in culture do you have Super Bowl moments. And I don't mean Super Bowl in terms of the actual Super Bowl. I mean moments where because of streaming culture, the entire world is watch it all at different times. We've actually become way less connected because we can't have that small talk that really people needed at the office, that water cooler commentary, if you will, right?

For your sports needs. For your sports needs, for your Netflix needs, for whatever it was. For your soul's needs. Soul's needs, boom. So there is a time right now, right, for the next six weeks, everybody in the world is watching Game of Thrones.

And that is a connector. You meet a new person. Instead of going, what do you do for a living or where are you from, whatever these nonsense questions are, just so you can find a little morsel. You can search for a connection. You can search for it. Here it is. You know what it is. You step up. You make some reference about it.

That person gets it. And immediately you've connected with another human being immediately right it's like bumping into someone in another city that's wearing your same college shirt yeah you know you're like oh shit gauchos yeah right oh shit buck eyes right and then boom you have that connection whatever we're all team stark for the next six weeks or lannister or whatever it is, right? And you have this amazing moment, and it's why, if you can get there with traditional appointment television, it's a way more effective form of content because truly we want to connect over something. Tiger provided that for us Sunday at the Masters. He got the entire world. I'm 35 years old, so there was a time in my life where we listened to sports radio.

We listened to games on the radio. We're driving back. I landed from Cleveland, and I'm in the Uber home, and I was like, Tiger's on. Let me see if I can catch it. I get AM on. I press seek. I press seek again to try to get another, not press seek i press seek again to try to get another not your girls people but to try to get the try to get the station seek seek see right i get the station

and literally it's him putting the final putt on 18 fuck okay he gets it he is the 2019 masters champion this is his fifth masters championship i'm freaking out i'm going crazy i'm like whoa this i don't even watch golf but i'm fucking going nuts and my uber driver's looking at me like i'm insane he's like who listens to am right and uh and in that moment i was compelled to go on twitter to see what the timeline was talking about. I hadn't felt like that in fucking years. Maybe when I first got Twitter. But the last thing I want opinions from people on are fucking on Twitter. It's just an awful, disgusting place.

And it's finally peaceful opinions. Dude, there's no stakes, right? So it's just golf, right? So I go on there and everybody is rejoicing this fucking this moment Right this moment of redemption this this guy who was at the highest of highs went down to the lowest of lows Tried everything to come back and we literally saw his body break down in front of us. Yeah, right we saw fusion surgery All the all the surgeries he went through, I'm like, oh, like your favorite fucking football player

doesn't come back from that type of shit. Non-stop. Broken, broken, broken, broken, broken. Last year almost does it. I think second he comes in last year, right? In one of the majors. Which would have been this amazing story. Doesn't happen.

And then fucking A on the Masters. The guy pulls it off. And you have this amazing magnetic pull. The entire world. Right? I mean, a lot of the world golfs. And this is how magnetic Tiger is. I hate golf.

I'm bad at it. Golf is not my shit. I fucking was obsessed with this moment. Tiger brought us all together he wins and it reminded me something about the power of sport it's like in our everyday lives there's so many things we cannot control right and the reason we're drawn to the tigers of the world to the floyd mayweathers of the world maybe when connor was winning the conners of the world, to the Floyd Mayweathers of the world, maybe when Conor was winning the Conors of the world, is they offer this consistency that does not happen. It's like the reason why I think wrestling works

in a lot of ways. It's like, oh, the Undertaker's gonna win every single time? You know what? Not a lot of things happen for me every single time. It's nice to know that I can go and I can get that thing. I can get my good and my feel good.

My feel good, because I don't have a lot of feel good moments. I don't know what's going to happen to me at work. That's why TV and movies usually have happy endings. Yeah, because we need it, right? Because life doesn't, right? It's like, I don't know if I'm going to hear from my folks, or I don't know if I'm going to get back with my girlfriend. I don't know.

So much I don't know. And then you go in that moment, and you see the guy, against all odds, fucking do it at 43. You're an old man. Like, like i'm 35 my body's breaking down you see another fucking old man whoop these little young kids asses dude because sports is the is the great life metaphor bro it's a great life metaphor it's what brings us all together because like if you didn't watch that shit and didn't think like no man like we've all been fucking down we've all gotten our ass like life has kicked everybody's ass and there's not many people whose life has had his ass whose whose guy has ass

kicked by life yeah like tiger woods like you know so seeing that shit man like and and mind you to me and to damn near almost every sports fan i'll talk to tiger is golf to them like there's no i don't remember a world of golf before i remember a world of golf that did not matter before it did not fucking matter i don't know anybody i read the fucking there was this really in-depth book about tiger that i read like two three months ago just because i heard it was good the guy wasn't asshole but like just completely hit rock bottom and then turned it around realized like all the shit he needed to change, became a different person. Real horny. Real horny guy, too.

You know? I mean, just, like, people who set him up financially for life. Like, he didn't like one thing they said, and then he just cut them out forever. Not even to him. Like, something about, like, telling his dad, like, yo, quiet down or something like that. He'd be like, all right, done forever. But, like. You're shut off.

Yeah. Just motherfuckers that set him up for life. No. But at some point point he hit his bottom he's like yo i can't i gotta be different and then like he just changed who he was and now he's winning and it's just cool to see i don't know it's just cool to see normally when a guy's like fuck i don't want to be this killer person anymore they don't win yeah and it's cool to see him say i don't want to be this guy anymore and then be great apparently he's he's uh changed the way he

parents and shit yeah he takes his kids to school. He's becoming... He wasn't a parent before. That was one of his big regrets. Right. And it's like I'm not one to sit here and, you know, to quote the Chris Rock joke, that's what you're supposed to do. I'm not going to give you credit for doing the things you're supposed to do as a

parent. Right. What I'm trying to say is that rock bottom humbled him to the point where he realized, luckily for him, early on in his life, that there are things more valuable than chasing the outcome. And it seems that he has made that transition and then life rewarded him for it. I mean, to win the Masters.

It's so sweet that he actually won it at the Masters too because people forget, like, he was like stinking it up and hitting rock bottom like that whole like club of augusta took every shot to like shit on him and like you know especially when he got caught with cheating oh really i didn't know that oh no yeah that's what that's what makes it that much more sweeter like that his first win was back at that place where they damn near shunned him. You know what I mean? Master Augusta did? Yes, yes.

The balls on them. Exactly. Take a moral high ground when you don't even let women onto the course. You know? And it's one of those things where it's like. How dare he cheat? What do you think the men are doing at your course? Their wives aren't allowed here. I wonder why.

I think he also butted. maybe if i'm remembering this correctly i think he also was like a dickhead to the director of the masters something like that but so then he was like all right this guy's always been a dick to me fuck fuck it was on some shit where it's like oh well you know dog like if a reporter guy thinks he's bigger than the game he's bigger than the masters like now look at him look at this motherfucker like there's basically somebody you'll yo, now, like, kiss the ring type of shit. Yeah. And, like, I guess

he kind of had to until, like, you know, now he's back where he is. Again, in fairness, Tiger was the number one kiss. If you were a reporter and didn't constantly ask him, like, easy questions,

if you asked him one tough question, he would turn on you forever. Like, reporters he was, like, cool with, had a good relationship, they would ask him about some shit they had

to ask him about, and then, like, a bad round or something like that, like, like as an example and then he would be like why would you why would you ask me that and then just never to fuck with them again like he was like i got the book if anybody wants to feel about that you gotta let people do their job like if you don't like it fine but you can't resent a person forever for doing his job or just be an asshole to the media even on a certain level like i would respect that keep that same energy as opposed to hey I like you just make sure you always ask me very easy nice questions right it

sounds Trump ish it does not very Trump ish he was raised by his father and his mom to be a killer by the way they just look off together by the way that's price yeah like was so okay so so I'm trying to understand the relationship with the media that these athletes might have. Because the media are leeches in a lot of ways, right? When you're doing great, they can't wait to compliment you and you say you're great. And then when you're doing shitty, they just want to shit all over you. So there has to be some resentment

that you develop towards the media when you realize, oh, they're just being nice to me because it gets them a scoop. They're manipulating me as much as I'm manipulating them by being tough on them for asking the question. This is not an authentic relationship,

so does it require Tiger's authenticity? Probably not. I don't... Probably not. I don't know if I'm following necessarily what you're saying. What I'm saying is... Meaning it's fake.

This is what I'm saying, right? Right. So meaning he on some... Tiger's not a stupid guy. Right. So on some level he recognizes that this relationship that he has with these journalists is not real. It's not, hey, you're my buddy. Right.

It's, hey, I'm Tiger Woods and it's advantageous for you to be nice to me for you so that I tell you certain things, answer your questions at the press conference, get you certain scoops, et cetera. Right. So you're just manipulating me. So when, and guess what? I'm going to let you manipulate me. I'm going to let you leech off of me. And then all of a sudden you're going to bash me in this interview after I let you leech off of me?

Fuck you. I don't got to answer your questions. I think on some level I understand. If that was all it was, I could kind of understand it. And again, if anybody wants to read the book, I retain shit shit pretty poorly especially for an indian but like it's a great book but uh like the guy who kind who set him up with his lawyers who like fought for him about journalists yeah but i'm saying just just answer that just journalists i can maybe see what you're saying my issue with tiger was it was consistently but we're talking about just just journalists

yeah athletes athletes in general and journalists there's this contentious relationship. So it's like... But on some level, I understand it. I honestly think it's because it taps into like Tigers and most star athletes, like sociopathic, competitive edge. You know what I'm saying?

If you're that good and that dominant in what you do, how far in a totem pole does media really fall? You have so much shit to worry about. I think you're that good and that dominant in what you do, how far in a totem pole does media really fall? Like, you have so much shit to worry about. I think you're right about that. It's like, and I think there's twofold to it. Yeah. And this is just something I realized recently with the seizure video.

When the seizure video went viral and all these articles started being written about it, they were all inaccurate. Yeah. On some level. Yeah. So, if. That's valid. Right? So, it's like, if I see the glaring inaccuracies in

it right tiger's gonna read articles about himself and be like i did not say that i this did not happen here this story is complete bullshit and that happens every day for him yeah eventually you're gonna be like these motherfuckers are just writing whatever they want to write to get clicks suck my dick to all y'all so that i. Suck my dick to all of y'all. So that, I would say, suck my dick to all of y'all, fine. And I guess it's the lack of authenticity for me is always the thing. Right. So, like, I think you would, generally speaking, offer authenticity and consistency with however you treated any group of people.

Right? If you're, I'm going to answer the softball questions in the most phony, I'm a great person way possible. Right. And then when you ask one question I don't like, fuck you and only you forever. Then I don't find, if you consistently, like Rick Carlisle, Mavericks coach, a dickhead to the media all the time. Right. It's not nice, but you respect the consistency of it. Right.

All of you guys always get shit wrong. Like you said, they all on some level get some shit wrong. Yeah. So all of you go fuck yourselves. Right. I don't need to deal with any of you. I guess what you got to do ought to, yeah, go out. So I've actually thought about this in the past in terms of basketball players when they have their interviews after the game and how they speak to them.

And the theory that I came up with is that when you're operating at that level, their concern is legacy at this point and how they want to be remembered. Right. So it's like, hey, when the media covers me, I want it to be good coverage. When you see me, I want it to be good. So that's why they put on that bullshit voice and they speak all proper and shit like that. So I think you're 100% right. I think that it's not only legacy, right? It's like I think that you have a responsibility as an athlete to control your

narrative it's why lebron has uninterrupted or undefeated uninterrupted right and it's like i think the reason if you're smart right you love the softball questions from these journalists because it allows you to control your narrative and if you get these dickhead questions from the journalist while that is the journalist's job to like get this information you're like well that information don't help my legacy why the fuck do i care about your legacy you think i need you to write about me i'm tiger woods okay dustin johnson needs you to write about him right right like you know how the like the paparazzi and journalists always go you need us just as much as we need you. Not all of you. Not with Tiger and not with the golf. I am golf.

Golf needs Tiger. Tiger don't need golf. This whole shit shuts down if I hear. So it's almost like the Jordan rules with the journalists where most journalists really kind of like kept a lot of shit quiet because they recognize how important Jordan was to the game. The magnitude of importance to the game. Jordan was to the game.

The magnitude of how, of importance to the game. That's why I said like, on the bottom of the, like media appearances on the fucking very bottom of the total. So imagine you're tired or like,

I am like, y'all see black people out here? Yeah. At a golf event? Do you know what I mean? Do you see what I'm doing to the sport? I'm revolutionizing the sport.

Check the ratings tomorrow. You're upset that I'm at One Oak? Do you know what I'm saying? Like, you see young, cool kids at a golf event? Yeah. You're upset that I'm at One Oak? You see young, cool kids at a golf event? I brought youth to this shit? I'm changing this sport that was literally

dying out. And y'all gonna ask me what my extracurricular activities are? I'm the only reason motherfuckers are reading your articles. I'm the reason why you got all these young kids reading your articles. You should be kissing my... You got a job because of me but to you because then he's an asshole exactly exactly so then he's just like so i think there's i think

him and a certain stature of players are just like you're not you're not giving me enough gratitude you're being a little entitled to what's going on here i think i have to wrap my mind around this and maybe we'll discuss it more in the patreon but i would say even using you as an example you don't do magazine features you've done one because you liked the kid and thought he was sincere. But generally speaking, it's like, look, I don't need you to build me up because I know what's going to happen in the long run. Right. And I can respect that where it's like, look, I'm not Tiger. I don't need you.

But this is different. I'm not Tiger, right? Like, I'm not at the point where comedy ebbs and flows with me. Right. You could be at a certain point. The popularity of golf itself is on Tiger. Golf itself decomposes without Tiger. Right.

So when you have that much power and you're providing that many jobs, literally if Tiger stops playing, Golf Digest is laying people off. ESPN's golfing journalists or whatever, bloggers or whatever, are getting laid off. When he wasn't playing that well, they got rid of his video game for EA Sports. Mad people laid off already. So it's like you know how much. You're looking at these people like, I feed your family. Do you not realize I feed your family?

And you're going to ask me if I'm going to fucking one-up? Again. And I feed your family? I think gonna ask me If I'm going to Fucking one oak Again And I feed your family I think you're making A general point You do keep using Tiger As an example And I would say Tiger

Was just like Look if you had a bad round Just answer the fucking questions Like Right You know what I mean Russell Westbrook Was kind of on that shit yesterday

What you like What is that So after the I guess they played the Dame time And Dame was busting that ass What the fuck Dame time

Dame was busting that ass Yesterday And Enos Cantor Enos Cantor And Dame was busting that ass. That's fucking Dame time. Dame was busting that ass yesterday. And Enos Cantor. Enos Cantor as well was busting that ass too. Yo, Enos was busting that ass. Enos' little finger roll at the end. Yeah. That was beautiful with the left. Yo.

Busting that ass. With the left. I guess they asked Russell Westbrook, oh, do you think, you know, how was it playing against? Russell Westbrook on the phone with Erdogan right now. Like, you got to kill this treasonous Turk. He was like, oh, how does it feel to go against

one of your old teammates? Yada, yada, yada. And Russ was like, next question. He was like, all right, you know, Damien Lillard,

I'll ask him about that. Next question. Just like not answering shit. But again, Russ is consistently him. That's Russ. That's Russ who we've known. Russ is not putting on

a phony veneer and answering nice questions really sincerely. You know, I just love playing with my teammates. Big smile on his face. And then he has one question, it's fuck you forever. Russ is Russ, and that's why we love Russ. I think that you're not acknowledging the difference in stature. No, I see what you're saying. That's a valid point.

So it's like, if Russ has that attitude, I'm like, pump the brakes. If Jordan has it, I'm like, pump the brakes. Yeah. If Jordan has it, I'm like, I kind of get it. I pay the bills around this bitch. Do you know what I mean? It's like every day when they fucking, I don't know who's doing it, but there's the picture of me and Charlamagne that's usually up there. Right? And they take that down every single time. And I taped it up now.

Somebody in the studio is taking it down, right? I got to find out who's taking it down because only a few podcasts pay the bills here. So if I'm paying the bills and you got a podcast that's not paying no fucking bills, right, and you're taking down the picture, that bothers me because there isn't a place for you to take something down if you're not paying the bills. We love Russell Westbrook. The NBA will paying the bills. We love Russell Westbrook. The NBA will be fine without Russell Westbrook. Like, the golf will not be fine if Tiger Woods is a wimp.

No, no, no. I would still say LeBron, who I find a little phony. I think, to your point, the stature requires him to be a little phony. If you ask LeBron a question he doesn't like, he doesn't like it. Okay. I cannot answer you. I can say, you know what? I don't need to answer this. But acting like this motherfucker can never talk

to you again, it's like a different thing. I encourage anybody to read the book. No, I want to read it, but all I'm saying is there's a certain point, right? Like, if I'm LeBron or Jordan, Jordan set a precedent, right? Jordan was like,

yo, if you come at me with that fuck shit, Sports Illustrated, you're not going to get any of this. Quiet for you. And then what happened with everybody else? Fell in line. Right. You know what I mean? It's like a boss once told me when I started managing this restaurant, he's like, you're going to have to fire somebody. And I was like, why?

He goes, because everybody's going to fall in line when you fire someone. Right. Right? Because they know that you're real. And Jordan did that, and then everybody kept it real. I mean, Jordan was out banging hookers, doing coke, and playing blackjack every fucking night of the finals, and nobody said shit because that's Sports Illustrated. He also was 6-0 in the finals.

Tiger played four tournaments a year, so he was going to lose some. When you lose those, then the questions start coming. For eight years in a row, Jordan didn't lose a playoff series. But he didn't wait to do coke, gamble, and fuck hookers until he was in the finals, right? You know he was doing that. It wasn't all good coverage for Jordan for that. It wasn't bad. It wasn't.

He's out banging hookers. That's what I'm saying. It was never bad. He got the FDR treatment. Tiger wasn't bad. It wasn't. He's out banging hookers. It was never bad. He got the FDR treatment. Tiger was getting some... The questions started amping up for Tiger a couple years before the scandal, probably, I think. But a lot of times it would just be, hey, you had a bad game.

Yeah. What's up? You can answer that. Yeah, alright. That's it. Alright. But if he says that, he's a dick. That's the thing. Is that even a question? Hey, you had a bad game. What's up with that? I had a bad game. That's the thing. Is that even a question? Hey, you had a bad game. What's up with that?

I had a bad game. That's why I keep coming back to it. I think it's deeper than that. I think that sociopathic competitive drive, to be that good at his peak when he was just fucking banging out majors every fucking week or whatever like that. You have to have such a laser level of fucking focus and drive that like, why are you even asking me? Fuck you. That's the other thing.

It's like the fact that we even have a press conference afterwards after a loss. It's like not making your girl come and then they put you in front of the reporters and they start asking you, you know, like, so why do you think that she didn't come? I came too fast. Why do you think you came too fast? I don't know. I was trying to figure it out. I get your point. If they're just

drilling you that you think that you're inadequate, do you think you don't have it anymore? I hope I still have it. I'm still trying. It's like, let me get out of here and go practice so I can fuck my girl better. Why am I talking to you idiots, you know? They should really do that, yo.

Real talk, I wouldn't show up. The fact that motherfuckers show up to that shit after an L, forget it. Next question. Bro, that's the most brave shit.

I'm just here so I don't get fined. That's the only thing I'm going to say to all these reporters. Which is the illest. The illest line of answers ever. The illest line of answers ever.

Whatever, we don't have to go on too long about this. But, okay, so any more thoughts about Tiger? I mean, I just think it's, you know, just on a sports story. Greatest comeback in history. It's up there.

It's up there. What's better? People keep saying up there, but I feel like they just don't want to commit. It's the greatest. I still – Nothing is great. Greatest comeback in sports history? Bro, the Cavs and Warriors, man. Yeah, that 3-1. I still – 73 it's greatest comeback in greatest comeback in sports history I Bro the Cavs a warrior. Yeah, that's real

Three wins There was seven seven wins in the vinyls. This is ten years to zero. I mean like my man didn't win since 2008 Yeah up there. I mean it's up there. I-1 is insane. 3-1 is insane, bro. Against that team? My man couldn't walk. I give him that one. If you say Tigers of Grace come out, I'm not going to argue with you. My man couldn't walk. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It's also golf. That's fair. That's fair. I can't argue with that point. I mean, bro, it's out of context more. How is your neck really that fucked up all the time? Like, nobody's like. I never understood it. Like, nobody asks these questions.

I'm like, yo, like. I never understood it. Who's getting injured golfing, fam? Bro. Come on, it was the Roy's. You're not going over the middle trying to catch it between, like, Ray Lewis and Ed Reed. He didn't get injured golfing. He got injured because his bitch made him drive into a fire hydrant.

That's what he got injured. What the fuck are you talking about? Paint it however you want to. Torque. I read the book. They talk about torque. It was the torque when he steered in that fucking hydrant. Knocked that shit over.

His glutes wouldn't activate. Was that what they were saying? He couldn't activate the glutes when he was putting or something? No, that's what he was saying. That was one of those excuses. I hope she's miserable right now. I hope she is. Fuck her.

I hope she's so fucking miserable just sitting there. I was tweeting about this the other day You know that she's at home Watching her new boyfriend You know she's at home Watching her new boyfriend Watch Tiger win the Masters And is just elated

You know what I mean It's not like Her new boyfriend isn't going to watch The Masters You have to watch the Masters, right? Like, you have to watch the Masters. It's the Masters. And Tiger's coming back, right? I'm not a fan of golf.

I watch it. I listen to it on the radio. So he has to sneak watch it in the bathroom, right? He's on the toilet like, I'll be back there in a second, babe. And you just hear him go, yes! Yes! Finally! You fucking did it! You know what she did

Well all women do She probably sent him a little text I'm so proud of you congratulations I hope Tiger hit him with the biggest Bitch get the fuck out of here Who's this New number who this The kids are mine you gotta keep the kids now

That's what I would do send that bitch back to Norway bitch Fuck out of here Fuck out of here you've never been in that position as like the the the old uh the old ex that likes dating somebody who's like she used to date somebody that you kind of root for and like she don't really like him like that no more but you're still like bro like i'm i'm a i'm a jets fan like what am I supposed to do Wait wait Explain the scenario again I'm missing the X's on the peak So you were talking about your man Baby butter

Yeah So you were talking about You know her new boyfriend Had to go watch Tiger Woods Yeah And like be excited for him Yeah While she was probably

Sitting there salty right Yeah You've never dated somebody Who like I dated a girl right Dated a girl Who used to date somebody That like

Who had an ex. Okay, have I ever rooted for one of my girl's exes? Yes. Like, for example, has an ex of mine ever dated an athlete? Drake. Let's hear this one. No, no, no. No?

No, she didn't date Drake. I'm saying like, yo. It was a rumor. It was a rumor going around, but no. Listen, Drake not that stupid, bro. Come on. Holy shit, don't keep making mistakes like that. Oh, my God, bro. I was in that position before.

Really? Who? Yeah. I can't say who, but I was like. Can you say the athlete? I'm a Jets fan, so I was like, well like i'm supposed to not root for the jets oh no that that one's tough dead ass though i root for every one of my ex's new boyfriends new especially new ones i root for them you should please bro that's that's that's the that's the kind way to look at things not even kind it's

just like do that as long go Just keep it away from me Be happy Yo as long as they're happy It's good bro I'm not This is how we differentiate Between men and women Like women want you to be Fucking

Women are in like Constant competition To do better than you After you break up Me I hope you fucking I hope you are doing Living your best life

Like legitimately Like Yeah Honestly me Like I hope you become A millionaire Right I hope you're dating Like the best I hope you're getting The me like i hope you become a millionaire right i hope you're dating like the best i hope you're getting the best dick i hope you are happy as fuck yeah because i tried yeah

whatever whatever makes you happy yo yeah i want you to be happy not as happy as me but i want you to be happy i want you to be like a little less happy than me but but I want you to be happy. I want you to be a little less happy than me, but I still want you to be happy. Matter of fact, I don't really care. Whatever level of happiness you are, I want you to have it. Have it. Have your fucking happiness. But that's the thing. A girl only wants you to be less happy than them.

If they're A plus happy, you can be A minus happy, but they don't want you to be A plus happy and they're B. That's like if anybody got kids, right? Like there's somebody, like if you got a baby mama, your life is only good when she's dating someone new. Like your baby mama's new boo is your best friend. Your peace, your solitude, your happiness relies on that man. Do not be competitive with that man because as long as they're good together, your happiness relies on that man. Do not be competitive with that man.

Because as long as they're good together, your life is good. Every one of my friends that has a kid has told me that shit. The second that the baby mama breaks up and they're alone and they blame your ass for being alone and leaving them with a kid, life is horrible. There should be a service where you could hire dudes to date your baby mama. It's called Alex. Oh, wow. Oh, now. That's your shit, Alex?

Now we could joke about, okay, Alex. That's your shit, Alex? Okay, Alex. The service is called Alex Media. You like the little baby mamas? They have good pussy. Oh, they have great pussy. That's why they have babies.

Yeah. You're not busting a girl because her pussy feels bad. It's got a good yelp review. And they're like, and they usually like, I can be right there. This is worth nutting it. This was worth that. Alex, you can't even have sex with black baby mamas? The fuck, bro?

I'm not going to lie. I love girls with a kid, man. They're occupied and shit. I think all women need a kid because they do because it's like so many of these girls hate their job, right? But at least a girl with a kid hates her job, but she has something to focus on and use all that mental time. Do you know what I'm saying?

You just need to love something more than you. For real. You just need that. I can't be there all the time. Do you know what I mean? I can't be there for you all the time. I can't be there all the time. Do you know what I mean? I can't be there for you all the time. I can't be there to discuss it. You just need something to occupy your fucking crazy ass brain.

Okay? That's what it is. You have a crazy brain, and if it's not working on something, it's going to be working on what I'm doing. Right? The only reason you're looking at whose posts I liked on Instagram is because you don't have a kid to keep alive. The second you have a kid to keep alive, you don't give a to keep alive you don't give a fuck who's priorities yeah all you

girls that got three instagram accounts why don't you have one other for your kid that's all you need to do you have one other for that kid of yours you have three others because you got no fucking kids you have one other kid and all you'll be doing is feeding that fucking thing and getting applesauce off of your sweaters that should should be your life. That should be your life. Women need kids. We need to promote kids. More kids. More fertility. More fertility.

By the way, we got a new episode of Westerbros. Westerbros is back for Game of Thrones. Mad fun. I want you guys to go check it out. Shouts to Game of Thrones is back. Westerbros is up. We put the first episode of Flagrant 2 feed because we forgot the password to the Westerbros feed. I just got it right now. You got it right now?

Okay. So we're probably going to put that one up. Keep it on the Flagrant feed. We might keep it on the Flagrant feed. Keep it in the family. We might keep it on the Flagrant feed as well so y'all can check it out. But I know that there's people who listen on the Westerbros feed and they might not listen to Flagrant. So I want to get them.

Let's put it on both. It's a good welcome back to the family. but uh so if y'all saw it i'm assuming but uh just to i figured out why bran is so um upset okay uh i think it's because he's been shitting himself and nobody's helping him right like like he's just been sitting on his fucking seat and people like y'all really just gonna not wipe my ass like clearly i can't take my own shits i'm shitting on myself you just keep throwing fox fur on my legs to cover up the smell right and uh and this is why he's been so upset with his family he's like i'm not your brother anymore and it's like yeah i wouldn't call someone my brother who just didn't walk around these shitty ass drawers right so but the funniest thing is there's a reason his name is Bran.

Does he need to eat more of this fiber? Oh, God. Anyway, more of these hot takes. That's why Hodor affected him so much. Son, hold the door. I'm shitting. Don't let these goddamn children of the forest in. I'm trying to take a shit. Hold the Son, hold the door. I'm shitting. Don't let these goddamn children of the forest in. I'm trying to take a shit.

Hold the door. Hold the door. I haven't shitted in three seasons. Let me take a shit. Hold the door. So more hot takes on Western Bros about it.

Again, we are not experts. We're not, we don't know all like the crazy nerd theories, but we can get in on ourselves. Yesterday was my first time ever watching. Really?

Ever. It was very funny to read cash I was like, you know, I didn't everyone's tell me oh you got a bit. I'm like, I'm not gonna binge I'm gonna go with no prior knowledge. You are ruining a great experience for yourself, but it's very fun Yo, I was having a blast just like off of other people's reactions. Oh, we should have documented this this would be so cool Yeah, yeah, we should do a this. This would have been so cool. I mean, I'm going to watch the next one too, so yeah. Yeah, we should do a video of this. It's a, yeah, we should do. Let's watch the next step together.

Yeah, I'll do it. I'm like, dude, I'm like fucking, what's the guy, the little person. The midget. The midget, yeah. I'm like, bro, this guy walks around with the biggest dick on the show. Like, he's that little. I mean, comparatively, his dick is huge. Yeah, like imagine your dick was half the size of your legs

Like you would have an ego to which is Real talk yeah proportionately this guy jerks off like a headlock Okay, baby bowel movement Schultz. I got to go take one. All right, man. You guys hold it down. What are we talking about? Is it getting to somebody's playoff?

What did you want? Playoff game? Yeah, okay, let's do playoffs. Let's do playoffs. Let's do it. All right, do me a favor. Do not discuss, because there is a very important topic that we're going to get to in a little bit, but don't discuss Kyle Lowry until I get back.

Oh, yeah. Okay, you guys start. I'll wait on that. You got that. Shelton knows Kyle Lowry. Yeah, sadly. I would hate to know him right now. But, yeah, lots of upsets.

Lots of upsets on game one. I literally, Saturday, I'm not going to lie, I didn't watch the games. It was like, ah, first round. There might be some good games, whatever. All upset. Lots of upsets? The only non-upset was the Warriors, which was so upsetting. That's upsetting.

That's my upset. And it's fucked up because now Steph Curry has like 20-20 vision. So he's just like fucking tossing them shits everywhere. I'm like, yo. It's so fucking, like how fucking, this motherfucker was breaking records with half of his vision. He had astigmatism? Some shit where, like, he just didn't have, like, contacts or whatever. Like, he couldn't see.

And, like, now he got contacts right before the finals, and now he's just, like, going ape shit. Right before the finals last year? Right before the finals. Right before the playoffs this year. Oh, wow. He got, like, a vision correction surgery and wears contacts now or some shit. Okay. Nuts.

But fucking upsets, yo. The Brooklyn Nets. I've been trying to, listen. I've been trying to talk about more Brooklyn Nets on this podcast. You should talk about Brooklyn Nets. That's probably where KD going. Yo, bro. I'm not going to hold you, man.

Why wouldn't he go there? It pains me as a Knick fan cuz I'm just like alright if You're if you're Katie and you've seen everything LeBron went through you clearly know it wasn't a basketball choice for him to go to LA Yep, and everybody just pegging KD pegging Katie. Thank you Katie to go to New York Dix, right? Clearly it's not a basketball decision if he's going to play for the Knicks Well I've thought about this For a Knicks fan I've thought about your point of view

If they win the lottery Yeah Or even get the number two pick in Ja Right And they get Kyrie And they get KD Ja might not fit but like Zion, KD and Kyrie

That's a fucking squad Absolutely RJ Barrett might be good with them Because he'll know he's not the alpha. He will unquestionably be. I think anybody you draft knows they're not the alpha. And the Knicks are going to get a good pick. So maybe if you get KD and Kyrie and that good player.

Oh, yeah. Then that's the championship team in not this first year but the second year, I think. Absolutely. But I'm saying with this team, if it's strictly basketball He's got to plug somebody in like if you're Kevin Durant and you're looking at how the Brooklyn Nets are playing how free they play Yeah And how much fun they're having when they're playing and you're in Brooklyn and you're in New York and you don't have that fucking pressure That fucking you still have like the the lovely Beautiful New York media to like hype you up and you're doing good you don't have that fucking

insurmountable pressure of being a Nick you don't got Dolan you don't have Dolan breathing down your neck you don't have you actually have like a really good and proven coach and like Kenny Atkinson who's done like well with like lesser parts for most of his career why aren't you looking at Brooklyn right now as like everybody wants to see Brooklyn win a championship. I know. Nobody cares to see Brooklyn win a championship. But it's weird, though. You've got to go to the Knicks.

We want to see the Knicks back. Absolutely. That's why. I'm not going to front. I'll get caught up in the hype. If the Knicks were good and I'm in New York, I'd get caught up in the hype. I'd move back. I think they could.

I'd be out of Jersey. I really think they're a good team. I saw them play a couple times. You can see them pulling back. They were trying to take it. You'll be out of Jersey. I really think they're a good team. I saw them play a couple times. You can see them pulling back. They were trying to take it. You can see them pulling back. Oh, yeah, no, they were absolutely taking it. They're a good team.

On the low, they're a good team. Who's good? You have to watch them play. They'll be competitive for three quarters, and then you'll see them just take their fill up. I'm telling you, They're a good team. What is their seed if they try their hardest? What seed are they?

They easily could have been eighth seed. If they tried their hardest, they easily could have got the eighth. Easily. Suck my dick easily. Sorry, my bad. I forgot who I was talking to. If they are looking at the shiny toy that is Zion at the end of the season, if he wasn't— Bro, they're a ninth, tenth seed at best.

You think they got 24 more wins? Yep. Get out of my face. They beat the Hawks almost all four. I think they beat the Hawks four times this year. Oh, wow. The Hawks were 12 games out of the playoffs. The Wizards aren't good.

The Heat just barely missed. Ten games out of the playoffs. Not ten games aren't good. 10 games out of the playoffs. Not 10 games. The Hawks, the Wizards 32 wins. The eighth seed has got 41. That's nine games. To be better than them, you need 42 wins. Oh, right, right, right.

Okay, gotcha, gotcha, gotcha. I'm telling you. They're not better in the heat. I watch next season. Even if we don't get KD. I'm going to watch. Once they can start playing. Yeah.

Oh, boy. They'll definitely be a lot better next year. But as far as Brooklyn's concerned, you look at them right now. They got so many interchangeable pieces. They got veterans. They got young guys. They're led by a dude with a chip on his shoulder who before, like, people, like, I don't know why people forget. Like, coming out of college, D'Angelo Russell was that fucking dude.

Like, everybody was on this guy's dick coming out of Ohio State like he went number two overall for a reason and like the whole people the whole cell phone shit and the Snapchat shit

people forgot about that and forgot like how good of a player he was projected to be I can't believe the Lakers sacrificed him for fucking Nick Young dude

ain't that some shit for Nick Young and Iggy Azalea's love that's what I'm saying can you believe that shit? Can you sacrifice a star for two more trash people? If you look at D'Angelo Russell, he kind of plays like a slightly smaller James Harden. Like, same game.

So, annoying? Annoying, yes. Extremely annoying. Like, those fucking little pull-ups. He's not fast at all. He's very shifty. But it's hard to game plan for. It's hard to guard against.

And he was giving the Sixers, who I thought were going to come out the East if they were healthy, giving those motherfuckers the balloons. I got to be honest. My friend from Philly, big Philly sports fan, said, I don't think, this was a week ago, he said, if the Sixers get the Nets, that's a bad matchup for them. I don't think they make it out of the first round. A lot of people said that. I think Boston might make it out, man.

Milwaukee's, I think, a better team, but I don't believe, I'm worried about the lack of experience. Oh, I picked Toronto, actually. I picked Toronto to come out. Not looking good right now. Not looking good right now. But that's what we'll discuss with Andrew. I still believe, I had Toronto also, but after yesterday, I don't fucking know unless Kyle Lowry fucking lays another fucking egg.

I don't know what to tell you. We'll talk about that when Andrew gets done shitting. But the Bucs, man. Which upsets do you think are going to happen? This is a question I want real, I want cause and effect. What's going to happen, cause? I can see the Nets getting Philly out of here, man. Joel Embiid looks hurt again.

Can we talk about this fucking cell phone? Fucking. I didn't think. All right. Let's talk about it. Did you think it was that big of a deal? Yeah. Really?

Yeah. Really? You're losing. Fill me in. I didn't know that. So Amir Johnson, when they were getting clapped or whatever, Amir Johnson and Joel Embiid were on the bench just scrolling through a cell phone, like on the bench. It's a huge no-no.

You can't have your cell phone down in the middle of a game. He's young. He's young and stupid. I don't think it's that big of a deal. He's stupid. He's stupid. Fine. Young and stupid, fine, but that's still stupid.

It is. It's not the best look. Young people do stupid shit. That don't make it. It's not as big of a deal if you're young, but it's still a big deal. Amir Johnson's not young. Joellen Beecher, Matt's playing. Joellen Beecher's sort of young. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Andir johnson said my daughter was extremely sick don't come to the game you're not

even playing no one's gonna fucking miss you and no one's gonna be like yo how could he not sit on the bench in a suit if his daughter's sick who gives a fuck come here and be a cheerleader no one gives a fuck if your daughter is sick go be with her yeah no one needs you at the game what you doing i don't know man i i don't think it's that big of a deal for some reason. I feel like 2010. Don't lie to me. My daughter is sick. Yeah.

That's like, we're past late every week and he got some whack ass excuse. I was honest today. I don't need the excuse. I was honest today. I was like, yo, I thought I could sleep for 10 more minutes. And it made things a lot better. But now, dude, it's like, all right. Yeah, this is wild.

This is wild. And he's looking at fucking text messages. Fine. Your daughter is sick. You don't need to be at the game. You not playing. Nobody needs Amir Johnson. Look at this man go tea.

He been around 45 years. Oh, so MB didn't have a phone. No, he's looking at it. They were both looking at it. Oh, nah. He's looking at a message maybe from his wife about his daughter. Don't go to the game. What do you mean?

Like, team support. Your daughter is sick. Support that team. You're not that important to this team. What if it's just like a flu? Let me tell you something. Ed's daughter is sick. We can do without Ed.

Go be with your motherfucking daughter, dog. Yeah, but if it's just a flu. No, he said extremely sick. My daughter is extremely sick. To black people, that's the flu. Like, dead ass. Yeah. Yo, we got the flu. Yo, I'm

dying, son. I'm dying. Let me tell you something. If that's a real, a little PSA for black people, you've been through much worse than the flu. Alright? The flu ain't that big a deal. I'm trying to speak to your struggle. Keep things in perspective. Yeah, but we have like real strength.

We got a lot of flus. And so when we get sick, it's like it's a big deal. We got extra human strength. That's why it's not a big deal if you get the flu. You can still dunk with the flu. I bet his daughter could dunk right now. Well, we did see Jordan, yeah. I'm telling you, man.

I don't think it's a big deal. You know what bothered me more is Draymond Green was just like, yeah, because you never had your cell phone out during work. People do have their cell phones out during work. And if they get caught, they get in trouble. True. That's how it goes. That's exactly what's happening here. He should probably get in trouble unless he spoke with his people beforehand.

Did he speak with the coaching staff? No, he got fined. Oh, he got fined already? Yeah. And if your daughter's extremely sick, straight up, you don't need to be at the game. If you are Joel Embiid, hey, you probably should be at the game. If you're Amir Johnson, you're fine, dog. What's his career stats?

Not career. What's his this year's stats, Aiden? Can you look up this year's stats? Also, Draymond Green is tweeting that annoyingly because you're playing terribly this year, so just shut up. Like, if you were still Draymond Green, it'd be like, all right, whatever. Let's look at the stats we can't do without. Oh, my God.

What are we going to do without your four points and three rebounds? Your dog is extremely sick, I know. But we need those four points and three rebounds a game. And one assist. And one assist. And one assist. Rounded. Can't forget that one.

Jesus Christ. Come on, bro. 37% field goal percentage versus Brooklyn. You're good. I still don't think it was that big of a deal, man. I still don't think it was that big of a deal, man. I still don't think it was that big of a deal. I just think it's like, just be honest. Like, yeah, man, I shouldn't have my phone out.

My bad. Don't be on your phone. If your daughter's actually sick, that sucks. But you don't need to be at the game. Like, don't guilt people for, like, catching you. Clearly you weren't trying to get caught. Like, you were doing the whole fucking, like, the shit to the side. Like, now don't guilt people for catching you

Like oh Well shit my daughter was sick And yeah Like my bro Man Fuck that Don't have If I had my phone on during a set

I'm an asshole Yeah And if my daughter is sick I gotta put my phone away Because I'm If I'm headlining And if I'm the motherfucking guest set Who flew in

Who gets three minutes Maybe I'll check my phone Or I could just not do the spot What would you rather I do? Check my the motherfucking guest set who flew in, who gets three minutes, maybe I'll check my phone. Or I could just not do the spot. What would you rather I do? Check my phone during my guest set that's very unimportant to the show or just not show up? Well, it's a little different as a comedian

because sometimes you guys bring your phone out to look at notes and shit like that. But I know some pro players who will go to the locker room or fake go to the bathroom to check text messages and check phones and stuff like that. I'm back.

I'll say something real quick quick the really upsetting part for me is that they're down by 26 at this time yeah so that's a really bad time for him to be checking his phone and going through all that stuff yeah nah for sure looks like he was like ready to like make his like dinner plans after the game and shit like this is amir johnson yeah johnson yeah definitely texting hoes, bro. Yeah, let's go back to the pic. Can you go back to it? Or the video?

Oh, my God. I love the first shit of the day. It's always good. Man, I took two bangers yesterday. You did? Back to back, bro. Brussels sprouts fucking did me in. Dude, what the fuck is this?

Bleacher report? Why does that guy have all those scars on his ribs? You know, bleachers are always trying to get some fucking... attention. So, yeah. So there's the video. There's two... Huh. Yeah, I don't know.

He's blue? Yeah. He's blue. Yeah, so whoever texted him prior to his blue text was just a one word or one letter text it was okay he got a key got Kate he got Kate that's probably what happened yeah I Did I say something wrong while she came in here? I don't know, man. I probably wouldn't have led with that. Tax etiquette is terrible. Yeah, I mean, you get paid millions of dollars. Listen, I'm all about kids. If that's your kid and you're Amir Johnson, you don't need to be at the game.

Straight up. Or it's very easy to have someone else hold your phone during the game, and if there's pertinent information that's necessary, you can walk off the bench, go into the locker room, or just go backstage or whatever they call it, into the tunnel, do some texting outside of cameras. But to do it right there on the bench is absurd. Yeah.

You have literally hundreds of people that work for the organization they'll be more than happy to hold your phone for you and text check in let me know every 20 minutes and all they have to do is a little sign like hey I mean you just got a text from your wife I understand your kids sick just hit the locker room real quick so it's like kind of busy right now as you can tell it It's been on ESPN. You get paid millions of dollars to not even play. It was after the half.

It must have gotten big news during the half. During the half. Anyway, you don't even have to be there. So like you said, you could stay home or you could just have somebody. It's just so wildly stupid. It's so wildly stupid because you know you're going to get caught. Of course. We have to understand there are hundreds and hundreds of professional cameras not to mention everybody with everybody's own phone so and you know that you're gonna have girls that are keying on you

specifically in the audience all they're doing the whole time is just checking you out the whole time let me tell you something man you know who know who loves Amir Johnson this morning? Ben Simmons. Oh, God. If it wasn't for this cell phone shit, we'd be talking about Ben Simmons all fucking day. I missed the game. How badly did he play? I think nine points he had. There's a video I just saw. He was getting booed on the free throw line and shit.

Every time he touched the ball, he started getting booed. He got booed off the court. He said something along the lines of like, yo, if you're going to boo me, stay out. Yeah. If you're going to boo,

stay on that side. Yeah. Finished with nine points. Jesus Christ. Well, that's the thing. If you cannot shoot in the NBA in the playoffs, you get exposed.

Yeah. Simple as that. Every year. God, it's such an ugly jumper. Somebody tweeted us a video this morning of Ben Simmons in college. And he, I mean,

it's highlights, but he's shooting some jumpers. In high school, too. He used to be able to shoot. So what happened? I have no fucking idea. Injury? In his head.

Nerve damage? I think it's actually not his head. I think there's a functional flaw with the way he holds the ball, and he kind of tucks his thumb. If you watch it again. He got that Markel? No, no, no. That's a nerve damage.

I think it's the way he holds the ball. So he kind of like tucks his thumb under when he's holding it. So he never really has control of the basketball. And all the great shooters, the basketball is controlled. So look at it. Watch. Look at what? Watch when he holds the ball right here.

There's. Now look at it. Now look at his thumb. Can you pause? I saw it. When he lifts it up here. See's – now look at his – can you pause? I saw it. When he lifts it up here. See? It's like his thumb is tucked in.

It's like an angle, yeah. It's an angle, right? So look, when your thumb is tucked in, that is the most – wait. No, I can't pause it. Okay. So that's the most important part of – that's the most important part of any jumper, right? And it's also the reason why they're, you know, keep your elbow in. Keep the elbow tucked.

Right? Now, I'm a guy who doesn't shoot with the elbow tucked, and that's why I'm not as good a shooter is because I don't have the same control, the basketball, that a Curry has. If you even look at Curry, Curry isn't even putting the ball way over his head. Curry's got it, like, next to his face, right? Because the more you keep the elbow tucked, the less. Less can go wrong. Yeah, less can go wrong. Right? Less can go wrong, right? Because the more you keep the elbow tucked, the less... Less can go wrong.

Yeah, less can go wrong. Right? Less can go wrong, right? It's one straight shot. You turn into that Chinese robot that can just hit those half-court jumpers. Now, when the elbow's out here, you just can't balance the ball as well, right? It's more aiming. Exactly, right?

If it's crooked, yeah. So right here, the ball is balanced. If the ball is balanced, there are less things to control. Yeah. It's all about controlling the variables. Elbows out here, the ball's rolling off. So now you're controlling the ball with your fingertips and trying to aim and push it. Elbows straight, straight follow through.

Look at it again. Look at his thumb. Watch his thumb after the follow through. At the very top for a second, his thumb's like tucked underneath the fingers. The guy will never be a good shooter like that. If they get him to hold the ball like this, you can mitigate. See, but I'd agree with you if he always was a bad shooter. But if he used to be a good shooter, like you don't wait until you get to the league to change the way you start shooting.

I mean, and to be fair, like the level of competition definitely jumps up a lot from high school and college. But at the same time. You're looking at the made shots in high school. Yeah. You're not looking at all the time he missed shots in high school. And his shooting percentage in high school is probably really high because most of those shots were- Dunks.

Dunks. So, yeah, he's going to hit a couple mid-range jumpers. When you're feeling yourself, you can get to go. But it was never consistent. I remember when you were dunking on everybody in high school and college. Okay, right here. Pause. You see how his thumb is right there?

His thumb is not at a 90-degree angle. It's not spread. It's not spread. Above the rim. Spread your fingers. You get better ball rotation. And not only better ball rotation, you just get more control of the ball because of the distance. Look how wide your thumb-to-pinky ratio can be.

That was a great fucking form who doesn't get like a lot of attention for having great form Kawhi Leonard calling perfect you have in hand perfect his elbows always fucking her fucks and he fucking she's a machine straight up like that like the robot just straight up straight out mm-hmm and you don't run it and when you're fucking when you're going like a robot when you're shooting like this it's way more aim so there's a lot lot less – Just look at that thumb. There's a whole lot that can go wrong. There's no way you can control – now what also happens is this. You want to shoot going down. You never want to shoot going up.

At the basket. So the other thing about this, right, when you don't have your thumb wide, right, the ball, in order to balance it, is balanced in your palm. They always say the great shooters have daylight, meaning the ball – A little space right here. Exactly. The ball is rested on the fingertips and a little bit on whatever that part of your finger is.

I don't know what that is. You know where it's callous when you lift weights. Widgets, I guess. No, no, no. This shit right here. Where your fingers and palm touch and it's callous from weightlifting. It rests there a little bit, but there's daylight on the palm. Now you have all palm.

Now when you're shooting all palm, there's no touch. Touch is fingertips. There's a reason Steph has an elite touch, and it's because it's all tips. So you can really direct the ball. The guys that shoot with palm, and I'm guilty of that as well, it's luck, bro. You're throwing it up there, and you hope that it goes in. Simple as that. And as Ben Simmons.

He'll never be a good shooter. Until he fixes that. Yeah. Until he fixes that. And you're not going to learn how to shoot in the playoffs. Fuck no. But here's another one of those things and we're going to get to our next guy who falls in the same category in a way.

There is what happens is you have a guy like Ben Simmons, right? Or like Shaq shooting free throws. Where you see how bad they are and you're like, well, you're going to have some time off this summer. What are you going to do? Is you're just going to work on that skill, right?

Right. You're going to do nothing but work on that one skill because you have tons of time off. And that's what we would do if we had tons of time off for our careers, right? Right. And then they come back and they just haven't improved the skill at all. And you're like, do you not want it bad enough? Like, what's going on? What's going on?

Yeah. Is it much harder than I think? I don't want to assume you're not working on it, but it's not any better. It's not any better. So you clearly must not have worked hard or working hard is what gets you here. And God forbid that you stopped working hard. Right. You'd be even worse. And that takes us to our next guy we're talking about, which is playoff Kyle Lowry.

Playoff Kyle Lowry is the most disappointing basketball player that I've ever seen, and I'll tell you why. Kyle Lowry is 5'11", maybe. Okay? He could be 5'10 Do you know what type of mental toughness it takes To be 5'11 or 5'10 And then become An elite All-star

Basketball player In the NBA It is Unbelievable Mental toughness So what is so shocking to me is How could you be that mentally tough in your entire life to overcome what you have managed to overcome?

And then in the playoffs become a shell of yourself. You're fucking Theon Greyjoy. It's like you're reek, bro. You are fucking reek. 0 for 7. 37 minutes he played. 0 for 7. 37 minutes he played. 0 for 7. And it's one of those things where, and the Raptors are going to have to,

eventually you're going to have to fucking realize this. This guy is a balloon. Okay? A balloon needs to be inflated. And when you inflate it, it can go as big as it possibly can, right? A balloon can get sizable with inflation, but you have to breathe the air into that balloon. Right. And the Raptors are not doing that.

The Raptors are going, hey, it's the playoffs. This guy's going to show up because that's what athletes do, right? And when it comes crunch time, no. Balloons need inflated. Okay? Balloons need inflated. You need to get this guy buckets at the beginning of the game. If I would not be surprised if next game you see the first four or five plays

are called for Lowry to get a layup. He just needs to see the ball go in. Because when he goes a quarter without shooting, right, and then the only shots he is taking our end of shot clock shots which often happen to be bad shots which don't go in so now your confidence gets chipped away even more and now you're leaning right into that playoff Lowry that I'm sure he's aware of oh yeah now that now you know the the footsteps are he's hearing the footsteps behind them like fuck I'm gonna have to hear this shit again you know and on top of, the pressure of you're the number three guy behind, you know,

Kawhi and Pascal Siakam now. And, you know, you got to be able to – Behind Gasol too. Gasol too. Why are they trying to move him for Conley with Gasol? They wanted Conley. They wanted Conley, yeah. And if they had Conley, this would be a very scary team.

You got to remember, if this guy doesn't play well, does Kawhi stay next year? Probably not. Kawhi not. I had that thought, too, because I love Kyle Lowry. I didn't want them to trade Conley for Conley. But I don't think Conley's going over seven in the playoffs. I think Conley's a gamer. Oh, no, Conley's a huge gamer. Conley's going over seven in the playoffs. I think Conley's a gamer. Oh, no, Conley's a huge gamer.

Conley's a gamer. He's elite. He's elite genetics like his father was in Olympian. Like long jumper or some shit. This is, you're talking about the mixture between elite genetics and elite competitor. Yeah. Like if your father's an Olympian, you have elite competitor in you as well. Right.

So I think Conley relishes these moments. And I think Kyle just doesn't, man. He doesn't. I mean, look at his face. I know cameras can just catch one moment, but this is a damning picture. Oh, he knows exactly what's going on. He's like, please carry us, Kawhi.

Say that? 0 for 7, yeah. It is like, please carry us, Kawhi. Say that? 0 for 7, yeah. It is tough, man. It is a tough 33 minutes, and he only put up 7 shots. You didn't even get to the line. So think about that. That's the great Kobe quote, bro. I'd rather you go 0 for 20 than 0 for 7.

He said that? Yeah. He said, I'd rather you go 0 for 20 than 0 for 7, because if you go 0 for 7, that means you beat yourself. You beat your fucking self. You're scared. But now that we know what we're dealing with, so here's the perfect example. It's like, Kyle, what do you do in the

offseason? Because you need to visit Tony Robbins. You need to visit Joel Alston. You need to visit anybody. What? Last year you said he was reading all his self-help books. Okay, yeah. He'll read the self-help books. But he's not going the extra mile. Do you know what I mean? Charlamagne reads self-help books, right?

We need like an intervention. We need emotional intervention. We need you to find that fucking strength somehow. I think it's deeper than that. I think you just kind of plateaued as a player. But the plateau is all-star? And then now, you can't be All-Star and then 0 for 7. That doesn't exist.

Right? There's something happening. If he was at his plateau, his regular season plateau, they'd win. They would have won. I mean, who's guarding him? Let's think about that. Think about this. This is Valley, bro.

Who is that? Alfred Payton? No, DJ Augustine. You're telling me you can't give DJ Augustine buckets? DJ gave him like a smooth 28 or 20 something. And a game winner. And a game winner. Gave him buckets.

So like something's happening here, right? Yeah. And it needs to be addressed. And the Raptors have to step it up. And the Raptors have to. He consistently gets outplayed in the playoffs. Consistently. By other lesser point guards.

You need to get him the ball. I thought last year he had a pretty good playoffs and tail LeBron. I thought. I forgot. He put up a stinker against somebody, but I forgot who they were up against. Get him the ball.

Let him cook. Wow. And with all that, they still lost by what? Game out to the last shot. So that's the other thing. In a close game, guys like that are even more reluctant to shoot because it's like, well, we're in this. I don't want to fuck it up.

If they were getting blown out, it would be almost better. Or if they blew the other team out, obviously. Yeah, because you'd be at least getting some shots in. Yeah. It's a goddamn shame, man. I like this guy. It is a goddamn shame. I want to, before we move on, I want to mention a couple things real quick.

A couple big, big things. First of all, Cleveland, thank you for everybody who came out to the shows, man. Sold out both of the shows at Hilarities. Big comedy club, man. I mean, that was like, there's a second tier. It was pretty awesome. So thank you all so much, and thank the club for having me. I got a bunch of shows coming up.

The Matador Tour is in full effect. We're gonna be in Austin the 25th through 27th. You can get tickets just for my specific show. Those are now available. I see how these festivals do. They just sell festival badge at first

to try to get you and then once they sold enough of those they're like, oh, we do individual tickets to the shows as well. So I don't give a fuck if you buy that pass just get the individual tickets come to the show um that's available on my website dandruff.com so we'll be there 25th through the 27th i got one headlining show check the listeners for that um then we're at dallas and addison actually akash gonna be there the third but we'll be there May 3rd and 4th. Also Austin. I want to go to that surf.

There's like a surf wave pool type thing. I want to go check that out. So if any of y'all know. Got the hook up for that. Take us there. Then we're in Nashville for one night zanies. Then Columbus. Funny bone.

One of the best comedy clubs in the country. So Columbus pull up. Then St. Louis. Helium Comedy Club. New Comedy Club. Pull up to that. Then Ann Arbor. Ann Arbor, Michigan, you know, hipster Detroit, as they call it, pull up. And then the official Monster Energy present and outbreak presents, the Maddler Tour starts in San Francisco.

Only a few tickets left to San Francisco. Y'all been gobbling them shits up, so get on that real quick. Then Indianapolis, then Cincinnati, then Denver, then Houston. Those tickets are going fast. Don't be late on those. Then Toronto. I got to shout Toronto out, man. Toronto sold like 1,000 tickets in a day.

That's the most tickets I've ever sold in a day. Wow. What? We're doing a theater in Toronto, the damn fourth, and that was fucking unbelievable. That's almost sold out. So spread the word on that. Thank y'all so much. Chicago, we're doing Thalia Hall Theater as well. That's almost sold out. So spread the word on that. Thank y'all so much. Chicago, we're doing Thalia Hall Theater as well.

Get your tickets to that. Those are moving like crazy. Boston is moving like crazy. And we're doing the Wilbur Theater in Boston and then New York, November 22nd, the weekend after the New York Comedy Fest because those fuckboys at the New York Comedy Fest won't book me at my own goddamn festival.

So we're doing the weekend right after, that Friday right after. I want to sell this show. New York, come because those fuck boys at the New York Comedy Fest won't book me at my own goddamn festival. So we're doing a weekend right after that, Friday right after. I want to sell this show. New York, come fuck with me. I want to sell this show out before the New York Comedy Festival

even announces their dates. Oh, do that. What we're going to say is that we're headlining the New York Comedy Festival because their shit finishes and we're after them. So that's what it is.

So that's 11-22. You know, Flagrant was supposed to be part of the new york comedy festival and they clipped it because yeah then they didn't fuck with us we had a live flagrant 2 show and then they found out that i that i was in flagrant 2 and then they took the show off it so these are people yeah these are people who did and you know what it's about these petty motherfuckers the people who run new york comedy festival book caroline's comedy club i headline gotham comedy club when i'm in the city

right and that's the competitor so they were like nah fuck this fuck this guy it's stupid because book Caroline's Comedy Club. I headline Gotham Comedy Club when I'm in the city. Right. And that's the competitor. So they were like, nah, fuck this. Fuck this guy. It's stupid because they could have had a theater show

but now they're not. So we gonna keep it all. Anyway, come out, man. 11-22. Get those tickets now early. Spread the word. Tell the family. Tell the friends.

Tell the world. Tell your shorty. And let's blow all these out. Let's sell all these motherfucking things out. And then big event. And then we get back to it. Big event, April 23rd.

Giannis Pappas blowing the light. Andrew Schultz presents Giannis Pappas blowing the light. We are filming a cool project for my boy Giannis at New York Comedy Club, April 23rd. Two shows. I think it's 7 and 9.30. You can get tickets at newyorkcomedyclub.com um you'll pull up to that it's very limited very intimate room limited ass tickets but it's a new thing that i'm gonna start doing is i'm gonna start shooting projects for other comics and i'm

very excited about this um i hope some of y'all could be there if you're in the new york area definitely pull up to that we got two shows that night and this is going to be the new generation of comics helping other comics comics producing stuff for other comics and you know i hope we could do four of these a year eight of these a year who knows but i'm very excited um to get started on this so yeah man it's it's it's uh it's a beautiful thing man everything we've been doing with the Asshole Army and with the Patreon community and just helping each other out, we're just going to extend to the whole comedic realm as well, to the whole comedic world. So this is going to be our first venture in that,

and hopefully we'll have many more. So check those out. All right. You guys go. You got some things coming up. Oh, shit. Do I? Fuck.

No, I don't. But thanks to everybody who came to chicago uh to do duse palooza sold that bitch out uh house of blues is crazy um fuck uh i don't think i have much to promote this week oh well i guess causing the fact on the revolt check that out yeah i am in houston this thursday two days after this podcast come out. I heard the tickets are moving, so please keep buying. Sellevich out. It's in the Secret Group in Houston, April 18th, 10 o'clock p.m. Also, don't completely boycott Carolines.

Come to two shows. I never said boycott Carolines. I never said boycott Carolines. I said they boycotted me. Yeah, yeah, yeah. boycott carolines i never said boycott carolines i said they boycotted me yeah but you know like hey man go get your money go support akash and support his his boys very funny the abdc comedy tour you've got 26 and 27 april 26 27th at carolines carolines is a great club there's one guy there who i don't get along with for whatever reason and it's really just some petty

shit because i went with a different club instead of him and he can't get over that shit. But besides that, they got great people who helped run that club. I mean, I just was over there at the Horrible Decisions live show. You know, I hosted that. I will support. I don't have any grudges in this business. Right, right.

None at all. I just like making people realize they're wrong. Yeah. You know what I mean? So we're going to do that with the New York show. But we're going to support Akash. And if I'm in town, I'm pulling up to. Come the fuck through.

You said when is it? April 26th and 27th. I'll be in. You might have been. Because we want to get you on. Yeah, but we'll get you on. But yeah, man. So let's go support Akash if you're in town, man.

Definitely, definitely do that shit. Anything else? No, I'm cooking up a little. I'm going to do the thing you do where you announce it on the podcast so you have to do it. Good. I'm going to hook up a little tour with my boy Donish.

He's a guy. He's going to be featuring for me in Houston. He's got a whip, so we're going to go together. I'm going to be headlining. We're going to try to put together a little tour. Great. Just a little independent venue

to see what we can do. So we're going to get out there. Awesome, man. I'm going to film shit in every city. I'll hit up the asshole army. Kill that shit, man. All right, good. So we're going to get more information about that soon. And yeah, so? Awesome, man. I film shit in every city. I'll hit up the Asshole Army. Kill that shit, man. All right, good. So we're going to get more information about that soon.

And yeah, so go support, man. AkashSingh.com. Check out the website. Go people show. Do all that shit. And get on these shows early, man. I can't tell you how many people in Cleveland hit me up like, oh, how do I get tickets? I can't get tickets.

I told y'all. These shows sell out. I don't care how many months out it is. Go right now. Get the tickets, okay? Because I know right now you're like, I'll do it next week. I'll do it is Go right now get the tickets Okay Cause you I know right now you're like I'll do it next week

I'll do it next week And then the week's gonna happen You're gonna DM me and go Man why the fuck is the show so out I don't got anything to tell you anymore I gave you more than enough time Did I not Alex? Yup

Okay And don't go DMing Alex saying Yo Schultz won't respond Can you get us any tickets to the show Alright Cause you're not gonna get in Unless you're a fat girl Anyway So tickets to the show all right because you're not gonna get in unless you're a fat girl anyway so um i appreciate y'all supporting everything now let's talk about let's talk

about something i'm very excited to talk about okay somebody who has been a long time listener of the show a long time listener of uh brilliant idiots it's asshole army gang gang gang someone that we someone who predicted his own success maybe 12 years ago someone who we got behind and we predicted his success you know maybe a year ago, someone who's come on the show, has rode with us, someone who I am so fucking, I am so proud of this guy, but I, and I am a very skeptical person in nature in terms of like talent. I'm not one of these guys that just goes, oh, this guy got it. You know, certain people who they just say everybody got it.

And then if that person ends up doing it, they get to go called it i am not impressed easily okay i am not this guy's a superstar he is a bona fide fucking superstar and it's rare that superstar personalities come with superstar talent and you're looking at it and you better get the fuck on board right now. Israel Adesanya is the UFC fucking champion right now. Not only the UFC fucking interim middleweight champ, but one of the best fucking fights I've ever seen. Guys, it was- I'm not talking about boxing. I'm not talking about fucking movies.

No, just fights in general. It is- Just a fight. First of all, he's the champ. You're not the interim champ. You're the champ. If you cannot defend your belt for whatever the fuck reason, you lost the belt. You're not the champ.

You're not the champ. This guy's a champ because he's fighting and he won it. Now, if you want to go get that belt, okay, Mr. Whitaker, then you got to stay healthy and try to. Part of being a fighter is being healthy enough to compete okay biggest part of ability is availability is availability i mean that is really important man it is so crucial and izzy shows the fuck up this motherfucker ain't healthy every fight and he said the same thing about gas film he was like listen i didn't feel 100 and you know what gas film didn't either but we showed the fuck up now i'm not, I'm not trying to downplay a hernia.

But it seems like my man Whitaker has a health issue every single fight. And I'm sorry, but when you have that, we're not calling you the champ. Because you have to defend the belt to be the champ. So when you get healthy, you can come get the real belt, which is all my man is. He's wasted right now. There's nobody who can watch that fight and not say he's not the real champ. No, no, he's the real belt, which is all my man Izzy's waist right now. There's nobody who can watch that fight and not say he's not the real champ. No, no, he's the real champ. You earned that shit. He's the real champ. He earned that

fucking belt. Bro, this was and I think Izzy's going to be in New York this week, so hopefully we're going to have him on. But this is one of the if you watch this fight, we watched this fight right after the Cleveland show. We went with some assholes to a bar called the Harry Buffalo in Cleveland.

And we were watching a fight. And this is one of those fights, and I can't wait to talk to Izzy about this. But I text him and I said, man, this was a special moment because you got introduced to who you really are. It is very rare. None of us in this room right now have found out what we're truly capable of because we haven't been brought to the end of our tank. Do you know what I mean? Like this was a fight. It was a brutal slugfest of a fight.

And if you look at his face, I mean, he got touched. There's no doubt that he got touched. He was hurt. He came back but the closer you get to death the closer you are to life. And this guy realized, Izzy realized how deep he can go. It's like holding your breath.

When you're underwater and you can't get up you find out how much time you could spend holding your breath. If we hold our breath right now, we'll get to like a minute, and we'll be like, oh, man, that's all I had. If we have to to live, we might be two minutes. We might be three minutes. And that's what he experienced.

He experienced going to the depths of his fucking soul to pull out this fight. They called championship rounds for a reason. Oh, my God. Didn't Roy Jones talk about that when we interviewed him? What was he saying? Yeah, yeah, that's right. Fighters don't get pushed to their limits very often. I got pushed to my limits when he talked about the Tarver fight.

And that's how you know when someone's a real champ. Izzy's a real champ. He's a real champ.'s a real champ he found out what he has and to be honest when you go that far and then you come out victorious i have to ask him about it but my assumption is there is a newfound confidence yes because you learned what you're now capable of you got to the next level and not only does he learn everybody else saw it oh absolutely everybody but now when he gets to that point in his next fight, he goes, oh, I got more. Before this, right, he thought he knew how deep he could go.

And he just realized there's another level. There's another gear. So now when he's at that gear before it, he goes, oh, I'm good. Oh, I got a whole another gear ready for you. You ready to take it to that next level? Let's go. Let's fucking go. The way he switched the game plan up,

I know we're dick riding hard, but let's go. I was so fucking hyped, bro. I was so fucking hyped because Gastelum touched him in that first round. Look at his face. He does not look like, it's the textbook you should see the other guy. Son, he looked like Hitch.

He looked like fucking Will Smith and Hitch. And if you see his Instagram story this week, he was with his parents and shit. He's like, lay off the shellfish, fam. Yeah, he was looking rough, but goddamn. Go with that title, though. Son, it was one of those moments where, okay, Gaslam, and I give Gaslam a lot of credit.

Elite head movement. This guy, you're talking about some of the best hands in the game right here, is he? And Gaslam had great head movement, and there's something I didn't pick up with MMA opposed to boxing and why the sports are different in this regard. A boxing glove is a more massive, it just takes up more space area. Right. So it is harder to dodge. Hmm.

Right. A UFC glove is tiny. Right. Right? This, you could stay in the pocket more. Right. I can stay in front of you, and if you're coming up with my fist,

this much, two inches of movement helps me dodge. Right. And this guy Gaston could stay in the pocket. He was reminding me of like James Toney in a way, which was like he didn't mind being close. And he was able to counter and he was able to touch Izzy, even though Izzy had a way longer reach advantage. And then Izzy changed the game and he went at that leg.

And he started doing these low kicks to that fucking thigh. And he dug into that thigh and cut that fucking thigh and he dug into that thigh and cut that fucking thigh down and all of a sudden you saw Gaston hesitate and when he started hesitating is he started picking him off and then going to attack the leg and then they started exchanging and dropping each other and then that fifth championship fucking round when the fight was probably 2-2 on some of the scorecards. Yeah. He went out there and won it.

He didn't run out the clock. No. Which is something I hate. They should have stopped that fight. That man was dead. That man Gaston was dead. First of all, Mexicans don't fall. And when you fall three times like that, I'm sorry, you got to stop that for his health. This should have been a stoppage.

The referee's crazy. Joe Rogan is screaming, stop the fight please stop the fight when joe rogan who watches this sport all the time right who used to watch people eat cockroaches but he's concerned about people's life he's like this is a lot for me yeah yeah fam it's like stop the fight regardless unbelievable fucking victory, man. Unbelievable fight. Unbelievable victory, man. The UFC needed this weekend. Two amazing fights at the top of their card. We haven't even talked about the Max Holloway-Dust-Employee fight. Yeah.

Unreal, that fight. Those two fights were the best fights that I've seen on the same card in boxing and MMA history. Yeah. Meaning, like, usually you get one good fight. Like, back to back. Back to un-fucking-real. Yeah. And we've said this for a while.

Like, we've said, like, the UFC needs this dude. They need some new stars. They need big moments like this. Especially going to ESPN. You're on the fucking mothership now, so everybody's watching this shit. Bruh. You gotta find a way to do an Izzy watch party. Something. Next fight. Oh, we're on the fucking mothership now, so everybody's watching this shit. Bruh. You got to find a way to do an Izzy watch party. Something.

Next fight. We're going to figure it out, man. Absolutely. But like, bro, it was just, it was. It was one of those fights that like, even if he lost, he like, that motherfucker fought like a champion. Yeah. The title is just icing on the cake. I was so proud.

Yeah. I was so fucking proud because it's like, it's not all the time. My buddy said this. My buddy said this about when his wife gave birth. He goes, it's rare in life that you see people give everything. What is so impressive about birth is you watch your wife give everything that she fucking has to get this kid out and you are blown away by effort right like like think about how blown away we are by by westbrook and that's not everything this is just a lot of effort right and we're like this guy it's so much fun watching him

and then you watch the woman you love literally exhaust every ounce of effort in her body to give you this life, right? That's what we witnessed in this fight from both of them. They gave everything. You're watching these guys let the tank go. Empty. They're both on empty in the third. And they give fucking everything. And when you see that, you can't help but feel like this immense pride

you gave it all it's the human spirit man like we love watching motherfuckers like empty the fucking tank yeah leave it all in the ring man when you see that shit go down when you see two guys standing in front of each other exhausted and going i'm gonna take a punch to give one i'm just gonna take one to fucking give one. I'm just going to take one to fucking give one. Bro, it is a different connection. It's why we're drawn to fighters in a different way than we're drawn to regular athletes. It's the first sport. It's real. It's authentic.

There's nothing on this world. Everything else is a metaphor for sport. A metaphor for war. This is the closest thing to war. It's the reason why Ali was so important to us It was like There's some people that fight for us And he really fought for us

And you look at somebody empty the tank And it is a transformative experience He's gonna have different fans now He's gonna have A different level of fans This is the beginning of everything Like Everything he predicted is now coming true Boosh have a different level of fan this is yeah this is the beginning of everything like his you know the everything he predicted is now coming true boom i don't know how he stood up after that

mexican bro god damn god damn look at his eyeball where your eyeball bro where your eye no you got to sit down bro you got to sit down, bro. You got to sit down. You got to take a little rest. You could have killed him right there. Look at him. Yeah, right there, I should have stopped the fight, right? Yeah.

I mean, oy! You got to sit down, bro. And it's night-night for you. I think you're going to sit down right about now. Sit down. And it's rare,

it's rare when the hype exceeds, you know, exceeds the fight. You know, like, this guy's been hyped for a while. And that's just by us. Like, anybody who watches mixed martial arts, anybody who watches fight sports, they're saying, like, this guy's the next fucking guy.

Right? Even Bones had to fucking be like, even John Bones was on Twitter talking, you know, like, you're fighting these other guys. Like, all right, when you're ready to come to daddy, let me know. You know? Because they know he's the next dude.

That's the money fight right there. I don't know at what weight they're going to fight. I know a lot of people are like, yo, John's going to destroy him. He's too big. He's too small. Whatever. They're going to figure out a way to get those two in the octagon at some point. Because he don't mind fighting people on steroids.

He said that. There was some guy. Remember the guy he wanted to fight? He was like, he's on juice now. I'm going to get him before he gets banned. Yeah. Oh, man him before he gets banned yeah before he gets caught oh this was just

such an amazing moment man just to manifest something and to see it happen it was and then just good respect

between both of them this was great I mean it was just and you know what great sportsmanship the whole night like you said Kaz the UFC needed this night

there was another great fight between Max Holloway and Dustin Poirier, and it was an all-out fucking war. Dustin ends up winning and taking the belt, and they embraced afterwards. I mean, Max was so fucking likable in loss. Yeah. He was just like, he was so effortlessly Hawaiian about it.

He was like, hey, man, great knock. You know, you got to give it up to him. I love doing this shit. I love fighting. UFC fighters are like that, though, right? It's weird. Like, I don't know. Maybe I haven't gotten to enough fights to be like, hey, man, do we got a good knockout?

Like, Conor fucking got his ass handed to him by Nate Diaz the first time. And he was like, hey, good knockout. Like, hey, man, got a good knockout on me, brother. Like, I guess I was just like the irish in him or whatever but motherfucking you can't hold a grudge when someone beats you right because the grudge in a way yeah we did talk about this right everything away strip away fucking guns money fucking whatever the fuck you have that's material in this world it's like you have your hands and your feet

and just attention we had tension it's I've given everything we have what tension can we keep holding in nothing we gave everything there's no tension left

I have nothing left yeah we both are aware of a fact that you beat me yeah and that I was beaten by you yeah

and so there's no ego anymore and even if I beat you it's like you gave me everything, man. I respect that. Exactly. You know what? But it's like you don't have to have animosity towards me because you won. Yeah. Your ego is satisfied.

Right, right, right. And I don't have any animosity towards you because I can't have an ego because I was beaten. Right. Right? So it's like why can we embrace in the ring? Because neither of us are proving anything. Yeah.

It was already proven. Nothing left to prove. Right. It's all out there. Question embrace in the ring? Because neither of us are proving anything. Yeah. It was already proven. Nothing left to prove. It's all out there. Questionable decision, that's different. But when you know how the fucking fight went down and everybody's aware, it was a beautiful moment, man. It was a fucking beautiful moment.

Props to the dude Izzy beat, man, because it takes a lot to not fucking get knocked out. It takes a lot to just finish that fight. It takes a lot. Oh, he's got a future, this guy. He's fucking... He's sharp. I was really impressed by him, man. Really impressed.

He looked real short and shit. I was like, oh, he's gonna walk all over him. I would not expect that fucking war. Great counter-punching. Great power. He had unbelievable power, and Izzy really had to be careful for it, because he could have gotten hurt. And those are the most exciting fights. The most exciting fights... Stiles make fights. Absolutely. But the

most exciting fights have at least one guy with power. Because no matter how badly he's getting beaten, you know it's one punch away. That's Deontay Wilder's appeal. That's it. That's why we loved heavyweights. The casual fan goes, I don't know what's going on with all this hugging and kicking. The sweet science is one thing. That's for me.

It gets everyone's attention. That's for me. I love sweet science. I love it. But the casual fan loves to watch going it takes one it takes one to get you out of here and that will sustain five rounds of action that's what happened with fury and wilder right and then just bang one time he took his hardest shit and then he got back up and he even looked at him like what the fuck you're saying fury took

wilder's hardest hit but 100 we will watch every single wilder fight after that because we know even if he's getting whooped for 11 rounds it takes one yep it takes fucking one anyway so shout out to izzy man congrats my brother keep fuck dude it was so he's only gonna it's only gonna get bigger bro i was impressed I was so impressed man I was just so So proud You love to see people dig deep Tell Bones he don't want the smoke

Nah Tell Bones he don't want the smoke Nah nah Bones getting smoked People Like people that are talking about Like oh yo You know

John beats everybody He's I'm a huge Johnny Bones fan Right But you can't measure What's in here bro No You can't measure what's in here

If they meet at some weight class Somehow It's It's gonna be a hell of a fight Is he taking Bones fan. Right. But you can't measure what's in here, bro. No. You can't measure what's in here. If they meet at some weight class somehow, it's going to be a hell of a fight. Is he taking Bones out? How far apart are they? They're similar in age. No, no. No, no. Wait. Wait.

John Bones' light heavyweight. 20 pounds. I think it's 185 and two. That's a huge difference. It's a lot. It is a big difference. It's a massive difference. What I would say is that stylistically speaking, this is not the worst fight for Izzy, for Jones, right?

Height, they're probably around the same height. It'd just be size. I wouldn't do this fight if I'm Izzy now. I would let Izzy potentially grow into his body more, even though he's not young. But be comfortable putting on weight. You don't have to fight to cut weight. Grow into a little bit more weight. Like the biggest issue with Max Holloway against Dustin Poirier is

he didn't put on any muscle. He went up 10 pounds in weight, but didn't put on any muscle. So this guy Poirier who beat him the last time when they were at 145, he went up 10 pounds in what looked like all muscle. So it's like if you gain weight for a fight,

you have to do it appropriately. So if you're Izzy, you take another fight before Jones, try to gain five pounds of muscle for that one, and then try to gain another five. Oh, he's going to, I think he'll take four fights before Jones. Okay.

I think that's a long game. I think he's got to clear out some more middleweights. There's a bunch of other middleweights that are there. He's got to fight this Whitaker guy. Because he does think really far in advance. Yeah, he is. I bet you he is. And I think that if I'm being smart about it, I fight Jones on his decline.

Oh, yeah. And then that's a passing of the torch. Right. So let Jones have a few more wars, a few more battles. You get Whitaker out of here. You beat up a couple more middleweights. You become the greatest UFC middleweight in history. And then you make the super fight between you and Jon Jones.

This is maybe four or five fights down the line. And you just slowly build muscle to that point? That's what I would do. I mean, there's a world, but remember, he's at 185, right? Khabib's at, what, 170? There's a world where that fight could happen. Very true.

And to be honest, that might be a harder fight because Khabib is an expert at a part of the game that izzy is not right izzy is an expert striker right right and he has learned later in his career jujitsu wrestling and and the ground techniques right submission techniques right when he almost got gaslam out of here with a couple But But whereas Jon Jones If Izzy goes in there With Jones

And they're both Striking at each other You're gonna see Two elite strikers Go at each other It's gonna be the dream That's the dream Fight every single time

It's gonna be like A fucking avatar fight Real talk So it's gonna look like Street Fighter Yeah Literally Street Fighter That's what we're gonna watch

Right So whereas Khabib is like Is he gonna get him on the ground? How is he going to be able to manage that? It's just going to be like, could it be boring, et cetera. Right. Anyway, I don't know. I'm excited.

Do we want to talk about anything else before we get out of here? What else we got? The other topics I had written down are Durant and Beverly, Dame Time, Walton and the Kings, and then Thrones if we want to talk about it. I feel like you might have that covered on Hester Bruce. Luke Walton? We gotta do that crossover at some point. Oh, absolutely. We gotta. What about, um, okay, so

Luke Walton gets hired or is about to be hired by the Kings. He's been hired. Officially been hired. How did Darren Fox feel about this? Well, he didn't pass on him. Right. Luke was probably going to go there like, I was like, you won Alonzo anyway. I thought about that.

I thought about that. I mean, the Kings are like set up for amazing success in the future right now. Like, they were a few games out of the playoffs this year. Is he a good coach, though? Because I think who they got out, how do you say his name? Yorger? Yorger to David? David Yorger? Yeah. I think he's a good coach. I think he's the wrong coach for the Kings. coach, though? Because I think who they got out, how do you say his name? Yorger? Yorger to David? David Yorger? Yeah.

I think he's a good coach. I think he's the wrong coach for the Kings. Who, Luke? Yeah. So here's my thing, right? Here's my thoughts on that. I wouldn't do it. Well, Luke, when he was interim coach for the Warriors, he's a great coach.

Yeah. When he's there with the Lakers, with a young team. So now he's not a good coach? No, obviously you're not a good coach. Exactly. I think that his style, he has a style of coaching that fits a certain player set.

And I don't think... What player set? Up and down. No, no, no, no, no. Ball movement offense without a dominant ball-heavy point guard. The Warriors. The Warriors, right?

So Steph will bring the ball up. The Warriors. Say what? That was my whole thing. Mike Brown coached the Warriors. Anybody can coach the Warriors, absolutely. That being said, the reason why he struggled with Lonzo is because Lonzo, to be effective, needs a ball in his hands.

Right. Right? And you can run him up and down, but he needs a ball in his hands. He needs to make sure it happens. You have a guy named Darren Fox on the Kings, right, who is incredibly effective up and down, but also has elite speed that you want to run pick and roll on. You want the ball in his hands.

Probably the fastest guy on the ball with the league. That's it. So you want the ball in this guy's hands. Let him shake shit up offensively. And if you just do this offense where you completely mitigate the advantage that he has with his speed by keeping him off the ball, he's not that good a shooter. Yeah.

It's like I don't think it's the right fit. Here's my thing. Outside of the Dallas Mavericks, the Sacramento Kings were like my favorite league pass team this year. Okay. Like they're fun, they're young, not a lot of expectations, and I think they're maybe like a piece or two away from being like. Legit.

Legit. I won't say contending. I won't say I'll make some noise in the west they'll be legit with like one or two more pieces fox buddy healed who a lot of people don't talk about who's an elite scorer right bagley who's who balled out for a rookie willie coley stein who's like your textbook run and gun run up and down center that you need in this league right i really like the Sacramento Kings, man. And I think, like, if they get one guy, like, I don't know what the cap situation is.

You think Luke is the right guy, though? I think he's a player's coach. I think he's a player's coach. I think he got dealt a pretty shitty hand with the whole LeBron situation and trading for Anthony Davis and, like, that's just fractured the entire thing. Does a player's coach make young players better? I would feel like a player's coach would be good with a veteran team who kind of knows what they're doing. I don't know if I'd want a player's coach for young players better? I would feel like a player's coach would be good with a veteran team who kind of knows what they're doing.

I don't know if I'd want a player's coach for a team that needs coaching. You know what I mean? Like they need coaching. Yeah. They need a vet they can respect, not someone who just got walked all over in L.A. Because word goes around between players, and players are going to find out that he was just walked all over in L.A.,

and they're not going to respect him. You know who I might rather have even even though I don't like him, for two years? Tibbs. Two years. Oh, no. These kids can put on minutes for two years, and they'll learn the game, and they get them the fuck out of here.

You want to know who I think, and I don't think it's a bad decision, but you know who I think would be the perfect coach for the Kings? Who? D'Antoni. I think if you give D'Antoni to the Kings, of course they're not going to win at all But he's going to inflate all of their egos And inflate all of their confidence

And inflate all their stats Yeah yeah because of that right So it's like every player on that team Is going to think that they're a baller And thinking like you're a baller Like we know from Kyle Lowry Is a vital part of success And I mean I would just love to see what D'Antoni schemes with Darren Fox.

Are you kidding me? High screen and roll? Yeah. The D'Antoni system? Oh, my God. If it's a fast-paced system and you've got the fastest guy in the league. And you have the what's-his-face who was a knockdown shooter in college and now he's starting to feel himself.

Buddy Heald. Buddy Heald. Imagine Buddy Heald just hoisted. He's hooping. He's a baller, yeah. So give him D'Antoni. Like, let's go, man. You get rid of Josh Jackson or whatever that kid's name is.

Kid from Carolina. Yeah, who's trash. They traded Josh Jackson, didn't they? He's a maverick. Oh, they traded him? Yeah, he's using the trade for Harrison Barnes. Light-skinned kid. Right, right.

Also, they do have Harrison Barnes on the Kings. Oh, I like that. I like that. I like that. Harrison can work on a D'Antoni. All I'm saying is that's the guy for the Kings. For me. That's who I would go with.

I heard Vlade was trying to consolidate power, and that's why he got Jorger out of there. And that's, Zach Lowe tweeted something like this. Like, I don't know. I just know he seems like a pretty good coach, and this is what the Kings do. They get something promising, and then they fuck it up. This is just what they do. Can't relate. That's the next fan. I've never seen that before. This is just what they do. Can't relate. That's the next half.

I've never seen that before. You never had the first half. You never had the promising part. True, true. You're right. Did you, I don't think this is on the list. Did you guys see

the Derrick Rose documentary this past week? Good. Powerful shit. Really? Powerful shit. Why? What's up?

Talk to me. So, they pretty much, they chronicled D-R like not just like as a basketball So I like what he means like the city of Chicago With Benji like if you see like the Benji documentary This is almost like the Benji Wilson Chicago high school Phenom got shot. Yes, I killed whatever and then this is almost like the sequel to that

Okay, so like, you know, Derek is almost like the sequel to that. Okay. So like, you know, Derrick Rose went to the same high school as Benji. He was seen as like the next fucking guy. He actually makes it out, actually plays for the Bulls,

cooks, all this other shit. And like, it was all this like economical shit that they were talking about with Chicago and him, whatever.

Right. My thing is, they got the actual moment he gets the news that he's being traded to new york on camera it is one of the most gut-wrenching shits i've ever seen in like the history of like sports media why why just like seeing just how much like because they kept going back and forth with like his injuries and how much he wants to come back and

You can kind of tell like with his brothers or whatever They were kind of trying to rush him back If they would have done if the Bulls would have done like the poor Zingas thing and came out the gate like yo There grows is not playing this year. That's on Tibbs to tell was it was on Tibbs Yeah, it was on Rose's brother who was like, oh, no, he's not gonna sit out He'll be back at any other like he wasn't right those first two years he wasn't right yet right and it was they got they got the footage right here when he when he finds out exactly when he gets traded right and if anybody ever fucking wants to give lebron shit wants to give any player shit for not having loyalty to a

franchise or loyalty to somebody and this is a guy from that city right just just just watch this shit man can we watch this what is this on uh stadium is this youtube no it's on that stadium yeah has he found out yet so this is him finding out he's trying to get in touch with bj arm, his agent. And, like, he's trying to film a documentary about how much he means to the city of Chicago. Oh, no. He's limping. Oh, Jesus Christ. Here we go. Bro,

waterworks. Oh, boy. Wow. Oh, boy. Jesus. oh boy this cameraman this fucking sociopathic cameraman look at that camera man gee that's you that's you oh no see crying yeah and then he just goes Oh, no. Is he crying? Yeah. Yeah. And then he just goes back and was like, yo, I'm good. Let's talk. Let's do it. Oh, man.

Yeah. Just in awe. Oh, man. I feel bad. Oh, man, bro. Yeah. Jesus Christ, bro. This is... It's a hard watch bro

when he goes back to talk to the camera yeah it's a hard watch bro cause you could like his face is swollen like you could see it face looks like his knee

oh man alright alright cut this cut this cut this Jesus so keep on going if you at least get to when he's when he goes and sits back down Oh man. Alright, cut this. Keep on going. If he at least gets to when he goes and sits back down.

It's not that far. Okay, here we go. He's back. What? What are you doing? It's not how y'all eat bananas, bro? It's not even like it's corn on the cob? No, I mean like it's watermelons.

Ed asked, he had two bananas on the table before we started filming. Ed was like, do you want to move the bananas? And Schultz very adamantly was like, no. And now I know why. I don't know how y'all eat bananas. This is how I eat bananas. Somebody's got to make a montage of all the different ways he's made bananas over the years. Content, baby.

Oh, man. All right, let's go. Oh, fuck, man. Wow. Wow. Wow. Jeez. You really just tell me to prepare myself

Fuck You really gotta watch This whole documentary It is It is It is It is great It's fantastic

It seems too sad I mean there's sad parts Yeah but like Then they get to like When he comes back to Chicago It's a Tim Wolf Andves and he drops 50. When he dropped to 50 in Chicago? No, no, no, no.

When he dropped 50 this year and then when he came back to Chicago, they gave him the big fucking welcome. And he's a free agent this year too. I thought he re-signed to the Timberwolves. No, he's a free agent at the end of this year. What is the thing here? Can you pause it? Can you pause it? So what is the thing about with him and-

Tibbs? No, no, not Tibbs. Apparently he was like, it takes him 16 hours to prepare for a game or something. Yeah. Was that in this documentary? What was that about? It's like everything he goes through to get himself physically ready to, as far as loosening up his knee, getting-

It's a whole day. It's a whole process, bro. He's so dedicated to that shit like and you see why man like how many people fucking depend on him to be this good to get back like so many times where you're watching this documentary he's like yeah most docs if he would have just like stopped and retired right here like nobody would have blamed him like nobody would blame them you know i'm saying and then like getting to the point where he finally fucking grows and becomes like a father and shit and you know they show

him like going to New York and like tell me who do I blame his brothers gotta take a lot of heat for that his brothers gotta take a lot of heat really like if they would have if he wasn't any other organization where his brothers don't get that much leeway, because it's the Roses, it's Chicago, whatever. Like, you know, if they were just like, if they did how they did Porzingis, it was like, yo, he's not playing this year. He's sitting. And you got to remember, like, the Bulls were fucking, they were knocking on the door in the finals. Like, when the Heat were the fucking Heat.

Like, took them to the limit and all that shit. So they were all just expecting D-Rose to bring them back and just put them over the top. So they just never just said, yo, he can't go. So when he came back, still not as fast, not as elusive, not as quick. And it was rough. It was rough for him, man. But if you can, man, go check that documentary out. It's incredible. It's sad at times. It's really fucking you can, man, go check that documentary out. It's incredible.

It's sad at times. It's really fucking sad at times, but it's really fucking good. If you're talking about human triumph, like fucking getting tested to your limits, this is that shit right there. That shit was mad touching, bro. Fucking heroes. Anyway, I hope he gets a contract. We'll see if he gets something.

I hope he comes back to Chicago. I hope they make that right, man. They got money. They got a little money to spend. He's not an expensive player to sign right now. You love that full circle shit. I love it. You can probably get Mello back here. I think Mello.

Yo, I bet. With Zion, KD. That's not full circle. That's like a guy burns down your house, you rebuild it, and then you invite him back in to live with you. That's not full circle. But you don't think. That's stupidity repeating itself with the with

the with the banana crew with the he knows not what he does forgiveness bro he's like i know you gonna fuck me i forgive mellow bro if mellow could come back not as the number one guy come off the bench he can't do do that. He don't know how to do that. He's been humbled. No, he hasn't. This whole year when nobody would pick him up. If he comes home to New York. Where's the soundbite of Mello saying, I'm so humble right now? Still Mello. Remember that ad campaign? We need you

to not be still Mello. If KD, Kyrie, and Zion. I know that you really believe in this. If they get any form of stop it. Please. I know that you really believe in this. If they get any form of those three. Honestly, as a guy who doesn't want. The last person that you want around a rookie is Carmelo Anthony.

But he's not the franchise. He won't be the guy in charge. No, no, no. Just his energy. His very energy. The attitude he has about the game. The last thing that you want to inception into your young players is anything Melo-esque. Hold on.

Hold on. You're a fucking psychopath. This is infuriating. People can mellow-esque. Hold on. Hold on. You're a fucking psychopath. This is infuriating. People can change, bro. He was on the Rockets. Yeah. He was what? The third option?

Yeah. What happened after two weeks? They sucked. It wasn't his fault. Why? Why? Was it his fault? What are they now?

What happened as soon as they cut him? They did very well. They did very well. And why didn't they keep him? He's not the main option. Because this is not WWE. Okay? This is the real fucking deal.

Okay? You can't script out how it's going to... Would it be a great script? Yeah. Is it going to work out? No. I think Melo needs one last run on the Knicks. The problem with Melo is he can't run.

So that alone is what's going to stop him from being on A-Team. He's had a whole year doing nothing. This was the time you should have re-signed him when you're tanking. Melo didn't have muscle when he played every single game. Okay? He took a year off. What do you think he's going to look like now? He's going to look like Mero.

He's going to look like Lala. Carmero. Carmero Anthony. Matter of fact, that's how they're going to pronounce his name in China where he'll be playing next year. All right, guys. This has been another episode of Flagrant 2 No Easy Buckets. Thank you all for listening.

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