Pardon My Take - 76ers Forward Georges Niang, Mt Rushmore Of Foods That Begin With T and Fyre Fest Of The Week

Episode Date: July 22, 2022

The Espy’s happened. LIV your is trying to steal Charles Barkley from us and Kyler Murray gets a new contract. (00:02:39-00:15:18) Mount Rushmore of Foods that begin with T. (00:16:54-00:36:55) Philadelphia 76’ers Georges Niang joins us in studio to talk about his path to the NBA, getting the nickname Minivan, Iowa State and tons more. (00:38:06-01:24:05) We wrap up with Fyre Fest and an all time day for Hank. (01:25:21-01:44:09)You can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/PardonMyTake

Hey, pardon my take listeners. You can find every episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube. Prime members can listen, add free on Amazon Music. On today's pardon my take, we have Philadelphia 76ers, George Nyang, Iowa State star in studio. Awesome interview with him. One of the coolest NBA guys we've ever had in studio.

We have the Mount Rushmore of Foods. Let's start with the letter T. We have Fire Fest. And we're in the dog days. But I also saw something that said that we have six Saturdays till college football. So we're getting there. I'm pretty sure it's like 48 days until NFL season starts.

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across seven boxes and three free gifts. Today is Friday, July 22nd. And as you guys see, Steph, he roasted people. What's that do? He roasted people on the Espeys. Oh yeah, who could forget the Espeys? Oh yeah, so I did not tune in. Same. Not for any reason other than the Takies are next Wednesday

and they're the greatest award show ever. And we actually just finished taping the Takies and I'll say it right now, best Takies yet. But I watched, I saw some clips and everyone was like, this is where we're at in the sports calendar year. People were like, oh man, Steph roasted them. And it was literally just Steph being like, I see some Boston Celtics here,

maybe I'll let them wear my ring. Oh shit, that's pretty good. That's pretty good. Yeah, so yeah, that was it. Yeah, I didn't watch, it was nothing more than that. I didn't watch because I didn't care. And I think I was proven right by the reaction to the Espeys.

The only thing worse than watching the Espeys is not watching the Espeys and then caring about the Espeys. Correct. And what happens during the Espeys. Yeah, yeah, like if you don't watch it and then you're mad about it online, you're a loser. Yes.

But speaking of that, we're not mad about something. We're just gonna rectify something. Like I said, the Takies are coming next Wednesday. I'm gonna give you a little preview. The first Takies giving out right now. Drum roll please. Comeback player of the year. We're giving it to Trey Mancini.

I think that's well deserved. He came back from cancer. I mean, who could top that? Yeah, he was beaten out by Clay Thompson who came back from an ACL. Trey Mancini came back from cancer. Did you win a championship? What?

I'm just kidding. The Orioles? They will. They're on the L, 400 to one. Sitting down for cancer? Yeah, wow, Hank does not stand out for cancer. Hank stands out for cancer. You stand out for the anthem.

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I do. That's it. But yeah, Trey Mancini, that is it. So print it, post it, Orioles fans. Trey Mancini has won the first Takie of 2022. I wonder what the ratings are. So I'm gonna kind of go back on what I said earlier

about not caring about the Espeys and then caring about them after the fact. I do wanna see what, I'm very curious to see what the ratings were on the Espeys. Cause I feel like when we were kids, the Espeys, it sounds stupid to say, but like they meant something maybe. Yeah, they didn't.

They actually never meant anything. No, everyone just thinks about Norm McDonald doing the Espeys and that was awesome. That was great. He was making jokes in everyone's face and now they just have Steph Curry, who I love Steph Curry, but he, the jokes were just like, that was roasting.

He looked at Grant Williams, he's like, maybe I'll let you wear my ring later. I was like, damn. And then there were Steph Curry. There were some other people that were mad about not getting invited to the Espeys. Yeah. I saw that.

I don't care. You should not care about getting invited to the Espeys. I would actually hate to be invited to the Espeys. Yeah, it looks hot. Really hot. And you have to sit. You have to buy a suit. You have to climb.

I saw, I did see Russell Wilson, a picture of Russell Wilson and Ciara walking out on stage and when I text you phone emoji, that means I'm dialed in. Dialed in, baby. He was dialed in. He was so dialed in. It looked like he was wearing,

like the entire pants made out of a giant person's cummerbund. It was very funny. He had like a suitone thing going on. I'm actually gonna give Russell Wilson credit. I think he's crossed the line of like he's such a goober that it's fun now. I was thinking about that.

Like the dialed in tweet was just like, what is this? I was thinking about that yesterday. He's dangerously close to crossing into turn on tweet notifications territory. Yeah. Because like you never know what you're gonna get with Russell Wilson. It's gonna be extremely corny, but extremely funny.

I didn't know he was dialed in like that. Yeah. That's crazy. Bet on the Broncos. All right, so the other things we have in the sports world, listen, say what you will about the live tour, but them just like trying to get everyone in the entire world to join them is giving us some content.

Charles Barkley is the name that everyone has floating out there. I will be pissed if they take him and he doesn't do anything else. But Charles Barkley, Charles Barkley, I mean, this isn't a shock because he actually, he tells the truth pretty much all the time. He was like, everyone's got relationships

that if you dig into can be a little shady. Now the live tour is a little more upfront about it, but Charles Barkley is taking the meeting with Greg Norman, cause he's like, why wouldn't I? And that's the most, that's the first time someone's had a human like reaction to the live tour where it's like, no, I'm not saying that I promote them. I'm not saying that I'm in, I'm taking a meeting.

I'll take whatever, he even talked about his Nike sponsorship. He's like, I'm a Nike guy. If you dig too much of that, yeah, there's sweatshops. Right. They do business with China. Nobody's hands are clean. They should let them play.

Yeah, they should absolutely let them play. They give them a handicap. Wow, that would be incredible. I was thinking about the live tour and how everyone says it's a sports washing thing, right? The entire premise of the live tour through the public investment fund is to be like a giant commercial for Saudi Arabia.

Like we're not that bad Saudi Arabia, we play golf. Right. It's been a gigantic failure on that respect because all anyone talks about is how bad Saudi Arabia is when the live tour comes up. Little stri-sand effect. It's definitely the stri-sand effect. I wasn't thinking about Saudi Arabia, now I am.

Yeah, so they've done the very poor job of using golf to spread soft power in that way because it's making more people talk about it. Yeah, like if you asked just a casual sports fan six months ago, thoughts on Saudi Arabia, they'd be like, I don't know. And now if you ask them, they're like, oh yeah, I got thoughts. Yeah, exactly.

So I think that's been a failure so far. In fact, you could say that every big name that goes over there, they're actually doing a good job spreading the light as to how bad Saudi Arabia is by taking money. Billy had a similar take. They're stealing money from Saudi Arabia. Yeah, so they're actually the good guys

because it's less money for them. Exactly. If they give it back. If they give it back, unlimited money. Yeah, they're like Robin Hood. Yeah. No, but they're taking it back. Yeah. No, they're taking it for a while. Everyone's got a limit.

If they hire all of us, then we get all of their money. Honestly, Dave helped. As long as gas, I mean, I'm not a world-renowned, educated person, but I was wondering where that was going. And I like where you landed. As long as gas exists, like they have unlimited money. I thought you were going to be like, yeah, I'm not really up on geopolitical things.

No, it was just world-renowned, educated person. You never say world-renowned, educated person and think I hate it. No. But am I wrong? No, you're not. You're not wrong. They do have a lot of money. They've got a lot of gas.

They got a lot of gas. They got a lot of money. Yeah, so that's basically, and then the other sports story that I had was it's official, like, change your uniform season because we had the Bengals with the all-white stripes. Helmets like a month ago, the Giants unveiled their throwbacks that they're going to be wearing.

And I think the Cowboys also are going to wear the white helmet now for a couple of games. I did like our friend Clem, our colleague Clem, who's a big-time Giants fan. His analysis of the Giants using their throwback jerseys was spot-on. He said it makes them slower, but stronger on defense and better tacklers. And I would say harder to tackle, too.

It's got a little Rondane vibe, too. Yeah, so that's good. So if you're trying to handicap it, just know that. They're not going to beat anyone to track me, but they will be sound on defense and play stronger. I think that the Bengals' white helmets, it makes them faster on offense. They'll score like, I think Joe Burrow will score

five passing touchdowns, two rushing touchdowns wearing those helmets, but special teams will be a liability. Yes. Kick coverage, especially. And kickoff returns. Yes. I don't see that working out well. And then the Cowboys helmet is just another cool helmet we get to watch the Cowboys blow a primetime game in. Yeah, it'll be like, oh, they have two receivers

that kind of look in body type like Terrell Owens. Right, right. And maybe we get the actual benefit of Mike McCarthy after the game being like, I just blame the helmets for that play call. Yeah, I did not like what the Giants did. I feel victimized. We should feel victimized as a podcast with the Giants did with their new uniforms.

They're wearing them two nights this year, two nights big cat. They're called Legacy Games. Ooh, Eli, another retirement. You know who they're playing in those Legacy Games. Ooh, Washington football team? The Commanders and the Bears. Oh, we didn't know that.

They singled us out as a podcast. No, they absolutely did. And so we're on notice. We have to show up for those Legacy Games. Yeah, they were like, we got to win these Legacy Games. Here are the two teams we can beat. Yes, these are the two easiest teams on our schedule. Let me just look at the Giants schedule.

Giants schedule 2022. That's unfortunate because I assume these are... Either one of those games can be Thursday night games. Both give off Thursday night vibes. I would assume they're home games, right? They have to wear these at home. Probably. Yeah, so let's just see.

So they have their... This does suck. This does feel like we've been singled out. Yes, 100%. They do have the Panthers on September 18th. Oh, no, that's a regular season. Yeah, so they have the Panthers. You'd think that maybe that would have been...

It was that bad because now we're worse than the Panthers. Yes. Yeah, that feels... In the national mindset, I think if you say Washington Commanders versus Carolina Panthers, just in general, I'm not talking about this specific roster. I'm talking about just strictly based off vibes. I think the Panthers are a little bit better

than both of our teams. Yes, yes. All right, so I'm looking at right now. Panthers, Cowboys, Bears, so that's smart by them. Ravens, they're definitely not beating them. Texans, they didn't do the Texans. At home? So this also probably...

Here's C, PFT, we're thinking about the wrong way. Yes, it's probably because they want to win their legacy games, but they also chose historic franchises. Yeah, yeah. Because you can't go up against... You can't do a legacy game against the Texans. You can't do that. That's a one o'clock kickoff that people are like

on the red zone channel like, oh, shit, that game's going on? Also, I feel like using the legacy, the oomph that you would get from having those throwback unis against the Texans would feel a little wasteful. Yeah, big time. We could have beaten the Texans without these.

Yes. Like this is just like they're a team that we're confident that we can win. We just want to make sure that we win. Yes, exactly. So anything else in sports? I don't, I mean... Yeah, yeah, the big news, contract news.

Oh. Kyler Murray. Yes. Signed an extension, I think you got, what, 160 million guaranteed, so that's happening. So Kyler Murray, I guess he's putting, probably re-following them on Instagram now officially. You assume.

You assume. I'd like him to unblock me so I can congratulate him. Yeah, I mean, it's a lot of money. Right now, how much, do you think they overpaid for Kyler Murray? How much was it again? Is this now, is this Shepter dollars? Five years, 230.5.

Is that Shepter dollars? That is Shepter dollars. Run that through the guaranteed money conversion. Do we have a guaranteed money? I think it's 160 million. It's in that ballpark. Guaranteed. So it's a lot of guaranteed money.

I'm going to say it's overpaid. 160 guaranteed. I think they overpaid for him too. I really do. They only offered Pat Tillman nine million dollars. Yeah, that's true. Kyler is sick at call of duty though. Yeah.

Is any like a hundred thieves or something? Faze, face K one. Okay. So Jake question or no comment to you. Do you have in your calendar that we got to bet the Cardinals in September? We have him as Mr. September, October. Okay, great.

Cause I actually, this is when you know, football's coming back September 8th. I'm starting to think about my bets. And I literally said to myself, like no joke, I was walking to work and I was like, I think Cardinals week ones will be my lock of the week. Oh, I liked that. Yeah.

So like I'm getting into that mode where it's like, all right, what's the week one card looking like? I think that there are certain quarterbacks that you can do that. It's like they're, Kyler's engineered to be an early season guy with a home against the Chiefs. That's a great game.

They get a great line though. Yeah, good line. Track meet. And the Chiefs don't have Tyreek. Hopkins back. Yeah. So wait, is he suspended for? I can't remember.

I can't remember, I think. Yeah. Some kind of something. Yeah, he's definitely. I feel like Kyler's a good guy to bet on in September, October. Colt McCoy is a good quarterback to bet on for like one week in mid, mid November.

I'll just say week 15. Yeah, mid November, maybe late November. Yeah. That's Colt McCoy territory. Yes, yes. But that's, it's exciting to have like the thought, ooh, I wonder what my week one lock's gonna be and have it not be that far away.

I mean, mine's already the over in the first game. Yeah, Bills and Rams, Sunday Night Football. That's gonna be fucking electric. God damn it. Get here, football. All right, let's do our Mount Rushmore and then we will do our interview with George Nang, which was awesome in studio.

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Who's gonna start? Should, well maybe we can pick the order since we won the last one. Well, so does, well. Why don't we pick your two on the one before that? Well, that's, I'm just going off of your, the present you guys sent last episode. Do we pick the order last time?

We did? I don't think we did. I think you picked. No, we did not. Yeah, no, we didn't pick the balls. We did the ball machine. So erroneous, erroneous. All right, go ahead Hank,

why don't you pick the ball first? 12, I feel like it's coming up. Okay, Billy? 69. 69, all right, so we should go somewhere in the middle. With, let's go 20, 30, yeah, 35. Yeah, it's gonna be 21. 35.

You know that, you guys keep giving us the best spam numbers. Yeah. Doesn't matter, we haven't been winning. 18. 18. Congratulations, Hank. Thank you. So what's the order?

Let's go with us one, you guys second. Billy and Jake third. Interesting, there's, yeah, there's some good foods here, but there's also, it's a top heavy draft. Yeah. Go ahead. Tacos.

Okay, yeah, obvious one one. Obvious one one. That was the most obvious one one ever. Tacos Rock. Yeah, tacos are the fucking best. I had Taco Bell for breakfast today. Great breakfast. God damn, Crunchwrap Supreme, fuck.

Choke me out with a leather leash and throw me into a volcano, God damn. I will, I will, I'm gonna put it on the list, but I'm gonna like support it like. Yeah, bonk, but it was a justified bonk. Yeah. Can you repeat that again just like for the record? Yeah, Crunchwrap Supreme, breakfast Crunchwrap Supreme

from Taco Bell, I want it to choke me out with a dog collar on a leather leash. And then I want it to throw me into a real volcano. Nice. That's fire sauce. Yeah. They actually make fire sauce straight from a volcano. Yeah.

That's how good it is. Imagine if they had lava in that. Peg me with a frozen popsicle made out of their hot sauce. Bob blast, there you go. Okay, we're gonna go with our, we got the second pick. Yep.

All right, we're gonna go with T-Bone. Fuck. T-Bone, yeah. Man, you really like T-Bone. We should start calling, we should start calling you T-Bone. Yeah, T-Bone. That's tough. T-Bone steaks are delicious.

T-Bone. It's all downhill for me. Yeah. You probably can't even name the dude. We're good. There are some champs. Yeah, there's some good ones. You get half New York strip, you get half filet.

So good. T-Bone. Yeah. All right, Billy, you don't like me? I thought we'd get away with that one. Yeah, nope. Okay. First we're gonna go turkey.

Oh, first, okay. Interesting. And then Billy. You know who the real turkey is. Obama. Then we're gonna go with tenderloin. Oh. All right, what kind of tenderloin?

Cause you got pork, you got beef. Beef, tenderloin. So it's a B word. So. No, it's tenderloin, beef. Okay. So it's a worse cut of meat than the T-Bone. Yeah, if that doesn't qualify.

No, it'll qualify. It's not qualify. I just, we wanted him to, cause maybe we'll take tenderloin, pork. Who knows? All right, PFT, I think we go with the third on that list. Yeah, yep, for sure. Third, we're gonna go with tortilla chips.

Yeah, tortilla chips. I love tortilla chips. Who doesn't? Snack on them, dip them. Queso. Salsa, guacamole. Oh, tortilla chips, baby. You guys gonna have any, oh no, you can't.

You can't have any tortilla chips with your tacos cause we took them. That's too bad. Um. Nothing, icy stare. Hint of lime. No, I'm reviewing our list. This is where it gets, this is where.

Did you have tortilla chips? This is where champions get made. Yeah. Um, we will go with tomato soup. Ooh, little gaspacho. Mmm, grilled cheese and tomato soup. So you're talking about like the cream of tomato soup? The fuck other kind of tomato soup is there?

Big catch is a gaspacho. Yeah, it's a cold one. That's what the fuck other kind of tomato soup is. Wait, it's not a rush more of. Cheese. It is a tomato soup. So why would I be talking about gaspacho? Did you just censor yourself?

Yeah. Well, the F. Okay, good pick. Tomato soup on a cold day. Yeah. It's nothing better. And then we'll go with tortellini. Oh, tortellini.

Good pick. Good pick. Good pick, Hank. Thank you. All right, P.F.T. I think we go with our fourth there and then we save the last one, yeah? So you want to say it or you want me to say it?

I'll say it. We're going to go with Twix. Twix. Candy bar. Delicious chocolate. Caramel cookie crisp. I think Twix is the candy bar, unlike any other where like,

I don't think anyone has Twix as their number one, but everyone has Twix in their top like three or four. Yes. You know what I mean? Like it's the most consistent. Like no one really bashes Twix. It shows up all the time. Yeah.

It's a great grind. It's a great frozen too. Oh, so good. It's like a possession receiver. Yeah, right. Exactly. Nice long crunch. The long crunch.

You get 800 yards out of them. Twix is just a solid worker. You know what I like about Twix is, it's about the size of a standard candy bar, but they're two of them. Yeah. That's the best part. Double the pleasure, double the fun.

Do you, are you a left Twix guy or right Twix? Yeah. I go left first. Always. I actually don't know. I think I'd eat, but I like to bite both of them at the same time. Yeah.

Just double fist. I go savage Twix style. All right. The boy's jelly. All right. So this one has two words in it. I've heard it both ways. So hopefully you guys approve.

Teriyaki chicken. I Google it. You guys are real. Really? Some people said chicken teriyaki, some people say teriyaki chicken. And teriyaki is like the seasoning. Yeah.

And you already did the other one. I think it has to be seasoning, teriyaki. I think you could pick teriyaki. That's a sauce. Yeah. You could put this food. You could pick teriyaki. I don't think you get teriyaki chicken.

If that makes sense. So you guys get tortilla chips? Yeah, we did. We got tortilla chips. They're tortilla chips. There are specific kind of chips. That's actually a good point by Billy. You actually are just getting tortillas.

No, it's made from a tortilla. Yeah, you get tortillas. Yeah. So you just get, you know. Made from a tortilla. But not the chips. But like teriyaki chicken. Chips are made from the tortilla.

What are you talking about? The chicken. The chips are made from the tortilla. But it's just, we're talking about words here. I'm going to give them teriyaki chicken. Okay, thank you. I don't think that's... And you get tortilla chips.

No, but I think tortilla chips are literally made from the tortilla. You know how they make them, right? Yeah, but there's potato chips. Right. Potato chips. Right, but like tortilla chips. Yeah.

We took the tortilla chips because they're made from tortillas. So we took the teriyaki chicken because... Because this is from teriyaki? It's made with teriyaki. No, it's not made from teriyaki. It's made with teriyaki. Yeah, but...

I'm back on their side. On whose? Yours. Yeah. Tortilla chips are made from tortillas. No, but tortilla chips are made with tortillas and salt. No, they're made from tortillas. They're literally just fried tortillas.

Then we're vetoed. Fried tortillas. No, no, no, no. No, you can take teriyaki. Teriyaki is not a food. Yeah, it's not a food. It's sauce. Yeah, it's not.

It's a sauce and it's a style of cooking. Yeah, I don't like that. All right, so what do we judge? Tequila. No, flip a coin, flip a coin. I say we give them... No, it's not a food. No, no, no.

I've wanted tequila so bad. It's not a food. All right, I'll let you guys hear. We'll decide. Odds are even. P.F.T. will watch behind me. You guys pick. You guys...

No, I was gonna... Yeah, Odds are even. No, no, no, no. No, no, that's fine. Odds are even for the lottery ball. What do you guys want? But there are some restaurants that recognize it as teriyaki chicken.

Yeah, Odds are even. I've heard it. I think it's a 50-50. Yeah, I order a chick. Yeah, I order a chicken teriyaki. Yeah, so come on. All right, that's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying.

All right, so 50-50. So we won't take it. Actually, teriyaki beef jerky. Oh my God. You're doing the exact same thing just with beef jerky. Oh, Tammy, you got us there. Also, that would not win over teriyaki chicken. Yeah, teriyaki chicken, so let's start.

Odds are even. So leave it up to the machine. Even? You got one less. Sure you don't want Odd, Billy. Billy would have picked Odds. Billy, would you have picked Odds? It's numbers, I don't care.

Wow, nihilist. Odd. All right, so that doesn't count. So Billy, I'm going to overrule you here on this next one. I think a lot of people like it, tater tots. Oh, good pick. Ooh, that's a great fucking pick. Thank you, Billy.

Didn't want that one. Damn. You didn't want tater tots? You didn't want tater tots? Oh, no, no, tater tots. How could you not want tater tots? I wanted teriyaki chicken over tater tots. Were you trying to do an entire Keddo Mount Rushmore?

No, maybe. I don't know, tater tots just never end up getting eaten. Oh, what are you talking about? I like to pick. Love them. Oh, thank you for vouching for a pick. Yes, that's a great pick. You're trying to talk yourself out of it.

I'm mad at ourselves for not coming up with tater tots. That's almost worse than not picking Snape was a good guy the whole time. You're talking about tater tots like it's coleslaw. Yeah, tater tots are. I just would like to check in teriyaki over tater tots. That was the whole description. Right.

Tater tots are a great pick. One starts with a T, though. Yeah. Yeah. OK. If you don't have anything else, we're going with it. No, I got one. Oh, god.

I have no idea what this is after once. He's coming off the rip. Tuna sushi. Tuna sushi. Would you like to just have tuna? I mean, tuna is a good pick. I had tuna on my list. Tuna is a good pick.

You also get probably tuna salad along with it. Yeah, you got a lot of tuna. You get all the tuna. Tuna tartar. Tuna tartar, tuna sushi, the actual like eating tuna fish. Tuna sashimi. Tuna sandwich. Tuna sandwich.

That's a good. You guys got some good picks there out of tuna steak. Damn. Somehow you guys talk yourselves into a good pick. Yeah. All right, our last pick. PFT, go ahead. Take it away.

So this is a pick that I think that if you look at the rest of them out, Rushmore, you're going to need this one on anybody's list. Tums. Clean up with some tums. Tums. Snack them down. Yep.

Is that a food? Yeah. Great question, Billy. Great question. Billy asked it not me. Is that a food stuff? But it's a perfectly valid question. Is that a food stuff?

Yeah, it is a food. What do you do with Tums, Billy? Wait, what aisle is in the grocery store? What do you do with it in the grocery store? Who regulates? Answer the question. What aisle is it? Shut the fuck up.

Oh, what do you do with Tums? You medicate yourself with it. What do you do with Advil? So Advil's a food. What do you do with Tums? No, it's different because you chew it. You digest it. Because you need it to get into your system.

You chew it and you swallow it. No, that's a medicine, bro. You chew it. Tums. Tums. Tums. Great pick. We're on the right side of history.

Do you take Tums or do you eat Tums? I have a Tums is what I do. Do you eat them? Hey, do you want to go take some Tums? No, I eat them. Is there any restaurants that you can buy Tums at? Yeah. Do you take?

It's not a food stuff. Where? Sure, a bunch of them. The subways that are attached to a pilot gas station? That Tums is not a food stuff. It is food. Do you eat? It is not a food stuff.

The FDA, which is food and drug. Oh, fuck this food stuff. Food stuff is how they classify. Wait, you know what's interesting about Tums is they have nutrition information. No, they don't. Yes, they do. Sodium, five milligrams, two grams.

I'm going to go grab the Tums. So there's two grams. Dude, so does Advil. Dude, they have a warning label. Do they have a warning label? I highly doubt Tums does. Tums has a warning label. Fine, you guys want to take it off?

That's fine. Take it off. Now, I think we do this, PFT. We fucking switch it up on them with that bad boy. By the way, Advil, I don't think has the nutrition. Because it does. It just has acetamatophen. OK, drinks also.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Tobacco leaves. Yeah, tobacco. That is not a food stuff. You chew it up. That is not a food stuff. Which one do you want? I'll let you pick.

You want to give us tobacco or you want to give us Tums? No, this isn't a choice. I'll give you tobacco because people are going to be like, this is the dumbest Mount Rushmore ever for you picking Mount Rushmore foods and you picking tobacco. No, you can't. You can give us tobacco, Tums, or teriyaki chicken.

I will let you guys choose tobacco. If I'm going to go buy some Red Man and you have to eat it. Yes, yes. Eat it, swallow, eat it. I like that pill. If you can find Red Man in the next 30 minutes, then you're on. I have some at my desk. Oh, bring it in here.

You want to eat it on us? Yes, get it, pillie. Should we just go with this one? No. Just keep going down the line. Do you want to eat it? Are you going to eat it? Yeah, I don't want that.

We'll do our last pick. Fine, we'll cancel both of them. Our last pick is Taco Bell. We had all these on our list. Yeah, we had all these on our list. What do you want? Which one do you guys want us to take? Taco Bell.

I knew one. Go get it, Billie. Yeah, you know. Billie, go get the Red Man. Is Taco Bell the food? No, it's not. It's a restaurant. No.

Billie, go get the Red Man. I'm not going to make you swallow the Red Man. I want to. You definitely don't have it. Go get it. That's my bluff. He called my bluff. Yeah.

He's like, he's like, he's like, he's a fucking liar. I have some of my desk. So we have Taco Bell. What's our pick? Taco Bell, Tom's, and Tobacco? It sounds like a great Saturday. Dude, that's perfect. Yeah.

Give him our tobacco slash Tom's. I don't care. Yeah, you can. Tom's and Tobacco. Just put that on the graphic. You guys have no integrity. On the graphic? That's fine.

You have it. Just put cheating for the graphic. This is what Mount Rush Four Season's about, though. It's about arguing about the dumbest things possible in the middle of July. I suppose so. I mean, it's definitely what it's supposed to be about. A lot of pressure on you guys for your last pick.

Yeah. We just took tobacco, Tom's, and you're talking about it. Pure domination. So we got tacos, delicious tomato soup, great soup. Oh, you didn't say delicious? What was our third pick? Oh. Tortellini.

So we have a broad variety. That's a great meal. That's a great meal in general. You have a meal with tacos, tomato soup, tortellini. You're eating good. It's like the Jimmy V speech. For dessert, tiramisu. OK.

Good pick. We had tiramisu also. Yeah, I don't like it. Yeah. Give me a taste. Yeah, me. I don't like tiramisu. That said something.

You just walked into that trap, Hank. I'm the man who will eat every dessert in the world. Tiramisu is bottom tier dessert. It's all fancy. It's too expensive. Yeah, it's fancy. It's good, though. I agree with the price, but it's delicious.

Give me ice cream. Give me Twix. Give me fucking gummy bears. Give me cookies. Yeah, but some restaurants don't have those options. Give me ice cream cake. Yeah, some nice restaurants. They only have like a shitty pumpkin cake or tiramisu.

No, that's not true. Tiramisu is super consistent. No, no, no. It's not consistent. You can say that tiramisu is good when it's cooked well. It's delicious. But when it's bad, it's really bad. I would actually put tress leches cake above tiramisu.

I'd put souffle over tassel star with a tea. I would also take ice cream over tiramisu. I thought that's what you were talking about. Yeah, I just, if you look at any nice restaurant, you go, tiramisu is on the menu for desserts. I guarantee you they have some type of ice cream, apple pie, like brownie. They're all better.

They're all better. I think tiramisu is also the main dessert. That's probably not wrong with the main dessert. It's the main dessert that you complete with your table. You're like, let's get a tiramisu, and then let's order some other stuff that we actually want to have all of. Yeah, fair.

I'll take a bite of tiramisu. People say that all the time. Can I just have one bite of your tiramisu? I don't like, so the taste of tiramisu isn't bad. It's the texture that I don't like. I don't like the texture of tiramisu. I don't mind it, but if it's cooked poorly, it's very bad. Okay, that was good.

That was a very contentious Mount Rushmore. What'd we have left off? Feels good to yell at each other. Turkey, Texas. It's like over tea words. Tetrazini. Oh, wow, Billy, you missed a big one. Turkey, tetrazini.

Testosterone. Can't eat that. It's like Tom's, beta. It's like Tom's. Twizzlers or tiramisu? Twizzlers, I love twizzlers. We also had three musketeers. Some people don't like that though.

Would tapas have counted? Nope. I was thinking tecanias. See, here's the thing with tiramisu too, Hank. If we had done tortilla soup with that have counted. Yes. Tiramisu is coffee flavored. Just drink the coffee.

It's way better. Get ice cream in apple pie and have a cup of coffee. That's a dessert, baby. A little digestion going? Timbits. Timbits. We had triskits. I like triskits.

People have been slandering triskits. They're fine. Totino's pizza rolls count. Yeah, we had those. We had those. I don't know if they'll count. Is that pizza rolls? I feel like it's not the brand.

Right, I would. This is why I like doing these alphabet ones. What about really getcha enough? What about takis? Would takis have counted? Yeah, we almost did takitos. We almost just did all taco stuff, but would it have been a force

if we did tacos, taquitos, taco dip, and taco salad? Would have been fun. Yeah, it probably would have won. I'll work. Unfortunately, I'm not going to anymore. Tzatziki sauce? Yes. That's a good one, too.

Sauce. But it's great. Tabasco. Tabasco. So we got it. Titties. So we got you. We had titties.

It is. OK, we got to do the Mount Rushmore of one-letter sauces. Should we do sauces once? We've done sauces. But if we narrow it down, do we box it? Actually, I think the Sauce Mount Rushmore was the original contentious one. Yeah, this is when you box it into a letter, it gets spicy.

I think we just unlocked a lot of Mount Rushmore as we could do. Sources with a B. Yeah. Buffalo. Win. Barbecue. No, I beat you.

Barbecafalo. Bosniak. Bosniak? What's that? It's a great sauce. What? Is this another invention? Is that a person?

Is that an ethnicity? Bosniak? Bosniak sauce? It sounds like something involved in the Communist Revolution. Bosniak and meatball sauce? Bosniak sauce? Bosniak sauce.

How do you spell it? Can you use it in a sentence? Bolognese, great. Oh, Bolognese. Great sauce. It would be. It's my favorite pasta. God, booby milk.

Booby milk, yeah. Fuck, Bolognese, that's a great miss. Oh, it wasn't a miss. What? For the tea. Oh, yeah, one of my, I am. Bosniak got me all the way to the top. We got lost this.

What is Bosniak sauce, honey? Bosniak just threw me in a spiral where I just said a word and just thought we'd be like, yeah, OK, Bosniak. I should have picked Bolognese. Right now, I'm stuck in a back and forth on Google where it says, did you mean Bosniak sauce? Yes.

And then he goes to that page and says, did you mean Bosniak sauce? I click it again. How do you say Bosniak? How do you mean bisque? Oh, is this from the Balkans? Yeah, dude. This is from Bosnia?

Yeah, you haven't had it. What gave it away? Bosniak chicken. But it was right there if we were doing the bees. Bosniak. All right. Great Mount Rushmore. I had fun with that boys.

That felt good to have a little disagreement. It is. If Mount Rushmore at its core is you got to just find the dumbest thing to argue about with your friends in the middle of the summer. You just described Congress. Yeah, right. This is what we get up while we lift all them damn weights.

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OK, we now welcome on a very special guest in studio, Philadelphia 76ers, George Nyang. Thank you for coming in. We appreciate it. We're only going to ask like four Ben Simmons questions. Dang, we're not over that yet. Oh, we have more. We could do all of them.

You want to ask us a Ben Simmons question? Yeah. Yeah, why don't you ask York now? Yeah, I know. Yeah, good question. Yes, yes, yes, correct. How do you guys feel about them? I feel strongly about them in many, many types of ways.

You're going to get into detail, or are you just going to give me the half-past answer? We've said on the show before that if there was no basket, he would be the best basketball player in the league. Elite, elite passer, elite defender. Incredible. Do you still talk to him at all? No, so I was never really like close to him.

I don't even know if I had his phone number. You showed up at the 76ers when he said he didn't want to play for them anymore. Awkward. Yeah, that is awkward. OK, well, we'll go with easier question. How sick is Joel Embiid? Because he's just a monster.

Oh, dude, he's like, and I don't even think he knows how good he can be. Because when he gets angry and is dominant, there's been a couple of times where he's had like 50, 46, 37, and he says, I'm not even trying. Yeah, I went to a game a few years ago. I can't remember. It was, I think it was Rockets.

It was actually James Hardman's playing the Rockets still. Versus the Sixers. And I remember just watching him down low and like putting it off the glide. Like the ball looks like he's playing with like a little tiny ball next to his body. And he just like controls everything. And people forget, like usually big men like now

in this day and age, like it's easy to double team. And like people are double teaming, triple teaming. And he's like shooting mid-range jumpers over them, going by him, dunking on him. So I mean, I just think it's impressive. Obviously, I'm on the Joel Embiid campaign of why I didn't win MVP, but it is what it is. Do you ever have to deem up in practice?

No, that's not my position. I stay far away from my own. You stay far away. You never have to double team? Yeah, no. Whoa. No, sometimes. But I wouldn't say he's ultra competitive in practice.

I mean, he can glide through practice. But when he's on, like before practicing, before the playoffs, I would say nobody's really touching him. Can you tell going into a game, if he's like if he's pissed off, if he's ready to go, like totally locked in, like nobody's going to be able to stop this guy tonight? You know, he probably gives us like a heads up,

like a watch this. Then you're like, yeah, all right, Joel, yeah. He looked awesome in the mask. I think he should wear the mask full time. You think so? Yes. I don't know how I could do something like that. You know what I mean?

I'm such a simple guy, but that would just like annoy me. But he was a he is a beast, mask or no mask. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, his playoffs where he was just like every day was a different body part. He got injured and he was still out there. So your your career is crazy, man. Like you're have you had a moment where you're like,

I've I've not made it, but you got drafted in the second round. A lot of second rounders don't make it in the NBA. That's just a fact. You you were on. You went to the G League. Then you worked your way back. You know, you signed a few contracts here. Like it's a hell of a story when you actually kind of piece it

all together because there's a lot of guys. They get trapped in the second round. Either they don't make the team or they're on the team for a year. G League, they go over to Europe and then it's over. Yeah. No, I mean, I was looking the other day just for my own personal mind or benefit. And I think it's like me and like three other guys that got

drafted in the second round that are still in the NBA. And it's like Malcolm Brogdon, me and then I want to say it's like Jake Lehman, who was my AAU teammate. But yeah, there I'm not going to lie to you and say that I thought it was all going to be easy. I got cut from my first team in Indiana and fucking I was like, did I just blow my only opportunity in the NBA? And then you kind of go, you know, second year guys that get

cut usually go to the G League and kind of fizzle out. But I kind of like sacrificed everything. Like I remember I was doing whatever anybody asked. They're like, you need to improve your body. I went vegan. You need to, you know, make more shots. I started doing like this 300 shot routine before practice and lifting every day.

And the biggest thing for me was just realizing that if I quit, it gave someone else an opportunity behind me to be one step closer. So I was like, fuck it. I'll just continue to eat shit and not quit. And whatever happens, like I can live with. If that's going overseas and it's going overseas. But I know it's cliche and like corny as it sounds like

you're probably like, oh, don't quit. No, it's not at all. It was just like I just kept showing up every day, good, bad or indifferent. And if I felt like shit felt great, I was just like, all right, I'm going to show up and do like these three things in my routine and fucking it landed me in Utah. I never thought I'd be in Utah.

And then four years later, it landed me in Philadelphia. And that's kind of like this year was kind of like where my career kind of, you know, took off and people were like, oh, shit, like he's a legit rotation. Yeah, contribute to a team. So was there a moment when you were doing all these things, taking, you know, 300 shots for a game, lifting, vegan, all that stuff where you hit a moment where you're like, I'm,

I'm way better now. Like I've, I can see that I'm so much better. You know, I don't think it's like a moment. I think it's like you, you take time to look back at what you've done and like a small stint and you're like, damn, like I've been fucking good. Yeah. Oh, I mean, it was in the G League.

I was like, damn, I'm good. And then I got signed to like a regular contract in the NBA and you're playing pick up with the guys and there's no like, you don't feel that like sense of nervous is like, how do I fit in? You're like, no, like I am one of them. Yeah. It's just I'm waiting for my opportunity, which is

everything in the NBA. Because sometimes you have to wait behind guys who make more money than you and different shit like that. But I waited for my opportunity and luckily, you know, Quinn Snyder, who sadly isn't the Utah Jazz coach anymore, but he gave me an opportunity and I kind of just ran with it. Was there a moment where you started playing and you were like, I think I can fit in this league where it kind of clicked for

you and you knew that you had a future. So it was like, so I started at Utah, I got signed halfway through the year on that like new two-way contract. So you're down in the G League and up with the team. And then the next year they signed me to like a deal and Quinn Snyder played me. I think it was like the second game of the season against Golden State and I get into the game and I had had a good

training camp, made some threes. In my first three, like I shoot off like the top of the backboard and I was like, oh my God, like this dude trusted me to be. Oh, no, you're going to get us in trouble. Westbrook, Westbrook, my bad. And so I was like, damn, and I'm running down the sideline and DeMarcus Cousins is like, man, hell no, don't ever shoot no

shit like that again. I'm like, damn it, like this is fucking going to be brutal. This guy believed in me, put me in the game. Now I got DeMarcus Cousins talking shit to me and luckily the ball came to me like another time I had a wide open three and I hit it and that was kind of like the moment that was like the, all right, you made your first one. And then I ended up making a couple more throughout the game.

We ended up losing to the Warriors, but it was like the confidence I needed and reassurance to be like, all right, you know, if I can do this against the defending champion Warriors, like I can do it against anybody. Yeah. The fact you did it after you, you know, shot, shot from hell the first time. Yeah, an oxygen ball we like to call it.

Yeah, I feel like it also is now it's become like a lot of the analysis in the NBA, people are like, oh, he got hunted on defense. Yeah. Have you been, is there a moment where you were hunted? Yeah, I mean, I mean, I don't want to bring race into it, but when you look like the slow white guy, that's kind of like the worst is when someone's like pointing at you and

the other guy runs up and the guy's like, no, no, no, him. And if you're on the other end of that, it's it sucks. But I mean, people don't understand is that if you're the guy in the action that's getting you're going at these are NBA players like they're gonna, I don't care if it's the best defender, they're going to score on you. Now, if you're constantly getting scored on, then, you know, you start to become the hunted.

But if you can mix in a couple stops, they usually just tend to leave you alone. I actually, JJ Reddick, friend of the show, he had a point that I like kind of changed how I looked at it because I think there's a lot of people like the NBA, they don't play defense. They don't like, you know, college, they play defense like, no, the NBA just everyone's so fucking good that even if you're playing great defense, there's like you could play

great defense and he's still gonna score 25 30. So is that is that you think that's fair that the defense it's not the defense, it's the fact the offense and everyone can make a shot. Yeah, believe me, I'm I'm trying. Yeah, and don't worry, the guys on the offensive end in college, they had to go to math class and science class and the NBA, it's I'm in the gym for five hours a day.

So those shots tend to go in, you know, a lot more and these are the best 450 players in the world. Yeah, like these guys are paid a lot of money to make a lot of tough shots and we're trying. Believe me, we're trying. But these fuckers, they're good. So good. Like, could you imagine guarding Kevin Durant?

No, I'd team up because I just mentally are you just. Oh, yeah, I try to help you break him down. Yeah, you think we can get him on here? And we've been trying. We've been trying. That's the way to break down so many times. But he's just outfilling me all the time. He does the he just has the scene on Instagram DMs, so he

sees them all and just never replies. And we got to work on that. Yeah, can you help me? I'll try. Is there a hierarchy where like you can like in the NBA where it's like the stars only talk to the stars and like the other guys and the other guys? No, I wouldn't say that.

OK, I would think sometimes superstars get get sick of hanging out with other superstars. Yeah, there's too much ego in one room. Yeah, only one ball. I was about to say the room might blow up. Yeah, yeah, yeah, true on that note. Have you been invited to go out on the town with with James Harden yet? How close are you with James?

You've been in the champagne room. That's my guy, man. That's my guy. He takes care of his people. Does he? He's a great dude. And I think, you know, a lot of people get caught up in like the whole strip club, James and this, that and the other.

And I think if any other player, like when you have your downtime, like you like to enjoy life. Yeah. And like he said to me, I think he's 32. He said, I've I've had 32 great years of life. And I'm like, and I'm like, James, I definitely believe you. I don't disagree with that one bit. How much though?

Because the NBA is maybe it's weird that it's only feels like an only NBA problem where for some reason, social media and the NBA, like it's always every little mistake. Every everything is put on blast legacy talk. Like I actually kind of agree somewhat with KD when he's like, why is every conversation about legacy or like who could beat this guy? And like, do you, do you, does anyone talk about that in the locker room or like they like this is so lame that every game is is now like, you know,

this is MJ would never do this. Yeah. No, people, I mean, people would be so surprised. Like the conversations that we have in the locker room are probably like so much more simpler than what people freaking think. Like nobody is comparing themselves to freaking MJ or Kareem and anything like that. Sure, we'll talk about guys that have come in the past, but nobody's doing

that stupid, like pissing contest and see who's better. But I mean, I've sat down and watched some good arguments on Instagram live on like whose legacies here. And then you, you sit back and think about it. You're like, huh, it might be right. It would actually be funny if you started that next year in the locker room, you just had like a big whiteboard at your locker. And like after every good and bead game, you're like, legacy mark, like a little

bit higher or it's like equal to or greater than the king lives on. He just keeps going up and down. That'd be hilarious. Just so you know, Joel, this is where I got you right now, legacy. Now I was going to say you're, you're, you were top eight before this. You're top six now. You get me a championship, you'll be top three. This is getting MVP.

Yeah. The MVP takes you to the next level of, you gotta have like a pantheon. You reach pantheon level three. I do think that when you're having the legacy conversation in a way, it's a compliment to the person because we don't talk about legacy conversations. Nobody's right. No, 100%. So like it's in a weird way.

It's, it's a good thing that they're talking about you in that way. But then if you pay attention to the day to day of it, it's just like, it's, it's really just because they have nothing else to talk about. Yeah. 100%. Like it just, it drags on because anybody can have an opinion because nobody will ever see Joel against Kim Elijah or nobody to see this one's a good one. John Moran against Michael Jordan.

Oh, who do you got? Nobody. Yeah. Stop. John, me too. No, cut it out. Like, think about who this is. You're the piece of problem and you're the problem.

We are. We absolutely feed into it. Yeah. We, we, we accidentally get into those conversations. That's the thing is like as annoying as they can be, they also are kind of fun sometimes. So we'll like just accidentally be like, Oh, like what, what if it was like, I think we had the conversation, we were joking about MJ and magic for Stefan

and LeBron and we're like, this is so stupid. And then like 10 minutes later, we're actually breaking it down. Okay. I got one for you guys to break down. It's not even in basketball. Ready? Yeah. Tom Brady or Zach Wilson, like overall life, life, legendary.

I mean, Tom Brady still got him. Well, Zach Wilson's great. He's going to go to heaven because he's, his religion is correct. Yeah. But, um, this life, Tom Brady, the afterlife, Zach Wilson. Yeah. And Tom Brady definitely sold his soul to the devil too. Next 10 years, maybe Zach Wilson.

Maybe. Yeah. Cause he's got it all in front of him right now. Yeah. And there's a lot of cougars out there. There is. There's what, all right. So let me ask this.

We've, we've had this discussion. If that story happens in the NBA locker room, like are people like, that's kind of cool, dude. Yeah. You'd be like, no, I'm one of my old teammates, Jordan Clarkson. I've been like, right on, bro. Cause everyone's freaking out. It's like, I'm pretty sure the locker room is going to be fine with it.

Yeah. Honestly, I had no, I heard it. Like I was out in Vegas for like NBA, somebody and I heard it. And I was like, yeah, yeah, like I got a 16. Like I'm going to stay. I didn't even think twice about hearing like the story. I was playing blackjack. And then like I got on the plane and I was reading it.

And I was like, that his girl, his ex-girlfriend. Like, what an idiot for like, keep your personal business. Like, yeah, don't, don't, don't get on Instagram comments. Yeah. Like you just blew that whole thing up. You would have been sold. Like nobody needs to know that. Now everybody's back on this guy's, you can delete Instagram comments.

You could have just been like homey hopper, delete and it's over. Then everything's gone. That's true. How nice is it being able to go out to Vegas and not have to play in the summer? Dude, unreal. Cause I mean, it's got to be very nerve wracking. It's a grind and like you're anxious all the time because you're like someone of the older guys is like, Hey, Hey, 50 cents performing.

I drazed. You want to come? I'm like, but I got shoot around at nine. He's like, yeah, we'll have you in by like three. And then you're walking in your hotel at seven 30 and you're showing up, shoot on like, no, I didn't go. Oh my God. I had a teammate that, uh, that just signed with the team and, uh,

we went out to celebrate and he literally missed like the shooter on bus, like three days in a row after that. And they're like, we're kind of regretting a signing here right now. He's like, no, I won't do it again. Yeah. Unless you sign me a new contract that I will do it again. What's the summer league like in terms of pressure? Like you're under a microscope, right?

It's like every possession that you have, every touch that you have could determine millions of dollars. Right. I think you just have to have the mindset of, uh, giving a fuck, but not actually giving a fuck. Uh, you know, I think you just got to go out there and be you. Like if you're out there trying to go out there and do something that you're not able to do, then you're not going to be good.

Like my job was to play a little defense and, and make threes. Right. If I was out there trying to dribble the ball 17 times, I'd probably be in Yugoslavia right now. Right. I mean, so just stick to the basics. Keep the main thing, the main thing, but the toughest part is the outside distractions, which people don't give enough credit for.

Like most professional athletes can do a good job of handling distractions and getting their shit done. Young professional athletes, that's where it goes. That's, I would imagine that's a little tough in your early 20s in Vegas with a little walking around money. Forget about it. Yeah. Per diem's like 2,500.

Yeah. You know what I did 2,500 probably lost it within the 30 minutes I got it. Yeah. Um, on dock rivers, cause we've talked about dock on this show a lot. Yeah. Uh, does he ever have a voice or is it just like permanently horse? Have you ever heard him speak with like a full? Like full command of his voice?

Yeah. Yeah. I think, uh, I think sometimes it, it peaks, it peaks through, but no, I think that's just how he speaks. That's funny cause I've never even really, I can't imagine what his voice cause I grew up a Boston kid. So like that's the only voice that I know. And minus him yelling at Tyrese maxi.

I think that's just how his, uh, his voice just rolls out of bed like that. We're going to get back to George and Yang in a second. But before we do, let's talk to you guys about eBay. eBay is changing the game once again for buying and selling sneakers online from rare dead stock to the latest release or even carefully loved pre-owned kicks. I've got some great shoes that I'm excited about. I got my kamikazis ready for the summer, the old Sean Kemp's Hank, what shoes are you excited about wearing this summer?

I'm always looking for some, uh, for some nice SBs, SB dunks. Okay. Yeah. I bet you could find someone eBay sneakers. Yeah. I've, I've looked and got some there before. And sometimes when you're looking for a specific pair of shoes, you're always wondering, are these going to be the real deal?

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So a couple of questions. First, I read that you lost 30 pounds after your freshman year. How, how bad were you eating? Oh, dude, that's a lot of weight. I wish I had like a picture of like my cabinet. It was like devil dogs, ring dings, uh, mac and cheese. And I was eating like chicken fingers for pregame meal. And you, and you, so you were playing at 260 and you were good.

Yeah. I remember we were in West Virginia and I was with one of my teammates, Dustin Hogue, and there was a scale in the weight in the, in the locker room. And he was like, uh, he got on. He was like, hi, two 35. And I was like, oh, let me get on it. Read like two 63. And he was like, oh my God, I got to go tell everybody.

I was like, no. How were you like, were you winded? I mean, here's the difference between college and the NBA is like, I was so skilled that I could get away with being like out of shape, overweight and like still put up points because it was like, I was touching the ball every time. You know, I was so much more skilled than everybody else. But then when I tried to, you know, I lost that weight and obviously your body fluctuates, you know, us big guys, you know, it's, it's tough to just

keep it there all the time. Then when you slowly start getting to the next level, you're like, damn, like, I can't be overweight. I actually have to be in shape. I actually have to be conditioned well because those dudes are playing at like a whole nother speed, a whole nother athletic level. And, uh, I don't blame my mom or my dad. I blame God for not giving me those athletic talents.

Yeah, yeah. But that must have felt awesome when you lost 30 pounds. Yeah. I mean, frigging you, you go from wearing baggy sweatshirts to putting your, taking your shirt off all the time. Yeah. So was it just salads? You just stopped eating junk food or?

Yeah, I would say, I don't know if it was the healthiest. So any nutritionist watching this, it was probably like absolutely no carbs. It was just like salad and chicken and peppers and onions. And yeah, it wasn't too exciting, but yeah, when you were at the heaviest, though, were you able to break a backboard? I don't even know if I was getting up there to grab the rim to be here. Devil dogs for keeping you down. That's one thing I miss about basketball.

Like when we were growing up, once every six months, somebody would shatter a backboard or just like pull it down onto the ground. And now it's like the technologies to, to advance, breakaway rims. Yeah, what, um, so here's another one. I like to look up old tweets that I have whenever I have a guest on. You got something for me? Yeah, I have one that just says, so it's January 30th, 2016. It's actually my birthday.

I said, what are you doing, Yang? So stupid. I went and looked it up. It was the Texas A&M game at Texas A&M. I must have bet on you guys. So you fucked me. Yeah. Do you remember that game?

What did you do? Yeah, I think I might have turned the ball over late because I know you probably took the over. Yeah, that too. Yep. Yep. I was like, fuck. Yeah, fuck. Yeah, I was something about that really pissed me off.

And then you did something else. I think it might have been the buddy healed like that game where you guys both went off. We were going back and forth. Yeah, I think I had you said something mean to me. I know I said something good. I was like, I love me. So like that, that was a good one.

All right, we're good. Yeah, so we're good on that. But I do have. So Fred Hoyberg was your coach for the first couple of years. Yeah, three years for three years. And he obviously, he went to the Bulls and I just remember being like, dude, he couldn't beat UAB. Why is he going?

Why are the Bulls? So after that game where you like, hey, coach, you shouldn't. Like we couldn't even get out of the first round of the tournament. We just won the Big 12. We beat Kansas in the Big 12. Yeah, I know. Which just never happens. Did you guys know that he was eyeing something or was it,

could you feel it? Yeah, I mean, so right when we lost, like I think he went and had like a heart procedure. So he like took off. Right. He wasn't there. And I mean, it got a little fishy. I mean, you hear like the stories coming out and then obviously

there's like one airport in Ames and they're sending out reports like, oh, a private plane is taking off out of the Ames, Iowa municipal airport. It's like, oh, it's headed to Chicago. And you kind of had a feeling. I always have thought super highly of Fred. Obviously, I would have been like, damn, I wish you would have stayed. Right. But it also made me realize, you know, the NBA is a different beast

because if you would have asked any of us or any of us at Iowa State, we would have thought Fred was all world. He would have brought in a championship. Steve Kerr asked, you know what I mean? And then you kind of get to the NBA and it's like, it's tougher than it is. You know, I mean, like dealing with the personality, like Jimmy Butler. And then, you know, all those other guys that were over there. I mean, it's it's not easy, but I don't think I said, Fred, we couldn't be UAB.

I think it was because I think I might have went like four for 19 that game. But you probably tweeted about me then. Yeah, I probably did. I that was that was an upset piece of shit. Stop eating devil dogs. Did Fred, I know what you did last night. Did Fred Hoiberg ever show you guys like clips of Animal House or wedding crashers? He did that with the bulls.

That was the moment I think it was all falling apart when it was a show like the titty part. I just remember there was a story where it's like the bull's locker room was like fracturing and he was like, watch this clip from Animal House guys. Like this will fix it, which is a very college coach thing. Yeah, that's the Iowa. Yeah, because college like what's it like a college coach versus an MBA coach. I would imagine a college coach is a lot more like not forgiving, but, you know,

actually like close with you. Whereas MBA is it just strictly business? I mean, it's you ain't hanging. I mean, unless you're really close with someone, you ain't really hanging out with them, right? Like you do. We show up, do our job, leave college. It was like, we're going to grind at six a.m. Do all these suicides and pointless lifts and go home and drink a couple beers.

Yeah. Eat together and hang out with chicks. How does that work with the workout schedule? I would imagine that. With what, in the MBA? Yeah, yeah, in the MBA and in college, because if you, you know, if you do like bench press or you do something like works out your shoulders or triceps, you can't shoot around after that, right?

Do you have to give yourself like a day after a heavy lift? No, that's that's what college kids say. I don't know if this is like news, but like we lift before before games. Like sometimes guys will lift before games. See, that seems, it seems like it would mess up your whole coordination. I mean, I think once you just get into like a rhythm, I know what you're saying, where you're like, oh, I do like so much on the bench. I probably bench a lot more than you.

So like when I do that, then I step on the court, my shots all off. That's probably what my issue is. Is that, do you really believe that? How much you bench? 135, like 10 times. Yeah, no, I could probably. We've all had that feeling, right? Like if you work out, your shoulders are fatigued.

Yeah, no, there is a bench right there. Yeah, there is. I was just warming up on this earlier today. Really? Is that 225 right there? That's 185. How much can you pinch off there? 10, 12. Oh, you might have me.

But no, back to your question. Yeah, frigging. I think that was like a huge thing for me in like high school and college. I'd be like, I'm not going to lift two days before like a game or anything like that. And then when you're young and coming up and the strength coach is like, shut up. You're lifting right now, and then they put you in a game and you make a shot. You're like, maybe it's not so bad. Yeah, it's probably just an excuse that we have.

But we don't lift, I guess, like we don't lift heavy. It's more like getting your muscles moving. Like I wouldn't say like football is like fucking scream yell. Yeah. ACDC on and you're just fucking crushing it. Basketball is more like 20 pound dumbbells. Yeah, it's functional. Yeah, it's more like flexibility, right?

Yeah, you're toning. I have one complaint about you. Well, maybe it's not a complaint. Maybe you would have been drafted higher if you had a different nickname, though. Oh, you don't like the minivan? The minivan. That wasn't my nickname until I was already in the NBA. OK, so how'd you get the nickname of the minivan?

So, so it's a great nickname. It fucking I got in against the Brooklyn Nets and I wasn't really playing much. So I got in and there was like an opportunity for like I had a wide open lane and I'm like a one footed jumper. I don't jump off to and dunk it. So I tried to go off to and dunk it in like my hands, like barely got over the rim and laid it in and Joe Ingalls, the biggest shit talker in the NBA. Is I was one of my teammates and we got in the locker room.

He was like, what the was that? And I was like, what, you didn't like he was like, no, that was absolutely disgusting. Like that was terrible. And I was like, all right, all right. I was like, I'm not you guys like fucking Ferrari engines run around. I'm more like a minivan. I need a couple of laps around the block before I get to top speed.

And then our side Thunderbird was like, oh, the minivan. And the next thing you know, people in you just didn't even know my name. It was like minivan. This is fine. It's like a perfect name for jazz fans. Yeah, exactly. Right. Really not so much.

Yeah. Fuck you and your minivan. Make some money. Exactly. I never want to ride in your minivan. Who's the who's the craziest player that you've maybe not even played against, but like seen, you know, maybe you weren't playing like guarding him, but like the one guy you when you've watched him live, you're like,

this is just different than everything else. I mean, there's a couple, right? I would say Brad Beals up there. Really? Yeah. OK. How so? Well, so when we were at the jazz, they were like Brad, you know,

you go over the sky and they're like, Brad Beals on minute restriction. You know, so he's probably not going to play too much. We're going to force him right and we've because I guess going left, he's better going left. And he was on minute restriction and he had like 30 points in 25 minutes and he was going whichever way we were forcing him right. He was going right scoring. We're forcing him left.

He's going and then, you know, you have like the KD's, the LeBron's. What's a guy that maybe we don't think of this? Like, you know, when you when you see him play, you're like, damn, he's his game is sick. Well, I mean, I got to play alongside Jordan Clarkson. So that was one where. But that's a that's a pretty good question. Thank you. Great question. Thank you.

You know, I might say Anthony Edwards, he's a he's impressed me with his just overall athleticism and then just the way he like carries himself like the shit he says. Yeah. I think he's a he's a great shit talker. Yeah. Yeah. He's got a dog on Twitter that talks shit for him during the games. Did you see the movie Hustle? I haven't yet. I got to.

He was pretty good. Yeah. But yeah, no, I'll give Anthony credit. Could you tell? Can you tell like right away if you're watching someone play basketball? Like, all right, that guy can like like within like the first minute. OK, that guy is he's different than everyone else. So he's, you know, a real like baller. Just like his fluid motion and how they move.

Yeah, I think you could you could definitely you have an eye for talent. You know, yeah, I can tell easily. I think you're OK. You can maybe make a team. Yeah, there's some things I need to improve on. Actually, speaking of which, and if you go on Google, let me pull it up. By the way, that Oklahoma versus Iowa State game,

I was happy because I don't one of your teammates hit a three, a buzzer beat or three when it was when you guys were down eight and they covered the spread. Oh, yeah. Yeah. That's right. Yeah. And I don't know if like you guys are ever aware of that stuff, but it matters. It matters. I had money on it. That's why I clipped that out there. Yeah, it doesn't matter, right?

With NIL guys are getting like a million. You would have been an NIL beast, man, because you are one of those. You're one of those guys who, you know, by the time your fourth year rolled around, it was just like this fucking guy's still here. Yeah, because, you know, like every like older, white male that had was had like a bad body and played basketball.

Like they saw a little bit of themselves in me. That means they want to pay me. But yeah, no, you yeah, you stay like you were you were part of that team. Like there's always those guys in college basketball who are good, but because they were good right when they started like freshman year, you feel like they've been there for like eight years. Yeah, I was like me and Perriella. Yeah, right. Exactly. So you would have, you would have cleaned up on it.

I would have. I would have. It would have been damn whatever. My mom had me a little too early. Yeah. All right. So what I was going to say was if you search on Google, people also ask, there's just a question. Is George Nian good? That's literally the question.

And it's just, yes, Nian is a blow average defender as he currently ranks two hundred and third out of a possible two hundred fifty one players, according to five thirty eight, but his overall total raptor. What the fuck is that? That sounds like it's tied with Bama out of bio for fifty third league wide at a very healthy plus two point nine with a war rating of nine. Yeah, ranks third on the team behind Andre Drummond and Joe B.

That's pretty good, dude. You got a sick rap. You have an awesome raptor. You should be the raptor. Sixty. Yeah. The minivan rap. That kind of hurts, though. Yes, the Aang is a blow average defender.

Well, who wrote that? They don't pay me to play defense. That's five thirty eight. That's no Google wrote it, but it's from five thirty eight. That's Nate. That's a nerd. Yeah, he's never seen a basketball. You didn't know that you know that your raptor was so good. No, I don't even know.

I don't know. Right behind Bama. Bama out of bio. I know he makes a lot of money. So, you know, yeah, let's get the total raptor. Listen, your agent should be going in. Just page one of the exactly look at his raptor. Oh, my God, that's awesome.

Yeah. Do you do you like playing in Philly? I love it, actually. Like the fans, because some people don't like the Philly fans. We love the Philly fans because they're like you were. You were talking about him earlier, Billy. I'll get your fucking minivan out here. They're they're mean, but they're funny and they care.

Yeah. I mean, that's the best part. Like, why would you want to play for a city that is just like about what you do? Like, they actually really like give a shit. And I can I feel like I'm able to look myself in the mirror and be like, you know what, I did suck, you know what I mean? So I do need to be better. So all that shit really doesn't bother me. And I think it's hilarious when they get going on like on like Twitter or in the stands.

It's all it's it's pure comedy every night. But like you said, I can appreciate it because they do care because it is like that electrician that makes 95 K a year. That's bringing his son for, you know, the one two games he's there. He wants to see you perform. You know what I mean? He doesn't want to see you play like shit. So it's like or not play Ben Simmons.

Yeah, I guess that great valid point. It's been almost a year and a half since he's touched the court, hasn't it? Yeah, until he plays somewhere else, he's going to be a sixer. Like, I still think of him being a sixer. Yeah, they gave away the number 25. The guy we just signed. Who? I think Daniel House. Oh, OK. Yeah. So I so it's a lot of.

New era. Yeah. Yeah, 25 update those update those jerseys. I also appreciate that you you are a very honest NBA player and you have a little self deprecation. I read the quote where you said, the biggest thing for me was being able to use my deceptively slow speed to my advantage. So you think it is an advantage to be slower than everyone?

Absolutely. How so? Because everybody's used to these dudes being so fast. And when you change it up and someone goes slow, like it's tough to go from fast to slow, you look human off. Yeah, I was going to say, these guys are so used to going from stopping to a completely full speed. But if I hit you with a six mile an hour, you're not ready for it. That's like Tim Wakefield in the knuckleball.

I used to 95, 95, 95. And then he comes in the next day and is throwing 63 and 61 and like moving all over the place. My body's sliding here. You really are the minivan. Your 10 miles per hour must look like 20 miles per hour. Like when you when you turn it up a little bit. Yeah, I was going to say, it feels like it on my knees for sure.

Oh, man, that's I like the fact that like slowness can deceptively, deceptively slow. You're slower than you look. Slowness kills. Yeah, yeah. Slowness kills. We need to get that on a t-shirt. Yes, that's not bad. Have you I know there's a lame question, but I ask every like basketball

player this, have you ever been in the zone? What's that? Like shooting zone, like where everything you shoot, you hit. Yeah, one time. What was one time? Yeah, yeah, we I'm obsessed with the idea that like a basketball player could just be on the court and everything they they shoot just goes. Well, we were playing Charlotte.

I think it was at home when I was in Utah and I went like seven for seven from three and like 16 minutes. And literally it was like the first time I got in the game, the ball came to me like two, three times and I shot it and they went in. They felt good. And then the third one, it was like someone threw it off to me and I just threw it up there and I'm like, oh, fuck, and I like went in. And then the next one, I was, you know, went in again in the second

half, I ended up having three more threes, but it was like I was so locked locked into what I was doing. It didn't matter. The only problem is I didn't touch the ball enough for me to get 30. You know what I mean? Yeah, that would have been nice. I was in that type of zone. You're on pace for 30.

Yeah, yeah, I'm obsessed with the idea that like how cool of a feeling that would be to just be like everything I shoot is going in no matter what. Well, that was the one time I was in the zone in an NBA game. Like when I go to the YMCA, I'm always in the zone. Yeah, because you guys can, you guys just make every shot. Yeah, exactly. If I were you, I would show up to the YMCA all the time. All the time.

I'd be like, oh, I like have a stupid mustache on like the worst disguise of all time. And I just get out there and just put 50 on him. Yeah, I should dress up as like a female and then do it. Really start just fucking dunking on people. Well, no, you can't dunk. So I guess that part would. Yo, man, sometimes.

But it is crazy. Whenever I see NBA player in an open gym and they just make like 25 in a row, you're like, oh, yeah, you're like, he's going to average 30 this year. And they're like, oh, yeah, just seven. Do you like selectively pick and choose what clips you're going to put on your Instagram like rise and grind? Here's me at Lifetime Fitness. Yeah, and then like the good angle too.

And then like sometimes I ask a couple of girls, I know like what filter they use to make like their hips. It's a very important part of the offseason. No, for real, it is though. It is. It's the perception is everything like people don't understand that. Like you frigging look the part someone, you know what I mean? And people don't think Instagram does anything.

But if you look the part, people think like you're it, you'll probably get paid a little more than someone who's yeah, not looking the part. Yeah. So in the offseason, do you have, do you have like tweet alerts on for Wode and Shams and all those guys? Yeah, for sure. So I just actually got one and it's crazy that you're here because the Sixers are very close to signing Mitchell, Donovan Mitchell.

That'd be impossible because he's already under contract. Trading for. Oh, am I going back to Utah? No, no, they haven't said like who's who's going to be dangled out there. You're going to cut. But the fact that Harden didn't take. Can I get that spot in the middle right there with the bench press? In fact, Harden didn't take the max means you guys can get her in the max guy.

And so it looks like looks like Mitchell might be. All right, Adrian Wajanowski. Pipe down over there. I'm just making all this up right now. This is all completely false. That would be yeah. Because I mean, that does have to when you see everyone moving around. Oh, man, that's like the especially of like draft night.

You're calling your agent like, Hey, do you think I'll be good? And they hit you with a line like, I think you'll be good, but you know how this business works. It is like. That's pretty much translation. You're fucked. Have you ever been in a woj bomb? Honestly, when I got cut from the Pacers, woj said, you know,

like George has been waived from George. Nying has been waived from the Pacers and spelled my name wrong. I was like, damn, I really am a buster. Oh, no. That's bulletin board material, though. Yeah, that is like, he knows that there's an S on there now. Yeah, he does. And I told him that it pissed me off.

So you also were in Utah when Rudy Gobert gave everyone COVID. Was that awkward? That was. I actually at the time, because we all all didn't know what was coming. I think we defended the move. We're like, that's fucking funny that he touched all the microphones. Honestly, it now that I think about it, it was a boss move. But to say it back then was like, it was bad.

You were like, bro, you did that and you had. Are you fucking nuts? That was the day that sports just stopped. Yeah, dude. The world shut down. Like, who would have ever thought that? Like, I remember telling someone, I was like, they'll never be a day when sports stops.

Like, you know what I mean? Like, and then next thing you know, it's like, I have a buddy that gambles that, you know, hangs out with me. And he was like betting on, like, Ukrainian soccer. Oh, yeah, back. It was like, that's the only sports I wanted. Literally was like, yeah, shut down. But back to the Rudy go bear thing.

That was, uh, that was funny because, uh, I ended up going to have dinner at his house the night after we, or the night of we played Toronto at home. And I was eating dinner with him after the game. And when we were talking about him coming in before we flew out to Oklahoma city and he freaking, he comes in late and was like, yeah, I wasn't really feeling that well. That's why I came in late. Mind you, literally two days before we had someone from the CDC come and be

like, if you're not feeling well, don't come in, like call someone. And, uh, so he comes in and he's on the plane and he's like sweating. Oh no. And, uh, and I think like all of us thought like, you could have a common cold. Yeah, no one knew. Yeah. And then so we get down to O K C and someone was like, yeah, we're going to go

up there and see what Rudy has. He's, he's been under the weather and they test them and, uh, the next day, he doesn't show up for shoot round and Jordan Clarkson's running around. He'd be like, Rudy got that shit. Yo, he got that shit. I know he got that shit. So then we were getting ready to go to the game and he's not there. And literally it was like men in black, we're getting ready for tip off.

They do the starting lamps and like five guys in suits run on the court. And it's like, what the fuck? That was crazy, crazy. Told us. And I was like, what the hell like just happened. And then I figured like we were going to get back in two weeks. Like everybody was like, all right, two week. I ate us.

We'll be back. What was it? Like three months later in the whole bubble. Yeah. Let me tell you the bubble. Would it suck? Oh, I mean, they did a great job, but it sucked. That was a long time to.

I always thought it would be fun, but you were just hanging. You were just stuck in a hotel room. So I guess that wouldn't be fun. I mean, after the, you did the same five activities, the pool, uh, the dining hall, golf. So that means correct me if I'm wrong. Like the first three days was like, this is awesome. Yeah.

And then after like a week, you're like, wait, this sucks. No, I mean, after a while, after, I would probably say after like two, three weeks, it was, uh, I was like, I'm good. Yeah. Well, it's a Mickey Mouse bubble. Anyway, anyone who won in that bubble doesn't count. Oh, if I want to ring, would you say that to my face? You were on the Bron James team.

Yes. If you want to ring on the jazz that year, no, we would not say that. That was the hardest championship ever. Yeah. For sure. What you guys did was incredible. You guys are better than stuck in them alone. I'm ripped down there, but the nation needed that.

We needed that. We needed a bubble tournament. Yeah. Thank you for your service. Thank you. Your service. You've done an enormous service in this country. We're here for you guys.

But how many shots were guys making back then, huh? It was awesome. Yeah. When like the first couple of days, one is like, wait, this is like the greatest shooting gym ever. That was so sick. Oh my God. Yeah.

I couldn't miss. Yeah. I wish I was in a contract here. Just in the bubble. Yeah. Yeah. When you look back at what Rudy did though, he, he might have saved thousands of lives by getting, by being like the first person to have

coronavirus publicly and to like look like he was spreading it around. They shut down the league. They shut down, you know, all fans coming into games. Probably save maybe even more, maybe tens of thousands of lives. I don't know. You can spin zone it that way. Yeah. I'm going to say if you spin it like that, you know, for my guy, Rudy,

I'll say thank you, Rudy, for saving. Yes. Yeah. Saving tens of thousands of lives. All right. So I had one last question for you, George. It's been awesome. We appreciate you coming in.

You got to come in next time you're in town. So it's the Roeback question. RHOBACK.com use code take for 20% off your first purchase. Roeback.com use code take for 20% off your first purchase. Q zips, hoodies, everything. So you are, you, you, you follow Barstool. You know some of the guys here. Absolutely.

Are you, are you team Hank or team mush? No, that wasn't a real question. I was, because I know he, for instance, already had. I'm not going to do that to you. You, I don't even, I don't even really know what happened there. I'm not going to do that to you. Not important. It's all in the past.

My real question was, uh, do you like that, right? Oh my God. Um, yeah. By the way, kind of a pussy move from Hank. He talks a lot of shit about Philly and he's just not here right now. Really? Oh my God.

He's the number one enemy. Then I got to be team mush then. Yeah, he's number one team enemy. Marty, you know I got you, bro. I'm on your podcast next. Eight black, right? Eight black on his gambling. Um, so no, you, you, when you got drafted by the Pacers,

you got drafted by Larry Bird and he gave you a compliment. Was that the coolest moment of your life? As a Boston kid. Like you, you, you like Larry Bird. Yeah. To say he's good. Yeah. No, I was, that was the greatest thing that could probably

ever happen to me up to date then. And then he cut you. Yeah. Life goes on, right? I don't, if I was going to look at the negative shit. No, but it was, it was, that was awesome. That was great. And um, you know, the year that I had there, I actually learned

a lot from him and he's a no bullshit type of guy. If he doesn't have anything to say to you, he will walk straight past you. Yeah. You know what I mean? But when he does have something to say, I think it's, it's meaningful and it's helpful and he was great to me and always has been and I'll always be thankful for my time in Indiana

and that he drafted me because he didn't have to do that. That's for sure. Yeah. So I appreciate him. That's awesome. So what's next for this year? What are your goals for this year? Win a championship, you know, no.

Meet Lenny Balls. Yeah. Met him enough. Yeah. In the same t-shirt. Everything. He's just wearing a shirt. Yeah, facts.

Um, no, I think for me is just to continue to grow and take my game to a whole new level. Obviously right now in Philadelphia, um, you know, we're trying to win a championship now. So obviously making sure that I do my part to make sure that all of my eggs are in a row to make sure that we can win a championship and be, you know, effective for this team. And, you know, like I said, just have another great year.

I think this year in Philly was huge for me and I took a big leap in my career. So to have that, you know, moving forward would be huge for me. That's awesome. Yeah. We're fans now. Yeah.

Hell yeah. Yeah. Hell yeah. Yang gang. Yes. Yes. Get minivan. That's do it in the end game.

Yang gang's good like that. Well, can I get you a t-shirt with that on the front and minivan on the back? Yes. Yeah. We'll put Yang gang on a minivan. That's what we got to do. Yeah.

Yeah. You guys are up to some sick shit. We always like I did a complete 180 on the minivan nickname after you explained it. Like it's, it's probably the best nickname in the NBA. It's right. It's here to stay. Yeah.

And the fact that you admittedly are deceptively slow, like that's a minivan. But it gets you, it gets you places. Know thyself. Yes. Minivans are great. Yeah. Like they've got DVD players and shit in them.

You've got probably not even DVDs anymore. It's probably next level. Yeah. It's it's comfort for the whole family. They get the job. They get the job done. Yeah. They'll get you there at 65 miles an hour.

Yes. Exactly. All right. Well, thanks so much, George. Appreciate it. Appreciate you guys. George and Yang was brought to you by our great friends over at Slang and they are bringing you Firefest of the week.

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OK, let's wrap up. We got Firefest. Thank you to Slang. Hank. My Firefest actually is synergy. I have a Slang part of my Firefest. Really? Yeah.

I'm going to take you guys on a journey. This is an actual Firefest. OK. Buckle up. All right, everyone. Just do it. You secure everything around you. Nail down the dog.

All right. I don't know why Bill is giving me this look. He's getting on the edge of his seat. Let's do it. Let's ride, Hank. Moved in Monday. Moving socks. Everyone knows that.

Never fun. Took all day. Got everything in the apartment. Hadn't unboxed anything. Just wanted to sleep after it all got in. Tuesday comes. We were here super late because of the All Star game. So we got home at like midnight, maybe 1 o'clock.

No big deal. We grinded. Yeah, didn't move anything. But obviously, like I was here for 14 hours. I wasn't about to go home and unbox and put stuff away. Tuesday night. Wednesday. And also, with that being said, I also

don't know where anything is. Like I'm waking up in the morning. Like I'm just trying to do my thing called turn the heat on. Wait. Turn the hot water on. It didn't get turned on. So I didn't shower for two days. And it was hot, yes.

Did we know that? I knew. I could tell. No, you don't. I don't smell. And then like trying to find stuff. That's why I'm wearing flip flops in New York City because I just can't find it.

I don't know where my socks are. I don't feel like going through the process of figuring where they are. So I just throw in my flip flops. But then I'm like getting looks at like why I'm wearing flip flops in New York City, which is a valid, valid criticism. But I'm doing it.

And you're corporate and you're wearing flip flops. Right. It's summer, whatever. It's such a corporate move to have the boss be like. No one's even. You guys have to look at my feet on that. No, the corporate people are fucking. What's the Panthers owner got?

I was really corporate. I was really corporate. I knew the old one. Jerry Richardson whole year. Yeah. He's making everyone go fucking flip flops Tuesday. So we can look at chicks feet. Let me see them toes.

Not a feet guy. Anyway, Wednesday. I'm finally finally. It is a power thing. We'll be done with work around five. I can go home, move on my shit and get ready to go. I take the train home, get off the path for what. And like sometimes I fell asleep for literally like

we got stuck in the in the tunnel. I dozed off for maybe three minutes. But we finally get there. I kind of wake up, get up, get off the train, check my pockets, realize I don't know where my keys are. I sprint back downstairs as I'm sprinting back downstairs. The train's pulling away. So they might have fallen out of my pocket on the train,

but I don't know that. So I go back to the office, get back on the train. Did you take a nap on the way back? Nope. I was at this one. I'm wide awake like panic like, oh my God, this is going to, this is going to suck because it was, it was my keys and my spare keys both on the same set.

I just hadn't even taken them off yet. Get back to the office, retrace all my steps. Nowhere to be found. Multiple conference rooms, multiple meetings. You guys know what I have to do on a day to day basis. I'm just everywhere all at once. I'm checking everywhere. I'm checking the studio, checking by your desk,

checking the pile, checking all the conference rooms. We were in the place next door doing a commercial shoot. I had to get the keys for that. I check in there, not in there. Come back, realized I was sitting at the rundown chair. So I go over there. The rundown chairs that got moved into shoe gasm. So I had to go back into shoe gasm.

I'm fucking and I'm sweating my balls off at this point. But you got flip-flops on. Yeah, I do have flip-flops on. No, I was wearing actual shoes yesterday. Oh, nice. I'm like rustling around in the chair. I can hear keys, but they're like flip-flops come back into the story.

I just don't worry about it. Well, I thought it was sweating. I was like, well, you couldn't have been sweating that bad. You had flip-flops on. No, I was sweating my thick off. The flip-flops, I was just a little bit of flavor for the story. Well, it was just like, yeah, I just didn't, I don't know where, like. He's wearing them right now.

Yeah. Do you use the bottle opener on the bottom after walking around Manhattan? Duh. I'm rustling around in this fucking recliner. I can hear keys. I can hear keys. I'm like, they're in there, but they're like the chair's broken. They're falling underneath.

And I'm like, it's literally just a struggle. What time is this? This is like seven o'clock at this point. It's 7.30. Finally, I finally reach, get the keys. They're a set of keys. They're not my keys. And I literally, like, it was in two guys.

I was just like, fuck! And just, like, threw the keys at the wall. Whose keys were they? I don't know. I picked them up. I brought them. I gave them security. But clearly, no one is worried about them.

They're just a set of two keys. Then I had to call my landlord, which is awkward, being like, hey, I just moved in. I fucking lost my keys. I'm an absolute joke. He sets me up with a realtor who has an extra set of keys. I go to meet him, get the keys. They're only the keys for my door, but not my front door.

So I then had to go sit outside my apartment building, waiting for someone to come, thinking it was going to not take long. It took an hour and a half. What? I was sitting there just watching PFTs go some Manhattan stream. I told him, I was like, I might stream after you. I wasn't even in my apartment by the time he was finished. So I left the office at 4.30.

I got in my apartment at 9.30. Oh my God. That sucks. That's a bad night. Did you have to pay for the spare keys? I have to go meet my landlord to get the front door keys, and I have to clone those, and then hopefully never lose them. So this is your introduction to your landlord.

What else do you call him? Copy him? Yeah, you make a copy of your key. Are those words not synonyms? Yeah, you clone them. I like it. It's a synomic word. No one's ever thought that you were like a college educated guy.

Yeah, world-renowned educated human being. Clone works. It's just I've never heard anyone say I got to go clone my key. No, I like it. That's what I have to do. It's just funny. I have one, and I have to make the exact same. Correct.

And have two. Yeah, clone. You got to use the DNA from the first and replicate it. Is that why you called me twice? I was calling you because I called because I was at the office fucking like rustling through the jail at you. And the guy was like, all right, the guy has your key, but he wants to meet in 10 minutes.

I was like, I'm fucking 30 minutes away. So I was going to call Billy to go meet him, but he didn't answer. That is a day that will like beat you up for a while. But I will say this. I finally get in my apartment. I'm like, I swear to fucking God, if this hot water is not working. So I'm going to cry. It worked and I was able to get a nice hot shower and that that that

could turn my mood around. But and then I just played Call of Duty. I didn't move a single thing in. So I still haven't moved anything in and so in four days. Question. Did you have any other keys on that key chain? No. Oh, that would have been bad if it was your car.

No, I hadn't. I hadn't even gone to that point yet. Okay. Nice little shout out to bird dogs, zipper pockets. Yeah. On the shorts and the pants. Yeah. Well, now I'm going to start putting in my first thing in the morning.

That's where they go. Don't take them out to the end of the day. I was debating as I was sitting outside. I was like, I did meet a woman that lives in my building the other day. Shot doesn't matter. Oh, sounds like she was. No, it's not. You know, let's not do that.

But definitely wouldn't have brought her up. No, no, I would bring her. If it was a man, if it was a man, I would have brought him up because I just met her as I was walking. And I was like, hey, nice to meet you, blah, blah, blah. She told me what apartment she asked me what apartment I was in. I asked her what apartment she was in. And in my head, I was like, should I just buzz her apartment and be like,

can you let me in the front door? Plus too much. I'm a guy who hid on you yesterday. No, not that. Yeah. Well, yeah, I didn't want to be like a weirdo. I'd be like, hey, let me in. Yeah, right.

So I just waited. That's brutal. Yeah, that's tough. Yeah. Finally, someone ordered delivery. That's, you know, what's really terrible is when you go home. It got to the point where I was guessing the, there was a pin for a delivery pin.

I just started guessing numbers. Oh my God. Damn Hank. I don't know how to compete with that. No, that's brutal. My Matt Rushmore is I got home from work a couple of nights ago and my key didn't work. Wait, you're Matt Rushmore?

Oh, sorry, my firefest. I got home from work a couple of nights ago and my key didn't work. I brought the wrong set of keys home. But fortunately, the door was unlocked anyway. So I just went in. I know I threw him away during the studio. I guess I picked up the wrong set. My Matt Rushmore is I thought I lost my keys, but they were actually just in my

bird dog pants. Oh man. Yeah, you must have been stressed out. Are you okay for a minute? And I was like, nope, they're right here. Boom. No, my Matt Rushmore. Thank you.

Shout out to Sling. What? My Matt Rushmore. God damn it. He got me. My firefest shout out Sling. I tweeted this, but I just basically have to go through like the worst television shows with my son because he just hops around.

I'm now stuck on this show called Super Wings. I want to just start a support group for anyone out there. Sling does have it for free, which is great. If you have a Sling subscription, it's a show about planes, talking planes. Yeah. And they have the 50s. 50s interested in the tagline. Go on.

Always on time every time. Uh huh. And now my son repeats that and I'm like, no, this is not how airlines work. Like they're never on time. Who finances this? Yeah, it's fucked up because he's just walking around. It is. I will say the one saving grace is it's very funny because like the names are regular

names. There's like an airplane named Paul. There's one named Donny and it's just funny to hear my son be like, yeah, that's Donny. But someone in the FAA or something is funding this and I I'm on to them because they're basically getting three year olds to be like, yeah, planes are always on time. This sounds like Mayor Pete propaganda. It's fucked up. Department of Transportation trying to get at you.

And he says that like he like he yells out the catchphrase as the show starts. And I'm like, what the fuck are we watching? Always on time. And I hate airlines and they're just yeah, they got me. You got to start teaching them say that's cap when they say always on time. Yeah, he I should just give him a Twitter. Well, no, Darrenville has his Twitter account. So never mind.

I was going to say he could just start tweeting at planes. But yeah, he's locked that up. I was fucking with Hank. My real my real firefests are my real Mount Rushmore of Firefest for this week. I was walking to Starbucks the other morning and mystery water got me. I know that Starbucks dude. Yeah. Yeah.

No, no, it's it's it's actually like it's a mystery water factor. It's hell getting inside. Correct. You walk through the door and it got me. I was wearing my sunglasses. It dropped right between my eyes in between my sunglasses and my face hit the bridge of my nose and then just splattered everywhere like a kill room and Dexter. My face was just fucked up with high velocity mystery water spatter.

That is I need you need an umbrella to go in and out of the Starbucks. It's the worst. It's terrible. Mystery water city in New York is awful. I got smoked by it by the other the other day. So now I have monkeypox. Yeah. There is a huge puddle though right there.

Yeah. Mystery water. I know so I can kind of well it's probably an air conditioning unit above it, but still it's gross to just get jizzed on. Nothing worse than catching that mystery water. Greatest city in the world. Yep. So this fire fest is from over suspension.

I had a black eye for about a black guy. I black. Oh, you're talking about your buddy. No, black eye like my eye. Oh, okay. For about three weeks and just everyone to black guy. Everyone just assumes the worst when you have a black eye. I got playing basketball and I definitely assumed the worst.

Yeah. Well, it's fair. Yeah. Can we talk about your shaved eyebrow now that that's oh yeah, that was fucked up. Yeah, I had a shit. So I had to get a tattoo and I shaved my eyebrow and I still didn't win the game show. But you know you the hardest I've ever laughed is when you called me after and

you're like you have to pay for the tattoo removal and I just laughed so hard on. And also when you joined a zoom call one one time with PMT and forgot to fill in your eyebrow. Dude, I had to fill in my eyebrow like every day. But you forgot one time. And we know we were zooming in late and I like just showered like because I got home and it was a post game or something. And then I was like I totally forgot. Yeah, you had a black eye and like an ankle brace on for a little bit there.

Yeah, I twisted my ankle. It was it's you're going to learn. No, you're going to learn this Billy like it's playing basketball is fun. I miss playing pick up like all the time. But you definitely get I guess Barstool is not like this case because it's Barstool. But I remember the first time I like twisted my ankle as an adult playing softball and had to wear an ankle brace. And I was like, do I have to stop playing this because you can't just like show up

to an office job with injuries. I know it's a weird thing to do. I'm not here again. Not here. I just saw your black eye and I was like, oh Billy like he probably. Ran into a black guy and they made out like, I don't know like what happened. But he but yeah, like when you have an injury in an office setting, it's very awkward. I used to have injuries constantly when I was in Austin because I was still playing rugby

at the time. Yeah. And so I would come in with like my arm in a sling one week and as a salesperson, it's like the worst possible thing because some they look at you. They're like, what if I don't trust this guy with my money, right? And whatsoever, everyone looks at you like, what is this guy getting into? Yeah, or it could be that your Edward Norton from Fight Club, who's also the same person as Brad Pitt.

That's bad ass. And you just get fucked up because you're in a Fight Club every day. Right. But yeah, Billy, you kind of looked cool when you had the ankle brace as well. The ankle brace was embarrassing. Yeah. Yeah, you look like because you can't get a re because there's no like athletic trainer to go to anymore.

So you can't get a boot. You just have to like do what you can at CVS and we should get a training room here though. Yeah. Fun fact with ankle braces, you should really only wear it for like a day. Yeah. Then it weakened your ankle. Exactly. And that's the word way.

Turns out ice is bad. I'm actually going to write a blog on that. There's tons. Ice and cold is terrible for healing. No, no, it shuts down your inflammatory response, which actually is healing it. No, but it helps with the pain and swelling, but compression is better than ice. Yeah, but ice isn't bad. Ice, but like it's bad for recovery.

But like instantly after you injure yourself, ice is not bad. What do you mean by recovery? So like because it shuts down your circulation and circulation helps the healing. I was talking to Will Compton about it and I then went on a whole rabbit hole like trying to figure out what he was saying because he was just telling me ice is bad and I couldn't really get what he was saying. So then I had your looks on your face, looked it up. It's actually really fascinating.

So in like ice is bad for like muscle gaining and like cold plunges are kind of good, but it's not. Then you get you. What about the acronym rice? Yeah, rice is bullshit. Yeah. Rest, ice, compression, elevation. It should just be RCE.

Okay. RCE. Yeah. All right. I look forward to that blog. You can sway me on that. You could definitely sway me on that. I mean, that's one of those things that you just learn that as like a kid when you get

injured and then someday, yeah, maybe maybe big ice is trying to fucking keep us down. Jake. Yeah. So mine also has to do with keys. Coincidentally enough, this is real. You did a key bump for the first time. I was waiting for the elevator. Took the keys out at my apartment.

Falls through the elevator slit. Oh no. And I had to clone them. Oh my God. It was all fine. That's great. What the odds, right? That is like that everyone thinks about it.

It never happens. Yeah. Holy fuck. I think the only way that's worse if it's your phone. Is that? I've heard of it. I've heard of it happening. The only way it could be worse is if it was your great grandfather and he was trying to

get the keys and the elevator fell in his head. That's true. RIP. Yeah. So that was crazy. Also, one more plug. Big news. Oh, yes.

Fuck. We should have said this from the top. PLL. One of the games five o'clock has been moved to ESPN 2. We're back on ESPN. Yeah, ESPN. Yes. Jake is back on ESPN 2.

So Saturday night, you got to watch it five o'clock. And 730 ESPN plus. ESPN plus. I wish you guys had been in the room when he, when it was just me, memes and Jake and memes and I were just like, we were evil geniuses. We're like, oh, ESPN 2. That's going to be a lot easier to make clips of. And we just both started laughing like, yeah, we're going to clip all of this.

So thankful for the opportunity. And Jake got super nervous. Please tune in. ESPN 2. 5 o'clock. Very easy. ESPN plus 730. We've read Woods Atlas on ESPN 2 and then Whips Chaos on ESPN plus.

Are you nervous? A little bit. We have to figure out, we have to figure out like some little small Easter egg that we can put in for the AWLs who will be watching. How about we get, no, whoever's playing really well at any point in the game. You'd be like, man, if we could clone this guy and have a team full of him. Yes. Yeah.

Okay. Get a clone in there. Can you also, can you give away your neck tie at the end of the game? No. It's to a kid. Yeah. No. Yeah, come on.

I'm not going to step on Jim Nance's toes. I don't think Jim Nance is going to watch. Yeah. No, he won't. You never know. Try to jersey swap. That was on our list too. What?

Toast. Toast. Oh, yeah. Jim Nance. Shout out to Jim Nance. Jersey swap with whoever you're announcing with after the broadcast, but while still on air. Oh, that'd be cool. I'll just focus on the broadcast, but I'm excited.

I'm excited to be fun. Please tune in. I'm going to watch it. I'm going to clip it. Yeah. We're going to hear him say clone. I want to see the clips of you saying clone. You should work it in easily.

That's it. That's easy. Yeah. There's nothing wrong with that. If you could clone this guy. Yeah. So clones. Yeah.

Yeah. So I'm excited. Should be fun. Okay. Great show. Reminder. Wednesday, we got the Takies. Get excited.

Monday, we have one of our longest interviews ever. Great interview with Andrew Schultz comedian. Really, really fun. And hope everyone has a great weekend. Make sure you watch Jake on Saturday. Also, Patty the baddie and Molly Meatball are both fighting. So get excited for that. Those are our, those are our people.

Excited. Our family. Our family. All right. My family. 17. 26. 6.

I'm going to go 47. 27. What did you say, Hank? 17. 18 and 99 are out. 58. Oh, no, Hank, you're never getting this. No, you're never getting this shit.

Love you guys. There are 2 million rats in New York City and absolutely zero in Alberta. Hmm. Could never make the departed up there. I'm to say, I'm stage anyway. Today is another day to find you. Shining away. I'll be coming for your love, okay.

Shining away. I'll be coming for your love, okay. Take on me. Take me on. I'll be coming for your love, okay. Needless to say, I'm on stage. But I'm still a little worried. The villain of life is okay.

Say out to me. It's no better to be safe than sorry. Say out to me. It's no better to be safe than sorry. Take on me. Take me on. I'll be coming for your love, okay. I'm to say, yeah, he's in life, but just to play my worries away.

You're all the things I've got to remember. He's shining away. I'll be coming for you anyway. He's shining away. I'll be coming for you anyway. Take on me. Take me on. I'll be coming for you.