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00:00:00Today's episode of the Mark Titus show after years of flirting with one another Gonzaga in the Pac-12. I finally kissed and Gonzaga will in fact
00:00:08Man, this is it feels like it's been a couple years in the making but like honestly, it's been
00:00:13Well over a decade. I mean once Gonzaga rose to prominence there were
00:00:18people saying like they need to leave the WCC and join the Pac-12 because they're too good for the WCC now the rest of the
00:00:24WCC kind of up their game and it made it a
00:00:27More competitive conference with Gonzaga, but this is something that
00:00:31Has been in the works for a while in the sense that like it's it's been an obvious arrangement
00:00:37And then the conference realignment started happening. Everybody's like well surely Gonzaga's gonna go to the Pac-12 then the Pac-12 dies
00:00:44And then it comes back from the dead and then Brett McMurphy says Gonzaga to the Pac-12
00:00:48Everyone says shut the fuck up Brett. Shut the fuck up. You don't know what you're talking about
00:00:52And Brett's like I don't know man
00:00:53I think I might and even the Gonzaga athletic director was like Brett McMurphy's a dumb bitch doesn't know what he's talking about
00:00:59And I'll be damned Gonzaga to the Pac-12 was right after all so uh as we often do on this show
00:01:04I don't know. I'll say I don't like it, but I guess we do it every single show
00:01:09So I must like it enough to do it every show
00:01:12We're probably gonna talk a little conference realignment and also about the scoop wars
00:01:17Around the conference realignment because I Gonzaga the Pac-12 is a big deal
00:01:20It is it's a huge deal and certainly in the basketball world and I think anybody that's paying attention to what the Pac-12 is
00:01:26doing realizes that
00:01:28They're not done yet. They can't be done yet. They need one more football program at least but
00:01:33You know Memphis is back on the menu
00:01:35I think and and UConn is is always there even though that makes no geographical sense
00:01:39But you know we're all trying to figure out what UConn is thinking so Gonzaga the Pac-12 is certainly the story of college basketball
00:01:46This week story the NBA since we last did a show Carl Anthony Towns traded to the Knicks and a bit of a surprise
00:01:53Certainly surprised me and it seemed to surprise him
00:01:55He seemed shocked by it all Carl Towns was drafted to the Timberwolves obviously has
00:01:59Been a pivotal part of the the T Wolves rise to I think prominence counts
00:02:05I think the Timberwolves are certainly an awesome team. They're they're waiting to get over the proverbial hump
00:02:11But it's a franchise that frankly hasn't had a ton of great things go their way and in the last few years they have and
00:02:17They haven't won a title yet, and they haven't made the finals yet
00:02:20But uh they're they're knocking on that door and at a moment when it feels like they might be a candidate to run it back
00:02:25And and try again with this core that they have they they send
00:02:28I know Anthony Edwards is the franchise player, but they send the guy who's the former franchise player
00:02:34I guess the guy who was supposed to be the franchise player. They send him to New York
00:02:37They break up the Villanova Knicks Dante DiVincenzo to Minnesota Julius Randall also to Minnesota Katie Bates
00:02:42DFR guy the Buckeye also going back to Minnesota where he started his career, I believe
00:02:47That was the massive trade in the NBA talk about that a little bit. Maybe a little NBA media days as well
00:02:52I'm fired up for the NBA this year. I think the the the offseason or the summer I should say with the Olympics
00:03:00Rejuvenated me a little bit and I'm
00:03:02I'm jonesing for some NBA in a way. I haven't in a while
00:03:05So we'll see how we'll see where this goes
00:03:07but NBA media days
00:03:09seeing guys in their new uniform seeing Klay Thompson and a Mavericks uniform and Chris Paul and a Spurs uniform and
00:03:14Russell Westbrook and a Nuggets uniform getting asked by Denver media
00:03:20Well save that for later a little teaser Russell Westbrook somebody Denver media asked Russell Westbrook like
00:03:26He basically likened him to Kobe Bryant in terms of how much he's hated in Denver
00:03:31For those who don't know why Kobe Bryant was hating Denver
00:03:34Go ahead and Google that but that was that was a fucking wild moment from the
00:03:37Media days when he was like Russ you're hating Denver just like Kobe was and Russell's like goddamn, dude. I'm on your team now
00:03:45Anyway, we'll talk some media days talking zaggy the Pac-12 towns to New York, whatever else comes up all that coming up
00:03:51Alright big news in college basketball Gonzaga to the Pac-12
00:03:54Brett Brett Brett the
00:03:57Brett Brent, I always struggle with Brett Brett. I was pretty sure it's Brett Brett Brett
00:04:02Are you saying Brent or Brent Pam pan situation? Are you it is Brent is Brett McMurphy now? I'm fucked up
00:04:11Brett McMurphy, where's he at now? What's it? What's his outlet? What's his uh action network?
00:04:17He's at the action network Brett McMurphy. I know I don't know Brett Brett McMurphy. See these scoops guys
00:04:22Yeah, can you confirm this news? You're about to talk? Yeah
00:04:25Uh Brett McMurphy as a guy, you know, I'm a broker I could talk about the scoops guys
00:04:30He's not a guy that pops up on my radar a lot
00:04:32I don't really have feelings one way or another about him, but I think people in college, but I'm sorry college football
00:04:38Circles do I think he's been at the forefront of a few different stories and people have questioned his reporting before and
00:04:44He's no stranger to scoops controversy, but he last week for those who missed it Brett McMurphy tweets out that
00:04:51Gonzaga is going to join the Pac-12 and this was we had about one hour
00:04:55Maybe less than that probably 30 minutes of like, holy shit
00:04:59And everybody group chats are popping off everybody sending the link like oh my god, this is happening
00:05:03But quickly every other blue check
00:05:05Comes running to the opposition and says that's just simply not happening. It's not the Gonzaga athletic director
00:05:13I believe came out and said
00:05:15That's wrong. That's not we're not doing that every every
00:05:18The Pac-12 themselves said that's wrong. Everybody that could say that was wrong said that is just not true
00:05:23It's not true at all. And then a week later. It was true
00:05:26And then even when the athletic director was asked about it
00:05:28they said that Brett McMurphy still had it wrong and
00:05:32That he if he knew that they were going to the Pac-12
00:05:35He knew things that the athletic director didn't even know and that he must be Nostradamus to know that this was happening
00:05:40What's the opposite of a backhanded compliment?
00:05:43Yeah, because that's like he was like McMurphy you were so wrong that you must be like the Messiah
00:05:48You're actually better than a school. Yes, that has to be. Yeah, like if I'm a Murphy, I'm like, well, that's great, dude
00:05:53So you're basically that that's about that's not even a backhanded compliment at all. Like you said that's like a you can see the future
00:05:58Yeah, but you did not have this before. Yeah
00:06:01So who won the scoop off? It has to be him, right? He was right, but I don't look what determines a scoop if you I
00:06:09Don't know if you predict the winner of a game right now if you say that I don't know so-and-so is gonna be fired
00:06:15At the right any Hardaway's gonna be fired at the end of the year and you end up being right
00:06:18Did you have a scoop? Yeah, like you're right. Cody's gonna be fired from Barstool by the year and you don't have that scoop
00:06:23No, I don't have the scoop, but you know, right? Yeah, like if I know that if it happens
00:06:29then yeah, but also in
00:06:33Great great analogy
00:06:35But in all seriousness, he wasn't throwing darts at a board here
00:06:40No, he obviously wasn't like you tell me he Nostradamus came up with this a week before it happened, right?
00:06:45Right. He obviously had a source and it's easy to say that it's easy to say that
00:06:50Gonzaga in the Pac-12, like I said at the top they've been flirting with one another for a while
00:06:53So you could if you're really being cynical you could say that I mean everybody's been saying Gonzaga in the Pac-12
00:06:59That doesn't mean anything for him to be a week away
00:07:01Yeah
00:07:01I can't believe this but I think I got to defend the scoops guy and say and I listen but this is kind of a
00:07:06Scoops on scoops war some I'm just in
00:07:08Murphy's side. I'm like, I thought the scoops game was like you have news you break it and then you're right you win
00:07:14So I thought that's how it worked. But Shams got Shams lost the scoops war with the the Lakers coach when reddick
00:07:19Yeah, so I guess that's the new thing in the scoops world. Like even when you're right, you're wrong
00:07:23Somehow I liked Nicole are back getting into the the ethics of scoops
00:07:28Did she she said yeah, you might have got this right but you must be precise and accurate I like my recording
00:07:35I like Nicole, but she's been on the show before. Oh, yeah. She's Chicago. She's a Michigan girl though. So
00:07:41You know, that's one thing we don't like but she's uh, she's a big J
00:07:45I don't know. She's uh, she what she's saying. Well, she so the beef was they've been in it twice now
00:07:51They're her and McMurphy. Yeah that the whole beef was her verse McMurphy
00:07:57Because I like Nicole but and I and we don't like McMurphy McMurphy was on our boy Urban's ass back in the day
00:08:03I've never been more confused dude, cuz I I like Nicole. I don't like Michigan. She's a Michigan gal
00:08:08She's part of the Michigan media mafia
00:08:10But I think like if if you took away the names and told me like what happened here
00:08:14I think I'd be on McMurphy side. I don't know if you had a player a player B comparison right now
00:08:19Yeah, cuz it's happened twice player a said my resume
00:08:24Resume player a gets the Mel Tucker firing from Michigan State a week before it happens and
00:08:31Gets the Gonzaga to the Pac-12 before it happens. I mean Murphy
00:08:34He did the yes and our back both times was like you didn't know
00:08:38So I see what's happening McMurphy doesn't have a warrant. He's just he's the one
00:08:43He's like jumping over backyard fences and digging through trash and our back finding information. There's a there's a procedure. Yeah, we have to
00:08:51Yeah, we have to we have to stick to the police procedure here
00:08:56Whatever who cares the Gonzaga is the Pac-12. That's the most important part. It's official. It's happening
00:09:02Are you excited? I am I am excited. I think this is this is a great move for both parties
00:09:07We've kind of exhausted to death the point about the Pac-12 trying to survive as a basketball league and all that
00:09:13But you know, the the West Coast Conference is good. I think the West Coast Conference is a mid-major
00:09:18Basketball conference had
00:09:20Like I said earlier like I think Gonzaga was so dominant that that we were hoping Gonzaga either leaves or the conference rises up
00:09:27I think in the end both are gonna happen
00:09:29Like I do think the league like really elevated itself because of Gonzaga
00:09:33And and they pulled the rest of the league up and it turned into a really compelling league where there got it got to a
00:09:39Point where like Gonzaga did still feel dominant and felt like they were very obviously the top dog even the rare rare occasions when st
00:09:46Mary's would beat them
00:09:48Both like in a head-to-head game, but also like in the for the conference championship
00:09:53BYU was in that conference. They would beat him every saw it like there were
00:09:57Even when they were the top dog they would still
00:10:00it was still compelling enough that like BYU had some good teams and then obviously BYU left, but
00:10:05St. Mary's was good. I think all these other schools
00:10:08use Gonzaga's
00:10:11Prestige to their benefit it lifted it all all the schools up
00:10:15And I think they did a good job of like stepping up and building good basketball programs
00:10:19but I also think
00:10:20like Gonzaga did hit a ceiling a long time ago like they hit a
00:10:25They were a massive massive fish in a tiny pond and the WCC did their damnedest to like make that pond beautiful
00:10:32And they cleaned it up and they put a fountain in the middle of the pond and they they they paved a nice little sidewalk
00:10:38They put a little bench right there
00:10:40You could take your best gal and sit next to the ponds and have a have a grand old time
00:10:45Planted a bunch of trees tape, but in the end you can't do anything about the size of the pond
00:10:48It's that it's that small and the Pac-12 like as it stands
00:10:52I don't know if it's like demonstrably that much better, but it is better
00:10:56It's right definitively better like I know that this the group of teams that they have in the Pac-12 is
00:11:00Better than the group of teams they have in the West Coast Conference, so I'm excited for
00:11:05Gonzaga because they are it's not a it's not a step into the Big Ten or the SEC or the Big 12 or whatever like
00:11:12I was probably hoping eventually what happened, but
00:11:15There is a lot of growth potential with the Pac-12 and and and two
00:11:19I think Gonzaga is going to now help with that growth. I think it's gonna they're gonna feed into each other
00:11:24They're the best basketball school in the conference, right? I mean them in San Diego, San Diego State year will be cool
00:11:28Um, but yeah immediately walk in and if they're legit, yeah, they're still they're still like that
00:11:34but that's that's kind of like a
00:11:36That that's what makes it feel like if if you wanted to be a bitter WCC fan, you'd say it's a lateral move
00:11:42It's not but but that's the kind of line of thinking is like I mean
00:11:46Like we had some good programs too and like the Pac-12 has San Diego State who's good
00:11:50But like I mean St. Mary's is pretty good. You know, St. Mary's has gone to final four
00:11:53Um, but here's my thing for you then in the WCC can st. Mary's now fill that void?
00:12:00Like they will like Gonzaga made like 26 tournaments they went to the championship twice
00:12:04They never won one, but they always benefit there. They're always in the tournament because no matter what happened
00:12:10They would kind of clean up in that conference. Yeah now to st
00:12:14Mary's clean up in that conference and are they always in the tournament? I would imagine they would yeah
00:12:18I would imagine that it's there for the taking for st. Mary's. Yeah. I mean Randy Bennett's like it. He's a little older
00:12:23That's the only problem is I ideally this happened like 15 years ago
00:12:28Really yeah, it really gets to clean up if I'm Randy Bennett. I'm probably the most upset about this
00:12:33I'm like, what the fuck did you wait until now? Yeah
00:12:36but you know, it has been a mutually beneficial relationship for st. Mary's and and the rest of
00:12:42WCC to have Gonzaga in the conference. They're obviously gonna take a massive hit. They are
00:12:47I mean, they just like they're still going to exist as um, I still think that they have good basketball
00:12:52I think I think San Francisco has a had a decent program through the years
00:12:56I
00:12:57They're adding Grand Canyon Grand Canyon's a good program like this. They're gonna have a bunch of like
00:13:03You can see the vision type programs, but if we're being completely honest to get a small
00:13:09Conference on the west coast to matter to the rest of the country
00:13:12It took a Gonzaga took a team that it's going to take teams that you say that team can win a national championship now Gonzaga
00:13:18Hasn't to this point but there are there were Gonzaga teams that were capable of winning the national championship
00:13:23and if you were a college basketball fan, you had to pay attention to to the games that they were playing and
00:13:29By extension the entire conference and now you don't have to do that
00:13:32And I think like if you're a real sicko college basketball pervert, you'll watch the WCC
00:13:37So you'll recognize that there's good basketball being played out there
00:13:40but I think they're like Nash's I think the TV deals and like the
00:13:45You know, I I don't know how many WCC games are gonna be on ESPN at like 1030 Eastern anymore
00:13:50I don't know. I don't know if that's gonna be really happening
00:13:52yeah, the opportunity was there to put yourself on the map the past like 40 years or whatever is
00:13:58Play Gonzaga beat Gonzaga how they do against Gonzaga now without the big fish in the pond there. Yeah, it's like, okay
00:14:05Pepperdine played like
00:14:07Yeah
00:14:09No one's legit because no one's legit. It took beat right it took big Gonzaga nice measuring stick
00:14:15Um, but yeah, it is interesting now because the pack 12
00:14:19It like it is better but it's also Gonzaga to me is San Diego State's a good rival San Diego State will
00:14:25Will be nice a nice foil to Gonzaga
00:14:28but um, you know like Oregon State and like boys boys he has a good program, but like Oregon State and Washington State and
00:14:34Colorado State Colorado State. These are all they're all states by the way. Yeah, I got to change your name Fresno State
00:14:40It's literally Utah State San Diego State Fresno State Colorado State Boys State, Oregon State, Washington State and Gonzaga Gonzaga State
00:14:47They're all
00:14:49There's no there's no banger programs. They're really except for maybe San Diego State
00:14:54so I find that fascinating but I do think the growth potential is much better than it was with the WCC because one the
00:15:01Pac-12 not done to
00:15:03I
00:15:04Think the that the average the average
00:15:07program in the Pac-12
00:15:09despite none of those programs real other than San Diego State Gonzaga really feeling like
00:15:14you know if you told me I have to
00:15:16I'm gonna die in the next 10 years if one of the Pac-12 schools doesn't win and I have to pick a school other than
00:15:22Gonzaga
00:15:24San Diego State I would just probably shoot your dad. Yeah, I would just shoot myself now, right?
00:15:28But the so they have no other like national title prospects
00:15:32But the average program in the conference is better than that
00:15:36I think it's like if you compare it to college football
00:15:38There are years where the Big Ten and SEC like the top end we've shown Ohio State Michigan can go beat them
00:15:44Yeah, then those like next year, yeah
00:15:48Minnesota's right, Illinois's and then not a great year example, but right not a good not good year for but Illinois generally
00:15:55Like if LSU comes in fifth in the SEC, they would come to right lean the Big Ten rock in that spot
00:15:59That's the new that's that's the matter. Yeah, the Pac-12
00:16:03WCC matchup
00:16:05The Pac-12 would would wipe the floor with the WCC. I don't hate that to get a little Pac-12 challenge
00:16:11Yeah, starting in 2026 st. Mary's vs. Gonzaga. Oh, there we go. That would be something
00:16:17Um, but the but the Pac-12 can't be done with what's what's interesting is that the Pac-12 has to add one more team?
00:16:23For football Gonzaga obviously does not play football. They are not going to play football the part that they don't they have no interest in
00:16:29playing football
00:16:31Which probably makes sense for them. I don't know. I wonder what the dollars and cents say I imagine
00:16:36Like everybody everybody thinks that like if you could make money then you would just do it
00:16:40Everybody thinks that like every decision that gets made is made because that's the smart money move. Mm-hmm
00:16:46But I don't I don't know if that's true. Like I don't know it would get if Gonzaga had a football team
00:16:51Would they make more money? Yeah, what's the reason because I think like launching a football team has to be expensive as fuck doesn't it?
00:16:57Yeah, and I can't imagine that you become competitive
00:17:01Anywhere anywhere close it's gonna take forever, right? But then if you're getting like TV shares or something, but but
00:17:07Whatever that was just just a sidebar was like I
00:17:10Doesn't make more sense for them to not have football cuz like it feels like every other
00:17:14If you ask anybody off the street like you would say you should have a football team because you're going to make money
00:17:19But like maybe it's like for them
00:17:21They I think it's like like getting in shape and losing weight for like a middle-aged guy
00:17:25It's like would it help? Yeah, but it would fucking take forever and it would take for it. Yes
00:17:29Yeah, it's like let's just not lose weight. Yeah, let's just like mix in a salad. Yeah. Yeah, I don't I don't have
00:17:36I'm not gonna keep up with to the extent. Yeah, that would take to anyway
00:17:41That was it as an aside Gonzaga does not have football pack 12 needs another football
00:17:46T and another team to be recognized as a as a as an adult
00:17:52conference to sit at the adult table, but it was
00:17:55and
00:17:56They don't have it with Gonzaga
00:17:58But I wonder I wonder who they're gonna turn to next because the Yukon have you seen like what the rumors were with you?
00:18:04Can't you can?
00:18:05the the rumors were
00:18:07They were gonna join for football only not basketball, but then I didn't know this until like a couple days ago
00:18:13I saw a report that said
00:18:15Part of a bad part of the basketball arrangement was that the pack 12 if they took Yukon's football, but not Yukon's basketball
00:18:22They were still going to make Yukon basketball play a lot of the pack 12 schools at their place
00:18:27Oh, that was like part of the arrangement was like you don't have to play in our conference
00:18:31But you do have to play like four games on the west coast a year
00:18:35What do you hate about it? I just like a bizarre arrangement. It's like why I mean, what do we do it?
00:18:40it's like it's like
00:18:43Just just fuck already like what?
00:18:45It's like it's like Mormon soaking. You're like you're you're in there. You're already in there. Just get just
00:18:51What are we doing there Mormon soaking in the you can't go into the pack 12?
00:18:55I mean if your football programs in the pack 12 and your basketball programs playing all the pack 12
00:18:59Yeah, you're in the pack. You're you're in there dude. You might as well start thrusting
00:19:03It's a great analogy, I don't know
00:19:05I don't know how the dollars and cents works
00:19:07But I do know that it would be cool if we could get that pack 12 conference that football team, whatever
00:19:14But I don't want Yukon. I don't want you can't I don't want you kind of do that
00:19:17I think Yukon like Yukon still has the big 12 fashion. I think Brett your mark is
00:19:22Is fascinated with Yukon once you kind of think if memory serves, I think he's a Northeast guy
00:19:26So he has like an affinity for what Yukon is. He doesn't want to see him leave either. Yeah
00:19:31No, he's he's the big 12, right? Oh, are they offering that? Yeah, that's what you mean. That's what you mean. Oh, yeah
00:19:37I'm picking it up now. Yeah, he doesn't want to see them leave the opportunity to get the big 12
00:19:42Um, I think the problem is like the rest of the big 12 schools don't really necessarily want them
00:19:47But the commissioner wants him I think Yukon wants to go to the big 12
00:19:49So I think that's what's keeping Yukon from jumping to the pack 12 is that?
00:19:53Yeah, like your mark is like, let me just go talk to it. You know what? Yeah, let me go talk to them
00:19:58they said, uh
00:20:00Yeah, my buddy my buddy's a bouncer. Let me just go. Let me go talk you just stay right here
00:20:04Just get you in we'll get you in you don't have a wristband. You don't do you need one?
00:20:07Let me fuck dude. We're out. But like let me go talk to my buddy. I'll get you a wristband. You're good
00:20:12Just you're good. We'll get this straight and we'll get this straight now. It's it's one of those situations
00:20:16I think with Yukon so, uh
00:20:18Who's back on the menu now for the pack 12 seems to be Memphis. Mm-hmm, which I want I I think so
00:20:23If I if I told you right now that we're talking basketball conference that included Gonzaga, San Diego State Memphis
00:20:30And then an elevated bottom from the WCC where it's you know, Utah State Boise State Fresno State, Colorado State
00:20:38That's a good basketball. That's a good. It's a good basketball conference. I heard it's bad news
00:20:42Financially though for Memphis really that's what I heard with the traveling and stuff
00:20:45Yeah, because it's they'll be they'll be doing all the traveling like everyone else comes out one. Oh, yeah, they're going traveling
00:20:52I think they want to get in the ACC but ACC is kind of hesitant of what's going on. I
00:20:57Don't know but Memphis would pass the like eyeball test of this pack 12 is cool
00:21:02I hate talking about this stuff, but I also can't resist it. Why is that? Can I just
00:21:08Can I get my side my own brain for a second? Why is conference realignment like?
00:21:13It's not going away anytime soon
00:21:14I think I think you know why I think I we do this is every time we we have one of these conversations
00:21:18I'm like, okay good now we're done. No, we don't talk anymore, but then
00:21:22inevitably, there's more news and it just never ends and I'm too stupid to realize that like this is just going to be a
00:21:28subplot of college sports for the rest of eternity literally forever because Gonzaga doesn't even start in the pack 12 till
00:21:352026, you know who else is rumored to maybe be coming to the pack 12 Grand Canyon who hasn't even started in their new company. Yeah
00:21:43They're just gonna fly. Never mind
00:21:46And then as we wait on that Florida State and Clemson are trying to get out of the ACC
00:21:50They see in the big big 10 and SEC are meeting to just create their own great your own Super League
00:21:55It's just never going away
00:21:56And I think that's why I I hate it
00:21:58But I keep talking about it because I keep talking about it because I think this is gonna be the last time we talk
00:22:03About this. This is it. So Gonzaga the pack 12 has happened. It's gone. These are realigned conferences have been realigned
00:22:09Let's go play some ball. Now. Let's just go toss it up. Toss it up. Let's play some ball
00:22:14But you and I both know tomorrow there's gonna be a new scoop keep those notifications turn on for McMurphy
00:22:21I guess he's got all this. He's a new scoops guy. He's the new scoops guy
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00:23:08speaking of scoops guys
00:23:11I
00:23:12Was wasn't there to scoop towns to town to the Knicks
00:23:15Price what a price went up on shame, but we still we still got the news. Anyways
00:23:20Thank you. We didn't just first night of the season. You know, there's many towns jogs out of the Knicks. It's like, holy shit
00:23:28That would be awesome
00:23:30No one I want to see what that world looks like
00:23:32I want to see what uh, my that's my utopia is like we don't know who's on what team until the game start
00:23:38Fuck me. Fuck me. Call me Thompson on the Mavericks shit. Well, hoppy goddamn. I
00:23:45Wonder when that happened
00:23:47Yeah towns to the Knicks. That's a big-time trade huge trade. Um, I guess my thoughts are I
00:23:55Don't know if both teams won but both teams did what they needed to do I think in the sense that
00:24:02My gut reaction is the next one because the Knicks upgraded their talent and I think Carl Towns
00:24:08He's been called soft in the past and and sometimes rightfully. So
00:24:13He's not a guy that you say would have the dog in him. He's not a guy that people
00:24:18Certainly fans me. I don't know GM share the sentiment of teammates and coaches whatever that you feel like would lead your team
00:24:24He's not the he's not the locker room rah-rah guy. He's not any of those things
00:24:28Well, I don't need it though Nix don't need it they have that with Jalen Brunson already
00:24:32Oh fuck. They have that with Josh Hart like as far as like a leader type. They have that with their coach
00:24:38They live with their coach. They don't need that
00:24:41What what Carl Towns is is talented as fuck. He's good. He's very very ball player great shooter
00:24:48Incredible size. Um, he has always been talented that has never been in question
00:24:52So I think the Knicks giving up Devin Shinzo giving up Randall and Bates D up get can't forget about him
00:24:58Throw him in the mix. Yeah, um
00:25:00giving up those guys to get Carl Towns is
00:25:04Definitely an upgrade. It is definitely an upgrade with talent the the Knicks starting five. They get McHale bridges now, too
00:25:09The Villanova the Villanova thing was broken up by like we were all fired up about that to see it
00:25:15but at the same time if I'm Dante Devin Shinzo, I don't think I'm that mad about it cuz like
00:25:20When we saw all these guys together the first time at Villanova Dante Devin Shinzo came off the bench
00:25:25Yeah, one most outstanding player in the final four and I'm sure part of him was just like what the fuck dude
00:25:30I don't want to go like why am I coming off the bench again with these right dudes, dude? What the hell?
00:25:35Now he's gonna come off the bench for the for the for the Timberwolves
00:25:38but at least it's like a little different at least the least there's that for it, but uh
00:25:44Yeah, I think the Knicks the Knicks upgraded talent this was this was huge for them for that reason
00:25:48But then I think the Timberwolves that's the part that's like harder to
00:25:52Fully see the vision, but I guess from their point of view
00:25:54It's that they kind of feel like they hit the ceiling with towns and what this iteration of the Timberwolves is now a
00:26:01More patient man might give it more time. They might say like you have like like Carl Towns is not 36 years old
00:26:09It wasn't like he's you know, he's still playing great basketball
00:26:14He's not damaged good. You don't need to move on for 28. Yeah
00:26:17So why not just like keep him keep Jaden Daniels keep obviously Anthony Edwards keep like this younger
00:26:23Core of guys so close last you're so close. You have such a good team
00:26:27Just just run it back
00:26:28But maybe you know like that's that's kind of how the NBA works is that if you just keep bring it rolling out the same shit
00:26:33And it's not working you're getting left behind because all basically every other team seems improve every other contender seems to find a way
00:26:38To if not improve make a tweak that they believe is an improvement in the offseason
00:26:42And then you know you come to find out it doesn't work
00:26:44But uh, maybe that was their belief is it's gonna make them more flexible. I guess you have
00:26:50Nas read and Julius Randall and and go bear and like you can it's it's like dealers choice as to who you want to throw out
00:26:56There what what mix of those guys you want out there versus like feeling locked in with towns in this role
00:27:01And like if you're not getting a good towns night. He's kind of pulling you down a little bit
00:27:05I don't know. I'm just trying to think through because like in terms of like
00:27:09NBA 2k rating if that's how like trades were yeah, it's like oh my god damn the Knicks kind of fleeced
00:27:14I'm like the Knicks got a guy who's like a
00:27:16Definitive starter could is is a guy who?
00:27:19Can lead you to multiple playoff wins in a seven-game series there could be situations where Carl Towns?
00:27:25Is the guy that carries the Knicks and two out of their four wins say in a series?
00:27:30He's like that that good of a player
00:27:32and
00:27:34The the Timberwolves didn't get that back
00:27:36so it's like the Knicks win, but I also think that
00:27:39There might be more to it with like the the the Timberwolves are like no. This is Anthony Edwards team
00:27:45We all know that the roles are gonna be more defined
00:27:48and it gives us more flexibility with with the lineups we throw out on the floor now because
00:27:53We're not beholden to given Julius Randall any sort of minutes. I was reading any number of minutes
00:27:58I don't know how much the finances like like money's not real in the NBA
00:28:02But also right Timberwolves just got rid of a dude. That's gonna be making 60 million a year. Oh shit. It's four years
00:28:07It's like twice my cell and they it's fucking crazy. Hey, I got a a little contrarian take here is it you said both teams
00:28:16Benefited somewhat well you the Knicks won on the Knicks won on talent on talent if you're trying to acquire talent with the Wolves
00:28:23Might yeah, I think the Wolves are just trying to shake some stuff up. Yeah
00:28:28But I don't I I don't know I think like my gut tells me it was a little too
00:28:32Soon to do. Yeah, I think this is crazy. But I think this is one of those like trades where both teams lost
00:28:39hmm, because
00:28:40So the Wolves lost because they gave up the best player. Yeah
00:28:46This level they're like Towns is the best five five nickels don't need an equal quarter
00:28:51They're coaching saying right they lost Karl-Anthony Towns. They got worse
00:28:55Yeah, but they also the Knicks just got a talented kind of soft kind of injury-prone player
00:29:02They gave up two dogs. Here's one for you. They gave up two dogs to get a cat
00:29:11But
00:29:12But that's his Tibbs gonna kill Karl-Anthony Towns like Karl-Anthony Towns is often. He's injury prone
00:29:19I know and they just I mean 20 games into the season when he's running him into the ground and they lose
00:29:25I know I know I could just I could see both teams being like fuck
00:29:29well, that's what that's what a lot of detractors said like when it happened was
00:29:33there's Tibbs there's
00:29:35Both his his his playing a lot of minutes, but also his coaching philosophy of like motherfucking guys
00:29:39He's one of the Tibbs is one of the last
00:29:42He's the last of a dying breed. He's one of the last few motherfuckers in the NBA coaching circles. Um
00:29:47really any basketball coaching circles, but uh
00:29:50there are those two things but then there's also the New York media at the New York fans, there's
00:29:54Can't you just see Karl-Anthony Towns crumbling?
00:29:57Yeah, like if you close your eyes, you know, like is he gonna have a smooth sailing cuz he's talented season
00:30:02Yeah, maybe not but maybe maybe the culture lifts him up or something. Maybe that helps. I don't know
00:30:10This is a this is a big time wait-and-see trade for me the Nick the Knicks
00:30:14I'll tell you who won the trade. Give me ten years. Yeah, we'll look back on it. No, uh, I
00:30:19It it feels a little yeah, I hear what you're saying. It feels unnecessary
00:30:23I do I do think like when it went through and I saw it every I was like, I
00:30:27Don't know if any either team really needed to do that. I felt like the Knicks liked their team. They had an identity
00:30:33They had a I know obviously Brunson superstar, but they all were bought in there all college teammates the coach fit the identity
00:30:39I was excited to watch the Knicks this year because they didn't have anyone that was like, yeah, he's ultra talented
00:30:46But yeah this kind of issue, right? Yeah, if it feels panicky in that regard
00:30:51But yeah
00:30:51I think that's just kind of what the NBA is doing and and the Celtics seem to be so much better than everybody right now
00:30:55That it's maybe that's so they're trying to compete fight fire. Yeah
00:30:59Yeah, maybe both both both teams are just like listen
00:31:02we we know we're not close to the Celtics and ultimately we want to win a championship so who gives a fuck if like
00:31:08If we if we bring back town
00:31:11Maybe it's a rules like we bring back towns
00:31:13Or we're gonna make the finals and losing five like who gives a fuck about that
00:31:16We're trying to win championships here. And so let's let's shake something up and take a swing at this
00:31:20It is interesting. So the Knicks are now third in NBA title. It's like they went up because they did get yeah best player
00:31:26Yeah, the Wolves are fifth like that like legitimately these two teams are both in the top two or three in their conference
00:31:33They could play for the NBA Finals this year. Wouldn't that be wild? That'd be wild
00:31:37I did the Celtics are so much better than everybody but the Celtic I mean, I
00:31:42Don't know you just go back to like poor Zingas health. It's hard to read. I don't know
00:31:46I saw DraftKings it is hard to repeat DraftKings was offering odds on will the Celtics three Pete already?
00:31:54Jesus I mean
00:31:56Yeah
00:31:58Yeah, who do you have in the twig? I got Baylor Shireman in the draft too, by the way who I fucking love
00:32:03Baylor Shireman is he's one of my favorite college players and it's a perfect fit. He's gonna be perfect fit
00:32:09Brett Stevens knows ball. Who do you have in the 2026 NBA Finals? Oh, I got uh, I
00:32:15Got the the Las Vegas LeBron's
00:32:20the expansion team and a stunning
00:32:23And a stunning run through the
00:32:26The South the Southwestern Conference. They're now
00:32:30Three and a half conferences in the NBA. It's conference realignment conference realignment has hit the NBA elsewhere
00:32:35NBA media days are underway college basketball media days are under a Big Ten media days are going on but NBA media days
00:32:41Have come and gone. I believe I don't know. I'll say this media days in general
00:32:46Be it college football
00:32:48college basketball
00:32:50NBA the Super Bowl media days anytime. I'm privy to media days going on
00:32:55I never really know when they start never really know when they end to me
00:32:59You could say the NBA media days will end
00:33:02At the end of October and and like when the first game is played that's when the media days are over
00:33:08So, yeah, I assume they're over now, but it's just like a it's just like a non-stop
00:33:12Like I love like trickling in of videos and quotes. It's the perfect like as a blogger
00:33:19It is how do you put all these like superstars in front of the cameras in front of questions and they're just answering questions
00:33:25Yeah, then you pick one little thing out and it becomes the biggest story of all time and we have a million of those
00:33:31Yeah, we saw like did you see brawny is not riding to games with his dad this year? No
00:33:38Yep. No, I said it get out Ronnie said it
00:33:41He said he's had enough of his dad a family problem. Like that's all I'm doing all week
00:33:46we said, uh, we were in here the other day and
00:33:50the jump or NBA
00:33:52Today, whatever the ESPN is calling their show was on and because we were good
00:33:56we were waiting for the baseball game to start yeah, and
00:33:59The the quote on the bottom said LeBron James quote for me today quote
00:34:04I still have a lot left in the tank and that's it
00:34:07That was into the quote and then they put after that. What does he mean by that question mark?
00:34:11And Brandon and I were just like look at each other. Are we fucking see?
00:34:16How do you interpret it Titus I think LeBron is trying to start a war and that's what he meant by tank is
00:34:22I think LeBron
00:34:24but yeah, it's just like you take a quote and you blow it up and
00:34:29You point laugh, but LeBron probably gave us the biggest quote of the media days
00:34:33I'm my honeymoon with LeBron is over. I loved him during
00:34:38Team USA. Oh, you're putting your hater cat back on already. He put it on for me. What'd he say?
00:34:42He said that he has nothing left to prove in basketball and everything else that he does from here on out is just like getting
00:34:51extra credit
00:34:52Hey LeBron. Oh
00:34:55You have a losing record in the NBA Finals you are trying to chase down Michael Jordan
00:35:00You have two of the starters or two of the best players in America on your team
00:35:05Yeah, and you just made the franchise draft your son
00:35:09Who would not have been drafted and hire your body to be head coach and hire your buddy
00:35:14And then you're gonna go out on before the season even starts and you're like, yeah, this is just a cherry on top
00:35:17I'm just having fun
00:35:19Fucking who cares? I'm just having fun out there. Yeah, if I was a Lakers fan, I probably that yeah
00:35:24I would probably be a little fired up. I was a Lakers fan
00:35:26And if he still I don't I don't know I get what he like he's running up all the records like the scoring title all
00:35:31That he's he still has it. He just showed it in the Olympics. He's gonna have a good year. He's gonna build all that
00:35:36Say you're playing for a title, right?
00:35:38Yeah, I mean, he's not wrong in the sense of like if he if the Lakers win the title this year
00:35:43It's not like his haters are gonna be like damn. I was wrong
00:35:47Damn true fuck, you know what?
00:35:49I had LeBron wrong the whole time like it's so it's sort of the cement is very close to drying on what LeBron James is
00:35:56A basketball player is but at the same time
00:35:58You can't go into a season where like if he was if he wasn't like the Udonis has them roll on the heat
00:36:04At the end of Haslam's career where he's we're not really expecting much of him and he's kind of there
00:36:09Then say it, you know, like you're the best player on the team still you're just Captain America
00:36:15You just I don't know
00:36:16Yeah, I'm with you in he's been to the all-star game 20 times when you look back on it
00:36:21And now we say he's been there 21 times that doesn't change his life. Yeah, I do think
00:36:26That if he were to win another title
00:36:28I think that what people always say you're either a Jordan guy or a LeBron guy nothing he can do anymore will sway it
00:36:34I disagree. I think if LeBron wins another one that would help people are gonna come some people would start to come over
00:36:39Yeah, so when Branium and LeBron
00:36:44Play together in the first game, like I think they will although they are playing the Timberwolves
00:36:50Are you?
00:36:51Do you think that's going to be cool? Or do you are you just like I don't not really give a shit
00:36:55I do I will be watching. I think a lot of people will be watching. I'm interested for the interactions
00:37:01because LeBron is
00:37:03Known to kind of bitch at his teammates and tell people what to do and everything. Is he gonna do it to his son?
00:37:09Yeah, I don't know. I don't think they're gonna play together much this year
00:37:13It's not that's really not gonna be yeah
00:37:15Like you won't see LeBron bringing it down the court with needing the last shot
00:37:19Yeah, and Brani in the core you've brought up before like is he gonna call him dad?
00:37:22Or is he gonna call him brought whatever? I don't think that's gonna be enough of an issue
00:37:26I don't think they're gonna play it together enough for that to be simply because
00:37:30Brani's not he's not NBA calendar. Yeah, right
00:37:34But I do I do think he's gonna play in the first game because I think they're gonna
00:37:37Get it out of the way. I think they're going to
00:37:40The LeBron wants it to happen immediately Brani probably wants to happen immediately
00:37:45And I'm guessing JJ Reddick wants to just get over with like your first year head coach and you have this whole
00:37:50I mean you knew what he was stepping into so I don't feel that bad for him, but also
00:37:55You're trying to prove yourself as a head coach and you have this subplot of like when are we gonna see LeBron and Brani play
00:38:01Together wait like you can't you can't let it bleed into like 26 games into the season and Brani's on a two-way
00:38:06And he's still really not playing and like everyone's talking about like when they're gonna
00:38:10Just get it out of the way. They have to but you're playing the Timberwolves to start the season
00:38:14I don't think he starts the game. I don't think you can necessarily just count on
00:38:20We're just gonna throw him in in the last minute. That's insane exactly so I don't know
00:38:23I don't know how they're gonna roll this out
00:38:26But it's gonna be fascinating
00:38:28Yeah, I mean a little coaching tip is like if you want to get someone in the game
00:38:31You can't elongate that you can't wait till the end of the game because what if it's a close game
00:38:36Right, so we're either gonna see Brani like get started the second quarter minutes or right or we're gonna be on Brani watch
00:38:42Yeah, like 26 into the game that would right
00:38:44Yeah, I would I would I would probably just do the Roy Williams senior night move and just start I would start all Bronnies
00:38:50Yeah, I would start all five of my Bronnies like you could start he would start all five
00:38:53If you only had walk-ons as seniors you would start all five
00:38:57Walk-ons Roy Williams would always do that for senior night, and I would do that with Brani
00:39:01I would I would start I would turn to the bench. I'd be like everyone named LeBron check in
00:39:05I like that to start the game. Well, the James family has the James gang is five people. Oh
00:39:12Savannah
00:39:14The James gang
00:39:15Did you see that the the Lakers had a meeting where they talked about the ground rules for this year?
00:39:20What it talked to me about your basketball career with that because I thought it sounded corny like have you ever sat around a table?
00:39:27I mean, that's a that's a reality show. That's what a reality show does
00:39:29that's like if you sign up to be on a game show if you're on like
00:39:34I
00:39:35Don't know fucking
00:39:37Sex on an island like that's a that's a that's a dating game show, right?
00:39:42Yeah, and you get you get there and you're like, all right
00:39:44This is what an emotional season 7 a sex on an island like the production meet you you have you have a meeting before you start
00:39:49Shooting where you tell everybody these are the ground rules ground rules. Here's the grant. These are the ground rules
00:39:53this is everything you need to know about what's going on and
00:39:56Yeah, then them using the phrase ground rules tells me that they are prepared
00:40:01Just like you and I are for this Laker season to sort of be a reality show with JJ Reddick and brawny
00:40:06But what give me an example of a ground rule because they also JJ Reddick
00:40:11Didn't want to waste practice time with the ground rules
00:40:14So they practiced and then went out in Beverly Hills had a big team meeting ground and said like is that like?
00:40:21I don't know his brawn being like we jog when we're on the court talking about like
00:40:27The women they're like, well, how are you gonna bring back some? Yeah hose on the road. I don't hate that
00:40:33You got dad in the hotel with you. Like is that the ground rules are talking about? What are their ground rules?
00:40:39Yeah, I don't know
00:40:40That was a weird way of phrasing it
00:40:41But like I've never heard of a team have like ground like the ground rules are like let's fucking win some basketball games
00:40:47I don't know hustle on the court dive when it's it. I don't know but I am rooting for JJ
00:40:51That's the the pickle I'm in is I think I am too
00:40:55I think I'm rooting for JJ too, and he's uh
00:40:59He's not qualified at all in terms of resume
00:41:02He's obviously a good player and has connections and all that sort of thing
00:41:07But he is one of us and I think JJ Reddick find success
00:41:11my chances of being a division one college basketball coach
00:41:15Increase substantially I would say yeah, so I'm cheering for Reddick and Doug Otley both. I'm cheering for both of them
00:41:21Yeah, for that reason it always comes back to my own self-interest
00:41:26I love you. It's not cuz like why are you cheering for JJ Reddick? Oh, cuz I think that
00:41:32That could turn me into the division one college
00:41:33Yeah, JJ Reddick and Doug Otley were two guys that people hated when they played there
00:41:37They were they were villains of the sport and now I'm sitting here saying like no
00:41:41I want them to do well and everyone's like that's confusing mark
00:41:44I thought you would hate the same people I would hate I'm like no no no has nothing to do with them has to do
00:41:48Myself I would like to coach Chicago State someday
00:41:50And I think so you think like the the big decision makers at some division one school right now are keeping an eye on Reddick
00:41:56They've always wanted to bring Titus in that was Sean McVay with the NFL Sean McVay gets hired
00:42:02He's like 29 years old. They start hiring undergrads then all of a sudden he
00:42:06Goes the Super Bowl and everyone's like is that what we need to do and now you look up
00:42:10There's no more Andy Reed's. We don't have fucking old ugly fat dudes coaching NFL. It's all fucking hot dudes
00:42:1618 years old Mike McDaniels wakes up or I am kings. Yeah Kingsbury. Yes, dude
00:42:23It's crazy. Um, which I have a I have a
00:42:29Three three names I want to throw out there of washed I'm phrasing it this way wash veterans on new teams
00:42:34Okay, these are guys who no matter how old they get and how?
00:42:39How long they're in the league I I hear their name and I think that's that's a great pickup for them
00:42:43That's a great fucking pickup. Yeah, because I'm too stupid to realize that they're past their prime and they're done
00:42:50So these three guys I saw in media days in their new uniforms and I got excited, but I'm curious your thoughts
00:42:57Which one of the three stand out to you the most number one Russell Westbrook on the Denver Nuggets on the the the world champion
00:43:04two years ago Denver Nuggets
00:43:06So they they did not win last year and now they're bringing in Russell Westbrook. So that's one of their big shakeups
00:43:11Yep, bring in Russell Westbrook
00:43:14Number two Klay Thompson on the Mavericks. Mm-hmm. Number three
00:43:18Chris Paul on the San Antonio Spurs. I saw him taking pictures with Wendy and I was like, hmm. Yeah a little height difference. Hmm. Yeah
00:43:26Huh?
00:43:27Which which one was the needle of those three?
00:43:29The answer is this the one I'm most excited to like keep a thumb on
00:43:33Throughout the season is how does Russell Westbrook fit in with the Nuggets?
00:43:37Yeah, because everything we talked about
00:43:40With you know, the Celtics or the Nuggets and how they play the game is not how Russell Westbrook plays the game
00:43:46yeah, like I think he went to the best team, but he's a
00:43:50individual he's an individual and he he I saw one of his quotes was like I
00:43:55Where I've been the last few years hasn't been a great fit
00:43:57but now this is gonna be a great fit or something and I was like that that reminds me of like
00:44:02Just like Barstool in general or like yeah, you put me on a show. It's a Titus Brandon Walker big cat Portnoy and me
00:44:09Yeah, it's a great fit. Yeah, that'd be a great show. Yeah, every single person on the planet could be that fifth chair
00:44:14Yeah, Russell Westbrook. So you add me to the cell?
00:44:17It's like you're going from doing a show with Cody to like doing a show that's now and you're yeah
00:44:21It's like damn. He really elevated his game
00:44:24But I think the
00:44:26Spurs are terrible by the way. I don't is that funny when I do that Cody? I don't know
00:44:30I think it's funny because I don't know if the audience
00:44:33What Cody never talked so like in my mind it makes it funnier
00:44:36But I also like I imagine people listening and watching at home like
00:44:42But I will say people listen at home if you had a camera on Cody's reaction of when Titus does this like when Titus goes
00:44:48Yeah, like we know Cody will be fired at the end of the year. It's a funny reaction out of code
00:44:52I always catch him off guard. That's what makes it. That's what makes it funny. Um, yeah, right
00:44:56That is gonna be the most fascinating clay on the Mavericks is the best chance of success
00:45:01Give me like that. Yeah, if he's just like if it's just like clay spot up in the corner
00:45:05I'm worried Clay can't guard like you certainly like he used to I'm not even sure how well he can guard these days at all
00:45:13Luke and Kyrie have no interest in guarding anybody. So like the three of them out there together
00:45:18I don't know what that's gonna look like on the defensive end
00:45:20It's gonna be so awesome
00:45:21But if if clay is just spotting up in the corner and those other two or are doing their thing, that's gonna be awesome
00:45:27Yeah, and I think I think clay clay is still a candidate to me for one of those guys
00:45:31He's not as good as he once was but he's as good once as he ever was tip of the cap to the lake
00:45:37Yeah, he's one of those guys where it's like I I'm not excited about clay Thompson on the Mavericks because I think clay Thompson's gonna
00:45:44Average 22 points a game and every single night. He's gonna give you vintage clay moments
00:45:48I'm excited because maybe there's one playoff game where it's like I'll be goddamn clay Thompson's hit seven threes
00:45:53That was awesome
00:45:54And I don't think I don't think that is what the Mavericks envision when they brought him in like don't they know he can't play
00:46:00Defense like he could they know that he's not gonna be out there being the a top-ten player in the league
00:46:04But they know that they got two dudes that like to play iso ball dribble around
00:46:07Yeah, and then if the whole defense collapses
00:46:09Give me one of the best shooters to ever walk on the planet writing the three clay clay was hitting the same
00:46:15Similar quotes as Russ that that's what that's what media days are for is all the guys on new teams are like
00:46:20Oh my god, dude that last team I was on. Oh fuck
00:46:24That sucked. Yeah, but this team this is awesome. And I
00:46:28Clay I saw Clay said something like I am I fell out of love with basketball or something and now I'm
00:46:34The last couple years have been tough
00:46:36No
00:46:36I I think a lot of it was more injuries more so than like I didn't like playing on the go say Warriors
00:46:41But he had a quote where he was just like I I'm now remembering why I love the game of basketball
00:46:47And I'm rejuvenated and read reinvigorated and all that sort of thing
00:46:51But you take it with a grain of salt cuz like all these guys before they've played one game for their new team
00:46:55They're all like dude. This is fucking perfect situation. I love this is awesome in all aspects of sport like even back to high school sports
00:47:01It's like yeah, this year's culture is so much
00:47:03It's so much better every team in America's culture is better in the preseason than it was the year before
00:47:09Which is just a direct shot at everyone right just played with shout-out Jordan Sperber my guy who vision
00:47:15Who I think some Mississippi State staff now?
00:47:17He used to always cut up every
00:47:19Every time a head coach gets hired in college basketball at a new program in their introductory press conference
00:47:24They mentioned how fast they want to play every single one. There's not a single coach
00:47:28It's like so one thing you should know about me. We're gonna walk the ball before we're gonna
00:47:32We're gonna make sure every time we shoot. There's two seconds on the shot clock
00:47:35I really feel like if Tony Bennett took a job somewhere else. He would be like yeah, we're gonna play faster
00:47:40You're gonna see you're gonna see me play a little bit faster than you're used to seeing those Virginia teams play and and all that
00:47:46It's the same sort of thing yeah like these guys are like I feel so much better on this new team and
00:47:51God we're gonna play so fast this year. We're just gonna get up and down vibes are so high in the preseason
00:47:56I love nobody ever no coach has ever said I'm playing slower
00:47:59No, no coaches ever even never my new coaches
00:48:02No coaches ever like John Shires not coming into this Duke season saying like you know we're gonna
00:48:06We're gonna throw a wrinkle at him this year. We're gonna slow the ball down. We're gonna settle it down down
00:48:09He can play defense
00:48:11Use the shot clock. I did see did you see the Buckeyes are playing fast Buckeyes are now having said all that
00:48:17I saw John Rothstein tweet that the Buckeyes are gonna play fast. I got excited
00:48:21Buckeyes are playing fast Buckeyes are definitely gonna play fast
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00:48:47the other thing that happens
00:48:49other than just the quotes that media days are a time for
00:48:53weight gain slash loss reports it is it is
00:48:59Pounds of muscle gain pounds of muscle lost pounds of fat season
00:49:04The news out of the NBA Victor Wim Benyama has put on
00:49:0825
00:49:092030 what 25 pounds 25 pounds of a I assume muscle well he lost an inch
00:49:14He lost an inch I put on we had two
00:49:18Notable height. Yeah, the body changes are crazy. I'm used to you see the the weight changes all the time
00:49:26It's like oh he put on muscle. Oh, he slimmed down. He should be able to play, you know faster
00:49:31Women Yama was seven three. I'm sorry seven four to ten last year. Okay, he is now
00:49:3873
00:49:39235 whoa more compact. Oh, so he's a little lower to the ground
00:49:44Makes it, you know short and stocky now. Yeah. Yeah. He's like a running back. He's but like a running back
00:49:48Do you want how do you like your women Yama? Do you like him taller skinny, or do you like him?
00:49:52I guess we'll find a short fat now. It's a short and fat. He he put on weight
00:49:58Joel and bead said he lost
00:50:0025 30, I don't know. They just start throwing numbers around lost a ton of weight Joel and bead
00:50:06His quotes were that were of note were basically like I'm paraphrasing obviously
00:50:11He seems to suggest that he doesn't care about the regular season awards this year
00:50:16That's been a criticism of Joel in the past. He cares a little too much about winning the MVPs and it's like Joel
00:50:21Why don't you try winning some playoff games? Why don't you so he said he's out on he more or less was like the
00:50:27Focus this he lost weight cuz he's like, um, it's a longevity thing. It's the marathon
00:50:32I'm trying to I have my eyes locked on May in June more so than like
00:50:36You know trying to light up the the Wizards for 60 points so I can win MVP
00:50:41Like I'm trying to I'm trying to win
00:50:45Cuz you know and
00:50:47Talk is cheap
00:50:48But also like this is it does sort of feel like it's now or never for this
00:50:52That's the reality like you say Sixers to me right now, and I'm thinking yeah
00:50:55They're probably gonna have a good regular season
00:50:57Everyone's gonna be high on them beat and then they're gonna lose in the second or third round
00:51:00That's what the Sixers yeah, but Maxie and Paul George who I Paul George is a guy that I I
00:51:07Can't help but believe in and I know it's stupid. I know most people don't and I'm know Paul George's is
00:51:13Like a B plus at best player to guys
00:51:15But I think Paul George like on with Tyrese Maxie and Joel and bead
00:51:18But we kind of felt we we sort of fell into that trap with the Clippers with Kawhi and Paul George and Harden and like
00:51:25that whole era
00:51:27But it's it's different because Kawhi is never really healthy
00:51:30And there's just it's just if if you can get the buy-in from those three guys
00:51:35Maxie and Joel and bead are
00:51:37Fucking awesome, and they've proven to be awesome. They obviously haven't gone to the finals or anything yet
00:51:42But if Paul George comes in and really does have an attitude of like I'll do whatever I have to do to help this team
00:51:49It's just a maybe I'm maybe I'm a moron for thinking that he might do that
00:51:53You've got my juices flowing I think I think there's a I think they have a pat
00:51:57I believe in the Sixers more than most because I think
00:51:59Paul George is a guy who is sort of a meme as
00:52:04Playoff P way off P and pandemic P and all that stuff
00:52:08The Sixers are the are the Paul George of franchises
00:52:11And so when they when they when the two of them meet it's like
00:52:14Why in what fucking world are they go are these two entities that I've watched fail over and over and over again
00:52:20Even though they look
00:52:21It's fool's gold. They're both are fool's gold in what world are they going to come together and now be legit?
00:52:27And I understand all that but I don't know I'm a dumbass, and I'm like I think I
00:52:31Think Paul George is your third play if Paul George is your third best player. You're in a really really fucking good spot
00:52:36Yeah, I'm you're getting me excited for the NBA right now because I know we're we believe that the Celtics are head and shoulders above
00:52:44But also, I don't think it's crazy to think that the Knicks
00:52:47We're just talking about the Sixers
00:52:49Giannis is back with the Bucs. Yep. We haven't even obviously they're on a different tier, but we haven't even mentioned the Pacers
00:52:54I know why is it obvious they almost swept the Celtic obviously the Pacers they almost swept the Celtics
00:52:59They lost they got swept, but they almost that strengthens my argument even more and the and we haven't even mentioned the Cavs yet
00:53:05Yeah, but in all seriousness that is that there's four to six teams that like that's gonna be fun this year
00:53:11Yeah, it's there is no super team. That is just head and shoulders better than everyone. Yeah, there's storylines
00:53:17Yeah, I think it's a Celtics, but I don't
00:53:20But a lot of the teams got better I get the teams they did but the Celtics were I mean that was like
00:53:26Uh, I was a walk in the park. Yeah, except for the Pacers dude almost swept them
00:53:31almost swept him if
00:53:34For if four games would have gone different not enough people talk about that
00:53:39The Pacers, uh, I'll say this if the Pacers were wearing Lakers jerseys
00:53:43That's all anyone would have talked about all offseason because that's what happened when the the fucking Nuggets swept the Lakers and everyone's like yeah
00:53:48But the Lakers were right there took him to the in all four games
00:53:50They were right there in all four games and then when the Pacers do it everyone just laughs at me
00:53:55As they probably should um
00:53:57Trace action Davis grew an inch to we didn't mention that what when did you stop growing? I heard you were tall dude
00:54:03I stopped growing. I was like 13. I heard I was talking to a guy at the coffee
00:54:06She heard I was tall what said you were a monster at 12
00:54:10That's what I heard
00:54:12Good picture of no words getting around that you were fucking tall. Well, my point is this I think he's shrunk
00:54:18Trace Jackson Davis is 24 years old still growing. I said his said his knees were hurting
00:54:24He's like I could feel it my knees were aching
00:54:27Which means there's that what you want your big man to say or but also if he's growing that's cool
00:54:32I guess but also how tall are you?
00:54:34I'm probably 6 3 now. I was 6 4. Oh, you have time. I might have strong
00:54:38how tall do you think I mean, this is a
00:54:41Postures the more I the more I like sit at it, you know
00:54:43Mm-hmm when I was blue, I start blogging my my posture started to slouch a little bit
00:54:48Well, this is like a middle of July conversation that we're having in October
00:54:51But how tall would you have needed to grow to to be in the league? Oh, there's still hope if he's still grown
00:54:56that's a great question, I
00:54:58think if I was I
00:55:01Think if I was 6 if I was 6 10, I was definitely league your league bound. I'm league bound 6 10
00:55:06Dude you're a problem at 6. I'm a problem. Yeah, I'm officially a problem. Are you in the league at 6?
00:55:12I think I think I'm certified nice with it. If I'm 6 10, I think I get a mixed day for like goddamn
00:55:17He's nice with it. We should test that shit out
00:55:19Just put on put on get you to 6 10. See if you can play
00:55:246 9, I think I can make the league 6 8. I'm not making Lee
00:55:28I think that's the cutoff 6 9 is the is the interesting discussion to be had 6 8
00:55:32I just I mean this is like I'm assuming women Yama's
00:55:36Didn't he didn't shrink?
00:55:37I think that's just like a media guide like he probably shoes on one year and now he doesn't this year
00:55:41Trace Jackson Davis grew I think one B's doing the Kevin Durant think to or he wants to be shorter than those
00:55:47They always say that about the rant that he he's seven foot
00:55:50But he doesn't like to be seven foot cuz then people want him when he was coming up
00:55:53He thought people would make him play center. Oh, yeah, so he's like, I'm 6 11 and 3 quarters
00:55:59Put me on the perimeter he would sometimes shoot
00:56:02I remember him like being listed like 6 9 sometimes and then you'd see him like standing next to 6 9 guys
00:56:07Like there's no fuck. Yeah, no cheese. Are you serious?
00:56:09But that's always been the story is that he's 7 foot tall, but he doesn't want to be a reporter
00:56:13so maybe when B's that way we're like when B's like 7 6, but he's like
00:56:16No one's looking at me as a basketball player. They're looking at me as a free. Yeah, so I need to
00:56:20Tone it down Durant's just sniping threes. Get your ass back in the paint. Yeah all mother fuck. How dare you do?
00:56:27Yeah, yeah sure you can put the ball on the deck and shoot from anywhere but your baby hook is not good
00:56:32And we need to work on that. Hey speaking of knees. You see Lonzo ball brand-new knee
00:56:37Brand-new knee brand-new knee Wow
00:56:41Lonzo ball injury history is
00:56:46Just he tore up everything in his knees all of his knees
00:56:50What's what's I've lost track at this point. He he last time he played was January 14th
00:56:562021 I
00:56:57Need one of those like graphics like the price of milk like the price of a house
00:57:02Yeah, I mean the last time he played and now yeah, but he hurt his knee and he was supposed to be like right back
00:57:08Three knee surgeries later. Yikes. He says he'll be ready for the first game of the year though
00:57:14Do you believe that I don't I'm I'm I'm I'm a skeptic with injuries all injuries. I think I've learned that about myself
00:57:20I think I think it took Christian McCaffrey to
00:57:23Pull this out of me that I realized that like
00:57:27I've been duped so many times in my life with guys that are they're going to come back and we're going to be fine and
00:57:32All that sort of thing that anytime a guy gets hurt. I'm like, I think that might be it. I think
00:57:37well this I think
00:57:39So Lonzo ball, like I'm not I I'm very much
00:57:43I'll believe when I see it Kauai is the same way by the way
00:57:45Kauai Leonard is the same way that I'm just like I I have to Kauai Leonard is so good. It was such a
00:57:51Such a fucking freak of
00:57:54Like his defensive instincts, and he I don't know he carried the Raptors to a title
00:57:59they did the other good players, but he he was so so good and such a
00:58:03Such a perfect on ball defender. I'm such a joy to watch that. I have no choice but to
00:58:10Tell myself that he's just not gonna play again. So that way when he does I'm pleasantly surprised because he's he's he's probably toast, too
00:58:17Yeah, I don't know the way he said it though
00:58:19He said he'll be ready for the first game first. I hope so. No for sure for sure
00:58:24I'll be he said I'll be ready for the first game for sure one to keep it
00:58:28Oh, it was he keeping a 100 he was keeping it a buck keeping it a buck
00:58:31And he was and he's also in the last year. Do you think it matters these in the last year of his?
00:58:35million dollar contract
00:58:37For sure. Did he say no cap?
00:58:39Because hats off. No cap. Okay, that's what he said. A couple other things before we get out of here number one
00:58:46Oh
00:58:47Actually, I got two things in the state of India three things in the state of India
00:58:51I'll rip through them click Kaitlyn Clark was rookie of the year in the WNBA
00:58:54I
00:58:55Don't know. That was it. That was all congratulations Kaitlyn
00:58:58I'm scared to say too much about the WBA because then I I mean, I guess I could do numbers
00:59:02I guess I could pop off
00:59:05If you you know, if you have WBA takes the numbers they go they do go
00:59:10They I've been on my tick-tock grind a little bit. Really? You just got you dabbling
00:59:13I think there's two words that if you say they just get thrown into the algorithm
00:59:19Clark Reese, oh really? So make us don't even talk about Kaitlyn or angel
00:59:23Just drop Clark and Reese and see if we can go viral
00:59:25I'm not gonna tell you who I voted for and the rookie of the year race
00:59:28but who I voted for who I thought should have won it between Kaitlyn Clark and Angel Reese is the woman who
00:59:35Wasn't a catty little bitch and the woman who played the game
00:59:39You know
00:59:41With with heart and passion
00:59:43Whereas the of that other woman she was just fucking so annoying right with her antics and all that all about me
00:59:50All about me. The other one was all about me
00:59:53The woman I voted for not about her
00:59:56Do you know that the the rookie of the year vote was 66 for Clark Reese had won?
01:00:03Is it you do you have a WNBA rookie of the year vote Titus? I
01:00:08Wanted to like the WBA and then like a month into the season this season I was like, I think I'm out
01:00:12Yeah, I can't do this. I can't do it. It's not even the basketball. It's like it's literally everything but the basketball
01:00:18It's just like I can't it's a reality. It's just a fucking it's well, I'm eating it up
01:00:22So I'll watch enough for the both of us. Um other story in the state of Indiana Purdue
01:00:26basketball confirmed by Matt Painter gets no bitches virgins I
01:00:31Mean, that's literally what he said. It's kind of what he said. That was wild
01:00:35He said he only recruits virgins. Well, that was a not a direct. That's not what he said, but
01:00:40Matt Painter at Big Ten Media Day said I
01:00:44Think I think that was a case of like when when keeping it real it goes wrong
01:00:48But it was like when keeping it cool and like trying to be funny it goes wrong
01:00:51He said like when he calls recruits if they're at Chipotle or with their girl, he realizes they're not they're not about that
01:00:58They're not there if they're not in the gym
01:00:59Then then they'll probably just move on to another guy and I understand what he was saying
01:01:03And we're obviously that's what media days are for you take a quote you blow it out of proportion and you point and laugh
01:01:09But yeah, basically what he was saying is like I don't want my guys interested and and fucking when he said I saw a tweet
01:01:15It was like it sucks when you spend seven hours at the gym trying to get better lifting shooting running getting in shape
01:01:22You stop to get a burrito on the way home and coach calls and pulls the offer
01:01:27Oh
01:01:30White boy Rick, you know, well as an Indiana Hoosier and he
01:01:36Anytime anything goes on in the world of IU or Purdue?
01:01:38He just wants to talk to me about it
01:01:39I was talking to him about this this quote right before the show and he pointed out to me
01:01:43that this comes on the heels of cannon catchings who was the the
01:01:47top recruit and
01:01:49That's what he said. I don't know if I'm taking his word for it. He said he's biased by the way
01:01:52He said I know I know I don't hear myself say it out loud
01:01:55I don't know this to be true
01:01:56but he said the cannon catchings was the number one recruit commit and Purdue basketball history in the
01:02:01which isn't really in history because
01:02:04You know like Rick Mountain Glenn Robert
01:02:06There's there's a lot of guys that in history of John wouldn't really good 37th in the ESPN
01:02:12I think he was talking about like the modern like 24-7 type era
01:02:17But he said that a be that as it may the point was cannon catchings a five-star recruit was committed to Purdue
01:02:23Just decommitted and went to BYU
01:02:26And he made that point to me and I it is funny. It's a funny point that your top recruit was like
01:02:32I'm gonna go to BYU a place that's famous for
01:02:35Like I think I have a better chance to get laid at BYU than Purdue
01:02:38That's basically what you're saying and I said, you know what that's Rick
01:02:42That's a funny joke. That was a funny. That was a funny observation that he made
01:02:46I did see my captain but uh
01:02:48Some fans are doing the laugh and they got they got their pick to win the Big Ten
01:02:52They got the the preseason player of the year in the conference again
01:02:55Yeah, Braden Smith, so people are coming at the crowd, but that was that was like a very fun cuz Matt Painter
01:03:00I know exactly what he was doing and like he was just like media days
01:03:03You're just trying to be personal personable as a coach and you're basically just trying to say I love recruiting gym rats
01:03:08And then he's like, how can I spice this up a little bit?
01:03:11And then the whole internet was just like oh, so you get no bitches
01:03:14I genuinely feel bad for like stars and people who get interviewed these days because he said nothing wrong
01:03:20yeah, but it set the internet on fire to the point where like people are making memes of like
01:03:25Indiana should come out and warm-ups this year that say I got too much pussy to play at Purdue
01:03:31That is not what Matt Painter said though, but I love what it's funny. It is funny
01:03:35Yeah, if I was a coach or player, I would just have a translator. I would do that
01:03:39I would just pretend like I'm Japanese and I don't speak English like the Japanese baseball players do like Oh Tony just yeah
01:03:45Yeah before yeah, like I
01:03:47There's a decent chance Oh Tony
01:03:50Speaks like perfect English, right? Yeah
01:03:53Yeah, he's like I'm not doing these fucking interviews. I don't want to talk to the media. I talked to this guy
01:03:56Oh English talk to this guy. That's exactly what I would do. Those guys haven't figured out. Um,
01:04:01I was staying in the state of Indiana Notre Dame
01:04:04Continues to clean up on the recruiting trail. I saw this kid
01:04:07Ryder Frost I believe is his name great name. You see his uh, you see his clips. Mm-hmm. Good ballplayer
01:04:15He's got a he's got a jump shot
01:04:18He's got a jump shot now. Look him up. They've got four four-star commits in the same class now, dude
01:04:24I think I'm becoming a Notre Dame basketball fan
01:04:27Ryder Frost, let me pull up his
01:04:30He looks like a jump shooter. He bet let me tell you this
01:04:34writer Frost you better have a jump shot, dude, he uh
01:04:37He's nice with it
01:04:39I'll put it that way Ryder Frost can can shoot the basketball and I and I I'm fully transparent about my
01:04:45Recruiting prowess. I just go on YouTube and watch mixtapes, but I don't know. I'm pretty good
01:04:49I got a pretty good eye for this stuff. Like I I thought I thought the Juan
01:04:53The Juan Wagner wasn't that good? So do I get credit for that? I guess. I don't know
01:04:57I watched it. He was the number one recruit in the country Isaiah Collier both. I was like, yeah, they don't have it
01:05:02Ryder Frost has it Ryder Frost. I'm not saying he's better than those two guys, but I see the vision with Micah Shrewsbury
01:05:08I see the vision big-time. They have a top-five class in the country right now. Yeah, Notre Dame. Yeah
01:05:13I got there. They have a bag there, right? It might have the bag dude. They're they're they're cleaning up right now
01:05:18It's been fun. Um, what else going on recruiting news?
01:05:21Uh, the AJ to Banson went to Notre Dame or not Notre Dame. Sorry, Alabama, Alabama, Georgia football game visiting Bama, Georgia
01:05:27When Bama beats Georgia in quite literally the best yeah game ever. Yeah, that's got to be that's got to be a W for NATO
01:05:35It's or got to feel pretty good about that. What can be why you offer?
01:05:39I mean, yeah, what is what is BYU gonna bring to the table? Do you think the Bansa can like can you go?
01:05:46If you're the dumb man, the best basketball recruit in the country. Can you go to a football school Greg Oden did it Greg?
01:05:53Oden did it I stand corrected Greg Oden didn't Greg Oden Greg Oden went to the by the way, shout out Greg
01:05:59I'm gonna take it take a timeout 20-second timeout Greg Oden getting inducted into the Ohio State Athletics Hall of Fame on Friday
01:06:06Well deserved it should the fact that it didn't happen immediately was crazy to me but Greg, uh, yeah
01:06:12Greg doesn't get his flowers much but he is now Greg. It's a shout out Greg gets a lot of shit and
01:06:19There's there's still one place in this world. We're like Greg Oden damn good basketball player Columbus, Ohio
01:06:24so he's getting in the Hall of Fame this weekend, um, but Greg Greg and Mike went to the
01:06:29Texas the Vince Young, Texas at Ohio State football game on their visit
01:06:34Texas won and they still come in and they still left and they were like, oh
01:06:38They loved it. Yeah, they're like this place is crazy. Like we they loved it. They're like, that's where we want to go
01:06:43I do think it'd be cool. They committed. I don't know if it was right after they told me they were coming right after
01:06:47I don't they publicly did but they came back from business or like because of yeah the atmosphere
01:06:52Yeah, that's what Greg said. Oh, yeah, Greg was like the the not the football necessary. He's just like the the fan base is crazy
01:06:57There's a ton of yes. It's the campus is awesome. It was like they just had such a good time at the football game
01:07:02I'm assuming AJ to Vance. I just had that at Bama. I would imagine so yeah, so
01:07:07Bama's feeling themselves man. Number one football team in the country number one, maybe basketball team in the country
01:07:14Yeah, and Rico first thing you think of Alabama Rico Bosco. I hate that. That's from that from the North
01:07:20I hate that
01:07:21I hate that Alabama might be the preseason number one team in the country and the second I see the poem I think of
01:07:25The second I see it, I'm gonna be like, oh that's good for Bosco instead of oh
01:07:28That's good for the University of Alabama's basketball program
01:07:32That was like dog shit my entire life and now and I love you know, it's just build it up to how does Bosco do that?
01:07:37To me like I love Nate Oates. I was like, oh sweet. He's like good coach. He's going to Bama. He's gonna
01:07:43Yeah
01:07:45Like it um, I think that's it RIP to Kimba Matombo
01:07:51Iconic he is iconic dude. He was an incredible player. Obviously
01:07:56He was he was one of the first guys. I remember growing up watching that
01:08:02That was almost I don't know how to say it
01:08:06He was he was so good defensively
01:08:09that he was a guy who stood out to me in my youth as a
01:08:13Way to impact games defensively and almost defensively only and he was good
01:08:17He could score like he was he was fine like on the low block whatever scoring
01:08:21But that's just what he did
01:08:22He's like he just blocked shots like crazy and was such a force down low and there were other big guys who could do that
01:08:27Like Shaq was could block shots and Patrick Ewing was not necessarily bad defensively
01:08:33But my tumble was like that's gonna be my calling. I'm not out here to like
01:08:36To do the dream shake on people. I'm not out here to like dunk all over people like Shaq
01:08:41I'm out here to block fucking shots and just be intimidating and
01:08:44I remember as a kid just like that made him so cool to me
01:08:48It was like he was just he like kind of knew his role and was like
01:08:51Unbelievable at it and had the awesome finger. I was gonna say
01:08:55Incredible personality to the who wants to sex Matumbo stories are legendary all-time stuff
01:09:01but he's also like a an incredible humanitarian and he is I don't think you you would say any one person is responsible for the
01:09:09globalization of basketball or the
01:09:12Infiltration of like African influenced players into the NBA
01:09:17You know Akim Elijah one has African roots so like he certainly played a part
01:09:23but if there were one guy it would be to Kim a Matumba like the fact that he was such an ambassador to
01:09:28Africa after he got done playing and would go over there and like I don't know like basically be a basketball missionary
01:09:34And I don't think it's any coincidence
01:09:36So like he started doing that and then you look up and NBA players have all sorts of guys from Nigeria
01:09:41Or I mean South Sudan has like I was gonna say the Olympics this year. He definitely had his fingerprint on that type
01:09:47yeah, like the guys with African roots in
01:09:51In the NBA were like novelties almost of like Matumbo. That's a funny name Elijah one. That's a fun
01:09:58And now it's like just commonplace. They're just guys all over the place
01:10:02so only 58
01:10:06No, that sucks
01:10:09It sucks, dude. I don't know. I'm never good on
01:10:12I'm never good talking about guys dying because I'm just like
01:10:16My only thought that just goes through my head over and over is just like this fucking sucks, dude
01:10:20I don't like it. You know, that's that's a couple basketball icons this year. Yeah like a few
01:10:26Yeah, Bill Walton Jerry West and then they came in with humble
01:10:31Yeah
01:10:32R.i.p. To Kimmy Matumbo brain cancers
01:10:35it also sucks because it was like such a surprise to like yeah, which like it's it's his prerogative and his
01:10:41The family's like in no way am I saying come on man?
01:10:44You have to make this public and let us you have to let us know what he's going through
01:10:48But you know
01:10:49It is more of a gut punch for the public when you don't know that this is going like the same thing with Norm
01:10:54McDonald we're like
01:10:55That's it
01:10:56That was the one I thought of when I first saw the camera Tom
01:10:58I was like this reminds me of when I just literally had no idea woke up and he was
01:11:02Norm McDonald's joke was always I didn't even know he was sick
01:11:05That's what he would say about guys when they would die
01:11:07Like like if Jimmy Carter were to die right now and Norm McDonald's was alive to see it
01:11:12He'd be like what I didn't even know he was sick
01:11:14And it was funny and it was always funny and then Norm McDonald. I'll be goddamned. He actually did that he died
01:11:20Without telling anybody he was sick. Happy birthday, Jimmy Carter, by the way anyway
01:11:26I did see that and I wish I didn't
01:11:29All right, that's a show
01:11:31Have a great weekend everybody congrats again to Greg. Oh, and I know I know you watch Greg
01:11:35And I don't have to text him so that's that's the good thing about that now
01:11:38I don't have to call him or text him and congratulate him because I just did it on my podcast and I know he watches
01:11:42And listen so congrats Greg. Go bug Greg. I love you, man. See you guys