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Is there anything you'd like to say to me, big cat, and to Hank who's not here?
What?
Happy Uncle's Day.
Happy Uncle's Day.
Thank you.
Yes, happy Uncle's Day, thank you, I also am an uncle.
Happy Uncle's Day big cat, thank you.
So I should say to myself, Happy Uncle's day. Yep, uh, Hugh, are you an uncle? Nope, Okay, so you're out.
Memes Are you an uncle? I am? Yeah, Happy uncle's day. memes. Happy uncle's day. Hank is not here.
We are actually on vacation next week, but we still have all the shows, so next week's schedule Sunday, PFT and I will be in studio. Max and Hank will be on a much-deserved vacation. Wednesday will be the Takeys, which are phenomenal.
I'm fired up.
28 takeys. I think we're giving out. And then Friday we will have a very, very special guest and we'll be doing a Zoom show and then we're off to grit week.
I'm very excited about what this next week and a half has in store. Yes, now it is. We are on vacation next week, but to Hank's defense, it's Wednesday of the week before vacation.
Yeah, so he left Wednesday, but that's fine. He did do the Mount Rushmore with us, so we taped a couple of them, we taped three Mount Rushmores, so we'll all be participating.
But yeah, hank, when we were like, Hey, we're going to take a vacation last week of July, he's like, great, I'll go the second to last week and the last week. Yeah, yeah, exactly.
He deserves it, he's had a tough summer.
Which, speaking of, um, it's such a shame Hank's not here because boys, I think, Uh, I don't listen. We've been doing this a long time. A lot of the things that we talk about here are from other shows. Or we we're not claiming, you know, Mount Rushmore, we love doing Mount Rushmore season.
Obviously it was a joke when we were like, Yeah, we invented Mount Rushmore season, we did not invent Mount Rushmore season. There's a lot of things out there that we are part of, but we don't take credit for inventing stuff. Because everyone's got ideas, everyone's doing different things. I do think we had a part in Jason Tatum Aura Conversation becoming mainstream.
Yes, the Jason Tatum conversation has reached its apex. Uh, Stephen A. Smith put out a podcast yesterday and he titled it, You know, you're doing the rundown of what the podcast is going to be featuring. Here's how he described his podcast. Another horrifying police shooting.
Does Tatum lack aura?
Ooh.
So we're going to get to the bottom of maybe both those things at the same time.
Yeah, and so Carmelo Anthony also came out and said that, uh, Jason Tatum will never be the face of the league because he lacks aura. Anthony Edwards has aura. Um, I'm actually good on it, I don't think we I, I'm, I'm good on the discussion.
I'm like, we. We settled it a long time ago. It just was interesting that it's now become like an actual thing that people the fodder in the middle of July.
That's what you got. It is Mount Rushmore season, which we invented as big cats. But this is, uh, this is an interesting conversation, because it's like, it's undefinable. Yeah, you can just say, like, whether or not you like the guy or not, correct?
Um, and we also, uh, began this whole conversation 100 just to piss Hank off. Yeah, I mean, I don't even know what Aura means.
Everything we've said about Jason Tatum and Jalen Brown, to a certain extent, has been just to piss hank off, yeah.
If Hank wasn't here, we'd be like, those guys are fucking awesome. Uh, they're probably going to win multiple championships. And who the hell cares? Who gets the MVP and who has the aura? All that matters is winning. But Hank is usually sitting here. So we have to say they probably hate each other, and Jason Tatum has no aura.
But also, to your point, they, uh, in those two questions, Jalen Brown has both those things.
Yeah, he does have a lot of aura, and he's got aura. he actually has overflow of aura, plus a thousand aura, yeah.
What would you say? If you were to do like statistics on Jason Tatum's aura, I'd say he's like negative 650..
Yeah, that sounds about right. I was going to go like, minus nine War.
Yeah, wara.
Yeah, Wara Chase Jalen Brown's like a plus 28. Aura Yeah.
That's the guy it's hard to replicate.
Yeah, um, all right. So the other things we have going on, it is training camp, so we are starting to get some of the training camp news we had. Jim Harbaugh Uh. Welcome everyone to training camp in their new facility, The Bolt, which looks incredible.
Inspired by Lightning.
It looks awesome, uh? He said. Training camp feels like being born, it feels like coming out of a womb, it's comfortable, and then poof, you're born.
The lights are on, people are looking at you.
Yeah, I mean, being born is a lot like training camp, for sure. You put your head down, you hit the hole, you just need 10 centimeters of daylight and then you explode.
And Harbaugh? I feel like he hears the word labor and he thinks hard work. Yeah. So he was like, Yeah, that's what, that's what training camp is, it's work, it's giving birth.
I wouldn't be shocked if Harbaugh maybe also gives his players some, you know, breast milk.
Oh yeah.
Just being like, Hey, we gotta get, we gotta build stronger, stronger bones.
What's like the uh, the precom of breast milk, the uh, liquid gold stuff, I don't know, the stuff that bodybuilders take.
Oh, I don't know.
It's like a special type of highly concentrated breast milk. I'm sure that Harbaugh's got the boys shooting that up. Yeah, three yards in the cloud of Placenta, that's his offense.
Yeah.
I always get placenta and Paella, um, confused, and they're very different.
Extremely, especially the taste.
Placenta is delicious. Yeah, yeah, um, we had also in Cardinals Camp. Did you see this, Jonathan Gannon?
Uh, no, we joke about Jonathan Gannon, but this one had me thinking like, he might be in trouble because, and he was kind of being funny. But he said that he and several, UH staff members did a deep dive on the concept of momentum, apparently going back to wars in the 1800s. Okay, and after all the research, when he was asked about it, uh, if momentum exists, he said, Perhaps I have no idea.
That's great, that's great. So he did an exhaustive research study on it wars, and it's undefined.
Anytime a football coach comes back from from summer, uh, for training camp, and like, I've been looking at some wars.
Except for the Browns offensive line coach being like the troops didn't stretch before they invaded the beach at Normandy.
Yeah, Bob Wiley.
It's interesting, though, that he he is like trying to figure out whether or not momentum is real by doing a scientific study on momentum.
Just ask a sports fan.
Just it might as well just be vibes.
Yeah.
Like vibes, vibes are real.
Ask a gambler. They're sitting there and watching a game and they feel it going bad. That's momentum.
Like, I can tell you when a team that's winning is going to lose the game.
Yeah.
It's it's like when they usually when they have a black bird that's on the side of their head and they play in Georgia.
Yeah, yeah, the. It's like 10 years ago, 15 years ago, when there was that whole discussion like, Clutch actually doesn't exist and like, Nah, we've been watching sports a long time, Clutch 100 exists.
It definitely exists.
Like, there's no way to explain how some people are just better and like, re rise to the occasion and other people don't.
Isn't momentum also clearly defined by Isaac Newton? Yeah, pretty sure. It's one of the laws.
He's the one who said, Momentum is your, uh, next day's starting pitcher, yeah.
He said First he said, What the fuck is this Apple doing? Falling on my head? And yeah, yeah. And then he said, Yeah, I don't know if, uh, if I can pinch it. For Derek Jeter, yeah.
Yeah, so momentum's real.
It's definitely real, and also in sports like, vibes are a hundred percent of thing. In war, I think they call it, what do they call it? Just when your team's down, the, uh, it's a French term, the spirit, the esprit de corps, or something like that.
Okay.
If you're if your army's pissed off and they're lazy and they don't want to go fight, they're going to get their ass kicked. Yeah, so if you're getting your ass kicked, then that means you're more likely to get your ass.
Yeah, exactly. Um other training camp notes I wrote down for you, Dan Campbell has the biggest podium ever, yeah.
I love that they built that for him, they basically built the podium so big that he can't break it with his hands. Cause I think they were probably nervous that if he gets upset and he like pounds his fist, he'll break the podium.
It's a solid podium.
It's an indestructible podium. I like unsinkable Podium, Titanic.
I like it with Dan Campbell, I would love it if it was like Mike McDaniel behind that giant podium. Yeah, it would just be so funny because of how big it would be, how small he would be.
He get lost.
I think that might be podium of the year for next year.
Yeah, it's it is we. We should have put that into the Takeys, but it came too late. Um, Lincoln Riley said. He's coming quickly, they're coming quickly. Uh, it was about baseball.
Weird seeing, seeing, like all USC and UCLA and Oregon and Washington, the Big 10 media day. um, we got a lot of media days going on.
What was the context behind? We're coming quickly.
Uh, I think it was talking about, like, are they going to orgasm?
Okay, yeah, that's unusual for someone who represents the Trojans to say that, Yeah, usually, that takes a while.
Yeah, yeah, but uh, maybe ribbed for her. His pleasure, his pleasure on the inside, yeah, but uh. And then the I think that was all the training camp.
Oh, we had our first training camp, fight chiefs.
No, no, oh, incorrect. First training camp fight was the Houston Texans. Oh, which I think we said on the show. The N.F, the AFC South was going to be the first, and the Chiefs had one too.
Chiefs had one as well.
Interesting, Uh, I saw the Jerry Jones talk today.
What'd he say?
He addressed the media. AI, Jerry Jones, Real, real, real Jerry Jones. Not dead Jerry Jones. He said he was talking about the DAC extension and the CD Lamb extensions that he's working on, and then he compared himself to Patrick Mahomes.
He said If you have an option quarterback like Patrick Mahomes famous option quarterback that we all know. Uh, you want to wait to make your decision until the defense gets up on you and then you can make your choice, huh? And he also said, He's all, he's more all in than he's ever been, oh.
So he's like, way.
He's been very all in.
He is balls deep in.
He's been all in every single year for the last 20 years to nothing to show for it.
Well, he's been also, uh, he's been distracted recently, shall we say, with his paternity lawsuit.
Oh yeah, what ended up happening? he said, the father.
I don't think he's well either, he's the dad and doesn't have to pay for it, or he's not the dad got it. So, uh, he's saying, because he doesn't have those distractions. He's going to be able to commit a hundred percent of his time to the team to being all in, which is apparently a good thing in his mind.
Okay, yeah, yeah, you don't want him all in.
No, you want just the tip, yep.
Uh, how mad would you be if the Cowboys got actually good Max with that? Like, cause it's. It's kind of a fascinating thing to think about because the Cowboys have not been a threat, an actual threat, in a long time. I know that they have had good seasons, they've won a couple of playoff games, but they have not been to an NRC Championship games since the nineties.
1996.
Right, so I don't know about, yeah, that sounds right. Yeah, that's when they won their last Superbowl.
Yeah, so would it? would it destroy you? I don't know. I got one more year. No NFC team ever goes back to back.
So I'm, I'm, I'm good for this year, you need this, you need this year, right? BFD.
Yeah.
No one, we just trade off. yeah, everyone, everyone trades since 2006..
It's crazy.
So, having had a back-to-back champ.
So the Cowboys can't win it when the NFC's.
They can't take them off the list, take them off the list.
Not going to happen.
Not going to happen, yeah, and the commanders are going to rise up and we're going to dominate them. It's going to be great and nothing's ever going to hurt again.
Yeah.
Baseball news So what was the clip that you just showed? The the Colorado Rockies since 2004, it's the last time the NFC East had back-to-back champions. This was a very funny clip because it was it was a Red Sox Rockies.
And, uh, the relief pitcher yelled at the the batter, Yeah, you jerked off in a parking lot.
Who was the batter?
Uh, I don't know, but I looked up and he did in fact jerk off in a parking lot.
Was it Kellen Winslow?
It was, it's one of those ones that you just hope never becomes a viral clip. Because I didn't know who that guy was. And then I looked it up and I was like, Oh, he did jerk off in a parking lot, that's that's got to suck. Going to the ballpark every day, being like someone might say, I jerked off in a parking lot and they wouldn't be wrong.
And it probably didn't happen that much until this pitcher said it, and it was clearly caught on camera. By the way. Shout out.
Reese Maguire.
Shout out to whoever did the lip reading for it. Yes, because, uh, you did America a wonderful service. Now every fan is going to know that's the guy that jerked off in a parking lot.
I did not know until that moment. Is it Reese Maguire? Yes, Yeah, Reese Maguire.
Uh, he jerked off in a parking lot. Confirmed by this pitcher. I think it was who was the pitcher? who yelled it? it was Quintrell, Yeah.
Cal Quantrell There we go, Huey.
I love how you said that.
Yeah, I do, too. I also, Uh, yeah, Reese Maguire. He, uh, he jerked off in a parking lot.
That's interesting.
Uh, I. The other baseball thing I want to talk about real quick, and this is, we don't have memes as a Mets fan, um, but the Yankees? I saw our good friend Tommy smokes this morning. And I've known Tommy now for seven years. And I think for every single moment of those seven years, I've seen him tweet. This is the game that Brian Cashman and Aaron Boone are getting fired, yet the Yankees will never fire either of those guys.
And Aaron Boone even said after getting killed by the Mets, I think he got swept by the Mets this this uh season, uh. He said. One of the things I really liked tonight was how hooked up we were in the dugout in the eighth and ninth inning. I'm not worried about the compete level with these guys. This is talking about a game where they lost like 12 to three, I believe. So I don't know what it is with the Yankees, but these guys stink.
And they like, I'm talking about Aaron Boone and Brian Cashman, and they're never getting rid of them. As a two week Yankee fan, I think, what was the two week Yankee fan thing? By the way? Um, I was sold on the UM, the the high class and the high, the history, the Pinstripes, the Pinstripe, the Derek Jeter's. When was the two weeks?
Uh, the first two weeks of the season, okay, they were hot, coming out the gate, they looked good, uh. And then I stopped Karen and then they started to. Kind of took us up a couple of slumps and bumps.
But at the end of the day, I think Cashman and Boone, uh, you know, they're going to always be on the hot seat. And at the end of the day, the team's, you know, it's not even that horrible. We have a two week Yankee fan.
I generally think, but you said, you said, once you stopped caring about them, then they went to a slump, you, you have to start caring about them again.
This is what I have to do for that team to be great. I'll walk for them to run.
I like how Brian Cashman, how, uh, they, they got off to a hot start, you're right. But his strategy is basically sign the best players and pay them the most money. Which isn't really the mark of a good general manager, just a general manager that's got a rich dad.
Yeah, yeah, exactly so so Hugh, you are. you are a football and a basketball guy. you're not really a baseball guy just this season.
You were like, I'm going to give this Yankee thing a shot, yeah, like I. I was watching the playoffs last year and you know, I got kind of sold on, like baseball, and then, oh, you were not sold on baseball until last year.
Yeah, yeah, it took. It took last season to kind of be like, Oh, this thing, you know, move faster, okay?
What about the Yankees in the post season? Sold you on the Yankees?
Not last, but it was the the potential. Okay, like, well, look at what this team is in the regular season, imagine if they're good, and you know, it matters when they're playing. How much baseball had you watched the previous 25 years of your life?
Four months, maybe four months, like a game here, a game there. Wait, it's very specific.
Four months cumulative, four months, like if I had to, that's a lot of games, but that's not like 24, seven.
That's just like a day here, day there, a game here, a game there. Okay, and then two week Yankee fan and then two weeks I was, I was watching every game for two weeks.
And then you stopped.
No, I did. I watched every single game and then you just stopped and then I was like, What am I doing?
Okay.
Two week Yankee fan.
Yeah, the the Yankees, I know that the fans are really, really pissed off, but I don't. I think that there's a solution to this. I think that you have to give Aaron Boone an extension and show that you believe in him. And then the rest of the clubhouse is going to truly believe in him too. Then you'll be fine.
You might you might have a lame duck otherwise.
Yeah, exactly, he kind of is a lame duck, right? I think he's got, like, a, uh, he's got a club option for next year.
So you got to do it.
So you got to do it, extend Aaron Boone.
I got a question for you, the Olympics started, how are we doing in rugby?
So right now we're waiting for the quarterfinals. We made it to the knockout stage and the U S is playing Australia. Uh, we won.
Is Australia good?
Yeah, they're very good, they're probably going to win. We won a game, lost a game, tied a game.
Oh, that's perfect for us.
Yep, and we finished, I believe, second in our group, which means that we kind of won, so we moved on to the knockout stage. Uh, I think, I don't know, I think, uh. I don't want to make any predictions, cause we're watching the games right now, but I like both Fiji and Ireland.
Whoever wins this game, I think, is going to win it. Oh yeah.
Okay.
But it's been, it's been awesome to watch, like the whole office has been watching Sevens, and I wish that it had more of a primetime spot.
I wish that it was happening during the Olympics.
I wish it wasn't the appetizer for the Olympics, right? Like this deserves. Get this, get this in, like a Friday night, Saturday night.
Right, I don't understand. Um, oh, by the way, you got the Nationals got no hit today.
Yeah, we did, and you know what thing about me, guy like me? When we get no hit, I say that we got no hit. Yeah, we got no hit.
One guy, one guy threw it, yeah, they won't know, but they got no hits.
We got no hit.
Remember, when you think about me, what happened in yours? Did you get any hits?
Okay, exactly down boy.
That's basically, we just took out the newspaper and we just kind of held it over the dog's snout. And he's just like, All right, I'm going to lay down.
That's what we call accountability. Max, that's as close as you'll get to Max, admitting it, by the way, it's just he's just slinking back, yeah, he shrunk.
We've had this argument for two years now and he just didn't see the well, how did you guys get a hit? Yeah, question coming. Never saw that part coming.
It was Dylan Cease.
Yeah, Dylan Cease.
Fantastic.
Yeah, baseball I tried to give. I was basically like, All-star breaks, a nice reset. The Cubs have been bad and I was like, I'm going to give my all for this next week to see if the Cubs can maybe win a few games and get back in this.
I went on Monday night, they're so bad, their foul balls are bad, they don't even hit foul balls well.
Not good contact. Is that what you're saying?
Correct, they suck at hitting the baseball, so when they very important part of baseball.
That's probably the most important part.
Yeah, well, no, they're really good at pitching the baseball. They're just really bad at hitting the baseball. Hitting the baseball is important, especially when you pitch the baseball well.
All you need to do is hit the baseball a little bit and they can't even do that.
Ideally, you'd like to combine the two.
Yeah, it's also so boring. It's boring watching the Cubs play is so boring. They don't have anything.
I've said it a million times when we talked about with Aaron Rodgers.-.
The Cubs or the bears?
No, no, no.
They've grown up into the bears.
No, they won in 2016.
No, I'm saying their style of play.
Oh, right now, yeah, yeah, their style of play, but they have not historically. Yeah, they're not good historically, but they did win in the last decade.
Uh, when we were talking with Aaron Rodgers about how often guys think about the Roman Empire and how that whole meme started. And everyone's like, ask your boyfriend how often he thinks about the Roman Empire. For me, it's how often I think about Kyle Schwarber still being on the cubs. Yeah, that's an almost daily occurrence for me in my brain.
He's such a joy to root for. If you're going to have a team that, even if it's not that good, having Schwarber on the team is just so much fun. A big boy that steps up to the plate and mashes.
One bat that would make the other pitcher not be like, Oh, I'm fine, this is an easy out that'd be so sectory for him.
Shut up.
He also wouldn't tolerate other guys not hitting the ball. Well, right? He'd just be like, Dude, just do what I do.
Just mash.
Just spank a ball.
He'd be, yeah, he'd be pissed off the Cubs. Um, in the last, let's see. In the last six games, two runs, zero runs, two runs, three runs, zero runs, two runs. That's bad, it's really bad.
Boring baseball?
And they don't give up runs, so it's like every loss is a 3-2 loss or a 2-1 loss. It's brutal.
It's kind of the same in every sport where you'd if your team's going to be bad or mediocre, you'd rather it be the opposite. Where they're great on offense. Correct and stinks.
Play softball games.
Yeah, just because you can have fun watching the game, correct? There's a lot going on.
Correct.
I saw a stat the other day, This is, um, back to football real quick. I think the Dan Lebitard show pointed this out, but I wanted to make memes aware of it, memes. Do you know that the, Uh, the Indianapolis Colts have more AFC titles than the New York Jets do?
Wow, yeah, that was going around the season.
Yeah, AFC.
Memes I stand with you don't let them do shame statistics.
Shame. Statistics are the lamest thing you can do. I thought you guys saw it earlier in the year. We're going to bring it up, but I would never bring that up. Memes I fucking live. All I have to deal with every single day is insult. Stats.
Yeah, we got to stick together. Yeah, insult stats are not cool, we just got to turn the insult stats on. The Patriots, though. See something, say something.
If you see someone using an insult stat, insult them back.
I kind of like using them on the Patriots, though you can use them on the Chiefs Patriots. Any team that's won more than two Super Bowls in the last 20 years.
Yeah, well, because then they have something to defend. Yeah, I don't have. When people the insults. We're about to get to the time of year where the bears not having a 3,000-yard passer, or what? 4,000, I can't remember.
4,000?
4,000 30 touchdowns, 4,000.
That's going to start going everywhere. Yeah, and so insult stats suck. Yeah, they're back.
They're not nice. All right before we do. Mount Rushmore and Hank is involved in this. I wanted to do one thing, Pft, I told you this, I was going to save this for you. I got to talking to Huey the other day and our boy, Huey's working on a script, okay?
And I want you to hear the script because I think we need to make the pilot for this.
Okay.
Okay, so Huey, the floor is yours. How long have you been working on this script? Technically speaking? about six months, okay, and how many pages do we have one?
Okay.
Okay, when you say technically, what does that mean?
I started it six months ago. Okay, and I did one page that day, oh so it was all in one day. Yeah, I've gone back and edited.
Then, kind of, you know, added some lines, added some descriptions and stuff, but that page.
And it's six months subscriptions.
Descriptions.
Descriptions.
Yeah, sorry.
You're a perfectionist, it sounds like.
Yeah, I wanted to be realistic, I wanted to, you know, make you be able to, you know, believe that you're in the story.
Okay, so what was the inspiration for the script?
Basketball.
Yeah, okay.
So go ahead, tell them what the you know, pitch is, all right. So the show's called High Up in the Mountains. It's about two brothers, one looks very similar to me, the other the inspiration behind the other.
One is by a rapper by the name of Shakewell, who looks very similar to Max Delente. Oh, but so.
ShakeWell Like a milkshake, like something that you'd see on like a slim fast.
Yeah, yeah, he's a big, goofy guy. Got it? So it's about two brothers, one named Carmelo, the other Anthony, and they were born two days before he got traded to the Knicks. Okay?
And so, you know, that's why their dad, not the best of guys, grew up to resent them, you know, because they live in Denver.
In mushroom, yeah.
Yeah, they live in Denver. Now. He's got to be reminded of, you know, his two shit-stained kids, you know, Carmelo and Anthony. Yeah, and then, long story short, life goes on.
Dad starts to meet another woman. They have a kid, that kid. guess what he names that kid?
Tebow.
Nicola.
Oh.
So now there's not enough room for Carmelo and Anthony, so they're getting kicked out. So now the story is, you know, these two, you know, shit-brains, kind of having to figure out life, you know, on their own, high up in the mountains, named Carmelo and Anthony.
I'm in, yeah.
I'm 100 in, we got to make it, there's not, there's. I did point out when I heard this that the the. The years between Carmelo and Anthony getting traded from the Nuggets to the Knicks and Jokic getting drafted by the Nuggets is significant.
So the timeline doesn't add up.
So no, well, it's just that's more room for the script. Well, Jokic was drafted in 14. And then you got to think, you know, you add another six, seven years before he starts to, like, really start to be in the final conversation. And MVP. And it takes a couple, six years. So by then, you know, they're pushing 18..
Okay, so, you know, it's right on, right on that part, right there. So, and then the Carmelo and Anthony resent their baby brother, Yeah.
Cause it's fucking Nicole. So do they do? They move to New York?
Well, I haven't gotten that for you. Oh yeah, I'm open to anything.
This is actually a lot of script for just one page.
Wait, what do you mean? You haven't gotten that far yet because they already in where you've gotten to. Carmelo's already retired. Yeah, no, I mean, like, no, in theory.
Yeah, I haven't written all of this, right? You've only written one page. The theory, the direction is this.
This is where we're going, the end of the episode is going to. By the end of the episode. We're going to have all this laid out and we're going to have kind of the path of. Is this all happening in the first episode? Not all of it? But again, the pilot's going to really have to lay down a lot of what these guys are. Their story, you know, and then, you know, them getting kicked out and then that kind of where that ends, and then we'll pick up episode two, kind of.
So it's a TV show, so you have, like, a season.
Yeah, yeah, many episodes as it needs. I have a question.
Yeah, is there a time jump in the first episode?
Well, no, yeah, there's the first little, like 30 seconds. Is like, you know them as babies, you know? And then it's Carmelo and Anthony, and then Bang, you know, two days later, Carmelo gets traded, and then it's like, all right, and then it just quick time jump.
He cuts to these kids, you know, smoking weed in the car. Oh so there is a time jump, yeah, but for like, again, 20 seconds, it's the first, like 20. Like, you just get introduced to babies we're in present day.
And then, boom, yeah, now we're in present. yeah, these kids are present day.
Yes, yes, all right.
I got a question. I don't want to completely poopoo your scripture because I think that maybe we should make it. When Carmelo was traded to the New York Knicks, did the father think about just changing their name?
No, no, no, no, no. He signed the birth certificate a couple of days earlier, so officially, you know, and again, the dad, what we're going to find out from Father is he's not the brightest. Okay? And that, at the end of the day, it's more about the reminder of what he did wrong.
And he kind of blames himself.
Okay, so when he named the new baby Nicola, did he do that right when Jokic got drafted?
He did that kind of late, late 2019.
As he started to emerge.
As it was like, this is the guy, he wasn't going to make the same mistake again. Yeah, he wanted to make sure he was committed full time. This was going to be the guy. So we're going to have to find like a four-year-old actor for Nicola.
Correct. Yeah, yeah, got it. Just wanted to make sure that that's the path we're going.
A four-year-old for Nicola, hot mom, shithead dad, and then two guys that look like you and me.
It's going to be hard, we got to figure out how we're going to find two guys that look just like me and Yui. Okay, okay, yeah.
So I think we need to make this pilot.
Every sitcom needs just a wacky neighbor, too. Okay, put the wacky neighbor in there.
We could do it. There's a lot of wacky people in this office. Yeah, Bosco for his wacky neighbor, wacky neighbor is named....
J.
R.
J.R is not a good name, yeah.
Trying to think Birdman, Birdman. Birdman would be a good one. Oh, Birdman would be good.
Javale.
I was just thinking, what would an enemy be to like? A nugget? Kobe sauce kobe?
Yeah, Kobe could live next door. Yeah, well, he shouldn't be in Colorado.
Okay, we'll figure it out, all right. Yeah, so I wanted you to hear that.
We will make a pilot, we will make a sizzle reel. I don't know if we have enough for more than like, 45 seconds, it might just be 45 seconds of time jumps.
Maybe a short film, yeah, make the entire show out of the montage.
Let's just time jump the entire show, like, how? So, like every minute, it's like, we don't know where we are in time, okay?
And also it should have a lot of N.BA highlights in it, yes, like of Carmelo Anthony and then of Nicole Jokic, it should actually be mostly highlights.
Should it be like each year of their life? Yeah, time jump. So then it's just like another year of. Like, Carmelo, you know, doing something great in New York and their dad turning them these fucking kids, you know? And then next year, it's like, Oh, Carmelo. Anthony 2013, Knicks.
You know, we got something, yeah, and he's just reminded of his kids, Yeah, maybe it's something like that.
And they could have, like, a little robot sidekick named A.I. It's got, it's got braids, like Allen Iverson.
Yeah, I like this, cause who who doesn't want to watch a sitcom about like the mid 2010s Nuggets, Denver, Colorado?
Great town and place.
Can you tell me how you came up with this idea?
Um.
Cause you're not a Nuggets fan.
No, so my my theory is a lot of your theory of how you came up with this idea. Yeah, it all comes together.
Um, I think that, like, the best shows ever, ever are like, you know, like Simpsons, Family Guy, Office friends, normal people, normal people, normal environments, normal places. So two, two kind of shit stains. Simpsons and Family Guy are cartoons.
Yeah.
But the family, right? Yeah, yeah, okay, um, there's, there's a talking dog and a talking baby family.
Guys, bad, bad specifics aren't what matters.
It's about the fact that it's a family.
Regular people that we can all relate to, we can relate to these. Maybe you're not a stoner, but you, you. You've seen these two and you've seen those types of kids around. And now, instead of, you know it being like a sad existence, I'm so confused, you know?
What, what types of kids?
You know, Stoners, Oh, oh, Carmelo and Anthony, I was still looking at the family guy. I'm moving on, yeah.
Uh, but and those types? But, you know, the backstory of that's usually kind of sadder than you know. It's like a little bit more like, Yeah, but this is kind of funny. You know, it's just Carmelo and Anthony. You know, the resentment doesn't come from, like, you know, a fucking divorce or something. It comes from, you know, you're naming your kids Carmelo and Anthony, yeah.
And then you're dumb enough to not like, try to change it.
You know, it's, it's just, yeah.
Look, I don't think this answered the question.
It's really a story about life. Yeah, I don't know. I was trying to figure out how you decided that the Denver Nuggets would be like the perfect.
I just needed a name that had two first names.
And we'd legal in Colorado for two, and I went with it, got it. So you kind of started with just anyone who's got two first names, and we'll just figure out the rest, figure out the story.
Okay.
I like it I'm in.
Thank you, yeah, I knew you would be.
I think this sounds lucrative.
Yeah, by the way, do you understand the new N.BA deal? It's on every channel now?
So they extended with ESPN Disney, right?
Yeah, and then Peacock and NBC.
This is what's, this is what the leagues are doing.
Amazon I heard the Amazon's getting. This might be rumor. Amazon's going to get one of the conference finals every couple every two years on Amazon Prime.
This is what the leagues are doing. They're just they're they're chopping it up, and they're they're cutting it. And they're selling a bunch of NBA to us that we have to buy individually. Yeah, so I want to know, if you were to, if you were to be able to watch every NBA game and every NFL game. How much per year does that cost you to be a sports fan?
Right?
I feel like that's the real inflation in the United States right now.
It's becoming expensive to be a sports fan.
They're pricing a lot of people out of watching sports. Yeah, and that shouldn't be right, yeah, and we should do something about it.
And we won't, we won't, but I'm.
Pay for all the stuff they make us pay for.
But I am I. I'd like the record to show that I'm upset about it.
Yeah, yeah, I'd like director to show that, uh, I'm mad, same mad, we're mad.
I'm mad as hell and I'm going to keep taking it.
Yep, not going to do a thing. yep, I can do a goddamn thing. Um, okay.
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Let's get to our Mount rushmore of round things.
Okay, time for Mount Rushmore It is time for the Mount Rushmore of Round Things, Mount Rushmore of Round Things. Hank. You kind of groaned when we came up with this idea.
Are you not? Are you not into round things?
That's, I mean, that just didn't happen. That was cap, that was cap. Do you like this? Mount Rushmore? I'd like to hear you say you like it.
You like it, you like it, I like the open-ended one, okay?
I love it.
All right, round things are actually enclosed, but they're very much enclosed.
So this might be a struggle for you, all right? So I have first pick. Oh, I have first pick, there's so many good picks.
There's a lot of good round things.
There's so many good round things, I'm going to try to keep it just basic, simple run the ball, Mount Rushmore of round things.
A pizza?
That's a good pick pizza that was my one-one.
It's a beautiful, round thing, you see your big, full pizza. There's just nothing better, yeah.
Good choice. That was my one-one as well. I thought I would get it for sure because I assumed you were going to take donuts.
Yeah, that was also on there, but I was like, pizza is just, listen, I love donuts. I love donuts, but if you had to, if it's pizza or donuts for the rest of your life, you'd have to take pizza.
Yeah, I would agree with that.
Like, I'm just being honest, like, I love donuts, but you can't eat donuts every single day. you could eat pizza almost every day, burrito, actually, you could eat more.
I don't know if you'd be able to eat a pizza every day, that would get old real fast.
Also, what if you took one bite?
No, old people get sick of that. You would never eat. Pizzas are round. I'm not, I'm not objecting.
Oh, it sounds like you're objecting, but you don't eat like a donut, you eat as a circle, you don't eat a pizza as a circle.
What about? what about a?
You eat from the inside of the circle out.
What about the slices? what about the long ones, the long, skinny ones?
What about, what about in Ninja Turtles, the video game? When you just run over a pie and just are those jump in your mouth, those aren't, those are. I feel like those have a different type of.
No, like the Long Johns, what are they called? I think the Long Johns, No.
Pizza is round final.
Pizza is round.
I'm, I'm, I know.
What about a bear claw? what about a fritter?
Those are different names.
Yeah, that's true, you got me there.
They're at a donut store.
They are at a donut store.
Something to think about.
Okay.
Donuts are more pure round.
Wow, so we're going to do pure roundness, I mean that, okay?
Yeah, we're doing just a thought, we're doing skull measurements now, okay?
All right, let's hope, let's hope you don't pick anything that's not fully round.
Let's hope, let's hope, let's hope. Okay, Max.
I'll be taking boobs. Oh you dick. Good one. I thought that was an easy one one.
Hank, Would you like to say anything about boobs not being fully round?
They're not.
And Hank has spoken, right, yeah.
No, they are, they are.
They're round, it's a round piece of meat. Is it curved? Or, yeah?
All right, yeah.
Good pick. yeah, good pick. great pick. okay.
All right, I'm going to go with pie, Pie is round. Do you want to object to that, Hank?
No, I like that pick.
Okay.
All right.
Love pie I'm more of a pie guy than I'm a cake guy.
Yeah.
I think.
Pie clears cake all day.
Birthday cake pretty decent, pie vastly superior.
Yeah, you don't think pie clears cake?
I feel like I've had more cake than pie in my life.
That's not the question, sir.
So yeah, I would say that.
No, that's because one is served more, it doesn't mean it's better.
You get force-fed cake at birthdays, I would prefer birthday pies.
Ice cream is better than cake.
Why don't they just do ice cream at every birthday? They do. they do both. No, they do cake way more than ice cream at a birthday.
But you've had more ice cream than cake, because it's better. I've definitely had way more ice cream than cake, yeah.
Easily, I probably have had a lot of pie.
But that's because I select the ice cream myself, I go out of my way to purchase ice cream, I don't get ice cream foisted upon me. Like people do with cake, sometimes, I don't want to talk shit about cake because I do enjoy cake, but pie is way better.
Okay, pie number one. And then back to me, the wheel, good, pick the wheel.
Add it on there.
Maybe the best invention of all time.
Add it on there.
That and red zone.
Add it on there.
Damn.
You complain about that? Hank? Nope. Okay, good, nice.
I'm going to take a basketball.
Yep, okay, good pick.
Shit, man, I'm getting foisted.
I'm going to take earth, yeah.
Ah, good pick.
Is this terrible? Mount Rushmore?
Might be, might be.
The earth's not round hank.
Yeah, might be.
Ask your boy, Kyrie, it's way more round than boobs.
Uh, and I.
Oh oh, you just went out of order.
You're right, Wait, what were you going to say?
He didn't go out of order.
No, he's fine, you're good, you're good. Go, what'd you pick?
The other one, Sure, you have two? No, I should have stopped you fuck.
What's the punishment? If you go out, there should be a....
No, you can just take.
The other person can take it.
Yeah, true.
There's a lot of good ones, but I don't really know.
Am I just going to go all food?
I mean, some of the best round things are food, for sure.
It is a lot of.
There's a lot of food out there. Okay, okay, I'm going to go with....
Yeah, I'm going to go with a cookie cookie, beautiful round thing, love a chocolate chip cookie, and then I will go...
People are going to be confused because they're going to think that our Mount Rushmores are not the blind Mount Rushmores. I'm going to go with the golf ball, great ball.
Okay, decent ball.
That's great ball. They're going to think I was you and you were me.
Especially when I take my next pick.
Oh, no.
The sphere.
Oh, this is going to be very confusing. I'm going to lose because people vote against Hank.
Damn big cat, you're really stinking this Mount Rushmores.
I'm sucking right now.
And Hank's reaping all the benefits. That's wild shit. I mean, we never know until the votes get counted.
Kind of a fraudulent pick by you because you've never been. Also. Wait, is this sphere?
Yeah, because we gave the earth, yeah, and balls.
But it's also not fully round because.
You just picked golf ball, though the floor....
That boobs, the chest like, there's.
Well, you opened this Pandora's box when you went at pizza.
We allowed.
No, I didn't. I said, I'm not objecting.
Boobs are round, you did, you opened it? But there's a floor to them.
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