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Baskin's pop a shot catastrophe

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Baskin's pop a shot catastrophe

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just about 50 minutes time here, Nick Wilson, Jonathan Peterland back on the fan. Did we have a read to do JP today? We do. Yeah. Opening week on the fan, presented by hands free sketches, slip ins, just step in and go. I just stepped in it and we went. Yeah, there we go. I had time to get you a new sponsor and if you if you have any problem with any part of today's show, one, valid, two, I was a warrior last night. Yeah, is that right? You and me is date out to nine, two and me. No, no, no. I left the event at nine 53. Don't you diminish my accomplishments? Yeah. I got home at a late night at 11 o'clock. You don't know what it's like to wake up early with young kids. You call everyone else the square. No, no, no, I'm being a good father because I wake up at five, three of my children. Yeah, beat that. But go to sleep at nine thirty. Now, which is why me getting home at 11 o'clock at night and waking up at five

thirty is actually rather heroic. I'm not saying it's not heroic. I mean, it's not heroic, but okay. But I think in like the definition of a square nine thirty is probably the proper bedtime. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I went to bed 11. Yeah, so last night we were really pushing that. We're really pushing that real tough. So anything that happened today really should be under the banner of I probably should have realized how late it was going to be out and scheduled to day off and scheduled a four day weekend like like a month ago. I should have seen this one coming, right? No, everybody else worked today. Why would you have taken off because I'm special. Ken and Anthony showed up after being out wait later than you. I mean, she's I'm not a Ken's bad. But Lyma was out until the Colorado game end of last night. That was like midnight. I left Lyma and Owen at the bar and I thought one of them won't make it. I was where heavy it was Lyma, but I was like, you know, I don't know if Owen was there to look after Lyma or if Owen was also getting deep in the booze train. I don't know how it went, but I knew probably wouldn't go well, but they did well.

They actually got it both showed up like I could not have been me. I think Ken was a little jealous that he wasn't able to hang out even later with them because he also had a long drive back. That was how he traded on the air. I don't know. You tell me I will tell you when he said hotel. I was like, why didn't why didn't I think that I could have done a hotel? Cause I would have liked to, you know, like everybody wanted to buy you a drink. I couldn't. I had a 50 minute drive home drive. Yeah, yeah. Fairness can piece out way earlier than any other host, not named Jeff Phelps or any basking. Oh, did he? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, he had a long drive back. I get it. It was what it was. I, it's almost surprising. Dave and Buster's wasn't like like just put you up and you can sleep in the maybe the Ghost Busters game. The ski ball or something or that big arcade that the human clock arcade. You can just sleep in there. But all the balls. Yeah. Well, there was, there was more like, like, floaty devices was the prizes. Oh, that's right. Yeah. Yeah. Depends on, on which human crane that you go to there. Well, no, because the David Buster's know what I mean is the David Buster's in Canton

has, has more ball shaped objects. Oh, is that right? Yeah. I know because I was there a year, a year and a half ago with my kiddos. This one only had quotation devices as the way, but it was like specialty in quotation devices. Now, the funny thing to me is, because I've heard the story told the Dishon Watson card issue. I don't think it's properly been told on air. Okay. I'd like to hear your version of it. I've heard the morning show four different times describe it. So I don't know your version. So the bomber sports card team there, it comes up and they've got a very funny bit. 2022 Dishon Watson signed card and then a Dishon or Shadour card also signed. Yeah. So one of these cards is something I would be interested, but there might be Brown's fans who want the Dishon card, right? Bounce back. I don't even know if the Dishon one was signed. I thought the Dishon one was just numbered. I know. I think they were both signed. Okay. I looked at the Shadour one. That one was definitely so initially we think, all right, Dishon, that one's going to go first. And so I reach in, pull out the first, the first submission and, you know, read out the

numbers. Nobody shots out. They, a female's name and it was like, well, that's just not great. Unfortunate. And, but they weren't there. You had to be on site to get this prize. So I go out of the hopper. Here's another one. Here's the six digit number there and then we turn it over and once again, it's a, it's a female's name and you're like, all right, do they, are they actually there and they just don't want it? Yeah. Or, or is it, you know, or they really just not there. But so at this point, Daryl's heard me go, ooh, later. Yeah. Twice, twice. Twice. And then I'm like, all right, I can't, I can't do it a third time. So then I, then I go clearly this won't happen again, pull out the third one. Ooh, later. And it's a lady. Yeah. So now three and we're over three. Yeah. And so now it's very, very funny. And I was like, all right, and then Keith is like getting frustrated because it's slowing down the whole bed. And so Keith's like, come on, let's do one more. So we do one more. And it was also a lady.

Nice. And so the idea that DeShawn Watson's card to pull for that specific one, we got four straight women. I don't mean to break this to everyone, but usually at these fan events. Yeah. Not stockpiled with females. You know, they had to sign the thing though, right? No, I'm saying like typically though, like if you, you know, in case anyone wasn't aware, it's usually, it's usually a male prevalent than female prevalent. So the idea that we pulled out four ladies is statistically that is going to be incredibly small. And then we just all broke down laughing and then we just kind of were like, well, who wouldn't love the DeShawn card with the Shedore card? And then immediately we got somebody to win it. Yeah. That was nice. And that guy actually been there for the duration of our show for the most part. Yeah. I mean, like three hours of our show, then he hung off for another couple of hours. So it was good that he wanted. Now I have a very strong tennis take here. Okay. All right. Oh, wait, by the way, I did get an email. Christie says I did have the pop a shot high score. Yeah. She sent me exclusively the email. Yeah.

Oh, only you. And by the way, Kudos to Lima, I came in third, I believe. And Lima came in second. I want Jack to talk about what he thought about Andy Baskin's pop a shot. Yeah. That was a real treat. I mean, probably one of the funniest videos I've seen. So living and dying with each shot is what made it for me. Oh. That's a great Andy Baskin video you're watching over there. Are you sure we got the right video? Not the workbook one. Okay. All right. We still talking pop a shot. Well, and the funny thing is like, listen, I don't look like a paragon of athleticism. All right. I am obese. I am the body's breaking down at this point in my 40s. But it looks like I've shot a basketball before you, sir. You look like you shot a basketball before. Lima. I didn't know he had shot a basketball before. Lima looked like somebody who had hooped at least once. Didn't he play high school basketball, Lima? You did he? He's so slender. I think maybe he went out for his high school team.

I didn't make it. That's right. That's a lot of us. I don't know. I think that's more the story. I thought he played high school hoops. But what kind of a guy? He could have played basketball while in high school. Yeah, just not for the high school team. Yeah, just not for the high school team. Yeah, maybe that's it. But Baskin looked like it was the first time he picked up a basketball. And I just, and I don't want to shame a man. Clearly, I have no room to talk about a lack of athleticism. But I was just, and so you, you pair the, I don't know that you've shot a basketball before. With then, That's the disappointment when you've been going. So, Reena Williams, I will tell you, I don't think it, I don't think that helped the bit. I thought, me because I left my ass off watching it this morning. I didn't see it. Any of the last, I didn't see it last night. I saw Lyme as last night. I saw obviously yours last night, mine last night. I, it was the first thing I woke up today and it put me in the best mood.

That's good. Despite really being tired because I'm a real grinder. Really enjoyable. I do think, by the way, you had a clear thing up with Christie. Why? He was not pleased with you. What was that? Well, you said on the air and you said something effective like how I was such a big diva or something about the pop a shot or something. Just trying to make it seem like a big deal that I had to go over there and do that. And she came up and she's like, I, I didn't tell Nick any of that. I, I know, I know, it's Nick. He's just messes with people. It's fine. But then I think that I think I'm getting the email. I think it's based off of that. I think she, I think she, I think she's a little, she's a little peep. No, we talked after that. Oh, you did. Okay. You're actually really good. Yeah. Okay, that's good to hear. Yeah. I'd hate to have that happen for you guys. No. What a hate to have that happen. Yeah. And, and Christy is married, married woman right there. But if her and her husband could be like work booze, is it whatever, whatever like, I'm just saying like them to gather. All right, tell me you tend to stay. All right. Well, no, I'm just saying like if there was something different than work booze that you could use for a couple.

Yeah, like, like a, like a work and a nuncle. Yeah. That doesn't sound great. No. Is there not that much older than me? They're really not. I'm just digging a hole here, aren't I? They're really not. I mentioned I'm tired. I'm real tired. I've grinded last night. It's been a long couple days. I really did. Yeah. All right. Tell me your tennis deck. All right. Anyways, I'm already, you know, I'm already one foot out the door when it comes to tennis anyways. A little one thing the dust and could do when we were co-hosts is mention tennis. No, no, the one thing he could use up that up a little better. I get, I know you're tired, but you know, I get that I jammed you up about the bad stew when allergy earlier, but this is basically bullying. It is bullying at this point for you. Anyway, the one I long vested in that day, the dust and could do that would get my eyes to glaze over is talk about tennis. I'm now hot on the trail because the US opens going on. I just found that out today. And Arnia Sabalenko stopped the match today and said it complained to the judge, someone

is smoking weed. Do you mind because it's so strong. This is why people don't like professional tennis players. There is no way you can be hot boxed at the US open. It's opens in the name. Yeah. All right. You can have the kind of stuff that would send Snoop dog to the moon, which is like the equivalent of like, you know, the weed equivalent of heroin. And I'm going to tell you in an open situation, it will not affect you at all. This is a real devamoo from Sabalenko. You know, I've been a team Sabalenko. I'm out. A while there. Yeah. I do feel like they've had a real problem with the US open with influencers this year. It's kind of like they have a big ban on influencers. They've kicked people out for just being on their cell phones and not watching the event. But everyone in New York goes to the US open just to who's who. That's what it is. It's turned into a who's who. It's not even a real sporting event at this point. It's just a, it's a who's who who post everything they possibly can. But again, I think that's a response to that though.

I think that the party culture, the Instagram culture is taken over the US open and Sabalenko is just pissed about it. Yeah. And say thank you for being interested in this sport. I did. Well, there's always been interest in the US open. They've always been able to sell out. Now they're just selling out to people that they don't want there. They don't want the influencers there. They want assuming they're charging more for it too. Oh, up the you know what? And by the way, you know what? You know what? That's why I said you know what? Because you know what? Because you know what? Could you specify? It's applied when I say you know what? What? Up the you know what is? That's the idea. Those honeydews are like 30 bucks a piece for our cocktail. Yeah. It's insane. Between that, the food, all of it. Yeah. It's turned into Instagram culture. Yeah. Which is what you can do. And the real tennis knobs are, they're in the real tennis knobs are pissed about it. Yeah. I wanted to go back to 1995. Complaining about weed in an outdoor, again, I got the same issues in the golf world too. I don't have them. I like that the culture is taken over in the in the golf world.

That's boost. And it's kind of made it a little bit cooler. But like if you go to a Gustaf for instance, there's a corum that is supposed to be met there. And there's a line that you can and cannot cross. And then the US open, that's their Augusta. And so they feel like that line has been crossed. The hot boxing has commenced and they're pissed about it. You're a professional athlete trying to perform at your best. You want to inhale that during your sport? It's not going to do anything to you. It'll, they're 20 feet away, 10 feet away. It's diluted. And inhale what? There's, it's air. That's all it is. It's scented air. Yeah. You're a professional athlete trying to do your best. Good Lord, Mug, tell us you don't know how to hang. I think it was easy when we were her in the tennis community. And I think she took it. I think she took it. I think it was an easy win. Quite frankly, this proves why we'd all be better off if professional tennis wasn't professional anymore. Just take the money out of it. Take, take all the time. Just play for free. You would play for the love of the game. You would play for the love of the game. And no spectators will show up.

So you aren't possibly bothered by hint of the guys. We really have the funny part about it. It is an event that just turned too cool and too, too invoked. And now they're, the hipster tennis community is pissed because their event is fun for people that aren't just die hard tennis fans. When we come back, in case you missed it, I'm not a two-three-the-fan.

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