March Madness, the New Big Three, and Oscars Reaction

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Time you get in last night. We're this morning. What time you get in this morning from the Oscar parties?

There was no get in. I did a quick wardrobe change and came right here. Oh, so you you haven't okay. You broke day

I broke day no question about what were the what were the after party because there's the parties and then the after parties and then you know

Well, first of all before we get to the after parties and all that first of all I play LACC as we can. Okay, my man Austin

Mutton and play he he was nice enough to invite me out. I played the North

Side of LACC, which is most challenging side of the golf course the champion side

So that was great. Let's fascinate it good

But and then and then you know

The weekend was great. Yeah

We had it was a great great Oscar night. Okay. Have a lot of fun

During the day and then last night and got into some festivities, right, you know, that's what I remember last Oscar

Party. Yeah, you know, the Oscar night is is actually pretty cool. I mean Jay Z Timothy Shalam

You had a whole well that that that was it. We had a repeat offender. Uh-huh. We definitely had a repeat offender. I see

But you you you hit the vanity fair, which I did not last night. Yeah, normally I do. Why'd you skip it?

I didn't really skip it. It was just kind of like the day

You know, and normally normally it'd be a it'd be a lot of us going and it wasn't this year for whatever reason

But it looked amazing. It was at the LACMA this year, which obviously you know, I'm with the LACMA

Are you on the board? Yes, I am on the board of LACMA. Yes, pretty good. And

But that looked amazing. Everyone looked amazing there. And then I popped by

by a guy's series for for a bit and saw sorry everyone there and that was nice. And then I end the night at the gold party

Which the gold party is something that is

Obviously I can't give you is no cameras. That's why I can't give you too much of a you don't see anything. They put they put the

The tape over the phone. No, no, there's no tape. There's a there's a understanding. Okay, there's understanding that if you put

High-class enough. Well, if you put that phone out and take a picture

The next stop for you would be a bed

It's not because it's not the Derek Jeter where you got to put it put it in there. No, no, no, no, it's called

We politely actually leave right think because the whole purpose you guys are on the honor system

Well, yeah, and and people respected and obviously it's Jay

So but but the whole purpose is for you to feel comfortable for the award winners to come and really enjoy themselves

And and for people to be able to just dance and have a great time and and Jay and and these are great hosts and

The music number one is not hard to believe

No, you're jazzy Jeff. Yeah

that no jazzy Jeff then germane to pre right right and

You know like literally everyone's dancing having a great time

It's it's it's it's elegance. It's a celebration

It's it's everything you can imagine telling me you saw I think it was Jay from across the room lip sync

Oh, we were to himself Michael Jackson lyrics or something. No, anything last year. No, no

Yes, actually something did happen like that. We were listening to

It's funny that you remember that but it's always Jay and I have in this this this

This kind of thing moment. Yeah, this moment because obviously he is mr. music, and I love music, but

This year that that was that was who played that

It was a

It was like the sample or the it was the

The tape the

What was the reference of right of that that they use yeah, but they use that

Mac Jackson song and you heard the reference we heard the reference he was he was you so he's kind of like thinking about lyrics

No, he played the reference the DJ. Yeah, played the reference prior to

Playing the actual song. Oh, that's fresh. Yeah, first of all is that's like playing the I do this

I do a version of that. That's oh, it was quest love who did that. Yeah, yeah, that's right

That's right. It was incredible. I do a version of that in the

Card of school with my daughter. I'll play her where the sample the song where the sample came from and then the hip-hop version of the song that used

The sample and repurposed it, right? Yeah, but that's next level use the reference and then you play the song

Yes, it was that wasn't but we talked in quest love here, which is incredible and and then but last night it was actually

This this mob deep

Quiet storm, but but but but little Kim's verse

Okay, and we were talking about just that verse alone her cadence and the might have the greatest female rap features or album

Front to back that might be my number one, which her her debut album. Yeah, I mean, yeah, that was a classic. I was yeah, and

And

First of all the everything about that album was classic. She created how

Provocative women became on on the on the covers and things like like she talked that she was but also the songs themselves

She's super fly I'm producing the production all of that, but you know the the thing about

The the goal party is first of all it's black excellence with everyone welcome and

You know, it's just one of those things when sinners win at the Academy Awards by the way sinners won I can't sit through the Oscar

They won best cinematography obviously Michael B1

Best actor. Yeah, I mean he could have Michael B Jordan is one of those guys who could win for anything he's in really

He's excellent. Yeah, but but but nevertheless it was a great night. I left right there go

Switched up came right here. I'm fresh though. I'm fresh because the the the hospitality you just have to again

I can't talk too much about it

Yeah, it's one of them places where you just have to be there and you have and it's not like a thing where you

Automatically invite it you have to keep getting reinvited right every year

So that's what the behavior system is yeah, yeah, it's real Santa Claus, but it's a kind of a great Santa Claus

It's great to see if you're naughty or nice

And everyone's there having a really nice time. You get to see you know what I met last night

Kadeem Hardison's mom miss miss hardest she you know she was

One of the first black models and she also really fought for people

You know in the the the movie space

In many different ways and she was the nicest lady last night and it was like

That was fly that was don't you always meeting everyone's mother

Because I'm a nice guy and maybe just how you can tell a knife also

You're when you're you're when you get older to the point where you're a certain age no you're in that mother bracket

No, you're seeing everyone's mom. They look at contemporary. She was hanging last night

She was great. Yeah, and you can tell a lot about someone when they when they when someone's mother

Actually likes them because mom knows best, right? That's just a lot of others who don't like their kids

No, I'm talking about their friends or you know people that they yeah, they're gonna be able to give you a read like

Max but see you hard had it. I know you didn't listen. What Max stay away from that guy. Who?

I'm sure your mom told you that. Oh, oh, you didn't listen as a kid

No, but let's talk more about the Oscars when we get into this show

But last night was a great night. It was a great night. You're a trooper coming breaking day here. You are bright

All night of type of guy. Yeah, this is

Yeah, those days are in my past. I mean, you get one a year

It's a great night. I try not to ever break day. It was a great night. What do you mean? You're just hanging the music is great

Great caviar. Yeah, hmm. You're a caviar guy if that's not the first time I've heard you mentioned caviar

Well, I like nice things. Yeah, you know, but it was I mean every Cali pizza. How about that?

It a little in and out. Could you could you see Michael B went to in and out last night with the trophy?

Let's get it for him. Let's start the show so we can talk more about that

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Selection Sunday rich

Selection Sunday March madness is upon us. March madness is upon us. I'm surprised with the number ones Florida Arizona, Michigan, you con yeah

But do you think all four number ones making to the final four?

There's there's a good show. Well, you know what the funny thing is the way you con lost the St. John's that's

Like with money on with the money on the line right big East tournament finals and they and they got waxed

So I don't know that's a good question. I it's kind of a chalky year, I think though

Yeah, I think it's always tough for all four final fours to make it but it could be this year, but I tell you one thing

There's some there's some

There's a ton of talent. Let me tell you something along those lines

All year you're hearing Peterson in advance, right and boozer. He's a great college player who'd be a good pro player

Maybe his upside is in his high

To me easily easily the best player I've seen in college is a cuff

Right to me. I don't know that and I know that everyone wants a switchable six foot seven eight guy

Yeah, and everything but and what is he six three or something like that? He's Derek Rose 2.0

Maybe a little shorter than that, but but he's the new Derek Rose, but got the same coach

Whatever he's whatever he's lacking in height

making up for it in heart and skills and well skills speaks for itself

But still you have to have some he there's some there's some there's some some dog in there. Here's the thing

Paul George is a great player

And if the bands are someone like that could be the next Paul George great, but

When you are picking high high up in the draft, especially if you have the number one pick and it's a really great draft

The only way to really acquire the best player on a championship team for most teams is to draft that guy

If if in a deep draft if I come away with Paul George and I had the number one pick

You can't really be upset, but I'm looking I don't I need I need more to I need I want to select the and I look at a cuff

And I go that dude can be the best player on a championship team, but here's the thing

His name is no longer Daria's a cuff. It is Daria's a tough

Okay, because he is you know, I give these nicknames out. Yeah

In key moments he's he's got it, but you guys yeah, but it's not just see people get so caught caught up in the scoring points

And everybody just catching on the Daria's a cuff

You know, my

Rashad's been telling me about Daria's a cup. He has a mentor. It's like an uncle to him

And everyone knew he's really really good. It's just like

Forever right and it's dad and and you know, they deserve all the flowers that that that is happening for the young man, but

People are just catching on to it and they're looking at the box score and saying oh, he's the best player because of points

No, you have to see how he is

playing the game

Making the right reads how he is playing both ends of the floor. I'm scared of the moment. Yeah, how he's executing in key moments

How he's can obviously can have 27 he's had 27 28 30 etc

But fast twitchy

But also making the extra pass all the things that it takes to really have the signs of

Because it's not just talent. Can you really be a good pro?

Right, I look at a cuff and I see Derek Rose. I see a dude who can who can see Marbury you see Derek Rose

You see a you see a number of things and there's this thing going around about maybe he's the best point guard that maybe the best guard that that

Coach Call is ever coach. He's got some good ones. I kind of think that's unfair to the kid

But it's good that to be in that company to even be in that conversation with all the guards that came out of

Kentucky and now Arkansas

Forget about it, but

Here's the thing I would say

We all say you know people talk about he should go number one. He should be in the conversation for number one. Well

Wherever he goes he will be that team's number one pick and for the kid hopefully for him

It's the right place. Don't get overwhelmed about

Number one because number one could be somewhere that is not

The best place for you. Yeah, but what I'm saying is if I have a pick in this dress or not overwhelm

If I have a pick on this draft and a cuff is available. I don't care who I have it point guard. I don't care

I'm taking the best player. I'm taking a cuff in this draft, but that is not true

And that's now how GM stinks and that's why you're not a GM if that's not why I'm not a GM however

Maybe a mistake I'm making is a GM, but I don't think it is if you have a dude

It's like in the NFL you're like if you're drafting a certain you want a gold jacket guy

You want a guy's going to be in the hall of fame if I'm drafting this goes back to the Jordan thing

Bobby Knight who should we draft number one overall draft Jordan

Well, we need a center draft Jordan playing at center right draft a cuff and figure it out later

That dude is the best player in this draft. Yes, but nor if if you have

Like I can name several teams. I have point guards and wouldn't do it, right? So but if you are thinking down the road

And you are taking them you're taking them if you have someone already

Or you look last year

They San Antonio took Harper and they had Fox and Castle. Yeah, so I'm not saying that we're gonna have pretty good

Yeah, you're not starting wrong it in that case. Yeah

At all, but I will say it's what you said though rich. It's when a guy has a high basketball when he checks every box

Yeah, when he has a high basketball IQ when he is a high care team athlete when he's tough as you say

Yes, he's not afraid of the big moment when he's a team player when he's well coached in cop that is hard to pass up

I agree that is that is hard to I want to do my five-minute max right now because we have so much to get to

Let's do your top. So who your top or your top five change because he wasn't originally in the top five

He's my number one. I have to think about them. Okay. Well, I can tell you this the Peterson Peterson to Basta Wilson

A cuff

Why am I missing one? Oh boozer boozer. Yeah, but I will say

I will say not in order. You're just saying that order

But there's two guys in this draft that

Could could really affect things all right one is a cuff and the other one is Braden Burris right yeah, because of their guard play. Yeah

So I wouldn't be surprised any of those guys

The teams nowadays are looking like it's hard to win with small guards

Yeah, I think a cuff is that small, but it's hard to win with small guards

You gotta be dying which he is yeah, you gotta be just special special. Yeah, because you want to be in moments to where

Again, they're hunting for the switch nowadays. They're there

So that mean they're bringing they're putting a smaller guy in every ball screen. Yeah, it's tough

Especially during the course of 82 game season and it really gets even tougher in the playoffs

So you have to fight through those things

But just having that versatility in that size being able to see over the screen being able to actually be on the other end and get the mismatch

Being able to be the screener or and or the guy that's initiating off. I think he's tall enough. I'm not looking

I don't look at like guy who's like well, he's a bitty, but he's also dude

So his guy Rashad Phillips who played at university Detroit. He was tough

That's who trained him the whole time. So he's understanding how to play it again in right way

If you see him be trapped off the

Dr. Ball screen. He's gonna retreat dribble to where he can see over the defense. He's gonna make he's gonna

He's gonna have ways to get himself into space to where he can have

You know a clean line of a passing lane not to turn a ball. Yeah, this is not like an Isaiah

I don't mean Zeke. I mean the next Isaiah Thomas situation where he's an excellent player

He really is so small that it creates problems in the end of games even though you'd love to put him on the tour is not that

Yeah, the second Isaiah Thomas was excellent about that. Yeah, you're right about that all right

Listen here. So we have to get to the Lakers beating the nuggets and over time. There's so much in that game

We you know, there's LeBron stuff. There's Lucas stuff. There's Austin Reeves stuff. There's JJ redic stuff. We got to get to

Just like the thunder beat the wolves right the thunder thunder looking good

But I want I want to give you my five minute max right now. Okay, because there's so much stuff rich here it is

We are spoiled

Sports fans right now like think about it. This is considered before March Madness is considered a dead spot in the sports calendar

Right, you hear people say that a lot the NFL is so far away baseball hasn't started yet

The NBA isn't in the playoffs yet, etc

Think about what just happened over this last weekend. Okay, so the reason I bring this up is because Dana white

You know, he and I talk a bunch and I know I was picking his brain when he's coming up with Zufa boxing

When he called me about it

Because you want it to be successful like the UFC. So what's the the the key to success in the UFC and one of them

He told me is in every broadcast. He tries to give the fans

Three holy shit moments like oh my god. Did you just see that?

Think about the number of oh my god. Did you just see that moments over this sports weekend? Okay, never mind

Bams 83 points. We saw history everything that came out again like oh my god. That's like a week ago already forget about them

Okay, I know that seemed like a meant to go that it just happened and it just happened

But this weekend so Aaron judge yesterday through a guy out at third base

With a throw that made him look like what my dad just tell me Roberto Clemente

Through in right field Aaron judge is known like maybe the best hitter ever

But his the throw he made

That would be Bay Bonds was the best hitter ever who's not clearly enhanced. All right, listen

Sorry, that's what it is. Yeah, so that would be Bay Bonds, but whatever. Yeah, right if you just want to see the best

Baseball hitting and I don't care how they got there. It's bonds, but anyway

So so judge throws them out at third base. That's an oh, oh my god. Did you see that moment, right? There's one the USA

We beat

DR on a on a called third strike that was a ball that was leading a lot of shows this morning

But and it wasn't an oh my god moment, but it was like a memorable moment, right?

Rick patino

Rick patino

Gets destroyed by Yukon three or four weeks ago, right?

Destroyed to the point where I was like oh, okay, I get it now Yukon's the best team in the country

But in the big east tournament, right with the chips on the line

Rick patino's team blows out Yukon a 20 point game

In a college tournament and in the big east tournament

Rick patino like

He's a guy when you think about his

Influence on the history of basketball. I don't think people understand the profundity of his influence the scope

You better forget about the fact that he was a very successful pro and college coach his

Career was over it ended in scandal. He had to leave the country. He's back

He's back. He's back in the tournament and he's still kicking us through the NIL thing and everything all these other guys leave the sport

He is a basketball junkie. I think he would die if he weren't coaching

It's keeping them alive like a vampire. He's like he this dude. That's his life blood

Rich I think about how the three-point shot has changed the game

patino is so

Intimately involved in that the bomb squad with the nicks with Mark Jackson and Johnny Newman and all those guys who were

patino was the original dantonies like get up a lot of these type of shots

Mark Jackson was on that team who eventually brought that philosophy to golden state and told curry and clay shoot shoot from there

That's okay, right? That completely influenced the NF the the NBA and this dude is just whooped up on the maybe the best team in the country

Who blew you saw the look on his face a couple weeks ago? That was the Arizona go ahead right maybe but I mean you cons up there

You saw the look on patino's face when you can beat him. He was humiliated right like you're thinking

Oh, what's gonna happen if these two see each other again? That's what happened the a cuff with 37

He goes off for 37 handful of games ago. He had 49 right then you had

Selection Sunday. Yes, hold on Luca had a 30-point triple double after a 50-point game

Lebron is a hundred years old. I know we're gonna get to this in a second. He a hundred years old. He laid out

He looked like Greg Nettles at third base

Diving for a ball in the world series in the 78s. He laid out for for a loose ball

Max Crosby is still available in the NFL by the way because that deal got undone is AJ Brown and get about to get moved right?

This is the dead spot

The giants my giants signed Darnell mooney from the from the Falcons

He's a get behind the defense athletic high upside receiver my point is this last weekend in sports

Gate was so jam packed. This is the dead spot. It's unbelievable. We're spoiled. I can see you like

You're overheating. Yeah, like I can see it max. Yeah, I'm done. That's it

This is five that was five minutes strong. All right

Here's what I'll say

Do you think we can get the tape my father used to get the tape

Uh, he didn't he didn't go to church all the time when he didn't go to church. He would have

Revin Howard at the time

Just send him the sermon

So he can listen to it himself if you if you miss church. Yeah, do you think we can get the tape of

Rick Patinos

Talk after that game pre-game. No, not after. Oh pre-game. I'm saying I'm saying after the lost

No, no, no, I want the talk if looks could kill boy before the game. Yeah

That he had with that team because that team the way they came out and played

You know, I love those Kentucky teams with Rick Patino sure. Oh, look. I mean he was

I mean, do you know the

Wayne Turner

Mercer

Derrick Anderson

Antoine Walker Epps

I mean

You watch him a cardie

He just had you just had so many guys so many guys

Rick Patino is great for college basketball. He's great for basketball, but definitely college basketball and

Think about it Rick Patino coach two guys. He coached Walter Clayton right at Iona before he went to Florida

Went to Iona to coach and then the young man Jenkins that's playing extremely well

And Detroit right who just got a just got a contract

coach him to yeah

He said the other day that there was a young man that's in pro at Providence that Rick Patino says going to be a pro

Now he may not be high on people's boards or whatever, but if Rick Patino says yes

He's seen enough pros to tell you

Definitely, but I'll say this all that you just talked about

Which great for sports fans

The problem I have is when you turn on the TV

People act as if

Everything is bad. You just you just want a five-minute rent. Yeah, thank God. I was only five minutes

But you just want to five-minute rent and it was all positive

You know, I think part of the reason is it's hard to find everything like you you have multiple subscriptions

You got to be going back and forth to find it if you're if you're if you're you know if you got an Apple TV or whatever you got

It is it's hard to find stuff. Man. It's aggravating. You know, it is, but

That's great. It's great for sports. I'm excited for it all

I want I wanted to go to one of those baseball games, but the world baseball class is just not enough just not enough

Hours in a day. No get to all these things. No, I want to go to Indian Wells. I miss Indian Wells

I wanted to go to I mean it was two games

I actually went to the Clippers Kings game instead of going to the Lakers Nuggets game

Yeah, that was in the best choice, but yeah, it actually was why

What do you mean? Why not? I like the Clippers. Lakers Nuggets came the next game

But I always I go to a tunnel like I was watching on my phone. It was great. That's true

Yeah, that's what I do all the time

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Let's get into lakeers nuggets. Okay, sure

Lakeers beat the notes. I had to start with you ourselves. I got to start with you with Lebron

Went if Lebron people are like oh, I did ever used to see Lebron make that kind of play if I'm a coach of a team

And Lebron make in his prime makes that kind of play you're mad

Of course you do not want a player in his prime as great as Lebron was

To ever

Your threshold for injury tolerance for injury risk is very low now if it's game seven of the finals go ahead

But in a regular season game, I'd better not see Lebron do that in his prime

However as your talent diminishes as you get older your skill stays the same or gets better usually

You know how you know how and your technique, but your talent how fast you run out high you jump back on your first step

diminishes over time he's a hundred years old and he does that if Lebron can play that style of basketball if he's like

I'm actually the glue guy on this team that's gonna make sure everything's okay for everybody

Lucas running the offense Austin Reeves is the number two squaring option

But I'm the everything man who's gonna like you said be the Carl Malone type guy

But also be the kind of like Dennis Robin kind of guy if Lebron can sustain that

for

You know six weeks or something like that Lakers are extremely dangerous rich

Well, look, I think you hear all the nonsense about

And I I hate to talk keep talking about the Lakers, but we have to because

Lakers cowboys Yankees are some brands, but what talks but

But you hear all the nonsense about the team being better without Lebron

I've never seen a team in my life that would be better without Lebron James till this one this year until recently

No, still this one not either because of all the things you just said

I think it's more so about

Figuring it out and sometimes it takes you longer than not because for a guy that's been on the ball for so long

How do you play them off the ball? But then

Obviously you put them in the corner because that's supposed to be you know second-side action

But that may not yeah that may not work there so it but it takes and they didn't get reps together because one of them was always hurt all year

Yes, but it also takes you a while to figure it out and you also have to count keeping

You have to understand or factor in

His presence you gotta realize something

most

Guys that steps on the basketball floor with the Lebron James number one are in all

Right if they're not trying to pretend like there's there

They get into somebody else or what not

If they're not put on the act

It's by the way the act as you say that

If you walk into a room and you want to see if if you're a guy or a girl and and you want to see if you're getting rhythm from somebody across the room

And they never look at you once

Throughout the entire time you're in the room

That tells you something they're avoiding it right that that means that they they're trying to they're kicking game in a way

Right that's not the same thing is kind of looking at you for a second and looking at someone else

When Lebron it if a team is put together and people are going out of their way to kind of not notice Lebron

They're telling on themselves a little bit because

That's not really possible right the the other thing is

Obviously

Every game is a

Is a championship for a lot of people, you know because what young player don't want to play well

They've been watching them all this life

What team mate don't want to play well because they've been watching them all their life their basketball careers

I mean the guy's been the league for 23 years

So I just I just some things when you when people's especially basketball people when basketball people say certain things

that I

Kind of respect their basketball

Acumen and then they say certain things because of just

Flow on with the the that's just the way everything is going. I'm just like

What do you respond to specifically what comments? Well, there was a comment that that said that the Lakers were better without

Well, okay, well, so this is interesting, right? That's analytic the sample size wasn't huge

But it wasn't tiny either and I would agree that one of the reasons it was probably like this what I'm about to say

Is because there was very little continuity with the big three playing together, right?

However, it was interesting that they went from a very good offensive team with Luca and and

Austin Reeves on the floor together to a bad offensive team if you added Lebron

It didn't make sense because I agree with you Lebron's overall game is such that any team you ever put him on should only ever get better

So it was curious that this was get that this team was getting worse offensively

I agree with your analysis. They were figuring it out in retrospect. Yeah, but it was alarming because it's like

If Lebron doesn't have that thing

Where he's making a team better and he's 40 plus years old and he's in his 23rd season

Maybe it's the end, right? Like that's what but the but the fact is since you brought it up the net rating stats are now plus of with those three guys playing together

Max, do you know how hard it is

To not start training camp and have rhythm right

It's just and by the way, it's not like he's ever had an issue with

Starting the season or getting out or playing the right way. He's always only played the right way too much the right way sometimes

Yeah, he's the one guy that can play

really play and know how to play

Every position on the floor if he was a five man, he's gonna set the proper think about it

If he was if he's your five man when she was playing some small ball five

He's a little more work in the post. I think to be a great five, but yes, not no more because you have a stretch five right?

It's true. So now if he's your five man and you have a one three

Or one five. I'm saying that he's yeah, yeah, but you have a one five picking role with either

Luke or AR

great because now

the

He's rolling so now he's making the secondary

He's your secondary decision maker. Who would you rather have an entirely he can play the two because he could guard your other team's point

This is the part and he can make up this is the point on making, but you understand what comes with it, right?

You understand what comes with it. You didn't hear that from

The organization never said that or any of the rare

Not responding to what I was thinking myself

It's not that I was thinking this is definitive. They're getting worse, but I was thinking I have a question

Is this because they haven't had continuity so far? Is there something behind the scenes where luca resents Lebron or Lebron

But but what it appears to be at this moment is the is the not getting enough reps with continuity the three of them together to figure it out until

When you here's the thing

When you have guys, there's two type of players

There's a guy that can go and get it and there's a guy who is of what what I would call a

Not a specialist right

During the course of NBA's regular season

Specialists actually have a ton of value

Because that's one of those situations where it's a swing swing that guy's in the corner and that corner

guy he can only shoot three's right he's a specialist

But then you get to the point to where you need a guy that can actually put the ball in the ground and go and get it themselves right

When you have

These guys in your top heavy with these type of guys

It takes a little while to figure it out because normally you this is why I always set my theory about a big three

Normally you only really need a big two

Because it it allows you to think less about that third guy who has

Not necessarily entitlement

But who is talented enough to have some own some type of real estate and being able to pull out their

DIY kid

Here, but I like your definition for people who have don't know the way you fix

I'm all paraphrase you tell me if I got it or not the the reason big three's don't actually exist is to say a big three

It means each player is capable of being the nucleus of a championship team. Yes, usually you have a big two

Obviously, you could do it with weight if he has a crime partner. You could do it. Lebron

But Bosch as great a player as he was two way player is not the centerpiece of a championship team right yes

Kevin Love was an excellent player is not the centerpiece of a championship team

Even if Lebron is and maybe Kyrie could be certainly one of the two Kyrie could be

So in fact your claim is and I agree with it. I think it's a good definition big three's don't actually exist because

It you just can't put those three guys together. Yes, and here's the other thing. It's not as if

you know, there's been a consistent effort to

To have more of

The initiating guys right to be able to initiate the offense

That doesn't mean that high-level production can't come from a different position because

Obviously when AD was here in LA

Yeah, a lot of the points are being scored and there's big numbers

But it's a difference when you have to get somebody to ball versus when somebody has the ball right initiating offense

So you actually need that other initiator sure that could come they didn't have that now you do have it

So so now it looks a little different and people want to kind of

Go crazy about the idea of it, but that's not true. You have to allow yourself to really

Settle in it's like anything else in life if you build a house

Right the house can look great

And you can have all the the plumbing and all that stuff that foundation still has to settle

It takes years for the foundation to still have to settle and it's the same thing with a team

I just thought of a big three that would have that act but actually approves the point because when they were all healthy

They just never were they were so much better than everyone when hard and KD and Kyrie were on the same team

Yes, they stayed healthy. Yes, they never would have lost the game like they were killing everybody like you know

Any two of them were but because that shouldn't exist in nature. Okay, but here's the thing about that big three right

When you talk about being able to want one play one on one yeah

All three of those guys

If you had to rank in the history to leave their way up high their way up high. Yeah

When you talk about the three point shot all could do it all three

There was not an offensive weakness in anyone by the way off the dribble or

Off the catches passing the ball. Yeah, you talk about being able to pass the bus

It's very seldom you're going to draw and fouls you're gonna get you're gonna get all of that talent

In three guys pretty much equally across the board and I will give

Kyrie the edge in terms of his ability to finish but it's so it's yeah

It's so interesting to me like

So in physics they say nature abours and naked singularity meaning like there's a black hole which breaks the laws of nature

Right, and so you can't actually observe it directly like the universe won't let you that's what was the an actual big three KD

Harden and Kyrie was like a naked singularity the universe wouldn't allow it to exist

They had to hurt but it was it but but but I want to move on too fast. Yeah, but not to move on too fast

I will say

what I am seeing is

A tremendous change in effort which I know Jay Jay's makers. Yeah, yeah on on defensive side of the ball

That play by LeBron when he dove on the floor. I can guarantee you he's filling that today still at that age

But what that shows you is that's the that's the passion you're looking for you guys guys who

Definitely haven't made the money definitely haven't doesn't have the accolades

definitely doesn't have the the the accomplished mission things like that

That that are reluctant to do that then when you talk about having a guy that can close

To drive left going away from the double team creating a space to bit

You know how hard that shot is to make a 15 footer going left on the baseline right with point five seconds left

That's a tough shot by yourself with no money in the arena and nobody else on the floor and then

When you think about just

This is why I mean you talk about touch

The miss the miss to go off left and then to be able to put that you tell about the Austin Reeves free throw. Yeah, so

Again, that was like when you think I think of the three things from that game

LeBron's diving at a hundred years old laying out like that is nuts

Austin Reeves missing a free throw like and it works out like like you would draw it up

And Luca

After dropping 50 the other night goes for a 30 point triple double in a win against Denver

Yeah, that's huge. He's in a rhythm and obviously, but here's here's the other thing

Don't talk bad about

Aiden when he plays back talk good about him when he plays good as well and Aiden gave you're not stopping jokers period

You're not stopping the man. He's he's he is the guy

But the effort that he gave

Down the stretch you have to applaud that. What do you think? What are you?

100% Deandre and why I play when he when he says he does basically doesn't want to be clink of hell

Which would be an improvement on this Laker's team? He like a prime clink of clink of hell anyway

When he plays well, he deserves praise and I know that in the jj redic two men. I jj redic coach in his ass

But here's the I know

Talking about LeBron brings clicks talking about the Lakers brings brings clicks so somehow some way

Even during that effort the last few efforts people find a way to try to bring a negative perspective and I'm not being

I don't I don't have a team. I have I represent players on on pretty much every team the league

But I understand basketball and I like to talk basketball

But what I'm saying is when we have this good brand of basketball being played

Why go for the clickbait when you can actually give the flowers and say hey, that's the element everybody because sports fans are for the most part hate-based life forms

Well, let's let's be honest. Not this show, but well

Yeah, there is it you're an element of it. I'm not yeah, you're an element of it

I love my teams and I hate the other teams let's speaking of

Teams I guess not love or hate the nuggets are you are you concerned about Denver at all? No

From because they're keep losing a good teams. Yeah, Jamal merge and have the best game. Yeah, Peyton wases not back

Right, even though they

The Murray's had a great season

Yoke itch is there Aaron Gordon is when he's healthy is bawling

So so that's like when when those guys are on the floor together. Yeah, but Aaron Gordon's been in the lineup all year

I said when he's healthy yet, right, but what I'm saying is

At the end of the day, we're talking about regular season games. We're gonna see

Their seating is good. The the the leakers getting ready to go on a really tough road

Starting with I mean that was a tough home game. You got two in Houston. You go to Miami. You go to Detroit. These are gonna be tough games, but

We are at the point of the season when we got 15 14 games left. Yeah teams are gonna be everyone's fighting for their lives right now

This is when you're saying the nuggets are fighting for their lives

They have a mostly their stars are all healthy

And they lose and over time to the leakers and they just they've lost a lot of these tough games

Okay, see where a Yoke itch team when he has his crime partners available to him

You would think would be doing a little better than they've been doing recently the only thing I would say is

The reserve players did shoot the ball well, but you have to take your head off to the leakers

But the point I'm trying to make is it's the regular season

So I don't get all you think Denver is a title contender this year of course they are

So but how see I agree, but I would rank them out of the west

Look as I as I mentioned Van Vleet is still you know don't look like the the rockets are getting Van Vleet back

It's bite of the phone call we had with them on yourself. You don't know that if they had Van Vleet back with enough time

Running up to the playoffs

And had that least the route we don't know if it's a burner account from KD that you know that story from about a month ago

But I think that's caused enough disruption with that team plus not having Van Vleet

I'm taking Houston off of my list of teams, but you have to you have to nougat start

Yeah, right

Yeah, okay, see you have senatorio you have okay see to you have nougat's three

Yeah

In the end. Yeah when push comes to shove you're right. What took you so long to say?

Well only because the thing with Houston so I take them away

And the lake man the lake

I

Mean, I know it's a home game. It's an overtime game. I get it. I get it. Man if the Lakers could figure this out

Maybe they'd be my three. I don't know. Well, you just well and that when you again when you have that type of talent

You just have to be able to keep the game close. Yeah, where where

Any team can run into an issue is if if you if you

Want have to dig a hole to get back into playoff contention that takes a lot out of a team going into the playoffs

So that is a blessing not to do that

But then it comes down to matchups and also Luca

When you get a Luca knowledge if he's playing a losing brand of basketball, which he was for stretches this season hogging the ball

Getting himself high percentage shots everyone else is waiting around complaining to the ref not getting back on defense

Then you're like oh this team. No, they're not going anywhere when you start to see Luca playing a winning brand of basketball

sharing the ball more

Of course, he's still monopolizing the ball as he should when he's going well because he he's you know among the very very

That's the players of the game when you see him when you see Luca stop complaining and start getting back on defense

And and you see Lebron doing what he's doing and all and they start to click now that your whole perception of the Lakers changes

Because we've seen him take a Dallas team, you know

To the to the penultimate

You need to solid eight in your rotation to hopefully set a foul trouble and execute 99 out in the playoffs to win series

Then you need about a nine and a ten that based upon the matchups. You can be able to implement in different

Parts of the game in the lineup that help you with the matchups right so

Again, when you look at all these teams

If you have that great now you need to stay healthy and then obviously shots need to fall so and so forth. So

Again, there's parity in the league

Everyone has a chance some has a better chance than others and some has a puncher's chance and as you know

Mr. Boxing himself that anybody can be knocked out

Thunder beat the wolves

I think the spurs are the best team in basketball whenever you know especially if jalen Williams is not playing for the matchup

We had a very interesting comment yesterday. He said I'm really focusing on my body because I really want to win

MVP and I want to win defensive player the year and if that happens then that

You would think they would be in the finals

already

Who's the who do you think the best team in the west is right now? I say the spurs is it thunder spurs

I don't know. I don't you know. I don't really pick a best team in the west. I think that again

Based upon I'm watching the basketball to know

Is health and matchups if you can stay healthy throughout the playoffs and you can get the right matchups

You can get there

But again those those those those those

Those lights are different as each

As each series goes on those lights are definitely different. Yeah, and the spurs are ready for it though

Yeah, well here's the thing because the thunder did it last year they weren't ready for you know like they didn't take all the necessary steps

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When I look at the thunder and I'll get into this in my in my get rich. Yes. Yes

It is time for get rich quit by the way. Is it yeah, it's time. I just think

We talk about the big three, right? Yeah, the big three has evolved the big three is not three

You know big name players anymore

The big through today's big three is president GM coach

Star player in the NBA in the NBA

That's where the big three is focused. Yeah, and when you had that

It kind of like spreads throughout the rest of the team when I watched that okay C team play

I'm changing their name so are you saying you would trade the second best player

In it in a big three situation for a team for a great team president

And you would trade the third best player for a great coach in other words you the big three for championship is that more than

It is three great. Well, well

First of all, it depends on who the second best player is if the second best player could possibly be a first

Best player like a Tatum or brown then yeah, he's in life there exceptions. Yeah, but if there is

Who you would say it's the second best player, but they're not at all NBA count them and players and the answer is yes, right

but

Okay, see is okay see IQ

When you watch okay see play

The the way they move the ball

Is

They got nine ten maybe eleven guys twelve time everyone on the team can play that actually knows how to play and more importantly

They play them right way like I saw Jalen Williams making plays the big feeling. Yeah, hard and Stein making plays that

They're not getting the ball looking to try to score the ball. They're getting the ball looking to

Make a play the right play not setting in the legal screen but but

Making a pass and a screen together where it's getting space for the shooter and now that guy trailing the shooter

Is so far away that by the time he even gets to try to close out the guys actually going the other way because the balls already going through the hoop

When you have that and you have a closer

In a Shay who just continues to put pressure on the rim continues and and can create space

The chip England I'm seeing it. I'm seeing what he's

Adding to that team. You know, he's on that bench and came from from San Antonio

The way they shoot the ball

Every single time

Yeah, you're kind of talking me especially if if they had Jalen what if they had both Jalen Williams

The issue you're kind of talking me into the and then the key to the thought

To okay see a little bit the only thing is

The spurs have the same thing. No, listen

They got things they they and they have Wembee who I think is the best player in the game

I was just focusing on because we mentioned the third the thunder and the wolves game and I watched the game

But what I'm saying is

That high level basketball

Jeremy Kane

You add him at the trade deadline think about it. There's teams that didn't make any moves

This team who feel who you would think has it all figured out

Wanted to figure it even out and it feels like they're cheating like how are you able to get that guy?

How come no one else got that guy? It's called having draft passes

But but they want it this team that has it all figured out

wants to even more so figure it out

It's like that's like an honor student

I used to you know you get it you don't get a hundred on the test when you're honest to you get like a hundred and five

I know you never been down that road max. I have but

That that's the thing, you know and when you talk about the spurs against it's the same thing

Wembee is like three players in one. Yeah, he that's crazy, but I want to get back to your big three thing you get rich quick

The big three and the NBA team president

Coach coach star player star player in other words that's better in fact if you have those three things than having of so-called big three

Maybe two franchises players and one all star, but do you know why it's better? Why let me tell you why it's better

Because it doesn't affect your cap

Mm-hmm to the point to where you can't have flexibility to continue to

Make the team better right the GM and the coach cost nothing on the cost of against your cat. So

I want to I'm thinking about this now

Are you mad you didn't think of that? No, I think it's good. I like it. Um, but I'm just saying you know

I'm trying to I'm trying to integrate it into into the way I think about the leaks because Jacobi was jealous

Baseball is it yeah Jacobi was jealous. We need to have a Jacobi is jealous segment because we know we're on to something if Jacobi's jealous. Absolutely. Yeah

Baseball is a GM's leak the most important guy in the building is a general manager

He's got to acquire the best assets for the lowest price or just put it all together

Draft the best prospects, etc

The NFL has usually been a coach's league most important guys the head coach

Yes, for sure, but the giants had Jackson Dart and they lost almost every game now they have John Harbaugh

And it just feels already completely different. They'll at least be 500 and

people always thought of the NBA as a stars league

If you don't have a guy who's at least in the conversation for best player in the game good luck winning a championship

Yes, is it still that way or are you saying something's fundamentally changed because

Well because it might be that it's a team president league now

But according to your logic right because the team president you're still going to have to find the star

But he might be able to find the right star who's maybe undervalued somewhere else and build around him

Install the right coach. I think it's a proof is in the pudding

When you look at team presidents

And you look at really good coaches

And you look at star players you see success. Yeah, I don't have to even name a team. They're all out there

But again

When you when you are star heavy you can be star heavy

As long as being star heavy comes with structure

You got to understand something about being a star

A star can come with two different types of mentalities

A me mentality or we mentality

If a star comes with a me mentality, you cannot win with that person

It don't matter and I don't care what what gift wrapping paper you wrap it in and what bow you put on it

It's still a bad gift. It does not matter

If a star or stars come with structure

Different dynamic going back to the Miami Heat team

And structure

They did when that when it was Bosch when it was Wade when it was

LJ and and and obviously you added guys like Shane baddie you added guys like Ray Allen

You had guys like Chalmers

You don't is

But they had structure right so you saw it on the floor every night

That it the younger you go with this right the younger your stars are quite naturally

The you lack experience

Right naturally because you just spurs right now. It's just part of it

So now if you have a young star study group

You really have to lean in on

Because it's if you're not going to be able to lean in on the experience

Then you have to lean in on structure

character

IQ

Right

How great of a teammate are you?

culture

Because that matters because normally when you're young you haven't gotten paid yet

You you haven't made as many all star teams you wanted to make

Maybe you had dreams of getting a signature shoe

There's a lot of me things within being a young team

So if you can fight against that

That's scary you want to do an Oscars reaction real quick which I didn't watch by the way

Sure, I did you watch the Oscars. Yes, I did

The only person I know actually sits through the Oscars

Well, I didn't sit all the way through but I watched enough of it to see

Michael B

Jordan yeah, how great is it he could win anything he's in

Yeah, he's been he's been actually the first thing he's ever from hard. I you know, I was with him last night and I said listen

I gave him a big hug because I thought

Damn, I felt like you know, I mean I grew up watching him. Yeah, Michael B Jordan from hardball

When he had the scene where he was telling Keanu Reeves, he just want to I just want to play man and and Keanu couldn't

necessarily

Commit to it and he had to jump to gate to Michael in the wire

The duo of him and Ryan Kugler starting with few fruitville station all the way to

Panther to to creed

To this I was in a scene. I was in a couple things with

And it was just a great night and all the awards. I mean

sinners won

I didn't see

What from one matter after another after another episode was sinners was quite good. That was fantastic

Let me let me tell you something. This is what I don't like about the Academy Awards. Mm-hmm number one

I remember seeing once a show that was reacting

to the media's reaction to the

To the Oscar winners. It was like on e-network or something back in the day

And I thought to myself what a racket

Because film is there's a medium right so it's a form of media

You can say it's an art form too, but it's form of media and they give an award to themselves

And then the media reacts to an award that the media gives itself

And then you have a show that's analyzing the reaction of the media

To an award that the media gives itself. It's like it's all this content created out of whole cloth

Right like it's they're just inventing it so it's like genius in a way

But what bothers me about the Academy Awards is the he for it's totally subjective

And the people deciding aren't smart enough to make these decisions

Well, I like it just like MV he's the look

I'll give you an example rich you ever see the nutty professor to the clumps. Yes, okay

Why wouldn't Eddie Murphy win the Academy Award that I cannot say by the way he has a scene Eddie Murphy has a scene

About where he's playing the father and the mother

And they're discussing like his sexual dysfunction the father sexual dysfunction

And it's such a real scene between two characters

There's so much like humanity and everything in it and connection and feeling in it

That he should have won best actor best actress best supporting actor and best supporting actress because he played so many characters

He was great

So but they he would never get an award for that

You know why because the people who vote are so insecure because they're not smart enough to know actually who to vote for

They don't have the capacity for it that they would never vote for Eddie Murphy because they would think that the way other people would see them

You know, they they wouldn't be taken seriously he actually talked about down this doc

I think it was something he said during his

I mean, I can't say during his heyday because it's only it seemed like since I've been boring. He's only had a hey

Yeah, that's right. Every day is that every day was hey, so I don't know but but it was something he said but I agree with you

Again, I watched it was some really good movies. I watched one battle after another in Tiana

Was a good and yeah, and yes, it was great. Sean Penn won best supporting actor. He was phenomenal in that

Noah bomb back had a movie out to see our nose was nominated

I wanted to go see that and I missed it in the theater. I'll order it great director

But Frankenstein won some stuff think best costume was that the bride of Frankenstein. I think I saw an ad for it

What was it Frank? No, it was Frankenstein was regular Frank pop, you know

Dragon okay

But see so it takes centers centers was

It was it was a fun vampire flick, but it also had deeper meaning it was deep

You know about about exploitation and you know of violence against black people and how black culture

It was a lot of react to it and and form their own way of resisting it, but I think about a movie like

Way back in the day

die hard die hard the year that came out looked it up before the show

I was curious because of course it would never be nominated because again the people are not smart enough and too insecure

Who vote on this stuff to know actually what the best film is the rain man one best picture rain man's a really good picture

Rain man was incredible. It was not as good as die hard

Not I know they're different genres, but well, it's hard to say it's perfect movie shot for shot

Rich I should as one better after another. I should have minored in film I took enough film class in college, right

If you said apply the eight elements of classics and you could teach a film class using nothing but die hard

It is perfect beginning to end

But of course, and it's a better movie object like if you any by any measure a better movie than rain man

Which was excellent one gets the academy award one's not nominated because it's the thing I'm talking about

There's because people would feel like they be looked at a certain way not taken seriously if they gave it to an action movie

You know right so anyway the upshot is I don't watch the academy awards. That's listen is is

It's definitely something that you have to want to be into yeah

But we live in L.A. No and everyone seems to be into it. Yeah, I mean dang went to bristle farm

Just a he couldn't even find a tortilla chip in salsa. Yeah academy award me

He definitely not no he he got me without absolutely, but not he didn't watch it, but guess what get me with a notch

You also couldn't get no chips and saucy either because everyone who was watching it

But all the chips and salsa out of the damn rest you know grocery store me asking this when you were in Cleveland before you got to L.A.

Were you watching the academy awards sometimes? Yeah, I was watching up until they gave the academy award

When I was a kid up until they gave it to

Dancing dances with wolves over goodfellas and I was out but but see listen

there's

There is a degree a degree of difficulty. Yeah point that you gave and I listen I understand it

We were going for the obvious I get it. I would have voted for good fellas too, but the point is

Michael B Jordan

Makes you there's two goats named Michael Jordan now. Yeah, Michael B Jordan's great

He's never been less than great in anything. I've ever seen him but he did join the league class just very few guys

That have an Oscar that look like Michael B Jordan. Right. It's Denzel

Let me see if I can name him Michael B now Denzel

Jamie

Sydney

Yeah, and the heat of the night did he win the academy award for swittaker for swittaker

Will Smith will Smith won an academy award. Yes

What do you win an academy award for you? I mean, that's some elite that's some elite company. It is like to go from hardball

to

To that that that's pretty strong, but it was it was it was good last night. I thought this I thought was some really cool speeches and and

Conan O'Brien was a good it's good. Yeah, what do you like to get to emails?

We have to emails are ready. Wow. Oh, yeah, we breeze through that breeze through it, man. Yeah. We're over and out. Let's do it. We're an overtime

Hello, Max and Rich. I'm golly all the way from Morocco. I love the show

Always been a max fan, but this show may be discovering like rich more and more

I'm a maths major aspiring to be a sports journalist. I have two totally different questions

One is more for rich, I guess the finances of sports

First week of NFL free agency numbers keep going up every year rich says

That he's for the players, but do you all see a tipping point where the money salaries are just going to plateau?

Doesn't that have to do with really the size of the content TV contracts mostly?

I hope not because I won't be able to tip when I go to restaurants

All right, too, I think I'm one of the few fans who does not like the goat debates

I watch a lot of sports. I love sports history

I think there were so many different rules changes in play tendencies styles

The only correct debate is who the goat of each era any intra-era can enter error comparison is flawed in a logical what do you all think?

I listen I agree. I hate to go to debates. I love to go to this

I mean look make make a hard choice. Stop copying out everybody. No, I mean listen

There's there's goats in each sports there's goats in each era of each sport

You know, it's like and here's what I will say

You have all these people saying who isn't the goat right and you have all these

Players critiquing who's who's not the goat they're giving them this who the goat

I want to come up with something you should not be able to say

Who's the goat or who isn't the goat if you're not in goat contention?

I hate that because frequently

That way they'll end this is not going to come from the participant. You just like to debate don't max

Yeah, that's probably true, but also I like the it captures one's imagination because when you have

Two all-time grates and you're it forces you to do hard thinking and it's interesting in terms of comparative analysis

To say actually who do you think is better and what's your criteria?

How did you apply it as a consistent who has the best case etc? I love that stuff

Okay, so who's your goat in what sport

basketball mj

Okay, and I just want to and football you have to give it to Tom Brady. I do it reluctantly some a giants fan

um

In in baseball it's Babe Ruth. It's not that one's not difficult

But to but to go back and answer

Boxing sugary raven to go back to answer the other guy's question. I think

I think live events is something that

um is going to continue to grow. Yeah, I think we're getting back into the live event space

But the finances of things

is always challenging obviously these contracts are

Are growing in a very rapid pace the TV deal is done so we have that

but

We may add more teams. So I don't I think

anytime you get to a place where

You're starting to see

Hell we could be in a place where we see one year 100 million dollar deal

Maybe eventually we'll get there is inflation if you get there and then just like anything else you always adjust but

Long as it's not a work stoppage. I'm okay. We can figure the rest out. Alec from Los Angeles

Hey max and rich i'm sure it's safe to say that Tim Duncan and Dirk Navitsky are the two best power forwards of all

Who'd you rather have on your team if you're in the NBA finals and why

I

Navitsky was great. I think Duncan is clearly the greatest power forward of all time

I'm gonna say Duncan because of the ability to play both sides of the ball

Yeah, I mean

Navitsky in the modern game

And he had the modern but dirk's my man though

But I think I think dirk was even say Tim. Yeah, like dirk is usually not put in the top 10 players of all time

And Duncan is frequently put in the top 10 players of all time any position

Yeah, and dirk was really good, but I was also a power forward. Duncan was both. He was a five four and a five four and a five hundred

A really good four and a five. Yeah, if you wanted to say pure power forwards pure fours

Maybe maybe it is dirk pure fours who else there's ad there's dirk there's kg

And kd is a three ain't that putting Lebron to four Lebron's a three or a one or whatever or two or four or five. Yeah

Yeah, yeah, you could argue if you take Duncan and say he's not a pure four. He's a four five. You could argue dirk

Yeah, but I'm taking two. Yeah

All right, it's time to go

Okay, we have another good one. We'll we'll get to that another. Yeah, Wednesday

Special guests. Oh, are we ready to announce a special guest yet or no?

I don't think so. I think you let it be a surprise surprise special guest

Just tune in. I think it's going to be a lot of fun. I think you need to prep. Please prep. You don't like to prep

I'm saying mr. linear. Can I tell you something? This is called accusation in a mirror

This is actually a horrible

Propaganda strategy

What you do is there's there's a political party in the United States right now

That I don't meant I won't mention but it rhymes with Republicans

Who who accused the other side of the exact thing that they're doing if you want to know

So they say every accusation is a confession. So you say I don't prep that's that's accusation in the mirror

Okay, that's that's called well. We'll see Wednesday. We'll see who's the more prepped on Wednesday

And I'm not talking about your clothes. So don't come in here with three college shirts on

And you're gonna be studying

Well, I can't even say I'm gonna slip. I wouldn't get it away. Yeah, I almost gave it away. Yeah, please. Yeah

All right, we'll see you on Wednesday. Yeah game over at Spotify dot com

Yeah, oh, so we reversed it now my my wiring is all crossed

That's because you're not pressed game over with max calorie rich Paul game over at Spotify dot com. We read the emails

You want to ask them to subscribe now politely. Please subscribe. Yeah, yeah, and continue to send the emails. Yeah

And you know what we're starting to really

Turn this thing around max you've been doing a really good job prepping your flowers. Oh, thank you

Thank you for I appreciate it for you know. Yes

So good. All right. We gotta go in the right direction. Yeah. Yeah, I'm more like

I haven't been asleep. Yeah, you need you need to get some I'm going right to the office you keep you

You got to blow it a bit early tonight. I show you how to do this son. Let's see. I see that. Yeah

I gotta show you still hustling same clothes for days

Although, no, not in his case, not same clothes you got you got outfit changes throughout the day

Oh, yes, it was

Be the only kid out on the block hustling changing's out this cost

All right, we'll see you

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