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- 0:08Speaker 1: Welcome to The Favorites, the podcast presented by BET three
- 0:12Speaker 1: sixty five. We are part of the Volume Podcast Network.
- 0:15Speaker 1: I am Chad Milman, the Action Network. I am live,
- 0:19Speaker 1: I'm my Tommy John Home Studio, and I'm joined as
- 0:23Speaker 1: always by my co host, my companion, my compadre, my BFF,
- 0:27Speaker 1: professional better Simon Hunter. Hello, Simon, Hello, chat.
- 0:32Speaker 2: What a great day, my man, dude.
- 0:34Speaker 1: As we teased earlier this week, today we have a
- 0:37Speaker 1: very special guest. It is rare that we have an
- 0:44Speaker 1: in season guest on The Favorites. In fact, it is
- 0:48Speaker 1: unresidented since Simon and I started hosting the show together.
- 0:55Speaker 1: But it's also rare we get an opportunity to chat
- 1:00Speaker 1: with someone like this guest we have coming. He's the
- 1:04Speaker 1: best selling author, a producer, a comedian, generally one of
- 1:10Speaker 1: the most popular New York sports fans across the entire Internet,
- 1:16Speaker 1: even though he doesn't even live in New York anymore.
- 1:19Speaker 1: Plus he's a gambler just like us, coming off the
- 1:22Speaker 1: first season of his new show seven PM in Brooklyn
- 1:25Speaker 1: with Carmelo Anthony. Please welcome the kid Mayrow.
- 1:30Speaker 3: He thanks for having me, guys, you know what I mean.
- 1:34Speaker 3: Shout out to you.
- 1:35Speaker 4: I love this because, like I said, I am a gambler,
- 1:40Speaker 4: and I don't know if I should be saying this
- 1:41Speaker 4: on air.
- 1:42Speaker 3: My publicist has left the Zoom, so I'm gonna say it.
- 1:45Speaker 4: I used to gamble before the apps, So when the
- 1:48Speaker 4: apps came around, I was like, Wow, I do not
- 1:50Speaker 4: have to go to see a guy named.
- 1:52Speaker 3: Little Tony anymore, you know what I'm saying.
- 1:54Speaker 1: And when you grew up in the Bronx and like
- 2:00Speaker 1: you're hanging around bodegos, that's how it used to be, right,
- 2:04Speaker 1: And we've talked about this on the show, and since
- 2:08Speaker 1: gambling became legal, there's a lot of things that are
- 2:11Speaker 1: really interesting about it being legal. But obviously it's great
- 2:15Speaker 1: for us, and it's great for our business, and it's
- 2:17Speaker 1: great for transparency, and it's great for sort of responsible gaming.
- 2:22Speaker 1: But tell us about how you got into it growing
- 2:24Speaker 1: up where you did, and what that experience was like
- 2:27Speaker 1: for you.
- 2:29Speaker 3: It was just like a thing you kind of just
- 2:30Speaker 3: get into.
- 2:31Speaker 4: You know, friends you have friends that that gamble or like,
- 2:34Speaker 4: you know, it's like I don't want to like make
- 2:36Speaker 4: it sound like like a horrible thing, but it's like
- 2:38Speaker 4: fucking weed, bro, Like you.
- 2:39Speaker 3: Know what I'm saying, Like you just hanging around a
- 2:40Speaker 3: shit like somebody s fucking weed. They're like, Yo, you
- 2:42Speaker 3: want to hit this weed? And I'm like, all right,
- 2:45Speaker 3: you hit it.
- 2:45Speaker 4: You're like, Wow, this Bowl game is way more interesting now,
- 2:49Speaker 4: Like I'm way more interested in San Diego State, you
- 2:51Speaker 4: know what I mean That I am usually you feel me.
- 2:54Speaker 4: So it was just it was kind of that it
- 2:56Speaker 4: did what I like to do with everything, which it
- 2:59Speaker 4: gamifies stuff, right, It gives you, like, like I said,
- 3:02Speaker 4: some skin in the game. Like you know, if you're
- 3:03Speaker 4: watching the Tostitos Bowl and you didn't go to like
- 3:06Speaker 4: Oklahoma State, you don't give a shit.
- 3:09Speaker 3: But if you've got some action, you know what I.
- 3:10Speaker 4: Mean, Like now you're very invested in the outcome of
- 3:13Speaker 4: this game, to the point where you're taking your hat
- 3:15Speaker 4: on and off your head multiple times during the game,
- 3:17Speaker 4: you know what I mean, Like sweating it makes sports
- 3:20Speaker 4: sportsier if that even makes sense.
- 3:22Speaker 1: What is your theory on? I know you love the Giants,
- 3:26Speaker 1: betting the Giants, betting against the Giants. A lot of
- 3:30Speaker 1: people have different feelings when it comes to their personal team.
- 3:35Speaker 3: I do not.
- 3:36Speaker 4: I'm not one of those guys, I am a businessman first.
- 3:40Speaker 4: I think with my head, the big one, you know
- 3:42Speaker 4: what I'm saying. So I'm not foolish enough to do
- 3:45Speaker 4: anything gambling wise regarding the Giants except bet against them
- 3:48Speaker 4: and bet on.
- 3:49Speaker 3: Like Molik Neighbors touches, you know what I mean, as
- 3:52Speaker 3: like prop bet you know what I mean, Like that's
- 3:54Speaker 3: that's That's where I'm at, talk about gambling. I was.
- 3:57Speaker 3: I was like, bet the house on sa Quon.
- 3:59Speaker 4: Having the game of his fucking life against the Giants
- 4:03Speaker 4: coming back and voila.
- 4:06Speaker 1: When I was burning esp in the magazine way back
- 4:09Speaker 1: in the day. I know you love Eli, Eli Manning.
- 4:12Speaker 1: We put we did a Hall of Fame issue. We
- 4:14Speaker 1: put Eli Manning on the cover of the issue and said,
- 4:19Speaker 1: this is why Eli Manning should be a Hall of
- 4:22Speaker 1: Fame quarterback. Why is he a Hall of Fame quarterback
- 4:26Speaker 1: to you? And how do you argue that to anyone
- 4:29Speaker 1: who thinks otherwise?
- 4:30Speaker 4: I mean, the number one, The numbers speak for themselves,
- 4:34Speaker 4: right number two.
- 4:37Speaker 3: It's like David and Gallion's story. Bro.
- 4:40Speaker 4: This is the only I mean, Nick Foles did it too.
- 4:42Speaker 4: This is the only guy who ate Toms cookies.
- 4:47Speaker 3: Twice. As we all know this is a gamely podcast.
- 4:51Speaker 3: He was not. They were agrits going into either of
- 4:53Speaker 3: those matchups, you know what I'm saying.
- 4:55Speaker 4: So it was just like, come on the guy, and
- 4:58Speaker 4: again the the phrase fourth quarter ELI, you know what
- 5:03Speaker 4: I'm saying, or like second half ELI is a real thing.
- 5:06Speaker 4: Like this guy would just turn it on and make
- 5:08Speaker 4: some plays that you'd be like, bro, what the fuck. Also,
- 5:11Speaker 4: he's a Manning dog like put Arch Manning in the
- 5:14Speaker 4: Hall of Fame already, just like the entire Manning like lineage.
- 5:17Speaker 4: Just put them all in the Hall of Fame, have
- 5:18Speaker 4: a wing for them, call it the Manning wing, and
- 5:22Speaker 4: just put them all there, because they're like a football family, bro,
- 5:24Speaker 4: They're like the Griffies of football.
- 5:27Speaker 5: Off the top though, I think he nailed it as
- 5:29Speaker 5: a Giants fan, where even if you take away the numbers,
- 5:32Speaker 5: think about what he meant to football, right, I mean,
- 5:34Speaker 5: that's some of the most historical plays for the rest
- 5:36Speaker 5: of my life. Who the hell remembers David Tyree? You
- 5:40Speaker 5: got to be like a true football fan, right, that's
- 5:43Speaker 5: your guy's third receiver. He's a household name forever, Like
- 5:48Speaker 5: those are the kind of moments we live for. So
- 5:50Speaker 5: it seems like you're a pretty rational Giants fan. And
- 5:53Speaker 5: you know, I saw an amazing quote you had before
- 5:54Speaker 5: the season. Your hope for the Giants season. The preseason
- 5:58Speaker 5: you said, basically, if an ash droid hit Pennsylvania, the
- 6:01Speaker 5: Giants would do well.
- 6:02Speaker 2: Is your direct quote.
- 6:03Speaker 5: How are you feeling right now? And like, how you
- 6:05Speaker 5: viewing the season? Are you just counting the days till
- 6:07Speaker 5: you guys can draft a new quarterback? Are you already
- 6:09Speaker 5: over the whole Daniel Jones experience this year?
- 6:12Speaker 3: Bro, i'n't even call him Daniel Jones. Bro, he's Woody
- 6:15Speaker 3: from Toy Story.
- 6:16Speaker 4: Okay, he is Woody from Toy Story. He has the
- 6:20Speaker 4: same like kind of like rabbit eyed, just like scared.
- 6:23Speaker 3: Look.
- 6:24Speaker 4: I feel like putting him his name in the same
- 6:27Speaker 4: sentsenus as Eli is a bad look. But in the
- 6:30Speaker 4: early days of the Daniel Jones experience, I was like, oh,
- 6:33Speaker 4: you know what, it's just the old line.
- 6:35Speaker 3: That's what happened to Eli.
- 6:36Speaker 5: And at the tail end, because of that Campa game,
- 6:38Speaker 5: that first game he played, remember the first game he
- 6:40Speaker 5: played his best game of his career, of his career.
- 6:44Speaker 4: Bro.
- 6:45Speaker 6: Wow, Then and say you run where. I was just like, oh,
- 6:48Speaker 6: this guy's a mobile quarterback. WHOA Like, No, you're not mobile, bro.
- 6:51Speaker 6: You just you run fast in a straight line and
- 6:53Speaker 6: then you triple of issue leases, you know, before you
- 6:55Speaker 6: get zone.
- 6:56Speaker 4: Also, fam like, my my scalp is getting hot just
- 7:01Speaker 4: thinking about this. I don't ever want to see a
- 7:04Speaker 4: front office guy draft a quarterback from any conference.
- 7:10Speaker 3: That is not the SEC or the Big Ten.
- 7:13Speaker 4: Bro. Stop stop, never draft a quarterback from a basketball
- 7:17Speaker 4: school ever again. Dog Gettleman, thank god you're out of here.
- 7:21Speaker 3: Bro. I was about to ask you what is the
- 7:23Speaker 3: recipe for the crack that you smoke? Because I was.
- 7:26Speaker 4: Watching that draft and I was just like, as soon
- 7:27Speaker 4: as they call that name, I was like, Saquon is gone.
- 7:30Speaker 4: Squon is gone, and or his career is like you're
- 7:36Speaker 4: throwing it. It's like Barrus Sanders, you know what I mean,
- 7:37Speaker 4: Like no shots, barons Anders, Hall of Famer, hall of
- 7:40Speaker 4: Fame career, never one, never one. This is the fate
- 7:43Speaker 4: that will wait Saquon if this is the guy at
- 7:45Speaker 4: the center for him, you know what I'm saying.
- 7:47Speaker 3: So I'm totally out on the experiment. I'm over it.
- 7:50Speaker 3: I'm done. I've been done for like a year and
- 7:53Speaker 3: change already.
- 7:54Speaker 4: I was the one that was like holding out, still
- 7:56Speaker 4: being like, Yo, it's the old line. It's the old line.
- 7:57Speaker 4: It's the old line.
- 7:58Speaker 3: Bro, that's stock the whole line. It's not the fucking line.
- 8:01Speaker 3: But that was like, Bro, I.
- 8:04Speaker 7: Coached pee wee football, and I'm like, do not stare
- 8:07Speaker 7: down your receiver, Bro, don't stare at the guy that
- 8:10Speaker 7: you're going to throw the ball at, because everybody on
- 8:12Speaker 7: the defense is like, Oh.
- 8:13Speaker 4: That's what he's The ball's going over here. He saw
- 8:15Speaker 4: the ball and and he did that. I forgot what
- 8:18Speaker 4: I trying to remember what.
- 8:19Speaker 3: Game it was he did it.
- 8:20Speaker 4: It was like and they highlighted it, and I was
- 8:22Speaker 4: just like, he does that all the time.
- 8:24Speaker 3: That's not good quarterback play.
- 8:26Speaker 4: I feel like I'm going on the right now, guys,
- 8:27Speaker 4: So give me something else to talk about, because otherwise
- 8:29Speaker 4: I'm gonna start sweating and become violently angry because it's
- 8:33Speaker 4: one thing.
- 8:35Speaker 1: One thing. I love how you just threw in there.
- 8:38Speaker 1: I coached pee wee football because it reminds me like
- 8:43Speaker 1: one of my good friends in New York who was
- 8:45Speaker 1: my boss at one point. We would be closing the
- 8:48Speaker 1: magazine on a Sunday afternoon and have all these football
- 8:52Speaker 1: stories in here, and some of them were written by
- 8:55Speaker 1: actual NFL players. They'd be breaking down plays and whatever,
- 8:59Speaker 1: and he'd be like, I don't know if this makes sense,
- 9:01Speaker 1: because when I play in my touch football league on
- 9:05Speaker 1: the Upper West Side in the Park on Saturday afternoons,
- 9:08Speaker 1: we don't run it like this.
- 9:10Speaker 3: So I like taking.
- 9:11Speaker 1: Your suburban New Jersey offensive line coaching skills and translating
- 9:17Speaker 1: them to analyzing the ineptitude of the New York Giants
- 9:22Speaker 1: football offensive line.
- 9:24Speaker 3: Yo.
- 9:25Speaker 4: By the way, I haven't like to stand on because
- 9:28Speaker 4: the guys that are in that you know, in that
- 9:32Speaker 4: huddle are NFL guys, you know what I mean.
- 9:35Speaker 3: Like, they are actual guys.
- 9:36Speaker 4: So I'm glad I'm getting information from the pros, you
- 9:39Speaker 4: know what I mean.
- 9:40Speaker 3: It's not having the plumber, you know what I mean,
- 9:42Speaker 3: like telling me.
- 9:44Speaker 4: Hey, you know, if you crash the safety, if it
- 9:46Speaker 4: puts the safety every time, they're just gonna throw the
- 9:49Speaker 4: ball back there, you know what I mean.
- 9:50Speaker 3: I was like, I know that guy, you know what
- 9:52Speaker 3: I mean.
- 9:52Speaker 4: I know that I've played Madden once or twice, you know,
- 9:55Speaker 4: so like this is all obvious type.
- 9:57Speaker 3: Of anologies, but like there's little things, man that you.
- 10:00Speaker 4: Know, you pick up and it's like when you see
- 10:04Speaker 4: it at a professional level, Like listen, I'm a Yankee
- 10:06Speaker 4: fan that play between Lighter and Rizzo at first base
- 10:10Speaker 4: where they like they both didn't know what the fuck
- 10:13Speaker 4: to do and like, you know, uh, the ball goes
- 10:16Speaker 4: between Rizzol's legs.
- 10:17Speaker 3: I'm like, listen, I also coached nine you baseball. You're
- 10:20Speaker 3: getting bench for that. You're getting bench for that. I'm
- 10:23Speaker 3: looking at them immediately, Uh, who we got here?
- 10:28Speaker 4: Rodriguez, go get out there, because it's like, bro, what
- 10:32Speaker 4: are we doing here?
- 10:33Speaker 3: This is basic stuff? You know what I mean? So
- 10:36Speaker 3: I'll say that much.
- 10:38Speaker 1: It's like when I wake up this morning with a
- 10:41Speaker 1: horse voice and my wife turns into the greatest Internet
- 10:47Speaker 1: doctor who has ever lived, because she is in her phone.
- 10:51Speaker 1: Here's why you have a horse voice. Here's what I
- 10:53Speaker 1: think you need to do. She's figured it out.
- 10:56Speaker 3: You have walking pneumonia. You're going to die in a week.
- 10:58Speaker 1: You put in your legs, know, can you make sure
- 11:01Speaker 1: the wheel is up to date?
- 11:03Speaker 2: Someone that smokes weed?
- 11:04Speaker 5: I can't tell any times I've self diagnosed myself dying.
- 11:06Speaker 2: Chad, We're like, oh Hi.
- 11:08Speaker 5: I'm like, oh my god, did my heart just is
- 11:10Speaker 5: my heart skipping a beat right now? Or is my
- 11:12Speaker 5: leg numb? That's that's the worst part with the internet
- 11:15Speaker 5: looking up fingers.
- 11:17Speaker 3: My face feels weird. It's like, yeah, going to petup.
- 11:21Speaker 3: But and Jelly is calm down, like it's relax now.
- 11:27Speaker 4: Edible and like Paddick on the planet had to like
- 11:29Speaker 4: emergency land the plane. I'm like, that's insane, bro, It's
- 11:33Speaker 4: we like relaxed, just take would take a nap.
- 11:38Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 11:39Speaker 5: With the with us me and Chad, we're both the
- 11:40Speaker 5: generate better. So I got to hear some of the
- 11:42Speaker 5: good betting stories. My favorite Thumb's pet stupid things I've
- 11:46Speaker 5: done was when I first moved back to Jersey, you know,
- 11:49Speaker 5: before my boys were married, and I had a buddy
- 11:51Speaker 5: who had an older brother and a kid on a
- 11:52Speaker 5: baseball team.
- 11:53Speaker 2: So this park was right by my my house.
- 11:55Speaker 5: We just go get a cooler, sit out back, drink
- 11:57Speaker 5: and bet on sixth grade baseball to get it for
- 12:00Speaker 5: a whole summer.
- 12:01Speaker 2: So I knew these teams.
- 12:02Speaker 5: I was good at it, and I had a professional
- 12:04Speaker 5: better come visit me, and I was like, let's go,
- 12:06Speaker 5: let's go watch some little league and bet on it.
- 12:08Speaker 3: Why not?
- 12:08Speaker 5: We got nothing else going on. And I was thinking
- 12:11Speaker 5: I was pulling a fast on this guy. I was like, yeah,
- 12:12Speaker 5: I'll give you two and a half runs for a
- 12:14Speaker 5: thousand bucks, right, So this guy's a big run line
- 12:16Speaker 5: on me.
- 12:17Speaker 2: I should.
- 12:18Speaker 5: I was like, this team's gonna get rolled. They're gonna
- 12:20Speaker 5: win by ten. Little did I know? I got worked right?
- 12:23Speaker 5: They had this kid, it was a picture. Couldn't get
- 12:25Speaker 5: a hit off him. In six innings they won like
- 12:26Speaker 5: six nothing. I would love to hear you got any
- 12:28Speaker 5: like crazy degenerate stories like that where you're just making
- 12:31Speaker 5: crazy side bets or you just always betting on like
- 12:33Speaker 5: professional bro.
- 12:35Speaker 3: This is and this wasn't even my bet.
- 12:38Speaker 4: Just hearing this was insane to me because like you know,
- 12:41Speaker 4: like you said, like you better on little League baseball.
- 12:44Speaker 4: Like so I was sitting and this is like again
- 12:47Speaker 4: like pre app days, right when you had a like
- 12:49Speaker 4: call phone.
- 12:50Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm sitting there with my boy and.
- 12:53Speaker 4: He's just like he's he's got the hitch, bro, like
- 12:55Speaker 4: you know what I mean, Like he's just like looking
- 12:57Speaker 4: at him for action on something. So sitting there and
- 13:00Speaker 4: this is like early days in Netflix where it's like
- 13:03Speaker 4: DVD and like they're just introducing streaming. So we're sitting
- 13:06Speaker 4: there and I'll never forget this. We're watching a horrible
- 13:08Speaker 4: like Sylvester Stallone movie, like just randomly pick a random
- 13:11Speaker 4: movie on Netflix. And he's sitting there. He's just super quiet.
- 13:14Speaker 4: He's just drives his phone. He's just like, yeah, can
- 13:18Speaker 4: you get me the line on Penn State Women's volleyball.
- 13:22Speaker 3: I was like Penn State Women's volleyball? Dog what? I
- 13:26Speaker 3: was like, It's like Wednesday night, Like what what? Then
- 13:31Speaker 3: there was another time this was crazy.
- 13:33Speaker 4: This is like one of those like like his gambling bro,
- 13:35Speaker 4: when you win that dopamine hit is like absolutely control.
- 13:38Speaker 3: It's like out of control.
- 13:39Speaker 2: It's one of those when you win those bets, you
- 13:41Speaker 2: can't go to sleep that night.
- 13:42Speaker 3: Right.
- 13:43Speaker 4: So Steve Francis is on the Knicks, right, this is
- 13:46Speaker 4: like end of Steve Francis's career.
- 13:49Speaker 3: And I with my friend Chris in his basement. He
- 13:52Speaker 3: has action on this game.
- 13:53Speaker 4: I do that the Knicks need two points to cover
- 13:57Speaker 4: the spread. They're losing. They're gonna lose, like they're down
- 14:01Speaker 4: like twenty two or something.
- 14:02Speaker 3: Spriends like twenty two and a half or something. Dumb.
- 14:06Speaker 4: Steve Francis checks into the game with like ten seconds
- 14:09Speaker 4: left for for no reason at all other than like
- 14:12Speaker 4: he loves us, launches a half court three for no reason, bro,
- 14:17Speaker 4: Like they're still losing, splash, but they get like, Bro,
- 14:21Speaker 4: that was.
- 14:21Speaker 3: The hugest like jumped up head hit the ceiling. Yeah,
- 14:25Speaker 3: like middle of the season, bro, no reason to be
- 14:28Speaker 3: excited about this at all, Steve Francis said, chucks up
- 14:30Speaker 3: for three to cover. That was the Knicks championship. You
- 14:33Speaker 3: know what I mean? For your boy trying out to
- 14:36Speaker 3: my boy, Jimmy, My boy, Jimmy.
- 14:37Speaker 4: One time, I think this was a Dodgers Padres game, right,
- 14:41Speaker 4: he had like a six like parlay going, and like
- 14:44Speaker 4: everything hit except this Padres Dodgers game, which obviously is
- 14:48Speaker 4: on West Coast time. He stayed uplate to watch it,
- 14:51Speaker 4: and he had the Dodgers or something like that, and
- 14:52Speaker 4: they're like getting like I could be butchering the story
- 14:55Speaker 4: because this was like years ago. But they're down like
- 14:57Speaker 4: six runs at like the sixth inning or seventh they think,
- 15:00Speaker 4: or something like that. He's just like, Bro, my parley is cooked. Bro,
- 15:03Speaker 4: fucking I'm going to bad. I'll work early the next morning.
- 15:06Speaker 3: Dogs come up.
- 15:07Speaker 4: First guy up, blow home run, Next guy up, blow
- 15:10Speaker 4: home run, next guy up, blow home like homer after
- 15:13Speaker 4: homer after homer, after like four homers in a row.
- 15:16Speaker 4: Now my boy is calling him up, like, yo, bro,
- 15:19Speaker 4: this is about like this is about to happen.
- 15:21Speaker 3: This is about to happen.
- 15:22Speaker 4: And it doesn't happen, like they fall shrom My like
- 15:24Speaker 4: oh run, And it's like he's like, bro, why did
- 15:26Speaker 4: you even fucking like you woke me up? I started
- 15:29Speaker 4: watching the game only to like, you know, like edge,
- 15:33Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying like this.
- 15:35Speaker 3: Much, And I was just like, damn, bro, I was like, listen,
- 15:37Speaker 3: that's why you don't.
- 15:39Speaker 4: That's why I'm like superstitious about like no hitters and
- 15:41Speaker 4: shit like that. Like I'm like, yo, if I bet
- 15:44Speaker 4: the under or the whatever I bet on this game,
- 15:46Speaker 4: do not talk about it game.
- 15:49Speaker 1: Okay, sounds like you're hanging out with a lot of
- 15:53Speaker 1: mush Uh. You could just quash all of your bets
- 15:57Speaker 1: you actually talking about. The Giants were able to announce
- 16:02Speaker 1: a draft pick for the giants. How did that come about?
- 16:06Speaker 1: What was it like tell people who you drafted or announced,
- 16:11Speaker 1: and the experience of being on the stage.
- 16:14Speaker 4: So like, immediately coming off the end of my talk
- 16:20Speaker 4: show on Showtime, my agent shot the Roy dres and
- 16:23Speaker 4: he was like, Hey, you want to do the NFL Draft.
- 16:25Speaker 4: And I was like, hell, yeah, I want to do
- 16:27Speaker 4: the NFL Draft. Do they want me to do the
- 16:28Speaker 4: NFL Draft? He was like, yes, they do. I was like,
- 16:31Speaker 4: let's do it. So I get there and this is
- 16:33Speaker 4: and this is the funny part. I get there, it's
- 16:36Speaker 4: a million degrees.
- 16:37Speaker 3: Right, it's Vegas. Obviously it's a gazillion degrees.
- 16:41Speaker 4: I go out there and I'm backstage, right, So I'm
- 16:45Speaker 4: in the like the green room area.
- 16:46Speaker 3: There's a bunch of like old retired guys there. Barry
- 16:50Speaker 3: I saw Barry, I saw Chris Carr, but like all
- 16:53Speaker 3: these guys, I'm like, wow, this is like historical and
- 16:55Speaker 3: it felt.
- 16:56Speaker 4: Guy Dan Marenara is there. Dan Marinara Viking Legends is
- 17:02Speaker 4: announcing the pick before me. Right, So he goes up
- 17:05Speaker 4: there and I don't know who had the idea to
- 17:11Speaker 4: have an open bar in the green room of a
- 17:14Speaker 4: bunch of NFL dudes. But it was a bad idea
- 17:17Speaker 4: because dan Arnarra went up there and allegedly, as far
- 17:23Speaker 4: as I can tell, was shit faced. So he went
- 17:25Speaker 4: up there, he was just like, oh, yeahs there.
- 17:29Speaker 3: When I got to Minnesota, I said, boy, is it
- 17:33Speaker 3: call here? I hated it.
- 17:39Speaker 7: So anyway, like I was saying, uh, you know, I
- 17:43Speaker 7: got to the NFL back when the helmets were made.
- 17:46Speaker 4: Out of leather, and I'm just like, bro, this guy's
- 17:48Speaker 4: just like rambling. He's you're supposed to be. It's like
- 17:50Speaker 4: thirty seconds, brother, you go up there. Hey, I'm damn
- 17:52Speaker 4: darn Arra. I did this that the third I won
- 17:54Speaker 4: a Super Bowl, YadA YadA, and then you announced to
- 17:57Speaker 4: pick who went. The producer, whoever's like producing this thing
- 18:02Speaker 4: is like this like like five ft two, like you know,
- 18:05Speaker 4: like little shy, little mousey white girl. I'm just like
- 18:09Speaker 4: she's looking at me like I'm ready to go, Like
- 18:11Speaker 4: I'm behind the curtain, ready to go. She's looking at me,
- 18:13Speaker 4: she's looking at him, she's looking at me, she' looking
- 18:15Speaker 4: at him. She's going to me, She's going to him.
- 18:16Speaker 4: I'm like, are you the producer that you running the
- 18:18Speaker 4: show here? She's like, yeah, I don't know what to do.
- 18:21Speaker 4: I was like, go out there. I grabbed like I
- 18:23Speaker 4: was like a payvod coaching. This is where it comes in.
- 18:25Speaker 3: Andy. I was like, listen to me. You go out
- 18:28Speaker 3: there and you get them off that stage. This is
- 18:29Speaker 3: your show, you're running it. Go out there and tell me.
- 18:32Speaker 3: He's talking to goddamn much.
- 18:33Speaker 4: So she goes out there and I'm like lip reading,
- 18:36Speaker 4: trying to let the tomboy. I'm lip reading, and she
- 18:40Speaker 4: she tells him, like.
- 18:40Speaker 3: Get the fuck off stage, like now. And so then
- 18:44Speaker 3: he's like, I've been told to get downstairs. I'm talking.
- 18:47Speaker 3: I'm being long winded, and.
- 18:51Speaker 2: I know I know what you're thinking.
- 18:53Speaker 4: I look pretty good for my age, but my little
- 18:56Speaker 4: apartment in Ihaga, New York.
- 18:58Speaker 3: They weren't on the top from my list for teams
- 19:01Speaker 3: I wanted to be drafted by. Lookout.
- 19:04Speaker 4: In fact, there was only one team that I wanted
- 19:07Speaker 4: to be drafted by.
- 19:08Speaker 3: Less Oh my goodness.
- 19:10Speaker 4: But I'm not gonna mention Green Bay anyway.
- 19:14Speaker 3: Is he gonna get to the early you go read it, Okay,
- 19:16Speaker 3: read the cards. I wanted to read the card. He
- 19:19Speaker 3: God does get.
- 19:20Speaker 5: In the hook, not even any playoff music.
- 19:23Speaker 3: Just read it, just read it.
- 19:26Speaker 4: Then he gets off an I come on and I
- 19:28Speaker 4: announced stud wide receiver Wondale Robinson out of kids, the forty.
- 19:34Speaker 2: Third pick in the twenty twenty two.
- 19:37Speaker 4: NFL Draft, The New York Football Giants select one Dale Robinson, Kentucky.
- 19:47Speaker 4: You know what I mean, which again, like it goes
- 19:49Speaker 4: against my dn't draft football guys from a basketball school.
- 19:52Speaker 3: But this is not a quarterback. This is a whiteout.
- 19:55Speaker 4: So it's fine because he was in the gym with
- 19:57Speaker 4: the basketball guys doing basketball things.
- 20:00Speaker 3: You know. Sec guy still also, you know what I'm saying.
- 20:06Speaker 4: So it does it right. The cross section hits. It
- 20:10Speaker 4: checks my boxes. It doesn't check all of them, but
- 20:12Speaker 4: it checked one sec.
- 20:14Speaker 3: Good. Great. Not a quarterback also checks the box.
- 20:18Speaker 5: Now I'll just stay off the top. I'm so jealousing
- 20:20Speaker 5: your show man, like I grew up. I'm a six
- 20:22Speaker 5: years guy from Philly.
- 20:23Speaker 3: I would give.
- 20:24Speaker 5: I mean, I love you, chat, I get rid of
- 20:26Speaker 5: you like tomorrow if I can get a show with AI. Honestly,
- 20:28Speaker 5: I would love to shoot to show the eye. I
- 20:30Speaker 5: would love to know what your experience like. Man, you're
- 20:32Speaker 5: breaking down, you know, A show with Carmelo Anthony.
- 20:35Speaker 2: Is that surreal?
- 20:36Speaker 3: Is how's that? Going?
- 20:37Speaker 2: Another first season? Was amazing?
- 20:39Speaker 3: Yeah? Man, it's it's it's great. Bro. It's like you said,
- 20:42Speaker 3: like you know, it's like I am.
- 20:45Speaker 4: A diehard born and bred Knicks fan from the cradle, bro, Like.
- 20:53Speaker 3: You know, my uncles will put.
- 20:54Speaker 4: Me up in front of the TV like Yankees, Nicks giants.
- 21:00Speaker 3: That is the trinity, you know what I mean?
- 21:03Speaker 2: Like so I was like lockedown fan and Jets whoa bro.
- 21:09Speaker 3: Who like you know what I mean? Like Euro said, Dad,
- 21:12Speaker 3: you know what I mean?
- 21:13Speaker 4: And and it's funny because like my dad wasn't even
- 21:15Speaker 4: like a hardcore Yankees guy.
- 21:17Speaker 3: He was just a super Tony Pena fan. I could
- 21:20Speaker 3: have been like a like I could have been.
- 21:22Speaker 4: I could have been like a Pirates fan or some
- 21:24Speaker 4: you know what I mean, Like it could have been.
- 21:25Speaker 3: It could have been weird for me. Tony ended up
- 21:27Speaker 3: being the coach for the Yanks, which worked out.
- 21:30Speaker 4: But sitting down with Mellow, like having had the experience
- 21:37Speaker 4: of like me and myself as like you know, a
- 21:40Speaker 4: sports fan and a Benny man, you know what I mean,
- 21:43Speaker 4: watching the sixty two point game at the Garden, like
- 21:47Speaker 4: like Bro, you hit the over by yourself, Like this
- 21:49Speaker 4: is amazing, Like you know what I mean, Like you
- 21:50Speaker 4: covered by.
- 21:52Speaker 3: Your damn So you know what I mean.
- 21:53Speaker 4: Like, but you know, just watching him like break like
- 21:58Speaker 4: just picking his brain, bro, because there's a lot of moments,
- 22:01Speaker 4: you know, like you said, like if you could sit
- 22:02Speaker 4: down with Ai, I'm sure there's like moments that you
- 22:05Speaker 4: like are iconic AI moments Like yo, bro, when.
- 22:08Speaker 3: You stepped over Tayloo like that, Bro, what was going
- 22:11Speaker 3: through your head? You know what I mean?
- 22:12Speaker 4: Like like there's stuff like that when I'm just like
- 22:18Speaker 4: you knew you had to know that you were going
- 22:20Speaker 4: after Lebron, like when you didn't go after Lebron?
- 22:23Speaker 3: What you know what I mean? Tuk me through that,
- 22:26Speaker 3: you know what.
- 22:26Speaker 4: I'm saying, because that's a question that I want to
- 22:28Speaker 4: know just as a fan, and I know that other
- 22:30Speaker 4: fans want to know, you know what I mean. So
- 22:32Speaker 4: like the opportunity to be the fan that is also
- 22:37Speaker 4: like driving this car, you know what I mean. Is
- 22:39Speaker 4: Like it's amazing, bro, Like to sit down with him
- 22:41Speaker 4: and be able to just like go through all this
- 22:44Speaker 4: stuff and get it straight from the source, like right,
- 22:46Speaker 4: Like it's not like a beat reporter that followed the Knicks.
- 22:48Speaker 4: It's the guy giving the story straight from the horse's mouth.
- 22:52Speaker 3: So, and the access that you get is insane. Bro.
- 22:54Speaker 3: Like we went to Vegas, you know, for Tmusa stuff,
- 22:58Speaker 3: and I'm like.
- 22:59Speaker 4: Bro, I'm We're over here at the UNLV practicing bro
- 23:01Speaker 4: Like that's Joan of b shooting freeze like with his
- 23:04Speaker 4: left hand. This is crazy, like and I'm just here
- 23:06Speaker 4: in the mix, you know, Like it's it's it's really
- 23:09Speaker 4: super dope. And Mellow is a very New York guy.
- 23:14Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying, Like he's Baltimore, Brooklyn, but
- 23:17Speaker 4: he is so Brooklyn. Bro it like it's like he
- 23:20Speaker 4: sweats Brooklyn, you know what I'm saying. Like it's and
- 23:23Speaker 4: it works. It's it's it's like it's it's it's the
- 23:25Speaker 4: It's peanut.
- 23:25Speaker 3: Butter and jelly. It's two to New York guys. I'm like, yo, hey, wow,
- 23:30Speaker 3: loud guy.
- 23:31Speaker 4: And he's just more like yo, hey, come on, Chap,
- 23:34Speaker 4: you know what I mean, Like more like cool, laid back,
- 23:37Speaker 4: and I'm just like yeah.
- 23:39Speaker 3: You know. So it's just like the year and the
- 23:40Speaker 3: Yang of New York sports.
- 23:42Speaker 1: It's interesting because mellow. I feel like his reputation mellowed
- 23:48Speaker 1: as he got older with the Team USA success, even
- 23:53Speaker 1: like post New York stuff, he became a guy who
- 23:56Speaker 1: people saw as being more personable. And I think in
- 23:59Speaker 1: New York, even though he's a legendary Nick people, there
- 24:03Speaker 1: was still like a lot of love hate there. Okay,
- 24:07Speaker 1: you know, like how was your perception of him changed
- 24:09Speaker 1: from when you were just a fan and he was
- 24:12Speaker 1: the only thing worth watching for the Knicks too? Now
- 24:15Speaker 1: later in his career and now doing the show with them.
- 24:18Speaker 3: Well, like that's the thing. It's like my opinion, I
- 24:21Speaker 3: almost have more.
- 24:22Speaker 4: I have. The respect level has always been there because
- 24:25Speaker 4: it's like, yo, you were, you were, You're coming to
- 24:27Speaker 4: New York, right. And I think that the the the
- 24:30Speaker 4: weirdness around him was because Knicks fans were very stupid, interrational, you.
- 24:35Speaker 3: Know what I mean. Like we thought Frank Nila Chino
- 24:37Speaker 3: was going to be the future, you know what I mean.
- 24:39Speaker 4: Like so when you let they let go Wilson Chandler, right,
- 24:44Speaker 4: Danilo Gallinari, you know, I forgot who else left in
- 24:49Speaker 4: that trade, But it was like, you know a bunch
- 24:50Speaker 4: of guys that were like, you know, favorites right like
- 24:54Speaker 4: this like young upstart next team, like and it's just like, bro,
- 24:57Speaker 4: let's be real here, Like you know what I'm saying.
- 25:00Speaker 4: They're not beating like the big teams. You know what
- 25:03Speaker 4: I mean, They're not beating like the juggernaut teams. They
- 25:05Speaker 4: might make a little run and excite us, you know
- 25:08Speaker 4: what I mean, Like, hey, Mets fans, you know what
- 25:10Speaker 4: I mean. But like they're not gonna go all the way,
- 25:13Speaker 4: you know what I mean? So like what are we
- 25:14Speaker 4: really doing here? We don't have a guy. We haven't
- 25:17Speaker 4: had a guy since Pat so when they got Mellow,
- 25:20Speaker 4: I was very like, yo.
- 25:21Speaker 3: Yes, fuck, we finally have a guy, you know what
- 25:24Speaker 3: I mean. Like that's like, Yo, this is the guy.
- 25:26Speaker 4: This is We're gonna sell a million of these jerseys again,
- 25:29Speaker 4: like you said, like there's a reason to watch these
- 25:31Speaker 4: games like that, Like two thousand and five, two thousand
- 25:34Speaker 4: and six four H five H six era, Bro, I
- 25:37Speaker 4: was watching those games for two reasons. To see if
- 25:40Speaker 4: they would cover and to see if Jamoe Crawford would
- 25:42Speaker 4: cross somebody over, you know what I'm saying, Like and
- 25:44Speaker 4: he did. He fuck Kirk Heinrich up, Like go google
- 25:46Speaker 4: that just go go go YouTube. Jamo Comfort Nick's Kirk Heinrich.
- 25:50Speaker 4: He spun him around crazy. It's one of the craziest
- 25:52Speaker 4: googles that seems to this day. He threw the bowl
- 25:54Speaker 4: over the glass himself, like I'm watching for this right.
- 25:57Speaker 4: So now we got mellow and it's like we finally
- 26:00Speaker 4: have a guy. So to answer your question, it's the
- 26:04Speaker 4: same level of like esteem and respect, but now it's
- 26:08Speaker 4: like it's kind of like shifted into like, Yo, I've
- 26:11Speaker 4: been doing entertainment for like damn there like two decades,
- 26:14Speaker 4: you know what I mean. So watching him grow into
- 26:19Speaker 4: that space has been dope to watch, you know what
- 26:20Speaker 4: I mean, Like as an interviewer, as a like media guy,
- 26:24Speaker 4: as a like, hey, here's a question that I that
- 26:27Speaker 4: I just thought of, you know what I mean.
- 26:28Speaker 3: It's not in the prompter like you know what I mean,
- 26:30Speaker 3: Like it's watching that.
- 26:32Speaker 4: It's like I imagine it's like him watching his kid
- 26:34Speaker 4: playing basketball, you know what I'm saying. It's just like damn, okay, Like, wow,
- 26:37Speaker 4: you're really developing, like you know, like you're improving as
- 26:41Speaker 4: a as a media personality, you know, and then also
- 26:45Speaker 4: you have all these crazy stories Doug you know what
- 26:48Speaker 4: I mean that like have haven't seen the light of
- 26:50Speaker 4: day because, like you said, like when he was with
- 26:52Speaker 4: the Knicks, he wasn't really like a super like hey,
- 26:56Speaker 4: I'm gonna spill, like I'm an open book, you know,
- 26:59Speaker 4: like in postgame or whatever, because you know New York media,
- 27:02Speaker 4: you know, it could be like it could be very unforgiving,
- 27:06Speaker 4: you know.
- 27:07Speaker 1: Yeah, it felt very combative. It felt like every week
- 27:10Speaker 1: he was the back page of the Post. Something he did,
- 27:13Speaker 1: something he said had pissed somebody off, you know, and
- 27:16Speaker 1: somebody was going to write a story about it. I
- 27:19Speaker 1: love that of the show seven PM in Brooklyn. I
- 27:23Speaker 1: love that title. How did you guys come up with that?
- 27:25Speaker 1: Where did that come from?
- 27:28Speaker 3: Man?
- 27:28Speaker 4: That was like that was like literally like just us,
- 27:30Speaker 4: Like people were sitting in his zoom like what about this?
- 27:34Speaker 3: What about this? What about this? I like that? That
- 27:37Speaker 3: sounds dope, you know what I mean?
- 27:39Speaker 4: It kind of like sets of like a like it
- 27:41Speaker 4: gives you like a like a visual right like seven
- 27:44Speaker 4: pm in Brooklyn, Like it's like, you know, the sun
- 27:46Speaker 4: is setting dusk.
- 27:48Speaker 3: You know what I mean, Like people are hanging out,
- 27:51Speaker 3: there's still like stuff. It's New York city. So it's
- 27:53Speaker 3: still going on. It's still motion. People saw aside. This
- 27:56Speaker 3: conversation is happening.
- 27:57Speaker 4: This is like the in front of the bodega in
- 28:00Speaker 4: the barbershop conversation about you know, whatever you know is
- 28:05Speaker 4: going on.
- 28:08Speaker 3: It just felt right.
- 28:13Speaker 5: So before we let you go, we gotta know how
- 28:16Speaker 5: would you think you and Na Melo would perform against
- 28:19Speaker 5: this offensive line?
- 28:20Speaker 2: The giants got you guys getting sacks.
- 28:22Speaker 4: Ah, Bro, Listen, I'm working with as a pee lead coach.
- 28:29Speaker 3: We've been All we do is work on RiPP and swim.
- 28:32Speaker 4: Okay, first step, you know, three to one technique, two technique,
- 28:36Speaker 4: three technique, Get on the right technique.
- 28:38Speaker 8: You know, make sure you stid three point stance is good.
- 28:41Speaker 8: You know, it should be so that if you move
- 28:45Speaker 8: your hand, you fall down. That's how much you should
- 28:48Speaker 8: be your asses up. The little man wins, you know
- 28:50Speaker 8: what I mean. So I'm getting at least two and
- 28:53Speaker 8: a half.
- 28:53Speaker 4: I'm putting the line at two and a half on
- 28:55Speaker 4: this line, bro, and I'm doing.
- 28:57Speaker 3: The sexy TEXI dance after just to be like, you know, disrespectful.
- 29:02Speaker 1: That is an aggressive line for you too, I would say,
- 29:06Speaker 1: And I feel like it's low for this Giants offensive line.
- 29:09Speaker 1: That's what I mean by aggressive. It's a little bit low.
- 29:13Speaker 1: You guys could run some wicked, wicked you know you guys.
- 29:19Speaker 1: Also the Giants offensive line, they'd be so wow. They'd
- 29:23Speaker 1: be like asking you about the AOC interview. They'd be
- 29:27Speaker 1: asking mellow about like that time he won the gold
- 29:31Speaker 1: medal with Lebron.
- 29:32Speaker 2: Like the banana boat. Got to ask the banana Boat.
- 29:36Speaker 3: Yea, yeah.
- 29:37Speaker 1: They'd be like, let's let's let's reenact the Banana Boat
- 29:40Speaker 1: before we actually run the play.
- 29:42Speaker 7: I remember through the whole line, like Yo, Bubble was
- 29:44Speaker 7: actually the really cooler person.
- 29:49Speaker 3: There was a very humble guy.
- 29:53Speaker 1: That's how bad it's gotten for the New York Football Giants.
- 29:57Speaker 4: But like.
- 29:59Speaker 1: You got the next who almost stayed within thirty of
- 30:03Speaker 1: the Celtics last night, and you got the Yankees in
- 30:07Speaker 1: the World Series to break your heart against.
- 30:12Speaker 3: This team. This is a team of destiny.
- 30:14Speaker 4: This team is being again being led by another bi
- 30:20Speaker 4: racial angel. Not Derek Jeter, not my Lord and Savior
- 30:24Speaker 4: Jeter Christ but Aaron Judge. Okay, and I am a Dominican,
- 30:30Speaker 4: so Juan, you know what I'm saying. It's gonna take
- 30:33Speaker 4: us he's gonna take us over too. Let me tell
- 30:36Speaker 4: you something then, don't just smoky bed Joe hel tiny.
- 30:39Speaker 4: We're gonna make it too she out of Joe. That's
- 30:41Speaker 4: what I'm gonna tell you right now. We're gonna make
- 30:43Speaker 4: it Taimi ada okay, because once honto la, it's plata
- 30:48Speaker 4: the power all the way, Bapa, that's what it's gonna
- 30:50Speaker 4: take us away.
- 30:51Speaker 3: Shout out everybody. I wanna give him shout.
- 30:53Speaker 4: Out to you, to you Simon, I want to give
- 30:56Speaker 4: a shout out to Chat. I wanna give you a
- 30:58Speaker 4: shout out to the guys and make sure you're toting
- 31:02Speaker 4: eight to seven PM in Brooklyn on you and also
- 31:05Speaker 4: be toy Lie, you know, because I'm there as well.
- 31:09Speaker 3: The kid Meto is here.
- 31:10Speaker 1: Papa, I don't even want to say goodbye kid Meto
- 31:14Speaker 1: Devin PM in Brooklyn. Like you just said, thanks for
- 31:17Speaker 1: counting on the show. Brother, great to see you, Thank you.
- 31:19Speaker 3: Thank you.
- 31:20Speaker 4: Man. Hey, listen according to the kid on YouTube. Man,
- 31:23Speaker 4: check me out, you know what I mean. If you
- 31:24Speaker 4: have fun listening to this, keep listening to the guys
- 31:26Speaker 4: because they're fucking phenomenal. But check me out as well.
- 31:29Speaker 4: You know what I mean because I am also phenomenal,
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