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Episode 155: Bam Adebayo is Having a GENERTIONAL Offseason! · Play 4 Keeps Podcast

• Greg: it was straight it was straight credits and then they hit a end credit scene. Jax: Mm. I rem 'cause I remember at the end of Toy Story One and Two, they had like the bloopers within Greg: We losing fucking recipe bitch. Hey, a redactive when you see God damn it. Redacted when you see this is is this a safe space? Jax: I mean it's not, but sure, continue. Greg: I'm not gonna lie. When that nigga Ryan Kugler did that shit for sitters, and he was like, you know, I'm not finna reindact that nigga voice, cause that's a real ass nigga. Of course that's a real ass nigga. But everybody was also like, hey, let's you gotta watch an IMAX IMAX. I'm not gonna lie, I was pissed. I was pissed when it was like the we have to go watch this bitch in IMAX. Not because of him, because I would do it for him. But when all them bitches was fucking sold, like it was like, damn, it was like a hassle, especially up here, to go find some real iMac shit. But in my mind, I was like, this nigga is so influential that this shit's gonna start turning into like how Marvel did end scene credits where everybody else starts doing it. Jax: yeah, after after everything. Greg: Even when you're not Marvel or you're not even in that fucking universe. So I'm I'm scared these niggas are gonna start doing we gotta do this bitch an IMAX. No. Jax: I feel like one, it should stop and cause it's it's stupid. Just like if you can't see the whole movie, like if you lit like quite literally cannot see the whole movie unless it has it's on a special screen, I think you should stop it because that's dumb in my opinion. But also like I don't think I'm not sure how much it's gonna take off though, cause like You have to like one of them ones to actually be able to film it on a IMAX and have people turn out for it. Like 'cause like Ryan Coogler, he can do it 'cause he's Ryan Coogler. He sorta had that reputation. And then what's this dude who just Chris Renolan, he's Chris Renolan, he's like one of the like I know I don't I don't be knowing directors and he's one of the directors I know. So like he's one of them ones. So of course he's gonna get like whatever he wants. So I think Greg: Near he is Jax: Those big names can do it, but like I think everybody should stop, but I don't think it's gonna catch on 'cause it's still it's not enough movies that with that crazy budget and all that is gonna be able to do that. So that's the only I guess saving grace, hopefully. Greg: I understand that, but it's not gonna stop niggas from trying. That's the problem. Did you watch Toy Story Five? Jax: That is very fair. Greg: I watched it. Good movie. Good, good movie. I mean, even if you just watch it at home, fine. I mean I yeah, it's fine. That shit was over. I got my black ass up. Nobody got up. I was like Jax: People say it's good. Like I'm gonna I'll watch it eventually. Like just Yeah, I'm just I'm probably just a way to streaming. Toy store? Greg: Like I got up because I'm thinking it's the end of the movie. I'm like, okay, bet. I get up. Everybody still seated. I was like, ain't no way y'all finna do this. There's there's no way. Lo and behold, in credit scene. I was like, all right, bitch. Alright, nigga. Jax: What? What the fuck? We're doing in we're doing this in Toy Story now. Greg: Now I gotta it's almost like I have a new hot take, but I gotta stick to my plan of what my original hot take is. I don't have time to just dive into that, man, but Jax: Let's you gotta say that for we get we get to redactor, we gotta say that for them. I'm saving all my movie options. Greg: Man, when we get to redact, when we get to redacted, I got some shit to say. Cause what happened to the what happened to the bloopers next to the rolling credits? Bring them shits back. Jax: Yeah. I got I got a lot of shit to get off. Remember Toy Story did that. R did they do it in the were they just straight anchored? Do they do that in Toy Story or no? In this new one. Toy Story Five. Like the blue 'cause remember in the first I think the first and second they had Greg: What you mean? They didn't have bloopers. It was straight no, it was straight it was straight credits and then they hit a end credit scene. Jax: Mm. I rem 'cause I remember at the end of Toy Story One and Two, they had like the bloopers within Greg: We losing fucking recipe bitch. Hey, a redactive when you see God damn it. Redacted when you see this Ricky, when I catch you, Ricky, Ricky. I got real passion about it. I was like, hold on. Cause I'm upset, bro. Like, damn, like that's what made early two thousands movie early two thousands, bro. Like, bring that shit back, bro. God damn. Y'all is not, y'all is not Stan Lee, nigga. Fuck. But welcome back to another episode of the Play for Keats podcast. The only podcast where we do something different every single day. The only podcast that doesn't go to DreamCon. Jackson, you go to DreamCon? Jax: my god I went last year, but it it's not really my thing. Like 'cause I like anime and stuff, but like and like I'm real like I really do like anime. Like I was watching since I was a kid, but like I like but I'm not I don't call myself like an anime person. Like I'm not an anime nigga. Like I'm not one of them. But I I do enjoy it, but just you know, it's just not a rhythm for me. It's cool to go around and like have cool like vendors and stuff to like buy stuff, but they're like panels and stuff about that's not really me. Greg: Yeah. Jax: I don't really I don't I don't care about you niggas' opinions about this shit, bro. Like Greg: Mm too many titties. I get it. Jax: Not what I said, but I we can look into like and I know like this is just another before we because we just taking too long, but like this is one thing, just I know it's a problem in my with me, it's nothing, but I think just cosplay, I think it's lame, bro. Like e like no matter what, just something in my head, just even when like because there are some like cool costumes that people put a lot of work into, and like I'll see it, and like, that looks cool, but like In my head I still I still think it's lame. I don't know why. Like I just Greg: It's lame even it's it's lame even when the bad bitches do it. Jax: Yeah, I just I'm really not like I just I don't know what it is. It's just something is just something in my head just no matter even if it looks cool, it's in my head just like it's lame. That's why I just I don't know. Greg: Consistency. Halloween. Halloween be fucking you up, huh? Jax: I'm I it it probably does come from that. I'm not I'm not gonna lie to you 'cause we never dressed up, so it it it I it probably does actually come from that. So yeah. Greg: That's f hey, that's fair. Fair is fair. Fair is fair, my nigga. if you're new to this, wanna be a part of this community, a casual community, make sure you like, subscribe. Most important most importantly. Donations. Donates. Donations. Here comes the money. Here we go. Money talks. Here comes the money. I'm gonna get to the root of that song. I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna look up Who the artist is actually. And I will I will be reporting back. Jax: But I swear I s I swear it was Will Smith. I'm not gonna ho I swear it was Will Smith. I could be I no, I could be very wrong. I haven't literally no that's just what it sounded like to me, but shoot, I could be wrong. If I'm wrong, give fuck. Greg: That's a good that's a good guess though. I'm not I'm not mad at that. I'm I'm so I'm not mad. I'm not mad at the attempt, I'm not gonna lie to you. but we do have a lot of stuff to talk about. But before we e get to the important topics, real quick. We do not care. We do not care. Things we do not care about. First things first, a black man brought us in to our NSO bag. A black man has won. The home run derby. I believe it was Jordan Walker. I have a bookmark. I might pull it up. Yeah, there we go. I'll I'll share my screen. Jax: So Yeah. Yeah, Jordan Walker, Jordan Walker, Jordan Walker. Greg: Jordan Walker. after winning this, this is a black man, educated black man as well. I think his parents are very very educated, I believe. I think his his dad graduated from MIT. Jax: Yeah. Yeah. Went to like and the other one went to like one of them went one of his parents went to MIT, the other one went like Yale or Harvard or something like that. Smart, smart family. Greg: Harbor. Very smart for family. Gives very much Jalen Brown. except his daddy is not a boxer boxer. But crazy, crazy difference. you know, basically, I want more black kids in baseball. definitely had that quote. Said I know a lot of them are playing basketball, football, route. but I want them to know the baseball route is open to them too. And I want to see them do it. Jax: Yeah. Not a seven foot box. Greg: I mean, I hope it means a lot to them. I want them I want to be a role model for the black kids. First of all, respect. because I think anybody that is over the age of twenty one understands how much money is in baseball. so and we also understand how much money it is to put your, you know, your kid in baseball. Jax: Shh. Greg: But you know, the argument for that I would say is hey, these AAU prices for basketball keep rising up by the year two. So is it all of this stuff is getting more and more expensive and ultimately in order to beat those costs, your kid has to just be generationally talented, generationally good. That's just that's just kind of how it goes. like, okay, we'll we'll front his cost. That's Zion. Jax: In order to justify the cause. Greg: Hey, nigga, that's that's Ja. But Jax, I would ask for your reaction, but What could you say, nigga? Jax: Shout out to him. I feel like this is the person like we don't really care because it's baseball, but I do feel like this is one of the first like statements like this aren't said a lot by black players in baseball. I feel like so. I mean this is the person I've never heard in a while, so Greg: Yeah, I think the last person to do you see, okay, and I I'm glad you said this. I think this is and I'm I'm not putting a temporal hat on because this is facts. Like I'm not even trying to theorize this shit. I think we haven't heard it in a while because the niggas that was supposed to do it, life got put on hold. Okay. So I think before him, I think it was was it Julio? Julio Rodriguez. Was it Julio Rodriguez? It was somebody that I don't know if it was Julio Rodriguez or Mookie Betts. Probably maybe Mookie Betts was the one that like was a little bit more vocal, I think, a couple years ago. But I mean, he's out here winning, you know, he's winning World World Series with Shohei Otani back to back. Like he's doing his part. That's not the issue. But the next nigga up at before him was the nigga from the White Sox. I forgot his name. Jax: Yeah. who got beat up? I did forget his name. Greg: you know Yeah. Forgot his name. But he was like the the popular one that people was like, my god, this nigga doing backflips, he's talking this shit, he got the swag. We rocked with him, and then he got his ass. And then we stopped hearing this. We stopped hearing black kids, black kids to baseball. That black kids to base baseball pipeline. Jax: But I d I do remember then then the whole thing happened and went down. Greg: And if we're being honest, the Montgomery Brawl helped this from not being like crazy news. Like it kind of dimmed down. It happened the same weekend as the Montgomery Brawl. He better be glad. He better be glad some black niggas was on some shit. That same weekend. But yeah, I'm I'm glad that we have somebody like Jordan Walker to kind of like bring the conversation back up. Jax: It did I remember this. Yeah. Greg: I want my black I want my black people to stop fighting. I want my I need y'all to stop throwing in. Just play baseball. Talk crazy. Do your shit. you know, shut up and swing. Don't don't be beating niggas. Don't be trying to fight niggas. Or or or pick your battle. Make sure you know you fit a handle up. But yeah, I I I think I think had that not happened, it would have been a continual conversation for sure. but damn I think about that. Now I feel sad because I don't remember that nigga name. Jax: It's probably good we don't say his name 'cause he got beat up. So I it was Tim something, I can't remember. Greg: Tim Anderson. Yeah, Tim yeah, Tim Anderson. Once you said the first day, I was like, yeah, Tim Anderson. well. You know, pr you know, to protect his piece. We do not care. We don't care. All right. Let's just go ahead and move on. Next, we have the S piece. unfortunately, Jax had to remind me that it was going on today or that day. but it happened. Jax: To me, yeah, that sounds that sounds right. Yeah. Greg: Didn't really watch it for real, if I'm being honest with you. I kinda know how things go when it comes to the S Ps. It's cool. I know that people were kinda pissed about or not people not p pissed. Some people in the basketball community were like, my god, how does Bam eighty three not, you know, get the award or whatever for I guess best performance or whatever? But I mean, it was Shoei. Shoei had literally probably one of the best performances. Jax: Yep. That's be so. Greg: Ever in baseball to strike out ten niggas and then hit three home runs. It's unheard of. Jax: And as somebody that watched the band may three. Greg: I already know. No Jax: Respectfully. And then also, it's just the S Ps, bro. It's just the S Ps. Greg: And it's not a record. Feeling passive will. Not me playing double agent because you know how I feel about that nigga world. It's crazy. People like but ain't you say, hey, that's not that's not this pod. It's a new day. It's a new day, nigga. Relax. god. Read the pod, casual? What the fuck? Y'all crazy. We do not care. We do not care. next we have the World Cup. The third place game is gonna happen literally. Probably going on right now, actually. Jax: Ha ha ha. Good. Something different every single day. Yeah. Shortly. Yeah. Greg: France versus England. Mbappe versus Harry Kane. they did their best. I'm gonna be honest with you, France was supposed to be in the finals. but they fucked that up. They choked it. Crazy. But tomorrow, Argentina versus Spain, the script writers scripted things as perfectly as they can. Perfect. And gave us Jax: Perfect. Greg: Argentina versus Spain, Messi versus You mean Lamont? Jax: Yeah. Isn't he? Greg: Okay. I don't I don't know if it's Lamin Yamal or Yame Lamar. Jax: Wait, what did you say? Greg: I say you mean Lamar. Jax: No, it's Lummy and Yama. Okay. I thought you said that was the first time. Greg: Yeah, love me, your mom. Okay. my damn. That nigga that nigga named that nigga's name that nigga's name, Yameen? Damn. I said, Yameen kind of cold though. I'm not gonna hold you if it was his name, but Jax, as somebody that's been an advocate for soccer for the past two weeks, going on three weeks, a man that took time out of his day to join me in the FIFA fan festival in Houston. What is your reaction to the finals? What do you w wh how how's your b how's your experience been with the World Cup, just in general? What's what's your thoughts been? Jax: Very much a it's a better product than the NBA and the NFL just in terms of like bang for your buck and like time wise, cause when they say the game start at four, it's tipping off his door. I don't know what they call it in soccer, but that game starts at four on the dot. And like it don't run too long. Very I like I like the way they do time, very efficient. I enjoy that. Greg: Mm. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Okay. Jax: Still don't really understand soccer like that for real. For real. Offsides. I don't get it at all. At all. I'm not gonna hold you, but that's the thing that happens. Greg: Yeah, you basically just can't you can't beat your defender. Like you can't run for Jax: No, I no, I understand like I get the like I know the rule. It just seems stupid to me. Cause like, nigga, if I'm faster than him, like when I'm like I'm penalized 'cause I'm fast, but neither here nor there. Greg: A fair. Nigga said nigga said Tyreek Hill wouldn't thrive. Yeah. Jax: Like my nigga, but it is what it is, man. Neither here nor there. But no, this world cup and cool. I hope you know, I hope Spain wins 'cause Argentina got that terrible history. So I don't really want to see them succeed. But they have messy, so you never know. Greg: Yo, I feel like I saw something crazy in Argentina. Jax: Well Greg: my god, I forgot. Because I thought they was bullshitting when it happened. my god, what was the name of it? Jax: I know Greg who to talk I know Greg who to talk about now. I know exactly what you're talking about now. Greg: And that's when I said, fuck Argentina. They got a restaurant called Big Nigga Burger. I thought they was fucking with me. That's a real place. Jax: Yeah. Now this the literal name is Big Nigger Burger. Greg: And the bun is black as shit. I was like, Y'all bullshitting. Jax: That's that's Argentina for you. That's Argentina's the same country that like systemically like bred out the black community in the black and indigenous community. That's why there's no there's no black people on the Argentinian soccer team. And their soccer team in South America, like what are we doing? And also all the Nazis ran well, they ran to the US too, some of them did at least, but they all ran to Argentina after World War Two. So like that's the type of place Argentina is. So That's why I can't really have them succeed, even though they keep succeeding because Messi's amazing. But yeah. Greg: Messi has been like the greatest PR for these niggas. I can't wait for this nigga to retire so I can hate them properly. Fuck, fuck Argentina, fuck Messi, fuck Manu Ginobli. Fuck them all. Respect to him. You are racist until you prove otherwise. When you have, when you have history like that, and I it's the same for American white people. I deem you racist until you prove it otherwise. Jax: Like I just think yeah no. Greg: I don't discriminate, even though they do. But like we said, we we don't We do not care. We don't care. real qu I was about to ask you who you thought was gonna win. You already told me that. but finally, last, and it's certainly least, Connor McGregor. Connor first and foremost, Connor McGregor is the reason why. Jax: That's what his bitch ass get, bro. That's what his bitch has to get. Greg: I don't pay for pay-per-view. I will never, especially now, shout out to the real ones. I would never ever buy pay-per-view because that nigga decided to waste our time. Jax: He didn't waste my time. He ain't waste my time. But cause I wasn't gonna watch that shit regardless, but nah, he was going to fight who Max Holloway was gonna be wasn't a title fight or something. I don't I don't know, because I don't keep it. Carl McGregor is a rapist and I think he's racist as well. I don't know, but like I don't like Con McGregor. He should be in prison, so I'm not keeping up with him. But he was going to fight Max Holloway for his UFC thing. Greg: I don't know. Jax: there was a title fight, main fight, whatever you want to call it. Fight lasted all of like what 37 seconds? Cause they touch gloves. what happened after that? They like I think might exchange like one punch maybe. Then Connor tried to do some flying kick. He did that, threw his knee out of place, fight over. Shit lasted like 15 seconds. That's what this bitch ass get, bro. I don't like Conor McGregor. That's what he deserves. His dumbass should have Shouldn't you shouldn't have tried to return. Last fight, Kabib broke his leg. Like that whole snap, like like a spaghetti, like a little spaghetti noodle. So I'm like, You should be s you shouldn't even be fighting right now. You shouldn't even be allowed in America in the first place 'cause you should be in prison, but whatever. So that's what his ass get. I don't care. I don't even think you should play that 'cause that's disrespectful that's disrespectful to the Yeah, no, he needs the the SVU he need the SVU theme song. Greg: On honestly, yeah, he don't even deserve that. That's disrespectful to K G and the real niggas. He actually He he actually don't like my fire. Actually. Fuck him. Jax: Yeah. Yeah. Fuck yeah. Greg: Yeah, it's it's yeah. Is it wise for him to keep talking? Jax: Let's let's let's get to some real let's get to the real fight that happened this or that happened last weekend. Greg: Mm. Jax: while I share my screen. I got I got I got the video but not I have the not the video we want of course but the the news update because if y'all did not know Ben Adabayo and Tyler Hero former Miami Heat teammates got into a little scuffle curve up or before we do all this the NBA they said they're not going to suspend nobody from this so it just happened and cool it happened. And so we said this is offseason they're two individuals we don't care but Greg: god. Jax: Bam and Tyler, two former Heat teammates, got into a little argument at a Las Vegas gym. Shouldn't have been talking shit. Shouldn't have been talking shit. Greg: Nigger, do you know that I can see you? Jax: And they say there's vi they say it's supposed to be surveillance camera video. They have not dra I don't know who has it. They're probably trying to sell it to whoever for the highest. Greg: They trying to get that shit to TMZ. They trying to TMZ that bitch. Jax: But I need to see that video. But Tyler Hero, that is that is what you get. Because I'm ti these NBA players, they need to start because this all stems, like Sam said, it was from excuse me, it was from comp yeah, comments, but comments Tyler Hero made to a random fan that DM'd him. And Adley, stop D like, why do you expect these niggas to keep your conversations private? They don't know you. They just want clout. Greg: I I need Jax: Why are you going back and forth and not expecting to expose DMs like you saw what happened to KD? Like, what are w what are we doing? All y'all are stupid for doing this in the first place. Greg: And you and you not K D. So nobody like c like when that shit happened, like, first of all it was a whole Jax: Bam wasn't gonna like if it was if it was imagine if it was KD and bam like respectfully, Bam wouldn't have punched KD because KD has like that level of respect. Like it's Kevin Durant, you can't just do that to him. You have a hero. Greg: Yeah, that's like that's like talking that's like talking to your elders. That's like talking to your elders for real. It's like it's like, okay, Unc just I know where his heart is at. Like I I I know he mean well. You Jax: Exactly. And like Kevin Wright is one of the best players ever. Like you can like like if it was Jalen Brunson, he couldn't do that to Jalen Brunson because Jalen Brunson just won a champion. Jalen Brunson is amazing. All that like but you you respect you just Tyler Hero, bro. He can punch you. And people will laugh because people don't like you. Greg: Nigga, if this was if this was Jimmy Butler, if this was Jimmy Butler, this is going a different way. Jax: Jimmy Butler fighting. They if he hit Jimmy Butler, they were fighting. But he wouldn't hit Jimmy Butler. Yeah. Greg: No, no, I'm saying I'm saying no, but it wouldn't have never gotten to that point. Like, Bam would have never laid hands on Jimmy. There's just a respect factor. Even if he disagreed, it would have like, I I don't like how you moving. But you Jax: Exactly. Yeah, they would they probably would have like exchanged words for sure, but like hands, no. Greg: For sure. No. Never that. What the fuck? Even Udanus Haslam. Cause he just has so much equity in the fucking in the fucking thing. They just they just don't that's OG for real. But yeah, I when I when I heard this, the first thing that came to my mind, I was like, fuck. Y'all wanna do this two after two hours after we do a whole pod? Jax: Listen Greg: Nigga, my energy would have been through the roof. Nigga, I would have been like, wait, what? I would have been so hype. I was so pissed when that shit happened. I was like, why? Chill. and then the second thing that came to mind was this was Tyler Hero's AAU team. I couldn't be on Tyler Hero AAU team after that. Jax: Yeah. yeah, he he he he punched him in front of his AAU team. They're not gonna respect you no more, folks. Greg: Nigga, what you better chill out for I get bam. Nigga, what? I'ma say this. Bam. And I know if you are not a New York Knicks. I think Bam has had the greatest 202, the greatest 2026, 2025 going into 2026 year that I've seen out of a basketball player. Like he's had such a a Kendrick Lamar. Not even like I'm when I Kendrick Lamar, I'm not saying like when it comes to beef. I'm talking about just everything just going well. Everything going well for you. Like Jax: How how how good is it? Yeah. Greg: Shit just keeps going in your favor. You start off before the season even starts. The woman of your dreams wins a WNBA championship after they then counted her team out and said they're not as good this year. They're not winning against the New York Liberty. They win that hoe. So much so you're in press conferences with her after these games. You just dare. And they accept you. Jax: Yeah. Greg: Okay. And then some people want to hate and be like, what the fuck does Bam do? Five or six months later, the Washington Wizards help you get 83 points. And now you're engraved in history. You can't talk about Miami Heat basketball without bringing up Bam anymore. Like it's just. God. Bam Kobe. Will Bam Kobe. And then you go into the offseason, and I understand. Jax: You can't talk about basketball without bringing up bat Wilt, Bam, COVID. You can't Greg: Some people may feel a certain way about how it happened and what it actually means to get this nigga, but you brought a you got a superstar. You got a superstar in the offseason. Some niggas don't get that opportunity. You got it. And then not only that, you end up using your name again and you bam a nigga. You bam a white man. Jax: Using your phone. The only thing that would make this better for Bam is if LeBron came. he's not. He's not going to. But if LeBron did come, best off season for Bam best best off season for Bam's life. Greg: This nigga hasn't had, this nigga hasn't taken an L all year. Like, this nigga, like, this might be the happiest nigga in the NBA. Because even after this, I'm seeing mad niggas like smile in his face and dap him up when they like talk. I've never seen, I've never seen Bobby Portis give all 32, all 32 teeth. Like, I've never seen no shit like that. I'm seeing Jason Tatum dap that nigga up. Jax: Bam hasn't stopped smiling one time, bro. I get it. Bobby like, you Bobby, you just like me. We both not niggas are we both not just like me. That's why Bobby found him a kindred spirit. Greg: Just like, yeah, Jay, you got Jason Tatum dapping you up and saying, hey, you should you should have called me. Jason, please heal, please heal that Achilles. I'm not trying to hear that from you right now. But I I appreciate the sentiment. Yeah, I don't think there's somebody, I don't think there's anybody that's had a happier season. This nigga been happy all season, all year. Jax: Yeah, no. Shout out to him. Shout out They didn't even make the playoffs. And the thing is, they couldn't even blame him because guess Lamello tripped him and hurt him. Greg: LaMelo tripped him and on top of that, he fans didn't want to go to the playoffs. He fans said, Hey, we don't want to keep doing this. So you listen to your fans. Jax: Matter of fact, who did the Heat pick anybody in the did they did they get like a good pick? I I gotta see now. Greg: I mean, I it's probably like a top fourteen pick, but I mean at the end of the day, probably didn't matter. It probably got rerouted to Milwaukee for the trade. I don't know. So it really didn't probably didn't really matter for real. They got Giannis. Jax: yeah, you're right, you're right. Never mind. Yeah. Great offseason. Shout out to Man Man. Greg: And that nigga's around palm trees. It's it's Florida. It's Miami. It's already good vibes over there. It's a happy nigga, bro. Idries. do I have though and honestly when it comes to Tyler Hero. Anybody that knows Tyler Hero n knows this was gonna well I didn't expect it to happen with Bam. But you nigga, like he he be talking crazy. He talk crazy to people. People be talking about, my god, a man Thompson be tweaked out. Yes, but like I'm sure it something led up. It was a bit. god. This nigga be talking. Y'all can't tell me that nigga don't be talking. Jax: That was probably that's probably something that led like yes, two two things can be true. Two things can be true. Greg: Cause this was supposed to be honestly for Tyler Hero, this was supposed to be a good thing. You're going back home. You're from Milwaukee. I mean, you're from not Milwaukee, you're from Wisconsin. You know what I mean? You got roots there. You were supposed to it was supposed to be your thing. Like, you know, you're supposed to be proving us wrong. Like you, you know, you got your own technically you got your own team because who out who else is over there in Milwaukee right now? Now you now everybody gonna start saying bam jokes. And you don't be fighting back in none of this shit. You just Jason Garrett the shit. You just smile and keep clapping. Jax: Yeah. Yeah, nah you got But the the one thing I can give Tyler Hero credit for, like after that whole incident happened, like he was going on, he was doing like interviews and stuff like that. No g no shades, no nothing. Like he didn't like you could sort of like there was he didn't have a black eye or nothing. You could see like there was like might have been like a little bit of a mark there, but like he wasn't he wasn't walking around trying to hide his face or nothing. He ain't really care for real. So shout out to that at least, you know. He not he's not going out like a hoe. Greg: That's real. That's real. At least he didn't call the at least he didn't call for police presence. I get it. Respect. Respect. Jax: Yeah. But moving on, another, another, another big man, another having issues, Jalen Duran. Now, if y'all, we talked about him during the playoffs as it was happening, but he's a center for the pit or he's currently still the center for the Pistons. We'll we'll see how the offseason goes. But in the playoffs, he For sure, underwhelmed. In the regular season, he was all MBA. I think he averaged like twenty and ten or something like that. If not twenty and ten, something close to that. Real real deal breakout year. But in the playoffs, he like the lights were too bright. He looked he was terrible in the playoffs, respectfully. And because of that, it seems like the Pistons don't really want to sign him to that big max contract that he wants because like if you're in a no-show in the playoffs, what I'm signing you for, we're trying to win a championship. Greg: Mm-hmm. Jax: And Jalen Duran, he's, you know, he's fed up. He wants out with Detroit if he accepts a qualifying offer. Now, that qualifying offer from Detroit would only be, I believe, 9.6 million dollars. So he's and that's a far a far cry from the he's trying, he was trying to get a max deal, which would be like, I don't even know, like 40 million a year or something crazy like that. But so that that less than 10 mil is a far cry from those big numbers. So like yikes, but Greg: Yeah. Jax: I get it from both sides. Like if I'm Jalen Dern, of course I obviously want that money. But if I'm Detroit, I'm like, nigga, I do not trust you at all. So I don't know, man. I I see both sides of it. Greg: I see Detroit side more than I see Jalen Durin's side. But nonetheless, I still see Jalen Durin for sure. Because at the end of the day, this is still a young player. So I'm not I'm not finna sit here and act like this nigga is 24, actually, while we're here. Go ahead. I need to. Ooh, okay. All right. You do he turns twenty three in November, so he is twenty two. Shit. Okay. All right. All right. So I I think i if we're talking about a qualifying offer, you gotta move him. You gotta get something of value for him because you can't just let him walk for nothing. Jax: Ha ha ha. I thought the Kings had wanted to, you know, trade for him. I don't know whatever happened with that. And I would have like, if I'm Detroit, I'm trying to make that trade because like like you said, you need or but then again. Greg: But the problem the problem with that, the problem with the Kings was the fact that like Detroit was saying, Hey, like, we're gonna match whatever y'all niggas decide to like send. So it for the Kings, they were just like, Okay, we're not gonna We definitely not finna just overpay right now. Like we're thinking we're gonna get this nigga not necessarily pennies on a dollar, but you know, we'll we'll we'll give him the contract that you don't wanna give him. For real, for real. so I think they tried to like Jax: Okay, okay, okay. Mm-hmm. Greg: talk, you know, talk to like reporters and say, hey, yo, like the they was trying to like calm it down. Like, hey, like this is not like a fire sale thing. Like this don't need to be a thing where we're we're ready to sell this nigga to the highest builder, bidder. We're really just trying to like talk to Jalen Durr Duran and like try to figure this out. Like I I feel like we can we can salvage this. Jax: Yeah. Greg: But obviously not. So now they might need to revisit the Sacramento Kings. But I I I don't blame the Kings for bowing out because at the time they were like, All right, nigga, if you just gonna go ban ban for ban, it's gonna be like the same thing with Miles Miles Turner, where I don't know if it was Phoenix or whoever, they were like, yeah, he was supposed to go to Phoenix or whatever, for whatever deal it was, and then Indiana said, not so fast, nigga. We're matching. Bring your ass back. And we're gonna keep and we're gonna keep you in trade talks. And we're gonna sign you. so I it's just gonna turn into a very toxic environment. It's obvious that Jalen Duran don't wanna fucking be there. which is unfortunate. Jax: I don't even know, like I don't really know who he could go to to be honest. Cause I know people talking about before, you know, the Lakers did the whole Walker Kessler thing, people like, he'd go to, you know, the Lakers because Luca would love that rim running type of center because that's what Luca thrives with. And now like drafting happen, off seasons, not not over, but like getting close for real. Like I don't really know what else he could do, if I'm being honest. And then another thing for the Kings, like Greg: Honestly, you could I mean, well, it for first first and foremost, it depends on the money. Jax: If he goes to the Kings, the King had two big men who can't defend cause Sabonis still there. And he don't play defense either. So n nobody wants Sabonis no more. Greg: They're gonna move some bonus. They're gonna move some bonus. You right. They're gonna still try they're gonna still try though. They'll still try. Honestly, honestly, when I say certain teams, I I don't know nobody I don't know anybody's cap salary. So before you say, Hey, the the caps don't work, I'm just going off of who did they lose and technically they could add this. I would say, you know, New York, maybe 'cause they got rid of well Mitch Mitch Mitchell Robinson Jax: Yeah, fair enough. Greg: went to the Celtics. So there might be like a hole that you might fill in there. But like I said, I don't know the money. I don't know the money part at all. Like I don't know their their finances. shit, I don't fucking know. because I think Mitch I mean, yeah, technically it's technically it's cat, I think. Yeah. It is cat. Yeah, never never mind. Cause you're you're not gonna get money for that. I don't know who the fuck is in Toronto big man wise. Jax: I don't know. Who's the center now? Do you know? I don't know. I guess cat. Yeah, I guess they just move cat to do. Okay, so no. Greg: but they got their own situations that they gotta deal with Kawhi first. But like if everything like if you had Kawhi and like you you just, you know, I don't know what their big man is, that would be like a nice, you know. Yeah, but he's getting older, so like he might be coming off the bench or whatever. other than that, everybody has like a decent big man or at least a big man that they believe in enough. Jax: Yeah. Jacob Partle's still there. Greg: To kind of rock with you. Like you're not gonna get top cause even Portland has Donovan Klingon. Jax: Well I got me and that Asian dude, H Hansen. Greg: Yeah, Hansen and and Utah even has what you call it, Triple J and somebody else, they're kind of established in a big like you're not gonna get good money and be a big man. Like you want money, you want to get paid. So like, yeah, I I'm not seeing I don't know who Orlando has. Who does Orlando have? Jax: Yeah. Yeah. Window Carter? Greg: I guess. Jax: And Wendell Carter was b bullying Jamin during the playoffs. Greg: That is true. That is that is true. And wasn't who's in well, Indiana they got fucking what you call it? The dude that fucked up they draft. Yeah. Yeah, Zoo yeah, Zubog. So they're not moving off him because he has to work out. Like you castles you castles a top five pick, nigga. Jax: I don't think Zubat. Zubat? I really I'm going through the teams in my head and I'm looking at I'm like, I don't know where he Greg: There's not a lot of options, nigga. I'm not gonna lie. Hey, his best bet is just to pray for this expansion draft that that happened sooner rather than later. And take that qualifying offer. Jax: Yeah. His his best bet is just hey try to try to have the same type of season with the Pistons and then just in the in the playoffs actually do well. Like that's everybody. Greg: Maybe maybe Br maybe Brooklyn, 'cause they got rid of Claxton is with the Bulls now. Jax: May fucking be, bro. Greg: I'm I'm grasping at straws. It's it's not looking good for the big man. I'm not gonna hold you. yeah, that's bad. Jax: Yeah. But let's go to another player who was stuff it we or he thought stuff looked good for him, but apparently not. But Gary Trent Jr., he you know recently signed a four year, sixty four million dollar deal to stay with the Bucks. Which, you know, Gary Trent Jr., four years, sixty four million. That's a lot for Gary Trent Jr. And because of this, now the NBA is actually investigating. Greg: God damn. Jax: Into whether or not this is a is this whether or not this is another Kawhi Leonard type situation. And that sucks because imagine you Gary Trent Jr. just be Yes, I just got sixty four M's and now NBA's like, hold on. You were bad last season. Why are these niggas giving you that much money? And yeah. Greg: Yeah. Yeah, they're trying to make sh make it seem like like you wanna make sure this isn't like cap circumvention or whatever the fuck. Which in my mind, if I had common sense, I would assume that cap circumvention would raise an eyebrow if you're paying somebody less, not more. You know what I mean? Like you pay Kawhi. less buddy because you're giving him money under the table through aspirations. But to give that nigga 64 million, maybe they're just saying, okay, well maybe we just maybe they're looking at it from a standpoint of, we severely underpaid that nigga the years before, or paid him undervalue to kind of keep Yannis and try to bring a dame in and whoever the fuck. And then now that all these niggas are gone, now we're gonna give you the big bag. But at the same time, like this has been this has been done plenty of times. We they did that shit with Chris Paul with the Rockets. It's like, hey, yo, look, we're gonna make this shit work, but on the back end, you gonna pay me this boatload of money. We got this handshake deal and agreement. This is back when Darren Mori wasn't a known liar. He was still a liar, he wasn't a known liar. And Now that nigga has a huge contract and it's now coming off a a a bad or a down year. Now it looks like a bad contract because he's not playing up to his ex expectations. Or like D Wade wanting that payday with the Miami Heat. And they're like, I don't know. So I this is not new information. This is not new. This is not something new that's hasn't hasn't been done before. I just think when it comes to shit like this, I would say, how about you f how about you finish the the first case? How about you finish the Kawhi case before you start opening other cases of other shit? Like, like stay, like you on some non-misogynistic shit, you arguing like arguing like a woman right now, bro. Like, no, but what about this? Nigga, stay on topic, nigga. You are right here. And I'm not trying to disrespect nobody when I say that, but you know what the fuck I'm talking about. That like, stay on topic, nigga. Jax: Change the subject like no, but Greg: What are you doing? You ha we haven't even got this concluded. And it's very easy because Pablo Torre did all of your work for you. Get it done. Jax: Yeah. So let let's Nigga. Greg: You doing all this, going here, going to the WNBA, we'll go talk about it later. Like we you doing all this other shit. Nigga, close this up, bro. Jax: Yeah. Focus. Fuck like you got 88 years like Adam Silverman. I got actually let's let's go to the WNB. Where is where is that right here? Let me share this tab and say if y so if y'all didn't know, this happened like what a couple of weeks ago, something like that, maybe. Yeah, Angel or not Angel Reese, Kylie. I'm stupid. My fault. I feel bad. My my fault, angel. Greg: god, bro. Yeah, about two weeks ago. Two, three weeks ago. Yeah. Hurt two. Jax: It's because I seen the A real fast was just whatever. But Kaitlin Clark, they were playing or whatever. She ended up falling. Alyssa Thomas fell on her, also happened to like punch her or whatever. No, she did. She pun- I'm not gonna she she punch her. She she punched the shit out of Kayla Clark. But initially she did she did not get suspended for it. But then Adam Silver, he actually went and talked to Kathy Engelbert, who was the commissioner of the WNBA, and he's like, you know what? Greg: It's Alyssa yeah, Alyssa Thomas. Okay. Jax: Maybe you should suspend Alyssa Thomas and also fine her. So, you know, she did get suspended. I think was it two games or one game? I don't know. Greg: I forgot. I I know at least one game, but I don't I don't know Jax: Yeah, she has to spend at least one game and she was fine a hundred thousand or was it a hundred thousand? I'm pretty sure it was a hundred thousand. That's why I'm like, it feels wrong because that's a lot. Like let me let me do that. Let me let me let me research this real fast. I feel like okay. One thousand, my fault. My fault. One thousand. Greg: Ooh sh ooh shit. shit. Shit. A hundred K for the for the women that that's a little That's a little stick, Nick. Nigga, you okay. Ooh. That sound a that sound a wimby that sounds like a wimby find, nigga. Under K? Jax: Okay, okay. My fault. She she got fined one thousand and she was suspended one game 'cause they upgraded to a flagrant two. All right, bet. Get that make sure get everything clear. But Greg: Me too. Okay. SEO. Absolutely. Jax: I do want to touch a little bit on the Kaylin Clark part of it all before we go back to hating on Adam Silver. Cause like this whole Kaylay Clark thing, I don't like. She was billed to be the generational, game-changing prospect for the WNBA. And she was generational and game-changing in the in the sense that like she brought new eyes to it. So she did change the WNBA as far as that. But when it comes to like on the court play, Greg: Yes. Jax: She hasn't really lived and I she's dull with injury this season. She has a back injury and all that, but she's been shooting poorly and she was supposed to be like the woman version of Steph Curry, you know. she's not playing defense and that's been issue with her her whole career. Like she just and then you have all these other new guards like Paige Beckers who came the year after her, and then Olivia Miles was a rookie this year and is an MVP conversation 'cause she's just Greg: Olivia Miles. Jax: Cold as hell. So like you have all these other guards surpassing her. And it's just like maybe Caitlin Clark, like she could probably end up still being a solid F WNBA player, but she might not be what we build her to be. And I think everybody needs to like reconcile. Everybody including her might need to reconcile with that fact. Now, I'm saying this after she did just drop like a 45 and 10 the other day. So career high and everything. But like, I don't know, man. This whole Greg: I can do no. 45 career high. Jax: I don't I just don't like the way anybody's warning about any of the Caitlin Clark situation. And then you got who is it? I think Thomas Massey, he's a congressman or a senator in one of these states, I can't remember. But he was like, my gosh, these women are being so mean to Calin Clark, we're gonna, we might have to take legal action and contact like the do some do some type of lawsuit against the WNBA. Cause I'm just like, this is exactly what Caleb Clark does not want. Cause this whole entire time she's just been like, like, cause she Greg: Yeah, shut shut the hell. Jax: She's white and everything and she's from Iowa. She so she got a crazy racist fan base. And like throughout this whole thing, she's like, I don't condone this. I don't want to do this, that, and there. I'm just trying to hoop, blah, blah, blah. And it's just like everybody's doing all this crying for bringing all this attention there. And she's not helping herself either, because she's crying as well on the court. But like, I know she just wants everybody. I know she just sort of wants to shut up and dribble. And I think she should she I think she wants everybody else to shut up and dribble as well. Greg: She should do it. She should she should do it, actually. Like I I know what she wants to do. Yeah, she should actually do it though. until until Congress, yo, shut up and and fix fix our shut up and fix our lettuce, nigga. Shut up and fix our loofy greens. Jax: There. Fix literally in Fix literally in there's so much going there's so much wrong. Fix literally anything. Greg: Fig fix our vegetables, fix our air, fix fix everything, nigga. There there's everything, nigga. Jax: Freeze out of water. Stop shooting stop shooting people in the back. Greg: Like god d like way way too much. Way too much. But from a Yeah, like from a Caitlin Clark perspective, because I'll we'll we'll I'll discuss Caitlin Clark first. It's just like it's this sense of like Jax: Illegal or not, like goodness. Greg: Not only like not only is she doing this, I think the reason the reason why it's so big is the fact that like because she's Caitlin Clark, they made that deal to broadcast and nationally televised damn near all of her games. So we get to see her game after game after game after game doing some bullshit. And It's getting to a point where it's even Caitlin Clark fans that are delusional are like, all right now, like shit, I can't defend some of this some of this flailing around, some of this yelling and and cussing out refs and you not you Jax: like the the thing with like 'cause that's sort of what Luca does and the thing with playing like Luca is you have to be as good as Luca to get away with some shit like that. And you're not you're not good like that. Greg: But the pro but the problem with Luca is like, or like the difference with Luca is the fact that yeah, like he's trying to f like sell a call or whatever, but his shit is not egregious to the point where he looks like no, I'm saying, like, I'm not talking about him. I'm talking about the actual foul. Like, he'll sell it and it looks egregious. But at the end of the day, Maybe it's a foul or maybe it's like a push off. There's times where Caitlin, nigga, you touching air. Like we can't even defend you you pushing off and trying to wind for the foul and you in slow-mo. And then you like falling down to the ground and like hurting your stomach, like you playing soccer. It's like there's levels. Jax: I think there was like one video or whatever where like her, like she was she was guarding somebody or somebody was guarding her rather and like her hair, like she got like a ponytail, like her hair whipped around and like hit her in the face and she thought the girl found she was like, Red, where's the fountain? It's like, come on, Kaylin. Greg: It's like that's not how that works, bro. That's not how that works. So yeah, I I it's just but like it's a it's a buildup because it's one thing where it's like, okay, like she has a national televi f televised game, this game, and then we don't really see her until four or five, maybe six days later for the next national televised game. No, we're seeing her again on that Tuesday, then we're seeing her again on that Thursday, then we're seeing her on like we're all eyes are on her. So that was that was ridiculous. As far as the Adam Silver part of it, I understand that is fuck Adam Silver. I get it. I I get it. I can't defend, I was never gonna defend this nigga after cer after a certain line. But with him stepping into the WNBA, all that really tells me is that cat cat Kathy is on her way out. Jax: Yeah. Greg: Kathy's wanna get fired soon. Because at some point, if there's somebody else starting to take on some of your work, this isn't any job. If people are starting to take on some of your workload, yeah, don't worry, I got it, I got it. don't worry, I got Hey, get ready to start job hunting. Get ready to to work on that and and and spruce up that resume. Cause they about to fire you, nigga. They're about to find your replacement very soon. Jax: We haven't heard anything positive about Kathy Engelbert and all the time. We granted, like, I know l negativity gets blasted more than like positivity, but like every time she's in the new it's like she's making the wrong decision or like it's always some something she's done poorly. Like Greg: Yes. Jax: My sister in Christ, like this might not you this might not be the job for you. I don't know. Greg: 'Cause even Adam 'cause even Adam Silver g has a couple of W's on this boat. Like a a at least. Like they we we talk crazy shit, but hey, some of some he do have some W's. Jax: Yeah. Shit, like even Roger Goodell, bro, like and niggas hate Roger Good niggas niggas hate Roger Goodell. And even like. Greg: Yeah. I think his PRs I think his PRs then got then got better over the past three to four years though. Jax: Yeah. And also this is maybe it's a little different 'cause this is an NFL, it's sort of untouchable. But like Kathy Ingle Cathy Ingle, you're touchable. You're the WB, you're touchable. You need to realize it like Greg: Yes, in a NFL, like what like it's like you can't you can't remove them niggas. Hey, hey, Roger, hey, Roger Goodell, he is so safe. He is so safe right now. He's not going anywhere. You you're done. They don't they don't fucking like you, bro. They are looking for six informers for you, nigga. It it is overstood. Jax: They hate you, Kathy. Greg: It is very much overstood, nigga. Yeah, bro. It's it's it's raps. It's raps, bro. But yeah, I I think when people just when when when you decide to not make everything about Calen Clark and you realize there's talent, Paige, Olivia Miles, Juju Watkins is coming back next next year and you and you're bringing in more teams left and right. There yeah, like you you brought more eyes here, but there's gonna be other people in the league that keeps people here. You're not keeping people here. You're actually annoying and your fan base is annoying too. So we'll we'll we'll we'll see how it goes. Jax: Yeah, but let's real quick go step into the NCAA 'cause scandal after scandal after scandal, cause this is I don't know. That's just what N C double A is now. honestly that's probably what it's always been. Keep it a bean. But Greg, you know a little bit more about this topic than me, so I'ma just say what the tweet says, which is Greg: Absolutely. Jax: Wild Western Kentucky D lineman Victory Vodka has lost his scholarship after missing workouts for his mom's funeral. Now multiple FBS teams can't sign him because Western Kentucky processed his departure as a failure to report and he is unavailable to play this season. Greg: Yeah, crazy story. it was funny. I I hate when I hate when they when they do that shit on Twitter where they're like, Wow, shocking, terrible news. Bitch, just give me the fucking Bro, just just tweet the shit out, nigga. I wasn't here for your opinions. Cause what if I don't think it's wild? What if I don't think it's shocking? Even though this one this was definitely wild. I'm not gonna lie This was definitely a little wild. Jax: Do you think this is why? Okay. Greg: but to to give you a little bit more backstory, according to multiple reports, Victory Vaca was released by the program and may not be able to play during the 2026 season. However, the circumstances surrounding his departure makes the situation far from more far more troubling than it appears. He was a defensive line transfer from TSU Texas Southern, flew home to grieve his to grieve his mother, who passed on April, passed in April. he always planned to return to Western Kentucky for the 2026 season, and he was supposed to come back in June. Nine days ahead of his mom's funeral, vodka received a call from an assistant strength coach. Vaka said the coach provided a summer workout plan and told Vaka he was expected back in June. Then May 26, a question came from his position coach, where are you? And then the next day, May 27th. WKU chief of staff Travis Taylor informed vodka and his agent that the Hilltoppers were moving on and they cut him. And it's just, they put it as failure to report. So when you fail, when you once you put failure to report, that fucks up the FAFSA, the scholarship, that fucks up everything. And then basically makes you like damn near a regular ass student now. And this is a a senior that was supposed to know he's Jax: Every Greg: he he's supposed to graduate in the fall, like in at the end of the fall. So he's one semester from graduating and all of this happens on top of his, you know, mother passing away. It's just like The rules are flawed. The rules are flawed. Cause how how did we how did we even get here? Like, what's the point of hoeing a nigga like that? Especially when you told him you met you gave him a workout plan. You gave him a workout plan. You told him, Hey, we'll see you in June. He said, Cool. We'll see you in June. And then you get that shady ass text from May twenty talking about some where are you? Jax: Why do they hold these right? Yeah, what? I got one more cause you were telling us one more. So he got the workout plan and then he also like workout plan, he got that one day, and then like a couple days later he got the text saying like where are you? Was that by the same person? Okay, okay. Greg: No, no, no, no, no, no, no. the I think the if I'm not mistaken, it was the assistant strength coach provided him a summer workout plan. And then position coach texted him on May 26th, where argue. And and then the the next day, you know, it it seems like the text, because the everybody at this point, you know. Jax: Okay. And then there was a position coach who was like, Where are you? Well we don't say. Greg: You know what's you know what's going on with vodka. I just think they use that text as paper trail as, hey, we we sent down notification to ask where he was at. And then after that, then they could proceed to to cutting him. I don't understand on their side. Yeah, what do you gain from that? Because it's not like it's not like you're knocking somebody off so you can get some other recruit because the transfer portal was done. Like you can't. Jax: What do you gain from that? I'm so confused. Yeah, what the fuck? Greg: Getting nobody from the transfer portal. So it's just like, you know, that de that it's like when they when they do the failure to report, he said that designation is especially notable because according to Vaka's account, he was not expected to return until June. Under NCAA rules, classifying his departure as a disciplinary matter prevents him from using an exemption to enter the transfer portal. And if vodka was one semester away from graduating, not only does Western Kentucky's handling of the situation is deeper and deeply troubling. But the NCAA's rules also leave vodka with virtually no path forward. He no longer has financial aid to compete, to complete his degree and cannot play anywhere else. So it's just like Jax: So mess up his schooling and like that, I don't I really I'm very like, what was the point? Literally, like you can't get a new transport to close, like and if it's just like what I'm if I'm him, I'm blown, I'm blunt. I'm like, bro, you just well, I understand why he's making them like you literally just gave me the workout, but I told you I'm gonna be back in June the day before you say, Hey, you can't play here no more. What are we talking about? Greg: Like I don't understand why. Like Like y'all back y'all backdoored that nigga, and I'm trying to figure out what do they gain from backdooring this nigga. Literally. Jax: Nothing. Like nobody wins. This is d what? I don't nobody won in that situation. Greg: that's why a lot of people are saying, hey, the NCAA needs to get involved with this because it's just like you don't have anything to protect some shit like this. And granted, we understand that this is not the first time we've heard of coaches being shady, programs being shady and and shit happening behind closed doors. But the more we start getting into like these NIL talks, the more you gotta start, we gotta start having CBA talks, a union talk. Like we gotta start having something where we're like protected niggas, cause how like literally there's not a rule for this. Like there's not a rule that they can that vodka can fall back on, nigga. This is just a that that's is it's a fucked up situation. And I think Yeah, like Jax: That's so weird. Like that's That is that's so weird to me. Like I'm pissed off from that's so weird. Like nobody gained anything from that whole situation. Like what are we doing, bro? Greg: Literally. Like what like what like exactly like Jax: That pissed me off. I don't even like if I'm vodka, like I wouldn't even wanna play with them anymore 'cause it's like you niggas played with me. But like I Greg: Yeah, especially it's it's alre I'm already volatile because my fucking mom passed away. Like we already I'm already Rocky. And then you is is is Jax: Thank you, Molly. You take away my school, my fo like my sport, like what do we y'all niggas suck, bro. So I certainly hope that situation gets resolved positively for him 'cause that's just fucking like that pissed me off, bro, for him. Golly. Greg: Yeah, so apparently and apparently Victory Vac has also like released his like statement of like it's basically like a timeline record of everything that's happened from April 2nd all the way down. I'm not here to read all of it because we basically did we basically said everything. But it's just basically a sense of, okay, this is this is what happened on each day. and he got hold. He got hold. And it's Jax: Yeah. Bit time. Greg: I just I just wanna get into like somebody has to get on a podium and just like explain the reasoning. I just I don't understand the W like I don't know Western Kentucky's reasoning. That's my only thing at all of this. Jax: Like that's like if you're holding so like I don't agree with homing somebody, like if you're holding somebody, you typically gain something from it. You're taking advantage of somebody for your gain. Nobody like nobody w everybody lost. Greg: Yeah. Like like like like not to bring it to NFL terms, and I'm not saying that people need to hoe people, but like if the forty niners were trying to hoe Brandon Ayuk, okay, I can understand like even if I didn't agree with it, okay, well there's a track record and I can understand how this became a back and forth thing. If Bruce Arians and Adrian and and fucking Antonio Brown were hoeing each other okay. But this just seems very one side. What did this nigga do that made you wanna go this route after that nigga mama died? And you're not and you're a new like this is not like a returning person. He transferred from another school. So you don't have a rapport with him. This is not like some, he did some shit back in the fall with your organiz. No, he's a new nigga. Jax: I don't know. Greg: Bullshit. But that's why I wanted to bring it up 'cause it was just like, bro, like can't can't can't nobody on the internet break this shit down for me. Jax: Yeah. What the fuck? Like But let's let's go to the NFL real fast before we get out of here. Well, there's a couple more topics. But this one just happened and guess what? Another gambling scamble. Who would have thought? Like, my nigga, bro, but the NFL suspended the Cardinals, director of college scouting, Ryan Gold, for violating the league's gambling policy. They found out that he shared confidential information about Greg: Whoa Jax: the Cardinals 2026 draft elections and participated in parlay bets on NFL and college games. He's been with the team since 2014 and he can appeal. Now some more background I guess. The NFL, they determined he provided this information by telling people about the Cardinals picks before they were announced. And the NFL they suspended him and he's they said he's played or hold on let me click let me make sure I'm not not getting got real fast. Richard Johnson, he says an NFL insider. Am I getting got? I don't know. I don't know if this guy is a real person or not. Richard Johnson with the NFL. Greg: I don't like his fucking profile. Jax: Thank you. I'm like and and then like I'm looking at like this, like this seems like something stupid, but like of course, I mean the Jets could have said some dumb shit like this. I th okay, no, I think I think this is a fake. I think this is fake, cause Tua talking to Tyler Hero challenges Levi Might, I don't think Greg: What the fuck is that? It's fake. Yeah. He might be bullshitting. Jax: Okay, I think this is okay, yeah. Let me I think so. Cause okay, because I was about to pull up was saying the amount that he won, but this Richard Johnson person could be fake, so let me stop. But regardless, I mean I don't really have much to say because this low-key like literally just happened before he got on. But like, what did you expect when you legalize gambling? And that's that's really the end of the that's really the end of all I got to say about that, bro. What did you expect when you legalized gambling? Greg: Yeah he yeah he yeah he bought he bought it he bought it he bought Yeah. Like literally like It and more c more and more cases will come out by the by the month or by the year. It's ever I feel like there's a lot more people doing it than people not doing it. And it's just a matter of will you get caught or not. Jax: And like these penalties, they're not really like deterring anybody from any of this, honestly. Greg: Yeah, they're not scaring them. They in their mind it's like, bitch ass nigga, I'll never get caught. Okay. And maybe they won't. Jax: It's probably in their head they're probably like everybody's doing it and I everybody ain't been caught yet, so shoot, I'm not gonna be caught. Granted you did get caught, but it's just like, man. Well hey, what like what did you expect when you open the door to all of this? So Greg: Yeah, it's kinda hard for me to feel bad. It's kind of like when The best way I can describe it is is when is when niggas get to stealing small shit at at at Wally World at the self-checkout. look, everybody does it. I'm not finna sit here and act like I haven't done it in my younger years. But when you get caught, I'm gonna call you a dumbass. Like when you get caught and they find you or whatever, and and something happens and they end up arresting you or whatever the fuck it may be. Jax: When you when you try to ring up that T V as like a as a banana, like that's what you did. Greg: It's like, that's what you get, bitch ass nigga. And they'd be like, but didn't you? You're not talking about me. You're not talking about me. It's the podcast for casuals. I didn't get caught. I didn't get caught, nigga. What the fuck? Yeah, I can rationalize it the way I want to. You know what I mean? For me, it was gum. You went over the top, nigga. You're you're dumb. But Jax: Yeah. Greg: Yeah, I I it's just I'll never feel bad, is especially y all of y'all are making life changing money. But Jax: Yeah, you the 'cause I know scouts don't make that much, but you're the director of scouting for the c well but honestly, maybe he wasn't making that much money 'cause the Cardinals suck. So he probably wasn't doing is he'd been with the team for fourteen years, I think they said, so like Greg: 14? well he definitely he he definitely got pay increases over the years. He he got he got a stable fan. Jax: But he might he might not be good at his job though, because the Cardinals ain't they don't draft well. Like their team is Greg: I'm there's a lot of people that don't do their job well that still get paid. Jax: Yeah. That's also Greg: President President don't do his g this job well. Mitch McConnell either. Hey, you think let me let me stop. Jax: All I'm saying is Mr. Connell, he's dead, but let's let's move on. He he's Greg: boss. You think you think he's still getting checks? Like you think like he still gets deposits? Jax: Miss McConnell? He's dead. Greg: But like I'm saying, but like do you feel like the deposits like stopped? Like you may Jax: No, because they're doing everything to make it seem like he's still alive. So it's probably gonna like the fur grant, I don't know how many more paychecks has happened since it's well probably if they get paid on the first and the fifteenth like normal people, so Greg: Why are you so convinced that he did though? Jax: Because he is. Greg: But like I feel like they would have already said it though. You know what I mean? Like We said the same thing about Donald Trump last year. Like I thought that nigga was gonna die and he didn't. Jax: No, they don't want to say it 'cause they keep rolling out Donald Trump. Ms. McConnell is dead and they won't show they w they showed a pict like the pictures they showed of him, he was holding a newspaper, but his hand was over the date. Greg: Yeah. Well first and foremost, why was that nigga in the bed with regular clothes on? Jax: Exactly. I'm for that was probably a earlier picture from his like when he first got into the hospital. But like I said, I think that nigga's dead. And they're they're not announcing that he's dead because if they do, they'll have to hold like a special election and they don't want to do that because the Democrats would end up taking whatever the fuck spot and blah blah blah. It's a it's a whole thing. So but yeah, that's why they haven't announced him that but that nigga he's dead. But anyways, somebody who is alive and almost died. Matt Miller of ESPN. Now I got a news clip about it. So I'm gonna play that. I'm not gonna play the whole thing. But long story short, or at least this is how I was introduced to the topic. Well, I know Matt Miller for from Bleach Report. That's where he first started out. Now he's with ESPN. I've been a big fan for like since I was in like seventh grade. That's when I started reading his stuff. Greg: Yeah. Jax: So like I really like Matt Miller and everything. And he's always been known for running like these charity events and doing these charity fantasy football leagues and blah, blah, blah. But I think about three weeks ago he got into a car accident. wrecked his car completely. He ran into an 18-wheeler, total his car. He had to get his arm amputated. And during this whole process, during this whole time, people started to come out and be like, Aren't you the guy that scammed me? And it's opened up a whole can of everything. So let me press play on this. Greg: Need it. Jax: and he's a former ESPN analyst now because he took some time to step away to recover. So there's that. Greg: Cover. His arm never coming back. Jax: He can still and he ne his he has multiple bones broken, Greg. But anyway. Greg: Okay. Yeah. Jax: The semi toy driver five. Greg: Never ended. Jax: That's the that's the last important thing that a video says. But it's just like Greg: A white an old white woman named Kathy. Yeah, you're fucked. Yeah, she seems like she cares about her job. It might get you up out of there. Jax: I don't even know, man. 'Cause I l I like Matt Miller a lot too, man. That sucks. 'Cause I remember 'cause like I like I said, I've been following Matt Miller forever. So he I would always see like I don't I don't really like fantasy like that, for real. So like I would see him always do his, I'm starting a fantasy league for this charity and I'm we're doing a raffle for such and such so we can give coats to underprivileged teens and then like after After the George Floyd killing and everything, he was like, I'm starting the scholarship to help students of color in Missouri and blah, blah, blah. And now it turns out that he might not have even paid out any of the scholarships, any of the charities, any of the anything's for real. And just like, damn, bro. Like, I didn't even know what to say, like shit. I don't even know what to say, bro. Greg: Yeah. That's like, bro, like first and foremost, I'm not I did I Jax: And all of this is happening while this nigga arm is off and like his legs is he's in constant pain. Like this is the worst shit ever. Greg: Like dead ass is off, bro, and I'm I'm not gonna lie to you, but I'll I'll I'll say this because I didn't say it in real time because I felt like a dickhead. I felt like Skip Baylish when he was talking about DeMar Hamlin that one time. he like he sent that twe that like the the car crash report and then like Matt Miller's tweet, them hoes was so close. I was like, damn, like you don't wanna get off social for a little bit, you don't wanna like chill a little bit, like you You tweeting out fast as hell. That's what I was saying in my mind, but I didn't say shit because I was just like, This is in the f first of all this is an insensitive thing to think about, you know, when I get a nigga just lost his arm or whatever the fuck, but I was just like, damn, like Like you not traumatized a little bit? Like you don't want to like just talk to fail. We going straight to the Twitter. Jax: I don't think it was actually I don't think it's actually him sending out any of the tweets, I'm not gonna lie to you Greg: I thought it was him tweeting that bitch out on the fucking hospital. Jax: No, I mean it's coming from his account, but I'm pretty sure somebody's tweeting the shit for Greg: I'm thinking like, he one handed the tweet. Like, okay, bet. Like, I was like, damn he paragraph that whole one hand. Jax: He's probably giving them like he's probably giving them like the gist on what to say. But I don't think he actually like I I don't think I I don't know if I wanna type anything, I'm not gonna lie to you. Greg: Yeah, I wouldn't want to use my hands at all, bro. I'd be like, man, please, bro. Like I'll I'd still be depressed about my one arm. I'm I don't I won't I don't wanna do shit. So like when all this other stuff happened, I'm like, damn, you're you're not a good person. And granted, I didn't really keep up with Matt Miller like that. that wasn't like somebody that I knew much about until like I got a little bit older. But even then, I was like, damn, this Jax: Yeah, so Greg: And there is getting to the point where people are like, bro, was this car crash was this car cash planned? I was like, I I don't think people Jax: planning that. Like you could plan a car, like, and even if you're gonna plan a car crash, you wanna do it into a sense into another name, like you could harm that per he didn't because you know 18 wheel and all that, but like you could have harmed somebody else, you could have caused so much more damage, like you wanna do all that. Like, I if that if the car crash was his plan. Greg: Yeah, nobody's planning that. Jax: One terrible plan. Two even terrible erb because like into an AT Wheeler, bro, please. In terrible list, you lost a goddamn arm. So like that's why I'm like, there's no way he planned this. Cause there's I reflect like I don't know. I like his work, but I refuse to believe any I refuse to believe anybody that's stupid, bro. So that's why I'm like, I don't know why he planned. Greg: Horrible plan. You locked an arm. I wonder if it I wonder if it was his dominant hand. That fuck that'd fucking suck. Jax: It says his left arm. I'm not sure if he's lefty or righty, but it's like Greg: If it's his dominant hand, that'd be fucked up 'cause now you gotta do everything with you gotta re you gotta redo everything. You can't really write for real. I don't e I don't even know how to I don't even know how to eat. I don't you ever eat with your offhand, like with a fork and knife? That shit felt so weird. Jax: Relearn. See a nigga like me, I do, because I'm trying to like I try to stay sharp just in case you never know what happens. I'm trying to make myself ambidexuous, probably. You never know what happens. Greg: Do you think it's wise for you to keep talking? This nigga talk crazy. Who you feelin' like, nigga? Jax: Bro, you don't never like you gotta switch it up just to just to just to see if you can, bro. Like I be trying to write with my right hand. It's it's ugly, but my right with my left hand is ugly too. So like, what are we doing for it? Greg: Okay, right riding cool. I've I've I've I've seen that before because I tried that before. Eating eating with a fork, I've never did that with my left hand just to like just to just cause I I'm bored. But respect. I might have to do that. I might have to do that. What's crazy is I'm I'm better with my offhand when it when it comes to eating with chopsticks. I don't know why. Jax: Ha ha mas both hands eating with chopsticks. So there's that nigga. Like shit. Greg: My fault, my fault, Tokyo Drift. My bad. My bad, gang. Jax: But anyways, this is the whole Matt Miller situation. I hope, I don't know. I hope everything works out for the best possible way. I hope everybody who was scammed by him gets their money back. If in fact they were scammed, I hope he makes a full recovery. Cause like, damn, my nigga, your arm. That's crazy as shit. So like. And then I think people started feeling that way about him a little bit too. Cause I seen he opened like a bar or whatever in Missouri. And people were like, under, like, did you use my money? to open this bar and shit like that. So I'm just like, damn, that's probably where all that shit starts. Greg: They've been on that nigga head, bro. God damn. Deservedly so. I'm not here. I'm not here to cake for that nigga. Jax: Yeah. If you if you scann them niggas, that you they deserve to be on your head, nigga. You owe all them niggas money. Greg: And you need to disperse whatever money you raise. Whatever whatever's on that go find me, you need to go ahead and pay them pay them nigga. Man. Yeah. It's it's for him. It's for him to pay them debts back, nigga. You in debt. Jax: No, the goal for me the goal for me is for him, nigga. This nigga he n I don't care. this nigga lost his arm. This n this nigga lost his arm, bro. Like Greg: And? What the fuck does that mean? Jax: He don't need that money, nigga. Greg: No he won't. He gonna be in jail. He don't need that buddy. Jax: If that man, I can't imagine he is having like the year Bam had the complete opposite of the The complete opposite. The complete Greg: What the fuck he gonna need bills for if you in jail? my god. Matt might flip. It's just this his shit is his shit just happened in like a shorter time span. his shit happened in like two weeks. And it's just getting started. It's bad. yeah, it's it's it's horrible, man. Horrible. Horrible. Man, white people been losing all year. Jesus. Jax: Complete out. Except in the important ways, and that's the annoying part. That's the annoying part. But Greg, I I do think it is about that time. Greg: You know, you know how goes. Very true. It is hot take of the week. Jax, do you have a hot take? Jax: I do in fact. And this sorta fits with some of the things we've been talking about, 'cause it's a sort of a gambling type thing. But let me make sure I get all these but you've I you've heard of steak and kauchi and polymari, like those things, right? Greg: Unfortunately, yes. Jax: Yeah, but like State Calcy polymarket and all these other gambling and prediction markets and all that, they are way too involved with every single video on the internet. Greg: my god. Yeah. Jax: They're in literally everything. Even like I don't really be on TikTok for real, but I'll be seeing like the reels or whatever on Instagram. And like every video is like sponsored by Kelsey or has somebody like they're doing a skit or like a video or whatever and they'll be like, wait, before we do this, let me make a quick bet on blah blah blah real fast. And like there's in every single video, that is a problem. Because people try to other people try to say like these prediction markets aren't technically gambling by letter of the law, but like, nigga, yes, they are. All of this shit is all of this shit needs to be illegal. They're not gonna do it because, you know, Trump and his his children are like the they're on like the board of directors for all of these companies, actually. Like literally all of them. So like they're not gonna ban them or make them illegal. But like, this shit is bad. Like, they're way too involved in every single thing. Even for like Drake album, shebang, I like that song. This nigga put a ad for poly market in it. Cause I remember when I was listening to it the first time, I was like, why the fuck did he say that? Cause why you why are you bringing polymarket into this bullshit? Like she trying to finesse polymarket for bread. Like you're making stop putting these into like the average normal ex con. Because people might hear that and might not know what polymarket is and then. let me Google that and be like, this is that. And then boom, make it bet. Or like after any of those fucking Greg: Yeah. Jax: Any of those boxing things or whatever. Cause I remember Anthony Joshua, I think after his fight with whatever Paul, whichever one, like he put on like a polymarket chain. It's just like, these niggas are too involved in everything. And it's to the detriment of of all of us, bro. So that's my hot take. These niggas need to be stopped, bro. This is horrible, bro. And I don't even think people realize it. Greg: Jake Paul. You know who but you know who do? Saudi Arabia. They g they they ain't everything. Niggas know. Niggas them niggas the new Damn. I don't think I can say it. I don't think I can say it out loud. I don't think I can say it. They gonna fuck me up. I'm pinning two bad bitches together right now. It's two pit bulls fighting. man. I think my hot take I wasn't gonna talk about Kevin Hart, I don't care about that nigga no more. But my hot take is that Jax: Does anybody Greg: You don't know all these teams. I don't I don't like when when people Say things with so much conviction when it comes to sports teams or whatever, when we know we are not watching these teams. Like if Jack says something about the Cowboys, okay, that's just he's a fan. I when he's passionate about it, okay, like I'm I'm gonna listen to him. That same nigga cannot give me the same level of passion with the Miami Heat and tell me how horrible they're gonna be. Respectfully. Jax: Okay. Greg: Because he's not watching the games for real. He he's not watching Miami Heat versus versus Orlando. He wasn't watching it. He didn't care about he's not he still don't care. He don't care about that shit. So if he has an opinion, that's fine. But that and I'm not saying he does, but I'm just saying anybody that has an aggressive opinion about teams, they are not watching for real. Jax: It is a very good point. Greg: What's the point? I I want you to stop that because you're not watching those games. Don't talk about bullshit about the Cowboys. And I know you don't watch them niggas. Don't talk about don't talk about I'm sure Jacks don't want to hear you yap about OKC. Especially during our year of 2021-2022. If anybody told you about certain players in that in that year span, you would tell them niggas to shut the fuck up. Cause you was not watching them niggas get blown out by 70. By six, you wasn't there. So how can I, as somebody, like how can I be so passionate about something that's going to happen? And this all stems from the Miami Heat discussion, cause Jax: There that wasn't there yet. That wasn't there. Greg: Jax, you said stuff, but like I'm starting to see niggas on the internet. And I'm like, some of y'all niggas talking too passionately about some shit that y'all don't know about this. Y'all just some of y'all assume it, but why y'all so passionate about it? Y'all not getting paid for this. And stop arguing with people on the internet. You're arguing with Africans. You are arguing with Africans. These African Elon Musk is paying Africans on the app. All right? Jax: All these people are bots, bro. None of these people are real. Like the dead the dead internet theory is Greg: Them niggas them niggas them niggas getting paid to engagement in clip form. Like they're here to engage me. They their whole job is to disagree with you. You're not gonna be Jax: All those accounts all those accounts are ran by one they're ran by like one person in his AI algorithm and he just gets it to respond to everybody and they're all monetized. So he's probably a he's probably a secret billionaire off of just Twitter engagements. Greg: God, he's just he and he got mad couchy spa he got mad couchy ads in his shit too, nigga. He goes back to polymarket. Jax: Everything is them niggas going to everything. You going to like that being people that be in people's bios now like calci partner I'll be like you too nigga? Like it's like it's like one ragged dude I see who got that in his bio. I was like, you Greg: Like God damn nigga. Yeah, it's probably it's probably it's probably biased will bias Houston or or that Bradoo nigga. One of them like one of them light skinned niggas. But I'm just like, bro, like and even on the gender wars things, yes, there are African women on this app or African men. These faces accounts, bro. You're arguing with an African woman that's never touched US currency before. She's never felt that physically in her hands before. And you going back and forth about what a man should be doing and 50-50 and Cheesecake Factory for the first day. They don't have Cheesecake Factory in Nigeria, nigga. Like why would they why why would she know that? Why would she know that? Jax: That's what every time every time there's like crazy discourse or whatever, I always just click 'cause now you got the thing you can see where people are from and I'm like, okay, this is this account in Southeast Asia. Like you why are you talking about this shit, bro? Like you can see when the account started. Like Greg: I don't even have to look. You going back and forth with a nigga you going back and forth with with a African and I'ma saying African you going back and forth with a African that gotta use VPN to watch Love Island. You think I give a fuck about them niggas? They can't vote for the shit. Jax: I I s I definitely don't wanna see no Love Island, nothing, bro. I don't I'll be clicking not interesting. Greg: I be seeing, I be seeing Love Island Cow she shit. That's when I saw, that's when I was like, Jax: How do people people were betting on it 'cause like like with Cal like you can you can bet on everything, like you can literally bet on anything now. Greg: Yeah, there was a black woman on there that was like, yo, like I I think we're going it's getting too far. I'm seeing women out here trying to, trying to parlay Love Island. He was like, be a girl. I was like, you're right. She said it, not me. But the sentiment still stands. Be a woman. What the fuck is this? Me telling me telling me telling a woman to call that number, I never thought that would be a thing I have to do in the year of 2026. Jax: Yeah. Greg: What? Ultimately, my hot take is all over the place, but it really is just Jax's hot take. This shit is getting out of hand. Jax: This is ridiculous, bro. Why? Greg: That's the real hot take, nigga. Eliminate all this shit. It's it's infiltrating the community, bro. Fuck this shit, bro. But Jackson, he last word. Jax: Who who would have thought we were supposed to have I know like people in the fifty was like, Man, in twenty twenty six, we gonna have flying cars and this, that, and that they're having none you you get gambling. Gambling addiction and and viruses in your salad and that's all we get. And police brutality, like that's Greg: Our black parents were right, it is them damn phones. It was always them phones. Everything could be traced back to them damn phones. I I I I hate to say it. and as far as for me, man, look. I have nothing to say. Get rid of all this shit, man. Stop arguing with them people, bro. I I feel like you Yeah, I can't even I can't even say it, man. Let's go ahead and get up out of before I say something controversial again. go go touch that goddamn grass. Jax: Eastern Dam. Go tuss go touch grass. That's all I got to say. Greg: go eat some go eat something nutritious. not a leafy green though, but try to figure it out. but without further ado, we'll catch y'all niggas next week.