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Caitlin Clark Is Somehow Tied to Morgan Wallen, Is Lebron Leaving the Lakers? & WNBA Power Rankings · Hoops for Hotties

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SPEAKER_00: So without further ado, let's get into our first segment, the Hot Girl Hotlines of the Week.
2:05
SPEAKER_00: So there's a lot going on in the sports world, but I want to start with a little bit of sad news and give my condolences and prayers to the families of Brandon Clark and Jason Collins, both members of the NBA family that passed away yesterday.
2:21
SPEAKER_00: Brandon Clark passed away at 29 years old, and the cause of death is still being investigated.
2:26
SPEAKER_00: People are speculating circumstances around his death.
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SPEAKER_00: I am just not interested in that.
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SPEAKER_00: So I'm not gonna contribute to it.
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SPEAKER_00: And I think the death of a young person in their 20s, a death, the death of any person is so sad, but to lose life so young, have an NBA career and a promising life ahead of you, and family that loves you and teammates, like that really broke my heart getting that notification and that news yesterday.
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SPEAKER_00: And so any speculation about cause of death or anything like that, I'm just not interested in here on this channel.
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SPEAKER_00: Next, I want to mention Jason Collins passing away at 47 years old after battling a rare form of breast cancer.
3:06
SPEAKER_00: Or not breast cancer, brain cancer.
3:08
SPEAKER_00: I'm so sorry.
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SPEAKER_00: Excuse me.
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SPEAKER_00: Um, he was the first openly gay NBA player in history.
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SPEAKER_00: So his contribution as far as coming out and being so brave will always be recognized and remembered.
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SPEAKER_00: And you know, hopefully he paved the way for it to be normalized, for inclusion to happen and occur in men's sports.
3:32
SPEAKER_00: And I think that that is such a good example to set of non-toxic masculinity, and it is a really, really sad, sad situation.
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SPEAKER_00: And to be battling cancer, cancer fucking sucks.
3:46
SPEAKER_00: And my heart breaks for him and his family and the NBA family and those that loved him.
3:52
SPEAKER_00: And it is so sad to have two death deaths in the NBA family yesterday.
3:57
SPEAKER_00: Now, next.
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SPEAKER_00: Um, Caitlin Clark walked out with Morgan Wallen at his concert.
4:05
SPEAKER_00: She was his latest celebrity athlete walk-out escort partner.
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SPEAKER_00: I don't know, but we are going to get into detail about that during the segment tea time, so I'm not going to touch on it much now.
4:16
SPEAKER_00: We're going to move on to what is happening on the court in the WNBA.
4:21
SPEAKER_00: The ESPN's first 2026 WBA power rankings have the New York Liberty as number one.
4:26
SPEAKER_00: They look to be, and again, we're like two games in, the most complete game, the most complete team in the W at the moment.
4:35
SPEAKER_00: They did get their first loss, actually, but the surprising Golden State Valkyries are at number two after a strong 2-0 start, despite criticism over off-season moves like trading Blah J.
4:45
SPEAKER_00: Johnson at the draft and cutting Kate Martin, who was very emotional talking about her experience being cut by the Valks.
4:54
SPEAKER_00: Um, I actually really admired that.
4:56
SPEAKER_00: I just want to say, Kate Martin, you are very brave for giving an emotional response to a question about something that really sucked that happened to you.
5:04
SPEAKER_00: I think a lot of times athlete interviews are word salad.
5:08
SPEAKER_00: Sometimes when the sideline reporter is interviewing an athlete after a game, in between a game, before a game, it feels so pointless.
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SPEAKER_00: We are learning nothing.
5:16
SPEAKER_00: It's PR speak, it's just another game.
5:18
SPEAKER_00: Like they're saying the same things to us over and over and over again.
5:21
SPEAKER_00: And when we have these little breakthrough moments of something that I think is really important, I love these moments and it reminds me why we have these interviews and why the press asks these athletes these questions.
5:33
SPEAKER_00: Kate Martin saying that it hurt and showing that it hurt outside of all of the basketball as a business and all of that.
5:42
SPEAKER_00: At the end of the day, she is a person who is experiencing a certain form of rejection that anybody can relate to in their personal and professional lives.
5:53
SPEAKER_00: And of course, her feelings are gonna be hurt.
5:55
SPEAKER_00: It is normal to shed a tear.
5:56
SPEAKER_00: I remember shedding a tear when I was cut from like the Pee-wee volleyball team when I was just a little girl.
6:01
SPEAKER_00: Like it hurts to not make the team you want to make or to be cut by people or rejected by your boss.
6:08
SPEAKER_00: And I admire the fact that she showed that, yeah, it hurt my feelings.
6:13
SPEAKER_00: I'm not trying to act hard right now.
6:14
SPEAKER_00: And my heart goes out to her, and I'm happy for her that she got signed to the Los Angeles Sparks and in this new era of her life.
6:20
SPEAKER_00: But I always admire when an athlete shows just like a little bit of, hey, I am a human being, and I'm not just gonna give you the PR answer that's regurgitated from my people.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna tell you how this actually felt to me.
6:31
SPEAKER_00: I also want to talk about Golden State after cutting Kate Martin and being criticized for not only try trading Flager Johnson on draft night, but not really wanting to answer questions about it.
6:45
SPEAKER_00: Everybody was just like, we have a bad taste in our mouth about the Valks right now.
6:49
SPEAKER_00: Well, they don't care because they got off to a strong start in the season, and it kind of seems like, again, this is so early, like so early, but it kind of seems like at the moment that their criticized moves have paid off.
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SPEAKER_00: The Atlanta Dream are undefeated.
7:06
SPEAKER_00: They just beat the Dallas Wings, which I just want to say if you guys saw that video of Paige Becker's and what she did to her defender that I won't name because I'm an Atlanta Dream fan and I'm extremely biased in this situation.
7:21
SPEAKER_00: That wow, Paige is about to have herself the season.
7:30
SPEAKER_00: Like that was fucking crazy.
7:31
SPEAKER_00: But yeah, shout out to the Atlanta Dream.
7:34
SPEAKER_00: It seems like the vibes are really good with the dream, and everybody is happy and enjoying themselves, and the whole starting five is like getting their piece, and it's really admirable.
7:45
SPEAKER_00: And Angel Reese answered a question actually that she was asked about easy fud and just offered her support to her.
7:50
SPEAKER_00: And I love to see the girls supporting each other, and things are good, things are going well in ATL.
7:56
SPEAKER_00: You feel me?
7:59
SPEAKER_00: Next, the aces bounced back from being embarrassed on ring night.
8:05
SPEAKER_00: Asses whooped after after after their owner put a ring on it, they got the asses whooped down.
8:12
SPEAKER_00: That was bad.
8:13
SPEAKER_00: But I will say the ring is like the first non-ugly championship ring I've ever seen.
8:18
SPEAKER_00: Championship rings are so ugly.
8:20
SPEAKER_00: It's like, damn, winning a championship is one of the hardest things I've ever done in my life.
8:25
SPEAKER_00: I mean, not me.
8:26
SPEAKER_00: I've never experienced it, but winning the winning the championship is hard.
8:29
SPEAKER_00: So much luck has to go your way.
8:31
SPEAKER_00: Some so much work has to go into that, so many roster moves.
8:34
SPEAKER_00: Everybody has to work really hard to get the one to winning a championship.
8:36
SPEAKER_00: And we get this bulky ass, ugly ass ring that I can never wear again after today.
8:39
SPEAKER_00: I mean, I guess like I can, you know, if you're Tom Brady, you can take the little picture flexing your rings, or you know, you get your rings on ring night and you take your little picture after that.
8:48
SPEAKER_00: What does it go in a safe or a box or a display case?
8:51
SPEAKER_00: Like, you can't wear that fucking shit.
8:53
SPEAKER_00: Well, the ACES, they got a ring they can actually wear.
8:56
SPEAKER_00: It's a dinner and stuff.
8:57
SPEAKER_00: They can pop off the ugly part and turn it into a real diamond ring with three diamonds commemorating their three championships.
9:04
SPEAKER_00: So I think that's pretty fire.
9:07
SPEAKER_00: And I do remember that the Liberty's ring had earrings inside.
9:11
SPEAKER_00: Whatever.
9:12
SPEAKER_00: Here I go.
9:12
SPEAKER_00: About to say something that's gonna piss the very few men that like me off.
9:18
SPEAKER_00: I will say the way women just do shit so well, like the way women just do shit so well, like the concept of making a championship ring, something that is like usable outside of it just being a championship ring, and like, yay, you can pop it open, get some earrings, da da da, is really fire.
9:37
SPEAKER_00: So moving on, because I'm already gonna piss enough people off later in the episode.
9:41
SPEAKER_00: I don't even need to, I don't even need to continue.
9:43
SPEAKER_00: But they bounce back from being embarrassed on ring night to beat up to beat up on the Los Angeles Sparks.
9:50
SPEAKER_00: I mean, goddamn.
9:52
SPEAKER_00: Now, let's move into the M NBA because we are in the playoff season, and things are like this is the part of the season where the basketball is so good, but I start I start getting a little sad that another season is passing by, and every season that passes by, we come closer to like a Steph Curry retirement, and I'm not gonna be able to handle that.
10:11
SPEAKER_00: So as the seasons get closer to ending, I start getting like a little depressed on the inside.
10:17
SPEAKER_00: I will say, on the Steph Curry point, I did see that Steve Kerr announced that he is coming back, and that the Warriors are saying that they are gonna be aggressive and surrounding Steph Curry with the championship roster.
10:27
SPEAKER_00: I don't know what that looks like.
10:28
SPEAKER_00: I don't know if that means Draymond is gonna pack his bags, and I don't know if that means that they are going to aggressively pursue Giannis.
10:34
SPEAKER_00: However, that is what I saw.
10:36
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
10:39
SPEAKER_00: We are headed towards the conference finals, and um, two teams have already punched their ticket by punching up on the opponents, punching up on the competition.
10:49
SPEAKER_00: Actually, isn't punching up like when a guy is dating a girl that's like way hotter than him?
10:56
SPEAKER_00: I actually think that's what that so that I didn't use that verbiage correctly.
11:00
SPEAKER_00: So we're gonna just move on.
11:05
SPEAKER_00: The Thunder swept the Lakers.
11:07
SPEAKER_00: The Lakers put up a fight in that last one.
11:09
SPEAKER_00: They really did, they really did.
11:11
SPEAKER_00: And Shake Lichter Alexander was like, okay, I gotta play good this time.
11:14
SPEAKER_00: I gotta play the good, I gotta actually play good this time.
11:17
SPEAKER_00: I gotta drop at least 30, like, I gotta play good this time, and did.
11:21
SPEAKER_00: And they the Lakers fought for it with what they had, and they lost.
11:26
SPEAKER_00: And I'm not gonna get into the refing of it all because I don't care.
11:30
SPEAKER_00: Like, I just don't want to talk about that.
11:32
SPEAKER_00: I'm over it, I'm tired.
11:33
SPEAKER_00: You can go watch somebody else talk about the refs.
11:35
SPEAKER_00: The interesting storyline coming out of this is is LeBron James going to retire?
11:39
SPEAKER_00: Probably not.
11:40
SPEAKER_00: Are we going to see him in a Los Angeles Lakers jersey next year?
11:44
SPEAKER_00: That is the call with the conversation that is being had currently.
11:48
SPEAKER_00: And sources seem to be saying that if it if it goes LeBron's way, he would stay in LA as he should.
11:54
SPEAKER_00: He's aging, right?
11:56
SPEAKER_00: He's getting older.
11:57
SPEAKER_00: He has career opportunities that would land him in LA.
12:00
SPEAKER_00: It just makes sense for LeBron to play for the Lakers.
12:02
SPEAKER_00: Does it make sense for the Lakers?
12:04
SPEAKER_00: Absolutely not.
12:04
SPEAKER_00: And I said this at the beginning of the season, and I got dragged for it, and here I go, saying it again.
12:08
SPEAKER_00: The Lakers aren't going to be able to be at their full potential surrounding Luka Doncic until LeBron is gone.
12:14
SPEAKER_00: Not because LeBron isn't a talented player, not because LeBron isn't LeBron, but because LeBron is expensive.
12:20
SPEAKER_00: LeBron is expensive.
12:22
SPEAKER_00: It is not cheap to have LeBron James and his son on your team.
12:25
SPEAKER_00: It's not.
12:27
SPEAKER_00: Every dollar you spend in the NBA is less dollars you can spend on surrounding your star player with talent.
12:32
SPEAKER_00: And LeBron, while he carried them through this playoff run without Luca or Austin Reeves for the most part, he isn't the future of the Lakers.
12:45
SPEAKER_00: He is the present and the past.
12:48
SPEAKER_00: And he won a championship for them, which is the requirement when you are the star of the Lakers.
12:52
SPEAKER_00: And soon it'll be Luca starting to do that as well.
12:54
SPEAKER_00: And it's going to be really hard to do if they can't spend that chunk of money that they're spending on their 41-year-old superstar on surrounding Luca with talent that can ease the concerns surrounding Luca.
13:10
SPEAKER_00: Like his defensive concerns or this, that, the other, and the third, the things that are stopping him from winning an MVP.
13:16
SPEAKER_00: They need that money.
13:18
SPEAKER_00: They need that capital, they need that cap space, and they're not gonna have it so long as they have LeBron and his son on the team.
13:24
SPEAKER_00: So that's just where I stand with that.
13:28
SPEAKER_00: And my biggest thing is if I had it my way, and I'm not saying I'm trying to rush LeBron out the door, right?
13:34
SPEAKER_00: It's it's really sad for me as a 25-year-old NBA fan, and I'm getting to that point where NBA players are starting to get younger and younger than me, and it's starting to be like, what the fuck?
13:45
SPEAKER_00: Like, am I old?
13:48
SPEAKER_00: Like, what is going on?
13:50
SPEAKER_00: I am getting to that point where it's like I am starting to feel nostalgic about this era of LeBron and KD and Steph Curry and James Harden, etc., etc.
14:04
SPEAKER_00: etc.
14:04
SPEAKER_00: And they're all still in the league.
14:06
SPEAKER_00: And they're all still talented players.
14:08
SPEAKER_00: But I don't want to see a version of LeBron James that is limping on and off the court.
14:14
SPEAKER_00: I don't.
14:15
SPEAKER_00: I don't want to see a version of LeBron James that has to be iced up and taped up from head to toe after every single game.
14:21
SPEAKER_00: And I don't want to get to a point where the hero steps off the pedestal and we realize he's just a guy.
14:27
SPEAKER_00: I never want to see that.
14:29
SPEAKER_00: And so I want LeBron to go out while he's still on top.
14:32
SPEAKER_00: I think the most ideal situation because I'm not a Cleveland Cavaliers fan, and I quite frankly don't give a fuck what happens to them.
14:39
SPEAKER_00: And honestly, who wouldn't want to have LeBron on your team?
14:42
SPEAKER_00: He's still a very talented player.
14:43
SPEAKER_00: But I think LeBron should accept a pay cut.
14:47
SPEAKER_00: He's a billionaire.
14:49
SPEAKER_00: Go play for the Cleveland Cavaliers for his last season, do the retirement tour thing, and try to help them win a championship.
14:57
SPEAKER_00: That's what I think LeBron should do.
14:59
SPEAKER_00: Go back to Cleveland.
15:00
SPEAKER_00: He said he didn't want a retirement tour.
15:02
SPEAKER_00: Nobody believes him, and I kind of do.
15:04
SPEAKER_00: I I, if I were an NBA player, I don't know how you guys would feel about it.
15:08
SPEAKER_00: I would think a retirement tour is kind of like corny and cringy.
15:13
SPEAKER_00: No?
15:14
SPEAKER_00: I'm like, retiring from the NBA isn't like real-world job retirement age.
15:20
SPEAKER_00: I'm not 65, I'm not 70, I'm not 75, I'm not 80.
15:23
SPEAKER_00: I'm not like actually elderly.
15:25
SPEAKER_00: I'm just like NBA elderly.
15:30
SPEAKER_00: So I I'm not about to like croak.
15:34
SPEAKER_00: I'm still very much like a young man.
15:37
SPEAKER_00: Like 40, 40 isn't old, guys.
15:41
SPEAKER_00: 40 isn't old.
15:42
SPEAKER_00: That's like half a reality check.
15:43
SPEAKER_00: I don't necessarily need to like do a tour around the country where like everyone claps, like they're never gonna see me again.
15:49
SPEAKER_00: Like LeBron could go sign a billion-dollar deal with ESPN or NBC or whatever to like cover an NBA game every once in a while, and then we'll see him.
15:57
SPEAKER_00: Like, I think retirement tours are a little odd.
16:00
SPEAKER_00: That is something as somebody who hates having the birthday song sang to me.
16:04
SPEAKER_00: I wish we could come up with something else.
16:06
SPEAKER_00: Can you guys sing Love on Top to by Beyonce to me?
16:08
SPEAKER_00: Let's replace the birthday song with Love on Top by Beyonce.
16:11
SPEAKER_00: I wouldn't, I wouldn't want everyone giving me a standing ovation at every single one of my games.
16:17
SPEAKER_00: Like, imagine, imagine you're in your last year before you retire from your job for good, or like before you're about to quit your job or whatever, or transfer to a new department.
16:25
SPEAKER_00: And every morning when you walk into work, everyone starts cheering for you.
16:33
SPEAKER_00: Absolutely not.
16:35
SPEAKER_00: I don't care how much of an attention-seeking bitch you are.
16:38
SPEAKER_00: I I love attention.
16:39
SPEAKER_00: Why do you think I'm a content creator?
16:40
SPEAKER_00: Shit, we all love attention.
16:42
SPEAKER_00: I love attention.
16:43
SPEAKER_00: That sounds like my worst nightmare.
16:45
SPEAKER_00: So I I might be one of very, very few people who believes LeBron when he says he doesn't want that shit.
16:54
SPEAKER_00: I think it's cringy.
16:56
SPEAKER_00: Now, athletes have a different kind of ego than like a normie like me, so maybe it's different, but I want to do a fucking retirement tour.
17:04
SPEAKER_00: I would play my last season, I would post an Instagram story with a black screen and white lettering, and I would say, Dear Dog Nation, as beautiful as my time with you has been, I have decided to end my career here.
17:19
SPEAKER_00: That's that's what I would do, but heck.
17:21
SPEAKER_00: Or what or better yet, like a Nike commercial.
17:23
SPEAKER_00: So then you get paid, you know?
17:25
SPEAKER_00: A Nike commercial.
17:27
SPEAKER_00: King Out or something.
17:29
SPEAKER_00: You know, he's like walking through Akron and he's bouncing the ball.
17:31
SPEAKER_00: Hold on, let me not give y'all this idea for free, for free.
17:33
SPEAKER_00: Nike, have your people call my people.
17:36
SPEAKER_00: As if they're as if they aren't already talking.
17:38
SPEAKER_00: You feel me?
17:40
SPEAKER_00: I'm getting ahead of myself.
17:42
SPEAKER_00: I'm I I don't want to reveal nothing to y'all.
17:44
SPEAKER_00: Anyways, moving on.
17:50
SPEAKER_00: I'm so funny.
17:51
SPEAKER_00: Wimby! Bounce back last night.
17:54
SPEAKER_00: Was that last night?
17:55
SPEAKER_00: God, the days are just blending together.
17:57
SPEAKER_00: This was last night, right?
17:58
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, because it was the only game that was on at 8 p.m.
18:01
SPEAKER_00: Weird.
18:02
SPEAKER_00: I was watching the show.
18:04
SPEAKER_00: That pregame show felt like it was 17 years long because it was 7 o'clock.
18:08
SPEAKER_00: It was my basketball time time to turn on basketball.
18:10
SPEAKER_00: And I was flipping through the fucking channels.
18:12
SPEAKER_00: Can we oh my god, can we talk about that for a second?
18:16
SPEAKER_00: I posted a video on TikTok yesterday where I said I am irritated with the fact that I have to guess what fucking channel the NBA is on every single night, and I flip through.
18:25
SPEAKER_00: So here's my routine, right?
18:27
SPEAKER_00: I sit down on my couch or in my kitchen, I have a little TV in the kitchen because I'm a psychopath, and I go through and I click on YouTube TV.
18:36
SPEAKER_00: I always go to YouTube TV first because it used to be that when I went on YouTube TV, the game would just pop up on whatever channel it was on.
18:42
SPEAKER_00: You know what I'm saying?
18:43
SPEAKER_00: Because all the games were on real TV.
18:45
SPEAKER_00: There weren't fuck ass streaming services taking up a whole game for their streaming service, right?
18:49
SPEAKER_00: They were all on TV channels.
18:51
SPEAKER_00: We used to be a proper country with cable and YouTube TV as a cable replacement.
18:58
SPEAKER_00: Now I go to YouTube TV, game is nowhere to be found.
19:01
SPEAKER_00: They're showing me the NHL.
19:03
SPEAKER_00: No shade.
19:04
SPEAKER_00: I'm sure it's entertaining.
19:04
SPEAKER_00: Maybe I'll get into it next year.
19:06
SPEAKER_00: Don't give a fuck.
19:07
SPEAKER_00: Don't give a fuck.
19:07
SPEAKER_00: Don't give a fuck.
19:08
SPEAKER_00: Couldn't give a fuck.
19:09
SPEAKER_00: Never gave a fuck.
19:10
SPEAKER_00: Why are you showing me this?
19:11
SPEAKER_00: Why are you showing me this?
19:12
SPEAKER_00: Why are you showing bitch?
19:13
SPEAKER_00: You know what I'm here for?
19:14
SPEAKER_00: So when I click on YouTube TV and it starts showing me fucking entertainment tonight and the NHL game and a fucking college sport I've never watched before a day in my life, then I know, oh, my game isn't here.
19:27
SPEAKER_00: My game isn't here.
19:28
SPEAKER_00: Now I gotta go fucking searching.
19:30
SPEAKER_00: So then the next place I look, because when it's on YouTube TV, I'm like fucking shit.
19:35
SPEAKER_00: It's on fucking Amazon Prime.
19:37
SPEAKER_00: And for some reason, you know what?
19:39
SPEAKER_00: I have Amazon Prime and I love Taylor Rooks.
19:42
SPEAKER_00: I enjoy looking at her and hearing her speak.
19:44
SPEAKER_00: I really, really like her and I like their song.
19:46
SPEAKER_00: And I kind of like what they got going on.
19:48
SPEAKER_00: You know, it's really mad casual.
19:49
SPEAKER_00: You turn on a game on like any of the other networks, like NBC, that feels like a television program.
19:55
SPEAKER_00: It feels very serious and put together.
19:57
SPEAKER_00: They got Maria Taylor.
19:58
SPEAKER_00: Come on, that's Maria Taylor.
20:00
SPEAKER_00: She covers the motherfucking Olympics.
20:01
SPEAKER_00: You better put some respect on her name.
20:02
SPEAKER_00: You better turn on NBC.
20:03
SPEAKER_00: It feels very corporate.
20:06
SPEAKER_00: You turn on Prime, I feel like I'm chilling with my homeboys.
20:09
SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
20:10
SPEAKER_00: It feels very, very calm, very casual, very chill.
20:14
SPEAKER_00: Very, it's casual Friday at work.
20:16
SPEAKER_00: You know what I'm saying?
20:17
SPEAKER_00: And so I like watching it.
20:19
SPEAKER_00: I'm not complaining about the game watching experience.
20:20
SPEAKER_00: I'm complaining about the fact that it's on fucking Amazon Prime.
20:24
SPEAKER_00: I don't wanna be lining up Jeff Bezos and his ugly ass wife's pockets.
20:28
SPEAKER_00: I didn't mean to call her ugly.
20:29
SPEAKER_00: Calling any woman ugly, even though she's deeply ugly deep down on the inside, I believe.
20:35
SPEAKER_00: It's like I can't start speaking without saying something that's gonna piss people off.
20:38
SPEAKER_00: It's like I'm like I'm physically incapable of it.
20:41
SPEAKER_00: But every time I watch my basketball game in the peace and quiet of my own home, I don't necessarily want to be reminded that I'm lining up Jeff Bezos' pockets.
20:51
SPEAKER_00: I don't.
20:52
SPEAKER_00: And you know what?
20:52
SPEAKER_00: Probably everything I fucking do lines up his pockets because he's probably invested somewhere in everything.
20:56
SPEAKER_00: You know what I'm saying?
20:57
SPEAKER_00: There's nothing we can we can do to avoid making these people richer.
21:02
SPEAKER_00: But, but, but like fuck! Why everything gotta be on Amazon?
21:08
SPEAKER_00: I go to Whole Foods Amazon.
21:10
SPEAKER_00: I go at my house Amazon.
21:12
SPEAKER_00: I go down the street, Amazon, Amazon, Amazon, Amazon, Amazon.
21:15
SPEAKER_00: What the fuck is going on?
21:17
SPEAKER_00: I don't want the games to be on Amazon Prime.
21:19
SPEAKER_00: I'm very anti that.
21:20
SPEAKER_00: And yes, I'm a person who doesn't like change.
21:22
SPEAKER_00: But I think my least favorite streaming service is Amazon Prime.
21:26
SPEAKER_00: It feels like when I go on there, like I'm suddenly transported into being Cassie from Euphoria, and I'm like spreading the male-centered agenda on podcasts.
21:38
SPEAKER_00: Like that's what I feel like when I'm watching a game on Amazon Prime.
21:41
SPEAKER_00: And yes, it is that serious.
21:43
SPEAKER_00: So, anyways, so yeah, after I go on YouTube TV, I go to Amazon Prime.
21:47
SPEAKER_00: And if it's not there, then I'm like, oh fuck, it's on Peacock.
21:49
SPEAKER_00: And for some reason, I'm pretty sure the games that are on Peacock are on NBC.
21:52
SPEAKER_00: It is NBC, not on YouTube TV.
21:54
SPEAKER_00: So why would I want my YouTube TV?
21:55
SPEAKER_00: It doesn't just fucking pop up.
21:56
SPEAKER_00: I go to Peacock, right?
22:00
SPEAKER_00: There's the game.
22:01
SPEAKER_00: Now suddenly I'm pissed off.
22:03
SPEAKER_00: And I don't even want to watch the shit anymore.
22:05
SPEAKER_00: Because after you've sent me on a whole scavenger hunt to watch the game, I don't even want to watch this anymore.
22:10
SPEAKER_00: And everybody in my comments, first of all, people were mad at me for complaining about it.
22:15
SPEAKER_00: And it's just like the this is why I need to get sober from comment reading.
22:21
SPEAKER_00: But it's just like the stupidity and the pick me dumb of like being upset with me for call got a problem that hurts all of us.
22:30
SPEAKER_00: This problem affects all of us.
22:33
SPEAKER_00: They are, you are a bunch of greedy fucks for the way that y'all are doing watching sports now.
22:40
SPEAKER_00: This is not, this is not cute.
22:42
SPEAKER_00: This is not fun.
22:43
SPEAKER_00: This is not kumbaya.
22:44
SPEAKER_00: I've like, it's making me, it's making my ass itch about supporting y'all.
22:48
SPEAKER_00: Because what the fuck do you mean?
22:49
SPEAKER_00: I this is my job.
22:50
SPEAKER_00: And so I I can have every streaming service under the fucking sun to watch the NBA because this is my job and I write that shit off my taxes anyway.
22:56
SPEAKER_00: It doesn't matter.
22:57
SPEAKER_00: Like I can spend seven billion dollars on having League Pass and Prime and YouTube TV and fucking Peacock and I can spend my money on that because it is that I have to watch the fucking game, regardless.
23:07
SPEAKER_00: This is my job.
23:08
SPEAKER_00: Shit.
23:09
SPEAKER_00: Unfortunately, you know, no ethical consumption under capitalism.
23:13
SPEAKER_00: I don't know what I'm fucking talking about.
23:14
SPEAKER_00: Moving on, I can pay for watching every single streaming service, but something about the fact that working people who love basketball and just want to watch the fucking game, shit, fuck that.
23:24
SPEAKER_00: Not just not just the NBA, the WNBA.
23:27
SPEAKER_00: Shit, the NFL, shit, people who want to like discover new sports that they don't typically watch, that they could just flip through a channel and be like, suddenly I'm watching cricket or some shit.
23:38
SPEAKER_00: The average hardworking American person that everything is fucking more expensive.
23:43
SPEAKER_00: Now everything, everything on the planet is expensive.
23:45
SPEAKER_00: It's hard to get a job, everything's annoying.
23:47
SPEAKER_00: Like it would be if I were still the version of me that was in college making$20 an hour and hacking into my sister's Chick-fil-A Chick-fil-A account to buy Chick-fil-A on my mom's credit card because I spent my last$20 on a t-shirt from Urban Outfitters, and it was only$20 because I got a part-time job at Urban Outfitters so I could afford my going out clothes.
24:06
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, if I were still in that era and I had to pay this much to watch basketball, because basketball watching basketball was therapeutic to me at that time, I would be fucking livid.
24:17
SPEAKER_00: That flipping, flipping on my YouTube TV that I already paid too much money for to see that the game isn't there and it's on Amazon Prime would be my fucking 13 degrees.
24:24
SPEAKER_00: And that shit would that shit would piss me off.
24:27
SPEAKER_00: So yes, it irritates me every night when I go on and I see that it's like that because I think that these fucking corporate bastards are like making all this money off of our backs, and all we want to do is watch sports.
24:37
SPEAKER_00: Like, we can't just fucking watch sports anymore.
24:39
SPEAKER_00: At this point, all this money that I'm spending to watch games every year, I could just shell out some money to watch one game in person in a good C and just never watch the NBA again.
24:51
SPEAKER_00: And on top of that, people tell me, well, just fucking Google it.
24:54
SPEAKER_00: Like, go and Google what what channel is the NBA on tonight.
25:03
SPEAKER_00: Do you not, are we not, are we not smelling the black mirror in the air?
25:09
SPEAKER_00: Are we not like soon the Amazon fucking robot in my house that is shaped like his fucking wife is in a fucking scaparelli dress that looks cheap as fuck.
25:19
SPEAKER_00: My Amazon robot is gonna be crawling into my house telling me, hey Mariah, the game tonight is on Tubi.
25:25
SPEAKER_01: The game tonight is on the game tonight is on Netflix.
25:29
SPEAKER_01: Like I I shouldn't have to Google what where the game is at.
25:33
SPEAKER_01: I should just turn on the TV and it's there.
25:35
SPEAKER_01: That's the problem, y'all.
25:37
SPEAKER_01: That's the problem.
25:38
SPEAKER_01: I'm going through too many hell, I'm going through too many hoops.
25:40
SPEAKER_00: And now when I Google what channel is the fucking shit on, I I get a seven f I get a 17-paragraph AI answer from Google before I can even get to the fucking websites explaining to me the history of channel changing and fucking a bunch of fake bullshit that isn't true.
25:57
SPEAKER_00: And suddenly the earth explodes and global warming.
26:09
SPEAKER_00: That was a lot.
26:11
SPEAKER_00: That was a lot.
26:14
SPEAKER_00: That was a lot.
26:15
SPEAKER_00: Um stop showing sports on Amazon Prime.
26:19
SPEAKER_00: It clearly triggers me.
26:21
SPEAKER_00: And I'm tired of it.
26:22
SPEAKER_00: And as a girl who loves sports, you guys make it really hard to keep supporting y'all.
26:29
SPEAKER_00: This used to be my safe space, and now there's some weird pipeline that takes me from trying to watch a game on YouTube TV to I'm on Prime and suddenly I'm a Trump supporter or something.
26:41
SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
26:41
SPEAKER_00: Like I might as well just put on the red hat.
26:43
SPEAKER_00: I just I feel like a clown.
26:45
SPEAKER_00: I feel like a corporate pawn.
26:46
SPEAKER_00: And I don't like that.
26:48
SPEAKER_00: Watching a basketball game should not make me feel that way.
26:52
SPEAKER_00: Just so you know, that was not on my notes.
26:54
SPEAKER_00: Like I was I was literally not supposed to talk about that.
26:57
SPEAKER_00: I actually told my editor that I was going to make my live really short today and it was gonna be like cute because like we're like shooting a TV show this week, and I was like, you know what?
27:06
SPEAKER_00: Like, I'm gonna keep it cute this week, I'm gonna keep it cash.
27:09
SPEAKER_00: And here I am going off script.
27:12
SPEAKER_00: Um Wimby bounced back after being ejected uh for elbowing Nas Reed.
27:22
SPEAKER_00: And you know what?
27:23
SPEAKER_00: And you know what?
27:24
SPEAKER_00: Why am I in one of these moods today?
27:26
SPEAKER_00: Wimby got ejected for elbowing Nas Reed.
27:29
SPEAKER_00: Shit, no more Mr.
27:31
SPEAKER_00: Nice Guy.
27:33
SPEAKER_00: No more Mr.
27:35
SPEAKER_00: Nice Guy.
27:36
SPEAKER_00: Because I know I'm skinny and 7-6, but you're not about to beat up on me.
27:41
SPEAKER_00: Boom! Get back, get back.
27:43
SPEAKER_00: Y'all know me like that.
27:44
SPEAKER_00: Now you can get your little game, and I'm gonna come back and we're gonna win.
27:47
SPEAKER_00: The Spurs are up 3-2.
27:50
SPEAKER_00: I love that series.
27:51
SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
27:52
SPEAKER_00: I I I'm tuned, I'm very, very, very tuned to that series.
27:57
SPEAKER_00: And they were reading out Ant's resume yesterday.
28:01
SPEAKER_00: Like they were like, he's a gold medalist, he's a four-time all-star, I believe.
28:06
SPEAKER_00: He's 24 years old, he he's just accomplished so much.
28:10
SPEAKER_00: He's been in the conference finals however many times, whatever.
28:12
SPEAKER_00: He's accomplished a lot in his career, and good for him.
28:16
SPEAKER_00: And I just would hate for Ant to end up being one of these players that, like, because he was in the West and he ran into all of these tough teams, like the San Antonio Spurs with Victor Wombanyama, which are going to grow into being something very a force to be reckoned with.
28:34
SPEAKER_00: Let's just say that.
28:35
SPEAKER_00: The Oklahoma City Thunder, like, because he was he's like trapped in the West, one of those players that we look back on and we're like, damn, Anthony Everett Edwards never won a championship.
28:45
SPEAKER_00: I don't want that for him.
28:46
SPEAKER_00: I don't think he deserves that as a player.
28:49
SPEAKER_00: He should move on to play on the east.
28:53
SPEAKER_00: Where it's a little easier.
28:55
SPEAKER_00: Maybe for the Atlanta Hawks.
28:57
SPEAKER_00: I mean, please, and fuck.
28:58
SPEAKER_00: It's so you saw the way the Knicks did us.
29:00
SPEAKER_00: It was so God.
29:03
SPEAKER_00: But just something to keep an eye on because it's like he keeps getting so close, and it's like, fuck the Nuggets or fuck the the Oklahoma City Thunder, fuck now the Spurs, and Wimby's gonna be good for years to come.
29:16
SPEAKER_00: Next, the Cavs and the Pistons.
29:19
SPEAKER_00: They're tied to I actually like this series too.
29:22
SPEAKER_00: I'm actually very thoroughly entertained, and it's if it weren't so hard to change the channel, I would really enjoy the way the NBA playoffs are going.
29:30
SPEAKER_00: You know what I'm saying?
29:30
SPEAKER_00: I only got one game to watch a day.
29:33
SPEAKER_00: It's at eight o'clock.
29:34
SPEAKER_00: I can watch my euphoria afterwards or whatever the fuck.
29:37
SPEAKER_00: Like I, as an East Coast NBA fan, am living right now.
29:44
SPEAKER_00: I really am.
29:44
SPEAKER_00: Things are going really well.
29:46
SPEAKER_00: And the Cavs Pistons series is interesting because both of the home teams took care of home court, won their games.
29:52
SPEAKER_00: I saw a stat that the Cavs have won every playoff game at home and lost every playoff game away.
29:58
SPEAKER_00: Don't know how true that is because I didn't watch their first series.
30:00
SPEAKER_00: But that's crazy.
30:03
SPEAKER_00: It reminds me of that Warriors team that was was it that they were really, really good at home or really, really bad away or the other way around?
30:09
SPEAKER_00: And it was just fucking weird.
30:10
SPEAKER_00: It reminds me of that.
30:12
SPEAKER_00: But Donovan Mitchell dropped 39 points and a half, and in something I never have seen before, honestly, I was going to review this game for film review today, the segment I do later in the show, and show you the insane 24 to zero run.
30:28
SPEAKER_00: I watched this shit live on my kitchen TV.
30:31
SPEAKER_00: The 24 to zero run coming out of halftime that the Cavaliers went on.
30:36
SPEAKER_00: Do you know the Pistons were up for going in a halftime?
30:41
SPEAKER_00: What the fuck did JB Bickerstaff say to them?
30:46
SPEAKER_00: JB, they said, you know what?
30:48
SPEAKER_00: At halftime, that wasn't JB.
30:50
SPEAKER_00: That wasn't JB Bickerstaff.
30:51
SPEAKER_00: That was Justin Bieber.
30:53
SPEAKER_00: They were they were in that halftime meeting talking about baby, you could just have a Hugh Cun.
30:57
SPEAKER_00: Because couldn't be talking about basketball.
30:59
SPEAKER_00: What the fuck?
31:00
SPEAKER_00: 24 to 0 run?
31:02
SPEAKER_00: They score 24 points.
31:05
SPEAKER_00: And it goes back and forth.
31:06
SPEAKER_00: You know what I'm saying?
31:07
SPEAKER_00: They don't score and just get to keep it.
31:10
SPEAKER_00: What the fuck, y'all?
31:12
SPEAKER_01: Like, how that happened how that happened how the fuck does that happen?
31:19
SPEAKER_01: How do you blow it so badly?
31:24
SPEAKER_00: Wow.
31:27
SPEAKER_00: Series is tied.
31:28
SPEAKER_00: They're going back to Detroit.
31:30
SPEAKER_00: And if what I said earlier was true about the Pistons or the Cavs winning every single home game during the playoffs and losing every single home game during the playoffs, you do know that girl math means they have to win the weight game eventually.
31:47
SPEAKER_00: Right?
31:51
SPEAKER_00: They have to win a home game eventually.
31:53
SPEAKER_00: And it seems like now might be the time.
31:55
SPEAKER_00: Now might be the time.
31:57
SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
31:57
SPEAKER_00: The Pistons better get it together.
32:00
SPEAKER_00: That's all I'm gonna say on that.
32:02
SPEAKER_00: You feel me?
32:03
SPEAKER_00: But the pressure really is on the Cavs.
32:05
SPEAKER_00: Like the Pistons can just say, we're ahead of schedule.
32:07
SPEAKER_00: We used to suck.
32:08
SPEAKER_00: Woo, we'll be better next year.
32:09
SPEAKER_00: The Cavs.
32:11
SPEAKER_00: The pressure's on them.
32:13
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
32:15
SPEAKER_00: Next! The Thunder swept the Lakers.
32:18
SPEAKER_00: We already talked about that.
32:20
SPEAKER_00: I like the Thunder.
32:21
SPEAKER_00: I'm happy for Jared McCain.
32:23
SPEAKER_00: And if they won the championship, I might be the only person in America that's not fucking pissed.
32:28
SPEAKER_00: And the Knicks.
32:30
SPEAKER_00: The Knicks swept the 76ers.
32:32
SPEAKER_00: I, as a sports fan who said the Knicks need to win the championship this year because there's a lot of pressure on them, and they've made a lot of moves, including firing their coach that brought them to the conference finals, and they've made a lot of really ballsy moves, right?
32:55
SPEAKER_00: They they need to win a championship.
32:56
SPEAKER_00: It needs to work this year, or a lot of shit is gonna change.
33:01
SPEAKER_00: They turn the fuck up.
33:02
SPEAKER_00: Are you joking?
33:03
SPEAKER_00: They turned the fuck up on the 76ers.
33:06
SPEAKER_00: I was embarrassed from home.
33:08
SPEAKER_00: The Knicks fans taking over the 76ers arena after Joel Embiid begged them not to let that happen.
33:15
SPEAKER_00: What I want to say to Joel and Bede is, Joelle, oh, and for my girlies that don't know what I'm talking about, basically, Joel Embiid asked Philadelphia 76ers fans to not allow Knicks fans to take over their arena, which means don't let them be louder than you.
33:33
SPEAKER_00: Don't let them don't let this look like a game of Madison Square Garden.
33:37
SPEAKER_00: I need you to stand your ground as our fans.
33:39
SPEAKER_00: Well, them fans said, Well, I need you to stand your fucking ground as players because I ain't cheering for y'all.
33:43
SPEAKER_00: Bye.
33:44
SPEAKER_00: And left.
33:48
SPEAKER_01: The 76ers were losing.
33:49
SPEAKER_01: They were on life support.
33:50
SPEAKER_01: Clear, clear.
33:52
SPEAKER_00: And they're fans that left the building.
33:54
SPEAKER_00: Just Knicks fans left.
33:56
SPEAKER_00: Oh God.
33:57
SPEAKER_00: Just New York in your building, in Philly, which I would imagine, you know, I'm not from the East Coast like that.
34:02
SPEAKER_00: I'm from Georgia, so I don't really know how that worked.
34:05
SPEAKER_00: But something about New York and Philly, that feels like a little bit of a rivalry to me.
34:08
SPEAKER_00: Like I felt like I feel like if I was from Philly, I would be bothered by that.
34:12
SPEAKER_00: I would be bothered by that.
34:13
SPEAKER_00: But Joel, you can't ask these people to cheer if y'all ain't giving them shit to cheer for.
34:17
SPEAKER_00: And then what really pissed me off is I just told y'all to feel bad for Joel and Bede.
34:22
SPEAKER_00: I just told y'all to feel bad for Joel Embiid.
34:26
SPEAKER_00: Last week, I said the man is always hurt.
34:28
SPEAKER_00: You think he wants to wake up hurt?
34:31
SPEAKER_00: And then I saw his post-game press conference, and I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna yay.
34:36
SPEAKER_00: I'm about to, I'm about to say something that could be cancelable.
34:39
SPEAKER_00: So, you know, start your screen recordings or whatever the fuck.
34:44
SPEAKER_00: After the 76ers got swept, and I saw Joel Embiid bring his kid into the press conference, I said, here we go.
34:54
SPEAKER_00: It feels like when Beyoncé gets asked a question about Act Three, and then she's like, I'm a mother, and weaponizes motherhood.
35:02
SPEAKER_00: So then we can't, what the fuck are we supposed to say to that?
35:05
SPEAKER_00: It felt like that.
35:06
SPEAKER_00: I mean, damn, we can't really, we can't really dog it.
35:09
SPEAKER_00: He just got swept and his kid is here.
35:11
SPEAKER_00: He lost his tooth last week, you know what I'm saying?
35:12
SPEAKER_00: We can't dog him out in front of his son.
35:16
SPEAKER_00: You know?
35:17
SPEAKER_00: They ask him about the season, and he says, Ah, while many people think that this season is a failure, I need to not imitate his accent.
35:25
SPEAKER_00: I need to not imitate his accent.
35:27
SPEAKER_00: I need to not imitate his accent.
35:29
SPEAKER_00: Something about that feels wrong.
35:30
SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna not do that.
35:33
SPEAKER_00: I just love an impression, you know.
35:34
SPEAKER_00: Anyways, um, you should hear my shake literature Alexander.
35:38
SPEAKER_00: That's excellent.
35:39
SPEAKER_00: Um but he's like, a lot of people would say this season is a failure.
35:47
SPEAKER_00: Not me though.
35:50
SPEAKER_00: What?
35:50
SPEAKER_00: And I'm paraphrasing here.
35:52
SPEAKER_00: But he basically said, while a lot of people will think we failed this season and this should be embarrassing, and we should, you know, hang our heads.
36:00
SPEAKER_00: I think we should put our heads up high.
36:01
SPEAKER_00: I think this season was a win.
36:05
SPEAKER_00: A win?
36:06
SPEAKER_00: Motherfucker, they brought the brooms out on your home court.
36:09
SPEAKER_00: They they ran your fans out of the fucking building.
36:13
SPEAKER_00: They turned your shit into Madison Square Garden, and this was a win.
36:17
SPEAKER_00: I I understand being positive, you know what I'm saying?
36:19
SPEAKER_00: I get it, it's sports, it's work at the end of the day.
36:21
SPEAKER_00: I don't want you to go be depressed over losing a basketball game.
36:24
SPEAKER_00: It's not what I'm saying.
36:26
SPEAKER_00: You can you can pretend to have a little bit more heart than that.
36:31
SPEAKER_00: I'm sorry.
36:32
SPEAKER_00: And put me, nail me to the cross for saying it, but I'm gonna need you to, if you gotta fix some tears, if you gotta, you know, pull some Kobe quotes, if you gotta aura farm a little bit, do that.
36:44
SPEAKER_00: Anything will be better than pretending like it was a win after you got swept.
36:48
SPEAKER_00: I don't wanna if it went to game seven, cool.
36:52
SPEAKER_00: I don't wanna hear any posity from a motherfucker that got swept.
36:55
SPEAKER_00: That made me mad.
36:56
SPEAKER_00: And I'm not even I'm not even an NBA player.
36:58
SPEAKER_00: I'm not even an anything player, I'm just a player.
37:02
SPEAKER_00: But I'm annoying.
37:03
SPEAKER_00: Anyways, I thought that was embarrassing.
37:07
SPEAKER_00: I don't want to hear no positive.
37:09
SPEAKER_00: And if I were in the locker room, you would have to, you would have to peel me off of that nigga.
37:13
SPEAKER_00: Because what the fuck do you mean?
37:15
SPEAKER_00: What the fuck do you mean?
37:17
SPEAKER_00: Yo ass, your ass in and out, in and out, in and out, in and out, in and out, in and out, in and out, like burger.
37:23
SPEAKER_00: And then suddenly when you come, you come back, we all gotta accommodate Joelle.
37:28
SPEAKER_01: We all gotta bend to Joel.
37:30
SPEAKER_01: This is what Joel wants.
37:31
SPEAKER_01: Joel's the star.
37:32
SPEAKER_01: His baby sells the tickets.
37:33
SPEAKER_01: Joelle got the, you know, Joelle got the big picture on Meaty Day, and we all got the little pictures next to him.
37:38
SPEAKER_00: Joel this, Joel that, Joel this, Joel that.
37:41
SPEAKER_00: You come back, we gotta adjust again.
37:43
SPEAKER_00: We lose, then you you you're amazing again, right?
37:45
SPEAKER_00: Then we win, then you're hurt again.
37:48
SPEAKER_00: They're in a toxic fucking relationship with their star player.
37:52
SPEAKER_00: And now you want to say it was a win?
37:55
SPEAKER_00: Oh, absolutely not.
37:58
SPEAKER_00: Oh, absolutely not.
38:01
SPEAKER_00: Oh, absolutely the fuck I think not.
38:05
SPEAKER_01: You took your big hobbled made of sandpaper ass to the fucking Olympics to play like you ain't got body problems.
38:16
SPEAKER_01: Nigga, you in the Olympics, you need to be laid up in your crib wrapped in bubble wrap.
38:23
SPEAKER_01: I don't even want you doing training during the summer.
38:27
SPEAKER_01: Bumble wrap.
38:29
SPEAKER_01: Replace all the sheets with bubble wrap.
38:33
SPEAKER_01: And you wanna say it was a win after we got swept?
38:38
SPEAKER_01: Motherfucker, we've been trusting the process for years.
38:43
SPEAKER_01: They been trusting the process long as I can remember.
38:48
SPEAKER_01: I had a locker in middle school and they was trusting the firm of the process, but the process ain't worked yet.
38:55
SPEAKER_01: It's like trusting a nigga that do nothing but cheat on you.
38:57
SPEAKER_01: Trust the process.
39:03
SPEAKER_00: And I to think I was on here last week standing up for you, telling these people to feel bad for you.
39:10
SPEAKER_00: Because I know it probably hurts to be hurt and not be able to show up for your team.
39:14
SPEAKER_00: But that bullshit ass answer after getting swept, I'm over Joel Embiid.
39:19
SPEAKER_01: Over him! I don't even like the 76ers!
39:26
unknown: Oh my god.
39:28
SPEAKER_00: And like, what is with the 76ers and like attracting these like guys like Ben Simmons?
39:35
SPEAKER_00: He was literally scared to shoot the basketball in the NBA.
39:42
SPEAKER_00: How are you scared of something that could make you hundreds of millions of dollars?
39:47
SPEAKER_00: That's like me being scared of clocking in.
39:49
SPEAKER_00: Like, what are we doing?
39:51
SPEAKER_00: And like, why Philly?
39:52
SPEAKER_00: The vibe in Philly ain't even that.
39:55
SPEAKER_00: Like, ain't even that.
39:57
SPEAKER_00: Like, have y'all ever met somebody from Phyllis Philadelphia?
40:00
SPEAKER_01: Even the fucking Philly cheesesteak is aggressive.
40:03
SPEAKER_01: Have y'all ever had a Philadelphia fucking uh a Philadelphia roll?
40:08
SPEAKER_01: A Philadelphia sushi roll?
40:10
SPEAKER_01: That shit is like aggressive as fuck.
40:12
SPEAKER_01: What do you mean?
40:12
SPEAKER_01: You're a sushi roll with cream cheese in it.
40:14
SPEAKER_00: Like that's aggressive.
40:16
SPEAKER_00: So what do you mean the face of your franchise is made of sandpaper?
40:19
SPEAKER_00: I'm not, it's not clucking to me personally.
40:24
SPEAKER_00: And y'all gonna run Tyrese Maxie out the door, just like you ran James Harden out the door.
40:28
SPEAKER_00: You run, y'all gonna run Tyrese Maxie out the fucking door if you don't start prioritizing him.
40:33
SPEAKER_00: Hello?
40:34
SPEAKER_00: Hello.
40:40
unknown: Okay.
40:41
SPEAKER_00: Well, um, I I thought I was done screaming and hollering, but our next segment is tea time.
40:50
SPEAKER_00: Fucking shit.
40:52
SPEAKER_00: Hell fuck.
40:54
SPEAKER_00: Hell fuck.
40:55
SPEAKER_00: I still got all these pages and notes.
40:57
SPEAKER_00: I'm talking about all these pages.
40:58
SPEAKER_00: Look at the look at my last page of notes.
41:01
SPEAKER_00: I can't remember what the twin cities are.
41:04
SPEAKER_00: Is that Minnesota?
41:07
SPEAKER_00: What are the twin cities?
41:11
SPEAKER_00: Don't cancel me.
41:12
SPEAKER_00: I got this a long time ago.
41:13
SPEAKER_00: Okay, I collect mugs when I travel.
41:18
SPEAKER_00: Uh alright.
41:20
SPEAKER_00: Minneapolis.
41:23
SPEAKER_00: Alright, period, Minneapolis.
41:26
SPEAKER_00: I was just calling Minnesota fans polite as fuck.
41:29
SPEAKER_00: Um, yeah.
41:30
SPEAKER_00: I've been only doing a shot of espresso recently.
41:32
SPEAKER_00: Maybe that's why I'm acting like this.
41:33
SPEAKER_00: I'm trying to get skinny.
41:34
SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
41:35
SPEAKER_00: Anyways, let's move on.
41:36
SPEAKER_00: It's time for tea time.
41:37
SPEAKER_00: Cheers.
41:41
SPEAKER_00: I didn't even sip.
41:42
SPEAKER_00: Oh my god.
41:45
SPEAKER_00: I told myself, if I can take shots of tequila on the weekend, I can take shots of espresso during the week and not drink my sugary fun drinks so that I can look sexy when I take my tequila shots on the weekend.
41:57
SPEAKER_00: You know?
41:58
SPEAKER_00: Girl math.
41:59
SPEAKER_00: The way I'm uh I you know what I'm doing right now, right?
42:04
SPEAKER_00: Like I'm, what's the word?
42:06
SPEAKER_00: I'm fucking um prolonging the inevitable.
42:08
SPEAKER_00: I'm uh procrastinating.
42:11
SPEAKER_00: I'm procrastinating talking about Caitlin Clark and Morgan Wallin because I've learned in my career that part of what I do and being a bitch that says what comes to my mind is not only allowing myself to change my mind without letting the internet convince me that I am like this hypocritical piece of shit.
42:29
SPEAKER_00: I'm really just an evolving woman who's been making videos for almost six years now.
42:33
SPEAKER_00: And sometimes I have a change of heart and a change of opinion, right?
42:36
SPEAKER_00: And another thing I've learned to deal with is just like people being committed to misunderstanding what I'm saying and disliking me and choosing to take from what I say what they want to take from what I say.
42:49
SPEAKER_00: And I have just learned to be like, fuck it, bro, fuck it.
42:55
SPEAKER_00: Like, and I I just know every time I talk about Caitlin Clark, it's coming.
43:01
SPEAKER_00: It's coming, they're coming, and I'm prepared.
43:08
SPEAKER_00: Unfortunately, the side effect of making a lot of money to make silly little videos about my opinion on sports is white people who love Caitlin Clark spam commenting me photos of her doing a podcast with a man I don't know.
43:26
SPEAKER_00: And they're like, Well, your family.
43:28
SPEAKER_00: I don't know him.
43:29
SPEAKER_00: So can we can we catch on and move on from that?
43:35
SPEAKER_00: Yes.
43:36
SPEAKER_00: Um Caitlin Clark.
43:39
SPEAKER_00: Oh god, now I'm gonna piss off the deadbeat dads.
43:41
SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna piss off the dead.
43:42
SPEAKER_00: I God, today what I've I've pissed off deadbeat dads, people who hate people who do accents.
43:48
SPEAKER_00: I've pissed off myself, honestly, because I like why don't you shut the fuck up, girl?
43:54
SPEAKER_00: Who else have I pissed off?
43:55
SPEAKER_00: Oh, I'm about to piss off white people, right?
43:57
SPEAKER_00: Um Caitlin Clark walked out with Morgan.
44:00
SPEAKER_00: Wallen at his concert.
44:09
SPEAKER_00: She did his little celebrity intro.
44:12
SPEAKER_00: And I want to give a shout out.
44:13
SPEAKER_00: If you listen to my podcast or watch me, you would absolutely love the sports gossip podcast.
44:21
SPEAKER_00: And I listened to it this morning, and they did a deep dive on Morgan Wallen and his sports washing, if you will.
44:29
SPEAKER_00: The way he has used sports to curate this good image, to move past the fact that he said the N-word.
44:38
SPEAKER_00: And I believe it was hard R.
44:41
SPEAKER_00: And I'm pretty sure it was to a black person.
44:44
SPEAKER_00: But I didn't re-watch the video.
44:45
SPEAKER_00: I honestly think that shit is disgusting.
44:47
SPEAKER_00: But nonetheless, I I don't know much about Morgan Wallen.
44:51
SPEAKER_00: Really, one of the first times I heard of him was after he was videotaped on TMZ in 2021.
44:59
SPEAKER_00: Do you know, like, do you know how insane it is to be still saying the N-word as a white person in 2021?
45:08
SPEAKER_00: Can we put this in context of the political and economic state of the economic state of the world at that time?
45:14
SPEAKER_00: This is what post-COVID at the tail end of COVID?
45:18
SPEAKER_00: This is George Floyd times.
45:20
SPEAKER_00: I was blocking people for not posting a black square.
45:23
SPEAKER_00: It was like really extreme.
45:24
SPEAKER_00: I'm like still kind of embarrassed about it, but it was that deep.
45:28
SPEAKER_00: Like we were like in the middle of a race war, damn near.
45:32
SPEAKER_00: Black people were like begging people to say our lives mattered.
45:35
SPEAKER_00: And when we said that, they were like, Well, you know who else matters?
45:38
SPEAKER_00: The cops, white people.
45:40
SPEAKER_00: And we're like, yeah, but we like also matter.
45:43
SPEAKER_00: Like that was a controversial statement at the time.
45:45
SPEAKER_00: We were living in the trenches.
45:47
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
45:48
SPEAKER_00: And he's talking about the N-word on TMZ.
45:53
SPEAKER_00: So there was so much content being spread at at that time about race.
46:04
SPEAKER_00: And I remember seeing posts, it would be infographics about how to approach black women about their hair and just things like how to not be racist.
46:14
SPEAKER_00: It was everywhere at this time.
46:16
SPEAKER_00: And so to be a public figure and be using that word so just willy-nilly was so triggering to so many people, including myself, because it was like, okay, you're a grown-ass motherfucking man.
46:36
SPEAKER_00: You are rich, white, you have anything you could ever want in the world.
46:42
SPEAKER_00: You have you're very aware of what's going on in the world.
46:46
SPEAKER_00: Even at a basic level, if you don't pay attention to politics or the news at all, you know that something is happening.
46:52
SPEAKER_00: This is a crazy time, and you're still using that verbiage that is extremely offensive to black people.
47:00
SPEAKER_00: He it's it's just really disgusting, and that's not the only controversy on his record.
47:05
SPEAKER_00: So I want to go through and listen, this isn't me judging somebody on their worst moment.
47:09
SPEAKER_00: It's not about that.
47:11
SPEAKER_00: And I hate that I even have to give a disclaimer.
47:13
SPEAKER_00: It's more so about this is a sports show, and this is about aligning yourself with certain people and in the control and autonomy you have over aligning yourself with specific individuals.
47:28
SPEAKER_00: Morgan Wallen, and also I'm the girl's sports teacher, so I have to give context.
47:33
SPEAKER_00: So I'm giving you context, okay?
47:37
SPEAKER_00: Morgan Wallen was scheduled to make his Saturday Night Live debut in October of 2020.
47:44
SPEAKER_00: Just days prior, videos surfaced of him unmasked at a party, kissing multiple women.
47:51
SPEAKER_00: Bitch, I let me not give you the PR speak.
47:53
SPEAKER_00: This is what the fuck happened.
47:54
SPEAKER_00: Morgan Wallen was supposed to perform on Saturday Night Live for the first time, which is a big deal for an artist because it's kind of when we can see if they can really sing or not.
48:01
SPEAKER_00: And it was 2020, pandemic, and obviously things are tight.
48:06
SPEAKER_00: And especially in New York City, things are tight.
48:08
SPEAKER_00: You have to show your fucking vaccination card to go into a restaurant, bitch.
48:11
SPEAKER_00: And he is out at a bar, a party, a club, making out with multiple women unmasked.
48:17
SPEAKER_00: It's just people were dying during COVID.
48:22
SPEAKER_00: You are about to go on Saturday Night Live, and you're gonna be surrounded by people who work in this industry, people who don't have the choice whether or not to be around you.
48:33
SPEAKER_00: And it's just so easy to not do that.
48:36
SPEAKER_00: Like that's like my it's just so easy to not, it's so easy to not swap spit with a bunch of a bunch of women at a bar right before you're supposed to go on Saturday Night Live for the first time.
48:45
SPEAKER_00: Like that's besides the whole like kind of endangering other people's health thing, because I know how y'all get about COVID.
48:54
SPEAKER_00: It's just like reckless.
48:56
SPEAKER_00: I don't know, it's just like gross.
48:57
SPEAKER_00: It's just like, what are you what are you doing?
48:59
SPEAKER_00: Do you not take your job serious?
49:02
SPEAKER_00: Whatever.
49:03
SPEAKER_00: You think that's fine, you think that's fine.
49:05
SPEAKER_00: Let's move on to the next one.
49:06
SPEAKER_00: In May of 2020, also, also, they canceled his uh Saturday Night Live performance and they let him perform, I believe, in December of that same year.
49:15
SPEAKER_00: So consequences, yeah.
49:17
SPEAKER_00: Um, May of 2020, Morgan Waughn was arrested in downtown Nashville, allegedly, outside of Kid Rock's bar.
49:29
SPEAKER_00: Kid Rock.
49:30
SPEAKER_00: Um, yeah, let's take a detour here.
49:32
SPEAKER_00: Kid Rock was the artist that infamously performed at the Republican altcast.
49:40
SPEAKER_00: If you don't want to watch Bad Bunny at the Super Bowl, you can watch this Kid Rock performance because he is not America and should not be performing at the Super Bowl.
49:51
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that Kid Rock.
49:52
SPEAKER_00: Uh Trump's Trump's Kid Rock, yeah.
49:55
SPEAKER_00: He was arrested in downtown Nashville outside of Kid Rock's bar for public intoxication and disorderly conduct after kicking glass objects and getting into verbal altercations with pedestrians.
50:11
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
50:14
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
50:16
SPEAKER_00: And in February of 2021, as we all know, Morgan Wallen was exposed by TMZ for shouting a racial slur and profanities at a friend of his outside of his Nashville home.
50:33
SPEAKER_00: This is why when I pulled up to Nashville, I was shocked that they had a Whole Foods when I pulled up to Nashville for the first time to visit my cousin at his HBCU.
50:42
SPEAKER_00: Thank you.
50:43
SPEAKER_00: Um, because all of these stories sound like they should be in Cinners in the movie Sinners that was set way back when.
50:51
SPEAKER_00: Like, what the fuck do you mean?
50:53
SPEAKER_00: What the fuck do you mean we're doing this still?
50:55
SPEAKER_00: And I don't know how some people like people are arguing back and forth in my chat as we speak.
51:00
SPEAKER_00: I don't know what's so confusing.
51:02
SPEAKER_00: It's very easy as a white person to not say the N-word, not to say, well, black people can say it and I can't.
51:09
SPEAKER_00: Okay, well, white people have been able to do a lot of things black people couldn't forever.
51:14
SPEAKER_00: Just don't say the word.
51:15
SPEAKER_00: It's like maybe this will help you guys.
51:19
SPEAKER_00: I can make fun of my sister.
51:22
SPEAKER_00: I can make fun of my sister all I want, actually.
51:25
SPEAKER_00: I'm an older sister, it's kind of part of my duty.
51:28
SPEAKER_00: I can make fun of my sister because I know her and I love her, and at the end of the day, I got her back.
51:34
SPEAKER_00: We're family.
51:36
SPEAKER_00: You make fun of my sister, I'll beat the living shit out of you.
51:40
SPEAKER_00: You see how that works?
51:41
SPEAKER_00: Well, you did it.
51:42
SPEAKER_00: Well, you said it.
51:43
SPEAKER_00: I don't care.
51:44
SPEAKER_00: Life ain't fair.
51:45
SPEAKER_00: I said it, you are not her sister, so you don't get to say it.
51:50
SPEAKER_00: That word was used to demean black people in a very, very traumatizing way.
51:55
SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna give y'all the history of the N-word, okay?
51:58
SPEAKER_00: So black people using it and white people using it is a different thing.
52:02
SPEAKER_00: Y'all can like it, y'all can not like it, but at the end of the day, when it comes to the N-word or the R word or any words that it's we know now, we all are on the same page, it's not okay to use the F slur.
52:13
SPEAKER_00: Like, if something I say, whether it's a slur or not, like if something I say, period, offends another person, instead of being like, these are all the reasons why I should be able to say that, I'm like, oh my god, I'm so sorry I offended you.
52:29
SPEAKER_00: Oh my god, I oh my god, I'm so sorry.
52:32
SPEAKER_00: I'm so sorry.
52:33
SPEAKER_00: I didn't know that that would be hurtful to you.
52:34
SPEAKER_00: I will never say that again.
52:36
SPEAKER_00: So I don't understand why it's so difficult for people to have like basic human empathy and decency.
52:42
SPEAKER_00: And if somebody's like, it it's offensive to me when you say that word.
52:46
SPEAKER_00: Well, you say it! Well, I just started on a song, actually, so I should be able to say it.
52:53
SPEAKER_00: Should you but I'm literally a human being asking you not to say something that is offensive and triggering to me.
53:00
SPEAKER_00: Why do you why do you wanna why do you wanna say something like that?
53:08
SPEAKER_00: Maybe that's just me.
53:10
SPEAKER_00: I I don't think it's a hard thing to do to not say that now uh to respond to saying the N-word in the year of our Lord 2021, which by the way, guys, don't act fucking stupid and dense.
53:30
SPEAKER_00: Like, genuinely, don't act fucking stupid and dense in my comments.
53:33
SPEAKER_00: Like, literally get the fuck if you're gonna act stupid and dense.
53:36
SPEAKER_00: If he is saying that shit on video, that's what we saw.
53:40
SPEAKER_00: Only could imagine what this man is like in private.
53:44
SPEAKER_00: Don't act stupid.
53:45
SPEAKER_00: Thank you, don't act stupid.
53:47
SPEAKER_00: He just got caught.
53:49
SPEAKER_00: What there were white boys.
53:50
SPEAKER_00: I went to I went to a PWI, I went to the University of Georgia.
53:54
SPEAKER_00: I was around many a frat boy, not by choice, Jill.
53:58
SPEAKER_00: Um, and that's how they act.
54:01
SPEAKER_00: They think that shit is funny, and it gets them attention from the other white boys saying the craziest thing in the room.
54:06
SPEAKER_00: So I can only imagine what he what he's like in the comfort of his own home and what he's like when he's not on video.
54:14
SPEAKER_00: To respond to this, he released an apology video, as one does, and then he did an interview with a black man, Michael Strahan.
54:20
SPEAKER_00: That's funny.
54:21
SPEAKER_00: Um, he released an apology video stating that he was on a 72-hour bender.
54:29
SPEAKER_00: He was on a 72-hour bender, and um, he was ignorant to the weight of the word.
54:37
SPEAKER_00: I wouldn't buy that for a fucking penny.
54:40
SPEAKER_00: He entered a 30-day rehab facility and met with black leaders and organizations and ultimately donated$500,000.
54:48
SPEAKER_00: He wrote$500,000 off his taxes to bat black music advocacy groups.
54:53
SPEAKER_00: Despite the industry backlash, his album oh yeah, I forgot.
54:58
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, his his album sales and streaming numbers surged significantly.
55:05
SPEAKER_00: He got more popular.
55:06
SPEAKER_00: His I believe his album entered like the billboard or whatever the fuck.
55:09
SPEAKER_00: Like, he he made fucking cash off of being a racist.
55:16
SPEAKER_00: And so you enter this weird space, right?
55:18
SPEAKER_00: Which might be familiar to sports fans.
55:20
SPEAKER_00: Let me see if you guys get what I mean.
55:22
SPEAKER_00: He entered this interesting space of having to convince the world that he's not racist because it's the right thing to do and it's it's good for business, but also maintaining all the racist fans he gained when he was outed for being a racist.
55:39
SPEAKER_00: He he can't piss off black people because it's bad for business, but he can't piss off racists because it's really fucking good for business.
55:50
SPEAKER_00: Right?
55:51
SPEAKER_00: Um sounds like somebody I know.
55:54
SPEAKER_00: Um then in April of 2024, he was arrested in downtown Nashville after throwing a heavy chair off a roof of a six-story bar.
56:01
SPEAKER_00: The chair landed just feet away from Nashville police officers.
56:05
SPEAKER_00: In 2024, he pled guilty to two amended misdemeanor counts of reckless endangerment and was sentenced to two years of unsupervised probation and sentenced seven days at a DUI education center.
56:15
SPEAKER_00: He sounds like he has a drinking problem, not my problem.
56:18
SPEAKER_00: I wouldn't even want to like be friends with somebody like that.
56:21
SPEAKER_00: And let alone, and this brings me back to Caitlin.
56:26
SPEAKER_00: I am not in the business of trying to police anybody's entertainment.
56:31
SPEAKER_00: I thought Jamel Hill and Carrie Champion put this so well on their podcast.
56:35
SPEAKER_00: Once we get into this line of policing each other's entertainment and saying, you shouldn't be listening to that music because that person did a bad thing and you shouldn't be watching that person's movies and you shouldn't, we get into a slippery slope because then we are all hypocrites.
56:49
SPEAKER_00: Y'all in the chat, me, Caitlin Clark, everybody becomes a hypocrite at that point.
56:57
SPEAKER_00: Because a lot of famous people and the people who aren't famous that back these famous people, we're making a lot of problematic people rich without even realizing it.
57:04
SPEAKER_00: So once we start policing each other's entertainment and saying you listen to that person, so you're a bad person, you do this, we get into a slippery slope.
57:10
SPEAKER_00: I am not honestly criticizing Caitlin for the kind of music she listens to by any means.
57:16
SPEAKER_00: I'm really not because once we start doing that, whether it's Beyonce and Jay-Z or Drake or Chris Brown or roll out the scroll.
57:31
SPEAKER_00: Like a lot of people have problematic past.
57:34
SPEAKER_00: Whether you're a sports fan and you're a fan of the Chiefs, and there are problematic players on the team, and you're there's problematic people fucking everywhere.
57:42
SPEAKER_00: I'm not trying to say Caitlin Clark, you fucking suck for listening to Morgan Wallen, bitch.
57:47
SPEAKER_00: Fuck you.
57:48
SPEAKER_00: I probably this wouldn't even be as big of a deal if she just went to the concert.
57:52
SPEAKER_00: To choose to be the person, not only the person, the first female athlete.
57:59
SPEAKER_00: And is it the first woman?
58:00
SPEAKER_00: I don't know if it's the first woman.
58:01
SPEAKER_00: I don't pay enough attention to Morgan Wallen, but the first female athlete to walk out with him choosing to make that statement and do that, especially after losing a game.
58:10
SPEAKER_00: That's a statement.
58:11
SPEAKER_00: You're doing you're it please.
58:12
SPEAKER_00: And like I oh, my life got restricted.
58:17
SPEAKER_00: My life got restricted for harassment and bullying.
58:22
SPEAKER_00: My life got restricted for harassment and bullying.
58:24
SPEAKER_00: Who am I harassing and bullying?
58:26
SPEAKER_00: Wow.
58:26
SPEAKER_00: But I'm not trying to police Caitlyn's entertainment.
58:29
SPEAKER_00: I'm not.
58:29
SPEAKER_00: I'm not trying to say she shouldn't be listening to Morgan Wallen.
58:31
SPEAKER_00: I'm not trying to say, listen, my mom listens to Chris Brown and I am annoyed about it every single day.
58:36
SPEAKER_00: Like, girl.
58:37
SPEAKER_00: Please.
58:38
SPEAKER_00: I think Usher is very problematic.
58:41
SPEAKER_00: And you know, if my boo comes on, I know the words, right?
58:44
SPEAKER_00: I'm not like listening to R.
58:45
SPEAKER_00: Kelly, like, whoa.
58:47
SPEAKER_00: You know, there I'm not listening.
58:51
SPEAKER_00: I used to love Dory Lane's music.
58:52
SPEAKER_00: I can't even fucking listen to it anymore because I'm like, I like cringe.
58:56
SPEAKER_00: Like I just literally can't.
58:57
SPEAKER_00: Like I literally can't.
58:58
SPEAKER_00: I'm not capable of it.
59:00
SPEAKER_00: But it would be different if she just listens to him in the privacy of her own home or whatever the fuck.
59:07
SPEAKER_00: Like, but knowing all the controversy that surrounds you and the fact that these people who are racist have claimed you as their own and use you as a vehicle to spread racist propaganda and vitriol and hate onto your colleagues.
59:30
SPEAKER_00: They use your name to do that.
59:32
SPEAKER_00: And and you say PR word vomit every time it happens.
59:37
SPEAKER_00: Nothing fucking real, like from the heart, like, and you don't continuously do it.
59:43
SPEAKER_00: You say one thing and you think it should be like good for the year.
59:45
SPEAKER_00: And I have a problem with that.
59:50
SPEAKER_00: Your best friend, fucking Sophie Cunningham, was in a fucking t-shirt that said that Triss Lechis by Barstool Sports, the you know, the one Barstool Sports, Dave Portnoy, who called Angel Reese a classless piece of shit on your behalf.
1:00:08
SPEAKER_00: And that blew up into so much racist hate and vitriol towards her.
1:00:12
SPEAKER_00: Raven Johnson almost quit basketball because of the racist hate and vitriol towards her.
1:00:17
SPEAKER_00: And now she's your teammate.
1:00:20
SPEAKER_00: The way that this is a pattern, a pattern, a pattern, and it almost seems inconvenient for Caitlin Clark to just fucking say something real.
1:00:27
SPEAKER_00: And the reason it's such a big deal is because she doesn't say much of anything at all.
1:00:30
SPEAKER_00: Like she's never made a statement about shit ever.
1:00:33
SPEAKER_00: Like we don't really know what this girl believes in at all, you know?
1:00:36
SPEAKER_00: But one thing we do know is that she walked out with Morgan Wallon at the concert, and that is a statement.
1:00:41
SPEAKER_00: When you work in entertainment and you speak to PR individuals and you whatever, like you know that every little move you make, especially a move like that, there are people who are like, hey, you know that you doing that is gonna communicate that.
1:00:55
SPEAKER_00: Your silence already says a lot, Caitlin Clark.
1:01:00
SPEAKER_00: On top of that, your you're choosing to walk out with Morgan Wallen, a known racist, at a concert is also a statement in and of itself.
1:01:12
SPEAKER_00: Sophie Cunningham wearing a t-shirt that says Trace Lechez that was made by Dave Portnoy.
1:01:19
SPEAKER_00: Okay, the three whiteies, haha, it's so funny.
1:01:21
SPEAKER_00: Us and Lexi Hull, we're all white.
1:01:23
SPEAKER_00: Yes, we're white.
1:01:24
SPEAKER_00: It's just like weird fucking behavior.
1:01:26
SPEAKER_00: It's like really weird.
1:01:28
SPEAKER_00: It's just weird behavior.
1:01:29
SPEAKER_00: I don't know how people don't.
1:01:31
SPEAKER_00: How am I wrong for calling that out?
1:01:33
SPEAKER_00: Extremely talented player.
1:01:35
SPEAKER_00: And I I enjoy watching Caitlin Clark play, but it is just so weird that she knows that this is what surrounds her and that these are the people that support her, and she does fuck all about it, except for the bare minimum to keep her racist fans happy and not push them away from supporting her, and and also to make people be like, but she said that one time that racism isn't cool.
1:02:02
SPEAKER_00: So let me ask you guys something.
1:02:06
SPEAKER_00: If and I think people think, you know, you hate white girls and Caitlin Clark owns you.
1:02:12
SPEAKER_00: I get a Caitlin Clark owns you comment on all my accounts every single day, every 10 minutes, you know.
1:02:16
SPEAKER_00: Why doesn't Paige Beckers have this fan base?
1:02:19
SPEAKER_00: She's a talented white player, she's one of the faces of the WNBA.
1:02:24
SPEAKER_00: Why doesn't this happen when somebody like when somebody crosses up Paige Beckers or when somebody gives a does a hard foul on Paige Beckers?
1:02:30
SPEAKER_00: Why does this not happen to black people when they get into it with like why does this not happen with Paige?
1:02:36
SPEAKER_00: That's what I want to understand.
1:02:37
SPEAKER_00: What is the difference between the two of them?
1:02:38
SPEAKER_00: Because Paige is outwardly anti-racist, anti-racist, not just uh, you know, like racism is like cynical, like anti-racist.
1:02:52
SPEAKER_00: There's a difference between being anti-racist and just being like a PR, a fucking PR word salad vom that like and it's just like at this point, this is what we should come to expect of Caitlin.
1:03:05
SPEAKER_00: Most people weren't surprised by the walkout with Morgan Wallen.
1:03:08
SPEAKER_00: I was surprised.
1:03:09
SPEAKER_00: I honestly was surprised.
1:03:11
SPEAKER_00: Because for someone who doesn't say anything at all, this just feels like a statement.
1:03:16
SPEAKER_00: And I just didn't expect something this loud or like public or overt from her.
1:03:21
SPEAKER_00: Like, if she just went to the Morgan Wallen concert, I wouldn't be shocked by that.
1:03:25
SPEAKER_00: If she posted a Matt Morgan Wallen song on her story or posted a picture with a Morgan Wallen song, that wouldn't shock me.
1:03:30
SPEAKER_00: The doing the whole walkout thing, that shocked me.
1:03:33
SPEAKER_00: Um, and that's all I have to say on that.
1:03:36
SPEAKER_00: We can agree to disagree if you guys are mad at me, and you know, I'll keep it on the basketball as long as the story's about the basketball.
1:03:42
SPEAKER_00: But I I thought that that was wrong.
1:03:44
SPEAKER_00: She was dead ass fucking wrong for that, and she's just playing in y'all's faces at this point.
1:03:48
SPEAKER_00: And it's not about policing her entertainment or being like people keep commenting, they're like, Do you know how many black people listen to Morgan Wallin?
1:03:57
SPEAKER_00: Do you know how many liberals listen to Morgan Wallen?
1:03:59
SPEAKER_00: It's not about that, it's about making the overt statement when you know that your name carries so much weight, you are so fucking famous that you have so much power to literally sick racism on other people to the point that they want to quit the sport they love, other players.
1:04:14
SPEAKER_00: You know that, and instead of choosing to use your platform every chance you get to being anti-racist and making sure that your name isn't associated with that, you're walking out with a guy who said the N-word in 2021.
1:04:27
SPEAKER_00: I don't see how that's not that's hard for people to grasp.
1:04:31
SPEAKER_00: That how that's people don't see how that's different from just like listening to Morgan Wallen or going to a Morgan Wallen show.
1:04:39
SPEAKER_00: You are standing beside Morgan Wallen, you are walking with him very publicly.
1:04:45
SPEAKER_00: I anyways, yeah.
1:04:47
SPEAKER_00: The the last thing I was gonna talk about was the draft lottery.
1:04:51
SPEAKER_00: Um I'm like so distracted now.
1:04:54
SPEAKER_00: Um, so why don't you say all these things to other black rappers and celebrities who who walk with him?
1:05:01
SPEAKER_00: Are y'all slow?
1:05:02
SPEAKER_00: Like, are y'all slow?
1:05:03
SPEAKER_00: And I just know this was a man.
1:05:05
SPEAKER_00: I just know this was a man, I just know this was a man, I just know this was a man, I just know this was a man.
1:05:09
SPEAKER_00: Like, someone said, didn't this is a woman, so I'll respond.
1:05:13
SPEAKER_00: I know you I don't know if you mentioned it, but didn't Miles Garrett do it too?
1:05:16
SPEAKER_00: That's still weird.
1:05:22
SPEAKER_00: That's weird of him.
1:05:24
SPEAKER_00: Yes, yes, and yes, and also weird, also very weird.
1:05:35
SPEAKER_00: Like, honestly, the reason it makes it's more of a big deal with Caitlin Clark if you guys aren't clocking and computing, is because of her very large fan base and how hurtful and harmful they have been to other people.
1:05:50
SPEAKER_00: I I give more of a fuck about Caitlin Clark.
1:05:52
SPEAKER_00: Not just because not and not in a hateful way.
1:05:54
SPEAKER_00: I give more of a fuck about Caitlin Clark.
1:05:56
SPEAKER_00: Sorry.
1:05:57
SPEAKER_00: I give more more of a fuck about like the fan.
1:06:00
SPEAKER_00: Of the WNBA, one of the biggest stars in the WBA, than I do about Miles Garrett.
1:06:04
SPEAKER_00: Like I just I do.
1:06:07
SPEAKER_00: And I expect maybe this is my fault.
1:06:09
SPEAKER_00: I expect more from her because she's a woman.
1:06:11
SPEAKER_00: And because the people that are being heard by her fans are people that she shares the core in like the locker room with.
1:06:17
SPEAKER_00: You know, like I just I don't know.
1:06:20
SPEAKER_00: Like, but why did I not call out Miles Garrett when he did it?
1:06:24
SPEAKER_00: Because I don't I didn't give a fuck.
1:06:26
SPEAKER_00: It made no noise to me.
1:06:27
SPEAKER_00: It didn't make its way to me.
1:06:28
SPEAKER_00: I I didn't I don't expect shit from Miles Garrett, no shade.
1:06:33
SPEAKER_00: Like and now that I know he did it, weird.
1:06:36
SPEAKER_00: Mike Tyson, weird.
1:06:38
SPEAKER_00: All y'all, weird, weird, weird, weird, weird.
1:06:40
SPEAKER_00: Add him to the weirdo list.
1:06:41
SPEAKER_00: Listen, shit.
1:06:42
SPEAKER_00: I got ro I got room for everybody on the weirdo list.
1:06:45
SPEAKER_00: Also weird.
1:06:46
SPEAKER_00: Thank you.
1:06:47
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
1:06:48
SPEAKER_00: Weird.
1:06:49
SPEAKER_00: Well, I I hope you guys understand.
1:06:53
SPEAKER_00: I am an equal opportunity collar outer.
1:06:57
SPEAKER_00: And anyone who aligns themselves with a racist in that way, that publicly, while being actively asked by the public to hey, could you like say that you're not racist?
1:07:09
SPEAKER_00: Weird.
1:07:09
SPEAKER_00: Um, okay, so now that I've given you guys common fucking sense, um, the last thing I was gonna talk about today, I was gonna stop talking, but I think we could end on a little positive note.
1:07:21
SPEAKER_00: Um, I was gonna talk about the draft lottery.
1:07:24
SPEAKER_00: Okay, this is our hot girl lesson of the day.
1:07:27
SPEAKER_00: So the Pacers hit some bad, bad luck in the NBA draft lottery, bro.
1:07:36
SPEAKER_00: Like, how does this happen?
1:07:40
SPEAKER_00: Y'all like that?
1:07:41
SPEAKER_00: I gotta I got room for everybody on the weirdo list.
1:07:43
SPEAKER_00: Yup, yep.
1:07:44
SPEAKER_00: The Pacers traded a 2026 first round pick with conditions, okay?
1:07:49
SPEAKER_00: If the pick landed between the okay, wait, let me say this.
1:07:53
SPEAKER_00: So, the Pacers, okay?
1:07:56
SPEAKER_00: They had a 2026 first-round pick, okay?
1:08:00
SPEAKER_00: And they gave conditions to the Clippers.
1:08:03
SPEAKER_00: Okay, you can have our pick if when the draft lottery, which is literally exactly what it sounds like, it's like a random lottery generator to see who gets the first pick, the second pick, the third pick, the fourth pick, the fifth pick, right?
1:08:15
SPEAKER_00: If our pick is in the top four, we get to keep it.
1:08:19
SPEAKER_00: Or below the top nine.
1:08:22
SPEAKER_00: But if it's between the numbers of five and nine, you can have our pick.
1:08:25
SPEAKER_00: You can have our future first round top five player.
1:08:28
SPEAKER_00: The draft lottery happens, and to the Pistons' luck, could you imagine like winning a lottery, getting a top five draft pick, and it being a sad thing?
1:08:39
SPEAKER_00: The Pistons got the fifth pick, which means that their pick goes to the Clippers, who also were in some need of very, very, very good luck.
1:08:48
SPEAKER_00: But Kevin Pritchard, their president of basketball operations, apologized to the fans.
1:08:54
SPEAKER_00: He knew that it was going to be a gamble when he decided to trade his 2026 first-round draft pick with conditions, among some other picks and players to the LA Clippers in a deal that centered around big man Evika Zubac.
1:09:10
SPEAKER_00: I don't know why they like this should be whooping me.
1:09:13
SPEAKER_00: I'm sorry, in February.
1:09:15
SPEAKER_00: But they finished the season 19 and 63.
1:09:18
SPEAKER_00: Damn.
1:09:21
SPEAKER_00: So bad.
1:09:22
SPEAKER_00: Um, and entered Sunday's lottery with one of the league's three worst records.
1:09:26
SPEAKER_00: They had a 14% chance at the number one pick.
1:09:29
SPEAKER_00: There was about a 48% chance that the pick would land at five or six, which would fuck them.
1:09:32
SPEAKER_00: You know what I'm saying?
1:09:33
SPEAKER_00: And the Pacers had a 52.1% chance of the pick landing in the top four, which means they would get to keep their pick, right?
1:09:42
SPEAKER_00: Well, the Pacers were in the finals last year, and Tyrese Halliburton tore his Achilles in game seven, which I don't think, I don't think we talk about that enough.
1:09:52
SPEAKER_00: I don't think we I don't think we talk about that enough.
1:09:55
SPEAKER_00: The Pacers were in game seven of the NBA finals, and their star player tore his Achilles.
1:10:02
SPEAKER_00: That could have, is that an asterisk?
1:10:05
SPEAKER_00: Or I don't know, but that's really bad luck.
1:10:07
SPEAKER_00: Okay, they they were a game away from winning the NBA finals, and their star player tore his Achilles, right?
1:10:15
SPEAKER_00: Then they're like, we gotta do something by February.
1:10:18
SPEAKER_00: Like they start off the season booty cheeks.
1:10:20
SPEAKER_00: I think if they were one and 13, hold on, let me check my notes.
1:10:23
SPEAKER_00: One and 13 by February, they're back, they president of basketball office is like, I gotta make a move to say my job.
1:10:28
SPEAKER_00: We need a center.
1:10:29
SPEAKER_00: A center.
1:10:31
SPEAKER_00: And they go get one.
1:10:33
SPEAKER_00: They trade away Benedict Matherin, Isaiah Jackson, and two first round picks and one second round pick.
1:10:40
SPEAKER_00: Damn.
1:10:42
SPEAKER_00: For a player who played in only five games this season after suffering from a fractured rib and a head contusion in March.
1:10:49
SPEAKER_00: Ow.
1:10:52
SPEAKER_00: But the Pacers are in need of some good, good juju because that all is like a lot.
1:10:58
SPEAKER_00: But I hope the Clippers get their top five pick and they don't, you know, like trade him away for Paul George or something, and he ends up being a franchise player somewhere else.
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