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Episode 28 Emails! NBA Franchise Facelifts · Los Pickups Podcast

• Los Pickups Main: Hey, what's up everybody? Thanks for tuning back in to Lowe's Pickup Podcast. Yo, too. Coming to you guys live from the Pacific Northwest. Per usual. We got my boys over here to the left. My man's in the green. A Z. My man's in the white. He switched it up. Lobby Fresh. Keeping you on your toes and not the mess though. So thank you so much again for tuning in. bringing you on my toes. Bringing you your weekly dosage of the generisms, tisms, tickle biddies and everything in betweenies. I actually like that one a lot. I'm keeping that one. in betweenies. In betweenies. Hey, do you want to hand me that statue? Yeah, which one? sorry to interrupt. The the monkey? Yeah. Don't ever don't ever not call me a fan. That's a calling Kaepernick Funko Pop. That is I I know you're a fan. I never said you wasn't a fan. This right here is what we all are. You gotta get closer. The lights missing. Right there. We're all monkeys. Yeah. it's it's a little crazy right now. we're just three monks in the world full of swinging high for success in the vines. That's not where was going. But that works too. We're we're monks swinging high in the divines of six success. Yeah. What he said. We're just three monks in this crazy jungle. Yeah, three monks in the crazy jungle. That being said, let's open up our our segment with emails. We have emails from my beloved and adoring fans. Thank you so much. More than one. And more than one. So thank you guys so much. It means a lot to us. really, I don't know, it's just a cherry on top and the reason why we keep doing what we're doing. We're having so much fun and we we we appreciate the interactions. gives us some insights our listeners and what you guys are thinking of the of the product that we're producing so far. That being said, actually Aslan, why don't you go ahead and get us started with the first email. yeah. Sounds good. The first one that hit? yeah, this the or the one that we gotta rid the band aid off first. that? Yeah. okay. So let's go ahead and get into that. Also, I did wanna s I'll tell you guys later. Okay. Alright, so the first email to hit the tower is gonna be from my future. should I dox him like that? I guess he docs himself. his name's Tyler is my brother-in-law, future brother-in-law, 'cause I'm engaged currently. Tyler went ahead and contributed to kind of the NBA discourse that we've been having here. So he says, Good morning, good sirs. Longtime listener, first time emailer, appreciate it, shout out. Recently on TikTok there's been a trend to discuss the NBA greats and their argument to being the greatest player of all time. Then we get into Kobe not really being able to make an argument. As Riley is a Kobe stan, is there really an argument that you could possibly make that Kobe is the greatest player of all time outside of saying but his mentality or that he's the closest thing to Jordan in the two thousands? I personally don't have him in my top ten. One to three, any order you want to argue, he's got Jordan, LeBron, and Kareem. At four he's got Magic. At five, Russell, which I'm assuming is Bill Russell. Bill Russell, Celtics legend. Or Russell Westbrook. Top five. Hey man, if that's it, put some respect on Russell Westbrook's name. But no, he's not top five. And don't call him Westbrook. It's disrespectful. That's fucked up. six, Wilt, Chamberlain. Seven, Bird, Larry Bird, eight, Tim Duncan, nine, Shaq, ten, Curry, Eleven Hakeem, twelve is where he has Kobe. My reason being that the early two thousands was filled with buns and they would have won one title at most in any other modern era. Shaq was also the main option during that fifth year run, five year run. Regardless of whether or not he punted on the regular season, which LeBron has done since twenty fourteen, Kobe was only the undisputed best player in the NBA for roughly two to three years from two thousand and two 2006 to 2009, maybe. From that point forward, it was clearly LeBron until Jokic Jokic and Giannis took that title in 2018-ish. He was an efficient player by all advanced metrics, and his only MVP was given him because of LeBron voter fatigue as a lifetime achievement award. What is your opinion on his GOAT merits? With love, sincerity, he's looking at you, Tyler. PS PS Frick Argentina. Frick. today bad timing. Bad timing. So no. Don't say frick. I did say Don't you said Frick. Tyler says fuck Argentina. Thank you. And then he follows up with another email, I fucked up. I meant Steve Nash voter fatigue. Much like how Kendrick Perkins ruined Jokic's run at MVPs, or how they got tired of giving Jordan MVPs and gave it to Carl Malone. And then he follows up one more time, also to reiterate again Fuck Argentina, their most famous goal, the hand of God, was Maradona cheating, and we act like it was some great play when it was fraud. I will start off. by saying I don't think people say it's a great pl great play. I think it's widely acknowledged that that is controversial. Yeah. Outside of Argentina. Maybe there's some people from Argentina that are still holding on to the hope that it was a Hannah God. But I think it's I think it's widely accepted that Looking back at it, it was the hand of Manadona, not God. So but thank you, Tyler, for the for the email. We were wanting we were really close to getting him on the podcast to kinda discuss kind of the whole SGA OK C thing. that was my fault that fell through, so I apologize for that. But thank you for sending him the email. So with that being said, is there an argument for Kobe? And what is that argument for him being The best of all time. Well, I think I have plenty. Yeah, I am sure you do I have plenty of thoughts. Do you have Kobe's the greatest all time? No. Okay. but to not put him in the top ten is kinda crazy, but I'll get to that. Since the email is specifically catered to our boy Riley, I want to ri wanna give Riley an opportunity to go ahead and speak up for himself, get his licks back, and Yeah, man, speak your piece. I will say, hold on, I'll preface this. With any future emails we get, right? We gibber jabber between each other a lot. Yeah. If you're gonna say fuck Argentina, I may or may not be able to control what my constituents say in response. So just keep that open. Let's look at the camera when you say that. It's not personal, but If somebody tells me fuck the 49ers, I'm getting on their ass. So if you don't want your ass to be got just be a little careful with your words. But I will say, based on how how well articulated and every single thought out point Tyler has on this email, I think he's with the smoke. So Yeah, no, and Tyler he'll back it too. And he'll back it up, it sounds like. So for that, I welcome it. Keep it coming. I love that kind of interaction. Let's do this shit. Riley. Ding ding ding! Let's roll. Okay. I don't understand what he means by like any order you want to is this written? Yeah. okay, nice. Written response. So like I'm responding to his written response. Yeah, but y your response. I'm writ no. sorry. My response is to his response. I saw I thought you had written down points. no, no, no. my god. I didn't I didn't really want to do that. I feel like it's it should come off the top of the dome 'cause I feel like that's where we're at. I concur. so I don't understand his argument with Jordan LeBron and Kareem top three. or you can s do any order what you want to argue. That makes no sense to me. Be consistent, dog. Be consistent. Do your top three. Jordan is number one, dog. Jordan is fucking number one. What are you talking about? He's the best player of fucking NBA history. You can't just say any order you want to argue. No, he's the best. Get him. so you gotta be consistent. And then, fuck you for saying Kobe is number 12. What the fuck are you saying? You can say all of it all of his stuff outside of the NBA, but within the NBA, he's fucking a legend. He's a Laker fucking legend. And Shaq wouldn't be anywhere without fucking Kobe. He even admits that. So for you to put Shaq above Kobe is fucking ridiculous, dawg. That's fucking. Is that whack? Let him spin let him. That's fucking whack. Finish your thoughts. Let him go. Finish your thoughts. That's fucking whack. That's whack. Fucking whack. Fucking whack. Shack whack. Shack whack whack, dude. Whack a shack. Now I I I can't say he's got the most points in a single game anymore. You couldn't say that either because Wilton has the most points in a single game. He's got a hundred? Yep. Okay. Yeah, but there's no fucking video of it. But there's video of Yeah. I won't buy my tongue. Okay. Of the hand of God. There's videos of hand of God, there's fucking World War II. They didn't have V A R but we we don't huh? They didn't have VAR back then. Bro, there's footage of like World War One fucking. Okay. Okay. World Tame it was in the FCs. Get back to it in the what? Get back to it. That's what I'm saying. If we have footage of World War Two in the forties, but we don't have fucking footage of the hundred point game. I'll get I'll answer that in a second. So most career points by a guard, thirty three thousand. Most missed field goals or sorry. Holds the all time record for most regular season missed shots in NBA history. Kobe. Kobe. Is that go ahead. youngest all star starter became the Youngest player to start an NBA All-Star game at nineteen years old. Most consecu consecutive fifty plus score games. So you can say what you want about the most field goals, but as a whole, he took the Lakers to the Promised Land multiple times. So for you to put him at number twelve is fucking whack, like shack. Fucking whack. Fucking whack. So I'll put my order in. It's Jordan one, Kobe two, all I'll put cream three, magic four, I got Shaq five, Bill Russell can be six, Larry Bird is seven. I think I'm going out of order here, but I think Tim Duncan is is right up there with Steph Curry, but I think Tim Duncan kinda takes that role because of how much more he has accomplished overall as a player defensively and offensively. And then Steph Curry is the three point shooter he is and the sniper he is, I think he should be in the top ten. But Which he is, but So you're not arguing that Kobe is the greatest of all time. You're arguing that Kobe's top ten. I Because part of the question was what can you use to make Kobe top to to justify Kobe being best of all time? I mean the most consecutive fifty plus games that he's had. You would say that puts him as the greatest of all time? That's an argument to make for him? I think so. So so over Michael? over Michael. No no no. Just like if there was if there was gonna be an argument for Kobe being number one, what would that argument be? He's saying the most fifty point games. Also, the Dirk slander is crazy. Nobody's mentioning Dirk. I I have don't worry. I I got He's he's got more I don't want to steal any final thoughts. No, I wanna hear your guys' thoughts organically, so go for it. No. I I I don't I don't get it. I don't get it. I I wanna hear more from Tyler about this. So then okay, that's the top ten. You wanna respond to the whole fuck Argentina thing or we can talk about that and then I mean I I wanna get I wanna respond. You want me to respond about the whole fuck Argentina thing? Tyler you caught him the day of the final, so it's I can't control this papa, sorry. As much as I respect Tyler as a human being, I say fuck his comment about fuck Argentina. Tell him. Fuck your comment. Tell him. Cause that is the greatest fucking national team. One of the greatest national teams in the world. You can't deny it. One of the greatest. I won't say the greatest because there are a lot of great national teams, but they are one of the best national teams. Be consistent. They're the greatest. Not today. Not today. You can't say that. Spain actually has more World Cups. Bro, that was a layup. As a football fan, it hurts me to say, it hurts me to say The Hannah God wasn't great. But Meradona fucking got didn't get cap caught he didn't k he did not get caught with it. because of his hand position and the referees both referees positionings they couldn't fucking see. As a referee myself, who's refed soccer games without the help of VAR, the help with video assistants and other referees, it's hard to see that. Especially when you're going up and you're using leverage, so you're going up with your hand already and you're trying to head it in and it hits he uses his hand to nudge it. Yeah, it it's a fucked up goal to give up. And but I feel like even without the hand of God, they would have fucking beat England. That's all I gotta say. Cause they're bums. And colonizers. With everything consider w Bruh. With everything being con with everything taking into consideration everything, that was not that bad of a response to that. I thought it was gonna be way more heinous than that. That was respectful and I respect you for keeping your composure. I know I do. but if there was ever a time for you to unload your clip, it was right there. So do you wanna do you wanna a second crack again? No. You good? Yeah. Seggy piece? Yep. He wants a recurring listener. If we started scorching every email, no that comes out. I'm not gonna he has his own opinion. He can have his own opinion. Everyone should have their own opinions. I I I got ya. No, absolutely. And I think this is what makes our our That's why we need you here. This is this is how we want things to go. We want that that give and take, we want that back and forth. So that's this is beautiful. And again, not again, but actually real quick. Thank you, Tyler, 'cause this is a really great email and lot very thought provoking and of course throwing a little bit of that you know the little heat that goes with it so it's cool so I appreciate that so thank you very much. to answer the questions that you you pose to Riley there, now I'm not a big Colby stand like you call Riley, but I do wanna stick up for Kobe i in and you know, you know, rest in peace. r in a couple of different manners. Putting him outside the top ten is kind of crazy to me. that reason being is because you can there are meant multiple arguments that you can make about, you know, the first three championships that they won with Shaq was in fact because of Shaq. Yes, we all know that Shaquille O'Neal is a force of nature. The guy is a freak of nature. there's nobody, there was nobody then, there is nobody now that possibly match up you know pound for pound, skill for skill, power for power with a with a prime shack. so yes, I completely understand that argument. My case is that one he still won those three championships and he he was scoring twenty five plus points a game in each of those final series while also pr producing all around games with the rebounds, with the assists from the defense, making sure that he was, you know, a focal point in those in those matchups. And fast forward to the back to back championships that he won, outside of Pau Gasol, who did he really have in those teams? Like you might have h you can you can make an argument for Lamar Odom, you can kinda make an argument for Ron Artest, aka meta world piece. but the fact of the matter is, Kobe took those Lakers teams to the t to the to the promised land Predominantly by himself, really. You know, yeah, Powell was a w was a a a wonderful robin to his Batman, but he was still Batman. And also you're talking about he came back and beat a big three Boston Celtics team that had just won the championship before the next year. He goes and they all and he also beat, you know, a Superman in Dwight Howard in the Orlando Magic, who had a very stout team themselves. we're talking prime time, three time defensive player. year, you know, top five MVP voting Dwight Howard who was dumb that were not bumps whatsoever. So like to to discredit those championships, that's kind of outlandish to me. especially considering that you're putting LeBron James in the one A, one B, one C category with Michael and Kareem. Now That being said, I don't even have LeBron James in my top ten. So so like that that to me is is a wild take. So and like we said, we respect everybody's opinion and you you know your thoughts on the matter. so if I were to rearrange, you know, said order here, I'd gladly put Michael on one. Easily, this is a no-brainer for me. I would not put Kobe as ten. I w I would probably keep him at five if I'm being honest. I ca I kinda have to amend the r the rules a little bit because while his statistics weren't wow, like won't put you in their own like, holy shit that he was dominant man's got eleven rings and I'm talking about Bill Russell, a pioneer if you will. And he but he battled against Wilt Chamberlain who did have those phenomenal stats where he's averaging fucking forty points a game, twenty rebounds a game and shit like that. And has the highest recorded scoring output in on the books. I think it was like March second, nineteen sixty two. I I might have the date wrong. and actually before I move on to that, the reason it's not televised, the the NBA games that were back in the day, they had to be nationally televised matchups. So in in this particular instance, this one was not a a televised matchup, so that's why there is no video of it. But there is a preserved radio commentary and analytics from it, from the final minutes of that game that does exist where somebody on the radio actually called that game where he scored a hundred points. So the I'll take that. And I'm I'm just saying. There there is some kind of record keeping, some history in in you know, out there. I think it's AI. Okay, but And not Alan Iverson. And not Alan Iverson. Not everything is AI view. But anyways. That being said, I'm sorry I kinda went off on a little tangent there. No, you're good. yeah, I like I was saying, so Kobe I probably put him at five. Bill Russell and honestly, Bill Russell and and Will Chamberlain, they got their own they got their own category. Like th they're to me, they're like the pioneers, for for for like dominant basketball, right? so if if I have to break it down I'd probably go Mike, I'd go Kareem. Magic Duncan then then Kobe at five. Duncan just because dude, s all time leader in in the San Antonio Spurs franchise in basically every major stat statistical category and five championships to boot and he'd never asked or demanded for a superstar to be added to his roster. Nope. All his teams yes, he he did have Tony Parker and Maru Genobli and the and and the and past his prime David Robinson, but they were all homegrown and organic. teams so which is why leBron is not on my top ten. The guy's great, I give I'll give you that, but he didn't fucking form the fe form the Heatles. Okay? That's all I gotta say. Mm-hmm. Curry's not in my top ten either. I have a whole controversial take on that one too because I think he broke basketball just be just by being so fucking good at three point shooting. He ruined basketball for you for future generations because now you got seven footers pulling up from half court when They should be on their butt their asses should be by the basket of bunking out motherfuckers. But then if if I would have to s swap him out, and this is where Dirk comes into the conversation. Dirk Navinsky to me is top ten because he is a pioneer in his position for his size, a sharp shooting big man, and his one championship, beating the Hitos by the way, means way more and carries much more weight than all of LeBron's fucking titles combined. So even the Cavs you can take that to the He's going back to the Cavs. No, coming back to the Cavs. He fucking built that team too. Here, let me give give me Kevin Love. Give me Kyrie. Get the fuck out of here, dude. So yeah. Okay. That's my that that that's my stance on that. His fucking His is more reasonable than mine. Mine's more biased because I am a Lakers fan, but So that was Dirk at seven? I put him in the top ten. You and and like and to co to coin the phrase that Tyler uses, you know, in any order you want and an anybody after after five you can put Dirk. Did I even say Lebron in mine? I don't I don't know. I would I would put Dirk, Hakeem, Shaq, and Larry. Bottoming out the last five. Yeah. Yeah. That's what's up. Yeah, Larry Legend himself. Absolutely. Okay, so then what do we feel about the t t two thousands having a lot of bums? Janitors. I don't understand how you can make that argument because you're talking so many great players during You had you had a whole nother generation of like Hall of Famers. In the in the two athletes, yeah. In the two thousands you've had the Tracy McGrady's, you had the Vince Carters, you had you you had Ray Allen. You had you had Alan Iverson. bro, you had all these like phenomenal names, players that bro, how are you not original AI the original AI? Like how how how are you not gonna give credit to these guys? you had so like dude, Steve Francis. Shit. man, I'm I'm over here going through my Rolodex, man. You did you have the ear the early the early Portland Trailblazer with Damon Stademeyer, bro, Rasheed Wallace, Chauncey Bellups, who beat the Lakers in Shaq. So One question. Yeah. Follow up question with that. Now I'm curious what Tyler's like golden era of basketball is. That's a great call though. I was because if we're saying basketball soft now in two thousands was filled with bums, where where are you are you saying basketball's better now? Because it's less physical. And I think that's it's so yeah, this is a follow-up question for him, right? Yeah. So where What are your golden years of basketball? Because if you were saying people in the two thousands are bums, then you're definitely not looking before two thousands. So Unless he is unless he's saying like the eighties and nineties. No way he's saying that. No way. I mean he can make an argument for the nineties, I think. I think he could. If that was gonna be my question. Well wouldn't that w isn't that prime fucking Michael Jordan was beating janitors? Nope. Isn't that the era everybody says that shit? Tyler, do you think the guys that Michael Jordan was beating up in the nineties were a bunch of janitors? And we're talking about Charles Barkley, Clive Drexler, Magic Johnson, Gary Payton, and Sean Kemp. he did beat Hakeem during the regular season. Unfortunately, that's my dream finals matchup. I would have loved to have seen Michael Jordan and the Bulls take on Hakeem Elijah Wan and the Houston Rockets. Then we would really settle settle that argument that themselves. But they won the two championships. wait. Do we see Michael retired? And that's why they won their two championships. That's crazy. Coincidence? I don't know. But that being said, Tyler, please let us know who you think or when you think the golden era basketball was. yeah, throw in and really consider everything. The level of talent, the skill, the matchups, what you consider are bums, I guess, is my question. Is sorry. We defined the word bums a few episodes ago. No, we did not. We agreed to disagreed. Okay, why titled it defining the word bums? But we we define bums. So go off of what we said, or kind of. That's probably what is going on based on what you're saying. So that being said, please, we look forward to your next email. we appreciate that you've And with love and sincerity, we're right back. we appreciate you tuning in, man. It actually means a lot to us, especially because it really sounds like you're on you're on it too, as far as like knowing knowing ball and everything. So we appreciate you, man. Come watch it with us. and please we would love to have you on the show. I think it'll be a really great touch and if there was ever a an inaugural or or honorary first guest, Tyler should be it. Nah. Just don't bring up don't my teams constantly. 'Cause I know what you have. in in It's not nice. It's not nice, dude. I I'm talking about Auditina and then he also talked shit about the Raiders one time. yeah. No. Hey, leave the Raiders alone. To be fair, he was commenting on how much how much I was talking about how much time we spent covering the Raiders. Not on the Raiders. It was like forty minutes. That's what people need to hear. That's all I gotta say. We'll give you a special exclusive episode. Exclusive on the Patreon Riley's Riley's Raiders history. Right yeah, Riley's Raiders rants. Perfect. I love it. Thank you again, Tyler. We look forward to your next email. we do have another email we wanna touch base on, but we're since we're on the topic of the NBA, I kinda wanna talk about that first and then we'll come back and finish it off with our last email. Yep, yep, yep. so that being said, the NBA free agency period just started. at the beginning of July. a lot a lot has happened. major moves. I might have alluded to it before in the previous episode. If you think you know where your favorite player is playing next year, chances are if you haven't been paying attention, they aren't where you think they are. So that there's so there have been many transactions already, a lot of a lot of player movements, but I did want to talk about a few of the big ones that I think are gonna shake up the the landscape of the NBA altogether. The first one that comes to mind, which also comes with a little bit of juicy controversy itself, Giannis. Giannis Antecumpo. My man finally got his saga completed with Milwaukee. He got traded to Miami. w walked away with or not Miami. Milwaukee walked away with quite a few first round picks, but and a lot of young good players. so the Milwaukee Hall, they got Tyler Hero, who has been a who has been a pretty say a a decently known player for Miami these last few years. a bit injury rated in these last couple of seasons, but we'll get into that in a minute. They also included Jaime Hackers Junior who I'm a big a fan of. Honestly, he's a he he was a candidate for the sixth man of the year this last year, can be a starter on 29 other other other NBA teams in my opinion. Truly a jack of all trades kind of player, and I think he's gonna be a solid and flourish in Milwaukee, in my opinion. Also in that deal, they got Casper the Ghost. Caspar the Ghost. Casparis. that I can't Casap Casparis Cassi Paris. It's Casparis. Casparis. he actually played for the Illinois Lion. A couple years ago. He was a rookie this past year. lots of potential, combo guard, good size, good shooting, playmaking ability. We'll see if he's gonna get an opportunity to flourish in Milwaukee himself, but we'll see. And then the big one, or another big name that I think is gonna be a big addition for Milwaukee is gonna be Khalilware. Khalilware, to me, I hate say I hate this expression, but it it applies. he's like a poor man's Victor Winbanyama in my. He is also seven foot one, lanky, can guard the perimeter. Monk. and say what? Is he a monk? Is he a monk? he's not a monk. He's not doing like airbender type shit, but he is someone who can space the floor offensively and and he he's a b he's always gonna be a lob threat while attacking the paint. And then of course you throw in all the future first round picks that they're gonna be getting. Milwaukee actually made out like bandits in my opinion. so they're gonna be alright in my like go moving forward, will they make the playoffs? I if they're able to build chemistry with with the new players that they're bringing in and went through their new head coach, I think they will, personally. but as we all know, a lot of gonna happen. on the Miami side. They only got Giannis and Bobby Portis. But the big the big name here is Giannis Natalicumpo and that's why the why it's a big deal because the Mayan's top three in the NBA in my opinion. currently. Yeah. yes. the guy is a is a walking fa wal walking fast walking fast break. He can guard any position. he his overall player efficien player efficiency is just through the roof. Does he have a jumper? Not really. Does he need it? Not really either. So th it's actually quite remarkable. The guy's gonna give you thirty and ten on any given night. And I think based on the roster makeup that Miami has right now, the they're gonna be a problem in my opinion. the shooting it could be something of a question mark. 'cause now you're pairing Yan and Santa Tecumpo a Bam Adabayo. Neither of them have been known to be floor spacers or shooters. but I will tell you this. They got a bunch of dogs in Miami with Andrew Wiggins Davion Mitchell. so good luck scoring on the Miami Heat. The trade off is they might not be able to score with you either. But but we'll but but we'll see that play here down down the road. heat culture is very much a thing. I think Eric Spouls is gonna w whip that team into shape. and You're gonna get a few more players like like a Duncan Robinson or you know, o of days past where you've never heard of him and all of a sudden he's popping off, giving you, you know, twenty points a night, you know, shooting the lights out from three. that's the first one. I think I've been talking for a long time. You're good, you're good. you know your shit. Any any thoughts on that particular trade? I Bracket from last year. What did the Heat do? Do they make playoffs? they actually got knocked out in the play in tournament. Yeah. I see. Okay, so then that's my question, right? how much do you think Giannis had a play in where he went? Some. Must have, right? in order for him to pull it off, yes. He had he had a a very large say in where he was going. I feel like he Questionable as far as like prospects. like there were some better teams he might have been able to join. expand on that. Like who? Maybe they didn't have I mean I'm not gonna I mean, but like w it is he making Miami Heat a contender at this point? Yes. You think so? In my opinion, yes. Cause it felt like the Bucks weren't necessarily contenders. Out outside of maybe Miles Turner, I don't know who else is big name on that Milwaukee. Yeah, that was two years ago. This last year they were not it didn't even Well I'm saying i it feels like the past handful of years. When did they win the chip? Five years ago, four f four years ago? I think it was twenty one. Twenty one. Or twenty two. They beat they beat Phoenix. They've just been it feels like they've just been a little and w ways and I wasn't. But they didn't they but that didn't necessarily put them over the top though. Was a general consensus. I think they they were on an upward trajectory, but now we won't really know because he got hurt. I guess my my whole thing is like I I don't know. Talks with the Warriors, right? For Giannis? Yeah. like whether or not the Warriors have the fucking cap the assets. They don't have the assets to entice Milwaukee and not to mention you're talking about, you know, a thirty six and thirty seven year old Raymond Green and and Steph Curry. and if if they were if there are any move where we're going to flourish in that potential scenario, they have to include Jimmy Butler. Jimmy Butler is coming off a torn ACL. No one really wants to take that on. So it's gonna it was gonna be a hard sell altogether 'cause ba he's gonna be basically gone the entire year again. He might be coming back towards the end of the season, maybe for like a playoff push. Yeah. But even then I wouldn't count Okay. Well I wish I would have had other teams I would have known. They might be able to join. But I yeah, I guess I was just a little surprised he wanted to go to the Miami Heat in general. he's like Miami Heat's been apart from the Jimmy Butler era, kind of on the backseat of everything. He's been linked to Miami for a while now. really? Yeah, he he they've always been on his like short list of teams he wouldn't mind waving his mail trade for. The Greek freak Reed Freed wants to go to South Beach. Yeah. I hope it works out for him. He's a great player. I know my my sister in law, they live in Wisconsin. Very sad to see him go. Yeah. They loved him. They they I'm sure they did. They were there, you know, huge very Obviously they didn't want him to go. but they they wish him well. I know that they wish him well specifically. So there's a lot of love for him out there. faces in new places. So that's the lyric. Yeah, thanks. Yeah man. that's a big one. the next big one I want to talk about. and this one's got a lot of people scratching their hands. Dude, it was a shocker. so this one's gonna be dicey. that was Jalen Brown. Jalen Brown gets traded to Philadelphia. This one's weird, dude. and that's because essentially they traded Jalen Brown for a thirty-six year old Paul Jordan. that's I don't get it. Jalen Brown the face of the Celtics for a little bit. F who took him to the playoffs, had their best Tatum, no. well he didn't join until the until the latter stage of the season. No, but as far as faces for the Celtics. Yeah, so between between Jalen Brown and Jason Tatum. They were the Celtics these last few years. they won a ship together. if there was anything, in my opinion, close to like a a Michael and Scotty in today's generation, that was them. Jas Jason and Jalen. Yeah. I I will say about like that it's such a weird trade because I feel like those are big rivals, Boston and Philadelphia. Yeah. And so to trade a star player like Jalen Brown to a rival team that could potentially knock you out in the playoffs next season. That should make my blood boil. Well let's just say if they happen to meet each other in the playoffs it's gonna be absolute dude. I mean that's like Max Crosby going to the fucking Chiefs or the Chargers and then pulling out a a victory win against us. I saw this kid on TikTok, he was like so sad when he heard. And he was just like the A Jalen Brown for everything you've done. And then he's like eight years old. So sad. And and then just to be clear, I I want to give accurate information. It wasn't Jalen Brown for straight up. the Celtics still walked away with a twenty twenty eight twenty thirty one first round pick and then two second round picks that were also part of that deal. Twenty twenty eight and a twenty thirty one. Yep. That's crazy. Plus Paul George. which mind you no disrespect to Paul George. We old ball knowers know Paul George in the playoffs before he fucking got hurt was a problem and he was the truth. But he got hurt. and he hasn't been quite the same you know playoff P that we grew up He's still happening. He's still a serviceable player. He he still played well last year in the for the su for the Sixers and the during the season after he got suspended for the drug violating the drug policy. but he played well when he came back and he played well in the playoffs. it just happens that Joel Embiid can't stay healthy. Now that being said, Jalen Brown, now you have a Philist a Philadelphia seventy Sixers team that's got Jalen Brown, Tyrese Maxie, Vijay Edgecombe, who was a rookie of the year finalist. and then if jail if Joel and B is healthy, goddamn that that's a that's a fucking team. You know what I mean? Yeah. so like on paper, Philadelphia's looking like a problem. Yeah. What about Anfernie Simmons? Anthony he's gonna probably be a like a like a support. Hey great great shout out. so An Anthony S Anthony Simons not Simmons a great pick Up also he had a his longest tenure was with Portland, made a pissed off at Boston, made a piss-op at Chicago. Fuck. And then and then all now as a free agent, he's now signed on with for the Philadelphia 76ers. He's a great guy that I would say would be a six man candidate as well. guy can give you 30 on any given night. He's a sharp shooter and can create his own shot and not a bad playmaker off the ball as well. Yeah, his big issue along with Joe. Is that he can't stay healthy. Now, if he is, game changer. If he's not, well, we're gonna have to figure that out now, aren't we, Philly? That being said, weird ass trade. I honestly don't understand breaking up Boston's dynamic duo. Dude, my barber was pumped. He's a 76 year So it's crazy. He was initially going to be part of the p the the trade for Giannis. So before Miami swooped in and made their happen, there was trade package in place for Giannis Antecumpo to go to Boston wi for Jalen Brown. The major hang up there was Boston didn't want to g does didn't not wanna include Hernandez, which is w who was their rookie this last year, which is kinda crazy to me. don't get me wrong, Hernandez is gonna be a good player, but if that was your hang up, why? But you could have Yanness Tacumpo. You know what I'm saying? He's a freak. so and so i if you're gonna if you're gonna make me choose Between Paul George and Giannis. I'm taking Giannis. Ten days out of the week. Well, that's gonna be hopefully that haunts him because I'm sure actually, and you know what? It's fine. Giannis would have hated Boston anyways. It's a pretty shite city. great sports city though. Great sports city. Just City City. Yeah, yeah. But so if we if you're in the head of the president of Celtics, is it money? Is that a factor? Salary cap does play a role, but I I think because he was still contributing. In my personal opinion, I think he ends up making the trade to Philly because it's public knowledge now that they're actively shopping him. How am I gonna have this guy back in the locker room knowing that we've potentially So I think I think it's because of his hairline. I think what? the spray on ta hairline? Yeah, I think they got too embarrassed to hit national news. But you still demand Jalen. no but honestly I I Yeah, that but can't you go to Turkey? I I think I think you have Turkey. Turkey A. Not Turkey. It's Turkey A dog. I think you have or or like a big reason as to why the trade happened was because he's like, alright well, capital, we're trying to shop with But that happens so often though, where they shop players and they stay and they're like suck it up. Not as openly and vocally as the as Boston was doing. Do you think they made the right choice by staying with Jason Tatum and not shopping Tatum? And shopping Brown instead? Considering J Jason just had an Achilles injury, he he looked good. He looked fine from the back. and especially ca of how he how he attacked that, you know, that rehabilitation. I would still be a little bit cautious and if that's the route I'm going, if I'm gonna break up the team, I'll take the guy who hasn't had reconstructive surgery, in my opinion. So you would have I would have kept Jalen instead of Jason and personally. I mean f a healthy Tatum and a healthy Giannis, pretty scary. A healthy Brown and a he healthy Giannis is scary too. And I think that's a little bit more flexible. the only a little bit more playmaking. The the only nod I'll give you is that Jason's probably a better shooter. Which would help w is going to help me honest. But isn't Jalen's whole thing is that he's a better what do you call it? Playmaker. Shot creator. Yes. Right? Don't say that to Jason Tatum though because he emulates his game after Kobe Bryant. So Yeah. and that's clear. Go watch the YouTube videos of or the TikTok clips of Jason Tatum winning the chip. It's pretty evident. But you do you, young man. You do you, young man. but yeah, we'll see how that plays out. That is weird though. It's a weird Yeah. I don't know. If if I have two if I have a bittersweet trade. If I have a a one A and a one B player both on my team. my opinion. But who knows. With the established chemistry, with the established success. They they have they know each other, they have no beef with each other, they have no problem deferring to one another. Yeah. And get wait, yeah, they won a championship together. Why would you want to break that up? Yeah, that doesn't make much sense. but that's just me. but again wait never mind. No. Well I was gonna say, but again you're getting Giannis, but I got my team's confused. No no, yeah, they hypothetically would have gone. No, you got Paul George. So there's mu much more player movement and free NBA free agency that we can get to, but I don't wanna bore you guys and drown you guys in that. There's one other potential trade or not but I say potential because there's a bit of a hold up on it. Yeah. that's also gonna sh rock the NBA a little bit in my opinion. Now for those of you guys who don't know, why Leonard is kind of involved in a bit of a a little bit of a scamble. he's a player currently he's a player for the LA Clippers. He's involved in a bit of a controversy because of how he's been getting paid. there is there's a whole lawsuit going on right now, an investigation, basically because he's been For all intents and purposes, he's been getting paid under the table. yeah. Under the guise of some kind of investment slash from the team? no, but like a third party. I forget the name of the company. Yeah. god. That's not good, dude. Yeah, that's not good at all. Yeah, so I mean at least they got Rui who's actually married as the Clippers. so the investigation actually is that the Clippers circumvented their salary cap rules by funneling money to Leonard through an endorsement deal. with looks like a banking company called Aspiration. haven't heard of it, but that is what the whole investigation is underway over. What are the repercussions do you think? he doesn't get traded and he might get suspended or go to jail. But shit, yeah. It's most likely a suspension. Most likely a suspension. I mean's gotta go play Bond Sweden. He could probably negotiate not going to jail and doing service, but we'll see. That's crazy. The the blockbuster trade in question right now is Coalina going back to Toronto. Toronto Raptors actually traded Brandon Ingram, Grady Dick, two unprotected first round picks and a second round and a first round pick in twenty twenty seven swap between them and the Clippers and a couple of other picks, in in multiple second round situations. It's like a trickle down, like th th these things are gonna take effect years down the road sort of thing. but pending this investigation, it cannot not f it cannot be finalized. So if this goes sideways, this trade does not happen. And now the rep possible repercussions of said potential trade is now you've got a Brandon Ingram who chose to sign with Toronto by the way, is now being traded. and it's like, now you're not getting trade anymore. Welcome home. We still want you here. Yeah. You and Glorilla. Brand looking bastard. Brandon Bingham Brand Bingham's been through the been through it though. He knows what it is. I mean at the end of the day, every every athlete's gonna tell you the same thing. It's just business. But it does kinda suck when when they make it kinda seem they don't want you actually you just signed with them and shit. Yeah. Maybe Glorilla's annoying. No. It's not the whole shtick. Maybe dude. Hey, Toby McGuire. There's your ticket. You can hit her up, dog. No, she he got he got Ice Spice. Yeah, I know. You can have both though. That's my Spider-Man, bro. That's my Spider-Man, bro. That's crazy. That's my Spider-Man, too. No, it'll be interesting to see. pretty big scandal, in my opinion, is because it's quite linen and it's the guy who doesn't say shit. Yeah, bro. That's crazy. Maybe he'll blame his interpret. That's good. That's pretty good. Yeah, damn. But like I said, plenty of others transactions. We can circle back and name a couple more that that will have an impact at a later date. but that being said, any other thoughts on the MBA while we're on the subject? No. I thought we touched base on quite a bit for the MBA, especially with the big ones. I feel like I've been droning on a while, so not at all. No not at all. So I love to hear your voice. Thanks, buddy. I I love to hear your voice. And so do our listeners. And so do our listeners listeners. Listeners. You over there. Listeners You. Yeah, you. Just you. Alright. Back to the email. and so we can wrap this Playboy up. this one is actually from my dear sister. My dear sister coming in clutch with a few WWE questions. We've also been getting quite a few requests regarding WWE for a while now. Sorry guys, it's my fault. it's all good. is it? No. what's your fault? W W WWE not being involved in it. I can say the same thing about football bro you're good. Football. Football. Football. Football. But that being said, since it is my sister, I think you guys should read it. Sure. Can I read it? Since I got nothing to say I read it 'cause you got nothing to say, go for it. Alright. So Chanti, Chanti. Coming through. You see what she says. Which superstar is being underrated right now? Is there someone who's getting too much hype? If you could bring back one WWE legend for one SummerSlam match, who would it be and against whom? Dear John. No. Dear John. What what match would you add if you could? Is there a superstar who should turn heel or face after SummerSlam? Is WWE relying too much on nostalgia? Examples, Page, the Bella Twins, A. G. Lee, etcetera These are all actually solid questions. super solid. Yo, shout out Chanti. what do you think? Let's start with you. Let me see let me check the SummerSlam lineup. Gotcha. One second. I will s yeah, go ahead. Yeah, let's see. superstar is being underrated. I I don't know. Could you say Trick Williams is being underrated if he has a belt? I like Trick Williams, I like what he's doing. I think he's a mid car. He's built his own name. I think he's got a good mi he's a good mid quarter right now. For me, when I'm thinking underrated, like taking crack at the belt. The real belt, right? I like what he's got going on. They were gonna give him his thing by giving him the USA belt and that's it's a nice belt 'cause you can there's you know, there's it's had previous great champ champions. The Miz held onto it for a while. John Cena came off off off that belt. And I like what he's doing with the whole fur thing. Underrated though I think They have to push LA Knight, bro. LA Knight. LA Knight is fucking up in the ring, which I think like technically he he fucks up in the ring a lot. Yeah, a f quite a few noticeable botches. Yeah, pretty bad. Yeah. And he needs to figure that shit out. But as far as like being over with the crowd and actually being good on the mic. I I can't think of anybody else that's better that like honestly better on the mic. Yeah, and he you know, you could say that he's like obviously inspired by the rock. Rock, Stone Cold, like those dudes, but like when the WWE is where it's at right now or like mic work is like probably at its slowest, right? 'Cause I don't think there's a lot of good people on the mic right now currently. Obafemi, I think, at this point is really good on the mic, you know. But like there's Roman finally after like a thousand years is good on the mic. Yeah, you watch a fucking warm out. so I'm gonna say LA Knight. I like his I like his vibes. And they gotta he's already old as fuck, so if he's gonna make a push it's gotta be soon before. There's no hi his body can only take so much steroids in that age. Yeah. Roman Roman Reigns? Yeah. Yeah. Dude. I I could see him The Nepo baby. Are you fucking kidding me, dude? Who is So the second question is, is there someone who's getting too much hype? Who isn't a fucking Nepo baby in the WWE asshole? Shut up. LA Knight. Is there someone who's getting too much hype? I'm gonna say Gunter. LA Knight. I'm answering the questions. Someone who's getting too much hype. Gunter. I'm tired of the whole fucking technician shit, killing legends or whatever. He just like to me doesn't have the look. Like he already looks old. His body is like old man already. He's probably great. He is great technically. But like he just doesn't have that it factor for me. It's like they're just kind of like throwing him a bum because he's been there for a very long time. He's like technically. It's like he's a poor man's JBL. Gunter, tired of him. go I don't know. Do something else with him. Sa put a mask on him and put him in the Luchella. Yeah. Stupid ass. Okay. underrated El Grande Americano, bring him over to WWE, we need that. actually, yeah. I need that. But he but he's h he's hella over as we play, bro. Yeah, which is why you mix that shit. That's the perfect bridge, you know? Yeah yeah. If you could bring back one legend for one SummerSlam match, who would it be and against two? This one's kinda tough. I'm assuming prime? In their prime? I was I was or like right now. No, like prime. I let's go let's go let's go with like a a dream a dream match. Would you consider Randy Orin in the a legend? He's still he's still going. Like a prime randy Orton? Mm-hmm prime Randy Ori. I would love that. I would say prime Randy Oren Prime Triple H probably. Yeah. Those dudes have great chemistry. Mm. Triple H is not the best wrestler. I I think he's also very overrated. But those dudes together have like Wicked aura. That it factor. Yeah. Like they both when the the game comes in. The game versus the legend killer, always great. Obviously they've already had skirmishes and they've already had matches. But I would not mind seeing it one more time in their prime. Dude, Triple H for me, top ten intros of all time. Yeah, yeah. For sure. And he just looks like a mean, you know, like mean mugging motherfucker. And Randy Oran in his prime was the same thing too, you know? It's like Two demons from hell kind of type type vibes. So, Randy Orin, Triple H. I'd like to see that one more time. I gonna Randy Oren, Shawn Michaels off the top of my head 'cause I just love Shawn Michaels. Give me one more Shawn. Give me more prime Shawn Michaels, like at any point. And I just love Randy Orin. with that. What match would you add if you could? I'm actually very happy that Oba Femi and Brock Lesnar's held on the sale. I think so. That's bad. I think that's gonna be a actually might be the best match of the night. I don't think they're gonna go as hardcore. They have not been going as hardcore with the Hell of the Cell matches. But those two dudes have that it factor. Yeah. And those two it it goes back to like great wrestling back in the two thousands and nineties when wrestling was dependent on big men. Heavyweights. Right? Now they've gotten smaller so they can do like more aerobatics and shit. But Oba Femi, big man. Yeah. Looks formidable. Yeah. Brock Lesnar, big man. Looks formidable. That in Hell of the Cell, that's badass. I don't know if I would add anything else. Like if the Helmut Cell wasn't there, I'd say Helm the Cell, but the Hell in the Cell is there, you know? Yeah. So maybe like a what's that w it's Roman It's gonna be it's gonna be Roman and Seth for for the he w heavyweight championship. I'd make that maybe like a street fight. That'd be badass. I'm tired of fucking tribal rules bullshit. Just make it a street fight. That's what it is. It's not gonna be tribal rules. Yeah, but tribal rules is just fucking making street fights it's the same thing, but you just call it tribal rules or whatever. So then why so why do you want it to be stri street fights? Because that's the original, they just rebranded it to tribal rules so that it fucking fits their narrative. I'm tired of this whole fucking tribal bloodline shit. It's been going on for twenty years at this point. Seth Rollins, put the hurt on him. Get that belt. Shut the fuck up, you freaking roll. You use that belligerent, dude. Also, borderline racists, I'm tired of this travel shit. Fucking travel shit this trouble shit that the fuck up, bro. Would ya you have a problem with with Polynesians? No, they're fucking amazing. So then why are you tired of tri the tribal shit? Because that's all they fucking talk about in WWE. And it sells and it works. So why are why are you and that's why they're bringing up fucking bum ass Jay, bum ass jim not Jimmy, but you know that S Solo Sokoa. All these dudes who are Solo Sokoa's funny as fuck, what do you mean? so we're bringing in people to the full who funny. They get a they get a spot because they're funny. And they're It's all fucking Neppo babies, bro. They literally just get some own blood and they plug that motherfucker in. Well Shawn Michaels not a fucking Neppo baby? Who's his dad? I don't know, but he has somebody. Shawn Michaels? Yeah. I don't think he was. Well look it up. Randy Oren was. That's what I'm saying. Why don't you look it up? I'm answering the email. You're a bum. Is there a superstar who should turn heel or face? I what would you put Obafemi as? Face right now? I think he's a face right now. I'd like to see him go heel. I think he will eventually against Roman. Evil Oba Femi. Like just like Hall of Pain Mark Henry Oba Femi. evil motherfucker. Yeah. No, he's not an ability. That's what I fucking thought. Is WWE relying too much on nostalgia? I don't think so as of late. it was getting really bad back when the Saudis were paying Triple H and Shawn Michaels to come out of retirement. That's what it was getting really bad. The Bella Twins, I guess, are fine, but AJ Lee is good for WWE. She's still great. She's still great on the mic. She still wrestles great. She's a legend who still is capable of like being in ring. And, it totally makes like it I don't feel like it's bad nostalgia to bring her back and put a bell on her. 'Cause she's that good. She revolutionized the whole Diva era. Yeah. You know? Well I guess one of the last Divas because now it's not Diva W. Those are my thoughts. Thanks, Chanti. Yeah. Thanks. Yeah. I don't know if there was anything I don't think it's too much nostalgia. You gotta add a little bit of it in there. Sprinkle it in every now and then. Yeah, the Bella twins are they've never really been that good. That that goes to for a lot of the older lady wrestlers though. Yeah. 'Cause like you look at like Kelly Kelly and shit, they just needed to show a little bit of boo booty. Yeah. And like Stacey Keyword. Vince Vince McMahon like ripping their tops off and stuff and then they slap him and or like bikini mud fights or whatever. Yeah. It was wild back then. Yeah, those are crazy times. definitely snapped a bit of lot better now. They're a lot b I definitely did not rewind that when I was ten years old. Riley? Any thoughts? For those that don't know what Nepo baby means, because we might somehow have old heads in here listening to us. Old heads. Old heads. It's someone who gains basically like opportunities or career opportunities or s success from their family connections. So that's that's all I want to say. For those of you as a contribution. For those of you who are old heads. Thanks Bobby. Thanks for Yeah. Yeah. Solid. Hold on. shit. Don't bring it. No. sorry. do Mew Mew. seen in Riff or what it's the music of his people. one thing I will say since I couldn't answer any of the fucking questions currently. I was gonna say my piece and you. No, it's fine. No, I'm not mad. No, say your piece. I was I'll answer my I don't want to I was answering answering your questions. I thought that's what we were doing, guys. the first question which superstar is being underrated or underutilized right now? I'm actually gonna go with two. I would love to see a lot more of Julia and Jordan Ladies? Yeah. think about that. Phenomenal wrestlers. been been doing it for a very long time and I think they're being underutilized or hardly utilized period. and they should honestly be in like the conversation for titles like consistently. They're they're they're they're that's just great. Julia is is is a work in progress simply because like yeah it she's Italian, born in Jap she's British, of Italian descent, born in Japan or raised in Japan, so sh English is very much a sec or fourth language. Holy shit. so her mic skills need a little bit of help, but otherwise her wrestling does the work, does the speaking for her. And then Jordan Grace, to me, she should be the first woman to be like a Paul Heyman wrestler. Like pairing them to them two would be phenomenal. Like Jordan Grace is a fucking she's a juggernaut, dude. Like I I am so impressed with like not to sound weird, but like her physique, she's just fucking powerful. It's amazing. and yeah, she's got she's she's good on the mic. ha she if you wanna talk about aura and and and like prowess, like she's she's about it about it. so I think those are gonna be my answers. if there is there anyone who's getting too much hype right now? I will always I will always say Logan Paul gets too much hype. He should not be in WWE. I don't know why the fuck he's in there. what the fuck, yeah. Yeah, like it just drives me insane. Fuck that old dude. The one thing I will say the one thing I will say is a good he is a good athlete, so and it does come through when he wrestles, but other other than that, he's just fucking obnoxious and annoying. if I could bring back one WWE legend for SummerSlam match, who would it be and against whom? I'm gonna reach back a little bit. talking about like a like a dream match for me. I would love right now in my state of mind I would love to see a prime Idie Galeto versus Ray Mysterio. Ooh that that's a good one. That would be bro It doesn't get any better. They're t you're talking about charisma, you're talking about technicality, you're talking about just high flying. Dude, it's just it doesn't get better. Triple threat, street rules, edigarero, remasterio, and dominic. Ooh ooh, there you go. Now now for for Dominic's parenthood or fatherhood fighting for his own custody. Do you know who I wanna see Street Fight too? That's Do you know what legend I wanna see come back? Londre the Giant, dude. Yeah, yeah, why why is that? But tell us more. He is a beast. It would be crazy to see him in in the currents with everyone. You're right. Yeah, bro. I agree. Thanks, dude. Thanks. I just wanted my input on that. I like it. Well my and then what match would I add if I could? it technically already did get added. so this this comes with some controversy. We are Ripley's hurt. so they're gonna be crowning an in-term women's champion. The controversy is the whole interim Bits insinuating that she'll get her belt back when she when she makes a full recovery. but that being said, it's a ladder match. and ladder matches to me have always been fucking fun. Yeah. Yeah, and we're talking about like climbing up, snatching the belt, like using the ladder, high like falling off and shit. The ladies get into it too. And and they fucking go out. Last money in the bank one was fucking nuts. dude, Nikki Cross, shout out Nikki Cross, who's no longer with WWE. Nasty fall on one of them ladders, bro. And when you consider that like they're lighter, right? Because they're like more acrobatic and shit. Yeah. And they're still throwing themselves on like with the dudes when they're like heavyweights, right? You're falling on the ladder, but you're heavy enough for the ladder to give. Yep. Whereas like when you're smaller, you just bounce off that shit, bro. So just like me, dude. Just like my ass. Just like that boiney ass. Just like bounce, bounce. bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce. I love Bounce bounce. is there a superstar who should turn heel or face after Summersland? I think I'm gonna go with Omafemi as well. like really just lean into like the ruler persona. I think that would do well. But but I think he's gonna do very well as a face regardless. I mean the guy's the guy is so over right now, like there's not really much you can do wrong. Yeah. So like whatever direction they they they take him in, I think it's gonna be it's gonna be money. So and then the last one is WWE relying too much on nostalgia. I will c I will say a little bit yes. if there was anyone else they could have like brought back, I I don't think I would have gone with the Bella twins personally. They're I mean, I don't wanna sound horrible, but yes, they're beautiful. Yes, they're nice too. look at, but are they good wrestlers? I don't know. When did they come back? They fake it, so like well well, Bella came back like at the beginning of the year I think. That's what I thought. and then and then Bree came back like two th two or three months ago and and they they immediately put a a belt on her. that's fucked up. That's yeah. I don't know that is it coincidence that they brought them back after John Cena left. actually not entirely because John was still on his farewell tour and I f who was it? I think it was Tiffy Tiffany Stratton that says something about John Cena not choosing Nikki during Yeah. so he w there was a little bit of overlap. Okay. Shout out to John Cena. Dear John. but no actually funny enough, the the it was Paige and Bree Bella who just had the tag team championships. They actually lost it last night. they took the belts off of them and they gave it to Fatal Influence. Who is Fallon Hansen or Henley and Hold on, one second, before we move on. Mm-hmm. Fa Fal Fallon Henley. Fallon Henley and JC Jane. villainous WWE stable. Yeah dude. Yeah dude. but yeah. I don't recognize them. they just got called up from NFT not so long ago. my bad. Fallon Henley and Laney Reed. JC Jane is like the leader of Fatal Influence. they came up with that one Sol Ruka chick. Yeah. Sol Ruka's cool Sol Ruka came up a little bit before then. But like maybe like a month after. She's cool. Yeah yeah. But That wraps up the questions from Chanti. and that wraps up our segment for the emails. Our friends. We have friends. Thank you. We love you and appreciate you. any thoughts moving forward as we wrap up episode dos for today? Video two? No. follow us on Instagram though and then I think we're gonna get TikTok going. I don't know if I've did I've done it already. But then we're just we're gonna we're gonna go viral here pretty soon. So get your stakes in now. Become a fan now, otherwise you know, after we get a hundred viewers or a hundred subscribers, everyone else is gonna be a bandwagon. 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