World Cup Rule Changes And Real Life Costs

Cover your mouth on the soccer field and you might get a red card now. That’s where we start, because the closer we get to the World Cup, the more the sport tries to speed things up and clamp things down. We dig into the weird logic behind punishing mouth-covering, the new five-second limits on goal kicks and throw-ins, and how rules that sound simple can get messy the moment refs have to enforce them. We also hit the fan side of big tournaments, including water bottle rules and why overpriced “basic needs” at events has been a problem for decades.

Then the conversation swings through the wider sports world: Canada’s friendly against Ireland, a goalie who flat-out saves the day, and the kind of broadcast fail that makes you want to throw your remote when recordings cut off the last minutes. We also talk about crowd noise and how modern highlights can feel suspiciously polished. From there we touch on international politics affecting athletes, including the Iranian team’s travel complications, and how fans can support players without excusing governments.

The biggest shift is real life. We get into Canada’s new grocery benefit and essentials support, and the statistic that lands like a punch: roughly a quarter of the country qualifies. We talk food banks, wages that don’t keep up, power bills that keep climbing, and the quiet ways people are adjusting just to get through the year. We close with NBA Finals talk: Wemby’s decision-making, Knicks poise, coaching pressure with Popovich looming, and why 15-point comebacks aren’t rare anymore in the three-point era. Subscribe, share the show with a friend, and leave a review, then tell us what hit you hardest from this one.

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World Cup Timing And New Rules

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So a lot going on in the world of soccer. A little soccer stuff. All right.

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So what's what's the date today?

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Uh whatever it is.

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The 11th is when it starts, right?

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Uh uh 5th, 6th, 7th. Okay. 7th. So four days away. Remember, we gotta couple games at Vancouver you gotta go to. That's right. So all the planes booked and everything's good to go. We're good to go. All right. Anyway, so I was looking up some of the soccer stuff. I was like, I wonder if there's any new rules. Because you know, usually when the World Cup goes out there, there is.

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Okay.

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And I I wanted to make sure I said them right, so I got them printed on the cards as usual, because you know I'm moron. So this is very interesting, but you played soccer too, so you'll appreciate this, actually. All right. So, first of all, this is one's weird though. So if you if you and I are in separate teams and we're having a, you know, we do this, we cover our mouth, the fuck fuck you, Michael. Red card. Yeah.

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What's the why? Actually, isn't it better? Because now the cameras aren't.

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Well, that's what I was thinking. I didn't read into it, but they go what all the athletes do now.

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They cover their motion.

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Because there's lip leaders.

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Yes, I know.

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Right? And sometimes you tell them to play and LeBron doesn't know it. Right. Okay, so that's one. So here's another. This is a good one, though.

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That's that's a you know, that's the one thing that's like, you know, that's a lie. There's one guy that knows every play. It's it's LeBron. It's LeBron. Yeah. But anyway, I think that's a stupid rule. But anyway, yeah, I thought red cards are harsh. Red card's a little harsh. So the goal kicker. Well, that's just right.

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Like, you know, okay, like, you know, you're you're sure.

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If you go up to the ref and you cover your mouth and you're sitting there calling them, you're a you're a blind mother. We can still hear you. Yeah. Right? Yeah.

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Can you hear me? Yeah. Like, what? Like, come on, man. You know, well, you've seen that they have the uh the people doing the sign language on the cyber referees doing something. And by the way, a lot of those they say you're wrong.

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Yeah, I know.

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There was one guy I bet you said he's on OnlyFans. What?

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There was one guy that was like a translator and he was on, and like I guess it was like it was just gibberish. Like, total total boy. No idea. And he did, and he was more than once like, you know, and it was like it was a it wasn't like for a sports, uh, it wasn't for a sporting event, it was uh, you know, somebody somebody was out giving a speech and he was on the local television. Oh right. Good lord. Anyway, somebody called in and said, That's not sign language.

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Well, a lot of people don't know all sign language comes from France. It started there. Okay, yeah. And they say that it's different everywhere, too.

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Right.

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So, like, how do you have an accent in sign language? It's weird, yeah. So it's like regional, there's regional dialect. Yeah. You just swore to me in Italian. Yeah, that's right. Yeah. Crazier. How would you know that? Only only uh people we can't say deaf, it's hearing impaired. So sorry. We're old, we say stupid shit. We do. Uh goal kick, only five seconds. You get five seconds to kick that ball. Because you know, a lot of people start stalling for five seconds. Yellow card. Throw in five seconds for a throw. Because you've seen this one.

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Yeah.

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Like, you know, and then the guys keep walking.

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Five seconds from the moment they're handing the ball.

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I guess the moment they're handing the ball, they pick the ball up.

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Five seconds from from because that's like for a goal kick, like five seconds from putting the ball down. That's not a lot of time to get back in the spot and then so I can get your momentum to take your kick, right? Like, so uh yeah, so I is it five seconds? Yeah, I don't know. Once again, I didn't read the reason.

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Like you'd have to go read the five seconds from what?

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That's what I have to go read. Because that that seems like it's way too because essentially it's like, okay, well, you got to give the guy a little bit of time to like know where he wants to put the ball down.

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Oh, yeah, I know, right? Right, right. Because you're allowed to put it on different spots.

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So again, is if it's five seconds from putting the ball down, then sure, don't put the ball down until you're ready to kick that, right?

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Exactly.

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Yeah, exactly. Anyway, we'll have to see the rule. Yep.

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Um, yeah, throw okay. There was a couple more. I didn't bother talking about those ones, though, but here's another one. So remember, this is Canada, right? So FIFA said you can bring your own water bottles, and then they're like, well, that's not a good idea.

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Well, they originally said no, then they changed their mind. They said yes. Yes, yeah, right. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Uh what? Yeah. With rules. There are what I don't know what the specific rules are about.

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Because now they can't buy alcohol in your bottle, right?

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Oh, 100%. Well, not just that, like they'll they're selling probably probably bottles of water at these things, right? Well, somebody was that music festival was I think it was Woodstock back when we were young. Maybe it was the second one that they did in the 2000s. Um sorry, the third one. The second one was in 1990.

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They go easy, right? Yeah.

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Uh anyway, they they were selling water bottles, like a bottle, a small bottle of water for like $15 a bottle or whatever, right? Like something, some or $10 anyway. Something crazy like that, right? Yeah, and these guys are all dehydrating at this concert because nobody's wanting to spend the money on water, right?

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I watched the video. My buddy Herschel, Herschel, if you're watching, I know you still watch us, Herschel's from South Africa. I work with him in Malaysia. He showed me a video of a South African uh corner shop, and it shows like out front it's got these beautiful uh water dispenser, you know, it's all nice and the nice cool, and then it you follow it. And the tube goes into the toilet in the back of the shop. Gross. Yeah. And I'm like, what he goes, yeah, they're all like that.

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What?

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Because it looks, you know,

Water Bottles And Price Gouging

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it looks like it's a water dism. Nope. And I'm like, okay, don't drink the water in South Africa, sir. Uh anyway, so uh we've had a if you didn't know, uh uh our Canadian team had a couple of friendlies. Uh we just played Ireland.

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Yeah, I saw that.

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Now Ireland's not in the World Cup because they're terrible. Uh sorry, Connor.

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Ireland, they like I remember when we were young. They were decent. They were good.

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They were always there, they were always like they didn't make they're 59th, they're ranked 59th. But anyway, so the game they play was a good game, it was 1-1. And Mike, say the goaltender's name.

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Maxime Krapau, something like that. Yeah, Crapo, yeah. Crapo? Right. Yeah.

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So this guy stood on his head. He saved a penalty shot to save the game.

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Okay.

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And he played half the game the game was. Uh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So he's real good. Yeah. He's real good.

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We should have been able to beat the 60th or 59th right now.

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Yeah, we should have been able to, right? But I don't know if we're playing our full team or how that's going either.

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But uh, you know, a week out from the World War.

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Yeah, the goaltender stood on his head, which I was impressed. I watched some of the highlights of that game. It was pretty cool. Um, I also, wow.

Canada Friendlies And DVR Rage

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Shout out to Bell. You can suck it. Bell did this twice to me, bro. I I I recorded the games, both Spurs and Nick's. The last six minutes cuts off.

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Because it's uh because it's on the time. Oh, that's weird. Oh, because you're because what it's doing is it's uh it's when you hit record, it's only recording for the allotted time that actually is on the schedule. If you look, so you almost need to actually like then tape the first hour of the next show that I'm like uh what it's like so then I had to go on that's been around forever because that's you set up the code, and it's it's the schedule the game's scheduled for two hours on that. The game goes for two hours and ten hours.

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It always goes on, but so then put it in a longer slot, you prick.

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No shit, right?

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Right, so yeah, it got me, so I had to go online.

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Well, yeah, because I guess like some of the states, they would have all the uh like um you know the post-game shows that would still all be part of that whole same broadcast, right? They don't hear as soon as the game's over, they're switching to the switch, sometimes not even.

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Yeah, yeah, so yeah, it got me again, right? But brutal man. We'll get back to that in a minute. Yeah, but uh another thing too, uh with the with the basketball, I noticed when like TSN or ESPN, I don't know who I'm watching. I'm watching Sports Center, so I don't know who that is.

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It's TSN. Okay, you'd be watching TSN, but it's I think ESPN owns TSN.

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Right, okay. So I'm watching the highlights of different things. And I was watching basketball highlights, and I'm like, okay, so they're playing in this arena. Now I don't mean recently, not the two finals, okay, but like the whole all the way through the playoffs, and I forgot to mention this, dude. I'm like, okay, like my eyes don't work so good, my ears are real good, right? What? So when I'm listening, I'm like, somebody is playing with the overlay. Because when I score on your net, and when you score on my net, I'm like, no, there's no way it's the same sound for the you know what I mean, for like the away team. There's no way, and I'm like, okay, and I'm listening very carefully, and it's the same, because you know I work with this a lot, I do this shit. So I'm like, I know what's going on here. So they're putting to make it sound like it's everybody's cheering, it's the same sound bite for both sides, okay? You're doing this anyway.

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Depends on the fan base, though. Like, there are it does now.

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LA now we just talked about how many New York France are. There are some hard. Hang on to that. We're we're gonna we're gonna get to the basketball at the end of the show. Yeah, but yeah, you're right, but not for these. No, like it's obvious. I'm like, no way. This you know, it's like seven.

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You're not gonna have people not gonna have a bunch of folks from Sacramento traveling down to Miami.

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No, well, it's like you know, the that

Fake Crowd Noise In Highlights

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MVP promotion on Netflix. You're like, oh, look at all the people. Oops! Yeah, yeah. Everybody stand closer. Yeah, right? Same idea. Yeah, okay. So anyway, the highlights of the the the NHL Canes Predators game last night was bananas. Did you see that? The they're gonna be this nights, yeah. Yeah, yeah, four-nothing. The other team came back to score three goals, the quickest in the history of the NHL in 39 seconds or something, three goals.

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So I went to bed last night, it was midway through the second, and it was still 0-0.

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Yeah, crazy.

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So I woke up and it was 5-4 in overtime. Yeah, exactly. Which for Vegas, yeah. So I'm cheering for the Canes and I'm cheering for the Canes for one specific reason, and that is because my in-laws live down in in North Carolina. That's right. Huge Canes fans, so I will cheer for the Canes when my team's not winning.

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We don't care if they're inbred, they're from deliverance.

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But uh, you know, one of the same same problems I have is in it's I get it, it doesn't matter. These guys, this is where these guys are from.

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But again, it's like, you know, Carolina and Vegas, you know, good hockey towns, my Florida is Florida between the Florida Panthers and the Tampa Bay Lightning.

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Like, I mean, goddamn, man, like all these southern states or like anyway. It's like, come on, man.

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Well, it's like when Wayne Gretzky went to the Los Angeles Kings, we're like, that's not hockey. No, right?

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Oh, he blew the hockey up for the Kings, though.

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Oh, he sure did.

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Oh, he sure did.

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Then that guy that bought him went to jail, remember? Oh my god. Anyway,

Wild NHL Game And Hockey Towns

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the big fat dude with the Yeah, yeah.

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That him, there's him. Remember him and Gretzky and who was the third guy? They kind of bought a steak in the aloettes there. I don't know, there was all kinds of problems there. The Alloettes, not the Montreal Allo S, the Toronto team.

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Gretzky is the greatest restaurant in Toronto.

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The Toronto CFL team. What's the name of their team?

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Argonauts.

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There we go. God, it wasn't coming to me. Anyway, the Argonauts, yes.

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Don't do drugs, kids. Yeah. So yeah, yeah, Argonauts. Nobody wants the CFL. So anyway, I thought that was a CFL. I did.

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When I lived in Edmonton, I watched the CFL.

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Oh, I'm gonna be honest, I watched the CFL too. Right. Yeah. All right. Um, oh yeah, today, I don't know if you noticed, Mike. I got my IQ. Or what? Yeah, I put my shirt off my IQ. Yeah. Right? Solid. This is uh, everybody knows if you know, Bo Jackson. You don't know Bo. That's right. Bo knows everything. Um, all right, so World Cup. I thought that was pretty good with Tyler Island, but way to go goaltender there. So it's fantastic. Yeah, um, I was reading, Mike, another dry hot summer, it says.

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So let's let's one more thing on the World Cup before we go to that. What do you got? Do you see what's going on with the Iranian team?

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Oh, I forgot about that. Yeah, go ahead.

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Yeah, I forgot.

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So poor Iranian man.

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So they're being based, they have to, they're basing out of Mexico.

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No, wait, wait, I have to get a shout-out. Our boy's Iranian, right? Pardia, our tech guy. Yeah. And he's not happy with a lot of shit going on. Well, why would you be, right? Uh put the Glock down, son. Yeah, sure thing, boss. I got it.

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But yeah, so they're based out of they're they're being based out of Mexico, which means on the day of their games, they've got two games in the States.

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Why is there a laser dun? What? Go ahead. What? Never mind. Somebody's got laser on you through the window.

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I'll have no idea, man. Yep. Um so anyway. It's based out of Mexico, the day of the game. They got a fly in, play the game, and play the game fly back fly out that same day, right?

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So they're not allowed in the country.

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Yeah. And it's uh and it's uh denied entry to, I think, I think I heard like 15 other staff members as well. Aren't even killed.

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Three of them were new Isatolas that try to sneak in. Yeah, sure, yeah. But that's well, that's just it, right? He's like almost a goat.

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Yeah, but they're getting you know, not that Iran was expected to win the World Cup, but they're getting screwed.

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Wouldn't it be something if they did? Wouldn't it be something if they did? Yeah.

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I get it, I'm not supporting the Iranian regime. I'm not sure. No, no, no. Those guys are soccer players and coming to play again. We're supporting athletes. Yeah, right.

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Yeah. And uh, you know what? Like Iran's complaining. Hang on a second. You motherfuckers killed your own athletes. Okay, so you know, everybody says, shut up. Like you literally killed uh one of the best ever wrestlers in the world and killed his brother, I believe, as well. And no, allegedly it happened. Dana White tried to step in and save him. Yeah, for protesting.

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Yeah, some young athlete, I can't remember what sport, same thing. Yeah, it was well.

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That's why, you know, when they're bitching and complaining, you could shove it up your ass because you guys kill your own athletes for no reason, right?

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Well, yeah, again, the regime, pieces of shit.

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Pieces of human garbage. Well, yeah. Right? And no, allegedly we know that first. Allegedly. Yeah, yeah, that's right. Go to hell.

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Yeah.

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All right, so this is interesting. And I'm mad, Mike.

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Top five, Iran. There's no way our podcast will be allowed.

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Yeah, that's right. Or or it'd be one of these. It'll be one of these. We have been treated well. Yeah, that's right. Things are going okay. They feed us every day. That's right. That's not funny, but kinda. Listen, I

Iran Team Travel Limits And Politics

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have Lemon Heath Mafia friends. We will get away. All right, so yeah. Okay. All right, now. This is where I'm gonna get mad, Mike. No, I'm not mad yet. You're right, I'm not. We have this new thing Mark Carney brought in. It's called the New Grocery Benefit and Essentials. Okay. So what it is, it's basically replacing the uh HST and GST. Okay. So uh just curious, Mike. Do you know how many people live in Canada, bro? For you to guess. Uh don't worry, I know.

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I don't know, 40 million?

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Pretty good guess. It's about 41 million. Yeah. Right. Okay. Now this is the part that bothered me. So this new grocery benefit, which basically says that groceries are too much money and lights and power too much money, so they're gonna give you extra money throughout the year. Um 25% of Canadians qualify for that, Mike. That's 12 million people. That is way too many effing people, if you ask me, that need extra help. That's eight, 25% of the population that's getting extra money because we don't make enough. Or they don't make enough. That's nuts.

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That is.

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That's I'm sorry. You got two and a half million people going to food banks? That's nuts, too. This is Canada, man. Well, anyway.

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Hey man, global global economies are in fucking in a shit.

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Well, this is a depression, is what they're saying, mate. And I'm depressed just thinking about it.

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Well, I you know, they came out, they said something, and I think they've come back and said like it does not meet the technical definition of the.

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No, but we're certainly down a little bit.

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We are down. Our economy's down. I mean, fuck, like go outside and pay for gas or go buy something at the grocery store. The cost has gone up a crazy amount, and people's wages aren't matching it, right?

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You know what I'm getting real good at? Stealing.

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Yeah, I bet.

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Well, it's funny.

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No, but you say that, but I can see it. Theft is probably on the rise.

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I bet it is. Or people, you know, what once you get 65, oh, I didn't know I put those batteries in my pocket.

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Listen, man, I saw something the other day. He said, if you were born between this this year and this year, you you could qualify for this senior benefit. And it's like, What? I was like, it was like the the end year was 76. I'm like, fuck off. I was born in 76. I can go qualify qualify for some senior benefit. It's like something very it's not right it's not something I can qualify for because I'm bullshit AI. Because I also I don't meet the uh the income requirements.

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Right, right, right, right. Yeah, because you made just a bit above minimum wage.

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Pretty much, yeah.

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Good on you.

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Which it says it's a sad state of affairs that we're in that that there's that many people that are living that are living below what they could do. There's people that get that, right? A livable wage, right? Yeah.

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And it's about twelve hundred dollars. Twelve hundred dollars is what they're getting. Okay.

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Hey man, people need it.

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No shit, man. That's the problem. Yeah, and I have no problem with you giving it, good on you, but I don't know it's not I don't. I I I wish we didn't have that many people who needed it.

SPEAKER_03 17:15

You wish we didn't have that many people who needed it, and then are they gonna sacrifice other services to pay for that, or are they just gonna put us further in debt, which is gonna create bigger issues down the road for that?

SPEAKER_02 17:25

Well, somebody just told me that the the power company just raised its uh uh whatever they call it, the price on kilowatts, whatever.

SPEAKER_03 17:34

Yeah, so they've they got is that true? So this has happened a little while ago. So they have to apply through whatever board it is, and uh like if you remember at the time, Houston was like adamant that that uh because the board approved it and he was adamant that he goes, You guys are just so out of touch with like what's going on. Yeah, yeah. Which is why they keep saying, like, you gotta you know, Nova Scotia Power monopoli monopolizes the power here, and so they need competition, right? To like get those power costs down because it's ridiculous. It is ridiculous, considering you know the fact that they had a cyber attack and all that shit happening like and all the crap that came along with it.

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It's still going on, it's not over. People are still gonna.

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There's there's there's just more to it, right?

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So yes, sir. That's the problem. You're right.

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The reality of it, man. It's unfortunate.

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It is unfortunate because a lot of people are getting hurt by it, right?

SPEAKER_03 18:22

Well, I mean, you look at what did you tell like you're doing you're doing, you told me what you were doing, and a lot of people are doing the same thing. You're keeping your house temperature lower than what you'd want it to be, so that your power bill's not fucking ridiculous in the winter.

SPEAKER_02 18:35

I had no idea. Right? And remember when you came to the house, you're like, oh, it's toasty in here. Like, yeah. Yeah, that's from what I first time I came over. I was like, oh, think about it.

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You just you you came from Malaysia, so you're like, that's this is nice and comfortable.

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Still wearing a sweater in your house at like 30 degrees. Yeah, I was like, like sweating, like, what's the matter, Mike? It's hot in here, man. Yeah, well, you know, that's how I get my dates to take the clothes off. That's right. Still hot in here, isn't it?

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I had no idea.

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Uh anyway, that's pretty funny. Yeah, it was kind of warm in there, right? It was warm, yeah. If everybody's hearing noise, freezing in there. If everybody's hearing noise, it's it's what uh Mike's cat trying to dig to China through the cardboard uh box there.

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He's so we've got all these cat toys, we've got all these different things. Right now he's in a cardboard. Playing with a plastic spoon. Playing with a plastic spoon. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 19:23

Yeah, literally $3,000 worth of the high-tech cat toys around the house. That's right. Yeah. Yeah. And he's using none of them. He's playing with nipped up. All right, so here's the weird one. All right, so immigration has Canadian immigration has put out a fraud warning, Mike. Okay. Okay. Now here's what they're saying, they're saying you gotta be careful of relationships of convenience.

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Okay.

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Hey, Shinequa. Is ours a relationship of convenience? Or do you love me for me and not my money?

SPEAKER_00 19:57

Don't answer.

SPEAKER_02 19:57

There's your answer, Mike. So I think I'm okay. Convenience is what she said. All right. Yeah. You know where you're sleeping tonight. Yeah. Probably with my best friend again. Anyway, so yeah, I mean, okay. How lonely are people, Mike? Right? That you know, you now listen.

SPEAKER_03 20:20

Yeah, remember there's, you know, back then the the mail order brides was something. That was real. It was real, right?

SPEAKER_02 20:25

That was real. I just saw, don't even ask me how I saw that. My algorithm somehow. I'm not looking for it's fine, baby. Just put the knife away. I'm not looking for anybody right now, but it came in, it was so showing how few men there are in Latvia.

SPEAKER_03 20:40

Okay.

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It's like five to one.

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Okay.

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So all the Latvia girls, and they're all blonde and blue eyes. So I'm like, where's that catalog? Yeah. Right?

SPEAKER_03 20:47

But yeah, five to one women to men, yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 20:50

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And all the ladies are like, hey, you know, what's up?

SPEAKER_03 20:54

Oh they're all happy.

SPEAKER_02 20:56

Probably. A lot of lesbians are. I did see this too. I I think it's Major League Baseball that said no to Pride Month. They're not gonna celebrate it.

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Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 21:07

I'm like, oh uh oh, yeah, you better watch that. Yeah, I don't know if that's true. It better not be AI. Burned us, but I saw that. Said they're the only one that's not gonna celebrate it. Okay, yeah, okay.

SPEAKER_03 21:18

I didn't I didn't see that, no. Because I remember was

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it the NHL was it uh anyway. I don't know if it was last year, a couple of years ago, where like some players were saying they weren't gonna wear, they didn't want to wear the jerseys, right?

SPEAKER_02 21:30

Oh, I heard that one too. You said yeah, so that doesn't yeah, anyway. Yeah, hey, you're allowed to do what you want, I guess, unless the team says you have to absolutely wear it, right? So I could that's right, it could be in your contract. Yeah, dry hot summer, Mike. So here's the thing you know, everybody keeps oh, it's gonna be so hot, so hot. Do you know what the average temperature in July has been over the last 3,000 years in Nova Scotia?

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25?

SPEAKER_02 21:53

23. August, when it gets twenty five, twenty four. There you go, right? That's the average. So they say, Oh. It can get up to 32. I'm like, so when does it get hot? Right? 32 is not hot. Like, maybe to you, marshmallows. Right? Is 32 hot, Mike, be honest?

SPEAKER_03 22:12

Yes, in our climate it is. Yes. It is.

SPEAKER_02 22:14

Shut up. What? You said yes?

SPEAKER_03 22:15

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 22:17

I knew he'd say yes. He's right. 32 is hot, but I lived in Dubai, I was 50. Yeah. Lived in Kuwait, 48. Yeah. Living Malaysia, 40.

SPEAKER_03 22:24

No, 32 is hot, man.

SPEAKER_02 22:26

32 is hot. I'll still be wearing it.

SPEAKER_03 22:27

So throw the humidex in there, you're getting into the 40s.

SPEAKER_02 22:29

Yeah, I'd be wearing those those uh old timey long underwears with the with the buttons in the front and the back, you know, to let your shit out.

SPEAKER_03 22:37

So that's I guess that's it, eh? Like when you were in Dubai, 30 40 was 40. 40 wasn't 60, right?

SPEAKER_02 22:43

Like well, here's the thing. In in Dubai, the the the rule is anybody working outdoors, if it gets above 50 degrees, you don't have to work. 49 for the years I was there. Only 49 as high as it is.

SPEAKER_00 22:56

Interesting.

SPEAKER_02 22:56

Yeah, and the big clock, 49. Truck says 54, 52.

SPEAKER_03 23:00

But I mean, there's theirs is like, you know, you go back and you look at all the development. Dude, it's so hard. You look at all the studies and stuff. That that is too hot to be worked. Dude, yeah. Especially if you're talking about it.

SPEAKER_02 23:08

It's gonna get to 50. It's too hot at 35 in Australia. Yeah. Right? And Australia actually has a law for school teachers. If it's over 30 degrees, you don't need to wear a tie. Oh, and I mean that was 20 years ago.

SPEAKER_03 23:19

I was gonna say that, yeah, that's yeah.

SPEAKER_02 23:21

Yeah, now like I've seen teachers go into school, you don't have to wear pants.

SPEAKER_03 23:26

Right?

SPEAKER_02 23:26

You know, shorts might not. Yeah, I know what you mean. Not speedoes. Well, man, there might be some speedos too for the swim coach.

SPEAKER_03 23:31

I mean it always reminds me of that uh like you're smuggling grapes. That uh commercial when I was living in New Zealand. Oh, which one? Where the guy's in like Speedoes, and it's uh he's walking from the he's at the beach and it's like tugs, togs, tugs, and then you get like further away from the beach he gets, like he keeps saying togs. Then he gets like too far away from the beach and he's like almost at a restaurant, it's like undies. Tugs, togs, togs, undies. It's appropriate at the beach, but don't be wearing it at some fish. Don't be wearing it to school or wearing it. It's the same with uh bike shorts. Like, yeah, I have no problem with bike shorts, but sometimes when you're at a cafe and somebody comes by and they're fucking you know, Moose knuckles hanging out, like I'm gonna do you one better.

SPEAKER_02 24:10

I I saw a video the other day that was going around, and but you know, it's a prank. But he's wearing the bike shorts and he's got something in there, right? But he's like, so like if the girls are on the bench, he's like this looking at his phone, like you know, so and the best part is there's another camera. Oh, yeah, pitching the reactor. Oh, yeah, and the the girls are like trying not to look, but they're all and then the girl takes her phone, she's like, and then they walk like the elbow, you know, just as dirty as the fellas. But yeah, it was fucking hilarious, this guy. I'm like, buddy, and so many, even guys were like, like look at oh yeah, just unreal. Tony Pepperoni, you call that fellow. Look, they had a loaf of bread in his pants. Yes, yes, yeah. Anyway, pretty funny. Pretty funny.

SPEAKER_00 24:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 24:56

Uh, let's see. All right, well, this is interesting, Mike. We were talking about this earlier. The aspiration co-founder, the guy that was uh putting the money in for uh Kawhi Leonard, and uh what's the owner's name? The white.

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Steve Balmer. Steve Balmer.

SPEAKER_02 25:10

Steve, Steve, he might be going to prison too. So anyway, the head of appellation, he uh defrauded $248 million of his people's money, so he's going to jail. And now they're really looking into the $28 million that that company gave Kawhi, or sorry, gave uh Steve to circumvent the salary cap for Kawhi Leonard with the 28 mil. So I don't know, man.

SPEAKER_03 25:33

Yeah, I told you I thought that they actually either they were or they have already interviewed Kawhi, right?

SPEAKER_02 25:38

So not good. Not good. I mean, he might be off the hook, but the man who gave the money might not be. Another dirty white guy in the business of reality. It's a lot of money, eh?

SPEAKER_03 25:48

$28 million. It's a lot of money, man. Like it's it's uh big bucks. You look back and you kind of look and say, Kawhi took the, you know, took that Raptors team and won a championship with them. Yeah, left to go back home to LA and it's been nothing but cr crap ever since he left. Like, yeah. So was it a mistake for Kawhi to leave Toronto? As as at the time, it didn't seem like it. They Toronto knew they were renting them for a year, but I think they thought, like, hey man, we just won a championship. Maybe like that's enough to change his mind. Nope. Didn't care. Obviously not, man. Didn't care. And that extra 28 million. But I mean, I remember at the time, like restaurants saying, you know, if you stay, eat for life, free, you know what I mean? Like so many. Yeah, I know, right? Well, that's what these guys all get all this money and they never pay for anything.

SPEAKER_02 26:36

No, they don't pay for anything. Right.

SPEAKER_03 26:37

Who did I? I can't remember who I saw. I think we talked about this before where there was some celebrity doing an interview. And being a celebrity sometimes is great because you don't pay for anything. Yeah. Everybody's Johnny Depp. Hey, sir, come on, all on us, sir, all on us, right?

SPEAKER_02 26:49

Although the Johnny Depp one's the one that got me. Uh years and years ago, they always asked Johnny Depp, like on the red card, why is your style so cool? And he goes, What? Oh, yeah. He goes, they just send me stuff. Yeah. And he says, I just wear it. He goes, if it doesn't fit, I just roll it up. I don't care. Everybody's like, What? He goes, Yeah, no style. I'm just I gotta wear it. So well, that's what a lot of like uh like a lot of those red carpet looks.

SPEAKER_03 27:10

There's all people just wearing designers' uh dresses and stuff that the designer has like said, Hey, I want to showcase this. Will you wear my dress? So they team up with the oh yeah.

SPEAKER_02 27:19

So oh, you look beautiful tonight, Michael. What are you wearing? Yeah, Walmart.

SPEAKER_03 27:23

That's right.

SPEAKER_02 27:24

What?

SPEAKER_03 27:25

Okay, what whatever. Dance from Old Navy, shirt from Mark Mark's work warehouse. Uh huh. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 27:31

Well, and I had these socks. It's Christ was a carpenter. That's it. Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_03 27:35

Underwear only has about four holes in them so far. That's pretty good, though. What you said.

SPEAKER_02 27:38

The old navy's the hoodie. Why why can't we see a celebrity? Keanu Reason do that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 27:46

You know who would Adam Sandler.

SPEAKER_02 27:48

Well, dude, they just they roasted him a recent, well, not real roast, but they roasted him. He went somewhere in a fucking hoodie and shorts. Yeah, he was at uh whatever. But at one of those award shows.

SPEAKER_03 27:57

Yeah, yeah, yeah. He didn't care at all.

SPEAKER_02 27:58

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 27:59

Yeah. Wow, what are you doing? Making fun of the way I dress. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 28:02

It was like the Fetterman, the guy in the uh uh party against Trump that always wears hoodies and shorts. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 28:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 28:09

Okay. But yeah, anyway, whatever.

SPEAKER_03 28:11

Whatever, man. I think, like I told you before, I think that the day of wearing a suit me, you know, meaning more than what it, you know, then just optics is gone, right? So making a first impression matters, but I don't think it's not it's not as uh not as not as big of a deal as it used to be, right?

SPEAKER_02 28:27

It doesn't seem to be. It doesn't seem to be. I mean, you look around and you're like, what do you do? Hedge fund manager? Well, yeah, I I saw something else that was funny too. They showed like uh people who think they're rich, and it shows them wearing like Hugo Boss and Armani, then it shows like uh Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg all wearing like a t-shirt and holes under his sweatpants. They got nothing to prove. No, right? What do they care? All right, so this is interesting. Well, let's go with uh we'll go with this first. So the Spurs first game. All right, so Spurs, New York first game. What'd you think?

SPEAKER_03 29:07

I thought it was exactly what I was expecting. Good game. I thought, I thought up and down. I thought that uh both teams would be nervous, but New York being uh the veteran team would have more poise and and that that's true. Because, you know, if you look at both games, there haven't been like massive offensive outpourings. Like we've seen the Knicks put up with points or whatever in a game, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Right. So um yeah, so it was no, it was it was game one, exactly what I expected. Uh

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SPEAKER_03 29:34

interesting kind of like choices on on who they put on Wemby and how that's working out fantastic. Um, yeah, no, I thought it was I thought it was really good.

SPEAKER_02 29:42

And then game two, no, no, wait, wait, it was good too. Stay game one, stay game one. So for me, I wanted to see what they were gonna do with Wemby. Like, okay, how are you gonna you're gonna keep him away from the basket? Are you gonna try to body him up? What are you gonna do? Because he's you know, dick and ribs, right? Easy to move around. Yep. But uh Kat's done a hell of a job. Well, that's just Carl Anthony Towns. You the man, you the man.

SPEAKER_03 30:03

So I I kind of thought that Anobi would be guarding him, but it's no, yeah, I know, right?

SPEAKER_02 30:08

So I don't know how they'd flip a coin on that one in the locker room. Well, maybe, maybe.

SPEAKER_03 30:11

Towns said no, miss. Listen, man, because Towns has a real bad tendency. Oh, I got him. I hope he's gonna be. He has been. We're only two games in, but you know.

SPEAKER_02 30:22

That's right. There's only two more left, money. It could be, yeah. Anyway, but yeah, I I thought, you know, maybe a little rusty game one, so I figured I'd give I literally gave New York gonna win game one. I figured I've told you that, right? So I said, all right. So, but game two, I figured, okay. Spurs will come out now. What can we say about that game? Once again, Car Anthony Towns, the hero again. Right? But what do you think? Game two.

SPEAKER_03 30:52

I think it's uh it's the same thing. It's San Antonio's just their age is showing they're making stupid, stupid offensive choices down the stretch.

SPEAKER_02 31:00

I will say this though.

SPEAKER_03 31:01

Now everybody everybody wants to talk about Wemby in the turnover and the missed shot, but I will talk about the last shot in a second. But uh, but the it's it's not it's not just that, it's leading up to it. Like it's yeah, they're just not making New York looks much more poised, they're moving the ball better, like it's yeah.

SPEAKER_02 31:16

Oh, they're really moving the ball away.

SPEAKER_03 31:17

Wemby's tired, you see it at the end of the day. Yeah, he's tired, right? Like yeah, he's settling instead of going to the basket, he's settling, right?

SPEAKER_02 31:23

Yep, yeah. You know, if you got, you know, yeah, you you've won if you got a seven and a half foot dude shooting three pointers.

SPEAKER_03 31:30

I saw what did I see? And I thought that's a guy, maybe it was Jay Williams. I can't remember. Somebody was saying the one of the worst things that probably happened to Wemby so far in the playoffs was that game against OKC where we get that really long three. And everybody's like, oh, Wemby's like Wemby's the guy, he's him. Wemby shoots like 32% correct. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, he's not a three-point shooter. And like that was really far out. So now Wemby in his head thinks, Did it did it, wait a minute, this is my shot. I am that guy, right? It's gonna be eventually, sure. He's only 22, but he's not it's not yet, and he's settling for those uh longer, longer shots right now, right?

SPEAKER_02 32:06

So yeah, I mean you're not gonna win if you're not under the basket with him anyway.

SPEAKER_03 32:09

Yeah, that's right.

SPEAKER_02 32:10

Yeah, what are you doing? I mean, he had how many points? 29 in game two or whatever, right? But still, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 32:15

And 22 of them came in the second half. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was horrible in the first half, right?

SPEAKER_02 32:20

Um, I will say this though, if you watch that game two, the first half, young people, that's called defense. Pretty impressive. Both sides, both sides, pretty impressive, both are pretty decent, pretty impressive.

SPEAKER_03 32:31

Pretty decent defensive teams, right?

SPEAKER_02 32:33

Dude, they're like, well, here's the other thing, too. Like, I'm sure everybody's talking about this. I haven't watched a lot of this sports in the last couple of days because I've been busy, but uh Wimby causes you to change everything.

SPEAKER_00 32:44

Everything.

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Like, you you why and I wasn't paying too much attention to it but I I saw a short clip of how many guys are going in and nope, then right back, I'm like, oh, there's a lot of things people don't see, even with his hands not up. People are like, no, fuck that. Because he can use it.

SPEAKER_03 32:58

He can alter so many things you have the space, and he's so that's the thing is you actually seven and a half. Like Wemby's a good defensive player, but he's not a great defensive player. He's just so long.

SPEAKER_02 33:08

Yep, it doesn't have to be because he made mistakes. Exactly, right?

SPEAKER_03 33:10

So imagine if that guy actually like starts to learn positions even better. Like you know, he's gonna be so scary, right?

SPEAKER_02 33:15

You know what the best part I like about

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him right now is he's he's not swatting it, he's trying to pin it. Yeah, because that's not gonna get you possession, right? Like grab the ball.

SPEAKER_03 33:23

That was that was something that was like, you know, back in the day, man, everybody wanted to have that big swat, swat it up and down. Sixth row, that makes you look good, right? And then people started, then all of a sudden you started getting these guys, like, yeah, that would be no, like look, they're putting it to the backcourt or just or they're just blocking it gently so the ball stays there, right? They're not trying to swat it out every now and then. Send a message, you gotta send it into the stand, sure.

SPEAKER_02 33:42

That's right. Every now and then. Um every now and then. Uh here's the big thing for me. They said uh Popovich gonna be on the bench in game three.

SPEAKER_03 33:49

I feel really bad for the coach, the current coach of San Antonio.

SPEAKER_02 33:53

Glad you said something because that's what I was thinking too. It's like, why are you saying basically you can't cut it? Well, you had a bunch of bad.

SPEAKER_03 33:59

Like, it's it's every question is about Pop's influence on the team. Pop's just like what does that do to the coach to be like, right? Hey man, this is my team. Like, that's great that Pop built built the foundation.

SPEAKER_02 34:09

Like, I'm wondering if Popovich is running the show.

SPEAKER_03 34:11

Well, he obviously wasn't, right? Like, but I mean he ha has Wemby's here, you can see. Yeah. So anyway, it's uh I I do feel bad for that coach. The guy coaching in his in his first NBA finals, all the talk is about Pop, right? Coach better.

SPEAKER_02 34:25

You're in trouble, man. Knicks are too good.

SPEAKER_03 34:27

Well, we talked, so this is going back to what we said with the final shot of game two. To me wide open. Wide open. Yeah, but the to me, the they they they had six or seven seconds left to get a shot off. They used up almost the whole clock, and they had Wemby taking it from the elbow. Yep. Like to me, let the other guy, I can't even remember his name, the guy that was actually playing really well, that like was shooting really well in that game for San Antonio. I can't believe it. Let him take the shot and have Wemby in there to get an offensive rebound and get the shot away quicker to give Wemby a chance to get that.

SPEAKER_02 34:55

He's sets and then he could foul if he did right.

SPEAKER_03 34:58

Like you put him in there, put him underneath the battery.

SPEAKER_02 35:00

Well, this is why I'm saying coach better because that was shitty coaching because you're right. Well, you just said you get the ball at foul, you get the ball back again, game's not over, you're up two, three. What are you doing? Yeah, but okay, so now here we go. I've had it. So, Ernie, Shaq, Kenny, who's the other son of a Barkley, Chuck.

SPEAKER_00 35:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 35:24

Okay, here's what they keep saying, Mike, and it's driving me nuts. So I did some research. I've had about enough of you guys. All right.

SPEAKER_01 35:29

So they keep saying, oh, they came back for 15 points down, oh God's America, oh, they came back for 12 points down.

SPEAKER_02 35:38

Okay. Mr. Michael, I'm gonna ask you a question. How many games this past season, not including playoffs, do you think it came down to comebacks of 15 points or more?

SPEAKER_03 35:54

Oh, I don't know, man. Give me the number, I don't know.

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Right?

SPEAKER_03 35:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 35:58

It's way more than you think. Yeah. It's 25 to 30 percent of the games.

SPEAKER_03 36:03

That's crazy, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 36:04

Okay. So fuck off and stop saying, oh, that never happens. It happens all the time.

SPEAKER_03 36:09

Well, it's more so they're still talking about right. They're they they're not getting out of there. It's their generation of basketball. It's a new, it's a new it, yeah. Look at look at last year. How many times this year?

SPEAKER_02 36:19

Just this year, well over 300 games.

SPEAKER_03 36:21

How many times NDA came back in the playoffs in games last year?

SPEAKER_02 36:24

Right. And it's happening again. But my point is it's not uncommon. It's way more common than uncommon almost. Well, it's not percentage-wise, but you know. Listen, 90% of the time, I'm right, 100% of the time.

SPEAKER_03 36:36

I I get probably where they're coming from. Like, this is the NBA Finals, like, lock it down, guys. Like, this is it. Like you have four games.

SPEAKER_02 36:43

Oh, what a comic. It happens way too much for you to say that because I can think of every game that's gonna be a good thing.

SPEAKER_03 36:47

You shouldn't be calling it a miracle or whatever, but I think you can sit there and go, come on, guys, like this is the NBA Finals. You're the last two teams standing. Big runs like that, like should be.

SPEAKER_02 36:56

Okay, okay. That's what's astounding to me. Like all these games, 12-2 run, 10-0-1. How? How the fuck do you miss like all of a sudden for five minutes straight? So that's basketball.

SPEAKER_03 37:08

Basketball is always basketball is always a game of runs. It is, always has, even when we were younger, even when the rules were different, it's always a game of runs. But there's seeing runs now where it's like you you're saying 10 to 12 to 2. That's a typical run. What we're seeing now is we're seeing runs of like 27 to 5. Yeah, you know what I mean? It's like, holy shit, what's going on here? That's that's crazy, right?

SPEAKER_02 37:27

I'm screaming timeouts. Yeah. From the so timeout! Yeah, we're out. Okay. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 37:32

So that that's what I feel like. It's those big runs now that are ridiculous that you never used to see. But that's that's because of the threes, right?

SPEAKER_02 37:38

Yeah, that's exactly right. Get rid of that. Okay, now. Well, listen up, Mike. We might be in luck. The Lakers are looking for somebody at Portland, you know. Yeah. The Lakers are looking for rumor mills are running, the Lakers. They're running. I like I like this one.

SPEAKER_03 37:54

Steph Curry, Steph Curry, uh Giannis, LeBron, Luca, Austin Reeves are all next year.

SPEAKER_02 38:01

No, no, they're all going to Memphis. Oh, right. Sure. For John Morant. Oh, yeah, for John Morant. Sounds like a pretty good deal. And uh two of his buddies and his rifle collection. That's right. Yeah. His rifle collection.

SPEAKER_03 38:13

Oh, I keep forgetting about that. Uh, the whole off scene is gonna be dominated by what the Lakers are gonna do now.

SPEAKER_02 38:17

Well, okay, well, here's the one that's gonna have fun. I didn't put one.

SPEAKER_03 38:20

Or let's but let's let's not say Lakers. Let's say if LeBron comes out quick and says, I'm not going, I'm not going back to the Lakers, I'm gonna tell, you know, I'm gonna test free agency.

SPEAKER_02 38:29

Wow. Um There are gonna be some pile of news.

SPEAKER_03 38:32

And I'm gonna, you know, like it's not the Lakers, it's gonna be somewhere else. Like then it'll, you know, it'll be dominated by their things. But if LeBron decides that he's gonna stay with LA, it'll just be nothing but what are the Lakers gonna do. And then they'll sit there and they'll crown them the champions before the season even starts. And then the Lakers will finish like, you know, they'll finish like third or fourth in the West and get beat out in the first or second round again, right? Anyway.

SPEAKER_02 38:53

Well, not if they get this player.

SPEAKER_03 38:54

You can tell I have confidence in them.

SPEAKER_02 38:56

I know, I know. But once they tell you this, you'll be, oh, we'll go change your mind.

SPEAKER_03 38:59

Well, we'll see.

SPEAKER_02 39:00

Robert Williams III from Portland. He's a good rebounder, defender, and we can get him for 15 million. He's a free agent right now. Right? We don't have to give up anybody. Now they do, though.

SPEAKER_03 39:13

They can't sign him for 15 million and not and and still give LeBron what LeBron's gonna want.

SPEAKER_02 39:17

Well, we're gonna we'll we'll see about him in a minute. You know who else they're looking at? They want Lou Dort, but uh Shay says no. Yeah, Shay says not happening. I'm keeping him no matter what. So, yeah, so that's all I got for the Lakers. But what what I'm watching now is I saw uh I saw one today which is just hilarious. They got Durant going somewhere, they got Giannis going somewhere.

SPEAKER_03 39:36

I don't think it'd be interesting after all the shit that happened in Houston last year with Durant. I just I just don't see him going back to Houston. I see him wanting out for getting away. Oh, yeah, that's what they said.

SPEAKER_02 39:46

They got him going. They got him going to Memphis with uh Kyrie Irving. Yeah, yeah. There's a whole bunch of mess going on.

SPEAKER_03 39:53

Why is who what's Dallas giving up? Oh, you should see it.

SPEAKER_02 39:56

Yeah, there's just somebody playing around, right?

SPEAKER_03 39:58

Yeah, and it all fits in the cap. So Memphis, why would Memphis? Why would Memphis go back to the back? I'm gonna take Kyrie and KD, who are both on the the backside of their career.

SPEAKER_02 40:08

Oh, no, no, and one more. Uh uh Fred Van Fleet is also gonna go another Achilles injury. All three of them with Achilles injuries. What are you guys doing?

SPEAKER_03 40:15

You get nobody's so nobody's taking Van Fleet's contract. No, unless it's on an expiring year. Right, right. And then they won't even do that until some teams figure out that okay, this year's a bust. Let's get an expiring contract to make some cap space for next year, right? Yeah. So Van Fleet's not going anywhere. Oh, I know, that's what I mean. Memphis. I'm just sitting there going, like, Memphis would never like would not give up. They would not go and try to win now with KD and Brooklyn tried that. Look at how miserable it was.

SPEAKER_02 40:47

I I did see two serious ones though. Pat Raleigh wants Giannis and uh the Warriors are looking at Giannis.

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So Giannis, I could see I I bought I still say Giannis, I just don't see Giannis playing in the system at Golden State. Uh which is why we do well in Miami, because I think I think Miami, that heat culture and spolstra, like to me, I can see that working. Yes.

SPEAKER_02 41:09

Well, remember, he has to take all the baggage with him, the six brothers and three uncles and two dogs and the goat.

SPEAKER_03 41:15

Yeah. Miami's a good family organization.

SPEAKER_02 41:18

Yeah, sure. As long as you don't marry the women down there, like Ilya Taporia. Yeah. Oh, it's the UFC guy who married some crazy lady, took all his money. Oh, okay. Yeah. Poor guy.

SPEAKER_03 41:26

Yeah. What are you gonna do?

SPEAKER_02 41:28

Yeah. What are you gonna do? So, oh wait, okay. So yeah.

SPEAKER_03 41:31

He must have done something for her to be able to take her money, take his money.

SPEAKER_02 41:34

Well, he he divorced her.

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SPEAKER_02 41:37

Yeah. He had to he had to step down for a while. He gave his belt up and everything. Oh, such a headache. Yeah, yeah. Well, she tried to sue, she tried to sue Joe Rogan too, because Joe Rogan called her some names or something. Oh, you can't can't marry those Miami girls, boys. We all know what they're like. It's like, yikes.

SPEAKER_03 41:52

That's not bad, but yeah. Yeah, anyway.

SPEAKER_02 41:54

Apparently it's a known thing. I don't live in Miami. I wouldn't have known, yeah. I wouldn't know either. Yeah. Still worried about my powder blue Ferrari that's coming.

SPEAKER_03 42:02

That's right. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 42:03

Okay, so Tom Five, sir. USA, China, Finland.

SPEAKER_03 42:07

Canada?

SPEAKER_02 42:08

Canada. Canada.

SPEAKER_03 42:10

China and Canada combined?

SPEAKER_02 42:11

Nah, China. Okay, yeah. No, here's why, because uh when I was in the Middle East, all the kids, sir, are you from Canada? I was like, Yep, I am. Canada. China, yeah. Yeah. Okay. Finland's number three.

SPEAKER_03 42:23

Okay. Finland's always up there, man.

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I don't know why they like us.

SPEAKER_03 42:26

Yeah. Do we that the flowing blonde locks that you have there underneath that head underneath that hat?

SPEAKER_02 42:33

Could be my chest here, you know.

SPEAKER_03 42:34

That's it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 42:35

Yeah. Uh Brazil, number four.

SPEAKER_03 42:37

Oh, nice. Yeah, good.

SPEAKER_02 42:39

Carnival. And of course, the Netherlands.

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Okay.

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I don't know what we said about the Netherlands.

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Our Southeast fans, Southeast Asian fans are all gone.

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Yeah, that didn't take much.

SPEAKER_03 42:52

No.

SPEAKER_02 42:52

Uh they didn't like the powder blue fur anyway. I guess not.

SPEAKER_03 42:55

Yeah, don't make fun.

SPEAKER_02 42:56

What are you gonna do? Alright, so uh that's it for today, everybody. We're gonna go outside to the drizzly and terrible weather, and hopefully uh summer's gonna come this week. We'll see, supposed to be up 24, 25.

SPEAKER_03 43:07

Thursday was nice. Thursday or Friday? That's pretty solid. No, Friday was nice. Pretty solid. Yeah, Friday was like 26, 27 degrees. That's nice.

SPEAKER_02 43:13

Not bad at all. Not bad at all.

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Today's 12.

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Peace.