Good afternoon, everybody. Welcome into the Winkler-verse, alongside Grant Bills, always eating that grant, and Paul Imig, usually the same.
We would record in the morning, Paul would just be scarfing down eggs. Hey, you know how it is with intermittent fasting. You can relate. Yeah, I tried intermittent fasting last night, and then... These Jack and Coke cans, man, they are...
They are... Some of those cocktails in a can, cutwaters? I got a cutwater... What are you eating around booze? If I drank one right now, I'd be drunk by the end of this. Mm-hmm.
12.5%. Me too. But the problem is, there's 360 calories in the margarita ones, which is a lot for a drink. That's like a sandwich. Yeah.
That's pretty insane. I tried a White Russian this last weekend. Not as good as the ones at the casino. Yeah, the White Russian ones, I didn't...
I wasn't kind of into those either. A lot of places are burning down. What's with all the bars and restaurants around here burning down? Anyways. Insurance money typically is what would happen in Fond du Lac.
Fond du Lac, there was one bar a year that would burn down, and then the guy would be like, well, I don't know what happened. Check clears Friday. Oh, okay. Thank you for anyone that listened to my interview with AJ Perez for the documentary. I'm Brett Farve, Untold, The Fall of Farve.
I followed up with AJ today, and I told him... I got a quick review for you. First of all, I enjoyed it, and I said, you will get goosebumps. As a Packer fan, you will get goosebumps watching this documentary.
And then as it progresses, you'll feel guiltier and guiltier for the goosebumps that you felt. It's pretty intense in terms of like... Yeah, Farve sucks. Bill Michaels is a star. My God. He's in the lot. But Zach told me the same thing. He's like, dude, Bill's in this nonstop. At one point, it's like, is this a documentary on Bill? Was he good? Did he have the cadence?
My dream is to be... I think it's yours too. Interview me for something as an expert, because I will have the cadence, because I watch so many of these things. There's one shot where he says something kind of emotional. He's not emotional about it, but he says it, and they leave the camera on him like one or two seconds longer than they need to. That's mass. Yep, I can see it clearly. Bill doesn't have... He's not choked up about anything, but they leave it on there just so you can like...
He looks contemplative. Yeah. Michael Vick's in it for no fucking reason other than to say people like quarterbacks. It's funny. Jen Sturger, like, wow, she got a raw deal. That sucks for her. And I didn't realize... Do you know how she was like, quote, unquote, found?
No. She was at a Florida State Miami football game. She was one of the one that... Who was the announcer? Musburger. Yeah.
Okay. I did know that. And he goes, well, 1,500 people just signed up for Florida State. And then later she meets Brent Musburger in her new job. And she's like, this is the man that started my career. And I thought he'd be like, oh, but he's just flat out old man. One of the more attractive cutaways we've ever had. I want to say that Musburger also did that for Lana of WWE fame. Oh, maybe.
There's been a few where it's like Musburger being an old perv has, yeah. Boosted a lot of careers. But yeah, I definitely would recommend it. On Netflix. How long was it? One hour, three minutes. Oh, okay.
Beautiful. Now for me, it was an hour, seven minutes because I recently went to the commercial tier of Netflix. You poor bastard. I was at $18 a month for commercials when they jacked it up again for no commercials for premium.
I'm like, so now I'm paying $9 a month. And it's not now what I've noticed with Monday Night Raw is when I watch it on my phone, the commercials you can't skip, but then on the TV, you can just fast forward it. Oh, if you're white, because you're not watching it live because you're not watching it live. We like the commercial break sometimes in our shows because it gives us a chance to debrief about what we just saw and settle in. So we're prepared for the next. Yes, commercial breaks. I agree with you. I think I think doing a show commercial breaks are good watching one. I I won't watch things with commercials. But you need the debrief time.
No, you don't need when it's over. You like to remove the human element to so many things, things as possible. Let me consume this. I mean, you if you could inject a TV show into an eye. That's how you would consume a show. Have you guys watched severance? No, not yet. Oh, hold on. Wow.
Tell me really good. Tell me you wouldn't do that. If you like this one, the Cobell episode. Oh, yeah. Oh, that was a gross one. What maybe it would have tasted better if it wasn't just after the Miss Casey episode.
Ah, true, true, true. What percent of you know, you guys know I love NBA playoffs, especially what percent of the free throws do you think I watch as I DVR through a game? You're such a sicko.
Less than 10% would be cancer. I put down to pretty much a science like a, you know, to free throw set. And I mean, like in a play, I was like 40 seconds. So you're somewhere between like two Apple TV clicks, which are 15 seconds a piece or three.
So then you're like, okay, do I want to watch the, yeah, I think with that being said, that's what I just did. And now Grant, you may not know the answer to this question yet, but I don't think bill would have a problem saying this publicly. I'd love to know what he got paid. If he got paid, I would assume he got paid.
I don't know. I know if a documentary called me in was like, I want you to be in this documentary. Would I like ask for money? I don't think it's about asking for money as much as it's like, Hey, we'd like to, it's about like, Hey, we'd like to take four hours of your time. We'll pick, we'll give you a thousand bucks for your time. I would, I would assume if Netflix called me to be in that documentary, I would have said yes for free. And I would too, but they probably won't.
They would probably like, you know, it's not that you, I'm a member of the screen actors Guild, so I don't know that I could see that's actually a grand giggling a little bit, but like that's, I think that's a real actual question. They flew to him. They came to his house. It was one day. It was a long day that, I mean, if he was in it that much consider how much other crap they filmed. I'm going to bet he got $5,000. You know who the real winner of the day is is Steven's point brewing point brewing that neon is behind him for the whole thing. They got on Netflix just because the sign is in his studio. Wow.
Big time. Grant, find out that question for me. I should scatter some of my show merchandise around. It's just here and there just in case on the file cabinet or something. Yeah.
Maybe we'll come calling. I don't know. You know what you really should have done grant is you should have like printed on huge paper. You're back and forth with Christian Watson's dad.
Quick hung it behind bill. Yup. Yup.
I missed opportunity and I won't get it again because he blocked me sadly. But yeah, I'm excited to watch that thing tonight. It'll be fun.
I mean, it won't be not great human being. So you guys want some local sports isms or or a quick nationalism national sports topic. I'm feeling nationalism. I'm feeling real. What about you Bart?
I have a strong sense of nationalism. You probably mean you do that as your day job. You ever get I'm like, Sorry, I didn't consider that.
I like Bart. Speaking of your interview with AJ Perez, you said something Dorothy and you're like, you don't need to tell me I host the midnight show. I was doing documentaries, you get a lot of nose.
Yeah, yeah, I was the show at midnight. Trust me. I'm getting nose. Yeah, I like yourself deprecation.
I wish more people had it. All I'm gonna say on this is I tweeted this earlier, my career goal now is to be in a media position down the road where hopefully some scandal befalls Craig Council and Netflix will come calling about the collapse of council one day and then I get to be in that. That's my new goal. It's a long con and a lot has to happen but I'm remaining hopeful. For the first time in NBA history, there will be seven different champions in seven seasons.
This is good for the NBA. Mm hmm. Or I'm gonna say mm hmm. Okay. And I'll show you what I showed grant prior, if I may. Yes. And I'm looking to be persuaded because I don't I go into this one not knowing my answer.
Well, I would like to introduce you to a project my son and I have done. Oh, wow. And so I'm glad I'm in this room. Because the other day as he was learning the playoffs, and I thought, Will he understand the playoffs? Because he's so into the regular season, looking at scores every day. And then he wanted to know, I showed him the bucks winning on DVR and got the goosies. But then he wanted to know, who's won the whole thing? That's how he refers to it.
Who's won the whole thing? And he goes, Daddy, I need to see. I go, Well, how do you want me to?
He goes, write him down. So on my easel here, you will see the list of every team's name. Can you go closer? Yes. And it shows you how many times each team has won the championship. Okay, is quite astonishing. When you see how many zeros and ones there are in the NBA. Oh, yeah. Because we were going zeros first, then ones then twos. Then we jumped to three and a five and a seven and then a 17 and 18. Here are the current matchups as of this recording.
Neither conference final has started. I want to hope that that's his handwriting on those four on those four. Those are his handwriting. Okay, good.
I'm glad these are also his hearts that he drew by teams that are still alive. Interesting. Yes.
Okay. I also thought when you originally showed me there's a lot of zeros and ones who's winning all these titles the league's been around a long time. How many years has the NBA been around? 80?
What's the exact number? Wait, I mean, again, like you're just you're saying including the pre merger era? Yeah.
We're not Celtics fans. I don't count that crap. I would have said like 70. At least 75. There was a 75 all time team.
Yeah. But okay, so with that, the Celtics have won 18 times the Lakers have won 17 that's 35 that's nearly half and the Warriors seven. That's 42 times between three teams. So it is better for the NBA. You remember those four years it was Cavs warriors back to back. And none of those years was it like none of those years was it like, wow, I can't believe this happened again. It was you knew at the start of the regular season. Yes, what the final is going to 100% so this is better and I did see a fresh take on the CBA which is on its surface very stupid. Teams are screwed.
There's no way to get better. The Cavs are screwed. The Nuggets are screwed. The box and Celtics are screwed.
I will say the only thing that's not screwed is Oklahoma City because they still have this plethora of picks but yeah. What does pressure make Paul? Pressure makes diamonds.
It does. And for these teams to get a ring. They're going to be feeling now ultimate pressure.
Because if you don't win with the little group you've assembled, that's your chance. Yeah, it's not Oh, well, this Cavs team. You know how we used to say with the Brewers when I called the radio station drunk and yelled at everybody and was right. I'm going to post that I think somewhere. That's too aggressive for blue sky but okay.
Is that? Well, we had a nice run. We'll be back next year.
Will you? So these teams have a tighter window which means the playoffs are already desperate but if you lose it's like alright. Next year. There may not be a next year. So it's I think going to lead to the playoffs being better. Now what this will do and what I'm fine with it doing is I did not like that the offseason was more entertaining than the actual sport. For sure. This is going to change that. Hmm.
So the offseason now is like Fred Van Vliet wants a trade. Hmm. Okay. So the because the playoffs have been terrific. Yes. They've been great even like, Oh, game seven was into old time classic. The Nuggets took the thunder to game seven man. And the twists and turns in that series. Yeah.
So I, I think that it is better. It's an adjustment period. But even like now you've got the Thunder who haven't won they won as the Sonics. I don't know if they're counting that or not.
It's weird. I think Seattle gets the rights to the SuperSonics. But if you look at the Thunder history, they still claim it's like the Ravens and the previous Browns. Right. But it's not not the new Browns are claiming the old Browns. Oh, really? It'd be like if the Ravens claim the old Browns and then the new Browns were just fresh.
Strange sidebar, though. But before the new Browns came, the Ravens did have the Browns history. And then when the new Browns claimed it, is that right? Yeah.
Okay. So the the Thunder haven't won. The Timberwolves have not won the Pacers have not won. And the Knicks like it still feels like Oh, it's not like you know, it's not like a bunch of small market weirdos.
You still got your Knicks, but they haven't won since 73. Yeah. So there's gonna be a new city that's going to be reinvigorated that for the longest time, like this time of the year wasn't anything for them. And I think that I think that's good. And please give us next wolves. Oh, okay. I want next thunder but okay to see that trade though.
Oh, I see what you're saying. The Randall would go there. Sure. Yeah, I mean, the Thunder. I want to see them too. But I want to see next wolves specific that match up. I think that's interesting.
I think the only thing that would stop. I mean, the Thunder. I want to go back to this question. But the Thunder are clearly the best of these four remaining teams.
Mm hmm. Or whoa, I mean, I don't think it's close. The nerds love the Thunder. You just want the Thunder to wonder the Thunder are the best but I think the Thunder are like, there's there's there's still figuring this out how to rank the final four grant. I don't know that you can look I'm not saying that the Thunder might be the best team. I think I just don't think they're far away the best team. Okay. That makes sense.
So like a title. I just I'm not gonna say that they're on there to the prohibitive fit. No, like I think the wolves could beat him.
I think they could I certainly don't think they will if both teams stay marginally healthy. Grant going back like three minutes when Bart was saying the thing about warriors calves and you knew before the season that that was what was gonna happen. You kind of held your heart Oh, Mike, you were so nostalgically Oh, you're in such a beautiful place. The four year war between Golden State and Cleveland. Yeah, I miss it. Me. I'm like, I hated that era. And even heat spurs a couple times in a few years.
I love that. I watched it. I can I think back on it with an open mind. But in the moment I was like, again, I know this is a take that you guys have. But I remember watching heat spurs, looking at the court color and the jersey color and being like, this doesn't look important. I know that's just a stupid thing that all the spurs their color scheme has ruined like how we historically think of them.
It's a strange take, but I'm it is a real one for me. But are we going to be in the same way? Like if we see the Pacers, and the Thunder is that going to feel like an NBA finals? Because when it was nuggets heat, you're like, what the fuck is this in Greg?
That's I mean, that's a grant bill special right there is that take right there. I think this I think the NBA and I don't just say this as a Pacers hater. I do think the NBA needs it to be nixed someone to have like that connection to the past like that connection to the like the big doesn't because it's New York. It just has to be because it's one of those name teams. And the fact that it's a name team that doesn't have actual real success. You know, it's like people always think, oh, like the Cowboys, what a great franchise. They're a shit franchise. The Knicks are a shit franchise for the entirety of our lifetimes. And I mean, you know, it's like, okay, like the Starks and Ewing era, like, sure, but like didn't, they didn't really do anything of real consequence during that time period.
They were an entertaining team that I watched a lot. But so I'm going to say the four grand answers. I think I was leaning a certain direction, but I did not have an answer coming in. If it ends up being like Pacers wolves, you know, I mean, I don't know, I guess I have to see it for it to happen. I think the only thing that could be good. The only reason that my answer could be that the parody of all four of these teams being sort of underdogs is I do think that the David Goliath story is a fun one. If it would have been like Thunder Celtics wolves Celtics, you would have had like the good guy and the bad guy. So as I watched Knicks Pacers, me and Oh, Bart shares the opinion. I can watch that as babyface Knicks super heel Pacers. And so I can watch it from that perspective and be like, you know, like rooting like truly, like more than I would root for a box team to like, I'd rather the Pacers lose than the box win type of thing.
But that's a more prominent feeling. But if it's, you know, I don't know. So I'm going to say I'm going to say, mm hmm, the parody is good for the NBA. But I can also see getting to the finals of like a wolves Pacers and be like, this isn't the finals. So I can so I withhold the possibility of changing my mind if I see it, it's just like, that's not that doesn't feel right.
That's not a Buick. But for now, I'm gonna say good for the NBA. Grant builds first time in NBA history, seven different champions in seven seasons good for the NBA. There's a correct answer to this.
I talked about this when I go on a rock morning show once a week and we talked about this this morning. In the here and now, it would be way better for us to have LeBron versus Steph in the conference finals. The East. The Celtics are like the big brand, but I don't think they move the needle for a lot of people.
So set the east to the side because we weren't getting that version of that thing out of the east anyways. So like the best thing, let's just focus on the west, the best thing in the here and now what we would have got our rocks off to is like LeBron stuff. But like long term, next year and beyond, it's best for the league for Shay or Anthony Edwards to like legitimize themselves.
Yeah, and take a step. It's not going to be as fun as exciting this year. Okay, Oklahoma City, but then when we come back next year, all of the sudden the Timberwolves if they were to advance, make the finals, win the finals, all of a sudden the Timberwolves being a matinee on Sunday, we look at them with a little bit more seriousness. And then when they're in the playoffs next year, there's more seriousness. And there's more buy in from fans when they're on TV, right? Or, you know, or it's the thunder, right?
It doesn't have to be the wolves. I think the same is true of like Tyrese Halbert and the Pacers to like, if they make the finals, they take a step up. And we would be reaping those benefits as NBA fans for years to come. Whereas here and now, like I'd rather have LeBron stuff. But that's like eating a bunch of candy, like what's good, what feels good right now versus what is good for you.
I think whatever version of what we're going to get is like vegetables, it's going to be good for us long term, even though it's not going to taste as good, right? Good take. And I'll do this parallel and this analogy for Bart and other wrestling fans. It does and I didn't think it is coming in Bart, but it reminds me of that era of WWE like 10 ish years ago, when they quote, like couldn't make a new star. And because they just kept leaning on the past, and they just like, how long can we do this before?
We don't have any top stars because we would never give the Timberwolves of the WWE and the patient. I don't know what that was. Did an EMP just strike Paul?
Something struck his house. Are you? There we got you back. Yes. We thought you got like EMP.
I actually could keep hearing you. I don't know if it's like the little ding thing happened and it just threw off the feed. But I was not sure how much of it you caught but it was this idea of like, they need to create the new stars so they don't get in a position post Steph post LeBron, where it's like, we don't even we the NBA don't even know the preferred conference finals and NBA finals match up colleges now. There's names and big stars that you need to create the new stars. So that you then in two years grant after you've eaten your vegetables for a few years.
Now that same vegetable is actually a, you know, a nice steak to keep with the analogy. So well, and maybe WWE is a good cop, because in order to create one star, don't you kind of have to have that star have a moment taking down one from the older generation. And that's, that's just it. It's like, when you'd have and this is the thing that always, you know, frustrated me and I'm sure Bart and others who enjoy the WWE product, but it's like, Kevin Owens comes up and then beats Cena 10 years ago, and then but then he got fed to him two more times. And it was like, okay, Cena got his wins back or whatever. When you can it's kind of like my idea of I think my answer is that the parody is good. But I think like the best thing is if you had the up and coming thunder the up and coming wolves against the Warriors against the Lakers, you had the year after year perennially great team with the name recognition and the superstar player, you know, you have your john Cena, but then you have your young Kevin Owens trying to get that guy off of the pedestal to become a new team.
When you don't have that. And you have like David against David, or do you know to kind of continue with that, like, I think it's going to be great. But it might not have that same like they took them down, they took down the big overarching team guy franchise, you know, whichever analogy you want to use with this.
So I guess it remains to be seen maybe what the right answer is, but I'm going to lean that the parody is good. Because I know I don't want the opposite. I did not want when Kevin Durant signed with the Warriors. Back when I would actually post on Twitter. I remember posting something the effect of like, the NBA title was just decided on July 4, he signed on July 4, it was over. That title had been decided. There was nothing left to debate.
Like, it was the season had been decided. That sucks. I don't want that. So I think this is better than that.
For me. I like with the Knicks, like you're talking about how they've been a bad franchise. They're good now because James Dolan just decided not to be shitty. Did he though? Well, he liked that he was going to go focus on building the sphere and do other things. And he gave Leon Rose, you know, the ability to do what he wants to do.
But for a long time, he used to meddle. And I think what is crazy when you have a shitty owner is what are your options? If you have a bad coach, fire, bad jam, fire, there's light at the end of the tunnel. If you have a bad owner, either he needs to sell the team, which nobody ever does.
Yeah, he needs to die and give it to his kids, which is always worse. And then the other way is he just decides to be good. And he just decided to like be good.
Well, he decided to go away and to not, you know, clearing the bar for being good. And I do think if you said I'll go back to what I said earlier about Knicks comparing to the Cowboys. I think if you did like a man on the street thing and you went up to be like, name five NFL teams.
I think the majority of people after 1000 interviews, like a vast majority, one of the five they would name would be the Cowboys. I think the same thing would be said of the Knicks. You have like random to 1000 people in the name five NBA teams go like the Knicks are going to be said and yet both these teams historically speaking are dogshit like poorly run, poorly managed, haven't actually won anything. I think people like I think it's like you'd still say oh yeah, the Knicks and Cowboys they they win enough. I think like they're good teams. They're not.
They neither has been like truly actually relevant in grants lifetime. It is like 80 fucking degrees in this room. I knew whatever was about to be the thing out of your mouth would have nothing additive to what Paul just said. Why did I?
That's exactly how that was gonna go. Because we're low, but holy shit. I maybe the sequencing could be a little bit better or right if we're trying to play kingmaker in the West, like maybe it would be better if the wolves or the Thunder had knocked off the Lakers now, or Jokic in the conference finals, right or in the NBA fight, like the sequencing could have been a little bit more dramatic, but they have both of these teams, the Thunder and the wolves on their way to this point have both knocked off kind of a legitimate, like incumbent, I guess maybe would be the right word. I wish there was one coming out of the east, but but the only one coming out of these would have been the Celtics and that would move the needle for me and I don't think it would move the needle for most people. That's not the LeBron heat. I mean, I agree. And it also of course would have lost all of the luster to then beat the tatum list Celtics at that point.
Yeah, then there's really nothing then they're practically an underdog. Like who would have been favored the tatum with Celtics or the Pacers? Well, Jalen Brown's legacy took a big step when the Celtics won game five, at least according to some Bart was telling me about that.
So Bart, have you talked about on the national level yet? The ridiculousness no pun intended based on your MTV conversations last week, the absurdity, let's say of the this idea of like every NBA player after losing a series has a bad knee injury has a bad this injury. I didn't I didn't bring that I the last time I brought that up was with Kirk Cousins where he's like, Oh, yeah, I was hurt last year.
It's but it's reached a point now where you know in the 12 hours that follows a teal and Brown had a torn meniscus. I mean, I just I don't think they're lying. But I also don't believe that. I know you don't want to call someone a liar for that.
But you can do like, you can do like a big eye roll or maybe one of the Yeah, or get a load of this guy. I can do a couple of those. Yeah, yeah. I am. Can I say one more thing? You got it? Yeah.
I just had a quick YouTube announcement. Hang on that for one thought, because I do want to ask about, you know, it's our weekly tradition now with the honest, but I'm gonna tell you why I think it's relevant as we segue into it. And it's the box window. We could do this as the box window is closed for the next three years.
Like maybe they get out of it, you know, whether they with or without you honest, but I'm just gonna say I think the box current window is closed. And again, maybe so too is the Celtics, maybe so too is the Nuggets, maybe so too, you know, is the Lakers, you know, if they hadn't gotten the miraculous Luca trade or whatever, but even with it, it does encourage me, as someone who already is at peace with the bucks potentially trading on us, in fact, is in is in favor of it happening, because I think it's better for the health of the franchise. This is the type of like, these are the type of like parody moves where it's like, you just, you just have to move on, you get three years, and you move to the next thing. I'm not saying it's a good thing for the NBA that this is happening. And it's part to your point about earlier, like the, the new collective bargaining agreement, it's, you're not going to have five year, like camaraderie windows where you have the same four to five key players, and the bucks have. And I think like now that's over, and it sucks, and it's whatever, but you have, I think we just have to accept with parody being what it is with the CBA being what it is with the pot with the chance to like be a multiple time champion in a five year window seemingly being impossible, at least in the whatever seventh new champion in seven years. It just kind of makes me further inclined to punt and be like, All right, what's the next era for bucks basketball?
No, I don't want to do that. I know I know you emotionally don't but I'm saying I think the smart move is like as I think as evidenced by the seven new champions in seven years thing that like, this era has been doesn't mean they should trade him or shouldn't but I'm saying I think we have to accept that like this has concluded. And if they keep them for nostalgia reasons because they couldn't get a good trader because Janus is too loyal to ask for the trade.
Those things are all fine. But like this era is obviously over. It doesn't mean that in five years that Janus is still a buck and they can't have recovered and you know had salary cap space in the year 2028. They can that could totally happen. Yeah.
But right now, like here and now they're I mean, they're obviously in big trouble. All right, go ahead. Well, I have to say something about my YouTube channel. That isn't going to be unpleasant for those of you that subscribe please like and subscribe. But first of all, happy place hemp subscribe to them. The promo code is Bart.
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Happy place hemp. I have been going through my old videos of, you know, news channel aid or whatever. And I have a bunch of videos that I want to put on YouTube. The problem is to put them on YouTube, they have to if you subscribe, it's like, hey, there's a new email. If you subscribe to YouTube, you get a notification that there's a new video. But I'm doing a video dump of like a lot of different political videos that I have. And I'm going to put them out on Memorial Day because that's an American Day. So maybe but maybe this is pro because I just wonder if one of these will like hit I don't know.
What do I have from 2008? I have. Let's see. I have. Well, I you know, what I could do is I could show you.
Would that be exciting? Sure. Show show us your best one. One.
I'm going to share my screen and you're going to see my YouTube channel content. What do we have coming up? We have John Edwards, Democratic president visits lacrosse.
Wow. We have a 29 minute John McCain Stump speech. We have Al Franken Q&A for about seven minutes when in 2008, he was campaigning for no 2005. This is from he was campaigning for the first time Tim Waltz ever ran for anything.
I was there. Mike Huckabee came to town reported on that my interview with Obama, the full thing. So those are all dropping along with a short I made of Chelsea Clinton talking about what it was like being raised by Hillary Clinton. So you're gonna get alerts for those on Memorial Day if you subscribe to the YouTube. So apologies to anyone who doesn't want to but maybe an incentive for those that do. Thank you for your time and attention to this matter.
Thanks to Dan Cheney. Wow. Right. Big time.
Thanks. Well, I'm looking forward to that part. I'll speak for just myself. But I know I'm looking forward to consuming some of those videos on Monday. The 28 minute q&a of john mccain. Just I mean, what what better way to use your time?
Can you report back? I want to you I want you to share your screen. The views I get it more of like how long the duration of like this 29 minute was like how far did the average person get through time spent watching or time spent listening? Would you like to know what the average is of how many people watch these? You know, I don't I don't want 500 or something.
Hmm. What four or 500? Oh, you're saying the time length of it or the total people? Yeah, if the people that watch it, how long they watch it for? I'm gonna guess 12 minute average. The last one was a 46 minute show. 20 minute average. That's pretty good.
It's not bad. We're six now. So no one. We're holding there.
Yeah, nobody got my announcement. Yeah. Okay. Pretty good. Pretty good. Analytics stats. It's stuff you nerds like sabermetrics. I did make a bar at the brewery game. I'm looking at the scoreboard.
It says MVR on the store. Yep, yep, yep. I know where you're going with this. It's like, it's like, because my kid wants to know what is on the board. I go those are hits, runs, errors, or runs, and then he's like, Well, what's that? And he goes, what's MVR? And I go, I have no fucking idea. I don't know what you're talking about. On the Brewer scoreboard.
It says MVR. What is it's like, as common as hits, runs, errors. What is it? Mount visits remaining something that doesn't matter nearly as much as the other things. Mount visits remaining on the scoreboard. For those of you keeping track at home. They used to have it like as a small single digital thing in left field like it was its own little square.
Mount visits remaining like a counter for strikeouts. Sure. So now that's I don't like that at all.
Me neither. Quick conclusion on an NBA topic. I've made a suggestion that I think we should that I think you should do, which is the eight best remaining or 10 NBA players remaining in the NBA playoffs for Bartle Meter. Oh, I was gonna do who would benefit from a title the most. That's my old standby.
Okay. Probably from the Thunder Knicks, Pacers and Wolves. I'd say Tom Thibodeau. He's number one.
What? Like James Dolan. James Dolan.
Leon Rose, Timothée Chalamet. He cannot he cannot climb any higher. There's no way that he can already win more than he's winning right now. He is he is surfboarding on the sun. Yeah.
He's catching a wave on the solar flares, my friends. Whatever hit Paul's house. That's it. He's right. Yeah. Mm hmm. Man.
John Halliburton. Hey, I got a question about value. So a six pack of these. This is not a paid endorsement of Mountain Dew zeros, which are so refreshingly crisp, by the way. Oh, yeah. I can only imagine how refreshing it'd be if you're not drinking out of a plastic bottle.
It makes it taste warmer, but I bet it's good. Keep sorry. Continue. So these are six ninety nine.
At Metro for six pack. Yeah. OK. And then the other day it was buy to get to free. So if if you're able to sell these. For essentially three fifty.
Shouldn't they just always be three fifty? I feel like they could sell them for two dollars and still make money. So let's break down economics. If you're gonna if you're gonna jack up the price. I don't know. All right.
What else you got? I was I literally explained to my son last night. He there was this toy he wanted on Amazon and it's usually nine dollars. And then for some reason last week it was six dollars.
But then it's back to nine. And I said, you know, he's trying to save money. I said, buddy, it's nine dollars again. He goes, but it was six dollars. I said, I know, like it was on sale, on sale. So sometimes they'll do these special things. And he's like, well, I want to get it for six dollars.
It's nine right now. You know, did I tell you guys that or I bought those Jay and Jimmy Uso wrestling figures on eBay? No, I don't know about this because I couldn't find him.
And those are who he likes the most. Was Jimmy's like two bucks and Jay one hundred was a two pack for 40. OK, Jimmy.
But, you know, I couldn't find him. But then the guy sends it to me and it's still got the Wal-Mart sticker on him that he got him for three ninety nine. Yeah. I'm like, can you at least take the sticker off next time, dude? I at least let me think that you like.
Yeah. I mean, I understand like I've sold shit that I'm like, why would you want that? For that much money, but that's what they paid for it, so that's what I paid for it, but I don't know, I just felt stupid. I already felt stupid. Then I felt more stupid. Well, I'm sure talking about it on your podcast helped you feel less stupid about it. You bitch.
Ten years ago, I did interview the Usos when they were the tag team champions, and I got a picture with the belt and, wow, they've come a long way. One of them has Jimmy's the one that's in legal trouble, right? Or is it J?
Not not not currently, but frequently. I think it was J. Was it? We have like drinking and couldn't get into Canada. What else you got? All right. Seeing as you didn't like my suggestion for the barometer, we'll we'll skip this. This is a this is what I particularly wanted to ask grant about and I was like leaning toward I see how it is a big a big hyper bar took himself off the screen for those who are watching this.
He's back. I'm leaning grant toward like the idea of like, this is a lost brewer season already. And I think that's way too harsh in middle to late May.
But your optimism for the outcome of this brewer season is very low. Mm hmm. Or mm hmm. Mm hmm. So the story about the 5050 thing, can we stick to this for a moment? Okay. He explained he expounded not once.
But yes, you wouldn't go back another time. Here. Here's where my optimism is.
It's not it's not non existent. Right? It's it's fair to believe that Jackson Churio is off to a slow start in his sophomore year and starts hitting better.
Okay. I don't really have much optimism that Christian Yelich is going to I don't know, I have very little optimism about him. I would have plenty of optimism about Contreras. But the bastard has a broken finger that he's intent on playing through. So unless he just like, gets better at playing with a broken finger, which I guess could happen.
Like there's somewhat of a ceiling on that too. So if two of those three guys at least at one time aren't awesome, then yeah, I don't know that this team has as much of a chance despite, you know, through all the injuries, the bullpen and the starting rotation have mostly been pretty darn good. They've had bad games, but for the most part, the issue has been offense and their three best hitters that are supposed to be really high level hitter have been zeros or worse than zeros. They've been you know, negatives on the team. So there's a little there's a little optimism for Churio maybe a little bit for Contreras, but it's hard to get too carried away.
Yeah, so I want to say this and then Bart, please respond as well. But I think when you grant, you consume almost every Brewers game, right? Like if not every sadly, yeah. So I've been kind of coming in and out, especially during NBA playoffs of like, Oh, I'm curious on that. And then like you, you look up and you see some of like the ops numbers from the key hitters, you're like, Oh, so like, there's probably multiple things wrong with the team.
But when it all kind of piles up with the way that it is when you just like quickly look at it, but I will I do want to ask you this. So again, if I just glance at the spreadsheet of Brewers offense, my go to would be weighted runs created plus, because it's an average, it's like then says, here's everybody's stats. And here's what Bob average 100 or greater, or who's below average 100 or greater. Grant, who do you think is the Brewers leader in weighted runs created plus? Hoskins?
Yes. Who do you think is second? Give me give me just your top five just rather than being so methodical. Oh, Hoskins would be one and then the next group and I'm not an expert on the formula of weighted runs created plus.
But like, yeah, yeah, you can. Yeah, the next group would maybe be Collins terrain. terrain is for Collins is seven.
Bowers Bowers is two courses yet. So that's why I'm not optimistic about this team. Um, I mean, Contreras probably isn't Contreras is five he's actually an above average offensive player this year across baseball. Not play a lot 109 way there once created plus, it's probably a big one that I'm missing.
Not really. I mean, so Hazi is three. 31 plate appearances, right terrain for Contreras five free like six is an above average offensive player this year.
I know he's like your least favorite guy. No, actually, I really like South relook now because now Caleb Durbin exists so but here's here's your below average shurio 81. So again, 19 points below the average yelich 77 that's 23 points below the MLB average Garrett Mitchell 64 Durbin 51 or T's 24. But then again, you've given 41 plate appearances to Oliver Dunn who's a 16 12 plate appearances to Mona staria who's a for a way to purchase a for Cameron minus 25 I didn't think that was possible Vinny capra minus 33 I did not know that was possible to be a minus 15 minus 33 when he runs for your class.
Yes, I think to your point of Hoskins is one Bowers two and like, yes, I think what you said is probably a good summary that like, ah, so that's why I'm not optimistic. Yeah, and there's some some room for progression from churrio and maybe from Contreras but I don't know what's up with yelich you know what I mean? Like is his back just cooked? What's going on there? So like, no, I'm not jumping up and down saying yelich is about to figure it out.
churrio maybe Contreras a little, but I don't know that that'll be enough. You know what I mean? Bart, let me just run down a list of things that bother me about this Brewers team. If I may regarding yelich you know how Keenan Thompson still on the SNL cast, even though he's been there forever.
Yeah, yes. Well, with every iteration of a new cast that comes he fits in and is still the glue. He doesn't seem out of place ever at all. yelich feels like you shouldn't be here. Like it just feels like I don't know.
Something feels weird with that. I think Garrett Mitchell being hurt and not available. Better than him playing not by much, but it's better than him playing. But he's like, a marketable guy. He's good looking.
Yeah. Yeah, he's great. He's better than good players to be good looking. He's great looking. And you know, because he was a part of that.
Bryce terrain South Freelick. But it feels it feels like it feels like there's a lot of different pieces to this team. And they don't quite mesh together as a team. And they're not good. And they're not good.
We can't have Isaac Collins and Caleb Durbin. I can't tell them apart. I don't know what is the who's the one that they got from the thing I can't it's too hard for me. The next two pitchers they're starting Logan Henderson and Chad Patrick. Mm hmm. Carlos Rodriguez later that week.
Where did they come from? The one guy everyone's excited for. They won't call up and Miserowski. What else bothers me? Pat Murphy bringing his kids to the interviews. Why is that allowed?
Also, Pat Murphy's like, we didn't spend any money. And everyone's like, shouldn't that be like a bigger deal when your manager says that? Yeah. It just doesn't.
Nothing seems to fit. I don't know. I'm just very bothered by it all.
Like this team. I don't. I don't know. Just nothing. It just it's it doesn't. It's like I'm watching a movie and the actors are miscast. They're not likable. This is what it comes down to. It's not that they're not likable to me.
It's just that. And again, maybe this is my detachment because like you, Paul, I'm watching the NBA playoffs. I'm not I'm not on the local battlefields anymore. You never were. I do think the Brewers and baseball in general is something like the story about how I drunk text the program director of the game that is station sucks or not.
You should do that on one of your individual live streams. Yeah. Grant has a career to look at. Well, we probably did. Let's be real. It doesn't matter. But I just covering my bases.
George went died. It's kind of sad. What? Yeah, I figured you would see it. But yeah, today, like 10 minutes ago.
Well, it was announced like 10 minutes ago. Who is his nephew? Somebody famous?
Oh, Jason Sudeikis. Really? No shit. Mm hmm. Interesting.
Mm hmm. I think the Brewers will get more fun at some point. They are lucky to have the record that they have right now. Which I think is actually a testament to the fact that they're still run pretty darn well. Even if they were a little lazy this offseason, and lots of things have gone wrong. And Murphy a lot of times doesn't push the right buttons.
But the record is still kind of hanging right in there around 500. Because I think that the overall structure of the thing that they've built and the way they've been running it for the last couple of years, I still think is solid. Cheers is so fucking good. Cheers, would you would you would you started like would you recast it and start over? Cheers? Yeah.
No. You know, what's funny, though, is when I was watching The Office. I noticed in cheers that it was like a one set show. But then as you go deeper into the seasons, all of a sudden they're in someone's house and then they're like they have to find stories outside of the bar and office was the same way. And now severance. Yeah. These shows that start one set stuff cheating. All right.
Anything else for you? Are the packers gonna get the tush push band? The theory is that they're the ones doing it because they don't have an owner to publicly shame and they have an outgoing president. So they're not going to have they'll take the heat for the rest of the teams.
Interesting. It should be bad. You shouldn't be able to move a guy.
Agreed. These owners are such spineless and the playoff receding thing is stupid. Who's that in charge of that? Lions. If you win your division and you're six and eleven, you won your fucking division, man.
Get a home game. Yeah. All right. I think it'll get banned. We'll see.
You do. The Vegas odds have an 80% implication that it will be banned. And I think that just because that's what I've been hearing, sort of seeing.
So people are tweeting. Grant Paul, thank you guys. Thank you. So thank you. I look forward to your big content dump on Monday.
Like and subscribe. Grant, did I give you anything to to go into your show with tonight? Did I did I feed you any material?
I think so. It's a quiet week. And I'm doing double duty the rest of the week.
So I need to I really need to get my butt in gear. Do you want to guest at 430? I can come on.
Sure. Do you want to eulogize norm from cheers? I've never seen the show. But but now I might have to go back and watch it because we're such curb fans. And Ted Danson was in it. And we also like Bojack Horseman. And there's a scene where he talks about Becker is the show that like he always thought was going to get better, but then it never did. Very good point.
But no, no, no. If I can, for 30 seconds, he's eulogizing his mom who he hated, despise him. And he's like, my mom is dead.
And it's a lot like Becker. Whereas as long as the show was on, I always thought it could get there. But then when it got canceled, I knew that it would never get there. So even though I never really loved the show, that door is now closed. And that makes me sad.
And that was his point about eulogizing his mom. So I might I might need to now reverse engineered and watch Cheers. And then maybe I probably not gonna watch Becker, but like I can watch some YouTube clips or something. Becker, there's no reason that has no there's no reason for that to ever. It was nothing. You're better off watching ink.
You know that is not all. It was another sitcom he did with his wife for I think one season on CBS. They worked at a newspaper.
But Ted Danson's had a resurgence because people really like him in this new show now, right? That in the good place. Well, what's the other one called?
Not the good place. But what's his other the new one? I don't know. Once it's on one of these strips, a comedy on a streaming service, a comedy period in 2025. Let's be real. I mean, who's doing that? You know, I'm gonna do a pot on I'm gonna break down the 2025 network schedules. You absolutely.
I've been saying this for years. You Yeah, this is I'm just gonna break it down. If you want to watch it, what maybe that'll be part of my Monday content dump. And to be clear, some of the best stuff you've done recently on the national show have been you talking about what's on MTV. Yeah, my TV scheduling and you breaking down like the TV guide.
I forget what the full angle was a few weeks ago, but it's talking about the NFL schedule. Yeah. This again, I think to Grant's point, this is this lane is yours. No comments on my sweet hat, huh? That's fine.
I commented the room. What do you want? What more do you want?
It's a very needy friend grant. No kidding. No, no belated Happy Birthday. Was it your birthday yesterday? Yeah, maybe. Well, I got a Snapchat notification, but I had already sent a bunch of texts to the group and you didn't respond to any of them. I was like, Well, I don't want to.
What? I don't go on Snapchat. Well, I know. It notified me because you're my friend on there and it was your birthday.
So happy belated Bart. I apologize. Anything else? I didn't know that either, buddy. Sorry. No, and also I don't care. He said that it's at the end probably didn't need to be in here. But he says after prompting us, Grant, he doesn't care at all.
A hole. Bye, dudes. See you guys. Bye. Do you want me to come on?
If you sure. Yeah, I mean, don't. If you don't want me to come on, I won't come on. I would actually love that. That would make my life a lot easier tonight.
Yeah. Send me that little audio of you saying if you want me to come on, I'll come on. And that'll I'll use that as a bumper to bring you in. That'll set it up. Well, so I have to do work. I don't want to hear it. I'll talk to you in a bit. Thank you. It's a pleasure to stop into the Winkler.
