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Muscle milk. Protein for all. Mm. Yeah Good morning, everybody. Welcome into the Winkler Verse, Monday, June 15th.
Happy birthday to my dad. I have to call him in a little bit once I pick up the kid. Oh, a day earlier, he would have even had the same birthday as the army. The army's birthdays tomorrow? No, it was yesterday.
The Army's birthday was yesterday, hence the fight. Yes, flag day. All right, let me just do a proper setup. Sure, I guess. I'm Bart.
That's Carlos. Bart. We've now Almost work together. not like not work together longer than we even did Um But we come to you on Mondays to give you the national perspective as we once did on. The show.
I will tell you. That I did a soccer episode. Sunday night.
So Sunday night, I have a lot of soccer thoughts. Because we watched the USA win 4-1 and we've watched a lot of great actions since. I have a sucker jersey on. You look great on the Dan Shaney YouTube stream with the NYCFC. Um But I did about 30 minutes of soccer.
On a my previous podcast so that I didn't yes. No. I didn't want to totally bore you. Yeah, the shocking doing me a favor. All I know is Ecuador screwed the pooch last minute against the Ivory Coast.
So that is my extensive World Cup breakdown so far. Brazil and Mexico is right in your quote unquote backyard or Morocco, Brazil and Morocco. Yeah, I probably wasn't watching that. Although, I do know a girl from Morocco, so maybe she can fill me in. Yeah, USA kicked the crap out of Paraguay.
So there was that. Or 4-1, I believe, was scored. And Mexico took care of business in their opening round. I forgot who they played, but I think it was 2-0, South Africa.
So, yeah, look at me putting all the football action together. There's four games again today. There's four games tomorrow. There's four games Wednesday. There's four games Thursday and Friday and Saturday and Sunday and Monday and Tuesday.
And then on Wednesday, There's six games.
Now they're in Three windows. But there's a lot of games and I'm already like I'm not sure. Watching every game is hard. But I'm doing it because it's the World Cup and I must. And Just like the last World Cup.
I got laid off in August of 2012. Oh, tradition, unlike any other. And then the World Cup was that winter.
So I could watch pretty much every game.
Now, this year, of course. I'm kind of in the same boat. Have I not aggressively looked for a job so I could be World Cup available? That's part of it. One could say that.
That's part of it. And there's a game where a little earlier than we normally do. Just because no one cares, but because Spain plays their first game. I'm sorry, it's España, you uncultured swine. Against.
Cape Verde? I didn't even know they had a team.
So, this is going to be. We could have just, this is going to be a blowout. We saw the German blowout. Yeah, this is what. This is.
This is Auburn taking on UIC. Like, you know. No, whoever this uh Cape Vetta is, is gonna get, you know, motorboated. Yeah, and these kind of games didn't happen, but they expanded the tournament, added 12 more teams. Like the NCAA.
And you're not just adding, like, this is where, this is where I'll get FIFA from some credit. Cause when the NCAA is gonna expand, they're just gonna be like, Alright, well. Instead of eight SEC teams, now we're going to take four teams. Right. Right, we're not gonna do that.
You know, these mid-majors that went undefeated. We'll just get like the guys that go 500 in the SEC. Yeah, FIBA didn't do that. That's why Italy's sitting home and Curaçao. Is here getting blown out by Germany.
And then there was a blowout last night. Sweden kept tacking him on against Tunisia. Five to one, and I bring that up because emergency podcast they are dismissing their coach. Good. In the World Cup.
So they're not totally out of it 'cause of the third place stuff, but That's a big change.
So breaking news here for you. Oh Other than that, any other soccer flavor? There's games in New York. I'm really sad. Like that there's not any in Chicago.
Because I would have totally gone down. If not for a game for the atmosphere. I think the of all the things that have been happening so far with like the Foreigners realizing the mundane stuff about America is more impressive than like the stuff that we. Think is cool. Right.
And there's been the German guy, and there's been, you know, even in Mexico.
South Koreans being there. And all this kind of stuff. But what's happened the last two days in Boston? Where the Scotland fans Went to a game and then just decided to also go to Fenway last night. And make it a party.
That's cool. That's the kind that's the kind of stuff that really. That really um Floats my boat. Yeah, see, I wish I wasn't around the Boston Fenway area for that because that'd be cool. You know, partying with some people that you'll never see.
All half of Brazil was in Times Square the other day. You don't get down there much. I don't know how big New York is.
Well, New York is absolutely massive. I mean, the city of Chicago. No, it's not a stone throw away. It's not far in terms of like time. I can get to Times Square if I take the subway and like.
I don't know, half an hour, you know, it's not horribly far. But it's not in my way at all. Like, I'm not going to go to Times Square to get a loaf of bread. Not that type of thing. If I drive a half an hour You're in another county.
I'm in Illinois or I'm in the lake. Right. Yeah, you're you're not You're still in New York. You can drive. Maybe an hour and change and still be in New York.
City. Yeah, New York, New York's big. New York, how is New York doing this morning with all of this?
Well, it's not on fire. I thought I would see pillars of smoke for the next 72 hours after the Knicks won a championship.
Now, admittedly, where I was in Queens, it was a lot more subdued because I live in more of a residential area in Queens, still the city, still absolutely the city. But. You know, you got a mixture of like. Lot of uh You know, Polish families, you know, some couple of Russians, Ukrainians, definitely some Mexican families. Um and like Just your run of the mill, like, I have no idea where you're from, white people.
So, like, not all of them are basketball fans. It's a good number that are not.
So, where I was pretty subdued. It was a small little sports bar. I caught the last couple minutes of the fourth quarter because I almost did not. you know, see it at all. I went to a Final Fantasy concert.
Who the hell knew the Knicks were going to be playing this far into the finals?
So I had booked a ticket at Carnegie Hall to watch this Final Fantasy Orchestra. Months ago. Oh, that's right. I remember that. It was on Saturday.
I was like, oh crap, I have to go to this.
So I was watching the first half on my phone, on my knee, on mute, just getting some awesome music. And looking down every so often, I'm like, oh, this game just followed the script of every other single game right now. The Spurs up big, and then watch the Knicks come climbing back. And that's exactly what happened. But yeah, the city, some areas of the city got wrecked.
For sure. NYPD had to get involved in some places, but I think for the most part, you know, it's just a lot of overall joy. Everyone is all of a sudden a Knicks fan out of nowhere. Dick's sporting goods lines around the block for merchandise, like NBA stores selling out of stuff. They can't hold it fast enough.
So yeah, every everything is all Nick's pride. This is probably the one and only championship you will ever see New York City rally behind and unify under one team because it will never happen again. Even if the Knicks win another one, you'll never get the same feeling as this. And any other team that went in New York. you have a large segment of people who are pissed off.
Yankees versus Mets. Nick's version, well, I don't say Nick's versus Nick's, the Nets were basically, or not even an afterthought. Uh but yeah, Islanders, Rangers, Devils are all split up around here. Um, so and and and of course, the Giants and the Jets.
So, you will never have the one unifier like we just saw with this Knicks run.
So, um, I'm very happy for Knicks fans. I'm very happy for this city. I'm also a little jealous because. This just reminds me that Bulls ain't shit. And now we're going on close to a 20-year drought ourselves.
Yeah, I think um It was really cool to see New York like that. I think that even. Even with a lot of people just watching the series, you can't, even if you're rooting for the Spurs. Like, I thought once the Knicks went up 2-0, it'd be funny if they lost. But You can't not like...
These three guys played together 10 years ago, won a title.
Now they won here. Brunson obviously bets on himself and motivated and wins with his dad. He's not picking another pay cut. No shotgun is happening. He's getting that money right back.
City waits 53 years and Um, there's a lot, there's a lot to like, even if you really ardently tried to hate. What you are seeing. It was kind of impossible to do that. And then. I was watching CNN, so I was watching.
There was a late night soccer game Saturday night. And um It ended about 1245. And so I had watched a little bit of the post game, and then I was watching that soccer game, and then. I wanted to see like if anyone was showing celebrations. And I looked at all the news channels.
And CNN was live. with like their Yeah. D team. Like it was. It was the guy on the overnight desk asked questions to the reporters.
That weren't like, I'm asking you a question, you're on the scene. It was. I'm asking you a question, but when I ask this question, I want you to know how smart I am. That happens a lot in the business. I've been guilty of it.
That's how I know. That's how I know these things happen. Uh But then they go to one guy. And he's just like getting mobbed, and they're making him wear a Knicks jersey. And you know, he's fun.
Then they go to another guy. And he's looking for shit. He's like. Oh my god, it is escalating. Oh my god, what are they doing with this bus?
Oh my god, oh my god, like he's gonna see some shit. And when you see all these people, when you see Manhattan, when you see all these images and videos, and then the next day, people are like, Well, there was one incident over. Isolated, but Jesus Christ, do you understand how bad? With all these people just out? How bad it could be.
Oh, I mean, you know, you don't want anyone to get hurt at all ever, but geez, I thought New York Behave themselves incredibly from what I saw. Yeah, I mean, like you said, with the sheer number of people, the scale of this city, you figured it would be incident scalore. Listen, it's going to happen in every city. You know, Philadelphia is famous. or climbing up uh poles and e eating horse shit.
You know, I I I don't think he had any of those problems here in New York.
So I think if you put everything in proportion, New York behaved very, very well. I I I do believe one guy got shot, but like Uh not to be morbid. That shit happens every day. The Knicks winning a championship does not happen every day. He's New York right there.
I mean, oh my God, New York has gone to shit ever since he took over. It's exactly the same. All you people who hate communists or whatever the hell you want to call them, New York is exactly the same as the previous night and mares. He's in a prey, he's in a suite at the World Cup. I thought he was one with the paper.
Oh man, it's like you're one of them. That being said, New York was totally fine. Like, again, I live in a pretty massive borough. And there is no like Property damage. Everything is fine.
Tree lines are still up. There's, you know, electricity. Nobody I know died. Nobody I know got arrested. If your business runs on five different apps, 12 browser tabs, and one spreadsheet that everyone's afraid to touch, it's probably time for Odo.
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soccer and FIFA World Cup 2026. Bank of America NA member FDSE. I got another New York question. If you like the Jets, you like the Mets, right? Is that just how that's not always true?
That's not always true. I think the more common thing you get is: if you like the Yankees, you probably like the Giants. And you, and like, if you're a hockey guy, you probably like the Rangers as well. But that I have met I've met Giants fans who are Yankee fans, Giants fans who are Mets fans. I'd be a Giants Mets fan.
I know a good number of those. good number of those people. I would be like Yankees, 20. Yeah, I'd be like, I think the worst type of, and worst by in terms of like, you will probably never see your team win, or if you, if they do, it's like hell froze over. Is like the guy like Evan Roberts, who roots on the New York Jets, which is the second team in terms of football.
He roots on the mats. I don't mean to be slanderous. They are the second team in New York. Everybody else is a Yankee fan. Bad, too.
Ups. They were on track to be the worst team that money can buy. I think they won't break that record, but they'll be damn close to it. And he's also a Brooklyn Nets fan. Which like For celebrating this, for every 19 Knicks fans you find, you find one Net fan.
And those numbers, I'm sure, are being generous. The Nets are so far beyond irrelevant as a franchise. That if they move to New Jersey tomorrow, Nobody would fucking blat bat an eye. I think one of the worst things that was moved to Brooklyn. I'm glad you brought that up.
I wanted to talk about that because. I've talked about how, like, the Knicks, this New York Knicks team didn't feel like a large market. Just because they didn't feel like large market in the bad ways, you feel large market where everyone hates them. The people hate the Yankees. But they don't hate the n like I'm talking about flyover country, okay?
Sure. Um And then, like, there's like the Angels that are second place in LA, but they've got fans. There's the White Sox that are second in Chicago, they've got fans. Even the New York situations. The New Jersey Nets.
Moving to Brooklyn. Dumbest thing. I don't understand. where the fans are coming from. Where where is a br If you're a New Jersey fan and they move to Brooklyn, first of all, you hate them.
It's like I think it's like playing the Diego Chargers going to LA. You're like, okay, well, fuck the Chargers. Even the Warriors moved from Oakland to San Francisco. Like, I'd still be pissed about that. Yeah, but even then, there's you know, there's still Golden State, you know, so they try to encompass all that.
So you lose because you're like, oh, you think you're too cool? You. Yeah. I'm a New Jersey guy. And then if you're Brooklyn, you're like, Hey, this is.
I've been a Knicks fan. It's pretty cool. There's a. Team in my borough.
Okay, I'll root for them. But the minute the Knicks are good again, you're like, oh, fuck this. Yeah. Oh, I'm sure there were a lot of converted Nets fans into Knicks fans in this postseason run. I'm sure the Nets have gotten irreparable harm by the Knicks postseason run here.
And it's rightfully so because. The Nets are fucking bad. And even when they were good. You didn't think they were going to win a championship, maybe for like an eye blink. But once Kevin Durant stepped on the fucking line, it was over.
James Harney wanted out immediately. You gutted half your team. And this is coming off of the same team that. They previously gutted their team for a big three old-ass roster from the Celtics that netted the Celtics a championship.
So the Nets have always put themselves in really bad and precarious positions. And this year, when they had a fucking bad season, they had nobody playing. Like, no one gave a shit about the Nets. You hopefully you can get a high lottery pick and a deep NBA draft. You're picking fucking ninth.
The Nets are picking ninth. There is no hope if you are Nets fans.
So, to watch the Knicks. Be almost celebrated nationally because you're right. This is a very likable team. You know, I think a lot of people like this Knicks team because there was no like inherent superstar. In New York, Jalen Brunson's god.
But nationally, He's not looked at in these conversations of face NBA talk or anything like that. The Knicks have just a collection of guys that like each other, that play well together. They are a deep team. They're not a superstar team.
So I think it was a lot. I think it was very easy for America outside of San Antonio to kind of root on for the Knicks because, you know, you don't have a bunch of assholes or overpaid superstars. Like you got a quality team. Um That being said. Like, yeah, if you're a Ness fan, you're probably jumping off.
There's no hope. I mean, who's on the nets right now? And I don't have the roster up. I'm not even going to bother getting it. I couldn't name you.
Three Neph players. I can give you Nick Claxton. I'll give you Porter Jr. I can and I forgot he was there for a second. And Jordy Fernandez is their head coach.
But that's it. I think there's like this one Russian guy or something like that that might be pretty good that they picked up last year in the draft. In a deep draft, you're picking ninth. In a fucking terrible season. Like, where's the hope coming from if you're a Nets fan?
Just go to the next. Just go to I think you're You put in the application right now. You might be considered a bandwagon, but fuck it. You're off the Nets. You're on the Knicks.
And I really think the best thing for the Nets is just to get the hell out of town. Get that. This proved this is a Nick City. Get out of town, go somewhere else. Go back to jersey.
That's a good move. There's no way for them being there. It's zero. And I actually believe the same thing for the Chargers. The Chargers not being in San Diego is a fucking crime against sports.
Dean Spanish should be put on trial for war crimes. The Chargers and the Nets need to go back to their respective homes, which is San Diego and New Jersey. Why don't you move the Nets back to San Diego? Or the Clippers used to play in San Diego? Move the Nets over there.
Get them. The NBA is not going to want, even though the Brooklyn Nets are completely irrelevant, they do want, you know, the two tri-state markets. They don't have they might as well be the Buffalo fucking Bills. They might as well. As far as New York is concerned, they should, they should.
The Brooklyn Nets should absolutely consider going back to New Jersey. I understand a little bit why they kind of did it. They thought that they were going to get These old schools Long Island ABA Nets fans back. They thought that they were going to get some of the population. And the Knicks weren't, obviously, the Knicks won their first championship 50-30 years.
The Knicks were a laughingstock franchise for a lot of those years.
So, the Nets thought that it could come in. All right, maybe we'll siphon a couple of Knicks fans. We understand we're not going to get everybody, but we'll get a few. This Knicks run completely, whatever. Whatever incremental gains that they got from getting KD and Hardin and all these guys for their big three.
That's gone and densum. The Nets need to get the hell out of town. Look at these numbers in terms of the comebacks. This is according to ESPN analytics. The Spurs led for about 75% of this series.
We should have been looking at we should have been talking about a San Antonio 4-0 sweep. This was, I keep saying this is a very Matt LaFleur Spurs finals. People, um, that's good. I've been late on that because, you know, people. Oh yeah, no, you know, don't diss the mat Lafor.
I mean. The Spurs had a 91.6% chance of winning game one when they were up 13 through the third. They had a 72% chance of winning game two when they were up two points with a minute left in the fourth.
So that's not as egregious. But then they had a 99.6 chance of winning game four up 20 with 933 left to go in the fourth. And then a 95.4% chance of winning game five, up 10 points with eight minutes in the fourth. This was kind of like what the Pacers did to them and did last year. But to do all of this, Michael Mulville.
Or whatever his name is, Fox Sports Guy. The Knicks' odds are already astronomical, but to come back in every one of those games like they did. 237,867 to 1. Truly unprecedented what they did. Yeah, and watching game five, you just knew.
You just knew when it was a 10-point difference going into the fourth quarter, you're like, the Knicks are coming back. Like, this one is so easy, especially since we just saw them come back going into the half of game four down 29. Like Every single game. Wemby ran out of gas, or you had a guy that just wasn't hitting buckets. Dylan Harper in game five, a couple of missed clutch free throws.
The inexperience showed its warts in this series. And So I'll give credit to Shep. On this, I had Shep on as a guest yesterday because I had an impromptu hosting show. We can talk about that. I'm at like seven in the morning.
He came on at 720. I wanted him originally at 7. But to his credit, he was doing the post-game show for game five Saturday night.
So he had a short turnaround. I appreciate him jumping on. But yeah, look at Chep doing it, putting the work. But I will give him credit for this because I talked to him a little bit about this because I'm like, listen. You know, I gotta get, you know how it is in radio.
I gotta get from point A to point B. And point B, I was worried that I was going to run out of content.
So I was like, all right, let me get somebody to kill a couple of myths with me.
So I got shut. And listen, that's a good get because the guy knows more basketball than I. I trust his opinion. I talked to him about the Spurs, and I'm like, dude, we should have been talking about it. First of all, Carlos, it's great to be with you.
He did say that. We worked together in the past. People may know. Yeah. The compliment at the start of the spot, the compliment at the end of the spot.
So, yeah, the content was diminished. It's great to be with you here on this network. And hey, he drops the network by name. But But I will get Shep had one nugget out there, and I didn't give it any thought whatsoever. And I think if the Spurs make this move, I think Shep honestly should get all the credit in the world, and I hope it gets blown up that way.
But he said, after this series, Mitch Johnson needs to get fired. He said the Spurs need a new head coach. I mean, that is. Like I said about LaFlora, people won't do it.
Well, yeah. And I push back a tiny bit. I mean, Miss Johnson. He just took this team to the finals and say what you want. I mean, they're not good enough.
He's just like, I don't want to advocate for people losing their job, but he's like, he's like, flat out. He's like, they need a new head coach. And I get what he's saying. Mitch Johnson had a bunch of fucking timeouts in his back pocket. Every time the Knicks go on runs, there's no voice in leadership to be like, hey, slow it down.
Let's not make these dumbass turnovers. Stop jacking up threes. Let's get easy twos. There was a bunch of things that the Spurs did, and it's not on all of Mitch Johnson. It's not.
Wemby played like shit at times. He disappeared. You know, Stefan Castle was a complete no-show game five. Like I said, Harper missed a couple of clitches. If they don't get the 20 plus out of Harper off the bench, they have no bench in game five.
So everybody came and had their up and ups and downs. But Where his point for Mitch Johnson made a little bit of sense is like. Again. You're just letting these Knicks go on runs. You're not making any adjustments.
There's no, unless you have a veteran presence, and D'Aron Fox is not the veteran that you want to rely on, apparently, because following up on his bonehead decisions and the game four, he had a shit game five.
So If you're not going to get a veteran presence on the court, you need one on the sideline.
So I understand what Shep is saying. I think they'll give Mitch Johnson obviously another year because, say what you want at the end of the day, this Spurs team was ahead of schedule. That you know, they weren't, they were looked at as one of the top two, three teams in the West, but usually you lose before you start to win. The Spurs got to the final without really being battle-tested in previous seasons. This is Wemby's third year.
So, like, I think the Spurs will be back, but I totally get it if the Spurs do decide to move on for Miss Johnson, a new head coach. And I want Chef to get all the credit for that. Bruce says Wemby's reaction to winning the Western Conference finals felt like they won the NBA finals. Yeah, he's right. The Redding was on the wall, but that they came back from the champions down 3-2.
Of course, there's going to be a big reaction, and still in this series. At one point, the Spurs were kind of getting, and Mitch Johnson was getting clowned because they're saying. We've been the determiner about who's winning these games. Like they're winning because we're choking. Mm-hmm.
He's right about that, but you're still choking and that's not going to It's not going to make anybody feel better. Greg? The legendary warrior, Mr. Positive, a destroyer. Of course, he types in all caps.
No, one person on earth is Craig. He speaks the only way that he types. TV and podcast is in the house. Yay, the dynamic duo. Yay, Knicks.
Go USA. Boom shaka locka, everybody go for your dreams. Jesus Christ. Robert says: national perspective question: what's a bigger deal? Giannis to the Celtics or Lindsey Slater to TMJ4.
One of our most popular meteorologists was abruptly let go from Channel 12 ABC. And it's just been announced officially today that she is now with the NBC affiliate. On TMJ4, so it's big, big news. Gotta be a big deal. I'll say Giannis is Celtics because I no disrespect, I have no idea who the Lindsey Slater is.
Well, I see Giannis going to the Celtics, I see him going to the Heat, I see him going to. You were talking about the Thunder, which makes sense. That makes the most sense to me to all the other teams. Hey, congrats on hosting, by the way. Oh, thanks.
So I don't even think Westwood One knows I hosted. I'll be very honest.
So, here's how this came about. We're going to destroy the curtain.
So, I do Saturday and Sunday mornings, 6 to 11 a.m. Eastern, right?
So, how it works is there's usually Nick Ashu and Elijah Campbell, respectively, on Saturdays and Sundays for those first two hours. Hold on, breaking news. We got a new member. Of the Donation Club, Bruce. Hey!
You actually like this stuff? For $3.99 a month, you can donate to the podcast. and get nothing in return. Bruce. Except I say you're a donation club member every time.
And I personally say hello to Bruce. And another crap, Jesus. Bruce, thank you. You know, I appreciate that. You're right there.
No, I've been having cramps lately. All right.
So you just named a bunch of names nobody knows. Yeah, yeah.
Well, yeah, maybe. I do like them. They're nice guys. He became a YouTube member again. But yeah, so and then Lynell Willingham, young cat out of DC, very talented dude.
He does three hours 8 to 11 on Saturday and Sunday because how like they have their full-timers kind of like work and stuff. Like, yeah, I'd be pretty pissed off. But But that's my normal like rotation. I have these three guys I work with at weekends and I'm out.
So When one of them is out. It's usually easy. You know, I'm working with some fill-in that I've never heard of in my life. And, you know, we just go on, you know, no problem. The two-hour shows are an absolute snack.
Um Nick Ashe was taken off a couple times on a Saturday, so Elijah Campbell will do both the Saturday and Sunday. Um Elijah Campbell, I don't know if he's ever taken off before, but he was not working yesterday. And he texted our program director. He's like, Hey? I still see I'm on the schedule.
What's up? Because he is out this weekend. Like he's not coming in. Crickets Um So Elijah texts me. He's just like.
I'm all still on the schedule. I don't know what to do. And I'm like.
Well, fuck, because I haven't heard from our program director either. Uh I guess I'll do it.
So I prepped the show like I was going to host. And unless somebody was gonna come in. Uh because R P D is on vacation.
So I'm like I'm just going to assume I'm doing this. And then I logged on yesterday. And I spoke with our uh our our board op slash uh associate producer and I'm like Is there anybody there? And he's like, nope.
Well, I'm like.
Well fuck, it's a good thing I have this show prep. Let's roll. It's a two-hour show. It was an absolute snack.
So, yeah, I just. I just covered down. And again, I think. I I believe management still has an absolutely no idea. That I did the show.
They have your host pay. They'll figure it out because I submitted my invoice because I know what the host rate is. You think I'm doing this shit for free? Oh no. And we had calls, so I know I did a good job.
Greg says, use the 399. Also, a donation club member, Greg 0414. Get some Gatorade, hydrate them cramps away. Yeah, you need some electrolytes. That's exactly.
I saw a bunch of people crash out on Hyrox races when I was doing this shit because. You know, not enough electrolytes. Got to get that in your system. We do usually have a good supply of Gatorade in the house. Kids are a big fan.
Next year, Mom do. And then I've also realized he likes when he sees Prime in the stores. Oh, is it because of Logan Paul? Yeah, he likes to pipe the rhyme. But then he never finishes the bottle because it's fucking disgusting.
Dude, first of all, Prime is disgusting, but also, is he quite possibly related to my wife? Because my wife is the little girl in signs in the M. Night Shyamalan movie, where he just leaves cups of beverages all over the fucking house. There was a coat model there. there There's, if I go into the room right now, I guarantee you, there's like two snapple bottles, an empty Coke can, and three cups of water, and all of it have liquid in there.
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I'll take things that didn't happen for 1,000, Alex. Yeah, I just saw Greg. I just saw Shet. I just saw Charlie Sheen. Say he's never slept with five women at a time.
Yeah, you're not pulling in Charlie's sheen numbers. Stop it. Yeah, I've seen your Facebook. You know what I did last night after the soccer? What'd you do?
I watched the fight. I completely forgot that it was this weekend. Did they finally take the fucking disgusting claw off the White House lawn?
Well, I think they want to keep it up forever, but Uh Rogan says it costs too much money. Yeah, get it get it out. And where where to who is he paying, by the way? There's some things, there's a lot of, there's a lot of. Last night was a scam.
Last night was a great event if you're a UFC fan. But there was a They all the god Jesus, you know what I'm saying. But wars are hard. I wanted to check it out because I wanted to see what it looked like. And it was on Paramount Plus.
Which apparently they did good on Paramount Plus because this, for a lot of people, is the first time they ever seen on the UFC broadcasting rights. I thought it would be on that. No, they lost it to Paramount Plus. Oh, okay. There were going to be a bunch of these number fights on CBS.
This was supposed to be one, we thought, and then it was buried on a Sunday night. On Paramount Plus.
So I watched it. I saw the theatrics.
Okay. But then at the end, I thought. After I did a show, I watched soccer, did a show, and thought. I haven't seen people. Usually, I don't, I'm not a UFC guy.
No, no, no. Usually, I don't know anything that's going on. I only know two people that locked into it. Except for when I go on Twitter on a Saturday night and everyone's freaking out. Yeah.
So I'm like, is this fight still going on? And then it was going on right at the inter um Right at the um Introductions. And they're like, this guy's 17 and oh. And he's never lost. And he beats up people early.
And then Gacey, is that how you say it? Yeah, was it Justin's first name? Yeah. He's like 27 and 5. But he was the underdog American.
Right. And you west a TKO, they're involved. I don't want to say UFC's rigged because this guy got his face fucking pummeled worse than Homer Simpson ever did. Yeah. But for a big enough check.
You let that kind of shit happen. Ranger things have happened, man. You don't act like people haven't taken a dive in professional fights. I don't think it was Rigg, personally, but if it was. Like, it's hard to be like exhibit A.
So I'm like, all right, I'll watch this fight. In the first round, This other guy's kicking the shit out of The American And I'm like, well, okay. But then the second round. The American comes back and he's kicking the shit out of the other guy and like Can't fucking see. And then in the third round.
The doctor's like, we're stopping this fight. He can't see. And everyone's like, oh my God. And then some guy comes over and he goes, No fights like the ref is like, nah, he's still good. What the fuck?
That's insane. And then in the fourth round. The favorite It was a 2-2 round split, really. And then they're like, no, dude, this guy cannot fucking see. Outside of it being the White House and outside of the affiliations.
I think I enjoyed the USC fight last night. Really? Yeah, I hate to say, I think I did. Oh.
Well, maybe you should talk to Gelb because he's a big UFC guy. Zach Gelb and Pete Hoffman are the only two people that I know that I actively lock into UFC. Oh, yeah, I see Gelb retweet, like, oh, when I talk to him about this match, I well, I mean, listen, if you have a pulse, you probably talked to Zach Gelb on the show before. Like, but it's still like. He knows the UFC like I might know WWE or soccer.
He does. No, I give Gelb a lot of credit. He out of like all the national hosts that like fake it, I think Gelb actually knows his shit when it comes to it. Oh, and he's covered a bunch of events. I'm not going to take that.
I'm not going to take that away from him. Bryn says. I work in DC. They had major roads closed since last Thursday. And the spotlights look like a new shitty nightclub opening.
It's tacky. I mean, and to have the White House. There were a lot of people on that ellipse watching the screens. Sure. No, I get it.
Listen, it's an event. It's an event unlike we've ever seen before in history. Yeah, I've never seen a guy shout out after he won that. The thing he said about Michelle Obama. I did not hear or see that.
You didn't? No. Dude, I completely forgot that this weekend existed for the UFC. Like, I didn't check that. He took the mic and he said, We all know Michelle Obama is a man.
Wow. I know. Was it Sean Strickland? Because he's. No, but afterwards, Dana White's like.
No matter what your political affiliation is, all Americans have to like this tonight. Oh, come on. And then the other thing I wanted to say was. They let off fireworks at 1:30 in the morning. And it wasn't just like, it was like.
It was like four something. But if 4th of July with another 4th of July. Listen, no one enlists You know, within a 10-mile radius, nobody lives within the White House at 1:30 on a Saturday. I think it's fine, dude. Oh, really?
Oh, okay. All right.
I stand corrected.
Well, 11:30 on a Monday morning. There were fireworks at 3 a.m. down the block. For me, after the Knicks won the championship, nobody went to sleep. I do not feel bad about the DC residents whatsoever.
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Festa Italian. It's the start of summer. Get a festival for everything, y'all. Yesterday was the National Puerto Rican Day parade in New York, and I couldn't go because I was fucking exhausted. One of my favorite pastimes is.
There are festivals in Milwaukee. All summer long. At the Summer Fest Fairgrounds, where the big celebration is, which at least starts this week. And I can't wait. Everyone knows on the weekends.
In Milwaukee, there are fireworks at night. Everyone knows. But then I hear the fireworks and I go. See how long this takes. I open up next door, which I never go on otherwise.
And I open up Facebook. Any uh Is it fireworks outsiders? Did I hear gunshots? Oh my God. Gunshots are fireworks.
Milwaukee leads the league. In gunshots or fireworks post on next door, I promise you. I promise you that. I think if you live in New York for more than a week, you know the difference between fireworks and gunshots very quickly. I'm from Chicago.
I know, I cannot mistake the sound of a gunshot. Yeah. So are you watching any of these games today? You got Spain coming out? Um Should I lie to you and say that I'm going to be locked in or?
You want a FaceTime during Belgium, Egypt? Probably not. See, I don't know where to go. One of the things I'm trying to do is I'm trying to go around town. Yesterday, there's a German beer hall, so I stopped in to see the game there for a few minutes.
That sounds cool. There's an English pub. I'll go there. That's cool. You don't know where your local watering Egyptian hole is?
I don't know where to go for Spain. Oh, Mexico. There was a great, there's a Mexico should be easy for everybody. Go find your local people. I saw that was with 300 people on Thursday afternoon.
But Saudi Arabia, Uruguay. I don't know. yeah that one might be that one you just might have to watch it in the house Tonight is Iran, New Zealand. You might want to lay off that one too. Maybe Iran.
Hey, maybe Iran can get their second victory in two straight days. Um Hashtag read the news. But I don't know like... I was really struggling 'cause I'm Uh Thursday night. Yeah.
South Korea played Chechnya. Of course. And I had just been with hundreds of people for the Mexico game. And I didn't want to be like on Twitter. I was like, anyone know where South Korean fans would be?
Yeah. I didn't want to be like, where my Koreans at? Oh, do you want legitimate breaking news that you may or may not care about? But it is legitimate breaking news. What is the sport?
Mm-hmm. Did Mitch get fired? No, but it is head coaching related. Who needs a coach still? My team.
They got one? Just got one. And I think I'm okay with it. I don't know if I love it, but I think I'm okay with it. Chicago Bulls have hired...
Give me a name. Sean Sweeney? You want to take another stab at it? Colleger Pro. Pro.
A pro coach? Yeah. I'll give you two more guesses. All right, Terry Stotz. No.
How to think a little younger. I don't know. All right.
According to Shams, who everybody hates, and for good reason, the Chicago Bulls are finalizing the hire of Portland Trailblazers interim. Tiago Splitter. As a franchise new head coach to succeed. Billy Donovan. after he stepped onto head coaching job.
So Chauncey's coming back? Listen, you could shoot someone on the White House lawn in the NBA. If you can somewhat coach, you'll get a job. They're almost as bad as the NHL, where the NHL just basically fucking siphons off the same eight guys to like coach somewhere. John Tortorella, who just took the Vegas Golden Knights to the Stanley Cup.
This is like his fucking 14th team that he had. Why did Splitter leave? Um I don't know this for a fact. I'm sure I'm going to dig into this because I didn't, to be honest, I didn't really know Tiago Splitter was on the Bulls radar, but. I'm pretty sure.
That there's going to be some reports about Tom Dundon taking over as the Blazers. And yes, he just won a Stanley Cup. Oh, yeah, they're cheap as fuck. Dundon gets rid of people in a fucking heartbeat. Like he comes in and.
He guts organizations.
Now You're going to look at Carolina, the Hurricanes, and be like, well, they just want a Stanley Cup.
So, like, whatever he does is going to work. But the Blazers, it's going to take a while for it to turn around.
So, Tiago Splitter probably just got the fuck out of Dodge. I really hate to be this guy. I hope he works out for the Bulls, but I don't know. No, it seems like a good hire. I think it's like I said, I don't hate the hire.
I don't absolutely love it. I think it's good. I just didn't wonder if it was an ownership thing or if they had an insight to the properties coming back. Which it doesn't I don't think you can bring Chauncey back. No, I don't think you can either But I think Chauncey Billips is, he's going to get another head coaching job.
He's going to.
Somewhat breaking news for the rest of the World Cup. I need to take one of these down and put up this Sweet 94 poster. Oh, that's awesome. I like that. Yeah, do you know remember what this dog's name was?
Nope, but I don't give a shit, man. He's looking pretty snazzy in that USA outfit. I should just give this to my kid instead. That's awesome. I really do like that.
His name is Stryker. Oh, that's cool.
So I got to put that up. Because it's America 250. I went by a house today on a walk. The whole house, I gotta take a picture for you. It was insane.
It looked like the White House front lawn, actually. I thought I was going to start seeing people fight on it. The one other thing I wanted to say to you, besides you're such a nice person and a great friend. is I don't remember. Um You could talk about Miz, how he's got a 017 ERA in his last game on third.
I don't give a shit. I didn't give a shit. A Cy Young candidate. He deserves the all-star in the HUD this year. It should be starting this year easily.
I'm glad I was on the right side of history with that one. I mean, five stars was a little fucking short. Um Yeah.
Well, yeah, it was, but. But this this year he absolutely deserves it. I mean I hate that he's a brewer, but I didn't get a chance to say it yesterday when I actually hosted a show accidentally on National Airways.
So I'll say it here. And this is not pandering to you or your ilk. I totally believe this with the Knicks ending their franchise drought. uh for 53 years of not having a title I wanted to go through the segment of like, all right, who are the teams that are either going to finally get their first one or break their droughts? The team that I landed on.
Again, I didn't get a chance to do the full list on air. But it was going to be the Milwaukee Brewers. I think you guys are going to be the next team to get your first World Series. or like your first championship. It's not a drought, obviously, because you only went there once.
But I I think this team I think that you have the pitching. In order to get past the Braves and the Dodgers. I mean, it's going to be hard, but maybe those guys will fight each other. And then you'll pick up the winner. But I think that Bruce.
I proceed to believe it. I think that. I think that while The Knicks, it was a long time. It was still a drought. It wasn't like they weren't ever, it wasn't like they didn't win.
It was kind of like the Bucks. 71 to 21 and then 73 to 26. But the Knicks were always going to win again at some point. They looked at sometimes that you would never get there. You would never get there with a do you think what's going to happen?
I'm telling you, this happened with the Cubs and I always feel morbid saying it, but. After the Cubs won the World Series, like.
So many people in their 80s and 90s in Chicago. Just fucking died. They're like, I saw what I needed to see now. And I'm sure there are a lot of older Knicks fans right now. Check on Grandma if she's a Knicks fan.
Yeah, yeah.
Because there's nothing else to look forward to in sports if you're a New York fan. Like, there's nothing else. I think, so now the longest drop belongs to the Jets. Which they had it anyway. Oh, and then in hockey, the Rangers haven't won since 94.
If they win a World Series, they're just not the Brewers anymore. Like, they actually are the lovable losers. I can't even. I don't look at that like for the last five years. You guys wanted the vision every fucking year.
Doesn't matter who the manager is. As important who's one of the Knicks winning the Brewers. I can't even visualize it. We live in a world where the Marlins have two. You guys should have one.
Look what is on my wall. The Bucks Championship. The Packers Super Bowl. Yep. And then I celebrate a Brewers team that went 13-0 to start the season and did not make the playoffs.
That's rough. Although, I have to, one more helping hand segment. I'm going through some old magazines. Do I talk while he's out of the frame? No, I got some.
I got this Sports Illustrated to put up, the highlight. This is a classic one. I got Giannis winning the title Classic One. I got a couple of scratch magazines that just sit there, collect dust. I got a second.
On top, that's clever.
So I think I'm going to take some of this. I think I'm gonna redo my At least you got a wall. I wish I had a wall. Are you coming to Brewers Cubs next week or no? You're not doing to be honest, I didn't even look at the schedule.
I don't know how I'm going to manage it. If you want to come Thursday, August 6th for Brewers Pirates, I'm doing a tailgate. Why the hell would I do that? That's where I have to go. Where I light up Joe Fucking shirts and be like, I need my, I hope both teams lose T.
I went to a Cubs game with you. You did. But that's because I'm I don't live in Chicago. I think if we lived. You know, in our respective cities, if you were in Milwaukee and I was still in Chicago, I think we'd see each other probably like, you know, once every three months.
I live in New York. It's we're lucky if we're getting once a year.
So, of course, you're going to go see a Cubs and Padres game, but I feel like I want to see Toby. He's in DC. I want to see Horvot. He's in DC. I want to see you.
You're in New York. DC's four hours away. They can drive slash take a train up here. And you can come. I can't see anybody.
No, yeah, listen. I'm not hanging out with those guys if you're not there. That's just fucking weird. I fucked up. I should have had a weekend.
John Brazil. I should have done Brazil, Morocco Saturday night. In New York and then UFC Freedom 250 in DC. Yeah, man. What a wasted opportunity.
Well, at least you get Spain in two minutes. Go get odor some paella. I gotta go watch that. Carlos, it's always good to see you. And thanks for everybody for stopping by.
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