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Grant Pills, Paul Emig. Oh, guys, it's so good to see you. We all just jumped down here. This is our first take. You as well.
It's a privilege and a pleasure to see your face, Bart. You know, I think I'm going to get installed in my house. You know, there's like, you know, those like break rooms. I need one in my home.
All right. If you could have one. There's a real question. If you could have one completely out of the ordinary room in your house, something that a normal house would never have. I'll give you an example.
I just gave you one. No, but I'm saying is that your real answer? Because I would do a trampoline room. Big, wide, tall ceiling trampoline room. Isn't that fun? Carpets, Jerry! Carpets!
Doesn't that sound fun, though? I'd want it levels. Everything's got to be levels. That's it. Shit. I feel like a soundproof room.
A lot of padding where I could go in there and just scream. Not, no. No, not. I suppose I could. I thought you were saying to let out my rage. No, no. I was thinking more to like listen to music and play music really loud without having to worry about bothering those around me.
I could scream, though. That's a benefit. It's multi-use. It's a panic room slash music room. Yeah.
I can't I can't think of a better one than break room because as we were setting up to record and God only knows if this will even ever post. The Internet got bad again. And I had internet problems this morning where it wasn't showing my Wi-Fi. We got through that and then everything was fixed. I got the better router. I got the better package. I got the extender. Everything should be great and it has been great.
And then now today when I need it, it's causing me problems. So on the way upstairs, I kicked a tiny garbage can with my barefoot. Prognosis fine. My tootsies are OK. But I just I I would like a room where I could just go in and break shit because I look around. And everything to me is like, you know, like you're super horny, everything looks like you could.
Like all of a sudden that water bottle looking pretty sexy. But to me, everything looks like I could smash that. I could smash that.
And the computer I'm talking to you on now is a new computer because I smashed my other one. Yeah. So I would. Yes. I mean, a break room is if I could just have a room with shit in it that I could just break.
Isn't break shit a song by one of your guys's bands? No, don't. Don't.
What are you doing? Stop. Three seconds. We're good. I'm like, you think I was going to play four seconds?
You're crazy. I get three things that. Fred Durst's band sing who the stop. Who is testing you?
This is a test. Limp Bizgitt. Yes. I was going to say a band out of Jacksonville, Florida. That would have helped me even less. Leroy Butler and the but the Leroy and the Butlers.
Yeah. I really want to hear long form if you don't know my Butler and the Leapers. We've hit on our key topic, which is what type of room would you have in your house? And if our state keeps going this way, he just might break your fucking face tonight. But that aside, now that we've hit on that, Grant, I want to hear long form. You talk about Woodstock ninety nine and the artists who were there. I watched one corn video. The crowd looked electric. The music was absolute shit. And also there are people who got mangled in that crowd. I mean, tell me that everyone just walked away from that show like that was great. Like there were people who not affected the rest of their lives. I mean, there were people who died. Oh, really? I don't think during the corn show, but. During Metallica, I saw during I mean, I think like passing out and then being amidst.
What was it? Hundred thousand plus people getting Travis Scott. It would also it was cool. I appreciate that the music. You were like five when Woodstock ninety nine happened.
So it's probably one of those like time and place things. But if you can't just bang your head to corn rocking out blind. There's something broken inside of you. I will bang my head to System of a Down. That's you'll get me there.
That's about as far as you can get me. I love that. I love that you do like and enjoy it. System of a Down. We have actually. Well, the thing with System is they sing. They scream a little, but they sing. A lot of the other bands, they more just they more just yell. So we start singing.
It's like my cock is much bigger than yours. Well, OK, well, that's walk right through the door. That's a cherry picked example. That's a very cherry picked example. Did we lose Bart again?
I think we might have. Oh, boy. That is a cherry picked example, though. It is. I love System of a Down. Although what's not to say? Stigaro. The song Violent Pornography is on the same album.
So those two, I'll give you those two. The kind of shit that's on your TV. Radio video. Oh, God, that's such a great album.
Everybody, everybody, everybody, everybody. They kind of suck live from videos I've seen. It's like, I don't know. I saw them in 2000, I think just one time.
Ozfest. I mean, they were always wild, like interesting. It was wild. Wasn't like it wasn't the my heart. It wasn't like the most like crisp. Everything is exactly how it's supposed to sound on the album.
Like that's not what they ever were. Well, it's not real music, man. Mm hmm. Great. How do you feel that's happening to me?
I don't know. We're having fun without you, though. Yeah, that's how it's going to have to be today. Not that I'm even important to this. You want to try your phone that one time? It connected with.
I'll maybe do a hotspot if we get over again. You had a gripe about something, Bart. I just wanted it. I had a few things before we get started.
Yeah. I just want to thank everybody for the Pata boys and that of that boys and pats on the back. Pata balls and balls. Game balls for me and deflated balls for losing a few pounds.
People were kind to say things. What did I say? I lost 30. Yeah.
You may want to make that 25. Bad weekend. It's like when you lose a little weight and then you gain on like three pounds. Mm hmm.
Suddenly. If like I got down to two from 230, but then suddenly 205 feels like 250. The problem is that it takes like a while for your body to be like, oh, 200 is the new norm.
Going back up to 205 happens really easily because it's not set in yet. I also wanted to. Did people comment because of my comment or because they just saw the video and they're like, oh, like, yeah, look at that. People have been commenting for months, Paul. I just brought it up. That's awesome.
The license plate thing, big hit outside of YouTube fucks. Fuck off. That's you. Where did you else try this publicly? People have been DMing me. People have been tweeting me.
I don't believe that people have been coming up to me at the quick trip that I talked to me about it. That I believe. And then also I wanted to encourage people while I sort of am being chased from this place. Grant is embracing the space of streaming on Twitter and bringing his show to YouTube. And I see I'm scrolling.
I see little Grant there. And I hope that people go and subscribe to Grant's YouTube channel. Thank you for the retweet, by the way. I'm only asking one more time because every time I tweeted out, I get it. It works. Being annoying works, I guess. What are you at for subscribers?
I am at 93, which doesn't seem like a lot, but I made it like three days ago. Wait, what happens if you subscribe to someone's Twitter now? What is their X? No, this is YouTube. We're trying to get him to YouTube.
Oh, I'm sorry. Follow. OK. Yeah, we got to subscribe to his YouTube to get him up to the magic number. When do they send me a plaque? Is that 100? Is that what I think is a million? No, no, you get a hundred thousand.
A hundred thousand gets you a plaque? Mm hmm. You know what? I've actually noticed that I've been losing subscribers. So people don't actively manage their YouTube subscriptions. That's not like Twitter I get. Some people get an email when I put out a new video.
A lot of people turn that off. An email? Well, you can turn on the notifications to say.
Well, OK. No, no, no. A notification is one thing you don't mean. You're not saying email for push notification. You're not that old.
Are you, Bart? You mean I email to their Google. OK, OK. Now you get an email.
You can you can choose. Yeah. Some is push notification.
Some is just you see the little thing at the top. But but the content I've been putting out this summer, people have been actively unsubscribing to. What would have been different this summer than anything you ever would have? Like, it's not like you changed the format of your content. What was this content different that people were like, I'm out of here? Well, we took a month off, guys. Oh, so you weren't active enough. Yeah, we took we took a month off. All right. Do you notice a pep in your step, Grant?
Is it is this a new era of the Wisco sports show? It's just a fun project. It's you know, you need fun, new things to work on. And so, yeah, I mean, I'm doing it all.
It's like trying to whip up some graphics and stuff. So that's been kind of fun. When you when you someday have a producer on your show, it is going to hit you like crack.
You're not even going to know what to do. You've just been one man banding shit your whole career. And it's fun. I get to put my little touch on everything.
I know. But like, I have no idea what I'm going to talk about tonight. And so does Carlos make a rundown for you? No, I still make my rundown, which he has special access to on my Google Docs. But anyone must ask for a guest. I just like that.
I fully I shared a Google Doc because sometimes I fill in for other shows and then there is a producer and I'll share a Google Doc. And then I feel self-conscious because they read my you know, everyone has a way of writing. And it's like, oh, this is kind of my own.
You're in my head when you read my rundown. It's like, what? Someone would look at it like what? Because when you speak it out loud into a radio, it sounds like a radio show. But when you read it on paper, you're like, this guy's fucking weird.
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Well, while the Internet's working, we should ask some. All right. As the NFL goes from four preseason games to three preseason games, as teams start to pivot to more of these like these, what do they call them, interest squad scrimmages and they host a thing. Preseason is unnecessary. And if it's gone in five to 10 years entirely, so be it.
Mm hmm. Or can I bet on this one? I think the preseason is important. It gets us excited for football, gets us warmed up. I like the aesthetic of it. I like having a football game on my TV on a Saturday night in the summer.
You know, the announcers wearing polos. It's football, but it but it's like but it's still summer like we're in a good mood. Like I don't have the weight of the upcoming work week.
The days are getting shorter, you know, all that stuff. So I like that as a consumer. It gives us content. But also Colin Cowherd says on his show all the time, half the league is undrafted. Like part of what makes the NFL special compared to the NBA or Major League Baseball is you have. Sam Shields and Tremond Williams and Carrington Valentine and Donald Driver, like not just guys like A.J.
Green on the box. That was a nice little chipset, but like some all time great players have come out of nowhere. And the preseason is a part of those guys earning their way onto rosters and catching the eyes of GMs and and earning a job. And I think that's cool. And I think it would be a shame if the NFL lost it. I don't think we'd all turn our back on the NFL. It's football.
We're never going to stop. But I do think that's that's a fun part of the league that kind of sets it apart from other Americans. Sports, I will say. So before Bart goes, it's because we'll give Bart the tiebreaker.
I think he's going to go with you on this grand. I have my YouTube TV DVR set to like just record any NFL football. Right. Record it. And then I can watch what I want to watch.
I want to watch it. And it's not time sensitive. And I just turn on and I realized dress rehearsals. You know, these these words, it's it's it's so not the same thing that I'm going to watch in three weeks that I watched like four snaps of a non Packers preseason game. And I said, I watch like all of Cowboys Rams on Sunday.
I'm a sickle. So that's totally degenerate behavior, which is fine. So my answer is, mm hmm. I don't really think with the you know, you hear this all the time.
Vanilla defenses and you know, guys are barely playing. It's not the same product. It's not the same really sport. I it's fine if people like it. I just you know, like, hey, let's take take the you know, let's take the young kids to the game. It's not a high pressure football game like that part of it.
Love that part of it. You can speak to that as a father. Both of you can. I can't speak to that perspective.
Somebody please. Yes, as a TV, not going to this one, though. Are you going next week? No, no. As a TV consumer for the product of like, I'm going to watch Cowboys Rams.
I found my answer at least at this moment, at this this year, this at this moment, this time to be. I don't know if preseason is gone. So be it.
I don't need it. No, thank you to preseason football. I'm going to be a degenerate come that Thursday night. And then for the next twenty two weeks that follow.
But yeah, I just it's if it's important to the team's process to find who the player of course, like that's all good. Consuming it. I'm not into it.
So to my question, which bar type get rid of preseason? I'm going to say, yeah, I mean, as far as like if it's gone, because clearly it's going to go from four to three. It's going to go to two.
I wouldn't be surprised if it went to zero. So I'm saying if that were ever to happen, so be it. Good riddance. Or I'm saying so be it. Good riddance. If that happens.
Yeah, I think I'm going to go. I'm surprised I am, too. But they're they've already sort of done that for us. Totally. So nobody plays like Bryce Young's not playing. Oh, we're not going to. Bryce Young.
I know he should play. Yeah. And you have JJ McCarthy play and then he gets hurt. Mm hmm. So now it's like, well, maybe you shouldn't.
It's like, why are we why is it? Why are there these three games that exist solely for guys to hopefully not get hurt in? Yeah, right. And maybe this is you know, this is what I'll do tonight.
Should we get rid of the preseason? Got it. God. Oh, that was Marvin Home Alone. Oh, that was actually a very good Marvin Home Alone. Well, that's why I want to be for Halloween, making my kid Kevin.
But then my wife doesn't want to be Joe Pesci. Why they complete the trio, you know, get my brother. They're already they're already doing it. And what I was saying last night on the Infinity Sports Network is this time of the year is kind of dumb. Like we're all getting excited. We're doing our fantasy drafts. We're trying to figure out that. We're like, you know, planning and getting ready and being like, all right, there's just a couple more weekends.
So let's enjoy the summer before we like absorb into our couch. But what are the storylines in the NFL? What are the top storylines in the NFL throughout August? Nothing good. Injury. Hold out. Injury. Hold out. Jordan Addison carted off at practice today, by the way, just minutes ago or so, if you guys didn't see that.
I did not. Seems like Bart might have froze. Bart is frozen again.
Yes. About that. Well, Bart returns because I want to believe that he's not frozen and he's just in stunned disbelief. But what a day for Vikings fans, right? Like you learn the JJ McCarthy. And by the way, a lot of people are downplaying that injury.
They're like, well, he probably wasn't going to play much this year anyways. You say McCarthy? Yeah, I don't buy that. I don't. I'm sure the Vikings were like, hey, Darnold, you get the first four games tops at most with how good McCarthy looked in the preseason. So, yeah, that's I mean, you're not wrong, Bart.
Like, it's a lot of injuries and holdouts. But what are you guys doing with my Internet this way? Are you pretending I'm still there? Yeah, well, we kind of comment on it and keep chatting.
We're professional broadcasters. I don't know what it will look like in the video. I just be like floating or as as Grant shared the Addison thing. It looked like you were like stunned into silence. It was actually pretty seamless until you rejoined.
And then you could have jumped right back in and it looked like nothing. I even set it back up for you. I returned the conversation.
It is really good. I think he kills the cat once again. Because I think no matter what happens here from this conversation going forward, I thought I was potentially teeing up your angle tonight. And I accomplished it. And you're welcome.
But well, like I said, though, injury, hold on. That's all the stories. That's it. Yep. And then sure. Oh, that Jordan Love play was cool. And, you know, it's nice when there's like guys that emerge.
And so you don't want to take that away from these guys. From a consumer standpoint, I sort of like that. There there is a Packer experience I can have as like a. Random Tuesday in June type Brewer game. Where it's like the Packers are on, you know, we can watch it maybe Sunday night, I'll meet somebody out at the broad house. Maybe we'll watch it. Maybe maybe others, you know, whatever.
The game can be on in the background of a grad party. Fine. It's all fine. But. Is that necessary? I mean, do I need that?
Something worth mentioning? I think it depends on the team. I think there are some teams that can really, really benefit from the postseason, like last year's Packers team. And even this year, a little bit like a lot of young guys, rookies upstart need the reps. But then the last couple of years with Rogers, the preseason felt like a lot more of just slog through this shit. What we should get to is we should get the NFL in lockstep with the spring football. Move the spring football into the summer. Let teams give like, OK, here's 30 guys like, you know, how they used to do it in the G League, where like one team represented four different teams. Oh, yeah. So they hear here, I don't know, some where guys can still get the opportunity to earn a spot in August.
But it's not just a whole like facade of. Like even it was Bryce Young. I brought him up.
I was watching that game last Thursday, or at least the start of it. They put him in pads and did the whole pregame workout. Yeah. And then and then like, why even dress?
Yeah, I don't know. I think young players should play. I think they should play regardless.
Nobody's going to play any young players. OK, well, then maybe I'll change my tune a little bit, but. I think it'll depend on your team and where they are in their trajectory of building it up or tearing it down, where preseason could mean more or less. And that's kind of fun.
The variance team to team. Great question. I think as we continue, I'm going to need to next time the Internet goes out, I'm going to wait. I screwed this up last time. I'm going to pop a gummy is what I'm going to need to do. And I'll be right back. Yeah, you're good.
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And it has worked or at least helped the problem that I had in or go away. Well, I when I had goat and when I thought I had goat. Well, it was goat. I love how our voices are just popping in as you're full screened on the stream. Yeah, I should have muted you. Paul just flat out told me he's leaving like we are off air. Happy place.com promo code is Bart. Very frustrated.
Over your Internet. No, over my over my Brewers owner stealing buckets of sand from a beach. I think it's awesome that I tell you, I emailed the guy who wrote the the original story at the L.A. Times. Is he coming on?
No, we never got back to me. Well, I emailed him this morning. I just I doubted at this point, but he's only got like fifteen hundred Twitter followers. He's not he should he should be receptive.
It's my point. And the story is that they have like a residential place that they're building and he just stole sand from the beach. I think he's like rebuilding his oceanfront that has decayed with sand from elsewhere. And then also I read that like he's just left.
He hasn't. He's not the one driving the backhoe. But the people he has working there have just like left the excavator on the beach. So then the tide comes in and there's just this excavator in the water, which is if I owned a beach from property, I'd be like, that looks awful. Get it out of here.
Right. But also like that's polluting like there's oil going in the water and stuff. So I I think it's just it's just kind of a mess. But from what I read, neither homeowner is named in the lawsuit. They're suing each other's LLCs, which must be a rich person thing to do. It's like, well, I don't want my name on it.
So I'm going to, you know, maybe for tax purposes, too. I don't know. Great content, though. It's incredible content. Well, I saw your tweet.
It adds to all the things that we can just shit on the Brewers for. Dude, it's the list is just massive. It's all it just grows continuously. And he and he's not he is not the first person ever to steal sand.
From somewhere. Like, he's not the first person ever to, hey, I need more sand. I'm going to add some sand like he's not the first person to do that.
I promise you. But he's the first person to take this much with actual heavy machinery. Yeah. And then leave it there. Yeah.
Like, I don't think he's trying to be one of the world's dumbest people. If you do that or one of the world's like, I don't give a fuck. People like a quick cop before you get back to Paul, because Paul, you're on a heater. My parents live next to a cabin. There's not people there all the time. Their wood pile is massive. There's so much firewood over there. Right. So every once in a while, we want to have a bonfire tonight.
Grant, go grab five logs. It would be like if my parents had a four wheeler in a trailer and used it to take huge loads of their wood. And then when they weren't using it, they just left it there in their front yard. You know, like could not make it more obvious what they were doing.
That's that's what I thought of. It's hilarious. And I appreciate Mark for it because it's great content is there. And I mean, I was going to potentially, facetiously bring this topic up.
So coming back and hearing it being talked about is a fun surprise. He had to just have thought this is fine. Right. Well, I don't know when you have a certain level of money and again, he's not a billionaire. Just a very rich millionaire.
Would you like to correct all the headlines that have said otherwise? You like your brain. I think your brain changes when you have so much money that you don't understand, like, oh, wow. This gallon of milk that's normally five forty nine. It's on sale for four forty nine. That's a deal.
I'm going to buy it. But I also remember when it was a dollar ninety nine. Like some people are just like, it's a banana. How much can it cost? Twenty dollars. It's a banana, Michael.
If I could go see a Star War. That was the example that I was going to use as well. I'm glad we're all over that. So I think that that sometimes you're just brain functions. You think that the world is your playground? Ebo, our morning show host, also posited the idea that.
Thank you. The neighbor who's suing Mark might be like two or three or four X richer than Mark. Like this house, this house that Mark bought is only he bought it for like twenty three million bucks, which I know is a lot.
But in the world of California coastline beach homes, that's not that much. And I wonder if like there is a billionaire or a multi billionaire neighbor of Mark who's like this fucking broke man next to me, leaving his construction equipment in the yard. Like, I wonder if that's a play to where it's like levels of richness and how that's coming into play. I wonder either way, it's an objectively funny story, I think it's like it's incredible. I initially I initially read the story. Without the knowledge of who was going to be revealed as said person, and when it was then like I was like there was a billionaire with sand, but I read it like, oh, this is interesting. You're telling me you found you were reading about rich person construction dynamics on the West Coast and you just happened to stumble into the story that contained the Brewers owner? Is that what you're telling me? I'm telling you the AP article initially, which I clicked on and read, did not have any mention of Autonazio in the headline.
I just thought it was a wild I'm like, oh, I'm going to read this odd story. Great, as Bart. Do you see his other one just now? Sandrew McCutcheon.
Yeah. But he's Sandrew McCutcheon. Does he get paid for these? Like, is he like, check mark? No, he's not. No, he's only got like 1000 followers. He's just doing this for the culture. Guys, Craig has lost our sand.
Craig has lost our beach. No, so I did just I read an AP article that way that I found interesting. And then, oh, my goodness, it's Mark. Yeah. Yeah, here you go. The neighbor has a net worth of 102.77 billion. Oh, my gosh. So imagine you're that guy. And Mark Autonazio lives next to you and is leaving his shit everywhere in the yard. Yeah. Which to them, that's like leaving a lawnmower in the you know what I mean? Like, you're just you're annoyed by the neighbor.
And you're like, you know what would really generate interesting press for my asshole neighbor? By the way, you mentioned Arrested Development, so I'm gonna do a hard pivot and just say, you know, the guy who played Jean Parmesan recently passed, right? Martin Mall. Martin Mall. Thank you. The the the eagle from Veep as well. Yes. Yes.
Is a bear piss in the shower? Don't forget Roseanne. Don't forget his role on Roseanne. But does does anybody else want to just believe that Jessica Walter, you know, Lucille Bluth. All of a sudden in the afterlife, you know, like, we're not just not just like a fun like, like, you know, I'm not fun, but like, I don't know, just my mind.
It is fun to imagine that we go somewhere when we die. But but then that that they're connecting on their their connect. I just want to believe that they connected and that they did the bit, you know, like that they did the Jean and then the bear shaking its head only for it to be Jean Parmesan. I just he was he was far from the best.
The narrator there is so great. OK, I don't think that that would happen. What's that? Do I do I want to spoil lost for anybody? You can say spoiler.
I mean, I've seen lost. You're good for me. I don't know about.
I don't think so. Not to talk about the afterlife. Right. But I don't think like if we die and go to heaven. Time works like I don't think you have to like be up there and look down on Earth and be like, man, can my husband die yet so he can come up here and be with me?
I think once you're in heaven, time is. They're there. Everyone's there. They're already there. Oh, they're already there. Time already there.
I lone star. Is that where you're getting this from? They're all ready. They're. Yeah. Take a look around. Yeah. So you're saying that we are both.
We're here on Earth, but also I'm present with my grandfather's in heaven right now. There's two means like the void and Loki. It's beyond space and time.
I knew as soon as you said what you were saying, this is not an ideal thing for my brain to do right away, but my brain right away went to like, oh, you just watch too much Loki. Yeah. But don't you think that as hard as that is to wrap around your head, don't you think that maybe it's more plausible it's that way instead of like you wake up in heaven and it's Wednesday, August 14th? It's a random Tuesday in August. Yeah. It's a random Tuesday in heaven. So I have another topic for you.
Yes, Paul. This would have been more exciting to talk about right after the buck signed to Gary Trent Jr. Well, nothing was exciting to talk about right after the buck signed Gary Trent Jr. Oh, then A, fuck you because I disagree. I'm excited that they got him.
It's better they got him than they didn't. All right. Well, I'll talk to Grant on this one if he has, unless he shares your vibe. Well, no. All I would say is as someone who didn't want to trade Brook Lopez, who was like, oh, I don't know about Middleton and like there's all the contractual things and everything. What I thought signing Gary Trent Jr. did is it like completed the off season where you like, okay, you had this massive, I thought, massive hole at starting a shooting guard where you're like, oh, like they can start, would they do AJ Green or would they, you know, like how would they figure out the minutes then if they put this guy here?
And I don't know. Maybe it's hard to think about this five weeks removed from it happening and it's still two months until basketball season. But I thought it was an unlikely thing to happen that when it happened, it was like, oh, like the roster like makes sense now. So all I wanted to ask essentially was after adding Gary Trent Jr. You can go into this buck season. Wait, Jordan Addison's hurt? Is it that's when you're that's when your video cut out, Bart. He got carted off. Fuck me, dude. I know you have 10 leagues, but he's got to be on at least one of them, I assume. Sorry, I did a classic part there.
I'm so sorry. Are you saying that the offseason feels complete now Paul is that what you're wondering offseason was made complete. Yeah, it was all in the right and you feel really good about the roster now. They didn't they didn't do the major shake ups that some people, including myself thought well I think you're going to have to do a major shake up in order to major I mean like Brooker Chris I don't mean in order to like make the roster hole and have it have more like good depth.
I thought you maybe had to do that unless you got lucky. Gary Trent Jr. was offered a major contract by the Raptors, like a year ago, I mean he Dennis shrewdered himself where he's like no I want more than that and then he couldn't get anything more than the minimum and for agency. So like, I don't want anyone to talk about the Gary Trent Jr. thing is, oh well it's a minimum player what you know what your expectations can't be whatever like no like market value is that of a $20 million player who, at least with Toronto. Anyway, maybe it's the wrong time for this maybe we can revisit it when they're at least playing, you know, October basketball but well the NBA Cup schedule this came out I mean there's plenty to get excited about, I don't know I I needed a hard break after the end of the playoffs.
And I'm like, ready. I'm back to fool me with how much we talked about him, but glad that we're back and talking about him again. Any thoughts on the bucks. This is, this is the Ross but they're not going to have there's not going to be a Damian Lillard trade this year where in September, they trade broken Chris for pulling the name like this is the roster you feel good about it. I'll say, because of Gary Trent Jr. But can I add another reason why I feel better about it than I did at the beginning of the offseason.
I think what's his name AJ Johnson. Yeah, yeah. He looked good in summer league, like he looked exciting, and I think Bucks fans kind of needed that, because those draft picks didn't really make a whole lot of sense on their face. But the fact that he looked good I think gave us something to be excited about that, that honestly made a big difference for me, too, and Gary Trent you're right was kind of the player that put the bow on it and yeah okay now we have now Dylan right doesn't have to be the starting. Yeah, exactly.
We can expect less of, of guys who I don't really want to expect all that much from. Yeah, it's nice to say something that I need to say. Yeah. Say what you need to say. My brother in law and I do that all the time.
It's good song. Say what you need to say, say what you need to say. This is not something that I would like. If I were to ever be with. And finally sit down and talk to a person about stuff. This would be like a gateway conversation. What is this, what are we doing now. A therapy. Oh, you mean. Okay, okay, okay psychiatry. Now I follow yep yep yep gotcha.
This would be a gateway to open up the sort of dance we do when I reveal some things and they have been to kind of gauge what the relationship will be. So it's not serious in any way but it can play that way if I wanted to. There is, I'm not I'm not any, I am not. I am not any less of a fan. But I feel like having the show I have now. It is sucking energy from Bart getting super pumped up about Gary trend Jr. From, I don't even know like who's, I haven't watched any of this Brewers doctor series at all. I haven't watched a minute. That's okay. The Packer game.
I saw Jordan loves touchdown. And then I DVR it because I got to go back and I got to just sitting on my DVR three minutes into the game. It's just it's taken a lot of that energy from me. And I feel I feel bad.
I feel I feel bad as I jump on here to do these. I don't I haven't watched, I mean I haven't watched a game in a week. And this is the best year they're having this entire time. I think it's odd to continue to kind of keep the Bucks apart of this, Paul. I think it's odd that Giannis and Damon are on one of our teams and they feel right now.
No, I'm adding to what you're saying. I can't speak to that. But I can add to it by saying Giannis and Damon, the Bucks specifically, feel like such a distant third in our state right now behind the Packers and the Brewers. You know, that I think is odd.
It's not that I'm not excited about him. It just they feel so far away. He doesn't anyone stay in one place anymore. Song song there.
You guys think those are 90 bucks day in one place. Who is that? Carol King. They just I don't know. They feel so far away. But I tell you what, Paul, when the season comes back, I will be excited to watch AJ Johnson. And I'll feel so much better that I don't have to for an entire preseason.
And then for the first part of the season, I feel so much happier that I don't have to gear myself up to be like, Delon Wright is going to have the year the Bucks meet. And some of the who's the other guy they brought in? Torian Prince. Torian Prince. I am not a big not a huge Torian Prince fan, but I don't have to be.
The only thing that's unfortunate. Well, I mean, maybe it's a good thing, but you might be excited about AJ Johnson in August and maybe even in October. But I mean, he's over under meaningful minutes.
This season is three. Yeah. You know, he's not the Bucks are too good to play. But I mean, he's been the I'm second guessing myself, but AJ Johnson has been the one who's been working out with Paul George. Right. And like. I believe you're correct. Yeah.
By the way, Bart, as you might expect, if you're just listening to the audio is frozen and froze mid yell or whatever that was about to be mouth agape. Yeah, I do think Gary Trent, I hadn't considered it that way, but I think he did kind of round out the offseason in a way where all the other pieces kind of fall into place. Because those graphics don't have to be great contributors and the other guys don't have to be great contributors. It reminds me of and I'm not going to talk about my fantasy teams because no one cares. But I do think it's like I think of when you're doing a dynasty league like Bart and I have a couple that are together. You have like you go into the next season. You're like, yeah, but if only I had that one extra depth running back, then I wouldn't have to start that.
It's like it's good. I like my roster. But it's not complete. I'd love if I could just slightly move this piece for that piece. I would feel so much better about the completion of my roster.
And if they had gone into if the Bucks had gone into this season with what they had pre Gary Trent Junior signing, if he had chosen to sign somewhere else, I would have felt OK. Right. Like, oh, man, only. And it's silly. Right.
Because it's Gary. You're going to be their fifth best player. Maybe. But like, it's not like they. Oh, my goodness. It's not going to have the same earth moving impact of they just signed Damian Lillard.
They just traded for Damian Lillard. But yet it's like it's this. OK, the puzzle doesn't have the missing corner piece. It's like I know, Grant, like if you do puzzles as an adult, I did not. Corners and edges.
Yeah, it's but like seriously. So I felt like that was the last thing I'm like, oh, I just found that missing puzzle piece under the couch. I can finish the thing. Who's that player for the Packers? So the Packers have a guy in the draft or in free agency where you can circle and say without that guy, I feel a little incomplete.
Good question. Xavier McKinney. Yes, actually. That's a yes. I was I was about to say Jordan Morgan, like just having like that, you know, like the the offensive line. Are they that much better in 2024 without him?
I mean, probably not. But like it just rounds out real. OK, then that number, the guy who was going to start there gets pushed to the bench and then the first guy off the bench gets pushed to the seventh most often. But seven offensive line spot. Right.
So that that whole effect of everyone moves back. But in terms of like top end talent, yeah, like if the Packers had this really good defense and didn't have Xavier McKinney, you'd probably be like, I mean, like, God, you just played about Bullard and Williams. But yeah, they have a guy to kind of lead them into battle and help them start their careers. Yeah. You don't have to go into that thinking like, you know, like almost like Bart last year was all about, you know, Anders Karlsson is going to cost this team this season. Right. And it's like, oh, yeah, probably. Like you would just say, oh, I know the safety position is going to cost them when it matters the most. Yeah, like that's how it felt with the Bucks.
Like, you know, starting Delon right all season long at the shooting guard position, you don't win a championship with that as you're starting to now only Delon right to be your backup one slash two. You've completed your puzzle. So that's great follow up question with the Packers. Well, that's why I'm here. You could ask it to Bart, too, if you'd like.
But I mean, it's so far. Who would be the I'll take it. I suggested it to you. But Grant had a good follow up is who was like your puzzle piece guy for the Packers if there was one this offseason? Was there a draft pick or a signing Allah Gary Trent with the Bucks that completed your vision?
Xavier McKinney. Okay. Yeah. That was the first that was the suggestion that Grant made spontaneously. And I was like, oh, yeah, I think that's the right one.
For sure. You could say Josh Jacobs, but Josh Jacobs entering was almost contingent on Aaron Jones exiting. So right. Like like Josh Jacobs wasn't available for the Packers.
I want to know what their other plan was or how else they would have handled this. You know, what is the backup's name? Is it Tanner Pratt? Michael Pratt, Michael. I keep thinking it's Mitchell Pratt from I said Cooper Pratt the other day on a radio hit that I did.
That's a Brewers player. Yes, that's why I'm combining the two just like you did. Okay.
I was like, wait, which one's which? Okay. Yeah. Okay. I think I'm gonna lose. I got it. We got to wrap this up. I'm gonna lose it again. This was this was good. I think this is the longest part, but I thought it was fine. This is one of the longer stretches of my life. I've gone without crying.
And I think I'm going to break that today. Interesting. I'm very upset.
I'm very upset. I just don't get you like I have friends. I grew up in rural Wisconsin. You know, they don't have fiber optic.
It's a struggle for them. I had I don't. But you live in town in the middle of town. If you lived any closer to Milwaukee, you'd be downtown.
Thank you. I said if you were any closer, I didn't say you couldn't be closer. I said if you were closer, I live in Milwaukee. I don't know the I don't know the city. I took a half mile walk today.
I was in Milwaukee, a good portion of it. Okay. Good.
No, I have everything I need to have. I mean, we're and it worked. It worked is what pisses me off. And then it comes back. Well, thank you guys for your endurance.
We powered through with like being you audio listeners had no idea you dropped this most recent time. But like if I'm talking to I'm talking to you know counter this week as is America but if I'm talking to him and it drops. What is he just gonna pick it up and be like well Bart's got you know, but I'll take it from here. That would be awesome. That would wait.
Are you talking to him from home? Yeah. Oh, no. I'm doing a double stack.
I'm doing a podcast play for the show. I haven't done one of those in a while. Oh, a double dip. Yeah. I feel like that makes sense.
Why wouldn't you do it that way? But I think I'm gonna change my background and make a Bart Winkler show one. I'm gonna do this pegboard wall with Happy Place hemp in the corner. I will be sitting with the pegboard. But I mean, will that be? Will that be what he sees or?
Yeah, he'll see this. Okay. Are you gonna wear your best Wisconsin trucker hat and gray t shirt?
No, maybe I'll maybe I'll do my hair and go hatless. There you go. Jesus. Don't apologize. This is great. Nice to see you both. Goodbye. We'll be back.
We got more episodes this week. Kevin Holden is joining me. Ian O'Connor is joining me. God willing, internet willing. Time to hit the Kleenex box.
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